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THIRD      SERIES.— VOLUME     FIRST. 

JANUARY — JUNE,  1862. 


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LONDON,  SATURDAY,  JANUARY  4,  1862. 


CONTENTS.— N°.  1. 

Our  Third  Series,  1. 

NOTES :  —  Memoir  of  William  Oldys,  Esq.,  Norroy-King-at- 
Arras,  1  — Archbishop  Leighton's  Library  at  Dunblane, 
3  —  Toland,  6  —  America  before  Columbus  ?  7  —  The  "  Cot- 
greave  "  Forgeries  of  the  late  W.  S.  Spence,  8. 

MINOR  NOTES  :  —  Cowell's  Interpreter  condemned  —  A 
Note  to  the  "  Voyages  of  Sir  Francis  Drake  and  Sir  Thomas 
Cavendish"  —  The  Saturday  Half-Holiday  —  Petronius 
Arbiter  —  Armorial  Glass,  temp.  James  I.,  9. 

QUERIES:  —Wells  City  Seals  and  their  Symbols,  10  — 
Avignon  Inscriptions  —  Passage  in  Bossuet  —  English  Am' 
bassadors  to  France  —  Epigrams  on  the  Popes  of  Rome' 
&c.  —  A  Giant  found  at  St.  Bees  —  Italian  Proverbs  —  Sir 
Henry  Langford,  Bart.  —  Lee  of  Quarendon  —  Mrs.  Mur- 
ray—Paper Money  at  Leyden— Pascha's  Pilgrimage  to 
Palestine  —  Peace  Congress  proposed  in  1693  —  Prayer 
Book  of  1604  —  Dr,  Richard  Sibbes  —  Standgate  Hole  — 
Stonehenge  —  St.  Napoleon,  11. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS:  — Sir  Francis  Page  — The  Ass 
and  the  Ladder  —  Legends  of  the  Wandering  Jew  — Quo- 
tation, 13. 

REPLIES  -.—  Epitome  of  the  Lives  of  the  Kings  of  France, 
14— Earthquakes  in  England:  TJriconium,  15  — Biblical 
Literature  :  William  Capenter  — Article  "Use  and  Have" 

—  Representations  in  Sculpture  of  the  First  Person  of  the 
Holy  Trinity  —  Enthusiasm  in  favour  of  Hampden  —  Mu- 
tilation of  Sepulchral  Memorials  -»  Newtons  ofWhitby  — 
Dr.  Arne's  Father  —  Clergyman's  Right  to  take  the  Chair 

—  St.  Benigne,  Dijon  — Neil  Douglas  —  James  Glassford 

—  Peter  AVatkirison  Owtrem  —  Sir  Richard  Shelley  — 
Sir  James  Pemberton  —  Churchwardens  —The  Sleepers,  17« 

OUR  THIRD  SERIES. 

Upwards  of  twelve  years  ago  NOTES  AND  QUERIES 
was  established  for  the  purpose  of  supplying  that  me- 
dium of  inter-communication,  that  channel  for  the  an- 
nouncement of  wants  and  discoveries,  which  had  long 
been  desired  by  literary  men,  and  lovers  of  books. 

In  our  original  Prospectus  we  stated  that  our  object  was 
to  furnish  to  readers  of  that  class,  "  A  COMMON -PLACE 
BOOK,  in  which  they  might,  on  the  one  hand,  record 
for  their  own  use  and  the  use  of  others  those  minute 
facts,  —  those  elucidations  of  a  doubtful  phrase,  or  dis- 
puted passage,  —  those  illustrations  of  an  obsolete  cus- 
tom,—  those  scattered  biographical  anecdotes,  or  unre- 
corded dates,  —  which  all  who  read  occasionally  stumble 
upon ;  —  and,  on  the  other,  a  medium  through  which 
they  might  address  those  Queries,  by  which  the  best 
iuforrned  are  sometimes  arrested  in  the  midst  of  their 
labours,  in  the  hope  of  receiving  solutions  of  them  from 
some  of  their  brethren." 

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QUERIES  immediately  obtained  the  good  wishes  and 
cordial  assistance  of  many  ripe  and  good  scholars,  and 
thanks  to  their  co-operation,  to  NOTES  AND  QUERIES 
may  fairly  be  applied  the  noble  lines  which  Ben  Jonson 
addressed  to  Selden,  and  which  have  been  pointed  out  to 
us  by  one  of  the  first  and  most  valued  of  our  contri- 
butors :  — 


"  What  fables  have  you  vexed,  what  truth  redeemed, 
Antiquities  searched,  opiniot  a  disesteem;d, 
Impostures  branded,  and  authorities  urged! 
What  blots  and  errors  have  you  watched  and  purged 
Records  and  authors  of  !  how  rectified 
Times,  manners,  customs!  innovations  spied! 
Sought  out  the  fountains'  sources,  creeks,  paths,  ways, 
And  noted  the  beginnings  and  decays! 
What  is  that  nominal  mark,  or  real  rite, 
Form,  act,  or  ensign  that  hath  scaped  your  sight? 
How  are  traditions  there  examined !  how 
Conjectures  retrieved!  and  a  story  now 
And  then  of  times  (besides  the  bare  conduct 
Of  what  it  tells  us)  weaved  in  to  instruct  I  " 

It  would  not  be  difficult  to  prove  how  well  these  lines 
characterise  the  curious  discoveries  and  happy  illustra- 
tions, on  every  branch  of  literature,  which  have  from 
time  to  time  been  made  public  through  the  columns  of 
NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 

But  it  is  needless  to  do  so.  The  use  and  value  of 
NOTES  AND  QUERIES  is  sufficiently  shown  by  the  favour 
with  which  our  first  two  Series  have  been  received :  for 
with  pride  WE  acknowledge  that  NOTES  AND  QUERIES  is 
now  to  be  found  in  the  library  of  nearly  every  Club, 
College,  and  Literary  Institution  in  the  United  King- 
dom ;  while  our  columns  show  that  Correspondence  reaches 
us  from  all  parts  of  the  World. 

We  are  now  about  to  commence  the  THIRD  SERIES. 
Our  old  Friends  and  Correspondents  still  support  us; 
and  WE  are  encouraged  by  their  support,  and  by  our  twelve 
years'  experience,  to  hope  that  as  our  SECOND  SERIES 
has  been  recognised  as  a  great  improvement  upon  the 
FIRST,  so  will  the  THIRD  be  better  still.  "  Ab  Jove 
tertius  Ajax" 


fiatt*. 

MEMOIR  OF  WILLIAM  OLDYS,  ESQ., 

NORROY  KING-AT-ARMS. 

The  life  of  a  literary  antiquary  is  seldom  suf- 
ficiently diversified  to  afford  to  a  biographer  many 
materials  for  his  pen,  so  as  to  give  interest  and 
vivacity  to  the  historic  page.  From  the  noiseless 
tenor  of  his  daily  pursuits,  and  the  habit  he  has  ac- 
quired of  holding  communion  with  the  past  rather 
than  with  the  present,  his  existence  is,  generally 
speaking,  subject  to  fewer  vicissitudes  than  those 
which  mark  the  mortal  progress  of  persons  be- 
longing to  the  more  active  professions  :  — 

"Allow  him  but  his  plaything  of  a  pen, 
He  ne'er  cabals  or  plots  like  other  men." 

Respecting  the  parentage  of  William  Oldyg  there 
is  some  obscurity.  Mr.  John  Taylor,  the  son  of 
Oldys's  intimate  friend,  informs  us  that  uMr. 
Oldya  was,  I  understood,  the  natural  son  of  a 
gentleman  named  Harris,  who  lived  in  a  respect- 
able style  in  Kensington  Square.  How  he  came 
to  adopt  the  name  of  Oldys,  or  where  he  received 
his  education,  I  never  heard."  *  All  his  bio- 


Record*  of  my  Life,  i.  25,  ed.  1832. 


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graphers,  however,  speak  of  him  as  the  natural 
son  of  Dr.  William  Oldys,  Chancellor  of  Lincoln 
(from  1683  till  his  death  in  1708),  Commissary  of 
St.  Catharine's,  Official  of  St.  Alban's,  and  Advo- 
cate of  the  Admiralty.  That  even  grave  civilians 
will  sometimes  deviate  from  moral  purity,  is  de- 
plored by  Dr.  Coote,  who  had  been  informed  that 
Dr.  Oldys  "  maintained  a  mistress  in  a  very  penu- 
rious and  private  manner."  * 

The  civilian  died  early  in  the  year  1708,  and 
in  his  will  he  u  devises  to  his  loving  cozen  Mrs. 
Ann    Oldys  his  two  houses  at  Kensington,  with 
the  residue  of  his  property,"  and  "  appoints  the 
said  Ann  Oldys  whole  and  sole  executrix  of  his 
Will."     It  has  been  conjectured,  with  some  de- 
gree of  probability,  that  under  the  cognomen  of  \ 
cozen  is  meant  the  mother  of  our  literary  antU  j 
quary ;  more   especially  as  we  find  from  the  will  j 
of  the  said  Ann  Oldys,  that  after  two  or  three 
trifling  bequests,  she  "  gives  all  her  estate,  real  j 
and   personal,    to   her   loving    friend,    Benjamin 
Jackman  of  the  said  Kensington,  upon  trust,  for 
the   benefit  of  her  son   William  Oldys,  and  she 
leaves  the  tuition  and  guardianship   of  her  son 
William  Oldys,  during  his  minority,  to  the  said 
Benjamin  Jackman."     The  Will  is  dated  March 
21,  1710;  and  proved  by  Benjamin  Jackman  on 
April  10,   1711,  when  our  antiquary  was  in  the  | 
fifteenth  year  of  his  age. 

At  the  end  of  a  pedigree  of  the  Oldys  family 
in  the  handwriting  of  William  Oldys,  now  in  the 
British  Museum  (Addit.  MS.  4240  f,  p.  14),  is 
the  following  entry:  "Dr.  William  Oldys,  Ad- 
vocate General,  born  at  Addesbury  1636  ;  died  at 
Kensington,  1708;  Duxit  Theodosia  Lovet,  Fil. 
Dom.  Jo:  Halsey :  [Issue]  William,  nat.  July 
14,  1696."  That  the  Doctor  married  Theodosia 
Lovett  there  can  be  no  doubt ;  for  not  only  is 
it  stated  by  Burke,  that  "  Robert  Lovett,  of  Lis- 
combe  in  Bucks,  married  Theodosia,  daughter 
of  Sir  John  Halsey,  Knt.,  of  Great  Gaddesden, 
Herts;  he  died  s.  p.  in  1683,  set.  26,"  (Extinct 
Baronetage,  ed.  1844,  p.  325),  but  in  a  pedigree 
in  the  College  of  Arms,  dated  1700,  and  sub- 
scribed by  Dr.  Oldys,  his  marriage  with  Theodo- 
sia Lovett  is  duly  recorded.  While  as  the  Doctor 
there  describes  himself  as  "  sine  prole,"  and  omits 
all  mention  of  William  Oldys  in  his  will,  but  leaves 
to  Oldys^s  mother  the  property  which  he  even- 
tually inherited,  there  can  be  little  doubt  that 
the  bend  sinister  ought  properly  to  have  figured 
in  the  arms  of  the  future  Norroy.  That  Oldys  i 
always  claimed  the  civilian  for  his  father,  ap- 
pears from  the  following  note  in  his  annotated 
Langbaine,  p.  131:  "To  search  the  old  papers 

*  Lives  and  Characters  of  eminent  English  Civilians, 
p.  95,  ed.  1804. 

f  The  same  volume  contains  a  long  account  of  Dr. 
William  Oldys,  and  other  biographical  notices  of  the 
familv. 


in  one  of  my  large  deal  boxes  for  Mr.  Dryden's 
letter  of  thanks  to  my  father  for  some  commu- 
nications relating  to  Plutarch,  when  they  and 
others  were  publishing  a  translation  of  all  Plu- 
tarch's Lives  in  5  vols.  8vo,  1683.  It  is  copied 
in  the  yellow  book  for  Dryden's  Life,  in  which 
there  are  about  150  transcriptions,  in  prose  and 
verse,  relating  to  the  life,  character,  and  writings 
of  Mr.  Dryden."  Pompey  the  Great  was  the  Life 
translated  bj  Dr.  William  Oldys. 

William  Oldys,  the  son,  was  born  July  14, 1696, 
and  by  the  death  of  his  parents  was  left  to  make 
his  way  in  life  by  his  own  natural  abilities.  From 
his  Autobiography  we  learn  that  he  was  one  of  the 
sufferers  in  the  South  Sea  Bubble,  which  ex- 
ploded in  1720,  and  involved  him  in  a  long  and 
expensive  lawsuit.  From  the  year  1724  to  1730 
he  resided  in  Yorkshire,  and  spent  most  of  his 
time  at  the  seat  of  the  first  Earl  of  Malton,  with 
whom  he  had  been  intimate  in  his  youth.  In 
1725,  Oldys,  being  at  Leeds,  soon  after  the  death 
of  llalph  Thoresby,  the  antiquary,  paid  a  visit  to 
his  celebrated  Museum.*  As  he  remained  in 
Yorkshire  for  about  six  years,  it  is  not  improbable 
that  he  assisted  Dr.  Knowler  in  the  editorship  of 
the  Earl  of  Straffordes  Letters,  &c.  2  vols.  fol. 
published  in  1739.  In  1729,  he  wrote  an  "Essay 
on  Epistolary  Writings,  with  respect  to  the  Grand 
Collection  of  Thomas  Earl  of  Strafford.  Inscribed 
to  the  Lord  Malton."  The  MS.  was  probably  of 
some  utility  to  his  Lordship,  and  his  Chaplain, 
Dr.  Knowler.f 

It  was  during  Oldys's  visit  to  Wentworth  House 
that  he  became  an  eye-witness  to  the  destruction 
of  the  collections  of  the  antiquary  Richard  Gas- 
coyne,  consisting  of  seven  great  chests  of  manu- 
scripts. Of  this  remorseless  act  of  vandalism  our 
worthy  antiquary  has  left  on  record  some  severe 
strictures.  Here  is  his  account  of  this  literary 
holocaust :  — 

"  Richard  Gascoyne,  Esq.,  was  of  kin  to  the  Wentworth 
family,  which  he  highly  honoured  by  the  elaborate  gene- 
alogies he  drew  thereof,  and  improved  abundance  of 
other  pedigrees  in  most  of  our  ancient  historians,  and 
particularly  our  topographical  writers  and  antiquaries  in 
personal  history,  as  Brooke,  Vincent,  Dugdale,  and  many 
others,  out  of  his  vast  and  most  valuable  collection  of 
deeds,  evidences,  and  ancient  records,  &c.,  which  after 
his  death,  about  the  time  of  the  Restoration,  when  he  was 
about  eighty  years  of  age,  fell  with  great  part  of  his 
library  to  the  possession  of  William,  the  son  of  Thomas 
the  first  Earl  of  Strafford,  who  preserved  the  books  in 
his  library  at  Wentworth  Woodhouse  in  Yorkshire,  and 
the  said  MSS.  in  the  stone  tower  there  among1  the  family 
writings,  where  they  continued  safe  and  untouched  till 
1728,  when  Sir  Tho. 'Watson  Wentworth  J,  newly  made  or 

*  Life  of  Sir  Walter  Ralegh,  p.  xxxi.  ed.  1736. 

f  This  MS.  is  also  noticed  in  Oldys's  Dissertation  upon 
Pamphlets,  p.  561. 

J  Thomas  Wentworth  of  Wentworth  Woodhouse,  cre- 
ated Baron  Malton  28  May,  1728;  Baron  of  Wath  and 
Harrowden,  Viscount  Iligham,  and  Earl  of  Malton  19 


$'*  g.  I.  JAN.  4, 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


about  to  be  made  Earl  of  Malton,  and  to  whose  father 
the  said  William  Earl  of  Strafford  left  hig  estate,  burnt 
them  all  wilfully  in  one  morning.  I  saw  the  lamentable 
fire  feed  upon  six  or  seven  great  chests  full  of  the  said 
deeds,  &<•.,  some  of  them  as  old  as  the  Conquest,  and 
even  the  ignorant  servants  repining  at  the  mischievous 
and  destructive  obedience  they  were  compelled  to.  There 
was  nobody  present  who  could  venture  to  speak  but  my- 
self, but  the  infatuation  was  insuperable.  I  urged  that 
Mr.  Dodsworth  had  also  spent  his  life  in  making  such 
collections,  and  they  are  preserved  to  this  day  with  re- 
verence to  their  collector,  and  that  it  was  out  of  such 
that  Sir  Wm.  Dugdale  collected  the  work  which  had 
done  so  much  honour  to  the  Peerage.  I  did  prevail  to 
the  preservation  of  some  few  old  rolls  and  publick  grants 
and  charters,  a  few  extracts  of  escheats,  and  a!few  ori- 
ginal letters  of  some  eminent  persons  and  pedigrees  of 
others,  but  not  the  hundredth  part  of  much  better  things 
that  were  destroyed.  The  external  motive  for  this  de- 
struction seemed  to  be  some  fear  infused  by  his  attorney, 
Sam.  Buck  of  Rotheram  (since  a  justice  of  peace)  a  man 
who  could  not  read  one  of  those  records  any  more  than 
his  lordship,  that  something  or  other  might  be  found  out 
one  time  or  other  by  somebody  or  other — the  descendants 
perhaps  of  the  late  Earl  of  Strafford,  who  had  been  at 
war  with  him  for  the  said  estate — which  might  shake  his 
title  and  change  its  owner.  Though  it  was  thought  he 
had  no  stronger  motive  for  it  than  his  impatience  to  pull 
down  the  old  tower  in  which  they  were  reposited,  to 
make  way  for  his  undertaker  Ralph  Tunnicliffe  to  pile  up 
that  monstrous  and  ostentatious  heap  of  a  house  which 
is  so  unproportionable  to  the  body  and  soul  of  the  pos- 
sessor, so  these  antiquities,  as  us'eless  lumber,  were  de- 
stroyed too.  Of  that  Richard  Gascoyne  see  more  in 
Thoresby's  Topography  of  Leeds,  fol.  1715;  in  Sir  Wm. 
Dngdale's  Antiquities  of  Warwickshire,  where  he  is  ap- 
plauded for  his  revival  of  the  Wentworth  family,  as  he 
ought  to  have  been  respected  by  it  for  the  honour  which 
he,  and  the  profit  his  kindred,  brought  to  it  (p.  554), 
how  gratefully  repaid  appears  above.  Also  in  Dugdale's 
Memoirs  of  his  own  Life,  in  the  note  I  have  made  upon 
Burton's  Leicestershire  (throughout  enriched  with  his 
notes),  in  the  Harleian  Catalogue,  vol.  iii.  p.  23,  8°,  1744.* 

Nov.  1734;  became  Baron  of  Rockingham  in  Feb.  1746, 
and  was  created  Marquis  of  Rockingham  1 9  April,  1746  ; 
died  at  Wentworth  House  14  Dec.  1750,  and  was  buried 
in  the  Minster  at  York.  Vide  the  pedigree  of  the  family 
in  Hunter's  Doncaster,  ii.  91. 

*  Oldys's  note  is  worth  quoting,  He  says,  "  Through- 
out this  much-esteemed  work  [Burton's  Leicestershire, 
1622]  there  have  been  numberless  notes  transcribed  in 
the  margins,  and  almost  all  the  pedigrees  enlarged  and 
corrected,  from  a  copy  of  this  book  in  the  library  of  Jesus 
College,  Cambridge.  It  has  been  new  bound,  and  inter- 
leaved also  throughout,  to  make  room  for  any  further 
additions.  The  notes  aforesaid  were  written  by  one  of 
the  most  skilful  antiquaries  in  Record- heraldry  of  his 
times  (as  T.  Fuller  has  justly  distinguished  him),  Richard 
lascoyne,  Esq.,  of  Bramham  Biggen  in  Yorkshire.  He 
was  a  descendant  from  Judge  Gascoyne  (who  committed 
the  Prince  of  Wales,  afterwards  King  Henry  V.,  to  prison 
for  obstructing  him  in  the  course  of  justice'on  the  King's 
Bench),  and  was  also  related  to  the  first  Earl  of  Straf- 
ford, whose  grandfather  married  one  of  his  family.  Part 
of  his  pedigree  may  be  seen  in  Mr.  Thoresby's  Antiquities 
of  Leeds.  He  did  singular  honours  to  that  Eail's  name, 
in  the  most  elaborate  Tables  of  Genealogy  which  he  drew 
out  of  a  vast  treasure  of  original  charters,  patents,  evi- 
dences, wills,  and  other  records,  which  he  had  amassed 
together;  for  which,  and  other  such  performances,  he  is 


Some  men  have  no  better  way  to  make  themselves  the 
most  conspicuous  persons  in  their  family  than  by  de- 
stroying the  monuments  of  their  ancestors,  and  raising 
themselves  trophies  out  of  their  ruins." 

We  get  a  glimpse  of  Oldys's  literary  habits  at 
this  time  from  the  following  note  :  — 

"When  I  left  London  in  1724  to  reside  in  Yorkshire, 
I  left  in  the  care  of  Mr.  Burridge's  family,  with  whom  I 
had  several  years  lodged,  among  many  other  books,  goods, 
&c.  a  copy  of  this  Langbaine,  in  which  I  had  written 
several  notes  and  references  to  further  knowledge  of  these 
poets.  When  I  returned  to  London  in  1730,  I  under- 
stood my  books  had  been  dispersed ;  and  afterwards  be- 
coming acquainted  with  Mr.  Thomas  Coxeter,  I  found 
that  he  had  bought  my  Langbaine  of  a  bookseller,  who 
was  a  great  collector  of  plays  and  poetical  books :  this 
must  have  been  of  service  to  him,  and  he  has  kept  it  so 
carefully  from  my  sight,  that  I  rlever  could  have  the 
opportunity  of  transcribing  into  this  I  am  now  writing 
in,  the  notes  I  had  collected  in  that."  * 

(To  le  continued.') 


ARCHBISHOP  LEIGHTON'S  LIBRARY  AT 
DUNBLANE. 

Having  in  preparation  a  new  edition  of  Arch- 
bishop Leighlon's  Works  f,  I  went  to  Dunblane  on 
the  25th  of  lust  September,  and  spent  a  few  days 
there  for  the  purpose  of  making  researches  in  the 
Library.  I  now  send  you  a  Note  on  the  subject, 
which  I  dare  say  will  be  acceptable  to  many  of 
your  readers. 

By  his  Will,  dated  "  Broadhurst,  Feb.  17,  1683," 
Abp.  Leigh  ton  bequeathed  his  books  "to  the 
Cathedral  of  Dunblane  in  Scotland,  to  remain 
there  for  the  use  of  the  Clergy  of  that  Diocese." 
Jerment  says :  — 

"His  large  and  well- chosen  Library  and  valuable 
Manuscripts,  he  disponed  to  the  See  of  Dunblane ;  with 
money  towards  erecting  a  house  for  the  books,  increas- 
ing their  number,  and  paj'ing  a  Librarian.  It  should  be 
mentioned  to  the  honour  of  his  Executors,  that  they 
very  considerably,  and  without  solicitation,  added  much 
to  that  sum." — Life  of  Bishop  Leighton,  p.  xlviii. 

But  I  believe  part  of  this  statement  is  errone- 

highly  praised  by  Sir  Wm.  Dugdale  in  Lis  Antiquities  of 
Warwickshire,  and  in  his  Account  of  his  own  Life.  But 
how  that  treasure  of  Records  was  wilfully  burnt,  about  the 
year  1728  need  not  to  be  remembered  here.  That  he  was 
the  author  of  the  notes  in  this  book  (as  he  was  of  the 
like  in  many  other  books  of  our  genealogical  and  topo- 
graphical antiquities)  appears  on  page  35,  and  in  other 
parts  of  the  book,  that  he  wrote  them  in  the  year  1656, 
at  which  time  he  was  seventy -seven  years  of  age.  He 
was  born  at  Sherfield,  near  Burntwood,  in  Essex,  and 
died,  it  is  probable,  at  Bramham  Biggen  aforesaid,  before 
the  Restoration."  Oldys  has  also  given  a  digest  of  Bur- 
ton's Leicestershire  in  the  British  Librarian,  pp.  287 — 
299. 

*  Langbaine  in  British  Museum  with  Oldys's  MS. 
notes,  p.  353. 

+  With  regard  to  the  need  of  a  new  edition,  see  my 
Papers  in  «N.  &  Q.,"  2"*  S.  vol.  viii.  pp,  41,  61,  507,  525. 
Cf.  also  vol.  x.  pp.  124,  213. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  JAN.  4,  '62. 


ous,  for  Leighton  left  no  money  with  the  books, 
his  means  having  been  completely  exhausted  at 
the  time  of  his  death.     His  relatives  and  execu- 
tors, the  Lightmakers,  contributed  to  the  expense 
of  providing  the  necessary  building,  presses,  and 
furniture  for  holding  the  books.     They  also  pro- 
vided for  the  future  support   of  the  library  by 
what  the  Scotch  law  terms  "a  Mortification"  of 
300?.      Of  this  sum,   100?.  was,  at  later  period, 
spent  in  repairs ;  so  that  the  interest  of  the  re- 
maining 200/.   constitutes   at   present  the  whole  j 
yearly  income  which  the  trustees  have  to  expend,  j 
The  library  was  opened  in  the  year  1688,  four  i 
years  after  the  donor's  death.     The  books  were  ! 
accompanied  by  a  catalogue  written  by  the  arch-  I 
bishop   himself.     There   is   a   MS.  copy   of  this  ! 
catalogue  among  the  treasures    at  Dunblane,  to  ! 
which  is  prefixed  a  short  account  of  the  donor  j 
and  of  his  bequest.     This  MS.  volume  was  drawn  '• 
up  in  July,  1691,  under  the  superintendence  of  j 
Robert  Douglas,  Bishop  of  Dunblane,  and  Gas- 
par  Kellie,  Dean  of  Dunblane.     It  is  written  in 
the  Scotch  vernacular,  and  entitled :    "  Register 
of  the  Bibliotheck  within  the  Citie  of  Dunblane, 
founded  by  the  Most  Revd  Father  in  God,  Doc-  I 
tor  Robert  Leigh  tone,  &c."     After  the  catalogue  j 
oM.hee  books  follows  a  list  of  the  Abp.'s  MSS.  ' 
which  is  worth  giving  here,  as  it  is  very  interest-  ! 
ing  in  itself,  and  has  never  been  printed :  — 
"THE  MANUSCRIPTS  OF  BISHOP  LIGHTONE'S  WHICH  j 

ARE  IN  THIS  HOUSE. 

"There  came  down  with  the  Books  a  little  Box  con-  i 
taining  some  of  the  Bishop's  MSS.  written  by  himself;  j 
being  a  Collection  of  some  special  Sentences  and  Observes  as  \ 
he  was  pleased  to  note  in  his  readings  for  his  own  use;  writ-  I 
ten  promiscuously  in  Greek,  Latine,  and  French. 

"  Another  parcel  of  the  Bishop's  MSS.  received  by  Dr.  ! 
Fall,  Principal   of  the   College   of  Glasgow,    from*  Mr. 
Edward  Lightmaker  of  Broadhurst,  the  Bishop's  nephew 
and  executor,  were  delivered  into  this  house,  and  are  as 
follows :  — 

1.  Two  Books  in  8vo.  containing  Sermons. 

2.  One  Book  in  4to.  containing  the  sum  of  several  Ser-  ! 
mons. 

3.  Some  learned  and  pious  Annotations  on  the  Psalms. 

4.  Short  Meditations  on  the  Book  of  Psalms.     Except 
the  first  18,  and  the  last  5. 

5.  Sermons  on  the  First  Epistle  of  St.  John. 

6.  Some  devout  Meditations  on  the  First  Nine  Chap-  ' 
ters  of  St.  Matthew's  Gospel. 

7.  Some  notes    of   Sermons  preached    on    the    39th  i 
Psalm. 

8.  Three  Bundles  of  MSS.  in  long  sheets  containing 
notes  of  Sermons,  and  other  collections. 

"  There  is  also  put  up  with  these  a  MS.  of  Mr.  Edward 
Lightmaker  of  Broadhurst  anent  the  preservation  of  the 
Bishop's  MSS. 

"All  these  foresaid  MSS.  together  with  the  authentic 
catalogue  under  the  Bishop's  own  hand  are  locked  up  in 
this  house." 

When  the  property  of  the  Church  in  Scotland 
was  alienated,  and  the  Cathedral  of  Dunblane 
was  handed  over  to  the  Presbyterians,  Abp. 
Leighton's  library  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  a 


mixed  committee  of  Churchmen  and  Presbyte- 
rians. The  following  passage  is  an  extract  from 
the  New  Statistical  Account  of  Scotland.  Black- 
wood  :  Edinb.  1845,  vol.  x.,  "  Perth  : "  — 

"  After  the  full  establishment  of  Presbytery,  Mr.  Light- 
maker  constituted  seven  Trustees  of  the  librar}-, —  the 
Visct.  Strathallan,  Sir  James  Patterson  of  Bannockhurn, 
Sir  James  Campbell  of  Aberuchill,  John  Graham,  Com- 
missary-Clerk of  Dunblane,  and  their  heirs  male,  the 
Minister  of  Dunblane,  and  two  other  beneficed  clergy- 
men of  the  Presbytery  of  Dunblane,  chosen  by  the  Synod 
of  Perth  and  Stirling.  Various  additions  by  will  and 
purchase  have  been  made  to  the  books.  lOOZ.  of  the 
mortified  money  have  been  expended  on  the  repairs  of 
the  house.  About  700  volumes  have  been  lost  during 
the  last  fifty  years."  * 

"  The  Presbytery  Records  of  Dunblane  extend  back  as 
far  as  1616.  The  Record  of  the  Episcopal  Synod  of  Dun- 
blane from  1662  to  1688,  is  extant,  comprehending  the 
whole  of  Leighton's  Episcopate.  It  might  be  interesting 
to  some  if  published." 

The  present  trustees  are  the  Hon.  Capt.  Drum- 
mond  of  Inchbrakie,  Crieff;  Sir  James  Campbell; 
— —  Ramsay,  Esq.  of  Barnton  ;  the  Presbyterian 
Incumbent  of  Dunblane,  and  two  other  beneficed 
ministers. 

The  bishop's  palace  was  burned  down  in  the 
troubled  times  which  ushered  in  the  Reformation, 
nnd  was  never  inhabited  by  any  of  the  reformed 
prelates.  Its  ruins  are  still  to  be  seen  to  the 
south  of  the  cathedral,  both  overhanging  the 
River  Allan.  The  library  is  said  to  be  an  un- 
doubted portion  of  the  ancient  deanery  which 
Leighton  lived  in  as  his  episcopal  residence. 

The  present  trustees,  notwithstanding  their  very 
limited  means,  have  done  much  for  the  Library. 
One  of  them,  who  has  for  many  years  taken  the 
most  active  part  in  the  management  of  the  Li- 
brary, tells  me,  that  — 

"  Within  the  last  several  years  there  has  been  some 
SQL  odd  laid  out  in  rebinding  the  books;  about  50/.  laid 
out  in  new  books;  and  a  Catalogue  made  of  the  books, 
which  cost  about  28/.  And  there  was  also  a  private  sub- 
scription collected  for  putting  the  cases  on  the  book- 
shelves, which  I  think  came  to  nearly  38/." 

Under  the  former  trustees,  from  all  that  I  can 
gather,  the  Library  seems  to  have  been  a  sort  of 
lumber-room,  with  the  books  lying  about  quite 
uncared  for,  and  unprotected. 

The  Catalogue  referred  to  was  "printed  at 
Edinburgh,  1843."  In  the  preface  we  are  told : 

"  The  only  printed  Catalogue  of  the  Library  is  dated 
1793.  The  present  one  has  been  compiled  with  greater 
attention  to  accuracy  in  regard  to  the  titles  of  the  books 
and  the  dates,  under  the  direction  of  Messrs.  Maclachlan, 
Stewart,  &  Co.,  Booksellers,  Edinburgh." 

The  present  Librarian,  Mr.  Stewart,  is  an  aged 
man  who  had  been  formerly  the  parish  school- 
master. His  salary  as  librarian  is  but  51.  a-year. 
He  is  a  faithful  and  zealous  guardian  of  the  books, 

*  It  is  probable  that  these  lost  books  were  not  all  of 
them  Leighton's,  at  least  it  is  to  be  hoped  not. 


3"*  S.  I.  JAN.  4,  '62. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


and  is  watchful  lest  they  should  be  in  any  way 
lost  or  damaged.  This  is  especially  necessary  and 
important  when  we  remember  that  the  books  are 
lent  out  to  any  person  who  subscribes  five  shil- 
lings a-year.  It  is  very  satisfactory  to  know  that 
the  books  are  now  really  looked  after;  and,  on 
the  other  hand,  very  sad  to  hear  that  until  about 
twenty  years  ago  the  library  was  almost  totally 
neglected,  and  sustained  the  serious  loss  of  some 
seven  hundred  volumes  within  fifty  years  before 
that  time.  As  Leighton's  library  is  of  a  mediaeval 
character,  containing  a  class  of  books  little  read 
in  these  days  *,  and  not  likely  to  be  in  request  in 
a  remote  country  place  like  Dunblane,  the  duties 
of  a  librarian  there  are  of  a  simple  and  mechanical 
kind,  not  requiring  a  highly-educated  and  highly- 
qualified  person. 

The  library  is  a  gloomy  forlorn-looking  room. 
The  books  are  in  very  good  condition  internally, 
but  are  sadly  in  want  of  dusting,  cleaning,  and 
lettering  on  the  back;  and,  in  some  cases,  of 
vamping  and  binding.  It  is  greatly  to  be  regret- 
ted that  the  little  money  in  the  hands  of  the 
trustees  seems  to  have  been  laid  out  from  time  to 
time,  not  in  preserving  and  rendering  available 
Leighton's  books,  but  in  buying  other  books. 
These  other  books  are  all  mixed  up  with  Leigh- 
ton's,  and  usurp  the  necessary  room.  Thus  many 
books  I  was  anxious  to  see,  and  which  were  in 
the  printed  Catalogue,  were  not  to  be  found  when 
we  came  to  look  for  them  ;  they  were  supposed 
to  be  lying  amongst  certain  dusty  and  disorderly 
masses  of  books  which  lay  behind  the  front  rows 
on  the  shelves.  Thus,  I  was  unable  to  get  a  sight 
of  St.  Thos.  a  Kempis  Opera  Omnia,  1635  ;  of  an 
old  English  translation  of  the  Theologia  Ger- 
manica,  and  of  several  other  works.  The  same 
confusion  and  mixture  of  books  extends  to  the 
printed  Catalogue ;  in  which,  unfortunately,  Leigh- 
ton's  books  are  in  no  way  separated  or  distin- 
guished from  the  books  which  have  been  after- 
wards added  to  the  library.f  This  is  in  many 
respects  much  to  be  regretted  :  Leighton's  books 
were  the  choicest  works  procurable  in  the  age  in 
which  he  lived,  and  afforded  an  interesting  and 
characteristic  memorial  of  his  mind  and  judgment ; 
they  may  be  said  also  to  have  an  historical  in- 

*  Witness  Abp.  Tenison's  Library  in  London  (recently 
dispersed),  and  Abp.  Marsh's  in  Dublin  ! 

t  It  has  a  strange  and  incongruous  effect  to  see  mixed 
up  with  Leighton's  books,  the  writings  of  Hartley,  Hel- 
vetius,  Hoadley,  Bolingbroke,  Pope,  Paley,  Priestlev, 
Swift,  Chesterfield,  Conyers  Middleton,  Voltaire,  Frede- 
rick the  Great  of  Prussia,  Rousseau,  &c. ;  Bell  on  the 
Cow  Pox,  Culquhoun  on  Police,  Harris's  Mammon,  &c.  &c. 
However,  there  is  no  difficulty  in  deciding  about  these, 
as  they  are  obviously  out  of  place  and  out  of  date ;  but 
when  we  come  to  such  a  book  as  Thomas  Adams  of  Wil- 
lington's  Exposition  of  the  Second  Epistle  of  St.  Peter, 
Loud.  1633,  folio,  we  can  find  out  that  it  is  not  one  of 
Leighton's  books,  only  by  referring  to  the  MS.  Catalogue. 


terest  and  importance.  In  other  respect?,  this 
Catalogue  is'unsatisfactory  and  inaccurate.  Thus, 
it  does  not  contain  the  library  in  its  integrity 
as  it  came  from  the  hands  of  Leighton,  but 
only  the  books  at  present  to  be  found ;  and  even 
in  this  respect  it  does  not  seem  to  be  quite  ac- 
curate, for  I  came  accidentally  upon  the  book 
which  Leighton,  next  to  his  Bible,  prized  most 
highly  of  all  his  treasures — his  favourite  copy 
of  his  favourite  book  —  viz.  a  miniature  edition 
of  the  De  Imitatione  Christi,  evidently  his  pocket 
companion,  which  he  carried  about  with  him. 
everywhere  :  scored  throughout  with  pencil  marks, 
and  with  the  fly-leaves  all  written  over,  —  yet 
this  little  volume  was  not  in  the  Catalogue. 
The  title  is  wanting,  but  it  is  apparently  Ros- 
weyd's  miniature  edition  of  Colon.  Agrip.  1622. 
The  Catalogue,  moreover,  mentions  the  year  ;  but 
not  the  place  in  which  each  book  was  printed. 
Beside?,  it  does  not  give  a  list  of  the  MSS.  be- 
queathed along  with  the  books,  or  of  those  still 
extant.  Again,  we  have  such  entries  as  that  of 
De  Vargas'  work  on  the  Jesuit  Order,  which  is 
described  as  Relatio  de  Strata gematis  Politicis 
Societatis — the  distinctive  word  "Jesu"  being 
omitted  ;  a  work  of  Bp.  Taylors  on  the  H.  Eucha- 
rist is  described  as  "  Real  Presence  and  Spiritual 
of  Christ  in  the  Sepulchre,  8vo,  1654;"  the 
Mystical  Theology  of  a  certain  Father  John,  a 
Carmelite  Friar,  is  entered  under  Maria,  — 
"  Maria  Theologia  Mystica  "  and  there  are  several 
other  similar  blunders. 

I  have  reason  to  believe  that  Abp.  Leighton 
and  his  Works  are  beginning  to  be  better  known, 
and  more  appreciated,  in  this  country  than  for- 
merly ;  and  I  have  little  doubt  but  that  a  fund 
could  be  easily  raised  to  carry  out  the  most  ne- 
cessary and  desirable  reforms  with  regard  to  the 
library  ;  and,  at  the  same  time,  that  the  trustees 
would  readily  sanction  and  forward  such  mea- 
sures, if  provided  with  the  necessary  funds.  The 
measures  which  seem  to  me  most  necessary  and 
desirable  are  :  — 

1.  To  have  Leighton's  books  carefully  separated 
from  the  others,  and  kept  by  themselves.   To  give 
them  ample  room,  and  to  have  them  placed  in  an 
orderly  and  available  manner  on  the  shelves. 

2.  To  have  the  books  dusted,  cleaned,  lettered 
on  the  back,  and  repaired  or  bound  as  they  re- 
quire.    Most  of  them  want  little  more  than  to  be 
brightened  up,  and  have  lettered  leather  labels  on 
the  back. 

3.  To  have  a  careful  and  accurate  Catalogue 
drawn  up  of  all  the  books,  in  alphabetical  order. 

j  The   lost   books   might   be   distinguished   by   an 
!  asterisk.*     Any  books  that  have  been  added  to 

*  One  of  the  trustees  of  the  library,  when  I  made  this 
I  suggestion,  thought  it  right  in  principle,  but  expressed  a 
j  fear  that  the  Catalogue  would  thereby  "  shine  by  the 
i  light  of  too  great  a  multitude  of  stars." 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


.  I.  JAN.  4,  '62. 


the  library,  might  be  given  in  a  separate  Appen- 
dix. After  Leighton's  books,  to  print  an  accurate 
list  of  the  MSS.  originally  sent  along  with  the 
books ;  distinguishing  any  that  have  been  lost. 
It  would  be  desirable  also,  to  prefix  to  the  Cata- 
logue the  account  of  Abp.  Leighton  and  of  the 
bequest,  which  is  prefixed  to  the  MS.  Catalogue, 
and  which  has  never  been  printed.  Such  a  Cata- 
logue, well  edited,  and  with  a  suitable  introduc- 
tion, would  command  a  general  (though,  of  course, 
not  a  popular)  sale,  and  pay  its  own  expenses. 

4.  If  the  MS.  Common-place   Book  of  Abp. 
Leighton  can  be  found,  which  is  enumerated  in 
the  list  of  MSS.  which  came  along  with  the  books 
to  Dunblane,  it  would  be  well  to  print  it.     A 
very  interesting  supplementary  work  might  be 
compiled  by  having  all  the  sentences,  apothegms, 
&c.,  which  Leighton  wrote  in  his  books,  tran- 
scribed and  printed  under  the  heading  of  the 
books  in  which  they  were  written.     To  make  this 
work   available   and   interesting   to   the   general 
reader,  translations   might   be   subjoined,  and  a 
careful  Index  might  be  appended  to  complete  the 
book.    Besides  the  value  which  such  a  work  would 
have  in  itself  as  a  collection  of  choice  extracts 
gathered  by  a  man  of  such  profound  learning  and 
spiritual  discernment,  as  well  as  exquisite  judg- 
ment —  and  besides   its   value  as   a   relic  of  so 
saintly  and  revered  a  bishop  —  it  would  doubtless 
be  of  great  use  to  a  careful  editor,  and  help  to 
illustrate  and  enrich  Leighton's   Works;  verify- 
ing many  references,  arid  leading  to  the  restora- 
tion   and    identification   of  many   quotations    at 
present  mixed  up  with  the  text. 

5.  It  would  be  desirable  to  print  the  Record  of 
the  Episcopal  Synod  of  Dunblane,  from  1662  to 
1688  ;  which  is  still  extant,  and  which  compre- 
hends the  whole  of  Leighton's  episcopate,  as  well 
as  that  of  his  successor. 

I  may  here  mention,  in  concluding  these  sug- 
gestions, that  I  have  heard  of  a  MS.  History  of 
Dunblane  Cathedral,  written  by  a  Presbyterian 
minister  named  McGregor;  who  died  in  Dun- 
blane, or  its  neighbourhood,  not  very  many  years 
ago. 

For  the  sake  of  persons  interested  in  the  sub- 
ject, I  may  refer  to  the  Rev.  J.  W.  Burgon's  de- 
lightful Memoir  of  Patrick  Fraser  Tytler,  Lond. 
1859  ;  in  which  we  have  an  account  of  a  visit  Mr. 
Tytler  paid  to  Abp.  Leighton's  library  at  Dun- 
blane in  1837  :  — 

"  In  his  pocket  diary,  against  August  9th,  there  is  the 
following  entry  :  — '  Passed  a  sweet  day  at  Dunblane,  in 
dear  Leiuh ton's  library.'  And,  on  the  14th,  «  went  again 
to  Dunblane.'  This  visit,  I  remember,  delighted  him 
much  ;  and  he  brought  away  an  interesting  memorial  of 
it,  by  transcribing  the  abumfant  notes  with  which  Leigh- 
ton  has  enriched  *  his  copy  of  Herbert's  Poems.  That 

*  I  believe  soir.e  one  of  Herbert's  editors,  or  admirers, 
deceived  perhaps  by  the  above  statement,  obtained  a 


saintly  man  seems  to  have  delighted  in  the  practice  of 
writing  Sentences  from  the  Fathers,  and  short  pious 
Apothegms  in  his  books;  several  of  which  Tytler  also 
transcribed,  and,  some  years  after,  showed  me."  —  P.  250. 

I  may  add  also,  that  about  two  years  ago, 
Archdeacon  Allen  published  a  short  letter  in  The 
Guardian  Newspaper  (vol.  xiv.  p.  768),  in  which 
he  gave  some  account  of  a  visit  he  paid  to  Dun- 
blane, and  quoted  some  of  the  sentences  which 
Leighton  had  written  in  his  books.  I  mention 
these  instances,  and  could  add  others*,  to  show  that 
there  is  a  more  general  appreciation  of  LEIGHTON 
than  formerly,  and  an  increasing  love  and  vener- 
ation for  that 

"  Dear,  loved,  revered,  and  honoured  name, 
Whose  sound  awakes  Devotion's  flame."  f 

Any  persons  wishing  to  contribute  to  the  Fund, 
or  to  co-operate  in  the  measures  above  proposed, 
will  perhaps  kindly  communicate  with  ine  on  the 
subject. 

As  soon  as  I  get  the  requisite  aid,  I  shall  at 
once,  with  the  sanction  of  the  trustees,  and  the 
help  of  some  competent  bookseller,  such  as  Mr. 
Stillie  or  Mr.  Stevenson  of  Edinburgh,  get  an 
accurate  catalogue  made  of  all  the  books  bearing 
date  not  later  than  1684  ;  and  also  a  transcript  of 
the  MS.  catalogue  with  the  memoir  prefixed,  and 
then  prepare  them  for  the  press.  The  MS.  cata- 
logue does  not  contain  the  dates  or  full  titles  of 
the  books,  and  gives  the  books  in  the  order  in 
which  they  were  originally  set  up  in  the  several 
presses  and  shelves.  I  counted  the  volumes  enu- 
merated in  the  MS.,  and  they  amounted  to  1390, 
besides  a  number  of  "  Slight  Pieces,  Little  Trea- 
tises, Single  Sermons,  &c.,  put  up  in  six  bun- 
dles," amounting  to  149,  making  a  total  of  1539 
articles.  I  hope  shortly  in  another  Note  to  give 
a  cursory  survey  of  the  contents  of  the  library. 
Let  me  say  in  conclusion  that  I  received  much 
courtesy  and  kindness  from  the  Trustees  and  all 
persons  connected  with  the  library  at  Dunblane, 
as  well  as  from  the  Presbyterian  and  Episcopal 
incumbents.  EIEIONNACH. 


TOLAND. 

Among  some  'extracts  which  I  made  when  I 
was  at  Lambeth,  I  find  a  notice  of  this  writer, 

transcript  of  these  "  abundant  notes  " ;  however,  he  must 
have  been  disappointed,  as  I  can  testify  that  the  afore- 
said notes  have  no  connexion  with  Herbert's  Poems.  The 
Archbishop,  according  to  his  wont,  merely  used  the  fly- 
leaves as  a  Common-place  Book. 

*  E.  g.  See  Mr.  Bruoe's  preface  to  the  Calendar  of 
State  Papers,  Domestic  Series,  of  the  Reign  of  Charles  I. 
1628-29.  Lond.  1859.  See  also  a  remarkable  volume  of 
poems  entitled :  The  Bishop's  Walk,  and  ike  Bishop's 
Times.  Poems  on  the  Days  of  Abp.  Leighton  and  the 
Scottish  Covenant.  By  Orwell.  Macmillan,  1861. 

t  From  some  lines  by  Mrs.  Grant  of  Laggan,  written 
after  a  visit  to  Dunblane. 


8'*  S.  I.  JAN.  4,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


which  may  perhaps  be  worthy  of  a  place  in  "  N. 
&  Q."  It  occurs  in  a  letter  from  Dr.  Charlett 
to  Arohbp.  Tenison,  dated  from  University  Col- 
lege Oct.  25,  1695,  that  is,  when  Toland  was 
about  five  or  six-and-twenty  years  old  :  — 

"  As  to  Mr.  Tulons  \_sic~]  behaviour,  it  was  so  publick 
and  notorious  here,  that  the  late  Vice-Chancellor  ordered 
him  to  depart  this  place,  wch  he  accordingly  promised  to 
do,  and  did  for  some  time,  but  afterwards  in  ye  V-Cri 
absence  returned.  Evidence  was  then  offered  upon 
Oath,  of  his  Trampling  on  ye  Common  prayer  book, 
talking  against  the  Scriptures,  commending  Common- 
wealths, justifying  the  murder  of  K.  C.  lgt,  railing  against 
Priests  in  general,  with  a  Thousand  other  Extravagancys 
as  his  common  Conversation.  His  behaviour  was  the 
same  in  Scotland  and  Holland,  where  he  quarrelled  with 
the  Professors.  He  had  the  vanity  here  to  own  himselfe 
a  spy  upon  ye  University,  and  insinuated  that  he  re- 
ceaved  Pensions  from  some  great  men,  and  that  his  cha- 
racters of  Persons  here  were  the  only  measures  followed 
above:  This  insolent  carriage  made  him  at  last  con- 
temptible, both  to  ye  Scholars  and  Townsmen.  I  was 
always  apt  to  Fancy,  he  would  appear  at  last  to  be  a 
Papist.  He  pretended  to  great  Intrigues  and  correspon- 
dencys,  and  by  that  means  abused  the  names  of  some 
very  great  Men.  He  boasted  much  of  the  young  Ld 
Ashtly  Cooper— how  he  had  framed  him  and  that  he 
should  outdo  his  Grand  Father  in  all  his  glorious  de- 
signs.— At  his  going  away  he  pretended  some  consider- 
able office  would  force  him  to  declare  himselfe  of  some 
church  very  speedily,  and  that  He  should  be  a  Member 
of  Parliament,  and  then  should  have  an  opportunity  of 
being  revenged  on  Priests  and  Universitys.  When  he 
came  down  first  he  promised  himself  very  many  dis- 
coverys  from  ye  freedom  of  my  conversation,  but  before 
I  came  from  London,  he  had  so  exposed  himselfe,  that  a 
very  worthy  Person  Mr  Kennet,  who  was  to  introduce 
him  to  my  acquaintance  gave  me  timely  Caution,  so 
that  I  saw  him  but  once  at  my  door  and  ever  afterwards 
he  reputed  me  among  his  worst  enemies,  for  which  he 
vowed  revenge:  Mr  Creech  and  Mr  Gibson,  whom  he 
courted  much,  very  little  valued  his  Learning  to  which 
he  so  much  pretended,  however  I  presume  he  might  have 
done  well  eno,  in  case  he  could  have  commanded  his 
temper,  which  is  so  very  violent  as. to  betray  him  in  all 
places  and  Countrys  he  has  been  in.  I  beg  your  Pardon 
for  this  Length,  and  humbly  thank  you  for  the  Approba- 
tion of  our  Music  which  my  Friend  Mr  Pepys  very  much 
admires.  I  humbly  beg  leave  to  remain  your  Grace's 
most  Dutiful!  Servant,  Ar.  Charlett." 

S.  E.  MAITLAND. 


AMERICA  BEFORE  COLUMBUS? 

"  La  majeste  'de  grands  souvenirs  semble  concentre'e 
sur  le  nom  de  Christophe  Colomb.  C'est  1'originalite  de 
sa  vaste  conception,  1'etendue  et  la  fecondite  de  son  genie, 
le  courage  oppose  a  de  longues  infortunes  qui  ont  eleve 
Tamiral  au-dessus  de  tous  ses  contemporains."  — •  Alex- 
andre  DE  HUMBOLDT. 

An  anonymous  adventurer  in  the  bewitching 
path  of  discovery  has  prevailed  on  Mr.  Sylvanus 
Urban  to   give   publicity  to   some  very  curious  | 
speculations  in  an  essay  entitled  America,  before  I 

Cj  7  *  *         •/ 

ouunoiu. 

The  essayist  almost  doubts  the  existence  of 
Christoforo  Colombo  of  Genoa,  and  seems  inclined 
to  transform  him  into  one  Christopher  of  Cologne, 


but  as  that  speculation  is  expressed  with  provok- 
ing obscurity,  it  would  be  a  waste  of  time  to  com- 
ment on  it. 

His  tangible  arguments  in  refutation  of  the 
current  opinion  on  the  discovery  of  America,  and 
on  the  merits  of  Columbus,  are  1.  The  cartogra- 
phic evidence,  dated  in  1436,  of  the  existence  of 
an  island  in  the  Atlantic  named  Brasile ;  and  2. 
The  assumption  that  Brasii  wood  was  imported 
into  Italy,  and  paid  tax  at  the  gates  of  Modena,  in 
1306  ;  also,  into  England,  paying  tax  at  the  gates 
of  London,  in  1279,  in  1453,  etc.  He  thence  in- 
fers that  "  a  regular  trade  with  central  America 
had  been  going  on  for  some  two  centuries  before 
the  first  voyage  of  Christopher  of  Cologne.''  He 
means,  no  doubt,  Christoforo  Colombo  alias  El 
almirante  D.  Cristobal  Colon. 

As  the  arguments  are  quite  distinct,  I  shall 
assign  to  each  a  separate  examination,  and  in  the 
order  above  indicated. 

1.  The  chart  of  Andrea  Bianco,  dated  in  1436, 
was  in  part  published  by  Vincenzio  Formaleoni,  at 
Venice,  in  1783.     In  the  Atlantic  Ocean,  and  in 
the  parallel  of  Lisbon,  appears  a  nameless  group 
of  islands  —  undoubtedly  the  Azores  !    One  of  the 
islands  is  named  Corbo  =  Isla  del    Cuervo,   and 
another  Ya   de  Zan  Zorzi  =  ls\a.  de  San  Jorge. 
The  island  named  Ya  de  Brasii  is  Tercera  :  "  Por 
la  mediama  y  en  lo  mas  meridional  de  esta  Isla," 
says  D.  Vicente  Tofino,  "  se  eleva  el  monte  del 
Brasilt   bastante  alto  y  tajado  &  pique  hacia  el 
mar." 

Now,  the  question  is  —  Did  the  S.  American 
Brasii  give  its  name  to  the  Isla  de  Brasii  f  I 
cannot  discover  an  argument  in  favour  of  such  a 
conclusion.  Brasii  was  not  an  aboriginal  name, 
nor  was  it  the  earliest  name  imposed  on  the  pro- 
vince. A  manuscript  work,  described  by  Antonio 
de  Leon  in  1629,  was  entitled  Sania-Cruz,  pro- 
vincia  dp.  la  America  Meridional^  dicha  vulgar- 
mente  el  Brasii;  and  the  learned  Isidore  de 
Antillon,  in  his  Carta  esf erica  del  Oceano  Atldntico^ 
published  at  Madrid  in  1802,  writes  BRASIL  6 
Trra  de  Sta  Cruz.  To  conclude  —  inverting  the 
order  of  time  —  Antonio  de  Herrera,  Coronista 
mayor  de  Ian  Indias,  affirms  that  Brasii  was  for- 
merly named  Tierra  de  Santa  Cruz,  and  enume- 
rates as  articles  of  its  produce  "  algodon,  y  palo  de 
brasil,  que  es  el  que  la  dio  el  nombre" 

2.  The    inference    that   "  trade    with    central 
America  had  been  going  on  for  some  two  centwies 
before  the  first  voyage  of  Columbus  "  remains  for 
examination. 

The  essayist  is  too  modest.  By  adopting  the 
mode  of  argument  which  he  pursues,  I  can  soon 
prove  that  the  trade  in  question  had  been  carried 
on  for  more  than  four  centuries  before  the  first 
voyage  of  Columbus  !  I  require  one  concession. 
Admit  that  brasil  and  brasil-wood  are  synony- 
mous terms  —  on  which  point  the  Promptorhun 


8 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3**  S.  I.  JAN.  4,  '62. 


parvulorum  is  my  voucher — and  the  rest  is  iftere 
transcription  :  — 

"  LEGES  REGIS  EDWARDI  CONFESSORIS.  DE  LON- 
DONIA.  VITI.  Mercator  itaque  foranus,  postquain  civi- 
tatem  introierit,  quocumque  placuerit  ei  hospitetur.  Sed 
videat  etc.  —  Et  si  piper  vel  cuminum  vel  gingiber  vel 
alumen  vel  Irasit  vel  Jaco  vel  thus  attulerir,  non  minus 
quani  xxv.  libras  simul  vendat."  —  Ancient  laws  and  in- 
stitutes of  England,  8vo,  i.  463. 

"  BREZILH,  s.  m.  bresil,  sorte  d'arbre. 

Anet  trobar 
Grana  et  roga  e  BREZILH. 

Evang.  de  VEnfance. 

II  alia  trouver  ecarlate  et  garance  et  brtsil. 
No  fassa  mescla  de  BRESIL 
ni  de  rocba  am  grana. 

Cartulaire  de  Montpellier,  fol.  192. 
Qu'il  ne  fasse  melange  de  bresil  ni  de  garance  avec 
e'oarlate. 

CAT.  ESP.  Brasil  It.  Brasile. 

II  est  reconnu  que  le  Bresil,  contree  de^l'Ame'rique 
me'ridionale,  fut  ainsi  nomine  par  les  Europeans  a-  cause 
de  la  grande  quantite  de  bresils  qu'on  y  trouva." 

J.-M.  Raynouard,  Lexique  Roman,  ii.  258. 

In  the  document  of  1279,  as  printed  by  the 
essayist,  and  in  the  document  of  1453,  as  printed 
by  Mr.  Heath,  we  have  four  articles  —  brasil, 
quicksilver,  vermilion,  and  verdcgris  —  in  the  very 
same  order  !  I  conclude,  from  that  circumstance, 
that  many  similar  instances  are  on  record,  and 
wish  Mr.  Duffus  Hardy  would  set  the  matter  at 
rest. 

The  writer  who  censures  an  unsound  theory,  j 
should  he  effect  its  demolition,   is  not   bound  to 
provide  a  substitute  for  it  —  but  he  may  attempt 
it,  and  run  the  chance  of  recrimination. 

By  the  narrative  of  Herrera,  published  in  1591, 
we  learn  that  the  nine  islands  which  compose  the 
group  of  the  Azores  were  not  named  at  random. 
Tercera  was  so  named  because  it  was  the  third  is- 
land discovered.  Santa  Maria  was  so  named  be- 
cause it  was  discovered  on  the  day  of  her  com- 
memoration. San  Jorge  and  San  Miguel  were  so 
named  for  similar  reasons.  Fnyal  was  so  named  on 
account  of  its  beech-trees;  Pico,  from  its  shape; 
Graciosa,  from  its  cheerful  aspect ;  Flores,  from 
the  richness  of  its  vegetation  ;  and  Cuervo,  from 
its  cormorants. 

Now,  whence  came  the  earlier  name  of  Tercera 
—  Isla  de  Brasil?  The  island  is  volcanic,  and  I 
conceive  it  to  have  taken  its  name  from  brasa  = 
red-hot  charcoal,  or  from  brazal  =  brasier,  or 
from  bresil  =  a  red  wood.  The  essayist  may 
choose  whichever  he  prefers. 

I  make  no  pretensions  to  discovery  on  this 
occasion.  The  notion  that  brasil-wood  derives  its 
name  from  the  transatlantic  Brasil  was  refuted 
by  Bishop  Huet,  whose  arguments  on  that  point 
were  printed  in  17:>2  ;  and  Mr.  Tyrwhitt,  the 
learned  editor  of  The  Canterbury  Tales  of  Chau- 
cer, produced  unanswerable  evidence  to  the  same 
effect  in  1778.  Nevertheless,  the  evidence  now 


given,  being  of  earlier  date  than  any  which  has 
been  quoted  in  this  controversy,  may  interest 
many  readers ;  and  it  seems  to  me  that  the  ques- 
tion should  not  be  passed  over  in  a  journal  de- 
voted to  the  establishment  of  historic  truth. 

BOLTON  CORNET. 
Barnes,  S.W. 


THE    "COTGREAVE"  FORGERIES  OF  THE 
LATE  W.  S.  SPENCE. 

I  believe  that  the  Editor  of  "  NT.  &  Q."  will 
render  good  service  to  the  cause  of  historical 
truth,  and  save  many  a  future  fellow-worker  in 
the  field  of  genealogy  a  vast  amount  of  labour 
and  confusion,  if  he  will  allow  me  to  re-caution 
the  public  as  to  these  fabrications,  and  give  some 
additional  information  respecting  them.  As  I 
know  them  to  be  much  more  numerous  than  one 
would  imagine,  when  the  clumsy  compilation  of 
their  author  is  considered,  and  the  great  facilities 
that  exist  for  verifying  such  matters,  and  as, 
moreover,  they  have  deceived  many  persons  who 
have  actually  reproduced  them  in  works  of  other- 
wise undoubted  authority,  the  importance  of  my 
Note  will  not,  I  think,  be  questioned. 

The  subject  was  first  mooted  by  MR.  DIXON,  of 
Seaton  Carew,  who  in  a  letter  (l<  N.  &  Q."  1st  S. 
ix.  221)  sought  such  information  as  would  enable 
him  to  authenticate,  or  otherwise,  the  account  of 
his  family  (Dixon,  of  Beeston),  offered,  for  a  pe- 
cuniary consideration,  by  William  Sidney  Spence 
of  Birkenhead,  whose  letter  thereon  he  appends. 
This  brought  replies  (id.  pp.  275 — 6)  from  LORD 
MONSON,  MB.  EVELYN  SHIRLEY,  M.P.,  G.A.C., 
and  the  Editor  of  "  N.  &  Q.,"  which  satisfac- 
torily proved  not  only  the  fictitious  character  of 
the  Dixon  pedigree  by  Mr.  Spence,  but  that  his 
genealogical  researches  had  not  been  exclusively 
confined  to  that  family.  The  Note  of  P.  P.  (vol. 
x.  255)  discloses  two  other  instances  of  his  dis- 
honest and  injurious  practices. 

In  my  investigations  with  respect  to  the  Welsh 
branch  of  my  family,  I  received  a  long  time  since 
some  papers  belonging  to  the  late  Mr.  Tucker  - 
Edwardes  of  Sealyham,  co.  Pembroke,  which 
property  was  conveyed  by  the  marriage  of  Cathe- 
rine Tucker,  the  heiress,  with  his  grandfather  : 
amongst  these  I  found  a  Tucker  pedigree  from 
the  "  Cotgreave  Papers,"  which  I  at  once  recog- 
nised as  the  work  of  Spence  :  indeed,  had  I  not 
previously  known  of  his  frauds,  I  should  immedi- 
ately have  perceived  the  pretended  facts  to  be  in- 
correct ;  but  beyond  assuring  the  present  members 
of  Mr.  Tuckcr-Edwardes'  family  that  it  was  a 
forgery,  I  did  not  then  take  any  further  trouble 
in  the  matter :  I,  however,  subsequently  found 
out  that  51.  had  been  paid  for  this  trash,  and, 
worse  still,  that  it  had  been  accepted  as  genuine 
by  the  late  Mr.  Joseph  Morris,  of  Shrewsbury  (a 


S.  I.  JAM.  4,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


9 


gentleman  very  welMnformed  in  Welsh  pedigrees) 
and  Sir  Samuel  Rush  Meyriek,  who  had  actually 
appended  it  as  a  note  to  the  Tucker  pedigree  in 
his  edition  of  Lewys  Dwnn's  Visitation!  I  then 
thought  the  matter  worthy  some  notice,  as  Sir 
Samuel's  books  are  now  and  ever  will  be  received 
and  quoted  with  credit,  and  therefore  at  once  set 
about  so  far  returning  Mr.  Spence's  compliment 
as  to  truce  his  pedigree  and  his  fruitful  source  of 
information,  the  "  Cotgreave  Papers."  The  first 
I  found  to  be  far  less  honourable  than  many  he 
has  drawn,  and  the  latter  I  found  not  at  all, 
existing,  as  they  did,  in  his  imagination  only. 

The  late  Sir  John  Cotgreave  (formerly  a  Mr. 
Johnson,  who  assumed  his  more  aristocratic  sur- 
name by  virtue  of  being  descended  from  the 
family),  was  knighted  as  Mayor  of  Chester  in 
1816,  "on  the  marriage  of  the  Princess  Char- 
lotte." He  married  twice  :  by  his  first  wife  (Miss 
Cross)  he  had  no  issue,  but  by  his  second,  a  dress- 
maker, Miss  Harriett  Spence,  he  had  children 
both  before  and  after  marriage.  Sir  John  died 
1836:  his  widow  survived  till  1848.  William 
Sidney  Spence  was  her  brother.  I  have  not  dis- 
covered, nor  is  it  material,  whether  or  not  Lady 
Cotgreave  connived  at  or  derived  benefit  by  the 
forgeries  of  her  brother,  or  attested  them,  as  he 
asserted  :  it  is  clear,  however,  that  his  pedigrees 
before  1848  (when  she  died)  are  verified  by  the 
signature  of  "  Harriet "  Cotgreave,  and  those 
subsequently  by  "  Ellen"  Cotgreave,  the  "Miss" 
C.  whose  attestation  he  offered  in  all  cases  after 
his  sister's  death.  It  is  not  a  little  singular  that 
while  I  was  actually  engaged  in  my  investigations 
with  regard  to  Spence,  his  "  ruling  passion  strong 
in  death"  manifested  itself  in  another  hideous 
appearance  of  his  trickery,  to  taunt  me  in  my 
work,  and,  as  it  proved,  to  spur  me  to  more 
speedy  action  :  I  had  occasion  to  trace  the  de- 
scent of  a  manor  lately  inherited  by  a  friend  and 
neighbour,  who,  to  assist  me,  sent  a  bundle, 
labelled  "  Pedigree  papers,"  belonging  to  the  late 
Squire  (Pudsey).  A  motley  collection  I  found 
them.  First,  the  original  parchment  roll  of 
Registers  of  the  next  parish  from  1561  to  1729 
(which  I  at  once  restored  to  the  Incumbent), 
then  some  old  accounts,  and  lastly,  a  glowing  his- 
tory of  the  Pudseys,  furnished  by  Mr.  Spence ! 
My  friend  was  quite  "  taken  out  of  conceit"  when 
he  heard  the  value  I  placed  on  the  information  in 
his  "  bundle,"  but  it  tended  to  show  how  whole- 
sale a  business  Spence  conducted  with  his  "  Cot- 
greave Papers."  Had  he  confined  his  victimising 
to  guileless  country  squires,  or  to  those  who,  as 
LORD  MONSON  writes,  gladly  accept  and  pay  for 
flattering^  notices  of  their  ancestry  on  Count 
Hamilton's  maxim,  that  "  On  croit  facilement  ce 
qu'on  souhaite,"  he  would  probably  have  found 
more  dupes ;  but  in  addressing  his  lies  to  either 
that  nobleman  (LORD  MONSON),  or  ME.  SHIRLEY, 


—  both  eminent  genealogists,  and  perfectly  con- 
versant with  every  detail  of  their  descent  —  he  (I 
trust  they  will  forgive  me  for  figuratively  saying) 
"  caught  a  Tartar." 

I  court,  therefore,  additions  to  the  numerous 
instances  already  known  to  me  of  the  existence 
of  Spence's  fraudulent  pedigrees,  to  the  end  that 
a  list  may,  with  the  Editor's  approval,  be  here- 
after recorded  in  "  N.  &  Q."  for  the  warning  of 
present  and  future  genealogists,  and  references 
made  to  such  works  where  they  have  been  ac- 
cepted and  quoted.  S.  T. 


&(n0r  flats*. 

COWELL'S  INTERPRETER  CONDEMNED.  —  Having 
in  my  hand  the  other  day  a  proclamation,  printed 
in  1610,  by  Robert  Barker,  being  in  fact  the 
identical  proclamation  produced  and  read  in  evi- 
dence on  the  trial  of  Abp.  Laud,  13th  March, 
1643-4,  I  made  the  following  extract  therefrom, 
relative  to  this  work  :  — 

"  The  proof  whereof  wee  have  lately  had  by  a  booke 
written  by  Doctour  Cowell,  called  The  Interpreter:  for 
hee  being  only  a  civilian  by  profession,  and  upon  that 
large  ground  of  a  kinde  of  Dictionary  (as  it  were)  follow- 
ing the  alphabet,  having  all  kind  of  purposes  belonging 
to  government  and  monarchie  in  his  way,  by  medling  in 
matters  above  his  reach,  he  hath  fallen  in  many  things 
to  mistake,  and  deceive  himself.  In  some  thinges  dis- 
1  puting  so  nicely  upon  the  history  of  this  monarchie,  that 
it  may  receive  doubtfull  interpretations:  yea,  in  some 
points  very  derogatory  to  the  supreme  power  of  this 
crowne.  In  other  cases,  mistaking  the  true  state  of  the 
parliament  of  this  kingdome  to  the  fundamentall  consti- 
tutions and  priviledges  thereof,  and  in  some  other  points 
speaking  irreverently  of  the  common  law  of  England, 
and  of  the  workes  of  some  of  the  most  ancient  and  fa- 
mous judges  therein;  it  being  a  thing  utterly  unlawfull 
to  any  subject  to  speak  or  write  against  that  lawe  under 
which  he  liveth,  and  which  we  are  sworne  and  are  re- 
solved to  raaintaine." 

ITH  URIEL. 

A  NOTE  TO  THE  "VOYAGES  or  SIR  FRANCIS 
DRAKE  AND  SIR  THOMAS  CAVENDISH."  —  In  the 
Journal  of  the  first  voyage  of  the  Dutch,  as  a 
nation,  to  the  East  Indies,  under  the  command  of 
Jan  Jansz.  Molenaer  and  Cornells  Houtman, 
from  April,  1595,  to  August,  1597,  there  occur 
the  following  passages  :  — 

"  As  our  fleet  was  lying  off  Balembuang  on  Jan.  22, 
1597,  a  nobleman  of  the  insularies  came  on  board ;  and 
informed  us,  amongst  other  particulars,  that  the  father  of 
the  present  King  of  Balembuang  was  still  living  (a  very 
old  man),  and  then  residing  in  the  interior.  Now,  as  our 
informant  furthermore  remembered  a  ship  of  the  same 
shape  as  ours,  which  had  visited  the  port  some  ten  years 
before,  we  concluded  that  this  old  man  was  the  identical 
person  spoken  of  by  Sir  Thomas  Candish,  in  his  Voyages, 
as  then  past  150  years  of  age." 

And  further  :  — 

"  Between  whiles  (on  the  9th  of  February  1597)  our 
ship  Mauritius  had  anchored  in  the  bay  "of  Padang, 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I.  JAN.  4,  '62. 


where  we  were  told  by  the  natives  that,  eighteen  years 
ago,  just  such  men  as  we  had  been  on  shore,  who  had  cut 
a  piece  of  cable  in  five  or  six  parts,  and  afterwards  had 
joined  them  again  into  a  whole.  We  conjectured  these  to 
have  been  Sir  Francis  Drake  and  his  fellows." 

JOHN  H.  VAN  LENNEP. 
Zeyst,  near  Utrecht. 

THE  SATURDAY  HALF-HOLIDAY.  —  Some  of  the 
advocates  of  the  Saturday  half-holiday  may  not 
be  aware  that  they  have  in  their  favour  an  un- 
repealed  law  of  King  Canute  :  — 

"  Let  every  Sunday's  feast  be  held  from  Saturday's 
noon  to  Monday's  dawn."  ("  Healde  mon  ajlus  Sunnan- 
dages  freolsunge  frara  Saternesdages  none  otS  Monandages 
lihtinge.") —  See  Thorpe's  Ancient  Laws  and  Institutes  of 
England,  "  Laws  of  Cnut,"  i.  14. 

F.  M.  N. 
PETRONIUS  ARBITER.  — 

1.  "Heu,  Heu,  quotidie  pejus:  haec  Colonia  retrouersus 
crescit,  tanquam  coda  vituli." — Safyr.  c.  xliv.  p.  125,  edit. 
Anton. 

Is  our  vulgar  expression,  to  ;;grow  downwards 
like  a  cow's  tail,"  fetched  from  this  passage ;  or  is 
it  merely  a  curious  undesigned  coincidence  ? 

2.  "  Trimalchio  .  .  .  basiavit  puerum,  ac  iussit  supra 
dorsum  ascendere  suum.    Non  moratur  ille,  usus  equo, 
inanuque  plena  scapulas  eius  subinde  verberavit,  interque 
risum  proclamavit:  (Croesus)  bucca?!  buccse !  quot  sunt 
hie?"—  Satyr,  c.  Ixiv.  pp.  191,  2,  edit.  Anton. 

Is  this  the  original  of  our  nursery  game,  where 
one  child  stands  behind  another  who  shuts  his 
eyes,  while  the  former  holds  up  some  of  his 
fingers,  and  cries,  "  Buck  !  buck  !  how  many 
horns  do  I  hold  up  ?  "  and  repeats  the  perform- 
ance until  the  number  is  guessed  ?  DEFNIEL. 

ARMORIAL  GLASS,  temp.  JAMES  I.  —  In  Sir 
William  Heyrick's  accompt  book,  under  the  year 
1612,  I  find  the  following  item  :  — 

"Paid  to  Butler  for  the  King's  armes,  the  Goldsmith's 
armes,  and  the  Citties  armes,  and  my  Wife's  3/.  5s.  Od." 

Sir  William  Heyrick  then  had  houses  at  Beau- 
manor  in  Leicestershire,  at  Richmond  in  Surrey, 
and  in  Cheapside.  I  imagine  these  arms  were 
for  the  last :  and  that  they  were  probably  in 
stained  glass  for  his  windows.  The  entry  fur- 
nishes only  another  example  of  a  very  common 
usage  in  the  erection  by  a  citizen  of  the  arms  of 
his  sovereign,  his  company,  and  the  city  ;  but  as 
little  is  known  of  our  old  glass-painters,  it  may 
be  worth  while  to  note  the  name  of  Butler. 

J.  G.  N. 


WELLS  CITY  SEALS  AND  THEIR  SYMBOLS. 

The  city  of  Wells  is  well  known  to  have  de- 
rived its  name  from  the  remarkable  springs  near 
the  eastern  end  of  the  Cathedral  there.  The 
principal  spring  has  been,  from  the  earliest  times,  \ 


known  as  "  St.  Andrew's  Well."  The  quantity 
of  water  rising  in  these  springs  is  very  large,  the 
whole  of  which  is  discharged  into  the  moat  which 
surrounds  the  Bishop's  Palace,  except  that  por- 
tion which  flows  through  pipes  to  the  great  con- 
duit in  the  market  place,  near  the  site  of  the 
ancient  high  cross.  This  right  to  the  water,  as 
well  as  the  conduit,  was  the  gift  of  Bishop  Thomas 
Beckington,  A.D.  1451.  The  town  was  incorpo- 
rated by  Bishop  liobert  (1135—1165),  whose 
Charter  was  confirmed,  and  the  privileges  granted 
by  it  increased  by  Bishops  Reginald  Fitz  Joce- 
lyne  and  Savaric.  King  John  gave  the  city  its 
first  royal  Charter,  Sept.  7th,  in  the  third  year  of 
bis  reign.  There  were  numerous  other  charters 
granted  by  succeeding  kings  and  queens  ;  one  of 
the  latest  and  most  important  and  valuable  was 
by  Queen  Elizabeth  in  the  thirty-first  year  of 
her  reign. 

There  are  three  different  seals  belonging  to 
the  Corporation.  The  earliest  is  circular  in  form, 
and  of  silver  ;  in  size  about  the  same  as  the  half- 
crown  piece.  On  it  is  a  tree,  which  appears  to 
be  standing  on  a  spring  of  water,  and  at  the  root 
is  a  fish,  which  a  bird  seems  about  to  seize.  In 
the  branches  of  the  tree  are  other  birds,  appa- 
rently of  a  smaller  kind.  On  each  side  of  the 
tree  is  a  figure  of  a  human  head,  one  of  which,  I 
believe,  is  intended  to  represent  St.  Peter,  and 
the  other  St.  Andrew,  the  latter  being  the  patron 
saint  of  the  cathedral.  The  legend  on  the  seal  is 
much  worn,  but  may  be  read  thus,  —  "  Sigillvm 
Seneschalli  Comvnitatis  Bvrgi  Welliae."  Among 
the  Corporation  records  is  a  document  with  an 
impression  of  this  seal  appended  to  it,  dated  in 
1316.  This,  until  about  a  hundred  years  ago, 
was  used  by  the  mayor  for  the  time  being,  and  was 
called  the  mayor's  seal.  After  this  it  was  used 
by  the  "  Justice,"  i.  e.  the  person  who  had  served 
the  office  of  mayor,  and  as  such  is  justice  of  the 
peace  for  one  year  after  he  ceases  to  hold  office. 

The  second  seal  is  in  two  parts,  obverse  and 
reverse,  and  nearly  two  inches  in  diameter.  The 
material  is  a  kind  of  bell-metal,  sometimes,  in 
early  documents,  I  believe,  called  Laten.  On 
one  of  the  sides,  a  tree  is  represented  as  growing 
over  a  spring  of  water,  in  which  is  a  fish  about 
to  be  seized  by  a  large  bird.  Another  bird  ap- 
pears to  be  flying  down  from  the  tree,  and  a  third 
at  the  edge  of  the  spring,  both  seeming  also  to 
be  looking  towards  the  fish.  In  the  branches  of 
the  tree  are  other  smaller  birds.  On  the  other 
side  of  the  seal,  an  ancient  building  with  three 
gables,  apparently  a  church,  is  represented.  In 
the  centre  under  an  arch,  is  the  figure  of  a  man. 
On  the  centre  gable  is  a  head  surrounded  by  a 
nimbus,  and  on  the  other  gables  are  other  heads, 
one  apparently  intended  to  represent  the  sun,  and 
the  second  the  moon.  The  building  is  raised  on 
three  arches,  under  which  a  stream  of  water  seems 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


11 


to  be  running.  Round  the  edge  of  the  last  men- 
tioned side  of  the  seal  is  the  following  legend  :  — 
"  Sigillvm  Commvne  Bvrgi  Wellie,"  and  on  the 
othe?  side,  "  Andrea  Famvlos  More  Tvere  (Tuere) 
Tvos  (Tuos)."  There  is  an  existing  document, 
with  this  seal  attached,  dated  in  1315.  The  third 
eeal  is  also  of  silver,  and  oval  in  shape.  This  is 
modern,  having  been  given  to  the  corporation  for 
the  use  of  the  mayor,  in  the  year  1754,  soon  after 
which  the  use  of  the  first-mentioned  seal  was 
abandoned  by  the  mayor,  as  before  stated.  The 
legend  on  this  seal  is  "  Hoc  Fonte  derivata  in 
Patriam  Populumque  fluit "  (probably  suggested 
by  two  lines  in  Horace)  — 

*'.    .    .    Hoc  fonte  derivata  clades 
In  Patriam,  populumque  fluxit." 

The  armorial  bearings  of  the  city  are  described 
by  Edmondson  as  follows  :  —  "  Per  fess  argent 
and  vert,  a  tree  proper,  issuant  from  the  fesse 
line  :  in  base  three  wells,  two  and  one,  masoned, 
gules."  The  same  authority,  in  speaking  of  the 
ancient  arms  of  the  city,  says :  — 

"  I  am  doubtful  whether  the  arms  of  this  city  are  such 
as  are  here  blazoned  ;  as  on  a  strict  inquiry  made  in  that 
city,  I  could  not  find  the  blazon  or  description  of  any 
arms  that  belonged  thereto.  The  Corporation  seal,  which 
is  very  ancient,  represents  a  tree,  from  the  root  whereof 
runs  a  spring  of  water :  on  the  sinister  side  thereof  stands 
a  stork,  picking  up  a  fish  ;  on  the  dexter  side  of  the  tree 
is  another  bird,  resembling  a  Cornish  Chough." 

The  arms,  as  blazoned  by  Edmondson,  were 
obtained,  I  believe,  at  the  time  when  Queen 
Elizabeth's  Charter  was  granted,  as  they  are  not 
noticed  in  the  city  records  before  that  date. 

Probably  some  light  would  be  thrown  on  the 
subject  by  referring  to  the  Heralds'  Visitations, 
one  of  which  is  thus  noticed  in  the  Corporate 
proceedings,  23rd  August,  21  James  I. :  — 

"  This  day  motion  was  made  by  Mr.  Maior  that  the 
King's  Majesties  Heralds  have  required  this  Corporation 
to  show  their  antient  Charters  and  liberties,  and  the 
Armes  of  this  citie,  and  to  have  the  same  entered  into 
tbeire  booke  made  for  that  purpose:  -\vhervppon  it  is 
condiscinded  that  the  saide  Heralds  shall  see  the  Char- 
ters and  both  the  Scales,  viz.  the  Corporacon  Scale,  and 
the  Maior's ;  and  it  is  agreed  that  the  Receiver  shall  pay 
vnto  them  xlf,  whiche  was  taken  out  of  the  Chest  in 
tho  little  purse,  in  whiche  ther  is  left  £xii  xviiK" 

If  any  of  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  can  give 
any  particulars  from  the  Heralds'  Visitation  just 
referred  to,  I  shall  be  obliged,  and  particularly  I 
am  most  desirous  of  knowing  the  real  meaning 
of  the  symbolical  representation  on  the  old  seals 
of  the  fishes  and  birds.  I  may  observe,  that  it 
has  been  suggested  by  a  gentleman  learned  in 
such  matters,  that  the  fish  is  symbolical  of  the 
Saviour,  and  the  birds  of  souls  of  the  departed. 

INA. 


AVIGNON  INSCRIPTIONS.  —  Avignon  was  twice 
the  residence  of  the  exiled  Royal  family  of  Eng- 


land. James  III.  (the  old  Pretender)  held  his 
court  there  for  some  time,  and  thither  his  son 
Charles  retired  after  the  defeat  of  Culloden.  It 
is  probable  that  in  the  burial  grounds  of  that 
city,  and  its  neighbour  hood,  are  to  be  found  me- 
morials of  some  of  their  followers.  Any  reader  of 
"N.  &  Q."  who  happens  to  wander  thus  far,  Avould 
be  doing  good  service  by  transcribing  these  re- 
mains, if  such  there  be.  EDWARD  PEACOCK. 

PASSAGE  IN  BOSSUET. —  In  one  of  Alexis  de 
Tocqueville's  letters  to  Mad.  Swetchine,  dated 
Sept.  1856,  he  refers  to  a  passage  from  Bossuet 
quoted  by  the  latter — at  the  same  time  expressing 
his  surprise  at  his  never  having  met  with  it.  I 
have  searched  in  vain  to  find  it,  but  without  suc- 
cess. Perhaps  some  of  your  readers  can  give  me 
the  reference  ?  The  passage  is  as  follows :  — 

"  Je  ne  sais,  Seigneur,  si  vous  etes  content  de  moi,  et  je 
reconnais  memo  que  vous  avez  bien  des  sujets  de  ne 
1'etre  pas.  Mais  pour  moi,  je  dois  confesser  &  votre  gloire 
que  je  suis  content  de  vous,  et  que  je  le  suis  parfaite- 
ment.  II  vous  importe  peu  que  je  le  sois  ou  non.  Mais 
apres  tout,  c'est  le  temoignage  le  plus  glorieux  que  je 
puisse  vous  rendre ;  car  dire  que  je  suis  content  de  vous, 
c'est  dire  que  vous  etes  mon  Dieu,  puisqu'il  n'y  a  qu'un 


LIONEL  J.  ROBINSON. 


Dieu  qui  puisse  me  contenter." 

Audit  Office. 

ENGLISH  AMBASSADORS  TO  FRANCE.  —  I  request 
to  be  informed  who  were  our  ambassadors  to 
France  during  a  part  of  the  reign  of  George  III. 
(with  the  exact  date  of  their  several  appoint- 
ments), beginning  with  John  Frederick  Sackville, 
Duke  of  Dorset,  K.G.,  till  the  time  when  M. 
Chauvelin,  the  minister  from  France,  was  chasse 
by  our  government  early  in  1793,  and  when,  I 
conclude,  our  ambassador,  Granville  Leveson,  Earl 
Gower,  K.G.  (postea  Marquis  of  Stafford),  with- 
drew, and  all  amicable  relations  between  the  two 
countries  ceased  for  the  time.  My  principal  ob- 
ject is  to  ascertain  who  was  our  minister-residen- 
tiary in  Paris  on  the  14th  July,  1789,  the  epoch 
from  which  all  the  French  date  their  Revolution 
(la  prise  de  la  Bastille).  Permit  me  to  add,  I 
have  consulted  Beatson's  Political  Index,  and  have 
not  succeeded  in  the  object  of  my  inquiry.  His 
list,  I  suspect,  is  incomplete  for  the  above  period. 
SECUNDUM  ORDINEM. 

EPIGRAMS  ON  THE  POPES  OF  ROME,  ETC.  —  A 
friend  lately  mentioned  to  me  that  there  was  pub- 
lished about  six  years  since  a  collection  of  epi- 
grams on  the  Popes  of  Rome,  including  both  the 
pre-  suaApost-  reformation  ones.  What  is  the  title 
of  the  collection,  and  publisher's  name  ?  Is  there 
any  list  of  similar  works  ?  AIKEN  IRVINE. 

Fivemiletown. 

A  GIANT  FOUND  AT  ST.  BEES.  —  In  Jefferson's 
History  and  Antiquities  of  Allcrdule  Above  Der- 
went,  I  find  the  following  curious  account  of  the 
discovery  of  the  remains  of  a  giant  at  St.  Bees 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[8*  S.  I,  JAN.  4, 


Cumberland,  extracted  from  a  MS.  in  thfl    li- 
brary of  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Carlisle :  — 

"A  true  report  of  Hugh  Hodson  of  Thorneway,  in 
Cumberland  to  Sr  Rob.  Cewell  (qy.  Sewell)  of  a  gyant 
found  at  St.  Bees  in  Cumberland.  The  said  Gyant  was 
buried  4  yards  deep  in  the  ground,  wch  is  now  a  corn 
field.  It  was  4  yards  and  a  half  long,  and  was  in  com- 

Elete  armour:  his  sword  and  his  battle  axe  lying  by 
im.  His  sword  was  two  spans  broad  and  more  than 
two  yards  long.  The  head  of  his  battle  axe  a  yard  long, 
the  shaft  of  it  all  of  iron,  as  thick  as  a  man's  thigh, 
and  more  than  two  yards  long.  His  teeth  were  6  inches 
long  and  2  inches  broad  ? ;  his  forehead  was  more  than 
two  spans  and  a  half  broad.  His  chine  bone  could  con- 
taine  3  pecks  of  oat  meale.  His  armour,  sword,  and 
battle-axe  are  at  Mr.  Sands  of  Redington  (Rottington), 
and  at  Mr.  VVybers  of  St.  Bees."— Macliel  MSS.  vol.  vi. 

Can  you  or  any  of  your  correspondents  give 
any  further  information  upon  the  subject?  Is 
any  of  his  armour  still  in  existence  ?  Or  did 
the  information  exist  only  in  the  imagination  of 
"Hugh  Hodson."  HENRY. 

Cumberland. 

ITALIAN  PROVERBS.  —  I  shall  feel  obliged  if  any 
of  your  readers  will  explain  the  allusions  to  local 
or  national  peculiarities  referred  to  in  the  follow- 
ing proverbs  :  — 

1.  "All*  amico  mondagli  il  fico, 

All'  inimico  il  persico." 

2.  "  A  Lucca  ti  vidi,  a  Pisa  ti  connobbi." 

3.  "  Egli  ha  fatto  come  quel  Perugino,  che  subito  che 
gli  fa  rotto  il  capo,  corse  a  casa  per  la  celata." 

4.  "  Piu  pazzi  che  quei  da  Zago,  che  davan  del  letame 
al  campanile  perche  crescesse." 

And  the  probable  date  of  this  one  :  — 

5.  "  L'  Inglese  italianiszafo 

Un  diavolo  incaruato." 

With  regard  to  proverb  1,  I  can  suggest  two 
explanations  :  — 

1.  In  Italy  the  fig  is  considered  the  most  whole- 
some and  the  peach  the  most  unwholesome  fruit. 

But,  quaere,  is  this  the  fact  ?  or 

2.  It  is  easy  enough  to  peel  a  peach,  but  very 
difficult  to  perform  the  same  operation  on  a  fiX 

And  perhaps  proverb  2  may  have  some  c*on- 
nection  with  a  story  that  is  told  by  Horace  Wai- 
pole,  ^of  a  person  recognizing  in  London  an 
acquaintance  which  he  had  made  in  Bath,  much 
to  the  other's  disgust :  •— 

"'  Why,  my  lord,'  said  he,  <3'ou  knew  me  in  Bath  ' 

'Possibly  in  Bath  I  might  know  you  again,'  replied 
his  lordship." 

But  was  Pisa  so  deserted  at  the  birth  of  this 
proverb  as  now  ?  LIONEL  G.  ROBINSON. 

Audit  Office, 

SIR  HENRY  LANGFORD,  BART.-—  Will  some  of 
your  numerous  readers  favour  me  with  any 
genealogical  particulars  respecting  this  gentleman, 
who  was  sheriff  of  the  county  of  Devon,  temp. 
George  I.  Q  A  ^ 


LEE  OF  QUARENBON.  —  Are  there  any  existing 
monumental  memorials  of  the  family  of  Lee,  a 
branch  of  the  Quarendon  Lees,  which  flourished  at 
Warwick  in  the  middle  of  the  sixteenth  century, 
one  member  of  which  married  Alice,  daughter  of 
Richard  Dalby,  Esq.,  of  the  same  county  ?  If  so, 
where  are  they  to  be  found  ?  F.  G.  L. 

Aberdeen. 

MRS.  MURRAY.  —  In  Mr.  C.  Redding's  Fifty 
Years'  Recollections,  there  is  some  notice  (vol.  i.  p. 
6),  of  Mrs.  Murray,  author  of  a  work  called  The 
Gleaner,  three  vols.,  and  some  dramatic  pieces. 
Mrs.  Murray  was  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  J.  Murray, 
a  Universalist  preacher  in  America  about  the  end 
of  last  century,  who  was  known  by  the  name  of 
"  Salvation  Murray."  Can  you  give  me  any  ac- 
count of  Mrs.  Murray,  the  titles  and  dates  of  her 
works,  &c.  ?  R.  INGLIS. 

PAPER  MONEY  AT  LEYDEN. —  Mr.  Dineley,  in 
his  MS.  account  of  the  Low  Countries,  written 
in  1674,  describes  the  paper  money  made  at  the 
siege  of  Leyden  in  1574,  in  these  words  :  — 

"During  the  siege  of  this  city  (Leyden),  which  held 
even  almost  to  the  famishment  of  many,  they  made 
money  of  paper,  with  these  devices —  flcec  libertatis  ergo ; 
Pugno  pro  patria ;  Godt  behoed  Leyden.  Some  of  their 
pieces  remain  to  this  day  in  the  hands  of  the  curious  of 
the  University.  This  siege  began  a  little  after  Easter, 
and  was  raised,  and  ended  the  3rd  of  October,  157-1." 

Paper  in  this  description  must  mean  pasteboard, 
for  pen-and-ink  drawings  of  these  coins  are  shown 
in  Mr.  Dineley's  book,  about  the  size  of  crown- 
pieces,  with  a  lion  crowned,  and  cross-keys  as  de- 
vices. 

Is  there  any  instance  of  this  kind  of  money  in 
use  in  any  other  country  than  Holland  ? 

THOS.  E.  WlNNINGTON. 

PASCHA'S  PILGRIMAGE  TO  PALESTINE.  —  I  have 
a  small  volume,  edited  by  Peter  Calentijn  at 
Louvain  in  1576,  as  a  posthumous  work  by  Ian 
Pascha.  The  title  is  Een  denote  maniere  om 
GkeestelycTi  Pelgrimagie  te  trecken,  tot  den  heyli- 
glien  lande"  Sfc.  The  book  is  in  Flemish,  and 
consists  of  two  portions :  the  former  preliminary 
instructions  and  prayers  for  the  pilgrim ;  the 
latter,  a  daily  itinerary,  and  directions  for  the 
accomplishment  of  the  pilgrimage  in  a  year. 
There  are  some  curious  details  respecting  the 
places  visited,  and  a  number  of  rude  cuts,  of 
which  some  are  remarkable.  The  letter-press  con- 
sists of  159  leaves,  and  is  followed  by  a  MS.  which 
is  mainly  a  copy  of  part  of  the  text.  I  want  to 
know  if  anything  is  recorded  of  the  author,  or  if 
any  importance  attaches  to  the  book.  The  title- 
page  says  that  Pascha  was  a  doctor  in  divinity, 
and  a  Carmelite  in  the  Convent  at  Mechelen  or 
Malines.  Among  the  cuts  the  "  Sacri  sepulchri 
templum,"  and  the  "Interius  sacellum  sepulchri 
Christi,"  seem  to  merit  attention  B.  H.  C. 


S.  I.  JAN.  4,  J62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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PEACE  CONGRESS  PROPOSED  IN  1693.  —  Who  is 
the  author  of  a  little  book,  of  which  the  following 
is  the  title  :  — 

"  An  Essay  towards  the  Present  and  Future  Peace  of 
Europe,  by  the  Establishment  of  an  European  Dyet,  Par- 
liament, "or  Estates.  Beati  Pacifici.  C&dant  Arma 
Spga  (sic).  London :  Printed  in  the  Year  1693.  24mo, 
67  pp.,  and  3  pp.  "  To  the  Reader." 

The  writer  proposes  that  the  sovereign  princes 
of  Europe  should  meet  by  their  stated  deputies 
in  a  General  Diet,  Estates,  or  Parliament ;  and 
then  establish  rules  of  justice  for  sovereign 
princes  to  observe  one  to  another.  The  volume 
has  the  appearance  of  having  been  privately 
printed,  and  the  copy  which  is  here  described  be- 
longed to  Bindley  and  Heber,  having  been  for- 
merly in  the  possession  of  an  Earl  (Qu.  the 
name),  whose  coronet  is  on  the  side  of  the  book. 

P.  C.  P. 

PRAYER  BOOK  OF  1604.  —  What  are  the  special 
peculiarities  of  the  celebrated  and  rare  edition  of 
the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  published  in  1604  ? 

F.  S.  A.  CLERICUS. 

DR.  KICHARD  SIBBES.  —  Unknown  book  or 
tractate  by  Dy.  Richard  Sibbes.  My  attention 
has  been  called  by  a  book-loving  friend  to  the 
following  quotation  from  a  book  or  tractate  of  Dr. 
Sibbes's,  hitherto  unheard  of:  — 

"Dr.  Sibbs  thus  [in  the  margin  opposite  Gospel 
Anointings,  p.  94]  ....  Particular  visible  churches  are 
now  God's  Tabernacle.  The  church  of  the  Jews  was  a 
National  Church;  but  now  God  hath  erected  particular 
tabernacles,"  &c. 

This  paragraph  (which  it  is  not  necessary  to 
my  purpose  to  give  in  full)  occurs  in  a  tract  by 
Philip  Nye,  entitled  The  Lawfulness  of  the  Oath 
of  Supremacy  and  Power  of  the  King  in  Ecclesias- 
tical Affairs  [4to,  1683,  p.  41].  I  never  had 
heard  before  of  Gospel  Anointings,  and  since  have 
failed  to  trace  it  to  any  public  or  private  library, 
or  even  catalogue  ;  and  yet  the  name  of  Philip  Nye 
carries  authority  with  it  inasmuch  as  he  (in  conjunc- 
tion with  Dr.  Goodwin)  was  one  of  the  publishers 
of  Sibbes's  numerous  posthumous  works.  May  I 
ask  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  to  kindly  aid  me"  in 
recovering  a  copy  of  Gospel  Anointings  ?  I  would 
take  the  opportunity  of  adding  that  I  am  still 
without  a  copy  of  Sibbes's  Saints'  Comforts,  12mo, 
1638.  As  the  new  collective  edition  of  Sibbes's 
Works  must  be  put  to  press  immediately,  I  ven- 
ture to  say  inopi  beneficium  bis  dot,  qui  dat  celeriter. 
ALEXANDER  B.  GROSART. 

1st  Manse,  Kinross,  N.  B. 

STANDGATE  HOLE. —  I  have  heard  Standgate 
Hole  mentioned  among  the  most  notoriously  dan- 
gerous localities  in  the  neighbourhood  of  London 
lor  highway  robbery  in  the  last,  century.  AVhere 
was  Standgate  Hole  ?  I  do  not  find  it  mentioned 
in  Cunningham's  Handbook  for  London.  S.  ! 


STONEHENGE.  —  Can  Sir  Roger  Murchison,  or 
any  other  authority,  favour  the  Antiquarian  Re- 
public with  the  proper  geological  term  for  the 
stones  of  which  Stonehenge  is  composed  ?     Many 
of  the  common  people  insist  that  they  are  artifi- 
cial. Geoffrey  affirms  that  they  were  brought  from 
the  plain  of  Killarain  Ireland  (Tara);  and  a  friend 
tells  me  he  believes  the  stones  there  are  of  the 
same  character  as  those  of  Stonehenge.     The  altar 
j  is  said  to  be  porphyry,  which  also  is  the  geologi- 
cal character  of  the  famous   London  stone,  now 
'  enclosed  in  another  stone  with  a  circular  aperture, 
|  on  the  north  side  of  Cannon  Street,  city.     It  was, 
we  know,  the  milliarium  from  which  the  Romans 
measured  all  the  mileages  in  the  kingdom.    It 
was   also  the  altar  of  the  Temple  of  Diana,  on 
j  which  the  old  British  kings  took  the  oaths  on  their 
i  accession,  laying  their  hands  on  it.     Until  they 
I  had  done  so  they  were  only  kings  presumptive. 
j  The   tradition  of  the  usage  survived  as  late  at 
I  least  as  Jack  Cade's  time,  for  it  is  not  before  he 
|  rushes  and  strikes  the  stone,  that  he  thinks  himself 
entitled  to  exclaim  — 

"  Now  is  Jack  Cade  Lord  Mayor  of  London !  " 
Tradition  also  declares  it  was  brought  from  Troy 
!  by  Brutus,  and  laid  down  by  his  own  hand  as  the 
altar-stone  of  the  Diana  Temple,  the  foundation 
stone  of  London  and  its  palladium  — 

"Tramaen  Pry  dam 
Tra  lied  Llyndain." 

"  So  long  as  the  stone  of  Brutus  is  safe,  so  long 
will  London  flourish,"  which  infers  also,  it  is  to 
be  supposed,  that  if  it  disappears  London  will 
wane.  It  has  from  the  earliest  ages  been  jeal- 
ously guarded  arid  imbedded,  perhaps  from  a  su- 
perstitious belief  in  the  identity  of  the  fate  of 
London  with  that  of  its  palladium.  At  any  rate 
it  is  a  very  famous  stone,  and  it  is  desirable  we 
should  get  all  the  knowledge  about  it  we  can. 

MOR  MERRION. 

ST.  NAPOLEON.  —  Napoleon  is,  I  believe,  a  pro- 
per name  of  ancient  standing  among  the  Italians. 
Thus  Napoleone  Orsino  (what  a  conjunction  !), 
Count  of  Monopello,  appears  about  1370,  under 
Urban  V.  (Pope),  as  one  who  had  devised  pro- 
perty for  the  erection  of  a  monastery  at  Rome. 
The  name  is  connected  with  the  history  of  the 
church  and  monastery  of  Holy  Cross.  I  wish  to 
know  who  Saint  Napoleon  was,  and  where  I  can 
find  his  biography  ?  B.  H.  C. 


SIR  FRANCIS  PAGE.  —  The  character  of  this 
"  hanging  judge  "  is  rendered  memorable  by  Pope, 
the  Duke  of"  Wharton,  Savage,  Fielding,  and 
Johnson ;  but  little  is  told  of  the  incidents  of  his 
life,  his  lineage,  or  his  death.  Can  any  of  your 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  JAN.  4,  '62. 


correspondents  enlighten  me  in  reference  to4,hese 
particulars  P  I  shall  be  grateful  for  any  informa- 
tion. EDWARD  Foss. 

[Sir  Francis  Page  was  the  son  of  the  Vicar  of  Blox- 
bam  in  Oxfordshire.  He  assumed  the  coif  Dec.  14, 1704 ; 
became  king's  sergeant  Jan.  26,  1714-15;  a  baron  of 
the  Exchequer  May  22,  1718;  a  justice  of  the  Com- 
mon Pleas  Nov.  4,  1726,  and  a  justice  of  the  King's 
Bench  Sept.  27,  1727.  He  always  felt  a  luxury  in  con- 
demning a  prisoner,  which  obtained  for  him  the  epithet 
of  "the  hanging  judge."  Treating  a  poor  thatcher  at 
Dorchester  with  his  usual  rigour,  the  man  exclaimed 
after  his  trial  — 

"  God,  in  his  rage, 

Made  a  Judge  Page." 

Page  was  the  judge  who  tried  Savage  for  murder,  whom 
he  seemed  anxious  to  condemn;  indeed,  he  owned  that 
he  had  been  particularly  severe  against  him.  When  de- 
crepid  from  old  age,  as  he  passed  along  from  court,  a 
friend  inquired  particularly  of  the  state  of  his  health. 
He  replied,  "  My  dear  Sir,  you  see  I  keep  banging  on, 
hanging  on."  He  died  on  Dec.  18,  1741,  aged  eighty,  at 
his  seat  at  North  Aston  in  Oxfordshire.  —  Vide  Noble's 
Blog.  History  of  England,  iii.  203.  Perhaps  some  of  our 
genealogical  friends  may  be  able  to  supply  our  corre- 
spondent with  an  account  of  the  "  birth,  parentage,  and 
education  "  of  this  notorious  judge.] 

THE  Ass  AND  THE  LADDER.  —  In  Biblia  Sacra 
Hebraica  (Bibliotheca  Sussexiana,  vol.  i.  p.  xi.)  is 
the  following  expression,  "  May  this  book  not  be 
damaged,  neither  this  day  nor  for  ever,  until  the 
ass  ascends  the  ladder''  Query,  the  legend  ? 

A.  W.  H. 

[The  passage  at  the  end  of  this  manuscript  (Ssec.  xiii.) 
reads  as  follows:  "  I,  Meyer,  the  son  of  Rabbi  Jacob,  the 
scribe,  have  finished  this  book  for  Rabbi  Abraham,  the 
son  of  Rabbi  Nathan,  the  5052nd  year  (A.D.  1292);  and 
he  has  bequeathed  it  to  his  children  and  his  children's 
children  for  ever.  Amen.  Amen.  Amen.  Selah.  Be  strong 
and  strengthened.  May  this  book  not  be  damaged,  neither 
this  day  nor  for  ever,  until  the  Ass  ascends  the  Ladder." 
Like  the  Latin  phrase  of  Petronius  "asinus  in  tegulis  " 
(an  ass  on  the  housetop),  which  is  supposed  to  signify 
something  impossible  and  incredible,  the  saying  "  until 
the  ass  ascends  the  ladder,"  is 'a  proverbial  expression 
among  the  Kabbins,  for  what  will  never  take  place  ;  e.  g. 
"  Si  ascenderit  asinus  per  scalas,  invenietur  scientia  in 
mulieribus;  "  — a  proposition  so  uncomplimentary  to  the 
euperior  sex,  that  we  leave  it  in  Buxtorf  's  Latin.] 

LEGENDS  OF  THE  WANDERING  JEW.  —  Would 
you  kindly  inform  me  whether  there  are  in  the 
English  language  many  versions  of  the  legend  of 
the  Wandering  Jew,  what  these  are,  and  where 
they  are  to  be  met  with  ? 

A  FRENCH  SUBSCRIBER. 

24,  Avenue  de  la  Porte  Maillot,  Paris. 

[The  earliest  mention  of  this  legend  is  in  Matthew 
Paris,  or  rather  in  Roger  of  Wendover's  Chronicle,  s.  a. 
1228.  See  vol.  iv.  p.  176,  of  English  Historical  Society's 
edition,  or  vol.  ii.  p.  512,  of  the  edition  published  by 
Bohn.  A  ballad  of  The  Wandering  Jew  is  printed  by 
Percy,  Reliques,  ii.  301  (edit.  1794).  Brand,  in  his  Po- 
pular Antiquities  (Bonn's  edition),  iii.  309,  makes  refer- 
ence on  this  subject  to  Calmet's  Dictionary  of  the  Bible 
and  Turkish  Spy,  vol.  ii.  book  iii.  let.  1. ;  and  there  is 
an  artielo  in  Wackicood't  Magazine,  vii.  COS,  entitled 


"The  Legend  of  the  Wandering  Jew  from  Matthew 
Paris."  The  fullest  particulars  of  the  legend  will  how- 
ever be  found  in  Grasse,  Die  Sage  vom  Ewigm  Juden, 
Sfc.,  Dresden  und  Leipsig,  1844.] 

QUOTATION. — Whence  are  the  two  noble  lines:— 

"  Of  this  blest  man,  let  this  just  praise  be  given, 
Heaven  was  in  him  before  he  was  in  heaven." 

J.  C. 

[This  couplet  was  written  by  Izaak  Walton  in  his 
copy  of  Dr.  Richard  Sibbes's  work,  The  Returning  Back- 
slider, 4to.  1641.3 


EPITOME  OF  THE  LIVES  OF  THE  KINGS  OF 
FRANCE. 

(2nd  S.  xii.  457.) 

R.  B.  The  curious  in  books  for  the  people  of  the 
latter  part  of  the  seventeenth  century  are  familiar 
with  the  initials  "  11.  B  ,"  said  by  Dunton  to  be 
assumed  by  Nat.  Crouch,  and  affixed  by  him  to 
the  marvellous  books  which  issued  from  his  shop, 
the  Bell  in  the  Poultry,  for  the  delectation  of  the 
million. 

Turning  over  a  lot  of  these,  I  Imve  singled  out 
one  of  early  date,  which,  I  would  submit,  may  be 
the  father  of  the  race,  and  that  which  probably 
suggested  to  the  cunning  bookseller  that  successful 
series  of  chapman's  books  which  must  have  en- 
riched him  and  his  successors  for  some  genera- 
tions. My  book  is  — 

"  An  Epitome  of  all  the  Lives  of  the  Kings  of  France, 
from  Pharamond  the  First  to  the  now  most  Christian 
King  Lewis  the  13th,  with  a  delation  of  the  Famous 
Battailes  of  the  two  Kings  of  England,  who  were  the 
first  Victorious  Princes  that  Conquered  France.  Trans- 
lated out  of  the  French  Coppy  by  R.  B.,  Eeq.,  12mo. 
London  :  P.  by  I.  Okes,  and  are  to  be  sould  by  I.  Beckit." 
&c,  1639. 

This  little  book  has  an  emblematical  frontis- 
piece by,  or  in  the  style  of,  Marshal,  and  the 
effigies  of  the  sixty-four  kings,  whose  lives  it  pro- 
fesses to  give,  in  a  bold  cut  upon  the  page,  which 
fashion  of  illustration  was  one  of  the  great  attrac- 
tions of  the  people's  library  under  remark.  Al- 
though claiming  for  this  book  the  credit  of  having 
originated  the  Burton  Family,  my  belief  is  that 
the  R.  B.  upon  the  title  indicates  Richard  Brath- 
wait ;  and  that,  consequently,  to  him  rather  than 
to  tbe  mythic  R.  Burton,  are  the  people  indebted 
for  the  example  so  successfully  followed  up  by 
Nat.  Crouch,  alias  R.  B.,  of  abridging  or  melting 
down  the  standard  literature,  popular  stories,  and 
folk  lore  of  the  day  into  a  racy  vernacular,  which 
suited  their  capacities,  and  at  a  price  which  came 
within  their  means.  R.  B.,  the  imitator,  did  not 
come  before  the  public  until  1678  :  the  oldest  of 
the  Burton  books  in  my  possession  is  The  Sur- 
prizing Miracles,  Sfc.,  which  professes  to  be  by 
11  R.  B.,  author  of  the  History  of  the  Wars,  frc. 


S.I.  JAN.  4, '62,1 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


15 


Loud.,  printed  for  N.  Crouch,  1683."  At  the  end 
is  "  an  Advertisement  of  books  lately  printed  by 
R.  Burton,  and  sold  by  N".  C."  Here  would 
seem  to  be  two  distinct  persons,  so  that  it  was  not 
until  a  later  period  that  Crouch  assumed  the 
initials  either  to  put  himself  into  the  shoes  of  a 
defunct  digestor,  or  to  identify  himself  with  a  Mr. 
Harris  of  his  own  creating ;  for  it  is  evident  that 
whoever  was  the  compiler  of  these  books,  he  had 
no  fixed  idea  of  the  meaning  of  his  own  initials, 
sometimes  when  he  extended  them,  calling  him- 
self Richard,  and  sometimes  Robert  Burton  ;  and 
my  theory  is  that  Brathwait,  to  veil  his  eccen- 
tricities, often  put  forth  books  with  his  initials 
only,  and  that  Crouch,  falling  in  with  The  Epi- 
tome, took  it  for  the  model  of  his  "  swelling  shil- 
ling books ; "  and  either  through  ignorance  or 
design,  gave  a  new  interpretation  to  the  R.  B.  he 
found  upon  the  title. 

The  foregoing  scribble  about  R.  B.  I  intended 
for  "N.  &  Q."  a  long  time  back,  and  the  Query  of 
REGULUS  has  just  reminded  me  of  it.  Certainly 
there  is  no  doubt  about  The  Epitome  being  by 
Brathwait,  and  its  omission  in  Haslewood's  list 
could  only  arise  from  his  not  having  seen  it.  As 
it  lies  on  my  table  beside  The  Lives  of  all  the 
Roman  Emperors,  by  R.  B.  G.  1636  (included  by 
him  in  said  list),  there  can  be  but  one  opinion, 
for  the  same  family  features  are  unmistakably  upon 
the  face  of  both.  My  attention  having  been  again 
drawn  to  the  subject  of  R.  B.,  I  have  taken  a  look 
at  the  small  book  in  the  Grenville  library,  bear- 
ing the  date  1678,  and  apparently  the  first  of  the 
series  of  the  Burton  boohs.  It  bears  the  title  :  — 

"Miracles  of  Art  and  Nature,  or  a  Brief  Description  of 
the  several  Varieties  of  Birds,  Beasts,  Fishes,  Plants,  and 
Fruits  of  other  Countries.  Together  with  several  other 
remarkable  things  in  the  World."  12mo,  pp.  120, 

with  seventy-one  short  chapters  treating  of  the 
said  miracles,  but  in  a  more  sober  style  than  its 
followers.  It  purports  to  be  by  R.  B.,  Gent.,  and 
is  "  printed  for  W.  Bowtel."  Brathwait  was  then 
dead,  but  here  are  his  initials  as  in  The  Lives  of  the 
Romans,  and  no  shadow  of  the  coming  Crouch, 
alias  Burton,  unless  it  can  be  discovered  in  the 
homely  address  "To  the  Ingenious  Reader."  I 
have  no  doubt,  however,  that  this  is  the  first  book 
of  the  popular  series ;  and  as  it  forms  a  kind  of 
epoch  in  our  literary  history,  perhaps  you  will 
agree  with  me  that  this  address  is  worth  reprint- 
ing in  "  N.  &  Q."  :  — 

"Candid  Reader,"  says  E.  B.,  "what  thou  findest 
herein  are  collections  out  of  several  ancient  authors, 
which  (with  no  small  trouble)  I  have  carefully  and  dili- 
gently collected,  and  compressed  into  this  small  book  at 
some  vacant  hours,  for  the  divertisement  of  such  as  thy- 
self who  are  disposed  to  read  it;  for,  as  the  several  cli- 
mates of  the  world  have  not  only  influenced  the  inhabi- 
tants, but  the  very  beasts  with  natures  different  from  one 
another,  so  hast  thou  here,  not  only  a  description  of  the 
several  shapes  and  natures  of  variety  of  birds,  beasts, 
fishes,  plants,  and  fruits,  but  also  of  the  dispositions  and 


I  customs  (though  some  of  them  barbarous  and  inhumane) 
'  of  several  people  who  inhabit  many  pleasing  and  other 
parts  of  the  world.     I  think  there  is  not  a  chapter  in 
which  thou  wilt  not  find  various  and  remarkable  things 
worth  thy  observation,  and  such  (take  the  book  through- 
out) that  thou  canst  not  have  in  any  one  author,  at  least 
modern,  and  of  this  volume.     And  "if  what  I  have  done 
shall  not  dislike  thee,  I  shall  possibly  proceed  and  go  on 
to  a  further  discovery  in  this  kind,  which  doubtless  can- 
!  not  (as  all  variety  doth)  please  thee.     'Tis  probable  they 
j  are  not  so  methodically  disposed  as  some  bands  might 
have  done;  yet  for  variety  and  pleasure's  sake  the)"  are 
(I  hope)  pleasingly  enough  intermixed.     And  as  I  find 
this  accepted,  so  I  shall  proceed.  —  Farewell,  R.  B." 

I  have  only  to  say,  in  conclusion,  that  this  book 
of  The  Miracles  of  Art  and  Nature,  bears  no  re- 
semblance to  R.  B.'s  Surprizing  Miracles  of  1683. 

J.  O. 


EARTHQUAKES  IN  ENGLAND:  URICONIDM. 
(2nd  S.  xii.  397.) 

PHILTPS'S  statement  is  very  curious,  and  de- 
serves investigation,  though  there  can  be  little 
doubt  that  it  will  prove  to  be  groundless.  "  Fires, 
and  the  frequent  fall  of  houses,"  symptomatic 
though  they  may  be  of  earthquakes,  are  especially 
mentioned  by  Juvenal  as  among  the  causes  which 
rendered  even  the  wretched  loneliness  of  the 
country  preferable  to  a  residence  in  the  Roman 
cities. 

As  regards  earthquakes  in  England,  I  can  see 
no  improbability  in  the  statement  of  Col.  Wild- 
man,  such  shocks  being  far  more  common  than  is 
generally  supposed.  Some  of  these  shocks  have 
been  sufficiently  violent  to  throw  down  buildings, 
to  divert  rivers,  and  to  open  large  fissures  in 
the  earth  ;  and,  but  for  their  limited  extent,  would 
no  doubt  have  been  regarded  as  very  serious 
earthquakes. 

A  picturesque  and  interesting  account  of  that 
which  occurred  in  London  and  its  neighbourhood 
in  1750,  is  given  by  the  author  of  Mary  Powell, 
in  her  Old  Chelsea  Bun  House.  There  were  two 
shocks,  at  a  month's  interval ;  and  such  was  the 
predisposition  for  something  dreadful  in  the  pub* 
lie  mind,  that  the  drunken  ravings  of  pseudo- 
prophets  actually  led  many  to  believe  that  a  third, 
far  more  destructive,  would  take  place  after  a 
similar  interval.  As  the  details  of  this  event  are 
too  well  known  to  need  repetition,  I  shall  content 
myself  with  noting  such  particulars  only  as  are 
not  likely  to  have  come  under  the  notice  of  the 
readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  The  Methodists,  at  that 
time  exceedingly  zealous  and  active,  declaimed 
fearfully  on  the  subject  out  of  doors ;  and  the 
celebrated  George  Whitefield  ventured  into  Hyde 
Park  at  midnight  and  preached  a  sermon ;  which 
has  been  described  as  "  truly  sublime,"  and  "strik- 
ingly terrific."  Mason,  the  author  of  a  well- 
known  treatise  on  Self  Knowledge,  says  that  there 
were  four  remarkable  circumstances  attending 


16 


•NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3**  S.  I.  JAN.  4,  '62. 


these  concussions  :  that  the  shock  was  repeated  — 
that  the  last  shock  was  strongest  —  that  both  were 
much  more  violent  in  the  cities  of  London  and 
Westminster  than  in  any  place  beside  ;  and  that 
both  happened  when  there  was  the  greatest  con- 
course of  people  there  out  of  the  country. 
^  It  is  far  from  easy,  however,  to  obtain  a  con- 
sistent account  of  this  occurrence  ;  almost  every 
record  of  it  being  more  or  less  coloured  by  theory,  j 
superstition,  or  a  desire  to  "improve  the  occa- 
sion." The  theologian,  who  had  made  up  his 
mind  to  doom  our  metropolitan  Babylon,  dis- 
covered that  it  was  confined  to  London  and  West- 
minster ;  whilst  "  such  an  honest  -chronicler  as 
Griffith,"  would  find  out  that  it  did  most  mischief 
at  Lambeth,  Limehouse,  and  Poplar  ;  and  was 
sensibly  felt  all  the  way  from  Greenwich  to  Rich- 
mond !  The  Methodists  generally  tracked  it 
eastward  and  westward  —  from  Whitechapel  to 
Charing  Cross  —  in  order  that  it  might  make  a 
clean  sweep  of  "guilty  London";  whilst  another 
account  says,  that  "  it  seemed  to  move  in  a  north 
and  south  direction,"  and  was  sensibly  felt  at 
Highgate  and  Hampstead  ! 

A  very  remarkable  earthquake,  on  a  small  scale, 
occurred  at  a  place  called  the  Birches,  between 
Buildwas  :md  Madeley,  in  Shropshire,  on  the  27th 
May,  1773;  and  is  minutely  described  in  a  small 
volume,  the  title  of  which  I  have  forgotten,  by 
the  celebrated  John  Fletcher,  vicar  of  the  latter 
place.  It  opened  lar«;e  fissures  in  the  earth, 
transported  trees  and  fields,  destroyed  a  bridge, 
towed  the^iver  out  of  its  proper  channel,  strew- 
ing the  adjoining  lands  with  fish,  removed  a  barn 
entire  a  considerable  distance,  and  broke  up  the 
hard-beaten  road  into  fantastic  forms  resembling 
the  shattered  lava  of  Vesuvius.  As  the  work  re- 
ferred to  is  now  rare,  A.  A.  may  consult  The 
Youths  Magazine  for  1846  (p.  208),  where  he  will 
find  further  particulars. 

On  the  15th  Nov.  1844,  a  somewhat  similar 
disturbance  took  place  at  St.  Peter's  Quay,  about 
three  miles  from  Newcastle  ;  breaking  up  a  large 
dry  dock,  and  opening  several  considerable  fis- 
sures m  the  earth.  Such  occurrences  are  ap- 
parently not  unusual,  as  the  residents  in  those 
parts  have  a  name  for  them,  and  call  them 
DOUGLAS  AIRPORT. 


some 


Illness  has  prevented  me  from  searching  sooner  | 
for  the  following  extract  from  the  journal  which  I 
I^was  in  the  habit  of  keeping  in  bygone  years,  j 
Since  your  correspondent  A.  A.  says  that  his  ! 
"object  is  to  collect  any  evidence  as  to  earth- 
quakes 5n  England,"  I  presume  it  will  have 
interest  for  him. 

March  17th,  1843  (near  Liverpool). 

"  Shortly  before  1  o'clock  A.M.,  not  having  yet  fallen  ! 
asleep,  I  was  suddenly  and  most  effectually  roused  by  a  ! 
sharp  shock  of  an  earthquake.  I  instantly  felt  assured  i 


that  it  was  one ;  for  it  was  too  peculiar  to  suggest  (to 
me)  any  other  idea,  though  I  find  that  some  others  who 
felt  it  were  at  a  loss. 

«' There  were  ten  or  twelve  distinct  vibrations:  the 
first  very  strong,  shaking  the  bed  and  the  whole  house, 
and  rattling  the  slates  and  chimney-pots,  accompanied 
too  by  a  rumbling  sound  ;  and  they  gradually  subsided  thus. 
The  whole  may  have  lasted  from  twenty  to  thirty  seconds. 

"  If  not  positively  alarming,  for  1  certainly  did  not 
look  for  any  harm,  it  yet  was  awful  and  highly  startling. 
I  heard  my  heart  beating  for  many  minutes  afterwards, 
and  had  some  trouble  in  inducing  myself  to  walk  to  the 
window  to  examine  the  night.  It  was  light,  and  per- 
fectly calm.  To-day  has  been  unnaturally  warm :  I  went 
to  town  and  returned,  with,  burnt  face  and  quite  op- 
pressed, as  in  the  dog  days." 

Thus  far  my  extract ;  to  which  I  may  add, 
that  a  man-servant,  awake  on  the  ground  floor 
of  the  house,  felt  nothing ;  but  his  canary  beat 
itself  frantically  about  its  cage,  so  that  he  struck 
a  light,  thinking  that  a  cat  must  be  frightening  it. 
He  looked  too  at  his  watch,  and  the  hour  corre- 
sponded with  that  of  the  earthquake.  The  cage 
was  full  of  feathers,  and  the  bird  seemed  sick  for 
several  days. 

Two  children,  brought  up  in  a  high  degree  of 
religious  excitement  in  the  same  neighbourhood, 
were  greatly  terrified.  .  A  nervous  girl,  of  twelve, 
thought  the  vibrations  were  the  steps  of  an  angel 
crossing  the  room,  and  believed  it  a  warning  that 
she  must  die.  A  delicate  boy,  of  five,  was  so  terri- 
fied, that  he  had  a  fever.  Policemen,  on  duty 
at  the  Liverpool  docks,  said  that  the  barrels  on 
the  quay  rolled  about  and  knocked  against  each 
other ;  and  one  thought  he  heard  a  heavy  cart 
passing  over  the  wooden  bridge.  They  had  no 
thought  of  earthquake. 

The  papers  recorded  that  a  lone  house  in  York- 
shire was  thrown  down  with  the  shock.  It  was 
felt  also  in  Dublin. 

I  have  since  felt  severe  shocks  of  earthquake  in 
Italy,  which  caused  me  no  greater  personal  sensa- 
tions than  this  one  in  England.  M.  F. 

Shanakiel. 

A  brother  of  mine,  who  had  passed  many  years 
in  the  West  Indies,  and  was  at  St.  Vincent's  at 
the  time  of  the  eruption  of  the  SoufFriere  moun- 
tains, was  on  a  visit  at  Mansfield  at  the  time  of 
the  earthquake  in  Notts,  referred  to  by  A.  A. 
He  was  instantly  aware  what  the  shock  meant ; 
and,  in  much  alarm,  rushed  out  of  doors.  Al- 
though the  shock,  or  shocks,  were  severe,  and 
accompanied  by  shaking  of  doors  and  windows, 
&c.,  no  mischief  was  done  in  the  town.  Mans- 
field is  some  six  or  seven  miles  from  Newstead. 

If  I  am  not  mistaken,  it  occurred  in  1825  ;  and, 
I  think  on  Sunday,  iust  before  or  after  church. 

R.  Wi 

The  derivation  of  Wreckenceaster,  Wreckceter, 
or  Wroxeter,  from  wrceced,  "wrecked  or  de- 


3'dS.  I.JAN.  4, '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


17 


stroyed,"  will  not  hold  water.  The  word  wrecken 
is  evidently  a  corruption  of  "  Uriconium  "  itself. 
Uriconium,  in  Ptolemy  Viroconium  —  found  writ- 
ten Vivecinum  and  Virecinuin,  and  called  by 
Nennius,  Caer  Vruach  —  is,  without  doubt,  merely 
the  Latin  form  of  its  original  British  name  ;  which 
it  imiy  have  had  from  its  situation  at  or  near  the 
confluence  of  the  Tern  (which  I  take  to  have 
been  what  is  now  called  the  "Bell  Brook")  with 
the  Hafren,  i.  e.  the  Sabrina,  or  Severn.  If  so, 
the  word  Uriconium  may  be  derived  from  the 
Brit.  Uar-i-con-ui,  i.e.  "upon  or  near  the  head 
of  the  river  or  water."  Indeed,  Ariconium,  by 
corruption  Sariconium,  may  be  the  same  word : 
for  Camden  tells  us  that  the  latter  stood  on  "  a 
little  brook  called  the  Ine,  which,  thence  encom- 
passing the  walls  of  Hereford,  falls  into  the  Wye." 
There  was  also  a  place  called  Uricona  at  Sheriff- 
Hales.  The  initial  letter  in  Sariconium  has  doubt- 
less crept  in,  in  the  same  way  that  it  has  in 
Sabrina  from  Hafren,  and  in  many  other  names. 

R.  S.  CHARNOCK. 


BIBLICAL  LITERATURE:  WILLIAM  CARPENTER 
(2nd  S.  xii.  521.)  —  Regard  for  an  old  friend, 
and  sympathy  with  a  hardworking  literary  man 
under  a  sad  calamity,  induce  me  to  ask  permission 
to  add  one  remark  to  your  editorial  answer  to 
MR.  BARTLETT.  Mr.  William  Carpenter  is  still 
living,  rather  advanced  in  years,  and  has  been 
recently  visited  with  the  affliction  of  blindness. 
The  sijiht  of  one  eye  has  left  him,  and  the  other 
is  so  weak  as  to  be  useless  for  literary  labour. 

I  do  not  know  what  was  his  reply  (if  any)  to 
the  accusations  of  the  Christian  Remembrancer  in 
1827  ;  but  he  has  ever  since  then  been  an  active 
member  of  the  "  fourth  estate."  He  once  had  the 
honour  of  a  state  prosecution  for  political  libel. 

I  am  violating  no  confidence  (I  regret  to  say) 
in  revealing  his  present  misfortunes,  for  a  public 
subscription  was  set  on  foot  for  his  relief. 

JOB  J.  BARDWELL  WORKARD,  M.A. 

ARTICLE  "USE  AND  HAVE"  (not  Have  and 
Use}  (2nd  S.  xii.  456.)  — This  article  appeared  in 
Chambers'  Journal  for  February  28,  1835.  C. 

REPRESENTATIONS  IN  SCULPTURE  OF  THE  FIRST 
PERSON  or  THE  HOLY  TRINITY  (2nd  S.  xii.  348, 
443,  483.)— In  the  Church  of  the  Jesuits,  at  Rome, 
is  a  colossal  group  of  this  subject.  The  foot  of 
the  First  Person  is  planted  upon  a  globe  of  lapis 
lazuli,  perhaps  the  largest  in  the  world.  The 
group  is  in  white  marble.  A  carved  oak  panel, 
in  my  possession,  represents  the  baptism  of  our 
Lord.  His  head  is  surrounded  by  a  glory  of  a 
lozenge  form.  The  Holy  Ghost,  as  a  dove,  with 
wings  expanded,  is  descending  in  the  centre  of  a 
round  nimbus ;  whilst^  in  clouds  above,  the  First 
Person  is  represented  as  an  old  and  bearded  man, 


without  nimbus  or  tiara,  but  holding  a  mound  in 
his  right  hand,  and  pointing  downwards  with  his 
left.  W.  J.  BERNHARD  SMITH. 

Temple. 

ENTHUSIASM  IN  FAVOUR  OF  HAMPDEN  (2nd  S. 
xii.  232,  277.)  —The  following  entry  is  copied 
from  a  catalogue  just  issued  by  Mr.  J.  C.  Ilotten 
of  Piccadilly  :  — 

"75.  Two  most  curious  petitions  from  the  inhabitants 
of  the  county  of  Buckingham  to  the  parliament,  relative 
to  Popish  lords  and  bishops.  Folio,  fine  copy,  7s.  Gd. 
Printed  by  R.  C.  1642." 

From  Col.  Whalley  the  regicide's  curious  li- 
brary. At  the  foot  it  says  :  — 

"  These  petitions  were  brought  by  thousands  of  the  in- 
habitants of  the  co.  of  Buckingham,  riding  orderly  by 
three  in  a  ranke,  thorow  London,  on  llth  Jan.  to  the 
Houses  of  Parliament." 

W.  D.  MACRAY. 

MUTILATION  OF  SEPULCHRAL  MEMORIALS  (2nd  S. 
xii.  12,  &c.)  — I  have  the  fragments  of  eight  stone 
coffin  slabs,  decorated  with  crosses  tastefully  de- 
signed, from  1250  to  1490.  The  fragments  were 
found  forming  the  sells  and  jambs  of  apertures 
for  the  admission  of  light  (instead  of  the  old 
Norman  loophole)  in  the  south  wall  of  the  church 
of  this  parish,  and  of  a  "perpendicular"  window 
in  the  east  wnll ;  the  wall  and  its  window  being  in 
the  place  of  the  original  anse  and  its  centre  light. 

C.  £.  B. 

Wiston,  Colchester. 

NEWTONS  OF  WHITBY  (2nd  S.  xii.  237,  352, 
444.)  —  The  pedigree  given  by  Dugdale  shows 
that  I  was  right  in  supposing  that  I^aac  Newton, 
who  purchased  Bagdale  Hall,  was  the  Isaac,  the 
son  of  Christopher,  baptized  in  1608. 

The  second  Isaac,  mentioned  in  that  pedigree 
as  aged  thirty-two  in  1665,  may  have  been,  and  I 
think  was,  the  Isaac  first  mentioned  in  the  ab- 
stract referred  to  in  my  former  note.  The  latter, 
and  his  second  son  Ambrose,  were  dead  before 
1739  ;  and  Ambrose's  son  Richard  was  then  more 
than  twenty-one,  as  he  executed  a  deed  of  that 
date.  It  is,  therefore,  very  probable  that  the  last 
Isaac  of  the  pedigree,  and  the  first  Isaac  of  the 
abstract,  were  the  same  person ;  and,  if  so,  the 
pedigree  is  completed  from  George  Newton. 

I  have  never  seen  three  pairs  of  crossbones. 

C.  S.  GREAVES. 

I  beg  to  inform  E.  CONDUITT  DERMER,  that  Sir 
David  Brewster  is  perfectly  correct  in  speaking 
of  Sir  Richard  Newton,  of  Newton  ;  and  that  he 
was  quite  a  different  individual  from  Sir  Michal 
Newton.  Sir  Richard  was  the  last  heir  male  of 
a  family  of  considerable  antiquity  seated  at  New- 
ton, in  East  Lothian,  or  Haddingtonshire.  An 
account  of  the  grounds,  such  as  they  are,  for  sup- 
posing that  Sir  Isaac  Newton  might  have  been 
a  cadet  of  his  family  will  be  found  in  Burke's 


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KOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  JAN.  4, 


Commoners  (vol.  iii.  p.  28,  note),  under  the  title 
of  "  Hay  Newton,  of  Newton."  Sir  Richard  was 
knighted  by  William  III. ;  and  having  no  issue, 
entailed  his  estate  on  a  younger  branch  of  the 
noble  house  of  Tweeddale,  by  whom  it  is  now  pos- 
sessed, without  the  infusion  of  Newton  blood. 

R.R. 

DR.  ARNE'S  FATHER  (2nd  S.  xii.  364.)  —  The 
Post-Boy,  London  newspaper,  of  Dec.  15th,  1698, 
contains  the  following  announcement :  — 

"  Thomas  Arne,  Upholsterer,  who  lately  lived  at  the 
George  and  White  Lion,  in  the  Great  Piazza,  Covent 
Garden,  is  now  removed  to  the  George  in  Bedford 
Court,  near  Bedford  Street." 

The  circumstances  of  the  surname,  trade  and 
place  of  abode  of  the  advertiser  and  those  of 
Arne's  father  corresponding  so  closely,  have  al- 
ways led  me  to  believe  in  the  identity  of  the  par- 
ties. It  does  not  appear  from  the  statement  of 
my  friend  DR.  RIMBAULT,  where  the  Edward  Arne, 
who  perished  so  miserably  in  the  Fleet  Prison  in 
1728,  resided;  and  so  far  there  is  nothing  be- 
yond the  name  and  trade  to  identify  him  with  the 
father  of  the  composer.  Can  it  be  likely  that  he 
was  the  elder  son,  and  successor  in  the  business 
of  the  Thomas  Arne  mentioned  above  ?  It  would 
be  very  interesting  to  learn  something  more  of 
the  family  of  one  of  our  most  gifted  native  com- 
posers, than  is  to  be  gathered  from  the  very 
meagre  information  in  the  general  biographical 
notices  of  him.  The  Arnes  were  Roman  Catho- 
lics, which  may  in  some  measure  account  for  the 
scanty  particulars  of  them  to  be  gleaned  from  the 
parish  registers,  but  perhaps  something  respecting 
them  might  be  found  in  the  rate-books.  Can  any 
reader  of  "N.  &  Q."  supply  from  these,  or  other 
sources,  any  accurate  information  on  this  subject  ? 

W.  H.  HUSK. 

CLERGYMAN'S  RIGHT  TO  TAKE  THE  CHAIR  (2nd 
S.  xii.  454.)  — 

"  The  minister  has  a  right  to  preside  at  all  vestry 
meetings :  for  a  ^minister  is  not  a  mere  individual  of 
vestry;  on  the  contrary,  he  is  always  described  as  the 
first,  and  as  an  integral  part  of  the  parish,  the  form  of 
citing  a  parish  being  'the  minister,  churchwardens,  and 
parishioners;  and  putting  any  other  individual  in  com- 
petition with  him  for  the  office  of  chairman,  would  be 
placing  him  in  a  degraded  situation,  in  which  he  is  not 
placed  by  the  constitutional  establishment  of  this  coun- 
try. He  is  the  head  and  prases  of  the  meeting.  Thus  it 
has  been  held,  that  at  a  vestry  meeting  summoned  by 
the  churchwardens  for  the  purpose  of  electing  new  church- 
wardens in  a  parish,  regulated  by  stat.  58  Geo.  III.  c. 
69,  the  rector  has  a  right  to  preside.  But  the  minister  is 
not  an  integral  part  of  the  vestrv.' 

1  Stat.  68  Geo.  III.  c.  09,  s.  2, "directs  that  if  the  rector 
or  vk-ar,  or  perpetual  curate,  be  not  present,  the  persons 
assembled  must  forthwith  nominate  by  plurality  of  votes, 
to  be  ascertained  as  therein  directed,  one  of  the  inhabit- 
ants to  be  chairman;  which  is  nearly  tantamount  to  a 
declaration,  or  by  necessary  implication  declares,  that  if 
the  rector,  vicar,  or  curate  be  present,  he  shall  preside  • 
and  the  legislature  must  evidently  have  considered  that 


by  law  and  usage  he  was  entitled  to  preside." —  Stephens 
on  the  Laws  relating  to  the  Clergy,  vol.  ii.  p.  1328. 

The  stipendiary  curate  is  not  an  integral  part  of 
the  parish.  He  is  only  the  representative  of  the 
minister,  and  consequently  not  entitled  to  preside. 

S.  L. 

At  every  vestry  meeting,  "  the  incumbent  pre- 
sides by  right,  whether  rated  or  not ;  and  whether 
rector,  or  vicar,  or  perpetual  curate.  If  he  be  ab- 
sent, the  meeting  elect  a  chairman."  The  right 
to  preside,  therefore,  does  not  extend  to  his  sti- 
pendiary curate.  I  imagine  that  no  meeting,  ex- 
cept a  vestry,  could  transact  parochial  business  : 
and  that  the  incumbent  could  not  demand  the 
chair  at  any  unauthorised  meeting,  assembled 
merely  for  discussion,  whether  of  church  matters 
or  otherwise.  See  Dale's  Clergyman's  Legal 
Handbook,  1859,  p.  80,  81 ;  and  Harding's  Handy 
Book  of  Ecclesiastical  Law,  1860,  p.  90,  91. 

JOB  J.  BARDWELL  WORKARD,  M.A. 

ST.  BENIGNE,  DIJON  (2nd  S.  xii.  168,  402.)  — 
From  the  information  given  by  MR.  CORNEY,  it 
would  certainly  appear  that  Fergusson,  in  his 
Handbook  of  Architecture,  has  fallen  into  error. 
There  is  a  want  of  precision  in  his  statements 
that  makes  it  rather  difficult  to  ascertain  where 
the  error  really  lies.  But  it  is  clear  that  he  has 
not  been  guilty  of  so  mere  a  blunder  as  MR. 
CORNEY  imputes  to  him,  of  confounding  the  church 
of  Ste.  Madeleine  with  the  church  of  St.  Benigne. 

I  find  that,  in  p.  684,  he  describes  the  cathedral 
as  belonging  to  the  latter  half  of  the  thirteenth 
century.  At  p.  652  he  speaks  of  St.  Benigne  as 
having  been  one  of  the  oldest  churches  in  Bur- 
gundy, and  probably  an  excellent  type  of  the 
style  of  the  country;  but  in  p.  619  it  is  stated 
that,  in  the  year  1271,  the  nave  was  rebuilt  in  the 
perfect  pointed  style  of  that  day.  So  far  as  re- 
gards the  nave,  therefore,  St.  Benigne  could  be 
no  type  of  the  older  style  of  the  country  :  and  it 
is  worthy  of  remark,  that  the  time  when  the  nave 
was  rebuilt  agrees  precisely  with  the  date  attri- 
buted to  the  cathedral. 

In  p.  619,  Fergusson  gives  a  plan  of  St.  Be- 
nigne, taken  (apparently  with  some  modifications) 
from  Dom  Plancher ;  and  in  this  plan  is  shown 
the  singular  Rotonde,  or  circular  choir,  mentioned 
by  MR.  CORNEY. 

Does  this  Rotonde  now  exist  ?  I  have  seen  the 
cathedral,  but  have  no  recollection  of  anything  of 
the  sort.  Is  it  not  possible  that,  during  the  Re- 
volution, the  circular  choir  may  have  been  de- 
stroyed, while  the  rest  of  the  church  was  left 
standing  to  form  the  present  cathedral  ? 

Perhaps  some  correspondent  at  Dijon  may  be 
able  to  state  whether  this  supposition  is  correct. 

P.  S.  C. 

NEIL  (not  NieV)  DOUGLAS  (2nd  S.  xii.  472.)  — 
A.  G,  will  find  *'  biographical  particulars  "  of  this 


3rd  S.  I.  JAX.  4, 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


19 


mistaken,  but  in  many  respects  excellent  and  re- 
markable man,  in  Dr.  Struther's  well-known 
History  of  the  Rife,  Progress,  and  Principles  of 
the  Relief  Church  (Glasgow,  Fullarton  &  Co., 
1843,  1  vol.  8vo),  of  which  at  one  time  he  was  a 
minister. — See  chap.  xxii.  and  note  x.  in  Appen- 
dix. A.  G.  will  also  do  well  to  consult  the  (now 
extinct)  "Universalist"  periodicals  of  Scotland 
of  the  period,  edited  by,  and  containing  many  of 
the  ablest  productions  of  Douglas.  A  curious 
squib  (in  verse)  concerning  him  may  be  seen  in 
the  letter-press  attached  to  Kay's  Caricature- 
Portraits  (2  vols.  4to).  A.  G.  is  correct  in  his 
identification  of  the  heterodox  divine  with  the 
seditionist  (so-called)  of  1817  —  one  of  the  blood- 
red  pages  of  the  anarchic  political  times  of  Scot- 
land, r. 

Mr.  Neil  Douglas,  Universalist  preacher  of 
Stodcwell  Street,  Glasgow,  was  tried  on  the  26th 
of  May,  1817,  before  the  Court  of  Justiciary  in 
Edinburgh,  on  a  charge  of  having  used  scanda- 
lous expressions  regarding  the  King,  Prince  Re- 
gent, and  Royal  family,  in  his  prayers  before  his 
congregation.  Mr.  Jeffrey  was  his  counsel.  The 
jury  brought  in  a  verdict  of  not  guilty. 

I  remember  seeing  this  old  gentleman  in  the 
Old  Tolbooth  of  Edinburgh,  at  the  time  of  his 
trial.  The  evidence  there  given  shows  strong 
traces  of  eccentricity,  but  none  of  rancour  or 
spite.  It  would  be  interesting  to  many  in  Scot- 
land if  A.  G.  would  give  in  "  N.  &  Q."  a  few 
snatches  of  the  literary  curiosities  attributed  to 
Mr.  Douglas.  C. 

JAMES  GLASSFORD  (2nd  S.  xii.  397,  429.)— Mr. 
Glassford  had  no  claim  to  the  prefix  of  "Rev.," 
given  him  by  M.  H.  R.,  who  might  have  ascer- 
tained this  by  looking  at  the  title-page  of  both 
editions*  of  Lyrical  Compositions  selected  from  the 
Italian  Poets,  with  Translations,  by  James  Glass- 
ford,  Esq.,  of  Dougalston.  He  was  an  advocate 
at  the  Scottish  Bar,  and  the  author  of  various 
legal  and  literary  works.  The  following  is  his 
version  of  Guarini's  madrigal :  — 

«•  This  mortal  life, 

Seeming  so  fair,  is  like  a  feather  tossed, 
Borne  on  the  wind,  and  in  a  moment  lost. 

Or,  if  with  sudden  wheel,  it  flies 
Farther  sometimes,  and  upward  springs, 

And  then  upon  its  wings 
Sustained  in  air,  as  if  self-balanced  lies, 
The  lightness  of  its  nature  is  the  cause ; 

And  swiftly,  after  little  pause, 
With  thousand'turns,  and  thousand  idle  stops, 
Because  it  is  of  earth  to  earth  it  drops." 

R.  R. 

PETER  WATKINSON  OWTREM  (2nd  S.  xii.  485.)— 
It  seems  not  unlikely,  from  the  connexion  of  Peter 
Watkinson  of  Wirksworth  with  the  Heathcote 

*  1834  and  1846  (the  latter  posthumous). 


family,  then  of  Chesterfield,  that  he  belonged  to  the 
Watkinsons  of  Brampton,  near  Chesterfield.  One  of 
these  Watkinsons  was  high  sheriff  for  Derbyshire 
in  the  earlier  half  of  the  last  century,  but  I  do 
not  find  that  they  ever  bore  arms.  Nor  have  I 
discovered  that  any  arms  are  attributed  to  the 
Derbyshire  family  of  Outram,  from  whom  I  be- 
lieve Sir  James  Outram  to  be  descended.  A 
Thomas  Owtram,  of  the  parish  of  Dronfield,  died 
in  1811.  If  I  can  afford  your  correspondent  any 
information  relative  to  North  Derbyshire  families, 
I  shall  be  glad  to  do  so,  and  accordingly  subjoin 
my  address.  J.  H.  CLARK. 

Whittington,  near  Chesterfield. 

SIR  RICHARD  SHELLEY  (2nd  S.  xii.  470.) — ERIC 
will  find  a  long  account  of  this  eminent  person, 
Grand  Prior  of  England  and  Turcopolier,  in  "  N. 
&  Q."  !•»  S.  xi.  179. 

The  following  extract  from  Moule's  Heraldry 
of  Fish  (p.  227)  will  answer  his  other  queries  :  — 

"  Sable,  a  fess  engrailed  between  three  wilks,  or;  are 
the  arms  of  Sir  John  Shelley,  Baronet,  of  Maresfield  in 
Sussex,  the  representative  of  one  of  the  heiresses  of  the 
Barony  of  Sudeley. 

"  Of  the  same  lineage  was  Sir  Richard  Shelley,  Prior 
of  the  Order  of  Saint  John  of  Jerusalem  ;  who,  m  1561, 
was  ambassador  from  the  King  of  Spain  to  Venice  and 
Persia. 

«'  The  same  arms  are  also  borne  by  Sir  Timothy  Shel- 
ley, Baronet,  of  Castle-Goring  in  Sussex,  father  of  the 
late  Percy  Bj^sshe  Shelley,  the  poet." 

See  also  the  History  of  the  Rape  of  Bramber. 

J.  WOODWARD. 
Shoreham. 

SIR  JAMES  PEMBERTON  (2nd  S.  xii.  474.)— The 
armorial  bearings  assigned  in  Heylin  to  Sir  James 
Pemberton,  Lord  Mayor  of  London,  1611,  are  those 
of  his  successor  Sir  John  Swinnerton,  Lord  Mayor 
in  1612.  Pemberton's  arms  were,  "Argent,  a 
chevron  between  three  buckets  sable,  hoops  or  " 
(vide  Burke's  Armory}.  H.  G. 

CHURCHWARDENS  (2nd  S.  xii.  471.) — INA  will 
find  in  my  History  of  Henley,  1861  (pp.  50,  319), 
that  the  churchwardens  have  been  appointed  by 
the  corporation  of  Henley,  for  nearly  six  cen- 
turies. JOHN  S.  BURN. 
The  Grove,  Henley. " 

Time  out  of  mind  it  has  been  customary  for  the 
Vicar  of  Doncaster  to  appoint  one  of  the  church- 
wardens, and  the  mayor  the  other,  styled  respec- 
tively the  Vicar's  churchwarden  and  the 

MAYOR'S  CHURCHWARDEN. 

THE  SLEEPERS  £ 2nd  S.  xii.  457.)  —The  verses 
inquired  for  are  by  Mary  Anne  Browne.  She 
published  six  small  volumes  of  poems,  in  London 
and  Liverpool,  between  the  years  1827  and  1838. 
Many  of  her  minor  pieces  are  marked  by  the 
same  delicacy  of  feeling  and  grace  of  expression 
as  "  the  sleepers,"  M.  A.  E.  G. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


1.  JAN.  4,  '62. 


WOLVES  EATING  EARTH  (2nd  S.  ii.  328.)— 

"Qnelques-uns  ont  crft  qu'il  se  nourissoit  de  terre: 
cette  vieille  erreur  vient  de  ce  que  le  loup  est  extreme- 
ment  econome,  et  quil  cache  sous  terre  une  partie  de  sa 
proie  pour  s'en  servir  dans  le  besoin." — Traite  Historique 
et  Moral  du  Blazon,  par  J.  B.  du  Puy  Dempostes,  torn.  ii. 
ch.  xii. :  &,  Amsterdam  et  &  Berlin,  chez  Jean  Neaulme 
Libraire,  1754. 

J.  SAN.  | 

JOURNAL  OF  LOUISE  DE  SAVOIE  (2nd  S.  xii.  ' 
233.)  —  May  I  be  permitted  to  answer  my  own 
Query,  as  I  have  since  discovered  that  this  curious 
document  has  been  printed  in  Guichenon's  His- 
toire  de  Savoie,  torn.  v.  p.  461.  I  have  not,  how- 
ever, succeeded  in  finding  the  account  of  the  ex- 
humations at  St.  Denis,  concerning  which  I  beg 
leave  to  repeat  my  Query.  HERMENTRUDE. 

ROUSSEAU  ON  THE  REARING  OF  INFANTS  (2nd  S. 
xii.  394.) — See  Jean  Jacques's  E'mile,  liv.  i. 

R.  S.  CHARNOCK. 


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WESTERN    LIFE    ASSURANCE     AND 
ANNUITY  SOCIETY. 

8,  PARLIAMENT  STREET,  LONDON,  S.W. 
Founded  A.D.  1842. 


Directors. 


H.  E.  Bicknell,  Esq. 
T.S.  Cocks,  Esq. 
G.  H.  Drew,  Esq.  M. A. 
W.  Freeman,  Esq. 
J.  H.  Goodhart,  Esq. 


E.Lucas,  Esq. 
F.B.  M  arson.  Esq. 
J.I/.  Seaser.Esq. 
J.B.  White,  Esq. 


Physicinn.-W.  R.  Basham,  M.D. 

Bankers.— Messrs.  Biddulph.  Cocks,  i  Co. 

Actuary Arthur  Scratchley,  M.A. 

VALUABLE  PRIVILEGE. 

POLICIES  effected  in  this  Office  do  not  become  void  through  tem- 
porary difficulty  in  paying  a  Premium,  as  permission  is  given  upon 
application  to  suspend  the  payment  at  interest,  according  to  the  con- 
ditions detailed  in  the  Prospectus. 

LOANS  from  100?.  to  500?.  granted  on  real  or  flrst-rate  Personal 
Security. 

Attention  is  also  invited  to  the  rates  of  annuity  granted  to  old  lives  , 
for  which  ample  security  is  provided  by  the  capital  of  the  Society. 

Example:  100?.  cash  paid  down  pxirchases  —  An  annuity  of — 

9  15  lo'to  a  male  life  aged  60\ 

„  65 1  Payable  as  long 


11  7  4 
13  18  8 
18  0  6 


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Trustees,  Managers,  and  Actuaries. 

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BROWN  AND   POLSON'S 

PATENT    CORN    FLOUR, 

In  Packets  2d.,4c?.,  and  8c?.:  and  Tins,  Is. 

Recipe  from  the  "  Cook's  Guide,"  by  C.  E.  Francatelli,  late  Chief 
Cook  to  her  Majesty  the  Queen  :  — 

INFANTS'  FOOD. 

To  one  dessertspoonful  of  Brown  and  Poison  mixed  with  a  wineglass- 
ful  of  cold  water,  add  half  a  pint  of  boiling  water  ;  stir  over  the  fire  for 
five  minutes  ;  sweeten  lightly,  and  feed  the  baby  ;  but  if  the  infant  is 
being  brought  up  by  hand,  this  food  should  then  be  mixed  with  milk,— 
not  otherwise,  as  the  use  of  two  different  milk*  would  be  injurious. 

O AS.  to  £4  4s._LETTS'S  READING  EASELS, 

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readiness.  A  glass  rest  can  be  substituted  for  the  wooden  one  when  used 
by  persons  lying  down. 

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ous forms  for  MS.  purposes,  together  with  Lists  of  DIARIES  for  1862, 
which  combine  French  with  English  Dates,  may  be  obtained  from 
LETTS,  !-ON,  &  CO.,  Printers,  Stationers,  and  Mapsellers,  8,  Royal 
Exchange,  London. 

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BRONCHITIS.— In  our  cold  and  changeable  climate,  Holloway's 
i  have  proved  themselves  the  best  prjventives  of  ill-health.  They 
expel  all  impurities,  steady  the  circulation,  regulate  the  respiration,  and 
check  the  first  erroneous  or  depraved  action.  They  are  more  strictly 
preventives  than  any  other  known  medicine.  Tliey  successfully  strike 
at  the  root  of  all  bodily  ailments  by  eradicating  every  morbid  matter 
troin  the  blood,  and  conferring  on  every  organ  its  natural  and  healthy 
action,  without  weaiiening  the  system  or  irritating  the  brain  or  nerves. 
In  all  the  varieties  of  levers  and  inflammations,  which  now  fearfully 
swell  our  bills  of  mortality,  Holloway'a  Pills  exercise  the  most  salutary 
power.  They  often  restore  health  when  dissolution  is  threatened. 


UNITED  KINGDOM 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY, 

No.   8,  "WATERLOO  PLACE,  PALL  MALL,  8.W. 

Dm  ROTORS. 

The  Hon.  FRANCIS  SCOTT,  Chairman. 

CHARLES  BERWICK  CURTIS,  Esq.,  Deputy  Chairman. 

EDWARD  LENNOX  BOYD,  Esq.  i  A.  H.  MACDOUGALL,  ESQ 

(Resident).  F.  C.  M  AITLAND,  E<q. 

WILLIAM  FAIRLIE,  Esq.  WILLIAM  RAILTON.  Esq. 

D.  Q.  HE.vRIQUES.Esq.  THOS.  THOKBY,  Esq.,  F.S.A. 


SUPERIOR  ACCOMMODATION  AFFORDED  BY  THIS 

COMPANY. 

This  Company  offers  the  security  of  a  large  paid-up  capital,  held  in 
shares  by  a  numerous  and  wealthy  proprietary,  thus  protecting  the 
assured  from  the  risk  attending  mutual  offices. 

There  have  been  three  divisions  of  profits,  the  bonuses  averaging 
nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum  on  the  sums  assured  from  the  commence- 
ment of  the  Company. 

Sum  Assured.          Bonuses  added.  Payable  at  Death. 

£5,fOO  *l,987  10s.  £6,987  10s. 

1,000  397  10s.  1,397  10s. 

100  39  15s.  139  15s. 

To  assure  £100  payable  at  death,  a  person  aged  21  pays  £1  is.  4df.  per 
annum;  but  as  the  profits  have  averaged  nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum, 
the  additions,  in  many  cases,  have  been  almost  as  much  as  the  pre- 
miums paid. 

Loans  granted  on  approved  real  or  personal  security. 
Invalid  Lives.    Parties  not  in  a  sound  state  of  health  may  be  insured 
at  equitable  rates. 

No  charge  for  Volunteer  Military  Corps  while  serving  in  the  United 
Kingdom. 

The  funds  or  property  of  the  company,    as  at  1st  January,  1861, 
amounted  to  £730,665  7s.  10d.,  invested  in  Government  and  other  ap- 
proved securities. 
Prospectuses  and  every  information  afforded  on  application  to 

E.  L.  BOYD,  Resident  Director. 


EQUITABLE  ASSURANCE  OFFICE,  New 
Bridge  Street,  Blackfriars  :  established  1762. 

DIRECTORS. 
The  Right  Hon.  LORD  TREDEGAR,  President. 


Wm.  Samuel  Jones,  Esq.,  V.P. 
Wm.  F.  1'ollock,  Etq.,  V.P. 
Wm.  Dacrrs  Adams,  tsq. 
John  Charles  Burgoyne,  Psq. 
Lord  Gi-o.  Henr>  Cavendish,  M.P. 
Frtderick  Cowper,  Esq. 
Philip  Hardwick,  Esq. 


Richard  Gosling,  Esq. 

Peter  Martineau,  Esq. 

John  Alldin  Moore,  Esq. 

Charles  Pott,  Esq. 

Rev.  John  »<ussell,D.D. 

James  Spicer,  Esq. 

John  Charles  Templer,  Esq. 

The  Equitable  is  an  entirely  mutual  office.  The  reserve,  at  the  last 
"rest,"  in  December.  1859,  exceeded  three-fourths  of  a  million  sterling, 
a  sum  more  than  double  the  corresponding  fund  of  any  similar  in- 
stitution. 

The  bonuses  paid  on  claims  in  the  10  years  ending  on  the  31st  De- 
cember, 1859,  exceeded  3,500,  ,00?.,  being  more  than  100  per  cent,  on  the 
amount  of  all  those  claims. 

The  amount  added  at  the  close  of  that  decade  to  the  policies  existing 
on  the  1st  January,  1860,  was  1,977,000?..  and  made,  with  former  addi- 
tions then  outstanding,  a  total  of  4, 070,000?.,  on  assurances  originally 
taken  out  for  6,252,000?.  only. 

These  additions  have  increased  the  claims  allowed  and  paid  under 
those  policies  since  the  1st  Janua-y.  18SO,  to  the  extent  of  150  per  cent. 

The  capital,  ou  the  31st  December  last,  consisted  of — 

2,730,000?.  —  stock  in  the  public  Funds. 

3,'  06,297? cash  lent  on  mortages  of  freehold  estates. 

300,000?.—  cash  advanced  on  railway  debentures. 

83,590?.  —  cash  advanced  on  security  of  the  policies  of  members  of  the 
Society. 

Producing  annually  221, 482?. 

The  total  income  exceeds  400,000?.  per  annum. 

Policies  effected  in  the  year  1862  will  participate  in  the  distribution 
of  profits  made  in  December,  IrtM),  so  soon  as  six  annual  premiums 
shall  have  become  due  and  been  paid  thereon:  and,  in  the  division 
of  1869,  will  be  entitled  to  additions  in  rrspect  of  every  premium  paid 
upon  them  from  the  year  1862  to  1869,  each  inclusive. 

On  the  surrender  of  policies  the  full  value  is  paid,  without  any  deduc- 
tion; and  the  Directors  will  advance  nine- tenths  of  that  value  as  a 
temporary  accommodation,  on  the  deposit  of  a  policy. 

No  extra  premium  is  charged  for  service  in  any  Volunteer  Corps 
within  the  United  Kingdom,  during  peace  orwnr. 

A  Weekly  Court  of  Directors  is  held  every  Wednesday,  from  11  to  1 
o'clock,  to  receive  proposals  for  new  assurances  ;  and  a  short  account  of 
the  Society  may  be  had  on  application,  personally  or  by  post,  irom  the 
office,  where  attendance  is  given  daily,  from  1<>  to  4  o'clock. 

ARTHUR  MORGAN,  Actuary. 

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CONTENTS.— NO.  2. 

NOTES  •  —  Memoir  of  William  Oldys,  Esq.,  Norroy-King-at- 
Arms,  21  —  The  Word  "  Any,"  23  —  Newton's  Home  in  the 
Year  1727,  24  — Anna  Seward  and  George  Hardinge,  26  — 
Jacob's  Well  at  Chester,  Ib. 

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Authorship  of  MS.  wished  — Mr.  Serjeant  John  Birch, 
Cursitor  Baron  —  Cerigotto  — Coney  Family  — Dwelling 
near  the  Rose  — Hendrik  en  Alida  —  Heraldic  Query  — 
"Husbandman"  — Samuel  Johnson,  LL.D.  —  The  Laugh 
of  a  Child— Legend  of  the  Beech  Tree  — William  Lith- 
gow's  Poems—  Men  Kissing  each  other  in  the  Streets  — 
Old  Engraving  of  a  Sea  Fight  —  Pius  IX.,  Acts  of  Pontifi- 
cate of  —  Sham  Heraldry  —  Tarnished  Silver  Coins  — 
Tenants  in  Socage  —Mr.  Turbulent  —Sir  William  Webbe 

—  Thomas  White,  Esq.  —  Willett's  Synopsis  Papismi,  28. 

QTJERIES  WITH  ANSWEBS:  —The  Trial  of  the  Princess  of 
Wales  :  "  A  Delicate  Investigation  "  —  Isabella  AVhituey 

—  MS.  Dramas  —  Khevenhuller  Volunteers  —  The  Rev. 
John  Peter  Droz,  32. 

REPLIES:  —  Lord  Nugent  on 'Capital  Punishments: 
Jemmy  the  Gypsy,  33  — The  Egg,  a  Symbol,  34  — Yetlin, 
or  Yetling:  Mesling,  Ib.  —  Beattie's  Poems,  35  — Gram- 
mar Schools  —  "  Sic  Transit  Gloria  Mundi  "  —  Learner  — 
Lambeth  Degrees— Recovery  of  Things  lost  — Errors  in 
Books  on  the  Peerage  —  Gilbert  Tyson— Lengp  Moundino 

—  Commissariat  of  Lauder  —  Orkney  Island  Discoveries  — 
Laminas —Mary  Wofflngton  —  Heraldic  —  Edward  Halsey 
Bockett,  &c.,  35. 

Notes  on  Books. 


fiatrt. 

MEMOIR  OF  WILLIAM  OLDYS,  ESQ., 

NORROY  KING-AT-ARMS. 

(Continued from  3rd  S.  i.  3.) 

In  October,  1728,  Mr.  Henry  Baker,  the  na- 
turalist, under  the  assumed  name  of  Henry  Stone- 
castle,  projected  The  Universal  Spectator,  to  which 
periodical  Oldys,  in  1731,  had  contributed  about 
twenty  papers.*  On  his  return  to  London,  in 
1730,  he  found  Samuel  Burroughs,  Esq.  and  others 
engaged  in  a  project  for  printing  The  Negotia- 
tions of  Sir  Thomas  Roe.  To  assist  in  so  desirable 
an  undertaking,  Oldys  drew  up  "  Some  Con- 
siderations upon  the  Publication  of  Sir  Thomas 
Roe's  Epistolary  Collections."! 

It  was  about  the  year  1731  that  Oldys  became 
acquainted  with  that  noble  patron  of  literature 
and  learned  men,  Edward  Harley,  the  second 
Earl  of  Oxford.  It  has  been  wisely  and  beauti- 

*  The  Universal  Spectator  continued  to  appear  weekly 
until  the  latter  end  of  the  year  1742.  In  1736  a  selection 
from  these  papers  was  first  printed  in  2  vols.  12mo ;  a 
second  edition  appeared  in  1747,  in  4  vols.  12mo ;  and  a 
third  in  1756,  in  4  vols.  12mo.  John  Kelly,  the  dramatic 
poet,  and  Sir  John  Hawkins,  were  occasional  contributors. 

f  Only  one  volume  of  the  Negotiations  was  published 
in  1740.  Oldys's  "  Considerations' "  for  their  publication 
is  in  the  British  Museum,  Addit.  MS.  4168.  Vide  "N. 
&  Q."  2nd  S.  xi.  102 ;  and  Bolton  Corney's  Curiosities  of 
Literature  Illustrated,  second  edition,  1838,  p.  165. 


fully  said,  that  "  those  who  befriend  genius  when, 
it  is  struggling  for  distinction,  befriend  the  world, 
and  their  names  should  be  heM  in  remembrance." 
We  learn  from  his  Autobiography,  that  Oldys 
must  already  have  become,  to  some  extent,  a  col- 
lector of  literary  curiosities.  He  says, 

"  The  Earl  invited  me  to  show  him  my  collections  of 
manuscripts,  historical  and  political,  which  had  been  the 
Earl  of  Clarendon's ;  my  collections  of  Royal  Letters,  and 
other  papers  of  State ;  together  with  a  very  large  collec- 
tion of  English  heads  in  sculpture,  which  alone  had 
taken  me  some  years  to  collect,  at  the  expense  of  at  least 
threescore  pounds.  All  these,  with  the  catalogues  I  drew 
up  of  them,  at  his  Lordship's  request,  I  parted  with  to 
him  for  40Z. ;  and  the  frequent  intimations  he  gave  me  of 
a  more  substantial  recompense  hereafter,  which  intima- 
tions induced  me  to  continue  my  historical  researches, 
as  what  would  render  me  most  acceptable  to  him."  — 
Autobiography. 

Oldys  likewise  informs  us,  in  a  note  on  Lang- 
baine,  that  he  had  bought  two  hundred  volumes 
at  the  auction  of  the  Earl  of  Stamford's  library  in 
St.  Paul's  Coffee-house,  where  formerly  most  of 
the  celebrated  libraries  were  sold. 

That  Oldys  has  already  become  a  diligent  stu- 
dent at  the  Harleian  Library  is  evident  from  the 
publication  at  this  time  of  his  very  curious  work 
on  Pamphlets.  It  first  appeared  with  the  follow- 
ing title :  A  Dissertation  upon  Pamphlets.  In  a 
Letter  to  a  Nobleman  [probably  the  Earl  of  Ox- 
ford], London :  Printed  in  the  year  1731,  4to. 
In  the  following  year  it  re-appeared  in  Morgan's 
Phoenix  Britannicus,  Lond.  1732,  4to ;  and  has 
since  been  reprinted  in  Nichols's  Literary  Anec- 
dotes, iv.  98 — 111.  Oldys  also  contributed  to  the 
Phoenix  Britannicus,  p.  65,  a  bibliographical  his- 
tory of  "  A  Short  View^  of  the  long  Life  and 
Raigne  of  Henry  the  Third,  King  of  England : 
presented  to  King  James  by  Sir  Robert  Cotton, 
but  not  printed  till  1627." 

It  is  stated  by  Dr.  Ducarel  that  Oldys  was  one 
of  the  writers  in  The  Scarborough  Miscellany, 
1732-34.  This  appears  probable,  as  John  Taylor, 
the  author  of  Monsieur  Tonson,  informed  Mr. 
Isaac  D'Israeli  that  "  Oldys  always  asserted  that 
he  was  the  author  of  the  well-known  song  — 

. '  Busy,  curious,  thirsty  fly ! ' 

And  as  he  was  a  rigid  lover  of  truth,  I  doubt 
not  that  he  wrote  it."  The  earliest  version  of  it 
discovered  by  Mr.  D'Israeli  was  in  a  collection 
printed  in  1740 ;  but  it  had  appeared  in  The 
Scarborough  Miscellany  for  1732,  eight  years 
earlier.  As  it  slightly  varies  from  the  version 
quoted  by  D'Israeli,  we  give  it  as  originally 
printed :  — 

"  THE  FLY. 

"An  Anacreontick. 

"  Busy,  curious,  thirsty  Fly, 
Gently  drink,  and  drink  as  I  j 
Freely  welcome  to  my  Cup, 
Could'st  thou  sip,  and  sip  it  up  j 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62. 


Make  the  mostCof  Life  you  may, 
Life  is  short  and  wears  away. 

"  Just  alike,  both  mine  and  thine, 

Hasten  quick  to  their  Decline ; 

Thine's  a  Summer,  mine's  no  more, 

Though  repeated  to  threescore ; 

Threescore  Summers  when  they're  gone, 

Will  appear  as  short  as  one."  * 
The  London  booksellers,  having  decided  o 
publishing  a  new  edition  of  Sir  Walter  Ralegh' 
History  of  the  World,  enlisted  the  services  o 
Oldys  to  see  it  through  the  press.  To  this  edi 
tion  is  prefixed  "  The  Life  of  the  Author,  newly 
coinpil'd,  from  Materials  more  ample  and  authen 
tick  than  have  yet  been  publish'd,  by  Mr.  Oldys.' 
The  Life  makes  282  pages,  and  from  the  autho- 
rities quoted  in  the  numerous  notes  must  have 
been  a  task  of  considerable  labour  and  research 
The  complete  work  is  in  two  volumes,  fol.  1736 
and  contains  a  very  copious  Index.  Gibbon  medi- 
tated a  Life  of  Ralegh ;  but  after  reading  Oldys's, 
he  relinquished  his  design,  from  a  conviction  thai 
"  he  could  add  nothing  new  to  the  subject,  except 
the  uncertain  merit  of  style  and  sentiment." 

While  engaged  on  this  great  work,  Oldys  was 
permitted  to  consult  the  valuable  library  of  Sir 
Hans  Sloane,  as  we  learn  from  the  following  let- 
ter to  the  worthy  baronet,  dated  Sept.  29,  1735  :— 

"  MOST  HOXOUKED  Sift, 

"  When  I  was  last  favoured,  through  your'noble  cour- 
tesy, with  a  sight  of  somo  curious  Memorials  relating  to 
Sir  Walter  Ralegh,  I  said  there  would  be  one  or  two 
little  priuted  pieces  which  I  should  have  occasion  to 
make  more  use  of  than  I  could  take  the  liberty  of  doing 
in  your  house.  One  of  them,  however,  which  is  the  Life 
of  Mahomet,  I  have  been  since  provided  with  ;  but  the 
other,  called  News  of  Sir  Walter  Ralegh,  &c.,  printed  4", 
>18,  and  marked  among  the  MSS.  13.  1288,  is  now,  that 
I  am  arrived  (through  above  forty  sheets)  at  the  last 
two  years  of  his  Life,  immediately  wanting. 

"  As  a  troublesome  cold  confines  me  a  little  at  present, 

shall  take  it  as  the  greater  favour  if  you  will  let  me 

iayc  it,  when  it  may  be  most  convenient;  by  the  bearer; 

1  shall,  in  two  or  three  weeks,  wait  on  vou  with  it 

again ;. as  also,  with  an  entire  copy  from  the  press,  of 

•iat  .Narrative  which  it  will  help  to  illustrate.    If  it  mav 

be  too  ambitious  in  me  to  make  so  much  addition  to 

ibrarv    ,t  may  exalt  the  fame  of  my  Worthy,  or 

J  the  date  of  it,  to  have  his  Life  preserved  in  such 

a  magnificent  repositary,  notwithstanding  the  defects  of 

1  Honoured  Sir, 

"  Your  most  obliged  and  obedient  Servant, 
"  WILLIAM  OLDYS."  f 
xm  after  the  publication  of  the  Life  of  Sir 


and 


o     ong,,  .   . 
t  Addit.  MS.  4001,  p.  250,  Brit.  Museum. 


Walter  Ralegh^  some  booksellers  thinking  Oldys's 
name  would  tend  to  sell  a  work  then  in  the  course 
of  publication,  offered  him  a  considerable  sum  of 
money,  if  they  would  allow  him  to  affix  it ;  but  he 
rejected  the  proposal  with  the  greatest  indigna- 
tion, though  at  the  time  he  was  in  the  greatest 
pecuniary  distress. 

At  the  comrrfencement  of  the  last  century  Bib- 
liography as  a  science  had  not  been  cultivated  in 
England.    Sale-catalogues  and  lists  of  books,  espe- 
cially when  interspersed  with  remarks   of  their 
rarity  and  value,  were  collected  and  prized  by 
bibliographers  ;  but  Oldys  was  among  the  first  in 
this  country  to  make  an  attempt  to  divert  the 
public  taste  from  an  exclusive  attention  to  new 
books,  by  making  the  merit  of  old  ones  the  sub- 
ject of  critical  discussion.*     His  Life  of  Ralegh 
bad  not  only  brought  him  into  closer  ties  of  friend- 
ship with  the  Earl  of  Oxford  ;  but  the  knowledge 
of  our   earliest  English    literature   displayed   in 
that  work  had  so  increased  his  fame,  that  he  was 
now    frequently   consulted   at    his   chambers  in 
j-ray's  Inn  on  obscure  and  obsolete  writers  by  the 
nost  eminent  literary  characters  of  the  time.     It 
redounds  to  the  honour  and  memory  of  William 
Dldys  that  he  was  ever  easy  of  access  to  all  who 
sought  or  desired  his  assistance,  and  free,  open, 
and  communicative   in    answering   the    inquiries 
ubmitted  to  him.     His  friendly  aid  and  counsel 
vere   not    only   cheerfully  rendered   to  Thomas 
layward  for  his  British  Muse,  and  to  Mrs.  Cooper 
or  The  Muses'  Library,  but  even  his  jottings  for 
Life  of  Nell   Gwyn  were  freely  given  to  the 
ptorious  Edmund  Curll,  whose  fame  will  never 
IP,  gibbeted  as  he  has  been  to  immortality  in 
:ie  full  blazon  of  his  literary  knavery. 
In  1737  Oldys  published  anonymously  his  cele- 
rated  work,  entitled 

The  British   Librarian:    exhibiting  a  Compendious 
eview  or  Abstract  of  our  most  scarce,  useful,  and  valu- 
)le  Books  in  all  Sciences,  as  well  in  Manuscript  as  in 
5rint :  with  many  Characters,  Historical  and  Critical,  of 
.he  Authors,  their  Antagonists,  &c.,  in  a  manner  never 
Before  attempted,   and   useful   to  all  readers.     With   a 
Complete  Index  to  the  volume.    London:  Printed  for  T 
sborne,  in  Gray's-Inn,  1738,  8vo." 

It  was  published  as  a  serial  in  six  numbers; 
No.  I.  is  dated  for  January,  1737  ;  and  the  last, 
No.  VI.  for  June,  1737;  but  yet  the  Postscript 
at  the  end  of  it  is  signed  "  Gray's  Inn,  Feb.  18, 
1737  [1737-8].  Some  copies  have  separate 
titles  to  the  six  numbers.  The  work  is  highly 
valuable  as  containing  many  curious  details  of 
works  now  excessively  rare.  Had  it  been  con- 
tinued, it  would,  in  all  probability,  have  contained 

The  only  treatise  on  Bibliography  which  had  ap- 


peared in 


this  ^country,  was  the  erudite  work  of  Sir 
Censura  Celebriorum 


Thomas  Pope  Blount,   entitled       w ^ 

Authorum  :  sive  Tractatus,  in  quo  varia  Virorum  Doc- 
torum  de  clarissimis  cuj usque  Steculi  Scriptoribus  indi- 
cia traduntur."  Lond.  1690,  fol. 


3rd  S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


23 


an  accurate  account  of  a  very  curious  and  valu- 
able collection  of  English  books :  it  ceased,  how- 
ever, at  the  end  of  the  sixth  monthly  number, 
when  Mr.  Oldys  could  neither  be  persuaded  by 
the  entreaty  of  his  friends,  nor  the  demands  of 
the  public,  to  continue  the  labour.  Dr.  John 
Campbell,  in  bis  Rational  Amusement,  8vo,  1754, 
says,  that  no  work  of  the  kind  was  so  well  re- 
ceived ;  and  adds,  "  If  its  author,  who  is  of  all 
men  living  the  most  capable,  would  pursue  and 
perfect  this  plan,  he  would  do  equal  justice  to  the 
living  and  to  the  dead." 

It  may  seem  to  many  a  very  meagre  and  un- 
satisfactory labour  to  compile  a  chronological 
Catalogue  of  standard  works,  intermixed  with 
remarks  and  characters.  But  (as  Oldys  cites 
from  Lord  Bacon)  "  learned  men  want  such  in- 
ventories of  every  thing  in  art  and  nature,  as 
rich  men  have  of  their  estates."  When  we  first 
enter  on  any  branch  of  study,  it  is  palpably  use- 
ful to  have  the  authors  to  whom  we  should  resort 
pointed  out  to  us.  "  Through  the  defect  of  such 
intelligence,  in  its  proper  extent,"  says  Oldys, 
"  how  many  authors  have  we,  who  are  consuming 
their  time,  their  quiet,  and  their  wits,  in  search- 
ing after  either  what  is  past  finding,  or  already 
found  ?  In  admiring  at  the  penetrations  them- 
selves have  made,  though  to  the  rind  only,  in 
those  very  branches  of  science  which  their  fore- 
fathers have  pierced  to  the  pith  ?  And  how  many 
who  would  be  authors  as  excellent  as  ever  ap- 
peared, had  they  but  such  plans  or  models  laid 
before  them  as  might  induce  them  to  marshal 
their  thoughts  into  a  regular  order ;  or  did  they 
but  know  where  to  meet  with  concurrence  of 
opinion,  with  arguments,  authorities,  or  examples, 
to  corroborate  and  ripen  their  teeming  concep- 
tions ?  " 

In  the  Postscript  to  this  valuable  work  Oldys 
thus  acknowledges  his  obligations  to  his  literary 
friends  for  the  loan  of  manuscripts  and  other  rare 
books  :  — 

"  Among  the  books  conducive  to  this  purpose,  those|for 
which  gratitude  here  demands  chiefly  the  publication  of 
pur  thanks,  are  the  manuscripts.  Such,  in  the  first  place, 
is  .that  here  called  Sir  Thomas  Wriothesly's  Collections ; 
containing  the  arms  and  characters  of  the  Knights  of  the 
Garter,  and  views  of  the  ancient  ceremonies  used  in 
creating  the  Knights  of  the  Bath,  &c.  For  that  sketch 
which  the  Librarian  has  here  given  the  publick  of  it, 
they  are  both  beholden  to  the  permission  of  his  Grace  the 
Duke  of  Montagu,  the  noble  owner  of  that  valuable 
volume ;  and  to  some  explanations  thereof,  which  were 
also  courteously  imparted  by  John  Anstis,  Esq.,  Garter, 
principal  King  of  Arms,  whose  extensive  knowledge  in 
these  subjects,  his  own  elaborate  publications,  in  honour 
of  both  those  Orders,  have  sufficiently  confirm'd.  Nor 
will  it  be  thought  a  repetition  unnecessary,  by  grateful 
minds,  that  the  Librarian  here  renev/s  his  acknowledg- 
ments to  Nathaniel  Booth,  Esq.  of  Gray's  Inn,  for  his 
repeated  communications ;  having  been  favour'd  not  only 
with  that  curious  miscellany,  containing  many  of  the 
old  Earl  of  Derby's  papers,  which,  in  one  of  the  foregoing 


numbers  is  abridg'd  ;  but  others  out  of  his  choice  collec- 
tions, which  may  enrich  some  future  numbers,  when  op- 
portunity shall  permit  the  contents  thereof  to  appear. 
Other  manuscripts  herein  described,  were  partly  the  col- 
lection of  Mr.  Charles  Grimes,  late  also  of  Gray's  Inn, 
and  in  the  bookseller's  possession  for  whom  this  work  is 
printed;  except  one  ancient  relique  of  the  famous  Wick- 
life,  for  the  use  of  which,  many  thanks  are  here  return'd 
to  Mr.  Joseph  Ames,  Member  of  the  Society  of  Antiqua- 
ries. The  author  of  this  -work  is  moreover  obliged  to  the 
library  of  this  last  worthy  preserver  of  antiquities,  as 
also  to  that  of  his  ingenious  friend  Mr.  Peter  Thompson, 
for  the  use  of  several  printed  books  which  are  more  scarce 
than  many  manuscripts;  particularly  some,  set  forth  by 
our  first  printer  in  England;  and  others,  which  will  rise, 
among  the  curious,  in  value,  as,  by  the  depredations  of 
accident  or  ignorance,  they  decrease  in  number.  We 
must  take  some  further  opportunity  to  express  our  obli- 
gations to  other  gentlemen  who  have  favour'd  us  with 
such  like  literary  curiosities;  and  to  some  hundreds  un- 
known, who  have  shewn  a  relish  for  the  usefulness  of  this 
performance,  by  encouraging  the  sale  of  it." 

(Tole  continued.') 


THE  WORD  "  ANY." 

The  following  remarks  arise  out  of  logical  con- 
troversy :  but  the  inquiry  I  want  to  provoke  will 
be  most  satisfactory  to  your  readers  in  a  perfectly 
detached  form.  High  authority  has  declared  that 
the  word  any  is  "  exclusively  adapted  to  negation." 
I  try  this  point  in  my  own  way,  and  I  hope  to  in- 
duce others  to  attend  to  it.  Very  little  has  been 
done  towards  exposition  of  the  actual  uses  of  our 
terms  of  logical  quantity. 

My  conclusion  is  that,  so  far  from  being  ex- 
clusively adapted  to  negation,  any  is  in  negatives 
as  ambiguous  as  a  word  can  well  be,  and  in  affirm- 
atives nearly  as  precise.  So  it  is  in  the  instances 
which  suggest  themselves  to  me  :  how  will  it  be  in 
those  which  suggest  themselves  to  others  ? 

Certainly  the  word  is  not  exclusively  adapted  to 
negatives :  any  one  may  see  that ;  any  one  will 
admit  it.  Any  has  the  force  of  each,  every,  all,  at 
least  in  affirmatives.  What  any  one  can  do,  all 
can  do ;  what  all  (distributively  used)  can  do, 
any  one  can  do.  The  qualifying  parenthesis  is 
wanted  by  all;  not  by  any,  which  is  as  definite  in 
affirmatives  as  each  and  every. 

Even  if  we  choose  "to  use  the  word  any  in  the 
predicate  of  an  affirmative,  we  cannot  by  straining 
escape  the  meaning  which  grammar  imposes.  He 
who  should  say  that  "  Any  man  is  any  biped," 
may  be  forced  to  acknowledge  that  he  has  affirmed 
that  there  is  but  one  man,  but  one  biped,  and 
that  the  man  is  the  biped. 

When  we  come  to  negatives,  we  find  that  any 
may  have  either  of  two  senses  :  universal,  or  par- 
ticular. It  may  be  "  any  one  of  all,"  or  "  any  one 
of  some."  For  instance,  some  persons  hold,  in  all 
its  rigour,  the  stern  maxim  that  l:  a  healthy  person 
who  cannot  eat  any  wholesome  food,  does  not  de- 


24 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62. 


serve  to  have  any  food  to  eat."  The  first  "  any" 
is  particular,  the  second  is  universal :  the  maxim 
lays  down  that  he  who  refuses  some  one  whole- 
some food,  were  it  that  one  only,  does  not  deserve 
to  have  any  of  all  possible  eatables.  But  if  we 
state  affirmatively  that  "he  who  can  eat^any 
wholesome  food  may  be  allowed  any  food,"  we 
see  that  both  the  words  are  universal.  Under  the 
first  law  a  refusal  of  cold  mutton  alone  would 
infer  the  penalty:  under  the  second  a  person 
must  be  ready  for  cold  potatoes  with  it  before  he 
can  claim  to  be  qualified. 

I  cannot  find  any  trace  of  the  double  meaning 
in  affirmatives :  but  I  wait  for  others.  I  have 
clearly  shown  that  the  word  any  is  ambiguous  in 
negatives ;  but  I  will  not  say  that  it  is  not  so  in 
affirmatives. 

In  negatives,  context  must  often  determine  the 
meaning.  "  A  person  who  cannot  do  anything" — 
the  meaning  of  this  commencement  is  ambiguous. 
If  the  ending  be  "  ought  not  to  have  anything  to 
do,"  the  first  any  was  universal :  if  it  be  "  had 
better  to  let  it  alone,"  the  first  any  was  particular. 
But,  "  a  person  who  can  do  anything,"  is  not  am- 
biguous. The  explanatory  additions  in  "  any  — 
whatsoever,"  "  any — at  all,"  are  evidences  of  the 
ambiguity.  In  affirmatives,  they  are  but  tauto- 
logy :  in  negatives,  they  distinguish.  Thus,  "  he 
may  have  any,"  and  "  he  may  have  any  whatso- 
ever," only  differ  in  that  the  second  gives  stress 
to  the  meaning  already  in  the  first.  No  one 
would  say  that  the  "  whatsoever "  of  the  second 
may  destroy  some  reserved  exceptions  in  the  first. 
But  "  he  may  not  have  any,"  may  mean  that  there 
are  some  which  he  must  not  have,  though  he  may 
have  others  :  "  he  may  not  have  any  whatsoever," 
makes  the  word  universal.  Notice  of  bail  must 
be  given,  because  the  magistrate  cannot  accept 
aivj  man  ;  but  when  he  cannot  accept  any  man 
whatsoever,  the  notice  need  not  be  given. 

Among  the  proposals  of  our  day,  founded  on 
the  assumption  that  any  is  peculiarly  adapted  to 
negatives,  is  that  of  expressing  the  proposition 
14  Xo  x  is  Y,"  by  "  Any  x  is  not  any  Y."  No  objec- 
tion could  be  taken  to  this,  if  the  universal  sense 
were  expressly  postulated  :  but  when  the  pro- 
posal is  based  upon  the  assertion  of  its  self-evi- 
dent propriety,  there  is  something  to  say  against 
it.  When  a  sentence  is  ambiguous,  the  mind 
takes  the  true  sense,  if  there  be  one.  For  ex- 
ample :  "  I  thought  this  room  was  higher  than  it 
is."  A  room  higher  than  it  is  would  be  difficult 
to  find  ;  so  we  always  accept  the  phrase  as  mean- 
ing higher  (in  thought)  than  it  is  (in  reality). 
Now  let^us  take  the  proposition,  "No  fish  is  a 
fish,"  which  we  may  deny.  If  we  say,  "  Any  fish 
is  not  any  fish,"  we  can  only  deny  when  the  uni- 
versality of  the  second  any  is  noted  :  prior  to 
which,  the  mind  would  go,  for  truth's  sake,  to  the 
particular  meaning.  Surely  any  fish  is  not  any 


fish :  turbot  is  not  salmon,  for  instance.  But 
even  here  the  any  of  the  subject,  that  which  pre- 
cedes negation,  is  unambiguous  ^  in  "  Any  x  is 
not  any  Y,"  we  can  make  nothing  of  the  first 
"  any,"  except  each  or  every.  A.  DE  MORGAN. 


NEWTON'S  HOME  IN  THE  YEAR  1727. 

Since  April  last,  endeavours  have  been  made^to 
identify  the  house  in  which,  as  different  histories 
record,  Sir  Isaac  Newton  died. 

"Newton  died  at  his  home  in  Orbell's  Buildings,  near 
Pitt's  Buildings,  Kensington,  between  one  and  two  o'clock 
in  the  morning  of  Monday  the  20th  of  March,  1727,  in 
the  eighty-fifth  year  of  his  age." 

This  extract  is  from  the  Penny  Magazine^  22nd 
Dec.  1832,  and  agrees  with  other  accounts  that 
have  been  published.  No  one,  however,  who  has 
been  seen  or  heard  of,  identifies  the  house. 

The  name  "  Orbell's  "  has  long  been  disused, 
and  also  "  Pitt's  Buildings,"  for  the  houses  to 
which  they  were  once  applied.  The  houses  that 
were  formerly  known  to  the  inhabitants  of  Ken- 
sington by  such  descriptions,  have  been  since,  and 
are  now,  called  by  different  names.  And  the  same, 
a  later  name,  has  been,  moved  from  one  house  to 
another  still  more  recently.  Of  all  this  the  new 
and  vastly  increasing  inhabitants  of  Kensington 
have  no  knowledge,  and  comparatively  few  of  the 
old  inhabitants  remain  to  relate  correctly  to  re- 
cent residents  what  they  may  have  heard  respect- 
ing Sir  Isaac. 

A  house,  now  called  "  Woolsthorp  House,"  is 
pointed  out  as  a  residence  of  Sir  Isaac's.  Its 
present  name  is  comparatively  recent.  It  was 
formerly  called  "  Carmarthen  House."  But  this 
now  is  certain,  that  whether  Sir  Isaac  ever  occu- 
pied that  as  a  summer's  retreat  from  St.  Martin's, 
Leicester  Square,  or  sat  under  the  mulberry-tree 
in  that  garden  or  not,  he  did  not  die  there. 

As  Sir  Isaac's  remains  were  removed  from  Ken- 
sington, and  laid  in  state  in  Jerusalem  Chamber, 
Westminster,  it  was  at  an  early  period  of  this 
inquiry  conjectured  that  some  parochial  account 
of  the  removal,  and  from  what  house,  might  be 
found.  Any  such  information  from  Mr.  Hall, 
Vestry  Clerk,  whose  father  was  vestry  clerk  be- 
fore him,  and  who  had  furnished  many  particu- 
lars to  Faulkner,  the  historian  of  Kensington,  or 
from  the  liev.  Archdeacon  Sinclair,  could  not  be 
obtained.  Mr.  Hall,  in  looking  over  the  names 
in  Pigott's  Directory  for  Kensington  for  1822, 
observed,  that  now  almost  all  the  names  there 
given  of  the  inhabitants  were  names  of  persons 
not  only  removed  but  dead !  It  was  then  sup- 
posed that,  as  Sir  Isaac's  funeral  was  public,  some 
other  record  might  be  got  at.  Mr.  Banting  was 
then  applied  to,  who  kindly  undertook  to  make  in- 
quiry at  the  office  of  the  Lord  Chamberlain  j  but 


3rd  S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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there  were  no  records  there,  for  although  a  pub- 
lic funeral,  it  was  not  made  at  government  ex- 
pense. Mr.  Banting  made  many  other  inquiries 
and  researches,  and  at  his  suggestion,  the  Royal  So- 
ciety, and  also  the  Royal  Astronomical  Society  were 
written  to,  and  subsequently  calls  have  been  made. 

As  it  would  be  useless  to  enumerate  all  that  has 
been  done,  where  nothing  satisfactory  could  be 
found,  it  will  be  better  at  once  to  relate  those 
steps  which  have  led  to  the  discovery  of  "  New- 
ton's Home  in  1727"  as  they  have  been  de- 
veloped. It  was  thought  that  possibly  some  of 
the  old  inhabitants,  however  few  may  be  remain- 
ing, might  be  able  to^remember  something  that 
would  elicit  further  inquiry. 

Having  occasion  to  call  on  Mr.  George  Goodacre 
in  Church  Lane,  who  repairs  broken  china,  glass, 
umbrellas,  &c.  &c.,  and  seeing  that  he  was  aged, 
but  by  no  means  an  old  man,  Mr.  Goodacre  was 
asked  how  long  he  had  resided  there?  Here- 
plied  "  thirty  years,  and  that  his  wife  was  born  in 
Kensington."  He  was  then  told  that  an  effort 
was  being  made  to  ascertain  where  Sir  Isaac  New- 
ton died.  Mr.  Goodacre  then  said  that  he  is  a 
descendant  of  a  niece  of  Sir  Isaac's  ;  that  he  had 
made  inquiries  respecting  some  property;  and  that 
a  very  old  man  of  the  name  of  "  Jones,"  who  was 
born,  lived,  and  died  in  Kensington,  had  pointed 
out  the  house,  now  called  "  Bullingham  House," 
as  the  house  where  his  mother,  or  his  grandmother, 
assisted  to  lay  out  Sir  Isaac  after  his  death. 

All  this  was  confirmed  by  Mrs.  Goodacre,  who 
came  in  at  the  time ;  and  they  stated  that  a  son 
of  this  old  person,  "  Jones, "  is  still  living  in 
Charles  Street,  Kensington ;  whom,  with  his  wife 
also,  the  inquirer  has  visited.  They  both  fur- 
ther confirmed  what  their  very  aged  relative  had 
frequently  said,  respecting  the  laying  out  of  Sir 
Isaac  after  his  death,  in  the  now  "Bullingham 
House." 

The  "Joneses"  trace  their  connexion  with 
Kensington  for  some  one  hundred  and  seventy 
years  back.  The  ancestor  "Jones"  they  refer 
to  was  gardener  to  a  gentleman,  and  he  took 
premises  in  High  Street  for  his  wife  to  sell  fruit. 
In  the  Directory  already  referred  to,  the  aged 
"Jones"  is  described  as  a  builder  and  fruiterer ; 
and  there  are  still  several  inhabitants  who  re- 
member him. 

Mrs.  Jones,  now  in  Charles  Street,  stated  that 
her  father  was  servant  to  Capt.  Pitt,  and  travelled 
with  him  throughout  England,  Ireland,  and  Scot- 
land ;  and  that  she  remembers  some  of  the  older 
branches  of  the  Pitt  family. 

Having  got  so  much  information  outside,  it  was 
thought  desirable  to  make  inquiry  of  Miss  Blair, 
who  has  resided  some  thirteen  years  in  "Bulling- 
ham House."  Although  it  was  called  "  Bulling- 
ham House  "  before  Miss  Blaij  became  tenant,  it 
had  not  that  name  when  Mr.  Saunders,  the  Secre- 


tary of  the  Great  Western  Railway,  lived  there 
about  twenty  years  ago. 

A  house  in  Vicarage  Place,  Church  Street, 
was  at  some  time  before  called  "Bullingham 
House."  When  and  how  it  was  discontinued  has 
not  been  ascertained,  but  that  house  and  ground 
are  now  divided. 

Miss  Blair  states  that  her  late  landlady  Mrs. 

Pitt,  widow  of  Pitt,  who  had   long  lived 

in  the  adjoining  house,  and  continued  to  reside 
there  for  some  years  after  Miss  Blair  became 
tenant  of  "  Bullingham  House,"  repeatedly  stated 
that  the  now  "Bullingham  House  "  is  the  identical 
house  where  Sir  Isaac  Newton  lived  and  died. 
After  Mrs.  Pitt  left,  the  adjoining  house,  where 
she  had  so  long  resided,  received  the  name  of 
"  Newton  House,"  which  has  produced  error  and 
confusion.  Mrs.  Pitt  recently  died,  at  a  great  age, 
in  Somersetshire. 

Miss  Blair  has  a  small  flint  or  agate,  with  a 
white  vein  in  it,  that  was  found  in  the  garden. 
It  has  been  ground  into  a  spherical  form ;  thus 
giving  an  appearance  of  Jupiter  with  a  belt.  A 
small  plane  at  one  part  allows  it  to  stand  on  a 
table,  with  the  belt  in  a  vertical  position.  It  does 
not  appear  improbable  that  this  spherical  stone 
may  not  only  have  been  Sir  Isaac's,  but  also  that 
it  may  have  been  of  his  own  grinding.  Sir  Isaac 
not  only  ground  glass,  but  he  investigated  the 
degrees  of  transparency  of  different  substances ; 
and  flint  or  agate  may  have  been  included  in  his 
experiments.  Such  appear  to  oe  as  likely  sub- 
stances for  such  examinations  as  the  transparency 
of  "  melted  pitch  " ! 

So  much  having  been  ascertained  of  the  home 
of  Newton,  Mr.  Downes,  Photographer  to  Her 
Majesty,  took  a  view  of  the  front,  and  purposes 
to  take  others  both  inside  and  out.  The  house 
still  remains,  mostly  in  its  ancient  state.  Next, 
ascertaining  that  the  property  is  "  copyhold,"  the 
inquirer  called  on  Mr.  Brown,  Lady  Holland's 
agent,  who  at  once  undertook  to  search  the  re- 
cords. The  name  "  Orbell "  was  suggested, 
which  Mr.  Brown  ultimately  found.  Orbell  died 
seven  years  after  Sir  Isaac  (1734).  Orbell 
had  a  daughter,  who  had  become  Mrs.  Pitt. 
Mrs.  Pitt  was  admitted  tenant  to  five  messuages, 
stables,  &c.  on  payment  of  eighteen  pence ! 

Mr.  Brown  observed  the  names  "  Newtin  "  and 
"  Newtinet"  in  the  records  ;  but  as  the  object  of 
the  inquiry  was  accomplished  in  finding  how 
the  property  passed  from  "Orbell"  to  "Pitt," 
which  family  has  ever  since  retained  it,  and 
given  the  name  "Pitt"  to  the  adjoining  street, 
further  research  was  not  for  that  purpose  needed. 
Having  thus  identified  Sir  Isaac  Newton's  home 
in  1727,  the  next  object  was  to  consider,  how  to 
prevent  the  place  being  again  lost  sight  of.  This 
may  very  soon  take  place  without  some  perma- 
nent record. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  JAN.  11,  'G2. 


As  copyhold  can  now  be  enfranchised,  such  a 
valuable  position  as  "  Campden  Hill,"  the  very 
best  part  of  Kensington  left  for  improvement, 
will  not  be  overlooked,  so  immediately  connected 
as  it  is  with  the  very  inadequate  and  only  opening 
between  Notting  Hill  and  Kensington  High 
Street. 

On  the  western  front  of  Bullingham  House  is 
a  long  garden,  adjoining  another,  and  that  by  a 
third"  to  the  north.  On  the  south  side  of  the 
garden  to  Bullingham  House  is  a  wall ;  the  prin- 
cipal entrance  being  at  the  east  end,  and  a  return 
southward  has  a  small  door  and  coach  gates  to  the 
back  yard  past  the  side  of  the  house.  There 
are  many  old  trees  in  these  gardens.  The  north 
and  west  sides  of  the  gardens  referred  to  have 
been  paved  outside ;  but  as  the  paving  ceases  ab- 
ruptly at  the  south-west  corner,  it  was  suggested 
that  the  parish  should  also  pave  from  thence  along 
the  south  wall  past  the  entrances.  This,  after 
having  been  viewed  by  the  Committee  of  Works, 
Las  been  ordered  to  be  done. 

While  the  Committee  were  at  the  place,  the 
words  "Newton's  Home,  1727,"  were  shown  to 
them  ;  but  that,  they  appeared  then  to  think,  was 
not  for  them,  as  a  "  Works  Committee,"  to  enter- 
tain. However,  Mr.  Banting,  who  was  one,  said 
that  he  would  find  a  stone.  Subsequently  the 
idea  advanced,  and  the  inquirer  applied  to  the 
Vestry  for  permission  for  a  memorial  to  Sir  Isaac 
Newton  to  be  placed  ngainst  the  Garden  Wall  of 
Bullingham  House.  This  having  been  granted, 
it.  has  been  suggested  that  a  chamber  for  de- 
posits should  be  formed  underground,  and  to  be 
opened  every  half  century  for  examination,  and  to 
report  or  make  additions,  as  may  then  be  thought 
desirable,  to  perpetuate  Newton  and  his  dis- 
coveries. 

Photographs  of  the  front  and  other  parts,  on 
glass,  burnt  in  and  enamelled,  have  been  suggested. 
Sir  Isaac's  town  house  may  there  also  be  thus 
recorded. 

A  slate  slab  has  been  temporarily  fixed  against 
the  garden  wall,  on  which  the  design  for  the  me- 
morial has  been  sketched.  An  effort  will  now  ba 
made  to  obtain  the  requisite  assistance  and  sug- 
gestions, so  as  to  have  the  memorial  placed  on 
the  -20th  March,  18G2,  —  the  anniversary  of  the 
day  of  the  death  of  the  great  Sir  Isaac  Newton. 

This  is  a  very  brief  statement  of  inquiries  made 
and  facts  obtained  up  to  this  time.  When  the 
object  is  accomplished,  it  is  hoped  something  more 
may  be  added  for  record  in  a  subsequent  paper. 

JOSEPH  JOPLING. 
Vassall  Terrace,  Kensington,  W. 


'ANNA  SEWARD  AND  GEORGE  HARDINGE. 
m  Celebrities  in  their  day :  the  lady,  with  little 
vitality  of  her  own,  but  consigned  to  "  a  lasting 


tomb  "  in  Doctor  Johnson's  Biography ;  the  gen- 
tleman with  even  less,  — eighty  years  ago  a  Welsh 
judge,  a  humorist,  and  a  small  essayist,  but  still 
disinterrable  from,  the  dust  of  four  octavo  vo- 
lumes. My  father,  who  died  in  1815,  a  septuage- 
narian, told  me  a  pleasant  anecdote  wherein  they 
figured,  as  related  to  him  by  the  lady  herself; 
and,  having  now  overlived  his  date  by  fourteen 
years,  I  begin  to  think  it  should  no  longer  be 
trusted  to  so  frail  a  tradition.  Let  me  premise 
that  he  knew  both  its  actors,  as  he  did  most  of  the 
literati  and  a  of  his  time  ;  that  he  was  an  accom- 
plished scholar,  and  no  mean  poet.  But  to  his 
story :  — 

One  afternoon  Miss  Seward  received  a  card,  to 
the  effect  that  Mr.  Hardinge,  in  passing  through 
Lichfield,  desired  to  pay  his  respects  to  a  lady  so 
distinguished,  &c.  &c.,  which  was  as  complimen- 
tarily  acknowledged  by  an  invitation  to  "  a  dish 
of  tea."  Mr.  Hardinge  presented  himself  accord- 
ingly ;  and,  the  souchong  being  removed,  ab- 
ruptly, and  a  propos  de  rien,  asked  her  had  she 
ever  heard  Milton  read  ?  The  Paradise  Lost  was 
produced,  and  opened  at  a  venture  ;  the  judge 
jumped  upon  the  table,  and  read  some  pages,  not 
to  her  astonishment  only,  but  to  her  profound 
admiration.  "Never,"  said  Miss  Seward  to  my 
father,  "  never  before  did  I  hear  Milton  read, 
and  never  since."  As  abruptly,  her  visitant  closed 
the  volume,  descended  from  the  table,  made  his 
bow,  and  without  a  word  disappeared. 

But  the  story  did  not  end  here.  The  next 
morning  apacquet  was  transmitted  to  Miss  Seward, 
enclosing  an  elaborate  critique  on  the  English 
Homer,  and  with  it  a  most  delicate  (life-size)  pat- 
tern of  a  lady's  shoe,  with  a  note  attached  —  that 
Mr.  Hardinge  had  imagined  this  to  be  the  faithful 
model  of  Miss  Seward's  foot,  and  begged  her  to 
satisfy  him  of  the  correctness  of  his  fancy.  "  Of 
mine ! "  exclaimed  the  poetess,  disclosing  to  my 
father  an  inch  or  so  of  ankle,  not  exactly  Cinderillan 
in  its  proportions. 

My  tradition,  if  admitted  into  "  N.  &  Q.,"  is 
likely  to  induce  three  questions  — Did  my  father 
relate  it  to  me  ?  Did  Miss  Seward  relate  it  to 
him  ?  Did  it  occur  as  she  related  it  ?  To  the 
first  of  these  I  reply — yes,  on  my  own  personal 
credit;  to  the  second — yes,  on  my  trust  in  my 
father's  veraciousness ;  to  the  third,  that  I  leave 
it  with  the  readers  of  Jemmy  Boswell. 

OLD  MEM. 


JACOB'S  WELL  AT  CHESTER. 
In  the  Groves,  on  the  south  western  margin  of 
St.  John's  churchyard,  there  is,  or  rather  was,  to 
be  seen  an  ancient  spring,  called  Jacob's  Well. 
The  water  from  this  well  had  been  for  many  years 
in  great  request  b£  both  rich  and  poor,  especially 
in  time  of  cholera  or  other  serious  sickness.  The 


S.  I.  JAX.  11,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


27 


late  Rev.  Chancellor  Raikes  had  so  high  a  regard 
for  this  spring  that,  many  years  before  his  death, 
he  re-edified  the  well  at  his  own  expense,  erecting 
an  arch  over  the  spring,  and  attaching  a  metal 
chain  and  spoon  thereto  for  the  convenience  of 
visitors.  By  the  way,  we  may  fairly  claim  for  the 
well  that  it  was  the  first  actual  fountain  erected 
in  this  neighbourhood  since  the  revival  of  these 
popular  institutions.  In  November,  1854,  the 
jiood  old  Chancellor  passed  away  to  his  rest,  and 
Jacob's  Well  thereby  lost  its  protector  and  friend. 
Sauntering  past  the  spot  some  two  or  three 
months  afterwards,  I  noticed  that  this  favourite 
\yell  was  dry,  and  that  the  basin  was  filled  up 
with  rubbish.  An  old  man,  who  seemed  from  his 
medals  to  be  a  Chelsea  pensioner,  was  standing 
close  by,  and  we  fell  into  conversation.  I  asked, 
"How  came  it  to  pass  that  the  well  was  dry  ?" 
u  Ah,  Sir,"  said  he,  "  there's  a  mystery  about  it  I 
can't  quite  get  over.  I  used  daily,  for  years,  to 
fetch  water  from  this'well  for  the  gentry  here- 
abouts, and  I  never  knew  the  spring  to  fail  even 
in  the  height  of  summer.  But  you  know,  of 
course,  that  the  Chancellor  is  dead,  and  that  he 
spent  a  power  of  money  in  keeping  up  the  well. 
New,  Sir,  I  tell  you  as  a  fact,  that  on  the  day  the 
old  gentleman  was  carried  to  his  grave,  I  came 
here  as  usual  to  fetch  water  for  my  folks,  when 
lo  !  and  behold !  Jacob's  Well  was  dry ;  and,  more 
than  that,  it  has  been  dry  ever  since,  I  give  you 
my  word,  for  I've  been  here  many  a  time  since  on 
purpose  to  see  !  I  leave  it  to  you,  Sir,  after  what 
I've  told  you,  to  say  how  it  came  to  pass :  all  I 
know  is,  it's  a  mystery  to  me,  and  to  other  sharper 
folks  than  me."  The  old  man's  experience  rather 
puzzled  me  at  the  moment,  but  I  have  since  un- 
riddled the  mystery.  It  seems  that  when  the  well 
was  restored  by  the  late  Chancellor,  the  artificial 
basin  was  raised  several  inches  above  the  natural 
bed,  for  the  convenience  of  the  public,  a  cemented 
passage  being  formed  for  conducting  the  water. 
About  the  date  of  his  death  this  channel  got  ra- 
dically out  of  order,  and  the  spring  fell  away  to 
its  original  level,  finding  an  outlet  elsewhere.  Thus 
the  visible  well  became  useless  and  dry,  while  a 
shred  of  harmless  folk  lore  has  been  manufactured 
in  its  stead.  T.  HUGHES. 

Chester. 


LONDON  LIBRARIES. —Vol.  xi.  (2nd  S.)  of  N.  &Q. 
contains  some  interesting  notices  of  public  Libraries 
in  London  and  Westminster,  among  others  of  the 
Tenison  Library,  now  sold  and  dispersed.  The 
subjoined  memorandum  relates  to  the  founding 
of  that  library,  and  presents  a  curious  picture  of 
the  manners  and  wants  of  the  time.  It  may  also, 
by  the  contrast  it  affords  to  the  present  day,  fur- 


nish some  justification  for  the  resolution  taken 
by  the  Charity  Commissioners  with  respect  to  Dr. 
Tenison's  benefaction.  It  is  an  extract  from  the 
Vestry  Book  of  St.  Martin's- in- the-Fields  in  the 
year  1684.  Dr.  Tenison  was  then  Vicar  of  St. 
Martin's. 

"  1684.  27  March.  Dr  Thomas  Tenison,  having  con- 
sidered that  in  the  Precinct  of  the  Citty  and  Lib1?  of 
Westminster  there  are  great  numbers  of  Ministers  and 
other  studious  persons,  and  especially  in  the  Parish  of 
St.  Martin's,  where,  besides  the  Vicar  and  his  assistants, 
there  are  severall  noblemen's  Chaplains  perpetually  re- 
siding —  as  also  that  there  is  not  in  the  said  Precinct 
(as  in  London)  any  one  shop  of  a  Stationer  fully  fur- 
nished with  books  of  various  learning,  or  any  noted 
Library  excepting  that  of  St.  James  (which  belongs  to 
His  Majtle  and  to  which  there  is  noe  easy  access),  that  of 
Sr  Robert  Cotton  •which  consisteth  chiefly  of  books  re- 
lating to  the  Antiquities  of  England,  and  "the  Library  of 
the  Deane  and  Chapter  of  St.  Peter's  Church  in  West- 
minster, which  is  (as  the  two  other  are)  inconvenient 
for  the  use  of  the  said  Precinct  by  reason  of  its  remote 
situation,  Hath  been  inclined  upon  the  above  considera- 
tions (if  his  worthy  friends  the  Gentlemen  of  the  Vestry, 
and  present  Churchwardens  approve  of  this  designe),  to 
erect  a  Fabrick  for  a  Public  Library  for  the  use  of  the 
Students  of  the  aforesaid  Precinct." 

The  Minute  contains  further  details  of  the  pro- 
posed building,  and  concludes  by  recording  the 
approbation  of  the  vestry.  FBANCIS  NICHOLS. 

EARLY  EDITIONS  or  JEREMY  TAYLOR'S  "  GREAT 
EXEMPLAR." — I  find  a  statement,  in  an  old  book- 
seller's Catalogue,  that  Dibdin  seems  ignorant  of 
any  edition  of  this  celebrated  work  earlier  than 
that  of  1703,  and  that  he  mentions  Faithorne's 
plates  as  "  very  secondary  specimens  of  art." 

There  is  much  confusion  elsewhere  on  this 
point,  but  I  can  affirm,  from  copies  in  my  library, 
that  the  first  edition  was  printed  in  4to,  1649, 
and  the  second  (or  first  with  plates)  in  1653,  in 
folio.  These  plates  do  not  deserve  Dibdin's  al- 
leged censure.  Lord  Orford  speaks  highly  of  the 
"  title  plate,"  and  of  that  of  the  Annunciation, 
and  praises  all. 

Can  any  of  your  readers  give  a  reference  to 
the  passage  in  Dibdin  ?  I  do  not  find  it  in  any  of 
his  Indexes.* 

The  date  of  1649  is  important,  as  it  confirms 
Bonney's  opinion  as  to  the  greater  part  of  this 
work  being  composed  during  the  lifetime  of  Charles 
I.  His  death  was  on  Jan.  30,  1648-9 ;  and  it  is 
scarcely  likely  that  a  volume  of  such  deep  thought 
and  elaborate  argument,  exceeding  600  4to  pages, 
could  have  been  composed  and  printed  within 
the  remainder  of  the  year.  LANCASTRIENSIS. 

NEW  WORD. — "  To  manufacture  by  machinery" 
(to  make  by  hand  by  machinery),  is  a  contradic- 
tion in  terms.  As  we  have  no  word  to  express 
machine-made,  I  would  suggest  that  machifacture 


E*  Vide  Dibdin's  Library  Companion,  p.  54,  edit  1824 
D.] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[8'*  S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62. 


fniachina,  facio),  analogous  to  manufacture,   be 
ised.  F-  W.SMWH. 

Dublin  Library. 

PRONUNCIATION  OP  PBOPEB  NAMES.  —  It  has 
often  been  remarked  that  the  ancient  pronun- 
ciation of  proper  names  is  commonly  retained  in 
spite  of  all  orthographical  changes.  Thus  Castle 
HedinMiam,  in  Essex,  is  now  usually  pronounced 
by  the  natives  Heningham,  which,  was  the  old  way 
of  spelling  that  name.  W.  J.  D. 

ST.  MART'S  CHURCH,  UTRECHT. ••- In  Mr.  Dine- 
ley's  MS.  tour,  I  find  this  curious  account  of  St. 
Mary's  Church  at  Utrecht :  — 

"  The  English  church  called  St.  Marie's  hath  one  of  its 
pillars  built  upon  bull-hides,  there  being  no  other  means 
t>  secure  the  foundation,  by  reason  of  the  many  springs, 
which  sunk  it  as  soon  as  layd.  The  pillar  hath  this  in- 
scription :  — 

" '  Accipe,  Tosteritas,  quod  per  tua  srccula  narres, 

Taurinis  cutibus  fundo  solidata  columna  est.' 
Belonging  to  this  church  is  a  library  wherein,  among 
other  choice  MSS.,  is  one  very  ancient,  viz.  the  Old 
and  New  Testament  in  seven  volumes,  wrote  on  skins  of 
parchment  iu  black  and  letters  of  gold,  esteemed  the 
linest  manuscript  in  Europe. 

"Here  are  also  kept  as  rarities  two  Unicorn's  horns  (  ?) , 
an  horn  made  cf  an  Elephant's  tooth  hollowed,  and  several 
Tagan  Idols  presented  to  this  church  by  Charles  V.  On 
the  door  iu  the  inside  of  this  library  are  these  words  writ- 
ten— 
" '  Pro  Christ!  Laude  libros  lege  postea  Claude.' " 

T.  E.  WlNNINGTOK. 


THE  FAMILY  OF  LLEWELLIX. 
I  am  anxious  to  obtain  information  about  the 
family  of  Llewellin,  and  I  hope  I  may  find  some 
of  the  readers  of  "N.  &  Q."  able  and  willing  to 
help  me.  Martin  Llewellin  is  mentioned  in  the 
Atliemc  Oxon.,  where  he  is  said  to  have  been  the 
seventh  son  of  Martin  Llewellin,  and  that  he  was 
born  1-2  Dec.  1616.  It  also  appears  that  he  died 
17th  March,  1681,  and  was  buried  in  Great  Wy- 
combc  Church.  In  his  epitaph  the  names  of 
George,  Richard,  Maurice,  Martha  and  Maria 
occur.  He  wrote  some  laudatory  lines  on  the 
death,  in  1643,  of  Sir  Bevil  Grenville,  which  are 
engraved  on  the  monument  erected  to  his  memory 
on  Lansdown,  near  Bath. 

The   name  of  Llewellyn,  or  Llewellin,  is  fre- 
quently  found   in    the    Wells  City   Records,    as 
early  as  the  sixteenth  century.    In  1550,  Maurice 
Llewellm  was   one   of  the   High   Constables    of 
U  ells,  and  served  the  office  of  Mayor  in  1553  and 
•^•*n  155T3   hc   ™s   M.P.  for  the  city.     In 
Thomas  Llewellyn  was  admitted  and  sworn 
a     burgess  '  of  Wells,  and  in  1572  he  formed  one 
or  a  deputation  who  waited  on  the  then  Bishop  of 
Bath  and  Wells,  in  defence  of  the  chartered  rights 


of  the  city.  Henry  Llewellin  was  a  resident  in 
Wells,  and  by  his  will,  dated  20th  July,  1604 
(in  which  he  is  described  as  "gentleman"),  he 
founded  one  of  the  most  valuable  charities  ex- 
isting in  the  city,  which  is  now  known  as  "  Llew- 
ellyn's Almshouse."  In  his  will  he  mentions  the 
names  of  his  father  and  mother  (whose  names 
were  Thomas  and  Mary),  and  his  brothers  Martin 
and  William,  together  with  a  sister  Maria,  wife  of 
William  Moore.  Three  daughters  of  his  sister 
Mary  are  also  named  ;  Elizabeth,  who  appears  to 
have  been  then  the  wife  of Cannington  ;  Brid- 
get Munoye ;  and  Mary  Beamon,  or  Beaumont. 
The  husbands  of  Mrs.  Cannington  and  Mrs.  Beau- 
mont both,  I  believe,  lived  in  W^ells.  The  testator 
made  his  brother-in-law,  Wm.  Moore,  his  ex- 
ecutor, and  John  Lund  and  Edmund  Bower,  over- 
seers of  his  will.  He  died  in  July,  1614,  and  was 
buried,  on  the  26th  of  that  month,  in  the  north 
aisle  of  the  chancel  of  St.  Cuthbert's  Church, 
Wells,  where  his  monument  still  remains,  in  which 
is  represented  a  kneeling  figure,  clothed  in  the 
"  trunk-hose  "  of  the  period. 

David  Llewellyn  (alias  Lewce)  practised  as  a 
surgeon  at  Castle- Gary,  Somerset,  and  was  buried 
there  5th  May,  1605,  having  left  IOL  by  his  will 
for  the  use  of  the  poor  there.  In  1608  there  is 
recorded,  in  the  proceedings  of  the  Corporation 
of  Wells,  the  receipt  of  10Z.  for  the  poor  of  Wells 
from  Richard  Llewellyn  (alias  Lewce)  of  New- 
port, co.  Southampton,  being  a  gift  by  his  father, 
the  said  David  Llewellyn,  of  Castle  Gary. 

In  1604,  there  is  a  notice,  in  the  Corporate 
Records,  of  a  suit  at  law,  and  a  decree  against 
Henry  Llewellyn,  brother-in-law  and  adminis- 
trator of  David  Cerney,  for  the  recovery  of  10/. 
given  to  poor  infants  of  Wells  by  Dr.  Philip 
Bisse. 

In  1632,  a  Bill  in  Chancery  was  filed  by  Mau- 
•ice  and  Martin  Llewellyn,  against  the  Corpora- 
tion of  Wells,  respecting  the  money  left  to  the 
ooor  of  Wells  by  Henry  Llewellin,  as  before  no- 
ticed. 


ANONYMOUS.  —  1.  Can  any  of  your  Irish  readers 
nform  me  who  was  Editor  of  The  Dublin  Literary 
Gazette,  1830,  printed  by  J.  S.  Folds,  56,  Great 
Strand  Street,  Dublin?  2.  Who  is  author  of 
Hora  Germanic®,  translations  from  the  poetry  of 
Germany,  which  appeared  in  this  periodical,  by 
'  Rosencranz  "  ?  3.  Also,  of  St.  Leonards  Priory, 
a  dramatic  legend,  Stamford,  1838,  8vo  ?  4.  Also, 
of  The  Deposition,  a  drama,  Edinburgh,  1757? 
This  piece  was  published  at  the  time  Home's 
tragedy  of  Douglas  appeared  on  the  Edinburgh 
stage.  In  this  drama,  called  The  Deposition,  the 
principal  persons  for  and  against  Douglas  are  in- 
troduced. 4.  Can  any  Paisley  correspondent  tell 
me  who  is  author  of  a  curious  and  scarce  drama- 


S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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tic  piece  entitled  Jack  and  Sue,  printed  at  Paisley 
about  the  beginning  of  this  century?  5.  Wra. 
Russel,  Batchelor  of  Music,  organist  of  the  Found- 
ling Hospital,  who  died  in  1813,  is  the  musical 
composer  of  two  oratorios  —  The  Redemption  of 
Israel  and  Job.  Who  is  the  author  or  compiler 
of  the  words  of  these  oratorios,  and  when  were 
they  performed  ?  R.  INGLIS. 

AUTHORSHIP  OF  MS.  WISHED.  —  Among  numer- 
ous similar  MSS.  in  my  library,  I  possess  a  thick 
quarto  (pp.  xxxii.  532)  in  a  remarkably  distinct 
and  beautiful  style  of  caligraphy,  which  bears  this 
title,  "Heart  Treasure,  or  the  Saints'  Divine 
Riches :  being  m  small  Tracts  on  II.  Peter  i.  1, 
4  and  10."  ,,"  An  Epistle  Prefatory  "  is  dated  No- 
vember 7th,  1684."  The  following  are  the  sub- 
titles of  the  separate  tracts  — (1.)  "The  Excel- 
lency of  Believing,  or  the  Riches  of  Faith  ;  "  (2.) 
"  The  Worth  of  God's  Word,  or  the  Riches  of  the 
Promises ;  "  (3.)  "  The  Believer's  Great  Prize,  or 
the  Riches  of  Assurance."  Can  any  reader  in- 
form me  whether  any  such  book  has  been  pub- 
lished ?  No  name  occurs  throughout.  r. 

MR.  SERJEANT  JOHN  BIRCH,  CURSITOR  BARON. 
— Will  some  of  your  correspondents  kindly  in- 
form me  who  were  the  father  and  mother  of  this 
gentleman  ?  I  take  him  to  have  been  the  nephew 
of  Colonel  John  Birch,  the  eminent  Parliamentary 
Commander,  who  was  High  Steward  of  Hereford 
in  1645,  and  elected  to  represent  the  borough  of 
Leominster  in  the  Long  Parliament  in  1646 ; 
from  which  he  was  excluded  in  1648  for  voting 
"  That  the  king's  answers  to  the  propositions  of 
both  Houses  -were  a  ground  for  peace."  He  of 
course  was  not  one  of  Cromwell's  Barebone's  Par- 
liament, but  was  member  of  every  other  during 
the  Interregnum,  either  for  the  city  of  Hereford, 
or  for  Leominster.  For  the  latter  he  was  re- 
turned to  the  Convention  Parliament  of  1660; 
and  for  Weobly  in  the  last  three  parliaments  of 
Charles  II. ;  and  again  in  the  Convention  Parlia- 
ment of  January,  1689 ;  which  he  continued  to 
represent  till  his  death  in  1691.  I  conclude  he 
left  no  issue,  because  Anthony  Wood  tells  us  that 
his  nephew  threatened  to  bring  an  action  against 
the  Bishop  of  Hereford  for  defacing  the  inscrip- 
tion on  his  monument,  which  was  thought  to 
contain  words  "  not  right  for  the  church  institu- 
tion."— (Whitelocke's  Memorials,  184  ;  Parl  Hist. 
iii.  1428  ;  Wood's  Ath.  Oxon.,  Life,  cxviii.) 

This  nephew,  I  imagine,  was  the  Cursitor  Baron, 
because^  he  was  elected  Member  for  Weobly  in  the 
Colonel's  place,  and  though  that  election  was  de- 
clared to  be  void,  he  afterwards  represented  that 
borough  for  a  long  continuance  of  years.  He  was 
expelled  the  House  in  1732,  for  some  corrupt 
dealing  as  a  Commissioner  for  the  sale  of  the 
Forfeited  Estates.  He  took  the  degree  of  Serjeant 


inJ1706,  became  Cursitor  Baron  in  1729,  and  died 
in  1735. 

Any  information  as  to  his  lineage  and  de- 
scendants will  be  gratefully  received  by 

EDWARD  Foss. 

CERIGOTTO.—  In  the  life  of  the  late  Professor 
Edward  Forbes,  it  is  mentioned  that,  having 
heard  that  the  island  of  Cerigotto  was  slowly 
rising  from  the  sea,  he  paid  it  a  visit,  and  finding 
evidence  that  such  was  the  case,  he  cut  a  deep 
score  in  the  face  of  the  rock  and  date  1841,  at 
eleven  feet  above  the  ^then  water-line.  Can  any 
of  your  readers  inform  me  whether  the  island 
has  made  any  appreciable  upward  movement  since 
that  time,  now  over  twenty  years  ?  ^CARL,  B. 


CONEY  FAMILY.  —  Thomas  Coney,  of  Basing- 
thorpe,  Lincolnshire,  built  the  manor-house  there 
in  1568.  Wm.  Coney,  a  Captain  of  a  man-of- 
war  in  Queen  Anne's  service  (son  of  Edward 
Coney,  Esq.,  of  South  Luffenham,  Rutland)  was 
a  descendant.  He  married  Katherine,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Pleydell,  of  Midgehill,  Wilts.  Any  ac- 
count of  the  posterity  of  Wm.  Coney  and  Kathe- 
rine Pleydell,  or  the  present  representatives,  will 
be  acceptable  to  JOHN  Ross. 

Newland,  Lincoln. 

DWELLING  NEAR  THE  ROSE.  —  Whence  comes 
the  passage  frequently  quoted,  to  the  effect  that 
the  speaker,  although  "  not  the  rose,  has  lived  be- 
side the  rose  "  ? 

There  is  an  expression  resembling  it  in  the 
Mocaddamah,  or  introduction  to  the  Gulistan  of 
Sadi  ;  where,  alluding  to  the  patronage  which  the 
poet  had  received  from  the  sovereign,  he  illus- 
trates its  influence  on  his  verses  by  the  incident 
of  his  having  been  handed  in  the  bath  a  piece  of 
scented  clay,  which  he  thus  apostrophised  :  "  Art 
thou  ambergris  or  musk,  for  I  am  charmed  with 
thy  grateful  odour  ?  "  and  it  replied,  "  I  was  a 
worthless  piece  of  clay,  but  for  a  while  associated 
with  the  rose  ;  thence  I  partook  of  the  sweetness  of 
my  companion,  but  otherwise  I  am  the  vile  earth 
I  seem." 

There  is  a  somewhat  similar  sentence  in  the 
47th  Apologue  of  the  llth  chapter,  where  the 
grass,  with  which  a  bouquet  of  roses  had  been 
tied,  is  made  to  say  —  "  Though  I  have  not  the 
loveliness  of  the  rose,  am  I  not  grass  from  the 
garden  where  it  grew  !  "  But  neither  of  these 
passages  is  quite  parallel  with  the  verse  so  often 
alluded  to.  J.  E.  T. 

HENDRIK  EN  ALIDA.  —  The  newspapers  have 
been  discussing  the  case  of  the  Hendrik  en  Alida, 
a  Dutch  merchant-vessel,  bound  from  Amster- 
dam to  St.  Eustatia,  which  was  captured  by  one 
of  our  cruisers  in  1777. 

In  Sewell's  Dutch  Dictionary,   the  Dutch  for 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


g.  I.  JAN< 


Alice  is  said  to  be  Adelaide,  Alida.    Is  this  a  cor 
rect  interpretation  of  the  proper  name  Alida  ?    L 

HERALDIC  QUERY.  —  Whose  are  the  following 
arms,  which  I  saw  some  years  ago  emblazoned  on 
the  panel  of  a  carriage  ? 

Parted  per  pale,  dexter,  gules,  three  horses 
heads  argent ;  sinister,  gules,  an  eagle  displayed 
or ;  on  a  chief  or,  three  mullets  (?)  argent.  Crest 
A  crown  (iiot  a  coronet).  Motto.  Virtutis  gloria 
merces.  HERMENTRUDE 

"  HUSDANDMAN."  — In  what  sense  was  this  wore 
used  in  the  beginning  of  tke  seventeenth  century? 
Was  it  then  synonymous  with  yeoman  ?  Or  in 
what  way  did  the  two  terms  differ  ?  In  a  Lan- 
cashire will,  dated  1621,  I  find  the  testator  styled 
Husbandman,  bequeathing  property  consisting  oi 
a  "  messuage,  tenement,  and  freehold."  JSTow-a- 
days,  the  word  husbandman,  if  used  at  all,  is  em- 
ployed in  the  sense  oflabourer, — one  not  possessed 
of  real  property,  who  works  for  a  landowner. 
The  Rev.  Mr.  Piccope,  so  well  versed  in  all  that 
relates  to  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  wills,  could  no 
doubt  resolve  my  Query.  J. 

SAMUEL,  JOHNSON,  LL.D.  —  In  the  copy  of  the 
Gentleman  s  Magazine  (vol.  vi.  p.  360),  in  the 
library  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  some  one  (?  the 
late  Dr.  Barrett,  S.F.T.C.D.)  has  written  the  fol- 
lowing words:  — 

"  The  degree  of  LL.D.  was  conferred  on  Samuel  John- 
son by  the  University  of  Dublin,  which  the  ill-mannered 
savage  never  condescended  to  acknowledge." 
In  what  year  was  this  degree  conferred  ? 

ABHBA. 

THE  LAUGH  OF  A  CHILD. — 
"  I  Jove  it,  I  love  it ;  the  laugh  of  a  child, 
Now  rippling  and  gentle,  now  merry  and  wild; 
Kinging  out  in  the  air  with  its  innocent  gush, 
Like  the  thrill  of  a  bird  at  the  twilight's  soft  hush, 
floating  up  in  the  breeze  like  the  tones  of  a  bell, 
Or  the  music  that  dwells  in  the  heart  of  a  shell ; 
Oh  !  the  laugh  of  a  child,  so  wild  and  so  free, 
Is  the  merriest  sound  in  the  world  for  me." 
Some    years  ago   I  copied  the  above  from  a 
ladys  album;    but  whether   or   not   there  were 
lore  stanzas,  I  cannot  say.     Who  is  the  author  ? 
and  where  can   I  put  my  hands  on  the  poem  in 

GEORGE  LLOYD. 

LKGEND   OF    THE  BEECH    TfiEE.  -  In  a  little 
Danish  poem  of  P.  M.  Moller,  «De  Gamle  Eis- 
ner,    the  speaker   likens  his  early  love,   now  a 
iow^  to  a  beech  tree  after  rains  in  autumn, 
hiding  m  its  bosom  a  corpse  :  — 

"  Dit  Hoved  ligner  en  Bog  i  Host 
Lfter  Kcgn  og  Bhest, 


I>u  dolgcr  et  Liig  af  dit  vndigc  Bryst 
Modest."  " 


Med  en  sort 


WILLIAM  LITHGOW'S  POEMS.  —  At  present  en- 
gaged in  collecting  the  .various  poems  (published 
and  unpublished)  by  the  celebrated  traveller 
William  Lithgow,  I  am  anxious  to  discover  if 
there  be  any  others  than  those  which  I  have  al- 
ready procured,  viz. :  — 

1.  "  The  Pilgrime's  Farewell  to  his  Native  Country  of 
Scotland,  1618." 

2.  "  Scotland's  Teares  in  his  Countreye's  behalf,  1625." 

3.  "  Scotland's  Welcome  to  King  Charles,  1633." 

4.  "  The  Gushing  Tears  of  Godly  Sorrow,  1640." 

5.  "  Scotland's  Paranesis  to  King  Charles  the  Second. 
1660." 

I  shall  be  obliged  by  any  of  your  numerous 
correspondents  informing  me  if  there  be  in  any  of 
the  public  libraries  copies  of  his  Poems  in  manu- 
script or  print  ?  Also,  if  there  be  any  publica- 
tions of  his  time  which  contain  Introductory  or 
Laudatory  Poems  by  him  —  a  practice  which  was 
very  common  in  those  days  ?  Such  may  exist, 


although  I  have  not  been  able  to  lay  my  hands 
:>on  them.  J.  A.  S. 

Edinburgh. 

MEN  KISSING  EACH  OTHER  IN  THE  STREETS.  — 
In  turning  over  the  leaves  of  the  3rd  volume  of 
my  Diary,  I  find  the  following  extract  from  Eve- 
yn's  Diary  and  Correspondence,  vol.  iv.  p.  43. 
In  his  letter  to  Mrs.  Owen  he  informs  her  — 

"  Sir  J.  Shaw  did  us  the  honor  of  a  visit  on  Thursday 
ast,  when  it  was  not  my  hap  to  be  at  home,  for  which  I 
,vas  very  sorry.  I  met  him  since  casually  in  London, 
ind  kissed  him  there  unfeignedly." 

Was  the  practice  of  men  kissing  each  other  in 
he  streets  prevalent  in  England  in  1680  ?* 

FR.  MEWBURN. 

Larchfield,  Darlington. 

OLD  ENGRAVING  OF  A  SEA  FIGHT. — I  possess 
a  large  line  engraving  of  a  sea  fight,  with  the  sig- 
nature in  Roman  letters,  — 

"I.  L.  MANTVANVS 
SCVLPTOK.     1538." 

In  the  right-hand  corner  appears  to  have  been 
.nother  inscription  now  cut  away  with  the  ex- 
ception of  the  upper  part  of  two  letters  in  script, 
4,  or  possibly  a  script  M.     It  is  a  very  crowded- 
cene.      Low  down,   towards   the   left,   are  two 
figures  struggling,  one  having  fallen  on  his  back, 
and  each  having  two  or  more  fingers  in  his  an- 
agonist's  mouth.     A  third  figure  higher  up  re- 
>eats  the  same  savage  incident.      Some   of   the 
ombatants  wear  Phrygian  helmets,  so  that  it  pro- 
>ably  represents   some   incident   in   one   of  the 
'unic  wars,  but  I  should  be  glad  to  know  some- 
hing  of  its  subject   and   history.     In   the  fore- 
ground is  a  river  or  sea-god,  and  sea-horses  are 
prawling  around.  J.  SAN. 

Pius  IX.,  ACTS  OF  PONTIFICATE  OP. — I  find 
>y  an  entry  in  Battersby's  Catholic  Register  for 

[*  See  «  N.  &  Q."  1st  g.  x.  126,  208.]  ~ 


3**  S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


31 


1856,  that  on  the  1st  of  March,  1855,  the  Pon- 
tifical Government  commenced  the  publication  of 
the  Acts  of  the  Pontificate  of  Pius  IX.  under  the 
title  of  Pontificis  Maximi  Acta.  I  will  feel  grate- 
ful to  any  reader  of  "  N,  &  Q."  who  will  give  me 
some  information  respecting  this  publication,  — 
its  price,  size,  number  of  vols.  or  parts  already 
issued,  and  the  precise  period  from  which  it  dates, 
and  whether  the  first  division,  which  contains  the 
Letters  Apostolical,  allocutions,  &c.  has  any  docu- 
ments connected  with  the  Irish  branch  of  the 
Church  of  Rome,  and  more  especially  any  con- 
nected with  the  Synod  of  Thurles  (1850),  or 
subsequent  Irish  Roman  Catholic  Synods  ? 

AIKEN  IRVINE. 
Fiverailetown. 

SHAM  HERALDRY.  —  Will  any  one  tell  me  what 
called  forth  a  caricature  which  has  lately  come 
under  my  notice,  entitled,  "A  New  Coate  of 

Arms  granted  to  the  H  . .  ds  of  the  U . .  y 

of  C e  since  their   late  Edict  against 

Dinners  "  ?  The  sheet  displays  an  engraving  de- 
scribed as  follows :  — 

"  Arms,  quarterly :  first,  azure,  a  mitre  and  fool's  cap 
transverse  ways ;  second,  sable,  an  Inn  shut  up;  third, 
gules,  Caput  Universale,  or  an  ass's  head  proper ; 
fourth,  argent,  a  book  entitled  Excerpta  e  Statuis ;  sup- 
porters, two  cooks  weeping ;  crest,  a  hand  holding  a  roll 
of  paper;  motto,  Impransi  Juvenes  Disquirite." 

The  roll  in  the  hand  (which  together  form  the 
crest)  is  inscribed  "  Capitale  Judicium,"  and  the 
two  pages  of  the  open  volume  on  the  fourth 
quarter  contain  the  following  attempt  at  a  calen- 
dar :  — 

"  Moveable  Feasts.  Immoveable  Feasts. 

Anniversary  of  Eton  College.        Trinity  Sunday. 

„         of  True  Blue.  Johnny  Port  Latin. 

St.  David's  Day.  Founder's  Day. 

Scholars'  Club.  Masters'  Club." 

The  date  of  publication  is  February  14th, 
1786.  ST.  SWITHIN. 

TARNISHED  SILVER  COINS. — I  have  some  silver 
coins  ^of  the  last  century,  which  are  discoloured 
or  stained  from  having  been  shut  up  in  a  drawer, 
excluded  from  the  light  and  air.  How  can  I  clean 
them  without  damaging  the  impressions,  and  yet 
avoid  polishing  them  or  making  them  bright  ? 

OBSCURUS  Fio. 

TENANTS  IN  SOCAGE.  —  Has  it  ever  struck  any 
of  our  antiquaries  that  "  tenants  in  socage,"  "'soke- 
men,"  &c.,  derive  their  name  and  title  from  being 
holders  of  enclosed  lands,  surrounded  by  a  hedge 
of  thorns  ?  "  Soch  "  is  the  Hebrew  for  a  hedge, 
and  it  comes  from  the  same  root  as  thorns.  (See 
Gesenius,  p.  789  A).  I  put  forth  this  Query  in 
the  hope  that  accomplished  Hebrew  scholars 
amongst  us  will  be  led  to  help  in  a  track,  the  ob- 
ject of  which  is  "  the  identification  of  some  of  the 
lost  tribes  of  Israel  in  the  British  people." 


Again :  can  any  say  who  ftie  god  Shemir,  or 
Husi  the  protector,  is  ?  He  will  be  found  entered 
on  the  slab  brought  by  Mr.  Layard  from  Nineveh, 
in  the  British  Museum.  The  tribes  who  wor- 
shipped him  as  Husi  the  protector,  lived  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  the  Upper  Euphrates.  (See  the 
same  slab !) 

Can  we  not  identify  Husi  with  Hosea  or  Saviour; 
and  were  not  the  Hosa,  Hoesse,  Huse,  or  Hussey 
race,  a  noble  Norman  tribe,  descended  from  the 
worshippers  of  the  god  Husi,  the  protector  ? 

Hebrew  scholars  will  be  able  to  identify  the 
god  Shemir,  Shamir,  or  Shomer  with  another 
northern  idol,  called  in  Allen's  Father  Land,  5th 
edition  (Copenhagen),  the  "  Beskytter,"  protector 
or  deliverer  =  the  beloved  Thor,  the  Saviour  of 
the  people,  and  destroyer  of  the  Midgard  Ser- 
pent! SENEX. 

MR.  TURBULENT. — To  what  member  of  George 
III.'s  court  or  household  does  Madame  D'Arblay 
refer,  when^she  speaks  of  "  Mr.  Turbulent"  ? 

CUTHBERT  BEDE. 

SIR  WILLIAM  WEBBE,  Knight,  at  the  funeral  of 
Prince  Henry,  on  Monday,  December?,  1612,  led 
a  horse  covered  with  black  cloth,  and  carrying 
the  Prince's  "  cheiffron  and  plumes,"  immediately 
in  rear  of  Viscount  Lisle,  who  bore  the  banner  of 
the  Principality  of  Wales,  Who  was  Sir  William 
Webbe,  and  was  he  related,  and  in  what  degree, 
to  William  Webb,  M.A.,  one  of  the  authors  of  the 
Vale  Royal  of  England  ?  T.  HUGHES. 

Chester. 

THOMAS  WHITE,  ESQ. — The  following  is  tran- 
scribed from  the  original  warrant :  — 

"  Wells,  \  Memtt.  In  p'rsuance  of  an  Act  of  Parliam*. 
Burg.  J  intituled  An  Act  for  the  Well  governinge  and 
regulatinge  of  Corporacons  — Wee  have  displaced  Tho- 
mas White,  Esqr  from  beinge  Recorder  of  the  City  of 
Wells ;  and  in  his  roome  and  steed  have  placed  and  sett 
John  Lord  Poulett,  Baron  of  Hinton  St.  George,  Recorder 
of  ye  City,  w'ch  Ellecon  and  choyce  wee  the  said  Com- 
iss'rs  Doe  ratifie  and  confirme  and  allow  by  these  pr'sents. 
In  wittness  whereof  wee  have  hereunto  sett  o'r  hands 
and  scales.  Geaven  the  xvth  day  of  October  in  the  xiiijth 
yere  of  the  Raigne  of  o'r  Soveraigne  Lord  Kinge  Charles 
the  Second  of  England,  &c.  1662. 

Hugh  Smyth.  E.  Phelipps. 

Will.  Wyndham.  George  Stawell. 

George  Norton.  E.  Phelipps,  jur." 

John  Warre. 

Mem*.  The  dayjand  yere  above-named  Lord  Poulett 
toke  the  oathes  meuconed  in  the  said  Act,  and  subscribed 
the  declaracon  in  the  presence  of 

E.  Phelipps. 
George  Norton 
George  Stawell. 

The  seven  Commissioners  who  subscribed  the 
warrant  were  all  gentlemen  of  the  county:  — ^Sir 
Hugh  Smyth,  of  Long  Ash  ton ;  Sir  William 
Wyndham  ;  Sir  George  Norton,  of  Abbot's  Leigh ; 
Sir  John  Warre,  of  Hestercombe ;  Sir  Edward 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62. 


Phelipps,  of  Montacute ;  Sir  George  Stowell,  of 
Ham ;  and  Edw«  Phelipps,  jun,,  Esq.,  of  Mont- 

acute*  * 

I  am  anxious  to  obtain  some  further  informa- 
tion of  Thomas  White,  the  Recorder,  who  no 
doubt  obtained  the  office  during  the  Common- 
wealth. According  to  Browne  Willis's  Notitia 
Parliamentarian  he  was  made  M.P.  for  Wells  on 
the  death  of  Sir  Lislebone  Long,  Speaker  of 
Cromwell's  Parliament.  INA, 

WILLET'S  SYNOPSIS  PAPISMI.  —  I  possess  an 
edition  of  this  work,  "  Imprinted  by  Felix  Kyng- 
ston  for  Thomas  Man,  dwelling  in  Paternoster 
Row,  at  the  signe  of  the  Talbot,  1600;"  and 
stated  in  the  title-page  to  be  "  now  this  third  | 
time  pervsed  and  published  by  the  former  author, 
&c."  What  are  the  dates  of  the  two  former 
editions  ?  * 

If  not  out  of  place,  I  would  also  ask  your 
worthy  correspondent  SEXAGENARIUS  (see  2nd  S. 
xii.  258)  in  what  respect  Dr.  Cumming's  edition 
of  this  book  is  an  "  atrocious  modern  reprint "  ?  I 
trust  it  is  a  faithful  one,  at  all  events. 

A  crabbed  hand  (writing)  has  inscribed  on  the 
title-page  of  my  copy  :  — 

"Hie  liber  auro  contra,  et  si  quicr'auro  pretiosius, 
baud  carus." 

GEORGE  LLOYD. 


turned  tuttf) 

THE  TRIAL  OF  TUB  PRINCESS  OF  WALES  :  "  A 
DELICATE  INVESTIGATION."  —  The  late  Mr.  Whit- 
bread  stated  in  his  place  in  the  House  of  Com- 
mons in  1812,  that  this  book  was  suppressed 
immediately  on  publication,  and  bought  up  at 
an  immense  expense,  some  holders  receiving  500/., 
and  some  as  high  as  2000J.  for  their  copies.  A 
correspondent  of  "N.  £  Q."  (II.  B.)  states  in  ISFo. 
128,  1852,  that  he  was  present  when  the  sum  of 
500/.  was  paid  for  a  copy,  by  an  officer  high  in 
the  service  of  the  then  government. 

There  is  another  book,  a  copy  of  which  lies 
before  me,  entitled  — 

"The  Genuine  Book,  an  Inquiry  into  the  conduct  of 
II.  K.  II.  The  Princess  of  Wales,  before  Lords  Erskine 
Spencer,  Grenville,  and  Eilenborough,  Commissioners  of 
inquiry,  appointed  by  his  Majesty  in  the  year  180G 
Reprinted  from  an  authentic  Copy,  superintended  through 
the  Press  bv  the  Rt.  Hon.  Spencer  Perceval.  London: 
I  nnted  by  P..  Edwards,  Craven  Court,  Fleet  Street,  and 
published  by  W.  Lindsell,  Wigmore  Street,  1813." 

Does  this  latter  work  contain  the  whole  matter 

DELTA. 

beforf-  us  •ano,ther  °°p-v  of  the  sarae  wo*, 

vanation  in  the  title-page:  «  The  Genuine 


the  Delicate  Investigation 

WhhV« 

with  a 


T 

Lond.  1594,  4to."l 


cditions  as 


Book.  An  Inquiry,  or  Delicate  Investigation  into  the 
Conduct  ....  the  Four  Special  Commissioners,"  &c. 
After  "  Wigmore  Street,"  follows  «  Reprinted  and  Sold  by 
M.  Jones,  5,  Newgate  Street,  1813."  In  the  same  year 
also  appeared  "  Edwards's  Genuine  Edition.  '  The  Book ! » 
or  the  Proceedings  and  Correspondence  upon  the  subject 
of  the  Inquiry  into  the  Conduct  of  Her  Royal  Highness 
the  Princess  of  Wales,  under  a  Commission  appointed  by 
the  King  in  the  year  1806 :  faithfully  copied  from  au- 
thentic documents.  To  which  is  prefixed:  A  Narrative 
of  the  Recent  Events  that  have  led  to  the  publication  of 
the  original  Documents,  with  a  Statement  of  Facts  rela- 
tive to  the  Child,  now  under  the  protection  of  Her  Royal 
Highness.  Second  Edition.  London:  Printed  by  and 
for  Richard  Edwards,  Crane  Court,  Fleet  Street,  and  sold 
by  all  booksellers  in  the  United  Kingdom,  1813,"  8vp. 
In  the  "Advertisement"  prefixed,  it  is  stated  "This 
being  the  only  means  by  which  a  fair  and  impartial 
judgment  can  be  formed  upon  the 'Delicate  Investiga- 
tion '  —  the  publisher  conceives  that  he  is  merely  per- 
forming an  act  of  justice  in  delivering  to  the  world  a 
genuine  and  unmutilated  copy  of  the  suppressed  book,  as 
it  was  printed  by  him  in  the  year  1807,  under  the  direc- 
tion of  the  late  Mr.  Perceval."  This  "  Advertisement  " 
is  dated  "Crane  Court,  Fleet  Street,  March  19,  1813." 
For  a  notice  of  the  original  work  by  Spencer  Perceval  see 
his  Life  and  Administration,  by  Charles  Verulam  Wil- 
liams, pp.  316—328.] 

ISABELLA  WHITNEY.  —  Are  any  particulars 
known  of  this  lady,  who  appears  to  have  lived  in 
the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  to  have  written 
several  poems  ?  I  do  not  find  her  name  in  Ritson's 
Bibliotheca  Poetica.  G.  A.  B. 

[Isabella  Whitney's  principal  work  is  entitled  "  A 
Sweet  Nosqay,  or  Pleasant  Posye ;  containing  a  hun- 
dred and  ten  Phylosophicall  Flowers,"  &c.  [1573?].  The 
only  copy,  we  believe,  known  of  this  work,  is  the  one 
sold  in  Mr.  Bright's  Collection ;  see  his  Catalogue,  No. 
602^,  where  it  is  stated,  that  "  this  volume  is  probably 
unique,  as  it  has  escaped  the  notice  of  all  our  poetical 
antiquaries,  nor  is  the  name  of  the  authoress  mentioned 
by  bibliographers,  although  it  appears  that  she  had 
written  a  previous  work,  of  which  an  account  is  given 
in  The  Restituta,  i.  234.  She  was  probably  of  the  family 
of  Whitney  of  Cheshire ;  as,  at  the  end  of  the  Dedica- 
tion to  George  Manwairing,  she  subscribes  'Your  wel- 
willyng  Countriwoman,  Is.  W.'  After  the  Nosgay  fol- 
low Familyar  and  friendly  Epistles  by  the  Auctor,  with 
Replyes,  all  inverse.  The  volume  extends  to  e  -viii. : 
the  last  poem  is  '  The  Auctors  (feyned)  Testament  be- 
fore her  departyng,'  in  which  is  described  the  several 
professions  and  trades  of  London  (to  whom  they  are  be- 
queathed), mentioning  the  localities  in  which  they  arfr 
stationed."] 

MS.  DRAMAS. — Can  you  oblige  me  by  an- 
swering the  following  inquiries  ? 

1.  I  have  a  Sale  Catalogue  of  Messrs.  Puttick 
and  Simpson,  47,  Leicester  Square.  This  sale  of 
books  and  MSS.  contained  a  collection  of  upward 
of  200  MS.  dramas,  which  were  forwarded  to 
Drury  Lane  in  Sheridan's  time. 

Mr.  Patmore,  in  his  My  Friends  and  Acquaint- 
ances, devotes  upwards  of  70  pages  to  a  notice  of 
these  MSS.,  and  an  interesting  article  relating  to 
them  appeared  in  Frasers  Magazine  about  two 
years  a£o. 


S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


33 


Messrs.  Puttick  and  Simpson's  sale  took  place 
on  July  22,  1861,  and  four  following  days. 

Can  you  inform  me  who  was  the  purchaser  of 
these  MSS.  ?  R-  INGLIS. 

j;We  learn  from  a  gentleman  present  at  the  sale,  that 
the  MS.  Dramas  were  put  up  at  100Z.  and  apparently 
bought  in  for  want  of  an  advance  upon  that  sum.  A 
note  to  the  auctioneers  will  doubtless  procure  the  exact 
iuformation  required.] 

KHEVENHULLER  VOLUNTEERS. — These  are  men- 
tioned in  an  Epilogue  spoken  by  Mrs.  Woffing- 
ton  in  the  character  of  a  Volunteer,  quoted  by 
Chetwood  in  his  History  of  the  Stage,  p.  255,  pub- 
lished in  1749:  — 

"  Thus,  in  my  country's  cause,  I  now  appear 
A  bold  smart  Khevenhuller  volunteer." 

What  is  the  allusion  ?   Khevenhuller  hats  are,  I 
believe,  spoken  of  by  some  writers  of  this  period. 

[The  Khevenhuller  Volunteers  probably  derived  their 
name  from  Field  Marshal  Ludwig  Andreas  Khevenhuller, 
a  distinguished  leader  and  tactician,  who  served  under 
Prince  Eugene  of  Savoy,  as  commander  of  a  regiment  of 
cavalry,  and  who  in  the  course  of  his  military  career  ren- 
dered such  important  services  to  Austria  that  Maria  The- 
resa, on  hearing  of  his' death,  exclaimed,  "  I  lose  in  him  a 
faithful  subject,  and  a  defender  whom  God  alone  can  ade- 
quately recompense."  (Born  1683,  died  1744.)  He  wrote 
Instructions  for  Cavalry,  and  also  for  Infantry.] 

THE  E.EV.  JOHN  PETER  DROZ. — Will  you  kindly 
refer  me  to  any  biographical  particulars  of  the 
Rev.  John  Peter  Droz,  jyho  was  "  Minister  of  the 
French  Church  at  St.  Patrick's  [Dublin],  Impor- 
ter of  Foreign  Books,  and  Author  of  the  Monthly 
Literary  Journal"  (5  vols.  8vo.,  Dublin,  1744 — 
1748),  and  died  (as  recorded  in  Exshaw's  Maga- 
zine, 1751,  p.  671)  23rd  November,  1751  ?  Mr. 
Gilbert  makes  mention  of  him  in  his  History  of 
Dublin,  vol.  ii.  pp.  270 — 273,  but  is  slightly  in 
error  as  to  the  date  of  his  death.  ABHBA. 

[Droz's  Literary  Journal  was  continued  at  least  as  far 
as  June,  1749,  which  is  now  before  us.  In  Warburton's 
History  of  Dublin,  ii.  841,  it  is  stated,  that  it  was  con- 
tinued after  the  death  of  Mr.  Droz  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Des- 
veaux,  and  contained  a  view  of  the  state  of  learning  in 
Europe.  Mr.  Droz  kept  a  book  shop  on  College  Green, 
and  exercised  his  clerical  functions  on  the  Lord's  Day.] 


LORD  NUGENT  ON  CAPITAL  PUNISHMENTS: 
JEMMY  THE  GYPSY. 

(2nd  S.  xii.  397.) 

[  have  examined  the  prison  books  kept  in 
Aylesbury  Jail,  and  I  find  in  them  the  following 
entries  referring  to  the  convict,  erroneously  called 
Ayres  by  Lord  Nugent,  and  known  by  tradition 
in  this  place  as  Jemmy  the  Gypsy.  These  ex- 
tracts, with  a  quotation  from  the  Calendar  of  the 


Lent  Assize   of  1795,  satisfactorily   explain  the 
most  remarkable  features  of  the  case  :  — 

"  James  Eyres,  a  gypsy,  age  73,  5  feet  4  inches  high, 
complexion  swarthy.  Committed  December,  1794,  by  the 
Rev.  Ed.  Wodley,  for  sheepstealing.  Respited  during 
pleasure.  A  free  pardon  17th  Dec.  1803." 

The  Calendar  of  the  Lent  Assizes  held  at  Ayles- 
bury, 7th  March,  1795,  proves  that  James  Eyres 
was  condemned  "  to  be  hanged  by  the  neck  "  for 
sheepstealing.  I  have  frequently  heard  Lord 
Nugent  tell  the  story  as  it  is  quoted  by  your 
correspondent  T.  B.,  and  he,  no  doubt,  went  to 
press  without  verifying  his  anecdote  by  reference 
to  existing  official  documents ;  the  attesting  wit- 
nesses, since  deceased,  must  also  have  given  their 
testimony  without  refreshing  their  memories  at 
the  same  authentic  sources.  The  under-sheriff 
alluded  to  by  Lord  Nugent  was  my  maternal 
grandfather,  Acton  Chaplin,  then  Clerk  of  the 
Peace  for  Bucks,  who  died  in  1814.  I  have  been 
told  that  he  employed  the  respited  convict  in  his 
farm  and  garden.  As  Jemmy  was  a  very  clever 
fellow  and  a  good  fiddler  he  became  a  favourite, 
and  was  allowed  to  appear  as  musician  at  Mr. 
Chaplin's  harvest  homes,  and  sometimes  in  his 
kitchen.  If  T.  B.  will  inquire  into  the  treatment 
of  respited  convicts  at  the  end  of  the  last  century 
and  beginning  of  this,  he  will  find  that  the  liberty 
enjoyed  by  James  Eyres  was,  at  that  date,  by  no 
means  extraordinary. 

ACTON  TINDAL, 
Clerk  of  the  Peace  for  Bucks. 

Manor  House,  Aylesbury. 


The  story  told  by  Lord  Nugent  respecting  a 
convict  named  James  Ayres,  sentenced  to  death  at 
the  Spring  Assizes,  1802,  for  Buckinghamshire, 
implies  an  extraordinary  laxity  of  practice ;  but 
as  all  the  particulars  are  given,  the  anecdote 
admits  of  verification.  The  Hertfordshire  case 
mentioned  by  W.  B.  is  stated  to  have  occurred 
"  several  years  ago  ;"  and,  therefore,  probably  ad- 
mits of  easier  verification  than  the  Bucks  case. 
The  name  of  the  convict,  and  the  date  of  his  con- 
viction, are  not  however  stated.  It  may  be  re- 
marked that  the  story  turns  upon  the  supposition 
that  a  convict  is  not  hanged  until  the  warrant  for 
his  execution  is  received:  his  execution  is  stated 
to  have  been  delayed  because  the  warrant  did  not 
arrive  at  the  expected  time ;  but  took  place  as 
soon  as  the  warrant  "  came  down"  ;  i.  e.  apparently 
from  the  Secretary  of  State's  Office.  Now  the 
existence  of  such  a  document  as  a  warrant  from 
the  crown,  or  the  Secretary  of  State,  for  the  exe- 
cution of  a  criminal,  is  a  popular  error.  No  such 
authority  is  required  by  law,  or  is  ever  given. 
After  the  verdict  of  guilty  by  the  jury,  the  judge 
passes  sentence  of  death,  but  without  fixing  the 
time  or  place  of  the  execution.  A  record  of  the 
sentence  is  made  by  the  officer  of  the  court,  and 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62. 


it  becomes  thereupon  the  duty  of  the  sheriff  to 
carry  it  into  execution.  The  sheriff  fixes  a  day, 
within  the  term  allowed  by  law,  and  rnak<*5  the 
necessary  arrangements  for'the  capital  execution, 
which  he  is  bound  to  carry  into  effect ;  unless  the 
crown  respites  the  prisoner,  or  mitigates  the 
punishment. 

A  case  similar  to  that  quoted  by  W.  B.  appeared 
in  "N.  &  Q."  some  years  ago,  followed _by  a  very 
interesting  discussion  on  respites,  reprieves,  and 
"  warrants  for  execution,"  exposing  some  popular 
errors.  See  General  Index,  "Executions  De- 
ferred," v.  422,  &c.  &c.  U.  0.  N. 


THE  EGG,  A  SYMBOL. 
(2Dd  S.  xii.  393.) 

The  egg  was  undoubtedly  regarded  as  a  symbol  j 
by  the  old  Mystics, —  sometimes  of  our  mundane  i 
system,  and  sometimes  of  the  earth  only,  properly  j 
so  called.     In  the  first  case  the  yolk  was  supposed  j 
to  represent  our  world;  the  white  its  circumam-  ; 
bient  firmament,  or   atmosphere ;    and  the  shell  j 
the  solid  "crystalline  sphere"  in  which  the  stars 
were  set.     In  the  latter  case  the  idea  had  refer- 
ence to  the  seminal  principle  residing  in  the  egg, 
which  likened  it  to  the  chaos  of  our  early  cosmo-  ! 
gonist?,  "  containing  the  seeds  of  all  things."    This  j 
opinion  appears  to  have  originated  in  one  of  those  j 
distorted  refractions  of  inspired  truth  so  common  \ 
in  our  ancient  mythologies.    In  the  Mosaic  narra-  j 
live  of  creation  the  Spirit  of  God  is  represented  j 
as  "moving"  (or,  according  to  our  best  critics,  as  I 
"  brooding  ")  over  the  waters  of  the  great  deep,  | 
as  a  bird  over  her  eggs,  to  bring  forth  and  deve- 
lop the  latent  life.     Milton,  himself  no  mean  au- 
thority, so  understands  the  passage,  — 

"Dove-like,  sat'st  brooding  o'er  the  vast  abyss;" 
and  the  notion  appears  so  thoroughly  to  have  per- 
meated the  pantheistic  creed  of  Egypt,  that  all 
their  temples  —  roof,  walks,  and  portico  —  teem  ' 
with  representations  of  wings  in  every  expressive 
attitude— outspread,  cowering,  brooding,  fanning, 
or  protecting;    so  that  the  prophet  might  well 
speak  of  this  country  as  "the   land   shadowing 
with  wings"  (Isaiah  xviii.  1). 

Under  this  view  there  would  be  a  very  striking 
analogy  between  the  ark  and  this  crude,  un^ 
fashioned  earth,  as  both  containing  "the  rudi- 
ments of  the  future  world."  It  is,  therefore,  not 
at  all  unlikely  that  the  egg  may  have  symbolised 

>tb.  But  if  there  be  any  symbolism  in  the 
matter  referred  to  by  CHURCHDOWN,  of  which  I 
have  grave  doubts,  I  think  he  had  better  adopt 
the  theory  of  Dr.  Lamb  (Hebrew  Characters  de- 
rived from  Hieroglyphics),  that  the  egg  typified 
the  promised  Messiah,  the  Seed  that,  in  its  full 


development,  was  to  bruise  the  serpent's  head. 
In  support  of  this  view,  he  reproduces  the  well- 
known  representation  of  the  Phoenician  egg  en- 
circled in  the  genial  folds  of  the  agathod&mon, 
who,  under  the  form  of  a  serpent,  is  gradually 
warming  it  into  life;  but  the  picture  has  done 
service  in  so  many  ways  before,  that  for  my  own 
part  I  am  no  believer  in  the  purblind  mysticism 
that  dogs  the  footsteps  of  Theory,  but  seldom  or 
never  goes  before  it. 

And  now,  perhaps,  you  will  bear  with  the 
conjecture  of  a  sexagenarian,  who,  after  much 
"weariness  of  the  flesh  "  in  studying  the  Old 
Philosophies,  is  settling  down  to  the  belief  in 
nothing  but  his  Bible,  —  that  these  ostrich-eggs 
in  our  eastern  churches  are  suspended  with  no 
higher  purpose  than  to  overawe  the  vulgar,  and 
produce  a  wholesome  dread  of  the  priesthood  and 
their  "lying  wonders,"  for  thereby,  no  doubt, 
hangs  many  a  tale ;  just  as  in  our  own  country  it 
was  usual  to  exhibit  the  huge  fossil  bones  of  our 
extinct  mammals,  and  call  them  relics  of  S.  Chris- 
topher, as  well  as  other  objects  calculated  to  as- 
tound the  masses,  to  say  nothing  of  the  "  latten  " 
slioulder-blade  of  Chaucer,  his  "pigges'  bones,"  or 
those  of  the  eleven  thousand  virgins  whose  "  chil- 
dren" (!)  were  so  pathetically  invoked  by  O'Connell 
to  avenge  the  cruel  wrongs  of  "  Ould  Ireland  !" 

DOUGLAS  ALLPOBT. 

The  Arabian  geni  cried  out  against  Aladdin, 
who,  in  the  demand  for  a  roc's  egg,  had  required 
him  to  bring  his  master. 

The  mystery  of  Islam  is  far  older  than  Ma- 
honimed,  and*  in  the  gigantic  egg,  where  the 
ostrich  substitutes  some  extinct  dinornis,  it  re- 
cognises the  origination  of  Eastern  science  in  the 
initiation  of  architecture  and  its  locality. 

This  is  all  that  may  be  told.  Other  explana- 
tions are  secondary :  and  oriental  Christianity  is 
largely  Pagan.  GNARUS. 


YETLTN,  OR  YETLING;  MESLING. 

(2nd  S.  xii.  28,  398.) 

Although  the  following  may  "not  quite  settle  the 
question,  perhaps  it  may  assist  META.  In  every 
house,  rich  and  poor,  in  Ireland,  at  least  in  my 
wanderings  about  that  country  some  years  ago, 
which  were  to  a  large  extent,  I  found  an  iron, 
either  cast  or  wrought,  utensil,  called  a  "gris- 
ling,"  or  "  grisset,"  an  indispensable  article  in  the 
kitchen.  The  best  description  I  can  give  of  it 
(without  a  cut,  or  illustration)  is  this.  An  oblong 
figure  of  ten  or  twelve  inches,  and  four  or  five 
inches  girth,  if  cut  in  two,  lengthwise,  and  then 
scooped  out,  with  a  handle  placed  in  the  centre, 
and  three  feet,  such  as  described  by  META, — if 
anyone  can  comprehend  this  crude  description,  it 


S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


35 


will  represent  the  "  grisset."  It  is  used  for 
melting  butter,  making  sauce,  and  a  hundred 
other  purposes,  for  which  it  is  most  appropriate. 
I  often  imagined  it  derived  its  Hibernian  appel- 
lation from  the  greasy  uses  to  which  it  is  turned. 
Can  there  be  any  likeness  between  this  and  the 
article  alluded  to  by  META  ?  S.  REDMOND. 

Liverpool. 

In  connection  with  the  words  "  geotan,"  "  gyde," 
and  "  zete,"  should  be  mentioned  the  technical 
word  "git,"  in  daily  use  among  iron-founders, 
and  signifying  the  channel  through  which  the 
melted  metal  runs  to  the  mould.  1  have  heard 
its  derivation  ascribed  to  the  Old  English  "  gate," 
as  applied  to  the  "track"  of  an  animal,  but  think 
it  may  be  far  more  plausibly  connected  with  the 
present  series  of  words.  J.  ELIOT  HODGKIN. 

West  Derby. 

The  round  iron  pot  with  a  bow  handle  and 
three  short  feet  is  in  general  use  in  almost  every 
farm-house  and  labourer's  cottage  in  North  Der- 
byshire, and  is  called  a  meslin,  or  maslin-pot ;  it 
is  generally  used  for  mixing  and  boiling  porridge 
in ;  the  smaller  ones  for  the  family,  the  larger 
ones  for  pigs  or  calves.  The  etymology  ctf  the 
word  is  probably  from  the  French  meler,  to 
mingle,  or,;  mix.  Getlin  or  Yetlin  of  your  cor- 
respondent META  is  most  probably  a  corruption 
of  the  more  correct  meslin.  XXX. 

Idridgehay. 

I  have  seen  the  following  in  a  Lancashire  in- 
ventory of  1636  among  other  kitchen  goods  :  — 
"  1  posnet  and  1  great  pann." 

P.P. 


BEATTIE'S  POEMS. 
(2nd  S.  xii.  383.) 

The  question  raised  by  J.  O.  in  regard  to  the 
date  of  the  first  appearance  of  Original  Poems 
and  Translations,  by  James  Beattie,  A.M.,  is  a 
somewhat  difficult  and  perplexing  one.  Alex- 
ander Bower,  the  earliest  and  most  interesting  of 
the  biographers  of  Dr.  Beattie,  writing  in  1804, 
says  :  —  "  The  first  edition  of  Beattie's  Poems  is 
one  of  the  scarcest  books  in  the  English  lan- 
guage." The  copy  of  Original  Poems  and  Trans- 
lations in  J.  O.'s  possession  is  unmistakeably  what 
Bower  regarded  as  the  first  edition.  He  gives  a 
very  minute  and  particular  account  of  its  pub- 
lication, which  Chalmers  evidently  founds  on. 
Indeed  Bower  has  had  the  usual"  hard  fate  of 
literary  antiquaries.  His  laboriously  amassed  facts 
have  been  borrowed  without  the  least  scruple  or 
apology,  and  in  most  cases  without  the  slightest 


acknowledgment.  From  his  pages  I  quote  the 
following  advertisements,  which  are  sufficiently 
curious  to  merit  a  place  in  the  columns  of  "  N. 
&  Q."  They  appeared  originally  in  the  Aberdeen 
Journal : — 

"13th  March,  17GO.  This  day  are  published,  and  to 
be  had  at  the  booksellers'  shops,  proposals  for  printing 
by  subscription,  in  an  octavo  volume,  with  an  elegant 
type  arid  fine  paper,  original  poems  and  translations  by 
J.  Beattie,  M.A.  Subscriptions  will  be  taken  in  by  all 
the  booksellers  in  Edinburgh  and  Aberdeen,  and  by 
Charles  Thomson  in  Montrose." 

A  second  advertisement  appeared  in  the  same 
newspaper  upon  the  8th  of  December  following, 
that  the  poems  were  to  be  published  about  the 
beginning  of  February,  1761,  and  a  third  upon 
Monday,  the  16th  of  Feb.  1761,  as  follows  :  — 

"  We  are  informed  that  this  day  is  published,  on  a 
fine  demy  paper,  and  with  an  elegant  type,  price  3s.  and 
Gd.  stitched  in  blue  paper,  original  poems  and  transla- 
tions by  James  Beattie,  A.M.  London,  printed  and  sold 
by  A.  Millar  in  the  Strand,  and  sold  by  the  booksellers 
of  Edinburgh,  Glasgow,  Montrose,  and  "Aberdeen.  Sub- 
scribers may  be  furnished  with  their  copies  at  the  shops 
of  F.  Douglass,  B.  Farquhar,  A.  Thomson  and  A.  Angus, 
Aberdeen ;  and  at  the  house  of  Charles  Thomson,  Mon- 
trose." 

Sir  Wm.  Forbes,  the  intimate  friend,  the  ex- 
ecutor and  biographer  of  Beattie,  says  the  Ori- 
ginal Poems  and  Translations  were  published  in 
1760,  but  makes  no  reference  to  this  subscription 
edition.  Sir  William  and  Lowndes  are  right, 
however,  in  giving  1760  as  the  date  of  the  first 
edition.  I  have  in  my  collection  a  copy  of  the 
Poems  and  Translations,  which  formerly  belonged 
to  the  famous  Peter  Buchan,  the  painter,  printer, 
boat- builder,  and  ballad  antiquary  of  Peterhead. 
The  following  forms  its  title  page  :  — 

"  Original  Poems  and  Translations.  By  James  Beattie, 
A.M.  London :  Printed  and  sold  by  A.  Millar  in  the 
Strand.  MDCCLX." 

It  is  on  a  fine  demy  paper,  with  an  elegant 
type,  and  stitched  in  blue  paper.  In  short,  it 
has  all  the  external  marks  of  the  subscription 
edition  except  the  date.  I  am  inclined  to  believe 
that  the  issue  of  1761  is  simply  that  of  1760  with 
a  new  title-page.  Would  J.  O.  confer  the  favour 
of  saying  whether  his  edition  corresponds  with 
mine  in  the  following  particulars :  Mine  has  x. 
pages  of  introductory  matter.  It  has  an  "  N.B." 
regarding  "  the  fourth,  fifth,  and  tenth  pastorals  " 
on  the  fly-leaf  immediately  succeeding,  —  then 
two  pages  of  Contents.  The  poems  extend  from 
sig.  A  to  A  a  3,  comprising  188  pages.  The  first 
poem  —  the  "  Ode  to  Peace  "—is  headed  with  an 
ornament  of  three  lozenges,  each  containing  nine 
asterisks,  the  whole  flanked  on  either  margin  by 
two  circular  sun-like  marks.  In  page  13,  1.  6 
from  top,  the  last  word  of  the  line — "  bring" — has 
been  printed  with  a  badly  formed  b.  The  stem 
is  thick,  and  the  bottom  angle  has  been  so  im- 


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NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


[3r*  S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62. 


perfectly  preserved  that  it  seems  very  like  the 
figure  6,  and  appears  almost  falling  away  from 
the  rest  of  the  word. 

These  early  editions  of  Beattie's  Poems  were 
faulty  only  in  this  respect,  that  the  composition 
of  several  of  the  pieces  failed  to  satisfy  the  later 
over-fastidious  taste  of  the  author.  He  bought 
up  and  destroyed  every  copy  he  could  find.  Hence 
their  rarity.  «  JOHN  S.  GIBB. 

Aldar. 


GRAMMAR  SCHOOLS  (2nd  S.  xii.  502.)— I  regret 
that  I  cannot  furnish  your  correspondent  with  a 
complete  list  of  the  schools  founded  by  our  sixth 
Edward.  Potts's  Liber  Cantabrigiensis  mentions 
the  following  establishments  in  the  enumeration 
of  those  to  which  are  attached  fellowships,  scholar- 


ofF.  J.  H.:— 


Creditor! 
Sherborne    - 
Marlborough 
Birmingham 
Luiilow 
Louth  - 


satisfying 


-  1547  |  Bedford 

-  1551    Chelmsford  - 

-  1551    Christ's  Hospital 

-  1552    Shrewsbury  - 

-  1552    Stourbridge  - 

-  1552  !  Giggleswick 


1552 
1552 
1553 
1553 
1553 
1553 


^  Norwich  was  "  originally  founded  by'  Bishop 
Salmon  and  established  by  Edward  VI.,  by  whom 
a  charter  was  granted  to  the  city,  and  ^revenues 
assigned  for  a  schoolmaster." 

Kendal,  founded  in  1535  by  Adam  Penny ngton 
of  Boston,  Lincolnshire,  "  received  endowments 
successively  from  King  Edward  VI.,  Queen  Mary, 
Queen  Elizabeth,  and  other  benefactors. 

ST.  S  WITHIN. 

"Sic  TRANSIT  GLORIA  MUXDI  "  (2nd  S.  xii. 
483.)  — 

"In  Rom.  Pontincnm  inauguration  intcrea  dum  de 

more   sacellum    D.   Gregorii   declaratus   pratergreditur, 

•aii    cercmoniarum  mngister  gestans  arundines 

s  duas,  quamrn  alter!  sursum  apposita  est  can- 

rUens,  quam  alteri  canmc,  cui  superpositou  stuppfe 

aunt,  adhibet,  incenditque  dicens:   PATER  SANCTE,  sic 

IJml«  P       r  KIA  -IlNI)I-     (JUO<1  et  ipsurn  tertio  iterat. 

ulinus  sumpsit  symbolum  quod  inter  heroica 

KonTni      \         •  '  ,°UDU-M-     IIoc  oli™  »on  ignorarunt 

gi[S5SSS5£i~ 


Zonaras,  lib.  ii. 


contactu  illorum  piaculo  se  obstringeret."  —  Philippi  Ca- 
merarii  Meditationes  Historic^,  1644,  p.  76. 

BlBLIOTHECAE.  CHETHAM. 

LEAMER  (2nd  S.  xii.  365,  444.)  — This  word  has 
been  used  all  my  time  in  the  Midland  Counties 
to  denote  a  nut  so  thoroughly  ripe  as  to  fall  out  of 
its  husk  if  the  bough  be  shaken  whereon  it  hangs. 
If,  for  instance,  a  person  pulled  down  a  bough  in 
order  to  get  the  nuts  on  it,  and  one  fell  out  of  its 
husk,  he  would  say  "  That  is  a  learner,"  in  contra- 
distinction to  those  that  remained  in  their  husks. 
My  impression  is  that  the  word  is  derived  from 
the  verb  "  to  leam,"  to  separate,  or  fall  out,  though 
I  am  not  certain  that  I  have  heard  that  word 
used. 

Mr.  Kobinson,  in  his  Whitby  Glossary,  has 
"  Learners  or  brown  learners,  large  filbert  nuts ;  " 
and  he  now  informs  me  that  the  word  is  invariably 
used  in  Yorkshire  with  "  brown  "  before  it.  I  do 
not,  however,  remember  it  to  have  been  so  used, 
or  Hmited  to  large  nuts,  or  applied  to  filberts  ;  by 
which  I  understand  such  nuts  as  have  a  husk 
which  entirely  surrounds  them.  As  a  nut  which 
is  ripe  ^enough  to  fall  out  of  its  husk  is  always 
brown,  it  is  easy  to  see  how  the  term  "  brown  " 
may  have  become  generally  used  with  "  learner." 

Mr.  Robinson  gives  "  to  leam,  to  replenish  the 
rock*of  the  ^  spinning- wheel  with  tow,"  the  rock 
being  the  distaff  upon  which  the  tow  is  wound ; 
and  he  refers  me  to  Marshall's  list  of  old  words  at 
the  end  of  his  Rural  Economy  of  Yorkshire  for 
that  explanation  of  the  term.  At  first  sight  that 
explanation  may  seem  to  be  inconsistent  with  the 
meaning  I  have  given  to  the  term,  but  perhaps 
the  word  may  have  been  originally  applied  to  the 
separation  of  the  tow  from  the  bulk  during  the 
operation  of  replenishing  the  rock. 

C.  S.  GREAVES. 

P.S. — Since  the  above  was  written  I  have  seen 
a  very  clever  farmer  in  Derbyshire,  who  tells  me 
that  he  has  heard  "learner"  always  applied  to 
nuts  that  were  so  ripe  as  to  fall  out  of  their  husks, 
and  that  he  has  heard  the  term  "  to  leam  "  applied 
to  nuts  and  such  like  things  as  fall  out  of  their 
husks.  This  seems  to  settle  th< 
the  terms  "  learner  "  and  "  leam. 

LAMBETH  DEGREES  (2nd  S.  xii.  456,  529.)  — 
Will  your  correspondent  W.  1ST.  point  out  the 
section  of  the  Act  25  Hen.  VIII.  c.  21,  which 
meetethe  question;  that  is,  which  empowers  the 
archbishop  to  grant  degrees,  and  that  such  degrees 
require  confirmation  under  the  Great  Seal  ? 

J.K. 

^  RECOVERY  OF  THINGS  LOST  (2nd  S.  xii.  334,  445, 
06.)— A  gentleman  who  was  in  the  habit  of  fre- 
quenting a  favourite  spot  for  the  sake  of  a  view 
that  interested  him,  used  to  lounge  on  a  rail ;  and 
one  day,  in  a  fit  of  absence,  got  fumbling  about 


This  seems  to  settle  the  meaning  of  both 

"  "         "          " 


S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


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the  post  in  which  one  end  of  the  rail  was  Inserted. 
On  his  road  home  he  missed  a  valuable  ring :  he 
went  back  again  and  looked  very  diligently  for  it 
without  success.  A  considerable  time  afterwards, 
on  visiting  his  old  haunt  and  indulging  in  his 
usual  fit  of  absence,  he  was  very  agreeably  sur- 
prised to  find  the  ring  on  his  finger  again ;  and 
which  appears  to  have  been  occasioned  by  (in 
both  instances)  his  pressing  his  finger  in  the  aper- 
ture of  the  post,  which  just  fitted  sufficiently  with 
a  pressure  to  hold  the  ring.  I  afterwards  tried 
the  experiment  at  the  spot,  and  found  it  perfectly 
easy  to  have  been  effected  with  an  easily-fitting 
ring.  P. 

ERRORS  IN  BOOKS  ON  THE  PEERAGE  (2nd  S.  xii. 
385.)  —  These  errors  are  not  likely  to  be  lessened 
by  crude  correction.  The  name  in  dispute  is  not 
Norbonne  but  Norborne,  as  may  be  seen  on  the 
monument  of  Walter  Norborne,  Esq.  in  Calne 
Church,  and  as  might  be  proved  in  many  other 
ways,  did  the  proper  spelling  of  a  family  name, 
well  known  to  Wiltshire  genealogists,  admit  of  a 
moment's  doubt.  J. 

GILBERT  TYSON  (2nd  S.  xii.  418.)  —  Gilbert 
Tyson  was  Lord  of  Alnwick,  Bridlingtoii,  Malton, 
and  many  other  great  estates  in  the  north  at  the 
time  of  the  Norman  Conquest.  His  eldest  son 
was  William,  and  his  other  son  Kichard.  Wil- 
liam's only  child,  Alda,  was  given  in  marriage  by 
William  the  Conqueror  to  Yvo  de  Vesci,  from 
whom  the  present  Lord  de  Vesci  is  descended 
(Burke's  Peerage).  The  line  of  Richard  Tyson 
ended  in  an  only  daughter,  Benedicta,  married  to 
William  Lord  Hilton  (Hutchinson's  Northumber- 
land, vol.  ii.  p.  208).  Both  Gilbert  Tyson  and 
William  his  son  fought  at  Hastings.  Hutchinson, 
in  the  note  at  p.  208,  says  William  fell  at  Hast- 
ings on  the  side  of  William  the  Conqueror  in  the 
lifetime  of  his  father;  but  in  the  note  at  p.  210, 
he  says  that  Gilbert  was  slain  at  Hastings  on  the 
side  of  Harold,  and  left  Alnwick  to  his  son  Wil- 
liam ;  citing  Randal's  MSS.,  and  2  Dugd.  Monast. 
Camden's  Brit.  Northumb.,  p.  754  (Gibson's  ed. 
London,  1695),  says,  William  fell  fighting  for 
Harold ;  and  Dane-Gelt  calls  Gilbert  one  of  the 
Conqueror's  followers.  Can  any  one  clear  up 
these  inconsistencies  ? 

A  family  of  Tyson  was  resident  at  Kendal  in 
Westmoreland  about  the  middle  of  the  last  cen- 
tury. Can  any  one  give  me  information  as  to 
that  family  ?  A.  B. 

LENGO  MOUNDING  (2nd  S.  xii.  '309,  458.)  —  I 
am  persuaded  that  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  in 
general  will  join  with  me  in  thanking  M.  ANSAS 
for  the  information  he  has  so  kindly  given  re- 
specting the  origin  of  the  term  moundi.  I  would 
beg  to  venture  a  step  further,  and  inquire  whether 
your  correspondent  can  tell  us  anything  of  the 


modern  poet  mentioned  in  my  former  communi- 
cation, Louis  Vestrepain? 

I  observe  as  one  of  the  peculiarities  of  the  dia- 
lect of  Toulouse,  that  o  is  a  feminine  termination ; 
as,  for  instance,  in  the  word  Lengo.  And  here 
the  question  naturally  arises,  whether  the  "  Len- 
go "  of  Southern  France  is  to  be  looked  on  as  the 
origin  of  our  English  Lingo  f  Johnson  describes 
"Lingo"  as  Portuguese:  but  I  should  think  it 
quite  as  likely  that  the  word  came  to  us  from 
Guienne.  The  influence  produced  on  the  people 
of  England  by  their  intercourse  with  Poitou  and 
Acquitaine  under  the  Plantagenets  is  a  subject 
that  invites  investigation.  P.  S.  CABEY. 

COMMISSARIAT  or  LAUDER  (2nd  S.  xii.  417.)  — 
There  is  in  my  possession  an  Index  of  Deeds 
registered  in  the  Commissary  Court -books  of 
Lauder  from  1654  to  1809,  when  the  right  of 
registering  deeds  was  transferred  to  the  Sheriff 
Court. 

Mr.  Romernes,  at  Lauder,  N.  B.,  has  all  the 
old  records  in  his  possession.  M.  G.  F. 

ORKNEY  ISLAND  DISCOVERIES  (2nd  S.  xii.  478.) 
—  Your  correspondent's  interesting  information, 
respecting  the  probable  earliest  inhabitants  of  the 
British  Islands,  is  borne  out  by  several  particulars 
as  far  as  Ireland  is  concerned.  It  would  seem 
that  the  "  Feni,"  Feine,  or  "  Finni "—  the  military 
celebrated  in  Ossianic  poetry,  and  styled  the  an- 
cient "Irish  militia" — were  of  Finnish  extrac- 
tion. I  have  other  points,  which  I  would  gladly 
communicate  to  F.  C.  B.  HERBERT  HORE. 

Conservative  Club. 

LAMINAS  (2nd  S.  xii.  10.)  —  I  possess  (but  not 
before  me  while  writing)  a  circular  plate  of  about 
6  inches  diameter,  cast  in  copper  or  red  brass, 
the  face  being,  chased  and  in  high  relief.  It  re- 
presents a  figure,  nude  but  for  a  girdle  of  hanging 
feathers  (ostrich,  perhaps),  and  a  multiplicity  of 
necklaces,  armlets,  earrings,  and  so  forth.  In  the 
left-hand,  which  is  advanced,  is  a  long  staff  with 
one  or  two  globular  expansions.  At  the  foot  is  a 
somewhat  flattened  vase  or  censer,  and  various 
kinds  of  fruit,  and  in  various  parts  of  the  disk  a 
rhinoceros,  a  monkey,  a  snake,  and  so  forth.  I 
describe  from  memory  only.  It  tbears  no  ap- 
pearance of  having  been  painted  or  gilt,  but  is 
of  a  fine  dark  green  bronze  colour.  I  should  be 
glad  to  know  if  any  one  can  offer  a  plausible 
conjecture  as  to  its  origin  or  date.  At  first  I 
imagined  it  to  represent  an  American  Indian ; 
but  the  rhinoceros  forbids  that  supposition.  I 
am  now  more  inclined  to  think  it  of  Spanish  or 
Portuguese  workmanship  of  two  or  three  hundred 
years  old,  perhaps,  and  ^intended  to  represent  a 
native  of  soijie  of  the  eastern  islands.  ^  It  has 
been  many  years  in  our  family,  but  was  picked  up 
at  a  sale  probably  by  my  father.  J.  SAN. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62. 


MART  WOFFISGTON  (2nd  S.  xi.  354 ;  xii.  440.) 
—Of  the  children  of  "  Captain  "  (or  "  the  Hon. 
and  Rev.  Robert")  Cholmondeley  by  his  mar- 
ria^e  with  "Miss  Mary  Woffington,"  otherwise 
"lilary,  daughter  of  Arthur  Woffington^  Esq.,' 
two  only  appear  to  have  survived  their  infancy 
—  George  James,  the  eldest  son,  and  Hester 
Frances,  the  youngest  daughter ;  the  former  of 
whom  married  three  wives  —1st,  Marcia,  daughter 
of  John  Pitt,  Esq. ;  2ndly,  Catharine,  daughter  of 
Sir  Philip  Francis,  K.B. ;  and  3rdly,  Hon.  Maria 
Elizabeth  Townsend,  second  daughter  of  Viscount 
Sydney ;  the  latter,  Hester  Frances,  married  Wil- 
liam, afterwards,  Sir  Wm.  Belli  ngham,  of  Castle 
Bellingham,  Ireland,  Bart.  In  the  Life  of  Hon. 
Edmund  Burke,  it  is  stated  that  Margaret  Wof- 
fington, an  Irishwoman  and  an  actress  of  "  great 
reputation,  was  of  very  humble  origin.  While 
she  was  a  child,  her  mother,  a  poor  widow,  kept 
a  small  grocer's  —  or,  to  use  the  Irish  term,  a 
huckster's  —  shop,  on  Ormond  Quay,  Dublin."* 
How  is  this  account  to  be  reconciled  with  the 
description  given  of  her  sister  in  the  peerages  ? 
Do  any  references  to  other  members  of  the 
family  occur  elsewhere  ?  HENRY  W.  S.  TAYLOR. 

HERALDIC  (2nd  S.  xii.  10.)  —  Shaw  of  Sanchie 
and.  Greenock.  The  armorial  bearings  of  this 
family  is  azure,  three  covered  cups  or,  supported 
by  two  savages  wreathed  about  the  middle  ;  and 
for  crest,  a  demi-savage,  with  this  motto,  "  I 
mean  well." — Crawford  (and  Temple's)  History 
of  the  Shire  of  Renfrew,  1782. 

The  arms  (but  without  crest,  supporters,  or 
motto),  are  carved  on  a  fountain,  with  the  date 
1629,  at  Greenock  Mansion-house,  with  a  mullet, 
however,  between  the  cups.  A  stone  formerly 
in  the  abbey  wall  at  Paisley,  and  now  built  into 
the  front  of  a  house  in  the  neighbourhood,  bears 
an  inscription  to  the  effect  that  ""abbot  georg  of 
schawe,"  "  gart  make  yis  wav,"  and  has  the  cups 
arranged  one  and  two,  instead  of  two  and  one, 
the  usual  way.  J.  SAN. 

EDWARD  HAI.SEY  BOCKETT  (2na  S.  xii.  471.)-— 
JULIA  It.  BOCKETT  is  in  error  with  regard  to  the 
position  of  Mr.  Beckett's  grave,  Mr.  Beckett 
was  not  buried  in  the  nave  of  the  Bath  Abbey 
Church,  but  near  the  east  end  of  the  north  aisle 
of  the  choir,  immediately  behind  Prior  Birde's 
Chapel.  The  stone  is  close  to  the  skreen  of  the 
chapel,  and  bears  the  following  inscription  :  — 

"  Edw»  Halsey  Bockett,  Esq', 

Died  February  5th,  18L°> 

Aged  40." 

m    I  remember  the  sexton  mentioning  to  me  that 
Mmd^  been  made  respecting  this  stone, 

'f C  a«J  Domestlc  Lifi  of  Hie    Right  Hw. 

^'  vBy,  ?eter   Bur'<e'  Ii8<l"   of  th«  l™« 
the  Northern  Circnit.    2nd  Ed.  1854,  p.  18. 


when  I  pointed  it  out  to  him.    This  may  probably 
have  been  about  the  date  referred  to. 

C.  P.  RUSSELL, 
Clerk  of  the  Abbey  Church. 

CHARLES  IT.  AFTER  THE  BATTLE  or  WORCESTER 
(2nd  S.  xii.  522.)  — Is  it  not  likely  that,  after  the 
battle,  some  of  Charles's  friends  might  have  gone 
in  different  directions  towards  the  coast,  in  order 
to  mislead  and  divert  the  pursuit  ?  There  is  no 
doubt  that  he  was  at  Boscobel  after  the  defeat, 
having  made  his  way  thither  by  the  most  direct 
road,°through  Stourbridge  and  over  Cannock 
Chase.  Mr.  Sparrow's  house,  at  Ipswich,  is  not 
Nidus  Passerum ;  that  name  belongs  to  a  small 
country  residence  here,  belonging  to  the  family. 
The  late  John  Eddowes  Sparrow,  Esq.,  who  took 
great  interest  in  the  question,  was  firmly  im- 
pressed with  the  belief  that  his  ancestor  had  given 
refuge  to  Charles  in  Ipswich,  and  in  the  old  house 
in  the  Butter  Market.  The  same  belief  was  held 
by  his  father  and  his  grandfather,  all  men  of  pro- 
bity and  consideration  in  the  town.  The  cham- 
ber in  which  it  is  believed  Charles  was  concealed, 
is  the  roof  of  a  larger  apartment ;  but  whether  a 
chapel  or  not,  cannot  now  be  ascertained.  MR. 
JOHN  GOUGH  NICHOLS  has  thought  that  this 
"chapel  chamber"  was  nothing  more  than  the 
top  of  the  entrance  hall,  which  reached  from  the 
basement  to  the  roof  of  the  house :  this  must  have 
been  an  error,  because,  if  so,  the  fine  apartment, 
which  occupies  the  entire  of  the  first  floor,  would 
have  been  destroyed  by  such  an  arrangement ; 
and  that  this  room  was  always  a  portion  unmuti- 
lated  of  the  house  itself  there  can  be  no  doubt, 
for  the  reason  that  the  ornamentation  of  the  ceil- 
ing and  walls  remains  uninjured.  :  E.  S.  W. 

BURIAL  IN  A  SITTING  POSTURE  (2nd  S.  ix.  44, 
513  ;  x.  159,  396.)  —  Mr.  II.  B.  Martini  writes  in 
the  Navorsclier,  vol.  iv.  p.  232  :  — 

"Near  the  village  of  Vegchel  in  North  Brabant,  there 
formerly  arose  the  Castle  of  Frisselsteyn.  Tradition  says, 
Jthat  a  decease  in  the  De  Jong  family,  whose  property  it 
had  become  some  time  ago  (towards  the  beginning  of 
the  last  century),  having  occasioned  the  opening  of  the 
vault,  belonging  to  the  manor,  in  the  village  church,  the 
mourners  were  not  a  little  surprised  to  find  the  bodies 
of  the  preceding  lords  and  inhabitants  of  Frisselsteyn, 
not  in  coffin?,  lid  seated  together  in  a  ghastly  circle  on  three- 
legged  icooden  chairs,  such  as  are  still  now  and  then  seen 
in  the  rustic  cottages  of  the  province.  After  the  lord  of 
that  time,  with  the  bystanders,  had  for  a  moment  stared 
at  this  spectacle  of  "horrible  sociability,  the  intruding 
outer  air  had  made  the  decayed  remains*  crumble  in,  and 
fall  into  shapelessness.  Thus  says  the  legend,  communi- 
cated in  1854  by  Mrs.  de  Loecker,  of  Leenwensteyn  at 
Vught,  and  it  is  from  her,  as  a  scion  of  the  De'Jong 
family  aforesaid,  we  now  obtain  leave  to  publish,  what 
she  had  accepted  by  oral  transmission  from  her  grand- 
father and  father." 

The  following  paragraph  from  the  New  York 
Independent  of  Oct.  20,  1859  (vol.  xi.  No.  568), 
affords  another  and  a  more  touching  instance  :  — 


S.  I.  JAN.  11,  '62.] 


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"  When  David  Bruce,  the  Moravian  missionary  amongst 
the  Wampanno  Indians,  was  drawing  near  to  death,  he 
called  his  dusky  disciples  about  him  in  the  mission-house, 
and  pressed  their  hands  to  his  bosom,  and  with  many 
counsels  bade  them  farewell.  And  so  fell  asleep.  There 
was  no  white  man  there  besides,  but  the  devout  Indians 
made  great  lamentations  over  him,  and  buried  him  as 
well  as  they  knew  how  in  their  Indian  fashion.  The 
funeral  procession  consisted  of  two  canoes,  with  which 
they  paddled  him  across  the  Lake  of  Grace — Gnaden-See 

to  their  Indian  burial-ground ;  old  Father  Gideon,  one 

of  his  native  converts,  making  a  '  powerful  discourse '  at 
the  grave.  And  last  spring,  when  the  Moravians  came 
looking  for  the  grave,  they  found  the  body  in  a  sitting 
posture,  Indian  fashion,  resting  in  hope." 

JOHN  H.  VAN  LENNEP. 

Zeyst,  near  Utrecht. 

G.  S.,  MINIATURE  PAINTEH,  1756  (2nd  S.  xii. 
521.)  — In  reply  to  CLARRY'S  Query,  I  beg  to 
say  that  about  four  years  and  a  half  ago  I  pur- 
chased at  a  local  sale  two  very  well  executed 
water-colour  drawings  of  the  Grey  Friars'  tower 
in  this  town.  They  were  done  by  Sillett,  a  painter 
who  resided  in  Norfolk  Street  in  this  town,  but 
afterwards  went  to  Norwich,  from  whence  he  is 
said,  traditionally,  to  have  originally  come ;  and 
when  I  purchased  them  they  were  stated  to  be  old, 
and  in  fact,  that  they  had  been  in  existence  some 
sixty  years  previously  and  upwards. 

He  is  said  to  have  been  in  Lynn  in  1800  or 
1801,  but  tradition  hands  this  to  me.  I  cannot 
say  what  his  Christian  name  was,  nor  whether  it 
was  "  George"  or  not ;  but  I  think  it  very  likely 
that  Sillett's  father  was  of  Norwich,  and  that  pos- 
sibly some  trace  may  be  found  there. 

JOHN  NURSE  CHADWICK. 

King's  Lynn. 

ST.  NAPOLEON  (3rd  S.  i.  13.) — The  only  account 
I  have  met  with  of  St.  Napoleon  is  on  a  supple- 
mentary leaf  added  to  the  Abrege  de  la  Vie  des 
Saints,  by  Gueffier,  jeune,  1807.  It  is  there  stated 
that  among  the  martyrs  of  Alexandria  in  the  per- 
secution of  Dioclesian,  was  one  named  Neopolis  or 
Neopole,  who,  after  suffering  many  torments  with 
great  constancy,  for  the  faith  of  Christ,  died  of 
his  wounds  in  prison.  According  to  the  Italian 
mode  of  pronouncing  names  in  the  middle  ages, 
this  saint  was  called  Napoleon,  or  more  frequently 
Napoleone.  It  is,  however,  pretty  evident  that 
we  should  have  heard  little  or  nothing  of  this 
martyr  but  for  the  desire  to  search  out'whatever 
might  be  recorded  of  the  patron  saint  of  the  first 
Emperor  Napoleon.  F.  C.  H. 

WELLS  CITY' SEALS  AND  THEIR  SYMBOLS  (3rd  S. 
i.  10.)  —  I  think  a  probable  explanation  of  these 
seals  is,  that  the  tree  is  an  emblem  of  the  pros- 
perity of  the  city,  the  tree  planted  by  the  running' 
waters,  suggested  by  the  wells,  and  in  allusion  to 
the  words  of  the  first  Psalm.  I  do  not  consider 
the  birds  or  "the  fish  to  have  any  particular  signi- 
fication. Where  water  was  represented,  it  was 


natural  to  place  fishes  in  it,  as  we  constantly  find 
in  the  pictures  of  St.  Christopher,  but  where  the 
fishes  have  no  connexion  with  the  legend.  In  like 
manner,  where  there  was  a  tree,  it  was  obvious  to 
represent  birds  perched  upon  it.  Possibly  there 
may  be  some  allusion  to  the  parable  of  the  mus- 
tard seed,  and  the  birds  may  be  sheltered  in  the 
branches  of  the  tree  as  emblems  of  the  protecting 
shade  of  the  prosperous  city  ;  but  I  am  inclined  to 
think  that  the  birds  and  the  fishes  were  not  intro- 
duced with  any  symbolical  meaning.  We  find 
them  perpetually  in  old  pictures  and  tapestry 
merely  as  appropriate  adjuncts,  and  such  they  are 
apparently  on  these  seals.  F.  C.  H. 

"  THEATRICAL  PORTRAITS  EPIGRAMMATICALLY 
DELINEATED  "  (2nd  S.  xii.  473.)  —  I  have  never 
met  with  this  book,  but  probably  the  author  was 
"Sun"  Taylor,  a  great  theatrical  quid-nunc.  A 
comparison  of  it  with  the  theatrical  remarks  in 
his  Records  of  my  Life,  might,  if  the  opinions  ex- 
pressed coincide,  establish  the  probability  of  the 
authorship.  WM.  DOUGLAS. 

LUTHER'S  VERSION  or  THE  APOCRYPHA  (2nd  S. 
xii.  472.) — MR.  BORRADAIJLE  seems  to  have  over- 
looked the  Latin  Vulgate,  from  which  Luther 
translated  the  Apocryphal  books.  With  refer- 
ence to  these  books  generally,  and  to  Judith  in 
particular,  the  text  is  in  the  most  unsatisfactory 
state.  The  copies  of  the  Greek  differ  very  ma- 
terially from  one  another.  The  Vulgate  is  widely 
different  from  the  older  Latin  version.  The 
Syriac  translation  differs  much  from  all  the  rest. 
Of  some  of  the  books,  we  have  the  Greek  original ; 
of  others,  it  is  uncertain  in  what  language  they 
were  first  written.  The  extraordinary  discrepan- 
cies suggested  that  their  purity  was  not  guarded 
with  the  same  jealous  care  as  the  Canonical  books. 
We  want  a  good  English  work  on  the  subject. 

B.  H.  a 

SUN-DIAL  AND  COMPASS  (2nd  S.  xii.  480.)  — 
In  reply  to  the  Query  of  SIGMA  TAU,  I  observe 
that  I  also  have  a  small  silver  horizontal  sun- 
dial by  Butterfield,  a  Paris.  Upon  its  face  are 
engraved  dials  for  several  latitudes,  and  at  the 
back  a  table  of  principal  cities.  It  is  set  by  a 
compass,  and  the  gnomon  adjusted  by  a  divided 
arc.  The  N.  point  of  the  compass-box  is  fixed  in 
a  position  to  allow  for  variation  —  probably  at 
Paris  —  and,  judging  from  this,  it  would  appear 
to  have  been  made  about  1716.  SIGMA  TAU  will 
find  a  description  and  drawing  of  an  exactly 
similar  dial  in  Stone's  translation  of  Bion  on 
Mathematical  Instruments,  1758.  N.  T.  HEINEKEN. 

CHILDREN  HANGED  (2nd  S.  xi.  327.)  —  So  late 
as  1831  a  boy  nine  years  of  age  was  hung  at 
Chelmsford  for  arson  committed  at  Witham  in 
the  county  of  Essex.  A.  COPLAND. 


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[3'd  g.  I.  JAN. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 

The  History  of  Modern  Europe,  from  the  Fall  of  Con- 
stantinople in  1453  to  the  War  in  the  Crimea  in  1857.  By 
Thomas  Henry  Dyer.  In  Four  Volumes.  (  Voh.  L  and 
II.)  (Murray). 

When  one  considers  the  vast  amount  of  time  and  at- 
tention which  the  literary  men  of  England  and  of  the 
Continent  have,  during  the  last  half-century,  bestowed 
upon  the  histories  of  their  respective  countries,  it  is 
not  surprising  that  so  far-seeing  and  judicious  a  pub- 
lisher as  Mr.  Murray  should  consider  that  the  moment 
had  arrived  when  these  various  materials  might  be  ad- 
vantageously employed  in  the  preparation  of  a  fresh 
work  on  the  general  History  of  Modern  Europe.  The 
four  centuries  treated  of  in  the  present  History  comprise 
the  period  during  which  that  political  unity  which  dis- 
tinguishes modern  Europe  from  the  Europe  of  the 
Middle  Ages  has  been  in  existence ;  but  though  the  com- 
mencement of  this  change  dates  from  the  French  wars  in 
Italy  towards  the  close  of  the  fifteenth  century,  Mr. 
Dye'r  has  adopted  the  generally  received  view  which  re- 
gards the  capture  of  Constantinople  by  the  Turks  as  the 
true  epoch  of  modern  history.  From  this  capture  of 
Constantinople,  therefore,  to  the  Pontificate  of  Leo  X. 
and  the  commencement  of  the  Reformation,  forms  the 
first  of  the  eight  Epochs  or  Books  into  which  the  present 
history  is  divided  ;  and  embraces  the  consolidation  of  the 
great  monarchies  and  the  rudiments  of  the  European 
system.  The  second,  which  gives  down  to  the  Council 
of  Trent,  shows  the  origin  and  progress  of  the  Lutheran 
Reformation.  The  third,  which  concludes  with  the  Peace 
of  Vervins,  contains  one  of  the  phases  of  the  struggle 
between  France  and  the  House  of  Austria,  as  well  as  the 
French  wars  of  religion,  and  the  final  establishment  of 
Protestantism  in  England  and  Holland.  The  fourth,  ex- 
tending to  the  Peace  of  Westphalia  in  1G48,  shows  Ger- 
many settling  down  after  a  thirty  years'  war  into  its 
present  condition,  the  rise  of  the  Scandinavian  king- 
doms as  European  powers,  the  decline  of  Spain,  and 
France  emerging  through  the  policy  of  Richelieu  as  the 
leading  state  in  Europe.  Here  the  work  terminates  for 
the  present.  Two  more  volumes  will  complete  Mr.  Dyer's 
labours.  As  he  has  consulted,  with  great  industry,  the 
best  writers  of  different  countries  —  and  in  many  in- 
stances, original  authorities  —  shown  good  judgment  in 
the  use  of  his  materials,  and  given  ample  references  to 
his  authorities,  the  work  is  calculated  to  supply  the 
place  of  Russell's  Modern  Europe,  both  to  the  general 
reader  and  to  the  historical  student. 

Recollections  of  A.  N.  Welly  Pugin,  and  his  Father 
Augustus  Putjin.  With  Notices  of  Ms  Works.  By  Ben- 
jamin Kerrey,  Architect ;  icith  an  Appendix  In/  E.  Sheri- 
dan Purccll,  Esq.  (Stanford.) 

VVelby  Pugin  has  left  traces  of  his  influence  over  the 
entire  length  and  breadth  of  the  country  — no  where 
more  prominently  than  in  the  beautiful  pile  which  will 
carry  down  to  posterity  the  name  of  Sir  Charles  Barrv, 
the  Palace  of  VVestminster.  While  his  brother  architects 
and  other  admirers  of  Gothic  Art  are  contemplating  a 
public  memorial  to  his  honour,  his  old  friend  and  fellow- 
pupil,  Mr.  Kerrey,  has  collected  into  a  volume  the  strange 
materials  of  his  strange  and  wayward  life.  This  has 
obviously  been  on  Mr.  Ferrey's  part  a  labour  of  love,  and 
the  book  cannot  fail  to  awaken  in  all  who  read  it  an 
increased  admiration  of  Pugin's  genius,  mingled  with  a 
cling  of  considerate  sympathy  for  the  weaknesses  and 
ccentricities  by  which  that  genius  was  accompanied. 


The  Student's  Greece.  A  History  of  Greece.  By  Wil- 
liam Smith.  LL.D.  Twenty-fifth  Thousand.  (Murray.) 

A  History  of  Rome.  With  Chapters  on  the  History  of 
Literature  and  Art.  By  Henry  G.  Liddell,  Dean  of 
Christ  Church.  Eighteenth  Thousand.  (Murray.) 

The  Student's  Gibbon.  The  History  of  the  Decline  and 
Fall  of  the  Roman  Empire,  by  Edward  Gibbon,  abridged 
by  William  Smith,  LL.D.  Sixth  Thousand.  (Murray.) 

The  Student's  Hume.  A  History  of  England,  based  on 
the  History  of  David  Hume,  and  continued  down  to  the 
Year  1858.  Eighteenth  Thousand.  (Murray.) 

In  these  days,  when  everybody  is  expected  to  know 
everything,  Mr.  Murray  has  done  good  service  alike  to 
those  who  are  beginning  to  learn,  and  to  those  who  are 
beginning  to  forget  what  they  have  learned,  by  the  pub- 
lication of  such  ably  compiled  compendiums  as  these 
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trated, and  carefully  indexed,  they  are  models  of  Handy 
Books  for  the  Library," as  well  as  class  books  for  the  study. 
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"  eighteenth  thousand,"  &c.  —  words  "so  sweet  to  the 
ears  of  publishers  —  figure  upon  their  title-pages. 

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Mrs.  Gatty,  both  improving  and  amusing. 

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T.  C.  Whitehead,  M.A.,  Incumbent  of  Gawcott.  (Bos- 
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CONTENTS N°.  3. 

NOTES :  —  Memoir  of  William  Oldys,  Esq.,  Norroy-King-at- 
Arms,  41  —  The  Registers  of  the  Stationers'  Company,  44 

—  Liquorice,  46  —  Gleanings   from  "  The    Statutes  at 
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tian Cabot  —  Sunday  Newspapers  —  The  "  Pare  aux  Cerfs" 
Jefferson  Davis  —  Gregory  of  Paulton,  48 

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The  Passing  Bell  — Redmond  Crest  — St.  Aulaire  —  Tilt 
Family  —  Warner  Pedigree,  50. 

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—  Proba  Falconia  —  Ancient  Games,  53. 

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MEMOIR  OF  WILLIAM  OLDYS,  ESQ., 

NORROY  KING-AT-ARMS. 

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would  do  that  which  might  be  as  agreeable  to  me,  if  I 
would  disengage  myself  from  all  other  persons  and  pur- 
suits." —  Autobiography. 

In  the  following  year  the  Earl  of  Oxford  ap- 
pointed him  his  literary  secretary,  which  afforded 


him  an  opportunity  of  consulting  his  extensive 
collections,  and  thus  gratifying  his  predilection 
for  bibliographical  researches.  During  his  brief 
connection  with  this  "  Ark  of  Literature,"  he  fre- 
quently met  at  the  Earl's  table  George  Vertue, 
Alexander  Pope,  and  other  eminent 'literary  cha- 
racters. These  three  short  years  may  be  regarded 
as  among  the  most  happy  of  his  chequered  exist- 
ence. We  have  from  his  own  pen  the  following 
plaintive  record  of  his  daily  pursuits  at  this  time : 

"  I  had  then  also  had,  for  several  years,  some  depend- 
ence upon  a  nobleman?  who  might  have  served  me  in  the 
government,  and  had,  upon  certain  motives,  settled  an 
annuity  upon  me  of  twenty  pounds  a  year.  This  I  re* 
signed  to  the  said  nobleman  for  an  incompetent  consider- 
ation, and  signed  a  general  release  to  him,  in  May,  1738, 
that  I  might  be  wholly  independent,  and  absolutely  at 
my  Lord  Oxford's  command.  I  was  likewise  then  under 
an  engagement  with  the  undertakers  of  the  Supplement 
to  Bayle's  Dictionary.*  I  refused  to  digest  the  materials 
I  then  had  for  this  work  under  an  hundred  pounds  a 
year,  till  it  was  finished  ;  but  complied  to  take  forty  shil- 
lings a  sheet  for  what  I  should  write,  at  such  intervals  as 
my  business  would  permit :  for  this  clause  I  was  obliged 
to  insert  in  the  articles  then  executed  between  them  and 
myself,  in  March  the  }'ear  aforesaid  ;  whereby  I  reserved 
myself  free  for  his  lordship's  service.  And  though  I  pro 
posed,  their  said  offer  would  be  more  profitable  to  me 
than  my  own,  yet  my  lord's  employment  of  me,  from  that 
time,  grew  so  constant,  that  I  never  finished  above  three 
or  four  lives  for  that  work,  to  the  time  of  his  death.  All 
these  advantages  did  I  thus  relinquish,  and  all  other  de- 
pendence, to  serve  his  lordship.  And  now  was  I  em- 
ployed at  auctions,  sales,  and  in  writing  at  home,  in 
transcribing  my  own  collections  or  others  for  his  lord- 
ship, till  the  latter  part  of  the  year  1739;  for  which 
services  I  received  of  him  about  150  pounds.  In  Novem- 
ber the  same  year  1  first  entered  his  library  of  manuscripts, 
whereunto  I  came  daily,  sorted  and  methodised  his  vast 
collection  of  letters,  to  be  bound  in  many  volumes;  made 
abstracts  of  them,  and  tables  to  each  volume;  besides 
working  at  home,  mornings  and  evenings,  for  the  said 
library.  Then,  indeed,  his  lordship,  considering  what 
beneficial  prospects  and  possessions  I  had  given  up,  to 
serve  him,  and  what  communications  I  voluntarily  made 
to  his  library  almost  every  day,  by  purchases  which  I 
never  charged,  and  presents  out  of  whatever  was  most 
worthy  of  publication  among  my  own  collections,  of 
which  he  also  chose  what  he  pleased,  whenever  he  came 
to  my  chambers,  which  I  have  since  greatly  wanted,  I 
did  thenceforward  receive  of  him  two  hundred  pounds 
a-year,  for  the  short  remainder  of  his  life.  Notwith- 
standing this  allowance,  he  would  often  declare  in  com- 
pany before  me,  and  in  the  hearing  of  those  now  alive, 
that  he  wished  I  had  been  some  years  sooner  known  to 
him  than  I  was;  because  I  should  have  saved  him  many 
hundred  pounds.  \ 

"  The  sum  of  this  case  is,  that  for  the  profit  of  about 
5007. 1  devoted  the  best  part  of  ten  years'  service  to,  and 
in  his  lordship's  library;  impoverished  my  own  stores  to 
enrich  the  same ;  disabled  myself  in  my  studies,  and  the 
advantages  they  might  have  produced  from  the  publick ; 
deserted  the  pursuits  which  might  have  obtained  me  a 


*  By  the  Supplement  to  Bayle's  Dictionary  is  meant  A 
General  Dictionary,  Historical  and  Critical,  Lond.  1734-41, 
fol.,  10  vols.,  and  which  included  that  of  Bayle.  Dr. 
Birch  was  the  principal  editor,  assisted  by  the  Rev.  John 
Peter  Bernard,  John  Lockman,  and  George  Sale, 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62. 


permanent  accommodation;  and  procured  the  prejudice 
and  misconceit  of  his  lordship's  surviving  relations.  But 
the  profits  I  received  were  certainly  too  inconsiderable  to 
raise  any  envy  or  ill  will ;  tho'  they  might  probably  be 
conceive'd  much  greater  then  they  were.  No,  it  was  what 
his  lordship  made  me  more  happy  in,  than  his  money, 
which  has  been  the  cause  of  my  greatest  unhappiness 
with  them ;  his  favour,  his  friendly  reception  and  treat- 
ment of  me ;  his  many  visits  at  my  chambers ;  his  many 
invitations  by  letters,  and  otherwise,  to  dine  -with  him 
and  pass  whole  evenings  with  him  ;  for  no  other  end,  but 
such  intelligence  and  communications,  as  might  answer 
the  inquiries  wherein  he  wanted  to  be  satisfied,  in  relation 
to  matters  of  literature,  all  for  the-  benefit  of  his  library. 
Had  I  declined  those  invitations,  I  must,  with  great  in- 
gratitude, have  created  his  displeasure;  and  my  accept- 
ance of  them  has  displeased  others." 

It  is  painful  to  record,  that  the  Earl  of  Oxford, 
when  Oldys  entered  his  service,  had  involved 
himself  in  pecuniary  difficulties  whilst  collecting 
one  of  the  choicest  and  most  magnificent  private 
libraries  in  this  kingdom.  Vertue,  in  one  of  his 
Commonplace-books,  under  the  date  of  June  2, 
1741,  thus  feelingly  laments  the  embarrassed  cir- 
cumstances of  the  Earl :  — 

"  Mv  good  Lord,  lately  growing  heavy  and  pensivekm 
his  affairs,  which  for  some  years  has  mortified  his  nifml. 
It  lately  manifestly  appeared  in  his  change  of  complexion  ; 
his  face  fallen;  his  colour  and  eyes  turned  yellow  to  a 
great  degree;  his  stomach  wasted  and  gone ;  and  a  dead 
weight  presses  continually,  without  sign  of  relief,  on  his 
mind.  Yet  through  all  his  affliction  1  am,  from  many 
reasons  and  circumstances,  sensible  of  his  goodness  and 
generosity  to  those  about  him  that  deserved  his  favour. 
I  pray  God  restore  his  health  and  preserve  him:  it  will 
be  a  great  comfort  to  his  good  lady,  her  Grace  his  daugh- 
ter, and  all  his  relations  and  obliged  friends." 

A  fortnight  afterwards  Vertue  thus  pathetically 
laments  his  loss  :  — 

"The  Creator  of  all  has  put  an  end  to  his  life.  The 
true,  noble,  and  beneficent  Edward  Earl  of  Oxford  and 
Earl  Mortimer,  Baron  of  Wigmore,  born  2nd  of  June, 
i*8,  and  died  the  16th  of  June,  1741.  A  friend  noble' 
generous,  good,  and  amiable  ;  to  me,  above  all  men,  a  true 
friend  :  the  loss  not  to  be  expressed."  * 

We  have  seen  that  Oldys's  salary  as  librarian 
was  200?.  per  annum.  At  the  death  of  the  Earl 
he  received  what  was  due  to  him,  amounting  to 
about  three  quarters  of  a  year's  exhibition^  on 
which  he  lived  so  long  as  it  lasted.  His  prospects 

.  this  time  must  have  been  gloomy  indeed,  for  he  , 
was  again  compelled  to  renew  his  connection  with  I 
the  metropolitan  publishers.      For  the  next  four-  i 
teen  years  until  he  received  an  appointment  in  i 
Heralds    Office,    he  continued    to   earn    his  ! 
read  by  literary  drudgery  for  the  booksellers    i 
s  scattered- fragments  of  ancient  lore  that  have  ' 
leaped  the  ravages  of  time  are  a  proof  of  his  la-  ' 
bonous  application  in  literary  researches-  his  pen 
was  continually  at  work  either  in  writino-  pam- 
phlets, prefaces,  essays,  or  in  his  favourite  pursuit 
biographical  memoirs.     «  Some  men,"  says  Dean 
hwift,     know  books  as  they  do  lords  ;  learn  their 
*  Addit.  MS.  23,093,  pp.  22,  23. 


titles  exactly,  and  then  brag  of  their  acquaint- 
ance:" Hot  so  William  Oldys.  His  abstracts  and 
critical  notices  of  works  of  our  early  English  lite- 
rature in  the  British  Librarian,  as  well  as  his 
other  numerous  productions,  afford  a  remarkable 
proof  of  his  rare  industry,  intelligence,  and  wit. 

In  1742,  Mr.  Thomas  Osborne  the  bookseller 
having  purchased  for  the  sum  of  13,000/.  the  col- 
lection of  printed  books  that  had  belonged  to  the 
late  Earl  of  Oxford,  and  intending  to  dispose  of 
them  by  sale,  projected  a  Catalogue  in  which  it 
was  proposed,  "that  the  books  shall  be  distributed 
into  distinct  classes,  and  every  class  arranged  with 
some  regard  to  the  age  of  the  writers  ;  that  every 
book  shall  be  accurately  described  ;  that  the  pecu- 
liarities of  editions  shall  be  remarked,  and  obser- 
vations from  the  authors  of  Literary  History 
occasionally  interspersed,  that,  by  this  Catalogue, 
posterity  may  be  informed  of  the  excellence  and 
value  of  this  great  Collection,  and  thus  promote 
the  knowledge  of  scarce  books  and  elegant  edi- 
tions." The  learned  Michael  Maittaire  was  pre- 
vailed upon  to  draw  out  the  scheme  of  arrange- 
ment, and  to  write  a  Latin  Dedication  to  Lord 
Carteret,  then  Secretary  of  State.  The  editors 
selected  by  Osborne  were  Dr.  Johnson  and  Wil- 
liam Oldys,  men  eminently  qualified  to  carry  out 
the  undertaking. 

In  this  painful  drudgery  both  editors  were  day- 
labourers  for  immediate  subsistence,  not   unlike 
Gustavus  Vasa,  working  in  the  mines  of  Dale- 
carlia.     What  Wilcox,  a  bookseller  of  eminence 
in  the  Strand,  said  to  Johnson,  on  his  first  arrival 
in   town,  was  now  almost  confirmed.     He   lent 
him  five  guineas,  and  then  asked  him,  "  How  do 
you  mean  to  earn  your  livelihood  in  this  town  ?  " 
"  By  my  literary  labours,"  was  the  answer.     W7il- 
cox,  staring  at  him,  shook  his  head:   "By  your 
literary  labours  !     You  had  better  buy  a  porter's 
knot."     In  fact,  Johnson,  while  employed  by  Os- 
borne in  Gray's  Inn,  may  be  said  to  have  carried 
a  porter's  knot.  He  paused  occasionally  to  peruse 
the  book  that  came  to  his  hand.    Osborne  thought 
that  such  curiosity  tended  to  nothing  but  delay, 
and  objected  to  it  with  all  the  pride  and  insolence 
of  a  man  who  knew  that  he  paid  daily  wages.*  <• 
Ralph    BigLind,    Bluemantle,   related    to    John 
Charles  Brooke,  Somerset  Herald,  that  "  Osborne 
had   informed   him,    that   he    would   have   given 
Oldys  10«.  6d.  per  diem  if  he  would  have  written 
for  him;  but  his  indolence  (!)  would  not  let  him 
accept  it."  f     If  this  offer  was  made  during  the 

*  Drake's  Essays  on  Periodical  Papers,  i.  157,  ed.  1809  ; 
and  Hawkins's  Life  of  Dr.  Johnson,  p.  150,  ed.  1787. 
"  f  ^'otes  by  John  Charles  Brooke  in  his  De  vitis  Fecia- 
Hum,  a  MS.  now  in  the  College  of  Arms.  Brooke  was  ap- 
pointed Rouge  Croix  in  1773  ;  and  Somerset  in  1778 ;  he 
was  not,  therefore,  a  contemporary  officer  in  the  college 
with  Oldys,  so  that  his  statement"  must  have  been  from 
hearsay. 


3'*  S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


compilation  of  the  catalogue,  it  is  evident  that 
the  publisher  exacted  from  his  editors  more  work 
than  could  possibly  be  accomplished  in  a  specified 
time,  for  the  number  of  books  to  be  read  and 
digested  amounted  to  no  less  than  20,748  volumes. 
Hence  the  failure  of  the  original  scheme  as  ju- 
diciously propounded  by  Maittaire.  Our  two 
unfortunate  editors,  in  their  joint  and  seemingly 
interminable  labour,  whilst  grappling  with  this 
solid  battalion  of  printed  books,  gained  little  more 
for  their  pains  than  the  dust  with^  which  (so 
long  as  their  drudgery  lasted)  they  were  daily 
covered. 

As  literary  curiosities,  it  is  now  difficult  to 
discriminate  between  the  notes  of  Dr.  Johnson 
and  those  of  Oldys.  The  "  Proposals  "  for  print- 
ing the  Bibliotheca  Harleiana  are  clearly  from  the 
pen  of  the  Doctor,  as  we  are  informed  by 
Boswell,  who  adds,  that  "his  account  of  that 
celebrated  collection  of  books,  in  which  he  dis- 
plays the  importance  to  literature  of  what  the 
French  call  a  catalogue  raisonne,  when  the  sub- 
jects of  it  are  extensive  and  various,  and  it  is 
executed  with  ability,  cannot  fail  to  impress  all 
his  readers  with  admiration  of  his  philological  at- 
tainments. It  was  afterwards  prefixed  to  the  first 
volume  of  the  Catalogue,  in  which  the  Latin  ac- 
counts of  books  were  written  by  him."*  We  incline 
to  the  conjecture  that  the  bibliographical  and  bio- 
graphical remarks  in  Vols.  I.  and  II.  are  by  Dr. 
Johnson :  and  those  in  Vols.  III.  and  IV.  by  Oldys. 
The  fifth  volume,  1745,  is  nothing  more  than  a 
Catalogue  of  Osborne's  unsold  stock. 

Osborne's  original  project  of  an  annotated  Cata- 
logue, as  we  have  said,  proved  a  failure.  In  the 
Preface  to  Vol.  III.  he  informs  the  public  of  its 
cause : — 

"  My  original  design  was,  as  I  have  already  explained, 
to  publish  a  methodical  and  exact  Catalogue  of  this 
library,  upon  the  plan  which  has  been  laid  down,  as  I 
am  informed,  by  several  men  of  the  first  raak  among  the 
learned.  It  was  intended  by  those  who  undertook  the 
work,  to  make  a  very  exact  disposition  of  all  the  subjects, 
and  to  give  an  account  of  the  remarkable  differences  of 
the  editions,  and  other  peculiarities,  which  make  any 
book  eminently  valuable;  and  it  was  imagined,  that 
some  improvements  might,  by  pursuing  this  scheme,  be 
made  in  Literary  History.  With  this  view  was  the  Cata- 
logue begun,  when  the  price  [5s.  per  volume]  was  fixed 
upon  it  in  public  advertisements ;  and  it  cannot  be  denied, 
that  such  a  Catalogue  would  have  been  willingly  purchased 
by  those  who  understood  its  use.  But,  when  a  few  sheets 
had  been  printed,  it  was  discovered  that  the  scheme  was 
impracticable  without  more  hands  than  could  be  pro- 
cured, or  more  time  than  the  necessity  of  a  speedy  sale 
would  allow.  The  Catalogue  was  therefore  continued 
without  Notes,  at  least  in  the  greatest  part ;  and,  though 
it  was  still  performed  better  than  those  which  are  daily 
offered  to  the  public,  fell  much  below  the  original  de- 
sign." f 

*  It  is  also  printed  in  the  Gentleman's  Maaazine  for 
Dec.  1742,  vol.  xii.  p.  636. 
t  The  most  copiously  annotated  Catalogue  of  modern 


Whilst  the  Catalogue  was  progressing,  Osborne 
issued  Proposals  for  printing  by  subscription 
The  Harleian  Miscellany :  or,  a  Collection  of 
scarce,  curious,  and  entertaining  Tracts  and  Pam- 
phlets found  in  the  late  Earl  of  Oxford's  library, 
interspersed  with  Historical,  Political,  and  Criti- 
cal Notes.  It  was  proposed  to  publish  six  sheets 
of  this  work  every  Saturday  morning,  at  the 
price  of  one  shilling,  to  commence  on  the  24th  of 
March,  1743-4.  The  "Proposals,"  or  "  An  Ac- 
count of  this  Undertaking,"  as  well  as  the  Pre- 
face to  this  voluminous  work,  were  from  the  pen 
of  Dr.  Johnson  :  the  selection  of  the  Pamphlets 
and  its  editorial  superintendence  devolved  upon 
Oldys.  This  valuable  political,  historical,  and 
antiquarian  record,  and  indispensable  auxiliary  in 
the  illustration  of  British  history,  included  a  cata- 
logue of  539  pamphlets,  describing  tbe  contents  of 
each,  and  this  alone  occupied  164  quarto  pages. 
It  was  published  in  eight  volumes,  4to,  1744-46, 
and  republished  by  Thomas  Park,  with  two  sup- 
plemental volumes,  in  1808-13.  Park,  in  a  letter 
to  Sir  Samuel  Egerton  Brydges,  dated  June  15, 
1 807,  bears  the  following  honourable  testimony  to 
the  labours  of  his  predecessor  :  —  "  My  additions 
to  the  notes  of  Oldys  in  the  Harleian  Miscellany 
will  not  be  very  numerous ;  for  no  editor  could 
ever  have  been  more  competent  to  the  undertak- 
ing than  he  was ;  but  a  successive  editor  must 
seem  at  least  to  have  done  something  more  than 
his  predecessor."  * 

It  was  the  original  intention  of  the  publishers 
to  print  three  additional  volumes  to  this  edition, 
though  motives  afterwards  occurred  which  induced 
them  to  depart  from  it.  Park,  writing  to  Sir  S.  E. 
Brydges  on  Jan.  28,  1813,  says,  "  I  presume  you 
have  heard  from  our  friend  Haslewood  that  my 
projected  course  in  the  Harleian  Supplement  has 
been  suddenly  arrested,  and  that  the  work  is  to 
stop  with  vol.  X.,  half  of  which  will  be  occupied 
with  Indices.  This  has  painfully  disconcerted  my 
views,  and  rendered  a  considerable  portion  of  my 
preparations  useless."  f 

"  Next  in  point  of  merit  to  the  contributions 
of  Oldys  to  British  biography,"  writes  our  valued 
correspondent,  MR.  BOLTON  CORNET,  "  must  be 
placed  his  publications  in  bibliography.  Those 
which  are  best  known  are  much  esteemed,  but  there 
is  one  which  has  never  received  its  due  share  of 
commendation.  It  is  entitled  A  copious  and  exact 
catalogue  of  pamphlets  in  the  Harleian  Library,  etc. 
4°,  pp.  168.  This  catalogue  was  issued  in  frag- 
ments with  the  Harleian  Miscellany,  in  order  to 
gratify  the  subscribers  with  an  opportunity  of 
being  their  own  choosers  with  regard  to  the  con- 
tents of  that  important  collection ;  but  as  the 


times  is  that  of  M.  Guglielmo  Libri,  whose  surprising 
collection  was  sold  by  Messrs.  Sotheby  and  Wilkinson  in 
April,  May,  and  July,  1861. 
*  Addit.  MS.  18,916,  p.  21".  f  Ibid,  p.  84. 


44 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[3'd  S.  L  JAN.  18,  '62. 


•ignatures  and  numerals  are  consecutive,  it  forms 
a  separate  volume.  The  pamphlets  described 
amount  to  548.  The  dates  extend  from  1511 
to  1712,  but  about  two-thirds  of  the  number  were 
printed  before  1661.  The  titles  are  given  with 
unusual  fulness,  and  the  imprints  with  sufficient 
minuteness.  The  number  of  sheets  or  leaves  of 
each  pamphlet  is  also  stated.  The  subjects  em- 
braced are  divinity,  voyages  and  travels,  history, 
biography,  polite  literature,  etc.  etc. — A  catalogue 
of  books  or  pamphlets,  if  it  requires  a  sharp  eye, 
is  mere  transcription,  but  in  this  instance  we 
have  about  440  notes,  of  which  many  are  sum- 
maries of  the  contents  of  the  articles  in  question, 
drawn  up  with  remarkable  intelligence  and  clear- 
ness, anil  interspersed  with  curious  anecdotes.  It 
is  a  choice  specimen  of  recreative  bibliography. 
Chalmers  has  omitted  to  notice  this  volume,  and 
so  has  Lowndes.  The  copy  which  I  possess  was 
formerly  in  the  library  of  Mr.  Isaac  Reed,  and  at 
the  sale  of  his  books  in  1807  it  was  purchased  by 
Mr.  Heber  for  2Z.  3s.  It  cost  me  no  more  than 
Ss.  6d." 

A  copy  of  this  valuable  Catalogue  in  the  li- 
brary of  the  Corporation  of  London  formerly  be- 
longed to  Dr.  Michael  Lort,  who  has  written 
the  following  note  in  it :  "  This  account  was 
drawn  up  by  the  very  intelligent  Mr.  Oldys.  It 
is  very  seldom  to  be  found  compleat  in  this  man- 
ner. Many  curious  particulars  of  literary  and 
biographical  history  are  to  be  found  in  it.  I  paid 
5*.  for  it.  Feb.  18,  1772."  This  Catalogue  has 
been  reprinted  by  Mr.  Park  in  the  last  edition  of 
the  Harleian  Miscellany,  vol.  x.  pp.  357-471. 
(To  be  continued.} 


THE  REGISTERS  OF  THE  STATIONERS' 
COMPANY. 

{Continued from  2nd  S.  xii.  p.  515.) 

Primo  Februarij  [1590-1].  —  Richarde  Jones. 
Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  The  Triumphes  of  the 
Churche,  contcyninge  the  spiritual/,  songes  and  holie 
himnes  of  godlie  men,  Patriarkes  and  Prophetic s. 

vjd. 

_  [This  is  doubtless  Michael  Drayton's  earliest  produc- 
tion, although  it  came  out  with  "a  somewhat  different 
title,  viz.  "  The  Harmonic  of  the  Church,  containing  the 
•p.r.tuall  Songes  and  Holy  Hvmnes  of  godlv  men?  Pa- 
triarkes and  Prophetes,  by  M.  D.  London/printed  bv 
Richard  Ihones,  &c.  1591,"  8vo.  It  is  needless  to  say 
more  regarding  it,  as  it  was  reprinted  bv  the  Percy 
Society  m  1843,  and  again  by  the  Roxburghe  Club  in 
Dravton  1  *  number  of  other  rare  early  poems  by 

vi'°die  Feb.  — Rob.  Dexter.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  Gulidmi  Salustij  Bartassij  hebdomadas. 
Dedicated  to  her  Matie  .......  vjd. 

[A  translation  of  Du  Bartas  into  Latin;  the  Dedi- 


cation to  the  Queen'may  show  that  it  was  printed  when 
it  was  brought  for  entry.] 

Edward  White.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  A 
mournfull  dittye,  shewinge  the  cruelty  of  Arnalt 
Cosby  in  murderinge  the  lord  Burgh,  the  14  of 
January,  1590 vjd. 

PAt  page  514  of  the  last  volume  we  gave  the  title  of  an 
earlier  publication  by  White  upon  this  subject.  We  know 
of  no  extant  copy  of  this  "  mournful  ditty."] 

9  Febr.  —  Wm  Ponsonbye.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  A  booke  intituled  the  Countesse  of 
Pembroohe's  Ivye  Churche  and  Emanuel  .  vjd. 

[Two  works  by  Abraham  Fraunce  are  here  entered  to- 
gether, but  they  ought  to  have  been  separately  paid  for. 
Thev  came  out  in  1591,  4to.,  and  are  tedious  specimens  of 
English  hexameters.  The  author  was  patronised  by  the 
Sidne3's,  and  through  their  influence  became  solicitor  in 
the  Court  of  the  Marches  of  Wales :  we  shall  hear  of  him 
again.] 

16  Febr. — Tho.  Kelson.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  A  ballad  entituled  All  the  merrie  praiikes  of 
him  that  whippes  men  in  the  high  waies  .  .  vid. 

25  Febr.— Wm  Wright.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  A  booke  entituled  Frauncis  Fayre  weather. 

vj«. 

[We  can  offer  no  explanation  of  this  entry,  which  may 
have  been  some  prognostication,  may  have  related  to 
public  affairs  in  France,  or  may  possibly  have  been  an- 
other work  by  Abraham  Fraunce.  At  all  events  it  haa 
not  survived.] 

xxvj  Februarij. — Richard  Feilde.  Entred  unto 
him  for  his  copie,  &c.  A  booke  entituled  John 
Harringtons  Orlando  furio so,  fyc.  .  .  .  vja. 

[The  earliest  appearance  of  Ariosto's  work  in  English, 
and  printed  by  Field  in  folio  1591.  Great  difference  of 
opinion  prevails  regarding  the  merit  of  this  translation, 
which  was  so  popular  that  it  was  reprinted  in  1607  and 
1634,  in  the  last  instance  with  the  addition  of  Sir  John 
Harington's  four  books  of  Epigrams.  The  truth  is,  that 
the  version  is  very  unequal  —  sometimes  admirable  and 
exact,  sometimes  careless  and  coarse,  and  sometimes  with 
the  lawless  insertion  of  original,  not  only  lines,  but  en- 
tire stanzas.  Nevertheless,  it  is  throughout  an  excel- 
lent example  of  idiomatic  English.  Many  of  the  epigrams 
were  written  long  subsequently  to  the  first  impression  of 
the  translation,  and  one  of  them  is  upon  the  portrait  of 
the  author  and  his  dog,  as  engraved  in  1591.] 

1  Marcij.— Tho.  Gosson.  Entred  for  his  copie. 
A  ballad  of  A  yonge  man  that  went  a  woynge,  SfC. 
Abell  Jeffes  to  be  his  printer  hereof,  provyded 
alwayes  that  before  the  publishing  thereof  the 
undecentnes  be  reformed vjd. 

[The  above  is  crossed  out  in  the  book,  and  in  the  margin 
the  clerk  wrote  —  "  Cancelled  out  of  the  book  for  the  un- 
decentnes of  it  in  diverse  verses."  Various  ballads  of  the 
kind  have  been  preserved,  bait  none  of  them,  that  we  are 
aware  of,  are  very  faulty  on  the  score  of  indecency :  one 
now  before  us  begins ;  — 

"  Come,  all  young  lads  and  fair  maids, 

Now  listen  unto  me : 
I'll  not  tell  you  a  tale  of  maremaids, 
Or  any  such  thing  of  the  sea ; 


I.  JAN.  18, '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


45 


But  I'll  tell  you  how  a  young1  man 
Paid  court  to  a  girl  with  wit, 

Who  oft  with  her  speech  had  stung  man, 

But  at  last  in  her  turn  was  bit." 

The  whole  is  sprightly  and  pleasant,  and  seems  to  refer 
to  some  previous  popular  production  relating  to  "  mer- 
maids, svrens,  and  fair-ones  of  the  deep."  It  certainly 
cannot  be  the  production  to  which  the  entry  relates, 
which  was  most  likely  never  printed,  because  the  "  un- 
decentness  "  was  not  "reformed."] 

Mr.  Robert  Walley.     Allowed  unto  him  these 
copies  folowinge,  which  were  his  father's,  viz.  : 
The  Sheplierdes  Calender. 
Cato  in  English  and  Latyn. 
The  Proverbes  of  Salomon,  Inglish. 
Salust  and  bellum  Jugurthinum. 
Mr.  Graftons  computation. 
Mr.  Rastelles  computation. 
Esopes  fables i  English. 
Josephus  de  bello  Judaico,  English. 
Robyn  Conscience iiij*. 

[  The  Shepherd's  Calendar  was  not  a  reprint  of  Spenser's 
Pastorals,  but  of  the  old  Shepherd's  Calendar  which  had 
long  preceded  them,  and  the  title  of  which,  as  E.  K.  in- 
forms us,  Spenser  had  adopted  in  1579.  "  Cato  in  Eng- 
lish "  was  of  course  a  school-book.  The  third  and  fourth 
•works  explain  themselves ;  and  nearly  the  same  may  be 
said  of  Grafton's  and  Rastell's  Chronicles. 


Fables  in  English  "  had  originally  been  printed  by  Cax- 
ton  in  1484 ;  but  John  Walley  or  Waley,  the  father  of 
Robert,  had  published  an  edition  of  them  without  date  — 
"  London,  printed  by  Henry  Wykes  for  John  Waley  "  in 
8vo.  Thos.  Lodge  made  a  translation  of  Josephus,  but  it 
did  not  come  out  until  1602,  folio.  Robin  Conscience 
must  mean  the  old  interlude,  of  which  only  a  fragment 
remains  to  us,  and  which  we  find  entered  to  Charlwood 
on  15  Jan.  1581-2.  For  an  account  of  it  see  Hist.  Engl 
Dram.  Poetry,  ii.  402.  On  3  August,  1579,  John  Walley 
had  entered  "the  second  booke  of  Robyn  Conscyence, 
with  ij  songes  in  iij  partes."  See  Reg.  Stat.  Soc.  (printed 
by  the  Shakspeare  Society),  vol.  ii.  pp.  97, 155.  Martin 
Parker  at  a  much  later  date,  1635,  wrote  a  chap-book 
which  he  entitled  Robin  Conscience,  or  Conscionable  Robin 
his  Progresse  through  Court,  City,  and  Country  :  it  was  in 
ballad  measure.] 

Ultimo  Marcij  [1591].— Henrie  Haslop.  En- 
tred unto  him  for  his  copie,  a  ballad  wherein  is 
discovered  the  great  covetousness  of  a  miserable 
Usurer,  and  the  wonderfull  liberalise  of  his  Ape, 
&c vjd. 

[In  the  margin  opposite  the  above  is  written :  "As- 
signed to  Wm  Wright,  9  Aprill,  1591;"  and  accordingly 
we  meet  with  it  again  under  that  date,  and  with  some 
variation  of  title.] 

Secundo  Aprilis.  —  Rich.  Christian.  Entred 
unto  him  for  his  copie,  &c.  A  ballad  entituled  A 
Colliers  Cavet  to  his  friend  to  perswade  to  shewe 
the  likefollie  his  fancy  e  hath  made.  .  .  .  vjd. 

[Evidently  alluding  to  some  previous  publication.  See 
also  the  entry  under  date  of  the  17th  April.  Rich.  Chris- 
tian is,  we  believe,  a  new  name  in  the  trade.] 

9  April.  —  Willm.  Wright.  Entred  for  his 
copie  by  warrant  from  Mr  Cawood,  and  Henry 
Hasselops  consent,  A  ballad  intitled  A  warnings 


to  worldlinges,  discoveringe  the  covetousnes  of  a 
usurer  and  the  liberality  of  his  ape  .  .  .  iiij4. 
[See  3L  March.  We  can  easily  imagine  the  subject  of 
this  ballad,  in  which  an  ape  must  have  wantonly  scat- 
tered abroad  the  gold  which  a  miser  had  scraped  to- 
gether.] 

17  April.  —  Richard  Jones.  Entred  to  him  for 
his  copie,  &c.  the  Colliers,  misdowtinge  of  f order 
strife,  made  his  excuse  to  An.net  his  wife,  8fc.  iiijd. 

[Clearly  a  sequel  to  the  ballad  which  had  been  re- 
gistered by  Christian  on  2  April:  there  the  husband 
complains  to  a  friend,  and  here  he  apologises  to  his  wife.] 

Abell  Jeffes.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  The 
honorable  accions  of  that  most  worthie  gent.  Ed- 
ward Glemham,  of  Benhall  in  Suff.,  Esquier,  with 
his  most  valiant  conquestes  againste  the  Spaniardeg. 

vj«. 

[This  tract  has  been  reprinted  in  modern  times,  but 
the  original  is  so  scarce  that  Mr.  Grenville  was  obliged 
to  content  himself  with  a  copy  of  the  reprint.  (See  Gren. 
Cat.  i.  276.)  Glenham  appears  to  have  continued  his 
triumphs,  and  we  have  before  us  what  we  believe  to  be  a 
unique  account  of  his  farther  victories,  his  subsequent 
imprisonment  in  Barbary,  and  his  final  romantic  chal- 
lenge of  his  enemies.  We  copy  the  full  title  of  it:  — 
"  Newes  from  the  Levane  Seas.  Discribing  the  many 
perrilous  events  of  the  most  woorthy  desirving  Gentle- 
man, Edward  Glenham,  Esquire.  His  hardy  attempts  in 
honorable  fights  in  great  perril.  With  a  relation  of  his 
troubles,  and  indirect  dealings  of  the  King  of  Argere  in 
Barbarie.  Also  the  cause  of  his  imprisonment,  and  hys 
challenge  of  combat  against  a  Stranger,  mayntaining  his 
Countries  honour.  Written  by  H.  R.  At  London,  Printed 
for  William  Wright.  1594,"  4to.  It  occupies  24  B.  L. 
pages,  and  relates  to  a  voyage  of  adventure  undertaken 
in  1593  by  Glenham,  in  his  ship  the  Gallion  Constance.] 

Wm  Jones.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  The 
Shepherdes  Starr  e,  frc.,  dedicated  by  Tho.  Brad- 
shaw  to  Therle  of  Essex vjd. 

[Ritson  (Bibl.  Poet.  138)  informs  us  that  this  piece 
was  licensed  to  Richard  Jones  in  1590,  but  it  is  a  mistake 
both  as  to  the  name  and  year.  The  full  title  of  this  most 
rare  poem  runs  thus :  "  The  Shepherd's  Starre,  now  of  late 
seene,  and  at  this  hower  to  be  observed  merveilous  orient 
in  the  East,  which  brings  glad  tydings  to  all  that  may 
behold  her  brightness.  London,  Printed  by  R.  Robinson. 
1591."  4to.] 

xxx°  Aprilis,  1591.— John  Wolfe.  Entred  unto 
him  for  his  copies,  iij  little  bokes  of  fishing,  to  bee 
translated  out  of  dutche,  vjd.  Item,  A  controversie 
betweene  the  fleas  and  women,  fyc vjd. 

[This  curious  memorandum  is  preceded  by  a  wholly 
uninteresting  enumeration  of  eleven  books  on  cookery, 
brewing,  alchemy,  &c.  The  Controversy  would  have  been 
very  amusing  if  it  had  come  down  to  our  time.  No  such 
early  "little  booka  of  fishing"  are  mentioned.] 

ijdo  die  Maij.— John  Wolfe.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  Articles  of  agrement  upon  the  yeildinge 
of  Grenoble,  and  advertisements  out  of  province  to 
the  French  Kinge.  Together  with  twoo  ballettes, 
thone  of  the  besiegingey  and  thotherofthe  yeildinge 
of  Chartres. 

[Historical  tracts  and  ballads  of  great  interest,  if  they 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62. 


could  be  recovered.  Such  publications  were  the  fore- 
runners of  newspapers,  and,  under  the  date  of  1594,  we 
shall  have  to  notice  one  by  Wolfe  on  the  capture  of^Gro- 
ningen.] 

3  Maij.  —  Ric.  Jones.  Entred  for  his  copie  in 
full  court,  Brytons  Bowers  of  delightes  .  .  vjd. 

[In  our  last  article  we  were  in  error  in  not  recognising 
as  Nicholas  Breton's  work  The  Pilgrimage  to  Paradise  :  we 
were  misled  by  the  date  of  the  entry,  for  the  only  known 
copies  of  the  production  are  of  1592,  and  were  printed  at 
Oxford,  though,  as  we  see,  entered  in  London  in  1590-1. 
Breton's  (here  spelt  Brytons.)  Boure  of  Delights  was  pub- 
lished by  Richard  Jones  in  1591,  but  he  seems  surrep- 
titiously to  have  obtained  the  manuscript  from  which  he 
printed  it.  It  again  came  from  the  press  in  1597,  and  was 
extremely  popular.] 

H.  Carre.  Entred  for  his  copies  twoo  ballades. 
Thone  entitled  A  godly  newe  ballad  discribinge  the 
uncertainty  of  this  present  Lyfe,  the  vanities  of  this 
cduring  world,  and  the  Joyes  of  Heaven,  Sfc.,  and 
thother  A  godly  newe  ballad,  wherein  is  shewed 
thinconveniency  that  commeth  by  the  losse  of  tyme, 
andhowe  tyme  past  cannot  be  called  againe  .  xijd. 

xij°  Maij.— John  Kydd.  Entred  unto  him,  &c. 
A  ballad  entitled,  Dedaringe.  the  noble  late  done 
acte*  and  deedes  of  Mr.  Edward  Glemham,  a  Suf- 
folk gent.,  uppon  the  seas,  and  at  St.  Georges  lions, 
fc-  ; vjd. 

[This  was  merely  a  ballad,  and  it  was  probably  founded 
upon  the  tract  a  little  above  noticed.  We  shall  have 
more  to  say  of  John  Kydd,  the  publisher,  hereafter,  as 
V^u  other  of  Thomas  Kydd,  the  celebrated  author  of 
"  The  Spanish  Tragedy."] 

J.  PAYNE  COLLIEB, 


LIQUORICE. 

This  word  and  the  corresponding  Fr.  reglisse 
have  undoubtedly  the  same  origin.     It  is  agreed 
on  all  hands  that  they  are  derived  from  yXvK6ppfa 
the  Gr.  name  for  this  root ;  or  at  any  rate  from  its 
component  parts  y\VKfo  and  filfa     How  then  has 
is  apparently  very   great  dissimilarity  of  form 
arisen?     No  explanation   has,   that   I   know  of 
been   attempted.      Nobody  has  troubled  himself 
ibout  the  matter.     The  Engl.  lexicographers  do 
»t  mention  reglisse ;  the  Fr.  lexicographers  do 
at  mention  liquorice.     Still  a  sort  of  explanation 
may  be  gathered  from  their  works.     Our  country- 
men   g,ve   ^fofa   and   ajso  7Aw,,y   &nd      ^ 
Ihe  French  do  not  mention  the  first,  no  doubt  on 
account  of  its  apparently  great  want  of  resem- 
blance, but  content  themselves  with  giving  fta 
and7A^   By  comparing  the  two  we  arrive  at 
the  conclusion  that  liquorice  and  reglisse  are  in- 

w?(Td  /  ,-xac;tIy  the  sai-  »»K 

what  w./irrf  »,  the  one  is  hut  in  the  other 

•  the 


With  regard  to  liquorice,  the  Engl.  lexicogra- 
phers are  undoubtedly  right.  y\vi{6ppi£a  became  in 
Mod.  Gr.  y\vK6ppi$a.  From  this  the  7  was  thrown 
away  as  in  the  Lat.  lac,  lactis,  from  the  Gr.  7<xAa, 
yd\aKTos,  and  the  Engl.  like  from  the  Germ.  Gleich; 
and  the  remainder  Xvicoppify  (lycorrhiza)  has  be- 
come liquorice.  The  older  spelling  licorice  is 
therefore  more  correct. 

With  regard  to  reglisse,  let  us  compare  its  equi- 
valents in  the  cognate  and  other  languages.  In, 
Ital.  it  is  regolizia,  but  also  liquirizia  ;  in  Span. 
regalicia,  regaliza,  regaliz  ;  in  Port,  regaliz  ;  in 
Prov.  commonly  regalissi,  but  also  rescalici,  re- 
galisia,  regalussia,  recalissa,  recalissi  ;  in  Germ. 
Lakritze  (Siissholz). 

But,  if  we  compare  all  these  forms,  esp.   the 
Ital.  liquimziA,  the  Sp.  regahciA.,  regahzA,  and 
the  Germ.  LaknnzE  with  the  Engl.  HCORICE,  we 
are,  I  think,  forced  to  the  conclusion  that  the  ter- 
mination, i.  c.  that  part  of  the  word  which  follows 
the  medial  I  or  r,  is  in  all  cases  of  the  same  origin 
as  the  ice  in  our  licorice,  and  that  therefore  it  is 
part   of  p'/fa*,  and  does   not  correspond,  as  the 
French  would  have  us  believe,  to  the  VKUS  (yhys  or 
ihis)  of  y\vKvs.     But,  if  this  be  so,  if  the  second 
half  of  the  word  in  all  cases  contains  the  ifa  of  p#a, 
how  does  it  come  that  the  word  in  many  instances 
begins  with  an  r?     Is  this  too  a  part  of  #£o? 
and  if  so,  how  did  it  become  separated  from  the 
rest  of  the  word  ?     Yes,  it  is  the  p  of  pffo  and  it 
has  merely  undergone  a  dislocation  or  transposi- 
tion.   If,  in  the  Ital.  regolizia  we  change  the  place 
of  the  r  and  the  /,  we  obtain  legorizia,  and  if  we 
do  the  same  to  the  Prov.  recalissi,   we  obtain 
lecarissi 
with 
original. 

I  do  not  think  that  transpositions  of  this  sort 
are  common.  I  cannot,  at  the  present  time,  recall 
one  of  exactly  the  same  nature.  I  can  only  quote 
the  Arabic  _jj  (zowj),  husband,  wife,  for  which 
in  common  conversation  )jz~-  (jowz)f,  strictly 
speaking,  a  nut,  walnut,  is  used.  Thus  a  wife  will 
say  to  her  husband  (  jowzee),  my  walnut,  in- 


> the  same  to  the  Prov.  recalissi,  we  obtain 
tcarisri  —  words  very  similar  to  licorice,  though, 
mh  the  exception  of  the  termination,  less  like  the 


stead  of  ^>-jj  '(zowjee),   my  husband,  although 
she  no  doubt  makes  use  of  the  transposition  un- 


*  Compare  Gr. 
(aruza);  Arab.    . 


;   Talmud, 


(orez), 


, 

(.urz  or  uruz,  aruzz  or  uruzz),  or   ; 

(ruzz)  ;  Mod.  Gr.  p^t,  Fr,  riz,  with  our  equivalent,  rfce* 
Uinously  enough,  in  Span.,  besides  the  forms  given  above 
m  the  text,  we  also  find  orozuz,  meaning  —  not  rice 
(which  is  arroz}  -  but  liquorice  Can  there  then  be  any 
connection  between  Spvfr  and  p£a? 

M*  Pbfi87m  nufc  be  found  in  the  Iwdcons.  I  had  it  from 
name  aUth°r  °f  the  Arabic  Dict  bcarinS  his 


3"»  S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62.] 


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47 


consciously,  through  force  of  habit,  and  the  idea  of 
a  walnut  never  crosses  her  mind.     But  walnut  is 

never  called  «-jJ  (zowj). —  Letters  are,  however, 

frequently  transposed  in  the  body  of  a  word. 

But  why  in  reglisse  (if  originally  legrisse)  have 
the  r  and  the  I  been  transposed,  and  not  the  I 
and  (he  g,  when  we  should  have  had  gelrixse  or 
gelarisse  ?  I  think  because,  as  a  rule,  the  initial, 
or  other  letters  of  different  syllables  are  more 
likely  to  be  transposed  than  two  letters  in  the 
same  syllable.  *  I  therefore  divide  reglisse^  reg- 
lisse (for  regalisse=Prov.  regalissi)  and  not  re- 
glisse. 

It  is  possible,  however,  that  no  transposition  has 
taken  place  at  all.  R  and  I  so  frequently  inter- 
change that  reglisse  may  have  been 'derived  from 
legrisse  (comp.  Germ.  Lakritze)  by  the  mere  sub- 
stitution of  an  r  for  the  J,  and  an  /  for  the  r. 

F.  CHANCE. 


GLEANINGS  FROM  «  THE  STATUTES  AT 
LARGE." 

19  Henry  VII.  cap.  11.  (Private).  —  "  An  Act  for  the 
Attainder  of  James  Touchett,  Knight,  Lord  Audley, 
Edmond  Earl  of  Suffolk,  and  divers  others  confederate 
with  Piers  Warbeck." 

1  Hen.  VIII.  cap.  12.  —"Concerning  untrue  Inquisi- 
tions procured  by  Empson  and  Dudley." 

1  Hen.  VIII.  cap.  15.— "An  Act  adnulling  of  all 
Feoffments  made  to  Empson  and  Dudley." 

4  Hen.  VIII.  cap.  7. —"An  Act  of  Restitution  for 
Thomas  Empson,  son  of  Sir  Rich.  Empson." 

32  Hen.  VIII.  cap.  17.—  "  An  Act  for  Paving  of  Algate, 
High  Holborn,  Chancery  Lane,  Gray's  Inn  Lane,  Shoe 
Lane,  and  Fetter  Lane." 

1  Edw.  VI.  cap.  1.  —  "  An  Act  against  such  Persons  as 
shall  unreverently  speak  against  the  Sacrament  of  the 
Altar,  and  of  the  Receiving  thereof  under  both  Kinds." 

I  Mary,  cap.  6. — "  An  Act  for  the  Repairing  of  a  Causey 
betwixt  Bristol  and  Gloucester." 

1  &  2  Philip  &  Mary,  cap.  4.  —  "  An  Act  for  the 
Punishment  of  certain  Persons  calling  themselves  Egyp- 
tians." 

23  Eliz.  cap.  13.—"  An  Act  for  the  Inning  of  Earith  and 
Plumstead  Marsh." 

3  James  I.  cap.  25.  (Private).  —  "  An  Act  for  the  Na- 
turalizing of  Sir  David  Murray,  Knt.,  Gentleman  of  the 
Prince  his    Bedchamber,    and    Thomas    Murray,  Esq., 
Schoolmaster  to  the  Duke  of  York." 

4  James  I.   cap.  4.    (Private).  —  "  An  Act  whereby 
Richard  Sackville,  Esq.,  is  enabled  to  make  a  Surrender 
unto  the  King's  Majesty  of  the  Offices  of  Chief  Butler  of 
England  and  Wales,  notwithstanding  his   Minority  of 
Years." 

18  James  I.  cap.  1.  (Private).—"  An  Act  containing 
the  Censure  given  in  Parliament  against  Sir  Giles  Mom- 
pesson.  Sir  Francis  Mitchell,  Francis  Viscount  Saint  Al- 
bane,  Lord  Chancellor  of  England,  and  Edward  Flood." 

15  Chas.  II.  cap.  12.  (Private).  —  "  An  Act  to  enable 

*  At  one  school  I  was  at  it  was  a  very  favourite  amuse- 
ment with  some  of  the  boys  to  make  transpositions  of  this 
sort,  and  we  always  instinctively  followed  this  law.  Thus 
turbot  would  inevitably  become  burtot,  and  not  rutbot; 
wedlock,  ledwock,  and  not  dewlock. 


Edward,  Marquess  of  Worcester,  to  receive  the  Benefit 
and  Profit  of  a  Water-commanding  Engine  by  him  in- 
vented, one-tenth  Part  whereof  is  appropriated  for  the 
Benefit  of  the  King's  Majesty,  his  Heirs  and  Successors." 
27  Chas.  II.  cap.  4.  (Private).  —  "An  Act  granting  a 
Licence  to  His  Highness  Prince  Rupert,  Duke  of  Cum- 
berland, for  Thirty-one  Years." 

The  earlier  statutes  from  Magna  Charta  are  all 
of  archaeological  interest ;  and  I  have  omitted 
many  subsequent  acts  for  fear  of  encroaching  too 
far  on  your  space.  W.  H.  LAMMIN. 

Fulham. 


CHIEF  JUSTICES  QUONDAM  HIGHWAYMEN. 

In  the  Gentleman's  Magazine  for  January,  1861, 
appeared  an  article  founded  upon  the  Criminal 
Records  oftJie  County  of  Middlesex,  and  affording 
from  that  original  source  some  curious  illustra- 
tions of  the  morality,  manners,  and  costume  of 
the  reigns  of  Elizabeth  and  James  I.  The  writer, 
however,  in  dressing  them  up  for  what  is  now- 
deemed  the  approved  fashion  of  periodical  litera- 
ture, has  launched  forth  into  some  statements  so 
startling  and  so  apparently  "  o'erstepping  the 
modesty  of  nature,"  that  it  seems  necessary  to 
pursue  him  with  the  cry,  Whither  so  fast  ?  Among 
other  assertions  that  are,  perhaps,  to  be  taken  cum 
grano,  he  has  confidently  put  forth  the  follow- 
ing:— 

"  Men  of  birth  and  education  were  not  ashamed  to 
seek  in  the  meanest  artifices  of  the  gamester,  and  in  the 
wild  excitement  of  the  road,  plunder  with  which  to  de- 
fray their  tavern  bills,  or  squander  upon  the  newest  trap- 
pings of  fashion Eminent  courtiers 

had  been  recognised,  in  spite  of  their  masked  faces,  on 
the  road ;  even  the  dignity  of  justice  was  marred  by  the 
fact  that  some  of  her  administrators  had  in  their  youth 
followed  such  vicious  ways.  Sir  Roger  Cholmeley  and 
Sir  Edward  Popham  were  both  said  to  have  occasionally 
practised  as  gentlemen  highwaymen." 

Now,  "  the  romance  of  history "  is  all  very 
well,  and  in  these  days  we  are  pretty  much 
accustomed  to  its  vagaries ;  but  still,  when  there 
is  an  affectation  to  support  extravagant  gene- 
ralities by  real  examples,  and  historical  names 
are  brought  forward  to  bear  them  out,  it  is  time 
to  endeavour  to  arrest  the  progress  of  such  daring 
adventurers.  Nor  can  it  be  done  too  soon  :  for 
these  bold  and  confident  assertions  deceive  the 
unwary,  by  whom  they  are  in  good  faith  copied 
and  repeated.  Such  has  already  been  the  case  in 
the  present  instance  :  for  my  attention  has  been 
directed  to  the  passage  in  the  Gentleman's  Maga- 
zine by  its  having  been  adopted  among  the  argu- 
ments employed  by  Mr.  Sainthill  in  his  recent 
essay  discussing  the  History  of  the  Old  Countess 
of  Desmond. 

It  is,  therefore,  worth  while  to  inquire  what  are 
the  facts  with  regard  to  Sir  Roger  Cholmeley  and 
Sir  Edward  Pophara.  Did  they  occasionally 


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[8*1  S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62. 


practise  as  gentlemen  highwaymen?  or  was  it 
even  ever  said  that  they  had  done  so  ? 

The  aspersion  on  Sir  Roger  Cholmeley  ^is 
avowedly  founded  on  an  anecdote  related  of  him 
by  Roger  Ascham  in  his  Schoolmaster,  of  which 
the  whole  is  as  follows  :  — 

"It  is  a  notable  tale,  that  old  Sir  Roger  Chamloe, 
sometime  chief  justice,  would  tell  of  himself.  When  he 
was  ancient  in  inn  of  court  certain  young  gentlemen 
were  brought  before  him  to  be  corrected  for  certain  mis- 
orders,  and  one  of  the  lustiest  said,  Sir,  we  be  young  gen- 
tlemen ;  and  wise  men  before  us  have  proved  all  fashions, 
and  yet  those  have  done  full  well.  This  they  said  be- 
cause it  was  well  known  that  Sir  Roger  had  been  a  good- 
fellow  in  his  youth.  But  he  answered  them  very  wisely; 
Indeed  (saith  he)  in  youth  I  was  as  you.  are  now;  and  I 
had  twelve  fellows  like  unto  myself,  but  not  one  of  them 
came  to  a  good  end.  And  therefore  follow  not  my  ex- 
ample in  youth,  but  follow  my  counsel  in  age,  if  ever  ye 
think  to  come  to  this  place,  or  to  these  years  that  I  am 
come  unto,  lest  you  meet  either  with  poverty  or  Tyburn 
in  the  way." 

(Mr.  Foss,  Lives  of  the  Judges,  v.  294,  has 
quoted  this  anecdote  from  Seward's  Anecdotes,  iv. 
275,  and  followed  a  misreading,  proved  of  all  fac- 
tionn,  instead  of  "  proved  all  fashions.") 

This  story,  it  will  be  perceived,  relates  to  "cer- 
tain misorders"  committed  by  "certain  young 
gentlemen"  whilst  members  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  for 
which  disorders  Cholmeley,  acting  as  one  of  the 
ancients,  or  senior  benchers,  reproved  them,  like 
the  head  or  tutor  of  a  college  at  Cambridge  or 
Oxford  might  now  reprove  his  undergraduates^  Ho 
warned  them  that  they  were  on  the  road  to  ruin, 
and  might  ultimately  arrive  at  the  gallows ;  but 
he  did  not  even  hint  that  they  had  "  taken  to  the 
road,"  in  the  sense  of  the  last  century.  In  the 
version  of  the  writer  in  the  Gentleman's  Magazine 
the  story  is  misrepresented  as  describing  "  a  party 
of  wild  young  fellows  being  taken  before  chief  jus- 
tice Cholmeley,  one  of  whom  had  the  effrontery  to 
remind  the  judge  of  his  early  irregularities:"— 
misleading  the  reader  to  imagine  the  scene  of  the 
altercation  to  have  been  a  court  of  law,  where  the 
young  men  were  arraigned  as  criminals.  But 
>ere  is  no  intimation  whatever  in  Ascham's  anec- 
their  misdemeanours  having  as  yet  reached 
that  liability.  Cholmeley  confesses  to  his  youn* 
friends  that  he  too  «  had  been  a  good-fellow  in  his 
Youth;  but  it  is  the  first  time  (and  let  us  hope 

held  I6  'I6  Ia9t).t mt  a  «™*-Mow  has  been 
held  to  be  all  one  with  a  highwayman  ! 

was  about  to  proceed  to  examine  the  second 

mmple,-that  of  Chief  Justice  Popham,  whose 

true  name  was  Sir  John,  not  Sir  Edward  ;  but  on 

referring  to  the  late  Lord  Campbell's  Lives  of  "he 

CtitfJuto**,     hnd  that  he  is  actually  answer! 

,     "the  full  extent,  for  all  that  is   alleged 

Mwazr  °P  iff  y  the-Wrifer  in  ^  GrthSS* 
Magaztne.  Before  saying  more,  therefore,  I  be-, 
to  inquire  whether  Lord  Campbell's  astoundinS 
assertions  relative  to  Popham  (Lives  of  the  Chlf 


'  Justices,  edit.  1849,  vol.  i.  pp.  209-211),  have 
already  been  subjected  to  critical  investigation  ? 
If  not,  it  is  certainly  fit  that  they  should  be ;  and 
I  will  undertake,  in  that  case,  to  do  my  part  to- 
wards  it.  JOHN  GOUGH  NICHOLS. 


Minor 

ON  THE  DEGREES  or  COMPARISON. — Gramma- 
rians have  explained  to  us  how  adjectives  in  the 
comparative  and  superlative  forms  express,  in  a 
greater  and  the  greatest  degree,  the  quality  of  the 
positive ;  as  from  long  we  have  longer  and  longest ; 
meaning  more  long  and  most  long.  But  they  have 
omitted  to  point  out  that  smaller  number  of  ad- 
jectives whose  comparative  and  superlative  forms 
express  the  quality  in  a  less  and  the  least  degree. 
These,  as  usual  with  words  unexplained,  they  call 
irregular. 

As  examples  we  have  in  English,  bad,  better, 
best;  or,  less  bad,  least  bad. 

In  Latin  we  have  malus,  melior;  or  bad,  less 
bad;  pius,  pejor,  pessimus,  or  good,  less  good,  least 
good. 

In  some  cases  the  adjective  forms  its  compara- 
tive and  superlative  in  both  ways  with  the  two 
meanings. 

Thus  in  Latin  we  have  magnus,  major,  maxi~ 
mus ;  and  also  magnus,  minor,  minimus. 

In  Greek  we  have  /ueyos,  /uei^wy,  /neyia-ros ;  and 
also  /xeyas,  fifiwv,  (Aeiffros.  Of  these  two  forms  the 
latter  is  at  least  as  regular  as  the  former,  though 
less  usual. 

Possibly  we  might  add  to  these  parvus,  plus, 
plurimus,  and  worthy,  worse,  worst. 

A  little  industry  would  no  doubt  produce  other 
instances  out  of  other  languages. 

It  would  be  difficult  to  trace  the  change  in  the 
human  mind  which  has  led  us  now  not  to  form 
comparatives  and  superlatives  in  this  the  less  usual 
way.  But  in  the  formation  of  our  prepositions 
we  may  trace  a  process  of  reasoning  nearly  akin 
to  this  now  pointed  out.  Thus  in  English  we 
have  off,  over ;  on,  under.  In  Latin  sub,  super. 
In  Greek  viro,  v-rrep.  But  whether  there  is  any. 
thing  analogous  between  the  formation  of  these 
prepositions  from  one  another  and  the  compara- 
tives above  spoken  of,  may  be  doubtful. 

SAMUEL  SHARPE. 

SEBASTIAN  CABOT.  —  The  birth-place  of  this 
individual  has  already  been  questioned  in  your 
columns  (2nd  S.  v.  1,  &c.),  MR.  MARKLAND  con- 
tending that  Bristol  must  be  deprived  of  its  name, 
which  had  "hitherto  (been)  numbered  amongst 
the  natives  and  '  worthies  '  of  that  city."  With 
this  opinion  I  entirely  agreed  at  the  time,  and 
subsequent  research  has  confirmed  me  in  it.  In 
preparing  A  Popular  History  of  Bristol  for  the 
press  a  few  months  since,  I  had  frequent  occa- 


S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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sion  to  correct  the  errors  of  Barrett,  Seyer,  and 
other  writers,  particularly  those  of  an  antiquarian 
and  biographical  character  ;  the  result  of  some  of 
these  corrections  will  probably  appear  in  future 
pages  of  "  N.  &  Q"  In  this  "  labour  of  love"  I 
happened  to  stumble  against  the  following  pas- 
sages, which  are,  I  think,  clear  evidence  of  the 
fact,  that  Sebastian  Cabot  was  a  native  of  Venice 
and  not  of  Bristol.  At  p.  7  of  Hakluytt's  Third 
and  last  volume  of  the  Voyages,  Navigations,  Traf- 
fiqucs,  &c.,  Sebastian  Cabot  is  spoken  of  as  "  a 
valiant  man,  a  Venetian  born ; "  and  subsequently, 
on  the  same  page,  he  says  of  himself  (in  A  Dis- 
course, $c.),  that  "  When  my  father  departed 
from  Venice  many  years  since  to  dwell  in  Eng- 
land, to  follow  the  trade  of  merchandises,  hee 
tooke  mee  with  him  to  the  citie  of  London,  while 
I  was  very  yong  ;  "  some  say  four  years  old.  In 
several  other  places  in  the  same  work,  Sebastian 
Cabot  is  spoken  of  by  different  writers,  such  as 
Baptista  Ramusius,  Peter  Martyr,  and  Francis 
Lopez  de  Gomara,  as  being  "  a  Venetian  borne  ;  " 
this  to  me  is  conclusive  on  the  subject.  But 
further;  in  November,  1858,  the  municipality  of 
Venice  erected  a  marble  bust  of  him  in  their 
Council  Room,  in  the  old  palace  of  the  Doges ; 
and  why,  if  he  was  not  a  native  ?  GEORGE  PRYCE. 
Bristol  City  Library. 

SUNDAY  NEWSPAPERS. — What  would  our  Scot- 
tish friends  say  to  the  following  specimen  of 
American  manners  ?  — 

"  The  town  [of  New  Orleans]  is  liberally  supplied  with 
churches  of  all  denominations.  I  went  one  Sunday  to  a 
Presbyterian  church,  and  was  much  struck  on  my  entry 
at  seeing  all  the  congregation  reading  newspapers."  Seat- 
ing myself  in  a  pew,  I  found  a  paper  lying  alongside  of 
me,  and,  taking  it  up,  I  discovered  it  was  a  religious 
paper,  full  of  anecdotes  and  experiences,  &c.,  and  was 
supplied  gratis  to  the  congregation."  —  Land  of  the  Slave 
and  the  Free,  bv  Hon.  Henry  A.  Murray.  1855.  Vol.  i. 
p.  261. 

K.  P.  D.  E. 

THE  "  PARC  ATJX  CERFS."  — -I  have  lately  been 
reading  a  work  by  Dr.  Cballice  :  — 

«  The  Secret  History  of  the  Court  of  France  under 
Louis  XV.,  edited  from  rare  and  unpublished  Docu- 
ments." 2  Vols.  (Hurst  &  Blackett.) 

In  the  second  volume  (Appendix,  p.  117),  the 
following  passage  occurs  :  — 

"  Madame  de  Pompadour  has  been  repaid  by  England 
for  this  national  insult  by  the  foul  stigma  branded  on  her 
memory  by  English  writers.  In  England  during,  and 
after  the  French  Revolution,  was  propagated  such  abomi- 
nations as  « Le  Pare  anx  Cerfs,  ou  VOrigine  de  Vaffreux 
deficit,  1790.'  We  have  seen  by  the  narrative  (p.  147) 
how  M.  Capefigue's  ro3'alist  researches  have  failed  to  dis- 
cover any  pare  aux  cerfs  at  all." 

The  p.  147  referred  to  by  Dr.  Ch  all  ice,  con- 
tains an  attempt  to  prove  the  extraordinary  asser- 
tion, that  the  pare  aux  cerfs  was  not  an  avowed, 
acknowledged,  licensed  (so  to  say)  house  of  ill- 


fame.  This,  of  course,  no  one  wishes  to  maintain  ; 
but  at  the  same  time  it  is  a  well-known  fact,  that 
young  girls,  decoyed  by  the  Paris  police,  were 
systematically  carried  off  to  the  pare  aux  cerfs  for 
the  gratification  of  the  unprincipled  Louis  XV. 
For  full  details  on  this  disgusting  business,  the 
reader  may  consult  the  edition  of  the  Journal  de 
Barbier,  published  by  M.Charpentier:  Paris,  1857, 
vol.  v.  pp.  360,  372,  373. 

It  is  a  matter  of  regret  that  Dr.  Challice's  chief 
authority,  in  his  otherwise  interesting  work,  should 
be  M.  Capefigue,  of  whom  a  competent  writer  has 
lately  said :  — 

"Son  histoire  de  Philippe  Auguste  est  le  seul  de  ses 
ouvrages  ou  il  y  ait  1'apparence  d'e'tudes  seVieuses." 

On  M.  Capefigue  see  further  an  article  by  the 
late  Ch.  Labitte  in  the  Revue  des  Deux  Mondes, 
Oct.  1,  1839.  GUSTAVE  MASSON. 

Harrow-on-the-Hill. 

JEFFERSON  DAVIS.  —  This  name  has  now  be- 
come celebrated,  as  being  that  of  the  first  Presi- 
dent of  the  Southern  Confederation.  At  an 
election  for  the  borough  of  Great  Yarmouth  in 
1795,  John  Jefferson  Davis,  voted  as  a  freeman 
for  George  Anson,  Esq.,  great-nephew  of  Lord 
Anson,  the  circumnavigator.  The  combination 
of  the  two  names,  Jefferson-Davis,  is  remarkable. 
Can  any  of  your  readers  say,  whether  any  con- 
nexion existed  between  the  family  of  President 
Davis,  and  the  Yarmouth  voter  ?  C.  J.  P. 

GREGORY  OF  PAULTON. — A  biblical  note  con- 
taining a  quotation  from  this  celebrated  father, 
may  possess  some  local  interest,  if  you  would 
kindly  re-produce  it  for  the  benefit  of  my  Paulton 
friends.  The  commentator  (Dr.  A.  Clarke),  in 
illustration  of  the  simile  of  a  "  tinkling  cymbal," 
used  by  the  Apostle,  1  Cor.  xiii.  1.,  proceeds  :  — 

"I  have  quoted  several  passages  from  heathens  of  the 
most  cultivated  minds  in  Greece  and  Rome  to  illustrate 
passages  of  the  sacred  -writers.  I  shall  now  quote  one 
from  an  illiterate  collier  of  Panlton,  in  Somerset ;  and  as 
I  have  named  Homer,  Horace,  Virgil,  and  others,  I  will 
quote  Josiah  Gregory,  whose  mind  might  be  compared  to 
a  diamond  of  the  first  water,  whose  native  splendour 
broke  in  various  places  through  its  incrustations,  but 
whose  brilliancy  was  not  brought  out  for  want  of  the 
hand  of  the  lapidary.  Among  various  energetic  sayings 
of  this  great  unlettered  man,  I  remember  to  have  heard 
the  following :  «  People  of  little  religion  are  always  noisy ; 
he  who  has  not  the  love  of  God  and  man  filling  his 
heart  is  like  an  empty  waggon  coming  violently  down  a 
hill :  it  makes  a  great  noise  because  there  is  nothing  in 
it.'" 

•      F.  PHILLOTT. 


PROPHECIES  OF  ST.  MALACHI  RESPECTING 
THE  POPES. 

What  is  the  date  of  the  earliest  extant  MS. 
copy  of  the  prophecies  of  St.  Malachi  concerning 


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[3rd  S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62. 


the  Popes,  from  Celestine  II.  (A.D.  1143)  to  thi 
Peter  who,  it  is  prognosticated,  will  be  the  las 
occupant  of  the  See  of  Rome  ? 

Jean  Ayraon,  Domestic  Prelate  to  Pope  Inno- 
cent XI.,  in  his  Tableau  de  la  Cour  de  Rome  (see 
the  Hugue  edition  of  1707,  p.  476 — 503),  men- 
tions that  Bale  and  Baronius,  although  unanimous 
in  attributing  a  prophetic  spirit  to  St.  Malachi,  do 
not  include  these  prophecies  in  their  catalogues  o) 
his  works.  Aymon  hints  at  his  own  possession  of 
some  clue  to  their  real  author,  but  refrains  from 
divulging  it  on  the  plea  that  it  would  be  useless 
unless  it  could  at  the  same  time  be  proved  that 
such  author  was  divinely  inspired,  failing  which 
there  would  be  reason  to  doubt  the  truth  of  his 
predictions. 

The  meaning  of  this  reticence  on  Aymon' s  part 
may  be  construed  into  an  indication  that  it  would 
be  inconvenient  to  attribute  these  remarkable  pro- 
phecies to  any  uncanonised  person.  Pic  leaves  the 
question,  therefore,  to  the  exercise  of  his  reader's 
private  judgment,  and  confines  himself  to  pointing 
oat  in  what  works  the  prophecies  attributed  to 
the  Irish  saint  were  first  printed.  He  gives  the 
first  place  to  the  posthumous  work  of  Ciaconius, 
titular  patriarch  of  Alexandria,  who  died  in  1599, 
and  whose  Vita:  et  gesta  Romanorum,  Pontificum  ct 
Cardinalium  was  published  by  Francis  de  Mo- 
rales Cabrera,  in  1601-2.  Aymon  refers,  for 
confirmation  on  this  point,  to  N.  A.  Schot,  author 
of  the  Historic  Bible ;  to  Guilin,  in  his  Theatre  of 
Italian  Letters;  to  De  Thou's  History,  book  U>2; 
and  to  Moreri's  Dictionary ;  in  all  of  which,  as 
well  as  in  other  works,  these  prophecies  are  in- 
serted. 

Writers  preceding  Aymon  had  published  ex- 
planations of  the  fulfilment  of  the  prophecies 
down  to  the  Popes  reigning  at  the  time  they 
wrote.  For  instance,  details  of  the  kind  are  to  be 
found  even  in  such  educational  compilations  as 
Gideon  Pontier'a  Survey  of  the  Present  Slate  of 
Europe  (English  translation  of  1684).  The  latest 
notice  which  I  have  seen  bringing  down  the  ful- 
filled prophecies  to  our  own  times,  was  in  the 
French  Almanac  Prophetique,  which  has  appeared 
annually  since  1840.  The  article  was  in  one  of 
the  earlier  years  of  its  publication,  but  I  did  not 
preserve  it.  Perhaps  some  reader  of  "  K  &  O  " 
mav  have  it  in  his  possession,  if  so  it  would  oblige 
if  he  will  furnish  the  fulfilments,  as  there  ex- 
plamcd,  from  the  period  when  Aymon  leaves  off. 
Ihese  would  include  the  prophecies  •  — 


De  bonu  rellgione    - 
Milts  in  bello 
Columtia  txcelsn 
Minimal  rnrale 
Rosa  Unibria 
Urws  (?)  velox 
I'ercgrinus  npustolicut 
Aquila  rapax 
Canii  tt  coluber 


-  Innocent  XIII. 

-  Benedict  XIII. 

-  Clement  XII. 

-  Benedict  XIV. 

-  Clement  XIII. 

-  Clement  XIV 

-  Pius  VI. 

-  Pius  VII. 

-  Leo  XII. 


Virreligiosus          -  -  -     Pius  VIII. 

De  balneis  Hetruria  -  -     Gregory  XVI. 

The  prophecy  for  the  present  Pope,  Crux  de 
Cruce,  speaks  for  itself. 

I  have  affixed  a  note  of  interrogation  against 
the  prophecy  referring  to  Clement  XIV.,  because 
in  a  MS.  copy  of  these  prophecies  now  before  me 
it  is  rendered  Visus  velox  instead  of  Ursus  velox. 
The  date  of  the  MS.  is  between  1689  and  1691, 
i.  e.  during  the  papacy  of  Alexander  VIII.,  and 
the  colophon  of  the  volume  —  which,  besides  the 
prophecies  and  their  explanation,  contains  brief 
notices  of  the  lives  of  the  popes  from  the  time  of 
St.  Peter  —  is  as  follows  :  "  Le  tout  tres  exacte- 
ment  transcrit  de  tous  les  originaux  qui  sont  k 
Rome."  Query,  in  the  Vatican,  or  in  what  other 
depositary  ?  The  transcriber  has  not  affixed  his 
name  to  the  MS.,  nor  to  the  preface  in  which  he 
dedicates  the  work  to  our  Saviour  in  a  prayerful 
and  reverent  spirit.  The  handwriting  is  one  of 
the  finest  specimens  of  its  kind  that  can  be  seen ; 
and  from  the  style  of  binding  of  the  volume,  tooled 
and  pannelled  with  fleur-de-lis,  it  has  probably 
formerly  been  in  the  possession  of  some  member 
of  the  Bourbon  family.  FRED.  HENDRIKS. 


COINS  INSERTED  IN  TANKARDS.  —  About  a  cen- 
;ury  and   a  half  ago,  as  I  imagine,  it  was  the 
'ashion  to  insert  silver  coins  in  English  glass  tan- 
cards.    Is  anything  known  of  the  makers  of  them, 
and  whether  the  coins  enclosed  are  a  sign  of  the 
date  ?     I  have  two  :  one  containing  a  twopenny 
piece  of  George  II.,    and   another   with  a  half- 
crown  of  Charles  II.     The  design  of  the  two  is 
very  similar,  except  that  the  one  with  the  earlier 
loin  is  not  finished  quite  as  well  as  the  other. 
The  half-crown,  however,  is  rubbed  ;  and  so  must 
lave  been  some  considerable  time  in  circulation, 
which    somewhat    militates    against   the   tankard 
being  contemporary  with  the  coin.     Would  any 
of  your  correspondents  be  kind  enough  to  inform 
us  whether  they  possess  any   such  specimens  of 
glass,  and  the  coins  enclosed  in  them  ?     It  would 
be  of  some  interest  to  those  who  care  about  Eng- 
lish glass  to  have  this  point  settled.  J.  C.  J. 
CRONY.  —  I  have   never  seen  a  derivation  of 
this  word  ;  but  find,  in  Pepys's  Diary  (30th  May, 
1665,)  he  speaks  of  the  death  of  Jack  Cole,  "who 
was  a  great  cJirony  of  mine."     From  the  spelling, 
I  should  fancy  the  word  to  be  an  abbreviation  of 
chronological  —  such  as  Co.  for  Company  ;  demi- 
rep., for  demi-reputation  ;  mob,  for  mobile,  &c.  ; 
and  means  one  of  the  same  time  or  period.  Pepys 
says  he  was  his  school-fellow.  A.  A. 
LEARNED  DANE  ON  UNICORNS.  — 

*T/'7he  fncient  sculptors  carved,  and  the  poets  described 

the  female  deer  and  sheep  as  horned :  indeed,  they  added 

homes    to    many    creatures    which    never    bore   them. 

orned  snakes  were  as  pure  fictions   as  the  phcenLx, 


3r<1  S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62. 


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Maupertuis  says  that  fables  of  horned  things  were  col- 
lected by  a  learned  Dane  at  the  end  of  the  last  century, 
and  published. with  suitable  plates  as  A  Treatise  on  Uni- 
corm." — A  Compendium  of  Natural  History,  Introduction, 
p.  xi.  London,  1763,  8vo. 

The  name  of  the  Danish  writer,  and  any  pas- 
sao-es  from  "the  ancients"  confirmatory  or  ex- 
planatory, will  oblige  F.  R. 

SIB  H.  DAVY  AND  JAMES  WATT. — I  have  heard 
that  Sir  Humphrey  Davy  pooh-poohed  gas-light- 
ing, and  James  Watt  steam  navigation.  Can  any- 
one verify  or  refute  these  statements,  or  either  of 
them  ?  ANTI-POOH-POOH. 

EURIPIDES  AND  MENANDER.  —  In  A  Brief  Out- 
line of  the  History  of  Greece,  by  Robert  Williams, 
A.M.,  London,  1775,  the  author,  noticing  the 
Peioponnesian  war,  says  :  — 

"  Euripides  omitted  no  opportunity  of  placing'a  Spar- 
tan in  a  bad  position,  either  as  ridiculous  or  wicked ;  and 
in  this,  if  we  may  credit  Athenaeus,  he  was  wantonly 
followed  by  Menander."  —  P.  74. 

No  reference  is  given:  Could  one  be  ? 

M.  R.  G. 

"  GOD'S  PROVIDENCE  is  MINE  INHERITANCE." 
—  Everybody  that  has  visited  Chester  must  have 
seen  "  God's  Providence  House  "  in  Water-gate 
Street,  —  one  of  those  curious  gable-fronted, 
timber  houses,  for  which  Chester  is  so  remarkable. 

"  Tradition  avers  that  this  House  was  the  only  one  in 
the  City  that  escaped  the  Plague  which  ravaged  the  City 
during  "the  seventeenth  centurj'.  In  gratitude  for  that 
deliverance,  the  owner  of  the  House  isjsaid  to  have  carved 
upon  the  front  these  words : 

"'1652.  GOD'S    PROVIDKNCE    rs   MINE  INHERITANCE. 
1652.'"* 

I  remember  being  much  struck  with  this  quaint 
and  interesting,  but  decayed  old  mansion,  when  I 
first  visited  Chester  in  1851.  As  I  read  the  beau- 
tiful motto  carved  on  the  cross-beam,  it  occurred 
to  me  that  it  was  possibly  derived  from  some  old 
version  of  the  16th  Psalm,  verse  6  —  "  The  Lord 
Himself  is  the  portion  of  mine  inheritance  .  .  . 
Thou  shalt  maintain  my  lot."  But  the  poor  old 
House  no  longer  affords  a  bright  picture  of  the 
Providence  of  God,  as  doubtless  it  once  did  in  its 
palmy  days ;  it  can  no  longer  take  up  the  next 
verse  and  say —  "  The  lot  is  fallen  unto  me  in  a 
fair  ground  ;  yea,  I  have  a  goodly  heritage  ;  "  it 
now  looks  sordid  and  degraded,  uncared  for,  and 
gloomy,  —  in  a  word,  Disinherited;  and  affords  us 
a  striking  emblem  of  God's  ancient  people  Israel, 
in  their  present  forlorn  and  outcast  state.  And 
yet  it  was  once  a  stately  mansion,  and  the  armo- 
rial bearings  of  its  original  owner  are  still  to  be 
seen  carved  on  one  of  its  beams.  Sic  transit 
Gloria  Mundi !  Ichabod  !  The  Glory  is  departed  ! 
This  might  be  its  motto  and  inscription  now. 

I  was  reminded  of  this  old  house  and  its  in- 


*  From  Mr.  Hughes's  valuable  Handbook  to  Chester. 


scription  the  other  day,  by  meeting  with  the  fol- 
lowing passage  in  Bp.  Burnet's  Sermon,  preached 
Jan.  7,  1691,  at  the  funeral  of  the  Hon.  Robert 
Boyle :  — 

"  1  will  say  nothing  of  the  Stem  from  which  he  sprang ; 
that  watered  garden,  watered  with  the  blessings  and  dew 
of  Heaven,  as  well  as  fed  with  the  best  portions  of  this 
life;  that  has  produced  so  many  noble  plants,  and  has 
stocked  the  most  families  in  these  kingdoms,  of  any  in 
our  age;  which  has  so  signally  felt  the  effects  of  their 
humble  and  Christian  Motto,  GOD'S  PROVIDENCE  is  MY 
INHERITANCE." 

When  did  the  Boyle  family  assume  this  motto  ? 
Any  information  as  to  its  origin  and  history  will 
be  very  acceptable  to  EIRIONNACH. 

MADAME  GUTON'S  AUTOBIOGRAPHT.  —  Who 
translated  the  Life  of  Lady  Guion,  2  vols.  8vo, 
Bristol,  1772  ?  Does  it.  adhere  more  closely  to 
the  original  than  the  mutilated  version  by  T.  D. 
Brooke,  printed  in  1806?  Whas  has  become  of 
the  translation  made  by  Cowper,  and  hitherto  un- 
published ?  Where  may  a  complete  list  of  the 
writings  of  this  gifted  woman  be  found?  DELTA. 

FAMILIES  WHO  TRACE  FROM  SAXON  TIMES.  — 
I  have  occasionally  heard  of  men,  of  the  yeoman 
or  farmer  class,  whose  families  have  held  the  same 
lands  since  the  times  before  the  Conquest,  and  I 
was  told  lately  of  an  instance  in  Berkshire. 

It  would  be  interesting  to  ascertain  the  number 
of  them  in  every  county ;  their  names ;  the  tenure 
by  which  they  have  continued  to  hold  their  lands, 
and  the  nature  of  their  proofs  of  genuine  descent. 

The  descendants  of  the  Norman  followers  of 
William,  upstarts  as  they  were  according  to 
Thierry  in  his  History  of  the  Conquest,  must  yield 
precedence  in  antiquity  to  the  old  Saxon,  and 
drop  the  "De,"  which  many  are  so  proud  to 
prefix  to  their  names  with  very  little  claim  to  the 
distinction. 

A  Saxon  landholder  of  those  days,  being 
stripped  of  his  property,  fell  into  obscurity,  and 
was  thus  saved  from  the  fate  of  their  conquerors, 
who  suffered  from  the  effects  of  many  revolutions 
among  themselves,  as,  I  believe,  that  few,  if  any, 
of  the  Norman  chiefs  left  more  than  their  names 
to  their  successors  after  the  lapse  of  two  centu- 
ries ;  but  on  this  point  I  am  not  qualified  to  give 
an  opinion,  not  having  access  to  reliable  authori- 
ties. 

Charles  II.  is  reported  to  have  said  of  an  old 
Saxon  family,  that  they  must  have  been  fools  or 
very  wise  not  to  have  added  to  their  property 
nor  lost  it.  SASSENACH. 

HARRISONS  or  BERKS.  —  A  little  information  as 
to  the  lineage  of  the  Harrisons  of  Berks,  would 
be  gladly 'received  ?  I  find,  in  Berry,  John  Har* 
rison,  Finchampstead,  Berks :  —  Arms.  Or,  on  a 
chief  sa.  three  eagles  displayed  of  the  field.  Crest, 
Out  of  a  ducal  coronet  or,  a  talbot's  head  of  the 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


r*  S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62. 


last;  date  1623.  Another  coat  of  Harrison  o 
Finchampstead  gives :  Or,  on  a  cross  sa.,  an  eagle 
displayed  with  two  heads  of  the  field.  There  was 
also,  Sir  Richard  Harrison  of  Hurst,  Berks,  who 
married  a  Dorothy  Deane ;  and  about  the  mid- 
dle of  last  century,  a  John  Harrison,  at  Henley- 
on-Thames.  Burke  mentions  a  Sir  Edmund  Har- 
rison of  Lawrence  Poultney  Hill,  who  marriec 
Mary  Fiennes.  She  died  1731 ;  but  I  know  not 
whether  he  was  related  to  the  above.  W.  W 

IRISH  PEERS.  —  Can  you  inform  me  whether, 
before  the  Union,  when  a  peer  of  Ireland  was 
called  on  to  give  evidence  in  an  English  Court  of 
Justice,  he  was  required  to  take  an  oath  ? 

LUMEN. 

JURYMAN'S  OATH. — From  the  trial  of  the  regi- 
cides, as  given  in  the  State  Trials,  it  appears  that 
at  the  time  of  the  Restoration,  the  form  of  the 
juryman's  oath  differed  from  that  now  used,  in  not 
containing  the  words  " according  to  the  evidence" 
The  jurymen  were  sworn  true  verdicts  to  give  ; 
but  not  true  verdicts  to  give  according  to  the 
evidence. 

Does  the  difference  in  form  refer  to  any  differ- 
ence that  may  once  have  existed  in  the  functions 
of  the  jury  ?  Is  there  any  more  ancient  form  re- 
corded than  the  one  used^  at  the  trial  of  the  re- 
gicides ?  LUMEN. 

LETTING  THE  NEW  YEAR  IN.  —  Can  any  reader 
of  "  N.  &  Q."  explain  the  origin  of  the  supersti- 
tion in  reference  to  what  is  called  "  letting  the 
new  year  in"  — which  believes,  that  if  the  kindly 
office  is  performed  by  some  one  with  dark  hair, 
Dame  Fortune  will  smile  on  the  household  ;  while 
it  augurs  ill  if  a  light-haired  person  is  the  first  to 
enter  the  house  in  the  new  year?  It  sounds  like 
a  trick  of  the  witches ;  but  however  it  arose,  it 
stands  its  ground  well,  as  I  found  to  my  cost  no 
longer  ago  than  on  the  morning  of  New  Year's 

^y-  LOCKED-OUT. 

Hnddersfield. 

MATERIALS.— When  different  materials  are  to 

be  used  or  compounded  to  make  something as  a 

pudding  or  an  argument,  what  is  the  old  English 
word  by  which  such  materials  are  signified  ?°  In 
our  time  we  have  materials,  principles,  compon- 
ents, elements,  constituents,  ingredients  :  but  not 
one  of  these  is  English.  Stnffis  an  ingredient, 
but  it  seems  to  apply  chiefly  to  cases  in  which 
there  is  but  one  ingredient ;  as  stuff  for  a  coat  or 
pown  How  would  a  housewife  of  the  time  of 
i-lizabeth  have  signified  that  she  had  been  out  to 
buy  materials  for  the  pudding?  "Stuff  for  the  pud- 
ding, might  have  been  understood  :  and  no  doubt 

der  the  word  garden-stuff,  many  different  ve*e- 
tables  are  signified.  But  where  is  the  word  which 
has  the  distinctive  force  of  ingredients  in  the 
plum-pudding  ?  This  very  word  is  applied  by 
Shakspeare;  but  the  witches,  who  use  it,  were 


engaged,  not  upon  common  cookery,  but  upon 
what  was  in  those  days  a  scientific  process.  Per- 
haps the  word  was  meant  to  work  some  terror,  as 
one  used  by  great  alchemists  and  conjurors  :  if  it 
can  be  proved  to  have  been  a  common  word,  it 
is  an  answer  to  my  query.  But  proof  will  be 
wanted. 

In  recent  times  the  word  makings  has  gained  a 
semi-slang  currency.  This  seems  to  indicate  the 
want  of  a  real  English  word.  A.  DE  MORGAN. 

NAME  WANTING  IN  COLERIDGE'S  "  TABLE- 
TALK."— Coleridge  says  (Table- Talk,  p.  165,  3rd 
edit,  under  the  date  March  31,  1832)  :  — 

"  I  remember  a  letter  from to  a  friend  of  his,  a 

bishop  in  the  East,  in  which  he  most  evidently  speaks  of 
the  Christian  Scriptures  as  of  works  of  which  'the  Bishop 
knew  little  or  nothing." 

The  editor  states,  in  a  note,  that  he  has  lost  the 
name  which  Mr.  Coleridge  mentioned. 

Can  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  supply  it  ?    S.  C. 

THE  PASSING  BELL. — In  Nichols's  Collection  of 
Poems,  London,  1780  (vol.  iii.  p.  201),  is  a  poem 
on  "  The  Passing  Bell."  Who  is  the  author  of  it, 
and  when  was  it  first  published  ?  D. 

BEDMOND  CREST.  —  "A  flaming  cresset,  or  a 
fire-basket  raised  on  a  pole,  being  a  sort  of  signal 
along  the  coast,"  to  serve  for  lighthouses. 

This  was  the  crest  of  the  Duke  of  Exeter,  who 
was  the  heir  presumptive  to  the  throne  of  Eng- 
land, being  of  the  House  of  Lancaster,  by  the 
legitimate  female  line  from  William  the  Con- 
queror. The  Duke's  name  was  Henry  Holland, 
Lord  High  Admiral  of  England  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  VI.  Query,  Is  this  the  crest  of  the  present 
Redmond  family  who  came  from  Normandy  with 
William  the  Conqueror,  and  subsequently  went  to 
Ireland  with  Strongbow  in  the  reign  of  Henry  II., 
where  they  had  immense  possessions  in  Wexford 
nnd  other  places  ?  The  original  name  is  Baymond, 
but  Anglicised  Redmond.  J.  H. 

ST.  AULAIRE.  —  Can  you  direct  me  to  a  copy  of 
the  quatrain,  written  at  ninety  by  St.  Aulaire,  to 
the  Duchess  du  Maine ;  concerning  which  Vol- 
taire said — "  Anacreon,  moins  vieux,  fit  de  moins 
'olies  choses"  ?  It  is  mentioned  in  Temple  Bar, 
or  December.  MORTIMER  COLLINS. 

TILT  FAMILY.  —  The  name  of  Tilt  is  a  very 
rare  one  in  England  :  one  branch  from  Brighton 
s  represented  by  Dr.  Tilt ;  another,  and  between 
which  and  the  former  no  connexion  is  yet  traced, 
came  from  Worcestershire,  and  is  now  extinct  in 
he  male  line  by  the  death  of  Charles  Tilt— the 
millionaire.  I  am  anxious,  for  genealogical  pur- 
poses, to  know  from  which  locality,  in  Worcester- 
shire, the  latter  branch  is  derived,  and  whether 
anything  is  known  of  its  early  history  ?  Also  the 
arms  borne  by  it,  which  (if  I  recollect  aright) 
were  figured  on  the  family  carriage— as  "  A  chev- 


3"«  S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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ron  between  three  roundels  ;  crest,  a  dolphin," — 
although  the  tinctures  are  unknown  to  me.  It 
may  not  be  generally  known  that  this  family  co- 
represents  a  junior  branch  of  the  Protector's 
house.  One  of  the  descendants  of  the  latter  kept 
a  shop  in  Skinner  Street,  Holborn  ;  he  died  leav- 
ing one  or  more  daughters,  from  the  issue  of 
which  the  connexion  is  traced.  I  should  be  glad 
to  know  the  links,  and  whether  the  Tilt  family 
directly  married  a  Cromwell ;  or  whether  it  was 
the  heiress  of  her  descendant  who  brought  the 
representation  to  it.  Several  relics  of  Oliver 
Cromwell  are  in  the  possession  of  the  descendant 
of  a  daughter  of  the  Tilts :  the  most  notable  of 
which  is  a  massive  gold  ring,  with  his  arms,  ini- 
tials, and  date,  engraved  on  it. 

MALCOLM  MACLEOD. 

WARNER  PEDIGREE.  —  Harman  Warner,  aged 
70  in  1586,  is  said  to  have  been  the  father  of 
John  Warner,  Bishop  of  Rochester,  and  of  Anne 
Warner  who  married  Thomas  Lee,  —  whose  son 
was  Archdeacon  of  Rochester.  Wanted  the  name 
of  Harman  Warner's  wife  and  those  of  his  parents, 
with  any  information  as  to  his  ancestors.  G.  H.  D. 


OTHO  VJENIUS  :  JOHN  or  MILAN.  —  I  have  now 
before  me  two  small  books,  about  which  and 
their  authors  I  should  be  glad  if  any  of  your  cor- 
respondents could  give  me  information :  1st,  a 
12mo.  vol.  printed  at  Amsterdam  in  1684,  and 
entitled  Othonis  Vceni  Emblemata  Horatiana.  It 
has  pp.  207,  and  consists  of  engravings  with  de- 
scriptive letter-press,  consisting  of  a  few  lines  of 
Horace  illustrating  the  plates,  and  the  same  me- 
trically rendered  in  German,  French,  and  Dutch. 
2.  A  small  edition  of  Johannes  de  Mediolanus' 
metrical  precepts  of  the  medical  school  of  Salerno, 
edited,  with  curious  comments,  by  Zacharias  Syl- 
vius, a  doctor  of  medicine  in  Rotterdam  ;  printed 
at  Rotterdam  in  1667.  EXON. 

[Otho  Vsenius,  or  Van  Veen,  a  celebrated  painter,  was 
born  at  Leyden  in  1556 ;  studied  at  Rome  under  Fede- 
rigo  Zucchero;  settled  at  Brussels  in  the  service  of 
Alessandro  Farnese,  Duke  of  Parma,  after  whose  death 
he  removed  to  Antwerp,  where  he  had  Rubens  for  his 
pupil.  He  died  at  Brussels  in  1634.  Vsenius  distin- 
guished himself  in  literature  as  well  as  in  the  arts,  for 
besides  Horace's  Emblems,  with  Observations,  he  pub- 
lished A  History  of  the  War  of  the  Batavians  against 
Claudius  dvilis  and  Ctrialis,  from  Tacitus;  The  Life  of 
Thomas  Aqmnas :  The  Emblems  of  Love  Divine  and  Pro- 
fane; and  The  Seven  Twin  Sons  of  Lara,  with  fortv  il- 
lustrations. The  quarto  edition  of  1607  of  Hnratii  Em- 
blemata is  the  most  prized,  because  it  contains  the  first 
impression  of  the  plates.  —  The  Schola  Salerni,  or  Regi- 
men Sanitntis  Salernitnnum,  the  most  celebrated  of  all 
Leonine  Poems,  was  written  by  the  learned  doctors  of 
Salerno,  and  contains  rules  for  the  preservation  of  health, 
and  the  prevention  of  disease,  composed  for  the  use  of 
Robert  of  Normandy,  son  of  William  the  Conqueror,  to 


whom  it  is  dedicated.  No  poem  was  more  popular  in 
the  middle  ages,  and  many  of  its  precepts  are  frequently 
quoted  even  to  this  day.  According  to  Sir  Alex.  Croke 
there  is  some  uncertainty  respecting  John  de  Milano; 
who  he  was,  where  he  lived,  or  what  share  he  had  in  the 
poem  Schola  Salernitana.  There  was  indeed  a  John,  a 
monk  of  Mount  Casino,  said  by  Peter  Diaconus  to  have 
been  a  learned  and  eloquent  physician,  a  disciple  of  Con- 
stantine,  and  to  have  flourished  in  1075,  who  may  be  the 
person  (De  viris  illuxt.  Casinens,  cap.  xxxv.)  He  quitted 
his  monasterj',  and  died  at  Naples,  where  he  deposited  the 
works  of  Constantino.  The  time  and  the  other  circumstances 
do  not  disagree,  but  Peter  Diaconus  does  not  mention  his 
surname,  and  though  he  speaks  of  a  medical  book  of 
Aphorisms  written  by  him,  he  saj's  nothing  there,  or 
any  where  else,  of  the  Schola  Salerni.  His  commentator, 
Zacharias  Sylvius,  was  a  physician  of  Rotterdam,  whose 
dedication  is  dated  in  1648.] 

PHOBA  FALCONIA.  —  The  Cento  Virgilianus  of 
Proba  Falconia  contains  the  history  of  our  first 
parents,  Adam  and  Eve,  and  the  life  of  our  Saviour 
Christ  in  Latin  verse,  selected  from  the  works  of 
Virgil.  My  copy  of  this  singular  work  is  printed 
at  Lugdunum  (Lyons),  by  Stephen  Gorgon,  in 
1615.  The  authoress  was  of  the  Anician  family, 
the  first  of  senatorian  rank  who  embraced  Chris- 
tianity at  the  time  of  Constantino  ;  and  she  is  de- 
scribed in  the  31st  chapter  of  Gibbon's  History 
after  the  fall  of  her  fortunes  in  Rome.  St. 
Jerome,  in  his  epistle  to  Demetriades,  "  De  Ser- 
vanda*  Virginitate,"  declares  she  ought,  "  Om- 
nium Christianorum  laude  celebrari,"  and  extols 
her  conduct  in  the  most  trying  period  of  her  his- 
tory. Is  there  any  other  account  of  this  early 
Christian  poetess  extant,  and  why  are  her  verses 
called  "  Centones  ?  "  THOMAS  E.  WINNINGTON. 

[Some  account  of  this  ingenious  lady  will  be  found  in 
Migne,  Patrolopjiee  Cursus  Completes,  torn.  xix.  p.  802,  ed. 
Paris,  1846.  Migne  cites  Isidorus  Hispanensis  and 
Gelasius,  and  adduces  the  authority  of  Justus  Fontanini 
in  proof  that  the  true  name  of  the  lady  was  Faltonia, 
not  Falconia.  See,  however,  Zedler's  Lexicon,  under 
Falconia. — Cento  is  properly  a  piece  of  patchwork.  Hence 
poems  composed  of  selected  verses  strung  together  were 
often  called  Centones.  "  Cento,  carmen  seu  scriptum  ex 
variis  fragmentis  contextual ;  cujusmodi  plurima  exstant 
notissima."  —  Du  Cange.  ] 

ANCIENT  GAMES.  —  In  looking  over  the  Statutes 
at  Large  in  search  of  an  illustration  of  an  old 
custom  which  I  had  occasion  to  investigate,  I 
noticed  this  enactment,  14  Edw.  IV.  cap.  3  :  — 

"  No  person  shall  use  any  of  the  Games  called  Klosse, 
Half-bowle,  Kayles,  Hand  in  Hand,  or  Queckbord,  upon 
pain  of  two  years'  imprisonment,  and  forfeiture  of  x  li." 

There  are  also  in  the  statutes  a  long  series  of 
enactments  against  unlawful  games,  especially 
"as  causing  injury  to  the  makers  of  bows  and 
arrows."  Amongst  these  occur  the  games  "  Lo- 
getting  in  the  Fields,"  "Slide  Thrift,  otherwise 
called  Shove  Groat."  Can  any  correspondent  say 
what  these  games  were,  or  give  any  account  of 
them  ?  The  court  leets  of  this  ancient  borough 
abound  with  presentations  of  persons  mulcted  in 


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S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62 


the  penalty  incurred  by  the  practice  of  these  un- 
lawful games.  THE  VICAR  OF  LEO^INSTEK. 

[Most  of  these  games  are  noticed  in  Strutt's  Sports 
and  Pastimes.  Klosse,  or  Clash,  is  a  game  at  nine-  pins. 
Half  -bowl,  called  in  Hertfordshire  Rolty-poIIy,  is  a  game 
consisting  of  fifteen  small  pins  of  a  conical  form.  Kayles 
was  also  played  with  pins.  Hand-in-hand  with  Queck- 
bord,  is  not  "explained.  Logetting  in  the  fields,  refers  to 
the  game  of  Loggats,  resembling  kittle-pins.  Slide- 
thrift  or  Shove-groat,  was  probably  analogous  to  the 
modern  pastime  called  Justice  Jervis,  common  in  tap- 
rooms.] 


DR.  JOHN  HEWETT. 

(2nd  S.  xii.  409.) 

MB.  CLARENCE  HOPPER,  and  such  of  the  readers 
of  "  N.  &  Q."  as  have  shared  the  pleasure  with 
which  I  have  read  that  gentleman's  valuable  Un- 
published Biography  of  this  distinguished  Loyalist, 
will  probably  be  interested  in  the  perusal  of  the 
warrant  for  his  execution;  which  has,  I  believe, 
never  been  published,  and  of  which  the  original  is 
now  before  me. 

"  England  to  Wit. 

"  At  the  Court  hoklen  at  Westminster,  the  five  and 
twentieth  day  of  May,  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  one 
thousand  six  hundred  fiftie  and  eight,  before  The  Com- 
missioners appointed  by  virtue  of  a  Commission  under 
the  great  seale  of  England,  in  pursuance  of  an  Act  of  Par- 
liament intituled  an  Act  for  security  of  His  Highness  the 
Lord  Protector  his  person,  and  continuance  of  the  nation 
in  peace  and  safety;  and  continued  by  Adjournment  to 
the  Second  day  of  June,  one  thousand"  six  hundred  and 
fiftie  and  eight. 

"  Whereas,  upon  a  charge  exhibited  before  this  Court 
against  John  Hewet,  Dr  of  Divinity,  the  said  John  Hewet 
is,  and  standeth  convicted,  sentenced,  adjudged,  and  con- 
demned; and  the  said  sentence  the  present  second  da}' 
of  June,  in  the  yeare  of  our  Lord  one  thousand  six  hun- 
dred fiftie  and  eight,  pronounced  against  him  by  the 
Court  to  bee  as  a  Tray  tor  to  His  Highness  the  Lord 
Protector  and  this  Comonwealth  conveyed  back  again 
....  unto  the  Tower  of  London,  and  from"  thence  through 
the  midle^of  the  City  of  London  directly  to  be  drawne 
unto  the  Gallows  of  Tyburne;  and  upon  the  said  gallows 
there  to  bee  hanged  ;  and,  being  alive,  to  be  cutt  downe 
to  the  ground,  and  his  Intralls  to  be  taken  out  of  his 
belly  and  (hee  living)  to  bee  burnt  before  him;  and  his 
head  to  be  cut  off,  and  his  body  to  be  divided  into  four 
quarters;  and  that  his  said  head  and  quarters  should  be 
placed  where  His  Highness  The  Lord  Protector  shall  be 
pleased  to  assigne.  Of  which  sentence  and  Judgment 
Execution  yet  remaineth  to  bee  done.  These  are,  there- 
fore, in  the  name  of  His  Highness  The  Lord  Protector, 
to  will  and  require  you,  the  Sheriffs  of  London  and  Mid- 
dlesex, to  see  the  said  sentence  and  Judgment  executed 
accordingly  on  Saturday,  being  the  fifth  dav  of  this 
instant  month  of  June,  betweene  the  Hours  of  nine  in 
the  morning  and  two  in  the  afternoone  of  the  same  day, 
wall  full  effect.  J> 

"  Signed  in  the  name  and  by  Order  of  the  said  Court, 
"  Jo.  PHELPES, 

„  T    .,     CI  "  Clerk  of  the  said  Court, 

"  To  the  Sheriff  of  London 
and  Middlesex." 


COTGREAVE  FORGERIES. 
(3*  S.  i.  8.) 

Some  years  since  a  lady'sent  me  a  pedigree  of  the 
Shuldhams,  of  Shouldbani  in  Norfolk,  the  adjoin- 
ing parish  to  Shouldham-Thorpe  or  Garbesthorp, 
the  residence  of  the  Butts  family.  It  was  in  the] 
main  a  very  correct  pedigree ;  but  with  it,  on 
a  separate  sheet,  was  another  containing  several 
descents  from  a  Sir  Edmond  de  Shouldhain, 
"  slain  whilst  fighting  in  front  of  the  English  army 
at  the  battle  of  Falkirk."  It  would  seem  the  lady 
I  refer  to  did  not  know  what  to  do  with  Sir  Ed- 
mond, neither  did  I  myself.  The  papers  were 
laid  aside,  and  it  was  not  till  some  time  after  the 
expose  by  Lord  Monson  and  others  that  they  came 
under  my  observation  again,  when  the  accompany- 
ing sheet,  on  re-perusal,  clearly  proclaimed  Mr. 
Spence's  hand-work. 

I  think  S.  T.'s  suggestion  of  a  list  of  Spence's 
fabrications  being  recorded  in  "  N.  &  Q."  very 
good;  and,  in  addition  to  Shouldham,  I  would 
call  attention  to  the  pedigree  of  "  Roundell  of 
Gledstone  and  Screven  "  in  Burke's  Landed  Gen- 
try. A  note  to  this  pedigree  states  that  "  The  early 
descents  of  the  family  of  Roundell  are  inserted  on 
the  authority  of  a  very  ancient  pedigree  of  the 
Cotgreaves,  stated  to  be  the  work  of  the  celebrated 
Handle  Holme,  derived  from  documents  compiled 
by  Camden." 

The  Spencean  origin  of  the  early  part  of  the 
pedigree  will,  I  think,  be  clear  to  any  reader  at 
all  acquainted  with  Spence's  forgeries.  G.  H.  D. 


Various  letters  on  this  subject  have  been  ad- 
dressed to  myself,  by  gentlemen  to  whom  applica- 
tions of  a  similar  nature  to  those  mentioned  in  the 
article  cited  above  were  sent  from  Netherlegh. 
Other  letters  from  the  same  quarter  have  been 
shown  to  me  by  members  of  the  Heralds'  Col- 
lege, to  whom  the  recipients  had  consigned  them. 

One  of  these  letters,  dated  June  10,  1844,  was 
from  a  most  respectable  clergyman  of  Norfolk, 
and  mentions  what  seems  to  have  been  a  further 
attempt  at  imposition.  The  words  are  :  — 

"  Mr.  Spence  has  offered  me  a  book,  which  he  describes 
as  having  been  purchased  of  the  iate  Mr.  Lloyd,  of  Bank 
Place,  Chester,  for  51.  The  title  of  the  book  is  Sir  Peter 
Legh's  Cheshire  Gentry.  It  was  printed  in  1602,  and  was 
a  private  publication.  My  surpi'ise  is,  that  the  book  is 
unknown  at  the  Heralds'  College  and  the  British  Mu- 
seum, and  not  in  any  Catalogue  that  I  can  refer  to." 

This  Sir  P.  L.  would  be  the  owner  of  Lyme 
noticed  in  Wilson's  Journal  and  in  the  notes  to 
the  Lady  of  the  Lake,  in  connection  with  the 
Deer-chase,  and  whose  lady  has  a  monument  at 
Fulham.  As  to  the  book,  however,  I  do  not 
think  that,  if  it  ever  existed  in  a  genuine  form, 
it  could  have  escaped  me,  and  in  such  form,  I 
never  heard  of  its  existence.  LANCASTRIENSIS. 


S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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SOLICITORS'  BILLS. 

(2nd  S.  xii.  245.) 

The  following  is  transcribed  from  the  original 
bill,  and  affords  a  still  older  example  of  legal 
charges  than  that  given  by  MR.  PEACOCK.  As 
will  "be  seen,  Mr.  Bartholemew  Cox  is  the  soli- 
citor, and  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  Wells  are  the 
clients.  The  preservation  of  the  bill  is  desirable, 
as  the  contents  may  assist  future  writers  on  the 
local  history  of  Wells,  in  referring  to  original 
documents  relating  to  an  important  period.  The 
incidental  references  to  "Polidor  Virgill"  are 
also  interesting.  Solicitors  in  modern  times  are 
not  often  found  leaving  the  sum  they  are  willing 
to  receive  to  be  fixed  by  their  clients  as  Mr.  Cox 
has  done. 


"  The  right  WorU  the  Deane  and  Chapter— their 

laid  out  by  me  Barth'ew  Cox. 
DR. 
"  Mich.  7  Car.  R.'s  I. 

For  Search  of  the  Patent  made  to  Edward     £ 
Dyer,  Esq'r,  27»h  Maij  .  .  .  27th  Eliz'h    - 

For  "the  Coppie,  vj  sheets    •• 

For  Searching  the  first  fruits  Office  for  the 
Archdeaconry  of  Welles,  and  the  p'ticu- 
lars of  the  Corps  ... 

For  the  Coppie  and  signing  therof 

For  the  search  for  power  sev'all  Archdea- 
cons - 

For  two  Constats  of  Composic'ons  for  the 
said  Archdeaconry,  —  one  for  Mr  Rugg, 
the  second  for  Mr  D'cor  Wood  - 

For  the  search  of  the  two  Surrenders  of 
Polidor  Virgill,  w'ch  was  26to  Decemb'r, 
An"  38  H.  8 

For  the  Coppie,  10  fol.        - 

For  the  searching  how  the  same  came  out 
of  the  Crowne  to  the  Duke  of  Som'st  by 
E.  vjth,  by  viewing  of  two  sev'all  patents, 
and  an  Indenture  of  Exchange  - 

For  searching  for  the  Indenture  of  Exchang 
wherby  the  Duke  conveyeth  the  same  to 
the  King  .... 

For  taking  a  Coppie  of  the  p'ticulars 

For  searching  for  the  Lres  Patents  made 
vnto  Polidor  Virgill  for  life,  of  the  Arch- 
deaconry -  '".'..-.'  I  | 

For  a  Coppie  therof,  7  sheets 

For  view  of  a  patent  made  vnto  Polidor 
Virgill  to  absent  himselfe  from  the  Arch- 
deaconry, and  to  travell  beyond  the  Seas 

For  search  wether  the  £x  rent  reserved  by 
the  patent  made  to  Dyer  were  any  p't  of 
the  £cxx  vjs.  paiable  yearly  by  the  Dean 
and  Chapter  to  his  Ma' tie,  "and  I  finde  it 
is  not  p't  therof 

For  search  wether  the  £x  rent  (pension) 
were  not  p't  of  the  Xlxij  and  odd  money 
paid  by  the  Deane  and  Chapter  to  the 
King,  and  I  finde  it  is  not  p't  thereof  - 

For  a  Coppie  of  the  two  Records    -  -    j 

For  a  Constat  from  the  Auditor  that  the 
now  Archdeacon  doth  pay  Subsid's 
(tenths  and  Subsidy)  for  Barrow  as 
p'cell  of  his  Archdeaconry 

For  composing  and  writing  two  Breviats 
for  the  Cause,  the  one  for  Mr  Maidwell, 
the  other  for  Mr  D'cor  Wood  - 


Charges 


s.      d. 
xvj 
iiij     viij 


vj  viij 
viij 

xiij  iiij 

j  iiij 

vj  viij 


viij 

j     iiij 
j     "U 

vj    viij 
vj    viij 


For  the  Search  to  see  the  p'ticulars  of  the 

jExlvj  and  odd  money,  payable  by  the 

Deane  and  Chapter  vnto  his  Ma' tie        -  ij 

For  the  Coppie  thereof       ...  j       TJ 

For  the  searching  at  the  Rolles  for  the  Act 

of  Parliament  for  the  RestitucOu  of  the 

Chauntries          ...  j      iiij 

Sum  totall  is    -        -    £v  Os.  xc?. 

For  my  travell  and  charg  herein  I  doe 
humbly  referre  myselfe  to  the  Chapter, 
Certifieinge  hereby  that  I  continewed  my 
paines  herein  by  the  space  of  a  Moneth 

*  or  vpwards  in  London." 

Mr.  Bartholomew  Cox  was  an  attorney  in  good 
repute  in  Wells.  He  was  Town  Clerk  of  Wella 
for  many  years ;  and  so  much  was  his  character 
as  an  intelligent  and  honorable  man  respected, 
and  so  high  was  his  legal  talent  estimated,  that 
the  Corporation  chose  him  as  Mayor  in  1624, 
1632,  1636,  and  1648,  and  on  those  occasions  the 
corporate  body  appointed  a  Deputy  Town  Clerk 
during  Mr.  Cox's  year  of  office.  INA. 


BIBLICAL  LITERATURE:  WILLIAM  CARPENTER 
(2nd  S.  xii.  521.) — MR. CARPENTER'S  attention  has 
just  been  called  to  a  remark  of  yours  affecting 
him,  in  "  N.  &  Q."  His  almost  total  loss  of  sight 
for  some  months  past,  has  kept  him  ignorant  of 
much  of  the  current  literature,  including  "  N". 
&  Q."  In  a  note  which  you  append  to  a  question 
asked  by  MR.  E.  W.  BARTLETT,  you  say,  "  In  a 
review  of  Home  and  Carpenter's  Introduction  to 
the  Study  of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  in  the  Christian 
Remembrancer  for  Jan.  1827,  some  accusations  of 
piracy  and  plagiarism  from  Mr.  Home's  valuable 
work  are  exhibited  against  Mr.  Carpenter." 

MR.  CARPENTER  does  not  complain  of  this  re- 
mark, though  it  seems  to  have  been  uncalled  for, 
in  a  reply  to  MR.  BARTLETT,  but  he  asks  you  in 
justice  to  state,  in  the  next  number  of  "  N.  &  Q..," 
that  the  accusations  of  the  Christian  Remembrancer 
were  very  fully  examined  and,  as  was  said,  refuted 
in  the  Eclectic  Review,  the  Congregational,  Evan- 
gelical, and  Baptist  Magazines,  and  in  other  peri- 
odicals of  that  day,  as  also  in  a  pamphlet  by 
himself,  A  Reply  to  the  Charges  of  Piracy  and 
Plagiarism  against  William  Carpenter,  in  a  Letter 
to  the  Rev.  Hartwell  Home. 

HARRIET  CARPENTER. 

Tudor  House,  Cheyne  Walk. 

COMMISSARIAT  or  LAUDER  (3rd  S.  i.  37.)  —  My 
attention  has  been  drawn  to  a  Note  in  your  num- 
ber of  the  llth  January,  with  reference  to  the 
"  Commissariat  of  Lauder,"  and  I  will  be  glad  if 
you  will  enable  me  to  correspond  with  the  writer 
of  it,  M.G.  F. 

I  have  no  such  Index  as  is  referred  to  in  the 
Note ;  and  am,  of  course,  the  most  likely  person 
to  be  applied  to  in  any  case  in  which  the  Index 
may  be  of  use.  So  it  may  be  advantageous  to 


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[8rd  S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62. 


M.  G.  F.  and  myself,  as  well  as  of  service  to  the 
public,  that  I  should  know  where  such  an  Index 
can  be  found.  ROBERT  ROMANES. 

Commissary  Clerk's  Office,  Lauder, 
13th  Jan.  1862. 

MUFF  (2nd  S.  xii.  391.)  —  There  is  perhaps  no 
nation  upon  the  earth  more  prone  to  giving  nick- 
names than  the  Dutch,  and  (though  I  may  seem 
to  utter  a  paradox)  I  can  confidently  affirm  that 
the  chief  characteristic  of  our  nation  is  irony. 
Wonderful,  indeed,  is  the  appreciation  of  cha- 
racter thereby  displayed  by  our  lower  classes  : 
wonderful  their  deplorable  dexterity  to  hit  the 
hurt  (sore).  I  need  not  tell,  that  there  is  hardly 
a  place  in  the  Netherlands,  be  it  ever  so  small,  but 
has  its  popular  appellative  :  "  Amsterdam  cake- 
eaters"  "  Haarlem  midges"  fyc. 

Thus  it  is  with  the  word  muff,  Belgice  mof,  to 
which  often  the  designation  " groene"  (green)  is 
added;  because  of  the  supposed  uncultured,  fresh, 
and  verdant  state  of  the  person  alluded  to.  Now 
mo/"  is  the  nickname  applied  by  the  natives  of  the 
Low  Countries  to  all  foreigners,  Germans  espe- 
cially :  for,  be  it  further  known,  the  uncivilised 
part  of  our  population  (and  sometimes  those  of 
higher  station !)  cannot  bear  foreigners,  from  not 
being  able  to  understand  them.  The  Dutchman, 
suspicious  as  he  is,  and  always  in  fear  of  being 
Bold,  wants  to  know  what  is  spoken  about :  and 
then  he  is  too  proud  to  confess  that,  when  ad- 
dressed, he  will  not  be  able  to  reply,  from  neither 
catching  the  sense  nor  possessing  the  language. 
So,  he  revenges  himself  by  a  nickname. 

After  this  long  digression,  I  must  come  to  the 
point.  The  German,  in  Holland,  is  saluted  with 
the  interjection  of  "  mof"  or  "  groene  mof!"  be- 
cause our  cultivating  classes  judge  all  Germans 
by  the  Westphalian  specimens,  who,  as  regular 
as  storks,  annually  migrate  to  mow  our  meadows. 
These  are  pronounced  to  be  "  as  green  as  grass  " 
(zoo  groen  als  gnus'),  or  "grass-muffs"  (gras- 
moffen),  and  to  deserve  the  epithet,  which,  in 
its  original  spelling,  muf,  denotes  a  musty,  close 
(here  unwashy)  exhalation.  This,  at  least,  is  the 
alleged  derivation.  And,  as  for  the  German  of 
higher  pretensions  — who,  by  dint  of  incredible 
frugality  and  proverbial  exertion,  succeeds  in 
realising  a  handsome  fortune  in  Holland  —  he  is 
said  by  us,  his  jealous  and  less  fortunate  neigh- 
bours, to  have  arrived  in  our  midst  "floating 
down  the  Rhine  on  a  wisp  of  straw,"  —Hij  is  op 
een  stroowi.sch  aan  komen  drijven. 

It  cannot  be  thought  beyond  the  purpose  to 
add,  that  the  term  muff  will  have  passed  the 
Channel  wit'i  the  motley  troops  of  William  III. 
The  Dutch,  not  being  a  military  nation,  many 
have  been  tu.  muffs,  real  and  supposed,  who  have 
served  in  our  army —German,  English,  Scotch, 
and  Swiss. 


If,  however,  my  verbosity  might  propose  an- 
other origin  for  the  term,  I  would  suggest  that  at 
first  it  was  only  designed  for  the  Russians,  whose 
national  dress,  in  furs  and  muffs  (Dutch  mo/), 
may  as  well  have  elicited  the  designation,  as  the 
fusty  smell  of  Russian  morocco  may  have  deemed 
muf  by  Dutch  noses.  JOHN  H.  VAN  LENNEP. 

Zeyst,  near  Utrecht. 

BISHOPS'  THRONES  (2nd  S.  xii.  249,  350.)  — 
MR.  BUCKTON'S  communication  on  this  subject 
suggests  one  or  two  further  questions.  MR. 
BUCKTON  says  truly,  "Perhaps  no  church  has  ad- 
hered more  pertinaciously  to  its  ancient  practices 
than  the  Greek  or  Oriental."  Are  we  to  under- 
stand by  this  that  the  well-known  arrangement 
of  an  ancient  Basilica,  the  bishop  sitting  in  the 
midst  of  his  Presbyters  at  the  eastern  extremity 
of  the  apse,  is  still  found  in  Greek  churches  ? 

I  think  few  scholars  understand  by  "cancelli," 
the  "  steps  before  the  holy  gates ; "  they  were  the 
rails  or  screen  between  nave  and  choir. 

What  is  the  authority  for  the  statement  that 
the  south-east  corner  is  the  "  seat  of  dignities  ?  " 

The  u  coenobiarcha  "  is  of  course  the  head  of  the 
ccenobiurn,  whatever  its  technical  designation 
might  be,  attached  to  the  church  ;  and  probably 
"  antistes  "  has,  in  this  connexion,  the  same  mean- 


Does  MR.  BUCKTON  mean  to  imply  that  a  me- 
tropolitan would  be  less,  "^purely  ecclesiastical "  if 
he  were  called  "princeps  sacerdotum"  or  "sum- 
mus  sacerdos,"  than  when  called  "primee  sedis 
episcopus  ?  " 

The  question  whether  the  bishop  is  among  the 
Presbyters,  "  primus  inter  pares,"  is  hardly  one 
for  the  pages  of  "  N.  &  Q. ;  "  but  I  should  like  to 
know  the  authority  for  the  statement  that,  "in 
reference  to  the  people  who  elect  him,  he  is  ser- 
vus  servorum  Dei"  P.  C. 

OLD  LIBRARIES  (2nd  S.  xii.  469.)  — I  beg  leave 
to  apprise  your  correspondent  MR.  BLADES  that 
there  is  a  church  library  at  Monk's  Sleigh,  in  the 
county  of  Suffolk,  in  which  it  may  be  worth  his 
while  to  inquire  for  "  Caxtons."  My  remini- 
scences of  this  library  are  only  those  of  a  lad,  but 
I  think  it  worth  while  to  mention  it.  If  my  me- 
mory serves  me  right,  there  are  also  a  few  books 
appertaining  to  the  church  of  Milden  in  the  same 
neighbourhood,  as  well  as  to  Hadleigh. 

There  is  also  a  collection  of  a  few  hundred  vols. 
in  the  vestry  of  St.  James's,  Bury  St.  Edmunds, 
and  a  few  MSS. 

J.  M.  RODWELL. 

83,  Highbury  New  Park. 

ARISTOTLE  ON  INDIAN  KINGS  (2nd  S.  xii.  6,531.) 
—  The  passage  of  Aristotle  on  Indian  kings,  cited 
by  Fordun  from  his  Treatise  de  Regimine  Princi- 
pum,  is  (as  has  been  remarked  by  your  corre- 
spondent MR.  HENRY  BRADSHAW,  and  as  had  been 


: 


3'd  S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


57 


previously  pointed  out  in  a  book-catalogue  of  Mr 
Kerslake  of  Bristol)  to  be  found  in  the  spurious 
Secretum  Secretorum.  Joimlain,  Recherchea  sur  les 
Trnductiom  Latines  d'Aristole  (Paris,  1843,  8vo), 
states  that  the  Secretum  Secretorum  was  in  high  re 
pute  daring  thethirteenth, and  particularly  the  four- 
teenth century ;  that  it  was  translated  into  most 
of  the  languages  of  Europe  ;  and  that  the  original 
of  these  translations  was  a  Latin  version  of  an 
Arab  text  (p.  185).  It  may  be  observed  that 
Fordun  was  a  writer  of  the  fourteenth  century. 
Further  information  respecting  the  origin  of  the 
Secretum  is  given  in  Wenrich,  De  Auctorum  Gree- 
corum  Versionibus  Syriacis,  Arabicis,  Sfc.  Lips. 
1842,  pp.  102,  141-2.  In  p.  141  he  ascribes  the 
translation  in  Syriac  to  Jahja  ben  Batrick,  on 
the  authority  of  Rich.  Neander,  Sanctce  Lingua 
Hebrcea  Erotemata,  p.  558.  Neander  himself, 
however,  appears  to  found  his  statement  on  the 
fact  of  the  translation  being  attributed  to  Johannes 
fil.  Patricii  in  the  printed  edition  of  the  Secretum 
(Bologna,  1516).  The  Latin  MSS.  of  the  Secre- 
tum, with  the  real  or  pretended  prologue  of  ben 
Patrick  or  Joannes  filius  Patricii,  ascend  to  the 
thirteenth  century. 

The  following  is  the  passage  in  question,  from 
sect.  7  of  the  Secretum,  headed,  in  ed.  Paris,  1520, 
"De  Taciturnitate  Regis."  Alexander  is  cautioned 
to  be  reserved  in  his  intercourse  with  his  sub- 
jects :  — 

"Decet  etiam  regem  abstinere  nee  multum  frequen- 
tare  consortium  subditorum ;  et  maxime  viliutn  persona- 
rum,  quia  nimia  familiaritas  hominum  parit  contemptum 
honoris.  Et  propter  hoc  pulchra  consuetudo  Indorum 
in  dispositione  regni  et  ordinatione  regis,  qui  statue- 
runt  quod  rex  tantum  semel  in  anno  coram  hominibus 
appareat,  cum  regali  apparatu  et  armato  exercitu;  Se- 
dens  nobilissime  in  dextrario  suo,  ornatu  armorum  pul- 
cherrime  decoratus.  Et  stare  faciunt  vulgus  aliquantu- 
lum  a  remotis,  nobiles  yero  et  barones  circa  ipsum.  Et 
tune  solet  ardua  negotia  expedire ;  varios  et  praecinctos 
rerum  eventus  declinare ;  curam  et  operam  quam  circa 
rem  publicam  fideliter  gesserat  ostendere.  Correuescit 
siquidem  in  ilia  die  dona  elargiri  et  minus  reos  de  carce- 
ribus  emancipate,"  &c. 

G.  C.  LEWIS. 

REV.  W.  STEPHENS  (2n«  S.  xii.  310.)— In  reply 
to  G.  P.  P.'s  Query,  I  beg  to  state  that  the  edi- 
tion of  Watkins's  Biographical  Dictionary  from 
which  the  extract  was  made  is  1821.  As  there 
may  be  some  difficulty  in  Win.  S.'s  procuring  the 
edition,  I  send  a  copy,  literally  taken  from  that 
work :  — 

«*  Stephens  (William),  a  learned  Divine,  was  born  in 
Devonshire,  and  educated  at  Exeter  College,  Oxford, 
where  he  obtained  a  Fellowship,  and  took  his  degree  of 
Master  of  Arts  in  1715.  He  afterwards  stood  candidate 
for  the  Rectorship  of  his  College,  and  would  have  suc- 
ceeded but  for  the  superior  claims  of  Dr.  Coneybeare.  Mr. 
Stephens  was  presented  to  the  Vicarage  of  Hampton,  in 
Oxfordshire,  and  lastly  chosen  by  the  Corporation  of 
Plymouth  to  fill  the  Rectory  of  St.  Andrew  in  that  town, 
where  he  died  in  1786.  He  published  four  Sermons  against 


the  Arians,  and  after  his  death  two  Volumes  of  his  D/s- 
courses  were  printed  by  subscription." 

X.  X. 

MART  ASUFORD  (2nd  S.  xi.  passim.)  —  In  my 
enumeration  (xi.  432)  of  the  pieces  to  which  the 
supposed  murder  of  this  unfortunate  girl  gave 
rise,  I  omitted  the  following  :  — 

"  The  Murdered  Maid ;  or,  The  Clock  struck  four  I  !  I 
A  Drama  in  three  Acts.  Warwick,  1818,  12mo,  pp.  44." 

The  preface  to  this  piece  is  signed  with  the 
initials  S.  1ST.  E.  Further  than  this  I  am  not 
able  to  indicate  the  author;  but  think  it  not 
unlikely  that  it  may,  at  the  time  of  its  publica- 
tion, have  been  attributed  to  Dr.  Booker,  and 
that  thus,  by  mistake,  the  other  melodrama,  The 
Mysterious  Murder,  may  also  have  got  ascribed 
to  the  reverend  Doctor.  WILLIAM  BATES. 

Edgbaston. 

PORDAQE  FAMILY  (2nd  S.  xii.  370,  419,  475.)  — 
The  occurrence  of  the  name  of  "  Pordage  "  in 
your  excellent  work  induces  me  to  send  you  the 
following,  transcribed  from  a  marble  slab  dis- 
covered under  the  floor  of  the  church  during 
the  recent  restorations  at  Waltham  Abbey  :  — 

"  Here  lyeth  the  Body  of  Richard  Naylor, 
M.D.,  who  departed  this  life  the  23d  of 

June,  1683,  Aged  63  years. 

Here  lyeth  the  body  of  Ann  Pordage,  Daughter 

of  Benjamin  Pordage  and  Elizabeth  his  Wife, 

who  departed  this  life  the  20tb  of  Octo*>.  1682. 

Here  lyeth  the  body  of  Lionel  Goodrick  Pordage, 

sonne  of  Benjamin  Pordage  and  Elizabeth  his  wife, 

who  Departed  this  life  August  y«  30th,  1684. 

Here  lyeth  the  body  of  Elizabeth  Pordage, 

the  beloved  wife  of  Benjamin  Pordage,  who  was 

the  Best  Friend,  the  Best  Companion,  the  Best  of  Wiuei, 

Curtious  and  humble  in  her  carriage,  holy  in 

her  life,  Pious  at  her  Death,  who  Blessedly  Departed  this 

life  Novernb  ve  gth,  1687,  in  the  43  year  of  her  Age,  left 

behind  her  Rachell,  Elizabeth,  and  Edward 

Pordage,  of  which  she  Died. 
"  But  what  is  it  where  in  Dame  Nature  wrought 

the  Best  of  work's  the  only  Forme  of  Heaven; 
And  haueing  Long'd  to  finde  A  present  sought 

where  in  the  world's  whole  Beauty  might  be  given, 
She  did  Resolve  in  it  all  Arts  to  summon, 
to  Joyne  with  Nature's  Framing 

GOD  Tis  woman. 
"  ELIZABETH  PORDAGE. 
"  Memento  Mort." 
Waltham  Abbey. 

L— R. 

THE  BOOK- WORM  (lft  S.  passim.)  — The  many 
articles  under  this  heading  in  the  earlier  volumes 
of  "  N".  &  Q."  evince  the  interest  felt  by  its 
readers  in  the  extirpation  and  prevention  oif  the 
ravages  of  this,  the  common  enemy  of  all  book- 
iovers.  The  following  receipt,  transcribed  from 
the  fly-leaf  of  an  old  book,  has  at  least  the  ad- 
vantage of  simplicity,  cheapness,  and  applica- 
bility :  — 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I.  JAN.  18,  '62. 


"  To  kill  and  prevent  Book  and  Wood  Worms. 
Mr.  Grant,  August  13,  1792. 

"  Take  one  oz.  of  Caraphire,  pounded  like  common 
great  salt,  and  one  oz.  of  Bitter  apple  tore  in  halves  and 
quarters ;  and  spread  at  the  bottom  of  your  Chests  or 
drawers  among  Books,  Papers,  or  Cloaths;  and  when 
the  Camphireis  wasted  and  the  bitter  apple  lost  its  sme)l, 
sweep  out  the  bitter  apple,  and  renew  the  same  again. 
The  quantities  specified  will  last  eight  or  ten  mouths. 

•'  If  bitter  apple  cannot  be  had,  take  cut  Tobacco  in  ita 
stead. 

"  The  same  Mr.  Grant  says,  will  destroy  in  drawers,  or 
wood  house-furniture.  That  he  received  it  from  late 
Dr.  Egerton,  Bp.  of  Durham." 

It  is  perhaps  just  necessary  to  remind  the 
reader  that  "  bitter  apple  "  is  an  old  appellation 
of  Colocynth. 

The  little  books  of  which  I  transcribe  the  titles 
are  not  generally  known  in  this  country,  and  will 
be  found  useful  companions  to  the  collectors  of 
books  and  prints  :  — 

"  Essai  sur  Tart  de  restaurer  les  Estampes  et  les  Livres, 
ou  Traite  sur  les  meilleurs  precedes  pour  blanchir,  de- 
tacher, de'colorier,  rdparer etconserver les  Estampes,  Livres 
etDessins;  par  A.  Bonnardot.  Seconde  edition,  refondue 
et  augmente'e,  suivie  d'un  Expose'  des  divers  Systemes  de 
Reproduction  des  anciennes  Estampes  et  des  Livres rares. 
Paris  :  chez  Castel,  8vo,  1858,  pp.  352. 

"  De  lu  Reparation  de  vieilles  Reliures,  complement  de 
1'Essai  sur  1'art  de  restaurer  les  Estampes,  et  les  Livres, 
Buivi  d'une  Dissertation  sur  les  moyens  d'obtenir  dea 
duplicata  de  Manuscrits.  Par  A.  Bonnardot.  Paris: 
Castel,  8vo,  1858,  pp.  72." 

What  is  the  best  method  of  washing  vellum  or 
parchment  bindings,  [and  .restoring  the  enamel  of 
the  surface  ?  WILLIAM  BATES. 

Edgbaston. 

THE  MOLE  AND  THE  CAMPBELLS  (2nd  S.  xii. 
498.) — This  superstition  is  mentioned  in  my  Glen- 
creggan  (ii.  29,  30.)  A  somewhat  earlier  date 
than  1847,  as  given  by  your  correspondent,  is 
assigned  to  the  introduction  of  the  mole  in  Can- 
tire.  The  author  of  the  Statistical  Survey  of  the 
parish  eighteen  miles  south  of  Tarbert,  writing  in 
1843,  records  the  arrival  in  his  parish  of  the 
Campbell-destroying  mole,  and  says,  "It  is  a 
very  singular  circumstance  in  the  natural  history 
of  the  mole,  that  it  travels  by  the  hills  and  colo- 
nises^sterile  districts  before  it  attacks  cultivated 
land."  Moles  are  now  found  throughout  Cantire. 

CUTHBERT  BEDE. 

KNAVE'S  ACRE  (2"J  S.  xii.  191,  273,  445.)  — 
No  place  near  St.  Paul's  having  been  assigned  for 
Knave's  Acre,  it  is  probable  that  Slukeley  may 
have  referred  to  a  site  with  this  name  north-west 

the  Haymarket,  especially  as  he  refers  to  it  in 
connexion  with  Long  Acre.  Stowe  says  (vol  ii 
bk.  vi.  p.  84)  :  — 

"  ^nave's  Acre,  or  Poultney  street,  falls  into  Brewer's 
t  by  Windmill  street,  and  so  runs  westward  as  far 
as  Mary  bone  street,  and  Warwick  street  end,  and  cross- 
ing the  same  and  Swallow  street,  falls  into  Glass-house 
street,  which  leadeth  into  the  fields  on  the  backside  of 


Burlington  fgarden,  and  thence  to  Albemarle  buildings. 
This  Knave's  acre  is  but  narrow,  and  chiefly  inhabited  by 
those  that  deal  in  old  goods,  and  glass  bottles." 

If  this  be  the  site  of  Stukeley's  Knave's  Acre, 
the  hypothesis  of  a  hoax  being  practised  on  him  is 
withdrawn  ;  the  objection  to  his  etymology  of  the 
name,  however,  remaining.  T.  J.  BUCKTON. 

Lichfield. 

Can"  Knave's  End"  and  "Good  Knave's  End  " 
have  any  affinity  to  Dr.  Stukeley's  "Knave's 
Acre  "?  I  think  these  names  are  not  very  uncom- 
mon. The  latter  occurs  in  the  parish  of  Edg- 
baston, about  two  miles  from  Birmingham. 

N.  J.  A. 

UNSUCCESSFUL  PRIZE  POEM§  (2nd  S.  xii.  518.)  — 
Such  fragments  as  that  quoted  by  F.  J.  M.  (which 
I  suppose  may  be  called  maccaronic)  are  usually 
given  as  if  parts  of  unsuccessful  prize  poems.  The 
following  are  three  that  I  have  heard  thus  quoted; 
perhaps  some  reader  of  "N.  &  Q."  may  remember 
others  :  — 

1.  Part  of  a  poem  on  Nebuchadnezzar  — 

"  And  murmured,  as  he  cropped  the  unwonted  food, 

'  It  may  be  wholesome,  but  it  isn't  good.'  " 
2    On  "  Belshazzar's  Feast "  — 
"  When  all  the  nobles  stood  appalled, 
Some  one  suggested  Daniel  should  be  called ; 
Daniel  appears,  and  just  remarks  in  passing, 
The  words  are  Mene,  Mene,  Tekel,  and  Upharsin." 
3.  On  the  discovery  of  the  Sandwich  Isles.    The 
discoverer  is  wrecked  on  an  island  —  then 
"  They  brought  him  slices  thin  of  ham  and  tongue, 
With  bread  that  from  the  trees  spontaneous  hung : 
Pleased  with  the  thought  the  gallant  captain  smiles, 
And  aptly  names  the  place  the  Sandwich  Isles." 

G. 

ARCHITECTURAL  PROPORTION  (2nd  S.  xii.  458.) 
—  I  am  afraid  that  in  my  former  .communication 
I  did  not  express  myself  with  so  much  precision 
as  I  ought  to  have  done.  The  question  I  intended 
to  ask  was, — given,  a  piece  of  marble  in  the  form 
of  the  shaft  of  a  Grecian  column,  required,  the 
centre  of  gravity.  This  question  does  not  neces- 
sarily involve  any  consideration  of  the  thickness 
of  the  shaft.  One  shaft  may  be  four  diameters 
in  height,  and  another  six,  and  yet  the  proportion 
which  the  length  below  the  centre  of  gravity 
bears  to  the  length  above  it  may  be  the  same  in 
both.  But  as  has  been  intimated  by  A.  A.,  the 
consideration  of  the  entasis  is  intimately  involved 
in  the  inquiry.  And  I  may  add  that  my  reason 
for  raising  the  question  was,  that  I  imagined  that 
the  solution  of  it  would  throw  light  upon  the 
aesthetical  principle  of  the  entasis.  In  any  inquiry 
upon  this  point,  I  quite  agree  with  the  view  that 
appears  to  be  taken  by  A.  A.,  —  that  the  Doric 
order  ought  to  be  carefully  studied  in  the  first 
instance ;  and  if  in  that  case  any  satisfactory  re- 
sult can  be  arrived  at,  it  would  be  desirable  to 
institute  a  comparison  with  the  Ionic.  But  I 


3rd  S.  I.  JAN.  18,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


59 


think  it  would  be  hardly  worth  while  going 
further.  If  A.  A.  knows  of  any  works  that  would 
assist  me  in  such  an  inquiry,  I  should  be  much 
obliged  if  he  would  have  the  kindness  to  refer 
me  to  them.  LUMEN. 

RICHARD  SHELLEY  (2nd  S.  xii.  470.)— -The 
Gentleman  s  Magazine  for  September,  1785,  con- 
tains an  account  of  Sir  Richard  Shelley,  the  last 
English  Grand  Prior  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem, 
with  engravings  of  two  medals  struck  in  honor  of 
him.  It  states  he  was  son  of  Judge  Shelley  who 
entertained  King  Henry  VIII.  at  his  family  seat 
at  Michelgrove,  Sussex.  JOHN  CALVER. 

Harleston. 

ARTHUR  SHORTER  (2nd  S.  xii.  521.)  — In  the 
pedigree  of  Shorter,  given  in  Mr.  Gordon  Gyll's 
History  of  the  Parish  of  Wraysbury,  the  name  of 
Arthur  Shorter  does  not  occur.  The  children  of 
John  Shorter  and  Elizabeth  Phillips  are  there 
stated  to  have  been  Catherine,  married  to  Sir 
Robert  Walpole,  and  Charlotte  married  to  Lord 
Conway.  J.  DORAN. 

STONEHENGE  (3rd  S.  i.  13.) — With  the  most 
profound  respect  for  the  geological  attainments  of 
Sir  R.  Murchison,  allow  me  to  ay  that  the  nature 
of  the  stones  of  which  Stonehenge  is  built,  has 
been  long  since  satisfactorily  determined.  The 
late  Dr.  Mantell,  in  his  Geology  of  the  South-east 
Coast  of  England,  p.  48,  gives  them  the  name  of 
Grey  Wethers,  and  refers  them  to  a  stratum  lying 
originally  just  above  the  Chalk,  part  of  which, 
consisting  of  loose  sand,  has  been  washed  away, 
leaving  these  concreted  masses,  or  boulders, 
scattered  over  the  surface  of  our  Downs  —  such 
as  the  so-called  "plain"  of  Salisbury,  which  is 
really  a  series  of  undulating  hills. 

The  builders  of  Stonehenge  would  therefore 
find  them  ready  to  their  hands,  and  would  be 
under  no  necessity  of  transporting  them  from 
Ireland,  or  as  some  say,  from  Africa. 

The  theory  that  they  are  artificial  originated 
with  Camden,  and,  like  all  errors  of  the  kind,  has 
had  its  cycles,  —  has  grown  small  by  degrees,  and 
beautifully  less,  and  will,  I  hope,  be  altogether 
extinguished  by  the  writers  in  "  N.  &  Q." 

If  MOR  MERRION  desire  to  learn  more  par- 
ticularly the  geological  position  of  these  Grey 
Wethers,  I  would  recommend  him  to  consult, 
Description  Geol.  des  Environs  de  Paris,  par  MM. 
Cuvier  and  A.  Brogniart,  4to,  Paris,  1822. 

The  " porphyry"  of  London-stone,  I  believe 
to  be  Kentish  Rag,  scientifically  known  as  Lower 
Green,  or  Shanklin,  sand.  DOUGLASS  ALLPORT. 

Mr.  J.  Brilton,  in  the  Beauties  of  Wiltshire, 
1801,  vol.  ii.  p.  145, gives  the  following  remarks: 

"  Many  persons  have  supposed  these  stones  to  be  com- 
position, and  there  are  those  who  still  persist  in  this  er- 
roneous opinion.  The  skilful  mineralogist  knows  the 


contrary ;  and  a  gentleman  *  well  versed  in  this  science, 
gives  the  following  account  of  the  characters  of  these 
stones :  '  All  the  great  pillars,  as  those  forming  the  out- 
ward circle,  the  five  pair  innermost,  and  the  great  stone, 
with  the  two  lateral  ones  near  the  ditch,  are  of  a  pure, 
fine-grained,  compact  sand-stone,  which  makes  no  effer- 
vescence with  acids.  As  far  as  the  lichens  which  cover 
the  pillars,  will  permit  one  to  judge,  some  are  of  a  yel- 
lowish colour,  others  white.  The  second  row  of  pillars, 
and  the  six  which  are  innermost  of  all,  are  of  a  kind  of 
fine  grained  griinstein,  where  the  black  hornblende  is  the 
only  constituent  which  has  a  crystalline  form,  or  spathotis 
appearance.  This,  in  some  pillars,  is  but  sparingly  scat- 
tered in  the  principal  mass ;  in  others,  it  forms  a  principal 
part.  The  mass,  or  ground,  has  a  finely  speckled  green 
and  white  appearance,  an  uneven  fracture,  makes  a  slight 
effervescence  with  acids,  and  may  be  scratched  with  a 
knife.  This  stone  strikes  fire  difficultly  with  steel.  But  in 
this  second  row  there  are  two  pillars  of  a  quite  different 
nature.  That  on  the  right  hand,  is  a  true  and  well 
characterised  blackish  siliceous  schistus,  the  kiezel  schiefer  of 
Werner;  that  on  the  left,  is  argillaceous  schistus.  The 
great  slab,  or  altar,  is  a  kind  of  grey  cos,  a  very  fine- 
grained, calcareous  sand-stone.  It  makes  a  brisk  effer- 
vescence in  nitrous  acids,  but  dissolves  not  in  it ;  strikes 
fire  with  steel,  and  contains  some  minute  spangles  of 
silver  mica.' " 

F.P. 

ARCHERY  PROVERBS  (2nd  S.  xi.  513.)  — 

"  The  bolt  was  the  arrow  peculiarly  fitted  to  the  cross- 
bow, as  that  of  the  long-bow  was  called  a  shaft.  Hence 
the  English  proverb,  'I  will  either  make  a  shaft  or  bolt 
of  it,'  signifying  a  determination  to  make  one  use  or 
other  of  the  thing  spoken  of." — Ivanhoe. 

ARMIGER. 

ISABEL  AND  ELIZABETH  (2nd  S.  xii.  364,  444, 
522.)  —  The  statement  of  Gesenius,  in  his  Hebrew 

Lexicon  (Gibbs,  p.  27),  on  the  word  ^3{.»«  (Hee- 
zev'-el) —  "hence  the  name  Isabella" — is  too  im- 
portant to  be  overlooked,  as  it  is  one  of  his 
mistakes.  The  word  "  Isabel "  is  Portuguese,  and 
is  the  equivalent  for  "  Elizabeth,"  as  their  version 
of  the  New  Testament  shows  (Luke  i.  5,  13,  24, 
40,  41,  57.) 

The  abridgment  of  foreign  names  in  spoken  lan- 
guage, and  their  adaptation  to  the  vocal  organisa- 
tion of  the  people  who  borrow  them,  are  universal ; 
and  we  'may  take  as  specimens —  Bessy  and  Bess, 
from  Elizabeth ;  Bell,  from  Isabella ;  Tom,  from 
Thomas ;  Bill,  from  William;  Dick,  from  Richard; 
John  and  Jack,  from  Jochan  or  Johan.  The  Por- 
tuguese rejected  the  initial  syllable  el,  and  added 
the  letter  /  to  the  termination,  as  the  Greeks  had 
added  /  to  the  original  Syriac  and  Hebrew  word 
"Elisabe." 

Were  there  any  doubt  as  to  the  etymology  of 
"Isabella,"  the  improbability  that  Christian  pa- 
rents, sponsors,  and  priests,  would  impose  a  name 
of  so  wicked  a  person  as  Jezebel,  might  suffice  to 
show  that  Isabella  was  not  the  equivalent  of  Jeze- 
bel. Thus  we  do  not  find  as  Christian  names 


*   Tracts  and   Observations  on  Natural  History    and 
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I.  JAN.  18, 


those  of  Cain,  Nebuchadnezzar,  Judas,  and  others, 
eminent  only  in  evil.  T.  J.  BUCHTON. 

Lichfield. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 

Shakatpeare.  A  Reprint  of  the  Collected  Works  as  first 
Published  in  1623.  Part  1.  containing  the  Comedies. 
(Booth.) 

Often  have  zealous  students  and  judicious  admirers  of 
Shakspeare,  when  vexed  with  the  controversies  of  angry 
commentators,  exclaimed,  "  Oh  for  a  copy  of  the  First 
Folio !  "  What  they  have  so  longed  for  is  now  before 
them.  We  have  here  the  writings  of  our  great  Bard 
just  as  his  loving  friends  Heminge  and  Condell  (that 
"payre  so  carefull  to  show  their  gratitude  both  to  the 
living  and  the  dead ")  presented  them  to  their  noble 
patrons,  the  Earl  of  Pembroke,  and  the  Earl  of  Montgo- 
mery: and  truly,  what  with  the  form  of  the  letter  used, 
the  tint  of  the  "paper,  the  limp  vellum  wrapper,  and  the 
manner  in  which  the  general  character  of  the  editio  prin- 
ceps  has  been,  imitated,  one  feels  almost  disposed  to  be- 
lieve, as  we  turn  over  page  after  page,  and  read  passage 
after  passage  in  the  orthography  of  James's  time,  that  one 
is  the  fortunate  possessor  of  a  First  Folio.  Rightly  and 
wisely  has  Mr.  Booth  acted  in  retaining  the  very  errors 
of  the  original ;  and  it  is  no  vain  boast  when  he  declares, 
that  "  henceforth  for  less  than  two  pounds  may  be  se- 
cured, in  a  perfect  state,  the  coveted  of  all  English  book- 
collectors— a  volume,  which  in  the  original,  and  in  con- 
dition more  or  less  of  defacement  or  repair,  would  be 
considered  cheap  at  a  hundred."  This  "  cheerful  sem- 
blance "  of  the  First  Folio,  ought  to  be  in  the  library  of 
ever)'  lover  of  Shakspeare,  upon  whose  shelves  a  copy  of 
the  goodly  volume  issued  by  Isaac  Jaggars  and  Edward 
Blount  in  1623  is  not  to  be  found. 

Gloucester  Fragments.  I.  Facsimile  of  some  Leaves  in 
Samn  Handwriting  on  S.  Swithun.  IT.  Leaves  from  an 
Anglo-Saxon  Translation  of  the  Life  of  S.  Maria  JEgyp- 
tiaca.  Copied  by  Photozincography,  and  published  with 
Elucidations  and  an  Essay  by  John  Earle,  M.A.,  &c. 
(Longman.) 

If  we  wanted  a  justification  for  having  devoted  some  por- 
tion of  this  Journal  to  the  promotion  of  Photography  when 
Photography  had  no  special  Journal  of  its  own,  we  could 
point  with  full  confidence  to  this  handsome  volume,  for 
which  we  are  indebted  to  the  Oxford  Professor  of  Anglo- 
Saxon.  The  manner  in  which  these  fragments  have  been 
reproduced  is  a  marvellous  proof  of  the  perfection  to 
which  the  new  branch  of  Photography — Photozincogra- 
phy, as  it  is  termed  —  has  already  been  brought.  It  is  the 
old  MS  not  copied  but  multiplied;  and  when  it  is  re- 
membered that  such  old  MS.  has  never  in  any  shape  been 
published  before,  the  value  of  the  present  book  to  Ano-lo- 
Saxon  scholars  is  at  once  evident.  "Half  a  dozen' old 
leaves  may  seem  a  poor  basis  to  found  a  book  upon,"  savs 
Mr.  Karle,  but  as  he  afterwards  tells  us  they  contain"  a 
"genuine  product  of  the  mind  of  the  tenth  centurv,"  we 
at  once  recognise  their  historical  and  literary  value.  We 
have  of  course  not  the  space  to  enter  into  a  consideration 
of  the  various  topics  which  these  fragments  suggest,  and 
we  think,  therefore,  we  shall  best  convey  to  our  readers  a 
just  notion  of  the  importance  of  the  work  before  us  by 
enumerating  its  principal  contents.  These  consist,  then 
ot  the  Swithun  Facsimiles;  the  Swithun  text  printed 
line  for  line  and  page  for  p*ge  with  a  literal  translation- 
an  Essay  on  the  Life  and  Times  of  Swithun ;  and  eleven 
Illustrative  pieces,  consisting  of  Latin  Biographies,  Eng- 


lish Metrical  Lives,  Lists  of  Churches  dedicated  to  him,  &c. 
These  are  followed  by  the  facsimile  of  the  fragment  on  S. 
Maria  ^Egyptiaca,  Notice  of  S.  Maria  ^Egyptiaca,  and  the 
text  with  translation  and  illustrative  Notes.  Such  are  the 
curious  contents  of  this  interesting  volume,  which  the 
Editor  has  endeavoured  to  make  serviceable  as  an  Intro- 
duction to  Anglo-Saxon  Literature,  for  which,  both  in 
point  of  language  and  history,  the  fragment  on  Swithun 
affords  a  good  opening. 

Turner's  Liber  Studiorum.  Photographed  from  the 
Thirty  Original  Drawings  by  J.  M.  W.  Turner,  R.A.,  in. 
the  South  Kensington  Museum.  Published  under  the  Au- 
thority of  the  Department  of  Science  and  Art.  (Cundall, 
Downes,  &  Co.) 

This  is  another  and  admirable  application  of  Photo- 
graphy. No  artist  in  the  world,  be  his  skill  as  a  copyist 
the  highest  which  man  ever  possessed,  can  compete  with 
a  Camera  in  the  fidelity  with  which  the  touches  of  a 
great  master's  hand,  the  characteristics  of  his  style,  are 
reproduced.  The  original  drawings  of  Turner,"  which 
art-students  at  the  South  Kensington  Museum  pore  over 
with  endless  delight,  may  now  be  studied  by  such  stu- 
dents in  the  quiet  of  their  own  homes,  and  in  those  genial 
spots  for  study,  their  own  painting  rooms.  To  London 
artists  this  is  a  great  boon ;  but  it  is  one  of  far  more 
importance  to  country  students,  and  the  volume  will 
accordingly  find  an  appropriate  place  in  every  institution 
in  connexion  with  the  South  Kensington  School  of  Art. 
The  execution  of  the  photographs  does  great  credit  to 
the  artists,  Messrs.  Cundali  &  Downes. 


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ARTHUR  MORGAN,  Actuary. 


UNITED  KINGDOM 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY, 

No.  8,  WATERLOO  PLACE,  PALL  MALL,  8.W. 

DIRECTORS. 

The  Hon.  FRANCIS  SCOTT,  Chairman. 
CHARLES  BERWICK  CURTIS,  Esq.,  Deputy  Chairman. 

A.  H.  MACDOUGALL,  ESQ. 

F.  c.  MAITLAND;  Esq! 

WILLIAM  RAILTON,  Esq. 
THOS.  THOHBY,Esq..  F.8  A 

MARCUS  H.  JOHNSON.  E.o,  HENRY  T°°GOOD'  ^ 

SUPERIOR  ACCOMMODATION  AFFORDED  BY  THIS 
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assured  from  the  risk  attending  mutual  offices. 

There  have  been  three  divisions  of  profits,  the  bonuses  averaging 
nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum  on  the  sums  assured  from  the  commence- 
ment of  the  Company. 

Sum  Assured.          Bonuses  added.  Payable  at  Death 

£1,987  10*.  £6,987  10*. 

1,397  10*. 


EDWARD  LENNOX  BOYD,  Esq. 

(Resident. 

WILLIAM  FAIRLIE,  Esq. 
D.  Q.  HENRIQUES.Esq. 
J.  G.  HKNRIQUES,  Esq. 
NSON, 


397  10s. 
39  15s. 


£5,roO 
1,000 

•  100  s.  139  15*. 

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61 


LONDON,  SATURDAY,  JANUARY  25,  1862. 


CONTENTS.—  N".  4. 

NOTES  :  —  Memoir  of  William  Oldys,  Esq.,  Nbrroy-King-at- 
Arms,  01  —  Mathemati.  al  Bibliography,  G4  —  Princely 
Funerals,  G5  —  Hampshire  Mummers,  66  —  Books  and 
their  Authors,  Ib. 

MINOR  NOTES  :  —  The  Polyphemus  of  Turner  —  Surnames 

—  The  first  Bank  in  Australia—  The  Jackdaw  a  Weather- 
Frophet  —  Metric  Prose,  67. 

QUERIES  :  —  Authorised  Translation  of  Catullus  —  Colonel 
William  Cromwell  —  The  Duchess  d'Aiigoulemc  and  the 
Count  de  Chambord  —  Emblems  :  Tinelli  —  "  Gilded  Cham- 
ber "  —  Heraldic  —  Jakins  —  Mrs.  Maxwell,  an  Amazon  — 
The  National  Colour  of  Ireland  —  Paulo  Dolscio,  "  Psal- 
terium  "  —  Quotations  Wanted—  Whitehall—  Col.  Thomas 
Winsloe,  67. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS:  —Lady  Sophia  Buckley—  '."A 
Discourse  against  Transubstantiation  "  —  The  "Press- 
gang  "  in  1706  —Trap  Spider—"  Preces  Private  "—Bishops' 
Charges  —  Abbey  Counters  or  Tokens,  69. 

REPLIES  :  —  Pelayo's  Visits  to  the  North  of  Spain,  71  —  • 
The  Sacks  of  Joseph's  Brethren,  Ib.  —  The  American 
Standard  and  New  England  Flag,  72  —  Archbishop  Leigh- 
ton's  Library  at  Dunblane  —  Vossius  "  De  Historicis  Grse- 
cis"  —  Cow  ell's  Interpreter  condemned  —  Army  Lists  — 
Lord  Nugent  and  Capital  Punishment  —  America  before 
Columbus  —  Tiffany  —  Taylor  Family  —  Book  of  Common 
Prayer  —  Trial  of  the  Princess  of  Wales  —  Special  Licences 

—  Manor  Law  —  The  "  Remember  "  of  Charles  I.  on  the 
Scaffold  —  Pitt  '  and  Orbell  of  Kensington,  Middlesex  — 
"  Retributive  Justice  "  —  Husbandman  —  Heraldic  Query 

—  Christopher  Monk  —  "  The  Wandering  Jew  "  —  Jetsam, 
Flotsam,  and  Lagan  —  Scotch  Weather  Proverbs  —  Rats 
leaving  a  Sinking  Ship,  &c.,  74. 

Notes  on  Books. 


MEMOIR  OF  WILLIAM  OLDYS,  ESQ., 

NORROY  KING-AT-ARMS. 

(Continued  from  p.  44.) 

After  the  completion  of  The  Harleian  Miscel- 
lany, it  does  not  appear  that  Oldys  continued 
much  longer  in  the  employ  of  Thomas  Osborne  ; 
at  that  time  the  most  celebrated  publisher  in  the 
metropolis.  If  we  may  judge  from  the  series  of 
catalogues  issued  by  this  bookseller  from  the 
year  1738  to  1766,  he  must  have  carried  on  a 
successful  and  lucrative  trade.  These  catalogues 
may  now  be  reckoned  among  the  curiosities  of 
literature  ;  for  nowhere  do  we  meet  with  similar 
information  respecting  the  prices  of  books  at  that 
time,  or  more  amusement  than  in  his  quaint 
notes,  and  still  more  quaint  prefaces.  For  how 
many  of  these  curious  bibliographical  memoranda 
he  was  indebted  to  his  neighbour,  William  Oldys, 
cannot  now  be  ascertained.  Osborne's  exploits 
are  thus  celebrated  in  the  Dunciad  :  — 

"  Osborr.e  and  Curll  accept  the  glorious  strife, 
Though  this  his  Son  dissuades,  and  that  his  Wife." 

Again,  at  the  conclusion  of  the  contest  :  — 
"  Osborne,  through  perfect  modesty  o'ercome, 
Crown'd  with  the  Jordan,  walks  contented  home." 

Osborne  was  so  impassively  dull  and  ignorant  in 
what  form  or  language  Milton's  Paradise  Lost  was 
written,  that  he  employed  one  of  his  garretteers  to 
render  it  from  a  French  translation  into  English 


prose.  He  is  now  best  known  as  the  bookseller 
whom  Johnson  knocked  down  with  a  folio.  "  Sir," 
said  the  Doctor  to  Boswell,  "he  was  impertinent 
to  me,  and  I  beat  him  ;  but  it  was  not  in  his  shop, 
it  was  in  my  own  chamber."  On  August  27,  1767, 
this  bibliopole  was  buried  in  the  churchyard  of 
St.  Mary,  Islington,  leaving  behind  him  the  com- 
fortable assets  of  40>000/.  So  true  is  it  what 
Walcot  said  rather  strongly,  "  That  publishers 
drink  their  claret  out  of  authors'  skulls."  But, 
as  Thomas  Park  shrewdly  observed,  "  Some  might 
say,  that  authors  must  have  paper  skulls  to  suffer 
it," 

In  1746  was  published  anew  edition  of  Health's 
Improvement,  by  Dr.  Moffet,  corrected  and  en- 
larged by  Christopher  Bennet,  M.D.  Prefixed  is 
a  view  of  the  author's  life  and  writings  from  the 
pen  of  William  Ohrys.  No  copy  of  this  work  is  to 
be  found  in  our  national  library,  and  it  is  omitted 
in  both  editions  of  Lowndes.  With  its  publication 
terminated  Oldys's  connexion  with  Osborne. 

The  editorship  of  Michael  Drayton's  Works, 
fol.  1748,  has  been  attributed  to  Oldys  by  a  wri- 
ter in  the  Gentleman's  Magazine,  vol.  Ivii.  pt.  ii. 
p.  1081,  as  well  as  by  Mr.  Octavius  Gilchrist  in 
Aikin's  Athenaum,  ii.  347,  who  adds,  "  It  is  not 
generally  known  that  these  collections  [of  Dray- 
ton's  Works']  were  made  by  Oldys,  with  less 
than  his  usual  accuracy."  But  from  the  article 
DRAYTON,  in  the  Biographia  Britannica,  ed.  1750, 
written  by  Oldys  himself,  it  appears  that  he 
only  furnished  the  "  Historical  Essay "  pre- 
fixed to  the  edition  of  Drayton's  Works,  1748,  as 
well  as  to  that  of  1753.  Speaking  of  the  Barons' 
Wars,  Oldys  remarks,  "In  this  edition  [1748] 
these  Barons'  Wars  in  the  reign  of  Edward  II. 
are  illustrated  with  marginal  notes  by  the  author, 
which  have  been  all  since  omitted  by  his  late 
editor,  though  the  author  of  the  Preliminary  Dis~ 
course  was  desirous  of  a  more  ample  commen- 
tary." (Biog.  Brit  iii.  1745,  ed.  1750,  andKippis's 
edition,  v.  360.) 

Oldys  now  resolved  to  devote  his  exclusive  at- 
tention to  his  own  peculiar  department  of  litera- 
ture, that  of  Biography.  Hence  we  find  him,  for 
the  next  ten  years,  employed  in  the  desperate  and 
weary  process  of  excavation,  among  the  over- 
whelming piles  of  documents  preserved  in  the 
public  and  private  libraries  of  the  metropolis. 
The  facilities  afforded  to  biographers  and  annalists 
of  modern  times,  by  the  catalogues  of  the  British 
Museum  and  the  Calendars  of  the  State  Paper 
Office,  were  unknown  to  the  literary  adventurer 
a  century  ago.  To  collect  materials  for  any  bio- 
graphical or  historical  work  required  then  some 
sinew  and  hardihood  to  encounter  the  enormous 
and  almost  unmanageable  mass  of  documents  from 
which  truth  was  to  be  dug  out.  Between  the 
years  1747  and  1760,  it  appears  that  Oldys  fur- 
nished twenty- two  articles  to  the  first  edition  of 


62 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62. 


the  BiograpUa  Britannica,  which  may  rank  with 
some  of  tbe  most  perfect  specimens  of  biography 
in  the  English  language.  For  the  following  tabu- 
lar view  of  his  labours  on  this  important  work, 
we  are  indebted  to  Bolton  Corney's  Curiosities  of 
Literature  Illustrated,  Second  Edition,  1838,  p. 
177:  — 

«•  Contributions  of  W.  Oldys  to  Me'Biograplria  Britannica, 
London,  1747-GG.     Folb,  7  Vols. 


'ohime 
ad  Date. 

Name. 

Claim  to  Admission. 

No.  of 
Pages. 

i.  1747 

George  Abbot   - 
KoU-rt  Abbot    - 
Sir  Thomas  Adams  - 

Archbishop  of  Canterbury 
Bishop  of  Salisbury    - 
Lord  Mayor  of  London 

ft 

W.   Alexander  Earl 

Statesman  and    Dramatic 

ot'Stirline 

Writer      -       -       -       - 

5 

Charles  Alevn  - 
Edward  Allcvn 

Historical  Poet  - 
Founder  of  Dulwich  College 

\\ 

William  Ames  - 

Divine  

John  Atherton  - 

Bishop  of  Waterford- 

8 

Peter  Hales 

Wri  ting  Master  - 

11 

ii.  171* 

John  Bradford  - 

Protestant  Martyr      - 

161 

William  Bulleyn      - 

Physician  and  Botanist     - 

9J 

William  taxton 

Printer        - 

2C>t 

ii.  17JO 

Michael  Draytoil      - 

Historical  &  Pastoral  Poet 

5 

Sir  Geo.  Ethere-e     - 

Dramatic  Writer 

8 

Gi'orL'e  Furquhnr 

Dramatic  Writer 

11 

Sir  John  Kitstolff     - 

Statesman  and  Warrior    - 

20^ 

Sir  Will.  Gu.^uijme- 

Jud-u  

13} 

iv.  1757 

Fnlke  Grevile,  Lord 

Brook       - 

Biographer  and  Poet  - 

12^ 

Rich.  Ilaklurt  - 

Nuval  Historian 

14       i 

Wenceslans  Hollar  - 

Engraver     - 

8? 

v.  1760 

Thomas  May    - 

Historian  and  Poet    - 

6      j 

"  On  the  execution  of  the  articles,"  remarks  Mr. 
Corney,  l'  I  submit  some  short  remarks.  The  life 
of  Archbishop  Abbot  is  especially  commended  by 
the  author  of  the  preface  to  the  work ;  and  was 
reprinted  in  1777,  8vo.  The  life  of  Edward 
Alleyn  is  also  justly  characterised  by  the  same 
writer  as  very  curious.  The  article  on  Peter 
Bales,  it' rather  discursive,  is  rich  in  information  ; 
and  contains,  in  the  notes,  a  history  of  writing- 
masters.  Bulleyn,  whose  works  were  formerly 
popular,  receives  due  attention.  As  Gough  re- 
marks, Oldys  has  "  rescued  him  almost  from  olli- 
Master  William  Caxton  occupies  more 
than  tw«Mity-six  pages.  Oldys  had  carefully  ex- 
amined the  chief  portion  of  his  rare  volumes  ;  and 
"Dr.  Dibdin  admits  that  his  "performance  is  in 
wry  respect  superior  to  that  of  Lewis." -\  The 
account  of  Drayton  and  his  works  is  an  interest- 
ing specimen.  Oldys  points  out  the  numerous 
deficiencies  of  the  splendid  edition  of  1748  ;  and 
his  information  seems  to  have  led  to  the  comple- 
tion of  it.  The  life  of  Sir  John  FastolfF,  of  which 
the  first  sketch  was  contributed  to  the  General 
Dictionary  in  1737,  is  the  result  of  extraordinary 
research.  The  Fastolff  of  history  and  the  Falstaff 
of  fiction  are  ingeniously  contrasted.  The  ac- 
count of  Fuller  is  compiled  with  peculiar  care ; 
and  affords  a  remarkable  proof  of  the  extent  to 
which  the  writings  of  an  author  may  be  made 
contributiycjo  his  biography.  The  History  of  the 

*  JJritigfi  Topography,  1780,  -Ito,  i.  133. 

t  Typographical  Antiquities,  1810,  4to,  p.  Ixxiv. 


Worthies  of  England,  which  Oldys  frequently  con- 
sulted, is  characterised  with  much  candour  ;  and 
he  has  very  appropriately  introduced  the  sub- 
stance of  a  MS.  essay  on  the  toleration  of  wit  on 
grave  subjects.  Sir  William  Gascoigne  is  copiously 
historised.  Oldys,  with  his  usual  ardour  in  search 
of  truth,  obtained  the  use  of  some  Memoirs  of  the 
Family  of  Gascoigne  from  one  of  the  descendants 
of  Sir  William,  and  a  communication  from  the 
Rev.  R.  Knight,  Vicar  of  Harwood,  where  he  was 
buried.  The  life  of  the  patriotic  Hakluyt  claims 
especial  notice.  Oldys  had  pointed  cut  his  merit 
more  than  twenty  years  before ;  *  and  seems  never 
to  have  lost  sight  of  him.  He  has  left  an  admir- 
able memorial  of  the  "surpassing  knowledge  and 
learning,  diligence  and  fidelity,  of  this  naval  his- 
torian"—  and  it  well  deserves  to  be  separately 
re- published.  The  account  of  Hollar  and  his  works 
is  written  with  the  animation  and  tact  of  a  connois- 
seur. Oldys  justly  describes  him  as  ever  malting 
art  a  rival  to  nature,  and  as  a  prodigy  of  industry. 
He  also  reviews  the  graphic  collections  of  his  ad- 
mirers, from  Evelyn  to  the  Duchess  of  Portland. 
The  article  on  May  was  his  last  contribution. 
He  vindicates  the  History  of  the  Parliament  from 
the  aspersions  cast  on  it  —  in  which  he  is  sup- 
ported by  Bishop  Wrarburton,  Lord  Chatham,  &c. 

"It  may  be  safely  asserted  that  no  one  of  the 
contributors  to  the  Biographia  Britannica  has 
produced  a  richer  proportion  of  incdited  facts  than 
William  Oldys  ;  and  he  seems  to  have  consulted 
every  species  of  the  more  accessible  authorities, 
from  the  Fccdera  of  Rymer  to  the  inscription  on 
a  print.  His  united  articles,  set  up  as  the  text  of 
Chalmers,  would  occupy  about  a  thousand  octavo 
pages." 

Oldys's  coadjutors  on  the  Biographia  Britan- 
nica were  the  Rev.  Philip  Morant,  of  Colchester  ; 
Rev.  Thomas  Broughton,  of  the  Temple  Church ; 
Dr.  John  Campbell,  of  Exeter  Change  ;  Henry 
Brougham,  of  Took' s  Court,  Cursitor  Street,  Hoi- 
born  ;  Rev.  Mr.  Ilinton,  of  Red  Lion  Square ; 
Dr.  Philip  Nicols,  Fellow  of  Trinity  Hall,  Cam- 
bridge ;  and  Mr.  Harris  of  Dublin. 

In  1778,  when  Dr.  Kippis  undertook  the  edi- 
torship of  the  second  edition  of  the  Biographia 
Britannica,  he  became  the  fortunate  possessor  of 
a  portion  of  Oldys's  manuscript  biographical  col- 
lections, purchased  for  this  work  by  Mr.  Thomas 
Cadell,  one  of  the  publishers.  In  his  Preface 
(vol.  i.  p.  xx.)  he  states,  that  "  To  Dr.  Percy, 
besides  his  own  valuable  assistances,  we  are  in- 
debted for  directing  us  to  the  purchase  of  a  large 
and  useful  body  of  biographical  materials,  left  by 
Mr.  Oldys."  These  biographical  materials  were 
quoted  in  the  articles  Arabella  Stuart,  John  Bar- 
clay, Mary  Beale,  W.  Browne,  Sam.  Butler,  &c. 
Dr.  Kippis  found  also  among  Oldys's  papers, 
some  notes  principally  tending  to  illustrate  several 

*  Life  of  Sir  W.  R.,  p.  cix.  +  British  Librarian,  p.  137. 


s.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62.] 


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of  Butler's  allusions  in  bis  Hudibras  to  both  an- 
cient and  modern  authors.  (Vide  vol.  iii.  p.  91.) 
From  the  years  1751  to  1753,  it  would  seem 
that  Oldys  was  involved  in  pecuniary  difficulties'; 
and  being  unable  to  discharge  the  rent  due  for  his 
chambers  in  Gray's  Inn,  was  compelled  to  reside 
for  a  lengthened  period  in  the  quiet  obscurity  of 
the  Fleet  prison.  It  was  probably  during  his 
confinement  that  the  following  letters  were  written 
to  his  friend  Dr.  Thomas  Birch  :  — 

"July  22,  1751. 

"  SIR, — I  received  last  night  two  guineas  by  the  hand 
of  my  worthy  and  honourable  friend  Mr.  Southwell ;  for 
•which  favour,  and  much  more  for  the  polite  and  en- 
gaging manner  of  conferring  it,  besides  this  incompetent 
return  of  my  sincere  thanks,  I  have  beg'd  him  to  make 
my  acknowledgments  more  acceptable  than  in  my  pre- 
sent confused  and  disabled  state  I  am  capable  myself  of 
doing.  1  have  also  desired  him  to  intimate  how  much 
more  I  might  be  obliged  to  you,  if,  at  your  leisure,  and 
where  you  shall  perceive  it  convenient,  you  would  so  re- 
present me  to  such  Honorable  friends  among  your  nu- 
merous acquaintance,  that  they  may  help  me  towards  a 
removal  into  some  condition,  wherein  I  may  no  longer 
remain  altogether  unuseful  to  mankind ;  which  would  lay 
an  obligation  inexpressible  upon,  Sir, 

"  Your  most  obedient  humble  servant, 

"  WILLIAM  OLDYS." 

"  August  23d,  1751. 

"  SIR,  —  That  favour  I  before  received  of  you,  was  be- 
yond whatever  the  sense  of  my  own  deficiencies  could 
suffer  me  to  expect;  but  much  more  this,  by  which, 
through  your  favourable  representation  of  me,  or  my 
misfortunes,  to  the  Hon.  Mr.  Yorke,  I  received  five 
guineas  of  him,  through  the  hands  of  the  candid  and 
cordial  Mr.  Southwell.  You  may  justly  believe,  that 
my  hearty  thanks  for  this  benefit  are  hereby  unfeignedly 
returned  to  you,  and  I  have  endeavoured  to  return  the 
like  to  that  noble  benefactor.  But  as  I  cannot  make  my 
gratitude  so  satisfactory kto  him,  as  his  goodness  has  been 
to  me,  I  still  want  the  assistance  of  a  friend,  to  convey 
my  acknowledgments,  more  expressively  than  I  can  my- 
self: and  I  think,  by  what  I  have  already  tasted,  I  may 
depend  upon  that  friendship  from  you. 

The  happiness  I  have  lately  received  in  perusing  your 
life  of  Spenser  *  has  greatly  restored  my  desire,  in  this 
loitering,  lingering  useless  condition,  to  such  studies. 
There  are  very  observable  passages  in  it,  both  ancient 
and  modern,  which  I  had  not  before  met  with  ;  for  which, 
and  many  other  memorable  incidents,  in  our  most  illus- 
trious ancestors,  recovered  and  rectified  by  your  reviving 
hand,  if  present  readers  shall  be  silent  in  your  praise, 
those  who  are  unborn  will  stigmatise  their  ingratitude, 
in  the  celebration  of  your  industry. 

"  1  remain,  Sir, 

1  "  Your  most  obliged  and  obedient  servant, 
"WILLIAM  OLDYS." f 

In  1753,  Oldys  in  conjunction  with  Mr.  John 
Taylor,  the  oculist  in  Hatton  Garden,  published 
Observations  on  the  Cure  of  Wittittm  Taylor,  the 
Blind  Boy  of  Ightham,  in  Kent,  containing  also  an 
address  to  the  Fublick  for  a  foundation  of  an  Hos- 


*  Dr.  Birch  had  recently  published  The  Faerie  Queene 
with  an  exact  collation  of  the  two  original  editions ;  to 
which  are  added  a  Life  of  the  Author,  and  a  Glossarv 
with  plates,  3  vols.  1751,  4to. 

t  Addit.  MS.  4316,  p.  4. 


3ital  for  the  Blind.  Prefixed  are  two  letters  from 
31dys  to  Dr.  Monsey  of  Chelsea  Hospital,  and  one 
n  reply  from  the  Doctor. 

Oldys  remained  in  confinement  till  Mr.  South- 
well of  Cockermouth  (brother  of  the  second  Lord 
Southwell)  and  his  other  friends  obtained  his  li- 
berty.* John  Taylor,  however,  has  given  the 
following  account  of  his  release  :  "  Oldys,  as  my 
father  informed  me,  lived  many  years  in  quiet  ob- 
scurity in  the  Fleet  prison,  but  at  last  was  spirited 
up  to  make  his  situation  known  to  the  Duke  of 
Norfolkf  of  that  time,  who  received  Oldys' s  letter 
while  he  was  at  dinner  with  some  friends.  The 
Duke  immediately  communicated  the  contents  to 
the  company,  observing  that  he  had  long  been 
anxious  to  know  what  had  become  of  an  old, 
though  an  humble  friend,  and  was  happy,  by  that 
letter,  to  find  that  he  was  still  alive.  He  then 
called  for  his  gentleman  (a  kind  of  humble  friend 
whom  noblemen  used  to  retain  under  that  name 
in  former  days),  and  desired  him  to  go  immedi- 
ately to  the  Fleet  prison  with  money  for  the  im- 
mediate need  of  Oldys,  to  procure  an  account  of 
his  debts,  and  to  discharge  them."  J 

Soon  after  the  Duke  of  Norfolk  had  released 
Oldys  from  his  pecuniary  difficulties,  he  procured 
for  him  the  situation  of  Norroy  King-at-Arms  — 
a  post  peculiarly  suited  to  his  love  of  genealogy. 
He  was  created  Norfolk  Herald  Extraordinary  at 
the  College  of  Arms  by  the  Earl  of  Effingham, 
Deputy  Earl  Marshal,  on  15th  April,  1755,  to 
qualify  him  for  the  office  of  Norroy,  to  which 
he  was  appointed  by  patent  the  5th  May  follow- 
ing. His  noble  patron  generously  defrayed  the 
fees  for  passing  his  patent.  The  Duke  had  fre- 
quently met  Oldys  in  the  library  of  the  late  Earl 
of  Oxford,  and  had  perused  with  much  pleasure 
his  Life  of  Sir  Walter  Ralegh  and  his  other 
works,  and  considered  him  sufficiently  qualified, 
from  his  literary  acquirements,  to  restore  the 
drooping  reputation  of  the  office  of  Norroy.  Oldys 
appointed  as  his  deputy  Edward  Orme  of  Ches- 
ter, better  known  as  the  compiler  of  pedigrees  for 
families  of  that  county.  "The  heralds,"  says 
Noble,  "  had  reason  to  be  displeased  with  Oldys's 
promotion  to  a  provincial  kingship.  The  College, 
however,  will  always  be  pleased  with  ranking  so 
good  a  writer  amongst  their  body."  § 

John  Taylor,  author  of  Monsieur  Tonson,  re- 
lates the  following  anecdote  of  our  Norroy  whilst 
performing  one  of  his  official  duties.  "  On  some 
occasion,  when  the  King-at-Arms  was  obliged  to 
ride  on  horseback  in  a  public  procession,  the  pre- 
decessor of  Mr.  Oldys  in  the  cavalcade  had  a  pro- 
clamation to  read,  but,  confused  by  the  noise  of 
the  surrounding  multitude,  he  made  many  mis- 


vol.  liv.  pt.  i.  p.  260. 

~77. 


*   Gent.  Ma 

t  Edward  Howard :  ob.  177< 

J  Records  of  my  Life,  i.  26.     §  College  of  Arms,  p.  421. 


64 


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[3rd  S.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62. 


takes,  and,  anxious  to  be  accurate,  _  he  turned 
back  to  every  passage  to  correct  himself,  and 
therefore  appeared  to  the  people  to  be  an  ignorant 
blunderer.  When  Mr.  Oldys  had  to  recite  the 
same  proclamation,  though  he  made,  he  said,  more 
mistakes  than  his  predecessor,  he  read  on  through 
thick  and  thin,  never  stopping  a  moment  to  cor- 
rect his  errors,  and  thereby  excited  the  applause 
of  the  people ;  though  he  declared  that  the  other 
gentleman  had  been  much  better  qualified  for  the 
duty  than  himself."  * 

We  ought  to  apologise  for  noticing  what  Mr. 
Bolton  Corney  justly  styles  "the  most  contemp- 
tible of  books,"  The  Olio,  published  from  the 
refuse  papers  of  the  redoubtable  Captain  Grose 
by  his  eager  executor,  who  happened  to  be  his 
bookseller.  Even  Mr.  Isaac  D' Israeli  acknow- 
ledges, that  in  it  "  the  delineation  of  Oldys  is 
sufficiently  overcharged  for  the  nonce."  Grose,  as 
every  one  knows,  exceedingly  enjoyed  a  joke  ;  but 
probably  he  never  conceived  that  some  officious 
hand  would  gather  up  and  publish  the  debris  of 
his  library  for  his  own  mercenary  advantage. 
This  despicable  production  has  been  quoted  as  an 
authority  by  nearly  every  one  who  has  under- 
taken to  give  an  account  of  the  life  of  Oldys. 

Grose  was  appointed  Richmond  Herald  by 
patent  12th  June,  1755,  which  he  resigned  in 
1763.  He  was  therefore  contemporary  with  Oldys 
during  the  whole  period  of  his  connexion  with 
the  Heralds'  College,  excepting  that  Oldys  was 
appointed  Xorroy  in  the  May  preccding.f  Oldys, 
however,  with  all  his  alleged  "deep  potations  in 
ale,"  was  a  well-informed  literary  antiquary  —  or, 
as  Grose  himself  confesses,  "in  the  knowledge 
of  scarce  Knglish  books  and  editions  he  had 
no  equal ; "  but  unhappily  our  facetious  Rich- 
mond Herald,  "  who  cared  more  for  rusty  armour 
than  for  rusty  volumes,"  as  D'lsraeli  remarks, 
"would  turn  over  these  flams  and  quips  to  some 
confidential  friend,  to  enjoy  together  a  secret 
laiiffh  at  their  literary  intimates."  Even  the  story 
told  by  Grose  of  the  intoxication  of  Oldys  at  the 
funeral  of  the  Princess  Caroline,  and  the  jeopardy 
of  the  crown,  is  not  accurate;  for  Mr.  Noble 
assures  u?,  that  the  crown,  when  borne  at  the 
funeral  of  the  king  or  queen,  or  the  coronet  at  the 
burial  of  a  prince  or  princess,  is  always  carried  by 

irenceux,  not  Norrpy.j;  It  is  also  stated  in  the 
ceremonial  of  the  Princess  Caroline's  funeral  as 
printed  in  The  London  Chronicle  of  Jan.  5,  1758 
wA  Reed's  Weekly  Journal  of  Jan.  7,  1758,  that 
Uarenceux,  bearing  the  coronet  upon  a  black 
velvet  cushion,  preceded  the  body  of  the  prin- 

^    (To  be  continued.) 


*  llcrorth  nfmif  Life,  i.  20 

t  /;*in'"r."';  'h  tf-  King.  York  Herald. 
I  College  of  Arms,  p,  421. 

§  MR  TJIOMI-SON  COOPBB,  of  Cambridge,  in  «N,  & 


MATHEMATICAL  BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
(Continued from  2nd  S.  xii.  518.) 

I  here  resume  the  list,  a  preceding  portion  of 
which  will  be  found  at  pp.  162—164  of  vol.  x. 
2nd  S. 

Birmingham,  seventeen-fortysix.  [THACKER,  A.] 
'  A  Treatise  containing  an  Entire  New  Method  of  solv- 
ing Adfected  Quadratic,  and  Cubic  Equations,  With  their 
Application  to  the  Solution  of  Biquadratic  Ones ;  In  an 
easier,  and  more  concise  Way,  than  any  yet  publish'd ; 
together  with  the  Demonstrations  of  the  Methods.  And 
A  Set  of  New  Tables  for  Finding  the  Roots  of  Cubics. 
Invented  by  the  late  ingenious  Mr.  A.  Thacker,  deceased ; 
But  calculated  entirely,  and  in  a  great  Measure  exem- 
plified, by  W.  Brown,  Teacher  of  the  Mathematics,  at  the 
Free-School,  in  Cleobury,  Shropshire  .  .  .  Printed  by 
Thomas  Aris.'  viii  +  115  pages.  Octavo  in  twos. 

Tables  for  the  solution  of  the  irreducible  case 
in  cubics  were  given  by  Mr.  George  Scott  in 
vols.  xlii  (pp.  246-7  and  298-9)  and  xliii  (see  pp. 
86-7)  of  the  Mechanics  Magazine  (1845).  At  pp. 
185 — 199  of  the  work  next  described  (see  also 
pp.  xxiv — xxxi  of  the  Introduction)  will  be  found 
Table  IV.  for  the  solution  of  the  irreducible 
case  in  cubic  equations."  'Sir  W.  11.  Hamilton 
has  had  the  curiosity  to  construct  and  to  apply 
two  new  tables  of  double  entry  for  the  solution  of 
one  of  Mr.  Jerrard's  trinomial  quintics  (see  Trans. 
R.  T.  A,  vol.  xviii,  pp.  251-2). 

London,  eighteen-fourteen.  BARLOW,  Peter.  '  New 
Mathematical  Tables,  containing  the  Factors,  Squares, 
Uubes,  Square  roots,  Cube  roots,  Reciprocals,  and  Hyper- 
bolic Logarithms,  of  all  numbers  from  1  to  10000;  fables 
of  Powers  and  Prime  Numbers ;  an  extensive  Table  of 
Formulas,  or  general  Synopsis  of  the  most  important 
Particulars  relating  to  the  Doctrines  of  Equations,  Series, 
Fluxions,  Fluents,  &c.  &c.  &c.'  lxi  +  336  pages.  Octavo 
'n  twos. 

London,    eighteen-twentyseven.     HIRSCH,    [Meyer]. 

Collection  of  Examples,  Formula?,  and  Calculations,  on 

he  Literal  Calculus  and  Algebra.     Translated  from  the 

jerman,   by  the  Rev.  J.  A.   Ross,  A.M.,  Translator  of 

Elirsch's  Integral  Tables',  xi  +  3^4  pages.  Octavo  in  twos. 

To  this  '  Collection '  there  are  appended  three 
Tables  in  which  the  symmetric  functions,  as  high 
as  the  tenth  dimension  inclusive,  of  the  roots  of 
any  equation,  are  expressed  in  terms  of  the  coef- 
Icients.  Vandermonde  had,  in  the  Paris  Memoires 
for  1771,  given  tables  of  the  same  extent.  Mr. 
Jerrard  has,  at  the  end  of  Part  I  of  his  Mathema- 
tical Researches,  given  a  table,  expressed  in  his 
own  notation,  up  to  the  fifth  dimension  inclusive. 
Mr.  Cay  ley  (Phil.  Trans,  for  1857,  pp.  494  et 
seq.)  has  given  inverse  as  well  as  direct  tables  up 
to  the  tenth  dimension  inclusive. 

Paris,  eighteen-thirtyone.  FOURIER,  [Jn.]  'Analyse 
.les  E'quat  ions  Determinees  .  .  .  Premiere  Partie '.  xxiv 
+  258  pages.  Quarto. 


."  2nd  S.  iii.  514,  has  stated,  that  "  on  turning  to  a  con- 
emporaneous account  of  the  funeral,  I  find  that  Norroy 
did  carry  the  coronet  on  that  occasion."  We  have  not 
"  een  able  to  trace  the  authority  for  this  statement. 


**  S.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


65 


The  printing  of  this  work  can  scarcely  be  said 
to  have  been  commenced  when  death  overtook  its 
author.  The  xxiv  introductory  pages  (dated 
Paris,  lcr  juillet  1831)  are  due  to  the  editor  Na- 
vier.  Fourier's  preface  bears  date  Paris,  1829. 

London,  eighteen-forty.  STATNES,  Edward.  'Solu- 
tion of  a  peculiar  Form  of  Cubic  Equation  by  Means  of  a 
Quadratic'.  9  pages.  A  rather  large  Duodecimo, 

[Genova,  eighteen-forty.  BADANO, il  P.  Gerolamo,  Car- 
melitano  Scalzo,  Professore  di  Matematica  nella  R. 
Universita  di  Geneva.  '  Nuove  Ricerche  sulla  Risolu- 
zione  Generale  delle  Equazioni  Algebriche  del  P.  G.  .  .  . 
Genova,  Tipografia  Ponthenier  1840.'] 

London,  eighteen-fortythree.  YOUNG,  J.  R.  '  Theory 
and  Solution  of  Algebraical  Equations  of  the  Higher 
Orders  .  .  .  Second  Edition,  enlarged  '.  xxiii  +  476  pages. 
Octavo. 

London,  eighteen-fortyfour.  YOUNG,  J.  R.  '  Re- 
searches respecting  the  Imaginary  Roots  of  Numerical 
Equations:  being  a  Continuation  of  Newton's  Investiga- 
tions on  that  Subject,  and  forming  an  Appendix  to  the 
"Theory  and  Solution  of  Equations  of  the  Higher  Or- 
ders );  '.  vi  and  to  56  pages.  Octavo. 

London,  eighteen-fortyfour.  GRAY,  Peter.  «  On  the 
Numerical  Solution  of  Algebraical  Equations:  being  the 
Substance  of  Four  Papers  in  the  Mechanics'  Magazine 
for  March,  1844.'  16  pages.  Octavo. 

London,  eighteen  -fifty.?  YOUNG,  J.  R.  « On  the  Ge- 
neral Principles  of  Analysis'.  64  pages.  Octavo. 

This  work  illustrates  the  inconvenience  of 
giving  a  book  no  other  title  page  than  a  coloured 
wrapper  which  (as  is  the  case  with  my  copy  of 
the  present  essay)  may  probably  not  be  bound  up 
with  the  other  matter.  I  gather  the  above  de- 
scription of  this  work  from  an  allusion  of  my  own 
to  it  (in  the  Meek.  Mag.  for  July  13.  1850. 
p.  38). 

Braunschweig,  eighteenrfifty.  SCHNUSE,  C.  H.  '  Die 
Theorie  und  Auflosung  der  hobern  algebraischen  und  der 
transcendenten  Gleichungen,  theoretisch  und  praktisch 
bearbeitet  von  Dr.  .  .  .'  1 V  +  488  pages.  Octavo. 

The  preface  is  dated  "  Heidelburg,  im  Januar 
1?.50'"...  Professor  J-  R.  Young  in  a  Note  at  pp. 
vii — viii  of  the  Preface  to  Jiis  "  Course,"  described 
below,  has  ^charged  Dr.  C.  H.  Schnuse  of  Heidel- 
burg, in  his  capacity  of  author  of  the  work  just 
described,  with  a  "disgraceful  literary  felony". 
It  seems  that  a  like  charge,  and  in  respect  of  the 
same  matter,  had  already  been  preferred  against 
Dr.  Schnuse  by  a  distinguished  writer  in  the 
Athenaum  for  March  5,  1859.  It  would  be  well 
that  the  fact  of  these  charges  having  been  made 
should  be  brought  directly  under  Dr.  Schnuse's 
notice.  I  should  be  glad  to  be  informed  if  any 
answer  to  them  has  yet  appeared. 

Hyde,  eighteen- fiftyfour.  BEECROFT,  Philip.  'Bee- 
croft's  Method  of  finding  all  the  Roots,  both  real  and 
imaginary  of  algebraical  Equations,  without  the  Aid  of 
auxiliary  Equations  of  higher  Degrees '.  x  +  48  pages. 
Octavo. 

t  London,  eighteen-fiftynine.  RAMCHUNDRA.  < A  Trea- 
tise on  Problems  of  Maxima  and  Minima,  solved  by 
Algebra.  By  Ramchundra,  late  Teacher  of  Science,  Delhi 
College.  Reprinted  by  order  of  the  Honourable  Court  of 


Directors  of  the  East  India  Company  for  Circulation  in 
Europe  and  in  India,  in  Acknowledgment  of  the  Merit  of 
the  Author,  and  in  Testimony  of  the  Sense  entertained  of 
the  Importance  of  independent  Speculation  as  an  Instru- 
ment of  national  Progress  in  India.  Under  the  Superin- 
tendence of  AUGUSTUS  DE  MOUGAN,  F.R.A.S.  F.C.P.S.' 
&c.  v+  (185)  pages.  Octavo  in  twos. 

Ramchundra's  preface  is  dated  "  Delhi,  16th 
February,  1850,"  and  is  preceded  by  a  title-page 
dated  "  Calcutta:"  "  1850".  The  title-page  from 
which  the  above  description  is  taken  and  the  edi- 
torial preface  of  Professor  DE  MORGAN  precede 
the  title-page  last  mentioned. 

London,  eighteen-sixtyone.  YOUNG,  John  Radford. 
<  A  Course  of  Mathematics,  affording  Aid  to  Candidates 
for  Admission  into  either  of  the  Military  Colleges,  to 
Applicants  for  Appointments  in  the  Indian  Civil  Service, 
and  to  Students  of  Mathematics  generally',  xi  +  637 
pages.  Octavo.  • 

Halle,  eightepn-fiixtyone.  SCHULENBURG,  Adolf  von 
der.  'Die  Auflosung  der  Gleichungen  fiinften  Grades', 
pp.  IV +  36.  Octavo. 

The  preface  is  dated  "  Magdeburg  am  30  Oc- 
tober 1860." 

Cambridge  and  London,  eighteen-sixtyone.  TODHUN- 
TER,  I,  'An  Elementary  Treatise  on  the  Theory  of 
Equations,  with  a  Collection,  of  Examples  '.  vi  +  279 
pages.  Octavo. 

I  have  put  Prof.  Baclano's  work  between 
brackets  [  ]  because,  not  having  seen  it,  I  have 
borrowed  the  materials  for  its  description  from 
Sir  W.  ROWAN  HAMILTON'S  footnote  at  p.  329  of 
vol.  xix  of  the  Transactions  of  the  Royal  Irish 
Academy.  JAMES  COCKLE,  M.A,,  &c. 

4  Pump  Court,  Temple,  London. 


PRINCELY  FUNERALS. 

The  recent  obsequies,  more  seemly  distin- 
guished by  national  sorrow  than  by  courtly  os- 
tentation, reminded  me  of  a  long- forgotten  folio, 
entitled :  — 

"  Pompe  Fune'bre  du  tres  pieux  et  tres  puissant  Prince 
Albert,  Archiduc  d'Autriche,  Due  de  Bourgogne,  de  Bra- 
bant, &c. ;  represented  au  naturel  en  tailles  donees,  des- 
sinees  par  Jacques  Francquart,  et  gravies  par  Corneille 
Galle;  avec  une  dissertation  historique  et  morale 
d'Eryce  Putenaeus,  Conseiller  et  Historiographe  du  Roi. 
Bruxelles,  1729." 

The  object  of  this  mortuary  magnificence,  hav- 
ing in  1599  espoused  the  Spanish  Infanta  Isabella 
XII.,  and,  jure  marito,  become  sovereign  Prince 
of  the  Netherlands,  died  in  July,  1621,  and  was 
buried  in  March,  1622;  the  intermediate  eight 
months  being  devoted  to  the  preparations  of  his 
interment.  And  here  might  the  record  and  the 
remembrance  of  Albert  VII.  have  found  their 
consummation,  had  not  courtiers  and  counsellors 
elaborated  this  volume,  describing  in  four  several 
languages  —  Latin,  Spanish,  French,  and  Flemish, 
his  exploits,  his  qualities,  and  his  funeral  proces- 
sion— a  whole  day's  length  between  the  Palace  of 


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[3"1  S.  1.  JAN.  26,  '62. 


Brussels,  and  Saint  Gudule's  Cathedral ;  prestnt- 
ing  on  sixty-three  bi-paginal  plates  the  portraits, 
ad  vivum,  of  its  numerous  assistants.  Ot  more 
than  250  of  these,  the  unnamed  train  of  chaplains 
and  choristers,  heralds  and  pages,  musicians  and, 
servitors,  some  are  synecdochally  set  down  for  a 

rter  number;    while  nearly   500   personages, 
princes  and  prelates  of  Belgium ;  her  nobles 
and  high  dignitaries ;  her  counsellors  and  magis- 
trates, are  each  designated  by  name  and  title,  and 
office. 

That  all  these  figures  are  actual  portraits  may 
be  inferred  by  the  variety  of  the  several  counten- 
ances, wherein  many  existent  families  may  trace 
majorum  imagines.  Five  additional  plates  ex- 
hibit the  facade  of  the  cathedral  appropriately 
draped  with  candles  and  skeletons ;  a  chronicle  of 
the  archiducal  victories,  stretching  from  Lisbon 
to  Ostend ;  together  with  an  array  of  epigraphs, 
attributing  to  H.I.H.  "every  virtue  under  heaven," 

—  a  catafalque,  a  chapelle  ardente,  and,  to  cap  the 
climax,  "the  chariot  of  Generosity  ;"  wherein  sits 
a  Patagonian  goddess   (or   saintess)   twelve  feet 
high,  wkh  half  a  dozen  minor  deities  acting  as 
postilions,  "  Reason"  and  "Providence"  being  be- 
tween  the   shafts,    after   the   fashion   of    certain 
modern  essayists,  dos-a-dos.     This  gaudy  machine 

—  fitter  for  a  living  lord  mayor  than  for  a  de- 
ceased  archduke  —  is  covered   with  some   thirty 
flags,  as  many  coat-armours,   and  more  carving 
and  gilding  than  "N.  &  Q."  could  afford  my  de- 
scribing. 

In  the  tetraglottic  record  of  the  Spanish  king's 
counsellor  and  historiographer,  I  lighted  on  one 
passage  eminently  applicable  to  our  own  Prince, 
Friend,  and  Father  —  a  diamond  in  a  heap  of 
pebbles  :  — 

"Amplius  erat,  Albertum  esse  quam  Regem;  amplius, 
merer!  diadema,  quam  induere." 

EDMUND  LENTHAL  SWIFTE. 


HAMPSHIRE  MUMMERS. 

I  have  just  witnessed  a  performance  of  the 
mummers  in  the  hall  of  an  old  country  house 
in  the  south-west  part  of  Hants.  I  regret  to 
find  that  the  "  act "  now  varies  every  year, 
and  is  furnished  from  London.  The  speech  of 
Old  Father  Christmas  is  the  traditional  epi- 
logue, which  has  not  been  tampered  with.  The 
dramatis  persona  wore  white  trousers,  and  coats 
like  tunics  of  printed  calico,  with  scarves,  wooden 
swords,  and  hats  covered  with  ribbons  and  artifi- 
cial flowers.  They  represent  Sir  II.  Havelock 
(who  kills)  Nana  Sahib,  and  Sir  Colin  Campbell 
(who  kills)  Tanty  Tobes  (Tantia  Topee),  and  the 
physician,  who  was  distinguished  by  a  horse-hair 
plume  in  a  pointed  cap.  Old  Father  Christmas 
wore  breeches  and  stockings,  carried  a  begging- 
box,  and  conveyed  himself  upon  two  sticks ;  his 


arms  were  striped  with  chevrons  like  a  noncom- 
missioned officer. 

"  In  come  I,  Father  Christmas, 

Welcome  or  welcome  not ; 

I  hope  Old  Father  Christmas 

Will  never  be  forgot. 

Christmas  comes  but  once  a-year, 

When  it  comes  it  brings  good  cheer : 

Roast  beef,  plum -pudding, 

And  Christmas  pie, 

Who  likes  it  better  than  I. 

I  was  born  in  lands 

Where  there  was  no  one  to  make  my  cradle, 

They  first  wrapped  me  in  a  bowldish, 

And  then  in  a  ladle. 

Where  I  go,  I  am  nick-named  [half  silly] 

And  hump-backed; 

My  father  was  an  Irishman, 

My  mother  was  an  Irishman. 

My  sister  Suke 

Cocked  an  eye, 

And  played  the  rattat-too. 

My  father  he  was  a  soldier  bold 

As  I  used  to  often  hear  them  say, 

They  used  to  fight  with  great  big  sticks, 

And"  often  run  away  ; 

There's  no  such  fighting  in  our  time, 

They  fight  with  sword  and  gun, 

And  when  in  battle  forced  to  go 

There  is  no  chance  to  run. 

In  comes  I,  little  Twing-Twang, 

I  am  the  lieutenant  of  the  press  gang; 

Also  I  press  young  men  and  Avomen 

To  go  board  man-of-war. 

Likewise  Little  Johnny  Jack, 

My  wife  and  family  at  my  back ; 

Although  that  they  be  any  small. 

If  you  do  not  give  me  lamb,  bread,  and  onions, 

I'll  starve  them  one  and  all. 

Likewise  Little  Jackie  John, 

If  a  man  want  to  fight 

Let  him  come  on ; 

I'll  cut  and  hack  'um 

Small's  the  dust. 

Send  Uncle  Harry 

To  make  piecrust 

For  my  dinner  to-morrow." 

MACKENZIE  E.  C.  WALCOTT,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 


BOOKS  AND  THEIR  AUTHORS. 
Much  is  it  to  be  wished  that  authors  and  edi- 
tors would,  by  prefixing  to  the  works  written  and 
edited  by  them  respectively,  an  analytical  table  of 
contents,  follow  the  laudable  example  of  Mr. 
Henry  Thomas  Buckle  in  those  two  volumes  he 
has  published  on  the  History  of  Civilization  in 
England.  The  student,  having  committed  _  to 
memory  this  table,  could,  with  increased  facility, 
acquire  a  complete  knowledge  of  the  volume  he 
would  thereafter  read,  and  in  his  inquiries  on  the 
subject,  by  its  aid,  at  once  refer  to  the  passage 
containing  the  required  information.  Nor  could 
such  an  analysis  be  unacceptable  to  any ;  and  his 
labour  entailed  in  the  construction  thereof  should 
amply  be  compensated  for  by  the  reflection  that 
the  writer  has  in  some  measure  lessened  the  diffi- 


.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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culties  which  beset  the  student's  path.  I  am  well 
aware  that  to  all  works  this  table  could  not  be 
applied;  still,  however,  I  would,  on  my  own  be- 
half, and  for  the  interest  of  others,  suggest  its 
general  adoption. 

Again,  to  each  paragraph,  let  a  brief  analysis 
of  its  contents  be  annexed  in  the  margin,  as  is 
now  done  in  printed  acts  of  Parliament  and  in 
most  legal  works. 

The  necessity  for  a  complete  list  of  authors 
quoted  or  referred  to  must  be  evident  to  any 
reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  The  frequent  questions 
inserted  therein  relating  to  the  edition  of  some 
work,  or  the  name  of  an  author,  will  justify 
my  reference  to  the  subject.  Herein  also  ME. 
BUCKLE  deserves  the  thanks  of  all  students. 

Below  I  venture  to  give  a  tabulated  statement 
of  the  necessary  information  :  — 
Author's     rr-,1      c    T^j'i'  Place  of 

Name  in    ^Hf  nEJS£r  Date.    Pub! ica-  Remarks. 

Full.         Book'    °r  Edlt°r'  tion. 

ERNEST  W.  BARTLETT. 


f&inav 

THE  POLYPHEMUS  OF  TURNER. — Mr.  Thorn- 
bury  (Life  of  Turner,  i.  316)  thinks  "there  can 
be  no  doubt  that  Turner  selected  this  subject 
from  the  ninth  book  of  the  Odyssey."  He  also 
says  (ii.  210)  :  "  I  do  not  think  he  went  much  fur- 
ther than  Lempriere  for  his  '  Polyphemus.' "  But 
Mr.  Thornbury  has  omitted  the  Cyclops  of  Euri- 
pides, to  which  Turner  could  have  access  in  an 
English  translation  ;  or  if  not,  his  old  friend  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Trimmer,  who  essayed  to  teach  Turner 
Greek  at  fifty,  might  have  furnished  the  particu- 
lars of  this  story  to  Turner,  ever  ready  to  catch 
at  information,  from  the  seaman  to  the  classical 
critic  of  art.  T.  J.  BUCKTON. 

Lichfield. 

SURNAMES.  —  A  fruitful  source  of  such,  often 
very  curious  and  unusual,  may  be  found  in  the 
subscription  lists  of  various  societies,  religious  and 
philanthropical.  In  instance,  a  page  now  before 
me  of  some  years  ago  supplies  the  names  of  Lar- 
roder,  Hatchett,  Sansbury,  Clogg,  Emary,  La- 
vender, Snee,  Draegar,  Starey,  Roseblade,  Hixter, 
Bacot,  Dearlove,  Boyman,  Bigsby,  Cahill,  Ditmas 
Grisbrook,  Hiscoke,  Chinn,  Snosswell,  Byles, 
Evill,  Nanson,  Portal,  Tinney,  Sprosten  Marsen, 
Alchin,  Gamwell,  Dunnage,  Dyne,  &c.  &c.  Cer- 
tainly several  of  these  are,  at  least,  unusual. 

S.  M.  S. 

THE  FIRST  BANK  IN  AUSTRALIA.  —  Circum- 
stances have  changed  since  the  following  item  of 
news  was  circulated  throughout  the  Eastern  Coun- 
ties by  the  oldest  of  our  country  newspapers  :  — 

"  A  banking-firm,  composed  of  the  principal  inhabit- 
ants, has  been  established  at  Botany  Bay;  their  capital 


is  20,000/.,  raised  in  50/.  shares."  —  The  Stamford  Mer- 
cury, April  3,  1818. 

K  P.  D.  E. 

THE  JACKDAW  A  WEATHER-PROPHET. — Time 
out  of  mind  the  citizens  of  Wells,  whenever  a 
jackdaw  has  been  seen  standing  on  one  of  the 
vanes  of  the  cathedral  tower,  have  often  been 
heard  to  say  "  We  shall  have  rain  soon."  I  have 
closely  observed  the  habits  of  these  cunning  birds 
for  nearly  twenty  years,  and  particularly  with 
respect  to  the  old  saying  about  the  weather ;  and 
as  sure  as  I  have  seen  one  or  more  of  them  on  the 
cathedral  vanes,  so  sure  has  rain  followed  — 
generally  within  twenty-four  hours.  I  have  men- 
tioned these  facts  to  many  persons,  and  from 
several  have  learnt  that  the  same  circumstances 
have  been  a  "household  tale"  in  different  locali- 
ties for  many  years  past.  Two  places  I  may 
mention :  Croscombe,  near  Wells ;  and  Romsey, 
Hants.  I  have  not  much  doubt  the  readers  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  can  enumerate  other  instances.  Can 
any  good  reason  be  assigned  wh/  these  birds 
should  sit  on  such  elevated  points  at  the  approach 
of  wet  weather  ?  INA. 

METRIC  PROSE. — MR.  KEIGHTLEY'S  article  in 
"  N.  &  Q.,"  2nd  S.  xii.  515,  has  reminded  me  of  a 
note  which  I  made  some  time  ago  whilst  reading 
Mr.  D'Israeli's  Wondrous  Tale  of  Alroy.  If  any 
person  will  refer  to  that  book,  he  will  find  there 
a  few  extraordinary  specimens  of  metric  prose. 
I  subjoin  one  quotation  taken  from  the  first 
volume  (1st  edition)  pp.  27,  28  :  — 

"  Why  am  I  here?  are  you  not  here?  and  need  I  urge 
a  stronger  plea  ?  Oh !  brother  dear,  I  pray  you  come 
and  mingle  incur  festival!  Our  walls  are  hung  with 
flowers  you  love;  I  culled  them  by  the  fountain's  side; 
the  holy  lamps  are  trimmed  and  set,  and  you  must  raise 
their  earliest  flame.  Without  the  gate  my  maidens  wait, 
to  offer  you  a  robe  of  state.  Then,  brother  dear,  I  pray 
you  come  and  mingle  in  our  festival." 

In  the  Preface  to  his  work,  Mr.  D'Israeli  says, 
"I  must  frankly  confess  that  I  have  invented  a 
new  style."  Not  very  new,  I  should  say  ;  nor  yet 
very  good.  GUSTAVE  MASSON. 

Harrow-on-the-Hill. 


AUTHORISED  TRANSLATOR  OF  CATULLUS.  —  In 

the  Athenceum  of  Dec.  21,  1861,  appears  the  fol- 
lowing advertisement :  — 

"  EDUCATION  IN  GERMANY,  BONN,  —  Mr.  ******, 
authorised  Translator  of  Lord  Macaulay's  History,  Vol. 
5,  of  the  Poems  of  Catullus,  &c.,  receives  Two  Pupils." 

Now,  how  on  earth  can  the  man  be  *'  authorised 
translator"  of  the  "Poems  of  Catullus"  ?  I  really 
do  not  see  how  Catullus,  or  his  publisher,  could 
give  the  requisite  authorisation,  unless  through  a 
"  medium,"  and  I  have  not  heard  that  the  Roman 


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[8*1  S.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62. 


poet  1ms  made  his  appearance  in  the  Spiritualist 
Magazine;  probably  no  "spiritualist"  is  able  to 
make  a  Latin  verse  which  could  by  any  possibility 
pass  for  Catullus's.  ^ 

Perhaps  some  correspondent  of  "1ST.  &  Q.'  will 
relieve  the  perplexity  of  S.  C. 

COLONEL  WILLIAM  CROMWELL.  —  A  warrant 
dated  at  the  Castle  of  Dublin,  13th  September, 
1642,  by  the  Lords  Justices  and  Council,  directs 
the  Treasurer-at-War  in  Ireland  to  pay  to  Colonel 
Win.  Cromwell  the  sum  of  24Z.  3,9.  for  "seven 
days'  drink-money  for  the  souldiers  of  the  seuerall 
companyes  undermentioned,"  which  are  as  fol- 


companyes 

lows  :  — 

"To  Col.  Cromwell  for  181  men 
To  Col.  Bradshaw,  133  men 
To  Col.  llobt.  Broughton,  100  men     - 
To  Capt.  Ilunyweoil,  99  men     - 


£24    30" 

And  endorsed  is  a  receipt  signed  "  W.  Cromwell." 
Can  any  of  your  readers  say  who  this  was  ?  and 
whether  any,  and  what  relation  to  Oliver?  M. 

THE  DUCHESS  D'ANGOULEME  AND  THE  COUNT 
I>E  CHAMBORU. —  I  copy  from  a  newsp;!per  cut- 
tin*:,  which  h  is  been  for  some  time  located  in  my 
portfolio,  the  following  curious  and,  to  me,  mys- 
terious scrap  of  royal  gossip.  One  of  your  earlier 
correspondents  h;is  pathetically  alluded  to  "  the 
'  well-known  anecdote'  which  one  does  not  know  ;" 
and  I  entreat  you  to  enlighten  me  upon  "the 
purport  of  the  secret,"  which  is  "only  too  well 
known."  The  utmost  efforts  of  my  imagination 
fail  to  discover  what  it  was  for  which  the  Duchess 
"regarded  her  whole  life  as  one  long  expiation." 

"  Ever  since  the  death  of  the  Duchess  d'Angouleme, 
tliis  indifference  and  disbelief  of  all  things  is  said  to  have 
increased  tenfold  in  the  spirit  of  the  Count  de  Chambord. 
About  an  hour  before  that  venerable  lady's  demise,  the 
Count  was,  by  her  desire,  left  alone  beside'her  dying  bed. 
So  great  was  her  fear  of  being  overheard,  that  thcv  say 
8hft  insisted  upon  the  door  of  the  antechamber  being  left, 
wide,  open,  and  that  of  the  staircase  locked,  to  prevent 
the  possibility  of  eaves-droppers.  The  secret,  which  had 
for  so  many  years  bowed  her  spirit  to  the  very  earth,  and 
for  which  her  whole  life  was  regarded  by  her  as  one  long 
expiation,  was  breathed  into  his  ear,  leaving  its  rancorous 
son  to  distil  into  his  brain  as  it  had  done  into  her 
own.  .  .  .  .  .  The  purport  of  the  secret  is  but  too  well 

known.    The  Pope  himself  and  Lord  Charles  are 

said  to  be  the  only  sharers  in  the  knowledge  [how  then 
can  Us  purport  be  'too  well  known'?]  which  seems  to 
have  robbed  the  Count  de  Chambord  of  all  his  interest  in 
life,  and  to  have  replaced  the  hope  with  which  he  once 
•garded  his  future  fate,  by  the  remorse  which  his  aged 
relative  had  in  vain  endeavoured  to  shake  off  during  the 
whole  of  her  existence— a  remorse  and  fear  which  neither 
decrees  of  the  Tribunal  of  the  Seine,  nor  the  judgment  of 
the  Minister  of  Police,  nor  the  book  of  M.  de  Beauchene 
though  written  for  the  express  mirnose.  will  evpr  i,0  nv 


now  to  shake  off." 


the  express  purpose,  will  ever  be  able 
HERMENTJRUDE. 


EMBLEMS  :  TINELLI,  —  Will  any  of  your  corre- 
spondents, who  are  collectors  of  books  containing 
emblems,  have  the  kindness  to  say  whether  there 
is  any  such  work  published,  with  the  name  of 
Tinelli  as  author  ?  I  have  a  MS.,  apparently  of 
the  seventeenth  century,  with  the  title  :  — 

"  Emblemata  variis  datis,  occasionibus  aptanda,  etc. 
....  per  nie  Comitem  Heliodorum  Mariana  Tinellium." 

It  contains  261  folio  leaves  of  emblems  ;  and  I 
wish  to  ascertain  whether  it  be  an  original  MS,, 
or  the  copy  of  a  printed  book.  X. 

"  GILDED  CHAMBER."  —  I  shall  feel  obliged  by 
references  to  any  of  the  poets,  &c.,  in  which  this 
expression  occurs.  R.  S.  CHARNOCK. 

HERALDIC.  —  Argent,  a  chevron  azure  be- 
tween three  garbs,  as  many  mullets*  argent. 
Crest.  A  game  cock  proper. 

I  shall  be  much  obliged  to  any  reader  of  "  N". 
&  Q."  who  will  inform  me  of  the  name  and  place 
of  any  family  who  use  the  above  arms  ;  and  when 
and  to  whom  they  were  granted.  J.  C.  H. 

JAKINS.  —  Can  any  of  your  readers  afford  me  a 
probable  explanation  of  the  surname  "  Jakins,"  as 
to  its  origin,  &e.  Another  branch  of  the  same 
family  have  spelled  it  "  Jachins."  Is  it  likely  to 
be  in  any  way  related  to  Jachin,  a  son  of  the 
Patriarch  Simeon,  and  Jachin,  the  name  bestowed 
on  one  of  the  pillars  of  Solomon's  Temple?  W.  Y. 

MRS.  MAXWELL,  AN  AMAZON.  —  In  the  List  of 
Deaths  in  the  Gentleman  s  Magazine  (1746),  vol. 
xvi.  p.  496,  the  following  announcement  ap- 
pears :  — 

"Mrs.  Maxwell,  at  Dublin,  famous  for  having  served 
in  the  horse  during  most  of  the  last  war  in  Flanders." 

Where  may  particulars  of  Mrs.  Maxwell  be 
found?  ABHBA. 

THE  NATIONAL  COLOUR  OF  IRELAND.  —  What  is 
the  national  colour  of  Ireland  ?  Contrary  to  the 
general  opinion,  many  (with  good  reason,  they 
assert,)  represent  it  as  purple,  and  not  green. 

ABHBA. 

PAULO  DOLSCIO,  "  PSALTERIUM."  —  I  should  be 
glad  of  some  account  of  a  book  which  I  have,  with 
the  following  title-page,  and  of  the  author  :  — 


o$r)TOv  nail  /SacriXew?  fxe'A.os 
/xei/oi',  virb  IlavAou  TOV  AoAuKiou  IIAaews." 

_"  Psalterium  Prophetse  et  Regis  Davidis  versibus  ele- 
giacis  redditum  a  Paulo  Dolscio  Plavensi.  Basileas  per 
Joannera  Oporinum." 

The  date  at  the  end  is  1555,  and  the  epistle 
dedicatory  concludes  thus  :  "  Dates  in  Salinis  in 
ripa  Sal*.  Cal.  Sep.  Anno  1554."  A  note  in 
pencil  says  :  "  Liber  rarissiraus.  v.  Salthen.  Catal. 
p.  498,  n.  25  ii.f  E.  A.  D< 

[*  Qy.  Where  are  the  mullets?  —En.] 
[t  The  following  is  the  note  in  Salthenii  BibliotheccB 
Viri,  "Liber  rarissimus,  de  quo  adeo  nil  rescire  potuit 


'<*  S.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


69 


QUOTATIONS  WANTED.  — 

1.  "  Go,  shine  till  thou  outshin'st  the  gleam 

Of  all  the 

Go  —  dance  till  all  the  diamonds  flash, 

That  stain  thy  inky  hair: 
Then  kneel  and  show  thy  heart  to  God  — 

What  broken  vows  are  there !  " 

2.  "Vous    dcfendez    qua    ja    vous    aime  —  et    bien, 

j'obeirai!" 

3.  «  What  though  the  form  be  fair, 

What  though  the  eye  be  bright, 
What  though  the  rare  and  flowing  hair, 

Vie  with  the  rich  sunlight,  — 
If  the  soul  which  of  all  should  the  fairest  be, 
If  the  soul  which  must  last  through  eternity, 

Be  a  dark  and  unholy  thiug  ?  " 

4.  "  And  thus  the  heart  may  break,  yet  brokenly  livo 

on." 
[Childe  Harold,  Canto  iii.  Stanza  32.] 

5.  "  Forgiveness  to  the  injured  doth  belong, 

They  never  pardon  who  have  done  the  wrong." 

G.  "  Yet  died  he  as  the  wise  might  wish  to  die, 
With  all  his  fame  upon  him  .      .      .  .   . 
We  may  die  otherwise — our  dim  career 
May  rise  and  set  in  darkness ;  we  may  give 
Some  kindly  gleams  which  leave  the  rest  more 

drear ; 

But  0 !  'tis  sad  their  brightness  to  survive, 
And  die  when  nought  remains  for  which  'twere 

well  to  live !  " 

HEBMENTRUDE. 

"  Just  notions  will  into  good  actions  grow, 
And  to  our  Reas9n  we  our  Virtues  owe. 
False  Judgments  are  the  unhappy  source  of  ill, 
And  blinded  Error  draws  the  passive  Will. 
To  know  our  Gon,  and  know  our  selves,  is  all 
We  can  true  Happiness  or  Wisdom  call." 

"  For  let  3rour  subject  be  or  low  or  high, 
Here  all  the  penetrating  force  must  lie  .  .  ." 

"  Till  with  a  pleased  surprise  we  laugh  [or  smile]  and 

wonder 
How  [or  that]  things  so  like,  so  long  were   kept 

asunder." 

F.K. 

WHITEHALL.  —  Some  few  years  ago  I  remem- 
ber to  have  read  that,  in  adapting  the  Banquet- 
ing House  of  Whitehall  as  a  chapel  for  the 
Guards,  it  was  discovered  that  the  upper  or  a 
part  of  one'  of  the  windows  had  evidently  been 
removed,  and  the  masonry  replaced  in  a  hasty 
manner.  This  circumstance,  of  course,  indicating 
the  window  to  be  that  through  which  Charles  I. 
passed  to  the  scaffold.  Can  you  oblige  me  by 
a  reference  to  the  book  in  which  the  statement 
I  have  given  may  be  found,  as  unfortunately  I 
made  no  note  ?  L.  M. 

COL.  THOMAS  WINSLOE. —  I  was  looking  one 
day  at  an  old  diary,  date  1766,  when  I  came  upon 
the  following  curious  memorandum :  — 

Jac.  Duportus,  ut  fere  ineditum  crederet,  in  Prafat.  ad 
suam  Metaphrasin  Psalmor.,  p.  11,  sq."  We  cannot  find 
this  very  rare  work  either  in  the  Bodleian  or  the  British 
Museum  Catalogues.  —  ED.] 


"  Sat,  August,  23,  1766.  Last  week  died,  at  his  seat 
in  the  county  of  Tipperary,  Colonel  Thomas  Winsloe, 
aged  146  years :  he  was  Captain  in  the  reign  of  Charles  I., 
and  came  with  Oliver  Cromwell,  as  Lieut.-Colonel  into 
Ireland." 

I  have  copied  this  verbatim.  Can  any  of  your 
correspondents  give  me  more  particulars  about 
Colonel  Thomas  Winsloe.  X.  (1.) 


LADY  SOPHIA  BUCKLEY.  —  Who  was  this  lady 
in  our  Charles  II.'s  court,  and  wbat  is  known  of 
her  ?  C.  H. 

[This  lady'a  name  is  Bulkeley,  not  Buckley,  as  errone- 
ously spelt  in  Dalrymple's  Memoirs,  part  ii.  p.  189.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Walter  Stuart,  M.D.,  third 
son  of  Walter,  first  Lord  Blantyre.  The  Duchess  of  Rich- 
mond, Frances  Teresa,  was  her  elder  sister.  Pepys,  who 
was  fond  of  "gadding  abroad  to  look  after  beauties," 
once  met  the  two  fair  sistera  in  his  walks.  ''So  I  to  the 
Park,"  says  he,  "and  there  walk  an  hour  or  two;  and 
in  the  King's  garden,  and  saw  the  Queen  and  the  ladies 
walk ;  and  I  did  steal  some  apples  off  the  trees ;  and  here 
did  I  see  my  Lady  Richmond,  who  is  of  a  noble  person  as 
ever  I  did  see,  but  her  face  worse  than  it  was  consider- 
ably by  the  small-pox:  her  sister  is  also  very  hand- 
some." Sophia  Stuart  married  Henry  Bulkeley,  fourth 
son  of  Thomas,  first  Viscount  Bulkeley,  and  Master  of 
the  Household  to  Charles  II.  and  Jamts  II.  Sophia  was 
a  lady  of  the  bedchamber  to  the  Queen  in  1687,  and  in  the 
list  of  those  ladies  she  is  placed  between  the  Countess  of 
Tyrconnel  and  Lady  BelJasyse,  which  seems  to  imply 
that  she  had  precedence  above  a  baroness.  Her  duties 
about  the  Queen  probably  occasioned  her  being  present 
at  the  birth  of  the  attainted  Prince  of  Wales.  See  State 
Poems,  iii.  260.  Granger  says,  that  "  in  the  reign  of  Wil- 
liam III.  it  was  reported  that  Sophia  was  confined  in  the 
Bastile,  for  holding  a  correspondence  with  Lord  Godol- 
phin.  That  she  had  some  connection  with  that  Lord 
may  be  presumed  from  the  following  stanza,  which  is 
part  of  a  satire  against  Charles,  written  in  1680 :  — 

'  Not  for  the  nation,  but  the /cur, 

Our  tieasury  provides: 
Bulkeley's  Godolphin's  only  care, 
As  Middleton  is  Hyde's.' " 

But  according  to  the  Treasury  Order  Book  at  the  Cus- 
toms, D.  352,  F.  303,  (where  her  surname  is  also  spelt 
Buckley),  she  was  residing  in  France  in  1680.  Consult 
Collins's  Peerage,  viii.  16,  ed.  1812;  and  Granger's  Biog. 
Hist.  ir.  184,  ed.  1775.] 

"  A  DISCOURSE  AGAINST  TBANSTJBSTANTIATION. 
LOKD.  1687."  —  1  possess  a  pamphlet  thus  en- 
titled :  — 

"  A  Discourse  against  Transulstantiation.  T/ie  Sixth 
Edition.  London :  Printed  for  Brabazon  Avlmer  .  .  . 
and  William  Rogers  .  .  1687.  Price  Three  Pence." 
Pp.  40.  8vo. 

It  is  one  of  the  most  remarkable  treatises  on  the 
subject  I  ever  read,  and  exhibits  uncommon  learn- 
ing and  ability  ;  but  there  is  scarcely  anything 
in  it  that  a  Zwinglian  might  not  have  written. 
It  commences  thus : 

"  Concerning  the  Sacrament  of  the  Lord's  Supper,  one 
of  the  two  great  positive  Institutions  of  the  Christian 


70 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


ra  S.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62. 


Religion,  there  are  two  main  points  of  difference  between 
us  and  the  Church  of  Rome.  One,  about  the  Doctrin%,of 
Transubstantiation,  .  .  The  other,  about  the  adminis- 
tration of  this  Sacrament  to  the  people  in  both  kinds. 
Of  the  first  of  these  I  shall  now  treat." 

At  the  end  of  the  pamphlet  are  the  following 
Advertisements :  — 

"There  is  lately  published  a  Discourse  of  the  Com- 
munion in  one  kind,  in  answer  to  a  Treatise  of  the  Bishop 
of  Meaux's  of  Communion  under  both  species.  In  Quarto. 

"  Also  a  View  of  the  whole  Controversie  between  the 
Representer  and  the  Answerer .  .  .  In  Quarto." 

I  suppose  my  pamphlet  is  to  be  found  in  Peck's 
Catalogue  of  Controversial  Treatises.  Was  it 
written  by  Wake  or  Dodwell  ?  I  should  be  glad 
to  know  the  author's  name  ?  EIRIONNACH. 

[This  Discourse  is  by  John  Tillotson,  afterwards  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury.  It  was  first  published  in  1684, 
and  in  the  following"  year  had  passed  through  four  edi- 
tions. It  was  attacked  in  a  work  entitled,  "Reason  and 
Authority ;  or  the  Motives  of  a  late  Protestant's  Recon- 
ciliation to  the  Catholick  Church.  Together  with  Re- 
marks upon  some  late  Discourses  against  Transubstanti-  j 
ation.  Publisht  with  allowance.  4to.  Lond.  1687."  This  j 
work  is  attributed  in  the  Bodleian  and  Dublin  Cata- 
logues  to  Joshua  Bassett,  Master  of  Sidney 'College,  | 
Cambridge.  Dodd  (Cliurch  Hist.,  iii.  483.)  attributes  it 
to  Gother.  The  main  object  of  the  work  is  to  attack  this 
Discourse  of  Tillotson,  and  that  by  Dr.  Wake  (Vide 
Birch's  Life  of  Tillotson,  p.  118,  edit.  1753.)  A  Discourse 
of  the  Communion  in  one  hind,  is  by  Wm.  Payne,  M.A., 
Rector  of  St.  Mary's,  Whitechapel ;  "A  View  of  the  ivhole 
Controversy,  &c.,  by  Dr.  Wm.  Claget.] 

THE  "PRESS-GANG "IN  1706.  — When  did  im- 
pressment for  the  navy  begin?  The  following 
instance  (transcribed  from  the  original  warrant), 
which  ^  occurred  early  in  the  last  century,  will 
show  in  what  way  men  were'i  at  that  time  im- 
pressed :  — 

"  Wells  Cii'if.  sire  Burgus  in  Com.  Sam.  :  —  We,  whose  \ 
names  are  herevnto  subscribed  (two  of  Her  Maj'tie's  jus-  j 
tices  of  the  peace  for  the  said  Citty  or  Borrough),  pur- 
sueant  to  a  late  Acte  of  Parliam't  made  in  the  fourth  i 
ifth  yeares  of  her  said  Maj'tie's  reign,  entitled  'An  ! 
Act  for  the  Encouragement  and  better  encrease  of  Sea-  j 
men,  and  for  the  better  and  speedier  Manning  of  her 

Fleet,'    Do    exhibite   and   certifie,  vnder   our  i 
hands  and  scales,  That  James  Middleham,  Jun^,  of  the 
Ditty  or  Burrough,  was,  the  nineteenth  day  of  Aprill 
instant   brought  before  vs  by  Edward  Bence  and  John  ' 
ienfield,  two  of  her  Maj'tie's  officers  belonging  to  the  j 
ty  or  Burrough,  and  then  Impressed  before  vs ;  ! 
and  at  the  same  tyme  delivered  over  bv  vs  vnto  John 
jnian,  appointed  Conductor  to  receive  the  same  ac- 
rdmg  to  the  direction  of  the  said  Act.    Dated  vnder 
^n±  !,nl!<_a  ?;  thfe  Thirtieth  day  of  April,,  in  the 
I  our  sovereign  Lady  Ann,  Queen 
)  D'ni,  170 f". 

"  JACOB  WORHALL,  May'r 
Pic.  DAVIS,  Record'r." 

INA. 


thaJ  }r*  Driciionary  »f  Dates;  the  last  edition  of  I 

ie  Encyclopedia  Bntannica,  and  similar   works    quote 
Sir  M.chad   Foster's   dictum,  that   2   Rich   II    can    4 
granted  the  right  to  the  cro^vn  to  impress  men  for 'the  ' 
naval  service.    But  according  to  a  writer  of  a  pamphlet 


entitled  A  Discourse  on  the  Impressing  of  Mariners ;  where- 
in Judge  Foster's  Argument  is  Considered  and  Answered 
8vo.  [1777],  the  words  of  this  statute  do  not  in  the  least 
countenance  the  right  of  impressment.  The  words  of  the 
original  are  these :  "  Item,  pur  ceo  qe  plusours  mariners 
apres  ce  qils  sont  arestuz  et  retenuz  pur  service  du  Roi 
sur  la  meer  en  defence  du  roialme  et  en  ont  receux  lours 
gages  appurtenantz  senfuent  hors  du  dit  service  sanze 
conge."  The  great  mistake  and  impropriety  (continues 
this  writer)  consists  in  the  translator's  having  rendered 
the  French  word  arestuz  by  the  'English  word  arrested; 
whereas  it  implies  to  bargain  with,  to  hire,  to  agree  for. 
He  also  contends  that  the  commission  in  29  Edward  III. 
has  no  reference  to  compulsory  impressment.  Even  the 
statute  2  &  3  Phil.  &  Mary,  c.  16,  only  applies  to  water- 
men who  use  the  river  Thames  between  Gravesend  and 
Windsor.] 

TRAP  SPIDER.  — •  Having  tried  many  sources 
without  avail,  I  write  to  you  to  ask  if  you  can 
tell  me  the  name,  i.  e.  the  proper  name  of  the 
spider  called  the  "/Trap  Spider"  at  Corfu.  It 
makes  a  door  to  its  habitation,  and  if  anyone 
attempts  to  get  at  the  inmates,  it  so  places  one  of 
its  legs  within  the  network  that  it  cannot  be 
opened.  It  is  well  known  in  Corfu,  but  I  should 
be  much  obliged  to  you  to  tell  me  in  "  N.  &  Q." 
what  its  proper  name  is.  AN  INQUIRER. 

[We  regret  that  our  correspondent  has  not  told  us 
where  he  met  with  the  above  particulars.  There  are 
spiders  of  the  genus  Mygale  (Walckenaer),  species  Amcu- 
laria,  which  at  the  entrance  of  their  tunnel,  "  construct 
a  door,  moving  upon  a  hinge,"  with  a  mat  of  silk  fastened 
to  the  inner  surface,  "  on  which  the  animal  frequently 
reposes,  possibly  for  the  sake  of  guarding  the  entrance." 
There  is  also  another  species  of  the  same  genus,  Sp. 
Caunentaria,  Araignce  mineuse,  which  inhabits  Spain,  the 
south  parts  of  France,  and  other  shores  of  the  Mediter- 
ranean, therefore  probably  Corfu.  "  It  resists  the  open- 
ing of  its  door  with  its  utmost  strength,  and  continues 
struggling  in  the  entrance  till  the  light  has  fairly  en- 
tered, after  which  it  retreats  into  the  earth."  Can  this 
be  the  species  after  which  our  correspondent  inquires? 
See  Encyclo.  Britan.  ed.  1853,  iii.  377,378,  under  ARACH- 
NID ES.] 

"  PRECES  PRIVATE."  —  Will  any  of  your  cor- 
respondents kindly  tell  me  anything  concerning 
the  subjoined  book,  particularly  as  to  its  worth  or 
rarity  ? 

"  Preces  privates,  in  Studiosorum  gratiam  collectaj,  et 
Regia  Authoritate  approbate.  Londini :  Excudebat 
Gulielmus  Seres,  Anno  Domini,  1564." 

EXON. 

[The  Preces  Privates  may  be  considered  as  a  revised 
edition  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  Orarium,  the  Canonical 
Hours  of  Prayer  being  omitted.  In  fact,  the  two  works 
have  been,  confounded  by  Strype  (Annals  of  Reformation, 
vol.  i.  pt.  i.  p.  354,  ed.  1824),  and  by  Dibdin  (Ames,  iv. 
219.)  Consult  also  the  Preface  to  Bishop  Cosin's  Collec- 
tion of  Private  Devotions.  The  Preces  Privates  was  first 
published  in  1564,  and  reprinted  in  1568,  1573,  and  1574. 
(Herbert's  Ames,  pp.  696,  702.)  The  edition  of  1573  is 
best  known,  from  the  circumstance  of  its  being,  accord- 
ing to  the  title-page,  an  enlarged  (quibusdam  in  locis 
auctse),  and  an  improved  edition,  and  is  of  considerable 
rarity.  The  edition  of  1564  is  reprinted  in  the  Private 
Prayers  put  forth  ly  authority  during  the  Reign  of  Queen 
Elizabeth,  edited  by  the  Rev.  W.  K.  Clay  for  the  Parker 


S.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


71 


Society,  1851 ;  and  that  of  1568  by  Mr.  Parker  of  Oxford 
in  1854.  The  first  edition,  1564,  fetched  21.  8s.  at  Sothe- 
by's, in  April,  1857.] 

BISHOPS'  CHARGES. — Can  I  be  informed  whe- 
ther any  public  libraries  in  England  or  Ireland 
contain  any  considerable  number  of  printed  copies, 
or  original  manuscripts,  of  the  charges  delivered 
by  Bishops  of  the  United  Church  within  the  last 
hundred  years  ?  And  if  so,  byjwhat  titles  they 
are  indexed  in  the  Catalogues.  R.  P. 

[The  charges  would  be  entered  in  all  library  catalogues 
under  the  surname  of  each  bishop.]  J 

ABBEY  COUNTERS  OR  TOKENS. — Where  can|I 
find  some  account  of  these  pieces,  which  not  un- 
frequently  turn  up  in  the  cultivation  of  land  in 
Scotland  ?  J.  H. 

[We  know  of  no  specific  work  on  Abbey  Tokens; 
but  the  following  may  be  consulted :  Nouvelle  E'tude  de 
Jetons,  par  J.  de  Fontenay ;  Les  Libertes  de  Bourgogne 
d'apres  les  Jetons  de  ses  E'tats,  par  Gl.  Rossignol ;  Lind- 
say on  the  Coinage  of  Scotland,  2  Parts,  4to,  1845-59 ; 
and  Snelling's  Jettons  or  Counters,  especially  those  known 
by  the  name  of  Black  Money  and  Abbey  Pieces,  4to,  1769. 


PELAYO'S  VISITS  TO  NORTH  OF  SPAIN. 
(2nd  S.  xi.  70,  115.) 

Pelayo  is  not  the  author  of  a  book  of  travels, 
but  the  hero  of  a  novel :  — 

"  Historia  Fabulosa  del  distinguido  Caballero  Don 
Pelayo  Infanzon  de  la  Vega,  por  Don  Alonso  Bernardo 
Ribero  y  Larrea,  Cura  de  Ontalvilla  y  Despoblado  Onta- 
riego  de  Segovia.  Madrid,  1792,  12°,  2  torn." 

The  only  notice  I  have  found  of  this  work  is 
in  Ticknor,  who  says :  — 

"  El  Quijote  de  la  Cantabria  refiere  los  viajes  a  la 
corte  de  un  hidalgo  llamado  Don  Pelayo,  su  residencia 
en  ella,  y  en  vuelta  a  lamontana,  admiradoy  sorprendido 
de  que  los  vizca'inos  y  montaneses  no  estem  reputados  en 
todas  partes  por  los  mas  nobles  y  ilustres  del  mondo."  — 
Tom.  iv.  p.  238,  Spanish  translation. 

The  novel  is  an  imitation  of  Don  Quixote, 
written  in  a  good  style,  and  abounding  in  good 
sense,  but  feeble  in  interest  and  wit.  Don  Pelayo 
leaves  his  father's  house  to  convince  the  world 
that  the  Biscayens  are  its  most  illustrious  in- 
habitants. On  all  other  subjects  he  is  sane  and 
talks  to  the  purpose,  though  somewhat  prosily. 
He  is  accompanied  by  a  retainer,  Mateo  de  Palacio, 
an  Asturian,  who  speaks  the  dialect  of  his  country, 
and  may  say  some  good  things  which  I  do  not 
understand.  Don  Pelayo  is  cured  of  his  illusion 
by  a  short  residence  at  Madrid,  and  some  .visits 
to  the  Court,  and  he  goes  home  and  marries." 

Cervantes  often  calls  his  tale  historia  verda- 
dera ;  on  the  contrary,  Ribera  says,  esta  historia 
fingida.  Were  any  restraints  placed,  either  by 
discipline  or  opinion,  on  the  Spanish  clergy,  as  to 
novel  writing?  The  passage  referred  tQ  is  in  a 


conversation  between  Don  Pelayo  and  a  clergy- 
man whom  he  meets  at  an  inn :  — 

"Tanto  fue  lo  que  se  estemd  el  pronombre  de  Don, 
que  los  Reyes  le  concedie'ron  a  algunos  hombres  en 
fuerza  de  servicios  grandes.  Al  conde  de  Cabra  quando 
hizo  prisionero  en  una  batalla  al  Rey  chico  de  Granada; 
a  Cristobal  Colon  porque  descubrio  las  Indias,  que  estrin 
hacia  el  Poniente :  a  Basco  de  Gama  por  la  mucha  tierra 
que  descubrio  a  la  parte  de  1'Oriente ;  y  a  Cortes  hizo  la 
misma  gracia  el  Senor  Don  Carlos  Quinto  despues  que 
anadid  un  Nuevo  Mondo  a  su  dilatado  Imperio.  Esto 
sucedia  por  aquellos  tiempos;  pero  en  el  dia  de  hoy 
anda  tan  coraun  el  Don,  que  se  agravia  vivamente  un 
escribano,  si  se  le  llama  Rodrigo  Talavera,  y  su  Reveren- 
disima  habra  hecho  alto  acerca  del  recado  que  un  mozo 
de  esta  casa  me  ha  dado  a  mi  mismo  quando  le  envie  a" 
llamar  un  Barbero,  y  se  salid  con  decirme  quo  sus  dome's- 
ticos  le  habian  dado  por  respuesta,  de  que  su  merced  no 
se  hallaba  en  casa."  —  T.  i.  p.  114. 

H.  B.  C. 

U.U.  Club. 


THE  SACKS  OF  JOSEPH'S  BRETHREN. 
(2nd  S.  xii.  502.) 

Unfortunately  I  have  not  one  of  these  primeval 
sack-bags  in  my  museum  to  enable  me  to  give  a 
decisive  answer  to  your  correspondent  C.  In  the 
year  1855,  a  friend  of  mine  passing  through  Con- 
stantinople, bought  saddle-bags  made  of  leather 
at  the  horse-bazaar  at  Stamboul,  this  being  the 
usual  sack  for  carrying  merchandise  in  the  East, 
whether  on  a  pack-saddle,  or  with  the  ordinary 
Turkish  saddle  on  which  the  traveller  sits,  a  bag 
hanging  on  each  side,  and  two  leathern  bottles  in 
front  of  him.  And  I  myself  have,  lying  in  a  lum- 
ber room  at  an  old  family  house  in  the  country, 
similar  saddle-bags  used  by  my  ancestors  in  past 
centuries,  a  leathern  contrivance  borrowed  from 
remote  antiquity,  long  before  weaving  was  known 
among  the  Britons.  For  these  reasons  I  believe 
skins  were  the  first  and  earliest  contrivance  ap- 
plied by  man  for  locomotion,  whether  of  liquids 
or  dry  goods,  or  for  seating  his  own  person  on  the 
back  of  a  beast  of  burden,  especially  among  the 
pastoral  tribes  in  the  East.  Do  we  not  gather  as 
much  from  the  narrative  of  Joseph's  Brethren  ? 
What  else  could  their  "sack-bags"  have  been  but 
the  skins  of  beasts  ?  Jacob  and  his  sons  had  no 
"  woven  fabric  "  in  their  wild  country.  In  Egypt 
there  was  plenty  of  such  material,  and  so  Joseph 
gave  all  his  brothers  changes  of  raiment,  and  Ben- 
jamin five  changes.  But  you  may  say,  What  of 
the  coat  of  many  colours  made  for  Jacob's  darling 
child  ?  It  was  the  skins  of  the  smaller  wild  ani- 
mals, or  of  the  wild  beast  incidentally  alluded  to 
in  the  narrative.  Deerfoot,  the  American  Indian 
savage,  "wild  as  in  his  native  woods  he  ran," 
wears  just  such  a  showy  skin  across  his  shoulder, 
fastened  by  a  brooch-pin  (o/JeAos,  a  spit,  Cleopa- 
tra's needle),  like  Hercules  and  the  Nemean  lion. 
And  the  minstrels  from  the  Abruzzi,  wild  tracts 


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NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62. 


in  Calabria,  now  wandering  about  our  streets, 
wear  ekin  coats  just  as  they  come  stripped  from 
the  sheep's  back,  and  their  breeches,  and  their 
laced  sandals,  and  the  bags  or  sacks  for  their  pipes, 
are  all  of  the  same  primaeval  material.  AO-KOS^OOS, 
the  ba*  in  which  -ZEolus  bottled  up  the  winds 
(Od.  x!  19.) 

Skins  (leather  when  tanned)  have  been  the 
staple  for  human  clothing  from  Adamitical  times 
to  the  present  day  in  all  wild  districts  of  the 
globe.  Yes,  "  nothing  like  leather,"  for  houses  or 
dress,  for  shields  or  boats.  JEgida  Palladis ;  su- 
tilis  cymla  Charontis.  The  Cymri  had  their 
coracles,  and  their  segan,  the  skin  cloak,  now  be- 
come the  Welsh  whittle  of 'flannel.  The  shepherd's 
"bottle  and  bag"  (Od.  ii.  291)  were  both  leathern. 
David's  bag  for  the  five  smooth  stones,  and  his  sling 
(i,ua?)  were  the  same,  and  so  was  the  bag  or  purse  the 
traitor  Judas  bore  (7Acoo-(ro,'co,uo!/).  the  palate  or 
cud- bags  of  ruminating  animals,  curious  speci- 
mens of  which  may  be  seen  in  any  tripe-dresser's 
shop.  "  Old  Bags,"  saccos  nummorum,  was  the 
common  sobriquet  of  Lord  Chancellor  Eldon. 
College  bursars  and  ships'  pursers  get  their  names 
from  leather ;  and  a  hide,  or  five  hides  of  land, 
was  a  common  gift  by  William  after  the  Norman 
Conquest  to  his  retainers,  and  the  ville  was  called 
Hyde,  or  Five-head;  c.  g.  Five-head  Neville. 

It  appears  from  Burckhardt's  Notes,  that  the 
Bedouin  Arabs  very  early  made  skins  leather  by 
fanning  them.  And  according  to  Robinson's  Re- 
searches they  use  small  sacks  and  larger  saddle- 
bags of  hair  cloth  (camlet  sack  ?),  but  this  was 
long  posterior  to  Jacob's  time.  The  oriental  lan- 
guage of  Job,  "  I  have  sewed  sackcloth  on  my 
skin,  and  defiled  my  horn  in  the  dust,"  may  be 
simply  the  expression  for  deep  mourning;  or  if 
taken  literally  would  be,  "pinned  a  sheep-skin 
round  him,  and  sat  covered  with  dirt"  like  a  hermit 
(fpjMos)  in  a  cave  —  "  leather  and  ashes." 

But  the  philological  question.  If  I  were  skilled 
in  the  Semitic  dialects  I  might  enter  critically  into 
the  etymology  of  sack,  a  word,  Dr.  Johnson  says,  to 
be  found  in  all  languages,  but  the  root  not  ori  this 
side  the  Flood.  C.  tells  me  sak  and  amtakhah  are 
used  indiscriminately  in  Genesis;  and  I  find  no 
enlightenment  as  to  a  difference  in  their  meaning 
by  marginal  references  in  the  Polyglot.  It  would 
be  therefore  useless,  if  not  something  worse,  to  fill 
your^  columns  with  holbyhorsical  derivations  and 
definitions,  which  we  old  antiquaries  arc  always 
too  fond  of  indulging  in.  If  C.  will  refer  to  the 
parallel  texts— Mark  i.  G,  Matt.  iii.  4,  2  Kings 
j.  8,  Zech.  xiii.  4,  Joshua  ix.  4-6,  he  will  find  skin, 
leather,  and  camlet,  or  hair  shirt,  almost  syno- 
nymous, and  strongly  confirming  my  interpreta- 
tion of  sak. 

Burder's  Oriental  Customs  (edit.  1802),  note 
32,  says,  on  the  authority  of  Chardin  and 
Uarmer,  «  Sacks  for  corn  (in  Genesis)  are  not 


to  be  confounded  with  tambellit,  sacks  of  wool  co- 
vered in  the  middle  with  leather,  used,  through 
all  history,  for  baggage."  QUEEN'S  GARDENS. 


THE  AMERICAN  STANDARD  AND  NEW 
ENGLAND  FLAG. 

(2ud  S.  xii.  338,  444.) 

It  would  appear  that  the  prior  existence  of  a 
flag  with  thirteen  red  and  white  stripes,  suggested 
its  adoption  at  the  period  of  the  Revolution  by 
the  thirteen  English  colonies  then  in  rebellion  ; 
but  it  can  scarcely  be  imagined  that  the  armorial 
bearings  of  their  commander-in-chief  conduced 
towards  such  a  choice. 

A  work  entitled  Present  State  of  the  Universe, 
by  John  Beaumont,  jun.,  4th  edit,  published  in 
j  London  1704,  represents  the  East  India  Com- 
pany's flag  as  consisting  of  a  field  bearing  thirteen 
alternate  red  and  white  stripes  with  a  St.  George's 
cross  on !  a  white  canton,  which  rests  upon  the 
fourth  red  stripe.  From  your  last  correspondent 
on  the  subject  (C.  HARBERTONIENSIS,  who  quotes 
some  French  authority),  we  find  this  same  flag 
still  in  use  on  the  English  squadrons  in  1737, 
while  the  E.  I.  Company's  flag,  at  that  period, 
bore  but  nine  red  and  white  stripes  with  the  same 
canton  as  before ;  this  last,  with  the  British  Union 
instead  of  the  St.  George's  Cross,  is  still  the  flag  of 
the  company. 

On  the  15th  of  May,  3759,  Admiral  Charles 
Saunders  issued  Sailing  Orders  and  Instructions 
in  the  harbour  of  Louisbourg  before  setting  out 
for  Quebec.  Among  the  signal-flags  mentioned 
we  have  the  English  ensign,  the  Dutch  flag,  a  red 
flag,  a  red  flag  with  white  cross,  a  yellow  flag  with 
blue  cross,  a  flag  half  blue  and  half  white,  flags 
blue  and  yellow  checkered,  and  red  and  white 
checkered,  a  flag  yellow  and  white  striped,  and  a 
flag  red  and  white  striped,  with  corresponding 
pennants,  &c.  Of  course  such  provincial  vessels 
as  joined  the  fleet  were  well  acquainted  with  these 
signals. 

The  first  American  fleet  raised  under  the  im- 
mediate superintendence  of  Congress  sailed  from 
Philadelphia  Feb.  9th,  1776,  "  under  the  display 
of  a  Union  flag*  with  thirteen  stripes  in  the  field." 
The  following  flags  are  mentioned  on  the  orders 
issued  to  the  several  captains  of  the  fleet,  on  sail- 
ing from  the  Capes  of  Delaware,  Feb.  17th,  1776: 
the  standard,  bearing  a  rattle-snake  on  a  yellow 
field,  &c.  (as  described  2nd  S.  xii.  338),  the  striped 
jack,  and  the  ensign,  under  which  they  had  sailed 
a  week  previous ;  also  a  St.  George's  ensign  with 

*  That  is,  with  the  British  Union  of  the  crosses  of  St 
George  and  St.  Andrew  on  a  cantou,  being  the  same  flag 
raised  by  the  Continental  army  on  Prospect  Hill,  before 
Boston,  Jan,  3, 1776. 


s.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


73 


stripes,  a  white  flag,  a  Dutch  flag,  a  broad  pen- 
nant, and  pennants  of  fed  and  white. 

During  the  month  of  July,  1776,  Capt.  Lambert 
Wickes  appears  to  have  been  cruising  off  the  coast 
in  the  Reprisal,  under  a  flag  of  "  thirteen  stripes 
in  a  white  and  yellow  field."  This  is  not  a  very 
lucid  description,  but  the  flag  may  have  been 
similar  to  the  signal  one  of  yellow  and  white 
stripes  used  by  Admiral  Saunders  at  Quebec  in 
1759. 

On  the  14th  of  June,  1777,  it  was  resolved  by 
Congress  "  That  the  flag  of  the  Thirteen  United 
States  be  thirteen  stripes,  alternate  red  and  white: 
That  the  Union  be  thirteen  stars,  white  in  a  blue 
field,  representing  a  new  constellation."  This  re- 
solution was  not  made  public  until  the  following 
September. 

Relative  to  the  early  New  England  flag  a  few 
remarks  may  not  be  unappropriate.  Upon  the 
planting  of  the  colony,  among  numerous  articles 
deemed  necessary  for  an  intended  voyage,  26th 
Feb.  1628(9),  are  mentioned  "  two  ensigns  and 
certain  arms  for  one  hundred  men,"  to  be  brought 
out  by  the  Talbot,  Thorn.  Beecher,  Mr.  The 
ancient  or  ensign  appears,  then,  to  have  been  an 
elongated  red  banner  with  the  red  cross  upon  a 
white  chief  running  along  the  staff.  Soon  after 
the  arrival  of  the  settlers  under  Gov.  Winthrop, 
in  1630,  military  companies  were  organised,  and 
subsequently  a  temporary  fort  was  erected  on 
Castle  Island,  in  the  harbour  off  Boston.  In  1634, 
John  Enchcott,  deeming  the  red  cross  in  the 
King's  colours  to  be  "  a  superstitious  thing,  and  a 
relic  of  antichrist,"  cut  from  the  ensign  at  Salem 
a  portion  of  the  same.  Many  now  refused  to 
follow  the  old  colours,  and  the  commissioners  for 
military  affairs  ordered  all  the  ensigns  to  be  laid 
aside,  until  new  ones  should  be  appointed  for  the 
companies.  It  was  subsequently  proposed  to  in- 
sert the  red  and  white  roses  in  lieu  of  the  objec- 
tionable emblem,  but  this  was  not  agreed  to,  and 
early  in  1635(6)  the  commissioners  assigned  new 
colours  to  every  company.  These  colours,  from 
what  we  can  learn,  were  merely  the  old  ensigns 
from  which  the  entire  white  chief,  with  its  accom- 
panying cross,  had  been  removed,  though  into  that 
one  displayed  at  Castle  Island  they  wisely  deter- 
mined to  insert  the  King's  arms,  probably  in  the 
then  usual  manner,  upon  a  shield.  This  latter 
arrangement,  however,  does  not  appear  to  have 
been  carried  out  immediately,  and  but  a  few 
months  after  the  St.  Patrick  of  Ireland,  on  enter- 
ing the  harbour,  was  obliged  to  strike  her  flag  to 
the  fort,  "  which  had  then  no  colours  abroad." 
The  act  occasioned  much  discontent  among  the 
masters  of  some  ten  vessels,  then  lying  in  the  vici~ 
nity  of  Boston,  and  accordingly  the  King's  colours 
were  obtained  from  Capt.  Palmer  of  the  St.  Pa- 
trick, while  Lieut.  Morris  was  ordered  to  spread 
them  "  at  Castle  Island  when  the  ships  passed  by, 


yet  with  this  protestation,  that  we  held  the  cross 
in  the  ensign  idolatrous,  and  therefore  might  not 
set  it  up  in  our  own  ensigns  ;  but  this  being  kept 
as  the  King's  fort,  the  Governor  (Sir  Henry  Vane) 
and  some  others  were  of  opinion  that  his  own 
colours  might  be  spread  upon  it."  In  May,  1645, 
the  General  Court,  in  reply  to  some  inquiries 
which  had  been  made  by  Richard  Davenport,  the 
Commander  at  -the  Fort,  directed  that  he  should 
'make  use  of  the  old  colours  till  new  be  provided,' 
upon  such  occasions  as  it  should  be  necessary. 
This  last  order  was  repeated  in  1651,  the  Court 
conceiving  *  the  old.  English  colours  now  used  by 
the  Parliament  of  England  to  be  a  necessary 
badge  of  distinction  betwixt  the  English  and  other 
nations  in  all  places  of  the  world,  till  the  state  of 
England  shall  alter  the  same,  which '  (with  the 
former  antipathy  to  the  cross)  *  we  much  desire.* 
It  may  be  supposed  that  after  this  period  the  Eng- 
lish ensign  again  came  into  general  use,  especially 
subsequent  to  the  accession  of  Charles  II.,  who 
was  proclaimed  at  Boston  on  the  8th  of  August, 
1661,  and  yet  early  in  1676  Commissary  Fair- 
weather  was  ordered  by  the  Council  to  provide 
seven  colours  for  the  army  of  Narraganset,  each  to 
be  made  of  red  sarcenet  a  yard  square,  one  with  a 
blaze  of  white  in  it ;  the  others  to  have  each  of 
them  a  figure  of  white  in  them,  No.  from  1  to  6." 
These  flags  last  alluded  to  may  have  been  merely 
expressive  of  the  colonists'  hostile  intentions 
against  the  savages,  red  being  the  colour  of  the 
English  flag  of  defiance.* 

In  December,  1686,  Sir  Edmund  Andros  ar- 
rived as  Governor  of  New  England  under  James 
II.,  bringing  with  him  a  new  seal  *and  flag,  and 
"  about  sixty  red  coats."  This  new  flagf  bore  on 
a  square  white  field  the  red  cross  of  St.  George, 
and  inscribed  on  the  latter  was  the  royal  cipher 
surmounted  by  a  crown  in  gold. 

During  the  succeeding  reigns  of  William  and 
Mary  the  sea-colours  of  New  England  appear, 
with  slight  difference,  to  have  been  the  same  as 
the  English  ensign  of  the  period.  Ih  proof  of 
which  Beaumont,  in  his  State  of  the  Universe^ 
1704  (already  alluded  to)  gives  the  Royal  Stan- 
dard of  William  III.,  and  the  various  flags  of 
England,  including  that  of  New  England.  The 
latter  is  depicted  as  bearing  on  a  square  red  field 
a  white  canton  with  the  red  St.  George's  cross,  in 
the  first  quarter  of  which  is  a  green  tree ;  the  co- 
lonists had,  as  early  as  1652  adopted  the  tree, 


*  In  1689  Thomas  Pound  was  captured  at  Tarpauline 
Cove,  by  the  armed  sloop  Mary  of  Boston,  commanded 
by  Capt.  Samuel  Pease  of  Salem.  Pound  was  convicted, 
seeing  that  he  "  being  under  a  red  flag  at  the  head  of  the 
mast,  purposely  and  in  defiance  of  their  Majesty's  au- 
thority, had  wilfully,  and  with  malice  aforethought, 
committed  murder  and  piracy  upon  the  high  seas,  being 
instigated  thereunto  by  the  devil." 

f  New  England  Papers,  vol.  iv.  p.  223,  in  British  State 
Paper  Office. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  s.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62. 


usually  called  a  pine-tree,  as  a  device  upon  tfieir 
coinage. 

In  opposition  to  the  above  we  have  another  re- 
presentation of  the  New  England  colours  in  Carel 
Allard's  Niewe  Hollandre  Scheeps-Bouw,  2nd  vol., 
published  at  Amsterdam  in  1705.  This  flag  is  the 
same  as  that  quoted  by  P!ARBERTONIENSIS  from 
the  French  work  of  1737,  viz.  on  a  blue  field  the 
white  canton  and  St.  George's  cross,  with  a  globe* 
in  its  first  quarter.  A  similar  flag  is  described  as 
having  been  borne  by  the  colonists  on  Bunker 
Hill  in  1775,  save  that  the  pine  tree  supplied  the 
place  of  the  globe. 

Perhaps  some  of  your  numerous  readers  may 
determine,  from  better  authority,  whether  cre- 
dence is  to  be  given  to  the  statement  of  Beau- 
mont or  that  of  Allard,  as  also  at  what  time  such 
flag  was  first  borne  by  the  colonists. 

I,  J.  GREENWOOD. 
New  York,  30th  Dec.  18G1. 

I  observed  in  an  article  in  Blackwood's  Magazine 
(April,  1861),  on  Americanisms  the  following  re- 
marks :  — 

"The  original  flag  was  merely  13  stripes  ....  adopted 

by  resolution  of  Congress,  June,  14, 1777 It  is  scarcely 

to  be  thought  a  new  republic,  in  the  first  flush  of  its  liberty, 
would  adopt  as  its  ensign  the  heraldic  blazon  of  an  Eng- 
lish house." 

I  beg,  with  all  diffidence,  to  suggest  that  such 
an  adoption,  considering  the  then  general  igno- 
rance of  the  poorer  classes  on  such  subjects,  would 
not  have  been  recognised  or  detected  ;'  but  setting 
this  aside,  American  Independence  was  mainly 
secured,  not  by  the  popular  majority,  but  by  the 
upper  minority.  The*  conduct  of  the  first  war 
proved  that  success  was  due  to  the  exertions  of 
the  American  gentry,  and  not  to  the  lower  orders, 
whose  more  underspread  descendants  have  ap- 
propriated the  credit. 

What  is  more,  we  have  (published)  Washing- 
ton's own  desire,  expressed  in  several  notes  on  the 
subject,  that  the  present  fag  of  the  Union  should  be 
adopted,  and  if  1  mistake  not,  he  also  made  sketches 
of  his  proposed  flag,  which  are  to  be  found,  I  be- 
lieve, amongst  others,  in  Harpers  Magazine. 

•Singapore,  Nov.  18G1.  gp§ 


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JMRioNNAcir  does  not  seem  to  be  aware  that  the 

iccount  of  the  foundation  of  this  library,  written 

by  Bishop  Robert  Douglas,  of  Dunblane,  with  the 

it  of  Leigh  ton's  manuscripts,  and  other  valuable 

ittor  relating  to  the  same  subject,  was  printed 

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the  Bannatyne  Miscellany,  vol.  iii.  p.  227.  I  men- 
tion this  circumstance  for  your  correspondent's 
information,  and  by  way  of  spreading  a  knowledge 
of  the  existence  of  this  paper  among  the  admirers 
of  Leighton,  not  with  any  view  of  casting  doubt 
upon  EIRIONNACU'S  research.  ;  No  one  ought  to 
be  blamed  for  unacquaintance  with  the  pro- 
ceedings or  publications  of  these  exclusive  print- 
ing Clubs.  The  paper  in  question  contains  a  copy 
of  Leighton's  will,  a  fac-simile  of  his  signature  to 
the  covenant,  and  also  of  a  letter  of  his,  presumed 
to  be  written  about  1673.  JOHN  BRUCE. 

Vossius  "  DE  HISTORICIS  GRJECIS  "  (2nd  S. 
xii.  369,  525.)  —  My  copy  has  also  the  phenome- 
non described  by  C.  J.  R.  T.  I  have  waited  to 
give  the  explanation — about  the  correctness  of 
which  I  entertain  no  doubt — until  I  could  see 
whether  the  whole  edition  was  so  issued,  or  whe- 
ther I  happen  to  possess  an  exceptional  copy. 

It  is  important  first  to  remark  that  the  prac- 
tice we  now  have  of  detecting  a  cancel,  by  verti- 
cally slitting  the  leaf  which  is  to  be  replaced,  was 
in  vogue  in  1651  :  I  have  rare  instances  nearly 
thirty  years  older.  The  first  thing  that  suggested 
itself  to  mo  was  that  this  pair  of  vertical  lines 
was  some  kind  of  warning  of  the  nature  of  a  can- 
cel :  and  examination  showed  that  it  must  have 
been  so,  and  in  the  following  way. 

Gerard  Vossius  died  in  1649,  leaving  the  second 
edition  almost  printed.  His  son  Isaac  was  then  in 
Sweden,  and  the  first  act  of  the  publisher  was  to 
procure  an  editor  who  superintended  the  remain- 
ing printing,  and  added  an  Ad  Lector  em,  explain- 
ing that  Isaac  Yossius  was  not  accessible.  This 
editor  must  have  been,  I  suppose,  A.  Thysius, 
who  in  1651  also  edited  the  De  Historicis  Latinis. 
On  second  thoughts,  however,  it  seems  that  it 
was  determined  to  wait,  and  to  apply  to  Isaac 
Vossius  for  a  preface  of  some  kind.  The  type  of 
the  Ad  Lectorem  was  therefore  put  by,  having 
first  had  a  couple  of  lines  inserted  in  the  manner 
now  visible,  as  a  warning  not  to  print  from  it 
without  inquiry.  Isaac  Vossius,  by  1651,  fur- 
nished what  was  wanted  in  the  shape  of  a  dedica- 
tion to  Christina  of  Sweden.  This  ought  to  have 
taken  the  place  of  the  Ad  Lectorem,  which  ought 
to  have  been  withdrawn.  But,  by  neglect,  the 
dedication  was  inserted  between  the  Ad  Lectorem 
and  the  work,  the  black  lines  were  not  noticed,  and 
the  catch-word  GERAR — ,  which  was  meant  to 
be  followed  by  GERARDI  at  the  head  of  page  1, 
has  all  the  dedication  interposed.  I  have  not  met 
with  any  person  who  has  seen  a  similar  instance. 

A.  DE  MORGAN. 

COWELL'S  INTERPRETER  CONDEMNED  (3rd  S.i.9.) 
— The  entire  Proclamation  referred  to  in  this  com- 
munication is  printed  in  the  best  edition  of  Cowell, 
published  in  1727,  and  there  is  -n,  somewhat  cha* 


S.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


racteristic  variation  in  one  passage.  The  extract 
given  in  "  N.  &  Q."  reads  "  the  History  of  the 
Monarchic,"  but  the  Proclamation,  as  printed  in 
the  Preface  of  the  edition  above  mentioned,  gives 
"  the  Mysteries  of  this  our  Monarchic." 

LANCASTRIENSIS. 

The  Proclamation  fronrTwhich  ITHURIEL  gives 
an  extract  is  printed  in  extenso  with  more  relative 
matter  in  the  preface  to  the  edition  of  the  Inter- 
preter, continued  by  Thomas  Manley,  published 
in  1701.  Q.  Q. 

ARMY  LISTS  (2nd  S.  xii.  434.)— The  earliest  ap- 
proach extant  to  sprinted  army  list  will  be  found 
in  the  Gentleman's  Magazine,  xviii.  506-7,  xv. 
92.  The  former  gives  a  list  of  general  and  staff 
officers  in  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  with  their 
pay  per  day  ;  governors  of  garrisons  in  Ireland, 
and  generals  in  Flanders  in  1748  ;  the  other  list 
embraces  all  the  regiments  in  his  Majesty's  ser- 
vice, the  number  of  each  colonel  in  succession  to 
the  year  1744,  with  the  lieut.-colonels,  majors, 
&c.  This  list  is  of  great  interest.  The  house- 
hold cavalry  embraces  Horse  Guards,  Grenadier 
Guards,  and  Horse  Guards  Blue.  The  5th  Dra- 
goons appear  as  the  Royal  Grenadier  Dragoons 
of  Ireland,"  like  the  6th  formed  at  Inniskilling. 
The  3rd  regiment  of  Guards  is  designated  the 
Scotch  regiment;  the  21st  Foot  are  called  the 
Royal  Scotch  Fusileers ;  the  31st  are  stated  as 
"formed  to  be  Marines ;"  the  41st  as  "Invalids;" 
43rd  as  "  formed  from  independent  companies  in 
the  Highlands  of  Scotland ;"  the  44th  to  the  53rd 
inclusively  formed  the  ten  regiments  of  marines. 
The  63rd  was  the  last  regiment  on  the  list,  and 
the  total  of  the  forces  is  stated  to  be  79,572. 
See  also  vol.  xvii.  pp.  9-12.  The  succession  of 
colonels  and  pay  of  all  grades  are  given  in  vol.  vi. 
368-9 ;  the  half-pay  and  strength  of  regiments 
in  vol.  x.  613-4. 

MACKENZIE  E.  C.  WALCOTT,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

LORD  NUGENT  AND  CAPITAL  PUNISHMENT  (3rd 
S.  i.  33.) — In  a  pamphlet  bearing  no  author's  name, 
but  dated  1853,  and  entitled  the  Death  Penalty 
Considered,  I  find  it  stated  "that  in  a  late  debate" 
in  the  House  of  Commons  Lord  Nugent  had  said, 
that  for  a  long  series  of  years  one  innocent  person 
had  been  hanged  every  three  years.  The  writer 
then  goes  on  to  say,  that  in  1841  Sir  Fitzroy 
Kelly  had  asserted  that  during  the  previous  fifty- 
eight  years  no  less  than  forty-seven  persons  had 
been  executed  whose  innocence  had  been  subse- 
quently established. 

The  statements  are  repeated  in  several  pam- 
phlets published  on  the  same  subject;  but  the 
writers  in  no  case  give  any  citation  of  the  cases. 
Both  Lord  Nugent  and  Sir  F.  Kelly  would  doubt- 
less speak  from  a  conviction  of  the  absolute  cor- 
rectness of  the  statements ;  but  it  is  strange  that 
they  did  not  feel  it  necessary  to  give  any  list  of 


the  persons  who  had  been  thus  innocently  con- 
demned. Mr.  Charles' Phillips  is  almost  the  only 
writer  *  who  has  quoted  cases  in  support  of  his 
argument,  at  least  modern  cases,  and  almost  the 
only  ones  with  which  the  public  are  familiar  are 
those  given  by  the  Messrs.  Chambers  in  one  of 
their  very  useful  tracts,  all  of  which  are  of  a  very 
ancient  date.  Mr.  Phillips  has,  however,  quoted 
cases  which  are  not  proved,  and  where  very  con- 
siderable doubt  must  rest  as  to  the  guilt  or  inno- 
cence of  the  persons  condemned. 

My  present  object  is  to  ask  your  numerous 
readers  whether  any  authentic  history,  or  even 
catalogue  of  such  cases  exists.  Such  a  compila- 
tion, if  carefully  made,  and  without  the  bias  which 
would  naturally  belong  to  a  person  who  amassed 
them  to  supply  an  argument  in  support  of  a  favo- 
rite theory,  would  be  both  interesting  and  useful. 
I  have  collected  a  few  cases  which  at  some  future 
time  I  may  submit  to  you.  I  mean  cases  which 
are  not  commonly  known.  T.  B. 

AMERICA  BEFORE  COLUMBUS  (3rd  S.  i.  7.) — Kid- 
der  and  Fletcher,  in  their  History  of  Brazil  and 
the  Brazilians  (Philadelphia),  state  that  it  was 
from  that  part  of  America  that  Amerigo  Vespuccio 
carried  to  Europe  the  famous  dye-wood  which  so 
resembled  the  brazas  or  coals  of  fire  used  in  the 
chafing-pans  of  the  Portuguese,  that  the  latter 
called  the  place  whence  they  came  the  brazas- 
land,  and  thence  "  Brazil."  J.  DORAN. 

TIFFANY  (2nd  S.  xii.  234,  482.)— This  surname 
is  most  probably  derived  from  the  old  French 
word  tiphaine,  tiphagne,  tiphaingne,  fete  of  the 
Epiphany  (EiriQaveia).  The  initial  letter  in  ti- 
phaine may  be  an  abbreviation  of  st.  Cf.  Tooley 
from  St.  Ooley,  i.e.  St.  Olaf.  R.  S.  CHARNOCK. 

TAYLOR  FAMILY  (2nd  S.  xii.  519.)  —  The  fol- 
lowing account  of  a  branch  of  the  Taylor  family 
settled  at  South  Littleton,  near  Evesham,  may 
interest  your  querist  HERALDICUS  though  it  may 
not  afford  him  any  useful  information.  The  ac- 
count is  taken  from  deeds  and  settlements  in  the 
possession  of  informant,  whose  mother,  with  her 
younger  sister,  were  j  co-heiresses,  and  the  last  re- 
presentatives of  this  branch  of  the  Taylor  family. 
William  Taylor  (spelt  in  the  register  in  South 
Littleton  church  Taylour)  married,  1638,  Judith, 
daughter  of  John  Charlett,  D.D.,  of  Cropthorne, 
co.  Worcester,  prebendary  of  Worcester  Cathe- 
dral 1607.  William  Taylor  was  in  holy  orders, 
and  by  this  marriage  obtained  the  house  and 
lands  at  South  Littleton. 

1.  Francis  Taylor,  their  son,  married  Elizabeth 

Rawlins,  daughter  of  Rawlins,  Esq.,  and 

Ann  Mary  his  wife,  of  Poppell  or  Poppleton 
parish  of  Church-Salford,  Warwickshire.  This 
Francis  was  of  Univ.  Coll.  Oxford,  and  succeeded 


Vacation  Thoughts. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62. 


bis  father  at  South  Littleton.    His  arms  were 
sable,  a  lion  statant  arg. ;  crest,  a  leopard  proper. 

2.  Ralph  Taylor,  S.T.P.,  born  1647,  died  Dec. 
1722,  set.  seventy-five,  not  married.     Informant 
has  an  excellent  half-length  portrait  of  him  by 
Verelst. 

3.  Elizabeth    Taylor    died    unmarried,    1696. 
Francis  and  Elizabeth  Taylor  had  five  children, 
viz.  — 

1.  Judith  died  in  infancy. 

2.  Francis,  eldest  son  and  heir,  died  1748,  un- 
married. 

3.  William,  born  1697,  a  barrister,  Recorder  of 
Evesham,  1727,  and  its  representative  in  Parlia- 
ment,   1734;  died   1741.     There  is  a  handsome 
monument  to  his  memory  in  the  church  at  Broad- 
way, co.  Worcester.     He  died  unmarried. 

4.  Elizabeth  married  John  Tandy,   and  their 
only  son  and  heir,  William,  married  Mary  Yearall 
of  Oflenham,  near  Evesham,  and  had  three  child- 
ren—  Francis,  who  died  at  seven  years  of  age; 
Mary,  who  married  Thos.  Griffith  of   Wrexham, 
and  whose  eldest  son  supplies  the  above  informa- 
tion. THOS.  TAYLOR  GRIFFITH. 

Wrexham. 

It  may  interest  HERALDICUS  to  know  that  my 
father  claimed  to  be  the  representative  of  one 
branch  of  the  T.iylor  family,  that  of  Cam  and 
Stinchcombe,  co.  Gloucester,  being  the  son  of 
Edith,  daughter  of  Thomas  Taylor,  who  settled  at 
Publow,  Somerset,  about  17G-5.  I  believe  the  last 
of  the  name  was  Jeremiah  Taylor,  who  died  about 
18-24  s.p. 

I  cannot  give  the  arms  with  certainty,  but  I 
presume  they  would  be  the  same  as  the  Bishop's 
(erm.  on  a  chief  dancette  sa.,  3  escallops  or),  as 
the  family  was  always  considered  to  be  collaterally 
descended  from  him.  JNO.  \V.  SAGE. 

y,  North  Street,  Pentonville  Road. 

BOOK  OF  COMMON  PRAYER  (3rd  S.  i.  13.)  — 
F.  S.  A.  CLERICUS  will  find  an  account  of  the 
Prayer- Book  of  1G04,  giving  all  its  peculiarities, 
in  Air.  Proctor's  valuable  work  on  the  Common 
Prayer,  p.  91  ;  and  although  the  original  edition 
may  be  scarce,  I  would  remind  him  that  that,  and 
all  the  other  editions  of  the  Prayer-Book,  were 
printed  verbatim  by  Pickering  in  1844,  to  which, 
as  they  are  not  rare,  reference  may  be  easily  made. 

G.  W.  M. 

TRIAL  OF  THE  PRINCESS  OF  WALES  (31(1  S.  i.  32.) 
—  I  am  in  possession  of  a  volume  which  appears 
to  differ  from  those  mentioned  at  the  above  refer- 
ence. The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  title-page  : 
_  "The  Hook.  Complete:  being  the  whole  of  the  Depo- 
sitions on  th«  Investigation  of  the  Conduct  of  the  Princess 
of  Wales  before  Lords  Er.^kine,  Spencer,  Grenville,  and 
EHenborough,  the  four  Commissioners  of  Inquiry  ap- 
pointed by  the  King,  in  the  Year  1806;  prepared  for 
publication  by  the  late  Right  lion.  Spencer  Perceval  To 
which  is  prefixed  an  Historical  Preface,  including  every 


fact  that  has  transpired  since'  the  Period  of  the  Investi- 
gation: the  whole  forming  one  of  the  most  interesting 
Documents  ever  laid  before  the  British  Public.  By  C.  V. 
Williams,  E^q ,  Author  of  the  Life  of  the  Right  JHon. 
Spencer  Perceval.  London,  printed  for  Sherwood,  JSeely, 
&  Jones,  20,  Paternoster  Row,  1813." 

The  printer's  name  is  at  the  end^  of  the  "  His- 
torical  Preface,"  viz.  "  Charles  Squire,  Furnival's 
Inn  Court,  London." 

Qy.  Which  edition,  if  either,  is  genuine  ;  or  are 
all  simply  reprints  of  the  same  matter  ?  R,  M'C. 

SPECIAL  LICENCES  (2nd  ^S.  xii.  348.)  —In  Eng- 
land the  practice  of  granting  special  licences  ^  in- 
discriminately was  put  an  end  to  by  the  Marriage 
Act  passed  in  1753;  but  I  cannot  inform  your 
correspondent  when  the  measure  was  extended  to 
Ireland  ;  nor  do  I  knowg  anything  about  the  re- 
striction that  he  speaks  of.  The  power  of  grant- 
ing special  licences  is,  by  the  English  Act,  confined 
to  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury^  but  no  restric- 
tions are  imposed  upon  him.  If  in  point  of  fact 
there  are  any  to  which  he  is  subject,  I  conclude 
that  they  must  be  such  as  were  in  existence  before 
the  Act  passed.  YERAC. 

MANOR  LAW  (2nd  S.  xii.  11.)  —-  A  careful  in- 
quiry into  the  constitution  and  incidents  of  manors 
is  calculated  to  throw  much  light  upon  the  real 
nature  of  feudalism  and  the  development  of  mo- 
dern society.  But  no  real  progress  can  be  made 
in  this  inquiry  till  the  legal  idea  of  a  manor  is 
thoroughly  mastered,  and  on  this  point  I  would 
refer  your  correspondent  GRIME  to  Watkins  on 
Copyholds,  ch.  i.  ;  Comyns's  Digest,  tit.  COPY- 
HOLD (Q)  (R),  Co.  Litt.  58  a.  There  are  some 
short  but  pithy  sentences  in  Hallam's  Middle 
Ages  that  afford  a  clue  to  further  inquiry ;  and  if 
I  remember  rightly,  there  is  a  good  deal  to  be 
gleaned  from  Tyrrell's  Bibliotheca  Politico,,  a  sort 
of  open  field  where,  by  the  custom  of  the  country, 
gleaning  is  allowable.  If  it  is  any  part  of  GRIME'S 
object  to  trace  the  constitution  of  the  court  baron 
up  to  the  time  of  the  Anglo-Saxons,  and  through 
them  to  work  out  its  connection  with  the  judicial 
organisation  of  other  Teutonic  races,  he  may 
study  with  advantage1  Moser's  History  of  Osna- 
brucJt,  and  the  chapter  in  Savigny's  History  of  the 
Roman  Law,  in  which  he  treats  of  the  judicial  or- 
ganisation of  the  Germans.  YERAC. 

THE  "REMEMBER"  OF  CHARLES  I.  ON  THE 
SCAFFOLD  (2nd  S.  x.  164.)  — Has  any  English  his- 
torian noticed  the  following  remarkable  passage  in 
the  Memoires  de  Madame  de  Motteville  ?  — 

"  Un  anglais,  bon  serviteur  de  son  Roi,  et  bien  instruit 
de  ses  affaires,  me  compta  toutes  les  particularite's  que  je 
viens  d'e'crire,  avec  celles  qui  suivent  jusques  h,  sa  mort. 
Ce  fut  la  meme  personne  qui  me  donna  la  harangue  sui- 
vante.  Elle  est  traduite  de  1'anglais  en  assez  mauvais 
francois ;  et  sans  doute  elle  est  plus  belle  en  sa  Isngue ; 
je  1'ai  &rite  de  la  meme  maniere  qu'elle  m'a  etd  donne'e." 


1.  JAN.  25, '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


77 


The  particular  passage  relating  to  the  word 
"  Remember  "  is  as  follows  :  — 

"  Puis  il  [Charles]  ota  son  manteau,  et  donna  son  cordon 
bleu,  qui  est  1'ordre  de  la  Jarretiere,  audit  Sieur  Juxson, 
disant,  '  Souvenez-vous;'  et  le  rente  il  le  dit  tout  bas."* 

If  Madame  de  Motteville's  English  informant  be 
worthy  of  credit,  the  "Remember"  was  not  a  soli- 
tary word,  but  the  commencement  of  a  sentence, 
the  remainder  of  which  was  inaudible  to  all  except 
Bishop  Juxon,  to  whom  it  was  whispered. 

HERMENTRUDE. 

PITT  AND  ORBELL  OF  KENSINGTON,  MIDDLESEX 
(3rd  S.  i.  25.)  —  To  perpetuate  the  notice  of  these 
families  of  the  West  of  England  in  connection 
with  the  parish  of  Kensington,  I  avail  myself  of 
the  present  opportunity  to  give  their  armorial 
bearings  and  alliances  from  a  pen-and-ink  trick- 
ing in  my  possession,  more  particularly  as  I  do 
not  meet  with  the  arms  of  Orbell  in  any  printed 
heraldic  authority  :  — 

Pitt  of  Cricket  Malherbe,  co.  Somerset. — Gules  a  fesse 
chequy  argent  and  azure,  between  three  bezants. 

Crest. — A  stork  proper,  resting  its  dexter  claw  upon  a 
bezant. 

Quartering.  —  Second,  Barry  of  six  or  and  azure,  on  a 
bend  sable,  three  escallops  argent, — for  Llngard. 

Third.  Orbell,  as  given  below. 

Fourth.  Chace,  viz.  Gules,  four  cross-crosslets,  two  and 
two  or,  on  a  canton  azure  (sz'c)  a  lion  passant  or. 

Orbell's  coat  consists  of  four  quarters,  viz. :  — 

1.  Per  cheveron  sable  and  argent,  in  chief  two  pair  of 
sickles  interlaced,  of  the  second;  in  base  a  heath-cock  of 
the  first— for  Orbell. 

2.  Argent  a  cheveron  azure,  between  three  sinister 
hands  gules — for  Maynard. 

3.  Azure,  three  treble -viols  each  in  bend  sinister,  two 
and  one,  or— for  Sweeting. 

4.  Per  cheveron  crenelle'  sable  and  or,  in  chief  two  es- 
toiles  argent ;  in  base  a  cock  of  the  first — for  Faite. 

The  Orbell  arms  seem  to  have  been  derived 
from  those  of  Huchmore  or  Hockmore,  of  the 
county  of  Devon.  H.  G. 

PROPHECY  OF  MALACHI  (3rd  S.  i.  49.)  —  It  is 
the  statement  of  Mr.  Hendriks,  in  the  last  number 
of  "  N.  &  Q.,"  that  "  the  Prophecy  of  Malachi  for 
the  existing  Pope  Pius  IX.  *  Crux  de  Cruce,' 
speaks  for  itself."  May  I  ask  with  what  inter- 
pretation ?  I  hold  penes  meipsum  a  meaning,  but 
I  had  not  deemed  it  so  obvious.  BREACHAN. 

HUSBANDMAN  (3rd  S.  i.  30.)  —  The  word  hus- 
bandman, as  used  at  the  beginning  of  the  seven- 
teenth century,  was  synonymous  with  our  term 
farmer,  and  was  applied  to  the  occupier  or  holder 
of  the  land  (whether  owner  or  not),  and  never, 

»that  I  am  aware  of,  to  the  labourer  on  the  land. 
The  distinction  between  husbandmen  and  mere 
labourers  is  clearly  shown  by  the  statute  5  Eliza- 
beth cap.  4 ;  by  the  22nd  section  of  which  it  was 
enacted,  that  "  Husbandmen  being  householders, 

*  Edition  of  1855,  Charpentier,  Paris. 


and  using  half  a  ploughland  at  least  in  tillage, 
might  take  by  indenture  apprentices  above  the 
age  of  ten  years  and  under  eighteen,  to  serve  in 
husbandry  until  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  at 
least,  or  twenty-four  years,  as  the  parties  could 
agree." 

To  this  I  may  add  that  husbandman  is  the 
proper  legal  addition  of  a  farmer  at  the  present 
day,  while  no  lawyer  would  think  of  applying  it 
to  the  labourer  in  husbandry. 

The  Lancashire  testator  mentioned  by  your 
correspondent  was  doubtless,  then,  a  farmer  as 
well  as  a  small  freeholder ;  and,  although  he  might 
by  virtue  of  his  freehold  have  been  designated  a 
yeoman,  which  Sir  Thomas  Smith,  in  his  Republ. 
Anglorum,  b.  i.  c.  23,  takes  to  be  "  a  free  born 
man,  that  may  dispend  of  his  own  free  land  in 
yearly  revenues  to  the  sura  of  forty  shillings  ster- 
ling," yet  the  lawyer  who  drafted  the  will  chose 
rather  to  describe  him  as  an  occupier  of  land,  fol- 
lowing husbandry.  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

HERALDIC  QUERY  (3rd  S.  i.  30.)  —  If  we  sub- 
stitute "  wolves'  heads  "  for  "  horses'  heads  "  in 
the  Query  of  HERMENTRUDE,  we  have  the  coat  of 
Robertson  of  Strowan  in  North  Britain,  with 
merely  the  impalement  of  some  female  arms.  The 
proper  crest  of  Robertson  is  an  arm  or  hand  hold- 
ing up  a  crown  ;  and  as  the  hand  is  usually  de- 
picted much  smaller  than  the  crown,  it  may  have 
escaped  the  notice  of  a  casual  observer.  The  tra- 
dition respecting  the  origin  of  this  crest  and  motto 
may  be  learnt  from  Elvin's  Handbook  of  Mottoes, 
edit.  1860,  p.  224.  H.  G. 

CHRISTOPHER  MONK  (2nd  S.  xii.  384,  442,  526.) 
— -A  Note  of  mine  to  the  Monk  pedigree,  which  I 
endeavoured  to  trace,  is  as  follows  :  — 

"In  a  Collection  of  Letters,  1714  (Worcester  College, 
Oxford)  is  a  pedigree  showing  that  a  Mrs.  Sherwin 
claimed  to  be  only  surviving  niece  and  right  heir  to  the 
Duke." 

I  omitted  to  add  my  authority,  and  have  now 
no  recollection  of  it. 

It  seems  a  suit  was  also  brought  by  Lord  Mon- 
tagu and  his  wife  (widow  of  Christonher  Monk) 
against  the  Earl  of  Bath,  Mr.  Grenville  and  Sir 
Walter  Clarges,  disputing  the  interpretation  put 
upon  some  parts  of  the  Duke's  will.  This  was 
determined  in  1693  in  favour  of  Lord  Bath.  The 
Law  Reports  of  the  time  will  no  doubt  have  the 
case.  D. 

"THE  WANDERING  JEW  "  (3rd  S.  i.  14.)  —  Par 
excellence  you  must  add  Salaihiel,  by  the  late  Rev. 
G.  Croly,  D.D.  It  is  in  some  sort  a  work  of 
fiction,  but  withal  historical,  philosophical,  tra- 
ditionary; depicted  too  in  language  classical, 
chaste,  eloquent,  and  beautiful;  indeed  it  is 
throughout  a  well-sustained  narrative,  abounding 
in  a  succession  of  powerful  incidents,  and  delight- 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


f  3'd  S.  I.  JAN.  25,  '62. 


ful  imagery.  The  first  edition  in  3  vols.  8 vo,  Ap- 
peared ml  828;  a  cheap  two-shilling  edition  has 
recently  been  issued.  JAMES  GILBERT. 

2,  Devonshire  Grove,  Old  Kent  Road. 

JETSAM,  FLOTSAM,  AND  LAGAN  (2nd  S.  xii.  357, 
427,  508.)  — It  seems  a  pity  that  the  origin  and 
meaning  of  these  terms,  after  having  been  so  well 
settled  by  previous  correspondents,  should  have 
been  again  unsettled  by  A.  A. 

Neither  jetsam  nor  flotsam  are  directly  from 
the  Latin ;  and,  independently  of  graver  reasons, 
it  seems  inconsistent  to  derive  ligan  from  that 
source. 

The  general  idea  is  that  of  things  abandoned  or 
unowned,  waifs  and  estrays  of  the  ocean ;  and  not 
that  of  things  in  any  way  secured  or  appropriated, 
by  being  tied  up.  Lig  is  still  a  common  provin- 
cialism for  lie;  e.  g.  "Where's  my  hammer?" 
"  There  her  ligs  "  ;  and  I  think  no  philological  in- 
genuity will  ever  prove  these  three  words  to  mean 
either  more  or  less  than  things  thrown  overboard ; 
things  found  floating,  and  thing  lying  stranded. 

DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

In  the  derivation  which  he  gives  for  ligan,  all  the 
text-books  are  on  the  side  of  A.  A. ;  but,  as  far  as 
I  have  seen,  they  all  rely  solely  on  the  authority 
of  Sir  Edward  Coke,  who,  in  Sir  Henry  Con- 
stable's case,  says  that  ligan  comes  a  Uganda 
(5  Rep.  106.)  The  derivation  does  not  appear  to 
me  to  be  satisfactory,  and  I  have  no  great  respect 
for  Sir  Edward  Coke  as  an  etymologist.  1  am 
therefore  led  to  inquire  whether,  independent  of 
him,  there  is  any  authority  in  favour  of  the  deri- 
vation in  question.  YERAC. 

SCOTCH  WEATHER  PROVERBS  (2nd  S.  xii.  500.) 
—  Another  one  is  — 

"  If  Candlemas  Day  be  wet  and  foul, 
The  half  of  the  winter  's  gane  at  Yule ; 
If  Candlemas  Day  be  dry  and  fair, 
The  half  of  the  winter 's  to  come  and  mair." 

ANON. 

HATS  LEAVING  A  SINKING  SHIP  (2nd  S.  xii.  502.) 
-  1  recently  heard  an  accomplished  gentleman  of 
Orkney,  whose  residence  is  in  one  of  the  islands, 
tell  that,  as  a  boy,  walking  with  his  father,  they 
one  day  came  upon  an  immense  number  of  rats 
proceeding  towards  the  shore,  where  they  saw  them 
take  to  the  sea,  and  swim  off.  From  the  point  of 
their  departure,  the  nearest  land  opposite  must 
be  several  miles,  and  as  the  currents  among  the 
Orkney  Islands  run  with  great  force,  it  is  scarcely 
conceivable  that  they  could  have  succeeded  in 
making  their  way  across.  This  seems  even  more 
remarkable  than  their  leaving  a  sinking  ship, 
when  their  instinct  may  some  how  teach  them 
that  their  only  chance  of  safety  is  to  get  clear  of 
the  vessel  before  she  founders.  ANON. 

Not  having  seen  any  reply  to  the  Query  upon 


this  subject,  I  forward  the  following  extract,  which 
throws  some  light  upon  the  inquiry  :  — 

"  At  the  beginning  of  our  voyage  an  incident  occurred 
which  had  considerable  influence  on  the  men's  cheerful- 
ness. This  was  the  jumping  overboard  of  a  rat,  just  as  we 
were  getting  well  out  to  sea,  which,  after  swimming 
round  a  circle  two  or  three  times,  struck  out  in  the  direc- 
tion of  the  shore.  I  believe  it  went  over  to  escape  from  the 
pigs ;  for  these  animals  seemed  to  have  a  great  taste  for 
rats,  and  I  had  myself  seen  them  wrangling  over  one  not 
long  before,  and  I  told  the  men  so ;  but  they  preferred  to 
believe  that  the  act  was  a  voluntary  one  on  the  part  of 
the  rat,  and  indicative  of  misfortune  to  the  ship" — Leisure 
Hour,  Jan,  16,  1862,  p.  37. 

It  seems,  then,  to  be  a  nautical  superstition. 

VEDETTE. 

WOLVES  IN  ENGLAND  (2nd  S.  xii.  453.)  —  ! 
have  heard  in  Hertfordshire  of  a  similar  occur- 
rence to  that  mentioned  by  B.  H.  C.  In  this 
case,  however,  the  young  wolf  had  attracted  at- 
tention by  worrying  sheep  at  night.  The  matter 
may  be  easily  explained  by  the  habit  of  import- 
ing fox- cubs  from  France.  It  has  often  happened 
that  among  these  [cubs  a  young  wolf  has  made  its 
appearance.  L.  A.  M. 

ENGLISH  AMBASSADORS  TO  FRANCE  (3rd  S.  i.  11.) 
—  The  following  is  the  information  required  by 
SECUNDTJM  ORDINEM  :  — 

John  Frederick  Sackville,  Duke  of  Dorset, 
1783,  till 

1784,  Daniel  Hales,  minister  plenipotentiary,  ad 
interim,  April  28. 

1785.  Right  Hon.  Wm.  Eden  (afterward  Earl 
of  Auckland),  envoy  extraordinary  and  minister 
plenipotentiary  for  commercial  affairs,  Dec.  9. 

Mr.  Eden  remained  till  1790,  when  George 
Granville,  Earl  Gower,  was  appointed  ambassador 
on  June  11.  He  was  recalled  in  Sept.  1792,  and 
diplomatic  relations  were  suspended  till  Oct.  13, 
1796,  when  James  Lord  Malmesbury  was  sent 
over  as  ambassador  extraordinary  and  minister 
plenipotentiary  for  negociating  a  treaty  of  peace. 

R.  J.  COURTNEY. 

Xew  Street  Square. 

THE  LAUGH  OF  A  CHILD  (3rd  S.  i.  31.) — On 

reading  these  lines,  I  could  not  fail  being  struck 
with  the  similarity  in  the  tone  of  the  lines  given 
by  your  correspondent  and  those  by  Eliza  Cook 
of  the  following  :  — 

"  I  love  it,  I  love  it,  and  who  shall  dare, 
To  chide  me  for  loving  that  old  arm  chair,"  &c. 

I  have  given  these  lines  in  extenso,  but  you 
need  not  give  more  in  the  reply  than  the  first  two 
lines,  as  it  is  intended  only  to  ask  the  reader  to 
observe  the  comparison,  and  to  inquire  at  the 
same  time  if  the  authors  of  the  different  poems 
are  not  one  and  the  same  person. 

JOHN  NURSE  CHAD  WICK. 

MB.  SERJEANT  JOHN  BIRCH,  CURSITOR  BARON 
(3rd  S.  i.  29.)  —  Mr.  Foss  is  correct  in  his  sugges- 


3rd  S.  I.  JAX.  25,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


79 


tion  that  this  gentleman  was  the  nephew  of  Colonel 
John  Birch,  the  eminent  parliamentary  com- 
mander, whose  career  he  shortly  describes.  A  full 
account  of  the  family  may  be  seen  in  pp.  70-120 
in  one  of  the  publications  of  the  Chetham  Society, 
entitled,  A  History  of  the  ancient  Chapel  ofBirch, 
in  Manchester  Parish,  by  the  Rev.  John  Booker, 
M.A.,  F.S.A.  Mr.  Foss  will  find  there  that  the 
Serjeant  was  the  second  son  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Birch,  Rector  of  Hampton  Bishop,  in  Hereford- 
shire, and  afterwards  Vicar  of  Preston,  by  his  wife 

Mary :    and  that  he  married    Sarah   the 

youngest  daughter  of  his  uncle  the  Colonel,  who 
had  by  his  will  left  her  his  estates  on  condition  of 
her  agreeing  to  that  marriage.  After  this  lady's 
death  the  Serjeant  married,  secondly,  Letitia 
Hampden  of  St.  Andrews,  Holborn,  but  left  no 
issue  by  either  wife.  C.  DE  D. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 

The  History  of  Scottish  Poetry.  By  David  Irving, 
LL.D.,  Author  of  the  Life  of  Buchanan,  8fc.  Edited  by 
John  Aitken  Carlyle,  M.D.  With  a  Memoir  and  Glossary. 
(Edmonston  &  Douglas.) 

As  this  is  the  last,  so  it  is  certainly  not  the  least  valu- 
able book,  for  which  students  of  Scottish  literature  are 
indebted  to  the  learning  and  research  of  Dr.  Irving.  The 
long  list  of  works  written  by  Dr.  Irving,  from  his  Life 
of  Robert  Fergusson,  published  upwards  of  sixty  years 
since,  to  his  Lives  of  Scottish  Writers,  which  appeared  in 
1839,  give  evidence  of  those  preliminary  studies  which 
were  essential  to  the  production  of  a  satisfactory  history 
of  Scottish  Poetry;  and  the  consequence  is,  that  this 
new  volume  by  Dr.  Irving  abounds  at  once  in  accurate 
and  solid  information,  and  in  a  shrewd  and  intelligent 
criticism  on  the  Poets  of  Scotland,  from  Thomas  the 
Kymer  to  the  close  of  the  last  century.  Its  value,  there- 
fore, to  Scottish  readers  is  at  once  obvious.  But  the  in- 
timate relation  which  existed  between  the  early  literature 
of  Scotland  and  that  of  England  invests  it  also  with  no 
common  interest  for  us ;  not  only  for  the  information  it 
affords  upon  the  subject  of  Scottish  Poetry,  but  as  a  com- 
panion or  supplement  to  Warton's  invaluable  work;  and 
the  writings  of  John  Barbour,  Robert  Henryson,  William 
Dunbar,  Gavin  Douglas,  and  others  of  these  Northern 
worthies,  will  be  found  to  throw  new  and  invaluable  light 
upon  the  writings  of  Gower  and  Chaucer,  and  well  repay 
the  attention  of  English  students. 

The  Proverbs  of  Scotland,  collected  and  arranged  with 
Notes  Explanatory  and  Illustrative,  and  a  Glossary.  By 
Alexander  Hislop.  (Porteous  &  Hislop,  Glasgow.) 

When  we  state  that  the  present  is  both  the  most  ex- 
tensive and  most  systematic  Collection  of  Scottish  Pro- 
verbs which  has  yet  been  given  to  the  public,  we  say 
enough  to  recommend  the  book  to  all  lovers  of  Proverbial 
Literature. 

The  Dialect  of  Leeds  and  its  Neighbourhood,  illustrated 
by  Conversations  and  Tales  of  Common  Life,  fyc.  To  which 
are  added  a  Copious  Glossary,  Notices  of  the  various  Anti- 
quities, Manners,  and  Customs,  and  General  Folk  Lore  of 
the  Districts.  (J.  Russell  Smith.) 

The  "home-keeping"  Londoner,  whose  ideas  of  what 
the  Yorkshire  dialect  is  have  been  formed  from  the 
Yorkshireman  of  our  popular  drama,  will  be  astonished 


when  he  finds  the  variety  of  forms  which  that  dialect 
assumes  in  different  parts  of  the  county.  This  little 
volume  of  nearly  500  pages,  devoted  to  "the  dialect  of 
Leeds,  exhibits  the  peculiarities  of  language  in  that  dis- 
trict, and  the  forms  in  which  it  differs  from  the  "talk  of 
the  people  "  in  adjoining  localities ;  and  these  are  well 
and  clearly  exhibited  by  the  author's  conversations  and 
tales  of  common  life  (which  show  no  small  artistic  skill) ; 
while  the  Glossary  and  Notices  of  the  Manners,  Customs, 
and  Folk  Lore  of  the  district  give  a  completeness  to  the 
book  which  entitles  it  to  a  high  place  among  works  illus- 
trative of  the  Provincial  Dialects  of  England. 

History  of  the  Names  of  Men,  Nations,  and  Places  in 
their  connection  with  the  Progress  of  Civilisation.  From  the 
French  of  Eusebius  Salverte.  Translated  by  the  Rev.  H. 
L.  Mordacque,  M.A.  Vol.  I.  (J.  R.  Smith.) 

"  What  is  in  a  name  ?  "  said  Shakspeare !  "  Notre  nom 
propre  Jest  nous-memes," replies  the  Frenchman ;  and  M. 
Salverte's  clever  and  elaborate  History  of  Names,  which 
M.  Mordacque  has  translated  for  the  benefit  of  English 
readers,  forms  only  a  part  of  a  larger  scheme  in  which  the 
accomplished  French  Author  proposes  to  treat  of  Civili- 
sation from  the  earliest  historic  [periods  to  the  conclusion 
of  the  eighteenth  century.  No  one  who  has  read  any  of 
M.  Salverte's  writings,  but  must  be  aware  of  the  amount 
of  learning  and  ingenuity  with  which  he  supports  his 
ofttimes  very  original  opinions.  The  origin  of  names  has 
of  late  years  occupied  a  good  deal  of  attention  in  this 
country.  The  subject  interests  every  one,  for  every  one 
has  a  name;  and,  as  our  Author  observes,  "our  proper 
name  is  our  individuality :"  but  no  more  interesting  con- 
tribution to  this  peculiar  branch  of  study  has  been  fur- 
nished than  that  for  which  we  are  now  indebted  to  the 
labours  of  Mr.  Mordacque. 

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CONTENTS.  —No.  5. 

NOTES  :  —  Memoir  of  William  Oldvs,  Esq.,  Norroy-King-at- 
Arius,  81  —  Mr.  Dycc  and  I,  85—  Dutch  Paper  Trade,  86  — 
An  Order  of  Merit  and  the  late  Prince  Consort,  87  —  M 
Philai-ete  Chasles,  Ib. 

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bition asainst  eating  Flesh  in  Lent —  The  Hon.  Rebecca 
Folliott,  88. 

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cham's  "  Scholemaster,"  Quotations  in  —Browning's  "  Ly- 
rics "  —  Bibliography  of  Alchemy  and  Mysticisms  — Caro- 
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Starch  —  Turners  of  Eckington  —  Xavier  and  Indian  Mis- 
sions, 88. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS  :  —  Buzaglia  —  Winkin  —  Rev. 
John  Kettlewell  —  Mr.  Bruce  —  Lord  Chancellor  Cowper  : 
Appeals  of  Murder  —  Norfolk  Visitation  —  Richard  de 
Marisco,  or  Marais—  "A  Brace  of  Shakes,"  91. 

REPLIES:— Ornamental  Tops:  the  Cotgreave  Forgeries 
and  Spence's  "  Romance  of  Genealogy,"  92  —  Neil  Douglas, 
Ib.  —  Earthquakes  in  England,  94  —  Daughters  of  William 
the  Lion,  95  —  Eastern  Costume :  Rebekah  at  the  Well  — 
Old  MS:  Pandects  — Knaves'  Acre  — Thomas  Craskell  — 
Mr.  Turbulent  —  Flight  of  Wild  Geese  and  Cranes  —  Topo- 
graphy in  Ireland  — Foilles  de  Gletuers  —  "  Retributive 
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Notes  on  Books. 


MEMOIR  OF  WILLIAM  OLDYS,  ESQ., 

NORROY  KIXG-AT-ARMS. 

(Concluded  from  p.  64.) 

Oldys  was  connected  with  the  College  of  Arms 
for  nearly  five  years.  His  library  was  the  large 
room  up  one  pair  of  stairs  in  Norroy's  apartments, 
in  the  west  wing  of  the  college,  where  he  chiefly 
resided,  and  which  was  furnished  with  little  else 
than  books.  His  notes  were  written  on  slips  of 
paper,  which  he  afterwards  classified  and  reposited 
in  small  bags  suspended  about  his  room.  It  was 
in  this  way  that  he  covered  several  quires  of 

Eiper  with  laborious  collections  for  a  complete 
ife  of  Shakspeare ;  and  from  these  notes  Isaac 
Reed  made   several  extracts   in  the  Additional 
Anecdotes  to  Rowe's  Life  of  the  Bard. 

Oldys  at  this  time  frequently  passed  his  even- 
ings at  the  house  of  John  Taylor,  the  cele- 
brated oculist  of  Hatton  Garden  *,  where  he 
always  preferred  the  "fireside  in  the  kitchen,  that 
he  might  not  be  obliged  to  mingle  with  the  other 
visitors.  He  was  so  particular  in  his  habits,  that 
he  could  not  smoke  his  pipe  with  ease  till  his 
chair  was  fixed  close  to  a  particular  crack  in  the 
floor.  "  The  shyness  of  Mr.  Oldys's  disposition," 
says  John  Taylor,  jun.,  "and  the  simplicity  of  his 

*  John  Taylor  of  Hatton  Garden  was  the  son  of  the 
celebrated  Chevalier  Taylor,  and  father  of  John  Taylor 
the  author  of  Monsieur  Tonson,  and  editor  of  The  'Sun 
newspaper. 


manners,  had  induced  him  to  decline  an  introduc- 
tion to  my  grandfather,  the  Chevalier  Taylor,  who 
was  always  splendid  in  attire,  and  had  been  used 
to  the  chief  societies  in  every  court  of  Europe ; 
but  my  grandfather  had  heard  so  much  of  Mr. 
Oldys,  that  he  resolved  to  be  acquainted  with 
him,  and  therefore  one  evening  when  Oldys  was 
enjoying  his  philosophical  pipe  by  the  kitchen 
fire,  the  Chevalier  invaded  his  retreat,  and  with- 
out ceremony  addressed  him  in  the  Latin  lan- 
guage. Oldys,  surprised  and  gratified  to  find  a 
scholar  in  a  fine  gentleman,  threw  off  his  reserve, 
answered  him  in  the  same  language,  and  the  col- 
loquy continued  for  at  least  two  hours  ;  my  father, 
not  so  good  a  scholar,  only  occasionally  interpos- 
ing an  illustrative  remark."  * 

Oldys's  literary  labours  were  now  drawing  to  a 
close,  his  life  having  extended  to  nearly  three- 
score years  and  ten.  His  last  production  was  the 
Life  of  Charles  Cotton,  piscator  and  poet,  pre- 
fixed to  Hawkins's  edition  of  Walton's  Compleat 
Angler,  edit.  1760,  which  made  forty-eight  pages. 
It  was  abridged  in  the  later  editions.  As  we  have 
elsewhere  .noticed  ("N".  &  Q."  2lld  S.  xi.  205), 
Dr.  Towers,  who  compiled  the  Life  of  COTTON  for 
Kippis's  JBiog.  Britannica,  has  erroneously  attri- 
buted Oldys's  Life  of  this  poet  to  our  musical  knight. 
Grose  informs  us  (0/z'o,  p.  139),  that  "among 
Oldys's  works  is  a  Preface  to  Izaak  Walton's  An- 
gling"  This  Preface  was  probably  no  other  than 
his  ".Collections"  for  a  Life  of  Walton.  In  his  bio- 
graphical sketch  of  Charles  Cotton  he  reminds  Sir 
John  Hawkins,  that  "  as  Izaak  Walton  did  oblige 
the  public  with  the  lives  of  several  eminent  men, 
it  is  much  that  some  little  historical  monument 
has  not,  in  grateful  retaliation,  been  raised  and 
devoted  to  his  memory.  The  few  materials  I, 
long  since,  with  much  search,  gathered  up  con- 
cerning him,  you  have  seen,  and  extracted  1  hope, 
what  you  found  necessary  for  the  purpose  I  in- 
tended them."  '(TaSe  iv-  See  also  Hawkins's 
Life  of  Walton  in  the  same  volume,  p.  xlviii.) 

William  Oldys  died  at  his  apartments  in  the 
Heralds'  College  on  April  15,  1761,  and  was 
buried  on  the  19th  of  the  same  month  in  the 
north  aisle  of  St.  Benet,  Paul's  Wharf,  towards 
the  upper  end.f  His  friend,  John  Taylor  of  Hat- 
ton  Garden,  on  the  20th  of  June,  1761,  adminis- 
tered as  principal  creditor,  defrayed  the  funeral 
expenses,  and  obtained  possession  of  his  official 
regalia,  books,  and  valuable  manuscripts.  The 
original  painting  of  William  Oldys,  formerly  be- 
longing to  Mr.  Taylor,  is  now,  we  believe,  in  the 


*  Records  of  my  Life,  i.  27. 

f  There  is  a  discrepancy  respecting  the  age  of  Oldya 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  On  his  coffin,  as  well  as  in  a 
document  belonging  to  the  Heralds'  College,  it  is  stated 
to  be  seventy-two,  and  in  the  newspapers  of  that  time, 
seventy-four,  which  would  place  his  birth  in  1687  or  1689  j 
whereas  we  have  in  his  own  handwriting  as  the  date  July 
14, 1696.  Vide  Addit.  MS.  4240,  p.  14. 


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"  In  word  and  Will  I  am  a  friend  (o  you, 
And  one  friend  Old  is  worth  a  hundred  new." 

The  printed  books  found  in  the  library  of  Oldys, 
some  of  them  copiously  annotated,  together  with 
a  portion  of  his  manuscripts,  were  sold  by  Thomas 
Davies,  the  bookseller,  on  April  12,  1762.  Mr. 
John  Taylor,  jun.,  has  given  the  following  ac- 
count of  the  dispersion  of  some  of  his  manuscripts. 
He  says,  "  Mr.  Oldys  had  engaged  to  furnish  a 
bookseller  in  the  Strand,  whose  name  was  Walker, 
with  ten  years  of  the  life  of  Shakspeare  unknown 
to  the  biographers  and  commentators,  but  he 
died,  and  'made  no  sign 'of  the  projected  work. 
The  bookseller  made  a  demand  of  twenty  guineas 
on  my  father,  alleging  that  he  had  advanced  that 
sum  to  Mr.  Oldys,  who  had  promised  to  provide 
the  matter  in  question.  My  father  paid  this  sum 
to  the  bookseller  soon  after  he  had  attended  the 
remains  of  his  departed  friend  to  the  grave.  The 
manuscripts  of  Oldys,  consisting  of  a  few  books 
written  in  a  small  hand,  and  abundantly  inter- 
lined, remained  long  in  my  father's  possession, 
but  by  desire  of  Dr.  Percy,  afterwards  Bishop  of 
Droinore,  were  submitted  to  his  inspection, 
through  the  medium  of  Dr.  Monsey,  who  was 
nn  intimate  friend  of  Dr.  Percy.  They  continued 
in  Dr.  Percy's  hands  some  years.  He  had  known 
Mr.  Oldys  in  the  early  part  of  his  life,  and  spoke 
respectfully  of  his  character.  The  last  volume  of 
Oldys's  manuscripts  that  I  ever  saw,  was  at  my 
friend  the  late  Mr.  William  Gilford's  house,  in  Jarnes 
Street,  Westminster,  while  he  was  preparing  a 
new  edition  of  the  works  of  Shirley  ;  and  I  learned 
from  him  that  it  was  lent  to  him  by  Mr.  Heber. 

My  friend  Mr.  D'Israeli  is  mistaken  in 

saying  that  on  'the  death  of  Oldys,  Dr.  Kippis, 
editor  of  the  Biographia  Britannica,  looked  over 
the  manuscripts.'  It  was  not  until  near  thirty 
years  after  the  death  of  Oldys,  that  they  were 
submitted  to  his  inspection,  and  at  his  recommen- 
dation were  purchased  by  the  late  Mr.  Cadell."* 

Oldys  was  the  fortunate  possessor  of  a  large 
collection  of  Italian  Proverbs,  entitled  Giardino 
di  Recreation*,  in  manuscript,  by  John  Florio,  the 
editor  of  a  Dictionaric  in  Italian  and  English,  con- 
taining commendatory  verses  prefixed  by  Matthew 
Gwinne,  Samuel  Daniel,  and  two  other  friends. 
This^  volume  afterwards  belonged  to  Sir  Isaac 

*  Records  of  my  Life,  pp.  28,  29.  Forlh^earciiirig 
inquiries  after  the  missing  biographical  manuscripts  of 
Oldys  made  by  Mr.  Isaac  D'Israeli,  see  his  Curiotitie*  of 
Littrature,  edit.  18^3,  iii.  470. 


Heard,  from  whom  it  passed  to  Mr.  B.  H.  Bright, 
and  was  sold  in  the  sale  of  his  manuscripts,  on 
June  18,  1844.  (Hunter's  Illustrations  of  Shaks- 
peare, i.  275.) 

Among  other  books  enriched  with  notes  by  Oldys 
is  that  of  England's  Parnassus,  8vo,  1600.  It  was 
owing  to  his  bibliographical  erudition  that  the 
name  of  the  compiler  of  these  "Choysest  Flowers'* 
became  known.  Wood,  misapprehending  the  in- 
formation given  by  Phillips  in  his  Theatrum 
Poetarum,  1675,  designated  Fitz-Geffry  as  the 
compiler;  but  Oldys  had  discovered  in  one  or 
two  copies  that  the  initials  R.  A.  to  the  dedica- 
tory Sonnet  to  Sir  Thomas  Mounson  were  signed 
11.  Allot.  To  the  signature  R.  A.  Oldys  has  added 
the  following  note  :  — 

",Mr.  Edmund  Bolton,  in  his  Hypercritica,  mentions 
Robert  Allott  and  Henry  Constable  as  two  good  poets  in 
his  days.  So  I  conclude  upon  the  whole,  that  the  said 
Robert  Allott,  the  poet,  was  the  Collector  of  this  book. 
|  John  Wee ver,  in  his  little  book  of  Epigrams,  printed  in 
J2mo,  1600  (or  the  year  before),  yet,  1  think,  quoted  in 
this  work,  1ms  the  following  lines:— 

«  Ad  Ro:  Allot,  and  Chr:  Middleton. 
'  Quick  are  your  wits,  sharp  your  conceits, 

Short  and  more  s \veet  your  lays ; 

Quick,  but  no  wit ;  sharp,  no  conceit, 

Short  and  less  sweet  my  praise.' " 

A  censure  passed  upon  England's  Parnassus  by 
Oldys,  in  his  Preface  to  Hayward's  British  Muse, 
1738,  though  tinctured  with  too  much  severity,  is 
certainly  not  unfounded  in  its  general  reprehen- 
sion. He  shrewdly  and  sarcastically  concludes 
that  the  book,  "  bad  as  it  is,  suggests  one  good 
observation  upon  the  use  and  advantage  of  such 
collections,  which  is,  that  they  may  prove  more 
successful  in  preserving  the  best  parts  of  some 
authors,  than  their  works  themselves."  Mr.  War- 
ton,  however,  considers  the  extracts  as  made  "with 
a  degree  of  taste : "  and  Sir  S.  Egerton  Brydges 
as  "  very  curious  and  valuable."  The  last  men- 
tioned remarks  (Cens.  Liter,  ii.  318),  that  the  state 
of  our  knowledge  on  these  subjects  is  materially 
altered  since  the  time  of  Oldys  ;  who,  though  his 
bibliographical  erudition  was  very  eminent,  could 
add,  that  "  most  of  the  authors  were  now  so  obso- 
lete, that  not  knowing  what  they  wrote,  we  can 
have  no  recourse  to  their  works,  if  still  extant."* 
Oldys's  annotated  copy  of  England's  Parnassus 

1  passed  into  the  hands  of  Thomas  Warton,  and 
subsequently  came  into  the  possession  of  Colonel 
Stanley,  at  whose  sale  in  April  and  May,  1813 

i  (lot  378),  it  was  purchased  by  Mr.  R.  Triphook  as 
his  own  speculation  for  13/.  13s. 

The  ^  most  valuable  and  curious  work  left  by 

,  Oldys  is  an  annotated  copy  of  Gerard  Langbaine's 

i  Account  of  the  early  Dramatick  Poets,  Oxford, 
1691,  8vo.  It  has  already  been  stated  (ante, 
p.  3),  that  the  first  copy  of  this  work  with  his 

*  Thomas  Park,  in  the  Preface  to  the  reprint 
land's  Parnassus,  1815. 


3rd  s.  I.  FEB.  1,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S! 


notes  had  passed  into  the  hands  of  Mr.  Coxeter. 
After  Mr.  Coxeter's  death  his  books  and  manu- 
scripts were  purchased  by  Osborne,  and  were 
offered  for  sale  in  1748.  The  book  in  question, 
No.  10,131  in  Osborne's  Catalogue  for  that  year, 
was  purchased  either  by  Theophilus  Gibber,  or  by 
some  bookseller  who  afterwards  put  it  into  his 
hands  ;  and  from  the  notes  of  Oldys  and  Coxeter, 
the  principal  part  of  the  additional  matter  fur- 
nished by  Gibber  (or  rather  by  Shiels)  for  the 
Lives  of  the  Poets,  5  vols.  12mo.  1753,  was  unques- 
tionably derived.  Mr.  Coxeter's  manuscripts  are 
mentioned  in  the  title-page,  to  whom,  therefore, 
the  exclusive  credit  of  the  work  is  assigned,  but 
which  really  belongs  as  much,  if  not  more,  to  Oldys. 

Oldys  purchased  a  second  Langbaine  in  1727, 
and  continued  to  annotate  it  till  the  latest  period 
of  his  life.  This  copy  was  purchased  by  Dr. 
Birch,  who  bequeathed  it  to  the  British  Museum. 
It  is  not  interleaved,  but  filled  with  notes  written 
in  the  margins  and  between  the  lines  in  an  ex- 
tremely small  hand.  Birch  granted  the  loan  of 
it  to  Dr.  Percy,  Bishop  of  Dromore,  who  made 
a  transcript  of  the  notes  into  an  interleaved  copy 
of  Langbaine  in  four  vols.  8vo.  It  was  from 
Bishop  Percy's  copy  that  Mr.  Joseph  Haslewood 
annotated  his  Langbaine.  He  says,  "  His  Lord- 
ship was  so  kind  as  to  favour  me  with  the  loan  of 
this  book,  with  a  generous  permission  to  make 
what  use  of  it  I  might  think  proper  ;  and  when 
he  went  to  Ireland,  he  left  it  with  Mr.  Nichols, 
for  the  benefit  of  the  new  edition  of  The  Tatlcr, 
Spectator,  and  Guardian,  with  Notes  and  Illus- 
trations, to  which  work  his  Lordship  was  by  his 
other  valuable  communications  a  very  beneficial 
contributor." 

George  Steevens  likewise  made  a  transcript  of 
Oldys's  notes  into  a  copy  of  Langbaine,  which  at 
the  sale  of  his  library  in  1800,  was  purchased  by 
Richardson  the  bookseller  for  91 ,  who  resold  it  to 
Sir  S.  Egerton  Brydges  in  the  same  year  for  four- 
teen guineas.  At  the  sale  of  the  Lee  Priory  li- 
brary in  1834,  it  fell  into  the  hands  of  Thorpe  of 
Bedford- street,  Covent  Garden,  from  whom  the 
late  Dr.  Bliss  purchased  it  on  Feb.  7,  1835,  for 
nine  guineas.  It  is  now  in  the  British  Museum. 

Malone,  Isaac  Reed,  and  the  Rev.  Rogers  Rud- 
ing,  also  made  transcripts  of  Oldys's  notes.  The 
Mrtlone  transcript  is  now  at  Oxford;  but  Rud- 
ing's  has  not  been  traced.  In  a  cutting  from  one  of 
Thorpe's  catalogues,  preserved  by  Dr.  Bliss,  it  is 
stated  to  be  in  two  volumes,  the  price  51.  5s.',  that 
Ruding  transcribed  them  in  17,34,  and  that  his 
additions  are  very  numerous.  In  Heber's  Cata- 
logue (Pt.  iv.  No.  1215)  is  another  copy  of  Lang- 
baine, with  many  important  additions  by  Oldys, 
Steevens,  and  Reed.  This  was  purchased  by  Rodd 
for  41.  4s.  In  1845,  Edward  Vernon  Utterson  had 
an  interleaved  Langbaine.  What  has  become  of  it  ? 

It  is  scarcely  possible  to  take  up  any  work  on 


the  History  of  the  Stage,  or  which  treats  of  the 
biographies  of  Dramatic  Writers,  without  finding 
these  curious  collectanea  of  Oldys  quoted  to  illus- 
trate some  or  other  obscure  point.  "  The  Biogra- 
graphical  Memoirs  I  have  inserted  in  Censura 
Literaria"  remarks  Sir  S.  E.  Brydges,  "  have  been 
principally  drawn  from  the  minute  and  intelligent 
inquiries,  and  indefatigable  labours  of  Oldys,  pre- 
served in  the  interleaved  copy  of  Langbaine. 
Many  of  them  are  curious,  and  though  parts  have 
already  been  given  to  the  public  in  the  Biographia 
Dramatica,  yet  as  they  are  in  the  originals  from 
whence  that  work  borrowed  them,  it  became  not 
only  amusing  but  useful  to  record  them  in  their 
own  form  and  words." 

In  the  British  Museum  (Addit.  MS.  12,523)  is 
a  manuscript  volume,  in  Oldys's  hand  writing,  of 
miscellaneous  extracts  for  a  work  with  the  follow- 
ing title :  "  The  Patron  ;  or  a  Portraiture  of  Pa- 
tronage and  Dependency,  more  especially  as  they 
appear  in  their  Domestick  Light  and  Attitudes. 
A  Capital  Piece  drawn  to  the  Life  by  the  Hands 
of  several  Eminent  Masters  in  the  great  School  of 
Experience,  and  addressed  to  a  Gentleman,  who 
upon  the  loss  of  Friends,  was  about  to  settle  in  a 
great  Family." 

The  subjoined  catalogue  of  the  books  found  in 
Oldys's  library  at  the  time  of  his  death,  cannot 
fail  to  interest  every  one  curious  in  bibliography. 

OI-DYS'S  LIBRARY  AND  MANUSCRIPT  WORKS.* 

The  collection  of  books  formed  by  this  accurate 
and  laborious  antiquary,  through  whose  exertions 
English  literature  and  bibliography  have  been  so 
essentially  improved,  was  purchased  by  Thomas 
Davies,  author  of  The  Life  of  Garrick,  and 
offered  for  sale  in  "  A  Catalogue  of  the  Libraries 
of  the  late  William  Oldys,  Esq.  Norroy  King-at- 
Arms  (author  of  The  Life  of  Sir  Walter  Raleigh} ; 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Emms  of  Yarmouth,  and  Mr.  \Vm. 
Rush,  which  will  begin  to  be  sold  on  Monday, 
April  12  [1762],  by  Thomas  Davies." 

The  trifling  prices  which  were  asked  for  some 
books  that  are  now  esteemed  amongst  the  scarcest 
in  the  language,  will  amuse  the  bibliomaniac  of 
the  present  day,  who,  if  his  wishes  tend  towards 
the  collection  of  early  literature,  not  so  much  on 
the  score  of  its  rarity  as  from  its  utility,  will  as- 
suredly lament  that  he  did  not  live  at  a  period 
when  his  taste  and  desires  could  have  been  so 
readily  gratified. 

The  charge  for  that  invaluably  illustrated  copy 
of  Langbaine  f  must  astonish  those  who  are  ac- 


*  From  Fry's  Bibliographical  Memoranda,  4to.  Bristol, 
1816,  p.  33. 

f  Mr.  Fry  is  not  correct.  The  fumed  annoted  Lang- 
baine, purchased  of  Davies  by  Dr.  Birch  for  one  guinea,  is 
the  edition  of  1691.  It  would  appear,  however,  from  lot 
1511  of  the  above  list,  that  Oldys  had  commenced  anno- 
tating Gildon's  edition  of  1699. 


84 


quainted  with  the  large  sums  which  have 

quired  for  transcripts   only  of  those  important 

iidditions  to  our  dramatic  biography. 

227.  Nicolson's  Historical  Libraries,  with  a  great  num- 
ber of  MS.  additions,  references,  &c.  by  the  late  VVra. 
Oldys,  very  fair  21.  2s.  1736.  [Now  in  the  British  Mu- 

W230.  Fuller's  Worthies  of  England,  with  MS.  correc- 
tions, &c.  by  Mr.  Oldys.*  A  price  had  originally  been 
attached  to  this  article,  but  is  obliterated,  apparently  by 
the  publisher.! 

2G8.  Linschoten's  Voyages  to  the  East  Indies,  with  a 
great  many  cuts,  black-letter,  12*.  6rf.J 

593.  A  Collection  of  scarce  and  valuable  Old  Plays, 
most  of  them  in  small  quarto,  amounting  in  all  to  above 
4.30,  witli  a  written  catalogue  [no  price.] 

705.  Viruil,  translated  into  Scottish  Meter,  by  Gawin 
Douglas.  Black-letter,  Lond.  1553.  5s.§ 

717.  Complaints,  containing  Sundry  Poems  of  the 
World's  Vanity,  by  Ed.  Spenser,  the  Author's  own  edi- 
tion, 1591.  2s.  Gd. 

719.  The  Book  which  is  called  the  Body  of  Poly  eye, 
black-letter,  very  fair,  1521.     5s. 

720.  The  Book  cf  Falconrie  and  Hawking,  with  Cuts, 
black-letter,  1611.  The  Noble  Art  of  Hunting,  with  Cuts, 
black-letter,  1611,  very  fair.     6s. 

725.  Cooper's  Chronicle,  black-letter,  neat,  15GO.     3s. 

728.  Milton's  Paradise  Lost,  in  Ten  Books,  first  edi- 
tion, very  fair,  1GG9.  5s. 

73G.  Whetstone's  English  Mirror,  1586.  Crowley's 
Answer  to  Powndes  Six  Reasons,  1581  :  black-letter.  3s. 

738.  Goulart's  Admirable  'and  Memorable  History  of 
the  Times,  Englished  by  Grimeston,  1607.  2s. 

832.  Enemy  to  Unthryftincss,  a  perfect  Mirrour  for 
Magistrates,  by  Whetstone,  and  six  other  Curious  Tracts. 
7s.  Gd. 

836.  Lavatorus  of  Ghosts  and  Spirits  walking  by 
Night;  of  straunge  Noises,  Crackes,  &c.,  black-letter, 
1596.  A  Thousand  Notable  Things  of  Sundry  Sortes,  by 
Lupton  ;  black-letter,  no  date,  and  three  others.  Gs. 

852.  Hypcrius's  Practice  of  Preaching,  translated  by 
Ludham,  black  -letter,  1577.  Tragical  History  of  the 
Troubles  and  Civill  Warres  of  the  Low  Countries,  black- 
letter,  1581.  4s. 

1511.  Lives  and  Characters  of  the  English  Dramatick 
Poets,  by  Langbaine  and  Gildon,  with  MS.  additions  by 
Oldys,  1G!»9.  3s.  Gd. 

1G83.  The  British  Librarian,  six  numbers  in  boards, 
1738.  Is.  Gel. 

1684.  The  same,  bound.     2s. 

*  "  This  copy,"  says  Mr.  Fry,  "was  purchased  at  the 
sale  of  George  Steevens's  library  by  the  late  Mr.  Malone, 
in  whose  collection  it  still  remains'."  Mr.  Isaac  D'Israeli 
states,  however,  that  Steevens's  copy  contained  a  tran- 
script 01'  Oldys's  notes.  He  says,  "The  late  Mr.  Boswell 
showed  me  a  Fuller  [  Worthies]  in  the  Malone  collection, 
with  Steevens's  transcription  of  Oldys's  notes,  which 
Malone  purchased  for  43/.  at  Steevens's  sale;  but  where 
is  the  original  copy?  "  (Curiosities  of  Literature,  Second 
Serie«,  iii.  469,  ed.  1823.)  In  Steevens's  Sale  Catalogue 
it  is  thus  described:  "Lot  1799.  Fuller  (Thos.)  Worthies 
of  England,  a  very  fine  copy  in  rnssia,  with  the  portrait 
by  Loggan,  and  Index  ;  a  most  extraordinary  and  match- 

ss  book,  the  late  Mr.  Steevens  having  bestowed  uncom- 
mon paina  in  transcribing  every  addition  to  render  it 
1""116"  1U  h'S  peculiarlv  neat  manner,  fol. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  FEB.  1,  '62. 


t  The  price  was  U.  11s.  Gd.  —  Bolton  Corneu. 
t  At  the  Roxburghe  sale  it  fetched  10/.  15s. 
5  At  the  Roxburghe  sale  it  fetched  71.  7s. 


2449.  A  Manifest  Detection  of  the  most  vyle  and  de- 
testable Use  of  Dice  Play,  black-letter,  sewed,  1552.  Is.Qd. 

2450.  Vaughan's  Golden  Grove,  1600.     Is. 
2554.  Wit  and  Drollery,  1682.     Is. 

2569.  Stevenson's  Norfolk  Drollery,  1673.*     Is, 

2570.  Shakespeare's  Poems,  1640.     Is. 

2572.  Vilvain's  Epitome  of  Essays,  1654.     Is.  6 d. 

2573.  Collop's  Poesie  Reviv'd,  1656.     Is. 

2574.  Wit  Restor'd,  1658.     Is.  6d. 

2575.  Wits' Recreation,  1640.     Is.f 

2579.  Palingenius's  Zodiake    of  Life,    Englished   by 
Googe,  black-letter,  1565.     2s.  Gd. 

2580.  Dunton's  Maggots,  1685.     Is.  Gd. 

2581.  The  Muses'  Recreation,  1656.    Is. 

2633.  Lingua:    or  the  Combat  of  the  Tongue,  1657. 
Is.  Gd. 

2634.  Lilly's  Six  Court  Comedies,  1632.    2s. 
%*  The  last  twelve  articles  are  in  verse. 

William  Oldys's  Manuscripts. 

3612.  Catalogue  of  Books  and  Pamphlets  relating  to 
the  City  of  London,  it%Laws,  Customs,  Magistrates ;  its 
Diversions,  Public  Buildings ;  its  Misfortunes,  viz.  Plagues, 
Fires,  £c.,  and  of  every  thing  that  has  happened  remark- 
able in  London  from  1521  to  1759,  with  some  occasional 
remarks.  Folio.  J 

Quarto. 

3G13.  Of  London  Libraries;  with  Anecdotes  of  Collec- 
tors of  Books,  Remarks  on  Booksellers,  and  of  the  first 
publishers  of  Catalogues.  [Printed  in  "  N.  &  Q."  2nd  S. 
vol.  xi.] 

3614.  Epistolae  G.  Morley  ad  Jan.  Ulitium. 

3615.  Catalogue  of  graved  Prints  of  our  most  eminent 
countrymen,  belonging  to  Mr.  Oldys. 

3616".  Orationes  habitae  in  N.  C.  1655:  English  verses. 

3617.  Memoirs  relating  to  the  Family  of  Oldys.     [la 
British  Museum,  Addit.  MS.  4240.] 

3618.  Barcelona:     or  the   Spanish   Expedition  under 
the  Conduct  of  the  Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of  Peterborough ; 
a  Poem  by  Mr.  Farquhar,  never  before  published.     [This 
seems  to  have  been  copied  from  the  printed  edition.  — 
Bolton  Corner/,"] 

*  About  this  period  many  books  were  published  with  a 
similar  title,  such  as  Songs  of  Love  and  Drollery,  1654; 
Bristol  Drollery,  1656 ;  Sportive  Wit,  or  the  Lusty  Drol- 
lery, 1656;  Holborn  Drollery,  1672;  Grammatical  Drol- 
lery, 1682  ;  all  in  verse.  — Fry. 

f  Fetched  at  the  Roxburghe  sale,  41.  8s. 

J  Gough  (British  Topog.  ed  1780,  i.  567)  informs 
us,  that  "he  had  been  favoured  by  George  Steevens, 
Esq.,  with  the  use  of  a  thick  folio  of  titles  of  books 
and  pamphlets  relative  to  London,  and  occasionally  to 
Westminster  and  Middlesex,  from  1521  to  1758,  collected 
by  the  late  Mr.  Oldys ;  with  many  others  added,  .as  it 
seems  in  another  hand.  Among  them  are  many  purely 
historical,  and  many  of  too  low  a  character  to  rack  under 
the  head  of  topography  or  history.  The  rest,  which  are 
very  numerous,  I  have  inserted  marked  0,  with  correc- 
tions, £c,,  of  those  I  had  myself  collected.  Mr.  Steevens 
purchased  this  MS.  of  T.  Davies,  who  bought  Mr. 
Oldys's  library.  It  had  been  in  the  hands  of  Dr.  Berken- 
hout,  who  had  a  design  of  publishing  an  English  Topo- 
grapher, and  may  possibly  have  inserted  the  articles  in  a 
different  hand.  "ol.  5s.  is  the  price  in  the  first  leaf.  In 
a  smaller  MS.  Mr.  Oldys  says  he  had  inserted  360  arti- 
cles in  the  folio,  April  12,  1747,  and  that  the  late  Alder- 
man Billers  had  a  fine  collection  of  tracts,  &c.,  relating  to 
London."  —  "  Mr.  Oldys's  collection  of  titles  for  London 
have  passed  from  Mr.  Steevens  to  Sir  John  Hawkins." 
(Ib.  i.  761*.)  Sir  John  Hawkins's  library  was  destroyed 
by  fire. 


3"*  S.  I.  FEB.  1,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


85 


36 19.  The  Life  of  Augustus,  digested  into  fifty-nine 
Schemes,  by  James  Robey. 

Octavo  et  infra. 

3620.  The  Apophthegms  of  the  English  Nation,  con- 
taining above  500  memorable  sayings  of  noted  Persons, 
being  a  Collection  of  Extempore  Wit,  more  copious  than 
any  hitherto  published.     [It  -was  probably  founded  on  a 
MS.  collection  of  earlier  date.  — Life  of  Sir  Walter  Ra- 
leigh. —  Bolton  Corner/.  ~\ 

3621.  Description  of  all  Kinds  of  Fish. 

3622.  The  British.  Arborist;  being  a  Natural,  Philolo- 
gical,  Theological,   Poetical,    Mythological,    Medicinal, 
and  Mechanical  History  of  Trees,  principally  native  to  this 
Island,  with  some  Select  Exoticks,  &c.    Not  finished. 

3623.  Description  of  Trees,  Plants,  &c.      [Addit.  MS. 
120,724.] 

3624.  Collection  of  Poems  written  above  one  hundred 
years  since. 

3625.  Trinarchodia :   the  several  Raignes  of  Ptichard 
II,  Henry  IV.,  and  Henry  V.  in  verse,  supposed  to  be 
written  1C50.     [This  volume  became  the  property  of  J. 
P.  Andrews :  Park  describes  it,  Restituta,  iv.  166.  —  Sol- 
ton  Corney.~\ 

3626.  Collection  of  Poems  by  Mr.  Oldys. 

3627.  Mr.  Oldys's  Diary,  containing  several  Observa- 
tions relating  to  Books,  Characters,  ^c.     [Printed  in 
«N.  &Q."2"<iS.  vol.  xi.] 

3628.  Collections  of  Observations  and  Notes  on  various 
subjects. 

3629.  Memorandum  Book,  containing  as  above. 

3630.  Table  of  Persons  celebrated  by  the  English  Poets. 

3631.  Catalogue  of  MSS.  written  by  Lord  Clarendon. 

3632.  Names  of  English  Writers,  and  Places  of  their 
Burial,  &c. 

3633.  Description  of  Flowers,  Plants,  "Roots,  &c. 
*3633.  Description  of  all  Kinds  of  Birds.     [See  Addit. 

MS.  20,725.] 

"  So  end,"  says  Mr.  Fry,  "  the  minutiss  of  this 
<mrious  Catalogue,  which  I  have  thought  it  not 
incurious  to  record,  more  especially  as  Mr.  Dibdin, 
whilst  noticing  the  interleaved  Langbaine,  in  his 
Bibliomania,  does  not  seem  to  have  been  aware  of 
its  passing  through  the  hands  of  the  humble  friend 
of  Dr.  Johnson." 

Here  we  must  terminate  our  notice  of  this  dis- 
tinguished writer  and  indefatigable  antiquary, 
whose  extended  life  was  entirely  devoted  to  lite- 
rary pursuits,  and  whose  copious  and  characteristic 
accounts  of  men  and  books,  have  endeared  his 
memory  to  every  lover  of  English  literature.  If 
Oldys  possessed  not  the  erudition  of  Johnson  or 
of  Maittaire,  he  had  at  least  equal  patience  of  in- 
vestigation, soundness  of  judgment,  and  accuracy 
of  criticism,  with  the  most  eminent  of  his  contem- 
poraries. One  remarkable  trait  in  his  character 
was  the  entire  absence  of  literary  and  posthu- 
mous fame,  whilst  he  never  begrudged  his  labour 
or  considered  his  toil  unproductive,  so  long  as  his 
researches  substantiated  Truth,  or  promoted  the 
study  of  the  History  of  Literature,  which  in  other 
words  is  the  history  of  the  mind  of  man.  Hence 
the  very  sweepings  of  his  library  have  since  been 
industriously  collected,  and  enrich  the  works  of 
Malone,  Ritsorj,  Heed,  Douce,  Brydges,  and 


others,  and  will  always  serve,  as  it  were,  for  land- 
marks to  those  following  in  his  wake.  In  his  own 
peculiar  departments  of  literature  —  history  and 
biography  —  he  has  literally  exhausted  all  the 
ordinary  sources  of  information  ;  and  when  he 
lacked  the  opportunity  to  labour  himself,  or  to  fill 
up  the  circle  of  his  knowledge,  he  has  neverthe- 
less pointed  out  to  his  successors  new  or  unex- 
plored mines,  whence  additional  facts  may  be 
gleaned,  and  the  object  of  his  life  —  the  develop- 
ment of  Truth  —  be  secured. 


MR.  DICE  AND  I. 

I  may  venture,  I  hope,  to  set  myself  right  with 
the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  respecting  a  grave 
charge  of  most  abject  printer-worship  brought 
against  me,  and  I  think  rather  maliciously,  by 
Mr.  Dyce.  It  was  done  four  years  ago,  but  I  never 
knew  of  it  till  within  the  last  few  days,  when  I 
read  for  the  first  time  Mr.  Dyce's  Preface  to  his 
Shakspeare.  In  that  Preface,  after  quoting  the 
extravagant  opinions  of  Home  Tooke  and  Mr. 
Knight  respecting  the  merits  of  the  folio  of  1623, 
Mr.  Dyce  proceeds  :  — 

"  The  latest  champion  of  the  folio,  and  one  determined 
to  go  all  lengths  in  its  defence,  is  Mr.  Keightley ;  who 
('  N.  &  Q.'  2nd  S.  iv.  263,)  '  does  not  despair'  of  seeing 
some  future  editor  print,  with  the  folio,  in  As  You  Like 
It,  Act  II.  Sc.  3. :  — 

*  From  seventy  years  till  now,  almost  fourscore/" 
Here  lived  I,  but  now  live  here  no  more. 
At  seventeen  years  many  their  fortunes  seek," 
But  at  fourscore  it  is  too  late  a  week.' 
"(PoorRowe!  when  he  altered 'From  seventy  years' 
to  '  From  seventeen  years,'  he  fancied  that  he  had  made 
an  emendation  which  was  fully  confirmed  by  the  third 
line  of  the  passage)." 

Now  is  not  the  animus  here  bad,  and  the  ob- 
ject of  the  writer  to  hold  me  up  to  ridicule?  And 
would  not  anyone,  at  all  acquainted  with  my 
literary  character,  have  presumed  that  ^  I  must, 
have  been  writing  ironically  ?  And  so  in  effect 
I  was ;  though  I  must  confess  that,  in  the  full 
persuasion  that  no  one  could  suspect  me  of  such 
blind  stupidity  as  I  am  here  charged  with,  I  ex- 
pressed myself  very  carelessly  and  very  loosely. 

I  was  —  in  accordance  with  an  established  rule 
of  criticism,  of  which  mayhap  Mr.  Dyce  may  know 
nothing  —  showing  that  in  Titania's  speech  (Mid. 
Nights  Dream,  Act  II.  Sc.  1.)  —  "  When  thou 
want  stolen  away  from  fairy-land"  —  was  probably 
the  true  reading  ;  and  I  then  proceeded  thus  : 

"  I  trust  now  that  some  future  editor  will  take  wast 
into  favour,  '  print  it  and  shame  the  rogues ' ;  for  I  do 
notr  despair  of  even  '  From  seventy  years  till  now  almost 
fourscore,'  in  As  You  Like  It,  resuming  possession  of  the 
text  as  'the  sweet  sound  that  breathes  upon  a  bank  of 
violets '  has  recently  done  in  Twelfth  Night." 

Now  I  was  writing  ironically ;  though,  for  the 
reason  above  given,  I  expressed  myself  most  in- 


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[3'd  S.  I.  FEB.  1,  '62. 


adequately  ;  and  my  meaning  was,  that  since  such 
an  absurdity  as  a  sound  Ircathing  had  been  brought 
back  into  the  text,  and  there  was  no  saying  to 
what  lengths  of  absurdity  future  editors  might  go, 
a  right  reading  such  as  icast  stood  a  very  fair 
chance  of  being  recalled.  That  I  say  was  my 
meaning,  but  expressed  most  carelessly. 

I  can  tell  Mr.  Dyce  that,  in  critical  sagacity,  I 
consider  myself  at  least  his  equal ;  and  I  will  set 
my  Milton  ngainst  anything  he  has  ever  done. 
It  is  true  I  am  not  so  well-read  as  he  is  in  old 
plays,  pamphlets,  and  broadsheets;  but  I  have 
studied  criticism  in  the  writings  of  the  great  Ger- 
man commentators  on  the  Scriptures  and  the 
Classics,  and  I  go  to  work  by  rule,  not  by  hap- 
hazard, as  our  Shaksperian  critics  in  general  seem 
to  do.  As  an  instance  of  my  sagacity  compared 
with  Mr.  Dyce's,  I  may  refer  to  the  correction  of 
two  passages  in  Peele's  Edward  7,  given  in  "  iST. 
&  Q."  this  time  two  years.  Of  these  Mr.  Dyce, 
the  editor  of  two  editions  of  Peele's  Works,  could 
make  nothing,  and  I  corrected  them  —  the  one 
with  certainty,  the  other  with  great  probability  — 
the  very  first  time  I  read  the  play.  I  finally  say 
to  Mr.  Dyce  :  — 

"  If  there's  a  hole  in  a'  your  coats, 
I  rede  you  tent  it  " : 

for  I  consider  myself  now  at  liberty  to  expose  his 
critical  short- comings,  which  are  by  no  means 
lew.  TIIOS.  KEIGHTLET. 


DUTCH  PAPER-TRADE. 

The  following  is  from  a  communication  in 
Dutch,  kindly  drawn  up,  at  my  request  in  1859, 
by  Mr.  J.  Honigh,  junr.,  one  of  the  most  eminent 
papermakers  at  Zaandijh,  in  North  Holland : — 

"  The  manufacturing  of  paper  in  the  seven  United 
Provinces  was  commenced  in  IGlo  by  Martin  Orges,  a 
fugitive  from  France,  his  fatherland,  for  religion's  sake. 

"  Orges  soon  found  a  fit  place  for  establishing  his 
manufacture  in  the  streamy  commune  of  Uchelen,  near 
Apeldoorn,  in  Guelderland:  and  there  ten  paper-mills, 
lor  aught  we  know,  are  still  working,  as  if  in  pious  con- 
tinuation of  the  impulse  given  by  him.  The  first  mill 
was,  of  course,  moved  by  water,  and  reduced  the  rags 
with  stampers  to  the  requisite  pulp. 

"  Hut  when,  in  1G72,  Louis  XIV.  for  a  short  time  had 
conquered  the  province  of  Guelderland,  many  of  those 
who,  after  Orges's  example,  had  erected  factories  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  Apeldoorn,  now  betook  themselves  to 
North  Holland,  and  principally  to  the  so-called  Zaan; 
where,  at  that  period,  most  of"  the  branches  of  industry 
flourishing  in  the  Netherlands,  the  art  of  paper-making 
included,  were  exercised.  For  it  should  also  be  kept  in 
mind  that,  as  early  as  1G1G,  there  already  existed  a 
paper-mill  at  West/aan,  and  posterior  to  that  date  many 
were  the  mills  built  alongside  the  river.  These,  Tiow- 
ever,  were  all  windmills,  and  only  served  for  the  fabrica- 
tion of  grey  and  blue  paper:  but,  after  the  influx  of  emi- 
grants from  Guelderland  in  1G72,  first  Pieter  van  der  Lev 
and  afterwards  Jacob  and  Adriaan  Honigh,  ail  of  them 
resident  millers,  acceding  to  the  proposal  of  their  home- 
less brethren,  also  raised  white  paper  factories :  and  so 


this  triumvirate  laid  the  foundation  for  a  new  industry, 
which  soon  reached  a  high  degree  of  prosperity ;  and,  bf 
its  perfection,  acquired  a  European  reputation. 

""The  paper,  which  till  that  period  was  used  in  Europe, 
for  the  most  part  came  from  Italy,  Genoa  being  the  port 
that  shipped  the  largest  quantities,  and  had  the  most 
extended  trade  in  that  sort  of  commodity.  When,  how- 
ever, the  Hollanders  once  bad  become  thoroughly  fami- 
liar with  the  dipper's  art,  our  Dutch  article,  being  of 
greater  value  and  minor  price,  soon  superseded  the  Italian 
imports;  and,  ere  long,  even  mounted  the  distinctive 
water-marks  of  the  several  countries  dealt  with:  as,  for 
instance,  the  arms  of  London  or  of  Venice,  the  French 
lilies,  &c.  Yes,  I  even  do  not  think  I  say  too  much,  by 
asserting,  that  the  time  was  when  the  Low  Countries 
provided  the  whole  of  Europe  with  this  peculiar  ware; 
and  that,  in  commendation  of  a  new  book,  it  was  ex- 
pressly stated  'to  be  printed  on  Dutch  paper.'  This  cele- 
brity it  owed  to  the  good  materials  resorted  to  (rags  of 
sterling  Dutch  linen  abounding),  to  their  nice  sifting, 
and  to^the  cleanliness  and  solidity  of  manufacture,  which, 
allowed  the  same  quality  to  be"  permanently  delivered. 
But  it  was  principally  by  the  invention  of  a  revolving 
cylinder,  instead  of  the  old  stampers  or  hammers,  our 
Netherlands  article  realised  that  degree  of  fineness  and 
consistence  which  formed  its  material  boast.  And,  albeit 
the  inventor  of  this  simple  and  beautiful  contrivance  is 
to  us  unknown,  so  much  is  certain,  that  the  foreigner 
still  honours  the  man  who  devised  it,  by  calling  it  '  the 
Hollander.' 

"  The  decline  of  our  paper  trade  dates  from  the  incor- 
poration of  Holland  with  France;  and  from  the  contin- 
ental system,  instituted  by  Napoleon.  This  partly  trans- 
ferred our  mart  to  other  lands  that  formerly  did  either 
not  manufacture  their  own  paper,  or,  till  that  time,  had 
only  produced  an  inferior  qualit}7.  And  so  it  was  that, 
after  the  peace  of  1815,  only  a  portion  of  the  old  customers 
— those  who,  between  whiles,  had  not  been  taught  to  help 
themselves — returned:  whilst  those  who  had,  had  in  the 
interim  invented  the,  till  then,  unknown  vellum-paper. 
The  neighbourly  nations  now  also  protected  their  newly- 
raised  mills  by  duties  on  importation:  competition  in- 
creased, and  ephemeral  literature  only  desired  gloss 
without  solidity.  So,  in  1802,  the  Dutch  fabricators  also 
began  to  issue'the  new  commodity,  and  with  good  suc- 
cess; but,  alas!  vellum-paper  was  only  the  forerunner  of 
mechanical  fabrication ;  and  this  signed,  as  it  were,  the 
death-warrant  of  most  of  the  hand  paper-mills.  For  the 
new  production,  by  its  cheapness,  softness,  and  faded 
whitewash,  soon  not  only  superseded  the  mass  of  the 
sterling  article,  but  also  was  used  for  purposes  that,  in. 
the  first  place,  demanded  durability.  This  even  went  so 
far,  that,  some  fifteen  years  ago,  our  government  had  to 
decree  that,  for  deeds  and  the  like,  no  vellum-paper 
might  be  employed.  No  wonder  that  the  manufacture  of 
the  present  century  —  bearing,  as  it  does,  the  signs  of  its 
hectic  caducity  in  the  whiteness  produced  by  deleterious 
means  — is  not  likely  to  exist  for  two  centuries  and 
longer,  to  testify,  like  the  old  samples  of  our  fabric,  to 
the  excellence  of  the  materials  used. 

"  However,  as  the  spirit  of  the  times  necessitated, 
mechanical  paper- makers  were  also  erected  in  Guelder- 
land and  the  Zaan-regions,  but  only  at  a  loss.  Higher 
wages  than  in  foreign  lands,  coals  to  be  bought  from  our 
competitors,  who  had  them  at  prime- cost,  engines  to  be 
ordered  from  England  and  Belgium  —  such  were  the  cir- 
cumstances under  which  we  had  to  accept  the  challenge 
given.  Most  of  the  oldest  firms  declined  it.  Thus  the 
mills,  that  in  the  seventeenth  and  eighteenth  centuries 
had  mustered  to  between  thirty  and  forty,  already  in  1847 
had  diminished  at  the  Zaan  to  twenty-one,  of  which 
but  two  were  mechanical  fabricators :  and  now  there  exist 


S.  I.  FEB.  1,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


87 


but  thirteen,  only  one  amongst  them  after  the  new  fashion. 
Of  these  thirteen,  only  three  manufacture  white  paper; 
whilst  the  others,  one  mechanically,  furnish  grey  and 
blue  paper  and  paste-board.  In  Guelderland,  under  this 
reign  of  cotton,  nearly  the  same  state  of  things  exists  ;  but 
that  the  mills  there  are  much  more  circumscribed  in  ex- 
tension, and  produce  smaller  quantities.  With  the  ex- 
ception of  two,  they  are  all  driven  by  water ;  and  so  are 
much  less  expensive  in  construction  and  repair  than  the 
factories  at  the  Zaan,  where  wind  is  the  motive  power, 
and  the  structure  of  the  flights  and  corresponding  wheels 
costs  a  great  deal  in  making,  and  not  a  little  in  keeping. 
Add  to  this,  that  in  Guelderland  the  water  can  be  used 
which  turns  the  mill ;  whilst  at  the  Zaan  every  factory 
requires  an  extensive  plot  of  ground,  intersected  by 
canals;  and  a  costly  apparatus  to  boot,  for  purifying  the 
water  from  salt  and  sulphureous  matters.  It  was  this 
that  occasioned  in  olden  time  a  rivalry  between  the  two 
concurrent  districts  —  the  one  being  able  to  furnish, 
especially  the  minor  sorts,  at  a  much  cheaper  rate  ;  the 
other  executing  its  orders,  and  increasing  them  by  the 
greatest  solidity  and  better  looks  of  the  article  fabri- 
cated. So  the  finer  qualities  of  the  Zaan  are  still  in  de- 
mand amongst  foreigners,  as  are  the  several  varieties  of 
packing-paper. 

"  In  the  present  time,  there  does  not  seem  to  be  a 
further  falling  off;  and  there  even  would  be  a  develop- 
ment in  the  trade,  if  the  foreign  powers  did  away  with 
their  protecting  duties." 

JOHN  H.  VAN  LENNEP. 

Zeyst,  near  Utrecht. 


AN  ORDER  OF  MERIT  AND  THE  LATE 
PRINCE  CONSORT. 

Few  persons  will  deny  that  an  "  Order  of 
Merit"  is  very  much  required  to  reward  those 
who  have  distinguished  themselves  in  science 
and  art. 

Might  not  an  Order  be  instituted  to  perpetuate 
in  a  graceful  form  the  imperishable  memory  of 
him  who  laboured  so  long,  so  zealously  and  suc- 
cessfully, to  revive  art  in  this  country  ?  Would 
not  the  "  Order  of  the  Albert  Cross  "  be  a  fitting 
and  lasting  memorial  to  the  zeal  and  genius  of 
the  illustrious  dead,  whose  good  works  will  live 
after  him  for  generations  yet  to  come?  We  have 
already  the  "  Victoria  Cross "  for  deeds  done  in 
the  field ;  might  we  not  have  the  pendant  to  it, 
for  exploits  no  less  worthy  in  the  peaceful  paths 
of  science  ?  J.  W.  BRYANS. 


M.  PI1ILAREVTE  CHASLES. 

We  owe  to  M.  Philarete  Chasles,  Conservateur 
de  la  Bibliotheque  Mazarine*,  the  solution  of  a 
Shakspere  problem  which  has  resisted  all  the 
efforts  of  our  "homely  wits."  What  was  visible 
to  every  one  had  been  seen  by  no  one  ! 

It  was  formerly  a  national  boast  that  Samuel 
Johnson  had  «*  beat  forty  French  "  —  but  here  is 
a  Frenchman  who  has  routed  a  whole  army  of 
English  editors,  annotators,  pamphleteers,  etc. 

The  discovery  relates  to  the  inscription  which 

[*  See  Athenaum  of  Saturday  last.— ED.] 


precedes  the  Sonnets  of  our  dramatist  in  the  au- 
thoritative edition  of  1609,  entitled  — 

"  Shake-speares  sonnets,  Neuer  before  imprinted.  At 
London  By  G.  Eld  for  T.  T.  [Thomas  Thorpe]  and  are  to 
be  solde  by  William  Aspley,  1609,"  4°  40  leaves.  la 
some  copies,  for  William  Aspley  we  have  lohn  Wright, 
dwelling  at  Christ-church  gate,  1609. 

The  mysterious  inscription,  which  occupies  the 
recto  of  the  second  leaf,  was  given  by  Mr.  Steevens 
with  commendable  exactness  in  1766,  and  is  thus 
printed  :  — 

TO  .  THE  .  ONLIE  .  BEGETTER  .  OF  . 

THESE  .  INSVING  .  SONNETS  . 

Mr  .  W.     H  .  ALL  .  HAPPINESSE 

AND  .  THAT  .  ETERNITIE  . 

PROMISED  . 

BY. 

OVR  .  EVER-LIVING  .  POET  . 
WISHETH  . 

THE  .  WELL-WISHING  . 

ADVENTVRER  .  IN  . 

SETTING  . 

FORTH  . 

T.  T. 

This  inscription  should  be  considered  with  re- 
ference to  its  peculiarities.  A  point  after  each 
word  is  no  punctuation.  The  bare  words  must 
therefore  decide  the  sense.  It  has  hitherto  passed 
as  one  inscription.  Now,  M.  Chasles  suggests  that 
the  real  inscription  ends  with  the  word  wisheth, 
and  that  the  rest  was  added  by  Mr.  Thorpe. 

I  have  described  the  explanation  of  M.  Chasles 
as  a  suggestion,  but  it  is  almost  a  demonstration. 
Acting  on  that  conviction,  I  shall  briefly  report 
my  own  inferences,  and  proceed  to  justify  them  by 
admitted  facts  and  probable  circumstances. 

I  now  firmly  believe  that  the  begetter  of  the 
sonnets  was  the  earl  of  Southampton  —  that  Wil- 
liam Herbert,  afterwards  earl  of  Pembroke,  wrote 
the  real  inscription  —  and  that  Mr.  Thorpe  did 
no  more  than  express  his  wishes  for  the  success  of 
the  publication. 

In  1593  Shakspere  dedicated  his  [Venus  and 
Adonis  to  the  earl  of  Southampton  as  "  the  first 
heir  of  hisMnvention."  In  1594  he  chose  the  same 
patron  for  his  Lucrece,  and  made  this  declaration  : 
"  What  I  have  done  is  yours,  what  I  have  to  do  in 
yours"  Did  he  forget  this  promise ?  I  must 
either  tax  him  with  ingratitude,  or  assume  that 
he  wrote  the  sonnets  as  the  fulfilment  of  that 
promise.  The  existence  of  "  his  sugred  Sonnets 
among  his  priuate  friends "  was  announced  by 
Meres  in  1598  —  and  they  may  have  closely  fol- 
lowed Lucrece.  At  a  later  date  he  had  other 
cares,  and  other  occupations. 

William  Herbert  was  born  at  Wilton  in  1580, 
and  succeeded  to  the  earldom  of  Pembroke  in 
1601.  As  he  had  been  educated  at  Oxford,  and 
was  of  a  lively  turn,  we  may  account  for  his  adop 


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fd  S.  I/FEB.  1,  '62. 


tion  of  the  classical  form  of  inscription,  of  which 
no  doubt  there  were  examples  at  Wilton.  If  it  wai 
written  in  the  life-time  of  his  father,  his  own 
designation  was  correct ;  and  if  written  about  the 
year  1600,  there  was  much  reason  to  conceal  the 
name  of  the  earl  of  Southampton. 

I  now  come  to  Mr.  Thorpe.  How  did  he  ob- 
tain the  MS.?  There  is  no  evidence  on  that 
point,  but  the  expression  Never  before  imprinted 
seems  to  prove  that  he  was  aware  of  the  date  of 
their  composition.  He  may  have  had  various 
reasons  for  avoiding  an  advertisement. 

One  word  more.— Thorpe  was  a  humorist^ as 
his  dedication  of  a  certain  poetical  volume  to  Ed- 
ward Blount  testifies,  but  his  epigraphic  humor, 
and  the  injudicious  punctuation  of  Malone  in  suc- 
cessive editions,  have  led  wiser  men  astray. 

Barnes,  S.W.  BoLTON  CORXEY. 


Honble.  Henry  Lord  Folliott,  died  Sept.  5, 1697," 
and  as  I  imagine  that  the  very  last  place  in  which 
the  record  of  burial  of  the  daughter  of  an  Irish 
peer  would  be  sought,  to  be  in  the  register  of  a 
small  and  little-known  parish  in  Staffordshire,  I 
may  be  doing  a  service  to  the  compiler,  present  or 
future,  of  the  Folliott  pedigree,  by  thus  "  making 
a  note  "  of  what  I  have  "  found." 

Sir  Henry  Folliott  was  cr.  Baron  Folliott  of 
Ballyshannon,  in  the  county  of  Donegal,  in  1619, 
which  peerage  became  extinct  at  his  death  in  1630. 
His  eldest  daughter,  Elizabeth,  was  twice  married : 
by  her  first  husband  (Wingfield)  she  was  ances- 
tress  of  the  noble  house  of  Powerscourt ;  and  by  her 
second  (Ponsonby)  of  that  of  Bessborough.  S.  T. 


WRONG  POSITION  OF  THE  ADVERB.  —  May  I  be 
permitted,  Mr.  Editor,  through  your  columns,  to 
raise  my  feeble  voice  against  a  perversion  which  I 
am  sorry  to  see  is  rapidly  creeping  into  our  lan- 
guage ?  So  long  as  it  was  only  employed  ^ by 
those  classes  who  inform  you  that  "they  ain't 
going,  and  don't  want  to,"  it  was  not  of  much 
consequence  ;  but  it  is  now  invading  the  pages  of 
some  of  our  best  writers,  and  has  even  appeared 
in  the  polished  "leaders  "  of  The  Times.  I  allude 
to  the  placing  of  the  adverb  between  the  prepo- 
sition and  the  verb:  c.  g.  "We  are  anxious  to 
entirely  get  rid  of  it."  AVill  no  influential  gram- 
marian arrest  this  transatlantic  intruder  into  the 
Queen's  English,  and  banish  it  from  good  society 
and  correct  diction,  for  the  term  of  its  natural 
life?  HERMENTRTJDE. 

PROHIBITION  AGAINST  EATING  FLESH  IN  LENT. 
—  One  of  the  old  "Sessions  Books,"  at  Wells, 
abounds  with  instances  such  as  that  which  is  here 
transcribed,  which  is  dated  Feb.  1st,  1  Charles  I. 
The  magistrates  present  at  the  Sessions  were : 
Virtue  Hunt,  Mayor;  John  Baker,  Esq.,  Re- 
corder; and  Bartholomew  Cox,  Justice;  when 
William  Myllard,  tailor,  and  J.  Gibbons,  glover, 
were  bound,  in  the  penalty  of  10£,,  as  sureties  for 
Henry  Batt,  tippler,  who  was  also  bound  in  a 
similar  sum :  — 

"  The  Condition  of  the  Recognizance  is  such  that  yf 
the  aboue  bounden  Henry  Batt,  nither  by  hymself,  or  by 
any  other  by  his  Com'andment,  nor  for  his  vse  or  good, 
shall  kill,  eate,  or  dresse,  or  sutler  to  be  killed,  eaten,  or 
dressed,  in  his  howse  in  Welles,  or  in  any  other  place 
•w'thin  the  said  Citty  or  burrow  of  Welles,  any  Flesh  this 
p'sent  tyme  of  Lent,  or  days  p'hibited  by  the  law.  Then 
this  Kecognizance  to  be  vbved." 

INA. 

THE  HON.  REBECCA  FOLLIOTT.— In  the  register 
of  the  parish  of  Trysull,  co.  Stafford,  I  find  the 
following  entry  :  "  Rebecca,  daughter  of  the  Right 


THE  EMPEROR  NAPOLEON  III. — In  some  of  the 
daily  papers  there  have  been  statements  relating 
to  the  intimacy  which  existed  between  the  Earl  of 
Malinesbury  and  the  Emperor  Napoleon  III.  during 
the  time  the  latter  was  an  exile  in  Switzerland;, 
and  an  account  of  a  daring  feat  is  mentioned  as 
witnessed  by  Lord  Malmesbury,  which  convinced 
him  that  the  Prince  was  a  man  of  extraordinary 
boldness  and  determination. 

I  have  heard  his  Lordship  relate  this  story  with 
some  slight  variation  ;  but  my  object  in  recurring 
to  it,  is  to  suggest  how  interesting  it  would  be  if 
persons  who  were  intimate  with  the  Prince  Na- 
poleon when  a  sojourner  in  this  country  would 
contribute  to  your  columns  any  facts  known  to 
them,  which  tend  to  exhibit  the  true  character  of 
the  man  while  sometime  resident  amongst  us. 

I  remember  the  time  when  he  was  held  up  to 
ridicule  almost  by  the  whole  press  of  this  country. 
Yet  there  were  some  who  then  foretold  his  coming 
greatness,  while  the  multitude  charged  him  with 
folly  and  rashness.  The  late  W.  Brockedon, 
author  of  the  Passes  of  the  Alps,  and  the  father  of 
the  Graphic  Society,  was  well  acquainted  with  the 
Prince's  habits,  and  I  recollect  his  saying  at  the 
period  when  the  Prince  (amidst  much  derision) 
was  aspiring  •  to  become  the  President  of  the 
French  Republic,  —  "  Mark  my  words,  that  man 
is  not  the  fool  people  take  him  for ;  he  only  waits 
an  opportunity  to  show  himself  one  of  the  most 
able  men  in  Europe,"  justifying  his  prediction  by 
relating  a  discussion  he  had  heard  at  a  public 
meeting,  between  the  Prince  and  some  civil  en- 
gineers, respecting  a  projected  railway  across  the 
Isthmus  of  Panama,  in  which  the  former  displayed 
great  ability,  showing  an  amount  of  scientific 
knowledge  which  amazed  every  body  present; 
not  only  stating  his  case  with  clearness,  but  com- 
bating all  objections  in  a  most  masterly  way. 
Now  it  certainly  would  be  worth  while  to  collect, 
through  the  medium  of"  N.  &  Q.,"  some  further 
information  respecting  the  habits  of  this  remark- 


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able  man  during  his  residence  in  England.  The 
antecedents  of  the  most  powerful  sovereign  in 
Europe  cannot  fail  to  be  interesting  to  many  of 
your  readers.  BENJ.  FERRET. 

ROGER  ASCHAM'S  "  SCHOLEMASTER,"  QUOTA- 
TIONS IN  (ed.  1570). — I  shall  be  much  obliged  by 
a  reference  to  the  sources  of  the  following  pas- 
sages. As  I  have  nearly  finished  printing  a  new 
edition  of  Ascham's  treatise,  I  may  be  allowed  to 
urge  the  importance  of  an  early  reply. 

Fol.  8,  verso,  ad  fin.  from  Aristot.  Rhet,  2. :  "  Libertie 
kindleth  love:  Love  refuseth  no  labor;  and  labor  ob- 
teyneth  what  so  ever  it  seeketb." 

Ascham  cannot  allude  to  Rhet.  ii.  19,  §§  13,  18, 
19? 

Fol.  11,  recto:  "We  remember  nothing  so  well  when 
we  be  olde,  as  those  thinges  which  we  learned  when  we 
were  yong  .  .  .  new  wax  is  best  for  printyng  .  .  .  new 
shorne  wool],  aptest  for  sone  and  surest  dying :  new  fresh 
flesh,  for  good  and  durable  salting.  And  this  similitude 
is  not  rude ;  nor  borowed  of  the  larder  house,  but  out  of 
his  scholehouse,  of  whom  the  wisest  of  England  neede  not 
be  ashamed  to  learne." 

The  "  proverb  of  Birching  lane  "  ("  N.  &  Q." 
2nd  S.  i.  254)  seems  still  to  require  explanation. 
Who  is  Mr.  Brokke,  fol.  35,  verso  ?, 

"  Soch  kind  of  ParapJirasis,  in  turning,  chopping,  and 
changing  the  best  to  worse,  either  in  the  mynte  or  scholes 
(though  M.  Brokhe  and  Quintilian  both  sa/the  contrary), 
is  moch  misliked  of  the  best  and  wisest  men." 

Fol.  65,  recto :  "  That  good  councell  of  Aristotle,  fo- 
quendum  ut  multi,  sapiendum  ut  pauci" 

JOHN  E.  B.  MAYOR. 

St.  John's  College,  Cambridge. 

BROWNING'S  "LYRICS." — One  of  Robert  Brown- 
ing's Dramatic  Lyrics  is  called  "  How  they  brought 
the  Good  News  from  Ghent  to  Aix."  On  what 
historical  incident  is  the  poem  founded  ?  EXON. 

s  BIBLIOGRAPHY  or  ALCHEMY  AND  MYSTICISMS. 
—  What  works  on  this  subject  exist  in  Latin, 
English,  French,  Italian,  or  Spanish  ?  DELTA. 

CAROLINE  PRINCESS  OP  WALES  AT  CHARLTON. 
— A  short  time  since,  whilst  looking  through  some 
papers  relating  to  the  unfortunate  Princess  Caro- 
line of  Wales,  I  found  a  portion  of  one  sentence 
as  follows :  — 

"  She  (the  Princess)  afterwards  removed  from  Carlton 
House  to  Charlton,  where  she  was  visited  by  the  King." 

Can  any  of  your  readers  inform  me  whether 
the  Charlton  referred  to  is  the  village  of  that 
name  near  Woolwich  ?  whether  the  house  occu- 
pied by  the  princess  is  standing,  and  in  what 
part  of  Charlton  ?  Or,  if  pulled  down,  where  is 
its  site  ?  D.  g.  x. 

FRANCES  DE  BURGH.— Will  any  reader  of  "N. 
&  Q."  kindly  inform  me  who  was  the  mother  of 
Frances  De  Burgh,  daughter  of  Thomas  De 
Burgh,  sixth  Baron ;  and  sister  of  Robert  De 
Burgh,  seventh  Baron  of  Gainsborough,  bearing, 


I  think,  a  shield  azure,  three  fleurs-de-lys,  er- 
mines ?  This  Frances  De  Burgh  married  Francis, 
second  son  of  Thomas  Coppinger  of  Stoke,  co. 
Kent,  Esq.,  and  had  issue.  W.  BRYAN  COOKE. 
Pisa,  in  Tuscany. 

GUILDHALL,  WESTMINSTER.  —  Mr.  Scott,  in  his 
Gleanings  from  Westminster  Abbey  (p.  88),  says 
that  the  old  Guildhall  stood  at  the  west  side  of 
King  Street,  about  fifty  feet  to  the  south  of  Great 
George  Street.  "An  ancient  painting  representing 
it  —  perhaps  the  gift  of  a  Duke  of  Northumber- 
land— was  transferred  to  the  walls  of  the  present 
Sessions  House."  Where  is  this  old  painting  ?  It 
is  not  in  the  Sessions  House  now  ;  nor  has  it  been 
seen  there  by  those  who  have  known  the  building 
for  the  last  thirty  years. 

According  to  Widmore  (p.  11),  the  present 
Sessions  House  was  built  in  1805,  on  the  site  of 
the  old  belfry  tower.  I  was  told  many  years  ago, 
by  an  old  inhabitant  of  Westminster,  that  in  dig- 
ging the  foundation  for  the  present  structure,  a 
subterraneous  passage  was  discovered,  apparently 
leading  to  the  Abbey  ;  but  so  choked  up,  as  not  to 
be  traced  to  any  distance.  Was  any  notice  of 
this  taken  in  the  magazines  or  newspapers  of  the 
time,  or  is  such  a  passage  known  to  exist  ? 

F.  SOMNER  MERRYWEATHEH. 

Colney  Hatch. 

HEBREW  GRAMMATICAL  EXERCISES.  —  Is  there 
any  Hebrew  grammar,  written  in  German  or 
English  containing  exercises  for  translating  into 
Hebrew,  besides  those  of  Grafenham,  Wolfe,  and 
Hurwitz  ?  Many  of  the  leading  grammarians  —  as 
Gesenius,  Nordheimer,  Ewald,  &c.  —  appear  to 
rest  satisfied  with  an  analysis  of  the  language, 
and  omit  all  exercises  which  are  certainly  neces- 
sary to  imprint  rules  upon  the  memory  of 

A  STUDENT. 

REV.  E.  MAINSTY,  OR  MANISTY,  a  divine  of  the 
Church  of  England,  in  the  time  of  the  Great 
Rebellion  ;  and,  by  his  own  account,  author  of  a 
sermon  on  Canticles  ii.  1,  2;  and  also  of  an  un- 
published Commentary  on  the  whole  Song  of 
Solomon,  which  he  dedicated  (and  presented  as  a 
New  Year's  gift)  to  the  Lady  Anne  Lexington  in 
1648.  The  MS.  of  the  last  mentioned  formerly 
belonged  to  the  collection  of  Dr.  A.  Clarke.  Who 
was  Mainsty ;  or  where  may  information  concern- 
ing him  be  found  ?  W.  K. 

THE  FAMILIES  OF  MATHEWS  AND  GOUGH.  — 
In  Philip  Henry's  Day-Book^  now  in  my  posses- 
sion, there  is  a  pedigree  of  his  wife's  family, 
Mathews  of  Broad  Oak,  given  in  the  handwriting 
of  his  son  Mathew  Henry.  It  consists  of  nineteen 
generations  ;  beginning  with  Bleddyn  ap  Kinwyn, 
Meredith,  Madock,  Enion,  Rhyn,  &c.,  &c. ;  and 
comes  down  to  another  "  Madock "  (28th  of 
Plenry  VI.),  who  is  said  to  have  married  "  Mar- 
garet, daughter  and  heir  to  Mathew  Gougb,  Esq., 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'*  S.  I.  FEB.  1,  '62. 


a  great  Captain  in  France."  I  should  be  glad  of 
any  information  about  this  M.  Gough,  whose  arms 
were  :  "  Az.  three  boars  ar.,  pass,  in  pale." 

The  arms  of  the  Mathews  are  not  given  with 
their  pedigree,  nor  have  I  found  them  quartered 
upon  any  of  the  Henry  or  Warburton  monu- 
ments. Can  any  of  your  readers  inform  me 
whether  the  names  above  given  are  of  historical 
note  in  Wales  ?  Whether  the  "  Mathews  "  family 
in  South  Wales  trace  up  to^the  same  ancestors  ? 
And  what  their  arms  are  ?  Mw.  H.  LEE. 

Mori  and. 

MBDALLIC  QUERT.  —  I  have  before  me  a  medal 
on  which  is  pictured  a  lion,  stretched  across  a 
sheaf  of  wheat,  with  his  eyes  open,  but  in  a  posi- 
tion of  rest  which  might  be  mistaken  for  sleep  ; 
;md  behind  him  is  a  cock,  about  to  peck  the  grain 
from  the  ears  of  wheat ;  and  above  them  this 
legend :  — 

"  VIGILI   N1MIVM   NE   CREDE   SOPORI." 

On  the  reverse : 

"  THAU  MCHT  DEM  APPETIT.  DIE  KOKNEIl  AUS  ZU 
riCKKX.  ES  KONTE  DIU  DIE  LUST.  IN  EIXEIi  KLAU 
KltSTKlvEN." 

"  Xe'cr  in  thy  hunger  think 

This  sheaf  of  corn  to  rifle ; 
The  fatal  wish  might  brinpr 
A  claw  thy  breiUh  to  stifle." 

And  round  the  outer  rim : 

"  J1IEH   LIEGT    KEIN   SCIIAF, 
THAU   NICHT   DEM   SCHLAF." 

"  Here  lies  no  sheep, 
Trust  not  the  sleep." 

Can  you  inform  me  when  the  medal  was  cast, 
and  what  political  event  it  was  intended  to  mark  ? 

EDWARD  MELTON. 

Melton,  near  Brough,  East  Yorkshire. 

MONUMENTAL  EFFIGIES. — At  the  eastern  end  of 
the  north  aisle  of  Bristol  cathedral  is  a  mural  mo- 
nument in  memory  of  Robert  Codrington  and 
Anna  his  wife,  of  the  county  of  Gloucester,  date 
1618.  Beneath  the  effigies  of  the  parents  are 
those  of  their  seventeen  children.  Seven  sons  are 
represented  kneeling,  and  one  lying  down,  with 
clasped  hands  like  his  brothers.  Eight  daughters, 
two  side  by  side,  are  also  represented  kneeling,  and 
one  appears  lying  down,  closely  swathed.  All  the 
figures  have  their  faces  in  profile  except  the  four 
younger  daughters,  and  the  youngest  (kneeling) 
son.  Of  the  two  daughters  kneeling  side  by  side, 
and  supposed  to  be  twins,  one  holds  a  skull.  Does 
this  mark  that  her  death  preceded  that  of  her 
parents?  Why  are  some  of  the  faces  in  profile 
and  others  turned  towards  the  spectator?  Does 
want  of  space  alone  cause  the  youngest  son  to  be 
represented  lying  down?  A  correspondent  of 
"N.  &  Q,"  2"*  S.  x.  218,  has  explained  the  | 
swathed  figure  to  represent  a  child  who  died  in 
infancy,  but  information  on  the  other  points  would 
be  acceptable.  DENKMAL. 


Miss  PEACOCK.  —  I  am  desirous  to  know  who 
this  friend  of  Campbell  the  poet  was.  I  have  a 
letter  addressed  by  Campbell  to  her,  in  which  he 
styles  her  his  "dear  old  friend,"  and  where  he 
alludes  twice  to  my  father.  On  this  account  I  am 
doubly  anxious  to  know  something  about  the  lady. 
There  is  no  date  to  the  letter,  but  it  was  written 
at  Sydenham.  Its  date  must  be  prior  to  1812, 
the  year  my  father  died.  THOMAS  H.  CROMEK. 

Wakefield. 

PRESENTATIONS  AT  COURT.  —  Is  there  a  regis- 
ter of  presentations  at  Court  kept,  and  does  it 
include  the  reign  of  George  I.  ?  CURIOUS. 

PROPHECY  RESPECTING  THE  CRIMEAN  WAR.  — 
A  remarkable  prophecy  of  the  Crimean  war  is 
said  to  be  contained  in  Quaresmius'  Elucidatio 
Terras  Canitoe  —  the  discovery  of  which  raised 
the  price  of  the  book  at  the  time  of  the  war.  If 
any  reader  of  "JST.  &  Q."  can  refer  me  to  it,  I 
shall  be  very  much  obliged.  G. 

ROUTII  FAMILY.  —  Can  anyone  supply  the  few- 
missing  links  in  the  connexion  between  the  Wens- 
ley  dale  Rouths  and  the  East  Riding  family  of  that 
name  (circa  1600)  ?  R.  O.  J. 

STARCH.  —  Are  there  any  publications  which 
make  any  reference  or  allusion  in  any  way  to 
"  starch  "  at  any  period  from  the  reign  of  Eliza- 
beth to  Charles  II.  ?  From  the  portraits  of  that 
period,  it  is  evident  that  starch  was  largely 
used.  If  there  are  any  such  books,  where  could 
they  be  found  ?  INQUIRER. 

TURNERS  OF  ECKIXGTON.  —  I  shall  be  obliged 
by  information  about  a  large  family  named  Tur- 
ner, who  lived,  as  late  probably  as  1680,  either  at 
Eckington,  co.  Derby,  or  in  that  immediate  vici- 
nity. My  inquiries  are  chiefly  directed  at  present 
to  their  antecedents  and  direct  posterity,  as  well 
as  to  the  crest  and  arms  which  they  bore ;  but 
any  particulars,  or  clue  which  may  tend  to  throw 
light  upon  the  family,  will  be  acceptable. 

R.  W.  T.  V. 

XAVIER  AND  INDIAN  MISSIONS.  —  1.  Are  there 

any  MSS.  extant  relating  to  Xavier's  missionary 
travels  in  India  ?     If  so,  where  are  they  ? 

2.  Which  books  in  Latin,  French,  Portuguese, 
or  English,  give  the  best  accounts  of  his  labours, 
and  of  other  Jesuit  missions  in  India? 

3.  I  wish  if  possible  to  obtain  a  complete  list  of 
all  books  relating  to  Indian  missions,  especially 
those  giving  accounts  of  the  earlier  missionary 
endeavours,  in  connexion  with  the   Syrian,   the 
Danish,  Baptist,  American,  or  Wesleyan  Churches, 
&c.,  &c. 

While  I  particularly  wish  the  names  of  works 
regarding  the  earlier  missions,  I  would  also  like  to 
be  made  aware  of  the  names  of  any  good  books  on 


3'*  S.  I.  FEB.  1,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


V 

91 


Indian  missions,  which  may  have  been  published 
on  the  Continent  or  in  America  ? 

JNO.  PATON,  Presbyterian  Chaplain, 

72nd  Highlanders. 
Mhow,  Bombay,  17th  Dec.  1861. 


€TntfSD*nr. 

BDZAGLIA. — Extract  from  Great  Yarmouth  As- 
sembly Book,  15th  Oct.  1784  :  — 

"  Ordered  that  the  old  dismounted  cannon  belonging 
to  the  Corporation  be  sold  by  the  Chamberlains,  and  that 
a  Buzaglia  for  the  Toll -house  Hall,  not  exceeding  the  ex- 
pence  of  twenty  pounds,  be  bought." 

Query.  What  is  a  buzaglia?  A.  W.  M. 

Great  Yarmouth. 

\_Buzaglia  is  doubtless  a  species  of  ordnance,  which  in 
ancient  times  was  called  falcon  or  falconet,  and  is  perhaps 
an  Italianized  form  of  the  French  word  Busaigle,  or  JBuse 
pattue.  If  so,  this  would  suggest  that  the  word  Harque- 
buse,  with  its  terminal  luse,  may  possibly  have  some 
affinit}'.  It  will  be  observed,  that  the  old  dismounted 
cannon  was  sold  to  pay  for  the  Buzaglia.] 

WINKIN.  —  To  run  like  winkin,  a  south  country 
phrase,  denoting  speed.  Who  was  Winkin  ? 

D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildforcl. 

[  Winkin  is  probably  winking  ;  and  "like  winkin  "  is  a 
phrase  applicable  to  anything  that  is  done  with  great 
expedition,  or,  as  we  say,  "  in  the  twinkling  of  an  eye." 
So  in  French,  C'est  1'affaire  d'un  elm  d'ceil ;  and  in  Ita- 
lian, In  un  batter  d1  occhio.  For  the  country  phrase  "  to 
run  like  winkin,"  the  London  variation  is  "  to  cut  like 
winkie."] 

REV.  JOHN  KETTLE  WELL.  —  Can  any  of  your 
correspondents  favour  me  with  any  information 
as  to  the  date  of  death,  where  buried,  &c.,  of  Jane, 
relict  of  the  Rev.  John  Kettlewell,  A.M.,  vicar  of 
Coles  Hill  from  1682  to  1691,  and  daughter  of 
Anthony  Lybb,  Esq.,  of  Hardwick,  in  the  parish 
of  Whitchurch,  co.  Oxford?  Her  husband  died 
in  London  on  the  20th  April,  1 695,  aged  forty- 
two,  and  was  buried  in  the  church  of  Allhallows 
Barking,  near  the  Tower,  where  she  caused  a 
monument  to  be  erected  to  his  memory. 

C.  J.  D.  INGLEDEW. 

[The  bequests  of  this  saintly  divine  to  North  Allerton 
and  Brompton  (available  after  the  death  of  his  wife) 
came  into  the  hands  of  trustees  in  1720,  so  that  Mrs. 
Kettlewell  must  have  deceased  shortly  before  that  year. 
(Reports  of  the  Commissioners  of  Charities,  viii.  700,  A.D. 
823.)  In  the  British  Magazine  for  Oct.  1832,  vol.  ii.  p. 
132,  it  is  stated  that  "the  first  distribution  of  the  pro- 
ceeds bears  date  in  1719."  Who  was  Anne  Kettlewell 
buried  at  North  Allerton  Jan.  29,  1716?  May  there  not 
be  an  error  somewhere  respecting  the  Christian  name?] 

MR.  BRUCE.  —  Can  you  give  me  any  informa- 
tion regarding  Mr.  Bruce,  who  published  in  1837 
a  translation  of  Schiller's  Don  Karlos  ?  To  whom 
was  it  dedicated,  and  where  was  it  printed  ? 

ZETA. 

[The  translator  of  Schiller's  Don  Karlos  (printed  by 


G.  Reichard  at  Heidelberg,  and  published  at  Mannheim 
by  Schwan  and  Goetz,  and  in  London  by  Black  and  Arm- 
strong, 8vo,  1837),  is  John  Wyndham  Bruce,  Esq  ,  bar- 
rister-at- law,  son  of  John  Bruce-Pryce,  Esq.  of  Duffryn, 
co.  Glamorgan.  The  work  is  dedicated  to  his  father.]" 

LORD  CHANCELLOR  COWPER  :  APPEALS  OF  MUR- 
DER.—In  Wilkins's  Political  Ballads  of  the  17/A 
and  18th  Centuries  (1860),  vol.  ii.  p.  91,  is  the 
following  note  :  — 

"  Wm.  (afterwards  Lord  Chancellor)  Cowper,  brother 
to  Spencer  Cowper,  who  was  honourably  acquitted  of  the 
charge  of  having  murdered  a  beautiful  and  opulent 
quakeress  named  Sarah  Stout,  to  whom  he  paid  his  ad- 
dresses. The  future  Chancellor  greatly  distinguished 
!  himself  in  defending  his  brother  iu  the  '  appeal  of  mur- 
der '  sued  out,  subsequently  to  his  trial,  by  the  heir-at- 
law  of  the  unfortunate  quakeress." 

Where  can  I  find  a  report  of  the  above  trial, 
or  rather  trials,  for  I  suppose  there  were  two  of 
them-?  W.  D. 

[A  report  of  this  celebrated  trial  is  printed  in  Burke's 
Patrician,  iv.  299—318,  8vo,  edit.  1847 ;  and  in  the  State 
Trials,  ed.  1812,  vol.  xiii.  1190—1250.  An  attempt  was 
made  for  a  new  trial  by  the  process  called  "  An  Appeal 
of  Murder,"  a  mode  of  proceeding  abolished  in  the  reign 
of  George  IV.  Vide  Lord  Raymond,  560 ;  12  Mod.  372.] 

NORFOLK  VISITATION.  —  Has  the  Heralds'  Vi- 
sitation of  Norfolk  in  1664  been  printed  ?  Where 
can  the  original  be  seen  ?  N — w. 

[The  original  is  in  the  College  of  Arms,  MS.  D.  20.  It 
does  not  appear  to  have  been  printed.] 

RICHARD  DE  MARISCO,  OR  MARAIS.  —  Can  you 
i  inform  me  what  were  the  arms  of  Richard  de 
i  Marais,  or  Marisco,  Bishop  of  Durham,  anno  1217 
!  to  1226?  And  whether  the  English  surname 
|  Marsh  is  the  present  Anglicised  form  of  Marais  ? 

EL  UTTE 
Capetown,  South  Africa, 

Dec.  21st,  1861. 

[The  arms  of  Richard  de  Marisco  are  —A.,  on  a  cross 
engrailed  S.  a  mitre  O.,  in  the  first  quarter  a  cross  patee 
fitchy  G.  (MS.  Rawlinson,  128.)  Barry  of  six  pieces,  a 
bend.  (MS.  Brit.  Mus.  Addit.  12,443.)  On  his  seal  is. 
by  way  of  rebu% — Barry  wavy  of  four,  in  chief  four 
osiers.  (Surtees's  Durham.)  Vide  Bedford's  Blazon  of 
Episcopacy,  1858,  p.  123.  In  ancient  Latin  deeds  the 
i  Marsh  family  is  styled  De  Marisco;  and,  according  to 
Mr.  Lower,  Marais,  or  Maresq,  has  its  counterpart  iu 
English  sur -nomenclature  in  the  name  of  Marsh.] 

"  A  BRACE  OF  SHAKES."  —  Some  Surrey  people 
I  once  knew,  when  speaking  of  anything  that 
could  be  executed  in  a  short  time,  occasionally 
made  use  of  the  expression  that  "  It  would  be 
done  in  a  brace  of  shakes."  Hearing  a  Kentish 
person  use  the  same  phrase,  I  am  induced  to  ask 
whether  it  admits  of  explanation.  It  is,  perhaps, 
connected  with  another,  "  To  be  done  in  two 

I  twos:1  F.  P. 

[We  apprehend  that  "  in  a  brace  of  shakes  "  is  simply 

i  a  variation  of  the  more  usual  phrase  "  in  a  shake,"  i.  e. 

]  with  great  rapiditj'.  The  allusion  is  probably  to  the  dice- 
box  (''shaking  the  elbows  ").  For  instance,* if  the  player 
lost  WQl.  by  a  single  throw,  "  It  was  done  in  a  shake ;" 
if  by  throwing  twice,  "It  was  done  in  a  brace  of  shakes."'] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'*  S.  I.  FEB.  1,  '62. 


ORNAMENTAL  TOPS. 

THE  COTGREAVE  FORGEIUES  AND  SPENCE*S  "  ROMANCE 
OF  GENEALOGY." 

(3rd  S.  i.  8,  54.) 

That  the  Editor  of  "N.  &  Q."  will  render 
service  to  the  lovers  of  genuine  genealogy  by 
exposing  to,  and  cautioning  them  against,  be- 
lief in  the  quackery  and  impudence  of  the  Cot- 
greave  or  Spence  fabrications,  there  can  be  no 
doubt ;  and  believing  them  to  have  been  car- 
ried to  an  extent  that  can  hardly  be  credited,  I 
beg  to  assist  in  the  suggestion  of  S.  T.  in  your 
number  of  January  4th,  by  sending  for  record 
some  instances  wherein  the  modest  Mr.  Spence, 
by  the  aid  of  the  signatures  of  his  amiable  rela- 
tives Harriet  and  Ellen  Cotgreave,  have  for  the 
trifling  sum  of  five  pounds,  or  sometimes  less, 
furnished  ancestors  of  undoubted  celerity  to  those 
whose  pedigree  he  thought  wanted  "  Ornamental 
Top?,"  when  commencing  only  with  an  apparently 
degenerated  progenitory.  In  all  or  most  cases 
their  heroes  flourished  at  Eoroughbridge,  Cressy, 
Poictiers,  or  Agincourt :  a  sum  so  totally  insigni- 
ficant for  the  acquirement  of  so  much  ancient  and 
valiant  blood,  that  few  could  resist  such  a  "  Top- 
ping." There  were,  however,  some  persons  who 
discovered  the  fraud,  and  repudiated  the  offer. 

That  such  descents  should  have  imposed  upon 
editors  of  works  pretending  to  any  authority  is, 
however,  surprising,  for  they  are  mostly  on  the 
face  of  th-jin  palpably  fictitious.  A  pedigree,  it  is 
said,  that  has  once  taken  root  in  a  printed  book 
must  b*.  true,  —  at  all  events  most  people  who  read 
them  believe,  and  that  is  good  ground  for  caution 
against  implicit,  or  indeed  any,  reliance  upon  Mr. 
Spence. 

1.  The  descent  of  William  Iluntley,  living  temp. 
1  Richard  I.  (who  married  Alice  Cotgreave)  from 
Sir  Hugh  de  Iluntlye,  Seneschal  to  Hugh  de 
Lacy,  Constable  of  Chester,  under  the  hand  and 
seal  of  Harriet  Cotgreave,  and  witnessed  by  W. 
S.  Spc-nce,  23rd  March,  18-12. 

!.  Descent  of  Ellis  Trcherne  (who  married 
Isabel  ^  Cotgreave),  showing  a  descent  from  Sir 
.a ugh  Treherne  of  Letty incur,  temp.  Edward  ILL, 
under  the  hand  and  seal  of  Harriet  Cotgreave  13 
Oct.  1842. 

^   .3.  The  descent  of  Samuel  Long  of  Netterhaven, 
>\ilts,  signed  Harriet  Cotgreace,  27  April,  1846. 

4.  A  descent  of  Gaye,  ....  184G. 

5.  The  descent  of  Lea  of  Kidderminster,  ex- 
tract from  a  pedigree  of  Gamull  of  Mottin^ton, 

gned  Ellen  Cotgreave;  witness  W.  S.  Spence,  7 

G.  The  descent  of  Cross  of  Charlin^es  and  Sut- 
JuVl840  EllC'1  Cot*reai'c>  William  S-  Spence, 


NEIL  DOUGLAS. 
(3rd  S.  i.  18.) 

I  beg  to  thank  r.  for  his  attention  to  my  Query. 
Pending  the  opportunity  of  consulting  his  refer- 
ences, and  consequently  at  the  risk  of  communi- 
cating what  may  be  already  well  known  regard- 
ing my  subject,  I  willingly  comply  with  C.'s 
request  by  throwing  together  a  few  loose  mems. 
about  Douglas,  which  I  have  from  time  to  time 
noted  in  such  of  his  books  as  have  fallen  into  my 
hands. 

Douglas  would  appear  to  have  been  a  wavering 
Nonconformist,  but  a  sincere  Christian  and  mo- 
ralist ;  whether  he  ever  belonged  to  the  Estab- 
lished Kirk  I  know  not,  but,  as  an  author,  he 
first  conies  before  the  public  in  the  character  of  a 
minister  of  the  Relief  Church  :  — 

1.  "  Sermons  on  important  Subjects,  with  some  Essays 
in  Poetry.     By  N.  D.,  Min.  of  the  Gospel  at  Cupar,  in 
Fyfe.     (A  small  Svo,  of  508  pages.)    Edin. :  Caw.  1789." 

In  this  work  Douglas  figures  in  the  double 
character  of  theologian  and  poet.  His  "  Essays,'* 
in  the  latter  line,  occupy  89  pages  of  the  work, 
under  the  heads  :  "  Versions  and  Paraphrases  of 
some  of  the  Psalms,"  and  "  Poems  on  various  Oc- 
casions." The  first,  although  sufficiently  interest- 
ing to  have  entitled  him  to  a  niche  in  Holland's 
Psalmists  of  Britain,  escaped  that  gentleman's 
researches ;  and  there  are,  among  the  second, 
some  ultra-loyal  effusions  which  might  at  a  sub- 
sequent period  have  shielded  their  author  from. 
the  suspicion  of  disaffection  to  the  reigning  family. 

I  next  trace  Douglas  as  the  author  of  an  anony- 
mous work  of  remarkable  character,  entitled  :  — 

2.  "  A  Monitory  Address  to  Great  Britain ;  a  Poem  in* 
G  Parts.     To  which  is  added  Britain's  Remembrancer.* 

"  Heav'n -daring  sins  unerring  tokens  yield, 
That  mercy  soon  will  cease  a  land  to*  shield: 
For  these  abounding  rouse  Almighty  ire, 
And  waste  a  realm  as  with  consuming  fire, 
Tis  God  incens'd  that  Empires  does  o'erthrow, 
To  his  just  wrath  these  their  destruction  owe. 
Edin.:  Guthrec,  1792." 

This  goodly  octavo  of  481  pages  is  .addressed 
"  To  the  King  "  by  "  Britannicus"  ;  and  is  a  call 
upon  his  Majesty  to  abrogate  the  somewhat  in- 
congruous Anti-christian  practices  of  the  slave- 
trade,  duelling,  and  church  patronage  ;  also  to  put 
in  force  his  own  proclamation  against  vice,  which 
is  here  reprinted  :  together  with  a  Preface,  the 
burden  of  which  is  a  general  remonstrance  against 
the  degeneracy  of  the  times.  The  Monitory  Ad" 
dress  itself  occupies  207  pages,  and  touches  upon 
an  infinity  of  matters,  regarding  which  we  have 


*  This  is  a  reproduction  of  Jas.  Burgh's  Britain's  Re- 
membrancer, or  the  Danger  not  over,  suggested  by  the 
Rebellion  of  '45.  It  was' reprinted  at 'the  period  in  Scot- 
land, by  Boston  &  Willison,  as  the  work  of  an  unknown 
author,  and  Douglas  erroneously  assigns  it  to  President 
Forbes. 


3rd  S.  I.  FKB.  1,'C2.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


93 


as  a  nation  provoked  the  wrath  of  God.  Among 
these,  drunkenness,  swearing,  and  debauchery 
stand  foremost,  and,  in  this  earnest  work  of  our 
honest  modern  Wither,  obtain  no  quarter.  His 
powerful  lines,  and  no  less  pertinent  notes,  indeed 
reflect  the  reverend  author  in  the  light  of  an  ad- 
vanced social  reformer,  and  an  amiable  enthu- 
siast in  his  impatience  for  the  arrival  of  that 
happy  millennial  state  of  moral  perfection  still 
in  abeyance.  The  next  work  of  Douglas's  is 
startling :  — 

3.  "  The  Lady's  Scull ;  a  Poem.     And  a  few  other 
Select  Pieces.    By  N.  D.,  Min.  of  the  Gospel  at  Dundee. 
12mo.    Dundee,  1794." 

This  is  a  poetical  exercitation  upon  the  text  — 
"  The  place  of  sculls,"  &c.  —  and  is  but  an  exten- 
tion  of  a  shorter  poem  under  the  same  title  in 
No.  2.  In  this,  as  in  all  Douglas's  books,  there 
is  much  introductory  matter  ;  and  I  owe  the  dis- 
covery that  the  Monitory  Address  was  a  work  of 
his,  to  finding  it  claimed  in  the  Preface  to  this 
little  book;  where  also  are  some  reflections  upon 
the  ingratitude  of  the  world,  painfully  suggestive 
of  books  falling  still-born  from  the  press,  and 
pecuniary  and  laborious  endeavours  to  benefit 
mankind  ending  in  disappointment !  From  this 
time  I  do  not  meet  Douglas  again  in  my  own  col- 
lection, until  1799 ;  but  in  the  interim  I  find  he 
published :  — 

4.  "  Lavinia;  a  Poem  founded  upon  the  Book  of  Ruth, 
&c.    With  a  Memoir  of  a  Worth}'  Christian  lately  dec. 
Eilin. :  Sold  by  the  A.,  Castle  Hill." 

5.  "  Britain's  Guilt,  Danger,  and  Duty.     Sermons." 

6.  "  The  African    Slave  Trade,  with    an   expressive 
Frontispiece,  &c. ;  and  Moses'  Song  paraphrased;  or  the 
Triumph  of  the  rescued  Captives  over  their  incorrigible 
Oppressors." 

7.  "  Thoughts  on  Modern  Politics.    Consisting  of  a 
Poem  upon  the  Slave  Trade,"  &c. 

8.  "  Journal  of  a  Mission  to  part  of  the  Highlands  of 
Scotland  in  1797.     By  Appointment  of  the  Relief  Synod, 
&c.    By  N.  D.    Sm.  8vo,  pp.  189.    Edin.  1799." 

This  is  a  very  interesting  account  of  a  mission- 
ary incursion  into  the  wilds  of  ArgylesMre,  in  a 
series  of  letters,  highly  characteristic  and  amusing 
in  its  relation  of  the  Relief  Minister's  difficulties 
with  the  rough  Highland  cateran  on  the  one 
hand,  and  the  jealous  clergy  on  the  other.  My 
copy  of  this  is  appropriately  bound  up  with  a 
similar  record  of  an  attempt  to  awaken  Donald  to 
a  sense  of  his  religious  deficiencies,  by  Messrs. 
Halden,  Aikman,  and  Rate,  the  previous  years,  — 
the  two  presenting  a  fair  picture  of  Celtic  re- 
ligion and  manners  at  the  period.  My  bibliogra- 
phical history  of  Neil  Douglas  is  now  a  blank 
until  1811,  when  there  was  published  :  — 

9.  "  The  Royal  Penitent ;  or  true  Penitence  exemplified 
in  David  King  of  Israel.    A  Poem  in  2  Parts.    By  N.  D., 
Min.  of  the  Word  of  God.  .8vo,  pp.  52.    Greenock,  1811." 

Want  of  biographical  material  prevents  me 
saying  when  Douglas  seceded  from  the  Relief 


Church ;  but  his  next  publication,  known  to  me, 
exhibits  him  in  his  last  phase  of  a  "  Preacher  of 
Restoration  "  :  — 

10.  "  King  David's  Psalms   (in  Common  Use),  with 
Notes,  Critical  and  Explanatory.     Dedicated  to  Messiah. 
Sm.   8vo,   pp.   638.     Glasgow:  Prin.  and  Sold  by   N. 
Douglas,  the  Author,  No.  161,  Stockwell  Street,  1815." 

"  To  Immanuel,  King  of  Kings,  and  Lord  of  Lords,  his 
unworthy  but  much  obliged  Servant  in  the  Gospel,  hum- 
bly presents,  as  in  Duty  and  Gratitude  bound,  thia 
Work ;  undertaken  with  a  Single  Eye  to  his  Glorv,  and 
for  the  defence  and  illustration  of  his  Truth;  now  finished 
through  the  kindness  of  his  Providence  in  believing  hope 
of  his  acceptance,  Divine  Patronage,  and  Blessing." 

"  To  God,  Author  of  the  Book  of  Psalms,  and  all  other 
Books  of  Sacred  Writ,  be  honour  and  glory.  Amen." 

This  work  contains  a  portrait  of  Douglas,  not 
in  clerical  costume,  and  certainly  not  of  a  pre- 
possessing character.  The  Psalms  are,  as  stated, 
the  common  metrical  version  of  the  kirk,  with 
Douglas's  headings ;  in  which,  like  Watts  and 
John  Barclay,  he  sets  aside  the  literal  for  a  sense 
applicable  to  the  Christian  dispensation.  The 
extent  of  the  work  sufficiently  indicates  the  bulk 
of  the  i"  critical  and  explanatory  notes,"  which 
accompany  the  text.  A  companion  book  is  — 

11.  "  Translations  and  Paraphrases  in  Verse.    With 
an  Improvement  now  to  each.     (The  Kirk  Hymns  simi- 
larly treated.)    Sm.  8vo,  pp.  132.    Glas.  1815." 

12.  "  The  Analogy;  a  Poem  (of  MG).    4-line  Stanza." 
[This,  purporting  to'  be  by  N.  D.,  will  be  found  in  A  Col- 
lection of  Hymns  for  the  Universalists,  Glas.  1824.3 

With  this  concludes  my  catalogue  of  the  liter- 
ary labours  of  Neil  Douglas.  If  any  correspon- 
dent can  add  to  it,  I  shall  be  glad. 

In  1817  Douglas,  when  preaching  his  Restora- 
tion views,  in  Glasgow,  fell  into  the  hands  of  the 
law;  and  was,  on  the  17th  May,  arraigned  before 
the  High  Court  of  Justiciary,  Edin.,  upon  an  in- 
dictment charging  him,  the  said  N.  D.  (called  a 
Universalist  Preacher),  with  sedition  ;  in  drawing 
a  parallel  between  Geo.  III.  and  Nebuchadnezzar ; 
the  Prince  Regent  and  Belshazzar :  and  further, 
with  representing  the  House  of  Commons  as  a 
den  of  thieves  and  robbers.  A  verdict  of  acquit- 
tal was  pronounced,  and  the  poor  old  man  left 
the  Court]!loyally  declaring,  that  he  had  a  high 
regard  for  his  Majesty:  and  the  Royal  Family, 
and  prayed  that  every  Briton  might  have  the 
same.  Douglas  went  prepared  for  the  worst ;  and 
there  was  published,  after  the  trial : 

"  An  Address  to  the  Judges  and  Jury  on  a  Case  of 
alleged  Sedition,  on  2G  May,  1817,  which  was  intended  to 
be  delivered  before  passing  Sentence." 

An  interesting  paper,  which  I  have  seen  too  late 
to  make  use  of  in  this  note,  already  too  extended. 

A.G. 

N.B.  The  published  Repdft  of  the  Trial  con- 
tains a  curious  caricature-looking  sketch  of 
Douglas  as  he  stood  at  the  bar,  with  Dan.  v.  17 — 


94 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'a  S.  I.  FEB.  1,  '62. 


23,  below,   being   the  text  which  brought  him 
into  this  trouble.  V  • 


EARTHQUAKES  IN  ENGLAND. 
(2«d  S.  xii.  397;  3rd  S.  i.  15.) 

An  interesting  notice  of  an  earthquake  in  Eng- 
land, in  1692,  occurs  in  the  Autobiography  of  Sir 
John  Brawston,  printed  by  the  Catnden  Society  in 
1845.  It  may  be  necessary  to  premise,  before 
giving  the  extract,  that  the  narrator  and  his  fa- 
mily were  residing  in  Greek  Street,;  Soho,  at  the 
time  of  the  shock  :  — 

"On  the  8th  of  September,  1C92,  about  2  of  the  clock 
in  the  afternoone,  in  London  and  the  suburbs  there  was 
plainly  felt  a  tremblinge  and  shakeing  of  the  houses,  the 
chaires  and  stooles  hitting  togeather  ;  many  persons 
taken  with  giddiness.  I  myselfe  was  not  sensible  of  it, 
nor  did  ray  daughter,  nor  Colonel  John  Bramston,'who 
were  at  that  time  sitting  with  me  at  my  table;  nor,  in- 
deed, did  any  of  the  servants  perceave  it.  It  lasted  about 
2  minutes,  as  all  our  neighbours  sayd  ;  such  as  were 
above  stayers  were  most  sensible  of  it,  in  all  the  parts  of 
the  citie.  It  was  felt  in  Essex,  Kent,  Sussex,  Hamp- 
sheire,  £c.  at  the  same  time,  and  had  the  same  continu- 
ance. The  letters  say  it  was  also  felt  at  the  same  time 
in  Flanders  and  Holland  ;  where  else,  we  heare  not  yet. 
It  did  no  hurt,  God  be  blessed,  save  only  affrightinge 
many  persons  ;  and,  indeed,  it  beinge  so  lately  after  the 
account  come  from  Jamaica  of  the  horrible  and  destruc- 
tive earthquake  there,  people  had  great  reason  to  be  ap- 
prehensive of  the  effects  of  this.  I  doe  not  heare  any 
perticuhir  hath  authentickly  been  set  out  of  that  yet,  and 
I  pray  God  England  may  never  experience  the  effects  of 
earthquakes,  tho'  I  look  not  on  them  as  judgments  from 
God,  but  as  proceeding  from  uaturall  causes." 

I  should  be  glad  to  be  referred  to  any  contem- 

porary account  of  the  phenomenon  here  mentioned. 

EDWARD  F.  HIMBATJLT. 

The  narrative  of  the  earthquake  at  The  Birches, 
alluded  to  by  Ma.  ALLPORT,  bears  the  following 
title  :  — 

"A  Dreadful  Phenomenon  Described  and  Improved. 
Being  a  particular  Account  of  the  sudden  Stoppage  of  the 
Kiver  Severn,  and  of  the  terrible  Desolation  that  hap- 
pened at  the  Birches  between  Coalbrook-Dale  and  Build- 
T?8,--!  ,  go>  m  Shr°Ps»ire,  on  Thursday  Morning,  May 
*A  Ilf6.  And  the  substance  of  a  Sermon  preached  the 
next  day  on  the  Ruins  to  a  vast  Concourse  of  Spectators. 
By  John  *  letcher,  Vicar  of  Madeley,  &c."  Sm!  8vo.  pp. 
104;  Shrewsbury,  1773. 

The  descriptive  part  occupies"33  pages  ;  and  if 
A.  A.  or  any  other  correspondent,  investigating  j 
such  matters  would  like  to  peruse  it,  I  shall  wil-  \ 

igly  place  my  copy  with  the  Editor,  if  he  will  ! 
take  the  trouble  to  communicate  it.  J.  Q. 


fr°m 

•lay  In  RSch11^    w    at  Xottin^'"  ™  on  a  Sun- 

in  March    181G.     We  were  in  St.  Mary's  Church  to 

hear  the  Ass.ze  Sermon.    The  whole  church  shook    0? 


or  rather  oscillated.  It  was  a  most  extraordinary  thing 
to  see;  it  was  momentary;  I  do  not  remember  feeling 
alarmed  at  all.  Some  people  went  out  of  church  ;  some 
said  there  was  a  rumbling  noise,  as  if  a  waggon  were 
passing  by.  In  some  houses  the  bells  rang,  and  the  clocks 

were  stopped.   At  Mrs.  F 's  the  cook  was  making  pies 

or  puddings,  and  the  flour  was  all  laid  in  regular  little 
heaps  on  the  dresser  before  her,  to  her  great  amazement. 
It  was  rather  remarkable  that  it  did  not  seem  to  be  felt 
anywhere  else  in  England." 

F.  C.  B. 

I  was  at  Newstead  Abbey  at  the  same  time  with 
A.  A.,  and  remarked  with  regret  the  dilapidated 
and  neglected  state  of  Boatswain's  monument. 
Knowing  how  religiously  the  late  Col.  Wildman 
preserved  even  the  simplest  memorials  of  his  il- 
lustrious predecessor  and  schoolfellow,  I  inquired 
the  reason  of  the  ruin-like  appearance  of  the  mo- 
nument, and  was  told  nothing  about  an  earth- 
quake, but  that  the  colonel  allowed  it  to  decay, 
because  Lord  Byron  had,  with  very  bad  taste, 
buried  his  dog  and  raised  his  tomb  on  the  site  of 
the  old  altar.  Even  an  earthquake  would  have 
appeared  more  reasonable  to  me,  than  the  folly 
and  shame  of  allowing  so  interesting  an  object  to 
become  a  ruin,  when  it  might  have  been  removed 
and  preserved  on  a  spot  more  appropriate. 

I  also  remember  the  fissures  in  the  walls  of  the 
abbey,  and  did  hear  something  of  an  earthquake 
in  connection  with  them.  It  strikes  me  also  that 
I  can  recollect  some  fissures  in  A.  A.'s  neighbour- 
hood (Poets'  Corner).  Will  he,  as  an  expert  in 
his  profession,  ascribe  them  to  an  earthquake,  or 
to  age  and  delayed  repair  ?  S.  T. 


Smart  shocks  of  an  earthquake  were  felt  in 
Manchester  on  Sunday,  Sept.  4,  1777.  For  an  ac- 
count of  them,  see  Hibbert's  Public  Foundations 
of  Manchester,  ii.  160,  and  also  Aston's  Metrical 
Records  of  Manchester,  19,  8vo,  1822. 

LANCASTRIENSIS. 


The  account  of  the  earthquake  which  oc- 
curred ^  at  the  Birches  between  Buildwas  and 
Madeley,  on  the  27th  of  May,  1773,  mentioned 
by  MR.  ALLPORT  as  being  contained  in  a  small 
volume  by  the  Rev.  J.  Fletcher  (the  title  of  which 
Mr.  A.  has  forgotten),  must  be  the  same  as  that 
which  occurs  (with  the  sermon  preached  on  the 
occasion),  in  the  Works  of  the  Rev.  J.  Fletcher, 
vol.  vii.  fol.  209,  Lomas,  London,  1807,  and  also 
in  his  Works,  published  by  Allman,  1833,  vol.  ii. 
fol.  347.  J.  BOOTH. 

Rochdale. 

The  disturbance  which  your  correspondent 
describes  as  having  taken  place  near  Newcastle 
on  the  15th  of  November,  1844,  would  not  be 
an  earthquake,  but  what  is  popularly  called  "  a 


3"  S.  I.  FEB.  1,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


creep ; "  i.  e.  a  subsiding  or  slipping  in  of  the 
ground,  in  consequence  of  the  co;il  having  been 
worked  under  it.  In  some  colliery  districts  these 
disturbances  are  of  frequent  occurrence,  and  often 
lead  to  litigation.  H.  FISHWICK. 


DAUGHTERS  OF  WILLIAM  THE  LION. 
(2Qd  S.  xii.  357,  424.) 

I  believe  there  is  no  doubt  that  the  two  eldest 
daughters  of  William  the  Lion  were  Margaret  and 
Isabella.  In  June,  1220  (4  Hen.  III.),  a  treaty 
was  made  between  Henry  King  of  England  and 
Alexander  II.  King  of  Scotland  (the  son  and  suc- 
cessor of  William)  by  which  it  was  ngreed  that 
Henry  should  provide  marriages  in  England  for 
these  two  sisters  of  the  Scottish  King.  In  proof 
of  this  I  adduce  the  following  extract  from  the 
Calendariwn  Rotulorum  Patentium  :  — 

"  Patent,  de  anno  quarto  Regis  Henrlci  Tertil. 
"  Compositio  inter  Regem  et.  Alexandrum  Regem 
Scotire, — viz.  quod  Rex  claret  ei  in  Maritagium  Job'  pri- 
mogenitam  sororem  suarn,  vel  I?abel!am  sororem  suam 
juniorem,  ac  quod  Rex  maritaret  Margaref  et  Isabel? 
sorores  ipsius  Regis  Scotiae  infra  Regnum  Angliae.ad  ho- 
norem  suum.  Act'  apud  Eboracum  15°:Junii  coram,"  etc. 

Margaret,  the  eldest  of  the  two'  sisters,  was 
married  to  Hubert  de  Burgh,  afterwards  created 
Earl  of  Kent.  I  do  not  know  on  what  'au- 
thority HERMENTRUDE  represents  the  marriage  as 
not  having  taken  place  till  1225.  Matthew  Paris, 
as  quoted  by  Dugdale  (Baronage,  vol.  i.  p.  694), 
sets  it  down  to  the  year  1221  (5  Hen.  III.). 

In  1225  Isabella  was  married  to  Roger  Bigod, 
as  appears  from  the  following  extract  from  the 
Calendarium :  — 

"  Patent,  de  anno  nono  Regis  Henrici  Tertii.  A.  pars  2d. 

"Rogerus  lilius  et  Hseres  H.  Comitis  Bigod  duxit  Isa- 
bellam  sororem  Alexandri  Regis  Scotia?."  4 

Some  time  afterwards  Alexander  contended, 
that  during  the  life-time  of  William  the  Lion 
there  had  been  a  treaty  between  him  and  King 
John,  by  which  it  was  agreed  that  the  two  prin- 
cesses should  be  married,  the  one  to  Prince  Henry 
(afterwards  Henry  III.)  and  the  other  to  his  bro- 
ther Richard.  If  in  point  of  fact  there  ever  was 
any  such  treaty,  at  all  events  after  the  composi- 
tion made  in  1220  (4  Hen.  III.),  it  must  have 
been  deemed  to  have  been  waived.  But  however 
this  may  have  been,  it  would  appear  that  there 
was  at  one  time  a  convention  between  Henry  III. 
and  Alexander  II.,  by  which  Henry  engaged  to 
marry  one  of  Alexander's  sisters.  This  sister  is 
by  some  authorities  spoken  of  under  the  name  of 
Margaret,  by  others  under  the  name  of  Margery. 
The  latter  I  suppose  to  be  correct,  and  if  so  we 
arrive  at  a  third  sister,  the  one  whom  HERMEN- 
TRUDE  calls,  apparently  with  some  hesitation, 
Margery  or  Marian.  All  that  relates  to  this 
third  sister  is  exceedingly  obscure.  But  I  hope 


that  some  of  your  learned  correspondents  north  of 
the  Tweed  may  be  able  to  give  some  clue  to  her 
individuality. 

The  statement  is  probably  correct,  that  all  the 
daughters  of  William  the  Lion  died  without  issue, 
or,  at  all  events,  without  issue  living  in  1290.  For 
any  descendant  of  theirs,  whether  male  or  female, 
would,  on  the  death  of  Margaret  of  Norway,  have 
been  undoubted  heir  to  the  crown  of  Scotland,  in 
preference  alike^to  Baliol  and  Bruce. 

I  must  however  observe,  that,  according  to 
Dugdale  (Baronage,  vol.  i.  p.  700),  there  were 
descendants  of  Margaret,  Countess  of  Kent,  long 
after  the  disputed  succession.  But  this  is  also  a 
very  obscure  point  and  requires  investigation. 

Isabella,  who  married  Robert  de  Roos,  was  an 
illegitimate  daughter.  It  was  the  great-grandson 
of  this  Isabella,  and  not  (as  MR.  DIXON  supposes) 
her  grandson,  that  was  one  of  the  competitors  for 
the  crown  of  Scotland. 

Margaret,  who  married  Eustace  de  Vesci,  was 
another  illegitimate  daughter.  Her  grandson 
William  de  Vesci  was  also  one  of  the  competitors. 

MELETES. 


EASTERN  COSTUME  :  REBEKAH  AT  THE  WELL. 
(2nd  S.  xii.  347,  377.)  —  My  letter  of  the  6th  No- 
vember brought  me  an  answer  from  your  corre- 
spondent W.  L.  R.  just  as  I  was  leaving  home  to 
proceed  hither ;  and  I  have  had  much  pleasure  in 
communicating  with  him  personally.  At  the 
same  time  it  is  proper  that  I  should  say  a  few 
words  in  "  N.  &  Q."  for  the  general  information 
of  your  readers. 

My  wife  and  I  arrived  here  yesterday,  "  at  the 
time  of  the  evening,  even  the  time  when  women 
go  out  to  draw  water,"  and  we  met  a  number  of 
"  damsels  "  with  their  "  pitchers  "  so  employed. 
This  morning  we  have  been  to  the  "  well  of 
water,"  which  is  (as  I  anticipated)  "  without  the 
city"  on  the  way  from  Damascus,  through  which 
city  Eliezer  would  naturally  have  passed  on  his 
way  from  the  Land  of  Canaan. 

The  weather  forced  us  to  return  to  Damascus 
this  afternoon,  so  that  we  have  no  time  to  note 
the  particulars  of  the  costume  of  the  females. 
But  we  intend  returning  in  a  few  days,  when  we 
trust  the  weather  will  allow  my  wife  to  take  pho- 
tographs of  the  place  and  its  inhabitants.  Mean- 
while, I  may  remark,  that  we  did  not  see  any  of 
the  females,  old  or  young,  with  veils. 

CHARLES  BEKE. 
Harran,  in  Padan  Aram, 
21st  Dec.  1861. 

OLD  MS. :  PANDECTS  (2nd  S.  xii.  418.)  —Will 
your  correspondent,  who  so  kindly  replied  to  my 
Query,  be  good  enough  to  give  me  more  full  par- 
ticulars with  regard  to  the  Pandects,  either  through 
your  columns  or  by  sending  a  note  for  me  to  your 
office.  CHESSBOROUGH  HARBERTON. 


96 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  FEB.  1,  '62. 


KNAVES' ACRE  (2nd  S.  xii.  191,  273,  445;  3rd 
S.  i.  58.)— Stukeley  says,  "  When  the  Romans  be- 
came masters  here,  they  built  a  temple  of  their 
own  form  to  Diana,  where  now  St.  Paul's  stands ; 
they  placed  it  in  the  open  space  then  the  forum  : 
but  the  British  temple  appropriate  to  the  city,  was 
upon  the  open  rising  ground  to  the  west,  where 
now  is  Knaves'  Acre."  (/fin.  Curios ,  cent  II. 
"  The  Brill,"  p.  14.)  This  was  written  in]  Octo- 
ber, 1758.  Now  in  the  St.  James  s  Chronicle  of 
May  23,  17G1,  is  the  following  announcement:—' 

"  The  projected  exhibition  of  the  Brokers  and  Sign- 
Painters  of  Knaves'  Acre,  Harp  Alley,  &c.,  is  only  post- 
poned, till  a  room  spacious  enough  can  be  provided,  as 
the  collection  will  be  very  numerous." 

Harp  Alley,  formerly  called  Harper  Alley,  lead- 
in?  from  Farringdon  Street  to  Shoe  Lane,  stands 
not  only  west  of  St.  Paul's,  but  on  rising  ground, 
and  appears  to  be  the  site  alluded  to  by  Stukeley. 
It  is  within  a  stone's  throw  of  the  printing  office 
•whence  the  curious  Notes  and  Queries  of  your  cor- 
respondents take  flight,  and  wing  their  way  "  from 
Indus  to  the  Pole."  In  days  of  yore,  according  to 
Stukeley,  the  Roman  temple  stood  on  the  eastern 
bank,  and  the  British  temple  on  the  western 
bank  of  the  Ptiver  of  Wells.  Before  the  Act 
of  Parliament  passed  for  removing  the  signs 
and  other  obstructions  in  the  streets  of  London, 
there  was  a  market  in  Harp  Alley  for  signs  ready 
prepared.  (Edwards's  Anecdotes  of  Painting,  4to, 
1808,  p.  118.)  There  was  another  Harp  Alley  in 
Little  Knight-Rider  Street,  Doctors'  Commons 
(New  Remarks  of  London,  1732,  p.  67)  ;  but  the 
one  in  Shoe  Lane  best  agrees  with  Stukeley's  ac- 
count. J.  Y.EOWELL. 

THOMAS  CRASKELL  (2nd  S.  x.  449.)  — 
[We  arc  indebted  to  the  courtesy  of  the  Cornwall  Chro- 
nicle, published  at  Montego  Baj",  Jamaica,  Dec.  13,  1861, 
for  the  following  replv  to  a  Query  in  "N.&Q."  of  Dec.  8, 
l&CO.-Eix  "N.&Q:] 

To  the  Editor  of  the  Cornwall  Chronicle. 

Kingston,  Jamaica,  Dec,  1st,  18G1. 
Sin, — As  I  perceive  by  your  impression  of  this 
morn}ng,  that  information  is  sought  concerning 
the  late  Thomas  Craskell,  I  beg  to  state  that  my 
wife  Susan  Lucas  is  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Cras- 
kell the  son,  from  whom  much  information  might 
be  obtained,  that  is  unlikely  will  be  given  by  any 
other  person. 

I  am,  Sir,  yours  obediently, 

AUGUSTUS  LUCAS. 
22,  Harbour  Street  and  Matthew  Lane. 

MR.  TURBULENT  (3rJ  S.  i.  31.)  — 

"  Mn  Turbulent's  real  designation  was  Rev.  Charles 
rdier,  he  was  French  reader  to  the  Queen  and  Prin- 
cesses. His  name  correctly  written  was,  we  believe  De 
GuilTardiere.  He  had  a  prebendal)  stall  at  Salisbury,  and 
was  \  jcar  of  Newington  and  Rector  of  Berkhampstead." 

See  the  review  of  .Mad.  D'Arblay's  Diary  and 
Letters  in  the  Quarterly,  No.  cxxxix.  This  review 


is  only  on  the  three  first  volumes.  Can  any  of 
your  readers  inform  me  where  a  review  of  the 
whole  work,  published  in  7  vols.,  is  to  be  found ; 
and  who  was  "Mr.  Fairly,"  who  plays  such  a  con- 
spicuous part  in  Mad.  D'A.'s  Diary  of  her  court 

|  life?  E.  B.R. 

FLIGHT  OF  WILD  GEESE  AND  CRANES  (2na  S. 

xii.  500.)  —  The  countrywoman's  belief,  that  the 

i  flight  of  flocks  of  wild  geese  is  "  always  in  the 
form  of  letters  or  figures,"  shows  how  tenacious 
of  life  are  all  popular  superstitions.  The  ancients 
had  the  idea  respecting  the  flight  of  wild  geese 
equally  with  that  of  cranes  —  which  it  closely  re- 
sembles—  as  appears  from  Plutarch,  .ZElian,  Cicero, 
and  others.  Of  the  latter  birds,  Jerome  says : 
"  unam  sequuntur,  ordine  literate  "  (Epist.  4,  ad 
Rust.  Monac.^) ;  and  Aldrovandus,  who  has  col- 
lected (Omitholog.)  remarks  to  the  same  effect 
from  many  writers,  assures  us  that  Palamedes,  in 
the  time  of  the  Trojan  war,  is  said  to  have  in- 
vented several  letters  of  the  alphabet  from  ob- 
servations of  their  flight.  Martial  alludes  to  this 
in  Xeniis  (Grues,  Ixxv.)  :  — 

"  Turbabis  versus,  nee  litera  tota  volabit, 
Unam  perdideris  si  Palamedis  avem.",' 

Cassiodorus,  as  Gaffarel  remarks  (Curios.  In- 
auditce,  cap.  xii.)  goes  still  further,  and  roundly 
asserts  that  Mercury  devised  all  the  letters  in 
imitation  of  the  figures  formed  by  flocks  (?)  of 
these  birds.  These  figures  appear  to  depend  on 
the  force  and  direction  of  the  wind,  and  most 
frequently  correspond  with  the  Greek  letters  y 
and  A ;  sometimes,  however,  these  birds  form  a 
half  circle  ;  and  at  others,  when  attacked  by  birds 
of  prey,  a  perfect  circle.  We  may,  I  take  it, 
safely  conclude  with  the  old  writer  that  the  let- 
ters, which  cranes  and  wild  geese  "  make  in  their 
flying,  show  us  only  the  diversity  of  the  winds,  or 
else  the  manner  of  "ordering  themselves  in  battle." 

DELTA. 

TOPOGRAPHY  IN  IRELAND  (2nd  S.  xii.  474.)  — 
"  Co.  Kingstown"  and  "co.  Queenstowri"  became 
the  King's  and  Queen's  Counties  in  the  reign  of 
Philip  and  Mary. 

"  Co.  Uriell,"  recte  Oriel,  is  the  County  Lputh. 

"  Kilmacrenan  wher  O'Donnel  is  made,"  is  the 
name  of  a  place  in  the  co.  Donegal,  in  which 
O'Donnell  was  made  or  inaugurated  king  of  his 
clan. 

Your  correspondent,  MR.  C.  HARBERTON,  is  re- 
quested to  give  some  particulars  about  his  curious 
map.  Is  it  in  MS.,  or  engraved  ? 

HERBERT  HORE. 

Conservative  Club. 

FOILLES  DE  GLETUERS  (2nd  S.  xii.  347.)  —  It 
is  difficult  to  speak  positively  without  seeing  the 
context,  and  without  knowing  in  what  dialect  the 
words  occur;  but  I  should  think  that  "leaves  of 
sword-grass  "  would  probably  be  the  right  trans- 


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lation,  gletuers  being  apparently  a  corruption  of 
gladiolus.  LUMEN. 

"RETRIBUTIVE  JUSTICE"  (2nJ  S.  xii.  379.)  — 
MR.  JAMES  CROSSLEY  is  in  error  in  stating  Mr. 
Joseph  Aston  to  have  been  editor  of  the  Rochdale 
Pilot,  which  paper  is  of  recent  date.  The  paper 
edited  by  Mr.  Aston  was  entitled  the  Rochdale 
Recorder,  of  which  only  sixty-five  numbers  were 
issued  (January,  1827,  to  March,  1828).  J.  B. 

WILLIAM  OLDYS :  "BEND  SINISTER"  (3rd  S.  i. 
2.)  —  Allowing  the  illegitimacy  of  Oldys,  is  the 
writer  of  the  interesting  article  upon  him  correct 
m  saying  that  "  there  can  be  little  doubt  that  the 
bend  sinister  ought  properly  to  have  figured  in 
the  arms  of  the  future  Norroy"  ?  I  believe  the 
baston,  or  baton,  which  is  the  fourth  part  of  the 
bend  running  from  the  sinister  chief  to  the  dexter 
base,  was  alone  borne  as  the  mark  of  illegitimacy. 

J.  DORAN. 

DANBY  or  KIEKBY  KNOWLE,  OR  NEW  BUILDING 
(2nd  S.  xii.  290,  404.)  —  EBORACUM  might  have 
added,  that  New  Building  (not  Buildings),  near 
Thirsk,  is  a  most  curious  old  house,  well  worthy 
the  attention  of  archaeologists ;  containing  a  re- 
puted subterranean  passage,  a  newel  staircase, 
and  a  very  interesting  and  perfect  specimen  of  a 
secret  chamber  or  hiding  place.  Whether  the 
present  owner  permits  visitors  to  see  it,  I  cannot 
say.  It  is,  I  believe,  let  as  a  farm  ;  but  its  anti- 
quity and  peculiarities,  and  the  magnificent  view 
from  it,  make  it  well  worth  a  visit.  P.  P. 

As  I  take  the  monthly  parts,  and  not  the  weekly 
numbers  of  "N.  &  Q.,"  and  have  besides  been  for 
some  time  from  home,  I  have  not  till  recently 
seen  the  obliging  communications  of  K.  P.  D.  E. 
and  EBORACUM.  With  the  information  contained 
in  the  letter  of  the  former  I  was  already  ac- 
quainted, except  the  statement  that  the  Danby 
pedigree  went  back  to  two  generations  before  the 
Conquest :  the  pedigrees  in  Burke's  Commoners 
and  Whittaker's  Richmondshire  taking  it  to  but 
one  generation.  Would  K.  P.  D.  E.  kindly  in- 
form me  as  to  the  generation  before  "  John,  Lord 
of  Great  and  Little  Danby,"  &c.  ? 

My  best  acknowledgments  are  due  to  EBO- 
RACUM for  giving  me  'the  connecting  link  between 
the  Danbys  of  Leake  and  those  of  Kirby  Knowle. 
The  Leake  pedigree  of  1665  goes  no  further  back 
than  the  preceding  Visitation ;  which,  so  far  as  I 
know,  has  never  been  printed.  But,  I  presume, 
EBORACUM'S  Robert  Danby  may  have  been  the 
father  of  the  Thomas  with  whom  it  commences. 
Grainge  calls  the  Danby,  who  bought  New  Build- 
ing, James ;  and  states  that  he  came  from  York. 
Probably  Edmund  Danby,  who  also  had  a  house 
at^Kirby  Knowle,  was  another  brother  ;  and  from 
this  latter  I  have  a  strong  conviction  the  poor 


shoemaker' is  descended,  who  was  unable  to  esta- 
blish his  claim  to  the  property,  though  one  would 
have  imagined  he  might  have  traced  back  in  the 
parish  registers  for  two  hundred  years.  I  should 
much  like  to  hear  the  history  of  his  claim  ;  and, 
also,  who  were  the  executors  of  the  late  Mrs. 
Dalton  of  New  Building;  if  EBORACUM  could 
oblige  me  with  the  information  ? 

A  YORKSHIREMAN. 

NEWTONS  OF  WHITBY  (2nd  S.  xii.  237,  352, 444; 
3rd  S.  i.  17.)  —  Where  Sir  David  Brewster  was 
wrong,  was  the  styling  Sir  Richard  Newton  of 
Newton  "  the  last  Baronet  of  the  family,"  whereas 
by  R.  R.'s  own  showing,  he  was  a  Knight.  "  The 
last  baronet  of  the  family,"  with  which  Sir  Isaac 
was  connected,  was,  as  I  stated  in  my  former  note 
on  this  subject,  Sir  Michael  Newton,  4th  and  last 
Bart,  of  Barr's  Court,  co.  Gloucester,  who  was 
K.B.  and  chief  mourner  at  Sir  Isaac's  funeral. 
There  is  some  ground  for  assuming  a  kindred  be- 
tween this  family  and  the  philosopher,  but  I  can- 
not see  how  he  could  have  been  connected  with 
the  East  Lothian  Newtons,  of  which  the  Sir 
Richard,  mentioned  by  R.  R.,  was  the  last  male 
representative.  S.  T. 

SIR  GODFREY  KNELLER'S  AUTOGRAPH  (2nd  S. 
xii.  434,  526.) — It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  many 
autograph  letters  of  celebrated  characters  have 
been  fabricated  within  the  last  few  years,  and  I 
believe  this  system  has  been  further  carried  out 
in  autograph  signatures  on  the  title-pages  and 
fly-leaves  of  old  books,  deeds,  &c.  In  some  cases 
the  deception  has  been  limited  to  the  alteration 
of  certain  letters,  the  insertion  of  commas,  &c. 

The  autograph  signature  mentioned  by  DR. 
NELLIGAN  —  "  Godfrey  Kneller,  Nuckle.  His 
Book,  May  4th,  1720,"  is  assuredly  that  of  God- 
frey Kneller  Huckle,  the  nephew  and  godson  ot 
the  celebrated  painter.  The  comma  has  been 
cunningly  inserted  after  Kneller,  for  obvious 
reasons,  and  the  H  in  Huckle  (unless  misread  by 
your  correspondent)  altered  into  JV,  for  some 
reason  not  quite  so  apparent.  The  will  of  Sir 
Godfrey  Kneller  was  proved  Dec.  6,  1723.  He 
bequeathed  to  his  wife  500?.  a-year,  his  house  and 
furniture  at  Whitton  and  Great  Queen  Street, 
and  other  property,  during  her  widowhood  ;  and 
after  her  decease  to  his  godson  Godfrey  Kneller 
Huckle,  with  an  injunction  to  take  the  name  and 
arms  of  Kneller,  which  he  did  by  act  of  parlia- 
ment in  1731.  Many  of  Sir  Godfrey's  letters,  in- 
cluding several  to  his  nephew,  passed  into  my 
hands  some  years  since.  They  contain  valuable 
matter  as  to  the  state  of  the  art  at  the  period 
when  they  were  written,  and  it  is  my  intention  to 
print  them,  with  other  documents  relative  to  the 
Knellers,  when  I  obtain  the  permission  of  the 
present  representative  of  the  family.  Huckle  was 
somewhat  of  a  book-collector.  I  have  his  auto- 


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[3r<*  S.  I.  FEB.  1,  '62. 


graph  on  the  fly-leaf  of  more  than  one  volume  in 
my  library.  EDWARD  F.  RIMBAWLT. 

SAINTS  ON  MILAN  CATHEDRAL  (2nd  S.  xii.  368.) 
— It  is  hard  to  understand  what  guide-book  your 
correspondent  NANFANT  can  have  consulted  on 
this  subject  without  finding  information.  I  have 
looked  at  three,  and  tliey  all  refer  to  it.  The 
Modern  Traveller,  quoting  Wood's  Letters  of  an 
Architect,  gives  the  number  of  statues  outside  the 
cathedral  of  Milan  at  4400.  Forster's  Eeise- 
handbuchfur  Italien,  the  best  guide-book  for  Italy 
that  I  know,  says  that  the  number  of  such  statues 
has  been  stated  at  4500.  Murray's  Handbook  to 
North  Italy  states,  probably  with  more  exactness, 
that  4500  will  be  required  to  fill  all  the  niches 
and  pedestals,  and  that  of  these  only  3000  are  as 
yet  fixed.  T.  R.  S. 

SAMUEL  JOHNSON,  LL.D.  (3rd  S.  i.  30.)  —  The 
words  quoted  by  ABHBA  are  written  on  a  slip  of 
paper  inserted  between  the  leaves  of  the  volume. 
They  are  signed  E.  H.,  and  are  not  in  the  hand- 
writing of  Dr.  Barrett.  It  is  very  desirable  that 
the  correspondents  of  ';  N.  &  Q."  should  be  ex- 
ceedingly cautious  not  to  increase  the  circulation 
of  incorrect  statements,  or  to  ask  unnecessary 
questions,  when  the  sources  of  accurate  informa- 
tion are  so  easily  accessible.  If  ABHBA  had  only 
looked  into  the  index  of  so  well-known  a  publica- 
tion as  Boswell's  Life  of  Johnson  (London,  1833), 
under  the  head  of  "Dublin  University,"  he  would, 
by  the  words  "grant  a  diploma  to  Johnson,"  be 
referred  to  vol.  ii.  p.  288,  and  found  there  that 
the  degree  was  conferred  in  1765,  and  that  his 
letter  of  acknowledgment  is  there  inserted  at  full 

length.    ^ 'AAjefo. 

*  Dublin. 

BEATTIE'S  POEMS  (3rd  S.  i.  35.)  —  MR.  GIBB, 
in  describing  his  own  copy  of  Beattie,  1760,  has 
given  a  correct  one  of  mine  of  1761  ;  indeed  since 
mooting  the  question  in  "  N.  £  Q."  I  have  had  an 
opportunity  of  carefully  comparing  the  editions, 
Lond.  1760,  and  Aberd.  1761,  and  am  now  per- 
fectly ^satisfied  that  they  are  one  and  the  same, 
with,  in  the  case  of  the  latter,  a  new  title. 

[have,  however,  carried  my  inquiry  a  little 
farther,  and  would  now  unhesitatingly  pronounce 
the  London  imprint  of  1760  false  •  and  my  con- 
viction, founded  upon  comparing  it  with  other 
works  from  the  Aberdeen  press,  that  the  book 
was  in  reality  printed  by  Francis  Douglas,  and 
not  by  And.  Miller,  London.  I  arriv?  at  this 
conclusion  by  applying  MR.  Ginc's  test  of  the 
siumsy  b,  and  find  it  runs  through  the  Aberdeen 
books,  and  that  the  ornaments  in  the  so-called 
Condon  edition  are  found  in  the  Whole  Duty  of 
Man,  rcpublished  by  Douglas  in  1759. 

Moreover,  Beattie  was,  if  I  mistake  not,  but 
i  known  beyond   his  own   locality   in   1760, 


which  renders  it  highly  improbable  that  he  could 
have  had  any  dealings  with  the  London  bibliopole, 
or  that  he  had  any  literary  friend  in  the  south 
who  would  take  upon  himself  the  responsibility  of 
launching  his  then  obscure  muse  upon  the  critics 
of  the  metropolis.  J.  O. 

THE  ENGLISH  LANGUAGE  (2nd  S.  xii.  347,  422.) 
—  The  language  in  which  books  are  written  in 
our  days  is  so  essentially  different  from  what  it 
was  a  century  ago,  that  it  is  difficult  to  enter  into 
the  views  of  Lord  Mansfield  with  respect  to  Hume 
and  Robertson.  In  the  progress  of  the  change 
that  has  taken  place,  the  language  of  Hume  and 
Robertson  has  been  absorbed  into  the  general 
style  of  our  literature,  and  we  are  not  aware  of 
the  peculiarities  which  distinguish  it  from  the  lan- 
guage of  more  purely  English  writers.  But  I 
think  that  on  a  careful  examination,  it  will  be 
found  that  our  earlier  writers  use  a  style  ap- 
proaching more  nearly  to  spoken  language.  I  do 
not  mean  merely  the  language  of  conversation, 
but  language  such  as  the  author  would  use  if  he 
had  to  express  himself  by  word  of  mouth.  This 
language  would  necessarily  vary  with  the  subject, 
rising  —  as  the  occasion  might  require — from  al- 
most a  mere  colloquial  style  to  something  ap- 
proaching more  or  less  nearly  to  the  rhetorical. 
Look  at  Raleigh,  Barrow,  Bolingbroke,  and  com- 
pare them  with  Hume  and  Robertson.  In  the 
three  English  writers  you  find  the  outpouring  of 
the  soul  of  the  man.  In  Hume,  and  still  more  in 
Robertson,  we  are  always  conscious  that  the  au- 
thor is  writing  a  book.  This  may,  perhaps,  be  in 
part  attributable  to  the  cause  assigned  by  Dr. 
Carlyle,  that  to  the  Scottish  writers  English  was, 
to  a  certain  extent,  an  acquired  language.  But  it 
is  a  melancholy  thing  to  look  at  the  current  lite- 
rature of  the  day,  and  to  see  how  completely  a 
mere  written  style,  —  the  like  of  which  no  human 
being  ever  spoke,  —  has  superseded  the  natural 
spoken  style  of  our  language.  People  attribute 
the  tameness  of  modern  writing  to  the  want  of 
Anglo-Saxon  words.  No  accumulation  of  Anglo- 
Saxon  words  will  ever  give  life  to  a  purely  con- 
ventional structure  of  language.  What  is  worst 
of  all,  this  canker  has  begun  to  eat  into  the  very 
core  even  of  our  spoken  language.  I  could  name 
among  the  statesmen  of  the  day  more  than  one 
whose  style  of  eloquence  is  to  speak  like  a  book. 
One  great  reason  of  this  is,  that  instead  of  aiming 
to  produce  an  effect  upon  the  minds  of  those  whom 
they  are  supposed  to  be  addressing,  the  object 
upon  which  their  energies  are  really  bent,  is  to 
elaborate  a  string  of  sentences  for  the  purpose  of 
being  readily  taken  down  in  short-hand,  so  as  to 
turn  out  well  in  the  columns  of  the  next  day's 
newspapers.  This  is  a  more  pernicious  habit  even 
than  that  of  reading  a  written  oration. 

.  MELETES. 


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CHAUCER'S  "TABARD"  INN  AND  FIRE  OP  SOUTH- 
WARK  (2nd  S.  xii.  325,  373.)  —  There  seems  to  be 
some  doubfc  as  to  the  destruction  of  this  cele- 
brated hostelry  by^the  great  fire  of  1676.  It  may 
have  perished  in  a  conflagration  that  occurred  nine 
years  earlier,  and  to  which  a  reference  is  made  in 
the  following  extract  from  a  private  letter  of  the 
date  July  27,  1667:—  * 

"I  suppose  you  may  have  heard  by  this  time  of  that 
dreadfull  and  desperate  fire  in  the  borough  of  Southwarke 
not  farre  from  the  Spurr  Inn;  wherein  divers  persons 
were  burnt  and  spoyled,  about  40  family es  disteaded  of 
their  habitations,  and  some  that  now  have  beene  twice 
burnt  out  of  their  houses  quite  undone,  that  had  a  con- 
siderable meanes  of  a  livelyhood  before:  there  are  evi- 
dences enough  of  its  being  set  on  fire,  but  whither  the 
chiefe  actors  bee  taken  or  no,  or  what  wilbee  the  effect 
wee  cannot  say " 

How  was  the  "  Spurr  "  Inn  situated  in  relation 
tothe"Tubard"?  W.  S. 

HERALDIC  (2nd  S.  xii.  10.  138  ;  3rd  S.  i.  38.)  — 
May  not  the  arms  first  mentioned  by  W.  S.,  viz. 
"  az.,  3  covered  cups  or,"  be  those  of  Argenton, 
an  extinct  Dorsetshire  family,  and  probably  a 
branch  of  the  old  baronial  family  of  Argentine,  of 
Horseheath,  co.  Cambridge,  whose  arms,  however, 
appear  to  have  been  "gules,  3  covered  cups  arg." 
The  heiress  of  the  Dorset  branch  married  into  the 
family  of  Williams  of  Herringstone,  who  quarter 
the  arms  of  Argenton  ;  and  a  rhyming  epitaph  on 
one  of  the  family  (Mary,  wife  of  Lewis  Argenton, 
and  relict  oY  Robert  Thornhull),  on  a  brass  plate 
in  the  east  wall  of  the  chancel  of  VVoolland  Church, 
Dorset,  is  given  at  length  in  Hutchins's  History  of 
Dorset.  HENRY  W.  S.  TAYLOR. 

HERALDIC  (3nd  S.  i.  30.)  —  The  arms  referred 
to  by  HERMENTRUDE  are  no  doubt  those  of  Ro- 
bertson (of  Membland  Hall,  Devon),  impaling 
Atkinson.  {Vide  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  vol.  ii. 
1127),  and  should  be  described  as  follows:  — 
"  Gules,  3  wolves'  heads  erased,  arg.,  armed  and 
langued  az.,"  for  Robertson  ;  impaling  "  Gules  an 
eagle  displayed  with  2  heads  arg.  (perhaps,  or)  on 
a  chief  of  the  last  3  estoiles  of  the  1st,  for  Atkinson. 
Crest.  "  A  dexter  arm  and  hand  erect,  holding  a 
regal  crown  all  ppr."  Motto.  "  Virtutis  Gloria 
Merces."  HENRY  W.  S.  TAYLOR. 

-    Southampton. 

BURIAL  IN  A  SITTING  POSTURE  (2nd  S.  ix.  44, 
513  ;  x.  159,  396  ;  3rd  S.  i.  38.)  —  In  the  Natural 
History  Review  for  January,  1862,  pp.  53-71,  is  a 
very  interesting  article  by  M.  Lartet  on  the  dis- 
covery of  human  and  other  remains  in  a  cavern 
on|the  mountain  Fajoles,  near  Aurignac  (Haute 
Garonne).  The  main  object  of  the  writer  is  to 
throw  some  light  on  the  question  of  the  co-exist- 
ence of  Man  with  the  great  Fossil  Mammals;  but 
in  describing  the  interior  of  the  cavern,  and  the 
probable  position  in  which  the  bodies  had  been 
deposited  (they  had  been  removed  before  he 


visited  the  place),  which,  for  certain  reasons,  he 
considers  to  have  been  "a  sitting  or  crouching 
posture,"  Mons.  Lartet  speaks  of  it  as  "that  which 
is  well  known  to  have  been  adopted  in  many  of 
the  sepulchres  of  primitive  times ; "  and  in  a  note 
at  the  same  page  (58),  says :  — 

"  This  attitude  of  the  body,  bent  upon  itself,  has  been 
noticed  in  most' of  the  primordial  sepultures  of  the  north 
and  centre  of  Europe,  and  it  has  been  also  observed  in 
the  foundations  of  Babylon.  Diodorus  Siculus  informs 
us  that  it  was  practised  by  the  Troglodytes,  a  pastoral 
people  of  Ethiopia.  In  mo're  recent  times  it  is  seen  in 
use  among  various  peoples  in  America,  and  some  of  the 
South  Sea  Islands." 

In  an  account  of  the  Ancient  Lake  Habitations 
of  Switzerland  by  Mr.  J.  Lubbock,  F.R.S.,  in  the 
same  number  of  the  Natural  History  Review,  the 
writer  says  (p.  41)  :  — 

"  In  tombs  of  the  .Stone  Age,  the  corpse  appears  to 
have  been  almost  always,  if  not  always,  buried  in  a  sit- 
ting posture,  with  the  knees  brought  up  under  the  chin, 
and  the  hands  crossed  over  the  breast.  This  attitude 
occurs  also  iu  man}"  Asiatic,  African,  and  American 
tombs." 

For  the  prevalence  of  the  same  custom  in  Den- 
mark, Mr.  Lubbock  refers  to  Worsaac's  Antiqui- 
ties (p.  89,  English  edit.),  and  states,  on  the  au- 
thority of  Mr.  Bateman's  recently  published  Ten 
Years"  Diggings  in  Celtic  and  Saxon  Gravehills, 
that  "the  same  position  was,  to  say  the  least  of  it, 
very  common  in  early  British  tombs." 

So  much  in  reply  to  EXDL'S  Query  as  to  the 
prevalence  of  the  custom.  The  arguments  of  M. 
Lartet  in  the  paper  alluded  to  above,  both  archae- 
ological and  palseontological,  if  sound,  carry  it 
back  to  a  very  remote  period  of  antiquity.  Its 
object  may  have  been,  as  he  suggests,  to  "  realise, 
according  to  some  archa3ologists,  the  symbolic 
thought  of  restoring  to  the  earth  —  our  common 
mother  —  the  body  of  the  man  who  had  ceased  to 
live,  in  the  same  posture  that  it  had  before  his 
birth,  in  the  bosom  of  his  individual  mother.'^ 

Mr.  Lubbock  also  (p.  41)  informs  us,  on 
the  authority  of  M.  Troy  on,  Sur  les  Habitations 
Lacustres,  that  the  same  custom  prevailed  among 
the  Brazilian  aborigines,  quoting  from  a  work  by- 
Andre  Thevet,  published  in  1575  (of  which,  how- 
ever, he  has  omitted  to  give  us  the  title),  the  fol- 
lowing words,  which  seem  to  point  to  the  same 
origin :  — 

"  Quand  done  leurs  parents  sont  morts,  ils  les  courbent 

dans  un  bloc  et  monceau, tout  ainsi  que  lea 

enfants  sont  au  ventre  de  la  mere  puis  ainsi  enveloppe'-s, 
lie's  et  garrottes  de  corde,  ils  les  mettent  dans  une  grande 
vase  de  terre." 

Q. 

TARNISHED  SILVER  COINS  (3rd  S.  i.  31.)  — 
Dirty  silver  may  be  cleaned  without  polishing  if, 
by  soaking  it  iu  a  saturated  solution  of  carbonate 
of  soda  (common  soda)  until  the  crust  is  softened, 
which,  if  thick,  will  take  several  days,  and  then 


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gently  washing  it  with  soap  and  a  soft  flannel  in 
warm  water.  S-  M-  °- 

Take  two  ounces  of  whiting,  one  ounce  ^  of  bi- 
carbonate of  potassa,  and  half  a  pint  of  distilled 
water;  place  these  materials  together  with  the 
coins  into  a  copper  saucepan,  then  boil  them  for 
half  an  hour ;  now  take  out  one  of  the  coins,  and 
clean  away  the  superfluous  whiting,  &c.,  with  a 
hare's  foot.  If  this  example  proves  satisfactory, 
the  whole  of  the  coins  are  "done,"  but  if  not,  give 
them  another  half  hour  in  the  boiling  menstruum. 
It  is  important  to  use  a  hare's  foot  in  prefer- 
ence to  any  other  frictional. 

G.  W.  SEPTIMUS  PIESSE. 


NOTES  OX  BOOKS,  ETC. 

s,  Elhnolnqicnl  and  Linguistic.  T3y  the  late  James 
Kennedy,  Esq.,  LL.B.,  formerly  Her  Majesty's  Britannic 
Judge  at  the  Mavannah.  Edited  ly  C.  M.  Kennedy,  B.A. 
(Williams  &  Xorgate.) 

The  Essavs  contained  in  this  volume,  so  creditable  to 
the  learning  and  ingenuity  of  the  late  Mr.  Kennedy,  were 
intended  to  form  an  introductory  volume  to  two  large 
works,  the  one  on  the  origin  and  character  of  the  Basque 
Language  and  People,  the  other  relative  to  the  know- 
ledge of  America  possessed  by  the  Ancients.  They  are 
eight  in  number,  and  we  shall  best  do  justice  to  the  au- 
thor by  briefly  enumerating  the  subjects  of  them.  They 
;iro,  1.  On  the  Ancient  Languages  of  France  and  Spain. 
II.  On  the  Ethnology  and  Civilisation  of  the  Ancient 
Britons.  III.  Suggestions  respecting  the  Nationality  and 
Language  of  the  Ancient  Etruscans.  IV.  Ethnological 
Notices  of  the  Philippine  Islands.  V.  &  VI.  On  the  pro- 
b.ible  Origin  of  the  American  Indians,  especially  the 
Iilaya*.  the  Caribs,  the  Arrawaks,  and  the  Mosquitos. 
VI  I.  Hints  on  the  formation  of  a  new  English  Dictionary. 
VIII.  On  the  supposed  Lost  Tribes  of  Israel.  Tv.-o 
Supplementary  Notes  respecting  the  Basques,  and  Traces 
of  Phoenician  Civilisation  in  Central  America,  conclude 
the  work. 

BOOKS  RECEIVED  :  — 

Australia;  its  Rise,  Progress,  and  Present  Condition. 
Ry  William  West  garth,  Esq.  With  Man.  (Adam  &. 
C.  Black.) 

A  very  useful  little  volume,  consisting  of  the  articles 
"Australasia"  and  "  Australia  "  from  the  Encyclopedia 
Brittmnica,  revised  and  re-written,  so  as  to  bring  down 
to  the  present  time  every  possible  information  respecting 
this  important  part  of  our  empire. 

Tlie  Historical  Finger- Post;  or,  Hand-Boohs  of  Terms, 
Phrases,  Epithets,  Cognomens,  &-c.  Bu  Edward' Shelton 
(Lock wood  £  Co.) 

One  of  those  useful  manuals  of  condensed  information 
which  have  of  late  years  been  called  for  by  the  increas- 
ing number  of  readers,  who  are  unable  to  search  out  for 
themselves  the  knowledge  which  such  books  so  readily 
supply. 

The  History  of  the  City  of  Exeter.  By  the  Rev.  George 
Oliver,  D.  D.  With  a  short  Memoir  of  the  Author,  and  an 
Appendix  of  Documents  and  Illustrations.  (Roberts  :  Exe- 

We  desire  to  call  the  attention  of  our  Devonian  friends 


to  this  posthumous  work  of  the  late  amiable  and  accom- 
plished author  of  the  Lives  of  the  Bishops  of  Exeter. 

The  Book  of  Days.  A  Miscellany  of  Popular  Antiqui- 
ties in  Connection  ivith  the  Calendar.  Part  I.  (W.  &  R. 
Chambers.) 

What  Hone  so  happily  conceived,  and  so  well  earned 
out,  is  here  attempted  in  a  more  enlarged  and  compre- 
hensive form.  If  we  say  that  the  work  equals  its  prede- 
cessortn  interest,  we  do  it  no  more  than  justice ;  and  we 
can  scarcely  say  less,  seeing  how  freely  its  editor,  in  its 
compilation,  has  availed  himself  of  the  pages  of  NOTE* 
AND  QUERIES. 

Medals  of  the  British  Army,  and  How  they  were  Won. 
By  Thorn  as  Carter.  Parts  XIII.  and  XIV.  (Groom- 
bridge  &  Sons.) 

In  this  new  section  of  Mr.  Carter's  interesting  work,, 
he  furnishes  us  with  the  history  of  the  Indian  War 
Medals.  "  The  Indian  Mutiny  Medal,"  and  "  The  Seringa- 
patam  Medal,"  1799,  form  the  subject  of  the  present 
parts. 

We  regret  to  announce  the  death,  on  Monday  last,  of 
a  courteous  gentleman  and  most  accomplished  scholar,  to 
whom  the  readers  of  "  X.  &  Q."  have  been  frequently 
indebted— the  REV.  EDWARD  CRAVEN  HAWTREY,  D.D., 
Provost  of  Eton.  DR.  HAWTREY  was  in  his  seventy- 
second  year.  The  obituary  of  the  present  week  also  con- 
tains the  name  of  the  venerable  author  of  An  Introduction 
to  the  Critical  Study  of  the  Holy  Scriptures,  and  many 
other  important  works  —  the  REV.  THOMAS  HARTWELL 
HORNE  ;  who  died  on  the  27th  instant,  in  the  eighty- 
second  year  of  his  age. 

A  proposition  from  Mr.  Riley,  the  editor  of  the  Liber 
Albus,  for  the  arrangement  of  the  Records  of  the  City  of 
London,  and  the  publication  of  the  more  important 
Documents,  is  now  under  the  consideration  of  the  munici- 
pal authorities. 


BOOKS    AND    ODD    VOLUMES 

WANTED    TO   PURCHASE. 

Particulars  of  Price,  &c.,  of  the  following  Books  to  be  sent  direct  to 
the  gentleman  by  whom  they  are  required,  and  whose  name  and  ad- 
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Yf  anted  by  Edw.  A.  Tillett,  Carrow  Abbey,  Norwich. 


ta 

Otm  FOIIET<;N  CORRESPONDENTS.  In  t7ie  few  words  ivhichwR  addressed 
to  our  Headers  on  the  Ath  January,  at  the  commencement  of  our  Third 
Series,  v-cx/ate.'lthat  "  correspondence  now  reaches  us  from  all  parts  of 
the  world."  The  /ircxcnt  number  confirms  Uii-!  ttat?)it<  nt  in  a  very  strik- 
ing manner,  for  in  it  will  he.  finini!  communication*  of  interest  from 
y.ti>i*t,in  llollninl;  Pita,  in  Tu.>cait>i;  Mhow, Bombay ;  from  Capetown, 
South  Africa :  ILcrrun,  in  Padan  Aram;  and  from  Montego  Bay, 
Jamaica. 

G.  W.  M.  will  find  the,  line  — 

"  Fortuna  non  mutat  genus," 
•in  Horace,  Ode  iv.  lib.  iv. 
LEICESTER'S  JESTING  PLAYER  forms  the  subject  of  a  Paper  by  Mr. 

Jln/ce,  in  the.  \.«t  vol.  of  the  Sliaksneare  Society's  Papers,  and  is  referred 
i<>  in  the  art  Me,  "  We'*  Shakspeare  ever  a  Soldier?  "  in  "  JN'l  &  Q.v  2nd  S. 


We  have  a  letter  for  this  correspondent.    Where  can 


vii.  pp.  330,351. 

F.   FlTZ-TlRNf 

we  forward  it  j 

"W.  I.  S.  II.  The  line*  on  "  Woman's  Will"  occur  on  the  pillar 
erected  on  /!;<>  Mount  in  the  Dane- John  Field,  Canterbury.  See  "N.  & 
Q."  1st  S.  iii.  285. 

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\*sue.d  in  MONTHLY  PARTS.  The  Subscription  for  STAMPED  COPIES  for 
Six  Months  forwarded  direct  from  the  Publishers  (.including  the  Half- 
yearly  INDEX)  is  Us.  id.,  which  may  be  paid  by  Post  Office  Order  in 
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all  COMMUNICATIONS  FOR  THB  EDITOR  should  be  addressed. 


3rd  S.  I.  FEB.  1,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


WESTERN    LIFE    ASSURANCE 
ANNUITY  SOCIETY. 

3,  PARLIAMENT  STREET,  LONDON,  S.W. 
Founded  A.D.  1842. 


AND 


Dirt 
H.  E.  Bicknell,  Esq. 
T.  S.  Cocks,  Esq. 
G.  H.  Drew,  Esq.  M.A. 
W.  Freeman,  Esq. 
J.U.Goodhart,Esq. 

ctors. 
E.Lucas,  Esq. 
F.B.  M  arson.  Esq. 
J.  L.  Seager,  Esq. 
.  B.  White,  Esq. 

Ptniaicinn.-W.  R.  Basham,  M.D. 

Bankers Messrs.  Biddulph,  Cocks,  &  Co. 

A  ctuary — Arthur  Scratchley,  M.A. 

VALUABLE  PRIVILEGE. 

POLICIES  effected  in  this  Office  do  not  become  void  throngh  tem- 
porary difficulty  in  paying  a  Premium,  as  permission  is  given  upon 
application  to  suspend*  the  payment  at  interest,  according  to  the  con- 
ditions detailed  in  the  Prospectus. 

LOANS  from  100Z.  to  600?.  granted  on  real  or  first-rate  Personal 
Security. 

Attention  is  also  invited  to  the  rates  of  annuity  granted  to  old  lives , 
for  which  ample  security  is  provided  by  the  capital  of  the  Society. 
Example:  100Z.  cash  paid  down  purchases  — An  annuity  of— 

9  15  10  to  a  male  life  aged  60  ^ 
11    7    4  „  65 1  Payable  as  long 

1318   8  ,,  70  /     as  he  is  alive. 

18    0    6  75j 


Now  ready,  420  pages,  14s. 

MR.  SCRATCHLEY'S  MANUAL  TREATISE 

on  SAVINGS  BANKS,  containing  a  Review  of  their  Past  History  and 
Present  Condition,  and  of  Legislation  on  the  Subject;  together  with 
much  Legal,  Statistical,  and  Financial  Information,  for  the  use  of 
Trustees,  Managers,  and  Actuaries. 

London:  LONGMAN,  GREEN,  LONGMAN  &  ROBERTS. 

UNITED  KINGDOM 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY, 

No.   8,  WATERLOO  PLACE,  PALL  MALL,  S.W. 

DIRECTORS. 

The  Hon.  FRANCIS  SCOTT,  Chairman. 
CHARLES  BERWICK  CURTIS,  Esq.,  Deputy  Chairman. 


EDWARD  LENNOX  BOYD,  Esq. 


A.  H.  MACDOUGALL,  ESQ. 
F.C.MAITLAND,Es 


sq. 

WILLIAM  BAIL-TON,  Esq. 
THOS.  THORBY.Esq.,  F.S.A. 
HENRY  TOOGOOD,  Esq. 


(Resident1). 

WILLIAM  FAIULIE,  Esq. 
D.  Q.  HENRIQUES,Esq. 
J.  G.HE  NRIQUES,  Esq. 
MARCUS  H.  JOHNSON,  Esq. 

SUPERIOR  ACCOMMODATION  AFFORDED  BY  THIS 
COMPANY. 

This  Company  offers  the  security  of  a  large  paid-up  capital,  held  in 
shares  by  a  numerous  and  wealthy  proprietary,  thus  protecting  the 
assured  from  the  risk  attending  mutual  offices. 

There  have  been  three  divisions  of  profits,  the  bonuses  averaging 
nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum  on  the  sums  assured  from  the  commence- 
ment of  th»  Company. 

Sum  Assured.          Bonuses  added.  Payable  at  Death. 

JE5,C()0  £1,987  10*.  46,987  10s. 

1,000  397  10s.  1,397  10s. 

100  39  15s.  139  15s. 

To  assure  *100  payable  at  death,  a  person  aged  21  pays  £1 2s.  4d.  per 
annum ;  but  as  the  profits  have  averaged  nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum, 
the  additions,  in  many  cases,  have  been  almost  as  much  as  the  pre- 
miums paid. 

Loans  granted  on  approved  real  or  personal  security. 
Invalid  Lives.    Parties  not  in  a  sound  state  of  health  maybe  insured 
at  equitable  rates. 

No  charge  for  Volunteer  Military  Corps  while  serving  in  the  United 
Kingdom. 

The  funds  or  property  of  the  company,    as  at  1st  January,  1861, 
amounted  to  <730,665  7s.  10cZ.,  invested  iu  Government  and  other  ap- 
proved securities. 
Prospectuses  and  every  information  afforded  on  application  to 

E.  L.  BOYD,  Resident  Director. 

TTOLLOWAY'S  PILLS.  —  REGULATORS  AND  RE- 

JLL  STORATIVES.  —  As  the  winter  advances  the  public  is  constantly 
shocked  by  the  increased  number  of  sudden  deaths.  These  catastrophes 
originate  from  some  irregularities  of  circulation,  which  generate  head 
or  heart  symptoms,  llolloway's  Pills  are  widely  used  and  everywhere 
esteemed  for  purifying  the  mass,  and  regulating  the  flow  of  the  blood. 
They  prevent  palpitation,  oppression  of  the  chest,  and  determination  of 
blood  to  the  head;  and  they  effectually  remove  congestion  of  the  lungs, 
liver,  kidneys,and  brain,  by  proportionally  distributing  the  blood  to 
each  organ.  Holloway's  Pills  should  be  taken  without  delay  when 
feelings  of  famtness,  giddiness,  drowsiness,  or1  annoying  eructations, 
warn  us  of  some  disturbance  of  the  digestion,  circulation,  or  respira- 
tion ;  each  is  a  vital  essence. 


T7  QUIT  ABLE  ASSURANCE  OFFICE,  New 

IT/  Bridge  Street,  Blackfriars  :  established  1762. 

DIRECTORS. 
The  Right  Hon.  LORD  TREDEGAR,  President. 


Wm.  Samuel  Jones,  Esq.,  V.P. 
Wm.  F.  Pollock,  Esq.,  V.P. 
Wm.  Dacrcs  Adams,  Esq. 
John  Charles  Burjroyne,  Esq. 
Lord  Geo.  Henry  Cavendish.'M.P. 
Frederick  Cowper,  Esq. 
Philip  Hardwick,  Esq. 


Richard  Gosling,  Esq. 
Peter  Martineau,  Esq. 
John  Alldin  Moore,  Esq. 
Charles  Pott,  Esq. 
Rev.  John  J<ussell,D.D. 
James  Spicer,  Esq. 
John  Charles  Templer,  Esq. 


The  Equitable  is  an  entirely  mutual  office.    The  reserve,  at  the  last 

rest,"  in  December,  1859,  exceeded  three-fourths  of  a  million  sterling, 
a  sum  more  than  double  the  corresponding  fund  of  any  similar  in- 
stitution. 

The  bonuses  paid  on  claims  in  the  10  years  ending  on  the  31st  De- 
cember, 1859,  exceeded  3,500,000?.,  being  more  than  100  per  cent,  on  the 
amount  of  all  those  claims. 

The  amount  added  at  the  close  of  that  decade  to  the  policies  existing 
on  the  1st  January,  I860,  was  1,977.0007.,  and  made,  with  former  addi- 
tions then  outstanding,  a  total  of  4,070,000?.,  on  assurances  originally 
taken  out  for  6,2^2,000?.  only. 

These  additions  have  increased  the  claims  allowed  and  paid  under 
those  policies  since  the  1st  January,  1860,  to  the  extent  of  150  per  cent. 

The  capital,  ou  the  31st  December  last,  consisted  of — 

2,730,0007.  —  stock  in  the  public  Funds. 

3,r06,297? — cash  lent  on  mortages  of  freehold  estates. 

300,0007. — cash  advanced  on  railway  debentures. 

83,5907.  _  cash  advanced  on  security  of  the  policies  of  members  of  the 
Society. 

Producing  annually  221, 4827. 

The  total  income  exceeds  400,0007.  per  annum. 

Policies  effected  in  the  year  1862  will  participate  in  the  distribution 
of  profits  made  in  December,  1859,  so  soon  as  six  annual  premiums 
shall  have  become  due  and  been  paid  thereon;  and,  in  the  division 
of  1869,  will  be  entitled  to  additions  in  respect  of  every  premium  paid 
upon  them  from  the  year  1862  to  1869,  each  inclusive. 
_  On  the  surrender  of  policies  the  full  value  is  paid,  without  any  deduc- 
tion; and  the  Directors  will  advance  nine-tenths  of  that  value  as  a 
temporary  accommodation,  on  the  deposit  of  a  policy. 

No  extra  premium  is  charged  for  service  in  any  Volunteer  Corps 
within  the  United  Kingdom,  during  peace  or  war. 

A  Weekly  Court  of  Directors  is  held  every  Wednesday,  from  11  to  1 
o'clock,  to  receive  proposals  for  new  assurances  ;  and  a  short  account  of 
the  Society  may  be  had  on  application,  personally  or  by  post,  from  the 
office,  where  attendance  is  given  daily,  from  in  to  4  o'clock. 

ARTHUR  MORGAN,  Actuary. 

SAUCE.— LEA    AND    PERRINS 

Beg  to  caution  the  Public  against  Spurious  Imitations  of  their 
world-renowned 

WORCESTERSHIRE  SAUCE. 

Purchasers  should 

ASK  FOR  LEA  AND  PERKINS'  SAUCE, 

Pronounced  by  Connoisseurs  to  be 

"THE   ONLY   GOOD   SAUCE." 

***  Sold  Wholesale  and  for  Export,  by  the  Proprietors,  Worcester. 

MESSRS.  CROSSE  &  BLACKWELL,  London,  &c.,  &c., 
and  by  Grocers  and  Oilmen  universally. 

BROWN  AND  POLSON'S 

PATENT    CORN    FLOUR. 

In  Packets  2d.,  4c?.,  and  8d.:  and  Tins,  Is. 

Recipe  from  the  "  Cook's  Guide,"  by  C.  E.  Francatelli,  late  Chief 
Cook  to  her  Majesty  the  Queen  :  — 

INFANTS'  FOOD. 

To  one  dessertspoonful  of  Brown  and  Poison  mixed  with  a  wineglass- 
ful  of  cold  water,  add  half  a  pint  of  boiling  water  ;  stir  over  the  fire  for 
five  minutes  ;  sweeten  lightly,  and  feed  the  baby  ;  but  if  the  infant  is 

being  brought  up  by  hand,  this  food  should  then  be  mixed  with  milk, 

not  otherwise,  as  the  use  of  two  different  milks  would  be  injurious. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


101 


LONDON,  SATURDAY,  FEBRUARY  8,1862. 

CONTENTS.— NO.  G. 

NOTES  :  — Turgot,  Chattcrtow,  and  the  Rowley  Poems,  101 

—  The  Registers  of  the  Stationers'  Company,  104— Let- 
ters of  Archbishop  Leighton,  106  —  Mysteries,  107 

MINOR  NOTES  :  —  Sir  John  Davies  and  Robert  Montgomery 

—  Misapplication  of  Terms—  Autobiography  of  Miss  Cor- 
nelia Knight:  Errata  — Lottery —  Missing  or  Dislocated 
Docximents  — Lengthened  Tenure  of  a  Living  —  Boneflre 
and  Bonfire,  108. 

QUERIES :  —  "  Adeste  Fideles  "  —  Arms  in  Noble's  "  Crom- 
well Family  "  —  Arnenian  Society  — Baldwin  Family :  Sir 
Clement  Farnham  — Sir  Francis  Bryan  — Engraved  Heads 

—  Family  of  Dowson  of  Chester  —  Jacob  Fletcher  —  Greek 
Orator  —  Ikon  —  Jones  of  Dingestow— Passage  in  Cicero  — 
Rutland :  County  or  Shire  ?  —  Satin  Bank  Note  -  Shakes- 
peare Family  Pedigree  —  Shoe  nailed  to  Mast  —  West 
Street  Chapel,  109. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS  :  — "  How  many  Beans  make 
Five  P  "  —  Christening  Bowls  —  The  Modern  British  Coin- 
age —  "  England's  Black  Tribunall "  —  "  Champagne  to  the 
mast  head"  — Barometers  first  made  — Gray's  "Elegy" 
parodied,  111. 

REPLIES :  —  Albert  University :  Order  of  Merit,  &c.,  113  — 
Isabella  and  Elizabeth,  Ib.  —  Aristotle  "De  Begiraine 
Principum,"  114  —  Trial  of  Spencer  Cowper  —  Fridays, 
Saints'  Days  and  Fast  Days  —  Jakins  —  Husbandman 

—  Metric  Prose  —  Coins  inserted  in  Tankards  —  Paulus 
Dolscius:   Psalter  in  Greek  Verse  —  Xavier  and  Indian 
Missions  —  The   Queen's  Pennant  —  Sir  Humphry  Davy 

—  Topography  of  Ireland  — Otho  Vaenius,  "Emblemata 
Horatiana  "  —  Solicitors'    Bills  —  Crony  —Learned   Dane 
on  Unicorns  —  Jefferson  Davis  — Sunday  Newspapers  — 
Col.  Thomas  Winslow,  &c.,  115. 

Notes  on  Books. 

fOtftf* 

TURGOT,  CHATTERTON,  AND  THE  ROWLEY 

POEMS. 

Perhaps  there  is  no  provincial  town  in  England, 
the  history  of  which  has  been  so  trifled  with,  as 
that  of  Bristol.  To  Thomas  Rowley,  who  is  repre- 
sented as  a  priest  residing  here  in  the  fifteenth  cen- 
tury, has  been  ascribed  tha  authorship  of  numerous 
manuscripts  containing  narratives  relating  to  the 
old  town,  which  long  passed  as  genuine,  but  are 
now  regarded  as  the  inventions  of  that  unfortu- 
nate genius,  Thomas  Chatterton.  Among  other 
fictions  contained  in  these  papers,  mention  is  made 
of  Turgot,  a  monkish  historian,  whom  Mr.  Bar- 
rett tells  us,  "  is  said  to  be  a  Bristol  man ;  "  *  and 
whom,  too,  Jacob  Bryant  says,  "  was  assuredly  of 
this  place"  (Bristol).  "  Turgottelorn  of  Saxonne 
Parents  ynn  Bristowe  Towne"  f  The  following 
remarks  are  submitted  to  the  reader,  with  a  view 
to  show  the  incorrectness  of  such  statements  :  — 

No  one  who  has  investigated  the  subject  will 
deny  that  Turgot  was  a  real  character ;  yet  Mr. 
Barrett,  who  tells  us  that  he  "  is  said  to  be  a  Bristol 
man,"  makes  no  effort  to  ascertain  that  fact ;  nor 
does  he  give  any  memoir  of  him  in  his  "  Biogra- 

Ehical  Account  of  Eminent  Bristol  Men,"  which 
e  has  appended  to  his  History  of  Bristol.     Upon 

*  History  and  Antiquities  of  ihe  City  of  Bristol,  p.  31. 
t  Observations  upon  the  Poems  of  Thomas  Rowley,  p. 
751. 


his  presumed  testimony  he  has  depended  for  much 
of  his  account  of  transactions  in  Bristol  during 
the  reigns  of  William  the  Conqueror,  William 
Rufus,  and  part  of  that  of  Henry  I.,  at  which 
time  Turgot  was  actually  living.  A  list  of  his 
works  has  been  carefully  preserved,  but  in  it  we 
fail  to  find  one  that  does  not  treat  almost  exclu- 
sively of  persons  and  places  belonging  to  the 
north  of  England,  where  he  resided  almost  from 
his  boyhood.  He  wrote  a  life  of  Margaret,  Queen 
of  Malcolm  III.,  at  the  request  of  her  daughter 
Maud,  wife  of  King  Henry  I.  of  England.  Hec- 
tor Bcethius  and  Peter  Bale  attribute  also  the 
authorship  of  The  History  of  the  Kings  of  Scot- 
land, The  Chronicles  of  Durham,  The  Life  of 
King  Malcolm  III.,  and  the  Annals  of  his  own 
Time  to  Turgot.  The  History  of  the  Church  of 
Durham,  likewise,  which  passes  as  the  work  of 
Simeon  of  Durham,  has  been  shown  by  the  learned 
Selden,  in  his  masterly  preface  to  the  Decent 
Scriptores,  to  have  really  been  written  by  Turgot 
—  Simeon  having  unjustly  taken  the  honour  to 
himself. 

The  statement  of  Mr.  Barrett  that  Turgot  was  a 
Bristol  man,  was  not  only  reiterated  by  writers  in 
his  time,  but  it  has  been  repeated  in  our  own  in 
the  volume  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  Archceologi- 
cal  Institute- for  1851,  where,  at  p.  119,  the  error  is 
again  recorded;  and  the  copyist  says  that  "Tur- 
got is  one  of  the  principal  historians  and  writers, 
who  has  treated  on  the  antiquities  of  Bristol." 
He  then  adds,  in  a  note  at  the  foot  of  the  page, 
that  "  Some  have  called  in  question  the  au- 
thenticity of  Turgot's  history  :  he  is  cited  in  the 
belief  that  certain  ancient  papers  fell  into  Chat- 
terton's  hands  which  were  worked  up  in  his  His- 
tory." (Whose  History,  Chatterton's  ?)  Yet,  as 
the  writer  subsequently  quotes  both  Turgot  and 
Rowley  as  authorities,  without  remark  of  any  kind 
to  show  that  he  had  the  slightest  suspicion  that 
their  statements  were  mere  inventions,  we  natu- 
rally infer  that  he  believes  in  the  integrity  of  the 
writings  ascribed  to  them  ;  and  that  Rowley,  the 
creation  of  Chatterton,  was  a  veritable  personage, 
clothed  in  flesh  and  blood  like  ourselves.  In  this 
way  the  fabrications  of  the  boy-bard,  incorporated 
by  Mr.  Barrett  in  his  volume,  are  continually  re- 
peated without  examination,  to  the  regret  of  every 
lover  of  genuine  investigation,  and  every  inquirer 
after  truth. 

Although  many  persons  may  doubt  that  Turgot 
was  a  Bristolian  by  birth,  though  stated  to  be  so 
by  Mr.  Barrett;  or  that  he  was  at  all  connected 
with  Bristol  as  asserted  by  Mr.  Bryant,  I  am  not 
aware  that  any  author  questions  the  genuineness  of 
his  acknowledged  writings,  as  remarked  by  the 
writer  in  the  volume  of  Proceedings  referred  to. 
He  was,  as  we  shall  presently  see,  a  man  of  consi- 
derable note,  and  he  is  everywhere  spoken  of  with 
great  respect;  but  as  the  claim  which  has  been 


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set  up  for  Bristol  to  be  regarded  as  the  place  of 
his  nativity,  appears  to  rest  entirely  upon  the 
veracity  of  the  manuscripts  presented  to  our  local 
historian  by  Chatterton,  it  partakes  of  the  general 
suspicion  which  attaches  to  all  the  papers  given  to 
Mr!  Barrett  by  that  gifted  genius,  and  claiming 
Rowley  for  their  author ;  and  it  must  be  received 
accordingly  with  a  considerable  amount  of  doubt 
and  hesitancy. 

In  tracing  the  family  of  Turgot,  we  imd  the 
Scottish  genealogists,  whilst  proving  its  settle- 
ment in  that  country  at  a  very  early  period,  also 
very  particularly  assorting  tine  Anglo- Saxon  parent- 
age of  the  subject  of  this  inquiry  himself.  They 
maintain  that  this  Scottish  branch  of  the  family, 
was  not  only  "  of  the  highest  antiquity,  but  very 
illustrious ;  for  it  claimed  descent  from  Togut,  a 
Danish  prince,  who  lived  a  thousand  years  before 
the  Christian  era."  They  also  state"  that  at  the 
time  of  the  Crusades  some  members  of  this  family 
migrated  into  Normandy,  one  of  whom  founded 
the"  hospital  of  Conde-sur-Noireau  in  France,  in 
the  year  1281 ;  and  from  this  off- shoot  descended 
(it  is  believed)  the  celebrated  French  statesman 
Anne  Robert  James  Turgot,  born  at  Paris,  May 
10th,  1727. 

The  family  of  Turgot' was  then  evidently  of 
northern  extraction; — this  ascertained,  the  next 
point  is  to  find  out,  if  possible,  where  the  particu- 
lar individual  member  of  it,  who  is  said  by  Mr. 
Barrett  to  have  been  a  Bristol  man,  was  actually 
born.  Simeon  of  Durham,  who  was  contempo- 
rary with  Turgot,  without  referring  at  all  to  the 
place  of  his  birth,  says  that  he  came  "  a  remotis 
Anglic? partibus"  an  expression  which  Mr.  Bryant, 
in  liis  zeal  for  the  authenticity  of  the  Rowley 
poems,  interprets  to  mean  Bristol,  where  he  says 
Turgot  was  a  monk :  this,  however,  is  undoubtedly 
an  error,  as  we  shall  presently  see.  As  one  branch 
of  the  family  settled  at  an  early  period  in  Nor- 
mandy, so  we  have  reason  to  believe  that  another 
part  of  it  located  themselves  in  Lincolnshire, 
where  it  is  said  they  were  not  only  highly  respect- 
able, but  even  noble ;  and  in  this  county,  though 
we  know  not  exactly  at  what  place,  I  have  no 
doubt  that  Turgot  was  born ;  for  when  but  a 
youth,  says  Simeon  of  Durham,  he  was  delivered 
by  the  people  of  Lindsey  to  William  the  Conqueror, 
as  one  of  their  hostages  for  securing  the  peace  of 
some  of  the  western  provinces,  a  fact  which  may 
have  influenced  the  judgment  of  Mr.  Bryant  in 
asserting  his  Bristol  paternity  —  he  supposing  that 
the  west  of  England  was  intended  by  this  expres- 
sion. 

When  delivered  as  a  hostage  to  the  Conqueror, 
young  Turgot  was  confined  in  the  castle  of  Lin- 
coln, which  was  situated  in  that  part  of  the 
county  designated  Lindsey,  which  is  the  most  im- 
portant of  the  three  districts  into  which  Lincoln- 
shire is  divided;  the  two  others  being  called 


Holland  and  Kerstevan,  and  both  lying  to  the 
west  of  it :  hence  Lindsey  supplied  hostages  for 
securing  the  peace  of  itself  as  well  as  of  these 
western  provinces.  Had  Mr.  Bryant  noticed  this 
little  circumstance,  the  opinion  he  expressed  relat- 
ing to  Turgot's  birth-place  might  have  been  a 
very  different  one ;  but  he  seems,  like  many  other 
writers,  to  have  caught  at  every  thing  likely  to 
support  a  favourite  theory,  rather  than  investigate 
factsjwhich  might  overturn  what  he  was  anxious 
to  believe  himself,  and  to  induce  others  to  believe 
also. 

We  [may  then,  I  think,  fairly  conclude  that 
Turgot  was  born  somewhere  in  the  county  of 
Lincoln.  From  Lincoln  Castle  he  contrived  to 
escape  into  Norway ;  but  the  ship  which  carried 
him  there  also  conveyed  some  of  the  Conqueror's 
adherents,  who  had  been  despatched  thither  to 
treat  with  Olave,  then  king  of  that  country.  Al- 
though discovered  by  the  Normans  before  the 
vessel  arrived  at  its  destination,  Turgot  had  so 
gained  the  favour  of  the  sailors  that  they  pro- 
tected him  from  the  malice  of  his  fellow  passen- 
gers, who,  though  hostile,  were  not  suffered  to 
harm  him.  On  landing  in  Norway  he  was  pre- 
sented to  the  king,  and  he  so  won  upon  the  mon- 
arch and  his  people,  that  after  remaining  for  some 
years  at  court,  he  left  that  country  to  return 
home/laden  with  presents  ;  but  in  a  storm  which 
overtook,  and  wrecked  the  ship  on  the  coast  of 
Northumberland,  he  lost  the  whole  of  the  wealth 
he  had  accumulated.  From  that  moment  he  re- 
solved to  devote  himself  to  the  service  of  the 
church ;  and  he  accordingly  took  the  vows  of  a 
monk ;  not,  as  Mr.  Bryant  says,  in  the  west,  but 
in  the  north  of  England.  From  Northumberland, 
where  he  was  shipwrecked,  he  travelled  to  Dur- 
ham ;  "  and  applying  to  Walter,  bishop  of  that 
see,  declared  his  resolution  to  forsake  the  world, 
and  become  a  monk."  In  this  determination  he 
was  encouraged  by  the  good  prelate,  who  com- 
mitted him  to  the  care  of  Aldwin,  the  first  prior 
of  Durham,  then  at  Jarrow.  From  that  monas- 
tery he  went  to  Melrose ;  from  thence  to  Were- 
mouth,  where,  says  his  biographer,  Simeon  of 
Durham,  the  ceremony  of  his  induction  into  the 
monastery  at  Durham  was  performed  about  the 
year  1074  by  Aldwin  the  prior,  who  had  before 
been  the  prior  of  the  monastery  at  Winchcombe, 
in  Gloucestershire.  Here,  says  Simeon,  Aldwin 
bestowed  on  Turgot  the  monastic  habit — "ibi, 
Aldwinus  Turgota  monachicum  habitum  tradi- 
dit." 

On  the  death  of  Aldwin  in  1087,  Turgot  was 
unanimously  chosen  prior  of  Durham ;  and  we 
learn  from  Roger  de  Hoveden,  that  in  1093,  the 
new  church  there  was  commenced,  Malcolm  King 
of  Scotland,  William  the  bishop,  and  Turgot  the 
prior,  laying  the  first  stones.  Shortly  after  his 
election  to  the  office  just  named,  having  esta- 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


103 


blished  himself  in  the  good  opinion  of  the  bishop, 
he  was  appointed  archdeacon  of  the  diocese,  which 
situation  he  held  with  that  of  prior  of  Durham. 
Under  his  able  management  the  revenues  of  the 
monastery  were  greatly  augmented,  large  addi- 
tions were  made  to  its  privileges,  and  many  im- 
provements in  the  structure  itself  were  the  result 
of  his  prudent  government.     During  the  twenty 
years  he  held  the  office  of  prior,  he  frequently 
visited  the  various  places  included  in  his  archdea- 
conry, and  often  preached  to  attentive  audiences. 
He  was  a  sincere  admirer  of  St.  Cuthbert,  whose 
relics  were  greatly  venerated  by  him,  and  also  by 
his  early  friend  and  predecessor   in  office.  Prior 
Aldwin ;  and  it  is  not  unlikely  that  this  circum- 
stance, together  with  his  own  personal  virtues  and 
accomplishments,  induced  the  king   in    1107    to 
solicit  his  acceptance  of  the  archbishopric  of  St. 
Andrews,  which  he  did,  but  his  consecration  was 
for  many  months  delayed.     Here  he  remained  for 
the  space  of  eight  years,  and  as  his  great  worth 
was  particularly  known  both  to  the  king  and  his 
Queen   Margaret,  the  sister  of  Edgar  Atheling, 
who,  like  Turgot,  indulged  an  unconquerable  aver- 
sion  to   the  Anglo-Normans,  he   was  appointed 
confessor  to  the  latter.     Some  dissensions,  how- 
ever, between  him  and  the  king  occurring  soon 
afterwards,  so  disquieted  the  latter  days  of  the 
archbishop,  that  he  was  desirous  of  journeying  to 
Home  to  crave  the  advice  of  Pope  Pascal  in  the 
matter.     But  his  strength  being  unequal  to  the 
task,  he  retired  to  Durham,  for  which  place  he 
ever  entertained  a  great  regard,  stopping  on  his 
way  at  Weremouth,  where  he  performed  mass. 
On  arriving  at  the  former  scene  of  his  labours,  he 
was  seized  with  a  slow  fever,  which,  in  the  course 
of    two    months,   terminated   his    valuable    life. 
Here,  says  Simeon  of  Durham,  he  died  in  the  year 
1115;  and  Leland  tells  us  he  was  buried  there 
with  Aldwin  and  Walcher,  who  were  both  priors 
of  Durham,  and  that  the  tomb  which  contained 
their  ashes  remained  in  his  time. 

Although  we  are  not  informed  of  the  age  attained 
by  Turgot  when  he  died,  it  can  be  ascertained 
With  tolerable  accuracy.  By  the  expression  his 
biographer  uses,  that  when  a  hostage  to  William 
I.  he  was  "  but  a  youth"  we  shall  not  greatly  err  if 
we  regard  his  age  in  1066  as  not  exceeding  twenty 
years;  and  as  he  lived  until  1115,  he  had  not 
quite  attained  to  threescore  years  and  ten.  He 
was  undoubtedly  a  man  of  ability,  and  one  of  the 
most  distinguished  literary  characters  of  the  age 
in  which  he  lived.  To  him  is  ascribed  the  author- 
ship of  the  Battle  of  Hastings,  a  poem  which  was 
given  to  Mr.  Barrett  by  Chatterton  with  the  fol- 
lowing title  :  — 

"  Battle  of  Hastings,  wrote  by  Turgott  the  Monk,  a 
Saxon,  in  the  tenth  century,  and  translated  by  Thomas 
Roulie,  parish  preeste  of  St.  John's  in  the  Gity  of  Bristol 
in  the  vcar  14G5." 


Of  this  poem  Mr.  War  ton  says  :  — 
"I  no  longer  argue  that  the  Battle  of  Hastings  is  a 
forgery,  because  Chatterton  produced  the  first  part  as  his 
own,  a*iul  afterwards  a  second  as  the  work  of  Rowley  " 

It  is  rather  unfortunate,  too,  for  the  date  given 
to  this  poem,  that  Turgot  could  not  have  been 
even  born  until  about  the  first  half  of  the  century 
which  followed  that  mentioned,  had  passed  away. 
If  his  birth  took  place  in  the  tenth  century,  as 
stated  above,  he  would  have  attained  an  age  truly 
patriarchal ;  and  been  the  author  of  the  poem  in 
question,  many  years  before  the  battle  of  Hastings 
was  fought,  or  the  combatants  themselves  had 
existed ! 

'  From  the  circumstance,  as  already  stated,  that 
Aldwin,  Prior  of  Durham,  had  previously  belonged 
to  the  abbey  at  Winchcombe  in  Gloucestershire, 
Mr.  Bryant  has  concluded,  without  a  tittle  of  evi- 
dence, that  an  acquaintance  had  existed  between 
him  and  Turgot,  when  he  supposes  they  resided 
respectively  at  Winchcombe  and  Bristol ;  and  we 
are  informed  that  on  Turgot  removing  to  Dur- 
ham, he  there  found,  not  only  Aldwin,  but  another 
monastic  brother  from  Winchcombe,  named  Rein- 
frid.  These  circumstances,  which  are  merely  pre- 
sumed, are  nevertheless  sufficient,  in  the  estimation 
of  Mr.  Bryant,  to  account  for  the  people  of  Bristol 
being  spoken  of  with  so  much  distinction  in  the 
writings  which  are  claimed  by  himself  and  Mr. 
Barrett  to  the  productions  of  Turgot.* 

The  fact  that  Turgot  was  not  at  all  connected 
with  Bristol  is  sufficiently  apparent ;  and  that 
some  place  in  Lincolnshire  gave  him  birth.  From 
thence  we  have  traced  him  to  Durham,  where, 
and  at  places  still  further  north,  he  spent  the  rest 
of  his  life.  Nothing  has  been  adduced  of  any 
authority  whatever  to  show  that  he  was  in  any 
way  connected  with  Bristol,  or  any  other  place  in 
the  West  of  England.  In  the  north  he  appears 
to  have  spent  nearly  the  whole  of  his  life;  and 
there  too  he  died,  and  was  buried.  Everything 
that  relates  to  him  appears  to  be  narrated  by  his 
biographer,  Simeon  of  Durham,  with  a  consider- 
able amount  of  detail ;  but  not  one  word  do  we 
find  recorded  of  his  having  at  any  time  journeyed 
at  all  towards  this  part  of  the  country  ;  and  it  is 
an  unworthy  occupation  for  any  writer  to  reiterate 
the  statements  made  by  others,  which  a  little 
patient  research  would  show  to  be  entirely  devoid 
of  truth. 

Mr.  Bryant"  thinks  that  the  favourable  manner 
in  which  he  presumes  Turgot  in  the  paper  ("done 
from  the  Saxon  ynto  Englyshe"  by  Rowley), 
speaks  of  Bristol  and  its  vicinity,  "  accounts  for 
the  title  assumed  by  Chatterton  of  Dunelmus 
Bristoliensis,  which  (he  says)  he  would  never  have 
taken  had  it  not  been  for  a  prior  signature  of 
Turgot  of  Dunhelm,  which  he  had  seen  upon  a 

*  Bryant's  Observations,  pp.  226,  246,  248, 572. 


104 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  s.  I.  FEB.  8,  '62. 


manuscript."*  This  opinion  is,  however,  any- 
thing but  satisfactory,  and  I  think,  that  wkhout 
travelling  so  far  to  ascertain  Chatterton's  au- 
thority for  the  name,  it  will  be  found  in  Camden's 
Britannia,  a  book  well  known  to  antiquaries,  and 
with  which  we  have  every  reason  to  believe  that 
unfortunate  youth  was  well  acquainted ;  for, 
strange  to  say,  an  old  edition  of  this  very  work 
was  in  the  office  library  of  Mr.  Lambert,  to  whom 
Chatterton  was  apprenticed  ;  and  which,  having 
much  leisure,  and  a  great  liking  for  antiqua- 
rian pursuits,  he  no  doubt  frequently  perused. 
At  p.  934  of  that  work  (Bishop  Gibson's  2nd  edi- 
tion), speaking  to  some  facts  relating  to  the  his- 
tory of  Durham,  the  writer  says:  "Simeon  Du- 
nelmensis,  or  rather  Abbot  Turgot,  tells  us  "  — - 
and  then  he  goes  on  to  relate  particulars  which  it 
is  not  necessary  to  transcribe.  Here  it  will  be 
seen  at  a  glance,  that  the  very  name  (shortened 
by  a  syllable)  assumed  by  Chatterton,  Dunelmensis, 
to  which  he  added  Bristoliensis ;  and  that  of  the 
historian  Turgot,  to  whom  are  ascribed  the  manu- 
scripts in  question,  actually  occur  in  the  same 
passage,  and  in  such  close  proximity,  as  to  leave 
no  doubt  in  my  own  mind  as  to  the  origin  of  the 
title  or  signature  Chatterton  made  use  of,  or  from 
whence  he  derived  his  knowledge  of  the  fact  that 
Turgot  was  an  annalist  or  historian. 

Having  thus  shown  that  Mr.  Barrett  and  all 
other  writers  who  assert  that  Turgot  was  a  Bris- 
tol man  are  in  error,  it  is  not  difficult  to  deter- 
mine the  character  of  the  manuscripts  which  are 
said  by  our  local  historian  and  his  copyists  to  have 
been  "  done  from  the  Saxon  ynto  Englyshe  by  T. 
Rowlie;"  for  it  is  now  all  but  universally  be- 
lieved in  the  literary  world,  that  the  real  author 
was  the  gifted  but  unfortunate  Chatterton.  Mr. 
Bryant  has  laboured  hard,  though  not  very  suc- 
cessfully, to  prove  that  Turgot  really  was  the 
writer  of  the  poems  ascribed  to  him  ;  "  but  he 
makes  so  much  to  rest  upon  mere  speculation  and 
hypothesis,  that  we  are  not  safe  in  coming  to  any 
such  conclusion."  GEORGE" PRYCE. 

Bristol  City  Library. 


THE  REGISTERS  OF  THE  STATIONERS' 
COMPANY. 

(Continued from  3Id  S.  i.  p.  46.) 

xv  Maij   [1591].  — Andrewe  White.      Entred 

unto  him,  &c.     The  wonderfull  vyctorie  outeyned 

by  the  Centuryon  of  London  againste  fyve  Spaniahe 

gallies,   the    iiijt"    of  April,    beinge  Eater   daye, 

Vjd 

Andrewe  White.     Entred  unto  him,  &c.  a  bal- 

Jad  of  the  same  vyctorie Vjd4 

[The  tract  first  entered,  is  now  before  us,  consisting 
few  pages;  it  is  entitled  The  Valiant  and  most 

*  Observations,  pp.  222,  573. 


laudable  fight  performed  in  the  Straights  by  the  Centurion  of 
London,  against  Jive  Spanish  Gallies.  Who  is  safely  re- 
turned this  present  Moneth  of  May.  Anno  D.  1591.  There 
is  a  woodcut  of  a  ship  on  the  title-page,  so  large  that  no 
room  was  left  for  the  imprint:  at  the  end  we  read  — 
"Present  at  this  fight  Maister  John  Hawes,  March  ant, 
and  sundry  other  of  good  account."  The  result  was  most 
extraordinary,  if  we  are  to  believe  implicitly  the  state- 
ment of  Hawes ;  for  he  says  that  the  Centurion  had  only 
forty-eight  men  and  boys  on  board,  while  each  of  the  gal- 
leys that  assailed  her  had  500  sailors  and  soldiers.  The 
ballad,  as  far  as  we  are  aware,  has  not  survived,  and  we 
the  more  regret  its  loss  as  an  early  naval  effusion.] 

xvi  Maij.  —  Abell  Jeffes.  Entred  unto  him, 
&c.  A  ballad  entituled,  A  pleasant  songe  of  Twoo 
stamering  Lovers,  which  plainely  dothe  unto  your 
sight  bewray e  their  pie asaunt  meeting e  on  St.  Valen- 
tine's dale vjd. 

[The  humour  probably  consisted  in  the  ridiculous 
blunders  of  the  stammering  lovers.  We  may  conjecture 
that,  on  the  16th  May,  it  was  a  reprint  of  what  had  ap- 
peared on  or  near  Valentine's  Day,  1591.] 

Quinto  Junij. — John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  The  Masque  of  the  League  of  the  Span- 
yardes  discovered,  Sfc.  to  be  printed  in  English  vja. 

[Probably  a  translation  from  the  French.  Robert 
Greene's  Spanish  Masquerado  had  been  published  two 
years  earlier,  and  was  clearly  a  different  production; 
which  was  never  reprinted,  and  never  deserved  it.] 

10  Junij.  —  Richard  Jones.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  A  christall  glasse  for  Christian  women, 
Conteyninge  an  excellent  discourse  of  the  godly  life 
and  Xpian  death  of  Mrs.  Katherine  Stubbes,  fyc. 

vjd. 

[She  was  the  wife  of  Philip  Stubbes,  the  celebrated 
puritanical  author  of  The  Anatomy  of  Abuses,  the  first 
edition  of  which  came  out  in  May  1583;  and  its  popu- 
larity was  so  great,  that  it  was  republished  with  various 
additions  and  alterations  in  August  of  the  same  year: 
it  had  been  entered  by  Jones  on  March  1st,  1583.  (See 
Extr.  from  the  Stat.  Req.,  published  by  the  Shakspeare 
Soc.,  vol.  ii.  p.  178).  The  early  impressions  of  this  Life 
of  his  wife  seem  to  have  been  innumerable ;  but  so  many 
of  them  were  destined  by  the  thumbs  of  readers,  that 
we  have  never  been  able  to  meet  with  a  copy  of  it 
older  than  1640.  It  contains  an  inflated  encomium  on 
Mrs.  Stubbes'  piety,  virtue,  and  resignation.] 

xxiij0  Junij. — Thorns  Orwyn.  Graunted  unto 
him,  by  the  consent  of  Edward  Marshe,  theis  copies 
insuinge,  which  did  belonge  to  Thomas  Marshe 
deceased,  viz. : 

In  8vo,  in  Englishe. 
The  manage  of  wyt  and  wisdome. 
Kecpinge  of  Goshawke. 
Myrror  of  Madnes. 
Tullie's  Old  age, 
Institution  of  a  gentleman. 
Flowers  of  Terence. 
Idle  Inventions. 
Heywoode's  woorhes. 
Watchword  for  wilfull  women. 
Boohe  of  Chesse  plaie. 
SheltorCs  woorhes. 


S.  I.  FEB.  8,  '62.3 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


105 


mile's  Dreames. 
Nob  Hi  tie  of  D.  Humfrey. 
Tom  teH  trothe. 
Sipiron's  dreames, 

In  folio. 

Distruction  of  Troy,  in  meter. 

Palace  of  Pleasure,  1  part. 

Palace  of  Pleasure,  2  part. 

Tragicatt  Discourses. 

Herodotus  in  English. 

Ovid  de  tristibus  in  English. 

Seneca,  his  Tragedies. 

Digges  Tectonicon. 

Dirges  Prognostication. 

Leaden  Goddes. 

Mirror  of  Magistrates,  1  pt,  and  last  pt. 

Schools  of  Shootinge. 

Ch  urchyardes  Ch  ippes. 

Spider  and  the  file. 

Horace  Epistles. 

Horace  Sators. 

Pageant  of  Popes. 

Funeralls  of  K.  E.  the  6. 

Historie  of  Italic. 

The  lyne  of  liberalise. 

Watson's  Amyntas xiijs  iiijd. 

[This,  it  will  be  admitted,  is  a  very  curious  enumera- 
tion of  productions,  certainly  at  that  time  in  print,  but 
many  of  them  now  lost.  Perhaps  the  most  remark- 
able is  the  very  first—  The  Marriage  of  Wit  and  Wis- 
dom; which  drama  was  printed  by  the  Shakspeare 
Society,  in  1846,  from  a  MS.  in  the  possession  of  Sir  Ed- 
ward Dering,  Bart.  At  the  time  Mr.  Halliwell  wrote 
the  Introduction  to  it,  he  was  not  aware  of  the  existence 
of  the  above  memorandum ;  and  when  the  Rev.  Mr.  Dyce 
asserted,  that  "  no  such  drama  as  The  Marriage  of  Wit 
and  Wisdom  ever  existed,"  he  was  evidently  too  bold  and 
hasty  —  faults  with  which  he  is  not  usually  chargeable. 
The  list  of  the  other  pieces  is  only  a  selection  of  the  most 
popular,  for  the  rest  consist  chiefly  of  old  divinity :  a  few 
notes  upon  some  of  those  mentioned  above  may  be  ac- 
ceptable. Heywood's  Works,  clearly  means  John  Hey- 
wood,  whose  Spider  and  Fly  is  separately  distinguished 
as  a  folio  below ;  this  is  clearly  a  mistake  which  is  also 
committed  as  to  the  rest,  for  all  that  are  now  known  are 
in  quarto,  and  so  the  enumeration  ought  probably  to  have 
been  headed.  We  know  no  book  at  all  like  The  Nobility 
of  D[nke']  Humfrey.  Tom  tell  trothe  was  a  popular  sa- 
tirical song ;  Siphon's  Dreams  ought  most  likely  to  be 
"  Scipio's  Dream  "  —  Somnium  Scipionis.  Distruction 
of  Troy  was  probably  Peele's  poem;  Tragical  Dis- 
courses must  have  been  Turberville's  Tales;  Herodotus  in 
English,  consisted  only  of  the  two  first  books  by  B.  R. 
Ovid  de  Tristibus  was  by  Churchyard.  Leaden  Gods  was 
Bateman's  Golden  Booke  of  Leaden  Gods,  1577,  our  earliest 
mythology.  School  of  Shooting  was  Ascham's  Toxophilus. 
Horace  Epistles  and  Sators  were,  doubtless,  by  Drant. 
The  Funerals  of  King  Edward  the  VI.  was  by  Baldwin. 
The  History  of  Italy  was  that  of  VV.  Thomas ;  but  with 
The  Line  of  Liberality  we  have  no  acquaintance;  and 
Watson's  Amyntas  was  printed  by  Henry  (not  Edward) 
Marsh,  ex  assignation  Thomas  Marsh,  in  1585.  All  these 
we  here  see  assigned  by  Edward  Marsh,  the  son  of 
Thomas  Marsh,  then  dead,  to  Thomas  Orwyn.] 

xix  July.— Abell  Jeffes.    Received  of  him  for 


printinge  a  ballad  shewinge  the  treasons  of  George 
Bysley,  alias  Parsey,  and  Mountford,  Seminarve 
prestes,  who  suffered  in  Fletestreete  the  firste  of 
Julye,  1591 vjd. 

22  July.  —  Andrewe  White.     Entred  unto  him 
for  his  copie,  A  ballad  entytuled  The  happie  over- 
throwe  of  the  Prince  of  Parma  his  powers  before 
Knodtsen  burge  sconce,  the  xxij  of  July,  1591   vja. 

[This  ballad  in  the  copy  that  has  come  down  to  us 
has  no  imprint,  and  no  name  of  Andrew  White  as  the 
publisher.  We  apprehend,  from  the  appearance  of  the 
type,  that  it  is  not  so  old  as  the  event  it  celebrates  by 
twenty  or  thirty  years.  It  opens  then  spiritedly :  — 
"  Huzza,  my  lads,  huzzaj7 ! 

What  cheer,  my  mates,  what  cheer  ? 
The  Spaniardes  have  lost  the  day, 

As  you  shall  quickly  heare. 
The  Prince  of  Palmer  and  all  his  men, 
Have  lost  the  Sconce.     What  then  ?     What  then ?  " 
And  so  the  burden  is  continued,  each  stanza  containing 
something  in  answer  to  the  previous  question,  "What 
then?     What  then?"] 

23  Julij.  — Edward  White.     Entred  unto  him 
a  ballad  of  the  noble   departinge  of  the  right 
honorable  the  Erie  of  Essex,  lieutenant-generall 
of  her  mates  forces  in  Fraunce,  and  all  his  gallant 
companie vjd. 

[Perhaps  by  George  Peele;  but  more  probably  by 
Thomas  Deloney,  who  seldom  allowed  any  important 
event  to  escape  the  vigilance  of  his  pen.  He  was  a 
weaver  by  trade,  and  used  to  compose,  not  like  Sir 
Richard  Blackmore,  to  "  the  rumbling  of  his  chariot 
wheels,"  but  to  the  rattling  of  his  shuttle :  he  was  known 
as  "  the  ballading  silk-weaver."] 

26  Julij.  —  Rich.  Jones,  Entred  unto  him  for 
his  copy,  under  thandes  of  the  B.  of  London  and 
Mr.  Watkins,  a  booke  intituled  the  Huntinge  of 
Cupid,  wrytten  by  George  Peele,  Mr  of  Artes  of 
Oxford vjd. 

Provyded  alvvayes  that  yf  y*  be  hurtfull  to  any 
other  copye  before  lycensed,  then  this  to  be  voyde. 

[No  other  copy  of  this  work  has  ever  been  heard  of 
but  that  from  which  Drummond  of  Hawthornden  made 
extracts,  which  extracts  are  preserved  among  the  MS.  of 
the  Society  of  Antiquaries  of  Scotland  ;  but  the  book  it- 
self has  never  turned  up.  There  is  little  doubt  that  it 
was  printed ;  but  it  was  probably  suppressed,  or  with* 
drawn  from  circulation,  in  consequence  of  the  singular 
proviso  above  quoted,  of  which  nobody  seems  to  have 
taken  notice.  See  the  Rev.  Mr.  Dyce's  Peele's  Works, 
vol.  i.  xxi,  and  vol.  ii.  p.  259.] 

xxviij0  die  Julij.  —  Robert  Bourne.  Entred 
unto  him,  &c.  The  life,  arraynment,  Judgement  and 
Execution  of  William  Hacket vjd. 

[This,  according  to  Stow  (p.  1265)  was  the  very  day  of 
Hacket's  execution;  so  that,  if  the  tract  were  printed 
when  it  was  brought  to  Stationers'  Hall,  it  must  have 
been  written  and  put  in  type  in  anticipation  of  the  event. 
The  gibbet  was  erected  near  the  Cross  in  Cheapside,  and 
the  fanatic's  gesticulations  and  rhapsodies  were  such, 
and  so  violent,  that  the  executioner  and  others  "  had 
much  ado  to  get  him  up  the  ladder."] 

13  Augusti.  —  Tho.  Nelson.  Entred  for  his 
copie  a  ballad  of  a  new  northerne  dialogue  be- 


10G 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  FEB.  8,  '62. 


twene  Nail  Sone,  and  the  Warriner,  and  Lowe 
Reynold  Peares  gott  faire  Nannye  to  his  Love.vjd. 


Fit  is  not  easy  to  understand  what  was  meant  by 
Nail  Sone":  had  it  anything  to  do  with  the  name  of 
Nel-son,  the  publisher  of  the  ballad?  "  Northern,"  as  we 


have  had  occasion  before  to  observe,  was  then  used  to 
designate  any  thing  merely  rustic.] 

14  August!.  —  Gregory  Seton.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  a  book  in  English  entituled  Salustius  du 
jBartas,  his  weeke  or  Seven  dayes  woork  .  .  vjd. 

[We  apprehend  that  this  registration  applies  to  Syl- 
vester and  his  translation  of  Du  Bartas;  but  it  is  never- 
theless quite  certain  that  Sir  P.  Sidney  had  rendered  at 
least  a  part  of  it  into  English  before  his  death.  The  date 
of  the  earliest  appearance  of  Sylvester's  version  does  not 
seem  to  have  been  ascertained ;  but  we  have  seen  a  copy 
of  The  First  Day  of  the  World's  Creation,  dated  as  late  as 
1596.  Sylvester  began  the  publication  of  his  poetry  as 
early  as  1590.] 

26  August!.  —  Jo.  Danter.  Entred  for  him, 
&c.  A  pleasant  newe  ballad  called  the  Maydens 
Choyce vjd. 

[This  publication  is  not  to  be  confounded  with  The 
Maiden's  Dreame,  a  production  by  Robert  Greene  ;  of  the 
existence  of  which  the  Rev.  Mr.  Dyce  was  not  aware 
when  he  published  his  two  volumes  of  Greene's  Works. 
We  shall  have  to  speak  of  The,  Maiden's  Dreame  somewhat 
more  at  large  hereafter,  under  date  of  Gth  Dec.  1591.  We 
know  nothing  of  any  such  piece  as  The  Mayden's  Choyce, 
to  which  the  entry  relates;  but  we  apprehend  that  it 
must  have  been  merely  a  broadside.] 

J.  PAYNE  COLLIER. 


LETTERS  OF  ARCHBISHOP  LEIGHTON. 

I  am  one  of  your  many  readers  who  have 
welcomed  EIRIONNACH'S  contributions  on  the 
"  Life  and  Writings  of  Archbishop  Leighton," 
and  am  heartily  glad  to  hear  that  a  carefully 
edited  collection  of  his  works  is  at  last  likely  to 
appear.  I  have  taken  so  much  interest  in  the 
venerable  author,  as  to  Lave  collated  my  modern 
copy  (Pearson's  edition)  line  by  line  with  the  first 
editions  of  Leighton' s  Works,  and  can  add  my 
testimony  to  the  innumerable  alterations  which 
have  been  effected  in  the  original  text,  by  the 
caprice  or  ignorance  of  editors,  or  by  an  ill-judged 
desire  to  modernise  their  author's  style.  I  once 
read  through  the  writings  of  St.  Bernard,  chiefly 
in  order  to  form  a  judgment  as  to  the  extent  of 
Leighton's  indebtedness  to  him.  And  should  I 
have  chanced  to  verify  a  quotation,  the  where- 
abouts of  which  has  escaped  your  correspondent, 
I  should  count  it  a  privilege  to  communicate  the 
reference. 

From  my  parcel  of  Leightoniana,  I  have  ven- 
tured to  take  out,  and  forward  to  you  for  inser- 
tion, if  you  think  fit  in  your  valuable  periodical, 
fifteen  hitherto  unpublished  letters  of  the  Arch- 


bishop. The  three  first  were  written  by  him 
when  a  youth  at  school  at  Edinburgh,  and  were 
copied  by  me  from  the  originals  in  the  State  Paper 
Office,  they  having  been  seized  among  his  father's 
papers,  on  his  arrest,  Feb.  17,  1629.  The  re- 
mainder (mostly  undated)  belong  to  the  period 
of  his  episcopate,  and  were  copied  from  the 
originals  in  the  British  Museum. 

C.  F.  SECRETAN. 
10,  Besborough  Gardens,  Westminster. 


Sir, — I  received  a  letter  of  your's  about  the 
latter  end  of  Aprill,  wherein  you  inform  me  of  a 
letter  of  mine  that  you  have  received ;  but  I  sent 
three  or  foure  letters  since  that  one,  with  a  letter 
of  James  Cathekinges  (?),  another  to  you,  with  a 
letter  enclosed  to  my  brother,  and  on(e)  to  my 
mother  as  you  bid  me.  In  some  one  of  these  I  in- 
formed you  about  my  uncle.  I  thought  strange  to 
heare  my  aunt  was  at  London,  being  sorry  for 
her  sickness,  yet  glad  that  she  was  with  you.  I 
pray  you  to  remember  my  duty  to  her,  desiring 
her  to  pray  for  me,  which  is  also  my  request  to 
all  my  freindes.  The  buissness  that  fell  out  with 
me,  which  I  cannot  without  sorrow  relate  that 
such  a  thing  should  have  fallen  out,  yet  having 
some  hope  to  repe  good  out  of  it  as  you  exhort 
me— it,  I  say,  was  thus.  There  was  a  fight  be- 
tweene  our  classe  and  the  semies  which  made 
the  provost  to  restraine  us  from  the  play  a  good 
while  ;  the  boyes  upon  that  made  some  verses,  one 
or  two  in  every  classe,  mocking  the  provost's 
red  nose.  I  having  heard  (?)  my  lord  Borundell 
and  the  rowe  of  th  [torn  away]  speaking  about 
these  verses  which  the  boyes  had  made,  spoke 
a  thing  in  prose  concerning  his  nose,  not  out  of 
spite  for  wanting  the  play,  neither  having  taken 
notice  of  his  nose,  but  out  of  their  report,  for  I 
never  saw  (him)  before  but  once,  neither  thought 
I  him  to  be  a  man  of  great  state.  This  I  spoke 
of  his  name,  arid  presently  upon  their  request 
turned  it  into  a  verse  thus  : 

That  which  his  name  importea  is  falsely  sayd  [his 

name  is  Okenhead] 

That  of  the  oken  wood  his  head  is  made, 
For  why,  if  it  had  been  composed  so, 
His  flaming  nose  had  fir'd  it  long  ago. 

The  Verses  of  Apology  not  only  for  myself  but 
for  the  rest  you  have  in  that  paper.  I  hope  the 
Lord  shall  bring  good  out  of  it  to  me.  As  for  the 
Primare  and  the  regents,  to  say  the  trueth,  they 
thought  it  not  so  hainous  a  thing  as  I  myself  did 
justly  thinke  it.  Pray  for  me  as  I  know  you  doo, 
that  the  Lord  may  keepe  me  from  like  fals ;  if  I 
have  either  Christianity  or  morality,  it  will  not 
suffer  me  to  forget  you,  but  as  I  am  able  to  re- 
member you  still  to  God,  and  to  endeavour  that 
my  wayes  grieve  not  God  and  (to)  you  my  deare 
parents,  the  desire  of  my  heart  is  to  be  as  litle 


3*a  S.  I.  FEB.  8,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


107 


chargeable  as  may  be.     Now  desiring  the  Lord  to 
keepe  you,  I  rest,  ever  endeavouring  to  be, 
Your  obedient  Son, 

ROBEKT  LEIGHTON. 

Edenbrough,  May  6,  1628. 

I  pray  you  to  remember  my  aunt  (?),  duty  to 
my  mother,  love  to  my  brethren  and  sisters.  Re- 
member my  duty  to  all  my  freindes. 

To  his  kind  and  loving  father  Mr.  Alexander  Leighton, 
Dr.  of  medicine,  at  his  house  on  the  top  of  Pudle  hill 
beyond  the  black  friars  gate,  near  the  King's  ward- 
robe. 

These. 
London. 

Endorsed  in  the  father's  hand. 
"  If  this  Parliament  have  not  a  happy  conclu- 
sion, the  sin  is  yors.     I  am  free  of  it." 

ir. 

Loving  Mother,  —  I  have  much  wondered  that 
this  long  time  I  have  never  heard  from  you,  es- 
pecially so  many  occasions  intervening,  but  yet  it 
stopped  me  not  to  write  yet  again  (as  is  my  duety), 
and  so  much  the  more  because  I  had  so  good  an 
occasion.  I  received  a  letter  from  my  father, 
which,  although  it  was  but  briefe,  yet  it  per- 
spicuously made  manifest  unto  me  the  danger  that 
he  would  in  al  likelihood  incurr  of  the  booke  which 
he  hath  bin  printing.  God  frustrate  the  pur- 
pose of  wicked  men.  He  sent  some  of  the  bookes* 
hither,  which  are  like  to  bring  those  that  medled 
with  them  in  some  danger,  butt  I  hope  God  shall 
appease  the  matter  and  limite  the  power  of  wicked 
men,  who,  if  they  could  doe  according  to  their 
desire  against  God's  children,  would  make  havock 
of  them  in  a  sudden.  The  Lord  stirr  us  up  to 
whom  this  matter  belonges,  to  pray  to  God  to  de- 
fend and  keepe  his  children  and  his  cause,  least 
the  wicked  getting  too  much  sway  cry  out  where 
is  their  God  become.  If  trouble  come,  there  is 
no  cause  of  sinking  under  it,  but  a  comfortable 
thing  it  is  to  suffer  for  the  cause  of  God,  and  the 
greater  the  crosse  be,  if  it  be  for  righteousness, 
the  greater  comfort  it  may  afford,  and  the  greater 
honour  will  it  be  to  goe  patiently  through  with  it, 
for  if  it  be  an  honour  and  blessedness  to  be  re- 
viled for  Christ's  sake,  it  is  a  far  greater  honour 
to  be  persecuted  for  his  sake.  Exhort  my  brother 
walke  with  God,  and  pray  for  me  that  the  same 
thing  may  be  my  case.  Thus  committing  you  to 
God,  I  rest 

Your  obedient  Son, 

R.  LEIGHTON. 

Edbre,  March  12,  1629. 

Pray  remember  me  to  my  brethren  and  sisters, 
My  duty  to  my  Aunt  and  al  my  freindes.  I  write 
not  to  my  father  because  I  have  not  heard  whether 
he  be  come  home  yet  or  not.  I  directed  the  letter 

*  Ziou's  Plea  against  the  Prelacie,  for  which  he  was 
no\v  in  prison. 


as  to  my  father,  that  it  might  be  the  better  knowne 
where  to  deliver  it. 

I  writt  for  sundry  things  long  since,  for  which 
I  will  not  now  sollicit  you  ;  send  them  at  your 
owne  leasure  any  time  before  May. 

To  his  loving  father  Mr.  Alexr  Leighton,  Dr.  of  Physike, 
at  his  house  on  the  top  of  pudle  hill,  near  blackfriars 
gate,  over  against  the  King's  wardrobe. 

These. 
London. 

Endorsed,— in  Laud's  handwriting, 
"March  2,  1629.  (Style  Rom.)  Rob.  Leighton, 
the    Sonn's   Letter  to  his    mother  from  Eden- 
borough." 

in. 

Loving  Mother,  —  The  cause  of  my  delaying  to 
write  unto  you,  having  twise  received  letters 
from  you  was  this.  You  writt  unto  me  concerning 
some  things  that  you  had  sent,  and  I  differred 
writing  till  I  thought  to  have  received  them,  but 
not  having  heard  any  thing  as  yet  of  their  coming, 
I  thought  good  to  write  a  line  or  two,  having  oc- 
casion. Mr.  Wood  hath  received  things  from  Mr. 
Morhead  since  then,  with  which  he  thought  to 
have  gotten  my  thinges,  but  he  hath  received  his 
own  and  not  mine.  I  informe  you  breifly  of  this, 
but  I  more  desire  to  heare  something  of  my 
father's  affaires.  I  have  not  so  much  as  scene 
any  of  his  bookes  yet,  though  there  be  some  of 
them  heere.  I  pray  with  the  first  occasion  write 
to  me  what  he  hath  done ;  as  yet  my  part  is  in 
the  mean  while  to  recommend  it  to  God.  Re- 
member j  my  duety  to  my  aunt,  my  love  to  my 
brother  James.  I  blesse  God  for  the  thing  I 
heare  of  him,  though  I  come  short  of  it  my- 
selfe,  pray  him  to  pray  for  me,  that  God  uphold 
me,  and  let  not  Satan  take  advantage  either 
by  objecting  liberty  before  me  or  ill  example. 
Remember  me  to  Elizabeth,  Elisha,  and  my  young 
brother  and  sister.  Remember  me  to  Mrs.  Freese. 

Pardon  my  most  rude  forme  of  writing  in  re- 
gard of  the  past  and  ye  time  of  night  wherein  I 
writt  this  letter. 

Your  obed.  Son, 

R.  LEIGHTON. 

Edbrg.  May  20,  1629. 
To  his  loving  father  Mr.  Alexr  Leighton,  Dr  of  Physicke, 

at  bis  house  on  the  top  of  pudle  hill,  near  blackfriars 

gate,  over  against  the  Kinge's  wardrobe. 

These. 

London. 

Endorsed.  "  Maij  20,  1 629.  Rob.  Leighton's 
letter  to  his  mother,  fro'  Edenboroughe." 

(  To  le  continued.*) 


MYSTERIES. 

The   account  given  by  Bishop  Percy  of  the 
origin  of  the  term  "  mysteries,"  as  applied  to  the 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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religious  dramas  of  the  middle  ages,  is  well  known, 
and  has  long  been  received  as  correct. 

"  On  the  most  solemn  festivals,"  says  lie,  "  they  were 
•wont  to  represent  in  the  churches,  the  lives  and  miracles 
of  the  saints,  or  some  of  the  important  stories  of  scrip- 
ture. And  as  the  most  mysterious  subjects  were  fre- 
quently chosen,  such  as  the  Incarnation,  Passion,  and 
Resurrection  of  Christ,  &c.,  these  exhibitions  acquired 
the  general  name  of  MYSTERIES." 

The  following  considerations  seem  to  point  to 
another  derivation  of  the  word  :  — 

Shakspeare  has  made  Timon  of  Athens  speak  of 
"  manners,  mysteries,  and  trades;  "  while  in  Spen- 
ser's Mother  Halberd's  Tale,  occur  the  lines  :  — 
"  Shame  light  on  him,  that  through  so  false  illusion, 

Doth  turn  the  name  of  Souldiers  to  abusion  ; 

And  that  which  is  the  noblest  mysterie, 

Brings  to  reproach  and  common  infamie." 

To  which  Todd  adds  the  explanation  :  "  Mys- 
terie, profession,  trade,  or  calling." 

Mysterie,  in  this  sense  is  obviously  connected 
with  mister,  a  word  of  frequent  occurrence  in  our 
earlier  poets,  and  defined  by  Richardson  as  "  the 
art  or  business  with  which  any  one  supports  him- 
self." ^Probably  derived  from  mysterium,  "because 
every  art  or  craft,  however  mean,  has  its  own 
secrets,  which  it  discloses  only  to  the  initiated." 
The  term  mister  or  mysterie  was  frequently  ap- 
plied, as  in  the  above  quotation  from  Shakspeare, 
to  tlie  great  corporations  or  guilds.  May  we  not 
readily  suppose  that  from  these  corporations  it 
passed  to  the  plays  they  exhibited,  just  as  we  now 
talk  of  the  British  poets,  meaning  their  writings  ; 
or  of  reading  Dickens,^  when  we  mean  reading  his 
novels  ? 

Percy's  derivation  has  probably  obtained  such 
currency,  because  it  was  the  only  one.  It  is  not 
in  itself  highly  probable,  as  one  or  two  facts  will 
show.  In  none  of  the  hundred  references  to  the 
mysteries  or  miracle-plays  which  are  to  be  found 
in  our  old  writers,  are  they  spoken  of  as  mysteri- 
ous. Nor  were  the  "  most  mysterious  subjects 
frequently  chosen."  Lists  of  the  subjects  of  some 
of  these  ancient  plays,  which  are  still  extant,  prove 
that  those  parts  of  scripture  history  were  usually 
selected  winch  afforded  most  scope  for  material 
representation  and  dramatic  effect.  Even  when 
the  mysteries  of  religion  were  introduced,  they 
were  introduced  in  as  visible  a  form  as  possible. 

L.  C.  MlALL. 


SIR  JOHN  DAVIES  AND  ROBERT  MONTGOMERY. 
—  In  Macaulay's  essay  on  Montgomery's  poems 

ic  following  well-known  passage  :  — 
"\Vewould  not  be  understood,  however,  to  sav  that 
Mr.  Kobert  Montgomery   cannot  make  similitudes  for 
»elf.     A  very  few  lines  further  on  we  find  one  which 
every  mark  of  originality,  and  on  which,  we  will  be 
bourn!  none  of  the  poets  whom  he  has  plundered  will 
ever  think  of  making  reprisals  :  — 


« The  soul,  aspiring,  pants  its  source  to  mount, 
As  streams  meander  level  with  their  fount.' 

"  We  take  this  to  be  on  the  whole  the  worst  similitude 
in  the  world.  In  the  first  place,  no  stream  meanders,  or 
can  possibly  meander  level  with  its  fount.  In  the  next 
place,  if  streams  did  meander  level  with  their  founts,  no 
two  motions  can  be  less  like  each  other  than  that  of 
meandering  level  and  that  of  mounting  upwards." 

Has  it  ever  been  suggested  that  the  similitude 
in  question,  so  far  from  being  original,  is  stolen, 
and  "marred  in  the  stealing,"  from  Sir  John 
Davies's  Immortality  of  the  Soul(tibout  A.D.  1600)? 
In  that  fine  poem,  the  author,  adducing  proofs  of 
the  immortality  of  the  soul  from  its  own  constitu- 
tion, urges  that  its  divine  origin  is  shown  by  its 
constant  aspiration  after  perfection,  for  that  things 
have  a  natural  tendency  to  rise  to  the  level  of 
their  source :  — 
"  Againe,  how  can  shee  (i.  e.  the  soul)  but  immortall  bee, 

When  with  the  motions  of  both  will  and  wit 

She  still  aspireth  to  eternitie, 

And  never  rests  till  shee  attaine  to  it? 
"  Water  in  conduit-pipes  can  rise  no  higher 

Than  the  well-head  from  whence  it  first  doth  spring : 

Then  since  to  eternall  God  she  doth  aspire, 

Shee  cannot  be  but  an  eternall  thing." 

It  seems  scarcely  possible  that  Montgomery  had 
not  these  lines  in  memory  when  he  wrote  that  re- 
nowned distich,  which  he  made  the  "  worst  simili- 
tude in  the  world"  by  his  careless  and  common- 
place language.  ALFEED  AINGER. 

Alrewas,  Lichfield. 

MISAPPLICATION  or  TERMS.  —  A  lady  being 
asked  how  she  liked  a  discourse  delivered  by  the 
Hon.  and  Rev.  John  North,  said  that  "he  was  a 
handsome  man,  and  had  pretty  doctrine."  (North's 
Life.)  I  once  heard  the  italicised  term  applied 
by  a  male  tourist  to  the  Falls  of  Niagara. 

D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

AUTOBIOGRAPHY  OF  Miss  CORNELIA  KNIGHT  : 
ERRATA.  —  As  this  work  has  reached  a  third 
edition,  with  several  errata  uncorrected,  I  send 
the  following  :  — At  p.  78  of  vol.  ii.  (3rd  edition), 
Lord  St.  Vincent  comes  to  London  to  "  consult 
Clive  and  Sir  Edward  Horned  These  names 
should  be  "Cline"  and  "Sir  Everard  Home." 
Clive  for  Cline  occurs,  passim.  P.  105,  "  The 
National  Guards  had  nosegays  on  their  bouquets": 
evidently  "bayonets."  P.  116,  Lord  Petre  is 
twice  called  "Petrie."  P.  154,  at  Paris  in  1826, 
Madlle.  Delphine  Gay  is  made  to  recite  a  poem 
on  "The  triumphal  Entry  of  King  Alfred": 
query,  "Henry"?  P.  130,  Pistrucci,  the  well- 
known  medallist,  is  called  Pestrucci ;  but  this  may 
be  a  mere  error  of  the  press.  JAYDEE. 

LOTTERY.  —  The  following  early  notice  of  a 
lottery  is  taken  from  the  Wells  corporate  Records, 
under  date  15th  Oct.,  10th  Elizabeth:  — 

"  At  this  Convoc'on  the  Mi-  and  his  brethrene  w'the 
the  condiscent  of  all  the  burgesses,  hath  fully  agreed 


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that  ev'y  occupacon  w'thin  the  Towne  aforesayde  shall 
make  their  lotts  for  the  Lottery  accordynge,  as  well  to 
the  Queene's  Ma'ty's  p'clamacon  as  to  her  p'vy  L'res  as- 
signed in  that  behalf." 

INA. 

MISSING,  oa  DISLOCATED  DOCUMENTS.  —  The 
papers  in  the  State  Paper  Office,  or  as  it  was  then 
called  the  "  Paper  Office,"  do  not  appear  to  have 
been  so  sedulously  preserved  formerly  as  in  the 
present  day.  Cromwell,  notwithstanding  all  that 
has  been  hurled  upon  him  by  his  enemies  as  to 
the  reckless  destruction  of  muniments  by  his  sol- 
diery, cannot  bear  the  culpability  of  a  careless 
disregard  of  public  documents  during  the  brief 
period  of  his  power.  No  better  or  more  careful 
series  of  papers  can  be  found  than  those  of  the 
Council  of  State  during  the  Interregnum.  Whether 
in  the  period  anterior  to  the  Protectorate,  or  dur- 
ing the  first  few  years  of  the  then  troublous  times, 
papers  began  to  be  lent  out  indiscriminately  to  in- 
dividuals, is  not  certain ;  but  it  appears  evident 
by  the  following  order  that  the  Council  of  State 
deemed  it  expedient  to  place  their  veto  upon  such 
a  laxity  of  public  trust.  The  practice  referred 
to  below  is  not  at  all  unlikely  to  account  for 
missing  or  lost  papers  : 

"  Monday,  y«  2  of  February,  1651. 
"  That  Mr  Randolph,  keeper  of  the  Paper  Office  in 
Whitehall,  bee  required  to  call  for  such  papers  as  have 
beene  by  him  lent  out  of  the  Paper  Office  to  any  person 
to  bee  returned  backe  againe  into  the  office,  and  that  for 
the  future  hee  doe  not  give  out  any  papers  but  by  order 
of  the  Parlam',  or  Councell,  or  Comittee  of  the  Councell 
for  forreigne  affaires ;  and  that  he  doe  wth  all  convenient 
speed  make  an  inventory  of  all  such  papers  and  write- 
ings  as  are  in  his  custody,  and  tender  the  same  to  the 
Councell." 

ITHUKIEL. 

LENGTHENED  TENURE  or  A  LIVING.  —  My  great 
grand  uncle  the  Rev.  John  Higgon,  was  presented 
to  the  living  of  Landowror,  in  Carmarthenshire,  by 
Sir  John  Philipps,  Bart.,  of  Picton  Castle,  in  1761. 
Mr.  Higgon  held  the  living  until  the  period  of  his 
death  in  1813,  at  the  age  of  93.  The  living  was 
then  given  by  Lord  Milford,  son  of  Sir  John 
Philipps,  to  the  Rev.  Thomas  Martin,  who  still 
holds  it.  The  right  of  presentation,  therefore,  has 
only  been  exercised  once  in  a  century. 

JOHN  PAVIN  PHILLIPS. 

Haverfordwest. 

BONEFIRE  AND  BONFIRE.  —  I  am  quite  aware 
that  in  the  English  language  bonfire  becomes  bone- 
fire  by  exuberance  of  spelling  only,  and  by  no 
connection  of  fact  or  etymology.  But  this  seems 
true  of  the  English  language  only.  The  Irish 
language  has  the  word  (in  a  native  form)  bone- 
fire,  and  uses  it  also  for  bon-fire.  Conor  O'Sul- 
livan  (a  seditious  bard  of  the  early  part  of  the 
last  century),  in  a  poem  foretelling  an  outbreak  of 
his  countrymen,  encourages  them  to  make  the 


following  amongst  other  preparations  for  the  happy 
event : 

"  Deantar  cnaimh-theinnte,  agus  seid  stoc  na  pibe,"  &c. 
This  being  interpreted  means, 

"Let  iowe-fires  be  made  and  the  bagpipe  blow,"  &c. 
The  curious  reader  will  find  the  entire  poem  in 
Mr.  John  O'Daly's  Poets  and  Poetry  of  Munster 
at  p,  256  of  the  first  volume.  H.  C.  C* 


"ADESTE  FIDELES." —  I  have  just  read  the 
following  account  regarding  this  hymn  :  — 

"  The  Adeste  Fideles,  although  really  a  composition  by 
an  Englishman  named  John  Beading  (who  also  wrote 
Duke  Domum),  obtained  the  name  of  « The  Portuguese 
Hymn,'  from  its  having  been  heard  bjr  the  Duke  of 
Leeds  at  the  Portuguese  Chapel,  who  imagined  it  to  be 
peculiar  to  the  service  in  Portugal.  Being  a  Director  of 
the  Ancient  Concerts,  his  Grace  introduced  the  melody 
there ;  and  it  speedily  became  popular,  under  the  title 
he  had  given  it." 

The  above  account  was  written  by  a  daughter 
of  the  late  Vincent  Novello,  who  was  organist  at 
the  Portuguese  Chapel,  it  should  therefore  be  of 
authority.  But  is  it  the  generally  received 
theory  ?  NOTIA. 

ARMS  IN  NOBLE'S  "  CROMWELL  FAMILY."  —  In 
Noble's  Memoirs  of  the  Cromwell  Family  there  is 
an  engraving  representing  the  arms  of  the  Crom- 
wells  at  Hinchinbrooke  House,  among  which  is 
the  coat  of  Cromwell  impaling,  quarterly,  1st  and 
4th  az.,  3  acorns  (slipped  and  leaved)  or  ;  2nd  and 
3rd  arg.,  a  bull's  head  couped  sa.  armed  or.  Over 
all  on  an  inescutcheon  arg.,  a  lion  rampant  re- 
guardant  vert,  crowned.  This  coat  is  stated  (Proofs 
and  Illustrations ,  vol.  i.  p.  317)  to  be  the  arms  of 
Sir  Henry  Cromwell,  impaling  those  of  his  wife, 
Joan  Warren  *,  with  a  coat  of  pretence  for  Trelake 
alias  Davy.  If  this  were  so,  the  arms  of  Davy 
would  have  been  borne  quarterly  by  Joan,  and 
not  in  pretence.  It  appears,  however,  from  Prest- 
wich,  that  the  arms  of  Warren,  as  borne  on  one  of 
the  banner-rolls  at  the  state  funeral  of  the  Protec- 
tor, were  or,  a  chevron  between  3  eagles'  heads  erased 
sable.f  Whilst  Stowe  (Survey,  ed.  1633,  p.  581), 
and  also  Heylin,  in  his  Arms  of  the  Lord  Mayors, 
describes  the  arms  of  Sir  R.  Wrarren  as  az.,  on  a 
chev.  engrailed  between  3  lozenges  or,  as  many 
griffins'  heads  erased  of  the  field ;  on  a  chief 
cheeky  of  the  3rd  and  gules,  a  greyhound  courant 
collared  or,  which  has  much  the  appearance  of 


*  Joan,  daughter  and  heir  of  Sir  Ralph  Warren,  Knt., 
Lord  Mayor  of  London  in  1536,  and  part  of  1543,  by 
Joan,  daughter  and  coheiress  of  John  Trelake,  alias  Davy 
of  Cornwall. 

t  Prestwich's  Respublica,  p.  186;  Burke's  Armoury 
gives  to  Warren  of  London,  or,  a  chev.  between  3  griffins' 
heads  erased  sa.,  which  coat  was  also  at  Hinchinbrooke,  and 
is  engraved  on  the  same  plate  in  Noble. 


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the  "  Henry-the-Eighth  "  modification  of  the  «oat 
mentioned  by  Prestwich.  Now  I  cannot  help 
thinking  that  the  impalement  in  question  is  a 
foreign  coat,  and  I  should  at  once  have  assigned 
it  to  Palavicini,  an  Italian  family  connected  with 
the  Cromwells,  had  not  Blome  in  his  Britannia 
engraved  the  arms  of  Paravicin  (as  he  calls  it)  as 
"  a  pelican,  colours  unknown."  * 

As,  therefore,  it  is  clear  that  Noble  was  in  error 
in  assigning  the  coat  to  Warren,  the  question 
arises  — to  whom  did  it  belong?  And  I  hope, 
through  the  medium  of  "  N.  &  Q.'^to  solve  this 
question,  which  is  one  of  no  mean  importance  to 
me  personally,  and  is,  I  venture  to  think,  one  of 
some  little  interest  to  the  <;enealogical  world. 

II.  S.  G. 

Fed  more. 

ARNENIAN  SOCIETY.— Can  any  of  your  readers 
inform  me  where  a  list  of  the  members  of  the 
Arnenian  Society,  of  the  latter  part  of  the  last 
century,  can  be  seen.  Are  any  still  living  ? 

S.  H.  ANGIER. 

15,  Hyde  Park  Gate,  South. 

BALDWIN  FAMILY:  SIR  CLEMENT  FARNHAM. — 
I  am  exceedingly  indebted  to  your  correspon- 
dent W.  P.  for  his  lucid  answer  to  my  Query  re- 
specting the  office  of  Comptroller  of  the  Works, 
as  held  by  my  ancestor  Thomas  Baldwyn.  I 
should  be  very  gltul  to  receive  any  information 
respecting  any  other  members  of  the  old  Hert- 
fordshire family  of  Baldwyn,  or  Baldwin,  of  which 
the  said  Thomas  was  a  member.  A  cousin  of  his, 
Catharine  Baldwyn,  married  Sir  Clement  Ffarn- 
ham,  or  Farnham,  Knt.,  as  appears  from  some  old 
Chancery  pleadings  in  my  possession.  Is  any- 
thing known  of  this  Sir  Clement,  and  why  he 
received  the  honour  of  knighthood  ?  Is  there 
any  other  old  family  of  Baldwin  existing  at  the 
present  time,  and  in  what  county,  and  what  are 
the  arms  borne  by  its  members  ? 

F.  C.  F. 

SIR  FRANCIS  BRYAN.  —  Is  anything  known  of 
the   parentage   of   Sir  Francis  Bryan,  who    was 
knighted   by  the  Earl  of  Surrey  "in  Brittany  in 
1522,  and  died  in  1550,  Marshal  of  Ireland,  after 
having  married  for  his  second  wife  Joan  Countess 
Dowager  of  Ormonde  ?     His  arms  and  standard 
will  be  found  in  the  Excerpta  Historic^  p.  338, 
from  the  MS.  I.  2,  in  the  College  of  Arms ;  and 
the  former  were,  Argent,  three  piles  wavy  meeting  , 
in  base  vert,  within  a  bordure  engrailed  azure  ! 
bezantee.     This  coat  is  attributed  to   "  Bryan,  of 
Bedfordshire,"  in  Burke's   General  Armory,  but 
the  name  does  not  occur  under  that  county  in  ! 
Sims's  Index  to  the  Heralds'  Visitations.     A  bor-  I 
dure  engrailed  was  a  difference  sometimes,  but  | 

*  Noble,  ii.  214;  Berry  (Ency.  Herald.}  gives  the  arms 
of  L  aravtsun,  "  gu.,  a  goose  arg." 


not  always,  indicative  of  illegitimate  descent.  Sir 
Francis  Bryan  was  orator  at  Rome  in  1529,  am- 
bassador in  France  in  the  same  year,  and  to  the 
emperor  in  1543.  As  early  as  1526  he  was  cup- 
bearer to  Henry  VIII.,  and  master  of  the  noble 
youths  termed  the  King's  henchmen  :  and  the 
following  interesting  testimony  to  his  qualifica- 
tions for  the  latter  office  is  given  by  Roger  As- 
cham  :  "  Some  men  being  never  so  old,  and  spent 
by  years,  will  still  be  full  of  youthful  conditions  : 
as  was  Sir  Francis  Bryan,  and  evermore  would 
have  been."  (The  Scholemaster,  Second  Book.) 
As  a  poet,  Sir  Francis  Bryan  has  been  noticed  by 
Mr.  J.  Payne  Collier,  in  the  Archceologia,  vol. 
xxvi.,  and  by  Mr.  Robert  Bell  in  the  English 
Poets  (Surrey  and  others),  1854,"  p.  231.  The 
latter  terms  him  "  nephew  to  Lord  Berners,  the 
translator  of  Froissart."  How  was  that?  It  does 
not  appear  in  the  account  of  the  Berners  family 
in  Banks' s  Dormant  and  Extinct  Baronage,  1808, 
ii.  50.  JOHN  GOUGII  NICHOLS. 

ENGRAVED  HEADS. — I  have  the  six  engravings 
by  Thomas  Frye  (Hatton  Garden,  1760),  which 
are  thus  mentioned  by  Edwards  in  his  Anecdotes 
of  Painters :  — 

"  Of  his  (Frye's)  mezzotinto  productions,  there  are  six 
heads  as  lar^e  as  Jife :  one  of  them  is  the  portrait  of  the 
artist  himself." 

The  head  referred  to  is  distinguishable  by  the 
word  ipse,  but  the' others  (four  male  and"  one 
female)  are  without  inscription.  I  shall  feel  much 
obliged  to  any  'one  who  can  inform  me  whether 
these  are  portraits,  and  if  so,  of  whom  ? 

CHARLES  WYLIE. 

FAMILY  OF  DOWSON  OF  CHESTER.  —  In  a  MS. 
by  Handle  Holme,  in  the  British  Museum,  among 
several  coats  of  arms,  chiefly  of  Cheshire  gentry, 
occurs  a  sketch  of  the  following,  headed  "Dowson 
of  Chester":  Argent,  two  pales  sable;  over  all 
a  chevron  gules  ;  on  a  canton  of  the  last,  five 
bezants.  There  is  no  note  or  pedigree  attached. 
Can  any  Cheshire  or  Lancashire  antiquary  oblige 
me  with  information  respecting  this  family  of 
Dowson  ?  The  name  occurs,  in  connexion  with 
the  parish  of  Woodchurch,  in  1641,  when  John 
and  Svinon  Dowson  were  living  there.  J. 

JACOB  FLETCHER.  —  In  Smithers's  History  of 
Liverpool,  published  about  1824,  there  is  a  Cata- 
logue of  Liverpool  authors.  In  that  list  I  found 
the  name  Jacob  Fletcher,  author  of  several  dra- 
matic pieces.  Can  any  Liverpool  correspondent 
give  any  account  of  the  author,  the  titles  and 
dates  of  his  works,  &c.  &c.  ZETA. 

GREEK  ORATOR. — I  heard  it  said  the  other 
day  that  a  Greek  orator  once  began  "  a  speech " 
with  a  phrase  that  is  a  precise  equivalent  to  those 
well-worn  English  words  :  "  Unaccustomed  as  I 
am  to  public  speaking."  I  have  been  at  some 


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Ill 


trouble  to  verify  this  statement,  and  have  failed. 
Will  some  of  your  readers  help  me  ?  K.  P.  D.  E. 
IKON.  —  I  shall  be  glad  of  the  etymology  of 
this  vocable,  which  is  found  as  a  termination  of 
many  local  names  in  Switzerland  :  as  Attikon, 
Bubicon,  Danikon,  Dietikon,  Elfretikon,  Eschli- 
kon,  Islikon,  Niinikon,  Nebikon,  Oberlikon,  Pfaf- 
fikon,  Russikon,  Schmerikon,  Wetzikon  or  Wezi- 
kon.  Is  it  from  eclie,  a  corner,  or  from  wic  ?  or 
whence  ?  11.  S.  CHARNOCK. 

JONES  OF  DINGESTOW.  —  In  35  Elizabeth,  the 
arms — Azure,  3  talbots1  heads  erased,  argent — 
were  confirmed  to  Walter  Jones,  Esq.,  of  Dinges- 
tow,  Monmouthshire,  as  the  arms  of  his  ancestors. 
Will  anyone  oblige  by  some  earlier  account  of 
this  bearing,  and  the  family  who  used  it  ?  H.  W. 

PASSAGE  IN  CICERO.  —  Von  Kaumer,  in  his 
Palastina  (p.  22),  quotes  a  saying  of  Cicero's 
(without  reference)  to  the  effect,  that  the  God  of 
the  Jews  must  have  been  an  insignificant  deity, 
as  he  had  confined  his  people  to  so  small  a  coun- 
try. I  have  been  unable  to  discover  this  quota- 
tion, and  shall  be  grateful  to  anyone  who  can 
point  it  out.  G. 

RUTLAND  :  COUNTY  OR  SHIRE  ?  —  Is  the  latter 
incorrect  ?  And  if  so,  why  ?  Is  it  true  that 
formerly  Rutland  had  no  sheriff",  and  would  that 
have  any  bearing  on  the  question  ?  What,  if  any, 
is  the  difference  between  a  county  or  shire? 

ELIOT  MONTAUBAN. 

Aberystwith. 

SATIN  BANK  NOTE. — I  have  a  pretended  bank 
note,  partly  printed  on,  and  partly  woven  into,  a 
piece  of  bluish-white  satin  ribbon  of  the  requisite 
width  :  — 


Bank,  No. 


1798 


I  promise  to  pay  to or  Bearer, 

on  demand,  the  Sum  of  ONE 

London,  the  day  of  1798. 

For    the    Gov.     ami    Comp.    of   the 

Bank  of  E-n-and," 

is  printed,  all  but  the  word  ONE,  which  is 
woven ;  and  also  a  still  larger  ONE,  which  is 
woven  in  pink,  and  corresponds  in  situation  with 
the  large  black  and  white  number  on  a  bank 
note.  "  Winchester  St.  17th  March,"  is  in  writ- 
ing on  the  upper  part  of  the  note.  Is  this  a  squib, 
or  what  ?  A  good  many  must  have  been  woven 
to  make  it  worth  while  to  do  so.  P.  P. 

SHAKESPEARE  FAMILY  PEDIGREE.  —  I  haveTa 
pedigree  of  the  family  of  the  Shakespeares  by 
John  Jordan,  of  Stratford,  1796,  engraved  on  a 
4to  page.  What  book  does  it  belong  to  ?  It  has 
been  published  since  Jordan's  time,  as  it  is  brought 
down  to  1818.  SENNOKE. 

SHOE  NAILED  TO  MAST.  — 

"  Having  beat  tip  successfully  the  windward  passage, 


we  stretched  io  the  northward ;  and  falling  in  with  a 
westerly  wind,  in  eight  weeks  arrived  in  soundings,  and 
in  ten  days  after  made  the  Lizard.  It  is  impossible  to 
express  the  joy  I  felt  at  the  sight  of  English  ground! 
Don  Rodrigo  was  not  unmoved,  and  Strap  shed  tears  of 
gladness.  The  sailors  profited  by  our  satisfaction :  the 
shoe  that  was  nailed  to  the  mast  being  quite  filled  with 
our  liberality."  —  Roderick  Random,  chap.  Ixvii. 

Query,  Does  this  custom  of  the  shoe  survive  on 
ship-board,  and  on  such  occasions  still  ? 

QUIVIS. 

WEST  STREET  CHAPEL.  —  It  would  be  a  great 
favour  if  any  one  would  tell  me,  either  through 
"N.  &  Q."  or  privately,  where  I  may  find  an 
account  of  West  Street  Chapel,  St.  Giles's- in-the- 
Fields.  I  want  the  history  of  it  previous  to  1743, 
when  it  was  rented  by  John  Wesley.  In  large 
histories  of  the  parish  and  of  London,  no  mention 
is  made  of  this  old  building.  R.  W.  DIBDIN. 

62,  Torrington  Square,  W.  C. 


e4  tettfc 

"  How  MANY  BEANS  MAKE  FIVE  ?  "  —  I  have 
heard  this  expression  made  use  of  by  several  per- 
sons, and  I  believe  it  is  used  in  various  counties 
more  or  less.  Some  explain  it  as  "  being  up  to 
a  thing  or  two " ;  some  as  "  the  man  of  the 
world."  Can  you  explain  its  origin  and  meaning  ? 

A.  MOULTON. 

[The  phrase  in  full  is,  "He  knows  how  many  beans 
make  five;  "  that  is,  as  our  correspondent  suggests,  he  is 
"up  to  a  thing  or  two."  Perhaps  we  may  obtain  a 
clearer  view  of  the  true  import  of  this  expression,  by 
comparing  it  with  that  other  saying,  "  He  knows  how 
many  go  to  the  dozen,"  i.  e.  in  buying  a  dozen  he  knows 
how  many  he  ought  to  have  "in"  For  instance,  the 
huckster  in  Old  London,  who  bought  loaves  of  the 
baker  to  sell  again  from  door  to  door,  knew  that  for  every 
twelve  loaves  he  paid  for  he  was  entitled  to  thirteen, 
which  was  therefore  called  a  "  baker's  dozen,"  the  odd 
one  being  the  retailer's  profit.  In  like  manner  with  regard 
to  the  phrase,  "  He  knows  how  many  beans  make  five." 
Suppose  him  to  buy  a  load  or  wey,  which  is  five  quarters : 
he  knows  what  is  the  extra  allowance  usual  in  the  trade 
—  say  a  sack  over  —  and  takes  care  to  get  it.  Either  he 
must  have  this  regular  allowance,  or  he  will  not  take  the 
beans.  He  is  not  going  to  be  put  off  with  a  bare  five 
quarters  and  nothing  more.  In  this  sense,  "  He  knows 
how  many  beans  make  five"  will  mean  "He  is  not 
easily  taken  in ;  he  knows  what  he  is  about  when,  he 
makes  a  purchase." 

A  classical  explanation,  however,  has  been  offered. 
The  Greeks  occasionally  used  beans  in  voting  for  candi- 
dates at  elections.  Suppose  there  are  five  vacancies,  and 
many  competitors.  The  man  who  best  knows  how  the 
votes  (or  beans)  are  likely  to  go,  is  the  best  able  to  name 
the  five  successful  candidates.  He  is  the  man,  also,  who 
can  best  calculate  "  how  many  beans  "  are  requisite,  to 
set  the  five  at  the  head  of  the  poll.  This  then  is  the  in- 
dividual who  knows  "  how  many  beans  will  make  five." 

This  explanation  may  be  de'emed  a  little  far-fetched. 
In  the  Italian  language,  however,  fava  (a  bean)  some- 
times stands  for  niente,  that  is,  nil,  a  mere  nothing. 
"Tutto  efava,"  "It's  all  nothing."  In  this  sense  the 


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query,  "How  many  beans  make  five?"  would  become 
"How  many  noughts  make  five?  "  —  one  of  those* posing 
questions  with  which  wiseacres  delight  to  dumfound  and 
puzzle  noisy  little  boys,  like  "  How  many  stars  will  fill 
asack?"&c.] 

CHRISTENING  BOWLS..— A  recent  number  of 
"N.  &  Q."  contained  some  particulars  upon  Apos- 
tle-spoons. Can  any  reader  supply  information 
upon  the  kindred  subject  of  christening  bowls  ? 

L.  L.  D. 

[We  find  more  frequent  allusions  in  old  writers  to 
apostles'  spoons  than  to  bowls  as  presents.  In  fact,  ac- 
cording to  Howe's  edition  of  Stow's  Chronicle,  1631,  p. 
1039.  before  the  reign  of  James  I.,  at  baptisms  the  spon- 
sors used  to  give  christening  shirts,  Avith  little  bands  or 
cuffs,  wrought  with  silk  or  blue  thread ;  but  afterwards 
they  gave  spoons,  cups,  &c.  Shakspeare,  who  was  god- 
father to  one  of  Ben  Jonson's  children,  gave  "a  douzen 
of  Latten  spoons."  In  the  Comforts  of  Wooing,  p.  163 
(quoted  by  Brand),  "  The  godmother  hearing  when  the 
child  was' to  be  coated,  brings  it  a  gilt  coral,  a  silver 
spoon,  and  porringer,  and  a  brave  new  tankard  of  the 
same  metal."  According  to  Shipman  (Gossips,  1666), 
the  custom  of  making  presents  at  baptisms  declined  in 
the  time  of  the  Commonwealth  :  — 

"Formerly,  when  they  us'd  to  trowl 
Gilt  bowls  of  sack,  they  gave  the  bowl 
Two  spoons  at  least  —  an  use  ill  kept  — 
'Tis  well  if  now  our  own  be  left." 

P.epys,  however,  observed  the  custom :  —  "  Nov.  26,  1667. 
At  my  goldsmith's,  bought  a  basin  for  my  wife  to  give 
the  Parson's  child,  to  which  the  other  day  "she  was  god- 
mother. It  cost  me  10/.  14s.  besides  graving,  which  I 
do  with  the  cypher  of  the  name,  Daniel  Mills,"] 

THE  MODERN  BRITISH  COINAGE. — What  is 
the  date  of  the  present  system  of  English  coinage, 
as  divided  into  pounds,  shillings,  and  pence  ? 

L.  L.  D. 

[Henry  VII.  1489,  issued  the  double  ryal,  or  sovereign 
of  20.«.,  accompanied  by  the  double  sovereign  of  4,0s.  In 
1~>44,  Henry  VIII.  struck  sovereigns  of  the  former  value 
of  20s.,  and  half-sovereigns  in  proportion.  In  1817, 
sovereigns  and  half-sovereigns  of  20s.  and  10s.  each,  were 
again  coined,  and  the  guineas  and  half-guineas  were  gra- 
dually withdrawn  from  circulation.  —  The  stilling  was  a 
denomination  of  money  in  Saxon  times.  The  testoon,  or 
shilling,  was  first  coined  by  Henry  VII.  in  1503,  —  In 

B:>int  of  antiquity  the  pr.nny  is  the  oldest  of  the  three. 
efore  half-pence  were  coined,  it  was  an  integer,  a  silver 
piece,  and  hud  been  such  for  ages.  It  first  appears  as  a 
silver  coin  in  the  laws  ofliia,  King  of  the  West  Saxons, 
who  began  his  reign  in  68*.  Provincial  coins  and  trades- 
men's tokens  were  superseded  by  an  issue  of  lawful  cop- 
per pennies  on  June  26,  1797.  Consult  Ruding's  Annals 
of  Coinage,  4to,  1810,  passim.'] 

"ENGLAND'S  BLACK  TRIBUNALL."  —  Can  you 
inform  me  as  to  the  value  of  a  curious  work, 
which  I  discovered  the  other  day  among  some 
very  old  family  books?  It  is  entitled  England's 
Slack  Tribunall,  and  consists  of  two  parts;  the 
first,  containing  a  full  account  of  the  trial  and 
execution  of  King  Charles  I.,  with  a  portrait  of 
that  monarch,  and  an  elegy  on  his  death,  com- 
mencing — 
"  Come,  come,  let's  mourn  :  all  eyes  that  see  this  day, 

Melt  into  shower?,  and  weep  yourselves  away,"  &c. 


The  second,  the  several  dying  speeches  of  the 
nobility  and  gentry  who  suffered  death  for  their 
loyalty  to  their  sovereign.  At  the  bottom  of  the 
title-page  is  written,  "  London :  Printed  for  J. 
Play  ford,  1660."  I  should  like  to  krrow  the  real 
author  of  the  lines  in  question,  which  are  very 
original  and  curious.  H.  C.  F.  (Herts.) 

[This  work  has  all  the  appearance  of  being  the  com- 
pilation of  J.  Playford,  the  bookseller,  and  «  The  Eli- 
gie"one  of  those  fly-sheets  so  numerous  just  after  the 
murder  of  the  king.  At  p.  51  of  the  third  edition,  cor- 
rected and  enlarged  (Lond.  8vo,  1680),  instead  of  the 
letter  written  by  King  Charles  to  his  son  the  Prince 
from  Newport,  Nov.  29,  1648,  which  is  omitted,  there  are 
inserted  "His  Majestie's  Prayers  in  the  time  of  his  Re- 
straint," immediately  before  "TheEligie."  At  the  end 
of  this  work  will  be  found  "  The  manner  of  the  execution 
of  the  reverend  Dr.  John  Hewyt,  on  the  scaffold,  on 
Tuesday,  8th  June,  1658,  with  his  Speech  before  his 
death.  "  Also,  Dr.  John  Hewit's  Letter  to  Dr.  Wilde  on 
Monday,  June  7,  1658,  being  the  day  before  he  suffered 
death,  and  read  by  Dr.  Wilde  at  his  Funerall."  This 
work  only  fetched  5s.  at  the  Roxburghe  sale.  The  edi- 
tion of  1671  is  an  abridgment,  and  does  not  contain  Part 
II.] 

"  CHAMPAGNE  TO  THE  MAST  HEAD."  —  What  is 
the  meaning  or  origin  of  this  phrase  which  one 
often  hears  in  reference  to  a  plentiful  supply  of 
the  wine  at  table  ?  S. 

Edinburgh. 

[We  have  heard  the  expressions  "  Swimming  in  cham- 
pagne," and  "We  drank  champagne  enough  to  float  a 
ship."  But  we  suspect  that  like  champagne  itself,  the 
phrase  "Champagne  to  the  mast  head"  has  not  come 
into  common  use.  It  may  probably  be  regarded  as  an 
extension  or  exaggeration  of  the  expressions  which  we 
have  cited.] 

BAROMETERS  FIRST  MADE.  —  In  North's  Life  it 
is  stated  that  barometers  were  first  made  and  sold 
by  one  Jones,  a  noted  clockniaker  in  the  Inner 
Temple  Gate,  at  the  instance  of  the  Lord  Keeper 
Guildford.  Is  this  the  generally  received  opinion  ? 

D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

[The  Mr.  Jones  above  referred  to  may  possibly  have 
been  the  first  Englishman  to  construct  a  Torricellian 
tube,  as  the  barometer  was  originally  called,  after  its  in- 
ventor, Evangelista  Torricelli,  the  illustrious  mathemati- 
cian and  philosopher  of  Italy ;  who,  between  the  years 
lull  and  1647,  discovered  the  method  of  ascertaining  the 
weight  of  the  atmosphere  by  a  proportionate  column  of 
quicksilver.] 

GRAY'S  "ELEGY"  PARODIED.  —  Where  can  I 
find  in  print  a  parody  upon  Gray's  Elegy  in  a 
Country  Churchyard,  written,  I  believe,  by  Mr. 
Duncombe,  under  the  title  of  An  Evening  Con- 
templation in  a  College  ?  I  have  an  impression  of 
having  seen  it,  many  years  ago,  in  some  collection 
of  poems,  which  must  have  been  printed,  I  think, 
after  the  original  Elegy  appeared  in  Dodsley's 
Collection,  1755,  and  some  time  before  the  close 
of  that  century.  H.  E. 

["  An  Evening  Contemplation  in  a  College  "  is  printed, 
without  any  author's  name,  in  the  2nd  vol.  of  The  Repcsi- 


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tory;  a  Select  Collection  of  Fugitive  Pieces  of  Wit  and 
Humour  in  Prose  and  Verse  (2nd  ed.  1783,  pp.  71-76.) 
In  the  same  volume  will  be  found  Gray's  beautiful  ode, 
and  three  other  parodies  or  imitations  of  it;  namety, 
"  An  Elegy  written  in  Covent  Garden,"  "  The  Nunnery ; 
an  Elegy,"  and  "An  Elegy  written  in  Westminster  Hall 
during  the  Long  Vacation,"] 


ALBERT  UNIVERSITY;  ORDER  OF  MERIT,  ETC. 

(3rd  S.  i.  87.) 

Few,  I  think,  will  have  read  the  suggestions 
lately  thrown  out  respecting  a  memorial  for  the 
late  Prince  Consort,  without  hoping  that  the  pro- 
posed memorial  may  take  the  form  of  a  Univer- 
sity in  English  Literature,  Science,  and  Art ;  or 
else  some  such  an  Order  of  Merit  as  the  one  re- 
ferred to  by  your  correspondent  MR.  J.  W. 
BRYANS.  The  nation  has^ong  felt  both  these 
wants.  The  London  University  has  done  a  little 
towards  encouraging  science  by  establishing  its 
bachelor's  and  doctor's  degrees  in  that  branch  of 
learning.  Yet  this  has  been  but  little.  Owing 
to  the  necessity  of  first  matriculating  in  arts, 
many  who  could  pass  in  all  the  scientific  subjects 
are  prevented  from  presenting  themselves  as  can- 
didates. 

The  suggestion  respecting  an  Albert  Cross,  or 
some  Order  of  Merit,  is  worthy  of  serious  consider- 
ation. "They  manage  these  things  better  in 
France";  and  though  we  may  have  sneered  at 
the  way  in  which  our  Gallic  neighbours  fill  the 
ranks  of  their  Legion  of  Honour,  we  have  felt 
that  a  similar  distinction  would  be  a  very  good 
thing  amongst  ourselves.  Mr.  Thackeray,  in  one 
of  his  witty  "Roundabout  Papers,"  treats  us  to 
an  amusing  disquisition  on  what  might  have  been 
if  the  proposed  order  of  Minerva  had  ever  come 
into  existence.  And  though  we  cannot  repress  a 
smile  at  Sir  Alexis  Soyer  and  Sir  Thomas  Sayers, 
we  are  obliged  to  confess  that  there  could  be  no 
nobler  and  better  memorial  to  the  great  and  good 
Prince  than  the  two  suggested,  if  fully  and  fairly 
carried  out. 

The  difficulty,  of  course,  is  to  get  the  matter 
properly  taken  up.  We  have  honours  enough 
already  existing  for  our  fortunate  lawyers,  states- 
men, and  military  officers.  What  we  want  is 
some  distinction  so  valuable  that  our  highest  lite- 
rary and  scientific  men  might  be  proud  to  bear 
it,  with  lower  grades,  which  would  prove  an  at- 
traction to  the  cleverer  members  of  the  struggling 
middle  classes,  and  which  as  rewards  of  merit 
they  might  hope  to  obtain. 

Your  Magazine  is  hardly  the  place  for  dis- 
cussing this  subject;  yet  should  the  latter  of 
these  suggestions  be  ever  adopted,  it  will  be  no 
small  honour,  amongst  its  other  successes,  that 
the  idea  was  first  brought  forward  in  the  pages  of 
"-^.  &Q."  H.B. 


ISABELLA  AND  ELIZABETH. 
(2nd  S.  xii.  364,  444,  464,  522,  3rd  S.  i.  59.) 

If,  as  Mr.  BUCKTON  and  F.  C.  H.  assert,  the 
name  Isabella  was  first  used  in  Europe  in  Spain  or 
Portugal,  may  it  not  have  been  borrowed  from  the 
Moors?  This  idea  suggested  itself  to  me  as  soon 
as  I  had  read  Mr.  BUCK/TON'S  article,  in  which  he 
disposes  of  the  question  in  a  somewhat  summary 
and  arbitrary  manner;  and  I  therefore  at  once 
wrote  to  Mr.  Catafago  (who  is  a  native  of  Syria) 
and  asked  him,  without  mentioning,  or  even  allud- 
ing to,  the  name  Jezebel,  whether  there  was  in 
Arabic  any  equivalent  for  our  name  Isabella,  and 
if  so,  whether  such  equivalent  was  of  recent  intro- 
duction, or  of  ancient  date.  I  give  the  first  few- 
lines  of  his  reply  verbatim ;  "  In  answer  to  your 
letter  I  must  state  that  we  have  the  name  Isabella 

in  Arabic,  which  is  Jbj^  (Izbal*).     This  name 

is  very  old,  and  it  is  mentioned  in  the  Bible, 
1  Kings  xxi.  5."  I  have  since  seen  Mr.  Catafago, 
and  he  assures  me  that  this  name  Izbdl  is  still 
used  as  a  woman's  name  in  Syria  and  Egypt,  al- 
though it  is  by  no  means  so  common  as  Mary, 
Martha,  or  Elizabeth,  which  last  is  in  Arabic 

CjbLJl  (Elisabat).f 

It  is  therefore  clear  that  those  Syrians  and 
Egyptians  who  are  acquainted  with  any  European 
language  in  which  Isabella  (in  one  or  other  of  its 
forms)  is  made  use  of,  regard  it  as  the  equivalent 
of  their  name  Izbdl,  which  is  used  in  the  Arabic 
version  of  the  Old  Testament  to  express  ?2TI|K 
(Izebelty,  and  which  has  probably  not  been  bor- 
rowed from  the  Hebrew,  but  been  preserved,  in 
southern  Syria  (Palestine)  at  least,  since  the  days 
of  the  woman  who  rendered  it  infamous.  If,  there- 
fore, the  name  is  still  used  in  Arabic,  it  is  no  doubt 
because  it  is,  so  to  say,  a  household  name,  and  not 
because  the  Syrians  or  others  wished,  from  any 
admiration  of  that  woman,  to  perpetuate  her  name. 
In  the  same  way  we  still  use  Henry  and  Mary,  al- 
though these  names  were  borne  by  two  sovereigns 
whom  most  of  us  do  not  revere. 

But,  some  one  may  say,  even  if  the  Moors  car- 
ried the  name  with  them  into  Spain  and  Portugal 
(as  they  naturally  must  have  done),  is  it  likely 
that  the  Christians  would  adopt  the  name  of  one 
they  so  abhorredf?  I  reply  that,  if  they  did  adopt 
it,  they  probably  did  so  unwittingly.  The  Portu- 
guese write  Jezebel,  Jezabel,  which  I  suppose  they 
would  pronounce  Yezabel,  whilst  their  equivalent 
for  Elizabeth  is  Isabel.  In  the  same  way,  there- 
fore, that  in  England  the  name  Jezebel  seems  but 
to  few  (in  consequence  of  the  difference  in  pro- 
nunciation) to  have  any  connection  with  Isabel,  so 
in  Portugal  there  must,  I  think,  be  many  who  do 

*  Pronounced  Izbdhl.          f  Pronounced  Eleessahbdht. 
|  Pronounced  Eezevel,  and  =  our  Jezebel. 


114 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  FEB.  8,  '62. 


not  dream  of  any  connection  between  their  two 
names,  Jezabel  and  Isabel.  When,  there  fore,"  the 
inhabitants  of  the  Spanish  Peninsula  heard  from 
the  Moors  the  name  Izbdl,  is  it  improbable  that 
they  would  not  recognise  in  it  a  name  which  they 
were  in  the  habit  of  calling  Jezabel? 

In  conclusion,  that  the  Portuguese  use  Isabel  as 
the  equivalent  of  Elizabeth  is,  as  I  said  before, 
no  proof  that  the  two  names  are  of  common  origin. 
Izbdl*  resembles  Elizabeth  very  nearly  as  much 
as  Isabel  does,  and  if  (as  Mr.  BUCKTON  asserts)  the 
Portuguese  found  it  natural  to  curtail  Elisabeth 
(or  JElisabe"f)  into  Isabel,  they  surely  would  not 
be  unlikely  to  adopt  as  an  abbreviation  of  Elisa- 
beth a  name  (Izbdl  or  Isabel)  which  they  found 
ready  made  for  them. 

According  to  my  theory  then,  Elizabeth  (or 
Elisabeta,  as  the  name,  did  it  exist,  would  pro- 
bably be  written  in  Span,  or  Port.)  and  Isabel 
(derived  from  Izbdl  or  Izcbel)  ran  on  for  a  time 
together  as  distinct  names,  but  ultimately  coalesced, 
the  latter  being  in  the  first  instance  used  indiffer- 
ently with  the  former — as  soon,  namely,  as  it  was 
perceived  to  form  a  convenient  abbreviation  for  it 
—  and  ultimately  superseding  it  altogether. 

F.  CHANCE. 

Elisa,  Phoenician. 
Elism,  Greek. 

Elixabe,  Syriac  and  Hebrew. 
Elisabet,  Greek. 
Elisdbetha,)  Italian  and  French. 
ElisaLella,  Italian. 
El  rejected,  Isabella,  Portuguese. 
Thus  the  identity  of  Isabel  and  "Elisabeth  is 
clear  as  day  to  POLYGLOTTUS. 


ARISTOTLE  "DE  REGIMINE  PPJNCIPUM." 
(3rd  S.  i.  56.) 

_  Being  far  away  from  books  and  papers  of  every 
kind,  I  can  only  give  from  memory  a  few  results 
of  an  investigation  I  made  last  July  on  readino- 


Izl<d  is  very  Arabic  in  form.  It  differs  from  the  He- 
>rew  (.Izebel)  in  the  absence  of  the  middle  vowel  and  in 
the  prolongation  of  the  final  syllable.  These  character- 
istic differences  would  naturally  vanish  on  the  introduc- 
:ion  of  the  word  into  Span,  or  Port.,  and  Izlal  would,  bv 
the  obliteration  of  its  Arabian  features,  readily  become 
Izabelor  Isabel.  But  the  Portuguese  or  Spaniards  might 
even  have  borrowed  the  name  Isabel  from  the  Jews,  whose 


pronunciation  of  >2J>K  Izd.d  (,,r  Eczcvd)  would  appear 
to  them  very  different  from  their  own  of  JezabeJ 

t  My  opinion  is  that  the  form  fir*t  used  in  Portugal 

iF'J^.tftw  the  VuIff->  an<l  not  ™&* 

Hebr.  which  would  be  less  known),  so  that  if 
been  derived  from  this  source,  the  final  th  must 


™ 

(after 


the  note  about  Fordun's  citation  from  the  above 
work.  It  affords  one  of  the  many  proofs  how  very 
much  we  still  want  a  reference  book  on  the  lite- 
rature of  the  Middle  Ages ;  not  a  compilation, 
from  compilations,  but'a  work  based  on  an  actual 
examination  of  the  books  themselves. 

I  searched  through  the  old  catalogue  of  MSS. 
(Oxon.  1697,  el  vols.  folio),  and  those  of  the  Cot- 
tonian,  Harleian,  Sloane,  Old  Royal,  and  Addi- 
tional MSS.  in  the  Museum,  and  any  others  that 
came  to  hand,  especially  M.  Paulin  Paris's  Cata- 
logue of  French  MSS.  in  the  Imperial  Library; 
and  these,  together  with  Wenricb's  work  cited  by 
Sir  George  Lewis,  and  Fluegel's  invaluable  edition 
of  Hajji  Khalfa's  Lexicon  B'Miographicum  of  Ara- 
bic literature,  and  the^orclinary  books  of  reference, 
supplied  almost  as  much  as  could  be  obtained  with- 
out looking  at  every  known  copy  of  the  work 
itself.  All  within  reach  at  Cambridge,  however, 
I  did  examine. 

The  result  appeared  to  be  that  all  the  versions 
in  the  modern  languages  of  western  Europe  were 
made  directly  or  indirectly  (e.  g.  the  English  is 
from  the  French)  from  the  Latin.  In  the  Latin 
there  are  some  discrepancies  in  the  prefatory 
matter,  but  most  copies  agree  in  having  a  dedi- 
cation, in  which  we  are  told  that  the  translation 
was  made  from  an  Arabic  copy  found  in  the  East 
by  one  Philippus,  who  styles  himself  clericus,  at 
the  suggestion  of  Guido  de  Valentia,  Bishop  of 
Tripoli,  to  whom  it  is  dedicated.  These  circum- 
stances, interpreted  by  the  fact  that  M.  Paulin 
Paris  mentions  a  Latin  copy  at  Paris,  probably 
(judging  from  the  paper  and  writing)  written  in 
the  East  in  the  thirteenth  century,  would  lead  us 
to  suppose  Guido  to  have  been  a  Latin  Bishop  of 
Tripoli  in  Syria  during  the  crusading  period.  I 
was  unable  to  find  a  list  of  such  bishops  (though 
I  dare  say  such  is  to  be  had),  and  Antonio  and 
other  Spanish  authorities,  though  they  mention 
Philippus,  give  no  more  information  than  we  had 
before.  So  that  here  at  least  there  is  room  for 
confirmation. 

Further :  the  Latin  copies  seem  to  agree  in 
having  a  preface,  from  which  we  learn  that  the 
Arabic  version  was  made  from  the  Syriac  (Chal- 
dee  as  it  is  termed),  and  that  from  the  Greek,  at 
the  desiie  of  his  sovereign,  by  Joannes  filius 
Patricii,  who  found  the  Greek  original  in  the 
adytum  of  some  heathen  temple  (of  ./Esculapius, 
if  I  remember  rightly)  and  translated  it  into 
Syriac  and  thence  afterwards  into  Arabic.  On 
searching  Hajji  Khalfa  for  translations  of  Aris- 
totle I  found  that  Jahja  ibn  Batrik  was  one  of 
the  leading  literati  at  the  court  of  Al  Mamun, 
the  son  of  Ilarun  Al  Rashid,  and  that  he  trans- 
lated many  of  Aristotle's  works,  and  what  may  be 
this  very  work,  the  Kitab  al  Riyaset,  is  mentioned 
among  them.  The  Syriac  seems  to  have  perished  ; 
and  no  doubt  the  Hebrew  and  Persian  versions 


3'd  S.  I.  FER.  8,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


115 


which  now  exist,  were  made  from  the  Arabic. 
But  here  arises  a  question  which  none  but  an 
Arabic  scholar  can  solve,  and  I  fear  we  have  not 
many  now  who  would  think  this  worth  the  trouble, 
as  nothing  but  a  patient  examination  of  the  various 
copies  can  help  us.  The  Arabic  title  would  do  as 
well  for  the  Politics  as  for  the  De  Regimine 
Principum ;  and  what  means  have  we  of  distin- 
guishing these  ?  The  matter  is  still  further  com- 
plicated by  the  existence  of  another  Arabic  version 
made  not  more  than  three  hundred  years  ago  — 
of  which  of  the  two  treatises  I  will  not  under- 
take to  say.  The  only  clue  I  can  suggest  is  to 
examine  the  Arabic  copies  now  existing,  and  to 
determine  which  contain  the  original  of  the  Latin 
DC  Regimine,  so  popular  with  our  ancestors,  and 
which  the  original  of  the  vetus  translatio  of  Aris- 
totle's Politics,  current  in  the  middle  ages,  and 
commented  on  by  Walter  Burley  the  English 
philosopher.  I  cannot  help  thinking  that  if  this 
were  done,  we  might  get  some  clue  to  the  Greek 
original  of  the  De  Regimine,  which  now  seems  so 
hopelessly  beyond  our  reach.  At  first  sight  there 
is  no  ground  for  doubting  the  account  of  Jahja 
ibn  Batrik,  that  he  found  the  Greek  and  trans- 
lated it ;  and  though  modern  scholars,  Fabricius 
and  others,  express  no  doubt  of  the  spuriousness 
of  the  treatise,  it  is  generally  rather  taken  for 
granted  than  discussed.  I  did  not  know  of  Jour- 
dain's  work  when  I  was  on  the  subject,  so  he  may 
have  gone  into  the  question,  These  remarks  will 
at  least  serve  to  show  that  it  is  no  easy  matter  to 
get  at  the  truth  on  these  points. 

PIENRY  BRADSHAW. 
Bournemouth. 


TRIAL  OF  SPENCER  COWPER  (3rd  S.  i.  91.)  — 
With  reference  to  this  question  and  answer  in  last 
"N.  &  Q."  about  the  trial  of  Spencer  Cowper,  it 
is  hardly  possible  that  the  writers  should  not  be 
aware  of  the  full  account  of  it  in  Lord  Macaulay's 
posthumous  volume.  But  as  they  have  not  men- 
tioned it  I  do  so,  as  no  doubt  those  who  wish  to  be 
acquainted  with  it  will  get  a  livelier  idea  of  it  from 
Macaulay  than  from  the  journal  reports. 

LYTTELTON. 

Althorp,  3rd  Feb.  1862. 

FRIDAYS,  SAINTS'  DAYS,  AND  FAST  DAYS  (2nd  S. 
xii.  463.)  —  It  is  said  by  E.  P.  C.  that  a  Saint's 
.day  on  a  Friday  is  a  fast;  but  he  adduces  this  as 
a  logical  argument  —  am  I  not  right  in  believing 
that  practically  it  is  not  to  be  so  kept  ? 

I  would  also  ask,  if  an  Ember  day  is  a  Saint's 
day,  should  we  not  observe  it  as  a  festival  ?  In 
the  S.  P.  C.  K.  Churchman  s  Almanack  for  the  pre- 
sent year  such  events  are  marked  as  fasts.  The 
Society  has  given  me  no  defence  of  its  having  so 
mentioned  these  days  in  answer  to  my  enquiries 
on  the  subject.  A  Saint's  day  (S.  Matthew's)  and 
an  Ember  day  occurred  on  September  21st  (it  will 


be  so  also  on  S.  Thomas's  day),  but  these,  I  be- 
lieve, should  not  be  called  fast-days.          J.  F.  S. 

JAKINS  (3rd  S.  i.  68.)  —  In  reply  to  W.  V.'s 
Query,  I  beg  to  suggest  that  the  word  "  Jakins," 
or  "Jachins,"  is  nothing  more  than  the  diminutive 
of  "  Jaques,"  equal  to  our  "James,"  Little  James; 
and  we  trace  to  the  same  source  the  words  Jack, 
Jakes,  Jex,  by  an  easy  transition. 

I  should  very  much  doubt  the  connection  be- 

tween the  above  and  the  name*  of  one  of  the  pillars 

of  Solomon's  Temple,  as  two  different  languages 

and  totally  different  periods  show  no  application. 

JOHN  NURSE  CHADWICK. 

King's  Lynn. 

If  W.  V.  will  take  Gesenius  in  the  one  hand, 
and  Burke's  Armory  in  the  other,  he  will  find 
amongst  hundreds  of  Hebrew  names,  the  follow- 
ing modern  synonyms  :  — 

Coniah         -  Cone}*,  Coyney. 

Gush   -  Cosh  (Devon). 

Cuth   -  Cutt,  Cutts. 


Dannah 
Deker- 
Dilean 
Dishon 
Eden  - 
Ekron  - 
Eldaah 
Elah  - 
Eleasah 


Danier-s. 

Decker. 

Dillon. 

D3rson. 

Eden,  Iden. 

Ekring-  ton. 

Elder. 

Heler-s. 

Eliseaux  (Normandy). 


Elika  ....    Ellefker  (Yorkshire). 

Hauran        -  Heron. 

Hoi  on  -  Holland,  &c. 

Hur  -        -        -    Ure. 

Isaac   -        ---    Isaac  (Devon,  temp.  Hen.  III. 

Matilda,  daughter  of  Robt. 

Bruce,  wife  of  Thomas  de 

Isaac). 

Jachan         ...    Juchen. 
Jachin          ...    Jakin-s. 

s  for  son,  ton  for  town. 

SENEX. 

HUSBANDMAN  (3rd   S.  i.  30.)  —  The  husband- 

man tills  the  ground  ;  the  yeoman  owns  it.     The 

yeoman  who  tills  his  own  land  is  husbandman  as 

well  as  yeoman.     The  yeoman  is  the  landed  pro- 

prietor, who  does  not  possess  the  right  of  gentry. 

Yeoman  is  rather  the  designation  of  rank  ;  hus- 

bandman of  occupation.  W.  C. 

METRIC  PROSE  (2nd  S.  xii.  515.)—  With  all 

deference  to  MR.  KEIGHTLEY,  whose  name  is^  as- 

sociated with  some  of  the  pleasantest  recollections 

of  my  childhood,  I  would  suggest   that  there  is 

abundance  of  "metric  prose"  —  prose    metrical 

through  accident,  and  not  by  design,  in  the  pages 

j  of  "  N.  &  Q."     A  very  little  alteration  will  reduce 

i  two  articles  in  the  number  of  "  N.  &  Q.,"  to  which, 

|  in  this  note,  I  refer,  into  very  fairly  regular  metre. 

Without  alteration  they  run  thus  :  — 

"  By  metric  prose,  I  mean  continuous  prose, 

But  composed  of  metric  lines  of  five 


ire 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  FEB.  8,  '62. 


Feet,  which,  however,  are  not  restricted  to  two. 
Of  this  Chaucer  * 

Was  the  inventor,  and  in  it  he  composed 
Two  of  his  tales,  writing  them  continuously, 
Probably  to  save  paper,  while  his  other  prose 
Pieces  are  mere  ordinary  prose,"  &c.  &c. 

"  The  interesting  reply  of  PKOFESSOR  DE  MORGAN 
On  this  subject  suggests  the  inquiry  whether, 
Though  a  calculus  could  not  be  founded  on  all 
Possible  moves  at  chess,  it  would  be 
Impracticable  to  frame 
A  calculus  founded  on  all  the  true  moves,"  &c.  £c. 

COINS  INSERTED  IN  TANKARDS    (3rd  S.  j.  50.)  — 

I  Lave  a  glass  tankard  nine  inches  in  height  with 
a  coin  of  George  III.,  1787,  inserted.  It  is  a  shil- 
ling^), quite  fresh  and  bright.  E.  M. 

I  have  a  small  glass  tankard  enclosing  a  two- 
penny piece  of  George  I.  The  reverse  was  evi- 
dently worn  before  its  insertion  in  the  glass. 

JOHN  S.  BURN. 

Henley. 

I  can  offer  no  opinion  as  to  the  coins  inserted 
in  glass  tankards  being  a  sign  of  the  date,  or 
otherwise.  I  only  wish  to  mention  that  many 
years  ago  I  possessed  a  glass  cup  of  this  kind  with 
a  sixpence  of  William  and  Mary  inclosed.  The 
cup  got  broken,  and  I  took  out  the  coin  ;  I  had  it 
by  me  for  years,  and  perhaps  have  it  still.  The 
coin  was  bright  and  not  worn,  but  of  the  pattern 
of  the  glass  cup  I  have  no  distinct  recollection. 

F.  C.  II. 

J.  C.  J.  imagines  that  about  a  century  and  a 
half  ago  it  was  the  fashion  to  insert  coins  in  tan- 
kards. I  have  a  handsome  glass  tankard  with  a 
sixpence  confined,  but  moveable,  in  the  bottom, 
which  boars  date  the  year  of  my  birth,  1787.  I 
have  seen  many,  say  five  or  six  specimens,  some 
with  small  gold  and  some  with  silver  coins.  My 
opinion  is,  that  it  was  a  fashion  from  sixty  to  one 
hundred  years  ago,  but  not  earlier. 

GEORGE  OFFOR. 

Hackney. 

PAUI.US  DOLSCIUS  :  PSALTER  IN  GREEK  VERSE 
(3rd  S.  i.  68.)— The  author  was  a  native  of  Plauen, 
where  he  was  born  in  1526.  He  studied  at  Wit- 
tenberg under  Melanchthon,  who  obtained  for  him 
a  place  as  Master  of  the  Gymnasium,  at  Halle. 
He  studied  medicine  at  Padua,  and  took  a  degree 
there,  after  which  he  returned  to  Halle,  where  he 
died  in  1589,  after  being  inspector  of  churches, 
schools,  £e.,  and  a  burgomaster.  He  wrote  a 
Greek  version  of  the  Augsburg  Confession,  and 
the  Psalms  in  Greek  elegiacs ;  the  former,  pub- 
lished in  1559,  and  the  latter  in  1555;  both  at 
Basel.  His  Greek  verses  have  sometimes  been 
ascribed  to  Melanchthon,  and  Masch's  Le  Long 
says  this  was  the  case  with  the  volume  E.  A.  D. 
enquires  about,  The  dedication  explains  the 


origin  and  aim  of  the  book,  which  is  admitted  to 
be  °n  rarity.  Masch  refers  to  Le  Long,  pp.  703 
and  857 ;'  Baumgarten,  Nachrichten  von  Merkw. 
Buck.  7, 101 ;  and  J.  A.  Fabricius,  Biblioth.  Grcsca, 
7,  668.  A  notice  of  Dolscius  is  in  the  Nouvelle 
Biographic  Generate,  &c.  B.  H.  C. 

He  was  born  at  Plauen,  in  Germany,  in  1526, 
and  died  at  Halle,  March  9,  1589.  He  studied  at 
the  University  of  Wittemberg,  and  there  formed 
an  intimacy  with  Melanchthon,  and  zealously  sym- 
pathized with  his  labours  in  promoting  the  cause 
of  the  Reformation.  He  took  a  medical  degree, 
and  adopted  medicine  as  a  profession.  He  wrote 
Greek  with  great  facility.  Besides  the  Psalms  of 
David,  he  translated  into  that  language  the  Augs- 
burg Confession  of  Faith.  For  the  above  in- 
formation I  am  indebted  to  the  Nouvelle  Bio- 
graphie  Geuerale  of  Dr.  Hoefer.  '^Aieik. 

Dublin. 

XAVIER  AND  INDIAN  MISSIONS  (3rd  S.  i.  90.)  — 
I  think  I  may  almost  say  that  Salutaris  Lux  Evan- 
gelii  toti  orbi  per  Divinam  Gratiam  Exoriens,  &c., 
by  J.  A.  Fabricius,  gives  all  the  information  that 
can  be  desired  as  to  ancient  missions  and  mission- 
ary literature.  Hamburg,  4to,  1731. 

Books  on  Jesuit  missions  abound,  as  the  pre- 
ceding will  show.     See  too  Bayer's  Historia  Ori- 
cntulis;  Assemani's  BiUiotlieca  Orientalis;  D'Her- 
belot's  Bibliotheque,  the  edition  in  four  vols.,  the 
last  vol. ;  Missionary  Gazetteer,  by  Chas.  Williams, 
London,  1828  ;   Cyclopcedia  of  Christian  Missions, 
Griffin,  London,  1860;  Sketches  of  Christianity  in 
North   India,  by  M.Wilkinson,    London,    1844; 
i  Handbook  of  Bengal  Missions,   by  Rev.  J.  Long, 
London,  1848.     Some  of  the  societies  have  pub- 
lished their  own  histories.     But  perhaps  the  Rev. 
Jas.  Hough's  works  on  Christianity  in  India,  would 
I  fully  answer  your  correspondent's  requirements 
j  for    Protestant   missions.      I   would  particularly 
I  urge  the  first  book  I  named  as  a  key  to  the  old 
literature  upon  the  subject.  B.  H.  C. 

If  MR.  PATON  will  refer  to  the  notice  prefixed 
to  the  "  Life  of  St.  Francis  Xavier,"  in  the  Lives 
of  Saints  by  the  Rev.  Alban  Butler,  he  will  find 
there  a  copious  list  of  histories  of  the  life  and 
labours  of  the  saint.  It  is  also  there  mentioned 
from  what  sources  his  life  was  chiefly  compiled 
by  F.  Bouhours,  which  was  translated  by  Dryden 
and  published  in  1688. 

With  respect  to  other  Jesuit  missions  in  India, 
very  interesting  accounts  are  given  in  the  cele- 
brated Lettre.s  E'difiantes  et  Curieuses,  vols.  x.  to 
xv.,  both  inclusive,  embracing  the  period  from 
1693  to  1705.  I  presume  that  the  inquirer  is 
familiar  with  the  more  recent,  Nouvelles  Lettres 
edifmntes  des  Missions  de  la  Chine  et  des  Indes 
Orientales,  in  5  vols.  Paris,  1818,  and  the  Annales 
de  la  Propagation  de  la  Foi,  which  have  been 
regularly  published  for  several  years.  F.  C.  H. 


3"i  S.  I.  FEB.  8,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


117 


THE  QUEEN'S  PENNANT  (2nd  S.  xii.  473.)  —  It 
is  not  at  ail  probable  that  the  "Trent"  had  the 
pennant  flying  at  the  time  Mason  and  Slidell  were 
forcibly  taken  possession  of,  and  the  British  colours 
outraged  by  the  "  San  Jacinto  "  ;  my  reason  for 
saying  so  is  that  I  never  saw  one  of  the  steamers 
belonging  to  the  Royal  (\Vest  India)  Mail  Com- 
pany with  it  hoisted,  although  both  mails  and  mail 
agent  may  have  been  on  board. 

The  only  line  of  mail  steam  packets  that  hoist 
the  pennant,  is  that  from  Southampton  to  Lisbon, 
belonging  to  the  Peninsular  and  Oriental  Steam 
Navigation  Company.  These  vessels  also  have 
what  I  understand  to  be  the  Admiralty  ensign  ;  it 
has  an  anchor  and  crown  on  the  red  ground,  in 
which  it  differs  from  the  usual  merchant  ensign. 
I  have  heard  that  this  distinction  from  all  other 
mail  packets  is  allowed  in  consequence  of  the  Pen- 
insular contract  being  the  oldest  one  in  existence 
for  steam  vessels,  and  all  made  since  have  a  clause 
inserted,  by  which  the  vessels  are  not  to  hoist 
either  the  pennant  or  Admiralty  ensign.  How  far 
this  is  correct  I  leave  for  other  correspondents  to 
decide,  but  at  any  rate  the  subject  is  worthy  of 
ventilation.  HAUGHMOND. 

Southampton. 

SIR  HUMPHRY  DAVY  (3rd  S.  i.  51.)  — The  fol- 
lowing may  afford  some  satisfaction  to  the  Query 
of  ANTi-PooH-PooH.  It  is  a  copy  of  an  auto- 
graph letter,  in  my  possession,  of  Sir  H.  Davy. 
I  am  ignorant  of  the  gentleman's  name  to  whom 
it  was  addressed. 

"  23,  Grosvenor  Street. 
"  Sir,  January  13,  1816. 

"  I  have  received  the  letter  you  did  me  the  honour  to 
address  me.  I  fear  the  scheme  of  lighting  the  coal- 
mines by  gas  will  not  be  practicable,  as  the  miners  re- 
quire lights  which  can  be  easily  moved,  and  the  places  of 
which  are  often  changed.  I  have,  however,  sent  your 
letter  to  the  Editor  of  the  Philosophical  Magazine,  as  I 
think  every  ingenious  hint  that  leads  to  discussion  should 
be  published.  He  possibly  may  insert  it  in  his  next  num- 
ber, unless  he  should  hear  from  you  in  the  course  of  a 
day  or  two,  that  you  do  not  wish  it  to  be  published. 

I  am  much  obliged  to  you  for  your 

communication,  and  I  hope  you  will  not  forbid  the  pub- 
lication of  it. 

"  I  am,  Sir,  your  obed*  humble  Serv*, 

"  H.  DAVY." 
ALFRED  JOHN  STRIX. 

Exeter. 

TOPOGRAPHY  OF  IRELATTD  (2nd  S.  xii.  474.)  — 
Your  correspondent,  who  has  been  examining  an 
old  map  of  Ireland,  should  have  his  Queries 
answered  without  much  difficulty.  I  will  explain 
those  having  reference  to  the  north  of  Ireland, 
leaving  the  others  for  some  correspondent  in  the 
localities  named. 

Uriel  is  the  ancient  name  of  the  county  of 
Louth. 

The  county  of  Knockfergus,  or  Carrickfergus, 


so  far  from  having  gone  anywhere,  is  still  in  exist- 
ence as  it  was  when  the  old  map  was  made.  It  is 
properly  styled  the  county  of  the  town  of  Carrick- 
fergus ;  has  its  own  sheriff  and  other  officers,  its 
fixed  boundaries,  and  long  established  privileges, 
and  is  an  entirely  separate  jurisdiction  from  the 
county  of  Antrim  in  the  centre  of  which  it  lies. 
The  history  of  the  very  ancient  town  of  Carrick- 
fergus, including  that  of  its  county,  has  been 
written  by  the  late  Mr.  Samuel  McSkimin,  of 
which  two  editions  have  been  published  ;  and  it  is 
one  of  the  very  few  good  works  of  antiquarian 
and  topographical  character  of  which  Ireland  can 
boast.  Indeed,  seeing  that  some  works  of  this 
class  are  of  very  small  value,  with  little  claims  to 
original  research  or  the  display  of  sound  judg- 
ment—  though,  perhaps,  produced  under  the  ad- 
vantages of  competence  and  learned  leisure,  the 
command  of  documents  scarcely  obtainable  thirty 
years  ago  even  by  influential  persons,  and  all  but 
inaccessible  to  those  in  opposite  circumstances  — 
this  work  of  McSkimin's,  destitute  of  course  of 
documentary  treasures  discovered  since  his  time, 
but  as  far  as  it  goes  so  original,  painstaking,  and 
trustworthy,  must  be  pronounced  a  production 
of  extraordinary  ability  :  the  slender  education, 
the  position  in  life,  the  incompatible  occupation 
and  other  disadvantages  of  the  writer  (with 
whom  I  was  well  acquainted),  being  taken  into  ac- 
count. 

Kilmacrenan  is  a  parish  and  barony  in  the 
county  of  Donegal,  the  ancient  territory  of 
O'Donnel.  The  phrase,  the  meaning  of  which  is 
inquired  for,  describes  the  spot  on  which  was 
inaugurated  or  made  the  O'Donnel,  on  becoming 
chief  or  head  of  his  tribe.  Religious  and  other 
imposing  rites  accompanied  this  ceremony,  some- 
thing like  those  attending  the  crowning  of  kings 
of  greater  pretensions.  The  situation  was  one 
rendered  venerable  from  its  long  application  to 
the  purpose  ;  but  chosen,  it  is  to  be  presumed,  in 
the  first  instance  from  its  peculiarity,  its  security, 
central  situation,  or  local  beauty.  In  this  instance 
I  believe  there  is  a  Doune  still  pointed  out  near 
the  village  of  Kilmacrenan,  as  the  spot  where 
they  made  the  O'Donnel. 

In  return  for  this  note,  will  some  contributor 
deep  in  philology  tell  me  the  root  of  the  word 
Doune  ?  G.  B. 

Glenravel  House,  County  of  Antrim. 

OTHO  V.aENius,  "EMBLEMATA  HORATIANA"  (3rd 
S.  i.  53.) — Alfred  Michiels,  in  his  Rubens  et  Tecole 
cFAnvers,  speaks  of  the  singular  mania  there  was 
in  the  early  part  of  the  reign  of  Charles  I.  for 
designing  allegories  on  the  most  trivial  subjects, 
and  in  which  Van  Veen  also  shared.  They  were 
engraved  upon  wood  or  ccpper ;  published  with 
letter-press,  and  called  Eiriblemata.  Michiels 
prints  the  titles  of  nine  of  these  Whimsical  books 


118 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  FEB.  8,  '62. 


by  Van  Veen  ;  among  which  is  the  collection 
above  named  —  HoratiiFlacci  EmUemala,  cunrnolis 
Latine,  Italicc,  Gallice,  et  Flandrice,  103  plates. 
In  the  Appendix,  pp.  292-3,  to  Papers  relating  to 
Rubens,  will  be  found  a  letter  from  Sec.  Lord 
Dorchester  to  his  nephew  Dudley  Carleton,  in 
reference  to  this  subject.  W.  NOEL  SAINSBURY. 

SOLICITORS'  BILLS  (3rd  S.  i.  55.)  —  Amongst  the 
Corporation  Records  of  Henley  are  some  much 
older  law  bills  than  those  already  noticed  in  "  N". 
&  Q."  I  give  two,  which  show  that  presents  were 
made  to  the  counsel  beyond  their  fees  :  — 

(1531).  "Thys  be  the  costes  and  charges  that  I  dyd 
lay  hout  at  Myssomer,  when  that  Tomas  Poto'  fet  me 
up  wl  a  supina  to  Westmester  :  — 

s.        d. 
For  lying  thcr  viij  da}*es  for  myn  costes,  and 

for  my  horse  mete  and  hys  hyar      -         -      viij 
It'm  to  Master  Gypsan  ray  Torne       -  xx 

It'm  for  a  Cope  of  hys  Complaynt       -        -  xij 

It'm  to  Master  Ba\vden,  my  Consel  -  -  iij  iiij 
It'm  to  Master  Hales  for  makyng  1113"  ansar  xx 

It'm  payd  to  Robert  Harpar,  at  Master  War- 

den's commandment  for  xij  capones        -       viij 

Sin        -        -    xxiij       viij 

^20  H.  8.  "Thes  p'cell  foloynge  payd  the  iiijth  day  of 
}s"ovembur,  v.  :  — 

s.        d. 
Fyrste  by  Mr  Goff,  payd  to  Mr  Ilorewood 

for  the  drafte  of  the  anser  of  Potter         -        x 
It'm  payd  to  hys  Clarke  for  wrytyng          -        iij         iiij 
It'm  for  hys  expenses  the  same  tyme          -       vj       viij 
It'm  for  ij   Swannys  p'sentyd   unto  Mastr 

Sachev'ell  and  my  lady  his  wyff—  pee.     -     xiij         iiij 

Sin         -         -  xxxiij        iiij 

The  "Master  Sacheverell"  was  Sir  Richard, 
the  second  husband  of  Lady  Hastings,  Lady  of 
the  Manor  of  Henley.  The  present  of  two  swans 
may  have  been  an  acknowledgement  for  some 
favour  shown  by  Sir  Richard  in  the  suit.  About 
1649  the  corporation  used  to  make  an  annual 
present  to  Sir  James  Whitelock  (then  Lord  of 
the  Manor)  of  "  a  boare,"  or  "a  brawner;"  and  to 
his  lady  two  sugar-loaves,  price  13,9.  7d* 

JOHN  S.  BURN. 

Henley. 

CRONY  (3"1  S.  i.  50.)  -Worcester,  in  his  Dic- 
tionary of  the  English  Language,  18GO,  derives 
this  term  from  crone,  and  says  that  the  two  words 
were  formerly  identical  —  quoting  Ja  support 
thereof  the  following  sentence  from  Burton  : 
"  Marry  not  an  old  crony  or  a  fool  for  money." 


Guildford.  ' 

"  CRONE,  or  CROXEY,  an  old  and  intimate  acquaint- 

ance, a  confident-,  from  the  Teutonic  kronen,  to  whisper, 

ill  secrets."  —  Thomson's  Etymons  of  English  Words. 

T»  ,,.  'A\ievs, 

Dublin. 

*  See  Hist,  of  Henhij,  1861,  p.  204. 


LEARNED  DANE  ON  UNICORNS  (3rd  S.  i.  50.)  — 
The  Danish  writer  inquired  for  by  F.  K.  is  pro- 
bably Thomas  Bartholinus,  who  printed  De  Uni- 
cornu  Observations  novae,  12mo,  Patavii,  1645, 
with  plates.  There  are  also  treatises  on  Unicorns 
by  Baccius  (1598),  Fehr  (1666),  Sachs  (1676), 
and  Stalpart  (1687).  Should  F.  R.  desire  it,  I 
would  give  him  the  full  titles  of  their  works. 

JAYDEE. 

The  learned  Dane,  who  wrote  a  treatise  on 
the  Unicorn,  was  Thomas  Bartholin ;  tha  most 
learned  of  a  learned  family,  born  at  Copenhagen 
in  1619.  The  second  edition  of  this  interesting 
and  well-illustrated  little  book,  is  before  ine.  Its 
title  is  as  follows  :  — 

"  Thomas  Bartholini  de  Unicornu  Observationes  novae. 
Secunda  editione,  Auctiores  et  emendatiores,  editae  a 
Filio  Casparo  Bartholino.  Amstelaedami,  apud  Henr. 
Wetstenium,  clo  lo  c  LXXVIIL" 

The  original  edition  seems  to  have  been  pub- 
lished at  Padua  in  1645.  C.  W.  BINGHAM. 

JEFFERSON  DAVIS  (3rd  S.  i.  49.)  — I  have  al- 
ways understood  that  the  President  of  the  Con- 
federate States  derived  his  name  from  Thomas 
Jefferson,  author  of  the  Declaration  of  Independ- 
ence, and  third  President  of  the  United  States. 

D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

SUNDAY  NEWSPAPERS  (3rd  S.  i.  49.)  —  The 
practice  of  distributing  religious  periodicals  gra- 
tuitously among  the  congregation,  as  related  by 
the  Hon.  Henry  A.  Murray  in  the  passage  cited 
by  K.  P.  D.  E.,  is  not  confined  to  the  Presby- 
terians, but  is  common  with  the  Episcopalians, 
Baptists,  and  other  sects  in  the  United  States. 

It  should  be  explained,  however,  that  the  papers 
so  distributed,  are  invariably  of  a  purely  religious 
character,  and  are  placed  in  the  pews  not  to  be 
read  during  divine  service^  but  to  be  taken  home 
for  perusal. 

Some  persons,  arriving  early,  might  prefer 
reading  these  pnpers  to  either  sitting  listlessly,  or 
engaging  critically  in  the  dissection  of  their  neigh* 
hours'  faults  or  apparel,  but  the  veriest  blue  in 
Scotland  or  elsewhere,  could  scarcely  complain  of 
their  motives  or  manners.  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

COL. THOMAS  WINSLOW  (3rd  S. i.  69.)— The  death 
of  this  officer  at  the  age  named  by  your  corre- 
spondent is  noticed  in  the  Gentleman  s  Magazine 
for  1766,  and  in  the  Annual  Register  for  the  same 
year,  but  no  particulars  are  given. 

D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

ARTHUR  SHORTER  (2nd  S.  xii.  521,  3rd  S.  i.  59.) 
—  Of  the  existence  of  Arthur  Shorter  there  can 
be  no  doubt,  as  the  evidence  of  the  fact  is  in  my 
possession,  in  the  handwriting  of  Sir  Erasmus 
Philipps.  The  Query  which  I  wish  to  have  ans- 


3'*  S.  I.  FEB.  8,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


119 


wered  is,  who  was  he  ?  As  he  is  styled  by  Sir 
Erasmus  Philipps  in  his  Diary  "  Cosin  Arthur 
Shorter,"  the  probability  is  that  he  was  brother  to 
Lady  Walpole  and  the  Marchioness  of  Hertford. 
I  still  invite  the  attention  of  correspondents  of 
"  N".  &  Q."  to  the  following  queries  :  Was  Arthur 
Shorter  the  son  of  John  Shorter  of  Bybrook,  by 
Elizabeth  Philipps?  If  not,  whose  son  was  he? 
Was  he  married,  and  did  he  leave  any  issue? 
When  did  he  die  ?  and  what  became  of  the  por- 
trait of  Sir  Erasmus  Philipps,  which  was  painted 
for  Mr.  Shorter,  at  his  request  and  expense,  and 
was  sent  to^hiin  at  "  the  Bath  "  in  1733  ? 

JOHN  PAVIN  PHILLIPS. 
Haverfordwest. 

PAPER  MONEY  (3rd  S.  i.  89.)  —  The  recent  ar- 
ticle under  this  title  brought  to  my  recol- 
lection a  curiosity  of  the  sort  which  I  have  had 
long  in  my  possession,  and  which  may  interest 
some  of  your  readers.  It  is  an  American  bank 
note  for  twenty  shillings,  on  very  strong  coarse 
cream-coloured  paper,  or  by  possibility  once  white. 
Its  dimensions  are  three  and  a  half  inches  by  two 
and  three-quarter  inches.  On  the  face,  inclosed 
by  a  border,  is  the  following  inscription,  in  a  curi- 
ous variety  of  type  :  — 

«  Twenty  Shillings.  This  indented  Bill" shall  pass  cur- 
rent for  Twenty  Shillings,  according  to  an  Act  of  General 
Assembly  of  the  counties  of  Newcastle,  Kent,  and  Sussex, 
upon  Delaware,  passed  in  the  15th  year  of  the  reign  of 
his  Majesty  Geo.  the  3d.  Dated  the  1st  day  of  Jan.  1776. 
XXs. 

At  the  upper  left-hand  corner  the  royal  arms  are 
engraved,  at  the  lower  right-hand  corner  is  a  space 
of  size  corresponding  with  engraving,  in  which  are 
three  autograph  signatures.  The  number  of  the 
note  is  also  by  the  pen,  43415. 

The  reverse  of  the  note  bears  a  wheatsheaf,  en- 
graved in  the  centre,  surrounded  t>n  three  sides  by 
the  words  "  Twenty  Shillings,"  and  beneath  "  To 
counterfeit  is  Death.  Printed  by  James  Adams, 
1776."  M.F. 

MUTILATION  OF  SEPULCHRAL  MEMORIALS  (2nd 
S.  xii.  174.) — In  this  borough  there  is  a  pathway 
just  outside  the  churchyard  of  Holy  Trinity  parish, 
which  has  been  literally  paved  with  tombstones 
taken  from  the  adjoining  burial  ground. 

D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

LIQUORICE  (3rd  S.  i.  46.)  —  The  last  paragraph 
of  MR.  CHANCE'S  article  probably  contains  the 
real  explanation  of  the  mystery.  The  semivowels 
frequently  interchange;  and  it  has  not  escaped 
the  notice  of  those  astute  grammarians  —  the 
Hindus.  A  singular  instance  occurs  in  the  ^ata- 
patha-brahmana  (written  B.C.  1000)  ;  the  defeat 
of  a  barbarous  horde  is  thus  mentioned  :  —  "  The 
Asuras,  with  defective  utterance,  crying  he' Lava, 
he'uiva,  were  overthrown."  Instead  of  he'Raya, 
he'naya,  "O  enemies!  O  enemies ! "  F.  P. 


GOD'S  PROVIDENCE  is  MINE  INHERITANCE  (3rd 
S.  i.  51.)  —  The  adoption  of  this  motto  by  the 
first,  or  "  Great  Earl  of  Cork,"  as  he  is  generally 
called,  is  recorded  in  almost  all  our  Peerages,  and 
has  become  a  matter  of  history.  Certainly  his 
career  sufficiently  proved  that  he  did  "not  trust 
God  in  vain  "  ;  for  it  affords  one  of  the  most  re- 
markable instances  on  record  of  temporal  pros- 
perity, and  of  the  advancement  of  a  needy  adven- 
turer to  almost  as  high  and*  honourable  position 
as  it  was  possible  for  a  subject  to  attain  :  himself 
an  immensely  wealthy  earl,  with  four  sons,  who 
were  also  peers,  and  the  fifth  the  celebrated  phi- 
losopher, the  Honourable  Robert  Boyle. 

C.  BlNGHAM. 

ST.  AULAIRE  (3rd  S.  i.  52.)  —  The  following  is 
the  quatrain  inquired  for  :  — 

"  La  divinite  qui  s'amuse 

A  me  demander  mon  secret, 
Si  j'etais  Apollon,  ne  serait  point  ma  Muse  ; 
Elle  serait  Thetis,  et  le  jour  finirait." 

Biogr.  Universelle. 


Dublin. 

BUZAGLIA,  OR  BUZAGLO  (3rd  S.  i.91.)  —  The 
answer  given  to  this  Query  is  evidently  founded 
on  a  misapprehension.  There  can  be  no  doubt 
that  the  Buzaglia,  provided  for  the  Toll-house 
Hall  at  Great  Yarmouth  in  1784,  was  a  stove; 
such  as  is  mentioned  in  the  following  passage  of 
the  obituary  of  the  Gentleman  s  Magazine,  vol.lviii. 
p.  562  :  — 

"  1788.  Aged  72,  Mr.  Abraham  Buzaglo,  of  Dean 
Street,  Soho,  inventor  of  the  stove  called  after  his  name, 
which  he  afterwards  applied  as  a  cure  for  the  gout,  and 
wherein  he  has  been  so  much  exceeded  by  the  late  Mr. 
Sharp." 

J.  G.  N. 

PRINCESS  CAROLINE  OF  WALES  AT  CHARLTON 
(3rd  S.  i.  89.)  —  The  Princess  of  Wales  resided  at 
Montague  House,  Blackheath  ;  which  I  presume 
answers  the  inquiry  of  D.  S.  T.,  although  Charl- 
ton  is  named  in  the  extract  he  quotes.  It  was  at 
the  above  house  that  Sir  Walter  Scott  was  pre- 
sented to  the  Princess  in  1806  (Life,  by  Lockhart, 
vol.  ii.  p.  100.)  CHARLES  WYLIE. 

THE  YORK  BUILDINGS  COMPANY  (2nd  S.  xi. 
291,  359.)  —  In  the  recently  published  Memorials 
of  Angus  and  Mcarns  (p.  257),  the  author,  allud- 
ing to  the  "  Panmure  Library,"  states  :  — 

"  Since  the  accession  of  the  present  Peer,  the  library 
has  been  enriched  by  the  Inventory  and  Memorandum 
Books  of  the  York  Buildings'  Company,  relating  to  the  for- 
feited Estates  of  Panmure,  Southesk,  and  Marischal,  in 
1729r§*e.  in  two  volumes  folio,  MS.  (from  which  several 
extracts  have  been  made  for  Hie  first  time  in  this  work.)" 

Some  cuvious  illustrative  extracts  and  notes  are 
accordingly  given  in  pages  38,  39,  478. 

WILLIAM  GALLOWAY. 

REVEREND  JOHN  KETTLEWELL  (3rd  S.  i.  91.)  — 
I  think  there  can  be  -no  doubt  that  Mrs.  Kettle- 


120 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'«  S.  I,  FEB.  8,  '62. 


well's  Christian  name  was  Jane.  She  is  so  called 
in  the  "  Life  of  Kettlewell,"  compiled  from"  the 
collections  of  Dr.  Hickes  and  Robert  Nelson,  and 
prefixed  to  the  edition  of  Kettlewell's  Works> 
published  1719  in  two  volumes  folio  (vide  p.  41). 
Kettlewell  was  buried  in  the  parish  church  of 
Allhallows,*  Barking,  near  the  Tower  of  London, 
in  the  same  grave  where  Archbishop  Laud  was 
before  interred,  within  the  rails  of  the  altar  (idem. 
p.  187).  I  should  conclude,  from  this  memoir,  that 
Mrs.  Kettlewell  was  still  alive  at  the  date  of  its 
publication.  JOHN  MACLEAN. 

Hammersmith. 


NOTES  OX  BOOKS,  ETC. 

A  Dictionary  of  the  Bible  :  comprising  Antiquities,  Bio- 
graphy, Geography,  and  Natural  History.  By  various 
Writer*.  Edited  by  William  Smith,  LL.D.  Parts  I.  and 
II.  (Murray.) 

Mr.  Murray  has  shown  good  judgment  in  re-issuing 
this  great  storehouse  of  Biblical  knowledge  in  monthly 
parts.  There  are  a  great  many  clergymen  and  students 
of  Holy  Scripture  who  would  be  glad  to  enrich  their  li- 
braries by  this  most  useful  and  learned  work,  to  whom 
the  present  mode  of  publication  will  bo  very  convenient. 
The  original  scheme,  which  was  to  give  a  dictionary  of 
the  Bible,  and  not  of  Theology,  has  been  well  carried  out; 
for,  while  systems  of  theology  and  points  of  controver- 
sial divinity  are  altogether  omitted,  the  Antiquities,  Bio- 
graphv,  Geography,  and  Natural  History  of  the  Old  and 
New  Testaments,  and  of  the  Apocrypha,  are  fully  elucidated. 
The  List  of  Contributors  is  a  guarantee  for  the  vast  amount 
of  special  knowledge  brought  to  bear  upon  the  various 
items  of  this  Dictionary,  which  is  certainly  not  the  least 
valuable  contribution  to  available  knowledge,  for  which 
we  are  indebted  to  the  energy  and  good  judgment  of  Dr. 
Smith. 

Letters  from  Pome  to  Friends  in  Ennland.  By  ike  Rev. 
John  \V.  Burgon,  i\l.A.  (Murray.) 

These  letters,  reprinted  with  additions  and  corrections 
from  The  Guardian,  are  now  made  far  more  readable  than 
when  they  appeared  in  the  pages  of  a  newspaper.  Their 
solid  worth  comes  here  recommended  to  us  by  the  adjuncts 
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controversial;  but  the  bitterness  of  controversies  softened 
down  by  that  spell  of  reverenoe,  which  the  Eternal  City 
throws  over  every  religious  writer. 

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Another  effort  to  supply  the  desideratum  of  an  Eng- 
lish hymnal?  The  ideal  of  such  a  hymnal  will  only  be 
reached  when  it  is  characterised  throughout  by  orthodox 
doctrine,  and  sterling  poetry;  when  every  hymn  in  it 
possesses  a  unity  of  subject,  an  obvious  sense,  and  a  cor- 
ct  rhyme;  when  the  hymns  appropriate  to  each  sacred 
season,  treat  the  subject  of  the  season  from  various  points 
ot_  view,  and  in  various  metres.  Are  there  as  many  as 
I/O  English  hymns  (so  many  are  contained  in  the'vo- 
Jume  before  us)  coming  up  to  this  ideal  ?  \Ve  fear  not. 


as  much  a  bibliographical  curiosity  as  the  original.  Yet 
intrinsic  interest  must  needs  attach  to  it,  as  the  work  of 
one  of  the  early  Spanish  Protestants,  the  friend  of  Eras- 
mus, the  admired  of  Nicolas  Ferrar,  who  translated  his 
better-known  Considerations.  The  Alfabeto  Christiana 
purports  to  be  a  dialogue  between  the  Author  and  Giulia 
Gonzaga,  Duchess  of  Trajetto.  It  is  pietistic  in  tone, 
and  designed  to  guide  its  readers  in  the  simplest  paths  of 
practical  religion. 

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zot.  (Richard  Bentley.) 

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identifying  itself  with  the  cause  of  Christianity ;  a  pro- 
found statesman,  and  yet  an  ardent  religionist;  a  Pro- 
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dence. He  advocates  the  Napoleonic  scheme  of  an  Italian 
Confederacy  rather  than  of  a  Kingdom  of  Italy,  and  owns 
that  he  sent  M.  Rossi  to  Rome,  in  the  reign  of  Louis 
Philippe,  to  labour  in  such  a  design. 

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121 


LONDON,  SATURDAY,  FEBRUARY  15,  1862. 

CONTENTS.—  N°.  7. 

NOTES  :  —  Letters  of  Archbishop  Leighton,  121  —  Sebastian 
Cabot  :  an  Episode  in  his  Life,  125  —  Somersetshire  Wills  : 
Pettigrew  Family,  76.  —  Armour-clad  Ships  :  the  Skull  of 
the  Elephant,  126. 

MINOR  NOTES  :  —  Spelling  Matches  —  Paper  —  Judges' 
Seats  in  Courts  of  Justice  —  Manchester  in  the  Year  1559 

—  Visitation  of  Shropshire  —  Amusing  Blunder  —  Feni- 
more  Cooper  on  the  Bermudas  —  Jokes  on  the  Scarcity  of 
Bullion,  126. 

QUERIES  :  —  Toad-eater,  128  —  Earl  of  Chatham  —  Chan- 
cellorship of  the  University  of  Cambridge  —  The  Author  of 
the  "  Falls  of  Clyde  "  —  J.  A.  Blackwell  —  Burdon  of  Easing- 
ton  —  Canoe  —Cornets  and  Epidemia  —  Colonel  —  Defaced 
and  Worn  Coins  —  Dodshon  of  Strauton  —  Ecclesiastical 
Commission  of  1650  —  Electioneered  —  Literary  Anecdotes 

—  Dr.  Mansel's  Epigrams  —  John  Pikeryng  —  "Piromi- 
des"  —  Robert  Rose  —  Michael  Scot's  Writings  on  Astro- 
nomy —  Sutton  Family  —  Early  Edition  of  Terence  — 
Universal  Suffrage  —  Webb  Family  —  Weeping  among  the 
Ancients,  &c.,  129. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS:  —The  Seven-branched  Candle- 
stick —  "  Tottenham  in  his  Boots  "  —  Vice-  Admiral  James 
Sayer  —  Provincial  Tokens  —  Aldermen  of  London,  132. 

REPLIES:—  Lambeth  Degrees,  133  —  Scripture  Paraphrase, 
184  —  Miniature  Painter  :  Sillett,  135  —  Natoaca,  Ib.  —  Salt 
given  to  Sheep  :  St.  Gregory,  Regula  Pastoralis  —  Alchemy 
and  Mysticisms  —  Browning's  "Lyrics"  —  Dr.  John  Por- 
dage  —  Trial  of  the  Princess  of  Wales—  Christopher  Monk 

—  Taylor  of  Bifrons—  Tenants  in  Socage  —  Arms  of  Cortez 

—  On  the  Degrees  of  Comparison  —  Lanimiman  —  Au- 
thorised Translator  of  Catullus  —  Washing  Parchment 
and  Vellum—  Quotation  Wanted,  &c,,  136. 

Monthly  Feuilleton  on  French  Books. 


LETTERS  OF  ARCHBISHOP  LEIGHTON. 
(Continued  from  p.  107). 


IV. 


Dec.  17. 


May  it  please  yor  Grace, 
Because  I  was  unwilling  to  give  yor  Grace  any 
further  trouble  at  parting,  I  did  resolv  to  peese  (?) 
out  ye  remainder  of  this  year  in  this  station,  wh 
being  now  near  upon  expiring,  I  could  not  think 
of  a  fitter  way  to  signify  my  intention  than  by 
the  enclosed,  being  ye  very  same  individual  paper 
yt  I  presented  to  yor  Grace  while  you  were 
here.  And  I  think  it  needless  to  say  any  more 
of  ye  reasons  mooving  mee  to  't,  having  then 
given  yor  Grace  a  short  account  of  the  main  of 
them  in  a  paper  apart.  Onely  I  crave  leave  to 
add  this,  that  upon  ye  most  impartiale  reflexion  I 
can  make  upon  ye  temper  of  my  mind  in  this 
matter,  I  cannot  find  that  it  proceeds  from  any 
pusillanimous  impatience,  or  weariness  of  the 
troubles  of  this  employment,  but  rather  from  a 
great  contempt  of  our  unworthy  and  trifling  con- 
tentions, of  wb  I  have  little  other  esteem  than  of 
a  querelle  (TAlman,  or  a  drunken  scuffle  in  the 
dark,  and  doe  pity  exceedingly  to  see  a  poor 
church  doing  its  utmost  to  destroy  both  itself  and 
religion  in  furious  zeal  and  endlesse  debates  about 
ye  empty  name  and  shadow  of  a  difference  in 
government,  and  in  the  meanwhile  not  having  of 


solemn  and  orderly  worship  so  much  as  a  shadow. 
Besides  I  have  one  urgent  excuse  that  grows  daily 
truer,  for  though  I  keep  not  bedd  much,  nor  am 
(I  thank  God)  rackt  with  sharp  and  tormenting 
diseases,  yet  I  can  truely  say  that  I  am  scarce 
ever  free  from  som  one  or  other  of  those  pains 
and  distempers  that  hang  about  this  litle  crazy 
turf  of  earth  I  carry,  wh  makes  it  an  uneasy 
burden  to  mee,  but  withall  puts  me  in  hopes  y*  I 
shall  shortly  drop  it  into  the  common  heap. 
Meanwhile,  my  best  relief  will  bee,  to  spend  the 
litle  remnant  of  my  time  in  a  private  and  retir'd 
life  in  some  corner  of  England,  for  in  ye  com- 
munion of  that  church,  by  ye  help  of  God,  I  am 
resolvd  to  live  and  die.  That  wh  I  seem  humbly 
to  entreat  of  y*  Grace  is  ye  representation  of  this 
litle  affair  to  his  Matie,  and  that  in  as  favorable 
a  manner  as  may  bee,  wh  shall  add  very  much  to 
ye  many  and  great  obligements  of 

May  it  please  yor  Grace, 

Yor  Grace's 
Most  humble  Servant, 

K.  LEIGHTON. 

[The  following  is  the  paper  inclosed :  — ] 
The  true   reasons  both  of  my  purpose  of  re- 
tiring from  my  present  charge  and  of  declining  a 
greater,  are  briefly  these. 

1 .  The  sense  I  have  of  the  dreadfull  weight  of 
whatsoever  charge  of  souls,  or  any  kind  of  spi- 
rituall  inspection  over  people,  but  much  more 
over  ministers ;  and  withall  of  my  own  extream 
unworthinesse  and  unfitnesse  for  so  high  a  station 
in  the  Church. 

2.  The  continuing  divisions  and  contentions  of 
this  church,  and  ye  little  or  no   appearance   of 
their  care  for  our  time. 

3.  The  earnest  desire  I  have  long  had  of  a  re- 
tir'd and  private  life,  wh  is  now  much  increased 
by  sicklinesse  and  old  age  drawing  on,   and  ye 
sufficient  experience  of  ye  folly  and  vanity  of  ye 
world.     And  in  a  word,  tis    rerum  humanarum 
fastidium. 

Whatsoever  I  might  add  more,  I  forbear,  for  I 
ccnfesse  after  all  I  could  say,  I  expect  little  right 
or  fair  construction  from  ye  world  in  this  matter, 
but  rather  many  various  mistakes  and  miscen- 
sures  on  all  hands.  But  soe  that  the  relief  is, 
that  in  ye  retreat  I  design,  I  shall  not  hear  of 
them,  or  if  I  do,  I  shall  not  feel  them. 

v. 

Dunbl.  octob.  9. 

Sir,-— I  met  lately  with  our  noble  friend  through 
whose  hand  this  comes  to  you,  and  discoursed 
awhile  of  our  affairs.  What  concerns  my  unworthy 
self  I  am  very  weary  of  hearing  or  speaking  so 
much  of  it,  and  after  all  cannot  see  reason  to 
recede  from  my  opinion.  My  retreat  (which  I 
think  I  foresee  will  bee  very  quickly  unavoidable) 
may  be  much  more  decent  from  my  present  pos- 


122 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[3**  S.  I.  FEB.  15,  '62. 


tare,  than  after  a  more  formall  engagement,  and  even  that  of  craziness  of  mind,  'tis  possibly  by  some 
will  expose  me  lesse  to  the  imputations  of  one  of  j  imputed  to,  does  not  move  mee,  when  I  consider 
the  late  pamphleteer's  throws  at  mee  of  phantas-  j  that  many  great  and  wise  persons  have  been  guilty 
tick  inconstancy,  though  I  think  he  has  not  hitt-j  of  the  same  folly,  if  it  be  so,  some  by  actual  re- 


mee,  at  least  I  feel  it  not,  for  as  to  my  removes 
hee  reckons  upp,  I  am  sure  there  never  was  lesse 
of  any  man's  own  share  in  any  remoof  (sic)  than 
was  in  all  mine,  and  as  for  his  other  instance  of 
being  neither  pleased  with  presbyterie  nor  epis- 
copacy, with  the  exorbitancies  of  neither,  I  con- 
fesse,  but  if  ye  thought  of  their  regular  conjunction 
could   have   entered   into   his   head,  hee    should 
rather  have  sayd  I  was  pleased  with  both,  for  I 
have  bin  constantly  enough  of  that  opinion,  that 
they   doe   much  better  together  than  either    of 
them  does  apart,  and  have  in  this  the  consent  of 
great  multitudes  of  heads  as  strong  and  clear  as 
his  and  his  brethren's  are  hott  and  cloudy ;  but 
this  is  a  digression.      Of  our  higher  Vacancies  I 
have  sayd  enough  in  my  former,  and  possibly  too 
much,  but  that  'tis  alwaies  attemper'd  with  abso- 
lute submission  to   those  yt  are  both   so  much 
wiser  and  above  mee  :  but  for  our  vacant  parish 
kirks  in  ye  West,  I  wish  it  were  taken  into  con- 
sideration, and  well  resolv'd  on,  what  way  of  sup- 
plying them  will  be  fittest,  in  order  to  ye  publick 
peace,  wh  I  conceiv  we  are  mainly  to  eye  in  our 
whole_  buissines.     I  waited  on  ye  Lords  of  Coun- 
cil this  week,  but  they  have  given  mee  neither 
any  new  coinand  nor  advice   in  this  particular, 
wh  till  I  receiv  from  some  y*  have  power  to  give 
it    I   must  forbear  to  attempt   any   thing,   °and 
rather  Jet  things    rest  as  they  bee,  than  by  en- 
deavouring to  better   them,  run   the   hazard  to 
make  them  worse.     I  am  not  doubtfull  of  yor  ut- 
most assistance  in  these  affairs,  both  where  you 
are  and  when  you  return,  nor  need  I  any  more 
repeated  request   of  ye  constant  charity   of  yor 
prayers  for 

Yor  poor  brother  and  servant, 

T?   T 

For  Mr.  Gilbert  Burnet, 
at  London. 


tiring,    others  by  earnest  desires  of  it,  when  it 
prov'd  impossible  for  them.    But  not  to  amuse  yor 
Grace  with  these  discourses,  I  submit  to  ye  result 
of  this  buissines  for  this  time,  seeing  'tis  now  never 
to  create  any  further  trouble  either  to  myself  or 
any  other,  and  I  hope  in  God  I  shall  goe  through 
the  remainder  of  this  unpleasant  work  without 
discontent  or  impatience,  if  I  may  bee  but  assur'd 
of  one  thing,  and  that  is,  a  full  and  absolute  par- 
don  from  yor   Grace    of    whatsoever  hath    bin 
troublesome  or  offensive  to  you  in  this  matter, 
and  no  abatement  of  yor  good  opinion  and  favour, 
though  (I  confes)  alwaies  undeserved  in  all  other 
respects,  unles  great  affection  to  yor  Grace,  yor 
service  may  pretend  some  small  degree  of  accept- 
ance instead  of  merit.     And  this  shall  remain  un- 
alterable in  mee,  while  I  live,  however  yor  Grace 
may  be  pleased  henceforward  to  look  upon  mee. 
But  it  would  exceedingly  encourage  mee  in  my 
return  to  my  laboratory,  if  a  line  from  yor  hand 
did  give  mee  some  hope,  at  least,  of  the  same 
favourable  aspect  from  yr  Grace,  as  formerly ;  but 
I  crave  pardon  for  this  presumption,  and  however 
my  poor  prayers,  such  as  they  bee,  shall  not  bee 
wanting  for  yor  Grace's  welfare  and  happiness,  nor 
shall  I  ever  cease,  while  I  am  above  ground,  to  bee. 
May  it  please  yor  Grace, 
Yor  Grace's 

Most  humble  Servant, 

R.  LEIGHTON. 

For  my  Lord  Duke  of  Lauderdale, 
his  Grace. 

VII. 


VI. 


-n  r      .  Lond.  Jul.  3r. 

May  it  please  yor  Grace, 

I  am  extrearaly  sorry,  if  y'  putting  a  close  to  yc 
buissines  V<  brought  mee  hither,  when  it  could  not 
well  bee  differr  d  any  longer,  shall  have  caus'd  in 
yo  Urace  any  displeasure  ag"  mee,  wh  yet  I  can 
hardly  suspect  for  this  desire  of  mine  (w»  I  con- 
e  is i  r  onely  ambitious  and  passionate  desire  I 
have  of  any  thing  in  this  world)  bee  it  from  weak- 
nesse  of  understanding,  or  melancholy  humor  or 
whatsoever  else  any  may  imagine,  I  am  sure  there 
is  no  malice  in  it  to  any  person  or  to  any  party, 

maU^  mnnCTn?y  an-  SinCerit^  ofm*  hear'  in  SB 
matter  will,  I  trust  m  God,  uphold  me  uftder  all 

y  various  misconstructions  y' can  fall  uponme.  Yea 


Edg.  Jun.  25. 

May  it  please  yor  Grace, 

T  was  just  upon  going  out  of  town  when  1  re- 
ceived yor  Grace's  letter  of  ye  18th  of  June,  and 
j  some  few  days  before  I  had  writt  somewhat  to  yor 
i  Gr.  touching  ye  buissines  of  a  national  synod,  very 
much  agreeing  with  what  your  Gr.  sayes  concern- 
ing it ;  only  I  took  ye  liberty  to  suggest  the  fairest 
construction  in  behalf  of  the  ministers  pushing  for 
it,  and  that  if  any  were  driving  a  design  in  it,  it 
was  more  than  I  could  perceive,  and  more  than 
the  generality  of  themselves  doe  know  of;  and 
there  is  one  particular  they  have  mistaken  y1  gave 
yor  Gr.  account  of  this  affair,  if  they  have  affirm'd 
that  the  motion  began  at  the  synod  of  Glasco,  for, 
upon  my  honest  word,  there  was  not  one  syllable 
spoke  of  it  there  in  my  hearing ;  no,  not  in  private, 
far  lesse  anything  propounded  towards  it  in  pub- 
lick  ;  indeed  after  it  was  mooted  at  Edinr  ye  re- 
port spreading,  diverse  presbyteries  were  taken 
with  it,  and  began  to  discourse  of  it,  and  yet  none 
of  them  writt  to  mee  till  it  was  again  revived  at 
-kdmbugh.  Only  the  presbyterie  of  Glasco  sent  a 


3'd  S.  I.  FEB.  15,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


123 


letter  to  ye  presbyterie  of  Edinbugh,  wherein  there 
was  more  irregularity  than  in  any  other  I  have 
seen  or  heard;  for  they  neither  acquainted  the 
Bp.  of  Edr  with  it  at  all,  nor  mee,  wh  looked  the 
liker  yc  sticking  up  to  a  correspondence  divided 
from  us.  But  if  this  had  not  come  to  yor  Grace's 
knowledge  by  other  hands,  I  confes  I  had  never 
aayd  anything  of  it,  for  being  here  just  ye  day  be- 
fore it  should  have  been  deliver'd,  it  was  brought 
to  my  hands,  and  I  having  opened  it  (as  I  thought 
I  had  good  reason  to  doe),  and  being  much  dis- 
pleased with  the  strain  of  it  kept  it  upp,  and  re- 
solv'd  to  suppresse  it,  and  to  check  them  y*  writt 
it,  but  not  to  bring  them  to  any  publick  censure 
for  it;  and  the  rather  for  ye  very  reason  y*  would 
have  moved  a  vindictive  man  to  publish  it,  some 
of  those  y*  joined  in  it  being  ye  persons  of  the 
whole  diocese  that  have  most  discover'd  something 
of  unkindness  toward  me ;  yea,  I  can  confidently 
say  are  the  only  persons  of  ye  whole,  for  anything 
I  know,  that  continue  so  to  doe,  the  rest  having 
after  the  first  prejudices  and  mistakes  were  blown 
over,  liv'd  with  mee  not  only  in  much  peace,  but 
in  great  amity  and  kindnes,  and  have  of  late  ge- 
nerally exprest  more  affection  to  mee  than  I  can 
modestly  own  ye  reporting  of.  But  this  I  say 
to  excuse  my  suppressing  ye  very  ill  advised  letter 
those  persons  sent  to  Edg. 

The  reasons  they  give  yl  still  presse  this  motion 
are  not  y*  they  think  ye  dissenters  will  submit  to 
it,  but  that  a  full  and  free  hearing  may  be  offered 
them  in  any  way  they  will  accept  of  it;  or  if  they 
totally  decline  it,  that  will  be  both  a  sufficient  and 
a  very  easie  defeat,  nor  do  they  say  themselves  need 
a  synod  in  order  to  their  own  satisfaction  con- 
cerning ye  government,  seeing  they  join  with'  it 
but  for  regulating  of  ye  church  in  matters  of  dis- 
cipline, and  for  reducing  things  to  as  much  order 
as  may  bee  for  the  present  attainable ;  but  to  both 
these  I  answer  them,  that  till  there  shall  be  found 
a  more  convenient  time  for  such  a  meeting  these 
things  may  be  someway  provided  for  in  an  easier 
and  safer  way,  for  I  tell  them  freely  that  though 
I  do  not  suspect  them  of  any  design  against  the 
present  government,  wh  was  the  great  incen- 
tive in  the  year  1638,  yet  I  fear  unless  it  were 
very  wisely  manag'd,  and  succeeded  very  happily, 
it  might  be  in  hazard  rather  to  disparage  the  go- 
vernment than  likely  to  add  anything  to  its  reput- 
ation ;  for  seeing  them  so  divided  and  hotly  con- 
testing about  ye  very  motion  of  a  synod  it  may  j 
easily  be  feared,  they  would  be  more  soe  in  it,  if  j 
it  were  granted  them ;  and  with  these  and  other  ! 
considerations  I  doe  really  endeavour  to  al(l)ay  | 
and  cool  the  minds  of  such  ministers  as  apply 
themselves  to  mee  about  it,  and  strive  to  divert  j 
them  from  any  further  attempts  or  thoughts  of  it  ' 
for  this  time,  and  I  am  hopeful  there  shall  be  no 
more  noise  about  it.  Our  Primate  tells  me  hee 
hath  writt  to  some  of  ye  northern  Bps.  of  his 


province  to  meet  him  shortly  at  Brechin,  but  I 
believe  it  will  be  but  a  thin  meeting,  and  as  I  told 
him,  I  cannot  see  what  great  matter  they  can  doe 
at  it;  but  that  I  leave  to  his  own  better  judge- 
ment. If  it  had  been  at  Edinr  it  would  have  past 
with  less  noise  and  observation,  and  I  would  have 
endeavoured  to  wait  on  it,  but  being  now  going 
to  the  most  southern  corner  of  the  diocese  of 
Glasco  I  cannot  possible  return  so  quickly  as  to 
go  to  the  north.  I  have  stay'd  this  day  in  town 
on  purpose  to  speak  to  some  of  those  lords  yor 
Grace  directs  me  to  wait  on,  and  I  went  in  the 
morning  to  my  lord  Hatton's  lodging,  but  hee  was 
gone  abroad,  but  this  afternoon  I  intend  to  wait 
on  his  Lo.  and  any  others  of  that  number  I  can 
meet  with,  though  I  have  little  or  nothing  to  say 
but  what  some  of  them  know  already.  I  have 
wearied  yor  Gre.  with  so  long  a  letter,  but  ye  par- 
ticulars that  occasion  it  to  bee  so  I  trust  will  ex- 
cuse. 

May  it  please  yor  Grace,  yor  Grace's 
Most  humble  servant, 

R.  LEIGHTON. 

To  my  Lord  Duke  of  Lauclerdale, 
His  Grace. 

VIII. 

May  it  please  yor  Grace, 

I  am  uncertain  whether  this  shall  goe  by  Mr. 
Burnet's  hand  or  by  the  post,  but  when  hee  meets 
with  yor  Grace  (as  I  hope  shortly  hee  shall)  he  will 
give  you  a  more  full  account  of  the  present  con- 
dition of  this  Church,  and  particularly  in  the  west, 
than  I  can  by  writing.  For  ye  person  I  took  ye 
liberty  to  recommend  by  my  last  to  the  vacancy 
of  ye  Isles,  I  will  say  no  more  nor  presse  it  further, 
yor  Grace  will  doe  in  it  what  you  think  fit,  in  due 
time.  The  damage  that  is  lately  befallen  the  town 
of  Glasco,  and  indeed  the  whole  country  round 
about,  by  the  fall  of  a  part  of  their  bridge,  I  be- 
lieve yor  Grace  will  have  notice  of  from  better 
hands,  and  will,  I  doubt  not,  favour  them  in  the 
procurement  of  any  fit  way  of  assistance  towards 
the  repairing  it  that  shall  be  suggested,  for  it  will 
be  very  expensive,  and  the  town  will  not  be  able 
to  bear  it  alone,  though  they  be  called  richer  than 
some,  other  corporations  here  ;  as  ye  noise  of  most 
revenues,  publick  and  personal,  in  common  report 
does  usually  far  exceed  their  just  value.  But 
there  is  another  particular  that  concerns  them,  of 
wh'I  shall  humbly  crave  leave  to  offer  my  thoughts, 
though  it  is  a  bussines  I  could  hardly  obtain  leave 
of  myself  to  intermedle  with,  if  the  good  and  peace 
of  that  place  (which  I  am  now  bound  particularly 
to  tender)  'did  not  considerably  depend  upon  it : 
'tis  the  choice  of  their  magistrate  for  t!ne  ensuing 
year,  the  usual  time  being  not  now  far  off.  And 
this  I  must  declare  upon  ye  exactest  enquiry  I  can 
make^that  the  nomination  of  ye  present  Provost 
gave  so  great  and  general  satisfaction  at  first,  and 


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still  does  to  the  far  greater  part  of  yc  inhabitants, 
that  without  reflecting  on  or  disparaging  any  other, 
I  cannot  but  interpose  my  humble  request  hee 
may  bee  continued  for  this  one  ensuing  year;  for 
I  doe  certainly  know,  that  were  the  choice  either 
referred  to  ye  town  councill  or  ye  body  of  the 
citizens,  it  would  carry  that  way  and  no  other, 
and  were  it  in  my  hands  I  would  most  evidently 
clear  myself  of  all  appearance  of  partiall  inclin- 
ation, by  doing  it  in  that  very  way  of  their  own 
express  consent  and  vote,  having  nothing  to  bias 
mee  in  the  thing,  they  being  all  equally  civill  to 
me,  and  I  equally  disinterested  in  them  all,  only  I 
am  sure  that  if  an  unacceptable  change  should  be 
made  at  the  time,  it  would  not  a  little  obstruct  my 
great  design  of  comforting  ye  humors  and  discon- 
tent, and  quieting  ye  minds  of  that  people.  But  1 
having  sayd  this,  I  doe  humbly  crave  pardon,  and 
doe  absolutely  submit  it  to  your  Grace's  better 
judgement;  nor  will  I  be  troublesome  with  saying 
any  more  of  my  former  request  of  liberation  either 
from  my  old  charge,  or  present  commission,  or 
rather  that  of  all ....  both,  but  will  pattiently  wait 
for  a  favourable  answer,  as  becomes,  my  Lord, 
Your  Grace's  most  humble  Servant, 

R.  LEIGHTON. 
To  my  lord  Commissioner, 
His  Grace. 


May  it  please  yor  Grace, 

Though  I  confesse  I  am  as  lazy  as  any  other  to 
y*  buissinesse  of  writing,  yet  I  would  not  have 
bin  wanting  to  my  duty  of  acquainting  yor  Grace, 
if  anything  had  occurr'd  since  my  last  worthy  of 
yor  notice  within  my  present  circle  (for  without 

I  medle  not)  ;  nor  have  I  much  now  to  say, 
but  that,  thanks  Lee  to  God,  the  West  Sea  is  at 
present  pretty  calm,  and  wee  are  in  a  tolerable 
degree  of  quiet,  and  the  late  meating  and  con- 
fer ctvce  with  yc  dissenting  brethren  seems  to  have 
contributed  something  towards  it;  so  that  yetime 
and  pains  bestow'd  that  way  seem  not  to  bee  wholly 
lost,  and  though  they  cannot  bee  charm'd  into 
union,  yet  they  doe  not  sting  so  fiercely  as  they 
did,  nor  does  the  difference  between  us  appear  so 
vast,  and  the  gulf  between  us  so  great  but  that  there 
may  bee  some  transition,  and  diverse  of  them  are 


y    are  still  out,   as  indeed  most  concern'd,  and 

ibly  had  y<  rest  bin  treated  with  in  y'  same 

>osture  they  would  have  bin  more  tractable,  but 

we  must  doe  as  well  as  wee  can  with  them  as 

they  are-de  ce  qui  est  fait,  le  conseil  en  est 

!in    of    ^  main  .diffichultv  at  Pregent  is  the  fil- 

of  ye  people  very  humorous  and  hard  to  please 

the  too  Kreat  disregard  of  that,  and  the  negl 

snt   indifferent   throwing   in   upon   them   any 


that  came  to  hand  was  the  great  cause  of  all  the 
disquiet  that  hath  arisen  in  these  parts,  filling  all 
places  with  almost  as  much  precipitancy  as  was 
us'd  in  making  them  empty.     And  in  this  affair  I 
am  now  craving  ye  advice  and  assistance  of  ye 
Lords  of  Councill,   and  particularly  of  those  on 
whom  I  know  yor  Grace  reposes  most  for  this  and 
other  matters  of  public  concernment,  being  re- 
solv'd  to  do  nothing  of  importance  while  I  con- 
tinue in  this  station  without  their  good  liking  and 
concurrence.     They  prest  mee  lately  to  give  my 
opinion  in  a  particular  y4  I  confesse  I  was  very 
loth  to  medle  in,   being  generally   averse  from 
chusing  anything  for  myself,  but  more  from  chus- 
ing  employments  to  other  persons  or  the  persons 
for  ye  employments.     It   was  concerning  ye  va- 
cancy of  ye  Isles,  but  finding  them  earnest  in  it,  I 
nam'd  ye  person  that  is,  to  my  best  discerning,  ye 
fittest  I  know  in  these  parts  y*  will  by  any  means 
bee   induced   to   undertake  it:    'tis   yc  Dean    of 
Glasco,  whom  I  find  to  be  of  a  very  calm,  temper, 
and  a  discreet  intelligent  man,  and  have  all  along 
bin  very  kindly  and  usefully  assisted  by  him   in 
our  church  affairs  since  my  engaging  in  this  ser- 
vice. But  when  I  have  sayd  anything,  if  yor  Grace, 
or  any  abler  to  advise  you,  think  some  other  per- 
son fitter  with  all  my  heart ;  I  have  no  partiall 
nterest  nor  stiff  opinion  in  these  things,  nor  would 
not  at  all  have  given  my  opinion  in  this,  unlesse 
it  had  bin  requir'd  of  mee,  yea,  drawn  from  mee ; 
and  to  the  best  choyce  I  shall  always    gladliest 
consent,  being  still  for  ye  french  doctor's  vote, 
when  one  Crighton  of  this  nation,  stood  in  com- 
petition  with  diverse   Frenchmen   for   a  vacant 
profession  in  their   schools  detur  npeirrovi.     But 
whosoever  bee  the  man,  if  ye  vacant  year's  revenue 
bee  not  absolutely  dispos'd  of  already,   it  could 
not  likely  bee  better  bestow'd  than  upon  the  in- 
trant, being  constantly  so  small  a  provision  that 
one  in  that  order  will  have  enough  to  do  to  live 
decently  upon  it.      For  Dunblain,  I  deliver'd  a 
resignation  of  it  under  my  hand  some   moneths 
agoe  to  my  lord  Kincarn,  but  now  he  tells  mee  hee 
hath  ^not  yet  sent  it  upp.     All  I  desire  is  either 
that  it  may  be  dispos'd  of,  or  that  I  may  be  re- 
liev'd  of  ye  surcharge  of  this  later  employment; 
for  though,  when  I  visit  Dunblain  (as  I  lately 
did),  I  find  things  in  the  same  condition  as  for- 
merly, litle  or  nothing  to  doe,  but  after  my  cus- 
tom to  preach  amongst  them,  yet  I  desire  to  be 
freed  of  yc  least  appearance  and  imputation  of  a 
pluralist,  how  little  soever  it  really  signifies  if  all 
the   truth   were   known.     For   with   ye  rents  of 
Glasco  I  have  not  as  yet  at  all  intermedled,  and 
for  ye  other,  Mr.  Herilock  hath  commenc'd  a  suite 
in  law  against  mee  to  free  himself  of  further  pay- 
ing his  dues  to  ye  Chappell,  and  from  the  arrieres 
wh  this  five  years  past  hee  hath  withheld,  and  it  is 
the  bigger  half  of  the  whole  dues  of  the  place. 
However,  I  believe  yor  Grace  knows  somewhat  of 


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my  unconcernment  in  these  things,  and  Hee  that 
sees  within  mee  and  all  men,  perfectly  knows 
how  much  I  would  prefer  a  retreat,  and  ye  poorest 
private  life  to  ye  highest  church  preferment  in  the 
three  Kingdoms ;  and  one  of  my  dayly  petitions 
is,  that  if  it  be  the  good  pleasure  of  God,  hee 
would  once  before  I  die  blesse  me  with  that  re- 
treat. But  I  am  sure  'tis  high  time  to  retreat 
from  giving  yor  Grace  this  trouble,  and  from  pro- 
longing a  letter  that  is  already  so  much  longer 
then  my  usuall  size,  that  I  am  asham'd  of  it,  and 
will  not  add  a  word  more  but  one,  that  I  am  sure 
I  shall  never  retract,  that  I  am,  my  Lord, 

Yor  Grace's  most  oblig'd  and  humble  Servant, 

R.  LEIGHTON. 


For  my  Lord  Commissioner, ' 
His  Grace. 


C.  F.  SECRETAN. 


{To  le  continued.) 


SEBASTIAN  CABOT. 

AN    EPISODE    IN    HIS    LIFE. 

Strype,  in  his  Memorials,  vol.  ii.  p.  190,  states 
that  — 

The  Emperor  "  desired,  that  whereas  one  Sebastian 
Gabote,  or  Cabote,  grand  pilot  of  the  Emperors  ludias, 
was  then  in  England,  for  as  mu£h  as  he  could  not  stand 
the  king  in  any  great  stead,  seeing  he  had  but  small 
practice  in  these  seas,  and  was  a  very  necessary  man  for 
the  Emperor,  whose  servant  he  was,  and  had  a  pension 
of  him,  that  some  order  might  be  taken  for  his  sending 
over  in  such  sort  as  the  Emperor  should  at  better  length 
declare  unto  the  king's  council.  Notwithstanding  I  sus- 
pect Gabote  still  abode  in  England  at  Bristow  (for  there 
he  lived) ;  having  two  or  three  years  after  set  on  foot  a 
famous  voyage  hence,  as  we  shall  mention  in  due  place." 

Cabot's  biographers  appear  to  have  been  ignor- 
ant of  the  result  of  this  application,  which  may 
be  found  in  a  letter  directed  from  the  council  to 
Sir  Philip  Hoby,  under  date  of  Greenwich,  21st 
April,  1550,  as  follows  :  — 

**  And  as  for  Sebastian  Cabot,  answere  was  first  made 
to  the  said  Ambdor,  that  he  was  not  deteined  heere  by  us ; 
but  that  he  himself  refused  to  go  either  into  Spayne  or 
to  the  Empor;  and  that  he  being  of  that  mind,  and  the 
Kin^e's  subjecte,  no  reason  nor  equitie  wolde  that  he 
shulde  be  forced  or  compelled  to  go  against  his  will. 
"Upon  the  wh  answere,  the  sd  Ambdor  said,  that,  if  this 
were  Cabotte's  aunswere,  then  he  required,  that  the  said 
Cabot,  in  the  presence  of  some  one  whom  we  coulde  ap- 
pointe,  might  speke  wth  him  the  sd  Ambdor,  and  declare 
unto  him  this  to  be  his  rninde  and  aunswere ;  whereunto 
we  condescended,  and  at  the  last  sent  the  sd  Cabot  wth 
Richard  Shelley  to  the  Ambassador,  who,  as  the  sd  Shel- 
ley hath  made  report  to  us,  affirmed  to  the  sd  AmbdM, 
that  he  was  not  minded  to  go  neither  into  Spayne  nor  to 
the  Empor.  Nevertheless,  having  km.wlege  of  certein 
thinges  verie  necessarie  for  the  Emp°"  knowlege,  he 
was  well  contented  for  the  good  will  he  here  the  Empor 
to  write  his  mind  unto  him,  or  declare  the  same  here  to 
enie  such  as  shude  be  appointed  to  heare  him;  wher- 
•nnto  the  said  Ambdor  asked  the  sd  Cabot,  in  case  the 
Kiuge's  Matie  or  we  shulde  comand  him  to  go  to  the 
whether  then  he  wolde  not  do  it;  whereunto 


Cabot  made  answere  as  Shelley  reportethe,  that  if  the 
Kinge's  Highnes  or  we  did  comand  him  so  to  do,  then  he 
knew  wel  inough  what  he  had  to  do ;  but  it  semeth  that 
the  Embdor  tooke  this  aunswere  of  Cabot  to  sound  as 
though  Cabot  had  aunswered,  that  being  comaunded  by 
the  Kinge's  Highnes  or  us,  that  then  he  wolde  be  con- 
tented to  go  to  the  Empor,  wherein  we  reken  the  sd 
Embdor  to  be  deceived ;  for  that  the  sd  Cabot  had  divers 
times  before  declared  unto  us  that  he  was  fullie  deter- 
mined not  to  go  hens  at  all." 

This  ambiguous  reply  of  Cabot  was,  no  doubt, 
duly  conveyed  through  the  diplomatic  channel  to 
the  Emperor,  who  must  have  taken  the  same  view 
of  it  as  the  Ambassador  :  for  on  the  9th  of  Sept., 
1553,  we  find  him  addressing  the  following  letter 
to  the  Queen  Mary  of  England,  desiring  that  she 
would  give  permission  to  Cabot  to  come  to  him, 
as  he  desired  to  confer  with  him  upon  some  im- 
portant affairs  connected  with  navigation :  — 

"  Treshaulte  tres  excellente  et  trespuissante  princesse 
nfe  treschiere  et  tresamee  bonne  seur  et  cousine.  Pour  co 
que  desirerions  comuniquer  aucuns  affaires  concernans  la 
sheurete  de  la  nauigation  de  noz  Royauemes  et  pays 
avec  le  capitaine  Cabote  cidevant  pilote  de  noz  Roy- 
auemes d'Espaigne  et  lequel  de  nfe  gre  et  consentement 
s'est  puis  aucuncs  annees  passe  en  Angleterre  nous  vou3 
requerons  bien  affectueusement  donner  conge  aud'  Cabote 
et  luy  permectre  venir  deuers  nous  pour  avec  luy  comu- 
niquer sur  ce  que  dessus  et  vous  nous  ferez  en  ce  tresa- 
greable  plesir  selon  quauons  encharge  a  noz  ambassadeurs 
deuers  vous  le  vous  aceurer  plus  particulierement.  A 
tant  treshaulte  tresexcellente  et  trespuissante  princesse 
nfe  treschiere  et  tresamee  bonne  seur  et  cousine  nous 
prions  le  createur  vous  avoir  en  sa  tressaincte  et  digne 
garde.  De  Mons  en  Haynnau  le  ixe  de  Septembre  1553. 
"  Vre  bon  frere  et  cousin, 

"  CHARLES. 
^_In  dorso~] 

"  A  tres  haulte  tres  excellente  et  trespuissante  prin- 
cesse nre  treschiere  et  tresamee  bonne  seur  et 
cousine  la  Royne  d' Angleterre." 

CL.  HOPPEE. 


SOMERSETSHIRE  WILLS— PETTIGREW  FAMILY. 

The  following  will  of  John  Walgrow,  dated  in 
1541,  is  a  specimen  of  will-making  at  the  Re- 
formation. It  is  transcribed  from  an  ancient  and 
authentic  copy.  West  Charlton  is  about  three 
miles  from  Somerton,  Somerset. 

"  Test.  Johls  Walgrow^  Rectoris  de  West  Charlton :  — 
In  dei  nomine,  Amen,  in  the  year  of  owr  Lord,  1541,  the 
viij  day  of  Apryll,  I  John  Walgrow,  Clarke,  hole  of 
mynd  and  memory  make  thys  my  testament  and  last 
wyll,  yn  forme  and  man'r  followyng:  —  Fyrst,  I  bequeth 
my  sowle  to  Almighty  God,  my  body  to  be  bury'd  yn 
the  church  chancell  of  Charelton  Makerell.  Item,  I  be- 
queth to  the  sayd  church  xx8  for  the  intent  to  be  pray'd 
for  among  the  brothers  and  the  systers  of  the  sepulture 
lyght  of  that  church.  Item,  I  bequeth  to  the  church  of 
Charelton  Adam  vjs  viijd  for  the  intent  to  be  prayed  for 
among  the  brothers  and  systers  ther.  Item,  I  bequeth. 
to  the  mother  church  of  Wells,  xijd.  Item,  I  bequeth  to 
the  church  of  Otcumb,  xiij8  iiijd.  Item,  I  bequeth  to 
ev'y  howssholder  of  Otcumb  aforsayd,  rych  and  pow'r, 
xijd ;  so  that  the  man  and  the  wyff  be  at  my  dyreg  and 
mass,  excepte  sycknys  or  other  necessary  thyng  let  byt ; 


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and  the  priest  shall  have  xxd  for  hys  labor.  Item,  I 
bequeth  to  ev'y  hows'r  yn  Charelton  Makerell  xijd ;  so 
that  the  man  and  the  wyff  be  at  my  dyryg  and  beryng, 
oxcepte  sycknys  or  other  necessary  thyng  let  by  t.  Item, 
I  bequeth  to  John  Knyllar  my  s'vant  all  such  stuffe  as  I 
have  at  Otcumb,  w't  six  silv'r  sponys  of  the  best  sorte, 
and  sixe  shepe,  at  the  dely'vrance  of  myne  executor. 
Item,  to  my  god-chyld  iiijd.  Farther,  I  wyll  that  my 
executor  imediately  vpon  my  deth  shall  p'vyde  sume 
honest  prest  to  pray  for  my  sowle  one  year  aft.  my  de- 
p'tvng,  yn  the  same  p'yshe.  Item,  Y  wyll  also  that  mas 
and  dyryg  be  kepte  ev'y  day  duryng  the  monyth  arter 
mv  bervng.  The  resydeu  of  my  goods  above  not  ex- 
p'ssyd  nor  bequethed,  I  fully  geve,  graunt,  and  bequeth 
to  Robert  Bithese,  my  sonne  yn  lawe,  whom  I  make  and 
ordayn  my  hole  executor,  that  he  therof  do  ordayne  and 
dispose  hit  for  my  sowle  as  to  hym  shal  be  best  semyng 
or  expedyent.  Morover,  I  wyll  and  ordayn  for  my 
ov'seer,  of  thys  my  last  wyll,  Thomas  Champion,  and  he 
to  have  for  hys  payne  and  "labor  so  fcikyng  my  best  salte. 
In  witnys  wherof  I,  Sir  Robert  Corbet,  Curat,  John  Back- 
land  of  Ilarptree,  Richard  Godgu,  S'r  Robert  Hyll,  doth 
put  to  our  namyn  the  day  and  yere  above  wrytyng." 

Should  the  following  curious  will  (which  is 
transcribed  from  an  authentic  MS.)  meet  the  eye 
of  the  talent  archaeologist  and  antiquary,  T.  J. 
Pettigrew,  Esq.,  he  will  probably  be  interested  in 
iinding  that  one  of  his  name  was  a  dweller,  in 
Somersetshire,  upwards  of  300  years  ago.  Whe- 
ther the  testator  was  an  ancestor  of  the  present 
learned  gentleman  I  cannot  say. 

"  Testu'tu  Roberti  Petlgrew  de  North  CacJbery :  —  In 
dci  nomine,  Amen  ;  the  yere  of  our  Lord,  154J,  the  xxxth 
day  of  Maye.I  Robert  Petigrew.hole  of  mynd  and  mem'ry, 
make  my  testament  and  last  will,  yn  forme  and  mari'r 
fi>llowvng: — Fyrst,  I  bequeth  my  sowle  to  Almighty 
God,  and  my  body  to  be  buryd  \\\  the  churchyard  of 
.North  Cadbery.  It'm,  I  bequeth  to  Seynt  Andrew's  iiijd. 
It'm,  to  the  brotheres  of  ow'r  lady,  xijd.  It'm,  I  bequeth 
t  !>  mv  sonne  Richard  a  cow,  a  calff,  the  second  best 
bran.-e  pann,  ij  platters,  ij  yearyd  dysshys  of  pewter,  an 
nkar  of  wheat,  an  akar  of  dreggc,  and  an  akar  of  medow. 
I; ''in,  to  my  daughter  Alys,  dwellyng  at  Glastonbery,  a 
cf'we.  Item,  to  my  sonne  Thomns,  my  old  oxe.  The 
r.\si(low  of  my  goods,  not  bequethed,  I  geve  to  Mawde 
my  wytTe,  whom  1  make  my  hole  executrix.  And  I  do 
make  Jchn  Harvy  my  ov'seer,  and  he  to  have  for  his 
paynes  accordyng  to  conscycus.  Thes  beyng  wytnvs: 
S'r  Water  Yesy,  Carat,  John  Robyns,  and  Richard 
Brownyng. 

"  Sum  Inventa         -        -    £vij  xvs  vd." 

It  should  be  observed  that  North  Cadbury,  of 
which  parish  Dr.  Ralph  Cudworth,  the  learned 
divine,  and  author  of  the  Intellectual  System,  was 
once  rector,  is  about  five  miles  from  Wincanton 
and  eleven  from  Shcpton  Mallet,  Somerset.  JNA. 


ARMOUR-CLAD    SHIPS  ;    THE    SKULL   OF    THE 

ELEPHANT. 

In  Civil  Engineering,  as  well  as  in  Naval 
Architecture,  no  question  at  the  present  day  has 
excited  more  profound  scientific  consideration 
than  the  power  of  chambered  iron  to  sustain 
strain  and  concussion.  The  two  objects  to  be 
united  are  resistance  and  lightness ;  and  a  re- 


markable instance  of  the  combination  of  both 
is  presented  by  the  formation  of  the  cranium  in 
the  elephant.  In  that  prodigious  creature,  the 
brain,  which  weighs  only  nine  or  ten  pounds,  re- 
quires a  proportionally  small  cavity  for  its  recep- 
tion internally  ;  but  as  the  head  has  to  furnish 
externally  a  surface  sufficient  for  the  attachment 
of  the  great  muscles  that  sustain  the  unusual 
weight  of  the  tusks  and  trunk,  this  has  rendered 
it  necessary  to  increase  the  surface,  in  order  to 
afford  convenient  space  for  their  attachment  and 
play.  To  have  formed  this  enlarged  area  of  solid 
bone  would  have  added  inconveniently  to  the 
weight;  and  the  difficulty  is  overcome  by  the 
ingenious  device  of  constructing  the  skull  in  two 
separate  tables,  one  within  the  other,  the  inter- 
vening space  being  occupied  by  spandrils  and 
bony  processes,  between  which  are  cells  filled 
with  air,  thus  ensuring  the  lightness  of  the  whole. 
But  strength  as  well  as  lightness  is  indispensable  ; 
for  in  the  economy  of  the  elephant,  his  mode  of 
life  exposes  the  head  to  frequent  shocks;  inas- 
much as  it  is  the  instrument  with  which  he  forces 
down  trees  and  encounters  other  obstacles. 

Delicate  as  the  honeycombed  structure  of  the 
interior  is,  it  is  sufficiently  firm  to  resist  the  forces 
thus  applied  ;  and  even  to  disregard  the  shock  of 
a  musket-ball,  except  in  some  well  known  spots. 

Now  the  question  suggests  itself,  whether  there 
is  anything  in  the  arrangement  of  the  walls  that 
separate  the  two  tables  of  the  elephant's  head, 
the  adoption  of  which  might  be  applied  with 
similar  effect,  to  secure  at  once  resistance  and 
buoyancy  in  the  construction  of  a  gun-boat,  a 
steam-ram,  or  a  mailed  vessel  of  war?  On  a 
superficial  glance  at  the  section  of  an  elephant's 
cranium,  the  bony  processes  which  occupy  the 
interstice  between  the  outer  and  the  inner  plates 
of  the  skull  would  seem  to  present  no  systematic 
disposal ;  but  it  is  hardly  to  be  presumed  that 
for  an  object  so  all-important,  the  position  of 
these  walls  and  partitions  is  altogether  fortuitous 
or  accidental. 

It  would  require  a  comparison  of  the  sections 
of  numerous  skulls,  to  determine,  in  the  first 
place,  whether  in  the  head  of  every  elephant  the 
arrangement  of  these  processes  and  plates  is  uni- 
form and  identical  ?  but  should  the  fact  prove  to 
be  so,  the  inference  would  [follow  that  that  pecu- 
liar arrangement  must  be  the  best  for  securing 
the  utmost  possible  power  of  resistance  with  the 
least  possible  expenditure  of  material.  The  in- 
quiry might  be  worthy  the  attention  of  Professor 
Owen,  or  some  other  eminent  comparative  ana- 
tomist. J.  EMERSON  TENNENT. 


iHtnor 

SPELLING  MATCHES.  —  In  Bell's  Wceldy  Mes- 
senger for  27th  January  is  given  an  account  (ex- 


3rd  S.  I.  FEB.  15, '62.  ] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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traded  from  the  Philadelphia  Presbyterian}  of  one 
of  these  matches,  which  are  there  styled  "  of  an- 
cient and  honourable  memory."  It  appears  that — 

"In  Spencertown,  New  York,  they  had  a  match  on  the 
9th  ult.,  in  which  Webster's  Pictorial  Dictionary  was 
contended  for.  Twenty-eight  spellers  entered  the  lists. 
All  but  two  were  silenced  in  an- hour  and  a  half.  These 
wore  two  girls,  one  eleven,  and  the  other  fourteen  years 
of  age.  They  continued  the  contest  for  nearly  an  hour 
longer,  on  words  the  most  difficult  to  be  spelt,  till  the 
audience  became  so  wrought  upon  that  they  proposed  to 
buy  a  second  dictionary,  and  thus  end  the  contest." 

Now  it  strikes  me  that  such  matches  would  do 
more,  and  more  pleasantly,  in  forwarding  the  edu- 
cation of  our  peasantry,  than  the  periodical  visits 
of  the  Inspector  of  Schools.  If  they  be  known  in 
England,  will  any  of  your  correspondents  favour 
me  with  the  rules  ?  If  they  be  an  American  in- 
stitution, your  Philadelphia  correspondent  will,  I 
trust,  send  me  the  laws  under  which  they  are  con- 
ducted. And  I  will  await  his  reply. 

VRYAN  RHEGED. 

PAPER. — Much  as  has  been  said  of  the  innumer- 
able uses  to  which  paper,  liberated  from  the  tram- 
mels of  taxation,  is  about  to  be  applied,  and 
marvel  as  we  may  at  embossed  shirts  and  water- 
proof capes  (any  light  boots  as  yet  ?)  of  this  plas- 
tic material,  I  suspect  that  the  ancients  were 
beforehand  with  us  in  the  adaptation  even  of 
their  rough  and  ready  "papyrus"  to  similar  pur- 
poses ;  since  the  taunt  of  Juvenal,  in  his  4th 
Satire  (1.  23),  applied  to  his  favourite  butt  Cris- 
•pinuS)  would  appear  to  indicate  that  even  then 
paper  was  a  covering  —  meaner  than  rags  ! 

».'•'• Hoctu 

Succinctus  patriS,  quondam,  Crispine,  papyro  ?  " 

Duke,  in  fact,  translates  the  passage  :  — 

"  Gave  you,  Crispinus— you  this  mighty  sum ! 

[For  a  fish  dinner,  or  something  of  that  sort.] 
You  that,  for  want  of  other  rags,  did  come 
In  your  own  country  paper  wrapped,  to  Rome." 

The  translator  is  guilty  of  anachronism  in  re- 
garding the  raw  material  of  the  Roman  "papyrus" 
as  rags  ;  but  perhaps  he  looked  upon  Juvenal  as 
a  bitter  sort  of  prophet  of  an  age  of  rags. 

SHOLTO  MACDUFF. 

Charminster,  near  Dorchester,  Dorset. 

JUDGES'  SEATS  IN  COURTS  OF  JUSTICE.  —  In  my 
retirement  from  the  profession  of  the  law  at  an 
advanced  age,  I  have  devoted  a  portion  of  my 
leisure  hours  in  reading  the  ancient  statutes ; 
and  much  instruction  I  have  gathered  in  the 
reading  of  ^  them,  and,  let  me  add,  amusement 
too — certainly  much  more  than  in  perusing 
and  studying  our  modern  statutes,  so  repulsive 
with  tautology  and  verbiage.  'I  venture  to  copy 
the  statute,  20  Richard  II.  ch.  iii.  A.D.  1396, 
which  I  think  justifies  my  preference  of  our  an- 
cient acts  of  Parliament,  and  will  amuse  your 
readers.  The  title  of  it  is :  — 


"  No  Man  shall  sit  upon  the  Bench  with  Justices  of 
Assize." 

"  Item,  the  King  doth  will  and  forbid,  that  no  lord, 
nor  other  of  the  county,  little  or  great,  shall  sit  upon  the 
bench  with  the  Justices  to  take  Assizes,  in  their  Sessions 
in  the  counties  of  England,  upon  great  forfeiture  to  the 
King;  and  hath  charged  his  said  Justices,  that  they 
shall  not  suffer  the  contrary  to  be  done." 

This  act,  be  it  known,  is  not  included  in  the  re- 
cent statute  for  "  the  repeal  of  such  acts  as  are 
not  now  in  use."  And  yet  how  many  seats  of 
our  judges  in  Courts  of  Assizes  are  so  con- 
structed, that  Lords  and  other  men  sit  on  the  same 
bench  with  the  judges  ?  In  the  Preface  to  the 
40th  volume  of  the  Surtees  Society  publications, 
Depositions  from  the  Castle  of  York  relating  to 
Offences  committed  in  the  Northern  Counties  (p. 
ix.)  we  are  told :  — 

"  that,  at  the  Durham  Assizes,  the  judges  were  the 
guests  of  the  Prince  Palatine,  who  empowered  them  to 
act  in  his  behalf.  He  drove  them  from  his  castle  to  the 
Court  in  his  coach  and  six,  and  sat  between  them  on  the 
bench  for  a  while  in  his  robes  of  Parliament." 

On  the  Prince's  departure  from  the  Criminal 
Court*  and  when  the  nisi  prius  judge  went  into 
his,  I  have  seen  Lords  and  others  of  the  county 
take  their  seats  on  each  side  of  the  judge  in  both 
Courts,  civil  and  criminal.  I  learn  from  inquiry 
the  judges'  seats,  in  courts  within  several  of  the 
provinces,  are  on  benches  similar  to  those  in 
Durham;  but  in  other  Courts  of  Assize,  the 
jes'  seats  are  in  alcoves  as  at  York. 
>n  reading  the  Preface  to  the  Surtees  Society 
publications,  I  wrote  in  the  margin  of  my  copy 
(p.  ix.)  :  "  And  this  in  the  face  of  the  statute 
20  Richard  II.  ch.  iii."  FRA.  MEWBUKN. 

Larchfield,  Darlington. 

MANCHESTER  IN  THE  YEAR  1559.— 

"  De  sacrificis  Bry tannise  nostrae,  quam  nunc  Angliam 
vocant,  horrenda  nova.  In  comitatu  Nottinghamiensi 
suam  vitam  alii  finiverunt  ferro,  alii  laqueo,  nonnulli 
aqua ;  multi  dederunt  se  praecipites  de  summis  sedibus,  et 
quatuordecim  horum  generum  numerantur.  Post  regi- 
nam  et  Cardinalem  Polum,  qui  infra  tres  horas  una 
obiisse  dicuntur,  undecim  ex  episcopis  majoribu?,  sunt 
etiam  brevi  post  tempore  moerore,  ut  creditur,  extincti. 
Omnes  Manchestrenses  quoque  gravissima  febris  sustulit, 
vix  ut  unus  in  tanta  civitate  sit  superstes."  Joanni  Baleo 
Basileaa  commoranti  Gulielmus  Colus.  — -A  Letter  ap- 
pended to  Bale's  Scriptores  Brytannia,  1559,  p.  229. 

I  do  not  find  this  great  mortality  recorded  in 
any  history  of  Manchester. 

BlBLIOTHECAR.    CHETHAM. 

VISITATION  OF  SHROPSHIRE. —  I  think  a  volume 
lately  presented  to  the  Shropshire  and  North 
Wales  Natural  History  and  Antiquarian  Society, 
by  Mr.  George  Morris,  son  of  the  late  Mr.  George 
Morris  who  was,  I  am  told,  well  known  as  a  local 
genealogist,  should  not  go  unrecorded  in  the  pages 
of  "N.  &  Q."  On  a  recent  visit  to  the  Shrews- 
bury Museum  I  had  the  pleasure  of  examining  it. 
It  bears  the  following  title  :  — 


128 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'«  S.  I.  FEB.  15,  >62. 


«  Copy  of  Visitation  of  Salop  by  Robert  Trcswell  and 
Aucustine  Vincent,  deputies  to  Wm.  Camden,  Claren- 
cieux,  a°  1623;  together  with  the  former  Visitations, 
a°  1564  and  1584,  £c.  &c. 

«This  volume  is  a  copy  of  the  Visitation  of  1623,  in  the 
Shrewsbury  Free  School  Library." 

"This  copy  was  commenced  in  1823,  and  finished  in 
1825,  by  George  Morris  of  Shrewsbury." 

Th«  arms  and  pedigrees  are  beautifully  drawn 
and  written.  This  is,  indeed,  a  most  interesting 
volume. 

Among  several  other  volumes  presented  by  the 
same  gentleman,  is  a  copy  of  James  Easton's  Hu- 
man Longevity,  1799,  with  very  numerous  addi- 
tions, which  would  be,  I  am  sure,  very  interesting 
to  those  numerous  correspondents  who  have  made 
so  many  enquiries  about  the  same  subject. 

G.  W.  M. 

AMUSING  BLUNDER.  — In  the  3rd  volume  (p. 
280)  of  Sir  A.  Alison's  Life  of  Lord  Castlereagh, 
there  is  a  singular  ludicrous  slip  of  the  pen,  or 
misprint  —  for  one  does  not  know  to  which  it 
must  be  ascribed  —  that  deserves  a  niche  in  any 
future  collection  of  literary  curiosities.  It  occurs 
in  the  description  of  the  funeral  of  the  Duke  of 
Wellington,  and  the  passage  runs  as  follows  :  — 

"The  pall  was  borne  by  the  Marquises  of  Anglesea  and 
Londonderry,  Lord  Gough,  Lord  Combermere,  Lord  Sea- 
ton,  Mr.  H".  Smith,  Sir  Charles  .Napier,  Sir  Alexander 
Woodford,  and Sir  PEREGMNE  PICKLE  ! !  " 

It  it  difficult  to  conceive  a  more  ludicrous  ad- 
mixture of  fact  and  fiction,  and  no  less  difficult  to 
suggest  any  explanation  of  its  occurrence.  Sir 
Peregrine  Maitland  was  meant ;  but,  however  the 
blunder  arose,  surely  never  was  there  a  more 
•whimsical  illustration  of  the  law  as  to  "  association 
of  ideas."  —  Glasgow  Gazette. 

J.  J.  B.  WORKARD. 

FENIMOBB  COOPER  ON  THE  BERMUDAS.  — 

"  There  is  the  island  of  Bermuda.  England  holds  it 
solely  as  a  hostile  port  to  be  used  against  us.  I  think 
for  the  peaceful  possession  of  that  island  our  Government 
would  make  some  sacrifice ;  and  by  way  of  inducement 
to  make  that  arrangement,  you  ought  to  remember  that 

twenty  years  hence  England  will  not  be  able  to  hold  it." 

Cooper's"  England,  vol.  ii.  p.  306,  published  1837. 

The  above  has  amused  me,  and  may  amuse  your 
readers.  p.  p. 

JOKES  ON  THE  SCARCITY  OF  BULLION.  —  It  is 
said,  as  illustrative  of  the  scarcity  of  metallic 
money  in  America  just  now,  consequent  on  the 
war-difficulties  of  our  American  cousins,  that  Mr. 
Barnum  has  added  to  his  Museum  of  Curiosities, 
an  American  dollar,  as  one  of  the  rarest  things  in 
the  States.  Apropos  of  this :  on  turning  over  a 
parcel  of  old  letters  the  other  evening,  I  came 
upon  a  paragraph  in  one  of  them  which  tells  how 
scarce  bullion  was  in  our  own  country  in  the 
month  of  March,  1797,  and  which  embodies  as 


good  a  joke  as  Mr.  Barnum's  of  this  present  year 
of  grace :  — 

"  A  few  da3'S  ago,"  says  the  writer  of  a  letter  from 
Stourbridge  to  a  friend  in  Paisley,  after  stating  that 
paper-money  had  almost  superseded  gold,  "hand-bills 
were  circulated  in  Birmingham  to  the  following  purpose : 
— '  To  be  seen  at  the  Market  Place,  A  GUINEA  just  about 
being  carried  off  to  London.  As  its  ever  returning  is  ex- 
tremely improbable,  those  who  wish  for  a  sight  of  it,  are 
desired  to  repair  thither  immediately.'  " 

JAMES  J.  LAMB. 

Underwood  Cottage,  Paisley. 


TOAD-EATER. 

In  The  Adventures  of  David  Simple  (a  novel 
written,  in  1744,  by  Sarah  Fielding,  sister  of  the 
celebrated  Henry  Fielding,)  the  hero  of  the  tale 
asks  the  meaning  of  this  term,  to  which  the  fol- 
lowing answer  is  given  :  — 

"  It  is  a  metaphor  taken  from  a  mountebank's  boy's 
eating  toads,  in  order  to  show  his  master's  skill  in  ex- 
pelling poison:  it  is  built  on  a  supposition  (which  I  am 
afraid  is  too  generally  true),  that  people  who  are  so  un- 
happy as  to  be  in  a  state  of  dependence,  are  forced  to  do 
the  most  nauseous  things  that  can  be  thought  on,  to 
please  and  humour  their  patrons.  And  the  metaphor 
maybe  carried  on  yet  further;  for  most  people  have  so 
much  the  art  of  tormenting,  that  every  time  they  have 
made  the  poor  creatures  they  have  in  their  power  '  swal- 
low a  toad,'  they  give  them  something  to  expel  it  again, 
that  they  may  be  ready  to  swallow  the  next  they  think 
proper  to  prepare  for  "them:  that  is,  when  they  have 
abused  and  fooled  them,  as  Hamlet  says,  'to  the  top  of 
their  bent,'  they  grow  soft  and  good  to  them  again,  on 
purpose  to  have  it  in  their  power  to  plague  them  the 
more." 

This  seems  to  give  the  exact  meaning  of  the 
term  as  now  used.  The  expression  also  occurs  in 
the  Works  of  Mr.  Thomas  Brown,  Serious  and 
Comical.  In  his  "  Satire  on  an  ignorant  Quack" 
(vol.  i.  p.  71),  he  says :  — 

"  Be  the  most  scorn'd  Jack-pudding  of  the  pack, 
And  turn  toad-eater  to  some  foreign  quack." 

In  vol.  ii.  of  Brown's  Works,  are  some  letters 
supposed  to  be  written  by  the  dead  to  the  living  ; 
and  among  them  is  one  from  "  Joseph  Haines,  of 
merry  memory,  to  his  friends  at  Will's  Coffee- 
House,  in  Covent  Garden,"  dated  21st  Dec.  1701. 
It  is  to  be  observed,  that  Joe  Haines  was  a  cele- 
brated mountebank  and  fortune-teller,  who  used 
to  perform  on  the  stage  in  Smithfield,  and  died 
4th  April,  1701.  In  this  pretended  letter  he  tells 
his  friends :  — 

"  I  intend  to  build  a  stage,  and  set  up  mjr  old  trade  of 
fortune -telling;  and  as  I  shall  have  occasion  for  some 
understrapper  to  draw  teeth  for  me,  or  to  be  my  toad- 
eater,  upon  the  stage,"  &c. 

In  a  subsequent  letter  from  Joe  Haines  to  tis 
friends,  he  gives  them  an  account  of  his  success  in 
his  vocation,  and  says  :  — 


8**  S.  I.  FEB.  15,  '62.] 


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"  After  the  mob  had  been  diverted  by  some  legerde- 
main tricks  of  Apollonius  Tyaneus,  my  conjuror,  being 
attended  by  Dr.  Connor,  my  toad-eater  in  ordinary,  Dr. 
Lobb,"  &c. 

Perhaps  some  of  the  learned  contributors  to 
your  valuable  publication  will  be  kind  enough  to 
inform  me  whether  there  is  a  record  or  repute  of 
any  quack  or  mountebank  at  Smithtield,  South- 
wark,  or  elsewhere,  who  had  sufficient  power  or 
influence  over  his  zany,  or  subordinate,  to  induce 
him  to  actually  swallow  any  of  these  disgusting 
reptiles  ?  Or  was  the  performance  a  mere  slight- 
of-hund  trick  ?  E.  ft.  E. 


EARL  OF  CHATHAM. — PROFESSOR  DE  MORGAN'S 
Paper  on  the  possible  as  distinguished  from  the 
actual  (2nd  S.  xii.  29)  puts  me  in  mind  of  an  anec- 
dote that  I  heard  many  years  ago  of  the  Earl  of 
Chatham.  In  a  conference  with  an  admiral,  who 
was  on  the  point  of  sailing  in  command  of  a 
squadron,  he  gave  him  instructions  to  do  so-and- 
so.  The  admiral  protested  that  the  thing  was 
impossible.  "  Sir,"  cried  Lord  Chatham,  raising 
himself  upon  his  gouty  legs,  and  brandishing  his 
crutches  in  the  air,  "  I  stand  upon  impossibili- 
ties." 

Who  was  the  admiral  ?  And  on  what  occasion 
was  this  said  ?  MELETES. 

CHANCELLORSHIP  OF  THE  UNIVERSITY  OF  CAM- 
BRIDGE.— In  the  University  Calendar  it  is  said :  — 

"  The  office  of  Chancellor  is  biennial,  or  tenable  for  such 
a  length  of  time  beyond  two  years  as  the  tacit  consent  of 
the  University  may  choose  to  allow." 

It  would  seem  that  originally-  there  was  a  re- 
gular election  or  re-election  every  two  years. 
Archbishop  Rotheram  (Athence  Cantabrigienses,  i. 
1)  was  elected  chancellor  in  1469,  and  again  in 
1473,  1475,  and  1483  ;  and  Bishop  Story  (ibid.  p. 
5),  in  1471.  At  what  time,  and  why  was  the  bi- 
ennial election  discontinued  ?  M.  A.  CANTAB. 

THE  AUTHOR  OF  THE  "  FALLS  OF  CLYDE."  — 
I  have  an  octavo  volume  entitled  the  Falls  of 
Clyde,  or,  the  Fairies;  a  Scottish  Dramatic  Pasto- 
ral. It  also  contains  three  dissertations  :  on  fairies, 
on  the  Scottish  language,  and  on  pastoral  poetry. 

It  was  published  by  Creech  in  Edinburgh,  in 
1806.  The  name  of  the  author  is  not  given  ;  but 
a  friend  informs  me  that  it  was  Black,  and  that 
he  was  a  tutor  in  the  family  of  Lord  Woodhouselee. 

Can  you  inform  me,  through  any  of  your  readers, 
•what  became  of  Mr.  Black :  and  if  he  wrote  any 
other  work?  :  j^. 

This  drama  will  repay  perusal  by  anyone  who 
understands  the  humour  of  the  Scottish  language. 
^  Should  you  be  unable  to  give  me  the  informa- 
tion which  I  seek,  I  shall  have  reference  made  to 
the  Edinburgh  Magazine  of  1806-7,  and  shall 
send  you  the  result.  L.  Z. 


J.  A.  BLACKWELL.  —  There  was  a  tragedy, 
called  Rudolf  of  Varosney,  by  Mr.  J.  A.  Black- 
well,  published  in  1842.  Can  any  of  your  readers 
inform  me  whether  the  author  was  a  native  of  the 
North  of  Scotland  ?  ZETA. 

BURDON  OF  EASINGTON.  —  Information  as  to 
the  descendants  of  the  Burdens  vel  Burdens  of 
Easington  would  be  gladly  received.  The  fol- 
lowing is,  I  believe,  copied  from -the  registers  kept 
by  the  Society  of  Friends  :  — 

Amos  Burdon  vel  Burden,  son  of  George  Bur- 
don,  married  at  Shotton,  27th  March,  1692,  to 
Mary  Foster,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Margaret 
Foster,  of  Hawthorne,  in  the  county  palatine  of 
Durham,  and  had  three  sons  and  one  daughter : 
George  Burden,  Robert  Burden,  John  Burden, 
— married  Mary  Mainby,  and  had  two  daughters, 
viz. :  Mary  Burden,  married  Jas.  Verstone ; 
Priscilla  Burden,  married  John  Bay nes  ;— Mary 
Burden.  DURHAM. 

P.S.  —  I  am  in  doubt  as  to  the  correct  spelling 
of  the  name  Burden,  whether  its  last  vowel  should 
be  e  or  o. 

CANOE.  —  When  was  this  word  first  introduced 
into  the  languages  of  Europe  ? 

In  the  letter  of  Dr.  Chanca,  written  January, 
1494,  describing  the  second  voyage  of  Columbus 
(Letters  of  Columbus,  Hakluyt  Society,  London, 
1847),  the  word  is  frequently  introduced  as  a 
Spanish  word,  and  not  in  italics,  as  Indian  words 
are,  and  explained  in  the  same  letter.  But  at 
that  date  Columbus  had  only  returned  from  his 
first  voyage  nine  months,  and  it  is  incredible  that 
in  that  short  time  the  word  should  have  been  in- 
troduced from  the  languages  of  the  West  Indians, 
and  incorporated  with  the  Spanish. 

I  am  aware  of  the  derivation  from  canna;  but 
I  wish  to  know  whether  the  word  canoe  (canod) 
occurs  in  any  writer  prior  to  1494  ? 

EDEN  WARWICK. 

Birmingham. 

COMETS  AND  EPIDEMIA.  —  I  have  a  work,  Illus- 
trations of  the  Atmospherical  Origin  of  Epidemic 
Disorders,  of  Health,  fyc.  #•<?.,  by  T.  Forster,  M.B., 
F.L.S.,  M.A.S.,  &c.  &c.,  and  published  at  Chelms- 
ford,  1829.  In  Bohn's  edition  of  Lowndes  men- 
tion is  made  of  a  Thomas  Ignatius  Maria  Forster, 
and  a  list  of  his  works  is  given,  among  which  ap- 
pear two  works  with  a  somewhat  similar  title,  but 
in  no  other  way  corresponding.  Is  the  work  be- 
fore me  an  unknown  or  unacknowledged  one  of 
T.  I.  M.  Forster? 

This  work  is  one  of  considerable  research,  and 
is  valuable  for  its  historical  references,  and  very 
much  of  its  mattter  might  be  adduced  in  support 
of  the  sanitary  theories  of  more  recent  times.  In 
one  chapter  of  the  book  he  supplies  a  catalogue  of 
pestilence  since  the  Christian  era,  in  order  to  show 
that  they  were  coincident  with  the  appearance  of 


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[3'd  g.  I.  FEB.  15,  '62. 


comets,  or  of  other  astronomical  phenomena.  The 
catalogue  extends  from  the  year  15  A.D.  down  to 
1829,  the  year  in  which  the  author  terminated  his 
labours.  It  is  much  too  lengthy  to  give  entire  in 
your  columns,  as  it  occupies  about  forty  closely- 
printed  octavo  pages.  It  is  exceedingly  curious, 
and  so  far  as  I  have  been  able  to  test  its  accuracy 
as  to  dates  is  the  labour  of  a  careful  student. 

It  has  in  all  times  been  a  common  notion  that 
the  heavenly  bodies,  when  exhibiting  extraor- 
dinary appearances  or  disturbances,  imported 
change,  disaster,  or  calamity.  In  our  own  day, 
among  the  vulgar,  every  eclipse  or  comet  is  re- 
garded as  the  harbinger  of  some  storm,  or  inunda- 
tion, or  some  contagious  disease.  Even  scientific 
men  and  philosophers  have  not  thought  such  in- 
quiries unworthy  of  their  pursuit.  No  body ^ of 
natural  facts  can  ever  be  useless,  if  compiled  with 
conscientious  care.  Mr.  Forster  does  not  strongly 
insist  upon  any  hypothesis ;  he  aspires  only  to 
state  facts,  and,  to  use  his  own  expressions,  "  to 
heap  up  useful  observations,  and  apply  to  them 
the  powerful  engines  of  comparison  and  analogy." 

As  I  have  been  much  interested  in  this  parti- 
cular chapter  of  the  work,  I  felt  inclined  to  invite 
the  attention  of  the  curious  to  it.  At  the  same 
time  I  should  be  glad  to  know  whether  my  conjec- 
ture as  to  the  author  is  correct  ?  *  T.  B. 

COLONEL.  —  Johnson  considers  Minshew's  deri- 
vation of  this  military  title — "  Colonna,  Co- 
lurnna,  exercitus  Columen;"  and  Skinner's  "  Colo- 
nialis,  the  leader  of  a  Colony"  equally  plausible  ; 
adding,  "  Colonel  is  now  (A.D.  1755)  sounded  with 
two  distinct  syllables,  Col'neL"  Though  educated 
under  the  latest  of  our  lexicographer's  contem- 
poraries, it  never  was  my  chance  to  hear  the  term 
thus  elided. 

Milton,  in  his  grave  and  stately  measure,  vin- 
dicates its  tri-syllabic  propriety  — 

"Captain,  or  Colonel,  or  Knight  in  arms — " 

and  Butler,  after  his  frolicsome  fashion,  verbalises 
it  thus  — 

"  Then  did  Sir  Knight  abandon  dwelling, 
And  out  he  rode  &-ColoneUing" 

Among  the  utilities  of  poetry,  none  are  more 
evident  than  the  verification  of  accents  and  quan- 
tifies, which  her  sister,  Prose,  leaves  in  their  tra- 
ditional uncertainty. 

But,  more  senili,  I  am  wandering  from  my  pur- 
posed Query.  How,  and  when,  did  the  canine 
letter  (the  canine  syllable  too)  slip  into  this  honour- 
able title,  and  phonetically  slipslop  its  gallant 
bearers  into  Curnel  ?  AUCEPS  SYLLABARUM. 

DEFACED  AND  WORN  COINS.  •«  I  am  anxious  to 
learn  if  there  is  any  method  known  of  restoring 
thejegendsjand  devices  on  worn  coins.  Can  any 

[*  This  is  one  of  the  acknowledged  works  of  Dr.  Thomas 
Forster.  Vide  "N.  &  Q.»  l*t  S.  &.  568;  x.  108.- ED.] 


reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  assist  me  ?  There  is  a  plan 
mentioned  by  Sir  David  Brewster  (Letters  on 
Natural  Magic)  of  reading  inscriptions,  by  placing 
the  coin  on  a  hot  iron  ;  but  this  method  does  not 
answer  well  in  my  hands.  E.  G. 

DODSHON  OF  STRAUTON.  —  Information  as  to 
the  descendants  of  the  Dodshons  of  Strauton 
would  be  gladly  received.  The  following  may 
give  some  clue  :  Nicholas  Dodshon  of  Strauton 
had  —  Christopher  Dodshon,  baptized  4th  March, 
1635;  was  buried  13th  January,  1720.  He  had 
John  Dodshon,  born  27th  March,  1670.  He  was 
buried  8th  August,  1746  ;  he  married  Frances 
.  .  .  .  ,  and  had  Nicholas  Dodshon,  married 
to  Frances  Foster,  20th  February,  1731,  and  had 
one  son  and  four  daughters.  John  Dodshon,  born 
8th  August,  1736,  died  unmarried.  Sarah  Dods- 
hon, born  19th  January,  1732,  died  unmarried. 
Frances  Dodshon,  born  18th  December,  1733, 
married  Samuel  Bewley,  and  had  Sarah,  married 
to  John-Arcy  Braithwaite.*  Deborah  Dodshon, 
born  17th  October,  1741,  married  John  Dodshon. 
Mary  Dodshon,  born  3rd  March,  1744,  married 
Joseph  Studholme.  F.  J. 

ECCLESIASTICAL  COMMISSION  OF  1650. — Where 
are  the  records  of  this  Commission  to  be  found  ? 

M.  W. 

ELECTIONEERERS,  —  Referring  to  the  govern- 
ment of  the  United  States,  J.  S.  Mill,  in  his  work 
on  representative  government,  says  :  — 

"  When  the  highest  dignit}''  in  the  States  is  to  be  con- 
ferred by  popular  election  once  in  every  few  years,  the 
whole  intervening  time  is  spent  in  what  is  virtually  a 
canvass.  Presidents,  ministers,  chiefs  of  parties,  and  their 
followers  are  all  electioneerers,"  &c. 

I  wish  to  inquire  whether  this  is  a  vulgarism, — 
why  the  word  should  not  follow  the  mode  adopted 
in  "  auctioneer,"  "  pamphleteer  ?  "  And  whether 
any,  and  if  so  what  other  words  of  the  like  for- 
mation could  be  used  in  writing  good  English  ? 

W.  S. 

LITERARY  ANECDOTES.  —  In  a  French  work, 
entitled  Curiosites  Litteraires,  which  I  recently 
picked  up,  I  found  the  two  following  anecdotes ; 
which  I  now  send  you  in  an  English  form  :  — 

1.  "  When  Dr.  Johnson  was  compiling  his  celebrated 
Dictionary   of  the   English  Language,   he    wrote  to  the 
Gentleman's  Magazine,  asking  its  readers  if  any  of  them 
could  furnish  him  with  the  etymology  of  the  word  Cur- 
mudgeon.    The   query  soon  met  with  a  reply,  and  the 
information  received  was  entered  in  his  work  as  follows: 
'  Curmudgeon,  subs.,  faulty  mode  of  pronouncing  cceur 
mediant  —  anonymous  correspondent.'  The  sentence  was 
soon  copied  into  another  English  dictionary  thus :  '  Cur- 
mudgeon, from  the  French  words  cceur  (anonymous),  and 
mediant  (correspondent)." 

2.  "  Pope,  in  one  of  his  notes  on  Shakespeare's  play  of 
Measure  for  Measure,  mentions  that  the  plot  is  taken 
from   Cinthio's  Novels,  dec.  8,   nov.  5,  f.  e.  8th  decade, 
novel  5th.    Warburton,  the  critic,  in  his  edition  of  Shake- 

*  John-Arcy  Braithwaite  died  at  Lancaster. 


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speare,   restores  the    abbreviations  thus,  December  8, 
vember  5." 

Is  there  any  truth  in  the  above  anecdotes  ? 

L.  H.  M. 

DR.  HANSEL'S  EPIGRAMS. — In  Rogers's  Recol- 
lections, p.  59,  occurs  the  following  remark. 
Rogers  loquitur :  — 

"  I  wish  somebody  would  collect  all  the  epigrams  writ- 
ten by  Dr.  Mansel  (Master  of  Trin.  Col.  Oxford,  and  Bp. 
of  Bristol.)  They  are  remarkably  neat  and  clever." 

I  have  been  unable  to  discover  any  of  these 
productions,  and  you  would  confer  a  benefit  by 
giving  me  some  information  respecting  them. 

JOHN  TAYLOR. 

JOHN  PIKERYNG.  —  Can  you  give  me  any  ac- 
count of  the  following  old  play  and  its  author,  in 
the  British  Museum :  A  newe  Enterlude  of  Vice, 
conteyninge  the  Historic  of  Horestes,  with  the  cruell 
reuengment  of  his  Father's  Death,  upon  his  one 
naturell  Mother,  '4to,  1567?  The  author,  John 
Pikeryng.  ZETA. 

"  PIROMIDES." —  Who  is  the  author  of  a  drama 
called  Piromides,  an  Egyptian  Tragedy.  Dedi- 
cated to  the  late  Earl  of  Elgin,  London,  1839. 

ZETA. 

ROBERT  ROSE.— Can  any  reader  of  "N.  &  Q." 
give  any  biographical  particulars  relating  to 
Robert  Rose,  "  the  bard  of  colour."  He  was  a 
native  of  the  West  Indies,  author  of  Recollections 
of  the  Departed,  serio-comic  pieces,  £c.,  about 
1839.  What  are  the  titles  of  his  other  works, 
poetic  or  dramatic  ?  ZETA. 

MICHAEL  SCOT'S  WRITINGS  ON  ASTRONOMY.  — 
The  list  of  the  works  of  Michael  Scot,  who  trans-> 
lated  several  of  the  writings  of  Aristotle,  contains 
the  three  following  titles :  — 

1.  "  Imagines  Astronomicae." 

2.  "  Astrologorum  Dogmata,"  1.  i. 

3.  "  De  Signis  Planetarum." 

Jourdain,  who  gives  the  list  of  Michael  Scot's 
works  in  his  Recherches  sur  les  Traductions  d'Ari- 
stote,  p,  127  (ed.  1843),  states  that  he  has  no  in- 
formation on  these  three  articles.  Michael  Scot 
was  an  astronomer  and  an  astrologer  ;  it  does  not 
appear  whether  these  works  were  original,  or  only 
translations.  Can  any  of  your  correspondents 
throw  light  upon  the  subject  ?  G.  C.  LEWIS. 

SUTTON  FAMILY.  —  Could  any  of  your  readers, 
through  your  interesting  columns,  give  the  name 
of  the  baron  who  came  over  to  England  with  the 
Conqueror,  from  whom  are  descended  the  family 
of  the  Suttons  ?  The  Suttons  are  represented  in 
England  by  Sir  John  Sutton  and  Lord  John  Man- 
ners Sutton  ;  in  France,  by  General  the  Count  de 
Clouard,  whose  name  is  John  Sutton,  and  is  the 
finest  soldier  in  France  in  form.  In  Spain  by 
General  Sutton,  also  bearing  the  title  of  Count  de 
Clouard ;  and  in  Ireland  by  my  father.  Our  family 


names  are  John,  Roger,  Michael,  Caesar,  Gilbert, 
Richard,  Charles  (in  Ireland  Cormac),  Thomas, 
James,  and  Patrick,  in  the  male  line.  The  female 
family  names  are,  Austace,  Eleanor,  Bridget,  Mary, 
Catharine.  Perhaps  these  rnay  resemble  our  dis- 
tant kinsmen's  names  in  England.  A  lizard  is 
our  crest.  Anyone  giving  in  your  columns  in- 
formation about  this  matter  will  greatly  oblige 

JOHN  P.  SUTTON. 

P.S.  Our  branch  in  Ireland  have  been  cele- 
brated for  huge  stature.  Have  small  brown  eyes, 
and  auburn-like  hair.  Females  were  always  ex- 
ceedingly handsome. 

EARLY  EDITION  OF  TERENCE.— I  have  an  early 
edition  of  Terence,  with  notes,  &c.,  of  Petrus 
Marsus  and  Paulus  Malleolus.  At  the  end  of  the 
volume  is  placed  the  following  conclusion  (on 
"  foliu  cxvi.")  :  — 

"  ^[  Petri  Marsi  et  Pauli  Malleoli  in  Terentianas 
comcedias  adnotationes  cu  margiriariis  exornationibus  et 
voculorum  difficiliu  expositionib*  sortite  sunt  fine.  Anno 
vii." 

The  volume  has  been  slightly  mended  at  the 
beginning;  but  not,  I  think,  so  as  to  hide  any 
date. 

The  only  similar  book  I  can  find  mentioned  in 
the  ordinary  bibliographical  works,  is  a  copy  in 
the  Grenville  Library  at  the  British  Museum, 
press-mark  9466  (vi.  Brunei)  ;  but  this  has  a 
rather  more  complete  "  Index  Vocabulorum  "  than 
my  copy,  and  in  other  respects  looks  as  if  it  were 
of  a  later  edition.  In  both  cases  the  lines  of  the 
plays  are  not  divided.  Can  any  of  the  subscribers 
to  "  N.  &  Q."  assist  me  in  discovering  the  date  or 
place  of  publication  of  my  copy  ?  Also,  if  it  is  of 
any  value  or  rarity  ? 

The  copy  in  the  British  Museum  has  a  woodcut 
at  the  commencement  of  each  play  —  mine  has 
not.  E.  G. 

UNIVERSAL  SUFFRAGE.  — 

"  Before  Henry  VI.  time,  all  men  had  their  voice  in 
choosing  Knights  ...  In  his  reign,  the  40s.  law  was 
passed."  —  Selden's  Table  Talk. 

Is  there  anything  in  the  books  to  show  that  the 
poorer  class  of  persons  ever  generally  exercised 
the  privilege  of  voting,  or  how  they  received  the 
statutes  8th  and  10th  Henry  VI.,  which  deprived 
them  of  that  privilege  ?  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

WEBB  FAMILY.  —  I  should  be  happy  to  ex- 
change Notes  referring  to  Webb  families  with  any 
of  your  correspondents,  and  also  to  obtain  replies 
to  the  following  Queries  :  — 

What  was  the  lineage  of  Major  General  Webb, 
distinguished  in  the  German  and  American  wars 
of  the  earlier  part  of  last  century  ?  I  presume  he 
was  son  to  the  Gen.  Webb  dismissed  from  the 
service  in  1714,  for  sympathy  with  the  old  Pre- 
tender. The  family  was  Gloucestershire. 


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Is  there  any  connexion  between  Webb  of  Kent 
("arms,  a  fess  between  three  owls),  and  Webb  of 
Lincolnshire  (arms,  a  fess  between  three  fleurs- 
de-lis)  ?  Neither  the  Heralds'  Visitations  of 
Lincoln  for  1634,  nor  1666,  mention  any  Webbs ; 
yet  the  arms  are  given  in  Berry. 

What  became  of  the  Webbs  of  Bottesham,  con- 
cerning whom  there  are  a  good  many  references 
in  Sims's  Pedigrees  ?  Thomas  Webb  of  Botte- 
sham entered  his  marriage  and  issue  at  Heralds' 
College  in  1619,  but  the  pedigree  is  not  continued 
there;  nor  is  anything  said  about  them  in  the 
Visitation  of  1680.  An  old  alphabet  of  arms  in 
the  College,  temp.  Car.  II.,  assigns  to  them  these 
arms  :  "  Az.  on  a  chief  or,  three  martletts  gu. 
Crest,  a  griffin's  head  erased  or,  gorged  with 
a  crown  of  the  last." 

Benjamin  Webb,  of  St.  Martin's  Orgar,  Lon- 
don, took  out  his  arms  in  1766,  similar  to  the 
foregoing,  with  a  bezant  in  addition  ;  and  a  dex- 
ter arm,  holding  a  slip  of  laurel  for  crest.  His 
pedigree  in  the  College  of  Arms  states,  that  he 
was  the  son  of  Benjamin  Webb,  citizen  and  linen- 
draper  of  London,  and  grandson  of  Richard  Webb, 
of  Bucklebury,  Berks.  Had  this  Richard  any 
other  sons  beside  Benjamin  the  linen  draper,  who 
was  buried  at  Bunhill  Fields  ip  1755  ?  As  Lucy, 
sister  to  Sir  Wm.  Webb,  Knt.,  Mayor,  1591,  and 
mother  of  Archbishop  Laud,  was  of  a  Berkshire 
family,  there  may  be  an  affinity  between  the 
families.  Sir  Wm.  Webb,  died  1599,  and  was 
buried  at  Bishopsgate,  to  which  parish  he  left 
bequests. 

In  the  parish  books,  both  of  St.  Giles,  Cripple- 
gate,  and  St.  Luke,  Old  Street,  there  are  records 
that  "the  Lady  Berkely  and  Mr.   Webb"  gave  ' 
sundry  presents  to  those  parishes  :  date,. probably, 
cir.  1760.     Who  could  these  parties  be  ? 

Lastly,  there  is  a  discrepancy  in  the  pedigrees 
of  Webb  of  Canford  and  Oldstock,  as  given  in 
bir  R.  C.  Hoare's  Wilts  and  in  Burke.  John 
Webb,  who  married  Mary  Brune,  being,  accord- 
ing to  one,  brother  of  the  first  Itnight,  and  accord- 
ing to  the  other  of  the  first  baronet.  He  is  said  to 
have  had  a  son,  John  Webb  of  Sarnesfield  and 
Button  (Burke  says  of  Clerkenwell),  and  others. 
t^uery,  U  ho  were  these  "  others"  ? 

I  would  just  add,  that  the  earliest  notice  of  the 
ie  of  Webb  that  has  yet  come  before  me,  is  a 
record  of  a  gravestone  in  Hitchin  churchyard  to 
John  Web,  buried  there  1472. 

If  you  would  kindly  find  a  place  for  this  lengthy 
Query,  it  would  much  oblige;  as  a  word  or  two 
irpm  some  friends  learned  in  genealogical  matters  ' 

t  save  me  avast  amount  of  labour  in  hunting 
up  the  history  of  this  tribe.  w   vv 

Short  Heath,  Wolverhampton. 

WEEPING  AMONG  THE  ANCIE«TS.-III  the  Satur- 
A?f  f  w^  J?,nuarv  4>  J*  an  article  on  "The 
Art  of  Weeping,"  which  some  would  call  stoical, 


others  cynical.  "  N.  &  Q."  is  not  the  place  for 
discussing  the  question,  but  I  wish  to  ask,  whether 
any  one  has  noticed,  and  endeavoured  to  account 
for,  the  abundant  weeping  among  the  ancients  ? 
Tears  of  modern  heroes  are  scarcely  ever  described 
by  poets,  or  recorded  by  historians.  W.  B.  J. 

CURIOUS  DEVONSHIRE  CUSTOM.  — 

"The  Devonshire  people  have  some  original  customs 

amongst  them In  the  shops,  wherever  I 

made  purchases  amounting  to,  and  over,  one  pound,  I 
was  invariably  asked  to  walk  to  the  upper  end  of  the 
shop,  where  was  placed  a  chair  on  a  nice  piece  of  carpet. 
The  shopman  would  leave  me  there  a  moment,  and  return- 
ing with  a  neat  small  tray  in  his  hand,  he  would  present 
me  with  a  glass  of  wine  and  a  slice  of  plum  cake."  — 
Quakerism,  or  the  Story  of  my  Life,  pp.  248-9. 

Will  some  one  tell  me  if  the  custom  is  still 
practised  ?  I  have  never  met  with  it  in  Devon- 
shire myself,  though  I  have  frequently  made  pur- 
chases in  the  shops  of  its  different  towns. 

G.  W.  M. 

DRAMA.  —  Who  are  the  authors  of  Julia,  or 
the  Fatal  Return,  a  Pathetic  Drama,  1822  ;  The 
Innocent  Usurper,  a  Drama,  1822  ?  ZETA. 


<Suertcg  font!) 
THE    SEVEN-BRANCHED    CANDLESTICK.  —  The 
following  passage  occurs  in  the  17th  chapter  of 
Mr.  Nathaniel  Hawthorne's  Romance  of  Monte 
Beni :  — 

"  They  turned  their  faces  cityward,  and  treading  over 
the  broad  flagstones  of  the  old  Roman  pavement,  passed 
through  the  Arch  of  Titus.  The  moon  shone  brightly 
enough  within  it  to  show  the  seven-branched  Jewish 
candlestick,  cut  in  the  marble  of  the  interior.  The  ori- 
ginal of  that  awful  trophy  lies  buried,  at  this  moment, 
in  the  yellow  mud  of  the  Tiber;  and,  could  its  gold  of 
Ophir  again  be  brought  to  light,  it  would  be  the  most 
precious  relic  of  past  ages  in  the  estimation  both  of  JCAV 
and  Gentile." 

I  am  anxious  to  know  what  authority  there  is 
for  the  statement,  that  the  seven-branched  can- 
dlestick of  the  Jewish  Temple  was  lost  in  the 
Tiber.  A  LORD  or  A  MANOR. 

[After  the  triumph  [of  Titus]  the  candlestick  was  de- 
posited in  the  Temple  of  Peace,  and  according  to  one 
story  fell  into  the  Tiber  from  the  Milvian  bridge  during 
the  flight  of  Maxentius  from  Constantino,  Oct.  28,  312 
A. ix  ;  but  it  probably  was  among  the  spoils  transferred, 
at  the  end  of  4UO  years,  from  Rome  to  Carthage  by  Gen- 
seric,  A.D.  455  (Gibbon,  iii.  291).  It  was  recovered  by 
Belisarius,  once  more  carried  in  triumph  to  Constanti- 
nople, and  then  respectfully  deposited  in  the  Christian 
church  of  Jerusalem  (Id.  iv.  24)  A.D.  533.  It  has  never 
been  heard  of  since.  —  Smith's  Diet,  of  the  Bible.] 

"  TOTTENHAM  IN  HIS  BOOTS." — Who  was,  or  is, 
Tottenham  ?  A  few  years  since  a  lady  saw,  among 
other  pictures  in  Dublin,  one  described  as  "  Tot- 
tenham in  his  boots."  She  is  desirous  of  know- 
ing who  Tottenham  was,  or  is  ?  AMICUS. 

[Charles  Tottenham,  of  Tottenham  Green,  co.  Wex- 
ford,  was  elected  one  of  the  members  for  the  borough  of 


3rd  S.  I.  FEB.  15,  '62.  ] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


133 


New  Ross  in  1727,  which  he  continued  to  represent  until 
bis  death  in  1758.  He  was  facetiously  known  as  "Tot- 
tenham in  liis  Boots"  from  the  following  circumstance. 
Braving  the  inconveniences  of  a  severe  attack  of  gout 
and  bad  weather,  he  rode  post  from  the  county  of  Wex- 
ford,  and  arrived  in  his  boots  at  the  House  of  Commons 
on  College  Green,  Duhlin,  at  a  critical  moment.  The 
question,  whether  any  redundancy  in  the  Irish  trea- 
sury should  there  continue,  or  be  sent  into  England,  was 
in  agitation.  Mr.  Tottenham  gave  the  casting  vote  in 
favour  of  his  country;  and  in  memory  of  his  patriotic 
conduct,  an  excellent  likeness  of  him  in  his  travelling 
dress,  and  in  the  attitude  of  ascending  the  steps  of  the 
Parliament  House,  was  painted  by  Stevens  in  1749,  and 
engraved  by  Andrew  Miller  of  Dublin.  The  painting  is 
now  in  the  possession  of  the  Marquis  of  Ely.] 

VICE-ADMIRAL  JAMES  SAYER.— I  shall  be  much 
obliged  for  any  information  respecting  the  place 
of  birth,  services,  &c.,  of  Vice-Admiral  James 
Sayer,  who  died  in  Oct.  1776,  and  lies  buried  in 
the  parish  church  of  St.^Paul's,  Deptford. 

ESTEFORT. 

[James  Sayer  was  the  son  of  John  Sayer,  Esq.,  and 
Katherine  his  wife,  one  of  the  daughters  and  co- heirs  of 
Bear- Admiral  Robert  Hughes.  On  the  22nd  of  March, 
1745-6,  James  Sayer  was  promoted  to  be  Captain  of  the 
Richmond  frigate.  In  the  war  of  1739,  he  had  the  thanks 
of  the  Assembly  of  Barbadoes  for  his  disinterested  con- 
duct in  the  protection  of  their  trade;  and  he  first  planted 
the  British  standard  in  the  island  of  Tobago.  In  the 
•war  of  1756,  he  led  the  attacks,  both  at  the  taking  of 
Senegal  and  Goree ;  and  was  Commander-in-Chief  off  the 
French  coast  at  Belle  Isle,  at  the  time  of  making  the 
peace  in  1763.  On  the  31st  March,  1775,  he  was  pro- 
moted to  be  Rear- Admiral  of  the  Red ;  on  the  3rd  Feb. 
1776,  to  be  Vice  of  the  Blue ;  and  on  the  28th  April,  1777, 
Vice-Admiral  of  the  White.  He  died  on  the  29th  Oct. 
1776,  aged  fifty-six  years.  Arms :  Quarterly  1  and  4 ; 
G.  a  chevron  between  three  seapies  arg.  —  Sayer.  2  and 
3  az.  a  lion  ramp.  O.— Hughes.  Consult  Lysons's  Environs 
of  London,  iv.  389,  and  Charnock's  JSiog.  Navalis,  v.  504.] 

PROVINCIAL  TOKENS.  —  In  what  works  can  I 
find  an  account  of  the  tokens  that  have  been  issued 
in  the  different  towns  of  Devonshire  and  Corn- 
wall, as  I  have  looked  in  vain  in  the  county  his- 
tories ?  G.  P.  P. 

[Consult  Wm.  Boyne's  Tokens  issued  in  the  Seventeenth 
Century  in  England,  Wales,  and  Ireland,  8vo,  Lond.  1858  ; 
James  Conder's  Provincial  Coins,  Tokens,  and  Medalets, 
issued  in  Great  Britain,  Ireland,  and  the  Colonies,  2  vols. 
4to,  1798-9;  and  Sharp's  Catalogue  of  Sir  George  Chet- 
wynd's  Collection.] 

ALDERMEN  OF  LONDON.  —  Can  any  of  the 
readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  kindly  tell  me  in  what  book 
I  can  find  a  correct  List  of  the  Aldermen  of 
London  during  the  seventeenth  century  ? 

H.  W.  C. 

[A  List  of  the  Aldermen  of  the  several  wards  of  the 
City  of  London,  with  the  date  of  their  election,  from  1700 
to  the  present  time,  will  be  found  in  the  Corporation 
Pocket  Bonk,  an  annual  privately  printed.  Before  that 
date,  application  for  any  particulars  must  be  made  to  the 
Town  Clerk,  F.  VVoodthorpe,  Esq.,  who  has  in  his  cus- 
tody the  records  of  the  Corporation.] 


Xtfttetf, 

LAMBETH  DEGREES. 
(2nd  S.  xii.  436,  529 ;  3rd  S.  i.  36.) 

As  much  doubt,  if  not  ignorance,  prevails  upon 
this  subject  even  amongst  the  best- informed  per- 
sons, a  few  words  of  information  may  not  be  un- 
acceptable in  answer  to  your  several  querists,  the 
result  of  my  inquiries  upon  the  point  in  question, 
viz.  the  authority  under  which  the  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury  is  empowered  to  grant  degrees. 

I  have  before  me  a  copy  of  the  Letters  of 
Creation  of  the  Degree  of  Doctor  of  Laws,  by 
his  Grace  the  present  Archbishop  of  Canterbury. 
They  commence  by  stating  that  his  Grace  is,  by 
the  authority  of  Parliament,  lawfully  empowered, 
for  the  purposes  therein  written,  and  are  addressed 
to  P.  M.  I.  of  the  Middle  Temple,  London,  and 
of  the  Island  of  Antigua,  Barrister-at-Law  ;  and 
recites  that,  in  schools  regularly  instituted,  a 
laudable  usage  and  custom  hath  long  prevailed 
that  they  who  have  with  proficiency  and  applause 
exerted  themselves  in  the  study  of  any  liberal 
science,  should  be  graced  with  some  eminent  de- 
gree of  dignity.  And  whereas,  the  Archbishops 
of  Canterbury,  enabled  by  the  public  authority  of 
the  law,  do  enjoy,  and  long  have  enjoyed,  the 
power  of  conferring  degrees  and  titles  of  honour 
upon  well-deserving  men,  as  by  an  authentic 
Book  of  Taxations  of  Faculties  confirmed  by  au- 
thority of  Parliament  doth  more  fully  appear, — the 
dignity  of  "  Doctor  of  Laws  "  is  then  granted  by 
the  Archbishop  "  so  far  as  in  him  lies,  and  the  laws 
of  this  realm  do  allow "  ;  and  the  said  R.  M.  I.  is 
created  an  actual  Doctor  of  Laws,  and  admitted 
into  the  number  of  Doctors  of  Laws  of  the  realm, 
certain  prescribed  oaths  being  first  taken  by  the 
said  R.  M.  I.  before  the  said  Archbishop  or  the 
Master  of  the  Faculties. 

And  then  follows  this  proviso  :  — 

"  Provided  always  that  these  Presents  do  not  avail 
(the  said  R.  M.  I.)  anything  unless  duly  confirmed  by  the 
Queen's  Letters  Patent." 

The  letters  are  given  under  the  seal  of  the 
Office  of  Faculties  at  Doctors'  Commons,  the  16th 
November,  1850. 

It  would  seem  that  the  confirmation  of  the  act 
of  the  Archbishop  is  required  by  his  own  proviso 
in  the  grant  of  the  degree,  and  probably  by  the 
requirement  of  the  authority  of  Parliament,  which 
may  be  the  act  of  25  Hen.  VIII.  c.  21,  cited  by 
W.  N. ;  who  does  not  show  by  what  section  of 
that  act  the  power  to  grant,  degrees  is  given. 

The  grant  of  the  degree  to  R.  M.  I.  was  con- 
firmed by  the  Queen's  Letters  Patent  on  the  22nd 
day  of  the  same  month  of  November  ;  and  which 
Letters  Patent  recite  that  the  queen  had  seen  the 
Letters  Patent  of  Creation,  which,  and  everything 
therein  contained,  according  to  a  certain  act  in 
that  behalf  made  in  the  Parliament  of  King  Henry 


154 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[8'*  S.  I.  FEB.  15,  '62. 


VIII.,  are  thereby  ratified,  approved,  and  con- 
firmed. 

Whether  the  practice  of  the  Archbishop  to 
grant  degrees  is  confined  to  those  of  Doctor  of 
Laws  and  Medicine,  I  do  not  know  ;  but  from 
the  words,  "degrees"  and  "titles  of  honour,"  in 
the  Letters  of  Creation  to  R.  M.  L,  the  power 
would  not  seem  confined  to  Doctor  of  Laws  and 
Medicine.  Some,  however,  of  your  correspon- 
dents better  informed  may  say,  whether  the  me- 
tropolitan prelate  can  confer  the  degrees  of  Master 
or  Bachelor  of  Arts,  or  Doctor  in  Divinity. 

The  degrees  o£  Doctor  of  Laws  (LL.D.),  and 
D.C.L.,  as°well  as  of  Divinity  and  Medicine,  have 
been  generally  supposed  to  be  academical  honours, 
and  confined  to  the  Universities  and  academies  of 
learning ;  but  the  Letters  of  Creation  of  the  Arch- 
bishop admits  his  grantee  into  the  number  of 
"Doctor  of  Laws  ol*  the  Realm,"  apparently  an 
admitted  class  in  the  order  of  society ;  but  if  so, 
how  their  precedency  is  regulated,  or  how  placed, 
does  not  appear  from  any  recognised  authority  of 
the  Crown. 

By  what  authority  the  College  of  Physicians 
are  empowered  to  grant  the  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Medicine  to  their  licentiates,  unless  by  their  char- 
ter of  incorporation,  I  cannot  say.  The  Fellows 
have  it,  no  doubt,  from  their  university  degrees. 

J.  11. 


SCRIPTURE  PARAPHRASE. 
(2nd  S.  xii.  518.) 

Such  is  the  name  given  by  F.  J.  M.  to  what  I 
would  call  a  rather  profane  parody  on  the  story 
of  the  Finding  of  Moses. 

I  fear  we  must  designate  as  imaginary  your 
correspondent's  account  of  the  mild  old  gentleman 
to  whom  he  attributes  the  authorship^aud  who, 
he  assures  us,  was  invited  to  many  a  pious  party 
for  the  treat  he  afforded  "  by  using  his  poetical 
talents  to  make  scripture  stories  more  attrac- 
tive." 

^  As  for  its  "  disfiguration  of  the  rules  of  Syntax, 
richly  illustrating  the  serio-comic  of  the  Irish  cha- 
racter," I  cannot  observe  any  very  palpable  gram- 
matical absurdities  even  in  the  incorrectly  quoted 
specimen  given  by  your  correspondent,  no/ can  I 
discern  in  it  any  "  Hibernicisms "  (as  it  is  the 
fashion  to  term  all  ludicrous  mistakes  in  diction). 

So  far  as  my  experience  enables  me  to  judge,  I 
believe,  that,  strange  as  it  may  sound,  the  English 
language  is  spoken  with  greater  accuracy  and 
purity  by  the  middle  classes  of  Dublin  than  of 
London. 

I  am  the  fortunate  possessor  of  a  copy  of  the 
poem  in  question.  There  is  no  clue  given  in  the 
Mb.  as  to  the  authorship,  but  it  was,  as  I  remem- 
ber being  told,  intended  to  imitate  the  style  of  a 
well-known  eccentric  beggar,  called  Zozimus,  who 


several  years  ago  used  to  amuse  the  passers  by  on 
Carlisle  Bridge,  Dublin,  by  reciting  verses,  and 
asking  theological  and  controversial  conundrums. 
One  of  the  latter  was,  How  to  prove  that  St.  Paul 
was  a  good  Catholic,  which  was  answered  by 
"  Shure  he  wrote  an  Epistle  to  the  Romans ;  but 
shew  me  if  you  can  any  he  ever  sent  to  the  Pro- 
testants." 

Without  discussing  the  logic  of  Zozimus,  I  ap- 
pend a  copy  of  the  parody.  I  have  some  scruple 
as  to  whether  it  is  suitable  for  the  pages  of  "  N. 
&  Q.,"  but,  as  notwithstanding  its  vulgarity,  it 
possesses  much  real  cleverness,  and  never  having 
been  printed  that  I  am  aware  of,  and  as  moreover 
F.  J.  M.  has  already  introduced  the  small  end  of 
the  wedge,  I  submit  the  document  to  the  Editor's 
clemency,  first  having  altered  two  of  the  more  ob- 
jectionable passages. 

The  Finding  of  Moses.     By  Pseudo-Zozimus. 

"  When  Pharaoh  ruled,  in  dreadful  days  of  yore, 
He  vexed  the  Jews,  and  did  oppress  them  sore. 
He  ordered  all  his  subjects,  without  fail, 
To  drown  each  Hebrew  that  was  born  a  male; 
Lest  that  the  Jews  might  afterwards  outnumber 
The  men  of  Egypt,  and  the  land  encumber. 

"  Twas  in  those  times  of  turbulence  and  strife, 
A  Levite  gentleman  did  take  to  wife 
A  Levite  lady,  and  in  time  there  came 
A  little  Levite,  —  one  of  future  fame. 
For  three  months  full  they  kept  him  hid  to  save 
Their  beauteous  baby  from  a  wat'ry  grave. 
This  poem,  then,  -will  tell  you  what  they  did, 
When  they  no  longer  could  retain  him  hid: 
Within  an  ark  of  rushes,  neatly  laced 
Their  much  lov'd  babe  with  mournful  care  they  placed, 
Near  the  Nile's  banks,  where  Pharaoh's  lovely  daugh- 
ter 
Might  see  the  basket  when  she  came  to  th'  water. 

"  On  Egypt's  banks  contagious  [ Anglice  contiguous]  to 

the  Nile 

King  Pharaoh's  daughter  came  to  bathe  in  style 
Full  twenty  maidens,  all  of  beauty  rare, 
To  hide  her  person  from  the  public  stare 
Surround  her  in  a  circle  so  exact 
That  none  could  see  a  taste  of  her,  in  fact ; 
While  some  in  crystal  boxes  soap  conveyed 
T'  anoint  the  person  of  the  lovely  maid, 
And  others  still  with  sponges  soft  were  girt 
To  wipe  it  off,  for  fear  a  towel  might  hurt. 
But  bathing  shirts  or  boxes  they  had  none, 
Nor  did  they  need  them,  for  the  glorious  sun 
Made  them  superfluous  by  his  glowing  rays, 
Transcending  my  abilities  to  praise. 

'  Now,  after  having  had  a  splendid  swim, 
She  ran  along  the  bank  to  dry  her  skin, 
And  hot  the  basket  that  the  babe  lay  in. 

*  What's  this,'  says  she,  '  among  the  flags  that  lies, 
A  basket  'tis,  if  I  can  trust  my  eyes ! 

Pick  it  up  quickly,  for  at  least  'tis  clear 
If  'tis  not  that,  'tis  something  very  queer.' 

1  Then,  quick  as  thought,  the  order  was  obeyed; 
And  straight   before  her  was  the  basket  laid, 
And  round  and  round  on  every  side  'twas  turned, 
But  nothing  queer  their  anxious  gaze  discerned. 

*  Och,  Girls !  '  the  Princess  knowingly  exclaims, 
'  Give  me  the  box,  I'll  see  what  it  contains ; ' 


S.  I.  FEB.  15,  '62.] 


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135 


The  box  she  got,  and  straightway  burst  the  strings, 
And  quick  the  cover  from  the  basket  ilings  — 
Perceives  at  once  the  little  male  and  all, 
And  also  made  the  baby  for  to  squall. 

."'Girls,'  says  she,  with  accents  bland  and  mild, 
'  Which  of  yes  is  it  owns  the  darlint  child?  ' 
And  as  they  all  were  noisily  denying 
The  accusation  'gainst  their  honour  lying, 
She  straight  exclaims,  «  The  whole  affair  I  see  through, 
'  The  little  boy  is  certainly  a  Hebrew  ! ' 
Then,  moved  by  nature,  she  began  to  think 
The  child  had  surely  cried  for  want  of  drink; 
And,  if  it  were  not  soon  and  kindly  nursed, 
The  little  innocent  would  die  of  thirst. 
Then  straightway  to  her  breast  she  raised  the  boy, 
His  tiny  hands  and  toothless  mouth  t'  employ  j 
His  little  cry  for  one  short  moment  ceased, 
But,  disappointed  of  the  accustomed  feast, 
He  raised  his  voice  to  such  a  fearful  height,^ 
That  Pharaoh's  daughter  trembled  at  the  sight. 

" '  No  longer,  Maids,'  says  she, '  can  I  endure 
This  mournful  scene,  so  quick,  a  nurse  procure.' 
A  nurse  they  found  convaynient  to  the  place, 
Who  owned  to  being  of  the  Hebrew  race ; 
She,  axed  if  she  would  nurse  the  child  and  dress  it, 
Made  answer  quickly,  'That  I  will,  God  bless  it.' 
So  Pharaoh's  daughter,  without  more  ado, 
Gave  her  the  child,  and  goodly  wages  too. 
The  child  was  nursed,  and  all  the  rest  I  knows  is 
That  Pharaoh's  daughter  called  the  baby  Moses." 

J.  R.  G. 
Dublin. 


MINIATURE  PAINTER:  SILLETT. 
(3rd  S.  i.  39.) 

In  compliance  with  the  desires  of  your  corre- 
spondent, MR.  J.  N.  CHADWICK,  the  following 
particulars  of  the  late  Mr.  James  Sillett  have 
been  collected  from  different  sources.  Mr.  James 
Sillett,  the  father  of  the  artist,  resided  at  Eye,  in 
Suffolk,  but  his  eldest  son  James  was  born  in 
Norwich  in  1784.  At  an  early  age  he  evinced  a 
strong  predilection  for  the  fine  arts,  and  com- 
menced his  studies  in  the  humble  grade  of  an 
heraldic  and  ornamental  painter ;  but  in  this  oc- 
cupation he  only  found  trammels  to  his  favourite 
pursuit,  ill-suited  to  his  native  genius,  which 
was  not  long  to  be  controlled,  and  he  soon  sought 
employment  more  in  accordance  with  his  taste  in 
London.  There  he  commenced  as  a  copyist,  and 
was  afterwards  engaged  in  that  department  for 
the  Polygraphic  ^Society.  From  1787  to  1790  he 
studied  from  the  figures  at  the  Royal  Academy 
under  Professors  Reynolds,  Barry,  and  others, 
whose  lectures  he  attended.  He  first  exhibited 
his  productions  in  Somerset  House  in  1796  ;  and 
for  the  following  forty  years  his  pictures  were 
generally  admitted.  Some  of  these  were  minia- 
tures, in  which  branch  of  the  art  he  particularly 
excelled.  Having  made  himself  thoroughly  ac- 
quainted with  the  rudiments  of  his  profession,  he 
returned  to  his  native  city,  where  lie  eminently 
succeeded  in  faithful  delineation  of  dead  game, 


fish,  fruits,  and  flowers,  which  he  skilfully  exe- 
cuted in  oil  and  water-colours.  Later  in  life  he 
made  further  advances  in  his  profession,  and 
painted  some  meritable  productions  from  archi- 
tectural designs. 

About  the  year  1804  he  went  to  Lynn-Regis, 
where  he  was  employed  in  sketching  the  views 
afterwards  engraved  for  Prichard's  History  of 
Lynn,  About  the  year  1810  he  again  returned 
to  Norwich,  where  he  died  May  6,  1840. 

To  painting  he  was  devotedly  attached,  and,  as 
a  ruling  passion,  he  followed  the  intricate  mazes 
he  attempted  to  weave  in  the  ardour  of  his  pur- 
suit with  assiduity  and  success ;  and  as  his  final 
hour  approached,  he  declared  that  existence 
would  be  no  longer  desirable  when  deprived  of 
the  use  of  his  pencil. 

He  was  contemporary  with  Oldbrome,  whose 
landscapes  are  highly  prized ;  Hodgson,  well 
known  for  his  interiors  ;  Ladbroke,  excelled  in 
figures  and  landscapes  ;  Stannard,  in  architectural 
subjects  ;  Cotman  was  eminent  for  his  etchings  of 
ruins  and  brasses ;  and  more  particularly  with 
Captain  (afterwards  General)  Cockburn,  R.A., 
whose  water-colour  drawings  will  be  long  ad- 
mired for  the  novelty  of  his  colouring,  and  the 
excellence  of  his  creation.  H.  D'AVENEY. 


NATOACA. 
(2nd  S.  xii.  348,  406.) 

I  must  rescue  the  character  of  Natoaca  (or  Po- 
cahontas,  her  true  name)  from  the  un  maidenly 
imputation  of  having  followed  Captain  Smith  to 
England.  Smith  was  very  much  her  senior,  had 
led  an  adventurous  and  remarkable  life  in  various 
countries,  and  while  effecting  the  first  permanent 
settlement  in  Virginia,  was  twice  rescued  from, 
death  by  Pocahontas.  He  was  obliged  to  return 
to  England  in  consequence  of  a  severe  wound, 
leaving  the  colony  at  Jamestown  in  confusion  and 
danger,  deprived  of  the  only  man  whom  the  In- 
dians feared  or  respected.  In  1612,  two  years 
after  his  departure,  Captain  Argal  sailed  up  the 
Potomac  on  a  trading  expedition,  and  hearing 
that  Pocahontas  was  in  the  neighbourhood,  and 
knowing  her  friendship  for  the  English,  he  invited 
ber  on  board  his  vessel.  He  there  retained  her, 
and  carried  her  to  Jamestown  ;  hoping  that  from 
love  to  his  daughter,  Powhatan  would  make  terms 
favourable  to  the  English.  But  the  noble-hearted 
chief,  indignant  at  the  treachery,  refused  to  treat 
till  his  daughter  was  restored. 

While  at  Jamestown,  Pocahontas  learned  En- 
glish, and  a  young  settler  named  Rolfe,  of  good 
family,  having  become  attached  to  her,  they  were 
married  with  Powhatan's  consent,  and  peace  en- 
sued between  the  colony  and  all  the  tribes  subject 
to  the  chief.  Three  years  after  their  marriage 


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S.  I.  FEB.  15,  '62. 


Rolfe  and  the  princess  visited  England,  where 
Pocahontas  was  suitably  received  by  James  I.  and 
his  queen,  the  latter  being  present  at  her  public 
baptism.  She  remained  a  year  in  England ;  and 
when  preparing  to  return  to  Virginia,  she  died,  in 
the  22nd  year  of  her  age,  leaving  one  son.  This 
son,  after  having  been  educated  in  England,  settled 
in  Virginia ;  and  after  a  life  of  honour  and  pros- 
perity, he  died,  leaving  an  only  daughter,  from 
whom  some  of  the  best  families  in  Virginia  are 
descended. 

This  account  is  abridged  from  Peter  Parley's 
Life  of  Smith,  and  Child's  First  Book  of  History. 
The  former  volume  I  have  lost,  and  my  notes  con- 
tain no  account  of  Smith's  death ;  but  I  think  I 
have  read  that  Pocahontas  visited  him  in  England, 
and  found  him  an  infirm  and  maimed  man,  having 
never  recovered  from  his  injuries.  It  was  not  till 
nine  years  after  Smith  left  Virginia  that  the  first 
negro  slaves  were  landed  there,  in  1619.  I  men- 
tion this,  because  in  these  days  of  rifacciamenti, 
history  is  so  often  made  subservient  to  fiction,  and 
fiction  used  to  make  history  palatable,  that  I  fear 
lest  Smith  should  be  branded  with  having  intro- 
duced the  "peculiar  institution"  of  the  south. 

F.  C.  B. 

Mctoaca  was  the  real  name  of  her  whom  we 
know  in  history  as  Pocahontas,  which  was  her 
title.  She  was  christened  by  the  name  of  Re- 
becca, and  married  John  Rolfc,  an  Englishman. 
Some  of  her  descendants  are  in  Philadelphia,  and 
they  are  numerous  in  the  Southern  States.  The 
eccentric  John  Randolph,  of  Roanoke,  was  one  of 
them  ;  and  he  was  proud  of  his  descent  from  her. 

UNEBA. 

Philadelphia. 


SALT  GIVEN  TO  SHEEP:  ST.  GREGORY:  REGULA 
PASTORALIS  (2»J  S.  xii.  159.)  —  Happily  this 
practice  is  known  as  a  part  of  sheep-farming,  and 
is  in  frequent,  albeit  not  universal,  use  in  this 
part  of  the  royal  county.  My  object  in  askino- 
you  to  insert  this  Note  and  Query  is  not,  however" 
so  much  to  afford  this  information,  as  to  tender 
my  thanks  to  your  correspondent  MR.  JOHN  WIL- 
LIAMS for  drawing  your  readers'  attention  to  that 
singularly  beautiful  passage  in  St.  Gregory's 
Homily  on  our  Lord's  charge  to  the  Seventy 
Disciples  —  a  passage  which  is  the  true  key-note, 
not  only  of  that  Homily,  first  delivered  on 
bt.  Lukes  day  or  some  other  apostolic  festi- 
val; but  also  of  that  great  man's  Rcgula  Pasto- 
ylis,  addresed  by  him  to  his  brother,  Bishop  of 
Ravenna.  That  whole  Homily,  indeed,  and  that 
whole  trcnt.se  of  The  Pastoral  Rule,  prove  the 
Angular  fitness  of  the  first  Gregory  to  have  been 
made,  if  any  other,  the  "rex  gregis  ecclesiastic*." 
t  were  even  to  be  desired,  so  it  has  always  seemed 
to  me,  that  an  English  version  of  the  treatise 


should  be  placed  in  the  hands  of  every  one  ad- 
mitted to  the  cure  of  souls,  if  not  upon  the  list 
of  books  required  of  candidates  for  holy  orders. 
Such  is  the  unequalled  knowledge  of  human 
nature  displayed  in  it,  and  so  wisely  does  he 
therein  apply  the  principles  and  precepts  of  Holy 
Writ  to  the  diversified  characters  and  relative 
positions  of  the  individual  members  of  a  pastoral 
charge.  And  never  for  a  moment  in  any  part  of 
that  admirable  treatise  does  he  lose  sight  of  the 
divinely-inspired  idea,  of  the  priest's  function  be- 
ing to  season  as  salt  the  souls  of  God's  elect  — 
"  Sal  enim  terras  non  sumus,  si  corda  audientium 
non  condimus." 

The  Query  with  which  I  end  this  Note  is  as 
follows  :  —  Can  any  of  your  correspondents  in- 
form me  what  English  versions,  ancient  and 
modern,  exist  of  St.  Gregory's  Regula  Pastoralis 
here  mentioned,  specifying  where  they  may  be 
seen,  whether  in  public  or  in  private  libraries  ? 

Surely  in  no  language  ought  such  a  treatise  to 
be  so  freely  available  as  in  that  of  a  people  who 
glory  in  an  ancestry  derived  from  those  to  whom 
its  author  was  the  great  apostle  and  pastor.  N.  S. 

ALCHEMY  AND  MYSTICISMS  (3rd  S.  i.  89.)  — 
DELTA  should  consult  a  catalogue  of  books  on 
these  subjects  now  on  sale  by  Baillieu,  Quai  des 
Grands  Augustines,  43,  Paris  ;  and  those  of  Mr. 
Bumstead,  bookseller  of  London.  I  will  with 
pleasure  lend  him  M.  Baillieu's. 

GEORGE  OFPOR. 

Hackney. 

BROWNING'S  "  LYRICS  "  (3rd  S.  i.  89.)  —  I  have 
a  strong  impression  (though  I  have  not  sufficient 
confidence  in  my  recollection  to  vouch  quite  posi- 
tively for  the  fact)  that  Mr.  Browning,  some  few 
years  ago,  told  a  friend  of  mine  in  my  presence  that 
the  admirable  poem,  "  How  they  brought  the  good 
news  from  Ghent  to  Aix,"  is  not  founded  upon 
any  historic  event  in  particular. 

W.  M.  ROSSETTI. 

London. 

DR.  JOHN  PORDAGE  (2nd  S.  xii.  419,  473)  — 
Some  sixteen  years  since  I  copied  the  following 
items  from  the  register  of  St.  Andrews,  Bradfield, 
Berks,  of  which  parish  Dr.  Pordage  ...was  rec- 
tor :  — 

"  1663,  Dec.  23,  was  buried,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Dr.  Pordage. 

1668,  Aug.  25,  was  buried  Mistress  Mary,  the  wife  of 
Dr.  John  Pordage." 

In  Coates's  History  of  Reading  will  be  found 
some  account  of  the  ejection  of  Dr.  Pordage  by 
the  Committee  for  the  Trial  of  Scandalous  Minis- 
ters. The  accusation  against  him  charged  him 
with  holding  intercourse  with  the  powers  of  dark- 
ness. One  witness  deposed  to  having  heard  "  un- 
earthly music "  proceeding  from  the  parlour  of 
the  parsonage  during  the  winter  evenings,  a  com- 


3*d  S.  I.  FEB.  15,  '62. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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pliment  to  Miss  Elizabeth's  musical  skill,  and  to 
the  goodness  of  her  spinet,  but  fatal  to  the  rector 
who  was  turned  out,  and  his  accuser,  a  Presby- 
terian minister  out  of  employment,  turned  in.  In 
1661  the  family  of  the  old  rector  were  again 
allowed  to  return  to  the  parish,  and  the  intruder 
was  ejected,  was  duly  commendated  as  a  sufferer 
for  conscience'  sake  in  Calamy's  Martyrs,  and  is 
now  to  be  celebrated  with  other  similar  worthies 
at  the  bi-centenary  celebration  of  1662. 

WM.  DENTON. 

TRIAL  or  THE  PRINCESS  OF  WALES  (3rd  S.  i.  32, 
76.)  —  It  would  seem  that  in  the  year  1813  vari 
ous  editions  were  published,  in  and  out  of  Lon 
don,  all  professing  to  be  reprinted  from  authentic 
copies  of  the  original  Delicate  Investigation.     I 
possess  one  with  the  following  title  :  — 

"  The  Genuine  Book.  An  Inquiry,  or  Delicate  Inves- 
tigation into  the  conduct  of  Her  Royal  Highness  the 
Princess  of  Wales,  before  Lords  Erskine,  Spencer,  Gren- 
ville,  and  Ellenborough,  the  Four  Special  Commissioners 
of  Inquiry,  appointed  by  his  Majesty  in  the  year  1806. 
Eeprinted  from  an  authentic  copy,  superintended  through 
the  press  by  the  Right  Hon.  Spencer  Perceval.  Bristol : 
Printed  and  sold  by  E.  Bryan,  51,  Corn  Street,  1813." 

It  will  be  seen  that  this  title  is  fuller  than  that 
of  the  book  published  by  Lindsell,  Wigmore 
Street,  1813,  and  corresponds  entirely  with  that 
"  Reprinted  and  sold  by  Mr.  Jones,  5,  Newgate 
Street,  1813."  It  seems  highly  probably,  how- 
ever, that  all  these  contain  the  whule  of  the  origi- 
nal book  of  1806.  F.  C.'H. 

CHRISTOPHER  MONK  (2nd  S.  xii.  384,  442,  526.) 
—  After  trying  his  right  five  several  times  in 
ejectments  at  law,  whether  Christopher,  Duke  of 
Albemarle,  was  or  was  not  the  lawful  son  of 
George,  Duke  of  Albemarle,  all  of  which  were 
decided  in  favour  of  Duke  Christopher,  the  Earl 
of  Bath  filed  a  bill  in  Chancery  against  the  plain- 
tiff in  the  above  actions  (Sherwin),  and  moved 
for  a  perpetual  injunction  to  restrain  Sherwin 
from  bringing  any  more  actions.  Lord  Chancel- 
lor Cowper  refused  the  injunction,  but  the  Earl 
of  Bath,  carrying  it  to  the  House  of  Lords,  they 
adjudged  the  perpetual  injunction  prayed  for. 
See  Modern  Reports,  vol.  x.  p.  1.  Also  Sir  Wal- 
ter Clarges  against  Sherwin,  Modern  Reports,  vol. 
xii.  p.  343.  W.  H.  LAMMIN. 

Fulham. 

TAYLOR  OF  BIFRONS  (2nd  S.  xii.  519.)  — The 
late  and  last  Edward  Taylor,  Esq.,  of  Bifrons, 
brother  of  Sir  Herbert  and  Sir  Brook  Taylor, 
and  of  the  first  Lady  Skelmersdale,  left  many 
sons,  who  are  still  living.  Burke's  Landed  Gentry 
gives  as  complete  an  account  of  the  family  down 
to  the  living  generation  as  perhaps  HERALDICTJS 
would  care  for.  P.  p. 

TENANTS  IN  SOCAGE  (3rd  S.  i.  31.)  — Cowel 
says  this  word  may  be  derived  from  the  Fr. 


soc  (a  colter  or  ploughshare),  and  that  it  is  a 
tenure  of  lands,  by  or  for  certain  inferior  ser- 
vices of  husbandry,  to  be  performed  to  the  lord 
of  the  fee.  Webster  derives  it  from  the  Saxon 
soc,  a  privilege,  from  socan,  secan,  to  seek,  fol- 
low. The  surname  Hosa,  Hoesse,  Huse,  or  Hus- 
sey,  is  certainly  not  connected  with  either  Husi 
or  Hosea.  In  Cowel's  "Table  of  Antient  Sur- 
names," at  the  end  of  his  "  Interpreter,"  he  gives 
Hosatus  et  de  Hosato,  Hose,  Hussey ;  and  says, 
"  I  have  seen  Johannes  Usus  Mare  in  Latin,  for 
John  Hussey"  Again  :  some  have  translated  the 
Latinized  name  Hosatus  or  Osatus,  "  hosed  or 
booted " ;  and  Bailey  derives  Hussey  from  the 
French  housse,  a  "  sordid  garment,"  both  of  which 
attempts  are  absurd.  Pr.  Ferguson,  under 
"House,"  A.-S.  and  O.  N.  hus,  says  Huso  and 
Husi  are  O.-G.  names,  corresponding  with  our 
House,  Huss,  and  Hussey.  The  etymology  of 
the  name  Hussey  seems  simple  enough.  It  is  the 
same  with  the  Fr.  surnames  Houssaie  and  Hous- 
saye,  and  is  derived  from  locality  ;  viz.  from  the 
Fr.  houssaie,  "  a  place  full  of  holly,"  (Jioux). 
(Lamartine  gives  as  local  names  Hosseia,  and  La 
Houssaie).  Cf.  the  French  surnames  House, 
Houssel,  Houssin,  Houssart,  and  the  names  Husee, 
Husey,  Hussy.  In  Irish  names  it  assumes  the 
form  of  Cushey  and  Cushee  ;  thus,  Dangean-na- 
Cushey,  "  the  castle  of  Hussey."  Synonymous 
surnames  are  found  in  Bretagne ;  as  Quelein  and 
Quelennec  ;  from  Bas  Bret,  gelenn,  holly. 

R.  S.  CHARNOCK. 

ARMS  OF  CORTEZ  (2nd  S.  xii.  454,  532.)  — 
Alonso  Lopez  de  Haro,  in  his  work,  Nobilario 
Genealogico  de  los  Reyes  y  titulos  de  Espana, 
Part  ii.  p.  409,  describes  the  arms  of  Cortes, 
Marquis  of  Guaxara  in  accordance  with  the  se- 
cond description  quoted  by  MR.  WOODWARD,  but 
with  the  inescocheon  of  Or,  3  pallets  gu.,  a  bor- 
dure  azure  charged  with  8  crosses  pattee  argent. 
The  4th  quarter  described  as  Mexico  may  not  be 
generally  known,  and  is  shown  as  "  Azure,  3  tur- 
retted  Chateaux  joined  by  a  wall,  argent,  ma- 
soned, sable.  In  base,  2  bars  wavy  arg." 

Moreri,  in  the  "  Life  of  Cortez,"  in  the  Dic- 
tionnaire  Historique,  describes  the  first  wife  as 
Francoise  Suarez  Paclieco,  and  the  marriage  took 
place  in  Cuba ;  this  may  perhaps  assist  in  tracing 
her  family.  A.  W.  M. 

Great  Yarmouth. 

ON  THE  DEGREES  OF  COMPARISON  (3rd  S.  i. 
48.)  —  Mr.  SHARPE'S  theory  of  inverted  degrees 
of  comparison  is  ingenious  and  novel,  but  I  do  not 
think  that  his  facts  support  his  hypothesis. 

I  will  take  up  one  only  of  his  examples  for 
examination  :  MR.  SHARPE  derives  better  and  best 
from  the  positive  bad.  But  what  occasion  is  there 
to  base  the  derivation  of  these  vocables  upon  a 
word  which  contradicts  their  meaning,  when  in  a 


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[3r<i  S.  I.  FEB.  15,  '62. 


cognate  Indo- Germanic  language  we  find  a jegu- 
lar  and  more  congenial  positive  still  existing, 
though  it  is  wanting  in  the  English  as  it  had  pre- 
viously fallen  out  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  ? 

The  fact  is,  the  original  positive  of  our  own 
letter  and  best  is  still  in  daily  use  in  the  Persian 
language.  Therein  is  to  be  found  the  word  beh, 
good.  Therein  are  also  to  be  found  the  compa- 
rative behter,  better ;  and  behtereen,  best.  No 
native  or  foreign  philologue  has  ever  thought  of 
deriving  the  Persian  comparative  and  superlative 
from  bad,  bad ;  which  exists  in  that  language  as 
well  as  in  our  own. 

I  will  observe  that  it  is  probable  that,  in  the 
Archaic  periods  of  all  languages,  there  were 
several  forms  of  comparatives  and  superlatives ; 
which  were  afterwards  disused  and  lost,  except 
in  those  few  surviving  examples  which  are  now 
considered  irregular.  H.  C.  C. 

LAMMIMAN  (2nd  S.  xii.  529.)  —  Is  not  Lammi- 
mrm  a  corruption  of  Lambingtnan  —  the  man  who 
attended  the  ewes  when  lambing  ?  Or  is  it  sim- 
ply Lamb-man  (the  i  being  inserted  for  euphony), 
like  Colt-man,  Horsman,  Sheepman,  now  Shipman  ? 

Query,  What  is  the  derivation  of  Whyman  ? 

SENESCENS. 

AUTHORISED   TRANSLATOR  or    CATULLUS    (3rd 
S.  5.67.) — Your  correspondent  S.   C.   has  mis- 
taken the  intention  of  the  advertiser.  He  evidently 
only  meant  to  state  that  he  was  the  authorised 
translator  of  Macaulay's  History  and  translator  of 
Catullus.     Such  specimens  of  bad  grammar  are 
too  frequent  in  advertisements,  but  we  may  hope  j 
that  ^the   advertiser    is    a   better    German   than  ' 
English  scholar.  L. 

Oxford. 

WASHING  PARCHMENT  AND  VELLUM  (2nd  S.  xi. 
190,  234.)  —  One  of  your  correspondents  asks  for 
the  best  method  of  washing  parchment  or  vellum. 
I  will  give  him  the  method  which  I  have  adopted 
with  complete  success.  I  wash  the  surface  with 
paste-water  (that  is,  flour  and  water),  boiled  to 
the  consistence  of  cream,  and  applied  with  a 
sponge  while  hot.  Hot  water  and  soap  will  re- 
move the  dirt  from  the  surface  ;  but  if  there  are 
any  scratches,  or  places  where  the  surface  is  re- 
moved, the  paste  helps  to  restore  it.  If  there  are 
stains  or  ink  spots,  these  must  be  removed  by 
dilute  nitric  acid.  Slight  stains  may  often  be 
removed  by  putting  a  few  drops  of  nitric  acid  in 
the  paste-water ;  but  if  they  are  of  old  date,  and  j 
intense,  the  acid  must  be  stronger,  according  to 
circumstances,  and  carefully  applied  after  alfthe  ! 

•t  has  been  washed  away.     In  washino-  the  vel- 
lum, care  must  be  taken  not  to  let  the  moisture 
remain  on  the  surface  long ;  as  that  might  per- 
oeate  the  skin,  and  loosen  it  from  the  mill-board 
eneath.     Ihere  is  a  greater  liability  to  this  in  I 
parchment,  as  it  is  more  porous  than  vellum      It  i 


is  not  possible  to  restore  the  enamel  of  the  vellum 
when  once  lost ;  but  it  may  be  partially  done  by 
the  paste,  rubbing  it  when  dry  with  a  piece  of 
wash-leather.  I  do  not  recommend  any  kind  of 
varnish  applied  to  vellum.  The  natural  surface 
of  the  vellum,  when  it  leaves  a  good  workman's 
hands,  on  the  book  is  very  beautiful ;  and  if  pre- 
served from  scratching  or  scraping,  may  always 
be  restored  to  its  original  purity  by  the  process  I 
describe.  I  have  books  more  than  two  hundred 
years  old,  bound  in  vellum,  which  I  have  cleaned 
by  this  process.  Some  of  them  have  gilt  borders, 
and  these  required  great  care  ;  but  I  succeeded 
in  preserving  all  of  the  gilding  that  time  had  left. 

T.  B. 

QUOTATION  WANTED  (3rd  S.  i.  69.)  — 
"  Forgiveness  to  the  injured  does  belong, 
But  they  ne'er  pardon,"  &c. 

Dryden,  Conquest  of  Grenada,  Part  n. 
Act  I.  Sc.  2. 

E.  M. 

DAUGHTERS  OF  WILLIAM  THE  LION  (3rd  S.  i. 
95.)  —  Allow  me  to  inform  MELETES  that  the 
substitution  of  1225  for  1221  was  a  clerical  error 
in  my  paper  on  this  subject.  I  am  sorry  that 
such  a  mistake  escaped  me,  and  I  will  endeavour 
to  be  more  careful  in  future.  My  authority  for 
calling  the  youngest  Princess  Margery,  or  Marion, 
was  Mrs.  Everett  Green's  Princesses  of  England^ 
vol.  i.  p.  393.  She  says  (quoting  Balfour)  :  — 

"  The  youngest,  Marjory  or  Marion,  was  exclusively 
under  his  [her  brother  Alexander's]  care  until  her  mar- 
riage in  1235." 

HERMENTRUDE. 

PENCIL  WRITING  (2nd  S.  x.  57,  255,  318  )— On 
the  back  of  one  of  the  Cottonian  MSS.  (Galba, 
B.  Y.)  Charles  V.  has  hastily  scrawled  his  name, 
with  the  date,  "Bologna,  1517"  ;  and  if  the  ma- 
terial with  which  he  wrote  it  were  not  a  lead- 
pencil,  I  never  saw  a  better  imitation  of  one. 

HERMENTRUDE. 

JURYMAN'S  OATH  (3rd  S.  i.  52.)  —  The  Bool,  of 
Oaths,  1649 :  — 

"  The  oath  that  is  to  be  given  to  any  Jury  before  evi- 
dence given  in  against  a  prisoner  at  the  Barre :  — 

'You  shall  true  deliverance  make  between  our  Sove- 
raigne  Lord  the  King  and  the  prisoner  at  the  Barre,  as 
you  shal  have  in  charge,  according  to  your  evidence,  as 
neere  as  God  shall  give  you  grace.  So  helpe  you  God, 
and  by  the  contents  of  this  booke.'  " 

On  the  trial  of  the  Regicides,  the  oath  to  each 
juryman  was: 

"  You  shall  well  and  truly  try,  and  true  deliverance 
make,  between  our  Sovereign  Lord  the  King  and  the 
prisoners  at  the  Bar,  whom  you  shall  have  in  charge, 
according  to  your  evidence.  So  help  you  God." 

What  can  LUMEN  mean  by  saying  that  the 
words  "  according  to  the  evidence  "  were  left  out  ? 
See  State  Trials  by  Hargrave,  1776,  ii.  314. 

G.  OFFOB. 


3"*S.  I.  FEB.  15, '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


139 


HEBREW  GRAMMATICAL  EXERCISES.  —  A  STU- 
DENT will  find  plenty  of  exercises  for  translation 
into  Hebrew  in  Mason  &  Bernard's  Heir.  Gram., 
published  in  1853  by  Hall  of  Cambridge.*  At 
the  end  of  the  2nd  vol.  there  is  a  key  to  the 
Exercises.  F.  CHANCE. 

In  T.  K.  Arnold's  First  Hebrew  Book,  some- 
thing of  the  kind  required  by  a  STUDENT  will  be 
found.  J.  EASTWOOD. 

NEIL  DOUGLAS  (3rd  S.  i.  93.)  — The  sketch 
noticed  by  your  correspondent  in  his  N.B.  was 
made  by  Mr.  John  G-.  Lockhart,  subsequently 
Editor  of  the  Quarterly  Review,  and  son-in-law  of 
Sir  Walter  Scott.  Mr.  Lockhart  was  at  that 
time  in  practice  (of  no  great  extent)  as  a  Scotch 
lawyer. 

Your  correspondent  has  apparently  never  been 
present  at  a  Scotch  criminal  trial,  otherwise  he 
would  not  have  spoken  of  Douglas  standing  at 
the  bar.  In  Scotland  a  person  under  trial  sits 
during  the  whole  proceeding,  except  when  he  is 
called  on  to  rise  in  order  to  plead  to  the  indict- 
ment, or  to  allow  a  witness  to  speak  as  to  his 
identity.  It  is  not  as  in  England,  where  one 
under  all  the  anxiety  attendant  on  a  trial  (it  may 
be  for  his  life)  has  the  additional  discomfort  of 
standing  often  for  hours,  and  is,  generally  speak- 
ing, not  permitted  the  indulgence  of  sitting,  except 
on  the  score  of  ill  health.  The  sketch  of  Neil 
Douglas  shows  the  bust  only ;  but  it  is  obviously 
that  of  one  in  a  sitting  posture.  G-. 

Edinburgh. 


MONTHLY  FEUILLETON  ON  FRENCH  BOOKS. 

Melanges  curieux  ct  anecdotiques,  tires  (Tune  Collection  de 
Lettres  autographes,  et  de  Documents  Historiques,  ayant 
Appartenu  a  M.  Fosse-Darcosse ;  publics  avec  les  Notes  du 
Collecteur  et  une  Notice,  par  M.  Charles  Asselineau.  8vo. 
Paris :  Techener.  London :  Barthes  and  Lowell. 

When  this  budget  is  in  the  hand  of  our  readers,  the 
auctioneer  will  be  busy  dispersing  one  of  the  most  splen- 
did collections  of  autographs  that  were  ever  gathered 
together  by  the  zeal  of  a  thorough  amateur.  M.  Fosse'- 
Darcosse,  late  conseiller  rejerendaire  at  the  Paris  cour  des 
comptes,  must  have  spent  a  fortune  in  accumulating  these 
treasures,  and  we  have  no  doubt  that  the  sale  thereof 
will  produce  a  perfect  harvest,  and  excite  the  greatest 
competition.  The  catalogue  we  are  now  announcing,  pre- 
pared with  the  utmost  care  by  M.  Charles  Asselineau, 
is  a  curious  and  instructive  contribution  to  the  history  of 
literature ;  the  principal  items  enumerated  are  made  the 
subject  of  copious  notes,  and  the  preface  sets  forth-  both 
the  unquestionable  importance  of  autographs,  and  the 
claims  of  M.  Fosse-Darcosse  to  the  gratitude  of  enlight- 
ened bibliographers.  M.  Charles  Asselineau  takes  for  his 
text  Cardinal  Richelieu's  well-known  remark,  viz.  that 
"  sur  quatre  lignes  de  1'e'criture  d'un  homme  on  peut  lui 
faire  un  proces  criminel ; "  and  he  shows  how  the  charac- 
ter, the  habits,  the  temper,  the  qualities  of  an  individual 
are,  so  to  say,  stamped  in  his  hand-writing.  This,  per- 

*  London :  G.  Bell  (Bell  &  Daldy),  Fleet  Street. 


haps,  is  not  a  very  new  discovery,  if  we  consider  that  fair 
advertisers  in  the  columns  of  The  Times  newspaper  un- 
dertake for  the  trifling  remuneration  of  two  shillings  or 
half-a-crown  to  unravel  your  own  soul  before  you  with 
the  help  of  twenty  lines  of  your  best  calligraphy;  but 
still  it  proves  the  real  value  of  autographs,  and,  we  have 
no  doubt,  with  M.  Charles  Asselineau,  that  the  science  of 
autograph-collecting  will  soon  boast  of  a  guide  as  sure  as 
Barbier's  Manuel  du  Libraire.  The  magnificent  collec- 
tion, for  which  we  are  indebted  to  M.  Fosse-Darcosse, 
comprises  about  4000  separate  articles,  the  chief  ones  being 
further  illustrated  by  portraits,  caricatures,  facsimiles, 
newspaper-cuttings,  and  other  documents  of  the  same 
description.  Amongst  the  pieces  relating  to  English 
History  the  catalogue  mentions  the  following :  —  A 
letter  in  the  handwriting  of  James  II. ;  a  letter  in  the 
handwriting  of  Samuel  Richardson,  on  the  death  of  the 
poet  Klopstock's  wife  (date,  January  19,  1759) ;  one 
page  4to.  in  the  handwriting  of  Sir  Walter  Scott,  &c. 
&c.  Altogether,  the  Darcosse  gallery  will  certainly  be 
the  talk  of  the  season  in  the  literary  world,  and  we  recom- 
mend M.  Asselineau's  catalogue  raisonne  as  an  amusing 
study  even  for  those  who,  alas !  like  the  feuilletoniste  of 
"  N.  &  Q.,"  cannot  spend  money  upon  autographs. 

Annuaire  du  Bibliophile,  du  Bibliothecaire  et  de  VArcld- 
viste  pour  VAnnee  1862;  public  par  Louis  Lacour.  3e 
aune'e.  In-18.  Paris:  Meugnot;  Claudin.  London: 
Barthes  &  Lowell. 

M.  Louis  Lacour  has  just  issued  the  third  yearly  vo- 
lume of  the  Annuaire  du  Bibliophile.  In  the  preface  to 
this  excellent  publication,  the  learned  author  very  aptly 
remarks  on  the  useless  and  imperfect  character  of  the 
common  run  of  annuaires.  Instead  of  putting  together  a 
few  correct  details,  referring  directly  to  the  subject  of 
the  book,  the  compilers  generally  begin  by  presenting  us 
with  an  almanack ;  an  abstract  of  the  Post-Office  Direc- 
tory inevitably  follows ;  and  the  few  remaining  pages  are 
devoted  to  critical,  or  rather  eulogistic,  notices  of  works 
published  by  the  firm  which  has  taken  the  risk  of  the 
annuaire.  M.  Lacour  adopts  quite  a  different  plan ;  biblio- 
graphy being  his  speciality,  he  confines  himself  to  books 
and  their  history,  finding  within  that  circle  a  sufficient 
harvest  of  facts  to  set  before  his  readers.  The  first  part 
of  the  Annuaire  du  Bibliophile  is  taken  up  by  statistical 
details  of  an  official  nature.  Under  this  head  we  have 
the  list  of  all  the  government  clerks  appointed  since  the 
Revolution  of  1789  to  the  management  and  surveillance  of 
public  libraries ;  the  list  of  the  chief  collections  scattered 
throughout  the  departments  is  likewise  added,  as  also  a 
short,  but  complete,  account  of  foreign  museums,  private 
archives,  collections  of  autographs,  &c.  &c.  The  second 
division  of  the  work  comprises  a  series  of  papers  interest- 
ing from  their  practical  value  or  their  piquant  charac- 
ter: here  we  have  noticed  especially  the  description  of  a 
useful  method  for  restoring  old  books.  The  bibliographi- 
cal news  of  the  last  year  are  chronicled  in  the  third 
section  ;  changes  that  have  happened  in  the  administra- 
tion of  libraries,  purchases  of  rare  and  valuable  books, 
legislative  or  judicial  decisions  respecting  printers,  pub- 
lishers, book  collectors  and  book  stealers  —  all  these,  and 
various  other  facts  bearing  upon  the  same  topic,  receive 
their  due  amount  of  analysis.  A  necrological  list  of  all 
the  literary  notabilities,  removed  from  amongst  us' by  the 
hand  of  death,  recalls  to  our  memory  a  long  and  mourn- 
ful array  of  worthies ;  the  enumeration  of  the  principal 
book  sales  has  not  been  forgotten;  and  the  volume  winds 
up  with  a  catalogue  of  the  publications  of  note  issued 
during  the  course  of  the  year.  The  useful  character  of 
the  Annuaire  du  Bibliophile  will,  we  hope,  be  evident  from 
the  few  remarks  we  have  offered  about  it.  M.  Louis 
Lacour  further  announces  for  the  25th  of  the  month  the 
appearance  of  a  new  periodical,  to  be  entitled  Les  An- 


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[3rd  S.  I.  FEB.  15,  '62. 


nales  du  Bibliophile.    It  will  be  conducted  by  himself,  and 
cannot  fail  to  prove  a  most  interesting  monthly  bulletin. 

In  our  last  feuilleton  we  alluded  to  the  edition  of 
Madame  de  Se'vignfTs  letters  which  was  in  course  of  pre- 
paration from  the  MSS.  of  the  late  M.  de  Montmerque'. 
The  first  two  volumes  have  been  recently  published 
(Paris  and  London:  Hachette),  and  the  care  which  has 
been  bestowed  upon  them,  the  correctness  of  the  print- 
ing, the  beauty  of  the  type  and  of  the  paper,  amply 
justify  the  eulogies  already  passed  upon  the  undertaking 
by  M.  Sainte-Beuve,  M.  Cuvillier-Fleury,  and  several 
other  leading  critics  on  the  Gallican  side  of  the  Channel. 
Since  the  voluminous  collection  of  the  Benedictines,  no- 
thing, we  may  boldly  say,  had  been  devised  of  such  mag- 
nitude, of  such  real  'importance,  as  the  series  now  begun 
by  Messrs.  Hachette;  for  the  reader  will  observe  that  far 
more  is  intended  than  the  publication  of  Madame  de 
Sevigne's  correspondence.  All  the  great  writers  of  France 
are  to  be  included  in  this  magnificent  library,  and  the 
contemplated  array  of  three  hundred  volumes  will  scarcely 
suffice,  even  if  the  editor  does  not  ascend  higher  than  Mal- 
herbe.  But  our  present  business  is  with  Madame  deSe- 
vigne*  and  with  her  friends ;  let  us  devote  to  them  the  few 
remarks  we  purpose  offering  here.  The  Chevalier  de 
Perrin  is  the  first  who  published  a  decent  edition  of  the 
famous  letters ;  his  two  recueils,  bearing  respectively  the 
dates  1731  and  1754,  had  been  examined  and  approved 
by  Madame  de  Simiane,  the  granddaughter  of  Madame 
de  SeVigne;  they  were  accordingly  deemed  to  be  beyond 
the  attacks  of  criticism,  and  they  served  as  a  model  to  all 
subsequent  editors.  M.  de  Montmerque  himself,  in  his 
edition  of  1818,  had  followed  in  many  cases  the  text  of 
Perrin;  but  this  was  only  whenever  he  could  not  have 
recourse  to  original  MSS.,  and  forty  years  ago  the  inves- 
tigations of  savants  and  literary  men'had  not  brought  to 
light  the  treasures  which  we  now  possess. 

There  are  two  questions  to  be  considered  in  a  case  of 
this  nature— 1st,  Whether  the  alterations  made  to  the  text 
are  of  a  serious  character?  and,  2nd,  Whether  they  can 
be  in  some  way  justified?  As  for  the  first,  the  slightest 
comparison  instituted  between  the  edition  of  1754  and 
the  present  one  will  prove  that  the  Chevalier  de  Perrin 
modified  the  letters  of  Madame  de  Sevigne  in  every  pos- 
sible manner.  Several  words  or  locutions  generally  used 
during  the  seventeenth  century  have  since  been  repudiated 
on  account  of  their  coarseness  or  vulgarity  ;  these  are  uni- 
formly eliminated  by  Perrin  ;  a  few  passages  are  likewise 
suppressed  containing  allusions  to  well-known  persons, 
whose  immediate  relatives  might  have  protested  against 
statements  of  an  offensive  or  libellous  stamp.  "Such 
emendations  may  perhaps  be  Justified  ;  but  when  a  third- 
rate  htttrateur  like  the  obscure  Chevalier  attempts  to  cor- 
rect Madame  de  Sevigne"s  style,  curtailing  here,  arran^- 
ere,  striking  out  whole  pages,  and  condensing 
wnat  appears  to  him  unnecessary  gossip,  we  cannot  com- 
plain too  loudly  of  such  unwarrantable  liberty.  The  fair 
ep.stolographer  says  in  one  of  her  letters:  «•  J'e'spere  que 
si  mes  lettrea  mc'ritoient  d'etre  lues  deux  fois,  il  se  trou- 

t  quelque  charitable  personne  qui  les  corrigeroit." 
This  passage  seems  no  doubt  to  justify  the  task  attempted 
by  the  Chevalier  de  Perrin;  but  still  we  think  that  the 
safest  course  is  to  leave  classical  authors  just  as  they  were. 

deal  of  taste,  propriety,  &i«M$anee,&c.,are  apt  to  vary 

Jedingly  from  one  century  to  the  other,  and  if  the 

jstem  of  corrections  is  adopted,  it  will  be  necessary  to 

new-arrange,  every   fifty   or  sixty  years,   our  standard 

TrSn80  alt0  meet  the  taste  of  the  Public-    After  half 

original  text  5emendati°nS'  What  would  becorae  of  the 


way  a  truly  remarkable  work.  Whilst  discussing  such  a 
subject,  it  was  almost  impossible  to  avoid  treating  de 
omnibus  rebus ;  for  Madame  de  SeVigne  was  connected  by 
ties  of  either  relationship  or  close  intimacy  with  the 
leading  personages  of  the  seventeenth  century,  and  her 
voluminous  correspondence  illustrates  the  whole  history 
of  the  reign  of  Louis  XIV.  The  trial  of  Fouquet,  the 
campaigns  and  melancholy  death  of  Turenne,  the  affairs 
of  Port  Royal,  the  fortunes  of  Madame  de  Montespan  and 
Madame  de  Maintenon, — in  fact,  the  entire  annals  of  Ver- 
sailles are  referred  to,  more  or  less  in  detail,  by  the  lively 
marchioness;  and  her  anxiety  to  supply  her  daughter 
with  the  latest  court  news  led  her  to  observe  closely  the 
various  scenes  which  she  was  called  upon  to  take  a  part 
in.  Hence  the  necessity  for  M.  Paul  Mesnard  to  group 
round  the  principal  figure  of  his  sketch  a  number  of 
secondary  portraits,  which  complete  the  effect,  and,  be- 
sides, serve  as  a  kind  of  key  to  many  incidents  re- 
lated in  the  letters.  We  wish  time  would  allow  as  to 
reproduce  here  a  few  of  M.  Mesnard's  judicious  strictures; 
the  attentive  perusal  of  his  Notice  biographigue  has  con- 
firmed us  in  the  opinion  that  Madame  de  Sevigne'  was  a 
very  independent  original  character,  at  an  epoch  when 
dull  uniformity  reigned  supreme;  her  admiration  for 
Corneille;  her  sympathies  with  Pascal  and  Nicole;  her 
partiality  for  Cardinal  de  Retz,  revealed  in  her  a  strong 
leaven  of  the  Frondeur  element,  and  proved  that  she 
would  not  submit  to  be  fettered  either  by  public  opinion 
or  by  interest.  But  we  must  forbear  from  further  details. 
Wo  shall  only  state  in  conclusion,  that  the  first  two  vo- 
lumes of  M.  Hachette's  edition  contain  two  hundred  and. 
sixty  letters,  accurately  printed,  and  copiously  annotated ; 
a  few  are  now  published  for  the  first  time';  the  others 
have  been  collated  with  the  originals  or  with  the  most 
genuine  texts. 

GUSTAVE  MASSOW. 
Harrow-on-the-Hill. 


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WANTED   TO   PURCHASE. 

ParticTilars  of  Price,  &c.  of  the  following  Books  to  be  sent  direct  to 
he  gentlemen  by  whom  they  are  required,  and  whose  names  and  ad- 
dresses arc  given  for  that  purpose :  — 

THE  NEW  Am  or  MEMORY;  founded  upon  the  Principles  taught  by  M. 
Gregor  Von  Fcinaigle,  illustrated  by  Engravings.  8vo.  London, 
1812. 

Wanted  by  Jlr.  II.  Frere,  Beccles,  Suffolk. 

HOSE'S  GENERAL  BIOGRAPHICAL  DICTIONARY.    3  concluding  volumes. 
Wanted  by  Rev.  J.  liawes,  2,  Old  Jewry,  London,  E.G. 

THE  GLASSE  OP  TIME,  by  Thomas  Peyton.    1620. 

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Any  Works  or  Translation  of  the  Works  of  Michael  de  Molinos.     And 
also  any  of  the  Original  Writings  of  Madame  Guyon. 

Wanted  by  Ji.  B.  II. ,  Stanton,  Bebrington,  Cheshire. 


iTAYnfcp,  is  thanked.    We  had  already  taken  steps  to  prevent  a  repeti- 

Hl  Oj   it. 

IT.  S.  T.  (Birmingham.)  The  Query  ivould  lead  to  a  theological  dis- 
cussion, unsuited  to  our  columns. 

CHARLES  EBURY  is  thanked.  We  think  lie  is  mistaken  in  supposing 
tint  the  Anahsh  translations  published  in  the  Dublin  Literary  Gazette  in 
830,  signed  Itoscnkrantz,  ivere  by  the  ivcll-known  Professor  of  that 

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ESTERN    LIFE    ASSURANCE 

ANNUITY  SOCIETY. 

3,  PARLIAMENT  STREET,  LONDON,  S.W. 
Founded  A.D.  1842. 


AND 


Dirt 
H.  E.  Bicknell,  Esq. 
T.  S.  Cocks,  Esq. 
G.IT.  Drew,  Esq.  M.A. 
"W.  Freeman,  Esq. 
J.  H.  Goodhart,Esq. 

ttors, 
f.  Lucas,  Esq. 
.B.  M  arson.  Esq. 
,  L.  Seager,  Esq. 
J.  B.  White,  Esq. 

Physician — W.  R.  Basham,  M.D. 

Bankers.— Messrs.  Biddulph.  Cocks,  i  Co. 

A  ctuary — Arthur  Scratchley,  M.A. 

VALUABLE  PRIVILEGE. 

POLICIES  effected  in  this  Office  do  not  become  void  through  tem- 
porary difficulty  in  paying  a  Premium,  as  permission  is  given  upon 
application  to  suspend  the  payment  at  interest,  according  to  the  con- 
ditions detailed  in  the  Prospectus. 

LOANS  from  1007.  to  5007.  granted  on  real  or  first-rate  Personal 
Security. 

Attention  is  also  invited  to  the  rates  of  annuity  granted  to  old  lives, 
for  which  ample  security  is  provided  by  the  capital  of  the  Society. 
Example:  100Z.  cash  paid  down  purchases— An  annuity  of— 
£  s.  d. 

9  15  10  to  a  male  life  aged  60^ 
11    7   4  „  65 1  Payable  as  long 

13  18   8  70  f    as  he  is  alive. 

18   0   6  „  75j 

Now  ready,  420  pages,  14s. 

MR.  SCRATCHLEY'S  MANUAL  TREATISE 

on  SAVINGS  BANKS,  containing  a  Review  of  their  Past  History  and 
Present  Condition,  and  of  Legislation  on  the  Subject;  together  with 
much  Legal,  Statistical,  and  Financial  Information,  for  the  use  of 
Trustees,  Managers,  and  Actuaries. 

London:  LONGMAN,  GREEN,  LONGMAN  &  ROBERTS. 

UNITED  KINGDOM 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY, 

No.  8,  WATERLOO  PLACE,  PALL  MALL,  S.W. 

DIRECTORS. 

The  Hon.  FRANCIS  SCOTT,  Chairman. 
CHARLES  BERWICK  CURTIS,  Esq.,  Deputy  Chairman. 

A.  H.  MACDOUGALL,  ESQ. 
F.  C.  MAITLAND,  Esq. 
WILLIAM  RAILTON,  Esq. 
THOS.  THORBY.Esq.,  F.S.A. 


EDWARD  LENNOX  BOYD,  Esq. 

(Resident). 

WILLIAM  FAIRLIE,  Esq. 
D.  Q.  IIENRIQUES,Esq. 


HENRY  TOOGOOD,  Esq. 


J.  G.  HENRIQUES,  Esq. 
MARCUS  H.  JOHNSON,  Esq. 

SUPERIOR  ACCOMMODATION  AFFORDED  BY  THIS 
COMPANY. 

This  Company  offers  the  security  of  a  large  paid-up  capital,  held  in 
shares  by  a  numerous  and  wealthy  proprietary,  thus  protecting  the 
assured  from  the  risk  attending  mutual  offices. 

There  have  been  three  divisions  of  profits,  the  bonuses  averaging 
nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum  on  the  sums  assured  from  the  commence- 
ment of  the  Company. 

Sum  Assured .         Bonuses  added.  Payable  at  Death. 

£5,000  «1.987  10s.  «66,987  10s. 

1,000  397  10s.  1,397  10s. 

100  39  15s.  139  15s. 

To  assure  £100  payable  at  death,  a  person  aged  21  pays  42  2s.  4d.  per 
annum;  but  as  the  profits  have  averaged  nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum, 
the  additions,  in  many  cases,  have  been  almost  as  much  as  the  pre- 
miums paid. 

Loans  granted  on  approved  real  or  personal  security. 

Invalid  Lives?.    Parties  not  in  a  sound  state  of  health  may  be  insured 

No'charg'e  Tor  Volunteer  Military  Corps  while  serving  in  the  United 
Kingdom. 

The  funds  or  property  of  the  company,  as  at  1st  January,  1861, 
amounted  to  4730,665  7s.  10c7.,  invested  in  Government  and  other  ap- 
proved securities. 

Prospectuses  and  every  information  afforded  on  application  to 

E.  L.  BOYD,  Resident  Director. 


H 


OLLOWAY'S    OINTMENT.— In  bad   legs, 

_  ulcers,  scrofulous  sores,  and  glandular  swellings,  this  Ointment 
operates  surely,  and  with  a  rapidity  that  resembles  magic.  It  should  be 
rubbed  into  the  parts  affected,  after  they  have  been  fomented  with 
lukewarm  water.  The  purifying  and  curative  powers  of  this  marvel- 
loos  unguent  have  never  been  disputed  by  any  one  who  has  given  it  a 
fair  tiial.  It  contains  not  a  particle  of  any  substance  of  a  noxious 
nature,  nor  ia  there  a  case  on  record  in  which  it  has  done  the  slightest 
harm  :  while  there  are  authentic  reports  of  innumerable  cures  effected 
by  it  in  all  countries.  It  IB  as  mild  in  its  action  as  it  is  powerful  and 
beneficial  in  its  effects. 


T?  QUIT  ABLE  ASSURANCE  OFFICE,  New 

TJ  Bridge  Street,  Blackfriars  :  established  1762. 

DIRECTORS. 
T!ie  Right  Hon.  LORD  TREDEGAR,  President. 


Wm.  Samuel  Jones,  Esq.,  V.P. 
Wm.F.  Pollock,  Esq.,  V.P. 
Wm.  Dacres  Adams,  lisq. 
John  Charles  Burgoyne,  Esq. 
Lord  Geo.  Henry  Cavendish,  M.P. 
Frederick  Cowper,  Esq. 
Philip  Hardwick,  Esq. 


Richard  Gosling,  Esq. 

Peter  Martineau,  Esq. 

John  Alldin  Moore,  Esq. 

Charles  Pott,  Esq. 

Rev.  John  Kussell,D.D. 

James  Spicer,  Esq. 

John  Charles  Templer,  Esq. 


The  Equitable  is  an  entirely  mutual  office.  The  reserve,  at  the  last 
"rest,"  in  December,  1859,  exceeded  three-fourths  of  a  million  sterling:, 
a  sum  more  than  double  the  corresponding  fund  of  any  similar  in- 
stitution. 

The  bonuses  paid  on  claims  in  the  10  years  ending  on  the  31st  De- 
cember, 1859.  exceeded  3,500,',007.,  being  more  than  100  per  cent,  on  the 
amount  of  all  those  claims. 

The  amount  added  at  the  close  of  that  decade  to  the  policies  existing 
on  the  1st  January,  1860,  was  1,977,0007.,  and  made,  with  former  addi- 
tions then  outstanding,  a  total  of  4, 070,0002.,  on  assurances  originally 
taken  out  for  6,252,0007.  only. 

These  additions  have  increased  the  claims  allowed  and  paid  under 
those  policies  since  the  1st  January,  1860,  to  the  extent  of  150  per  cent. 

The  capital,  on  the  3Ist  December  last,  consisted  of — 

2,730,0007.  —  stock  in  the  public  Funds. 

3,006,2977.  —  cash  lent  on  mortages  of  freehold  estates. 

300,0007.  —cash  advanced  on  railway  debentures. 

83,5907.  —  cash  advanced  on  security  of  the  policies  of  members  of  the 


lucing  annually  221, 4827. 

The  total  income  exceeds  400,0007.  per  annum. 

Policies  effected  in  the  year  1862  will  participate  in  the  distribution 
of  profits  made  in  December,  1859,  so  soon  as  six  annual  premiums 
shall  have  become  due  and  been  paid  thereon;  and,  in  the  division 
of  1869,  will  be  entitled  to  additions  in  respect  of  every  premium  paid 
upon  them  from  the  year  1862  to  1869,  each  inclusive. 

On  the  surrender  of  policies  the  full  value  is  paid,  without  any  deduc- 
tion; and  the  Directors  will  advance  nine-tenths  of  that  value  as  a 
temporary  accommodation,  on  the  deposit  of  a  policy. 

No  extra  premium  is  charged  for  service  in  any  Volunteer  Corps 
within  the  United  Kingdom,  during  peace  or  war. 

A  Weekly  Court  of  Directors  is  held  every  Wednesday,  from  1 1  to  1 
o'clock,  to  receive  proposals  for  new  assurances  ;  and  a  short  account  of 
the  Society  may  be  had  on  application,  personally  or  by  post,  from  the 
office,  where  attendance  is  given  daily,  from  n  to  4  o'clock. 

ARTHUR  MORGAN,  Actuary. 


BROWN  AND  POLSON'S 

PATENT    CORN    FLOUR. 

In  Packets  2d.,4«?.,  and  8d.t  and  Tins,  Is. 

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ful  of  cold  water,  add  half  a  pint  of  boiling  water  ;  stir  over  the  fire  for 
five  minutes  ;  sweeten  lightly,  and  feed  the  baby  ;  but  if  the  infant  it 
being  brought  up  by  hand,  this  food  should  then  be  mixed  with  milk,— 
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141 


LONDON,  SATURDAY,  FEBRUARY  22,  1862. 

CONTENTS N°.  8. 

NOTES:  — The  Registers  of  the  Stationers' Company,  141 

—  Letters  of  Archbishop  Leighton,  143  — James  Ander- 
son, 144  — Treacle,  145  — John  Milton,  146  —  Eev.  Henry 
Piers's  Sermon,  Ib. 

MINOR  NOTES  :  —  "  Green  Sleeves  "—Trade  Prohibitions,  &c. 

—  Burns    and    Andrew    Homer  —  Savonarola's    incdited 
Manuscripts  —  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  and  Virginia  —  "Was 
Henry  I.  rightly  surnamed  Beauclerc?  147 

QUERIES :  —  Anonymous  Plays  —  Lord  Bacon  —  Bullen 
Queries  —  Custumariiis  Abbathua  de  Milton  —  Doubler 

—  Early  Emigrants  to  Maryland  —  Fossils  —  Origin  of  the 
Name  of  Glastonbury  — Gold  Rings  to  the  Inflrmarius  — 
Hereditary  Dignities  —  Ben  Jonson  —  Nockynge  and  Do- 
well  Money,  &c.  — Payment  of  Members  of  Parliament  — 
Postage  Stamps  — Chief  Baron  James  Reynolds:    Baron 
James  Reynolds  —  "  Tancred  and  Gismund  "  —  Turgesius 
the  Dane  —Vicinage,  148. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS:  — Fairfax  and  Daemonologia— 
Bankers,  1676  —  Zwinglii,  "  The Ymage  of  bothe  Pastoures" 

—  Calas  —  Sir  Robert  Godschall  —  Samaria  —  Quotation, 
150. 

KEPLLES :— Starachter  and  Murdoch,  152  —  Lady  Vane,  Ib. 
—Interdicted  Marriages,  153— Judge  Page,  Ib.— Deflection 
of  Chancels,  154— Order  of  Merit  —  Standgate  Hole  —  Fri- 
days, Saints'  Days,  and  Fast  Days  —  King  Plays  —  Sir 
Henry  Langford  —  Doctor  of  Medicine  —  Bibliography  of 
Alchymy  and  Mysticism  —  Mary  Woffington—  Starch  — 
Sir  Francis  Bryan  — •  Mathews  and  Gough  Families  — 
Holand,  Duke  of  Exeter— The  Emperor  Napoleon  III.— 
Cruel  King  Philip  —  Fullught,  the  Anglo-Saxon  Baptism 

—  Ffolliott  Family— Irish  Wolf-dog  —  Redmond  Family 
—Epitaph  in  Canterbury  Cathedral,  155. 

Notes  on  Books. 


THE  REGISTERS  OF  THE  STATIONERS' 

COMPANY. 
{Continued  from  3rd  S.  i.  105.) 

27  August!  [1591].  —  Rob.  Bourne.  Assigned 
unto  him  for  his  copie,  &c.  A  pleasant  ballad  of  a 
combat  betwene  a  man  and  his  wife  for  the  breeches 

vjd. 

[There  was  a  tract  printed  without  date,  but  not  very 
long  afterwards,  upon  the  same  subject,  and  ornamented 
with  a  wood-cut  of  two  women  contending  for  the  pos- 
session of  a  pair  of  breeches,  under  the  following  title  : 
"  Women's  Fagaries,  shewing  the  great  endeavours  they 
have  used  to  obtain  the  Breeches.  Being  as  full  of  Mirth 
as  an  Egg  is  full  of  meat.  Printed  for  J.  Clark  in  West 
Smithfield."  We  know  nothing  of  the  earlier  production 
registered  above,  of  "  a  combat  between  a  man  and  his 
wife"  ;  but  such  scenes  are  not  very  uncommon,  although 
the  ballad  may  be  so.] 

Rob.  Bourne.  Assigned  in  like  sort  unto  him 
A  ballad  of  a  Dialogue  betwene  a  Lord  and  his 


^ 

30  August!.  —  Jo.  Oxenbridge.     Assigned  unto 

"a*  for  his  copie  to  print  a  book  intitled  The  pro- 

gresse  of  pietie,  or  the  harbor  of  heavenly  harts- 

ease  ..........     .     .     .     .    yj«. 

[Whether  in  verse  or  prose  does  not  appear.    This  was 

t  the  entry  of  a  license  to  publish  or  to  sell,  but  to 

int,  and  perhaps  the  work  never  came  from  the  press. 

t  does  not  seem  to  be  known,  but  we  may  speculate  that 

it  was  by  N.  Breton.] 


xv°  September. — John  Wolfe.  Entred  for  his 
Copie,  The  Lamentation  of  the  Prince  of  Parma, 

Ire .   .   vjd. 

[This  satirical  production  perhaps  grew  out  of  the 
event  celebrated  in  a  ballad  under  the  date  of  22  July,  as 
noticed  ia_our  last  article.] 

xviito  September. — Henrye  Chettle.  Entred 
for  his  copie,  by  warrant  from  Mr.  Watkins,  The 
bay  tinge  of  Dyogenes vjd. 

[This  was  somewhat  too  early  a  date  for  Goddard, 
who  before  1600  published  A  Satyricall  Dialogue,  or 
sharplye  invective  Conference  between/e  Alexander  the  great, 
and  that  trulye  woman-hater  Diogenes,  which  was  printed 
"  in  the  Low  Countrie  "  in  order  to  avoid  proscription. 
Some  of  Goddard's  earlier  pieces  appear  to  have  been 
publicly  burned,  as  he  himself  states  with  reference  also 
to  Marston's  Satires,  which  had  recently  been  condemned 
to  the  flames :  — 

"  Bad  are  these  men,  such  is  their  perverse  kind, 
They  burne  all  books  wherein  their  faults  they  find, 
And  therefore,  earthlie  angels,  my  desire 
Is  you'll  protect  this  from  consuming  fire,"  &c. 

Henry  Chettle  was  at  this  time  a  stationer,  as  well  as 
a  dramatist,  and  was  subsequently  much  employed  in 
searching  out  unlicensed  books  and  their  publishers,  or 
any  others  who  contravened  the  bye-laws  of  the  Sta- 
tioners* Company.  Before  he  put  forth  this  Baiting  of 
Diogenes,  doubtless  a  satire,  he  took  care  to  provide 
himself  with  the  authority  of  Mr.  Watkins,  then  one  of 
the  wardens.] 

1  die  Octobris. — [John  "Wolf.  Entred  for  his 
copie  The  honorable  entertaynement  gyven  to  the 
queues  mati0  in  progresse  at  Elvetham,  in  hamp- 
shire,  by  the  righte  honorable  the  Erie  of  Hertford 

*jd. 

[Printed  in  1591,  4to,  the  above  entry  being  an  exact 
copy  of  the  title-page.  It  was  reprinted  in  vol.  xlix.  of 
the  Gentleman's  Magazine,  and  is  of  course  to  be  found 
in  Nichols's  Progresses.1 

4  Oct.  —  Mystres  Broome  wydowe,  late  wyfe  of 
Willm.  Broome.  Entred  for  her  copies,  under 
the  hand  of  the  B.  of  London,  Three  Comedies, 
plaied  before  her  majestic  by  the  Children  of  Puides, 
thone  called  Endimion,  Thother  Galathea,  and 
thother  Midas xviij*. 

[The  first  of  these  comecfres  (all  of  them  by  John  Lilly) 
bears  the  date  of  1591  ;  the  two  others  were  probably 
not  published  until  1592,  which  date  is  on  the  title-pages. 
Endymion  was  performed  by  the  children  of  the  Cbapel, 
as  well  as  by  the  Children  of  Pauls,  at  Greenwich,  before 
Queen  Elizabeth.  All  three  plays  are  included  in  Blount's 
vol.  of  1632.] 

12  Octobr.  —  Tho.  Adams.  Entred  for  his 
copies,  by  assignment  from  Mr  Robert  Walley, 
these  copies  folowing,  viz.  : 

The  Shephardes  Calendar  in  fo. 

Josephus  of  the  Warres  of  the  Jewes. 

Esopes  fables  in  English. 

Grafton's  computation. 

Salust  in  English. 

Ityches  farewel. 

Simonides,  1  pars. 


142 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


S.  I.  FEB.  22,  '62. 


Art  of  English  poetry. 
Robin  Conscience,  2  paries. 
RasteWs  tables. 
Cato,  English  and  latin. 
Proverbes  of  Salomon,  16. 
Richys  military  practis. 
Simomdes,  2  pars. 

With  Herodian  in  English,  and  all  other  the  said 
Rob.  Walleis  bookes  and  ballets  whatsoever.  All 
which  bookes,  yt  is  agreed,  shalbe  printedjby  Jo. 
Charlwood  for  the  said  Tho.  Adams,  &c. 

[Of  some  of  these  works  we  must  speak  separately. 
The  first  is  the  old  Shepherd's  Calendar,  originally  printed 
by  VV.  de  Worde,  and  to  which  title  new  attention  had 
perhaps  been  drawn  by  three  editions  of  Spenser's  Pas- 
torals with  the  same  name.  With  several  of  the  others, 
it  had  been  assigned  to  Robert  Walley  from  his  father  in 
the  preceding  March.  Referring  to  what  we  said  on 
p.  45,  we  may  pass  over  the  four  next  items,  but  of 
Ryche's  Farewel  it  is  necessary  to  remark  that  it  was  by 
Barnabe  Rich,  and  that  it  was  originally  printed  in  1581 
under  the  title  of  Farewell  to  Militarie  Profession,  a  book 
from  which  Shakespeare  took  the  plot  of  his  Twelfth 
Right  ;  and  as  the  same  work  comprises  other  tales 
dramatised  by  poets  of  that  day,  the  whole  of  them  were 
reprinted  by  the  Shakespeare  Society  in  1846.  The  two 
parts  of  Simonides  were  also  by  Rich,  although  his  name 
is  not  here  given,  and  although  we  see  it  stand  before  his 
Pathway  to  Military  Practice,  which  came  out  in  1587. 
Above  two  parts  of  Robin  Conscience  are  mentioned  ;  so 
that  the  interlude  thus  called  had  a  sequel,  although 
only  a  fragment  of  the  first  part  has  reached  our  day. 
Art  of  Englishe  poetry  most  likely  relates  to  Puttenham's 
work,  which  had  been  published  in  1589;  but  it  may 
possibly  refer  to  Spenser's  lost  treatise  on  the  same  sub- 
ject. The  figures  "  16  "  after  the  Proverbs  of  Solomon 
means  that  it  was  in  16mo,  and  not  in  4to,  or  folio. 
For  some  reason  it  was  stipulated  that  John  Charlwood 
should  have  the  monopoly  of  printing  all  these  books, 
and  his  name  therefore  is  upon  most  of  those  extant.] 

8  Nov.—  Tho.  Woodcock.     Entred  for  his  copie 
&c.  A  booke  entitled  Martin  Mar  Sixtus      .     vjd. 
[A  tract  published  first  in  1589,  and  again  printed  in 
>9l.    It  has  been  attributed  to  Thos.  Nash,  but  upon  no 
ncient   authority.      The    Mar-Martin    tracts   of   this 


contain  a  good  deal  of  amusing,  besides  abusin«- 
matter:  in  one  of  them,  «  The  just  Censure  and  Reproofe 
r  Martin  Junior,"  we  meet  with  the  subsequent  warning 
to  the  young  Earl  of  Essex  (afterwards  executed)  for 
allying  himself  too  much  to  the  Puritan  party:  it  has 
never  been  quoted.  —  "And  in  faith,  I  thinke  they  doe 
my  Lord  of  Essex  greate  wrong  that  say  he  favours 
Martin  ;  I  doe  not  thinke  he  will  bee  so  unwise  as  to 
favour  those  who  are  enemies  to  the  State;  for  if  he  doe, 
her  Majesty,  I  can  tell  him,  will  withdraw  her  gracious 
favour  from  him."  Martin  Mar-Si.rtus  appeared  once 
more  in  1592,  just  after  the  death  of  Robert  Greene,  who 
preliminary  matter'  Ifc  consists  of 


Mr.  Cawood.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  a  booke 
entituled  Mary  MagdalerC  s  funerall  tears         vja 

sSrtF  S  Bfrfcaw  rJBtti 

J  I  'w  »0<    T1Yi  dedlcation  to  «  Mistresse  D.  A."  is  signed 

HVm     -ka^WeH  as  the  address  to  the  reader-    A  produc- 
tion with  the  same  title  is  attributed  to  Robert  South- 


well, the  Jesuit,  but  the  earliest  copy  we  have  seen  bears 
date  in  1607,tand  it  was  several  times  reprinted.] 

24  Novembris.  —  Rych.  Jones.  Entred  for  his 
copie  under  the  handes  of  Thomas  Crowe  and 
Richard  Watkins,  A  lamentable  discourse  of  the 
death  of  the  righte  Honorable  Sr.  Christopher 
Hatton,  Knighte,  late  lorde  chancellor  of  England, 

vj*. 

[The  subject  of  this  "  discourse  "  had  died  on  the  20th 
Sept.  preceding.  We  know  nothing  of  any  such  perform- 
ance.] 

6  Decembr.  —  Tho.  Nelson.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  under  thandes  of  Mr.  Fr.  Flower  and  Mr. 
Watkins,  A  Maydens  Dreame  uppon  the  death  of 
my  late  Lord  Chancellor vjd. 

[This  poem  was  an  entire  novelty  when  it  was  pro- 
duced before  the  Shakspeare  Society,  nobody  having 
ever  heard  of  such  a  piece,  and  the  Rev.  Mr.  Dyce 
having  published  two  volumes  of  "Robert  Greene's 
Works "  without  knowledge  of  its  existence.  He  is 
not  to  be  blamed,  because  he  was  only  in  the  condition 
of  other  bibliographers,  excepting  the  discoverer  of  the 
tract.  It  has  for  title  The  Maiden's  Dreame  upon  the 
Death  of  the  Eight  Honorable  Sir  Christopher  Hatton, 
Knight,  late  Lord  Chancelor  of  England.  By  Robert 
Green,  Master  of  Arts.  Imprinted  at  London  by  Thomas 
Scarlet  for  Thomas  Nelson,  1591,  4to.  It  consists  of  only 
ten  leaves,  all  in  verse,  excepting  the  dedication  to  Lady 
Hatton,  wife  of  Sir  William  Hatton,  who,  when  subse- 
quently a  widow,  was  married  to  Sir  Edw.  Coke.  In  the 
dedication  Greene  refers  to  such  publications  on  the  same 
theme  as  that  noticed  in  the  previous  entry:  he  says, 
"  While  I  thus  debated  with  my  selfe,  I  might  see  (to 
the  great  disgrace  of  the  Poets  of  our  time)  some  mycaui- 
call  wits  blow  up  mountaines,  and  bring  forth  mise,  who 
with  their  follies  did  rather  disparage  his  honors  than 
decypher  his  vertues."  In  consequence  he  took  up  his 

Ezn,  and  wrote  The  Maiden's  Dream,  and  calls  himself 
ady  W.  Hatton's  "  poor  countryman,"  both  being  from 
Norfolk:  she  had  married  first  Sir  C.  Hatton's  nephew, 
who  had  inherited  his  uncle's  debts  as  well  as  his  property, 
and  Queen  Elizabeth  claimed  from  him  many  thousand 

Eounds,  which  Sir  Christopher  had  borrowed  from  the 
ord  Treasurer.  The  Maiden's  Dream  was  obviously 
printed  in  haste,  and  it  contains  many  errors,  but  is  all  in 
Roman  type.  It  consists  of  the  "  Complaints  "  of  Justice, 
Prudence,  Fortitude,  Temperance,  Bountie,  Hospitality, 
and  Religion  for  the  loss  of  the  Lord  Chancellor.  Re- 
specting Sir  C.  Hatton's  hospitality  there  is  a  remarkable 
passage  in  B.  Rich's  Farewell  to  Military  Profession,  where 
he  is  speaking  of  Holdenby.  The  dedication  is  nearly  all 
in  praise  of  dancing,  in  which  art  Hatton,  as  we  know, 
was  a  great  practiser  and  proficient] 

13  Dec. —Edward  White:  Tho.  Nelson.  En- 
tred for  their  copie,  &c.  The  arte  of  Connye 
Katchinge vjd. 

Win.  Wright.  Entred  for  his  copie,  to  be  printed 
alwayes  for  him  by  John  Wolf,  The  second parte  of 
Connye  Katchinge vjd. 

[The  first  of  these  registrations  must  relate  to  R. 
Greene's  Notable  Discovery  of  Coosnage,  which  came  out 
with  the  date  of  1591.  It  was  followed,  with  the  date  of 
1592,  by  The  second  and  last  part  of  Conny- catching, 
which  was  printed  by  John  Wolfe  for  William  Wright, 
and  evidently  is  the  tract  to  which  the  second  entry 
refers.  There  was,  however,  in  the  same  year,  The  third 


3'd  S.  I.  FEB.  22,  '62. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


143 


\nd  last  part  of  Conny- catching :   with  the  new  devised 
Knavish  Arte  of  Foole-taking,  which  the  Kev.  Mr.  Dyce 


and 

Knavish 

inserts  in  his  list,  but  he  could  hardly  have  seen  a  copy 

of  it,  because  he  introduces  words  which  are  not  found 

in  the  title-page,  changes  others,  and  gives  at  least  half 

a  dozen  minor  variations.     It  is  not  at  all  impossible  that 

by  mistake  he  followed  some  edition,  which  was  not  the 

original.] 

xvj°  die  Decembris.  —  Thomas  Gosson.  Entred 
unto  him  for  his  copie,  &c.  The  Seconde  parte  of 
the  Gigge  betweene  Roivland  and  the  Sexton,  so  it 
apperteyne  not  to  anie  other vjd. 

["  Jigs  "  were  usually  performed  at  our  early  Theatres 
by  way  of  "  merriment,"  and  for  the  sake  of  dismissing 
spectators  cheerfully  after  some  tragical  representation. 
We  have  notices  in  the  Stationers'.Registers  of  several  by 
Tarlton,  Kempe,  Phillips,  Singer,  and  others ;  and  one  by 
Tarlton  has  survived  in  MS.,  but  no  others  are  known. 
This  between  Rowland  and  the  Sexton  may  remind  us 
of  the  commencement  of  the  Grave-digger  scene  in  Ham- 
let: possibly  Shakespeare  took  a  hint  from  it.] 

28  Decembr.  —  Thorns  Gosson.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  The  Thirde  and  last  Parte  of  Kempe  s 
Jigge,  so  yt  apperteyne  not  to  anie  others  .  vjd. 

[The  terminating  words  of  the  two  last  registrations 
may  shew  the  contention  among  publishers  of  that  day 
to  obtain  the  right  of  printing  popular  productions.  This 
entry  is  of  the  third  part  of  "  Kempe's  Jig"  whatever  it 
may  have  been  entitled ;  so  that  two  other  parts,  not  en- 
tered at  Stationers'  Hall,  had  preceded  it,  and  had  secured 
the  public  favour.  Kempe  was  an  actor  in  Shakspeare's 
plays  until  the  beginning  of  the  next  century.  He 
was  Peter  in  Romeo  and  Juliet,  Dogberry  in  Much  Ado 
about  Nothing,  and  perhaps  the  original  Grave-digger  in 
Hamlet.  This  point  is,  however,  doubtful.] 

xxx°  Decembris.  —  Roberte  Dexter.  Entred 
for  his  copie,  &c.  A  booke  entituled  Propria  que 
maribus,  construed,  and  also  as  in  presenti.  Pro- 
vided alwaies  that  if  anie  of  the  copartners  in  the 
Grammer,  perteyninge  to  the  priviledge  of  Mr. 
Francis  Flower,  shall  finde  him  selfe  grieved  with 
this  booke,  then  this  entrance  to  be  voide,  and  the 
said  Roberte  Dexter  to  cease  to  printe  the  saide 
booke  or  anie  parte  thereof vjd. 

[Tour  years  before  the  date  at  which  we  have  now 
arrived,  Francis  Flower  was  a  member  of  Gray's  Inn, 
and  had  assisted  Bacon,  Hughes,  and  others  in  the  pro- 
duction, before  the  queen  at  Greenwich,  of  the  tragedy  of 
The  Misfortunes  of  Arthur.  We  have  already  met  with 
Flower's  name  in  connexion  with  the  licensing  of  books 
for  the  press,  but  what  was  his  particular  office,  and  what 
the  "  privilege  "  he  at  this  time  enjoyed,  we  are  without 
information.  The  publication  of  school-books,  like  those 
included  in  the  preceding  registration,  was,  and  is,  usually 
very  profitable.] 

J.  PAYNE  COLLIEB. 


LETTERS  OF  ARCHBISHOP  LEIGHTON. 
(.Continued  from  3r«  S.  i.  125). 

x. 

Edin.  Nov.  9  [1669?]. 
May  it  please  yor  Grace, 

It  were,  I  know,  an  unpleasant  thing,  and  now 
scarse  pertinent  for  mee  to  say  any  more  of  ye 


struggles  and  tossings  of  my  thoughts  concerning 
my  engaging  in  this  station,  both  before  my  sub- 
mission to  it  and  even  since ;  only  what  I  sayd 
once,  and  again  to  bespeak  y°  liberty  and  right 
construction  of  my  retiring  in  case  of  necessity, 
though  yor  Grace  thought  not  fit  to  take  any 
notice  of  it  at  present ;  yet  I  must  humbly  beg 
it  may  not  be  wholly  forgott,  and  I  will  mention 
it  no  more  till  I  find  myself  forc'd  to  make  reall 
use  of  it.  For  them  y*  are  in  eminent  employ- 
ments, and  are  no  less  eminently  qualified  for 
them,  God  forbid  they  should  think  of  withdraw- 
ing ;  but  as  for  us  of  this  order,  in  this  kingdom, 
I  believe  'twere  little  damage  either  to  church  or 
state,  possibly  some  advantage  to  both,  if  wee 
should  all  retire ;  but  that,  whatsoever  the  event 
of  it  will  prove,  is  a  thing  neither  to  be  feared 
nor  hoped.  For  myself,  how  great  soever  be  my 
longings  after  a  retreat,  they  ought  not  to  hinder 
my  most  humble  acknowledgements  of  his  Maties 
undeserved  favor  (though  it  still  detains  me  from 
that  wh  of  all  things  in  this  world  I  doe  most 
passionately  desire)  ;  and  next  to  his  Maties  favor, 
I  cannot  but  be  sensible  of  my  singular  oblige- 
ment  to  your  Grace  for  so  much  unwearied  kind- 
ness and  patience  in  this  affair :  for  how  much 
reason  soever  I  may  seem  to  myself  to  have  for 
my  reluctancy,  yet  I  think  yor  Grace  had  much 
more  reason  long  'ere  this  to  have  despised  and 
neglected  it,  as  ye  peevish  humor  of  a  melancholy 
monk ;  but  whatsoever  I  am  or  shall  be,  while  I 
live,  yea,  though  I  turnd  hermite,  I  am  sure  not 
to  put  off  the  indelible  character  of 

My  Lord,  Yor  Grace's  most  humble  Servant, 

R.  LEIGHTON. 

My  Lord,  —  The  Commissariate  of  Laurock 
becoming  vacant,  I  was  forced  to  dispatch,  and 
thought  of  one  for  it  on  purpose  to  avoid  the  crowds 
of  severall  recommendations,  and  the  vexatious  im- 
portunities with  which  they  were  prest.  The  per- 
son I  have  chosen  is  one  John  Graham,  Commis- 
sary Clerk  of  Dunblain,  and  have  putt  another  in 
his  place,  being  under  some  kind  of  promise  to 
them  —  both  to  doe  them  a  kindness,  if  any  op- 
portunity should  offer,  and  I  have  done  it  freely 
to  them  both;  whereas,  for  the  Commissariate, 
though  one  of  the  meanest,  more  was  offered 
mee  by  some  of  the  competitors,  than  I  think  one 
much  better  were  worth,  if  sett  to  sale  in  ye 
market  place.  And  I  think  it  a  shameful  abuse 
that  churchmen  should  so  commonly  doe  by  these 
places,  disposing  the  ....  man  more  .  .  .  .  , 
and  I  heartily  wish  they  were  discharged.  But 
that  which  pains  me  now  most  in  this  par- 
ticular is,  that  I  understand  by  the  Earl  of  Kin- 
cardine, that  yor  Grace  had  aimed  to  recommend 
one  to  the  place ;  which,  could  I  have  had  the 
least  foresight  of,  there  is  no  doubt  it  would  have 
been  reserved  for  him.  But  I  hope  yor  Grace 


144 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  FEB.  22,  '62. 


will  pardon  my  hastening  to  dispose  of  it,  for  the 
true  reason  I  have  given  account  of.  The  person 
I  fixt  on  is  both  of  approv'd  honesty  and  ability, 
and  will  reside  upon  it  and  attend  it  constantly ; 
and  is  indeed  worthy  of  a  better  place,  if  any 
such  were  in  my  dispose.  And  yet  after  all  this, 
rather  than  your  Grace  should  take  it  ill,  either 
that  I  was  so  sudden,  or  that  ya  person  yor  Grace 
intended  for  it  should  bee  disappointed,  I  would 
doe  my  utmost,  and  I  hope  might  prevayl^  with 
my  friend  to  surrender  back  his  gift.  But  if  yor 
Grace  incline  not  to  putt  him  or  mee  to  ye  retro- 
grade, I  would  engage  myself  for  that  gentleman 
for  whom  yor  Grace  designed  this  place,  that  ye 
first  and  best  of  that  kind  within  the  diocese,  if  it 
should  fall  vacant  in  my  time  should  be  no  other- 
wise disposed  of.  I  again  beg  your  Grace's  par- 
don, and  that  I  may  know  your  mind  in  this,  and 
to  my  utmost  power  it  shall  bee  obeyed.  I  hope 
this  long  postscript  will  be  pardoned,  for  some- 
times the  circumstances  of  these  little  affairs 
require  more  words  than  matters  of  greater  im- 
portance. 


XI. 


Edgr,  Jun.  16. 
May  it  please  yor  Grace, 

Whether  it  bee  ye  fatall  unhappinesse  of  this 
order  in  this  corner  of  ye  world,  or  our  unskilful- 
nes  in  managing  it,  or  somewhat  of  both,  I  cannot 
tell ;  but  it  is  evident  to  all  ye  world  y*  it  hath 
not  produc'd  since  it's  restitution  those  good 
effects  y*  were  wish't  and  expected  from  it,  and  is 
now  in  lesse  appearance  to  doe  so  then  before, 
and^likely  rather  to  occasion  more  trouble  than 
yet  it  has  done  ;  unles  it  please  God  to  avert  it, 
and  to  suggest  such  counsels  to  those  in  power  as 
may  prove  effectual  to  prevent  it.  I  am  far  from 
presuming  to  offer  advice  in  so  dismall  a  buissnes. 
But  though  my  own  private  concernment  in  it 
will  soon  expire,  if  anything  occurr'd  to  my 
thoughts  that  I  did  but  imagine  might  bee  of  any 
use,  I  would  not  affect  ye  modesty  of  concealing 
it.  What  I  sayd  in  my  last,  I  see  as  yet  no  rea-  | 
son  to  retract,  whatever  other  ways  of  quietino-  or 
curbing  that  froward  party  may  bee  us'd°  it 
seems  not  wholly  useles  to  put  them  once  more 
to  t,  to  give  account  of  ye  reasons  of  their  opinions 
and  practices,  and  why  they  have  now  run  to  so 
entire  a  separation,  and  to  such  wild  and  insolent 
attempts  ;  and  certainly  while  those  coercions  and 
civill  restraints  that  for  a  time  were  intermitted 
are  now  found  needfull  to  be  renew'd  upon  them 

churchmen  shall  doe  nothing  in  their  own  pro-' 

F  M^V  }  SGG  n0tr.  h°W  they  cun  bee  thought 
worthy  that  so  much  should  bee  done  for  thSn 
and  such  pains  taken  in  their  behalf,  while  they 
doe  not  so  much  as  offer  to  speak  for  themselves 
and  y  Church,  and  by  y  clear  evidence  of  reason 
Mther  to  reduce  their  opposers  to  union,  or  to 
tripp  them  in  the  view  of  ye  world  of  all  fur- 


ther  excuse;  but  unles  this  take  with  others,  I 
shall  presse  it  no  farther,  for  there  is  none  of  us 
has  lesse  pleasure  in  disputes  and  contests  about 
these  pitifull  questions,  then,  May  it  please  yr 
Grace. 

Yor  Grace's 

Most  humble  Servant, 

R.  LEIGHTOX. 
I  have  now   received    ye 
presentation  for  Jedburgh, 
for  wh    I  most    humbly 
thank  yor  Grace. 

That  wh  hath  made  yc  wound  of  our  Schism 
almost  incurable,  was  ye  unhappy  act  of  Glasco 
turning   out   so  many   ministers   at  once ;    and 
though  a  good  number  of  them  are  perfectly  si- 
I  lenc'd  by  death,  and  not  a  few  permitted  to  preach 
j  and  provided  to  parishes  by  indulgence,  yet  there 
remains  a  considerable  part  of  them  that  were  not 
willing  of  themselves   to  goe  and  bee  confined 
within  the   parishes   to   wh  they  were   assigned 
double,  and  these  are  mainly  they  y*  now  disquiet 
ye  country.     And  I  see  no  help,  unles  some  way 
can  bee  found  out  how  these  may  bee  quieted  and 
bound  to  ye  good  behaviour,  without  binding  upp 
their  mouths  from  preaching  and  from  eating,  and 
so  neither  stifle  them  nor  starve  them.     Nor  is  it 
probable  that  this  can  quickly  and  fully  bee  done 
by  giving  them  liberty  to  bee  presented  to  vacant 
churches ;  there   being  not  at  present  so  many 
vacancies,  nor  likely  on  a  sudden  to  bee  so  many 
within  y°  kingdom,  as  will  suffice  to  place  ye  half 
of  them  single.     And  if  they,  and  their  zealous 
followers,  will  bee  so  drunk  with  opinion  of  them- 
selves as  to  think  so,  I  cannot  tell ;  but  sure  none 
beside  themselves  will  think  it  reasonable  to  turn, 
out  any  of  ye  regular  ministers    on  purpose  to 
make  room  for  them :  so  yt  it  would  seem  some 
other  way  must  of  necessity  be  thought  of. 
For  my  Lord  Duke  of  Lauderdale, 
His  Grace. 

C.  F.  SECBETAN. 
( To  be  concluded  in  our  next.') 


JAMES  ANDERSON. 

The  following  letters  are  from  a  cousin  of  the 
same  name  to  James  Anderson,  the  antiquary. 
They  may  be  useful  as  throwing  light  on  the 
family  history,  besides  being  interesting  from  the 
gossip  they  contain  :  — 

James  Anderson,  London,  to  his  Cousin  James  Anderson, 
Esq.,  Post-Master-  General. 

[No  date.] 

te  I  never  yet  got  your  Catalogue  priced  from  Mr. 
Brown,  but  promis'd  it  every  week ;  and  when  I  have  it, 
I  shall  remitt  it  to  you,  that  you  may  chuse  your  five 
pounds  worth  of  books  and  what  more  you  please. 

"  Madam  de  Garden  *  has  never  been  near  me  since 

*  The  antiquary's  daughter,  married  to  a  foreigner. 


8"»  S.  I.  FEB.  22,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


145 


she  came  from  Scotland.  I  believe  she  thinks  I  have 
heard  of  her  nonsense  when  she  was  at  Edinburgh,  and 
she  knows  I  was  against  her  going  thither.  Pray  give 
my  service  to  Mr.  Hart,  and  tell  him  he  might  write  to 
me  now  as  freely  as  ever,  for  that  I  am  as  much  his 
humble  servant. 

"  All  our  news  at  present  is  about  the  rising  and  fal- 
ling of  stocks;  the  Members  of  Parliament  and  all  the 
quality  and  gentry,  a  few  excepted,  having  bought  large 
parcels.  However,  I  hope  the  national  debts  will  be 
sooner  discharged  than  was  at  first  feared ;  and  not  with- 
out hope  that  the  several  Companies  that  have  subscribed 
for  a  Royal  Fishery  may  be  consolidated  into  one  large 
Company,  which  may  prove  the  most  beneficial  that  ever 
was  in  England,  to  the  coast  of  Scotland  in  due  time. 
*Tis  not  certain  yet  whether  the  King  will  go  to  Han- 
nover after  [his]  birth- da}',  tho'  I  wish  and  hope  he  may 
stay  in  England.  I  don't  find  any  of  the  Duke  of  Ar- 
gyle's  friends  yet  preferr'd,  because  people  say  the  Earl 
of  S(underla)nd  is  glued  to  the  squad,  or  they  to  him ; 
and  he  being  viceroy,  as  it  were,  doth  what  he  pleasies : 
but  a  short  time,  you  know,  discovers  great  changes  in 
Courts.  There  are  proposals  for  printing  some  additional 
volumes  of  Dugdale's  Mona&ticon  Anglicanum,  and  also 
for  Angl'ia  Illustrata,  and  for  a  new  general  Atlas ;  but 
these  things  you  know  better  than  I.  Pray  write  at  the 
first  conveniency  by  post,  and  as  soon  as  you  can  to 

"  Your  most  affectionate, 
JAM.  ANDERSON. 
"  It's  certain  the  D[uk]e  of 

Wh[arto]n  is  gone  over 

to  the  P[retender]'s  side 

upon   some    disgust  he 

met  with  at  Court. 
**  James  Anderson,  Esq., 

Writer  to  the  Signet, 
at  Edinburgh." 


Sir, 


London,  18,  Febraey,  17l|. 


"  Pray  pay  to  Mrs.  Anderson,  my  mother,  now  at 
Edinburgh,  five  pounds  sterling  upon  eight  days'  sight 
of  this  my  Bill  of  Exchange,  and  place  the  same  to  my 
account,  whereby  you  will  oblige, 

"  Your  most  humble  servant, 
JAM.  ANDERSON." 

At  the  foot  is  written,  in  a  large  tremulous 
hand: 

"  Received,  the  contents  of  the  above  written  bill  be 
me  JEAN  CAMPBELL." 

Addressed : 

"  Mr.  Anderson,  at  Mr.  How's,  Glover,  near  the  Cross 
of  Edinburgh." 

On  the  back  there  is  this  notandum  : 
«  26  Nov.  1714.  I  lent  Mrs.  Anderson  £20  sterling, 
which  was  not  deducted  from  the  bill,  but  is  still  owing." 

Subsequently,  18th  January,  1717,  James  An- 
derson wrote  to  his  cousin  with,  as  he  says,  con- 
siderable "  smartness  "  touching  repayment  of  a 
loan  he  had  made  him.  On  the  back  of  this  dun- 
ning epistle,  there  are  written  some  interesting 
particulars  relative  to  the  Royal  disputes  at  the 
time :  — 

t  "  All  the  news  at  present  is  the  hope  of  a  reconcilia- 
tion at  Court,  grounded  on  the  Prince's  answer  to  the 
King's  message  on  Sunday  last.  The  message  was,  that 
the  King  demanded  £40,000  out  of  the  Prince's  revenue  of 


£100,000  per  annum,  for  erecting  a  Family  to  the  Prince's 
children.  The  answer  was  to  this  effect,  viz.  that  he 
would  readily  yield  to  that,  or  any  other  thing  within 
his  power  that  his  Majesty  should  demand ;  but  hoped 
bis  Majesty  would  believe  that  the  Princess,  who  had 
never  offended  him,  was  very  capable  of  educating  her 
own  children  in  a  way  worthy  of  his  grandchildren. 
That  nothing  grieved  him  but  being  under  his  Majesty's 
displeasure ;  that  what  he  said  to  the  Duke  of  Newcastle 
was  indeed  the  effect  of  an  unguarded  passion,  which  he 
was  sorry  for,  and  he  promised  never  to  resent  any  thing 
to  the  detriment  of  that  Lord  in  any  time  coming.  This 
answer,  and  the  Prince's  friends  in  both  houses  being 
ready  and  prepared  to  receive  the  attack,  induced  the 
ministry  not  to  make  any  motion  against  the  P[rince] 
on  Munday  last,  as  was  talked  of  last  week ;  and  people 
apprehend  this  as  a  ground  of  hoping  matters  may  be 
compromised  quickly.  But  I  can  not  say  so  positively. 
The  Prince  goes  every  day  to  the  House  of  Lords ;  and 
is  attended  with  the  good  wishes  of  the  people,  as  if  glad 
to  see  him,  and  sorry  for  his  misfortune.  Pray  tell  Mr. 
Hart  this,  and  that  I  shall  shortly  write  to  him.  Colonel 
Ereskin  is  not  yet  come." 

J.  M. 


TREACLE. 

This  word  is  universally  acknowledged  to  come 
from  0r?ptoK^,o/,  or  belonging  to,  a  wild-beast  (®>/p). 
The  Lat.  form,  theriaca,  is  derived  either  from  the 
fern,  of  this,  Q-nptaKr],  or  else  (though  much  less  pro- 
bably, as  the  noun  in  Lat.  is  sing.),  from  the  neut. 
plur.  erjpiaKa,  inasmuch  as  we  find  07jpmK&  QdpfMKo, 
drugs  (antidotes)  against  the  bites  of  wild  beasts 
(see  Liddeli  and  Scott).  As,  however,  theriaca, 
and  still  more,  its  Fr.  derivative  theriaque,  offers 
at  first  sight  no  very  striking  resemblance  to 
treacle,  it  may  not  be  uninteresting  to  trace  the 
steps  by  which  the  former  has  become  converted 
into  the  latter.  These  steps  seem  to  me  to  have 
been  the  following.  Theriaca,  teriaca,  triaca,  dimin. 
triacula,  triacla,  triacle,  treacle.  Now,  curiously 
enough,  all  these  steps  with  the  exception  of  one, 
triacula*,  still  survive,  either  in  languages  still 
spoken,  or  in  books.  Thus,  we  find  theriaca  (Port, 
(also  theridga),  Prov.^teridca  (Prov.,  Ital.,  Span.), 
tridca  (Prov.,  Ital.,  Span.,  Port,  tridga),  triacha 
(Mid.  Lat.),  triaculum  (Mid.  Lat.— Migne),  triada 
(Prov.),  triacle  (Old  Fr.,  Old  Eng.  f— Halliwell), 
— treacle. 

Now  MR.  WALCOTT  (1st  S.  xii.  283),  says  that 
the  theriaca  (theriaque  de  Venise)  was  a  confec- 
tion of  viper's  flesh  J,  but  it  would  seem  generally 
to  have  had  a  much  more  complex  composition, 


*  Triaculum,  however,  does  occur.  See  infra.  I  may 
say  here  that  I  traced  out  and  wrote  down  all  these  steps 
before  I  consulted  the  dictionaries. 

t  Used  in  the  same  sense  as  theriaca. 

%  Liddeli  and  Scott  give  as  the  second  meaning  of 
©ijpioutds,  made  from  wild  leasts,  whilst  Pape  in  his  Gr. 
Lex.,  after  defining  it,  "  von  wilden,.  bes.  giftigen  Thieren. 
gemacht "  adds,  "  r,  0rjp«uoj  (sc.  o^tfioros)  Arznei  gegen 
den  Bisz  giftiger  Thiere ;  iibh.  eine  Arznei  gegen  Gift, 
aus  vielen  Stoffen,  auch  aus  Vipernfleisch  zusammen- 
gesezt." 


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NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  FEB.  22,  '62. 


and  is  stated  to  have  been  an  electuary  (confec- 
tion) composed  of  about  seventy  different  irrgre- 
dients.*  What  these  ingredients  were  or  are  (for 
it  seems  still  to  be  made  up  in  different  parts  of 
Europe)  I  cannot  discover,  and  I  have  not  a  Galen 
by  me,  but  at  any  rate  it  contains  a  certain  quan- 
tity of  opium,  for  the  sake  of  which,  in  France  at 
least,  it  seems  chiefly  to  be  retained  in  use.  Bou- 
chardat  in  his  Formulaire  Magistral  (Paris,  1856) 
says  (p.  79)  concerning  it,  "  Cet  electuaire,  chaos 
informe,  ou  toutes  les  drogues  jadis  employees 
sont  venues  se  confondre,  est  encore  tres  utile- 
rnent  employe;  il  reunit  les  proprietes  les  plus 
contraires ;  on  y  remarque  des  medicaments  sti- 
mulants, toniques,  astringents,  antispasmodiques 
et,  par-dessus  tout,  1'opium.  4  gram,  de  theriaque 
renterment  tt  peu  pres  5  centig.  d' opium  brut "  f 
(about  -^th  part  or  1'25%). 

This  electuary  (or  confection)  seems  originally 
to  have  been  used  against  the  bite  of  wild  beasts, 
but  afterwards  to  have  served  as  an  antidote  to 
any  poison.  The  idea  is  said  to  have  originated 
with  Mithridates  |,  though  his  antidote  did  not 
contain  more  than  three  or  four  ingredients. 

But  how  did  our  word,  treacle,  come  to  be  exclu- 
sively used  in  so  very  different  a  sense,  for  the 
purpose,  namely,  of  designating  merely  the  "  vis- 
cid, dark-brown,  uncrystallizable  syrup  ^which 
drains  from  refined  §  sugar  in  the  sugar  moulds  " 
(Pereira)  ?  I  cannot  say,  unless  it  be  that  treacle 
very  frequently  enters  into  the  composition  of 
electuaries  (or  confections},  and  that  so  a  name 
which  was  originally  applied  to  a  certain  electuary 
only,  ultimately,  but  in  England  ||  alone,  came  to 

*  In  the  Conversations-Lexikon  (Leipzig,  1855)  I  find 
the  following:  "  Theriak,  ein  beriihmtes  Gegengift  in 
Form  einer  Latwerge  [electuary], wurdevonAndromachus 
aus  Kreta,  dem  Leibarzte  des  Kaisers  Nero,  zusammen- 
gesetzt,  und  in  einem  Gedichte  beschrieben,  welches  uns 
durch  Galen  in  seiner  Schrift '  De  Antidotis  '  aufbehalten 
worden  ist.  Dieser  Theriak  ist  eine  Zusammensetzung 
von  fast  70  Arzneimitteln,  deren  einige  ganz  unwirksam, 
andere  sich  untereinander  ganz  entgegengesetztj  sind. 
Doch  hat  er  sich  bis  in  die  neuere  Zeit  in  Ansehen  erhal- 
ten,  und  es  ist  noch  nicht  lange  her,  dasz  ihn  die  Apotheker 
in  Venedig,  Holland,  Frankreich  und  an  andern  Orten, 

t  gewissen  Feierlichkeiten  im  Beiseyn  der  Magistrats- 
personen  zusammensetzen  muszten." 

\  See  also  Trousseau,  Traite  de  Therapeut.  (Paris, 
18o8),  vol.  ii.  p.  43. 

J  Hence  theriaca  was  sometimes  called  Mithridatium, 
from  which  no  doubt,  by  the  suppression  of  the  first  syll., 

s  |r.  thndace  (extract  oflettuce  —  lactucarium)  is  de- 

red,  which  contains  a  principle  slightly  akin  to  opium 
(lettuce-opium). 

_    §  Molasses  (or  mdasses)  is  (says  Pereira)  "the  drain- 
ings  trom  raw  or  Muscovado  sugar." 

II  On  the  continent,  as  far  as  I  know,  the  derivatives 
from  thenaca  are  'never  used  to  designate  what  we  call 
treacle,  for  which  the  equivalents  of  molasses  (Fr.  mekuse, 
itai  nelassa  Span,  mdote,  &c.),  are  used  by  some 
nations,  whilst  others,  as  the  Germans,  Dutch,  Danes,  and 
in  d''  alT  l\SU9ar~syruP>  or  8U9ar  dre9s  (wchari  fax, 


designate  a  substance,  which,  as  often  forming  the 
great  bulk  of  electuaries,  would  naturally  often 
resemble  them  both  in  appearance  and  consistence. 

F.  CHANCE. 


JOHN  MILTON. 

In  a  return  of  householders  within  the  several 
parishes  of  London,  made  in  or  about  May,  1638, 
pursuant  to  a  warrant  from  the  king  and  council, 
the  name  of  John  Milton  occurs,  thus  entered 
under  the  heading  of  "  Port  Lane,  St.  Dunstan's 
East."  The  names  as  they  occur  in  order  (no 
doubt  of  the  houses  occupied)  stand  thus :  "t  Widow 
Hartoc,  Mathew  Taylor,  Thomas  Lynnis,  John 
Lane,  Mr.  Hutchins  for  the  Alley,  John  Watts, 
Wm.  Chisworth,  Widow  Maycott,  John  Milton," 
&c.,  &c.  John  Milton's  yearly  rent  is  set  down 
at  25Z.,  and  the  tithes  at  ll.  7s.  6d.  Could  this 
have  been  John  Milton,  the  poet  ?  Masson,  in 
Life  of  Milton  (p.  601),  says  :  "  whether  Milton 
did  take  chambers  in  London  for  the  winter  of 
1637-8,  is  not  known."  But  the  poet  is  said  to 
have  gone  abroad  in  April^ieSS,  while  about  the 
same  period  his  father  was  at  Horton.  I  leave  it 
for  such  of  your  readers  as  are  curious  in  Mil- 
tonia  to  say  if  there  be  any  ground  for  supposing 
that  the  poet  or  his  father  had  a  residence  here. 
Perhaps  a  few  others  of  my  notes  from  this  MS. 
might  not  be  without  interest.  Sir  Anth.  Van- 
dyke lived  in  St.  Andrew's-in-the- Wardrobe,  as- 
sessed moderated  rental  20/.  Sir  Corn.  Vermuden 
lived  in  St.  Dion.,  Backchurch,  rental  60/.  Dame 
Francesca  Weld  in  St.  Olave's  in  Old  Jewry, 
rated  at  80£;  of  this  house  the  rector  in  his  re- 
turn makes  the  following  note  :  — 

"  Old  Gurney  kept's  shrievalty  in  her  house  payd 
100H  rent  for  it,  told  mee  it  was  worth  an  100U  a-yere ; 
and  that  he  would  have  been  tenant  of  it  for  21  years, 
and  have  paid  an  100U  yerelie,  but  could  not  obtain  his 
desire;  yet  this  said  old  Gurney  does  owe  me  tithes  3 
quarters,  unless  I  will  take  half-a-crowne  for  a  quarter." 

In  the  return  for  the  parish  of  St.  John  the 
Evangelist,  Watling  Street,  the  clergyman  has 
added  the  names  of  the  signs  of  the  various  houses, 
viz. :  —  "  The  Black  Boy  ;  The  Fox  and  Goose  ; 
The  Lambe;  Golden  Bell;  Pied  Bull;  Wheat- 
sheaf;  The  greate  Inne  at  the  Bell;  The  Blue 
Bell ;  Golden  Lyon  ;  Bore's  Head ;  Harrow ;  Red 
Cross;  Spread  Eagle;  The  Sunne;  The  Little 
Bell ;  Bolte  and  Tunne ;  Three  Pigeons ;  Naked 
Boy  ;  Greyhound  ;  Swan  ;  Half  Moon  ;  Seven 
Stars."  RAYMOND  DELACOURT. 


REV.  HENRY  PIERS'S  SERMON. 

I  have  had  for  some  time  in  my  possession,  but 
without  taking  steps  to  make  literary  men  ac- 
quainted with  it,  a  very  curious,  and  I  believe, 
rare  old  sermon,  illustrating  with  singular  force 


3"i  S.  I.  FEB.  22,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


147 


and  interest  the  lax  doctrines  and  lives  of  the 
generality  of  the  clergy  only  120  years  ago.  The 
sermon  is  in  quarto,  and  I  will  here  transcribe  its 
title-page:  — 

"A  Sermon  Preached  (in  Part)  before  the  Right  Wor- 
shipful, the  Dean  of  the  Arches,  and  the  Reverend  the 
Clergy  of  the  Deanery  of  Shoreham ;  Assembled  in  Visi- 
tation at  Seven  Oaks,  in  Kent,  on  Friday,  the  21st  Day 
of  May,  1742.*  Addressed  to  them  by  the  Rev.  Henry 
Piers,"  A.M.,  Vicar  of  the  Parish  of  Bexley;  sometime 
Student  of  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  Author'of  Two  Let- 
ters in  Defence  of  our  Present  Liturgy.  The  Fifth  Edi- 
tion. London :  Printed  and  sold  by  W.  Lewis  iu  Pater- 
noster Row,  near  Cheapside,  1757." 

The  sermon  is  an  admirable  "one,  but  far  in 
advance  of  the  times.  After  pointing  out  the 
importance  of  the  character  borne  by  the  minis- 
ters of  Christ,  and  stewards  of  the  mysteries  of 
God,  he  shows  how  much  faithfulness  is  required 
in  them ;  he  describes  the  doctrines  they  should 
teach,  the  tempers  they  should  be  of,  the  lives 
they  should  lead;  and,  lastly,  he  inquires,  "Do 
we  preach  these  doctrines,  and  have  such  tempers, 
and  lead  such  lives  ?  " 

This  his  audience  would  not  stop  to  hear ;  for, 
as  we  are  informed  in  a  foot-note,  "It  was  just 
here  that  the  Right  Worshipful  the  Ordinary,  to- 

§  ether  with  the  clergy,  rose  up,  and  left  me  to 
nish  my  discourse  to  the  laity." 
Those  of  your  readers  who  are  interested  in  the 
history  of  the  clergy  in  our  country,  and  study  its 
bearings  upon  national  character,  will  be  glad  to 
mark  from  this  the  vast  improvement  in  the  gene- 
ral tone  of  our  clergy. 

I  might  give  you  an  analysis  of  the  sermon,  or 
at  least  extract  from  it  certain  information  as  to 
what  doctrines  were  notoriously  neglected,  and 
what  malpractices  most  prevailed  in  the  lives  of 
those  men,  but  this  would  perhaps  extend  my 
communication  to  a  greater  length  than  would  be 
deemed  desirable. 

F.  A.  MALLESON,  M.A. 
Enfield-Claughton,  Birkenhead. 


dftiturr 

"  GREEN  SLEEVES."  —  Perhaps  it  may  not  be 
generally  known,  that  the  real  name  of  the  beauti- 
ful old  tune,  introduced  into  the  Beggar's  Opera, 
with  the  words  of  Tyburn  Tree,  and  called  Green 
Sleeves,  is  Slieve  na  Grian,  the  Mountain  of  the 
Sun  —  an  ancient  Irish  Druidical  piece  of  music. 

L.  M.  M.  R. 

TRADE  PROHIBITIONS,  ETC.  —  The  following 
"Presentments"  are  extracted  from  the  old 
Sessions  books  at  Wells  :  — 

"1602. —  "Item  we  p'sent Gorslege  Widowe,  for 

that  she  the  xviij'b  day  of  December,  1601,  dyd  Colowre 
and  dye  Stockyngs  contrarie  to  a  Statute  in  that  case 
made  and  p'vyded. 

*  1744  in  another  place. 


"  We  p'sent  John  Whytt,  who  is  a  Straunger  suspected 
to  be  a  Southsayer  and  Conjerer  for  money  and  goods. 

24  Sep.  \  The  Jury  "  present  by  the  oath  of  Edward 
8  James  I.J  Stambourne  and  Anthony  Smyth  that  Bene 
Dunckerton  of  Wells,  Cordw.  the  last  day  of  December, 
Anno  R.R's  Jacobi.  xiiij,  did  buy  butter,  Cheese,  Apples, 
Eggs,  and  other  thinges  in  the  Markett  in  Welles  and 
other  places  and  the  same  dyd  putt  to  sale  againe  in 
Welles  by  which  he  dyd  inhance  the  Markett,  as  makinge 
the  prize  of  those  things  the  dearer  contrary  to  the 
forme  of  the  statute." 

INA. 

BURNS  AND  ANDREW  HORNER.  —  I  have  read, 
or  heard  somewhere,  that  Burns  once  met  in  a 
country  tavern  a  local  versifier,  who  expressed  his 
disbelief  in  the  poet's  power  of  extemporaneous 
composition.  After  some  conversation,  they  agreed 
to  test  their  respective  poetic  talents  in  the  im- 
mediate production  of  a  single  stanza.  Burns, 
making  choice  of  his  antagonist  for  a  subject, 
asked  his  name  and  the  year  of  his  birth.  The 
man  replied  his  name  was  Andrew  Homer,  and 
he  was  born  in  1729.  Burns  at  once  gave  the 
following :  — 

"  'Twas  in  the  year  o'  twenty-nine, 
The  deil  gat  stuff  to  mak  a  swine, 

And  threw  it  into  a  corner ; 
But  after  that  he  changed  his  plan, 
And  made  it  something  like  a  man, 
And  ca'd  it  Andrew  Homer." 

Can  any  correspondent  of  "  N.  &  Q."  inform, 
me  of  the  circumstances  of  the  above,  or  name 
any  edition  of  the  works  of  Burns  in  which  the 
stanza  appears  ?  THOMAS  CRAGGS. 

West  Cramlington. 

SAVONAROLA'S  INEDITED  MANUSCRIPTS.  —  In- 
quiry has  been  made,  what  has  been  done  with 
"  the  beautiful  transcript "  from  the  margins  and 
interleavings  in  Savonarola's  Bible  in  the  Maglia- 
becchian  library  at  Florence  ? 

After  finding  that  nothing  satisfactory  could  be 
accomplished  in  England  (as  the  original  could 
not  with  facility  be  referred  to),  Mr.  Charles  Jop- 
ling,  who  had  procured  the  transcript,  having 
returned  to  Italy,  sent  for  the  work,  which  he  has 
now  given  up  to  Mr.  Villari,  the  historian  of  Sa- 
vonarola, who  is  going  to  publish  extracts  from  it 

JOSEPH  JOPLING 

SIR  WALTER  RALEIGH  AND  VIRGINIA. — -Under 
this  heading  appeared,  in  the  early  volumes  of 
"  N.  &  Q.,"  some  very  interesting  articles  on  the 
connection  of  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  with  the  early 
voyages  to  and  colonisation  of  Virginia,  in  which 
the  popular  idea  that  Raleigh  in  person  discovered 
that  colony  was  very  successfully  confuted,  and 
the  fact  just  as  clearly  established,  that  he  did 
not  at  any  period  of  his  life  visit  Virginia ;  but  I 
am  not  aware  that  any  of  your  correspondents 
noticed  at  the  time  that  this  wide-spread  error 
in  regard  to  Raleigh,  in  all  probability  originated 
with  Theodore  de  Bry. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  FEB.  22,  '62. 


In  Thomas  Heriot's  narrative  in  Hakluyt  is 
the  sentence,  "the  actions  of  those  who  have  teen 
by  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  therein  employed."  Now 
De  Bry,  in  his  Latin  edition  of  Voyages,  6  vols. 
folio,  first  published  in  1624,  translates  this  pas- 
sage, "  Qui  generosum  D.  Walterum  Raleigh  in 
earn  regioneui  comilati  sunt"  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildfbrd. 

WAS  HENRY!.  RIGHTLY  SDRNAMED  BKAUCLERC  ? 
-In  Cott.  MSS.  Vesp.  F.  III.,  will  be  found  the 
signature  of  the  learned  Henry  I.,  which,  un- 
fortunately for  his  reputation  for  learning,  con- 
sists of  a  mark,  with  "  S.  Henrici  Regis  "  around 
it,  in  the  hand  of  the  same  scribe  who  penned 
the  document  thus  signed.  The  illiterate  William 
Rufus  wrote  his  name,  and  legibly  too  :  the  learned 
Beauclerc  signs  with  a  cross.  His  signature  has 
not  even  the  rugged  grandeur  of  Montinorency, 
who,  being  requested  to  sign,  and  too  much  of  a 
nobleman  to  be  able  to  write,  signed  by  Clashing 
a  cross  on  the  parchment  with  the  soldier's  pen  — 
his  sword.  HEBMENTKTJDE. 


ANONYMOUS  PLAYS.  —  Can  any  of  your  Devon- 
shire correspondents  give  any  information  regard- 
ing the  authorship  of  the  two  following  plays  ? 

1.  /car,    a   Tragedy,    8vo,   1785.      Printed   at 
Exeter.     2.   The   Reception,    a   Play  in   3    Acts. 
Printed  at  Plymouth,   1799.     By  a  Chaplain  in 
the  Navy.  ZETA. 

LORD  BACON. — The  name  of  the  sculptor  of  the 
statue  of  Lord  Chancellor  Bacon,  over  his  grave 
in  the  chancel  of  the  church  of  St.  Michael  in  St. 
Alban's,  Herts.  PETER  CUNNINGHAM. 

BULLEN  QUERIES.  —  1.  Can  any  of  your  readers 
inform  me  of  the  ancestry  of  Jeffery  Bullen,  who 
married  Ann  Dixon  at  the  parish  church  of  St. 
Clement's,  Cambridge,  in  1584  ?  There  is  good 
reason  for  supposing  him  related  to  the  Bullens 
of  Stickford  —  proof  is  required. 

2.  Dr.  W.  Stukeley  claimed  descent  (through 
his  maternal  grandfather,  Robert  Bullen,)  from 
William  Bullen,  M.D.,  of  Ely.   Now  this  William 
Bullen  had  two  brothers,  Richard  and  Robert; 
but  only  one  child  —  a  daughter.     Can  anyone  in- 
form me  of  the  names  of  the  sons  and  grandsons 
of  Richard  and  Robert  Bullen.     Can  anyone  give 
me  monumental,  or  other  evidence,  of  a  family  of 
Bullen  bearing  the  following  arms :  Or  fretty  sa. 
on   a  chief  of  the   2nd,  3   plates.      Crest.  Two 
branches  of  thorn  disposed  in  orle  ppr.  ? 

M.  N.  B. 

CUSTUMARIUS  ABBATHI^E  DE  MILTON. —  Hutch- 
ings,  in  his  History  of  Dorset  (iv.  215),  mentions 
this  Customary  as  having  been  "  in  the  hands  of 
the  late  Mr.  John  Bailey,  Rector  of  South  Cadbury 


in  Somersetshire."  Is  it  in  existence  still  ?  And 
can  any  of  your  readers  inform  me  where  it  may 
be  seen  ?  M.  W. 

DOUBLER,  —  Sometime  ago  I  went  to  one  of 
our  chapels  to  hear  a  discourse  from  a  person  who 
always  preaches  in  the  Yorkshire  dialect,  for  the 
reason  that  he  cannot  speak  in  any  other  way. 
During  his  harangue  he  used  the  word  "  doub- 
ler;"  and  that  you  may  see  the  connexion  I  will 
quote  the  passage  as  he  spoke  it :  — • 

«  Ah  wunce  went  ta  preitch  at  a  place  a  gort  way  off, 
an  when  od  doin  thewer  noabdy  ta  tak  ma  ta  get  a  bit 
a  dinner  bud  a  varry  poar  owd  wuman.  When  ah  gate 
tue  hur  haase,  an  shoo'd  taan  hur  shawl  off,  shoo  tuke  a 
posnett  offat  fire  at  bed  sum  stew  in  it  o'  brokken  bones 
an  meit,  an  shoo  tem'd  it  all  aat  intue  a  doubler,"  &c. 

He  pronounced  it  almost  like  dubhler.  Can  you 
or  any  of  your  readers  tell  me  what  is  a  doubler^ 
and  whence  thejword  is  derived  ? 

ABRAHAM  HOLROYD. 

Bradford,  Yorkshire. 

EARLY  EMIGRANTS  TO  MARYLAND.  —  Does  any 
list  of  the  early  emigrants  to  Maryland  exist  in 
the  State  Paper  Office,  or  elsewhere  ? 

D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

FOSSILS. — Will  some  correspondent  tell  me  the 
best  method  of  extracting  the  fossils,  chiefly  bones 
and  carapaces  of  tortoises  (very  soft),  from  the 
hard  clay  off  Harwich  ?  The  principal  difficulty 
in  getting  them  out  is,  that  the  rock  is  harder 
than  the  fossil  enclosed  in  it.  J.  C.  J. 

ORIGIN  or  THE  NAME  OF  GLASTONBURY.  —  Mr. 
Jago  Emlyn,  a  Welsh  bard  and  antiquary,  gives 
the  following  opinion  as  to  the  origin  of  the  name 
of  Glastonbury  :  —  The  ancient  British  name  of 
this  place  is  mentioned  in  some  old  Welsh  re- 
cords, and  called  Gwydr  or  Gwydwr,  ^which 
means  "  water  land ;  "  and  the  supposition  is  this, 
that  when  the  abbey,  or  the  first  religious  edifice, 
was  founded  there,  the  monks  ascertained  that 
the  old  British  name  was  Gwydwr  ;  but  as  there 
were  then  no  books  or  dictionaries  to  refer  to, 
they  merely  depended  upon  verbal  explanation  of 
the  word.  Now  it  so  happens  that  there  is  another 
word  which  sounds  or  is  pronounced  much  the 
same  to  an  English  ear  as  the  word  above ;  and 
that  word  is  Gwydz'r,  and  means  in  the  Welsh 
language  "glass." 

It  is,  therefore,  not  at  all  improbable  that  the 
monks  were  told  the  word  meant  glass  ;  and  when 
we  bear  in  mind  how  similar  in  sound  the  two 
words  are,  and  that  they  possibly  had  no  means  of 
comparing  the  spelling  of  the  words  so  as  to  detect 
the  mistake,  the  origin  of  the  name  "Glaston- 
bury" now  suggested  does  not  seem  unlikely* 
For  as  regards  the  sound  or  pronunciation  of  the 
words  they  are  both  right,  although  Water  Land, 


3'd  S.  I.  FEB.  22,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


149 


or  Gwydwr,  was  what  the  Britons  meant,  and  not 
Gwydzr,  which  means  "glass." 

I  should  be  glad  to  see  what  may  be  the  opinion 
of  other  readers  of  "N".  &  Q."  on  this  curious 
subject.  INA. 

GOLD  KINGS  TO  THE  INFIRMARIDS.  —  In  a  col- 
lection of  monastic  charters,  which  have  lately 
passed  through  my  hands,  I  find  one  in  which  it 
is  stated  that  the  abbot  of  a  monastery  delivered 
to  the  "  infirraarius  "  several  gold  rings,  set  with 
precious  stones,  which  are  described.  Can  any  of 
your  readers  inform  me  what  was  the  object  of 
these  rings  ?  E.  V.  B. 

HEREDITARY  DIGNITIES.  —  Can  an  hereditary 
dignity  be  granted  by  the  mere  warrant  or  sign 
manual  of  the  sovereign-lord,  or  must  there  be 
letters  patent  under  the  Great  Seal  ? 

Is  there  any  instance  of  a  title  in  existence 
which  has  passed,  or  is  inherited,  under  a  sign 
manual  only  ?  Q. 

BEN  JONSON. — In  a  letter  to  Cavendish,  Earl 
of  Newcastle  (Westminster,  20th  Dec.  1631),  the 
City  Poet  (that  is,  Ben  himself,)  writes  :  — 

•*  Yesterday  the  barbarous  Court  of  Aldermen  have 
withdrawn  their  Chandlerly  Pension  for  Verjuice  and 
Mustard,  33Z.  6s.  8d." 

Any  notice  of  the  withdrawal  in  the'Books  of 
the  Corporation  of  London  ? 

PETER  CUNNINGHAM. 

NOCKYNGE  AND  DoWELL  MONEY,    ETC. In  an 

ancient  book  of  accounts  of  the  churchwardens  of 
the  church  of  the  Holy  Trinity  in  Guildford,  ap- 
pear the  following  entries :  — 

"  Anno  Domini  1509. 

*.  <L 

Eeceyved  for  gaderying  alfowlyn  branche  xvj 

Item  of  Dowett  money                                  -     vlj  i 

Item  rec.  for  paskall  money    -        -        -      ix  v 

Item  for  men's  nockynge  money         -                ij  jx 

Item  for  wymei^'s  nockinge  money   -        -     ix  x 
Item  of  the  godernan  Shyngylton  for  his 

guyfte     * vj  viij 

Item  of  Jemys  Mengar  for  the  bells  for  a 

stranger     ---._.  \\ 

Anno  Domini  1511. 

Received  of  Sent  Jemys  brethered     -        -  iij 

Payd  for  kyngs  rent       -        -       y;     |  •   •  iij." 

May  I  display  my  ignorance  by  asking  for  an 
explanation  of  the  terms  I  have  italicised  ? 

D.  M.  STEVENS. 
Guildford. 

PAYMENT  OF  MEMBERS  OF  PARLIAMENT. — 
Whatever  estimate  the  people  of  the  present  day 
may  put  upon  the  elective  franchise,  it  would  seem 
that  our  ancestors  held  the  privilege  very  lightly  ; 
for  although  the  wages  to  be  received  by  Mem- 
bers of  Parliament  were  fixed  by  the  16th  of  Ed- 
ward II.  at  the  low  rate  of  4s.  a  day  for  a  knight 
of  the  shire,  and  25.  for  a  citizen  or  burgess,  yet 


we  are  told  by  Prynne,  that  many  boroughs 
petitioned  to  be  excused  from  sending  members  to 
Parliament,  on  account  of  the  expense ;  and  in  a 
note  to  Blackstone  we  learn^  that  from  the  33rd 
Edward  III ,  uniformly  through  the  five  succeed- 
ing reigns,  the  Sheriff  of  Lancashire  returned, 
that  there  were  no  cities  or  boroughs  in  his  county 
that  ought  or  were  used,  or  could,  on  account  of 
their  poverty,  send  any  citizens  or  burgesses  to 
Parliament.  There  were  some  instances  where 
even  a  less  sum  than  that  established  by  statute, 
was  allowed  ;  and  it  is  on  record  that  in  1463,  Sir 
John  Strange,  the  member  for  Dunwich,  agreed 
to  take  a  cade  and  half  a  barrel  of  herrings  as  a 
composition  for  his  wages. 

The  object  of  this  note  is  to  ask  your  readers 
for  the  names  of  any  boroughs  exempted  from  re- 
turning members,  on  the  plea  of  poverty  ;  and  at 
what  time,  and  under  what  circumstances,  the 
practice  of  paying  members  was  discontinued. 

I  have  an  entry  in  my  note-book  to  the  effect, 
that  Andrew  Marvell,  member  for  Hull,  in  the 
Parliament  after  the  Restoration,  was  the  last 
who  received  payment  for  his  services  as  a  repre- 
sentative of  the  people,  but  unfortunately  have 
not  marked  my  authority.  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

POSTAGE  STAMPS. — In  the  present  rage  for 
collecting  postage  stamps  of  all  countries,  a  short 
account  of  their  first  introduction  and  the  gradual 
development  of  the  system  to  its  widely-spread 
adoption,  would  be  very  interesting.  I  have  a 
twopenny  blue  envelope,  with  a  design  of  Mul- 
ready's  ;  and  should  like  to  know  whether  it  was 
the  first  that  appeared,  and  in  what  year  ?  The 
oval  blue  twopenny  embossed  envelope  stamp,  I 
presume,  followed,  and  then  the  black  penny  label. 
Query,  In  what  years  ?  Also,  When  were  the  red 
penny  labels  first  issued  ?  I.  S.  A. 

CHIEF-BARON  JAMES  REYNOLDS  :  BARON  JAMES 
REYNOLDS.  —  Can  any  of  your  correspondents 
oblige  me  by  stating  what  was  the  precise  degree 
of  relationship  between  these  two  judges,  who 
flourished  in  the  reign  of  George  II.,  but  were  not 
contemporaries  on  the  English  Bench  :  the  latter 
not  taking  his  place  on  it  till  after  the  former's 
death,  though  he  had  been  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Common  Pleas  in  Ireland  for  nearly  fourteen 
years  before  ? 

They  both  seem  to  have  descended  from  James 
Reynolds  of  Bumsted,  in  Essex  ;  who  married,  in 
1655,  Judith,  the  eldest  daughter  of  Sir  William 
Hervey  of  Ick worth,  near  Bury  St.  Edmunds—- 
the  ancestor  of  the  Marquis  of  Bristol.  This 
lady,  I  believe,  was  the  Chief  Baron's  grand- 
mother;  his  mother  was  named  Bridget,  who, 
dying  in  1723,  was  buried  in  Castle  Camps  in 
Cambridgeshire.  The  Chief  Baron  died  in  1739, 
and  was  buried  in  St.  James's  church,  Bury  St. 


150 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


O*  S.  I.  FEB.  22,  '62. 


Edmunds,  of  which  borough  he  had  been  recorder 
and  representative  in  Parliament.  In  his  wiH  h< 
mentions  the  Baron,  then  Chief  Justice  in  Ireland 
without  stating  any  relationship ;  but  he  be- 
queaths a  large  legacy  to  his  niece  Judith.  The 
Baron  had  a  sister  Judith  (evidently  a  family 
name,  and  no  doubt  adopted  from  the  daughter 
of  Sir  William  Hervey,)  who,  on  his  death  in 
1747,  erected  a  monument  to  him  at  Castle  Camps 
church,  the  inscription  on  which  makes  no  allu- 
sion to  the  Chief  Baron,  but  states  that  the  Baron, 
her  brother,  was  "  the  last  male  descendant  of  Sir 
James  Reynolds,  Knight,  who  flourished  in  these 
parts  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth."  Who 
was  he  ? 

If  the  Chief  Baron's  niece  Judith  was  the  same 
person  as  the  Baron's  sister  Judith,  the  Baron 
must  of  course  have  been  the  Chief  Baron's  nephew 
though  born  in  1684,  two  years  before  his  uncle 
This,  however,  might  easily  have  occurred ;  but 
another  difficulty  arises  from  the  father  of  both 
being,  as  far  as  I  discover,  named  James.  But 
as  that  name  appears  to  have  been  invariably 
adopted  by  the  family,  it  may  only  afford  another 
instance  of  two  brothers  having  the  same  baptis 
mal  name. 

Though  the  Baron  was  knighted,  the  Chief 
Baron  never  accepted  that  honour. 

EDWARD  Foss. 

"  TANCRED  AND  GISMUND,"  a  Tragedy,  written 
by  five  gentlemen  of  the  Inner  Temple,  was  per- 
formed before  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  was  pub- 
lished in  1592,  4to,  by  Robert  Wilmot,  author  of 
the  5th  Act.  Sir  Christopher  Hatton  was  one  of 
the  authors^  Henry  Noel  another.  The  remain- 
ing two  writers  are  known  only  by  the  initials, 
G.  Al.  and  Rod.  Staff.  Can  you  give  me  any  in- 
formation regarding  the  authors  whose  names  are 
indicated  by  these  initials?  The  initials  may, 
possibly,  refer  to  the  names  Gulielmus  or  Wm. 
Allen,  and  Rodger  Stafford.  I  give  this  merely 
as  a  conjecture.  ZETA. 

TURGESIUS  THE  DANE.  —  This  formidable  ruf- 
fian is  well  known  to  all  readers  of  Irish  history ; 
L  have  never  heard  or  read  of  any  suspicion, 
that  it  is  quitejmpossible  that  the  common  appel- 
tetion  could  ever  have  been  the  name  of  any 
Dane,  living  or  dead.  This  is  philologically  true 
however  As  he  was  unquestionably  a  real  person 
I  liis  class,  it  is  worth  inquiring  what  was  his 
real  name.  Thorgisel  comes  near,  and  is  to  be 
found  amongst  the  Anglo-Danish  gentry  who  at- 
test a  deed  of  the  Confessor.  (See  Kemble's  Cod 
JXp.&vi.  Sax.,  vol.  iv.,  No.  801,  Thurgysel  min- 

H.  C.  C. 

VICINAGE.  — Horace  Walpole,  in  Letter  2557 
Cunningham's  edition,  says  that  this  is  a  word  of 

J  late  Lord   Chatham's  coining.      Upon  what 
occasion,  in  a  public  speech  or  otherwise,  did  the 


great  commoner  first  make  use  of  the  word  ? 
Voisonage  is  a  word  used  on  several  occasions  by 
Jeremy  Taylor.  H.  N". 

New  York. 


FAIRFAX  AND  DJEMONOLOGIA.  —  Mr.  Hartley 
Coleridge,  in  his  Yorkshire  Worthies,  makes  men- 
tion of  an  unpublished  work  by  Edward  Fairfax, 
the  poet.  He  thus  refers  to  it : 

"  He  was  so  much  affected  with  the  superstitions  of 
his  age,  as  to  fancy  his  children  bewitched,  and  that  on 
so  very  weak  grounds,  that  the  poor  wretches  whom  he 
prosecuted  for  this  impossible  crime  were  actually  ac- 
quitted. Yet  even  the  verdict  of  a  jury,  little  disposed 
as  juries  then  were  (or  dared  to  be)  to  favour  witches, 
does  not  seem  to  have  disabused  his  senses,  for  he  left 
behind  him  in  manuscript,  « Dasmonologia ;  a  discourse 
of  Witchcraft,  as  it  was  acted  in  the  family  of  Mr.  Ed- 
ward Fairfax,  of  Fuyistone,  in  the  County  of  York,  in 
the  year  1621.'  This  has  never  been  printed.  A  copy 
was  in  possession  of  the  late  Isaac  Reed,  Esq.  As  an 
important  document  in  the  history  of  human  nature  it 
most  assuredly  ought  to  be  given  to  the  world.  It  must 
be  remembered  that  Fairfax  in  this  instance  only  coin- 
cided with  the  spirit  of  the  age,  and  bowed  to  the  wisdom 
of  his  ancestors." 

The  Isaac  Reed  referred  to  is  doubtless  the 
editor  of  Shakespeare.  I  cannot  find  that  the 
work  said  to  be  in  his  possession  has  ever  been 
published,  or  that  any  account  of  it  has  been 
given  by  his  executors.  The  recovery  of  this 
book  would  be  an  acquisition.  The  belief  in 
witchcraft  and  demonology  has  always  been  pre- 
valent in  that  part  of  Yorkshire,  in  which  the 
Fairfax  family  had  their  seat,  and  still  lingers 
there  with  considerable  tenacity.  I  recollect, 
within  the  present  century  several  persons  who 
had  a  great  reputation  as  "  wise  men,"  and  who 
were  supposed  to  have  the  power  of  disenchanting 
those  who  were  "  ill  wished,"  or  labouring  under 
the  spells  of  witches  or  evil-minded  persons.  The 
enchantments  were  supposed  to  be  cast  also  upon 
cattle.  A  fatality  among  cattle,  whether  in  a  dis- 
trict, or  in  the  shed  of  a  particular  farmer,  was 
rarely  ascribed  to  natural  causes,  but  almost  in- 
variably to  the  malevolence  of  some  person  having 
'nfluence  with  the  devil.  The  means  taken  to 
avert  the  mischief,  and  punish  the  original  de- 
signer, were  curious  and  somewhat  various.  They 
serve  to  show  the  skill  and  ingenuity  of  the  few 
charlatans  who  practised  upon  the  credulity  of  the 
ignorant  by  their  conjurations  to  discover  the 
guilty  parties,  and  to  counteract  the  "  evil  wish." 
With  some  smattermg  of  medical  knowledge,  and 
considerable  experience  in  that  human  nature 
with  which  they  had  to  deal,  many  of  them  picked 
up  a  good  harvest.  If  the  MS.  of  the  work  is 
still  in  existence,  it  would  be  desirable  to  have  it 
published.  The  superstitions  of  a  people  are 


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always  a  subject  of  eager  study  to  the  historical 
student.  T.  B. 

[A  transcript  from  the  original  copy  of  Edward  Fair- 
fax's Discourse  on  Witchcraft,  8vo,  is  No.  8672,  of  Isaac 
Reed's  Sale  Catalogue,  and  was  sold  to  Mr.  Triphook  for 
II  2s.,  who  resold  it  to  B.  H.  Bright,  Esq.  At  the  sale 
of  Mr.  Bright's  manuscripts  on  June  18,  1844,  it  was 
purchased  by  Mr.  Rodd  for  6/.  15s.,  and  is  now  in  the 
valuable  collection  of  James  Crossley,  Esq.  of  Manches- 
ter. This  transcript  was  made  about' the  year  1711.  The 
writer  has  added  a  few  more  relations,  and  illustrated 
the  whole  with  a  series  of  drawings  of  the  witches,  devils, 
imps,  incubi,  monsters,  &c.,  who  figure  among  the  dra- 
matis persona,  all  from  the  life,  and  striking  likenesses!] 

BANKERS,  1676.  — A  MS.  letter  of  February 
17,  1675-6,  says:  — 

"  A  great  misfortune  hath  lately  befallen  the  bankers ; 
•which  hath  straightened  all,  and  proved  very  fatal  to 
some." 

What  was  this  misfortune  ?  C.  H. 

[The  misfortune  was  the  extravagant  luxury  of  the 
court  of  Charles  II.  The  king  about  this  time  found 
himself  at  the  mercy  of  the  rich  goldsmith  or  banker, 
who  made  the  royal  debtor  pay  ten,  twenty,  and  thirty 
per  cent,  for  accommodation.  Even  for  defensive  war  the 
resources  of  the  nation  were  found  insufficient.  The 
country  was  in  danger ;  and  the  monied  portion  of  the 
community  seized  with  a  panic.  The  people  flocked  to 
their  debtors ;  they  demanded  their  deposits ;  and  Lon- 
don witnessed  the  first  run  upon  the  bankers.  Consult 
Macaulay's  History  of  England,  i.  216,  ed.  1856  ;  Francis's 
Hist,  of  the  Bank  of  England,  i.  32 ;  and  Thomas  Tumor's 
Case  of  the  Bankers  and  their  Creditors,  4to,  1675.] 

ZWINGLIF,  "  THE  YMAGE  OF  BOTIIE  PASTOURES." 
—  T.  should  be  greatly  obliged  if  any  of  your 
readers  can  help  me  to  the  discovery  of  the  follow- 
ing book.  I  copy  the  description  as  given  in 
Herbert's  Ames's  Typographical  Antiquities,  vol.  ii. 
p.  690 :  — 

" '  The  ymage  of  bothe  pastoures,  sette  forthe  by  that 
mooste  famouse  clerck,  Huldrych  Zwinglius,  and  now 
translated  out  of  Latin  into  Englishe  by  John  Vernon 
( Veron)  Sinonoys.  A  most  fruitefull  and  necessary  boke, 
to  be  had  and  redde  in  all  churches,  therwyth  to  enarme 
all  symple  and  ignorant  folkes,  agaynst  the  raueninge 
wolues  and  false  prophetes.'  At  the  end%  Of  the  metynge 
of  Mayster  John  Hooper,  byshop  of  Gloceter,  and  of 
mayster  doctoure  Cole,  quondam  chaunceler  of  London, 
and  now  wardeyn  of  the  new  college  in  Oxforde.'  In  8 
leaves.  Cum  priv.  solum.  Printed,  1550,  by  W.  Seres 
with  Kele,  octavo." 

HENRY  LEACH. 

11,  Somerset  Street,  Portman  Square. 

[A  copy  of  this  very  rare  tract,  quoted  -by  Master 
Prynne  in  his  Antipathic  to  Lordly  Prelacie,  p.  338-9,  was 
purchased  by  Mr.  Rodd  at  Bindley's  sale,  Aug.  7,  1820, 
for  16s.  who  resold  it  to  the  Bodleian  library.  (See  Bod. 
Cat.  vol.  iv.  p.  1024.)  Another  copy  turned  up  at  the 
sale  of  Inglis's  books  on  June  19,  1826,  which  was' pur- 
chased by  Arch  for  16s.] 

GALAS.  —  Can  you  refer  me  to  the  works  of 
Voltaire  in  which  he  animadverts  on  the  trial  and 
condemnation  of  Galas  ?  YERAC. 

[There  is  a*  separate  work  by  Voltaire  on  the  trial  of 
the  Calas,  entitled  Histoire  d'Elizabeth  Canning,  et  de 


Jean  Calas.  2.  Memoire  de  Donat  Galas  pour  son  Pere, 
sa  Mere  et  son  Frere.  3.  Declaration  de  Pierre  Calas. 
Avec  les  pieces  Originales,  concernant  la  mort  des  Sr?. 
Calas,  et  le  jugement  rendu  a  Toulouse.  Par  Mons.  de 
Voltaire.  A  Londres,  8vo,  1762.  See  also  The  History 
of  the  Misfortunes  of  John  Calls,  a  Victim  to  Fanaticism. 
To  which  is  added,  a  Letter  from  M.  Calas  to  his  Wife 
and  Children;  written  by  M.  de  Voltaire.  Lond.  8vo, 
1762,  1772.  Consult  also  "  N.  &  Q.,"  2n*  S.  i.  13,  123, 
179.] 

SIR  ROBERT  GODSCHALL.  —  In  Berry's  Ency- 
clopcedia  Heraldica  is  the  following  :  — 

"The  arms  of  Sir  Robert  Godschall,  Lord  Mayor  of 
London,  with  G.  Heathcote  in  1742,  are  azure  3  bends 
wavy,  argent." 

There  is  some  mistake  here,  for  Sir  G.  Heath- 
cote  died  in  1733.  I  wish  to  learn  what  year  Sir 
Robert  Godschall  was  Lord  Mayor,  when  was  he 
knighted,  who  was  he  the  son  of,  and  any  other 
particulars  about  him — his  marriage,  death,  and 
what  family  he  left,  &c.  ?  T.  F. 

Northiam. 

[On  a  black  marble  pyramid  on  the  north  wall  of  the 
chancel  of  Albury  church,  Surrey,  is  the  following  in- 
scription :  "  In  memory  of  the  Right  Honourable  Sir 
Robert  Godschall,  Knt.,  Lord  Mayor  of  the  City  of  Lon- 
don, and  late  of  Weston  House  in  this  parish,  whose 
natural  as  well  as  acquired  abilities  endeared  him  to  man- 
kind. He  was  unanimously  chosen  Alderman  of  the 
ward  of  Bishopsgate  in  the  year  1732 ;  served  the  office 
of  Sheriff  in  1736 ;  was  elected  a  Representative  in  Par- 
liament for  that  great  metropolis  1741 ;  and  in  the  same 
year  had  the  chief  magistracjT  of  that  city  conferred  upon 
him ;  under  the  fatigues  of  which  honourable  trusts, 
supported  by  the  hopes  of  a  joyful  resurrection,  and  rely- 
ing on  the  merits  of  his  dying  Saviour,  he  departed  this 
life  June  26,  1742,  set.  fifty."  Above  are  his  arms,  with 
a  crescent,  impaling  Azure,  a  fess  embattled  Or,  between 
six  stars  of  the  same.  Below  is  a  civic  crown,  with  the 
sword  and  mace.  He  was  knighted  Oct.  31,  1735.  At 
his  death  the  estate  at  Weston  came  to  his  only  brother, 
Nicholas  Godschall,  Esq.,  who  died  May  21,  1748;  for 
a  notice  of  whose  descendants,  see  Manning  and  Bray's 
Surrey,  ii.  127,  130 ;  iii.  309.] 

SAMARIA  (2nd  S.  xii.  328.)  —One  of  the  pas- 
sages referred  to  in  your  answer  to  LUMEN  (1 
Kings,  xiii.  32)  raises  what  appears  to  me  to  be 
a  question  of  some  difficulty. 

The  old  Prophet  of  Bethel  is  there  described 
as  speaking  of  the  Cities  of  Samaria.  But  in  a 
subsequent  chapter  of  the  same  book  (xvi.  23) 
we  learn  that  Samaria  itself  was  not  founded  till 
some  years  afterwards  by  Omri.  How,  then,  came 
the  cities  of  the  ten  tribes  to  be  called  the  Cities 
of  Samaria  in  the  time  of  Jeroboam  ?  MEMOR. 

[Scott  seems  disposed  to  explain  this  apparent  diffi- 
culty by  suggesting  that  the  Sacred  Historian  (writing 
after  the  city  of  Samaria  was  built),  calls  the  neighbour- 
ing cities  "cities  of  Samaria"  by  anticipation.  It  will 
be  observed,  however,  that  the  words  1  Kings  xiii.  32, 
are  spoken  by  the  "  Old  Prophet,"  who  is  speaking  of 
a  judgment  not  to  be  accomplished  till  a  subsequent 
period.  Possibly,  therefore,  he  may  be  understood  to  de- 
scribe the  cities  prophetically,  or  as  what  they  were 
when  the  judgment  was  executed,  "cities  of  Samaria,"] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[8'*  S.  I.  FEB.  22,  '62. 


QUOTATION.  —  Who  is  the  author  of  this  dis- 
tich :  — 
«  Hypocrisy !  the  only  evil  which  remains  invisible 

With  all  but  God"? 

CMFTON. 

[Is  our  correspondent  thinking  of  the  following  lines 
by  Milton?  — 
"  For  neither  man  nor  angel  can  discern 

Hypocrisy,  the  only  evil  that  walks 

Invisible,"  except  to  God  alone, 

By  his  permissive  will,  through  heaven  and  earth." 
Paradise  Lost,  b.  in.  lines  682-5.] 


STARACHTER  AND  MURDOCH. 
(2nd  S.  xi.  12.) 

"  Starachter"  is  a  slip  of  the  pen  for  Starchater, 
one  of  the  Scandinavian  giants,  whose  deeds  are  re- 
corded by  Olaus  Magnus,  and  probably  by  "  Wor- 
mius  ap.  T.  Hearne,"  though  I  have  not  been  able 
to  verify  the  reference.  I  cannot  find  in  the 
British  Museum  a  copy  of  Olaus  Magnus.  There 
is  a  German  translation,  with  some  curious  plates, 
Olai  Magni,  Historien  der  Mittnachligen  Lander, 
fol.,  Basil,  1567,  which  says  :  — 

"  Das  er  auch  den  vergeblichen  iiberfluss  der  Dann- 
marcker  absthete,  und  sie  durch  solche  wollust  nicht 
weich  und  weibisch  warden,  dichtet  er  etliche  Lieder,  da- 
rinnen  die  edel  tugend  der  Mlissigkeit  hoch  geprezen 
wirt,  und  wie  den  Menschen  so  voll  austehe  das  sie  von 
alle  iiberfluss  essens  und  trinkens,  kleidung  auch  anderer 
ding  sich  hiiten,  durch  welche  der  Leib  zu  Starkheit  ge- 
zogen,  und  ganz  untauglich  (wie  Cicero  sagt)  zu  allem 
ampt  der  Tugend  und  giiter  leer  geniacht  wirt."  —  L.  v. 
c.  ii.  p.  cxxxv. 

For  want  of  the  original,  I  quote  the  abridg- 
ment :  — 

"  Profusam  dapum  indulgentiam  aspernatus,  fumidoque 
ac  rancido  cibo  usus,  famem  eo  sapidius,  quo  simplicius 
pepulit,  ne  veraj  virtutis  nervos  externarum  deliciarum 
contagione,  tanquain  adulterine  quodam  dulcore  remit- 
teret,  aut  priscui  frugalitatis  normam  inusitatis  gul^e 
superstitionibus  abrogaret.  Cseterum  indignanter  ferebat, 
assara  dapem,  eandemque  elixara,  unius  ccense  sumptibus 
erogari :  edulium  pro  monstro  accipiens,  quod  culinre 
ardoribus  delibutum,  fartoris  industria  multiplicis  tem- 
peraraenti  varietate  perfricuit.  Igitur  ut  Danicum  luxum, 

Botonum  ntu,  undeeffceminati  fierent,  introductumaver- 
teret,  inter  alia,  patrio  carmine,  multis  omissis,  sic  ce- 

"  STARCHATEUI  CARMEX  DE   FRUGALITATE. 

"  Fortium  crudus  cibus  est  virorum, 
Nee  reor  lautis  opus  esse  mensis, 
Mens  quibus  belli  meditatur  usum 

Pectore  forti. 

"  Aptius  barbam  poteris  rigentem, 
Mordicus  presso  lacerare  dente, 
Quam  vorax  lactis  vacuare  sinum, 

Ore  capaci. 

"  Fugimus  lautae  vitium  popinse, 
Rancidis  ventrem  dapibus  foventes, 
Coctiles  paucis  placuere  succi, 

Tempore  prisco.- 


"  Lacteum  qui  tune  adipem  liguris, 
Induas  mentem  petimus  virilem,"  etc. 

p.  164. 
Olai  Magni  Gentium  Septentrionalium  Historic 

Breviarium,  Ludg.  Bat.,  164  >,  18mo,  pp.  589. 
These  are  about  a  third  of  the  "  rules  of  diet,'* 
and  enough  to  justify  Woty's  opinion  as  to  the 
cookery  and  versification.  As  they  are  trans- 
lated from  "  patrio  carmine,"  I  shall  be  glad  to  see 
the  original,  if  it  is  preserved. 

I  am  not  able  to  answer  the  Query  as  to  Mur- 
doch. Many  years  ago  an  account  appeared  in  a 
magazine  of  a  foul-feeding  clergyman,  pedestrian, 
and  polemic,  in  the  time  of  Charles  II.,  whose 
theological  adversary  was  Dr.  Dambrod.  I  doubt 
whether  the  name  was  Murdoch.  He  was  repre- 
sented as  orthodox  ;  and  a  complimentary  epigram 
was  quoted  which,  as  nearly  as  my  memory  serves 
me,  ran  :  — 

"  In  Holy  Writ  to  know  we're  given, 
That  narrow  is  the  way  to  Heaven  : 
Sage  « Murdoch '  (  ?)  takes  the  converse  road, 
And  shows  the  way  to  Hell,  Dambrod." 
Perhaps  this  imperfect  recollection  may  direct 
some  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  to  the_article. 

FlTZHOPKINS. 

Garrick  Club. 


LADY  VANE. 
(2nd  S.  xi.  289.) 

Lady  Vane  (wife  of  Viscount  Vane  of  the  king- 
dom of  Ireland)  was  a  gay  and  beautiful  woman, 
who  despised  her  husband.  She  is  the  "  lady  of 
quality"  whose  memoirs  are  introduced  by  Smol- 
lett, in  his  Peregrine  Pickle ;  but  that  portion  of 
the  novel  is  said  to  have  been  written  by  Sheb- 
beare,  who  received  1000Z.  from  the  lady  for  de- 
faming her  husband. 

In  an  old  copy  of  Peregrine  Pickle  which  I 
once  possessed,  some  one  had  pasted  a  cutting 
from  a  newspaper  of  the  day  ;  being  an  advertise- 
ment inserted  by  Lord  Vane  for  the  purpose  of 
recovering  his  wife,  who  had  run  away  from  him. 
In  it  the  lady's  personal  appearance  is  minutely 
described,  and  she  seems  to  have  been  really 
beautiful,  notwithstanding  that  "  one  of  her  front 
teeth  projected  a  good  deal  beyond  the  others." 
Can  any  correspondent  of  "  N.  &  Q."  give  me  a 
copy  of  the  advertisement. 

Lady  Vane  brought  her  husband  no  issue,  con- 
sequently the  Irish  title  became  extinct.  She 
was  daughter  and  sole  heiress  of  Francis  Hawes, 
Esq.,  of  Purley  Bottom,  Berks.  Lord  Oxford,  in 
his  Memoranda  of  the  Peerage*,  speaks  of  both 
husband  and  wife  in  opprobrious  terms. 

She  must  not  be  confounded  with  Miss  Vane, 
mistress  to  Frederic,  Prince  of  Wales,  and  after- 
wards to  Lord  Harvey.  That  lady  was  a  mem- 
ber by  birth  of  the  Vane  family,  ajid  was  the 

*  Notes  and  Queries,  2nd  S.  L  326. 


3'd  S.  I.  FEB.  22,  '62.] 


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153 


person  celebrated  by  Dr.  Johnson  in  his  Vanity 
of  Human  Wishes  :  — 

"  The  teeming  mother,  anxious  for  her  race,"  &c. 
Lord  Monboddo   objected    to  both  Vane  and 
Sedley,  as  not  being  beauties,  and  proposed   to 
substitute  for  them  Shore  and  Valliere.     But   I 
am  wandering  from  my  proper  subject. 

Lady  Vane  is  thus  alluded  to  by  Earl  Nugent, 
when  he  is  speaking  of  Isabella,  Duchess  of 
Manchester :  — 

"Yet  she's  as  gay  as  Lady  Vane, 
"Who,  should  she  list  her  amorous  train, 

Might  fairly  man  a  fleet. 
Sprightly  as  Orford's  Countess  she, 
And  as  the  wanton  Townshend  free, 
And  —  more  than  both  —  discreet." 

N.  F.  H.for  Wit,  vol.  iii.  p.  48,  1784. 
W.D. 


INTERDICTED  MARRIAGES. 
(2nd  S.  xii.  69.) 

In  1653  and  1654  the  laws  relating  to  marriage 
were  in  a  very  unsettled  state,  and  Puritan  mis- 
rule prevailed,  not  only  in  that  matter,  but  in 
many  others.  It  was  less  a  question  with  many 
in  authority  whether  "  existing  laws"  justified 
their  proceedings,  than  whether  they  seemed  right 
in  their  own  eyes.  It  is  not  perhaps  generally 
known  that  many  marriages  took  place  under  the 
Act  passed  in  the  Barebones  Parliament,  which 
may  perhaps  have  sanctioned  some  such  arbitrary 
proceedings  as  those  referred  to  by  ME.  PISHEY 
THOMPSON. 

The  Parish  Register  of  St.  Giles,  Camberwell, 
Surrey,  records  no  fewer  than  fourteen,  celebrated, 
not  by  a  clergyman,  but  before  a  magistrate,  sit- 
ting authoritatively  in  the  "  Public  Meeting  Place 
of  the  parish,  commonly  called  the  Church^'of  the 
said  parish,"  and  attesting  the  ceremony  "  after 
the  Puritan  way,  and  the  laudable  '  custom  of 
Holland." 

The  officiating  magistrate,  in  some  of  these 
instances,  was  Mr.  Samuel  Moyer,  one  of  the 
honourable  members  for  London,  and  the  zealous 
colleague  of  Mr.  Leatherseller  Barebones  in  the 
short-lived  Parliament  that  bore  his  name. 

The  connexion  of  Mover  with  the  strange 
doings  of  his  day  has  given  him  more  than  a  local 
celebrity.  He  was  not  only  one  of  the  "  persons 
fearing  God,  and  of  approved  fidelity  and  honesty" 
selected  by  Cromwell  to  carry  out  his  designs, 
but  a  leading  man  amongst  them.  Had  its  ex- 
ecutive ability  equalled  its  intentions,  the  Parlia- 
ment would  have  earned  a  name  the  world  would 
have  taken  care  of.  It  was  to  abolish  tithes  ;  to 
amend  the  law  ;  to  improve  prison  discipline  ;  to 
devise  and  practice  the  most  thorough  retrench- 
ment and  economy  in  public  affairs ;  to  settle 
Ireland  and  Scotland;  to  advance  trade  and 


learning ;  to  remove  all  civil  and  religious  disa- 
bilities ;  to  "  take  away,"  like  a  naughty  child, 
the  Court  of  Chancery ;  and  to  consider,  with  a 
view  to  getting  rid  of,  every  thing  that  hindered 
the  progress  of  the  Gospel ! 

In  fourteen  months  it  was  to  do  this ;  but  in 
six,  it  came  to  an  inglorious  end,  having,  as  the 
sum  total  of  its  practical  labours,  "  considered  a 
way  for  marriages  ; "  debated  the  question  on  the 
7th  of  August,  1653  ;  passed  it  on  the  16th  ;  and, 
apparently  forgetting  what  had  been  done,  agreed 
on  the  20th  that  it  should  become  law. 

But  we  have  not  yet  done  with  Mr.  Moyer. 
When  this  Parliament  of  Incapables  broke  up, 
some  "  thirty  odd  "  determined  to  die  hard  ;  and 
although  forty  had  been  declared  a  House  by 
Cromwell,  refused  to  move  off.  In  resolute  de- 
termination not  to  go  home  till  morning,  they 
voted  Moyer  to  the  chair,  and  broke  out  into  a 
volley  of  protests.  The  climax  is  well-known, 
and  poor  Moyer,  in  the  cold  twilight  of  a  De- 
cember morning,  repaired  doggedly  to  a  home 
shorn  of  all  the  usual  genialities  of  the  season, 
doubting  probably  for  the  first  time  his  "clear 
call "  to  take  a  "  part  in  the  supreme  authority  of 
the  Commonwealth."  DOUGLAS  ALLPOBTV 


JUDGE  PAGE. 
(3rdS.U3.) 

A  friend  having  lent  me  No.  1  of  your  New- 
Series,  I  beg  to  add  some  particulars  respecting 
Sir  Francis  Page  (the  hanging  judge).  He  was 
the  son  of  the  Rev.  Nicholas  Page,  Vicar  of  Blox- 
ham,  admitted  of  the  Inner  Temple  June  12, 
1685  ;  called  to  the  Bar,  June  2,  1690.  In  1708 
he  was  returned  M.P.  for  Huntingdon  with  Ed- 
ward Wortley  alias  Montague;  and  again  in  1720 
with  the  same  colleague.  The  dates  of  his  judicial 
promotions,  given  in  p.  14,  are  correct.  His  first 
wife,  whose  name  I  have  not  discovered,  was 
buried  at  Bloxham.  His  second  wife,  many  years 
his  junior,  Frances,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas 
Wheale,  of  Glympton,  Baronet,  also  predeceased 
him,  and  was  buried  in  Steeple  Aston  church, 
Oxfordshire  (not  North  Aston  as  stated),  in  a 
vault  beneath  a  chantry  on  the  north  side  of  the 
true  chancel.  Page  purchased  an  estate  at  Mid- 
dle Aston,  part  of  the  parish  of  Steeple  Aston, 
and  built  or  greatly  enlarged  a  mansion  there. 
It  was  his  ambition  to  found  a  family,  but  he  re- 
mained childless  in  both  his  marriages.  Upon  the 
death  of  his  second  wife,  in  1731,  he  took  posses- 
sion of  the  chantry  chapel ;  broke  up  ancient 
alabaster  monuments,  blocked  up  two  arches,  and 
erected  a  huge  monument  by  Scheemacker,  which 
is  still  in  good  preservation  :  it  consists  of  a  full- 
size  figure  of  himself,  judicially  habited,  reclining 
like  a  Roman  of  the  time  of  Augustus  at  a  ban- 


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quet;  and  another  of  his  second  wife,  habited 
like  an  Athenian  matron  of  the  time  of  Peficles  ; 
both  under  a  lofty  canopy  supported  by  a  pair  of 
Corinthian  columns.  Both  effigies  are  portraits ; 
Page's  being  verified  with  an  engraven  portrait  of 
him  when  he  was  a  Baron  of  the  Exchequer, 
which  I  found  in  a  farmhouse,  and  gave  in  1856 
to  the  County  Hall  at  Oxford.  He  died  Oct.  31, 
1741  (not  Dec.  18),  at  Middle  Aston;  and^I 
gather  the  following  particulars  from  a  decree  in 
Chancery,  made  by  Lord  Chancellor  Hardwick, 
July  2,  1750,  which  recites  that  a  suit  was  com- 
menced in  1744  between  Isabella  Bourne,  Francis 
Page,  late  Francis  Bourne,  and  others,  plaintiffs, 
and  Kichard  Bourne  and  several  others,  including 
Sir  Thomas  Wheale,  defendants.  It  appears  that 
Page  executed  deeds  in  August,  1740,  stipulating 
that  Francis  Bourne  should,  as  a  condition  to 
taking  the  estates  at  Middle  Aston  as  Page's  heir,  be 
in  future  known  and  called  as  Francis  Page  only; 
and  on  July  4,  1741,  he  made  a  will  to  the  same 
effect,  when  the  defendants  averred  his  mind  was 
not  in  a  testamentary  state.  This  wae,  however, 
negatived  by  the  evidence  on  the  part  of  the 
plaintiffs.  Francis  Page,  ne  Bourne,  became  M.P. 
for  the  University  of  Oxford,  and  lived  into  the 
present  century  ;  but  he  died  unmarried,  and  the 
estates  have  long  since  passed  to  possessors  by 
purchase.  Judge  Page  left  a  large  personal  estate, 
which  was  nearly  absorbed  by  the  tedious^  and 
costly  Chancery  suit. 

Though  vilified  by  his  contemporaries,  Page's 
adherence  to  the  cause  of  common  sense/  hu- 
manity, and  justice  in  1720,  in  the  case  of  Mr. 
Radcliffe,  son  of  the  unfortunate  and  executed 
James,  Earl  of  Dervventwater,  entitles  him  to 
respect.  ^  (See  Strange' s  Reports,  vol.  i.  p.  268.) 
A  tradition  still  remains  at  Middle  Aston  that  he 
was  heavily  bribed  on  the  occasion.  In  1722  Sir 
John  Cope,  Bart.,  M.P.,  charged  Baron  Page  in 
the  House  of  Commons  with  attempting  to  bribe 
the  electors  of  Banbury  to  secure  the  'return  of 
Sir  W.  Codrington.  Page  escaped  censure  by  a 
narrow  majority,  128  to  124.  In  1729  he  tried 
Huggins  and  Bainbridge  for  cruelty  and  murder, 
committed  by  them  as  Wardens  of  the  Fleet. 

All  the  mischief  he  did  to  our  fine  old  church 
was  rectified,  as  far  as  practicable,  in  1842. 

WILLIAM  WING, 
Churchwarden  of  Steeple  Aston. 


DEFLECTION  OF  CHANCELS. 
(2nd  S.  xi.  412.) 

ME  WILLIAMS  appears  to  have  dealt  with  the 
bymboltsm  Theory  in  a  very  summary  manner.  I 
have  been  looking  for  an  answer  to  his  commu- 
nication, but  none  has  appeared ;  and  I  conceive 


that  the  question  may  now  be  considered  to  be 
completely  set  at  rest. 

In  suggesting  that  in  the  mind  of  the  builder 
the  deflection  might  be  a  question  of  architectural 
perspective,  MR.  WILLIAMS  has  hit  upon  precisely 
the  same  idea  as  I  had  in  my  mind  when  I  sug- 
gested that  it  might  perhaps  have  been  adopted 
on  aesthetic  grounds.  I  think  there  can  be  no 
doubt  that  one  effect  of  the  deflection  is  that  it 
tends  to  increase  the  apparent  length  of  the  in- 
terior, in  the  manner  pointed  out  by  MR.  WIL- 
LIAMS ;  but  in  order  that  this  effect  should  be 
produced  to  its  full  extent,  it  is  essential  that 
there  should  be  a  screen  or  rood-loft.  The  eye 
being  then  directed  towards  the  altered  lines  of 
the  upper  part  of  the  building,  an  idea  of  indefinite 
space  is  produced ;  but  if  the  screen  is  removed, 
and  the  columns  disclosed  down  to  the  very  pave- 
ment, every  thing  at  once  becomes  definite,  and 
the  building  is  reduced  to  the  actual  dimensions 
of  the  stone-work.  In  this  state  of  things,  the 
deflection  —  if  perceived  at  all  —  is  set  down  as 
an  architectural  defect. 

Another  effect  that  I  conceive  to  be  produced 
by  the  deflection  is,  that  there  are  more  points  of 
view  from  which  the  interior  looks  well.  I  was 
much  struck  with  this  on  examining  the  church  of 
St.  Germain- des-Pres  at  Paris.  In  this  respect  I 
can  readily  imagine  that  the  idea  of  the  architect 
may  have  been  (as  suggested  by  MR.  WILLIAMS) 
that  a  slight  deviation  from  regularity  adds  to 
beauty. 

It  is  very  remarkable  in  how  many  instances 
we  find  a  deviation  from  regularity,  where  we 
should  little  expect  it.  Where  can  we  look  for  a 
rigid  adherence  to  formality,  if  not  in  the  archi- 
tecture of  the  ancient  Egyptians  ?  and  yet  in  the 
palace  at  Luxor  not  only  is  there  a  considerable 
angle  in  the  direction  of  the  axis  of  the  building, 
but  the  angles  of ; the  court-yards  are  hardly  ever 
right  angles,  and  the  pillars  are  variously  spaced. 
(Fergusson's  Handbook  of  Architecture,  vol.  i.  p. 
234.)  And  in  the  temple  on  the  Island  of  Philse 
no  two  buildings,  scarcely  any  two  walls,  are  on 
the  same  axis,  or  parallel  to  one  another.  (Fergus- 
son,  vol.  i.  p.  239.)  Nor  are  these  solitary  instances  : 
they  are  pointed  out  as  examples  of  how  regard- 
less the  Egyptians  were  of  regularity  and  symme- 
try in  their  plans.  How  are  these  irregularities 
to  be  accounted  for?  Are  we  to  imagine  that 
they  symbolize  some  irregularity  of  Egyptian 
worship  ?  Or  shall  we  be  called  on  to  believe  that 
the  Egyptian  builders  were  cramped  for  room  ? 
or  that  they  did  not  know  how  to  build  straight  ? 
In  speaking  of  Luxor,  Fergusson  observes  that 
pains  seem  to  have  been  taken  to  make  it  as  irre- 
gular as  possible,  and  when  he  comes  to  the  tem- 
ple on  the  Island  of  Philae,  he  says  :  — 

"No  gothic  architect,  in  his  wildest  moment,  ever 
played  so  freely  with  his  lines  or  dimensions,  and  none;— . 


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it  must  be  added  —  ever  produced  anything  so  beauti- 
fully picturesque." 

In  both  of  these  passages  the  writer  appears  to 
look  upon  the  irregularity  of  plan  as  forming  part 
of  the  deliberate  design  of  the  architect,  and  in 
the  latter  he  bears  the  most  direct  testimony  to 
the  effect  produced  by  it.  P.  S.  CAREY. 


OEDER  OF  MERIT  (3rd  S.  i.  87,  '  113).  —  As 
suggested,  the  pages  of  "  N.  &  Q."  are  not  the 
proper  place  for  the  discussion.  But  one  word 
may  be  permitted  to  those  who  think  that  no  such 
thing  should  be  instituted  without  a  very  com- 
plete discussion,  and  who  do  not  feel  sure  that  a 
complete  discussion  would  aid  in  approbation  of 
the  scheme.  To  say  more  would  be  discussion. 

M. 

STANDGATE  HOLE  (3rd  S.  i.  13),  was  situated 
in  Lambeth  parish,  Surrey  side  of  Westminster 
Bridge,  near  the  site  of  Astley's  Theatre,  between 
that  spot  and  Lambeth  Palace,  'and  about  a  cen- 
tury ago  was  in  very  ill  repute.  The  entire 
neighbourhood  was  an  extensive  marsh,  and  a 
part  of  it  is  still  known  as  Lambeth  Marsh.  The 
Marsh  Gate  is  also  existing.  In  this  vicinity  lived 
the  Tradescants,  father  and  son,  and  there  formed 
their  Museum  of  Curiosities,  afterwards  purchased 
by  Elias  Ashmole. 

This  is  given  from  memory,  the  failing  memory 
of  an  aged  man  ;  but  I  think  the  heads  of  it  may 
be  found  in  Pennant's  London,  to  which  however 
I  have  not  at  present  the  means  of  referring. 

J.  BANISTER. 

Charterhouse. 

N.B.  I  believe  there  is  a  street,  near  Astley's 
Theatre,  still  called  Standgate,  or  Stangate  Street, 
without  the  d. 

I  am  not  acquainted  with  the  neighbourhood 
of  London  ;  but  know  that  there  is  a  place  called 
Stangate  Hole,  which  answers  to  your  correspon- 
dent's description,  in  Huntingdonshire.  It  is  on 
the  great  North  Road,  near  Alconbury  Hill.  The 
road  there  is  identical  with  the  old  Ermine  Street ; 
which  fact  justifies  the  liberty  I  have  taken  in 
striking  out  the  letter  d  from  the  name.  The 
spot  was  admirably  adapted  to  the  occupation 
which  has  made  it  notorious.  It  was  (for  both 
the  Hill  and  the  Hole  have  under  modern  im- 
provements lost  some  of  their  distinctive  features) 
a  short,  sharp  dip,  or  depression,  in  the  road  just 
above  Alconbury  Hill;  narrowed  at  the  bottom 
by  a  bridge  over  a  small  stream,  with  extensive 
woods  at  the  distance  of  a  field  or  two  on  either 
side,  and  sufficiently  far  away  from  any  babitation. 
It  has^even  now  a  dreary  appearance.  Hunting- 
donshire wit  has  employed  itself  on  it  in  a  sup- 
posed explanation  of  the  wonders  of  the  North  to 
a  traveller  from  the  South  :  "  That  Hill,"  so  tradi- 


tion reports  the  saying,  "  is  Stangate  Hole  ;  that 
lake  is  Whittlesey  Mere ;  that  church  is  Sawtrey 
chapel."  The  Hole  and  the  Mere  have  disap- 
peared, but  the  church  or  chapel  remains.  If 
your  correspondent  S.  has  any  information  re- 
specting the  doings  at  Stangate  Hole  in  the  last 
century,  I  shall  be  very  glad  if  he  will  communi- 
cate it,  or  give  any  references  where  it  may  be 
found.  .  H.  FREEMAN. 

Norman  Cross,  Stilton. 

FRIDAYS,  SAINTS'  DAYS,  AND  FAST  DAYS  (3rd  S. 
i.  115.)— With  regard  to  the  question  in  "  N.  & 
Q."  about  Saints'  Days  falling  on  Fridays,  I  ap- 
prehend the  only  definite  answer  that  can  be 
given  is  to  be  drawn  from  the  written  law  of  the 
Church.  A  "logical  argument,"  as  your  corre- 
spondent seems  to  mean,  may  be  overruled  by 
desuetude ;  and  'usage  in  this  case  is  very  inde- 
terminate. But  the  law  of  the  Church  is  quite 
clear.  (See  the  Introduction  to  the  Prayer- 
Book.)  It  is,  that  "  All  Fridays  in  the  year  are 
Fast  Days,  except  Christmas  Day"  LYTTELTON. 

Your  correspondent  J.  F.  S.  is  wrong  in  sup- 
posing that  when  a  Friday  happens  to  be  a  Saint's 
Day,  it  is  not  observed  as  a  fast.  If  he  will  ex- 
amine the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  he  will  find 
that  all  the  Fridays  in  the  year  are  to  be  observed 
as  fasts,  with  the  exception  of  Christmas  Day. 

H.  J.  T. 

Birmingham. 

KING  PLAYS  (2nd  S.  xii.  210,  235,  354,  503, 524.) 
—  In  support  of  MR.  KELLY'S  statement  at  p.  504 
of  your  last  volume,  that  "  the  King  Game  or 
Play,  was  frequently  performed  in  churches,"  I 
send  you  a  copy  of  an  entry  in  the  churchwardens* 
accounts  of  "The  Holy  Trinity,  Guildford,"  for 
the  year  1555. 

"  1  £  2  Ph.  8f  Mary. 

Item  received  of  the  Sommer  Lord,  for  the 
bread  and  drinke  left  at  the  kynge  game  .     iiij»  xd." 

Does  not  the  term  "  Sommer  Lord  "  have  refer- 
ence here  to  Robin  Hood  as  king  of  the  May  ? 
and  does  it  not,  by  inference,  sustain  the  sugges- 
tion of  your  correspondent,  that  the  designation 
of  King  Play,  or  King  Game,  was  applied  to  more 
than  one  kind  of  entertainment  ? 

D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

SIR  HENRY  LANGFORD  (3rd  S.  i.  12.)  —  Sir 
Henry  was  buried  in  a  vault  beneath  the  Commu- 
nion-table in  Kings  Kerswell  church.  His  arms 
were,  Paly  of  six  or  and  gules,  on  a  chief  of  the 
first,  a  lion  passant  gardant  of  the  second. 

It  may  assist  G.  A.  A.  to  know  that  Sir  Henry 
Langford  was  possessed  (by  purchase,  I  believe) 
in  1710  of  the  manor  of  Kings  Kerswell,  and^at 
his  death  bequeathed  the  estate  to  his  relative 
Thomas  Brown,  Esq.,  -whose  great-grandson, 


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[3'd  S.  I.  FEB.  22,  '62. 


Henry  Langford  Brown,  Esq.,  is  the  present 
owner,  and  resides  at  Barton  Hall,  in  that  parish. 
Probably  (if  the  inquiry  is  for  an  historical  pur- 
pose) this  gentleman  would  give  G.  A.  A.  the  in- 
formation he  requires.  JOHN  TUCKETT. 

Great  Russell  Street. 

DOCTOR  or  MEDICINE  (3rd  S.  i.  134.)  — Your 
able  correspondent,  J.  R.,  says,  "  By  what  autho- 
rity the  College  of  Physicians  are  empowered  to 
grant  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  to  their 
licentiates,  unless  by  their  charter  of  incorporation, 
I  cannot  say."  The  College  of  Physicians  cannot 
give  the  degree  of  M.D.  They  can  make  licentiates 
in  physic,  but  not  with  the  title  of  M.D. ;  that 
must  be  obtained  at  Oxford,  Cambridge,  Edin- 
burgh, or  Glasgow,  by  keeping  terms,  and  a  re- 
gular medical  course  of  study.  The  most  the 
College  of  Physicians  can  do,  is  to  say  to  their 
licentiates,  if  you  assume  the  title,  we  shall  not 
lake  any  adverse  notice  of  it,  or  oppose  you,  but 
no  degree  can  we  give  you.  It  is  a  compromise. 

F.  Y. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF  ALCHYMY  AND  MYSTICISM 
(3rd  S.  i.  89.)  —  The  principal  French  works  on 
this  subject  are  — 

1.  Histoire  de  la  Philosophic  Hermetique,  par  Leug- 
let  Dnfresnov.     Paris,  1742. 

2.  Schmeider,  Histoire  de  I'Alchimie.    Halle,  1832. 

3.  Figuier,  L'Achimie  et  les  Alchimistes.   Paris,  1834. 

4.  Dictionnaire  de  Mystique    Chrctienne,  par  PAbbe 
Migne.    Montrouge,  1858. 

S.  GAUTIIIOTZ. 

MARY  WOFFINGTON  (3ra  S.  i.  38.)  — That  the 
parents  of  this  lady  (the  Hon.  Mrs.  Cholmondeley) 
were  in  a  very  humble  position,  is  undoubtedly 
true.  According  to  Gait,  the  father,  John  Wof- 
fington,  was  a  journeyman  bricklayer,  and  resided 
in  George  Lane,  Dame  Street,  Dublin. 

At  his  death,  the  widow,  in  the  words  of  the 
same  authority,  "  saw  no  choice  but  to  become  a 
washerwoman,  —  an  avocation  which  "  (it  is  satis- 
factory to  learn)  "  her  health  and  vigour  enabled 
her  to  undertake  properly."— Lives  of  the  Planers. 
vol.  i.  p.  220. 

From  this  state  of  poverty  the  family  was  raised 
by  the  success  of  the  celebrated  Peg  Woffington, 
in  her  theatrical  career,  which  commenced  as 

1  oily  "  in  the  Beggars'  Opera  at  a  show  booth 
in  Dame  Street,  kept  by  Mademoiselle  Violante. 

Gait  further  says  that  she  allowed  her  mother 
20/.  a-year,  which  she  afterwards  augmented  to 
3  Keefe  mentions  having  seen  Peg  perform. 
"  Alicia  "  in  Jane  Shore  in  1755,  and  continues  : 

"  I  remember  some  years  afterwards  seeing  her  mother, 
Whom  she  comfortably  supported ;  a  respectable-looking 
old  lady,  in  her  short  black  velvet  cloak,  with  deep  rich 
nnge,  a  diamond  ring,  and  small  agate  snuff  box.  She 
had  nothing  to  mind  but  going  the  rounds  of  the  Catholic 
chapels  and  chatting  with  her  neighbours.  Mrs.  Wof- 
fington, the  actress,  built  and  endowed  a  number  of 
almhouses  at  Teddington,  Middlesex,  and  there  they  are 


to  this  day.  She  is  buried  in  the  church ;  her  name  on 
her  tombstone."  —  Recollections  of  John  &  Keefe,  vol.  i. 
p.  30. 

As  a  further  reference  for  particulars  relating 
to  this  actress,  I  may  mention  Genest's  History  of 
the  Stage,  vol. .  iv.  p.  497,  and  vol.  x.  307 ;  and 
Davies'  Life  of  Garrick,  vol.  i.  305—312.  The 
former  has  extracts  from  several  books  in  which 
notices  of  her  occur.  CHARLES  WTLIB. 

STARCH  (3rd  S.  i.  90.)  —  Starch  appears  to  have 
been  introduced   at  the   commencement  of  the 
reign  of  Elizabeth,  when  the  wearing  of  lawn  and 
cambric  ruffs  came  into  fashion,  these  becoming 
articles  of  attire  having  been  previously  made  of 
fine  Holland,  and  therefore  requiring  no  com- 
pound to  stiffen  them.     It  is  recorded,  that  when 
the  queen  "  had  ruffs  made  thereof  (lawn  and 
cambric)  for  her  own  princely  wearing,  there  was 
none  in  England  could  tell  how  to  starch  them ; 
but  the  queen  made  special  means  for  some  women 
that  could  starch ; "  and  Mrs.  Guilham,  wife  of 
!  the  royal  coachman,  was  the  first   starcher.     In 
|  the  year  1564,  Frow  Vander  Plasse  condescended 
i  to  leave  her  native  marshes  in  Flanders,  and  set- 
!  tied  in  London,  where  she  gave  lessons  in  the 
j  gentle  art  of  clear  starching  at  the  moderate  price 
!  of  five  pounds  per  lesson,  with  an  additional  fee 
j  of  twenty  shillings  for  instruction  in  the  mystery 
i  of  converting  the  "  wheat- flour,  bran,  and  some- 
'  times  roots  "  into  "  that  liquid  matter  which  they 
I  call  starch."  (Stubbes.} 

This  article  was  made  of  all  hues  ;  in  the  reign 
of  James  I.,  yellow  was  the  fashionable  colour, 
and  we,  or  rather  our  ancestors,  were  indebted  to 
the  notorious  Mrs.  Turner,  said  to  be  the  widow 
of  a  physician,  the  willing  tool  of  that  infamous 
clique  who  poisoned  Sir  Thomas  Overbury  in  the 
Tower,  for  the  introduction  from  France  of  that 
graceful  tincture ;  and  she  it  was,  who  was  at 
once  its  alpha  and  omega  ;  for  its  becoming  known 
to^the  world  of  fashion,  that  she  was  executed  in 
a  "  yellow  starched  tiffiny  ruff  and  cuff,"  that  ab- 
solute monarch  decreed  that  his  subjects  should  no 
more  be  clad  in  so  infamous  a  hue,  and  "  yellow 
starch  and  wheeeled  fardingales  were  cried 
down."  (Killegrew,  1615.) 

See  Pulleyn's  Etymological  Compendium,  Timbs's 
Curiosities  of  History ',  Planche's  British  Costume, 
&c.  &c.  H.  S.  G. 

SIR  FRANCIS  BRYAN  (3rd  S.  i.  110.)  — The  fol- 
lowing notices  of  this  accomplished  courtier  are 
from  Sir  Harris  Nicolas's  notes  to  thQ  Privy  Purse 
Expenses  of  King  Henry  the  Eighth  :  — 

"  Many  of  the  entries  respecting  Sir  Francis  Bryan, 
one  of  the  brightest  ornaments  of  Henry's  court,  tend  to 
confirm  the  idea  of  the  intimacy  between  him  and  his 
sovereign.  They  show  that  he  was  constantly  the  king's 
companion  in  his  amusements  at  shovelboard,  bowls, 
dice,  primero,  and  other  games ;  and  on  one  occasion  we 
find  50/.  was  given  to  his  servant  as  *a  token  from  the 
king  to  him,'  an  expression  which  no  where  else  occurs, 


S.  I.  FEB.  22, '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


157 


and  which,  it  would  seem,  was  a  delicate  manner  of 
making  him  a  pecuniar}'  present.  He  was  the  only  son 
of  Sir  Thomns  Bryan,  who  died  in  1517,  and  was  one  of 
Henry  the  Eighth's  Gentlemen  of  the  Bedchamber. 
Bryan  was  the  author  of  sonnets  which  are  inserted 
amongst  those  of  the  Earl  of  Surrey,  and  he  is  conse- 
quently noticed  by  Dr.Nott  in  his  elegant  edition  of  that 
nobleman's  productions.  Hall  also  states  many  curious 
facts  respect  him,  particularly  of  the  loss  of  one  of  his 
eyes  at  tilting  match." 

This  note  gives  the  name  of  Sir  Francis  Bryan's 
father,  but  without  further  particulars  of  him 
than  that  he  died  in  1517  ;  for  I  believe  Sir  Har- 
ris Nicolas  meant  that  Sir  Francis  himself  "  was 
one  of  Henry  the  Eighth's  Gentlemen  of  the  Bed- 
chamber;" though,  if  so,  he  expressed  himself 
ambiguously.  Where  is  there  more  to  be  found 
respecting  Sir  Thomas  Bryan  ?  N.  H.  S. 

MATHEWS  AND  GOUGH  FAMILIES  (3rd  S.  i. 
89.) — Mathew  Gough,  Esq.,  the  "great  Captain 
in  France,"  temp.  Hen.  VI.,  must,  I  think,  be 
"  unus  et  idem  "  with  "  Matthew  Gough,  an  Es- 
quier  of  Wales,"  afterwards  knighted,  who,  says 
Hollingshed,  "  was  a  man  of  excellent  vertue  and 
of  great  renown  in  the  wars  of  France  [under 
Talbot],  where  he  had  served  for  the  space  of 
twenty  years  and  upwards,  and  ended  his  life  at 
London  Bridge  in  defending  the  city  against 
Cade."  *  This  valiant  Welshman  is  stated  to  have 
been  the  father  of  two  sons,  Thomas  and  Richard, 
the  latter  of  whom  stands  in  most  pedigrees  as 
the  ancestor  of  the  Goughs  of  Oldfallings  and 
Perry  Hall,  and  of  Lord  Calthorpe;  but  it  is 
right  to  state  that  some  deduce  the  descent  from 
Thomas  Gough,  a  woolstapler  in  London,  younger 
brother  of  Sir  Matthew.  So  that  the  memoran- 
dum quoted  by  your  correspondent  of  the  mar- 
riage of  his  daughter  and  heiress  may  be  worthy 
of  consideration.  I  may  add,  that  the  Goughs 
of  Perry  Hall  bear  a  different  coat  to  that  de- 
scribed by  MB.  LEE,  which,  I  snould  presume, 
was  the  more  ancient  coat  of  the  family  .f 

Your  correspondent  asks  whether  the  names  he 
quotes  as  ancestors  of  the  family  in  question  are 
of  historical  note  in  Wales  ?  To  this  I  would  re- 
ply, that  the  blood  of  Bleddyn  ap  Cynfyn,  who 
was  in  the  eleventh  century  King  of  Powys,  and 
(by  usurpation)  of  North  and  South  Wales,  and 
founder  of  the  third  royal  tribe,  is  widely  diffused 
throughout  the  Principality,  there  being  few  fa- 
milies there  of  any  pretensions  to  antiquity  (and 
we  all  know  what  Welshmen  are  in  that  respect) 
who  cannot  trace  a  descent  from  this  worthy. 

The  latter  part  of  the  Query  is  very  difficult  to 
answer,  as  families  of  the  name  of  Mathews  are  so 

*  See  Shaw's  History  of  Staffordshire,  vol.  ii.  p.  188, 
•where  there  is  a  very  full  and  elaborate  genealogy  of  the 
family,  commencing  with  Innerth,  or  John  Gough,  Esq., 
of  Wales,  father  of  Sir  Matthew. 

t  The  three  boars  are  assigned  to  "  Gough  of  Wales  " 
in  the  heraldic  dictionaries. 


numerous.  If  one  knew  the  arms  (of  which  your 
correspondent  is  also  in  ignorance)  it  would  afford 
some  clue  to  the  pedigree,  for  Welshmen  are  more 
known  by  their  arms  than  their  names.  I  would 
suggest  to  MR.  LEE  a  course  of  Yorke's  Royal 
Tribes,  Burke's  Royal  Families,  (where  there  is  a 
very  good  pedigree  of  the  dynasties  of  North  and 
South  Wales  and  Powys),  Commoners,  Heraldic 
Illustrations,  Landed  Gentry,  and  Peerage,  #*c.,  and 
I  think  he  will  then  meet  with  the  name  of  Bleddyn 
ap  Cynfyn,  Meredith  ap  Bleddyn,  and  Madoc  ap 
Meredith,  Prince  of  Powys-Fadog,  usque  ad  nau- 
seam. H.  S.  G. 

HOLAND,  DUKE  OP  EXETER  (3rd  S.  i.  52.)  — 
The  flaming  cresset  spoken  of  by  J.  H.  appears 
not  to  have  been  the  family  crest  of  the  Holands, 
for  the  crest  borne  by  John  Holand,  2nd  Duke  of 
Exeter  of  this  name,  was  "  upon  a  chapeau  doubled 
ermine,  a  lion  passant  guardant  crowned,  and 
gorged  with  a  collar  of  France."  Sandford  tells  us 
that  this  crest  was  curiously  carved  in  stone  upon 
the  duke's  monument  in  St.  Catherine's  church, 
near  the  Tower  of  London.  (Genealogical  His- 
tory, p.  219,  ed.  1707.) 

What  is  become  of  thiVmonument  ? 

Is  not  J.  H.  in  error  in  describing  Henry,  Duke 
of  Exeter,  as  Lord  High  Admiral  ?  John,  the 
2nd  Duke  (the  one  whose  monument  I  have 
spoken  of),  held  that  office ;  but  I  am  not  aware 
that  his  son  Henry,  the  3rd  Duke,  succeeded  him 
in  it.  Nor  can  I  see  how  any  Holand,  Duke  of 
Exeter,  could  be  heir  presumptive  to  the. throne 
of  England.  For,  supposing  the  crown  to  have 
devolved  upon  the  line  of  Joan  Plan tagenet,  daugh- 
ter of  Edmond  of  Woodstock,  the  issue  of  her 
eldest  son  Thomas  Holand,  Earl  of  Kent,  would 
have  come  in  before  the  issue  of  her  second  son 
John  Holand,  Duke  of  Exeter.  MELETES. 

THE  EMPEROR  NAPOLEON  III.  (3rd  S.  i.  88.)  — 
Fully  subscribing  to  MR.  FERRET'S  suggestion, 
that  any  anecdotes  of  the  French  Emperor,  per- 
taining to  his  residence  in  England,  would  be  of 
interest,  I  beg  to  offer  what  I  know  of,  such  as 
they  are. 

My  father,  the  late  Gabriele  Rossetfci,  the  com- 
mentator on  Dante,  a  Neapolitan  poet  and  politi- 
cal refugee,  settled  in  London  as  Professor  of 
Italian  at  King's  College,  was  well  known  to  most 
of  the  Buonaparte  family,  with  the  exception  of 
the  great  Napoleon.  When  Prince  Louis  Napo- 
leon was  in  England,  prior  to  the  Boulogne  expe- 
dition, he  was  a  pretty  regular  visitor  at  my 
father's  house  in  Charlotte  Street,  Portland  Place. 
Since  the  return  of  Napoleon  to  France  in  1848, 
I  have  several  times  heard  my  father,  who  was 
an  ardent  lover  of  liberty,  though  with  more 
of  a  constitutional  than  a  republican  bias,  say 
that,  in  all  his  intercourse  with  the  prince,  he  had 
never  heard  from  him  a  single  expression  indicat- 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[8'*S.  I.  FEB.  22,  '62. 


ing  liberal  or  popular  sympathies.  The  prince 
had  not  excited  any  admiration  for  intellect,  de- 
meanour, or  person  in  our  house ;  and  was  often 
disadvantageously  contrasted  with  Prince  Pierre 
Buonaparte,  also  a  frequent  visitor  to  my  father. 

I  have  been  told  by  an  officer  of  dragoons  that 
lie  received  his  first  lesson  in  fencing  from  the 
prince  when  in  London,  after  his  escape  from 
Ham ;  and  that  he  is  a  most  excellent  master  of 
fence.  W.  M.  ROSSETTI. 

London. 

CRUEL  KING  PHILIP  (2nd  S.  xii.  393.)  -— 

"  Ot  6",  WOT*  aiyvniol  ya/ii/fwcvxe?,  ay«uAoxe'A.at, 
'Ef  op  ECO  P  e'A06VTes  eV  opviOea-<ri  0opcocrt, 
Tat  ;aeV  T*  ev  TreSita  pc'cpea  TTTcoaerouom  levrai, 
Ot  Se  re  ras  oA.e'tfovcrii'  eird\^evoi,  ov5e  TIS  a\Krf 
Tiyverai,  ouSe  </>uy>7 '  x^tpovat  fie  T  avepes  a-ypjj." 

Odyss.  xxii.  302. 

The  above  is  supposed  by  Madame  Dacier  and 
others  to  describe  hawking.  I  do  not  know  any 
other  passage  in  Homer  out  of  which  such  a  mean- 
ing could  be  "  squeezed."  W.  D. 

FULLUHT,    THE    ANGLO-SAXON  BAPTISM    (2nd    S. 

xii.  393,  523.) — It  has  given  me  very  great  satis- 
faction to  find  that  my  query  has  provoked  so 
rich  a  display  of  learning  and  acumen  as  these 
pages  have  seen  on  the  part  of  your  valued  cor- 
respondent B.  H.  C.  in  his  demonstration  of  the 
real  source  of  fulluht. 

The  primary  meaning  of  this  strange  Anglo- 
Saxon  word  is  perfection;  and  the  word  there- 
fore now  turns  out  to  be  neither  more  nor  less 
than  a  translation  of  reAetWis,  or,  of  perfectio^ 
but  more  probably  of  the  latter. 

The  verb  fyllan  (or  gefyllan)  was  commonly 
used  in  the  sense  of  perfecting  or  performing 

/»     1 1  *  O  t  O 

fully. 

" .    .    ._   ra-ge  w*es  gefylled 
Heah  cininges  hass." 

Cccdmon,  vv.  123,  124,  Bouterwek's  edition. 

Fulgangan  also  has  the  same  meaning. 

H.  C.  C. 

FFOLLIOTT  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  88.)  —Your  cor- 
respondent S.  T.  is  not  probably  aware  that  the 
Ffolliott  family,  until  within  the  last  few  years, 
were  possessors  of  Lickhill,  a  mansion  and  hamlet 
in  the  parish  of  Kidderminster,  with  considerable 
landed  property  adjoining,  and  that  there  exists 
in  Kidderminster  parish  church  a  monument  to 
the  Hon.  Anne  Soley,  daughter  of  Thomas  Lord 
Ffolliott,  who  died  in  1696. 

The  same  family  also  possessed  landed  property  i 
at   Wishaw,   near   Coleshill,   Warwickshire,    and 
one  of  the  name  is  now  incumbent  of  the  churc 
at  that  place. 

Trysull  is  at  no  great  distance  from  either  of 
the  places  mentioned.  THOMAS  E.  WINNINGTON. 

IRISH  WOLF-DOG  (2nd  S.  xii.  88.)— About  thirty 
years  ago  there  was,  at  Freeport,  Armstrong 
County,  Pennsylvania,  a  family  of  do*s,  said  to 


be  of  this  species.  They  were  covered  with  white, 
curling  hair,  had  sharp  noses,  and  panted  when 
lying  down.  UNEDA. 

Philadelphia. 

REDMOND  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  52.)  —  May  I  beg 
of  J.  H.  to  give  some  further  particulars  respect- 
ing the  family  of  Redmond,  which  he  supposes  to 
have  come  from  Normandy  with  William  the 
Conqueror  ?  ..  The  Raymond  who  went  to  Ireland 
with  Strongbow  in  the  time  of  Henry  II.,  is 
generally  supposed  to  have  been  a  younger  son  of 
William  de  Carrio  ;  and  if  so,  his  Norman  descent 
is  rather  problematical.  William  de  Carrio  was 
one  of  the  sons  of  Gerald,  by  Nesta,  Princess  of 
South  Wales  ;  and  if  Raymond  was  a  son  of  his, 
his  armorial  bearings  were  probably  similar  in 
character  to  those  of  Fitz- Gerald  and  De  Wind- 
sor, in  neither  of  which  does  the  cresset  appear. 

XAVIEE. 

EPITAPH  IN  CANTERBURY  CATHEDRAL  (2nd  S. 
xii.  349.)  — It  is  not  unlikely  that  the  conceit  in 
the  epitaph  frequently  occurred  to  the  writers  of 
such  compositions :  — 

"  To  him  who  must  be  his  tomb's  monument, 
And  by  the  virtue  of  his  lasting  fame, 
Must  make  his  toombe  live  long,  not  it  his  name." 

In  Theddingworth  church,  Leicestershire  :  — 

"  He  wrongs  the  dead,  who  thinks  this  marble  frame 
Was  built  to  be  the  guardian  of  each  name ; 
Whereas  'twas  for  their  ashes  only  meant, 
Their  names  are  set  to  guard  the  monument." 

S.  S.  S. 

SIR  ISAAC  NEWTON  (2nd  S.  xii.  351.)— In  refer- 
ence to  the  Note  of  S.  T.  on  the  descent  of  Sir 
Isaac  Newton,  permit  me  to  say  that  Atkyns,  in 
his  Gloucestershire,  gives  the  pedigree  of  the 
Newton  family  of  Barr  Court,  deriving  them  from 
Cradoc-ap-Howel,  Lord  of  Newton,  in  Glamorgan. 
Sir  Richard  Cradock,  Chief  Justice  of  England, 
who  died  in  1444,  and  is  buried  in  Bristol  cathe- 
dral, was  the  first  of  the  family  who  took  the 
name  of  Newton.  From  him  the  direct  succession 
continued  until  Sir  John  Newton,  who  dying 
without  issue  (1661)  conferred  the  estate  and  en- 
tailed the  baronetcy  on  Sir  John  Newton  of  Lin- 
colnshire —  necessarily  a  kinsman,  though  Atkyns 
does  not  say  so.  Sir  Michael  Newton,  who  at- 
tended Sir  Isaac's  funeral,  was  grandson  of  this 
Sir  John ;  and  with  him,  I  believe,  expired  the 
baronetcy  of  Newton  of  Barr  Court.  Mrs.  Archer, 
sister  of  Sir  Michael,  restored  the  ancient  monu- 
ment of  Sir  Richard  Cradock  at  Bristol,  mutilated 
during  the  Civil  War.  Sir  Isaac  being  of  Lin- 
colnshire parentage,  and  Sir  Michael  attending 
his  funeral,  seem  circumstances  that  plainly  con- 
nect them  as  kinsmen.  I  have  shown  that  Sir 
Michael's  grandfather  succeeded  to  the  baronetcy 
as  an  offshoot  of  the  Gloucestershire  Newtons  ; 
and  that  they  are  in  their  turn  of  Welsh  descent. 


3<d  S.  I.  FEB.  22,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


159 


This,  I  think,  is  strong  presumptive  evidence  that 
the  great  philosopher  is  not  of  Scotch,  but  rather 
of  remote  Welsh  extraction.  As  a  descendant 
through  one  of  its  many  branches  of  the  Cradock- 
Newtons,  I  hope  I  may  claim  a  kindred,  however 
distant,  with  this  intellectual  giant  —  this  good 
and  honoured  man.  J.  J.  CRADOCK  NEWTON. 

CLERICAL  LONGEVITY  (2nd  S.  x.  176,  377.)  — 
In  the  former  of  these  notices  I  called  attention 
with  reference  to  "  centenarianism,"  to  the  case  of 
the  Rev.  J.  R.  Holden,  rector  of  Upminster,  co. 
Essex,  who,  from  the  entry  in  Crockford's  Clerical 
Directory,  appeared  to  be  at  least  110  years  of 
age.  In  the  latter  notice  it  is  stated  by  J.  G.  N. 
that  the  Rev.  John  Rose  Holden,  formerly  rector 
of  Upminster,  died  in  1827.  In  the  obituary  of 
this  day's  Times  (Jan.  31,  1862),  I  observe  the 
record  of  the  death,  at  the  parsonage  of  the  above 
named  parish,  of  the  Rev.  John  Rose  Holden,  M.A., 
rector,  aged  90  years.  I  imagine  this  gentleman 
must  have  been  the  son  of  the  priest  who  was  in- 
stituted in  1799.  Can  any  of  your  readers  afford 
information  upon  this  point,  and  state  when  the 
gentleman  now  deceased  graduated  at  the  Univer- 
sity, was  admitted  to  deacon's  and  priest's  orders, 
and  inducted  into  the  benefice  ?  It  appears  from 
the  Clergy  List  that  the  advowson  is  vested  in  the 
trustees  of  the  late  J.  R.  Holden,  Esq. 

JOHN  MACLEAN. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 

Replies  to  Essays  and  Reviews ;  with  a  Preface  by  the 
Lord  Bishop  of  Oxford.  (John,  Henry,  &  James  Parker, 
^Oxford  &  London.) 

Any  one  who  has  read  the  Essays  and  Reviews  should 
make  himself  acquainted  with  the  well-merited  castiga- 
tion  which  the  llev.  H.  J.  Rose  has  here  inflicted  on  Dr. 
Williams,  whom  he  accuses  and  convicts  of  "  a  series  of 
misrepresentations,  which  it  would  not  be  easy  to  pa- 
rallel." Dr.  Goulburn,  in  more  moderate  style',  shows 
Dr.  Temple's  Essay  to  be  but  an  inferior  version  of  an 
essay  of  iLessing,  which  he  has  dislocated  and  spoilt. 
Dr.  Wordsworth  exposes  Professor  Jowett's  obligations 
to  Mr.  Grey's  Creed  of  Christendom.  Mr.  Robison  is  not 
so  successful  against  Mr.  Goodwin ;  and  would  have  us 
read  the  first  chapter  of  Genesis  as  but  a  "Psalm  of 
Creation." 

Lives  of  the  Archbishops  of  Canterbury.  By  Walter 
Farquhar  Hook,  D.D.,  Dean  of  Chichester.  Vol.  II. 
Anglo-Norman  Period.  (Bentley.) 

^  The  Dean  of  Chichester's  interesting  series  of  Arclrie- 
piscopal  Biographies  proceeds  with  measured  step.  A 
Second  Volume,  devoted  to  the  great  men  who  filled  the 
See  of  Canterbury  during  the  Anglo-Norman  Period,  is 
now  before  us,  and  contains  the  lives  of  no  less  than  ten 
Archbishops.  As  among  these  are  Anselm,  Lanfranc, 
Thomas  &  Becket,  and  Stephen  Langton,  it  will  be  seen 
that  Dr.  Hook  has  not  wanted  materials  for  a  volume  of 
much  greater  interest  than  the  previous  one ;  and  if  the 
work  is  carried  on  in  the  same  style  and  spirit,  it  will 
certainly  go  far  to  supply  a  popular  History  of  the 
Church  in  England. 


Memoir   of  the  Life  and  Episcopate  of  Dr.    William 
Bedell,  Lord  Bishop  of  Kilmore,  by  his  Son-in-law,  Rev. 
Alexander  Clogy,  Minister  of  Cavan.     (Wertheim 
Macintosh.) 

This  is  a  simple  reprint  of  the  original  MS.  in  the  Har- 
leian  Collection  in  the  British  Museum,  which  will  render 
some  details  of  Irish  history  more  accessible  to  the  future 
biographer  of  Bedell ;  but  it  does  not  materially  alter 
the  impression  of  his  character  and  episcopate  which  we 
have  all  derived  from  Burnet's  pages. 

jP.  Virgilii  Maronis  Bucolica,  Georgica,  et  ^Zneis. 
With  English  Notes.  By  C.  D.  Yonge.  (Bentley.) 

The  object  of  the  present  edition  is  to  enable  the  young 
student  of  Virgil,  not  only  to  overcome  his  difficulties, 
but  also  to  comprehend  his  beauties.  The  editor  him- 
self, no  ordinary  scholar,  has  had  the  assistance  of  the 
late  Provost  of  Eton,  Professor  Key,  Mr.  George  Long, 
Mr.  Munro,  and  Dr.  Latham ;  and  as  his  numerous  notes 
(they  occupy  nearly  three  hundred  closely-printed  pages 
at  the  end  of  the  volume)  are  pertinent  and  concise,  this 
edition  of  Virgil  cannot  fail  of  being  introduced  into 
many  schools,  and  of  being  extensively  used  by  those 
who  are  teaching  themselves  to  read  the  most  perfect  of 
Latin  poets. 

Lecons  Graduees  de  Traduction  et  de  Lecture ;  or,  Gradu- 
ated Lessons  in  Translation  and  Reading,  with  Biographical 
Sketches,  Annotations  on  History,  Geography,  Synonyms, 
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CONTENTS.—  NO.  9. 

NOTES:  —  Edmund  Burke,  161  —  The  Sonnets  of  Shakspere, 
162  —  Letters  of  Archbishop  Leighton,  165—  'Reading  the 
Scriptures  in  the  Sixteenth  and  Seventeenth  Centuries,  166 
—  Mathematical  Bibliography,  167  —  The  Society  of  Anti- 
quaries, 168. 

MINOR  NOTES:  —  Richard  Martin—  Dick  Brome—  "My 
Fist  Weighs  exactly  a  Pound  "  —  Kleptomania  —  Prince 
George  of  Denmark  —  Baxter's  Long  Sermon  —  Feinaigle  s 
"Art  of  Memory,"  168. 

QUERIES:  —  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Boltou  —  Forman,  Dr.— 
Genealogy  of  the  Family  of  Loftus  —  George  Chapman  — 
"  Hakon  Jarl  "  —  Rev.  Robert  Innes  —  Parkes  —  Lady 
Mary  Percy  —  R.  Price,  Jun.—  A  Pope  burned  —  Quota- 
tions Wanted  —  Surplice  worn  in  private  Administra- 
tion of  the  Communion  —  Tenure  of  the  Manor  of  Adding-' 
ton,  co.  Surrey  —  Lodvick  Verelst  —  Ulric  von  Hutten  — 
Waits  of  the  City  of  London  —  Warden  of  the  English 
and  Scottish  Marches  —  "  Whip  up  Smouchy  or  Pont," 
169. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS:  —  Isle  of  Lundy  —  Exorcism: 
Luther  —  Miss  Pond  —  Smuggling  —  John  Whitney  — 
"Circular  Bordure  "—  Dutch  Psalter  —  Carter  Lane 
Meeting-House  —  Biblical  Versions,  171. 

REPLIES:  —  Prophecies  Fulfilled:  Prophecies  of  St.Malachi 
respecting  the  Popes:  Prophecy  respecting  the  Crimean 
War,  173  —  Isabella  and  Elizabeth,  174  —  Lambeth  De- 
grees, 175  —  Michael  Scott's  Writing*  on  Astronomy  — 
Toad-Eater  —  Sir  Francis  Bryan.  —  Lucky  and  Unlucky 
Days  —  Earthquakes  in  England  —  Whitehall  —  "  The  Ex- 
ception proves  the  Rule  "  —  European  Ignorance  of  Ame- 
rica—Grammar Schools  —  Clergyman's  Right  to  take  the 
Chair  —  Surnames  —  Euripides  and  Menander,  176. 

Notes  on  Books. 


EDMUND  BURKE. 

Some  years  since  inquiries  were  made  in  "  1ST.  & 
Q."  about  Edmund  Burke  and  his  relations,  which, 
I  regret  to  say,  have  not  been  answered.  We 
have  memoirs  of  Burke  out  of  number,  and  yet 
of  facts  relating  to  his  early  life,  and  to  his  family, 
there  are  not  half  a  dozen  that  will  bear  the  test 
of  examination.  Incredible  as  it  may  appear,  we 
know  not  when  or  where  he  was  born,  where  bap- 
tized, or  where  married.  Some  of  his  biographers 
tell  us  that  he  was  born  in  the  county  of  Cork  ; 
others  in  the  city  of  Dublin.  Some  lead  us  to 
infer  that  he  was  married  at  Bath  ;  others  at 
Marylebone  :  but  search  has  been  made  through 
the  registers  of  both,  without  success.  We  know 
little  more  of  his  father  —  neither  where  or  when 
he  was  born,  or  baptized.  We  are  told  indeed 
that  he  was  married  at  Mallow  "about  1725  or 
1726";  but  the  "about"  is  proof  that  the  bio- 
graphers know  nothing. 

My  attention  has  been  again  directed  to  this 
subject  by  reading  in  a  privately  printed  work, 
written  by  a  distinguished  Irishman,  the  late 
General  Sir  G.  Cockburn,  that  Burke  was  born  in 
the  county  of  Cork.  This  agrees  with  a  circum- 
stantial memoir  published  in  the  Evening  Post  in 
1770,  and  written  probably  by  one  of  the  Burkes 
—-certainly  by  some  one  intimately  acquainted 
with  Edmund  ;  and  Sir  James  Prior  admits  that 


Edmund  Burke  passed  some  years  at  Castle  Town 
Roche,  had  always  a  partiality  for  the  place,  and 
that  while  at  college  he  wrote  a  poem  on  the 
Blackwater,  which  runs  near  the  spot.  Yet  Sir 
James  says,  undoubtingly,  that  he  was  born  in 
Dublin  on  the  1st  of  Jan.  (O.  S.)  1730.  This,  in 
respect  to  place,  seems  borne  out  by  the  register 
of  Trin.  Coll.,  where  he  is  described  as  "  natus 
Dublin."  But  is  that  conclusive  ?  I  think  not, 
for  the  point  was  of  little  importance,  and  may 
have  been  assumed  consequent  on  the  father's  re- 
sidence at  the  time  of  entry.  The  assertion  as  to 
the  precise  date  is  followed  in  the  last  edition  of 
Prior's  Life  by  an  acknowledgment  that  some  per- 
sons are  of  opinion  from  the  entry  in  the  matricu- 
lation books,  that  he  was  born  in  1728.  It  is  cer- 
tainly difficult  to  reconcile  the  entry  "  1743,  annum 
agens  16,"  the  monumental  inscription  "died  on  the 
9th  of  July,  1797,  aged  68  years,"  the  fact  that  he 
was  entered  of  the  Middle  Temple,  London,  on 
the  23rd  of  April,  1747,  with  his  asserted  birth  in 
1730.  But  the  acknowledgment  that  "  some  per- 
sons "  are  of  a  different  opinion  again  shows  that  we 
have  no  proof.  Yet  Edmund  Burke  could  not  have 
been  born  much  earlier,  if  other  statements  by  Sir 
James  be  correct;  for  the  father  married,  he  says, 
"  about  the  year  1725  or  1726  ;  "  and  Garret,  we 
know,  was  an  elder  brother,  and  Juliana  an  elder 
sister,  and  it  is  possible  that  some  one  or  more  of 
the  ten  or  eleven  children  who,  we  are  told,  "  died 
young,"  may  have  been  born  before  Edmund. 
Are  there  not  registers  at  Mallow,  Protestant  and 
Catholic?  There  certainly  are  at  Castle  Town 
Roche,  for  the  following  is  given  by  Sir  James  as 
an  extract  from  "  the  church  registers  :  "  — 

"  Juliana,  daughter  of  Richard  and  Mary  Burke,  bap- 
tized, 1728.  Godfather,  Edward  Fitton.  Godmothers, 
Mary  Dunworth,  Mary  Nayler." 

This  is  apparently  a  literal*  transcript ;  yet  is 
it  not  strange  that  there  should  be  no  record  of 
either  month,  or  the  day  of  the  month  ?  And  is 
it  not  more  strange  that  this  daughter,  brought 
up  a  Catholic,  and  all  her  life  a  Catholic,  was  bap- 
tized at  the  Protestant  church,  and  is  the  only  one 
of  fourteen  or  fifteen  children  who,  so  far  as  ap- 
pears, was  baptized  at  all  ? 

All  indeed  that  I  can  collect  from  the  biogra- 
phers, and  this  is  open  to  serious  objection,  is  that 
Edmund  had  a  great-grandfather,  who  resided  at 
Castle  Town  Roche,  near  Mallow,  in  the  county 
of  Cork,  — incidentally  that  he  had  a  grandfather, 
who  also  resided  at  Castle  Town,  — and  that  his 
father  was  "a  Protestant,  educated  for  an  attor- 
ney." In  the  earlier  edition,  Sir  James  said  that 
the  father  resided  "  for  some  time  "  in  Limerick, 
whence  he  removed  to  Dublin.  "  Some  time," 
however,  is  omitted  in  the  last  edition  ;  the  truth 
'  being  that  Sir  James  merely  followed  Dr.  Bisset, 
and  that  there  is  not,  so  far  as  I  can  discover,  a 
tittle  of  evidence  to  show  that  Burke's  father 


162 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


[3'*  S.  I.  MAR..  1,  '62. 


ever  set  foot  in  Limerick.  That  he  never  prac- 
tised there  as  an  attorney,  as  might  be  inferred,  is 
certain  from  Burke's  letter  to  Shackleton  in  1766 
— "  My  father  never  did  practice  in  the  country, 
but  always  in  the  superior  courts."  The  only 
trace  of  the  father  before  he  settled  in  Dublin  is 
in  the  neighbourhood  of  Castle  Town  Roche  :  he 
there  became  attached,  we  are  told,  to  "a  juve- 
nile acquaintance,"  Miss  Nagle,  who  resided  in 
that  neighbourhood  ;  he  married  her  at  Mallow  ; 
his  daughter  Juliana  was  there  baptized,  and  there 
Edmund  passed  some  years  of  his  early  life. 

If  Burke's  shadowy  grandfather,  or  great-grand- 
father could  be  shown  to  have  had  more  sons  than 
one,  it  might  explain  the  relationship'of  the  many 
Burkes  we  meet  with  amongf  Burke's  intimates  in 
London  — with  the  well-known  William  —  with 
Burke  of  Serjeant's  Inn,  with  Burke  of  the  Tem- 
ple, and  others.  Another  of  the  family  has  just 
made  his  appearance  in  the  autobiography  of  Mrs. 
Delany.  Dr.  Deiany's  settlement  on  his  first 
wife  had  been  drawn  by  Mr.  Burke,  a  London 
lawyer.  The  original  settlement  had  been  de- 
stroyed, and  it  became  necessary  to  procure 
secondary  evidence  of  its  contents;  but  Mr. 
Burke  was  at  the  time  in  Jamaica,  and  died 
in  1752  on  his  voyage  home.  It  then  appeared 
that  this  Burke  had  been  tenant  to  Ward  the 
bookseller,  who  had  seized  for  rent  all  Mr.  Burke's 
effects,  and  in  consequence  Dr.  Delany  employed 
"  Mr.  Burke  of  Serjeant's  Inn,"  relation  of  Mr. 
Burke  of  Jamaica. 

Is  there  no  one  in  Castle  Town,  or  Mallow, 
or  Dublin  sufficiently  interested  in  this  subject 
to  give  us  the  benefit  of  a  little  local  research 
among  the  registers,  Protestant  and  Catholic  ? 
Unfortunately  the  surname  is  very  common,  and 
I  cannot  discover  the  Christian  name  of  either  his 
grandfather  or  great-grandfather,  or  of  his  grand- 
mothers, or  of  any  one  of  the  "  ten  or  eleven  " 
brothers  or  sisters,  or  where  any  of  these  peo- 
ple were  born  or  baptized,  married  or  buried. 

The  mysteries  and  perplexities  which  beset  the 
inquirer  into  the  private  life  of  Edmund  Burke 
would  form  by  far  too  wide  a  subject  even  for  a 
double  number  of  "  N.  &  Q."  These  specimens, 
however,  arising  upon  the  very  threshold  of  our 
biographies  are  curious,  and  may  perhaps  tempt 
some  who  have  leisure  and  opportunities  to  fur- 
ther investigation.  E  B  S 


THE  SONNETS  OF  SHAKSPERE. 
No  one  of  the  separate  works  of  our  renowned 
lakspere  was  doomed  to  experience  so  small  a 
share  of  popular  favor  as  the  volume  of  Sonnets. 

Venus  and  Adonis,  first  published  in  1593, 
he  lived  to  witness  five  editions;  of  Lucrece,  first 
published  m  1594,  he  lived  to  witness  four  edi- 


tions ;  and  of  some  of  the  undisputed  plays  which 
came  out  in  his  life-time  there  were  two  or  more 
editions  in  the  same  year  !  Now,  of  Shake-speares 
Sonnets,  as  first  published  in  1609,  there  was  no 
passable  edition  till  1710  —  no  exact  re-impres- 
sion till  1766.  A  separate  re-impression  is  even 
at  this  time  a  DESIDERATUM. 

An  examination  of  the  earlier  writers  on  Shak- 
spere  —  with  the  reservation  of  Francis  Meres  — 
is  productive  of  the  same  evidence  as  the  biblio- 
graphic circumstances. 

Fuller,  the  often-quoted  recorder  of  facts  and 
fancies,  adverts  to  his  tragedies,  comedies,  poems, 
and  wit- combats,  without  specifying  any  one  of  his 
works.  Philips  calls  him  "  the  glory  of  the  Eng- 
lish stage,"  and  commends  the  style  of  "  his  Venus 
and  Adonis,  his  Rape  of  Lucrece  and  other  vari- 
ous poems."  By  various  poems  he  must  mean  the 
collection  of  1640.  Langbaine,  who  gives  a  some- 
what extended  account  of  his  plays,  and  even  of 
the  spurious  plays,  assures  us  that  he  also  wrote 
"  two  small  poems,  viz.  Venus  and  Adonis  —  and 
the  Rape  of  Lucrece"  He  omits  the  sonnets,  but 
states  the  precise  number  of  these  contained  in  the 
Delia  of  Samuel  Daniel ! 

Fuller  died  in  1661 ";  Philips  sent  forth  his  cri- 
ticism, in  1675  ;  and  Langbaine,  in  1691.  As  the 
latter  date  almost  carries  us  on  to  the  interminable 
series^of  the  avowed  editors]  of  our  dramatist,"  the 
information  which  they  afford  must  be  the  next 
point  of  inquiry. 

In  1709  Rowe  became  the  editor  of  our  drama- 
tist. He  ascribes  to  him  "  Venus  and  Adonis  and 
Tarquin  and  Lucrece,  in  stanzas,"  as  printed  in  a 
late  collection  of  poems !  In  1725,  to  Rowe  suc- 
ceeded Pope.  He  notices  the  poems  "  dedicated 
to  his  noble  patron  the  earl  of  Southampton."  In 
1733  came  forth  Theobald.  He  announces  a 
"  correct  edition  of  all  the  poems."  In  the  edi- 
tions of  Hanmer  in  1744,  of  Warburton  in  1747, 
and  Johnson  in  1765,  we  have  not  one  word  on 
the  poems. 

In  1766  Steevens  edited  Twenty  of  the  plays  of 
Shakespeare,  being  the  whole  number  printed  in 
quarto-,  and  therewith  we  find,  what  no  one  would 
expect  to  find,  Shahe-speares  Sonnets.  The  edi- 
tion of  1765,  with  the  notes  of  Johnson  and 
Steevens,  was  reprinted  in  1773  and  in  1778. 
In  1780  Malone  added  to  the  latter  edition  a 
Supplement,  which  contains  the  spurious  plays  and 
the  genuine  poems,  with  numerous  notes. 

We  now  approach  the  period  at  which  the 
sonnets  emerge  from  a  state  of  comparative  ob- 
scurity, and  become  the  objects  of  earnest  in- 
quiry and  discussion. 

The  principal  writers  in  this  controversy,  as 
far  as  my  recollection  extends,  are  Edmond  Ma- 
lone —  1780;  George  Chalmers  — 1797;  Nathan 
Drake  —  1817;  Alexander  Dyce  1826;  James 
Boaden  —  1832;  Benjamin  Hey  wood  Bright  — 


3rd  S.  I.  MAR.  1,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


163 


1832;  Charles  Armitage  Brown  — 1838;  and 
Joseph  Hunter  —  1845. 

The  main  questions  seem  to  be :  When  were 
the  sonnets  written  ?  Under  what  circumstances 
were  they  written  ?  Do  they  contain  biographic 
particulars  ?  By  whose  authority  were  they  pub- 
lished ? 

In  the  absence  of  positive  evidence,  here  are 
my  convictions.  I  believe,  1.  That  the  sonnets, 
as  we  now  have  them,  were  written  soon  after 
1594;  2.  That  they  were  written  in  fulfilment  of 
a  promise  made  to  the  earl  of  Southampton ;  3. 
That  they  are,  with  very  slight  exceptions,  mere 
poetical  "exercises;  and  4.  That  they  were  pub- 
lished without  the  sanction  of  the  author  or  of 
his  patrons. 

1.  The  sonnets,    as  we  now  have  them,   were 
written  soon  after  1594. 

We  owe  to  Francis  Meres,  M.A.  of  both  Uni- 
versities, the  earliest  intimation  of  the  existence 
of  the  Sonnets  of  Shakspere.  As  the  volume  in 
which  it  appears  is  of  rare  occurrence,  the  para- 
graph shall  be  repeated  :  — 

"  As  the  soule  of  Euphorbus  was  thought  to  Hue  in 
Pythagoras :  so  the  sweete  wittie  soule  of  Quid  Hues  in 
mellifluous  &  hony-tongued  Shakespeare,  witnes  his  Venus 
and  Adonis,  his  Lucrece,  his  sugred  Sonnets  among  his 
priuate  friends,  &c."  —  Palladis  Tamia,  1598,  8°,  folio 
281  verso. 

There  is  no  more  evidence  than  as  above,  and 
the  argument  must  rest  on  probability.  Shak- 
spere was  extremely  careless  of  fame,  and  it  seems 
to  me  improbable  that  he  should  have  handed  about 
fugitive  sonnets — or  that  Meres  should  have  heard 
of  the  circumstance  —  or  that  so  notable  a  lover  of 
brevity  should  have  felt  himself  called  on  to  re- 
port it. 

I  therefore  believe  that  the  Sonnets  recorded 
in  1598  formed  the  work  which  was  obscurely 
announced  in  1594,  and  reached  the  press  in 
1609. 

2.  The  sonnets  were   written  in  fulfilment  of  a 
promise  made  to  the  earl  of  Southampton  in  1594. 

The  inscription  prefixed  to  the  Sonnets  is  the 
only  mark  of  editorship  which  the  volume  con- 
tains, and  must  therefore  be  the  first  object  of 
scrutiny.  I  shall  give  it  verbatim,  but  with  my 
own  punctuation :  — 

To  THE  ONLIE  BEGETTER  OF  THESE  INSVING  SONNETS, 
MR.  W.  H.  ALL,  HAPPINESSE  AND  THAT  ETERNITIE  PRO- 
MISED BY  OVR  EVER- LIVING  POET  WISHETH. 

THE  WELL-WISHING  ADVENTURER 
IN  SETTING  FORTH 

T.  T. 

This  two-fold  inscription,  as  printed  in  1609,  is 
an  imitation  of  the  monumental  style.  The  capi- 
tals, the  peculiar  points,  and  the  arrangement, 
prove  it.  The  inversion  accords  therewith  :  W.  H. 
wisheth  etc.  Had  it  been  one  inscription,  we 
should  not  have  had  wisheth  and  well-wisher  in 


such  close  contiguity.     It  was  an  oversight  on  the 
part  of  the  facetious  master  Thorpe. 

Now  comes  an  enigma,  on  the  solution  of  which 
much  depends.  The  word  begetter  is  equivocal. 
Did  the  nameless  person  whom  W.  H.  addresses 
obtain  the  MS.  ?  Or  did  he  cause  the  sonnets  to 
be  written  ?  I  reserve  my  opinion  till  more  com- 
petent witnesses  shall  have  been  heard :  — 

"  Vouchsafe  to  grace  what  here  to  light  is  brought, 
Begot  by  thy  sweet  hand,' born  of  my  thought." 

M.  Drayton,  1596. 
To  Lucy  countess  of  Bedford. 

"  Here,  what  your  sacred  influence  begat, 

(Most  lov'd,  and  most  respected  Majesty) 
With  humble  heart  and  hand  I  consecrate 
Unto  the  glory  of  your  memory." 

Sam.  Daniel,  1614. 
To  Anne  of  Denmark. 

The  inscription  thus  exhibited  in  its  true  aspect, 
and  the  sense  of  the  equivocal  word  established, 
in  conformity  with  my  own  previous  notion,  we 
have  to  inquire  —  Who  was  this  patron  of£jitera~ 
ture  ?  Who  was  it  that  had  so  much  influence 
over  Shakspere?  Over  the  man  who,  with  all 
the  world  before  him,  kept  himself  aloof  from  the 
world?  I  admit  the  generosity  of  the  Sidneys 
and  the  Herberts,  which  Meres  and  others  re- 
cord, but  W.  H.  entirely  disclaims  the  honor  in 
question. 

This  patron  of  Shakspere  could  be  no  other 
than  Henry  Wriothesly  earl  of  Southampton. 
"  What  I  have  done  is  yours  ;  what  1  have  to  do 
is  yours"  So  wrote  our  poet  to  the  earl  of 
Southampton  in  1594,  and  no  argument  can  ever 
diminish  the  force  of  these  words.  It  was  a  public 
promise,  and  if  he  had  not  written  the  sonnets  in 
fulfilment  of  that  promise,  he  must  have  felt  every 
new  edition  of  his  poetical  volumes  as  a  reproach. 
It  must  have  seemed  so  to  his  fellows,  and  to  the 
world  of  readers. 

Shakspere  wrote  his  Venus  and  Adonis  in  six- 
line  stanzas  ;  his  Lucrece,  in  seven  line  stanzas. 
For  the  fulfilment  of  his  promise  he  chose  sonnets, 
then  much  in  vogue,  and  a  more  difficult  species 
of  composition. 

3.  The  sonnets  are,  with  very  slight  exceptions, 
mere  poetical  exercises. 

I  contend  that  obscure  allusions  should  never 
be  applied  to  the  purposes  of  biography;  that 
invention  should  never  be  allowed  to  usurp  the 
place  of  reality.  It  is  impossible  to  avoid  occa- 
sional conjectures,  but  I  would  rather  remain  in 
the  dark  than  trust  to  a  faint  and  wavering  light. 

An  instance  of  the  effects  of  such  a  propensity 
may  serve  as  a  wholesome  caution.  In  1805,  or 
perhaps  later,  the  rev.  G.  F.  Nott  reprinted  the 
Songs  and  sonnets  of  the  earl  of  Surrey  and  others, 
in  a  handsome  quarto  volume,  with  commendable 
fidelity.  He  suppressed  it !  In  1815  ho  re-edited 
the  same  Songs  and  sonnets  in  two  splendid  quarto 


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I.  MAR.  1,  '62. 


volumes,  with  memoirs,  notes,  portraits,  etc.  .  In 
this  revised  edition  he  altered  the  order  of  the 
poems,  and  replaced  the  genuine  titles  by  fictions. 
So  the  splendid  quartos  are,  as  to  the  poetical 

text,  WORTHLESS. 

The  success  of  the  Songs  and  sonnets  of  1557 
produced  a  crowd  of  imitators.  Sonnets  became 
the  test  of  art,  and  the  author  of  a  volume  of  son- 
nets was  deemed  a  sort  of  graduate  in  polite 
literature. 

We  have  no  clear  evidence  that  those  of  Con- 
stable, or  of  Daniel,  or  of  Spenser,  were  real  love- 
sonnets.  Those  of  Dray  ton  were  sheer  inventions, 
and  I  must  presume  to  place  those  of  Shakspere 
in  the  same  class. 

4.  The  sonnets  were  published  without  the  sanc- 
tion of  the  author,  or  of  his  patrons. 

Venus  and  Adonis  has  a  dedication  and  a  motto ; 
Lucrece  has  a  dedication  and  an  argument ;  the 
volume  of  Sonnets  has  neither.  I  thence  infer 
that  it  was  published  without  the  sanction  of 
Shakspare.  If  he  had  prefixed  a  dedication,  it 
'  could  have  been  to  no  other  than  the  earl  of 
Southampton. 

The  allusions  to  the  patrons  of  our  poet  are  no 
proofs  that  they  gave  their  sanction  to  the  pub- 
lication. On  that  point,  I  submit  a  new  theory. 
Be  it  assumed  that  the  volume  of  sonnets  was  a 
revised  transcript,  made  by  order  of  W.  Herbert 
in  early  life  —  that  it  was  then  inscribed  by  him 
to  the  earl  of  Southampton  as  a  gift-book  —  and 
that  it  afterwards  came  into  the  possession  of 
the  publisher  in  a  manner  which  required  con- 
cealment. With  this  theory,  which  the  inscrip- 
tion and  other  circumstances  seem  to  justify,  all 
the  mysteries  vanish ! 

Thomas  Thorpe  alias  T.  T.  entered  the  volume 
for  publication  on  the  20  May,  1609,  and  gave  in 
the  unceremonious  title  which  now  appears  — 
Shahe-speares  Sonnets.  It  must  have  been  from 
the  Wilton  MS. 

While  naming  the  controversialists,  I  had  no 
design  to  notice  their  pleadings  —  with  the  ex- 
ception of  those  of  Boaden  and  Brown  — but 
rather  to  give  a  hint  to  critical  students.  It  may 
be  observed,  however,  that  they  have  all  mis-read 
the  inscription ;  and  I  recommend  the  survivors 
to  exercise  once  more  their  optical  powers  by  the 
new  and  brilliant  light  discovered  by  M.  Phila- 
rete  Chasles. 

The  pamphlet  of  Mr.  Boaden  is  entitled  On  the 
sonnets  of  Shakespeare.     He  contends,  after  some 
sharp  comments  on  his  precursors,  that  W.  H.  in- 
icates  William  Herbert,  afterwards  earl  of  Pem- 
r°ke~-that  he  was  the  object  of  the  sonnets  — 
and  that  Ihorpe  inscribed  them  to  him  in  that 
sense.     His  arguments  chiefly  rest  on  the  inscrip- 
tion as  read  by  himself. 

Mr.  Brown  considers  the  Sonnets  as  autobio- 
graphical poems  ;  forms  them  into  six  distinct 


poems;  and  describes  the  object  of  each.  He 
assumes  that  our  poet  had  a  mistress  in  London 
and  a  wife  at  Stratford  ;  and  that  he  recorded  the 
circumstance  for  the  instruction  of  posterity.  The 
man  who  defames  another,  without  a  jot  of  evi- 
dence, defames  himself.  So  much  for  Charles 
Armitage  Brown. 

I  shall  pass  no  more  censures  on  the  specula- 
tions of  the  critics  ;  but,  in  order  to  justify  the 
theory  herein  advanced,  shall  repeat  the  declara- 
tions made  on  a  similar  occasion  by  one  of  the 
most  eminent  contemporaries  of  Shakspere — the 
estimable  Michael  Drayton.  He  had  a  mistresse — 
the  mistress  of  his  heart.  After  eulogising  an 
elder  sister,  he  thus  describes  his  favorite :  — 

"  The  younger,  than  her  sister  not  less  good, 

Bred  where  the  other  lastty  doth  abide, 
Modest  Idea,  flower  of  womanhood, 
That  Rowland  hath  so  highly  deified." 

Now  Drayton  printed  some  sixty  sonnets,  to 
which  he  gave  the  poetical  name  —  Idea ;  and 
to  that  portion  of  his  works,  as  if  to  prevent  mis- 
interpretation, or  to  shield  himself  from  the  im- 
pertinencies  of  criticism,  he  prefixed  two  addresses 
To  the  reader.  In  the  first  address,  the  poet  fore- 
warns him  to  look  elsewhere  for  passion,  and 
declares  that  he  writes  fantastically  —  writes  spor- 
tively. As  to  the  second  address,  which  is  omitted 
in  the  modern  collections  of  our  English  poets,  I 
shall  give  it  entire  from  the  edition  of  1605  :  — 

«  Sonnet  2. 

"  Many  there  be  excelling  in  this  kind, 

Whose  well-trick'd  rhymes  with  all  invention  swell; 
Let  each  commend  as  best  shall  like  his  mind; 

Some  Sidney,  Constable,  some  Daniel. 
That  thus  their  names  familiarly  I  sing 

Let  none  think  them  disparaged  to  be ; 
Poor  men  with  reverence  may  speak  of  a  king 

And  so  may  these  be  spoken  of  by  me. 
My  wanton  verse  ne'er  keeps  one  certain  stay, 

But  now  at  hand,  then  seeks  invention  farj 
And  with  each  little  motion  runs  astray  — 

Wild,  madding,  jocund,  and  irregular. 
Like  me  that  list,  my  honest  merry  rhymes 
!Nor  care  for  critic,  nor  regard  the  times." 

He  adds  to  the  sixty  sonnets,  after  a  typo- 
graphic blank,  "  Certain  other  sonnets  to  great  and 
worthy  personages'1'1  —  to  James,  king  of  Scots  — 
to  Lucy  countess  of  Bedford,  etc.  Here  is  a  clear 
distinction  between  invention  and  reality — between 
the  artificial  fabrications  of  wit  and  the  genuine 
effusions  of  the  heart.  With  regard  to  the  speci- 
mens before  me,  I  much  prefer  those  of  the  latter 
class.  They  interest  as  portraiture.  They  have 
more  touches  of  nature  than  the  majority  of  son- 
nets. In  fact,  Drayton  taxes  the  sonnet- writers 
of  his  time  with  filching  from  Petrarch  and 
Desportes.  BOLTON  CORNET. 

Barnes,  S,  W. 


"!  S.  I.  MAR.  I,  '62.] 


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LETTERS  OF  ARCHBISHOP  LEIGHTON. 
(Concluded  from  3rd  S.  i.  144). 

XII. 

;  Edgr,  April  6/1670. 
May  it  please  yor  Grace, 

I  am  so  far  from  attracting  vanity  upon  it,  that 
knowing  how  infinitely  I  am  below  His  Majtiei 
good  opinion,  it  falls  as  a  weight  upon  mee,  and 
sinks  me  so  much  the  deeper  into  ye  shame  and 
grief  of  my  fitter  incapacity  for  yc  Service  re- 
quired of  mee  :  for,  besides  an  infirm  and  diseased 
body,  I  have  that  invincible  indisposition  of  mind, 
and  am  so  extremely  weary  of  the  trifling  conten- 
tions of  this  part  of  the  world,  that  instead  of 
engaging  farther  in  them,  I  intend  an  entire  escape 
out  of  them  ;  but,  as  his  Majy  enjoined  mee,  upon 
my  former  attempting  it  at  London,  I  shall  doe 
it  here,  and  in  the  most  orderly  way  y*  may  bee, 
without  troubling  his  Maje  at  all  with  it.  And 
this  I  was  resolved  to  doe  this  summer,  or  at  fur- 
thest before  the  end  of  this  yeare,  before  there 
was  any  mention  of  this  remove.  For  the  truth 
is,  my  Lord,  I  am  greatly  asham'd  that  we  have 
occasioned  so  much  troubles,  and  done  so  little  or 
no  good,  now  these  7  or  8  years  since  ye  restitu- 
tion of  our  order,  and  after  so  many  favours  heapt 
upon  us  by  his  Maj'  royall  goodnesse.  Not  that 
I  would  reflect  the  blame  of  this  upon  any  save 
my  own  share  of  it  upon  myself;  for  may  be,  it  is 
not  so  much  our  fault  as  our  unhappinesse,  and 
the  of  the  matter  we  have  to  work  upon. 

But,  however,  we  that  can  sit  down  content  with 
honor  and  revenue  without  doing  good,  especially 
in  so  sacred  a  junction,  have,  I  think,  a  low  and 
servile  soul.  But  to  trouble  yor  Grace  no  fur- 
ther, I  doe  for  my  pardon  in  this  affair,  humbly 
confide  in  his  Majies  memory,  and  next  to  that  in 
yor  Grace's  favourable  representation  and  inter- 
cession, which  shall  add  very  much  to  many 
obligements  of,  my  Lord, 

Yor  Grace's  most  humble  Servant. 

K.  LEIGHTON. 

For  my  Lord  Commissioner, 
The  Earle  of  Lauderdale, 
his  Grace. 

xm. 

Edin.  Jan.  20,  [1674?] 
May  it  please  yor  Grace, 

There  is  a  huge  noise  rais'd  here  of  late,  among 
y*  clergy  about  ye  motion  of  a  Convocation,  and 
they  seem  all  hotly  engaged  in  ye  contest  for  or 
against  it,  except  one  that  is  cool  and  indifferent 
in  it,  but  that  poor  man  is  so  to  most  other  things 
that  sett  the  world  on  fire.  As  to  this  desire  it 
was  first  mooted  to  the  Synod  of  Edinburgh,  as  I 
am  informed,  and  hath  been  since  revived  there, 
but  I  hear  it  takes  generally  with  'the  presbyters 


every  where,  and  I  think  it"  is  because  'tis  ye  road, 
and  hath  bin  the  usuall  way  of  ye  Church,  in  cases 
either  of  heresy  or  schism  ;  and  besides  the  genius 
of  this  Church  particularly  lies  much  towards 
Synods  and  Assemblies  since  ye  Reformation.  For 
myself,  I  am  so  far  from  overvaluing  those  meet- 
ings, that  I  am  and  have  long  bin  weary  and  sick 
of  them  all,  and  of  all  the  vain  jangles  and  strifes 
that  usually  take  them  upp ;  and  upon  the  little 
knowledge  I  have  of  them,  when  I  reflect  on  y" 
greatest  part  of  Synods  and  Councils  old  and  new, 
I  have  so  mean  an  opinion  of  them  that  if  I  should 
ever  have  ventured  it,  in  any  of  them  where  I 
have  been,  I  should  have  been  "sure  to  feel  ye 
weight  of  their  censure.  'Tis  true  sometimes,  they 
doe  some  good,  but  none  can  deny  they  doe  like- 
wise sometimes  harm,  and  very  great  harm,  and 
possibly  ye  oftener  of  the  two.  After  the  spread- 
ing of  Luther's  doctrine,  the  Germans  cried  their 
throats  dry  with  calling  for  a  generall  Council, 
and  when  they  had  obteined  it,  all  the  world  knows 
what  they  gained  by  it.  For  the  presbyteries  and 
presbyters  that  have  supplicated  here  for  a  Synod, 

1  could  not  enquire  of  their  motives  before  they 
did  it,  none  of  them  having  acquainted  me  with 
their  purpose ;  but  since  they  did  it  I  have  spoke 
with  some  of  them,  and  they  doe  wholly  disclaim 
all  kind  of  project  or  design  in  it,  save  only  y* 
good  of  this  Church,  and  as  to  the  way  they  used, 
they  say  it  was  with  all  due  respect  and  submis- 
sion to  their  ordinary,  and  finding  reasons  (as  they 
thought)  Tor  offering  their  desire  of  a  thing  law- 
full  in  itself,  and  establisht  by  law  and-  usuall  in 
ye  Church,  they  knew  not  a  more  orderly  way 
than  they  took  for  representing  it  to  the  Bp.,  and 
leaving  it  to  his  judgment,  whether  hee  thought 
fit  to  move  it  or  suppress  it.     How  far  this  may 
plead  their  excuse  yor  Grace  can  judge  as  well  as 
any,  and  that  I  give  your  Grace  this  account  of  it 
is  from  no  motive  but  that  of  charity,  for  there  is 
no  man  lesse  involved  in  ye  concernment  than  I 
am.  —  I  received  lately  a  letter  from  the  Dean  of 
y"  Isles  complaining   of  y°  great  and  many  dis- 
orders in  ye  diocese  for  want  of  a  bishop,  and 
seeming  to  impute  somewhat  of  it  to  my  neglect, 
y*  diocese  being  of  ye  province  of  Glasco,  but 
that  yor  Grace  will  clear  me  of,  having  spoke  of  it 
often,  and  particularly  the  last  winter  while  you 
were  here,  and  having  spoken  of  it,  it  became  mee 
not  to  presse  it  further.    He  desired  likewise,  that 
in  ye  interim  for  redresse  of  those   disorders  I 
would  give  warrant  to  them  to  meet  in  a  diocesan 
Synod,  and  to  appoint  one  to  moderate  in  it,  wh 
it  seems  hee  thought  I  might  doe,  but  I  think  not 
so  unless  I  have  a  particular  command  for  it.     I 
am  minded,  God  willing,  to  goe  from  hence  within 

2  or  3  days,  to  visit  the  southern  and  remoter 
parts  of  the  diocese  of  Glasco,  as  I  have  formerly 
done  in  y*  summer  season,  and  to  doe  it  now  for 
the  last  time,  but  I  shall  leave  directions  how  to 


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end  them,  if  in  the  intervall  any  commands  stall 
come  from  yor  Grace  to 

may  it  please  your  Grace, 

yor  Grace's  most  humble  Servant, 

It.  LEIGHTON. 

For  my  lord  duke  of  Lauderdale 
Hia  Grace. 

XIV. 

Edin.  Dec.  1,  [  1674?]. 
May  it  please  yor  Grace, 

I  think  yc  order  for  advice  from  hence  concern- 
ing ye  Vacant  Bprics,  the  fairest  and  happiest  ex- 
pedient that  could  have  been  thought  on  at  this 
time,  and  the  persons  that  are  to  give  the  advice, 
all  very  fitly  chosen  except  one,  and  yet  that  un- 
worthiest  one  will  not  yield  to  any  in  point  of 
faithfulnesse,  and  impartiality,  and  ardent  desires 
of  public  good.  I  a  in  sorry  to  hear  that  the  late 
Archbp.  hath  troubled  yor  Grace  with  complaints 
about  his  assigned  proportion  out  of  ye  rents  of 
Glasco,  whether  with  justice  or  no  this  brief 
account  will  witnesse.  Y°  Collector  is  ye  same 
that  hee  himself  formerly  employed,  who  says  that 
the  dues  of  one  year  were  usually  scarce  gathered 
in  at  the  end  of  ye  next  year,  and  whether  those 
of  the  year  70  bee  yet  come  in  or  no  I  cannot  tell, 
but  if  they  bee,  the  Collector,  I  believe,  will  be 
ready  to  answer  my  order  showed  him  in  the 
Archbp's.  behalf.  For  myself,  notwithstanding 
my  living  these  two  years  in  Innes,  and  almost 
in  continuall  travel,  and  the  droves  of  poor  that 
come  upon  me  everywhere,  as  if  I  had  found  a 
hoard  of  gold  ;  yet  how  long  I  delayed  so  much  as 
to  borrow  of  ye  Collector,  and  since  I  began  how 
sparing  I  have  bin  to  charge  him,  ye  provost  of 
Glasco,  now  at  London,  can  inform  yor  Grace  ;  so 
that  I  am  sure  I  have  not  prejudged  the  Archbp's 
full  satisfaction  when  he  shall  call  for  it,  though 
not  supposed  to  bee  in  such  pressing  want  as  "to 
need  it  ^  before  it  be  gathered  in.  Nor  shall  I 
grudge  it  at  all,  though  that  revenue,  whatsoever 
it  i.--,  be  charged  with  so  much  due  to  him,  not 
only  for  ye  year  70  but  71  and  72  ;  and  all  the 
time  I  shall  continue  in  that  station.  For  I  bless 
him  that  hath  framed  me  so,  I  believe  few  men  alive 
are  lesse  concerned  in  those  matters  than  I  am. 
But  there  is  one  thing  in  my  present  charge  I  am 
much  concerned  in  and  sollicitous  about,  'tis  ye 
supplying  of  the  vacant  Kirks  in  yc  western  parts, 
especially;  for  y- truth  is,  we  have  not  men  for 
them,  and  ye  people  in  most  of  the  parishes  would 
not  receive  Angels,  if  they  committ  the  horrid 
smne  of  going  to  presbyteries  and  synods.  What 
I  have  to  intreat  at  present  is,  that  I  bee  not  left 
to  struggle  alone  with  so  hard  a  task,  but  may 
nave  assistance  both  of  direction  and  authority  of 
the  lords  of  Councill  or  their  Committee,  or  those 
same  that  are  named  in  the  late  order,  that  I  may 
make  my  address  to  them  in  this  particular,  and 
what  other  difficulties  occur  in  ye  affairs  of  that 


diocese ;  and  that  your  Grace  would  be  pleased  to 
write  a  line  to  my  lord  Chancellor  to  that  effect, 
which  will  add  to  ye  many  and  great  obligements 
of,  my  Lord, 

Yor  Grace's  most  humble  Servant, 

K.  LEIGHTON. 

For  my  lord  Commissioner 
His  Grace. 

XV. 

My  lord,  [1674?]. 

I  am  forced  to  take  this  way,  because  it  is  so 
painfull  to  mee  to  debate  the  buissinesse  any  fur- 
ther with  yo.  lordship,  who  doe  so  strongly  and 
kindly  say  all  that  can  be  said  in  it.  I  have  left 
yo.  lo.  the  trouble  to  send  ye  enclosed  when  you 
have  read  it.  It  may  be  what  I  have  said  will  not 
bee  satisfactory,  for  in  these  things  a  man  is  at  that 
disadvantage  as  in  naturall  aversions  and  antipa- 
thies, one  cannot  give  ye  reason  of  them  to  other 
men,  nor  can  others  by  all  their  reason  save  them, 
but  still  hee  is  forced  to  say  I  like  it  not.  Thus 
I  am  framed  and  I  cannot  help  it.  The  foolish 
strifes  and  noises  that  are  raised  about  religion  I 
have,  as  much  as  I  could,  always  avoided,  and  I 
think  for  this  good  reason  may  bee  given ;  but  it 
may  seem  more  strange  (and  yet  it  is  ye  reall 
truth),  that  ye  secular  advantages  of  that  place  I  do 
degust  as  much  as  the  trouble  of  it,  and  rather  y* 
more  of  ye  two.  And  this  ye  most  of  men  will  be 
apt  to  judge  nothing  but  a  meannesse  of  mind  and 
monastic  humour  ;  but  whatsoever  it  may  bee  'tis 
too  hard  for  mee,  and  I  am  not  able  to  overcome 
it.  I  doe  heartily  wish  the  peace  of  this  Church, 
and  if  before  I  retire  I  could  be  any  way  service- 
able towards  it  I  would  not  withdraw  my  endeavour 
in  any  meeting  for  conference,  or  any  other  way 
that  would  not  immerse  mee  deeper  in  these  con- 
tests, nor  fetter  mee  to  longe  continuance  in  them. 
And  had  I  more  strength  of  body  and  voice,  and 
faculty  of  persuading,  I  would,  in  that  distempered 
corner,  goe  through  the  villages  on  foote  to  calm 
them  into  greater  quietnesse  and  meekness.  My 
lord,  I  hope  the  God  of  peace  will  direct  those 
that  govern  to  ye  fittest  ways  of  peace  and  heal- 
ing, and  will  make  yo.  lo.  particularly  a  happy  in- 
strument of  it.  So  wisheth,  my  Lord, 

Yor  Lors  most  humble  Servant, 

R.  LEIGHTON. 


The  Right  Honorable 

The  Earle  of  Tvveeddale. 


C.  F.  SECRETAN. 


READING  THE  SCRIPTURES  IN  THE 
SIXTEENTH  AND  SEVENTEENTH  CENTURIES. 
The  practice  of  all  persons  reading  and  ex- 
pounding the  Scriptures  for  themselves,  without 
regard  to  class  or  mental  capacity,  appears  to 
have  been  looked  upon  with  much  disfavour  for 
some  time  after  the  Reformation,  and  it  would  be 


I.  MAR.  1,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


167 


interesting  to  know  at  what  time  the  universal 
searching  of  the  Bible,  each  man  for  himself,  be- 
came generally  acquiesced  in. 

It  is  rather  remarkable  that  the  Act  passed  by 
Henry  VIII.,  which  provided  that  all  men  might 
read  the  Scriptures,  except  servants  ;  "  but  no 
woman,  except  ladies  and  gentlewomen  who  had 
leisure,  and  might  ask  somebody  the  meaning," 
should  have  been  repealed  by  his  son  and  successor, 
Edward  VI.  ;  but  the  disfavour  in  which  the  prac- 
tice was  held  by  that  Prince  and  his  advisers  can 
be  best  shown  by  an  example.  In  the  "  Constitu- 
tion Book  "  of  Guildford^  appears  the  following 


"  Anno  Primo  Edw.  VI.  Memorand.  At  this  daye  the 
jurye  do  present  S.  Symonds,  Curate  of  St.  Nicholas,  to 
be  a  letter  *  of  men  to  rede  in  the  byble  from  tyme  to  tyme, 
contrary  to  the  King's  Majesty's  injunctions." 

What  the  learned  John  Selden  thought,  of  the 
practice  may  be  gathered  from  the  small  volume 
of  apothegms,  published  posthumously,  under 
the  title  of  Selden  's  Table  Talk,  by  Richard  Mil- 
ward,  his  amanuensis,  wherein  he  is  made  to  say, 

"  Scrutamini  Scriptura.  These  two  words  have  un- 
done the  world  ;  because  Christ  spake  it  to  his  disciples, 
therefore  we  must  all,  men,  women,  and  children,  read  and 
interpret  the  scriptures." 

This  is  the  doctrine  of  the  Romish  Church;  and 
if  not  trenching  on  forbidden  ground,  I  shall 
feel  obliged  to  any  correspondent  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
who  will  cite  me  to  the  opinions  of  the  early  re- 
formers on  this  subject.  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 


MATHEMATICAL  BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
(Continued from  3rd  S.  i.  65.) 

Whatever  elements  of  uncertainty  there  may  be 
in  the  astronomical  data,  given  in  my  paper  in 
the  current  Diary,  on  which  Colebrooke,  Davis, 
and  Sir  W.  Jones  formed  their  conclusions  as  to 
the  date  of  the  Vedas,  it  is  satisfactory  to  find 
that  Professor  MAX  MULLER,  in  his  "  Lectures  on 
the  Science  of  Language,"  refers  the  dialect  of 
the  Vedas  to  about  1500  B.C.  (see  2nd  ed.,  p.  200), 
and  speaks  of  the  oldest  hymns  of  the  Veda  as 
being  of  about  that  date  (ib.,  pp.  247 — 8).  Be- 
tween this  age  and  that  of  Aryabhatta  some  2000 
years  elapsed,  and  there  was  ample  time  for  algebra 
to  attain  that  highly  advanced_,  state  which  it 
reached  in  his  hands. 

The  results  of  the  comparison  which  I  have 
instituted,  in  these  pages,  between  the  English 
versions  of  the  Indian  algebra  may  perhaps  be 
regarded  as  constituting  an  independent  argu- 
ment in  favour  of  its  genuineness,  and  of  the 
authenticity  Of  the  accounts  of  it.  There  is  no 


[*  A  letter  here  means  an  hinderer.    See  Collect  for 
-the  fourth  Sunday  in  Advent.  — ED.] 


proof  that  this  algebra  was  not  original.  Cole- 
brooke (Alg.,  p.  xlv)  takes  the  fifth  century  as 
the  latest  period  to  which  Aryabhatta  can,  on  the 
most  moderate  assumption,  be  referred.  And  it 
seems  that  there  is  a  work  of  Aryabhatta,  the 
Aryabhattiyam,  apparently  'unknown  to  Cole- 
brooke, in  which  he  mentions  the  epoch  of  his 
birth  in  a  manner  which  places  him  at  the  end  of 
that  century.  (De  Morgan,  P.  C.,  art.  Viga 
Ganita,  citing  Mr.  Whish,  Mem.  Asiatic  Soc.,  vol. 
iii.)  But  Aryabhatta  would  still  be  anterior  to 
the  Grecian  algebraist.  For  Professor  DE  MOR- 
GAN, at  p.  47  of  his  Arithmetical  Books,  (London, 
Taylor  and  Walton,  1847)  appears  to  have  given 
sufficient  reason  for  supposing  Diophantus  to  have 
written  as  late  as  the  beginning  of  the  seventh 
century. 

If  we  adopt  this  important  conclusion  of  Prof. 
DE  MORGAN,  and  combine  it  with  the  fact  that 
the  Indian  algebraist  was  more  advanced  in  the 
science  (see  Colebrooke's  Alg.,  p.  x)  than  the 
Grecian,  it  gives  a  negative  to  the  suggestion  of 
Colebrooke  (Alg.,  p.  xxiv)  that  the  solution  of 
equations  involving  only  one  unknown  term,  as 
taught  by  Diophantus,  was  made  known  to  the 
Hindus  ;  and  that  by  the  ingenuity  of  the  Hindu 
scholars  the  hint  was  rendered  fruitful,  and  the 
algebraic  method  soon  ripened  from  that  slender 
beginning  to  the  advanced  state  of  a  well-arranged 
science,  as  it  was  taught  by  Aryabhatta. 

Aryabhatta,  as  Colebrooke  (Alg.,  p.  xxxviii) 
informs  us,  affirmed  the  diurnal  rotation  of  the 
earth,  possessed  the  true  theory  of  eclipses,  noticed 
the  motion  of  the  solstitial  and  equinoctial  points, 
ascribed  to  the  epicycles  a  form  nearly  elliptic, 
and  recognized  a  motion  of  the  nodes  and  apsides 
of  all  the  primary  planets  as  well  as  of  the  moon ; 
and  his  text  specifies  the  earth's  diameter,  1050 
yojanas,  and  the  orbit  or  circumference  of  the 
earth's  wind  3393  yojanas,  the  diameter  of  this 
orbit,  according  to  the  remark  of  Brahmegupta, 
being  1080  yojanas. 

On  this  Colebrooke  observes  that  the  propor- 
tion of  the  circumference  to  the  diameter  of  a 
circle  here  employed  is  that  of  22  to  7.  But  the 
approximation,  which  may  (ibid.)  be  presumed 
to  be  one  which  Aryabhatta  taught,  is  nearer 
than  Colebrooke  supposes,  for  1080  :  3393  gives 
3.1416f,  while  7  :  22  gives  3.142^.  Aryabhatta 
also  appears  to  have  made  use  of  the  ratio  of  one 
to  the  square  root  of  ten  (ib.  p.  xxxix),  which 
gives  3.162278  nearly.  And  in  the  Aryabhattiyam 
he  gives  the  circumference  of  the  circle  at  3.1416 
times  its  diameter  (De  Morgan,  P.  C.,  art.  Viga 
Ganita,  citing  Whish)  :  that  is  to  say,  I  presume, 
he  assigns  the  ratio  1250  :  3927.  Colebrooke 
states  (Alg.,  p.  xxxix)  that  in  addition  to  the 
ratio  one  to  the  square  roofc  of  ten  Bhascara 
adds,  apparently  from  some  other  authority,  this 
nearer  approximation.  The  authority  may  have 


168 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


L3"i  S.  I.  MAR.  1,  '62. 


been  Aryabhatta.  It  should  be  noticed  here  that 
the  number  of  3300  yojanas  for  the  circumference 
of  the  earth,  which  is  about  that  to  which  Ary 
abhatta's  estimate  of  the  diameter  leads,  is  no 
very  wide  of  the  truth,  and  perhaps  gives  a  very 
near  approach,  viz.  25080  miles  (ibid). 

Thus  we  find  Aryabhatta  in  possession  of  three 
approximations,  and  perhaps  four,  for  Colebrooke 
says  that  applying  the  ratio  7  :  22  to  the  earth's 
diameter  as  by  Aryabhatta  assigned,  viz.  1050. 
the  circumference  of  the  earth  is  3300  (Alg.,  p, 
xxxviii)  ;  which  evidently  constitutes  the  dimen- 
sions by  him  intended  :  and  that  that  number  is 
accordingly  stated  by  Ganesa  (ib.  p.  xxxix.) 
Hence,  if  this  mean  that  Aryabhatta  intended 
the  particular  number  3300,  we  may  regard  him 
as  knowing  the  four  approximations 

3.162278,  3.142^,  3.1416&  3.1416  ; 
results  jwhich  seem  to  indicate  that  he  possessed  a 
method  of  continuous  approximation.     Was  this 
method  specially  connected  with  the  algebra  ? 

If  it  was,  we  should  expect  to  find  some  traces 
of  it  in  the  doctrine  of  the  square  and  cube  roots. 
There  is  however  none  in  the  text  of  Brahnie- 
gupta's  Ganitadhyaya,  and  in  the  exemplifications 
of  evolution  by  Prithudaca  the  given  numbers 
are  perfect  squares  or  cubes.  See  pp.  279 — 281 
of  ^Colebrooke's  Alg.  Nor  do  I  find  that  in  the 
strictly  arithmetical  portions  of  the  Lilavati  (ib. 
pp.  9—12,  Taylor,  pp.  15—16,  20-22)  or  Vija 
ganita  (Colebrooke,  p.  135,  Strachey,  p.  15)  or 
their  Commentaries,  evolution  is  illustrated,  save 
by  perfect  powers. 

JAMES  COCKLE,  M.A,,  &c. 
4,  Pump  Court,  Temple,  London. 


THE  SOCIETY  OF  ANTIQUARIES. 
"  Ah !  pardon  me,  that  Nature  stamped  me  woman !  " 

Is  there  no  hope,  dear  Mr.  Editor,  of  per- 
suading this  ancient  and  illustrious  Society  to 
rescind  that  portion  of  its  rules  which  forbids  the 
admission  of  ladies  ?  I  am  sorry  that  these 
learned  misogynists  should  consider  antiquarian- 
ism  and  the  fair  sex  so  incompatible. 

What  then  is  to  become  of  us  literary  women  ? 
is  our  sex  to  debar  us  for  ever  from  communica- 
tion and  interchange  of  literary  kindness  with  our 
antiquarian  brethren  ?  We  certainly  cannot  be- 
siege their  doors  in  the  garb  of  Agnodice.  If 
the  Fellows  think  that  our  presence  would  be  a 

idrance,  we  do  not  need  to  attend  the  meet- 

oft;  fut   7  v["ht  at  least  allow  11S  to  borr°w 

oks  from  the  library,  and  to  receive  the  pub- 

t  Ath-  S°'iety-  But  if  the  vensrable 
,  A^uanes  continues  to  bar  its  doors 
us,  is  there  no  possibility  of  a  Ladies' 

rS°fe-y-?  -W°Uld  »0t  tbe    ^er-y 
d  join  m  the  formation  of  one? 


A  Ladies'  Society,  however,  should  'certainly  per- 
mit no  departure  from  one  stringent  rule,  which 
would  be  unnecessary  in  an  assembly  of  anti- 
quaries of  both  sexes,  viz.,  that  any  member  in- 
troducing the  subjects  of  babies  or  bonnets  (other- 
wise  than  for  an  archaeological  purpose)  should 
be  immediately  rusticated.  Seriously,  first,  will 
the  Society  of  Antiquaries  not  take  pity  on  us  ? 
And  secondly,  if  that  may  not  be,  are  there  not 
sufficient  literary  women  in  England  to  form  a 
separate  Society  ?  I  only  suggest  the  latter  as  a 
feeble  substitute  for  the  former.  If  both  these 
propositions  fall  to  the  ground,  my  sole  consola- 
tion must  be  to  buy  up  all  the  back  volumes  of 
the  Archceologia,  and,  retiring  into  my  cell,  sigh, 
for  the  firstjime  in  my  life,  that  I  was  born  a 
woman.  HERMENTRUDE. 


iJHtturr 

RICHARD  MARTIN,  Recorder  of  London,  died 
in  the  year  1618*,  leaving  his  brother,  the  mayor 
of  Exeter,  his  executor. 

In  his  will  (in  the  Prerogative  Office  of  Canter- 
bury) he  leaves  —  "  51.  to  Otterton,  where  I  was 
born,  and  51.  to  Calliton  Raleigh  where  my  house 
standeth."  Both  are  in  Devonshire. 

PETER  CUNNINGHAM. 

DICK  BROME. — In  the  Accounts  of  the  Trea- 
surer of  the  Chamber  (MS.),  temp.  Charles  I.,  is 
this  entry  :  — 

"  To  John  Flemings  and  his  fellowes  by  Vertue  of  a 
Warrant  dated  the  xxvij*  of  April],  1629,  for  acting  the 
Play  called  the  Loue  Sicke  Maid,  x11." 

PETER  CUNNINGHAM. 

"  MY  FIST  WEIGHS  EXACTLY  A  POUND." — Being 
on  business  in  a  country  shop  in  Herefordshire, 
I  heard  a  clownish-looking  fellow  say  to  the  shop- 
keeper, who  could  not  find  his  weights,  "  Here, 
never  mind,  my  fist  weighs  exactly  a  pound." 
Having  heard  the  saying  many  times  before,  I  felt 
desirous  of  knowing  what  gave  rise  to  it,  so  I 
asked  an  old  man  (who  was  sitting  quietly  in  one 
corner  waiting  his  turn  to  be  served,  and  who 
evidently  had  lived  longer  than  the  "  threescore 

ears  and  ten"  allotted  to  man)  if  he  could  tell 
me  the  origin  of  it.  The  substance  of  his  narra- 
tion, divested  of  provincialisms,  is  as  follows  :  — 

"About  a  vifty  year  ago  old  Betty  Saunders  kep(t) 
ihop  in  this  village,  and  one  day  I  vvur  sent  for  summit 
or  my  mother,  and  old  Betty  couldn't  vind  (find)  her 

[*  Richard  Martin  was  only  Kecorder  for  a  few  weeks. 
Je  was  elected  and  sworn,  on  the  King's  recommendation, 
n  the  1st  October,  1618  ;  and  his  successor,  Robert  Heath, 
n  the  10th  Nov.  1618.    The  latter  appears  to  have  been 
a  special  favourite  with  the  Corporation ;  for  on  the  1st 
fuly,  1619,  on  his  being  appointed  Reader  of  the  Inner 
Temple,  he  was  presented  with  100/.,  two  hogsheads  of 
:laret,  and  one  pipe  of  canary,  of  the  especial  love  and 
avour  of  the  Court.     Vide  Recorders  of  the  City  of  Lon- 
don, 1298—1850,  p.  10,  4to.    Privately  printed*  —  ED.  ] 


3rd  g.  i.  MAR.  1,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


169 


weight  like  this  mon  here  (pointing  to  the  shopkeeper), 
so  one  on  urn  in  the  shop  sings  out,  like  that  chap  did 
just  now,  — '  Here  never  mind,  ray  fist  weighs  exactly  a 
pound.'  •  Do  uh  (it),'  says  Betty, « let's  see' ;  so  the  bacon 
(aboutli  Ibs.)  was  put  in  one  side  the  scale,  and  the « fist ' 
in  the  other;  but  in  course  it  was  just  balance,  and  no 
more;  but  just  as  the  fellow  turned  to  leave,  the  missing 
weight  wur  found.  'Stop ! '  shouts  out  old  Betty,  « let's 
try  now';  but  him  wur  too  dip  (deep)  for  her,  and  in- 
stead of  putting  the  bacon  in  one  scale  and  the  weight 
in  the  other,  him  put  the  weight  in  one  side  and  his  fist 
in  the  other,  when  in  coorse  it  just  balanced  again. 
« Well  done,'  cries  old  Betty ;  '  and  there  is  a  couple  o' 
red  yerrings  for  th'ee  honesty.'  " 

CHARLES  HOOK,  JUN. 
Hereford. 

KLEPTOMANIA.  —  From  the  following  quotation 
from  the  Sketch  of  Henri  IV.,  by  Tallemant  des 
Reaux,  it  would  seem  that  thisjamous  monarch 
was  infected  with  this  disease  : 

"II  estoit  larron  naturellement ;  il  ne  pouvoit  s'empes- 
cher  de  prendre  ce  qu'il  trouvoit ;  mais  il  le  renvoyoit. 
II  disoit  que  s'il  n'eust  estd  Roy,  il  eust  este  pendu,"  — 
Historiettes,  art.  Henri  IV.,  vol.  i.  p.  19. 

LIONEL  G.  ROBINSON. 

PRINCE  GEORGE  or  DENMARK. — At  the  time  of 
the  death  of  the  lamented  Prince  Consort,  some  of 
the  newspapers,  in-  taking'  a  survey  of  the  cha- 
racters of  the  consorts  of  the  female  sovereigns  of 
this  realm,  had  a  fling  at  Prince  George  of  Den- 
mark, who  was  sneered  at  as  a  dunce  and  a 
drunkard.  This  was  not  a  just  estimate  of  the 
husband  of  Queen  Anne.  His  vices  were  the 
vices  of  the  age  in  which  he  lived  ;  but  it  should 
not  be  forgotten  that  science  is  indebted  to  the 
liberality  of  Prince  George  for  the  publication  of 
the  first  volume  of  Flamsteed's  Historia  Ccelestis, 
which  contained  the  whole  of  the  sextant  observa- 
tions of  the  first  "  Astronomical  Observator  "  ever 
appointed  at  Greenwich,  and  was  published  at  the 
cost  of  the  Prince.  Other  instances  of  a  wise 
liberality  in  the  encouragement  of  science  and 
literature  on  the  part  of  Prince  George  might  be 
adduced.  JOHN  PA  YIN  PHILLIPS.^ 

Haverfordwest. 

BAXTER'S  LONG  SERMON. — In  a  volume  lately 
published,  entitled  Jyseph  Alleine ;  his  Life  and 
Times,  by  Charles  Stanford,  reference  is  made 
(p.  270)  to  a  sermon  preached  before  Charles  II. 
by  Richard  Baxter;  which  sermon  "could  not 
have  been  recited,"  it  is  said,  "  by  the  most  rapid 
voice  in  less  than  two  hours."  Mr.  Stanford  cites 
as  his  authority  "  Sir  James  Stephen." 

The  same  or  worse  has  been  said  of  a  sermon  of 
Barrow's ;  but  with  respect  to  Baxter's  long  ser- 
mon, as  it  has  been  called,  the  statement  is  cer- 
tainly incorrect. 

Baxter's  sermon  on  the  occasion  referred  to 
was  preached  before  the  king,  July  22nd,  1660, 
and  published  Jn  the  same  year.  It  is  in  small 
quarto,  and  contains  seventy  pages.  It  would 
not  take  two  hours,  even  without  "  rapid  "  utter- 


ance, to  recite  the  whole  of  it.  Orme,  in  his  Life  of 
Baxter,  has  liberally  supposed  that  it  might  occupy 
one  hour  and  a  half  in  the  delivery,  but  the  fact 
recorded  on  the  title-page,  that  it  was  preached 
before  the  king  "  contractedly,"  seems  to  have 
been  overlooked.  A  brief  address  to  the  reader, 
prefixed  to  the  published  sermon,  points  out  the 
very  considerable  "  enlargements  "  it  underwent, 
which  comprise  a  great  amplification  of  the  several 
heads  which  occur  between  pages  6  and  47,  and 
also  the  addition  of  jive  pages  of  matter  after  page 
55.  It  is,  therefore,  more  than  probable  that  the 
king,  as  Baxter's  hearer,  had  not  to  endure  a  dis- 
course of  more  than  moderate  length.  It  is  true 
that  the  pulpit  addresses  in  Baxter's  and  Barrow's 
time  were  not  "just  fifteen  minutes  "  long,  as  de- 
scribed by  Cowper ;  neither,  on  the  other  hand, 
were  they  of  such  an  extreme  length  as  some  of 
our  pleasant  writers  and  lecturers  are  prone  to  re- 
present. X.  A.  X. 

FEINAIGLE'S  "  ART  or  MEMORY."  —  Future  bi- 
bliographers may  perhaps  be  interested  to  know 
that  Mr.  John  Millard  was  the  author  of  — 

"  The  New  Art  of  Memory,  founded  upon  the  Principles 
taught  by  M.  Gregor  Von  Feinaigle.  To  which  is  added 
some  account  of  the  principal  systems  of  Artificial  Me- 
mory from  the  earliest  period  to  the  present  time.  Illus- 
trated by  engravings.  London,  12mo,  1812, 1813."  (Two 
editions  in  the  latter  year.) 

This  fact  was  communicated  to  me  by  the  late 
Rev.  Thomas  Hartwell  Home,  who  was  brother- 
in-law  to  Mr.  Millard,  and  assisted  him  in  taking 
notes  of  Feinaigle's  lectures,  and  preparing  the 
above-named  publication  for  the  press. 

Mr.  Millard,  it  may  be  mentioned,  held  the 
situation  of  assistant-librarian  to  the  Surrey  In- 
stitution, where  Professor  wFeinaigle  delivered  his 
mnemonical  lectures.  He  was  the  compiler  of — 

"  The  New  Pocket  Cyclopedia ;  or  Elements  of  Useful 
Knowledge  methodically  arranged;  designed  for  the 
higher  classes  in  schools,  and  for  young  persons  in  gene- 
ral. London,  12mo,1811,  1813." 

THOMPSON  COOPER,  F.S.A. 


REV.  DR.  SAMUEL  BOLTON. — Information  is 
requested  respecting  the  birth-place  and  parentage 
of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Bolton,  D.D.,  Master  of 
Christ  Church,  Cambridge,  and  Minister  of  St. 
Martin's,  Ludgate  Street,  London?  He  died 
15th  Oct.  1654,  aged  forty- eight ;  buried  at  St. 
Martin's.  His  arms  were:  Sa.  a  falcon,  arg. 
becked,  legged,  and  billed  or. 

T.  O.  HlNCHCLlPFE. 

FORMAN,  DR.  —  Aubrey  (Miscett.)  says  that  in 
a  MS.  of  Dr.  Forman  (which  Ashmolc  had)  is 
a  discourse  of  Crystallomancy,  containing  the 
prayers  used  before  the  inspection,  and  n  also 
there  is  a  call  which  Dr.  Napier  kdid  use.  Is 
this  MS.  in  existence  ?  DELTA. 


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s.  I.  MAR.  1,  '62. 


GENEALOGY  OF  THE  FAMILY  OF  LOFTUS. — I 
have  tried  many  sources,  but  without  success, 
to  find  the  pedigree  of  this  family  farther  back 
than  the  time  of  Henry  VIII.,  as  it  is  given  by 
Burke  in  his  Peerage :  where  he  states  that  it  was 
of  consideration  in  Saxon  times  in  Yorkshire,  and 
that  certain  documents  in  the  archives  of  York 
Minster  contain  notices  of  it.  I  am  anxious  to 
find  also,  what  the  original  arms  of  the  family 
were.  The  coat  at  present  used  is  apparently 
very  modern.  Perhaps  some  of  your  numerous 
correspondents  can  enlighten  me  on  these  points. 
The  crest  —  a  boar's  head  —  is  said  to  point  to 
Swineshead,  Yorkshire,  as  the  former  seat  of 
the  family ;  and,  I  believe,  Lofthouse  Hall,  now 
or  lately  the  seat  of  the  Dealtry  family,  is  in  that 
neighbourhood.  There  are  still  persons  of  the 
name  in  Yorkshire,  as  I  see  by  the  Militia  Lists. 
WILLIAM  DE  GULDEFORDE. 

King's  Inns  Library,  Dublin. 

P.S.  The  arms  referred  to  above  are  :  Sable,  a 
chevron  engrailed  ermine,  inter  3  trefoils  slipped 
argent. 

GEORGE  CHAPMAN,  the  dramatist  and  transla- 
tor of  Homer,  was  born  in  1557,  it  is  said  "  at 
Hitching  Hill  in  ye  county  of  Hertford."  Any 
entry  of  his  baptism  at  Hitchin,  or  elsewhere  ? 

PETER  CUNNINGHAM. 

"HAKON  JARL."  — Who  is  the  translator  of 
Hakon  Jarl,  by  (Ehlenschlager,  and  Poems  from 
the  Danish,  published  about  1839,  Hookham  ? 

ZETA. 

REV.  ROEERT  I  SKES.  —  I  am  desirous  of  ascer- 
taining the  birth-place  and  parentage  of  this 
divine,  who  was  ordained  by  the  Bishop  of  London 
sometime  between  1740  and  1750,  and  sent  as  a 
missionary  to  the  colony  of  Virginia. 

Perhaps  your  valued  correspondents  MESSRS. 
C.  H.  &  THOMPSON  COOPER  can  assist  me  in  this 
matter-  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

PARKES.  —  Information  requested  respecting 
the  early  pedigree  of  a  family  of  Parkes,  located 
at  Cakemore  parish,  Hales  Owen,  Worcestershire; 
the  seals  of  whose  wills  bear  these  arms  :  Ermine 
or  erminois,  a  stag's  head  caboshed  ? 

W.  A.  LEIGHTON. 
Shrewsbury. 

LADY  MARY  PERCY.  —  Can  any  reader  furnish 
e  With  information  about  Lady  Mary  Percy, 
daughter  of  Thomas,  Earl  of  Northumberland, 
executed  at  York,  Aug.  22,  1572,  by  order  of 
JUizaleth.  His  daughter  is  said  to  have  escaped 
Tom  prison,  aml  to  have  found  an  asylum  at 
Brussels  ;  where  she  founded,  in  1598,  a  Bene- 
dictine convent  for  English  nuns.  Where,  and 
why  was  she  imprisoned  ?  A  E  L 


R.  PRICE,  JUN.  —  Can  you  give  me  any  inform- 
ation regarding  R.  Price,  Jun.,  author  of  William 
Tell,  a  Drama,  from  the  German  (ao  date)  ? 
Heber  MSS.  (1621)  p.  170.  ZETA. 

A  POPE  BURNED.  —  The  other  day  I  met  with  a 
curious  story  in  a  law  book,  the  reference  being 
given  as  "  Year-book  M.  8  Hen.  VI.  20."  It  ap- 
peared, that  an  action  being  brought  against  the 
Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Oxford  for  tres- 
pass, he  claimed  to  have  cognizance  thereof.  This 
claim  was  resisted  ;  and  on  the  case  coming  on 
for  argument,  Serj.  Rolfe,  on  behalf  of  the  Chan- 
cellor, related  the  following  story  in  the  course  of 
his  speech :  — 

"  Jeo  vous  dirai  un  fable.  En  ascun  temps  fuit  un 
pape,  et  avoit  fait  un  grand  offence,  et  les  cardinals  vin- 
drent  a  luy  et  disoyent  a  luy,  Peccasti :  et  il  dit  Judica 
me  :  et  ils  disoyent,  Non  possumus,  quia  capnt  es  ecclesice  : 
judica  teipsum :  et  1'apostle  dit  Judico  me  cremari ;  et 
fuit  combustus ;  et  apres  fuit  un  sainct,  et  issint  n'est  pas 
inconvenient  que  un  home  soit  juge  demene." 

Is  there  any  foundation  for  the  learned  Ser- 
jeant's statement  ?  And  if  there  be,  who  was  the 
Pope,  who,  for  his  heroic  self-sacrifice,  certainly 
deserves  at  least  to  be  remembered  ?  J.  A.  PN. 

QUOTATIONS  WANTED.  — 

"  Move  on,  ye  wheels  of  Time, 
Fast  as  ye  bring  the  night  of  death 
Ye  bring  Eternal  Day." 

C.  J.  W. 

"  The  strange  superfluous  glory  of  the  air." 

R.  B. 

"  Please  all  men  in  the  truth ;  wound  not  the  truth  to 
please  any." 

W.  I.  S.  H. 

SURPLICE  WORN  IN  PRIVATE  ADMINISTRATION 
OF  THE  COMMUNION.  —  One  of  your  correspon- 
dents may  answer  a  Query :  Is  a  clergyman  fol- 
lowing any  law  of  the  church,  when  he  wears  a 
surplice  in  the  administration  of  the  Holy  Com- 
munion of  the  Sick  in  a  private  house  ?  I  was 
not  aware  of  the  custom,  until  I  found  my  curate 
adopting  it  soon  after  he  came  to  me. 

A  BERKSHIRE  CLERGYMAN. 

TENURE  OF  THE  MANOR  OF  ADDINGTON,  co. 
SURREY.  —  The  nature  of  the  serjeantry  (says 
Lysons)  is  — 

"  by  the  service  of  making  hastias,  as  the  record  ex- 
presses it,  in  the  king's  kitchen  on  the  day  of  his  corona- 
tion, of  finding  a  person  who  should  make  for  him  a 
certain  pottage  called  the  mess  of  Gyron,  or  if  seym  be 
added  to  it,  it  is  called  Maupygernon :  the  seym  in  an- 
other record  is  called  unguentum.  Sir  Robert  Aquillon 
held  it  precisely  by  the  same  service,  and  the  dish  is 
mentioned  by  the  same  name  (viz.  le  Mess  de  Gyron)  in 
the  pleas  of  the  crown;  though  Blount  has  quoted  it 
thence  by  the  name  of  Delligront,  and  Aubrey  has  copied 
his  mistake." 

Lysons  continues  : 

"  The  service  is  still  kept  up,  and  a  dish  of  pottage 


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NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


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was  presented  to  the  present  king  at  his  coronation  ;  but 
I  cannot  find  that  there  exists  any  ancient  receipt  for  the 
making  of  it." 

In  Harl.  MS.  313,  fol.  23,  this  tenure  is  de- 
scribed :  — 

"  Willielmus  Aquillon  tenet  quandam  terram  in  villa 
de  Adington  per  serjeantiam  faciendi  hastias  in  coquina 
domini  Regis  die  coronacionis  sue  vel  aliquis  pro  eo 
debit  facere  ferculnm  quoddam  quod  yocatur  Girunt  et  si 
apponatur  sagium  tune  vocatar  Malpigernoun." 

The  orthography  is  not  always  similar ;  as  in 
one  Inquisition  p.  m.  it  is  written  messe  degeron. 
May  it  not  be  the  Norman-French  form  of  girum, 
or  gurum,  a  kind  of  meal ;  and  hastias,  some  ana- 
logy with  the  word  hastig  (vide  Lexiqm  Roman)  ? 
So  that  this  dish  may  have  been  a  kind  of  hasty - 
pudding,  made  with  coarse  meal.  Can  any  of 
your  contributors  suggest  an  interpretation  of 
Maupygeruoui  better  than  Mauprest-gernon  ? 

C.  H. 

LODVICK  VERELST. — The  mention  by  your  cor- 
respondent, at  p.  76  of  your  last  volume,  of  the 
artist  (Simon)  Verelst,  reminds  me  of  an  obituary 
memorial  of  a  person  of  this  name  in  the  parish 
church  of  Old  Swinford,  Worcestershire,  which 
bears  the  following  inscription  :  — 

"  Near  this  place  lies  interred  the  body  of  Mr.  Lodvick 
Verelst,  who  departed  this  life  28  Oct.  1704,  in  the  36th 
year  of  his  age." 

Query,  Who  was  this  person  ?  Simon  Verelst 
died  in  1710.  H.  S.  G. 

ULBIC  VON  HUTTEN.  —  In  the  1st  and  2nd  vols. 
of  "  N.  &  Q."  (1st  S.)  are  various  notes  from  Mr. 
S.  W.  SINGER  and  others,  relating  to  Ulric  von  Hut- 
ten,  the  Reformer.  I  am  very  desirous  to  obtain 
his  portrait,  and  a  translation  (published,  I  be- 
lieve, in  1789)  of  Goethe's  Tribute  to  his  memory, 
which  I  am  told  contains  some  genealogical  par- 
ticulars relating  to  him.  His  descendants  amal- 
gated  his  Christian  and  surnames,  and  called 
themselves  "  Ulhutten,"  probably  to  escape  reli- 
gious persecution.  My  chief  object  is  to  prove 
the  Bavarian  family  of  "  Uhlenhut "  or  "  Uhlen- 
huth"  to  be  also  derived  from  him.  I  should 
esteem  as  a  great  favour  any  assistance  in  this  in- 
quiry which  any  contributor  will  give  me.  Ulric 
was  of  a  noble  family  ;  his  cousin  Count  von  Hut- 
ten  was  murdered  by  Ulric,  Duke  of  Wurtemburg. 

S.  T. 

WAITS  'OF  THE  CITY  or  LONDON.  —  In  a  debate 
on  a  "  Bill  touching  rogues,  vagabonds,  and  sturdy 
beggars,"  in  Cromwell's  Parliament  of  1656,  Mr. 
Robinson  hoped  that  fiddlers  and  minstrels  would 
be  included,  as  they  "  did  corrupt  the  manners  of 
the  people  and  inflame  their  debauchery  by  lewd 
and  obscene  songs."  Sir  Thomas  Wroth  "  would 
have  harpers  included,"  and  another  worthy  mem- 
ber ejaculated,  "Pipers  should  be  comprehended ;" 
'whereupon  Alderman  Hooke,  said  "  I  hope  you  in- 


tend not  to  include  the  waits  of  the  city  of  London, 
which  are  a  great  preservation  of  mens'  houses  in 
the  night." 

I  gather  the  above  from  Burton's  Diary,  and 
my  object  is  to  inquire  whether  the  waits  in  the 
middle  of  the  seventeenth  century  were  in  the 
habit  of  perambulating  the  city  nightly,  as  the 
alderman's  remarks  would  indicate  ? 

D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

WARDEN  OF  THE  ENGLISH  AND  SCOTTISH 
MARCHES. — How  early  was  any  appointment  of  a 
Warden  of  the  English  Marches  against  Scotland? 

L.  X.  R. 

"  WHIP  UP  SMOUCHT  OR  PONT."  —  Not  being  a 
regular  reader  of  anything,  I  cannot  be  sure  that 
I  have  seen  every  number  of  "  N.  &  Q."  since 
(with  the  signature  of  AN  UNFASHIONABLE)  I 
asked  an  explanation  of  this  term.  But  your 
annual  Index  shows  that  no  reply  has  appeared. 
Are  we  to  suppose  that  no  fashionable  people  read 
"  N.  &  Q."  ?  Or  that  the  romp  of  "  Whip  up 
Smouchy  or  Pont,"  patronised  by  fashionable 
young  ladies,  is  too  naughty  to  be  described  ?  Or 
that  The  Times'  writer  who  mentioned  it  was 
hoaxing  us,  and  there  is  no  such  thing  ?  I  pause 
for  a  reply  —  which  no  questioner  of  "  £T.  &  Q." 
need  do  for  any  length  of  time. 

MORTIMER  COLLINS. 


ISLE  OF  LUNDY.  —  Can  any  of  your  correspon- 
dents help  me  to  any  information  respecting  the 
Isle  of  Lundy  in  the  Severn,  its  history,  antiqui- 
ties, possessors,  &c.,  &c.  To  save  labour,  I  have 
all  the  information  from  Francis  Grose's  Antiqui- 
ties of  England  and  Wales ;  Magnce  Brit.  Antiq. ; 
Lysons's  Magna  Brit. ;  Beauties  of  England  and 
Wales;  Gent's  Magazine;  Camden ;  Hearne's 
Leland's  Itinerary  ;  Hist,  of  Secret  Societies;  Par- 
liamentary Gazetteer;  Drayton  the  Poet;  Wil- 
liams's  Picturesque  Devonshire;  but  shall  feel 
deeply  obliged  by  any  further  particulars. 

CHARLES  CLAY,  M.D. 

TA  long  and  interesting  account  of  the  Isle  of  Lundy, 
by  G.  Steinman  Steinman,  Esq.,  is  printed  in  Collectanea 
Topographica  et  Genealogica,  iv.  313—330  :  see  also  in  the 
same  work  other  notices  in  iii.  254,  272  ;  iv.  402 ;  v.  401. 
In  the  British  Museum  are  the  two  following  works: 
Declaration  of  the  Surrender  of  the  Garrison  of  Lundy, 
4to,  Lond.  1647 :  Passages  in  the  Treaty  of  the  Surrender 
of  the  Garrison  of  Lundy,  4to,  Lond.  1647.  The  pub- 
lished Calendars  of  the  State  Papers  also  contain  manv 
references  to  this  island.  Vide  the  Index  to  each  volume.  ] 

EXORCISM  :  LUTHER.  —  The  Devil,  though  ill- 
mannered  himself,  is  very  touchy  at  ill-manners 
in  others.  Luther  says  that  he  drove  him  away 
by  calling  him  an  ass,  and  other  opprobrious 


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[3«i  S.  I.  MAR.  1,  '62. 


games ;  and  one  of  the  four  infallible  rules  by 
which  exorcists  detect  those  evil  spirits  whi«h  put 
on  the  form  of  angels  of  light,  to  entrap  him  to 
whom  they  appear  into  worship,  "is  to  say  some- 
thing offensive  and  scornful,  upon  which  they 
will  generally  depart  with  noise,  and  perhaps 
mischief."—^.  Short  History  of  Evil  Spirits,  Lon- 
don, 1729,  p.  254. 

I  shall  be  glad  of  a  reference  to  the  works  of 
Luther,  or  his  biographers,  in  which  the  often- 
repeated  story  of  his  driving  away  the  Devil  is 
mentioned.  What  are  the  "four  infallible  rules"? 

W.  D. 

[A  full  account  of  his  mental  conflicts  (or  "  temptations 
of  Satan,"  as  he  considered  them)  is  set  forth  in  The  Life 
of  Luther,  written  by  himself,  and  collected  and  arranged 
by  M.  Miohelet  (Bogue's  European  Library,  I2mo.  Lond. 
1840.)  Consult,  also  The  Table-Talk  of  Martin  Luther, 
translated  by  Hazlitt,  which  abounds  with  references  to 
tile  Evil  One,  who  "  is  a  proud  Spirit,  and  cannot  endure 
scorn,"  and  his  practices  on  Christians.  (jBo/m's  Stan- 
dard Library,  12ino,  Lond.  1857.)] 

Miss  POND.  —  In  the  course  of  my  endeavours 
to  elucidate  my  own  Query  about  engraved  heads 
(ante,  p.  110.),  I  chanced  upon  these  particulars 
in  Bryan's  Dictionary  of  Painters  and  En- 
gravers :  — 

"  He  [Thomas  Frye]  ako  scraped  several  plates  of 
portraits  in  mezzotinto,  most  of  which  are  as  large  as 
life.  Among  others  are  the  following:  his  Majesty 
George  the  Third  ;  the  Queen;  that  of  his  wife;  and  the 
celebrated  Miss  Pond." 

The  only  light  this  throws  upon  my  inquiry  is  ! 
that  the  female  portrait  in  my  possession  may  j 
represent  one  or  other  of  these  ladies,  but  it  I 
shows  that  the  number  of  engravings  in  this  style 
exceeds  the  six  spoken  of  by  Edwards.  My  ob-  | 
ject  in  noticing  the  above  extract,  however,  is  j 
chiefly  to  ask  a  question,  namely,  who  was  Miss  | 
Pond,  and  for  what  celebrated  ?  CHARLES  WYLIE.  i 

[Miss  Pond  was  the  daughter  of  Mr.  John  Pond,  well  \ 
known  on  the  race-course  in  the  middle  of  the  last  cen-  ! 
tury.  She  is  the  lady  who  rode  a  thousand  miles  in  a  ' 
thousand  hours  on  one  horse  at  Newmarket,  which  she  ! 
completed  on  May  3,  1758.  This  incident  forms  the  sub-  i 
&  0T,,im  [^mirable  ironical  paper  by  Dr.  Johnson  hi  | 
The  Idler,  ^.  C.  Miss  Pond  fell  in  love  with  Willie  i 
U  Bryen,  the  actor  and  dramatist,  who  however  clamles-  1 
tine  y  married  Lady  Susan  Strangeways,  eldest  daughter 
of  Stephen  I  ox,  the  first  Lord  Holland.] 

SMUGGLING.  —  Is  there  such  a  thing  as  a  "His-  I 
tory  of  Smuggling?'      There  are  many  floating 
anecdotes  about  smugglers,  but  I  should  be  Mad  I 
to  meet  with  a  book,  if  any  such  there  be,  mvm*  ! 
something  l.ke  a  general  view  of  this  once  flourish, 
ing,  but  now  happily  almost  extinct,  business. 

T       p      I 


bending,  among  other  particulars,  the  Parliamentary 
evidence  of  some  Notorious  Smugglers,  &c.&c.  8vo,  Lond. 
1763.] 

JOHN  WHITNEY.  —  Who  was  "  John  Whitney, 
a  Lover  of  the  Angle,"  and  author  of  The  Gen- 
teel Recreation,  published  in  the  year  1700,  and 
|  reprinted  in  1820?  L.  L. 

[In  the  Advertisement  prefixed  to  the  reprint  of  1820, 
it  is  stated  "  Of  the  author  nothing  is  known,  though  it 
has  been  conjectured  he  was  the  son  of  Captain  Whitney 
who  commanded  one  of  the  ships  that  accompanied  Sir 
Walter  Kaleigh  in  his  voyage  to  Guinea."] 

"  CIRCULAR  BORDURE."  —  Can  you  inform  me 
what  a  circular  bordure,  or  a  bordure  inwardly 
circular  is  ?  I  cannot  find  it  in  any  work  on  the 
science  of  heraldry.  HER. 

[A  "circular  bordure  "is  a  strip  or  border  surround- 
ing the  field,  used  to  distinguish  families  of  the  same 
name,  or  persons  bearing  the  same  coat.] 

DUTCH  PSALTER,  printed  at  Norwich  by  An- 
thony Solernne.  —  Messrs.  Sotheby  and  Wilkinson 
advertised  a  copy  of  this  for  sale  by  auction  on 
January  23,  1862.  Apparently  this  is  the  only 
copy  known  besides  that  in  the  library  of  Trinity 
College,  Dublin.  Who  was  the  fortunate  pur- 
chaser, and  at  what  price  ?  E.  G.  K. 

[It  sold  for  201.  The  purchaser  is  unknown  to  the  auc- 
tioneers.] 

CARTER  LANE  MEETING-HOUSE. — When  was 
the  Rev.  Dr.  John  liippon's  Meeting  House,  in 
Carter  Lane,  Tooley  Street,  Southwark,  taken 
down  ?  And  if  the  building  materials  were  sold 
by  public  auction,  when,  and  by  whom  ?  Also,  is 
there  any  print  or  engraving,  and  historical  sketch 
of  it  ?  Any  information  respecting  the  above 
meeting-house  will  be  acceptable.  E.  H. 

[An  historical  account  of  Carter  Lane  Meeting  House 
Avill  be  found  in  Wilson's  History  of  Dissenting  Churches, 
iv.  212—225.  It  was  erected  in  1757,  for  the  congrega- 
tion under  the  pastoral  care  of  Dr.  John  Gill,  who  was  suc- 
ceeded by  Dr.  John  Rippon.  It  was  taken  dawn  in  the 
year  1830,  the  site  being  required  by  the  corporation  of 
the  City  for  the  purpose  of  forming  convenient  approaches 
to  the  new  London  Bridge.  A  splendidly  illustrated 
c:;;y  of  Manning  and  Bray's  Surrey  (the  portion  relating 
to  Southwark),  in  the  Gufldhall  library,  contains  at  page 
610  a  drawing  of  an  interior  and  exterior  view  of  this 
Meeting  House.] 

BIBLICAL  VERSIONS. —  Has  a  collection  of  the 
Lord's  Prayer  (or  parts  of  the  Bible)  translated 
into  a  number  of  languages,  been  published  ?  If 
so,  I  shall  take  it  as  a  favour  if  anyone  will  direct 
me  to  the  book,  and  state  price,  &c.  E.  F. 

[In  Guthrie's  New  System  of  Geography,  4to,  1792,  will 
be  found  the  Paternoster  rendered  into  Welsh,  French, 
Dutch,  German,  Spanish,  Portuguese,  Italian,  Modern 
Greek,  Persian,  and  Arabic.  Consult  also  The  Bible  of 
every  Land  (Bagster  &  Sons)  for  "An  Alphabetical  List 
of  Specimens  in  Native  Characters."  The  British  and 
Foreign  Bible  Society  has  also  published  specimens  of  its 
different  versions.] 


S.  I.  MAE.  1,  '62.3 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


173 


fttfffetf. 

PROPHECIES  FULFILLED. 

PROPHECIES  OF  ST.   MALACHI  KKSPECTING   THE  POPES: 
PROPHECY  RESPECTING  THE  CRIMEAN  WAR. 

(2nd  S.  xii.  476  ;  3rd  S.  i.  49,  90.) 

It  would  be  useless  to  enumerate  all  the  pro- 
phets included  in  the  collection  referred  to,  The 
Miraculous  Prophecies,  8fc.,  because  they  mostly 
prefigure  the  misfortunes  and  disasters  threaten- 
ing the  same  sinking  empire,  and  the  s*ame  falling 
monarch,  Popery  and  the  Pope. 

The  next  to  Nostradamus,  as  to  date,  is  an  Eng- 
lishman of  some  notoriety,  and  who  ought  to  have 
been  christened  Astradamus. 

"  In  a  book  of  Mr.  Lilly's  (Monarchy :  or,  No  Monarchy, 
4to),  are  hieroglyphick  prophecies,  viz.  of  the  Great 
Plague  of  London,  expressed  by  graves  and  dead  corpses ; 
and  a  scheme  with  ascending  (the  sign  of  London),  and 
no  planets  in  the  twelve  houses.  Also  there  is  a  picture 
of  London  all  on  fire,  also  moles  creeping,  &c.  Perhaps 
Mr.  Lilly  might  be  contented  to  have  people  believe  that 
this  was  from  himself.  But  Mr.  Thomas  Flatman  (poet) 
did  affirm,  that  he  had  seen  those  hierogl3'phics  in  an  old 
parchment  manuscript,  writ  in  the  time  of  the  monks." — 
Aubrey's  Miscellanies  (Prophecies.) 

His  predictions  of  the  Fire  and  Plague  of  Lon- 
don have  been  noticed  in  "  ET.  &  Q."  (1"  S.  vii. 
173.)  The  prophecy  of  the  Fire  of  London  men- 
tioned by  Bp.  Parker,  in  his  History  of  his  own 
Times,  p.  120,  1727,  may  be  placed  among  the 
ambiguous  prophecies  recognised  after  the  event :  — 

"In  the  year  1653,  one  Zeigler  of  Leipsick,  wrote  a 
book  against  the  Regicides,  and  principally  against  Mil- 
ton, in  which  the  angry  Prophet  applied  himself  to  the 
rebellious  city  in  these  words  — 

" '  Thou  that  art  now  proud  London,  in  some  time  shalt 
not  be  at  all;  nay,  unless  all  my  notions  and  all  the 
maxims  of  Policy  deceive  me,  thou  art  not  far  from  thy 
destruction.' " 

"  The  Prophecy  of  the  French  Revolution,  from 
a  publication  by  the  late  Mr.  Peter  Jurieu  in 
1687,"  is  too  long  to  be  inserted,  although  it  is  re- 
markably characteristic  of  the  present  times,  when 
France  is  "  breaking  with  Rome  and  the  Roman 
religion." 

"  Many  other  instances,"  writes  the  author  of  Miracu- 
lous Prophecies,  "  I  could  adduce  from  a  variety  of  authors, 
but  the  present  may  suffice,  while  I  guide  the  reader's 
attentions  to  two  books  I  regret  I  cannot  procure,  or 
would  have  given  some  extracts  from  them,  as  I  know 
they  contain  many  curious  things ;  viz.  Histoire  Prodi- 
gieuse,  written  by  Pere  Arnault ;  and  Lux  e  Tenebris,  a 
Collection  of  Visions  and  Prophecies  in  Germany,  trans- 
lated into  Latin  by  Jo.  Amos  Comenius,  printed  at  Am- 
sterdam, 1655." 

The  edition  of  Cotterus,  1657,  is  now  before  me. 
This  false  prophet  and  visionary  enthusiast,  with 
his  ^  coadjutors,  Drabicius  and  the  Bohemian 
Maiden,  _  Christina  Poniatovia,  attracted  consider- 
able notice  in  their  day.  They  prophesied  that 


the  Turks  were  to  ruin  the  House  of  Austria. 
When  Vienna  was  besieged  in  1683  this  book  was 
prodigiously  sought  after,  and  sold  at  a  very  high 
price.  See  Worthington's  Diary  and  Correspon- 
dence, edited  by  James  Crossley,  Esq.,  for  the 
Chetham  Society,  who  refers  for  a  full  and  very 
interesting  account  of  Lux  in  Tenebris,  and  the 
three  prophets,  to  Bayle's  Dictionary,  under  the 
heads  "  Comenius,"  "  Drabicius,"  and  "  Kotte- 
rus." 

For  the  reason  I  have  already  given,  I  shall  be 
content  with  noticing  the  prophecies  of  one  more 
only  of  the  inspired  seers  introduced  in  this  col- 
lection ;  viz.  those  of  Malachy,  which  ME.  HEIND- 
RTCKS  has  already  described,  and  respecting  which 
I  shall  add  "  the  terse  business-like  memoranda 
of  old  Aubrey."  The  Prophecies  of  Malachy  are 
exceeding  strange.  He  describes  the  Popes  by 
their  coats  of  arms  or  their  names,  or  manners. 
If  his  prophecies  be  true,  there  will  be  but  fifteen 
popes  more.  It  is  printed  in  a  book  in  8vo, 
entitled,  Bucelini  Histories  Nucleus,  1654,  in  cake 
Libri,  thus  "  Prophetia  Malachiae  Monachi  Ban- 
gorensis  et  A[rchi]  Episcopi  Ardin[ach]ensis, 
Hibernise  Primatis,  1665,  in  two  leaves."  (Au- 
brey's Miscellanies.} 

The  description  furnished  in  The  Miraculous 
Prophecies  is  more  minute  and  historical  than 
that  in  Moreri's  Dictionary,  which  alone  I  find 
available  of  the  works  in  which,  according  to  your 
correspondent,  Aymon  states  these  prophecies  arc 
inserted.  "  He  gives  the  first  place  to  the  post- 
humous work  of  Ciaconius,  who  died  in  1599,  and 
whose  Vita  et  Gesta  Homanorum  Pontijicum  et  Car- 
dinalium  was  published  by  Francis  de  Morales 
Cabrera  in  1601-2." 

Moreri  states  that  the  savants  have  remarked 
that  Ciaconius  does  not  give  an  interpretation  of 
these  prophecies  in  his  Vita  et  Gesta,  $*c.,  and 
that  those  who  have  enumerated  his  works  make 
no  mention  of  these  prophecies  or  of  their  expli- 
cations. I  have  not  an  opportunity  of  looking  at 
his  Bibliotheca,  edited  by  Kapp,  1744,  where  they 
are  probably  inserted.  It  will  be  found  in  the 
Royal  Library  (Brit.  Mus.),  and  the  Bodleian. 
We  are,  however,  informed  by  Ware  in  his  Com- 
mentary  of  the  Prelates  of  Ireland,  1704,  that  Ar- 
nold Wion  published  in  1595  this  prophecy  of 
the  Bishops  of  Rome  in  his  Lignum  Vita,  with 
an  Exposition  added  by  Alphonsus  Ciaconius 
down  to  Pope  Urban  VII.,  which  others  have 
continued  down  to.  our  times.  See  also  Bio- 
graphic  Universelle,  s.  v.  "Malachie."  There  is 
a  copy  of  the  Lignum  Vita  in  the  Bodleian.  A 
reference  follows  to  De  Thou,  but  I  have  looked 
in  vain  for  any  mention  of  them  in  two  editions  of 
De  Thou  or  Thuanus.  In  Fabricius,  Biblioth. 
Med.  et  Infima  Latinif.atis,  other  works  are  men- 
cioned  in  which  they  ure  inserted,  s.  v.  "  Mala- 
thias." 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I.  MAE.  1,  '62. 


"  All  these  prophecies  I  find  both  recited,  and,  as  far  as 
then  was,  accomplished,  explained,  and  by  application, 
found  to  be  very  true  and  significant,  in  an  Appendix  to 
a  book  intituled  Flares  Historici,  written  by  Johannes  de 
Bussieres,  a  French  Jesuit,  in  the  year  1655." 

Our  author  subjoins  a  few  of  the  Pope's  sym- 
bols, and  their  explications,  beginning  at  the  year 
1599.  The  following  are  selected  because  they 
contain  historical  illustrations  not  furnished  by 
Moreri :  — 

"  Gens  perversa  —  Paul  the  Fifth,  1605.  —  In  his  days 
the  Bohemians  rose  against  the  House  of  Austria, whom 
our  author  will  have  to  be  the  perverse  nation;  but 
why  not  rather  the  Venetians,  with  whom  this  Pope  had 
great  broils? 

"In  tribulatione  Pacts  —  Gregory  the  Fifteenth,  1621. 
—  As  soon  as  he  was  made  Cardinal  he  was  sent  by 
Paul  Vth  Legate  to  Savoy,  and  concluded  a  peace  between 
the  Duke  and  the  King  of  Spain,  and  soon  after  was 
chosen  Pope." 

He  concludes  by  remarking  that,  "  according 
to  this  man's  reckoning,  the  final  destruction  of 
the  Papacy  and  the  bloody  city  will  be  completed 
in  year  of  our  Lord  1865." 

The  Pope  immediately  preceding  MR.  HEND- 
RICKS'  first  Pope  is  Clement  XI.,  who  is  conse- 
quently intended  by  the  symbol  preceding  "  De 
Bona  Ileligione,"  viz.  "Floras  Circumdati"  (see 
Moreri),  which  is  thus  commented  upon  by  Sar- 
torius  (Cistercium  Sis  Tertiwn,  p.  707)  :  — 

"Cum  hrec  scribo,  vacat  Sedes  Apostolica  per  mortem 
Innocentii  XII.  Pontificis  Maximi,  atque  ideb  occasione 
instantis  Electionis  produce  decantatissima  vatieinia 
Divi  nostri  Malachite,  Hibernorum  Archi  Prassulis,  qui- 
bus  divinitiis  inspiratus,  per  sex  prope  jam  sa?cula  Pon- 
tin'ces  Romanes  designavit  in  senigmatibus,  qua?  seu  ipsi 
Antistites  summi  rerum  prseclare  a  se  gestarum  eventi- 
bus,  seu  eruditi,  sagacitate  ingenii  hactenus  evolverint, 
evolvcntque  Teliciter  deinceps.  Ea  vaticiniorum  celebri- 
tas  Cistercii  opus  est,  de  cujus  gremio  extitit  Malachias 
I  raesul  gloriosissimus.  Opto  porrb  devotissimis  magnis- 
que  affectibus,  ut  mox  e  Romano  &  Sanctissimo  Conclavi 
egrediatur  Ecclesiae  universalis  Pastor,  qui  e  Malachise 
mente  &  symbolo  floridam  secum  jetatem  advehat  in 
Floribus  Circumdatus,  queis  Orbem  Christianum  bello- 
rum  spmis  nuper  compunctum  acerrime,  ad  universorum 
vota  laetissime  circumdet,  ac-circumambiat!  " 

Probably  the  following  passage  in  Quaresmius, 
blucidatio  Terra  Sancta  Historica,  Theologica 
Morally  2  vols.  fol.  1639,  originated  the  report 
mentioned  ante,  p.  90,  that  it  contains  a  prophecy 
of  the  Crimean  war  :  — 

'.'Circ*  id  quod  priore  loco  propositum  est,  possumus 
hujus  Scriptoria  (trandsci  Navarri  Valentiniani)  senten- 
tial ad  qumque  articulos  reducere.  Primus  sit;  Maho- 
lica  secta,  cum  suis  sectatoribus  &  singulariter  Turci- 
cum  Imperium,  in  spiritualibus  &  temporalibus  finem 
habebit  mlra  spat.um  annorum  251,  tot  enitn  dumtaxat 

U  supersunt.    Quando  verb  hiec  scribebat  Doctor  Nauar- 

is,  vertebatur  annus  nostne  salutis  1604,  quare  secundiim 

temnorTl"0/.     "'  VC-  drfite'''  fiU°ad  tam  «PWtaalia  quam 

Cnerio  Tur         ^  dl?0  rilfe  in  M»ho™tica  secta  & 

hZbit  nor  -I00'  ^UCt°r  llle  considerat)  ce*sabit  &  finem 

)it  perdita  ista  superstitio."  —  Tom.  i.  p.  265. 

BlBLIOTIIECAR.  CHETHAM. 


The  "  prophecies  of  St.  Malachi  respecting  the 
popes  "  are  gross  forgeries,  the  composition  of  an 
idle  monk.  As  such  they  have  long  since  been 
exposed  in  the  Acta  Sanctorum  of  the  Bollandists. 
Any  of  your  readers  who  feel  an  interest  in  this 
matter,  will  find  all  the  particulars  respecting 
those  pretended  prophecies,  and  their  real  author, 
in  the  Life  of  St.  Malachi^  as  published  by  the 
Jesuit  Fathers  in  their  invaluable  work.  The 
invention  of  false  prophecies  was  at  one  time  of 
frequent  use  in  political  warfare ;  and  I  am  sorry 
to  say  the  practice  of  it  is  not  yet  discontinued.  It 
is  now  some  years  since  I  exposed  the  "  prophecies 
of  St.  Columbkill "  as  forgeries,  invented  by  per- 
sons calling  themselves  "  Irish  patriots,"  for  the 
purpose  of  perpetuating  inimical  feelings  towards 
the  English  nation  in  the  hearts  of  my  country- 
men. In  exposing  the  "Columbkill,"  I  had  to 
refer  to  the  "  Malachi "  prophecies,  which  had  been 
tacked  on  to  them  as  a  corroborative  testimony 
of  their  authenticity;  and  I  then  proved  that 
they  were  "fictions,"  backed  up  by  "falsehoods." 

W.  B.  MAC  CABE. 

These  prophecies  are  not  considered  by  the 
learned  as  entitled  to  any  credit.  They  appear  to 
have  been  fabricated  in  the  conclave  of  1590,  by 
the  partisans  of  Cardinal  Simoncelli.  The  conclave 
lasted  almost  two  months,  and  ended  in  the  elec- 
tion of  Cardinal  Cremona,  who  took  the  name  of 
Gregory  XIV.  It  is  evident  that  great  scope  is 
given  for  explanation,  when  the  prophecies  are 
limited  to  two  or  three  words ;  and  though  I  am 
not  prepared  to  apply  any  previous  to  Pope 
Pius  VI.,  I  am  persuaded  that  the  explanation  of 
most  of  them  would  be  very  easy.  All  those  sub- 
sequently to  Pius  VI.  are  explained  very  fairly, 
with  a  single  exception.  No  one  has  ventured  to 
show  how  De  balneis  Hetrurice  applied  to  Gre- 
gory XVI.  F.  C.  H. 


ISABELLA  AND  ELIZABETH. 
(2nd  S.  xii.  364,  444,  464,  522 ;  3rd  S.  i.  59,  113.) 

I  hoped  some  one  would,  long  ere  this,  have 
pointed  out  the  fact  that  these  words  are  etymo- 
logically  different,  although  they  may  be  con- 
founded by  those  who  know  no  better.  There  is 
one  witness  to  which  we  can  appeal  in  order  to 
ascertain  the  facts  of  the  case :  I  mean  the  old 
Syriac  version  of  the  Bible,  where  we  get  the 
Shemitic  names  written  in  accordance  with  their 
etymology.  It  is  well  known  that  the  Greek 
anguage  cannot  express  the  true  form  of  the 
word  Elizabeth,  any  more  than  the  English  can 
do  it.  But  any  Shemitic  language  can  do  this  ; 
and  hence  we  find  most  clearly  preserved,  the  dis- 
tinction between  Isabel  and  Elizabeth  in  the  Sy- 


3rd  S.  I.  MAK.  1,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


175 


riac.     In  1  Kings,  xxi.  5,  Jezebel,  which  I  urns 
identify  with  Isabel,  is  written  in  Syriac  Izabel 


.  Heb. 


Izebel.    The  same  form 


of  the  word  occurs  in  Kev.  ii.  20.     In  Luke  i.  57 
the  word  which  the  Greeks  wrote  Elizabeth,  is  in 


Syriac  written 


.  and  corresponds  to 


the  Heb.  ¥3£>vtf,  but  cannot  be  exactly  repre- 
sented by  English  characters.  Now  no  one  with 
a  spark  of  knowledge  of  Shemitic  philology  can 
confound  these  two  words,  each  of  which  is  a 
compound,  and  each  component  different.  The 
same  broad  distinction  appears  in  Arabic.  POLY- 
GLOT-TUB is  utterly  mistaken  in  identifying  them, 
and  no  one  can  do  it  who  looks  at  them  when 
written  in  their  original  characters.  As  to  the 
etymological  meaning  of  the  names,  Elizabeth 
may  be  explained  "  The  Oath  of  God."  The 
curious  may  like  to  know  that  the  first  of  the 
name  on  record,  was  the  wife  of  Aaron  (Exod. 
vi.  22),  and  that  in  the  English  version  she  is 
called  Elisheba.  In  accordance  with  Greek  cus- 
tom, the  LXX.  writes  this  lady's  name  Elisabeth 
and  Elisabet.  It  must  be  remembered  that  Je- 
zebel in  1  Kings,  xvi.  31,  &c.  is  not  a  Hebrew 
name  at  all.  Jezebel  was  daughter  of  Ethbaal, 
king  of  Tyre  and  Sidon,  a  Phoenician  therefore, 
and  an  idolater.  To  the  Phoenician  we  must  look 
for  the  derivation  of  the  word,  unless  we  can  find 
its  independent  use  in  other  Shemitic  languages. 
Doctors  differ  as  to  its  real  meaning,  and  I  will 
not  attempt  to  decide.  I  will  only  say  that  on 
philological  grounds  I  should  identify  Isabella* 
with  Jezebel,  and  distinguish  it  from  Eliza- 
beth, with  which  it  has  no  affinity  whatever. 

B.  H.  C. 


POLYGLOTTUS  quotes  Elisabella  as  Italian.  May 
I  ask  him  for  his  authority  ?  I  have  never  seen 
this  name  in  any  Ital.  book,  nor  can  I  find  it  in 
any  one  of  six  Ital.  diet,  (two  of  them  standard 
works)  which  I  happen  to  have  by  me. 

Elisabettctf  is  the  word  which  I  have  always  seen 
and  which  these  six  diet,  all  give.  Remove  the 
crosses  from  its  ?s,  and  Elisabella  is  at  once  pro- 
duced ;  still  the  difference  is  one  of  extreme  im- 
portance as  far  as  the  present  question  is  con- 
cerned. Is  it  possible  that  POLYGLOTTUS  has  not 
noticed  the  crosses  on  the  fs  ? 


and 


POLYGLOTTUS  also  quotes  Elisabetha  as  French 
d  Italian.     I  must  again  ask  for  his  authoritv. 


*  Isabella  is  capable  of  another  derivation :  as  a  Spanish 
word,  Isa  a  woman,  and  bella  fair.  The  objection  to  this 
is,  that  Isa  is  a  cant  or  vulgar  word,  although  from  the 
Arabic.  The  objection  is  not  fatal. 

t  In  an  Ital.  Test.  I  have  Elisabet  is  used. 


as  it  would  not,  I  think,  be  easy  to  find  a  woman's 
name  in  French  which  terminates  in  a,  or  one  in 
Italian  containing  a  th.  F.  CHANCE. 


LAMBETH  DEGREES. 
(3rd  S.  i.  36,  133.) 

Since  my  former  communication  and  upon  fur- 
ther inquiry,  I  find  the  Archbishop's  degree  in 
Medicine  is  no  longer  available  to  enable  any  re- 
cipient thereof  to  obtain  a  qualification  to  practice 
the  science  in  medicine. 

By  an  Act  which  received  the  royal  assent  2nd 
August,  1858,  entitled  '« An  Act  to  regulate  the 
Qualifications  of  Practitioners  in  Surgery,  and  to 
be  cited  as  The  Medical  Act,  21  &22  Viet.  c.  90, 
sect.  15,"  certain  provisions  are  made  and  de- 
clared for  the  due  registration  of  medical  prac- 
titioners ;  and  by  Schedule  A.  of  the  same  Act, 
amongst  the  enumerated  qualifications  for  regis- 
tration of  such,  as  being  a  Fellow  or  Licentiate  of 
the  College  of  Physicians,  Surgeons,  &c.,  the  10th 
is  as  follows,  viz. : 

"  Doctor,  or  Bachelor,  or  Licentiate  of  Medicine,  or 
Master  in  Surgery  of  any  University  of  the  United  King- 
dom, or  Doctor  of  Medicine  by  Doctorate  granted  prior  to 
the  passing  of  the  said  Act,  by  the  Archbishop  of  Canter* 
bury." 

Although  this  section  of  the  Act  recognises  the 
validity  of  the  Archbishop's  grant  of  the  degree 
of  Doctor  in  Medicine  prior  to  the  passing  thereof, 
and  does  not  in  express  words  take  away  or 
abolish  the  privilege  or  power  of  the  Archbishop  ; 
nevertheless,  it  deprives  the  Lambeth,  degree  of 
any  effect  since  the  2nd  Aug.  1858,  as  affording  a 
qualification  for  legally  exercising  the  profession 
of  a  Doctor  in  Medicine.  J.  R. 


I  observe  none  of  your  correspondents  have 
stated  what  are  the  exact  provisions  of  25  Hen. 
VIII.  c.  21,  under  which  these  degrees  are  granted. 
It  is  — 

"  An  Act  concerning  the  Exoneration  of  the  King'a 
Subjects  from  Exactions  aud  Impositions  heretofore  paid 
to  the  See  of  Rome :  and  for  having  Licenses  and  Dis- 
pensations within  this  realm  without  suing  further  for 
the  same." 

Sec.  2  provides  that  the  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury shall  have  power  to  grant  "  all  manner  such 
licenses,  dispensations,  compositions,  faculties, 
grants,  rescripts,  delegacies,  instruments,  and  all 
other  writings  for  causes  not  being  contrary  or 
repugnant  to  the  Holy  Scriptures  and  laws  of 
Grod,  as  heretofore  hath  been  used  and  accustomed 
to  be  had  and  obtained  by  your  Highness,  or  any 
your  most  noble  progenitors,  or  any  of  your  or 
their  subjects  at  the  See  of  Rome"  :  but  sec  4 
enacts,  that  where  the  dispensations,  &c.,  should 
>e  "  of  such  importance  that  the  tax  for  the  ex- 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  MAK.  1,  '62. 


pedition  thereof  at  Rome  extended  to  the  sum  of 
41.  or  above,"  they  must  be  confirmed  by  letters 
patent  under  the  Great  Seal,  to  be  enrolled  in 
Chancery.  JOB  tj.  BAEDWELL  WOEKAED,  M.A. 


MICHAEL  SCOTT'S   WETTINGS   ON  ASTEONOMY 
(3rd  S.  i.  131.)  —  The  three  works  enquired  for 
by  SIB  G.  C.  LEWIS  do  not  appear  to  have  been 
seen  by  any  of  the  modern  writers  who  have  made 
the  great  astrologer's  writings  the  subject  of  their 
study.     Daunou,  in  the  Histoire  Litteraire  de  la 
France,  (tome  xx.  p.  49),  says,  after  quoting  the 
titles  of  the  treatises  in  question,  —  "  Ces  'produc- 
tions ne  sont  guere  indiquees  que  par  leurs  titres, 
sans  renseignement   precis  sur  leurs  sujets,   sur 
leurs  caracteres,  ni  sur  les  depots  qui  les  peuvent 
receler."     M.  Haureau,  in  his  prize  essay  De  la 
Philosophie  Scolastique  (2  tomes,  8vo,  Paris,  1850), 
alludes  in  a  note  (t.  i.  p.  470)  to  a  manuscript  in 
the  Bodleian  Library,  under  the  title  of  "  Mich. 
Scoti  Opera  Astrologica ; "  and  adds,  it  is  probable 
that  the  greater  portion  of  the  astrological  works 
may  be  found  in  that  MS.     As  M.  Jourdain  is 
said  to  have  proved,  according  to  M.  Haureau, 
that  English    bibliographers  have  increased   the 
number  of  Michael  Scott's  versions  from  Aristotle, 
by  describing  the  same  work  under  two  different 
titles,  it  might  be  well  to  make  his  accusation  a 
subject  of  inquiry,  as  far  as  practicable,  through 
the  medium  of  "  N.  &  Q."    Perhaps  by  this  means 
some  of  the  missing  Astronomical  Treatises  may  be 
discovered  bound  up  along  with  those  on  astrology. 
M.  Haureau  mentions   some  MSS.  of  Scott  that 
re  in  the  Bibliotheque  Nationale,  under  No.  1614 
Saint  Germain-des-Prcs.  J.  MACEAY. 

No  doubt  these  titles  come  originally  from 
Bale,  who  gives  them  just  as  Jourdain  has  done, 
except  that  all  three  have  "  lib.  i."  affixed.  As 
Bale  gives  no  account  of  the  habitat  of  his  manu- 
scripts, it  frequently  happens  that  they  are  not 
found.  ^  Tanner,  who  has  picked  up  a  little  in- 
formation on  some  works,  says  nothing  more  than 
Bale  about  these.  But  there  is  one  astrological 
work  described  by  Tanner  as  "  MS.  in  bibl.  Bodl. 
NE.  torn.  x.  3,"  under  the  title  Liber  Introduc- 
torius,  sivcJudicia  Quaxtionum.  Of  this,  Tanner 
says  that  it  contains  the  whole  science  of  astro- 
nomy and  astrology.  If  this  be  so,  I  should  not 
be  surprised  at  its  containing  all  the  three  writing 
for  which  Sir  G.  C.  Lewis  inquires,  perhaps  onTy 
inter  alia.  For  it  is  certain  that  Bale  has  often 
given  chapters  out  of  books  as  separate  books,  and 
this  even  when  he  has  mentioned  the  whole  works 
m  the  same  list.  A.  DE  MOEGAN. 

TOAD-EATEE  (3rd  S.  i.  128.)  — I  have  often 
heard  the  derivation  of  toad-eaters  as  todito  or 
todita,  from  the  Spanish  todos,  i.  e.  a  Jack  or  a  | 


Gil  of  all-work  :  a  useful  companion,  fit  to  do  any 
dirty  work  at  a  patron's  command.  W.  S. 

With  regard  to  the  etymology  of  the  word 
toad-eater,  I  may  mention  that  I  have  heard  an 
ingenious  suggestion,  that  it  is  a  Spanish  word, 
todita,  anglicised. 

Todo  in  Spanish  is  "  all."  Todita  would  not 
appear  in  the  dictionaries,  as  it  is  a  colloquial 
diminutive,  such  as  I  am  informed  are  common 

|  in  Spanish,  and  may  be  formed  out  of  any  word. 

j  It  would  mean,  " my  dear  little  all"  or  some  such 
thing ;  and  I  believe  would  properly  apply  to  one 
of  female  sex,  as  in  truth  the  undignified  name 
"  Toady  "  commonly  does. 

The  great  antiquity,  however,  of  some  of  your 
correspondent's  quotations  is  rather  against  this 
view.  LYTTELTON. 

SIR  FRANCIS  BEY  AN  (3rd  S.  i.  110).  —  Sir 
Francis  Bryan  was  the  second  son  of  Sir  Thomas 
Bryan,  of  Masworth,  co.  Bucks,  Knt.,  by  Mar- 
garet, daughter  of  Sir  Humphrey  Bouchier,  Knt., 
whose  son  John  succeeded  his  grandfather  as 
Lord  Berners.  His  mother  was  the  Lady  Mar- 
garet Bryan,  well  known  as  the  "  Lady  Mistress  " 
to  Queen  Elizabeth  when  an  infant.  The  grand- 
father of  Sir  Francis  was  Sir  Thomas  Bryan, 
Knt.,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas.  The 
wills  of  both  the  elder  and  younger  Sir  Thomas 
are  printed  in  Nicolas's  Test.Vetust.,  pp.  449,  551, 
from  Harl.  MS.  380,  with  several  genealogical 
particulars.  The  arms  of  Sir  Francis,  as  Knight 
Bannerett,  are  blazoned  in  the  MS.  Cotton.,  Claud. 
C.  iii.  fol.  165.  Sir  Francis  inherited  the  estate 
at  Masworth  in  consequence  of  the  death  of  his 
elder  brother,  vita  patris,  and  sold  it  in  1543  to 
John  Bassett.  E.  E.  ESTCOURT. 

Birmingham. 

LUCKY  AND  UNLUCKY  DAYS  (2nd  S.  xii.  104.) — 
A  Book  of  Presidents  (precedents),  published  in 
London  in  1616,  contains  a  Calendar,  many  of 
the  days  in  which  have  the  letter  B  affixed: 
"  which  signifieth  such  dayes  as  the  Egyptians 
note  to  be  dangerous  to  begin  or  take  anything  in 
hand,  as  to  take  a  journey  or  any  such  like  thing." 
The  days  thus  marked  are :  — 

January  1,  2,  4,  5,  10,  15,  17,  19. 

February  7,  10,  17,  27,  28. 

March  15,  16,  28. 

April  7,  10,  16,  20,  21. 

May  7,  15,  20. 

June  4,  10,  22. 

July  15,  20. 

August  1,  19,  20,  29,  30. 

September  3,  4,  6,  7,  21,  22. 

Octo5er  4,  16,  24. 

November  5,  6,  28,  29. 

December  6,  7,  9,  15,  17,  22. 


Philadelphia. 


M.E. 


3rd  S.  I.  MAR.  1,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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EARTHQUAKES  IN  ENGLAND  (3rd  S.  i.  15,  94.)  — 
In  Guernsey,  an  English  island  at  any  rate,  I  felt 
the  shock  of  an  earthquake  one  night  in  the  spring 
of  '53.  I  lived  in  a  house  close  to  the  New 
Ground ;  and,  for  the  benefit  of  a  small  baby  re- 
cently arrived,  we  had  a  nursery  upstairs.  I  was 
lying  on  a  sofa  in  that  room,  when  I  felt  a  kind  of 
shudder ;  the  bell  wires  rattled  violently ;  and  my 
first  impression  was  that  a  very  heavy  waggon  was 
passing  along  the  street.  My  friend,  Dr.  Bromby, 
who  was  then  Principal  of  Elizabeth  College,  and 
is  now  Head  Master  of  the  Melbourne  Royal 
Grammar  School,  told  me  next  morning  that  he 
had  felt  the  same.  He  had  been  sitting  up  over  a 
mathematical  problem,  in  which  we  both  were  in- 
terested, and  thereby  caught  the  earthquake.  As 
to  the  fissures  at  Newstead  Abbey,  are  there  any 
coal-mines  near?  Lord  Middleton's  lodge  at  Wol- 
laton  House,  near  Nottingham,  has  lately  been 
imperilled  by  subterranean  diggings,  and  is  full  of 
fissures.  The  neighbourhood  is  carboniferous. 

MORTIMER  COLLINS. 

Your  correspondent  A.  A.  will  perhaps  value 
the  following  extract  from  the  Parish  Register  of 
St.  Pancras,  Exeter :  the  spelling  is  preserved. 

"On  the  19th  of  Jully,  1727,  between  foure  and  five  of 
the  clocke  in  the  morning,  al  the  houses  in  Exeter  did 
shake  with  an  earthquake  that  people  was  shakt  in  theire 
beds  from  one  side  to  the  other,  and  was  al  over  England, 
and  in  some  places  beyound  sea,  but  doed  but  little  damage : 
tis  of  a  certain  truth." 

CHABLES  WORTHY. 
Exeter. 

Sir  William  Dugdale  thus  notices,  in  his  Diary, 
an  earthquake  which  occurred  on  the  6th  of  Oc- 
tober, 1683:  — 

"A  small  earthquake  this  night  at  about  eleven  of  the 
clock  wth  a  rumbling  noyse,  like  thunder  afarr  of."  —  The 
Life,  Diary,  and  Correspondence  of  Sir  Wm.  Dugdale,  Kt. 
edited  by  Wm.  Hamper,  F.S.A.  4to,  1827,  pp.  146. 

K.  P.  D.  E. 

WHITEHALL  (3rd  S.  i.  69.)  — I  think  that  I  can 
satisfy  your  correspondent  L.  M.  in  his  query 
with  regard  to  the  book  in  which  the  statement 
is  made  concerning  the  window  through  which 
Charles  I.  passed  to  the  scaffold.  In  Jesse's  Me- 
morials of  London,  vol.  ii.  p.  192,  L.  M.  will  find 
the  following  words :  — 

"At  the  renovation  of  the  Banqueting  House  (at 
Whitehall)  a  few  years  since,  a  fact  was  made  apparent, 
which  I  imagine  will  be  considered  as  setting  the  question 
at  rest.  Having  curiosity  enough  to  visit  the  interior  of 
the  building,  the  walls  of  which  were  then  laid  bare,  a 
space  was  pointed  out  to  me,  between  the  upper  and  lower 
centre  windows,  of  about  seven  feet  in  height  and  four  in 
breadth,  the  bricks  of  which  presented  a  broken  and 
jagged  appearance,  and  the  brick  work  introduced  was 
evidently  of  a  different  data  from  that  of  the  rest  of  the 
building.  There  can  be  little  doubt  iu,..  :*  was  through 
this  passage  that  Charles  waike,!  to  the  fatal  stage.  In- 
deed, when  we  consider  how  conclusive  is  the  evidence 
that  the  execution  took  place  in  front  of  the  Banqueting 


House,  and  how  improbable  it  is  that  such  solid  and 
beautiful  masonry  should  have  been  disturbed  and  broken 
through  for  any  other  purpose,  we  shall  perhaps  be  par- 
doned for  looking  upon  it  as  setting  the  question  for  ever 
at  rest." 

A.  O.  A. 

"  THE  EXCEPTION  PROVES  THE  RULE  "  (2nd  S. 

xii.   347.) — This,  without   anything   farther,    is 

nonsense.     The  true  reading  is,  "  The  exception 

proves  the  rule  in  things  not  excepted"       UNEDA. 

Philadelphia. 

EUROPEAN  IGNORANCE  or  AMERICA  (2nd  S.  xii. 
67.)  —  M.  Alexandre  Dumas,  in  his  very  enter- 
taining novel  of  Le  Capitaine  Pamphile,  says 
(vol.  i.  p.  249,)  that  the  wolves  of  the  forests  of 
Canada,  when  pressed  by  hunger,  sometimes  come 
down  as  far  as  the  streets  of  Portland  and  Boston. 
In  vol.  ii.  p.  23,  he  describes  his  hero  as  behold- 
ing, from  the  summit  of  a  mountain,  "  Philadel- 
phia, rising  like  a  queen,  between  the  green 
waters  of  the  Delaware  and  the  blue  waves  of  the 
ocean."  UNEDA. 

Philadelphia. 

GRAMMAR  SCHOOLS  (2nd  S."  xii.  502 ;  3rd  S. 
i.  36.)  — A  reference  to  Carlisle's  Endowed  Gram- 
mar Schools,  will  I  think  assist  your  correspon- 
dent's inquiry.  H.  S.  G. 

CLERGYMAN'S  RIGHT  TO  TAKE  THE  CHAIR  (2nd 
S.  xii.  454.) — For  a  directly  contrary  opinion  to 
those  quoted  (3rd  S.  i.  18)  by  S.  L.  and  MR. 
WORKARD,  I  with  pleasure  refer  MR.  MEWBURN 
to  The  Parish,  by  Mr.  Toulmin  Smith  (pub- 
lished by  Sweet,  Chancery  Lane,  in  1854),  in 
which  that  learned  gentleman,  in  a  masterly  way, 
devotes  the  whole  of  Chapter  VI.  to  "  The  posi- 
tion of  the  Parson  or  Minister  in  respect  to  the 
affairs  of  the  Parish."  No  layman  can  read  that 
chapter  without  being  convinced  that  the  common 
law  of  England  is  "  dead  against "  the  right  of 
the  beneficed  clergy  to  be  considered  the  heads 
of  their  parishes,  and  to  hold  the  right  of  pre- 
siding over  all  ordinary  vestry  meetings.  It  cer- 
tainly appears  plainly  to  me  that  such  assumptions 
are  equally  against  common  sense,  and,  judging, 
from  the  particular  Act  under  which  the  church 
here  was  built  some  thirty  years  ago,  the  legis- 
lature also  seems  to  have  so  thought,  for  it  gives 
no  authority  to  the  incumbent  to  preside,  except 
over  meetings  for  church  rates,  which  meetings,  I 
presume,  are  considered  to  be  of  an  ecclesiastical 
nature.  R.  W.  DIXON. 

Seaton  Carew,  co.  Durham. 

SURNAMES  (3rd  S.  iv.  67.)  — Of  the  names  se- 
eded as  curious  and  unusual  by  your  corre- 
spondent S.  M.  S.,  I  may  remark  that  Cahill  at 
east  is  very  common  (especially  among  the  lower 
classes),  in  the  South  of  Ireland.  Byles  I  think 
s  not  uncommon  in  Devonshire.  Tinney,  or 
Tinne,  I  believe  is  a  Dutch  name ;  at  least  I  re- 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  MAR.  1,  '62. 


member  a  Dutch  merchant  of  the  name  wfco  was 
settled  in  Liverpool  many  years  since.  M.  F. 

Mr.  Pipkin  is  a  member  of  the  Convention  of 
Missouri;  Mr.  Silvertooth  was  a  member  of  the 
Kentucky  Legislature,  but  was  expelled  lately  as 
a  secessionist ;  Dr.  Toothaker  is  a  physician  in 
this  city;  a  Mr.  Vile  recently  died  here  ;  the  Rev. 
Mr.  Gulliver  is  pastor  of  the  Congregational  Church 
in  Norwich,  Connecticut ;  the  Rev.  Mr.  Drum,  and 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Camp,  Episcopal  Clergymen  of  Tren- 
ton, N.  J.,  have  gone  to  the  war  as  chaplains  of 
two  New  Jersey  regiments.  UNEDA. 

Philadelphia.  .-, 

EURIPIDES  AND  MENANDER  (3rd  S.  i.  51.)— The 
hostility  of  the  Athenians  to  the  Spartans  is 
shown  very  strongly  in  the  Andromache  of  Eu- 
ripides (v.  445,  &c.)  :  — 


evoiKOi,  SoAia  | 
tyevdwv  avaKTes,  K.r.A. 

That  there  was  justice  in  this  charge  of  per- 
fidy, as  viewed  on  the  Athenian  side  of  the  ques- 
tion, appears  from  its  confirmation  by  Aristophanes, 
the  enemy  of  Euripides,  who  says,  in  the  Achar- 
nians  (v.  SOS), 

Otcr«' ovre  jSwjubs,  ovre  TTIOTI?,  ovd'  op/cos  jueVei. 

jMiiller  (Lit.  of  Greece,  i.  373),  says, — 

"  The  want  of  honour  and  sincerity,  with  which  he 
(Euripides)  charges  the  Spartans,  appears  to  refer  par- 
ticularly to  the  transactions  of  the  year  420,  Olymp.  89, 
4,  when  Alcibiades,  by  his  intrigues,  had  got  the  Spar- 
tan ambassadors  to  say  before  the  people  something  dif- 
ferent from  what  they  had  intended  and  wished  to  speak. 
— a  deceit  which  no  one  saw  through  at  the  time, — Thucyd. 
v.  45." 

Euripides  in  the  same  play  (v.  595,  &c.)  treats 
the  Spartan  women  with  great  severity,  as  in- 
capable of  chastity,  even  if  they  wished  it. 

Aristotle  (Polit.  ii.  9),  speaks  of  their  women  as 
living  without  restraint  in  every  improper  indul- 
gence and  luxury,  and  also  of  the  corruption  of 
the  men  by  money.  Plutarch  (Lycurgus,  30) 
attributes  their  corruption  to  gold  and  silver 
brought  from  their  wars  ;  and  admits  the  justice 
of  the  general  censure  of  their  women  by  Ibycus, 
Sophocles,  and  other  poets.  (Numa  and  Lycurg. 
compared,  3.)  T.  J.  BUCKTON. 

Lichfield. 

LIZAHS  (2nd  S.  xii.  434.)  — In  1317,  Willielmi 
de  Lysuris  and  Gregorii  de  Lysuris  were  called 
'Lairds  of  Gorton,"  or  Domini  de  Gourton;  and 
held  lands  near  Roslin  Castle,  Edinburgh.  See 
a  work  called  Genealogie  of  the  Sainte  Claires  of 
Rosslyn,  by  Father  Richard  Augustin  Hay,  Prior 
of  St.  Pieremont;  republished  at  Edinburgh,  1835. 

-The  name  Lysuris  is  also  in  the  "  Battle  Abbey 
Roll,  1066."  J 

At  a  later  date,  the  Lizars's  possessed  property 
where  the  silk-mill  now  stands  in  Edinburgh. 

°D.  M. 


MUTINY  ACT  (2nd  S.  xii.  418.) — XAVIER  is 
quite  correct  in  his  observation  that  certain  pun- 
ishments, extending  to  limb,  are  contemplated  by 
the  first  section  of  the  Mutiny  Act  as  being  au- 
thorized by  law  ;  but  what  these  punishments  are, 
I  think  it  would  puzzle  the  framers  of  the  Act 
to  tell  us.  It  is  probably  an  old  traditional  form 
of  words  that  has  been  repeated  by  the  legisla- 
ture for  upwards  of  a  century  without  any  mean- 
ing being  attached  to  it.  I  must  observe,  however, 
that  the  protection  that  XAVIER  speaks  of  does 
not  appear  to  be  confined  to  the  United  Kingdom. 
The  British  Islands  have  also  for  some  years  past 
been  included  in  the  clause.  What  are  the  Bri- 
tish Islands?  MEMOR. 

THOMAS  SIMON  (2nd  S.  xii.  403.)  —  As  Pierre 
Simon  (supposed  to  be  the  father  of  Thomas 
Simon  the  engraver)  is  described  in  the  marriage 
register  as  Natif  de  Londres,  it  would  appear  that 
if  the  family  was  of  French  origin  they  were  pro- 
bably settled  in  England  before  the  time  of  his 
birth.  This  would  carry  back  their  emigration 
some  way  into  the  sixteenth  century ;  and  I  would 
beg  to  inquire  whether  there  is  any  memorial  of  a 
family  of  the  name  of  Simon  having  fled  either 
from  Dieppe,  or  elsewhere  in  France  during  the 
troubles  which  followed  the  massacre  of  St.  Bar- 
tholomew in  1572  ?  CLIO. 

Can  any  connection  be  traced  between  Pierre 
Simon,  who  married  Anne  Germain,  and  Peter 
Simon  of  the  ballad  of  Sir  Andrew  Barton,  "  the 
ablest  gunner  of  all  the  realm  "  ?  MEMOR. 

HERALDIC  QUERY  (3rd  S.  i.  68.)  —  If  the  pre- 
position on  is  supplied  immediately  after  mention 
of  the  colour  of  the  field,  we  sb,all  find  the  mullets, 
or  estoiles  in  their  proper  place,  on  the  chevron. 
This  coat  then,  with  some  variations  of  colour  and 
a  different  crest,  will  correspond  to  one  given  in 
Burke's  Armory  by  the  name  of  "  Wase,"  de- 
scribed ofRotherby,  co.  Lincoln,  and  of  London; 
and  in  Hollar's  "Plates  of  Arms"  to  Thoroton's 
Notts,  folio,  1677,  a  similar  coat  occurs  impaling, 
— gules,  a  pale  engrailed  or,  between  four  lions 
rampant  argent  (without  any  .  name),  inscribed 
"  John  Wast,  of  London,  and  his  wife,"  referring 
to  page  504  of  that  "work.  H.  G. 

DOWSON  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  110.)  — Your  cor- 
respondent J.  may  perhaps  like  to  have  the  fol- 
lowing memorandum :  — 

John  Dowson  (living  35  Eliz.),  by  indenture 
dated  22  Oct.  of  that  year,  conveyed  to  Wm. 
Frodsom,  Esq.  et  al.,  all  those  his  messuages  and 
lands  in  Walton  in  Le  Dale,  co.  Lane.,  for  the 
respective  uses  therein  limited ;  viz.,  for  the  use 
of  the  said  John  Dowson  himself  during  his  life, 
and  after  his  decease  to  the  use  of  John  Frodsomy 
alias  John  Dowson,  lawful  or  reputed  son  of  the 
said  John  D.,  and  to  the  heirs  males  of  his  body 


MAK. 


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179 


lawfully  begotten.  This  last  John  ob  circa  1644, 
leaving  an  eldest  son  and  heir,  Edward  Dowson, 
whose  mother's  name  was  Elizabeth,  and  who 
•were  both  living  25  May,  1655.  CL.  HOPPER. 

The  coat  of  arms  ascribed  by  Holme  to  that 
name,  will  now  be  found  borne  by  the  I}awsons 
of  Sutterby,  co.  Lincoln,  and  Tipperary  in  Ireland, 
to  whom  it  appears  to  have  been  confirmed  in 
1664,  as  well  as  by  those  of  the  latter  name  in 
Lancashire.  Vide  Burke's  Armory.  H.  G. 

ARMS  IN  CROMWELL  SHIELD  (3rd  S.  i.  109.)  — 
Argent,  a  bull's  head  sable,  armed  or,  is  the 
achievement  of  Walrond,  of  Bradfield,  near  Uff- 
culm,  Devon.  See  their  monuments  in  UfFeulm 
church.  To  H.  S.  G.  of  |Pedmore,  these  :  Haste, 
haste,  post  haste.  P.  HUTCHINSON. 

FAMILY  or  PARAVICIN  (3rd  S.  i.  110.)  —  The 
name  Paravicin  appears  corroborated  by  an  ac- 
count of  a  monument  at  Saint  Dunstan's  in  the 
East,  given  by  Hatton  in  his  New  View  of  London, 
edit.  1708,  to  the  memory  of  "Sir  Peter  Para- 
vicin, Kn*,  who  departed  this  life  29th  of  January, 
1696,  aged  59  years"*;  and  the  arms  are  given 
there  as  gules,  a  swan,  argent,  which  by  different 
observers  has  been  styled  a  pelican,  and  by  others 
a  goose.  The  arms  in  question  allied  to  the 
Cromwell  family  may  still  be  those  of  the  Pala- 
vicini ;  they  are  evidently  foreign.  H.  G. 

LENGTHENED  TENURE  OF  CHURCH  LIVINGS 
(3rd  S.  i.  109.)  —  Your  correspondent  instances 
cases  of  upwards  of  fifty  years,  but  the  Rev. 
Samuel  Angler  held  the  rectory  of  St.  Mary 
Woolnoth,  Lombard  Street,  for  sixty-five  years, 
(from  1689),  which  is  perhaps  unexampled.  Non- 
residence  being  then  the  .fashion,  he  was  snugly 
housed  at  St.  Margaret's,  Westminster. 

SAMUEL  H.  ANGIER. 

15,  Hyde  Park  Gate,  South. 

SPELLING  MATCHES  (3rd  S.  i.  126.)  —  I  appre- 
hend that  spelling  matches  are  quite  an  "  American 
institution " ;  at  least,  I  can  say  from  experience 
that  they  are  very  common  in  the  Western  States 
of  the  Union,  and  I  have  witnessed  them  in 
Canada,  but  have  never  heard  of  anything  similar 
to  them  on  this  side  of  the  Atlantic. 

The  "  laws  by  which  they  are  conducted  "  are 
Tery  simple :  they  are  generally  held  in  the  dis- 
trict school- house  (often  a  log  hut)  under  the 
superintendence  of  the  school-master  or  mistress, 
who,  taking  a  spelling-book,  gives  a  word  from 
it  to  the  first  in  the  row  of  scholars,  and  so  on  in 
rotation.  When  any  scholar  is  unable  to  spell 
the  word  given  him  correctly,  he  sits  down,  the 
last  one  up  being  considered  the  victor.  In  some 
villages  "  spelling  clubs  "  are  formed,  and  prizes 
offered,  which  are  contested  for  in  the  manner 

*  See  also  Allen's  Hist,  of  London,  iii.  p.  379. 


above  described ;  and  so  proficient  do  the  scholars 
become  under  this  kind  of  training,  that  I  would 
back  the  members  of  many  a  spelling  club  in  the 
remote  west,  against  the  like  number  of  under- 
graduates from  one  of  our  Universities.  The 
writer  has  a  distinct  recollection  of  joining  in  one 
of  these  spelling  matches  at  a  little  village  in 
Ohio  some  eight  years  since ;  and  notwithstanding 
he  thought  -  himself  "  well  up  "  in  orthography, 
being  ignominiously  defeated  by  an  arch-looking 
Buckeye  damsel  of  twelve.  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

In  the  school  where  I  passed  some  years  of  my 
early  life  this  system  was  acted  on ;  and  while  the 
successful  competitor  had  a  small  prize,  all  mis- 
takes in  spelling  had  the  punishment  inflicted  of 
the  boys  making  the  mistakes  being  obliged  to 
write  the  word  correctly  from  one  to  two  hun- 
dred times.  The  plan  adopted  was  this:  The 
schoolmaster  read  a  sentence  or  two,  which  the 
boys^wrote  down  as  he  read  them,  and  the  papers 
were  then  given  in  and  the  mistakes  marked  ; 
the  consequence  was,  that  the  pupils  of  that  school 
were  more  correct  in  their  spelling  than  any  set 
of  boys  I  ever  met  in  my  life.  SUSSEX. 

ABP.  LEIGHTON  (3rd  S.  i.  3,  74.)— EIRIONNACH 
will  find  much  very  interesting  information  con- 
cerning this  excellent  man  in  the  Autobiography 
of  Robert  Blair  (Wodrow  Society)."  See  the 
Index  for  passages  referring  to  him  :  — 

"  To  satires  composed  against  him ;  his  decided  leaning 
to  the  asceticism  of  the  Jansenists ;  his  moderation  in  his 
Diocesan  Courts;  his  pretended  disregard  of  worldly 
pomp ;  goes  to  London  to  court ;  is  desirous  to  demit  his 
place ;  pleads  that  all  the  Presbyterian  ministers  might 
be  indulged;  comes  from  court  Abp.  of  Glasgow  in  a 
new  mode." 

And,  —  few  indexes  being  incapable  of  ad- 
denda—let me  refer  also  to  pp.  399,  403,  410. 
It  is  remarkable  to  observe  the  distrust  and  cen- 
sure with  which  this  worthy  man  was  evidently 
regarded  by  his  brethren  in  the  faith,  perhaps 
more  active  and  interested  in  "  religious  politics  " 
than  he  was.  See  also  Robert  Hall's  eulogy  of 
his  writings,  comparing  them  to  Psalm  xxiii. 
Works  of  R.  Hall,  (ed.  1833),  vol.  i.  p.  270  ;  and 
Athenceum,  March  23,  1861,  p.  390  :  Review  of  a 
Poem  on  Leighton  entitled  "  The  Bishop's  Walk." 

A  very  interesting  account  of  the  Archbishop 
is  given  in  Lights  of  the  World  by  Dr.  Stoughton 
(Religious  Tract  Society)  where  he  is  given  as  an 
illustration  of  "  The  Peacefulness  of  Faith." 

S.  M.  S. 

PALJEOLOGUS  FAMILY   (2nd  S.  ix.  101.)  —  In 

St.  Giles-in- the- Fields'  Register  is  the  following 
marriage  entry :  — 

"  1633.  Aug*  14.— Andrew  Peliologus  and  Elizabeth 
Branes." 

C.  J.  R. 


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NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 

Memoir  of  the  Life  of  Sir  Marc  Isambard  Brunei,  Civil 
Engineer,  Vice  President  of  the  Royal  Society,  Corre- 
sponding Member  of  the  Institute  of  France.  By  Richard 
Beamish,  F.R.S.  (Longman.) 

Marc  Isambard  Brunei  was  a  man  of  whom  both  his 
native  country  and  his  adopted  country  might  well  be 
proud.  The  inventor  of  the  block  machinery,  the  pro- 
jector and  successful  constructor  of  the  Thames  Tunnel, 
and  to  whom  we  are  indebted  besides  for  a  host  of  great 
engineering  works  and  mechanical  contrivances  by  which 
all  the  world  has  benefitted,  deserved  to  have  the  story 
of  his  useful,  eventful,  and  honorable  career  narrated  by 
a  friendly  hand.  He  has  found  a  suitable  Biographer  in 
Mr.  Beamish,  long  a  professional  associate  and  confiden- 
tial friend,  who  describes  clearly  and  briefly  the  various 
important  engineering  and  mechanical  operations  of 
Brunei,  and  in  so  doing  brings  out  incidentally  also  the 
salient  features  of  his  character.  The  book  will  be  read 
with  especial  interest  by  scientific  men,  but  will  also 
be  welcomed  by  the  reading  public  generally,  as  a  plea- 
sant memorial  of  a  good  and  great  man. 

De  Quincey's  Works.  Author's  Edition.  Vol.  I.  Confes- 
sions of  an  English  Opium  Eater.  By  Thomas  De  Quince}'. 
Carefully  revised  by  the  Author,  and  greatly  enlarged, 
(A.  &  C.  Black.) 

This  is  an  endeavour  to  bring  the  works  of  one  who 
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of  Thomas  De  Quincey.  His  writings  have  been  for  the 
most  part  imbedded  in  the  anonymous  pages  of  periodi- 
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posed they  were  published  at  too  high  a  price.  The 
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series,  which  opens  with  his  wondrous  Confessions  of  an 
English  Opium  Eater,  which  so  startled  the  reading  world 
when  it  appeared  in  the  London  Magazine  some  forty 
years  since,  will,  we  trust,  be  widely  circulated.  Those 
who  would  know  more  of  the  literary  character  of  De 
Quincey  should  study  the  article  so  entitled  in  The  Quar- 
terly Review  for  July  18GO. 

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CONTENTS.—  NO.  10. 

NOTES  :  —  Thomas  Rowley,  181  —  The  Mancetter  Martyrs  : 
the  Glovor  Family,  182  —  Relative  Value  of  Moncv,  lb.— 
The  Noomonoscopc,  183  —  Domesday  extended  and  Trans- 
lated, 184—  The  New  Edition  of  Voltaire,  185. 

MINOR  NOTES  :  —  The  Carylls  of  Harting  —  Boiling  to  Death 

—  Castle  Rackrent  —  Sterling  —  Old  London  —  Prediction 
of  the  French  Revolution  —  Jane  Seymour  —  Squire  All- 
worthy,  185. 

QTJE  RIE  S  :  —  Allport  —  "  Burnt  Nj  al"  —  Chiaucungi,  the 
Egyptian  Fortune-teller  —  Churches  built  East  and  West 

—  Clever  —  Dream    Query  —  "Daily     Advertiser,"  &c.  — 
Duchess  or  Dutchess  —  Deer  Parks  —  Domesday  Book  — 
Fold:  a  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  "Word  —  John  Hutchin- 
son  —  Idone  —  Latin  Graces  —  Lawn  and  Crape  —  Leigh- 
ton  —  Massinger's  Widow  —  Dr.  Young  —  Place-Green- 
House,  Sidcup,  Kent  —  Queen  Caroline  or  Louis  Philippe  ? 
Scin-Lseca  :  Scinlac  —  Townships  —  Captain  Thomas  Lucas 
Wheeler,  186. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS  :  —  Proverbial  Saying  —  Tetes 
Rondes  —  Warren  of  Walterstaff—  Saxony,  Duchess  of, 

—  "  Brown  Study,"  189. 

REPLIES  :  —  Sir  Isaac  Newton,  190  —  Trial  of  Spencer  Cow- 
per,  191  —  Irish  Topography,  192  —  Rebekah  at  the  Well: 
Eastern  Costume  —  Fridays,  Saints'  Days  and  Fast  Days 

—  Clergyman's   Right  to   take    the    Chair  —  Chaucer's 
"  Tabard  Inn,"  and   Fire  of  Southwark  —  The  "  Falls  of 
Clyde,"  &c.  —  Passage  in  Lucian  —  Literary  Anecdotes  — 
Miniature   Painter  :    Sillett  —  Passage  in  Cicero  —  In- 
dian Missions  —  Danby   of  Kirkby   Knowle  —  Postage 
Stamps  —  Patents  —  Quotation  —  Defaced  and  Worn  Coins 

—  Winckley  Family  —  Hussey  :    Hurst  —  Jokes  on  the 
Scarcity  of  Bullion  —  Colonel  ,  &o.,  192. 

Notes  on  Books. 


THOMAS  ROWLEY. 

Of  this  individual,  —  to  whom,  as  I  have  already 
said  (3rd  S.  i.  101),  "has  been  ascribed  the  au- 
thorship of  numerous  manuscripts  containing  nar- 
ratives relating  to  the  old  town  (Bristol),  which 
long  passed  as  genuine,  but  are  now  regarded  as 
the  inventions  of  that  unfortunate  genius,  Thomas 
Chatterton,"  —  there  are  several  things  related, 
which  appear  to  me  to  be  irreconcilable.  It  mat- 
ters little  where  he  was  born,  which  is  said  to 
have  been,  however,  at  Norton  Malreward,  near 
this  city,  but  his  career  through  life  is  very  im- 
portant ;  because,  if  true,  as  reported,  it  is  some- 
what extraordinary  that  more  attention  has  not 
been  paid  to  it  by  those  who  have  engaged  in  the 
Chatter  tonian  controversy.  In  some  manuscripts 
possessed  by  Mr.  Barrett,  he  is  said  to  have  been 
educated  at  the  convent  of  the  Carmelites  at 
Bristol;  yet  Chatterton  himself  says  he  was 
schooled  at  that  of  the  Black  Canons  of  St. 
Kenna,  at  Keynsham,  about  four  miles  from  that 
city.  In  a  note  prefixed  to  the  poem  entitled 
the  Battle  of  Hastings,  it  is  said  to  have  been 
translated  by  "  Thomas  Row  lie,  parish  preeste  of 
St.  John's,  in  the  city  of  Bristol,  in  the  year 
1465";  the  former  statement,  however,  is  not 
authenticated  (as  Dean  Milles  says)  by  the  Wor- 
cester register  ;  and  as  to  the  latter,  Bristol  was 
not  a  city  at  the  date  mentioned.  This,  how- 


ever, is  of  little  consequence  to  the  argument. 
With  Rowley,  it  is  said,  was  educated  by  the 
Carmelites,  Robert  and  William  Canynges  *,  to 
whom  he  tells  us,  "  I  was  fadre  confessor "  ; 
whereas  we  know  that  John  Carpenter,  Bishop  of 
Worcester,  held  that  important  office  in  relation 
to  the  latter  Canynges  ;  and  as  to  the  former,  we 
nowhere  find  that  such  a  man  ever  existed. 
Rowley  says  that  "Master  William  offered  me  a 
canon's  place  in  Westbury  College,  which  gladly 
had  I  accepted  but  my  pains  (probably  arising 
from  the  infirmities  of  age)  made  me  stay  at 
home."  And  where  was  his  home?  Why,  he 
tells  us  that  "  After  this  mischance  I  lived  in  a 
house  by  the  Tower  (in  Bristol),  which  has  not 
been  repaird  since  Robert  Consull  of  Gloucester 
repayrd  the  castle  and  wall "  :  his  dwelling  was 
then  close  to  Bristol  Castle.  Subsequently  he 
removed  to  "  his  house  on  the  hyll,  (where)  the 
ayer  was  mickle  keen.  It  was  a  fine  house  (which 
he  took)  on  a  repayring  lease  for  99  years,  and 
therein  he  ly vd "  ;  that  is  to  say,  on  Kingsdown, 
a  suburb  of  Bristol, —  both  his  residences  being 
distant  from  his  cure  of  St.  John's.  Chatterton 
says  that  Rowley  died  at  Westbury;  if  so,  he 
after  all  ended  his  days  with  the  regulars ;  yet 
he  could  not  accept  a  canon's  place  when  offered 
because  of  his  pains !  His  was  a  singularly 
chequered  life ;  for,  born  in  an  obscure  village, 
he  was  educated  either  by  the  White  Friars  or 
Black  Canons,  no  matter  which ;  they  were  regu- 
lars. He  then  relinquished  conventual  life  for 
that  of  a  parish  priest,  and  gave  up  the  regulars 
to  become  a  secular;  then  again  he  doffed  the 
habit  and  occupation  of  a  secular,  and  assumed 
that  of  a  regular,  to  die  in  the  Benedictine  Col- 
lege at  Westbury  !  Much  stronger  faith  is  re- 
quired to  believe  this,  I  think,  than  many  other 
things  which  Chatterton  has  stated  about  Rowley ! 
Rowley  is  said  to  have  outlived  his  friend  and 
patron  William  Canynges,  yet  the  latter  takes  no 
notice  of  him  in  his  will.  All  the  disputants  on 
one  side  in  the  Rowley  controversy  utterly  deny, 
I  believe,  the  existence  of  any  such  person  ;  and 
William  Wyrcestre,  who  lived  in  Bristol  at  the 
time  assigned  to  Rowley,  makes  no  mention  of 
him,  though  he  carefully  noted  down  in  his  Itine- 
rary every  person  and  circumstance  worth  re- 
cording in  relation  to  the  old  town.  "  Chatter- 
ton's  anecdotes  concerning  the  birth,  education, 
and  death  of  Rowley,  must  rest  upon  his  own 
authority,  for  want  of  more  authentic  evidence, 
and  carrv  such  a  degree  of  credit  as  the  reader 
may  be  inclined  to  allow  them."  f  Mr.  Warton, 
too,  has  justly  remarked,  that  — 

"Had  such  a  poet  as  Rowley  existed  in  the  fifteenth 
centurj",  he  would  have  been  idolized  by  his  age,  he 


*  See  my  Memorials  of  the  Canynges*  Family,  &c.  p.  63. 
f  Dean  Milles,  Rowley  Poems,  p.  364. 


182 


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[3'd  S.  I.  MAR.  8,  '62. 


would  have  been  complimented  by  contemporary  writers, 
and  his  works  would  have  been  multiplied  by  numerous 
manuscripts,  which  would  have  been  remaining  in  our 
libraries.  He  would  have  been  printed  by  Caxton,  who 
diligently  searched  after  all  the^  poetry  of  his  times,"  and 
would  have  descended  in  repeated  editions  to  posterity. 
His  life  would  have  been  written  by  Bale,  who  mentions 
obscure  authors,  now  deservedly  forgotten :  and  by  the 
classical  Leland,  he  would  have  been  undoubtedly  re- 
corded as  the  great  and  rare  scholar,  who  understood 
Greek  in  the  reign  of  Edward  IV.  That  his  collection 
of  poems  should  subsist  in  one  copy  only,  and  that  un- 
seen, unknown,  nor  ever  once  transcribed,  for  so  long  a 
period,  is  incredible.  That  such  a  prodigy  should  have 
been  suppressed  for  three  hundred  years,  is  inconsistent 
with  the  common  equity  and  the  common  curiosity  of 
mankind,  and  with  that  notice  which  distinguished  merit 
so  naturally  demands.  Excellence  must  struggle  into 
observation.  Beauty  cannot  be  long  concealed.  A  me- 
teor attracts  every  eye."  * 

GEORGE  PEYCE. 
Bristol  City  Library. 


THE  MANCETTER  MARTYRS:  THE  GLOVER 

FAMILY. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  many  readers  of  "  N.  & 
Q."  are  acquainted  with  a  little  volume,  entitled 
Narrative  of  the  Persecutions  and  Sufferings  of 
Robert  Glover  and  Mrs.  Lewis,  by  the  Rev.  B. 
Hichings.  A  new  and  enlarged  edition  has  lately 
appeared,  embodying  several  interesting  particu- 
lars connected  with  their  respective  families,  his- 
tories, &c.  Such  may  be  pleased  to  learn  the  fol- 
lowing addenda,  which  the  pious  author  has  since 
collected :  — 

"  John  Glover,  of  Baxterle)',  the  father  of  our  martyr, 
who  came  to  reside  at  Mancetter,  had  one  daughter  and 
four  sons;  John,  who  died  at  Mancetter,  August  21, 
1558  ;  Robert,  who  was  burnt  at  Coventry ;  William,  who 
died  at  Wem ;  and  Thomas,  of  whom  no  mention  is 
made  in  Foxe.  The  name  of  Glover  was  honoured  of 
God  in  one  generation,  as  of  a  family  valiant  for  the 
truth;  and  in  the  next  it  was  the  Divine  will  that 
it  should  be  held  in  honour  of  man.  William  f,  whose 
remains  were  treated  with  so  much  ignominy,  left 
four  daughters  and  one  son.  To  this  son,  before  the 
Great  Fire  in  London,  there  was  a  monument  in  St.  Ste- 
phen's Church,  Coletnan  Street,  bearing  the  following 

*  "  An  Inquiry  into  the  Authenticity  of  the  Rowley 
Poems,"  by  Thomas  Warton,  p.  101.  This  article  and 
that  on  Turgot  originally  appeared  in  a  work  I  published 
in  1858  intituled  Fact  versus  Fiction,  which  having  become 
scarce  in  consequence  of  my  destroying  all  the  copies  left 
after  paying  the  printer's  expenses,  &c.,  has  led  me  to 
believe  the  subject  of  this  paper  is  deserving  a  wider 
circulation  than  that  of  a  mere  locality ;  hence  its  ap- 
pearance is  requested  in  "N.  &  Q.;' 

f  The  Chronicle  of  Queen  Jane  and  Queen  Mary  (Cam- 
den  Society),  pp.  122-124,  details  particulars  of  the 
Duke  of  Suffolk  at  Coventry ;  and  pp.  183, 184,  give  from 
Rampton's  confession,  William  Glover's  speech  of  decided 
encouragement.  Probably  this  document,  if  examined, 
might  supply  further  reference  to  the  Glover  family.  At 
least  the  speech  above  named  suggests  a  cause  "-which 
may  have  promoted  the  vengeance  visited  even  on  his 
lifeless  remains. 


inscription :  •— '  Here  lyeth  in  peace  the  body  of  the  Right 
Worshipful  Sir  William  Glover,  Knight,  Citizen,  and 
Alderman  of  London,  who  for  the  many  good  gifts,  both 
in  sincere  religion,  wisdom,  and  gravity,  wherewith  he 
was  very  plentifully  graced,  was  elected  Sheriff  of  Lon- 
don, and  served  the  same  A.D.  1601.  He  had  lived  in 
good  name  and  fame  fifty-eight  years,  and  very  blessedly 
departed  this  transitory  life,  the  17th  day  of  December, 
A.D.  1603.'  " 

After  enumerating  the  names  of  his  children,  it 
is  added :  — 

"To  whose  dearest  memory  the  Lady  Anne  Glover, 
the  sorrowful  widow  of  the  said  Sir  William,  at  her  own 
charge,  erected  this  monument  in  testification  of  her  love 
and  duty.* 

"  Sir  William,  who  was  one  of  the  knights  made  by 
King  James  I.,  at  Whitehall,  on  the  day  before  his  coro- 
nation, July  24,  A.D.  1603,  left  four  daughters  and  one 
son,  Sir  Thomas  Glover,  Knight,  Lord  of  the  Manor  of 
Kirkby  Mallory,  in  the  county  of  Leicester,  who  was 
knighted  at  Greenwich,  April  21,  A.D.  1605.f 

"  Thomas,  the  youngest  son  of  John  Glover,  had  ono 
son,  Sir  Thomas  Glover,  Knight,  an  attendant  of  James 
I.,  and  afterwards  his  majesty's  ambassador  at  the  court 
of  Constantinople,  A.D.  1616.  He  was  knighted  at  Hamp- 
ton Court,  August  17,  A.D.  1606. 

"  Hugh  Glover,  the  eldest  son  of  our  martyr,  who  in- 
herited the  property  of  his  father's  eldest  brother,  and 
who  was  ten  years  of  age  when  his  father  was  burnt, 
married  Frances,  daughter  of  Richard  Wigbtman,  Esq ,  of 
Burbage,  in  the  county  of  Leicester.  He  had  one  daugh- 
ter, and  two  sons,  Edward  and  Henry.  Edward  married 
Anne,  daughter  of  Sir  Eusebius  Isham,  Knight,  of  Braun- 
ston,  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  and  was  living  at 
Baxterley  Hall  in  the  year  1617,  under  the  peaceful 
reign  of  a  Protestant  sovereign. 

"  '  Them  that  honour  me,  I  will  honour.'  — 1  Sam.  xi. 
30. 

"'The  generation  of  the  upright  shall  be  blessed.'  — 
Psalm  cxif.  2." 

The  especial  object,  however,  in  requesting  the 
insertion  of  the  above  is  to  ask  the  assistance  of 
the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  in  ascertaining  any  fur- 
ther details  of  the  above-named  parties,  or  refer- 
ences to  probable  sources  of  such  information. 
Those  which  have  been  already  communicated, 
for  easy  reference,  are  appended  as  notes  to  the 
above. 

Query.  Of  what  family  was  his  wife  Lady  Anne? 
Probably  reference  may  be  made  to  him  in  any 
documents  or  accounts  of  the  London  Dyers. 

S.  M.  S. 


RELATIVE  VALUE  OF  MONEY. 
I  am  not  going  to  give  a  regular  essay  on  this 
subject ;  all  I  mean  to  do  is  to  correct  the  erro- 

*  Stow's  Survey  of  London  (ed.  1633),  p.  105,  mentions 
Alderman  Sir  William  Glover,  as  a  Dyer,  and  his  bequest 
of  200/.  to  hospitals  round  London. 

f  It  appears  to  be  to  this  Sir  Thomas  Glover  that  allu- 
sion is  made  in  Nichols's  Progresses  of  James  I.  vol.  i.  p.  508, 
where  a  note  states  that  he  resided  at  Wilsdon,  Middle- 
sex, and  that  several  extracts  are  given  from  ,its  regis- 
ters in  Lysons's  Environs  of  London  (vol.  iii.  621),  which 
record  his  marriage,  and  the  births  of  two  sons  and  five 
daughters. 


S.  I.  MAR.  8,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


183 


neous  notions  which  seem  to  prevail  respecting 
the  value  of  money  in  the  time  of  Elizabeth  and 
James  I.,  as  compared  to  what  it  is  at  present. 
The  proportion  is  assumed  to  be  that  of  5  to  1. 
Thus  MR.  COLLIER  states  without  hesitation,  that 
Spenser's  pension  of  601.  a-year  was  equivalent 
to  one  of  250/.  at  the  present  day  ;  and  MR.  DYCE, 
a  more  cautious  writer,  says  that  the  1000Z.  said 
to  have  been  given  to  Shakspeare  by  Lord 
Southampton,  "was  equivalent  to  nearly  5000Z. 
in  our  own  day ;  and  of  the  statement  that  the 
dramatist  lived  in  Stratford  at  the  rate  of  1000Z. 
a-year,  that  it  was  "at  the  rate  of  about  5000Z. 
per  annum  according  to  the  present  value  of 
money." 

The  best  way  to  test  matters  of  this  kind  is  to 
state  and  examine  the  prices  of  various  articles  in 
those  times,  which  I  will  now  proceed  to  do,  pre- 
mising that  owing  to  want  of  access  to  the  neces- 
sary works,  I  must,  except  in  the  case  of  corn, 
confine  myself  almost  solely  to  such  prices  as  I  find 
mentioned  in  the  dramatists.  I  must  also  premise 
that,  according  to  Adam  Smith,  silver  had  attained 
its  present  value  by  the  middle  of  the  sixteenth 
century.  Accordingly,  in  his  "  Table  of  Prices  of 
Wheat,"  he  gives,  from  1553  the  price  of  wheat 
in  money  of  those,  and  in  money  of  the  present 
(his  own)  times,  in  exactly  the  same  figures. 

The  average  price  of  the  quarter  of  eight 
bushels  of  middle  wheat  in  Windsor  market,  from 
1595  to  ;i 620,  he  gives  at  "about  11.  12s.  8  fe?. 
or  about  six  ounces  and  one- third  of  an  ounce  of 
silver."  Now  the  average  price  of  wheat  in  gene- 
ral I  find  to  have  been  2Z.  13s.  Id.  in  1860,  so 
that  the  proportion  between  the  early  price,  and 
that  of  1860,  was  as  53  to  33  — not  very  much 
more  than  as  I  £  to  1  ;  a  very  different  proportion 
from  that  of  5  to  1  ! 

In  the  tavern  bill  picked  out  of  Falstaff's  pocket, 
a  capon  is  put  down  at  2s.  2c£.  This  was  probably 
what  we  would  now  call  a  fowl,  which  might  be 
had  for  3s.  or  3s.  Qd.  Dame  Ursula  in  Bartholo* 
mew  Fair  charges  from  5s.  to  6s.  for  her  roast 
sucking-pigs. 

Two  articles  were  undoubtedly  low-priced  — 
wine  and  land. 

In  the  aforesaid  tavern  bill,  two  gallons  of  sack 
are  charged  5s.  8d,  that  is,  8$d.  a  quart.  MR. 
DYCE  mentions  xxd  as  given  for  a  quart  of  claret 
and  a  quart  of  sack  for  a  preacher  at  Stratford. 
The  difference  of  price  was  probably  caused  by 
the  cost  of  carriage  so  far  inland. 

We  are  not  to  suppose  that  this  sack  was  the 
same  as  the  present  sherry,  though  it  came  from  the 
same  place.  It  was  the  mere  vin  du  pays  of  the 
south  of  Spain ;  a  wine  of  no  great  body,  for  it 
was  kept  on  draught,  and  drunk  out  of  cups  and 
bowls,  not  sipped  out  of  glasses,  and  it  was  ap- 
parently rather  acid  as  they  used  to  mix  sugar 
with  it.  The  duty  was  also  very  low.  It  is  sur- 


prising how  cheap  ordinary  wine  is  in  the  wine 
countries.  Many  years  ago  I  remember  getting 
really  very  good  wine  at  a  cabaret  on  the  river- 
side below  Bordeaux  for  3d.  a  bottle,  and  my 
uncle,  at  whose  house  I  was,  told  me  that  the  ex- 
cellent wine  which  we  drank  well  watered  at 
dinner,  stood  him  in  only  6d.  a  bottle,  though  it 
had  paid  the  octroi.  We  need  not  wonder  then  at 
the  cheapness  of  sack  in  Shakspeare's  days. 

As  to  land,  that  really  was  low  priced,  and  the 
same  would  seem  to  have  been  the  case,  though 
not  to  the  same  extent,  with  houses.  We  find 
that  Shakspeare  purchased  "for  320Z.  107  acres 
of  arable  land  in  the  parish  of  Old  Strat- 
ford, and  "a  house,  with  a  piece  of  ground, 
not  far  from  the  Biackfriars'  Theatre,"  for  140Z. 
But  we  are  to  remember  that  the  population  of 
England  was  not  then  a  fifth  of  what  itjis  now, 
while  the  quantity  of  land  was  nearly  the  same ; 
that  the  badness  of  roads  impeded  the  transport 
of  produce,  &c.,  and  so  we  need  not  wonder  at 
the  low  price  of  land. 

But  if  wine  and  land  were  cheap,  horses  were 
not  so.  MR.  DYCE  quotes  from  Dekkar's  Bellman 
of  London :  "  This  is  the  life  of  the  Prigger  who 
travailes  up  and  downe  the  whole  kingdome  upon 
his  geldings  of  20  and  40  pound  a  piece.  In  Jon- 
son's  Every  Man  out  of  his  Humour  we  hear  of 
a  Bid-stand  — "  He  has  had  his  mares  and  his 
geldings,  he,  have  been  worth  forty,  threescore, 
a  hundred  pound  a  horse  ;  "  and  in  the  same  play, 
Fastidious  Brisk  says  he  had  been  offered  100Z.  for 
his  "  grey  hobby  "  or  ambling  nag.  These  surely 
are  fully  equal  to  the  prices  of  the  present  day. 

But  manufactured  articles  were  still  dearer. 
Mrs.  Quickly  tells  Falstaff  she  had  given  8s.  an 
ell  (f  yard)  for  holland  for  shirts  for  him.  The 
theatres  gave  20Z.  for  a  velvet  cloak ;  and  in  The 
Devil  is  an  Ass  we  hear  of  a  cloak  that  cost  50Z., 
being  made  of  plush  at  3Z.  10s.  a  yard,  lace  and 
velvet. 

On  the  whole,  then,  if  some  things  were  cheaper 
others  were  dearer  than  now ;  a$d  setting  the  one 
against  the  other,  1000/.  a  year  then  might  be 
about  equal  to  1600/.  or  1700J.  a  year  now.  We 
find  the  vicar  of  Stratford  in  1662  seeing  nothing 
incredible  in  Shakspeare's  having  "spent  at  the 
rate  of  1000Z.  a  year ; "  yet  how  he  could  have 
spent  even  the  half  of  it,  with  his  small  family, 
passes  my  conception.  With  the  low  value  of 
landed  property,  if  Lord  Southampton  gave 
Shakspeare  1000/.,  it  was  as  much  as  if  a  Duke 
of  Sutherland  or  a  Marquis  of  Westminster  of  the 
present  day,  were  to  present  a  man  of  genius  with 
20,OOOZ.  Tiios.  KEIGHTLEY. 


THE  NEOMOXOSCOPE. 

In  a  former  number  of  "N.&Q."  (2nJ  S.iii.296,) 
I  drew  attention  to  a  singular  stereoscopic  effect, 
produced  by  the  application  of  a  very  powerful 


184 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  MAR.  8,  '62. 


magnifying  glass  to  photographic  portraits,  taken 
on  glass.  I  inquired  if  this  effect  was  known,  as 
I  had  never  heard  of  it,  and  had  myself  only  just 
accidentally  discovered  it;  and  I  requested  to 
know  how  it  was  to  be  accounted  for?  Five 
years  have  almost  elapsed  without  any  reply  being 
given  to  my  queries ;  but  the  principle,  I  find, 
has  been  partially  acted  upon  in  a  new  instru- 
ment called  the  neomonoscope.  This  is  nothing 
more  than  a  common  magnifying  glass  inserted 
in  the  cover  of  a  case,  through  which  a  photo- 
graphic portrait  on  a  card  is  viewed  ;  and  appears 
somewhat  in  relief,  and  with  some  degree  of  stereo- 
scopic effect.  I  write  thus  guardedly,  because 
the  effect  is  very  very  far  from  that  obtained  by 
the  application  of  a  lens  such  as  above  described. 
Mine  is  a  powerful  one  of  a  quarter  of  an  inch 
focus ;  and  when  a  photograph  on  glass  is  sub- 
jected to  this  lens,  the  stereoscopic  effect  is  mar- 
vellous. 

But  the  experiment  will  not  succeed  with  por- 
traits on  paper.  A  strong  lens  makes  the  paper 
appear  woolly,  and  spoils  the  effect;  whereas  a 
portrait  on  glass  conies  out  with  all  the  smooth- 
ness and  beauty  of  a  waxen  figure.  Still  this 
neomonoscope  is  an  acquisition  to  a  certain  extent ; 
and  produces  a  pleasing  effect.  It  is,  however, 
susceptible  of  some  improvement.  The  glass,  in- 
stead of  being  in  the  middle  of  the  cover,  should 
be  placed  higher  up,  so  that  the  greatest  effect 
might  be  produced  on  the  features  ;  which  are,  of 
course,  what  one  most  wishes  to  observe  :  whereas 
now,  the  upper  part  of  the  figure,  particularly  if 
the  person  is  represented  standing,  is  less  per- 
fectly developed  than  the  dress  or  accessories  of 
the  picture.  The  glass  also  should  be  protected, 
by  some  simple  contrivance,  from  dust  or  injury; 
for,  exposed  as  it  is  now,  the  case  will  require  to 
be  carried  in  another  case  for  security.  F.  C.  H 


DOMESDAY  EXTENDED  AND  TRANSLATED. 

« 

I  take  it  to  be  a  postulate  that  the  "  N.  &  Q." 
are  intended  for  two  purposes,  viz.,  to  elicit  truth, 
with  a  view  to  its  diffusion,  and  to  expose  error 
with  a  view  to  its  suppression.  It  is  with  the 
latter  of  these  objects  that  I  write  the  following 
Note. 

The  project  now  in  course  of  execution  of  re- 
publishing  Domesday  by  means  of  photography, 
is  so  far  beyond  praise,  that  I  shall  do  no  more 
than  allude  to  it.  But  as  every  good  seems  to  be 
attended  by  something  that  can  scarcely  be  thus 
predicated,  so  it  appears  that  an  extension  and 
translation  of  Domesday  are  in  course  of  threat- 
ened preparation,  and  these  it  is  intended  shall 
be  published  simultaneously  with  Col.  James's 
great  work. 

Upon  this  extension  and  this  translation  I  have 


a  word  or  two  to' say.  A  specimen  of  the  exten- 
sion has  been  already  published,  and  it  is  as  fol- 
lows :  — 

«  Midelsexe. 

"  Archiepiscopus  Lanfrancus  tenet  HESA 
pro  Iviiii.  hidis.  Terra  eat  xl.  carucarum.  Ad  dominium 

pertinent 
xii.  hide  et  ibi  aunt  ii.  carucae.'    Inter  francigenos  et 

uillanos 

sunt  xxvi.  carucas  et  adhuc  xii.  possent  esse. 
Ibi  presbiter  habet  i.  hidam  et  iii.  milites  vi.  hidas  et 

dimidiam  et  ii.  uillani 
ii.  hidas  et  xii.  uillani  quisque  dimidiam  hidam  et  xx. 

uillani  quisque 
i.  uirgatam  terre  et  xl.  uillani  quisque  dimidiam  uir- 

gatam  et  xvj.  bordarii 
de  ii.  hidas.    Ibi  sunt  xii.  cotarii  et  ii.  serui.    Ibi  i. 

molinum 
iiii.  solidos  et  pratum  i.  caruca. 

Pastura  ad  pecuniam 
uillse.    Silua  cccc.  porcis  et  iii.  solidos. 

My  only  comment  upon  this  extension  will  be  to 
place  in  contrast  with  it  another  extension,  which 
I  will  submit  to  be  a  truer  exponent  of  the 
original  entry  in  Domesday  :  — 

'•'  Archiepiscopus  Lanfrancus  tenet  Hesa 
pro.  L VI III.  hidis.    Terra,  est  XL.  carucarum.     Ad 

dominium  pertinent 
.  XII.  hide,  .  T  ibi  sunt.  II.  carucas.    Inter  francigenas 

•j  villanos. 

sunt.  XX V[.  carucatic  .  -j  adhuc  XII.  possent .  esse  . 
Ibi  presbyter  habet .  I.  hidam.  "j  III.  milites  .  VI.  hidas 

^  dimidiam  .  *]  II.  villani 
II.  hidas  .  ~j  XII.  villani  quisque  dimidiam  hidam  .  -j 

XX.  villani  .  quisque 
.  I.  virgatam  terre  .  ~j  XL.  villani .  quisque  dimidiam 

virgatam  .  ^  XVI.  bordarii 
de  .  II.  hidis.    Ibi  sunt .  XII.  cotarii.  •}  II.  servi.   Ibi . 

I.  molinus 
IIII.  solidorum  .  ^  pratum  .  I  carucatas. 

Pastura  ad  pecuniam 
villas.    Silva.  [ad]  CCCC  .  porcos.  -j  III.  solidos." 

Could  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  have  imagined 
without  prompting,  that  in  the  nineteenth  century 
such  an  extension  as  that  which  is  first  referred  to 
could  have  been  sent  into  the  literary  world,  in 
the  hope  of  its  adoption  and  recognition? 

So  much  for  the  extension,  which,  as  speaking 
for  itself,  requires  no  further  or  other  comment. 
In  regard  to  the  translation,  I  did  intend  to  have 
troubled  the  readers  of  "  JST.  &  Q."  with  the  pub- 
lished specimen  of  this  also ;  but  I  will  only  observe 
that  in  this  translation  Francigena  is  for  the  first 
time  interpreted  freeman  in  order  apparently  that 
it  may  be  forced  into  an  antithesis  with  villanus, 
whom  the  translator  imagines  to  have  been  non- 
free.  For  he  does  not  appear  to  know  that  the 
villanus  of  Domesday  is  the  ceorl  of  the  Anglo- 
Saxons —  the  villanus  of  the  ancient  Latin  trans- 
lation of  the  Reclitudines,  and  of  the  LL.  Hen.  I. 
—  and  not  the  villein  of  later  days. 

In  conclusion,  I  will  observe  that  the  motive 


3rd  S.  I.  MAR.  8,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


185 


which  has  prompted  me  to  write  this  note  has 
been  the  fear  lest  such  a  book  as  the  proposed 
extension  and  translation  will  be,  may,  by  the  ad- 
vantage of  Col.  James's  good  company,  pass  un- 
challenged for  a  time  sufficient  to  propagate  grave 
errors,  which  may  never  be  corrected,  and  also 
disgrace  our  native  literature  in  the  minds  of  the 
learned  foreigners,  who  will  visit  our  country  at 
the  ensuing  bilustral  congregation  of  nations. 

H.  C.  C. 


THE  NEW  EDITION  OF  VOLTAIRE. 

There  is  certainly  something  inauspicious  about 
the  new  volume  of  Voltaire's  hitherto  inedited 
WorJtSj  just  published  by  M.  Plon  at  Paris,  with 
considerable  pomp  of  preface  and  notes,  by  Jules 
Janin  and  Edouard  Didier. 

I  think  it  was  the  Athencenm  which  detected, 
in  the  play  of  "  Mademoiselle  de  la  Cochonniere  " 
(known  before,  but  now  for  the  first  time  dis- 
tinctly attributed  to  Voltaire),  a  mere  abridged 
translation  of  Vanbrugh's  coarse  but  clever 
comedy  of  the  Eelapse.  And  though  Jules  Janin 
has  since  thrown  up  a  few  of  his  brilliant  sky- 
rockets to  cover  the  editor's. retreat,  there  can  be 
no  doubt  of  the  fact  itself.  Voltaire  may  have 
given  himself  the  trouble  of  making  this  "adapta- 
tion "  to  amus.e  his  friends  at  some  private  thea- 
tricals ;  but  it  is,  to  say  the  least,  extremely 
unlikely. 

But  a  more  striking  instance  still,  of  the  negli- 
gent way  in  which  old  ware  is  foisted  on  the 
public  as  new,  is  to  be  found  in  the  "  Second  Part 
of  Candide,"  which  occupies  seventy  pages  of  the 
volume,  and  is  thus  introduced  in  the  Preface  :  — 

"  There  appeared  at  Geneva,  close  to  Voltaire's  door, 
different  copies  of  this  second  part,  which  is  now  not  to  be 
found  (qui  eat  aujourd'hui  introuvable),  and  which  we 
publish  as  a  very  curious  document !  Is  the  second  part 
of « Candide '  by  the  author  of  the  first  ?  We  do  not  know, 
but,"  &c.  (The  editor  then  goes  on  to  say  that  Voltaire 
denied  it ;  but  that  much  credit  is  not  to  be  attached  to 
the  denegation.) 

Now  the  work  thus,  solemnly  introduced  to  the 
reader  is  about  as  common,  and  as  worthless,  as 
any  light  production  of  its  day.  Candide  en  Danne- 
marck,  ou  la  Seconde  Partie  de  Candide,  appeared 
in  1767.  It  was  an  ordinary  stall  book  a  few 
years  ago  ;  and  so  was  an  English  translation  of  it, 
and  probably  they  are  so  still.  I  notice  a  copy  of 
it  to-day  at  a  low  price,  and  among  very  common 
ware,  in  a  Stuttgard  bookseller's  catalogue.  This 
very  ordinary  and  well-known  affair  the  editor 
has  castrated  to  suit  the  more  decorous  taste  of 
our  times  —  an  operation  for  which  Voltaire,  if 
his  it  be,  would  certainly  not  have  thanked  him — 
and  inserted  it,  by  way  of  padding,  among  a 
meagre  collection  of  a  few  inedited  letters. 

It  may  no  doubt  be  Voltaire's.  Wittiest  as  he 
was  of  mortal  men,  he  sometimes  was  lazy  enough 


to  be  dull,  and  then  generally  made  up  for  it  by 
increased  indecency.  But  a  second  part  of  "Can- 
dide"—  whether  this  one  or  not,  I  am  not  sure  — 
is  attributed  by  Querard  to  Thore  de  Cham- 
pigneulles.  However  this  may  be,  the  reader  will 
probably  agree  that,  as  Voltaire  himself  indulged 
in  mystification  about  his  own  writings  to  an  un- 
rivalled extent,  so  his  editors  have  imbibed  not  a 
little  of  the  spirit  of  their  great  original. 

JEAN  LE  TROUVEUE. 


THE  CAEYLLS  or  HARTING.  —  It  appears  from 
The  Athenceum  that  at  the  last  meeting  of  the 
Archaeological  Institute,  Mr.  Minty  exhibited 
photographs  of  the  church  of  Harting,  Sussex, 
"  and  of  two  well- sculptured  tombs  and  effigies  " 
of  Sir  Edward  and  his  son  Sir  Richard  Caryll ; 
and  we  are  further  informed  that  the  "  Caryll 
Chancel "  has  lately  been  removed,  and  the  monu- 
ments exposed  to  the  weather,  because  the  family 
is  extinct,  and  "  no  one  "  appeared  to  take  care  of 
the  memorials  of  the  former  Lords  of  Ladyholt. 
If  "  no  one  "  had  been  pleased  to  let  the  monu- 
mental chapel  alone,  it  might  have  stood  for 
another  century  or  more ;  but  "  no  one "  first 
turned  the  chapel  into  the  parish  school-room ; 
then  broke  the  wall  to  make  a  fire-place;  then 
made  another  attack  to  insert  the  flue  from  a 
stove  introduced  to  warm  the  church.  When  I 
visited  the  place,  after  the  new  school-house  was 
built,  thrs  monumental  chapel  was  used  as  a  car- 
penter's workshop ;  at  least  it  was  so  choked  up 
with  deal  boards,  benches,  shavings,  and  other 
carpenter's  stock  and  rubbish,  that  it  was  impos- 
sible to  get  sight  of  the  inscriptions,  or  more  than 
an  idea  of  the  monuments  themselves.  If  the 
apology  for  removing  the  chapel  be  all-sufficient, 
then  "  no  one  "  could  have  had  a  right  to  do  any 
of  those  things.  These  monuments  of  extinct 
families  are  of  great  interest  and  value  to  our 
local  historians,  and  I  cannot  but  regret  that  no 
appeal  was  made  to  our  active  Archaeological  So- 
ciety before  this  "  no  one  "  put  bis  barbarian  hand 
on  this  monumental  chapel ;  for  I  am  sure  there 
would  have  been  no  difficulty  in  raising  the  few 
pounds  necessary  to  have  repaired  and  preserved 
it.  T.  C.  O. 

Chichester. 

BOILING  TO  DEATH. — To  the  cases  quoted  in 
the  1st  S.  of  "N.  &  Q."  may  be  added  the  fol- 
lowing cruel  infliction  on  coiners  :  — 

"  From  Bordeaux.  Twelve  coiners  were  seiz'd  in  the 
very  fact  of  coining,  and  having  been  tryed  and  found 
guilty,  were  four  hours  after  boil'd  in  oyl,  three  of  them 
women,  one  of  which,  aged  seventy-live,  who  carried  on 
that  trade  about  forty  years."  —  The  Dublin  Intelligence, 
Feb.  28,  1709-10. 

J.  M'C. 


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t3"»S.  I.  MAR.  8, '62. 


CASTLE  KACKRENT.  —  The  following  short 
paragraph,  which  I  have  taken  from  Saunders  s 
News-Letter,  30th  January,  1862,  deserves,  I  think, 
a  corner  in  "  N.  &  Q."  :  — 

"  CASTLE  RACKRENT.  —  The  old  mansion  in  the  beau- 
tiful demesne  of  .Tempo,  in  the  county  of  Fermanagh, 
which  was  the  scene  of  that  remarkable  Irish  story, 
« Castle  Rackrent,'  by  Miss  Edgeworth,  has  disappeared, 
having  recently  been  taken  down  by  Sir  J.  Emerson 
Tennent,  who  is  rebuilding  it.  It  was  the  castle  of  the 
Maguires,  an  ancient  race,  ennobled  by  James  II.,  from 
whom  the  estates  passed  into  the  family  of  the  present 
proprietor.  The  house  which  he  has  just  removed  con- 
tained the  apartments  in  which  Miss  Edgeworth  placed 
the  long  imprisonment  of  Lady  Cathcart  by  her  husband, 
Colonel  Maguire  (who  was  the  Sir  Kit  of  the  tale),  and 
the  window  out  of  which  the  forlorn  lady,  to  preserve 
her  diamonds  from  her  husband,  threw  them  down  to  a 
beggarworn'an,  who  faithfully  conveyed  them  to  the  per- 
son to  whom  Lady  Cathcart  wished  them  confided,  and 
from  whom,  many  years  after,  she  received  them  in  safety, 
on  her  escape  from  confinement." 

ABHBA. 

STERLING. — The  fact  incidentally  mentioned  by 
MR.  EASTWOOD  (2nd  S.  xii.  421),  that  in  certain 
receipts  extending  over  a  space  of  forty- two  years, 
beginning  with  1246,  thirteen  solidi  and  four  ster- 
lings were  reckoned  to  a  mark,  is  worth  noting,  as 
illustrating  the  point  established  by  PROFESSOR 
DE  MORGAN,  in  his  Notes  on  the  History  of  the 
English  Coinage,  that  the  word  sterling  originally 
meant  a  penny ;  not  coin  in  general,  but  the  240th 
part  of  a  pound.  CLIO. 

OLD  LONDON.  —  For  a  new  edition  of  Mr.  Peter 
Cunningham's  Hand-look  to  London,  a  publication 
much  to  be  desired,  the  fol lowing  scrap  may  be 
acceptable.  The  passage  which  I^quote  is  ex- 
tracted from  < — 

"  A  True  Discovery  of  a  Bloody  Plot  intended  to  have 
been  put  in  practice  on  Thursday  the  18th  of  this  present 
November,  against  some  of  the  chiefe  of  the  Lords  and 
Commons  in  Parliament  Assembled  by  bloody  minded 
Papists.  As  also  a  relation  of  intended  insurrections  in 
six  severall  parts  of  this  land  on  the  same  day;  dis- 
covered by  Thomas  Beale.  London :  Printed  for  the 
Author,  1014,  4to.  4  leaves :  "  — 

"  On  Munday,  the  15th  day  of  this  November,  I  was 
in  my  owne  house  at  dinner  at  twelve  of  the  clock. 
When  I  had  dined  (having  no  imployments  at  the  worke 
of  my  calling")  I  tooke  a  little  writing  booke  in  my  hand, 
which  formerly  I  had  written,  'and  did  intend  to  peruse 
it,  and  correct  some  faults,  and  supply  some  things  want- 
ing ;  but  having  no  conveniency  in  my  owne  house,  by 
reason  of  the  frovvardness  of  my  childe,  I  thought  best 
(it  being  a  calme  day)  to  goe  into  a  secret  field  not  far 
off,  which  formerly  I  had  frequented  for  my  owne  private 
meditations.  The  field  lyeth  above  Old-streete,  betweene 
the  way  that  commeth  from  the  Pest-house,  and  the  way 
that  commeth  from  Brick-lane  in  Old-streete;  all  men 
that  use  to  goe  that  way,  know  that  the  first  of  those 
fields  hath  a  common  path,  which  goeth  from  the  Kings- 
gate  at  the  further  end  of  Brick-lane  towards  the  Pest- 
house,  over  against  this  path.  All  the  way  on  the  other 
side  of  the  field  is  a  high  banke  cast  up,  which  on  the 
further  side  of  it  is  shelving,  like  the  side  of  a  house 
eaves ;  and  on  that  side  the  path  is,  it  is  straite  downe 


like  a  mud  wall,  with  a  Htell  dry  ditch  cast  up  on  this 
side." 

W.  CAEEW  HAZLITT. 

PREDICTION  OP  THE  FRENCH  REVOLUTION.  — 
Perhaps  the  following  astrological  prediction  from 
the  Alphonsine  Tables,  printed  1483,  may  interest 
some  of  your  readers,  to  whom  it  may  be  un- 
known :  — 

"  La  huitieme  de  ces  conjonctions  (de  Jupiter  et  de  Sa- 
turne)]  aura  lieu  1'an  du  monde  7040,  et  qu'apres  elle, 
« dans  i'anne'e  1789  de  notre  ere,'  une  des  grandes  periodes 
de  Saturne  (un  des  groupes  de  dix  revolutions  de  la 
planete)  sera  accomplie.  Des-lors  'si  mundus  usque  ad 
ilia  tempora  duraverit,  quod  solus  Deua  novit,  multse 
tune  et  magnaj,  et  mirabiles,  alterationes  mundi  et  mu- 
tationes  futuraa  sunt,  et  rnaxime  circa  leges.'  "  —  See 
Humboldt  (Alex.  Von)  Exa.rn.en  Critique  de  la  Geogra- 
phic du  Nouveau  Continent,  iii.  p.  256.  Paris,  1836. 

EDEN  WARWICK. 

Birmingham. 

JANE  SEYMOUR.  —  On  the  20th  of  May,  1,536, 
the  day  after  Anne  Boleyn  was  beheaded,  Henry 
VIII.  married  Jane  Seymour.  On  the  12th  of 
October,  1537,  Jane  gave  birth  to  a  son,  after- 
wards Edward  VI.,  and  died  within  a  fortnight. 
In  an  old  MS.  Missal,  preserved  at  Mains  Hall, 
anciently  the  residence  of  the  Heskeths,  now  the 
property  of  Thomas  Fitzherbert  Brockholes,  Esq., 
of  Claughton,  there  are  three  prayers  to  be  said 
at  mass  for  her  safe  delivery :  — 

"  Collect.  —  Omnipotens  sempiterne  Deus  qui  beatissi- 
mam  Virginem  Matrem  Mariam  in  conceptu  et  in  partu 
consecrasti  et  Jonam  prophetam  de  ventre  ceti  potenti 
virtute  liberasti,  ffamulam  tuam  pergravidam  protege 
Johanriam  visita  in  salutari  tuo  ut  proles  in  ea  concepta 
feliciter  ad  lucem  prodeat  et  ad  gratiam  lavacri  perve- 
niat,  ipsaque  in  pariendo  dolorem  evadat  et  a  mortis 
periculo  secura  permaneat.  Per  Dom.,  &c. 

"  Secret.  —  Suscipe  qucesmnus  preces  et  hostias  humi- 
litatis  nostrae  et  famulam  tuam  Johannam  scuto  protec- 
tionis  tuse  defende,  ct  quam  ex  gratia  tua  gravidam  esse 
voluisti  adveniente  partus  tempore,  gloriose  libera  et  ab 
omnibus  tentatioriibus  cum  prole  conserva.  Per  Dom., 
&c. 

"Post  communion.  —  Adesto  Domine  supplicationibus 
nostris  ut  famulre  tare  Johanna?  tempore  gratis  pariendi 
tuaj  presidium  suscipiat  et  cum  prolem  humanam  edide- 
rit  percepto  lavacro  salutis  gloriosis  incremcntis  pro- 
ficiat." 

A.  E.  L. 

SQUIRE  ALLWORTHY.  —  In  the  Marriage  Re- 
gister of  St.  Mar  tin's-  in-the-Fields,  London,  I 
found  the  following  entry  :  — 

<k  1736/7,  March  24.  —  Ralph  Allen  of  Bath,  Somerset- 
shire, and  Elizabeth  Holder,  of  the  same  place,  p.  L.  A.13. 
[per  license  of  Archbishop]." 

This  was  Pope's  "  low-born  "  and  then  "  humble 
Allen/'  \  Fielding's  "  Squire  All  worthy." 

PETER  CUNNINGHAM. 


ALLPORT.  —  Persons  conversant  with  the  cor- 
porations of  boroughs  around  London,  are  re- 


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quested  to  state  if  a  John  Allport,  who  died  1 693, 
occurs  as  recorder  ?  W.  A.  LEIGHTON. 

Shrewsbury. 

"  BURNT  NJAL."  —  Can  any  of  your  readers 
favour  me  with  an  interpretation  of  the  inscrip- 
tions on  the  cover  of  Dr.  Dasent's  Translation  of 
the  Story  of '  Burnt  Njal,  or  Life  in  Iceland  at  the 
End  of  the  Tenth  Century?  The  only  informa- 
tion I  can  gather  from  the  book  respecting  it, 
occurs  at  p.  xix.  of  the  Preface.  There  we 
read:- 

"  The  sketch  for  the  cover  is  from  the  hand  of  Mr. 
James  Drummond,  R.S.A.,  who  has  combined  the  chief 
weapons  mentioned  in  our  Saga,  Gunnar's  bill,  Skarphe- 
dinn's  axe,  and  Karl's  sword,  all  bound  together  with 
one  of  the  great  silver  rings  found  in  some  Viking's 
hoard  in  Orknej',  into  a  most  beautiful  design." 

The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  inscription : 
"  But  a  short  while  .  is  hand  .  fain  of  blow.  Bare  . 
is  back  without  brother  behind  .  it."  T.  W.  B. 

CHIAUCUNGI,  THE  EGYPTIAN  FORTUNE-TELLER. 
— This  personage  was  famous  in  England  in  the 
seventeenth  century.  References  to  accessible 
particulars  of  his  deeds  and  death  (the  latter  more 
especially)  are  desired.  DELTA. 

CHURCHES    BUILT    EAST    AND    WEST.  —  Are 

churches  built  thus  on  the  Continent  as  in  this 
country  ?  X.  N. 

CLEVER.  —  The  naval  officer  who  commanded 
the  Federal  expedition  to  Port  Royal,  in  writing 
to  a  friend,  used  this  expression  with  reference  to 
his  arrangements  :  "  I  think  my  plan  was  clever." 

May  I  ask  if  this  word  has  any  special  meaning 
on  the  American  continent,  or  if  employed  there 
in  the  sense  in  which  we  use  it  in  ^England  ? 
Perhaps  some  of  your  correspondents  can  favour 
me  with  quotations  from  the  Nelson,  Wellington, 
or  Marlborough  Despatches,  showing  the  applica- 
tion of  the  word  in  a  similar  manner  to  that  of 
the  American  commander.  W.  S. 

DREAM  QUERY.  — 

"  A  girl,  eight  years  old,  fell  into  a  culvert  at  Nuss, 
Somerset,  and  was  carried  away  by  the  current  until  she 
Avas  pressed  up  between  two  narrow  approaches  to  the 
river.  Her  fate  became  known  by  the  dream  of  a  woman. 
She  was  missed  several  days." 

I  have  cut  the  above  from  a  local  paper-  Can 
anyone  furnish  the  details  of  the  dream,  and 
information  as  to  how  it  was  the  cause  of  the  dis- 
covery of  the  poor  child's  fate  ? 

There  are  so  many  important  speculations  con- 
nected with  the  phenomena  of  dreams,  that  I  make 
no  apology  for  requesting  you  to  record  the  facts 
of  this  case  if  they  can  be  obtained. 

A  LORD  OF  A  MANOR. 

"DAILY  ADVERTISES,"  ETC. —  Can  anyone  in- 
form me  where  I  can  inspect  a  complete  set  of  the 
Daily  Advertiser  newspaper,  which  commenced 


Feb.  3rd,  1730,  and  was  discontinued  in  1798, 
when  it  was  succeeded  by  the  Publican's  Morning 
Advertiser;  or  where  can  I  see  it  for  the  years 
1781,  1782,  and  1783?  In  the  British  Museum 
they  are  very  incomplete.  J.  R.  D. 

DUCHESS  OR  DUTCHESS. — In  the  Spectator  of  1 829 
frequent  mention  is  made  of  the  Duchess  of  Kent 
and  other  Duchesses.  In  the  same  paper  for 
1836,  I  find  that  II.R.H.  is  always  styled  the 
Dutchess  of  Kent.  Can  any  of  your  readers  in- 
form me  of  the  reason  for  this  change  in  spelling, 
and  when  we  returned  to  the  present  ortho- 
graphy ?  L. 

Oxford. 

DEER  PARKS.  —  In  volume  xl.  of  the  Surtees 
Society  publications,  being  a  collection  of  de- 
positions from  York  Castle  relating  to  offences 
committed  in  the  seventeenth  century,  it  appears 
an  indictment  was  preferred,  and  a  true  bill  found 
against  Thomas  Johnson  of  Ripon,  John  Hudsey 
of  Ripon,  gent,  Cha.  Terry,  barber,  and  William 
Kettlewell,  saddler,  for  having  on  July  5,  1654, 
broken  the  park  of  Sir  Charles  Egerton,  Knt., 
called  Maskingfield  Park,  and  chased,  killed,  and 
wounded  the  bucks  and  does. 

The  Rev.  Mr.  Raine,  the  editor  of  this  very 
interesting  volume,  adds  in  a  note  :  — 

"  The  number  of  deer  parks  was  at  this  time  consider- 
able. They  would  afford  great  temptations  that  were  not 
always  resisted.  It  must  be  remembered  that  the  native 
deer  are  still  very  numerous  in  Yorkshire." 

We  may  form  some  idea  of  the  state  of  society 
at  this  period  when  gentlemen  broke  into  deer 
parks,  and  stole  the  deer. 

Allow  me  to  ask  if  there  is  any  record  of  the 
reduction  of  deer  parks  ?  I  consider  it  was  gra- 
dual, arising  from  various  causes. 

FRA.  MEWBURN. 

Larchfield,  Darlington. 

DOMESDAY  BOOK. — In  the  Cornish  portion  of 
Domesday,  recently  photozincographed  by  Col. 
Sir  H.  James,  I  read  of  Lanpiran,  that  from  this 
manor  has  been  taken  away  "  n  tra3,"  which  re- 
turned to  the  canons  of  Saint  Pieran,  in  the  time 
King  Edward  "  firma  mi  septimanaru."  There 
may  possibly  be  an  omission  with  regard  to  the 
dues  terra ;  but  what  is  the  meaning  of  "  firmain 
quatuor  septimanarum  "  ?  I  may  also  ask,  is  any- 
thing known  of  that  peculiar  class  of  villain  de- 
nominated colibert  f  KERNOW. 

FOLD  :  A  LANCASHIRE  AND  CHESHIRE  WORD. — 
What  is  the  exact  meaning  of  this  word,  affixed 
to  so  many  names  of  places  in  Lancashire  and 
Cheshire  ?  Judging  from  maps,  the  spots  so 
distinguished  seem  to  be  isolated  farms.  Does 
"  fold  "  here  signify  sheep-fold,  or  what  is  its  more 
extended  meaning  ?  And  is  the  word  still  used  ? 
It  appears  to  be  usually,  if  not  always,  affixed  to 


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1 3"i  S.  I.  MAR.  8,  '62. 


a  proper  name,  e.g.  Harrop-fold,  Bradley-fold, 
Dixon-fold— not  Harrop's,  Bradley's,  &c. 

Dixonfold  is  now  a  station  on  the  Manchester 
and  Bolton  railway ;  but  I  find  the  name  on  ^a 
Lancashire  ordnance  map,  published  before  this 
railway  was  made.  Can  any  one  of  your  readers, 
having  access  to  old  county  maps  or  surveys  of 
Lancashire,  inform  me  at  how  early  a  date  the 
name  of  Dixonfold  is  to  be  met  with  ?  J. 

JOHN  HUTCHINSON.  —  At  Spennithorne  was 
born,  Oct.  24,  1675,  the  once  celebrated,  but  now 
almost  forgotten  hebraist  and  philosopher,  John 
Hutchinson.  He  was  the  son  of  a  yeoman,  and 
following  the  business  of  a  land-agent,  became 
steward  to  Charles,  sixth  Duke  of  Somerset,  who, 
when  Master  of  the  Horse  to  George  I.,  gave  him 
a  sinecure  appointment  of  200/.  a-year,  with  a  good 
house  in  the  Mews.  His  works  evince  a  strange 
combination  of  talent  and  eccentricity.  In  1724 
he  published  the  first -part  of  Moses'  Principia, 
being  an  attack  on  the  system  of  Gravitation 
established  by  Sir  Isaac^  Newton,  and  in  1727  the 
second  part  appeared,  containing  the  principles 
of  the  Scripture  philosophy.  He  continued  to 
publish  till  his  death  in  1737.  A  numerous  sect 
embraced  his  doctrines,  and  in  1748  his  collected 
works,  including  posthumous  MSS.,  were"  pub- 
lished in  12  vols.  8vo. 

Can  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  inform  me  if 
any  of  the  descendants  of  the  above  are  still 
living,  and  if  so,  where  ?  also,  crest  and  coat  of 
arms  ?  NOSNIHCTUH. 

IDONE.  —  Some  remarks  on  De  Quincey's 
writings  in  Fraser's  Magazine  for  January,  1861, 
induce  me  to  seek  information  on  the  following 
subject : 

Similar  in  conception  to  the  Confessions  of  an 
Opium- eater,  and  an  imitation,  is  a  work  styled, 
The  Hasheesh  Eater,  but  there  is  yet  another,  of 
the  same  class,  Vhich  appeared  in  an  Indian 
serial  (Saunders"  Magazine,  Delhi),  some  years 
since,  subsequent  to  the  former,  and  prior  to  the 
latter.  The  name  is  Idone;  or,  Incidents  in  the 
Life  of  a  Dreamer.  I  have  since  seen  the  same, 
bound  up,  with  a  Preface,  in  which  a  curious  ex- 
planation is  given  of  its  origin,  along  with  a  satis- 
factory denial,  on  the  part  of  the  unknown  author, 
of  his  having  seen  any  of  De  Quincey's  writings 
before  the  publication  of  Idone.  There  was  also 
a  holograph  entry  on  a  fly-leaf,  to  the  effect  that 
the  same  author  republished  Mnemosyne  and  other 
pieces,  a  notice  of  which,  cut  out  of  the  Atkenaum, 
was  appended. 

Now  as  several  contributors  of  former  years 
to  these  Anglo-Indian  journals  have  subsequently 
reappeared  in  our  own  Magazines,  perhaps  some  of 
the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  may  be  able  to  give  me 
the  name  of  the  writer  in  question.  The  copy  of 


Idone   which  fell  into  my  hands  was  evidently 
printed  in  India.  IDONE. 

LATIN  GRACES.  —  I  would  take  it  as  a  favour, 
if  one  of  your  University  correspondents  would 
inform  me  what  is  the  Latin  grace  said  before 
dinner  at  King's  College,  Cambridge,  and  Christ 
Church,  Oxford.  D.  E.  C. 

LAWN  AND  CRAPE.  — 

"  A  saint  hi  crape  is  twice  a  saint  in  lawn." 

Pope,  Moral  Essays,  Ep.  i.  1.  135. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  this  often-quoted  line  ? 
The  one  preceding  it,  — 

"  'Tis  from  high  life  high  characters  are  drawn," 
implies  that  lawn  is  associated  with  higher  life 
than  crape.  How  is  this  ?  I  believe  general 
readers  in  some  way  connect  the  lawn  with  lawn 
sleeves.  But  then,  what  has  crape  to  do  with 
inferior  clergy,  or  with  any  clergy  at  all  ?  And, 
again,  the  bishop  is  disposed  of  two  lines  further 
on  :  — 

"  A  judge  is  just ;  a  chancellor  juster  still ; 
A  gownsman  learned ;  a  bishop—  what  you  will." 

J.   DlXON. 

LEIGHTON. — Edmondson,  in  his  Heraldry  ^  gives 
under  "  Leighton  "  the  following  arms  :  — 

"  1.  Sable,  on  a  bend  argent,  3  escallop  shells,  gules. 

2.  Quarterly  indented  or  and  gules,  on  2nd  and  3rd 

quarters  G  boars'  heads  of  the  first,  3  and  3. 

3.  Quarterly  indented   or  and  gules,  on  2nd  and  3rd  ' 

quarters  3  boars'  heads  of  the  first. 

4.  Argent,  a  bugle  horn  between  3  crescents  sable." 

Information  requested  respecting  the  pedigrees 
and  locality  of  families  bearing  the  above  arms  ? 

W.  A.  LEIGHTON. 

Shrewsbury. 

MASSINGER'S  WIDOW.  —  Philip  Massinger's 
widow  lived  at  Cardiff  in  Glamorganshire ;  when 
did  she  die  ?  Her  husband,  the  great  dramatic 
poet,  was  buried  in  St.  Saviour's,  Southwark, 
1639-40.  PETER  CUNNINGHAM. 

DR.  YOUNG. — In  the  account  of  Young,  author 
of  Night  Thoughts,  the  poet  of  The  Pleasures  of 
Hope  says,  1819,  "He  has  been  well-described 
in  a  late  poem  as  one  in  whom  — 

"  Still  gleams  and  still  expires  the  cloudy  day 

Of  genuine  poetry." 
What  late  poem  ?  PETER  CUNNINGHAM. 

PLACE- GREEN-HOUSE,  SIDCUP,  KENT. — Will 
any  of  your  Kentish  correspondents  inform  me 
when  Place- Green  House,  Sidcup,  in  the  parish 
of  Chislehurst,  Kent,  was  built  ?  And  tell  me  if 
it  is  mentioned  in  any  book  ?  JAMES  KEY. 

Balham,  Surrey. 

QUEEN  CAROLINE  OR  Louis  PHILIPPE  ? — In  the 
last  Quarterly  (p.  71),  a  story  is  told  in  Miss 
Knight's  Memoirs  of  an  Englishman  in  Paris  in 


S.  I.  MAR.  8,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


189 


1830,  to  whom  a  chimney-sweeper  promised  a 
sight  of  the  king  on  condition  of  a  fee  of  five 
francs.  The  bargain  being  struck,  the  lad  began 
shouting  "  Louis  Philippe,  Louis  Philippe  ! "  The 
crowd  took  it  up  :  the  king  appeared  at  the  win- 
dow, and  the  five  francs  were  paid;  and  for 
another  five,  the  stranger  had  the  pleasure  of 
hearing  his  majesty  join  in  the  Marseillaise.  Now 
the  singing  part  of  the  story  is  new ;  but  I  per- 
fectly remember  hearing,  at  the  time  poor  Queen 
Caroline  was  making  herself  conspicuous  in  Lon- 
don during  her  trial,  the  former  part  of  the  same 
story  told  of  a  "  little  dirty  boy,"  who  offered  to 
show  the  queen  to  a  gentleman  passing  her  house 
for  a  shilling' ;  and  who  succeeded  in  doing  so  by 
exactly  the  same  dodge.  Are  both  these  stories 
true  ?  Or  is  one  a  mere  reproduction  of  the 
other  ?  Or  is  the  coincidence  only  another  proof 
of  the  almost  impossibility  of  getting  to  the  real 
source  of  an  anecdote  ?  P.  P. 

SCIN-L^ECA  :    SCINLAC. 

"  I  have  read  in  Scandinavian  legends  of  an  apparition 
called  the  Scin-Laeca,  or  shining  corpse.  It  is  supposed, 
in  the  northern  superstition,  sometimes  to  haunt  sepul- 
chres, sometimes  to  foretel  doom.  It  is  the  spectre  of  a 
human  body  seen  in  a  phosphoric  light.  And  so  exactly 
did  this  phantom  correspond  to  the  description  of  such  an 
apparition  in  Scandinavian  fable,  that  I  know  not  how  to 
give  it  a  better  name  than  that  of  Scin-Lasca — the  shining 
corpse."  —  Vide  "  A  Strange  Story "  in  All  the  Year 
Hound,  Nov.  30,  1861,  p.  220. 

Now,  in  the  Anglo-Saxon  version  of  St.  Mat- 
thew (xiv.  26),  the  disciples  when  they  see  our 
Lord  walking  on  the  sea,  exclaim,  "  so£lice  hyt  ys 
scinlac."  I  have  examined  almost  all  the  modern 
Teutonic  versions,  and  none  translate  (f)dvTa<riJ.a  by 
a  word  at  all  resembling  scinlac  except  Halberts- 
ma's  Friesic,  which  has  scynsel.  Bosworth,  A.-S. 
Diet.,  gives  scinlac,  an  apparition ;  sinlaeca,  a  ma- 
gician, conjuror.  Of  course  the  first  syllable  is 
from  scinan,  to  shine  or  appear ;  but  the  second 
can  hardly  be  from  lie,  a  corpse.  I  should  rather 
think  it  was  from  lac,  play  ;  or  Icecan,  to  play  — 
scinlac,  an  illusory  appearance.  Where  can  I  find 
any  account  of  the  Scandinavian  superstition  of 
the  Scin-Lraca  ?  E.  G.  R. 

TOWNSHIPS.  —  I  was  surprised ito  see  the  old 
opinion,  that  any  place  for  which  a  constable  was 
appointed,  was  at  one  time  a  township  —  spoken 
of  by  MB.  GREAVES  (2nd  S.  xii.  400)  as  if  it  needed 
support.  I  would  beg  to  inquire  by  whom  this 
opinion  has  been  controverted,  and  on  what 
grounds  P  The  question  is  one  of  some  interest, 
as  tending  to  throw  light  upon  the  administrative 
organisation  of  the  country  in  early  ages. 

LUMEN. 

CAPTAIN  THOMAS  LUCAS  WHEELER. — Any  par- 
ticulars respecting  this  gentleman,  who  was  a 
native  of  Shropshire,  and  formerly  of  the  100th 
Regiment,  will  be  gratefully  received.  He  died 


prior  to  1849.*  The  exact  date  of  his  death,  to- 
gether with  any  notices  of  his  family,  is  particu- 
larly wanted  by  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 


PROVERBIAL  SAYING.  —  Can  any  reader  inform 
me  of  the  origin  of  a  proverbial  saying,  "  Down 
the  banks  ?"  It  is  frequently  heard  in  the  South 
of  Ireland,  often  in  a  threatening  sense.  "  If  he 
dares  to  do  it  he'll  get  down  the  banks,  I  pro- 
mise him,"  or  "I  got  down  the  banks  for  my 
pains,"  &c.  It  seems  to  mean  a  severe  scolding 
sometimes.  M.  F. 

[The  phrase  "  Down  the  banks "  has  perhaps  some 
connexion  with  one  heard  in  the  East  by  Mr.  Dunlop, 
as  related  in  his  interesting  work  Hunting  in  the  Hima- 
laya; namely,  "Down  the  khud,"  the  khud  being  a 
steep  bank  or  precipice.  "  The  greater  number  of  our 
Coolees  (he  says)  had  not  yet  arrived.  We  were  arranging 
a  party  to  send  after  them  . . .  when  the  sound  of  numerous 
voices  announced  their  arrival  [it  was  after  dark] ;  but 
the  hurried  repetition  of  the  ominous  words  '  Down  the 
khud '  sent  us  quickly  outjjto  make  inquiries."  It  proved 
that  one  of  the  Coolees  coming  along  an  upper  road 
through  a  mountainous  region  in  the  dark,  had  gone 
"  down  the  bank,"  or  khud,  i.  e.  had  slipped  down  a  pre- 
cipice. The  whole  narrative  of  the  man's  accident,  peri- 
lous situation,  and  ultimate  rescue  by  night  (pp.  161 — 166) 
is  well  worth  reading.  Some  further  illustration  of  the 
phrase  "  Down  the  banks  "  may  possibly  be  derived  from 
an  East  Indian  song,  which  was  heard  by  a  newly- 
arrived  Griff  while  on  his  first  Indian  journey.  He  was 
carried  by  Coolees,  and  the  road  was  mountainous.  By 
and  bye  the  party  came  to  a  dangerous  path  skirting  a 
tremendous  precipice,  when  the  Coolees,  not  knowing 
that  their  young  passenger  understood  their  language 
(which  he  had  learned  in  England),  commenced  a  song 
to  the  following  effect :  — 

"  Shall  we,  shall  we,  shall  we,  shall  we, 

Shall  we  throw,  shall  we  throw 

This  English  pig,  this  English  pig, 

Shall  we  throw  this  English  pig, 

This  English  pig,  this  English  pig 

Down  the  hill,  down  the  hill, 

Shall  we  throw  this  English  pig  down  the  hill?"] 

TETES  RONDES. — The  Germans,  when  speak- 
ing in  derision  of  the  French,  call  them  "  totes 
rondes" ;  and  the  French  call  the  Germans  "  tetes 
carrees."  Did  these  sobriquets  originate  in  some 
quarrel  between  the  two  nations?  And  if  so, 
when  ?  It  is  plain  that  one  is  a  retort  upon  the 
other.  V.V.  R. 

[Our  correspondent  does  not  say  whether  the  above 
phrases,  applied  as  he  states,  occur  in  print,  or  only  in 
conversation.  Tete  carre"e  is  an  expression  used  by  the 
French  in  describing  a  person  of  solid  and  accurate  judg- 
ment ;  and  may  perhaps  be  applied  by  them  to  the  Ger- 
mans, on  the  received  supposition  that  this  is  their  dis- 


[*  In  the  Gent.  Mag.  for  June,  1792,  p.  580,  is  a  notice 
of  a  Capt.  Wheeler,  on  the  half-pay  of  the  100th  Regi- 
ment, who  died  the  day  after  his  marriage,  June  10, 1792, 
but  without  any  particulars  of  his  family."  — ED.] 


190 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[  [3"*  S.  I.  MAR.  8,  '62. 


languishing  characteristic  as  a  nation.  On  the  contrary, 
the  Germans  may  retort  on  the  French  the  sobriquet 
tetes  rondes  (Roundheads),  because  the  French  killed 
their  King  as  did  the  English  Roundheads.] 

WARREN  or  WAi/TERSTArr.  —  In  Burke's  Ge 
neral  Armory  are  given  the  arms  of  Warren  of 
Walterstaff,  co.  Devon  and  London,  granted  14th 
March,  1623.  I  have  searched  the  county  his- 
tories in  vain  to  find  such  a  place.  I  presume  it  is 
the  name  of  a  seat  or  village.  If  any  of  your 
readers  can  inform  me  in  what  part  of  the  county 
it  is  situated,  I  shall  esteem  it  a  favour.  Also 
where  an  account  of  the  family  of  Warren  may 
be  seen,  as  I  wish  to  ascertain  if  one  of  this  family 
was  not  the  wife  of  Dr.  Ashton,  at  one  time  vicar 
of  St.  Andrew's  church,  Plymouth.  G.  P.  P. 

[Walterstaff,  now  Waterstave,  is  in  the  parish  of  Brad- 
ninch,  where  several  of  the  name  of  Warren  may  still  be 
found.] 

SAXONY,  DUCHESS  OF.  —  On  what  ground  does 
the  Princess  Alice  claim,  as  one  of  her  titles,  that 
of  Duchess  of  Saxony  ?  B.  L.  H. 

[All  the  children  of  Her  Majesty  by  the  Prince  Con- 
sort are  born  Dukes  and  Duchesses  of  Saxony.] 

"  BROWN  STUDY."  —  What  is  the  origin  of  the 
phrase  —  "  in  a  brown  study  "  ?  R.  T. 

["Brown  stud}'"  has  been  supposed  to  be  a  corruption 
of  "  brow  study,"  brow  being  here  the  eye-brow,  in  Ger- 
man aug-braun.  (Vide  "N.  &  Q."  1st  S.  i.  418.)  Pos- 
sibly, however,  some  light  may  be  derived  from  viewing 
"  brown  study"  in  connexion  with  the  French  "  humeur 
Irune"  which  is  literally  a  brown  humour  or  disposition  ; 
"Avoir  1'humeur  brune","  to  be  of  a  sombre,  melancholy 
temperament.  It  is  to  be  borne  in  mind  that  in  French 
the  cubstanlive  Irune  signifies  nightfall,  the  gloomy  time 
of  day ;  "  sur  la  brune,"  towards  evening ;  and  also  that 
in  English,  brown  (the  adjective)  is  employed  poeti- 
cally in  the  sense  of  gloomy,  "  a  browner  horror."  (Pope, 
Cotton.")  It  is  remarkable  how  the  colours  are  used  to 
express  various  phases  of  human  character  and  tem- 
perament. Thus  we  have  not  only  "  brown  study,"  but 
"black  melancholy,"  "green  and  yellow  melancholy," 
"blue  devils"  and  "blues,"  "yellow  stockings  "  (jeal- 
ousy), "  red  hand  "  (  Walter  ScotC),  and  "  white  feather," 
&c.  This  Query  reminds  us  of  an  anecdote  told  of  Wil- 
liam Pulteney,  Earl  of  Bath.  During  his  absence  from 
town  his  lady  had  ordered  the  white  shelves  in  his 
library  to  be  pointed  the  colour  of  mahogany.  The  Earl, 
on  observing  the  change,  said  to  his  lady,  "  Well,  my 
friends  will  now  generally  find  me  in  a  'brown  study."'] 


SIR  ISAAC  NEWTON. 
(3rd  S.  i.  158.) 

Absence  from  home  prevents  me  from  refer- 
ring to  documents  that  would  establish  the  state- 
ment I  am  about  to  make,  but  I  do  not  like  to 
delay  an  immediate  notice  of  an  error  into  which 
MR.  CRADOCK  NEWTON  has  been  led. 

There  was  no  relationship  tuhatcvcr  between  the 


Newtons  of  Barrs  Court,  Gloucestershire,  and  the 
Newtons  of  Lincolnshire.  No,  not  the  most  distant. 
The  simple  fact  was  this :  —  Sir  John  of  Barrs 
Court,  the  last  of  that  old  family,  was  desperately 
involved ;  he  borrowed  largely,  mortgaged  his 
property,  and  actually  sold  the  title  of  cousin  to 
John  Newton  of  Haydon.  A  new  patent  of  baro- 
netcy was  purchased,  containing  a  reversion  to 
the  newly- adopted  kinsman.  He  died  about  a 
year  after ;  arid  the  property  lapsed  to  the  creditor, 
the  baronet  of  the  new  creation,  who  gave  an 
annuity  to  the  widow. 

The  baronets  of  Haydon,  however*  though  not 
allied  to  those  of  the  name  in  Gloucestershire, 
could  distinctly  trace  their  descent  from  the  same 
stock  as  one  much  greater.  There  is  no  doubt  of 
the  connexion  with  Sir  Isaac  Newton.  Some 
surprise  may  be  entertained  at  the  great  wealth 
of  these  Newtons  of  Haydon,  so  as  to  enable  them 
to  buy  estates,  title,  and  even  family  !  It  all  came, 
too,  from  one  scarcely  related ;  his  name  was 
Hickson  (I  suspect  a  scrivener  and  money  lender), 
who,  temp.  Charles  I.,  accumulated  large  property 
round  Grantham  ;  and  having  no  kindred  of  his 
own,  left  it  to  those  of  his  wife — and  thus  it  came 
to  the  Newtons. 

When  the  late  Mr.  Kodd,  the  bookseller,  died, 
he  left  a  vast  quantity  of  Newton  papers,  which 
were  dispersed  by  auction.  I  have  myself  many 
volumes  of  these  letters  and  other  documents, 
arranged  and  bound  up ;  and  if  it  be  considered 
worthy  of  further  inquiry,  I  can,  later  in  the  year, 
supply  more  minute  details  of  what  was  certainly 
a  curious  transaction.  MONSON. 

Torquay. 


If  MR.  CHADOCK  NEWTON  will  refer  to  my 
Note  again,  he  will  see  that  I  give  a  reference  to  a 
pedigree  of  the  family,  drawn  out  by  Sir  Isaac 
himself;  in  which  his  kindred  with  the  inheritor 
of  the  baronetcy  of  Barrs  Court,  conferred  on 
John  Newton,  Esq.,  in  1660,  is  clearly  shown. 
There  never  was  any  doubt  as  to  this  relationship, 
nor  consequently  of  that  remotely  existing  be- 
tween the  philosopher  and  Sir  Michael  Newton, 
K.B.,  fourth  and  last  baronet  of  Barrs  Court ; 
who  was  grandson  of  the  second  possessor  of  the 
dignity  referred  to  above,  and  chief  mourner  at 
Sir  Isaac's  funeral. 

I  do  not  know  whether  or  not  MR.  CRADOCK 
NEWTON  quotes  Atkyns,  when  he  speaks  of  the 
baronetcy  having  been  "entailed"  by  the  first 
baronet  on  the  second.  Such  an  entail  was  im- 
possible. The  title  was  conferred  on  John  New- 
ton of  Barrs  Court,  with  special  remainder  to 
John  Newton  of  Lincolnshire.  I  have  before 
aid  that  it  is  a  natural  inference  to  draw,  that 
these  gentlemen  were  in  some  way  connected  in 
blood ;  but  it  is  in  no  way  shown  or  proved,  nor 


S.  I.  MAR.  8,  '62,] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


191 


is  it  indeed  referred  to  in  any  work  I  have  seen. 
ME.  CRADOCK  NEWTON  says  the  second  baronet 
was  "  necessarily  a  kinsman  "  of  the  first :  here  he 
is  wrong,  as  he  is  also  farther  on,  where  he  states 
"I  have  shown  Sir  Michael's  grandfather  suc- 
ceeded to  the  baronetcy  as  an  offshoot  of  the 
Gloucestershire  Newtons"  lie  has  not  shown  this, 
nor  has  anyone  else ;  and  it  is  quite  feasible  to 
extend  the  limitation  of  a  dignity  to  one  who  may 
be  wholly  unconnected  with  its  first  possessor. 

S.  T. 

MR.  J.  J.  CRADOCK  NEWTON,  relying,  as  many 
others  have  done  before,  on  the  statements  in 
Atkyns,  has  opened  up  old  errors  long  since  ex- 
ploded. 

First,  with  regard  to  Judge  Cradock :  —  In- 
stead of  dying  in  1444,  he  was  sitting  on  the 
Bench  Octob.  Mart.  27  Hen.  VI.  (Nov.  1448), 
when  a  fine  was  passed  before  him.  See  my  for- 
mer communication  "N.  &  Q."  1st  S.  ii.  249,427. 

And  as  for  the  monument  in  Bristol  Cathedral. 
In  the  Bristol  volume  of  the  Archreol.  Institute, 
1851,  I  have  pretty  clearly  proved  that  the 
Judge's  monument  is  in  Yatton  church,  and  that 
the  one  ascribed  to  him  in  the  cathedral  (being  in 
a  style  a  century  later)  is  probably  that  of  Richard 
Newton,  a  grandson  of  the  Judge,  who  died  1550. 

And,  as  for  the  settlement  of  the  Gloucester- 
shire estates  by  the  first  baronet,  Sir  John  New- 
ton of  1661,  on  the  second  baronet,  Sir  John  of 
Lincolnshire,  it  is  doubtful  whether  Atkyns  ever 
pot  hold  of,  or  published,  the  truth  of  that  affair. 
Certainly  he  is  not  to  be  depended  upon. 

No  doubt,  the  first  Sir  John  descended  from 
Cradock;  but  the  connexion  between  him  and  the 
Lincolnshire  baronet  is  not  yet  proved.  See 
"N.  &Q."2ndS.  xii.  351. 

The  most  correct  descent  of  the  family  is  given 
in  a  valuable  article  by  MR.  GREAVES,  in  "  N.  & 
Q."  2nd  S.  xii.  399. 

There  is  still  a  good  deal  to  be  cleared  up, 
which  any  person  interested  may  perhaps  easily 
do  by  hunting  up  certain  Chancery  proceedings, 
instituted  by  the  first  laronefs  heirs  at  law, 
against  the  second  baronet  respecting  the  Glouces- 
tershire estates,  circa  1662.  And  also  by  examin- 
ing the  fiat  for  the  patent  of  the  baronetcy.  All 
which,  if  in  existence,  would  be  at  the  Rolls. 

H.  T.  ELLACOMBE. 

Clyst  St.  George. 


TRIAL  OF  SPENCER  COVYPER. 
(3rd  S.  i.  91,  115.) 

The  case  of  Spencer  Cowper  is  reported  in  the 
5  State  Trials,  194,  485,  and  10  State  Trials,  221. 
He  was  acquitted  of  the  murder  of  M.  Stout  in 
August,  and  an  appeal  of  murder  was  brought 


within  the  year  by  an'  infant,  twelve  years  of 
age  only,  the  next  heir  of  the  deceased,  but  he 
was  not  mentioned,  in  the  writ,  to  be  an  infant. 
The  appellant  before  the  return  of  the  writ  chose 
the  mother  of  the  deceased  to  be  his  guardian 
before  Holt,  C.  J.,  at  his  Chambers,  and  she  was 
then  and  there  admitted.  After  the  writ  was 
returnable,  the  mother,  by  the  procurement  of 
Cowper,  demanded  the  writ  of  the  sheriff,  who 
delivered  it  up,  and  it  was  destroyed.  The 
brother  of  Spencer  Cowper  was  a  "Queen's  Counsel 
(William  Cowper),  and  a  copy  of  the  writ  had 
been  sent  by  the  Sheriff  to  him,  and  likewise, 
notice  to  Cowper,  the  defendant.  For  this  matter 
the  Sheriff  was  adjudged  to  be  in  contempt,  and 
was  fined  200  marks.  The  law  required  the  ap- 
peal to  be  sued  within  a  year  and  a  day  after  the 
completion  of  the  alleged  felony;  and  a  year 
having  expired,  there  could  not  be  a  new  writ,  as 
a  matter  of  course.  It  was  agreed  by  the  judges, 
who  were  called  together  by  the  Lord  Keeper  to 
advise  on  the  question,  that  it  was  discretionary 
to  grant  one  or  not,  but  that,  in  this  case,  it  was 
not  proper  to  issue  a  new  writ.  Chief  Justice 
Treby  said,  such  an  appeal  was  a  revengeful  and 
odious  prosecution,  and  deserved  no  encourage- 
ment. Chief  Justice  Holt,  "  with  vehemence  and 
zeal,"  replied,  that  he  wondered  any  Englishman 
should  brand  such  an  appeal  with  the  name  of 
"  an  odious  prosecution,  and  that,  for  his  part,  he 
looked  upon  it  to  be  a  noble  prosecution,  and  a 
true  badge  of  English  liberties."  The  appeal  of 
murder  was  a  battle  fought  with  batons.  If  the 
appellee  could  not  continue  to  fight,  he  was  im- 
mediately hanged,  and  if  he  were  killed,  his  blood 
was  attainted ;  but  if  he  killed  the  appellant,  or 
fought  from  sun-rise  until  the  stars  appeared  in 
the  evening,  he  was  acquitted.  It  was  not  pro- 
bable that  two  lawyers,  brothers  in  blood,  and 
both  of  them  most  especially  learned  in  the  law, 
would  not  have  preferred  to  hazard  the  conse- 
quences of  the  destruction  of  the  writ,  to  a  sub- 
mission to  so  barbarous  and  superstitious  a  pro- 
cess of  law  as  that  which  apparently  threatened 
the  life  of  one  of  them,  and  to  seek  by  such  means 
a  termination  of  the  proceedings.  It  was  not 
until  the  Act  of  the  59  Geo.  III.  ch.  46  passed, 
that  this  shocking  relic  (an  appeal  of  murder)  of 
a  barbarous  age  was  removed  from  our  law,  and 
placed  among  other  legal  rubbish  of  antiquity. 
(Stout  v.  Towler,  12  Mod.  Reports,  373.)  The 
daughter  of  Spencer  Cowper  (who  became  one  of 
the  Judges  of  the  Common  Pleas  in  October, 
1727,  and  died  in  December,  1728)  married  Col. 
Martin  Madan,  who  died  at  Bath  in  1756;  and 
she  was  the  mother  of  the  Rev.  Martin  Madan, 
the  translator  of  Juvenal,  and  also  of  the  Right 
Rev.  Spencer  Madan,  Bishop  of  Peterborough, 
whose  first  wife  was  Lady  Charlotte  Cornwallis, 
and  whose  second  wife  was  Mary,  daughter  of 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  MAE.  8,  '62. 


Major-general  Richard  Vyse.  Lady  Charlotte 
Madan  was  niece  of  Frederick  Cornwallis,  Arch- 
bishop of  Canterbury,  and  sister  of  James  Corn- 
wallis, Bishop  of  Lichfield  and  Coventry  (fourth 
Earl),  the  younger  brother  of  the  first  Marquess 
of  Cornwallis.  J.  F. 


IRISH  TOPOGRAPHY. 
(2nd  S.  xii.  474 ;  3rd  S.  i.  97,  117.) 

In  reply  to  your  correspondent  MR.  HORE,  I 
append  the  following  description  of  the  map  men- 
tioned by  me :  Map  of  Ireland,  engraved  by 
"  Joannes  Baptista  Vrints,  Geo^raphicarum  tabu- 
larum  Calcographus,"  and  dedicated  to  "  Jacobo 
Magna)  Britannia,  Francise,  et  Hiberniaj  regi ;" 
and  professes  to  be  "  Irlandiae  accurata  descrip- 
tio,  auctore  Baptista  Boazio."  "  Vrints  "  was  an 
engraver  at  Antwerp.  It  contains  a  coat  of  arms  : 
Parte  per  pale  bar.  and  femme  :  baron,  arg.  a  cross 
gu. ;  femme,  az.  three  harps  stringed  or.  (the 
harps  turned  to  right),  within  a  garter  ("  Honi," 
etc.),  surmounted  by  a  royal  crown.  (When  did 
the  three  harps  become  one  ?).  There  is  a  table 
of"  Milliaria  Irlandica  Communia,"  an  "  Expositio 
Verborum  Hibernicorum " ;  and  there  are  also 
drawings  of  two  ships,  a  man  in  a  canoe  with  a 
paddle  and  trident,  and  three  fishes.  I  may  add 
that  the  map  is  highly  coloured. 

From  the  above  description,  MR.  HORE  will  see 
that  the  map  is  of  a  later  date  than  the  time  of 
Philip  and  Mary ;  and  yet  co.  Queenstown  and 
co.  Kingstown,  still  bore  those  names.  What  is 
his  authority  for  stating  that  these  names  were 
changed  in  the  time  of  "  Philip  and  Mary."  Why 
not  rather  in  the  reign  of  "  the  glorious  !  pious !  " 


&c.,  William  and  his  Mary  ? 


3^ object  of  my  Query  was  to  find  out  when 
the  Irish  counties  assumed  or  were  given  their 
present  names,  and  by  what  authority  those  names 
were  given  ?  In  my  map,  co.  Knockfergus  em- 
braces a  large  district ;  which  includes  "  Belfast," 
"  Sorleboye,"  "  Glinnes,"  and  several  other  places, 
amongst  which  is  the  town  of  "Knockfergus." 
I  am  unable  to  solve  G.  B.'s  etymological  Qu*ery  ; 
but  I  may  remark  that  "  Doune,"  or  its  cognate 
"  Done,"  occurs  very  frequently  in  Irish  "  topo- 
nomy,"  ex.  gra.  "  co.  Down,"  "Don-gannon," 

O'Donnel,"  "  Kill-o-done"  (in  Lough  Swilly), 
just  below  Kilmacrenan ;  MagherlaotoTze,  in  co. 
Qalway  ;  Ca.  Donen— Donmore  (or  Done-mohr), 
in  co.  Mayo;  Donelaw,  in  Kildare;  Donlou, 
Donekelin,  Donoghmore  (Done-agh-mohr),  Done- 
vant,  Isle  of  "Donecogh,"  in  the  cove  of  Cork; 
Donn-o-done,  Don-oghan,  "Point  Donemanno"  : 
most  of  these  latter,  and  many  others,  in  the  co. 
"  Corck." 

There  is  a  "  Done-flum "  in  Kildare  ;  but  I 
dare  say  you  will  think  /  ought  to  have  done  by 
this  time,  and  will  finish  by  referring  G.  B.  to  the 


answer  given  by  DR.  TODD  in  reply  to  ABHBA 
and  myself,  in  reference  to  "  Donnybrook,"  or,  as 
it  is  elsewhere  spelled,  "Donne-nach-brok";  which 
DR.  TODD  made  out  to  be  "  Domnachbrok,"  or 
"  the  church  of  St.  Broc,"  but  on  what  authority 
I  know  not  or  forget.  Is  there  not  some  affinity 
between  this  word  "Done,"  or  "Doune,"  and  our 
own  "  town  "or  "  -ton"  (final)  ? 

I  see  in  these  words,  for  want  of  a  better  ety- 
mology, some  notion  of  "power"  and  authority, 
and  fancy  that  the  places  to  which  the  term  was 
applied  in  olden  times  were  the  seats  of  power — 
or  centres  of  justice  —  in  their  respective  neigh- 
bourhoods. The  word  seems  to  be  used  in  much 
the  same  way  as  the  Phoenician  car  or  cor,  and 
the  Welsh  car  or  caer.  What  would  your  corre- 
spondent think  of  the  Irish  £)ujt)e  ("duine"),  a 
man;  and  Dundee,  with  his  "dounie"  followers, 
of  whom  the  old  song  speaks  ?  The  Irish 
word  represents  power  —  "  man  " ;  the  Scotch, 
bravery  and  devotion.  Will  some  learned  ety- 
mologist give  his  opinion  ?  I  have  tried  my  best. 
CHBSSBOROUGH  HARBERTON. 

Totness,  Devon. 


REBEKAH  AT  THE  WELL  :  EASTERN  COSTUME 
(2nd  S.  xii.  347,  377;  3rd  S.  i.  95.)— The  dress  of  the 
females  of  Harran,  in  Padan  Aram,  as  observed  by 
my  wife  and  myself  on  our  recent  visit  to  that  place, 
is  generally  as  follows  : — A  long  indigo-blue  cotton 
gown,  with  long  sleeves  ;  a  dark  red  apron,  with  a 
border  at  the  bottom  flowered  yellow,  and  with  a 
red  and  yellow  fringe  ;  a  broad  scarlet  waistband, 
flowered  yellow ;  a  black  cotton  handkerchief  over 
the  head,  and  fastened  under  the  chin ;  over  it, 
bound  broad  and  flat  round  the  head,  as  a  turban,  a 
chintz  handkerchief,  black,  with  green  and  yellow 
flowered  stripes;  and  lastly,  a  white  shawl  or 
scarf,  with  white  and  blue  fringes,  thrown  over 
the  back  of  the  head  and  shoulders,  and  crossed 
in  front.  Such,  at  least,  was  the  dress  of  a  couple 
of  "damsels"  who  helped  my  wife  to  draw  water 
from  "  Rebekah's  Well." 

Many  of  the  females,  but  not  all,  had  small 
nose-rings,  as  also  necklaces  and  bracelets.  We 
did  not  see  any  anklets. 

I  have  delayed  making  this  communication  till 
after  the  appearance  of  the  Athenaeum  of  March  1, 
in  p.  297  of  which  is  a  letter  from  me  in  answer  to 
the  objections  against  my  identification  of  Harran, 
raised  by  the  Rev.  J.  L.  Porter,  author  of  Mur- 
ray's Handbook  for  Syria  and  Palestine;  my 
motive  for  the  delay  being,  to  avoid  unnecessary 
controversy  in  the  pages  of  "  1ST,  &  Q." 

CHARLES  BEKE. 

Bekesbourne. 

FRIDAYS,  SAINTS'  DAYS,  AND  FAST  DAYS  (3rd  S. 
i.  115,  155.) — The  appearance  of  LORD  LYTTEL- 
TON'S  name  justifies  some  further  notice  of  a  ques- 


3'd  S,  I.  MAR.  8,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


193 


tion  which  need  hardly  have  been  raised.  All  ab- 
stinence from  food  is  in  a  sense  fasting.  But  fasting 
is  divided  by  the  Catholic  Church  into  two  kinds, 
— fasting  in  its  exhaustive  sense,  which  limits  both 
quantity  and  quality  of  food,  —  and  abstinence, 
which  limits  the  quality  only  ;  that  is  to  say,  for- 
bids the  use  of  animal  food.  Good  Friday  is  a 
day  of  the  strictest  fast ;  a  fast  which  is  con- 
tinued on  the  following  Saturday,  or  Sabbath, 
and  is  terminated  by  the  Festival  of  Easter  Sun- 
day. All  other  Fridays,  except  any  Christmas 
Day  which  falls  on  a  Friday,  are  days  of  absti- 
nence ;  that  is  to  say,  they  are  days  upon  which, 
except  by  dispensation  on  account  of  health,  no 
animal  food  is  eaten,  but  other  food  is  allowed 
without  restriction. 

LORD  LYTTELTON,  under  the  impression  that 
his  quotation  was  sufficient,  omitted  part  of  the 
heading  in  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer  of  the 
Established  Church.  The  list,  in  which  "  all  the 
Fridays  in  the  year,  except  Christmas  Day,"  are 
recited,  is  headed,  "Days  of  Fasting,  or  Absti- 
nence" A  Table  immediately  preceding  is  headed, 
"A  Table  of  the  Vigils,  Fasts,  and  Days  of  Ab- 
stinence to  be  observed  in  the  Year."  The  dis- 
tinction between  fasting  and  abstinence  was 
perfectly  familiar  to  the  minds  of  the  compilers 
of  the  new  book.  But  the  circumstance  of  their 
having  placed  the  Fridays  in  the  same  list  with 
the  days  of  fasting  has  proved,  it  seems,  a  ground 
of  mistake.  In  England,  as  elsewhere,  the  prac- 
tice of  the  Catholic  Church  is  as  I  have  stated  it. 

D.P. 

Your  correspondents  LORD  LYTTELTON  and 
II.  J.  T.  appear  'only  to  have  read  part  of  the 
directions  given  in  the  Prayer-Book,  viz.,  "  All 
Fridays  in  the  year  are  Fast  Days,  except  Christ- 
mas Day."  This  rule  comes  under  the  heading, 
"Days  of  Fasting,  or  Abstinence;"  but  under 
"  A  Table  of  all  the  Feasts  that  are  to  be  ob- 
served in  the  Church  of  Eugland  throughout  the 
Year,"  we  find  a  long  list  of  Saints'  Days,  which 
certainly  sometimes  happen  on  Fridays ;  now 
observe,  these  are  all  Feasts.  However,  it  may 
be  answered,  that  should  one  of  these  days  occur 
on  a  Friday,  the  rule  concerning  Fasts  would 
overrule  that  concerning  Feasts,  because  it  stands 
after  it.  On  further  examination,  this  is  evi- 
dently not  the  intention,  for  if  we  refer  to  the 
Rubric  at  the  beginning  of  the  Creed  of  Saint 
Athanasius,  we  find  among  the  list  of  days  upon 
which  it  is  appointed  to  be  read  several  of  these 
Saints'  Days,  which  sometimes  fall  upon  a  Friday, 
and  this  Rubric  commences  "  Upon  these  Feasts;" 
therefore  if  one  of  these  happen  on  a  Friday,  it 
would  certainly  be  a  feast ;  this  granted,  why  not 
the  other  Saints'  Days  upon  which  the  Creed  of 
Saint  Athanasius  is  not  appointed  to  be  read  ? 

G.  W.  M. 


CLERGYMAN'S  RIGHT  TO  TAKE  THE  CHAIR  (3rd 
S.  i.  177.)  — MR.  R.  W.  DIXON  will  perhaps  be 
surprised  to  hear  that  in  the  winter  of  1859  the 
ratepayers  of  a  small  parish  in  Surrey,  not  twenty 
miles  from  London,  thought  fit,  when  assembled 
in  vestry,  to  assert  their  right,  on  the  authority  of 
Mr.  Toulmin  Smith!  to  elect  at  all  times  their 
own  chairman,  and  notwithstanding  the  rector's 
strong  protest  to  the  contrary,  proceeded  then 
and  there  to  do  so,  by  placing  the  churchwarden 
in  the  chair.  The  rector  immediately  left  the 
meeting,  and  very  shortly  afterwards  consulted 
his  legal  adviser  on  the  subject,  by  whom  it  was 
referred  to  an  eminent  counsel  in  Doctors'  Com- 
mons, who  gave  it  so  strongly  as  his  decided 
opinion  that  the  conduct  of  the  ratepayers  was 
illegal,  that  they  were  called  on,  and  after  some 
demur  on  their  part,  obliged  to  erase  all  the 
minutes  of  the  meeting  as  recorded  in  the  Vestry 
Book,  by  their  chairman,  who  added  a  note  in 
red  ink  in  his  own  handwriting,  and  with  his 
signature  attached,  stating  that  the  erasure  was 
made  on  account  of  the  meeting  having  been  il- 
legal. 

I  believe  that  the  opinion  of  all  other  writers 
on  the  subject  is  directly  contrary  to  Mr.  Toulmin 
Smith's.  '  S.  T.  P. 

MR.  DIXON  seems  to  exult  that  he  can  produce 
the  opinion  of  a  gentleman  learned  in  the  law, 
"  directly  contrary "  to  those  already  quoted. 
He  must  be  wholly  ignorant  of  the  Act  for  the 
Regulation  of  Parish  Vestries,  58  Geo.  III.  c.  69, 
where  it  is  enacted  that,  "  If  the  Rector,  Vicar,  or 
Perpetual  Curate  be  not  present,  then  a  Chair- 
man is  to  be  appointed  by  plurality  of  votes." 

H.  T.  ELLACOMBE. 

Kectory,  Ctyst  St.  George. 

CHAUCER'S  "TABARD  INN,"  AND  FIRE  OF  SOUTH- 
WARK  (3rd  S.  i.  99.)  —  Having  recently  —  through 
the  kindness  of  Thos.  Bridge  Simpson,  Esq.,  who  has 
lately  purchased  the  "  Spur  Inn,"  in  Southwark  — 
had  an  opportunity  of  examining  the  title-deeds  of 
that  property  from  the  year  1596,1  am  able  to  state 
in  answer  to  W.  S.,  that  there  is  no  trace  in  the 
deeds,  of  the  "  Spur  Inn  "  having  been  burned  in 
the  year  1667.  I  think  that  the  fire,  which  oc- 
curred in  that  year  must  have  destroyed  some  of 
the  small  houses  and  factories  at  the  rear  of  the 
"  Spur  Inn,"  and  between  Guy's  Hospital  and 
King  Street,  then  called  Axe  Yard,  or  Axe-and- 
Bottle  Yard. 

The  "  Spur  Inn  "  is  situate  about  300  feet  south 
of  "  The  Tabard,"  both  of  them  being  on  the  east 
side  of  the  borough,  or  St.  Margaret's  Hill ;  and 
between  them  there  are  two  other  inns,  viz.  the 
"  Queen's  Head,"  and  the  "  Three  Tuns  ;  "  and 
there  was  a  third,  the  sign  of  which  I  now  forget. 
It  is  now  Kentish  Buildings.  GEO.  R.  CORNER. 


194 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  MAR>  8>  »62. 


THE  "  FALLS  OF  CLYDE,"  ETC.—  -(3rd  S.  i.  120.) 
—  The  author  of  this  work  was  John  Black,  LL.D. 
(of  Glasgow),  a  native  of  Douglas,  Lanarkshire, 
born  about  1777.  Through  the  influence  of  Mr. 
Hamilton,  of  Sundrum,  in  whose  family  Mr.  B. 
was  some  time  tutor,  he  became  the  Minister  of 
Colyton,  in  Ayrshire,  and  died  at  Paris  26  Aug. 
1826.  A  better  known  book  of  Dr.  Black's  is 
The  Life  of  Tasso. 

His  Falls  of  Clyde,  says  my  informant,  was  a 
juvenile  conception,  although  not  published  until 
1806,  and  did  not  please  the  critics,  who,  al- 
though they  commended  the  talent  and  research 
displayed  in  the  author's  "  Dissertations  on  Fairies, 
the  Scottish  Language,  and  Pastoral  Poetry,"  con- 
demned the  Scottish  dialect,  plot,  and  execution 
of  the  feeble  dramatic  imitation  of  the  Gentle 
Shepherd,  to  which  these  learned  Essays  are 
tacked.  See  Paterson's  Contemporaries  of  Burns, 
Edinb.  1840,  and  the  Scots'  Mag.  for  1806.  J.  O. 

P.S.  Will  any  reader  say  where  biographical 
particulars  may  be  found  of  the  Rev.  John  Black, 
Minister  of  Butley,  co.  Suffolk,  1799  ? 

[The  Rev.  John  Black,  who  appears  to  have  been  born 
in  Scotland,  was  Perpetual  Curate  of  Butley,  1789,  and 
of  Ramsholt  in  1807;  both  in  Suffolk.  ]n  1800,  he  was 
elected  Master  of  the  Free  School  at  Woodbridge  by  one 
party,  while  another  chose  the  Rev.  Peter  Lathbury. 
Mr.  Black,  however,  was  forced  to  retire.  He  died  at 
Woodbridge  on  Aug.  30,  1813,  in  the  fifty-ninth  year  of 
his  age,  highly  respected  for  the  excellency  of  his  under- 
standing and  the  amiable  qualities  of  his  heart.  He  was 
an  eminent  classical  scholar,  and  possessed  considerable 
poetical  talents.  To  the  list  of  his  works  in  Watt's  Bibllo. 
JBritan.  add  the  following,  A  Sermon  on  the  Death  of  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Cartliew  of  Woodbridge,  1791,  4to.  A  por- 
trait of  Mr.  Black  is  prefixed  to  his  Poems.  1799,  8vo. 
His  son,  Mr.  John  Black,  was  one  of  the  surviving 
officers  of  the  ship  Lady  Shore,  of  -which  An  Authentic 
Narrative  of  the  Mutiny  was  published  bv  his  father 
1799,  8  vo.  —  ED.] 

PASSAGE  IN  LUCIAN  (2nd  S.  xii.  326.)—  I  cannot 
say  that  the  passage  is  not  in  Lucian,  though,  like 
N.  IL,  I  have  looked  and  cannot  find  it.  A  similar 
thought  is  in  Aristophanes  : 


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U.  U.  Club. 


Irene,  v.  20. 


LITERARY*  ANECDOTES  (3rd  S.  i.  130.)  —  In  re- 
ply to  your  correspondent  L.  H.  M.,  who  asks 
whether  there  is  any  truth  in  two  anecdotes  which 
he  mentions,  I  am  prepared  to  answer  the  former. 

It  is  in  Dr.  Ash's  English  Dictionary  that  the 
blunder  occurs.  Some  one  who  was  aware  of  the 
Doctor's  intention  of  publishing  a  derivative  dic- 
tionary, wrote  to  him  with  the  view  of  suggesting 
the  derivation  of  Curmudgeon  from  ccettr  raechaitt, 
signing  himself,  "  your  unknown  correspondent," 
upon  which  the  Doctor,  who  was  not  acquainted 
with  the  French  language,  gave  the  derivation 


of  the  word  as  coming  from  the  French  "  cceur, 
unknown,  and  mechant,  a  correspondent."  I  have 
seen  the  error  in  situ,  but  I  write  from  memory, 
having  no  longer  the  book  in  my'possession. 

Dr.  Johnson  was  too  good  a  linguist  to  have 
perpetrated  such  a  blunder,  and  too  accurate  to 
have  committed  such  an  oversight. 

A  curious  story,  of  a  similar  nature,  is  told  of 
Littleton,  who,  in  compiling  his  Latin  Dictionary, 
availed  himself  of  the  services  of  an  amanuensis. 
On  coming  to  the  word  concurro,  the  scribe 
rather  officiously  suggested,  "To  concur,  I  suppose, 
sir;"  upon  which  Littleton,  who  was  very  testy, 
roared  out,  "  Concur,  sir  ?  condog,"  and  the  first 
edition  of  Littleton's  dictionary  actually  appeared 
with  that  absurdity,  "  concurro,  to  condog." 

S.  L. 

In  Warburton's  edition'of  Shakespeare's  Works, 
1747,  vol.  i.  p.  855,  note  1  to  the  play  of  "Mea- 
sure for  Measure  "  is  exactly  as  L.  II.  M.  quotes 
it:  — 

"  The  story  is  taken  from  Cinthio's  Novels,  December  8, 
November  o." — Mr.  Pope. 

JOB  J.  BARD  WELL  WORKARD,  M.A. 

MINIATURE  PAINTER  —  SILLETT  (3rd  S.  i.  39, 
135.)  —  I  have  to  thank  your  correspondent,  MR. 
D'AVENEY,  for  the  information  he  has  kindly 
rendered ;  and  on  reference  to  the  work  named 
by  him,  I  observe  that  the  name  of  "  J.  Sillett, 
del."  and  in  one  instance  "  J.  Silled,  del.,"  as  the 
sketcher  of  the  views  ;  but  the  name  of  the  author 
of  the  work  is  erroneously  given.  It  should  be 
Rev.  William  Hichards,  not  Prichard,  as  your 
correspondent  has  it.  I  correct  this  to  prevent  a 
perpetuation  of  the  error. 

I  have  also  heard,  within  the  last  few  weeks, 
from  a  neighbour  of  mine,  that  he  was  acquainted 
with  a  young  miniature  painter  named  Sillett, 
who  lodged  in  this  town,  and  that  on  one  evening; 
he  and  Sillett,  and  one  or  two  others,  met  and 
passed  the  evening  together.  Sillett  had  been 
getting  in  some  of  his  accounts  in  the  course  of 
the  day,  and  passed  a  friendly  evening ;  but  that 
from  that  day  to  the  present  he  never  either  saw 
or  held  any  communication  with  Sillett,  as  the 
latter  left  the  town  for  Norwich,  the  next  day,  as 
he  believes.  This  took  place  about  twenty-five 
years  ago.  JOHN  NURSE  CHADWICK. 

King's  Lj-nn. 

PASSAGE  IN  CICERO  (3rd  S.  i.  11].)— The  words 
to  which  Von  Raumer  refers  are  perhaps  the  fol- 
lowing :  —  "  Sua  cuique  "civitati  religio,  Laeli, 
est ;  nostra  nobis," — somewhat  oracular,  it  is  true, 
but  thus  explained  in  Le  Clerc's  note  :  — 

"  Non  disputabo  qualis  sit  Judseorum  religio ;  verum 
et  iios  nostram  habemus,  a  cujus  majestate  nimiuui  ab- 
horret  judaica  superstitio."  (Le  Maire,  xi.  Oration  iv. 
183.) 

Many   German  writers   are  in  the   habit    of 


3'd  S.  I.  MAR.  8,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


195 


quoting  the  sense  of  an  author  with  a  construc- 
tive misrepresentation  of  their  own  ;  hence  it  is 
not  convenient  to  refer  to  the  exact  page,  volume, 
and  edition.  Such  writers  may  take  a  lesson  from 
our  Gibbon,  Robertson,  and  Cornwall  Lewis. 
There  is  no  passage  in  Cicero  but  the  above,  at  all 
parallel  to  Von  Raumer's  simulated  quotation, 
nor  is  [there  any  such  in  Tacitus,  who  has  much 
more  to  say  on  the  subject  of  the  Jews  and  their 
religion  than  would  be  thought  probable  a  priori. 

T.  J.  BUCKTON. 

^ 

There  is  no  such  "  saying"  in  Cicero  as  G.  de- 
scribes from  Von  Raumer ;  but  in  Orat.  pro 
Flacco,  c.  28,  he  will  find  one  of  only  two  refer- 
ences to  the  Jews  by  the  illustrious  orator.  I 
may  give  a  sentence  which  probably  contains  the 
queried  "saying": 

"  .  .  .  .  nunc  vero  hoc  magi?,  quod  ilia  gens,  quid  de 
imperio  nostro  sentiret,  ostendit  armis :  quam  cara  Diis 
immortalibus  esset,  docuit ;  quod  est  victa,  quod  elocata, 
quod  sei  vata." 

The  Jews,  not  their  God,  are  here  scornfully 
and  contemptuously  spoken  of.  Still  I  suspect 
this  is  the  "  saying  "  referred  to  by  Von  Raumer 


and  G. 


r. 


INDIAN  MISSIONS  (3rd  S.  i.  90.) — A  numerous 
list  of  "  New  and  Second-hand  Works  on  India  " 
was  printed  by  Messrs.  Suter  &  Alexander,  32, 
Cheapside,  on  the  outside  of  their  excellent  little 
periodical,  The  Female  Missionary  Intelligencer  *, 
during  1858,  1859,  I860.  These  lists  would  no 
doubt  be  of  service  for  MR.  PATON'S  object,  and 
probably  be  easily  procured  from  the  above- 
named  publishers,  even  now. 

The  Serampore  Missiojiarics,  2  vols.  8vo,by  J.C. 
Marshman,  son  of  one  of  the  honoured  trio,  is  full 
of  valuable  information  on  the  subject,  especially 
in  the  early  part  of  the'present  century  It  bears 
on  mission  efforts  in  general,  as  well  as  those  of 
the  Baptist  body.  See  also  Missionary  Sketches 
in  North  India,  Nisbet,  by  Mrs.  Weitbrecht.  This 
details  particulars  of  the  early  rise  and  history  of 
the  principal  stations  (Church  Mission)  in  Upper 
India ;  the  events  transpiring  at  each  during  the 
recent  mutiny,  and  their  subsequent  prospects. 

It  is  almost  superfluous,  perhaps,  to  suggest,  for 
the  information  required,  the  Memoirs  of  Bishops 
Middleton,  Heber,  D.  Corrie,  D.  Wilson,  Revels. 
H.  Martyn,  C.  Buchanan,  Thomason,  H.  Fox, 
and  many  more.  But  light  and  information  on 
the  subject  may  also  be  gleaned  in  many  cases 
from  the  Memoirs  of  their  friends  and  corre- 
spondents at  home,  as  those  of  Rev.  C.  Simeon, 
Andrew  Fuller,  S.  Pearce,  Messrs,  llaldane,  &c. 

Mrs.  Sherwood's  Memoir,  as  well  as  her  little- 

*  This  periodical,  now  of  several  years'  existence,  as 
•well  as  those  of  various  Missionary  Societies,  their  Re- 
ports, &c.,  and  the  Missionary  Register  also,  would  supply 
much  information  on  the  subject. 


known,  though  remarkably  interesting  juvenile 
book,  The  Indian  Orphans,  also  furnishes  many 
anecdotes  and  details,  specially  of  the  eflbrts  of 
Martyn  and  Corrie.  S.  M.  S. 

DANBY  OF  KIRKBY  KNOWLE  (3rd  S.  i.  97.)  —  A 
Yorkshireman  has  misunderstood  a  former  com- 
munication of  mine ;  when  I  said  that  the  pedigree 
of  Danby  went  back  two  generations  before  the 
Norman  conquest,  I  counted  Armatrude  Danby, 
who  married  Edmond  Stringent,  as  forming  the 
second  generation.  I  was  clearly  justified  hi  doing 
so,  as  it  seems  evident  that  (admitting  the  truth 
of  the  early  part  of  the  pedigree)  she  was  born 
before  that  event. 

These  descents  are  thus  given  in  Dr.  Whitaker's 
edition  of  Ralph  Thoresby's  Ducatus  Leodiensis^ 
p.  201:  — 

John  Danby,  Lord  of  Great  nnd  Little  Danby,  or  Danbie,  and 

Lands  in  Thirsk,  Button,  and  Scow8ton=» 
! 

Armatrude  Danby  d.  and  sole  h.=Edmond  Stringent,  came 
with  the  Conqueror.; 

John  Stringent,  called  of  Danbie,  which  he  had  in  right  of  his 
mother= 

K.  P.  D.  E. 

POSTAGE  STAMPS  (3rd  S.  i.  149.)  —  The  first 
approach  to  the  penny  postage  was  made  Dec.  5, 
1839,  when  a  uniform  rate  of  fourpence  was  in- 
troduced. But  on  the  10th  of  January  following, 
the  penny  postage  was  adopted.  The  first  stamps 
were  black;  and  these  continued  till  May,  1841, 
when  red  stamps  were  substituted.  Blue  two- 
penny stamps  soon  followed,  and  then  came  en- 
velopes with  embossed  stamps ;  the  penny  ones 
being  pink,  and  the  twopenny  blue.  The  blue 
stamped  envelopes  were  afterwards  discontinued. 

F.  C.  H. 

PATENTS  (2nd  S.  xii.  109,  140.)  —  In  my  reply 
to  CLARRY,  I  spoke  doubtingly  on  the  question, 
whether  "novelty  of  invention"  was  essential  to 
the  security  of  a  patent,  though  my  own  impres- 
sion leant  to  the  affirmative.  The  following  case, 
taken  from  the  Daily  Telegraph  of  4th  February, 
will  perhaps  interest  your  readers :  — -A^U 

"  Harwood  v.  the  Great  Northern  Railway  Company. 

"  This  was  a  question  relative  to  the  infringement  of  a 
patent  for  fish-jointing  railways.  The  point  in  issue  was 
novelty  of  invention.  The  Court  of  Queen's  Bench  de- 
cided in  favour  of  the  plaintiff,  upon  which  it  was  brought 
into  court  and  re-argued,  when  their  lordships  took  time 
to  consider  their  judgment. 

"  The  Court  now  reversed  the  decision  of  the  Court  of 
Queen's  Bench,  and  directed  that  the  verdict  should  be 
entered  for  the  defendants,  on  the  ground  that  there  was 
no  novelty  of  invention.  —  Judgment  reversed." 

DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

QUOTATION  (2mJ  S.  vii.  341 ;  xii.  178.)  — 

M  O  call  us  not  weeds." 

I  believe  I  can  say  with  certainty  that  these  well- 
known  lines  are  not  by  Mrs.  Hemans,  as  hinted  by 


196 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


|.3"i  S.  I.  MAR.  8,  '62. 


MR.  DILLON.  When  I  edited,  some  years  since, 
one  of  the  oldest  and  most  popular  of  our  juvenile 
magazines,  they  were  sent  me,  as  original,  by  a 
valued  correspondent,  whose  name  I  do  not  feel 
at  liberty  to  mention,  and  who  I  am  sure,  could 
not  have  acted  'with  disingenuousness,  as  indeed 
she  had  no  reason  to  do,  her  own  poetical  produc- 
tions being  of  a  very  superior  character.  She 
was,  moreover,  particularly  acquainted  with  our 
sea-weeds  and  fuel,  and  resided  on  the  coast  of 
Dorsetshire  at  the  time.  DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

DEFACED  AND  WORN  COINS  (3rd  S.  i.  130.)  — 
The  application  of  muriatic  acid  is  often  very 
successful  in  rendering  defaced  coins  more  legible. 
But  having  had  a  good  deal  of  experience  in  this 
matter,  I  have  found  that  holding  the  coin  in  a 
slanting  direction,  close  to  the  light  of  a  strong 
lamp,  will  often  enable  a  person  to  make  out  ob- 
scure letters  or  devices,  by  making  them  cast 
some  little  shade  on  the  side  opposite  to  the  light. 
I  have  made  out  many  legends  by  this  means, 
when  every  other  has  been  tried  in  vain. 

F.  C.  H. 

WINCKLEY  FAMILY  (2nd  S.  xi.  350.)— I  have  by 
me  a  will  of  William  Winckley,  a  Catholic  priest, 
dated  1st  Nov.  1740;  by  which  he  leaves  his 
nephews,  Thomas  Winckley,  of  Banister  Hall,  and 
Christopher  Gradel,  of  Barbies  Moor,  his  resi- 
duary legatees.  Barbies  Moor  is  in  Ulnes- Walton, 
in  the  parish  of  Croston.  Both  the  Ordnance  Map 
and  Lewis's  Topographical  Dictionary  mention  an 
old  stone  cross,  well  preserved  ;  and  the  existence 
anciently  of  monastic  cells.  The  cross  is  said  to 
cover  the  remains  of  Winckley  ;  who,  at  the  date 
of  his  will,  was  exercising  his  priestly  functions 
at  Gradvvells.  Can  any  of  the  readers  of  "  N".  & 
Q."  give  any  account  of  these  Gradwells,  or  of 
the  monastic  cells  ?  Or  of  how  the  Dowager  Lady 
Shelley  is  the  present  representative  of  the  Winck- 
ley family  ?  A.  E.  L. 

HUSSEY  :  HURST  (3rd  S.  i.  137.)  — The  surname 
Hussey  may  be  corrupted  from  Hursey,  which  is 
common  in  some  parts  of  Sussex  and  Kent  —  its 
origin  (Hurst  ea)  being  apparently  obvious.  I 
have  known  the  names,  Hurst  and  Hursey,  in  the 
immediate  neighbourhood  of  the  town  of  Mid- 
hurst  in  the  West  of  Sussex  ;  and  in  Kent,  Med- 
hurst,  Ackhurst,  Pankhurst,  Billinghurst,  and 
others  in  which  Hurst  occurs  in  combination,  are 
not  unfrequently  to  be  met  with.  S.  A. 

JOKES  ON  THE  SCARCITY  OF  BULLION  (3rd  S.  i. 
128.)  — In  the  years  1811  and  1812,  gold  coin 
was  ^so  scarce,  that  I  remember  seeing  at  a  large 
fair  in  a  city  in  the  West  of  England,  among  other 
attractions  held  out — such  as  the  famed  Hottentot 
Venus,  &c.  —  a  man  exhibiting  a  guinea  framed 
and  glazed,  as  a  great  curiosity,  at  a  halfpenny 
a-head.  The  oddity  of  the  conceit  actually 


brought  the  exhibitor  so  many  to  see  the  guinea, 
that  I  verily  believe  he  took  more  money  than 
many  of  the  regular  showmen.  F.  C.  H. 

COLONEL  (3rd  S.  i.  130.)  —  I  suspect  that  if  due 
force  were  given  to  the  r  in  Curnel  the  word  would 
come  very  near  to  its  original.  The  Spaniards, 
who  lent  us  military  terms  and  ordinances  in  the 
sixteenth  century,  write  it  Coronel  to  this  day. 
The  earliest  English  is  Coronel,  afterwards  Col- 
lonell.  In  the  first  edition  of  Digges's  Stratioticos 
(1579),  the  word  is  Coronel,  but  Cottonel  occurs 
once  at  least.  In  the  second  edition  (1590),  it  is 
Collonel  in  the  body  of  the  work,  and  Coronel  in 
the  additions,  some  of  which  have  reference  to 
Spanish  affairs.  I  agree  with  Johnson  that  Colonna 
arid  Colonialis  are  equally  plausible;  but  surely 
Corona  is  the  root.  What  did  this  officer  wear  on 
his  helmet  ?  It  is  in  favour  of  this  Spanish  deriva- 
tion that  the  French  had  no  term  but  maitre  de 
camp  long  after  the  English  used  the  word 
Colonel.  A.  DE  MORGAN. 

WEEPING  AMONG  THE  ANCIENTS  (3rd  S.  i.  132.) 
—  .  The  difference  between  ancient  and  modern 
weeping  has  probably  been  discussed,  though  I  do 
not  know  where.  If  not,  it  ought  to  be.  The 
Greeks  and  Romans  did  not  hide  their  tears  from 
shame,  nor  always  shed  them  through  grief. 

Elpenor  gets  drunk  at  Circe's,  and  breaks  his 
neck  in  falling  from  the  house-top.  He  was  of 
small  value, 


x.  551. 

And  Ulysses  did  not  think  him  worth  picking  up, 
in  his  haste  to  get  away. 

"  2w/u,a  yap  ev  joieyapa)  Ki'pKrjs  KaTeA.eurojU.ev  ^/xeis 
¥A.K\av(TTOV  /cat.  aOanrov  '  CTTCI  iro^o?  aA\o?  eVerye." 

Od.  xi.  53. 

In  Hades  his  shade  remonstrates  with  Ulysses, 
who,  on  his  return  to  earth,  gives  the  body  a  hand- 
some funeral,  QaXepbv  Kara  Sa/tpy  xeovres.  Cowper 
says  "  watered  his  funeral  rites  with  many  tears." 
What  would  Tom  Brown  say  to  a  Rugby  boy 
who  cried  at  the  possibility  of  the  umpire  in  a 
foot-race  deciding  against  him  ? 

"  Tutatur  favor  Euryalum,  lacrimceque  decora, 
Gratior  et  pulchro'veniens  in  corpore  virtus." 

JEn.  v.  343. 

Scarron  appreciated  the  lacriniose  constitution 
of  JEneas: 

"  Ene'e  fit  le  Je're'mie 
Et  mouilla  sa  face  blemie  ; 
II  pleuroit  en  perfection, 
Et  meme  sans  affliction." 
Virgik  Travesti,  JEu.  i.    Amst.  ed.  i.  119. 

There  is  much  weeping  but  little  sorrow  at  an 
Irish  wake. 

I  see  no  reason  for  being  ashamed  of  weeping 
when  there  is  anything  to  weep  at.  I  have  heard 
and  I  believe  that  the  Duke  of  Wellington  did  so 


3«*  S.  I.  MAR.  8,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


197 


at  T.  P.  Cooke,  in  the  play  of  Slack-eyed  Susan. 
have  seen  judges  weep  when  passing  sentence  oi 
death,  but  the  conventionalism  is  going  out  of  use. 

FITZHOPK.INS. 

Garrick  Club. 

I  think  W.  P.  J.  overlooks  the  fact  that  the 
ancient  literature  which  has  survived  to  our  day, 
is  the  product  of  warm  and  passionate  countries  — 
Asia  and  Mediterranean  Europe :  and  that  it  is 
difference  of  climate  and  not  of  time  which  renders 
our  modern  English  literature  calmer  and  less  de- 
monstrative. It  reflects  the  temper  and  manners 
of  the  people ;  and  we  all  know  that  public  ex- 
hibitions of  feeling  are  more  common  in  the  sunny 
south  than  in  our  cold  northern  climate. 

JOB  J.  BARDWELL  WORKARD,  M.A. 

ELECTIONEERERS  (3rd  S.  i.  130.)  —  MR.  STUART 
MILL'S  word  appears  to  be  formed  from  an  ima- 
ginary verb  active,  of  which  "  electioneering  "  is 
the  present  participle ;  but  I  am  inclined  to  think 
all  three  forms,  electioneer,  'eerer,  and  'eering,  are 
inadmissible  in  elegant  English. 

JOB  J.  BARDWELL  WORKARD,  M.A. 

Besides  J.  Stuart  Mill  may  be  named  Dean  Isaac 
Milner,  who  is  given  as  an  authority  for  the  use  of 
this  word  by  Worcester  in  his  Dictionary  of  the 
English  Language,  1860.  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford, 

THE  Ass  AND  THE  LADDER  (3rd  S.  i.  14.)  — 
The  Query  of  A.  W.  H.,  so  satisfactorily  answered, 
recalls  attention  to  a  well-known  caution  very 
necessary  to  superficial  inquirers  —  "Believe  no- 
thing to  be  impossible."  Every  one  conversant 
with  our  London  street-ology  knows  that  in  our 
own  day,  the  ass  has,  again  and  again,  ascended 
the  ladder ;  and  that  among  our  household  words, 
we  may  now  reckon  the  somewhat  vulgar  cry, 
"  Twopence  more,  and  up  goes  the  donkey  ! " 

DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

SUNDAY  NEWSPAPERS  (3rd  S.  i.  49.) — It  is 
much  to  be  regretted  that  false  impressions  should 
get  abroad,  through  mere  carelessness  and  want 
of  sequence  in  the  narratives,  even  of  intelligent 
and  well-meaning  authors.  Can  we  acquit  the 
Hon.  H.  A.  Murray  on  this  score,  when  he  tells 
us  that  he  found  the  Sunday  attendants  at  a 
Presbyterian  Church  in  New  Orleans  all  engaged 
in  reading  newspapers  ?  Newspapers  are  cer- 
tainly never  "  full "  of  religious  "  anecdotes  and 
experiences,"  as  he  subsequently  leads  us  to  be- 
lieve those  were  which  he  saw  in  the  hands  of 
this  irreverent  congregation  ;  so  that  his  startling 
statement  really  amounts  to  little  more  than  this, 
—  that  in  America,  as  in  this  country,  it  is  cus- 
tomary to  stimulate  the  zeal  of  the  Church  by 
furnishing  it,  from  time  to  time,  with  reports  and 
incidents  ^ illustrating  the  necessity  or  success  of 
its  operations. 


If  the  Presbyterians  of  New  Orleans  were  really 
studying  politics  when  they  ought  to  have  been 
more  piously  engaged,  Mr.  Murray  should  have 
stayed  his  pen  at  the  close  of  the  first  paragraph  ; 
for  no  one  can  fail  to  see  the  great  disparity  be- 
tween even  a  "  religious  "  newspaper,  and  a  mere 
collection  of  "  anecdotes  and  experiences." 

DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

GRAY'S  "ELEGY  "  PARODIED  (2nd  S.  xii.  128; 
3rd  S.  i.  112.)  —  Your  correspondent  will  find,  on 
turning  to  your  last  volume  (as  above)  that  Dun- 
combe's  excellent  parody  was  first  issued,  as  a 
separate  publication,  in  1753,  again  in  1765,  and 
a  third  time  in  1776.  On  this  last  occasion  it 
was  stated  on  the  title-page  to  be  the  production 
of "  An  Oxonian,"  and  forms  in  fact  the  most 
impudent  literary  theft  with  which  I  am  ac- 
quainted. Who  wrote  the  three  parodies  enu- 
merated by  the  Editor  (p.  112),  and  that  "  On  the 
Death  of  *  The  Guardian  outwitted,'  an  Opera," 
published  in  1765  ?  Are  there  any  other  paro- 
dies on  the  Elegy  besides  these,  that  by  Twiss, 
and  that  most  felicitous  one  which  appeared  in 
Punch  a  few  years  ago,  in  which  the  "  contempla- 
tion "  is  transferred  to  a  police  station,  where  — 

"  Each  in  his  watch-coat,  warm  and  snugly  laid, 
The  mild  protectors  of  the  public  sleep  ?  " 

DELTA. 

LEADEN  COIN  FOUND  AT  CLARE  (2n*  S.  xii.  434.) 
—  This  coin  has  been  examined  by  competent 
authority  and  pronounced  to  be  a  French  coin  of 
the  sixteenth  century.  Obverse  :  bust  of  Cathe- 
rine de  Medici  with  legend,  "  Catharina,  Me- 
dic[sea]  semper  .  Augusta."  Reverse:  Fame 
standing  on  a  cloud  blowing  her  trumpet,  the  field 
above  dotted  with  stars.  Legend :  "  JGterna  . 
farna."  W.  J.  D. 

UNIVERSAL  SUFFRAGE  (3rd  S.  i.  131.)— -The 
preamble  of  the  Act  8  Hen.  VI.  c.  7,  throws  some 
light  on  the  question  raised  by  MR.  STEVENS.  It 
runs  as  follows  :  — 

"Whereas  elections  have  been  made  by  very  great, 
outrageous,  and  excessive  numbers  of  people,  of  small 
substance,  and  of  no  value,  whereof  every  of  them  pre- 
tended a  voice  equivalent  with  the  most  worthy  knights 
and  esquires,  wherebj'  manslaughter,  riots,  batteries,  and 
divisions  among  the  gentlemen  and  other  people  of  the 
same  counties  shall  very  likely  rise  and  be,  unless  remedy 
be  provided." 

The  following  authorities  will  (I  think)  sho\r 
that  previously  to  the  passing  of  this  Act,  all  free- 
men had,  by  the  common  law,  a  right  to  vote  :  — 
Dalton,  Duty  of  Sheriff,  334;  Prynne,  Brevia 
Parliamentaria,  487. 

JOB  J.  BARDWELL  WORKARD,  M.A. 

RUTLAND,  COUNTY  OR  SHIRE  (3rd  S.  i.  111.) 
— MR.  MONTAUBAN  may  be  assured  that  there  is 
no  difference  or  distinction  between  a  county  or 
shire.  We  derive  the  former  terms  from  the 


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S.  I.  MAR.  8,  '62. 


French,  .the  latter  from  the  Saxon  ;  but  they  are 
purely  synonymous.  Rutland  must  have  had  its 
yearly  officer  or  sheriff  from  the  time  when  jt  was 
first  made  into  a  county  in  the  reign  of  Alfred 
the  Great,  but  this  would  have  no  bearing  on  the 
question*  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

GILBEBT  TYSON  (2ud  S.  xii.  418;  3rd  S.  i.  37.) 
—  The  statement  of  A.  B.  that  Gilbert  ^Tyson 
was  Lord  of  Alnwick  before  the  conquest  is  sup- 
ported by  the  authority  of  Dugdale  (Baronage, 
vol.  i.  p.  90.)  And  Grose,  in  enumerating  the 
escutcheons  sculptured  on  the  octagon  towers  of 
Alnwick  Castle,  describes  the  first  of  the  series  as 
being  "  a  plain  shield  with  a  bend  :  supposed  to 
be  the  original  arms  of  Tyson,  the  proprietor  of 
the  castle  in  the  Saxon  times."  (Antiquities  of 
England,  vol.  iv.  p.  44.) 

If  there  was  any  follower  of  William  the  Con- 
queror, who  bore  a  similar  name,  he  was  probably 
a  member  of  the  Norman  family  of  Tesson  —  the 
bearings  of  which  family  are  stated  by  Stapleton 
to  have  been  —  "  fesse  d'ermines  et  de  paesle  de 
six  pieces."  (Rotuli  Scaccarii  Normannice,  vol.  ii. 
p.  cvii.)  MEM.OR. 

TURNERS  OF  ECKINGTON  (3rd  S.  i.  90.)  —As  it 
would  be  difficult  to  find  a  year  between  1558  and 
1862,  in  which  the  name  Turner  does  not  occur 
in  the  Eckington  Parish  Register,  and  as  in  one 
of  the  earliest  of  those  years  (1559)  no  less  than 
three  Henry  Turners  were  married,  it  will  pro- 
bably not  be  easy  to  supply  the  information 
wanted  by  R.  W.  T.  V. ;  but  if  he  will  communi- 
cate in  his  full  name  with  the  curate  of  Eckington, 
I  may  venture  to  say  that  he  will  not  repent 
having  done  so.  J.  EASTWOOD. 

Eckington. 

EIHVARD  RABAN. —  In  a  former  number  (2nd  S. 
xii.  21.)  a  doubt  was  started  as  to  the  death  of  this 
celebrated  Aberdonian  printer,  at  the  time  asserted 
by  Kennedy  in  his  Annals  of  Aberdeen.  This  in- 
quiry produced  a  very  satisfactory  and  polite  an- 
swer from  MR.  CLYNE  (p.  74),  in  which  he  was 
satisfied  that  the  annalist  had  been  somewhat 
hasty  in  his  conclusions.  Recently  several  theses 
were  found  by  Mr.  Halket,  the  able  and  zealous 
librarian  of  the  Faculty  of  Advocates,  printed  at 
Orange  by  Edward  Raban,  of  an  earlier  date  than 
the  tract  on  the  history  and  antiquities  of  that 
city  noticed  by  me.  These  are  valuable  evi- 
dences, particularly  as  they  show  that  the  Orange 
Raban  held  a  similar  position  and  appointment 
to  that  of  the  Aberdonian  Raban  in  the  city  of 
Bon  Accord. 

The  probability — certainly  not  an  unreasonable 
one  —  is  that  the  Orange  Raban  was  a  son  of 
the  Aberdeen  printer,  who  having  no  relish  for 
the  Covenant,  may  have  emigrated  to  the  con- 


tinent. The  first  production  from  the  same 
press  that  we  have  seen  is  a  rare  little  volume 
which  was  purchased  by  Mr.  T."  G.  Stevenson, 
Bookseller,  Frederick  Street,  Edinburgh,  at  the 
sale  of  Principal  Lee's  Library,  and  of  which  the 
following  is  the  title  : -rtf  «nr^«i  Ime  SVBW  euo'm 
"Christ's  Testament  unfolded,  —  Seaven  Godlie  and 
learned  Sermons  on  our  Lord's  seaven  last  words  spoken 
on  the  Crosse.  ByM.  A.  Symson,  Minister  of  the  Gospel! 
at  Dalkeith.  Printed  at  Edinburgh  by  Edward  Raban, 
dwelling  at  the  Cowgate  port,  at  the  signe  of  A.  B.  C. 
1620." 

It  is  dedicated  to  Anne,  Countess  of  Morton, 
the  lady  whom  Lord  Orford  has  introduced 
amongst  his  Royal  and  Noble  Authors,  because  a 
particular  devotional  work,  passing  under  her 
name,  but  in  reality  "  composed  by  one  M.  G.," 
contains  the  following  extraordinary  Query,  '*  O 
Lord,  wilt  thou  humble  thyself  to  hunt  after  a 
flea?"  J.M. 

ARMY  AND  NAVY  LIST  (3rd  S.  i.  75.)-— The 
earliest  production  of  this  description  is  an  en- 
graved one  forming  a  handsome  post  8vo.  volume, 
and  published  at  London  "by  John  Millan,  op- 
posite to  the  Admiralty  Office,  Whitehall,  1745." 
The  following  is  an  exact  copy  of  the  title-page 
beautifully  engraven  by  "  P.  Fourdrinier,"  and 
enclosed  in  a  sort  of  triumphal  and  very  elegantly- 
formed  arch : 

"The  Succession  of  Colonels  to  all  His  Majesty's  Land 
Forces  from  their  Rise  to  1744;  Precedency  of  each  Re- 
giment, with  Dates  to  Promotions,  Removes,  Deaths,  &c. 
The  same  of  ye  Regiments  Broke  in  the  two  last  Reigns ; 
to  which  is  added  A  List  of  yc  Royal  Navy ;  when  Built, 
Rebuilt;  Number  of  Men  and  Guns,  Tonnage,  Dimen- 
sions, &c. ;  Pay,  Subsistance,  Half-pay,  Pensions,  &e.  of 
ye  Army,  Navy,  and  Garrisons  at  "Home  and  Abrod. 
1745." 

In  the  copy  now  in  my  library,  and  which 
formerly  belonged  to  the  "  Hon.  Charles  Hope 
Weir  of  Craigiehall  and  Blackwood,"  there  is 
appended,  also  engraven,  1.  "  The  Day's  Pay  of 
the  Hanoverians,  Hesians,  and  Danes,  1744. 
Price  6d"  2.  "A  List  of  the  French  Army, 
Printed  by  J.  Millan,  Whitehall,  1743.  Price  6d." 
Both  of  these  are  engraved  by  E.  Thorowgood. 
3.  "  Towns  of  Warr,  Castles,  Bulwarks,  and  For- 
tresses in  England,  1588.  Published  1st  March, 
1744,  by  J.  Millan,  Bookseller,  near  Whitehall. 
Price  Is." 

This  is,  it  may  be  presumed,  the  earliest  Army 
and  Navy  List  of  the  kind  extant,  so  far  as  can 
be  traced,  to  be  found  in  any  of  the  great  public 
libraries  north  the  Tweed.  Whether  the  British 
Museum  possesses  one,  we  have  no  means,  in  Ed- 
inburgh, from  the  want  of  a  printed  catalogue, 
of  ascertaining.  It  may  be  also  mentioned  that 
there  is  contained  in  it  a  long  list  of  the  Lords 
High  Admiral  from  the  Time  of  King  Alfred  to 
the  year  1744,  with  the  pay  of  the  Officers  of 
Admiralty  and  Navy  as  then  existing ;  and  as  it 


3'*  S.  I.  MAR.  8, '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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was  in  the  reigns  of  Queen  Elizabeth  and  King 
James,  the  latter  "  From  original  MSS.  in  the 
possession  of  J.  Millan."  J.  M. 

NOCKTNGK  AND  DoWELL  MONET,  ETC.  (3rd  S.  i. 

148.) — The  entries  inquired  about  all  relate  to 
various  ways  and  means  by  which,  in  the  good 
old  times,  churchwardens  used  to  obtain  money 
for  the  church  expenses.  Three  of  the  four  are 
easily  explained :  Doweli  money  is  dole  money ; 
nockynge  is  hocking,  a  kind  of  gathering  which 
was  made  for  the  church  needs  (for  which  see 
Ellis's  Brand's  Pop.  Antiq.}  ;  and  brethered  'is 
bretherhed,  i.  e.  brotherhood,  fraternity,  or  guild. 
Thus  Chaucer's  Parson  — 

—  "  sette  not  his  benefice  to  huyre, 
And  lefte  his  scheep  encombred  in  the  myre, 
And  ran  to  Londone  unto  seynte  Poules, 
To  eeeken  him  a  channterie  for  soules, 
Or  with  a  Irethurhedc  be  witholde." 

There  is  some  doubt  about  alfowlin  branche ; 
but  this  probably  refers  either  to  All  Fools'  Day, 
or  All  Souls'  Day;  on  which  latter,  gatherings 
used  to  be  made  for  the  benefit  of  the  souls  in 
purgatory.  The  branch  may  refer  to  some  kind 
of  Whitsun-tree,  such  as  seems  to  be  referred  to 
in  the  following  extract  from  the  accounts  of  the 
parish  of  St.  Lawrence,  Reading  :  — 

trA-  vi9v  I>nc  U-iiqmim.!  to  Jio<  &  in"  .?     ol^i: 

lol/o.  s.     a, 

"  It.  rec'  of  the  meyden's  gaderyng  at  Whit- 
sontyde  by  the  tre  at  the  church  dore, 
clerly ij.  vj 

It.  rec'  of  Richard  Waren  for  the  tre  at  the 
church  dore     -        -•'V^  -,'•»>; -.v.        -  iij 

J.  EASTWOOD. 

Though  unable  to  explain  the  above,  I  may 
throw  some  light  on  other  terms  inquired  for  by 
D.  M.  STEVENS.  Sent  Jemys1  brethercd  is  evi- 
dently "  St.  James's  brotherhood,"  or  confrater- 
nity. Perhaps  alfowlyn  should  be  read  alsowlyn ; 
and  the  item  may  be  for  gathering  a  branch,  or 
bough  for  the  church  on  All  Souls'  Day.  Yet 
dowell  means  a  feather,  and  possibly  it  may  have 
some  connexion  with  the  previous  entry  about 
all-fowling.  F.  C.  H. 

ARMS  OP  WATERS  (2nd  S.  vi.  460.)— If  not  too 
late,  let  me  tell  CLEMENT  that  the  arms  of  one 
family  of  Waters,  as  they  appear  on  a  seal  and 
book-plate  in  my  possession,  are,  —  argent,  a 
chevron,  bet.  3  chess  rooks  sable.  Crest :  a  sin- 
ister arm  embowed  proper,  vested  gu.  cuffed  arg., 
holding  a  chess  rook  as  in  the  arms.  Motto: 
"  Moenibus  crede  ligneis."  UWYTE. 

• 

DR.  HANSEL'S  EPIGRAMS  (3rd  S.  i.  131.)  — 
Dr.  Mansel  was  Master  of  Trinity  College,  Cam- 
bridge, not  Oxford,  as  Mr.  Rogers  has  it.  W.  S. 

PENCIL- WRITING  (3rd  S.  i.  138.)—  I  beg  to 
point  out,  with  all  due  courtesy,  that  HERMEN- 


TRUDE  has  deceived  herself  and  the  readers  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  in  regard  to  the  writing  in  pencil  in 
the  Cottonian  MS.  Galba  B.  v.  She  states  that 
on  the  back  of  one  of  the  papers,  "  Charles  V. 
has  hastily  scrawled  his  name,  with  the  date 
*  Bologna,  1517.'"  If  I  mistake  not,  this  writing 
occurs  at  fol.  345  of  the  volume,  and  really  stands 
thus:  "Belgia,  1517,  Charles,"  written  in  pencil 
on  the  back  of  an  original  letter  from  Charles  V. 
to  Cardinal  Wolsey,  dated  from  Middelburg,  27 
Aug.  1517.  If  this  be  so,  it  is  surprising  that 
HERMENTRUDE  should  have  mistaken  this  memo- 
randum for  the  autograph  of  Charles,  since  at 
folios  294  and  327b,  his  real  signature  in  ink  may 
be  seen.  But  the  fact  is,  that  many  other  letters 
in  the  same  volume  bear  similar  memoranda  in 
pencil  of  "JZelgia,"  with  the  date  and  names  of 
the  respective  writers,  and  they  all  seem  to  have 
been  written  by  the  Librarian  of  the  Cottonian 
Library,  in  the  seventeenth  century,  for  the  pur- 
pose of  having  the  papers  bound  up  together,  as 
relating  to  transactions  between  England  and  the 
Low  Countries  in  the  years  1517 — 1520. 

URSULA. 

CLERICAL  LONGEVITY  (2nd  S.  x.  176,  377;  3rd  S. 
i.  159.)— John  Rose  Holden,  of  Trin.  Coll.  Cam- 
bridge, was  B.A.  1795,  and  commenced  M.A.  as 
a  member  of  Clare  Hall,  1819. 

C.  H.  &  THOMPSON  COOPER. 

Cambridge. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 

1.  The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor. 

2.  Much  Adoe  about  Nothing. 

3.  Loves  Labour's  Lost. 

4.  A.  Midsommer  NighCs  Dreame. 

5.  The  Merchant  of  Venice. 

The  Text  from  the  Folio  of  1623 :  with  Notices  of  tne 
known  Editions  previously  issued.  (L.  Booth.) 

We  had  occasion  a  few  weeks  since  to  call  the  atten- 
tion of  our  readers,  and  with  the  praise  which  it  deserves, 
to  the  First  Part  of  Mr.  Booth's  admirable  reprint  of 
the  famous  First  Folio  of  Shakspeare's  Plays.  That  such 
a  reprint,  carefully  made,  is  a  great  boon  to  many  zeal- 
ous students  of  the  Poet  there  cannot  possibly  be  a  doubt. 
We  have  now  to  record  another  step  in  the"  same  direc- 
tion. The  five  comedies  contained  in  the  part  already 
issued  (which  had  been  put  forth  separately  during  the 
author's  lifetime)  have  been  printed  separately,  in  a  form 
to  match  with  the  early  quartos,  and  interleaved,  so  that, 
in  the  language  of  the  Prospectus,  "not  only  the  collec- 
tor may  complete  his  Quarto  Series  with  uniformity,  but 
the  ardent  and  patient  student  of  Shakspeare  possess 
the  opportunity  of  noting  the  variations  which  are  to  be 
found  in  the  texts  that  preceded  it ; "  "  by  which,"  to  use 
the  words  of  Mr.  Charles  Knight,  "  the  minute  but  most 
effective  touches  of  the  skilful  artist  may  be  brought  pro- 
minently to  view."  To  few,  probably,  may  be  given  the 
time  and  opportunity  so  to  collate  and  study  the  work- 
ings of  the  great  Poet,  as  exhibited  in  the  progress  of  the 
whole  seventeen  plays  which  will  be  thus  reprinted. 


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[3rd  S.  I.  MAR.  8,  '62. 


But  such  as,  adopting  the  principle  otmultum  non  multos 
legere,  devote  themselves  to  the  consideration  of  one  or  other 
of  his  great  works  will,  we  have  no  doubt,  attain  a 
sounder  knowledge,  and  truer  appreciation,  of  the  profun- 
dity and  versatility  of  Shakspeare's  genius,  and  the  spirit 
of  his  writings,  than  is  to  be  ordinarily  attained  by  a 
more  discursive  system  of  study.  And  for  this  purpose 
nothing  can  be  better  calculated  than  these  admirable  re- 
prints. 

The  Footsteps  of  Shakspere;  or,  a  Ramble  with  the 
Early  Dramatists,  containing  much  new  and  interesting 
Information  respecting  Shakspere,  Lyly,  Marlowe,  Greene, 
and  others.  (J.  R.  Smith.) 

History  of  William  Shakespeare,  Player  and  Poet,  with 
new  Facts  and  Traditions.  By  W.  S.  Fullom.  (Saunders 
&0tley.) 

On  the  received  Text  of  Shakespeare's  Dramatic  Writings 
and  its  Improvement.  By  Samuel  Bailey.  ( Longman.) 

With  what  zeal  and  assiduity  the  writings  of  Shak- 
speare  are  studied  at  the  present  time,  is  evidenced  by 
the  fact  that  scarcely  a  week  passes  in  which  some  addi- 
tion is  not  made  to  the  already  enormous  mass  of  Shak- 
spearian  literature.  New  facts,  new  illustrations,  new 
theories,  are  constantly  inviting  the  attention  of  those 
who  devote  themselves  to  the  works  of  the  Great  Master. 

To  the  first  of  the  three  new  volumes  on  this  prolific 
subject  to  which  we  have  now  to  invite  attention,  we 
may  fitly  apply  the  writer's  own  concluding  words,  — 
"That  though  the  chaste  severity  of  Shakspearian  cri- 
ticism may  be  inclined  to  condemn  the  whole  as  a  gal- 
limawfry  of  dreamy  supposes,  of  idle  imaginings,  yet 
there  are  some  points  that  deserve  a  candid  considera- 
tion, and  challenge  the  strictest  inquiry." 

Of  Mr.  Fullom's  History  of  William  Shakspeare,  we 
can  only  say  that  we  Avish  the  facts  he  had  collected 
equalled  his  love  and  admiration  of  the  Poet,  and  the 
familiaritywith  his  writings,  which  he  everywhere  evinces. 
But  it  is  not  so;  and  we  cannot  bestow  upon  him  the 
credit  of  adding  anything  to  our  knowledge  of  the  Poet's 
history,  though  he  may  have  done  something  towards 
increasing,  impossible,  our  reverence  for  his  Works, 

With  respect  to  Mr.  Bailey's  Essay,  we  are  compelled 
to  declare  that,  while  we  give  a  ready  assent  to  the 
majority  of  the  principles  laid  down  by  him  as  to  the 
grounds  on  which  any  passage  in  the  Poet's  writings  can 
be  pronounced  corrupt,  and  the  conditions  to  be  fulfilled 
in  any  emendations  brought  forward  with  a  view  to  re- 
store the  reading  to  its  original  purity,  we  rarely  agree 
with  him  when  he  attempts  to  put  those  principles  into 
practice.  Take,  for  instance,  his  first  two  proposed  emen- 
dations. Ingenious  as  may  be  the  reasoning,  and  its  in- 
genuity -,ve  fully  admit,  by  which  Mr.  Bailey  supports 
the  substitution  in  Hamlet  of, 

"  Or  to  take  arms  against  the  seat  of  troubles, 

And  with  a  poniard  end  them," 
for  the  well-known 

"  Or  to  take  arms  against  a  sea  of  troubles, 

And  by  opposing,  end  them, 

and  of  "both  thrilled  to  jelly,"  for  the  old  ''distilled  to 
jell}',"  which  Mr.  Singer  so  successfully  confirmed  by  a 
passage  from  Du  Bartas,  —  AVG  much  doubt  whether  he 
Avill  find  a  single  Shakespearian  scholar  to  adopt  his 
suggestions.  Commentators  and  critics,  in  their  anxiety 
to  render  clear  and  distinct  the  writings  of  the  great 
Dramatist,  forget  Avhat  one  of  the  ablest  of  their  number 
has  said  upon  the  subject.  Mr.  Hallam  did  not  hesitate 
to  recognize  "  the  extreme  obscurity  of  Shakspeare's 
diction." 

While  on  the  subject  of  Shakspeare,  we  may  mention 
that  Mr.  Dyce  is,  Ave  believe,  rapidly  advancing  with  his 


new  edition;  and  that  Messrs.  Macmillan  announce  as 
in  preparation  a  critical  edition,  under  the  joint  editorship 
of  Mr.  Clark,  the  Public  Orator  of  Cambridge ;  Mr.  Glover, 
the  Librarian  of  Trinity;  and  of  Mr.  Luard,  the  newly- 
elected  Registrar  of  the  University. 

A  Descriptive  Catalogue  of  the  Works  of  the  Camden 
Society,  stating  the  Nature  of  their  Principal  Contents,  the 
Periods  of  Time  to  which  they  relate,  the  Dates  of  their 
Composition,  their  MS.  sources,  Authors,  and  Editors. 
Accompanied  by  a  Classified  Arrangement  and  an  Index, 
and  by  some  illustrative  Particulars  that  have  arisen  since 
their  Publication.  By  J.  Gough  Nichols,  F.S.A.  (J.  B. 
Nichols  &  Sons.) 

Mr.  Nichols'  ample  title-page  renders  it  unnecessary  to 
enter  at  any  length  into  the  nature  of  the  present  volume, 
which,  while  it  cannot  be  otherwise  than  useful  to  those 
who  possess  sets  of  the  Camden  Society's  Publications, 
is  Avell  calculated  to  supply,  in  a  measure,  their  place  to 
those  who  are  not  so  fortunate,  by  pointing  out  to  them 
the  vast  amount  of  historical  materials  which  the  Society 
has  given  to  the  press.  The  classified  List  at  the  end 
of  the  preface  will  be  found  in  this  respect  especially 
useful.  We  sincerely  hope  that  the  success  of  the  pre- 
sent volume  may  be  such  as  to  induce  Mr.  Nichols  to 
give  us,  as  he  proposes,  similar  catalogues  of  the  books 
issued  by  the  Roxburgh  and  Surtees  Societies. 


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UNITED  KINGDOM 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY, 

No.   8,  WATERLOO  PLACE,  PALL  MALL,  8.W. 

DlRKCTORS. 

The  Hon.  FRANCIS  SCOTT,  Chairman. 
CHARLES  BERWICK  CURTIS,  Esq.,  Deputy  Chairman. 


EDWARD  LENNOX  BOYD,  Esq. 

(Resident). 

WILLIAM  FAIRLIE,  Esq. 
D.  Q.  UENKIQUKS.Esq. 

.1.  <;.  HKNRF 

MARCUS  II 


t  ALUljlEi,   JLf 

KIQUES.Esq. 
tlQUES,  Egq. 
I.  JOHNSON,! 


A.  H.  MACDOUGALL,  ESQ. 
F.  C.  MAITLAND,  Esq. 
WILLIAM  RAILTON,  Esq. 
TIIOS.  T1IORBY, Esq.,  F.S.A. 
HENRY  TOOGOOD,  Esq. 


SUPERIOR  ACCOMMODATION  AFFORDED  BY  THIS 
COMPANY. 

This  Company  oflersthe  security  of  a  large  paid-up  capital,  held  in 
shares  by  a  numerous  and  wealthy  proprietary,  thus  protecting  the 
assured  from  the  risk  attending  mutual  offices. 

There  have  been  three  divisions  of  profits,  the  bonuses  averaging 
nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum  on  the  sums  assured  from  the  commence- 
ment of  the  Company. 

Sum  Assured.         Bonuses  added.  Payable  at  Death. 

£5,000  j61,987  108.  £6,987  10s. 

1,000  397  10s.  1,397  10s. 

100  39  13s.  139  15s. 

To  assure  <100  payable  at  death,  a  person  aged  21  pays  £2  2s.  id.  per 
annum;  but  as  the  profits  have  averaged  nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum, 
the  additions,  in  many  cases,  have  been  almost  as  much  as  the  pre- 
miums paid. 

Loans  granted  on  approved  real  or  personal  security. 

Invalid  Lives.  Parties  not  in  a  sound  state  of  health  maybe  insured 
at  equitable  rates. 

No  charge  for  Volunteer  Military  Corps  while  serving  in  the  United 
Kingdom. 

The  funds  or  property  of  the  company,  as  at  1st  January,  1861, 
amounted  to  £730,665  7s.  10cZ.,  invested  in  Government  and  other  ap- 
proved securities. 

Prospectuses  and  every  information  afforded  on  application  to 

E.  L.  BOYD,  Resident  Director. 


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ESTERN    LIFE    ASSURANCE 

ANNUITY  SOCIETY. 

*,  PARLIAMENT  STREET,  LONDON,  S.W. 
Founded  A.D.  1842. 


AND 


H.  E.  Bicknell,  Esq. 
T.  S.  Cocks,  Esq. 
G.  H.  Drew,  Esq.  M. A. 
W.  Freeman,  Esq. 
J.  H.  Goodhart,  Esq. 


E.Lucas,  Esq. 
F.B.  Marson.Esq. 
J.  L.  Seager,  Esq. 
J.  B.  White,  Esq. 


Physician.— W.  R.  Basham,  M.D. 

Bankers Messrs.  Biddulph.  Cocks,  *  Co. 

Actuary.— Arthur  Scratchley,  M.A. 

VALUABLE  PRIVILEGE. 

POLICIES  effected  in  this  Office  do  not  become  void  through  tem- 
porary difficulty  in  paying  a  Premium,  as  permission  is  given  upon 
application  to  suspend  the  payment  at  interest,  according  to  the  con- 
ditiona  detailed  in  the  Prospectus. 

LOANS  from  100Z.  to  500Z.  granted  on  real  or  first-rate  Personal 
Security. 

Attention  is  also  invited  to  the  rates  of  annuity  granted  to  old  lives, 
for  which  ample  security  is  provided  by  the  capital  of  the  Society. 
Example:  100Z.  cash  paid  down  purchases  —An  annuity  of — 
«  s.  d. 

9  15  10  to  a  male  life  aged  60\ 
11    7   4  „  65  (Payable  as  long 

1318   8  „  70  f    as  he  is  alive. 

18    0    6  „  76J 

Now  ready,  420  pages,  14s. 

MR.  SCRATCHLEY'S  MANUAL  TREATISE 

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Present  Condition,  and  of  Legislation  on  the  Subject;  together  with 
much  Legal,  Statistical,  and  Financial  Information,  for  the  use  of 
Trustees,  Managers,  and  Actuaries. 

London:  LONGMAN,  GREEN,  LONGMAN  &  ROBERTS. 

HOLLOWAY'S  OINTMENT  AND  PILLS.— 
RHEUMATISM  AND  PAINS  IN  THE  LIMBS.- Muscular 
pains  are  sometimes  insufferably  distressing;  though  they  may  not  im- 
pair the  general  health  at  first,  ultimately  such  must  be  tliuir  effect,  if 
permitted  to  continue  unrelieved.  It  should  be  generally  known  that, 
after  fomentation  with  warm  salt  and  water,  Holloway's  Ointment, 
well  rubbed  upon  the  affected  part  twice  a-doy,  gives  infinite  ease,  and 
secures  ultimate  recovery.  Ilolloway's  Pills  should  also  be  taken  to 
assist  in  the  cure;  they  prevent  all  weak  and  numb  feelings,  go  apt  to 
prevail  after  neuralgic  and  rheumatic  attacks.  A  lady  writes,—'1  After 
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taining no  relief  from  the  faculty.  I  tried  your  Ointment  and  Pills, 
and  rejoice  to  say  they  quickly  cured  me." 


EQUITABLE  ASSURANCE  OFFICE,  New 
Bridge  Street,  Blackfriars  :  established  1762. 

DIRECTORS. 

The  Right  Hon.  LORD  TREDEGAR,  President. 
Wm.  Samuel  Jones,  Esq.,  V.P. 
Wm.F.  Pollock,  Esq.,  V.P. 
Wm.  Dacres  Adams,  Esq. 
John  Charles  Burgoyne,  Esq. 
Lord  Geo.  Henry  Cavendish,  M.P. 
Frederick  Cowper,  Esq. 
Philip  Hardwick,  Esq. 


Richard  Gosling,  Csq. 
Peter  Hartlnean,  Esq. 
John  Alldin  Moore,  Esq. 
Charles  Pott,  Esq. 
Rev.  John  KusseU,D.D. 
James  Spicer,  Esq. 
John  Charles  Templer,  Esq. 


o'clock,  to  receive  proposals  for  new  assurances  ;  and 
the  Society  may  be  had  on  application,  personally  or 
office,  where  attendance  is  given  daily,  from  10  to  4  o'c 


The  Equitable  is  an  entirely  mutual  office.  The  reserve,  at  the  last 
"rest,"  in  December,  1859,  exceeded  three-fourths  of  a  million  sterling, 
a  sum  more  than  double  the  corresponding  fund  of  any  similar  iu- 
etitution. 

The  bonuses  paid  on  claims  in  the  10  years  ending  on  the  31st  De- 
cember, 1859,  exceeded  3,500,oOOZ.,  being  more  than  100  per  cent,  on  the 
amount  of  all  those  claims. 

The  amount  added  at  the  close  of  that  decade  to  the  policies  existing 
on  the  1st  January,  1860,  was  1,977,000?.,  and  made,  with  former  addi- 
tions then  outstanding,  a  total  of  4 ,070 ,000?.,  on  assurances  originally 
taken  out  for  6,252,0002.  only. 

These  additions  have  increased  the  claims  allowed  and  paid  under 
those  policies  since  the  1st  January,  1860,  to  the  extent  of  150  per  cent. 

The  capital,  on  the  31st  December  last,  consisted  of— 

2,730,000?.  —  stock  in  the  public  Funds. 

3,r06,297Z.  —  cash  lent  on  mortages  of  freehold  estates. 

300,000?.—  cash  advanced  on  railway  debentures. 

83,590?.  —  cash  advanced  on  security  of  the  policies  of  members  of  the 
Society. 

Producing  annually  221, 482Z. 

The  total  income  exceeds  400,0007.  per  annum. 

Policies  effected  in  the  year  1862  will  participate  in  the  distribution 
of  profits  made  in  December,  1869,  so  soon  as  six  annual  premiums 
shall  have  become  due  and  been  paid  thereon;  and,  in  the  division 
of  1869,  will  be  entitled  to  additions  in  respect  of  every  premium  paid 
upon  them  from  the  year  1862  to  1869,  each  inclusive. 

On  the  surrender  of  policies  the  full  value  is  paid,  without  any  deduc- 
tion; and  the  Directors  will  advance  nine-tenths  of  that  value  as  a 
temporary  accommodation,  on  the  deposit  of  a  policy. 

No  extra  premium  is  charged  for  service  in  any  Volunteer  Corps 
within  the  United  Kingdom,  during  peace  or  war. 

A  Weekly  Court  of  Directors  is  held  every  Wednesday,  from  11  to  1 

and  a  short  account  of 
ly  or  by  post,  from  the 
10  to  4  o'clock. 
ARTHUR  MORGAN,  Actuary. 

BROWN  AND  POLSON'S 

PATENT    CORN    FLOUR. 

In  Packets  2d.,  4d.,  and  8d.s  and  Tins,  1». 

Recipe  from  the  "  Cook's  Guide,"  by  C.  E.  Francatelli,  late  Chief 
Cook  to  her  Majesty  the  Queen  :  — 

INFANTS'  FOOD. 

To  one  dessertspoonful  of  Brown  and  Poison  mixed  with  a  wineglass- 
ful  of  cold  water,  add  half  a  pint  of  boiling  water  ;  stir  over  the  fire  for 
five  minutes  ;  sweeten  lightly,  and  feed  the  baby  ;  but  if  the  infant  is 
being  brought  up  by  hand,  this  food  should  then  be  mixed  with  milk,— 
not  otherwise,  as  the  use  of  two  different  milks  would  be  injurious. 

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CONTENTS.— NO.  II. 

NOTES  :  —  The  Registers  of  the  Stationers'  Company,  201  — 
The  Carylls  of  Ladyholt,  203  — Royal  Library,  204  — Ac- 
count-Book  of  Isabella,  Duchess  of  Grafton,  205  —  Iteius 
(Bridle),  206. 

MINOR  NOTES  :  —  The  Devil  turning  Fiddler  —  The  Union- 
Jack  —  Rev.  Robert  Harris  —  Leaden  Coin  of  William  and 
Mary  — A  Spanish  Rhodouaontade,  in  the  "  Encyclopaedia 
Britannica/8th  Edition  — Sir  Isaac  Wake  —  Rye,  Riot, 
and  kyot  —  Shoe :  a  Prison,  207. 

QUERIES :  —  Touching  f9r  the  King's  Evil :  Deeds  of  Pri- 
vilege :  Sitting  covered  in  the  Royal  Presence,  208  — Ame- 
rican Cents  —  Stephen  Astyn  —  Biographical  Queries  — 
Bristol  Cathedral  —  Clerical  Knights  —  Cloth  and  Woollen 
Trades  —  William  Dicconson  —  John  Eders  and  John 
Wilkes  — English  Epitaphs  at  Rome  —  Franklyn  —  Ger- 
man Drama—  Giles  Green,  M.P.,  arid  Captain  Plutikett  — 
Family  of  Caesar  Hawkins  —  Jones  the  Clockmaker  — 
Laughton  —  Love  Lane  Chapel,  Deptford  —  Oughtred, 
Win.,  the  Mathematician  — Paulson,  &c.,208. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS  :  —  Praise-God  Barebones  — 
Stow's  "Survey"  — Festrawe:  Alcumie  Stuffe  —  Hymns 
from  the  Parisian  Breviary  —  Squeers  and  Dotheboys  Hall 
— "  Not  worth  a  Rap,"  211. 

REPLIES:  —  Edmund  Burke,  212  —  Gorsuch,  213  —The 
Emperor  Napoleon  III.,  Ib  —  Trial  of  Spencer  Cowper,  214 

—  West  Street  Chapel  —  Defaced  and  Worn  Coins  —  Quo- 
tation :   "  Forgiveness,"  &c.  —  Smuggling  —  Sir  Archibald 
Alison's  "  Castlereagb  "  —  Pettigrew  Family  —  The    Ffol- 
liot  Family  —  Sutton  Family  —  Arms  of  Wilkes  —  Doubler 

—  Dacre  of  the  North  —  Ancient  Custom  in  Warwickshire 
on  All  Souls'  Eve—  "  The  Beginning  of  the  End  "  —  Satin 
Bank  Note  —  Tabards  worn  by  Ladies,  &c.,  215. 


THE  REGISTERS  OF  THE  STATIONERS' 

COMPANY. 
(Continued from  3rd  S.  i.  143.) 

iij°  January  (1591-2.)  —  John  Wolf.  Entered 
for  his  copye,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  The  poore 
man's  Staffe,  wrytten  by  R.  B vjd. 

[We  may  suspect  that  this  tract  was  by  Barnabe  Rich, 
who  about  this  date  seems  to  have  lived  mainly  by  his 
pen,  sometimes  reversing  his  initials  for  variety.  On  the 
other  hand,  an  R.  B.  has  ten  lines  prefixed  to  G.  Whet- 
stone's English  Mirror,  1586,  4to;  and  Richard  Barnfield 
was  a  notorious  poet  of  that  day  or  a  little  later.  In 
1591-2  he  must,  however,  have  been  a  very  young  ver- 
sify er.  The  Poor  Man's  Staff  was  probably  prose.] 

vto  Januarij. — Richard  Jones.  Entred  unto 
him,  &e.  A  pleasante  songe  of  the  valiant  actes  of 
Guy  of  Warwicke,  to  the  tune  of  Was  ever  man  soe 
tost  in  love  vjd. 

[  Here,  with  unusual  particularity  on  the  part  of  the 
clerk,  we  have  not  only  the  title  but  the  tune  of  the 
ballad;  and  we  may  be  confident  that  it  is  the  same,  or 
nearly  the  same,  as  that  printed  by  Bishop  Percy  in  his 
Reliques,  iii.  105,  edit.  1765,  beginning  — 
11  Was  ever  knight  for  ladies'  sake 

Soe  tost  in  love,  as  I,  Sir  Guy,"  &c. 

The  title  of  an  original  copy  now  before  us  is  A  Pleasant 
Song  of  the  valiaunt  Actes  atchieved  by  that  noble  Knight 
Sir  Guy  of  Warwicke,  who  for  the  love  of  f  lire  Plidis  be- 
came a  Hermit,  &c.  Percy  had  the  use  of  it  in  the  Pepy- 
sian  Collection,  and  he  followed  the  old  wording  pretty 
exactly.  The  story  originated  very  early  in  France.] 


13  Januarij.  —  Jo.  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copy, 
&c.  The  Discovery e  of  x  Englishe  Lepers,  &fc. 

[This  was  most  likely  a  satirical  production  on  ten  pre- 
vailing vices.] 

14  Januarij.  —  John  Charlewood.    Entred  for 
his  copy,  &c.  A  merrie  newe  Jigge  betwene  Jenkin 
the  Collier  and  Nansie vjd. 

[Another  lost  semi-dramatic  performance,  a  humorous 
dialogue  between  two  characters,  which  has  not  come 
down  to  our  day,  in  consequence,  doubtless,  of  its  de- 
struction by  the  thumbs  and  fingers  of  dirty  and  careless 
purchasers.] 

xv°  die  Januarij.  —  Thomas  Gosson.  Entred 
unto  him,  &c.  a  little  booke  intitled  A  shorte  and 
profitable  treatise  of  lawfull  and  unlawfull  recrea- 
tions   vjd. 

[Thomas  Gosson,  the  Stationer,  was  in  all  probability 
brother  to  Stephen  Gosson,  the  early  enemy  of  theatrical 
amusements,  who  began  life  not  only  as  a  dramatic  au- 
thor, but  as  an  actor,  and  who  relinquished  that  profes- 
sion for  divinity  before  he  published  his  School  of  Abuse 
in  1579.  The  above  entry,  we  may  take  it  for  granted, 
records  some  small  tract  by  Stephen  Gosson  on  his  old 
and  favourite  theme,  the  pursuit  of  which  secured  him  so 
much  favour  as  before  1598  to  have  procured  him  the 
living  of  Great  Wigborough  in  Essex,  and  subsequently 
the  important  preferment  of  the  Rectory  of  St.  Botolph, 
Bishop«gate,  in  possession  of  which  he  died.  In  1595  he 
printed  a  poem  very  abusive  to  the  fair  sex,  but  it  was 
published  by  Richard  Jones.] 

xvijmo  die  Januarij.  —  Roberte  Dexter.  Entred 
unto  him,  £c.  A  booke  called  The  Arte  of  Areth- 
•metike,  written  in  Latin  by  Peter  Rarnus,  and  trans- 
lated into  english  by  William  Kempe  .  .  .  vjd. 

[There  cannot  be  much  dispute  that  there  were  two 
William  Kempes  about  this  date ;  first  the  famous  come- 
dian ;  and,  secondly,  the  man  who,  in  1587,  had  written 
and  printed  A  dutiful  Invective  against  Babbington,  Bal- 
lard,  and  their  accomplices.  The  above  registration  may 
refer  to  the  last,  but  could  hardly  relate  to  the  first,  whose 
Jigs  we  shall  see  entered  hereafter.] 

18  Jan.  —  Henry  Kyrkham.  Entered  for  his 
copie,  &c.  A  newe  ballad  of  John  wooinge  of  Jone, 
frc vj*. 

Henry  Kyrkham.  Entered  for  his  copie,  &c.  a 
Ballad  intituled  The  Crowe  shee  sittes  uppon  the 
wall :  Please  one  and  please  all,  Sfc.  .  .  .  vjd. 

[This  is  an  important  memorandum  in  illustration  of  a 
hitherto  unillustrated  passage  in  Shakespeare's  Twelfth 
Night,  Act  III.  Sc.  4,  where  Malvolio  tells  Olivia,  "  If  it 
please  the  eye  of  one,  it  is  with  me  as  the  very  true  son- 
net is,  Please  one  and  please  all."  The  commentators 
had  no  other  memorial  of  this  "  very  true  sonnet  ";  but 
here,  in  the  Stationers'  Registers,  we  see  entered  the 
identical  ballad  alluded  to  by  our  great  dramatist,  viz. — 

"The  crow  she  sits  upon  the  wall: 
Please  one  and  please  all." 

The  entry  is  dated  18  Jan.  1592;  but  the  comedy  of 
Tivelfth  Night  was  not  acted  until  the  spring  of  1602,  and 
in  the  mean  time  it  is  probable  that,  from  its  popularity, 
the  ballad  containing  the  burden  "  Please  one  and  please 
all  "  had  been  several  times  reprinted.  Of  course  I  had 


202, 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3*a  S.  I.  MAR.  15,  '62. 


no  knowledge  of  this  memorandum  when  I  printed  the 
second  edition  of  Shakespeare  in  1858.] 

Ult°  January.  —  Wra.  Wright.  Entred  for  his 
copie  a  booke,  entituled  Kfiggefor  the  Spanyard. 

vjd. 

4to  February. —  Simon  Waterson.  Entered  for 
his  copie,  &c.  a  booke  called  Delia,  conteyninge 
divers  sonnets,  with  the  Complainte  of  Rosamon. 

vjd. 

[We  have  two  impressions  of  Delia  by  Samuel  Daniel, 
dated  in  1592 :  the  first  of  these  is  so  great  a  rarity,  that 
we  believe  no  other  perfect  copy  is  known  of  it,  and  we 
will,  therefore,  describe  it  with  some.'particularity.  The 
title  is  this :  —  "  Delia.  Contayning  certayne  Sonnets : 
with  the  complaint  of  Rosamond.  —  ^Etas  prima  canat 
veneres,  postrema  tumultus.  At  London,  Printed,  by  I-  C.  for 
Simon  Waterson,  dwelling  in  Paules  Church-yard  at  the 
sign  of  the  Crowne.  159?,"  4to.  At  the  back  of  the  title- 
page  are  the  errata,  then  a  dedication  to  the  Lady  Mary, 
Countesse  of  Pembroke,  followed  by  fifty  sonnets,  "An 
Ode,"  and  finally  "  The  Complaint  of  Rosamond."  The  title- 
page  has  an  arabesque  border,  whereas  the  title-page  of 
the  second  impression,  in  the  same  year,  bears  an  archi- 
tectural facade,  and  comprises  fifty-Your  sonnets  besides 
the  "Ode"  and  the  "Complaint."  Some  copies  of  both 
impressions  of  1592  read,  in  the  very  last  stanza  of  the 
"  Complaint,"  "  So  vanquisht  she,"  instead  of  "  So  vanisht 
she,"  which  last  must  be  right ;  and  the  emendation  was 
introduced  into  some  copies  of  the  second  impression  of 
1592,  as  well  as  into  the  edition  of  1595,  12mo.  A  few  of 
Daniel's  poems  had  been  surreptitiously  printed  by  T. 
Nash  in  1591,  and  the  former  remonstrated  against  it 
in  1592.  Daniel's  reputation  as  a  poet  was  at  once  esta- 
blished.] 

7  Febr.  —  Tho.  Scarlet.  Entered  for  his  Copio, 
&c.  a  booke  intituled  the  Thirdc  and  lasie  parte  of 
Connye  Catchinge,  with  the  newe  devysed  hnavyshe 
Arte  offoole  tahinge vja. 

[See  our  last,  p.  142,  where  we  sufficiently  notice  this 
sequel  to  the  two  preceding  parts  on  the  same  subject.] 

xij  Febr. — Nichas  Lynge,  John  Busby e.  En- 
tred for  their  copie,  &c.  Euphues  Shadowe,  with  the 
deaths  mans  Dialogue  annexed vjd. 

[This  tract  was  by  Thomas  Lodge,  but  as  he  had  ac- 
companied Candish  on  his  voyage,  it  was  published  by 
Robert  Greene  in  his  absence,  with  a  dedication  to  Vis- 
count Fitz\vaters,  stating  the  fact.  It  was  printed  in 
1592  by  Abel  Jeffes  for  John  Busbie,  but  nothing  is  said 
about  Ling.  It  may  be  doubted*  whether  the  piece  were 
not  really  by  Greene.  For  the  cleathe  mail's  Dialogue 
in  the  registration,  wo  must  read  "deafe  man's  Dialogue." 
We  never  saw  nor  heard  of  more  than  two  copies  of  this 
rare  tract.] 

3  Aprilis.  —  John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  A  prophccie  for  eight  yeres  to  come  .  .  vjd. 

Edw.  White.  Entred  for  liis  copie,  &c.  The 
tragedie  of  Arden  of  Feversham  and  Uach  will. 

vj*. 

[Black  Will,  and  a  person  called  Shagbag,  committed 
the  murder ;  and  on  the  title-page  of  all  the  three  old  edi- 
tions of  the  play,  the  bloody  scene  is  represented  where 
Mosbie  (the  paramour  of  Mrs.  Arden)  is  playing  at 
tables  with  the  husband.  The  tragedy  was  first  printed 
in  1592,  again  in  1599,  and  a  third  time  in  1633.  There 
is  no  pretence  for  attributing  any  part  of  it  to  Shakspeare, 


as  was  done  by  Jacob  in  1770.  The  name  of  Arden  is 
the  only  connection  between  Shakespeare  and  the  per- 
formance, and  from  thence  probably  Jacob  derived  his 
notion.] 

vjto  Aprilis.  —  John  Wolf.  Entred  unto  him 
for  his  copie,  &c.  Gargantua  his  prophesie  .  vjd. 

[Some  ridiculous  prognostication  from  Rabelais.] 

vij  Aprilis.  —  John  Kydde.  Entred  unto  him, 
&c.  a  booke  intituled  A  most  wretched  worhe  of  a 
Witche,  the  like  whereof  none  can  recorde  iheis 
many  yeres  in  Englande vjd. 

[Stow  gives  us  no  information  regarding  any  of  these 
recent  transactions,  which  we  should  have  thought  would 
be  sure  to  attract  his  curious  attention.] 

x°  Aprilis. — John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copies, 
the  Second,  Third,  Fourth,  and  fyft  bookes  of 
Amadis  de  Gaule,  to  be  translated  out  of  French 
into  Englishe,  SfC ij*. 

[Each  book  was  here  charged  as  a  separate  work ;  but 
we  have  yet  seen  nothing  of  any  entry  of  theirs*  book  of 
Amadis  de  Gaulc.  It  must  have  been  in  French,  when 
brought  to  Stationers'  Hall  by  Wolf,  in  order  to  secure 
his  copyright  as  soon  as  it  should  have  been  translated. 
It  was  upon  this  work  that  Anthony  Monday  was  af- 
terwards engaged,  and  very  possibly  he  was  at  this  date 
employed  by  Wolf,  although  the  four  books  did  not  come 
out  until  1619  in  folio.  The  Treasure  of  Amadis  of 
France  had  already  been  printed  by  Bynneman.] 

John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  A  newe 
ballad  describing  the  weapons  we  ought  to  have  to 
fight  with  Sathan  before  wee  goo  to  our  grave  vjd. 

xviij0  Aprilis.  —  John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  a  ballad,  &c.  intituled  The  firste  parte  of 
Roidandes  godson  moralised vjlt. 

[The  word|  "moralised  "  was  used  of  old  whenever  a 
profane  publication  was  parodied  and  applied  to  a  pious 
purpose.  Here  some  ballad  called  Rowlandes  Godson  had 
been  printed,  and  being  extremely  popular,  a  religious 
use  of  it  had  been  made.  We  see,  by  the  next  entry  but 
one,  that  a  second  part  of  Roivlandes]  Godson  moralised 
was  in  readiness.] 

xxj°  Aprilis.  —  Tho.  Gubbin,  John  Busbye. 
Entred  for  their  copie,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  The 
defence  of  Conye  Catchinge,  or  a  confutation  of 
those  injurious  pamphletes  published  by  11.  G. 
agaimte  the  practitioners  of  many  nymble  wyttcd 
and  misticall  Sciences vjd. 

[R.  G.  was,  of  course,  Robert  Greene,  who,  as  we  have 
seen,  had  published  at  least  four  tracts  to  expose  the 
frauds  by  which  a  certain  class  of  persons  obtained  a 
living.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Dyce  (who  at  the  end  of  his  "  Ac- 
count of  Greene"  gives  "  the  names  of  false  Dyce,"  omit- 
ting one)  was  not  aware  of  this  memorandum,  showing 
that  Greene  had  been  answered.  From  the  terms  of  the 
entry  we  presume  that  this  Defence  of  Com/catching  was 
ironical  and  humorous.] 

29  Aprilis.  • —  John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  a  ballad  intituled  The  seconde  parte  of  Row- 
landes god  sonne  moralised,  fyc.  .  .  .  .  .  vjd. 

Cutberd  Burbee.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c. 
Axiochus  and  Plato,  Sfc. 

[In  a  note  to  the  Life  of  Spenser,  prefixed  to  his 


'd  S.  I.  MAK.  15,  '65. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


203 


Works,  5  vols.  8vo.  1862,  it  is  said  that  the  poet  trans- 
lated "  the  Greek  Dialogue  called  Axiochus  on  the  brevity 
and  uncertainty  of  human  life."  If  so,  it  is  just  possible 
that  the  preceding  registration  may  have  had  reference 
to  it.  See  p.  cxlviii.] 

J.  PAYNE  COLLIER. 


THE  CARYLLS  OF  LADYHOLT. 

The  history  of  the  Caryll  family  (3ra  S.  i.  185) 
given  at  the  Archaeological  Institute,  according  to 
the  reports  in  the  papers,  is  altogether  wrong.  One 
says  that  "the  family  had  sided  with  the  king  in 
the  rebellion,  and  had  followed  Charles  II.  into 
exile  ;  who  created  the  last  of  the  race  Baron  Caryll 
of  Harting;  "  while  another  reports  that  "  the  fa- 
mily suffered  for  their  loyalty  in  the  rebellion, 
their  property  was  confiscated,  and  one  of  the  last  of 
the  race  accompanied  James  II.  to  St.  Germains, 
and  was  created  by  him  Baron  Caryll  of  Harting." 

The  pedigree  of  the  Carylls  is  given  in  Dalla- 
way's  Sussex,  and  another  is  among  the  Burrell 
MSS.  in  the  British  Museum  ;  and,  though  neither 
is  quite  correct,  a  reference  to  either  would  have 
shown  some  of  the  blunders  in  the  above  state- 
ments. 

The  Sussex  Carylls  were  Catholics  and  Royalists, 
and  of  course  suffered  in  the  rebellion ;  but  I  have 
no  reason  to  believe  that  they  followed  Charles 
II.  into  exile.  It  is  presumptive  proof  that  they 
did  not  that  they  were  allowed  to  compound  for 
their  estates,  which  is  in  itself  proof  that  the 
estates  were  not  confiscated.  At  that  time  the 
estate  was  in  possession  of  John  Caryll,  who  was, 
I  believe,  the  first  of  those  who,  in  the  report,  are 
called  "  the  Lords  of  Ladyholt "  —  that  is,  the 
first  who  built  the  house  there ;  which  house  and 
grounds  were  let  in  1679,  and  described  in  the 
lease  as  "  that  newly  inclosed  and  impaled  park, 
lately  part  of  Holt  Farm,"  and  that  "  new-erected 
mansion-house  of  the  said  John  Caryll,  being  in 
the  said  Park."  Before  that  time  the  senior 
branch  of  the  family  resided  generally  at  West 
Grinsted,  and  one  of  the  juniors  in  the  old 
mansion-house  at  Harting,  the  parish  in  which 
Ladyholt  is  situated.  This  John  Caryll  married 
a  daughter  of  William  Lord  Petre,  by  whom  he 
had  a  large  family.  We,  however,  are  only  con- 
cerned with  the  sons,  John  and  Richard,  who 
successively  inherited  Ladyholt.  John  married 
Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  Maurice  Dromond, 
and  at  his  father's  death  in  1681,  succeeded  to  the 
Ladyholt  and  Harting  property.  He  died  s.  p. 
Richard  married  Johanna,  daughter  of  Sir  H. 
Bedingfield,  and  succeeded  to  the  West  Grinsted 
estates.  Richard  appears  to  have  been  a  quiet 
country  gentleman ;  but  John  was  active  and 
stirring ;  lived  a  good  deal  in  London,  dabbled  in 
literature  and  in  politics,  and,  as  a  Catholic,  fared 
but  little  better  after  the  Restoration  than  he  had 
done  during  the  Rebellion.  When  Titus  Gates 


was  in  the  ascendant,  he  had  a  narrow  escape; 
was  committed  to  the  Tower  with  other  Catholic 
gentlemen,  some  of  whom  were  hanged.  On  the 
22nd  May,  1680,  he  was  brought  by  habeas  corpus 
to  the  King's  Bench,  and  there  being  but  a  single 
witness  against  him,  he  was  admitted  to  bail. 
On  the  accession  of  James,  a  far  more  honest  man 
than  his  brother,  this  John  came  at  once  into 
favour.  He  was  within  a  few  days  of  James's 
accession  despatched  on  a  mission  to  the  Pope,  and 
when  superseded  by  Castlemaine,  he  was  appointed 
Secretary  and  Master  of  Requests  to  the  Queen. 
The  warrant  is  signed  Godolphin,  and  bears  date 
the  27th  Nov.  1685. 

When  James  fled  the  country,  John  Caryll  im- 
mediately joined  him  at  St.  Germains  ;  and  when, 
to  please  the  more  liberal  party,  Melfort  was 
dismissed,  CarylL  was  appointed  Secretary  of 
State.  It  was  as  secretary  that  he  signed  the 
Commission  and  advanced  the  money  for  what  has 
been  called  The  Assassination  Plot,  though  few 
persons  now  believe  that  either  James  or  Caryll, 
or  even  Barclay,  ever  dreamed  of  assassination. 
The  plot,  however,  whatever  the  immediate  ob- 
jects may  have  been,  proved  that  the  Jacobites 
were  active  and  stirring,  and  forthwith,  in  1696, 
Caryll  was  outlawed,  and  his  estates  granted  to 
Lord  Cutts.  As,  however,  the  greater  part  of  the 
estate  was  entailed,  Lord  Cutts  took  only  a  life 
interest  in  it,  and  this  life  interest  John's  brother 
Richard  purchased  of  Lord  Cutts.  It  was  at  this, 
or  about  this  time,  that  the  secretary  was  created 
a  baron,  and  the  mural  tablet,  still  remaining  in 
the  chapel  of  the  Scotch  college  at  Paris,  describes 
him  as  "  John  Caryll,  Baron  de  Dunford  [Qy. 
Durnford]  de  Harting,"  and  it  records  that  he 
died  at  "  St.  Germains  in  Laya  9  Sept.  171 L" 
It  was  on  this  John  "  Lord  Caryll "  that  Pope 
wrote  the  epitaph  published  in  The  Athenaeum 
(1854),  and  which  Pope  afterwards  appropriated 
in  part  to  Trumbull. 

But  this,  the  first  lord,  was  neither  "  the  last  of 
the  race"  nor  "  one  of  the  last "  of  the  "  Lords  of 
Ladyholt  "  ;  for,  as  I  have  shown,  his  life  interest 
in  Ladyholt  was  purchased  by  his  brother  Richard, 
who  was  succeeded  by  his  son  John,  Pope's  friend, 
who  died  in  1736.  This  John,  as  eldest  son,  suc- 
ceeded both  to  the  Grinsted  and  Harting  pro- 
perties. The  son  of  this  John,  also  well  known  to 
Pope,  married  Mary,  daughter  of  Kenneth,  fourth 
Earl  of  Seaforth,  died  in  1718,  and  the  estate,  in 
1736,  devolved  on  his  son,  •who  married  Dorothy, 
daughter  of  Viscount  Molyneux,  but  had  no  family. 
This,  the  last  of  the  Carylls  of  Ladyholt,  finding  the 
estate  involved — as  most  Catholic  estates  were, 
and  of  necessity  —  cut  off  the  entail  before  his 
marriage,  but  re-settled  it,  subject  to  heavy 
incumbrances ;  so  that,  in  32  of  George  II.,  an 
act  was  obtained  for  sale,  and  the  estates  were 
sold  piecemeal,  until,  in  1767,  Ladyholt  itself  was 


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NOTES  AND  QUEBIES. 


.  I.  MAR.  15,  '62, 


parted  with  to  the  Duke  of  Richmond,  who  ap- 
pears to  have  purchased  for  Sir  Matthew  Feather- 
stone. 

On  the  sale  of  the  last  acre  of  his  estate  this, 
"  the  last  of  the  Lords  of  Ladyholt,"  retired  to 
the  Continent,  assumed  the  title  of  Lord  Caryll, 
and  openly  involved  himself  in  the  then  desperate 
fortune  of  the  Chevalier,  Charles  Edward,  with 
whom  he  is  said  to  have  become  a  great  favourite. 
The  Jacobites  of  that  time  speak  of  him  as  "  a  gen- 
teel well-bred  man,"  who  "  has  not  even  dog's 
wages  for  his  trouble,  but  does  all  for  stark  love 
and  kindness."  (Life  ofLumisden,  ii.  149.) 

Some  of  these  facts  were  set  forth  long  since  in 
The  Athenceum  in  correction  of  the  blunderings  of 
the  Pope  editors ;  but  error  is,  I  believe,  immor- 
tal —  once  started  there  is  no  killing  it  —  and  we 
have  since  had  these  same  errors  reproduced  with 
others  superadded,  and  now  they  come  before  us 
on  the  authority  of  the  Institute.  D. 


ROYAL  LIBRARY. 

In  one  of  the  large  volumes  of  single  sheets 
and  broad-sides  in  the  British  Museum  Library 
is  a  volume  lettered  Tracts  relating  to  Trade, 
article  31  of  which  is  worth  preserving  as  pro- 
bably unique.  "  A  Proposal  for  building  a  Royal 
Library,  and  establishing  it  by  Act  of  Parlia- 
ment." It  begins :  — 

"  The  Royal  Library  now  at  S*  James's,  designed  and 
founded  for  publick  use,  was  in  the  time  of  King  James  I. 
in  a  flourishing  condition,  well  stored  with  all  sorts  of 
good  Books  of  that  and  the  preceding  Age,  from  the 
beginning  of  Printing. 

"  But  in  the  succeeding  Reigns  it  has  gradually  gone 
to  decay,  to  the  great  dishonour  of  the  Crown  and  the   j 
Avhole  nation.     The  Room  is  miserably  out  of  repair,  and   i 
so  little  that  it  will  not  contain  the  Books  that  belong   i 
to  it.     A  Collection  of  ancient  Medals,  once  the  best  in 
Europe,  is  embezzled  and  quite  lost!    There  has  been  no   ! 
supply  of  Books  from  abroad  for  the  space  of  sixty  years  ! 
last:    nor   any   allowance   for   binding;    so    that    many 
valuable  manuscripts  are  spoiled  for  want  of  Covers:  and   | 
above  a  Thousand  Books  printed  in  England  and  brought  ; 
in  Quires  to  the  Library,  as  due  by  the  Act  of  Printing,  I 
are  all  unbound  and  useless. 

"  It  is  therefore  humbly  proposed,  as  a  thing  that  will  ! 
highly  conduce  to  the  Publick  Good,  the  glory  of  His  • 
Majesty's  Reign,  and  the  honour  of  Parliament; 

"  I.  That  His  Majesty  be  graciously  pleased  to  assign 
a  Corner  of  Sl.  James's  Park,  on  the  South  side,  near  the 
Garden  of  the  late  Sir  John  Cutler,  for  the  building  of  a  i 
new  Library,  and  in  the  neighbourhood  of  it  a  competent  ' 
Dwelling  for  the  Library-keeper. 

"II.  This  situation  will -have  all  the  advantages  that 
can  be  wished.  'Tis  an  elevated  soil,  and  a  dry  sandy 
ground;  the  Air  clear,  and  the  Light  free;  the  Building 
not  contiguous  to  any  Houses,  will  be  safer  from  Fire ;  a 
Coach-way  will  be  made  to  it  out  of  Tuttle-street,  West- 
minster; the  Front  of  it  will  be  parallel  to  the  Park 
Walk;  and  the  Park  will  receive  no  injury,  but  a  great 
Ornament  by  it. 

"  III.  That  the  said  Library  be  built,  and  a  perpetual 
yearly  Revenue  for  the  Purchase  of  Books  settled  on  it 
by  Act  of  Parliament :  which  Revenue  may  be  under  the 


Direction  and  Disposal  of  Curators,  who  are  from  time  to 
time  to  make  report  to  His  Majesty  of  the  State  and 
Condition  of  the  Library.  The  Curator  to  be  .... 


"  IV.  The  choice  of  a  proper  Fund,  whence  the  said 
Revenue  may  be  raised,  is  left  to  the  Wisdom  of  the  Par- 
liament. In  the  mean  time,  This  following  is  humbly 
offer'd  to  Consideration. 

"  V.  That,  as  soon  as  the  present  Tax  of  40  per  Cent, 
upon  Foreign  Paper,  and  20  per  Cent,  upon  English,  shall 
expire  or  be  taken  off,  there  be  laid  a  very  small  Tax  of 
.  .  .  per  Cent,  (as  it  shall  be  judged  sufficient  for  the 
uses  of  such  a  Library)  upon  imported  Paper  only,  leaving 
our  own  Manufacture  free.  Which  Tax  may  be  collected 
by  his  Majesty's  Officers  of  the  Customs,  and  paid  to  such 
person  or  persons  as  shall  be  appointed  by  the  Curators. 

"  VI.  This  being  so  easie  a  Tax,  and  a  Burthen  scarce 
to  be  felt,  can  create  no  Damp  upon  the  Stationer's 
Trade.  And  whatsoever  shall  be  paid  by  them  upon  this 
foot,  being  to  be  laid  out  in  the  purchase  of  Books,  will 
return  among  them  again.  So  that  'tis  but  giving  with 
one  hand,  what  they  will  receive  with  the  other. 

"VII.  And  whereas  our  Own  white-paper  Manufac- 
ture, that  was  growing  up  so  hopefully,  and  deserves  the 
greatest  encouragement,  being  all  clear  gain  to  the 
Kingdom,  is  now  almost  quite  sunk  under  the  weight  of 
the  present  Tax ;  this  new  one  upon  Imported  paper, 
with  an  Exemption  of  our  Own,  will  set  ours  upon  the 
higher  Ground,  and  give  it  a  new  Life.  For  whatsoever 
is  taken  from  the  one  is  as  good  as  given  to  the  other. 
So  that  even  without  regard  to  this  design  of  a  Library, 
the  Tax  will  be  a  publick  Benefit. 

"  VIII.  A  Library  erected  upon  this  certain  and  per- 
petual Fund  may  be  so  contriv'd  for  capaciousness  and 
Convenience,  that  every  one  that  comes  there  may  have 
^00,000  volumes,  ready  for  his  use  and  service.  And 
Societies  may  be  formed,  that  shall  meet,  and  have  Con- 
ferences there  about  matters  of  Learning.  The  Royal 
Society  is  a  noble  Instance  in  one  Branch  of  knowledge: 
what  Advantage  and  Glory  may  accrue  to  the  Nation  by 
such  Assemblies  not  confined  to  one  subject,  but  free  to 
all  parts  of  good  learning. 

"  IX.  The  Wall  that  shall'encompass  the  Library  may 
be  cased  with  Marbles  of  ancient  Inscriptions,  Basso- 
Relievos,  &c.,  either  found  in  our  own  kingdom,  or  easily 
and  cheaply  to  be  had  from  the  African  Coast,  and  Greece, 
and  Asia  the  less.  Those  few  Antiquities  procured  from 
the  Greek  Islands  by  the  Lord  Arundel,  and  since  pub- 
lished both  at  home  and  abroad,  are  an  evidence  what 
great  advancement  of  learning  and  honour  to  the  Nation 
may  be  acquired  by  this  means. 

"X.  Upon  this  'Parliamentary  Fund,  the  Curators,  if 
occasion  be,  may  take  up  Money  at  Interest,  so  as  to  lay 
out  two  or  three  years'  revenue  to  buy  whole  Libraries  at 
once :  as  at  this  very  time,  the  incomparable  Collections 
of  Thuanus  in  France,  and  Marquardas  Gudius  in  Ger- 
many, might  be  purchased  at  a  very  low  Value. 

"XI.  And  since  the  Writings  of  the  English  Nation 
have  at  present  that  great  Reputation  abroad,  that  many 
persons  of  all  Countries  learn  our  Language,  and  several 
travel  hither  for  the  advantage  of  Conversation :  'Tis 
easy  to  fore-see,  How  much  this  Glorv  will  be  advanced, 
by  erecting  a  free  Library  of  all  sorts  of  Books,  where 
everv  Foreigner  will  have  such  Convenience  of  studying. 

"  XII.  Tis  our  Publick  Interest  and  profit,^  to  have  the 
Gentry  of  Foreign  Nations  acquainted  with  England,  and 
have  part  of  their  education  here.  And  more  money  will 
be  annually  imported  and  spent  here  by  such  students 
from  abroad,  than  the  whole  Charge  and  Revenue  of  this 
Library  will  amount  to." 

The  date  of  this  paper  is  clearly  of  the  time  of 


3'd  S.  I.  MAR.  15,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


205 


King  George  II.,  a  little  previous  to  the  founda- 
tion of  the  British  Museum,  when  the  antient 
Royal  Library  of  England  and  the  Cottonian 
MSS.  were  added  to  Sir  Hans  Sloane's  Library 
and  Museum  of  Natural  History  which  Parlia- 
ment had  purchased.  H.  E. 


ACCOUNT- BOOK  OF  ISABELLA,  DUCHESS  OF 

GRAFTON. 
.(Continued from  2nd  S.  xii.  431.) 

1711.  (January  to  December.)  £    s.  d. 
„     For  a  black  lace  hood         -        -               3    0    0 
„      For  an  embroidered  apron  -        -        -      2100 
„      The  capper        -        -        -        -        -110 
.,      Dr.  Friend  (each  time)      -        -        -      2    3    0 
„      Fade  for  four  peaces  of  Turky  taby  [in 

Her  Grace's  hand]  -  -"-500 
„  To  a  French  woman  at  the  Montpelier 

[a  singer?]  -  -  -  -  -  2  5  0 
„  To  cutting  my  hair  -  -  1  1  6 

1712.  Black  silk  stockins  and  gloves    -.       -      0  18    0 
„      A  pair  of  cloggs         -        -         -        -      0     8    0 

„      Ermine 6  19     9 

„      Pair  of  sizzars  -        -        -         -        -026 
„      Paid  the  chairmen     -        -        -        -     16  14    0 
„      Given  to  the  mobb     -  0     2     6 

[At  Sir  Thomas  Hanmer's  election.] 
„     A  pair  of  jumps  (loose  stays)      -        -      0  15    0 

„      Orange  butter 060 

[This  is  a  very  frequent  item  in  Her  Grace's  account- 
book.  How  it  was  made  I  know  not,  but  the  following 
recipe  for  "botyr  of  almondes,"  from  the  curious  MS. 
cookery-book  in  the  Arundel  Collection,  printed  in  the 
Ordinances  of  the  Royal  Household,  may  throw  some  light 
upon  the  question :  ."  Take  almonde  myllce,  and  let  hit 
boyle,  and  in  the  boylinge  cast  therto  a  lytel  wyn  or 
V}'negur;  and  when  hit  is  sothen,  take  and  cast  hit  on  a 
canvas  abrode,  tyl  hit  be  colde,  then  take  and  gedur  hit 
togedur,  and  honge  hit  up  in  a  clothe  a  lytel  while,  then 
lay  hit  in  colde  watur,  and  serve  hit  fertile." —  P.  447.] 

„      4 \  yards  of  muslin     -        -        -  2  11     0 

„     An  orange  and  a  lemon      -        -  0     1     0 

[Pepys  gave  sixpence  a-piece  for  oranges.] 

„     Dr.  Mead 230 

To  the  haircutter       -        -        -        -  0  10     9 

Two  saddle-horses' to  Windsor   -  0  12    0 

For  cutting  Misses  hair      -        -  0  10     9 

Four  horses  to  Richmond  -         -  1     5     0 

Mrs.  Susan  and  Mrs.  Betty  for  the  play  040 

Ferrying  the  coach  over  to  Richmond  050 
To  the  waterman  who  carryed  your 

Grace 030 

„     To  the  Frenchman  for  dressing  your 

Grace 116 

„      A  chair  for  her  -        -        -        -        -010 

„      A  hackney-  coach  for  your  Grace         -  010 

1713.  (January  to  May.} 

„  Poor  people       -        -        •         -        -      0    0    8 

„  Point  lace         -        -        -        -        -.    60    0    0 

„  A  gentleman  of  my  Lord  Bolingbrook's      230 

„  Afann 2100 

„  A  gauze  hood    -        -        -        -        -0100 

„  To  the  Duke  of  Grafton's  cook   -        -      2    3    0 

„  To  the  mobb 050 

„  Lost  to  Sir  Thomas  Hanmer  at  cards  -      7  10    6 
[Sir  Thomas  allowed  his  wife  700Z.  per  annum  for  her 


personal  expenses,  of  which  he  generally  regained  about 

half  at  play.]  £   s.     d. 

1714.  Two  quarts  usquebaugh     -        -  0  14    0 
[Alias  whiskey — a  shocking  entry  in  a  lady's  a-.-count- 
book!] 

„      A  scarfe 3  10    0 

„      To  the  mobbe 050 

,,  For  putting  an  advertisement  into  the 
Courant  about  Her  Grace's  watch- 
case  036 

„      Brandy 010 

„      To  Betty  for  finding  the  ear-ring        -  110 

„      Brandy 010 

„      i Ib.  tea 050 

„      Three  bottles  of  Epsom  water     -  0     1    6 

„      To  a  poor  body 006 

„      Bills  of  mortality       -  -     -      .  ?:     —  0  10    9 

„      Three  dozen  gloves    -        -  3    4    6 

„      Lutestring  for  a  pettycoat  -        -      *  -  4  10    0 

„      Chair  hire 076 

„      Ten  flasks  of  Spa  water      -        -  0  11    8 
„      For  a  pair  of  blak  silk  stoking  [Her 

Grace's  autograph]        -        -  0  13    0 

„      One  Ib.  Bohea  tea      -        -        -  1     0     0 

„      i  Ib.  Brazil  snuff        -        -        -         -  0     8    0 

„      A  muff 346 

„      Given  to  the  anatomies      -        -        -  0    5    0 

[What  were  "the  anatomies"?] 

„      Making  two  petticoats        -         -        -  0    4    0 

„      Mr.  Nelson's  Works  -         -         -        -  0  12    0 

„      Dr.  Atterbury's  Sermons    -        -        -  0    6    0 

„      Shoes 0  14    0 

„      A  horse  lantern          -        -        -        -0150 

„      To  Dr.  Crack 230 

„      To  Dr.  Short 576 

„      Six  Ibs.  chocolate      -         -        -        -  1  13    0 

„      A  hoop  pettycoat       -        -        -        -  1     1     6 

„      Patches 030 

„      To  Master  Bunbury  to  buy  a  Virgil  0    6    6 

„      lib.  tea    -        -        -       "-        -        -  1    4    0 

„      1  Ib.  coffee         -         -        -        -        -  0     6     0 

„      Three  speeches  against  the  Army  Bill  010 
„      A  bottle  of  Burgundy  for  Lady  Ogle- 

thorpe 050 

„      A  dozen  combs  -        -        -        -        -0180 

„      A  pair  of  shammy  (chamois)  shoes     -  0  11     0 

„      To  the  corn- cutter     -         -        -  0  10     6 

„      Cave's  Primitive  Christianity     -        -  0     6     0 
„      To  the  poor  at  the  door  when  Her  Grace 

took  coach  to  Euston     -        -        -  0    .7    0 
„      Euston  and  Barnham  strowers    - 

„      Ringers 110 

„      Fiddlers 110 

„      Usquebaugh,    snuff-box,    and    three 

packs  of  cards ! !     -        -         -         -  1     6     1 

„      Pamphlets  and  snuff-         -        -        -  0    3     6 

„      Prior's  Poems 300 

„      Dr.  Prideaux's  book  -        -        -        -  0  15    0 
[What  book  was  this?]* 

„      Evening  Post 001$ 

„      Flying  Post 0    0     1£ 

„      Lost  at  cards     -        -        -        -        -  17 

„      25  ells  holland 13    7    9  . 

Altering  9  smocks      -        -        -        -  0    4    6 

„     Rouge 020 

„      Making  9  smocks       -        -        -        -  0  18    0 

[*  Prideaux's  Connection  of  the  Old  and  New  Testa- 
ment, which  passed  through  five  editions  between  1716 
and  1720.  — ED.] 


206 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  MAR.  15,  '62. 


1720.  Fourteen  and  a  quarter  yards  of  Per-     £    s.    d. 

sian,  and  one  nail  of  velvet     -        -      1     7    0 
„      Six  quire  of  paper      -        -        -  0    3  10 

„  Nelson's  Festivals  -  -  -  -056 
„  To  see  the  moving  picture  -  -  -  0  5  0 
„  A  quart  of  brandy  -  -  -  -013 

„      A  point  head 40     0     0 

„     Viper  water 0  10     0 

„      To  one  Dr.  Taylour  and  1  Nelson        -      0  10     0 
[Jeremy  Taylor's  Works  and  Nelson's  Fasts  and  Fes- 
tivals.'] 

1721.  Usquebaugh      -        -        -        -        -  0    7  6 
„      14^  yards  lutestring  -        -         -  3  18  4£ 
„      4  pair  thread  stockings      -        -        -  1     4  0 
„      Five  yards  muslin     -         -        -        -  2     5  0 

„      Dr.  Friend 110 

„      Scarlet  stockings        -         -        -        -  0     7  6 

1722.  Fur  mittens 0  1G  0 

„      A  collar  of  brawn       -        -        -        -  2    6  0 

The  Duchess  died  in  1722.         HERMENTRUDE. 


REINS  (BRIDLE.) 

The  etymology  of  this  word  seems  simple 
enough,  yet,  strange  to  say,  I  find  no  plausible 
derivation  given  in  any  dictionary  I  have  con- 
sulted. Johnson  contents  himself  with  giving 
the  Fr.  renes.  Richardson  merely  says  that 
Menage  derives  it  from  retinacula.  In  other 
dictionaries,  I  could  find  nothing  more  satisfac- 
tory. Nowhere  was  the  derivation  given  which 
I  had  expected  to  find.  Remembering  th&tregina 
in  Fr.  becomes  reine,  and  the  Germ.  Regen  is  in 
Eng.  rain,  I  had  been  in  the  habit  of  looking  upon 
reins  as  derived  from,  regere.  But  when  I  now 
came  to  investigate  the  matter  and  to  compare 
foreign  languages,  difficulties  sprang  up  on  all 
sides.  In  Ital.  the  equivalent  is  redine,  in  Span. 
riendas,  in  Port,  redeas.  Every  step  seemed  to 
take  me  farther  away  from  regere.  Where  did 
these  t?'s  come  from  ?  I  then  turned  to  Pro- 
vengal ;  at  first  I  could  only  find  renas,  which 
was  entirely  useless.  At  length,  however,  I  dis- 
covered another  form,  regnas ;  and  lastly,  in 
Migne's  Mid.  Lat.  Diet.  I  found  a  barbarous  Lat. 
word  regnisy  interpreted  habena,  lorum  (rene.) 
These  last  two  forms  renewed  my  hopes,  for  they 
pointed  once  more  to  regere,  from  which  I  think 
everybody  would  be  willing  to  derive  them.  And 
from  one  or  other  of  these  two  forms  the  Eng. 
reins  and  Fr.  renes  may  certainly  be  deduced,  so 
that  rny  original  conjecture  was  correct.  'Reins 
and  renes  do  come  from  regere.  But  how  are 
the  forms  redine,  riendas,  redeas  to  be  explained  ? 
where  does  the  d  come  from  ?  The  first  two  forms, 
redine  *  and  riendas,  are  very  much  alike,  only  in 
the  one  the  d  precedes  the  n,  in  the  other  the  n 
the  d ;  in  the  third,  redeas,  the  n  has  disappeared. 
I  then  remembered  that  the  Lat.  rigidus  becomes 
rede  in  Prov.  and  raide  (or  roide)  in  Fr.,  the  g  or 

*  Redina  transposed  becomes  rienda. 


the  gi  being  lost ;  and  regina,  in  Span,  reina,  was 
also  present  to  my  mind.  These  examples  quickly 
led  me  to  perceive  that  the  Lat.  regenda*  (comp. 
merenda,  an  afternoon-meal)  would,  upon  the  same 
principle,  readily  become  renda  and  this  in  Span., 
where  an  i  is  often  inserted  before  an  e  f,  rienda 
(plur.  riendas}.  Regenda  again,  by  omitting  the 
g  only,  would  become  reenda,  and  this  by  a 
couple  of  transpositions,  reedna  and  redena  (re- 
dina).  And  finally,  by  suppressing  the  n  in  reedna, 
we  should  have  reeda,  whence  the  passage  to  redea 
would  be  easy. 

Those  who  object  to  the  gerund  may  derive 
the  words  from  any  case  of  regens,  regentis  they 
please.  The  only  difference  would  be  that  they 
would  have  to  deal  with  a  t  instead  of  a  d.  At. 
all  events,  I  am  satisfied  that  all  the  equivalents 
for  reins  which  I  have  quoted  are  traceable  to 
the  same  original  regere,  and  that  they  have 
nothing  whatever  to  do  with  retinaculum. 

F.  CHANCE. 


THE  DEVIL  TURNING  FIDDLER.  —  In  turning 
over  some  old  letters,  I  met  with  the  following 
narrative  that  may  be  amusing  to  the  readers  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  at  Southampton.  It  presents  a  strange 
picture  of  the  manners  and  superstition  of  the 
time  to  which  it  refers,  and  places  the  municipal 
body  of  that  ancient  town  in  a  new  and  striking 
light :  — 

"Dec' 20, 1665. 

"...  lately  from  Southampton  by  very  good  hands  its 
communicated,  y*  since  ye  visitation  there  (wch  was  very 
soare)  [the  Plague}  the  time  for  ye  election  of  a  new 
Mayor  there  beeing  come  or  at  hand,  divers  (if  not  all) 
the  electors  met,  and  resolved  that  hee  should  bee  the 
new  Major  w°  would  bee  so  valorous  as  to  overcome  the 
rest  in  drinking,  and  to  that  end  sate  about  the  busines: 
in  weh  engagement  the  devill  (w°  promoted  the  designe) 
would  not  be  'absent ;  but  to  encourage  it,  the  devill 
appeared  (one  relation  sayth  once,  ye  other  relation  say 
twice)  as  a  fidler  visibly,  but  yet  to  their  affrightm*  and 
dispersion  for  a  time:  but  at  last  sayth  one  of  the  Crew, 
I  am  devill  proofe  and  plague  proofe  too ;  come  w{  will 
of  it,  let  us  goe  on  in  our  buisines;  and  as  they  were 
p'ceeding  in  y*  mode  againe,  the  devill  did  agayne  ap- 
peare,  and  tore  that  man's  cloths  from  off  him,  his  haire 
from  his  head,  and  some  of  his  flesh  from  his  bones,  and 
after  left  him  so  in  a  languishing  dyeing  condition.  This 
was  wrote  from  very  good  hands  out  of  ye  country,  and 
by  one  on  purpose  that  the  relation  might  bee  sent  to 
Capt.  Ffeshenden,"  &c. 

"Feb76,  1665  [£f  ] 

:'  The  old  newes  of  the  divill  turning  fiddler  at  South- 
ampton last  election  is  confirmed  to;me  by  a  freind  lately 
in  those  parts,  though  indeavoured  to  bee  smothered." 

w.  s. 

THE  UNION- JACK.  —  The  following  undated 
draft  of  a  Royal  Letter,  of  the  time  of  James  I., 


'  Of  course  I  do  not  insist  upon  this  form  ;  I  have  only 
chosen  it  as  the  most  convenient. 

f  As  Engl.  tent,  Ital.  tenda,  Span,  tienda. 


3'd  S.  I.  MAR.  15,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEE1ES. 


207 


was  recently  found  among  some  documents  of 
that  reign.  It  is  curious,  in  connexion  with  an 
article  on  the  subject  of  flags  in  a.  recent  number 
of  the  Art  Journal,  in  which  the  name  "  Union 
Jack"  is  said  to  have  been  called  from  King 
James  (Jaques).  There  is  no  copy  of  the  in- 
closure  referred  to. 

"Right  trusty  and  right  welbeloved  Cousin  and  Coun- 
cellour  We  greet  you  well.  Where  we  have  thought 
good  for  the  ending  of  controversies  among  our  Subjectes 
touching  the  bearing  of  our  Armes  in  Flages,  and  other 
Ornamentes  of  Shippes  at  Sea,  to  sett  downe  a  forme 
how  the  same  shall  from  hencefourth  be  borne,  which  we 
send  unto  you  herewith,  Our  pleasure  is  that  you  shall 
give  order  to  all  the  officers  of  our  Nav}r,  and  to  all 
Maisters  of  Shippes,  and  others  whome  it  may  concerne, 
that  from  hencefourth  all  our  subjectes  as  well  of  South 
Brittain  as  of  North  Brittain,  shall  beare  in  their  maine 
toppe  the  red  crosse,  commonly  called  St.  George's  Crosse, 
and  the  white  crosse  called  St.  Andrewe's  Crosse,  joyned 
togither  according  to  the  forme  herewith  sent  unto  you ; 
and  in  their  fore  toppe,  our  Subjectes  of  South  Brittain 
the  red  crosse  only  as  they  were  wont ;  and  our  Sub- 
jectes of  North  Brittain  in  their  fore  toppe  the  white 
crosse,  only  as  they  also  were  accustomed ;  and  that  they 
weare  not  their  said  Flages  in  any  other  forme  as  they 
will  answeare  the  contrary." 

(Indorsed)  : 

"  Copie  of  a  Letter  to  the  Lord  Admirall  concerning 
the  wearing  of  their  ensignes." 

G.  KNIGHT. 

B-EV.  ROBERT  HARRIS.  —  As  some  of  your  cor- 
respondents take  an  interest  in  accounts  of  aged 
clergymen,  I  extract  the  following  from  the  Pres- 
ton papers  :  — 

"Died,  on  the  6th  of  January,  in  the  98th  year  of  his  age, 
the  Rev.  Robert  Harris;  for  sixty-four  years  the  officiat- 
ing minister  of  St.  George's  church,  Preston,  in  which  he 
preached  for  the  last  time  on  the  preceding  Christmas 
Day,  his  discourse  being  of  an  earnest  and  practical 
character." 

P.P. 

LEADEN  COIN  or  WILLIAM  AND  MARY. — I  have 
in  my  possession  a  leaden  piece,  about  the  size  of 
a  shilling,  in  the  centre  of  which  is  a  small  piece 
of  copper.  I  have  seen  a  couple  of  dozen  of  a 
similar  character,  nearly  all  of  the  same  sovereigns. 
On  one  side,  it  bears  the  heads  of  William  and 
Mary,  with  the  legend  —  "  Gulielmus  et  Maria." 
On  the  other,  the  usual  figure  of  Britannia,  with 
a  trident  in  the  left  hand,  and  an  olive  branch  in 
the  right ;  with  the  word  Britannia,  and  the  date 
1690.  A.  E.  L. 

A  SPANISH  RHODOMONTADE,  IN   THE  "Ewer-  j 
CLOP^DIA  BRiTANNicA,"8xH  EDITION.— Fincham's  j 
History  of  Naval  Architecture  (p.  277),  contains 
an  account,  alleged  to  have  been  extracted  from 
official  documents  by  T.  Gonzales  in  1825,  of  how 
one   Blasco  de   Garay,   a  Spaniard,  propelled  a 
vessel  of  209  tons  burden  at  Barcelona,  in  1543, 
in  the  presence  of  the  Emperor  Charles  V.,  by 
paddle-wheels  moved  by  steam.    This  statement 


was  repeated  (by  Mr.  Scott  Russell)  in  the  article 
on  Steam  Navigation,  in  the  7th  edition  of  the 
Encyc.  Brit. ;  and  singular  to  relate,  has  been  re- 
tained in  the  8th  just  published.  It  is  indubita- 
bly a  hoax,  and  was  exposed  several  years  ago. 
When  Mr.  John  Macgregor  was  at  Simancas,  in 
1857,  he  examined  the  only  documents  relating  to 
Garay's  experiments  now  in  existence  —  as  far  as 
the  Spanish  officials  are  aware  —  and  found  that 
the  propelling  power  was  oxen.  Mr.  Macgregor's 
letter,  dated  in  January,  1858,  is  printed  in  Air. 
Bennett  Woodcroft's  Abridgement  of  Specifica- 
tions relating  to  Marine  Propulsion,  1858,  Part  n. 
pp.  105-6.  DELTA. 

SIR  ISAAC  WAKE. — In  Burlamachi's  Accounts 
(once  in  the  Audit  Office,  now  at  the  Rolls),  I 
found  the  following  entry  :  — 

"  For  payment  of  Sir  Isaac  Wake's  debts,  for  mourning 
for  his  servants,  transportation  of  his  body  and  his  family 
from  Paris  to  Dover,  and  for  burying  his  body  at  Dove'r 
(by  Privy  Seal  21«4  of  August,  8*  of  Charles  I.)" 

PETER  CUNNINGHAM. 

RYE,  RIOT,  AND  RYOT.  —  I  have  been  led  by 
observing  some  remarks  in  a  dictionary  published 
a  few  years  since  in  Glasgow,  to  ask  for  informa- 
tion on  the  subject  of  the  words  "riot"  and 
"  rye."  In  the  work  alluded  to  we  find  for  the 
former  the  radicals,  "  Rutter  (Danish)  *  to  drink 
hard';  Nor.  riotta,  'a  brawl';  It.  riotta;"  and 
for  the  latter  (rye),  "  Sax.  ryge^  Wei.  rhyg^  the 
same  as  rough,"  &c. 

In  Hindostanee  it  is  well-known  there  are 
numerous  phonetic  similarities,  and  at  the  same 
time  an  equally  remarkable  similarity  of  meaning 
between  many  of  the  words  in  that  language  and 
our  own ;  as,  for  instance,  doon,  which  in  the 
former  is  nearly  equivalent  to  our  "  doon"  and 
"  downs."  Bud  nam  is  our  "  bad  name,"  &c.  &c. 
In  like  manner  we  might  suggest  a  derivative 
(but  not  without  considerable  hesitation)  for  the 
words  "  rye  "  and  "  riot,"  in  the  Hindostanee  ryot 
(a  cultivator  of  the  ground),  and  its  derivatives. 

In  like  manner,  by  analogy  "  villein,"  originally 
one  of  the  labouring  population  of  England  in 
the  feudal  ages,  became  a  term  of  moral  reproach, 
and  a  whole  class  in  the  course  of  time  became 
represented  only  by  a  term  of  reprobation.  Nu- 
merous other  illustrations  of  the  same  analogy 
will  probably  suggest  themselves  to  any  reader, 
who  may  feel  disposed  either  to  support  my  sug- 
gestion, or  to  set  me  right,  as  at  present  I  am 
bound  to  admit  that  the  connection  between 
"  rye,"  t;  ryot,"  and  "  riot "  may  be  entirely  a 
phonetic  coincidence.  S. 

SHOE  :  A  PRISON.  —  In  The  Moliad,  a  book 
published  at  Exeter  in  1770,  but  written  in  1737, 
are  the  following  lines  :  — 

"  '  Ten  cashless  Debtors  in  that  dreary  Cave, 

Yclep'd  the*  SHOE  more  free  a  Breathing  have.' 

"  *  The  Shoe.  So  is  caU'd  a  little  close  Room  in  Svuth- 


208 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3"»  S.  I.  MAR.  15,  '62. 


The  Shoe  Prison  was  certainly  an  inferior  pun- 
ishment to  the  Boot,  the  Stocks,  and  the  Chinese 

.  CUTHBEET  BEDE. 


TOUCHING  FOR  THE  KING'S  EVIL. 
DEEDS  OF  PRIVILEGE:  SITTING  COVERED  IN  THE 

ROYAL  PRESElx7CE. 

Everybody  knows  that  once  upon  a  time,  when 
kin^s  were  little  better  than  swine,  one  John 
de  Courcy,  Earl  of  Ulster,  satiated  with  wealth 
and  honours  already  possessed,  had  nothing  to 
desire  but  the  privilege  of  remaining  covered  in 
the  sovereign's  presence,  when  called  upon  to 
name  a  reward  for  services  he  had  rendered. 
John  Lackland  must  have  been  just  as  surprised, 
thoush  infinitely  more  pleased  than  was  King 
Herod  of  old,  when  the  Terpsichorean  talents  dis- 
played by  his  niece  and  step-daughter  induced 
him  to  offer  an  unqualified  choice  of  reward  :  in 
the  first  case  a  head  was  the  unreasonable  and 
hard-to-comply-with  demand,  while  in  the  second, 
but  the  covering  of  a  head  was  asked,  and  was  as 
cheerfully  as  speedily  granted. 

Most  people  have  also  heard  stories  about  the 
Earl  of  Ulster's  descendants  claiming  this  heredi- 
tary privilege  in  later  times.  "  Sire,  my  name's 
de  Courcy,"  is  the  excuse  attributed  to  one  of  the 
Lords  Kingsale  to  his  sovereign,  when  he  had  been 
nudged  at  the  coronation  by  the  "Black-Rod," 
or  some  one  else,  with  the  friendly  hint,  "  hats 
off"  ;  and  the  king,  continues  the  story,  at  once 
admitted,  not  only  his  belief  in  the  truth  of  Lord 
Kingsale's  assertion  as  to  his  patronymic,  but  in 
his  right  to  do  in  his  presence  what  nobody  else 
did,  but  begged  to  remind  the  noble  lord  that 
"  there  were  ladies  present." 

Such  is  the  first  recorded  instance  of  the  privi- 
lege of  remaining  covered  in  the  royal  presence  be- 
ing granted  to  a  subject.  By  Henry  VIII.  similar 
privilege  was  granted  by  deed  to  the  following 
persons  :  — 

1.  John  Forester,  of  Watling  Street,  co.  Salop, 
ancestor  of  Lord  Forester. 

2.  Bartholomew  H^sketh,  a  cadet  of  the  Hes- 
keths  of  Ilufford,  co.  Lancaster,  now  represented 
by  Sir  Thomas  Hesketh,  Bart. 

3.  Stephen  Tucker,  of  Lamerton,  co.  Devon,  a 
member  of  the  old  west  country  family  of  Tooker. 

4.  Richard  Wrottesley,  of  Wrottesley,  co.  Staf- 
ford, ancestor  of  Lord  Wrottesley. 

The  four  instances  above  were  in  respect  of  the 
king's  evil  from  which  these  gentlemen  suffered, 


gate  Prison,  where  such  poor  insolvent  Debtors  as  can't 
pay  for  Lodgings,  are  (i.  e.  have  been)  crowded,  or  crush'd 
in  'together.  It  seems  to  have  received  its  denomination 
from  the  Privilege  they,  in  Turn,  have  of  begging  Charity 
of  Passers  by ;  they,  by  a  cord,  letting  down  au  Old  Shoe 
to  receive  the  same."  —  P.  169. 


and  though  of  a  different  character  and  origin  to 
the  grant  to  de  Courcy,  are  nevertheless  to  be 
considered  honourable,  as  the  society  or  presence 
of  these  persons  must  have  been  desirable  to  the 
king,  and  suggested  an  easy  method  of  hiding  a 
head-sore  which  was  an  eye-s/jre,  else  their  dis- 
missal from  his  court  would  appear  to  have  been 
the  course  that  unceremonious  monarch  would 
have  taken.  In  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  William 
Tucker,  D.D.,  afterwards  Dean  of  Lichfield,  wrote, 
and  dedicated  to  her  his  Charisma,  which  treated 
of  the  divine  right  and  power  of  the  sovereigns  of 
England  to  cure  the  king's  evil  by  the  touch  ;  but 
this  right  and  power  appear  to  have  been  absent 
in  the  person  of  Henry  VIII.,  otherwise  he  would 
surely  have  exercised  them  in  favour  of  his  fa- 
vourites, and  so  conferred  a  far  greater  benefit 
upon  them,  than  by  his  deeds  of  privilege. 

Queen  Mary  (Tudor)  granted  the  like  privilege 
to  Radclyffe,  Earl  of  Sussex  ;  but  whether  in  re- 
spect of  an  evil  she  could  not  cure,  I  know  not. 

I  have  copies  of  the  deeds  to  Hesketh,  Wrot- 
tesley, and  Tucker.  Copies  of  those  to  Forester 
and  Radclyffe  I  am  very  anxious  to  obtain.  I  have 
long  collected  facts  in  connexion  with  the  cure 
of  the  king's  evil  by  the  touch,  and  deeds  of  pri- 
vilege to  subjects  for  sitting  covered  in  the  royal 
presence,  or  for  other  objects ;  and,  as  I  contem- 
plate publishing  them  in — what  I  hope  to  make 
an  interesting  —  volume  on  the  above  heads,  I 
would  gladly,  if  permitted,  avail  myself  of  the 
facility  afforded  by  "N.  &  Q."  to  obtain  the  assist- 
ance of  those  of  its  readers  who  may  be  able  and 
willing  to  help  me.  Are  any  other  instances 
known  than  those  I  have  quoted  ? 


AMERICAN  CENTS.  —  Wanted  some  information 
as  to  the  early  and  most  scarce  American  cents, 
some  of  which  are  spoken  of  as  of  considerable 
value.  CHARLES  CLAY,  M.D. 

STEPHEN  ASTYN.  —  The  following  occurs  in 
Hasted's  History  of  Kent,  iv.  139,  fol.  1782  :  — 

"  In  the  33rd  year  of  King  Hen.  VIII.  thetessee  of  this 
manor  (Loose  in  Kent)  was  Stephen  Astyn." 

I  should  feel  obliged  for  any  particulars  of  this 
Stephen  Astyn.  Or  can  anyone  direct  me  to  the 
sources  of  information  where  I  might  learn  some' 
thing  about  him  and  his  connexions. 

MAN  OF  KENT. 

BIOGRAPHICAL  QUERIES. — Where  can  I  obtain 
any  fuller  account  of  the  late  Judge  Heath,  who 
died  in  Mansfield  Street  17  January,  1816,  than 
is  to  be  found  in  the  Gentleman's  Magazine  for 
February,  1816,  p.  186?  Where  was  he  buried? 
Did  he  leave  any  descendants  ?  And  what  coat  of 
arms  did  he  bear  ?  Also,  of  Sir  Simon  Blane,  one 
of  the  Judges  of  the  Court  of  K.  B.,  who  died 
15th  April,  same  year?  And  of  Anthony  Davis, 


S.  I.  MAR.  15,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


209 


Esq.,  who  died  in  1816,  at  Albury,  Surrey,  in  his 
eighty-eighth  year  ?  There  is  a  short  account  of 
Mr.  Davis  in  Edwards'  Anecdotes  of  Painters, 
p.  123.  F.  G. 

BRISTOL  CATHEDRAL.  —  Will  some  correspon- 
dent give  me  a  reference  to  any  work  in  which  I 
can  see  copies  of  the  monuments  in  Bristol 
Cathedral  ?  G.  W.  M. 

CLERICAL  KNIGHTS.  —  Turning  over  the  other 
day  Townsend's  Calendar  of  Knights,  London, 
1828,  I  found  the  names  of  the  Rev.  Sir  John 
Thoroton,  knighted  4th  Jan.  1814,  died  about 
1820,  and  the  Rev.  Sir  Robert  Peat,  D.D.,  who 
had  the  Royal  Licence  to  accept  the  order  of  St. 
Stanislaus,  2  Oct.  1804.  Can  a  clergyman  have 
knighthood  conferred  upon  him?  If  so,  has  it 
been  done  in  any  other  cases  ?  If  not,  I  presume 
these  persons  were  knighted  before  taking  orders  ? 

G.  W.  M. 

CLOTH  AND  WOOLLEN  TRADES. — Is  there  any 
history  of  the  cloth  and  woollen  trades  in  Kent 
and  Sussex  ?  L.  L. 

WILLIAM  DICCONSON,  as  appears  from  the 
Jacobite  Trials  at  Manchester,  in  1694,  published 
by  the  Chetham  Society,  was  tried  on  a  charge  of 
treason  and  acquitted.  Was  he  afterwards  tried 
and  convicted  ?  I  ask  because  Baines,  in  his  His- 
tory of  Lancashire  (vol.  iii.  p.  472),  says  that  in 
the  survey  of  his  estate  by  a  Commission,  6  Anne, 
1707,  is  the  recital  of  his  conviction  and  attainder 
for  high  treason  in  the  reign  of  William  III.  Was 
such  a  Commission  held  in  1707  ?  I  find  from  a 
contemporary  journal  that  a  Commission  was  sit- 
ting at  Wigan  in  July,  1706,  on  the  estate  of 
Mr.  Dicconson  of  Wrightington.  Baines  refers 
to  the  Duchy  Records;  but  I  am  told  that  the 
Keeper  of  the  Records  resides  at  Preston,  and 
that  in  order  to  have  access  to  them,  his  expenses 
from  Preston  to  Lancaster  would  have  to  be  paid, 
as  well  as  a  fee  of  1Z.,  and  a  further  gratuity  of  Is. 
or  2s.  6d.  for  every  document  produced.  Is  this 
as  it  should  be  ?  A.  E.  L. 

JOHN  EDERS  AND  JOHN  WILKES.  —  Between 
1770  and  1780,  John  Eders,  a  housebreaker,  was 
executed  at  Warwick  ;  and  John  Wilkes,  a  high- 
wayman, either  at  Stafford  or  Shrewsbury.  Their 
wicked  lives  and  edifying  deaths  were  published 
and  commented  upon  at  the  time,  but  I  have  not 
been  able  to  procure  the  books  or  any  satisfac- 
tory account  of  them.  Any  information  thereon 
will  much  oblige.  W.  B.  J. 

ENGLISH  EPITAPHS  AT  ROME. — The  Itinerario 
d 'Italia  contains  a  variety  of  curious  things.  My 
copy,  printed  at  Vicenza  in  1638,  says  it  is  trans- 
lated from  the  Latin  of  Andrea  Scoto.  Now 
Andreas  Schottus  is  the  well-known  Jesuit  of 
Antwerp ;  but  I  elsewhere  find  this  work  ascribed 
to  his  brother  Francis.  I  may  then  ask  which 


really  wrote  the  work?  This  by  the  way.  Chap.  V. 
Part  2,  contains  a  list  of  Roman  churches  with 
their  principal  epitaphs.  In  that  of  "  San  Gri- 
sogno  in  Transtevere,"  is  the  tomb  and  epitaph  of 
"  Dauid  Vuiliano,  Oratore  Inglese."  Is  this 
David  Williams,  and  who  was  he  ?  In  the  church 
of  "  San  Gregorio  &  capo  del  Ponte  Fabritio  "  are 
the  epitaphs  of"  Edvardo  Carno  "  and  of"  Roberto 
Vecamo,"  English  legists  and  knights  who,  banished 
from  their  country  because  they  defended  the 
Catholic  religion,  went  to  finish  their  days  in  the 
peace  of  the  Lord  at  Rome.  Who  was  the  second 
of  these  ?  In  the  church  of  the  "  Santa  Trinita  de 
gli  Inglesi "  is  buried  cardinal  Alano,  i.e.  Allan  or 
Allen..  Do  these  monuments  still  exist  ?  B.  H.  C. 

FRANKLYN.  —  Can  any  reader  give  me  the  pa- 
rentage of  John  and  Richard  Franklyn,  Franklin, 
or  Francklyn,  of  Jamaica,  who  died  in  the  latter 
twenty  years  of  last  century  ?  John  is  supposed 
to  have  been  buried  within  St.  Mungo's  Church, 
Glasgow  (when  ?)  His  wife's  maiden  name  was 
Susan  Blake,  I  think.  WThose  daughter  was  she  ? 
Of  Nicholas  Allen  Blake,  of  Alexander,  Benja- 
min, or  of  William,  the  Speaker  of  the  House  of 
Assembly,  in  the  above  island  ? 

John  Franklyn  used  an  antique  seal,  on  which 
there  is  a  shield  with  a  bend  charged  with  three 
lions'  heads  erased.  I  do  not  remember  what 
the  charge  of  the  field  was,  but  rather  think  that 
it  resembled  a  dolphin.  B.  B.  B. 

GERMAN  DRAMA.  —  Who  are  the  authors  of  the 
two  following  burlesques  on  the  German  drama  ? 

1 .  More  Kotzebue ;  or,  My  own  Pizarro,  a  mono- 
drama,  1799.  2.  The  Benevolent  Cut-Throat,  a 
play  in  seven  acts,  translated  from  an  original 
German  drama,  written  by  the  celebrated  Klotz- 
boggenhaggen,  by  Fabius  Pictor.  It  is  said  in 
the  BiogrDramat.  to  be  published  in  a  collection 
of  poems  called  The  Meteors,?,  vols.  1800;  also  in 
The  Spirit  of  the  Public  Journals,  vol.  iv. 

ZETA. 

GILES  GREEN,  M.P.,  AND  CAPTAIN  PLUNKETT. 

The  following  is  in  the  Commons  Journals  :  — 

"  Die  Lunae,  Junij  24,  1644. 

"  Upon  information  given  to  this  House,  that  Captain 
Plunkett,  Captain  Thomas,  and  others  in  the  service  of 
the  King  and  Parliament,  with  some  of  their  Mariners, 
did  plunder  a  house  of  Mr.  Giles  Green,  a  member  of 
this  House  —  killed  divers  of  his  Ewes  and  Lambs,  and 
carried  away  others,  to  his  great  damage  —  it  is  ordered, 
that  the  said  Captain  Plunkett,  Captain  Thomas,  and 
their  Companions,  shall  make  Mr.  Green  reparation. 
And  Mr.  Green  hath  leave  of  this  House  to  accept  the 
same  accordingly." 

My  Query  is :  Where  may  be  found  further 
particulars  of  the  conduct  of  the  said  Captain 
Plunkett  &  Co.  ?  Mr.  Green  was  M.P.  for  Corfe 
and  Weymouth  at  different  times,  and  his  house 
was  in  the  Isle  of  Purbeck.  Query,  too,  Where  ? 

H.  T.  ELLACOMBJS. 


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[3'*  S.  I.  MAR.  15,  '62. 


FAMILY  OP  CAESAR  HAWKINS.  —  Whence  did 
this  family  obtain  the  name  of  Caesar,  which  ap- 
pears in  almost  every  generation  ?  I  have  a  copy 
of  Hoi}' band's  French  Littleton,  on  the  fly-leaves 
and  cover  of  which  are  the  signatures  of  "  Thomas 
Hawkins  of  Potterspury,  in  the  county  of  North- 
ampton, March  13th,  1642";  and  of  "Cesar 
Hawkins."  The  latter  being  in  the  handwriting 
of  a  youth.  C.  J.  R 

JONES  THE  CLOCKMAKEB. — I  should  be  much 
obliged  by  any  further  information  respectin 
Jones,  the  noted  clockmaker  in  the  Inner  Temple 
Gate,  of  whom  mention  was  made  by  MR.  STEVENS, 
in  connexion  with  the  first  making  of  barometers 
(3rd  S.  i.  112.)  My  reason  for  asking  is,  that  I 
have  in  my  possession  a  clock ;  which,  according 
to  family  tradition,  was  given  by  Charles  II.  to 
Mrs.  Jane  Lane,  in  memory  of  her  services  after 
the  battle  of  Worcester.  And  on  the  clock  is 
engraved  the  name  of  "  HENRICUS  JONES,  LON- 
DINI."  P.  S.  CAREY. 

LAUGHTON. —  Hunter,  in  his  Deanery  of  Don- 
caster  (vol.  i.  p.  246),  gives  the  pedigree  of  a 
family  of  Laughton  of  Eastfield,  Thropum,  &c., 
in  parish  of  Tickhill,  Yorkshire,  with  these 
arms :  "  Quarterly  per  fess  indented,  or  and 
gules."  These  are  the  arms  of  Leighton  of  Leigh- 
ton  and  Wattlesborough,  Shropshire.  Informa- 
tion requested  to  elucidate  this  circumstance  of 
two  distinct  families  bearing  the  same  arms,  and 
of  the  existence  of  parallel  instances  in  other 
families  ?  W.  A.  LEIGHTON. 

Shrewsbury. 

LOVE  LANE  CHAPEL,  DEPTFORD.  —  Can  any  of 
your  correspondents  give  me  information  of  a 
Rev.  Mr.  Lewis,  Minister  of  the  above  chapel  ? 
The  period  at  which  he  was  minister,  and  when 
he  died,  &c.  ?  The  chapel,  I  believe,  has  been 
pulled  down.  When  ?  What  was  done  with  the 
remains  of  those  that  were  buried  under  it  ? 

J.  W. 

OUGHTKED,  WM.    THE   MATHEMATICIAN,  is    Said 

to  have  practised  the  art  of  geomancy.     On  what 
authority  ?  DELTA. 

PAULSON.  — 

"  Cut  boldly  said  the  augur.    Tarquin  drew 
His  razor  o'er  the  hone,  and  cut  it  through : 
Promptness,  not  wisdom,  ruled  his  tawdry  lot, 
As  Alexander  solved  the  Gordian  knot. 
And  Whitfield,  vulgar,  ignorant,  and  loud, 
Cuts  Scripture  boldly  up,  but  wins  the  crowd. 
Henley  and  Paulson  shine  with  equal  force, 
In  quick-made  shoe,  and  topsy-turvy  horse." 

"  Impudence,"  by  J.  L.,  in  Poems  ly  Various 
Authors,  London,  1775. 

The  other  impostors]  are  well  known  ;  but  who 
was  Paulson  ?  M.  E. 

REPARTEE.  —  I  remember  a  story  told  of  two 
gentlemen ;  one  of  whom  had  a  grey  beard  and 


black  hair,  and  the  other  grey  hair  and  a  black 
beard.  The  former  expressed  his  surprise  at  the 
difference,  and  wanted  an  explanation.  The  reply 
was  :  "  You  have  used  your  jaws  more  than  your 
brains,  but  I  have  used  my  brains  and  spared  my 
jaws."  It  is  added  that  the  grey  beard  deserved 
the  compliment  on  more  accounts  than  one.  Can 
anyone  refer  to  a  modern  author  for  the  above, 
or  give  the  names  of  the  parties  ?  I  fear  it  is  a 
fiction  ;  as  one  half  of  it  is  told  of  St.  Amant,  a 
French  poet,  who  died  in  or  about  1661. 

B.  H.  C. 

REYNOLDS  AND  WJLKES.  —  Can  and  will  any 
reader  oblige  by  giving  the  Christian  name  and 
residence,  in  Kent,  of  Mr.  Reynolds,  the  attorney 
for  the  once  celebrated  John  Wilkes,  Esq.,  in 
1770,  referred  to  in  the  Town  and  Country  Mag. 
for  that  year,  p.  221  ?  Or  the  Christian  and 
maiden  surname  of  Mrs.  Reynolds.  GLWYSIG. 

"  SILKEN  CORD." — M.  Quatrefages,  in  his  Ram- 
bles of  a  Naturalist  (ii.  257),  has  this  sentence  : 
"  Cut  the  silken  cord."  Will  any  of  your  con- 
tributors kindly  explain  its  meaning  ?  CLIFTON. 

SOBIESKT. — Why  is  the  name  of  Sobieski  popular 
in  the  semi- Welch  families  in  Shropshire,  Owen, 
for  instance  ?  It  is  given  to  daughters,  but  not  to 
sons  ?  E. 

SEISMOLOGY.  —  Where  can  be  found  (if  any 
there  be)  statistics  of  earthquakes  in  continuation 
of  the  researches  of  Mr.  Mallett,  published  in  the 
Reports  of  the  British  Association  for  the  years 
1850,  1851,  1854,  and  1858;  and  those  of  Pro- 
fessor Perrey  of  Dijon  ?  In  the  former  the  sta- 
tistics include  the  year  1842,  and  M.  Perrey 
continues  the  investigation  to  1850. 

ERNEST  W.  BARTLETT. 

TRAFFORD  FAMILY. — To  what  family,  if  not  to 
that  of  the  Traffords,  of  Trafford,  co.  Lancashire, 
did  Thomas  Trafford,  Esq ,  of  Bridge  Trafford, 
co.  Chester,  belong  ?  "With  which  gentleman" 
(so  I  read  in  Burke' s  Landed  Gentry,  under  the 
head  of  "  Barnston  "),  "  who  fell  at  Naseby,  ended 
the  male  line  of  a  most  distinguished  family." 
His  daughter  Alice  married  firstly,  J.  Barnston, 
Esq.,  and  secondly,  the  Hon.  R.  Savage,  by  whom 
she  became  the  mother  of  the  fifth  Earl  Rivers. 

H.  M.  W. 

VALCKENAER  FAMILY,  OF  THE  HAGUE.  —  I 
have  a  vellum  bound  Caesar  (Blaeu,  Amsterdam, 
1G97)  in  the  fly-leaf  of  which  is  a  long  inscrip- 
tion testifying  that  the  book  was  presented  on 
promotion  in  the  school  to  James  Valckenaer,  by 
the  following  Curators  of  the  Academy  of  the 
Hague :  "  G.  Vankinsisot,  A.  Spierinxhouk,  E. 
romme,"  ....  another  name  I  have  not  been 
able  to  decipher,  countersigned  "  quod  attestor 
fsiiacus  Valckenaer,  Rector  et  Lector."  I  would 
nquire  whether,  considering  the  date  of  pre- 


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sentation,  Sept.  1727,  either  of  these  Valckenaers 
can  have  been  connected  with  the  Commentator 
on  Euripides,  and  whether  any  lists  of  curators 
exist  by  which  I  might  supply  the  deficiency  of 
the  illegible  name  ?  Any  information  on  these 
points  would  be  acceptable  to 

C.  H.  E.  CARMICHAEL. 

VANDYKE.  —  I  was  sho\vn  lately  by  a  Dutch 
official,  at  Anjer,  the  portrait,  said  to  be  by  Van- 
dyke, of  his  ancestor,  Roelef  Warmolts  of  Gro- 
ningeu.  It  was  in  oil  and  on  wood.  The  features 
were  strongly  marked,  and  the  lines  of  the  face 
hard  ;  there  was  a  slight  moustache  and  an  impe- 
rial, the  whole  being  set  in  a  huge  plain  cambric 
ruff.  The  manner  was  excellent,  as  was  also  the 
painting.  The  face  seemed  to  be  more  than  the 
result  of  art. 

Can  any  reader  afford  any' in  formation  in  con- 
nection with  this  fine  work  or  its  subject.  SPAL. 

JOHN  WOODWARD,  M.A.,  Prebendary  of  Glou- 
cester cathedral,  presented  September  2,  and  in- 
stalled September  10,  1558.  In  1561,  it  was 
returned  that  he  did  not  reside,  but  that  he  lived 
with  Sir  John  Petre  at  his  house  in  London.  He 
probably  resigned  his  stall  in  1571.  What  else  is 
known  of  him  ?  Was  he  related  to  the  John 
Woodward,  who  filled  the  office  of  Sheriff  in  1557 
and  1562,  and  was  Mayor  of  Gloucester  in  1566  ? 

JOHN  WOODWARD. 


PRAISE-GOD  BAREBONES.  — Barebone,  who  gave 
his  name  to  a  parliament  summoned  by  Cromwell, 
was  M.P.  for  London  ?  Is  it  known  of  what  place 
he  was  native,  or  where  he  died  ?  Was  the  prefix, 
Praise-  God,  a  real  or  assumed  name  ?  L.  L. 

[It  is  probable  the  real  surname  of  this  enthusiast  was 
Barbon,  an  ancient  family  of  that  name  having  been 
settled  for  many  generations  in  the  neighbourhood  of 
Soho,  after  some  of  whom  the  open  space  next  Gerrard 
Street,  Newport  Market,  so  late  as  the  reign  of  George  II., 
was  recognised  by  the  name  of  Barbon  Square.  Praise- 
God  was  undoubtedly  the  baptismal  appellation  of  /Bare- 
bones,  who  was  a  leather-seller  in  Fleet  Street,  and 
owner  of  a  house  called  "  The  Lock  and  Key,"  in  the 
parish  of  St.  Dunstan-in-the-West.  He  was  admitted 
freeman  of  the  Leather-sellers'  Company  20th  Jan.  1623 ; 
elected  a  Warder  of  the  L  Yeomanry,  6th  July,  1630 ;  a 
liveiyman,  13th  October,  1634 ;  and  third  warden,  16th 
June,  1648.  In  1662  he  was  imprisoned  in  the  Tower. 
In  the  State  Paper  Office  is  an  Order  in  Council,  dated 
July  27,  1662,  on  petition  of  Sarah  Barebones,  for  the  re- 
lease on  bail,  from  the  Tower,  of  her  husband,  close 
prisoner  there  manjr  months,  and  so -ill  that  he  must 
perish  unless  released.  (Calendar  of  State  Papers,  Dom. 
1661-2,  p.  447.)  We  cannot  discover  the  date  of  his 
death.  We  shall  be  glad  to  be  informed  where  any  bio- 
graphical particulars  may  be  found  of  his  son,  Dr.  Bare- 
bone,  the  great  builder  and  projector,  who  was  chris- 
tened at  his  baptism,  "  If- Jesus-Christ-had -not-died- 
for-thee-lhou-hadst-been-damned  Barebone,"  but  usually 
yclept  "  Damned  Dr.  Barebone,"  which,  a.s  his  morals 


were  none  of  the  best,  appeared  to  suit  him  better  than 
his  entire  baptismal  prefix.  MR.  JAMES  CROSSLEY  ("  X. 
&  Q."  1st  S.  vi.  3)  mentions  a  notice  of  him  in  Roger 
North's  unpublished  Autobiography;  but  where  is  this 
MS.  to  be  found?] 

STOW'S  "SURVEY."  —  In  Stow's  Survey  (folio 
edition,  2  vols,  1720),  vol.  ii.  226  [133  ?],  the  fol- 
lowing account  is  given  of  the  dowry  of  Anne, 
daughter  of  Sir  Wm.  Hewett,  Knight,  Lord 
Mayor  of  London,  1559,  and  wife  of  Sir  Ed.  Os- 
borne :  — 

"  Whereof  the  late  estate  of  Sir  Thomas  Fanshawe,  in 
tho  parish  of  Barking,  in  Essex,  was  a  part,  as  the  late 
Duke  of  Leeds  told  the  Reverend  Mr.  John  Hewyt,  from 
whom  I  have  this  relation." 

Now  Stow  died  in  1605,  that  is  nine  years 
before  Mr.  John  Hewyt's  grandfather*  was  born. 
Again,  the  dukedom  of  Leeds  was  not:  conferred 
till  the  year  1694,  or  eighty-nine  years  after  Stow's 
death. 

Now,  putting  these  two  things'  together,  it  is 
evident  that  the  above  paragraph  was  not  written 
by  Stow,  but  must  have  been  inserted  for  the  first 
time  by  Strype  in  his  edition  of  1720,  as  it  speaks 
of  the  late  Duke  of  Leeds,  and  he  did  not  die  till 
the  year  1712.  Perhaps  some  of  your  correspon- 
dents, who  are  in  a  position  to  compare  the  edi- 
tions of  1598,  1603,  1618,  or  1633  with  that  of 
1720,  will  kindly  state  if  this  the  case ;  and  also 
whether  there  is  any  way  of  distinguishing  be- 
tween the  original  text,  and  Strype's  insertions  of 
a  later  date  ?  UNYTE. 

Capetown,  S.  A.,  Jan.  1862. 

[Strype's  additions  to  the  text  of  Stow  cannot  well  be 
distinguished  except  by  a  comparison  of  the  respective 
editions.  The  passage  "relating  to  the  dowry  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam Hewett's  daughter  is  not  in  Stow's  own  edition  of 
1603,  nor  in  that  of  1633,  fol.  edited  by  Anthony  Mun- 
day  and  Henry  Dyson.] 

FESTBAWE  :  ALCUMIE  STUFFE.  —  Could  you 
kindly  help  me  to  the  meaning  of  these  two  words. 
They  occur  in  Featley's  Strictures  in  Lyndomasti- 
gem,  London,  1638.  The  first  is  met  with  in 
Alphab.  i.  p.  14  :  — • 

"Hee  who  hath  made  a  paire  of  spectacles  for  the 
knight,  had  need  to  have  a  Festrawe  made  for  him  selfe 
to  spell  wit-hall." 

The  second  occurs,  Alphab.  i.  p.  32  :  — 
"  Hee  will  find  S.  Austin's  discourse  in  that  tractate  to 
bee  pure  gold ;  and  Maldonate  his  glosse  to  be  drosse  or 
Akumie  stuffe,  which  will  not  iridure  the  fire." 

LIBYA. 

[Feasetraw  is  a  pin  or  point  used  to  point  at  the  letters 
in  teaching  children  to  read  (JETofluoetf).  Festrawe,  or 
Feasetraw,  is  nearly  connected  with  the  old  English  word 
Festue,  which  signified  the  same  thing,  and  with  the  old 
Fr.  Festu  now  Fetu.  Conf.  in  Latin,  in  Med.  Latin,  and  in 
Ital.,  Festuca,  and  in  Romance,  Festue.  The  old  English 
Fescue  (equivalent  to  Festue)  seems  to  be  from  the  Italian 
Fuscello.— "  Alcumie  stuff,"  probably  "alchymy  stuff," 

*  Rev.  Johnllewett,  D.D.,born  1614.  (See  "  N.  &  Q." 
for  November,  1861.) 


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i.  e.  the  alchymic  dross,  opposed  to  the  "  pure  gold  "  men- 
tioned just  before  in  the  same  sentence.  The  word  alchymy 
has  been  supposed  by  some  to  be  connected  with  the  Greek 
xu/xa,  which  may  account  for  the  u  in  '•  Alcumie."] 

HYMNS    FROM    THR    PARISIAN    BREVIARY.  — 

Would  you  kindly  inform  me  what  versions  of  the 
above  hymns  into  the  English  language  are  now 
accessible,  either  of  the  whole  work,  or  of  indivi- 
dual hymns ;  adding,  if  known,  the  publisher's 
name,  and  the  price  ?  VRYAN  RHEGED. 

[We  believe  the  following  is  the  most  popular  English 
version :  Hymns  translated  from  the  Parisian  Breviary, 
By  the  author  of  The  Cathedral  [Rev.  Isaac  Williams.] 
London :  Rivington's,  1839,  12mo,  price  5s.  Our  corre- 
spondent should  also  consult  Mr.  Williams's  version  of 
these  Hymns  as  published  originally  in  The  British  Ma- 
gazine, 1834-1837,  namely,  vol.  v.  pp.  28,  274,  424,  539 ; 
vi.  28,  383,  018;  vii.  252,  401,  405,  654;  viii.  34,  150, 
406,  516;  ix.  27,  503,  626;  x.  406;  xi.  148,386;  xii.  29, 
265,  508.  The  hymns  are  here  printed  in  Latin  and  Eng- 
lish, with  the  services  (in  English)  where  they  occur.] 

SQTJEERS  AND  DOTHEROYS  HALL.  —  In  Literary 
Recollections,  by  the  Rev.  It.  Warner,  vol.  i.,  and 
commencing  at  p.  24,  there  is  a  description  of  a 
boarding  school  and  its  master,  bearing  an  extra- 
ordinary resemblance  to  the  renowned  Squeers 
and  Dotheboys  Hall.  Has  this  anything  to  do 
with  the  famous  Yorkshire  seminary  and  its  prin- 
cipal, and  is  it  the  original  of  that  establishment 
and  its  "head"?  Mr.  Warner's  book  was  pub- 
lished in  1830  by  Longman.  Dickens  published 
many  years  after  that  date.  S.  REDMOND. 

Liverpool. 

[In  the  preface  to  the  smaller  edition  of  Nicholas 
Nickleby*  published  in  1848,  Dickens  tells  us  how  the 
horrors  and  cruelties  of  Yorkshire  schools  were  brought 
under  his  notice  when  he  himself  was  but  a  boy ;  and  how, 
in  after  years,  when  he  found  he  could  command  an  au- 
dience, he  travelled  northwards  to  gather  information  on 
tli-j  spot,  with  a  view  to  call  the  attention  of  the  public 
to  the  nuisance.  The  idea  seems  to  have  been  taken  up 
independently,  and  to  have  been  honestly  and  fairly 
worked  out.] 

"Nor  WORTH  A  RAP."  — Is  anywhere  noted 
in  your  world-read  pages  the  probable  origin  of 
the  expression  "  Not  worth  a  rap  "  ?  I  believe  it 
to^be  genuine  Indian,  from  the  heading  of  a  bill 
being  "  Rupees,  Annas,  and  Pice."  A.  L. 

[The  want  of  small  money  in  Ireland  was  grown  to 
such  a  height  in  J721-2,  that  counterfeit  coins,  called 
raps,  were  in  common  use,  made  of  such  bad  metal,  that 
what  passed  for  a  half-penny  was  not  worth  half  a  far- 
thing. Hence  the  cant  phrase  "  Not  worth  a  rap  "  The 
name  was,  in  all  probability,  derived  from  rappen,  a  small 
-Swiss  coin,  value  about  half  a  farthing.] 


EDMUND  BURKE. 

(3raS.  i.   161.) 

.There  can  be  no  doubt  as  to  the  interest  which 
attaches  to  the  questions  asked  by  your  corre- 


spondent, but  the  research  cannot,  I  fear,  be  suf- 
ficiently defined  to  give  us  much  hope  of  a  suc- 
cessful result.  Other  questions,  however,  may 
easily  be  solved  by  any  intelligent  gentleman  re- 
siding in  Dublin  :  for  example,  how  his  brother 
Garrett  became  possessed  of  the  estate  at  Clohir, 
and  what  were  the  grounds  for  the  suit  or  action 
for  the  recovery  of  that  estate  by  Robert  Nagle  or 
Nangle.  Nothing  on  this  important  subject  can 
be  collected  from  the  biographers.  Sir  G-.  Cock- 
burn,  in  the  pamphlet  to  which  your  correspon- 
dent referred,  gives  an  unfavourable  account  of 
the  transaction :  — 

"  To  elude  the  persecuting  rigour  of  the  penal  laws  in 
Ireland,  a  Horn  an  Catholic  family  made  over  their  estate 
in  trust  to  a  brother  of  Mr.  E.  Burke's,  a  practising  at- 
torney in  Dublin ;  but  he  thought  proper  to  avail  him- 
self of  their  confidence,  claimed  and  held  the  estate  for 
himself,  and  bequeathed  it  to  his  elder  brother. 

"  Mr.  O'Connor  was*  employed  by  this  unfortunate  fa- 
mil}'  to  carry  on  a  suit  in  the  Irish  Exchequer  to  recover 
this  estate.  But  as  the  rigid  letter  of  the  law  was  de- 
cidedly against  their  claims,  Mr.  O'Connor  appealed  to 
Mr.  Burke's  humanity  in  their  favour.  He  candidly 
acknowledged  the  cruelty  and' injustice  of  the  penal  laws, 
and  fairly  and  liberally  owned  that  he  would  with  con- 
scientious pleasure  restore  the  estate,  if  he  did  not  appre- 
hend that  his  doing  so  would  throw  an  indelible  stain  on 
his  brother's  memory.  The  following  panegyrical  epi- 
gram on  Mr.  Burke's  answer  was  written  at  that  time, 
about  1773  [1777?]  by  Counsellor  Hanvood:  — 

" '  Fraternal  love  inspires  good  Edmund's  breast, 
Of  his  dear  virtue  hear  this  glorious  test  — 
He  writes,  declaims  in  mild  Religion's  cause, 
Yet  he's  enriched  by  fraud  and  penal  laws. 
He  'gainst  his  conscience  beggars  a  whole  race, 
To  save  a  brother's  memory  from  disgrace  ; 
Rather  than  blast  the  generous  donor's  fame, 
From  him  he  heirs  the  profit,  cheat,  and  shame; 
Sarcastic  truth  with  calm  contempt  he  braves, 
And  from  pure  virtue  shines  the  first  of— knaves.'  " 

A  like  charge  was  preferred  against  the  Burkes 
while  Edmund  was  living,  in  the  Rape  of  Pomona, 
by  Mr.  Coventry,  afterwards  M.P. 

The  general  truth  of  these  statements  is 
strengthened  by  a  letter  from  Edmund  Burke, 
dated  9th  Dec.  1777,  and  which  may  have  been 
the  reply  to  Mr.  O'Connor.  This  letter  —  one  of 
great  interest — was  published  by  Sir  James  Prior, 
but  is  not  to  be  found  in  the  last  edition  of  his 
Life  of  Burke. 

Here  are  serious  charges,  in  which  I,  for  one, 
am  unwilling  to  place  implicit  confidence.  Will 
some  of  your  Dublin  correspondents  obligingly 
give  us  the  authentic  facts  from  the  official  re- 
cords ?  T.  C.  B. 

I  agree  with  your  correspondent  that  our  ignor- 
ance respecting  Edmund  Burke  and  his  family 
is  quite  startling.  Even  the  few  facts  which  he 
seems  willing  to  receive  are  not  proved.  I  am 
afraid  that  I  cannot  help  to  clear  up  the  mystery, 
but  I  noticed  some  time  since  a  fact  respecting 
some  Burke  of  one  of  the  many  Castle  Towns 


3'd  S.  I.  MAR.  15,.'62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


213 


which  may  be  worth  notice.  Thus,  in  the  list  of 
claims  entered  at  Chichester  House,  Dublin,  be- 
fore 10th  August,  1700;  that  is,  Claims  on  For- 
feited Estates,  is  one  — 

"  No.  1020.  By  John  and  Thomas  Bourke  for  mortgage 
in  fee  for  £1000  oti  lands  in  Castle  Town,  Cy.  Gal  way, 
Barony  of  Longford,  late  in  the  possession  of  John  Burke." 

And  one  of  the  witnesses  to  the  lease  and  re- 
lease, dated  July,  1700,  is  "William  Nangle." 

If  this  association  of  names  and  facts — of  Burkes, 
Nangles,  Castle  Town,  and  penal  laws,  have  nothing 
to  do  with  our  Burkes,  Nangles,  Castle  Town,  and 
penal  laws,  it  is  a  very  remarkable  coincidence. 

J.  A.  W. 


GORSUCH. 
(2nd  S.  xii.  249,  335,  382,  443.) 

In  the  Calendar  of  State  Papers,  Domestic 
Series,  1630,  Oct.  24,  is  a  petition  of  Daniel 
Gorsuch,  merchant  in  London.  On  the  south 
wall  of  Walkern  church,  Hertfordshire,  above 
an  altar  tomb,  under  a  semicircular  recess,  are 
the  effigies  of  a  gentleman  and  lady  kneeling 
in  prayer  :  Shields  dexter,  argent  semee  of  10 
cross-crosslets,  gules,  3  griffin's  heads  erased 
suble;  sinister,  sable  2  bars  engrailed  between 
3  fleurs-de-lis  or  ;  with  inscription  to  the  memory 
of  Daniel  Gorsuch,  citizen  and  merchant  of  Lon- 
don (ob.  8th  Oct.  1638),  his  wife  Alice,  and  three 
children — John,  Katharine,  and  Joanna. 

John  Gorsuch,  clerk,  M.A.,  was  rector  of  Wal- 
kern on  the  presentation  of  Daniel  Gorsuch,  28th 
July,  1632 ;  of  whom  see  Walker's  Sufferings  of 
Clergy,  pt.  n.  p.  251. 

Thomas  Talbot  Gorsuch,  Esq.  (ob.  April  27, 
1820),  buried  at  Barkway,  Herts;  tomb  and  in- 
scription there.  Arms,  Argent,  2  chevronels  azure, 
between  3  sprigs  of  myrtle.  Motto,  "  Aperte  vi- 
vere  voto."  This  gentleman  was  a  surgeon  in 
London ;  the  only  son  of  Rev.  William  Gorsuch, 
M.A.,  vicar  of  Holy  Cross,  Shrewsbury,  1750, 
a  native  of  Shrewsbury;  ob.  1781.  His  sister 
Mary  married  Rev.  John  Rowland,  rector  of  Llan- 
geitho,  Cardiganshire ;  and  one  of  the  Masters  of 
Shrewsbury  Free  School.  The  Rev.  Wm.  Gor- 
such Rowland,  M.A.,  minister  of  St.  Mary's, 
Shrewsbury,  and  Daniel  Rowland,  Esq.,  of  Lon- 
don, with  their  sisters,  substantiated  their  claim 
as  next  of  kin  in  a  Chancery  suit  to  the  property 
of  Mr.  T.  Talbot  Gorsuch. 

The  following  extracts  from  the  Parish  Regis- 
ter of  Holy  Cross,  Shrewsbury,  may  relate  to  this 
family :  — 

"  1664,  Oct.  20.  Rowland,  s.  of  Richard  and  Jane  Gos- 
sage,  bap. 

1667,  Aug.  15.  Rowland,  s.  of  Richard  Gossage,  bur. 

1669,  March  25.  Richard,  s.  of  Richard  Gossage,  bap. ; 
bur.  on  28th. 

1671,  June  1.  John,  s.  of  Richard  Gossage,  bap. 

1674,  May  1.  Elizabeth,  d.  of  Richard  Gossage,  bap. 


1700,  Sep.  16.  Richard  Gausage,  poor  laborer,  bur. 

1716,  March  10.     Widow  Gorsage,  pauper,  bur. 

1733,  Oct.  18.     Mr.  Win.  Gorsuch  and  Mrs.  Martha 

Talbot,   both  of  St.  Chad's  parish,  Shrewsbury, 

mar. 
1770,  Aug.  16.  Wm.  Gorsuch,  s.  of  Rev.  John  and  Mary 

Rowland,  bap. 

1772,  July  31.  John,  s.  of  ditto,  bap. 

1773,  Dec.  11.  .Tinetta,  d.  of  ditto,  bap. 
1775,  May  30.  Martha  d.  of  ditto,  bap. 

1777,  Feb.  8.  Maria,  d.  of  ditto,  bap. 

1778,  July  11.  Daniel,  s.  of  ditto,  bap. 

1765,  Sep.  26.  Daniel  Rowland,  bur. 

1766,  Oct.  8.  Harriotte  Rowland,  inf.,  bur. 
1778,  July  15.  Martha  Rowland,  inf.,  bur. 
1781,  Nov.  26.  William  Gorsuch,  vicar,  bur. 

1764,  Sep.  26.  John  Rowland,  clerk,  of  St.  Mary's  par., 

Shrewsbury,    and    Mary  Gorsuch    of   this   par., 

spinster,  mar. 
1807,  Nov.  4.  Joseph  Carless,  Esq.,  of  St.  Julian  par., 

Shrewsbury,  and  Eleanor  Rowland  of  this  par., 

mar. 
•  1815,  Nov.  22.  Rev.   John  Rowland,   rector   of  Llan- 

geitho,  aged  80,  bur. 
1816,  May  17.  Joseph  Carless,  Esq.,  Alderman,  aged 

68,  bur. 
1821,  March  17.  Mary,  relict  of  Rev.  John  Rowland, 

aged  85,  bur. 
1844,  Dec.  4.  Eleanor,  widow  of  Joseph  Careless,  Esq., 

aged  75,  bur.  " 

Gossage  is  the  provincial  pronunciation  of  Gor- 
such. There  are  monuments  to  the  above  fami- 
lies in  St.  Giles's  church,  Shrewsbury. 

Ursula,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Putt,  Bart.,  of 
Gittesham,  co.  Devon,  ob.  1686,  and  Ursula, 
daughter  and  co-heiress  of  Sir  Rich.  Cholmondeley 
of  Grossmont,  York,  Knt,  married  Charles  Gor- 
such, Esq.,  of  Oxfordshire  ;  and  died  s.  p. 

W.  A.  LEIGHTON. 

Shrewsbury. 

Is  Gorsuch  in  the  vicinity  of  Preston,  as  alleged 
by  J.  R.  ?  Or  was  it  situated  between  Scarisbrick 
Bridge  raid  La  Mancha  ?  Some  of  the  family  of 
Gorsuch  seem  to  have  settled,  or  to  have  been  living 
in  London  about  1715  or  1716.  The  family  was 
Catholic,  and  mention  is  made  of  a  priest  of  that 
name.  Thomas  Gorsuch,  Thomas  Gorsuch,  jun.,  his 
sisters  Anne  and  Mary  Gorsuch,  are  mentioned  in 
notes  of  that  date.  Under  the  date  Nov.  17, 
1706,  I  find  that  Mary  Gorsuch  gave  to  a  friend 
a  powder-box,  which  her  father  had,  made  of  lig- 
num vitce.  I  suspect  the  father  died  Dec.  21, 
1725.  In  the  Catholic  chapel  at  St.  Helen's,  there 
is  a  mural  tablet  in  memory  of  a  Gorsuch  Eccles- 
ton:  perhaps  there  was  an  inter-marriage  be- 
tween the  families  of  Gorsuch  and  Eccleston, 
which  latter  family  now  represents  the  Scaris- 
bricks  and  Dicconsons.  A.  E.  L. 


THE  EMPEROR  NAPOLEON  III. 

(3rd  S.  i.  88.) 

In  my  collection  of  autographs  there  is  one  of 
the  present  Emperor  of  the  French,  which  runs 
as  follows :  — 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  g.  I.  MAR.  15,  '62. 


«3A,  King  St.,  le  21  Avril,  1847. 
«  Mon  cher  Monsieur  Campbell, 

"  Vous  me  feriez  grand  plaisir  de  vouloir  bien  tra- 
duire  dans  ce  bon  style  Anglais  que  vous  maniez  si  bien 
la  lettre  9i-jointe  que  je  suis  oblige  d'adresser  aux  jour- 
naux. 

"  J'enverrai  demain  a,  midi  chercher  la"  reponse  et 
j'espere  que  vous  voudrez  bien  me  rendre  ce  service. 

"  Recevez,  mon  cher  Monsieur  Campbell,  1'assurance 
de  mes  sentimens  d'estime  et  d'amitid 

(Signed)  "  NAPOLEON  Louis  B."  * 

In  the  London  Times  of  the  23rd  April,  1847, 
I  find  the  following  interesting  letter,  which  was 
evidently  that  referred  to  by  the  writer  of  the 
autograph.  It  is  characteristic,  and  being  for- 
gotten, merits  reproduction  in  your  pages  :  — 
"  To  the  Editor  o/Tbe  Times. 

«  Sir,— A  Member  of  the  Chamber  of  Deputies,  M.  le 
Baron  Leconteulx,  had  the  hardihood  to  assert,  in  the 
sitting  of  the  17th  inst.,  that,  in  1836,  I  violated  the 
solemn  engagement  in  consideration  of  which,  he  avers, 
I  was  graciously  pardoned.  A  few  months  ago,  Monsieur 
Capefigue,  in  the  ninth  volume  of  his  UEuropc.  depuis 
Vavenement  du  .Rot  Louis  Philippe,  propagated  the  same 
calumny.  Thus  I  am  reluctantly  constrained  once  more 
to  refute  malevolence  which  neither  my  prolonged  cap- 
tivit}r,  nor  my  present  retired  mode  of  life  has  sufficed  to 
silence. 

"  In  1836  the  French  Government  made  no  attempt  to 
negotiate  terms  for  my  liberation,  for  it  knew  full  well 
that  I  preferred  a  solemn  trial  to  being  merely  set  at 
liberty.  Nothing  then  was  exacted  of  me,  for  the  simple 
reason  that  there  was  nothing  to  require  of  me.  Nor  can 
I  have  conceded  aught,  since  I  craved  no  concession  of 
the  Government.  Accordingly,  in  1840,  M.  Frank  Carre, 
the  Procureur-General,  when  reading  my  indictment 
before  the  Court  of  Peers,  was  obliged  to  admit  that  my 
liberation  in  1836  was  quite  unconditional  (witness  the 
Moniteur  of  the  30th  September,  1840).  When,  there- 
fore, I  returned  to  Europe,  in  1837,  that  I  might  close 
the  eyelids  of  my  dying  mother,  no  moral  obligation 
forbad  my  doing  so. 

"  If  in  order  to  accomplish  that  act  of  filial  duty,  I  had 
been  weak  enough  to  violate  a  promise,  the  French 
Government  would  not  have  found  it  necessary  in  1838 
to  assemble  a  corps  d'armee  for  the  purpose  of  forcing  me 
to  quit  Switzerland  ;  a  summons  to  keep  my  engagement 
would  have  sufficed.  Moreover,  if  I  had  broken  my 
word,  the  French  Government  would  never  have  placed 
reliance  in  it  afterwards;  yet,  far  from  that  being  the 
case,  it  repeatedly  intimated  to  me,  during  my  confine- 
ment at  Ham,  that  upon  my  making  certain  pledges  to 
the  present  dynasty,  the  doors  of  my  prison  would  be 
forthwith  thrown  open. 

"Now  if  I  had  as  little  regard  as  some  would  have  it 
believed,  for  what,  in  my  estimation,  is  most  sacred— good 
faith  —  I  should  have  unhesitatingly  subscribed  what- 
ever conditions  were  proposed  ;  whereas,  on  the  contrary, 
I  preferred  to  remain  six  years  a  prisoner,  and  to  incur 
the  perils  of  a  hazardous  escape,  sooner  than  submit  to 
terms  which  I  deemed  to  be  degrading. 

"  Let  those  who  list  censure  my  political  life ;  let  them, 
if  they  please,  misrepresent  my  actions,  nay,  distort  my 
motives ;  I  shall  not  murmur,  for  I  know  that  public 
opinion  is  inexorable  towards  the  fallen  ;  but  never  shall 
I  suffer  any  one  to  asperse  my  honor,  which,  thank  God! 
I  have  preserved  unsullied  through  many  severe  trials. 

*  Following  his  uncle's  example,  the  Prince  thus  ab- 
breviated his  signature  in  familiar  epistles, 


"  Confident,  Sir,  that  in  the  spirit  of  justice,  you  will 
give  insertion  to  the  preceding  refutation, 
"  I  remain,  Sir,  Yours, 

"NAPOLEON  Louis  BONAPARTE." 
"  King  Street,  St.  James's,  April  22." 

Can  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  inform  me  who 
was  the  Mr.  Campbell  to  whom  the  above  auto- 
graph was  addressed,  and  whom  the  present 
Emperor  of  the  French  therein  complimented  on 
his  "  good  English  style  "  ?  D.  C.  L. 


TPJAL  OF  SPENCEPw  COWPER. 
(3rd  S.  i.  91,  191.) 

Your  correspondent  J.  F.  has  confounded  Trial 
by  Battel  with  an  Appeal  of  Murder  ;  and  seems  to 
think  that  the  one  was  a  necessary  accompaniment 
of  the  other.  This  was  by  no  means  the  case. 
Trial  by  Battel  was  merely  optional  on  the  part  of 
the  appellee,  when  he  pleaded  not  guilty ;  and 
even  that  option  was  taken  away  when,  as  in 
Spencer  Cowper's  case,  there  had  been  a  previous 
trial.  So  that  all  J.  F.'s  remarks  on  the  Cowpers' 
not  choosing  to  hazard  the  consequences  of  a  trial 
by  battel,  are  entirely  irrelevant.  In  the  17th 
volume  of  Howell's  State  Trials,  pp.  397—462,  J. 
F.  will  find  an  appeal  of  murder  against  Thomas 
Bambridge,  who  had  been  already  tried  for  the 
same  crime  and  acquitted,  in  which  there  is  no 
suggestion  of  a  wager  of  battel. 

No  one,  I  think,  can  read  the  trial  of  Spencer 
Cowper  without  being  convinced  that  he  was  en- 
tirely innocent  of  the  crime ;  and  so  far  from  its 
being  true,  as  stated  in  the  extract  given  by 
W.  D.  (p.  91)  from  Wilkins's  Political  Ballads, 
that  Cowper  "  paid  his  addresses  "  to  Sarah  Stout, 
the  woman  alleged  to  have  been  murdered,  it  was 
proved  in  evidence  that  she  paid  her  addresses  to 
him  (a  married  man),  and  that  he  carefully  avoided 
her  pressing  solicitations.  That  from  political 
and  sectarian  causes  the  question  was  for  some 
time  kept  alive  there  is  no  doubt;  but  that  in 
the  opinion  of  every  unprejudiced  person  no 
stigma  remained  against  him,  is  proved  by  the 
respect  in  which  he  was  subsequently  held ;  by 
his  being  afterwards  elected  a  member  of  the 
senate,  and  being  called  upon  to  fill,  successively, 
the  offices  of  Attorney- General  to  the  Prince  of 
Wales,  Chief  Justice  of  Chester,  and  Judge  of  the 
Common  Pleas. 

With  regard  to  the  appeal,  J.  F.  rather  con- 
fuses himself  between  the  mother  of  the  deceased, 
and  the  mother  of  the  infant  heir-at-law,  who 
would  have  been  his  natural  guardian.  Yet  the 
whole  proceedings  were  taken  without  her  know- 
ledge or  consent.  And  though  the  sheriff  was 
technically  to  blame  for  delivering  up  the  writ  to 
her,  the  whole  infamy  of  the  transaction  appears 
in  the  judgment  pronounced  by  the  judges  on 
the  application  for  a  new  writ.  They  refused  it  on 
the  ground  that  the  first  writ  was  clandestinely 


S.  I.  MAR.  15,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


215 


and  fraudulently  procured,  that  it  was  absolutely 
renounced  by  the  pretended  plaintiff,  and  that 
the  delay  in  the  issue  of  the  first  writ  showed  that 
the  prosecutors  did  not  design  justice,  but  to  spin 
out  a  scandal  as  long  as  they  could,  maliciously 
and  vexatiously.  Spencer  Cowper,  so  far  from 
avoiding  the  inquiry,  appeared  in  court  and  de- 
clared his  readiness  to  answer.  EDWARD  Foss. 


WEST  STREET  CHAPEL  (3rd  S.  i.  111.)—  After  the 
revocation  of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  many  French 
Protestants  sought  shelter  in  England.  Those  who 
came  to  London  principally  located  themselves  in 
the  neighbourhood  of  Soho,  and  two  or  three  cha- 
pels were  opened  in  that  district  for  the  perform- 
ance of  Divine  Service  in  their  own  language. 
About  the  year  1705,  one  of  these  in  Grafton 
Street  was  given  up,  and  the  congregation  removed 
to  a  new  chapel,  which  they  had  erected  in  West 
Street,  where  they  continued  until  1742,  when  it 
appears  to'.have  fallen  into  disuse,  and  to  have  been 
shortly  after  re-opened  by  the  Rev.  John  Wesley. 
It  is  probable  that  the  congregation  had  con- 
siderably fallen  off  long  previous,  for  it  appears 
the  Vestry  of  St.  Giles  in  1731  contemplated 
taking  the  French  Chapel  in  West  Street  as  a 
Tabernacle  during  the  rebuilding  of  the  parish 
church  ;  but  whether  this  was  done  or  not,  I  have 
no  evidence  to  show.  I  may  perhaps  mention, 
that,  although  used  by  the  Wesleyans,  it  was 
continually  called  the  "  French  Chapel."  Indeed 
I  have  seen  mention  made  of  it  as  such  so  late  as 
17G8.  JOHN  TUCKETT. 

Great  Russell  Street. 

DEFACED  AND  WORN  COINS  (3rd  S.  i.  130.) — 
To  render  the  inscriptions  visible  by  means  of  a 
hot  iron  requires  some  dexterity  and  great  judg- 
ment when  to  cease  applying  the  heat.  The  effect 
is  very  slight,  and  only  depends  on  the  difference 
of  colour  which  heat  gives  to  the  same  piece  of 
metal  under  different  degrees  'of  density,  —  the 
raised  legend  and  parts  under  it  being  less  com- 
pressed than  the  flat  portions  of  the  coin.  The 
experiment  frequently  fails  by  being  carried  too 
far.  A  domestic  smoothing-iron  held  face  up- 
wards by  some  contrivance  is  convenient.  Try 
the  heat  by  applying  a  wetted  finger,  and  if  the 
moisture  dries  up  with  a  sharp  "  fiz,"  it  will  do. 
Then  put  on  the  coin,  and  watch  it  by  reflected 
light,  and  the  instant  any  traces  of  the  impression 
become  visible,  slide  it  off  to  a  dry  earthenware 
plate  ;  the  heat  absorbed  by  the  coin  will  carry 
on  the  effect  until  it  cools.  Roman  brass  coins 
incrusted  and  illegible  are  better  brought  into 
visibility  by  making  them  for  a  week  or  two 
(without  any  previous  preparation)  a  part  of  the 
olla  podrida  that  generally  fills  the  pocket  of  an 
antiquary.  I  have  brought  out  some  small  ones 
beautifully  by  this  very  simple  method.  U.  O.  N". 


QUOTATION  :  "  FORGIVENESS,  ETC."  (3rd  S.  i.  69, 
138.) — I  have  heard  the  proverb  quoted  as  an 
old  Italian  one, —  "The  man  who  has  injured 
you,  never  forgives."  It  certainly  dates  before 
Dryden,  for  I  find  it  in  George  Herbert's  Jacula 
Prudentum ;  or,  Outlandish  Proverbs,  first  printed 
in  1640, —  "  The  offender  never  pardons." 

He  is,  indeed,  a  happy  man  who  has  never 
proved  experimentally  the  truth  of  this  adage ; 
which  has  afforded  to  many  aggrieved  persons  the 
modified  consolation  of  knowing  that  such  con- 
duct, however  unchristian  and  inexplicable,  is 
nevertheless  by  no  means  unprecedented. 

DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

SMUGGLING  (3rd  S.  i.  172.)  —  Your  correspon- 
dent will  find  an  account  of  smuggling  in  Sussex 
in  the  lOlh  vol.  of  the  Sussex  Arch.  Collections, 
and  he  will  find,  published  in  1749,  8vo,  with 
engravings  (5th  ed.,  reprinted  by  W.  Clowes,  20, 
Villiers  Street  Strand),  — 

"  A  full  Account  of  the  celebrated  Hawkhurst  Gang, 
who  sacked  the  Custom- House  at  Pool.  A  Full  and 
Genuine  History  of  the  Inhuman  and  unparalleled  Mur- 
ders of  William  Galley,  a  Custom-House  Officer,  and 
Daniel  Cliater,  Shoemaker,  by  Fourteen  Notorious  Smug- 

glers,  with  the  Trials  and  Execution  of  the  Seven  Bloody 
riminals,  at  Chichester ;  also  the  Trials  of  John  Mills 
and  Henry  Sheerman,  with  an  Account  of  the  wicked 
Lives  of  the  said  Henry  Sheerman,  Lawrance  and  Thomas 
Kemp  (two  brothers),  Robert  Fuller,  and  Jockey  Brown, 
(condemned  at  East  Grinstead).  With  the  Trials  at 
large  of  Thomas  Kingsmill  and  other  Smugglers  for 
breaking  open  the  Custom  House  at  Poole.  To  the  whole 
is  added  a  Sermon  preached  in  the  Cathedral  Church  at 
Chichester,  at  a  Special  Assize  held  there,  by  Wm.  Ash- 
burnham,  M.A.  16th  January,  1748—9." 

He  was  afterwards  Bishop  of  the  diocese. 

WILLIAM  DURRAJ.ST  COOPER. 

SIR  ARCHIBALD  ALISON'S  "  CASTLEREAGH  "  (3rd 
S.  i.  128.)  —  I  can  account  for  Sir  Archibald  Ali- 
son's substitution  of  Sir  Peregrine  Pickle  for  Sir 
Peregrine  Maitland,  in  his  Life  of  Castlereagh. 
It  results  from  the  Hon.  Bart.'s  habit  of  dictating 
•to  an  amanuensis,  and  afterwards  being  unable  to 
correct  his  own  proof  sheets,  owing  to  the  multi- 
plicity of  his  engagements,  and  the  prodigious 
quantity  of  work  he  contrives  to  go  through.  The 
latter  was,  many  years  ago  (say  1848),  admirably 
illustrated  in  an  able  article  in  the  Dublin  Uni- 
versity Magazine  by  Mr.  R.  H.  Patterson,  who 
has  had  much  to  do  with  the  proof  sheets.  As 
regards  the  lapsus,  Sir  Archibald  resembles  all 
other  authors,  who,  like  poor  Goldsmith,  attempt 
dictation,  and  seems  remarkably  apt  to  massacre 
one  sentence  whilst  thinking  of  the  next.  It  is 
well-known  that  Sir  Archibald  is  Sheriff  Principal 
of  Lanarkshire ;  and,  in  that  capacity,  he  has  fre- 
quently, in  the  midst  of  his  literary  labours,  to 
indite  and  compose  written  judgments,  sometimes 
mere  words  of  form,  on  the  weightiest  matters  of 
the  law,  which  may  by  no  means  be  neglected  for 


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[3rd  S.  I.  MAR.  15,  '62. 


the  mere  anise  and  cummin  of  history  ;  and  I  be- 
lieve I  can  vouch  for  the  fact  that  whilst  in  hot 
composition  of  his  History  of  Europe,  the  distin- 
guished author  having  occasion  to  take  a  Sheriff's 
Court  "process"  home  with  him  for  decision, 
transferred  his  attention  for  a  moment  from  the 
historic  to  the  forensic  muse,  but  continued  dic- 
tating to  his  clerk  without  alteration  of  his  tone 
or  gesture  :  — 

"  THE  EMPEROE,  having  advised  this  process,  makes 
an  avizandum  therewith,  dismisses  the  appeal,  finds  the 
defender  liable  in  Two  pounds  five  shillings  and  six- 
pence additional  expenses,  and  decerns. 

"  A.  ALISON." 

Judge  the  consternation  in  the  Glasgow  Sheriff's 
Court  when  this  imperial  rescript  came  before  it ! 

SHOLTO  MACDUFF. 

PETTIGREW  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  125.)  —  Tt  is 
droll  enough  that  any  question  should  arise  as  to 
the  genealogy  of  a  family  whose  name  itself  (ac- 
cording to  Mr.  Mark  Antony  Lower)  is  but  the 
original  of  our  word  pedigree!  The  testator, 
Robert  Petigrew,  shown  by  INA  to  have  been 
located  in  Somersetshire,  was,  in  all  probability,  a 
descendant  of  the  Cornish  family  of  Petticru,  of 
which  there  is  a  peiticru  of  two  or  three  descents 
in  the  Harl.  MS.  No.  4031,  fo.  786.  I  have  some 
recollection  of  having  copied  this  a  few  years  since, 
and  sent  it  to  Mr.  Pettigrew,  Ph.D.,  F.R.S., 
whose  descendants  will,  however,  probably  be 
content  to  date  their  pedigree  from  him.  S.  T. 

THE  FFOLLIOT  FAMILY   (3rd  S.  i.  88,  158.)  — 
I  feel   much  indebted  to  SIR  THOMAS  WINNING- 
TON  for  the  information  he  gives  on  this  subject, 
and  which  I  should  be  very  glad  if  he  would  fur-  | 
ther  oblige  me  by  improving. 

If  Lord  Ffolliot  was  the  possessor  —  or  nearly 
related   to    the    possessor  —  of  the   Lickhill  and 
Wislmw  estates,  there  would  of  course  be  nothing 
noteworthy  in  the  finding  the  record  of  his  dauirh-  I 
ter's  burial  in  a  contiguous  parish  register.     Will 
SIR   THOMAS    WINNINGTON,    therefore,    be   kind 
enough  of  his  own  knowledge,  or  by  reference  to  | 
the  resources  of  his  magnificent  library,  to  point  j 
out  how  he  Avas  connected  with  the    family  he 
alludes  to?     I  should  be  glad  also  to  know  who 
'^Thomas"  Lord  Ffolliot  was  —  I  never  heard  of 
him. 

I  always  imagined  the  family  to  which  SIR 
THOMAS  refers,  to  have  been  identical  with  the 
Folliots  of  Purton,  co.  Wigorn,  whose  pedigree 
was  entered  at  the  Visitations,  of  which  the  line 
of  the  Irish  Peer  was  a  cadet,  not  closely  con- 
nected, and  after  one  of  whose  members  the  late 
Bishop  (Cornewall)  of  Worcester  was  named 
"  Folliot."  S.  T. 

SUTTON  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  131.)— -A  gentleman, 
who  signs  himself  J.  P.  SUTTON,  states  that  his 
father  now  represents  the  Sutton  family  in  Ire- 


land. This  may  possibly  be  the  case,  as  the  only 
son  of  the  late  Caesar  Sutton  of  Longraigue,  in 
the  county  of  Wexford,  is  not  at  present  in  this 
country.  Querist  is  anxious  to  find  out  the  name 
of  the  founder  of  his  family  who  came  over  to 
England  with  William  the  Conqueror.  This  it 
may  be  difficult,  if  not  impossible,  now  to  ascer- 
tain. It  is  probable  the  name  of  Sutton  was  not 
imported  from  Normandy,  but  derived  from  the 
grant  of  lands  in  England  so  called. 

The  first  Irish  settler  was  Roger  de  Sutton, 
who  came  over  in  the  reign  of  Henry  II.,  and  re- 
ceived a  grant  of  the  parish  of  Kilmokea,  still 
known  as  "  Sutton's  Parish,"  in  the  county  of 
Wexford.  Here  he  built  the  castle  of  Bally  kerogue, 
now  in  ruins ;  together  with  a  chapel  adjacent 
thereto,  where  some  members  of  the  family  lie 
buried. 

The  principal  ramifications  from  this  stock  were 
the  Suttons  of  Clonard,  near  the  town  of  Wex- 
ford, which  was  probably  the  senior  branch,  the 
Suttons  of  Longraigue,  and  a  family  who  lived, 
and  are  possibly  still  living,  at  Clonmines,  in  the 
county  of  Wexford. 

Some  members  of  the  Clonard  branch,  who 
were  adherents  of  James  II.,  emigrated  (when 
that  monarch  was  dethroned)  to  France  and 
Spain ;  where  they  assumed  the  title  of  Counts 
of  Clo?jard,  not  Cloward,  as  in  your  paper. 

The  present  writer  is  not  aware  that  a  lizard 
was  ever  the  crest  of  the  Suttons.  He  thinks  it 
was  a  lion,  or  demi-lion  rampant. 

The  name  of  "  Csssar "  came  into  the  Sutton 
family  by  an  ancestor  of  the  Suttons  of  Lon- 
graigue ;  who  married  a  Miss  Colclough  of  Tin- 
tern  Abbey,  in  which  family  the  name  is  common. 

With  respect  to  the  size  and  personal  appear- 
ance of  the  Suttons,  they  were  in  general  hand- 
some, and  the  men  of  large  frame,  and  inclined 
to  be  fat.  The  present  writer  recollects  one  of 
them  who  weighed  thirty-six  stone  ;  and  was  so 
bulky  that,  when  lie  died,  it  was  necessary  to  re- 
move the  window-frame  in  order  to  get  his  coffin 
out  of  the  house. 

The  late  Mr.  Edward  Sutton,  of  Summer  Hill, 
near  Wexford,  was  the  last  male  representative 
of  the  Clonard  branch.  He  left*two  daughters, 
who  are  still  living. 

A  CONNEXION  OF  THE  SUTTONS. 

ARMS  OF  WILKES  (2nd  S.  xii.  435.)  — The  arms 
of  John  Wilkes,  Lord  Mayor  of  London  in  1774, 
were,  Or,  a  chevron  between  3  ravens'  heads  erased 
sable.  UNYTE. 

DOUBLER  (3rd  S.  i.  148.) — Your  correspondent 
will  find  his  Query  answered  by  referring  to  the 
Abridgement  of  Dr.  Jamieson's  Dictionary  of  the 
Scottish  Language.  Under  the  word  "  Dublar  " 
reference  is  made  to  "  Dibler,"  which  last  is  de- 
fined "  A  large  wooden  platter."  As  to  the  deri- 


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vation,  the  author  cites  the  old  English  won 
"  Dobeler  "  and  the  old  French  word  "  Doublier 
assiette"  I  may  notice  that  in  Scotland  the  wore 
"aschet,"  as  denoting  a  large  flat  plate,  is  o 
daily  use.  G 

Edinburgh. 

The  word  doubter,  or  doubeler,  signifies  a  large 
dish,  probably  so  called  from  its  holding  double 
the  quantity  of  an  ordinary  one.  Bailey  gives  il 
thus :  "  Doubeler  or  Doubter,  a  great  dish,  or 
platter.  C.,"  that  is,  a  country  or  provincia1 
word.  F.  C.  H 

DACRE  OF  THE  NORTH  (1st  S.  iv.  382.)  — 
Having  just  met  with  this  hitherto  apparently 
unanswered  Query,  I  beg  to  say,  if  not  too  late, 
that  in  Burke's  Extinct  Peerages,  it  is  stated  that 
Francis,  fourth  son  of  William  Lord  Dacre,  mar 
ried  Dorothy,  daughter  of  John  Earl  of  Derwent- 
water,  and  had  Randal,  who  died  without  issue 
two  years  before  his  father,  and  was  the  last  heir 
male  of  that  line.  Leonard  Dacre,  brother  of 
Francis,  appears  as  Lord  of  the  Manor  of  Ecking- 
ton,  1553—63.  J.  EASTWOOD. 

Eckington. 

ANCIENT  CUSTOM  IN  WARWICKSHIRE  ON  ALL 
SOULS'  EVE  (1st  S.  viii.  490.)  — This  hitherto  un- 
answered Query  relates  to  a  custom  formerly  kept 
up  in  many  other  parts  of  England  and  Wales, 
which  is  supposed  to  have  been  emblematical  of 
lighting  souls  out  of  Purgatory.  There  is  much 
about  it  in  Brand's  Popular  Antiquities ;  to  which 
may  be  added  that  teen  is  from  the  A.-S.  tendan 
or  tyndan  (from  which  also  comes  tinder},  "to 
kindle,  or  set  on  fire;"  and  that  low,  meaning 
flame,  occurs  frequently  in  old  poets,  and  may  yet 
be  heard  occasionally  in  the  provinces. 

J.  EASTWOOD. 
Eckington. 

"THE  BEGINNING  OF  THE  END"  (2nd  S.  xii. 
307,  357,  381.)  — It  does  not  seem  likely  that  a 
phrase  in  such  common  use  should  have  originated 
with  General  Augereau,  as  suggested  by  GNARUS. 
Was  it  not  Shakspeare  who  first  popularised  the 
expression,  albeit  unwittingly,  as .  he  evidently 
wrote  it  in  burlesque,  and  for  the  purpose  of 
ridiculing  the  false  punctuation  of  his  players,  in 
Pyramus  and  Thisbe  f  The  Prologue  to  the  ex- 
travaganza should  evidently  be  thus  spoken,  — 
"  We  come  not  to  offend, 

But  with  good  will  to  show  our  simple  skill ;  — 

That  is  the  true  beginning  of  our  end. 

Consider  then.     We  come;  but,  in  despite, 

We  do  not  come.    As  minding  to  content  vou, 

Our  true  intent  is,  &c." 

A  great  man  had  need  be  very  careful  how  he 
writes  or  speaks,  lest  his  nonsense  should  become 
proverbial,  or  what  is  still  worse,  be  looked  upon 
by  the  masses  as  something  wonderfully  recondite 
or  philosophical.  DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 


SATIN  BANK  NOTE  (3rd  S.  i.  111.)  — In  bye- 
gorie  years,  whenever  any  scoundrel  had  suc- 
ceeded in  procuring  a  few  pounds  of  ready  money 
and  sentence  of  death,  in  exchange  for  certain 
clever  imitations  of  the  old  copperplate  Bank  of 
England  note,  some  wiseacre  would  call  public 
attention  to  such  an  invention  as  the  one  de- 
scribed—  an  ingenious  combination  of  weaving 
and  printing;  and  raise  a  great  outcry  about 
neglected  merit  on  its  rejection  by  the  Bank  — 
an  event  which  must  have  been  anticipated  by 
every  one  but  the  too  sanguine  inventor. 

I  knew  an  engraver  who  wasted  many  years, 
and  a  fair  property,  in  engraving  elaborate  and 
intricate  patterns,  under  the  delusion  that,  for 
the  better  prevention  of  forgery,  the  Bank  would 
be  compelled  to  adopt  his  method.  He  lived  just 
long  enough  to  see  the  marvellous  combination  of 
paper-making  and  letter-press  printing  exhibited 
in  the  present  simple  Bank  Note,  and  died  a  dis- 
appointed and  broken-hearted  man.  U.  O.  N. 

TABARDS  WORN  BY  LADIES  (2nd  S.  xii.  435.)  — 
Are  the  arms  on  the  tabard,  worn  by  Elizabeth 
Covert,  her  own  family  arms  ?  If  so,  it  is  prob- 
able that  she  was  the  heiress,  or  sole  representa- 
tive of  her  family.  CHESSBOROUGH  HARBERTON. 

Totnes. 

HOLAND,  DUKE  OF  EXETER  (3rd  S.  i.  52, 157.) — 
The  crest  of  John  Holand,  D  tike  of  Exeter — "Upon 
a  chapeau  doubled  ermine,  a  lion  passant,  guardant, 
crowned  and  gorged  with  a  collar  of  France,"  — 
was,  as  Sandford  states,  curiously  carved  in  stone 
upon  the  Duke's  monument  in  St.  Catharine's 
church,  near  the  Tower  of  London.  This  most 
interesting  church  was  taken  down  in  the  year 
1826,  in  order  to  make  space  for  the  new  St. 
Catharine's  Docks.  The  canopied  monument  of 
the  Duke  was,  with  other  historical  remains, 
carefully  preserved ;  and  removed  to  the  new- 
church  of  St.  Catharine,  in  the  Regent's  Park. 
Your  correspondent  will  find  the  monument  there. 
It  is  well  worthy  of  inspection,  being  very  elegant 
in  design.  Great  credit  is  due  to  those  concerned 
in  the  establishment  of  the  Docks  for  respecting 
the  precious  relics  contained  in  the  old  church, 
and  not  permitting  them  to  be  scattered.  Some 
liustrations  of  the  canopied  stalls  are  given  in 
Putin's  first  volume  of  Examples  of  Gothic 
Architecture.  BENJ.  FERRETS. 

TURGESIUS  THE  DANE  (3rd  S.  i.  150.)  — H.  C. 

.  will  find  mention  of  Turgisleby,  a  place  in 
Yorkshire,  in  Burke's  Commoners,  vol.  iv.  p.  728 
;'lst  edition),  Jones  of  Llanarth.  H.  CLINTON. 

Royston,  Herts. 

EDWARD  MANISTY  (3rd  S.  i.  89.)  —Matriculated 
as  a  pensioner  of  Clare  Hall,  13th  Dec.  1622  ;  was 
B.A.  1626-7,  and  M.A.  1630. 

C.  H.  &  THOMPSON  COOPER. 

Cambridge. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  MAH.  15,  '62, 


FAIRFAX  AND  DJEMONOLOGIA  (3rd  S.  i.  150*.)  — 
The  manuscript  referred  to  has  been  printed  in 
the  Transactions  of  the  Philo-Biblion  Society. 

Q.D. 

MUTILATION  OF  SEPULCHRAL  MEMORIALS  (2nd 
S.  xii.  12.)  —  The  pathway  from  the  road  to  the 
church  of  the  parish  of  Catherington,  Horndean, 
Hants,  is  paved  with  head-stones.  B.  W. 

REV.  JOHN  WALKER'S  MSS.  (2nd  S.  xii.  435.) 
—  Nine  volumes  of  Walker's  Collections  for  his 
Sufferings  of  the  Clergy  (of  which  eight  are  in 
small  quarto  and  one  in  folio)  are  preserved 
among  Rawlinson's  MSS.  in  the  Bodleian  Li- 
brary. They  consist  for  the  most  part  of  rough 
notes  and  indices,  written  in  a  straggling  and 
indistinct  hand,  with  a  few  letters  and  papers 
from  other  persons.  W.  D.  MACBAY. 

READING  THE  SCRIPTURES  IN  THE  SIXTEENTH 
AND  SEVENTEENTH  CENTURIES  (3rd  S.  i.  166.)  — 
To  comply  with  the  wish  of  D.  M.  STEVENS  to 
see  the  opinions  of  the  early  reformers  on  the 
subject  of  reading  the  Scriptures,  we  may  first 
cite  Luther  himself  as  follows  :  — 

"  Let  no  one  imagine  tliat  he  lias  tasted  the  Scripture, 

It  is  a  great  and  wonderful  work,  to  understand 

the  Word  of  God  ...  It  is  impossible  to  fathom  and  go 
deep  into  a  single  word  of  the  Scriptures,  in  spite  of  the 
precepts  of  all  the  learned  men  and  theologians,  for  they 
are  the  words  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  wherefore  they  are  too 
sublime  for  any  men,  in  spite  of  St.  Peter,  Paul,  Moses, 
and  all  the  saints,  to  understand  thoroughly  a  single 
word  of  them." — Table  Talk,  Eisleben,  15GG,  p.  4. 

"  Be  not  absorbed  in  deep  thoughts,  and  full  of  self- 
conceit,  but  unite  yourself  to  the  Church  of  Christ,  and 
keep  to  her  as  a  helper  by  whom  the  word  of  God  is 
purely  learned.  I  and  every  righteous  preacher  have  com- 
mand and  power  from  God"  to  teach  you  and  comfort  you  ; 
wherefore  you  should  believe  my  Avord  with  certainty." — 
Ibid.  p.  18. 

F.  C.  H. 

Your  correspondent  is  probably  acquainted  with 
the  famous  passage  in  the  Paraclesis  of  Erasmus, 
but  it  deserves  to  be  quoted  for  its  excellence  :  — 

"Vehementer  ab  istis  dissentio,  qui  nolint  ab  idiotis 
k'gi  Divinas  literas,  in  vulgi  linguam  transfusas,  sive 
quasi  Christus  tain  involuta  docuerit,  ut  vix  a  pauculis 
Theologis  possint  intelligi,  sive  quasi  religionis  Christiana? 
presidium  in  hoc  situm  sit,  si  nesciatur  .  .  .  Optarim  ut 
omnes  mulierculaa  legant  Evangelium,  legant  Paulinas 
Epistolas.  j  Atque  utinam  htec  in  omnes  omnium  linguas 
essent  transfusa,  ut  non  solum  a  Scotis  et  Hibernis,  sed  a 
Turcis  quoque  et  Saracenis  legi  cognoscique  possint.  Pri- 
mus certe  gradus  est,  utcunque  cognoscere.  Esto,  riderent 
multi,  at  caperentur  aliquot.  Utinam  hinc  ad  stivam 
illiquid  decantet  agricola,  hinc  nonnihil  ad  radios  suos 
moduletur  textor,  hujusmodi  fabulis  itineris  tsedium 
level  viator.  Ex  his  sint  omnia  Christianorum  omnium 
colloquia." 

WILLIAM  J.  DEANE. 

EXORCISM;  LUTHER  (3rd  S.  i.  171.)—  W.  D. 
wishes  for  "  a  reference  to  the  works  of  Luther, 
or  his  biographers,  in  which  the  often- repeated 


story  of  his  driving  away  the  Devil  is  mentioned." 
He  will  find  plenty,  and  in  great  variety,  on  the 
subject,  in  Luther's  Epist.  ad  Elect.  Saxon,  edit, 
of  Jena,  vol.  v.  p.  485  ;  in  torn.  ii.  fol.  77 ;  in 
Condone  Dom.  reminiscere,  fol.  19  ;  in  Colloqu. 
Mensal.  foil.  283—275—281 — 32.  Indeed,  his 
Table-Talk  abounds  with  instances  of  his  various 
ways  of  driving  away  the  Devil.  One  of  these 
seems  to  have  required  a  very  strong  faith,  for  he 
says:  "  Sathanam  cum  pedore  abigere  possum; 
credens  talia  potest  praestare,  qua3  alius  non  po- 
terit."—  Colloqu.  Mensal.  ii.  p.  22.  If  W.  D.  de- 
sires to  know  the  opinion  of  one  of  his  German 
Protestant  biographers,  I  may  refer  him  to  Ver- 
hirdon,  Vita  Lutheri,  p.  22,  A.D.  1602.  I  refrain 
from  giving  his  words,  lest  I  should  appear  to 
border  upon  controversy. 

W.  D.  farther  inquires  what  are  the  "  four  in- 
fallible rules"  by  which  exorcists  detect  those 
evil  spirits  who  put  on  the  form  of  angels  of 
light.  I  know  nothing  of  four  particularly  in- 
fallible rules  ;  but  he  will  find  in  the  treatises  of 
Delrius,  Disquisitio  Magic,  and  Monacelli,  t.  iii., 
several  signs  of  the  presence  of  evil  spirits,  and 
rules  for  detecting  them,  which  it  would  be  out  of 
place  to  enumerate  here.  F.  C.  H. 

Miss  POND  (3rd  S.  i.  172.)  —  In  the  answer  to 
the  Query  respecting  Miss  Pond  there  is  an  in- 
accuracy, which  it  may  be  well  to  correct.  Lady 
Susan  Strangways  was  the  eldest  daughter  of 
Stephen  Fox- Strangways,  first  Earl  of  Ilchester. 
Moreover,  Henry  (not  "  Stephen  ")  Fox  was  the 
first  Lord  Holland  ;  and  his  daughter,  if  he  had 
one,  was  not  a  "  Lady."  Therefore,  for  "  Stephen 
Fox,  the  first  Lord  Holland,"  read  Stephen  Fox- 
Strangways,  the  first  Earl  of  Ilchester.  ABHBA. 

VISITATION  or  SHROPSHIRE  (3rd  S.  i.  127.)  — 
Is  not  the  "  well-known  local  genealogist,"  re- 
ferred to  by  G.  W.  M.  in  his  note  under  this  head, 
the  late  Mr.  Joseph  (not  George)  Morris,  of 
Shrewsbury  ?  S.  T. 

VENTILATE  (2nd  S.  ix.  443,  490.)— Your  cor- 
respondents have  already  shown  that  this  word 
is  of  no  modern  origin.  Allow  me  to  adduce 
another  instance  of  the  early  use  of  this  word. 
It  occurs  in  Joseph  Caryl's  Exposition  upon  the 
Jive  last  Chapters  of  the  Booh  of  Job.  London  : 
1666.  At  p.  11  he  writes:  — 

"First.  God  answered  Job  out  of  the  whirlwind;  that 
is,  when  there  was  a  great  bustle  or  storm  among  the 
disputants,  conflicting  about  Job's  case ;  one  moving  this 
way,  another  that,  all  being  tossed  about  (as  it  were) 
Avith  the  wind  of  their  several  opinions  in  ventilating  his 
condition." 

LIBYA. 

INTERDICTED  MARRIAGES  (3rd  S.  i.  153.)  —  I 
am  sure  that  DOUGLAS  ALLPORT  will  be  gratified, 
and  others  may  be,  by  sight  of  the  following 
extract  from  the  Register  Book  of  this  parish  :  — 


3rd  S.  I.  MAR.  15,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


219 


"  1653.  Now  marriages  were  prohibited  by  ministers, 
and  putt  into  the  hands  of  the  justices  of  the  peace  anno 
1653,  by  a  Parliament  that  did  nothing  else,  but  they  sate 
not  long  after,  and  marriages  returned  into  the  power  of 
ministers  again,  anno  1657." 

C.  E.  BIRCH. 

Wiston  Rectory,  Colchester. 

ST.    ABBREVIATED    TO    T.,  TANTHONY,    ETC.  (3rd 

S.  75.)  —  Your  correspondent  R.  S.  CHARNOCK, 
suggests  that  "  Tiffany  "  is  derived  from  tiphaine, 
the  initial  letter  being  an  abbreviation  of  St.; 
and  instances  Tooley,  from  St.  Ooley,  i.  e.  St. 
Olaf.  Add  the  following  examples  :  —  The  fair 
at  Kimbolton,  Huntingdonshire,  held  on  old  St. 
Andrew's  Day,  is  called  "  Tandrew  Fair";  and 
gaudy  finery  is  called  tawdry,  from  the  gay  way 
in  which  the  shrine  of  St.  Audrey  (i.  e.  Taudry) 
was  bedecked.  Tanthony,  for  St.  Anthony,  'is 
also  a  well-known  abbreviation.  Thus,  only  the 
other  day,  a  poor  woman  said  to  me  that  her 
neighbour  "had  got  the  Tantony  fire"  ;  and  an- 
other cottager  said  that  her  child  stuck  as  close 
to  her  "as  a  Tantony  pig."  Hone  tells  us  all 
about  this  Tantony  pig,  and  the  blessing  of  the 
beasts  at  Rome  on  St.  Anthony's  Day,  and  nearly 
everything  else  that  can  be  told  in  connexion 
with  the  Saint.  (See  Hone's  Every-day  Book, 
i.  110—121.)  Halliwell  also  treats  of  the  phrase 
in  his  Dictionary.  It  is  also  incidentally  men- 
tioned in  the  third  volume  of  the  first  Series  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  where  will  be  found  many  curious 
notes  relative  to  "  the  Tantony  bell."  The  fol- 
lowing mention  of  the  origin  of  the  bell  is  not 
given  in  Hone,  and  will  be  new  to  these  pages. 
It  is  given  in  Taylor's  Antiquitates  Curiosce,  1819, 
p.  70 :  — 

"  From  the  above  hospital  (St.  Anthony's,  Thread- 
needle  Street,  London,)  also  originated  the  tantony,  or 
little  bell  of  churches,  which  was  used  to  call  the  devout 
to  supererogatory  prayers,  or  vain  masses,  for  the  re- 
lease of  souls  from  purgatory." 

But,  the  bell  was  the  Saint's  symbol,  as  is 
shown  by  Mrs.  Jameson  in  her  Sacred  and  Legen- 
dary Art.  CUTHBERT  BEDE. 

IRELAND,  NATIONAL  COLOUR  or  (3rd  S.  i.  68.) — 

"  Planche  XI.  Pavilion  particulier  d'Irlande.  II  est 
vert,  charge  d'une  harpe  d'or,  au  franc  quartier,  charge 
d'un  croix  rouge."  —  From  La  Connoisance  des  Pav.  des 
Nations  Mar.,  a  la  Have,  1737,  p.  11. 

It  seems  strange  that  the  field  of  the  Irish  arms, 
as  borne  by  the  sovereign,  should  be  azure.  Who 
are  "the  many"  who,  according  to  ABHBA,  say 
the  colour  should  be  purple  ? 

CHESSBOROUGH  HARBERTON. 

Totnes,  Devon. 

THOMAS  SIMON  (2nd  S.  xii.  510  ;  3rd  S.  i.  178.)— 
In  reply  to  the  inquiries  of  P.  S.  CAREY  and 
CLIO,  I  beg  to  state  that  there  were  refugees  of 
the  name  of  Simon,  at  Canterbury,  soon  after 
1572.  I  add  two  matches,  which  I  have  recently 
discovered,  and  which  will  show  this ;  an4  some 


others,  which  may  assist  your  correspondents  in 
their  investigation.  A  search  at  the  General 
Register  Office,  in  the  Register  of  Baptisms  in  the 
London  Walloon  Church,  would  probably  be  at- 
tended with  success : 

At  Canterbury. 

"  1593.  Melcio  Simon  and  Ysabeau  Descamps. 
1605.  Jaque  Simon  (son  of  Melchior  Simon)  and  Su- 
sane  Descamps. 
1646.  Dan1  Agache  and  Marie  Simon. 

At  the  Savoye. 

1685.  Dan1  Simon  and  Ester  Ferrant. 
1690.  Dan1  Perdrieau  and  Eliz.  Simon. 
1725.  Pierre  Simond  and  Suse  Grotesse  de  la  Buffiere. 

At  Hungerford  Market  Chapel. 
1695.  Daniel  Simon  and  Marthe  Le  Page. 

At  La  Patents,  Soho. 
1703.  Pierre  Jolly  and  Charlotte  Simon." 
There  was  at  Canterbury  in  1650  a  mutual  re- 
lease from   a   contract   of  marriage,  —  a   rather 
unusual  occurrence.     The  parties  to  it  were  Er- 
noult  du  Emme  and  Marie  Simon. 

JOHN  S.  BURN. 
Henley. 

In  reference  to  the  Query  of  CLIO,  allow  me  to 
mention,  that  in  a  valuable  paper  contributed  by 
W.  Durrant  Cooper,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  to  vol.  xiii.  of 
the  Sussex  Archceological  Society's  Collections, 
entitled  "  Protestant  Refugees  in  Sussex,"  will  be 
found  copious  lists  of  foreign  immigrants  into 
Rye  at  various  periods  of  continental  persecution. 
In  one  of  these  lists  (p.  194),  dated  the  "xxviijth 
dale  of  Marche,  in  the  eleventh  yere  of  her  high- 
nes'  reign,  A°  D'ni  1569,"  under  the  heading  "  Of 
Depe,"  the  name  of  John  Symon  occurs.  In  a 
later  list  (p.  197)  :  — 

"  A  Viewe  taken  of  the  French  and  other  Strangers 
within  the  Towne  of  Rve,  the  fourth  daie  of  November, 
1572." 

Also,  under  the  the  heading  of  Dieppe,  is  the 

following :  — 

"  John  Sytnon,  2tfariner,rjhi9  Wife  and  5  children." 
Why  may  not  Pierre  Simon,  and  his  son  Thomas, 

have  descended  from  this  John  Symon  ? 

H.  C.  INDEX. 

ARTHUR  SHORTER  (3rd  S.  i.  118.)  —Your  cor- 
respondent, MR.  J.  P.  PHILLIPS,  will  learn  from 
Peter  le  Neve's  Pedigrees  of  Knights,  &c.,  written 
in  1718  (Harl.  MS.  5801),  that  Arthur  Shorter 
was  the  third  son  (John  and  Erasmus  being  the 
two  eldest)  of  the  John  Shorter  who  married 
Elizabeth  Phillips ;  and  who  was  the  only  son  of 
Sir  John  Shorter,  Knt,  Lord  Mayor  in  1688. 
He  was  brother  to  Katherine  Lady  VValpole  and 
Charlotte  Lady  Conway.  In  the  aboveuientioned 
work  he  is  described  as  "  unmarried,"  but  whether 
he  subsequently  married  or  not  I  have  no  means 
of  ascertaining.  H.  C.  F. 


220 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[_3"*S.  I.  MAR.  15,  '62. 


PASSAGE  IN  CICERO  (3rd  S.  i.  111.) — It  is  pos- 
sible that  the  passage  which  was  in  the  head  of 
Von  Kaumer  was  the  following  extract,  from 
Mosheirn,  De  Reb.  Christian,  (p.  957),  on  the 
Edict  of  Maximian  (A.D.  311)  :  — 

1'  Uncle  juxta  hanc  indulgentiam  nostram  debebunt 
Deum  suum  orare  pro  salute  nostra  et  reipublicae,  ac  sua, 
ut  undique  versum  res  publica  restet  incolumis,  et  securi 
vivere  in  sedibus  suis  possint." 

On  which  Mosheim  remarks,  as  translated  by 
Lardner  (Credibility,  viii.  310)  :  — 

"From  these  words  it  appears:  1.  That  Maximiaii 
believed  the  Christians  had  some  God.  2.  That  this  God 
was  not  the  supreme  God,  Maker  of  all  things,  whom  all 
ought  to  worship,  but  the  God  of  the  Christians  only: 
that  is,  the  God  of  some  certain  people,  as  many  of  the 
Gods  were  supposed  to  be.  For  at  that  time  the  Greeks 
and  Romans,  and  all  other  people,  believed  that  there 
were  Gods  proper  and  peculiar  to  every  nation." 

T.  J.  BUCKTON. 

Lichfield. 

GRAY'S  ELEGY  PARODIED  (3rd  S.  i.  197.)  — 
There  has  appeared  in  Punch  another  parody  than 
that  recorded  by  DELTA.  It  is  called  "  An  Elegy, 
written  in  a  London  Churchyard,  by  a  Trades- 
man in  the  Vicinity."  I  cannot  send  the  date  of 
its  publication,  as  I  have  only  a  copy  of  it  from 
Punch,  of  which  I  would  send  a  copy  if  it  is 
wished.  J.  F.  S. 

Perhaps  H.E.  may  have  some  difficulty  in  obtain- 
ing The  Repository.  If  so,  he  will  find  this  parody 
in  Elegant  Extracts,  book  iv.  p.  752,  1803,  with 
Mr.  Buncombe's  name  attached. 

CHESSBOROUGH  HARBERTON. 

Totnes,  Devon. 

NOCKYNGE  AND  DoWELL  MONEY,  ETC.  (3rd  S.  I. 

149.) — Has  not  your  correspondent  misread  some 
of  these  words  ?  I  think  two  of  the  items  relate 
to  Hock-money.  There  was  a  Hock- day  for  men 
and  another  for  women.  The  money  received  of 
"  Sent  Jemys  brethered"  refers  to  \\iQJFratemity 
or  Brotherhood  of  St.  James,  and  some  of  the 
inhabitants  of  Guilford  no  doubt  composed  this 
fraternity,  and  supported  a  chapel  dedicated  to 
St.  James  in  the  parish  church,  and  provided  for 
services  there.  JOHN  S.  BURN, 

Henley. 

KING  PLAYS  (3rd  S.  i.  155.) —In  the  Corporation 
Records  of  Henley  is  a  notice  of  money  gathered 
of  the  King  Play,  "  Where  Ric.  Andrew  his  son 
was  semer  King."  *  Is  not  this  the  same  word  as 
that  rendered  by  your  correspondent,  Sommer  ? 
and  was  not  the  iiij8.  xd.  received  from  the  pre- 
tended Lord  ?  JOHN  S.  BURN. 

Henley. 

LORD  WARDEN  or  THE  MARCHES  (3rd  S.  i. 
171.)— In  reply  to  L.  H.  R.'s  Query,  I  believe 

*  See  the  History  of  Henley  (p.  193),  where  also  are 
some  notices  of  Fraternities. 


the  first  Lord  Warden  of  the  Marches  against 
Scotland  was  Robert  de  Clifford.  He  was  styled 
"Keeper  of  the  Marches"  in  the  time  of  Ed- 
ward I.,  but  in  the  first  year  of  Edward  II. 
(1307)  he  was  appointed  "  Lord  Warden,"  appa- 
rently with  the  intention  of  giving  both  office  and 
officer  greater  dignity.  Robert  de  Clifford  was 
slain  at  Bannockburn  on  the  24th  June,  1314. 

C.  NICHOLSON. 
Muswell  Hill. 

REV.  WM.  THOMPSON  (2nd  S.  xi.  49,  183.)  — 
Alex.  Chalmers  must  be  in  error  in  saying  that  he 
was  Dean  of  llaphoe.  In  the  notices  of  Sale  Cata- 
logues —  Nichols's  Literary  Anecdotes  (vol.  iii. 
p.  636),  I  find  under  the  name  of  T.  Davies, 
Russell  Street,  Covent  Garden— (Rev.)  Win. 
Thomson,  of  Queen's  Coll.,  Oxford,  whose  library 
appears  to  have  been  sold  in  1768.  There  can  be 
little  doubt  that  this  was  the  gentleman  inquired 
after  by  your  correspondent,  and  he  probably 
died  about  this  time— 1768.  R.  INGLIS. 

ARMY  AND  NAVY  LISTS  (3rJ  S.  i.  198.)  —The 
volume  described  in  J.  M.'s  communication  ap- 
pears to  be  a  copy  of  the  same  edition  as  that  in 
the  Library  of  the  Hon.  Society  of  the  King's 
Inns,  Dublin  (already  noticed,  2nd  S.  v.  281). 
The  date  in  the  title  of  this  latter  has,  however, 
been  altered  by  the  pen  to  1746;  but  at  the  end 
is  engraved,  "  Published  1st  March,  1744,  by  J. 
Millan,  &c."  F.  R.  S. 

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NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


WESTERN    LIFE    ASSURANCE     AND 
ANNUITY  SOCIETY. 

S,  PARLIAMENT  STREET,  LONDON,  S.W. 
Founded  A.D.  1842. 


Directors. 


H.  E.  Bicknell,  Esq. 
T.  S.  Cocks,  Esq. 
G.  H.  Drew,  Esq.  M.A. 
W.  Freeman,  Esq. 
J.  H.  Goodhart,  Esq. 


E.Lucas,  Esq. 
F.B.  M arson.  Esq. 
J.)/.  Seasrer,  Esq. 
J.  B.  White,  Esq. 


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Actuary.— Arthur  Scratchley,  M.A. 

VALUABLE  PRIVILEGE. 

POLICIES  effected  in  this  Office  do  not  become  void  through  tem- 
porary difficulty  in  paying  a  Premium,  as  permission  is  given  upon 
application  to  suspend  the  payment  at  interest,  according  to  the  con- 
ditions detailed  in  the  Prospectus. 

LOANS  from  100?.  to  500?.  granted  on  real  or  first-rate  Personal 
Security. 

Attention  is  also  invited  to  the  rates  of  annuity  granted  to  old  lives, 
for  which  ample  security  is  provided  by  the  capital  of  the  Society. 
Example:  100?.  cash  paid  down  purchases  —  An  annuity  of — 

9  15  lo'to  a  male  life  aged  60\ 

„  65 1  Payable  as  long 


11  7  4 
13  18  8 
18  0  6 


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DIRECTORS. 

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SUPERIOR  ACCOMMODATION  AFFORDED  BY  THIS 
COMPANY. 

This  Company  offers  the  security  of  a  large  paid-up  capital,  held  in 
shares  by  a  numerous  and  wealthy  proprietary,  thus  protecting  the 
assured  from  the  risk  attending  mutual  offices. 

Thei  e  have  been  three  divisions  of  profits,  the  bonuses  averaging 
nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum  on  the  sums  assured  from  the  commence- 
ment of  the  Company. 

Sum  Assured.          Bonuses  added.  Payable  at  Death. 

£5/00  £1,987  10s.  £6,987  10s. 

1,000  397  10s.  1,397  10s. 

100  39  16s.  139  15s. 

To  assure  £100  payable  at  death,  a  person  aged  21  pays  £2  2s.  4tZ.  per 
annum;  but  as  the  profits  have  averaged  nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum, 
the  additions,  in  many  cases,  have  been  almost  as  much  as  the  pre- 
miums paid. 

Loans  granted  on  approved  real  or  personal  security. 

Invalid  Lives.  Parties  not  in  a  sound  state  of  health  maybe  insured 
at  equitable  rates. 

No  charge  lor  Volunteer  Military  Corps  while  serving  in  the  United 
Kingdom. 

The  funds  or  property  of  the  company,  as  at  1st  January,  1861, 
amounted  to  £730,665  7*.  lOtf.,  invested  in  Government  and  other  ap- 
proved securities. 

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duing Scarlatina,  Diphtheria,  Bronchitis,  and  those  inflammatory  com- 
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NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


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LONDON,  SATURDAY,  MARCH  22,  1862. 


CONTENTS.— NO.  12. 

NOTES:  — Edmund  Burke,  221— Folk  Lore:  Letting  the 
New  Year  in  —  Irish  Superstition  —  Apparitions,  Persons 
who  see,  born  at  Midnight  —  All  Hallow  Even  —  Four 
and  Deuce  of  Clubs  —  Curious  Custom  at  Walsall  — The 
Hunter's  Moon  —  Shrove  Tuesday  —  Saint  Patrick  and  the 
Shamrock,  223  — Names  of  Towns  and.  Villages  in  the 
United  States,  224  —  Nonjuring  Consecrations  and  Ordi- 
nations, 225. 

MINOB  NOTES  :  — Whateley  Family  —  Beauty  and  Love— 
Boroughmongeririg  in  the  olden  Time  —  Longevity  k —  A 
New  Word  — Charles  Bridgman,  225. 

QUERIES :  —  Caricatures  and  Satirical  Prints,  227  —  Statue 
of  George  I.  in  Leicester  Square  — Rev.  Christopher  Black- 
wood  —  Burke's  admired  Poet  —  Burning  of  Moscow  — 
Commonwealth  Marriages  —  Cursons  of  Waterperry,  Ox- 
fordshire -r-  Drama  —  Enigma,  from  a  Mathematical  Trea- 
tise by  Thomas  Kersey  —  Bishop  Thomas  Hacket  —  Har- 
kirke  —  Dr.  John  Hewett  —  Bishop  Hooper  —  Edward 
Jenner,  M.D. — Jeanne  d'Evreux,  Queen  of  France,  &c.,  227. 

QUERIES  WITH  AJSTSWEES:  —  Shebbeare,  Smollett,  and 
Lady  Vane  —  "  The  right  Sow  by  the  Ear  "  —  Westminster 
Plays  — Inez  de  Castro,  232. 

REPLIES :  —  Biblical  Versions,  233  —  Parravacin :  Parravi- 
cino,  234  —  Chief  Baron  Reynolds :  Baron  James  Reynolds, 
235  — Fridays,  Saints'  Days,  and  Fast  Days,  J6.— Lady 
Vane  — Toad-eating— Bunker's  Hill  —  Spontaneous  Com- 
bustion of  Trees  —  Winckley  Family  of  Preston,  County 
of  Lancaster  —  Judge  Page  —  Yellow  Starch  —  Pencil 
Writing  —  The  Society  of  Antiquaries  —  "  God's  Provi- 
dence is  my  Inheritance  "  —  Lambeth  Degrees  —  Fossils 
—  Relative  Value  of  Money  — Value  of  Horses  in  Shak- 
speare's  Time—  Spelling  Matches,  &c.,  236. 

Notes  on  Books. 


EDMUND  BURKE. 

I  rejoice  that  a  spirit  is  at  last  aroused  about 
Edmund  Burke,  which  must,  I  think,  result  in 
some  information,  be  it  more  or  less.  But  it  is 
not  quite  fair  to  call  upon  Irishmen  to  lend  us 
assistance  until  we  have  given  good  evidence  that 
we  are  willing  to  help  ourselves,  Now  it  struck 
me,  on  reading  your  late  papers,  that  some  ques- 
tions of  interest  might  perhaps  be  answered  in 
London  better  than  in  Dublin ;  and  that  we 
might,  by  a  search  in  our  Record  Office,  learn 
something  of  the-  true  grounds  of  the  Bill  in 
Chancery  filed  by  Lord  Verney  against  Edmund 
Burke  about  which  we  have  heard  much,  and  know 
very  little.  The  stories  told,  or  hinted  at  by  bio- 
graphers, about  this  chancery  suit  have  not  been  to 
the  credit  of  Burke. 

It  is  now  admitted  that  William  Burke  was  the 
foremost  man  among  the  Burkes — was  the  first 
that  rose  to  a  position  of  some  political  import- 
ance. He  was  the  great  friend  of  Lord  Verney, 
by  whose  influence"  he  was  returned  M.P.  for 
Bedwin.  It  was  on  the  representation  of  William 
Burke  that  Edmund  got  the  appointment  of  pri- 
vate secretary  to  Lord  Rockinghain,  as  Edmund, 
we  are  now  told,  "  more  than  once  said  "  ;  and  it 
was  by  his  influence  that  Lord  Verney  appointed 
Edmund  member  for  Wendover.  In  brief,  William 
and  ^Edmund,  and  Richard  Burke  lived  together 


like  brothers.  That  William  had  any  fortune,  we 
know  not ;  but  we  do  know  that  Edmund  and 
Richard  were  poor  enough — Richard,  a  clerk  in 
the  city,  and  thinking  it  a  rise  in  fortune  to  go 
out  as  supercargo ;  while  Edmund  was  compiling 
books  for  a  living  —  The  Annual  Register,  for  an 
annual  hundred  pounds.  Suddenly  we  find  that 
William  and  Richard,  and  Lord  Verney,  and  other 
of  their  friends  were  gambling  desperately  in  East 
India  Stock.  There  is  no  proof,  however,  that 
Edmund  was  a  party  concerned ;  but  it  is  strange 
if  he  were  not  that,  at  the  close  of  1768,  he  was 
enabled  to  purchase  the  estate  of  Gregories  for 
about  21,OOOZ.  The  explanation  as  to  how  Ed- 
mund was  able  to  make  such  a  purchase  has  never 
been  satisfactorily  explained,  indeed  every  expla- 
nation has  been  varied  so  soon  as  questioned. 
The  last  version,  however,  admits  "  that  some  por- 
tion [of  the  money]  it  is  believed  came  from  Wil- 
liam Burke."  Unfortunately,  within  a  twelve- 
month Lord  Verney,  William  Burke,  and  Ed- 
mund's brother  Richard,  with  their  friends,  were 
utterly  ruined — ruined  past  recovery.  This  brings 
me  to  the  allegations  in  Lord  Verney 's  Bill,  which 
I  have  abstracted  as  follows  from  the  Record 
Office:  — 

Earl  Verney  v.  Burke.  —  Bill  in  Chancery, 
dated  16th  June,  1783,  states  — 

"  That  on  or  shortly  before  the  year  1769,  the  Right 
Honble.  Edmund  Burke  of  Gregories,  was  and  he  now  is 
entitled  in  fee  simple  to  a  capital  messuage  or  mansion- 
house  called  Gregories,  and  other  messuages,  lands,  &c. 
in  the  county  of  Bucks,  subject  to  the  payment  of  6000/. 
due  on  mortgage;  And  the  said  Edmund  Burke  shortly 
before,  or  in  the  year  1769  had  occasion  to  borrow  6000/. 
for  the  purpose  of  paying  money  due  on  such  mortgage. 
That  shortly  before  the  year  1769  William  Burke,  Esq.  a 
cousin  or  other  relation  represented  unto  your  Orator 
such  occasion  of  the  said  Edmund  Burke  for  "money,  and 
the  said  William  Burke  by  himself  or  by  Joseph  Hickey 
of  St.  Albans  Street,  Attorney,  then  concerned  for  the 
said  Edmund  Burke  and  William  Burke  or  one  of  them, 
requested  your  Orator  to  lend  such  sum  for  such  purpose, 
and  the  said  William  Burke  did  by  the  authority  and 
direction  of  the  said  Edmund  Burke,  or  with  his  consent, 
propose  that  the  said  estate  which  was  so  then  in  mort- 
gage should  be  assigned  in  Trust  for  your  Orator  for  se- 
curing the  payment  with  interest,  and  that  he  the  said 
Edmund  Burke  should  execute  a  Bond.  That  it  was  soon 
afterwards  proposed  by  the  said  William  Burke,  or  some 
other  Agent  of  the  said  Edmund  Burke,  that  your  Orator 
should  pay  such  sum  to  Messrs.  Drummonds  to  the  account 
of  the  said  Joseph  Hickey  who,  as  it  was  represented  to 
your  Orator  by  the  said  William  Burke,  would  take  care 
to  have  a  proper  assignment  of  the  said  mortgage,  and 
procure  a  Bond  from  him  the  said  Edmund  Burke  for 
payment.  That  in  consequence  your  Orator's  agents 

Brymer  and  Elias  Benjamin  De  la  Fontaine,  on  or 

about  the  14th  March,  1769,  did  pay  into  the  hands  of 
Messrs.  Drummond  the  sum  of  6000/.  to  be  placed  to  the 
account  of  the  said  Joseph  Hickey,  and  the  said  sum 
was  so  received  by  or  applied  for  the  use  or  benefit  of 
the  said  Edmund  Burke  very  soon  after  the  said  month 
of  March,  in  or  towards  the  discharge  of  the  money  then 
due  on  the  security  of  such  estate.  But  the  said  Edmund 
Burke  or  any  other  person  never  hath  assigned  the  said 


222 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


(.3^8.1.  MAR.  22, '62. 


estate  or  any  part  thereof  unto  your  Orator,  and  'that 
your  Orator  having  occasion  for  the  said  sum  of  6000Z. 
and  interest  thereof  hath  at  several  times,  by  himself  and 
his  agents,  applied  unto  the  said  Edmund  Burke,  and  re- 
quested him  to  pay  the  same."  [Concludes  with  Inter- 
rogatories, and  prays  that  "your  Orator  may  have  full 
discovery  and  disclosure  of  the  several  matters  afore- 
said."] 

ANSWER,  sworn  26  November,  1783  :  — 
"  Edmund  Burke,  &c.,  saith  that  he  is  now  and  was  in 
or  about  the  month  of  May,  1769,  seized  of  a  capital  mes- 
suage, &c.,  called  Gregories,  and  divers  others  lands,  &c., 
situate  in  the  parishes  of  Beaeonsfield  and  Penn  in  the 
county  of  Bucks,  of  the  yearly  value  of  500Z.,  or  there- 
abouts, in  the  whole.  And  which  capital  messuages, 
lands,  &c.,  were  in  and  before  the  said  year,  1769,  and  at 
the  time  of  this  Defendant's  purchasing  the  same,  subject 
to  the  payment  of  4465Z.  for  principal  and  interest  due 
and  secured  by  mortgage  to  Lord  Dudley,  and  a  sura  of 
1096/.  7s.  9cf.  for  principal  and  interest  due,  and  secured 
by  a  judgment  or  judgments  to  Mr.  John  Saunders,  but 
not  subject  to  any  other  mortgages  or  incumbrances. 
But  how  much  was  due  for  principal  and  how  much  for  in- 
terest, Defendant  doth  not  now  remember  nor  can  set 
forth.  And  this  Defendant  saith,  that  he  was  not  at  any 
time  seized  of  or  entitled  to  the  said  estates  and  premises 
or  any  part  thereof,  nor  were  or  was  the  same  at  the  time 
of  this  Defendant's  said  purchase  thereof  subject  to  the 
payment  of  6000/.,  or  any  other  large  sum  of  money  due 
on  any  mortgage  or  mortgages  thereof  save  as  aforesaid. 
That  when  he  purchased  the  said  estate  and  premises, 
which  was  in  the  beginning  of  the  year  1769,  payment  of 
the  whole  of  the  said  moneys  with  which  the  same  were 
incumbered  as  aforesaid,  was  demanded  on  behalf  of  the 
said  mortgage  and  judgment  creditors,  and  the  said  sums 
of  4465/.  and  1096/.  7s.  9c7.  were  accordingly  paid  by  or  on 
behalf  of  this  Defendant  on  or  about  the  20th  or  21st  days 
of  February,  1769.  And  this  Defendant  saith  that  he  had 
occasion  for  a  considerable  sum  of  money  which  he  be- 
lieves, but  does  not  exactly  recollect,  may  have  amounted 
to  6000Z.  in  or  shortly  before  the  said  year  1769,  in  order 
to  make  and  accomplish  his  said  purchase.  And  upon 
the  voluntary  offer  of  another  friend,  and  not  the  said 
Complainant  to  aid  him  with  the  same,  he  this  Defen- 
dant, did  accept  of  the  said  voluntary  offer,  and  did  apply 
the  money  so  offered  for  the  purpose  of  paying  off  or  dis- 
charging the  purchase  mone}'.  And  this"Defendant  fur- 
ther saith,  that  he  does  not  know  nor  can  form  any 
distinct  opinion  of  what  degree  of  relation  (if  any)  Wil- 
liam Burke  in  the  Bill  named  may  stand  to  this  Defen- 
dant, _but  that  he  does  believe  that  their  fathers  did 
sometimes  call  each  other  cousins,  but  has  no  other  occa- 
sion to  believe  that  they  are  of  kindred.  That  he  doth 
not  know,  but  believes  it  may  be  true,  that  at  the  time 
in  the  Bill  mentioned  Joseph  Hickey  was  employed  as 
attorney  to  said  William  Burke.  That  the  said  Joseph 
Hickey  was  not  concerned  either  as  Solicitor,  Attorney, 
or  Agent  for  this  Defendant  respecting  the  negotiating 
the  purchase  of  the  said  estate,  discharging  the  said  mort- 
gage, and  judgments,  or  in  any  other  transaction  relating 
to  the  said  estate  or  the  matters  in  the  said  Bill  men- 
tioned, or  any  of  them  to  the  best  of  this  Defendant's 
recollection  or  belief.  That  he  does  not  know  or  believe 
or  ever  heard  that  said  William  Burke  or  any  one  else 
represented  unto  the  said  Complainant  this  Defendant's 
said  occasion  for  money,  or  that  the  said  William  Burke 
by  himself,  or  by  the  said  Joseph  Hickey  requested  the 
said  Complainant  to  advance  and  lend  the  said  sum  of 
6000/.,  or  any  other  sum  of  money  to  this  Defendant  for 
any  such  purpose  as  in  the  said  Bill  mentioned,  or  for 
any  other  purpose.  That  ho  denies  that  the  said  William 


Burke  or  Joseph  Hickey  were  or  was  employed,  or  di- 
rected, or  authorized  by  this  Defendant  to  solicit  or 
propose  that  the  estate  of  this  Defendant,  which  was 
then  in  mortgage  as  in  the  said  Bill  before  mentioned, 
should  be  assigned  or  conveyed.  That  the  said  Com- 
plainant in  or  about  the  months  of  November  or  December, 
1779,  did,  when  this  Defendant  was  much  occupied  with 
business,  come  to  the  Defendant's  house,  and  on  the  De- 
fendant's coming  into  the  room  where  the  Complainant 
waited,  did  apologise  for  calling  him  from  business,  and 
then  for  the  first  time,  as  this  Defendant  remembers  and 
believes,  apply  to  this  Defendant  for  a  settlement,  but  not 
of  60007.  as  in  the  Bill  alleged,  or  of  any  such  sum ;  but 
in  a  confused  and  indistinct  manner  alleged  that  money 
was  due  and  owing  to  him  by  this  Defendant,  but  with- 
out mentioning  the  time  or  occasion,  or  any  ground  upon 
which  the  said  demand  was  formed.  And  this  Defendant 
saith  he  received  the  said  demand  with  surprise,  and  to 
the  best  of  the  Defendant's  recollection,  told  the  Com- 
plainant that  he  knew  nothing  about  it,  and  not  having 
time  then  to  talk  further  on  the  subject,  he  never  heard 
more  from  the  Complainant  until  the  23rd  day  of  July,  1782, 
when  he  received  a  letter  from  the  Complainant  making 
another  general  demand,  but  not  a  demand  of  6000/.  or  of 
any  definite  sum  whatsoever,  but  mentioning  a  loose  and 
vague  general  claim  of  pecuniary  matters  unsettled  be- 
tween them ;  and  in  the  month  of  Aug.  1782,  this  De- 
fendant received  another  letter  from  the  said  Com- 
plainant on  the  subject,  and  alluding  to  a  large  demand, 
but  without  mentioning  any  sum,  after  which  this  De- 
fendant heard  no  more  of  the  said  demand  until  about 
the  month  of  June  1783,  when  and  since  which  this  De- 
fendant saith  the  said  Complainant  and  Mr.  Harman,  his 
Attorney  or  Solicitor,  have  made  applications  to  this 
Defendant  for  payment  of  a  sura  of  6000/.  and  interest." 

It  is  strange  that  legal  proceedings  were  not 
commenced  by  Lord  Verney  for  so  many  years 
after  the  loan.  It  may  be  said  that  his  lordship 
and  William  Burke  were  for  many  years  fighting  a 

as  the  records  in  our  courts  of  law  and  equity 
abundantly  prove  —  that  William  Burke  went 
suddenly  to  India,  with  letters  of  introduction 
from  Edmund,  to  escape  from  his  creditors,  and 
in  the  hope  of  there  finding  a  maintenance.  It  is 
equally  strange,  if  there  were  no  truth  in  the  story, 
that  Lord  Verney  should  have  known  the  exact  re- 
quirements of  Edmund  Burke  in  1769,  the  why 
and  the  wherefore,  as  it  appears  from  Burke's 
answer,  that  he  did.  Burke,  be  it  observed,  ad- 
mits that  he  did  borrow  6000Z.,  or  about  that  sum, 
for  the  purpose,  and  at  the  time  named ;  and  he 
does  not  say  that  he  did  not  receive  the  money 
from  his  "  friend  "  William  Burke.  If  that  friend 
were  other  than  William  Burke,  what  so  conclu- 
sive in  reply  as  to  have  named  the  "  friend,w  and 
proved  the  fact ;  and  strangest  of  all  to  my  mind, 
considering  the  early  relations  of  the  parties,  the 
humble  tone  in  which  my  lord  is  made  to  enter 
into  Burke's  presence,  and  Edmund  Burke's  ap- 
parently small  acquaintance  with  William,  who 
is  described  in  his  letters  about  that  time  as 
the  dearest  friend  he  had  on  eartb,  but  whose  re- 
lationship to  him,  "  if  any,"  he  did  not  know. 

Here,  at  any  rate,  are  certain  facts  which  your 
readers  may  interpret  as  they  please.  J.  li.  T. 


3'*  S.  I.  MAR.  22,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


223 


FOLK  LORE. 
LETTING  THE  NEW  YEAR  IN.  —  Your  corre- 
spondent LOCKED  OUT  refers  to  a  very  old  super- 
stition of  the  neighbourhood  from  which  he  writes, 
and  one  from  which  many  a  flaxen- headed  boy 
has  suffered.  It  not  only  applies  to  the  letting 
in  the  new  year,  but  also  to  Christmas  morning. 
The  object  of  desire  is  that  the  first  person  who 
enters  a  house  on  the  morning  of  Christmas  Day 
or  that  of  New  Year's  Day,  should  have  black  or 
dark  hair.  Many  make  arrangement,  by  special 
invitation,  that  some  man  or  boy  of  dark  hair, 
and  otherwise  approved,  should  present  himself 
at  an  early  hour  to  wish  the  compliments  of  the 
season,  and  the  door  is  not  opened  to  let  any  one 
else  in  until  the  arrival  of  the  favoured  person. 
He  is  regaled  with  spice  cake  and  cheese,  and 
with  ale  or  spirits,  as  the  case  may  be.  All  the 
"  ill  luck  "  —  that  is,  the  untoward  circumstances 
of  the  year,  would  be  ascribed  to  the  accident  of 
a  "person  of  light  hair  having  been  the  first  to 
enter  a  dwelling  on  the  mornings  referred  to.  I 
have  known  instances  where  such  persons,  inno- 
cently presenting  themselves,  have  met  with  any- 
thing but  a  Christmas  welcome.  The  great  object 
of  dread  is  a  red-haired  man  or  boy  (women  or 
girls  of  any  coloured  hair  or  complexion  are  not 
admissable  as  the  first  visitors  at  all)  and  all  light 
shades  are  objectionable. 

I  have  not  been  able  to  trace  the  origin  of  this 
custom,  nor  do  I  remember  having  read  any  ex- 
planation of  its  meaning.  I  once  heard  an  aged 
woman,  who  was  a  most  stern  observer  of  all 
customs  of  the  neighbourhood,  especially  those 
which  had  an  air  of  mystery,  or  a  superstition 
attached  to  them,  attempt  to  connect  the  observ- 
ance with  the  disciple  who  sold  the  Saviour.  In 
her  mind  all  the  observances  of  Christmas  were 
associated  with  the  birth  or  death  of  Christ ;  and 
she  made  ^no  distinction  whatever  between  the 
events  which  attended  the  nativity,  and  those 
which  preceded  and  followed  the  crucifixion. 
She  told  me  that  Judas  had  red  hair,  and  it  was 
in  vain  to  argue  with  her  that  he  had  no  connec- 
tion whatever  with  the  events  which  our  Christ- 
mas solemnities  and  festivities  were  intended  to 
commemorate.  It  satisfied  her  mind,  and  that 
was  enough.  After  many  inquiries  I  was  not 
able  to  obtain  any  answer  more  reasonable.  There 
rnust*be  some  ground  for  so  wide-spread  a  cus- 
tom. T.  B. 

IRISH  SUPERSTITION.  —  I  extract  the  following 
from  an  Irish  newspaper  (The  Irish  Times)  of  the 
9th  inst.  The  writer,  alluding  to  an  extraor- 
dinary instance  of  fecundity  in  a  cow,  says  :  — 

"  The  unequalled  dam  came  into  Mr.  Cooneys'  hands 
from  those  of  a  relative  of  his  in  1847,  and  for  no  con- 
sideration would  she  be  sold  to  a  party  of  a  different  name 
or  other  kindred  —  it  would  be  deemed  unlucky  '" 

K  H.  R. 


APPARITIONS,  PERSONS  WHO  SEE,  BORN  AT  MID- 
NIGHT. —  An  old  Kentish  lady,  while  discussing 
hobgoblins  last  Christmas,  said  that  she  had  never 
seen  a  ghost ;  though  she  had  placed  herself  in 
spots  visited  by  the  departed,  and  had  been  pre- 
sent while  others  had  seen  an  apparition.  She 
then  stated  it  as  a  fact,  that  people  born  at  twelve 
o'clock  at  night,  and  only  such,  were  gifted  with 
this  visionary  power.  An  instance  in  point  was, 
of  course,  adduced.  F.  P. 

ALL  HALLOW  EVEN.  —  Sir  William  Dugdale 
has  jotted  down,  at  the  end  of  the  interleaved 
Almanack  for  1658,  in  which  he  kept  his  Diary, 
the  following  scrap  of  folk  lore  :  — 

"  On  All  Hallow  Even,  the  master  of  the  family  anti- 
ently  used  to  carry  a  bunch  of  straw,  fired,  about  his 
come,  saying :  — 

'  Fire  and  Red  low, 
Light  on  my  teen  now.'  " 

Life,  Diary  and  Correspondence  of  Sir 
Wm.  Dugdale,  edited  by  Wm.  Hamper, 
F.S.A.,  4to,  1827,  p.  104. 

K.  P.  D.  E. 

FOUR  AND  DEUCE  OF  CLUBS.  —  It  is  curious  to 
notice  how  some  of  the  old  superstitions  are  some- 
times borne  out  by  facts.  I  often  have  a  quiet 
rubber  of  whist  with  a  few  friends  ;  and  the  other 
night,  in  my  deal,  I  turned  up  the  four  of  clubs. 
"  Oh ! "  said  one  of  my  opponents,  "  that's  an  un- 
lucky card,  you  won't  win  this  game."  And  so 
it  turned  out,  for  my  opponents  scored  four  by 
honours  and  four*  by  cards. 

Another  night,  the  deuce  of  clubs  was  turned 
up ;  and  the  remark  was  made,  before  our  cards 
were  looked  at :  "  That's  a  sign  of  five  trumps  in 
the  dealers  hand."  This  was  actually  the  case. 
A  few  rounds  after,  at  my  deal,  I  turned  up  the 
same  card  and  found  six  trumps  in  my  hand.  So 
much  for  folk  lore.  What  is  the  origin  of  such 
superstitions  ?  CHESSBOROUGH  HARBERTON. 

Totnes. 

CURIOUS  CUSTOM  AT  WALSALL.— -The  following 
is  extracted  from  The  Universal  Magazine  for 
January,  1788,  p.  44  :  — 

"  In  the  Christmas  holidays,  two  persons,  appointed  by 
the  Corporation,  visit  every  house  in  this  parish  (Wal- 
sall),  and  pay  to  every  person  resident  therein  at  that 
time  (man,  woman,  and  child,  rich  and  poor)  one  penny, 
travellers  and  visitors  not  excepted.  The  money  is  paid 
out  of  the  corporation  estates  at  Bascot,  in  Warwickshire. 
In  the  year  1786,  it  took  upwards  of  607.  to  discharge 
the  dole,  but  in  the  30th  Henry  VIII.  7/.  10*.  9d.  dis- 
charged it.  Some  years  ago,  the  corporation  withheld 
the  payment  of  the  dole,  as  they  thought  they  had  a 
right  to  do ;  but  the  populace,  by  riots,  &c.,  compelled 
them  to  continue  it." 

An  account  of  the  origin  of  this  custom  is  given, 
but  as  it  is  somewhat  lengthy,  I  have  omitted  it. 
Is  this  dole  still  distributed  ?  If  discontinued,  in 
what  year  did  it  cease  to  be  given  ?  "  LIBYA. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  MAR.  22,  '62. 


THE  HUNTER'S  MOON.— The  lunation  following 
that  to  which  the  epithet  "  harvest "  has  long  been 
applied,  is  called  the  "  Hunter's  moon"  :  why  so? 
I  am  not  aware  that  the  chase,  or  pursuit  of 
game  in  any  way  —  except  by  the  poacher  —  is 
ever  carried  on  by  moonlight.  D. 

SHROVE  TUESDAY. — The  accompanying  cut- 
ting from  The  Times  newspaper  of  March  7  may, 
perhaps,  be  deserving  of  a  corner  in  "  N.  &  Q." 
Many  old  time-hallowed  customs  are,  from  year 
to  year,  fast  dying  out,  and  it  is  well  to  preserve 
a  record  of  them  ere  they  are  wholly  lost.  I 
have  not  an  opportunity  of  referring  to  Strutt's 
Sports  and  Pastimes,  to  see  if  any  account  be 
therein  given  of  the  games  alluded  to,  but  I 
should  be  glad  if  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  would 
give  a  more  full  description  of  them.  The  "  Pan- 
cake Bell,"  the  tolling  of  which  is  said  to  have 
been  discontinued  during  the  last  two  or  three 
years,  is,  of  course,  the  ancient  "  Confession  Bell," 
intimating  to  the  parishioners  that  the  priest  is 
ready  to  hear  the  confessions  of  his  people,  and 
give  them  shrift.  It  is  always  rung  in  this  parish 
and  in  many  other  parishes  in  the  kingdom,  al- 
though the  object  of  it  is  very  generally  mis- 
understood. It  would  be  well  to  preserve  a  record 
in  "  N.  &  Q."  of  the  parishes  in  which  this  ancient 
custom  still  obtains  :  — 

"  CURIOUS  CUSTOM  IN  DORKING.  —  A  correspondent 
writes  that  Shrove  Tuesday  was  observed  as  in  days  of 
yore  at  Dorking,  first  by  a  perambulation  of  the  streets 
by  the  football  retinue,  composed  of  grotesquely-dressed 
persons,  to  the  sounds  of  music,  and  in  the  afternoon  by 
the  kicking  of  the  ball  up  and  down  the  principal 
thoroughfares  of  the  town.  The  usual  number  of  men 
and  boys  joined  in  the  sport,  and  plaj'ed,  especially  to- 
wards the  close  of  the  game,  with  a  roughness  extremely 
dangerous  to  the  limbs  of  the  competitors.  As  6  o'clock 
drew  near,  the  struggle  for  victory  became  more  vehe- 
ment; the  palm,  however,  was  obtained,  for  the  fifth 
year,  by  the  players  from  the  west  end  of  the  town.  The 
old  custom  of  tolling  the  "pancake  bell"  during  the 
morning  was,  on  this  occasion,  as  during  the  last  two  or 
three  years,  dispensed  with." —  West  Surrey  Times. 

JOHN  MACLEAN. 

Hammersmith. 

SAINT  PATRICK  AND  THE  SHAMROCK. — A  writer 
in  a  botanical  journal  (The  Phytologisf)  states, 
that  "  the  Oxalis  cornicvlata  may  possibly  be  the 
true  shamrock  worn  by  Irishmen  on  St.  Patrick's 
Day  (17th  March);  and  also  that  it  is  hardly 
likely  that  Trifolium  repens  (Dutch  clover)  was 
introduced  into  Ireland  so  early  as  St.  Patrick's 
time." 

It  is  possible  that  the  Oxalis  corniculata  (yellow 
wood-sorrel)  may  be  the  shamrock ;  but  Irishmen 
generally  wear  in  their  coats  or  hats,  on  the  saint's 
day,  the  Trifolium  repens. 

Will  you  or  some  of  your  contributors  inform 
me,  1.  What  is  the  earliest  notice  of  this  custom  of 
wearing  a  sprig  of  trefoil  (shamrock)  on  St.  Pa- 
trick's Day  ?  2.  What  historian  first  related  the 


current  legend,  and  what  information  is  extant  as 
to  its  origin  ?  The  same  writer  suggests  that  St. 
Patrick  might  have  plucked  the  Oxalis  cornicu- 
lata from  the  gardens  of  a  monastery. 

What  were  the  monasteries  in  Ireland  at  the 
time  St.  Patrick  lived?  Is  not  the  Trifolium 
repens  considered  by  most  botanists  indigenous  in 
all  the  British  Isles  ?  If  not,  when  was  it  intro- 
duced ?  SIDNEY  BEISLY. 


NAMES   OF    TOWNS  AND  VILLAGES    IN   THE 
UNITED  STATES. 

Your  readers  seem  to  have  been  interested  by 
a  list  of  singular  baptismal  names  given  in  your 
earlier  volumes  ;  what  do  they  think  of  the  fol- 
lowing names  of  post- villages  in  the  United  States, 
copied  verbatim  from  the  official  Post- Office 
Directory  ?  —  Social  Circle,  Sociality,  Tenth'Le- 
gion,  Number  One,  Number  Two,  Why  Not, 
Wild  Cat,  Uncle  Sam,  Usquebaugh,  Lucky  Hit, 
Esperance,  Marrowbone,  Oat  Meal,  Lion,  Bug- 
gaboo,  Little  Muddy,  Little  Chuckey,  Lion 
Beard,  Joe's  Lick,  Bug  Swamp,  Candle  Shop, 
Coffee,  Gentry,  Dirt-town,  Halfmoon,  Hat,  Harts- 
horn, Halfday,  Haystack,  Henpeck,  Sub  Rosa. 

There  can  be  little  difficulty  in  tracing  the 
derivation  of  most  of  these  euphonious  names,  but 
what  shall  we  say  to  the  taste  displayed  by  our 
transatlantic  cousins,  in  their  selection  ?  Most  of 
the  above  belong  to  the  rowdy  class  of  names,, 
and  in  this  class,  perhaps,  may  be  mentioned  nine 
villages,  yclept,  Rough  and  Ready,  and  five  Old 
Hickorys,  both  sobriquets  of  President  Jackson. 
Among  the  biographical  and  literary  names  we 
may  mention  8  Wesleys,  2  Whitfields,  3  Wick- 
liffes,  17  Knoxs,  1  Calvin,  1  SJiakspeare,  Scott, 
Lamartine,  Tupper,  Addison,  Burns,  Byron, 
Dryden,  Herrick,  Hume,  Humboldt,  Audubon, 
Irving,  Carlyle,  Newton,  27  Miltons,  Pitt,  Chat- 
ham, Sheridan,  Selden,  Roscoe,  Rollin,  Solon, 
Tully,  Virgil,  Lycurgus,  Mahomet,  Cicero,  Cato, 
Ovid,  Plato,  Pliny,  Seneca,  Romulus,  Sontag, 
Jenny  Lind,  Hudson,  De  Soto,  Waverley,  Romeos 
3  to  1  Juliet,  Ariel,  and  2  Hamlets.  Among  the 
gods  we  have  Mars  and  Apollo.  Of  the  villages 
named  after  American  presidents  and  statesmen, 
we  find, — of  Washingtons  35,  Tylers  7, Van  Burens 
15,  Madisons  27,  Jeffersons  35,  Monroes,  29, 
Adams's  28,  Polks  13,  Jacksons  55,  Clays  13, 
Websters  12,  Calhouns  10. 

Military  men  are  represented  in  the  list  by 
Napoleon,  Buonaparte,  Murat,  Massena,  Berna- 
dotte,  Eugene,  Ney,  Montcalm,  Marlborough, 
Wellington,  Cromwell,  Alexander,  and  Pompey ; 
while  the  great  battles  of  the  world  have  fur- 
nished names  for  the  villages  of  Marathon,  Water- 
loo, Alma,  Sebastopol,  Jena,  Lodi,  Marengo, 
Austerlitz,  Borodino,  Buena  Vista,  Cerre  Gardo, 
and  Monterey. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


225 


Among  the  geographical  names  we  find  4  Ire- 
lands,  6  Wales,  9  Scotlands,  but  not  one  England, 
although  Albion  occurs  ten  times,  and  a  village 
called  English  Neighbourhood  is  marked  as  being 
in  New  Jersey.  The  following  cities  and  countries 
are  all  represented,  most  of  them  by  nothing  more 
than  a  few  log  and  frame  houses : — Sweden,  Nor- 
way, Denmark,  Russia,  Lapland,  Poland,  Algiers, 
Florence,  Athens,  Rome,  London,  Paris,  Vienna, 
Berlin,  Warsaw,  Copenhagen,  Stockholm,  Edin- 
burgh, Dublin,  Troy,  Japan,  China,  Assyria, 
Antioch,  Babylon,  Bagdad,  Carthage,  Corinth, 
Damascus,  Sparta,  Nineveh,  Memphis,  Palestine, 
Tyre  and  Sidon,  Jerusalem,  Nazareth,  Mace- 
donia, Egypt,  Edom,  Beersheba,  Dan,  Bethany, 
Bethel,  Bethlehem,  Canaan,  Carmel,  Hebron, 
Jericho,  Judah,  Lebanon,  and  Mesopotamia. 

The  saints,  from  St.  Augustine  to  St.  Paul,  are 
all  duly  honoured ;  and  the  home  of  our  first 
parents  has  given  its  name  to  no  less  than  four- 
teen villages,  besides  the  celebrated  city  so  graph- 
ically described  by  Dickens.  Traces  of  the  Pilgrim 
Fathers  are  to  be  found  in  the  names  of  Beulab, 
Concord,  Consolation,  Benevolence,  Harmony, 
Hope,  Industry,' Charity,  Temperance,  Progress, 
Prosperity,  Providence,  Elysium,  Elysian  Fields, 
Friendship,  Economy,  Pisgah,  Shiloh,  Sion,  New 
Jerusalem,  Bozrah,  Calvary,  Mount  Horeb, 
Mount  Nebo,  and  Sabbath  Rest,  as  well  as  in 
many  of  the  Scriptural  names  before  quoted. 

I  could  extend  this  list,  but  fearing  to  outrun 
your  limits,  refrain  from  trespassing  further  on 
your  space.  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 


NONJURING  CONSECRATIONS  AND  ORDINA- 
TIONS. 

Among  Dr.  Rawlinson's  papers  in  the  Bodleian 
Library  are  some  interesting  notes  by  himself 
of  the  consecrations  of  nonjuring  bishops,  and 
of  ordinations  held  by  them.  Dr.  Rawlinson 
being  himself  one  of  the  episcopal  college  (al- 
though he  appears  to  have  taken  all  possible  pre- 
cautions to  conceal  the  fact  of  his  even  being  in 
holy  orders),  the  memoranda  which  he  furnishes 
may  be  regarded  as  in  the  highest  degree  authen- 
tic. The  following  is  his  list  of  consecrations  :  — 

"Dr.  George  Hickes,  D.D.  was  consecrated  suffragan 
bishop  of  Thetford,  on  St.  Mathew's  [Matthias']  Day  in 
the  year  1694-5,  at  Enfield,  in  the  bishop  of  Ely's  chapell. 

"  Thomas  Wagstaffe,  M.A.  was  consecrated  suffragan 
bp.  of  Ipswich,  by  Dr.  Win.  Lloyd,  bp.  of  Norwich,  Dr. 
Francis  Turner,  bp.  of  Ely,  and  Dr.  Thomas  White,  bp. 
of  Peterborough ;  present,  earl  of  Clarendon,  &c. 

K  Mr.  *  *  *  Falconer,  consecrated  bp.  in  Scotland,  28 
April,  1709. 

"  Mr.  Archibald  Campbell,  consecrated  by  Alexander, 
bp.  of  Edinburgh,  Robert,  bp.  of  Dumblain,  and  Mr.  Fal- 
coner, 24  August,  1711. 

"  Mr.  James  Gadderar,  consecrated  by  Dr.  Hickes,  Mr. 
Campbell,  and  Mr.  Falconer. 


"  Ascension  Day,  May  14,  1713  *,  Mr.  Jeremiah  Col- 
lier, Mr.  Samuel  Ha  we*?,  and  Mr.  Nathaniel  Spinckes 
were  consecrated  by  Dr.  Hickes,  assisted  by  Mr.  Campbell 
and  Mr.  Gadderar.' 

"St.  Paul's  Day,  25  Jan.  1715-6 f,  Dr.  Thomas  Brett 
and  Henry  Gandy,  M.A.,  were  consecrated  in  Mr.  Gan- 
dy's  chapell  by  Mr.  Collier,  Mr.  Hawes,  Mr.  Spinckes,  Mr. 
Campbell,  and  Mr.  Gadderar. 

"25  Jan.  172 1  J,  Ralph  Taylor,  D.D.,  consecrated  at 
Grey's  Inne  by  Mr.  Hawes,  Mr.  Spinckee,  and  Mr.  Gandy ; 
present,  earl  of  Winchilsea,  Rob.  Cotton,  Tho.  Bell,  and 
Mr.  John  Blackbourne,  A.M. 

"  Hilkiah  Bedford,  A.M.,  consecrated  at  Grey's  Inne, 
25  Jan.  1720  (-l)J,  by  Mr.  Hawes,  Mr.  Spinckes,  and  Mr. 
Gandy ;  present,  earl"  of  Winchilsea,  Rob.  Cotton,  Rev. 
Tho.; Bell,  and  John  Blackbourne,  M.A. 

« 1722,  25  Nov.  Rev.  Mr.  John  Griffin,  A.M.,  conse- 
crated by  Mr.  Collier,  Dr.  Brett,  and  Mr.  Campbell. 

"  Mr.  Thomas  Brett,  consecrated. 

"Ric.  Welton,  D.D.,  was  consecrated  by  Dr.  Taylor 
alone,  in  a  clandestine  manner. 

"*  *  *  Talbot,  M.A.,  was  consecrated  by  the  same 
person  at  the  same  time,  and  as  irregularly. 

"  Henry  Dough ty ^consecrated  at  Edinburgh  by  John 
Fullerton,  bp.  of  Edinburgh,  Arthur  Miller,  William 
Irvine,  David  Freebairn,  30  March,  1725. 

"  John  Blackbourne,  A.M.,  consecrated  at  Grey's  Inne 
by  Mr.  Spinckes,  Mr.  Gandy,  and  Mr.  Doughty,  on  As- 
cension Day,  May  6,  1725,  in  the  presence  of  Heneage, 
earl  of  Winchilsea,  Mr.  John  Creyk,  Mr.  Jos.  Hall,  Sir 
Thomas  I/Estrange,  bart,  Mr.  Tho.  Martyn,  and  Mr. 
Wm.  Bowyer. 

"Mr.  Henry  Hall,  consecrated  in  Mr.  Blackbourne's 
chapell  in  Grey's  Inne  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Spinckes,  Mr. 
Gandy,  Mr.  Doughty,  and  Mr.  Blackbourne;  present, 
Jos.  Hall,  John  Creyk,  Wm.  Law,  Mr.  Geo.  Bew,  Mr.  Wm. 
Bowyer,  Tho.  Martyn,  and  Mr. Brewster. 

"  Monday,  25  March,  1728  *  *  *  ******»*§ 
was  consecrated  by  Mr.  Gandy,  Mr.  Doughty,  and  Mr. 
Blackbourne,  in  Mr.  Gandy's  chapell,  in  the  presence  of 
Mr.  Rich.  Russell,  Mr.  John  Lindsay,  Mr.  Rob.  Gordoun, 
Mr.  Thomas  Martyn,  Mr.  Rich.  Tireman,  Mr.  Tho. 
Peirce,  Mr.  Thomas  Gyles,  and  Mr.  John  Martyn,  Junr. 

"  Roger  Laurence,  M.A.,  was  consecrated  by  Mr.  Archi- 
bald Campbell. 

"  Thos.  Deacon  was  consecrated  by  the  same  person  at 
the  same  time." 

W.  D.  MACRAT. 


WHATELEY  FAMILY.  —  A  well-executed  minia- 
ture of  Mr.  Whateley,  banker,  66,  Lombard 
Street,  1777,  is  in  my  possession ;  and  I  shall  be 

E leased  to  present  it  to  any  of  his  descendants  or 
imily  who  may  write  for  it.  E.  D. 

BEAUTY  AND  LOVE.  —  The  following  stanzas 
have  recently  been  discovered  at  Stamford  Court. 

*  June  3,  in  the  Table  of  Consecrations  in  Perceval's 
Apology  for  the  Apostolical  Succession. 

t  This  confirms  the  date  given  from  a  MS.  of  Mr.  Bow- 
dler,  ibid.  The  names  of  the  consecrators  also  agree  with 
the  same  MS. 

t  This  date  also  confirms  the  correctness  of  Mr.  Bowd- 
lerTs  MS.  in  preference  to  the  dates  of  6th  April,  1721,  and 
22nd  March,  1720,  which  are  adopted  by  Perceval. 

§  It  appears  from  Perceval's  list  that,  as  might  be  ex- 
pected, these  stars  conceal  Dr.  Rawlinson's  own  name. 


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[3'd  S.  I.  MAR.  22, 


They  are  addressed  to  "  M"  Ursula  Barnaby,  at 
the  Lady  Cornewall's  house,  Eastham,  Worces- 
tershire." Without  date,  but  in  very  old  writing. 
The  Cornewall  family  have  not  resided  at  East- 
ham  for  two  centuries  :  — 

"  Beauty  and  Love  once  fell  att  odds, 

And  thus  reviled  each  other  ; 
Says  Love,  I  am  one  of  the  Gods, 

And  thou  waitest  on  my  mother. 
Thou  hast  noe  power  on  men  att  all, 

But  what  I  gave  to  thee  ; 
!N~or  art  thou  longer  fayre  or  sweet, 

When  men  acknowledge  mee. 
"  Away,  fond  boy,  when  Beauty  saide, 

We  know  that  thou  art  blinde  ; 
For  men  have  eyes,  and  canst  then  thou 

My  Graces  better  finde  ? 
'Twas  I  begott  thee,  mortals  know, 

And  called  thee  blinde  desire  ; 
I  made  thy  quiver  and  thy  bow, 

And  whings  (sic)  to  kindle  fire. 

"  Love  then  in  anger  fled  away, 

And  straight  to  Vulcan  prayd, 
That  he  would  tip  his  shafts  with  scorne 

To  punish  this  fayre  mayde. 
So  ever  since  hath  Beauty  been 

But  courted  for  an  hour  ; 
To  love  a  day  is  now  a  sin, 

'Gainst  Cupid  and  his  power." 

.  E.  WlNNINGTON. 


BOROUGHMONGERING    IN    THE    OLDEN    TlMES.  — 

Towards  the  close  of  the  seventeenth  century,  the 
constituency  of  Winchelsea  consisted  of  thirteen 
electors,  who  (as  is  often  the  case  in  these  days 
also)  were  desirous  of  a  contest  at  an  approaching 
general  election,  in  order  to  put  money  in  their 
own  pockets.  As  it  appeared  probable  that  the 
sitting  members  would  be  returned  without  oppo- 
sition, eight  of  the  constituency  waited  upon  Sir 
Edward  Frewen,  Knight,  of  Brickvvall,  in  ISTorth- 
iam,  asking  him  to  stand  for  the  borough,  and 
each  promising  to  vote  for  him  if  he  would  pay 
them  down  a  specified  sum  of  money.  Sir  Edward 
considering  that  eight  was  a  good  majority  out  of 
thirteen,  and  that  the  seat  was  secure,  agreed  to 
their  terms,  paid  the  money,  and  was  put  in  no- 
mination. The  eight  electors  were  as  good  as  their 
word,  and  voted  for  Sir  Edward.  The  other  five 
electors  split  their  votes  between  the  two  former 
members,  ^and  then  the  eight  Frewen  voters  di- 
vided their  second  votes,  four  of  them  voting  for 
one  of  the  former  members,  and  four  for  the  other; 
so  the  former  members  had  nine  votes  each,  while 
Sir  Edward  Frewen  had  only  eight  :  thus  he  lost 
his  seat  and  his  money,  and  was  laughed  at  all 
round  the  neighbourhood. 

This  singular  story  was  related  by  an  old  gen- 
tleman (now  dead)  whose  family  have  long  been 


settled  in  East  Sussex,  and  who  had  himself  read 
it  in  some  book  or  other. 

Query,  where  is  this  anecdote  to  be  found  ?  and 
does  the  political  history  of  Winchelsea,  throw  any 
light  on  it  ?  or  was  it  some  other  borough  where 
it  occurred?  .  T.  F. 

LONGEVITY.  —  It  is  not  at  all  unusual,  in  fact  it 
is  a  daily  occurrence,  to  see  the  obituary  column 
of  The  Times  noticing  the  death  of  persons  at  the 
age  of  threescore  and  ten,  and  even  above  those 
years.  But  latterly  even  these  advanced  periods 
have  been  eclipsed,  so  much  so,  that  in  hastily 
running  over  the  list,  I  have  selected  the  follow- 
ing, which  I  think  worthy  of  noticing  in  "  N.  & 
Q." :  - 

1862,  Jan.  1.  "  On  Dec.  27,  1861,  at  Waters  Farm,  Hat- 
field,  Broad  Oak,  Essex,  Mr.  John  Ham- 
mond, sen.,  aged  97. 

„  „  25.  "  On  the  20th,  at  Tannadice  House,  N.B., 
Mary,  widow  of  the  late  Charles  Ogilvy, 
of  Tannadice,  aged  96. 

„  Feb.  11.  "  On  the  8th,  at  his  residence,  Great  Cum- 
berland Street,  Hyde  Park,  Hans  Busk, 


Esq.,  J.  P.  for  the  county  of  Radnor,  the 

Wa 
aged  90. 


youngest  son  of  Sir  Wadsworth  Busk, 


„  Feb.  20.  This  day's  list  was  an  extraordinary  one. 
Out  of  32  insertions,  there  were  two  who 
had  died  at  72,  two  at  74,  two  at  76,  one 
at  79,  one  at  82,  one  at  84,  one  at  85,  two 
at  90,  one  at  94;  and  to  complete  this 
long  list  there  occurs  the  following :  — 
"  On  the  17th  instant  at  Richmond,  Surrey, 
at  the  advanced  age  of  103,  Mrs.  Martha 
Lawrence,  loved  and  revered  by  all  with 
whom  she  was  connected  in  life,  in  death 
she  is  mourned  with  affectionate  remem- 
brance by  her  family  and  friends." 
But  the  last  notice  which  I  shall  take  is  not  the 
least  on  this  already  lengthened  list.     It  is   ex- 
tracted from  The  Times  of  Feb.  25,  and  worthy 
the  attention  of  the  curious:  — 

"  On  the  14th  inst.  at  Winkfield,  Berks,  Mrs.  Esther 
Strike,  at  the  advanced  age  of  103  years,  possessing  all  her 
faculties  to  the  last ;  leaving  three  sons  aged  respectively 
79,  77,  and  75  years,  24  grandchildren,  51  great-grand- 
children, and  two  great-great-grandchildren ;  beloved  and 
respected  by  all  who  knew  her." 

This  case,  I  think,  is  unparalleled  in  the  history 
of  modern  times.  This  good  old  lady  lived  to  see 
four  generations  descended  from  herself,  and  even 
when  she  passed  away  she  left  three  sons  alive, 
each  of  whom  are  far  beyond  the  threescore  years 
and  ten  allowed  to  man.  T.  C.  N. 

A  NEW  WORD.  —  If  anagram,    diagram,   epi- 
gram, monogram,  telegram,  why  not  photogram  ? 
If  deservedly  praise  on  The  Times  was  conferr'd, 

For  having  first  us'd  in  a  gram- 
matical form  that  most  sensible  word, 

Not  telegraph,  but  telegram  ; 
Why  should  we  not  all  again  hasten  to  school, 

And  in  Greek  grammar  get  a  good  cram, 
And  so  learn  to  say  by  the  very  same  rule, 
Not  photograph,  but  photogram  ? 


3'*  S.  I.  MAR.  22,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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CHARLES  BRIDGMAN,  of  St.  James's,  West- 
minster, Master  Gardener  to  King  George  II., 
made  his  will  6th  July,  1738.  He  names  his  wife 
"  Sarah,  sister  of  the  late  John  Mist,  paviour,"  a 
son  Charles,  and  a  daughter  Sarah.  He  owned 
houses  in  Henrietta  Street,  Cavendish  Square, 
London,  and  the  Bell  Inn  (still  existing)  at  Stil- 
ton, in  Huntingdonshire.  PETER  CUNNINGHAM. 


CARICATURES  AND  SATIRICAL  PRINTS. 

Some  time  since  I  was  invited  to  assist  in  de- 
termining the  best  mode  of  arranging  a  very 
extensive  and  interesting  series  of  caricatures. 
What  I  then  gladly  undertook  as  a  pleasant 
task,  has  unfortunately,  by  change  of  circum- 
stances, been  elevated  into  a  duty ;  and  a  duty 
which  I  am  especially  desirous  of  discharging  in 
the  most  satisfactory  manner. 

To  secure  this  I  am  anxious  for  the  advice,  on 
several  points,  of  such  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  as 
have  made  caricatures  a  subject  of  their  at- 
tention ;  for  there  are  unquestionably  several 
great  difficulties  to  be  overcome  before  anything 
approaching  to  a  distinct  system  of  arrangement 
can  be  decided  upon. 

In  the  first  place,  is  any  distinction  to  be  drawn 
between  Caricatures  and  Satirical  Prints?  The 
spirit  of  a.  caricature  is  comic,  but  satire  is  not 
necessarily  comic ;  and  satirical  prints  are  often 
about  as  much  like  caricatures,  as  throwing  vitriol 
is  like  the  pelting  with  sugar  plums  at  the  Car- 
nival. The  object  of  the  caricature  as  a  rule  is 
to  raise  a  laugh,  while  on  the  other  hand  the 
satirical  print  has  a  deeper  object  and  aims  at 
exciting  feelings  of  hatred  or  disgust.  Both 
employ  the  same  weapon, 

"  And  take  for  truth  the  test  of  ridicule/' 
ridicule  which  is  so  fatal  to  power. 

Both  have  in  their  time  exercised  as  much  in- 
fluence as  satirical  ballads  and  political  squibs ; 
for  whatever  may  have  been  the  truth  of  Whar- 
ton's  boast  that  by  Lillibullero  he  had  sung  a  king 
out  of  three  kingdoms,  there  can  be  little  doubt 
that  Fox's  India  Bill  received  its  severest  blow 
in  public  estimation  from  the  celebrated  carica- 
ture by  Sayer  of  Norwich—  Carlo  Khan's  Tri- 
umphal Entry  into  Leadenhall  Street  :  and  with 
the  multitude  at  least,  the  remarkable  wit  and 
pungency  of  Theodore  Hook's  pasquinades  against 
the  party  of  Queen  Caroline,  were  more  than 
counterbalanced  by  George  Cruikshank's  inimit- 
able caricatures  of  George  the  Fourth,  his  minis- 
ters and  supporters. 

In  one  respect  the  pencil  has  an  advantage 
over  the  pen — its  meaning  is,  in  most  cases,  patent 
to  all  who  look  at  it;  and  as  the  Biblia  Pan- 


perum  was  addressed  to  those  who  could  not  read, 
caricatures  as  often  appeal  to  those  who  can  neither 
read  nor  reason. 

Setting  aside  for  the  present  the  question  how 
far  it  is  possible  to  draw  a  distinction  between 
Caricatures  and  Satirical  Prints,  I  would  ask 
whether  any  better  division  of  engravings  of 
either  of  these  classes  can  be  suggested  than  one 
which  distinguishes  them  according  to  their  So- 
cial, Personal,  and  Political  character  ? 

Under  the  head  of  SOCIAL  CARICATURES  it  is 
obvious  will  be  included  all  such  as  are  directed 
against  any  prevailing  follies  in  morals,  manners, 
or  dress  ;  such  as  those  against  the  South  Sea 
Bubble  and  the  caricatures  against  the  Maccaro- 
nies  of  the  last  century,  and  the  wearers  of  Cri- 
noline in  our  own  days. 

PERSONAL  CARICATURES  will  include  those  di- 
rected against  individuals  —  such  as  the  various 
prints  in  which  Pope  figures,  and  those  in  which, 
for  instance,  the  old  Duke  of  Queensbury  was  so 
freely  satirised.  Where  the  subject  of  them  was 
attacked  in  his  political  character,  such  as  the 
celebrated  caricatures  against  Lord  Bute,  they 
would  obviously  fall  more  properly  into  the  larger 
and  more  important  class  of  POLITICAL  CARICA- 
TURES. 

The  arrangement  of  these  would  be  of  course, 
simply  a  chronological  one.  For  many  years  they 
bore  on  their  face,  under  a  special  Act  of  Par- 
liament, the  date  of  their  publication,  so  that  no 
difficulty  in  settling  their  order  could  occur;  while 
the  order  of  those  issued  before  the  passing  of 
that  Act  would  have  to  be  sought  out  by  inquiry 
among  contemporary  authorities. 

POLITICAL  CARICATURES  might,  for  conveni- 
ence, be  further  divided  into  the  following  classes  : 

1.  Those  relating  to  events  up  to  the  year  1688. 

2.  Those  relating  to  events  between  1688  and 
the  death  of  George  II. 

3.  Those  relating  to  the  reign  of  George  III. 

4.  All  those  of  later  date. 

WTILLIAM  J.  THOMS. 

STATUE  OF  GEORGE  I.  IN  LEICESTER  SQUARE. 
— tCan  any  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  throw  light  upon 
the  history  of  this  statue,  by  whom  it  was  placed 
in  Leicester  Square,  and  what  eventually  became 
of  it?  I  would  ask,  too,  when  was  Leicester 
Square  first  enclosed  ?  In  A  Critical  View  of  the 
Public  Buildings,  Statues,  and  Ornaments  in  and 
about  London  and  Westminster,  8vo,  1734,  we  read 
that  — 

"  Leicester  Square  has  nothing  remarkable  in  it,  but 
the  inclosure  in  the  middle ;  which  alone  affords  the  in- 
habitants round  about  it  something  like  the  prospect  of 
a  garden,  and  preserves  it  from  the  rudeness  of  the  popu- 
lace too." 

The  statue  of  George  I.  was  modelled  by  C. 
Buchan  for  the  Duke  of  Chandos ;  and,  when 


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[3'*  S.  I.  MAR.  22,  '62. 


Canons  was  sold,  was  purchased  and  placed  in  the 
Square.  But  by  whom  was  it  so  purchased,  and 
placed  there  ?  Mr.  Timbs,  in  his  Curiosities  of 
London,  p.  454,  says  "  it  was  purchased  by  the 
inhabitants  of  the  Square  ;  it  was  finely  gilt,  and 
within  memory  was  re-gilt"  Mr.  Tirnbs  does  not 
give  any  authority  for  the  purchase  by  the  in- 
habitants, or  for  the  re-gilding.  Can  any  corre- 
spondent supply  these  deficiencies,  and  more 
especially  tell  us  who  paid  for  the  re-gilding  ?^ 

Others  have  said  it  was  bought  by  Frederick, 
Prince  of  Wales,  and  presented  to  the  inhabitants. 
This  is  partly  confirmed  by  the  fact,  that  it  was 
"  first  uncovered  "  on  the  birthday  of  the  Princess 
of  Wales,  19th  November,  1748. 

Lastly,  What  became  of  it  ?  Mr.  Timbs  tells 
us,  "  over  the  statue  has  been  built  Wyld's  Colos- 
sal Model  of  the  Earth."  The  Gentleman's  Maga- 
zine tells  us  that  it  was  found  to  be  of  lead  filled 
with  clay,  and  that  it  was  broken  up.  And  there 
is  a  rumour,  tbat  some  doubts  having  arisen  as  to 
the  power  of  removing  it  from  the  centre  of  the 
Square,  the  difficulty  was  got  over  by  keeping  it 
in  the  centre  of  the  Square,  but  &  few  feet  under 
ground.  Your  insertion  of  these  Queries  will 
oblige  AN  OLD  CORRESPONDENT. 

REV.  CHRISTOPHER  BLACKWOOD. — Information 
is  requested  respecting  the  birth-place,  parentage, 
and  education  of  this  Nonconformist  minister,  who 
died  in  1670,  cet.  64.  References  to  any  par- 
ticulars concerning  him  other  than  are  to  be  found 
in  Neal's  History  of  Puritans,  and  Crosby's  His- 
tory of  Baptists,  will  be  thankfully  acknowledged. 

Where  are  the  MS.  Collections  of  the  Rev. 
Josiah  Thompson  of  Clapham  ?  W.  W.  S. 

BURKE'S  ADMIRED  POET.  —  In  a  pamphlet  en- 
titled A  few  Words  with  the  Eight  Hon.  Edmund 
Burke,  London,  1793,  the  author  closes  an  un- 
kind summary  of  the  failings  of  Marie  Antoinette 
with  :  — 

"  The  poet  whom  you  most  admire,  imitate,  and  per- 
haps resemble,  says :  — 

"  Officious  is  the  tongue  of  fame : 
Arraigning  multitudes  divulge  her  shame, 
For  envy  stings  with  surer  force 
Th'  offending  great ;  in  humbler  course 
The  lowly  act  their  deeds  impure, 
The  sin  is,  like  themselves,  obscure." 
Who  is  the  poet  ?  j\  R. 

BURNING  OF  Moscow.  —  In  Lord  Colchester's 
Dianj,  vol.  ni.  p.  403,  which  I  have  read  with 
great  pleasure,  and  much  instruction,  his  lord- 
ship notes  a  conversation  he  held  with  the  Duke  of 
Wellington  on  various  subjects,  amongst  others  on 
the  burning  of  Moscow  by  the  orders  of  Rostop- 
chm.  I  quote  from  the  Diary :  — 

"  Talking  of  the  burning  of  Moscow,  he  was  decidedly 
1  opinion  that  it  was  not  a  preconcerted  or  designed  mea- 
sure, as  usually  ascribed  to  Rostopcbin,  but  the  mere 


consequence  of  negligent  conduct  in  the  French  army 
upon  entering  that  city;  the  soldiers  scattering  their  fire 
about  them  carelessly,  as  they  always  do,  which,  in  a 
city  of  wooden  houses,  necessarily  produced  a  conflagra- 
tion, and  of  a  gradual  sort,  as  happened  on  this  occasion, 
—  the  first  night,  forty  or  fifty  houses ;  the  next,  three 
hundred  or  four  hundred,  and  so  progressively :  but  that, 
if  it  had  been  intentional  on  the  part  of  the  Russians, 
they  would  not  have  left  (as  they  did)  their  military 
magazines,  gun-carriages,  and  above  all,  their  gun- 
powder, to  the  victorious  army  before  they  retreated. 
And  indeed  this  circumstance  seems  decisive." 

Will  any  of  your  readers  please  to  inform  me 
where  I  shall  find  an  account  of  this  conflagration  ? 
I  think  Napoleon  adverted  to  it  in  his  conversa- 
tion with  the  English  physician  appointed  to 
attend  to  his  health ;  but  he  did  not,  if  I  recollect 
rightly,  attribute  the  fire  to  the  cause  assigned 
by  the  Duke  of  Wellington.  Whatever  gloss  may 
be  put  upon  it  by  French  writers,  the  circum- 
stance mentioned  by  the  duke  of  the  military 
magazines,  &c.,  and  above  all,  the  gunpowder  being 
left  by  the  Russians,  is  indeed  conclusive. 

FRA.  MEWBURN. 

Larchfield,  Darlington. 

COMMONWEALTH  MARRIAGES.  —  Can  you  make 
anything  of  the  accompanying  extract  from  the 
parish  register  of  St.  Giles' s-m-the-fields  ?  Is  it 
not  strange  to  find  the  ceremony  performed  by  a 
D.D.  at  such  a  period  ?  And  does  the  fact  that 
all  the  witnesses  were  present  in  the  church  prove 
anything  ? 

Marriages,  1658,  July.—  "  Robert  Le  Wright,  of  Middle 
Temple,  London,  Esqre,  and  Mrs  Gratiana,  dau.  of  the  Lady 
Dorothy  Jenkins  alias  Baleham,  of  the  parish  of  S*  Giles- 
in-the-fields,  Midx ,  had  their  purpose  of  marriage 
entd  the  21st  of  this  month,  &  were  thrice  published  in 
the  p'h.  ch.  of  S1  Giles-in-the-fields  afsd.  i.  e.  on  the  4tJ% 
11th,  £  18th  of  this  inst.  month;  and  had  their  marriage 
celebrated  by  Wm  Jervis,  D.D.,  in  the  presence  of  the 
abovesaid  Lady  Dorothy  Jenkins  of  this  parish,  mother 
of  the  sd  Mr>  "Gratiana^  &  in  the  presence  of  Mrs  Jane 
Chelsham,  wife  of  John  Chelsham,  of  Kingston-upon- 
Tbames,  Esqre;  and  in  the  presence  of  Elizth,  wife  of 
Richd  Baddesley,  of  S*  Dunstan's-in-the-West,  London, 
Gen*,  and  of  Margaret,  wife  of  John  Shelvack,  of  this 
parish,  yeoman.  And  that  also  the  sd  marriage  between 
the  parties  abovesd  had  its  consummation  before  John, 
Lord  Berksted,  Lord-Lieutenant  of  the  Tower  of  London, 
in  p'suance  and  dir'on  of  Act  of  Parl*  in  that  case 
made  and  decided,  before,  and  in  the  presence  of  Sir  John 
Sedley  of  the  county  of  Kent,  Knt  &  Bart. ;  and  in  the 
presence  of  Lady  Francis  del  Hare,  and  the  said  M™  Jane 
Chelsham  and  others  in  the  Tower  of  London." 

LIONEL  J.  ROBINSON. 

Audit  Office. 

CURSONS  OF  WATERPERRY,  OXFORDSHIRE.  — 
Sir  Francis  Curson,  of  Waterperry,  who  died  Oct. 
31,  1610,  left  three  sons.  Sir  John,  his  heir, 
Francis,  and  Richard.  Sir  John  carried  down  the 
direct  line  of  his  house,  his  son  Thomas  being 
created  a  baronet  in  1661 :  but  is  it  known  what 
became  of  the  brothers,  Francis  and  Richard? 
Was  Francis  Cursoa  a  knight  of  the  shire  for 


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Oxford,  or  any  adjoining  county,  in  the  first  quar- 
ter of  the  seventeenth  century  ?  Was  Richard 
Curson,  the  third  son,  in  holy  orders?  And  if 
so,  to  what  University  did  he  belong  ?  Did  either 
of  these  two  brothers  marry,  and  have  surviving 
issue  ?  Lord  Teynham  is,  I  perceive  by  Burke's 
Extinct  Baronetage,  the  testamentary  representa- 
tive of  this  ancient  family ;  but  as  I  cannot  trace 
in  what  way  his  lordship  is  related,  if  at  all,  to 
the  Cursons  of  Waterperry,  perhaps  some  one 
better  informed  will  be  kind  enough  to  enlighten 
me  ?  Apropos  of  this,  how  is  it  that  the  Teyn- 
ham family,  whose  real  surname  is  Roper,  but 
who  took  by  royal  license  the  additional  name  of 
Curzon  on  inheriting  the  Waterperry  estates,  — 
how  is  it  that  they  have  discarded  the  ancient 
spelling  of  the  name,  by  substituting  Curzon  for 
Curson  ?  Replies  to  any  or  all  of  these  queries, 
either  to  my  private  address,  or  through  "  N.  & 
Q.,"  will  be  esteemed  a  favour.  T.  HUGHES. 

Groves  Terrace,  Chester. 

DRAMA.  —  Who  is  the  author  of  Aristodemus, 
a  mono-drama  in  the  Poetical  Register,  1802,  and 
Othryades,  a  mono-drama,  Poetical  Register,  1803? 
These  two  pieces  have  the  signature  "  S."  Query, 
Was  the  author  Mr.  Sotheby,  author  of  Orestes, 
and  other  tragedies,  translation  of  The  Iliad,  &c.  ? 

ZETA. 

ENIGMA,  FROM  A  MATHEMATICAL  TREATISE  BY 
THOMAS  KERSEY.  — 

"  If  the  difference  between  the  indices  of  the  second 
letter, of  the  second  word,  and  the  third  letter  of  the  first 
word,  be  multiplied  into  the  difference  of  their  squares, 
the  product  will  be  576 ;  and  if  their  sum  be  multiplied 
into  the  sum  of  their  squares,  that  product  will  be  2336. 
The  index  of  the  said  third  letter  being  the  greatest.  The 
indices  last  formed  are  the  extremes  of  four  numbers  in 
arithmetical  progression,  the  lesser  mean  being  the  index 
of  the  first  letter  of  the  third  word;  and  the  greater 
mean  is  the  index  of  the  fourth  and  last  letter  of  the  first 
word.  The  second  letter  of  the  third  word  is  the  same 
with  the  third  letter  of  the  first  word,  and  the  fifth  letter 
of  the  third  word  is  the  same  with  the  last  letter  of  the 
first  word.  The  sum  of  the  squares  of  the  indices  of  the 
first  and  second  letters  of  the  first  word  is  520,  and  the 
product  of  the  same  indices  is  seven-ninths  of  the  square 
of  the  greater  index,  which  is  the  index  of  the  said  first 
letter.  The  difference  between  the  last  two  indices  is 
the  index  of  the  first  letter  of  the  second  word.  The 
third  and  last  letter  of  the  second  word,  also  the  third 
letter  of  the  third  word,  are.the  same  with  the  second  letter 
of  the  first  word.  The  sum  of  the  indices  of  the  fourth 
letter  of  the  third  word,  and  the  sixth  or  last  letter  of  the 
same  word,  being  added  to  their  product,  is  35 ;  and  the 
difference  of  their  squares  is  288,  the  index  of  the  last 
letter  being  the  least.  Query  —  the  words  ?  " 

This  I  found  stated  in  a  local  paper,  to  be  in 
a  work  contained  in  my  library.  I  have  never 
been  able  to  lay  my  hand  on  the  original  book, 
but  have  copied  this  verbatim  from  the  newspaper, 
thinking  that  perhaps  some  of  your  correspondents 
may  be  able  to  afford  me  a  solution  of  it.  I 
imagine  the  index  of  each  letter  to  denote  its 


place  in  the  alphabet,  for  otherwise  the  problem 
would  be  impossible  to  solve. 

GEORGE  E.  J.  POWELL. 
Oxford. 

BISHOP  THOMAS  HACKET.  —  When  was  this 
prelate  born  ?  He  died  [the  deprived]  Bishop  of 
Down  in  1697.  C.  J.  R. 

HARKIRKE.  —  In  the  year  1611  William  Blun- 
dell,  Esq.,  of  Little  Crosby,  set  aside  a  plot  of 
ground  for  the  burial  of  Catholics,  who  were 
denied  burial  at  the  parish  church.  The  place 
was  called  Harkirke,  a  name  which  it  still  pre- 
serves. On  opening  the  ground  scores  of  Saxon 
coins  were  found,  of  a  type  similar  to  those  found 
a  few  years  ago  at  Cuerdale,  also  in  Lancashire. 
The,  object  of  this  communication  is  to  inquire 
the  meaning  of  the  word  "  Harkirke,"  and  to  as- 
certain if  any  reason  can  be  given  for  the  deposit 
of  coins  in  that  place.  A.  E.  L. 

DR.  JOHN  HEWETT.  —  Your  correspondent  CL. 
HOPFER  (2nd  S.  xii.  409.)  says  that  "  Dr.  Hewett 
was  the  son  of  Thomas  Hewett,  Gent."  May  I 
ask  if  this  Thomas  Hewett  was  the  Thomas  de- 
scribed as  being  the  third  son  of  William  Hewett, 
Esq.  of  Killamarsh,  co.  Derby  ?  ("  N.  &  Q."  2nd 
S.  vi.  467.)  UNYTE. 

BISHOP  HOOPER,  who  suffered  martyrdom  in 
1555,  is  stated  to  have  been  born  in  Somerset- 
shire about  1495.  Can  you  give  me  any  inform- 
ation as  to  the  place  of  his  birth,  or  his  family 
connexions  ?  W.  T. 

Bristol. 

EDWARD  JENNER,  M.D.  —  I  request,  through 
the  medium  of  your  useful  publication,  to  be  ap- 
prised of  some  particulars  respecting  the  statue  of 
Dr.  Jenner,  the  discoverer  of  vaccination ;  origi- 
nally placed  in  Trafalgar  Square,  but  which  has 
recently  undergone  transmigration  to  Kensington 
Gardens.  It  was  inaugurated  in  its  primary  posi- 
tion, with  all  due  ceremony,  and  a  very  eloquent 
harangue  from  the  Prince  Consort ;  and  I  request 
to  be  informed  of  the  date  of  such  ceremony,  and 
where  I  may  find  a  detail  of  the  proceedings,  and 
the  speech  of  His  Royal  Highness,  who  is  now  so 
universally  lamented  ? 

The  transposition  is  no  degradation  whatever 
to  Jenner,  who  always  delighted  in  the  most 
rustic  scenery,  and  who  would  have  said  : 

"  Uura  mihi,  et  rigui  placeant  in  vallibus  amnes ; 
Flumina  amem  sylvasque  inglorius." 

Vir.  Georg.,  lib.  ii.  485. 

The  simplicity  of  his  manners,  and  the  ardour 
with  which  he  pursued  every  branch  of  natural 
history,  especially  ornithology,  were  very  re- 
markable ;  and  of  the  latter  he  gave  an  admirable 
proof  in  his  "  History  of  the  Cuckoo,"  recorded  in 
the  Philosophical  Transactions,  vol.  Ixxviii.  part  ii. 
pp.  219—237.  AMICUS. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  MAR.  22,  '62. 


JEANNE  D'EVBEUX,  QUEEN  OP  FRANCE.— What 

is  the  real  date  of  this  queen's  death  ?  Froissart 
gives  it  1370  ;  and  yet  speaks  of  her  as  present  at 
The  entry  of  Queen  Isabeau  into  Paris,  in  1389. 
Crabb's  Historical  Dictionary  gives  1370.  Dreux 
du  Radier  (Memoires  et  Anecdotes  des  Reines  et 
Regentes  de  France}  gives  March  4,  1300.  As  the 
queen  was  only  married  in  1 325,  on  the  authority 
of  Dreux  du  Radier  himself,  this  is  a  palpable 
misprint ;  very  annoying  in  a  disputed  case  like 
this,  as  it  leaves  it  uncertain  what  this  learned 
writer  intended  to  say. 

Did  Jeanne  die  in  1370,  the  date  most  generally 
given  ?  If  so,  who  was  the  queen  of  this  name 
who  was  present  at  Isabeau's  entry  in  1389  ?  Or 
is  the  presence  of  any  Queen  Jeanne  to  be  re- 
garded as  an  error  of  Froissart?  I  would'just 
add,  that  the  dates  of  death  of  the  other  queens 
named  Joanne,  Avho  were  living  in  the  fourteenth 
century,  are  as  follows  :  — 

Jeanne  of  Navarre,  Queen  of  Philippe  IV., 
April,  1314  (Dreux  du  Radier). 

Jeanne  of  Franche-Comte,  Queen  of  Philippe  V., 
Jan.  21,  1329  (Dreux  du  Radier,  Crabb)  ;  Dec. 
21,  21st  of  Phil.  VI.  [1348-9]  (Fabyan). 

Jeanne  of  Burgundy,  Queen  of  Philippe  VI., 
Sept.  12,  1348  (Dreux  du  Radier). 

Jeanne  of  Auvergne,  Queen  of  Jean,  1357 
(Abbe  Choisi)  ;  1360  (named  by  Dreux  du  Ra- 
dier, he  does  not  decide,)  ;  1361  (Ste.  Marthe). 

Jeanne  of  Bourbon,  Queen  of  Charles  V.,  Feb. 
6,  1377  (Mezeray,  Froissart,)  ;  1378  (Dreux  du 
Radier).  HERMENTRUDE. 

KENNEDY'S  "  HISTORY  OF  THE  STUART  FAMILY." 
—  I  have  a  copy  of  a  scarce  volume,  entitled  A 
Chronological,  Genealogical,  and  Historical  Dis- 
sertation of  the  Royal  Family  of  the  Stuarts  (8vo, 
Paris,  1705).  The  work  is  curious,  "beginning 
with  Milesius,  the  stock  of  those  they  call  the 
Milesian  Irish,  and  of  the  old  Scottish  race,  and 
ending  with  his  present  Majesty  K.  James  the  3rd 
of  England  and  Ireland,  and  of  Scotland  the  8th;" 
and  the  author  was  Matthew  Kennedy,  "Doctor 
of  Laws,  Master  of  the  High  Court  of  Chancery, 
and  Judge  of  the  Admiralty  of  all  Ireland."  Can 
you  give  me  any  biographical  particulars  of  Dr. 
Kennedy,  whose  name  does  not  appear  in  Smyth's 
Chronicle  of  the  Law  Officers  of  Ireland  ? 

ABHBA. 

NORMAN  FONTS.  —  The  old  artists  have  left  us 
gems  of  beauty  in  many  of  our  old  fonts.  In  the 
parish  church  of  Norton  Malreward,  near  Bristol, 
is  an  ancient  Norman  one,  resting  upon  a  central 
and  four  corner  shafts  —  an  allusion  to  our  Lord 
and  the  four  Evangelists.  One  of  the  ornamental 
designs,  sculptured  on  one  side,  is  the  creation  of 
the  natural  world,  or  Christ's  baptism,  or  both 
included.  The  Holy  Dove,  streams  of  light  from 
heaven,  and  water  (undy),  are  seen  in  bas  relief. 


Does  any  reader  of   '*  N.  &  Q."  know  any  other 
Norman  font  similarly  ornamented  ? 

ROBERT  ASKWITH  TAYLOR,  M.A. 

Norton  Malreward. 

NUMISMATIC  QUERY:  THE  "SPADE"  GUINEA. 
— In  what  year  was  the  "spade"  guinea  first 
coined?  Ruding  engraves  it  in  Supplement, 
Part  n.  plate  3,  No.  11,  as  of  date  1791 ;  but  the 
specimen  in  my  cabinet  is  dated  1787.  I  am  led 
to  ask  this  question  from  a  violent  anachronism 
which  Mr.  Sala  has  made  in  his  racy  "Adven- 
tures of  Captain  Dangerous "  in  Temple  Bar, 
when  he  makes  one  of  the  gentlemen  blacks  of 
Charlwood  chase  ejaculate  — "  Black  Towzer  for 
a  spade  guinea!" — in  the  reign  of  George  I.,  who 
died  in  1727.  JAMES  J.  LAMB. 

Underwood  Cottage,  Paisley. 

ORDER  OF  ST.  JOHN  OF  JERUSALEM.  —  Would 
any  of  your  correspondents  be  kind  enough  to 
inform  me  where  I  can  find  an  account  of  the 
state  of  the  French  Langue  during  the  reign  of 
Charles  X.  ?  I  understand  that  a  very  interest- 
ing statement,  relating  thereto,  appeared  in  some 
magazine  about  the  year  1830  ;  but  I  am  unable, 
after  much  research,  to  find  any  notice  of  it. 

J.  W.  BRYANS. 

OLD  PROPHECY.  —  In  a  MS.  in  my  possession  I 
have  found  this  old  Latin  prophecy  :  — 

"  Prima  jetate  florebit  Nobilitas ; 
Secunda  aetate  dominabitur  Ecclesia ; 
Tertia  jetate  tyrannizabit  Lex, 
Et  demum  Mars  delebit  omnia." 

A  note  under  it  is  thus  :  — 

"  Ffound  in  an  Abbye  by  Mr.  Denham." 

As  my  MS.  is  probably  transcribed  from  other 
documents  —  containing  as  it  'does  miscellaneous 
matters,  possibly  some  of  your  correspondents 
may  know  the  history  of  these  lines. 

THOMAS  E.  WINNINGTON. 

Stamford  Court,  Worcester. 

HERALDIC. — To  what  family  does  the  following 
coat  of  arms  belong :  Argent,  on  a  fesse  sable, 
three  pheons  of  the  field  ? 

They  are  on  the  west  window  of  Besford  church, 
in  Worcestershire.  ALPHA. 

PALM. — I  wish  some  competent  person  would 
state  in  the  pages  of  "  N.  &  Q."  what  is  the  exact 
length  of  the  palm,  as  a  measure  of  length  in 
Southern  Europe.  Bojardo  says  that  Brunello 
was  five  palms  or  less  in  height ;  Ariosto,  that 
Alcina  was  not  quite  six ;  and  Cervantes  gives  his 
Maritornes  an  altitude  of  less  than  seven  palms. 
Now  this  is  certainly  not  our  English  palm  of 
three  inches,  and  it  must  be  even  more  than  the 
span. 

It  is  curious  enough  how  fond  the  poets  and 
novelists  of  former  days  seem  to  have  been  of 


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making  a  ridiculous  diminution  of  stature.  Thus, 
beside  the  above  instances,  Le  Sage  makes  the 
uncle  of  Gil  Bias  only  three  feet  and  a  half  high, 
and  Fielding  gives  four  feet  seven  inches  as  the 
height  of  Beau  Didapper.  K 

"  PARODIES  ON  GAY." — Who  was  the  author  of 
these  eight  parodies,  to  which  is  added  The  Battle 
of  the  Bmts,  —  a  fable  attempted  in  the  style  of 
Hudibras?  The  book  has  not  any  date  [1800?]. 
On  the  cover  is  an  advertisement  of  another  work 
by  the  same  author  —  Fables,  Tales,  and  other 
Poems.  THOMAS  H.  CEOMEK. 

Wakefield. 

POLYGAMY  IN  SICILY.  —  In  the  Edinburgh  Re- 
view for  Jan.  1862  (p.  205),  it  is  stated  that 
Giovanni  di  Giovanni,  the  author  of  Ebraismo 
della  Sicilia,  writing  in  1748,  attributes  the  rapid 
increase  of  the  Sicilian  Jews  to  the  enforced 
early  marriages,  and  the  habitual  practice  of 
polygamy. 

Perhaps  some  one,  who  has  access  to  the 
Ebraismo,  will  be  kind  enough  to  inform  me 
whether  Giovanni  is  referring  to  the  increase  of 
the  Jews  in  his  own  or  a  past  time.  I  should 
guess  the  latter.  S.  C. 

SERVANTS  AT  HOLY  COMMUNION.  —  In  a  MS. 
in  the  Gloucester  Cathedral  library,  entitled, 
"Tithes  and  Offerings  in  Trinity  Parish,  1618— 
1645,"  I  constantly  find  the  following  curious 
entry  :  "  Servants  which  received  the  Holy  Com- 
munion at  Trinity,  1630."  Then  follows  a  long 
list  of  names,  for  instance,  "  Received  of  Ann 
Raspfield,  servant  to  William  Baron,  who  hath 
viiis  a  year  from  her  master,  1630,  iiiid,  and  for 
her  offering,  due  this  Easter,  1630,  iid."  Why 
is  there  a  distinct  list  of  "  servants  "  receiving  the 
Holy  Communion?  Was  it  compulsory?  and 
were  their  offerings  levied  according  to  their 
wages?  Were  8*.  the  average  wages  in  those 

C.  Y.  CRAWLEY. 


SCARLETT  FAMILY.  —  I  shall  be  obliged  if  any- 
one, in  the  habit  of  looking  over  the  numerous 
pedigrees  and  arras  in  the  Harleian,  Lansdowne, 
and  Burrell  MSS.,  will  give  me  any  references  to 
the  arms  or  pedigrees  of  the  abovementioned 
name  with  which  he  may  meet  in  the  course  of 
his  search  for  other  arms  and  pedigrees.  I  am 
desirous  of  knowing  the  coat  of  arms  borne  by 
Thomas  Scarlett,  who  fought  at  Agincourt  in 
Burgh's  corps  of  Archers  or  Lancers ;  and  who 
brought  three  archers  into  the  field  with  him  at 
that  battle  (v.  Nicolas's  Agincourt).  I  wish 
also  to  ascertain  the  arms  of  a  Scarlett  in  the  reign 
of  Edward  III.,  who  was  governor  of  Rochester 
Castle,  and  related  to  the  Cobhams. 

GENEALOGIST. 

SPANISH  AMBASSADORS,  temp.  HEN.  VIII.  —  I 
shall  feel  much  obliged  for  information  of  the 


names  and  dates  of  arrival  of  any  ambassadors 
accredited  to  the  English  Court  from  Spain  be- 
tween 1518  and  1543,  and  where  they  landed. 
It  may  facilitate  inquiry  if  I  add  that  my  object 
is  to  find  out  these  particulars  relating  to  the 
"  Spanish  Ambassador  "  who,  on  his  way  to  Lon- 
don, "  was  entertained  with  great  magnificence" 
by  the  Mayor  of  Exeter,  for  three  days.  S.  T. 

S.T.P.  AND  D.D.  —  Are  these  terms  synony- 
mous ?  D.D.  is  Divinitatis  Doctor,  but  what  is 
S.T.P.  ?  I  believe  it  does  not  refer  at  all  to  an 
academical  degree;  I  have  heard  it  explained, 
Sacrae  Theologies  Prseceptor,  Sacra?  Theologia? 
Professor,  and  Sacrae  Theologia3  Prasdicator.  This 
last  I  believe  to  be  most  correct,  and  that  it 
simply  implies  a  preacher  of  the  Gospel.  Was  it 
in  use  before  the  time  of  the  Puritans  ?  Or  was 
it  not  adopted  by  those  of  that  body  who  had  no 
proper  academical  degree  ?  JOHN  TUCKETT. 

Great  Russell  Street. 

TRAVERS  FAMILY.  —  I  am  anxious  to  complete 
a  pedigree  of  the  Travers  family,  and  for  that 
purpose  I  wish  to  know  if  any  readers  of  "  N.  & 
Q."  can  supply  a  missing  link.    The  founder  of  the 
family  came  over  with  the  Conqueror,  and  his  name 
is  to  be  found  in  the  Battle  Roll.      He  settled  in 
Lancashire,  and  became  possessed  of  the  estates 
of  Marmaduke  Tulketh  of  Tulketh.     Later  on  we 
have  Laurence  Travers,  viv.  Hen.  III.,  sue.  by 
his  fson  Thomas,  and  so  on,  in  a  direct  line  to 
William,  who  was  sue.  by  Richard  Travers,  born 
1590,  and  living  at  Nateby,  Lancashire,  circa  1613 
(he,  Richard,  married  a  daughter  of  Christopher 
Berwick  of  Netly,  Norfolk),  and  had  two  brothers 
and  five  sisters ;  viz.  Edward,  William,Isabella  (iix. 
James  Wall  of  Preston),  Helena  (iix.  Maxey  Nel- 
son), Dorothy,  Eleanor,  and  Catherine  Travers. 
Here  the  break  occurs,  and  we  begin  again  with 
John  Travers  of  the  city  of  Chester,  ironmonger, 
iving  1663  (dead  before  1680),  who  was  sue.  by 
Benjamin,  citizen  and  vintner  of  London;  sue.  by 
Benjamin,  sue.  by  Joseph,  suc.by  John,  sue.  by  John 
[ngram  Travers  and  others  (merchants  of  St.  Swi- 
.hin's  Lane,  London),  living  1862.     John  Travers 
of  Chester  bore  for  arms  (see  Boyne's  Tokens,  p. 
34),  sa.  a  chev.  betw.  3  boars'  heads,  couped  ar., 
on  the   chev.  a  mullet  for  difference;  identical 
with  the  bearings  of  Richard  Travers  of  Nateby 
>orn  in  1590),  with  the  exceptiqfcof  the  mullet. 
This  family,  anciently  of  some  importance,  held 
considerable  estates  in  Lancashire  and  Cheshire, 
marrying  into  several  old  families  of  good  name 
and  standing,  and  subsequently  were  much  mixed 
up  in  the  Commonwealth  wars. 

I  should  be  extremely  obliged  to  any  gentle- 
man who  could  inform  me  of  any  issue  of  Richard, 
Sdward,  or  William  Traver?,  viv.  1613,  through 
hese  columns  or  privately.  SIDNEY  YOUNG. 

4,  Martin's  Lane,  E.G. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[8*a  S.  I.  MAR.  22,  '62. 


WIGAN.  —  Please  to  inform  me  when  William 
Forth  was  Mayor  of  Wigan  ?  Sometime,  I  pre- 
sume, in  the  reign  of  Charles  I.  Is  there  any 
accessible  list  of  those  functionaries  of  ancient 
Wigan  from  1625  to  1660  ?  CUBER. 

WOLVES  IN  ENGLAND.  —  A  few  years  since  a 
correspondent  referred  to  wolves  being  seen  as 
late  as  Elizabeth's  reign  in  Dean  Forest  and 
Dartmoor.  I  find  in  Elaine's  Cyclopcedia  of 
Rural  Sports,  that  in  1281  a  commission  issued 
to  destroy  wolves  in  some  midland  counties  ;  and 
it  is  further  stated  that  at  Flixton,  Hackston, 
and  Folkston,  in  the  East  Riding  of  Yorkshire, 
church  entries  show  the  existence  of  wolves  at  a 
much  later  period.  Can  any  of  your  corre- 
spondents say  how  late  any  of  the  latter  are, 
and  whether  there  is  any  foundation  for  the  state- 
ment of  wolves  being  seen  in  either  Dartmoor  or 
the  Forest  of  Dean  as  late  as  Elizabeth's  reign  ? 

B. 


SHEBBEARE,  SMOLLETT,  AND  LABY  VANE.  —  On 
what  authority  is  it  affirmed  thatDr.Shebbeare  was 
the  writer  of  the  "Memoir  of  Lady  Vane  "  in- 
serted in  the  novel  of  Peregrine  Pickle,  and  how  far 
does  it  consist  with  known  facts  and  with  probabi- 
lity, that  Dr.  Smollett,  then  at  the  zenith  of  his  po- 
pularity, and  by  general  acknowledgment  one  of 
the  competing  masters  in  the  domain  of  fiction, 
should  have  tolerated  the  interpolation  in  one  of  his 
most  elaborate  performances,  of  the  handiwork  of 
another  man — and  such  a  man!  one  in  whose 
comparison  the  other  "  Doctor  "  was  indeed  "  Hy- 
perion to  a  Satyr  "  ?  Further,  are  we  justified  by 
the  contemporary  estimation  of  the  pilloried  pa- 
triot—  in  the  line  of  authorship — or  by  any  single 
publication  which  bears  his  name,  in  crediting 
him  with  the  ability  to  execute  a  narrative  alway's 
celebrated_for  its  consummate  elegance  of  diction  ? 
For  I  consider  that  to  have  imparted,  by  the  graces 
of  style,  a  certain  fascination  to  such  a  detail  of 
abandoned  profligacy  and  vice,  must  needs  be- 
speak such  a  "  flame  and  power  of  writing  "  as 
would  have  sufficed  to  rescue  some  other  of  his 
essays  from  dead  oblivion  —  "  invideret  Oreo." 

Yet  I  have  always  supposed,  while  the  doctor's 
public  career  (as  belonging  to  "  political  history  ") 
is  freshly  remembered,  lucubrations  of  the  pen  had 
died  with  him,  or  rather  long  before  him. 

Can  ^anyone  among  your  "  detectores  curiosi- 
tatum  ascertain  what  relations  (if  any)  existed 
between  these  two  celebrated  doctors?  I  am 
aware  that  Smollett  was  a  correspondent  of  "  Jack 
VV  ilkes ;  but  it  may  be  remarked  that  the  sarcas- 
tic delineation,  in  the  novel  referred  to,  of  a  third 
doctor  (Akenside)  indicates  on  the  part  of  the 
painter  a  most  determined  dislike  of  patriots. 


I  may  add  that  the  "Memoir  of  a  Lady  of 
Quality  "  is  interwoven  with  the  adventures  of 
Peregrine  Pickle  with  all  the  skill  of  a  practised 
hand.  A.  L. 

[In  the  various  biographies  of  Dr.  Shebbeare  consulted 
by  us,  we  do  not  find  the  least  intimation  that  he  was 
the  writer  of  the  Memoir  of  Lady  Vane  in  Peregrine 
Pickle.  In  fact,  Smollett  introduced  him  in  no  very  re- 
spectful light,  under  the  name  of  Ferret,  in  the  novel  of 
Sir  Launcelot  Graves,  and  Hogarth  made  him  one  of  the 
group  in  the  third  election  print.  Mr.  John  Taylor  (Re- 
cords of  my  Life,  ii.  409),  attributes  this  curious  account 
of  Lad}r  Vane,  with  some  probability,  to  Daniel  Macker- 
cher,  Esq.,  a  gentleman  whose  name  is  familiar  to  the 
public,  as  well  from  the  account  of  his  Life  inserted  in 
Peregrine  Pickle,  as  from  the  part  he  took  in  the  cele- 
brated Anglesea  Cause.  Mr.  Taylor  says,  "  Dennis 
[Daniel]  M'Kercher,  Esq.,  an  Irish  gentleman  of  for- 
tune, who  lived  with  Lady  Vane,  is  said  to  have  written 
her  Memoirs,  as  they  appear  in  Peregrine  Pickle;  and 
Dr.  Hill,  styled  Sir  John  Hill  from  his  Swedish  knight- 
hood, was  employed  by  Lord  Vane  to  write  The  History 
of  Lady  Frail  [12mo,  1751],  to  counteract  the  impres- 
sion on  the  public.  The  infidelity  of  the  lad}'  had  induced 
M'Kercher  to  separate  from  her.  When  he  was  near 
death,  she  anxiously  desired  to  see  him,  but  he  would 
not  suffer  her  to  approach.  Mr.  M'Kercher  is  introduced 
in  Peregrine  Pickle  as  the  gentleman  who  so  generously 
protected  the  young  man  in  the  famous  Anglesea  Cause, 
who  was  so  cruelly  persecuted  by  Lord  Valentia,  his 
uncle.  This  story  is  the  foundation  of  Mr.  Godwin's 
last  romance,  entitled  Cloudesley"  Mr.  M'Kercher  died  in 
Margaret  Street,  Cavendish  Square,  on  March  2,  1772.] 

"  THE  BIGHT  Sow  BY  THE  EAR." — In  Tytler's 
Life  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  p.  294,  he  relates  that 
whilst  the  king  was  at  Northampton,  during  the 
time  of  the  controversy  about  his  divorce  from 
Catherine,  some  opinions  of  Cranmer,  then  a  very 
young  doctor  of  the  Church,  were  related  to  the 
monarch,  when  he  exclaimed  with  a  prefix,  "  He 
has  got  the  right  sow  by  the  ear."  What  is  the 
origin  and  meaning  of  this  unkingly  phrase  ? 

S.  REDMOND. 

[To  "  take  the  right  sow  by  the  ear,"  and  to  "  take  the 
wrong  sow  by  the  ear,"  are  phrases  which  appear  to  have 
deviated  somewhat  from  their  original  import.  The 
Latin  expression,  which  is  given  as  corresponding  to  the 
latter  phrase,  is  "  pro  amphora  urceus,"  i.  e.  he  made  a 
mistake ;  he  intended  to  take  hold  of  the  amphora,  but 
he  took  the  pitcher  instead. 

Now  with  this  Latin  phrase,  "  pro  amphora  urceus," 
our  English  proverb,  to  "take  the  wrong  sow  by  the 
ear,"  seems  to  have  more  connexion  than  at  first  strikes 
the  eye.  A  "  sow  "  was  formerly  a  kind  of  amphora,  a 
vessel  with  "  ears."  "A  sow,  a  great  tub  with  two  ears" 
Bailey.  "Sow,  Een  groote  tobbe,  met  twee  ooren," 
Sewel,  Eng.-Du.  Diet.  It  seems  probable,  then,  that  the 
proverb,  "  he  has  taken  the  wrong  sow  by  the  ear,"  sig- 
nified originally,  though  certainly  not  so  understood  at 
present,  "  he  has  taken  the  wrong  "tub  by  the  ear  "  —  "  pro 
amphora  urceum ;  "  in  which  case  the  first  germ  of  the 
idea  is  due  to  our  friend  Horace :  — 
"...  amphora  coepit 
Institui :  currente  rota  cur  urceus  exit  ?  " 

The  "  sow,"  or  tub  with  two  ears,  was  probably  the 
same  with  the  "  sowce-tub  "  or  "  sowse-t\ib,"  now  called 
the  pickling  tub.] 


BrA  S.  I.  MAIL  22,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


233 


WESTMINSTER  PLATS.  —  Can  you  give  ine  the 
names  of  the  performers  in  the  Westminster  plays 
of  1838  and  1839  ?  R.  INGLIS. 

[The  Queen's  scholars  of  Westminster  School  per- 
formed in  1839,  the  Eunuchus  of  Terence  with  the  fol- 
lowing cast  of  the  characters :  Phaedria,  Somerset.  Par- 
meno,  Greenlaw.  Thais,  Randolph.  Gnatho,  Richards. 
Cbaerea,  Glyn,  sen.  Thraso,  Boyce.  Pythias,  Phillimore. 
Chremes,  Rawlinson.  Dorias,  Glyn,  jun.  Dorus,  Chalk. 
Sanga,  Preston.  Sophrona,  Maud.  Laches,  Monkhouse. 
Mutes  :  Simalio,  Cocks.  Donax,  Prout.  Syriscus,  Tem- 
plar, sen.  Pamphila,  Swabey.  We  have  not  met  with 
any  notice  of  the  performance  of  1838.] 

INEZ  DE  CASTRO.  — 

23rd  April,  1815.  "  Last  night  a  new  play,  called  Ina, 
on  the  subject  of  Inez  de  Castro,  though  with  Saxon 
names,  was  acted  at  Drury  Lane.  It  was  written  by 
Mrs.  Wilmot,  much  supported  by  Whitbread  and  opposi- 
tion people,  and  much  cried  down  by  the  contrary  party, 
•which  prevailed  —  for  it  was  condemned.  Everybody, 
however,  allows  that  the  language  is  elegant  and  the 
story  interesting ;  but  not  sufficient  stage-effect,  and  the 
last  act  particularly  weak.  They  also  say  there  was  a 
scene  of  an  altar  and  crucifix,  which  on  a  stage  should 
not  have  been ;  and  that  it  resembled  in  principle  Ger- 
man plays,  and  had  democratical  allusions." — Miss 
Knight's  Autobiography. 

Taking  an  interest  in  the  literature  which  owes 
its  origin  to  this  touching  episode  in  the  history 
of  Portugal,  I  should  be  glad  to  know  whether 
the  play  which  is  mentioned  in  the  above  extract 
has  survived  its  condemnation,  and  exists  in  any 
collection  that  is  accessible  ?  E.  H.  A. 

[Two  editions  of  this  play  were  published  in  1815.  It 
is  entitled  Ina,  a  tragedy,  in  five  Acts.  By  Mrs.  Wilmot. 
Murray,  Albemarle  Street,  8vo.  The  Prologue  by  the 
Hon.  William  Lamb,  and  the  Epilogue  by  Thomas  Moore, 
Esq.] 


BIBLICAL  VERSIONS. 
.     (3rd  S.  i.  172.) 

The  Parable  of  the  Sower  (from  St.  Matthew) 
has  been  published  (price  205.)  by  Prince  Louis 
Lucien  Bonaparte  in  seventy-two  European  lan- 
guages and  dialects ;  and  the  Lord's  Prayer  in 
nearly  500  languages  and  dialects,  in  the  great 
work  of  Adelung,  —  the  Mithridates,  or  Universal 
Philology,  continued  by  Vater.  This  work  also 
contains  the  admirable  treatise  of  Baron  Wm. 
Humboldt,  brother  to-  the  author  of  Cosmos,  in 
the  Basque  language.  The  words  of  the  Lord's 
Prayer  are  given  by  Adelung  and  Vater,  in  the 
Roman  character,  for  every  language,  except  the 
Greek,  arid  under  each  word  is  printed,  in  a  dis- 
tinct type,  the  German  word  of  this  prayer,  with 
which  it  corresponds.  This  work,  in  4  vols.,  may 
be  purchased  for  30s.  to  40s.  No  man  can  ad- 
dress himself  adequately  to  the  study  of  com- 
parative philology  without  this  book  at  his  elbow. 
It  describes  not  only  the  people  speaking  the  lan- 


guage, but  discusses  its  grammatical  peculiarities 
and  its  affinity  with  other  languages,  and  supplies 
the  titles  of  grammars  and  lexicons  required  for 
the  study  of  each  language,  where  any  such  are 
extant.  There  is  another  work,  which  supplies  a 
vocabulary  of  a  far  greater  number  of  languages, 
but  it  is  altogether  inferior,  for  the  purpose  of 
study,  to  Adelung's  Mithridates,  and  that  is, 
Adrien  Balbi's  Atlas  Ethnographique  du  Globe, 
with  an  Introduction.  This  work  may  be  met 
with  for  25s.  to  30s.,  and  Mr.  Quaritch,  of  Picca- 
dilly, is  the  most  likely  bookseller  I  know  to 
supply  the  above  or  any  other  philological  work 
of  this  character.  I  have  in  MS.  the  Lord's 
Prayer  in  nearly  all  the  known  languages  of  the 
world  which  possess  any  literature,  taken  mainly 
from  Adelung.  Each  language  is  on  a  separate 
card,  for  the  convenience  of  comparison,  the 
cards  being  numbered  1.  in  the  order  of  affinity  ; 
2.  in  geographical  order ;  and  3.  in  the  order  of 
antiquity.  On  the  back  of  each  card  is  noted 
the  latitude  and  longitude  of  the  country  where 
the  language  is  spoken,  with  a  brief  description 
of  the  people,  and  notice  of  its  affinity  to  other 
languages.  The  principal  authors  in  each  tongue 
are  noted,  whether  (1)  poets,  (2)  historians,  or 
(3)  philosophers,  and  the  era  when  they  wrote. 
The  number  of  distinct  languages  known  is  about 
3000 :  those  which  have  been  cultivated,  and 
which  have  attained  a  fixed  form  by  writing  are 
about  fifty.  There  are  many  works  which  con- 
tain the  Lord's  Prayer  in  a  few  languages,  for 
which  see  the  Mithridates  of  Adelung. 

T.  J.  BUCKTON. 

E.  F.  inquires  whether  any  collection  of  the 
Lord's  Prayer,  translated  into  a  number  of  lan- 
guages has  been  published.  As  the  answer  ap- 
pended falls  very  short  of  the  information,  I  have 
the  pleasure  of  adding  what  at  the  moment  occurs 
to  my  memory  :  — 

Adelung's  Mithridates,  oder  allgemeine  Sprachen* 
hunde.  Berlin,  1806-17.  6  vols.  8vo.  This  contains 
a  history  of  all  the  known  languages  and  dialects, 
with  an  account  of  the-books  printed  in  or  relating 
to  them,  and  above  500  different  specimens,  con- 
sisting chiefly  of  the  Lord's  Prayer. 

Alphaleta  Orientalia  Varia.  Romse,  typis  Con- 
greg.  de  Propag.  Fide,  1771—91  ;  small  8vo. — 
This  series  extends  to  about  eighteen  alphabets, 
to  most  of  which  are  added  the  Lord's  Prayer,  &c. 

Fry's  Pantographia,  containing  accurate  copies 
of  all  the  known  alphabets  in  the  world,  royal 
8vo,  1799.  —  This  contains  the  Lord's  Prayer  in 
1 40  different  languages  and  dialects. 

Hervas,  Catalogo  de  las  Lengvas  de  las  Naciones 
conocidas.  6  vols.  sm.  4to.  Madrid,  1800 — 5. — 
A  very  learned  work,  similar  in  its  object  to 
Adelung's  Mithridates. 

Oratio  Dominica  in  diversas  omnium  fere  Gen- 


234 


NOTES  A^sTD  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  MAR.  22,  '62. 


tium  Linguas  versa  (the  Lord's  Prayer  in  more 
than  100  Languages),  ed.  Chamberlayne  (Cura 
D.  Wilkins),  sm.  4to,  Amst,  1715. 

Oratio  Dominica  plus  100  Linguis  et  Charac- 
teribus, folio.  Augsburg,  s.  a.  (1750).— -Including 
eight  varieties  of  the  earliest  English  version  of 
the  Lord's  Prayer. 

Oratio  Dominica  150  Linguis  versa,  et  propriis 
cujusque  Linguce  Characteribus  expressa,  ed.  Mar- 
cel (the  Lord's  Prayer  in  150  Languages,  each 
in  the  vernacular  character).  Eoyal  4to.  Paris, 
1805. 

Oratio  Dominica  Polyglotta,  singularum  Lin- 
guarum  Characteribus  expressa*  edita  Fr.  X.  Stoe- 

£2r,  imperial  4to,  portrait  and  43  plates  of  the 
ord's  Prayer  in  different  languages,  embellished 
•with  designs  of  Albert  Durer.  Monachii,  1838. 

In  Mallet's  Northern  Antiquities,  edited  by  J. 
A.  Blackwell  (and  published  in  my  "  Antiquarian 
Library")  the  Lord's  Prayer  is  given  in  twenty- 
seven  northern  languages  and  dialects,  including 
German,  Celtic,  and  Anglo-Saxon. 

Orientalische  und  Occidentalische  Grammatik 
oder  Sprachmeister,  containing  the  Alphabet  and 
Lord's  Prayer  in  about  200  languages.  Sm.  8vo. 
Leip.  1748.  HENRY  G.  BOHN, 


PARRAVACIN;  PARAVICINO. 
(3rd  S.  i.  110,  179.) 

The  family  of  Parravacin  and  that  of  Paravi- 
cino,  connected  with  the  Cromwells,  is  not  the 
same.  The  arms  of  the  one,  of  most  distinguished 
Italian  race  and  wide-spreading  frame,  and  those 
assumed  by  the  other,  are  widely  different.  The 
Paravicinos  will  be  found  in  Litta's  splendid 
work,  vol.  iii.,  where  their  genealogy  occupies 
several  tables. 

The  Parravacins  can  pretend  to  no  such  illus- 
trious descent.  It  appears  by  the  Visitation  of 
London  made  by  the  Heralds  in  1687,  that  Sir 
Peter  Parravacin,  then  late  an  alderman  of  Lon- 
don, and  living  in  Mincing  Lane,  within  Tower 
Ward,  entered  a  pedigree  of  three  descents, 
wherein  he  is  stated  to  be  fifty  years  of  asre  and 
the  son  of  Peter  Parravicin,  "born  in  theValto- 
lin,  near  Milain,"  in  Italy,  and  lately  came  and 
settled  in  the  city  of  London,  and  died  about 
1675. 

Sir  Peter  the  younger  son  (his  elder  brother 
James  having  died  unmarried  since  1622)  married 
Rebecca,  daughter  of  Peter  Taunton,  a  merchant 
of  London.  She  died  in  1669.  They  had  three 
daughters  — Rebecca,  Hester,  and  Mary,  two  of 
whom  were  living  unmarried  in  1687.  Hester 
was  then  dead,  unmarried. 

The  arms  produced  by  Sir  Peter,  on  a  vellum 
escocheon  painted  in  London,  were,  "azure  a 
swan  argent,"  and  the  crest,  a  swan's  head  between 


two  wings,  Sir  Peter  at  the  time  alleging  that 
they  were  taken  from  an  old  seal ;  that  the  colours 
were  the  painter's  fancy,  as  he  did  not  know  what 
colours  belonged  to  the  coat.  In  the  Harl.  MS. 
No.  5802,  a  collection  of  "  Knights'  Pedigrees  " 
by  Peter  Le  Neve,  Esq.,  Norroy,  it  is  stated  that 
Sir  Peter  was  knighted  at  Windsor  Castle,  19 
June,  1687  ;  that  he  was  a  poor  lad,  and  came 
from  Italy ;  was  butler  to  Charles  Torriano,  a 
merchant  in  London,  who  preferred  him  ;  that  he 
lived  in  one  of  the  great  houses  in  Mincing  Lane ; 
that  he  bore  for  arms,  "  Blue,  an  eagle  displayed 
argent." 

Le  Neve  says  he  died  in  February,  1694  ;  that 
he  had  three  daughters  and  co-heirs,  —  Mary,  un- 
married ;  Katherine,  married  to  Charles  Torriano, 
of  London,  merchant,  son  of  Charles ;  and  the 
third,  whom  he  does  not  name,  unmarried. 

The  daughters  in  the  Heralds'  pedigree  gives 
him  three  daughters  —  Rebecca,  Hester,  then 
dead,  and  Mary.  The  name  of  Katherine  is 
therefore  probably  a  mistake. 

Le  Neve  has  a  query  whether  one  of  the  sisters 
did  not  live  in  Cecil  Street,  Strand,  and  died 
there  in  May,  1725.  of  whom  a  character  in  the 
Penny  Post  (by  Heathcote),  Wednesday,  May 
12th.  ,T.  R. 


I  remember  an  extra-portal  tomb,  beside  the 
porch  of  St.  Peter-ad- Vincula  in  the  Tower, 
but  removed  after  the  great  fire  of  1841,  with,  I 
trust,  somewhat  more  consideration  than  was 
vouchsafed  to  the  lowlier  ledger- stone  of  old 
Talbot  Edwardes.  Passing  it  every  day  for  nearly 
thirty  years,  I  had  bestowed  some  pains  on  its 
epigraph,  by  a  long  exposure  to  wind  and  weather 
obliterated,  all  but  the  numerals  "  174 — "  and 
the  vestiges  of  a  shield,  bearing  "  a  swan,  a  goose, 
or  a  pelican"  (p.  110)  impaled  dexter  with  cer- 
tain undistinguishable  quarterings.  Was  this  the 
resting-place  of  some  later  Paravicin  than  H.  G.'s 
Sir  Peter  ?  I  sought  the  assistance  of  the  Tower 
Registry  to  discover  the  name  and  quality  of  this 
forgotten  sleeper  within  its  walls ;  but— excepting 
the  decapitated  Stuart  Lords  —  could  find  no 
notable  interment  between  the  dates  of  1740  and 
1749.  Meseems,  there  is  a  mural  tablet  in  the 
neighbouring  church  of  All-hallows,  Barking, 
bearing  the  name  of  Paravicin,  or  Paravicini. 

These  sepulchral  disquisitions  induce  a  Query, 
foreign,  perhaps  to  their  subject,  yet  not  to  their 
opportunity.  On  which  of  the  substantives  — 
Herald,  or  Heraldry — is  the  adjectival  term 
formed?  Is  it  heraldic,  or  heraldn'c  ?  Rather, 
has  not  each  epithet  its  proper  application  ?  — the 
former,  to  the  office  of  proclamations  and  proces- 
sions—  the  latter,  to  the  science  of  genealogies 
and  armorials  ?  I  await  the  judgment  of  some 
more  skilled  philologist  than  E.  L.  S. 


S.  I.  MAR.  22,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


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CHIEF  BAJIOX  REYNOLDS:  BAROX  JAMES 
REYNOLDS. 
(3rd  S.  i.  149.) 

A  short  account  of  these  two  judges  has  been 
published  in  "  N.  &  Q."  (2nd  S.  xi.  489)  without 
stating  the  relationship  between  them,  and  the 
following  notes  will  furnish  only  a  few  hints  to 
those  interested  in  the  matter. 

Mr.  (afterwards  Sir  John)  Fenn  wrote  to  the 
Rev.  James  Granger  in  1769  *  :  — 

" ....  it  may  possibly  be  in  my  power  to  give  you 
some  anecdotes  of  two  of  the  Reynolds'  family  (judges), 
whose  portraits  are  engraved,  as  I  married  a  relation  of 
that  family,  and  my  wife's  father  f  being  frequently  with 
the  Lord  Chief  Baron  Reynolds,  his  uncle." 

And  in  another  letter  to  the  same  gentleman  :  — 

"...  I  will  now  descend  to  modern  times,  and  give 
you  what  account  I  can  of  the  Reynolds's.  The  Right 
Hon.  James  Reynolds,  Esq.,  Lord  Chief  Baron  of  his  Ma- 
jesty's Court  of  Exchequer,  1730.  W.  Parker,  p.  Geo. 
Vertue,  sculp,,  sitting,  full-dressed  in  his  judge's  habit, 
his  right  hand  near  the  djre  of  a  pillar,  his  left  with  a 
glove  on,  holding  the  other ;  cap  on  the  bench,  arms  at 
bottom.  The  original  picture  is  in  the  possession  of 
Shepherd  Frere,  Esq.,  of  Roydon.  James  Reynolds,  Esq., 
was  created  Serjeant-at-Law,  Dec.  20,  1714;  Judge  of 
the  King's  Bench,  March  2,  1724 ;  and  Lord  Chief  Baron 
of  the  Exchequer,  April  28, 1730 ;  which  last  office,  after 
having  filled  with  honour,  he  resigned  in  1738,  his  me- 
mory then  beginning  to  fail  him,  owing  to  his  former  too 
great  and  constant  application  to  study.  He  died  Feb.  9, 
1739,  aged  53 ;  and  lies  buried  in  St.  James's  church  in 
Bury,  in  Suffolk,  where  a  large  and  expensive,  though 
inelegant,  monument  was  erected  to  his  memory. 

"  The  Hon.  Sir  James  Reynolds,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of 
his  Majesty's  Court  of  Common  Pleas  in  Ireland,  1727 ; 
and  one  of  the  Barons  of  his  Majesty's  Court  of  Exche- 
quer in  England,  1740 ;  obiit  May  20,  1747 ;  aetatis  63. 
In  a  study,  with  books,  sitting,  dressed  in  his  judge's 
habit;  his  left  hand  resting  on  his  knee;  his  right  with 
his  glove  on,  and  holding  the  other ;  arms  at  bottom. 
J.  Parmentier,  pinx.,  1734;  T.  Faber,  fecit,  1748.  At  pre- 
sent I  can  give  you  no  further  information  of  either  of 
these  gentlemen.  I  shall  be  at  Mr.  Frere's  in  January. 
Probably  he  can  furnish  some  fuller  account." 

In  a  MS.  pedigree  of  the  Hatley  and  Reynolds 
families,  two  of  the  sons  of  James  Reynolds  and 
Judith  his  wife,  the  eldest  daughter  of  Sir  Wil- 
liam Hervey,  are  noticed:  1.  William  Reynolds, 
the  eldest  son,  who  died  Dec.  17,  1675,  and  was 
buried  at  Ickworth;  2.  Robert  Reynolds,  of 
Bumpstead  Helions,  in  Essex,  second  son  and 
heir,  who  was  born  in  1658,  and  married  his 
cousin,  Keziah  Tyrrell,  "  a  beautiful  and  virtuous 
lady  in  the  dissolute  age  of  Charles  II.,  by  whom 
she  was  admired." 

This  lady  was  the  daughter  of  Thomas  Tyrrell, 
of  Gipping,  and  Keziah  his  wife,  a  younger  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  William  Hervey  of  Ickworth,  and  died 
April  5,  1694,  aged  36.  By  this  marriage  Robert 
Reynolds  had  issue  (with  others  perhaps)  —  1. 

*  See  Granger's  Letters,  1805,  pp.  82,  85. 
t  Mr.  Sheppard  Frere,  of  Roydon. 


Isabella  Reynolds,  eldest  daughter,  who  was  born 
April  6,  1681,  and  married  Nov.  10,  1696,  to 
John  Hatley  of  London ;  2.  Thomas  Reynolds, 
who  died  Nov.  22,  1686,  and  was  buried  at  Ick- 
worth ;  3.  Thomas  Reynolds,  who  was  buried  at 
Ickworth,  Dec.  17,  1687;  4.  Susan  Reynolds, 
who  was  buried  at  Ickwortb,  March  24,  1696. 

Mr.  Page,  in  his  Supplement  to  Kirby's  Suffolk 
Traveller,  says  (p.  492)  that  — 

"In  1734,  Thuandeston  Hall  was  the  seat  of  Lord  Chief 
Baron  Reynolds,  who  married  a  daughter  of  Thomas 
Smith,  Esq.,  the  former  possessor.  Sheppard  Frere,  Esq., 
who  held  the  same  in  1764,  was  the  grandson  of  the  said 
Thomas  Smith." 

And  in  his  account  of  Fornham  St.  Genoveve 
(p.  716),  he  says  :  — 

*  "  Here  rest  the  remains  of  Alicia,  widow  of  Robert 
Plampin,  Esq.,  of  Chadacre  Hall,  in  this  county,  and  for- 
merly wife  of  Lord  Chief  Baron  Reynolds.  She  died  in 
1776." 

The  name  of  this  lady,  who  became  the  second 
wife  of  Lord  Chief  Baron  Reynolds  in  July,  1737, 
appears,  from  the  Gentleman's  Magazine  (vol.  vii. 
p.  450),  to  have  been  Rainbird. 

Sir  James  Reynolds  of  Castle  Camps,  in  Cam- 
bridgeshire, Knt.,  who  was  buried  at  Castle  Camps, 
March  22, 1650,  aged  about  80,  married  Margaret, 

daughter  and  heiress  of Melbourne  of  Mark's 

Hall,  Dunmow,  Essex,  and  was  grandfather  of  the 
James  Reynolds,  who  married  Judith  Hervey. 

HEKUS  FEATER. 


FRIDAYS,  SAINTS'-DAYS,  AND  FAST  DAYS. 
(3rd  S.  i.  115,  155,  192.) 

I  quite  agree  with  D.  P.  that  the  question 
treated  at  the  above  references  need  hardly  have 
been  raised.  It  seems,  however,  not  to  have  oc- 
curred to  any  of  your  correspondents,  that  a  day 
may  be  both  a  fast  and  a  feast  at  the  same  time. 
D.  P.  professes  to  explain  the  discipline  of  the 
Catholic  Church  in  the  matter;  but  he  does  it 
defectively  and  incorrectly.  He  speaks  of  Good 
Friday  as  a  day  of  the  strictest  fast,  and  here  he 
is  right ;  and  of  the  fast  being  continued  on  Holy 
Saturday,  in  which  he  is  right  also;  but  his 
manner  of  stating  the  matter  would  lead  to  the 
conclusion  that  these  two  were  the  only  fasting 
days  in  Lent.  Why  not  have  said  that  every  day, 
from  Ash  Wednesday  to  Holy  Saturday,  both 
included,  is  a  strict  fast,  except  Sundays  ?  For 
this  is  still,  as  it  ever  has  been,  the  rule  and  prac- 
tice of  the  Catholic  Church.  Here  he  is  defec- 
tive ;  but  further  on  he  is  inaccurate.  He  says 
that  all  other  Fridays,  —  meaning,  of  course,  all 
but  Good  Friday,  —  always  excepting  Christmas 
Day,  —  are  days  of  abstinence.  This  is  very  er- 
roneous ;  for  every  Friday  in  Lent  is  a  day  of 
strict  fasting,  and  certain  other  Fridays  out  of 
Lent  are  the  same,  such  as  the  Fridays  of  the 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  MAR.  22,  '62. 


Ember  Weeks,  and  in  Advent,  and  any  Friday 
on  which  certain  Vigils  may  fall. 

But  the  truth  is,  that  the'  same  day  may  be  at 
the  same  time  both  a  feast  and  a  fast.  The  word 
feast,  in  the  language  of  the  Church,  has  no  refer- 
ence to  the  free  use  of  food,  but  to  the  celebration 
of  a  festival  with  more  solemn  rites  and  spiritual 
joy.  Thus  it  is  perfectly  consistent  to  keep  a 
strict  bodily  fast  on  a  day  when  we  indulge  in 
spiritual  joy ;  except  on  Sundays,  when  we  are 
forbidden  to  fast,  in  special  honour  of  our  Lord's 
Resurrection.  On  other  festivals,  however,  we 
fast,  if  they  occur  in  Lent,  or  Advent,  or  on  any 
day  of  fasting ;  such  as  the  great  feast  of  the 
Annunciation,  and  many  other  high  festivals  in 
the  course  of  the  year.  Let  me  add  that  Good 
Friday  is  not  a  feast,  and  never  was  intended  to 
be  kept  as  such.  It  is  a  day  of  fasting,  mourning, 
and  prayer.  The  modern  practice  in  this  country 
of  making  it  a  holiday  and  a  festival,  instead  of 
the  day  of  most  strict  fasting,  penance,  and  prayer 
throughout  the  year,  is  a  deplorable  abuse,  quite 
opposed  to  the  true  spirit  and  intention  of  the 
Church.  B  F.  C.  H. 

It  certainly  was  my  intention  to  set  aside  that 
which  I  believe  would  practically  lead  to  error 
in  the  logically  true  argument  of  E.  P.  C.,  and 
therefore  my  inquiry  (which,  I  should  note, 
was  written  in  1861),  was  perhaps  rightly  in- 
serted among  "  Replies."  I  was  glad  it  again 
appeared  under  the  same  heading,  although  again 
the  subject  was  not  altogether  treated  perhaps, 
by  LORD  LYTTELTON  and  H.  J.  T.,  in  the  way 
of  "  Replies."  It  was  not  fair  to  suppose  I 
had  not  read  my  Prayer-Book.  Indeed,  I  had 
read  it  carefully,  and  I  doubt  if  I  was  "  wrong," 
or  if  "  the  law  of  the  Church  is  quite  clear  "  in 
the  Rubric  of  the  Prayer-Book.  Perhaps  this 
matter  is  not  meant  to  be  defined  in  the  Book, 
but  by  other  authority.  I  wished  to  know  if  any 
general  rule,  such  as  that  I  believed  in  —  of  the 
precedence  of  festivals  generally  —  existed.  I 
could  give  no  authority  for  that  which  I  had  learnt 
and  believed,  but  I  thought  it  in  accordance  with 
the  general  tenour  of  the  Book,  and  that  the  con- 
trary belief  could  not  and  should  not  be  held.  I' 
thought  (with  G.  W.  M.)  that,  as  certain  feast- 
days  are  ordered,  and  fast-days  too,  if  one  or 
both  of  them  came  on  the  same  day,  the  rule  is 
so  far  indeterminate.  I  do  not  like  a  proposition 
founded  on  the  fact  that  one  of  the  Tables  is 
placed  last  (or  first)  in  the  Book  ;  but  perhaps 
the  Feasts  being  placed  first,  their  observance 
should  for  this  reason  also  have  precedence  when 
they  concur  with  the  days  in  the  opposite  Table. 

I  had  not  meant  to  distinguish  a  fast  day  from 
a  day  of  abstinence.  I  included  a  query  re- 
specting an  Ember- day,  and  above  all  things,  I 
wished  to  learn  which  is  right  practically.  J.  F.  S. 


With  regard  to  what  G.  W.  M.,says  on  the 
subject  of  Fridays  and  Saints'  Days,  I  conceive 
that  a  Saint's  Day  might  be  kept  as  a  feast  in  a 
certain  sense,  i.  e.  as  dedicated  to  the  memory  of 
a  Saint,  and  also  as  a  Fast. 

I  have  no  special  knowledge  of  the  subject ; 
but  I  may  mention  that  I  have  heard  a  Roman 
Catholic  ecclesiastic  say,  that,  in  his  church,  the 
rule  is  as  I  have  supposed. 

I  am  aware  of  the  distinction  pointed  out  by 
D.  P.,  but  it  did  not  appear  to  me  to  bear  very 
much  on  the  point  at  issue.  LYTTELTON. 

Hagley,  Stourbridge. 


LADY  VANE  (3rd  S.  i.  152.)  —  The  advertise- 
ment, inserted  by  Wm.  Holies  Viscount  Vane  in 
a  newspaper  of  the  day,  minutely  describing  the 
personal  appearance  of  this  lady,  as  also  that  of 
her  waiting-maid,  is  among  my  papers.  A  copy 
shall,  with  pleasure,  be  made  for  W.  D. 

Further  incidents  of  her  life  may  be  learnt 
from  the  law  report  of  the  proceedings  instituted 
against  her  by  Lord  Vane ;  and  it  may  be  ob- 
served that  she  was  not  without  a  public  apologist, 
and  that  episodes  in  her  character  have  been 
transmitted  to  us  in  The  Adventures  of  Lady 
Frail ;  Apology  for  the  Conduct  of  a  Lady  lately 
traduced  under  the  Name  of  Lady  Frail.  By  an 
impartial  Hand;  and  A  Parallel  between  the  Cha- 
racters of  Lady  Frail  and  the  Lady  of  Quality, 
severally  published  in  1751,  and  from  which  it 
may  be  inferred  that  the  words  of  Rowe  are  not 
inapplicable  to  her  :  — 

"  Ev'n  Man,  the  merciless  insulter  man, 
Man,  who  rejoices  in  the  sex's  weakness, 

Shall  pity  V ,  and  with  unwonted  goodness, 

Forget  her  failings  and  record  her  praise." 

As  some  evidence  of  this,  kind  and  affectionate 
mention  is  made  of  her  by  her  lord  in  his  will. 
She,  however,  predeceased  him. 

HENRY  M.  VANE. 

TOAD-EATING  (3rd  S.  i.  128,  176.)  —  Your  cor- 
respondent E.  /3.  E.  desires  to  know  if  this  term  is 
to  be  received  literally,  or  simply  only  in  a  figura- 
tive sense.  May  I  refer  him  to  the  Penny  Maga- 
zine, vol.  xiv.  (1845),  p.  263?  where  he  will  find 
an  editorial  article,  entitled,  "  Reptiles  used  as 
Food,"  in  which  there  is  the  following  passage  :  — 
"  In  some  countries  the  hind  legs  of  the  toad  are 
eaten,  and  on  the  coast  of  Guinea,  the  negroes  de- 
vour the  whole  reptile."  No  authority  is.  given 
to  vouch  for  the  manner  in  which  this  delicacy  — 
this  morceau  friand — is  served  up  to  table.  I  must 
therefore  leave  to  some  one  else  to  enlighten  us 
on  this  point.  A  BEEF-EATER. 

BUNKER'S  HILL  (2nd  S.  xii.  100,  178,  199,  t<kc.) 
—  Two  or  three  places  are  thus  named  on  the 
Ordnance  Maps  of  Norfolk  and  Suffolk.  I  had 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


237 


occasion  to  go  to  one  of  them  on  the  borders  of 
Hopton  and  Lound,  Suffolk,  some  two  or  three 
years  ago.  Upon  inquiring  my  way  of  a  labourer, 
he  replied,  "  Bunky  Hill,  you  mean.  We  call  it 
Bunky  Hill  because  of  the  quantity  of  bunks  that 
grow  there."  Bunk  is  the  Icenian  name  of  the 
hemlock,  or  indeed  of  any  fistulous  stemmed  um- 
belliferous plant.  Upon  visiting  the  place  I  found 
numerous  bunks  growing  there.  I  suppose  the 
ordnance  officers,  not  knowing  what  to  make  of 
Bunky  Hill,  improved  it  into  Bunker's ;  but  such 
alterations  should  be  recorded.  E.  G.  R. 

SPONTANEOUS  COMBUSTION  OF  TREES  (2nd  S. 
xii.  235,  335.)— With  respect  to  the  burning  of  the 
trees  on  the  banks  of  the  Cam,  I  can  state  that 
they  were  invariably  set  on  fire,  by  cigars,  or  luci- 
fers,  or  burning  lenses.  The  fire  smouldered  in 
the  decayed  touchwood  a  long  time  —  sometimes 
many  hours,  and  then  suddenly  burst  into  flame ; 
thus  creating  the  appearance  of  spontaneous  igni- 
tion. E.  G.  R. 

WINCKLEY  FAMILY,  OF  PRESTON,  COUNTY  OF 
LANCASTER  (3rd  S.  i,  196.)— The  Dowager  Lady 
Shelley  is  the  daughter  and  heiress  of  the  late 
Thomas  Winckley,  Esq.,  of  Brockholes,  Catterall 
and  Preston,  Lancashire,  and  Janet  his  wife, 
daughter  of  the  Hon.  Hen.  Dalrymple,  and  relict 
of  Major  Hesketh,  of  Rufford,  who  was  heir  to 
the  baronetcy,  but  died  of  wounds  in  the  American 
War  without  succeeding  to  it. 

The  said  Thomas  Winckley  was  son  of  John 
Winckley,  Esq.,  of  Preston  ;  grandson  of  Thomas 
Winckley,  Esq.,  Registrar  of  the  Court  of  Chan- 
cery at  Preston  for  the  Dutchy  of  Lancaster  in 
1665;  great-grandson  of  John  Winckley  of  Pres- 
ton, Clerk,  and  great-great-grandson  of  Edward 
Winckley,  of  Preston,  in  co.  Lancaster,  who,  ac- 
cording to  the  Herald's  Visitation  of  that  county 
in  the  year  1665,  was  descended  from  a  younger  son 
of  the  house  of  Winckley,  then  extinct.  Thomas 
Winckley,  the  Registrar  of  the  Court  of  Chan- 
cery, &c.,  had  a  second  son  named  Thomas,  and 
also  a  brother,  William  Winckley,  a  Fellow  of 
Corpus  Christi  College,  Oxford.  Thomas  Winck- 
ley, the  father  of  the  Dowager  Lady  Shelley,  suc- 
ceeded his  elder  brother  Nicholas,  and  had  a 
sister  Margaret,  who  was  married  to  Edmund 
Hornby,  Esq.,  of  Scale  Hall,  near  Lancaster,  and 
therefore  the  present  Earl  of  Derby  stands  in  the 
relationship  of  great-grandson  to  this  Margaret 
Hornby,  formerly  Winckley.  As  a  coincidence, 
I  would  mention  that  I  have  a  copy  of  a  will  of  a 
William  Winkley,  who  died  in  Lincolnshire  in 
1742,  who  also  left  a  nephew,  Thomas  Winkley. 

JUDGE  PAGE  (3rd  S.  i.  153.)  —  The  second 
wife  of  this  judge  was  Frances,  daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Wheate,  not  Wheale,  as  stated,  perhaps 
by  an  error  of  the  press.  'D.  S. 


YELLOW  STARCH  (3rd  S.  i.  156.) — This  must 
have  been  a  very  short-lived  fashion.  Is  there 
any  known  instance  of  a  portrait  of  that  day,  in 
which  the  sitter  wears  a  yellow  ruff?  I  have 
never  seen  one.  P.  p. 

PENCIL  WRITING  (3rd  S.  i.  138, 199.)— URSULA 
is  right,  and  I  am  wrong.  Not  having  my  fac- 
simile at  hand,  I  quoted  from  memory,  and  I 
certainly  mistook  the  "Belgia"  for  "Bologna." 
I  saw  at  a  glance  that  the  handwriting  differed 
from  that  of  Charles  in  his  later  years ;  but  at 
the  date  of  that  letter  he  was  only  seventeen,  and 
I  therefore  mistook  it  for  his  writing  as  a  boy.  I 
was  not  aware  that  the  Cottonian  MSS.  contained 
any  modern  annotations  except  those  of  Sir  Ro- 
bert Cotton  himself.  I  am  grateful  to  URSULA. 
for  having  so  courteously  pointed  out  my  (I  hope 
not  unpardonable)  blunder,  and  I  must  apologise 
to  your  readers  for  having  led  them  astray :  I 
certainly  was  "  deceived  myself"  before  I  de- 
ceived them,  and  one  consolation  is  deducible 
from  my  mistake  —  that  I  cannot  commit  it  again. 

HERMENTRUDE. 

THE  SOCIETY  OF  ANTIQUARIES  (3rd  S.  i.  168.) 
—  Permit  me  to  draw  HERMENTRUDE'S  attention 
to  the  following  privileges,  which  are  available  to 
her  under  the  present  regulations  of  the  Society  : 

"  12.  Persons  not  being  fellows  of  the  Society  may  be 
admitted  for  a  period  not  exceeding  one  week,  to  consult 
printed  books  and  manuscripts  not  of  a  private  nature, 
in  the  Society's  Library  for  any  special  purpose,  on  being 
introduced  by  a  fellow,  either  personally  or  by  letter. 

"  13.  No  book  shall  be  lent  to  any  person  not  being  a 
fellow  of  the  Society  without  a  special  order  of  the  Coun- 
cil."— Rules  of  the  Library. 

I  fear  the  Charter  would  not  admit  of  the  elec- 
tion of  female  Fellows;  but  no  good  reason  oc- 
curs to  me  why  some  new  distinction,  such  as 
"  Associate,"  should  not  be  created  by  the  Society 
in  favour  of  those  numerous  literary  ladies  who, 
like  your  correspondent,  have  distinguished  them- 
selves in  the  field  of  archaeological  research. 

JOB  J.  BARDWELL  WORKARD,  M.A. 

"  GOD'S  PROVIDENCE  is  MY  INHERITANCE  "  (3rd 
S.  i.  51.) — Searching,  yesterday,  in  the  church  of 
St.  Mary  Magdalen,  Bermondsey,  for  genea- 
logical purposes,  I  came  upon  the  following  in- 
scription, on  a  board  commemorative  of  the  various 
benefactors  to  the  poor  of  the  parish  :  — 

"  Mr.  John  Marshall  and  Mr.  Robert  Bangward  gave  a 
house  and  ground  of  it,  called  God's  Providence,  for 
ever." 

The  date  of  the  benefaction  is  not  given,  neither 
could  the  worthy  sexton,  although  he  had  lived 
in  the  parish,  man  and  boy,  for  upwards  of  sixty 
years,  give  me  any  information  as  to  the  date,  or 
locality  of  the  house. 

I  will  mention  that  the  Registers  of  this  church 
commence  with  the  1st  of  Edward  VI. 

D.  M.  STEVENS. 


238 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  MAR.  22,  '62. 


LAMBETH  DEGREES  (3rd  S.  i.  134,  156.)  — That 
medical  degrees  have  been  constantly  conferred 
bj  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  may  be  seen  by 
reference  to  the  Medical  Directory.  However, 
by  the  statute  21  &  22  Viet.  c.  90,  commonly 
known  as  "  the  Medical  Act,"  this  faculty  of  the 
archbishop  is  practically  abolished,  since  no  de- 
gree of  this  kind  can  be  registered,  unless  granted 
prior  to  the  passing  of  the  Act  aforesaid. 

F.  Y.  may  be  correct  in  stating  that  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians  of  London  does  not  grant  the 
degree  of  M.D.,  but  the  same  cannot  be  said  of 
the  Irish  College ;  for  in  its  Kegister  I  find  the 
following  :  — 

"The  Charter  of  William  and  Mary,  and  the  Act  of  the 
Irish  Parliament,  1  Geo.  III.  cap.  xiy.  made  perpetual  by 
the  Act  30  Geo.  III.  cap.  xiv.  sec.  ii.  confer  on  the  Fel- 
lows and  Licentiates  of  the  King  and  Queen's  College 
of  Physicians  the  title  of  Doctors  of  Physic." 

Also  in  the  diploma  granted  to  a  licentiate  it  is 
certified  "that  he  has  obtained,  and  is  hereby 
entitled  to  the  Degree,  Title,  and  Qualification  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine,  and  Licentiate  of  said  Col- 
lege." Further,  I  may  add,  that  such  a  person 
is  described  in  the  printed  Register  of  the  College 
as  "Licentiate  and  M.D." 

I  believe  the  Irish  College  of  Physicians  is  the 
only  one  which  retains  the  ancient  academical 
qualification  for  its  fellowship,  for  none  but  a  gra- 
duate in  Arts,  or  a  Doctor  of  Medicine  of  Oxford, 
Cambridge,  or  Dublin,  is  eligible  as  a  Fellow  ; 
and  in  the  case  of  Dublin,  excepting  honorary 
degrees,  the  Medical  always  must  imply  the  pre- 
vious degree  in  Arts.  Licentiates  of  all  the  col- 
leges of  physicians  have  invariably  been  styled 
Doctors  by  ancient  usage ;  the  term,  in  this  in- 
stance, not  implying  a  degree,  but  a  professional 
designation,  such  as  Rev.  to  a  clergyman,  or  Esq. 
to  a  barrister.  Indeed  this  is  the  meaning  at- 
tached to  the  term  in  ordinary  conversation. 

T.  W.  BELCHER. 

Cork. 

FOSSILS  (3rd  S.  i.  148.)  — I  should  recommend 
J.  C.  J.  to  remove  the  entire  mass  of  clay  con- 
taining the  specimen,  and  imbed  it.  in  a  box  just 
sufficient  to  contain  it.  By  means  of  plaster  of 
Paris  he  may  then  remove  the  clay  in  the  usual 
way  by  means  of  masons'  chisels. 

J.  C.  J.  will  find  much  information  in  the  Ap- 
pendix to  Medals  of  Creation.  M.  W.  B. 

RELATIVE  VALUE  OF  MONEY  (3rd  S.  i.  182.) 

An  interesting  paper  entitled  "Chronicon  Pretio- 
sum  Snathcnse;  or,  Lists  of  Prices  of  Various 
Kinds  of  Agricultural  Produce,  and  of  other  Ar- 
ticles in  the  Ecclesiastical  Peculiar  of  Snaith,  in 
the  West  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  in  the  Sixteenth, 
Seventeenth,  and  Eighteenth  Centuries,  compiled 
from  the  Probate  Records  of  the  Peculiar,  by  the 
Rev.  C.  B.  Robinson,  M.A.,"  was  read  before  the 
Statistical  Society  of  London  some  time  ago,  and 


appeared  in  their  journal,  1858  (xxi.  369-420.)  I 
extract  a  few  items  in  illustration  of  the  point 
raised  by  ME.  KEIGHTLEY  :  — 

£.  s.  d. 

1452.    A  stone  of  barley -malt      -        -        -  020 

1578.    A  load  of  hay' 050 

1583  ) 

to     >  Wool,  per  stone  (average)         -        -  071 
1599.J 

1609.  10  loads  of  manure  -        -        -        -  012 

1610.  Hemp,  per  stone       -        -        -        -  026 

Value  of  Land. 

1569.  15  acres  of  barley     -        -        -        -  10    0    0 

1570.  3  acres  of  fallow        -        -        -        -  100 
1601.     8  acres  of  skegg        -        -        -        -  568 
1603.    Ploughing  of  18J  acres  of  land  -        -  170 
1661.    50  acres  of  meadow           -        -        -  20    0    0 

Provisions. 
1576  ) 

to     >  Butter,  per  stone  (average)       -        -  029 
1598.J 

1600.  U  gallon  of  honey  -  -  -  080 
1601  ) 

to     V Butter  (average)      -        -        -        -  0    3  11 
1647.J 

1652.     6  beef-flicks 100 

1656.    3  pints  of  honey       -        -        -        -  026 
Live  Stock. 

1568.  12  horses  and  mares          -        -  14    0     0 

1569.  4  kine  and  2  calves  -        -        -        -  380 

1570.  2  oxen  and  2  stotts            -        -        -  5  13     4 

1659.     3  goats 100 

1667.    40  sheep,  young  and  old  -        -        -  800 

1658.  A  pig 070 

1659.  6  turkeys,  a  cock,  &  8  hens  &  chickens  1  10  10 

Miscellaneous. 

1580.    200  tiles 020 

1585.    One  hull  boat,  with  all  her  furniture  1  10     0 

1588.  8  yards  of  linen        -        -        -         -  080 

1589.  12  silver  spoons        -        -        -        -  280 
1654.     Half  a  ton  of  iron     -         -        -         -  600 

Average  Prices  of  Grain  per  Quarter. 

"Wheat.       Barley.        Oats.          Rye.  Malt. 

s.    d.       s.    d.      s.    d.       s.     d.  s.    d. 

1568  to  1600  —  20     4      15     6      92      20    3  14    4 

1601  to  1650  —  31     5       18  10       96      24  10  20    8 

1650  to  1700  —  26    7       17  11     11     1       22    7  20    5 

1701  to  1750  —  23     7       14    5      97      20     0  23    8 

1751  to  1783  —  28    2       15     9     11     0       31     6 

JOB  J.  BARD  WELL  WOEKARD,  M.A. 

VALUE  OF  HORSES  IN  SHAKSPEAEE'S  TIME  (3rd 
S.  i.  182.)  —  I  do  not  think  that  allusions  to  the 
value  of  horses  by  such  a  character  as  Fastidious 
Brisk  are  conclusive  of  their  ordinary  market  value. 
In  the  time  of  Ben  Jonson  and  Shakspeare,  a  man 
could  have  bought  in  Smithfield  a  very  good 
horse  for  as  many  shillings,  as  the  pounds  which 
Master  Brisk  was  offered  for  his  "  grey  hobby." 
From  some  collections  which  I  made  relative  to 
the  prices  of  chattel  property  in  the  time  of  Shak- 
speare, drawn  from  old  indictments,  I  arrive  at 
a  very  different  notion  of  the  value  of  horses  at 
that  period  than  that  drawn  from  such  sources  as 
Every  Man  out  of  his  Humour,  and  which  rather 
favours  the  opinion,  that  one  pound  in  Shak- 
speare's  time  was  equal  to  five  pounds  in  the  pre- 


3rd  S.  I.  MAR.  22,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


239 


sent  day.     Horses   indeed  have  always  been  in 
demand,  and  seeing  how  valuable  they  were  fo 
all  purposes  of  transit  before  the  days  of  stage 
coaches    and   canals,  even   horses  of  an  inferio 
breed  produced  high  prices  in  proportion  to  othe 
chattel  property  ;  whilst  a  remarkably  fine  horse 
such  an  one  as  a  beau  like  Fastidious  Brisk  woulc 
have  coveted,  would  no  doubt  have  commanded  a 
remarkable  price ;  but  the  law  allowed  none  of 
this  imaginary  value  to  appear  in  the  indictment 
A  stolen  horse  was  simply  valued  according  to  its 
intrinsic  and  market  value.    From  two  Sessions 
Rolls  of  the  40th  Elizabeth,  I  extracted  the  fol- 
lowing prices  set  upon  stolen  horses  :  — 

One  gelding xxxiii'. 

A  grey  horse        -        ....    xliv8  viijd. 

A  rone  gelding    - 

A  grey  gelding,  called  a  curtail    - 

A  black  horse      - 

A  grey  gelding   - 

Two  geldings       - 

A  whyte  gelding 

A  black  horse 

A  black  gelding 


xlvi§ 


v». 

xK 
vii". 


A  grey  gelding 
Browne  baye  gelding 
White  grey  gelding 
A  grey  gelding    - 
A  baye  gelding 
A  grey  horse 
A  white  gelding 


xl». 
xx». 

vR 
xx». 

xl". 
liijs  ivd. 

iv11. 
v". 
xl«. 

Thus  the  value  of  the  stolen  horses,  some  be- 
longing to  yeomen  and  some  to  gentlemen,  range 
from  twenty  shillings  to  seven  pounds. 

F.  SOMNEE  MEEEYWEATHEB. 

Colney  Hatch. 

SPELLING  MATCHES  (3rd  S.  i.  179.)— It  has 
been  for  some  time  past  a  drawing-room  game 
to  write  from  dictation  words  chosen  by  some 
one  of  the  party,  who  is -taken  as  the  authority, 
and  is  bound  to  defend  his  own  spelling.  The 
words  I  recollect  to  have  thus  learnt  are  "  malt- 
ster," "  kerbstone,"  and  "  camelopard."  Also  the 

owing  lines  :  — 

"  A  gray  pony  ate  a  potato,  out  of  a  bay  window,  with 
unparalleled  ecstasy." 

Or, 

"  A  cobbler's  gray  pony  ate  a  plum-pie,  out  of  a  pedlar's 
basin,  with  unparalleled  despatch." 

Some  of  these  words  admit  of  dispute,  but  of 
the  others  (such  as  ecstasy)  few  will  be  able  to 
spell  them  all  correctly  at  once.  J.  F.  S. 

WHIP  UP  SMOUCHY  OB  PONT  (2nd  S.  xii.  48 ; 
3rd  S.  i.  171.)  — Though  quite  as  unable  as  your 
querist  to  describe  the  "  fashionable "  romp  (if 
such  a  thing  may  be  said  to  exist !)  of  Smouchy 
or  Pont,  I  may  at  least  forward  him  in  his  in- 
teresting inquiry  by  attempting  an  explanation  of 
the  words  given. 

Smousje  (for  thus  it  ought  to  be  written)  is  the 
popular  Dutch  denomination  of  a  rough  terrier  ; 
smous  being  the  common  invective  used  against 


German  Jews  (from  Moses,  by  them  pronounced 
Mousyee),  and  the  shaggy  exterior  of  the  dog- 
species  mentioned  recalling  to  mind  the  bearded 
individuals  aforesaid.  Pont  (Ponto,  Punt,  may  be 
your  "pointer")  is  another  vernacular  appella- 
tive for  a  dog.  Now —  as  I  dare  not  suppose  your 
country-ladies  will  conclude  their  day's  frolics 
by  "  whipping  up  "  their  hirsute  admirers,  a  thing 
never  done  in  Holland  —  I  must  submit,  that 
"whip  up"  means  wip  op  ("jump,  Sir!"),  which 
command  I  hardly  think  executable  without  some- 
thing particularly  savoury  being  held  up  for  the 
lucky  dogs  in  question.  Don't  you  wish  you  may 
get  it !  JOHN  H.  VAN  LENNEP. 

Zeyst.  near  Utrecht. 

QUEEN  CAROLINE  AND  Louis  PHILIPPE  (3rd  S.  i. 
188.) — May  I  correct  an  erratum  f — The  anecdote 
and  not  the  Memoirs,  is  of  an  Englishman  in 
Paris.  The  Memoir  is  of  Miss  Cornelia  Knight 
herself,  and  the  Reviewer,  page  71,  is  not  aware 
that  the  story  has  done  duty  before,  but  cites  it 
as  something  new.  P.  P. 

ORLERS'S  "ACCOUNT  OF  LEYDEN"  (2na  S.  ix. 
26.)  —  Having  submitted  the  query  referred  to 
to  Mr.  M.  F.  A.  G.  Campbell,  of  the  Royal  Library 
at  the  Hague,  I  was  honoured  by  that  gentleman 
with  the  following  reply  :  — 

"The  first  edition  of  Orlers's  Beschryvinge  der  Stad 
Leyden  is  rare,  but  not  because  of  any  suppression  by 
civic  authority,  as  appears  from  the  Preface  to  the  second 
edition  of  1641,  in  which  the  writer,  in  his  dedication  to 
the  Leyden  magistrates,  says  — 

' '  Somewhat  more  than  27  years  have  passed,  since 
the  first  publication  of  my  Beschryvinge,  and  the  accept- 
ance and  acknowledgement  thereof  by  your  predecessors. 
And,  at  the  present  moment  — as,  already  for  some  years, 
;he  first  impression  has  been  out  of  print,  and  even  wanted 
,o  purchase  at  higher  prices  —  I  have,  at  the  earnest  re- 
quest of  my  good  friends,  thought  advisable  to  revise  and 
augment  it,'  &c." 

JOHN  H.  VAN  LENNEP. 
Zeyst,  near  Utrecht. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 

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ommitted  in  the  Northern  Counties  in  the  Seventeenth  Cen- 
ury.    (Printed  for  the  Snrtees  Society.) 

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o  furnish  a  true  and  lively  picture  of  the  political  feeling, 
very-day  life,  and  social  condition  of  the  inhabitants  of 
he  northern  parts  of  England,  than  the  present  work, 
or  which  we  are  indebted  to  the  liberality  of  the  custo- 
ians  of  the  curious  documents  here  printed ;  to  the  good 
udgment  of  the  Council  of  the  Surtees  Society,  and  more 
specially  to  the  learning  and  industry  of  its  editor,  the 
secretary  of  the  Society,  the  Rev.  James  Raine.  Treason, 
sedition,  and  acts  of  violence,  form  the  subject  of  the 
greater  part  of  the  Depositions  here  printed,  but  the 
trange  narratives  connected  with  charges  of  witchcraft 
re  those  which  will  be  found  of  greatest  interest  for  the 


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[3rd  S.  I.  MAR.  22,  '62. 


general  reader.  The  drunken  brawl  in  which  an  «arl, 
the  head  of  one  of  the  noblest  families  in  Scotland,  stabs 
one  of  his  companions  at  the  gaming-table,  and  the  riot 
at  the  funeral  of  Lady  Strafford,  in  York  Minster,  are 
incidents  strikingly  characteristic  of  the  age  in  which 
they  occurred. 

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ta 

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Edgeware  Road,  and  was  buried  m  St.  Pancras  churchyard.  See  any 
Biographical  Dictionary,  and  "  N.  &  Q."  1st  S.  x.  289. 

EQUES.  Theori/jin  of  the  name  "  JRotten  How  "  has  been  discussed  in 
our  1st  S.  i.  441;  ii.  235;  V.  40,  160. 

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3,  PARLIAMENT  STREET,  LONDON,  S.W. 
Founded  A.D.  1842. 


Directors. 


H.  E.  Bicknell,  Esq. 
T.S.  Cocks,  Esq. 
G.H.  Drew,  Esq.  M.A. 
W.  Freeman,  Esq. 
J.  H.  Goodhart.Esq. 


E.  Lucas,  Esq. 
F.B.  M arson.  Esq. 

}.  J ,.  Seager,  Esq. 
.B.  White,  Esq. 


Phvsician.-W.  71.  Basham,  M.D. 

Bankers Messrs.  Biddulph,  Cocks,  *  Co. 

Actuary.— Arthur  Scratchley,  M.A. 

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Example:  100*.  cash  paid  down  purchases  —  AJI  annuity  of — 
£  s.  d. 

9  15  10  to  a  male  life  aged  60-j 
11    7    4  „  65 1  Payable  as  long 

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Sparkling  Champagne 42s.  48s.  60s.  66s.  78s. 

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A-L  PAINS  IN  THE  LIMBS. — Muscular  pains  are  sometimes  insuffer- 
ably distressing;  though  they  may  not  impair  the  general  health  at  first, 
ultimately  such  must  be  their  effect,  if  permitted  to  continue  unre- 
lieved. It  should  be  generally  known  that  after  fomentation  with 
warm  salt  and  water,  Holloway's  Ointment  well  rubbed  upon  the 
arrected  part  twice  a  day,  gives  infinite  ease,  and  secures  ultimate  re- 
covery. Holloway's  Pills  should  also  be  taken  to  assist  in  the  cure, 
they  prevent  all  weak  and  numb  feelings  so  apt  to  prevail  after  neural- 
attacks.  A  lady  writes, "  After  suffering  a  martyrdom  from  tic  do- 
ilix;1and  °btn.i'!ln£  no  relief  from  the  faculty,  I  tried  your  Ointment 
and  Pills,  and  rejoice  to  say  they  cured  me." 


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H/  Bridge  Street,  Blackfriars  :  established  17C2. 

DIRECTORS. 
The  Right  Hon.  LORD  TREDEGAR,  President. 


Wm.  Samuel  Jones,  Esq.,  V.P. 
Wm.  F.  Pollock,  E*q.,  V.P. 
Wm.  Dacres  Adams,  Esq. 
John  Charles  Burgoyne,  Esq. 
Lord  Geo.  Henry  Cavendish,  M.P. 
Frederick  Cowper,  Esq. 
Philip  Hardwick,  Esq. 


Richard  Gosling,  Esq. 
Peter  Martineau,  Esq. 
John  Alldin  Moore,  Esq. 
Charles  Pott,  Esq. 
Rev.  John  Kusscll.D.D. 
James  Spicer,  Esq. 
John  Charles  Templer,  Esq. 


The  Equitable  is  an  entirely  mutual  office.  The  reserve,  at  the  last 
"  rest,"  in  December.  1859,  exceeded  three-fourths  of  a  million  sterling, 
a  sum  more  than  double  the  corresponding  fund  of  any  similar  in- 
stitution. 

The  bonuses  paid  on  claims  in  the  10  years  ending  on  the  31st  De- 
cember, 1859,  exceeded  3,500,'jOO*.,  being  more  than  100  per  cent,  on  the 
amount  of  all  those  claims. 

The  amount  added  at  the  close  of  that  decade  to  the  policies  existing 
on  the  1st  January,  1860,  was  1, 977,000?.,  and  made,  with  former  addi- 
tions then  outstanding,  a  total  of  4 ,070,000*.,  on  assurances  originally 
taken  out  for  6,252,00<W. -only. 

These  additions  have  increased  the  claims  allowed  and  paid  under 
those  policies  since  the  1st  January,  1860,  to  the  extent  of  150  per  cent. 

The  capital,  on  the  31st  December  last,  consisted  of — 

2,730,000* — stock  in  the  public  Funds. 

3,006,297*.  —  cash  lent  on  mortages  of  freehold  estates. 

300,000*.  — cash  advanced  on  railway  debentures. 

83,590* —  cash  advanced  on  security  of  the  policies  of  members  of  the 
Society. 

Producing  annually  221, 482*. 

The  total  income  exceeds  400,0007.  per  annum. 

Policies  effected  in  the  year  1862  will  participate  in  the  distribution 
of  profits  made  in  December,  1859,  so  soon  as  six  annual  premiums 
shall  have  become  due  and  been  paid  thereon;  and,  in  the  division 
of  1869,  will  be  entitled  to  additions  in  respect  of  every  premium  paid 
upon  them  from  the  year  1862  to  1869,  each  inclusive. 

On  the  surrender  of  policies  the  full  value  is  paid,  without  any  deduc- 
tion; and  the  Directors  will  advance  nine- tenths  of  that  value  as  a 
temporary  accommodation,  on  the  deposit  of  a  policy. 

No  extra  premium  is  charged  for  service  in  any  Volunteer  Corps 
within  the  United  Kingdom,  during  peace  or  war. 

A  Weekly  Court  of  Directors  is  held  every  Wednesday,  from  11  to  1 
o'clock,  to  receive  proposals  for  new  assurances  ;  and  a  short  account  of 
the  Society  may  be  had  on  application,  personally  or  by  post,  from  the 
office,  where  attendance  is  given  daily,  from  10  to  4  o'clock. 

ARTHUR  MORGAN,  Actuary. 


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'  BROWN  AND  POLSON'S 

PATENT    CORN    FLOUE. 

In  Packets  2<?.,  4d.,  and  8d.:  and  Tins,  Is. 

Recipe  from  the  "  Cook's  Guide,"  by  C.  E.  Francatclli,  la.te  Chief 
Cook  to  her  Majesty  the  Queen  :  — 

INFANTS'  FOOD. 

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ful  of  cold  water,  add  half  a  pint  of  boiling  water  ;  stir  over  the  fire  for 
five  minutes  ;  sweeten  lightly,  and  feed  the  baby  ;  but  if  the  infant  is 
being  brought  up  by  hand,  this  food  should  then  be  mixed  with  milk,— 
not  otherwise,  as  the  use  of  two  different  milks  would  be  injurious. 

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Bart.,  M. A.,  Mas.  Bac.,  Oxon. 


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[3'd  S.  I.  MAR.  22,  '62. 


NEW  WORK  BY  THE  AUTHOR  OF  "THE  WOMAN  IN  WHITE." 

Commencing  with  the  Seventh  Volume  of 

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CONDUCTED  BY  CHARLES  DICKENS, 

A  NEW  NOVEL  BY  WILKIE  COLLINS, 

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Containing  the  Conclusion  of  A  STRANGE  STORY,  by  the  Author  of  "  My  Novel," 

and  Articles  on  the  following  subjects: 


Rienzi,"  &c.; 


AD  VENTURE.  -Lost  in  the  Jungle.    An  Equinoctial  Trip,  in  the 

Great  Eastern.    An  English-  American  Sea  Duel.    Two  Nights  in 

the  Catacombs. 
AGRICULTURAL  LIFE  __  Agricultural  Encampments.    Show  Cat- 

tle.   The  Iron  Age  of  Agriculture. 
AMERICA—  American  Humour.      The   Morrill    Tariff.     American 

Cemeteries.     American   Disunion.     The  Young   Man    from   the 

Country. 
\NTIQUITY  __  Westminster  Abbey.    Town,  and  Gown  :  The  City  in 

Arms.    Our  Old  Abbey. 
AUSTRALIA  __  Footprints  Here  and  There. 
BIOGRAPHY.—  The  Herbert  Memorial. 
CALIFORNIA.—  Members  of  the  V.C.  (Vigilance  Committee). 
CHINA.-Suttee  in  China. 

THE  CHURCH  __  A  Voice  from  a.Pew.    An  Enlightened  Clergyman. 
COLLIERIES—  The  Cost  of  Coal. 
CRIME—  Incorrigible  Rogues. 

DOMESTIC  ARCHITECTURE—  On  the  Chimney-piece. 
EDUCATION—  In  and  out  of  School. 
GASTRONOMY.—  Turkeys.    What  Wine  does  for  us. 
INDIA  __  Cotton  Cultivation  in  Bengal.    Nil  Darpan.    Famine  in  In- 

dia.   Our  Old  and  New  Cotton  Fields. 

ITALY—Behind  the  Pope's  Scenes.    Through  a  Difficult  Country. 

Judicial  Murder. 
AW—  Portable  Property  in  Land. 

NDON.—  The  Genii  of  the  Lamps.     London  Water.     (In  Four 
Chapters.) 

MANNERS—  Professor  Bon  Ton.  (Two  Chapters.)  At  the  Court  of 
the  King  of  the  Gipsies.  Pet  Prejudices.  Going  to  the  Play  with 
Shakspeare.  Bribing  Servants.  Stories  of  the  Black  Men.  Don't— 
A  Word  about  Servants.  Marks  of  Genius.  English  Life  Abroad. 
On  Bribes.  Foreign  Affairs.  Seventeen  Hundred  and  Sixty-two. 
Love  and  Marriage  in  Persia. 


MANUFACTURES.-Incombustible  Muslin. 
the  Bad  Master.    Ladies'  Lives. 


The  Good  Servant  and 


MEDICAL  SCIENCE—  A  New  Disease.      Between  the  Cradle  and 
the  Grave.    M.D.  and  M.A.D.    A  Mortal  Struggle. 


METEOROLOGY— History  of  a  Young  "  Ology." 

MILITARY  AND  NAVAL  LIFE.-A  Field  Day.  The  Iron  War- 
Ship.  The  Best  House  of  Correction.  Tape  at  the  Horse  Guards. 

MUSIC— Street  Music.    An  Unreported  Speech. 

NATURAL  HISTORY.— Cotton  Fields.  Skating  Spiders.  Tunnel 
Spiders.  Mites. 

NATURAL  PHENOMENA—Fire.    The  Earthquake  of  Last  Year. 

PASTIMES Pursuit  of  C»'fcket  under  Difficulties. 

POETRY Unrest.  Rabbi  Ben  Ephraim's  Treasure.  The  Lady 

Witch.  How  Lady  Blanche  Arundel  held  Wardour  for  King- 
Charles.  Select  Committee  on  French  Songs,  in  Two  Sittings. 
Fair  Urience.  Fallen  Leaves.  Rosemary  from  the  Camaldoli 
Monastery  at  Naples.  At  the  Roadside.  The  Hermit  at  Rome. 
Melancholia.  The  Mine  Spirit.  A  Great  Man.  On  the  Waste. 
Life's  Balances. 

POLITICAL  HISTORY.-The  Yellow  Pamphlet.  The  Divine  Hedge. 

POOR  LAW.-Two  Cures  for  a  Pinch. 

PRIVATEERING— Black  Flags  in  the  Channel. 

PRODIGIES.— Almanacs.    A  Prodigy-Hunter. 

RAILWAYS— Rather  interested  in  Railways.  The  Great  National 
Railway  in  Russia. 

THE  ROAD— Hurrah  I  for  the  Road.    Tolls  and  no  Tolls. 

RUSSIA— At  Home  in  Russia.  Among  the  Horse-keepers.  In  the 
Hands  of  the  Police.  Frost  and  Thaw.  Risk  by  the  River.  Offi- 
cially Rescued.  Nothing  like  Russian  Leather.  Ice-bound  in  Russia. 

SOCIAL  ECONOMY— The  Bees  of  Carlisle.  The  Best  House  of  Cor- 
rection. Soldiers'  Clubs. 

STORIES.-Mr.  H.'s  Own  Narrative.  Operating  for  a  Rise.  The 
Withered  Daisy.  Judge  Lynch's  Mercy.  The  Green  Light.  Kerli's 
Peak.  Saving  a  Patient.  A  Rather  Remarkable  Person.  Travel- 
lers' Tales.  Michael  the  Dragoon.  This  Sheet  of  Paper.  A  Little 
Magic. 

THEATRICALS— Town  and  Country  Circus  Life. 

TOPOGRAPHY.-New  Zealand.  The  Terrestrial  Paradise.  A  Cotton 
Eden.  Our  Latest  Eden. 

TRAVEL — From  Turkey  to  Persia.  St.  George  and  the  Dragoman. 
The  Locomotive  in  Slippers.  Up  the  Danube. 

TRIALS.— Striking  Likenesses.  The  Fair  Man  of  Dark  Fortune.  The 
Lesurques  Romance.  Guilty,  or  Not  Guilty?  The  Black  Mill.  A 
Trial  at  Toulouse. 


And  TOM   TIDDLER'S   GROUND,   the   Extra  Number  for  Christmas. 


The  Previous  Volumes  contain  the  following  Novels  : 


and  2.  A  TALE  OF  TWO  CITIES,  by  CHAHLBS  DICKENS. 

2  „    3.  THE  WOMAN  IN  WHITE,  by  WILKIE  COLLINS. 

3  w    4.  A  DAY'S  RIDE:  a  LIFE'S  ROMANCE,  by  CHARLES  LKVBB. 


4  and  5.  GREAT  EXPECTATIONS,  by  CHAF LES  DICKENS, 

And  the  Commencement  of 
A  STRANGE  STORY,  by  SIR  EDWARD  BULWER  LYTTOX. 


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CONTENTS.— N«>.  13.      . 

NOTES:  — The  Registers  of  the  Stationers'  Company,  24 

—  Superstition,  243  —  Address  to  the  Electors  of  a  Borough 
in  the  Reign  of  George  I.,  244— Archbishop  Leighton  and 
the  Old  Bridge  at  Glasgow,  Ib. 

MINOR  NOTES:  — Cutting  off  with  a  Shilling— Not  too 
good  to  be  true  —  Singular  Religious  Custom  at  Naples  — 
Slarginal  Notes  —  Observance  of  Christmas  Day  under  the 
Commonwealth  —  Primary  Colours  —  The  Camel  an  Hiero- 
glyphic, 245. 

QUERIES:  — Kennedy  family,  246  —  Orientation,  247  — 
A  Babylonian  Princess  —  Clinical  Lectures:  King  of  Spain 

—  Congers  and  Mackerel  —  Dunwell  and  Trillet  —  Easter 
and  Whitsuntide  Viands  — Embalming  the  Dead  — Family 
Registers  —  Foundation  Stones  of  Churches  —  "  Gusta- 
vides : "  Ben  Jonson  —  Bishop  Home  and  the  Great  Mas- 
ters —  "  The  Histoiy  of  the  Kings  of  Scotland  "  —  Histori- 
cal Allusion — Jaqueline  of  Hainault  —  Mapletoft —  Lau- 
rence  Marsh  —  A  Prediction  —  Quotations  "Wanted  — 
Roscoe  —  Sermon  on  Charles  I.,  &c.,  247 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS:  —  The  Farmers-General  — 
Poached  —  Lord  Strafford — Dr.  Norton  —  Simon  of  Slid 
bury  — James  Howell  —  A  Palatine,  251. 

REPLIES:— Domesday  Book:  Colibert,  252  —  Praise-God 
Barbone,  253  —  Lambeth  Degrees,  254  —  Gray's  Elegy 
Parodied,  255  —  American  Cents  —  Nockynge  and  Dowell 
Money,  &c.  —  Army  Lists  —  Circular  Bordure  —  Burns  and 
Andrew  Homer  —  Long  Sermons  —  Brazil  —  Willet's 
"  Synopsis  "— Otho  Vaenius—  St.  abbreviated  T:  Tanthony 

—  The  Beginning  of  the  End  — Alcumie  Stuff— Ryot  and 
Riot  —  Lord  Mayors  of  London  —  Heworth  Church  — 
Lady  Mary  Percy  — The  Name  of  the  Royal  Family  of 
England  —  "  The  Wandering  Jew  "  —  Rutland :  County  or 
Shire  ?  —  Touching  for  the  King's  Evil,  &c.,  255. 


THE  REGISTERS  OF  THE  STATIONERS' 
COMPANY. 

(Continued from  3rd  S.  i.  203.) 

3  Maij  [1592.]  — Willm.  Ponsonby.  Entred 
for  his  copie  &c.,  to  be  joyned  together  in  one 
booke,  A  Discours  of  Lyfe  and  death  by  Ph. 
Mornay.  Item,  Anthonius,  a  tragedie  wrytten 
also  in  French  by  Robt.  Gamier.  Both  done  in 
Englishe  by  the  Countesse  of  Pembrok  .  .  vjd. 

[These  two  works  were  printed  in  the  same  volume  in 
1592 ;  but  it  is  certain  from  the  date  at  the  end  of  the 
play  that  it  was  finished  "  at  Ramsbury  26  Nov.  1590." 
"  The  tragedie  of  Antonie  "  was  republished  by  itself  in 
1595.  The  "  Discourse  of  Life  and  Death  "  was  reprinted 
in  1600.] 

•vto  Maij. — Peter  Shorte.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.,  A  discoverye  of  Tenne  English  leapers,  hurte- 
full  to  the  Churche  and  common  weale,  published 
by  Thomas  Tym,  minister vjd. 

[Here  we  have  the  name  of  the  author,  but  the  work, 
or  one  with  the  same  title,  had  been  entered  on  13th  Jan. 
preceding  (see  p.  201.)  Thomas  Tym  was  probably  the 
same  Thomas  Timme  who,  in  1597,  compiled  "  A  booke 
containing  the  true  Portraiture  of  the  Countenances  and 
Attires  of  the  Kings  of  England,"  &c.  4to.] 

Cuthbert  Burbidge.  Entred  for  his  copie  &c., 
a  booke  intituled  A  direction  for  Travellers  .  vjd. 

[Hit-hard  Burbidge,  Burbadge,  or  Burbage,  the  famous 
bhakespearian  actor,  had  a  brother  named  Cuthbert; 


and,  though  we  have  no  distinct  proof  of  the  fact,  it 
seems  likely  that  he  was  the  stationer,  who  in  entries  at 
the  H  all  and  at  the  bottom  of  title-pages  of  books  is  usually 
called,  in  the  uncertainty  about  proper  names  then  pre- 
vailing, Cuthbert  Burbie  or  Burby.  Possibly,  the  differ- 
ence was  made  for  the  sake  of  distinction.] 

xxix  Maij.— John  Wolfe.  Entred  for  his  copie 
&c.  a  booke  intituled  An  instruction  for  yonge 
gentlewomen vjd< 

xvjto  die^Junij.  —  [No  stationer's  name.]  En-' 
tred  for  his  copie  &c.,  a  booke  intituled  Gar- 
gantua [no  sum.] 

[This  entry  is  crossed  out  in  the  Register.  We  have 
before  seen  that  John  Wolf,  on  the  6th  April  preceding, 
had  entered  Gargantua  his  prophesie  (see  p.  202) :  per- 
haps the  above  memorandum  was  erased  inconsequence.] 

xxvjto  Junij.  —  John  Charlewood.  Entred  for 
his  copie  &c.,  a  booke  intituled  Histoire  de  Roland 
L'arnoureux,  Cowprenant  les  Chevaleureux  faicts 
d'armes  et  d  amours,  devisee  en  trois  livres  —  to  be 
translated  into  Englishe vjdi 

[This  was  the  work  of  Boiardo,  the  translation  of 
which  had  probably  been  undertaken  in  consequence  of 
the  success  of  Sir  John  Harington's  version  of  the  Orlando 
Innamorato  of  Ariosto,  fol.  1591.  The  three  books  of 
Boiardo's  introductory  poem,  translated  by  Robert  Tofte, 
did  not^we  believe,  come  out  until  1598, 4to,  and  no  con- 
tinuation of  the  work  ever  appeared.] 

John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  A  dic- 
tionary, Historical,  Geographical,  Astronomical, 
and  Poetical vjd. 

xxviij0  Junij. — John  Kydde.  Entred  for  his 
copie  &c.  a  little  booke  of  the  Judgement  and 
execution  of  John  Parker,  goldesmithe,  and  Anne 
Bruen,  for  poysoninge  her  late  husband  John 
Bruen,  goldesmithe.  Provided  that  this  booke, 
before  it  be  printed,  shalbe  drawen  into  good 
forme  and  order,  and  then  lawfullye  allowed  to  be 
printed vjd. 

[We  may  doubt  whether  this  tract  was  ever  "  allowed 
to  be  printed,"  and  the  only  copy  we  have  seen  of  it  was 
that  actually  sent  to  the  public  authorities  for  approba- 
tion. It  is  a  great  curiosity  in  another  respect,  because 
on  the  title-page  is  written  the  name  of  the  publisher 
John  Kyd  (so  spelt)  and  at  the  end  of  it  the  name  of 
Thomas  Kydde  (so  spelt)  the  author  —  Thomas  Kydde 
being  no  other  than  the  distinguished  dramatic  poet  and 
precursor  of  Shakespeare,  the  writer  of  The  Spanish 
Tragedy,  Jeronimo,  Cornelia,  and  other  theatrical  produc- 
;ions.  It  is  by  inference  that  we  suppose  him  to  have 
been  the  author  of  the  remarkable  production  under 
consideration,  and  that  the  publisher  of  it  was  his 
brother,  or  some  near  relation.  We  give  its  full  title :  — 
1  The  trueth  of  the  most  wicked  and  secret  murtbering 
f  John  Brewen,  Goldsmith  of  London,  committed  by  his 
owne  wife  through  the  provocation  of  one  John  Parker, 
whom  she  loved :  for  which  fact  she  was  burned  and  he 
mnged  in  Smitbfield  on  Wednesday  the  28  of  June,  1592, 
,wo  yeares  after  the  murther  was  committed.  [Wood- 
cut of  a  woman  burning  and  praying.]  Imprinted  at 
Condon  for  John  Kid,  and  are  to  be  sold  by  Edward 
White,  dwelling  at  the  little  North  doore  of  Paules,  at 
he  signe  of  the  Gun.  1592."  4to.  Thus  we  see  that  it 
was  entered  at  Stationers'  Hall  on  the  very  day  of  the 
xecution,  and  we  may  readily  imagine  that  it  was  only 


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.  I.  MAR.  29,  '62. 


a  rough  sketch,  drawn  up  in  haste  for  the  occasion,  and 
that  it  required  to  be  amended  before  it  was  printed  and 
published.  From  the  talents  and  celebrity  of  Thomas 
Kydde  we  may  be  sure  that  his  narrative  is  very  superior 
to  the  ordinary  run  of  such  pieces;  but  it  is  entirely  in 
prose,  and  goes  through  all  the  strange  facts  of  the 
murder  of  Bruen,  or  Brewen,  by  his  wife  at  the  instiga- 
tion of  her  paramour  Parker,  "  in  eating  a  messe  of  suger- 
sops."  The  murder, was  effected  only  three  days  after 
the  marriage  had  taken  place,  and  the  circumstances 
(into  which  we  have  not  space  to  enter)  were  extremely 
curious,  especially  as  the  discovery  was  not  made  for  two 
vears  afterwards.  We  intend  to  reprint  the  tract  as  a 
relic  of  the  great  dramatist,  Kydd.] 

Primo  die  Julij. — John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  under  thande  of  the  B.  of  London  (as  he 
sayeth)  and  by  consent  of  Mr.  Allen,  a  booke 
intituled  Philomela,  the  ladye  Fitzwaters  nightin- 
gale, by  Robert  Greene vjd. 

[The  parenthesis  "as  he  sayeth,"  must  mean  as  Wolf, 
the  stationer  "sayeth,"  and  not  the  Bishop  of  London, 
the  last  antecedent.  Philomela  is  unquestionably  one  of 
Robert  Greene's  least  objectionable  pieces,  but  it  by  no 
means  deserves  all  the  praise  bestowed  upon  it  in  Dun- 
lop's  Hist,  of  Fiction,  edit.  1845,  p.  405.  We  have  never 
seen  any  impression  of  it  earlier  than  1615,  and  we  may 
presume  that  most  of  the  anterior  copies  were  destroyed 
by  inconsiderate  readers:  the  moment  they  had  finished 
the  novel  they  threw  it  away,  never  dreaming  that  four 
or  rive  hundred  times  the  original  cost  would  in  our  da}' 
be  willingly  given  for  a  copy.] 

Abell  Jeffes.  Entred  for  his  copie  a  ballad 
intituled  the  Lamentation  of  Agnes  Bruen,  Sfc. 

•vj*. 

[This  ballad  has  not  survived,  that  we  are  aware  of; 
and  as  it  was  not  entered  by  John  Kydd,  we  may  feel 
pretty  sure  that  it  was  not  by  his  brother.  There  is  no 
reason  to  think  that  Thomas  Kydd  ever  condescended 
to  writ o  ballads.  That  on  his  own  Spanish  Tragedy  was 
not  by  him.] 

10  July. — Jo.  Wolf.     Entred  for  his  copie  a 
ballad  of  The  bitrninge  of  Anne  Bruen     .     .     vjd. 

11  July.  —  Jo.  Wolf.     Entred  for   his  copie  a 
ballad  intituled  John  Parkers  Lamentation  .     vjd. 

xv°  Julii. — Abell  Jeffes.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
£c.  a  ballad  intituled  The  Lamentation  of  John 
Parker,  whoe,  consenting  to  the  murder  of  John 
Eruen,  was  hanged  in  Smithfield  the  28  of  June, 
2  yeres  after  the  fact  was  committed :  to  the  tune 
of  fortune vjd. 

[This  very  extraordinary  murder  seems  naturally  to 
have  excited  a  great  deal  of  attention,  and  to  have  af- 
forded employment  to  many  pens.  Old  Stow's  record  of 
the  circumstance  gives  no  names: 

'In  this  moneth  of  June  a  yoong  man  was  hanged  in 
Smithfield,  and  a  woman  burned,  both  for  povsoniiv>-  her 
husband,  a  goldsmith."— Annales, edit.  160,?, "p.  1271.] 

xix°  Julij.— John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
A  Commemoration  of  the  most  valiant  and  worthie 
knight  Sr.  Willm.  Sachvill,  slayne  in  the  warres 
of  Fruunce vjdt 

[We  do  not  find  any  notice  of  the  death  of  Sir  William 
Sackville  either  in  Camden  or  Stow.] 


xxi  Julij. — John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copie 
&c.  a  booke  intituled  a  Quip  for  an  Upstart  Cour- 
tier   vjd. 

[A  remarkable  publication  by  Robt.  Greene  —  remark- 
able for  its  popularity  and  for  its  barefaced  plagiarism 
from  Francis  Thynne's  excellent  and  humorous  poem 
The  debate  betweene  Pride  and  Lowlines  (printed  bv  John 
Charlwood  n.  d.),  which  had  appeared  some  ten  years 
earlier,  and,  as  Greene  no  doubt  hoped,  had  been  forgotten. 
The  original  edition  of  Green's  Quip,  now  before  us,  pur- 
ports to  have  been  "  imprinted  by  John  Wolfe,  and  are  to 
be  sold  at  his  shop  in  Paule's  chayne.  1592."  On  the  title- 
page  is  a  woodcut  of  a  countryman  and  a  courtier  in  con- 
versation. The  popularity  of  the  production  is  evidenced, 
among  other  things,  by  a  Dutch  translation  of  it —  "  Tot 
Leyden.  By  Thomas  Basson,  M.D.C.I.",  on  the  title- 
page  of  which  is  a  repetition  of  the  wood-cut.  Every 
paragraph  is  there  numbered  for  the  sake  of  reference 
and  comparison.  It  was  in  this  work  that  R.  Greene 
gave  the  first  offence  to  Gabriel  Plarvey,  which  the  latter 
never  forgave.] 

Jo.  Danter.  Entred  for  his  copie  a  ballad  en- 
tituled  The  soule's  good  morrowe  ....  vjd. 

Jo.  Danter.  Entred  for  his  copies  these  fyve 
ballades  ensuinge,  viz. :  — 

1.  England's  felicitie     with   an   admonition    to 
repent  by  examples  of  others  harmes,  8fc.      .     vjd. 

2.  The  Coy  may  den"  s  care,  sent  to  her  kind  com- 
panions   vjd. 

3.  Conscience    Coy  to   all  estates  in  selling  of 
broom vjd. 

4.  The  conflict  betwene  Suthan  and  the  penitent 
Sinner vjd. 

5.  A  medicin  for  Jealous  men,  ivith  the  triall  of 
a  wife vjd. 

[We  can  say  little  or  "nothing  regarding  any  of  these 
productions,  but  "  Dame  Coy,"  who  may  be  the  same  as 
"  Conscience  Coy,"  is  mentioned  in  several  comic  per- 
formances of  that  day,  and  considerably  earlier.] 

xxviij  July.  —  Henry  Kirkham.  Entred  for 
his  copie,  &c.  a  ballad  intituled  The  Nightingales 
good  night vjd. 

!  Possibly  this  ballad  may  in  some  way  have  grown  out 
iobert  Greene's  Philomela,  before  noticed ;  but  it  was 
most  likely  a  merely  fanciful  effusion  on  the  departure  of 
the  nightingale.] 

7  Augusti.  —  Abell  Jeffes.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  The  second  part  of  the  Defiance  to 
fortune vja. 

[In  1596  came  out  Anthony  Copley's  Fig  for  Fortune; 
but  that  entered  above  was  probably  a  different  poem. 
We  know  of  no  first  part  of  it,  even  from  the  entries  at 
Stationers'  Hall.  Copley's  title  was  partly  founded  upon 
Lodge's  Satires,  &c.,  published  in  the  preceding  year,  A 
Fig  for  Momus.  Copley  was  a  very  poor  poet  in  all 
senses  of  the  word.] 

_viij  August?.  — -  Thomas  Scarlet.  Entred  for 
his  copie,  &c.  Le  Second  Livre  de  la  plaisante  et 
delectable  historic  de  Garileon  Angleterr.  To  be 
translated  into  Englishe vjd. 

[We  are  not  acquainted  with  any  existing  translation 
of  this  Romance  of  Chivalry.  In  French  it  professed  to 


"»  S.  I.  MAR.  29,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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be  rendered  from  the  Spanish  by  Estienne  de  Maison- 
neufve,  and  editions  are  known  of  it  in  1572,  1578,  and 
1586.] 

J.  PAYNE  COLLIER. 


SUPERSTITION. 

In  the  ordinary  derivations  assigned  to  this 
word,  there  is  something  that  fails  to  satisfy. 
Dr.  Johnson  offers  none,  beyond  a  reference  to 
the  Latin  superstitio.  Worcester  refers  it  to 
superstes,  "  one  who  stands  by  "  ;  but  he  candidly 
admits  that  the  analogy  is  obscure,  unless  it  be 
that  "the  force  of  the  word  lies  in  the  prefix 
super,  implying  excess."  Hence  he  thinks  super- 
stition has  come  to  signify  an  " excess  in  religion"; 
but  an  excess  in  religion  is  more  aptly  expressed 
by  fanaticism,  which  is  not  interchangeable  as  a 
synonym  for  superstition.  Besides,  Aulus  Gel- 
lius  has  devoted  a  chapter  in  the  4th  book  of  his 
Noctes  Attica,  to  prove  that  excess  in  religion 
was  expressed  by  the  word  religiosus ;  quotiug  in 
evidence  the  line  — 

"  Religentem  esse  oportet :  religiosum  nefas." 

Again,  Dr.  Johnson  assumes  that  "fear"  is  an 
ekment  of  superstition ;  and  in  support  of  this, 
he  quotes  Dryden  :  — 

"  A  reverent  year, — such  superstition  reigns 
Among  the  rude, — e'en  then  possessed  the  swains." 

The  French  definition  includes  equally  the  same 
idea  of  fear  :  "  la  superstition  craint  ce  qu'elle 
devrait  aimer ;  et  n'adore  que  ce  qu'elle  craint." 
But  this  I  venture  to  think  arises  from  confound- 
ing the  Latin  term  superstitio  with  the  Greek 
word  Seifffiai/jLovia  —  which  in  our  version  of  the 
New  Testament  has  been  translated  "supersti- 
tion." 

But  SeiffiSaifjiovia  (Acts,  xxv.  19),  from  5ei§o>,  "to 
fear,"  and  Sai/juav,  a  "  malignant  spirit,"  is  far  from 
being  the  equivalent  for  superstitio.  Properly 
speaking  it  means,  not  the  worship  of  the  gods, 
but  a  "  terror  of  demons."  In  this  latter  sense  it 
is  used  by  Plutarch  and  Theophrastus ;  and  when 
St.  Paul  rebuked  the  Athenians  for  timidly  raising 
an  altar  to  deprecate  the  wrath  of  the  unknown 
God,  he  called  them  SeiffiSai/j.oi'fo-Tfpovs  —  a  term 
«ven  more  forcible  than  "  demon-worshippers  "  ; 
and  for  which  the  word  "  superstitious "  in  our 
version  is  the  feeblest  possible  rendering. 

It  may,  however,  be  stated  that  superstitio  is 
essentially  a  Roman  word,  for  which  the  Greeks 
had  no  term  in  strict  philological  correspondence. 
We  may,  therefore,  confine  attention  to  the  Latin 
expression  alone ;  into  the  composition  of  which 
no  element  implying  "fear"  is  to  be  traced,  as 
Dr.  Johnson  would  appear  to  suppose. 

Superstes  means  literally  "  standing  over,"  and 
thence  it  has  come  to  signify  something  "  remain- 
ing" or  "surviving"  after  some  signal  change, 


under  the  influence  of  which  it  might  naturally 
be  expected  to  have  become  extinct.  Bearing  in 
mind  this  etymological  origin,  and  at  the  same 
time  regarding  the  word  "superstition"  in  the 
sense  which  it  has  borne  for  upwards  of  two 
thousand  years,  it  presents  a  pregnant  illustration 
of  the  truth  dwelt  on  by  Max  Muller,  Dean 
Trench,  and  others :  that  words  are  the  exponents 
of  history,  and  that  language  preserves  in  its  drifts 
and  strata  the  most  authentic  data  on  which  to 
trace  the  transitional  periods  of  human  society. 

Nothing  in  connexion  with  the  civilisation  of 
mankind  is  susceptible  of  more  conclusive  demon- 
stration than  the  fact,  that  the  earliest  religion  of 
rude  nations  was  the  worship  of  the  elements  and 
of  the  awe-inspiring  phenomena  of  nature — it  was 
essentially  a  religion  of  fear.  In  course  of  time, 
mere  observation  and  experience  were  sufficient 
to  convert  this  into  the  belief  in  a  superintending 
Creator,  long  before  Revelation  had  made  known 
the  benevolent  system  of  divine  truth.  But 
the  process  was  essentially  gradual ;  and  at  every 
stage  society,  as  it  advanced  in  knowledge,  was 
enabled  to  look  back  upon  those  barbarous  sections 
who  still  lingered  behind  (superstites),  and  even 
to  discern  amongst  the  evidences  of  progress  the 
remnants  (superstitid)  of  that  ignorance  from 
which  the  most  advanced  had  not  wholly  emerged. 
These  traces  of  a  darker  age  necessarily  exhibited 
the  gloomy  character  of  the  era  of  fear,  to  which 
they  belonged :  and  hence  the  very  term  super- 
stition, which  abstractedly  means  merely  the  "  sur- 
viving "  religious  relics  of  the  past,  came  to  imply 
at  the  same  time  the  tendency  to  credulity  and 
terror,  which  was  their  distinctive  characteristic. 

It  is  curious  to  trace  this  inherent  quality  of 
fear  in  the  definitions  and  illustrations  of  super- 
stitions which  are  presented  to  us  by  classical 
writers.  Cicero,  who  attempted  to  draw  the  line 
of  demarcation  between  it  and  religion,  says  that 
those  addicted  to  it  acquired  the  epithet  of 
"superstitious,"  from  the  trepidation  in  which 
they  passed  their  days  in  immolating  sacrifices  to 
deprecate  the  anger  of  the  gods,  and  induce  them 
to  spare  their  children  :  "  namque  totos  dies  pre- 
cabantur  et  immolabant  ut  sui  sibi  liberi  super- 
stites essent,  superstitiosi  sunt  appellati."  This 
original  term,  Cicero  adds,  took  in  later  times  a 
wider  significance  :  those  who  worshipped  the 
gods  becomingly  being  termed  "  religiosi,  et  ita 
factum  est,  in  superstitioso  et  religioso  alterum 
vitii  nomen  alterum  laudes."  (De  Natura  Deor.t 
lib.  ii.  30.) 

Horace  speaks  of  the  melancholy  of  superstition  : 
"  tristi  superstitione  "  (Sat.  ii.  3.  79.)  And  Sta- 
tius  describes  it  by  the  epithet  of  "  black."  (Thcb. 
Ivi.  U.) 

Associated  with  these  repulsive  recollections, 
were  suggestions  of  sorcery  and  incantations. 
Plautus  more  than  once  calls  a  diviner  "  super- 


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I.  MAR.  29,  '62. 


stitiosus"  (Amph.  Act  I.  So.  1,  167)  ;  and  by  "su- 
perstiosa,"  he  describes  a  witch  :  — 

"  Quid  si  ista  aut  superstitiosa  aut  ariola  est  ?  " 
Rudem,  Act  IV.  Sc.  4.  v.  95. 

Thus  it  admits  of  little  doubt  that  a  word, 
which  in  its  original  signification  meant  merely 
those  religious  delusions  which  "  survived"  the 
influences  of  advancing  civilisation,  came  in  pro- 
cess of  time,  by  a  species  of  historic  metonymy,  to 
denote  the  stupified  ignorance,  the  unobservant 
credulity,  and  the  unreasoning  awe,  by  which 
these  mental  errors  were  characterised. 

J.  EMERSON  TENNENT. 


ADDRESS  TO  THE  ELECTORS  OF  A  BOROUGH 
IN  THE  REIGN  OF  GEORGE  I. 

The  following  address  to  the  electors  of  the 
borough  of  Haverfordwest  in  1718,  in  the  hand- 
writing of  Sir  John  Philips,  Bart.,  of  Picton  Cas- 
tle, was  found  a  few  days  ago  in  a  heap  of  rubbish 
at  the  Council  Chamber,  which  was  being  cleared 
out  preparatory  to  its  demolition.  The  address  is 
so  characteristic  of  the  great  and  good  man  from 
whom  it  emanated,  that  I  hope  you  may  deem  it 
worthy  of  preservation  in  the  pages  of  "N".  &  Q." 
Sir  John  Philipps  was  the  fourth  baronet  of  Pic- 
ton  Castle,  and  represented  the  town  of  Pembroke, 
and  the  town  and  county  of  Haverfordwest  in 
several  successive  parliaments.  He  was  the  friend 
of  Sir  Isaac  Newton  and  Sir  Hans  Sloane,  the 
uncle  (by  marriage)  of  Sir  Robert  Walpole,  and 
the  patron  and  benefactor  of  Whitetield  the 
preacher,  to  whom  he  allowed  forty  pounds  per 
annum  while  he  was  at  college.  Sir  John  was 
also  one  of  the  original  members  of  the  Fetter 
Lane  Society,  and  one  of  the  most  active  com- 
missioners for  building  the  fifty  new  churches  in 
and  about  the  city  of  London.  He  was  also  a 
kind  friend  to  Mrs.  Anna  Williams,  the  blind  com- 
panion of  Dr.  Johnson.  Sir  Robert  Walpole  had 
great  reliance  on  the  judgment  and  integrity  of 
Sir  John  Philipps,  and  frequently  consulted  him 
on  important  occasions.  Sir  John  died  at  his 
town  residence  in  Bartlett's  Buildings,  on  Jan. 
5th,  1736,  aged  seventy-seven  :  — 

"  London,  FebT  1,  17i|. 
"  Gentlemen, 

"After  heartily  condoling  with  Ye  ye  loss  of  your  late  ' 
worthy  Representative  in  Parliament,  whose  sodaine  and 
unexpected  departure  may  give  us  all  a  quick  Empres- 
sion  of  our  great  Change,  I  beg  leave  to  acquaint  Ye  that 
my  declining  for  several  years  past  to  offer  mv  service  to 
my  Country  under  that  Character,  has  been  ill  resented 
by  many  of  my  Friends,  who  I  have  reason  to  believe 
jrtam  too  favourable  sentiments  of  me,  which  Onsi- 
Jeration  (however)  has  determined  me  to  give  Ye  this 
trouble,  and  to  request  the  honour  (if  I  may  be  thought 
Worthy  of  it)  to  supply  the  present  vacancy.     None  who  I 
are  well-wishers  to  their  Country  (as  I  trust  you  all  are)  I 
Will  conceive  a  prejudice  to  me  for  avoiding  those  un'  | 


warrantable  methods  of  obtaining  Favour  that  are  so 
commonly  put  in  practise  on  these  occasions,  a  mischief 
which  this  Nation  has  long  suffer'd  under,  and  is  lamented 
by  all  wise  and  good  men,  as  what  in  time  (without  some 
better  Provision)  may  prove  hurtful  to  ye  Constitution. 
Gentlemen,  I  have  no  other  views  in  this  Adress,  than 
being  put  into  a  capacity  of  serving  y°  Publick,  and  your 
worthy  Corporation  in  particular,  after  ye  most  effectual 
manner  I  am  able :  But  if  you  have  cast  your  Eyes  on 
any  other  Gentleman  whom  you  may  judge  more  fit  and 
likely  to  answer  those  purposes,  I  shall  most  readily  con- 
cur with  Ye  in  the  Choice,  forbearing  any  further  steps 
that  may  give  occasion  for  divisions  (ye  worst  of  evils) 
among  You. 

"  Earnestly  begging  God  so  to  direct  Ye  in  this  Affair 
that  your  Election  (on  whomsoever  it  falls)  may  be 
Unanimous, 

"  I  am,  Gentlemen, 

"Your  most  obedient  and  faithful  humble  Servant, 
"  JOHN  PHILIPPS." 

As  a  pendant  to  the  foregoing  address,  I  annex 
the  following  extract  from  the  MS.  Diary  of  Sir 
Erasmus  Philipps,  Bart.  :  — 

"  17i|,  Jan?  30.  Died  John  Barlow  of  Lawrenny,  Esq", 
Member  of  Parliament  for  Haverfordwest,  at  London ;  in 
whose  room  on, 

"  1718,  May  7.  My  Father  (then  in  London)  was 
elected  Member,  without  opposition :  Cos"-  Wm  Philipps  of 
Hill  personated  him  on  ye  occasion." 

JOHN  PAVIN  PHILLIPPS. 

Haverfordwest. 


ARCHBISHOP  LEIGHTON  AND  THE  OLD 
BRIDGE  OF  GLASGOW. 

The  letter  of  Archbishop  Leighton,  No.  vnr. 
(3rd  S.  i.  123)  serves  to  confirm  a  fact  in  the 
history  of  the  old  bridge  of  Glasgow.  In  writing 
"  To  my  Lord  Commissioner  His  Grace,"  he  says, 

"The damage  that  is  lately  befallen  the  town  ofGlasco, 
and  indeed  the  whole  country  round  about,  by  the  fall  of 
part  of  their  bridge,  I  believe  yor  Grace  will  have  notice 
of  from  better  hands,  and  will,  I  doubt  not,  favour  them 
in  the  procurement  of  any  fit  way  of  assistance  towards 
the  repairing  it  that  shall  be  suggested,  for  it  will  be  very 
expensive,  and  the  town  will  not  be  able  to  bear  it  alone, 
though  they  be  called  richer  than  some  other  corpora- 
tions here ;  as  ye  noise  of  most  revenues,  publick  and  per- 
sonal, in  common  report  does  usually  far  exceed  their 
just  value." 

The  accident  referred  to,  and  which  may  also 
help  to  give  a  date  to  the  Archbishop's  letter,  oc- 
curred in  the  year  1671.  One  of  our  historians 
(Cleland,  i.  21,  70),  mentions,  among  other  par- 
ticulars, 

"The  southmost  arch  fell  at  noon  of  the  day  on  which 
Glasgow  fair  is  held,  and  although  the  concourse  of 
people  passing  and  repassing  at  the  time  must  have  been 
very  great,  it  is  recorded  that  no  person  received  injury." 

The  accident  happened  on  a  Wednesday  about 
the  middle  of  July,  the  month  of  the  celebration 
of  the  annual  fair. 

It  may  be  stated  in  our  reminiscences  of  an  old 
public  servant  now  no  more,  that  the  structure 
was  built  in  1345,  by  William  Rae,  bishop  of 


3«*  S.  I.  MAR.  29,  '62.  J 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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Glasgow,  across  the  Clyde,  connecting  what  is 
presently  Stockwell  Street  with  the  Barony  of 
Gorbals.  It  consisted  of  eight  arches  of  stone,  of 
plain  architecture,  and  so  substantial  that  for 
three  hundred  years  it  required  no  material  re- 
pair. The  fallen  arch  was  built  with  all  conve- 
nient speed,  but  whether  at  the  expense  of  the 
city  corporation,  or  through  "  assistance"  given 
by  government,  on  the  representation  of  the  con- 
siderate Archbishop,  seems  unknown.  The  "dam- 
age "  was,  "  indeed,"  a  calamity  to  "  the  whole 
country  round  about,"  as  in  1671  the  bridge 
formed  the  only  source  of  communication  between 
the  north  and  south  sides  of  the  city,  and  the  sur- 
rounding villages  and  towns.  At  that  time  the 
city  population  may  be  reckoned  at  about  14,000 
souls.  The  bridge  subsequently  received  succes- 
sive alterations  and  improvements,  but  having  in 
later  periods  become  unfit  to  meet  the  wants  of 
nearly  400,000  inhabitants,  an  act  of  parliament 
was  obtained  in  1845,  and  afterwards  a  new 
granite  bridge  erected  in  its  stead,  one  of  the  most 
elegant  and  commodious  in  Europe. 

The  remainder  of  the  Archbishop's  letter  from 
which  we  have  quoted,  alludes  to  another  affair, 
in  which  he  had  taken  considerable  interest,  viz., 
the  election  of  a  chief  magistrate  or  provost  for 
the  city.  It  cannot  but  be  admired  the  delicacy  and 
conscientiousness  with  which  he  reports  the  cir- 
cumstance to  the  commissioner.  About  that  time 
government  occasionally  thought  proper  to  inter- 
fere in  such  elections,  and  had  there  been  always 
a  judicious  'functionary  like  the  Archbishop  to 
"intermeddle  with"  and  advise  on  these  municipal 
matters,  who  had  studied  both  his  own  and  the 
city's  peace  and  prosperity,  it  is  to  be  presumed 
we  should  have  seen  fewer  cabals  and  stretches  of 
royal  power  than  what  appears  on  her  annals.  It 
is  not  improbable  that  the  Provost  recommended 
was  William  Anderson,  who  filled  that  office  from 
years  1664  to  1666  inclusive,  and  again  from  years 
1668  to  1673,  also  inclusive.  We  have  no  account 
of  his  character,  public  or  private,  except  what 
may  be  inferred  from  the  Archbishop's  statement 
of  his  great  competency  for  the  office ;  and  I  think 
there  is  some  reason  to  conclude  that  he  had  been 
originally  a  government  nominee,  and  a  supporter 
both  of  it  and  of  episcopacy ;  at  all  events  he  had 
been  a  favourite  with  the  Archbishop,  and  popular 
with  the  citizens ;  and  his  qualifications  had  stood 
the  test,  seeing  that  he  had  so  frequently  attained 
that  high  honour.  G.  N. 


CUTTING  OFF  WITH  A  SHILLING.  — There  is 
probably  not  to  be  found  in  any  reports  of  the 
judgments  of  courts  of  law  a  more  striking  in- 
stance of  bad  feeling  by  a  father  to  a  son  than  in 


the  Scotch  case  of  Ross  v.  Ross,  decided  by  the 
Court  of  Session  on  2nd  March,  1770,  and  noticed 
in  Baron  Hume's  Collection  of  Decision*,  p .  88 1 . 

Alexander  Ross,  solicitor,  in  London,  made  A 
will  in  1748,  by  which  he  tried  to  disinherit  his 
only  son  David  (who  it  may  be  noticed  was  the 
first  patentee  of  the  Edinburgh  Theatre  Royal). 
As  if  it  had  not  been  enough  to  take  such  a  step, 
he  added  insult  to  injury,  by  giving  the  son  a 
legacy  of  "  one  shilling  to  be  paid  him  yearly  on 
his  birth- day,  to  remind  him  of  his  misfortune  in 
having  come  into  the  world."  The  animosity 
which  could  dictate  this  is  revolting,  and  very 
likely  unparalleled ;  but  it  is  agreeable  to  know 
that,  owing  to  its  informality,  the  will  was  held 
to  be  ineffectual,  and  the  son  got  full  right  to  all 
of  which  his  father  wished  to  deprive  him.  G. 

Edinburgh. 

NOT  TOO  GOOD  TO  BE  TRUE.  —  People  are  apt 
to  believe  that  a  smart  saying  or  a  ready  retort 
was  not  a  real  occurrence ;  it  was  made  up,  it  is 
too  good  to  be  true,  &c.  Perhaps  there  is  no 
story  which  would  be  held  more  intrinsically  de- 
niable than  that  of  the  tobacconist  who  adopted 
'•Quid  rides  ?'  for  the  motto  on  his  carriage.  A 
friend,  whose  years  it  will  be  seen  are  many,  has 
given  me  the  following  note  :  — 

"  Jacob  Brandon  was  a  tobacco  broker  in  the  last  cen- 
tury, a  remarkable  man  in  his  way,  supposed  to  be 
rich,  a  good  companion,  and  extravagant  in  his  e,x- 
penses.  Before  the  year  1800  I  saw  a  chariot  in  Cheap- 
side  with  a  coat  of  arms,  or  rather  a  shield  bearing  a 
hand  [sample]  of  tobacco  and  a  motto,  'Quid  rides  ?  '  It 
was  an  old  carriage,  and  at  the  time  belonged  to  a  job 
master ;  so  the  driver  told  a  person  who  was  curious  to 
know  what  the  arms  meant.  It  was  this  man's  cariosity 
that  caused  my  noticing  the  arms.  Mentioning  the  cir- 
cumstance in  my  father's  presence,  he  said  it  was  Bran- 
don's old  carriage.  He  had  become  gouty  and  could  not 
walk :  he  bought  the  carriage,  had  it  new  painted,  and 
was  asked  for  his  arms.  This  required  consideration. 
Some  thought  Brandon  was  a  Jew,  or  of  Jewish  extrac- 
tion ;  be  this  as  it  may,  he  loved  a  joke,  and  cared  little 
about  armorial  bearings.  He  was  telling  a  party  In 
Lloyd's  Coffee  House  about  his  new  carriage,  and  that  he 
had  determined  to  have  a  symbol  of  his  profession  on  it, 
but  that  he  wanted  a  motto.  A  well-  known  member  of 
Lloyd's,  a  wit,  and  as  I  afterwards  found  out,  a  curious 
reader,  suggested  'Quid  rides?1  which  was  forthwith 
adopted.  This  was  Harry  Calender;  1  knew  him  well: 
he  died  within  the  present  century.  I  have  found  that 
some  of  his  witty  stories  about  living  persons  were  taken 
from  old  books.  My  father  knew  Brandon  well,  and 
employed  him.  Now  as  to  •  Quid  rides  ?  '  being  proposed 
by  some  Irish  wit  as  a  rnjotto  for  Lundy  Foot  of  Dublin, 
famous  for  a  particular  snuff:  I  have  heard  something 
of  the  history  and  habits  of  Lundy  Foot.  He  had  no 
carriage  with  arms  on  it.  His  snuff  is  still  sold  with  its 
distinguishing  wrapper  and  stamp,  but  no  '  Quid  rides?' 
— which  would  certainly  have  been  perpetuated  if  it  had 
ever  been  adopted  by  the  manufacturer  of  the  snuff." 

I  hope  this  anecdote  will  give  the  zest  of  pos- 
sible truth  to  many  other  things  of  the  same  kind. 

A.  DE  MOBGAN. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  MAE." 29,  '62. 


SINGULAR  RELIGIOUS  CUSTOM  AT  NAPLES.  — 
Mr.  Slack,  one  of  the  vacation  tourists,  whose 
Notes  of  Travel  in  1860  contribute  to  form  so 
agreeable  a  volume,  in  describing  what  he  saw- 
on  the  liquefaction  of  the  blood  of  S.  Gennaro, 
observes,  that  "  strange  to  say,  a  number  of  birds 
were  let  loose,  which  the  spectators  had  brought 
•with  them  for  the  purpose,"  and  appends  a  note, 
which  seems  worth  transferring  into  the  pages  of 
"N.&Q.":  — 

"  This  I  afterwards  learned  is  the  custom  at  all  the 
great  festivals  of  the  Church,  and  symbolises  the  soul's 
joy  when  delivered  from  the  sins  and  sorrows  of  earth. 
It  is  a  literal  rendering  of  that  passage  in  the  Psalms: 
"  My  soul  is  escaped  as  a  bird  out  of  the  snare  of  the 
fowler.  The  snare  is  broken,  and  we  are  delivered." — 
P.  54,  note. 

E.  H.  A. 

MARGINAL  NOTES.  — 

"  Contra  vim  mortis  non  est  medicamen  in  hortis." 

"  Cur  mundus  militat  sub  vana  gloria, 
Cujus  prosperitas  est  transitoria  ?  " 

"  Vulpes  vult  fraudem,  lupus  agnum,  fcemina  laudem." 
"  Divitibus  est  raro  sanctificata  caro." 

"  Si  nocturna  tibi  noceat  potatio  vini, 
Hoc  tu  mane  bibas  iterum  et  fuerit  medicina." 

"  Strangulat  in  mensis  plures  gula  quam  ensis." 

"  Mentiri  ventri  nullus  valet  esurienti." 
"  Sunt  tria  mala  domus,  imber,  mala  fcemina,  fumus." 

A.  E.  L. 

OBSERVANCE  OF  CHRISTMAS  DAY  UNDER  THE 
COMMONWEALTH. — In  the  Diary  and  Correspond- 
ence of  John  Evelyn,  under  date  of  the  25th 
December,  1652,  the  learned  diarist  writes  :  — 

"Christmas  Day,  no  sermon  anywhere,  no  church 
being  permitted  to  be  open,  so  observed  it  at  home." 

Under  the  same  date  in  1653,  he  renews  this 
statement. 

It  would  seem,  however,  that  notwithstanding 
the  efforts  of  the  Puritan  leaders  to  strike  out 
Christmas  Day  from  the  Christian  Calendar,  that 
they  succeeded  but  badly,  for  we  find  the  fol- 
lowing debate  taking  place  on  the  25th  December, 
1656,  in  Cromwell's  Parliament :  — 

"  Col.  Matthews :  <  The  House  is  thin,  much,  I  believe, 
occasioned  by  observation  of  this  day.  I  have  a  short 
Bill  to  prevent  the  superstition  for  the  future.  I  desire  it 
to  be  read.' — Mr.  Robinson :  '  I  could  get  no  rest  all  night 
for  the  preparation  of  this  foolish  day's  solemnity.  This 
renders  us  in  the  eyes  of  the  people  to  be  profane.  We 
are,  I  doubt,  returning  to  Popery.'  — Major-General 
Packer,  with  others,  thought  the  Bill  « well-timed.'  — 
•  You  see  how  the  people  keep  '.up  these  superstitions  to 
your  face,  stricter  in  many  places  than  they  do  the  Lord's 
day.  One  may  pass  from  the  Tower  to  Westminster, 
and  not  a  shop  open  nor  a  creature  stirring.' "  —Burton's 
Diary. 

D.  M.  STEVENS. 
Guildford. 

PRIMARY  COLOURS. — In  the  Photographic  News 
of  August  2,  1861,  there  is  an  article  on  a  lecture 


on  primary  colours,  delivered  by  Professor  Max- 
well, at  the  Royal  Institution,  in  which  the  writer 
describes,  amongst  other  experiments,  that,  by 
which  the  professor  showed  that  green  must  be  a 
primary  colour,  because,  when  the  colours  blue, 
red,  and  green  were  thrown,  by  magic  lanterns, 
into  combination,  the  union  of  red  and  green 
produced  yellow.  Now  it  occurs  to  me,  that  this 
very  experiment  sugges.ts  quite  a  contrary  opinion. 
The  professor  seems  to  have  taken  it  for  granted 
that  red,  in  this  experiment,  was  a  productive, 
instead  of  an  eliminating  agent. 

Red,  in  the  present  instance,  rejected  a  com- 
bination with  a  pseudo- primary,  like  green,  and 
claimed  its  yellow  component,  while  the  blue 
component  part  of  the  same  colour  (green),  being 
absorbed  by  the  blue  of  the  new  primaries,  the 
true  primary  triad  of  red-blue-yellow  was  re- 
stored, and  its  integrity  vindicated. 

Yellow  was  thus  shown  not  to  have  been  the 
product  of  red  and  green,  but  one  of  the  primary 
component  parts  of  green,  set  free  by  red,  which 
claimed  a  relationship  to  it  as  one  of  the  three 
primaries,  and  rejected  an  alliance  with  the  new- 
colour,  green.  SPAL. 

THE  CAMEL  AN  HIEROGLYPHIC.  —  In  a  lately 
published  report  of  the  Proceedings  of  the  Syro- 
Egyptian  Society  it  is  said,  that  the  camel  is 
nowhere  represented  in  any  of  the  hieroglyphic 
writings,  pictures,  or  sculptures,  that  have  come 
down  to  our  time ;  and  the  same  statement  is  to 
be  found  in  many  books  on  the  History  and  Anti- 
quities of  Egypt.  This  is  an  error.  The  camel  is 
hieroglyphically  represented  on  the  pylon  of  the 
Temple  of  Edfou,  a  few  feet  west  of  the  gateway, 
and  almost  on  a  level  with  the  eye. 

This  Temple  is  of  recent  date  (the  reign  of 
Ptolemy  Philometer) ;  and  as  the  animal  has 
hitherto  escaped  observation  here,  it  may  perhaps 
be  found  sculptured  on  buildings  of  an  earlier 
period.  C.  J.  P. 


KENNEDY  FAMILY. 

Who  were  the  Kennedies  of  Hallaiths,  men- 
tioned frequently  in  Scotch  Inquisitiones  of  the 
Seventeenth  Century  ?  Hallaiths,  formerly  in  the 
possession  of  this  family,  is  in  the  neighbourhood 
of  Dumfries.  Any  particulars  concerning  them 
are  requested. 

What  is  known  of  "  Herbert,  or  Halbert  Ken- 
nedy," who  was  Professor  of  Moral  Philosophy  at 
Aberdeen  or  Edinburgh  in  the  latter  half  of  the 
seventeenth  century  ? 

Sir  B.  Burke,  in  his  Peerage,  under  the  Ailsa 
family,  says  that  Sir  Thomas  K.  of  Cullean 
(Culrean  ?)  temp.  James  VI.,  had  three  sons,  of 
whom  the  youngest,  Sir  Alex.  K.  of  Cullean, 


"»  S.  I.  MAR.  29,  '62.  ] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


247 


eventually  carried  on  the  line  of  the  family.  "No 
mention  is  made  of  the  two  elder  sons  by  name, 
nor  indeed  is  it  said  whether  they  ever  married, 
or  what  became  of  them.  I  want  to  find  out 
their  names ;  what  became  of  them ;  and  if  they 
were  really  the  elder  sons. 

Sir  B.  Burke,  in  another  place,  speaks  of 
"Alexander  K.  of  Craigoch  and  Kilhenzie," 
and  says  that  he  was  father  of  "  Alex.  K.,"  whose 
son  "  Archibald "  succeeded  as  eleventh  Earl  of 
Cassilis  ;  but  no  mention  is  made  of  "  Kilhenzie V 
daughter,  Marion  Kennedy  *,  who  was  married 
to  John  Shaw,  of  Sornbeg,  and  has  descendants 
still  living.  Whence  this  omission  ? 

Sir  Archibald  Kennedy,  first  Bart,  (of  Nova 
Scotia),  1682,  was  succeeded  by  his  son  Sir  John 
Kennedy,  second  Bart.,  who  had  "  no  less  than 
twenty  children  by  his  wife  Jane  Douglas  of 
Mains  "  (vide  Burke).  I  have  been  much  puzzled 
to  know  what  became  of  these  twenty  children. 
Burke  only  mentions  three  brothers  ;  of  the  other 
seventeen  children  he  says  nothing:  1.  Sir  John, 
who  succeeded  as  third  Bart. ;  2.  His  brother, 
Sir  Thomas,  who  succeeded  as  fourth  Bart.,  and 
afterwards  came  into  the  title  of  the  ninth  Earl  of 
Cassilis ;  3.  David,  who  succeeded  his  brother  as 
tenth  Earl,  "  at  whose  decease,  in  1792,  without 
issue,  this  branch  became  extinct"  and  the  honours 
devolved  upon  Archibald,  the  grandson  of  Alex. 
Kennedy,  of  Kilhenzie,  who  succeeded  as  eleventh 
Earl  of  Cassilis.  What  !  out  of  twenty  children 
was  no  descendant  left  in  the  next  generation  ? 
Is  this  a  proveable  fact  ?  Where  can  I  see  a  re- 
port of  the  proceedings  in  the  House  of  Lords, 
27  Jan.  1762,  when  the  earldom  was  confirmed  to 
Sir  Thomas  Kennedy,  fourth  Bart,  of  Cullean  ? 

And  can  any  of  your  readers  inform  me  if  any, 
and  what,  proofs  were  brought  forward  by  Archi- 
bald Kennedy,  who  succeeded  as  eleventh  Earl, 
to  establish  his  claim  to  the  earldom  ?  Was  it 
proved  that  there  then  existed  no  better  right 
than  his  own  ?  CHESSBOROUGH  HARBEBTON. 

Totnes,  Devon. 


ORIENTATION. 

The  annexed  extracts  have  an  important  bear- 
ing on  the  interesting  subject  of  orientation  :  — 

"  Vitruvius,  lib.  iv.  cap.  5.  ita  de  sacrarum  tedium  situ 
sive  positu  scribit,  «  ^Edes  sacrse  Deorutn  immortalium 
sic  erunt  constituendse,  ut  si  nulla  ratio  impedierit,  libera- 
que  potestas  fuerit,  aedis  signum  quod  erit  in  cella  collo- 
catum  spectet  ad  vespertinam  coeli  regionem,  uti  qui 
adierint  ad  aram  immolantes  aut  sacrificia  facientes  spec- 
tent  ad  partem  cceli  orientis  et  simulacrum  quod  erit  in 
cede,  et  ita  vota  suscipientes  contueantur  aedem  et  orien» 

*  Marion  Kennedy,  daughter  of  "Kilhenzie,"  was 
great-great-great-grand-aunt  to  the  present  Marquis  of 
Ailsa,  and  therefore  her  great-great-great-grandson,  now 
living,  ia  his  Lordship's  fifth  cousin. 


tern  coeli,  ipsaque  simulacra  videantur  exorientia '  (vide- 
tur  omnino  legendum  « ex  oriente ')  «  contueri  Bupplicantes 
et  sacrificantes,  quod  aras  omnes  Deorum  necesse  ease 
V!deantur  ad  orientem  spectare.'  Contraria  ratio  ia 
Templo  Dei  fuit  observata,  porta  enim  ejus  obversa  fuit 
.orienti,  et  portae  illi  opposita  fuit  ara,  ita  ut  qui  ad  aram 
sacnficabant  vel  supplicabant  aedem  contuentes  ad  occi- 
dentalem  coeli  obverterentur  eamque  spectent 
Pontificii  et  qui  prirai  Christianorum  aides  sacras  "ita 
constituerunt  ut  et  populus  orans  et  qui  ad  aras  sacra 
peragit  sacerdos  obvertatur  ad  orientem  cceli  regionem, 
videntur  consul  to  contrarie  Judaeorum  consuetudini  qui  ad 
occidentem  conversi  adorabant,  sed  sic  imprudentes  Eth- 
nicorum  mori  sese  conformarunt." —  Villafpandi  et  Capetti 
Templi  Hieros.  Delineatio,  p.  29,  prefixed  to  vol.  i.  of  Bp. 
Walton's  Polyglott,  London,  1656. 

"  There  were,  however,  some  circumstances  not  under 
the  control  of  the  Christians,  which  produced  other  modi- 
fications in  the  forms  and  details  of  churches ;  such  in- 
deed as  would  overthrow  all  our  reasoning,  if  it  were 
fair  to  bring  them  into  question  at  all. .  .  Of  the  circum- 
stances to  which  I  allude,  the  most  frequent,  and  in  ita 
effects  on  church  architecture,  the  most  lamentable,  was 
the  conversion  of  heathen  temples  into  churches  .... 
To  this  cause  we  may  trace  some  of  the  anomalies  in  the 
churches  of  Rome;  as,  for  instance,  that  being  built 
originally  for  a  worship  which  did  not  respect  the  east 
as  the  point  towards  which  we  should  pray,  the  temples, 
and  consequently  the  churches  into  which  they  were  con- 
verted, are  not  arranged  in  a  distinctively  Christian 
manner  in  this  respect;  a  fault  which  is  very  common 
in  the  modern  Romish  places  of  worship  in  this  king- 
dom."— Churches ;  their  Structure,  £c.,  by  Rev.  G.  A. 
Poole.  London,  1850,  p.  24. 

The  remarkable  discrepancy  between  the  above 
statements  need  not  be  pointed  out.  Allow  me, 
therefore,  to  ask  merely,  — 

1.  Do  the  existing  remains  of  Greek  and1  Ro- 
man temples  indicate  that  this   orientation   was 
usually  observed  ? 

2.  Which  of  the  churches  at  Rome  illustrate 
Mr.  Poole's  remarks  on  the  conversion  of  temples 
into  churches  ? 

3.  What  rule  appears  to  have  been  observed  in 
the  churches  and  chapels  built  in  modern  times 
by  Romanists  ?  QUID  AM. 


A  BABYLONIAN  PRINCESS.  —  In  1844  was  pub- 
lished in  London,  by  Henry  Colburn,  Memoirs  of 
a  Babylonian  Princess,  written  by  Herself.  Maria 
Theresa  Asmar,  the  daughter  of  a  Christian  Emir, 
who  had  large  possessions  at  Bagdad,  Nineveh, 
and  Babylon.  Can  anyone  give  me  an  account  of 
her  subsequent  career?  She  appears  to  have 
travelled  all  the  East,  and  all  Europe ;  and  at  the 
date  stated,  was  about  thirty-six  years  of  age.* 

S.  REDMOND. 


[*  In  the  following  year  Hatchard  &  Son  published 
another  work  by  this  Princess,  who  was  then  residing  at 
No.  21,  King  Street,  Portman  Square,  namely,  Prophecy 
and  Lamentation  ;  or,  a  Voice  from  the  East.  An  Appeal 
to  the  Women  of  England,  on  the  Regeneration  of  the 
East,  &c.  Dedicated,  by  special  permission,  to  Her 
Majesty,  8vo.  1845.  With  a  portrait  of  the  Princess.— 
ED.] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'*  S.  I.  MAE.  29,  '62. 


CLINICAL  LECTURES  :  KING  or  SPAIN.  —  A 
Treatise  on  Fractures  and  Gun- shot  Wounds,  by 
W.  Clancey,  M.D.,  London,  1768,  contains  what 
was  then  known  and  practised,  set  forth  in  a  plain 
and  unassuming  style.  The  short  Preface  rather 
affects  learning,  and  gives  no  references.  In  it 
we  are  told  that  "  clinical  lectures  are  at  least  as 
old  as  Vespasian."  And  those  who  seek  out-of- 
the-way  remedies,  are  compared  to  the  King  of 
Spain,  who  lost  land  by  looking  too  much  at  the 
sky.  Which  King  ?  And  what  clinical  lecturer  ? 

M.  K.  C.  S. 

CONGERS  AND  MACKEREL.  —  In  the  Year  Book, 
Trin.  18.  Edw.  II.  p.  619,  there  is  reported  a  case 
of  Quo  Warranto  brought  against  an  abbot  who 
was  lord  of  part  of  an  island,  to  ascertain  on  what 
ground  he  claimed  to  have  for  every  thousand  of 
mackerel  I8d.  from  his  franc-tenants  who  fished 
on  the  sea.  The  abbot  pleaded  that  from  time 
beyond  the  memory  of  man,  down  to  the  reign  of 
King  Henry  III.  he  and  bis  predecessors  had  been 
entitled  to  have  I8d.  for  every  hundred  of  congers 
taken  within  the  franchise,  rendering  to  the  king 
so  much  a  year  for  the  fishery';  and  that  in  the 
time  of  the  same  king,  there  was  in  those  parts  a 
failure  of  congers,  and  an  abundance  of  mackerel, 
by  reason  whereof  the  king  ordained  throughout 
tins  lordship  that  they  might  fish  mackerel,  re- 
berving  to  himself,  &c.  The  defence,  in  effect, 
amounted  to  this,  that  the  king  having  within  his 
own  lordships  changed  the  franchise  from  congers 
to  mackerel,  the  abbot  had  done  the  like.  The 
case  appears  to  have  gone  off  upon  a  point  of  law; 
but  what  1  wish  to  draw  attention  to  is  the 
point  of  natural  history,  that  at  some  time  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  III.  the  fishery  of  congers  failed 
in  the  waters  round  a  certain  island  (not  named), 
and  was  replaced  by  an  abundance  of  mackerel. 
Can  any  further  information  be  given  upon  this 
Poi"t  ?  XAVIER. 

DUNWELL  AND  TftiLLET.  —  I  have  a  miniature 
in  oils,  which  appears  from  papers  found  in  the 
case  with  it,  to  be  the  portrait  of  Joseph  Dun- 
well,  Esq. ;  and  to  have  been  painted  by  P.  Trillet 
in  the  year  1759,  or  1760.  I  should  be  obliged 
by  any  information  respecting  the  subject,  or  the 
artist.  Nm  B 

EASTER  AND  WHITSUNTIDE  VIANDS.  —  Baked 
custard  is  eaten  at  Easter  in  Norfolk,  and  cheese- 
cakes at  Whitsuntide.  Is  the  custom  known  in 
other  counties,  and  what  is  its  origin?  CUBER. 

EMBALMING  THE  DEAD.— Is  this  still  practised 
professionally,  except  occasionally  in  royal  obse- 
quies, and  by  whom?  By  surgeons  or  under- 
takers? In  the  year  1684,  it  was  certainly  a 
department  of  the  latter  trade ;  witness  the  follow- 
ing advertisement  taken  from  the  London  Gazette 
of  Aug.  1 8,  of  that  year  :  — 


"  William  Russel,  coffin-maker,  who  hath  the  art  of 

K  reserving  dead  bodies  without  embowelling,  sear-cloth- 
ig,  cutting,  or  mangling  any  part  thereof,  and  hath 
used  it  to  the  great  satisfaction  of  those  honourable  per- 
sons by  whom  he  hath  been  employed,  lives  at  the  sign 
of  the  Tour  Coffins  in  Fleet  Street.  "Coffins  ready-made, 
and  the  body  preserved  for  five  pounds." 

ABRACADABRA. 

FAMILY  REGISTERS. — Will  any  reader  of  "N". 
&  Q."  inform  me  the  best  manner  of  forming 
family  registers  for  births,  marriages,  and  deaths, 
and  tell  me  where  I  can  obtain  books  best  suited 
for  the  purpose  ?  JAMES  KEY. 

Balham,  Surrey. 

FOUNDATION  STONES  OF  CHURCHES.  —  A  query 
was  inserted  in  "  N.  &  Q."  (1st  S.  v.  585),  which 
has  never  elicited  a  satisfactory  reply.  The  querist 
(MR.  ALLCROFT)  is  unknown  to  me,  but  he  and 
the  Editor  will  probably  permit  me  to  repeat  the 
question,  in  the  hope  of  a  more  favourable  result. 
"  When  did  the  laying  of  foundation  stones  first 
become  a  ceremony  ?  What  old  foundation  stones 
have  been  restored  to  light,  showing  (whether  by 
inscriptions  or  coins)  the  date  of  laying  and  the 
accessories  used,  such  as  oil,  corn,  wine,  &c.  ? " 
To  this  query  I  would  add  the  following  on  my 
own  behalf:  Where  was,  in  Saxon  or  Roman 
times,  the  usual  position  of  the  foundation  stone, 
at  the  east  or  west  end  of  the  church  ?  An  early 
reply  to  these  questions  from  some  competent 
authority  would  aid  me  considerably  in  a  present 
difficulty,  and  no  doubt  be  acceptable  information 
to  many  other  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q." 

T.  HUGHES. 

Chester. 

"  GUSTAVIDES  ;  "  BEN  JONSON.  —  In^n  account 
of  Columbia  College  Library  (New  York,  1861), 
I  find  at  the  close  the  following  remark :  — 

"  But  the  greatest  curiosity  of  the  kind  we  have  kept 
for  the  last :  it  is  the  signature  of  '  Benj.  Jonsonij,'  in 
a  remarkably  rare  book,  of  which  no  scholar  or  book, 
bibliographical  or  historical,  can  thus  far  give  us  any 
inkling.  It  is  an  heroic  Latin  poem,  Gustavides,  an  eulo- 
gium  in  verse  on  the  Acts  and  Character  of  the  Lion  of 
the  North,  by  Clemens  We'nceslaus,  printed  at  Leyden, 
1631,  —  the  year  of  the  battle  of  Lutzen,  in  which  Gus- 
tavus  fell.  Can  this  old  vellum-bound  curiosity  of  liter- 
ature have  been  owned  by  '  Rare  Ben,|  or  by  some 
ordinary  Benjamin?  No  competent  judge  to  whom  we 
have  shown  it  doubts  the  genuineness  of  the  autograph 
as  that  of  the  great  dramatist." 

Can  any  of  your  readers  give  me  an  account  of 
this  book,  and  answer  the  query  of  the  writer  ? 

J.  C.  LINDSAY. 
St.  Paul,  Minnesota. 

BlSHOP  HORNE   AND  THE  GREAT  MASTERS. In 

Lectures  on  the  Gospel  of  St.  Matthew,  by  Bishop 
Home,  the  prelate  remarks  that  he  "  cannot  learn 
that  any  great  master  has  ever  yet  selected  the 
incident  of  our  Lord's  turning  and  looking  upon 
Peter  as  the  subject  of  a  picture  .  .  .  What  effect 


3'd  S.  I.  MAR.  29,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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that  look  must  have  had  on  the  heart  and  th 
countenance  of  Peter,  every  one  may  perhaps  i 
some  degree  conceive ;  but  it  is  utterly  impossibl 
for  any  words  to  describe,  or,  I  believe,  even  fo 
the  pencil  of  a  Guido  to  express." 

Is  the  Bishop  correct  in  thinking  that  the  in 
cident  alluded  to  has  never  been  selected  by  an 
great  master  ?  J.  MACHAY 

"  THE  HISTORY  or  THE  KINGS  OF  SCOTLAND. 
—There  now  lies  open  before  me  a  4to.  volum 
of  ^about  200  pages,  "  by  an  Impartial  I  Hand, 
entitled  The  History  of  the  Lives  and  Reigns  of 
the   Kings   of  Scotland,    &c.,    and    published    in 
Dublin  in  the   year  1722.     Can  you  oblige  me 
•  with  the  author's  name  ?   An  Account  of  the  Re 
lellion  in  Scotland  in  the  Year  1715,  and  A  De 
scription  of  the  Kingdom  of  Scotland,  and  the  Isles 
thereunto  belonging,  have  been  appended. 

.  ABHBA 

HISTORICAL  ALLUSION.  —  A  writer  in  a  weekly 
periodical,  speaking  of  the  advantages  to  mankinc 
in  general  from  sceptics  (in  the  true  sense  of  the 
word),  says :  — 

"  To  whom  do  we  owe  it  that  our  young  men  are  not 
now  called  upon  to  declare  that  it  is  false  and  impious  to 
say  that  a  woman  may  contend  against  a  king  ?  " 

This  I  apprehend  must  refer  to  some  enactmenl 
in  the  reign  of  King  Henry  VIII.,  but  I  cannot 
find  anyone  who  can  inform  me  about  it.  Can 
any  of  your  readers  assist  me  ?  E.  D.  H. 

JAQUELINE  OF  HAINAULT  (2nfl  S.  xi.  218.)  — 
Would  MR.  H.  D'AVENEY  have  the  kindness  to 
inform  me  whether  I  gather  correctly  from  his 
remarks,  that  there  are  memoirs  or  biographical 
notices  of  Jaqueline  to  be  found  in  Dutch  ?  And 
if  this  be  the  case,  could  he  kindly  tell  me  their 
titles,  or  where  I  could  procure  them  ?  I  am 
engaged  in  compiling  a  series  of  royal  biogra- 
phies ;  and  as  Jaqueline  enters  my  series  under 
the  title  derived  from  one  of  her  marriages,  I  am 
anxious  to  throw  as  much  light  as  possible  on  her 
mysterious  career ;  but  as  Dutch  is  a  tongue  of 
which  I  am  totally  ignorant,  I  must  rely  on  the 
kindness  of  some  one  better  informed  than  myself 
to  tell  me  whether  that  language  affords  any 
works  suited  to  my  purpose.  HERMENTRUDE. 

MAPLETOFT. —  The  Rev.  Edmund  Mapletoft, 
Rector  of  Burton,  married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
William  Kilborne,  Esq.,  of  Louth,  Nov.  S,  1687. 
Had  they  any  issue  ?  P.  R. 

LAURENCE  MARSH  occurs,  in  the  books  of  Mer- 
chant Taylors'  School,  as  born  Aug.  6, 1620.  Was 
he  afterwards  M.P.  for  Surrey  ?  C  J.  R. 

A  PREDICTION.  —  In  some  of  your  late  num- 
bers various  prophecies  have  been  recorded.  I 
now  forward  one  extracted  from  the  margin  of  a 
manuscript  of  St.  Austin's  works,  written  on  vel- 
lum ;  the  ownership  of  which  has  been  traced  to 


Thomas  Jameson,  or  Seddon,  of  Ashton  in  Makes- 
field,  a  seminary  priest,  who  left  Douav  for 
land,  22nd  April,  1697 :  — 

"  Patere  et  abstine. 
THOMAS   JAMUSON, 

1695. 

"  Hie  liber  fuit  in  primis  Richardi  Hampole,  deinde 
per  multas  manus  deve'nit  ad   Georgium  Hodgson  oui 
eundem  dono  dedit  Thomas  May  et  prajdictus  Dominus 
May  amicus  meus  non  rulgaris  dedit  Thomas  Jameson. 
"  When  time  shall  come  that  M  and  D 

With  its  own  rift  shall  joyned  be, 

And  followed  by  an  X  and  C, 

Then  Brittain  shall  tremble  at  the  blue  Lilly  • 

For  the  rejected  stone  (to  men 

Anathema)  is  placed  again. 

The  beauteous  fabrick's  ornament, 

To  be  deserter's  punishment. 

A  wood  from  Caledonian  Isle 

Shall  fleet  twixt  Mulliu  fort  and  Pile; 

From  whence  a  Lyon  issues  forth, 

Assisted  by  his  friends  i'  th'  North, 

Whose  terrifying  roar  shall  sound 

From  point  to  point  of  Brittish  ground. 

Before  his  face  God's  Angel  goes, 

To  guard  him  from  all  harme  of  blowes, 

And  crush  his  proud  rebellions  foes ; 

Till  Tyger,  Wolf,  and  Ape  are  slaine, 

And  never  trouble  more  his  reigne ; 

Then  peace  and  truth  shall  rise  againe." 

It  is  not  possible  to  say  by  which,  if  by  any  of 
the  previous  owners  of  the  book,  this  prophecy 
was  recorded ;  it  is  certainly  by  an  older  hand 
than  Mr.  Jameson's.  The  date  of  fulfilment, 
though  distant  when  the  prophecy  was  made,  is 
now  within  the  compass  of  the  present  generation. 
The  year  1890  will  test  its  accuracy.  Can  any  of 
your  readers  state  any  particulars  of  Thomas 
Jameson,  Richard  Hampole,  George  Hodgson,  or 
Thomas  May,  the  whilom  owners  of  this  venerable 
volume  ?  A.  E.  L. 

QUOTATIONS  WANTED.  — The  motto  to  one  of 
Turner's  pictures  is  "  The  bridal  of  the  earth  and 
ky."  Can  you  tell  me  whence  he  obtained  this 
ine  ?  In  the  collection  of  old  songs  lately  pub- 
ished  by  Messrs.  Chappell,  I  find  one  stated  to 
lave  been  popular  before  1652,  which  contains 
•he  following  verse :  — 

"  Sweet  day,  so  cool,  so  calm,  so  bright, 

The  bridal  of  the  earth  and  sky, 
The  dew  shall  weep  thy  fall  to  night, 
For  thou  with  all  thy  sweets  must  die."* 

Does  the  expression  occur  nowhere  else  ?     Qu. 
The  author  ?  LIONEL  J.  ROBINSON. 

"  Cosi  colui  del  colpo  non  accorto, 

Andava  combattendo  ed  era  morto." 
These  lines  are  generally  ascribed  to  Ariosto. 
think  he  is  not  the  author.     Who  is  ?     And  if 
n  Ariosto,  where  ?  M.  E. 


[*  As  stated  by  Mr.  Cbappell,  this  song  is  an  altera- 
on  of  the  celebrated  poem  by  George  Herbert,  entitled 
Sunday,"  and  is  quoted  from  Universal  Harmony,  1746. 
— ED.] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  MAR.  29,  '62. 


"The  lark  hath  got  a  most  fantastic  pipe, 
With  no  more  music  than  a  snipe, 

Whereas  the  cuckoo's  note 
Is  measured  and  composed  by  roto : 
Its  method  is  distinct  and,  clear, 
And  dwells 
Like  bells 
Upon  the  ear, 
Which  is  the  sweetest  music  one  can  hear." 

MORTIMER  COLLINS. 

"  It  was  a  night  of  lovely  June, 
High  rode  in  cloudless  "blue  the  moon  — 
Demayet  smiled  beneath  her  ray,"  &c. 

"  Et  qualem  infelix  amisit  Mantua  campum, 
Pascentem  niveos  herboso  flumine  cygnos." 

13.  B.  W. 

The  lines  inquired  for  by  C.  J.  W.  are  by  Dod- 
dridge.  In  a  little  collection  of  100  hymns  pub- 
lished by  the  Rev.  J.  C.  Ryle  under  the  name  of 
Spiritual  Songs,  the  last  stanza  of  Hymn  39  stands 
as  follows  :  — 

"Then  let  the  wheels  of  nature  roll 

Yet  onward  to  decay; 
We  long  to  hail  the  rising  sun, 
That  brings  th'  eternal  day." 

The  same  hymn  appears  in  other  collections 
under  a  very  different  form ;  for  instance,  in  a 
hymn-book  now  before  me,  the  above-quoted 
stanza  reads  thus  :  — 

"Ye  wheels  of  nature,  speed  your  course, 

Ye  mortal  powers  decay; 
Fast  as  ye  bring  the  night  of  death, 
Ye  bring  eternal  day." 

Can  any  of  your  correspondents  say  who  is 
responsible  for  the  alteration  ?  LIBYA. 

ROSCOE. — I  saw,  some  years  ago,  a  bas-relief 
circular  plaster  cast,  between  eight  and  nine 
inches  in  diameter,  of  the  head  of  the  historian. 
I  shall  be  obliged  to  anybody  who  can  tell  me 
whether  it  is  now  in  existence  ;  and,  if  it,  is, 
how  a  sight  of  it  may  be  obtained.  S.  R.  M. 

SERMON  ON  CHARLES  I.  — I  have  lying  before 
me  a  12mo  sermon,  with  the  following  title- 
page  :  — 

"  A  Sermon  Preach'd  on  the  Anniversary-Fast  for  the 
Martyrdom  of  King  Charles  I.  At  Court.  In  the  last 
Century. 

"  Bene  Agere  &  male  Pati  Regium  est. 
"  Judges  xix.  30. 

"  London  :  Printed  by  H.  Hills,  in  Black-fryars,  near 
the  Water-side,  for  the  Benefit  of  the  Poor,  1709." 

Is  the  author  known  ?  From  the  style,  I  should 
conjecture  that  it  was  composed  not  very  long 
before  the  date  of  publication.  S.  CL 

"  SUN  AND  WHALEBONE."  —  Can  any  explana- 
tion be  given  of^the  origin  of  the  sign,  "The  Sun 
and  Whalebone,"  which  is  attached  to  an  inn  in 

L.  A.  M. 

RICHARD  AND  HENRY  SWINGLEHURST.  —  The 


former,  born  in  1598,  is  believed  to  have  been 
connected  with  the  first  East  India  Company. 
Particulars  desired.  C.  J.  R. 

STEPHENSON.— The  Rev.  A.  Stephenson,  A.M., 
Rector  of  Foulmire,  married  Mary,  2nd  daughter 
of  the  above-named  William  Kilborne.  Are  there 
any  descendants  of  this  marriage  now  living  ? 

P.  R. 

SLIPSLOP.  —  Has  Slipslop  any  earlier  existence 
than  Fielding's  Mrs.  Slipslop?  Johnson's  Dic- 
tionary describes  slip  slop  as  meaning  bad  liquor. 

W.II. 

TITLE  PAGES.  —  I  should  like  to  obtain  the 
title-pages,  &c.,  of  the  two  following  books  :  — 

1.  Octavo,  pp.  434.    Running  title,  Devotions  of 
the  Roman   Church.     Imprimatur,    Sam.   Parker, 
June  1,  1673.     Lettered,  on  the  original  binding, 
"  Reflections  on  the  Church  of  Rome." 

2.  Octavo,   pp.  140.     Fables  (16),   illustrated 
with  sixteen  well  engraved  plates.   S.  Wale,  delin.; 
T.  Simpson,  sculpt.      Bound  elegantly  by  some 
former  owner.  E.  D. 

THACKWELL  FAMILY.  —  What  is  the  origin  of 
the  surname  "  Thackwell,"  and  when  does  it  first 
appear  in  history,  official  documents,  printed 
papers,  &c.  ?  Is  there  any  name  similar  to  it  in 
Domesday  Book  ?  I  believe  "  Thackwell  "  is  a 
Saxon  name.  Lower,  in  his  Patronyndca  Britan- 
nica,  asserts  that  it  is  a  corruption  or  abbreviation 
of  the  words  "  at  the  oak  well ;  "  and  that  the 
family  which  first  bore  this  surname  lived  at  a 
house  near  a  well,  shaded  by  a  large  oak  ;  or 
owned  an  estate  in  which  there  was  such  a  shaded 
well.  Burke  says  that  it  was  formerly  written 
"  Thekell,  Tekell,  Tickell,"  &c.  A  family  named 
" Thackwell"  have  resided  in  Worcestershire,  or 
have  been  connected  with  that  county,  since  the 
beginning  of  the  sixteenth  century.  The  "Rye" 
estate  in  the  parish  of  Berrow,  Worcestershire,  has 
belonged  to  the  Thackwells  from  a  very  early 
date.  A  SUBSCRIBER. 

UNIVERSAL  SOCIETY.  —  I  possess  half  a  dozen 
blank  certificates  of  membership  for  a  Universal 
Society,  and  of  which  the  following  is  a  copy  :  — 

«  NO  3GO.  Class  4th. 

"UNIVERSAL  SOCIETY. 

Abrm  Robarts,  Esq.,  Will"1  Curtis,  Esq.,  M.P.,  and  Aldn 
Ellis  Were,  Esq.,  Thos.  Hornyold,  Esq.,  JosPh  Berwick, 
Esq.  &  Co.,  Treasurers. 

"This  is  to  Certify  that is  duly  Admitted  a 

Member  of  the  Universal  Society,  this day  of 

179—,  and  has  Subscribed  on  the  Life  of 

Years  or  thereabouts  for Shares. 

«  Entd 

Agent 

".(Signed)  W.  HANCE,  Secretary." 

These  certificates  are  engraved  somewhat  in  the 
form  of  a  bank-note.  On  the  right  side  is  a  female 
figure  "with  a  cornucopia  and  anchor,  and  the 


S.  I.  MAR.  2D,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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motto  "Our  trust  is  in  God."  The  engraver's 
name  is  "  Kidgell,"  London. 

I  have  three  Nos.  of  Class  4th,  viz.  360,  361, 
362,  and  three  Nos.  of  Class  6th,  viz.  368,  371,  372. 
The  numbers  of  the  certificate  and  class  are  writ- 
ten. 

I  would  be  obliged  by  any  information  regard- 
ing this  "  Universal  Society,"  its  origin,  objects 
Rnd  meaning.  INQUISITOR. 


THE  FAKMERS- GENERAL.  — We  occasionally 
meet  with  engravings  which  are  said  to  be  "  from 
the  original  in  the  collection  of  the  Farmers- 
General,"  or  some  equivalent  expression.  I  pre- 
sume that  these  Farmers- General  were  those  of 
France  ;  but  why  had  they  a  collection  of  paint- 
ings ?  Where  was  it  deposited,  and  what  else 
can  now  be  learnt  about  it  ?  BAR-POINT. 

Philadelphia. 

[The  Fermiers-G6n6raux  were  rich  bankers  or  capi- 
talists, who,  before  the  Revolution  of  '93,  farmed  the 
State  revenues.  As  their  profits  were  great,  they  made 
enormous  fortunes.  The  style  of  living  of  these  princes 
of  finance  rivalled  that  of  the  princes  of  royal  blood. 
Their  hotels,  furniture,  works  of  art,  and  equipages  were 
of  the  most  luxurious  and  costly  description.  Previous 
to  the  establishment  in  France  of  an  administration  of  the 
Fine  Arts,  and  of  exhibitions  organised  by  the  govern- 
ment, there  were  private  exhibitions  to  which  the  public 
was  admitted.  The  Fermiers-Generaux,  who  were  known 
to  possess  the  finest  works  of  living  artists,  were  requested 
to  allow  them  to  figure  at  these  exhibitions.  These 
paintings  were  subsequently  engraved,  and  the  collection 
of  these  engravings  was  called  La  Collection  des  Fermiers- 
G€neraux.  There  is  a  very  fine  edition  of  La  Fontaine's 
Fables,  the  engravings  of  which  are  from  that  collec- 
tion.] 

POACHED.  —  What  is  the  derivation  of  this  word 
in  the  phrase.  "  poached-eggs  ?  "  V.  V.  R. 

["To  poach  eggs  "comes  to  us  immediately  from  the 
French  "  Pocher  des  oeufs."  "Pocher"  was  formerly 
"  paulcer  " ;  hence,  "  Paulcer  un  ceuf."  There  was  also 
the  phrase  "  F^ulcer  les  yeux  "  (to  punch  the  eyes),  which 
has  led  to  the  idea  that  "  Paulcer  "  meant  "pollice  eli- 
dere,"  or,  as  we  now  say,  to  gouge.  For  this  last  deriva- 
tion, however,  we  cannot  hold  ourselves  responsible.  Som'e 
have  supposed,  and,  we  think,  reasonably,  that  "To  poach 
eggs  "  is  literally  to  pocket  them,  from  the  Fr.  poche,  a 
pocket.  We  beg  leave  to  mention  in  explanation,  and  for 
the  special  benefit  of  such  of  our  readers  as  appreciate 
poached  eggs,  that  there  is  a  culinary  instrument  espe- 
cially designed  for  poaching.  It  consists  of  an  upright, 
to  which  are  annexed,  at  equal  distances,  a  series  of  small 
cups,  or  shallow  pockets,  into  each  of  which,  the  shell 
being  broken,  an  egg  is  turned  out  raw.  Boil  moderatel}', 
and  the  result  is  •«  poached  eggs."  See  "  N.  &  Q."  2nd  S. 
iv.  239.  Poached  eggs  were  formerly  "  Potched  eggs," 
or  "Poched  eggs."] 

LORD  STRAFFORD.  —  Is  there  any  evidence 
whatever  (except  Howell's  Letter,  book  i.  sect.  5, 
Letter  23,  dated  1  July,  1 629),  that  Stratford  was 
appointed  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland  before  1633  ? 


Beatson  gives  the  date  of  his  appointment,  25 
July,  1633.  Jesse  (Mem.  of  the  Court  under  the 
Stuarts,  vol.  ii.  128),  says  "in  February,  1633, 
he  was  nominated  Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland." 

H.  L.  T. 

[From  the  despatch  of  Secretary  Coke,  addressed  to 
Chancellor  Loftus  and  the  Karl  of  Cork,  Lords  Justices 
of  Ireland  (included  in  the  Strafforde  Correspondence,  i. 
63),  it  appears  that  Wentworth  was  appointed  Lord  De- 
puty of  that  country  on  or  about  the  12th  day  of  January, 
163J;  but  the  task  of  settling  his  northern  presidency, 
of  which  he  still  retained  the  government;  of  arranging 
his  private  affairs;  and,  above  all,  the  difficulty  of  reach- 
ing the  new  scene  of  his  labours,  delayed  his  arrival  in 
Dublin  till  the  last  week  of  July,  1633.  His  first  com- 
munication from  that  city,  which  is  addressed  to  tho 
Lord  Treasurer  in  London,  bears  date  the  3rd  of  August, 
in  the  last-mentioned  year.] 

DR.  NORTON.  —  Can  you  give  me  any  informa- 
tion about  Dr.  Norton,  who  was  appointed  preacher 
of  Gray's  Inn  in  the  room  of  Dr.  Robert  Moss, 
Dean  of  Ely,  in  1729,  May  13?  The  books  of 
Gray's  Inn  do  not  even  give  his  Christian  name. 
He  was  succeeded  by  the  elder  Dr.  Henry  Stebbing 
in  1731,  Nov.  2,  the  opponent  of  Hoadly,  and 
critic  of  Warburton.  He  seems  to  have  held  his 
office  only  a  short  time  ;  but  as  he  was  D.D.  at 
the  time  of  his  election,  and  came  between  two 
men  of  some  note,  I  cannot  suppose  he  was  quite 
undistinguished.  J.  A.  II. 

[William  Norton  was  educated  at  King's  College,  Cam- 
bridge, A.B.  1709;  A.M.  1713;  D.D.  1728.  He  was  not 
"  distinguished  "  for  his  literary  productions,  but  for  his 
laborious  parochial  duties,  for  he  was  not  only  preacher 
of  Gray's  Inn,  but  Rector  of  Walkern,  Herts,  Vicar  of  St. 
Nicholas,  Deptford,  and  Rector  of  St.  Paul,  iq  the  same 
•parish.  He  died  on  May  21,  1731.] 

SIMON  OF  SUDBURY. — 

"  I  have  seen  in  a  church  of  Sudbury,  in  Suffolk,  a  skull 
which  is  shown  to  strangers  for  the  skull  of  this  Bishop 
(Simon  of  Sudbury),  and  probably  it  is  the  true  one."— 
Bourne's  Antiquitates  Vulgares  (Newcastle,  1725),  p. 
179,n. 

Is  this  skull  still  one  of  the  "lions"  of  the 
place  ?  E.  H.  A. 

[Tom  Martin  of  Palgrave  has  also  the  following  jot- 
ting respecting  this  skull  in  his  Church  Notes,  ii.  95: 
"  Dec.  7,  1727,  I  saw  at  St.  Gregory's  church  in  Sudbury, 
the  head  of  Simon  of  Sudbury,  Archbishop  of  Canter- 
bury, who  was  beheaded  in  Wat  Tyler's  rebellion.  The 
under  jaw  is  lost,  and  all  the  teeth  are  plucked  out  of  the 
upper.  Great  part  of  the  skin  is  remaining  upon  it,  with 
part  of  the  ears,  nose,  and  muscles  in  the  nape  of  the 
neck,  which  are  like  a  sponge,  or  spongious  leather.  The 
sexton  often  puts  in  fictitious  teeth,  &c.,  which  are  soon 
pilfered,  or  sold  by  him."  Gough,  too,  has  a  notice  of 
it  in  his  Sepulchral  Monuments,  vol.  i.  part  i.  page 
Ixxv.  He  says,  "  Abp.  Sudbury's  head  is  shown  enclosed 
within  a  grate  at  St.  Gregory's  church,  Sudbury,  where 
that  prelate  and  his  brother  founded  a  college  on  the  site 
of  their  father's  house.  The  skin  and  the  ears  are  dried 
on,  and  the  jaw  is  fallen,  as  they  pretend  from  the  blows 
he  received  from  the  rebels  in  dying.  Godwyn  (edit. 
Richardson,  p.  120),  however,  affirms,  that  both  the  body 
and  head  were  carried  to  Canterbury,  »nd  there  buried  in 
the  cathedral."] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3*d  S.I.  MAR/ 29, '62. 


JAMES  HOWELL.  —  Can  any  antiquary  of  Rich- 
mond, Yorkshire,  give  me  the  exact  date  of  the 
election  of  James  Howell  as  M.P.  for  that  borough, 
in  1627  or  1628?  H.  L.  T. 

[Charles  I.  dissolved  the  parliament  on  the  15th  June, 
1626,  and  summoned  a  new  one  to  meet  on  the  17th 
March,  1627.  In  the  last  mentioned,  Howell,  who  was 
Secretary  to  Lord  Scrope  (afterwards  Earl  of  Sunder- 
land),  the  Lord  President  of  the  north,  was,  through  that 
patron's  interest,  elected  by  the  corporation  of  Richmond 
to  represent  them  ill  the  parliament  of  1G27.  —  See  Par- 
liamentary History.  ] 

A  PALATINE.  —  What  is  meant  by  "  a  Pala- 
tine"?    I  copy  the  following  from  the  Burial 
Register  of  a  parish  in  Kent :  — 
"  1736.  Margaret  Evreest,  a  Palatine." 
"  1745.  Andrew  Hesler,  a  Palatine,  aged  85." 

There  are  other  similar  entries.  L.  L. 

[A  Palatine  is  one  of  those  poor  Protestants,  7000  in 
number,  who  were  driven  by  the  French  from  their 
homes  on  the  banks  of  the  Rhine  at  the  commencement 
of  the  last  century.  On  their  arrival  in  England  they 
encamped  on  Blackheath  and  Camberwell  Common. 
A  brief  was  granted  to  collect  alms  for  them.  About 
500  families  settled  about  Limerick,  in  Ireland;  but  the 
majority  emigrated  to  Pennsylvania,  where  they  were 
kindly  treated  by  the  Friends.  For  notices  of  these  poor 
Palatines  consult  The  Annals  of  Queen  Anne,  1709,  8vo, 
pp.  166-168;  Cover's  Political  State  of  Great  Britain,  I 
133,  276-280;  and  «N.  &  Q."  1s*  S.  xi.  87,  172,  251.] 


DOMESDAY  BOOK:  COLIBERT. 
(3ld  S.  i.  187.) 

The  "firmji  mi  septimanarum "  at  Lanpiran 
means  a  corvee  performed  by  the  tenant  upon  the 
lord's  land  during  that  period,  being  the  substi- 
tute for  the  more  honourable  service  of  rent. 

The  cotsetla  of  the  Rectitudines  performed  simi- 
lar base  services.  "  On  sumon  he  sceal  a^lce  mon- 
daege  ofer  geares  fyrst  his  laforde  wyrcan,  ofrS  m 
dagas  aslcre  wucan  on  haBrfest,  ne  Searf  he  land- 
gnfol  syllan^"  ;  i.  e.  in  some  lands  he  is  obliged  to 
work  for  his  lord  every  Monday  throughout  the 
year,  or  three  days  every  week  in  August.  He 
is  not  bound  to  pay  rent. 

The  ancient  Latin  translation  of  the  Rectitudines 
gives  also  another  duration  of  an  English  corvee, 
which  more  nearly  agrees  with  that  which  is  re- 
corded in  Domesday:  "Apud  quosdam  operatur 
per  totura  Augustum  omni  die,"  &c.  The  coun- 
terpart of  this  passage  is  not  to  be  found  in  the 
-English  original. 

u  ^T111™180  refer  KERN°W  to  the  extracts  given 
by  Mr.  Thorpe  in  his  Glossary  to  the  Ancient  Laws 
and  Institutes  of  England,  sub  voce  «  ben-yeS  " 
HOT  further  information  Ducange  may  be  con- 
sulted for  colibert.  HOC 

KEBNOW  asks  "for  information  concerning  that 


class  of  villein  denominated  colibert.    Perhaps  the 
following  may  be  of  use  to  him. 

CoUberts  (coliberti)  were  tenants  in  socage,  and 
particularly  such  villeins  as  were  manumitted  or 
made  freemen  (Jacob,  Law .  Dictionary.)  The 
word  occurs  in  Domesday,  Somerset:  "Episcopus 
Winton,  tenet  Fantone,  ibi  quater  xx  villani,  et 
quater  xxii  bordarii,  et  Ixx  servi,  xvi  coliberti,  et 
xviii  porcarii";  and  under  Gloucestershire,  "Bric- 
tric,  films  Algari  tenebat  Turnebiri  T.  R.  E.  ibi 
xxiii  bordarii,  et  xv  servi,  et  xv  coliberti,  ibi  ii 
molendini,"  &c. 

They  were  a  middle  sort  of  tenants,  between 
servile  and  free,  or  such  as  held  their  freedom  of 
tenure  under  condition  of  such  works  and  services. 
They  were  sold,  given,  and  exchanged  like  serfs, 
instances  of  which  may  be  adduced  from  various 
sources. 

The  Cartulaire  de  VAbbaye  de  Saint- Pere  de 
Chartres,  published  by  the  French  government 
in  1840,  supplies  several  examples.  By  a  charter, 
dated  about  1080,  Earl  Tedbaldus  gives  to  the 
abbey  certain  coliberts,  whom  he  describes  as 
"  quosdam  servos  mei  juris,  natos  ex  servis  meis 
ancillisque  sancti  Petri  Carnotensis,  cum  uno 
servo  meo  libero." 

By  another  charter,  dated  about  1070,  other 
coliberts,  with  their  cousin,  and  his  wife  and  chil- 
dren were  granted  to  the  abbey.  About  the  same 
time  Hugo,  named  Brustans  Salicem,  gave  to  the 
abbey  a  coliberta,  together  with  a  fourth  part  of 
the  church  and  vill  of  Guiri,  and  other  pro- 
perty. 

Between  1089  and  1101,  Frederic  gives  to  the 
abbey  his  colibert  named  Robert,  and  his  sister 
Ereuiburg,  that  they  may  be  coliberts  of  the 
abbey. 

In  the  year  1061,  Hugo  grants  his  colibert, 
Letaldus,  with  his  wife,  his  brother,  and  their 
children,  on  condition  that  they  should  remain 
free  in  the  service  of  the  abbey. 

By  another  charter  (1013-1033),  a  colibert  of 
the  abbey,  named  Vivian,  and  his  wife,  who  had 
killed  a  serf,  were  given,  together  with  their  money, 
by  the  abbey  to  William,  a  knight,  the  serf's  lord, 
in  order  that  their  lives  might  be  spared ;  but 
their  sons  were  retained  to  the  use  of  the  abbey, 
while  those  who  should  be  born  afterwards,  would 
be  serfs,  and  belong  to  William. 

W.  H.  HART,  F.S.A. 
Folkestone  House,  Eoupell  Park,  Streatham. 


I  don't  know  whether  H.  C.  C.  intends  his 
specimens  of  Domesday  as  a  portion  of  another 
version  in  course  of  threatened  preparation,  but 
he  will  do  well  to  pause  over  some  of  his  sentences, 
and  some  of  his  variations  from  the  original,  be- 
fore he  finally  adopts  them.  He  has  done  good 
service  by  drawing  attention  to  the  slips  which 


3'*  S.I.  MAR,  29,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


253 


have  occurred  in  that  which  he  first  notices,  and  it 
is  well  that  considerable  caution  should  be  used  in 
the  matter.  Perhaps,  however,  all  specimens 
should  be  tenderly  dealt  with.  Certainly  one 
issued  as  regards  the  county  of  Hampshire  should 
not  b'e  roughly  touched;  and  yet  it  is  from  a  gen- 
tleman at  Winchester,  who  is  known  to  have 
"  done  "  a  great  deal  respecting  the  antiquities  of 
the  county.  The  anxiety  to  put  something  out, 
if  only  to  occupy  the  ground,  often  leads  to  care- 
lessness, and  it  is  also  easy  to  concentrate  criti- 
cism on  any  passage.  One  cannot  think  "  de  ii 
hidas  "  is  anything  but  a  slip  of  the  pen  or  press  ; 
so  also  may  be  the  other  literal  errors  which  are 
not  creditable. 

But  let  H.  C.  C.  look  to  his  substitution  of 
"  carucatae  "  for  u  carucsB  "  in  the  fourth  line  (be- 
fore he  is  so  shocked  at  the  blunders  of  some  peo- 
ple), and  say  why  he  makes  the  surveyors  talk 
such  arrant  nonsense  as  that  there  are  twenty-six 
plough-lands  in  one  part  of  the  manor,  and  there 
might  be  twelve  more.  Twelve  more  plough-lands 
than  actually  exist !  I  think  it  will  appear  to 
most  readers  that  such  a  specimen  of  extension  re- 
quires revision,  and  that  the  meaning  there  is  that 
there  might  be  twelve  more  ploughs.  So  also  in 
the  sentence  "  pratum  i  carucatce"  meadow  for 
one  plough-land.  A  glaring  anomaly,  and  of  course 
a  complete  perversion  of  the  meaning. 

Whether  it  is  advisible  to  substitute  the  v  for 
the  u  of  the  original,  and  capitals  for  smaller 
letters  are  matters  of  taste,  upon  which  there  will 
be  the  usual  amount  of  concord  ;  but  I  protest 
against  any  extension  which  introduces,  even  in 
brackets,  words  apparently  necessary  for  the  con- 
struction, but  not  in  the  original.  This  is  extend- 
ing indeed,  and  may  stop  only  where  the  author 
pleases.  However  proper  such  addition  may  be 
in  notes,  they  should  be  kept  out  of  the  text. 

T.W. 

In  the  Exeter  Domesday  Book  (see  Oliver, 
Monasticon  Dicecesis  Exoniensis,  p.  72,)  "  ii  inan- 
siones  "  are  substituted  for  "  ii  trse  "  :  "  que  .... 
reddebant  canonichis  S.  Pierani  firmam  quatuor 
septimanarum."  ..."  Iste  ii  mansiones  reddebant 
decano  pro  consuetudine  xx  solidos  preter  pre- 
dictam  firmam."  The  "firmam  quatuor  septi- 
manarum "  was  the  finding  a  provision  or  main- 
tenance for  four  weeks,  or  a  pecuniary  equivalent 
as  agreed  instead  of  it.  There  are  several  other 
examples  in  Domesday  Book  :  as  "  firraa,"  for  ten 
nights,  for  three  nights,  for  one  night,  for  one 
day,  and  even  for  half  a  night ;  and  in  some  cases 
the  nature  and  amount  of  the  maintenance  was 
specified  ;  so  when  a  pecuniary  equivalent  was 
settled,  it  was  in  fact  a  kind  of  rent.  Colibert, 
Co-libertus,  was  a  tenant  something  between  ser- 
vile and  free.  They  were  manumitted  or  enfran- 
chised ;  but  upon  the  condition  of  performing 


certain  services,  or  paying  a  certain  acknowledg- 
ment to  the  lord  of  the  soil.  WM,  S 


PRAISE-GOD   BAKBONE 
(3rd  S.  i.  211.) 

Must  have  been  born  about  1596.  I  believe 
Damned  Barbone  was  his  brother.  The  Harleian 
MS.  No.  7332  has  a  collection  of  verses  by  various 
authors,  collected  by  Fear-God  Barbon  of  Da- 
ventry.  The  name  of  Praise-God  was  probably 
conferred  by  his  god-fathers  and  god-mothers  in 
his  baptism  ;  at  all  events  the  records  of  the 
Leather-sellers'  Company  show  that  he  bore  it 
five-and-twenty  years  before  the  commencement 
of  the  Civil  War.  Nearly  all  our  baptismal  names 
have  a  meaning  in  some  foreign  language,  either 
Hebrew  or  Greek  generally ;  and  it  does  not 
strike  me  as  odd  that,  just  after  our  church  ser- 
vice had  discarded  a  foreign  language,  earnest 
people  should  have  prefixed  the  equivalent  intel- 
ligible English  word  to  the  unintelligible  foreign 
one  ;  nor  does  the  name  of  Praise  God  appear  to 
me  more  singular  than  the  French  Dieudonne  or 
Jean  Baptiste,  or  than  the  English  Charity  and 
Patience.  The  Stuart  faction  were  more  success- 
ful in  the  scurrility  of  vulgar  nicknames  than  they 
were  in  the  field,  and  revenged  themselves  on  their 
opponents  by  scattering  such  among  them :  the 
respectable  name  of  Barbone  was  easily  trans- 
formed into  the  odd  one  of  Barebones,  the  appear- 
ance and  sound  of  which,  especially  when  coupled 
with  an  unusual  baptismal  name,  must  have  been 
very  droll.  In  1653  Cromwell  nominated  persons 
to  form  a  convention  or  parliament.  Barbone 
was  one  of  the  seven  Londoners  selected.  Of  this 
convention  Rous  was  president,  but  the  Stuart 
faction  appear  to  have  thought  Praise-God  Bare- 
bones  a  droller  name  than  any  they  could  extract 
from  Rous,  and  hence  termed  the  Parliament 
derisively  P.-G.  Barebones'  Parliament.  Barbone 
does  not  seem  to  have  been  a  member  of  any 
other  Parliament,  but  after  the  death  of  the  Pro- 
tector, he  headed  a  deputation  petitioning  parlia- 
ment not  to  recall  the  Stuarts  \  and  we  suppose 
that  his  being  sent  to  the  Tower  was  a  pitiful 
revenge  of  the  disreputable  king,  for  his  conduct 
on  the  occasion.  Poor  Barbone  must  have  then 
been  nearly  seventy,  but  Charles  II.  allowed  no 
such  maudlin  sentiments  as  respect  for  age  to  slip 
in  between  himself  and  his  revenge.  Barbone  not 
improbably  actually  had  at  one  time  a  shop  in 
Fleet  Street.  A  jocose  member  of  parliament, 
about  1654,  proposed  that  the  act,  or  ordinance, 
secularising  marriage,  should  be  bound  in  calf- 
skin purchased  at  Mr.  Barbone's  shop  in  Fleet 
Street ;  but  in  1676  we  find  him  paying  25/.  11- 
year  for  a  house  in  Shoe  Lane,  and  giving  evi- 
dence, quoted  by  J.  P.  Malcolm  in  his  Londinum 


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[3rd  S.  I.  MAS.  29,  62. 


Redivivuni,\n  -which  he  described  himself  as  being 
eighty  years  of  age,  and  to  have  resided  twenty- 
five  years  in  the  parish  of  St.  Dunstan's  in  the 
West.  But,  -why  is  Barbone  termed  a  fanatic  ? 
He  seems,  like  many  another,  to  have  had  confi- 
dence in  the  great  man  who  then  ruled  over 
England  ;  but  surely  there  was  in  this  no  fanati- 
cism. I  should  be  inclined  to  assert  that,  pre- 
ferring Charles  I.  and  II.  to  H.  H.  would  argue 
far  more  fanaticism  than  the  having  confidence 
in  H.  H.  When  affairs  were  not  going  on  in  the 
Crimea  as  we  could  fhave  wished  them,  I  not 
^infrequently  heard  the  memory  of  that  mighty 
name  invoked,  coupled  with  that  of  a  greater 
soldier,  but  hardly  so  great  a  man,  whose  loss  we 
had  then  recently  had  to  deplore.  Barbone,  from 
all  we  know,  was  simply  a  quiet-going  substantial 
tradesman,  possibly  a  zealous  vestryman.  His 
son,  the  speculator,  was  Dr.  Nicholas  Barbone. 
He  built  the  houses  on  the  site  of  Essex  Street, 
Strand,  Exeter  Change,  and  Red  Lion  Square; 
and  was  the  promoter  of  the  Phoenix  Fire  Office 
in  1682.  He  rebuilt  the  house  in  Crane  Court, 
now  occupied  by  the  Scottish  Corporation. 

What  is  your  autho'rity  for  Barbon  Square, 
near  Gerrard  Street  ?  I  do  not  find  it  mentioned 
in  Hatton,  nor  in  1722  edition  of  Strype,  nor  by 
the  parish  clerks. 

I  remember  to  have  met  with  the  elder  Bar- 
bone's  name  twice  in  the  Lives  of  the  Norths.  I 
think  it  is  there  once  spelt  Bar,  once  Barebone. 
Can  this  be  the  autobiography  alluded  to  by  MR. 
CROSSLEY  ?  If  so,  it  was  published  several  years 
ago-  W.  H. 

[Our  notice  of  Barbon  Square  was  quoted  from  a 
biographical  sketch  of  Praise-God  Barebone  prefixed  to 
a  work  entitled,  "A  Word  to  Fanatics,  Puritans,  and 
Sectaries;  or,  New  Preachers  New!  Green,  the  Felt- 
maker^  Spencer,  the  Horse -rubber,  Quartermine  the 
Brewer's  Clarke,  with  some  few  others,  that  are  mighty 
Sticklers  in  this  new  kinde  of  talking  Trade,  which  many 
ignorant  Coxcombes  call  Preaching.  Whereunto  is  added 
the  last  Tumult  in  Fleet-street,  raised  by  the  disorderly 
preachment,  pratings,  and  pratling  of  Mr.  Barebones  the 
Leather-seller,  and  Mr.  Greene  the  Felt-maker,  on  Sunday 
last,  the  19th  Dec.  1G41.  With  an  authentic  Portrait 
and  Memoir  of  Mr.  Praise-God  Barebone,  the  Fanatic 
leader  of  the  Republican  Parliament,  denominated  after 
him,  Barebone'.s  Parliament.  London:  Baynes  and  Son 
|Vu  o^li'^A1^  P°rtrait  is  dated  "Anno  1653."  On 
Feb.  9, 1659- 60,  this  "quiet-going"  leatherseller  headed  a 
number  of  petitioners  at  the  door  of  the  House  of  Com- 
mons; and  being  called  in,  in  the  name  of  the  rest,  he 
thus  addressed  the  Speaker:  "We  are  come  to  wait 
upon  this  honourable  House  with  a  petition  from  such 
as  are  lovers  to  the^ood  old  cause.  The  petitioners  are 
ti  as  have  adhered  to  this  parliament,  and  such  as 
are  lovers  of  justice,  righteousness,  freedom,  and  lovers  of 
a  Commonwealth,  accounting  it  the  best  government. 
Inere  are  many  subscriptions,  I  may  say  thousands,  and 
in  their  names  I  do  humbly  present  it  to  you  "  Two 
days  after  Pepys  tells  us  in  *his  Diary,  "That  'the  late 
petition  of  the  fanatique  people  presented  by  Barebones 
for  the  imposing  of  an  oath  [to  abjure  Charles  Stuart'} 


upon  all  sorts  of  people,  was  received  by  the  House  with 
thanks."  Barebone's  petition,  with  the  Speaker's  answer 
to  it,  was  printed  on  a  folio  sheet  on  July  14,  1660. 
Barebone's  exertions  for  the  good  old  cause  appear  to 
have  exposed  him  to  the  rage  of  the  populace ;  for  on  the 
12th  Feb.  Pepys  remarks,  "  To  my  father's,  where  Charles 
Glascocke  was  overjoyed  to  see  how  things  are  now :  who 
told  me  the  boys  had  last  night  broke  Barebone's  win- 
dows." On  the  22nd  our  amusing  Diarist  adds,  "  I  ob- 
served this  day  how  abominably  Barebone's  windows  are 
broke  again  last  night."— ED.] 


LAMBETH  DEGREES. 
(2nd  S.  xii.  436,  539 ;  3rd  S.  i.  36,  133.) 

The  subject  of  these  degrees  is  shrouded  in  such 
mystery  that  I  hope  you  will  allow  me  to  add  a 
few  particulars  to  those  given  by  J.  R.  The 
power  of  conferring  degrees  to  the  prejudice  of 
the  universities  is  given  to  the  Abp.  of  Canter- 
bury by  the  4th  section  of  the  Act  25  Hen.  VIII. 
c.  21.  In  the  6th  section  of  the  above  act  it  is 
provided,  "  that  no  manner  of  dispensations,  licen- 
cies,  faculties,"  &c.,  to  be  granted  by  authority  of 
the  said  act,  the  tax  on  obtaining  which  from 
Rome,  as  formerly,  was  4Z.  or  upwards,  should  be 
put  in  execution  until  confirmed  under  the  Great 
Seal,  and  enrolled  in  Chancery.  The  Book  of 
Taxation  of  Faculties  referred  to  in  the  grant  of 
the  degree  to  R.  M.  J.  is  evidently  the  authority 
which  determines  whether  a  Faculty  need  pass 
the  Great  Seal  or  no,  the  act  providing  that  "  mat- 
ters of  no  great  importance,"  which  is  explained 
to  mean  those  on  which  the  tax  was  under  4l. 
should  "pass  only  by  the  Archbishop's  Seal." 

The  Abp.  of  Canterbury  may  confer  all  the 
degrees  which  are  granted  by  the  Universities  of 
Oxford  and  Cambridge,  and  the  present  holder  of 
the  see  has  conferred  many  different  degrees.  Only 
last  year  the  archbishop  conferred  the  degree  of 
D.D.  on  the  highly  respected  rector  of  St.  Mat- 
thew's, Bethnal  Green.  Dr.  Buck,  organist  of 
Norwich  cathedral ;  Dr.  Pech,  and  several  more, 
have  received  the  degree  of  Mus.  Doc.  from  Lam- 
beth. The  degree  of  M.A.  was  conferred  a  few 
years  ago  on  the  present  vicar  of  Folkestone,  and 
on  Mr.  James  Haddon,  one  of  the  mathematical 
masters  of  King's  College  School,  London.  Other 
cases  might  be  mentioned,  as  it  is  not  uncommon 
to  see  a  notice  in  The  Times  that  such  and  such  a 
degree  has  been  given  at  Lambeth,  but  the  above 
will  probably  suffice.  The  Lambeth  degree  of 
M.D.  has  been  somewhat  affected  by  the  21  &  22 
Viet.  c.  90,  the  15th  section  of  which  provides 
that  only  those  M.D.s  who  have  received  their 
degree  from  the  Abp.  of  Canterbury  previous  to 
the  passing  of  the  act  (i.  e.  Aug.  2,1858),  shall,  as 
such,  be  qualified  to  be  registered  under  it ;  but 
the  26th  section  expressly  recognises  Lambeth 
degrees  of  M.D.  conferred  after  the  act,  although 


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the  possessors  must  otherwise  qualify  themselves 
before  they  can  be  registered. 

The  practice  alluded  to  by  F.  Y.  (3rd  S.  i.  156) 
of  assuming  the  letters  M.D.  with  the  tacit  assent 
of  the  College  of  Physicians,  is  a  very  objection- 
able one,  und,  if  it  really  be  still  carried  out, 
should,  I  think,  be  taken  up  by  the  universities. 

With  regard  to  the  precedence  of  Doctors  in 
the  several  Faculties,  W  barton,  in  his  Law  Lexi- 
con, states  that  they  belong  to  the  fourth  class  of 
Esquires.  Stephen,  in  his  Commentaries,  ranks 
them  next  below  Colonels,  and  above  Esquires. 
Dod  places  them  next  to  knights'  younger  sons, 
and  places  Clergymen,  Queen's  Counsel,  and  offi- 
cers styled  Esquire  in  their  commissions  below 
them. 

One  word  as  regards  hoods.  A  correspondent 
of  "  N".  &  Q."  stated  that  it  was  etiquette  to  wear 
the  hood  of  the  university  to  which  the  archbishop 
conferring  the  degree  belonged.  Lately,  however, 
I  have  seen  a  clergyman,  who  has  a  Lambeth  M.A. 
degree,  officiating  in  an  Oxford  hood.  Is  there 
any  rule?*  J.  A.  PN. 


GRAY'S  ELEGY  PARODIED. 
(3rd  S.  i.  197,  230.) 

An  amusing  parody  of  this  celebrated  poem  is 
to  be  found  in  a  small  volume,  entitled  Occasional 
and  Farewell  Addresses  delivered  by  W.  H.  Mur- 
ray, Esq.,  in  the  Theatres  Royal  and  Adelphi, 
Edinburgh.  Mr.  Murray  was,  for  many  years, 
the  lessee  and  favourite  actor  of  the  Edinburgh 
Theatres  ;  and  on  the  opening  or  closing  of  either 
of  his  establishments,  he  invariably  delivered  an 
address  of  his  own  composition,  and  filled  with 
pointed  and  happy  allusions.  The  address  con- 
taining the  parody  on  Grays  Elegy  was  spoken  on 
the  commencement  of  the  season  at  the  Adelphi, 
on  June  25th,  1836.  I  heard  the  address,  and 
shall  never  forget  the  shouts  of  laughter  and  ap- 
plause by  which  it  was  greeted.  After  bewailing 
the  emptiness  of  the  town,  and  the  difficulty  of 
keeping  a  theatre  open  during  the  summer  season, 
Mr.  Murray  went  on  as  follows  :  — 

"  If  I  might  venture,  friends,  to  parody 
A  verse  or  two  of  Gray's  famed  elegy, 
Thus  would  I  sing  in  imitative  strains, 
The  solitude  which  then  around  us  reigns :  — 
"  The  year  has  toll'd  the  knell  of  fashion's  day, 

And  all  her  children  seek  the  azure  sea ; 
E'en  the  Lord  Provost,  too,  has  flown  away, 

And  left  the  town  to  solitude  and  me. 
"  Now  fades  the  glittering  throng  from  Prince's  Street, 

And  Charlotte  Square  a  solemn  stillness  holds, 
Save  when  some  doctor  in  his  gig  we  meet 
Scenting  a  fever,  or  a  few  stray  colds. 


[*  This  Reply  was  accidentally  omitted  last  week.  — 
ED.  "N.  &Q."] 


"  Save  when  you  hear  some  moping  judge  complain 

Of  cruel  fate  which  keeps  him  from  the  hills; 
And  makes  him  most  reluctantly  remain 
An  ordinary  lord  upon  the  bills.* 

"  Though  where  the  people  go  to  when  they  roam 

Would  puzzle  Newton.     For  I'll  lay  a  crown 
Visit  the  Poles,  there's  nobody  *  at  home,' 
Or  try  the  Tropics,  and  they're  '  out  of  town.' 

'*  You  smile,  but  search  Great  Britain  round  about, 

From  North  to  South,  or  where  you  please  begin, 
Depend  on't  you'll  find  everybody  out, 
And  Ministers  the  only  people  in." 

I  have  copied  the  parody,  as  it  is  short ;  and 
the  volume  containing  it  having  a  merely  local 
interest,  it  is  not  much  known.  Mr.  Murray,  its 
author,  was  a  man  of  remarkable  and  varied  his- 
trionic ability.  His  Falstaff  was  a  most  unctuous 
impersonation,  and  he  excelled  in  many  of  poor 
Farren's  parts  :  such  as  Uncle  Foozle,  Grand* 
father  Whitehead,  Hugo  Bambino,  &c.  He  was 
brother  of  Mrs.  Henry  Siddons  — one  of  the  most 
charming  actresses  who  ever  graced  the  British 
stage ;  and  whose  private  life-  was  as  pure  and 
stainless  as  her  public  excellence  was  transcen- 
dent. JOHN  PAVIN  PHIULIPS. 

Haverfordwest. 


AMERICAN  CENTS  (3rd  S.  i.  208.)  — I  give  a  list 
of  early  American  cents  that  I  have  in  my  pos- 
session. More  minute  particulars  may  be  ob- 
tained by  dropping  me  a  line. 

I  beg  also  to  inform  CHARLES  CLAY,  M.D.,  that 
the  Numismatic  Chronicle,  No.  77,  or  vol.  xx.  pp. 
66 — 76,  contains  many  particulars  on  these  coins. 
I  have  seen  them  often  in  the  possession  of  col- 
lectors of  the  tokens  of  the  latter  part  of  the  last 
century.  Generally,  the  possessors  are  unaware 
what  they  are,  or  to  what  locality  to  place  them. 

1.  "  Auctori.  „  „,  Connec."    Bust.    Rev.  "  Inde.  »  *  »  * 
et  Lib.  Britannia,"  sitting.     Exerg.  1787. 

2.  "  Auctori.  Connec."    Bust.     Rev.  "  Inde.   et  Lib. 
Exerg.    1787.     Figure  sitting  on  a   globe,   by   side   a 
shield.     (The  last  much  better  executed ).     Connecticut. 

3.  "Auctori.  *plebis."    Bust.     Rev.  ••  Indep.  et  Liber." 

Exerg.  1787.  Figure  sitting  on ,  right  arm  on  a  globe ; 

left  on  an  anchor.     (Very  rare.)     Connecticut. 

4.  "  E  Pluribus  unum."     Fifteen  stars  placed  trian- 
gularly, with  rays  starting  from  them.    Letters  on  each 
star  to   denote  each  State,  as   K  .  RI  .  y ; .  M  .  sc  . ,  &c. 
Rev.  "  Unanimity  is  the  strength  of  Society."    A  hand 
holding  a  scroll,  inscribed  "  Our  cause  is  just."   Kentucky. 

5.  "  E  *  Pluribus  »  unum  ,."  Shield  with  stripes  across, 
and  downward.    Rev.  "Nova  Caesarea."    Exerg.  1787; 
head  of  a  horse  and  a  plough.     New  Jersey. 

6.  "  Washington  and  Independence,"  1783.    Laureated 
head.     Rev.  "  United  States  of  America,  one  cent." 

7.  As  above.    A  figure  of  Liberty  seated,  holding  m 
right  hand  a  branch  of  olive ;  left,  a  rod  in  it ;  a  liberty 
cap :  above  "  United  States." 

8.  "  George  Washington,"  bust.     Rev.  "  Liberty  and 
Security,"  1795.   Spread  Eagle  over  the  American  shield. 

*  The  judge  whose  duty  it  is  to  remain  in  toAvn  during 
the  vacation. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


.  MAR<  29,  '62. 


9.  (Size  of  the  dimo).  "Columbia,"  head.  Eev.  A 
female  figure  seated,  holding  a  balance.  There  are  three 
varieties. 

SAMUEL  SHAW. 

Andover,  15th  March,  1862. 

NOCKYNGE    AND    DoWELL    MONEY,  ETC.    (3rd    S. 

i.  220.) — To  prevent  confusion,  it  may  be  proper 
to  state,  that  these  terms  were  taken  by  me  at 
second  hand,  from  a  History  of  the  Borough  of 
Guildford,  published  by  the  Messrs.  Russells, 
booksellers  of  this  town,  in  1801. 

The  old  book  of  accounts  is  no  longer  in  the 
parish  chest,  being  either  lost  or  destroyed ;  so 
that  I  have  no  means  of  verifying  the  correctness 
of  the  transcript,  but  I  have  no  doubt  that  Nock- 
ynge  should  be  Hochynge ;  and  that  Dowell  means 
Dole,  after  the  explanation  given  by  MESSRS. 
EASTWOOD  and  BURN.  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

ARMY  LISTS  (3rd  S.  i.  198,  220.)  — So  multifa- 
rious, and  so  much  dispersed,  arc  the  subjects 
which  occupy  your  columns,  that  it  must  be  mat- 
ter of  difficulty,  if  not  of  impossibility,  for  any 
one  mind  to  keep  pace  with  them.  In  your  pub- 
lication (2"J  S.  v.  280,  385),  I  did  myself  the 
pleasure  to  describe  an  Army  List  in  one  volume, 
London,  1740,  folio,  published  by  authority  of  the 
House  of  Commons ;  and  with  the  imprimatur  of 
Arthur  Onslow,  the  Speaker,  and  dated  War 
Office,  March  20, 17f§.  It  is  very  comprehensive, 
and  contains  all  the  different  armes  of  the  service, 
both  of  the  British  and  Irish  establishments  :  the 
reduced  officers  and  retired  officers  on  22nd  Feb- 
ruary, 17||-;  half-pay  of  the  marines,  31st  Janu- 
arv>  ^to-  The  three  regiments  of  Foot  Guards 
were  then  commanded:  the  1st  by  Col.  Sir  Chas. 
Wills;  the  2nd  was  momentarily  vacant,  but 
II.R.H.  Win.,  Duke  of  Cumberland,  was  nomi- 
nated for  the  Colonelcy ;  the  3rd,  John,  Earl  of 
Dun  more. 

The  names  and  ranks  of  the  officers  are  given 
very  systematically  ;  and  the  whole  has  the  addi- 
tional voucher  of  the  Right  Hon.  Sir  Wm.  Yon<re, 
Bart.,  K.B.,  then  M.P.  for  Honiton. 

I  beli-eve  this  volume  to  be  extremely  rare,  and 
I  have  never  been  able  to  discover  another  copy. 
As  I  stated,  I  was  indebted  for  the  perusal  of  it 
to  the  late  Mr.  Furnivall,  of  30,  Charing  Cross, 
who  very  politely  allowed  me  to  take  such  ex- 
tracts from  it  as  I  wished.  DELTA, 

CIRCULAR  BORDURE  (3r('  S.  i.  172.)  —  Surely 
a  circular  bordure  is  something  more  than  "  a 
strip  surrounding  the  field,"  whatever  shape  that 
neld  may  take,  which  is  seldom  or  never  round? 

Hone,  in  his  Table  Booh  (i.  555),  gives  a  wood- 
cut of  the  armorial  bearing  of  the  lord  of  the 
manor  of  Stoke  Lynn,  Oxon,  which  has  this  form, 
is  surrounded  by  a  bordure  sa.,  charged  with 
roundels,  and  answers  exactly  to  the  first  term 
used  by  HER. 


A  "  bordure  inwardly  circular,"  I  should  sup- 
pose to  be  one  conforming  in  its  outline  to  the 
shape  of  the  field,  but  having  its  interior  margin 
rounded.  DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

BURNS  AND  ANDREW  HORNER  (3rd  S.  i.  147.) — 
The  lines  referred  to  by  your  correspondent  are 
as  follows  : 

"In  seventeen  hundred  forty-nine 
Satan  took  stuff  to  make  a  swine, 

And  cuist  it  in  a  corner; 
But  wilily  he  changed  his  plan, 
And  shaped  it  something  like  a  man, 

And  ca'd  it  Andrew  Turner." 

This  Andrew  Turner  rests  his  sole  claim  to  im- 
mortality on  a  casual  interview  with  Burns.  The 
particulars  of  this  interview,  which  differ  consider- 
ably from  those  mentioned  by  your  correspondent, 
may  be  found,  with  the  above  lines,  in  Chambers' 
Library  Edition  of  Burns'  Works,  vol.  iv.  p.  244. 

WILLIAM  BLACK. 

LONG  SERMONS  (3rd  S.  i.  169.)  —  Very  respect* 
able  precedent  might  be  urged  on  this  head.  The 
apostle  Paul,  as  Eutychus  knew  to  his  cost,  was, 
on  one  occasion  at  least,  so  "  long  preaching "  as 
to  keep  his  hearers  until  midnight.  The  Puritans 
were  remarkable  for  the  wordy  and  elaborate  way 
in  which  they  "  opened  "  even  a  very  simple  text ; 
and  many  of  Bunyan's  discourses  would  form  a 
good- sized  pocket  volume.  The  Methodists  seem 
to  have  had  "no  fear  lest  dinner  cool;"  and 
probably  spoiled  many  a  good  one  by  a  very  in- 
different sermon.  Hogarth,  ever  ready  to  catch 
and  stereotype  the  "living  manners"  of  his  day, 
has  represented  a  clergyman  preaching  by  the 
hour-glass,  with  the  witty  accompaniment  of  a 
copy  of  Warwick's  Spare  Minutes  —  a  conceit 
that  tells  its  own  story  very  pleasantly. 

DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

BRAZIL  (2nd  S.  x.  449)  is   from   braza,  "  a  live 

coal,"  being  the  colour  of  the  so-called  Brazil  wood. 

JOHN  H.  VAN  LENNEP. 

Zeyst,  near  Utrecht. 

WILLET'S  "  SYNOPSIS  "  (2nd  S.  xii.  258  ;  3rd  S. 
i.  32  ) — I  have  just  observed  a  Query  in  re- 
gard to  my  calling  the  modern  reprint  of  Wil- 
let's  Synopsis  "  atrocious."  I  called  it  so  because 
of  its  incorrectness  :  the  Latin  and  Greek  pas- 
sages are  full  of  blunders.  An  eminent  Regius 
professor  of  divinity  is  understood  to  have  pro- 
nounced this  the  worst  edited  book  he  had  ever 
met  with.  SEXAGENARIUS. 

OTHO  VJENIUS  (3rd  S.  i.  53,  117.)  —  It  may  in- 
terest your  readers  that  I  have  in  my  possession  a 
portrait  of  Justus  Lipsius  by  Otto  Vsenius  (pro- 
perly Octavio  van  Veen).  JOHN  H.  VAN  LENNEP. 

Zej'st,  near  Utrecht. 

ST.  ABBREVIATED    T  :    TANTHONY    (3rd   S.  i.  75, 

219.)  —  Are   R.    S.   CHARNOCK   and  CUTHBERT 
BEDE  quite  certain  that  the  t  is  abbreviated  from 


8»«S.I.MAR.2V62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


257 


"  St.,"  and  not  rather  from  the  article  the,  so  seldom 
heard  in  its  integrity  in  northern  village  talk,  ex- 
cept among  the  better  educated  few.  "  T'  oven," 
"t'  parson,"  "  t'  doctor,"  "t'ass"  are  in  every- 
day use  ;  and  what  was  once  "  t'  Anthony  pig  " 
may  have  been  adopted  by  more  genteel  counties 
as  a  lona  fide  word,  to  be  preceded  by  an  article 
—  "a  Tan  tony  pig,"  "  the  Tantony  fire." 

Of  the  northern  habit  of  clipping  the  article 
before  nouns,  every  one  acquainted  with  the  coun- 
try is  well  aware.  Such  a  sentence  as  the  follow- 
ing is  no  exaggeration  whatever.  "  Gang  to  f  old 
doctor's,  lad,  and  bid  him  come  to  f  fayther.  Thou 
maun  tell  him  he's  been  to  f  market,  and  has  hurt 
hissen  agin  f  wheels  o'  f  cart.  Be  sharp,  now, 

wlltYeT* 

The  first  five  fs  here  are  obvious  abbreviations 
of  the.  The  concluding  te  is  an  instance  of  ano- 
ther common  abuse  of  words.  It  is  the  pronoun 
thee  clipped,  and  in  use  for  thou. 

So  in  the  following :  "  Thee  'd  best  mind  the1 
own  business,  woman,  I  tell  the',"  where  we  find 
thee  available  for  thou,  thy,  and  thee  indifferently  ; 
and  in  the  last  two  cases  it  is  pronounced  quite 
short,  as  we  do  the  article. 

Another  reason  for  doubting  an  abbreviation  of 
"  St. "  is  the  tendency  in  the  class  alluded  to,  to 
clip  titles  as  well  as  words.  They  are  not  fond 
even  of  a  Mr.  Where  a  "  Smith  "  is  squire  of  the 
parish,  we  should  be  very  liable  to  hear  of  "  Smith 
lassies,"  for  the  Miss  Smiths ;  "  Smith  dogs,"  and 
"  Smith  carriage,"  for  his  hounds  and  belongings. 
And  this  without  intentional  impertinence,  though 
one  traces  a  defect  of  deferential  feeling  in  the 
habit.  When  the  schoolmaster  has  been  abroad 
long  enough,  we  must  hope  that  Anthony's  saint- 
ship  will  be  understood  and  acknowledged.  At 
present  "  Tantony,"  or  the  "  Tantony  fire,"  is 
merely  a  complaint,  which  told  doctor  must  be 
sent  for  to  cure.  AURORA  BOREALIS. 

P.S.  I  have  heard  "  Fishwilliam's  vennison " 
spoken  of  as  a  matter  of  course,  though  with  the 
utmost  deference,  by  a  butcher  in  the  neighbour- 
hood of  Wentworth  Woodhouse.  So  that  even 
an  earl's  title  is  not  free  from  the  levelling  custom 
of  the  country ! 

THE  BEGINNING  OF  THE  END  (2nd  S.  xii.  307, 
357,  381.)  —  By  an  unfortunate  printer's  error, 
the  whole  force  of  my  meaning  at  p.  217  is  de- 
stroyed. The  third  and  fourth  lines  of  the  quo- 
tation from  Shakspeare  should  stand  thus  — 

"  Tlds  is  the  true  Beginning. 

Of  the  End, 
Consider  —  then.    We  come,"  &c. 

My  object  was  to  show  that  our  great  dramatist 
never  broached  the  idea  which  moderns  have  at- 
tached to  the  passage,  and  which  has  really  no 
foundation  ;  but  arises  entirely  from  a  blunder  in 
tacking  the  end  of  the  first  sentence  to  the  be- 
ginning of  the  second.  DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 


ALCUMIB  STUFF  (3rd  S.  i.  211.)  —  I  am  sure 
"  our  Editor  "  will  permit  me  very  respect- 
fully to  say  that  his  explanation  of  the  foregoing 
expression  is  hardly  to  the  point.  Alcu.rn.ie  is 
evidently  ochimy,  described  in  common  diction- 
aries as  "  a  mixed  base  metal,"  such,  in  fact,  ns 
was  used  in  casting  the  large,  bright,  metal  but- 
tons worn  by  most  country  people  a  century  ago. 
It  is  a  mixture  of  copper  and  tin,  similar  to  that 
of  which  small  bells  are  commonly  cast ;  and  as  it 
melts  at  a  less  heat  than  a  mixture  of  copper 
and  spelter  (the  hard  solder  of  the  brazier),  it  is 
used  by  the  brass-worker  as  intermediate  between 
that  and  the  soft,  or  tin  solder.  A  curious  illus- 
tration of  the  use  and  meaning  of  the  above  word 
occurs  in  the  journal  of  George  Fox  :  "  My  but- 
tons being  bright,"  says  the  brave  proto-quaker. 
"  the  people  thought  they  were  silver,  and  charged 
me  with  extravagance ;  whereas  they  were  only 
alchemy,"  i.  e.  ockimy.  I  quote  the  passage  from 
memory.  H. 

RYOT  AND  RIOT  (3rd  S.  i.  207.)  —  It  is  perfectly 
true  that  Ryots  in  India  are  frequently  riotous, 
especially  those  living  near  an  Indigo  factory.  I 
certainly  am  unable  to  disprove  S.'s  theory,  that 
the  English  word  riot  is  derived  from  the  Hin- 
dosthanie  (or  rather  Arabic)  word  Ryot,  any  more 
than  I  can  disprove  Monmouth  being  derived 
from  Macedon.  Still  the  theory  may  be  correct ; 
for  all  that  I  cannot  disprove  would  fill  a  very 
large  book.  Would  it  be  pushing  S.'s  theory  to 
an  unreasonable  extent  to  say,  that  if  it  be  true, 
it  might  also  derive  the  ryotwar  system  from  the 
Ryots  always  warring  with  each  other  ?  W.  H. 

LORD  MAYORS  OF  LONDON  (2nd  S.  xii.  435.)  — 
1785.  Rich.  Clarke's  arms :  argent  on  a  bend 
gules,  between  3  pellets,  as  many  swans  ppr.,  on  a 
canton  sinister  az.,  a  demi-ram  mounting  argent, 
in  chief,  2  fleur-de-lis,  over  all  a  dexter  baton. 
(Bray's  Surrey,  vol.  iii.,  under  plate  opposite  p. 
207.) 

1791.  John  Boydell,  argent  on  a  fesse  azure,  3 
mullets  or.  (On  monument  in  St.  Olave's,  Jewry.) 

1800.  Harvey  Christian  Combe,  ermine,  3  lions 
passant  in  pale  gules.  (Hatchment  in  Cobham 
church,  Surrey,  1824.)  F.  G.  W. 

HEWORTH  CHURCH  (l§t  S.  xi.  186.)  —  The  de- 
dication of  Heworth  church  or  chapel  has  been 
ascertained.  The  then  existing  edifice  is  de- 
scribed in  the  Durham  Household  Booh  ;  or,  Bur- 
sar's Account  of  Durham  Monastery  (1530-34), 
published  by  the  Surtees  Society,  as  the  chantry 
of  the  "  Blessed  Mary  "  in  Jarrow  ;  and  the  chap- 
lain, John  Jakson,  had  an  annual  payment  from 
the  Prior  and  Convent  of  Durham  (who  were  the 
patrons)  for  celebrating  divine  service  in  the 
chapel  of  Heworth.  The  chaplaincy  was  also  en- 
dowed with  certain  glebe  lands,  some  or  all  of 
which  were  given  by  Walter  de  Heworth.  After 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  MAR.  29, 


the  Reformation  this  chantry  chapel  seems  to  have 
been  allowed  to  fall  into  ruins ;  but  towards  the 
close  of  the  seventeenth  century,  owing  to  the  in- 
crease of  the  population,  and  the  distance  from 
Jarrow,  it  was  rebuilt,  and  remained  in  use  till  its 
removal  about  forty  years  ago,  and  replacement 
by  the  present  building.  E.  H.  A. 

LADY  MARY  PERCY  (3rd  S.  i.  170.)  —This  lady, 
the  youngest  daughter  of  the  seventh  Earl  of  Nor- 
thumberland, is  said,  on  the  authority  of  a  MS. 
belonging  to  the  English  Benedictine  Dames  (for- 
merly at  Brussels,  now  at  Winchester),  and 
printed  in  the  Catholic  Magazine  for  August, 
1838,  to  have  been  born  on  the  llth  of  June, 
1570.  After  the  death  of  the  countess  (who  died 
at  Namur,  Oct.  17th,  1596),  she  "came  into  the 
Low  Countries  to  take  possession  of  what  was  left 
her  by  her  mother,  but  more  by  her  desire  to  de- 
dicate herself  to  the  service  of  Almighty  God  in 
holy  religion,  having  formerly  vowed  virginity, 
and  also  to  be  religious,"  and  became  the  founder 
of  the  Benedictine  Dames  at  Brussels.  (Vide  Sir 
C.  Sharp's  Memorials  of  the  Rebellion  of  1569,  p. 
350.)  E.  H.  A. 

THE  NAME  OF  THE  ROYAL  FAMILY  OF  ENGLAND 
(2nd  S.  xii.  396,  466.)  —I  venture  to  dissent,  re- 
spectfully, from  the  notions  of  HERMENTRUDE  on 
this  subject.  There  is  confusion  enough  caused 
by  M.  Kossuth,  and  by  the  anonymous  writers  in 
The  Times,  who,  from  time  to  time,  for  the  worst 
of  purposes,  still  persist  in  nick-naming  the  reign- 
ing family  of  Austria  as  the  "  Hapsburgs  !  " 

The  family  can  only  be  the  House  of  Austria, 
or  of  Lorrain-Austria. 

The  Dukes  of  Brunswick,  the  King  of  Hanover, 
His  Royal  Highness  the  Duke  of  Cambridge,  and 
their  descendants,  may  carry  on  the  name  of 
D'Este  or  of  Guelph ;  but,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  for 
the  sake  of  avoiding  confusion  in  future  times 
that,  as  long  as  the  crown  of  England  continues  in 
the  male  line  of  the  late  Prince  Consort,  the  royal 
family  of  England  may  be  universally  known  as 
the  House  of  Saxe-Coburg  (in  England).  If  the 
royal  family  is  to  be  "dubbed"  Guelph,  why 
not  go  further  back  a  little  way,  and  retain  a 
rather  less  ugly  name  and  a  more  English  one  — 
Tudor,  Mortimer,  Plantagenet,  Norman  or  Anglo- 
Saxon  ? 

It  might  even  be  permitted  to  ask,  jestingly, 
Why  not  take  the  name  of  some  one  of  the  few 
families  of  England  still  existing  in  the  male  line, 
•which  are  able  to  trace  the  descent  of  the  more 
modern  royal  family  of  England  from  their  own 
paternal  ancestors,  viz.  the  Earls  of  Abergavenny, 
the  Baronets  Clavering,  &c.  ?  HENRY  CLINTON. 

"THE  WANDERING  JEW"  (3rd  S.  i.  14,  77.) 

Please  add  to  your  list  of  notices  The  Chronicles 
of  Cartaphilus,  by  D.  Hoffman.  The  prefatory 
remarks  say  :  — 


"It  is  a  well-known  fact  that  during  nearly  eighteen 
centuries  there  has  been  a  mysterious  and  almost  invisi- 
ble tradition  quietly  passing  down  that  long  stream  of 
time,  in  various  countries  of  Christendom,  respecting  a 
certain  wonderful  personage,  endued  with  almost  per- 
petual life;  and  who  has  been  known  under  the  general 
name  of  the  Wandering  Jew;  but  whose  distinctive 
names,  in  different  countries  and  ages,  have  been  Carta- 
philus,  next  Ahasuerus,  then  Josephus,  and  finally,  Isaac 
Lakedion" 

I  hopo  this  extract  may  be  of  use  to  your  French 
subscriber.  GEORGE  LLOYD. 

Thurstonland. 

RUTLAND:  COUNTY  OR  SHIRE?  (3rd  S.  i.  111.) 
—  I  believe  that  Rutland  is  generally  considered 
to  be  a  Shire.  All  the  other  portions  of  the  Anglo- 
Saxon  Kingdom  of  Mercia  are  undoubtedly  Shires. 
It  must,  however,  be  observed  that  these  others 
all  take  their  name  from  the  county  town ;  Rut- 
land does  not.  And  if  it  is  a  Shire,  it  is  the  only 
one  there  is  in  England  with  the  name  terminat- 
ing in  land.  LUMEN. 

While  thanking  your  correspondent  D.  M.  STE- 
VENS for  his  attention  to  my  Query  about  Rut- 
land, yet  I  would  ask  whether  the  case  of  Ireland 
may  not  be  noticeable  ?  Is  it  merely  custom,  or 
some  law  of  euphony  that  makes  us  speak  of 
County  Kerry,  County  Wicklow,  &c.,  ad  infinitum  f 
I  put  this  inquiringly,  desiring  to  know  the  true 
state  of  the  case,  without  at  all  impugning  the 
correctness  of  the  answer  relative  to  England. 

ELIOT  MONTAUBAN. 

Oxford. 

TOUCHING  FOR  THE  KING'S  EVIL  (3rd  S.  i.  208.) 
— Perhaps  the  following  extract  from  the  Register 
of  Stoke-upon-Trent  may  be  acceptable  to  S.  T. 
The  surname  was  illegible  to  me  when  I  made  the 
extract,  several  years  ago.  In  the  same  Register 
there  is  another  example  which  I  did  not  copy, 
dated  August  29,  1687  :  — 

"Memorand.  That  the  Minister  and  Churchwardens 
of  Stoke-upon-Trent,  in  the  County  of  Stafford,  gave  unto 
Catharine,  the  daughter  of  Arthur  .  .  .  and  Mary  his 
wife  of  the  Parish  aforesaid,  upon  the  third  day  of  May, 
in  the  year  of  or  Lord  God  one  thousand  six  hundred 
eighty  and  ffoure  a  certificate  under  their  hands  and 
seals,"  in  order  to  her  obtaining  of  his  Majesty's  sacred 
touch  for  the  healing  of  the  disease  called  the  King's - 
Evill. 

"  J.  BROMFIELD,  Curate  of  Stoke  aforesaid. 
"JonN    YEATS    and    JOSEPH    TWIFORD, 
Churchwardens." 

D.P. 
Stuart's  Lodge,  Malvern  Wells. 

I  can  throw  no  light  on  S.  T.'s  queries  ;  but,  in 
common  with  not  a  few  of  "  N.  &  Q."  readers, 
am  glad  to  learn  that  he  purposes  to  publish  a 
volume  on  the  subject  supra.  Perchance  the 
annexed  title-pages  may  i slightly  aid.  Has  your 
correspondent  S.  T.  any  ^theory,  or,  if  he  prefer 


3'd  S.  I.  MAR.  29,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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it,    philosophy    of    the  tiring?    Whence    did  the 
notion  originate  ?     How  explain  alleged  cures  ? 

1.  "  Badger  (John),  Cases  of  Cures  of  the  King's  Evil 
perfected  by  the  royal  touch.     Lond.  8vo.  1748." 

2.  "  Uecket  (Will.)     Enquiry  into  antiquity  and  effi- 
cacy of  touching  for  King's  Evil,  with  records.     8vo. 
1722." 

r. 

ENGLISH  EPITAPHS  AT  ROME  (3rd  S.  i.  209.)— 
I  can  supply  some  of  the  information  which  B.  II. 
C.  desires  to  obtain. 

In  the  cloister  of  the  Quadriporticus  before  the 
church  of  San  Gregorio,  are  the  two  followinj 


planation  of  his  remaining  in  Rome  which  appears 
in  Murray's  Hand  Book. 

On  your  left,  as  you  enter  the  cloister,  is  a 
mural  monument  to  Peckham,  the  "  Veeamo,"  no 
doubt,  mentioned  by  B.  H.  C. :  — 

«  D.  0.  M. 

lloberto  Pechamo  Anglo 

Equiti  avrato 
Philippo  et  Marias 
Anglise  et  Hispanira  Regibvs 

Olim  a  consiliis, 
Genere,  Religione,  Virtvte, 

Praiclaro, 

Qui  cum  patriam  svam 
A  fide  Catholica  deticientem  adspicere 

Sine  svmmo  dolore  non  posset, 
Relictis  omnibvs  quse  in  hac  vita 

carissima  esse  solent, 
in  volvntarivm  prefect vs  exilivm, 

post  sex  annos, 
Pavperibvs  Christ!  haeredibus 

Testamento  institvtis, 

Sanctissime  e  vita  migravit 

Idib.  Sept.  ann.  MDLXIX. 

jEtatis  svae  LIV. 

Tho-.nas  Goldovellus  Episcop.  Asaphensis 

Et  Thomas  Kir  ton  vs  Angli 
Testament!  Procvratores  pos." 

Thomas  Goldwell,  Bishop  of  Si.  Asaph,  was 
the  single  English  Bishop  who  is  included  in  the 
Catalogue  of  the  Fathers  of  the  Council  of  Trent. 

Game's  monument  is  near  Peckham's.  It  has 
this  epitaph  :  —  , 

«D.O.  M. 

EDVARDO  CAUNO  BIUTAXNO 

Eqviti  avrato,  ivrisconsvlto,  oratori,  summis  de  rebvs 
Britanniae  Regvm  ad  Imperatorem,  ad  Reges,  bisqve 
ad  Romanam  et  Apostolicam  sedem,  qvarvm  in  altera 
legatione,  a  Philippo  Mariaq.  piis  Regibvs  missvs.  Oborto 
deinde  post  mortem  Mariae  in  Britannia  schismate,  sponte 
patria  carens  ob  Catholicam  fidem,  cv"  magna  integritatis 
veraeque  pietatis  existimatione  decessit.  Hoc  monu- 
mentvm  Galfridvs  Vachanvs  et  Thomas  Fremannva, 
amici,  ex  testamento  pos.  obiit  ann.  Salvtis  M.D.LXI. 
XII1I.  Cal.  Febr." 

Above  this  inscription  is  carved  the  figure  of 
the  Blessed  Virgin  holding  our  Divine  Redeemer 
in  her  arms.  Below  the  inscription  enough 


carving  remains  to  show  that  there  has  been  a 
perfect  achievement.  The  helmet  and  bearings 
have  been  chiselled  off.  This  injury  was,  I  be- 
lieve, done  by  the  French  republicans. 

I  do  not  know  the  monument  in  the  church  of 
San  Crisogono ;  nor  can  I  give  B.  II.  C.  any 
account  of  Cardinal  Allen's  tomb.  There  is  no 
monument  to  him  in  the  English  College  now. 
The  former  church  of  the  English  College  was 
destroyed  by  the  French  republicans.  D.  P. 

Stuart's  Lodge,  Malvern,  Wells. 

HOLYLAND  FAMILY  (2nd  S.  xi.  249, 358.)— Being 
myself  descended  from  a  Miss  Holyland,  of  who.se 
paternal  ancestry  we  know  but  little,  I  should  be 
glad  to  know  whether  your  correspondent  T. 
NORTH,  Southfield,  Leicester,  who  mentions  a 
family  of  the  name  in  the  parish  of  Ratby,  Leices- 
tershire, would  allow  me  to  enter  into  communi- 
cation with  him  on  the  subject.  Any  one  else 
who  can  localise  or  identify  families  bearing  this 
name  would  oblige  me  by  stating  it  in  the  pages 
of  "  N.  &  Q."  I  should  also  be  glad  of  informa- 
tion as  to  the  best  means  of  tracing  the  descent 
of  the  family  of  Elton,  of  the  NetJier  Hall,  Led- 
bury,  and  their  connection  with  the  main  stock 
of  Elton  of  the  Hazell,  from  which  the  two 
baronetted  families  of  the  name  derive  their 
origin. 

Should  T.  NORTH,  or  any  other  correspondent, 
offer  to  communicate  privately  with  me,  I  will 
intrust  the  address  that  may  then  be  the  most 
convenient  for  me  to  the  Editor  of  "  N  &  Q." 

ELIOT  MONTAUBAN. 

Oxford. 

TRIAL  BY  BATTEL  (3rd  S.  i.  214.)  —MR.  ED- 
WARD Foss  says,  "  Trial  by  battel  was  merely 
optional  on  the  part  of  the  appellee  when  he 
pleaded  not  guilty,  and  even  that  option  was*taken 
away  when  there  had  been  a  previous  trial" 

This  last  statement  is  erroneous,  for  in  the 
celebrated  case  of  Abraham  Thornton,  who  was 
appealed  of  murder,  after  acquittal,  Lord  Ellen- 
borough  in  the  Court  of  K.  B.  allowed  the  wager 
of  battel,  the  other  judges  concurring.  The  only 
reason  for  the  Court  refusing  an  appellee  the 
wager  of  battel  upon  appeal  of  felony  was  in  the 
case  of  his  having  been  taken  flagrante  delicto,  "for 
it  is  unreasonable  that  an  innocent  man  should 
stake  his  life  against  one  who  is  already  half  con- 
victed." (Bla.  Com.  vol.  iv.  p.  347  )  JAL. 

THE  IRISH  HARP  (3rd  S.  i.  192.)— If  MR. 
CHESSBOROTJGH  HARBERTON  will  refer  to  "  N.  & 
Q,"  (1st  S.  xii.  328,  350),  he  will  find  a  long  ac- 
count by  Sir  Martin  Leake,  Garter,  of  the  changes 
which  have  been  made  from  time  to  time  in  the 
arms  of  Ireland.  J.  WOODWARD. 

Shoreham. 

LEADEN  COIN  OF  WILLIAM  AND  MABY  (3rd  S.  i. 
307.)— This  is  a  farthing  in  pewter,  with  a  stud 


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of  copper  through  the  centre,  in  order  to  prevent 
forgeries  of  them  ;  but  they  were  largely  counter- 
feited. If  in  good  preservation,  the  words  "  NVM- 
MOEVM  FAMVLVS"  will  be  found  on  their  edge. 

S.S. 

THE  PETTIGREW  FAMILY-  (3rd  S.  i.  125,  215.)— 
William  Pettvgrew,  gazetted  Captain  R.N.,  17th 
July,  1 755.  —  Beatson.  S.  T. 

"  OLLA  PODRIDA"  (3rd  S.  i.  215.)  —I  have  ob- 
served that  a  mistake  in  the  use  of  the  words 
olla  podrida  is  very  general. 

People  probably  intend  to  say  olla,  i.  e.  a  col- 
lection of  nil  sorts  of  things  :  for,  I  believe,  olla  is 
the  name  of  the  well-known  dish,  heretofore  very 
generally  seen  on  the  hospitable  tables  of  Spain 
and  Portugal.  Whereas  olla  podrida  would  seem 
to  be  the  pot  poitrri —  the  well-known  sweet- 
scented  amalgam  of  flowers,  leaves,  &c. 

HENRY  CLINTON. 

Bark  way,  Herts. 

TABARD  (3:J  S.  i.  217.)— It  appears  from  "  N. 
&  Q. "  (2ud  S.  xii,  435),  that  the  tabard  was 
something  worn  by  ladies.  Is  it  generally  known 
that  it  corresponded  often  to  the  round-frock  of 
our  small  farmers  some  centuries  ago  ?  Though 
usually  defined  to  be  a  herald's  jacket  or  sleeveless 
coat,  Chaucer's  "Plowman"  is  certainly  described 
as  wearing  one ;  and  this  fact,  taken  in  connexion 
with  the  sign  of  the  inn  in  Southwark,  from  which 
he  started  with  the  other  pilgrims  to  Canterbury, 
leads  me  to  believe  that  the  old  hostelrie  was  so 
called  out  of  compliment  to  the  Kentish  farmers, 
who  "most  do  congregate,"  in  the  present  day, 
about  our  Southwark  taverns. 

In  an  account  of  the  scanty  wardrobe  of  Regi- 
nald Labbe,  a  Hampshire  ploughman,  who  died 
in  1293,  mention  is  made  of  a  tabard  and  tunic 
valued  together  at  xijd.  DOUGLAS  ALLPORT, 


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UNITED  KINGDOM 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY, 

No.   8,  WATERLOO  PLACE,  PALL  MALL,  8.W. 

DIRECTORS. 

The  TFon.  FRANCIS  SCOTT,  Chairman. 
CHARLES  BERWICK  CURTIS,  Esq.,  Deputy  Chairman. 


EDWARD  LENNOX  BOYD,  Esq. 

(  Reddest). 
WI1XIAM  FAIRLIE,  Esq. 


Esq. 


A.  H.  MACDOUOALL,  ESQ. 
F.  C.  MAITLAND,  Esq. 
WILLIAM  RAILTON.  Esq. 
THOS.  THORBY.Esq.,  F.S.A. 
HENRY  TOOGOOD,  Esq. 


SUPERIOR  ACCOMMODATION  AFFORDED  BY  THIS 

COMPANY. 

This  Company  offers  the  security  of  a  large  paid-up  capital,  held  in 
shares  by  a  numerous  and  wealthy  proprietary,  thus  protecting  the 
assured  from  the  risk  attending  mutual  offices. 

There  have  been  three  divisions  of  profits,  the  bonuses  averaging 
nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum  on  the  sums  assured  from  the  commence- 
ment of  the  Company. 

Sum  Assured.          Bonuses  added.  Payable  at  Death. 

Jt5,fOO  £  1,087  10*.  <6,987  10s. 

1,000  397  10s.  1,397  10s. 

100  39  15s.  139  15s. 

To  assure  £!00  payable  at  death,  a  person  aged  21  pays  42  2s.  4d.  per 
annum;  but  as  the  profits  have  averaged  nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annpm, 
the  additions,  in  many  cases,  have  been  almost  as  much  as  the  pre- 
miums paid. 

Loans  granted  on  approved  real  or  personal  security. 

Invalid  Lives.  Parties  not  in  a  sound  state  of  health  maybe  insured 
at  equitable  rates. 

No  charge  for  Volunteer  Military  Corps  while  serving  in  the  United 
Kingdom. 

The  funds  or  property  of  the  company,  as  at  1st  January,  186!, 
amounted  to  £730,605  7s.  10d.,  invested  in  Government  and  other  ap- 
proved securities. 

Prospectuses  and  every  information  afforded  on  application  to 

E.  L.  BOYD,  Resident  Director. 

WESTERN    LIFE    ASSURANCE     AND 
ANNUITY  SOCIETY. 

3,  PARLIAMENT  STREET,  LONDON,  S.W. 
Founded  A.D.  1842. 


H.  E.  Bicknell,  Esq. 
T.S.  Cocks,  Esq. 
G.  H.  Drew,  Esq.  M.A. 
W.  Freeman,  Esq. 
J.H.Goodhart.Esq. 


Directors. 


E.Lucas,  Esq. 
F.B.  M  arson.  Esq. 
J.  J,.  Seasrer,  Esq. 
J.  B.  White,  Esq. 


Phi/sicimi.-W.  R.  Bashain,  M.D. 

Bankers Messrs.  Biddulph,  Cocks,  K  Co. 

Actuary — Arthur  Scratchley,  M.A. 

VALUABLE  PRIVILEGE. 

POLICIES  effected  in  this  Office  do  not  become  void  through  tem- 
porary difficulty  in  paying  a  Premium,  as  permission  is  given  upon 
application  to  suspend  the  payment  at  interest,  according  to  the  con- 
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LOANS  from  100*.  to  500Z.  granted  on  real  or  first-rate  Personal 
Security. 

Attention  is  also  invited  to  the  rates  of  annuity  granted  to  old  lives, 
for  which  ample  security  is  provided  by  the  capital  of  the  Society. 
Example:  1007.  cash  paid  down  purchases  — An  annuity  of — 
t  s.  d. 

9  15  10  to  a  male  life  aged  m\ 
11    7    4  „  65 1  Payable  as  long 

1318   8  '  „  70  f    as  he  is  alive. 

18    0   6  „  75J 

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§THE  HUMAN  CONSTITUTION.— The  systems  of  thousands 
me  impaired  and  their  subsequent  happiness  destroyed  by  the  ueg- 
of  trifling  causes.  Every  person  has  the  power  of  efficiently  re- 
pelling these  by  the  use  of  Holloway'  s  well-known  remedies.  The 
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TT  QUIT  ABLE  ASSURANCE  OFFICE,  New 

JLj  Bridge  Street,  Blackfriars  :  established  1762. 

DIRECTORS. 

The  Right  Hon.  LORD  TREDEGAR,  President. 
Wm.  Samur-1  Jones,  Esq.,  V.P. 
Wm.  F.  Pollock,  Esq.,  V.P. 
Wm.  Dacres  Adams,  Ksq. 
John  Charles  Burgoyne,  Esq. 


Richard  Gosling,  Esq. 
Peter  Martineau,  EM. 
John  Alldin  Moore,  Esq. 
Charles  Pott,  Esq 


ares    ott,     sq. 
Rev.  John  Kussell.D.D. 
James  Spicer,  Esq. 
John  Charles  Templer,  Esq. 


Lord  G*o.  Henry  Cavendish,  M.P. 
Frederick  Cowper,  Esq. 
Philip  Hardwick,  Esq. 

The  Equitable  is  an  entirely  mutual  office.  The  reserve,  at  the  last 
"rest,"  in  December,  1859,  exceeded  three-fourths  of  a  million  sterling, 
a  sum  more  than  double  the  corresponding  fund  of  any  similar  in- 
stitution. 

The  bonuses  paid  on  claims  in  the  10  years  ending  on  the  31st  De- 
cember, 1859.  exceeded  3,500,ijOO/.,  being  more  than  100  per  cent,  on  the 
amount  of  all  those  claims. 

The  amount  added  at  the  close  of  that  decade  to  the  policies  existing 
on  the  1st  January,  1860,  was  1,977.0007.,  and  mude,  with  former  addi- 
tions then  outstanding,  a  total  of  4,070,0007.,  on  assurances  originally 
taken  out  for  6,252,0007.  only. 

These  additions  have  increased  the  claims  allowed  and  paid  under 
those  policies  since  the  1st  January,  1860,  to  the  extent  of  150  ptr  cent. 

The  capital,  on  the  31st  December  last,  consisted  of— 

2,730,0007. -stock  in  the  public  Funds. 

3,^06,2971. —  cash  lent  on  mortages  of  freehold  estates. 

300,0007. — cash  advanced  on  railway  debentures. 

83,5907.  —  cash  advanced  on  security  of  the  policies  of  members  of  the 
Society. 

Producing  annually  221,  4827. 

The  totalincome  exceeds  400,0007.  per  annum. 

Policies  effected  in  the  year  1862  will  participate  in  the  distribution 
of  profits  made  in  December,  1&~>9,  so  soon  as  six  annual  preminmj 
shall  have  become  due  and  been  paid  thereon;  and,  in  the  division 
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upon  them  from  the  year  18(12  to  I8G9,  each  inclusive. 
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tion; and  the  Directors  will  advance  nine-tenths  of  tliat  value  us  a 
temporary  accommodation,  on  the  deposit  of  a  policy. 

No  extra  premium  is  charged  for  service  in  any  Volunteer  Corps 
within  the  United  Kinerlom,  during  peace  or  war. 

A  Weekly  Court  of  Directors  is  held  every  Wednesday,  from  11  to  1 
o'clock,  to  receive  proposals  for  new  assurances  ;  and  a  short  account  of 
the  Society  may  be  had  on  application,  personally  or  by  post,  Jrorn  the 
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dia.   Our  Old  and  New  Cotton  Fields. 

ITALY.-Behind  the  Tope's  Scenes.     Through  a  Difficult   Country. 

Judicial  Murder. 
LAW.— Portable  Property  in  Land. 


LONDON" The    Genii  of  the  Lamps. 

Chapters.) 


London  Water.     (In  Four 


MANNERS — Professor  Bon  Ton.  (Two  Chapteis.)  At  the  Court  of 
the  King  of  the  Gipsies.  Pet  Prejudices.  Going  to  the  Play  with 
ShaVspeare.  Bribing  Servants.  Stories  of  the  Black  Men.  Don't— 
A  Word  about  Servants.  Marks  of  Genius.  English  Life  Abroad. 
On  Bribes.  Foreign  Alfuirs.  Seventeen  Hundred  and  Sixty-two. 
Love  and  Marriage  in  Persia. 

MANUFACTURES — Incombustible  Muslin.  The  Good  Servant  ar>d 
the  Bad  Master.  Ladies'  Lives. 

MEDICAL  SCIENCE.-A  New  Disease.  Between  the  Cradle  and 
the  Grave.  M.D.  and  M.  A.D.  A  Mortal  Struggle. 


METEOROLOGY.-History  of  a  Young  "  Ology." 

MILITARY  AND  NAVAL  LIFE.-A  Field  Day.  The  Iron  War- 
Ship.  The  Best  House  of  Correction.  Tape  at  the  Horse  Guards. 

MUSIC. -Street  Music.    An  Unreported  Speech. 

NATURAL  HISTORY.— Cotton  Fields.  Skating  Spiders.  Tunnel 
Spiders.  Mites. 

NATURAL  PHENOMENA.-Fire.    The  Earthquake  of  Last  Year. 

PASTIMES — Pursuit  of  Cricket  under  Difficulties. 

POETRY Unrest.  Rabbi  Ben  Ephraim's  Treasure.  The  Lady 

Witch.  How  Lady  Blanche  Arundel  held  Wardour  for  King 
Charles.  Select  Committee  on  French  Songs,  in  Two  Sittings. 
Fair  Urience.  Fallen  Leaves.  Rosemary  from  the  Camaldoli 
Monastery  at  Naples.  At  the  Roadside.  The  Hermit  at  Home. 
Melancholia.  The  Mine  Spirit.  A  Great  Man.  On  the  Waste. 
Life's  Balances. 

POLITICAL  HISTORY.-The  Yellow  Pamphlet.  The  Divine  Hedge. 

POOR  LAW Two  Cures  for  a  Pinch. 

PRIVATEERING.-Black  Flags  in  the  Channel. 

PRODIGIES.— Almanacs.    A  Prodigy-Hunter. 

RAILWAYS.— Rather  interested  in  Railways.  The  Great  National 
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THE  ROAD.-Hurrah!  for  the  Road.    Tolls  and  no  Tolls. 

RUSSIA At  Home  in  Russia.  Among  the  Horse-keepers.  In  the 

Hands  of  the  Police.  Frost  and  Thaw.  Risk  by  the  River.  Offi- 
cially Rescued.  Nothing  like  Russian  Leather.  Ice-bound  in  Russia. 

SOCIAL  ECONOMY.— The  Bees  of  Carlisle.  The  Best  House  of  Cor- 
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STORIES._Mr.  H.'s  Own  Narrative.  Operating  for  a  Rise.  The 
Withered  Daisy.  Judge  Lynch's  Mercy.  The  Green  Light.  Kerli's 
Peak.  Saving  a  Patient.  A  Rather  Remarkable  Person.  Travel- 
lers'Tales.  Michael  the  Dragoon.  This  Sheet  of  Paper.  A  Little 
Magic.' 

THE  ATRICALS.— Town  and  Country  Circus  Life. 

TOPOGRAPHY.— New  Zealand.  The  Terrestrial  Paradise.  A  Cotton 
Eden.  Our  Latest  Eden. 

TRAVEL — From  Turkey  to  Persia.  St.  George  and  the  Dragoman. 
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TRIALS — Striking  Likenesses.  The  Fair  Man  of  Dark  Fortune.  The 
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CONTENTS.—  NO.  14. 

NOTES  :  —  Oxford  in  1698—92  :  from  Original  Letters,  261 
—  Shakspeariana  :  Shakspeare's  "  Much  Ado  about  No- 
thing" —  Shakspeare  Music—  Old  Allusions  to  Shake- 
speare —  Who  Steals  my  Purse  —  "  Delighted  :  "  "  M  ea- 
suro  for  Measure,"  Act  III.  Sc.  1.  —  Shakespeare.  "Ham- 
let," Act  V.  Sc.  2,  264—  An  English  Academy  for  Eminence 
in  Literature,  266  —  Inedited  Letter  from  a  Queen  of 
France,  267. 


NOTES  :£—  "Visiting  Cards  —  Royal  Exchange  Motto 
Use  of  the  Tongue  in  Speech  —  Stephen  Kemble—  A 
famous  Wrestler  —  Acts  of  Parliament  Repealed,  267. 

QUERIES:—  Standing  at  the  Lord's  Prayer,  268  —  Isaac 
Ambrose  —  Architectural  Views  —  More  Mysteries  about 
Burke  —  Mrs  Curaberbatch  —  "  English  Fashions  in  Italy 
in  the  17th  Century  "  —  Freeman  Family  —  Gerlachus 
Flicciis  —  Mediaeval  Architects  —  Mesmerism  —  Palestine 
Association  —  Pickering  Family  —  Quotations  Wanted  — 
Rainbow  in  1644  —  Rugby  School  —  Sir  John  Strange  — 
Three-penny  Curates  —  Wilkes's  last  Speech  in  Parlia- 
ment, 269. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS  :  —  Christopher  Wandesforde  — 
Emanuel  le  Scrope,  Earl  of  Sunderland  —  "  Diary  of  Lady 
Willoughby"  -Joseph  Hallet—  Welsh  Mottoes—  Walton 
and  Cotton  Club,  271. 

REPLIES  :  —  Clerical  Knights,  273  —  Spencer  Cowper's  Trial, 
275  —  Toad-eater,  276  —  Paulson  —  Chief  Baron  James 
Reynolds  :  Baron  James  Reynolds  —  Biographical  Queries 

—  Coins  inserted  in  Tankards  —  Title-pages  —  Sir  H.  Davy 
and   James  Watt  —  Bristol   Cathedral  —  Sutton  Family 

—  "  God's    Providence  is   mine  Inheritance  "  —  Burke  • 
Mallow   Registers  —  Postage   Stamps  —  The  Carylls  of 
Ladyholt  —  "  Itinerarium  Italiee  "  —  Medical  Degrees,  276. 

Notes  on  Books. 


OXFORD  IN  1688-92 :  FROM  ORIGINAL  LETTERS. 

In  the  drawers  and  libraries  of  many  a  country 
house  in  England  are  rich  and  unexplored  stores 
of  information,  upon  matters  of  the  highest  po- 
litical interest.  We  have,  fortunately,  had  a  col- 
lection of  letters  of  this  character  lately  placed  by 
a  friend  in  our  hands,  and  proceed  to  lay  before 
our  readers  extracts  carefully  arranged,  and  illus- 
trated by  a  few  observations.  These  letters  form 
part  of  the  correspondence  of  Mr.  James  Harring- 
ton, M.A.,  second  son  of  James  Harrington  of 
Waltham  Abbey;  admitted  student  of  Christ 
Church,  Oxford,  Dec.  17,  1684,  and  of  the  Inner 
Temple  in  London. 

Mr.  Harrington  was  retained  for  the  Univer- 
sity in  a  cause  which  affected  its  privileges;  and 
Dr.  George  Smalridge,  Jan.  28,  16f§,  tells  him 
that  it  is  proposed  to  elect  him  their  burgess  in 
consequence  of  his  care  and  ability  in  defending 
their  cause. 

The  information  with  respect  to  Oxford  is  of 
peculiar  interest ;  as  A.  Wood,  in  his  Life,  is 
silent  on  the  proceedings  of  the  interval  between 
1687  and  1692, — the  period  which  is  illustrated 
in  these  letters.  Mr.  Harrington  wrote  the  pre- 
face to  the  first  volume  of  Wood's  Athence  Oxoni- 
ernes,  and  the  introduction  to  the  second;  he 
died  at  the  age  of  twenty-nine  years,  in  1693. 


We  must  apprise  the  reader  that  A.  M.  are  the 
initials  of  Arthur  Mainwaring,  a  nephew  of  Mr. 
Cholmeley,  whom  he  mentions  as  a  prisoner  in  the 
Tower.  See  Bayley's  Hist,  of  the  Tower,  ii.  639. 
A.  C.  denote  Arthur  Charlett,  Fellow  of  Trinity 
College,  1680  ;  Proctor,  April  18, 1683  ;  D.D.  July 
8,  1692  ;  and  Master  of  University  College,  1692. 
(Wood's  Life,  cxxi.,  A.  O.  iv.  386).  He  was  the 
son  of  the  Rev.  A.  Charlett,  Rector  of  Colling- 
bourne  Ducis,  Wilts ;  was  Chaplain  in  Ordinary 
from  1690  to  March,  1717;  and  Prebendary  of 
Worcester  Nov.  1713.  He  died  Nov.  18,  1722. 
He  maintained  a  correspondence  with  near  2000 
persons,  including  the  name  of  every  distinguished 
man  of  letters  and  science  of  the  period  ;  and  the 
tradition  in  his  college  was,  that  the  postage  of 
the  letters  which  he  received  amounted  to  nearly 
as  much  as  the  profits  of  his  Mastership,  which, 
until  June,  1707,  were  no  more  than  80/.  a-year 
(Oxoniana,  iv.  117-9). 

T.  N.  are  the  initials  of  Thomas  Newey,  of 
Christ  Church;  Proctor,  April  10,  1689  (4.  O. 
Fasti,  iv.  406.) 

G.  S.  mark  the  letters  of  George  Smalridge, 
the  Favonius  of  the  Toiler ;  afterwards  Bishop  of 
Bristol. 

Affairs  at  All  Souls1:  Founder's  Kin. 
"  There  are  here  (Ch.  Ch.)  Mr  Duke  and  Tim  Hannc?, 
J.  Man,  Heywood,  Gastrel ;  Atterbury  we  expect  agc-u 
to-night  .  .  .  Creech1  of  All  Souls  is  here;  and  be  tells 
me  effectual  care  is  taken  that  no  more  Founder's  Kins- 
men come  into  All  Souls.  I  enquired  concerning  the 
Chicheleys,  and  find  him  of  opinion  they  are  not  all  re- 
lated to  the  AbP,  and  that  no  one  of  that  name  can  be, 
for  he  sth  all  the  succession  is  by  a  daughter  of  one  of  the 
Founder's  brothers." 

(Endorsed  Mr  Creech,  about  Boys).  From  Thomas 
Creech.  —  "  If  it  hath  been  represented  to  you  that  the 
right  was  either  questioned  or  denyed,  ye  account  is  false. 
There  was  no  debate  about  it,  nor  indeed  was  there  any 
reason  for  such  a  debate.  You  know  very  well  y*  a 
bare  pedigree  doth  not  qualify  a  man;  ye  founder  re- 
quires other  conditions,  and  I  think  no  man  chosen  this 
election  but  was  much  more  qualifyed  than  ye  appealer ; 
however,  y«  College  is  sole  judge  of  that.  If  ye  young 
man  would  follow  his  study  a  little,  y°  pedigree  may  do 
him  some  service,  and  you  may  please  to  inform  him  y* 
a  turbulent  litigious  temper  is  not  a  very  good  qualifica- 
tion to  recommend  a  man  to  our  Society." 

The  following  anecdote  refers  to  the  election  of 
a  Camden  Professor  of  History.  Henry  Dodwell, 
the  learned  chronologist  and  controversialist,  who 
was  successful  on  this  occasion,  but  only  held  the 
office  for  three  years,  being  deprived  as  a  Non- 
juror.  Wood,  Ath.  Oxon.  Fasti,  iv.  404,  says  that 
he  was  elected  April  2,  "  generously  by  the  Uni- 
versity without  his  privity." 

What  came  of  a  Fellow  not  voting  for  his  Warden. 

"  March  18, 1688  (T.  N.)— It's  thought  Dr.  Lamphire* 

i  Thomas  Creech,  B.D.,  Fellow  of  All  Souls,  and  trans- 
lator of  Lucretius,  died  1701. 
*  Dr  John  Lamphire  was  Fellow  of  New  College,  1636 ; 


262 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I.  APRIL  5,  '62. 


cannot  live  much  longer;  if  no  mandate  come,  I  heare 
M*  Dodwell  intends  to  appears  against  Mr  Heylin^  for 
the  place." 

"AprilS,  1688  (T.N.)  — M'  Heylin,  distrusting  the 
strength  of  his  party,  how  justly  I  know  not,  desisted, 
and  designed  to  serve  the  warden  of  A.  S.  with  his  in- 
terest •  so  v*  the  only  three  competitors  who  stood  it  out 
were  D'  Aldworth,4  Mr  Finch,5  and  Mr  Dodwell;  the 
iirst  of  whom  upon  computation  appeared  to  have  86 
votes,  the  second  98,  and  the  third  104.  Most  of  us  were 
for  Mr  F.,  except  those  whose  peculiar  character  it  is  to 
dissent  from  the  rest  of  the  hous;  who,  tho' as  much 
against  a  foreigner  as  others,  yet  would  not  be  dissuaded 
from  throwing  away  theyr  votes  upon  Dr  Aldworth  ;  but 
Mr  F.  lost,  the  place  by*3  of  his  own  hous  — Dr  Trapp, 
Mr  Gardiner,  and  Mr*Proast;  for  if  they  had  voted  for 
him  instead  of  D.,  the  numbers  had  been  equall,  and, 
consequently,  he  had  carried  it  by  vertue  of  being  a  gra- 
duate in  this  University,  and  he  struck  Proast's  name 
out  the  book  last  Tuesday,  and  has  this  morning  sum- 
moned the  other  2  before  the  fellows,  and  register'd  em. 
I  know  this  proceeding  of  his  will  seem  a  little  too  hot, 
but  can  witness  for  him  y*  he  was  not  induced  to  it  by 
the  frequent  and  earnest  solicitations  of  the  fellows,  and 
after  having  received  two  not  very  obliging  letters  from 
Proast ;  and  really  at  first  sight  it  seems  a  little  too  pro- 
voking to  be  borne,  for  one  who  lyes  perfectly  at  the 
mercy  of  the  head  of  his  Coll.  not  onely  to  vote  against 
him,  but  to  be  importunate  with  others  to  doe  the  like. 
Since  the  election,  we  are  much  better  convinced  of  the 
imprudence  of  choosing  Mr  D,  at  this  juncture;  for,  not- 
withstanding the  BP  of  S*  A.'s6  and  Dr  Mills  certainty  of 
his  willingness  to  accept  the  place,  it  now  appears  y* 
they  were  so  far  from  having  consulted  him  y*  they  knew 
not  where  he  was,  having  sent  a  messenger  with  horses 
to  Dr  Fowk  and  Dr  Hollins  where  they  may  find  him." 

Burnet  v.  Dodwell. 

"DrKidder7  having  sent  for  Mr  Hody8  to  introduce 
him  into  Somersetshire,  both  gave  such  a  character  of 
Mr  Dndwell  at  Salisbury  to  ye  BP  there  of  ill  intentions 
agst  ye  Baroccian  MSS.,(J  that  it  so  fired  ye  BP,  as  to 
make  him  break  out  into  verv  intemperate  expressions 

Principal  of  New  Inn  Hall,  1662,  and  of  Hartlmll  1663; 
and  Camden  Profe°sor  1660-68.    He  died  March  80,  1G88. 
s  Thomas  Heylyn,  of  Ch.  Ch.,  M.A.,  1669. 

4  Charles  Aldworth,  D.C.L.,  Fellow  of  Magdalen,  was 
elected  Camden  Professor,  Nov.  19,  1691;  he  died  April 
lo,  1720. 

5  Hon.  Leopold  W.  Finch,  admitted  without  election 
by  the  King's  mandate,  Warden,  Jan.  21,   1686 ;    Pre- 
bendary of  Canterbury,  Nov.  4,  1689;  he  was  nominated 
again  by  Archbishop  Tenison,  Oct.  31,  1698,  having  for- 
mally vacated  the  Headship  for  the  purpose. 

6  The  Bishop  of  St.  Asaph  was  William  Lloyd,  trans- 
lated to  Lichfield  Oct.  20,  1694;  and  to  Worcester,  June 
20.  1700. 

7  The  intruded  Bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells,  in  the  place 
of  the  excellent  Bishop  Ken. 

8  Humphrey  Hody,  M.A.,  Fellow  of  Wadham  College, 
Regius  Professor  of  Divinity,  and  Archdeacon  of  Oxford. 
His  edition  of  the  treatise  attributed  to  Nicephorus,  of 
the  thirteenth  or  fourteenth  century,  and  asserting  that 
the  unjust  deprivation  of  a  bishop,  if  his  successor  Avas  not 
a  heretic,  did  not  make  a  church  guilty  of  schism,  in 
16'J1,  provoked  a  reply  from  Dodwell  in  169'2,  entitled 
A   Vindication  of  the  Deprived  Bishops. 

0  The  MSS.  of  F.  Barocci,  the  mathematician  of  Venice, 
•were  sold  by  his  heirs,  and  came  to  the  Bodleian  Library 
as  part  of  Langbaine's  collection. 


agdt  Mr  Dodwell  before  Dr  Whitby  * ;  who,  according  to 
his  usual  simplicity  of  friendship,  has  communicated 
them  in  a  letter  to  Mr  D.,  who  has  replyd  very  sharply 
to  it,  without  any  regard  to  ye  vertues  or  abilitys  of  Dr. 
Burnett  (A.  C.,  [Charlett],  1692)." 

What  People  thought  of  the  Bishop  of  Oxford. 

"  The  B.  of  O.8  fills  every  mouth.  I  never  knew  any 
under  a  more  universal  odium.  The  B.  of  C.  is  a  S*  to  him. 
Ev'n  in  Yorkshire,  where  the  countrey  gentlemen  talk  of 
nothing  but  horses,  they  launch  out  ag*  him,  and  a  dis- 
tanced horse  is  not  spoken  ag*  wth  more  contempt.  This 
epitaph  goes  about  him,  wh,  because  I  recd  not  from  Ox., 
tho'  I  recd  a  letter  thence,  take  — 

*  If  Heaven  be  glad  when  sinners  cease  to  sin, 
If  Hell  be  glad  when  sinners  do  come  in, 
If  Earth  be  glad  when  it  doth  lose  a  knave, 
Then  all  are  glad  S.  O.  is  in  his  grave.' " 

Fairfax  v.  Burnet. 

"  There  is  a  sheet  by  Fairfax  the  Jesuite  ag*  Dr  Mau- 
rice5 for  licensing  a  pamphlet  in  defence  of  our  Orders, 
very  mean.  A  defence  of  the  Considerations  on  Luther 
against  his  Vindicator,  still  meaner.  The  reflections  on 
Burnet  are  stupid  to  the  most  utmost  degree." 

Affairs  at  Magdalen. 

1G88.  T.  N.  says,  "  We  have  little  news  here  but  of 
the  civil  wars  in  Magdalen.  The  fellows  thought  the 
BP3  government  a  little  too  arbitrary,  and  were  preparing 
to  desire  him  to  govern  by  Statute ;  wch  he  perceiving, 
called  'em  before  him,  and  produced  and  read  to  'em  a 
Commission  from  the  King,  whereby  he  was  im powered 
to  govern  the  Coll.,  and  displace  and  place  fellows,  &c., 
according  to  his  own  pleasure,  without  any  appeal  to 
Visitor,  Ecclesiastical  Com",  or  the  King  himself.  He  told 
'em  the  Coll.  was  by  the  Founder's  charity  designed  a 
seminary  for  learned  and  pious  men ;  y1  some  of  'em  were 
neither  way  qualified.  As  for  y°  rest,  he  bad  'em  he- 

1  Daniel   Whitby,   D.D.,   Fellow  of  Trinity   College, 
Precentor  of  Salisbury,  1G72,  and  the  learned  Commen- 
tator of  the  New  Testament.     He  died  an  Arian.     He 
wrote,  in  1707,  Reflections — "showing  the  falsehood  and 
pernicious  consequences  of  the  opinions  of  Mr.   Henry 
Dodwell,   contained    in   a  book   intituled  an  Epistolary 
Discourse,  proving  that  the  soul  is  a  principle  naturally 
mortal." 

2  Samuel  Parker,  D.D.,  F.R.S.,  was  the  son  of  Mr. 
Baron  Parker,  and  forsook  the  Independents  to  become  a 
Romanist.     He  was  appointed,  by  royal  mandamus,  Pre- 
sident of  Magdalen,  Oct.  25,  1687,  and  made  a  Privy 
Councillor.     Father  Petre  condemned  his  bigotry  and  in- 
temperance.    He  refused  at  last,  according  to  Evelyn,  to 
declare  for  the  Roman  Church  ;  and  died  March  20,  1688. 
He   was  buried  in   Magdalen   Chape!.     His   successor, 
Timothy  Hall,  was  promoted  for  reading  the  Declaration 
of  Conscience  in  person,  whilst  others  employed  their 
parish  clerks  at  a  fee  of  2s.  6d.    Neither  Dean  nor  Canon 
would  instal  him ;  nor  wrould  any  graduate  receive  orders 
from  him,  so  that  on  May  26,  1689,  Bishop  Levinz  came 
to  hold  an  ordination  in  Magdalen  College  Chapel.    Dr. 
Hall  died  in  great  poverty  at  Homerton,  April  i»,  1690 ; 
and  was  buried  at  Hackney.  He  was  succeeded  by  the  ex- 
cellent John  Hough,  President  of  Magdalen.    The  Bishop 
of  Chester  here  alluded  to  was  Thomas  Cariwright,  con- 
secrated Oct.  17,  1688.     He  came  with  L.  C.  J.  Wright 
and  Mr.  Baron  Jenner,  as  a  Commissioner,  Oct.  20,  1687, 
to  expel  Hough  from  the  Presidency. 

5  Henry  Maurice,  D.D.,  Chaplain  to  the  Archbishop  of 
Canterbury. 


S.  I.  APKIL  5,  '62.3 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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gone  and  live  quiethr,  or  they  should  heare  further  from 
him  shortly.  Our  Dean  told  a  friend  of  his  t'other  day 
y*  half  of  'em  .  ...  tw  ....  of  wch  number  Charnock 
....  being  not  onely  Chancellor,  but  Vicar-generall, 
wch  I  am  glad  to  heare  to  befall." 

"June  12°  (Anon).  —  Charnock4  and  Cotton  have 
fought  of  late.  Charnock  has  put  him  out  of  Commons. 
Fairfax  turned  out  a  boy  from  being  chorister,  and  Char- 
nock  admitted  him  clerk.  This  corporation  was  entirely 
dissolved  the  last  week.  The  King  had  reserv'd  a  power 
of  putting  out,  and  put  out  all.  There  are  8  put  into 
commission  to  govern  the  town,  3  Wrights,  Brown,  a 
hatter,  Carter,  a  brewer,  and  one  Padrey,  &c." 

"  April  24  (T.  N.)  — Tomorrow  being  S'  Mark's  day, 
the  University  Sermon  ought  to  be  at  Magdalen's,  upnn 
pain  of  someof  the  University  lands  lapsing  to  Trinity  Coll. 
Bat  they  began  to  say  Mass  there  last  Sunday ;  and'Char- 
nock,  resolving  y*  nothing  like  heresy  shall  ever  come 
within  those  walls  again,  has  appointed  Fr  Fairfax  to 
preach ;  what  the  issue  is,  you'll  hear  by  the  next  .... 
[A  fragment  by  another  correspondent  supplies  this 
hiatus]  .  .  .  Protestant  preach,  was  because  Charnock 
put  up  Fairfax  at  Se  Maries,  where  Mr  Whiting  of  Wad- 
ham  gave  us  an  ingenious  discourse." 

Clianges  in  the  Oxford  Corporation. 
"May  31,  1688  (T.  N.)  — There's  a  new  regulation  of 
the  Oxford  charter  coming  down,  whereof  10  out  of  the 
13  are  to  be  turned  out,  and  Alderman  Wright  constituted 
mayor." 

The  Affairs  of  Obadiah  Walker. 

«  Ox.  Sunday,  May  6*  (G.  S.)  —  Walker  *  has  'pub- 
lished a  Discourse  of  the  Eucharist,  a  book  often  cited  but 
never  before  printed,  written  by  the  author  of  the  rest, 
for  he  professeth  himself  the  editor  only.  There  are  ad- 
joined 2  appendixes  in  Defence  of  the  2  discourses  before 
printed;  one  in  answer  to  the  London  Answerer,  and  the 

other  to  the  Oxford  replier Dr.  Burnet  he  cals  a 

perfidious  fugitive,  Cranmer  he  sth  for  flattery,  lust,  in- 
constancy, ingratitude,  and  treason,  and  most  damnable 
Hobbism,  deserves  the  invectives  and  execrations  of  all 
posterity.  BP  Taylor  he  cals  an  inconstant,  artificiall, 
and  confident  writer  —  one  that  wrote  according  as  his 
humor  and  circumstances  engaged,  and  never  scrupled 
contradicting  himself." 

"  Anon.  —  Walker  has  put  out  another  book  wch  he 
calls  a  Compendious  Discourse  on  the  Eucharist,  tho'  it 
contains  240  pages  besides  two  appendixes,  the  first  and 
longest  wherof  pretends  to  be  an  Answer  to  Wake ;  the 
2d  to  the  Oxford  Reply,  the  author  of  wch  designs  him  a 
return  at  y«  end  of  y«  Reflections,  for  wch  reason  he  thinks 
it  requisite  there  should  be  a  new  preface,  and  therefore 
has  left  out  ye  introduction,  but  contrived  where  to  bring 
it  all  in  in  different  places  in  the  body  of  the  book ;  he 
desires  you  would  at  leisure  think  of  some  convenient 


4  Robert  Charnock,  Vice-President  and  Fellow  of  Mag- 
dalen, M.A.,  1686 ;  he  was  executed  in  1696  for  partici- 
pation in  the  "Assassination  Plot,"  and  meanlv  offered 
to  betray  the  trust  of  the  Jacobites,  in  whose  "employ- 
ment he  had  been  sent  to  St.  Germain's,  and  had  received 
the  commission  of  a  Captain  from  James  II. 

*  Obadiah  Walker,  a  man  of  learning  and  talent,  and 
a  Romanist  before  elected  Master  of  University  College, 
June  22, 1676,  declared  himself  of  that  faith  in  1685;  and 
on  Aug.  15,  1686,  opened  a  Romish  chapel  in  the  college, 
and  in  1687,  established  a  printing-press  in  it  under  Let- 
ters Patent,  where  he  published  the  tracts  of  Woodward, 
Master  of  the  Romish  seminary  at  Hoxton.  He  left  Ox- 
ford, Nov.  9,  1688;  and  on  Feb.  4,  1689,  the  mastership 
was  filled  up  by  the  election  of  the  senior  Fellow. 


place  to  insert  something  concerning  the  Bodleian  Li- 
brary, or  the  greatest  part  of  the  revenues  of  University 
Coll.,  being  given  by  Sir  Simon  Bennet,  a  Protestant." 

"  Here  has  been  a  great  bustle  about  a  roguish  taylor'a 
boy,  perhaps  you  may  know  him  by  the  ,name  of 
Kidny ;  he  put  his  head  into  Commissioners'  coach  when 
they  were  here,  and  cryd, '  Some  of  us  will  be  hanged  ; ' 
and  lately  threw  Sir  Reverence  in  at  the  window  upon 
Obadiah'a  plate  when  he  was  dinner.  When  the  con- 
stables came  to  seiz  him  by  Ob.  warrant,  he  asked 
'em  how  they  durst  obey  one  who  was  not  qualified  for  a 
justice  of  peace,  as  not  having  taken  the  oaths;  he  was 
rescued  from  the  constables  in  the  streets,  and  his  health 
always  succeeds  the  Ld  Lovelace's.6  Its  sayd  a  gentle- 
man commoner  or  two  of  Queens  were  concerned  in  the 
rescue;  and  the  judges  sent  out  warrants  to  eeiz  'em,  and 
ordered  the  constables  to  search  the  coll.,  but  they  were 
not  found. 

«  Jun.  26,  1688  (T.|N.)  —  Th«  BP  of  Madaura  *  arrived 
here  last  Sunday  was  sennight ;  he  complained  mightily 
to  our  Dean  8  y*  night  of  ye  trouble  he  was  like  to  re- 
ceive next  day  by  visits  from  ye  beads  of  houses  before 
he  had  recovered  ye  fatigue  of  his  journey,  but  I  do  not 
hear  y*  his  door  has  been  beaten  down.  He  went  yester- 
day, accompanied  by  Mafrey  and  Obadiah,  to  visit  the 
Vice-ch.9,  where  he  met  Dr  Bathurst 10,  Beeston  »,  and 
invited  'em  all  to  dinner  next  Sunday.  Yesterday  the 
Act  was  by  ye  Convocation  put  off." 

" Ch.-Ch.  Jan.  27,  168|  (T.  N.)  —Yesterday  the  Vice- 
Ch.  and  the  rest  of  the  visitors  of  University  College, 
having  received  a  complaint  from  the  fellows,  met  in  the 
Apodyterium 3,  but  it  not  being  a  regular  appeal  they 
did  nothing,  onely  ordered  'em  to  draw  it  up  in  form,  and 
agreed  when  y*  is  done  to  summon  them  and  Obadiah  to 
appeare  before  'em  to  morrow  sennight." 

Musical  Instruments  used  at  St.  Mary's. 
"169-  (W.  Stratford.)  —  We  had  great  doings  upon 
the  thanksgiving  day  in  St.  Maries.  All  the  services  sung 
with  violins^and  harpsicals." 

Affairs  at  Corpus  Chrlsti  College. 

"March  18  (T.  Newey.)  — Mr.  Chetwood  is  defeated 
in  his  expectations  at  C.  C.  C.  if  he  had  any  last  tuesday. 
Dr  Turner  3  was  regularly  elected,  approved  by  the  visi- 

3  John,  third  Lord  Lovelace,  Captain  of  the  Band  of 
Pensioners,  a  zealous  adherent  of  William  of  Orange, 
whom  he  entertained  at  Lady  Place,  Berks.  His  prodi- 
gality brought  him  so  low,  that  by  the  decree  of  the 
Court  of  Chancerv,  a  great  portion  of  his  estates  were 
sold. 

7  BonaventureGiflford,  aDoctor  of  the  Sorbonne,  titular 
Bishop  of  Madura,  April  22,  1688,  took  possession  of  the 
President's  Lodge  as  the  king's  nominee  June  15,  1688. 
On  Oct  25  following,  Dr.  Hough  was  restored.     (Gough's 
Wood,  ii.  319.) 

8  John  Massey,  a  Roman  Catholic,  being  a  convert 
from   Presbyterian  ism,  installed  Dec.  29,  1686,  Dean  of 
Christ  Church.     He  fled  Nov.  1688  to  London,  and  died 
n  1715ln  Paris.  (Gough's  Wood,  ii.  441.) 

9  Dr.  G.  Ironside,  Warden  of  Wadham,  successively 
Bishop  of  Bristol  1689,  and  Hereford,  1694. 

10  Ralph   Bathurst  was  President  of  Trinity  College, 
rlis  life  has  been  written  by  Warton.     He  died  June  14, 
1704. 

1  Dr.  H.  Beeston  was  Warden  of  New  College,  elected 
Aug.  7,  1679,  and  Commissary  of  Oxford,  1680.     He  died 
May  12,   1701.     (William  of  Wykeham  and  his  Colleges, 
p.  350;  Nutt.  1852.) 

2  See  «  Wood's  Life,"  Ath.  Oxon.  cxii. 

5  Thomas  Turner,  Prebendary  of  Ely,  Precentor  of  St. 


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[3r«  S.  I.  APRIL  5,  '62. 


tor  on  Wednesday,  and  installed  on  Thursday.  On  Fry- 
day  was  sennight  Bernard  recd  a  large  pacquet  of  letters 
wch  rajsd  his  hopes,  and  our  fears,  but  when  opened  ii 
provd  onely  a  larg  sheet  of  brown  paper,  and  a  round 

Affairs  at  Exeter  College. 

"  June  17,  1692.  —  The  BP  of  Exeter4  went  to  the  Coll 
in  his  robes  j'esterday ;  he  knockt  thrice  at  the  chapel, 
but  could  gain  no  admittance.  The  Rector  and  some  fel- 
lows met  him  in  the  quadrangle,  and  presented  him  a 
protestation  ag*  hia  authority,  subscribed  by  the  rector 
and  major  part  of  the  fellows  of  the  house.  The  BP  sd 
if  they  had  any  thing  to  offer  they  ought  to  offer  it  in 
the  place  whither  they  were  cited.  The  Rector  5  or- 
dered it  to  be  read  there,  but  the  BP  threw  it  down  on 
the  ground.  12  Fellows  subscribed  it,  8  that  were  in  the 
college  refused  to  subscribe,  and  were  ready  to  attend  the 
BP.  The  BP  would  have  gone  into  the  Hall,  but  no 
Butler  was  to  be  found.  He  went  into  a  staircase,  and 
there  swore  some  fellows  to  prove  the  citation  had  regu- 
larly been  set  up.  Those  who  complied  wth  the  BP  are 
accused  by  their  brethren  of  perjury  in  opposing  the  Pro- 
testation, "wh  was  an  act  of  the  house,  to  all  wh  they  are 
sworn  to  give  obedience.  The  BP  has  sent  up  to  the  E. 
of  Nottingham  to  beg  his  advise.  All  the  fellows 
waited  upon  him  at  Dr  Jane's  6  the  day  after  he  came  in 
2  parties,  the  rector  with  his,  and  Colmer  wth  his  friends. 
The  Rector  had  told  him  then  he  should  protest.  The 
Rector  reckons  it  was  an  extraordinary  piece  of  civility 
that  he  did  not  shut  them  out  of  the  gates  of  the  College. 
They  do  not  protest  against  his  visiting  in  this  case,  but 
at  this  time.  The  last  the}r  acknowledge  to  have  been  a 
visitation,  but  that  it  did  not  extend  to  Colmer's  case  .  . 
.  .  .  .  Dr  Hannes  7  designed  to  have  begun  his  chymicall 
Lecture  yesterday,  but  because  a  full  number  did  not 
come  in,  he  deferred  it  fbr  a  fortnight,  and  is  gone  to 
Astrop." 

Dr.  Mills's  Greek  Testament. 

"  Mr  Philip  Fowke,  writing*from  Salop,  May  7,  1687, 
begs  his  correspondent  to  put  down  his  name  as  a  sub- 
scriber to  certain  works.  '  SSome  of  ym,'  he  says,  '  I  doubt 
will  be  slow  enough,  especially  ye  Gr  T.  although  ye  best 
thing  (doubtless)  if  he  lives  to  finish  it,  yc  world  has  in 
its  kind.  I  wish  him  health,  life,  and  patience  to  go  on 
with  it,  and  y*  no  rubs  be  cast  in  his  way  by  those  whose 
interest  it  is  to  discourage  learning,  and  reduce  us  to 
Barbarism  again  in  order  to  implicit  Faith.  Methinks 
he  should  be  minded  to  finish  ye  Gospels  and  Acts  first, 

Paul's,  1689,  and  Archdeacon  of  Essex  ;  elected  President 
March  13,  168$.     He  died,  April  30,  1714. 

4  Sir  Jonathan  Trelawney,   translated    from  Bristol, 
April  3,  1689. 

5  William    Painter,  D.D.  Rector  of  Wotton,    elected 
1690;  died  Feb.  19,  1715.     Arthur  Bury,  D.D.,  Preben- 
dary of  Exeter,  Vicar  of  Brampton,  King's  Chaplain,  was 
elected  Rector,  1665;  and  was  ejected  by  Bishop  Trelaw- 
ney 26  July,  1690,  for  a  Socinian  work  called  the  Naked 
Gospel.     James  Colmer,  B.M.   1690,  one  of  the  Fellows  of 
bad  repute,  was  expelled,  and  Dr.  Bury  wrote  an  "Ac- 
count of  the  Unhappy  Affair,"  &c.,  which  was  answered  by 
Mr.  James  Harrington  vindicating  Colmer,  to  which  he 
again  replied.     (Ath.  Oxon.  iv.  486.) 

6  Dr.  Jane  was  Canon  of  Christ  Church,  Regius  Profes- 
sor of  Divinity,  Prolocutor,  and  Dean  of  Gloucester     He 
died  1706. 

i  Edward  Hannes,  Westminster  Student  of  Ch.  Ch. 
D.M.  1695.  He  took  his  degree  of  M.A.  on  the  same  day 
as  George  Smalridge.  He  was  elected  Professor  of  Che- 
mistry, 1690.  (Ath.  Oxon.  iv.  667.) 


and  yn  ye  mattr  will  not  be  so  great ;  y«  account  of  Mr 
W.'s  book  is  surely  very  exact,  and  yr  memory  happy  yrt 
can  methodise  a  book  in  so  little  time.  I  think  it  will 
spare  one  ye  reading  of  it.  Doubtless  he  will  have  answers 
enough,  if  they  dare  be  seen,  or  his  pformance  tanti  to 
engage  any  of  the  great  ones.  Methinks  DR.  BURNET 
may  have  leisure  and  freedom,  besides  a  ready  stock  of 
materials,  if  he  be  not  damned  in  Scotland,  so  y*  he  nor 
any  thing  of  his  be  suffered  to  appear  here.  If  it  prove 
so,  he  will  have  enough  of  others  to  expose  him  in  ye 
historical  part,  I  question  not;  and  for  ye reasoning  part, 
I  think  he  is  no  great  master.  I  have  seen  one  answer 
already  by  a  gent,  y*  humbles  him  sufficientlv.'  " 

"Sept.  17,  1688.  —  I  am  sorry  to  hear  Dr  M.'s  Gr  T.  is 
at  such  a  stand  as  to  be  gott  no"  further  yn  21  Acts." 
MACKENZIE  E.  C.  WALCOTT,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 


SHAKSPEARTANA: 
SHAKSPEARE'S  «  MUCH  ADO  ABOUT  NOTHING." 

"  Benedict.  Ho !  now  you  strike  like  the  blind  man ; 
'twas  the  boy  that  stole  your  meat,  and  you'll  beat  the 
post."— Act  II.  Scene  1. 

I  find  no  note  to  this  passage  in  the  only  anno- 
tated edition  of  Shakspeare  which  I  possess, 
namely,  Knight's  Original  Pictorial  Shakspere, 
(Comedies,  ii.  p.  86).  As  it  may  have  escaped  the 
notice  of  other  editors,  I  beg  to  supply  an  ex- 
planation which  I  have  found  in  a  rather  unex- 
pected quarter  —  a  Spanish  volume.  In  the 
"  Discurso  preliminar  sobre  la  Novela  Espnnola," 
p.  xxii.  prefixed  to  Arriban's  Novelistas  anteriores 
d  Cervantes  (Madrid,  1846),  the  editor,  speaking 
of  the  familiar  acquaintance  with  the  story  of 
La%arillo  de  Tormes,  which  Cervantes  and  other 
celebrated  writers  have  shown,  thus  continues  :  — 

'  Shakespeare  aludid  tambien  a  la  venganza  que  Laza- 
rillo  tomd  de  su  primer  amo,  cuando  dice :  " ;  Oh  !  vos  dais 
oalos  de  ciego.  Vuestro  lazarjllo  os  hurtd  la  comida,  y  vos 
dais  en  el  paste." 

The  original  passage  from  Shakspere  is  quoted 
in  the  note,  but  it  is  slightly  misprinted,  "  And 
you'll  meat  the  post"  (Qu.,  could  "meet"  have 
been  meant  ?)  being  given  for  "  and  you'll  beat 
the  post."  The  English  play  is  called  Much 
Ado  for  Nothing,  which  is  felicitously  translated 
into  the  equivalent  Spanish  proverb,  Mucho  ruido 
y  pocas  nueces,  or,  as  we  would  say  it,  "  Great 
cry  and  little  wool." 

There  can  be  little  doubt  that  Benedict  does 
allude  to  Lazarillo  de  Tormes  in  this  passage,  but 
nevertheless  the  conclusion  of  it  is  still,  to  me  at 
east,  a  little  obscure.  In  the  first  chapter  of  that 
earliest  of  the  picaresco  novels  we  have  "  the 
olind  man  "  (el  ciego},  "  the  boy  "  who  leads  him 
(el  lazarillo},  the  theft  of  the  "  meat"  or  sausage 
[longaniza),  and  "  the  post "  (un  pilar  6  poste  de 
tiedra),  but  "  the  heating  of  the  post "  remains  to 
explained.  In  the  story,  "  the  post"  is  made 
;he  instrument  of  the  boy's  revenge,  and  the  blind 
man's  punishment,  not  the  vicarious  object  of  his 
wrath,  Can  there  be  a  double  allusion  in  the 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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passage  ?  Could  Shakspere,  while  thinking  of  the 
story  of  Lazarillo,  have  had  any  knowledge  of  the 
anecdote  which  found  its  way  long  afterwards 
into  print,  and  which  Mr.  Halliwell  gives  in  his 
valuable  Dictionary  of  Archaic  Words,  under 
"Post"?  — 

"  One  night  a  drunken  fellow  'josled  against  a  post, 
but  the  fellow  thought  somebody  had  josled  him,  and  fell 
(i  beating  the  post  till  his  fingers  were  broken.  Says  one 
to  him,  «  Fie!  What  do  you  do  to  fight  with  a  post?' 
•  Is  it  a  post  ?  Why  did  be  not  blow  his  horn  then  ?'  "  — 
Oxford  Jests,  1706,  p.  101. 

The  obscurity,  if  any,  may  have  been  long  since 
cleared  up.  In  any  case  I  would  thank  some  of 
your  Shaksperian  critics  for  an  explanation  or  a 
reference.  D.  F.  MAC-CAETHY. 

Since  forwarding  my  note  upon  the  passage  in 
this  play  which  is  founded  on  the  incident  de- 
scribed in  Lazarillo  de  Tormes,  I  have  looked 
into  a  number  of  editions  of  Shakspeare,  including 
the  very  valuable  one  in  eight  volumes  by  Mr. 
Collier,  and  the  more  recent  edition  by  Mr.  Dyce ; 
but  neither  in  these  nor  in  any  of  the  earlier  edi- 
tions that  I  have  examined  is  there  any  explana- 
tion of  the  passage,  which  I  suppose  must  have 
been  given  up  as  one  hopelessly  obscure.  It  is 
somewhat  strange  that  what  I  searched  for  in 
vain  in  any  edition  of  the  original,  I  found  at  once 
in  M.  Guizot's  French  translation,  a  copy  of  which 
is  in  the  King's  Inns  Library,  Henrietta  Street, 
Dublin.  In  M.  Guizot's  CEuvres  Completes  de 
Shakspeare,  t.  vii.  p.  160,  there  is  this  brief  note, 
"  Allusion  a  Vaveugle  de  Lazarillo  de  Tormes"  I 
am  in  doubt  whether  to  account  for  an  explana- 
tion of  a  difficult  passage  in  Shakspeare  being 
given  by  Spanish  and  French  writers,  where  so 
many  English  editors  Tiave  been  silent,  to  the 
wider  acquaintance  with  the  story  of  Lazarillo  de 
Tormes  which  still  exists  on  the  Continent,  or  to 
the  possibility  of  the  foreign  writers  having  de- 
rived their  information  from  some  English  source 
as  yet  unknown  to  me.  D.  F.  MAC  CARTHY. 

Summerfield,  Dalkey. 


SHAKESPEARE  MUSIC. 

Of  the  pretty  serenade  in  Cymleline,  "  Hark ! 
hark !  the  lark,"  &c.,  I  have  never  yet  been  able 
to  meet  with  any  setting  by  an  English  composer, 
except  the  well-known  one  for  four  voices  by  Dr. 
Benjamin  Cooke.  There  are,  however,  two  set- 
tings, as  solos,  by  German  musicians.  One  of  these 
is  by  F.  Curschmann,  and  the  other  by  F.  Schu- 
bert. They  are  published  in  London  with  both 
English  and  German  words,  and  Schubert's  com- 
position is  particularised  by  Mrs.  Jameson,  in  her 
Paper  upon  Miss  Adelaide  Kemble,  as  amongst 
the  songs  which  were  admirably  performed  by  that 
vocalist. 


Of  the  lines  in  A  Midsummer  Nighfs  Dream 
(Act  II.  Sc.  1),  commencing  "  Over  hill,  over 
dale,"  there  are  three  elaborate  settings,  as  soprano 
solos,  by  composers  of  our  own  time.  One  of 
these  is  by  Mr.  J.  Duggan,  and  another  by  Mr. 
G.  A.  Macfarren ;  this,  as  we  are  informed,  was 
composed  for,  and  sung  by,  Madame  Viardot. 
The  third  of  these  settings  was  by  the  late  Mr. 
Edward  Fitzwilliam :  it  has  an  obbligato  accom- 
paniment for  the  clarionet,  and  is  to  be  found 
amongst  the  composer's  Songs  for  a  Winter 
Night. 

The  Willow  Song  (in  Othello)  has  been  set 
(1780  ?)  by  Signor  Giardani  as  a  solo.  This  me- 
lody has  been  arranged  as  a  three-part  glee  by  Mr. 
J.  Morehead.  Mr.  Linley  has  also  set  the  Willow 
Song  himself  for  his  Dramatic  Songs  of  Shake- 
speare ;  and  a  few  years  ago  was  published  an 
ancient  setting  (as  solo  in  E  minor).  This  was 
arranged  (from  a  MS.  of  about  the  year  1600), 
with  symphonies  and  accompaniments  by  Mr.  T. 
Oliphant. 

"Lawn  as  white  as  driven  snow,"  one  of  the 
songs  of  Autolycus  in  the  Winter's  Tale,  has  been 
set  at  least  three  times  in  the  glee  form.  So  it 
will  be  found  in  the  Cheerful  Ay  res  of  Dr.  John 
Wilson,  1660 ;  and  so  has  it  also  been  set  by 
Dr.  Cooke.  Another  setting  (1807),  as  a  glee,  is 
contained  in  a  Collection  of  Vocal  Music,  com- 
posed by  Mr.  Thomas  Hutchinson,  who  appears, 
from  his  prefatory  advertisement,  to  have  been 
an  amateur.*  Several  of  his  compositions  are 
very  pleasing.  The  only  setting  which  I  have  yet 
met  with  of  "Lawn  as  white,"  &c.,  having  the 
dramatic  propriety  of  being  a  solo,  is  the  very  ex- 
cellent one  by  Linley  (another  amateur),  in  his 
Dramatic  Songs  of  Shakspeare. 

Dr.  Arne's  felicitous  setting  of  Amiens'  song  in 
As  You  Like  It,  "  Under  the  greenwood  tree,"  is 
of  course  generally  known.  It  seems  remarkable 
that  the  doctor  did  not  include  in  his  composition 
the  words,  "  Who  doth  ambition  shun,"  &c.  ;  but 
so]  it  is.  Mr.  Linley  has  supplied  this  want  in 
some  measure,  by  composing  those  words  as  a 
chorus,  to  follow  Dr.  Arne's  song.  Still  the  dra- 
matic effect  is  not  attained,  as  Mr.  Linley  has 
written  his  chorus  for  first  and  second  soprano 

*  These  are  the  words  of  Mr.  Hutchinson's  concluding 
sentence :  — 

"Music,  though  not  professionally  exercised  by  the 
Author,  has  long  formed  his  study  and  delight.  If  it  has 
stolen  from  him  some  of  that  time  which  might  have 
been  more  usefully  employed  in  the  business  of  life,  it 
has  served  also  to  sweeten  retirement,  and,  he  might 
add,  to  solace  some  share  of  misfortune." 

It  seems  possible  that  this  gentleman  may  have  be- 
longed to  the  family  of  Colonel  Hutchinson,  for,  in  the 
list  of  subscribers  to  the  volume,  appears  the  name  of  the 
Rev.  Julius  Hutchinson,  — and  it  was  a  Rev.  Julius 
Hutchinson  who  gave  to  the  world  Mrs.  Hutchinson  a 
life  of  her  husband. 


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and  bass  (with  a  view  to  performance  in  the  draw 
ing-room  only),  and  not  for  male  voices  entirely 
according  to  the  stage  situation.  Dr.  Arne's 
melody  has  been  arranged  as  a  glee  for  four  men's 
voices  by  Sir  Henry  Bishop,  and  introduced  into 
the  {Comedy  of  Errors. 

In  Mr.  W.  Chappell's  work  of  old  English  music 
there  is  a  simple  air  to  the  words  of  Amiens'  song, 
and  there  is  a  little  three-voiced  "  Under  the 
greenwood  tree,"  in  a  book  of  vocal  compositions 
by  Maria  Hester  Park  (about  1790  ?). 

Lastly,  as  far  as  I  at  present  know,  there  is  a 
very  elaborate  setting  (including  the  words  "  Who 
doth  ambition,"  &c.),  of  "  Under  the  greenwood 
tree,"  for  two  sopranos,  tenor,  and  bass  by  Mr. 
Stafford  Smith,  1792.  The  first  soprano  part  in 
this  composition  is  somewhat  florid,  and  the  glee 
altogether  is  one,  which  I  doubt  not,  if  skilfully 
performed,  would  give  much  delight  to  the  Shake- 
spearian musician.  ALFRED  ROFPE. 

Somer's  Town. 

OLD  ALLUSIONS  TO  SHAKESPEARE.  —  An  infer- 
ence against  the  more  contracted  form  of  the  poet's 
name  may  be  drawn  from  a  passage  in  the  Poly- 
doron,  a  curious  miscellany  of  apophthegms  and 
table-talk,  evidently  the  work  of  one  of  Shake- 
speare's contemporaries  :  — 

"  Names  were  first  questionlesse  given  for  distinction, 
facultie,  consanguinitie,  desert,  qualitie:  for  Smith,  Tay- 
ler,  Joyner,  Sadler,  &c.  were  doubtlesse  of  the  trades ; 
Johnson,  Robinson,  Williamson,  of  the  blood ;  Sackville, 
Saville,  names  of  honorable  desert;  Armestrong,  Shake- 
speare of  high  qualitie :  and  Turde,  Porredge,  Drinkall, 
ridiculous  in  condicion." 

Amongst  the  many  scattered  allusions  found  in 
writers  of  ^seventeenth  century,  and  which  are 
worth  collecting  as  the  only  data  towards  ob- 
taining a  history  of  popular  opinion  concerning 
Shakespeare,  I  do  not  remember  to  have  seen 
the  following,  quoted  from  A  Hermeticall  Banquet, 
drest  by  a  SpagiricaU  Cook,  12mo,  Lond.  written 
before  1632,  as  it  is  dedicated  to  Sir  Isaac  Wake, 
who  died  in  that  year.  The  author  is  describing 
the  court  of  the  Princess  Phantasia  :  — 

"Ovid  she  makes  Major-domo.  Homer,  because  a 
merry  Greek,  Master  of  the  Wine-cellars.  Aretine  (for 
his  skill  in  postures)  growing  old,  is  made  pander.  Shack- 
Spear,  Butler,  Ben  Johnson,  Clark  of  the  kitchen,  Fenner 
bis  1  urn-spit,  and  Taylor  his  scullion." 

Is  it  known  who  wrote  the  first  of  the  books  I 
have  quoted,  Polydoron  ?  My  copy  unfortunately 
wants  the  title-page.  I  should  be  happy  to  pur- 
chase or  receive  on  loan  a  perfect  copy. 

C.  B.  CABEW. 
WHO  STEALS  MY  PURSE.  — 

"  Who  steals  my  purse  steals  trash,"  &c. 

"And  many  times  there  cometh  less  hurt  of  a  thing 

than  of  a  railing  tongue  :    for  the  one  taketh  away  a 

man  s  good  name;  the  other  taketh  but  his  riches,  which 

is  of  much  less  value  and  estimation  than  is  his  good 


name."— -From  the  Homily  against  Contention,  set  forth  in 
the  time  of  Edward  VI. 

I  am  not  aware  that  this  coincidence,  or  rather 
quotation,  has  been  noticed  before.  P.  P. 

"DELIGHTED:"  "MEASURE  FOR  MEASURE," 
ACT  III.  Sc.  1.  —  Some  time  ago  this  word  was 
the  subject  of  a  voluminous  correspondence  in 
your  pages. 

I  have  no  wish  to  renew  the  discussion,  but 
merely  to  point  out  a  parallel  passage  in  D'Ave- 
nant,  who  published  a  revised  edition  of  this  play, 
and  therefore  is  likely  to  have  given  some  atten- 
tion to  the  peculiar  use  of  this  word. 

In  a  poem  On  Remembrance  of  Mr.  William 
Shakspeare,  he  commences, 

"  Beware,  delighted  poets,  when  ye  sing," 
and  addresses  his  brother  poets  as  mourning  the 
loss  of  their  chief  light,  of  which  they  are  by  death 
deprived.  This  use  of  the  word  seems  to  justify 
the  interpretation  which  deems  "delighted  spirit" 
to  mean  the  departed  spirit,  gone  to  the  dark 
regions  of  the  grave,  deprived  of  light  in  the 
nether  world.  EDEN  WARWICK. 

Birmingham. 

SHAKESPEARE,  HAMLET,  ACT  V.,  Sc.  2. — 

"...  If  it  be  now,  'tis  not  to  come ;  if  it  be  not  to  come, 
it  will  be  now:  if  it  be  not  now,  yet  it  will  come:  the 
readiness  is  all " 

On  the  fatalism  of  the  ancient  Danish  religion, 
note  a  curious  parallel  to  the  above  passage  as 
follows  :  — 

"  They  (the  Icelanders)  say  that  if  they  were  not  fey 
[i.  e.  fated  or  fore-doomed  to  die)  they  must  live  ;  and  that 
f  they  were  fey,  they  must  die."  —  Edinburgh  Review, 
No.  232,  Oct.  1861,  p.  450. 

The  doomed  man  was  conscious  of  approaching 
death. 

"  How  ill  all's  about  my  heart." — Hamlet,  ut  sup. 

EDEN  WARWICK. 
Birmingham. 


AN    ENGLISH    ACADEMY    FOR    EMINENCE    IN 

LITERATURE. 

Since  literature  has  emancipated  itself  from 
iving  or  starving  by  flattering  the  great,  its 
lumblest  votaries,  as  well  as  its  most  distinguished 
rnaments  in  England,  have  nobly  trusted,  in 

most  cases,  to  their  own  independent  efforts  for 
ecuring  that  position  and  those  rewards  which 

ire  the  best  proofs  of  public  esteem.     In  every 

way  the  world  has  benefited  by  this  happy  change. 

The  great  and  the  wealthy  have  been  freed  from, 
he  lip-homage  of  fulsome  dedications  and  servile 
lattery,  repaid  by  well-understood  gifts  of  golden 

hue  and  sterling  weight ;  while  literary  men  have 
earned  to  respect  themselves  and  their  glorious 
raft,  by  appealing  to  a  higher  audience  and  a 

world- wide  circle  of  readers  and  admirers  for  that 


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support  and  encouragement  which  should  sustain 
them  in  their  efforts  to  instruct  and  to  delight 
mankind,  and  bring  them,  at  the  same  time,  their 
proudly-earned  pecuniary  reward.  England,  how- 
ever, has  no  Academy,  like  that  of  France,  formed 
of  the  elite  of  her  literary  men,  and  chosen  by  the 
suffrages  of  the  elected  body.  My  present  ob- 
ject is  to  point  out  this  want,  and  to  suggest  its 
removal.  By  this  means  literature  would  be 
honoured  in  the  persons  of  its  most  illustrious  re- 
presentatives ;  and  our  country  would  in  some 
good  degree  be  rescued  from  the  charge  too  long 
brought  against  it  by  our  Continental  neighbours, 
of  only  caring  for  material  comfort,  and  of  holding 
in  little  estimation  the  graces  and  accomplish- 
ments of  the  mind.  The  charge  is  founded  on 
imperfect  knowledge,  but  is  true  so  far  as  relates 
to  public  recognition  of  honourable  fame,  in  the 
style  of  the  French  Academy.  Let  our  Bulwers, 
our  Thackerays,  our  Tennysons,  and  our  Dickons' s 
uryte,  therefore,  in  taking  steps  for  the  formation 
of  such  an  Academy,  which  will  throw  a  new 
glory  on  the  reign  of  Queen  Victoria,  and  tend  to 
carry  on  and  perpetuate  the  high  intellectual  aims 
of  her  Majesty's  ever-honoured  and  illustrious 
Consort.  PHO  PATRIA. 


INEDITED  LETTER  FROM  A  QUEEN  OF 
FRANCE. 

I  forward  the  copy  of  a  letter  from  a  Queen  of 
France  to  Queen  Elizabeth,  in  the  hope  that 
"  N.  &  Q."  may  be  able  to  unravel  the  mystery 
attending  it.  The  original  may  be  found  among 
the  Cottonian  MSS.,  "  Caligula,"  E.  xn.,  art.  48. 
It  appears  to  be  a  holograph,  and  is  burnt  round 
the  edges ;  the  beginning  is  burnt  off;  there 
does  not  seem  to  have  been  any  signature.  The 
only  Queens  of  France  who  could  correspond 
with  Elizabeth  are  :  Catherine  de'  Medici, 
Mary  Stuart,  Elizabeth  of  Germany,  Louise 
of  Lorraine,  Marguerite  de  Valois,  and  Marie 
de'  Medici.  This  letter  is  certainly  not  in  the 
hand,  either  of  Mary  Stuart  or  Marie  de'  Me- 
dici ;  nor,  to  judge  from  the  style  of  their  sig- 
natures, in  those  of  Elizabeth  or  Marguerite. 
Catherine  wrote  several  hands ;  but  this  letter 
does  not  resemble  any  autograph  of  hors  which  I 
have  seen,  yet  the  "  deux  freres"  named  therein 
can  only  refer,  I  think,  to  her  sons.  The  com- 
piler of  the  Cottonian  Catalogue  seems  unable  to 
identify  the  writer,  for  he  catalogues  the  letter 
as  from  "A  ...  Queen  of  France  to  Queen  Eliza- 
beth." The  writer  does  not  appear  to  have  been 
a  Frenchwoman,  for  her  sins  against  grammar  are 
palpable,  and  one  sentence  seems  (grammatically) 
to  intimate  that  the  recipient  of  the  letter  was 
the  mother  of  the  "  deux  freres."  The  only  con- 
jecture I  can  hazard,  is,  that  the  letter  is  from 
Elizabeth  to  Catherine;  but  in  this  hypothesis 


there  are  difficulties  as  well  as  in  the  other.  I 
give  it  verbatim  :  — 

" pardon  come  ne esloigne  d'  honorer 

Mounsieur  .  .  .  .  de  mieulx  accomoder  la  Cause.  Si 
oncques  .  .  .  .  ie  doibt  estimer  lye  de  plus  estroictes 
chaines  en  ....  de  Prince.  C'est  raoy  qui  me  confease 
de  T  .  .  .  .  tant  de  moyens  que  1'ancre  me  deTailliroit 
pour  .  .  .  .  Et  nul  papier  me  suffiroit  a  1'exprimer.  Seul 
....  me  reste  un  Cceur  qui  ne  manquera  a  le  ricog  .... 
cobien  que  ce  soit  insuffisant  a  le  meriter.  Pour  con  .... 
.  .  .  Je  suis  resolue  que  quant  il  playra  au  Roy  de  fayre 
achi  .  .  .  .  les  comissaires,  ils  me  seront  tres  agreables 

tant  que  vous  n'ayes  regret  de  bon  electio"  pour 

auoir  conceu  mieulx  de  moy  que  J'ay  a  respondre.  Et 
rne  tiens  tres  bien  satisfaict  d'auoir  ramentove  (?)  sou- 
vant  a  luy(?)  mesme  mes  desfaultes  pour  contenter  si 
ieune  Prince  pour  ly  pouvoir  le  mieulx  imposer  la  faulte 
de  telle  crime.  Madame  ma  bone  Soeur  Je  vous  ose 
vouer  une  seule  chose  que  vous  trouverez  veritable  qu'il 
ne  peut  trouver  creature  plus  adonee  au  repos  de  la 
france.  Ny  a  1'intime  affectio  de  deux  freres  que  moy 
qui  en  tiendra  aultant  de  soing  que  vous  mesme  que 
leur  estes  mere.  Et  cobien  que  mo  esprit  ne  peult  ar- 
riuer  au  coble  de  vos  prudences.  Si  (  ?)  est  ce  que  tant 
qiie  J'en  auray  de  jugeinent  et  d'entendement  seront 
employes  a  nul  aultre  dessaing.  Come  scait  le  Creareur 
qui  Je  suplie,  (Apres  mes  trescordialles  RecOmedati  a 
vostre  bone  grace),  vous  tenir  en  saincte  garde. 

"  Vostre  tres  affectionee  bone  Soeur  et  Cousine." 

HERMENTRUDE. 

[We  are  assured,  on  competent  authority,  that  the 
letters  (arts.  47  and  48)  are  both  in  the  hand-writing  of 
Queen  Elizabeth  herself,  and  written  to  the  Queen  of 
France.  The  error  lies  in  the  old  Cotton  Catalogue. — 
ED.] 


flatt*. 

VISITING  CARDS.  —  Mrs.  St.  George  writes  in 
her  journal,  p.  8,  under  date  Nov.  16,  1799,  Han- 
over :  — 

"  At  six  Mad.  de  Busche  called  to  take  me  to"  pay^ray 
visits.  We  only  dropped  tickets,"  &c. 

Under  date,  March  28,  1800,  Vienna:  — 

"The  multiplicity  of  visits,  not  confined  to  leaving  a 
card,  as  in  London,  but  real  substantial  bodily  visits; 
and  the  impossibility,  without  overstepping  all  the 
bounds  of  custom,  of  associating  with  any  but  the  noblesse, 
may  be  reckoned  among  the  greatest  obstacles." 

S.  F.  CRESWELL. 

The  School,  Tonbridge,  Kent. 

ROYAL  EXCHANGE  MOTTO.  —  The  accompany- 
ing cutting  from  this  day's  Times  (March  13), 
showing  the  origin  of  the  reverent  motto  sculp- 
tured in  the  front  of  the  Royal  Exchange,  is  in 
itself  so  interesting,  and  so  illustrative  of  the  piety 
of  the  late  lamented  Prince  Consort,  that  I  make 
no  apology  for  requesting  its  preservation  in  the 
columns  of  "  N.  &  Q."  JOHN  MACLEAN. 

Hammersmith. 

"TiiE  ROYAL  EXCHANGE  MOTTO.  —  Various  state- 
ments have  been  made  regarding  the  origin  and  cause  of 
placing  the  motto  on  the  pediment  of  the  Royal  Ex- 
change, « The  earth  is  the  Lord's,  and  the  fulness  thereof,' 
the  general  impression  being  that  it  was  suggested  by 


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the  late  Prince  Consort.  Mr.  Tite,  M.P.,  architect  of  the 
Exchange,  thus  explains  the  matter  in  the  City  Press :  — 
«  As  the  work  (the  building  of  the  Exchange)  proceeded, 
his  Koyal  Highness  took  much  interest  in  the  modelling 
and  carving  of  the  various  groups,  and  condescended  very 
frequently  to  visit  the  studio  of  the  sculptor  in  Wilton- 
place.  Your  readers  may  recollect  that  the  figure  of 
Commerce  stands  on  an  elevated  block  or  pedestal  in  the 
centre  of  the  group,  and  it  became  a  subject  of  earnest 
consideration  with  Mr.  Westmacott  and  myself  in  what 
way  the  plainness  of  this  block  could  be  relieved ;  for> 
although  in  the  original  model  on  a  small  scale,  this  de- 
fect did  not  strike  the  eye,  yet  in  the  execution  it  was 
very  apparent.  Wreaths,  fasces,  festoons  were  all  tried, 
but  the  eifect  was  unsatisfactory;  and  in  this  state  of 
affairs  Mr.  Westmacott  submitted  the  difficulty  to  his 
Royal  Highness.  After  a  little  delay,  Prince  Albert  sug- 
gested that  the  pedestal  in  question  would  be  a  very  ap- 
propriate situation  for  a  religious  inscription,  which 
would  relieve  the  plainness  of  the  surface,  in  an  artistic 
point  of  view,  and  at  the  same  time  have  the  higher 
merit  of  exhibiting  the  devotional  feelings  of  the  people 
and  their  recognition  of  a  superior  power;  and  he  parti- 
cularly wished  that  such  inscription  should  be  in  English, 
so  as  to  be  intelligible  to  all.  This  happy  thought  put  an 
end  to  all  difficulty;  and,  as  Dr.  Milman,  the  learned 
Dean  of  St.  Paul's,  had  kindly  advised  me,  in  reference  to 
the  Latin  inscriptions  on  the  frieze,  and  in  the  merchant's 
area,  Mr.  Westmacott  consulted  him  on  this  subject  also; 
and  he  suggested  the  words  of  the  Psalmist,  which  were 
at  once  adopted.' " 

USE  OF  THE  TONGUE  IN  SPEECH. — In  a  former 
vol.  of  "  1ST.  &  Q."  (2nd  S.  v.  409,  483),  the  use  of 
the  tongue  in  speech  was  learnedly  discussed  at 
some  length  with  a  variety  of  illustrations.  The 
enclosed  cutting  from  a  late  newspaper  I  think  to 
be  worthy  of  preservation  in  the  editor's  pages, 
as  proving  that  the  tongue  is  no  longer  to  be 
considered  absolutely  necessary  in  the  enunciation 
of  sounds,  and  that  if  in  ancient  times  martyrs  or 
others  spoke  who  were  deprived  of  that  organ, 
the  ascription  must  cease  of  miracles  having  been 
performed  :  — 

"  EXTRAORDINARY  SURGICAL  OPERATION.  — A  paper 
was  recently  read   by  Mr.  Nunneley,  of  this  town,  before 
the  Royal  Medical  and  Chirurgical  Society,  on  a  remark- 
able case  in  which  that  gentleman  had  successfully  re- 
moved the  entire  tongue,  for  cancer  of  the  organ^  and 
restored  the  patient  to  comfort  and  apparent  health.   The 
man,  otherwise  of  robust  constitution  and  in  the  prime  of  j 
life,  was  wasting  under  the  agony  of  the  diseased  tongue,  ! 
and  such  difficulty  of  taking  food  as  threatened  soon  to  i 
destroy  life  by  starvation.     The  operation  of  extirpating  ! 
the  diseased  member  was  most  severe  and  painful ;  and, 
in  fact,  involved  a  series  of  processes    extending   over 
several  days;  but  at  the  end,  and  when  the  tongue  was 
finally  removed,  so  rapid  was  the  recovery  that  the  man 
ate  and  enjoyed  a  good  dinner  the  next  day.  and  con- 
tinues to  this  time  in  vigorous  health.     But  what  will 
perhaps  still   surprise   some  people  is,  that  he  can  talk 
without  even  a  stump  or  a  bit  of  the  root  of  a  tongue. 

He  can  pronounce  every  letter  of  the  alphabet many 

of  them  perfectly  (all  the  vowels)  —  most  of  them  dis- 
tinctly. The  three  there  is  the  most  difficulty  in  are  K,  Q, 
and  T,  which  are  difficult  and  indistinct  in  the  order  they 
are  named,  K  being  much  more  so  than  T.  In  conver- 
sation he  can  be  readily  understood  if  not  excited  or 
hurried."— Leeds  Intelligencer. 

G.  N. 


STEPHEN  KEMBLE.  —  It  may  interest  some  of 
your  readers,  and  tend  to  correct  inaccuracies  in 
biographical  sketches  of  the  Kemble  family,  if  I 
forward  you  a  copy  of  an  extract  from  the  Bap- 
tismal Register  of  the  parish  of  Kington,  co. 
Hereford :  — 

"  1758,  21  April.  Stephen,  son  of  Roger  Kemble,  by 
Sarah  his  wife,  was  baptized." 

In  Rose's  Biographical  Dictionary,  I  find  it 
stated  that  Stephen  Kemble  was  born  at  Kings- 
town, in  Herefordshire. 

Roger  Kemble  was  manager  of  Kington  Theatre, 
amongst  others  on  the  same  theatrical  circuit ; 
and  Mrs.  Siddons  and  her  brothers  acted  there. 
I  have  seen  a  play-bill,  of  which  I  think  I  could 
now  procure  a  copy,  in  which  the  famous  tragic 
actress  is  advertised  to  take  the  part  of  Patty  in 
The  Maid  of  the  Mill.  This  play-bill  for  years 
served  as  part  of  the  papering  of  a  shoemaker's 
shop  in  Kington,  and  was  purchased  with  that 
portion  of  the  boarding  of  the  shop  which  it 
covered  by  my  father,  who,  a  few  years  ago  pos- 
sessed it.  A. 

A  FAMOUS  WRESTLER.  —  The  monument  of  Sir 
Thomas  Parkyns,  a  renowned  athlete  of  the  last 
century,  and  author  of  The  Cornish-hug  Wrestler, 
bears  the  following  inscription  by  Dr.  Friend,  the 
Master,  I  believe,  of  Westminster  :  — 
"  Quern  modo  stravisti  longo  in  certamine,  Tempus, 

Hie  recubat  Britonum  clarus  in  orbe,  Pugil, 
Jauipridem  stratus  :  praeter  te,  vicerat  omnes  ; 
De  te  etiatn  victor,  quando  resurget,  erit." 

The  certamen  was  not  especially  long,  Sir 
Thomas  having  barely  marked  his  throescore-and- 
ten  ;  but  its  point  is  better  turned  in  the  older 
Epitaph  on  a  Fiddler,  whose  prrenomen  sorts  well 
with  the  sentiment :  — 

"  Stephen  and  Time  now  both  are  even : 
Stephen  beat  Time,  now  Time  beats  Stephen." 

OLD  MEM. 

ACTS  OP  PARLIAMENT  REPEALED.  —  Few  per- 
sons are  aware  of  the  great  clearance  of  the 
Statute  Book  made  by  the  legislature  last  Ses- 
sions, therefore,  Mr.  Editor,  I  send  you  a  note  of 
it.  In  Chapter  95,  there  are  106  statutes  or  parts 
of  statutes  repealed,  while  Chapter  101  repeals 
no  less  than  881,  which,  with  a  few  in  other  Acts, 
make  a  total  of  above  one  thousand  repealed  in 
one  Session  of  Parliament.  A.  PRITCHARD. 


STANDING  AT  THE  LORD'S  PRAYER. 
Can  any  of  your  readers  explain  the  origin  of 
the  practice,  as  well  as  the  reason,  for  the  minis- 
ter at  the  commencement  of  the  Communion  Ser- 
vice standing  to  say  the  Lord's  Prayer,  while  the 
people  are  directed  to  kneel  ?  The  words  of  the 


S.  I.  APKIL  5,  '62.] 


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rubric  are,  "  And  the  priest  standing  at  the  north 
side  of  the  table  shall  say  the  Lord's  Prayer  with 
the  collect  following,  the  people  kneeling." 

At  the  beginning  of  Morning  Prayer,  after  "  the 
absolution  or  remission  of  sins,"  it  is  directed  by 
the  rubric  that  "  the  minister  shall  kneel,  and  say 
the  Lord's  Prayer  with  an  audible  voice  ;  the  peo- 
ple also  kneeling,  and  repeating  it  with  him,  both 
here,  and  wheresoever  else  it  is  used  in  divine  ser- 
vice" 

Again,  after  the  Apostles'  Creed,  "  all  devoutly 
kneeling^  the  minister,  clerks,  and  people  stall  say 
the  Lord's  Prayer  with  a  loud  voice." 

In  the  Communion  office  in  the  first  Prayer 
Book  of  Edward  VI.,  1549,  entitled  "  The  Supper 
of  our  Lord,  and  the  Holy  Communion,  commonly 
called  the  Mass,"  the  directions  are — "  The  priest, 
standing  humbly  afore  the  midst  of  the  altar,  shall 
say  the  Lord's  Prayer  with  the  collect." 

In  1552,  the  office  was  entitled  "  The  order  for 
the  Administration  of  the  Lord's  Supper,  or  Holy 
Communion,"  and  the  Lord's  Prayer  was  intro- 
duced into  our  post-communion  service  for  the  first 
time.  The  rubric  to  this  merely  states,  "Then 
shall  the  priest  say  the  Lord's  Prayer,  the  people 
repeating  after  him  every  petition,"  without  direct- 
ing whether  he  is  to  stand  or  to  kneel. 

In  the  History  of  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer 
by  the  Kev.  Francis  Procter,  there  is  the  follow- 
ing note,  p.  340  :  — 

"  The  Lord's  Prayer  was  not  printed  here  (at  the  com- 
mencement of  the  Communion  Service)  until  1662 ;  the 
rubric  only  directed  it  to  be  said.  Hence  apparently  the 
custom  of  the  unreformed  service  continued,  that  the 
priest  alone  should  repeat  it ;  and  the  tradition  has  pre- 
.  vailed  over  the  general  rubric  (1662),  on  the  first  occur- 
rence of  the  Lord's  Prayer,  ordering  that  the  people 
should  repeat  it  with  the  minister, '  wheresoever  else  it  is 
used  in  divine  service.'  " 

But  this  does  not  explain  why  the  sacred  words 
of  our  Lord  should  be  repeated  by  the  minister 
.standing  at  this  part  of  divine  service,  when,  on 
every  other  occasion,  the  minister  and  people  are 
directed  to  say  the  prayer  devoutly  kneeling. 
Dr.  Hook,  in  his  Dictionary,  under  head  of  "  Com- 
munion," states :  — 

"  As  for  the  primitive  and  original  form  of  administra- 
tion of  the  Lord's  Supper,  since  Christ  did  not  institute 
any  one  method,  it  was  various  in  divers  churches,  only 
all  agreed  in  using  the  Lord's  Prayer,  and  reciting  the 
words  of  the  institution,  which  therefore  some  think  was 
all  the  Apostles  used." 

This  shows  the  infinite  importance  attached  to 
the  introduction  of  this  prayer  into  the  Holy  Com- 
munion, and  how  reverentially  it  was  regarded, 
and  yet,  according  to  the  form  we  now  use  in  its 
celebration,  the  priest  is  directed  in  the  ante-com- 
munion to  repeat  the  Lord's  Prayer  standing, 
where  people  kneel.  B.  S. 


ISAAC  AMBROSE.  —  Where  is  it  said  of  Isaac 
Ambrose,  "He  studied,  not  to  please  and  tickle 
men's  ears,  but  to  prick  and  affect  their  hearts  "  ? 

W. 

ARCHITECTURAL  VIEWS. — Are  any  views  printed 
or  painted,  or  any  architectural  designs  known  of 
Chilton  Candover,  formerly  the  seat  of  Lord  Car- 
teret:  Abbotstone,  formerly  the  seat  of  Peter,  Duke 
of  Bolton ;  and  of  Grange  Hall,  as  originally  de- 
signed by  Inigo  Jones  ?  All  these  places  are  or 
were  in  Hampshire,  within  twenty  miles  of  Win- 
chester. FREDERICK  K.  HARFORD. 

MORE  MYSTERIES  ABOUT  BURKE. — In  a  note  to 
a  letter  from  Ed.  Burke  to  Mrs.  Bunbury,  printed 
in  The  Hanmer  Correspondence,  p.  400,  Sir  H. 
Bunbury,  the  editor,  observes  :  — 

"  Mr.  Burke  and  his  cousin  had  been  the  Trustees  ap- 
pointed under  the  will  of  Mrs.  Bunbury's  father,  Capt. 
Kane  Horneck,  to  administer  his  property  for  the  benefit 
of  his  widow  and  his  three  infant  children.  The  Editor 
wishes  he  could  add  that  the  Burkes  discharged  their 
trust  in  such  a  manner  as  to  leave  their  names  free  from 
reproach." 

Can  any  one  tell  us  what  were  the  facts  ? 

M.  M.  A. 

MRS.  CUMBERBATCH.  —  I  have  in  my  possession 
a  portrait  of  the  late  Mrs.  Cumberbatch,  "  Drawn 
on  stone  by  W.  Sharp,  from  a  sketch  by  Sir 
Thomas  Lawrence,  P.R.A.  &c.  &c.  Published 
by  J.  Dickinson,  444,  New  Bond  Street,  May  1, 
1829.  Printed  b^  C.  Hullmandel."  Who  was 
she  ?  Any  information  relative  to  her  or  her 
family  would  be  very  acceptable  to  G.  W.  M. 

"ENGLISH  FASHIONS  IN  ITALY  IN  THE  17m 
CENTURY."  — 

"  Here  at  Lucca,  she  counts  herself  not  fine  that  hath 
not  something  English  about  her.  And  to  say  this  or 
that  came  from  England,  gives  a  greater  esteem  than  we 
conceive  when,  at  home,  we  call  anything  French  or 
Italian."  —  From  the  Life  of  the  Hon.  "Sir  Dudley  North. 
North's  Lives,  ed.  1826,  ii.  329. 

Is  this  fondness  of  the  Italians  for  English 
goods  and  fashions  noted  by  any  other  writer  of 
the  time  ?  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

FREEMAN  FAMILY. —  I  should  feel  obliged  if 
your  correspondent  MR.  FREEMAN,  or  any  other 
reader  of  "N.  &  Q.,"  could  inform  me  at  what 
period  a  branch  of  this  family  first  settled  in  Ire- 
land, and  from  what  part  of  England  they  mi- 
grated ?  M.  F. 

GERLACHUS  FLICCIIS.  —  Having  offered  to  the 
Society  of  Antiquaries  some  notices  of  the  Painters 
in  this  country  who  were  the  contemporaries  and 
immediate  successors  of  Hans  Holbein,  particu- 
larly the  portrait  painters,  and  being  honoured 
with  a  request  to  prepare  the  same  for  the  Arches- 
ologia,  I  should  feel  especially  obliged  for  any 
particulars  of  Flick,  who  painted  the  portrait  of 


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[3'd  S.  I.  APEIL  5,  '62. 


Archbishop  Cranmer  in  the  year  1547,  that  of 
Lord  Darcy  of  Chiche  in  1551,  and  his  own  par- 
trait,  " ex  specula''  in  the  year  1552.  The  last 
belonged  to  the  Rev.  Thomas  Monkhouse,  D.D., 
F.S.A.,  who  died  in  1793,  and  has  been  thus  de- 
scribed :  —  (Walpole's  Anecdotes,  edit.  Dallaway, 
iv.  320.) 

"  Dr.  Monkhouse,  of  Queen's  College,  Oxford,  has  a 
small  picture  on  board,  4£  inches  by  3£,  containing  two 
half-length   portraits  neatly  executed.    The  one  has  a 
pallet  in  his  hand,  the  other  a  lute;  the  date  1554,  and 
over  their  heads  the  two  following  inscriptions :  — 
"  Talis  erat  facie  Gerlachus  Flicciis,  ipsa 
Londonia  quando  Pictor  in  urbe  fuit, 
Hanc  is  ex  speculo  pro  caris  pinxit  amicis, 
Post  obitum  possint  quo  meminisse  sui. 
"  Strangwish  thus  strangely  depicted  is, 
One  prisoner  for  the  other  has  done  this  ; 
Gerlin  hath  garnisht  for  his  delight 
This  woorck  whiche  you  se  before  your  sight. 
"  It  is  conjectured  that  these  persons  were  prisoners  on 
account  of  religion  in  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary." 

Where  is  this  picture  now  ?  And  who  is  the 
painter's  fellow-prisoner  likely  to  have  been  ? 

JOHN  GOUGH  NICHOLS. 

MEMJEVAL  ARCHITECTS. — Where  c;m  I  find 
any  sutisfactory  account  of  the  architects  or 
builders  who  were  employed  in  the  erection  of 
English  mansions  daring  the  reigns  of  Hen.  VII. 
and  Hen.  VIII.  ?  VEDETTE. 

MESMERISM.  —  In  discussions-. on  the  reality  of 
the  assumed  effect  of  mesmeric  passes  in  pro- 
ducing sleep,  has  the  passage  been  adverted  to  in 
{lie  Amphitruo  of  Plautus,  in  which  Mercury,  in 
order  to  get  rid  of  the  importunities  of  Sosia, 
deliberates  whether  he  will  not  make  passes  and 
put  him  to  sleep  ? —  a  consummation  to  which 
Sosia,  who  overhears  him,  would  not  object, 
seeing  he  had  been  kept  awake  travelling  for 
three  nights  in  succession  :  — 

"Mercury.  Quid  si  ego  illmn'tractim  tangam  ut  dor- 
miat  ? 

"  Sosia.  Nam,  continue  has  tres  noctes  pervigilavi."  — 
Act  I.  Sc.  1. 

J.  E.  T. 

PALESTINE  ASSOCIATION.  —  I  should  be  much 
obliged  to  any  reader  of  "  N  &  Q."  who  can  inform 
me  where  to  find  information  on  the  Palestine 
Association.  It  is  mentioned  by  Col.  Leake  in 
his  preface  to  Burckhardt's  Travels,  as  having  in 
1810  published  Seetzen's  Correspondence.  The 
Association  probably  published  other  works  also, 
and  had  other  objects,  which  I  should  be  glad  to 
know  about.  '  [G.] 

PICKERING  FAMILY. — I  should  be  greatly  obliged 
to  any  of  your  correspondents  who  would  kindly 
assist  me  in  unravelling  the  intricacies  of  the 
Pickering  pedigree. 

I  would  first  inquire  what  relationship  existed 
between  the  branch  at  Whaddon  (baronetcy 


created  1661)  and  that  at  Tichmarsh,  previous  to 
the  marriage  of  Sydney  Pickering.  The  will  of 
Lucy  Pickering  (dated  6th  July,  1680,)  of  Ald- 
winckle,  co.  Northampton,  single  woman,  men- 
tions "Sir  John  P.  of  Titmarsh";  "her  sister, 
Susanna  P.";  "  her  brother  Mr.  John  P.,  deceased  "; 
"  her  adopted  son,  Mr.  Gilbert  P.  (son  and  heir 
apparent  of  Sir  John  P.)  " ;  "  her  sister  Mrs. 
Mary  Allin  "  ;  "  her  nephew,  Sir  Henry  P. " ;  "  her 
nephew,  Mr.  Charles  Dryden  "  (spelt  Draiden) ; 
"  her  nephew,  Mr.  Robt.  Elton  "  ;  "  her  nephew 
and  godson,  Erasmus  Lauton."  To  her  said  sis- 
ter, Susanna,  she  leaves  the  yearly  rent  of  11.  due 
from  Sir  Henry  P.  of  Whaddon,  co.  Camb.  The 
connexion  of  the  Titchmarsh  Pickerings  with  the 
Drydens  and  Laughtons  is  given  in  the  ba- 
ronetages ;  but  the  information  about  the  family 
generally  is  extremely  vague,  and  I  cannot  iden- 
tify the  testatrix. 

Again,  there  was  a  family  named  Pickering  at 
Woodend,  in  Blakesly  parish,  co.  Northampton. 
Was  this  a  branch  of  the  Titmarsh  line  ?  Thomas 
Pickering,  of  Woodend,  in  his  will  (dated  1710, 
and  proved  1712),  mentions  his  sons  William  and 
Thomas  ;  his  wife  Mary  ;  his  daughters  Mary  and 
Margaret,  under  age ;  and  his  nephew,  John  Welsh 
of  Slapton.  The  eldest  son,  William,  died  s.  p.  in 
1712;  and,  from  his  will,  it  appears  that  his  sister 

Mary  had  married Worley,  and  left  issue. 

His  sister  Margaret  was  unmarried,  and  his  bro- 
ther dead.  The  second  son  Thomas  was,  I  think, 
of  the  Six  Clerks  Office ;  and  died,  a  bachelor,  in 
1737. 

Sir  B.  Burke,  in  his  Extinct  and  Dormant  Ba- 
ronetage, speaks  of  the  Tichmarsh  title  as  "  ex- 
tinct, or  at  all  events,  dormant."  From  the  very 
large  families  which  the  early  members  had,  I 
should  think  that  the  latter  was  more  probably 
the  case.  Gilbert  seems  to  have  been  the  fa- 
vourite Christian  name  ;  and  I  find  a  marriage 
(Sept.  30,  1666,)  at  St.  Leonard's,  Shoreditch, 
between  Gilbert  Pickering  and  Elizabeth  Proctor, 
Possibly  this  may  form  a  clue.  C.  J.  R. 

QUOTATIONS  WANTED.  — 

1.  "Divinum  consilium  dum  devitatur  impletur,  hu- 
mana  sapientia  dura  reluctatur  comprehenditur."  —  St. 
Gregory. 

2.  "  Ex  ipso  dolore  suo  compuncti  inardescunt  in  amore 
Dei.    Darr.na  prsecedentia  lucris  sequentibus  compensuit." 
— Idem. 

3.  "  Luther's  rule  is  exceedingly  good  in  this  case: 
Summa  ars,  the  greatest  art  of  a  Christian  is  credere  ere- 
dibilia  8fc.  et  sperare  dilata,  —  to  hope  for  things  a  long 
time,  and  to  believe  God  when  he  seeraeth  contrary  to 
himself  in  his  promise." 

4.  "Cum  omnium  incertussit  eventup,  ad  ea  accedimus 
de  quibus  bona  operandum  esse  credimus?  " —  Seneca. 

5.  "  Quis  pollicetur  sereniti  proventum  naviganti  por- 
tum  ?  Ideo  navigantes  vitam  ventis  credunt,"  &c.  —  Sal- 
vianus. 

6.  "  jBonitas  invicta  non  vincitur  et  infinita  misericordia 


3rd  s.  I.  APKIL  5,  '62.] 


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271 


nonfinitur.  —  Invincible  mercy  will  never  be  conquered, 
and  endless  goodness  never  admits  of  bounds  or  ends."  — 
Fulgentius. 

7.  "Nemo  committit  sponsam   suam  Vicario;    nemo 
enim  EccKsiaj  sponsus  est."— Quoted  at  Council  of  Basil 
from  St.  Bernard. 

8.  "  Tibi  accidit,  &c.    Christ  comes  and  goes  away  for 
our  good." — St.  Bernard. 

9.  "  Vix  diligitur  Jesus  propter  Jcsum." — Augustine. 

10.  "  Quicquid  lonum,  &c.    Whatsoever  is  good  ...  it 
is  either  God  or  from  God." — Augustine. 

11.  "  The  heathen  man  counted  it  a  grace  in  his  scholler, 
and  a  signe  that  he  would  prove  hopefull,  because  he  was 
full  of  questions." 

Who  was  this  "  heathen  man  ?  " 

12.  "  There  was  a  dreame  of  an  holy  man  in  those 
times  (divers  hundred  years  agone)  that  he  saw  one  having 
a  deale  of  manchet  to  feed  on,  and  yet  all  the  while,  poor 
wretch !  he  fed  on  stones." 

Where  is  this  "  dreame  "  to  be  found  ? 

References  to  any  of  the  above  will  very  much 
oblige  r. 

RAINBOW  IN  1644.  —  In  the  Diary  of  Lady 
Willoughby,  Nov.  19th,  1644,  is  mentioned  the 
phenomenon  of  "  a  rainebow  with  the  bend  to- 
wards tbe  earth,"  which  caused  much  conster^ia- 
tion  at  the  time.  How  is  such  a  phenomenon 
accounted  for  by  astronomers,  and  are  there  other 
instances  of  it  on  record  ?  M.  F. 

RUGBY  SCHOOL. — Any  notices  or  records  of  the 
earlier  days  of  Rugby  School,  especially  under 
Dr.  James  and  Dr.  Ingles,  would  be  very  gladly 
received,  if  addressed  to  C.  N.,  care  of  Mr.  Thorn- 
ton, bookseller,  Magdalen  Street,  Oxford.  The 
name  and  object  of  the  advertiser  will  be  willingly 
communicated  to  any  correspondent. 

SIR  JOHN  STRANGE. — In  December,  1860,  your 
readers  were  favoured  with  some  account  of  The 
Causidicade,  a  poem  "  on  a  Strange  Resignation 
and  Stranger  Promotion,"  written  on  the  retire- 
ment of  Sir  John  Strange  from  the  office  of  Soli- 
citor-General in  1742.  I  cannot  find  any  account 
of  his  parentage,  or  his  early  life ;  and  I  should 
be  very  thankful  if  any  of  your  numerous  corre- 
spondents would  furnish  me  with  this  information, 
and  also  as  to  his  descendants. 

He  was  appointed  one  of  the  King's  Counsel  in 
736,  Solicitor- General  in  1737,  and  Recorder  of 
London  in  1739.  He  resigned  all  these  positions 
in  1742  ;  was  made  Master  of  the  Rolls  in  1750, 
and  died  in  1754.  He  was  Member  for  West  Looe 
from  1737  to  1741  ;  and  from  that  time  till  his 
death,  he  represented  Totnes.  His  Reports  ex- 
tend from  1729  to  1748;  and  were  so  esteemed 
by  lawyers  as  to  require  four  editions.  D.  S. 

THREE-PENNY  CURATES.  —  Thomas  Story,  the 
Quaker,  in  the  Appendix  to  his  quaint  and  in- 
teresting Journal  (p.  756)  says  :  — 

"The  day  whereon  the  Act  passed,  in  the  morning, 
along  with  some  others,  I  waited  on  the  Duke  of  So- 


merset, at  Northumberland  House,  by  Charing  Cross, 
to  solicit  his  favour;  and,  on  that  occasion,  I  acquainted 
him  that  I  had  heard,  as  I  came,  that  both  universities 
intended  to  petition  against  us,  as  the  clergy  in  and 
about  London  had  already  done,  which  might  give  us 
much  more  trouble  and  delay,  if  not  bring  our  Bill  in 
danger;  and  therefore  intreated  that  he  would  please  to 
use  his  interest  for  the  passing  it  into  a  law  that  day." 

In  the  course  of  the  remarks  elicited  by  this 
appeal,  the  Duke  said,  — 

"'There  are  a  company  of  fellows,  calling  themselves 
the  Clergy,  in  and  about  the  city  of  London,  who  have 
sent  in  a  petition,  wherein  they  "pretend  to  blame  both 
houses  of  Parliament  for  encouraging  a  sect,  which  they 
rank  with  Jews,  Turks,  and  other  infidels ;  as  if  we  were 
to  be  imposed  upon  by  them,  and  receive  their  dictates, 
or  knew  not  what  to  do  without  their  directions.  And 
besides,  we  do  not  know  who  they  are;  for  there  are 
above  500  of  the  Clergy  in  and  about  London,  and  we 
find  only  41  names  to  their  petition,  and  these  very  ob- 
scure. 'Where  is  their  Sherlock,  their  Waterland,  or  any 
of  note  among  them  ?  Do  these  fellows  see  any  com 
growing  in  the  streets  of  London,  that  they  should  meddle 
in  this  case?' 

"  Then,"  says  Story,  "  I  informed  the  Duke  that  I  had 
also  heard  that  morning  that  many  of  the  petitioners 
were  Three-penny  Curates,  and  unbeneficed.  The  Duke 
asked,  'What  are  they?'  I  replied  that  I  had  been  in- 
formed they  were  clergymen  without  benefices,  and  had 
but  few  friends,  and  perhaps  some  of  them  Nonjurors, 
who  hang  on  about  the  town  looking  for  preferment ;  and 
being  very  indigent,  say  prayers  for  the  richer  sort  for 
three-pence  a-  time,  which  is  paid  two-pence  in  farthing?, 
an.]  a  dish  of  coffee." 

One  is  sufficiently  familiar  with  the  general 
idea  of  ecclesiastics  too  much  resembling  those 
here  described*,  but  is  there  any  corroboration  of 
these  particulars?  And  what  was  the  meaning  of 
such  an  odd  way  of  payment  ?  TRINUMMUS. 

WILKES'S  LAST  SPEECH    IN  PARLIAMENT. Can 

any  of  your  readers  inform  me  where  I  may  find 
a  copy  of  Wilkes's  Last  Speech  in  Parliament? 
I  ask  this  question  in  consequence  of  reading  an 
Epigram  upon  the  speech,  preserved  in  the  SL 
James  s  Chronicle  of  Jan.  27,  1776  :  — 

"  Epigram  upon  Wilkes's  last  Speech  in  Parliament. 
"  Hancock  and  Adams  traitors  are, 

By  Royal  Proclamation : 
They're  honest  men  and  subjects  good, 
Says  Wilkes  and  Defamation. 

"  Now  this  most  wonderful  dispute, 

'Twixt  Royalty  and  Vermin, 
Jack  Ketch,  who  deals  in  knotty  points, 
Will  probably  determine." 

AN  ASKER  or  QUESTIONS. 


frit!) 

CHRISTOPHER  WANDESFORDE,  Lord  Deputy  of 
Ireland  in   1640.  —  In  Rose's  Biog.   Diet,   it  is       X   * 


*  [Does  our  correspondent  know  the  curious  "History 
of  the  Ecclesiastical  Register  Office  in  London,"  extracted 
from  a  letter  to  the  Bishop  of  London,  in  Gent.  Mag.% 
vol.  xlii.  p.  173?  — ED.] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  AruiL  5,  '62. 


stated  that  this  gentleman  "  gave  such  satisfaction 
to  the  king  by  his  conduct  in  that  high  station, 
that  he  was  created  Baron  Mowbray  and  Musters, 
and  Viscount  Castlecomer"  Burke's  Extinct  Ba- 
ronetage, in  which  there  is  an  account  of  him, 
makes  no  mention  of  these  dignities  in  his  person, 
nor  can  I  find  any  record  of  them  in  Beatson's 
Political  Index.  Beatson  calls  him  Sir  Christo- 
pher in  1640 ;  but  Burke  does  not  mention  even 
knighthood. 

Burke  says  "  the  fate  of  his  friend,  Lord  Straf- 
ford  had  so  deep  an  effect  upon  him,  that  he  died 
on  3rd  Dec.  in  that  year"  (1640).  Now  Straf- 
ford  was  not  beheaded,  according  to  all  the  autho- 
rities, till  12th  May,  1641  ;  and  Rose's  Biog.  Diet. 
quotes  his  impassioned  lamentation  for  the  death 
of  Wandesforde.  Can  any  one  set  all  this  straight  ? 

TT     T      T 
H.   L.    I. 

[Sir  Christopher  Wandesforde  accompanied  Lord  Went- 
worth to  Ireland,  and  was  appointed  Master  of  the  Rolls, 
on  which  occasion  the  Lord  Deputy  wished  him  to  be 
made  a  knight,  which  he  declined  at  that  time.  In  the 
beginning  of  June,  1636,  Wentworth  came  over  to  Eng- 
land, and  left  the  Master  of  the  Rolls  one  of  the  Lords 
Justices  of  Ireland,  and  to  support  this  dignity  seems  to 
have  knighted  him,  for  we  find  him  not  lung  afterwards, 
addressed  by  the  title  of  Sir  Christopher  (Dr.  Thomas 
Comber's  Memoirs  of  Lord  Deputy  Wandesforde,  2nd 
edit.  1778,  p.  92).  On  the  3rd  of  April,  1640,  Lord  Straf- 
t'ord,  on  leaving  Ireland,  delivered  to  Sir  Christopher  the 
sword  of  state  as  Lord  Deputy.  The  king  was  so  per- 
fectly satisfied  with  the  conduct  of  his  new  Lord  Deputy, 
that  this  summer  he  sent  to  him  a  patent  creating  him 
Baron  Mowbray  and  Musters,  and  Viscount  Castlecomer. 
On  the  receipt  of  this  patent  he  exclaimed,  "Is  it  a  fit 
time  for  a  faithful  subject  to  appear  higher  than  usual, 
when  his  King,  the  fountain  of  honours,  is  likely  to  be 
reduced  lower  than  ever  ? "  He  therefore  ordered  the 
patent  to  be  concealed,  and  his  grandson  was  the  first 
who  assumed  its  privileges.  (Ibid.  p.  121.)  Sir  Christo- 
pher died  on  Dec.  3,  1640,  and  his  death  is  thus  lamented 
by  his  friend  Lord  Strafford  in  his  letter  to  Sir  Adam 
Loftus,  dated  the  15th  of  the  same  month :  "  The  loss  of 
my  excellent  friend,  the  Lord  Deputy,  more  afflicts  me 
than  all  the  rest  [of  my  troubles],  by  how  much  I  have, 
in  my  own  esteem,  far  more  to  lose  in  my  friend,  than  in 
myself."  Dr.  Comber's  Memoirs  of  Lord  Depufy  Wandes- 
forde is  not  only  valuable  for  the  interesting  biography 
of  this  loyal,  pious,  and  intelligent  statesman,  but  for  the 
incidental  notices  of  the  measures  adopted  by  Lord  Straf- 
ford during  his  viceroyalty  for  the  amelioration  of  Ire- 
land. This  work  is  unnoticed  by  Lowndes,  and  is  not  to 
be  found  in  the  Bodleian  library.  The  only  copy  known 
to  us  is  the  one  in  the  Grenville"  library.] 

EMANUEL  LE  SCROPE,  EARL  OF  SUNDERLAND, 
Lord  President  of  the  North,  temp.  Jac.  I.  et  Car. 
I.  —  He  died  according  to  Burke  in  1627;  ac- 
cording to  Sir  H.  Nicolas  in  1630.  The  latter  is 
more  likely.  Can  any  one  give  me  the  exact  date 
of  his  death,  and  its  cause,  the  exact  date  of  his 
resignation  of  his  presidency,  and  the  exact  date 
of  the  appointment  of  his  successor  Wentworth 
[Strafford]  ?  He  seems  to  have  suffered  from  some 
not-understood  disease,  and  to  have  put  himself 
into  the  hands  of  one  Richard  Napier,  rector  of 


Linford,  Bucks,  equally  renowned  as  doctor  and 
parson,  of  whom  Anthony  a  Wood  gives  some 
curious  particulars.  Any  information  about  him 
would  be  a  favour.  H.  L.  T. 

[SirEmanuelScrope,  llth  Baron  Scrope  of  Bolton,and 
first  Earl  of  Sunderland,  was  summoned  to  parliament 
from  5  April  12  Jaq.  I.  1614  to  17  May  I  Car.  I.  1625 ; 
appointed  Lord  President  of  the  King's  Council  of  the 
North,  Feb.  1619  (Pat.  16  Jaq.  I.  p.  1);  created  Earl  of 
Sunderland  19  June,  3  Car.  I.  1627 ;  died  s.  p.  I.  30 
May,  and  was  buried  at  Langar,  co.  Notts,  June,  1630. 
M.  i.  He  married,  first  Martha  Janes,  alias  Sanford,  a 
concubine;  and,  secondly,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John 
Manners,  4th  Earl  of  Rutland;  buried  at  Langar,  co. 
Notts,  16  March,  1653.  M.  i.  (Pedigree  of  the  family  in  the 
Scrope  and  Grosvenor  Controversy,  by  Sir  N.  H.  Nicolas, 
ii.  62.)  The  exact  date  of  Lord  Stratford's  appointment 
as  Lord  President  of  the  North  occurs  in  a  letter  from  Mr. 
Pory  to  the  Rev.  Joseph  Mead,  dated  Dec.  12,  1628.  He 
says  "  My  Lord  Wentworth  of  the  North  is  not  only 
made  a  Viscount,  but  on  Wednesday  last  [Dec.  10]  had  a 
commission,  granted  him  under  the  great  seal,  to  be  Lord 
President  of  the  North."—  Court  and  Times  of  Charles  /, 
i.  448.  See  also  Rush  worth,  ii.  1G3.] 

"  DIARY  OF  LADY  WILLOUGHBY." — I  should  feel 
obliged  to  any  correspondent  of  "  N.  &  Q."  who 
would  inform  me  when  this  work  was  first  pub- 
lished. I  read  it  many  years  ago  with  the  im- 
pression that  it  was  a  modern  publication,  but  I 
have  recently  purchased  it  in  a  small  12mo.  form, 
with  every  appearance  of  antiquity.  The  first 
and  last  pages,  however,  have  evidently  been  tam- 
pered with  by  scraping  with  a  knife,  probably  to 
erase  the  date,  and  thus  make  a  modern  edition 
pass  for  an  antique.  I  cannot  obtain  another 
copy  of  the  book  in  Cork  to  collate  with  mine,  or 
I  would  not  give  this  trouble.  M.  F. 

[This  work  was  edited  by  Mrs.  Rathbone,  and  first  ap- 
peared in  1844,  entitled,  So  much  of  the  Diary  of  Lady 
Willoughby  as  relates  to  her  Domestic  History,  and  to  the 
Eventful  Period  of  the  Reign  of  Charles  the  First.  Im- 
printed for  Longman  &  Co.,  Paternoster  Row,  1844,  4to. 
This  volume  includes  the  years  1635  to  1648,  and  was 
followed  by  another  portion  for  the  years  1648  to  1663, 
and  entitled,  Some  Further  Portions  of  the  Diary  of  Lady 
Willouyhby  which  do  relate  to  her  Domestic  History,  and  to 
the  stirring  Events  of  the  latter  Years  of  the  Reign  of  King 
Charles  /.,  the  Protectorate,  and  the  Restoration.  Longman 
&  Co.  1848,  4to.] 

JOSEPH  HALLET,  author  of  the  Defence  of  a 
Discourse  on  the  Impossibility  of  proving  a  Future 
State  by  the  Light  of  Nature,  and  several  other 
works,  published  between  the  years  1729  and 
1740.  What  is  known  of  him  ?  FOXLEY. 

[Joseph  Hallet,  a  dissenting  minister  at  Exeter,  was 
born  in  1G92,  and  died  in  1744.  In  the  early  part  of  the 
last  century,  a  great  controversy  arose  among  the  dissen- 
ters of  Exeter,  which  spread  over  a  great  part  of  the 
kingdom.  Having  been  referred  to  the  London  minis- 
ters, it  created  a  great  division,  and  gave  rise  to  an  in- 
credible number  of  controversial  pamphlets.  The  point 
in  controversy  was  the  doctrine  of  the  Trinity.  Mr. 
Pearce  and  Mr.  Hallet  having  embraced  the  doctrines  of 
Arianism,  were  ejected  by  their  congregation,  and  in  the 
event,  opened  a  new  meeting-house  in  the  Mint  in  the 


S.  I.  APRIL  5,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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year  1719.     For  a  list  of  his  works  consult  Watt's  Biblio- 
'theca  Britannica,  and  Orme's  Bibliotheca  Biblica.'] 

WELSH  MOTTOES.  —  I  shall  be  glad  to  be  fa- 
voured with  a  translation  of  the  following  mot- 
toes:— 

"  Heb  Dduw  Heb  Ddim,  Duw  sidifour." 

"  A  vinno  duw  derwd." 

"  Y  gwir  leges  erbyn  bid  v." 

T.  F. 
[We  read  and  translate  these  mottoes  as  follows:  — 

1.  Heb  Dduw  heb  Ddim— Duw  sy  digon. 
There  is  nothing  without  God— God  is  sufficient. 

2.  A  fyno  Duw  a  ddaw. 
When  God  wills',  He  will  come. 

3.  Y  gwir  yn  erbyn  y  byd. 
The  truth  against  the  world. 

The  last  is  the  well  known  Bardic  motto,  which  we  have 
never  seen  with  the  Latin  word  leges.~\ 

WALTON  AND  COTTON  CLUB.  —  Can  any  of  your 
readers  inform  me  whether  this  Club  is  still  in 
existence,  and  give  me  any  particulars  of  its  past 
history  and  present  rules,  &c.  ?  D.  W. 

[The  Walton  and  Cotton  Club  was  instituted  on  the 
19th  of  March,  1817,  by  the  late  Michael  Bland,  Esq., 
Sir  Henry  Ellis,  and  other  lovers  of  the  gentle  art. 
Charles  Hawey,  Esq.,  M.P.,  was  the  first  President,  and 
Michael  Bland  the  first  Vice-President,  Treasurer,  and 
Secretary.  The  very  appropriate  motto,  "  Dum  capimus 
capimur "  was,  we  believe,  the  happy  suggestion  of  Sir 
H.  Ellis.  On  26th  March,  1840,  the  club  was  newly  or- 
ganised, and  the  laws  revised,  when  we  find  among  the 
names  of  the  members  Walter  Campbell,  Esq.,  M.P., 
President;  Edward  Jesse,  Esq.,  Treasurer ;  William  Dunn, 
Esq.,  Secretary ;  and  William  YarrelJ,  Esq.,  Recorder. 
The  quaint  rules,  beautifully  printed  by  Whittingham, 
and  illustrated  with  woodcuts,  is  quite  a  gem,  and  was 
no  doubt  a  labour  of  love  to  that  excellent  bibliographer, 
and  worthy  brother  of  the  angle,  William  Pickering.] 


fttylfetf. 

CLERICAL  KNIGHTS. 
(3rd  S.  i.  209.) 

G.  W.  M.  cites  the  names  of  two  reverend 
Knights  of  the  reign  of  George  III.,  and  asks, 
Can  a  clergyman  have  knighthood  conferred  upon 
him  ?  With  regard  to  the  Rev.  Sir  Robert  Peat, 
I  find  his  inquiry  thus  answered  :  — 

"  The  Order  of  St.  Stanislaus  was  conferred  on  the  Rev. 
Sir  Robert  Peat,  then  Robert  Peat,  Esquire,  by  Stanislaus 
Augustus,  King  of  Poland,  Nov.  21, 1790 ;  and  he  received 
permission  to  wear  it  from  King  George  III.  Oct.  2,  1804, 
at  which  time  he  was  Rector  of  Ashley-cum-Silverley, 
and  Vicar  of  Kirtling,  co.  Cambridge.  (Gentleman's  Ma- 
gazine, Dec.  1837,  p.  662.) 

This  "  permission  "  carried  with  it  the  appella- 
tion "  Sir,"  until  the  issuing  of  a  regulation  relative 
to  foreign  orders,  in  March,  1813,  as  is  repeatedly 
noticed  in  Townsend's  Calendar  of  Knights.  In 
that  work,  p.  45,  Sir  Robert's  name  is  misprinted 
Peate,  and  he  is  erroneously  called  Rector,  instead 
of  Vicar,  of  New  Brentford.  Some  further  no- 


tices of  him  will  be  found  in  the  Gentleman's 
Magazine  (N.  S.),  vol.  viii.  p.  209,  for  1837,  in 
which  year,  on  the  20th  April,  he  died;  but  it 
does  not  there  appear  that  he  had  the  degree  of 
D.D.,  which  is  attributed  to  him  by  G.  W.  M. 
On  the  occasipn  of  a  prosecution  against  Wil- 
liam Dearsley  for  an  assault  on  the  Rev.  Sir 
Robert  Peat,  the  appellation  u  Sir  "  was  objected 
to  by  the  counsel  for  the  defendant,  because  the 
plaintiff  had  not  been  knighted  by  the  King ;  but 
Lord  Elienborough  over-ruled  that  objection,  "on 
the  ground  that  knighthood  was  an  universal 
honour,  which  there  could  be  no  doubt  every 
sovereign  could  confer  according  to  the  laws  and 
customs  of  his  own  state  ;  and  that  there  could  be 
as  little  doubt  that  the  King  of  England  could 
notify  and  confirm  such  creation  by  a  foreign 
sovereign,  and  that  having  so  done,  the  party  was, 
to  all  intents  and  purposes,  a  Knight,  and  entitled 
to  the  appellation  by  which  Knights  are  commonly 
distinguished  in  these  realms."  (Preface  to  Towns- 
end's  Calendar  of  Knights,  p.  xiv.) 

It  further  appears  in  the  same  preface  that 
there  were  various  conflicting  decisions  respect- 
ing the  attribution  of  the  title  "  Sir  "  to  Knights 
of  foreign  orders,  it  being  denied  in  the  Navy,  but 
allowed  in  the  Army  List ;  until  altogether  with- 
drawn by  the  regulation  above-mentioned,  issued 
by  the  Prince  Regent  in  March,  1813. 

With  respect  to  the  Rev.  Sir  John  Thoroton, 
he  was  certainly  knighted  by  the  Prince  Regent 
whe-n  he  was  already  a  clergyman,  which  proves 
that  such  a  knighthood  is  possible.  The  honour 
was  bestowed  at  Belvoir  Castle,  on  the  4th  of 
Jan.  1814,  on  the  day  his  Royal  Highness  stood 
godfather  to  the  infant  Marquess  of  Granby,  who 
died  shortly  after.  Sir  John  was  the  family  chap- 
lain, and  a  great  favourite  with  the  Duke  his  mas- 
ter, who  thus  recorded  his  amiable  equalities,  and 
his  architectural  skill,  in  an  epitaph  in  the  neigh- 
bouring church  of  Bottesford  :  — 

"  In  Memory  of  the  Rev.  Sir  JOHN  THOROTON,  Knt., 
M.A.,  Rector  of  Bottesford,  and  during  twenty-three 
years  the  Domestic  Chaplain,  the  valued  friend,  and  the 
faithful  companion  of  the  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Rut- 
land. 

"  No  man  was  ever  more  gifted  with  the  mild  virtues 
which  adorn  human  nature;  and  no  man  more  entirely 
possessed  the  attributes  of  an  attached  Friend,  a  good 
Subject,  and  a  sincere  Christian.  Possessed  of  great  na- 
tural taste,  he  devoted  his  leisure  to  the  cultivation  of  it. 
Of  his  architectural  talent,  the  new  buildings  erected  at 
Belvoir  Castle  will  be  a  lasting  monument:  for  he  parti- 
cipated in  every  plan  connected  with  them,  from  their  com- 
mencement in  the  year  MDCCCI. ;  and  during  the  latter 
years  of  his  life  he  had  the  chief  direction  both  in  the 
design  and  execution  of  them. 

"  He  died  at  Belvoir  Castle  on  the  xviii.  Dec.  MDCCCXX. 
in  the  Ixii.  year  of  his  age,  and  is  buried  in  the  chancel 
of  this  church. 

"  Many  will  say  of  him,  but  none  more  sincerely  than 
his  sorrowing  friend  the  Duke  of  Rutland  —  Multis  ille 
bonis  flebilis  occidit,  Nulli  flebilior  quam  mini." 


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XOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  APRIL  5,  62. 


Sir  John  Thoroton  liad  designed  the  private 
chapel  at  Belvoir  before  his  knighthood  in  1814, 
but  it  was  after  a  fire,  which  occurred  m  1816, 
.tad  destroyed  a  great  part  of  the  mansion  pre- 
viously erected  by  Wyatt,  that  his  architectural 
taste  was  more  fully  called  into  play. 

Whether  this  instance  of  Sir  John  Thoroton 
stands  alone  as  an  example  of  clerical  knighthood 
may  be  worthy  of  further  inquiry.  The  honour 
might  on  the  same  occasion  have  been  bestowed 
with  at  least  equal  propriety  on  the  Rev.  John 
Staunton,  D.D.,  who,  by  virtue  of  his  possessing 
the  manor  of  Staunton  by  the  military  tenure  of 
castle-guard  of  Belvoir,  presented  to  the  Prince 
Regent  the  key  of  the  Staunton  Tower,  as  will  be 
found  very  proudly  recorded  in  the  account  of  the 
Stannton  family  given  in  Burke's  Dictionary  of 
ike  Landed  Gentry.  J.  G.  N. 

Up  to  the  year  1810,  the  grant  of  a  Royal  Li- 
cence to  a  British  subject  to  accept  a  foreign 
order  of  knighthood,  also  gave  him  the  right  to 
•the  rank  of  a  Knight  Bachelor  of  this  kingdom,  and 
to  the  title  of  Sir. 

The  Order  of  St.  Stanislaus  was  conferred  on 
Sir  Robert  Peat,  when  a  layman,  in  the  year  1790, 
;and  the  Royal  Licence,  [granted  in  1804,  gave 
permission  to  wear  in  his  own  country  the  ensigns 
of  that  order. 

In  the  prosecution  of  Wm.  Dearsley  for  an  as- 
sault on  the  Rev.  Sir  Robert  Peat  — 

"  The  counsel  for  the  defendant  in  that  case  took  an  ob- 
jection to  the  description  of  the  plaintiff,  arguing  that  as 
he  had  not  been  knighted  by  the  king,  he  had  no  right  to 
the  appellation,  Sir.  Lord  Ellenborough  over-ruled  this 
objection,  observing  '  That  the  order  of  knighthood  hav- 
ing been  confirmed  by  Patent  from  the  King  of  England, 
no  doubt  whatever  could  be  entertained  respecting  its 
validity.  The  king  is  the  fountain  of  honour,  —  and  no 
one  ever  doubted  the  knighthood  of  Sir  Sydney  Smith, 
with  many  others,  whose  rank  had  been  confirmed  by  the 
king.'"  —  Carlisle's  Foreign  Orders  of  Knighthood,  pp 
xxi.  xxii.  and  230. 

Shoreham.  J.  WOODWARD. 


It  may  be  interesting  to  G.  W.  M.  to  know, 
that  in  addition  to  the  Rev.  Sir  Robert  Peat, 
D.D.,  being  a  Knight  of  St.  Stanislaus,  he  was 
also  a  Great  Cross,  and  Grand  Prior  of  the  Eng- 
lish Langue  of  the  Order  of  St.  John  of  Jerusa- 
lem ia  1834.  J.  W.  BRYANS. 

I  had  just  accidentally  lighted  on  an  instance 
of  this  kind,  of  which  I  was  about  to  make  a 
note,  when  the  Query  of  G.  W.  M.  appeared. 
My  instance  is  that  of  a  Scottish  minister,  Andrew 
Murray,  of  Balvaird,  minister  of  Ebdie,  who  was 
knighted  at  the  coronation  of  Charles  I.  at  Scone, 
1633,  "though,"  as  my  authority,  Nisbet  says, 
"  an  actual  minister  at  the  time."  It  may  Jbe 


worth  recording,  that  Douglas  states  in  his  Baron- 
age that  this  Sir  Andrew  got  a  charter  of  the 
Barony  of  Balvaird  to  himself,  as  "  Domino  An- 
dreas Murray  de  Balvaird,  Militi?  &c.,  thus  giv- 
ing himself  much  more  -of  the  character  of  Sir 
Knight  than  Sir  Priest.  His  son  succeeded  as 
fourth  Viscount  Stormont.  This  knightly  clergy- 
man, it  may  be  noted,  appears  never  to  have  re- 
linquished the  ministry ;  for,  though  created  Lord 
Balvaird,  1641,  he  is  recorded  to  have  continued 
his  pastoral  office  at  Ebdie  till  his  death,  which 
was  accelerated  by  the  troubles  of  the  rising  Civil 
War.  The  peculiarity  of  the  case  must  be  my 
apology  for  the  length  to  which  I  have  run. 

C.  H.  E.  CAKMICHAEL. 


In  the  Patents  of  some  of  the  older  baronetcies, 
it  was  usual  to  insert  a  clause  that  the  eldest  son 
might  claim  knighthood  on  coming  of  age.  This 
was  done  by  the  eldest  son  of  the  late  Sir  Edwin 
Sandys,  Baronet  of  Misarden  Park,  Gloucester- 
shire, who  afterwards  took  orders,  and  became 
the  Reverend  Sir  Edwin  Windsor  Sandys,  Knight. 
There  was  much  question  at  the  time  as  to  the 
validity  of  the  claim.  It  was,  however,  conceded, 
but  I  think  at  the  same  time  some  alteration  took 
place  in  the  law  to  prevent  its  being  a  precedent 
for  similar  claims.  The  baronetcy  is  now  extinct 

S.  L. 

Knighthood,  considered  as  a  social  dignity,  can 
be  and  has  been  conferred  upon  the  clergy  in 
common  with  the  higher  degrees  of  the  baronetage 
and  peerage,  and  the  bearing  of  such  titles  by 
their  body  appears  to  be  less  incongruous  than 
their  conference  on  females,  of  which  instances  in 
the  three  grades  I  have  mentioned  could  be  ad- 
duced. 

If  we  divest  knighthood  of  the  exclusive  mili- 
tary application  which  for  centuries  attached  to 
it,  and  regard  it  in  the  religious  character  with 
which  it  was  formerly  associated,  it  is  perhaps 
(anomalous  though  it  may  seem)  the  most  appro- 
priate of  our  present  titular  dignities  to  which  a 
clergyman  could  be  raised.  Mr.  Beltz,  Lancaster 
Herald,  in  his  Memorials  of  the  Order  of  the 
Garter,  says  that  the  knights  of  the  twelfth  cen- 
tury (which  is  the  earliest  date  to  which  we  can 
properly  trace  our  present  system  of  knighthood) 
were  oif  two  classes,  religious  and  military,  and 
adds : — 

"  The  first  consisted  of  Knights,  who,  renouncing  the 
rewards  and  honours  of  their  profession,  had  submitted 
themselves,  under  vows  of  celibacy,  obedience,  and 
poverty,  to  ecclesiastical  rules  of  life,  whilst  they  at  the 
same  time  strenuously  directed  their  exertions  to  the 
defence  and  propagation  of  the  Christian  faith." 

Antecedent  even  to  this  period  the  order  was 
conferred  by  the  priest  at  the  altar,  after  religious 


3"i  S.  I.  APRIL  5,  '62.] 


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ceremonial,  and  Ashmole  tells  us  that  this  pre- 
rogative of  the  clergy  was  not  abolished  till  1100, 
or  immediately  before  the  institution  of  the  system 
which  still  exists.  These  facts,  therefore,  added  to 
those  still  better  known,  of  the  identity  of  knight- 
hood, even  in  comparatively  recent  times,  with 
various  religious  orders,  go  far,  I  think,  to  es- 
tablish the  position  I  advanced  as  to  the  greater 
appropriateness  of  this  above  all  other  distinctions 
for  the  clergy,  when  raised  to  other  than  church 
dignities.  I 

I  do  not  argue  that  secular  titles  are  now-a- 
days  fitly  bestowed  on  ministers  of  the  Gospel.  I 
rather  incline  to  the  opinion  inferred  by  G.  W. 
M.  in  his  query,  that  they  are  not ;  but  yet  there 
are  positions  in  which  they  may  be  or  have  been 
placed  where  they  could  be  either  eligible  for 
or  might  have  claimed  knighthood.  As  mayors 
of  boroughs  and  justices  of  the  peace,  they  may 
now,  on  particular  occasions,  be  eligible  for  it; 
and  as  the  eldest  sons  of  baronets,  they  formerly 
could  claim  it.  This  privilege  was  granted  by 
James  I.  in  1612.  An  instance,  to  the  point,  of 
its  having  been  claimed,  occurs  to  me :  Mr. 
Sandys,  the  Rector  of  Winstone,  in  Gloucester- 
shire, and  who  was,  I  presume,  in  orders  at  the 
the  time,  received  knighthood  in  1825,  as  the  son 
and  heir  of  the  late  Sir  Edwin  Bay ntun- Sandys, 
Bart.  George  IV.,  two  years  later,  revoked  the 
grant  of  this  privilege  by  his  predecessor,  the 
founder  of  the  degree  of  baronetage. 

One  of  the  cases  quoted  by  G.  W.  M.  is  not  in 
point ;  and  if  he  turns  to  the  preface  to  Towns- 
end's  Calendar  of  Knights,  page  xiv.,  he  will  see 
that  Sir  Robert  Peate  was  never  knighted,  but 
assumed  the  prefix  of  "  Sir "  by  virtue  of  his 
decoration  with  a  foreign  order,  which  Lord  El- 
lenborough,  in  a  suit  in  which  the  "  Clerical 
Knight "  was  plaintiff,  ruled  that  he  had  a  right 
to  do.  The  practice  (formerly  common)  of  as- 
suming the  distinctive  adjuncts  of  English  knight- 
hood on  receiving  a  foreign  order,  was  abolished 
in  1813.  A  relative  of  the  Rev.  Sir  John  Thoro- 
ton,  Knt.,  is,  I  fancy,  now  a  beneficed  clergyman 
in  England,  and  would  doubtless  answer  G.  W. 
M.'s  question  respecting  him.  He  was  of  the 
same  family  as  Robt.  Thoroton,  the  historian  of 
Nottinghamshire. 

G.  W.  M.  has  probably  noted  as  many  "instances 
as  I  have,  in  early  brasses,  of  the  prefix  of  Sir, 
Syr,  or  Sire  to  the  name  of  an  ecclesiastic,  where 
we  should  now  put  "  Rev.,"  and  which  may  have 
a  more  intimate  connection  with  a  religious  order 
of  knighthood  than  is  generally  admitted.  S.  T. 


SPENCER'S  COWPER'S  TRIAL. 

(3H'S.  i.  91,  191,  214.) 

I  should  be  sorry  to  have  written  a  word  to 
suggest  a  doubt  of  the  full  belief  to  be  enter- 


tained of  the  entire  innocence  of  Spencer  Cow- 
per,  and  whatever  ME.  Foss  writes  is  entitled  to 
the  greatest  respect.  I  should  have  written  in 
my  Note  that  the  guardian  on  the  appeal  for  mur- 
der was  the  mother  of  "  the  appellant "  (the  ap- 
pellant being  the  next  heir  of  the  deceased).  It 
was  an  error  of  mine  to  say  "  mother  of  the  de- 
ceased." The  report  of  the  case  [12  Modern  Re- 
ports, 373],  states  that  "after  the  writ  was  re- 
turnable, the  mother  of  the  appellant,  at  the  in- 
stance and  procurement  of  Cowper,  came  and 
demanded  the  writ  of  the  sheriff*,  and  the  sheriff 
[without  any  assurance  that  the  infant  was  the 
appellant,  or  that  the  party  who  came  with 
him  was  his  mother]  delivered  the  writ  to  them, 
who  destroyed  it.  All  this  appearing  to  the  Court 
by  the  sheriff's  own  confession,  and  he  being  put 
to  answer  interrogatories,  confessed  further  that 
he,  upon  receipt  of  the  writ,:  had  sent  a  copy  of  it 
to  Cowper,  the  defendant's  brother,  and  likewise 
notice  to  Cowper  himself,"  &c. 

These  are  the  words  of  the  report,  and  the  sheriff 
was  fined  200  marks.  The  remarkable  part  of  the 
discussion  is  comprised  in  the  words  I  cited  of 
Chief  Justice  Holt,  in  approval  of  the  ancient 
and  barbarous  process  of  an  appeal  for  murder. 
There  must  have  been  a  motive  on  the  part  of 
Cowper  or  his  brother  in  getting  the  writ  de- 
stroyed, for  it  was  destroyed,  and  the  sheriff  was 
fined.  Certainly  an  effort  to  get  rid  of  a  persecu- 
tion by  the  destruction  of  the  writ'was  justifiable. 
As  respects  the  old  appeal  for  murder,  abolished 
by  the  Act  59  Geo.  III.  ch.  24,  Coke  [2  Institute, 
247]  says  :  — 

"  The  law  doth  allow  trial  by  battle  in  another  case, 
and  that  is  in  case  of  life,  in  an  appeal  of  felony,  when 
the  defendant  may  either  put  himself  on  the  country,  or 
try  it  by  body  to  body ;  that  is,  by  combat  between  him 
and  the  plaintiff,  but  there  the  parties  shall  fight." 

I  admit  fighting  was  not  a  necessary  accom- 
paniment of  every  appeal. 

"  This  trial  by  battel  was  at  the  defendant's  choice ; 
but  if  the  plaintiff  were  under  an  apparent  disability  to 
fight  as  under  age,  maimed,  &c.,  he  might  counter-plead 
the  wager  of  battel,  and  compel  the  defendant  to  put 
himself  upon  his  country,  no  champion  being  allowed  in 
criminal  appeals." —  "  Battle,"  Tomlins's  Law  Dictionary. 

But  then  there  was  a  remarkable  peculiarity  of 
this  appeal,  namely,  that  if  the  appellee  were 
found  "  guilty,"  the  Crown  had  no  power  to  par- 
don, though  the  appellant  might.  It  was  the  suit 
of  a  private  subject  to  make  atonement  for  a  pri- 
vate wrong,  and  the  king  could  not  destroy  it 
[Co.  2  Inst.  316J.  Therefore,  this  remark  is  cer- 
tainty relevant  that,  looking  at  the  temper  of  the 
times,  and  the  possibility  of  a  wicked  and  corrupt 
jury  finding  him  guilty,  Cowper  [the  appellee] 
had  very  sufficient  cause  to  do  what  he  actually 
did;  namely,  to  get  possession  of  the  writ,  and 
to  destroy  it.  He  did  a  very  wise  and  prudent 
act ;  for  there  was  no  hope  of  escape  or  life  if  he 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I.  APKIL  5,  '62. 


had  come  before  a  jury  like  some  juries,  before 
whom  innocent  men,  more  than  simply  to  their 
own  disadvantage,  had,  in  his  lifetime,  appeared. 

J.  F. 


TOAD-EATER. 
(3rd  S.  i.  128,  176.) 

I  think  the  true  explanation  of  this  word  is 
contained  in  the  passage  quoted  from  Fielding  by 
your  correspondent  E.  ft.  E.  The  French  make 
rise  of  the  expression  avaler  un  crapaud,  upon 
which Bescherelle  has  the  following:  "Perdre  toute 
illusion.  Pour  pouvoir  supporter  sans  degout  les 
sottises  que  Ton  dit  et  que  Ton  fait  chaque  jour, 
il  faut  avaler  un  crapaud  le  matin  (Champfort)." 
From  which  we  may  infer,  that  he  who  has  swal- 
lowed a  toad  is  capable  of  putting  up  with  anything. 
To  swalloiv  a  toad  is  a  stronger  expression  than  to 
fat  a  toad,  as  eating  does  not  necessarily  involve 
swallowing.  Again,  the  French  say  avaler  des 
couleuvres  (lit.  to  swallow  adders) =,  according  to 
Bescherelle,  "  recevoir  des  degouts,  des  mortifica- 
tions, &c.,"  or,  according  to  Fleming  and  Tibbins, 
"  avoir  beaucoup  de  deplaisir,  de  chagrin,  sans  oser 
s'en  plaindre."  Indeed  if  it  be  true  that  a  language 
often  points  to  the  habits  of  the  people  by  whom 
it  is  spoken,  we  should,  I  think,  be  entitled  to 
conclude  that  the  French  are  a  very  humble  and 
submissive  nation,  continually  swallowing  a  great 
many  disagreeable  things,  for  they  constantly 
apply  to  sorrows,  vexation,  affronts,  insults,  &c., 
verbs  which  signify  to  cat  and  to  drink,  and  which 
by  other  nations  are  more  especially  confined  to 
food.  Thus  they  say,  MANGER  des  douleurs,  DE- 
VORER  des  chagrins,  des  degouts,  des  affronts,  den 
injures,  £c.,  AVALER,  BOIRE,  DIGERER  un  affront, 
&c.,  S'ABREUVER  de  larmes,  de  Jionte,  d'ignominie. 

Whilst  I  am  upon  the  subject  of  toads,  per- 
haps I  may  be  allowed  to  ask  whether  the  Lat. 
name  for  these  animals,  bufo,  is  not  related  to 
buffoon.  In  Mid.  Lat.  the  two  words  are  spelled 
in  precisely  the  same  manner,  viz.  buffo*  (Migne). 
Buffoon  (Fr.  bouffon)  is  generally  derived  from 
the  Fr.  bouffer  (Prov.  bouffar^,  Sp.  bufar)  to  blow, 
puff,  out  the  cheeks,  or  the  Ital.  buffo=a  puff  (of  air, 
wind),  because,  so  it  is  said,  buffoons  were  in  the 
habit  of  blowing  out  their  cheeks^,  either  in  their 
violent  explosions  of  laughter,  or  in  order  that 
slaps  upon  their  faces  might  produce  a 'louder 
noise,  or  simply  for  the  purpose  of  making  them- 
selves ridiculous.§  At  all  events  the  word  is  con- 

*  Tri  Ital.  bufone  means  a  toad;  buffone,  a  buffoon. 

t  See  Grimm's  Germ.  Diet.  s.  v.  bdffen  (puffen),  which 
verb  he  refers  to  the  Lat.  (ob^puvio,  only  found  in  the 
form  obpuviat  (Forcellini)=verberat.  Puvio  must  there- 
fore have  been  akin  to  pavio,  to  strike.  Hence  our  buff, 
buffet,  rebuff. 

I  Compare  the  Vf.poujfer  de  rire. 

§  J?u#a  =  both  a  puff  of  wind  (Fr.  bouffeV),  and  also 


sidered  to  involve  the  notion  of  blowing,  or 
swelling  up,  of  inflation  or  tumidity.  Now  is  not 
the  toad  noted  for  swelling  up  its  body  ?  Has 
not  Dryden  the  line, 

"  The  hissing  serpent  and  the  swelling  toad  "  ? 

Is  not  bloated  often  applied  to  this  animal,  and 
is  not  one  of  its  Greek  names  <pvffa\os  (from  <j>txrocu 
to  puff  up,  inflate)  ? 

There  is  so  much  resemblance  between  the  two 
words  that  I  expect  my  suggestion  is  not  a  new 
one ;  still  I  have  not  been  able  to  find  it  in  any 
one  of  the  many  books  I  have  consulted. 

F.  CHANCE. 


PAULSON  (3rd  S.  i.  210.)  —  Henley's  ruse  in 
cutting  boots  down  to  shoes  is  well-known.  The 
identity  of  Paulson  may  be  difficult  to  settle,  as 
he  was  probably  one  of  several  obscure  adven- 
turers who  advertised  for  show  the  "  Wonderful 
horse  with  his  head  where  his  tail  ought  to  be, 
and  his  tail  where  his  head  should  be"  ;  and  then 
introduced  his  ready  dupes  to  a  wretched  animal 
with  his  tail  tied  to  the  feeding  rack.  I  have 
heard  the  story  related  as  a  fact,  and  suppose  it 
to  be  the  same  as  that  of  the  "  topsy-turvy  horse." 
DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

"Ad-yos  Tts  Sie<}>oiTa.}\ey<>)i>,  rows  SwKparovs  A.6yous  eoiKe'vai  TOIS 
Ilavcrtovos  •ypd/u.ju.curi.  Kac  yap  TOI  Ktti  TIavo~(ava  rov  £taypd<}>ov, 
aK.ovo~a.VTa.  irapd  TIVOS  ypdtyai  Imrov  Kah.ivdoviJi.evov,  TovSe  ypd^ai 
Tpe\ovTa.  'AyavaKTOvvTOS  OVVTOV  TO  Tn.va.Kiov  eicS6vTO<~,  ws  napa 
ra?  6/u.oA.oyias  •ypd^avTOS,  airoKpLvao~Qai  rov  £<j)ypd<j>ov'  on  crrpe- 
$ov  TO  trtvaKiov,  Kal  6  KaAivSov jaevos  eorra)  <rol  6  Tpex^v."  — 

^Eliani,  Varies.  Histories,  1.  xiv.  c.  15,  p.  950,  ed.  Gronovii, 
Lugd.  Bat.  1731. 

H.  B.  C. 
U.  U.  Club. 

CHIEF  BARON  JAMES  REYNOLDS  :  BARON  JAMES 
REYNOLDS  (3rd  S.  i.  149,  235.)— Grateful  as  I  feel 
for  the  useful  extracts  and  information  furnished 
by  HERUS  FRATER,  I  hope  they  will  not  deter 
your  other  correspondents  from  supplying  some 
explanation  as  to  the  precise  degree  of  relation- 
ship that  existed  between  these  two  judges,  my 
inquiry  thereon  remaining  as  yet  wholly  unan- 
swered. EDWARD  Foss. 

BIOGRAPHICAL  QUERIES  (3rd  S.  i.  208.)  —  Mr. 
Justice  John  Heath  was  the  son  of  Thomas  Heath, 
an  alderman  of  Exeter,  and  nephew  of  Benjamin 
Heath,  a  barrister  and  town  clerk  of  that  city,  who 
was  the  father  of  Dr.  Benjamin  Heath,  the  head- 
master of  Eton.  He  succeeded  Sir  William  Black- 
stone  as  a  judge  of  the  Common  Pleas  in  July, 
1780,  and  sat  in  that  court  above  five  and  thirty 
years.  Lord  Eldon  spoke  highly  of  his  profes- 
sional knowledge,  and  many  are  the  testimonies 

anything  light,  vain,  frivolous  and  empty  (bagatelle, 
sottise),  the  Heb.  tyl")  ji»3p  (Eccles.  i.  17)  WINDY 
thoughts].  This  is  therefore  just  as  probable  a  deri- 
vation of  buffone  as  that  given  above. 


3'dS.  I.  A  pwi.fi, '62.  ] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


277 


to  bis  private  worth,  and  to  the  extent  of  his  ge- 
neral acquirements.  He  refused  the  customary 
honour  of  knighthood ;  declaring  that  he  would 
die  "  plain  John  Heath,"  a  resolution  to  which  he 
adhered. 

Sir  Simon  Le  Blanc  (not  Blane,  as  erroneously 
named  by  F.  G.)  was  called  Serjeant  in  1787,  ap- 
pointed Counsel  to  the  University  of  Cambridge 
in  1791,  and  invested  with  the  judicial  ermine  as 
a  Judge  of  the  King's  Bench  in  1799,  on  the  re- 
signation of  Mr.  Justice  Ashurst.  He  died  after 
seventeen  years'  service  in  that  court. 

These  facts  are  contributed  in  the  hope  that 
they  will  elicit  further  information.  D.  S. 

COINS  INSERTED  IN  TANKABDS  (3rJ  S.  i.  50,  116.) 

—  Sam.  Pepys,  w.hom  I  verily  believe  to  have 
acquired  his  habit  of  "  note-making"  from  the 
gallant  progenitor  of  our  Captain  Cuttle,  so  often 
mentioned  in  his  Diary  ^  refers  to  this  custom :  - 

"  Captain  Cockc  shewed  me  two  or  three  of  a  great 
number  of  silver  dishes  and  plates,  which  he  bought  of 
an  Embassador  that  did  lack  money,  in  the  edges  and 
basins  of  which  was  placed  silver  and  gold  medalls  very 
ancient."  -  Vol.  ii.  p.  303. 

Have  these  been  preserved,  or,  have  they 
vanished  in  the  melting-pot  ? 

Lord  Braybrooke  has,  elsewhere,  a  more  satis- 
factory article  on  the  subject :  — 

"  Baron  Cornwallis,  the  then  Treasurer  of  the  House- 
hold, distributed  the  medals  at  Charles  the  Second's 
Coronation,  and  received  as  hi»  fee  nearly  an  hundred ; 
which  were  preserved  in  the  family,  and  recently  ar- 
ranged so  as  to  form  the  setting  of  a  large  silver  cup, 
now  at  Audley  End."  — Note,  Ibid,  vol.  i.  p.  176. 

Many  years  ago,  I  remember  seeing,  in  the 
shop-window  of  a  silversmith  in  Cockspur  Street, 
a  large  tankard ;  the  lower  rim  of  which  was 
thickly  set  with  coins  or  medals.  OLD  MEM. 

'TITLE-PAGES  (3rd  S.  i.  250.)— The  Fables  in- 
quired after  by  E.  D.  I  believe  he  will  find  to  be 
a  volume  published  in  1768  (8vo.)  by  Dr.  William 
Wilkie,  an  eccentric  professor  at  St.  Andrew's, 
N.  B.,  and  author  of  a  forgotten  epic  based  on  an 
episode  in  Homer,  which,  to  the  confusion  of  the 
critics,  he  dubbed  The  Epigoniad.  For  notice  of 
Wilkie,  should  such  be  wished,  consult  Grosart's 
edition  of  the  Works  of  the  Scottish  poet,  Robert 
Fergusson,  who  wrote  a  pastoral  elegy  on  his 
death.  r. 

SIR  H.  DAVY  AND  JAMES  WATT  (3rd  S.  i.  5, 1.)— 
When  I  read  this  Query,  I  remembered  having 
been  somewhat  amused  on  reading  something 
similar  in  The  Quiver.  After  little  search,  I 
found  it  in  No.  10,  p.  207,  of  that  valuable  little 
periodical ;  and  I  transcribe  it  for  ANTI-POOH- 
POOH'S  further  astonishment :  — 

"  When  the  application  of  coal  gas  to  the  lighting  of 
streets  was  first  suggested,  Sir  Walter  Scott  (not  James 
Watt)  said,  « It  can't  be  done ;  it  is  only  the  dream  of  a 
lunatic.'  And  Sir  Humphrey  Daw,  on  being  told  that 


the  time  would  come  when  all  London  would  be  lighted 
with  gas,  said,  « It  is  all  nonsense;  you  might  as  well 
talk  of  lighting  London  with  a  slice  of  the  moon,  a.s 
to  light  London  with  gas.'  " 

This  is  only  half  a  step  in  reply,  but  no  doubt 
the  statement  can  be  verified.  Ornnia  mvtantur,  kc. 

GEORGE  LLOYD. 

Thurstonland. 

BRISTOL  CATHEDRAL  (3rd  S.  i.  209.) -G.  W.  M. 
will  find,  in  Skelton's  Etchings  of  the  Antiquities 
of  Bristol  from  Drawings  by  the  late  Mr.  O'Neill, 
beautiful  copies  of  a  few  of  the  monuments  in 
this  cathedral,  namely,  four  recumbent  statues  of 
the  Berkeley  family,  two  of  them  prelates,  and 
the  two  others  mailed  knights.  But  I  am  unable 
to  refer  to  any  work  containing  copies  of  any 
other  of  the  monuments.  M.  H.  R. 

SUTTON  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  131.)— I  have  always 
understood  the  name  of  the  Sutton,  who  came 
over  to  England  with  the  Conqueror,  to  have  been 
"  Syward."  A  pedigree  of  the  family,  compiled 
chiefly  from  local  records,  is  given  in  Frost's 
Early  Notices  of  Hull  (pp.  98,  99),  and  additional 
information  in  Poulson's  Holderncss,  ii.  323,  et 
seq.  The  effigy  of  Sir  John  de  Sutton,  Knt.,  who 
died  12  Edw.  III.  may  still  be  seen  in  the  parish 
church  of  Sutton,  two  miles  from  Hull. 

E.  S.  WILSON. 
Melton,  Brough,  East  Yorkshire. 

"  GOD'S  PROVIDENCE  is  MINE  INHERITANCE  " 
(3rd  S.  i.  51,  119.)  — EIRIONNACH  will  be  sorry  to 
learn  that  this  old  house  is  in  progress  of  demoli- 
tion. But  it  will  gratify  him  to  know — if  he  do 
not  know  it  already  —  that  the  Illustrated  London 
News  has  preserved  an  admirable  sketch  of  it  in 
their  pages  on  the  1st  February,  1862. 

GEORGE  LLOYD. 

Thurstonland. 

BURKE  —  MALLOW  REGISTERS  (3rd  S.  i.  161.) — 
In  the  article  on  Edmund  Burke  it  is  asked,  "  Are 
there  not  registers  in  Mallow,  Protestant  and  Ca- 
tholic?" I  am  sorry  to  say  that  though  registers 
are  now  kept,  they  only  extend  back  about  eighty 
years,  whether  for  baptisms  or  marriages.  M.  F. 

POSTAGE  STAMPS  (3rd  S.  i.  149.)  — These  were 
first  issued  in  London  by  an  Order  from  the  Lords 
of  the  Treasury,  on  6th  May,  1840,  and  were  gra- 
dually extended  throughout  the  kingdom ;  but 
properly  stamped  letters  passed  free  from  any 
part  of  the  country.  They  could  only  be  pur- 
chased of  licensed  vendors,  and  at  the  London, 
Dublin,  and  Edinburgh  post-offices.  Two  kinds 
were  issued — penny  in  black,  and  twopenny  in 
blue  ink.  At  top  and  bottom  of  the  covers,  direc- 
tions and  rates  of  postage,  prices  of  stamps,  &c., 
were  given  as  follows  :  — 

At  a  post-office,  labels  Id.  and  2d.  each ;  covers 

d.  and  2$d.  each.    Stamp  distributors  as  above  ; 

and  half  ream,  or  240  penny  covers,  II.  2*.  4d. ; 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  AFKIL  5,  '62. 


penny  envelopes,  I/.  1*.  9d.  Quarter  ream,  or 
120  twopenny  covers,  ]/.  Is.  4d. ;  twopenny  en- 
velopes, 11.  Is.  Id.  Covers  could  be  had  in  sheets 
or  ready  cut ;  envelopes  in  sheets  only.  The  Id. 
carried  £  oz.,  the  2d.  1  oz. ;  for  greater  weights  the 
proper  number  of  labels,  either  alone  or  with  the 
covers,  could  be  used. 

The  paper  used  for  the  covers,  &c.,  was  manu- 
factured by  Mr.  John  Dickinson,  having  coloured 
lines  inserted  in  the  woof  of  the  paper.  The 
adhesive  labels  on  water-marked  paper,  had 
each  the  water-mark  of  a  crown,  and  certain 
letters  of  the  alphabet  were  inserted  in  the  two 
lower  corners  of  the  labels,  the  letters  being 
varied  in  every  240  labels,  to  prevent  forgery. 
The  artists  employed  were  Mulready,  Wyon, 
Thompson,  and  Heath.  Mr.  Wyon's  die,  and  Mr. 
Heath's  plate  was  a  head  of  the  queen.  Mr. 
Mulready's  design  for  covers  was  Britannia  de- 
spatching four  winged  messengers  ;  the  figures  on 
each  side  groups  emblematical  of  British  com- 
merce, communicating  with  all  parts  of  the  world. 
On  the  right  are  East  Indians  directing  the  em- 
barkation of  merchandise;  next,  Arabs  with  camels 
laden,  and  Chinese ;  on  the  left,  American-Indians 
concluding  a  treaty,  and  Negroes  packing  casks 
of  sugar.  The  whole  design  occupies  rather  more 
than  an  inch  in  width  on  the  face  of  the  envelope. 
In  the  foreground :  on  one  side,  a  young  man  is 
reading  a  letter  to  his  mother,  whose  elapsed 
hands  express  her  emotion.  On  the  other  side  is 
a  group  of  three  figures,  each  one  striving  to 
catching  a  sight  of  the  welcome  letter.  The  whole 
is  forcibly  told,  and  suggests  gratitude  for  the 
blessings  of  a  free  correspondence,  or  speech  by 
means  of  written  characters. 

The  fourpenny  rate  came  into  operation  on 
the  5th  Dec.  1839  ;  the  penny  rate  10th  Jan. 
1840;  stamps,  6th  May,  1840. 

JNO.  WM.  PHILLIPS. 

THE  CARYLLS  or  LADYHOLT  (3rd  S.  i.  203.)  — 
The  readers  of  "N.  &  Q."  in  general,  and  more 
especially  the  members  of  the  Archaeological  In- 
stitute, cannot  fail  to  have  read  with  interest  the 
criticisms  of  D.,  and  to:  appreciate  his  corrections 
of  certain  misstatements  alleged  to  have  been 
made  in  the  reports  given  in  the  papers.  I  regret 
that  I  was  not  present  at  the  meeting  of  the  In- 
stitute on  Feb.  7,  when  the  communication  was 
made  regarding  the  neglected  condition  of  the 
tombs  and  alabaster  effigies  of  the  Caryl!  family 
at  Harting.  Mr.  Minty,  who  resides  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood, appears  to  have  felt  a  laudable  desire 
that,  attention  being  called  to  these  memorials, 
some  suitable  precautions  might  be  taken  for  their 
preservation.  It  will,  I  am  sure,  be  gratifying  to 
D.,  who  evidently  takes  so  much  interest  in  the 
history  of  the  family,  that  we  might  almost  sup- 
pose him  to  be  the  "  last  of  the  Carylls,"  to  be 
informed  that  there  is  good  reason  to  hope  that 


Mr.  Minty's  conservative  purpose  may  speedily 
be  carried  out.  I  need  scarcely  say,  however, 
that  the  sympathy  of  D.,  if  indeed  a  descendant 
of  the  loyal  house  of  Lady  holt,  would  be  very 
welcome  in  such  a  cause.  Mr.  Minty,  as  I  un- 
derstand, read  no  memoir  on  the  occasion,  and 
only  made  a  few  observations  relating  to  the 
family,  without  any  intention  of  compiling  their 
history,  which  the  Sussex  antiquary  is  well  aware 
may  be  found  amongst  the  Burrell  collections. 
The  few  notices  of  the  Carylls,  given  merely  with 
the  view  of  exciting  some  interest  in  the  subject, 
may  not  have  been  stated  with  the  correctness 
which  might  be  expected  in  a  detailed  paper  on 
such  a  subject  ;  and  it  must  be  observed  that  the 
criticisms  of  D.  seem  somewhat  unreasonable,  as 
making  the  Institute  responsible  for  any  state- 
ment, inaccurate  as  he  asserts,  or  possibly  given 
with  some  want  of  precise  detail  in  reports  in  the 
papers.  C.  S.  GREAVES. 

An  exact  copy  of  the  epitaph  of  King  James's 
Secretary,  at  the  Scotch  College  in  Paris,  is 
printed  in  the  Collectanea  TopograpTiica  et  Gene- 
alogica,  1841,  vol.  vii.  p.  42.  He  is  there  styled,  — 

"  Illmi  et  Nobmi  D.  Jobannis  Caryl,  Baronis  de  Dun- 
ford,  Dai  de  Harting,  Lady  holt,  &c.  Anglic  Paris,  Ja- 
cobo  11°  et  III0  Magnze  Britannia}  Regibus  ab  intimis 
consiliis  et  secretioribus  mandatis." 

It  gives  the  date  of  his  death  :  "  Obiit  in  oppido 
S.  Germani  in  Laya  pridie  nonas  Septembr.  A.D. 
MDCCXI":  that  is,  Sept.  4,  1711,  not  Sept.  9. 
Dunford  was  apparently  the  lapidary's  error,  not 
for  Durnford,  but  for  Dureford;  which  was  the 
name  of  an  abbey  in  the  parish  of  Rogate,  Sussex, 
not  far  from  Harting  and  the  other  Caryll  estates. 

J.  G.  N. 

ITINERARIUM  ITALIC  (3rd  S.  i.  209.)  —  This 
work  was  originally  written  by  Francis  Schott, 
and  published  in  1600,  and  passed  through  three 
editions.  The  fourth  edition  was  revised  and 
published  in  1625  by  his  brother  Andrew,  whose 
reputation  eventually  eclipsed  that  of  Francis, 
and  occasioned  the  work  to  be  ascribed  to  him- 
self alone.  See  Backer's  Bibliotheque  des  E'cri- 
vains  de  la  Compagnie  de  Jesus,  torn.  i.  p.  72-5. 


Dublin. 

MEDICAL  DEGREES  (3rd  S.  i.  156,  254.)—  Your 
readers  will  thank  J.  A.  PN.  for  his  valuable 
article  on  "  Lambeth  Degrees."  On  the  subject 
of  "  Medical  Degrees,"  permit  me  to  add  to  my 
former  communication  (p.  156)  that  the  College 
of  Physicians  of  London  has  of  late  years  ad- 
mitted, as  EXTRA  Licentiates  to  practise,  upon 
paying  a  fee  to  the  College,  surgeons  and  apothe- 
caries of  twenty  years'  standing,  without  such 
persons  having  the  degree  of  M.A.  or  M.D., 
which  the  College  cannot  confer  ;  still  these  per- 


s.  I.  APRIL  5,  '62.] 


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sons  assume  and  appropriate  to  themselves  the 
title  of  M.D.,  though  they  cannot  sign,  or  annex 
the  title  to  their  names,  or  be  so  registered  ac- 
cording to  the  Act  of  Parliament  now  in  force. 

It  has  been  stated  that  the  title  of  M.D.  is  in 
many  cases  assumed,  particularly  in  Paris,  Italy, 
&c.  This  has  been  strongly  opposed  by  the 
French  medical  men,  and  many  Englishmen  have 
been  cited  before  their  tribunals  for  infringing 
their  laws  on  this  head.  Some  years  ago,  no  less 
than  thirteen  Englishmen,  assuming  the  title  of 
M.D.,  were  in  Paris  summoned  to  appear  in 
Court,  and  to  bring  with  them  their  diplomas, 
when  it  is  said  one  only  of  that  number  could  or 
did  produce  his  diploma,  and  that  single  person 
was  Dr.  Wm.  M.  Boy  ton,  who  was  a  Fellow  of  the 
Royal  College  of  Physicians,  in  London.  Dr. 
Boyton  at  one  time  practised  as  M.D.  in  Sloane 
Street,  Knightsbridge,  but  is  now  deceased. 

When  Earl  Granville  was  ambassador  at  Paris, 
Mr.  O'Grady,  who  was  surgeon  and  apothecary 
to  (he  household  of  the  Embassy,  and  whose 
business  was  carried  on  in  the  Rue  de  la  Paix,  was 
obliged  to  have  a  prete-nom  *,  instead  of  affixing 
his  own  name  to  his  premises,  to  whom  he  paid 
40/.  a-year  for  the  use  of  his  name.  F.  Y. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 


Proceedings  principally  in  the  County  of  Kent  in  Con- 
nection with  the  Parliaments  called  in  1640,  and  especially 
with  the  Committee  of  Religion  appointed  in  that  Reign. 
Edited  by  the  Rev.  L.  B.  Larking,  from  the  Collection  of 
Sir  Edward  Dering,  Bart.  With  a  Preface  by  John  Bruce, 
Esq.,  F.S.A.  (Printed  for  the  Caraden  Society.) 

Parliamentary  Debates  in  1610.  Edited  from  the  Notes 
of  a  Member  of  the  House  of  Commons  by  Samuel  Rawson 
Gardiner,  late  Student  of  Christchurch.  (Printed  for  the 
Camden  Society.) 

We  shall  be  surprised  if  these  two  volumes,  just  issued 
by  the  Camden  Society,  be  not  considered  as  among  the 
most  valuable  which  that  Society  has  yet  brought  before 
the  public.  If  for  the  first  we  are  indebted  to  the  skilful 
editorship  of  Mr.  Larking,  and  the  curious  illustrative 
Preface  by  Mr.  Bruce,  we  are  certainly  not  less  indebted 
to  the  acquisitiveness  of  Sir  E.  Dering,  which  induced 
him  to  convey  to  the  safe  keeping  of  Surrenden  the  very 
interesting  documents  which  form  the  staple  of  the 
volume.  These  throw  new  and  considerable  light  on  the 
state  of  public  affairs  in  the  memorable1  jrear  1640 ;  but 
more  particularly  upon  the  proceedings  of  the  House  of 
Commons  in  reference  to  the  ecclesiastical  administration 
of  Laud ;  and  they  illustrate  in  a  very  striking  manner 
the  then  state  of  the  Church  of  England,  and  the  charac- 
ter of  its  ministers.  Mr.  Bruce  furnishes  us  with  an 
admirable  sketch  of  Sir  E.  Dering ;  in  the  course  of  which 
we  get  a  curious  glimpse  of  honest  Isaac  Walton  in  the 
novel  character  of  a  match-maker.  The  second  volume, 
referring  as  it  does  to  a  somewhat  earlier  period,  is  like 

*  A  prete-nom  is  a  parson  who,  in  France,  being  pro- 
perly qualified,  lends  his  name  to  carry  on  a  business. 


the  former  —  valuable  as  a  contribution  to  parliamentary 
history.  From  the  debates  here  recorded,  may  be  dated 
the  commencement  of  the  great  struggle  between  the 
King  and  the  House  of  Commons  as  to  whether  the  ex- 
clusive power  of  taxation  should  remain  in  the  hands  of 
the  latter.  The  accounts  in  the  Commons'  Journals  of 
these  proceedings  are  extremely  meagre,  but  this  de- 
ficiency has  now  been  supplied  from  various  sources  by 
Mr.  Gardiner,  with  great  zeal  and  corresponding  intelli- 
gence;  and  the  Camden  Society  may  justly  feel  proud 
in  adding  the  name  of  one  so  well  versed  in  historical 
learning  to  its  list  of  Editors. 

The  Poetical  Works  of  James  Thomson.  Aldine  Edi- 
tion, 2  Vols.  (Bell  &  Daldy.) 

Messrs.  Bell  &  Daldy's  reissue  of  the  beautiful  series  of 
Aldine  Poets  for  which  the  lovers  of  handsome  books 
were  indebted  to  the  late  Mr.  Pickering,  does  not  consist 
of  mere  reprints.  The  various  authors  are  re-edited. 
Carefully  as  Sir  H.  Nicolas  had  laboured  upon  the 
writings  of  Thomson,  Mr.  Peter  Cunningham  has  found 
room  for  many  valuable  additions  to  the  labours  of  his 
predecessor,  among  which  we  may  specially  mention 
eight  important  letters  from  Thomson  to  Mallet,  printed 
for  the  first  time  in  what  may  now  be  considered  the 
best  critical  edition  of  Thomson's  Poems. 

Selections  from  the  Works  of  Plato.  Translated  from 
the  Greek  by  Georgiana  Lady  Chatterton.  (Bentley.) 

Lady  Chatterton  has  done  good  service  to  her  own  sex 
in  making  this  selection  from  the  works  of  Plato.  It  is 
a  fitting  task  for  an  accomplished  lady  to  undertake  for 
the  instruction  of  other  thoughtful  ladies. 

BOOKS  RECEIVED  :  — 

The  Intellectual  Observer. 

Review  of  Natural  History,  Microscopic  Research,  and 
Recreative  Science.  Nos.  2  and  3.  (Groom bridge  &  Son.) 

This  praiseworthy  endeavour  to  popularise  science 
makes  very  satisfactory  progres?.  The  present  numbers 
are  at  once  amusing  and  instructive. 

Routledge's  Illustrated  Natural  History.  By  the  Rev. 
J.  G.  Wood,  M.A.,  F.L.S.  Parts  34,  35,  36,  37,  and  38. 
(Routledge.) 

In  the  Parts  before  us  Mr.  Wood  has  brought  to  a 
close  his  notices  of  the  Reptile  world,  and  is  now  engaged 
upon  the  Fishes.  These  Parts  are  as  well  and  as  profusely 
illustrated  as  their  predecessors. 


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'\monfi  other  articles  of  interest  which  will  appear  in  our  next  orfol- 
Jon  inr/  numbn-,  are  Sir  G.  C.  Lewis  on  Ceritennrians  ;  Gunpowder  Plot 
Puper's;  Sir  1'..  Tnnn-nt  on  Slavery;  Mr.  D.  F.  MacCurtlin  on  Shelley  s 
"  l,:n.n  a>  d  Cythna,"  Ac.;  Proclamation  for  Apprehension  ol  Boswtll  ; 
Jlr.  Cockle's  Mathematical  Bibliography,  $c. 

A  CONSTANT  READER.  The  line  is  from  Borbonius,  and  the  proper 
nuditi'j  — 

"  Omnia  mutantur,  nos  et  mutamur  in  illis." 
See  "  N.  &  Q."  1st  S.  i.  234  and  419. 

S.  C.  To  "  call  a  spade  a  spade  "  in  a  very  old  proverb.  SKO^  (r<a4>r,v 
>tytu.  says  Aristophanes;  and  Scapham  scapharn  dicere,  <juoth  Me- 
tancthon. 

CLIO.  The  case  of  Thomas  B( aufoi  t,  created  Duke  of  Exeter  far  life, 
uas  noticed  i/t  the  ease  of  Lord  Wensleydale. 

S.  B.  Various  explanations  have  already  appeared  in  "N.  &  Q." 
as  to  Milton's  "  f/cemon/i."  Ally  son  i.s  suggested  by  one  Correspondent 
(1st  S.  ii.  ill);  Ccterach,  spleen  wort,  or  miltwaste  of  another  (ibid  p. 
410.)  A  curious  summary  of  opinions  uc-illbe  found  in  1st  S.  vi.  275,  and 
xii.  331;  the  agrimony  is  pronounced  to  be  the  plant  referred  to. 

G.  C.    Margaret,  Roper,  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  More,  held 
"  In  her  last  trance  her  murdered  father's  head." 

JCXTA  TURRIM  should  consult  Charnock's  Local  Nomenclature,  and 
Lee's  Rectitwtines,  or  the  English  version  of  the  latter  by  Mr.  Williams. 

REV.  T.  BARHAM.    Declined  ici/h  thanks. 

DF.LTA.  We  had  hoped  that  it.  would  not  have  been  necessary  for  us  to 
repeat  in  this,  the  thirteenth  year  of  "  N.  &  Q.'s  "  existence,  that  there  is 
no  ehurge  for  the  insertion  of  Queries  or  Lists  of  Books  wanted. 

HF.RMENTRUDE.  The.  poem,  "  Little.  A  lice  idly  sitteth,"  is  in  Household 
Words,  vi.  37,  and  "  The  Love  Test"  in  xiii.  372,  of  the  same  work. 

HENRY  LFROY  TEMPI.E.  The  I  ittle  knight,  noticed  by  Howell,  owing  to 
fome  unfortunate  protnbi  ranee,  had  the  same  difficulty  in  getting  on  his 
inexpressibles  «..s  some  people  have  in  (jetting  on,  new  shoes.  This  may  oc- 
eoui.tfor  his  using  a  shoeing-horn, 

S.  B.    O'Conneir*  cpir/ram  is  printed  in  our  2nd  S.  viii.  430. 


ERRATA.  -  3rd  S.  i.  p.  208,  col.  ii.  3rd  line  from  bottom,  for  "  Blaiie  ' 
me,"  and  last  line,/o/- "  Davis  "  read  "  Devis." 


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CONTENTS.— NO.  15. 

NOTES  :  —  Centenarians,  281  —  Slavery,  282  —  Shelley's 
"  Laon  and  Cythna"  and  "  Revolt  of  Islam,"  283  —  Under- 
bill Family,  285. 

MINOK  NOTES  :  — Nelly  Gwyn's  First  Love  — Suicide  — 
Crinolines— Age  of  Newspapers  —  Hawthorne  and  Long- 
fellow —  Post-haste  in  1600  —  The  Great  Exhibition,  1861, 
286. 

QUERIES:  —  Douglas,  Duke  of  Touraine,  288  — "Adeun- 
dem  "  Degrees  "  —  Anagram  —  Aggravate — Roger  Bacon- 
Master  Brightwell  —  Carlile's  "Weekly  Register "— Do- 
mestic Architecture  —  Drama  —Mrs.  Douglas—  Dutch 
Pugs  —  English  Popular  Books  —  Erasmus  and  Ulrich 
Hiitten  —  Foster  Arms  :  Walrond  Arms  —  Handel  —  Kel- 
lington  Register  —  Lampoon  on  the  Jockey  Club  — Vis- 

p  count  Lisle  — The  Word  "Matter"  — Dr.  Moisey  — Offi- 
cers at  Quebec  —  Picture  of  Woe  —  Skelton  —  Snuffers  — 
"The  Stars  of  Night"  — The  Swine,  Brother  to  Man  — 
Twill  Pants  —  University  Discipline,  288. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS:  — Courts  of  Love  — Herydone 

—  Charles  I.  —  Thomas's  "  Historic  of  Italic,"  291. 

REPLIES :  —  Spartan  Duplicity,  292  —  Matthew  Wasbrough 
and  .the  Steam  Engine,  76.  — Club,  294— Palm:  Roman 
Feet  — Matthew  Kennedy  —  Rev.  Christopher  Blackwood 

—  Travers  Family  —  A  Drinking  Mayor  —  St.  abbreviated 
to  T.  —  Rats  leaving  a  Sinking  Ship  —  Stow's  Survey  — 
Thomas  Simon  —  One  Hundred  and  Ninety-five  Years  ago 

—  Reins  —  Four-bladed  Clover  —  Carnival  Custom  at  Bou- 
logne-sur-Mer  —  Juryman's  Oath  —  Medal  —  Fridays  and 
Fast  Days  —  "  The  Progresse  of  Pietie  "  —  Numismatic 
Query:  the  Spade  Guinea  —  Scarlett  Family —  Relative 
Value  of  Horses  in  Shakspeare's  Time,  295. 

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CENTENARIANS. 

It  may,  I  believe,  be  stated  as  a  fact  that  (limit- 
ing ourselves  to  the  time  since  the  Christian  era), 
no  person  of  royal  or  noble  rank  mentioned  in 
history,  whose  birth  was  recorded  at  the  time  of 
its  occurrence,  reached  the  age  of  100  years.  I 
am  not  aware  that  the  modern  peerage  and  ba- 
ronetage books  contain  any  such  case,  resting 
upon  authentic  evidence.  I  have  been  informed 
that  no  well-established  case  of  a  life  exceeding 
100  years  has  occurred  in  the  experience  of  com- 
panies for  the  insurance  of  lives.  These  facts 
raise  a  presumption  that  human  life,  under  its 
existing  conditions,  is  never  prolonged  beyond  a 
hundred  years. 

Nevertheless,  the  obituaries  of  modern  news- 
papers contain,  from  time  to  time,  the  deaths  of 
persons  who  are  alleged  to  have  outlived  this  age. 
It  may  be  conjectured  that  these  statements  of 
longevity  are  in  general  made  on  the  authority  of 
the  individual's  own  memory.  Now,  there  are 
many  reasons  why  old  persons  should  be  mis- 
taken about  their  age,  if  their  memory  is  not  cor- 
rected by  written  documents.  Even  with  persons 
in  easy  circumstances,  great  age  is  a  subject  of 
curiosity,  wonder,  and  solicitude ;  with  persons 
in  a  humbler  rank  of  life,  it  is  a  ground  of  sym- 
pathy, interest,  and  charity.  It  is  therefore  not 


unnatural  that  a  person,  whose  real  age  exceeds 
ninety  years,  and  who  has  no  contemporaries  to 
check  his  statements,  should,  without  intending  to 
commit  any  deliberate  deceit,  represent  his  age 
as  greater  than  the  reality. 

The  only  conclusive  proof  of  a  person's  age  is 
a  contemporary  record  of  his  birth,  or  the  decla- 
ration of  a  person  who  remembers  its  occurrence. 
If  there  are  now  persons  living  whose  age  ex- 
ceeds 100  years,  such  evidence  surely  can  be  ob- 
tained, and  its  production  would  remove  all  doubt 
on  the  question. 

The  writer  of  these  remarks  has  investigated 
several  cases  in  which  life  was  alleged  to  have 
lasted  beyond  100  years,  but  it  is  difficult  to 
obtain  documentary  evidence  of  the  fact.  The 
following  case  affords  an  illustration  of  the  result 
of  such  researches.  A  pamphlet  has  recently 
been  published  at  Oxford  by  Mr.  Tyerman,  a 
medical  practitioner  of  that  city,  entitled  Notices 
of  the  Life  of  John  Pratt,  now  in  his  106th  Year. 
In  this  pamphlet  it  is  stated  that  John  Pratt  is 
resident  at  Oxford,  and  that  the  writer  of  it  is 
personally  acquainted  with  him.  The  account  of 
John  Pratt's  birth  and  age  given  in  it  must  there- 
fore be  presumed  to  rest  on  his  own  testimony. 
The  account  (p.  4)  is,  that  "  He  was  born  at 
Grendon-under-Wood  in  Buckinghamshire,  on 
the  fifth  day  of  March,  1756,  and  was  the  eldest 
of  three  children  ;  that  his  father,  who  was  a  shoe- 
maker, and  a  diligent  man,  died  at  the  age  of  75 ; 
that  his  mother  completed  her  105th  year,  and 
his  great-grandmother  her  lllth."  Through  the 
kindness  of  a  friend,  I  have  ascertained  from  the 
Rev.  M.  Marshall,  the  incumbent  of  Grendon- 
Underwood,  in  Buckinghamshire,  that  the  parish 
register  of  the  period  (which  is  preserved)  con- 
tains no  entry  of  the  baptism  of  John  Pratt  at  or 
near  the  year  1756,  although  it  contains  various 
entries  of  baptisms,  marriages,  and  burials  of  per- 
sons named  Pratt  from  1742  to  1783.  The  old 
man  himself  has  no  entry  in  a  bible,  or  other 
documentary  evidence,  in  confirmation  .of  his 
statement ;  and  his  account  of  his  age  appears  to 
rest  exclusively  upon  his  own  memory. 

It  is  argued  in  favour  of  the  belief  in  rare 
cases  of  excessive  longevity,  that  they  would  be 
in  analogy  with  other  ascertained  peculiarities  of 
human  physiology.  There  have  been  men  of 
extraordinary  height ;  there  have  been  minute 
dwarfs ;  there  have  been  men  of  enormous  fat- 
ness ;  there  have  also  been  men  of  extreme 
tenuity.  Why  then,  it  is  asked,  should  there  not 
be  a  few  centenarians  ?  This  question  may  be 
answered  by  saying  that  such  a  duration  of  life 
does  not  seem,  a  priori,  inconsistent  with  the  laws 
of  nature ;  but  that  the  existence  of  very  tall  and 
very  short,  of  very  fat  and  very  thin  mentis 
proved  by  the  indubitable  evidence  of  eye-wit- 
nesses, whereas  there  is  not  on  record,  in  pub- 


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lislied  books,  any  conclusive  proof  of  a  life  which 
has  been  prolonged  beyond  100  years,  under  the 
existing  conditions  of  our  physical  nature. 

I  have,  however,  recently  obtained  the  par- 
ticulars of  a  life  exceeding  100  years,  which  ap- 
pear to  be  perfectly  authentic,  and  to  admit  of  no 
doubt.  Mrs.  Esther  Strike  was  buried  in  the 
parish  of  Cranburne  St.  Peters,  in  the  county  of 
Berks,  on  the  22nd  of  February,  1862;  she  was 
the  daughter  of  George  and  Ann  Jackman  ;  and 
she  was  privately  baptized  on  June  3,  and  pub- 
licly baptized  on  June  26,  1759,  in  the  parish  of 
Winkfield,  in  the  same  county.  She  was  there- 
fore in  her  103rd  year.  Certified  extracts  of  the 
two  registers  proving  these  facts  have  been  fur- 
nished to  me  through  the  kindness  of  the  Rev. 
C.  J.  Elliott,  Vicar  of  Winkfield.  G.  C.  LEWIS. 

[The  following  articles,  giving  dates  of  the  deaths  of 
many  very  aged  people,  were  in  type  before  SIK  GEORGE 
C.  LEWIS'S  valuable  paper  reached  us.  We  hope  that,  in 
future,  correspondents  who  send  us  instances  of  longevity 
will  follow  SIR  GEORGE'S  example,  and  first  ascertain 
that  there  exists  some  evidence  that  the  parties  were 
really  of  the  age  stated.— ED.  "  N.  &  Q."] 

The  instances  of  longevity  noticed  by  your 
correspondent  T.  C.  N.  (3rd  S.  i.  226),  are  quite 
eclipsed  by  the  following,  which  I  select  from 
numerous  others  given  in  the  Town  and  Country 
and  Gentleman's  Magazines  for  the  year  1772  ; 
which  seem  to  show  that  our  ancestors,  even 
in  comparatively  modern  times,  attained  a  far 
greater  age  than  is  reached  by  the  present  ger 
Deration.  Cases  of  persons  arriving  at  the  ages 
of  seventy,  eighty,  and  even  ninety  years  and  up- 
wards, appear  to  have  been  then  of  almost  daily 
occurrence.  I  have  selected  instances  of  cen- 
tenariunism  only  :  — 

1772,  Jan.  7th.    Margaret  Austen,  widow,  aged  104,  at 
Tenterden,  in  Kent. 

„  „  10th.  Mr.  Andrew;.Coppack,  aged  105,  at  St. 
Catherine's. 

„        „  12th.    Mr.  Da}',  aged  107,  at  Lynn. 

„        „  14th.    Mrs.  Edwards,  aged  111,  at  Kendal. 

„  „  28th.  Thomas  Dolton,  of  Fairlight,  in  Sus- 
sex, aged  105. 

„  Feb.  2nd.  John  Simpson,  aged  112,  at  Stratford, 
in  Essex. 

„  Mar.  31st.  Dr.  Wm.  Broughbridge,  aged  112,  for- 
merly one  of  the  Masters^of  the  Char- 
ter-house Schools. 

„  April  6th.  John  Noble,  aged  114,  at  Corney,  Cum- 
berland. 

,,  „  3rd.  John  Wh alley,  aged  121,  in  Rother- 
hithe  workhouse. 

„  May  4th.  Mrs.  Anne  Williams,  a  widow  gentle- 
woman, aged  109,  at  Putney. 

„  „  25th.  Jasper  Jenkins,  Esq.,  aged  106,  at  En- 
field,  formerly  a  merchant  at  Liver- 
pool. 

„  June  29th.  John  Meggs,  Esq.,  aged  101,  at  Tam- 
Avortb,  in  Staffordshire. 

„     Oct.  9th.    The    celebrated    Christian     Jacobsen 

Drachenbug,  at  Aarthus,  aged  146. 
[What  is  known  of  this  individual?] 


1772,  Oct.  9th.  Isabel  King,  widow,  at  Fochabers,  in 
Scotland,  aged  108.  Her  husband, 
who  died  about  two  years  ago,  was 
98  years  old  at  his  decease.  They  had 
lived  in  a  married  state  upwards  of 
sixty-six  years,  &c. 

I  shall  conclude  this  long  Note  by  noticing  one 
other  case  of  centenarianism,  as  quoted  in  one  of 
the  same  journals,  which  I  think  may  well  be 
placed  side  by  side  with  that  last  referred  to  by 
your  correspondent :  — 

June  21st  (same  year).  "  Mrs.  Keith,  at  Newnham,  in 
Gloucestershire,  aged  133 ;  who  retained  her  senses  till 
within  a  fortnight  before  her  death.  She  has  left  6000Z. 
to  her  three  daughters,  the  youngest  of  whom  is  109  [  !} 
years  of  age.  She  has  likewise  left  behind  her  about 
seventy  grandchildren  and  great-grandchildren." 

H.  C.  F. 

The  instance  of  Mrs.  Esther  Strike,  quoted  by 
T.  C.  N.  from  The  Times,  in  "N.  &  Q."  (3rd  S.  f. 
226),  under  the  head  "  Longevity,"  is  enormously 
exceeded  by  the  following,  that  is,  in  respect  of 
the  number  of  descendants.  It  is  from  George 
Lord  Lyttelton's  "  Letter  to  Mr.  Bower,  with  an 
Account  of  a  Tour  in  Wales"  (Lyttelton's  Mis- 
cellaneous Works,  by  Ayscough,  2nd  edition,  Lon- 
don, 1775,  in  4to,  p.  718).  The  letter  is  dated 
6th  July,  1756  :  — 

"  Not  long  ago  there  died  in  that  neighbourhood 
[Festiniog]  an  honest  Welsh  farmer,  who  was  105  years 
of  age.  By  his  first  wife  he  had  thirty  children,  ten  by 
his  second,  four  by  his  third,  and  seven  by  two  concu- 
bines. His  youngest  son  was  eighty-one  years  younger 
than  his  eldest;  and  800  persons,  descended  from  his 
body,  attended  his  funeral." 

LYTTELTOX'. 

Hagley,  Stourbridge. 


SLAVERY. 

May  I  solicit  the  attention  of  some  blblo- 
critical  correspondent  of  "N.  &  Q."  to  the  18th 
chapter  of  the  Apocalypse ;  in  the  13th  verse  of 
which  there  are  two  expressions,  the  translation 
of  each  of  which  appears  to  me  somewhat  obscure, 
whilst  their  juxtaposition  would  seem  to  present 
a  startling  contrast  between  the  status  of  free- 
men and  slaves.  Foretelling  the  destruction  of 
Babylon  (by  which  Rome  is  understood),  the 
voice  from  heaven  predicts  the  ruin  of  her  com- 
merce in  spices  and  wine,  oil,  wheat,  horses, 
chariots,  "  and  slaves  and  souls  of  men." 

The  two  latter,  in  the  Greek  text,  are  termed 

fftafJidrcav  Kal  if/v^as  avdpcairuv.  As  to  the  first,  this, 
I  believe,  is  the  only  passage  in  the  Scriptures  in 
which  o-wjuo,  in  its  metaphorical  sense,  is  taken  to 
denote  "  a  slave  "  by  the  implied  dominion  of  his 
master  over  his  body  —  a  figure  of  speech  which 
occurs  in  Strabo  and  Aristotle,  where  ffw^dra  and 
SoCAoi  would  appear  to  be  almost  convertible  terms. 
To  avoid  doubt,  however,  Demosthenes  addstoo-w- 


s.  I.  APUIL  12,  '62.] 


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the  qualification  of  c»x/waAa>Ta,  to  express  that 
they  were  "  captives  in  war."  And  Xenophon  still 
.further  discriminates  between  the  slaves  and  the 
freemen  so  captured,  by  calling  the  latter  au^dra 
^fvOepa  (Hellen.  lib.  ii.  c.  1,  19).  It  admits,  how- 
ever,' of  no  doubt,  that  in  the  passage  in  the 
Apocalypse  above  alluded  to  o-cD/ia  means  a  slave. 

But  then  follow  antithetically  the  words  tyvxas 
o.vQpuTT(»v,  which  are  rendered  in  the  English  ver- 
sion —  "  souls  of  men."  But  the  classification  of 
the  souls  of  men  as  objects  of  merchandise  in  the 
same  list  with  gold  and  silver,  gems  and  pearls,  brass 
work,  marble,  spices,  corn,  wine,  and  oil,  seems 
to  require  some  further  elucidation.  The  whole 
passage  bears  a  striking  resemblance  to  the  27th 
chapter  of  Ezekiel,  in  which  the  overthrow  of 
Tyre  is  proclaimed  by  the  Prophet  ;  with  a  similar 
prediction  of  the  ruin  of  those  who  traded  there 
in  silver,  tin,  iron,  and  lead,  and  vessels  of  brass, 
and  in  "  the  persons  of  men."  The  Hebrew  term 
is  DIN  PBJa,  meaning  "man's  life,"  or  "man's 


•soul;"  and  it  is  to  be  observed  that  this  is 
rendered  in  the  Septuagint  by  the  very  same 
words  —  tv  tyvxaie  avBpdj-jruv  —  which  in  the  Apoca- 
lypse are  translated,  the  "souls  of  men";  and 
which  the  Vulgate  renders  "  slaves,"  mancipia. 

I  think  there  is  but  one  other  instance  in  the 
New  Testament  in  which  these  words  occur, 
Luke  ix.  56  ;  where  Christ  reminds  the  disciples, 
-who  wished  him  to  call  down  fire  from  heaven  to 
consume  the  Samaritan  villages,  that  the  Son  of 
Man  is  not  come  to  destroy  men's  lives  (tyvxas 
avQpwirtav),  but  to  save  them. 

Thus  we  have  the  same  terms  translated  in 
four  different  ways  :  the  "  persons  of  men,"  the 
"  souls  of  men,"  "  men's  lives,"  and  "  slaves." 
Doubting  somewhat  the  propriety  of  the  second, 
in  the  passage  of  the  Apocalypse  under  consider- 
ation, two  conjectures  are  open  ;  on  the  merits  of 
which  it  would  be  desirable  to  have  some  authori- 
tative opinion.  First.  That  the  words  tyvxas  av- 
Qp&iruv  may  mean  "slaves,"  in  accordance  with 
the  Vulgate  version  of  the  Septuagint  in  Eze' 
kiel  xxvii.  ;  but  in  that  case,  what  is  the  distinc- 
tion implied  between  this  term  and  (ro^ara,  which 
unquestionably  applies  also  to  slaves  ?  Is  the 
latter  applied  only  to  the  lowest  bondsman,  him- 
self the  son  of  a  slave  ?  whilst  the  words  i|>t/x«l 
bvQpwTrwv  distinguish  those  reduced  to  slavery  by 
captivity  in  war  (the  f\ev6fpa  O-TW^OTO  of  Xeno- 
phon), who,  equally  with  the  base  born,  would  be 
an  object  of  sale  and  merchandise  ?  Or,  secondly, 
Does  the  writer  of  the  Apocalypse  adopt  the  con- 
ventional phraseology  of  the  heathen  world  in  the 
times  of  Domitian  and  Kerva,  when  the  slave  was 
stigmatised  as  a  mere  "  body"  devoid  of  intellect 
and  doomed  to  labour,  whilst  the  free  alone  were 
dignified  by  the  epithet  of  "  men  with  souls"  ? 

J.  EMERSON  TENNEIST. 


SHELLEY'S  «LAON  AND  CYTHNA"  AND 
"REVOLT  OF  ISLAM." 

"  Nay,  pray  thee  come : 
Or,  if  thou  wilt  hold  longer  argument, 
Do  it  in  NOTES." 

Much  Ado  about  Nothing,  Act  II. 
Sc.  3. 

Having  received  the  above  advice  (substantially, 
though  unconsciously,  taken  out  of  Shakspeare) 
from  two  London  booksellers  of  great  experience 
and  intelligence  relative  to  a  matter  of  some  biblio- 
graphical interest,  I  have  determined  to  adopt  it. 
Under  ordinary  circumstances  I  might,  it  is  to  be 
feared,  with  too  much  truth,  quote  against  myself 
the  rejoinder  of  Balthazar  in  the  above  scene  — 
"  Note  this  before  my  notes, 

There's  not  a  note  of  mine  that's  worth  the  noting ; " 

but  I  think  the  subject  of  this  note  at  least  pos- 
sesses inherent  attractions  sufficient,  perhaps,  to 
excuse  these  preliminary  "  crotchets,"  — 
"  Note,  notes,  forsooth,  and  noting," — 

and  to  atone  for  my  way  of  putting  before  you 
what  I  have  set  down  in  accordance  with  the  sage 
counsel  of  Captain  Cuttle. 

Considering  how  much  has  been  written  about 
Shelley  during  the  last  few  years,  "it  is  a  matter  of 
some  surprise  that  such  facts  connected  with  the 
most  critical  circumstances  of  his  life,  as  Mr.  Pea- 
cock has  proved  in  the  exceedingly  valuable  ad- 
ditions to  our  knowledge  of  the  poet's  biography, 
which  that  gentleman  has  favoured  the  public 
with  in  Eraser's  Magazine  *,  should  have  been 
brought  to  light  so  recently.  It  is  by  no  means 
my  intention  to  enter  into  any  discussion  relative 
to  the  most  painfully  interesting  of  these  new  re- 
velations. Should  Mr.  Hogg  ever  complete  his 
unfinished  book  (and  I  think  present  as  well  as 
future  admirers  of  the  poetry  of  his  hero  would 
be  glad  if  he  would  do  so,  with  a  little  less  infu- 
sion of  the  biographer  himself)  new  light  may  be 
thrown  upon  the  causes,  remote  or  proximate, 
that  led  to  the  separation  (if  it  can  be  called  so) 
between  Shelley  and  his  first  wife.  I  shall  only 
say,  that  I  believe,  as  far  as  the  matter  has  been 
yet  opened,  Mr.  Peacock  has  the  thanks  and 
sympathy  of  every  unprejudiced  person  for  his 
generous  efforts  to  obtain  even  common  justice 
for  the  memory  of  the  principal  sufferer  and  vic- 
tim in  this  calamitous  transaction. 

Another  of  the  new  facts  in  Mr.  Peacock's 
papers  is  the  one  which  I  have  made  the  subject 
of  this  note.  It  also  involves  questions  of  the 
gravest  moral  importance,  affecting  the  character 
and  principles  of  the  poet.  But  it  is  not  from 
this  point  of  view  I  wish  to  regard  it.  Shelley 
lived  long  enough  to  abjure  the  crude  impiety  of 
his  u  Queen  Mab ; "  and  we  may  hope,  that  had  he 

*  Eraser's  Magazine,  June,  1858 ;  Jan.  I860 ;  March, 
1860 ;  and  this  present  March,  1862. 


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been  allowed  to  see  his  children  growing  up  about 
him  — 

"A  sober  man,  among  his  boys," 
he  would  have  thanked  those  friends  whose  com- 
pulsory alterations  of  "  Laon  and  Cythna  "  com- 
pelled him  to  -respect  those  laws  and  instincts  that 
guard  the  sanctity  and  preserve  the  security  of 
home. 

In  the  second  of  Mr.  Peacock's  Papers  (January, 
1860),  the  following  passage  relative  to  the  pub- 
lication of  this  poem  in  its  first  form  occurs  :  — 

"  In  the  summer  of  1817  he  wrote  the  '  Revolt  of  Islam,' 
chiefly  on  a  seat  on  a  high  prominence  in  Bisham  Wood, 
where  he  passed  whole  mornings  with  a  blank  book  and 
a  pencil.  This  work  when  completed  was  printed  under 
the  title  of '  Laon  and  Cythna.'  In  this  poem  he  had 
carried  the  expression  of  his  opinions,  moral,  political,  and 
theological,  beyond  the  bounds  of  discretion.  The  terror 
which,  in  those  days  of  persecution  of  the  press,  the  peru- 
sal of  the  book  inspired  in  Mr.  Oilier,  the  publisher,  in- 
duced him  to  solicit  the  alteration  of  many  passages 
which  he  had  marked.  Shelley  was  for  some  time  in- 
flexible; but  Mr.  Ollier's  refusal  to  publish  the  poem  as 
it  was,  backed  by  the  advice  of  all  his  friends,  induced 
him  to  submit  to  the  required  changes.  Many  leaves  were 
cancelled,  and  it  was  finally  published  as  '  The  Revolt  of 
Islam.'  Of  '  Laon  and  Cythna  '  only  three  copies  had  gone 
forth.  One  of  these  had  found  its  way  to  the  Quarterly 
Review,  and  the  opportunity  was  readily  seized  of  pouring 
out  on  it  one  of  the  most  malignant  effusions  of  the  odium 
theologicum  that  ever  appeared  even  in  those  days,  and  in 
that  periodical."  —  Eraser's  Magazine,  vol.  Ixi.  p.  100. 

If  Mr.  Peacock  is  correct  in  stating  that  only 
three  copies  of  "Laon  and  Cythna  "  had  gone  forth, 
the  fate  of  these  three  is  easily  accounted  for. 
"One,"  as  Mr.  Peacock  says,  and  as  is  evident 
both  from  the  heading  and  the  notes  of  the  article 
referred  to,  "  found  its  way  to  the  Quarterly  Re- 
view" Another  was  certainly  sent  to  Godwin,  as 
we  have  a  letter  of  Shelley's  dated  December 
llth,  1817  (three  weeks  before  the  poem  came 
put  under  its  new  title  of  "  The  Revolt  of  Islam  "), 
in  reply  to  one  of  Godwin's,  in  which  he  says,  "  I 
listened  with  deference  and  self-suspicion  to  your 
censures  of  '  Laon  and  Cythna.' "  *  The  third 
there  can  be  no  doubt  was  sent  to  Thomas  Moore, 
"whose  most  kind  and  encouraging  letter  on  the 
subject  of  the  poem,"  Shelley  had  "just  received" 
when  writing  to  his  publisher,  Mr.  Oilier  on  the 
same  day.f  This  identical  copy,  with  "  From  the 
Author,"  in  Shelley's  large  bold  hand-writing  on 
the  fly-leaf,  is  now  in  the  Moore  Library,  Royal 
Irish  Academy,  Dawson  Street,  Dublin,  where 
the  poet's  books  have  found  an  honoured  resting 
place,  owing  to  the  liberality  of  Mrs.  Moored 
Moore's  library  contains  also  the  original  edition 
of  "  The  Revolt  of  Islam,"  but  without  any  in- 
scription from  the  author.  I  have  looked  care- 
fully through  both  these  volumes  to  see  whether 
they  contained  any  pencil  marks  by  Moore,  or 
any  notes  of  admiration,  condemnation,  or  protes- 


Shelley  Memorials,  p.  85. 


f  Ibid.  p.  81. 


tation,  from  which  we  could  infer  whether  his  "most 
kind  and  encouraging  letter  "  in  acknowledgment 
was  confined  merely  to  the  literary  execution  of 
the  poem.  I  have,  however,  found  none.  It  is 
quite  plain  notwithstanding,  that  Shelley  wished 
the  frightened  publisher  to  suppose  that  ifroore 
might  be  considered  in  favour  of  the  appearance 
of  the  poem  in  its  original  form. 

That  Mr.  Peacock's  statement  is  strictly  true  is 
therefore  extremely  probable;  but  that  more 
copies  were  made  up  than  the  three  that  "had 
gone  forth  "  at  the  time  of  the  publisher's  objec- 
tion to  the  further  issue  of  the  poem,  and  that 
these  copies  are  now  stealing  into  the  market,  is 
beyond  all  doubt.  Before  alluding  to  the  analysis 
which  I  have  made  of  the  differences  existing  be- 
tween "  Laon  and  Cythna,"  and  "  The  Revolt  of 
Islam,"  I  may  state  that  I  have  obtained  two 
uncut  copies  of  "  Laon  and  Cythna  "  within  the 
last  six  months  from  different  London  booksellers, 
neither  of  whom,  however,  could  assist  me  in  my 
inquiries  as  to  the  way  in  which  original  copies  of 
this  poem  are  now  getting  into  circulation,  or  as 
to  their  probable  number.  That  the  number 
must  be  exceedingly  small  is,  I  think,  evident 
from  the  parsimony  almost  with  which  the  dis- 
agreeable process  of  cancelling  the  offending  pages 
was  carried  out,  and  the  eagerness  with  which 
every  printed  scrap  of  the  original  sheets  that  was 
admissible  was  turned  to  use  in  the  making  up  of 
the  new  volume.  An  amusing  instance  of  this 
may  be  seen  in  the  list  of  "  Errata,"  which  is  the 
same  in  both  volumes.  In  the  process  of  cancel- 
ling the  peccant  pages,  some  of  these  errors  were 
however  corrected  ;  but  the  reader  of  "  The  Re- 
volt of  Islam "  is,  nevertheless,  called  upon  to 
forgive  mistakes  that  no  longer  exist  (as  at  pp. 
90  and  264),  except  in  "Laon  and  Cythna;"  and 
at  p.  182  line  12,  the  "these"  of  "Laon  and  Cy- 
thna," is  requested  to  be  read  "  those  "  in  the  list 
of  errata  to  "  The  Revolt  of  Islam."  While  in  the 
text  itself,  the  word  "  thou,"  which  is  different 
from  either,  is  silently  adopted. 

The  length  to  which  this  note  has  extended 
prevents  my  giving  at  present  in  detail  the  re- 
sults which  I  have  arrived  at  as  to  the  differences 
existing  between  the  two  poems.  I  have  care- 
fully noted  all  the  passages ;  and  should  there  be 
any  desire  for  their  being  printed  in  "  N.  &  Q.," 
I  shall,  with  the  editor's  permission,  be  happy  to 
supply  them.  In  an  inquiry  of  this  kind  they 
are  all  presentable,  even,  perhaps,  the  tremendous 
termination  of  stanza  xxxix.  canto  6,  in  "  Laon 
and  Cythna." 

I  may,  however,  say  that,  exclusive  of  the  title- 
page  and  preface,  but  55  lines  of  the  original  poem 
have  been  altered,  necessitating,  however,  the 
cancelling  of  the  leaves  containing  the  following 
pages:  41,  42,  43,  44,  57,  58,  89,  90.  115,  116, 
139,  140,  143,  144,  147,  148,  179,  180,  181,  182, 


3rd  S.  I.  APRIL  12,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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183,  199,  200,  201,  202,  223,  224,  225,  226,  227, 
228,  229,  230,  231,  232,  234,  235,  236,  245,  246, 
249,  250,  255,  256,  263,  264,  265,  266.  To  these 
are  to  be  added  the  title-page,  pp.  xxi.  xxii.  of 
the  preface,  and  the  false  title  containing  the  quo- 
tation from  Pindar,  which  follows  the  address 

"  To  Mary "  in  "  The  Revolt  of  Islam,"  but 

which  is  not  given  in  "  Laon  and  Cy  thna."  Making 
altogether  52  pages  (or  rather  26  leaves)  in  which 
the  one  poem  differs  from  the  other. 

D.  F.  MACCARTHY. 

Summerfield,  Dalkey. 


UNDERBILL  FAMILY. 

[Having  recently  drawn  up  the  accompanying  account 
of  the  Underbill  family,  it  has  occurred  to  me  that  it 
might  perhaps  be  deemed  of  sufficient  general  interest  to 
find  a  place  in  the  columns  of  "  N.  &  Q."  I  ought  to 
mention  that,  for  some  of  the  particulars  I  was  indebted 
to  the  late  Rev.  J.  G.  Denham,  Rector  of  St.  Mary-le- 
Strand.] 

The  Surname.  —  It  is  evidently  of  local  deriva- 
tion, and,  like  most  such  names,  had  probably  at 
first  a "  de "prefixed.  There  are  so  few  families  of 
the  name  that  we  may  reasonably  suppose  them 
to  have  all  derived  their  origin  from  one  head ; 
though  now,  by  the  armorial  bearings,  there 
would  appear  at  least  three  distinct  families. 
Early  in  the  seventeenth  century  several  mem- 
bers of  the  family,  imbued  with  Puritan  senti- 
ments, emigrated  to  the  New  World  and  established 
a  town  in  North  America,  to  which  the  name  of 
" Underbill"  was  given.  It  is  situated  in  the 
State  of  Vermont,  county  of  Chittenden,  and  in 
1812  contained  490  inhabitants.  The  History  of 
America  makes  mention  of  several  eminent  de- 
scendants of  these  early  colonists,  who  spread 
over  the  States,  and  are  now  become  in  greater 
number  than  those  of  the  name  in  the  mother 
country. 

There  are  three  villages  in  England  bearing  the 
designation  of  Underbill,  viz.  in  Cumberland, 
Shropshire,  and  Devonshire. 

The  Estates.  —  The  following  estates  were  held 
by  various  branches  of  the  Underbill  family,  and 
for  the  periods  mentioned,  so  far  at  least  as  can 
be  ascertained  :  — 

Little  Bradley,  Suffolk  (from  a  very  early  period 
until  the  beginning  of  the  sixteenth  century.) 

Northcot,  Staffordshire  (unknown.) 

Nether  Eatington,  Warwickshire  (1509—1641. 


Hunningham 

Herberbury  , 

Barton-on-the-Heath  , 

Loxley 

Idhcot  ,, 

Pillerton  Hercy  v 

Upthrop,  Worcestershire 


(1513-1544.) 

(1531—1553.) 

(1555—1575.) 

(unknown.) 

(1565—1754.) 

(1593—1638.) 

(1641—1700.) 


Armorial  Bearings.  —  1 .  The  Underbills  of  Wol- 


verhampton  bore  "Argent,  a  chevron  sable,  be- 
tween three  trefoils,  slipped,  vert."     Crest :  "  On 
a  hill  vert,  a  hind  lodged  or."     By  some  it  is  as- 
|  serted  that  this  was  the  chief  or  principal  family. 

2.  The  Underbills  of  Little  Bradley,  Suffolk, 

,  bore  "  Gules,  six  annulets  or,  three,  two,  one." 

Their  arms  are  wrought  in  the  masonry  of  the 

I  tower  of  Little  Bradley  Church,  and  also  appear 

;  in  ancient  stained  glass  in  one  of  the  windows  of 

the  nave. 

3.  The  Underbills  of .     This  family,  of 

which  little  is  known,  bore  "  Per  fesse  dancettee, 
or  and  argent,  an  eagle  displayed  sable." 

Biographical  Notes.  —  Simon  Underhull  lived 
in  the  latter  half  of  the  thirteenth  century,  and 
1  married  the  co-heiress  of  Richard  de  Grymenhull, 
of  Minton,  Salop. 

Robert  Underbill,  one  of  the  proctors  for  the 
University  of  Oxford  in  1372. 

John  de  Undehill  held  the  prebend  of  Longdonr 
Staffordshire,  1380,  and  exchanged  it  next  year 
for  other  preferment. 

William  Vnderhill,  of  Wolverhampton,  "  urmi- 
ger,"  living  1423,  was  progenitor  of  the  Eatington 
and  Hunningham  branches  of  the  family. 

JohnUnderhelde,  sen.  (alias Underbill),  granted 
in  1489  land  at  Lingfield,  Surrey,  to  one  Alice 
Croker. 

Thomas  Vnderhill,  of  Little  Bradley,  Suffolk, 
Esquire  and  Anne  his  wife,  buried  under  a  tomb 
in  Great  Thurlow  church,  Suffolk,  1508. 

John  Underbill,  of  Nether  Eatington,  Warwick- 
shire, gentleman,  married  the  heiress  of  Porter, 
and  acquired  the  manor  of  Hunningham  about 
1510. 

John  Underbill  became  rector  of  Harlington, 
Middlesex  in  1510. 

Edward  Underbill,  gentleman,  died  1546.  His 
marble  monument  and  coat  of  arms  are  in  Eating- 
ton  church. 

John  Underbill,  of  London,  a  freeman  of  the 
Brewers'  Company  in  1537. 

Thomas  Underbill,  one  of  the  "  chief  gentlemen 
captains "  in  the  Cornish  rebellion,  executed  for 
treason  in  1549. 

Edward  Underhylle,  of  Hunningham,  known  as 
the  "  Hot  Gospeller  "  on  account  of  his  Protestant 
zeal,  a  gentleman-at-arms  to  Henry  VIII.  and 
Edward  VI. 

Guilford  Underhylle,  son  of  the  last-named, 
was  the  godson  of  Lady  Jane  Grey,  and  died 
young. 

Thomas  Underbill,  of  Nether  Eatington,  gentle- 
man, and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  lived  together  sixty- 
five  years,  and  had  twenty  children.  Both  died 
in  1603. 

William  Underbill,  of  the  Inner  Temple,  gen- 
tleman, brother  of  the  foregoing,  acquired  various- 
estates  in  Warwickshire,  and  died  1570. 

Elizabeth  Underbill,  sister  of  the  foregoing,  and 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


.  I.  APRIL  12,  '62. 


wife  of  Edmund  Bury,  of  Barton-on-the-Heath, 
Warwickshire,  died  shortly  after  1608. 

John  Underbill,  D.D.,  Bishop  of  Oxford,  and 
chaplain  to  Queen  Elizabeth,  died  in  London, 
1592,  buried  in  the  cathedral  church,  Oxford. 

William  Underbill,  of  Stratford-on-Avon,  gen- 
tleman, sold  "New  Place"  to  Shakspeare,  and 
died  1597,  aged  forty- three. 


NELLY  GWYN'S  FIRST  LOVE.  —  "  My  first  love, 
you  must  know,  was  a  link-boy."  "  A  what  ?  " 
"  Tis  true,"  said  she,  "  for  all  the  frightfulness  of 
your  what;  and  a  very  good  soul  he  was  too,  poor 
Dick !  and  had  the  heart  of  a  gentleman.  God 
knows  what  has  become  of  him ;  but  when  I  last 


Edward    Underbill,    of  Barton-on-the-Heath,  i  saw  him,  he  said  he  would  humbly  love  me  to  his 


.gentleman,  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Love, 
and  cousin  of  the  first  Earl  of  Downe,  died  1611. 

Nicholas  Underbill  became  vicar  of  Whitchurch, 
Warwickshire,  1571 ;  married  and  left  issue. 

Sir  Hercules  Underbill,  of  Idlicot,  High  Sheriff 
of  Warwickshire,  1623,  married  the  sister  of  Vis- 
count Dorchester,  died  1650. 

Captain  John  Underbill,  the  Puritan,  governor 
-of  Dover,  United  States,  died  at  Killingworth, 
Long  Island,  1671. 

Sir  John  Underbill  married  Alice,  Viscountess 
Saint  Alban's,  widow  of  the  great  Lord  Bacon. 

Sir  Edward  Underbill,  of  Eatington,  Knight, 
High  Sheriff  of  Warwickshire,  1638,  died  without 
issue,  1641. 

George  Underbill,  of  Ludlow,  the  Royalist, 
killed  by  the  rebels  at  the  battle  of  Hopton  Heath, 
1642. 

Frances  Underbill,  gentlewoman,  gave,  in  1672, 
-land  to  the  poor  of  Bushbury  and  Moseley,  Staf- 
fordshire. 

Walter  Underbill,  citizen  of  London,  a  warden 
of  the  Fishmongers'  Company  in  1661  and  1666, 
-buried  at  Godalming,  Surrey,  1679. 

Edward  Underbill,  Alderman  of  London,  Mas- 
ter of  the  Grocers'  Company  in  1688. 

Sir  William  Underbill,  of  Idlicot,  married  Alice 
Lucy  of  Charlecote,  niece  of  the  Bishop  of  St. 
David's,  and  died  1710. 

^  Cave  Underbill,  a  comedian  for  three  genera- 
tion?, specially  commended  by  Sir  Richard  Steele 
in  The  Taller,  died  about  1715.* 

Hester  Underbill  married,  first  to  Sir  Hele  Hook, 
Bart.,  who  died  at  Kensington,  1712;  and,  se- 
condly to  Dr.  Lilly. 

Edward  Underbill,  vicar  of  Prittlewell,  Essex, 
r.uthor  of  various  controversial  works,  was  living 
1  /  37. 

Margaret  Underbill,  gentlewoman,  died  1784, 
aged  ninety,  leaving  benefactions  to  the  poor  of 
Eatington,  Idlicot,  and  Loxley,  Warwickshire. 

_  Dr.  Richard  Underbill,  a  Roman  Catholic  priest, 
died  1808,  ^having  been  forty  years  connected  with 
the  Sardinian  Chapel,  London. 

Michael  Underbill,  upwards  of  fifty  years  Pres- 
byterian minister  at  Boston,  Lincolnshire,  died 
18  ]6-  WM.  UNDERBILL. 

4,  Great  College  Street,  Camden  Town. 

{_*  For  a  notice  of  this  actor,  see  "  N.  &  Q."  2nd  S.  x. 
451.  —  ED.] 


dying  day.  He  used  to  say  that  I  must  have  been 
a  Lord's  daughter  for  my  beauty,  and  that  I  ought 
to  ride  in  my  coach,  and  behaved  to  me  as  if  I 
did.  He,  poor  boy,  would  light  me  and  my 
mother  home,  when  we  had  sold  our  oranges,  to 
our  lodgings  in  Lewkenor's  Lane,  as  if  we  had 
been  ladies  of  the  land.  He  said,  be  never  felfc 
easy  for  the  evening  'till  he  had  asked  me  how  I 
did ;  then  he  went  gaily  about  his  work,  and  if  be 
saw  us  housed  at  night  be  slept  like  a  prince.  I 
shall  never  forget  when  be  came  flushing  and 
stammering,  and  drew  out  of  bis  pocket  a  pair  of 
worsted  stockings  which  be  brought  for  my  naked 
feet.  It  was  bitter  cold  weather,  and  I  had  chil- 
blains which  made  me  bobble  about  till  I  cried  ; 
and  what  does  poor  Richard  do,  but  work  hard 
like  a  horse,  and  buy  me  these  worsted  stockings. 
My  mother  bade  him  put  them  on ;  and  so  be  did, 
and  his  warm  tears  fell  on  my  chilblains,  and  he 
said  he  should  be  the  happiest  lord  on  earth  if 
the  stockings  did  me  any  good." 

This  anecdote  seems  to  have  escaped  the  notice 
of  the  biographers  of  "  pretty  witty  Nelly,"  as 
Pepys  calls  her.  I  discovered  it  in  an  interleaved 
copy  of  Downes's  Roscius  Anglicanus,  with  the 
following  note  prefixed  :  —  "  An  account  which 
Basil  Montagu  somewhere  read  of  Nell  Gwyn 
when  a  child."  Has  it  been  printed  in  any  of  the 
voluminous  productions  of  this  literary  civilian  ? 

J.  YEOWELL. 

SUICIDE. — The  following,  from  Voltaire's  Com- 
mentary on  IS  Esprit  des  Lois,  may  be  interesting 
to  some  of  your  readers  :  — 

"  Les  Anglais  en  ont  toujours  voulu  aux  Fran9ais; 
ils  leur  prirent  non-seulement  Calais,  mais  tons  les  mots 
tie  leur  langue,  et  leurs  maladies,  et  leurs  modes,  et  pre- 
tendirent  enfin  h,  1'honneur  exclusif  de  se  hier.  Mais  si 
Ton  voulait  rabattre  cet  orgueil,  on  leur  prouverait  que, 
dans  la  seule  annee  1764,  on  a  conipte  a  Paris  plus  de 
cinquante  personnes  qui  se  sont  donne  la  mort;  on  leur 
dirait  que  chaque  annee  il  y  a  douze  suicides  a  Geneve, 
qui  ne  contient  que  vingt  mille  ames,  tandis  que  les  ga- 
zettes ne  comptent  pas  plus  de  suicides  a  Londres,  qui 
renferme  environ  sept  cent  mille  spleen  ou  splin" 

The  word  suicide  is  claimed  as  the  creation  of 
a  French  abbe,  about  the  year  1738.  (  V.  V.  R. 

CRINOLINES. — Having  occasion  to  refer  to  the 
Appendix.  II.  to  the  Sixth  Report  of  the  Deputy 
Keeper  of  the  Public  Records,  I  chanced  upon  an 
entry  in  p.  120  which  may  be  useful  in  the  pre- 
sent attempt  to  reduce  the  odious  nuisance  which 


I.  APRIL  12,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


now  deforms  the  female  figure.     It  is  dated  Fe- 
bruary 7,  1737,  and  is  in  these  words  :  — 

"  Jane  Vanet,  of  the  parish  of  St.  Anne,  Westminster, 
•widow,  hoop  petticoat  maker:  Specification  for  a  new 
invented  Hoop  Petticoat,  with  foldings,  whalebone  and 
metal  joints  and  strings,  for  contracting  the  compass  of 
a  Petticoat  from  four  yards  in  circumference  to  two  yards, 
and  thereby  causing  less  inconvenience  to  the  wearer  in 
churches,  assemblies,  coaches,  and  chairs." 

D.  S. 

AGE  or  NEWSPAPERS.  —  The  subjoined  cut- 
ting from  the  Standard  of  the  22nd  March,  1862, 
is  of  some  interest,  and  the  accuracy  of  the  dates 
might  be  tested  by  its  insertion  in  "  N.  &  Q."  — 

•'THE  MORNING  CHRONICLE.  —  The  suspension  of  the 
Morning  Chronicle,  which  was  the  oldest  of  the  prominent 
London  daily  papers,  lends  an  interest  to  the  following 
list  of  the  oldest  journals  in  the  three  kingdoms.  London 
dailies—  Post,  1772;  Herald,  1781;  Times,  1788;  Sun, 
1792;  Advertiser,  1794;  Globe,  1803;  Standard,  1827. 
London  weeklies  —  Observer,  1792 ;  St.  James's  Chronicle, 
1761.  In  the  Country  —  D,  ailv  and  weekly  older  than 
the  Times :  Bath  Chronicle,  1757 ;  Bath  Journal,  1742 ; 
Arie's  Birmingham  Gazette,  1741 ;  Bristol  Gazette,  1767 ; 
Bristol  Mirror,  1773 ;  Bristol  Journal,  1735 ;  Cambridge 
Chronicle,  1748;  Kentish  Gazette,  1717;  Chelmsford 
Chronicle,  1764 ;  Chester  Courant,  1730;  Chester  Chron- 
icle, 1773;  Coventry  Standard,  1741;  Derby  Mercury, 
1732;  Exeter  Flying  Post,  1763;  Gloucester  Journal, 
1722 ;  Hereford  Journal,  1739 ;  Ipswich  Journal,  1739 ; 
Leeds  Mercury,  1767;  Leeds  Intelligencer,  1754;  Lei- 
cester Journal,  1753 ;  Sussex  Advertiser,  1745 ;  Liver- 
pool Advertiser,  1765 ;  Maidstone  Journal,  1786 ;  New- 
castle Chronicle,  1764  ;  Newcastle  Courant,  1711  ; 
Northampton  Mercury,  1720 ;  Norfolk  Chronicle,  1761 ; 
Norwich  Mercury,  before  1720;  Nottingham  Journal, 
1710;  Oxford  Journal,  1753;  Reading  Mercury,  1723; 
Salisbury  Journal,  1720  ;  Sherborne  Journal,  1764  ; 
Shrewsbury  Chronicle,  1772;  Shrewsbury  Journal,  1774 ; 
Stamford  Mercury,  1695;  Cumberland  Pacquet,  1774; 
Hampshire  Chronicle,  1772;  Worcester  Journal,  1709; 
and  the  Western  Flying  Post,  1736.  In  Ireland  —  Bel- 
fast News  Letter,  1737 ;  Saunders's  News  Letter,  1746 ; 
Dublin  Evening  Post,  first  series,  1725,  second  series, 
1779 ;  Freeman's  Journal,  1763 ;  Kilkenny  Journal,  1767 ; 
Limerick  Chronicle,  1766 ;  Londonderry  Standard,  1772 ; 
Sligo  Journal,  1760 ;  and  the  Kerry  Evening  Post,  1774. 
In  Scotland— Aberdeen  Journal,  1748 ;  Caledonian  Mer- 
cury, 1660;  and  the  Edinburgh  Evening  Courant,  1718. 
From  the  above  it  will  be  seen  that  the  Caledonian  Mer- 
cury, published  in  Edinburgh,  is  the  oldest  newspaper  in 
the  realm.  The  three  official  Gazettes,  date  from — London, 
1665;  Edinburgh,  1690;  and  Dublin,  1711.  The  oldest 
daily  newspaper  in  England  is  the  Public  Ledger,  an 
exclusively  commercial  list,  of  the  nature  of  a  price  cur- 
rent, established  in  1759." 

|  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Guildford. 

HAWTHORNE  AND  LONGFELLOW. — In  the  Pkilo- 
biblion,  an  obscure  literary  newspaper  published 
m  New  York,  I  find  the  following  note,  which 
may  be  of  interest  to  your  readers  :  — 

"Hawthorne,  in  his  Grandfather's  Chair,  suggested 
the  subject  of  the  enforced  exile  of  the  happy  Arcadians 
anc°e  Or  &£&$,£  and  v^^^PM^^  adopted 
this  hint.  The  poet  had  been  the  geuial  reviewer  of 


Twice-told  Tales,  in  an  article  of  generous  eulogy,  in  the 
North  American  Review,  on  the  first  appearance  of  that 
admirable  collection  in  1837." 

J.  C.  LINDSAY. 
St.  Paul,  Minnesota. 

POST-HASTE  IN  1600. — All  who  are  conversant 
with  old  state  papers  are  familiar  with  the  fre- 
quent exhortations  to  the  post  to  haste  for  his 
life,  that  are  found  upon  their  envelopes ;  such  asL 
that^of  Secretary  Paget  — 

"  Hast  post  hast,  hast, 
For  thy  lief, 
For  thy  lief, 
For  thy  lief. 

engraved  in  Nichols's  Autographs,  1829,  plate  16, 
from  the  Harl.  MS.  283 ;  and  the  following  of  the 
Lord  Deputy  of  Ireland  in  the  year  1600  — 
(hast, 

"M™YMLasSfw 

(.thy  life." 

It  is  not  so  often  that  we  have  opportunities  of 
learning  what  "  post  haste  "  really  was  in  those 
days.  A  letter  despatched  by  Sir  Geoffrey  Fenton 
from  Dublin  on  the  29th  April,  1600,  was  received 
by  Sir  Robert  Cecill  on  the  7th  of  May,  and  has 
on  its  back  the  following  memoranda  made  on  its- 
route  :  — 

"  Conway  at  5  o'clock  yn  the  mornyng  the  5  of  May ; 
Euthland  half  an  houre  past  viij  ;  Chester  at  ii  after  noon  ^ 
the  vth  Maie  at  Namptwoch*  at  vj  ;  at  Stone  after  x ;  at 
Lychfyld  past  ij ;  Colsil  after  vj ;  at  Coventry  at  viij  ; 
Daventry  past  12  at  noone ;  Tocester  at  2 ;"  BrickhilL 
past  5." 

On  another  letter  travelling  from  Ireland 
shortly  after  — 

"  At  Coventry  past  viij  in  the  morninge.  At  Deventrie 
at  eleven  of  the  clocke  in  thaforenoone.  Tocester  past  2" 
in  the  afternone.  Brickhill  past  5.  Saint  Albones  past 
8  at  night.  Barnit  at  10  this  night." 

I  take  these  from  an  important  series  of  papers,, 
illustrating  the  seizure  of  the  Earl  of  Ormonde 
by  the  rebel  Owny  M'Rory  O'More  and  his  con- 
sequent captivity,  lately  edited  by  the  Rev.  James 
Graves  in  the  Quarterly  Journal  of  the  Kilkenny 
Archaeological  Society.  J.  G.  N. 

THE  GREAT  EXHIBITION,  1851. — A  few  months 
since,  chancing  to  ramble  through  the  village  of 
Farningham,  in  Kent's  delightful  county,  I  visited 
the  churchyard  for  the  purpose  of  increasing  my 
store  of  note-worthy  memorials  of  the  departed. 
The  following  inscription,  which  I  then  tran- 
scribed, may  assuredly  be  now  read  with  addi- 
tional interest,  as  we  approach  so  closely  to  the 
opening  of  the  Great  International  Exhibition  of 
1862:  — 

KTw  ,.  — .j  01  Air.  Thomas  Dray,  late  of  Ct;owoTt 
oireet  and  Swan  Lane,  in  the  City  of  London.  He  was 
born  in  this  Parish,  April  8th,  1822,  and  died  May  1st, 
1851.  Aged  29  years.  He  had  devoted  himself "  with. 


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untiring  energy  to  preparations  for  the  Great  Exhibition 
of  Industry  of  All  Nations,  held  in  London,  A.D.  1851 ; 
and  by  which  he  expected  materially  to  serve  the  com- 
mercial house  with  which  he  was  connected.  But  on  the 
day  that  the  Crystal  Palace  was  opened,  and  at  the  very 
hour  toward  which  he  had  looked  with  so  much  hope 
and  exultation,  he  died :  — 

"  Cut  down  by  death,  in  life's  fair  bloom, 

I  dwell  within  this  silent  tomb ; 

And  now  around  my  slumbering  head 

The  curtains  of  the  grave  is  spread. 

Ye  young  and  gay,  soon  you  may  be 

Consign'd  to  earth  as  well  as  me ; 

Then,  from  the  grave  regard  this  word, 

Are  you  prepared  to  meet  your  Lord  ?  " 

EDWIN  ROFFE. 


DOUGLAS,  DUKE  OF  TOURAINE. 

In  April,  1423,  Archibald,  fourth  Earl  of 
Douglas,  was  made  Duke  of  Touraine ;  and 
Pinkerton,  in  his  History  of  Scotland  (1797,  vol.  i. 
p.  105),  refers  to  the  grant  as  to  be  found  in  Du 
Tillet,  f.  v.  136. 

British  writers  appear  not  to  have  known  what 
to  make  of  the  title.  In  one  part  of  Collins's 
Peerage,  by  Brjdges  (vol.  i.  p.  497),  it  is  called 
the  Duchy  of  Turrin ;  in  another  (vol.  viii.  p. 
230),  the  Duchy  of  Turenne. 

In  1424,  Douglas  was  slain  in  the  battle  of 
Verneuil ;  and,  according  to  Pinkerton,  he  was 
"interred  in  Tours,  the  capital  of  his  short-lived 
Duchy"  (vol.  i.  p.  107). 

Is  there  any  memorial  of  him  still  remainine:  at 
Tours  ? 

This  Archibald  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest  son 
Archibald,  as  fifth  Earl  of  Douglas.  Collins  states 
(vol.  viii.  p.  230,)  that  the  Duchy  of  Touraine  was 
granted  to  the  fourth  Earl  and  his  heirs  male. 
And  accordingly  the  fifth  Earl  is  described,  in  his 
epitaph,  as  "  Archibaldus  D.  Douglass,  Dux  Tur- 
ronire,  Comes  de  Douglass  et  Jongoville,  Dominus 
Gallovidise,"  etc. 

Archibald,  the  fifth  Earl,  was  succeeded  by  his 
eldest  son  William,  the  sixth  Earl ;  with  respect 
to  whom  Pinkerton  writes  as  follows  : 

«  The  power  of  the  House  of  Douglas  had  arisen  to  a 

•midable  height,  and  was  during  this  reign  to  contend 
with  the  royal  authority.  Gallaway,  Annandale,  and 
other  extensive  territories  in  Scotland,  the  Duchy  of 
Touraine  and  Lordship  of  Longueville,  in  France,  ren- 
dered to  the  chief  of  that  family  revenues  perhaps  equi- 
valent to  those  of  the  Scottish  monarch.  The  young  Earl 
now  in  his  sixteenth  year,  possessed  the  impetuous  spirit 
and  haughtiness  natural  to  his  age  and  fortunes.  His 
highest  title,  that  of  Duke  of  Touraine,  which  a  weak 
EffiS&lSt^2!S  ^he  house  to  assume,  and  which 
tinue,  emboldened  the  Don$&  F^ench  K,ing  to  discon- 
r..o:6u  prince,  independent  of  the  laws'of  his^courilf  vas  a 
History  of  Scotland,  vol.  i.  p.  192. 

The  young  Earl  was  beheaded  shortly  after- 


wards; and  though  three  Earls  Douglas  suc- 
ceeded, all  descended  from  Archibald  the  fourth 
Earl,  the  one  who  had  been  made  Duke  of  Tou- 
raine, I  do  not  find  any  traces  of  this  title  having 
been  borne  by  any  of  them. 

Upon  this  subject  I  beg  to  propose  the  fol- 
lowing questions  :  — 

1.  What  was,  in  the  first  instance,  the  nature  of 
the  grant  ?     Was  it  a  territory,  or  a  title  ?     A 
real  Duchy,  or  only  a  Dukedom? 

2.  If,  as  I  imagine,   it  did  confer  territorial 
authority  upon  the  original  grantee,  did  this  au- 
thority devolve  upon  any  of  his  descendants  ?     . 

3.  Was  the  title  borne  by  any  of  the  descen- 
dants of  the  grantee,  after  the  death  of  his  grand- 
son William  ?  MELETES. 


"  AD  EUNDEM"  DEGREES. — Could  you  or  any  of 
your  readers  refer  me  to  a  work  in  which  I  could 
find  some  information  respecting  ad  eundem  de- 
grees ?  I  wish  to  ascertain  what  advantages  arise 
from  obtaining  such  degrees.  Whether,  for  in- 
stance, the  holder  of  one  would  in  consequence  be 
eligible  for  an  office  open  only  to  members  of  the 
University  from  which  the  degree  had  been  ob- 
tained. I  have  looked  into  many  books,  but  can- 
not find  anything  on  the  subject.  L.  L.  D. 

ANAGRAM  :  — 

"I  went  to  Mr.  Fox  at  Whitehall,  when  I  first  saw  his 
lady,  formerly  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Whittle,  whom  I  had  for- 
merly a  great  opinion  of,  and  did  formerly  make  an  ana- 
gram or  two  upon  her  name,  when  I  was  a  boy." — Pepy's 
Diary,  1660,  vol.  i.  p.  122. 

Will  somebody,  having  more  patience  or  more 
ingenuity  than  myself,  disintegrate  Madam  Fox's 
prte-nuptial  appellations  ?  OLD  MEM. 

AGGRAVATE.  —  Is  the  use  of  the  word  aggravate, 
in  the  sense  of  "to  irritate  or  provoke,"  sanc- 
tioned by  any  writer  of  authority  ?  or  is  it^admis- 
sible  in  ordinary  conversation  ?  It  is  evidently 
derived  from  "  aggravi,"  "  to  accumulate,  to 
heighten,  to  make  more  grievous."  E.  P.  A. 

ROGER  BACON.  — The  Rev.  J.  S.  Brewer,  in  his 
valuable  Preface  to  the  Rolls  edition  of  the  Friar's 
Works,  makes  special  reference  to  the  inaccu- 
racies of  the  various  MSS.  of  such  portions  of  his 
works  which  at  present  exist  in  this  country. 
Hence  the  difficulty  of  producing  an  accurate 
edition  of  any  of  them.  It  is  therefore  a  matter 
of  positive  interest  to  know,  if  Bacon's  own  copy, 
produced  in  1266-7,  by  the  direct  order  of  Pope 
Clement  IV.  for  the  use  of  his  Holiness,  is  still  in 
the  Vatican  Library.  JAMES  GILBERT. 

MASTER  BRIGHTWELL.  —  In  the  year  1382  Dr. 
Stokes  was  deputed  by  Abp.  Courtney  to  publish 

:    A-nn   conclusions  relative  to  Wycliffe's  teach- 
ings in  vAxioru.     .LUC  fswwVvivm  ot  tue  a^f^*^  was 

rendered  so  uncomfortable  that  he  was  glad  to 


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retire  from  notice  as  much  as  possible,  and  being 
summoned  to  give  an  account  of  these  matters  to 
his  superior,  the  Chancellor,  his  friend,  Master 
Brightwell,  and  the  proctors  presented  themselves, 
to  explain  and  correct  any  errors  into  which  the 
said  Dr.  Stokes  might  fall.  All  four  of  these  men 
were  declared  tainted  with  the  heresies  of  the  re- 
former. Any  information  respecting  this  Master 
Brightwell  ?  B.  B. 

CARLILE'S  "  WEEKLY  REGISTER."  —  Any  per- 
son possessing  a  number  of  Carlile's  Weekly  Re- 
gister, somewhere  about  the  year  1819,  containing 
a  passage  to  this  effect :  "  Mr.  Home,  with  all 
your  possibilities  and  probabilities,  can  you  prove," 
&c.,  will  confer  a  favour  by  communicating  his 
name  and  address  to  me,  under  cover,  to  the 
Editor  of  "  N.  &  Q."  S.  A.  C. 

DOMESTIC  ARCHITECTURE.  —  The  house  we  oc- 
cupy is  evidently  very  old,  but  has  been  altered 
and  realtered,  and  no  date  can  be  found.  There 
is,  however,  a  peculiarity  about  its  plan  by  which, 
we  hope,  some  of  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  may 
be  able  to  help  us  to  its  probable  age.  The 
ground-floor  rooms  are  all  not  quite  nine  feet 
high,  while  the  upper  rooms  are  near  twelve  feet, 
looking  by  contrast  quite  lofty.  There  also  has 
been  a  high-pitched  roof,  the  coping  stones  being 
cut  at  a  very  different  angle  for  the  present  line 
of  roof.  L.  E. 

DRAMA.  —  Can  any  of  your  readers  give  in- 
formation regarding  the  authors  of  two  dramatic 
pieces  (not  mentioned  in  the  Biog,  Dramatica), 
which  were  printed  at  Edinburgh. 

1.  The  Devil  to  Pay,  or,  The  Playhouse  Meta- 
morphosed, a  farce  of  two  acts,  as  it  was  performed 
at  the  Canongate  Theatre,  24th  Jan.  1767,  Canon- 
gate  :  Printed  for  Mr.  Heeley,  in  the  area  of  the 
Theatre,  price  2d.  N.  D.   This  piece  has  reference 
to  the  destruction  of  the  theatre  by  the  mob,  24th 
Jan.  1767. 

2.  Edinburgh  Delivered,  or,  The  World  in  Dan- 
ger; a  Dramatic  Poem  in  two  acts,  Edinburgh, 
1782  ?  R.  INGLIS. 

MRS.  DOUGLAS.  —  Can  any  of  your  readers  give 
any  information  regarding  Mrs.  Douglas,  author 
of  a  translation  of  The  Life,  Letters,  Sfc.,  of  C.  F. 
Gellert,  published,  Kelso,  in  1 805,  3  vols. 

R.  INGLIS. 

DUTCH  PUGS.  —  Is  the  race  of  Dutch  pugs  in- 
deed extinct,  as  is  surmised  in  the  Navorscher  f 
Der  Bazar  (vol.  vii.  No.  45,)  states  that  there 
still  exist  some  in  England. 

JOHN  H.  VAN  LENNEP. 

Zeyst,  near  Utrecht. 

ENGLISH  POPULAR  BOOKS. — Wanted,  a  list  of 
English  popular  books  of  the  olden  time,  in  the 
style  of  De  Foe's  Robinson  Crusoe  and  his  Narra- 
tive of  the  Plague;  The  Adventures  of  Richard 


Falconer;  Bunyan's  Pilgrim's  Progress;  Reynard 
the  Fox ;  Eulenspiegel,  &c. 

JOHN  H.  VAN  LENNEP. 
Zeyst,  near  Utrecht. 

ERASMUS  AND  ULRICH  HUTTEN.  —  Will  any  of 
your  readers  be  kind  enough  to  inform  me  whe- 
ther The  Colloquies  of  Erasmus,  and  the  Epistola 
Obscurorum  Virorum,*  attributed  to  Ulrich  Hut- 
ten  and  some  of  his  friends  (as  may  be  seen  in  Sir 
William  Hamilton's  Discussions),  have  been  trans- 
lated into  English  ?  And  also,  in  what  periodical 
(I  should  say  Fraser  or  Blackwood,  between  1850 
and  1860,  although  T  cannot  put  my  thumb  upon 
it)  the  translation  of  some  extracts  from  the 
Colloquies,  accompanied  with  a  running  commen- 
tary, appeared  ?  The  receipt  of  the  desiderated 
information  will  be  gratefully  accepted  by  an 
admirer  of  Erasmus,  and  No  OBSCURANTIST. 

FOSTER  ARMS:  WALROND  ARMS.  —  Can  any- 
one tell  me  the  arms  of  Foster  of  Aylesbury,  co. 
Bucks,  as  borne  in  the  seventeenth  century  ? 
John  Foster,  of  that  place,  about  the  time  of 
Cromwell,  had  a  son,  Colonel  John  Foster,  who 
removed  to  Boston,  in  North  America.  That 
Colonel  Foster  left  two  daughters,  co-heiresses. 
Sarah,  the  elder,  married  my  ancestor  Thomas 
Hutchinson,  father  of  the  Governor  of  the  then 
province  of  Massachusetts  Bay,  and  left  issue  (or 
I  should  not  have  written  this)  ;  and  Lydia,  the 
younger,  married  Thomas  Hutchinson' s  half-bro- 
ther Edward  Hutchinson,  who  left  an  only  sur- 
viving daughter  Lydia,  married  to  N.  Robins.  I 
am  desirous  of  knowing  the  Foster  arms,  as  I 
have  a  right  to  quarter  them.  But  I  only  accept 
that  which  is  ancient  and  genuine,  and  not  that 
which  is  "  found." 

With  respect  to  the  Walrond  arms  in  the  Crom- 
well shield  (3rd  S.  i.  109,  179),  I  beg  further  to 
say,  that  I  have  been  examining  some  coloured 
sketches  of  some  parts  of  Uffculrn  church,  which 
I  took  on  the  4th  of  November,  1847.  The  bla- 
zon, Argent,  three  bulls'  heads  affrontes  sable  (as 
mentioned  before),  appears  on  a  shield  affixed 
against  the  front  of  the  organ  gallery  ;  but  in  my 
sketch  of  the  Walrond  tomb  in  the  north  chancel 
aisle,  the  tinctures  are,  Or,  three  bulls'  heads,  as 
before.  I  am  persuaded  that  both  these  belong 
to  the  name  of  Walrond  (pronounced  Waldrori), 
but  perhaps  to  different  branches  originating  in 
one  stock.  P.  HUTCHINSON. 

HANDEL.  —  Upon  whose,  or  what  authority,  does 
the  assertion  that  Pope  wrote  the  words  of  Esther 
depend?  Was  Esther  ever  performed  under 
another  name  ?  If  so,  when,  and  by  whom,  &c.  ? 

L.  (1.) 


[*  See  Fraser's  Magazine,  Jan.  1859,  p.  114,  for  a 
notice  of  Epistolce  Obscurorum  Virorum,  by  Prof.  Bocking. 
New  edition,  1858.—  ED.] 


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KELLINGTON  REGISTER.  —  Can  any  of 
readers  inform  me  if  there  be  in  existence 
Register  of  Births,  Marriages,  and  Deaths  for  th 
parish  of  Kellington,  near  Pontefract,  Yorkshire 
previous  to  the  year  1705  ?  And  if  so,  where  i 
can  be  seen  ?  At  the  church  there  is  no  registe 
before  that  date.  W.  DICKON  HOYLE. 

LAMPOON  ON  THE  JOCKEY  CLUB.  —  Can  an; 
reader  of  "NV&  Q."  communicate  the  title  of  : 
poem  published  early  in  the  present  century,  re 
fleeting  upon  the  jockeying  manoeuvres  of  some 
adepts  of  the  racing  school  P  Among  others  a  dig 
nitary  of  the  church  was  pre-eminently  distil 
guished.  I  have  but  an  imperfgrct  recollection 
of  one  distich  only  in  the  poem,  which  was  nearly 
as  follows :  — 


Sooner  shall 


forget  Vandyke  to  ball, 


Or  quit  his  prebend's  for  his  horse's  stall." 
Vandyke  was  a  celebrated  racer  of,  I  rather 
think,  the  Highflyer  and  Sir  Peter  breed,  whicl 
was  balled,  drugged,  or  hocussed,  and  so  deprived 
of  muscular  energy  that  he  lost  the  race  on  a  re- 
markable occasion  ;  beaten  "  hollow  "  as  the  term 
is.  NIMROD,  JUNIOR. 

VISCOUNT  LISLE. —  King  Edward  IV/had  a 
son,  by  Lady  Elizabeth  Lucy,  named  Arthur 
Plantagenet ;  and  there  is  some  ground  for  sus- 
pecting that  his  mother  was  really  the  lawful  wife 
of  the  king.  However  this  may  be,  the  son  was 
created  Viscount  Lisle  by  Henry  VIII. ;  and  ac- 
cording to  Nicolas's  Synopsis  of  the  Peerage,  this 
title  was  limited  to  his  issue  male  by  his  wife,  the 
daughter  of  Talbot,  Viscount  Lisle.  So  that  his 
issue  ^  (if  any)  by  any  other  wife  could  not  have 
inherited  it.  He  had  no  male  issue  by  the  above 
wife,  and  the  title  became  extinct  on  his  death. 
The  works  on  the  baronage  make  no  mention  of 
his  ever  having  been  married  to  any  other  lady, 
and  we  are  thus  left  to  conclude  that  he  left  no 
issue  male  at  all.  I  find,  however,  from  the  pedi- 
gree of  the  Granvilles  of  Stow,  in  Cornwall,  that 
he  was  also  married  to  Honora,  daughter  of  Sir 
Thomas  Granviile,  the  widow  of  Sir  J.  Bassett. 
So  that,  in  reality,  he  might  have  left  male  issue  ; 
though,  from  the  peculiar  limitation  of  the  peer- 
age, they  could  not  have  succeeded  to  it.  Can 
any  of  your  correspondents  elucidate  this,  and 
inform  us  whether  there  are  any  Planta^enets  in 
existence  ?  I  have  read  somewhere  that  the  name 
rianMs  an  abbreviation  of  Plantagenet.  No  in- 
quisition taken  on  his  death  is  on  record  ;  and  it 
is  therefore  probable  he  had  no  property  of  his 
own,  and  might  have  left  male  posterity  in  ob- 
scurity. A  z 

THE  WORD  "  MATTER."  —  Can  any  of  your 
readers,  versed  in  old  English,  give  an  instance  of 
the  verb  matter  earlier  than  the  days  of  Lo  >ke  ? 
Locke  uses  it  thus :  "  It  matters  not  how  they  are 


called."  And  can  anyone  assign  a  reason  why 
that  verb  is  used  in  the  sense  of  "  to  be  of  im- 
portance," only  in  negative  and  interrogative 
sentences  ?  PHILOLOGUS. 

DR.  MOISEY. — The  tragedy  of  Othello  was  acted 
at  Covent  Garden,  20th  Dec.  1800  (or  1801?),  on 
which  occasion  a  Dr.  Moisey  appeared  on  the 
stage.  Who  was  Dr.. Moisey  ?  R.  INGLIS. 

OFFICERS  AT  QUEBEC.  —  Can  any  of  your 
readers  inform  me  where  I  could  get  a  list  of  the 
officers  present  at  the  siege  of  Quebec,  under 
General  Wolfe  in  1759  ?  I  have  failed  at  the  War 
Office.  P. 

PICTURE  or  WOE.  — 

"  Beside  stood  Woe,  all  comfortless  and  drear, 
Pale,  shrivelled,  worn  with  famine  to  the  bone; 
Her  knees  enlarged,  and  her  neglected  nails 
O'ergrown,  her  nostrils  wet  with  constant  rheum : 
Upon  the  ground  beneath,  her  cheeks  dropped  blood. 
Incessantly  she  gnashed  her  quivering  teeth, 
And  on  her  breast  and  shoulders,  the  thick  dust 
Was  moistened  with  her  tears." 

«  T.  C." 

These  lines  are  at  the  foot  of  an  engraving, 
which  they  very  fairly  describe.  On  the  left  is 
^  T.  C.,  Inv."  ;  on  ^the  right,  "  Thompson,  8c" 
The  drawing  is  spirited,  though  incorrect ;  the 
engraving  hard  and  poor.  I  wish  to  know  whence, 
the  lines  are  taken,  and  for  what  the  engraving 
was  intended  ?  Its  form  indicates  the  illustration 
of  an  octavo  volume.  C.  P. 

SKELTON.  —  I  should  be  glad  to  know  if  there 
are  any  descendants  of  Skelton  living  ?  He  is. 
mentioned  twice  in  the  second  volume  of  Strick- 
and's  Queens  of  England  as  having  translated 
Latin  poems.  I  do  not  think  the  name  is  com- 
mon. The  name  is  mentioned  in  Sir  Jonah  Bar- 
'ington's  Memoirs.  F. 

SNUFFERS.  —  Can  you  tell  me  where  to  learn- 
he  archaeology  of  snuffers  and  snuffer-dishes  ? 
?rom  popular  works  within  my  reach  I  can  get 
lothing.  This  question  is  suggested  by  a  curious- 
>air  of  snuffers  of  the  sixteenth  century  (of  brass), 
ecently  given  me,  and  until  very  lately  in  house- 
old  use.  EDWD.  H.  KNOWLES. 

"THE  STARS  OF  NIGHT." — A  poem  with  this  title 
vas  found  among  the  manuscript  papers  of  an 
minent  teacher  of  the  classics,  deceased  in  1847, 
.nd  who  it  is  supposed  was  also  the  author  of  it ; 
>ut  if  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  is  aware  of  the 
erses  having  been  already  in  print,  even  if  he 
hould  not  know  the  author's  name,  he  would  con- 
er  a  favour  by  stating  when  and  where  they 
ave  been  previously  printed.  If  it  cannot  be 
scertained  that  it  has  been  ever  before  published, 

society  of  old  pupils  of  the  deceased  teacher 
nd  LL.D.  intend  to  claim  the  authorship  for 
heir  preceptor.  It  commences  — 


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"  Whence  are  your  glorious  goings  forth, 

Ye  children  of  the  sky, 
In  whose  bright  silence'seems  the  power 
Of  all  eternity?" 

J.  C.  HUNTEE. 

THE  SWINE  BROTHER  TO  MAN.  —  Sir  John 
Maundeville  has  affirmed  {Book  of  Sir  Jill,  chap. 
vi.)?  when  speaking  of  the  Saracens,  that  "they 
eat  no  swine's  flesh,  for  they  say  it  is  brother  to 
man,"  &c. 

It  would  be  of  utility  to  know  whether  or  not 
these  statements  are  correct ;  and,  if  so,  how  the 
idea  originated  ?  Certainly  it  was  not  derived  from 
the  Jews.  J.  ALEX.  DAVIES. 

TWILL  PANTS. — In  Ovid's  Banquet  of  Sense,  by 
George  Chapman,  1595,  are  the  following  lines  :• 

"  White  and  red  jasmines,  merry  melliphilL. 
Fair  crown  imperial,  emperor  of  flowers, 
Immortal  amaranth,  white  asphodell, 
And  cup-like  twill  pants  strew'd  in  Bacchus  bowers." 

Mr.  Steevens,  in  a  note  to  the  Tempest,  Act  IV. 
Sc.  2,— 

"  Thy  banks  with  pionied  and  twilled  brims, 
Which  spongy  April  at  thy  hest  betrims, 
To  make  cold  nymphs  chaste  crowns, — 

says,  "  If  twill  be  the  name  of  any  plant,  the  read- 
ing pionied  and  twilled  may  stand." 

I  am  at  a  loss  to  find  what  plant  is  meant  by 
twill  pant ;  and  if  the  question  has  not  been  al- 
ready asked  in  "  N.  &  Q.,"  will  you  insert  this, 
that  some  one  may  inform  me  what  it  is.  I  be- 
lieve that  Shakspere  wrote  peonied  and  lilied 
brims ;  for  unless  he  did,  I  cannot  see  what  the 
chaste  crowns  of  cold  nymphs  were  made  of. 

S.  BEISLY. 

*"  UNIVERSITY  DISCIPLINE.  —  Will  you  kindly  in- 
form me  whether  the  Universities  of  Oxford  and 
Cambridge  can  deprive  a  Master  of  Arts  of  that 
degree.  LEX. 


COURTS  OF  LOVE.  —  What  were  the  preroga- 
tives and  nature  of  the  "  Cour  d' Amour"?  When 
was  the  last  held,  and  where  can  I  find  books  re- 
ferring to  it  ?  M.  A.  C. 

[Our  correspondent  will  find  some  account  of  the 
"Cour  d'Amour"in  the  "  History  and  Analysis  of  the 
Ancient  Romances  of  Chivalry,  and  of  the  Romantic 
Poems  of  Italy;  with  Dissertations  on  the  Origin,  Institu- 
tions, and  Ceremonies  of  Knighthood,  &c.,  with  figures 
taken  from  Monuments  of  Art.  By  Dr.  J.  Ferrario,  4 
vols,  8vo.  Milano,  1828-9."  Consult  also  The  Foreign 
Quarterly  Review  (1830),  vol.  vi.  pp.  357-364,  for  an  ac- 
count of  the  origin  of  the  Courts  of  Love,  and  the  causes 
of  their  suppression ;  but  more  especially  an  article  in 
Cochrane's  Quarterly  Review,  i.  430,  entitled  "The Courts 
of  Love  in  the  Middle  Ages,"  containing  notices  of  the  fol- 
lowing works,  The  Love- Courts  of  the  Middle  Ages,  and 
their  Decrees  or  Judgments :  a  Contribution  to  the'History 
of  Chivalry  and  of  Romantic  Jurisprudence.  Leipzig, 


1821,  8vo.  Contributions  to  a  Knowledge  of  Romantic 
Poetry,  by  F.  Diez.  Part  I.  Berlin,  1825,  8vo.  The  Ro- 
mance of  Fierabras,  in  Provencal.  Edited  by  I.  Bekker. 
Berlin,  1829,  4to.] 

HEEYDONE.  — In  Gilpin's  Life  of  John  Wycliff 
(see  his  Lives,  2nd  edit.  p.  49),  he  says  "  that 
while  Courtney,  Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  was 
sitting  in  court,  discussing  Wycliif's  heresies,  a 
violent  earthquake  shook  the  monastery."  He 
further  says,  "  Wycliff  would  often  merrily  speak 
of  this  accident,  and  would  call  the  assembly  the 
council  of  the  hcrydone ;  herydone  being  the  old 
English  word  for  earthquake."  Can  you  say  in 
what  old  English  writers  this  word  occurs,  and 
from  what  it  is  derived  ?  R.  W. 

[We  think  it  probable  that  this  word  is  a  compound, 
from  epi,  much,  and  fiovcw,  to  agitate.  Undone  would  be 
nearer  the  mark ;  but  our  forefathers  were  not  particu- 
lar. There  is,  however,  the  doubtful  word  epiSuoj?  (eridi- 
nes,  much  agitated), 

Hanvov  epevyo/xe'pTj  epiSivea, 

Vomiting  tumultuous  smoke,  where  irepiSii'«'a_has  been 
suggested  conjecturally.] 

CHAKLES  I.  —  I  have  been  informed  that  bio- 
graphical sketches  have  appeared  within  the  last 
few  years  of  the  persons  who  comprised  the  jury, 
and  those  who  signed  the  death-warrant  of  Charles 
I.  Will  you  kindly  say  when,  or  by  whom,  they 
were  printed  ?  S.  D.  L. 

[Perhaps  the  following  work  is  the  one  required :  The 
Trials  of  Charles  the  First,  and  of  some  of  the  Regicides: 
with  Biographies  of  Bradshaw,  Ireton,  Harrison,  and 
others.  I2mo,  1832.  Published  in  the  Family  Library. 
The  names  of  the  Commissioners  occur  at  p.  23.] 

THOMAS'S  "  HISTOEIE  OF  ITALIE,"  ETC.  —  Can 
you  give  me  information  as  to  the  value  of  the 
following  books  which  I  have  in  my  possession  ? 
Of  the  one  the  title-page  has  been  lost.  The  sub- 
ject of  the  work  is  a  description  and  history  of 
the  several  States  of  Italy,  In  the  preface  it  is 
dedicated  to  "John  Erie  of  Warrewicke,  Visconte 
Litle,"  by  "  Wylliam  Thomas."  London,  1549. 
This  volume  was  bound  in  real  boards,  a  portion 
of  which  still  remains.  The  other  is  entitled  The 
Christian  Disputations,  by  Master  Peter  Viret. 
Translated  out  of  French  into  English  by  John 
Brooke  of  Ashe.  Printed  at  London,  1579.  What 
is  the  title  of  the  former  work  ?  Are  they  at  all 
curious  or  scarce?  Any  communication  with 
respect  to  them  would  be  gladly  received. 

A  S.P.A.R. 

[The  first  work  is  entitled  The  Hhtorie  of  Italic,  a 
boke  excedyng  profitable  to  be  redde:  Because  it  in- 
treateth  of  the  astate  of  many  and  diuers  common 
weales,  how  thei  haue  ben,  and  now  be  gouerned.  Anno 
Domini  M.D.XLIX.  For  some  account  of  the  author,  Wil- 
liam Thomas,  consult  Wood's  Athence  Oxonienses  (Bliss), 
i.  218;  see  also  Herbert's  Typog.  Antiq.  p.  851.  It  was 
reprinted  in  1561  and  1562.  The  prices  given  by  Lowndes 
vary  from  5s.  to  21.  5s.  —  Brooke's  translation  of  Viret's 
Christian  Disputations  is  somewhat  scarce,  the  Rev.  H.  F. 
Lyte's  copy  fetched  14s.] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


L3rd  S.  I.  APRIL  12,  62. 


SPARTAN  DUPLICITY. 

(3rd  S.  i.  51,  178.) 

It  seems  very  problematical  whether  this  sup- 
posed characteristic  of  the  Lacedaemonians  was 
not  the  result  of  the  discipline  enforced  by  the 
Spartan  government,  the  object  of  which  was  to 
render  the  people  'expert  in  the  stratagems  of 
war  :  ("  and,  indeed,  no  civil  or  politic  constitu- 
tions have  been  more  celebrated  than  that  of 
Lycurgus  by  the  best  authors  of  ancient  story 
and  times."— Sir  W.  Temple's  Miscell.,  i.  156.) 

In  Menander's  Reliquice,  I  find  nothing  per- 
tinent unless  it  be  Aa/cow/cal  /cAelSes.  "  The  La- 
conic keys,"  says  Chubb,  in  Excerpt  Minutes  of 
Proceedings  of  the  Institution  of  Civil  Engineers, 
vol.  ix.,  "  consisted  of  three  single  teeth  in  the 
figure  of  the  letter  E ;  which  form  may  still  be 
seen  in  ancient  cabinets."  With  these,  Aristo- 
phanes associates  the  idea  of  secrfitiveness,  since 
he  calls  them  K\ei8ia  KpvirTa  Ka/corjfleWaTa ;  but  we 
have  no  reason  for  concluding  they  were  invented 
by  a  Jack  Sheppard.  See  Meursii  Miscell.  Lacon., 
lib.  ii.  cap.  17. 

The  testimony  of  Euripides  and  Aristophanes 
is  that  of  inveterate  enemies,  and  probably  in- 
fected with  malicious  misrepresentation.  Notwith- 
standing that  this  duplicity  has  been  attributed  to 
the  Lacedaemonians,  not  only  by  ancient  writers, 
but  by  moderns  whose  judgment  could  not  have 
been  warped  by  their  passions,  I  shall  dispute  the 
justice  of  this  charge,  although  I  am  not  aware 
that  anyone  has  yet  vindicated  this  heroic  people. 
Diogenes  Laertius  (lib.  ix.  segm.  37,)  attributes 
the  adage  —  "  Speech  is  the  shadow  of  deeds  "  — • 
to  Democritus  ;  but  Isidorus  Pelusiota,  as  quoted 
by  Menage  in  Observat.  ad  Diog.  Laert.  in  loco, 
ascribes  it  to  the  Lacedaemonians,  lib.  iii.  Ep.  232. 
[Bibl.  Patrum,  1618,  v.  part  n. ;  BiU.  Maxima, 
vii.]  ;  and  mentions  an  instance  of  their  detesta- 
tion of  a  man  known  to  be  dishonest  —  "  ei  ne 
probam  quidem  sententiam  pronunciare  licebat." 
Another  man,  Ctesiphon,  they  banished  because 
he  had  vaunted  he  could  discourse  a  whole  day  on 
any  subject  proposed  to  him,  inasmuch  as  speech 
is  so  precious  a  treasure  that  it  ought  not  to  be 
used  but  for  necessity.  And  Plutarch,  in  his 
Apophthegmata  Laconica,  mentions  the  saying  of 
Epsenetus  :  "  Omnium  peccatorum  et  injuriarum 
causam  esse  homines  mendaces."  (Oxon.,  1795, 
i.  615.) 

From  these  Laconic  anecdotes,  the  inference 
may  surely  be  drawn  that  an  Athenian  who  in- 
genuously admits  (Aristoph.  Acharn.,  Act  II. 
Sc.  5.),  it  matters  not  whether  he  is  a  character 
only  or  the  poet  himself,  — 

1  'Eyta  8e  /AKTCO  ju.ey  Aa/ceSai^ioiHovs  <r<f)6Spa, 
Kavrbs  6  IIoc7«iSa)(/,  OVTTL  Taivapy  0cbs, 
Seura?,  aTrao-iv  e/a^aAoi  ra?  oiKi'a's." 


is  disqualified  from  bein^  one  of  the  jury ;  and 
that  a  Spartan  would  be  justified  in  opposing  his 
right  to  be  empanelled  in  the  words  of  Menan- 
der:  — 

«  t        .        .        .     Me/x<f>ojxai  om  -rovff,  on 
Xpijtrra  /tie  Xeyovr'  OVK  e5  7roiij<reiv  7rpo<rSo/c<js." 

The  verses  containing  the  imprecation  of  Di- 
cseopolis,  as  above,  were  written  thirty-two  years 
after  a  very  destructive  earthquake  ;  which^  ac- 
cording to  Pausanias,  left  not  a  house  standing : 
and  he  adds  as  the  cause  of  this  calamity,  the  fact 
of  the  Lacedsemonians  having  violated  the  right 
of  sanctuary,  and  inflicted  death  on  suppliants 
who  had  fled  for  protection  into  a  temple  of  Nep- 
tune at  Tsenarus.  For  other  authorities  refer  to 
Meursii  Miscell.  Laconica,  lib.  ii.  16. 
a  ...  Art  well  advis'd 

To  what  encounter,  heart  of  mine,  thou'rt  buckled, 
Who  now  must  proffer  speech  and  full  defence 
For  Sparta?  "  —  Aristoph.  ibid.  (Mitchell)  i.  65. 
This  certainly  is  a  strong  confirmation  of  the 
common  allegation;  and  I  must  admit  that  the 
policy. was  worse  than  impolitic  which  sanctioned 
the  treachery   exercised  upon  the   Helots,    and 
such  cruelty  as  is  perhaps  unparalleled  in  history, 
except  where  we  find  in  religious  wars  —  **  Cross 
arrayed  against  Cross,  Christ  against  Christ."    See 
Athenian  Letters,  ii.  350 ;    Grote,  vi.  501 ;   and 
compare  the  cruelties  inflicted  on  the  English  by 
the  Dutch  in  the  East  Indies,  in  Mill's  British 
India,  and  the  tracts  relating  to  Amboyna. 

It  must  be  granted  that  the  Lacedaemonians 
were  illiterate,  and  consequently  were  exposed  to 
the  obloquy  which  their  rivals,  the  democratic 
countrymen  of  Timon  of  Athens,  were  ready  to 
promulgate  without  contradiction.  I  doubt  not, 
however,  but  that  many  passages  can  be  produced 
from  ancient  writers  conveying  honourable  men- 
tion of  "patiens  Lacedaemon,"  as  teaching  by 
example  :  — 

"  Nobilitas  sola  est  atque  unica  virtus." 

BlBLIOTHECAR.  CnETHAM. 


MATTHEW  WASB ROUGH  AND  THE  STEAM 

ENGINE. 
(2nd  S.  vi.  29.) 

This  ingenious  and  very  promising  mechanician, 
was  the  son  of  a  Bristol  brass  founder,  and  was 
born  at  the  house,  No.  3,  Narrow  Wine  Street, 
in  that  city ;  and  baptized  at  the  church  of  bt. 
Peter  in  which  parish  the  above  street  is  situated, 
November  18th,  1753.  His  father  was  at  the 
time  in  partnership  with  Mr.  Roger  Rice,  who 
had  established  this  the  oldest  business  of  the 
kind  in  Bristol,  on  the  premises  referred  to,m 
1726  where  it  has  ever  since  been  carried  on  by 
some  member  of  the  family  until  the  month  of 
March,  1848,  when  Mr.  Rice  Wasbrough,  the 


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last  of  that  name  connected  with  it,  died,  and  the 
late  Mr.  Thomas  Hale,  who  had  long  been  asso- 
ciated with  him,  became  the  head  of  the  firm.  To 
this  business  Matthew  Wasbrough  was,  at  a  pro- 
per age,  introduced,  and  clock- making  at  that 
time  forming  an  important  branch  of  the  trade, 
and  the  mind  of  the  future  inventor  running  in 
the  direction  of  machinery,  he  was  very  naturally 
led  to  investigate  the  subject  with  a  view  to  the 
introduction  of  improvements  in  his  own  peculiar 
department  of  it.  He  soon  conceived  the  idea  of 
making  a  machine  that  would  drive  the  whole  of 
the  lathes  employed  in  the  manufactory  to  which 
he  was  attached  (some  twenty-five  in  number), 
and  he  accordingly,  after  much  patient  toil,  con- 
structed a  steam-engine  (which  he  erected  in  a 
small  building  still  remaining)  beneath  the  clock- 
maker's  workshops.  To  this  machine  he  added 
the  fly -wheel,  which  was  intended  to  produce  a 
steady  and  uniform  force,  and  of  which  I  shall 
show  that  he  was  the  inventor.  At  p.  157  of  Hugo 
Reid's  account  of  the  steam-engine  is  given  "A 
Sketch  of  the  Double-acting  Steam-engine  of 
James  Watt,  invented  by  him  in  1782 ; "  which, 
however,  is  nearly  three  years  after  Matthew 
Wasbrough  had  patented  his  invention,  which  is 
described  as  his  "  New  invented  machine  or  piece 
of  mechanism,  which,  when  applied  to  a  steam- 
engine,  or  any  reciprocal  movement,  produces  a 
circular  or  rotative  movement  without  the  medium 
of  a  water-wheel."  This  is,  unquestionably,  the 
first  mention  of  such  an  invention  having  been 
perfected;  the  date  of  the  patent  of  which  is  March 
10th,  1779. 

It  appears,  however,  that  about '  the  same  time 
other  master-minds  were  directed  to  the  same 
subject;  but  Matthew  Wasbrough  was  in  ad- 
vance of  them  all.  Picard's  rotative  motion  was 
patented  in  1780,  and  that  of  James  Watt  fol- 
lowed, being  "  Inrolled  23rd  of  February,  1782  ; " 
that  is,  as  already  intimated,  nearly  three  years 
after  that  of  Matthew  Wasbrough  !  There  can, 
therefore,  I  conceive,  be  no  error  in  ascribing  the 
invention  of  the  fly-wheel  or  rotative  motion  of 
the  steam-engine  to  a  Bristol  citizen ;  although  it 
has  been  customary  to  award  that  honour  to  the 
Birmingham  mechanist,  James  Watt. 

Towards  the  close  of  1780,  Mr.  Wasbrough 
communicated  with  the  commissioners  of  the  navy 
on  the  subject  of  his  newly  patented  steam-engine, 
and  on  January  31st,  1 781,  he  received  an  order  to 
erect  one  without  delay  at  the  Deptford  victual- 
ling yard,  for  the  purpose  of  grinding  corn.  The 
engine  was  at  once  commenced,  and  was  progres- 
sing favourably ;  the  castings  necessary  to  com- 
plete it  were  ordered  in  Bristol  by  the  inventor, 
as  directed  by  the  authorities  at  the  Navy  Board, 
and  great  expense  had  been  incurred  by  him  in 
the  work,  when,  through  the  intervention  of  a 
lealous  official,  he  received  in  the  following  July, 


with  much  astonishment,  and  when  his  engine  was 
nearly  finished,  an  intimation  that  it  would  not  be 
required!  Disappointed  in  realising  his  long- 
cherished  hopes  of  bringing  his  invention  into 
public  notice,  under  the  auspices  of  the  govern- 
ment, and  suffering  at  the  time  from  severe  indis- 
position, brought  on  by  anxiety  and  the  pecuniary 
losses  he  had  sustained  in  perfecting  his  invention, 
he  was  seized  with  a  fever,  of  which  he  died,  Oct. 
21st,  1781,  and  when  he  had  but  just  completed 
his  twenty- eighth  year.  The  Bristol  Journal  of 
that  date  speaks  thus  of  him  :  — 

"  The  public  have  to  deplore  in  him  the  loss  of  one  of 
the  first  mechanics  in  the  kingdom,  whose  early  genius 
brought  to  perfection  that  long-wished-for  desideratum, 
the  applying  the  powers  of  the  fire-engine  to  rotular 
movements.  Upon  these  principles  he  lived  long  enough 
to  complete  several  ingenious  pieces  of  mechanism,  of 
•which  the  corn  and  flour  mills  of  Messrs.  Young  &  Co.  in 
Lewin's  Mead  (Bristol)  are  striking  monuments  of  his 
extensive  abilities.  His  name,  therefore,  will  be  handed 
down  with  veneration  to  the  latest  posterity." 

Another  local  paper  (the  Bristol  Gazette)  also 
says  of  him,  that  — 

"Without  wishing  to  detract  from  the  great  merit  and 
genius  displayed  by  the  late  Mr.  Watt,  in  maturing  the 
powers  of  steam,  and  applying  it  through  the  medium  of 
mechanism  to  the  various  purposes  which  excite  the  ad- 
miration and  astonishment  of  the  world,  we  think  it  not 
inconsistent  to  notice  the  claims  of  a  gentleman,  formerly 
our  fellow-citizen,  to  the  honour  of  that  invention  on 
which  the  chief  utility  of  the  steam-engine  depends,  viz. 
the  rotative  motion,  which  Mr.  Watt  lived  long  enough 
to  perfect  in  all  its  various  principles  and  modifications, 
whilst  his  contemporary  was  prematurely  cut  off;  and 
were  it  not  for  the  record  inserted  in  one  of  our  predeces- 
sor's papers  [alluding  to  the  notice  of  him  given  above], 
perhaps  there  are  but  few  living  who  are  acquainted  with, 
a  fact  which  affords  an  additional  proof  that  Bristol  has 
had  a  due  share  in  promoting  the  progress  of  the  arts  and 
sciences  in  this  instance." 

Mr.  Watt  himself  says,  upon  the  invention  of 
the  rotative  motion  — 

"  One  of  Matthew  Wasbrough's  rotative  engines  was 
erected  at  Birmingham,  for  a  rolling  mill,  and  was  much 
talked  of.  This  set  me  again  to  think  upon  the  subject, 
and  brought  to  my  remembrance  my  former  meditations 
upon  the  crank,  the  date  of  which  I  cannot  ascertain." 

And  again  he  says,  "  I  have  at  times  had  my 
thoughts  a  good  deal  upon  the  subject,  but  I  have 
not  hit  upon  anything  decisive."  From  Watt's 
own  statement,  then,  it  is  clear  that  Matthew 
Wasbrough  had  not  only  applied  the  crank  to  pro- 
duce a  rotative  motion,  but  that  he  had  also  erected 
a  steam-engine  at  Birmingham  with  both  in  use, 
while  Watt  had  only  been  thinking  how  the  one 
might  be  made  to  produce  the  other !  But  further 
he  says,  "  Matthew  had  added  a  fly-wheel,  which, 
as  far  as  1  know,  was  the  first  time  it  had  been  em- 
ployed for  that  purpose  "  — -  the  obtaining  the  mo- 
tion in  question  !  *  GEORGE  PKYCE. 

Bristol  City  Library.  » 


*  Watt's  Letters  to  his  son,  qvioted  in  Muirhead's  Life 
of  James  Watt,  p.  281. 


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CLUB. 

(2nd  S.  vii.  386.) 

MR.  BUCKTON  rightly  rejects  the  fanciful  de- 
rivation assigned  to  this  word  by  Carlyle  ;  and  he 
also  rightly,  I  think,  refers  its  origin  to  the  verb 
to  club  [together].  But  I  dissent  from  him  when 
he  says  "  the  origin  of  the  noun  need  not  be 
sought  beyond  its  verb  ;  "  inasmuch  as  the  verb 
to  club  itself  probably  comes  from  the  noun  club 
=,  according  to  Johnson,  "  the  shot  or  dividend  of 
a  reckoning  paid  by  the  company  in  just  pro- 
portions." This  club  he  says  Skinner  derives  from 
the  A.  S.  cleofan  (sic),  to  divide,  our  cleave,  and 
this  derivation  seems  to  me  very  plausible,  for 
does  not  dividend,  which  has  a  similar  meaning, 
come  from  divide,  and  is  not  share  (which  is  the 
same  word  as  [plough-]sAare),  connected  with  the 
A.  S.  sceran,  (to  cut  off,  divide,  part),  Germ. 
scheren,  and  our  shear?  The  only  question  is 
whether  club  may  not  come  from  the  same  word 
cleave  =  to  adhere.  It  is  certain  that  companies 
of  men  have  been  named  from  words  which  im- 
ply both  separation  and  cohesion.  Thus  company 
comes  from  cum  and  panis  (cf.  Germ.  Kumpan)  ; 
committee,  from  cum  and  mittere  ;  association,  from 
socius;  confederacy,  from  cum  and  fcedus  —  but 
party  from  part;  section,  sect  (also  an  united  body 
of  men)  from  secure,  to  cut,  divide  ;  division  [of 
an  army]  from  divide,  &c. 

In  fact,  any  number  of  men  associated  together, 
e.  g.,  a  club,  are  united  (cleave  =  adhere),  as  far 
as  they  themselves  are  concerned  (though  even 
the  united  body  is  cleft  into  members  who  have 
their  individual  interests),  but  are  disunited,  sepa- 
rated (cleave  =  divide),  as  far  as  the  rest  of  the 
world*  are  concerned  (sect,  party,  &c.). 
m  But,  though  cleave  in  its  two  different  meanings 
is  both  spelled  and  pronounced  alike  in  Eng.,  in 
many  other  languages  the  two  words  are  distin- 
guished by  a  slight  difference  f  in  form,  and  we 
will  therefore  examine  from  which  root  the  word 
club  has  probably  arisen. 

CLEAVE  (adhere).  In  Goth.,  I  do  not  find  the 
word.  Old  High  Germ.,  kliban+  (imp.  kleib), 
fdeibjan  (imp.  kleibta,  kleipti)  or  chleipan,  whilst 
hleb  and  kleib  mean  glue.  Mid.  High  Germ., 
hleiben  (imp.  kleipte)  to  make  to  cleave,  smear, 
kleben  (imp.  klebete)  and  kliben  (imp.  hleip).  An«-.- 
bax.,  cleofian,  or  more  commonly  clifian.  Dut. 
hleven;  Dan.,  htebe  ;  Swed.,  Uibba  ;  Low  Germ., 
khven,  and  hleven  ;  Mod.  Germ.,  kleben. 

*  Thus  one  of  the  German  words  for  association,  clubAs 
geschlossene  Gesellschaft,  lit.  CLOSED  or  CLOSE  society,  i  e, 
a  society  shut  off  from  the  rest  of  the  world  -  from  which 
all  but  members  are  excluded. 

affini!viS  difference  is  never  so  great  as  to  obscure  the 


f,.,  '  or  rather  its  ™>t  M»,  to  the 

prefixed        P  °llmere^  a  ^uttural  Cch'  k)  ha™g  been 


These  verbs  seem  generally  to  be  reg.  or  to  be- 
long to  what  is  called  the  weak  conj.  So  we  say 
cleave,  clave,  and  cleaved. 

CLEAVE  (divide,  split).  Old  High  Germ.,  hliu- 
ban*  (imp.  hlaub,  hlub,  hlob).  Mid.  High  Germ., 
hlieben  (imp.  hloup)  or  kliefen  =  to  be  almost  en- 
tirely separated,  but  so  that  some  parts  still 
remain  hanging,  kldben  (trans.),  whence  hlobe 
(hliubu),  a  split  or  cleft  stick  for  catching  birds. 
Ang.-Sax.,  deaf  an,  and  perhaps,  clifian,  (cleofa,  a 
cleft,  chasm).  Iceland.,  hliufa  (hlofi,  a  cleft}.  Low 
Germ.,  hloven,  Fries,  hliewe.  Dut.,  hloven;  Dan., 
hlove;  Swed.,  hlyfva;  Germ.,  hlieben,  kldben 
(though  spalten  is  the  word  in  common  use). 

Here  the  older  verbs  seem  to  be  mostly  irre- 
gular. Comp.  our  cleave,  clave,  clove,  cleft. 

If  these  two  lists  be  compared,  it  will  be  seen  at 
once  that,  as  far  as  form  goes,  club  is  much  more 
like  the  various  equivalents  of  cleave  (to  split), 
indeed  the  word  itself,  only  spelled  with  a  h,  may 
be  found  among  them. 

The  weapon  club  also  (Old  Eng.  clobb — Halliw.), 
appears  to  be  derived  from  cleave  (to  split),  so  that 
its  original  meaning  would  seem  to  have  been  a 
piece  of  wood  split  off  from  another.  Cf.  supra  hlobe 
(kliubu)  &  split  stick  for  catching  birds,  Low  Germ. 
Kluve,  Swed.  klubba  (club,  mace).  The  Germ. 
Kolben,  the  round  end  of  a  club  (Keule),  seems  to 
have  arisen  from  a  transposition  of  the  I  and  o,  and 
so  the  Dutch  holf,  from  which  probably  comes 
goff,  the  game,  sometimes  written  golf. 

Originally,  therefore,  a  club  does  not  seem  to 
have  been  a  weapon  with  a  large,  rounded,  bulb- 
ous extremity  as  it  is  now.  But  this  meaning  is 
very  evident  in  the  GQrmSKolben,  which  in  Streit- 
holben,  means  a  club,  mace,  but  more  generally  is 
used  to  denote  a  retort,  an  instrument  with  a  nar- 
row stem  and  large  globular  end ;  whilst  Kloben 
(cf.  supra  hlobe)  in  Germ,  means,  something  cleft* 
a  wedge,  or  wedge-shaped  piece  of  wood,  and  also 
a  lump,  mass,  or  bundle,  so  that  here  too  we  have 
union  and  disunion  combined.  This  word  reminds 
us  of  the  Lat.  globus-f,  with  which  it  is  thought  by 
many  to  be  allied.  Glomus,  a  clue,  ball  of  thread, 
is  considered  to  be  allied  to  globus,  and  our  clue 
(clew},  Old  H.  Germ,  cliwa,  or  cluivia,  cliuwa, 
Mid.  H.  Germ,  kliuwe,  A.  S.  cleow,  cliwe,  is  pro- 
bably akin  to  cleave  (adhere).  The  Lat.  clavus 
(nail)  and  our  claw\  are  also  no  doubt  akin  to 
cleave  (imp,  clave,  to  split)  and  many  other  words 
might  be  shown  to  belong  to  the  same  family. 
In  conclusion,  club  is  evidently,  as  far  as  form 


*  Or  chliuban,  as  in  Old  High  Germ,  k  at  the  beginning 
of  a  word  is  very  frequently  replaced  by  ch. 

t  Globus  means  not  only  any  spherical  mass  or  lump, 
but  also  a  dense  body.,  troop  of  people,  so  that  dub  (associa- 
tion) might  be  considered  akin  to  it. 

J  The  claws  of  a  dog  or  other  animal  are  as  much  divi- 
sions of  a  hoof,  as  the  two  parts  into  which  a  cow's  hoof 
is  divided. 


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is  concerned,  derived  from  cleave  (to  split),  but  in 
signification  it  would  seein  to  be  more  closely 
allied  to  cleave  (to  adhere).  It  is  not  surprising 
that  two  verbs,  identical  in  form  (in  Eng.)  and 
connected  in  signification,  should  sometimes  co- 
alesce. 

A  good  illustration  of  the  connection  between 
the  ideas  of  division  and  union  is  afforded  by  the 
two  equivalent  words  partner  and  associe,  the 
former  pointing  especially  to  the  division  of  profits, 
the  latter  to  the  community  of  interests.  A  French- 
man comparing  these  two  words  would  scarcely 
fail  to  declare  them  faithful  representatives  of  the 
character  of  the  two  nations  to  which  they  belong, 
and  he  would  contrast  the  selfish,  egotistical  ten- 
dencies of  the  Englishman  with  the  expansive, 
world- embracing  aspirations  of  the  Frenchman. 

F.  CHANCE. 


PALM  :  ROMAN  FEET  (3rd  S.  i.  230.)  —  This 
measure,  which  is  common  in  the  south  of  Europe, 
does  not  represent  the  "  palm "  or  width  of  the 
hand,  as  in  North  Europe,  but  the  span,  or 
stretch-out  of  the  hand  from  the  extreme  of  the 
thumb  to  that  of  the  fingers.  It,  however,  varies 
very  much  in  Italy.  In  English  inches  and  de- 
cimals it  is  — 

At  Rome  -     8.7.96 

„  -     8.347 — for  cloth  measure. 

In  Sicily  -     9.530 

In  Sardinia       -     9.808 

At  Naples          -  10.382 

At  Florence      -  11.490 

The  Spanish  palmo,  or  12  dedos,  is  8.346. 
Maritornes  therefore  would  have  a  little  over  4  ft. 
10  in.  in  height. 

It  is  not  generally  known,  and  it  may  be  of 
much  interest  to  your  readers  to  be  told,  that  the 
iate  celebrated  architect  and  antiquary  Luigi 
Canina  made  a  great  number  of  inquiries  as  to 
length  of  the  ancient  Roman  foot.  He  measured 
very  carefully  the  Antonine  and  Trajan  columns, 
and  found  them  (exclusive  of  their  pedestals  and 
eome  pieces  let  in  to  repair  them)  exactly  alike. 
This  height,  which  was  known  to  have  been  100 
Roman  feet,  was  measured  with  extreme  care  by 
means  of  rods  of  wood  carefully  dried,  and  found 
to  be  exactly  29.635  French  metres.  Measuring 
chains  were  then  constructed  of  this  length,  and 
the  Roman  miles  (mille  passuum)  carefully  mea- 
sured down  the  Appian  Way  as  far  as  the  12th 
mile,  and  were  found  to  correspond  with  the 
traditional  sites  of  the  mile-stones.  The  great 
length  of  these  measurements  being  such  an  ex- 
tensive check,  their  accuracy  was  at  once  accepted 
by  the  Roman  archaeologists  as  the  best  authority 
known.  This  would  make  the  ancient  Roman  foot 
11.66753  English  inches;  and  the  mile  4861.41 
English  feet :  being  about  one-eleventh  less  than 


our  English  mile  of  5280  feet.  For  rough  reckoning 
the  antiquary  may  deduct  one-eleventh  from  Ro- 
man miles  to  bring  them  into  English  ;  or  may 
add  one-tenth  to  English  miles  to  bring  them 
into  Roman,  the  ratio  being  10  :  11,  but  inversely. 
There  is  a  common  error  in  supposing  the  Roman 
mile,  or  mille  passuum,  was  a  thousand  paces  or 
single  steps.  This  is  not  the  case ;  the  military 
pasftus  consisted  of  two  steps  (gressus),  or  about 
five  feet  Roman.  A.  A. 

Poets'  Corner. 

MATTHEW  KENNEDY  (3rd  S.  i.  230.) — Kennedy 
was  in  all  probability  a  priest  or  Jesuit.  There  is 
no  chance  of  the  names  of  the  Pretender's  titular 
law-officers,  who  were  often  ecclesiastics,  occurring 
in  Smyth's  Chronicles  of  the  Law  Officers  of  Ire- 
land. Watt's  Bibliotheca  Britannica  gives  no  per- 
sonal notice  of  Kennedy  except  the  name,  mixing 
up  with  it  not  only  the  Chronological,  Genealo- 
gical, Sec.,  Dissertation  of  the  Royal  Family  of 
Stuarts,  beginning  with  Milesius,  Paris,  1705,  but 
Acts  of  the  General  Assembly  of  the  Church  of 
Scotland,  Edinburgh,  1691,  fol.  Now  this  must 
be  a  mistake.  It  is  not  easy  to*  see  how  the  same, 
or  indeed  any,  Matthew  Kennedy  could  be  the 
author  of  these  Acts,  whatever  he  might  have  had 
to  say  concerning  them.  ABHBA  will  find  that 
the  scarce  volume  by  Kennedy  on  the  Stuarts 
was  answered  by  Richard  Hay,  of  Drumboote 
(not  to  be  confounded  with  John  Hay,  the  Scot- 
tish Jesuit),  in  an  Essay  on  the  Origin  of  the 
Royal  Family  of  Stuarts,  in  Answer  to  Dr.  Ken- 
nedy* s  Historical  Dissertation,  Edinburgh,  1772, 4to, 
republished  "  with  an  Appendix  containing  several 
ancient  curious  charters,  Edinburgh,  1795,"  4to, 
and  whereof  a  copy  exists  in  the  Signet  or  Advo- 
cates' library,  Edinburgh,  or  both.  Richard  Hay 
seems  to  have  concerned  himself  deeply  in  the 
vexed  questions  of  Stuart  history,  since  he  went 
back  upon  the  reign  of  Robert  II.  (grandson  of 
King  Robert  the  Bruce)  to  produce  a  Vindication  of 
Elizabeth  More  from  the  Imputation  of  being  a 
Concubine,  and  her  Children  from  the  Tache  of 
Bastardy,  1723,  4to.  Crawford,  the  historian  of 
the  Stuart  family,  is  awfully  indignant  upon  this 
point,  saying  :  — 

"  This  scandalous  aspersion,  that's  not  only  injurious 
to  the  succeeding  Kings  of  Scotland,  but  to  many  foreign 
princes  who  have  intermarried  with  our  Royal  Family, 
is  absolutely  false  in  itself;  as  will  appear  from  many 
original  charters  and  many  authentic  records  yet  extant." 

He  quotes  Hay's  Charters,  but  never  mentions 
his  name,  and  both  completely  ignore  "  Milesius." 
There  would  seem  to  have  been  an  incomprehen- 
sible antagonism  betwixt  these  Hays  and  Ken- 
nedys. The  only  other  production,  for  instance, 
of  Dr.  Kennedy's,  recorded  by  Watt,  is  an  an- 
swer to  a  letter  a  century  old :  — 

"  Response  a  une  lettre  que  la  Pere  de  la  Haye,  Reli- 
gieux  Ecossais  de  1'ordre  de  S.  Genevieve  a  Ecrite  a  my 


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[3rd  S.  I.  APRIL  12,  '62. 


Lord  Due  de  Perth,  du  4  septembre,  1612 ;  avec  la  lettre 
da  Pere  de  la  Haye.    Paris,  1715,  8vo." 

SHOLTO  MACDUFF. 

Matthew  Kennedy,  LL.D.,  the  author  of  this 
book,  was  made  a  Master  in  Chancery  in  Ireland 
by  King  James  II.,  after  what  is  called  his  ab- 
dication, by  patent,  dated  3rd  May,  1689.  — -Liber 
Hibernice^  vol.  i.  pt.  ii.  p.  21.  JOHN  MACLEAN. 

Hammersmith. 

REV.  CHRISTOPHER  BLACKWOOD  (3rd  S.  i.  228.) 
W.  W.  S.  will  find  notices  of  this  person,  and  of 
his  works,  in 

1.  Brook's  Lives  of  the  Puritans,  vol.  iii.  389. 

2.  Ivimey's   History   of  the  English  Baptists, 
vol.  ii.  pp.  224,  230—233,  and  577 ;  which  last  re- 
ference is  doubtful. 

3.  Wood's  Athena  Oxordenses,  edited  by  Dr. 
Bliss,  vol.  iii.  col.  431.  2,  where  we  learn  of  Thomas 
Blake  that  he  wrote  and  published  Birth's  Privi- 
lege;  or,  Right  of  Infants  Baptism,  Loud.  1644, 
4to:  — 

"  In  which  year  one  Charles  (a  mistake  for  Christopher) 
Blackwood,  having  published  a  book  entitled  The  Storm- 
ing of  Antichrist  in  his  Two  strong  Garrisons  of  Compul- 
sion of  Conscience  and  Infants'  Baptism,  §-c.,  our  author 
came  out  with  another  book  entitled  Infants'  Baptism 
freed  from  Anti-Christianism  against  Mr.  Blackwood,  Sec 
Lond.  1645,  4to." 

D.  B. 

TRAVERS  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  231.)  —  The  follow- 
ing extract  from  the  Registers  of  S.  Peter  le  Poer, 
London,  is  at  Mr.  Young's  service  :  — 

"  1629,  April  9.  Married,  Sir  Thomas  Travers  and  Mrs. 
Ellyn  Alleine,  wid." 

I  regret  that  I  can  give  no  information  about 
Sir  Thomas.  C.  J.  R. 

In  a  small  volume  on  Spencer  and  his  poetry, 
published  in  1.845  by  George  Craik,  and  about  the 
end  of  the  work,  is  an  account  of  the  above  fa- 
mily, which  diners  somewhat  from  Mr.  Young's, 
and  also  adds  some  particulars  :  one  statement  in 
it,  however,  that  John  Travers  and  the  poet 
Spenser  probably  came  to  Ireland  together,  dif- 
fers from  what  I  once  heard  from  the  late  Mr. 
John  Travers  of  Garrycloyne  (there  also  men- 
tioned), viz.,  that  John  Travers,  the  first  comer, 
was  brought  over  by  Bishop  Lyon,  and  was  by 
him  made  registrar  of  the  diocese  of  Cork.  I  be- 
lieve there  is  proof  that  John  was  succeeded  in 
that  office  by  his  son  Robert,  before  the  latter  be- 
came Vicar- General.  Several  clergy  of  the  name 
were  about  that  time  promoted  to  benefices  in  the 
county  of  Cork,  but  how  they  were  related  to 
John  I  know  not;  neither  do  I  believe  it  is  quite 
certain  that  the  Garrycloyne  branch  mentioned  in 
the  foregoing  work,  were  descended  from  John,  the 
second  son  of  Sir  Robert,  as  there  stated.  They 
are  all  there  said  to  be  descended  from  a  Bryan 
Travers,  and  Sir  Robert  is  said  to  have  had  a 
brother,  Zachary  Travers.  I  mention  these  names 


because  similar  ones  occur  in  the  printed  proceed- 
ings of  the  English  Court  of  Chancery,  temp. 
Elizabeth,  with  this  qualification,  that  "  Zuchan  " 
is  one  of  the  names  there  printed,  and  was  so  pro- 
bably by  mistake  for  "  Zachary." 

There  is  a  tradition  that  Richard  Travers,  son 
of  Sir  Robert,  when  he  was  sheriff  of  the  county 
of  Cork,  suffered  by  the  conduct  of  his  under 
sheriff  very  heavy  loss,  which  depressed  the  con- 
dition of  his  descendants.  A.  Z. 

A  DRINKING  MAYOR.  —  In  a  Minor  Note  of 
"N.  &  Q."  (3rd  S.  i.  206),  mention  is  made  of  the 
election  of  a  new  mayor  at  Southampton,  A.D.  1665, 
whose  merit  was  to  overcome  the  rest  of  the  electors 
in  drinking.  Perhaps  this  may  have  been  a  ge- 
neral custom  in  bygone  times,  at  least  it  may  in- 
terest some  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  to  know  that 
the  same  refined  and  intelligent  method  of  electing 
a  mayor  was  continued  at  the  village  of  Crosby, 
near  Liverpool,  so  recently  as  the  year  1832,  to 
my  own  knowledge,  .when  Thomas  Brining,  the 
owner  of  the  house  where  I  lodged,  was  so  elected. 
The  revels  lasted  through  the  night,  and  when  the 
new  day  dawned  Thomas  alone  was  found  in  his 
seat,  the  rest  were  all  under  the  table,  M.  F. 

ST.  ABBREVIATED  TO  T.  (3rd  S.  i.  75,  219.)  — 
On  the  south  side  of  the  centre  tower  of  Lichfield 
Cathedral  there  is  suspended,  partly  outside,  a 
small  bell.  It  is  used  to  summon  people  to  the 
daily  prayers ;  and  is  called  Tanthony,  for  St. 
Anthony's  bell.  P.  HUTCHINSON. 

RATS  LEAVING  A  SINKING  SHIP  (2nd  S.  xii. 
502  ;  3rd  S.  i.  78.) — When  the  water  rises  in  a 
ship's  ceiling,  rats  are  obliged  to  leave,  or  they 
would  be  drowned  :  hence,  sailors  infer  the  ship  is 
not  seaworthy,  or  wants  good  pumping,  when  this 
occurs. 

It  reminds  me  of  a  cunning  plan  of  a  Welch 
captain,  whose  ship  was  infested  with  rats,  some 
years  ago  in  Liverpool.  He  found  out  there  was 
a  cheese  ship  in  the  basin  ;  and  getting  along  side 
about  dusk,  left  all  hatches  open,  kept  watch,  saw 
them  over  into  his  neighbour,  ana  then  slipped 
his  moorings.  GEORGE  LLOYD. 

Thurstonland. 

STOW'S  SURVEY  (3rd  S.  i.  211.)— The  interpola- 
tions of  Munday  and  Strype  in  the  text  of  Stow 
are  a  fertile  source  of  error  and  confusion.  The 
passage  quoted  by  UNYTE  is  a  good  specimen.  I 
have  just  met  with  another  to  which  I  desire  to 
draw  attention,  in  the  hope  that  I  may  thereby 
enable  Mr.  Smiles  to  correct  an  error  in  his  Lives 
of  Engineers,  an  opportunity  for  which  will  doubt- 
less ere  long  be  afforded  him  by  the  demand  for  a 
second  edition  of  that  very  interesting  work.  In 
his  account  of  Hugh  Middleton  he  states,  that 
Stow  took  great  interest  in  the  New  River  works, 
and  occasionally  visited  them  while  in  progress. 


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Now  as  Stow  died  in  1605,  and  the  works  were 
not  commenced  until  1609,  this  \s  evidently  in- 
correct. The  only  copy  of  the  Survey  to  which  I 
have  access  at  present  is  the  reprint  (8vo,  London, 
Whittaker  &  Co.  1842)  from  the  edition  of  1603, 
which  of  course  gives  me  no  clue  to  the  origin  of 
the  error  into  which  Mr.  Smiles  has  fallen  ;  and 
it  would  seem  almost  incredible  that  such  an  as- 
sertion as  the  above  could  be  found  in  any  of  the 
posthumous  editions,  as,  however  much  an  editor 
might  be  disposed  to  improve  his  author's  text  by 
the  addition  of  omitted  facts  (and  even  this  with- 
out acknowledgment,  is  unpardonable),  we  should 
scarcely  expect  that  any  one  would  go  to  the 
length  of  making  him  speak  of  witnessing  person- 
ally events  which  did  not  take  place  until  years 
after  his  death !  That  such  is  the  case  in  the  pre- 
sent instance,  and  that  Mr.  Smiles  has  actually 
written  on  the  authority  of  the  pseudo-Stovr,  and 
not  taken  his  information  at  second-hand,  is  ap- 
parent from  another  passage,  a  few  pages  further 
on,  where  he  says  (vol.'i.  p.  128),  in  alluding  to 
the  benefits  conferred  on  the  metropolis  by  the  in- 
troduction of  the  New  River  water,  "  Stow  par- 
ticularly mentions  the  case  of  a  fire  which  broke 
out  in  Broad  Street,  on  the  12th  November,  1623," 
&c.  In  the  cases  before  us  we  have  dates  which 
enable  us  to  prove  the  interpolation,  and  at  the 
same  time  to  disprove  the  statements  contained  in 
them ;  but  what  is  to  be  our  guide  if  the  text  has 
been  similarly  tampered  with  in  the  relation  of 
events  which  occurred  in  the  lifetime  of  Stow  ? 
The  last  edition  (1603),  published  under  his  own 
eye,  as  well  as  its  predecessor  in  1598,  is  now  so 
scarce  that  those  who  wish  to  have  the  "  plain  un- 
varnished tale "  may  congratulate  themselves  on 
being  able  to  procure  for  a  very  few  shillings  that 
which,  in  the  absence  of  the  original,  is  next  best, 
the  reprint  already  referred  to.  It  is  evidently 
unsafe  to  quote  Stow  as  an  authority  for  any 
statement  found  in  any  edition  of  his  Survey,  ex- 
cepting the  two  published  during  his  life,  and  the 
reprint  just  mentioned.  Q. 

THOMAS  SIMON  (2nd  S.  xii.  510 ;  3rd  S.  i.  178, 
218). — In  the  return  made  of  resident  strangers 
in  the  city  of  London  in  1618,  in  Walbrook 
Ward,  appears  Peter  Simon,  born  in  Blackfriars, 
trading  beyond  seas,  son  of  Peter  Simon,  born  at 
Rouen  under  the  French  king.  The  whole  re- 
turn is  in  the  press  for  the  Camden  Society. 

WM.  DCERANT  COOPER. 

In  a  return  of  aliens  now  in  the  course  of  pub- 
lication by  the  Camden  Society,  are  the  following 
entries.  The  date  of  the  return  is  1618,  and  is 
thus  headed,  "  A  Return  of  the  Names  of  Stran- 
gers resident  within  the  City  of  London,  and  the 
Liberties  thereof  taken  in  the  Mayoralty  of  Geo. 
Boiler,  Knt,"  &c. :  — 


"  Walbrooke  Warde. 

"  Peter  Simon,  borne  in  Blackfriers,  tradeing  beyond 
seas,  sonne  of  Peter  Simon,  borne  in  Roan,  under  the 
sovereignty  of  the  French  King. 

"Bishopgate  Ward. 

"  Abraham  Semon,  borne  in  London,  who  confesseth 
himself  depending  on  our  Soveraigne  Lord  King  James." 

Can  this  have  been  the  brother  of  the  cele- 
brated Tho.  Simon,  the  medallist  ?  I  attach  but 
little  importance  to  the  orthography,  which  is  very 
lax  throughout  the  whole  document. 

CL.  HOPPER. 

ONE  HUNDRED  AND  NINTT-FIVE  YEARS  AGO 
(2nd  S.  xi.  225.)  —  We  have  advanced  another 
year  in  our  parallels.  Scarcely  three  months 
after  Louis  Quartorze's  Idees  Napoliennes  had  been 
rung  in  Sam.  Pepys's  ears  by  the  grave  and 
matter-of-fact  Evelyn,  Sir  Thomas  Crewe  as- 
tounds them  still  more  by  his  Gallic  Majesty's 
palterings  with  the  Pope  :  — 

"  14  July,  1667.  Sir  Thomas  Crewe  yesterday,  speak- 
ing of  the  King  of  France,  how  great  a  man  he  is, 
'Why,'  says  he,  'all  the  world  thought  that  when  the 
last  Pope  died,  there  would  have  been  such  bandying  be- 
tween the  crowns  of  France  and  Spain ;  whereas,  when 
he  was  asked  what  he  would  have  his  ministers  at  Rome 
do,  "  Why,"  says  he,  "  let  them  choose  who  they  will ;  if 
the  Pope"  will  do  what  is  fit,  the  Pope  and  I  will  be 
friends.  If  he  will  not,  I  will  take  a  course  with  him ; 
therefore,  I  will  not  trouble  myself."  And  thereupon  the 
election  was  despatched  in  a  little  time  —  I  think  in  a 
day— and  all  ended.'  " 

Pope  Alexander  VII.  died  on  22nd  May  ;  and 
Pope  Clement  IX.  was  elected  on  20th  June, 
1667.  NIL  NOVUM. 

REINS  (3rd  S.  i.  206.)  —  It  was  with  no  little 
surprise  that  I  read  MR.  CHANCE'S  elaborate 
essay  on  the  derivation  of  this  word.  I  thought 
it  had  been  long  since  decided  that  we  had  its 
origin  in 

"  Et  frustra  retinacula  tendens 
Fertur  equis  auriga,  neque  audit  currus  habenas." 
Virg.  Georg.  i.  512  ; 

and  similar  passages.  In  fact  the  Italians,  in 
their  redina,  retain  the  three  first  syllables ; 
while  the  French  have  made  rene  in  the  same 
manner  in  which  they  formed  souci  from  sollici- 
tudo,  cousin  from  consanguineus.  As  to  the  n  in 
the  Spanish  rienda,  it  arises  from  the  usage  of  the 
Spanish  language,  which  inserts  or  omits  a  liquid 
ad  lib.  Thus,  the  French  trcsse,  poison,  messa- 
gier,  are,  in  Spanish,  trenza,  ponzona,  mensagero; 
while  the  Latin  mensa,  is  mesa. 

I  as  little  agree  with  MR.  CHANCE  in  his  iden- 
tification of  Jezabel  and  Isabel.  I  regard  this  as 
a  mere  coincidence,  of  which  there  are  many  ex- 
amples. The  Italians  have  Isabetta  and  Isabella, 
and  the  French  Isabeau,  all  from  Elizabeth.  I  need 
not  say  that  the  commutation  of  liquids  and  den- 
tals is  common.  Proper  names,  by  the  way,  un- 
dergo strange  changes.  From  Jacobus  the  Spa- 


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niards  have  made  logo,  Diego,  Jaime,  and  we 
ourselves  James.  Finally,  our  Jack  comes  from 
Janhin  or  Jeiikin,  not  from  Jacques  as  MR.  CHANCE 
says.  THOS.  KEIGHTLBY. 

FOUR-BLADED  CLOVER  (2"d    S.    IX.  381,  514.)  — 

The  good  fortune  supposed  to  accrue  to  the  finder 
of  such  rarities  as  a  four-leaved  clover,  a  double- 
topped  ash  (-leaf)  or  (and)  a  green-topped  seave, 
is  expressed  in  the  following  couplet,  heard  at 
Scarborough :  — 
"  With  a  four-leav'd  clover,  double-topp'd  ash  and  green- 

topp'd  seave, 
You  may  go  before  the  queen's    daughter  without 

asking  leave." 

It  may  be  remarked  that  seaves  are  the  rushes 
of  which  rush-lights,  or  rush  candles  are  made. 
The  sharp-pointed  ends  of  the  seave  are  almost 
always,  if  not  invariably,  brown  or  withered. 

OZMOND. 

CARNIVAL  CUSTOM  AT  BOULOGNE-SUR-MER  (2nd 
S.  xii.  500.)  —  A  custom  similar  to  that  mentioned 
by  your  correspondent  SIGMA  TAU  as  prevalent 
at  Boulogne-sur-mer,  still  exists  at  Athens.  Thus 
in  About's  La  Grece  Contemporaine,  Paris,  1860 
(p.  245),  we  have  :  — 

"Le  plus  grand  plaisir  des  masques  est  de  prenclre  une 
longue  ligne  a  pecher  et  d'attacher  une  gimblette  au  bout 
du  fil.  Tous  les  enfants  accourent  dans  Pespoir  de  mordre 
au  gateau;  mais  le  gateau  recoit  cent  coups  de  bee  et 
cinquante  coups  delangue  avant  d'etre  entame:  lepecheur 
le  retire  vivement  des  qu'il  le  voit  en  danger.  II  est 
defendu,  comme  vous  pouvez  le  croire,  cVy  mettre  les 
mains,  et  toute  tentative  de  ce  genre  est  severement  re'- 
prime'e.  Ce  qui  ajoute  a  la  bouffonnerie  de  ce  divertisse- 
ment, c'est  que  la  pecheur  a  soin  de  sa  placer  au  bord 
d'un  ruisseau,  et  que  tout  poisson  maladroit  est  bientot 
un  poisson  dans  1'eau." 

S.  C.  LINDSAY. 

St.  Paul,  Minnesota. 

JURYMAN'S  OATH  (3rd  S.  i.  52,  138.)  —  I  am 
bound  to  acknowledge  that  MR.  OFFOR'S  remark  is 
perfectly  correct,  —  and  I  am  much  disposed  to 
join  with  him  in  the  astonishment  he  expresses  at 
my  having  fallen  into  such  a  mistake,  I  must, 
however,  beg  leave  to  observe  that  there  are 
words  in  the  juryman's  oath,  as  now  used,  which 
do  not  appear  either  in  the  form  used  at  the  trial 
of  the  regicides,  or  in  the  earlier  form  given  by 
MR.  OFFOE  from  The  Book  of  Oaths,  1649.  These 
words  being,  "  and  true  verdicts  give" 

Is  it  known  when  these  words  were  first  intro- 
duced ?  LUMEN. 

MEDAL  (2"d  S.  xi.  172.)  — The  medal  of  which 
PATONCE  desires  an  explanation  is  one  of  twelve 
medals  struck  on  occasion  of  the  Peace  of  Munster, 
in  1648.  It  is  represented  and  described  in  the 
"  Histoire  Mctallique  de  la  Republique  de  Hol- 
land, par  M.  Bizot,  nouvelle  edition,  Amsterdam, 
1688,"  vol  i.  p.  209.  The  medal  in  question  is 
the  sixth  in  order  :  — 


"  La  Sizieme. — La  Paix  et  la  Justice  qui  s'entrebaisent. 
Au  las. — Deux  tables  avec  ces  paroles,  PROXIMO  DEO. 
Dieu  e'tant  pres  de  nous. — Au  tour.  PAX  CUM  JUSTITIA 
FORA  TEMPLA  ET  RURA  coROXAT.  La  Paix  accompagnee 
de  la  Justice  fait  fleurir  le  Negoce,  la  Religion  et  1' Agri- 
culture. Revers :  La  Foi  et  la  Piete  qui  se  donnent  les 
mains.  Au  tour:  FELIX  TERRA  FIDES  PIETATI  UBI 
JUNCTA  TRIUMPHAT.  Heureuse  la  terre  ou  la  Foi  et  la 
Piete'  regnent.  ,  Au  haut :  Le  Norn  de  Dieu  en  Hebreu. 
Dans  la  Lointain  la  Ville  de  Munster." 

PATONCE'S  description  of  the  reverse  is  not 
quite  correct.  The  embracing  figures  are  Peace 
and  Justice.  In  her  right  hand,  Peace  holds  a 
caduceu?,  with  palm  branch,  ears  of  corn,  *and  a 
sprig  of  moly.  Justice  has  a  sword  in  her  right 
hand,  set  off  with  a  ribbon  caduceus  fashion ;  her 
head  behind  is  adorned  with  ostrich  feathers,  not 
stars,  as  P.  supposes.  OZMOND. 

FRIDAYS  AND  FAST  DAYS  (3rd  S.  i.  192,  235.)— 
I  am  obliged  to  F.  C.  H.  for  giving  me  the  op- 
portunity of  correcting  into  better  shape  what  I 
said  on  p.  192.  The  sentence  of  which  he  com- 
plains should  have  stood  thus  :  "  All  other  Fri- 
days except  the  Fridays  in  Advent  and  Lent  and 
other  Ember  Fridays,  and  except  any  Christmas 
Day  which  falls  on  a  Friday,  are  days  of  ab- 
stinence." It  is  also  true  that  all  days  in  Lent, 
except  Sundays,  are  fast  days :  Sundays  being 
abstinence  days  in  Lent.  But  this  law  is  subject 
to  dispensation.  And  every  Catholic  bishop,  exer- 
cising ordinary  jurisdiction,  has  the  power  of 
regulating  the  observance  of  Lent  as  to  fasting 
and  abstinence.  Thus,  for  example,  in  England, 
Sundays  are  relieved  from  the  obligation  of  ab- 
stinence ;  and  certain  other  days  are  changed 
from  fasting  to  abstinence. 

But  Good  Friday  is,  as  I  said,  a  fast  of  the 
strictest  kind:  that  is,  stricter  than  any  other 
Friday  in  Lent.  Certain  articles  of  food  allowed 
on  the  other  Fridays  are  forbidden  on  Good  Fri- 
day. This  is  what  I  meant  by  saying  that  "Good 
Friday  is  a  day  of  the  strictest  fast." 

I  had  not  observed  that  Good  Friday  had  any- 
where been  described  as  a  feast.  The  statement 
of  F.  C.  II.  as  to  "  the  modern  practice  in  this 
country,"  if  exact,  is  as  he  says,  "  a  deplorable 
abuse."  But,  if  Good  Friday  is  accepted  in  any 
country  or  district  as  a  Feast,  the  natural,  and 
probably  inevitable  consequence,  is,  that  habits 
will  assume  the  form  so  vividly  characterised  by 
him.  D.  P. 

Malvera  Wells. 

«  THE  PROGRESSE  OF  PIETIE  "  (3rd  S.  i.  141.)— 
I  have  just  observed  that  MR.  COLLIER,  in  "  The 
Registers  of  the  Stationers'  Company,"  says  that 
the" Progresse  of  Pietie  perhaps  never  came  from 
the  press ;  that  it  does  not  seem  to  be  known,  and 
that  possibly  it  was  by  N.  Breton.  It  is  certainly 
a  very  rare  book ;  it  was  published  in  1590  or 
1591,  and  again  in  1596:  the  author  being  John 
Nordeii.  It  was  re-printed  in  the  Parker  Society 


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Series.  An  imperfect  copy  was  in  the  possession 
of  the  late  Mr.  Stokes,  of  Cheltenham  ;  and  from 
the  examination  of  this,  the  Parker  Society  Coun- 
cil decided  on  republishing  the  book.  But  as  it 
was  not  complete,  the  design  could  not  be  carried 
out  till  the  discovery  of  another  copy.  Diligent 
search  was  made  in  public  and  private  libraries 
and  country  booksellers  in  vain  ;  and  it  was  not 
till  a  considerable  time  had  elapsed,  that  a  second 
copy  was  obtained.  It  was  of  a  later  edition,  and 
many  alterations  had  been  made.  This  book 
(perfect)  now  lies  before  me.  I  transcribe  the 
title-page :  — 

"  A  Progresse  of  Pietie ;  or,  The  harbour  of  Heauenly 
harts  ease,  to  recreate  the  afflicted  Soules,  of  all  such  as 
are  shut  vp  in  onye  inward  or  outward  affliction.  By 
John  Norden.  Rom.  xii.  Continue  in  Prayer.  London : 
Printed  by  I.  Windet,  for  I.  Oxenbridge,  and  are  to  be 
soulde  in  Paule's  Church -yarde,  at  the  signe  of  the 
Parrot,  1596." 

J.  A. 

NUMISMATIC  QUERY  :  THE  SPADE  GUINEA  (3rd 
S.  i.  230.)— In  the  Collezione  di  Tavole  Mone- 
tarie>  fol.  Venice,  1796,  under  the  head  "Inghil- 
terra,"  there  are  drawings  of  the  reverses  of  two 
guineas  of  George  III. — 1.  The  "  guinea  vecchia," 
date  1785,  on  which  the  imperial  arms  are  repre- 
sented within  an  ornamental  shield;  and  2.  The 
" guinea  nuova"  which  is  a  spade  ace  guinea,  date 
1788.  From  this  it  would  appear  that  the  spade 
guinea  was  for  the  first  time  coined  either  hi 
1788,  or  in  the  year  before,  1787,  or  whence  the 
term  nuova.  The  coin  mentioned  by  your  corre- 
spondent as  his  property  is  probably  one  of  the 
earliest  mintage  of  "  spade  guineas."  In  my  own 
cabinet  I  have  several  specimens  of  these  coins, 
but  unfortunately  I  and  my  cabinet  are  at  pre- 
sent apart.  I  distinctly  remember  that  at  least 
one  of  them  bears  the  date  1787. 

CHESSBOROUGH  HABBERTON. 
Totness. 

SCARLETT  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  231.)  —  I  am  in- 
duced to  send  your  GENEALOGIST  the  following 
arms,  as  I  have  never  yet  met  with  them  in  any 
printed  authority.  They  occur  at  p.  87  of  a  MS. 
of  Suffolk  Arms  in  my  possession,  collected  or 
copied  about  the  time  of  Geo.  I.  by  some  provin- 
cial herald  painter,  8vo,  pp.  115 :  — 

"Scarlett.  Argent,  a  cheveron  gules,  between  two 
cressents  in  chief,  and  a  battering  ram  in  base  of  ye  2nd, 
slung  and  arm'd  azure,  corved  (sic.)  or.  Crest:  a  hunt- 
ing-horn of  Durham,  annued  (sic.  annuleted?),  double 
tasselled  or.  — Given  to  y°  Scarletts  by  y«  Prince  Bishop 
of  Durham,  anno  1402." 

The  absence  in  the  MS.  of  any  note  of  descent, 
or  usual  occurrence  of  any  place  of  location,  leads 
to  the  inference  that  the  Scarletts,  if  not  residents 
m  the  county  of  Suffolk,  were  in  some  way  or 
another  connected  with  its  families  as  well  as 
with  the  county  Palatinate.  The  Bishop  of  Dur- 
ham of  that  period  was  Walter  Skirlawe.  H.  G. 


RELATIVE  VALUE  or  HORSES  IN  SHAKSPEARE'S 
TIME  (3rd  S.  i.  238.)  —  Fastidious  Brisk  expresses 
the  fancy  prices  of  really  good  animals  in  Eliza- 
beth and  James's  times,  perhaps  with  some  exag- 
geration, but  probably  not  very  far  beyond  the 
truth.  These  prices  could  not  have  been  moderate 
in  former  days,  any  more  than  in  our  own. 

The  ordinary  prices  are  a  totally  different  thing. 
Upon  these  I  find  amongst  my  adversaria  strong 
confirmation  of  MR.  S.  MERRYWEATHER'S  views. 

In  the  "  inventory  of  all  the  goods,  cattails,  and 
detts  of  Michell  Hampden,  Esquier,  late  of  Hart- 
well  in  the  countie  of  Bucks,  deceased,  praised  in 
March,  ann.  dni.  1570,  et  Reginae  Eliz.  xiii°,  by 
Thomas  Ashfelde,  Robert  Ashfelde,  Thomas  Lee, 
and  Thomas  Saer,  and  others,"  I  find  the  following 
entries  under  the  head  "  In  the  Stable,"  viz. :  — 


'  Item, 
Item, 
Item, 
Item, 
Item, 
Item, 
Item, 
Item, 


the  hobbye 
the  sorrell  geldinge 
the  graye  mare 
a  horse  colte    - 
a  baye  mare     - 
11  yerlinge  coltes 
v  cart  horses    - 


VH 
yll 


iiii1' 

XXX' 


-    vi11 


I  will  observe  that  at  the  date  of  this  inventory 
Shakspeare  was  only  about  six  years  old.  The 
highly  interesting  document,  from  which  I  have 
made  the  foregoing  extract,  was  kindly  lent  to  me 
some  time  since  by  Dr.  Lee,  the  present  owner 
of  Hartwell,  the  descendant  of  Michell  (or 
Michael)  Hampden.  The  original  is  preserved 
amongst  the  invaluable  muniments  of  Hartwell 
House.  H.  C.  C. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 

Selections  from  the  Poetry  of  the  Afghans  from  the  16th 
to  the  19th  Century,  literally  translated  from  the  Original 
Pushto ;  with  Notices  of  the  different  Authors,  and  Re- 
marks on  the  Mystic  Doctrine  and  Poetry  of  the  Sufis.  By 
Captain  H.  G.  Raverty,  H.M.  3rd  Bombay  Native  In- 
fantry. (Williams  &  Norgate.) 

Every  one  who  contributes  to  our  better  knowledge  of 
the  character,  habits,  and  modes  of  thought  of  any  of 
those  vast  races,  whom  Providence  for  some  wise  purpose 
has  brought  under  English  influence,  does  good  service 
.both  to  them  and  to  us.  Captain  Raverty,  therefore,  is 
entitled  to'  the  good  word,  not  only  of  every  student  of 
popular  literature,  and  of  every  ethnologist,  for  the  present 
curious  illustrations  of  the  poetry  and  mysticism  of  the 
Afghans,  but  his  work  deserves  the  attention  of  all  who 
are  likely  to  enter  into  any  political  relations  with  the 
bold,  hardy,  and  imaginative  race,  of  whose  poets  we 
have  in  the  work  before  us  many  extremely  interesting 
specimens.  But  Captain  Raverty  has  done  yet  better 
service  than  by  publishing  these  translations  from  the 
Pushto  or  Afghan  language :  for  he  has  given  us  both 
a.  Grammar  and  Dictionary  of  that  language,  which  are 
biighly  commended  by  those  qualified  to  judge  of  their 
merits;  and  also  a  series  of  selections,  prose  and  poetical » 
'rom  Afghan  writers. 


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Domestic  Annals  of  Scotland,  from  the  Reformation  to 
the  Revolution.  By  Robert  Chambers,  F.R.S.E.  2  Vols. 
(Chambers.) 

Domestic  Annals  of  Scotland,  from  the  Revolution  to  the 
Rebellion  of  1745.  By  Robert  Chambers,  F.R.S.E. 
(Chambers.) 

While  we  are  willing  to  admit  that  there  is  something 
thoroughly  exciting  in  studying  the  public  history  of 
States — their  wars,  revolutions,  gradual  development,  or 
ultimate  decadence — it  is  unquestionably  no  less  interest- 
ing to  study  the  people  in  their  social  rather  than  their 
political  character ;  and  while  watching  their  advance  in 
the  scale  of  nations,  to  note  their  domestic  and  material 
progress.  No  better  proof  of  this  could  be  furnished  than 
by  the  three  volumes  whose  titles  stand  transcribed  at 
the  head  of  this  notice.  In  these  has  Mr.  Chambers, 
with  infinite  research,  accumulated  a  mass  of  materials 
illustrative  of  the  Domestic  Annals  of  Scotland  ;  so  that, 
while  from  the  abundance  of  gossip  and  anecdote  con- 
tained in  them,  they  form  a  history  full  of  amusement; 
on  the  other  hand,  from  the  judicious  manner  in  which 
Mr.  Chambers  draws  from  these  stores  of  gossip  and 
anecdote,  matter  of  instruction  and  warning,  his  book  is 
one  which  may  be  referred  to  with  advantage,  not  only 
by  the  mere  student  of  human  nature,  or  the  poring  an- 
tiquary, but  by  the  naturalist,  the  statist,  and  the  poli- 
tical economist.  A  good  Index  adds  greatly  to  the  value 
of  the  book. 

BOOKS  RECEIVED.  — 

Manual  of  Wood  Carving,  with  practical  Instructions  for 
Learners  of  the  Art,  and  Original  and  Selected  Designs. 
By  William  Bemrose.  With  an  Introduction  by  Llewel- 
lynn  Jewitt,  F.S.A.  (J.  H.  Parker.) 

This  promises  to  be  a  very  useful  book,  more  especially 
to  amateur  carvers — a  rapidly  increasing  class  among 
ns.  The  directions  are  plain  and  intelligible,  and  many 
of  the  illustrations  are  of  great  beauty. 

The  Journal  of  Sacred  Literature  "and  Biblical  Record. 
Edited  by  B.  Harris  Cowper.  No.  1.  New  Series.  (Wil- 
liams &  Norgate.) 

Replete  with  learning  and  biblical  knowledge,  this 
First  Number  of  a  Xew  Series  affords  a  good  opportu- 
nity to  new  subscribers  to  commence  taking  in  the  work. 
As  a  temptation,  they  are  offered  the  twenty-six  num- 
bers of  the  Series  just  completed  at  the  reduced  price 
of  Two  Guineas. 

The  Ulidshipman;  being  Autobiographical  Sketches  of 
his  own  eurly  Career,  from  Fragments  of  Voyages  and  Tra- 
vels. By  Captain  Basil  Hall.  (Bell  &  Daldy.) 

This  new  volume  of  our  worthy  Publishers'  beautiful 
Series  of  Pocket  Volumes  cannot  fail  to  be  popular. 

EXHIBITION  OF  AUTOGRAPHS. — On  Thursday  evening 
the  3rd  inst.  the  Society  of  Antiquaries  opened  an  Exhi- 
bition of  Autographs  of  unequalled  interest  and  scarcitv, 
illustrating  the  literature  of  the  United  Kingdom  up  to 
the  accession  of  Queen  Victoria.  The  walls  of  the  So- 
ciety's stately  apartments  were  lined  and  their  tables 
covered  with  a  great  number  of  the  choicest  specimens. 
The  principal  contributor  to  the  exhibition,  Mr.  John 
Young,  F.S.A.  — ninety  of  whose  unequalled  collection  of 
autographs,  consisting  of  autographs  of  Raleigh,  Cam- 
den,  Bacon,  Laud,  Selden,  Cow  ley,  Jeremy  Taylor,  Cla- 
rendon, Sir  Thomas  Browne,  Dugdale,  Waller,  Boyle, 
Bancroft,  Tillotson,  Dryden,  Pepys,  Sir  William  Temple, 
Locke,  Evelyn  (a  most  curious  letter  about  his  collection 
of  autographs),  Kerr,  Addison,  Newton,  Bentley,  Pope, 
bwift,  Ijelding,  Sterne,  Johnson,  Burns,  Person,  Bishop 
Watson,  Scott,  Southey,  Gibbon,  Franklin,  each  of  them 
illustrated  by  the  choicest  engraved  specimens  of-  the 
best  portraits,  ran  round  the  entire  room— communicated 
to  the  Society  a  kind  of  talking  catalogue  raisonnt  of 


them.  The  President,  Earl  Stanhope,  exhibited  the  ori- 
ginal draught  of  the  Maid  of  Athens,  in  the  handwriting 
of  its  author,  Lord  Byron ;  a  letter  of  Benjamin  Franklin 
to  the  grandfather  of  the  present  Earl  Stanhope,  giving 
the  writer's  opinion  of  Lord  Chatham  as  an  orator  and  a 
statesman;  and  two  letters  of  Lord  Bolingbroke  (in 
French)  to  the  Abbe'  Alary.  Foremost  among  the  valu- 
able autographs  exhibited  by  Mr.  Tite,  Vice-President  of 
the  Society,  must  be  named  an  unpublished  holograph 
letter  of  Francis  Bacon,  Lord  Verulam,  -and  some  verses 
by  Milton,  written  on  the  fly-leaf  of  Rosse's  Mel  Heli- 
conium ;  the  MSS.  of  two  of  the  Waverley  novels,  and 
of  Southey's  Madoc ;  and  a  splendid  holograph  letter  of 
Archbishop  Leighton.  Mr.  Salt,  F.S.A.,  exhibited  one  of 
the  scarcest  of  autographs  (except  when  found  in  a 
book),  that  of  Izaak  Walton.  Mr.  Winter  Jones  exhi- 
bited a  very  curious  volume  of  correspondence  between 
Johnson  and  Dr.  Dodd.  The  Rev.  J.  F.  Russell,  F.S.A., 
sent  some  holograph  letters  of  Addison,  Laud,  and  Mor- 
ton, &c.  Mr.  More  Molyneux,  F.S.A.,  of  Loseley  Park, 
exhibited  four  superb  holograph  letters  of  Sackville  (Lord 
Buckhurst),  of  Dr.  Donne,  of  John  Aubrey,  and  of  I)ean 
Nowell.  Mr.  Boone  sent  what  he  believed  to  be  an  unique 
letter  of  Samuel  Butler,  author  of  Hudibras.  Mr.  E.  B. 
Jupp,  F.S.A.,  exhibited  two  MSS.  of  Burns.  The  Society 
of  Antiquaries,  from  considerations  of  space,  contented 
itself  with  exhibiting  holograph  letters  of  Swift,  Andrew 
Marvell,  Stukely,  and  Elias  Ashmole.  Mr.  C.  Reed, 
F.S.A.,  exhibited  twenty  of  the  choicest  specimens  in  his 
collection,  among  which  might  be  observed  a  Bacon,  a 
Newton,  a  Pope,  a  Byron,  and  others  of  equal  rarity.  The 
Corporation  of  London  kindly  exhibited  one  of  the  only 
four  authenticated  autographs  of  William  Shakspeare. 
The  Rev.  J.  Ridgway,  F.S.A.,  exhibited  what  purported 
to  be  a  fifth,  on  the  back  of  a  small  volume  in  vellum, 
known  as  the  Savara  Collection.  Mr.  Manners,  of  Croy- 
don,  exhibited  a  numerous  and  interesting  collection; 
Mr.  James  Spedding,  small  edition  of  Catullus,  which  is 
curious  as  being  the  only  volume  known  to  have  belonged 
to  Lord  Bacon,  whose  autograph  it  bore  on  the  fly-leaf,  as 
also  some  notes  in  the  margin  ;  and  Sir  Frederick  Madden, 
holographs  of  Tom  Paine,  Shenstone,  and  Dr.  Dodd. 

THE  HORTICULTURAL  SOCIETY'S  Show  of  Azaleas,  on 
Wednesday  last,  notwithstanding  the  unfavourable  state 
of  the  weather,  was  very  numerously  attended.  The  dis- 
play of  flowers  was  brilliant  in  the  extreme. 


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UNITED  KINGDOM 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY, 

No.   8,  WATERLOO  PLACE,  PALL   MALL,  8.W. 

DIRECTORS. 

The  Hon.  FRANCIS  SCOTT,  Chairman. 
CHARLES  BERWICK  CURTIS,  Esq.,  Deputy  Chairman. 


EDWARD  LENNOX  BOYD,  Esq. 

(Resident). 
WILLIAM  FAIRLIE,  Esq. 


Esq. 


A.  H.  MACDOTJGALL,  ESQ. 
F.  C.  M  AITL  AND,  Esq. 
WILLIAM  RAILTON,  Esq. 
THOS.  THORBY.Esq.,  F.S.A. 
HENRY  TOOGOOD,  Esq. 


SUPERIOR  ACCOMMODATION  AFFORDED  BY  THIS 

COMPANY. 

This  Company  offers  the  security  of  a  large  paid-up  capital,  held  in 
shares  by  a  numerous  and  wealthy  proprietary,  thus  protecting  the 
assured  from  the  risk  attending  mutual  offices. 

There  have  been  three  divisions  of  profits,  the  bonuses  averaging 
nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum  on  the  sums  assured  from  the  commence- 
ment of  the  Company. 

Sum  Assured.          Bonuses  added.  Payable  at  Death. 

£5,000  £1,987  10s.  s86,987  10s. 

1,000  397  10s.  1,397  10s. 

100  39  15s.  139  15s. 

To  assure  £100  payable  at  death,  a  person  aged  21  pays  £2  2s.  4d.  per 
annum ;  but  as  the  profits  have  averaged  nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum, 
the  additions,  in  many  cases,  have  been  almost  as  much  as  the  pre- 
miume  paid. 

Loans  granted  on  approved  real  or  personal  security. 
Invalid  Lives.    Parties  not  in  a  sound  state  of  health  maybe  insured 
at  equitable  rates. 

No  charge  for  Volunteer  Military  Corps  while  serving  in  the  United 
Kingdom. 

The  funds  or  property  of  the  company,    as  at  1st  January,  1861, 
amounted  to  £730,666  7s.  I0d.,  invested  in  Government  and  other  ap- 
proved securities. 
Prospectuses  and  every  information  afforded  on  application  to 

E.  L.  BOYD,  Resident  Director. 


WESTERN    LIFE    ASSURANCE 
ANNUITY  SOCIETY. 

3,  PARLIAMENT  STREET,  LONDON,  S.W. 
Founded  A.D.  1842. 


AND 


H.  E.  Bicknell,  Esq. 
T.  S.  Cocks,  Esq. 
G.  H.Drew,  Esq.  M.A. 
W.  Freeman,  Esq. 
J.  H.  Goodhart,Esq. 


Directors, 


E.Lucas,  Esq. 
F.B.  Marson.Esq. 
J.L.  Seaeer,  Esq. 
J.B.  White,  Esq. 


Physician — W.  R.  Basham,  M.D. 

Bankers — Messrs.  Biddulph,  Cocks,  i  Co. 

Actuary.— Arthur  Scratchley,  M.A. 

VALUABLE  PRIVILEGE. 

POLICIES  effected  in  this  Office  do  not  become  void  through  tem- 
porary difficulty  in  paying  a  Premium,  as  permission  is  given  upon 
application  to  suspend  the  payment  at  interest,  according  to  the  con- 
ditions detailed  in  the  Prospectus. 

LOANS  from  1002.  to  5002.  granted  on  real  or  first-rate  Personal 
Security. 

Attention  is  also  invited  to  the  rates  of  annuity  granted  to  old  lives, 
for  which  ample  security  is  provided  by  the  capital  of  the  Society. 
Example:  1002.  cash  paid  down  purchases— An  annuity  of— 
£  s.  d. 

9  15  10  to  a  male  life  aged  W\ 
11    7    4  „  65 1  Payable  as  long 

13  18   8  „  70  f    as  he  is  alive. 

18    0   6  „  75J 

Now  ready,  420  pages,  14s. 

MR.  SCRATCHLEY'S  MANUAL  TREATISE 

on  SAVINGS  BANKS,  containing  a  Review  of  their  Past  History  and 
Present  Condition,  and  of  Legislation  on  the  Subject;  together  with 
much  Legal,  Statistical,  and  Financial  Information,  for  the  use  of 
Trustees,  Managers,  and  Actuaries. 

London:  LONGMAN,  GREEN,  LONGMAN  &  ROBERTS. 


SOLLOWAY'S  OINTMENT  AND  PILLS.— 
DISEASE  OF  THE  GLANDS.'-  When  the  glands  about  the 
or  elsewhere  are  inflamed  or  enlarged,  Holloway's  Ointment  may 
be  rubbed  in  with  the  most  implicit  confidence  of  its  arresting  the  dis- 
ease and  preventing  disfigurement.  The  affected  part  should  be  fo- 
mented with  warm  water  before  friction  with  the  ointment,  which 
thus  more  readily  enters  throuah  the  cutaneous  pores,  and  acts  more 
<urectly  on  the  blood,  lymphatics,  and  glands  both  on  and  beneath  the 
skin,  and  roots  out  the  malady  without  irritating  or  annoying  the 
tenderest  skin.  Holloway's  Pills  should  be  taken  while  this  treatment 
is  pursued:  they  are  remedies,  which  acting  through  the  medium  of  the 
constitution,  exercise  a  most  beneficial  influence  over  the  local  disease. 


17  QUIT  ABLE  ASSURANCE  OFFICE,  New 

JQ/  Bridge  Street,  Blackfriars  :  established  1762. 

DIRECTORS. 
The  Right  Hon.  LORD  TREDEGAR,  President. 


Wm.  Samuel  Jones,  Esq.,  V.P. 
Wm.  F.  Pollock,  Esq.,  V.P. 
"Wm.  Dacres  Adams,  Esq. 
John  Charles  Burgoyne,  Esq. 
Lord  Geo.  Henry  Cavendish.  M.P. 
Frederick  Cowper,  Esq. 
Philip  Hardwick,  Esq. 


Richard  Gosling,  Esq. 

Peter  Martineau,  Esq. 

John  Alldin  Moore,  Esq. 

Charles  Pott,  Esq. 

Rev.  John  Mussel  I,  D.D. 

James  Spicer,  Esq. 

John  Charles  Templer,  Esq. 


The  Equitable  is  an  entirely  mutual  office.  The  reserve,  at  the  last 
"rest,"  in  December,  1859,  exceeded  three-fourths  of  a  million  sterling. 
a  sum  more  than  double  the  corresponding  fund  of  any  similar  in- 
stitution. 

The  bonuses  paid  on  claims  in  the  10  years  ending  on  the  31st  De- 
cember, 1859,  exceeded  3,500,0002.,  being  more  than  100  per  cent,  on  the 
amount  of  all  those  claims. 

The  amount  added  at  the  close  of  that  decade  to  the  policies  existing 
on  the  1st  January,  1860,  was  1,977,000?.,  and  made,  with  former  addi- 
tions then  outstanding,  a  total  of  4, 070,0002.,  on  assurances  originally 
taken  out  for  6,252,0002.  only. 

These  additions  have  increased  the  claims  allowed  and  paid  under 
those  policies  since  the  1st  January,  1860,  to  the  extent  of  150  per  cent. 

The  capital,  on  the  31st  December  last,  consisted  of— 

2,730,0002. -stock  in  the  public  Funds. 

3,ro6,2972 cash  lent  on  mortages  of  freehold  estates. 

300,0002.  — cash  advanced  on  railway  debentures. 

83,5902 —  cash  advanced  on  security  of  the  policies  of  members  of  the 
Society. 

Producing  annually  221, 4822. 

The  total  income  exceeds  400,0002.  per  annum. 

Policies  effected  in  the  year  1862  will  participate  in  the  distribution 
of  profits  made  in  December,  1859,  so  soon  as  six  annual  premiums 
shall  have  become  due  and  been  paid  thereon;  and,  in  the  division 
of  1869,  will  be  entitled  to  additions  in  respect  of  every  premium  paid 
upon  them  from  the  year  1862  to  1869,  each  inclusive. 

On  the  surrender  of  policies  the  full  value  is  paid,  without  any  deduc- 
tion; and  the  Directors  will  advance  nine- tenths  of  that  value  as  a 
temporary  accommodation,  on  the  deposit  of  a  policy. 

No  extra  premium  is  charged  for  service  in  any  Volunteer  Corps 
within  the  United  Kingdom,  during  peace  or  war. 

A  Weekly  Court  of  Directors  is  held  every  Wednesday,  from  11  to  1 
o'clock,  to  receive  proposals  for  new  assurances  ;  and  a  short  account  of 
the  Society  may  be  had  on  application,  personally  or  by  post,  from  the 
office,  where  attendance  is  given  daily,  from  10  to  4  o'clock. 

ARTHUR  MORGAN,  Actuary. 


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MESSRS.  CROSSE  &  BLACKWELL,  London,  &c.,  &C., 
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CHOICE  PORT  OF  1858  VINTAGE -THE  COMET  YEAR.   . 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER  have  imported  a  large 
quantity  of  this  valuable  Wine,  respecting  which  it  is  the  general 
opinion  that  it  will  equal  the  celebrated  comet  year  of  1811.  It  is  in- 
creasing in  value,  and  the  time  must  soon  arrive  when  Port  of  this  dis- 
tinguished vintage  will  beat  double  its  present  price.  Messrs.  Hedges 
&  Butler  are  now  offering  it  at  36s.,  42s.,  and  48s.  per  dozen. 

Pure  sound  Claret,  with  considerable  flavour ...  24s.  and  30s.  per  doz. 

Superior  Claret 36s.  42s.  48s.  60s.  72s. 

Good  dinner  Sherry 24s.  30s. 

Superior  Pale,  Golden ,  or  Brown  Sherry 36s.  42s.  48s. 

Port,  from  first-class  Shippers 36s.  42s.  48s.  tiOs. 

Hock  and  Moselle  30s.  36s.  48s.  60s.  to  120s. 

Sparkling  ditto 60s.  66s.  78s. 

Sparkling  Champagne 42s.  48s.  60s.  66s.  78s. 

Fine  old  Pack,  rare  White  Port,  Imperial  Tokay,  Malmsey,  Frou- 
tignac,  Constantia,  Vermuth,  and  other  rare  Wines. 

Fine  Old  Pale  Cognac  Brandy,  60s.  and  72s.  per  dozen. 

On  receipt  of  a  Post-office  Order  or  reference,  any  quantity,  with  * 
priced  list  of  all  other  wines,  will  be  forwarded  immediately  by 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER, 

LONDON  :  155,  REGENT  STREET,  W. 

Brighton  :  30,  King's  Road. 
(Originally  established  A.D.  1667.) 


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CONTENTS.  — N°.  16. 

NOTES  :  —  The  Old  Countess  of  Desmond,  301  —  Extracts 
from  Original  Contemporaneous  Correspondence  at  the 
period  of  the  Landing  of  the  Prince  of  Orange,  303  — 
Alexander  Brodie,  305  — The  Drunkard's  Conceit,  26.— 
Mathematical  Bibliography,  306. 

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tish Medical  Recipes  — William  Lithgow  -  Lea  Wilson's 
"Catalogue  of  Pamphlets"  — Executions  in  France,  1831- 
1860  — Robinson  Crusoe  — Arms  of  Earl  of  Stair  —  H&tel 
des  Invalides  a  Paris,  307. 

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Irish  Peers  —  Autographs  of  Goethe  —  Bransgrove  Family 

—  H.Campbell  — Canadian  Seigneurs  —  Dr.  Joseph  Ford 

—  The  Isley  Family  of  Kent  —  Cromwell  Lee  —  Rev.  John 
Lewis  —  Macgrath,   Bishop  Berkeley's  Giant  —  Official 
Arms  —  Properties  of  Greek  Statues  —  Puritans  and  Pres- 
byterians in  Ireland— Nathaniel  Ranew  — C.  L.  Reddel  — 
Spirituality :  Spiritualty  —  "  Scraps  from  the  Mountains  " 
—Sidney,  Lady  Morgan's  Arms  — Tom  Thumb  — Tithe, 
309. 

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tory of  Phoenicia  —  Introduction  of  Pheasants— Adrian 
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Even  — Curious  Custom  at  Walsall  —  Orange  Butter  — 
Turgesius  tho;,I)ane  —  Scripture  Paraphrase  —  Army  and 
Navy  Lis  .r-  gankerville  —  Arms  in  Noble's  "Cromwell 
Family  "  — Taytor  Family,  &c.,  315. 


THE  OLD 'COUNTESS  OF  DESMOND. 

So  manv  """        ^cations  were  made  to  "  N.  & 
Q."   s  '••*.  (particularly  in  the   years 

1850,  Ibv  *   .    2),  respecting  the  long-lived 

Countess  of  L*  *•?" —  in  which  a  part  was  taken 
by  some  of  its  mo\  ^distinguished  correspondents 
(now  alas  deceased'!  ?  .Lord  Viscount  Strangford, 
Lord  Braybrooke,  J!r[^Wilson  Croker,  and  Arch- 
deacon Rowan,  as  21*3  as  by  the  present  Knight 
of  Kerry,  Mr.  Markland,  and  others,  —  that  its 
readers  may  be  interested  to  be  made  cognisant 
of  an  article  which  has  appeared  in  the  last  num- 
ber of  the  Dublin  Review,  in  which  the  whole 
history  of  the  venerable  lady  in  question,  and  the 
controversies  about  her  identity,  her  longevity, 
and  her  portraiture,  are  passed  under  considera- 
tion :  the  principal  writer's  reviewed  being :  1. 
The  Hon.  Horace  Walpole,  in  his  Inquiry  on  the 
subject,  1758 ;  2.  Mr.  Sainthill  in  his  Olla  Podrida, 
1844;  3.  Mr.  Herbert  F.  Hore,  in  the  Quarterly 
Review,  1853  ;  4.  Sir  Bernard  Burke  in  Vicissi- 
tudes of  Families,  1860;  5.  Archdeacon  Rowan  in 
The  Old  Countesse  ofDesmonde :  h?.r  Identitie ;  her 
Portraiture;  her  Descente,  1860;  and  6.  Mr. 
Sainthill,  in  the  Proceedings  of  the  Royal  Irish 
Academy,  1861. 

The  writer  in  the  Dublin  Review  has  arranged 
in  consecutive  order  the  several  testimonies  to 
the  old  Countess  of  Desmond,  upon  which  her 


celebrity  was  first  established.  They  consist  of: 
1 .  a  passage  in  Sir  Walter  Ralegh's  History  of  the 
World,  1614 ;  2.  one  in  Fynes  Mory son's  Itinerary, 
1617;  3.  one  in  Lord  Bacon's  History  of  Life 
and  Death,  1623;  4.  one  in  the  same  author's 
Natural  History,  1627 ;  5.  one  in  Archbishop 
Usher's  Chronologia  Sacra ;  6.  one  in  the  MS. 
Table-look  of  Robert  Sydney,  Earl  of  Leicester ; 
7.  one  in  Sir  William  Temple's  Essay  of  Health 
and  Long  Life ;  and  8.  of  a  tradition  of  the  old 
Countess's  dancing  with  King  Richard  III.,  lin- 
gering in  various  quarters,  but  apparently  not 
reduced  to  writing  before  the  days  of  the  author 
of  the  Historic  Doubts. 

Of  these  authorities,  Lord  Bacon  and  Archbishop 
Usher  are  shown  to  be  derivative  from  Fynes 
Moryson  ;  the  Earl  of  Leicester  in  part  from  Sir 
Walter  Ralegh,  and  in  part  from  personal  commu- 
nication with  Harriot  the  philosopher,  a  friend 
and  contemporary  of  Ralegh ;  and  Sir  William 
Temple  from  the  Earl  of  Leicester.  Most  of 
them  imported  into  the  story  misapprehensions 
and  exaggerations,  which  are  carefully  dissected 
and  laid  bare  by  the  reviewer. 

All  other  biographies  of  the  old  Countess  are 
drawn  from  the  sources  above-mentioned;  and 
on  the  whole  the  most  comprehensive  and  com- 
plete is  that  which  is  given  by  Pennant  in  his 
Tour  in  Scotland,  accompanying  an  engraving  of 
the  Portrait  at  Dupplin  Castle.  I  will  quote  it 
in  order  to  show  the  various  points  in  which  the 
Dublin  Reviewer  has  now  shown  Pennant  to  be 
mistaken  :  — 

"  But  the  most  remarkable  is  a  head  of  the  celebrated 
Countess  of  Desmond,  whom  the  apologists  for  the  usurper 
Richard  III.  bring  in  as  an  evidence  against  the  received 
opinion  of  his  deformity.  She  was  daughter  of  the  Fitz- 
Geralds  of  Drumana,  in  the  county  of  Waterford  (Smith's 
Hist,  of  Cork,  ii.36)  ;  and  married,  in  the  reign  of  Edward 
IV.,  James  fourteenth  Earl  of  Desmond ;  was  in  England 
in  the  same  reign,  and  danced  at  court  with  his  brother 
Richard,  then  Duke  of  Gloucester.  She  was  then  a  widow, 
for  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  says  she  held  her  jointure  from  all 
the  Earls  of  Desmond  since  that  time.  (History  of  the 
World,  book  i.  chap.  v.  sect.  5.)  She  lived  to  the  age  of 
some  years  above  a  hundred  and  forty,  and  died  in  the 
reign  of  James  I.  It  appears  that  she  retained  her  full 
vigor  in  a  very  advanced  time  of  life ;  for  the  ruin  of  the 
house  of  Desmond  reduced  her  to  poverty,  and  obliged 
her  to  take  a  journey  from  Bristol  to  London  to  solicit 
relief  from  the  court,  at  a  time  she  was  above  a  hundred 
and  forty.  (Sir  W.  Temple's  Essay  on  Health  and  Long 
Life.  Vide  hisJForfo,  folio  ed.  i.  278.)  She  also  once  or 
twice  renewed  her  teeth ;  for  Lord  Bacon  assures  us,  in 
his  Hist,  of  Life  and  Death,  ter  per  vices  dentissc ;  and 
in  his  Natural  History  mentions  that  she  did  dentlre  twice 
or  thrice,  casting  her  old  teeth,  and  others  coming  in 
their  place.  (Cent.  viii.  sect.  755.)" 

1 .  Sir  Walter  Ralegh  affirmed  that  the  old  Coun- 
tess of  Desmond  "was  married  in  Edward  the 
Fourth's  time,  and  held  her  joynture  from  all  the 
Earles  of  Desmond  since  then."  The  latter  clause 
of  this  sentence  was  disproved  so  long  since  as  the 
year  1750,  when  Dr.  Smith,  in  his  History  of  the 


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County  and  City  of  Corke,  made  known  that  she 
was  the  widow  of  Thomas  Earl  of  Desmond,  who 
died  in  1534  ;  the  former  part  is  now,  for  the  first 
time,  shown  to  be  erroneous  by  a  document  which 
mentions  a  former  wife,  "  Gyles  ny  Cormyk,  wife 
of  Sir  Thomas  of  Desmond"  (Earl  in  1529),  as 
still  living  in  1528.  This  Gyles,  or  Shela,  is 
known  to  have  been  the  grandmother  of  James  who 
succeeded  her  husband  in  the  earldom  in  1534, 
and  therefore  she  must  have  continued  the  wife  of 
"  Sir  Thomas  of  Desmond,"  afterward  Earl  Thomas 
the  Bald,  during  the  greater  part  of  his  life  :  whilst 
Kattelyn  Fitz-John,  who  subsequently  became 
"  the  Old  Countess,"  was  certainly  not  married  to 
him  until  after  the  date  above  mentioned,  and 
probably  in  the  following  year,  1529,  when  Earl 
Thomas  succeeded  to  the  earldom,  and  when  — 
there  is  every  reason  to  suppose  on  the  occasion 
of  his  re-marriage, — he  granted  the  country  of  the 
Decies  to  his  new  wife's  father,  a  junior  branch 
of  his  own  line  of  Fitz- Gerald. 

2.  Pennant  is  wrong  in  saying  "  James  four- 
teenth"  instead   of  Thomas   thirteenth   Earl   of 
Desmond.     Into  this  error  he  was  led  by  an  un- 
authorised alteration  made  by  Horace  Walpole  of 
the  statement  in  Smith's  History  of  Cork. 

3.  It  appears  that   Pennant  and  Sir  William 
Temple  and  the  Earl  of  Leicester  were  all  wrong 
in  the  story  about  the  Countess,  in  extreme  old 
age,  taking  a  journey  by  way  of  Bristol  to  the 
English  court.     This  anecdote   has   been   ascer- 
tained to  belong  to  Elenor  Countess  of  Desmond, 
the  widow  of  the  rebel  Earl,  who  came  to  Queen 
Elizabeth  in  the  year  1587,  and  obtained  a  pen- 
sion of  200^.     These  facts  are  fully  elucidated  by 
some  interesting   documents  procured   from   the 
State  Paper  Office,  which  are  printed  at  length 
in  Mr.  Sainthill's  recent  essay. 

4.  As  to  the  Countess's  extreme  longevity.     It 
appears  to  have  been  much  overrated.  The  reviewer 
remarks  that,  "  after  having  ascertained  that  she 
was  a  bride  and  a  mother  (for  she  gave  birth  to  a 
daughter,  Katherine,  wife  of  Philip  Barry  oge), 
late  in  the  reign  of  Henry  the  Eighth,  instead  of 
that  of  Edward  the  Fourth,  we  must  certainly  de- 
duct largely  from  her  reputed  years.     It  is  more 
likely  that  they  were  a  hundrcd-and-four  than  a 
hundred-ami-  forty." 

5.  "It  is  now  clear  that  she  can  never  have 
danced  with  Richard  Duke  of  Gloucester.     But, 
after  all,  her  reminiscences  of  him  may  have  come 
from  her  husband :  for  the  Bald  old  Earl,  havino- 
been  fifty  years  her  senior,  may  have  seen  the 
Innce,  either  in  England,  or  in  Dublin,  if  Glou- 
cester ever  was  there." 

6.  As  to  having  three  sets  of  teeth,  the  reviewer 
bows  this  to  have  been  a  marvel,  and  a  physical 

unmubility;  because  the  human  teeth  are  not  I 
bred  (m  the  phrase  of  Bacon,  and  the  other  ! 
1  writers),  but  both  the  first  and  the  second 


sets  are  born  with  us,  in  little  bags  or  nests, 
from  which  they  grow  into  maturity.  There- 
fore, whatever  instances  there  are  in  the  stories  of 
the  Countess  of  Desmond  or  other  long-lived  per- 
sons of  teeth  being  renewed  in  old  age,  can  only 
apply  to  the  cutting  of  a  few  teeth  of  the  second 
set  that  accidentally  had  been  undeveloped  at 
an  earlier  period  of  life,  and  not  to  any  third  set. 
In  connexion  with  this  subject,  the  reviewer  no- 
tices a  remarkable  error  that  pervades  our  princi- 
pal English  dictionaries  :  Bacon's  word  dentire, 
taken  from  the  French  "  Dentir,  to  breed  young 
teeth  "  (Cotgrave),  is  converted  into  dentise  in  all 
the  editions  of  Johnson,  and  by  Richardson,  1844, 
and  into  dentize  by  Dr.  Noah  Webster,  the  Ameri- 
can lexicographer. 

With  respect  to  the  termination  of  the  Coun- 
tess's life,  the  reviewer  shows  that  there  is  no 
reason  to  doubt  the  distinct  statement  of  a  pedi- 
gree in  the  Lambeth  library  (among  the  genealo- 
gical collections  of  Sir  George  Carew,  Earl  of 
Totness),  that  "she  died  in  anno  1604."  Any 
statement  to  the  contrary  does  not  stand  the  test 
of  examination. 

Lastly,  as  to  her  Portraiture.  The  Dublin 
Reviewer  has  gone  over  the  whole  of  this  por- 
tion of  the  subject,  recounting  the  correspon- 
dence of  Walpole,  Cole,  Granger,  and  Pennant, 
and  giving  the  history  and  description  of  the 
several  pictures,  so  far  as  he  could  ascertain 
them.  With  the  Quarterly  Reviewer  of  1853,  he 
is  unwilling  to  surrender  the  authenticity  of  the 
picture  belonging  to  Mr.  Herbert  at  Mucross 
Abbey,  which  the  former  critic  characterised  as 
"  aristocratic,  patrician,  and  placid,  though  deeply 
traced  with  sorrow.  She  carries  the  historic 
'prowde  countenance  of  the  Geraldines'  of  her 
day."  The  Dublin  Reviewer  also  contends,  against 
the  assumption  of  Walpole,  that  the  pictures  at 
Windsor  Castle  and  at  Dupplin  Castle  are  not 
identical.  He  further  remarks  that  "  It  is  desir- 
able that  the  picture  at  Chatsworth  should  be 
examined ; "  which  Mr.  Pennant  found  to  resemble 
exactly  his  print  from  the  picture  at  Dupplin 
Castle.  Through  the  kindness  of  the  Duke  of 
Devonshire,  who  has  allowed  his  picture  to  be 
brought  to  the  house  of  the  National  Portrait 
Gallery  for  that  purpose,  I  have  now  the  pleasure 
of  stating  that  this  examination  will  be  satisfac- 
torily accomplished  ;  and,  further,  that  some  others 
of  the  portraits  are  likely  to  be  assembled  for  the 
purpose  of  comparison.  When  that  comparison 
has  taken  place,  I  will  inform  the  readers  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  of  the  result. 

On  the  whole,  it  may  now  be  concluded  that 
the  identity  and  the  history  of  the  long-lived  Coun- 
tess of  Desmond  are  well  ascertained,  her  great 
but  no  longer  marvellous  longevity  is  nearly,  if  not 
precisely,  determined, —  it  was  her  seventy  years' 
widowhood,  during  the  days  of  several  of  her  hus- 


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band's  successors,  that  first  made  her  especially 
memorable ;  and  it  only  remains  to  be  decided 
whether  any  one  of  her  many  portraits  can  be  re- 
garded as  genuine.  JOHN  GOUGH  NICHOLS. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  ORIGINAL  CONTEMPORA- 
NEOUS CORRESPONDENCE  AT  THE  PERIOD 
OF  THE  LANDING  OF  THE  PRINCE  OF 
ORANGE. 

The  letters  from  which  we  print  extracts  for 
the  first  time,  occur  in  a  volume  collected  by  Mr. 
Harrington,  whom  we  mentioned  in  our  extracts 
relating  to  the  circumstances  of  the  University  of 
Oxford  in  the  reign  of  James  II.,  and  were  ad- 
dressed to  him  by  several  correspondents,  and, 
amongst  others,  by  Mr.  Arthur  Maynwaring, 
Dr.  Nicholas  Stratford,  Bishop  of  Chester,  and 
Dr.  George,  afterwards  Bishop  Smallridge,  the 
Favonius  of  the  Tatlcr,  then  Incumbent  of  the 
Broadway  Chapel,  Westminster.  The  volume 
now  forms  part  of  the  extensive  and  valuable  col- 
lection of  MSS.  preserved  at  Narford  Hall,  Nor- 
folk, the  residence  of  Mr.  Andrew  Fountaine. 
They  throw  considerable  light  upon  the  popular 
sentiments  of  the  period,  and  reveal  the  change 
of  opinions  veering  with  the  passing  events,  such 
as  the  Declaration  of  Conscience,  the  Trial  of  the 
Seven  Bishops,  the  Birth  of  the  "  Old  Pretender," 
the  landing  of  the  Prince  of  Orange,  and  the  Ab- 
dication of  James  II.  The  first  extract  relates 
to  some  proceedings  consequent  on  the  death  of 
Sir  Edmunbury  Godfrey  :  — 

Impeachment  of  Mr.  FitzJiarris. 

"  April,  1681,  Mr.  Fitzharris'  Case.  —  M«"  F.,  son  of  Sr 
Edw.  Fitzbarris,  was  about  Feb.  1680  produced  by  Sir 
Will.  Waller,  as  one  y*  designed  to  turn  the  Popish"  Plot 
on  yc  Presbyterians :  this  he  communicated  to  Mr.  Eve- 
rard,  who,  seeming  to  comply,  ordered  Mr  Smith  and  Sr 
W.  W.  to  be  hidden  in  his  chamber  and  overhear  ye  dis- 
course, and  he  having  acquainted  his  Maj'y  with  y* 
ordered  him  to  be  taken.  Oil  ye  March  26.  the  Comons 
impeached  Fitzharris  lately  removed  to  the  Tower,  but 
ye  Lds  refused  to  proceed  on  y*  impeachment,  and 
ordered  that  he_sd  be  proceeded  against  according  to 
Law.1  The  Comons  resolvd  that  this  was  a  denial  of 
justice,  and  an  obstruction  to  yc  discovery  of  ye  Popish 

Slot.  April  27.  He  was  called  to  be  tryed  by  a  Grand 
ury.  Sir  W.  W.  Michael  Godfrey  (foreman)  "desired  to 
be  satisfied  of  the  legality  of  y°  procedure,  but  J.  Jones 
sitting  there  alone  refused  to  give  his  opinion  but  in  a 
full  court,  so  ye  next  day  it  was  resolvd  by  ye  Judges  y* 
he  ought  to  be  tryed.  May  6th.  Mr  F.  was  ordered  io 
argue  his  plea,  wch  was  subscribed  by  Sr  Fr.  Winnington3, 
Mr.  Williams,  Mr.  PollexfenS,  and  Mr.  Wallop,  who 
were  assigned  him  as  Counsel,  who  alledged  th*  ye 

1  The  circumstances  of  this  impeachment  will  be  found 
in  Macpherson's  History  of  Great  Britain,  vol.  i.  ch.  v. 
p.  341-3. 

2  Sir  Francis  Winnington,  Solicitor- General  to  Charles 
II.  Jan.  23,  1G75-9. 

Sir  Henry  Pollexfen,  Attorney-General,  March  9, 


treason  and  impeachment  whereof  he  was  accused  was 
ye  same  with  y*  in  yc  Indictment,  and  so  prayd  stop  of 
procedure.  To  this  Finch4,  Maynard5,  Jefferys*,  and 
Sanders  argued  that  ye  impeachment  mencioned  only 
treason  in  general  terms,  but  ye  indictment  was  special 
in  several  circumstances.  The  conclusion  of  it  was  referd 
to  ye  Saturday  following.  May  25.  The  judges  went  to 
ye  Tower,  and  took  his  further  deposition  concerning  Sir 
Edm.  Godfrey." 

Trial  of  the  Seven  Bishops. 

(Arron).  —  "The  proceedings  at  Kg.'s  Bench  you  wd 
have  from  London  by  public  and  private  letters,  but  they 
did  not  tell  you  perhaps  how  warm  yc  BP  of  Pet.7  was, 
y*  he  did  speak  hotly  to  Wi.  Wi.8,  and  that  his  brethren 
had  much  ado  to  perswade  him,  as  they  came  along,  not 
to  fall  foul  on  the  judges.  He  was  for  shaking  F.  Petre 
in  the  council,  at  least,  for  calling  him  Traitor,  but  was 
overruled  by  his  Metropolitan  and  Colleagues." 

(G.  S.)9— "The  second  part  of  Dr  Sherlock's1  Preserva- 
tive is  come  out  .  .  .  Serjeant  has  attackt  Stillingfleet2 
about  the  Rule  of  Faith.  The  Ld  Dover  ad  vied  sending 
the  BP»  to  the  Tower,  but  was  not  heard.  A  proclama- 
tion for  reading  the  Declaration  and  dispensing  it  by  the 
Sheriffs  was  sent  to  the  Press,  but  upon  notice  that  the 
Temporal  Lords  wd  petition,  was  recald." 

(Anon.)  "  May  30  (T.  N.)—  Some  people  say  the  BP 
of  Canterbury  is  already  suspended,  others  y*  the  Pe- 
titioning bP3  are  all  to  appear  before  the  privy  Council ; 
tis  thought  it  will  end  only  in  a  reprimand.  The  Ecc. 
Comm™  and  the  judges  having  shifted  it  from  themselves, 
the  Chancellor  was  of  opinion  that  it  was  onely  tryable 
at  Westminster  Hall,  and  the  12  judges  returned  the 
complement. 

"  The  Declaration  was  read  at  fewer  places  last  Sunday 
than  before ;  a  parcell  of  'em  came  hither  on  Monday 
night,  directed  to  the  Chancellor  of  the  Diocess,  or  in  his 
absence  to  Cooper  the  Register,  who  has  distributed  them 
amongst  the  Clergy  by  his  apparitors,  tho'  he  knows  not 
from  whom  they  came.  Dr.  Woodward  3  of  Oriel, .who 
has  a  Commission  to  execute  the  Episcopal  power  during 
the  vacancy,  tells  me  he  knows  nothing  of  the  matter." 

"  June  9  (Anon.) — It  was  ab*  5  o'clock  when  y«  B — ps 
appeared  before  ye  K.  and  Council.  They  were  examined 

severely Tis  said  they  were  asked  whether  they 

ownd  ye  Petitio.  wh  now  I  hear  y°  Attorney  says  they 
scrupled  to  do  (if  y*  be  credible)  but  upon  2  thought 
did  own  it.  Then  order  was  given  that  they  should 
enter  into  Recognizances  for  appearing  at  ye  K — 's  B. ; 
but  this  they  refused  as  a  diminuco.  of  ye  right  of  peer- 
age, and  said  they  were  taught  y*  a  bare  appearance  was 
as  much  as  by  law  could  be  expected  fro.  them.  Upon 
wch  a  warrant  was  drawn  for  comitting  them  to  y« 
Tower,  and  subscribed  by  ye  whole  Privy  Counc —  (ex- 
cept Sir  F.  Yernley)  wh  is  said  to  run  thus,  —  for  con-  , 

*  Heneage  Finch,  Solicitor-General,  Jan.  13,  1679— 8G. 

5  John  Maynard,  Serjeant. — Chalmers,  xxi.  495. 

6  Jefferys,  the  infamous  Judge  Jefferys. 

7  Thomas  White,  bishop  of  Peterborough,  1685-91. 

8  Sir   William   Williams,   Solicitor- General,  Dec.  13, 
1687— 9. -See  Macaulay,  ii.  375. 

9  George  Smallridge,  afterwards  Bishop  of  Bristol. 

1  Dr.  William    Sherlock  published    the  Preservative 
against  Popery,  2  parts  4to.  Lond.  1688. 

2  Bishop  Stillingfleet  published  a  reply  to  Mr.  Ser- 
geant's Third  Appendix  (  Works,  vol.  iv.  626)  and  a  dis- 
course concerning  the  Nature  and  Grounds  of  the  Cer- 
tainty of  Faith,  in  answer  to  J.  S.  his  Catholick  Letters. 
(Ib.  vi.  361.) 

s  Joseph  Woodward  of  Oriel,  D.C.L.  1G87-- Wood's 
Athen.  Oxon.  Fasti,  ii.  401. 


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trivinz,  writing,  and  publishing  a  seditious  paper  ag*  ye 
K.  and  Gov.  They  were  followed  to  y°  Tower  by  a  great 
concours  of  people,"  and  have  been  much  visited  to  day.  " 
"June  12.—  The  bishops  in  the  Tower  pray  hard.  Bath 
and  \Vells  blest  the  people  as  he  went  very  cordially. 
They  driuk  the  King's  health  as  oft  as  they  drink  to- 
getber.  The  bella  at  X'  Church  and  Magdalen  rang  on 
Sunday  night  for  the  birth  of  the  Prince.  Sr  John 
Ernley*  tis  said  did  not  subscribe  the  warrant  for  com- 
mitment. The  Attorney  and  Sollicitor5  are  busie  in 
preparing  the  charge.  Boats  on  the  river  were  numerous 
whilst  the  archiepiscopal  barge  went  down,  and  coaches 
at  the  Tower  when  they  came  there." 

Birth  of  Prince  James. 

"June  ycjl2.  We  had  like  to  have  lost  him  (the 
prince)  to  day  by  a  convulsion  wh  now  (to  night)  I  hear 
\vth  some  is  dwindled  into  a  hickup  ....  I  hear  he  was 
christnd  yesterd.  after  N.,  but  y°  nameing  Him  is  deferrd 
to  some  greater  solemnity,  and  to  be  done  wth  much  state, 
y  Pope  or  K.  of  Fr.  wth  y°  D.  of  Modena  Godf  -  s  and 
Qu.  Dow.  G  —  M  .....  Just  now  one  comes  in  wth  yc 
joyfull  news  that  all  is  well  and  sure." 

"  They  say  ye  Bish  —  ps  will  not  bring  their  Habeas 
Corpus  in  order  to  be  baild  yc  next  term,  but  will  waite 
to  be  proceeded  agl,  insisting  on  yc  Right  of  Peer.  A 
general  amnesty  is  promised." 

"August  ye  9.  (Letter  from  A.M.)—  A  print  of  ye 
7  Br>  is  come  out  here  and  in  Holland.  They  are  repre- 
sented on  a  medal  giving  their  blessing  to  yc  Guards  in 
y  Tower  wth  this  device  written  abl  it,  "  Probis  honori, 
infamia)  malis."  On  ye  revers  of  ye  medal  there  is  a 
Balance  where  y°  power  of  ye  K.,  represented  by  ye  Sun, 
is  in  one  scale,  and  ye  cause  of  ye  Church  on  y°  right  of 
y  BI*  under  yc  emblem  of  y  moon  is  in  y°  other. 
The  balance  appears  equal  as  yet  wth  thes  words  :  Sic  sol 
lunaq'  in  Libra.  The  same  Gazet  saies  y*  in  Holland 
thcv  go  by  y*  distinguishing  character  of  y  true  disciples 
of  J  .X*." 

(From  A.M.)7  —  "I  know  not  whether  you  may  meet 

wth  vu  paper  yt  wag  presented  to  yc  K.  by  7  BI>S,  and 

therefore  I'll  write  it.    1.  We  are  not  averse  to  yc  reading 

y  M—  s  Dec.  for  Lib.  of  C.  for  want  of  due  tenderness 

towards  y  Dissenters,  in  relaco.  to  wm  we  shall  come  to 

such  a  temper  as  shall  be  thought  fit,  when  yc  matter 

comes  to  be  considerd.  and  settled  in  Parliamt.  and  Con- 

vocatio.    2.  The  Decla.  being  founded  on  such  a  Dis- 

pensing Power  as  may  at  pleasure  make  void  all  laws, 

cl.  and  Civil,  seems  to  us  illegal,  as  it  did  to  yc  Par- 

iam"  in  G2  and  72,  andj  therefore  we  ;caiiot  make  our- 

•3  so  much  parties  in  it  as  y  reading  it  in  church  in 

me  of  Divine  service  will  amount  to.    It  was  read  only 

in  West.  Abbey  and  5  other  places  in  y=  City.    The  K. 

.  resented  it  highly,  and  has  been  often  in  council  since  " 

The  news  of  the  Prince  is  true.    He  is  a 

ol  y  lad,  but  he  has  had  a  convulsion  fit.    The  Princess 

•'  have  been  entertained  wi<"  a  copy  of  English  verses 

spoke  by  3,  made  by  Atterbury,  a  song  bv  King  and    e 

by  Mr.  Lstwic.  J3ut  all  that  talk  is  over  .".  .  The  V.  C.8  is 

1  Sir  John  Ernlcy,  Privy  Councillor,  April  21  1679  • 
Chancellor  of  the  Exchequer  Nov.  21,  1679-89 

Will?™     i°ra3»  P°/.vis'  A"omey-General;  Sir  William 
>>  illiams,  Solicitor-General 


W* 


II 

Wadtam  College. 


returned ;  the  King  gave  him  a  great  many  good  words, 
but  I  hear  a  Quo  Warranto  is  coming. 

"  One  in  Cov.  Diocess  read  the  Fr.  Protest.  Brief  the 
day  the  Declaration  shd  have  been  read,  and  his  parish 
began  to  move  till  he  undecd  them.  The  BPS  all  recd 
the  Sacrament  in  the  Tower,  and  came  through  a  Lane 
of  people  kneeling  to  beg  their  blessing.  They  sent  by 
Sir  Ed.  Hales  their  complement  upon  the  Princes  birth." 

Conduct' of  the  Judges. 

"  Salop.  S.  And.  87.  [J.  Fowke.]— Mr.  Sacheverel  has 
refused  a  deputation  and  commission.  I  was  in  his  com- 
pany. He  has  a  face  and  mien  wch  promises  the  least  of 
any  I  ever  saw  ....  Sir  Willoughby  has  lost  a  Deputy 
Lieutenancy  in  Nottinghamshire,  and  expects  to  lose 
another  he  has  in  Lincolnshire.  The  D.  of  Newcastle 
petitioned  to  be  dismissed  from  his  Lieutenanceys  of 
Nottingham  and  Northumberland,  and  recommended  to 
his  Matie  those  whom  we  now  have  as  his  successors, 
the  E.  of  Derwintwater,  and  Ld  Tho.  Howard.  Reading, 
who  stood  in  the  pillory,  is  a  great  man  in  these  parts, 
and  makes  much  disturbance. 

"  The  judges  everywhere  make  large  harangues  on  his 
Matics  resolutions  to  be  firm  to  his  promises  made  to  the 
ch.  of  Engld.  There  is  no  appearance  of  gentry  at  the 
Assizes,  and  the}'  are  glad  to  be  contented  wth  very 
mean  persons  for  grand  jurymen." 

"  London,  Nov.  17.  87. — A  Commn  is  sealed  for  re- 
forming y°  Corporations,  wh  F.  Petre  and  some  others  of 
y-'  Privy  C.  are  of.  A  vessel  laded  with  300,000/.,  being 
part  of  ye  remnant'Capt.  Phips  left  behind,  is  expected. 
The  K.  had  an  ill  fall  in  hunting  yesterday,  and  has  been 
blooded  since.  The  Returns  y*  have  been  made  by  ye 
Ld  Lieut8  are  dissatisfactory,  and  'tis  thought  will  put  a 
stop  to  yc  calling  of  a  Parliam*  ....  My  poor  Ld  Kil- 
morey  is  dead." 

"  Astrop.  July  28.— Lord  Brook  and  Ld  Carlington  are 
all  yc  nobility  (here)  ....  Here  is  the  most  innocent 
diversion  I  have  met  with.  None  but  civil  people  are  in 
the  place.  Here  are  several  R.  Catholics,  but  they  are 
outnumbered.  Sr  Henry  Brown  has  impanelled  all  Papists. 
Judge  Heath  told  the  jury  at  Northampton  that  the 
BP*  were  guilty  of  a  factious  and  seditious  libel,  but 
were  so  crafty  as  to  take  care  there  shd  not  be  evidence 
against  them.  He  told  them  they  must  believe,  because 
he  was  upon  his  oath.  He  advised  to  bring  the  bone- 
fire  men  in  as  rioters,  but  they  found  the  Bill  Ignoramus. 
He  asked  the  Sheriff  whether  he  had  got  a  good  jury. 
The  Sh.  stl  they  were  all  persons  of  great  loyalty  and 
honour,  upon  wh  ye  _  sd,  But  I  doubt  whether  they 
will  do  the  King's  business.  Mr.  Ch.  Montague's  elder 
Brother  was  foreman." 

'  Preparations  against  the  Prince  of  Orange. 

"Sept.  27  (Anon.)  — There  is  but  too  just  cause  to  fear 

the  Dutch  will  land  here in  ye  invective  wch  the 

Fr.  K.  has  sent  to  Rome,  he  saies  ye  Pope  by  quarrelling 
wth  his  best  fds  has  given  ye  Pr.  of  O.  occasion,  a  boldness 
to  design  an  invasion'upon  Eng.,  and  there  to  declare  ye 
Prince  of  W.  to  be  a  supposititious  child  ....  The  pre- 
parations on  our  part  are  2  new  regimts,  a  few  ships,  and 
10  men  added  to  every  troop  of  horse.  Col.  Kirk's  regim1 
is  marched  out  of  town  ;  my  lord  Dartmouth  goes  away 
admiral  to  morrow.  10  BPS  are  to  appear  to  morrow  at 
White  H.  and  to  be  graciously  receivd  by  ye  K.  The  D. 
of  Ormond  was  honoured  with  ve  garter  on  Tuesd. 
night." 

"Anon.  — My  Ld  Dartmouth  has  acquainted  ye  K. 
(upo  his  knees)  of  ye  small  assurance  he  has  of  ye  Sea- 
men's fidelity.  Many  of  ym  y*  were  listed  for  dragooners 
were  afterward  sent  to  yc  Tower,  and  thence  shipped  away 
to  sea  " 


3'*  S.  I.  APRIL  19,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


305 


"  Nov.  10  (Anon.)— Some  letters  fro  Adm.  Herbert  and 
others  Lave  been  intercepted,  and  Declarations  found  in 
ym ;  one  fr.  ye  Bi'  of  Ely  to  yc  Princes  of  0.  has  had  ye 
same  fate;  but  general  exhortations  to  continue  stedfast 
in  hor  llel— "." 

"  Nov.  10  (A.  T.)  —  The  K.  has  pitched  upo  Salisb. 
Plain  for  ye  place  of  his  army's  rendezvous,  upo  Tuesd. 
next  for  his  own  march ;  and  upon  M.  G.  Werden  for  his 
Lieutent.-Gen.  to  remain  here  with  great  power  given  by 
virtue  of  a  new  Commissio.  The  field  pieces  y*  were  drawn 
hence  towards  ye  west  to  day  were,  I  think,  26  in  num- 
ber. The  Pr.  of  Or.'s  reception  at  Exeter  is  variously  re- 
lated, as  is  ye  number  of  miners  and  others  y1  have  run 
over  to  him." 

"Nov.  13.  — The  vanguard  of  ye  Dutch  reaches  to 
Hunyton,  and  they  begin  to  threaten  this  place.  The 
apprentices  grow  very  unruly.  Yesterday  their  fury  was 
turned  against  y°  new  chappel  y*  was  made  of  my  Ld 
Berkley's  house,  and  whilst  the  Priests  were  prudently 
carrying  off  ye  furniture  of  it,  they  seized  on  ye  2  lay 
carts,  and  made  a  fire  of  ym  and  their  loading.  The  work 
of  y*  day  being  over,  they  adjourned  solemnly  till  Satur- 
day, and  told  my  lord  Craven  he  might  then  certainly 
find  ym  in  Linco.  Inn  Fields,  near  ye  pop.  chappel.  The  K. 
has  deferrd  his  march  till  Monday,  but  most  of  ye  Guards 
are  gone  away  allready." 

"  Nov.  17.  —  The  K.  went  towards  Windsor  this  after- 
noon, and  intends  to  go  on  directly  to  ye  enemy,  and  to 
give  ym  no  quarter.  He  left  a  strong  guard  upon  this 
place  wh  has  kept  ye  rabble  in  some  awe  to  day,  and 
preserved  ye  threatened  chappels.  A  petition  j'was  pre- 
sented to  her  Maj.  this  morning,  subscribed  by  18  Lds 
Spir.  and  Temp.  The  thing  they  requested  was  a  free 
and  regular  Parl*  as  y«  onely  means  they  could  think  of 
to  preserve  his  Maj.  and  his  Kingdoms,  to  redress  griev- 
ances, and  prevent  ye  effusion  of  Xn  blood.  At  ye  read- 
ing of  it  his  M.  made  exception  to  the  word  free,  but 
promised  to  call  a  regular  Parl'  (such  as  they  should 
think  so)  as  soon  as  he  hath  beaten  his  enemies.  Also 
grievances  he  said  was  a  harsh  word;  but  they  made 
answer  that  it  was  ye  language  of  his  own  Declaration, 
for  yt  they  used  ye  same  expressions  as  near  as  they 
could.  Tho'  he  denied  their  petition  he  dismissed  them 
fairly,  and  desired  their  prayers  for  safety  and  success." 

The  Declaration  for  Liberty  of  Conscience. 

"Dec.  4.— We  have  little  new  here  but  a  3rd  Declaration 
wl1  thunders  judgm*  ag*  all  Pap.  y*  do  not  lay  down  their 
arms  and  their  commissions  .  .  ,  The  Chancr  is  removed 
to  F.  Pet.'s  lodging,  having  received  some  threats  fro  his 
butchers  and  other  creditors.  The  K.  is  much  out  of 
order,  looks  yellow,  and  takes  no  natural  rest." 

"  Some  of  yc  souldiers  y*  are  returned  hither  lay  y« 
blame  upon  Col.  Kerk,  who  by  his  fear  prevented  their 
good  purposes  to  forsake  their  Sovereign.  Even  ye  modest 
seamen  in  our  fleet  begin  to  declare  for  a  free  Parl*,  and 
some  will  have  many  more  sea  captains  to  be  gone  to  y° 
Dutch  after  Churchill." 

"  From  J.  Harrington.  —  Sir  Rob.  Wright  *  is  taken 
and  comitted  to  Newgate,  Sir  Wra  Waller  discovered  him. 
The  French  Gazets  say  ye  Mareschall  d'Estre'e  is  de- 
signed for  Ireland  ....  Dr.  B.  9  declares  y'  ye  P.  de- 
sires to  be  prayed  for  only  under  ye  name  of  King  wout 
ye  addition  of  William.  This  will  take  off  ye  scruple  of 
some  London  Divines." 

MACKENZIE  E.  C.  WALCOTT,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
(To  be  concluded  in  our  next.} 


1  Sir  Robert  Wright,  Chief  Justice  of  King's  Bench, 
April  21,  1687. 

2  Bishop  Burnet. 


ALEXANDER  BRODIE. 

A  work  on  book-keeping  accidentally  fell  into 
ray  hands,  written  by  "  Alexander  Brodie,  Gent.," 
and  printed  for  the  author  at  London  in  1722. 
Folio.  It  is  dedicated  to  "  The  Hon.  Alexander 
Brodie,  of  Brodie,  Esq.,  Member  of  Parliament  for 
the  County  of  Murrey,  North  Britain."  It  is  en- 
titled — 

"  A  New  and  Easy  Method  of  Book-keeping,  or  In- 
structions for  a  Methodical  Method  of  keeping  Accounts 
by  way  of  Debtor  and  Creditor,  distributed  into  three 
Parts,"  &c.,  and  is  •«  Sold  by  the  Booksellers  of  London, 
Westminster,  and  Edinburgh." 

In  the  Dedication,  the  writer,  addressing  his 
Patron,  remarks,  — 

"You  are  not  only  blessed  with  a  plentiful  Estate, 
which  may  render  a  writ  of  this  kind  useful  to  you,  but 
the  representative  of  a  family  which  has  never  fal'n  short 
of  those  Virtues  which  are  the  true  Ornaments  of  a  Gen- 
tleman." 

A  List  of  Subscribers  is  given,  from  which  it 
appears  that  the  work  was  for  the  most  part  pur- 
chased by  Scotchmen.  The  name  of  Brodie  pre- 
dominates. We  think  we  may  safely  presume  from 
this  fact,  from  the  terms  of  the  dedication,  and 
from  the  name,  that  the  author  was  a  native  of 
the  North,  and  one  of  that  race  which  some 
genealogists  affirm  sprang  from  Briidhe,  the  son  of 
Bili,  King  of  the  Picts,  and  which  still  flourishes, 
though  not  in  so  exalted  a  position.  Of  this 
family  was  the  late  well-known  agriculturist  of 
East  Lothian,  who  first  introduced  drill  husbandry 
in  that  part  of  North  Britain.  The  present  histo- 
riographer of  her  Majesty  for  Scotland  is  a  son 
of  this  gentleman ;  and  his  History  of  Scotland,  a 
new  edition  of  which  is  said  to  be  preparing  for 
the  press,  is  a  lasting  monument  of  indomitable 
industry  and  accurate  investigation.  There  was 
also  a  Laird  of  Brodie,  a  Scottish  judge  during 
•the  time  of  Cromwell,  whose  Diary,  printed  more 
than  a  century  ago,  is  much  coveted  by  Scotch 
Bibliomaniacs.  J-  M. 


THE  DRUNKARD'S  CONCEIT. 

In  a  late  number  of  The  Times,  the  Berlin  cor- 
respondent of  that  paper  spoke  of  the  appointment 
of  Herr  v.  Muhler  to  the  post  of  Minister  of  Wor- 
ship, and  took  occasion  to  speak  in  high  terms 
of  his  very  amusing  song,  which  the  above  heading 
will  pretty  correctly  describe  in  English.  I  was 
so  taken  with  the  original  song  in  German,  some 
years  ago,  that  I  attempted  a  free  translation,  or 
rather  imitation  of  it,  to  the  German  tune,  which 
is  as  unique,  in  its  way,  as  the  song.  Perhaps,  as 
it  has  never  been  printed,  it  may  be  allowed  a 
place  in  "  N.  &  Q."  I  regret  that  I  did  not  pre- 
serve the  original,  to  place  by  the  side  of  the 
translation :  — 


306 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


i.  APRIL  19,  62, 


Straight  from  the  tavern  door 

I  am  come  here ; 
Old  road,  how  odd  to  me 

Thou  dost  appear ! 
Right  and  left  changing  sides, 

liising  and  sunk ; 
0  I  can  plainly  see  — 

Road  !  thou  art  drunk  ! 

0  what  a  twisted  face 
Thou  hast,  O  moon ! 

One  eye  shut,  t'other  eye 

Wide  as  a  spoon  ; 
Who  could  have  dreamt  of  this  ? 

Shame  on  thee,  shame  ! 
Thou  hast  been  fuddling, 

Jolly  old  dame ! 
Look  at  the  lamps  again ; 

See  how  they  reel ! 
Nodding  and  nickering 

Round  as  they  wheel. 
Not  one  among  them  all 

Steady  can  go ; 
Look  at  the  drunken  lamps, 

All  in  a  row. 

All  in  an  uproar  seem, 
Great  things  and  small ; 

1  am  the  only  one 

Sober  at  all ; 
But  there's  no  safety  here 

For  sober  men, 
So  I'll  turn  back  to 

The  tavern  again. 


P.  C.  IT. 


MATHEMATICAL  BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
(Continued  from  3ra  S.  i.  168.) 

The  actual  approximation  of  Aryabhatta  seems 
to  have  exceeded  in  accuracy  that  of  (see  P.  C., 
art.)  Archimedes,  whose  limits,  3^-  and  3|$,  be- 
tween which  the  ratio  of  the  diameter  to  the 
circumference  lies,  are  equivalent  to  3.1428f  and 
3.14085?-,  respectively.  In  Europe  the  true  ratio 
was  not  known  so  near  as  Aryabhatta's  ratio, 
3.1416,  till  after  the  twelfth  century:  and  the 
Persians  had  adopted  this  ratio  from  the  Hindus, 
before  the  discovery  of  an  equally  exact  ratio  in 
Europe  (P.  C.,  art.  Geometry). 

It  Appears  (I  know  not  "if  the  case  be  other- 
wise in  Sridhara's  Compendium)  to  be  in  connec- 
tion with  the  geometry  that  we  light  upon  the 
Indian  theory  of  approximation.  Thus,  according 
to  Brahmegupto, 

I1  The  diameter  and  (he  square  of  the  semidiameter, 
being  severally  multiplied  by  three,  are  the  practical  cir- 
cumference and  area.  The  square-roots  extracted  from 
ten  times  the  squares  of  the  same  are  the  neat  values." 
Colebrookc,  Alg.,  p.  308. 

Here  the  "practical"  and  the  "neat"  values 


are  first  and  second  approximations ;  yet  no  rule 
is  given  for  approximating  to  the  square  root. 
And  we  find  Prithudaca  (see  Colebrooke,  Alg., 
p.  297,  note  4)  leaving  the  answer  to  an  example 
in  the  form  "Diagonal,  the  surd  root  of  288. 
Perpendicular  12  "  without  any  evaluation  of  the- 
surd.  So  (in  note  3,  pp.  308—9,  ib.)  arriving  at 
the  number  6250,  he  says  that  "  Its  surd  root  is 
the  area  of  the  circle,"  but  he  does  not  show  how 
to  approximate  to  the  value  of  this  surd  (see  also 
p.  294,  note  3).  However,  at  p.  309,  note  1,  (ib.) 
we  find  him  alluding  to  the  construction  of  tabular 
sines,  and  in  Section  X,  termed  Supplement,  of 
the  Ganitadhyaya  (ib.,  p.  323),  we  find  Brahme- 
gupta  giving*  an  arithmetical^  rule  which  is  only 
approximately  (ib,  note  6)  true  and  which,  though 
unconnected  with  geometry,  relates  to  the  subject 
of  sexagesimal  fractions. 

In  the    geometrical    portion   of    the   Lilavati 
Bhascara,  arriving  at  a  surd,  says  (ib.,  p.  60), 
"A  method  of  finding  its  approximate  root  [follows:] 
"  Rule:  From  the  product  of  numerator  and  denomina- 
tor, multiplied   by  any  large  square  number  assumed, 
extract  the  square-root :  that,  divided  by  the  denominator 
taken  into  the  root  of  the  multiplier,  will  be  an  approxi- 
mation." 

On  this  Ganesa  observes  (ib.  note  1) 
"  If  the  surd  be  not  a  fraction,  unity  may  be  put  for 
the  denominator,  and  thejrule  holds  good.". 

It  appears  that  a  like  rule  occurs  in  Sridhara's 
Compendium  (ib.,  p.  60,  note  2). 

Taylor,  Lilaivati,  p.  (68),  translates  the  rule 
thus :  — 

"  The  nearest  root  is  found  by  the  following  method  : 

"  Assume  a  large  number,  and  having  multiplied  by 
its  square  the  product  of  the  numerator  and  denominator, 
divide  the  root  of  the  result  by  the  denominator  multiplied 
by  the  root  of  the  square  of  the  assumed  number;  the 
quotient  is  the  nearest  root." 

The  same  fraction  (if*-)  illustrates  the  rule  in 
Taylor's  as  well  as  Colebrooke's  version.  And^on 
looking  into  this  example  we  see  that  the  Indian 
process  for  extracting  the  square  root^of  (8  X  169 
or)  1352  consists,  substantially,  in  multiply  ing  that 
number  into  10000,  extracting  the  (nearest  inte- 
gral) square-root,  which  is  3677,  and  dividing  the 
result  by  100.  The  square  root  of  the  fraction  is 
ultimately  exhibited  in  the  form  4f  &£.  Professor 
DE  MORGAN,  in  his  memoir  On  Some  Points  in  the 
History  of  Arithmetic,  printed  in  the  *  Companion 
to  the  Almanac'  for  1851,  has  carefully  traced  the 
introduction  of  the  decimal  point.  Does  not  the 
foregoing  result  amount  to  a  foreshadowing  of  the 
idea  of  Orontius  Fineus  ? 

Further  on,  and  in  the  same  chapter,  that  on 
Plane  Figure,  Bhascara  says, 

"  By  the  method  directed,  the  result  obtained  is  the 
surd  19800,  of  which  the  approximated  root  is  some- 
what less  than  a  hundred  and  forty  one:  141."  Cole- 
brooke, Alg ,  p.  73.  Compare  Taylor,  Lil,  p.  (78). 


3"»  S.  I.  APRIL  19, 562.] 


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Soon  after  (Colebrooke,  p.  74,  Taylor,  p.  81), 
he  speaks  of  the  surd  1250,  which  he  does  not 
reduce;  but,  a  little  further  on,  we  find  him 
stating  that  the  sum  of  the  square-roots  of  621 
and  2700  [as  extracted  by  approximation,  as 
Colebrooke  remarks]  is  76  |f,  and,  immediately 
afterwards,  Bhascara  extracts  3  square  roots  by 
approximation  (Colebrooke,  pp.  79 — 80  ;  Taylor, 
pp.  86 — 87.  There  is  a  discrepancy  between  the 
numerical  results  as  to  the  latter  two  square 
roots). 

Traces  of  scientific  communication  between  the 
Greeks  and  the  Indians  are  manifest  in  the  Sans- 
krit language  itself.  Sanskrit  words,  such  as 
gonia,  for  angle,  kentra,  for  centre,  hora,  for  hour, 
Lord  Monboddo,  as  we  are  informed  by  Prof. 
MAX  MULLER  at  pp.  160—161  of  his  Lectures  on 
the  Science  of  Language  (2nd  ed.),  points  out  as 
clearly  of  Greek  origin,  and  imported  into  San- 
skrit. Varahamihira  (see  Colebrooke's  Alg.,  p. 
Ixxx)  derives  the  word  hora  from  (the  Sanskrit) 
Ahoratra,  day  and  night,  a  nycthemeron.  But  it 
seems  (ibid.)  that  this  formation  of  a  word  by 
dropping  both  the  first  and  last  syllables,  is  not 
conformable  to  the  analogies  of  Sanscrit  ety- 
mology, and  Colebrooke  looks  for  the  origin  of 
the  term  in  the  Greek  fy>o,  W^KOTTOC,  the  latter 
word  signifying  an  astrologer,  and  especially  one 
who  considers  the  natal  hour,  and  hence  predicts 
events.  Hora  occurs  again  in  the  writings  of  the 
Hindu  astrologers,  with  an  acceptation  (that  of 
hour)  which  more  exactly  conforms  to  the  Greek 
etymon  (ib.). 

Now,  if  memoranda  which  I  made  [at  Cam- 
bridge lectures  some  twenty-two  or  more  years 
ago  have  served  me  well,  ""npa  did  not  originally 
mean  hour  but  season :  in  Homer,  of  the  year ;  in 
Herodotus  (once  or  twice)  of  the  day.  In  JEs- 
chylus  (Eum.)  &pa  is  used  as  time  of  day.  The 
first  writer  in  whom  it  occurs  in  that  sense  [hour] 
is  Hipparchus,  140  B.C.  There  was  a  division 
into  hour  by  the  Greeks  of  Alexandria,  but  [this] 
division  of  hour  was  known  to  Egypt;  but  &pa 
was  not  applied  till  140  B.C.  (The  Greeks,  like 
the  Latins,  divided  the  night  into  4  watches 
generally  about  3  hours  each,  the  length,  how- 
ever, varying  with  the  season  of  the  year)."  If 
this  be  so,  the  use  of  the  word  hora  [in  the  sense 
of  hour  could  not  have  been  communicated  by 
the  Greeks  to  the  Indians  until  or  after  140  B.C. 

Astrological  prediction  by  configuration  of 
planets,  observes  Colebrooke  (Alg.,  p.  Ixxx),  is 
denominated  "  Hora,"  the  second  of  three  branches 
which  compose  a  complete  course  of  astronomy 
and  astrology :  and  the  word  occurs  in  this  sense 
in  the  writings  of  early  Hindu  astrologers.  So 
that  the  science  indicates,  even  by  its  Indian 
name,  a  Greek  source  (ibid.).  And,  unless  com- 
munications passed  to  the  Indians  on  the  like  sub- 
ject from  the  same  common  source  (perhaps  that 


of  the  Chaldeans)  whence  the  Greeks  derived 
the  grosser  superstitions  engrafted  on  their  own 
genuine  and  ancient  astrology,  which  was  meteor- 
ological (ib.,  pp.  xxiii — xxiv),  the  science  and  the 
word  may  be  presumed  to  have  been  imported 
together.  JAMES  COCKLE,  M.A.,  &c. 

4,  Pump  Court,  Temple. 


ftota*. 

ANECDOTE  OF  GEORGE  III. — Mr.  Thackeray,  iu 
his  lectures  on  "The  Four  Georges,"  has  not 
failed  to  record  that,  in  the  early  part  of  the  reign 
of  George  III.,  the  king  and  queen,  with  the 
royal  children,  frequently  walked  on  the  terraces 
and  slopes  of  Windsor,  in  the  presence  of  con- 
siderable numbers  of  the  higher  classes  of  society. 
On  an  occasion  of  that  kind  one  of  the  princes 
suddenly  bolted,  and  running  up  to  a  lady, 
wrapped  himself  in  her  dress.  The  king,  observ- 
ing what  had  happened,  instantly  went  and  with- 
drew the  prince  from  his  hiding  place,  and  taking 
off  his  hat,  addressed  the  lady  in  these  words  : 
"  Madam,  the  only  apology  I  can  possibly  make 
for  this  rude  boy  is,  that,  in  what  he  has  done,  he 
has  at  least  shown  his  good  taste."  The  lady  was 
at  that  time  young,  blooming,  and  handsome. 

I  do  not  see  how  Louis  XIV.  of  France  could 
have  shown  greater  courtesy  on  such  an  occasion 
than  was  manifested  by  George  III.  of  England. 

The  incident  was  related  to  me,  more  than  once, 
by  the  lady  herself,  some  fifty  years  ago ;  and  I  am 
probably  the  only  person  now  living  who  can 
"  tell  the  tale  as  'twas  told  to  me."  MACROBIUS. 

CURIOUS  SCOTTISH  MEDICAL  RECIPES. — In  the 
fly-leaves  of  an  old  Scottish  theological  book  I 
find  inscribed  in  a  bold  distinct  handwriting  of 
the  period  (1638),  apparently  by  an  'Eliz.  Yard- 
ley,'  whose  educated  autograph  is  on  the  inner 
board,  certain  singular  medical  prescriptions, 
which  may  prove  worthy  of  a"  place  in  "N.  & 

Q-"t:  — 

1.  "Fora  Consumption.  —  Take  21  large  earthworms, 
wipe  them  clean,  and  put  them  into  a  quart  of  old  Malago : 
let  them  continue  in  the  Malago  12  hours,  and  then  pour 
it  from  the  worms  into  a  bottle  as  fine  as  you  can.    Then 
add  to  the  Malago  one  good  nutmeg  slyced,  2d  worth  of 
saffron,  and  a  leaf  of  gold,  shake  it  very  well,  and  drink 
a  sack-glass  full  in  the  morning  fasting,  another  an  hour 
before  dinner,  and  one  like  glass  of  the  same  the  last  thing 
you  take  at  night.    Continue  this  as  long  as  you  think 
convenient" 

2.  "  For  the  Lungs.  —  Take  a  gallon  of  turnips,  then 
bake  them,  and  after  that  squeeze  out  the  juice  of  them, 
and  put  to  it  a  pint  of  the  best  sack  and  boyle  it  up  to  a 
svrup  with  halfe  a  pound  of  brown  .sugar  candy,  and 
take  thereof  2  or  3  spoonfuls,  first  in  the  morning  and 
last  at  night. 

"Let  it  kindly  and  leisurely  dissolve  under  your 
tongue." 

3.  "Another  Receipt  for  a   Consumption.  —  Take  the 
lungs  of  a  fox,  slyced  tlu'nn  and  dryed  in  an  oven  after 


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NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


I.  APRIL  19,  '62. 


bread  is  drawn,  then  beat  it  to  powder,  and  [to  one  ounce 
put  a  pound  of  sugar  candy  white,  beat  very  fine,  then 
take  an  oxe's  bladder  washed  very  clean,  put  in  as  much 
as  it  will  hold  of  each,  their  quantity,  and  tye  the  bladder 
very  close.  Then  let  it  hang  in  a  large  crock  of  cold 
spring  water  that  it  may  be  covered,  but  not  touch  the 
bottom  or  sides  of  the  crock,  shift  the  water  every  4 
houres,  until  it  has  binn  in  24  houres,  then  put  it  into 
a  bottle  as  you  doe  other  syrrup :  put  with  the  lungs  and 
suger  candy  one  handfull  of  the  topps  of  baame  [balm  ?  ]." 

r. 

WILLIAM  LITHGOW.  —  Upon  referring,  in  the 
new  edition  of  Lowndes,  published  by  Mr.  Bohn,  I 
was  very  much  surprised  to  find  the  first  edition  of 
the  travels  of  this  remarkable  person  represented 
as  printed  in  1632.  There  is  in  the  Library  of 
the  Faculty  of  Advocates  the  second  edition  of  P. 
Lithgow's  Peregrinations,  printed  at  London  in 
1616,  black  letter.  All  inquiries  as  to  the  first 
edition  have  proved  fruitless,  and  no  copy  has 
been  traced  to  any  public  or  private  library. 

In  enumerating  the  works  of  this  eccentric 
writer,  the  editor  of  Lowndes  has  omitted  the 
rarest  of  all  Lithgow's  rare  lucubrations,  en- 
titled :  — 

"  A  Briefe  and  Summarie  Discourse  upon  that  lament- 
able and  dreadful  Disaster  at  Dunglasse,  Anno  1640,  the 
Penult  of  August,  collected  from  the  soundest  and  best 
instructions,  That  time  and  place  could  certainly  afford, 
the  serious  enquirie  of  the  painfull  and  industrious 
author.  By  William  Lithgow.  Edinburgh :  Printed  by 
llobert  Bryron.  Twelve  leaves.  Small  4to." 

It  is  in  verse.  At  the  end  there  is  an  enumera- 
tion of  the  names  of  all  the  sufferers ;  amongst 
these  was  Colonel  Erskine,  son  to  John,  late  Earl 
of  Mar,  celebrated  in  Scottish  song  as  the  seducer 
of  the  heroine  of  the  beautiful  ballad,  Lady 
Anne  Bothwell's  lament.  J  .M. 

LEA  WILSON'S  "  CATALOGUE  OF  PAMPHLETS." — 

"  This  beautifully  executed  volume  (Bibles,  Testaments, 

Psalms,  and  other  Books  of  the  Holy  Scriptures  in  English, 

in  the  Collection  of  Lea  Wilson,  Esq.,  F.S.A.,  London, 

$45,  8vo.  [4to.]),  of  which  only  twenty-five  copies  were 

printed  for  private  circulation,  contains  the  most  copious 

talogue  of  printed  editions  of  the  Scriptures  extant  in 

the  English  language  ....  A  copy  of  this  important 

catalogue  is  in  the  Library  of  the  British  Museum."  — 

Home's  Introduction,  vol.  v.  1846,  p.  220. 

The  number  of  copies  of  this  very  valuable 
work  being  so  limited,  it  is  very  desirable  that  it 
should  be  generally  known  in  what  public  reposi- 
tories it  may  be  found.  It  is  in  the  Bodleian  and 
the  Lhetham  Libraries. 

BlBLIOTHECAR.  ClIETHAM. 

EXECUTIONS  IN  FRANCE,  1831— 1860. —The 
Editor  of  «  N.  &  Q."  will  do  a  service  if  he  will 
reprint  and  index  the  following  statistical  table, 
which  I  have  cut  from  The  Times'  French  Cor- 
respondence of  March  26,  1862  :  — 

"  From  the  year  1831  to  the  year  1860  inclusively,  the 
Ci8  ?V  SI20"!?"106  have  pronounced  1,566  sen- 
ses of  death,  and  977  heads  have  fallen  on  the  scaffold 


The  following  are  the  number  of  capital  convictions  and 
executions  during  these  years : — 1831, 106  convictions,  26 
executions ;  1832,  89  convictions,  41  executions ;  1833, 
50  convictions,  34  executions;  1834,  20  convictions,  15 
executions ;  1835,  56  convictions,  40  executions ;  1836,  36 
convictions,  26  executions ;  1837,  34  convictions,  26  exe- 
cutions ;  1838,  44  convictions,  34  executions ;  1839,  32 
convictions,  21  executions;  1840,  55  convictions,  47  exe- 
cutions; 1841,  52  convictions,  37  executions;  1842,  43 
convictions,  35  executions ;  1843,  54  convictions,  35  exe- 
cutions; 1844,  49  convictions,  41  executions;  1845,  57 
convictions,  43  executions;  1846,  62  convictions,  46  exe- 
cutions; 1847,  62  convictions,  44  executions;  1848,  38 
convictions,  20  executions ;  1849,  38  convictions,  25  exe- 
cutions; 1850,  55  convictions,  34  executions;  1851,  51 
convictions,  39  executions ;  1852,  58  convictions,  33  exe- 
cutions; 1853,  40  convictions,  28  executions;  1854,  78 
convictions,  35  executions ;  1855,  60  convictions,  28  exe- 
cutions; 1856,  45  convictions,  18  executions;  1857,  77 
convictions,  47  executions ;  1858,  49  convictions,  30  exe- 
cutions; 1859,  37  convictions,  22  executions;  1860,  39 
convictions,  27  executions." 

EDWARD  PEACOCK. 

ROBINSON  CRUSOE.  —  There  is  an  ambiguity  in 
Defoe's  preface  to  the  first  part  of  Robinson 
Crusoe,  which  all  authors  should  avoid.  His 
properly  celebrated  story  is  generally  supposed 
to  have  been  founded  upon,  or  suggested  by, 
Selkirk's  narrative,  but  this  certainly  cannot  be 
made  out  from  anything  to  be  found  in  either  of 
the  prefaces.  In  that  to  the  first  part  he  said  :  — 

"The  Editor  believes  the  thing  to  be  a  just  history  of 
facts ;  neither  is  there  any  appearance  of  fiction  in  it." 

And  in  that  to  the  second,  after  having  referred  to 
the  abridgment  of  the  work,  by  the  omission  of 
all  its  religious  and  moral  reflections  :  — 

"  By  this  they  leave  the  work  naked  of  its  highest  or- 
naments ;  and  if  they  would,  at  the  same  time,  pretend 
that  the  Author  has  supplied  the  story  out  of  his  inven- 
tion, they  take  from  it  the  improvement  which  alone 
recommends  that  invention  to  wise  and  good  men." 

It  must  be  acknowledged  that  Defoe's  style  is 
occasionally  careless,  and  [also  that  in  a  point  of 
so  much  importance  it  is  probable  that  he  was 
particular.  Were  the  incidents  only  suggested  by 
Selkirk's  narrative,  which  was  the  case  if  the 
published  narrative  is  the  only  one  which  ever 
was  written,  then  the  calling  of  the  story  "  a  just 
history  of  facts  "  was  certainly  an  unwarrantable 
extension  of  language,  and  is  the  ambiguity 
alluded  to.  Almost  every  person  would  admit 
that  there  is  not  any  appearance  of  fiction  about 
it,  which,  if  it  is  a  fiction,  is  of  course  consequent 
upon  the  great  capacity  of  the  author.  The  pas- 
sage given  from  the  preface  to  the  second  part,  is 
not,  I  think,  ambiguous,  nevertheless  it  is  not 
decisive  as  regards  the  nature  of  the  story ;  and 
concerning  it  I  shall  only  further  observe,  that 
the  word  "  pretend  "  formerly  suggested  what  is 
now  understood  by  "  affirm,"  the  noun  "  preten- 
sion "  sometimes  meaning  "  affirmation,"  or,  and 
more  frequently,  "  claims." 

J.  ALEXANDER  DAVIES. 


S.  I.  APRIL  19,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


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ARMS  OF  EARL  OF  STAIR. — In  Chambers'  Book 
of  Days,  part  ii.  p,  75,  these  arms  are  engraved 
incorrectly,  being  shown  as  nine  billets  instead  of 
nine  lozenges.  The  importance  of  correct  de- 
scription or  drawings  (in  heraldry  particularly)  in 
a  work  of  this  description  need  not  be  dwelt  upon. 
Nor  is  this  the  only  error  in  the  same  number, 
for  at  p.  77  a  list  of  newspapers  is  given,  amongst 
which  is  Falconer's  Journal^of  which  I  have  never 
heard.  The  celebrated  George  Faulkner  was  the 
publisher  of  The  Dublin  Journal,  and  this,  I  sup- 
pose, is  the  paper  intended.  S.  B. 

Dublin. 

HOTEL  DES  INVALIDES  A  PARIS.  —  When  at 
Geneva,  in  1823,  I  read  in  some  publication  the 
following  lines,  attributed  to  an  inmate  of  the 
"  Hotel  des  Invalides"  :  — - 

"  On  ne  voit  pas  d'inutiles  services 

Dans  cet  asile  de  1'honneur ; 
Des  vieux  lauriers,  des  nobles  cicatrices, 

Sont  nos  titres  &  la  favour : 
Nous  sommes  grade's  par  la  mitraille, 
Les  boulets  font  notr'  avancement, 
Et  c'est  sur  le  champ  de  bataille, 
Que  Ton  recrute  notre  regiment." 

W.  BRYAN  COOKE. 
Pisa,  in  Tuscany. 


KINGSMILLS  OF  SIDM ANTON. 

Will  some  correspondent  of  "  N.  &  Q."  who  has 
access  to  various  peerages,  or  Hampshire  pedi- 
grees, topographies,  &c.,  supply  information  rela- 
tive to  the  family  of  Kingsmill,  of  Sidmanton, 
during  the  sixteenth  century  ? 

Fuller,  in  his  Worthies  of  England  (Hants), 
names  Sir  John  Kingsmill,  as  Sheriff  of  Hants, 
35  Henry  VIII.  Also  Sir  William  Kingsmill, 
Sheriff  of  Hants,  5  &  43  Queen  Elizabeth,  and 
10  James  I.  I  should  be  glad  to  ascertain  the 
dates  of  the  births  and  deaths  of  these  gentlemen, 
and  of  their  respective  families  also,  with  the 
names  of  their  children,  and  the  individuals 
they  respectively  married.  Collins's  Peerage  (by 
Brydges),  and  Burke's,  do  not  supply  this  in- 
formation. 

What  relation  to  this  Sir  John  Kingsmill  was 
Andrew  Kingsmyl,  the  Puritan  preacher,  of  whom 
we  have  accounts  in  Brook's  Lives  of  the  Puritans 
and  Wood's  Athence  Oxonienses  f  He  died  in 
1569.  I  have  a  black-letter  volume,  containing 
his  "  Most  excellent  and  comfortable  treatise,  for 
all  such  as  .  are  in  any  manner  of  way  either 
troubled  in  mind,  or  afflicted  in  body."  (London, 
Chr.  Barker,  1577.)  This  is  contained  in  a  letter 
to  one  of  his  sisters.  He  alludes  to  the  "  family 
union  of  the  household  of  Sidmountaine";  and  to 
"  the  goodnesse  of  God,  how  he  hath  provided  for 
us  by  the  gentlenes  of  our  deare  mother,  a  place 


which  we  use  as  an  home  and  habitation ;  and 
that  no  Foxe  hole,  but  thankes  be  to  God,  a  warm 
and  wel  feathered  neste,  where  we  have  free 
egresse  and  regresse." 

I  have  also,  by  the  same  author,  A  View  of 
Man's  Estate,  &c.  (London,  Bynneman,  1576)  ;  to 
which  is  appended  "  A  godly  aduise  giuen  by  the 
Author  touching  marriage."  This  seems  (sheet  i. 
iii.)  to  be  addressed  also  to  a  sister  —  "a  woman 
once  a  wife,  nowe  a  widowe  " ;  and  expresses  a 
good  opinion  of  her  experience  and  judgment. 

It  is  stated  in  the  Biographical  Notice,  prefixed 
to  the  Works  of  Bp.  Pilkington  (Parker  Society 
edition),  that  he  married,  about  1562,  Alicia,  a 
daughter  of  Sir  John  Kingsmill.  In  his  will, 
dated  1571,  the  Bishop  appoints  his  wife  executor ; 
but  in  her  stead,  should  she  die,  "  the  Ladie  Con- 
stance Kingsmill,  or  George  her  son ; "  and  also 
desires  his  wife  to  give  some  token  "  to  Sir  Wil- 
liam Kingsmill,  and  her  other  brothers  and  sisters, 
according  to  her  ability." 

Richard  Fenys  (or  Fiennes  as  more  recently 
spelt),  recognised  as  Lord  Say  and  Sele  in  1603,  is 
stated  by  Collins  (Peerage,  vol.  vii.  p.  21,)  to 
have  married  "  Constance,  the  daughter  of  Sir 
William  Kingsmill,  of  Sidmanton,  Hants." 

Strype's  Index  refers  also  to  several  apparently 
of,  or  connected  with,  the  Sidmanton  family. 

S.  M.  S. 


ARMS  OF  IRISH  PEERS.  —  Can  any  of  your  cor- 
respondents answer  these  questions  respecting  the 
arms  of  the  families  of  the  following  three  Irish 
peers  ? 

1.  Cole,  Earl  of  Enniskillen.    The  peerages  I 
have  been  able  to  consult,  with  the  exception  of 
Burke  in  his  edition  for  the  present  year,  give  the 
arms :  Ar.  a  bull  passant  within  a  bordure  sa., 
charged  with  eight  bezants ;  on  a  dexter  canton 
az.,  a  harp  or,  stringed  ar.     Burke  makes  the 
canton  sinister,  and  divides  it  per  pale  gu.  and  az. 
Which  is  the  correct  coat  ?    And  which  was  borne 
by  Sir  John  Cole,  of  Newland,  and  his  son  Lord 
Ranelagh  ? 

2.  Parsons,  Earl  of  Rossc.    Burke  gives  the 
arms,  Gu.  three  leopards'  faces  or ;  but  in  some 
peerages  I  find,  Sa.  a  chevron. between  three  rams 
passant  or.    Which  are  the  arms  now  borne,  and 
which  were  used  by  the  former  Earls  of  Rosse  ? 

3.  Loftus,  Marquis  of  Ely.  The  arms  now  borne 
by  the  family  are,  Sa.  a  chevron  engrailed  ermine, 
between  three  trefoils  slipped  ar. ;  yet,  in  Lodge's 
Peerage  of  Ireland,  edited  by  Archdall,  he  tells 
us  that  Adam  Loftus,  Abp.  of  Dublin,  ancestor 
of  the  present  Lords  Ely,  had  in  1566,  when  Abp. 
of  Armagh,  a  patent  for  bearing  arms  because  the 
arms  of  his  ancestors  were  not  known ;  and  the 
arms  assigned  him  were,  Az.  a  cross  or  guttee  de 
sang,  between  four  pellicans  vulned. 


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When  were  these  arms  dropped  by  his  descen- 
dants ?  And  were  the  bearings  of  the  Viscounts 
Ely  of  the  first  creation,  in  1622,  the  same  as 
those  of  the  present  Marquis  ?  C.  II. 

AUTOGRAPHS  or  GOETHE.  —  Has  any  collector 
of  autographs  ever  noticed  the  wonderful  varia- 
tions in° Goethe's  handwriting?  I  have  a  short 
poem  of  his,  written  and  signed  by  himself  (on  a 
remarkably  small  and  unwholesome-looking  frag- 
ment of  paper),  the  authenticity  of  which  I  can- 
not for  an  instant  doubt,  as  it  came  from  the  collec- 
tion of  a  gentleman  who  knew  the  poet  well,  and 
who,  even  if  he  had  not  received  the  poem  from 
Goethe's  own  hand,  must  have  known  too  much 
about  autographs  to  be  deceived.  These  seven 
lines  of  writing,  with  their  signature,  correspond 
very  satisfactorily  with  all  facsimiles  which  have 
ever  come  under  my  notice,  provided  allowance 
is  made  for  a  certain  degree  of  hurry,  and  the 
preternatural  greasiness  of  this  paper.  On  look- 
ing over  (by  particular  permission)  the  small,  but 
valuable,  collection  of  autographs  in  the  Museum 
at  Brussels,  I  found  a  very  long  letter  on  large 
quarto  paper,  purporting  to  be  in  the  autograph 
of  the  poet.  Never  were  two  handwritings  more 
different.  That  in  my  possession,  borne  out  by 
all  facsimiles,  is  by  no  means  elegant,  and  inclines, 
as  most  other  handwritings  do,  considerably  more 
towards  the  right  than  towards  the  left,  and  is  not 
distinguished  by  any  very  striking  neatness.  That 
in  the  royal  collection  at  Brussels,  however,  in- 
clines rather  towards  the  left,  and  is  most  ex- 
quisitely neat,  small,  and  elegant.  I  can  compare 
it  best  (if  my  memory  is  not  playing  me  false)  to 
something  between  the  handwriting  of  Mendels- 
sohn, Methfessel,  and  Lavater.  Moreover,  the 
substance  of  the  letter  itself  is  in  favour  of  its 
being  absolutely  an  autograph.  I  was  inclined  to 
suspect  at  first  that  the  letter  had  been  written  by 
another  hand,  and  signed  by  Goethe  himself;  but 
on  minute  examination,  the  signature  bore  every 
evidence  of  being  written  by  the  same  hand  as  the 
rest  of  the  epistle.  I  should  be  extremely  glad  of 
a  chance  of  comparing  notes  on  this  point  with  any 
one  of  your  correspondents,  who  takes  an  interest 
in  autographs.  We,  most  of  us,  on  looking  back 
at  our  handwritings  of  but  a  year  back,  feel  some 
astonishment  at  the  change  which  has  taken  place 
in  them  between  that  period  and  now;  but  I 
doubt  if  any  one  would,  even  at  a  distance  of  ten 
years,  deny  the  authenticity  of  one  of  his  own 
letters.  Of  course  I  only  allude  to  a  formed 
style  of  writing,  and  exclude  all  cases  of  change 
induced  by  illness  or  accident.  But  in  these  two 
styles,  in  which  Goethe's  handwriting  exhibits 
itself,  the  only  point  of  similarity  is  the  blackness 
of  the  ink.  I  have  unhappily  forgotten  the  date 
of  the  letter  in  the  Brussels  collection,  and  also 
the  date  of  my  autograph  poem ;  but,  to  put  a 
C^uery  which  I  think  will  comprehend  both  dates, 


I  will  beg  permission  to  ask  —  Did  Goethe's  hand- 
writing, in  the  space  of  twenty  years,  vary  so 
much,  that,  on  a  comparison  of  an  early  with  a 
late  specimen,  absolutely  no  points  of  similarity 
could  be  detected  ?  GEORGE  E.  J.  POWELL. 

BRANSGROVE  FAMILY.  —  Can  any  of  the  readers 
of  "  N.  &  Q."  give  me  a  description  of  the  arms 
and  crest  of  the  Bransgrove  family,  who  seem  to 
have  been  long  settled  in  Hanwell,  in  Middlesex  ? 
There  are  several  headstones  in  the  churchyard 
there  belonging  to  the  family.  T.  F. 

H.  CAMPBELL.  — There  was  published,  in  1826, 
The  Birth  of  Bruce,  or  Countess  of  Carried  and 
other  Poems,  by  Hugh  Campbell,  author  of  Illus- 
trations of  Ossian,  &c.  Is  he  the  author  of  other 
works,  poetic  or  dramatic  ?  R.  INGLIS. 

CANADIAN  SEIGNEURS.— Can  any  of  your  Cana- 
dian correspondents  kindly  furnish  me  with  a  de- 
scription of  the  coronets  used  by  those  proprietors 
of  French  extraction,  who  hold  their  lands  in  that 
colony  by  seigneurial  tenure  ?  J.  WOODWARD. 

DR.  JOSEPH  FORD.  —  Is  anything  known  of  this 
worthy,  who  was  uncle  of  Dr.  Johnson,  and  an 
eminent  physician  ?  His  name  does  not  jippear 
in  Munk's  Roll  of  the  College  of  Physicians,  nor 
in  the  pedigree  of  the  Ford  family  in  Burke's 
Landed  Gentry,  and  Ormerod's  Cheshire.  There 
was  a  physician  of  this  name  at  Stourbridge  (where 
Johnson  was  partially  educated),  who  married 
(circa  1694)  Jane,  widow  of  Gregory  Hickman. 

H.  S.  G. 

THE  ISLEY  FAMILY  OP  KENT.  —  Can  anyone 
find  any  traces  of  the  above  family  between  the 
years  1600  and  1670  ?  The  name  is  variously  spelt 
— Isley,  Iseley,  Icely,  Iceley.  L.  P. 

CROMWELL  LEE.  —  Cromwell  Lee,  son  of  Sir 
Anthony  Lee  of  Quarendon,  and  brother  of  Sir 
Henry  Lee,  K.  G.,  died  at  Holywell,  Oxford,  in 
1601.  His  issue  settled  in  Ireland.  What  were 
the  names  of  his  children  ?  And  in  what  part  of 
Ireland  did  they  settle  ?  X.  Y.  Z. 

REV.  JOHN  LEWIS.  —  The  Rev.  John  Lewis, 
vicar  of  Margate,  and  the  author  of  many  learned 
works,  has  been  usually  claimed  by  Bristolleans  as 
one  of  their  eminent  natives ;  and  the  articles 
wherein  he  is  the  subject  in  Chalmers,  the  Biogra- 
phia  Britannica,  Noble's  Continuation  of  Granger, 
&c.,  give  support  to  their  claims.  Hutchins's  His- 
tory  of  Dorset,  however,  speaking  of  Poole,  says, 
"  John  Lewis,  M.  A.,  grandson  of  Mr.  Lewis,  vicar 
of  Worth,  in  Purbeck,  was  born  here,  but  removed 
to  Bristol  soon  after  his  birth,  and  there  baptised." 
(Vol.  i.  p.  4.)  Also,  Dibdin,  in  his  Typographical 
Antiquities,  makes  the  like  assertion  as  to  the 
place  of  his  birth,  with  the  additional  information 
that  "Mr.  Lewis  returned  to  Poole,  and  there 
taught  grammar,  after  his  early  removal  to  Bristol, 
these  conflicting  testimonies,  I  am  at  a 


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loss  to  know  which  is  the  true  place  of  this  learned 
divine's  nativity ;  but  perhaps  some  of  your  kind 
correspondents  can  enlighten  me  on  the  subject. 

J.T. 

MACGRATH,  BISHOP  BERKELEY'S  GIANT. — In 
M.  J.  G.  St.  Hilaire's  Histoire  des  Anomalies, 
(torn.  i.  p.  185,  Paris,  1832,)  it  is  stated  on  the 
authority  of  Watkinson's  Philosophical  Survey  of 
Ireland  (1777,  p.  187),  and  of  "  newspapers  of  the 
year  1760,"  that  Bishop  Berkeley  brought  up  an 
orphan  child,  named  Macgrath,  on  certain  prin- 
ciples, with  a  view  of  producing  a  giant,  and  suc- 
ceeded ;  Macgrath  (who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty) 
being,  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  seven  feet  eight 
inches  in  height  (at  which  time  Bishop  Berkeley 
was  dead).  St.  Hilaire  does  not  doubt  the  fact. 
Where  can  further  particulars,  if  any  extant,  of 
this  marvel  be  found  ?  J.  P. 

OFFICIAL  ARMS.  —  Wanted,  the  official  arms 
impaled  by  the  Regius  Professors  at  Oxford  and 
Cambridge  ?  J.  WOODWARD. 

PROPERTIES  OF  GREEK  STATUES.  —  It  is  well 
known  that  in  the  Apollo  Belvidere  the  legs  are 
longer  than  they  are  in  real  life.  Is  not  this  more 
or  less  the  case  with  Greek  ideal  statues  generally  ? 

XAVIER. 

PURITANS  AND  PRESBYTERIANS  IN  IRELAND.  — 
I  am  most  desirous  of  obtaining  information  about 
the  early  Puritan  churches  or  settlements  in  Ire- 
land, particularly  those  formed  to  the  south  of  Drog- 
heda.  Several  congregations  once  'existed  which 
have  now  disappeared,  as  at  Aughmacart,  Straf- 
fon,  Rahue,  Edenderry,  Ballybrittas,  Enniscorthy, 
Wexford,  Tankardstown,  Youghal,  Kinsale,  The 
Leap,  Athlacca,  and  elsewhere.  Any  records  of 
such  churches  or  of  their  ministers,  &c.,  would  be 
considered  a  favour  by  WILLIAM  FKAZER,  M.D. 

124,  Stephen's  Green  Dublin. 

NATHANIEL  RANEW. — I  would  esteem  it  a 
favour  if  any  of  your  correspondents  could  give 
me  some  information  regarding  Nathaniel  Ranew, 
who,  in  1673,  was  a  bookseller  "  at  the  King's 
Arms,  in  Paul  churchyard"?  and  especially  whe- 
ther he  was  related  to  Nathaniel  Ranew,  minister 
of  Little  East  Cheap,  London,  afterwards  vicar  of 
Felstead,  Essex,  where  he  remained  until  ejected 
for  Nonconformity  at  the  Restoration  ?  The  latter 
was  author  of  a  treatise,  entitled  Solitude  improved 
by  Divine  Meditation,  London,  1670 ;  and  died 
1672.  F.  S. 

C.  L.  REDDEL.  — In  Ward's  Miscellany  (vol.  ii. 
pp.  507,  &c.,  &c.),  there  is  a  dramatic  poem  of 
very  great  merit  called  "The  Vision,"  by  Miss 
Constantia  Louisa  Reddel ;  and  in  vol.  i.  p.  620, 
of  the  Miscellany,  a  short  poem  by  the  same,  en- 
titled "  Love,  Fame,  and  Honour."  From  the 
prefatory  notes  to  the  poems,  it  appears  that  the 
author  died  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  leaving 


several  volumes  of  MS.  compositions,  chiefly  poeti- 
cal. Can  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  give  further 
information  regarding  the  authoress  and  her 
works  ?  R.  INGLIS. 

SPIRITUALITY:  SPIRITUALTY.  —  In  the  Convo- 
cation's address  to  Her  Majesty,  the  "  Spiri- 
tuality" is  named,  evidently  intending  the  Eccle- 
siastical Body  of  Her  realm.  This  may  have  been 
an  erratum,  copied  from  I  know  not  what  other 
newspaper ;  but  having  seen  it  where  a  misprint 
is  especially  unlikely  to  escape  correction,  I  ven- 
ture to  ask,  Was  not  "  Spiritualty "  the  proper 
term? 

Johnson  thus  discriminates  the  two  words  :  — 

"SPIRITUALITY.  —  1.  Incorporiety ;  immateriality;  es- 
sence distinct  from  matter.  2.  Intellectual  nature.  3. 
That  which  belongs  to  any  one  as  an  Ecclesiastic. 

"  SPIRITUALTY.  —  Ecclesiastical  Body.    (Not  in  use)." 

If  a  term,  plainly  distinguishing  the  objective 
from  the  subjective  condition  of  the  Church,  has 
really  dropped  into  desuetude,  it  were  to  be  wished 
that  the  Lords  "  Spiritual "  had  sanctioned  its 
revival.  E.  L.  S. 

"  SCRAPS  FROM  THE  MOUNTAINS,"  by  Christabcl, 
Dublin,  1840.  Who  is  the  author?  R.  INGLIS. 

SIDNEY,  LADY  MORGAN'S  ARMS.  —  Could  any 
contributor  of  "  N.  &  Q."  favour  me  with  Lady 
Morgan's  paternal  bearings  ?  TRISTIS. 

TOM  THUMB.  —  I  was  a  little  startled  the  other 
day,  when  I  read  the  following,  which  I  extract 
from  a  Chronology  of  similarly  strange  and  as- 
tounding events,  contained  in  an  Almanac  for  the 
year  1692:  — 

"  Since  Tom  Thumb  and  Garagantua  fought  a  duel  on 
Salisbury  Plain 104  years." 

In  my  simplicity  I  had  thought  "Tom  Thumbs" 
were  of  more  modern  introduction,  and  was  not 
prepared  to  find  that  Barnum's  protege  could 
boast  such  a  remote  and  illustrious  ancestry. 
Pray  to  what  era  does  the  first  Tom  Thumb  be- 
long ?  V.  V.  R. 

TITHE. — In  the  printed  Calendarium  Rotulorum 
Patentium,  I  find  in  p.  12,  "anno  2,  Johannis,"  the 
following  entry :  — 

"  Canonicl  de  Loch' 

Decima  de  mulier' Franc'." 

What  manner  of  tithe  was  this  ?       MELETES. 


ferift 

NONJURING    BiSHOPS   AND   THEIR  ORDINATIONS. 

—  The  following  extract  from  an  old  Historical 
Register  of  1717,  may  perhaps  connect  itself  not 
inopportunely  with  MR.  MACRAY'S  valuable  and 
interesting  list  of  nonjuring  bishops,  as  showing 
the  pains  that  one  at  least  of  their  number  took 
to  insure  the  fitness  of  those  whom  he.  sent  fortU 


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to  minister  among  the  scattered  flocks  of  nonjurors. 
The  Register  is  detailing  the  trial  of  the  Rev. 
Laurence  Howell,  M.A.,  and  gives  in  full  his  Let- 
ters of  Orders  from  Dr.  Hickes,  nonjuring  bishop  :— 
"  By  the  tenor  of  these  presents,  we  George  Hickes,  by 
Divine  permission,  Suffragan  Bishop  of  Thetford,  make 
known  to  all  men,  that  our  beloved  in  Christ,  Laurence 
Howell,  Master  of  Arts,  being  recommended  to  us  by 
sufficient  testimonials  of  his  probity  of  life  and  integrity 
of  manners,  laudably  qualify'd  by  his  knowledge  in  the 
sacred  writings,  and  by  his  learning,  and  approv  d  by 
our  examiner,— we,  the  said  Bishop,  administering  the 
Holy  Offices  in  our  Oratory  in  the  parish  of  St.  Andrew, 
Holborn,  in  the  County  of  Middlesex,  have  admitted  and 
promoted  him  to  the  Holy  Order  of  Priesthood,  and  then 
and  there  have  instituted  and  ordained  him,  according 
to  the  manner* and  custom  of  the  Church  of  England,  in 
this  behalf,  wholesomely  appointed  and  provided.  In 
witness  whereof  we  have  caused  our  episcopal  seal  to  be 
affix'd  to  these  presents,  the  2nd  day  of  October,  in  the 
year  of  our  Lord  1712,  and  in  the  eighteenth  of  our  con- 
secration. 

(Signed)        "GEORGE  HICKES. 

This  document  was  sealed  on  a  label  with  hard 
red  wax ;  the  seal  represented  a  shepherd  with  a 
sheep  upon  his  shoulders,  and  a  crook  in  his  hand, 
with  this  motto,  "  The  Good  Shepherd."  Is  the 
site  of  Dr.  Hickes's  Oratory  in  Holborn  ascer- 
tained, and  was  it  a  building  set  apart  for  the 
purpose,  or  only  part  of  some  house  ? 

C.  H.  E.  CARMICHAEL. 

Oxford. 

[The  ordination  of  Laurence  Howell  by  Bishop  Hickes 
took  place  at  Samuel  Grascome's  Oratory  in  Scroope's 
Court  (afterwards  called  Union  Court),  near  St.  Andrew's 
Church,  Holborn.  It  was  at  this  Oratory  that  Henry 
Gandy  and  Thomas  Brett,  sen.  received  their  episcopal 
orders  on  June  25,  17 1G.  Ralph  {Hist  of  England,  ii. 
f)2G)  informs  us,  that  "  Grascome  was  interrupted  by  a  mes- 
senger whilst  he  was  ministering  to  his  little  congregation, 
in  Scroope's  Court,  near  St.  Andrew's  Church."  Again, 
we  learn  from  Wright's  England  under  the  House  of  Han- 
over, i.  40,  that  "on  the  29th  of  May,  1716,  the  anniver- 
sary of  the  Restoration  of  Charles  II.,  green  boughs 
were  carried  about  the  streets,  and  worn  on  the  per- 
son ;  and  there  were  large  meetings  at  St.  Andrew's  (to 
hear  Dr.  Sacheverell),  and  at  the  Jacobites'  conventi 
cle  in  Scroope's  Court,  over  against  it."  The  crosier 
which  had  been  used  by  the  nonjuring  bishops  was  (in 
831))  in  the  possession  of  John  Crossley,  Esq.  of  Scait- 
clifl'e,  near  Tpdmorden.  For  some  notices  of  the  Orato- 
ries of  the  Xonjurors  in'London,  seey'N.  &  Q."  1st  S.  ii. 
Sol.  The  discovery  of  Howell's  Letters  of  Orders,  quoted 
by  our  correspondent,  was  quite  accidental.  Upon  infor- 
mation that  a  treasonable  paper,  called  The  Shift  Shifted, 
had  been  recently  printed,  search  was  made  for  it  at  the 
house  of  Laurence  Howell  in  Bull-Head  Court,  Jewin 
The  Crown  messengers  there  discovered  another 
work,  entitled  TJie  Case  of  Schism  in  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land Truly  Stated,  written  by  Howell,  which  denounced 
George  I.  as  a  usurper,  and  condemned  all  that  had  been 
done  in  the  Church,  subsequent  to  Abp.  Bancroft's  depri- 
vation, as  illegal  and  uncanonical.  All  Howell's  papers 
were  seized  by  order  of  the  government,  among  which 
were  his  Letters  of  Orders,  and  also  "The  Form Sf  Abso- 
lution and  Reception  of  Converts."  For  writing  The 
Case  of  Schism,  he  was  tried  at  the  Old  Bailey,  and  sen- 
tenced to  a  fine  of  500f.f  three  years'  imprisonment,  to  be 


whipped,  and  stripped  of  his  gown  by  the  public  execu- 
tioner. Howell  heard  this  severe  and  cruel  sentence 
undismayed ;  the  public  whipping  was  not  inflicted,  and 
his  term  of  imprisonment  in  Newgate  was  shortened  by 
his  death,  which  took  place  on  the  19th  July,  1720.  His 
Synopsis  Canonum,  2  vols.  fol.  1709-10,  and  his  View  of 
the  Roman  Pontificate,  8vo,  1712,  attest  that  he  was  a  man 
of  deep  learning  and  research.]  , 

WALKER'S  "  SUFFERINGS  OF  THE  CLERGY."  — 
John  Walker,  the  author  of  An  Attempt  to  Recover 
the  Numbers  of  Sufferings  of  the  Loyal  Clergy, 
professes,  in  the  introduction  to  that  work,  an  in- 
tention of  publishing  an  additional  treatise,  in 
which  he  would  examine  Calamy's  statements  re- 
specting the  ejected  nonconformists.  Did  he  ever 
fulfil  this  intention  ?  Or  is  there  any  work  which 
enters  into  a  detailed  criticism  of  the  numbers, 
characters,  sufferings,  &c.,  of  the  two  thousand 
Dissenters,  replaced  by  regular  clergy  in  1662  ? 

[The  REV.  W.  D.  MACEAY  has  discovered  among  the 
Rawlinson  MSS.  nine  volumes  of  Walker's  collections  for 
his  Sufferings  of  the  Clergy  (see  ante,  p.  218).  Our  cor- 
respondent should  consult  the  numerous  productions  of 
the  Rev.  Zachary  Grey  for  some  curious  particulars  of 
the  ejected  nonconformists;  but,  as  most  of  them  ap- 
peared anonymously,  we  subjoin  the  titles  of  a  few  of 
them :  — • 

1.  A  Century  of  Eminent  Presbyterian  Preachers ;  or, 
a  Collection  of  Choice  Sayings  from  thePublick  Sermons 
preached  before  the  Two  Houses,  from  November,  1640, 
to  January  31,  1648  (the  day  after  the  King  was  be- 
headed) ;  in  which  the  Seditious  and  Republican  Prin- 
ciples of  a  great  part  of  the  celebrated  Assembly  of 
Divines  are  detected,  their  flowers  of  Rhetorick  displayed, 
and  their  gross  ignorance  fully  exposed.     To  which  is 
added,  An  Appendix,  with  the  short  Characters  of  several 
of  these  Preachers  (who  survived  the  Restoration)  taken 
from  Dr.  Calamy's  Abridgment  of  Baxter's  Life.     By  a 
Lover  of  Episcopacy  [Dr.  Zachary  Grey].    London,  1723, 
8vo. 

2.  A  Looking-Glass  for  Schismaticks :   or,  the  True 
Picture  of  Fanaticism :  in  a  Summary  View  of  the  Prin- 
ciples of  the  Rebels  of  Forty-One,  taken  from  their  Ser- 
mons, Pamphlets,  Speeches  in  Parliament,  Remonstran- 
ces, Declarations,  Petitions,  Votes,  Orders,  and  Ordinances. 
By  a  Gentleman  of  the  University  of  Cambridge  [Dr. 
Zachary  Grey].    London,  1725,  8vo. 

3.  The  Knight  of  Dumbleton  Foiled  at  his  own  Wea- 
pon ;  or,  an  Answer  to  a  Scandalous  Pamphlet,  entitled 
'The  Church  of  England  Secured,  the  Toleration  Act 
Enervated,  and  the  Dissenters  Ruined  and  Undone.'    Ad- 
dressed by  way  of  Letter  to  Sir  Richard  Cocks,  Bart.    In 
which  the  many  vile  Reflections  of  that  writer  upon  the 
Clergy  of  the  Established  Church  are  Confuted,  and  his 
gross  sophistications,  quibbles,  and  blunders,  fully  ex- 
posed.   By  a  Gentleman,  and  no  Knight  [Dr.  Zachary 
Grey].     London,  1723,  8vo. 

4."  The  Ministry  of  the  Dissenters  proved  to  be  null 
and  "void  from  Scripture  and  Antiquity ;  in  Answer  to 
Dr.  Calamy's  Sermon,  entitled  <  The  Ministry  of  the  Dis-  . 
senters  Vindicated,  &c.'  Addressed  by  way  of  Letter  to 
that  worthy  Doctor.  By  a  Presbyter  of  the  Church  of 
England|[Dr.  Zachary  Grey].  London,  1725,  8vo. 

As  the  Messrs.  Parkers  of  Oxford  have  announced  a 
republication  of  Walker's  Sufferings  of  the  Clergy,  which 
we  regret  to  find  is  to  be  abridged,  it  may  be  as  well  to 
direct  attention  to  sixteen  pages  of  corrections  preserved 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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among  William  Cole's  MSS.  in  the  British  Museum 
(Addit.  MS.  5829,  pp.  74-89),  entitled  "Committees 
during  the  Grand  Rebellion :  being  MS.  notes  entered 
into  my  copy  of  Walker's  Sufferings  of  the  Clergy ,  taken 
from  some  entered  into  my  worthy  friend  Dr.  Zachary 
Grey's  copy  of  the  same  book."] 

HISTORY  OF  PHOENICIA. — The  following  clipping 
is  from  The  Athenaeum,  Nov.  14,  1835,  p.  860. 
What  amount  of  truth  is  there  in  it  ?  — 

"  A  discovery  of  great  historical  importance  has  been 
made  at  Oporto.  The  nine  books  of  '  The  History  of 
Phoenicia,'  by  Philos  de  Byblos,  have  been  found  in  the 
Convent  of  Santa  Maria  de  Merenhas.  This  work,  of 
which  one  book  only  has  been  preserved  in  the  Pr&- 
paratio  Evangelica  of  Eusebius  is  now  complete."  — 
Herald. 

GRIME. 

[A  correspondent  in  the  Gent.  Mag.  for  May,  1836,  p. 
450,  remarks, "  The  expectations  which  have  been  holden 
out  by  various  journals,  that  the  public  was  soon  to  be 
favoured  with  the  entire  work  of  Philo-Byblius,  from  a 
manuscript  said  to  have  been  lately  discovered  at  Oporto, 
must  be  disappointed  by  the  assurance  of  a  learned  and 
most  respectable  gentleman  in  Portugal,  that  no  such 
manuscript  has  been  heard  of  there,  and  that  there  is  no 
such  convent  as  the  one  named  in  the  notice  referred 
to."] 

INTRODUCTION  OF  PHEASANTS.  —  Is  it  known 
when  pheasants  were  first  introduced  into  this 
country  ?  J.  EASTWOOD. 

[We  fear  that  this  is  a  query  which  does  not  admit  of 
an  easy  solution.  The  Pantologia,  under  "Phasianus," 
says  "Caesar  mentions  them  [pheasants]  in  Britain  .  .  . 
among  the  articles  of  food,  which  the  rude  natives  were 
prohibited  from  eating,  by  the  institutions  of  the  Druids ;  " 
but  our  copy  of  Caesar  does  not  contain  this  passage.  He 
says,  indeed  (DeBell.  Gall.  v.  12),  "Leporem,  etgallinam,  et 
anserem  gustare,  fas  non  putant ;  hsec  tamen  alunt  animi 
voluptatisque  causa ;  "  but  it  would  be  difficult  to  prove 
that  by  the  gallina  we  are  to  understand  the  pheasant. 
Daniel  (Rural  Sports')  and  Yarrell  (British  Birds')  cite 
Echard's  History  of  England  to  the  effect,  that  the  price 
of  a  pheasant  anno  27  Edward  I.  was  fourpence ;  and  the 
former  states,  that  pheasants  were  brought  into  Europe 
by  the  Argonauts  1250  years  before  the  Christian  era. 
On  the  whole,  then,  we  think  it  by  no  means  impossible 
that  pheasants  found  their  way  into  our  island  before  the 
period  of  authentic  history.] 

ADRIAN  IV. — Can  any  correspondent  give  pre- 
cise authority  for  the  manner  of  this  English 
Pope's  death  ?  Most  of  the  biographies  of  him 
make  no  reference  to  the  cause  of  death.  A  few 
state  he  was  "choked  by  a  fly";  one,  "at  the 
hands  of  an  assassin."  JAMES  GILBERT. 

2,  Devonshire  Grove,  Old  Kent  Road. 

[In  a  recent  work,  entitled  Pope  Adrian  IV.,  an  His- 
torical Sketch,  by  Richard  Raby,  Lond.  1849,  8vo,  it  is 
stated  that  "  the  death  of  Adrian  happened  on  Sept.  1, 
1159,  near  Anagnia,  in  the  Campagna,  and,  according  to 
William  of  Tyre,  in  consequence  of  a  quinsy.  Pagi  re- 
lates, that  the  partisans  of  Frederic  Barbarossa  told  a 
story  to  this  effect  —  that  Pope  Adrian  died  by  a  judg- 
ment of  God,  who  permitted  him,  while  drinking  at  a 
well,  a  few  days  after  denouncing  excommunication 
against  the  Emperor,  to  swallow  a  fly,  which  stuck  in  his 
throat,  and  could  not  be  extracted  by  the  surgeons,  till 


the  patient  had  expired  through  the  inflammation  pro- 
duced by  the  accident.  Adrian,  however,  did  not  excom- 
municate the  Emperor  at  all,  but  died  on  the  eve  of 
doing  so.  His  body  was  carried  to  Rome,  and  entombed 
in  a  costly  sarcophagus  of  marble,  beside  that  of  Euge- 
nius  III.,  in  the  nave  of  the  old  basilica  of  St.  Peter."] 


THE  KING'S  EVIL. 
(3ra  S.  i.  208.) 

Wiseman,  in  a  folio  volume,  published  in  1676, 
and  dedicated  to  Charles  II.,  refers  the  regal 
power  of  healing  this  disease  to  "  those  secret  rays 
of  divinity  that  do  attend  kings."  But  it  appears, 
if  The  Taller  be  correct,  to  have  belonged  also  to 
the  seventh  son  of  a  seventh  son,  however  inno- 
cent he  might  be  of  royal  blood. 

In  an  old  copy  of  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer, 
in  my  possession,  "  Printed  by  Charles  Bill,  and 
the  executrix  of  Thomas  Newcomb,  deceas'd 
1708,"  the  service  "  At  the  Healing  "  is  retained  ; 
and  as  it  is  possibly  new  to  some  of  the  readers  of 
"  N.  &  Q.,"  they  may  be  interested  in  the  sub- 
joined epitome  of  it.  It  commences  with  the  col- 
lect from  our  present  "  Order  for  Communion," 
beginning  "  Prevent  us,  O  Lord,  in  all  our  doings," 
&c. ;  after  which  follows  the  Gospel  from  Mark, 
xvi.  14—20.  In  this  charge,  the  words  "  They 
shall  lay  their  hands  on  the  sick,  and  they  shall  re- 
cover" are  significantly  printed  in  italich,  as  if  for 
greater  emphasis.  Prayer  is  then  bidden,  and  the 
Lord's  Prayer  offered  up ;  after  which  the  rubrick 
thus  directs  the  order  of  proceeding  :  — 

"  Tf  Then  shall  the  infirm  Persons,  one  by  one,  be  pre- 
sented to  the  Queen  upon  their  knees ;  and  as  every  one  is 
presented,  and  while  the  Queen  is  laying  Her  hands  upon 
them,  and  putting  the  Gold  about  their  Necks,  the  Chaplain 
that  officiates,  turning  himself  to  Her  Majesty,  shall  say 
these  words  following :  '  God  give  a  blessing  to  this  work; 
And  grant  that  these  sick  persons,  on  whom  the  Queen 
lays  her  hands,  may  recover,  through  Jesus  Christ  our 
Lord  1 ' " 

"  ^  After  all  have  been  presented,  the  Chaplain'  shall 
say  :  — 

"  Vers.  0  Lord,  save  thy  servants. 

"  Resp.   WTio  put  their  trust  in  Thee.  These  answers 

«  Vers.  Send  them  help  from  thy  holy  g?jg5"Sfi 
place.  com*  to  be 

"  Resp.  And  evermore  mightily  defend  them.    healtd- 

"  Vers.  Help  us,  0  God  of  our  Salvation. 

"  Resp.  And  for  the  glory  of  Thy  .name  deliver  us,  and 
be  merciful  to  us  sinners,  for  Thy  name's  sake. 

"  Vers.  O  Lord,  hear  our  prayers. 

"  Resp.  And  let  our  cry  come  unto  Thee. 

"  Let  us  Pray. 

"  0  Almighty  God,  who  art  the  giver  of  all  health,  and 
the  aid  of  them  that  seek  to  Thee  for  succour,  we  call 
upon  Thee  for  thy  help  and  goodness  mercifully  to  be 
shewed  upon  these  thy  servants,  that  they,  being  healed 
of  their  infirmities,  may  give  thanks  unto  Thee  in  thy 
Holy  Church,  through  Jesus  Christ  our  Lord.  Amen." 

The  Chaplain,  then,  standing  with  his  face  to- 


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•ward  them  that  come  to  be  healed,  repeats  the 
collect  from  the  "  Visitation  of  the  Sick,"  com- 
mencing, "  The  Almighty  Lord,"  &c. ;  and  con- 
cludes with  the  usual  benediction. 

D.  P.  (p.  258)  is  probably  not  aware  that  it 
was  incumbent  on  the  parish  authorities  to  make 
such  entries  in  the  Register  as  that  noticed  by 
him. 

In  the  Lvndon  Gazette  for  18th— 21st  Nov. 
1672,  No.  731,  he  will  find  the  Proclamation  fol- 
lowing :  — 

"  His  Majesty  has  commanded  that  Notice  be  given, 
That  no  Persons  whatsoever  do  come  to  be  Healed  of 
tlie  King's  Evil  unless  they  bring  a  certificate  under  the 
Hands  and  Seals  of  the  Minister  and  Churchwardens  of 
the  Parishes  where  they  inhabit :  That  they  have  not 
been  Touched  before:  And  His  Majesty  Requires,  That 
the  Ministers  in  their  respective  Parishes  do  keep  a  con- 
stant Register  of  such  Persons  to  whom  they  give  these 
Certificates." 

If  the  efficacy  of  the  royal  touch  were  really  be- 
lieved in,  the  best  "  Certificate  "  that  the  appli- 
cants had  never  been  touched  before  would  lie 
in  the  fact  that  they  were  still  suffering. 

DOUGLAS  ALLPOXT. 


It  may  be  useful,  not  perhaps  to  S.  T.,  who 
having  investigated  the  subject  may  be  presumed 
to  be  acquainted  with  them,  but  to  other  in- 
quirers, to  record  in  "  N.  &  Q."  the  following 
list  of  works  which  either  specially  or  incidentally 
treat  of  the  gift  of  healing  by  the  royal  touch, 
and  all  of  which,  it  may  be  added,  are  now  in  my 
possession :  — 

1.  Tooker  (W.),  "Charisma,  sive  Donum  Sanationia." 
151)7. 

2.  Clowes  (W.),  "A  right  fruitful  Treatise  of  Struma." 
1602. 

3.  Laurentius,  "  De  Mirabili  Strumas  sanandi  vi  Solio 
Galliaa  Kegibus  concessa."     1609. 

4.  "  A  choice  Collection  of  wonderful  Miracles,  &c." 
1G81. 

5.  Brown  (J.),  "  Adenochoiradelogia."    1684. 
I!.  Morhof  (L).  G.),  "Princeps  medicus."  1665. 

JT.  Beckett  (W.),  "  A  Free  and  impartial  Inquiry,"  &c. 

8.  Badger  (J.),  »  Cases  of  Cures  of  the  King's  Evil." 
1  /  48. 

9.  Bishop  Douglas's  "Criterion."    1754. 

10.  Knnemoser's  "  History  of  Magic." 

11.  Colquhoun's  "History  of  Magic."    1851. 

No.  4.  I  take  to  be  somewhat  scarce ;  it  con- 
sists of  four  pages  folio,  and  the  full  title  is,  "  A 
choice  Collection  of  Wonderful  Miracles,  Ghosts, 
and  Visions.  London:  for  13enj.  Harris,  1681." 
Among  other  pieces  it  contains  an  account  of  an 
extraordinary  cure  of  king's  evil  by  the  Duke  of 
Monmouth  performed  on  a  girl  of  Crookham  in 

Somerset,  and  of  another  by  "  Mrs.  F ,  sister 

to  the  duke,"  on  one  Jonathan  Trot,  the  son  of 
an  apple-womzm  in  Coyeut  Garden,  under  the 


direction  of  a  dream.  There  are  also  some  verses 
headed  "  Tom  Ross's  Ghost  to  his  Pupil  the  Duke 
of  M.,  a  Canto  upon  the  miraculous  Cure  of  the 
King's  Evil,"  which  ends  — 

"The  strooker  Graitrix  was  a  sot, 

And  all  his  Feat-tricks  are  forgot ; 

But  Duke  Trinculo  and  Tom  Dory 

Will  be  a  famous  Quack  in  story." 
I  withstand  my  inclination  to  do  more  than 
simply  record  the  existence  of  this  brochure,  and 
beg  to  commend  it  to  your  correspondent  as 
"  flavouring  "  for  any  work  that  he  may  execute 
on  this  curious  subject. 

The  Encyc.  Metropol.  says  that  the  form  of 
prayer  used  in  England  may  be  seen  in  L'Estrange's 
Alliance  of  Divine  Offices,  and  in  the  Register  of 
Bishop  Kennett ;  it  has  been  traced  by  Beckett  to 
"  an  ancient  MS.  exorcism  used  for  the  dispos- 
sessing of  Evil  Spirits."  The  same  authority 
refers  for  a  very  full  account  of  the  "  the  royal 
gift  of  healing,"  as  exercised  by  the  Kings  of 
England,  to  Pettigrew's  Superstitions  connected 
with  the  Practice  of  Medicine  and  Surgery,  and  to 
several  other  works  in  addition  to  many  of  those 
included  in  my  list.  DELTA. 

Extract  from  the  Churchwardens'  Accounts  in 
the  Parish  of  Ecclesfield,  co.  York  :  — 

"  1641.  Giuen  to  John  Parkin  wife  towards  her  trauell 
to  London  to  get  cure  of  the  Euill  which  her  soone  Thorn 
is  visited  wth  all  0.6.  8."— Hist,  of  Ecclesfield  (Bell  & 
Daldy),  p.  39. 

J.  EASTWOOD. 


CHRISTOPHER  WANDESFORDE. 
(3rd  S.  i.  271.) 

To  what  was  given  in  the  answer  appended  to 
the  Query  of  H.  L.  T.  may  be  added,  that  Lodge, 
in  his  Irish  Peerage  (vol.  iii.  p.  198),  says,  not 
that  "  the  fate  of  his  friend  Lord  Strafford,"  &c., 
but  that,  "  having  quick  intelligence  how  affairs 
were  carried  against  Lord  Strafford,  the  apprehen- 
sion of  his  troubles,  and  of  those  which  were  likely 
to  ensue  in  loth  kingdoms,  affected  him  to  such  a 
degree,  that  3  December,  1640,  he  departed  this 
life  suddenly." 

Perhaps  H.  L.  T.,  and  other  readers  of  "  N.  & 
Q.,"  may  like  to  know  something  of  the  present 
state  of  the  ancient  house  of  the  family. 

It  stands  in  the  parish,  and  bears  the  name  of 
Kirklington  ;  and  is  in  the  North  Riding  of  York- 
shire, a  few  miles  north  of  Ripon.  The  Lord 
Deputy  appears,  in  Dugdale's  Visitation  of  1665,  as 
father  of  the  then  head  of  the  family  of"  Wandes- 
ford  of  Kirklington."  I  saw  the  house  in  jSep- 
tember,  1860.  An  old  tenant,  then  living  in  if, 
said,  that  about  the  time  when  he  came  to  Kirk- 
lington, a  steward  had  pulled  down  a  large  part, 
including  the  ball ;  had  sold  the  materials,  and 


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fled  to  America  with  the  money.  The  lead  had 
produced  100/.  The  part  pulled  down  extended 
from  the  present  east  face  of  the  house,  at  the 
north-east  corner,  in  the  direction  of  the  neigh- 
bouring mill. 

Only  one  room  remains  of  any  visible  interest. 
It  is  a  square  room  of  good  size,  up  one  flight  of 
stairs.  One  window  looks  to  the  mill,  one  other 
looks  southward.  It  is  pannelled.  Over  the  fire- 
place, which  is  in  the  west  wall,  is  a  finely-carved 
shield,  enclosed  by  the  garter.  The  shield  is 
eleven  inches  high  and  eight  inches  and  a  half 
across.  It  is  ensigned  with  a  barred  helmet, 
placed  sideways.  The  helmet  has  lambrequins; 
and  at  the  top  of  the  helmet  is  a  space,  where 
probably  the  crest  once  stood.  The  supporters 
are  very  like  lions,  but  are,  no  doubt,  the  man- 
tigers  which  belong  to  the  family  of  Hastings. 
This  achievement  is  set  in  a  parallelogram,  forming 
part  of  the  pannelling. 

The  shield  shows  thirty  quarters  in  five  rows  of 
six.  The  first  quarter  is  Hastings,  a  maunch. 
The  last  two,  29  and  30,  are  filled  by  Le  Despen- 
scr.  All  are  carved,  and  none  are  coloured. 

These  must  be  the  arms  of  Henry  Hastings, 
third  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  K.G.,  1579;  the  346th 
knight  in  Guillim's  list.  This  earl  was  contem- 
porary with  the  decorator  of  the  room.  The  earl 
died  in  1595,  five  years  after  his  friend.  The 
decorator  of  the  room  was,  I  conclude  from  the 
arms  which  I  proceed  to  mention,  Sir  Christopher 
Wandesforde,  who  married  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Sir  George  Bowes  of  Stretham.  The  Lord 
Deputy  was  their  grandson. 

The  ceiling  and  cornice  of  the  room  are  of 
plaster.  The  ceiling  has  renaissance  pendent^, 
and  enrichments  in  high  relief,  pomegranates, 
shells,  lizards,  and  monstrous  animals.  It  has 
also  four  shields.  Two,  opposite  each  other,  are  : 
Per  pale,  baron,  a 'lion  rampant  double-queue, 
Wandesforde  ;  Femme,  ermine,  three  bows  strung, 
erect,  side  by  side,  Bowes.  The  other  two  shields 
have  each  the  same  six  quart erings  :  Wandesforde, 
Musters,  Colvile,  Norton,  Fulthorp,  and,  on  a 
bend,  three  pheons.  The  crest,  on  a  wreath, 
a  church  with  a  spired  tower.  Motto,  below  the 
shield  :  "  Tout  pour  1'Eglise." 

The  enrichments  of  the  cornice  are  of  the  same 
kind  as  those  of  the  ceiling,  but  it  has  no  shields 
of  arms.  Between  two  small  arches  in  it  are  the 
initials  C.  E.  W. :  the  W.  being  placed  above,  and 
batween  the  C.  and  E.  These  are,  no  doubt,  the 
initials  of  the  Lord  Deputy's  grandfather  and 
grandmother. 

From  the  house  we  can  follow  Sir  Christopher 
to  his  grave.  In  the  south,  or  Wandesforde  aisle, 
in  Kirklington  church,  against  the  south  wall, 
and  so  close  to  the  east  wall  as  to  trespass  on  the 
site^  of  their  chantry  altar,  is  his  monument  — 
sufficiently  ugly  and  cumbersome.  His  figure 


lies  at  full  length  on  a  high  slab.     This  is  the 
inscription  :  — 

"  Memoriae 

CHRISTOPHORI  WANDESFOKD  militis,  Qui  obiit  ll"20 
die  Jvlii  anno  Dni  1590,  anno  ^Etatis  sva  42do. 
Hie  jacet  ille  Deo,  Patriae  qvi  vixit,  amicis, 
Dvm  patriae  et  charis  sivit  adease  Devs. 
Nvnc  tvmvlo  corpvs,  nvnc  solv  nomen  amicis 
Et  PatriaB  svperest.    Spiritvs  ipse  Deo." 

Wandesforde,  Wandesforde  impaling  Fulthorp, 
Musters,  and  Wandesforde  impaling  Bowes,  are 
placed  below  his  figure.  On  a  shield  above  him  are 
the  six  quarterings,  as  on  the  shields  in  the  ceiling 
of  the  room  in  the  house.  D.  P. 

Stuarts  Lodge. 

Malvern  Wells. 


THE  USE  OF  THE  VERB  "MATTER"  (3rd  S.  i. 
290.)  — "  It  matters  not "  is  quoted  in  no  less 
common  a  book  than  Johnson's  Dictionary,  from 
Ben  Jonson,  who  died  just  about  the  time  that 
Locke  was  born.  It  is  in  the  Catiline,  Act  IV. 
Sc.  3,  p.  638,  of  the  edition  of  1640. 

LYTTELTON. 

Hagley,  Stourbridge. 

FOSSILS  (3rd  S.  i.  148,  238.) —  I  am  ^  afraid  J. 
C.  J.  will  not  find  the  required  information  in  the 
answer  of  M.  W.  B.,  especially  as  it  is  rendered 
almost  unintelligible  through  errors  in  paragraphy 
and  punctuation.*  By  merely  fixing  his  speci- 
mens in  a  box,  J.  C.  J.  will  neither  soften  the 
rock,  or  render  the  fossils  less  friable.  Would  not 
hot  water,  carefully  and  repeatedly  used,  effect 
the  first  of  these  objects  ?  I  remember  to  have 
read,  in  connexion  with  Layard's  discoveries,  of  a 
most  interesting  process,  by  which  decomposed 
ivory  was  restored  to  comparative  soundness. 
Could  not  something  of  the  kind  be  used  to  ag- 
glutinate and  render  more  compact  the  soft  cara- 
paces of  these  fossil  tortoises  ? 

DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

RUTLAND:  COUNTY  OR  SHIRE  (3rd  S.  i.  Ill, 
197.)  —  It  is  certainly  true  that  in  a  constitu- 
tional point  of  view  there  is  no  difference  between 
a  county  and  a  shire.  It  is  nevertheless  an  un- 
doubted fact,  that  there  are  some  counties  that 
are  called  shires,  and  others  that  are  not ;  and  I 
am  not  aware  of  any  instance  in  England^  of  a 
county  being  called  a  shire,  unless  it  originally 
formed  part  of  one  of  the  larger  Anglo-Saxon 
kingdoms,  Wessex,  Mercia,  or  Northurabria.  Rut- 
land formed  part  of  Mercia,  and  we  might  there- 
fore expect  it  to  be  a  shire,  but  it  is  not  so  styled 
in  Domesday  Book. 

I  would  beg  to  ask  on  what  authority  MR.  STE- 
VENS supposes  Rutland  to  have  been  made  a 


*  [M.  W.  B.  has  written  to  us  to  explain  this.  The 
period  should  be  placed  after  "  Paris,"  not  after  "  it."  — 
ED.  «  N.  &  Q."] 


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county  in  the  reign  of  Alfred  the  Great  ?  The 
Penny  Cyclopadia  (vol.  xx.  p.  277)  speaks  of 
Rutland  as  being  first  mentioned  as  a  county  in 
the  reign  of  John.  I  cannot  but  think  that  this 
is  a  mistake.  But  I  apprehend  it  is  very  doubtful 
whether  any  part  of  the  kingdom  of  Mercia  was 
broken  up  into  counties  in  so  early  an  age  as  that 
of  Alfred.  CLIO. 

Wright's  History  and  Antiquities  of  Rutlandshire, 
p.  1,  published  in  1684,  says  :  — 

"Rutland,  as  it  is  now  limited,  was  not  a  county  of 
itself  at  the  time  of  the  Norman  Conquest,  and  that  a 
great  part  of  the  towns,  those  especially  which  lie  on  the 
south  limits>f  this  shire,  did  at  that  time  belong  to  the 
county  of  Northampton,  and  as  part  of  that  county  they  are 
to  be  found  under  the  title  of  Northamptonshire  in  the 
general  survey  taken  in  the  reign  of  William  I.,  com- 
monly called  Domesday  Book.  The  other  towns  now  be- 
longing to  this  county  were  at  that  time  in  some  sort 
appertaining  to  the  county  of  Nottingham." 

STAMFORDIENSIS. 

UNIVERSAL  SUFFRAGE  (3rd  S.  i.  197.)— Uni- 
versal suffrage  was  the  custom  in  England  just  as 
in  Athens  formerly  every  man  had,  and  in  the 
southern  states  of  North  America  every  man  has, 
the  franchise ;  that  is  to  say,  except  slaves  and 
strangers.  So  formerly  in  England  all  "  liberi  et 
legates  homines  "  had  the  right  of  suffrage.  Their 
modern  representatives  have  it  still.  The  serf 
and  villein  had  it  not.  Their  representatives  in 
modern  English  society  are,  for  the  most  part, 
perhaps,  without  it.  Probably  the  proportion  of 
adult  Englishmen,  who,  in  the  days  of  so-called 
universal  suffrage,  possessed  the  franchise,  to  those 
who  were  without  it,  was  a  good  deal  smaller  than 
it  is  now.  LIBER  ET  LEGALIS  HOMO. 

ALL  HALLOW  EVEN  (3rd  S.  i.  223.)  —The  fired 
straw  noted  by  Dugdale  (the  famous  "clears" 
seen  zig-za<_'ging  the  mountains  of  Mourne  on  the 
night  of  O'Connell's  liberation),  as  being  carried 
round  his  corn  by  the  master  of  a  family,  was 
meant  to  ward  off  Avitchcraft,  nnd  thereby  pre- 
serve the  corn  from  being  spoiled.  In  Scotland, 
oji  Hallowe'en,  the  red  end  of  a  fiery  stick  is  waved 
about  in  mystic  figures  in  the  air  to  accomplish 
for  the  person  the  same  spell.  Red  appears  to  be 
a  colour  peculiarly  obnoxious  to  witches.  One 
Hallowe'en  rhyme  enjoins  the  employment  of 
"  Rowan  tree  and  red  thread, 
To  gar  the  witches  dance  their  dead,"  — 

i.  c.  dance  till  they  fall  down  and  expire.  The 
berries  of  the  Rowan  tree  (mountain  ash)  are  of 
a  brilliant  red.  The  point  of  the  fiery  stick  waved 
rapidly  takes  the  appearance  of  "  red  thread." 

SHOLTO  MACDUFF. 

CURIOUS  CUSTOM  AT  WALSALL  (3rd  S.  i.  223.)— 
The  following  is  extracted  from  White's  History 
of  Staffordshire,  p.  645 ;  and  I  will  add  that  the 
population  of  Walsall  and  Rushall  now  reaches 


nearly  39,000,  and  that,  it  would  require  160/.  to 
pay  the  penny  a-piece,  besides  the  cost  of  distri- 
bution :  — 

"  MollesleyY  Alms-houses,  in  Dudley  Street,  Walsall, 
consist  of  eleven  dwellings,  for  as  many  poor  women,  and 
were  erected  by  the  corporation  in  1825,  in  lieu  of  an 
ancient  annual  payment,  called  Mollesley's  Dole,  which 
the  corporation,  till  that  year,  were  accustomed  to  make 
of  a  penny  a-piece  to  all  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of 
Walsall,  and  of  the  adjoining  parish  of  Rushall.  Three 
persons  were  employed  to  make  this  distribution,  who 
began  on  New  Year's  Day,  and  went  through  the  parishes, 
giving  a  penny  to  every  inmate  of  every  house,  whether 
permanently  or  accidentally  abiding  there.  Plot  says  the 
earliest  mention  of  this  dole  is  in  the  36th  of  Henry 
VIIL,  when  11  10s.  6d.  discharged  it ;  but  from  1799  till 
the  time  of  its  cessation,  it  required  about  60/.  a-year  to 
satisfy  all  the  claimants,  and  pay  the  expenses  of  the  dis- 
tribution. There  are  various  traditions  respecting  this 
penny  dole,  but  they  all  concur  in  attributing  it  to  one 
Thomas  Mollesley,  from  whom  an  estate  at  Bascote,  in  War- 
wickshire, was  derived  in  1451,  and  is  still  possessed  by  the 
corporation.  The  donor,  in  granting  this  estate  to  the 
corporation,  charged  it  with  the  annual  payment  of  nine 
marks  to  the  Abbot  of  Hales  Owen,  'who  should  keep 
one  mark  for  his  labour,  in  distributing  the  remaining 
eight  marks,  at  the  obit  of  the  said  Thomas  Mollesley  at 
Walsall,  for  the  souls  of  the  said  Thomas  and  Margery 
his  wife,  and  others ;  and  this  by  the  oversight  of  the 
vicar  of  Walsall,  and  of  all  the  chaplains  of  the  Guild  of 
St.  John  the  Baptist,  of  the  church  of  Walsall.'  The  eight 
marks  above  named  were  no  doubt  the  origin  of  the  dole, 
and  would,  before  the  Reformation,  be  amply  sufficient  to 
supply  a  penny  a-piece  to  all  the  parishioners,  or  at  least 
to  all  who  repaired  to  the  church  on  the  obit  day,  to  pray 
for  the  souls  of  the  donor  and  his  wife,  —  a  superstitious 
custom  which  caused  the  estate  to  be  seized  by  Henry 
VII I.  when  he  suppressed  the  monasteries.  The  estate 
remained  with  the  crown  till  Queen  Elizabeth,  in  the  28th 
year  of  her  reign,  granted  to  certain  persons  in  trust,  as 
it  is  supposed,  for  the  use  of  the  corporation  and  common- 
ally  of  Walsall,  certain  premises  in  Walsall,  including 
the  Town  Hall,  and  also  all  lands,  tenements,  &c.,  lying 
in  the  villages  and  fields  of  Bascote,  Itchington,  and 
Stockton,  formerly  parcel  of  the  possessions  of  Thomas 
Mollesley  of  Walsall  (together  with  other  lands  in  Wal- 
sall and  Rushall)  ;  and  also  all  rents,  services,  &c.,  in  as 
full  and  ample  a  manner  as  any  abbot,  prior,  master, 
dean,  bishop,  presbyter,  chapter,  chaplain,  or  other  per- 
son or  persons,  had  at  any  time  theretofore  enjoyed  the 
same." 

T.  J.  BUCKTON. 

Lichfield, 

ORANGE  BUTTER  (3rd  S.  i.  205.)  —  This  item, 
which  occurs  so  frequently  in  the  Duchess  of 
Grafton's  account-book,  appears  to  perplex  HER- 
MENTRUDE  quite  as  much  as  the  word  butter  does 
the  undersigned,  and  if  this  note  will  be  taken  as 
a  query,  possibly  some  kind  writer  will  enlighten 
me  from  what  root  comes  the  word  butter  ? 

In  the  meantime  I  will  explain  orange  butter. 
This  article  is  nothing  more  than  what  is  in  our 
day  known  as  Pommade-a-la-Fleur  d Orange. 
This  article  has  been  made  for  many  centuries 
in  Italy,  and  in  the  South  of  France,  on  the  torrent 
Var,  together  with  other  butters  —  as  Jasmine 
Butter •,  Violet  Butter,  &c.,  and  to  an  extent  almost 


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beyond  belief.  The  returns  being  for  Grasse  and 
Cannes,  the  chief  seats  of  the  manufacture,  100,000 
kilogrammes  annually. 

The  general  introduction  of  the  word  pomatum, 
in  place  of  butter  in  England,  is  of  comparative 
recent  origin.  The  Greeks  and  the  Romans  used 
butter  derived  from  milk  as  an  ointment ;  and  to 
this  day  it  is  sold  in  Spain  by  medical  men  for 
outward  application  as  an  unguent.  The  flower- 
scented  butters  are  used  throughout  the  civilised 
world  for  anointing  the  hair,  and  it  was  doubtless 
for  this  purpose  her  Grace  the  Duchess  of  Graf- 
ton  employed  it.  These  flower-scented  butters 
are  made  by  infusing  the  fresh -gathered  flowers 
in  purified  grease ;  also  by  spreading  grease  on 
glass  trays  (chasse-en-verre),  and  then  sprinkling 
the  flowers  over  the  grease,  changing  the  blossoms 
repeatedly  for  several  days.  The  grease  absorbs 
the  odour  given  off  by  the  flowers  as  an  hygrome- 
tric  salt  absorbs  water  from  the  air.  Grease  thus 
perfumed  becomes  the  medium  for  procuring  the 
scents  now  found  at  every  perfumery  factor's. 
Thus  the  Orange  Butter,  the  Jasmine  Butter,  &c. 
is  cut  up  fine,  and  put  into  pure  alcohol ;  the 
grease  does  not  dissolve,  but  the  odorous  principle 
is  all  extracted  by  the  spirit.  These  are  the  per- 
fumes of  our  day  of  such  and  such  a  flower. 

SEPTIMUS  PIESSE. 

TURGESIUS  THE  DANE  (3rd  S.  i.  150,  217.)  — 
The  name  of  Tourgis  is  of  very  ancient  date  in 
the  Channel  Islands,  and  is  not  yet  extinct. 
Among  the  Records  of  the  Placita  Corona  of  the 
28th  Edw.  I.,  Nicholas  Turgys  appears  as  one  of 
the  Jurats  of  the  Royal  Court  of  Jersey.  In  the 
Extent  of  the  Island  of  Guernsey  made  in  the  5th 
Edw.  III.,  and  in  the  Record  of  Placita  Corona 
of  the  same  year,  Radulphus  Tourgys  is  found  as 
one  of  the  Douzaine,  or  Jury  of  St.  Peter-Port. 
One  of  the  forts  recently  erected  in  Alderney  is 
called  Fort  Tourgie  (so  misspelt  by  the  Royal 
Engineers)  from  the  ancient  appellation  of  the 
locality  —  Tourgy  —  where  it  is  situated.  The 
above  facts  are  sufficient  to  prove  a  respectable 
antiquity  for  the  name  in  Normandy,  and  Tur- 
gesius  is  a  very  likely  form  for  it  to  have  assumed 
in  Latin.  Whether  the  Normans  were  Danes  or 
Norwegians  is  still  undecided,  but  one  thing  is 
certain  —  that  their  poet  Wace  calls  the  language 
they  spoke  Daneis.  DE  MAEEVILLE. 

SCRIPTURE  PARAPHRASE  (3rd  S.  i.  134.)  —  For 
my  part,  I  feel  much  obliged  to  J.  R.  C.  for  giving 
us  a  copy  of  Zozimus's  doggrel  on  the  finding  of 
Moses.  I  often  wished  for  an  attested  copy  ;  and 
I  hope  he  will  be  able  to  give  "  Mary  in  Agypt " 
(Egypt)  also. 

Many  a-  bit  of  fun  I  had  with  Zozimus  when  I 
was  a  boy ;  but  I  suppose  he  is  dead,  and,  judging 
from  his  popularity  amongst  the  lower  classes,  I 
presume  had  a  public  funeral.  He  was  a  special 


favourite  with  the  market-women  of  Bull  Alley, 
in  consequence  of  his  pertinacity  in  declaring  that 
"  St.  Patrick  was  born  in  Bull  Alley  in  this  city." 

GEORGE  LLOYD. 

ARMY  AND  NAVY  LISTS  (3rd  S.  i.  198.)  — I 
should  be  much  obliged  if  J.  M.  would  have  the 
goodness  to  state  whether  in  the  Towns  of  Warr, 
Castles,  Bulwarks  and  Fortresses  in  England, 
1588,  there  is  any  mention  of  the  islands  of  Scilly, 
Guernsey,  and  Jersey.  MELETES. 

TANKERVILLE  (2nd  S.  xii.  190,  355.)— There 
seems  no  doubt  that  the  escutcheon  of  pretence 
borne  by  Sir  Henry  Grey,  Lord  Powis,  and 
described  by  SELRACH  "  a  bordure  charged  with 
roundles,"  is,  as  suggested  by  MELETES,  the  arms 
of  Tankerville,  viz.  —  "  Gules,  an  inescutcheon 
argent,  within  an  orle  of  eight  cinqfoils,  ermine," 
but  these  are  said  to  have  been  first  borne  by 
"  Sir  William  de  Tankerville,  who  being  sent  by 
King  Henry  I.  against  the  Earl  of  Leicester 
(Robert  de  Bellomont),  in  Normandy,  then  in 
rebellion  (which  earl  bore,  "  Gu.  a  cinqfoil  erm."), 
and  overcoming  him  received  on  his  return  home 
this  addition  to  his  own  arms  (which  were,  "  Gu., 
an  inescutcheon  arg.")  an  orle  of  eight  cinqfoils 
erm."  (Vide  Arch.  Barrington's  Lectures  on  He- 
raldry, p.  78,  pi.  N.  No.  3.)  Cf.  also  the  arms  of 
Chamberlayne  derived  from  the  Norman  Counts 
of  Tankerville,  viz.  "  Gu.  an  inescutcheon  arg. 
within  an  orle  of  mullets  or."  —  Hugh  Chamber- 
len,  "  the  celebrated  Court  physician,  temp.  King 
James  II.  and  Queen  Anne,"  bore  "Cinqfoils 
arg."  in  place  of  mullets.  HENRY  W.  S.  TAYLOR. 

ARMS  IN  NOBLE'S  "CROMWELL  FAMILY"  (3rd 
S.  i.  109,  179.)  —  I  would  suggest  to  H.  S.  G.  that 
the  arms  in  question  should  be  sought  for  among 
the  alliances  of  male  members  of  the  Cromwell 
family,  —  the  connection  with  that  of  Palavicini 
(or  Paravicino)  being  by  females,  the  arms  of 
that  family  would  not  be  impaled,  as  in  the  in- 
stance quoted,  but  borne  on  the  husband's  or 
dexter  side  of  the  shield.  In  the  somewhat  im- 
perfect pedigree  given  under  "  Cromwell  of  Ches- 
hunt,"  in  Burke's  Landed  Gentry,  Sir  Henry 
Cromwell  is  stated  to  have  married  twice,  but  only 
the  name  of  the  first  wife,  Joan  Warren,  is  given, 
—  may  not  the  arms  referred  to  be  those  of  the 
second  wife  ?  and,  query,  who  was  she  ?  Again,  in 
the  same  account,  Sir  Oliver,  the  eldest  son  of 
Sir  Henry,  is  said  to  have  married,  secondly, 
"Anne  dau.  of  Egidius  Hiffman  of  Antwerp," 
(who  was  also  widow  of  Sir  Horatio  Palaviciui), 
— may  the  coat  under  inquiry  be  that  of  Hiffman  ? 
I  cannot  trace  the  name  in  any  English  work  on 
Heraldry  to  which  I  have  access. 

HENRY  W.  S.  TAYLOR. 

TAYLOR  FAMILY  (2nd  S.  xii.  519  ;  3rd  S.  i.  75, 
137.)— I  am  obliged  to  your  correspondents  who 


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have  kindly  noticed  my  inquiries, — the  main  sub- 
ject of  which,  however,  still  remains  unanswered. 
I  am  still  anxious  to  know,  chiefly,  what  arms 
were  borne  by  Dr.  Rowland  Taylor,  and  what 
became  of  his  descendants  ?  some  of  whom,  at 
least,  it  is  believed,  as  already  stated,  remained 
in  Worcester,  and  one  daughter  (or,  more  pro- 
bably, grand- daughter)  became  the  wife  of  Dr. 
John  Frideaux,  who^was  Bishop  of  Worcester 
1611—50.  Did  others  migrate,  as  suggested,  into 
the  neighbouring  counties  ?  or  do  any  traditions 
exist,  tending  to  establish  such  a  fact,  in  the  more 
immediate  localities  bordering  on  the  precise  spot 
of  their  settlement,  Worcester  ?  where,  as  shown, 
the  name  is  to  be  found  as  late  as  the  first  half  of 
the  last  century.  The  descent  of  Bishop  Jeremy 
Taylor  from  the  martyr  Rowland  is  'assumed  by 
his  biographers,  but,  I  believe,  without  any  direct 
evidence  in  proof  of  such  connection.  Are  any 
particulars  extant  of  the  parentage  and  extrac- 
tion of  Rowland  Taylor?  That  "he  was  born 
near  the  end  of  the  fifteenth  century  at  Roth- 
bury,  Northumberland,  near  the  birth-places  of 
Ridley,  Bernard  Gilpin,  and  Dean  Turner,"  seems 
all  that  is  known  on  this  point;  but,  from  his 
after-career,  it  may  reasonably  be  hoped  that 
something  more  may  be  preserved,  either  oral  or 
written;  and,  in  the  hope  of  eliciting  this,  with 
the  editor's  kind  permission,  I  venture  to  renew 
the  inquiry.  I  would  just  add,  with  reference  to 
the  reply  of  P.  P.  (p.  137),  that  it  was  not  to  the 
present  members  of  thejBifrons  family  I  referred  in 
my  previous  inquiry,  but  to  any  other  descendants 
(if  such  exist)  of  Nathaniel  Taylor  (or  Taylour), 
the  progenitor  of  that  house,  who  was  M.P.  for 
Bedford  and  Recorder  of  Colchester,  temp.  Com- 
monwealth, and  of  whose  family  of  eighteen  chil- 
dren (besides  John,  who  settled  at  Bifrons),  Burke 
only  states  that  several  died  young.  This  family, 
although  located  in  Kent,  the  same  authority  states, 
came  originally  from  Whitchurch,  in  Shropshire. 
The  arms  of  Taylor  quartered  by  the  Mynors 
family  of  Treago,  now  merged  in  that  of  Rickards, 
are  stated  in  the  Supplement  to  Burkc's  Armory  (s. 
v.  Rickards  of  Evengobb,  co.  Radnor)  to  be  those 
of  Taylor  of  Broadheath  (co.  Hereford),  but  no 
blazon  is  given.  In  the  pedigree  of  Greenly  of 
Titlcy  Court  (Burke's  Hist,  of  Commoners,  vol.  i. 
p.  298),  it  is,  however,  recorded  that  the  only  child 
of  Nicholas  Taylor  of  Broadheath,  Herefordshire 
(by  Dorothy,  daughter  by  a  third  marriage  in 
1G82  of  [ John  Greenly,  Esq.  of  Titley),  married 
the  Rev.  John  (or  James)  Ingram  of  Burford, 
whose  co-heiresses  married  into  the  families  of 
Pateshall  and  Dansey.  The  arms  borne  by  Bishop 
Taylor  and  many  other  existing  families  —  the 
escallop  shells  on  a  chief, —bear  a  striking  re- 
semblance to  those  of  Tailbois  or  Tailboys  (""Lord 
of  Hurworth,  co.  Durham"),  viz.  "  arg.  a  saltire 
gu.,  on  a  chief  of  the  second  3  escallops  of  the 


first."  Is  this  resemblance  accidental  only  ?  The 
descent  from  the  Norman  Baron  Taillefer  is 
claimed  by  the  Taylors  of  Pennington. 

HEBALDTCUS. 

S.T.P.  AND  D.D.  (3rd  S.  i.  231.) —There  can,  I 
think,  be  no  doubt  but  that  S.T.P.  means  S. 
Theol.  Professor,  just  as  S.T.B.  means  S.  T.  Bac- 
calaureus.  V.D.M.  (Verb.  Divin.  Minis.)  is  the 
affix  -which  the  preacher,  as  distinguished  from 
the  divine,  attaches  to  his  name. 

Your  correspondent  will  bear  in  mind,  that  the 
higher  University  degrees  are,  in  theory,  not  so 
much  titles  of  honour  as  titles  to  offices.  A 
University  is  made  up  of  Chancellor  (who  pre- 
sides), Masters  (who  teach),  and  Scholars  (who 
learn). 

The  Bachelor  in  Arts,  or  in  a  faculty,  when  ad- 
mitted to  profess  and  teach  that  of  which 'he  has 
been  a  student,  is  denominated  Master,  Doctor, 
or  Professor.  Every  D.D.,  for  example,  is  a  Pro- 
fessor of  Divinity,  though  one  particular  D.D. 
may  be  designated  as  the  Queen's ;  another  as 
the  Norrisian  Professor  of  Divinity,  and  so  forth. 

Even  in  comparatively  recent  times  there  were 
efforts  made  to  enforce  the  ancient  University 
rule,  that  those  who  had  been  admitted  to  profess 
art  as  a  faculty  should,  for  a  certain  space  of 
time  (five  years  if  professing  arts,  two  if  profess- 
ing a  faculty),  exercise  themselves  in  the  actual 
discharge  of  their  professed  functions. 

A  NON-REGENT. 

I  always  understood  at  Oxford  that  S.T.P. 
means  Sanctaa  Theologia?  Professor,  and  D.D. 
Doctor  of  Divinity  ;  the  former  being  the  Latin, 
the  latter  the  English  term,  for  that  degree  in 
Divinity  ;  exempli  gratia  — 

loannes  Tuckett,  S.T.P. 
John  Tuckett,  D.D. 

S.T.P.  (Oxon.) 

ARMS  OP  WILKES  (3rd  S.  i.  217.)  —  Was  John 
Wilkcs  descended  from  the  Staffordshire  family  ? 
My  impression  has  been  that  he  was  in  no  ways  con- 
nected with  it.  Yet  to  Wilks,  of  Wolverhampton, 
was  given,  at  a  Herald's  Visitation  in  the  reign  of 
Elizabeth,  the  coat :  Or,  a  chevron  gules  between 
three  ravens'  heads  erased,  proper.  I  believe 
that  Wilks,  of  Wolverhampton,  was  an  offshoot  of 
Wilkes  of  Willenhall.  Of  that  family  (Wilkes  of 
Willenhall),  originally  settled  in  Hertfordshire, 
and  thence  removed  into  Staffordshire,  a  full  ac- 
count was  given  by  Dr.  Richard  Wilkes  in  his 
History  of  Staffordshire.  ONE  OF  THE  FAMILY. 

THE  PRIVILEGE  OF  BEING  COVERED  IN  THE 
ROYAL  PRESENCE  (3rd  S.  i.  208.),  of  which  S.  T. 
writes,  is,  I  believe,  always  asserted  by  its  pos- 
sessor, Lord  Kingsale.  It  is,  if  I  mistake  not,  the 
rule  that  Lord  Kingsale  should,  as  a  matter  of 
privilege,  just  cover;  and  then,  as  a  matter  of 


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courtesy,  uncover  his  head.  The  story,  to  which 
S.  T.  refers,  is  to  the  effect,  that  once  upon 
the  occasion  of  Lord  Kingsale  exercising  before 
George  III.  his  ancient  privilege,  the  King's  ad- 
dress to  him  was  :  "  Lord  Kingsale,  I  do  not  dis- 
pute your  right  of  standing  covered  in  my  pre- 
sence ;  but,  my  Lord,  there  is  the  Queen." 

BUTLER  ABOO. 

Speaking  of  Christopher  Brown,  who  was  High 
Sheriff  of  the  county  of  liutland,  8  &  16  Hen.  VII., 
and  1  Hen.  VIII.,  Kent,  in  the  Banner  Displayed, 
vol.  ii.  p.  625,  says  :  — 

"This  Christopher  came  over  -with  Henrjr  VII.,  and 
assisted  him  against  Richard  III.,  for  which  good  service 
King  Henry  VIII.  granted  a  Patent  to  his  son  Francis  to 
excuse  him  from  ever  bearing  the  office  of  Sheriff  or 
Escheator,  and  from  serving  upon  any  Jury  at  the  As- 
sizes, &c. ;  and  also  giving  him  Liberty  to  be  covered  in  the 
Presence  of  the  King  himself,  or  any  of  his  Nobility." 

JOHN  WOODWARD. 

FOILLES  DE  GLETUERS  (2nd  S.  xii.  347 ;  3rd  S. 
i.  98.)  —  In  the  dialect" of  Norman-Frencb,  spoken 
in  the  Island  of  Guernsey,  the  name  of  the  yellow 
iris,  or  corn-flag  (7m  pseudacorus),  is  glajeur ; 
in  French,  glaievl.  If,  as  is  not  improbable,  the 
letter  "  f,"  in  the  word  gleteurs,  has,  by  an  error 
of  transcription,  been  substituted  for  "j,"  the 
words  may  be  considered  as  identical. 

DE  MAREVILLE. 

THE  SHAMROCK  (3r  J  S.  i.  224.)  — 

"  A   SHAMROCK. 

"  For  the  hortus  siccus  of  an  English  Lady. 
"  A  shamrock  for  a  lovely  English  maid, 

And  gathered  in  the  gloom  of  Christmas  even, 
When  evil  spirits  in  the  deep  are  laid, 
And  gentle  fays  to  haunted  ken  are  given. 

"  Druids  revered  it ;  and  in  after  age, 

When  scorn  was  all  the  Missionary's  meed, 
Patrick  appealed  to  Nature's  dewy  page, 
And  by  this  triune  symbol  proved  his  creed. 

"  Symbol  alike  of  fair  Victoria's  sway, 

Three  realms  engrafted  on  one  royal  stem — 
No  rebel  hand  shall  sever  one  away, 
Nor  snatch  the  emerald  from  her  diadem. 

"  Fair  girl !  When  you  possess  this  tiny  guest,' 

Amid  your  gay  anatomy  of  flowers, 
Remember  Who  pronounced  the  humblest  best, 
And  think  on  Ireland  in  your  Saxon  bowers. 
"  Thus  alway  may  the  bloom  of  York  abide 

In  snow  unwrinkled  on  that  forehead  meek ; 
Nor  ever  sentiment  of  shame,  or  pride, 
Deepen  Lancastrian  roses  on  your  cheek. 

"  JOHN  LOCKE,  Dublin." 

The  above  graceful  and  ingenious  stanzas  aptly 
illustrate  the  popular  Irish  tradition,  related  in 
the  mythic  controversy  between  Ossian  and 
St.  Patrick,  of  the  latter  having  converted  the 
heathen  bard  by  producing  a  shamrock,  as  symbol 
and  proof  of  the  Trinity.  They  appear  in  Beau- 
tiful Poetry,  vol.  vi.  p,  350 ;  and  were  written  by 


a  gentleman  whose  pen   has  been  busy  on  far 
different  and  more  useful  themes.      JEANNETTE. 
Dublin. 

LONG  SERMONS  (3rd  S.  i.  256.)  — Barrow  is  said 
once  to  have  preached  three  and  a  half  hours 
(Pope's  Life  of  Bishop  Ward,  quoted  in  Abraham 
Hill's  "  Life  of  Barrow,"  prefixed  to  the  Oxford 
edition  of  his  Works,  1830,  i.  xxi.) 

I  think  it  is  in  Old  Mortality  that  the  horrible 
test  of  a  man's  religious  earnestness  is  suggested 
by  some  Puritan  :  "  Can  he  sit  six  hours  on  a  wet 
hill-side  listening  to  a  sermon  ?  " 

A  magnificent  Christmas-Day  sermon  of  Mas- 
sillon,  on  the  Divinity  of  Christ,  is  as  long  as 
many  essays.  LTTTELTON. 

Hagley,  Stourbridge. 

SQUEERSANDDo-THE-BoYS'HALL(3rdS.i.212.) 

— If  Mr.  Warner  and  Mr.  Dickens  both  drew 
from  life,  as  there  is  reason  to  believe  they  did, 
the  resemblance  between  them  is  easily  accounted 
for. 

In  my  younger  days,  I  remember  to  have  read 
over  and  over  again  —  I  think  in  the  now  de- 
funct (?)  Morning  Chronicle — the  advertisements 
of  these  Yorkshire  schools,  one  of  which,  at  Greta 
Bridge,  was  conducted  by  a  Mr.  "  W.  Squires  "  ; 
and,  as  his  house  of  business  was  the  Saracen's 
Head,  we  can  hardly  wonder  that  legal  proceed- 
ings against  Mr.  Dickens  were  threatened  on  this 
score. 

My  present  object,  however,  is  merely  to  drop 
a  hint  for  those  who  inveigh  so  bitterly  against 
novels  and  novel  readers.  What  has  swept  from 
the  columns  of  our  daily  journals  these  menda- 
cious and  mischievous  advertisements,  and  put 
down  these  horrible  schools  ?  There  can  be  but 
one  answer  to  the  question. 

Just  at  the  time  that  Nicholas  Nicklely  was 
appearing,  one  of  our  first-class  West  India  firms 
received,  from  a  constituent  in  Jamaica,  a  con- 
signment of  two  youths,  accompanied  by  a  re- 
quest that  they  might  be  sent  to  one  of  the  York- 
shire schools,  described  in  such  glowing  colours 
in  the  public  prints.  In  the  very  nick  of  time, 
the  description  of  Do-the-Boys'  Hall  fell  into  the 
hands  of  one  of  the  partners,  and  was,  of  course, 
instantly  fatal  to  the  proposition.  Would  a  solemn 
dissertation  on  the  duties  of  education,  or  a  homily 
from  the  pulpit,  have  done  its  work  so  well  ? 

DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

STANZA  BY  GEORGE  HERBERT  (3rd  S.  i.  249.)— 
I  am  surprised  at  the  Note  in  p.  249  of  last  num- 
ber of  "  N.  &  Q." 

The  stanza  by  George  Herbert  is  no  "  alteration 
of  the  poem  entitled  'Sunday,'"  in  which  there  is 
hardly  anything  at  all  like  it:  it  is  the  first 
stanza  of  those  on  "  Virtue  "  (p.  80  of  the  sixth 
edit.  [12mo.]  of  the  Poems,  Cambridge,  1641); 


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[3'd  S.  I.  APRIL  19,  '62. 


and  the  only  alteration  is  the  very  impertinent 
intrusion  of  the  words,  "  with  all  thy  sweets,"  in 


the  fourth  line. 


LYTTELTON. 


Hagley,  Stourbridge. 

INTERMENTS  IN  DONNTBROOK  PARISH,  NEAB 
DUBLIN  (2na  S.  xii.  470.)  — 

No.  5.  "  Mr.  Macquea,  Minister,  23rd  April,  1729." 

Rev.  Thomas  Maquay,  born  in  Dublin  about 
1694;  educated  by  the  Dublin  Presbytery,  and 
ordained  colleague  to  Rev.  Mr.  Synclare,  in  the 
Presbyterian  church  of  Plunket  Street;  died 
Jan.  27th,  1729;  his  widow  afterwards  married 
Dr.  Leland.  W.  F. 

TITLE-PAGES  (3rd  S.  i.  250.)— The  first  of  the 
two  titles,  for  which  E.  D.  inquires,  is  — 

"  Reflections  upon  the  Devotions  of  the  Roman  Church, 
with  the  Prayers,  Hymns,  and  Lessons  themselves,  taken 
out  of  their  Authentick  Books.  London:  R.  Royston, 
1674." 

It  is  anonymous,  but  is  well  known  to  be  by 
Bp.  Simon  Patrick.  G.  M.  G. 

SIR  WILLIAM  SACKVILLE  (3lJ  S.  i.  242.)  was 
the  third  son  of  Thomas  Sackville,  Lord  Buck- 
hurst,  K.Gr.  (afterwards  the  first  Earl  of  Dorset). 
He  was  born  about  15G9;  was  knighted  by  Henri 
IV.  in  Oct.  1589;  served  under  the  Earl  of  Essex 
at  the  siege  of  Rouen,  in  1591  ;  and  lost  his  life 
during  that  campaign.  (Coningsby's  Journal  of 
the  Siege  of  Rouen,  45,  77.) 

C.  H.  &  THOMPSON  COOPER. 

Cambridge. 

FAMILY  REGISTERS  (3rd  S.  i.  248.)  —  Messrs. 
Shaw,  of  No.  4,  Fetter  Lane,  supply  books  of 
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JAMES  GILBERT. 

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CLINICAL  LECTURES  (3rd  S.  i.  248.)  — 

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"  Languebam :  sed  tu  comitatus  protinus  ad  me 
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Centum  me  tetigere  manus  Aquilone  gelatie. 
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CONTENTS— NO.  17. 

NOT  1C  S  :  —  The  Roisters  of  the  Stationers'  Company,  321 

—  Proclamation  for  the  Apprehension  of  Bothwell,  323  — 

roduction  of  old  Witticisms,  324  —  Extracts  from  Origi- 
nal Contemporaneous  Correspondence  at  the  Period  of  the 
Landing  of  the  Prince  of  Orange,  Ib. 

MINOR  NOTES:  —  Edmnnd  Burke  —  Sir  Theodore  Mayerne 

—  Mode  and  Date  of  Execution  of  the  Marquis  of  Argyle 

—  Tenure  of  Livings  —  Change  of  Name— A  Watch  Case 

—  Indian  Architecture,  326. 

QUERIES:  —  The  Trifle:  a  Political  Ballad,  327  — Belief  in 
the  General  Decay  of  Nature  in  the  Seventeenth  Century 

—  Paris  Edition  of  the  Holy  Bible,  A.D.  1586  — Church 
Aisle  and  Monuments  —  Sir  John  Cherubin  —  Miss  Edgar 

—  The  Royal  Crown  of  Egypt  —  Epigram  — Grothill  — 
Jacobite  Query:  James  Nihel  — Maclean  of  Torloisk  — 
Old  Monuments  in  the  Vaults  of  St.  Martin's-in-the-Fields 

—  The  Opal-hunter  —  Prisoner  of  Gisors  —  St.  Patrick's 
Day  at  Eton  —  Revivals  of  Religion :  Macculloch  of  Cam- 
buslang  —  Tilney  or  Tinley  Family,  &c.,  328. 

QUEEIES  WITH  A  NSWEBS:— "Genealogy  of  James  I."  — 
Peggies  —  B6i-anger :  "  Le  Chant  du  Cosaque"  —  "The 
Somerset  House  Gazette  "— Camillus  (Joannes)  Genvensis, 
1330. 

REPLIES :  —  Cutting  off  with  a  Shilling,  331  —  Not  too  Good 
to  be  True,  332  —  Congers  and  Mackerel,  Ib.  —  Boydell  — 
S.T.P  and  D.D.  —  Caricatures  and  Satirical  Prints  — The 
Camel  an  Hieroglyphic  —  A  Brace  of  Shakes  — The  Bar- 
barians of  Harting  —  Hunter's  Moon  — Churches  built 
East  and  West —Enigma  — The  Emperor  Napoleon  III. 

—  Kentish  Miller  —  King  of  Spain  —  Superstition  —  "  Sun 
and  Whalebone  "  —  Quotation  —  Mad.  D'Arblay's  "  Diary  " 

—  Thackwell  Family,  333. 
Notes  on  Books. 


tfotef* 

THE  REGISTERS  OF  THE  STATIONERS' 

COMPANY. 
{Continued from  3rd  S.  i.  243.) 

viij°  August!  [1592].— Richarde  Jones.  Entred 
for  his  copie,  under  thandes  of  the  Archbishop  of 
Canterburie  and  Mr  Watkins,  Pierce  Pennilesse 
his  supplication  to  the  devill vjd. 

[This  was  perhaps  the  most  popular  tract  at  that 
period  published.  Thomas  Nash,  the  author  of  it,  him- 
self tells  us,  that  in  the  first  year,  it  was  six  times  re- 
printed, and  we  have  three  of  the  earliest  editions  be- 
fore us.  We  exactly  copy  the  title-page  of  the  first, 
above  entered: — "Pierce  Penilesse  his  Supplication  to 
the  Divell.  Describing  the  overspreading  of  Vice  and 
the  suppression  of  Vertue.  Pleasantly  interlac'd  with 
variable  delights :  and  pathetically  intermixt  with  con- 
ceipted  reproofes.  Written  by  Thomas  Nash,  Gentleman. 
— London,  Imprinted  by  Richard  Jhones,  dwelling  at  the 
Signe  of  the  Rose  and  Crowne,  nere  Holburne  Bridge. 
1592."  4to.  In  the  second  impression  Nash  complained 
of  the  ostentatious  and  self-applauding  title-page,  and 
it  \vas  reprinted  by  Abel  Jeffes,  without  any  puff.  As  it 
refers  to  the  death  of  Rob.  Greene,  we  may  be  sure  that 
it  came  out  subsequently  to  Sept.  1592;  but  as  it  was 
carefully  republished  by  the  Shakespeare  Society  in 
1842,  it  is  not  necessary  here  to  say  more.] 

xxj°  Augusti. — John  Danter.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  The  Repentant  of  a 

Conycatcher,  with  the  life  and  death  of Mour- 

tonand  Ned  Browne,  twoo  notable  cony  catchers,  The 


one  latelie  executed  at  Tybvrne,  the  other  at  Arx  in 

Fraunce vjd. 

[The  exploits  of  Ned  Browne  are  referred  to  in  several 
contemporaneous  tracts :  he  was  probably  not  the  rogue 
executed  in  France,  regarding  whom  we  recollect  no 
other  notice.] 

xxij°  die  Augusti. — John  Kydde.  Enterd  for 
his  copie,  &c.  a  booke  of  The  true  reporte  of  the 
poisoninge  of  Thomas  Elliot,  Tailor  of  London, 

[As  John  Kydde  was  the  publisher  of  this  "  book,"  it 
is  not  at  all  unlikely  that  Thomas  Kydde,  the  dramatic 
poet,  was  (as  he  had  been  of  the  tract  on  the  murder  of 
Bruen)  the  writer  of  it.  It  has  not,  we  believe,  sur- 
vived,"nor  have  we  any  other  account  of  the  murder.] 

viij  die  Septembr.  —  John  Wolfe.  Entred  for 
his  copies  theis  twoo  ballades  followinge  —  viz. 
The  historye  of  Susanna,  beinge  the  xiijth  chapter 
ofDanyell vjd. 

The  lamentation  of  a  mayde  that  throughe  her 
owne  folly e  did  suffer  her  self  to  be  stollen  awaie 
with  a  yonge  man vjd. 

xx°  die  Septembr.— Willm.  Wrighte.  Entred 
for  his  copie  under  Mr  Watkin's  hand,  uppon  the 
perill  of  Henrye  Chettle,  a  booke  intituled 
Greene's  Groatsworth  of  wytt  bought  with  a  mil- 
lion of  Repentance vjd. 

[This  is  the  original  entry  of  the  celebrated  Shake- 
spearian tract,  in  -which  our  great  dramatist  is  called 
"  the  only  Shake-scene  of  a  country,"  and  which  occa- 
sioned much  discussion  and  personal  animosity.  We 
shall  presently  meet  with  the  registration  of  a  produc- 
tion called  Kind-heart's  Dream,  by  Chettle,  in  which  he 
endeavoured  to  make  amends,  and  to  explain  the  cir- 
cumstances under  which  the  publication  of  Greene's 
Groans-worth  of  Wit  took  place.  These  circumstances 
are  now  so  well' known  to  all  readers  of  Shakespeare  that 
we  need  not  enter  into  them.  The  death  of  Robert 
Greene,  in  Sept.  1592,  gave  rise  to  several  angry  publica- 
tions by  Harvey,  Nash,  &c.] 

22  die  Septembr.  —  John  Charlewood.  Entred 
for  his  copie  &c.  theis  thinges  followinge,  viz.  : 

A  ballad  intytuled  A  pleasant  communication 
betwene  a  yonge  man,  a  howsholder,  and  his  love 
hee  wooed  for  his  wief vjd. 

Item,  another  Ballad  begynninge  thus  :  — 

Yf  weepinge  eies  or  inwarde  bleedinge  harte, 

Yf  outwarde  signes  are  showes  of  hidden  smarte, 
&c vjd. 

Item,  a  little  Booke  intituled  Dyana,  theprayses 
of  his  mistres,  in  certen  sweete  Sonnets,  frc.  .  vj*. 

[The  second  of  these  "ballads"  is  known,  and  one 
copy  of  it  is  in  the  Pepysian  Collection ;  but  the  most 
important  portion  of  the  registration  is  the  last,  of  a 
work  which  obtained  great  distinction,  by  Henry  Con- 
stable. His  "Diana"  was  printed  in  4to,  1592,  under 
the  subsequent  title  —  "  Diana.  The  praises  of  his  Mis- 
tres in  certaine  sweete  Sonnets.  By  H.C — London,  Printed 
by  J.  C.  for  Richard  Smith :  and  are  to  be  sold  at  the 
West  dore  of  Paules.  1592."  The  initials  J.  C.  are  of 
course  those  of  John  Charlewood.  This  edition  (of  which 
only  a  single  copy  is  known)  consists  merely  of  twenty- 
two  Sonnets  headed  Sonnetto  primo,  Sonnetto  gecondo,  &c. ; 


322 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES, 


[3rd  S.  I.  APRIL  26,  »62. 


bat  they  are  introduced  by  a  sonnet  "To  his  absent 
Diana,"  which  is  found  in  no  other  exemplar,  and  which 
we  would  therefore  copy,  if  our  space  were  sufficient.  A 
brief  address  "To  the  Gentlemen  Readers  "  informs  them, 
that  the  sonnets  had  been  "left  as  orphans,"  and  that 
"  beeing  left  desolate  they  sought  entertainment "  at  the 
hands  of  the  lovers  of  poetry.  Between  the  two  latest 
sonnets  is  inserted  "A  calculation  upon  the  birth  of  an 
honourable  Ladle's  daughter,  borne  in  the  yeare  1588,  and 
on  a  Friday."  The  work,  with  some  changes  and  addi- 
tions, was"  republished  in  1594,  1597,  and  1604.  The 
"honourable  Lady,"  whose  daughter  was  born  in  1588, 
was  Lady  Rich,  a  circumstance  that  does  not  seem  to 
have  been  generally  known.] 

2  Octobris.  —  Mr  AVoodcoeke.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  a  booke  entituled,  The  tldrde  parte  of 
the  Countesse  of  Pembroke's  Ivye  churche,  called 
Amintas  Dale vjd. 

[By  Abraham  Fraunce,  and  published  by  Woodcocke 
in  1592,  4to — a  very  rare,  but  very  worthless  production. 
The  author,  as  we  have  elsewhere  stated,  was  much  in- 
debted to  the  Sidney  family  for  his  education  and  posi- 
tion in  the  world.] 

vjto  die  Octobr.  —  John  Dnnter.  Entred  unto 
him  for  his  copie,  £c.  The  repentance  of  Robert 
Greene,  Mr  of  Arte vjd. 

[This  tract  is  imputed  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Dyce  to  Greene 
(i  cviii),  but  it  appears  to'  have  been  written  by  Luke 
llultoit,  who  was  afterwards  executed  for  robbery.  He 
himself  acknowledged  the  work  in  the  dedication  to  a 
piece  he  published  prior  to  1600,  where  he  alludes  to  the 
death  of  Greene  in  his  address  to  the; Readers.] 

Abell  Jeffes.  Entred  for  his  copie,  The  first 
Third  and  Fourth  paries  of  Gerillion,  frc.  .  vjd. 

[Most  probably  these  parts  of  this  French  romance  of 
chivalry  were  entered  for  translation,  as  we  Lave  seen 
(p.  242),  was  the  case  with  h  second  Livre  of  it  on  the  8th 
August  preceding.] 

Abell  Jeffes.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  Chaucer's 
iroorhes,  to  print  for  the  companyc  .  .  .  vja. 

[If  this  were  an  entry  of  what  is  usually  known  as 
Speght's  Chaucer,  it  did  not  come  out  until  1598,  and  then 
it  was  "Printed  by  Adam  Islip  at  the  charges  of  Thomas 
Wright."  Some  copies  have  at  the  bottom  of  the 
title-page,  "  Impensis  Geor.  Bishop,  Anno  1598";  and 
very  likely  each  of  the  stationers  concerned  (for  the  book 
was  the  undertaking  and  property  of  the  Company)  had 
filename  placed  at  the  bottom  of  the  title-page  "of  the  I 
copies  belonging  to  him,  and  issued  from  his  shop.] 

Abell  Jeffes.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  a  booke 
which  is  called  The  Spanishe  tragcdie  of  Don  Ho- 
ratio and  Bellimperia,  frc vjd. 

[This  was  the  work  of  Thomas  Kydde,  whom  we  have 
already  mentioned  as  a  predecessor  of  Shakespeare;  and 
the  above  appears  to  have  been  his  earliest  drama.    No 
older  impression  of  it  is  known  than  that  of  1599,  which  I 
however  mentions  "  the  gross  faults  "  of  previous  editions.  ' 

i  have  no  doubt  that  it  was  originally  printed  in  1599 

>93, in  consequence  of  the  preceding  memorandum, 

and  that  edition  may  have  come  from  the  press  of  Jeffes 

it  may  have  been  published  by  John  Kvdde,  whom 
we  believe  to  have  been  the  brother  of  Thomas  Kydde. 
he  groat  success  of  The  Spanish  Tragedy  induced  the 
author  to  write  his  play  of  Jeronimo,  connected  in  subject, 
but  not,  as  far  as  we  know,  published  until  1605.  Both 
are  reprinted  m  Dodsley's  O,  P.  vol.  iii.  edit  1825  ] 


xix  Octobr.  —  John  Kydde.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  a  ballad  intituled  The  Seaman  s  Cawl 
for  the  tdkinge  of  the  great  Carrack  .  .  .  vjd. 

I""  The  great  Carrack  "  was  a  very  large  Spanish  ship, 
captured  and  sent  into  Milford  Haven  by  men  employed 
by  Sir  W.  Raleigh.  It  was  supposed  to  be  of  enormous 
value,  and  the  "proceeds  were  more  than  considerable, 
though  only  a  small  part  seems  to  have  fallen  to  the  share 
of  the  author  of  The  History  of  the  World.] 

23  Oct.  —  Tho.  Adams,  Jo.  Oxenbridge.  En- 
tred for  his  copie,  in  full  court  holden  this  day,  A 
booke  called  The  adventures  ofBrusanns,  Prince  of 
Hungaria,  Sfc vjd. 

iiij  die  Novembr. — Tho.  Orwin.  Entred  for 
his  copie,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  The  Solace  for  the 
Souldier  and  Sayler vjd. 

[This  publication,  very  possibly,  had  reference  to  "the 
great  Carrack,"  and  to"  the  encouragement  it  afforded 
both  to  the  army  and  navy.  It  is  singular  that  StOAv  is 
silent  on  this  striking  event,  which  produced  a  sensation 
in  London,  and  caused  the  despatch  of  royal  commission- 
ers to  the  outport.] 

x°  die  ISTovembris.  —  Mr.  Ponsonby.  Entered 
for  his  copie,  A  booke  intituled  Aminte  gaudia, 
Authors  Thorn.  Watsono  Londi[n]ensi  juris  stti- 
dioso vjd. 

[Watson's  Amintce  Gaudia  was  published  by  Pon- 
sonby, with  the  date  of  1592.  The  dedication  is  to  the 
Countess  of  Pembroke.] 

xx°  die  Novembris.  —  Edward  White.  Entred 
for  his  copie,  &c.  The  tragedy  e  of  Salamon  and  Per- 
ceda vjd. 

[This  play  has  been  generally  assigned  to  T.  Kydde. 
It  Avas  reprinted  by  HaAvkins,  II.  195,  but  there  is  only 
one  old  edition,  and  that  bears  date  in  1599,  printed  by 
E.  Allde.  There  was  no  doubt  an  earlier  impression  in 
consequence  of  the  above  entry.  Nothing  can  be  worse 
printed  than  the  copy  of  1599,  Avhere,near  the  commence- 
ment, " faint-hearte'd  Persians"  is  mis-printed  "flint- 
hearted  Persians";  and  just  afterwards,  "gold-abound- 
ing Spain,"  is  mis-printed  "  gold-aboarding  Spain."  How- 
ever, such  nonsense,  and  much  more,  in  this  and  other 
plays,  has  hitherto  escaped  observation,  or  has  been  ab- 
surdly justified.] 

iiijto  die  Deoembr.  — John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  Doctor  Harvies  Letters  and  ccrten  So?mettest 
touchinge  Robert  Greene  and  Thomas  Nashe.  This 
was  entered  in  a  court  holden  this  day  .  .  vjd. 

[The  latter  part  of  this  registration  may  show,  as  there 
is  reason  to  believe,  that  consent  to  a  publication  of  so 
personal  a  nature  could  not  be  obtained  excepting  "  in  a 
court,"  the  usual  course  being  merely  to  take  the  work, 
when  duly  authorised  in  the  ordinary  way,  to  the  Clerk  at 
the  Hall.  It  came  out  in  1592,  4to,  but  Avithout  any  men- 
tion of  Nash  on  the  title-page,  whose  name,  for  the  sake 
of  attraction  we  may  presume,  originally  stood  there. 
This  elaborate  attack  upon  Greene  and  his  friends  was 
the  commencement  of  the  celebrated  controversy  between 
Harvey  and  Nash,  which,  after  having  been  carried  on 
for  some  years,  was  at  last  silenced  by  public  authority. 
Nash  Avas  ahvays  thought  to  have  had  the  best  of  it  in 
wit,  if  not  in  argument.] 

vto  Decembr.— Ric.  Jones.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  a  ballad  intituled  The  lamentation  of  Xpofer 


S.  I.  APRIL  20,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


323 


Tomlinson,  horse  corser,  commonlye  called  Kytt 
with  the  wry  mouthe,  whoe  hilled  his  wife  with  a 
dagger,  and  was  executed  for  the  same,  the  4th 
dale  of  December,  1592,  at  Tyborne  .  .  .  vjd. 
[This  ballad  is  extant  with  the  initials  T.  D.,  for 
Thomas  Deloney  at  the  end  of  it.  The  tune  assigned  to 
it  is  "  Fortune,"  and  it  begins  — 

"  Well  may  I  grone  and  sighe 

For  my  most  cruell  crime : 
My  life  hath  been  awry, 

And  I  misspent  my  tyme." 

It  afterwards  notices  the  defect  of  his  mouth,  mentioned 
in  the  entry,  but  the  only  copy  known  is  in  so  mutilated 
a  state,  that  we  hope  the  extract  we  have  made  may 
lead  to  the  discovery  and  identification  of  a  more  per- 
fect copy.] 

viij  December.  —  John  Danter.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  a  ballad  intituled  The  honors  achieved  in 
Frounce  and  Spayne  by  iiij01'  prentises  of  London. 

[In  1615  Thomas  Hay  wood  printed  a  play  on  the  sub- 
ject of  this  ballad ;  for,  as  the  above  memorandum  bears 
date  considerably  anterior  to  the  time  when  he  com- 
menced dramatic  author,  it  could  not  be  taken  from  his 
dramatic  performance.] 

William  Wrighte.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  a 
booke  intituled  Kinde  Hartes  Dreame  .  .  vjd. 

[This  is  the  publication  to  which  we  alluded  in  a  former 
part  of  this  article.  It  was  by  Henry  Chettle,  the  dramatist 
and  printer,  who  had  been  suspected  of  being  the  writer  of 
the  tract,  which  he  unquestionably  edited,  Greene's  Groats- 
worth  of  Wit,  bought  with  a  Million  of  Repentance.  Kind- 
heart's  Dream  came  out  with  the  date  of  1592,  and  of  late 
years  it  has  been  reprinted  by  the  Percy  Society.  Espe- 
cial regret  was  expressed  in  it  by  Chettle  for  the  unjust 
allusion  to  Shakespeare.] 

J.  PAYNE  COLLIER. 


PROCLAMATION  FOR  THE  APPREHENSION  OF 
BOTHWELL. 

[This  extremely  interesting  historical  document  has 
been  preserved  by  Sir  James  Balfour,  Lord  Lyon  King- 
at-Arms,  in  one  of  the  volumes  of  his  collections  in  the 
Library  of  the  Faculty  of  Advocates.  The  original  is  in 
black-letter.  James  Anderson,  in  his  Historical  Collec- 
tions relative  to  Queen  Mary,  has  printed  from  the  record 
the  order  of  the  Lords  of  Secret  Counsel  for  the  appre- 
hension of  Bothwell,  vol.  i.  He  does  not  notice  the 
printed  proclamation,  and  was,  perhaps,  ignorant  of  its 
existence.  There  can  be  no  doubt  that  it  was  circulated 
throughout  the  country.  The  chief  variations  between 
the  record  and  the  broadside  are  differences  in  spelling. 
1  am  not  aware  that  any  other  printed  copy  of  this  pro- 
duction is  in  existence.] 

€E  Heir  followis  ane  proclamation,  That  the  Lordis 
of  Secreit  Counsall  inaid  the  xxvi.  day  of 
Junii,  1567. 

i\irsamekle  as  the  Lordis  of  Secreit  counsall 
ami  others  of  the  Nobilitie,  Barronis,  and  faithfull 
subieetis  of  this  Realme,  persauing  the  miserabill 
estate  of  the  commoun  weill,  how  the  Kinrr,  the 
Quenis  Maiesteis  lait  husband,  was  horriblie  and 
shamefullie  murtherit,  na  tryall  takin  thairof  nor 
punisheinent  execute  on  the  authouris,  howbeit 


thay  war  knawin  weill  aneuch  in  the  sycht  of  men, 
hir  hienes  awin  persoun  tressonablie  rauissit*, 
and  thairefter  ioynit  with  the  Erie  Bothwell,  prin- 
cipall  authoure  of  the  said  cruell  murthour  in 
mariage,  althocht  maist  ungodly  baith  aganis  the 
Law  of  God  and  man,  continewing  still  in  thral- 
dome  and  bondage  under  the  zok  of  that  pre- 
tendit  and  unlefull  mariage.  C  Thairfoir  thay 
haue  takin  on  armis  to  puneis  the  authour  of  the 
said  cruel!  murthour  and  reuisiar,  to  preserue  the 
persoun  of  the  innocent  infant,  natiue  Prince  of 
this  Realme  fra  the  bludy  crueltie  of  him  that 
slew  his  father,  and  to  restoir  and  establishe  Jus- 
tice abusit  in  this  corrupt  tyme  to  all  the  leigis  of 
this  Realme.  And  being  on  the  feildis  reddy  to 
gif  battell  to  the  said  Erie  and  his  pertakers  efter 
that  he  had  cowartlie  refusit  singulair  combat 
baith  of  ane  Barren  and  gentilman  undefamit, 
and  of  a  Lord  and  Barren  of  Parliament,  to 
quhilkis  baith  he  had  befoir  offerit  him  self  be  his 
Cartel!  and  proclamatioun,  the  place  being  maist 
meit  and  conuenient  betuix  the  twa  companyis,  at 
last  he  fled  and  eschaipit,  takand  the  ignominie 
on  him  dew  unto  the  vincust  be  the  Law  of  armis, 
and  nottheles  now  thinkis  to  perswade  and  entyse 
simple  and  Ignorant  men  to  assist  him  in  his  de- 
fence unpuneist  for  the  murthoure  crueltie,  and 
others  wickit  ennormiteis  comittit  be  him,  quhilkis 
with  his  awin  persoun  he  durst  not  auow  and  de- 
fend, of  the  quhilk  murther  now  be  Just  try  all 
taine  he  is  fund  not  only  to  haue  bene  the  inuen- 
tour  and  deuysar,  bot  the  executour  with  his 
awin  handis,  as  his  awin  seruandis  being  in  com- 
pany with  him  at  that  unworthy  deid  hes  testifeit. 
Thairfoir  the  Lordis  of  Secreit  counsall  ordanis 
ane  Herauld,  or  other  Officiar  of  armis,  to  pas  to 
the  mercat  Croce  of  the  Burgh  of  Edinburgh,  and 
all  others  placis  neidfull  within  this  Realme,  and 
thair  be  oppin  proclamatioun  to  mak  publicatioun 
heir  of,  to  all  our  Soueranis  leigis,  that  nane  pre- 
tend Ignorance  of  the  samin,  and  to  command  and 
charge  all  the  said  leigis  of  quhat  estate  or  degre 
that  euer  thay  be  of,  that  nane  of  thame  tak  upone 
hand  to  resset  or  supplie  the  said  Erie  in  thair 
housis  or  vtherwayis,  to  support  him  with  men, 
armour,  hors,  shippis,  boittis,  or  other  furnessing 
quhatsumeuer  be  sey  or  land,  under  the  paine  to 
be  repuite,  haldin  and  estemit  as  plaine  pertakaris 
with  him  in  the  said  horribill  murther,  rauissing, 
and  others  wickit  cryines  and  ennormiteis  com- 
mittit  be  him,  and  to  be  persewit  thairfoir  as 
common  innimies  of  this  commounweill.  Attoure 
quha  sa  euer  will  tak  the  said  Erie,  and  bring 
him  to  the  Burgh  of  Edinburgh  to  be  puneist  be 
Justice  for  his  demeritis,  sail  haue  for  thair  re- 
waird  ane  thousand  Crownis  of  the  Sone. 
Imprentit  at  Edinburgh  be, 
ROBERT  LEKPEEUIK.  Anno  Do.  1567. 

J.M. 


*  The  word  "rauissit"  must  not  be  understood  to 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  APRIL  26,  '62. 


REPRODUCTION  OF  OLD  WITTICISMS. 

It  seems  as  if  a  good  story  could  never  die. 
The  witty  sayings  of  the  earliest  ages  continually 
re-appear.  They  are  altered  in  their  outward 
clothing,  adapted"  (as  the  phrase  is)  to  new  times 
and  manners,  but  still  the  little  germ,  in  which 
the  vitality  resides,  shoots  up  through  the  dark- 
ness of  many  intervening  ages,  and  re-appears  as 
fresh  as  ever.  A  modern  instance  of  this  repro- 
duction, although  in  a  very  minor  degree,  occurs 
in  that  amusing  book,  The  Autobiography  of 
Mrs.  Piozzi,  edited  by  Mr.  Hay  ward  (2  vols.  8vo, 
1861).  In  a  note  upon  Wraxall,  in  allusion  to 
Lord  Harry  Powlett,  afterwards  Duke  of  Bolton, 
the  alleged  original  of  one  of  Smollett's  characters, 
the  lively  author  of  The  Three  Warnings  re- 
marks :  — 

"  I  don't  know  whether  this  Lord  Harry  Powlett,  or 
an  uncle  of  his  wearing  the  same  name,  was  the  person 
of  whom  my  mother  used  to  relate  a  ludicrous  anecdote. 
Some  lady  with  whom  she  had  been  well  acquainted,  and 
to  whom  his  Lordship  was  observed  to  pay  uncommon 
attentions,  requested  him  to  procure  her  a  pair  of  small 
monkeys  from  East  India— I  forget  the  kind.  Lord  Harry, 
happy  to  oblige  her,  wrote  immediately ;  depending  on  the 
best  services  of  a  distant  friend,  whom  he  had  essentially 
served.  Writing  a  bad  hand,  however,  and  spelling  what 
he  wrote  for  with  more  haste  than  correctness,  he  charged 
the  gentleman  to  send  him  over  two  monkeys ;  but  the 
word  being  written  too,  and  all  the  characters  of  one 
height,  100,  what  was  Lord  Harry  Powlett's  dismay, 
when  a  letter  came  to  hand  with  the  news,  that  he  would 
receive  fifty  monkeys  by  such  a  ship,  and  fifty  more  by 
the  next  conveyance,  making  up  the  hundred  according 
to  his  Lordship  commands."  —  ii.  118. 

Mrs.  Salusbury,  the  lady  who  is  reported  to 
have  told  this  story,  died  somewhere  about  1775 ; 
and  Lord  Harry  Powlett  became  Duke  of  Bolton 
in  1765.  The  story  may,  therefore,  be  approxi- 
matively  assigned  to  about  the  middle  of  the 
eighteenth  century. 

I  will  now  give  you  a  version  of  this  same  story, 
which  bears  date  on  the  19th  January,  1635-6. 
On  that  day  Sir  Edmund  Verney,  Knight  Marshal 
to  Charles  I.,  wrote  to  his  son  Ralph  Verney,  from 
London,  as  follows  :  — 

"  To  requite  your  news  of  your  fish,  I  will  tell  you  as 
good  a  tale  from  hence,  and  as  true.  A  merchant  of 
London,  that  writ  to  a  factor  of  his  beyond  sea,  desired 
him  by  the  next  ship  to  send  him  '  2  or  3  apes.'  He  for- 
got the  'r,'  and  then  it  was  '203  apes.'  His  factor  has 
sent  him  fourscore,  and  says  he  shall  have  the  rest  by 
the  next  ship,  conceiving  the  merchant  had  sent  for  two 
hundred  and  three  apes.  If  yourself  or  friends  will  buy 
any  to  breed  on,  you  could  never  have  had  such  choice  as 
now.  In  earnest,  this  is  very  true." —  Verney  Papers, 
p.  167. 

Thus  it  is  that  our  ancestors  say  our  good  things 
before  us.  Can  any  of  your  readers  point  out  any 

possess  the  meaning  usually,  now-a-days,  attached  to  it. 
It  meant  at  the  time,  and  for  long  afterwards  in  Scotland, 
"  carried  away  by  force." 


other  example  of  this  story  ?    I  think  I  have  seen 
it  elsewhere,  but  I  cannot  recall  the  place  to  mind. 

JOHN  BRUCE. 


EXTRACTS  FROM  ORIGINAL  CONTEMPORA- 
NEOUS CORRESPONDENCE  AT  THE  PERIOD 
OF  THE  LANDING  OF  THE  PRINCE  OF 
ORANGE. 

(Concluded  from  p.  305.) 

Departure  of  King  James  :  Landing  of  the  Prince  of 
Orange. 

"Dec.  13.  —  The  K.  going  down  ye  river  Medway  in  a 
small  vessel  fell  into  ye  hands  of  some  poor  fellows  y* 
were  sailing  for  priests  and  plunder.  There  was  nobody 
with  the  K.  but  Sir  Ed.  Hales.  My  lord  Peterbor.  is 
taken  in  another  place,  and  so  is  Jener,  Burlo,  and  Gra- 
ham (ye  K.'s  Attorneys) ;  and  to  crown  all  F.  Pet.  is  sd 
to  be  just  now  taken  at  a  hous  in  Kent,  Sr.  The  ld8 
Feversha.,  Ailesbury,  Yarmouth,  and  Litchfield  are  sent 
by  ye  Ld*  in  White  H.  with  some  guards  to  rescue  y*  K, 
fro  ye  present  force  he  lyes  under,  and  to  use  their  utmost 
endeav"  to  persuade  his  M.  to  return  hither.  The  D.  of 
Grafton  and  Ld  Mordant  are  come  hither  with  some  of 
ye  Van  Guard.  Last  night  ye  whole  Town  was  alarmed, 
and  up  in  arms  in  expectation  of  no  body  knows  wm  y4 
were  coming  to  cut  their  throats.  Some  y*  were  ready 
to  present  being  asked  how  near  ye  Irish  were,  made 
answer  y*  they  were  on  this  side  Uxbridg." 

"  Dec.  22.  —  There  was  a  general  assembly  of  Lds  and 
BP»  this  morning  in  ye  Parl*  house.  An  order  passed  for 
ye  ld  Jeffreys  close  confinement,  and  another  for  all  Pa- 
pists to  retire  to  their  houses,  or  if  they  live  here,  to  find 
security  for  their  good  behaviour . . .  The  address  and  As- 
sociation are  not  equally  agreeable  to  all.  Two  lords 
refused  to  sign  either,  and  1  think  all  ye  BP»  declined  it 
except  Lond.  His  clergy  are  not  disciplined  as  his  troop 
was,  for  some  of  them  are  ready  to  mutiny." 

"  A.  (Christmas.)  —  The  K.  has  gone  from  Rochester, 
and  as  'tis  feared  to  France.  To-day  ye  Lds  voted  an  ad- 
dress to  ye  Pr.  0.  to  take  upo  him  ye  governm4  for  a 
time,  wh  most  do  limit  to  ye  22  Jan.  My  Ld  Castle- 
main  is  taken,  and  Mr.  Fitz-James,  who  brought  In- 
dulgences." 

"  G.  S.  (South  Lambeth),  Dec.  27°.  —  The  Commons 
assembled  here;  agreed wth  the  Lds  in  subscribing  yel&s- 
sociation,  and  in  desiring  him  to  take  into  his  hands  the 
administration  of  the  Governm*,  military  and  civil,  until 
Jan.  22d,  at  wch  time  there  will  be  a  generall  convention 
(for  so  they  call  it)  of  the  representatives  of  all  bodies; 
and  ye  Lords  to  dispose  of  the  15  shillings.  Dr  Burnett's 
Sermon  before  ye  Prince  on  Sunday  will  be  published  to- 
morrow. He  sent  his  order  to  omit  the  prayers  for  the 
Kg,  wcu  wag  not  complyd  with  at  S1  James',  hut  the 
order  recald  by  the  Prince.  A  speech  was  made  ag1  the 
Association  in  that  assembly  of  the  Commons.  My  Ld 
Delamere  sd  in  the  H.  of  Lds  it  was  too  late  to  mince 
matters,  that  if  the  KK  was  Ke,  he  and  his  were  rebells. 

"  Dec.  27.  —  To-day  y°  Commons  presented  an  address 
here  to  ye  P.  of  O.  It  was  to  ye  same  effect  as  y*  of  ye 
Lords,  onely  something  was  added  relating  to  ye  election 
of  Members  for  ye  Convention  Jan.  22.  Lodgings  are 
taken  for  my  lord  Salisbury,  Peterb.,  etc.  where  ye  7 
bishops  were  lately  quartered.  The  quibblers  make  their 
remark  upon  y«  Dutch  landing  at  an  Admiral's  town,  and 
ye  K.'s  runing  away  to  his  generals.  Jenner  being  de- 
sired to  lend  his  coach  to  carry  Sir  E.  Hales  to  prison, 
made  answer  he  would  do  no  kindness  to  any  Roman 
Catholick.  I  hear  y«  Association  is  generally  rejected." 


3rd  S.  I.  APRIL  26,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


325 


"Dec.  27.  —  To-day  the  K.  advised  with  all  y«  I**  Spir. 
and  Temp,  y*  are  about  y°  Town,  touching  ye  sad  state  of 
his  affairs.  They  all  agreed  y*  since  so  many  of  his  army 
have  revolted,  and  y*  those  y*  remain  are  unwilling  to 
fight,  his  Maj.  has  no  way  left  to  preserve  hims.  but  by 
calling  a  Parl*;  and  therefore  they  begd  of  his  Maj.  y*  in 
order  to  it,  he  would  pleas  to  appoint  Comissioners  to 
mediate  wth  ye  Pr.  of  0.,  without  wh  they  thought  a 
Parl*  could  cot  be  had  to  ye  satisfaction  of  both  sides. 
The  K.  has  taken  this  night  to  consider  of  it,  seeming 
very  unwilling  to  descend  to  these  humble  methods  wh 
are  now  become  necessary  to  his  preservation.  Many 
bold  and  home  things  were  sd  before  him,  wh  he  heard 
wth  some  uneasiness.  The  judges  you  may  imagine  were 
handled  very  roughly,  and  so  many  of  y'  profession  are 
condemnd  (at  least)  to  their  former  retirem*8  y*  I  advise 
you  to  hasten  hither.  The  Pap.  reckon  ye  loss  of  ye  Prin- 
cess as  great  as  y*  of  ye  army.  They  came  to  have  secured 
her  when  it  was  too  late,  and  so  have  lost  their  opportu- 
nity, for  none  of  her  servts  can  give  y°  least  intimation 
where  she  may  be  found.  Nobody  is  gone  with  her  but 
lord  Churchill  and  Mrs.  Berkley.  There  is  talk  of  a 
Privy  Council,  of  wh  none  but"  Protestants  are  to  be 
sworn,  Pr.  George,  D.  Ormond,  Grafton,  Churchill,  and 
severall  other  Colu",  &c.  are  gone  over  to  y«  Pr." 

"Feb.  28.  — My  lord  Arran,  his  brother,  and  some 
others  were  sent  to  ye  Tower  to-day.  The  Parl*  have 
voted  a  land  tax  of  42,000  for  an  essay  of  their  bounty. 
My  lord  Nottin.  brought  in  a  bill  for  Toleration  of  Prot. 
Dissenters,  and  was  seconded  by  BPP  of  S*  As.  and  Ely." 

"March  9,  1689  (N.  Stratford.)  —  I  think  persons  are 
daily  more  and  more  satisfied  in  the  scruples.  Dr.  Sher- 
lock !  on  Sunday  last  resol  vd  to  pray  for  K.  W.  and  Q.  M., 
but  very  unhappily  blunderd,  and  prayd  for  K.  J.  and  Q. 
M. ;  but  in  the  afternoon  he  rectified  the  mistake  by 
praying  for  K.  W.  The  Ld  Jeffreys  hath  continued  so 
weak  ever  since  you  was  here,  that  it  is  thought  a  wonder 
that  he  hath  livd  so  long." 

"  March  20.  —  The  oaths  went  thro'  both  Houses  with- 
out any  opposition.  If  any  could  not  swallow  them,  they 
absented  themselves  ....  I  suppose  you  will  not  think 
ytye  BPP  of  Lond.,  Line.,  and  Bristol  would  stick  out  at 
y*  noble  enterprise  of  this  day.  'Tis  thought  some  of 
their  brethren  will  follow  their  example  on  Monday. 
The  Comittee  of  Ld«  have  sent  letters  to  all  ye  absent 
peers,  and  ye  post-master  is  to  certify  their  reception  of 
ym  to  ye  house." 

"  March  21  (A.  M.)  —  The  bill  for  69,800Z.  p.  mens  (for 
6  months)  was  passed  to  day.  The  revenue  will  be  reduced 
to  1,200,000  p.  an.  Ld  Inchiquin  is  just  come  fro  Ireland, 
and  saies  K.  J.  brought  over  500  officers  and  400,000 
pounds,  and  y*  he  has  30,000  men  in  arms.  Most  of  ye 
officers  of  Dunbarton's  Regim*,  &c.  are  secured,  having 
laid  down  their  arms,  not  without  some  previous  treaty, 
and  a  promis  fro  ye  general  y*  he  will  intercede  for  'em  at 
Hamp.  Court.  The  Church  of  Eng.  has  a  majority  in 
both  houses ;  however,  it  happened  y*  they  knew  their 
strength  no  sooner.  I  hear  the  BP  of  S*  A.  puts  in  to  be 
BP  of  Oxo,  and  D.  of  X'  Ch.  My  U.  continues  stiff  ag* 
y«  oaths." 

"  Apr.  9  (A.  M.)  —  To-day  the  CoiTIons  voted  an  address 
of  thanks  to  ye  K.  for  declaring  yt  he  will  defend  y«Ch.  of 

^•'odesiring  y*  he  wil1  Pleas  to  cal1   a  Convocation. 
0  Swedes  are  landed  at  Harwich,  and  4  or  5000  are 

expected  to  follow  y™ The  new  medals  have  y« 

£.  atvd  Q.  represented  on  one  side ;  and  on  ye  revers, 

ethon  is  in  ye  chariot,  and  Jupiter  darting  at  him, 

this   inscription  —  Ne  toties  absumeretur.     Its  said 

1691Dr'  William  Sherlock>  afterwards  Dean  of  St.  Paul's, 


to  be  young  Hampden's  device,  and  it  is  every  way 
worthy  of  such  an  author," 

"May  23  (A.  M.)— A  bill  was  to-day  brought  into  the 
House  of  Comons  to  enable  ye  K.  to  secure  for  a  longer 
time  any  persons  except  themselves  ....  they  granted 
a  tax  also  of  12  p.  pd  for  all  lands,  houses,  officers,  except 
naval  and  military,  and  household  stuff.  The  Committee 
employd  ab*  y°  Act  of  Oblivion  have  excepted  crimes 
and  not  persons  onely.  They  have  found  that  my  Ld 
Chancr  raised  a  bloody  psecution  in  ye  west,  and  received 
14,000  of  BurtO  and  Graha  for  ye  service ;  and  that  he 
gave  commissions  to  men  unqualified,  Allibone,  etc.  .  .  . 
Dr  Tenison  stays  where  is  to  keep  out  ye  hopeful  successor 
that  was  designed  for  him,  Julian  or  Birch." 

"  Maunday  Thursday  (A.  M.)  —  The  bills  for  punish- 
ing deserters,  and  introducing  martial  law  for  supplying 
y°  loss  of  Hil.  Term,  aud  for  naturalizing  Pr.  Geo.  were 
this  day  prepared  for  y e  royal  assent,  but  y e  K.  was  more 
meanly  employd  about  the  usual  ceremony  of  tbia  day. 
The  bill  for  abrogating  ye  old  oaths,  and  imposing 
ye  new  ones  was  read  a  2nd  time  in  ye  Hous  of  Com — s. 
There  was  some  hopes  it  would  be  thrown  out,  but  they 
could  not  prevail  for  so  much  as_a  proviso  to  be  added  to 
it,  so  it  was  left  to  a  select  Comittee.  The  Churchmen 
thought  they  could  gain  anything  after  so  signal  a  vic- 
tory in  ye  business  of  ye  Coronacion  oath.  It  runs  thus — 
A.  B. :  Will  you  solemnly  promis  to  govern  ye  people  of  y§ 
Kingdom  according  to  ye  St§  in  Parliam1  agreed  on,  and 
ye  laws  and  customs  of  ye  same?  K.  and  Q. :  I  will. 
A.  B. :  Will  you  to  ye  utmost  of  your  power  maintain  ye 
laws  of  God,  ye  true  profession  of  ye  Gospel,  and  ye  Prot 
Ref.  Rel.  estab.  by  law  ?  And  will  you  preserve  unto  y° 
BW  and  Clergy  ofthis  realm  and  to  y e  Churches  committed 
to  their  charge  all  such  rights  and  priviledges  as  by  law 
do  or  shall  appertain  to  any  of  them  ?  K.  and  Q. :  All 
this  I  do  promis  to  do.  It  was  carried  in  ye  Privy 
Council  y*  ye  K.  caiiot  put  forth  his  general  pardon  with- 
out ye  concurrence  of  ParlmV 

"  June  22, 1689  (A.  M.)  —  They  have  got  many  Coinis- 
sions  fro  ye  late  K.,  but  ye  messengers  y*  brought  y™  are 
unluckily  escaped.  The'fiP  S'  A.  »  wilt  swear  yt  3  of  ye 
letters  are  under  K.  J.'s  own  hand.  The  Ld  Danby  that 
now  is  intending  to  go  to  sea,  his  mother  got  him  secured 
upon  suspicion  of  treason  by  a  warrant  from  my  lord 
Notting.  This  has  givn  ye  Parl*  an  opportunity  of  call- 
ing him  to  account  for  securing  one  of  their  members ; 
and  since  better  occasions  wanting,  they  design  to  make 
use  'of  this  to  have  him  turnd  out,  wh  yc  fondness  and 
folly  of  a  mother  has  afforded  ym.  The  K.  designs  for 
Cheshire,  and  intends  to  have  2  camps  there." 

«  Aug.  6,  '89  (A.  M.)  — 'Tis  true  my  U.  is  in  ye  Tower, 
but  'tis  his  own  fault,  for  he  may  come  out  if  he  will. 
He  has  indeed  some  scruple  of  conscience,  but  y*  they 
tell  him  is  yc  disease  of  a  Quaker,  and  not  to  be  indulged 
by  any  true  Protestant." 

"  Dr  Sber.3  is  writing  a  defence  of  Athanasius  and  ye 
Trinity  ag»  Fermin  and  Till.  If  a  Protectr  is  to  be  car- 
ried off  in  a  wind,  that  of  yc  other  night  might  have 
blown  away  two.  My  U.  sends  you  his  service  fr5  ye 
Tower." 

July  5, 1690,  Chester  (N.  Cestriens.)  —  Our  fleet  began 
the  fight  successfully  against  the  French.  When  the 
French  at  Dublin  first  heard  that  their  fleet  was  upon  our 
coast,  they  confidently  promised  themselves  the  victory, 
and  in  token  thereof  rang  the  bells,  and  made  bonfires. 


*  William  Lloyd. 

s  Dr.  William  Sherlock  published  A  Vindication  of  the 
Doctrine  of  the  Trinity  and  the  Incarnation  of  the  Son  of 
God,  occasioned  by  the  Brief  Notes  on  tlie  Creed  of  St. 
Athanagius,  Sfc.  2nd  edit.  4to.  Lond.  1691. 


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NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


I.  APKIL  26,  '62. 


K.  Ja.  has  deserted  Dundalk,  Ardee,  &c.,  and  K.  W.  has 
followed  as  fast  as  he  could  after  him.  A  man  and  a 
woman  have  been  hanged  at  Ardee  for  poisoning  the 
waters  there." 

"  Anon.  —  The  wisdom  of  ye  nation  have  spent  much 
of  their  time  to-day  about  two  libels.  One  is  ye  paper 
with  ye  list  of  ye  Abdicators ;  ye  other  is  intitled  some 
queries  concerning  ye  election  of  members.  Sir  T.  CJarges 
movd  y*  ye  first  might  be  read,  and  referrd  to  a  Comittee. 
upon  wh  Arn—  said  he  desired  as  much  for  ye  counter- 
part of  it,  as  he  wittiley  called  ye  Queries.  The  former 
motion  being  agreeable  to  ye  stronger  party,  was  carried, 
ye  latter  was  unfortunately  stifled.  Present  death  is 
threatend  to  ye  author  of  ye  first  if  discoverd ;  but  its 
feard  he  that  writ  ye  latter  will  come  off  with  ye  loss 
onely  of  his  eares.  The  Debate  grew  warm,  and  ye  whole 
house  was  ready,  after  ye  late  example  of  Ogden  and 
Mompesson*,  to  fall  to  blows;  but  a  cowardly  member, 
mentioning  ye  K&'s  late  speech  against  all  differences, 
they  adjournd  ye  contest,  and  agreed  to  thank  him  for  it. 
Dr  Harw.  assures  me  ye  Queries  were  writ  by  a  Whigg, 
but  he  will  be  so  just  as  not  to  betray  him.  The  A.  B. 
is  condemned  for  printing  Overal's  Book5,  because  ye 
manuscript  is  at  Lambeth.  Treason  is  the  table-talk  at 
Richards.  My  ld  D.  swears  he  will  not  bring  K.  W.  so 
far  as  High  Gate." 

"The  address  of  the  Convocation  was  drawn  by  ye 
BP«  of  S'  Asaph,  Rochester,  and  Salisbury,  being  a  Comittee 
appointed  for  that  purpose;  the  amendments  made  by 
the  Lower  House  [a  letter  to  Rev.  H,  Jones,  Rec.  of 
Sunningwell  —  'Free,  W.  Asaph.'  "] 

MACKENZIE  E.  C.  WALCOTT,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 


EDMUND  BURKE.— The  smallest  facts,  I  assume, 
may  be  acceptable  if  they  will  throw  even  a  glim- 
mer of  light  on  the  mysterious  subject  of  the 
relationship  of  the  Burkes.  It  appears  from  Ed- 
mund's reply  to  Lord  Verney's  Bill  (ante,  p.  222), 
that  the  relationship  "if  any,"  between  Edmund  and 
William  was  not  known  to  the  former.  It  might 
also  be  inferred  from  their  different  fortunes  in 
1768  and  1769,  that  they  had  no  money  relations  ; 
yet  the  contrary  seems  to  be  a  reasonable  in- 
ference ;  and  it  can  be  shown,  that  such  relations 
continued  almost  to  the  filing  of  Lord  Verney's 
Bill.  In  proof,  the  following  autographs  were 
sold  in  July  last  by  Puttick  &  Simpson :  — 

"  231.  Bond  to  Christopher  Hargrave,  of  Lincoln's  Inn, 
Gent.,  for  the  payment  of  250/.,  with  interest,  having  the 
signature  of  Edmund  Burke,  of  Beaconslield,  Bucks; 
Richard  Burke,  of  Lincoln's  Inn.  Witness,  Richard 
Burke,  Jun.  Dated,  Sept.  10,  1777." 

Such  men,  to  join  in  a  bond  for  250/.,  show 
a  great  want  of  money  and  very  little  credit ;  yet 
the  next  Lot,  in  the  same  sale,  was  — 

"  235  Edmund  Burke's  Bill,  wholly  in  his  autograph, 
to  pay  William  Burke  377/.  July  11,1779." 

T.  S.  F. 

4  Sir  Thomas  Mompesson  was  M.P.  for  Old  Sarum, 

5  Convocation  Book,  1G06,  4to.  Published  Lond.  1690, 


SIR  THEODORE  MAYERNE.  —  Whilst  turning 
over  the  leaves  of  Select  Musicall  Ayres  and  Dia- 
logues, London,  1652,  for  another  purpose,  I  ob- 
served "  A  Dialogue :  Charon  and  Encosmia, 
occasioned  by  the  death  of  the  yong  Lord  Hast- 
ings, Heire  Apparent  to  the  Earle  of  Huntington, 
who  dyed  some  few  dayes  before  he  was  to  have 
been  marryed  to  Sir  Theodore  Meihern's  Daughter, 
in  June,  1649."  As  I  believe  a  gentleman  is  now 
engaged  in  editing  a  work  relating  to  Sir  Theodore 
May  erne,  I  forward  this  scrap  of  information,  which 
I  hope  may  not  be  without  its  use. 

W.  H.  HUSK. 

MODE  AND  DATE  OF  EXECUTION  OF  THE  MAR- 
QUIS OF  ARGYLE. — Dr.  Paley,  in  his  Evidences  of 
Christianity,  pt.  iii.  chap,  i.,  in  remarking  on  the 
variations  of  contemporary  writers,  observes,  as 
proof  of  it  — 

"  In  the  account  of  the  Marquis  of  Argyle's  death,  in 
the  reign  of  Charles  the  Second,  we  have  a  very  remark- 
able contradiction :  Lord  Clarendon  relates  that  he  was 
condemned  to  be  hanged,  which  was  performed  on  the 
same  day ;  on  the  contrary,  Burnet,  Wodrow,  Heath,  and 
Echard,  concur  in  stating  that  he  was  beheaded,  and  that 
he  was  condemned  on  the  Saturday,  and  executed  on  the 
Monday." 

It  may  be  thought,  at  any  rate,  too  strong  to 
call  this  a  "  remarkable "  contradiction ;  for  it  is 
the  testimony  of  four  against  one,  and  two  of  these 
four  Scotsmen,  who  were  most  likely  to  know  the 
state  of  the  fact.  The  Marquis  suffered,  too, 
(though  unjustly)  on  a  conviction  of  high  treason, 
and  in  Scotland  as  in  England,  decapitation  not 
hanging  was  always  the  mode  of  putting  the  cul- 
prit to  death  for  that  crime.  What,  however, 
appears  to  place  the  matter  beyond  question  is  to 
be  found  in  a  work  which  did  not  see  the  light  till 
many  years  after  Dr.  Paley's  death.  I  refer  to 
the  long-missing  volume  of  Sir  George  Macken- 
zie's Memoirs,  accidentally  discovered  in  1821,  and 
published  that  year.  Sir  George,  the  Marquis's 
contemporary,  in  describing  the  execution,  says, 

Some  concluded  that  he  died  without  courage, 
because  he  shifted  to  lay  down  his  head;"  and  the 
same  work  bears  expressly  that  "  the  execution 
took  place  at  the  Cross  oif  Edinburgh,  upon  the 
27th  day  of  May,  1661,"  which  it  will  be  found 
was  on  a  Monday. 

Here,  then,  are  five  to  one.  I  would  not  be 
supposed  to  impeach  in  the  slightest  degree  the 
accuracy  of  Paley's  general  reasoning,  but  would 
only  remark,  that  this  historical  fact,  when  thus 
probed,  affords  no  support  to  its  justness.  T. 

TENURE  OF  LIVINGS.  —  The  following  cutting 
is  extracted  from  the  obituary  of  The  Times  of 
Friday,  March  21,  1862  :  — 

"  On  the  18th  inst,  at  Polebrook  Rectory,  in  the  89th 
year  of  his  age,  Charles  Euseby  Isham,  for  nearly  sixty- 
two  years  rector  of  that  parish." 

S.  F.  C. 


3'd  g.  I.  APRIL  26,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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CHANGE  OF  NAME.  —  Those  curious  in  sur- 
names will  thank  the  Editor  of  "  N.  &  Q."  if  he 
will  preserve  the  following  cutting  from  The 
Times  of  March  26,  1862,  in  his  pages :  — 

"Two  hundred  persons  have,  since  the  execution  of 
Dumollard,  the  assassin,  presented  petitions  to  the  Keeper 
of  the  Seals  to  be  permitted  to  change  their  name,  and 
their  number  is  increasing  daily.  All  these  unfortunate 
people  had  the  misfortune  to  be  called  Dumollard,  which, 
it  appears,  is  a  very  common  name  in  the  South  of  France. 
Some  of  the  petitioners  pray  to  be  permitted  to  sign 
Dumol  and  others  Dulard,  neither  of  them  very  aristo- 
cratic names." 

It  may  be  well  to  add,  for  the  benefit  of  future 
readers,  that  this  Dumollard  has  lately  been  exe- 
cuted for  murdering  women  under  very  revolting 
circumstances.  EDWARD  PEACOCK. 

A  WATCH  CASE. — The  following  case,  which  I 
abridge  (without,  however,  altering  any  word,) 
from  Lord  Stair's  Collection  of  Decisions  of  the 
Court  of  Session  (vol.  i.  p.  119), 'relates  to  a 
strange  and  somewhat  amusing  scene,  which  ap- 
pears to  have  occurred  in  the  Parliament  of  Scot- 
land in  1662 ;  and  is  not  very  creditable,  certainly, 
to  the  memory  of  one  or  other  of  the  noble  Lords 
concerned :  — 

"  The  Lord  Couper  alleging  that,  being  sitting  in  Par- 
liament, and  taking  out  his  watch  to  see  what  hour  it 
was,  he  gave  it  to  my  Lord  Pitsligo  in  his  hand,  and 
that  he  refuses  to  restore  it ;  therefore  craves  to  be  re- 
stored, and  that  he  may  have  the  value  of  itpretio  njfec- 
tionis,  by  his  own  oath.  The  Defender  alleged,  and  offers 
to  prove,  that  the  Pursuer  having  put  his  watch  in  his 
hand,  as  he  conceives,  to  see  what  hour  it  was,  according 
to  the  ordinary  civility,  they  being  both  sitting  in  Par- 
liament, the  Lord  Sinclair  putting  forth  his  hand  for  a 
sight  of  the  watch,  the  defender  did  in  the  Pursuer's 
presence  put  it  in  his  hand  without  the  Pursuer's  con- 
tradiction, which  must  necessarily  import  his  consent 
and  liberate  the  Defender.  The  Pursuer  answered :  the 
Defender  having  put  forth  his  hand,  signifying  his  desire 
to  call  for  the  watch,  the  Pursuer  put  the  same  in  his 
hand  —  meaning  that  which  is  ordinary,  to  lend  the  De- 
fender the  watch  to  see  what  hour  it  was  —  which  im- 
porteth  the  defender's  obligement  to  restore  the  same. 
The  Defender's  giving  of  the  watch  to  Lord  Sinclair  was 
so  subit  an  act,  that  the  Pursuer  could  not  prohibit, 
specially  they  being  sitting  in  Parliament  in  the  time ; 
and,  therefore,  his  silence  cannot  import  a  consent. 

"  The  Lords  (t.  e.  of  Session)  repelled  the  Defence ;  but 
would  not  suffer  the  price  of  the  watch  to  be  proven 
by  the  Pursuer's  oath,  but  prout  de  jure.1' 

S. 

Edinburgh. 

INDIAN  ARCHITECTURE.  —  I  extract  the  follow- 
ing from  the  volume  of  Vacation  Tourists,  and 
Notes  of  Travel  in  1860  :  — 

"  Although  the  European  uses  mortar,  and  the  Indian 
none,  nowhere  in  Peru  can  modern  masonry  bear  com- 
parison with  the  beautifully-fitted  work  of  the  ancients. 
To  this  day,  the  engineer  is  puzzled  to  account  for  the 
power  of  the  Indians  in  dealing  with  immense  masses. 
We  know  of  no  machinery  adequate  to  the  purpose  in 
use  by  them ;  the  conquerors  have  left  no  hint  of  such 
appliances.  The  Inca  historian,  Garcilasso  de  la  Vega,  is 
silent  on  the  subject;  and  yet,  in  many  places,  are  seen 


traces  of  stone  work  which  might  reasonably  be  supposed 
too  large  to  have  been  put  together  by  unassisted  huinau 
strength."— P.  228. 

Again,  in  p.  232,  the  tourist,  C.  C.  Bowen,  re- 
ferring to  the  massive  works  he  met  with,  ob- 
serves :  — 

"  Here,  as  elsewhere  in  Pern,  the  first  question  that 
suggests  itself  is  —  How,  even  with  the  help  of  myriads 
of  slaves,  could  these  stones  have  been  hewn  out  and 
raised  to  their  present  position  ?  " 

Allow  me  to  ask,  whether,  to  adopt  a  commer- 
cial phrase,  it  would  not  pay,  if  our  Scientific 
Societies  were  to  offer  a  handsome  reward  for  the 
discovery  of  the  means  used  by  the  ancient  In- 
dians in  hewing  and  raising  the  immense  masses 
of  stone  which  the  tourist,  C.  C.  Bowen,  saw  in 
Peru  ?  May  I  suggest  a  careful  examination  of 
the  archives  and  MSS.  of  that  country  being 
made  for  the  secret,  which,  I  doubt  not,  is  worth 
knowing,  and  may  be  turned  to  our  advantage  ? 

FRA.  MEWBURN. 

Larchfield,  Darlington. 


THE  TRIFLE :  A  POLITICAL  BALLAD. 
Whitbread,  in  a  tavern-speech,  had  designated 
the  Prince  of  Wales's  plume  "  a  trifle  :  "  — 

"  Yon  trifle  there,Hhat  waves  on  high, 
Its  graces  catch  my  loyal  eye, 

And  much  our  cause  doth  need  'em ; 
For,  ah !  without  this  little  toy, 
The  Catholics  can  ne'er  enjoy 

Religion,  Power,  or'Freedom. 

"  Ye  delegates  from  Dublin  all, 
Whose  worships  in  Freemasons'  Hall, 

Emancipation  gathers ; 
This  Trifle  that  adorns  our  room 
Is  nothing  but  the  Regent's  plume, 

Yon  little  bunch  of  feathers. 

"  O  could  it  light,  in  quick  descent, 
On  thee,  illustrious  Duke  of  Kent, 

Or  Sussex'  Royal  Highness ! 
How  soon  we'd  settle  with  the  throne, 
And  make  the  vanquished  Orange  own 

Coronat  opus  finis  1 

«  Who  cares,  though  falling  wide  and  wild, 
It  pass  the  Regent  and  his  child, 

His  brothers  York  and  Clarence? 
And  as  for  him  of  Cumberland, 
Russians  or  Swedes  he  may  command, 

So  that  they  keep  him  far  hence. 

"  Sad  times,  my  friends,  must  we  expect, 
When  such  untoward  Dukes  direct 
The  Army  and  the  Navy ; 
No  Catholic  can  dare  to  hope 
That  they  to  Prelate,  Priest,  or  Pope, 

Will  ever  cry  peccavi. 

"But  Kent  and  Sussex  —  precious  pair  — 
This  Trifle  worthily  will  wear, 

With  help  of  me  and  Canning; 
And,  be  it  formed  of  gold  or  lead, 
When  dropp'd  on  either  royal  head, 

They  need  not  fear  trepanning. 


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L3'd  S.  I.  APRIL  26,  '62. 


«  Then  let  the  trait'rous  lodges  say 
Their  Orange  tenets  only  pay 

« Conditional  allegiance : ' 
For  long  shall  royal  Sussex  live, 
And  long  shall  every  Briton  give 
True  Catholic  obedience ! 
"  Ye  delegates,  both  great  and  small, 
From  Edward  Hay  to  Lord  Fingal, 

Suspend  your  dread  decisions ! 
Though  ask'd  to  eat  your  dinner  here, 
You  do  not  relish  much,  I  fear, 
Provisors  or  Provisions. 

"  Cast  but  this  Trifle  in  the  scale, 
Once  more  shall  Popery  prevail 

'Gainst  statutes  of  exclusion ; 
While,  turned  by  Jesuits'  powder  sick, 
Our  enemies  the  beam  shall  kick 
In  sorrow  and  confusion. 

"Let  us  the  heaviest  weights  apply 
For  Catholic  ascendency, 

The  Pope  will  pay  our  pains ; 
With  drams  our  orgies  shall  begin, 
Canning  shall  throw  his  '  scruples'  in, 

And  I  will  lend  my  grains. 

"  Clear  off  your  glasses !    Come  we  then, 
And  from  the  rebel  Orangemen 

Their  best  protection  rifle ; 
Sussex  shall  bid  our  cause  assume 
The  sanction  of  his  brother's  plume, 
You  know  'tis  but  a  Trifle. 

AARON." 

The  above  appeared  in  The  Courier,  June  15, 
1813.     Prefixed  is  the  motto  (from  Horace) — 

"Num  vesceris  ista,  quam  laudas,  pluma"? 
Is  it  known  who  was  the  author  of  the  verses  ? 
The    "  Catholic    question "   is   now   "  matter    of 
history."  W.  D. 


BELIEF  IN  THE  GENERAL  DECAY  or  NATURE 
IN  THE  SEVENTEENTH  CENTURY. — There  are  pas- 
sages referring  to  this  impression  in  Dr.  Johnson's 
Lines  of  the  Poets,  vol.  i.  p.  139,  note  (I  have  no 
note  of  the  edition) ;  in  Sir  C.  LyelPs  Principles 
of  Geology,  5th  edit.,  1837,  vol.  i.  p.  53,  &c.  This 
curious  subject,  in  the  above  limited  sense,  seems 
worthy  of  elucidation  in  your  columns.  J.  P. 

PARIS  EDITION  OF  THE  HOLY  BIBLE,  A.D.  1586. 
—Amongst  the  old  tomes  in  the  public  library  at 
Cape  Town  is  a  folio  Bible,  in  French,  full  of 
woodcuts;  the  following  correct  description  of 
the  title-page  will  doubtless  serve  sufficiently  to 
enable  MR.  OFFOR  (if  he  will  be  so  kind)  to  in- 
form me  whether  the  copy  possesses  any  value, 
either  from  its  rarity  or  any  other  cause  ? 

41  La  S"  Bible,  contenant  le  Viel  et  le  Xouveau  Testa- 
ment, traduicte  de  Latin  en  Francais,  et  approuue'e  par  les 
fheologiens  de  Louuain ;  avec  les  annotations  des  An- 
ciens  Peres  et  Docteurs  de  1'Eglise,  aux  marges,  pour 
1  intelligence  asseure'e  de  plusieurs  passages  et  lieux  de 

fcscnture  Saincte.  Ensemble  une  Table  bien  ample, 
docte,  et  catolique,  traduicte  du  Latin  de  Monsieur 
Maistre  Jean  Harlemius,  Docteur  en  Theologie  de  la 
Compagnie  de  Jesus  fc  Louuain." 

Immediately  underneath  the  above  is  a  woodcut 


of  a  hand  shaking  off  a  snake  into  the  ^fire  (St. 
Paul  ?)  suiTOunded  by  this  motto,  "  Quis  contra 
nos,  si  Deus  pro  nobis,"  and  a  renaissance  border 
of  Amorini.  Terminal  figures,  monogram,  mask, 
fruit,  &c. 
Below  the  woodcut  appears  — 

"  A  Paris,  chez  Michel  Sonnius,  rue  S.  Jacques,  £  PEscu 
de  Basle,  &  Compas  d'or.  1586.  Auec  priuilege  du  Roy." 

SIGMA  TAU. 
Cape  Town. 

CHURCH  AISLE]'AND  MONUMENTS.  —  The  pur- 
chaser of  a  family  mansion,  to  which  by  immemo- 
rial right  is  appended  an  aisle  in  the  parish  church, 
which  is  situated  in  the  park  attached  to  the 
mansion  of  which  he  is  also  the  purchaser,  is 
desirous  of  pulling  down  the  church,  and  building 
another  not  in  his  park.  The  vendor  at  the  time 
of  sale  retained  a  pew  in  such  aisle,  and  is  unwill- 
ing that  such  church,  or  at  least  such  aisle,  with 
his  ancestral  monuments,  should  be  removed. 
Has  the  purchaser,  even  with  the  consent  of  the 
rector  and  the  bishop  of  the  diocese,  the  right  to 
remove  the  church,  aisle,  and  monuments  ? 

A.  B.  F. 

SIR  JOHN  CHERUBIN. — Information  is  requested 
concerning  a  "  Sir  John  Cherubin,"  whose  tomb 
is  in  Brading  church,  Isle  of  Wight.  In  one  of 
the  guide  books  to  the  island,  he  is  stated,  I  be- 
lies, to  have  been  governor  of  Porchester  Castle, 
circa  1400.  A.  F.  C. 

Miss  EDGAR.  —  Can  any  of  your  readers  give 
me  any  information  regarding  Miss  Edgar,  author 
of  Poems,  Dundee,  1810.  2nd  edition,  Edinburgh, 
1824?  E.  INGLIS. 

THE  ROYAL  CROWN  OF  EGYPT.  —  Can  any  of 

your  correspondents  explain  the  symbolism  which 
doubtless  existed  in  the  different  colours  of  the 
sherd  (nXENT),  the  double  royal  crown  of  Egypt? 

The  lower  part,  the  crown  of  Lower  Egypt, 
was  red;  the  upper  part,  that  of  Upper  Egypt, 
being  white.  Usually  they  were  worn  united,  but 
sometimes  (for  instance,  on  the  tablet  of  Soris  at 
Wady  Meghara,)  the  prince  is  represented  wear- 
ing them  separately.  J.  WOODWARD. 

Shoreham. 

EPIGRAM.  —  About  the  time  Mr.  Thackeray  de- 
livered his  Lectures  on  the  Four  Georges,  there 
appeared,  either  in  a  London  or  a  provincial 
paper,  an  epigram  on  them,  contained  in  seven  or 
eight  lines.  The  last  two  lines,  I  believe,  were 
as  follows  :  — 

"  When  from  the  earth  the  last  descended, 
The  Lord  be  praised,  the  Georges  ended." 

It  would  be  rendering  me  a  kindness  if  any  of 
your  readers  could  furnish  me  with  the  whole 
epigram.  J.  BOOTH. 

Bromyard. 


S.  I.  APRIL  26,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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GROTHILL. — On  the  rising  ground,  immediately 
to  the  north  of  Craigleith  Quarry,  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood of  Edinburgh,  there  stands  an  old  farm- 
house, which,  with  the  property  attached,  has 
rejoiced  from  time  immemorial  in  the  name  of 
Grothill,  or  Grottell.  This  property  was,  in  1350, 
granted  by  Henry  Multerer,  Burgess  of  Edin- 
burgh, to  the  altar  of  St.  John  the  Baptist,  in  the 
church  of  the  Virgin  Mary,  at  Edinburgh,  to 
which  it  remained  attached  until  the  Reformation. 
Close  beside  the  old  "onstead"  there  grows  a 
birch-tree  of  moderate  size,  which,  at  some  dis- 
tance from  the  ground,  forks  off  into  two  branches. 
At  their  insertion,  a  strong  horizontal  iron  bar  is 
fixed  by  the  ends  into  each  branch ;  on  this  bar 
runs  an  iron  cleek,  and  the  tradition  is  that  this 
apparatus  was  employed,  at  some  time  or  other,  in 
inflicting  the  extreme  penalty  of  the  law. 

I  would  be  obliged  if  any  of  your  Scottish 
correspondents,  versed  in  local  topography,  could 
supply  the  date  or  detail  the  circumstances  under 
Avhich  this  execution  took  place  ;  whether  by  any 
right  of  "  pit  and  gallows,"  or  under  more  regular 
judicial  proceedings.  I  would  also  be  obliged  by 
any  suggestion  as  to  the  origin  of  this  rather  pe- 
culiar name  of  Grothill,  or  Grottell.  One  version 
is  that  the  lands  were  held  under  payment  of  a 
groat  a-year.  A  deed,  however,  by  the  Superior, 
Henry  de  Brade,  of  date  1350,  proves  that  they 
were  held  under  the  quit-rent  of  a  pair  of  white 
gloves.  F.  S. 

JACOBITE  QUERY  :  JAMES  NIHEL.  —  In  an  old 
historical  register  I  find  this  entry,  under  date 
Nov.  15,  1721  :  — 

"  Dy'd  at  Paris,  Jas.  Nihel,  Esq.,  Secretary  of  the 
Closet  to  James  II.  after  his  Abdication,  in  the  72nd  year 
of  his  age." 

Should  the  name  rightly  be  Nihil?    And  can 
any  correspondent  give  me  further  information  ? 
C.  H.  E.  CARMICHAEL. 

MACLEAN  OF  TOELOISK.  —  Boswell,  in  his  Life 
of  Johnson,  mentions  "  Mr.  Maclean  of  Torloisk  of 
Mull,"  and  Sir  Walter  Scott  in  a  note  says,  "  He 
was  grandfather  to  the  present  Marchioness  of 
Northampton  "  (vide  Boswell's  Johnson,  edited  by 
Croker,  edition  1853,  8vo,  p.  433).  I  wish  to 
know  who  Mr.  Maclean  married,  and  the  various 
steps  to  the  marchioness.  Any  information  re- 
specting the  family  of  Maclean  of  Torloisk  or 
Torlisk  will  be  welcome.  2.  0. 

OLD  MONUMENTS  IN  THE  VAULTS  or  ST.  MAR- 
TIN'S-IN-THE -FIELDS.  —  Some  years  back,  having 
occasion  to  go  into  the  vaults  underneath  the 
parish  church  of  St.  Martm's-in-the-Fields,  I 
noticed  a  number  of  fine  old  monuments,  formerly 
belonging  to  the  more  ancient  edifice,  and  which, 
doubtless,  were  placed  here  upon  the  erection  of 
the  present  church.  Amongst  several  specimens, 
highly  interesting  to  archaeologists,  I  particularly 


noticed  the  superb  tomb  of  Sir  Theodore  Mayerne, 
the  celebrated  physician,  who  was  buried  in  the  old 
church  on  the  29th  March,  1655.  May  I  ask 
what  has  become  of  these  old  monuments  ?  Ought 
not  some  steps  be  taken  to  preserve  the  most  in- 
teresting of  them  from  destruction  ?  Perhaps 
there  is  yet  time.  EDWARD  F.  RIMBAULT. 

THE  OPAL-HUNTER.  —  In  which  volume  of  the 
Saturday  or  of  the  Penny  Magazine  can  I  find  the 
narrative  under  the  above  title  ?  My  search  has 
been  to  no  purpose.  JOHN  H.  VAN  LENNEP. 

Zeyst,  near  Utrecht. 

PRISONER  or  GISORS.  —  Who  was  he  ? 

A.  L.  R. 

ST.  PATRICK'S  DAT  AT  ETON. —  In  the  Illustrated 
London  News  of  March  22,  p.  285,  is  the  following 
paragraph :  — 

"  Lord  Langford,  as  the  highest  Irish  nobleman  in  Eton 
School,  presented,  on  St.  Patrick's  day,  the  beautifully- 
embroidered  badges,  in  silver,  of  St.  Patrick,  to  the  head 
master,  the  Rev.  E.  Balston,  and  the  lower  master,  the 
Rev.  W.  Carter,  which  were  worn  by  these  reverend  gen- 
tlemen during  the  day.  About  twenty-four  of  the  Irish 
noblemen  arid  gentlemen  in  the  school  were  invited  to  a 
grand  breakfast  with  the  head  master,  as  is  customary  on 
these  occasions." 

Has  this  custom  in  Eton  any  origin  besides 
kindly  feeling,  as  for  instance,  some  local  connec- 
tion ?  S.  F.  CRESWEIX. 

The  School,  Tonbridge,  Kent. 

REVIVALS  OF  RELIGION  :  MACCULLOCH  OP  CAM- 
BUSLANG.  —  Where  can  I  find  the  fullest  particu- 
lars respecting  this  first  revivalist  ?  Two  vols.  of 
MS.  letters,  addressed  to  him  by  various  eminent 
people,  are  said  to  be  in  existence,  I  believe  in 
the  possession  of  a  descendant.  Information  re- 
specting the  vols.  will  be  very  acceptable.  2.  0. 

TILNEY  OR  TINLEY  FAMILY.— In  Dansey's  His- 
tory of  English  Crusaders,  it  is  stated,  on  the 
authority  of  Weever,  that  "  Frederick  Tilney  was 
knighted  before  Acre  by  Richard  I.  He  was  a 
person  of  remarkable  stature,  looked  upon  as  a 
giant.  From  him  descended  sixteen  knights  of 
the  name  in  succession.  One  branch  of  this  family 
settled  at  Ashelwell  Thorpe,  in  Norfolk,  and  merged 
afterwards  in  the  Knevets  ;  and  another  flourished 
in  Lincolnshire." 

Some  members  of  this  family,  who  have  settled 
in  South  Africa,  are  anxious  to  procure  a  list  of 
the  sixteen  knights  above  mentioned;  the  only 
name  which  we  have  (apparently)  discovered,  is 
that  of  Sir  Philip  Tilney,  who,  as  a  Knight  Ba- 
chelor, accompanied  Henry  VIII.  to  the  Field  of 
the  Cloth  of  Gold. 

Would  your  correspondent,  H.  N.  CHADWICK, 
favour  me  with  such  information  as  he  may  have 
at  hand,  from  the  monumental  inscriptions  at 
King's  Lynn  ?  I  am  aware  that  several  Tinleys 
lie  buried  in  that  town ;  and,  generally,  any| ge- 


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[3'd  S.  I.  APRIL  26,  '62. 


nealogical  particulars  respecting  the  family  (who 
sometimes  spelt  their  name  Tylnie)  will  be  thank- 
fully received  by  SIGMA- TAU. 

Cape  Town. 

TEMPLE  FAMILY.  —  Wanted,  any  information 
respecting:  an  old  and  respectable  family  of  the 
name  of  Temple,  located  for  several  generations 
at  Haukswell  and  Barden,  near  Richmond,  York- 
shire. 

The  above  Query  appeared  in  "  N.  &  Q.,"  2nd 
S.  Hi.  487.  May  I  be  allowed  to  repeat  it  ?  ji  And, 
if  not  too  late,  to  request  the  original  querist, 
A.  S.  S.,  to  communicate  with  me  on  the  subject? 

JOHN  TEMPLE. 

Welch  Bicknor,  Ross,  Herefordshire. 

COIN  OB  MEDAL  OF  QUEEN  VICTORIA. — Can  you 
inform  me  (and  others)  whether  the  beautiful 
silver  piece,  struck  at  the  Mint  in  1847,  is  a  medal, 
or  a  five-shilling  coin  ?  If  a  coin,  why  were  only 
a  few  pieces  issued  ?  [Ten  sovereigns  were  offered 
for  a  specimen  by  collectors.]  If  a  medal,  on  what 
occasion  was  it  struck  ?  The  obverse  has  the 
Queen's  head  crowned,  and  her  title ;  the  reverse, 
the  English,  Scotch,  and  Irish  characteristics  ;  with 
the  motto,  "  Tueatur  unita  Deus."  Ths  milled- 
cdge  inscription  is  splendidly  executed.  Y.  Z. 

WAGNER. — Whom  did  Melcliior  Wagner  marry, 
and  where  may  his  marriage-register  be  found  ? 
It  appears  that  his  son  George  (so  called  after  his 
royal  godfather,  George  I.),  nat.  1722,  married 
Miss  Godde,  first  cousin  to  Lord  Pigot.  He  him- 
self was  born  1685,  and  died  1764.  A.  M.  W. 

WILSON'S  "  TRIGONOMETRY."  —  The  following 
little  work  some  time  since  was  picked  up  at  a  stall. 
Probably  some  information  may  be  obtained  as 
to  the  author,  apparently  a  Scotchman,  by  trans- 
mitting a  "Note"  of  it  to  your  invaluable  re- 
pository. The  following  is  a  copy  of  the  title  :  — 

"Trigonometry:  with  an  Introduction  to  the  Use  of 
both  Globes  and  Projection  of  the  Sphere  in  Piano.  To 
•which  is  subjoined  an  APPENDIX,  applying  the  Doctrines 
of  Plain  Triangles  to  the  taking  of  Heights  and  Dis- 
tances, and  to  Plain  and  Mercator's  Sailing.  By  John 
Wilson.  Edinburgh :  Printed  by  James  Watson,  One  of 
her  Majesty's  Printers.  1714.  12mo." 

The  Preface  consists  of  four  pages.  Mr.  Wil- 
son says : — 

"  I  could  bring  the  common  excuse  for  appearing  in 
Print,  viz.,  the  earnest  intreaty  of  Friends;  but  I  think 
it  weak  in  any  man  both  to  cross  his  own  inclinations, 
and  to  plague  the  rest  of  mankind  with  a  Tale  of  a  new 
piece,  merely  out  of  complaisance  to  a  friend  or  two.  I'm 
confident  the  reader  will  not  suspect  me  of  vanity,  when 
1  tell  him  I  have  advanced  nothing  that's  new." 

There  is  no  Dedication.  Including  the  Title 
and  Preface,  with  a  leaf  of  "Characters'  explana- 
tion/' amounting  to  eight  pages,  the  volume 
consists  of  160  pages,  with  nine  plates.  J.  M. 

CHANGE  or  NAME  :  WESLEY  TO  WELLESLET.— 
Lord  Stanhope,  in  his  Life  of  Pitt,  vol.  iii.  p.  192, 


says,  that  the  Duke  of  Wellington,  in  1799, 
changed  his  name  from  Wesley  to  Wellesley, 
"  Arthur  Wesley  "  being  the  signature  to  the 
Duke's  earlier  letters.  Did  the  Duke  obtain  a 
sign  manual  permitting  him  to  revert  to  the 
earlier  family  name  ?  X. 

Temple. 


"  GENEALOGY  OF  JAMES  I."  —  Can  any  of  your 
correspondents  inform  me  respecting  a  small  4to. 
book  in  my  possession,  entitled  — 

"The  Genealogy  of  the  High  and  Mighty  Monarch 
James  King  of  G*  Brittayne,  with  his  Lineal  Descent  from 
Noah,  &c.  Gathered  by  George  Owen  Harry,  Parson  of 
Whitchurch  in  Kemeis,  at  the  request  of  Mr  Eob*  Hol- 
land. London  :  Imprinted  by  Simon  Stafford,  for  Tho8 
Salisbury,  1604." 

It  contains  several  heraldic  and  genealogical 
tables  of  the  five  royal  tribes  of  Wales,  "  from  all 
of  which  King  James  descendeth,  by  Sir  Owen 
Tudyr,"  with  short  notices  of  the  more  prominent 
personages.  It  occurs  in  both  Watt  and  Lowndes 
without  any  particular  description.  Where  is 
Whitchurch  in  Kemeis  ? 

THOMAS  E.  WINNINGTON. 

Stanford  Court. 

[Moule  (Biblioiheca  Heraldica,  p,  62),  states  that  "this 
book,  when  accompanied  with  all  the  plates,  is  uncom- 
monly rare.  A  copy  in  the  collection  of  F.  Freeling,  Esq. 
is  perfect  and  fine."  —  Whitchurch  in  Kemeis  (or  Cemaes) 
in  Pembrokeshire,  is  so  called  from  the  commendable 
care  taken  by  the  parishioners  in  keeping  the  church 
clean  and  ornamented.  This  parish  has  always  had  the 
reputation  of  being  free  from  adders.  Vide  Fentoii'a 
Pembrokeshire,  1811,  p.  526.] 

PECGLES.  —  The  children  in  the  north  of  Essex 
call  cowslips  peggles.  Is  this  a  classical  name  of 
the  flower  ?  W.  J.  D. 

{[The  word  is  paigles  or  pagles.  "Primula  veris:  com- 
mon cowslip;  or  paigle"  Pantologia,  under  "Primula." 
—  "Pagle,  or  paigle:  a  cowslip."  Nares  (  Glossary},  who 
quotes  Ben  Jonson  : 

"Blue  harebells,  pagles,  pansies,  calaminth."] 

BERANGER  :  "  LE  CHANT  DU  COSAQUE."  —  Some 
years  ago  there  appeared  in  The  Times  newspaper 
a  spirited  translation  of,  if  I  mistake  not,  a  poem 
of  Beranger.  A  Cossack  addresses  his  horse  :  I 
recollect  part  of  it,  — 

"  Then  neigh  aloud,  with  martial  pride, 

My  courser  wild  and  fleet, 
And'trample  nations  in  the  dust, 

And  kings  beneath  thy  feet." 
If  you  can  give  me  the  whole  translation  it 
would  greatly  oblige  yours,  A  VOLUNTEER. 

Glasgow. 

[We  suspect  there  are  numerous  translations  of  "  Le 
Chant  du  Cosaque."  It  will  be  found  in  Beranger  :  Twn 
Hundred  of  his  Lyrical  Poems,  done  into  English  Verse, 
By  William  Young.  New  York,  1857,  8vo,  p.  289.  The 
most  spirited  translation,  however,  is  that  in  TheReliques 
of  Father  Provt  [Frank  Mahony],  edit.  1860,  p.  215.  J 


3rd  S.  I.  APRIL  2G,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


331 


"THE  SOMERSET  HOUSE  GAZETTE."  —  This 
work  was  a  serial  in  small  4to. ;  in  its  appearance 
and  character  so  much  like  "N.  &  Q.,"  as  at  least 
to  deserve  a  record.  It  began  in  1823,  and  was 
continued  in  1824,  but  how  long  after  I  know- 
not.  I  am  told  it  was  edited  by  the  author  of 
Wine  and  Walnuts.  Who  was  he  ?  And  can  the 
Editor  of"  N.  &  Q."  say  anything  of  this  attempt 
to  establish  a  journal  so  greatly  resembling  his 
own — parvis  componere  magna  f  B.  H.  C. 

[The  first  number  of  the  Somerset  House  Gazette  is 
dated  October  11,  1823,  and  the  last,  No.  52,  October 
2,.  1824,  making  two  volumes  of  small  quarto.  It  is  a 
pleasing  miscellany  of  anecdotical  memorabilia  of  the 
Fine  Arts,  as  well  as  of  that  kind  of  literary  chit-chat 
which  is  both  entertaining  and  instructive.  It  was 
edited  by  one  of  the  most  amiable  men  and  clever 
artists  of  recent  times,  William  Henry  Pyne,  Esq.,  who, 
after  a  long  illness,  accompanied  with  depressed  circum- 
stances, died  at  his  residence  in  Pickering  Place,  Pad- 
dington,  on  May  29,  1843,  aged  seventy-four.  His  amus- 
ing papers,  Wine  and  Walnuts,  first  appeared  in  The 
Literary  Gazette,  and  were  republished  in  2  vols.  12mo, 
1823.  "  His  splendid  work  on  The  Royal  Residences,  3 
vols.  royal  4to,  1819,"  writes  William  Jerdan,  "is  au  ela- 
borate example;  but  his  facile  pencil,  so  ready  and  true 
in  seizing  every  quaint  and  characteristic  form  or  feature, 
as  illustrated  in  his  Microcosm  of  London  and  other  pro- 
ductions which  gave  celebrity  to  Ackerman's  Repository, 
were  still  more  captivating'proofs  of  his  genius  in  the 
arts.  It  was  delightful  to  lounge  out  with  him  on  a 
summer  da}',  imbibe  his  conversation,  and  watch  the 
execution  of  a  dozen  humorous  and  most  faithful 
sketches  of  beggars,  brewers,  milkmaids,  children  at 
play,  animals,  odd-looking  trees,  or  gates,  or  buildings  — 
in  short,  of  all  curious  or  picturesque  objects  and  every- 
thing else."  (Autobiography,  iii.  78.)  Towards  the  close 
of  Pyne's  literary  career,  he  became  a  contributor  to 
Fraser's  Magazine,  in  which  it  is  believed  some  of  his  last 
felicitous  papers  were  published.  For  a  list  of  his  other 
works  consult  the  Biographical  Dictionary  of  Living  Au- 
thors, 18 IG,  and  Bonn's  new  edition  of  Lowndes.] 

CAMILLUS  (JOANNES)  GENVENSIS.  —  Can  any  of 
your  correspondents  obligingly  inform  me  as  to 
the  author  of  a  work  in  small  4to,  of  the  title  of 
which  the  following  is  a  transcript  ?  — 

"De  Ordine  ac  Methodo  in  Scientia  servandis  liber 
xinus,  nunc  primum  in  lucem  editus  a  Joanne  Camillo 
Genvensi  ad  Illustrissi.  et  Excell.  Principem  Melphen- 
sem  Andriam  Auriam.  Venetiia  MDLXI.  Apud  Paulum 
Manutium  Aldi  filium." 

Twenty-nine  leaves  and  two  of  index  and  imprint. 
It  has  the  dolphin  and  anchor,  as  usual  in  Aldine 
publications.  I  have  not  been  able  to  find  a  copy 
in  any  public  library  north  of  the  Tweed.  As  a 
specimen  of  the  beautiful  printing  of  the  Aldine 
press  it  can  hardly  be  surpassed.  J.  M. 

^  [Renourd  (Annales  de  Plmprimerie  des  Aide,  edit.  1825, 
ii.  14)  has  a  long  note  on  this  work  from  the  press  of 
Paul  Manuce.  He  states,  "  II  y  a  deux  sortes  d'exem- 
plaires  de  la  memo  edition.  Les  uns  sont  de'die's  Andreae 
Auriac,  et  les  autres  Carolo  Cicadae  episcopo  Albingan- 
ensi."  A  copy  of  this  rare  work  is  in  the  Bodleian,  and 
also  in  the  Public  Library  at  Cambridge.]  * 


CUTTING  OFF  WITH  A  SHILLING. 
(3rd  S.  i.  245.) 

^  The  bequest  of  a  shilling  has  long  been  con- 
sidered the  greatest  testamentary  insult  that  one 
humau  being  can  offer  to  another.  It  was  not 
always  so.  Like  the  "nobyll  fortythes  forgotten." 
the  xij  pence  for  the  "hie  aulter  of  the  pjshe 
chirche,"  or  the  mere  for  the  "  cathedral  chirche 
of  ovr  blessid  ladie  Saint  Marie  of  Line.,"  it  was 
once  a  customary  gift.  When  a  man  was  sick 
unto  death  —  and  few  made  their  wills  in  former 
days  when  in  good  health  — it  seemed  natural  to 
him  to  remember  not  only  his  parish  church,  its 
priest,  and  the  great  mother  church  of  the  dio- 
cese with  a  small  gift,  but  also  those  who  were 
bound  to  him  in  the  bonds  of  affection  or  of 
blood.  The  practice  of  leaving  small  sums  of 
money  for  the  purposes  above  indicated  did  not 
become  very  uncommon  until  late  in  the  reign  of 
Queen  Elizabeth ;  the  parallel  custom  of  be- 
queathing a  shilling,  or  other  small  sum,  as  a 
token  of  love,  lasted  much  longer.  I  have  seen 
scores  of  examples  in  wills  of  the  seventeenth 
century.  As  an  illustration,  I  transcribe  a  few 
lines  from  the  will  of  a  member  of  my  own  family: 

"In  the  name  of  God,  Amen.  I,  William  Peacocke,  of 
Scotter,  in  the  Countie  of  Lincolne,  Yeoman,  being  weake 
in  bodie  but  of  good  &  perfect  remembrance,  blessed  be 
God,  therefore  doe  make  this  my  last  will  and  testament 
in  manner  and  forme  following : 

"  First,  I  give  and  bequeath  my  soule  into  the  hands 
of  God,  my  maker  and  redeamef,  and  my  body  to  be 
buried  in  the  church  of  Scotter  aforesaid.  As  for  my  tem- 
poral goodes,  I  give  and  bequeath  as  followeth :  Im- 
primis, I  give  and  bequeath  to  John  Peacock,  my  brother, 
twelve  pence,  intreating  him,  as  ever  there  was"  love  be- 
twixt us,  to  be  good  and  kind  to  my  wife  during  her 
life,  &  that  he  would  be  pleased  to  let  her  have  the 
house  and  farme  I  now  live  in  for  her  naturall  life  before 
any  other,  for  her  rent,  and  desire  him  to  be  as  a  father 
unto  her." 

The  testator,  William  Peacocke,  was  buried 
28th  Sept.  1644.  His  will  was  proved  on  28th  of 
May  following.  As  he  left  no  issue,  his  widow 
Fflorence  Peacock,  was  the  executrix  of  his  will, 
and  enjoyed  all  her  late  husband's  property  with 
the  exception  of  a  few  very  small  legacies.  I 
believe  my  ancestor,  John  Peacock,  fully  carried 
out  his  brother's  loving  request.  The  widow  cer- 
tainly enjoyed  the  house  and  farm  until  her  death, 
which  took  place  many  years  after.  The  Scotter 
parish  register  thus  records  her  departure:  — 
"Fttorance  Peacoke  was  buried  May  The  18th, 
1661."  In  March,  1680,  John  Peacock  joined 
them  in  the  grave  and  elsewhere. 

EDWARD  PEACOCK. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


O*  S.  L  APRIL  26,  '62. 


NOT  TOO  GOOD  TO  BE  TRUE. 
(3rd  S.  i.  245.) 

Many  years  since,  an  anecdote  in  some  re- 
spects similar  to  that  so  well  told  by  PROF.  DE 
MORGAN,  came  to  my  own  knowledge.  A  loud 
and  pompous  moneycrat,  of  obscure  origin,  long 
known  among  the  better- educated  with  whom  his 
wealth  brought  him  into  contact,  as  "  The  Great 
B.,"  from  the  initial  letter  of  his  name,  in  process 
of  time  set  up  his  carriage,  on  which  it  became  of 
course  necessary  that  his  arms  should  be  properly 
blazoned.  What  Sydney  Smith  said  in  joke  of  his 
own  ancestors  —  that  they  never  bore  arms,  but 
always  sealed  their  letters  with  the  thumb — was 
perhaps  true  enough  of  the  great  B.  Suffice  it 
to  say,  that  the  Heralds'  College  was  sadly 
puzzled  to  find  a  crest ;  and  as  in  similar  cases, 
where  a  man  rises  by  his  own  unaided  industry, 
awarded  him  unwittingly  what  I  suppose  they 
would  have  called  in  their  peculiar  lingo  "  a  Bee 
displayed  proper."  I  think  it  is  Miss  Sinclair  who 
says  that  armorial  bearings  on  a  carriage-panel 
grow  smaller  in  exact  ratio  to  the  real  greatness 
of  its  owner.  In  this  case  she  was  certainly  right; 
for  never  was  the  Great  Bee  within  more  truth- 
fully typified,  than  by  the  huge  apoplectic  insect 
straddling,  like  a  spread-eagle,  on  the  door  with- 
out. 

I  can  scarcely  wonder  at  Dr.  Johnson's  hatred 
of  a  pun,  when  I  look  at  the  only  two  instances 
recorded  by  Boswell  of  his  own  attempts  in  that 
line.  May  we  really  attribute  to  him  the  motto 
for  a^tea-caddy  —  T>.i  daces  — (i,  e.  "Thou  Tea 
chest,")  which  I  remember  to  have  somewhere 
seen  _  thus  appropriated  ?  I  am  very  much  afraid 
this  is  "  too  good  to  be  true ; "  for  the  man  who 
could  make  so  good  a  joke  would  surely  never 
have  placed  pickpockets  and  punsters  in  the  same 
category. 

I  have  by  me  a  letter  from  a  friend,  who,  to 
real  excellence  of  heart  and  life,  adds  a  quaint 
jocularity,  sealed  with  the  motto  —  "  And  the 
evening  and  the  morning  were  the  first  Day,"  the 
last  word  being  his  own  patronymic.  After  this 
we  may  well  ask  with  Prior  — 

"  Can  Bourbon  or  Nassau  go  higher  ?/' 

DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

PROF.  DE  MORGAN'S  anecdote  of  Quid  rides 
reminds  me  of  another  of  a  similar  character' 
which  was  related  to  me  by  a  literary  octo»e- 
irian  some  short  time  since,  he  at  the  same  time 
vouching  for  its  authenticity,  and  mentioning  the 
name  of  the  individual. 

A  barrister  or  solicitor,  at  the  close  of  the  last 
;  beginning  of  the  present  century,  havino-  re- 
alised a  considerable  fortune,  retired  from  prac- 
ice,  and  set  up  hig  carriage.    Wanting  a  motto 


however,  he  applied  to  a  learned  friend  to  supply 
the  deficiency,  who  immediately  and  wittily 
suggested,  "  Causes  produce  effects."  As  the 
name  of  the  member  of  the  legal  profession  has 
escaped  my  memory,  some  one  of  your  readers 
may  replace  it,  unless  the  story  be  one  of  those 
which  fall  within  the  category  of  "  too  good  to  be 
true."  CL.  HOPPER. 


CONGERS  AND  MACKEREL. 
(3rd  S.  i.  248.) 

The  island  in  which  the  duty  of  ISd.  on  every 
thousand  of  mackerel  taken  was  paid,  is  Guern- 
sey ;  and  the  abbot  who  claimed  it  was  the  Abbot 
of  Mont  S.  Michel  in  Normandy,  in  right  of  the 
Priory  of  S.  Michel  du  Valle,  in  the  above-named 
island.  This  is  sufficiently  proved  by  the  fol- 
lowing extract  from  the  Placitorum  Abbreviatio, 
published  by  the  Record  Commission,  p.  349  :  — 

"  18  Ed.  II.  Gernesey.  Similiter  libtates  clam'  p 
afcfoem  de  Monte  Sci  Michis  in  piclo  man's  p  piscacione 
congrojp  &  mackrello£  dicto  abfti  allocantur." 

According  to  Warburton,  in  his  Treatise  on  the 
History  fyc,  of  Guernsey,  written  in  the  reign  of 
Charles  II.,  King  John  was  the  first  who  imposed 
a  duty  on  congers,  or,  to  speak  more  correctly, 
claimed  the  pre-emption  of  all  above  a  certain 
size  brought  into  the  market.  The  reason  is  said 
to  have  been  to  prevent  the  fishermen  from 
selling  them  to  the  king's  enemies. 

It  appears  from  an  inquisition  made  in  33  Hen. 
III.,  that  the  espelcacio  congrorum,  which  is  un- 
derstood to  be  the  drying  of  congers  by  exposure 
to  the  sun,  was  to  last  from  Easter  to  Michaelmas, 
and  the  salicio  congrorum  from  Michaelmas  to 
Easter.  In  2  Ed.  1.  the  dues  on  the  csperquerie, 
or  drying  of  congers,  amounted  to  ilO/i.  per 
annum.  In  neither  of  the  documents  from  which 
the  above  information  is  derived,  is  there  any  men- 
tion made  of  a  duty  on  mackerel;  but  there  is  an 
order  of  1  Ed.  II.  by  which  it  appears  that  a  duty 
of  duo  parv  Turori  was  claimed  on  every  hundred 
of  mackerel  taken  between  the  feasts  of  Easter 
and  the  Nativity  of  S.  John  the  Baptist,  and  that 
the  fishermen  attempted  to  evade  the  payment  of 
it.  This  duty  on  mackerel  was  first  levied  by 
Ed.  I.,  as  appears  from  the  following  extract  from 
the  Placita  de  Quo  Warranto,  2  Ed.  II.  p.  828. 
The  Abbot  of  Mont  S.  Michel  answers  :  — 

"  Et  quo  ad  custumam  makerett,  &c.  dicit  qd  qando 
dns  E.  Rex  pat'  dlii  Reg'  PUC  assedebat  custumam  illam 
suptenentes  suos  piscatores,  &c.,  idem  Abbas  de  assensu 
homiu^suo^  piscatofc  assedebat  consimilem  custumam 
sup  hoies  suos  piscatores  &c.,  sicut  ei  bene  licuit  ut  dicit 
&  a  p'dco  tempo  recepit  ipe  b.uj'  custumam." 

By  the  Extent  of  the  Crown  Revenues  of 
Guernsey,  5  Ed.  III.,  it  appears  that  at  that  time 
the  mackerel  fishery  had  been  extended  to 


3rd  S.  I.  APRIL  26,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


333 


Michaelmas,  and  that  the  duty  was  2d.  Tournois 
per  hundred.  The  annual  value  of  the  customs 
arising  from  the  fisheries  is  estimated  in  the  Ex- 
tent at  266ft.  13*.  4d.  Tournois.  This  of  course 
does  not  include  the  duties  levied  on  the  tenants 
of  manors  not  belonging  to  the  crown. 

I  now  come  to  the  consideration  of  the  point  of 
natural  history.  It  must  not  be  forgotten  that 
the  assertion  of  the  failure  of  the  conger  fishery 
is  made  by  the  abbot  pleading  to  preserve  a  source 
of  revenue,  with  the  loss  of  which  he  was  threat- 
ened, and  need  not  therefore  be  construed  literally. 
The  first  imposition  of  a  duty  on  congers  in  King 
John's  time  must  have  been  very  distasteful  to 
the  fishermen,  who  would  naturally  turn  their 
attention  to  a  fishery  not  yet  subjected  to  such 
an  exaction.  The  catch  of  congers  would  then 
fall  off,  and  that  of  mackerel  increase,  without 
there  being  necessarily  any  difference  in  the  rela- 
tive numbers  of  these  fish.  Doubtless  when  the 
poor  fishermen  found  that  they  could  not  escape 
being  taxed,  whether  they  caught  congers  or 
mackerel,  they  returned  to  their  old  fishing- 
ground,  and  congers  became  as  numerous  as  ever. 

The  discovery  of  Newfoundland  gave  a  death- 
blow to  this  source  of  revenue,  for  it  appears  by 
the  Extent  of  Elizabeth  in  1582,  that  the  duty 
on  the  fisheries  was  farmed  at  1QL  sterling,  and  in 
James  I.'s  time,  in  1607,  at  91.  After  this,  we 
hear  nothing  more  of  this  duty,  and  it  is  probable 
that  it  died  a  natural  death  during  the  civil  war. 

One  word  more  by  way  of  a  Note  on  the  word 
Esperkeria,  Gallice  Eperquerie,  which  seems  to 
have  puzzled  the  antiquaries.  In  the  dialect  of 
Norman  French  used  in  Guernsey,  the  word 
eperqui  is  still  employed  in  the  sense  of  "  stuck 
on  the  top  of  a  pole  or  perch."  This  was  doubt- 
less the  way  in  which  the  fish,  after  being  split 
open,  was  exposed  to  be  dried  by  the  action  of  the 
wind  and  sun,  and  the  wor^  eperquerie  would 
naturally  be  used  both  to  denote  the  method  of 
drying,  and  the  locality  where  it  was  practised. 
In  all  the  Channel  Islands  there  are  one  or  more 
spots  on  the  sea-shore  still  bearing  this  name. 

EDGAR  MACCULLOCH. 

Guernsey. 


BOYDELL  (3rd  S.  i.  257.)  —  Alderman  Boydell 
was  born  in  1719,  at  Dorrington,  Salop,  of  which 
place  his  grandfather  was  vicar;  he,  however, 
came  to  town  "  a  poor  lad  from  Denbighshire,  and 
lived  many  years  with  his  wife  in  the  most  ex- 
treme poverty."  {City  Biography.)  Your  cor- 
respondent has  already  described  his  arms ;  his 
crest  was  a  Saracen's  head  couped  ;  thereon  a  cap 
turned  up,  erm.,  the  end  of  the  cap  hanging  down 
with  a  tassel  at  the  end.  I  know  the  above  to  be 
the  crest  borne  by  the  alderman,  but  I  fancied 
his  arms  were,  vert,  a  cross  patonce  or.  That 
there  were  crosses  in  the  arms,  I  have  from  the 


authority  of  a  servant,  who  lived  in  the  family, 
and  whose  livery  button  is  my  authority  for  the 
crest ;  but  see  also  Ormerod's  Cheshire,  "  Boydell 
of  Dodleston  and  Gropenhall,  vert,  a  cross  pa- 
tonce or."  Some  authorities  give  the  BoydelU  a 
second  coat,  arg.  on  a  fesse  engrailed  vert,  3  mul- 
lets pierced,  or.  The  Boydells  are  said  to  have 
borne  in  later  ages  as  their  crest,  on  a  wreath,  a 
Saracen's  head,  &c.,  as  before  described,  except 
that  a  bell  was  attached  to  the  end  of  the  cap 
instead  of  a  tassel.  H.  S.  G. 

S.  T.  P.  AND  D.  D.  (3rd  S.  i.  231.)  — MB.  JOHN 
TUCKETT  is  not  correct  in  either  of  his  supposi- 
tions. D.D.  does  not  stand  for  Divinitatis  Doc- 
tor^ but  for  plain  English  Doctor  of  Divinity. 
When  the  degree  is  intended  to  be  signified  in 
Latin,  it  is  expressed  by  S.T.D.,  that  is,  Sacra 
Theologies  Doctor.  And  this  leads  us  at  once  to 
the  signification  of  S.T.P.,  which  is  unquestionably 
Sacros  Theologies  Professor. 

F.  C.  H.-D.D. 

CARICATURES  AND  SATIRICAL  PRINTS  (3rd  S.  i. 
227.)  —  The  classification  proposed,  into  SOCIAL, 
PERSONAL,  and  POLITICAL,  would  obviously  de- 
stroy that  arrangement  by  artists,  which  ap- 
pears to  me  to  be  much  more  satisfactory.  The 
works  of  our  best  caricaturists,  Rowlandson, 
Gilray,  and  especially  IB.,  combine  all  the  above 
three  classes ;  yet  what  person,  possessing  any 
large  collection  of  the  works  of  these  or  other 
celebrated  artists,  would  choose  to  have  them 
separated  ?  The  works  of  all  such  artists  as  have 
produced  more  than  a  few  at  intervals,  ought,  I 
think,  to  be  kept  together,  under  the  title  of  their 
authors'  names;  and  probably  there  are  some 
which -might  be  grouped  according  to  their  pub- 
lishers. Some  fifty  or  sixty  years  ago,  there  was 
a  publisher,  named  Dighton,  in  whose  shop  win- 
dow, at  Charing  Cross,  there  were  always  portrait* 
of  persons  of  note,  not  exactly  caricatures,  but 
rather  sketches,  hitting  off  some  peculiarity  of 
dress,  manner,  or  character.  I  remember,  among 
these,  Lord  Camelford,  who  fell  in  a  duel  with 

Mr.  Best ;  Old  Q (Duke  of  Queensberry)  ; 

"An  Old  Stump  well  known  on  a  Bank"  (Mr. 
Mark  Stump,  a  Stock-Broker)  ;  Paul  Treves,  and 
many  others.  I  should  class  these  as  "  Dighton's," 
and  those  published  by  Tegg,  in  the  same  manner. 
The  IB.  sketches,  though  chiefly  political,  are 
often  personal;  as  "Hook  and  Eye,"  "High 
Life  and  Low  Life,"  and  a  great  many  more.  The 
classification  of  SOCIAL,  PERSONAL,  and  POLI- 
TICAL is  probably  the  best  for  a  collection  of  odd 
and  isolated  prints;  but  I  can  conceive  nothing 
better  for  such  as  form  a  series  than  an  arrange- 
ment according  to  artists  or  publishers.  Go. 

THE  CAMEL  AN  HIEROGLYPHIC  (3rd  S.  i.  246.) 
—  On  one  of  the  columns  of  the  "  Granite  Sane- 


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NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[3'<*  S.  I.  APRIL  26,  '62. 


tuary,"  at  Karnak,  is  sculptured  a  figure  which  is 
supposed  by  Mr.  Osburn  (Monumental  History  of 
Egypt,  vol.  ii.  p.  279,)  to  represent  the  camel. 

This  figure  has  no  legs,  and  bears  some  resem- 
blance to  a  laden  camel  crouching  on  the  ground ; 
those  who  sculptured  it  had  possibly  never  seen 
the  animal,  as  the  camel  was  never  permitted  to 
enter  Egypt,  being  considered  unclean. 

J.  WOODWARD. 

Shoreham. 

A  BRACE  OF  SHAKES  (3rd  S.  i.  91.)— If  things 
to  be  done  quickly  are  done  in  a  brace  of  shakes, 
and  this  alludes  to  the  shaking  of  dice  in  a  box, 
will  you  tell  me  what  is  meant  by  one  person 
speaking  of  another,  "  that  he  is  no  great  shakes." 
In  the  New  World  of  Words,  by  Phillips,  he 
has  — 

•"  Shake  time,  the  season  of  the  year  when  mast  and 
£H.eh  fruit  fall  from  trees." 

S.  BEISLY. 

THE  BARBARIANS  OF  HARTING  (3rd  S.  i/185.)  — 
That  the  Harting  people  may  not  pass  as  the  re- 
presentatives of  the  county,  I  beg  to  refer  your 
•correspondent  to  the  church  at  Shipley,  where 
he  will  find  a  beautiful  monument  to  Sir  Thomas 
€nryll,  who  died  in  1616,  and  to  his  wife.  The 
Shipley  and  Grinsted  properties  were  sold  to  the 
Burrells  about  the  time  that  the  Ladyholt  and 
Slarting  properties  were  sold  to  the  Featherstones : 
yet  the  Shipley  monument  has  been  carefully  re- 
stored by  Care\v,  the  sculptor ;  and  is  now  one  of 
the  most  perfect,  as  well  as  interesting,  in  the 
county.  Whether  this  was  done  at  the  expense 
of  the  Earl  of  Egremont,  of  Sir  Charles  Burrel,  or, 
as  Horsfield  says,  of  Lord  Selsey,  I  know  not ; 
but  neither  the  Earl,  the  Baron,  nor  the  Baronet, 
were  related  to  the  Carylls  ;  and  the  restoration  is 
proof  that  we  Sussex  people  are  not  all  "bar- 
barians." x.  £>  o. 

HUNTER'S  MOON  (3nl  S.  i.  224.)— Unless  by 
the  weird  huntsman  of  some  wild  German  forest, 
there  is  now  no  hunting  by  night  nearer  than 
Orange  lliver  and  the  Cape  Colony.  Certainly 
not  in  these  parts  since  the  days  of  the  three 
Welshmen  in  the  nursery  rhyme,  who  went  a- 
hunting  manifestly  by  night,  for  — 

"  One  said  it  was  the  moon 

Another  said  nay  — 
A  third  said  it  was  a  cheese, 
And  half  o't  cut  away." 

Otter  hunting  takes  place  at  day-break.  Yet 
there  may,  there  must  be,  a  hunter's  moon  just 
after  the  harvest  moon  ;  when,  the  stubbles  being 
cleared,  field  sports  may  be  resumed  with  impunity 
to  the  crops.  Moreover,  your  correspondent  D. 
forgets  that  the  moon  herself  is  apostrophised  by 
Byron  as  "  the  huntress  moon." 

SHOLTO  MACDUIT. 


CHURCHES  BUILT  EAST  AND  WEST  (3rd  S,  i.  187.) 

—  I  beg  to  refer  X.  N.  to  a  communication  from 
MR.  WILLIAMS  (2nd  S.  xi.  138)  where  he  will  find 
it  laid  down  that  orientation,  as  it  is  called,  has 
always  been  the  rule  of  the  church.  CLIO. 

ENIGMA  (3rd  S.  i'.  229.)  — The  question  is  {his 

—  Letters  of  the  alphabet  are  to  be  indicated  by 
the  numbers   corresponding   to  their  respective 
places  in  the  alphabet ;  the  letters  i  and  j  being 
however  regarded  as  one  letter. 

There  are  three  words  — 
The  first,  i,  has  four  letters,  i.  1,  i.  2,  i.  3,  i.4. 
The  second,  ii,  has  three  letters,  ii.  1,  ii.  2,  ii.  3. 
The  third,  iii,  has  six  letters,  iii.  1,  iii.  2,  iii.  3,  iii.  4, 

iii.  5,  iii.  6. 

In  the  conditions  of  the  problem  seven  different 
relations  are  given :  — 

1.  The  first  relation  gives 

2.  The  second 


3.  The  third 

4/The  fourth 

5.  The  fifth 

6.  The  sixth 

7.  The  seventh 


i.  3  =  11  or  L 
ii.  2  =  5  „  e. 

i.  4  =  9  „  i. 
iii.  1  =  7  „  g 
iii.  2  =  11  .,  L 
iii.  5=  9 

i.  1  =  18 

i.  2  =  14 

ii.  1  =    4 


„  z. 
„  s. 
„  o. 
„  d. 


f  ii.  3  =  14 
1  iii.  3  =  14 
f  iii.  4=17    „  r. 
\  iii.  6  =    1    „  «. 


And  setting  these'.in  order,  we  obtain  "the  words  " 
Soli  Deo  Gloria. 

T.  C. 

[We  are  indebted  for  a  similar  solution  to  Mr.  George 
Burges,  and  many  other  kind  friends.  —  ED.] 

THE  EMPEROR  NAPOLEON  IIT.  (3rd  S.  i.  88.)  — 
There  can  be  little  doubt  that  the  Mr.  Campbell, 
to  whom  the  autograph  given  at  p.  214  of  "  N.  & 
Q."  was  written,  and  whom  the  ex-prisoner  of 
Ham  addressed  as  "  Mon  cher  Monsieur  Camp- 
bell," when  he  required  a  "  servics"  was  Forbes 
Campbell.  At  the  date  of  the  autograph  in  ques- 
tion (March,  1847),  he  was  assistant-manager  of 
the  Colonial  Bank  of  London,  and  had  under- 
taken, at  the  request  of  Mons.  Thiers,  an  English 
edition  of  the  Consulate  and  Empire  of  Napoleon, 
which  was  published  by  Colburn.  He  was  on  in- 
timate terms  with  the  Prince  Louis  Bonaparte.  I 
remember  being  present  in  The  Times  office, 
Printing  House  Square,  one  night  in  1847,  when 
the  Prince  came  by  appointment,  and  in  company 
with  Mr.  Forbes  Campbell,  to  visit  that  establish- 
ment. On  that  occasion  the  Prince  conversed 
most  affably  with  the  parliamentary  reporters,  and 
other  gentlemen  "  on  the  paper,"  in  four  languages, 
English,  French,  German,  and  Italian,  and  pro- 
duced an  extremely  favourable  impression  upon 
all  who  heard  him.  We  found  him  a  man  of  very 
superior  acquirements;  in  a  word,  quite  a  different 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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person  from  what  rumour  then  represented  him  to 
be,  —  a  frivolous  man  of  pleasure.  Mr.  Forbes 
Campbell  is,  I  believe,  dead.  W.  B. 

KENTISH  MILLER  (2nd  S.  x.  109.)— 

"  Alarms  Calvus  jacet  hie  sub  marmore  duro 
Utrum  sit  salvus  neque  curavit  neque  euro." 

Labbe,  Thesaurus  Epitaphiorum,  p.  365, 
8vo,  Paris,  1685. 

E.  N.  H. 

KING  OF  SPAIN  (3rd  S.  i.  248.)— The  sovereign 
thus  alluded  to  was  "  Affonso  el  Sabio,"  Alphonso 
the  Wise,  king  of  Leon  and  Castile,  who  reigned 
from  1251  to  1281,  when  he  died  in  his  81st  year. 
Alphonso  was  a  great  astronomer,  and  the  cele- 
brated Alphonsine  tables  were  drawn  up  under 
his  supervision.  He  also  completed  the  famous 
code  of  laws  designated  "  Las  Partidas,"  which 
forms  the  basis  of,  and  still  influences,  Spanish  ju- 
risprudence, while  he  always  zealously  promoted 
science.  In  fact,  this  king  was  one  of  the  most 
learned  men  who  ever  occupied  a  throne ;  and 
might  well  be  compared  with  our  own  Alfred 
the  Great.  But  the  royal  mind  being  constantly 
immersed  in  matters  of  deep  thought,  especially 
with  astronomical  observations,  he  so  much  ne- 
glected temporal  affairs,  that  his  subjects  were 
badly  governed ;  and  becoming  latterly  unfortu- 
nate in  consequence  of  thinking  more  of  the 
heavenly  bodies  than  of  mundane  things,  he  was 
deprived  of  a  considerable  portion  of  his  dominions 
by  rebellions.  Hence  the  saying  quoted  in  "  N. 
&  Q."  p.  248,  the  accuracy  of  which  is  verified  by 
several  historians.  J.  WEBSTER. 

SUPERSTITION  (3rd  S.  i.  243.) — I  strongly  ob- 
ject to  the  construction  of  Acts  xvii.  22,  advo- 
cated in  "N.  &  Q."  Our  version  is,  no  doubt, 
deplorably  wrong ;  but  it  has,  I  believe,  been  long 
held  by  the  best  authorities  that  it  should  be  cor- 
rected in  the  opposite  direction  to  that  here 
suggested. 

It  w'ould  have  been  wholly  opposed  to  St.  Paul's 
manner,  to  begin  such  an  address  with  censure. 
He  invariably  begins  in  an  opposite  tone,  even 
when  what  follows  is  to  be  mainly  in  the  way  of 
condemnation.  Of  this  the  well-known  and  signal 
examples  are  the  2nd  Epistle  to  the  Corinthians, 
and  the  Epistle  to  the  Galatians :  and  it  would 
be  strange  if  the  address  to  the  Athenians  were 
an  exception. 

The  true  version,  allowing  due  force  to  the 
word  us,  and  to  the  comparative,  is  "  religiously 
inclined,"  "  with  a  religious  tendency  rather  above 
others."  Both  SeKn^ai^wv  and  $ei<ri$ai/j.oi'ia  are  more 
commonly  used  in  bonam  partem  than  otherwise ; 
and  $a(uui>,  I  need  hardly  say,  is  never  used  other- 
wise in  classical  Greek.  And  we  can  scarcely 
suppose  St.  Paul  to  have  used  it  otherwise,  or  to 
have  given  it  the  sense  of  "demons;"  which,  to 
such  an  audience,  would  have  been  unintelligible. 


This  sense,  it  seems  to  me,  is  more  suitable  to 
the  whole  scope  and  context  of  the  discourse ;  but 
this  may  be  matter  of  opinion. 

See  Bloomfield's  note  on  the  place;  and,  if  I  am 
not  mistaken,  the  same  view  is  well  stated  in  the 
admirable  suggestions  on  the  subject  of  a  revised 
version  of  the  Bible,  published  a  few  years  ago  by 
Dean  Trench.  I  am  not  able  to  refer  to  them  at 
this  moment.  LYTTELTON. 

Hagley,  Stourbriclge. 

Do  we  need  a  better  meaning  for  this  word  than 
that  so  clearly  implied  in  its  etymology  ?  To  "  stand 
over,"  or  *'  stand  upon,"  so  admirably  describes  the 
character  of  superstition  in  reference  to  its  origin 
and  basis  —  real  religion  — that  I  should  be  very 
unwilling  to  look  any  farther  for  its  derivation. 
Is  it  not  something  superfluous,  growing  out  of,  or 
placed  upon,  the  true  faith,  like  the  "  wood,  hay, 
stubble  "  of  the  apostle,  1  Cor.  iii.  12  ? 

DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

SUN  AND  WHALEBONE  (3rd  S.  i.  250.)— There 
seem  to  be  three  modes  of  explaining  such  ap- 
parent incongruities,  in  our  house  and  tavern- 
signs,  as  that  alluded  to  by  L.  A.  M. 

1.  These  signs  appear,   in  many  instances,  to 
have  had  their  origin  in  heraldry.    They  were,  in 
fact,  the  badge,  or  cognisance,  of  the  owner  or 
occupier  of  the  house  on  whose  front  they  were 
exhibited.     It  is  easy,  therefore,  to  understand 
how    the  most    incongruous    objects  might    be 
brought  together,  when  mine  host  became  a  Bene- 
dict, and  set  up  his  wife's  arms  in  addition  to  his 
own  ;  or  when  a  young  tradesman,  on  first  starting 
in  life,  added  his  late  master's  sign  to  that  which 
belonged  to  himself,  as  we  are  told  he  sometimes 
did,  in  the  Spectator,  No.  28. 

2.  Another  cause  of  these  discrepancies  may, 
perhaps,  be   sought  for  in  the  ignorance  of  the 
sign-painter,  or  of  the  boorish  villager  in  whose 
beery  mind  it  was  a  tradition.     The  Toiler  (No. 
18)  suggests  that  every   tradesman  in   London 
and  Westminster  should    give  him  sixpence  a- 
quarter  for  keeping  his  sign  in  repair  as  to  the 
grammatical  part  —  the  names  being  often  so  ill- 
spelt  as  entirely  to  baffle  the  uninitiated.     It  is 
scarcely  to  be  wondered  at,  therefore,  that  the 
"  Belle  Sauvage  "  should  have  been  represented 
by  a  savage  standing  beside  a  bell ;  or  the  "  Bou- 
logne Mouth,"  by  a  Lilliputian  bull  engulphed  in 
a  Brobdignagian  mouth.     Dr.  Paris,  in  his  Phi- 
losophy  in  Sport,  refers  to  a  country  ale-house 
known  as  the  "  Devil  and  Bag  o'  Nails,"  which 
he  understands  to  be  a  rural  reading  of  the  sign- 
board representing  Pan   and  his  bacchanals.     I 
remember  to  have  myself  seen,  not  many  years 
ago,  the  "  Black  Prince  "  figured  as  a  Hottentot, 
drawing  his  bow  at  a  lion,  from  which  he  was  at 
the  same  time  prudently  retreating  in  double 
quick  time. 


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[3rd  S.  I.  APRIL  26,  '62. 


3.  My  third  explanation  is,  that  by  the  "lapse 
of  time  the  names  of  many  things  become  altered, 
—  not  through  ignorance,  but  intelligently.  How 
large  a  portion,  for  example,  of  "N.  &  Q."  is 
occupied  by  inquiries  bearing  on  this  subject? 
Will  any  one  add  to  them,  and  at  the  same  time 
clear  up  the  doubts  of  L.  A.  M.  by  showing  that 
a  "  Whalebone  "  may  have  been  the  old  synonym 
for  a  parasol,  and  thus  establish  its  connection 
with  the  "  Sun"  upon  the  Essex  sign-board  ? 

DOUGLAS  ALLFORT. 

Whalebone  is  the  appellation  of  an  estate  in  Be- 
contree  Hundred,  at  or  near  Dagenham  ;  perhaps 
named  from  some  bourn  (Waal-burn). 

R.  S.  CHARNOCK. 

QUOTATION  (3rd  S.  i.  250.)  —  B.  B.  W.  will  find 
the  lines  in  Virgil's  Second  Georgia,  198,  199. 

G.  E.  J.  P. 

MAD.  D'ARBLAY'S  "  DIARY  "  (3rd  S.  i.  96.)  — 
Mr.  Fairly  was,  I  have  been  told,  Hon.  Stephen 
Digby  ;  whose  second  wife  was  a  daughter  of  Sir 
Robert  Gunning—  "  Miss  Fusilier."  F.  C.  B. 

THACKWELL  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  250).  —  This 
name  may  mean  the  "  thatched  dwelling,"  or  the 
"  hay  town."  Cf.  Thakeham,  in  the  Hundred  of 
E.  Easwrith,  Sussex  ;  Thatcham,  in  Faircross 
Hundred,  Berks;  Thaxted  and  Jakeley,  Essex. 
It  is  a  great  mistake  to  suppose  that  the  vocable 
"  well,"  in  the  composition  of  local  names,  always 
means  what  it  would  seem  to  mean.  In  ninety 
names  out  of  a  hundred,  it  is  derived  from  mile  ; 
which,  in  composition,  corrupts  also  into  fill,  full, 
field,  and  sometimes  to  wall.  Thackwell,  in  British, 
might  translate  "  the  pretty  dwelling  "  (thek-wyl)  ; 
or,  "the  ploughman's  dwelling"  (tiak-wyl). 

R.  S.  CHARNOCK. 

"THE  HISTORY  OF  THE  KINGS  or  SCOTLAND" 
(3rd  S.  i.  249.)  —  The  name  of  the  author  of  this 
book,  according  to  Dr.  Watt,  was  William  Duncan. 


Dublin. 

LAMBETH  DEGREES  (3rd  S.  i.  254.)  —  J.  A.  PN. 
will  much  oblige  by  pointing  out  how  the  degree 
of  Doctor  of  Medicine  can  be  granted  by  the 
Abp.  of  Canterbury  to  have  any  effect  since  the 
passing  of  the  Act  21  &  22  Vic.,  under  the  26th 
section.  It  is  there  expressly  provided  that  the 
Doctorate  of  the  Archbishop  must  be  granted 
before  the  passing  of  the  Act.  J.  R. 

^  The  58th  canon  of  the  Church  of  England  is  as 
follows  :  — 

"  Ministers  reading  divine  service,  and  administering 
t0  Wear  surplices'  and  g^uates  there- 


«  Every  minister  saying  the  public  prayers,  or  minis- 
ermg  the  sacraments,  or  other  rites  of  the  Church,  shall 
wear  a  decent  and  comely  surplice  with  sleeves,  to  be 
provided  at  the  charge  of  the  parish.  And  if  any  ques- 
tion arise  touching  the  matter,  decency,  or  comeliness 


thereof,  the  same  shall  be  decided  by  the  discretion  of  the 
Ordinary.  Furthermore,  such  ministers  as  are  graduates 
shall  wear  upon  their  surplices,  at  such  times,  such  hoods 
as  by  the  orders  of  the  universities  are  agreeable  to  their 
degrees,  which  no  minister  shall  wear  (being  no  gra- 
duate) under  pain  of  suspension.  Notwithstanding  it 
shall  be  lawful  for  such  ministers  as  are  not  graduates  to 
wear  upon  their  surplices,  instead  of  hoods,  some  decent 
tippets  of  black,  so  it  be  not  silk." 

The  right  of  granting  degrees  was  conferred  on 
the  Primate  of  all  England  in  1534  by  act  of  par- 
liament, seventy  years  before  the  canons  of  1604 
were  enacted ;  and  although  these  canons  name 
several  times  the  degrees  granted  by  the  universi- 
ties, it  is  deserving  of  note  that  the  Lambeth  de- 
grees are  not  recognised  by  them. 

The  discussions  in  Convocation  lately,  concern- 
ing the  alteration  of  the  29th  canon,  afford  evi- 
dence that  these  canons  are  in  force. 

INVESTIGATOR. 

ARMS  IN  NOBLE'S  "  CROMWELL'S  FAMILY  "  — 
(3rd  S.  i.  109.) --Amongst  the  illustrations  in 
Count  Pompeo  Litta's  work  upon  the  celebrated 
families  of  Italy,  under  the  head  of  that  of  "  Pal- 
lavicino,"  may  be  seen  an  escutcheon  of  Anna, 
daughter  of  Egidio  Hooftmann  of  Antwerp;  viz. 
quarterly,  1st  and  4th  gules,  three  acorns  slipped 
and  leaved  or  ;  2nd  and  3rd  argent,  a  bull's  head 
couped  sable,  armed  or ;  with  a  shield  of  pretence 
argent,  a  wolf  rampant  vert,  langued  gules.  There 
is  no  verbal  description  of  this  shield,  but  the 
animal  depicted  on  the  shield  of  pretence  is  more 
like  a  wolf  than  a  lion,  and  decidedly  is  not  re- 
gardant. This  Anna  Hooftmann  married  Orazio, 
son  of  Tobia  Pallavicino  and  of  his  wife  Battina 
d'Andrea  Spinola.  Orazio  Pallavicino  was  a 
wealthy  London  banker.  He  fitted  out  and  armed 
several  ships  at  his  own  expense  in  1588  to  fight 
against  the  Spanish  armada,  was  present  at  some 
naval  victories  obtained  by  the  English  over  the 
Spaniards,  and  for  his  services  was  knighted  by 
Queen  Elizabeth.  In  the  same  page  of  illustra- 
tions of  Litta's  work  is  a  portrait  of  him  taken 
from  the  borders  of  the  tapestry  in  the  House  of 
Lords  previous  to  its  having  been  partly  burnt 
down  in  1834  ;  on  which  portrait  he  is  styled  Sir 
Horatio  Pallavicim,  and  as  having  died  in  1600. 

Sir  Horatio  Pallavicini  "was  of  the  Genoa 
branch  of  the  celebrated  Italian  Pallavicino  fa- 
mily, whose  escutcheon  was  chequy  of  nine  panes 
or  and  azure,  on  a  chief  or  three  crosses  united 
lengthways  together  sable.  Sir  Horatio  was 
buried  with  great  pomp  at  Babraham.  His  widow 
Anna  (born  Hooftmann),  married  in  1601  Oliver 
Cromwell,  uncle  to  the  Protector.  She  died  in 
1626,  and  was  buried  in  the  church  of  All  Saints, 
Huntingdon.  Tobia,  one  of  the  sons  of  Sir  Hora- 
tio and  of  his  wife  Anna  Hooftmann,  married 
1606,  Giovanna,  daughter  of  Oliver  Cromwell  his 
stepfather,  and  of  his  first  wife  Elizabeth  Brom- 
bey,  and  by  her  had  two  sons  and  four  daughters ; 


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of  whom,  Susanna  married  Edward  Sedgewick, 
and  Anna,  in  1644,  Robert  Yonge.  The  male 
branch  of  the  family  of  Pallavicino  established  in 
England  was  extinct  in  1648.  Vide  Tavola  vn. 
and  xii.  of  the  family  of  Pallavicino  in  Count 
Litta's  work.  The  cost  of  Count  Litta's  entire 
work  is  1,762  fr.  with  illustrations,  but  without 
illustrations,  534  fr.  The  genealogy  of  each 
family  may  be  purchased  separately  ;  that  of  Pal- 
lavicino for  79  fr.  with,  or  for  29  fr.  without 
illustrations.  The  work  is  published  in  Milan,  at 
16  via  del  Cappuccio;  Bernard  Quaritch,  15,  Pic- 
cadilly, is  the  agent  in  London. 

W.  BRYAN  COOKB. 
Pisa  in  Tuscan)'. 

TABARD  (3rd  S.  i.  217,  260.)  —  The  tabard 
was  an  upper  military  garment,  which  seems  to 
have  become  more  general  during  the  reign  of 
Kichard  II.,  and  which  continued  in  fashion  till 
the  time  of  Henry  VIII.  It  was  a  species  of 
tunic  which  covered  the  front  and  back  of  the  body, 
but  was  generally  open  at  the  sides  from  under  the 
shoulders  downwards ;  and  from  the  time  of  its 
first  introduction  was  used  by  the  military.  It 
was  soon  emblazoned  like  the  surcoat  with  armo- 
rial bearings,  and  called  also  tabarum. 

Long  tabards  were  assumed  by  the  nobility  on 
state  occasions ;  and  we  see  that  such  was  worn 
by  King  Richard  II.  when  a  boy,  he  being  thus 
depicted  in  a  psalter,  which  formerly  belonged  to 
him,  and  is  now  in  the  Cotton  Library  in  the 
British  Museum,  marked  Dom.  A.  xvii. 

These  long  tabards  were  peculiar  to  the  English, 
and  were  called  midlegs,  because,  as  they  were 
made  in  imitation  of  the  surcoat,  they  reached  to 
the  middle  of  the  legs.  On  the  Continent  they 
were  shorter,  and  called  renones.  Instead  of  a 
sleeve,  they  latterly  had  a  large  flap  which  hung 
over  the  shoulder. 

The  tabard  is  now  worn  by  the  heralds  on  state 
occasions.  (  Vide  Sir  Samuel  Rush  Meyrick's  Cri- 
tical Enquiry  into  Ancient  Armour,  vol.  ii.  p.  69.) 

The  tabard,  or  something  similar  to  it,  forms 
part  of  the  sacerdotal  vestments  worn  during  the 
mass.  W.  BRYAN  COOKE. 

Pisa  in  Tuscan}'. 

WAITS  OF  THE  CITY  OF  LONDON  (3rd  S.  i.  171.) 
—  In  old  times  each  ward  of  the  city  was  provided 
with  its  company  of  Waits ;  there  was  also  the 
Waits  of  Finsbury,  the  Waits  of  Southwark,  the 
Waits  of  Blackfriars,  as  well  as  those  of  London 
and  Westminster. 

Thomas  Morley  dedicated  his  curious  volume, 
entitled  Consort  Lessons,  1599,  to  the  Lord  Mayor 
and  Aldermen,  and  in  the  course  of  the  dedication 
is  the  following  allusion  to  the  city  musicians  :  — 

"  But,  as  the  ancient  custom  of  this  most  honorable 
and  renowned  city  hath  been  ever  to  retain  and  main- 
taine  excellent  and  expert  musicians  to  adorn  your 
Honour's  favours,  feasts,  and  solemn  meetings,  —  to  those, 


your  Lordships'  Waytt,  I  recommend  the  same, to 

your  servants'  careful  and  skilful  handling.". 

The  City  Waits  attended  the  Lord  Mayor  on 
public  occasions,  such  as  Lord  Mayor's  Day,  and 
on  public  feasts  and  great  dinners ;  and,  from  the 
following  passage  in  Roger  North's  Memoirs  of 
Musich,  I  think  we  may  infer  that  they  also  per- 
ambulated the  streets  at  certain  seasons :  — 

tf  As  for  Corporation  and  mercenary  musick,  it  WAS 
chiefly  flabile  (i.  e.  for  wind  instruments),  and  the  profes- 
sors, from  going  about  the  streets  in  a  morning  to  wake 
folks,  were  and  are  yet  called  Waits,  quasi  Wakes." 

In  John  Cleland's  Essay  on  the  Origin  of  the 
Musical  Waits  at  Christmas,  appended  to  his  Way 
to  Things  by  Words,  and  to  Words  by  Things,  8?o, 
1766,  is  the  following  passage  upon  these  nocturnal 
disturbers  of  our  slumbers  :  — 

"  But  at  the  ancient  yule,  or  Christmas  time  especi- 
ally, the  dreariness  of  the  weather,  the  length  of  the  night, 
would  naturally  require  something  extraordinary  to  wake 
and  rouse  men  from  their  natural  inclination  to  rest,  and 
from  a  warm  bed  at  that  hour.  The  summons,  then,  to  tb« 
Wakes  of  that  season,  were  given  by  music  going  the 
rounds  of  invitation  to  the  mirth  or  festivals  which  were 
awaiting  them.  In  this  there  was  some  propriety  —  some 
object ;  but  where  is  there  any  in  such  a  solemn  piece  of 
banter  as  that  of  music  going  the  rounds,  and  disturbing 
people  in  vain  ?  For  surely  any  meditation  to  be  thereby 
excited  on  the  holiness  of  the  ensuing  day  could  hardly 
be  of  great  avail,  in  a  bed  between  sleeping  and  waking. 
But  such  is  the  power  of  custom  to  perpetuate  absur- 
dities." 

In  Beaumont  and  Fletcher's  Knight  of  the 
Burning  Pestle,  one  of  the  characters  exclaims  — 

".Hark!  are  the  Waits  abroad?  " 
To  which  another  replies  — 
"  Be  softer,  prythee, 
Tis  private  musick." 

A  writer  in  The  Tatler  (No.  222)  says  :  — 

"  There  is  scarce  a  youog  man  of  any  fashion,  who 

does  not  make  love  with  the  town  music.    The  Waits 

often  help  him  through  his  courtship." 

EDWARD  F.  RIMBADLT. 

THREEPENNY  CURATES  (3rd  S.  i.  271.)  —  I  am 
really  obliged  to  the  Editor  for  his  reference  to 
the  Gentleman's  Magazine,  though  I  had  noted  it. 
But  I  think  the  persons  of  whom  friend  Story 
speaks  must  have  been  a  grade  (or  indeed  several 
grades)  below  the  customers  of  Mr.  Hawkshaw. 
I  find  it  impossible  to  imagine  a  man  whose  fee 
for  reading  prayers  on  a  week-day  was  2*.  6d^ 
and  on  a  Sunday  twice  as  much,  looking  down, 
not  very  far,  to  be  sure,  but  with  complacency,  on 
a  brother  scarcely  kept  alive  by  coffee  and  chuck- 
farthing.  They  must,  I  think,  have  been  different 

SectS.  TRINUMMUi. 

USE  OP  THE  TONGUE  IN  SPEECH  (3rd  S.  i.  268.) 
—  In  the  Philosophical  Transactions  for  1742  and 
1747  is  recorded  the  case  of  "Margaret  Cutting, 
a  young  woman  at  Wickham  Market,  in  Suffolk, 
who  spoke  readily  and  distinctly,  though  she  had 
lost  the  apex  and  body  of  her  tongue."  Like  the 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[8*  S.  I.  APRIL  26,  ?62. 


Nunneley  case,  it  was  lost  in  consequence  of  a 
cancer ;  but,  in  this  instance,  it  fell  out  of  itself, 
during  the  operation  of  syringing,  and  the  girl 
immediately  remarked,  "  Don't  be  frighted,  mam- 
ma ;  it  will  grow  again."  Deglutition,  pronunci- 
ation, and  taste  remained  nearly  as  before.  She 
sometimes  pronounced  words  ending  in  ath  as  ets 
end  as  enib ;  and  ad  as  eib ;  but  it  required  a  nice 
and  strict  attention  to  observe  even  this  difference 
of  sound.  She  sang  very  prettily,  and  pronounced 
her  words  in  singing  as  is  common.  These  facts 
were  certified  under  the  hands  of  the  minister,  an 
apothecary,  and  others,  and  she  was  afterwards 
brought  to  London,  and  exhibited  at  a  meeting 
of  the  Koyal  Society.  The  os  hyoides  and  the 
muscles  of  the  larynx  and  pharynx  were  found  to 
be  perfect ;  but  the  fleshy  substance  of  the  tongue, 
both  body  and  apex,  was  wanting. 

JOB  J.  BARDWELL  WORKARD,  M.A. 

The  account  of  a  surgical  operation  for  the 
removal  of  the  tongue,  quoted  from  the  Leeds 
Intelligencer,  is  greatly  exaggerated.  I  was  pre- 
sent at  the  meeting  of  the  Medico- Chirurgical 
Society,  where  the  patient  was  exhibited,  and  can 
affirm  that  the  statement  as  to  his  being  able  to 
"  pronounce  every  letter  of  the  alphabet,"  is  quite 
untrue.  No  one  having  the  slightest  knowledge 
of  the  mechanism  of  speech  could  for  a  moment 
suppose  articulate  sounds  to  be  inherent,  as  it 
were,  in  the  tongue  itself,  and  to  emanate  from  it. 
We  know  that  the  organ  is  necessary  to  modify 
certain  sounds,  while,  in  the  production  of  other 
sounds,  it  plays  no  part  whatever.  Any  person 
can  make  an  approximation  towards  the  experi- 
ment of  talking  without  the  tongue,  by  keeping  it 
steadily  pressed  down  against  the  floor  of  the 
mouth,  and  then  slowly  pronouncing  various 
words.  He  will  find  that  there  some  sounds 
which  he  cannot  produce  at  all;  those,  for  in- 
stance, of  d,  k,  /,  and  L  The  "  vowel  sounds," 
which  so  much  surprise  the  newspaper  writer,  are 
formed  without  the  aid  of  the  tongue. 

F.R.M.C.  Soc. 

THE  RIGHT  Sow  BY  THE  EAR  (3rd  S.  i.  232.)  — 
While  fully  assenting  to  your  explanation  of  this 
phrase,  I  would  venture  to  suggest  that  "  sow," 
in  the  sense  of  a  tub,  is  connected  with  the  old 
French  word,  seuu,  a  bucket.  Y. 

BISHOP  PARKER  (3rd  S.  i.  262.)— In  a  note 
to  his  most  interesting  article,  MR.  WALCOTT 
strangely  says,  that  Parker  «  forsook  the  Indepen- 
dents to  become  a  Romanist."  Parker  was  brought 
up  among  the  Puritans,  but  if  he  was  an  "  Inde- 
pendent," it  was  in  a  political  and  not  in  a  re- 
ligious sense ;  at  least  I  find  no  trace  of  his  having 
held  the  principles  of  Dr.  Owen.  In  any  case 
Parker  did  not  forsake  the  Independents  to  be- 
come a  Romanist.  He  was  a  violent,  intolerant, 
and  bigoted  man,  but  he  passed  from  one  step  of 


promotion  to  another  till  he  became  Bishop  of 
Oxford.  I  find  no  evidence  of  his  being  a  Ro- 
manist all  this  time.  Bad  as  he  was,  he  could  not 
have  been  such  a  hypocrite.  Whatever  he  was  at 
heart  he  died  in  his  see,  and  as  a  bishop  of  the 
Church  of  England.  In  his  Essay  against  Toler- 
ation, which  I  have  just  been  reading,  Parker 
maintains  "  the  authority  of  the  civil  magistrate 
over  the  consciences  of  subjects  in  matters  of  re- 
ligion." This  work  was  published  in  1670,  and 
passed  through  several  editions.  It  seems  to  teach 
that  Parker  was  prepared  to  follow  any  form  of 
religious  profession  which  his  monarch  enjoined. 
This  is  a  principle  which  could  hardly  be  defended 
by  a  Romanist  any  more  than  by  an  Independent; 
and  it  is  tolerably  certain  that  neither  the  one  nor 
the  other  party  is  anxious  for  the  honour  of  en« 
rolling  Samuel  Parker  among  its  members. 

B.  H.  C. 

[There  is  a  long  account  of  Bishop  Parker  in  Wood's 
Athence  (by  Bliss),  vol.  ii.  814—820,  where  it  is  stated 
that  although  Parker  was  favourably  inclined  to  the  Eo- 
man  Communion  he  never  declared  himself  openly,  "  the 
great  obstacle  being  his  wife,  whom  he  cannot  rid  himself 
of."— ED.] 

RYOT  AND  RIOT  (3rd  S.  i.  257.)— Riot  is  an  old 
word  both  in  French  and  Italian.  By  the  Aca- 
demy it  is  regarded  as  a  diminutive  of  rire,  to 
laugh.  In  the  English  Bible  it  never  has  the 
sense  of  quarrelling,  but  always  means  excess  or 
wantonness ;  hence  it  may  be  translated  by  the 
Latin  luxuria,  commessatio,  &c.  Its  modern  use 
seems  to  follow  from  the  fact  that  the  disorder  of  ex- 
cess and  merry  making  often  led  to  brawling  and 
contention.  That  riot  has  nothing  to  do  with 
ryots,  except  when  riotous,  is  beyond  question. 

B.  H.  C. 

BRAZIL  (3rd  S.  i.  256,  &c.)'~ I  sent  you  a  note 
some  time  since  sugesting  that  this  word  is  de- 
rived from  the  Hebrew  Barzel,  i.  e.  iron,  or  from 
some  other  Shemitic  language.  I  gave  as  my 
reason,  that  brazil-wood  is  still  called  iron-wood, 
and  that  men  still  say  "as  hard  as  brazil."  The 
word  may  have  reached  Europe  easily  in  the  way 
of  commerce.  Permit  me  to  repeat  this  note,  as 
the  former  has  not  appeared.  B.  H.  C. 

FFOLTJOTT  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  88,  158,  216.)  — 
Upon  further  investigation  into  the  history  of  the 
Ffolliot  family,  I  find  Thomas,  second  Lord  Ffol- 
liot, had  a  daughter  named  Rebecca,  who  married 
John  Walker,  Esq.,  of  the  county  of  Stafford, 
and  is  probably  the  person  alluded  to  by  your 
correspondent  S.  T.  as  buried  at  Trysull  in  that 
county..  Henry,  third  Lord  Ffolliot,  had  also  a 
daughter  called  Rebecca,  but  she  died  at  the  age 
of  fourteen,  and  is  buried  in  Westminster  Abbey. 

This  Rebecca  Walker  was  sister  to  the  Hon. 
Anne  Soley,  whose  monument  I  erroneously 
stated  to  be  in  Kidderminster  parish  church, 


3^  S.  I.  ArniL  26,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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instead  of  the  chapel  of  Mitton,  within  that  parish 
The  first  Baron  Ffolliot  was  a  younger  son  of 
Thomas  Ffolliot,  of  Pirton,  co.  Worcester,  and 
Catherine  Lygon,  and  in  reward  of  his  military 
prowess  in  Ireland,  was  created  first  a  knight 
banneret,  and  afterwards  a  peer  of  Ireland,  by  the 
title  of  Baron  of  Ballyshannon,  with  a  grant  of 
large  royalties  and  estates  there. 

His  son  Thomas  succeeded  as  second  Baron, 
and  married  Rebecca,  widow  of  J.  Waters,  of 
Dublin.  She  resided  after  his  death  at  Stilldon, 
near  Rock,  co.  Worcester,  and  lies  buried  in  the 
chancel  of  the  stately  church  of  that  parish. 

Henry,  third  and  last  Lord  Fiblliot,  their  son, 
married  Eliz.  daughter  of  George  Pudsey,  of 
Langley  Hall,  co.  Warwick,  and  died  at  his  seat, 
Four  Oaks  Hall,  Warwickshire,  on  the  17th  of 
October,  1716,  without  living  issue.  The  ancient 
Ffolliot  estates  at  Pirton,  Worcestershire,  were 
sold  to  Sir  William  Corteyn,  and  from  him  to  the 
Coventry  family,  their  present  possessors. 

I  have  been  unable  to  trace  how  the  other 
estates,  Lickhill  in  Worcestershire,  and  Wishaw 
in  the  co.  of  Warwick,  came  into  the  family. 
They  were  certainly  the  possessions  of  the  two 
last  lords,  and  have  only  been  sold  by  the  family 
during  the  last  few  years. 

THOMAS  E.  WINNINGTON. 

JEANNE  D'EVREUX,  QUEEN  OP  FRANCE  (3rd  S. 
i.  230.) — Perhaps  HERMENTRUDE  may  like  to  have 
the  following  confirmation  of  the  date  1370  as  the 
time  of  this  queen's  death.  I  extract  it  from  a 
splendid  and  voluminous  work,  entitled  Histoire 
Genealogique  et  Chronologique  de  la  Maison  Royale 
de  France,  par  le  Pere  Auselme,  Augustin  De- 
chausse,"  3rd  edition,  Paris,  1726.  Vol.  i.  It  is 
therein  recorded  that  Charles  IV.  of  France  and 
Navarre,  surnaraed  le  Bel,  married,  as  his  third 
wife,  Jeanne  d'Evreux,  eldest  daughter  of  Louis 
of  France,  Count  of  Evreux,  "  Pair  de  France," 
by  Margaret  of  Artois,  Lady  of  Brie-Comte- 
Kobert,  daughter  of  Philippe  D' Artois,  Lord  of 
Couches. 

Jeanne  was  married  to" Charles  IV.  in  1325,  by 
dispensation  of  Pope  John  XXII. ;  crowned,  at 
Paris,  llth  May,  1326,  and  died  at  Brie-Comte- 
Robert,  4th  March,  1370.  This  seems  to  render 
it  probable  that  the  date  misprinted  in  Dreux  du 
Radier  was  1370,  for  this  time  is  repeated  more 
than  once  as  that  of  the  death  of  Jeanne  d'Ev- 
reux in  the  work  from  which  I  quote.  If  any 
more  particulars  were  desired  concerning  Jeanne 
d'Evreux  and  her  family,  such  as  her  descent 
from  John  II.  of  Brittany  and  Beatrice  of  Eng- 
land, I  would  willingly  make  note  of  them,  if  of 
use  to  any  correspondent  of  "  N.  &  Q" 

C.  H.  E.  CARMICHAEL. 

BORAGE  AND  SPINACH  (2nd  S.  xii.  252.)  — The 
origin  of  these  two  words  is  investigated  by  Beck- 


mann,  Hist,  of  Inventions,  art.  "  Kitchen  Vege- 
tables," vol.  iv.  p.  262-4,  Enjil.  tr.  ed.  1817.  He 
says  that  the  word  borago  was  unknown  to  the 
ancients,  but  throws  no  light  on  its  etymology. 
With  regard  to  spinach,  he  states  that  it  appears 
to  have  been  made  known  from  Spain  ;  for  that 
many  of  the  early  botanists  call  it  olua  Hispani- 
cum.  "Ruellius  and  others,"  he  remarks,  "name 
it  Atriplex  Hispaniensis ;  and  the  latter  adds  that 
the  Arabians  or  Moors  called  it  Hispanach,  which 
signifies  Spanish  plant"  It  may  be  considered 
certain  that  the  Latin  spinachium,  and  the  varie- 
ties of  this  form  in  the  Romance  language?,  are 
corruptions  of  Hispanach,  as  the  Spinach  is  not  a 
prickly  plant.  L. 

GRAY'S  «  ELEGY  "  PARODIED  (3rd  S.  i.  197,  220.) 
—  Besides  the  parodies  mentioned  by  DELTA  and 
J.  F.  S.  there  appeared  in  Punch,  one  entitled 
Elegy  written  in  a  Railway  Sbition.  I  cannot 
give  the  exact  date  of  its  publication,  having  only 
a  cutting,  but  it  was  soon  after  th<*  time  when  the 
"  Railway  King  "  "came  to  grief." 

W.  H.Husic. 

WILKES'S  LAST   SPEECH  IN  PARLIAMENT    (3rd  S. 

i.  271.)  — Under  this  equivocal  title  your  corre- 
spondent describes  a  speech,  on  which  an  epigram 
was  written  and  published,  Jan.  1776,  and  he  de- 
sires to  know  where  he  can  find  a  copv.  Has  he 
referred  to  that  not  very  rare  work,  The  Parlia- 
mentary History,  or  to  any  one  of  the  numberless 
editions  of  The  Speeches  of  John  Wilkes  ?  In  the 
best  edition  of  Wilkes's  Speeches,  in  3  vols.,  it 
will  be  found  (i.  74.)  It  was  the  last  spoken  before 
the  publication  of  the  epigram,  on  the  27th  Nov. 
1775,  and  Wilkes  therein  mentioned  Samuel 
Adams  and  John  Hancock  as  "  two  worthy  gen- 
tlemen, and  true  patriots."  W.  L.  S. 

MEANING  OF  FOLD  (3rd  S.  i.  187.)  —  To  fold  is 
to  enclose,  and  9,  fold  is  an  enclosure.  The  word 
is  in  common  use  in  Lancashire,  and  means  the 
hedged  or  walled  enclosure  in  which  a  farm  or 
cottage-house  stands.  The  little  portion  of  ground 
between  the  gate  and  the  front  door  is  the  fold. 
The  s  genitive  is  provincially  omitted  in  Lanca- 
shire, so  the  enclosure  belonging  to  Dixon  would 
be  Dixon- fold,  not  Dixon's-fold. 

TOUTE  VERITE  N'EST  PAS  BONNE  A  DIRE.  — 
"Depuis  qu'on  a  remarque*  qu'avec  le  temps  vieilles 
folies  deviennent  'sagesse,  et  qu'anciens  petits  men- 
songes  assez  mal  plantes  ont  produit  de  grosses,  grosses 
ve'riteV,  on  en  a  de  mille  especes.  Et  celles  qu'on  salt, 
sans  oser  les  divulguer;  car  toute  verite"  n'est  put  bonne  a 
dire ;  et  celles  qu'on  vante,  sans  y  ajonter  foi ;  car  toute 
vdritd  n'est  pas  bonne  a  croirc."  —  Beaumarchais,  Ha- 
riage  de  Figaro,  Act  IV.  Sc.  1. 

L. 

LATIN  GRACES  (3fd  S.  i.  188.)  —  D.  E.  C.  will 
find  the  Latin  graces  used  at  Christchurcb,  Ox- 
ford (with  those  of  all  the  other  Oxford  colleges), 


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[3rd  S.  I.  APRIL  26,  '62. 


in  Appendix  V.  to  the  Reliquiae  llearniana  by  Dr. 
Bliss  (Oxford,  1857.)  I  do  not  remember  haying 
met  with  any  work  containing  the  Cambridge 
graces,  W.  H.  HUSK. 

"  THE  HISTORY  or  JOHN  BULL  "  (3rd  S.  i.  300.) 
—  Is  the  above-named  political  burlesque  known 
to  be  written  by,  or  only  ascribed  to,  Dr.  Arbuth- 
not  ?  In  the  second  volume  of  Miscellanies,  pub- 
lished by  Benjamin  Motte  and  Charles  Bathurst 
at  the  Middle  Temple  Gate,  Fleet  Street,  in  1736, 
its  paternity  is  given  to  Swift.  At  the  close  of 
the  "Contents"  of  the  first  volume,  this  intima- 
tion appears  :  "  N.B.  Those  pieces  which  have  not 
this  mark  («SP°*)  were  not  wrote  by  Dean  Swift." 
The  title  of  the  paper  with  which  the  second 
volume  commences  is,  "  Law  is  a  Bottomless 
Pit;  or,  the  History  of  John  Bull,"  &c. ;  and  to 
this  is  appended  the  index  and  asterisk,  which,  so 
to  speak,  are  in  these  Miscellanies  the  trade-mark 
of  Swift's  productions.  W,  G. 


NOTES  OX  BOOKS,  ETC. 

T/ie  Book-Huntcr.  By  John  Hill  Burton.  (Black- 
wood.) 

Book-hunters,  like  old  maids,  are  among  the  most 
useful  classes  to  other  people,  but  abused  just  in  propor- 
tion to  their  usefulness.  A  large  proportion  of  the  hap- 
piness of  every  family  is  poured  into  it  by  self-denying 
maiden  aunts  and  maiden  sisters ;  and  "the  great  re- 
positories of  learning  to  which  students  of  all  classes 
resort  have  been  built  upon  foundations  laid  by  some 
enthusiastic  book-hunters.  Of  this  race  of  worthies  Mr. 
Burton  has  undertaken  to  give  us  an  account  in  the  work 
before  us,  and  verily  herein  he  follows  honest  Isaac  Wal- 
ton's advice  as  to  the  frog  wherewith  Venator  was  to  bait 
for  pike,  —  "  In  so  doing,  use  him  as  though  you  loved 
him."  Indeed  it  is  obvious  that  the  fellow-feeling  which 
proverbially  makes  men  wondrous  kind,  actuated  Mr. 
Burton  in  the  selection  of  his  subject,  and.  the  result  is, 
a  book  which  will  please  all  lovers  of  literature,  and  a 
book,  too,  which  is  calculated  to  tempt  "all  that  are 
lovers  of  virtue  and  dare  trust  in  Providence,  to  be  quiet 
and  go  a  Book -hunting."  Mr.  Burton  tells  some  good 
stories  of  book-hunters,  showing  how  heartily  they  loved 
the  books  they  captured,  and  the  pains  they  took  to  cap- 
ture them:  and  we  may  some  day  recall  attention  to 
Mr.  Burton's  amusing  volume  by  a  story  or  two  of  the 
book-hunting  adventures  of  two  of  the  greatest  scholars 
we  have  ever  had  the  pleasure  to  number  amonjr  our 
friends. 

Eighteen  Years  of  a  Clerical  Meeting ;  being  the  Minutes 
<>f  the  A/cester  Clerical  Association  from  1842  to  1860 ; 
wtih  a  Preface  on  the  Revival  of  Ruri-decanal  Chapters. 
Ldited  by  Rev.  Richard  Seymour  and  Rev.  John  F.  Mac- 
karness.  (Rivingtons.) 

The  title  is  as  true  a  description  of  the  contents  of  the 
volume  as  clerical  book-buyers  could  desire.  It  contains 
a  continuous  record  of  the  phases  and  progress  of  clerical 
opinion  during  a  period  which  has  been  a  most  eventful 
one  for  the  Church  of  England ;  and  it  will  give  lay- 
readers  a  most  favourable  idea  of  the  earnestness  and 
painstaking  ability  with  which  many  a  similar  knot  of 
country  clergy  discuss  the  ecclesiastical  questions  of  the 


Thebes,  its  Tombs  and  their  Tenants,  Ancient  and  Pre- 
sent ;  including  a  Record  of  Excavations  in  the  Necropolis. 
By  A.  Henry  Rhind,  F.S.A.,  &c.  (Longman.) 

While  describing  the  results  of  certain  excavations 
made  at  Thebes,  Mr.  Rhind  has  endeavoured,  in  the 
volume  before  us,  to  offer,  at  the  same  time,  a  general 
view  of  sepulchral  facts,  as  represented  in  the  Necro- 
polis of  that  city.  One  of  the  most  important  divisions 
of  the  work  is  that  in  which  he  has  furnished  a  precise 
account  of  a  large  family  tomb  of  an  official  personage, 
which  a  long  search  brought  to  light  in  undisturbed 
condition,  not  only  because  the  contents  of  the  tomb 
were  of  special  interest,  but  because  it  is,  in  certain  re- 
spects, the  only  instance  of  such  discovery.  Inde- 
pendently of  the  mass  of  materials  on  the  subject  of 
Egyptian  sepulchres  generally  which  it  contains,  the 
book  abounds  in  information  on  the  various  psycho- 
logical and  religious  questions  connected  with  that  sub- 
ject, and  is  certainly  a  valuable  addition  to  the  literature 
of  Egyptian  archaeology. 

Sussex  Archaeological  Collections,  relating  to  the  History 
and  Antiquities  of  the  County.  Published  by  the  Sussex 
Archaeological  Society.  Vol.  XIII.  (Bacon,  Lewes.) 

It  certainly  says  much  for  the  historic  interest  of 
Sussex,  and  even  more  for  the  zeal  and  intelligence  of  its 
Antiquaries,  that  the  thirteenth  volume  of  their  Col- 
lections—  thanks  to  the  learning  and  industry  of  Mr. 
Blaauw,  Mr.  Durrant  Cooper,  Sir  H.  Ellis,  Mr.  Figg,  Mr. 
Lower,  and  other  able  contributors  —  equals  in  interest 
any  of  its  predecessors.  No  county  Society  has  as  yet 
come  up  to  that  of  Sussex  in  its  contributions  to  Local 
History. 

A  Brief  Memoir  of  Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  prepared  for 
and  published  in  the  New  England  Historical  and  Genea- 
logical Register  for  April,  18G2,  and  now  reprinted  with 
Additions.  By  Samuel  G.  Drake.  (Boston,  Privately 
Printed.) 

A  Handbook  of  American  Genealogy,  being  a  Catalogue 
of  Family  Histories  and  Publications  containing  Genea- 
logical Information.  Chronologically  arranged  by  William 
H.  Whitinore.  (Munsell,  Albany.) 

The  former  of  these  volumes  is  a  very  able  sketch  of  the 
life  of  our  great  countryman  from  the  pen  of  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  New  England  Historic-Genealogical  Society. 
The  latter  is  now  a  valuable,  and  will  be,  some  few  years 
hence,  a  yet  more  valuable,  contribution  to  the  Family 
History  of  the  United  States.  So  we  had  written,  but, 
we  fear  written  in  error ;  for,  be  the  result  of  the  present 
unhappy  struggle  what  it  may,  can  the  survivors  of  those 
who  have  stood  face  to  face  on  the  bloody  plains  of 
Corinth  ever  again  be  united?  Where  is  all  our  boasted 
progress  —  our  advanced  civilization  —  when  men  of  the 
same  race,  religion,  and  language,  can  be  thus  arrayed  in 
deadly  and  implacable  hatred  against  each  other? 


to 

INDIO  o  PLANTER.    The  author  of  Tyranny  in  India,  1850,  is  unknown. 

M.  F.  Oar  corespondent's  copy  of  Lady  "Willoughby's  Diary  is  the 
nau  edit!' IK  published  in  1845,  called  by  the  publishers  square  fcap.  8vo. 
The  work  is  fictitious.  In  the  Preface  to  the  Second  Part  it  is  stated, 
that "  the  Author  in  this  work  personates  a  Lady  of  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury." 

Answers  to  other  Correspondents  in  our  next. 

ERRATUM.  _  3rd  S.  i.  p.  319,  col.  i.  line  16  from  bottom,  for  "  possess  " 
read  "press." 

"  NOTES  AND  QUERIES  "  is  published  at  noon  on  Friday,  and  is  also 
issued  in  MON 
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UNITED  KINGDOM 

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DIRECTORS. 

The  Hon.  FRANCIS  SCOTT,  Chairman 
CHARLES  BERWICK  CURTIS,  Esq.,  Deputy  Chairman 
EDWARD  LENNOX  BOYD,  Esq 

(Resident). 

WILLIAM  FAIRLIE,  Esq. 
D.  Q.  HENKIQUES,  Esq. 
J.  (J.  HKN1UQUKS,  Esq. 
MARCUS  H.  JOHNSON,  Esq. 

SUPERIOR  ACCOMMODATION  AFFORDED  BY  THIS 
COMPANY. 

^  This  Company  offers  the  security  of  a  large  paid-up  capital   held  in 

r,  thus 


WILLIAM 


There  have  been  three  divisions  of  profits,  the  bonuses  averaging 
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Sum^mred'          Bonuses  added.  Payable  at  Death. 

*5£2?  «81.»87  10s.  '  £6,987  10*. 

1,000  397  Ids.  1,397  \QS 

100  39  15s.  139  I*: 

To  assure  *  100  payable  at  death,  a  person  aged  21  pavs  «t2  2«.  4d.  per 
annum;  but  as  the  profits  have  averaged  nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum, 
Utions,  m  many  cases,  have  been  almost  as  much  as  the  pre- 

Loans  panted  on  approved  real  or  personal  security. 
at  enitiitablelrat  's  Parties  U0t  in  a  souud  8tate  of  health  may  ne  insured 
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t0>8to  7S'  l°d"  invested  in  Government  and  other  ap- 


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WESTERN    LIFE    ASSURANCE     AND 
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3,  PARLIAMENT  STREET,  LONDON,  8.W. 
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T.  S.  Cocks,  Esq. 
G.  H.  Drew,  Esq.  M.A. 
W.  Freeman,  Esq. 
J.  H.  Goodhart.Esq. 


Directors. 


E.Lucas,  Esq. 
F.  B.  Marson.  Esq. 
J.  L.  Seaerer,  Esq. 
J.  B.  White,  Esa. 


Physician.-W.  R.  Basham,  M.D. 

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for  which  ample  security  is  provided  by  the  capital  of  the  Society. 
Example:  100Z.  cash  paid  down  purchases— An  annuity  of — 
£  s.  d. 

9  15  10  to  a  male  life  aged  60\ 
11    7    4  „  65  (Payable  as  long 

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cheered  by  the  knowledge  that  a  course  of  Holloway's  Pills  will  dissi- 
te  both  cause  and  effect.    Many  nervous  maladies  of  long  duration 
nave  afforded  the  most  remarkable  recoveries  under  these  purifying 
Pills:  they  have  assuaged  sufferings  of  the  severest  character,  and 
steadily  restored  the  afflicted  to  comfort,  confidence,  and  health,  after 
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OOtKi. 

rles  Pott,  Kso. 

Re v.John  Kuisell.D.D. 

James  Hpl«r.  Esq. 

John  Charles  Tempter.  Esq. 
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wm.  Dacrt  s  Adams.    M. 
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Lord  Oeo.  Henry  Cavendish.  M.P. 
Frederick  Cowper,  Esq. 
Philip  Hardwick 


These  additions  have  increased  the  claims  allowed  and  raid  under 
those  policies  since  the  1st  January.  I860,  to  thc  exU-nt  of  150 per  cent. 

The  capital,  on  the  31st  December  last,  consisted  of  - 

2,73P,ooo/.  _  stock  in  the  public  Funds. 

3,(  06,2977.  —  cash  lent  on  mortage*  of  freehold  estates 

300,0007.—  cash  advanced  on  railway  debenture*. 

83  M07.  _  cash  advanced  on  security  of  the  policies  of  members  of  the 
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Producing  annually  221,4887. 

The  total  income  exceeds  400,0007.  per  annum. 

Policies  effected  in  the  year  I8ti2  will  participate  in  the  distribution 
oj  Profits  made  in  December.  1809.  so  soon  as  six  annual  premiums 
shall  have  become  due  and  been  paid  thereon;  and,  in  the  division 
ot  1869,  will  be  entitled  to  additions  in  respect  of  every  premium  paid 
upon  them  from  the  year  I8H2  to  I8t>9,  each  inclusife. 

On  the  surrender  of  policies  the  full  value  U  paid,  without  any  deduc- 
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temporary  accommodation,  on  the  deposit  of  a  policy. 

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CONTENTS— NO.  18. 

NOTES  :  —  Gunpowder  Plot  Papers,  341  —  Biography  of  Wil- 
liam Oldys,  313  —  Bottesford  Eegisters,  It.—  Resuscita- 
tion after  Hanging,  344. 

MINOB  NOTES:  — The  Previous  Question  —  Martin's  Pic- 
tures —  Curious  Coincidence  —  Longevity  of  Lawyers  — 
Concordances  and  Verbal  Indexes  —  Puritan  Observance 
of  the  Lord's  Day,  343. 

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make  them  Tender  —  Bristol  Families  —  Burke  —  Clerical 
Incumbents,  1780— 1830 1— J.  W.  Dalby —Dam  board'  — 
Edisfield,  Scotenay,  and  Passenham  — Epigram  wanted  — 
Fidei  Defensor  —  Hearts  of  Oak  —  Judges' Maces  —  Dame 
Margaret  and  George  Halyburton  -Moneyers'  Weights  — 
Names  of  Plants  — Negro  Servants  —  Phrases  —  Samuel 
Plumbe,  Lord  Mayor  —  Queries  —  Quotation  —  Sand- 
Paintings  —  Title  of  Psalm  cxlix.  —  "  A  true-blue  apron 
return  "  —  The  Vulgate  —  Whiff,  346. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWEHS  :  —  Godwyn's  "  Moses  and  Aaron" 

—  Earl  of  Huntingdon's  Obit  — Family  of  Young  — Trinity 
House  —  "  To  wit "  —  Dissolution  of  Monasteries,  349. 

REPLIES:  — On  being  covered  in  the  Royal  Presence: 
Touching  for  the  King's  Evil,  350  — The  Saltonstall  Fa- 
mily, 76.  — Age  of  Newspapers,  351  — Heraldic  Volume, 
temp.  Charles  II.  —  The  Drunkard's  Conceit  —  Centena- 
rians—Fold, a  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  Word  — Poma- 
tum —  Paulson—  Sir  John  Strange :  John  Strange,  D.C.L. 

—  Gradwells,  Gorsuch,  &c.  —  Holy  laud  Family  — Trial  of 
Spencer   Cowper  —  Standing  at  the   Lord's  Prayer  —  A 
Prediction  —  Clerical  Knights  —  Daughters  of  William  the 
Lion  —Shelley's  "  Laon  and  Cythna  "  —  Herydene  —Watch 
Papers  — Parodies  on  Gray's  "  Elegy  "  —  Surplice  worn  in 
Private  Administration  of  the  Communion,  &c.,  352. 

Notes  on  Books. 


GUNPOWDER  PLOT  PAPERS. 
(Continued  from  2nd  S.  x.  142.) 

The  Winters  of  Huddington,  in  Worcestershire, 
whose  family  furnished  two  of  the  principal  actors 
in  the  Gunpowder  Plot,  were  related  to  the 
Catesbys  and  Treshams,  and  were  connected  by 
marriage  with  John  Grant  of  Norbrook,  who  him- 
self also  played  a  conspicuous  part  in  the  con- 
spiracy. John  Grant  had  married  a  sister  of  the 
Winters,  and  a  considerable  intimacy  had  in 
consequence  sprung  up  between  the  families. 
There  are  in  existence  in  the  State  Paper  Office 
several  letters  from  Thomas  and  Robert  Winter, 
written  with  one  exception  to  Grant,  at  his  house 
at  Norbrook,  and  which  are  interesting  as  af- 
fording an  insight  into  the  private  life  of  the 
Conspirators  during  the  four  or  five  years  that 
immediately  preceded  the  Gunpowder  Plot. 
Some  of  these  letters  were  written  before  the  Plot 
was  commenced,  some  during  the  Plot,  and  one 
in  particular  of  Ro"bert  Winter  after  its  discovery, 
and  when  the  conspirators  were  on  their  flight  to 
Holbeach. 

The  letters  written  by  Thomas  Winter  are  all 
unfortunately  without  date  of  the  year,  and  one 
of  them  indeed  without  date  of  the  month.  It  is 
not,  however,  difficult  to  gather  with  sufficient 
certainty  from  internal  evidence,  the  year  when 


they  were  written,  and  they  arc  accordingly  given 
here  in  their  chronological  order.  This  order 
differs  slightly  from  that  observed  in  the  Calendar 
of  State  Papers,  but  the  reason  given  below  for 
such  alteration  will,  I  think,  fairly  justify  it. 

The  first  letter,  though  without  any  address,  is 
evidently,  like  the  others  of  Thomas  Winter,  in- 
tended for  Grant. 

'  If  I  may,  with  my  sister's  good  leave,  lett  me  entreat 
you  Brother  to  come  over  Saturday  next  to  us  at  Chactal- 
ton :  I  can  assure  you  of  kind  welcome ;  and  your  ac- 
quaintance with  my  Cousin  Catsby  will  nothing  repent 
you.  1  could  wish  Doll  here,  but  our  life  is  monastic*! 
without  women.  Comend  me  to  your  mother.  And  so 
a  dio. 

"  Di.  T.  Osserm<>. 

u  THO.  WIHTOUR. 
"  Bring  with  you  my 
'Ragiondi  Statto."** 

From  the  allusion  in  this  letter  to  Chastleton, 
where  Catesby  was  then  evidently  living,  I  am 
inclined  to  fix  its  date  previous  to  May  1602. 
Chastleton  after  that  time  no  longer  belonged  to 
Catesby,  having  been  sold  to  raise  the  fine  of 
3000Z.  which  had  been  incurred  by  him  in  conse- 
quence of  his  implication  in  the  Essex  Treason. 
From  this  circumstance  I  am  induced  to  consider 
the  date  given  to  this  letter  in  the  Calendar  of 
State  Papers,  namely,  1605,  to  be  incorrect. 

The  next  letter,  dated  *'  6th  December,"  was 
doubtless  written  in  1603,  from  the  allusions  made 
in  it  to  the  siege  of  the  town,  now  known  asBois- 
le-duc,  but  then  called  by  its  Flemish  name  of 
S'Hertogembos,  which  took  place  towards  the  end 
of  that  year. 

"  Though  I  have  bin  at  the  fountaine  of  news  yett  can 
I  learn  littel  to  pourpose  only  a  supply  is  expected  bv 
the  Spaniards:  some  forty  were  taken  in  a  littell  Castell 
which  was  surprised  by  our  L.  Deputy :  they  confess  that 
the  rest  are  in  some  distress  having  no  store  of  victualls 
nor  almost  wood  at  all  and  littell  atilery.  Count  Mawris  is 
risen  from  Sitemgambos  (S'Hertogembos— Bois-le-duc?), 
some  report  with  losse  of  2500  men  and  most  of  his  great 
ordinans  others  say  he  was  raised  only  by  frost  and  hard 
weather;  so  tis  uncertain  whether  is  true.  Ostend  is 
hardly  pressed  and  likely  to  be  won  either  by  the  Dach 
or  the  sea.  This  is  all  our  news.  Comend  me  to  your 
mother  and  my  sister.  Tell  your  sister  Mary  that  my 
Lady  Montegue  is  in  the  Country  but  I  will  shortly 
make  a  voyage  thither  on  purpose  in  her  behalf.  So 
fare  you  well.  This  6th  of  December. 

41  Your  loving  Brother, 

**  THOS.  WnrrouR. 

"  To  my  loving  Brother, 
Mr.  John  Grant."  f 

It  is  uncertain  whether  the  next  letter,  dated 
"22nd  of  February,"  was  written  in  1604  or  1605. 
It  will  be  remembered  that  Thomas  Winter  was 
for  some  time  Secretary  to  Lord  Mounteagle, 
who  is  mentioned  twice  in  the  same  letter  :  — 

"  I  had  thought  to  have  come  downe  before  this,  but 

*  Domestic  Series,  James  I.,  vol.  xii.  39. 
f  Ibid.,  vol.  v.  6. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  MAY  3,  '62. 


business  hath  hitherto  and  will  yett  longer  keepe  me 
awaye.  I  am  now  going  to  the  Bath  with  my  L.  Mount- 
eagle,  and  from  thence  into  Lankeshire:  my  fortunes  are 
so  poor  that  they  will  not  leave  me  mine  owne  man;  il 
they  did  Jack  then  shouldest  have  more  of  my  company. 
Comend  me  to  my  sister  and  wax  rich,  News  are  asleep. 
A.Dio. 

"  Your  loving  Brother, 

"  THO.  WINTOUR. 

11  London  this  22n^  Of  Februarj'. 

"  My  L.  Mounteagle  will  receive  your  Brother  betwixt 
this  and  and  Easter  :  tell  me  at  what  time  he  goeth  into 
Lankeshire. 

"  To  my  loving  Brother,  Mr.  John  Grant 
Northbrooke."* 

The  last  letter  of  Thomas  Winter  was  written  a 
few  weeks  before  the  expected  meeting  of  Parlia- 
ment in  October  1605.  At  that  time  Grant  had 
been  taken  into  the  conspiracy,  his  house  at  Nor- 
brook  having^  been  one  of  the  chief  reasons  for 
Catesby  choosing  him.  It  was  early  in  September, 
and  but  a  few  days  after  the  date  of  this  letter, 
that  the  celebrated  pilgrimage  to  St.  Winifred's 
Well  was  commenced,  which  was  undertaken 
almost  exclusively  by  persons  implicated  in  the 
Plot,  and  which  rested  on  its  way  to  Holt  in  Flint- 
shire at  the  houses  of  several  of  the  sworn  con- 
spirators. Amongst  those  houses  was  Grant's  house 
at  Xorbrook.  It  was  doubtless  with  reference  to 
this  pilgrimage  that  Winter  wrote  the  following 
letter  ?  to  Grant,  beseeching  him  "  to  void  his 
house  "  for  the  accommodation  of  the  company  : 

"  Jack,  certain  frinds  of  mine  wilbe  w'»  you  one  mon- 
day  night  or  tewssday  at  the  uttermost.  T  pray  vou 
voydyour  house  of  Morgan  and  Ins  shee  mate,  or  other 
company  whatsoever  they  be:  for  all  your  house  will 
scaice  lodge  the  Company.  The  Jerkin  man  is  come, 
butt  your  robe  of  clurane  as  yet  nott  finished.  I  have 
tG  PdS'  V/hidl  1  W°nder  at  W  sdf  fo' 


Yours, 


"This  last  of  August." 
Endorsed, 

"  To  my  loving  Brother, 
Mr  Jhon  Grant." 


'  T'  W' 


With  another  endorsement  in  Winter's  writing, 


law  Gran  ,  the  other  to  a  friend  resident  with  hi 
Math"  ^    b°'-     T!'e  first  Ietter' 


*  Domestic  Series,  James  I,  vol.  xii.  89 
T  Ibid.,  vol.  xv.  44. 


"  I  am  nott  yett  certayne  whether  I  shall  cume  by  you 
or  no,  by  means  of  the  uncertaintye  of  my  Father  Talbott 
his  goinge  upp,  which  if  it  hold  "nott  then  will  I  be  wth 
you  on  Monday  next,  if  otherwyse  I  shall  passe  by  you. 
I  caused  my  cousin  Wrighte  his  nagge  to  be  shoed  a 
daye  since  according  to  his  own  direction.  Remember  I 
pray  you  to  solycyte  Mr.  Hordray;  and  what  matters 
you  have  att  london  (so  they  not  money  matters)  I  shall 
certaynly  effect  —  so  with  my  further  comendations  to 
your  self,  J£itt  Wryght,  and  the  rest  of  your  good  com- 
pany, I  comend  you  in  haste  this  VIII  of  June,  1G05. 
"Your  loving  Brother, 

"  Ro :  WINTOUR. 

"  To  the  worshipfulhis  loving  Brother,  John  Graunte, 
esquire, 

«  att  Norbroke,  these."  *    With  speed. 

The  next  letter  is  but  a  fragment,  but  it  was 
written  under  circumstances  which  make  even 
that  fragment  interesting.  It  will  be  doubtless 
recollected  that  on  the  discovery  of  the  Plot, 
Catesby,  Percy,  and  the  two  Wrights  rode  from 
London  to  Ashby  St.  Ledgers,  and  from  thence, 
after  being  joined  by  the  other  conspirators,  to 
Dunchurch,  and  by  Norbrook  to  Huddington, 
where  Robert  Winter  resided.  From  Huddinoton 
Thomas  Winter  was  sent  to  Mr.  Talbots  of  Graf- 
ton  to  invite  him  to  join  the  conspiracy,  and  was 
doubtless  the  bearer  of  the  following  letter  dated 
on  that  day,  from  Huddington,  and  according  to 
the  endorsement,  "  Written  to  Mr.  Smalpeice  in 
Mr.  Talbot  of  Grafton's  house."  The  letter  was 
evidently  not  delivered,  as  Mr.  Talbot  refused  to 
admit  Winter  into  his  house,  and  Winter  would 
probably  therefore  carry  it  with  him  to  Hoibeach. 
There,  on  the  morning  of  the  8th  of  Nov.,  occurred 
the  explosion  of  the  powder,  which  set  on  fire  the 
clothes  of  several  of  the  conspirators,  and  amongst 
others,  of  Thomas  Winter.  The  letter  appears  to 
have  been  partly  burnt,  and  half  of  it  only  now 
remains :  the  rest,  evidently  written  in  great 
haste,  is  barely  legible,  and  shows  clearly  the 
distress  of  mind  the  conspirators  were  then  in  at 
the  failure  of  the  Plot.  These  circumstances  will, 
I  trust,  serve  as  my  excuse  for  bringing  forward 
this  fragment. 

"  Good  Coson,  I  fere  itt  will  not  seeme  strange  to  you 

that a  good  nuber  of  resolvid  catholicks  so  per- 

forme  matters  of  such  ....  will  sett  thir  most  strengbt, 
or  hang  all  those  y*  ever  1 ....  use  your  best  endevour 
to  stirr  upp  my  father  Talbo  ....  whr  I  hould  much 
more  honourable  than  to  be  hanged  after  ....  Coson, 
pray  for  me  I_pray  you,  and  send  me  all  such  frinds  .... 
laste.  I  comnd  you  fro  Huddington  this  6th  of  No- 
rem  .... 

«  R  .  .  .  ." 

"  A  Ire  found  nppon  ...  in  3Te 
lovvse  of  Holbach,  where  he  was 
taken,  wrytten  by  Robt.  Wynter 
o  Mr  Smalpeice  in  Mr  Talbot 
>f  Grafton's  howse."f 

W.  O.  W. 


*  Domestic  Series,  James  I.,  vol.  xiv.  53. 
f  Ibid.,  vol.  xvi.  19. 


S.  I.  MAY  3,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


343 


BIOGRAPHY  OF  WILLIAM  OLDYS. 

Your  interesting  memoir  of  William  Oldys 
fully  admits  the  existence  of  the  cloud  which  is 
said  to  hang  over  his  parentage,  although  I  con- 
fess that  the  evidence  you  have  adduced  ujjon  the 
subject  is  to  me  not  quite  conclusive.  All  that 
has  been  stated  might  be  possibly  explained 
upon  some  other  hypothesis.  As  one  step  to- 
wards more  complete  elucidation  of  the  ques- 
tion, allow  me  to  ask  whether  any  inquiry  has 
been  made  for  the  register  of  his  baptism  ?  I 
find  it  stated  in  that  useful  volume  of  topography, 
Beesley's  History  of  JBaiilury,  that  he  was  born 
at  Adderbury,  not  Addesbury,  as  you  have  printed 
the  name  of  the  place ;  has  any  one  searched  the 
register  of  that  parish  ?  If  he  was  really  born 
there,  such  a  search  might  produce  unexpected 
results.  Some  of  your  correspondents  will  pro- 
bably be  kind  enough  to  make  the  inquiry.  There 
is  at  all  events  one  excellent  antiquary  resident, 
I  believe,  on  the  very  spot. 

Adderbury,  which  is  situate  within  a  few  miles 
of  Banbury,  in  Oxfordshire,  has  a  melancholy 
interest  in  the  history  of  the  Oldyses.  The  grand- 
father of  your  William  Oldys,  who  had  been  a 
Fellow  of  New  College,  Oxford,  and  was  a  D.D., 
was  vicar  of  that  parish.  In  the  Civil  War  he 
was  a  strenuous  supporter  of  the  king,  and  ren- 
dered  himself  so  obnoxious  to  his  parishioners, 
that  he  was  obliged  to  leave  his  vicarage  and  seek 
shelter  in  Banbury,  then  in  the  occupation  of  the 
royalists.  On  a  certain  day,  fancying  himself  se- 
cure from  observation,  he  arranged  to  accompany 
his  wife  and  one  of  his  sons  (perhaps  the  future 
civilian  and  father  of  your  William  Oldys)  on  the 
way  towards  Oxford  or  Winchester,  to  one  of  which 
places  the  boy  was  returning  for  purposes  of  edu- 
cation. A  treacherous  neighbour  betrayed  the 
doctor's  intention  to  the  nearest  body  of  par- 
liamentary forces,  and  when  the  Oldyses  had 
proceeded  some  miles  on  the  road,  they  found 
themselves  approaching  a  watchful  and  suspicious 
looking  body  of  soldiers.  Uncertain  to  which 
side  in  the  national  contest  these  men  belonged, 
Oldys  sent  on  his  wife  and  son,  with  directions  to 
the  former  to  make  a  certain  signal  if  the  soldiers 
turned  out  to  belong  to  the  king.  He  anxiously 
watched  the  two  parties  as  they  approached,  met, 
and  passed.  They  did  so  without  any  signal  on 
the  part  of  his  wife.  Oldys  instantly  turned  his 
horse's  head,  and  galloped  off  towards  Banbury, 
having  on  his  way  to  pass  the  gate  of  his  own 
house  at  Adderbury.  Quick  as  lightning  his 
watchers  observed  his  movements,  and  followed, 
on  the  instant,  upon  his  track.  Finding  that  they 
gained  upon  him,  he  scattered  the  contents  of 
his  purse  upon  the  road,  and  some  of  the  round- 
head?;, it  is  said,  were  attracted  by  the  money, 
and  paused  in  the  pursuit  to  pick  it  up.  But 
one  man,  of  more  powerful  conscience,  or  ani- 


mated, as  has  been  suggested,  by  feelings  of  per- 
sonal malice,  followed  Lira  like  a  blood-hound. 
When  Oldys  came  to  his  own  gate  at  Adderbury, 
his  horse  slacked  his  speed  and  made  way  towards 
the  entrance  to  his  accustomed  stable.  A  little 
delny  ensued.  Before  the  horse  could  be  guided 
onwards,  the  pace  was  lost,  the  pursuer  was  upon 
him,  and  the  Doctor  fell  dead  of  a  pistol-shot, 
opposite  his  own  door.  He  rests  in  Adderbury 
church,  where  there  is  n  .monument  with  the  fol- 
lowing inscription  to  his  memory :  — 

"P.  M.S. 

Gal.  Oldya.  S.T.P. 

Hujus  Ecclesite  Vicarii, 

Qui  flajrrante  bello  plusquam  civili, 

Lsesae  et  Ueligionis  et  Majestatis  cause 

Fidelis  et  strenuus  assertor, 

Perduellium  militibus,  prope  hanc  villam, 

Anno  salut.  1G45,  tetat.  55°, 

Vulneratus,  occubuit." 

(See  Beesley's  Hist.  Banbury,  397, 602  ;  Wood's 
Fasti,  ii.  54  ;  Walker's  Sufferings.)   JOHN  BRUCE. 


BOTTESFORD  REGISTERS. 

I  send  for  publication  in  "  N.  &  Q."  some  ex- 
tracts from  the  Register  of  this  parish.  The  notes 
as  to  excommunications  are  of  merely  local  in- 
terest, except  so  far  as  they  illustrate  that  state 
of  society  when  it  was  possible  for  members  of  an 
unpopular  religious  denomination  to  be  subjected 
to  pains  and  penalties  on  account  of  their  faith. 
Most  of  the  following  persons  were  Roman  Catho- 
lics ;  it  is  possible  that  one  or  two  may  have  been 
Independents  or  members  of  the  Society  of 
Friends. 

The  list  of  briefs  for  the  repair  of  churches  and 
other  good  works  is  especially  curious.  I  do  not 
remember  to  have  seen  in  any  other  parish  re- 
gister (and  I  have  read  many)  so  complete  a  cata- 
logue of  briefs  of  the  reign  of  Charles  II.  as  that 
which  is  here  given.  It  will  be  noticed  that  many 
of  them  are  for  churches  which  had  suffered  much 
during  the  then  late  war : 

«  Septebr  17«>>,  1653. 

"  Will  Caister  of  Botesford  was  approued  and  sworne 
Register  for  ye  parish  by  Mich.  Monkton,  Esqr.f  one  of  y* 
Justices  of  y"«  peace  for  y«  p'ts  of  Lindsey,  in  ye  c"unty  of 
Lincolne,  as  is  witnessed  under  his  hand  y«  day  and  yeare 
above  set. 

"  MICH.  MONKTOX. 
"  STEPHEN  CAISTER. 

"  Elizabeth  Sales  &  Elizabeth  her  daughter  taken  as 
vagrants  Septer  26,  1655,  &  thei  punished  according  to 
law  &  Registred  the  same  by  me. 

"  WILLIM  PARKINSON, 

"  Minister  de  Botesford. 

"  A  note  of  Breifes  collected  in  our  jush  Church  of 

Bottesford,  w'th  the  setlall  summes  of  money. 

"  Vpon  the  breife  for  Pontefract  May  the  5th,  1661,  3«  10d 

by  RICH.  HILUEUT,  Churchwarden. 
"  Vpon  the  breife  of  ffolkenham  in  Korfolke  Octo.  7, 


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NOTES  AND  QUEEIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  MAY  3,  '62. 


1 660,  was  gathered  2«  6d  &  deliuered  May  24th,  16«1,  to 
George  WiJswortb,  as  appeares  by  his  receit  giuen  me. 
"  "Wm  PARKINSON,  Vic. 

"Deliu'd  to  Mr  Geo.  Hurd  bailiffe  of  the  waptake  of 
Manley  3»  J0d  with  the  breefe  for  Pontefract  in  the 
County  of  Yorke,  July  14th,  1G61. 

"  On  the  same  day  deliu'd  to  the  said  Mr  Geo:  Hurd 
3"  3d  gattoerd  vpon  the  breefe  of  Milton  Abbas  in  ye 
County  of  Dorset. 
Vpon   Bollingbrooke  breefe  in  County  of  Lin-        s.   d. 

coin,  Sept.  loth,  1661 1  10 

For  South  Birlingha'  in  Norfolke,  June  23,  1661  -  1  9 
For  Litle  Melton  in  Norfolke,  June  30,  1661  -  2  6 
For  distressed  ptestants  of  Lithuania  their  breefe 

nouem  3d,  1661 1G 

Vpon  Oxford  breefe  Octobr  28th,  1661  -  -  -  1  6 
For  Wra  Jenkinson  of  Sfarleton  (?)  in  Lancashire, 

Nou.  10th,  1661 13 

Vpon   breefe  for  great  Drayton  in  co.  of  Sallop, 

Octo.  6th,  1661 22 

Vpon  Scarbrough  Breefe  decemo.  15th,  1661  -  1  8 
For  Chri  Greene  of  Beighton  w'thin  darbysh.  de- 

cemk  22d  1661 10 

Vpon  Bridgenorth  breefe,  Septe  30th,  1661    -        -     1     8 
For  Market  Harborough  &  Litle  Bowden,  Leices- 
tershire, June  20th,  1662 29 

For  John  Woolrich,  of  Cresswell,  Staffordshire,  cle- 

liu'ed  to   Hen.  Crowther  with  the  breefe  July 

14th,  16G2 19 

Ffor  hexam  in  Northumberland,  August  2d,  1663  4  6 
Ffor  grimsby  Hauen  in  Lincolnshire,  Octo.  18th, 

1663        -  14 

Ffor  W'»  Sadwell  (  ?)  of  Shadwell  in  p'ish  of  Step- 
ney ffeb.  14th,  1663 20 

For  witheham  church  in  Sussex,  repaireing  Apr. 

10"',  1064.  del.  to  Robt.  Bewley        -  -    4    0 

For  John  Ellis  of  Milton  in  Cambridgeshire,  Mar. 
^  20'h,  1663,  del.  to  Robt.  Bewley        -        -        -16 
For  Sandwich  church  repairing  in  Kent,  Apr.  17, 

1664,  del.  to  Robt.  Bewley  -  -  -  -16 
For  divers  Inhabitants  of  grantham,  June  5,  1664, 

deiiuerd  to  Mr  Williams  of  Lincoln,  Sadler,  June 

1G64  -------     1  10 

ror   Law.  Clatton   of  holder  in  Essex,  ffebr  19th, 

1664 -     2     2 

For  Hen.  Lisle  of  gisbrough  in  Yorkshire,  ffeb.  12th 

16G4 28 

For  John   Wayler  of  Ilford  in   Essex,  ffeb.  26th, 

18 

For  pish  church    of  Busingm  Southamptonshirc, 

march  19th,  1664  -  -  -  -  .  -10 
For  p'ish  of  St.  Maries  in  Chester,  may  14*1',  1(5(55  2  4 
For  Bydford  in  Warwickshire,  July  30,  1665  -14 

For  lanworth  in  Lancashire,  deliu'  to  App.  Mark- 

ha',  oct.  1GG5 -     2     2 

For  Inhabitants  of  fflootburgh  (?)  in  Lancashire 

nou.  12,  1665 -24 

For  the  gish  of  Clun  in  county  of  Sallop,  Apr  8th 

66th  -  -  _  _  "  _  _  _  -Of 
For  hartly  poole  in  Durham,  Apr.  15th,  66"»  -  0  G 

For  Bishopp  Norton  L'  of  request,  Octobr  21^,  (>G«»     1  10 


For  Binbrook  let.  of  Request*,  Nou.  11th,  GGt!l 
Ffor  Tewcester  in  Northampton,  a  letter  of  Re- 
quest, July  22,  1677          .... 
Ffor  Bithbur  in  ye  County  of  Suffolk,  Septem.  2d~, 


1     0 


2     0 


Ffor   Cottenham    in  y«   county   of  Cambridge,  a 
letter  patent  Octob.  21,  77         -         -         .         -     1     9 
"John  Wadforth  and  Edward  Wadforth,  both  of  Yad- 
lethorp,  m  the  Parish  of  Bottisford,  declared  excomuni- 
cate  August  22*,  1680,  p  me  Robtii  Hornsby,  vie.  ibid. 


"  William  Longbotham,  Thomas  Richison,  John  Wil- 
son, Richard^  Williamson,  and  John  Dolman,  were  de- 
clared excomunicate  Feb.  11th,  168|,  p  me  Roberta 
Hornsby,  vie.  ibid. 

"  Faith  Holdsworth,  David")  were  declared  excomuni- 
Blow,  senior,  An  the  wife  of  j  cate  the  7th  day  of  Sep- 
Dan.  Rands,  Richard  Wil-  [  tember,  in  the  year  of 
Jiamson,  Mary  Morley,  wid.,  (  our  lord,  1684,  by  me, 
Frances  Wadford,  Edward  |  Ro.  HORNSBY,  Vic., 
Balderston,  J  ibid. 

"  Jane  Hall,  servant  to  Mr  John  Morley,  of  Holme,  in 
the  parish  of  Bottisford,  was  Declared  absolved  from  the 
sentence  of  Excommunication  on  the  9th  day  of  march, 
in  the  yeare  of  our  lord  1706,  by  me,  ROBERT  HORNSBY, 
Vicar  of  Bottesford." 

EDWARD  PEACOCK. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg,  Lincolnshire. 


RESUSCITATION  AFTER  HANGING. 

Turning  over,  lately,  the  pages  of  the  old  London 
Magazine  for  1740,  I  came  (p.  560)  on  a  notice  of 
the  singular  case  of  William  Dewell,  who,  after 
being  hanged  at  Tyburn,  revived  in  Surgeons' 
Hall,  where  he  had  been  carried  for  dissection.  The 
case  is  adverted  to  in  the  First  Series  of  "N".  & 
Q.,"  ix.  174;  but  the  Magazine  states  some  in- 
teresting particulars  which  your  correspondent 
does  not  mention  :  — 

"  After  he  was  stript,  and  laid  on  the  board,  and  one  of 
the  servants  was  washing  him  to  be  cut  up,  he  perceived 
life  in  him,  and  found  his  breath  come  quicker  and 
quicker;  on  which  a  surgeon  bled  him,  and  took  several 
ounces  of  blood  from  him ;  and  in  about  iwo  hours,  he 
came  so  much  to  himself  as  to  sit  up  in  a  chair,  groaned 
very  much,  and  seemed  in  great  agitation,  but  could  not 
speak.  He  was  kept  at  Surgeons'  Hall  till  12  o'clock  at 
night ;  the  Sheriffs'  officers  (who  were  sent  for  on  this  ex- 
traordinary occasion)  attending.  He  was  then  conveyed 
to  Newgate,  to  remain  till  he  be  proved  to  be  the  very 
identical  person  ordered  for  execution  on  the  24th  in- 
stant. The  next  day  he  was  in  good  health  in  Newgate, 
eat  his  victuals  heartily,  and  asked  for  his  mother.  Great 
numbers  of  people  resort  continually  to  see  him." 

In  a  subsequent  page  (612)  it  is  said :  — 

"  Harrock,  whose  sentence  after  an  order  for  execution 
was  respited,  is  to  be  transported  for  fourteen  years ;  and 
White,  who  was  to  have  been  executed  with  him,  and 
Dewell,  who  after  flanging  came  to  life  again,  are  to  be 
transported  for  life." 

Dewell's  crime  (rape  and  murder)  was  unques- 
tionably great,  yet,  considering  that  he  had  got  a 
lesson  for  the  amendment  of  his  life,  of  which 
very  few  have  the  benefit,  there  may  seem  some 
severity  in  this  subsequent  punishment :  and  by 
the  law  of  Scotland,  it  would  have  been  held 
illegal.  Baron  Hume,  in  his  work  on  the  criminal 
law  of  that  country  (3rd  edition,  vol.  ii.  p.  476), 
in  allusion  to  this  subject,  observes  :  — 

"  It  is  true  the  sentence  was  to  hang  him  by  the  neck 
until  he  were  dead,  and  this  has  not  been  done ;  but  that 
it  is  not  done,  is  owing  to  the  inattention  only  of  the 


3rd  S.  I.  MAY  3,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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magistrate,  whose  business  it  is  to  see  that  the  body  be 
lifeless  before  he  let  it  be  carried  away." 

The  Baron  then  cites  the  noted  case  of  Mar- 
garet Dickson  in  1724  (whom  I  erroneously  named 
Cunningham,  "  N.  &  Q.,"  2nd  S.  xi.  p.  395),  who, 
after  being  handed,  came  to  life,  was  allowed  to 
go  free,  survived  many  years,  and  bore  children. 

G. 

Edinburgh. 


fMfntrr 

THE  PREVIOUS  QUESTION. — I  send  for  registry 
the  following  letter  from  a  recent  number  of 
The  Times,  and  suggest  to  your  parliamentary 
correspondents  that  the  appearance  of  a  few  short 
essays  on  English  constitutional  forma  would  at 
this  time  be  very  appropriate  in  the  pages  of  "  N. 
&  Q.,"  and  if  well  selected,  and  written  with  bre- 
vity, ought  to  pay  republication. 

"  THE  '  PREVIOUS  QUESTION.' 
To  the  Editor  of  The  Times. 

"  Sir,  —  The  *  Previous  Question '  has  long  been  a 
puzzle  to  the  readers  of  the  debates.  It  is  periodically  ex- 
plained with  more  or  less  of  perspicuity  in  answer  to  some 
appeal  like  that  of  your  correspondent  '  B.  N.  C.'  I  will 
endeavour  to  explain  it  on  the  present  occasion,  though 
I  am  not  sure  that  I  shall  be  able  to  make  the  matter 
perfectly  clear. 

"  We  must  assume  that  there  is  a  motion  before  the 
House  of  Commons  —  some  truism —  as  for  instance, '  It 
is  desirable  to  reduce  taxation.'  No  one  disputes  the 
truth  of  that  proposition  in  the  abstract,  but  it  is  felt 
that  if  adopted  by  the  House  it  would  be  tantamount  to 
a  command  to  Ministers  to  make  a  reduction  which  they 
feel  it  would  be  impolitic  tp  do.  There  being  a  general 
feeling  in  the  House  that  it  would  be  undesirable  to  come 
to  a  vote  which  may  be  misunderstood,  the  '  previous 
question'  — which  has  been  devised  to  meet  such  a  case — 
is  resorted  to.  A  member  who  moves  the  '  previous 
question'  says  in  effect  this:  —  'Before  the  Speaker 
puts  the  motion  to  the  vote,  I  call  upon  him  to  ask  the 
House  the  previous  question,  whether  the  House  wishes  the 
motion  to  be  put  at  all.'  The  Speaker  asks  this  question 
in  the  following  form  :  'That  that  question  be  now  put, 
—  as  many  as  are  of  that  opinion  say  "Aye;"  of  the 
contrary  opinion,  say  "No."'  If  those  who  wish  the 
House  to  come  to  a  decision  on  the  resolution  (the  Ayes) 
are  in  a  majority,  it  is  put  to  the  vote ;  if  those  of  an  op- 
posite opinion  (the  Noes)  are  in  a  majority,  the  resolu- 
tion is  not  put,  and  there  is  an  end  of  the  matter. 

"  Your  obedient  servant,  R." 
S.  F.  CKESWELL. 

The  School,  Tonbridge,  Kent. 

MARTIN'S  PICTURES.  —  I  would  point  out  one 
conclusion  which  can  be  made  from  these  mag- 
nificent attempts,  namely,  the  impossibility  of  any 
conception  proper  being  effected  by  man.  Every 
human  imagination  is  either  an  analysis  or  a 
combination,  or  a  mixture  of  both,  so  that  even 
"The  Last  Judgment,"  or  "The Fall  of  Nineveh, 
or  Babylon,"  or  even  "  The  Plains  of  Heaven,"  do 
not  contain  anything  which  properly  can  be  set 
down  as  the  offspring  of  conception.  Even  Milton 


had  not  more  than  imagination,  neither  could 
conception  be  dragged  into  the  celestio-infernal 
tale  of  Moore.  Men  are  not,  of  course,  to  bo 
found  fault  with  on  account  of  not  possessing  that 
which  is  beyond  their  power,  but  it  is  of  utility 
to  contemplate  the  fact.  J.  ALEXANDER  DAVIES. 

CURIOUS  COINCIDENCE.  —  Plautus,  Pscudvltu, 
Act  I.  Sc.  1,  2-5-28.  llitschl.  p.  12. 

Calidorus.  "  Cur  inclementer  dicia  lepidis  literis, 

Lepidis  tabellis,  lepida  conscriplis  manu? 

Pseudolus.     An,    obsecro  hercle,   habent   quoqite  galliace 

manus  ? 
Nam  has  qui Jem  gaUina  scripsit." 

Cf.  Colyn  Blowbol's  Testament,  in  Halliwell's 
Nuga:  Poetica,  p.  3. 

"Whylin  ye  have  your  right  memorie, 
Calle  unjo  you  youre  owne  secretory, 
Maister  Grombold,  that  can  handel!  a  pen, 
For  on  booke  he  skrapith  like  an  hen, 
That  no  man  may  his  letters  know  nor  se, 
Allethoughe  he  looke  trugh  spectacles  thre." 

DEFNIEL. 

LONGEVITY  OP  LAWYERS.  —  As  aged  clergy- 
men have  figured  largely  in  the  pages  of  "  N.  & 
Q.,"  would  it  not  be  well  to  give  old  lawyers  a 
turn? 

The  following  instances  of  longevity  are  from 
the  Law  List  for  1862  :  — 

Among  Counsel. 

John  Martin  Leake,  Esq.,  Thorpe  Hall,  Col- 
chester, called  to  the  Bar  24th  November,  1797. 

Charles  Lambe,  Esq ,  heretofore  Beivor,  called 
27th  Nov.  1SOO. 

William  Murray,  Esq.,  called  9th  May,  1800. 

Among  Solicitors. 

James  E.  Birch,  of  Croydon,  admitted  to  prac- 
tise in  Easter  Term,  1795. 

G.  B.  Wharton,  of  8,  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields,  ad- 
mitted Michaelmas  Term,  1795. 

Samuel  Naylor,  4,  Great  Newport  Street,  ad- 
mitted Michaelmas  Term,  1 796. 

Benjamin  Richards,  Alfreton,  admitted  Easter 
Term,  1796. 

John  Bury,  Bewdley,  admitted  Michaelmas 
Term,  1797. 

Thomas  Attree,  Brighton,  admitted  Easter  Term, 
1799.  D.  M.  STEVENS. 

Gnildford. 

CONCORDANCES  AND  VERBAL  INDEXES.— Tf  any- 
one who  has  the  requisite  knowledge  would  pre- 
pare a  list  of  the  Concordances  and  Verbal  In- 
dexes which  we  possess  to  our  standard  authors, 
and  would  forward  the  same  to  "N.  &  Q."  for 
publication,  he  would  confer  a  great  boon  on  those 
engaged  in  philological  pursuits,  and  would  not 
occupy  more  than  a  page  of  your  space. 

A  LORD  OF  A  MANOR. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  MAY  3,  ?62. 


PURITAN  OBSERVANCE  OF  THE  LORD'S 
The  Note  respecting  the  "  Observance  of  Christ- 
mas Day  under  the  Commonwealth"  (3rd  S.  i. 
246),  reminded  me  of  a  document  relating  to  the 
Observance  of  the  Lord's  Day  during  the  same 
period.  It  requires  no  introduction  ;  and  is,  I 
believe,  correctly  copied. 

"  To  all  Constables,  Headborrough.es,  and  other  Officers 
of  the  Peace  to  whom  these  appertaineth. 

"  Forasmuch  as  I  am  acquainted,  and  fully  satisfied, 
that  the  bearer  hereof,  the  Lady  Heale,  hath  extraordi- 
nary occasion  to  use  a  Coach  this  present  Lord's  Da}'. 

""These  are,  therefore,  in  the  name  of  his  Highness, 
the  Lord  Protector,  to  will  and  require  you  and  every  of 
you,  uppon  sight  hereof,  to  permitt  and  suffer  the  said 
Lady  Heale  *  *  *  [sic],  with  those  that  belong  to  her,  to 
pass'to  pass  with  her  Coach  and  horses  from  her  Lodginge 
to  Charinge  Crosse  ....  and  to  retorne  without  any  yor  [ 
Letts,  troubles,  or  molestations.  And  hereof  you  are  not 
to  faile.  Given  under,  my  hand  this  6th  Day  of  Decembr, 
16)7. 

"  E.  GROSVENOK." 

I  do  not  know  whether  the  repetition  of  the 
words  "  to  pass"  is  the  fault  of  the  original,  or  of 
the  scribe  whom  I  employed  to  copy  it.  Who 
was  Lady  Heale  ?  And  what  was  the  "  extraor- 
dinary occasion  "  ?  S.  R.  M. 


ASHBY.  —  Robert  Ashby,  a  Lord  of  the  Ad- 
miralty, died  in  1718  ;  leaving  a  son  George,  who 
left  issue  by  his  wife,  Mary  Roper,  three  sons  and 
a  daughter  named  Elizabeth.  Can  any  reader  of 
"N.  &  Q."  inform  me  to  whom  this"  Elizabeth 
Ashby  was  married  ?  SP. 

LORD  AVELAND.— -  In  1856,  Sir  Gilbert  John 
Heathcote,  Bart,  F.S.A.,  was  raised  to  the  peer- 
age by  the  title  of  Baron  Aveland.  Aveland  is 
a  wapentake  in  the  parts  of  Kesteven,  Lincoln- 
shire, in  which  county  the  new  peer  has  vast 
landed  possessions.  Is  not  Aveland  a  corruption 
of  Averland,  one  of  the  titles  of  the  several  ancient 
tenures,  in  customary  courts  baron?  The  tenant 
of  Aver-land  was  obliged  to  work  for  his  lord, 
cum  avcriis,  and  that  work,  in  Latin  called  Avera- 
gium,  i.  e.  work  with  horses,  oxen,  wains,  carts,  or 
carriages  to  carry  his  hay,  corn,  &c. ;  which  car- 
riage, ^within  the  precincts  of  the  manor,  was 
called  in-average.  If  the  carriage  was  out  of  the 
manor,  out-average ;  if  the  carriage  was  with 
horses  only,  then  it  was  called  \iorsG-average. 
The  tenants  of  Averland  were  called  or  termed 
Avermanni.  STAMFORDIENSIS. 

BAITING  BEASTS  TO  MAKE  THEM  TENDER.— 
What  was  the  origin,  reason,  and  extent  of  the  be- 
lief that  anciently  obtained  in  the  efficiency  of  beat- 
ing and  baiting  animals  for  the  purpose  of  render- 
ing them  edible  ?  I  have,  from  time  to  time,  met 
statements  of  this  reason  having  subsisted  in  re- 


gard  to  the  baiting  of  bulls ;  ex.  gratia,  a  passage 
in  which  Jeremy  Taylor  assigns  the  fact  of  that 
belief  existing  in  his  age,  but  he  enters  into  no  par- 
ticulars. 

Pope,  commenting  on  the  cruelties  of  our  cuisine, 
specified,  inter  alia,  "  lobsters  roasted  alive,  pigs 
whipped  to  death,"  &c.  This  last  fact  seems  in- 
consistent with  my  opinion,  that  it  was  only  tough 
animals  which  were  basted  and  baited,  and  that 
this  was  done  with  the  intention  of  rendering  them 
tender..  For  instance,  a  correspondent  of  "  N".  & 
Q."  has  mentioned  a  custom  of  hunting  a  ram 
with  bludgeons  in  Eton  at  election-time,  which 
was  afterwards  served  to  table  in  pastry.  Would 
not  whipping  a  pig  to  death,  as  well  as  baiting 
bulls,  &c.,  tend  to  produce  immediate  post-vital 
putridity  in  the  flesh,  which,  indeed,  might  have 
been  considered  desirable,  when  that  morbid  taste 
for  "  high  "  game,  &c.,  prevailed  ?  (Was  this  taste 
founded  on  sanitary  considerations  ?)  In  conclu- 
sion, might  I  ask  B.  H.,  who  wrote  to  "  N.  &  Q." 
2nd  S-  v.  119,  where  I  may  meet  with  the  law, 
more  in  detail,  to  which  he  alludes,  necessitating  the 
baiting  of  bulls  before  the  beef  could  be  exposed 
for  sale  by  butchers  ?  And  all  such  similar  infor- 
mation is  invited  from  the  courtesy  of  correspon- 
dents by  N.  B. 

BRISTOL  FAMILIES. — Can  any  of  your  numerous 
readers  give  me  information  with  regard  to  the 
present  representatives  of  all  or  any  of  the  fol- 
lowing families,  said  to  be  located  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood of  Bristol,  viz.  :  — 

The  Goodeves  of  Goodeve  Castle. 

The  Bathurst-Woodmans  (connected  with  the 
family  of  Earl  Bathurst  ?) 

The  Lunells  of  Stapleton,  Gloucestershire,  said 
to  be  descended  from  Robert,  Duke  of  Nor- 
mandy ;  and  the  only  family  of  this  name  in  the 
kingdom. 

Has  Mr.  Lunell  been  High  Sheriff  of  Bristol  ? 
EDWARD  WALFORD. 

17,  Church  Row,  Hampstead. 

BURKE.  — When  did  Burke  cease  to  contribute 
to  the  Annual  Register  f  *  W.  D. 

CLERICAL  INCUMBENTS,  1780-1830.  —  I  should 
consider  it  a  favour  if  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
would  direct  me  to  some  work  which  gives  the 
names  of  the  incumbents  of  the  different  rectories, 
vicarages,  &c.,  in  England  and  Wales,  for  the 
compass  of  the  fifty  years,  commencing  and  ter- 
minating with  the  above  period.  The  Ecclesias- 
tical and  University  Annual  Register,  vol.  i.,  for 
the  year  1808,  pp.  549—668,  affords  much  in- 
formation, but  does  not  furnish  me  with  what  I 
require,  the  names  of  the  several  incumbents. 
The  Clerical  Guide,  or  Ecclesiastical  Directory, 

[*  Some  correspondence  on  the  subject  of  this  Query 
will  be  found  in  "N.  &  Q."  1»*  S.  iii.  441 ;  xii.  62.  — ED.] 


3rd  S.  I.  MAY  3,  '62.] 


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347 


by  Richard  Gilbert,  London,  Rivingtons,  1829 
crown  8vo,  appears  to  {rive  all  the  requisite  de- 
tails at  the  time  of  publication  ;  and  these  have 
been  very  satisfactorily  continued  annually  by 
the  present  Clergy  List.  A> 

FJ.  W.  D  ALB  Y.  —  Wanted,  information  regard 
John  VVatson  Dalby,  editor  of  the  Historic  Keep 
sake,   1836  ?     He  was,  about  forty  years  ao-o,  a 
contributor   to    the  Pocket  Magazine,    Literary 
Chronicle,  &c.,  &c.  R.  INGL1S. 

DAMBOARD.  —  From  the  French  jeu  de  dames 
and  damier  we  have  the  Scotticisms  dam-board, 
and  its  corruption,  dam-broad,  signify  ing  a  draught 
board  or  any  chequered  pattern.  Is  the  same,  or 
any  word  of  the  same  derivation,  found  in  any 
old  English  writer,  or  in  any  provincial  dialect  ? 

BENJ.  EAST. 

EDISFIELD,  SCOTENAY,  AND  PASSENHAM.  — 
Wanted,  the  arms  of  Peter  de  Edisfield,  or  Edge- 
field,  of  Edisfield  and  Easthall,  co.  Norfolk,  whose 
heiress  married  Rosceline  ;  Lambert  de  Scotenay, 
or  Scotney,  Lord  of  Cumberworth  and  Thorp,  co. 
Lincoln  ;  Will,  de  Passenham,  of  Passenham, 
Northamptonshire,  who  died  6  Edw.  I.  CA.D 

H.  &  G. 


EPIGRAM  WANTED.  —  Early  in  the  last  century 
an  engraving  appeared  in  which  Christ  was  repre- 
sented dressed  as  a  Jesuit.  On  this  several  epi- 
grams were  written,  and  among  them  one  ascribed 
to  Fontenelle,  though  not  in  his  works.  I  have 
forgotten  the  words,  but  remember  the  point, 
which  was,  that  had  Christ  so  shown  himself  to 
St.  Thomas,  the  Apostle's  incredulity  would  have 
been  laudable.  I  shall  be  much  obliged  by  the 
words  of  that  or  any  similar  epigram,  or  reference 
to  where  they  may  be  found.  W.  L. 

FIDEI  DEFENSOR.  —  Remembering  how  the  date 
of  the  origin  of  the  title  of  Defender  of  the  Faith 
was  ventilated  in  a  former  volume  of  "N.  &  Q.," 
I  would  propose  a  few  Queries  on  the  subject  of 
the  use  of  that  title. 

1.  What  English  sovereigns  have  not  used  the 
title  on  their  coins  and  seals,  since  its  presentation 
to  Henry  VIII.  ? 

2.  What  were  the  motives  for  thus  abstaining 
from  its  use  ? 

3.  What  was  the  reason  why  the  Irish  copper 
coinage  of  George  IV.  wanted  the  title,  while  the 
British  had  it  ? 

^  4.  Is  it  known  what  was  the  reason  of  its  omis- 
sion from  the  first  of  our  florins  that  were  coined  ? 

T.  II.  ORR. 

HEARTS  OF  OAK.  —  When,  and  by  whom,  was 
this  phrase  first  used  ?.  I  do  not  recollect  having 
seen  it  in  any  work  of  earlier  date  than  Bayly's 
Herba  Parietis,  printed  in  1G50.  It  occurs  at 
p.  22,  line  15.  x.  B. 


T  u  MACES.— In  toe  Admiralty  Court  of 

Ireland,  the  judges'  mace  bears  a  curious  resem- 
biance  to  a  canoe's  ifcfrftguptddle  (!),  8uch  as  I 
have  seen  in  the  South  Seas,  and  in  the  Caribbean 
B6M ;  and  indeed  in  many  other  parts  of  the  globe 
A  A  vlsited.  Is  that  of  England  the  same  ? 

And  can  any  of  your  learned  correspondents 
throw  further  light  on  the  subject  ?  A.  L. 

DAME    MARGARET    AND    GEOHGE    HALYBUE- 

TON.  

"And  next  after  this  address  to  the  parliament  (1645) 
the  assembly  resolved  to  show  an  act  of  mercy  them- 
selves, in  restoring  of  Mr.  George  Halyburton  to  bis 
ministry  at  Perth,  and  Mr.  John  Graham  to  his  ministry 
at  Auchterarder,  which  came  to  pass  in  this  manner- 
Dame  Margaret  Halyburton,  Lady  of  Cowpar,  came  over 
the  Frith,  and,  with  oaths,  vowed  to  my  Lord  Balmerino, 
that  unless  he  caused  her  cousin  to  be  reinstated,  he  should 
never  enjoy  the  favour  of  the  lordship  of  Cowpar.  This 
commination  set  Balmerino  at  work  for  him."  —  Bishop  " 
Guthrie's  Memoirs,  p.  181. 

Can  any  of  your  correspondents,  versed  in 
Scottish  history,  supply  the  link  here  indicated 
between  Dame  Margaret  Halyburton  and  "her 
cousin  "  George  Halyburton,  who,  after  the  Re- 
storation, was  appointed  Bishop  of  Dunkeld? 

MARION. 

MONEYKRS'  WEIGHTS.  —  In  Terrien's  Commen- 
tary on  the  Law  of  Normandy,  first  published  in 
1574  (livre  iv.  chap,  xviii.),  there  is  a  collection  of 
several  royal  ordinances  respecting  the  sale  of 
gold  and  silver ;  and  among  these  ordinances  is 
inserted  the  following  passage,  evidently  intended 
to  convey  in  a  compendious  form  much  useful  in- 
formation :  — 

A  1'once  y  a  vingt  Estelins,  et  a.  1'once  y  a  huict  gros. 
Par  ainsi  Je  gros  vaut  deux  Estelins  et  demy.  L'estelin 
se  divise  en  deux  mailles,  chacune  maille  en  deux  felins. 
Par  ainsi  I'estelin  vaut  quatre  lelins.  Le  felin  se  divise 
par  un  demy,  un  quart,  et  un  huictieme  de  felin.  Or 
pour  faire  la  supputation  de  la  yaleur  de  I'estelin,  faut 
noter  qu'  autant  de  liures  que  vaut  le  marc,  autant  de 
fois  1'once  vaut  deux  sols  six  denier?,  et  restelin*aratant 
de  fois  un  denier  obole,  ou,  autant  de  sols  que  rant  le 
marc,  autant  de  fois  1'once  vaut  vn  denier  obole,  et  autant 
de  sols  que  vaut  1'once,  autant  d'oboles  avec  le  cinquieme 
d'vne  obole  vaut  I'estelin."  —  Terrien,  p.  139.  - 

Can  any  of  your  correspondents  unriddle  me 
this  somewhat  intricate  passage  ?  P.  S.  CARET. 

NAMES  OF  PLANTS.  —  Will  you  permit  me  to 
avail  myself  of  your  journal  to  inquire  the  deriv- 
ation and  meaning  of  the  names  of  the  following 
)lants  :  —  Tare  (  Vicia)  ;  wake  robin  (Arum  ma- 
cvlatvm,  L.)  ;  yarrow  (Achillaa)  ;  self-heal  (Pru- 
nella) ;  avens  (Genm)  ;  gold  of  pleasure  (Camelina 
mtiva,  Cr.) ;  dock  (Rumex) ;  march,  an  old  name 

f  parsley;  cheet  (Camelina  sativa,  Cr.) ;  char- 
ock,  chadlock,  kedlock,  carlock  or  callock,  names 
)f  the  Sinapis  arvensis,  L.  ?  R.  C.  A.  PRIOR. 

48,  York  Terrace,  N.W. 


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[3'*  S.  I.  MAY  3,  '62. 


NEGRO  SERVANTS.  — 

"  The  practice  of  importing  Negroe  servants  is  said  to 
be  already  a  grievance  that  requires  a  remedy,  and  yet  it 
is  every  day  encouraged;  insomuch,  that  the  number  in, 
this  metropolis  only  is  supposed  to  be  near  20,000."  — 
Gent.'s  Mag.,  Oct.  1*764,  vol.  xxxiv.  p.  493. 

Is  tlds  statement  confirmed,  or  is  it  an  exag- 
geration ?  N.  B. 

PHRASES.  —  I  have  in  my  memory  some  scraps 
and  phrases  which  I  shall  be  glad  to  have  ex- 
plained or  traced,  if  they  are  not  too  vague  for 
insertion  in  "N.  &  Q."  :  — 

1.  "  Noseless  Eusebia  and  her  noseless  nuns." 

2.  '•  The  sad  Shepherd  of  Segrais." 

3.  "  The  finger-burning  Chaplain  of  Coventry." 

4.  <:  To  dance  Burnaby." 

[Used,  but  without  any  definite  meaning  which  I 
can  trace,  in  the  Midland  Counties.] 

5.  "  The  chaste  Leucippe  by  the  patriarch  loved." 

Reference  or  explanation  will  oblige  E.  N".  H. 

SAMUEL  PLUMBE,  LORD  MAYOR.  —  Samuel 
Plumbe  was  Prime  Warden  or  Master  of  the  Gold- 
smiths' Company  in  1773  ;  Sheriff  cf  the  City  of 
London  in  1776,  and  Lord  Mayor  in  1779.  He 
was  born  in  the  year  1718  ;  married  a  sister  of 
Henry  Thrale,  Esq.,  M.P.  for  Southwark,  and 
died  in  1784. 

I  am  anxious  to  ascertain  the  Christian  name 
of  his  father,  also  the  maiden  name  of  his  mother,  j 
also  the  line  of  descent  from  the  family  of  Plumbe,  ' 
of  Norfolk,  and  Preston  in  Lancashire.  Was  he  I 
the  son  of  Abraham  Plumbe,  the  youngest  son  of  ! 
John  Plumbe,  Esq.,  of  Whiston,  near  Preston? 

He  bore  the  Plumbe  arm?,  "  Erin,  a  bend  vaire  j 
between  two  cottoises,  sa.  His  crest  was  "  a  j 
greyhound  sejant  arg.  collar  gules,  spotted  or."  ! 
I  should  be  greatly  obliged  to  any  gentleman  | 
having  access  to  the  records  of  the  Goldsmiths'  i 
Company,  or  any  work  giving  a  history  of  the  ' 
Lord  Mayors  of  London,  for  any  information  as  ! 
to  the  pedigree  of  Samuel  Plumbe,  either  by  pri-  I 
vate  letter  or  through  "  N.  &  Q."  H.  M.  RICE. 
South  Hill  Rectory,  Callington,  Cornwall. 

QUERIES.  —  I.I  am  anxious  for  any  light  which  ' 
can  be  given  me  about  the  original  of  the  portrait  | 
of  a  lady  in  Elizabethan  costume,  but  which  came  ' 
from  Germany,  painted  on  panel,  with  the  word  ! 
"  Jactvs"  in  the  upper  corner. 

2.  Where  can  any  information  be  found  con- 
cerning the  extinct  peerage  of  Fitzwilliam  in  the 
Irish  peerage,  and  their  pedigree  ?  The  last  peer, 
I  believe,  founded  the  Fitzwilliam  Library  at 
Cambridge. 

f  3.  I  shall  be  glad  of  any  information  concern- 
ing the  church  of  Barrow-Gournay,  near  Bristol, 
m  addition  to  that  contained  in  Collinson's  and 
Kutter's  Somersetshire,  and  in  reference  to  any 
of  these  persons  whose  monuments  remain  therein  :  | 
Dr.  Francis  James,  Chancellor  of  Wells,  who 


died  March  26,  1616;    Catherine  Bampfyld,  ob. 
1657. 

4.  Where  can  I  obtain  any  information  about 
the  marriages  of  the  junior  branches  of  the  Fitz- 
Gerald  family  (Duke  of  Leinster's)  between  1700 
and  1800  ?  • 

5.  What  is  the  origin  of  the  saying,  "  I  was  like 
a  priest's  maid ;  "  i.  e.  just  going  to  perform  some- 
thing  before  the  order  relating  to  it  had  been 
given  ?  J.  W.  HARDMAN. 

Barrow-Gournay  Parsonage,  near  Bristol. 

QUOTATION.  —  The  following  lines  appeared  in 
the  Ladies  Journal,  a  newspaper  published  in 
Edinburgh,  viz. :  — 

"  For  every  evil  under  the  sun. 
There  is  a  remedy,  or  there's  none; 
If  there  is  one,  try  and  find  it ; 
If  there  is  none,  never  mind  it." 

I  observed  these  lines  quoted  in  a  private  letter 
I  a  short  time  ago ;  can  any  of  your  correspon- 
j  dents  inform  me  if  they  have  before  appeared  in 
!  print  ?  M.  T.  S. 

Edinburgh. 

SAND-PAINTINGS.  —  May  I  ask  whether  any  of 
your  correspondents  are  aware  of  the  existence  of 
any  specimens  of  the  old  art  of  sand-painting? 
It  is  believed  that  the  Duke  of  Devonshire's  rare 
collections  of  art  curiosities  contain  a  few  pictures 
of  this  kind  ;  and  that  a  London  family  (Quakers, 
I  think),  of  the  name  of  Willan,  had  a  few  others. 
Are  there  any  more  ?  And  are  these  of  great 
value?  W.  F. 

TITLE  OF  PSALM  CXLIX.  —  I  find  in  several  edi- 
tions of  the  Bible  (authorised  version)  the  contents 
of  this  psalm  thus  enumerated  :  "  The  prophet 
exhorteth  to  praise  God  for  his  love  to  the  church, 
and  for  that  power  which  he  hath  given  to  the 
church  to  rule  the  consciences  of  men"  I  find  no 
trace  of  the  latter  words,  "  to  rule  the  consciences 
of  men,"  after  1638,  but  I  am  told  they  appeared 
as  late  as  1648.  Later  editions  vary  considerably. 
When  and  by  what  authority  were  the  words  re- 
moved from  the  English  Bible  ?  The  reason  for 
their  rejection  is  apparent.  B.  H.  C. 

"A  TRUE-BLUE  APRON  RETURN." I  found  that 

expression  in  a  MS.  copied  about  one  hundred 
years  a<zo  from  another  MS.  It  was  said  of  some 
act  of  the  corporation  of  Wells,  by  which,  some 
two  or  three  hundred  years  ago,  they  seemed 
to  the  writer  to  take  an  unfair  and  ungrateful 
advantage  of  the  bishop,  in  appropriating  some  of 
the  episcopal  property.  Can  you  tell  me  the 
meaning  and  origin  of  the  term? 

ARTHUR  DuCANE. 

THE  VULGATE.  — 

"  A  good  translation  is  often  the  very  best  of  commen- 
taries; and  it  was  a  full  appreciation  of  this  fact  that  led 
a  venerated  scholar  and  divine,  when  asked  what  he 


3'd  S.  I.  MAY  3,  '62.] 


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judged  to  be  the  best  commentary  on  the  New  Testa- 
ment, to  name  the  Vulgate."— Aids  to  Faith,  p.  382. 

Who  is  the  scholar  and  divine  to  whom  Dean 
Ellicott  here  alludes  ?  E.  H.  A. 

WHIFF.  —  I  should  be  extremely  glad  of  any 
information  respecting  the  origin  of  the  word 
"  whiff."  It  is  applied  in  Oxford  to  sculling  boats 
of  a  light  build,  not  covered  with  canvass.  Is  it 
found  elsewhere  ?  And  if  so,  what  is  its  use  ?  It 
is  not  inserted  in  any  English  dictionary  that  I 
have  consulted,  nor  am  I  aware  of  its  occurrence 
in  any  of  our  authors,  ancient  or  modern.  "  Skiff" 
evidently  points  to  <rKa.$t\  and  scapJia ;  but  "  whiff," 
from  its  form,  would  not  appear  to  belong  to  any 
such  parentage.  NONDUM  GRADUATUS. 


imtft 

GODWYN'S  "  MOSES  AND  AARON."  —  With  my 
copy  of  this  work  (ed.  1624),  there  is  bound  up 
Romance  Historic  Anthologia  recognita  et  Aucta, 
London,  1 648  ("  for  the  use  of  Abingdon  Schoole  ") ; 
also,  Archaologice  Attica  lilri  sepfem,  by  Fra. 
Rous,  Oxford,  1652  :  and  as  I  have  seen  at  least 
half  a  dozen  of  these  works  so  bound  together,  I 
am  disposed  to  ask  if  there  is  any  accounting  for 
it  ?  GEORGE  LLOYD. 

[The  first  two  works  by  Dr.  Thomas  Godwyn,  together 
with  that  by  Francis  Rous,  printed  uniformly  in  size  and 
type  at  the  Oxford  press,  have  always  been  considered  to 
form  a  useful  and  not  expensive  body  of  Jewish,  Roman, 
and  Grecian  Antiquities,  which  accounts  for  their  being 
frequently  bound  in  one  volume.] 

EARL  OF  HUNTINGDON'S  OBIT. — In  the  accounts 
of  the  churchwardens  of  St.  Martin's  church, 
Leicester,  under  date  of  1544,  is  the  following  :  — 
"  Pd.  for  my  Lord  of  Huntingdon's  obyt  -  -  xjd." 

Can  anyone  tell  me  which  Earl  of  Huntingdon 
this  refers  to,  and  give  me  an  extract  from  his 
will  (if  such  appears  in  any  accessible  collection), 
showing  the  provision  therein  made  for  its  per- 
formance ?  T.  NORTH. 

Southfields,  Leicester. 

[This  entry  relates  to  George,  third  Lord  Hastings,  and 
first  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  who  died  on  March  24,  1543. 
In  his  will  he  ordained  "  that  his  executors  should  cause 
a  thousand  masses  to  be  said  or  sung,  in  as  short  a  time 
as  might  be  after  his  decease,  by  secular  priests  and 
others,  in  the  county  of  Leicester  and  other  places  ad- 
joining."—  Vide  Nichols's  Leicestershire,  iii.  576.] 

FAMILY  OF  YOUNG.  —  Wanted  some  informa- 
tion concerning  the  Rev.  Edward  Young,  D.D., 
chaplain  to  King  Charles  II.  and  James  II.,  and 
rector  of  Welwyn,  Hertfordshire.  F.  G.  L. 

[The  clergyman  inquired  after  by  our  correspondent 
we  are  inclined  to  think  must  be  the  ReV.  Edward 
Young,  Rector  of  Upham  in  Hampshire,  and  afterwards 
chaplain  to  King  William  and  Mary,  and  Dean  of  Salis- 
bury, whose  son,  the  celebrated  poet,  became  Rector  of 
Wehvyn  on  Nov.  3,  1730.  Dean  Young  was  the  son  of 


John  Young  of  Woodliay,  Berks,  and  was  collated  in 
September,  1682,  to  the  prebend  of  Gillingham  Minor,  in 
the  cathedral  of  Salisbury,  and  installed  Dean  27th  Nov. 
1702.  He  died  9th  Aug.  1705,  in  his  sixty-third  year. 
For  a  notice  of  his  Latin  sermon,  which  Mr.  NValler 
thought  so  highly  of,  and  which  was  subsequently 
poetised,  and  published  with  the  title  of  The  Idea  of 
Christian  Love,  see  «•  N.  &  Q."  1"  S.  v.  226.  Vide  also 
Nichols's  Literary  Anecdotes,  i.  5,  for  a  biographical  no- 
tice of  him.] 

TRINITY  HOUSE.  —  What  is  the  oricin  of  the 
Trinity  Houses  of  London,  Hull,  and  Newcastle- 
upon-Tyne  (I  am  not  aware  they  exist  elsewhere), 
all  of  them,  I  believe,  belonging  to  companies  of 
master-mariners  in  those  ports ;  and  having  more 
or  less  to  do  with  the  pilotage,  and  maintenance  of 
light-houses  on  the  coast  ?  E.  H.  A. 

[The  Company  or  Corporation  of  Trinity  House  was 
founded  by  Sir  Thomas  Spert,  Comptroller  of  the  Navy 
to  Henry  VIIL,  and  commander  of  the  Harry  Grace  de 
Dieu,  and  was  incorporated,  March  20,  1529,  by  the 
name  of  "  The  Master,  Wardens,  and  Assistants  of  the 
Guild,  Fraternity,  or  Brotherhood,  of  the  most  Glorious 
and  Undividable  Trinity,  and  of  St.  Clement,  in  the 
Parish  of  Deptford  Strond,  in  the  County  of  Kent."  It 
has  for  its  object  the  increase  and  encouragement  of 
navigation,  the  regulation  of  lighthouses,  and  sea-marks, 
and  the  general  management  of  matters  not  immediately 
connected  with  the  Admiralty.  The  most  convenient 
book  to  consult  for  an  account  of  this  corporation  is  the 
Penny  Cyclopaedia,  xxv.  245.] 

"To  WIT."  —  What  is  the  derivation  of  the  ex- 
pression "  To  wit,"  used  so  frequently  by  the 
writers  of  the  Elizabethan  period,  and  in  legal 
forms  at  the  present  day  ?  "  CONSTAUTINB." 

["To  wit,"  in  the  sense  of"  that  is  to  say,"  is  from  the 
Gothic  and  Ang.-Sax.  toitan,  and  means  literally  M  to 
know."  It  accordingly  corresponds  with  the  French 
savoir  (to  know),  which  is  used  much  as  we  use  "  to 
wit ;  "  e.  g.  "  France  is  divided  into  four  basins,  tavoir  (to 
wit),  the  basin  of  the  Seine,"  &c.] 

DISSOLUTION  OF  MONASTERIES.  —  Is  there  a 
complete  list  of  the  names  of  those  persons  who 
had  grants,  or  became  purchasers,  of  the  seques- 
tered~lands,  after  the  dissolution  of  the  lesser  and 
greater  monasteries  in  England,  in  1536  and  1539? 

HERUS  FRATER. 

[Sir  Henry  Spelman's  History  and  Fate  of  Sacrilege, 
with  Additions  by  Two  Priests  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land, Second  Edition,  8vo,  1853,  contains  a  list  of  the 
Mitred  Abbeys  of  England," with  the  names  and  fate  < 
the  first  possessors  of  the  sites,  see  Appendix  I.     Some 
particulars  of  the  grantees  of  the  monkeries  and  c 
religious  houses  will  be  found  in  the  body  of  t 
Consult  also  Dugdale's  Monasiicon,  edited  by  Cayley  and 
Ellis;  Stevens's  Additions  to  Dugdale,  and  Tanner «Ao- 
tUia,  edit.  1744.  The  following  manuscripts  in  the  I 
Museum   may  also  be  consulted:  "Letters  and   Docu- 
ments concerning  the  Suppression  of  Monasteries,  U 
tries,  and  other  Religious  Houses*"  Harl.  MSS.  60 
"  Discourse  concerning  the  destruction  of  the  Keligioi 
Houses  in  England,"  Addit.  MS.  5813;  -Pensions  to  the 
Religious  of  the  Dissolved  Monasteries,  co.   Worcester, 
Salop,  Stafford,  and  Hereford,  and  receipts  on  account  of 
the  same,  32-38  Hen.  VIII.,"  Addit  MSS.  Il,0o7-ll,0o9.1 


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[3'd  S.  I.  MAT  3.  '6*. 


fttglfetf, 

ON    BEING   COVERED   IN    THE    ROYAL   PRE- 
SENCE: TOUCHING  FOR  THE  KING'S  EVIL. 

(3rd  S.  i.  208,  313,  318.) 

Individual  grants  of  this  peculiar  privilege  ap- 
pear not  to  have  been  of  very  uncommon  occur- 
rence during  the  reign  of  King  Henry  VIlI. 
Some  that  I  have  note  of  I  here  add  to  the  other 
instances  given  by  your  correspondent  S.  T. ;  but 
whether  they  all  arose  from  that  scourge  of  hu- 
manity designated  the  King's  Evil,  or  from  other 
infirmities  incident  to  old  age,  I  entertain  some 
doubts,  which  your  correspondent,  in  his  forth- 
coming work,  may  take  an  interest  to  determine. 

Francis,  son  of  Christopher  Brown,  of  Tole- 
thorp,  co.  Rutland,  of  which  county  or  shire  he 
was  high  sheriff,  an.  8th  and  16th  Hen.  VII. 
and  1st  of  Hen.  VIII.  in  consideration  of  his 
father's  good  services  rendered  to  King  Henry  VII. 
against  Richard  III.  was  by  patent  excused  from 
ever  bearing  the  office  of  sheriff  or  escheator,  or 
from  serving  upon  any  jury  at  the  assizes,  and 
was  granted  the  liberty  of  being  covered  in  the 
presence  of  the  king  himself,  or  any  of  his  nobility. 
He  was  ancestor  to  one  of  the  lord  mayors  of 
London  of  that  surname.  (Kent's  Gwillim, 
abridged,  p.  626  ;  Anglorum  Speculum,  edit.  1681, 
p.  581,  583;  Gent.  Mag.  Ixxxii.,  New  Series; 
ibid.  xiv.  263.) 

John  Nethersole,  Esquire,  of  the  county  of 
Kent,  was  so  great  a  favourite  of  Henry  VIII. 
that  he  was  indulged  to  wear  a  cap  in  the  king's 
presence.  (Kentish  Travellers  Companion,  ed. 
1799,  p.  244.) 

Sir  Richard  Verney,  Knight,  ancestor  to  the 
Lord  Willouohby  de  Broke,  had  the  grant  of  a 
similar  privilege.  (Vide  Collins's  Peerage,  edit. 
1779,  vol.  vi.  p.  550.) 

Sir  John  (?)  Pakington  had  a  like  grant. 
(Betham's  Baronetage,  4to,  i.  185.) 

Humphrey  Lloyd  obtained  the  king's  licence  to 
wear  his  hat  in  the  royal  presence  on  account  of 
infirmity.  (MS.  Harl.  No.  6986.) 

A  grant  to  a  member  of  the  Suffolk  family,  of 
Coppinger,  temp.  Henry  VIII.,  for  a  similar  pri- 
vilege, is  given  in  the  Gent.  Magazine  for  Jan. 

My  authorities  for  the  ancestor  of  Lord  For- 
rester has  reference  to  the  European  Mag.,  vol. 
Ixxxi.  p.  486,  and  that  of  Ratclifie,  Earl  of  Sus- 
sex (in  the  reign  of  Queen  Mary),  to  Banks' 
Dormant  Baronage,  vol.  iii. ;  Stephen  Tucker,  to 
his  pedigree  in  the  Visit,  of  Cornwall,  An.  1620, 
Harl.  No.  1079,  fo.  100,  and  the  MS.  Harl.  No. 
1162,  which  latter  MS.  also  notices  the  grant  to 
the  family  of  Ilesketh.  Some  of  these  instances 
given  by  your  correspondent  form  the  subject  of 
a  paper  1  communicated  to  The  Mirror  in  1844. 


Since  then  I  have  read  somewhere,  that  in 
the  olden  time  of  the  chivalric  court  of  Spain, 
the  nobles,  on  confessing  their  enthralment  in 
amorous  bondage,  were  permitted  to  wear  their 
hats  in  presence  of  the  sovereign,  on  the  supposi- 
tion of  their  being  all-engrossed  by  the  thought 
of  their  liege  lady  love  and  mistress. 

On  the  kingly  office  or  ceremony  of  touching 
for  the  king's  evil,  my  notes  are  but  slender.  They 
are  chiefly  derived  from  Evelyn's  Memoirs,  vol.  ii. 
when  in  March,  1684,  there  was  so  great  a  con- 
course of  people  to  be  touched,  that  six  or  seven 
were  crushed  to  death,  by  pressing  at  the  chirur- 
geon's  door  for  tickets ;  and  the  London  Gazette 
of  April,  1G71,  gave  notice  that  "after  the  first  of 
May,  His  Majesty  will  not  heal  of  the  Evil  untill 
the  heats  of  the  summer  be  over."  (See  also 
Camden's  Remains;  Gent.  Mag.  xciv.  part  5. 
p.  844,  and  Boswell's  Life  of  Johnson.)  H.  G. 


THE  SALTONSTALL  FAMILY.  ' 
(2nd  S.  xi.  409,  434,  513  ;  xii.  354,  372,  460.) 

On  p.  68  of  Drake's  History  and  Antiquities  of 
Boston  (Massachusetts),  published  at  Boston  in 
18591,  will  be  found  a  table,  showing  that  GIL- 
BERT S.  "  of  Halifax,  co.  of  York,  who  purchased, 
besides  other  lands,  Rooks  in  Hipperhclme,"  had 
two  sons  :  "  Samuel,  of  Rooks  and  Huntick,"  and 
"Sir  Richard,  Lord  Mayor  of  London  in  1597 
(one  year  only),  from  whom  those  of-  London 
and  Hertfordshire.  He  was  Sheriff  in  1588 — will 
1600." 

Samuel  married  thrice:  I.Anne,  daughter  of 
Mr.  John  Ramsden,  of  Longley,  grandfather  to 
Sir  John  Ramsden ;  2.  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Mr.  Thomas  Ogden  ;  and  3.  Elizabeth,  widow  of 

Armine,  of  Hull,  s.  p.  The  issue  of  the 

first  marriage  were  :  1.  Sir  Richard,  Knight,  J.  P. 
1  Charles  L,  came  to  New  England  1630;  and 
2.  Gilbert,  died  young  ;  and  of  the  second,  Samuel, 
of  Rogerthorpe,  and  seven  others. 

Sir  Richard,  the  J.  P.,  son  of  Samuel,  also 
married  thrice :  1.  Grace,  daughter  of  Robert 

Kaye,  Esq. ;  2. daughter  of  Lord  Delaware ; 

and  3.  Martha  Wilford.  There  were  four  sons 
issue  of  the  first  marriage :  Richard,  Henry, 
Robert,  and  Samuel.  Richard,  born  at  Woodsome 
in  1610,  came  to  New  England  in  1630,  and  died 
at  Hulme  in  England  29th  April,  1694  ;  having 
married  Muriel,  daughter  of  Brampton  Gurden, 
of  Assington,  co.  Suffolk,  England.  From  this 
marriage  is  shown  the  lineal  descent,  through 
Nathaniel  (called  the  Father  of  Haverhill,  Mas- 
sachusetts}, Richard,  Richard,  and  Nathaniel,  to 
the  three 'sons  of  the  latter,  namely :  Hon.  Le- 
verett,  died  8th  May,  1845,  aged  sixty-two  years, 
Nathaniel,  and  Richard.  Gurdon  S.,  mentioned 
in  the  extract  from  Gov.  Hutchinson's  History  of 


S.  I.  MAY  3,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


351 


Massachusetts  Bay,  given  by  ME.  P.  HUTCHINSON 
(2nd  S.  xii.  462),  was  great-great-grandson  of  the 
J.  P.  Sir  Richard,  son  of  Samuel.  He  (Gurdon) 
was  born  at  Haverhill,  Massachusetts,  27th  March, 
1666,  was  Governor  of  Connecticut  in  1708,  and 
died  1st  Oct.  1724. 

Sir  Richard,  son  of  Gilbert,  and  Lord  Mayor  of 

London  in  1597,  married  Susan .  Their  issue 

were :  Samuel  (named  in  the  will  of  his  father), 
Susanna,  and  Ann  ;  and  —  there  the  table  stops  ! 

It  thus  appears,  that  while  the  two  Sir  Richards 
were  —  the  first  son,  and  the  second  grandson  of 
Gilbert,  the  ancestor,  the  second  stood  in  the  rela- 
tion of  nephew  to  the  first,  being  a  son  of  his 
brother  Samuel.  It  also  appears,  that  the  first 
Sir  Richard  (the  Lord  Mayor)  had  only  one  son, 
and  not  three,  as  stated  by  J.  G.  N.,  xi.  513.  If 
Samuel,  of  Rooks  and  Huntick,  son  of  the  ancestor 
Gilbert,  can  be  shown  to  have  been  knighted,  he 
will,  in  all  likelihood,  prove  to  be  the  Sir  Samuel 
whose  descendant  originated  the  query  in  xi.  409. 
Possibly,  however,  this  Sir  Samuel  may  have  been 
either  Samuel,  son,  by  his  second  marriage,  of 
Samuel,  son  of  Gilbert, — or  Samuel,  the  only  son 
of  Sir  Richard,  the  Lord  Mayor. 

The  genealogical  table  above  referred  to  is 
stated  by  its  author  to  have  been  principally 
formed  from  Thoresby's  History  of  Leeds,  and  an 
abstract  of  the  will  of  Gilbert  Saltonstall ;  and 
to  this  statement  he  adds :  — 

"  It  is  enough  to  add  concerning  this  family,  that  they 
opposed  the  persecutions  in  New  England,  in  its  early 
settlement,  denounced  with  becoming  language  the  pro- 
ceedings against  Quakers,  and  set  a  worthy  example  in 
the  witchcraft  delusion." 

Such  conduct  does  not  seem  to  tally  with  the 
instructions  of  Governor  Endicott  (or  rather  of 
the  General  Court — see  them  in  Hutchinson's 
Collection  of  Original  Papers,  Boston,  1769, 
p.  329),  referred  to  in  Mr.  W.  NOEL  SAINSBUBY'S 
note,  xi.  435.  • 

As  J.  G.  N.  has  met  in  the  field  no  fewer  than 
five  Richards,  each  of  whom  was  made  a  belted 
knight,  the  descendant  of  Sir  Samuel  S.  will 
probably  investigate  the  matter  a  little  closer  ; 
and,  if  he  succeed  in  unravelling  the  mystery,  it 
is  to  be  hoped  that  he  will  communicate  the  result 
of  his  investigation  to  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
Of  itself,  the  knighting,  within  twenty  years,  of 
so  many  persons  of  the  same  Christian  as  well  as 
surname,  and  probably  of  the  same  family,  is  not 
a  little  singular,  and  deserves  to  be  "  made  a 
note  of."  ERIC. 

Ville-  Marie,  Canada. 


AGE  OF  NEWSPAPERS. 

The  extract  from  The  Standard  is  very  incom- 
plete.    At  present  I  only  send  a  few  corrections. 


Should  your  other  correspondents  not  do  so,  I  will 
try  to  send  a  complete  list. 

The  London  Gazette  was  not  commenced  till 
Feb.  5,  1666.  The  first  number  of  The  Gazette 
was  issued  at  Oxford,  Nov.  14,  1665,  where  the 
court  was  staying  in  consequence  of  the  plague. 

The  Edinburgh  Gazette  was  not  commenced 
till  1699. 

The  successful  sale  of  the  Letters  of  Junius  in 
a  paper  called  the  Public  Advertiser,  prompted 
the  starting  of  the  Morning  Chronicle  in  1769. 
This  paper  has  the  honour  of  being  the  first  news- 
paper which  produced  literary  articles  of  rare 
merit. 

The  Times  was  in  reality  commenced  by  the 
grandfather  of  the  present  chief  proprietor,  Mr. 
Walter,  Jan.  13,  1785,  and  not,  as  erroneously 
stated,  on  Jan.  1,  1788 ;  the  earlier  date  was 
under  the  title  of  the  London  Daily  Universal 
Register,  and  was  printed  by  logographic  process. 
Mr.  Walters,  finding  much  technical  inconveni- 
ence from  the  title,  altered  it  on  Jan.  1,  1778,  to 
The\Times. 

Felix"  Farley's  Bristol  Journal  should  be  1715  ; 
Chehmford  Chronicle,  1730;  Norwich  Mercury, 
1720. 

The  Leeds  Mercury  started  in  1718  ;  suspended 
between  1755-66,  the  new  series  commencing 
Jan.  1,  1767.  This  was  the  first  paper  wjiich  in- 
serted "leading  articles,"  commencing  them  in 
1801. 

There  are  at  present  eighteen  papers  in  exist- 
ence, the  first  numbers  of  which  appeared  previous 
to  1750. 

A  Mercurius  Caledonius  was  started  Jan.  8, 
1661,  but  it  ceased  after  the  tenth  number.  The 
Caledonian  Mercury  commenced  April  28,  1720. 

Why  is  the  Daily  News  (1846)  omitted  from 
the  list  of  daily  papers  ?  JAMES  GILBERT. 

2,  Devonshire  Grove,  Old  Kent  Road,  S.E. 

In  the  cutting  given  from  The  Standard,  The 
Times  is  stated  to  have  commenced  1788.  Should 
not  this  be  1786  ?  I  have  an  old  number  of  The 
Times  dated  June  26,  1789,  and  numbered  1190. 

The  Nottingham  Journal  is  said  to  commence 
1710.  I  copied  the  date,  1716,  a.  few  weeks  since, 
from  a  newspaper  Directory;  which  I  have  not 
at  hand  to  refer  to,  but  feel  sure  I  copied  it  cor- 
rectly. Can  some  correspondent  tell  me  where  I 
can  see  the  early  numbers  of  this  paper  ?  I  do 
not  find  them  in  the  British  Museum.  G.  W.  M. 

The  Caledonian  Mercury  of  the  present  day 
was  founded  by  the  celebrated  printer  and  scholar 
Ruddiman,  in  1720,  and,  consequently,  it  cannot 
be  said  to  be  the  oldest  newspaper  in  the  realm. 
The  resemblance  in  the  name  to  the  Mcrcuriu* 
Caledonius  has  led  to  the  mistake.  The  Mercu- 


352 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I.  MAY  3,  '62. 


rins  Caledonius  appeared  for  the  first  time  on  the 
31st  Dec.  1660,  and  was  only  continued  for  ten 
numbers  ;  which  Chalmers  says  "  were  very  loyal, 
very  illiterate,  and  very  affected."  They  were 
edited  by  Thomas  Sydserfe,  a  son  of  the  Bishop 
of  Orkney.  (Vide  Life  of  Ruddiman,  by  George 
Chalmers,  8vo,  London,  1794.)  J.  MACRAY. 


HERALDIC  VOLUME,  temp.  CHARLES  II.  (2nd  S. 
xii.  261,  282,  331.)—  In  October  last  some  ex- 
tracts appeared  in  "  N.  &  Q.,"  from  an  Heraldic 


anonymous 

which  twice  or  thrice  occur  in  it;  and  these, 
coupled  with  the  character  and  locality  of  the 
work,  induced  me  to  hazard  the  suggestion  that 
it  was  the  compilation  of  John  Huntbach.  I  have 
since,  however,  had  the  volume  in  my  possession, 
and  compared  it  with  some  undoubted  MS$.  of 
Huntbach  ;  and  can  only  reasonably  arrive  at  the 
conclusion,  that  it  is  not  in  his  hand.  The  MS. 
is  shortly  to  be  exhibited  at  the  Society  of  Anti- 
quaries ;  and,  with  others  of  Sir  J.  Winnington's 
MSS.,  at  the  coming  Congress  of  the  Archaeolo- 
gical Institute  at  Worcester.  Something  definite 
may  yet,  therefore,  be  arrived  at  with  respect  to 
it  ;  and  a  Note  of  what  I  have  done  towards  its 
identification  may,  at  all  events,  save  others  going 
over  the  same  ground,  if  not  give  them  a  hint  to 
guide  their  inquiry. 

John  Hall,  D.D.,  afterwards  Bishop  of  Bristol, 
was  Prebendary  of  Worcester  in  1676  —  the  iden- 
tical date  of  this  MS.  He  left  his  books  and 
MSS.  to  Pembroke  College,  Oxford,  of  which  he 
was  Master;  and  I  have  been  informed  that, 
amongst  the  latter,  were  some  relating  to  Wor- 
cester. I  have  written  (I  trust  with  all  due 
courtesy)  both  to  the  Master  and  Bursar  of  Pem- 
broke, sending  to  each  a  tracing  of  the  initials 
"  J.  II.";  which  I  begged  them  to  compare  with 
any  signature  of  the  Bishop's  in  the  library,  and 
pointed  out  to  them'the  interest  I  felt  in  the  in- 
quiry. The  fact  that  neither  of  these  gentlemen 
has  in  any  way  noticed  my  letters,  leaves  my  sur- 
mise as  to  its  being  a  MS.  of  Bishop  Hall's  still 
to  be  sifted. 

Sir  Thomas  Winnington'suggpsted,  that  it  might 
be  by  James  Howell,  the  author  of  Familiar 
Letters,  and  a  quantity  of  other  works  —  who 
generally  signed  himself  "  J.  II."  Howell,  how- 
ever, appears  (if  the  biographical  dictionaries  to 
which  1  have  referred  are  correct)  to  have  died 
ten  years  before  the  date  of  this  MS.,  although 
my  copy  of  his  Cottoni  Posthuma  is  dated  1672. 

Lastly,  the  modesty  of  the  Preface  points  to  the 
probability  of  its  being,  not  the  work  of  an  habi- 
tual or  known  writer,  but  of  some  private  in- 
dividual. And  if  so,  the  fact  that  the  Solicitor- 


General  Winnington  (evidently  the  first  collector 
of  his  family)  married  a  member  of  the  Worcester- 
shire branch  of  the  Herberts,  may  ultimately 
prove  a  clue  to  the  author.  S.  T. 

THE  DRUNKARD'S  CONCEIT  (3rd  S.  i.  305.)  — 
I  am  happy  to  be  able  to  supply  F.  C.  H.,  and 
the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q-,"  with  the  original  Ger- 
man of  the  very  amusing  song,  of  which  you  in- 
serted a  translation  in  your  last  number.  I  am 
entirely  quoting  from  memory  ;  and  should  a  few 
words  differ  from  the  original,  I  must  beg  your 
and  your  readers'  kind  indulgence.  But  I  think 
that  the  authorship  has  always  been  attributed  to 
Mr.  Louis  Schneider,  an  excellent  comic  actor  of 
the  Royal  Theatre  of  Berlin,  who  is  also  the 
author  of  several  very  amusing  comedies  and 
farces.  Mr.  Schneider,  who,  in  the  stormy  times 
of  1848  showed  much  faithful  attachment  to  the 
royal  family  of  Prussia,  retired  in  that  year  from 
the  stage,  and  lived  for  several  years  after  in  Sans 
Souci,  and,  as  it  was  said,  on  very  intimate  terms 
with  the  late  King  of  Prussia. 

«  Gerad'  aus  dem  Wirthshaus 

Komm'  ich  heraus. 
Strasse,  wie  siehst  du 

So  wunderlich  aus ! 
Rechter  Hand,  linker  Hand, 

Alles  vertauscht ; 
Strasse,  ich  merke  wohl 

Du  bist  berauscht. 
«  Was  fur  ein  schief  Gesicht, 

Mond,  machst  denn  du! 
Ein  Auge  hast  du  auf, 

Eins  bast  du  zu. 
Du  musst  betrunken  sein, 

Das  merk'  ich  schnell ; 
Scharae  dich,  schame  dich, 

Alter  Gesell ! 
"  Und  die  Laternen  erst, 

Was  muss  ich  sebn ; 
Kb'nnen  auf  keinem  Bern 

Gerade  mehr  stehn ; 
Wackeln  und  fackeln 

Die  Kreuz  und  die  Quer, 
Laternen,  wie  seid  Ihr 

Betrunken  so  schwer? 

"  Alles  im  Sturmkreis, 

Gross  oder  klein ; 
Wag'  ich  mich  niicbtern 

Darunter  allein? 
Das  scheint  bedenklich  mir 

Ein  WagestUck ; 
D'rum  kehr'  ich  lieber 
Zum  Wirthshaus  zuriick." 

L.  F.  L. 

CENTENARIANS  (3rd  S.  i.  281.)— It  is  something 
|  that  we  have,  at  last,  an  instance  of  a  jperson 
i  living  upwards  of  one  hundred  years,  with  the 
\  evidence  in  proof. 

But  there  is  still  room  for  doubt;  and  I  am 
1  sure  that  either  SIR  G.  C.  LEWIS,  or  the  Rev.  C. 
J.  Elliott,  will  follow  out  the  inquiry  to  a  satis- 
factory conclusion.     The  register  is,  no  doubt, 


3rd  S.  I.  MAY  3,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


353 


perfectly  correct.  Esther  Jackman  was  baptized 
at  Wink  field,  June  26th,  1759  ;  but  the  difficulty 
is,  to  identify  this  Esther  Jackman  with  Esther 
Strike,  nee  Jackman,  who  died  last  February. 
Now,  would  the  Vicar  be  so  kind  as  to  examine 
the  Register  of  Deaths  for  a  few  years  after  June, 
1759,  and  see  (if  the  Jackmans  buried  there) 
whether  there  is  any  record  of  the  child's  death, 
and  consequently  of  a  second  birth,  where  the 
same  name  was  given,  at  a  later  date  ¥  J.  R.,  M.D. 

H.  C.  F.  asks  what  is  known  of  the  celebrated 
Christian  Jacobsen  Drakenberg,  who  died  on 
Oct.  9,  1772,  at  the  age  of  145  years.  An  in- 
teresting biographical  account  of  him,  by  Mr. 
Thomas  Watts  of  the  British  Museum,  will  be 
found  in  Knight's  English  Cyclopaedia  (Biogra- 
phy), ii.  644.  J.  Y. 

FOLD,  A  LANCASHIRE  AND  CHESHIRE  WORD 
(3rd  S.  i.  187.)  —  In  answer  to  J.'s  Query,  I  have 
a  map  of  Lancashire,  printed  about  the  end  of  the 
sixteenth  century,  and  can  assure  him  that  Dixon- 
fold  is  not  marked  thereon.  Neither  do  I  see 
the  termination  fold  elsewhere  ;  butfeld  smdfald 
occurs  in  such  places  as  these  (all  in  Lancashire), 
Hamfeld,  Aytenfeld,  Highfield,  Dunkenfeld,  Stan- 
field,  &c.  I  should  feel  inclined  to  think  that 
fold  is  perhaps  a  corruption  of  feld,  the  meaning 
of  which  explains  itself.  SIDNEY  YOUNG. 

POMATUM  (3rd  S.  i.  316.)—  Pommade  in  French, 
pomada,  Sp. ;  pomade.  Germ. ;  pomatum,  Eng.,  are 
all  derived  from  pomdta,  Ital.  It  is  thus  de- 
scribed by  Charles  Nodier  :  — 

"  Composition  faite  avec  des  pomraes  et  des  graisses, 
dont  on  se  sert  pour  divers  usages.  On  donne  quelque- 
fois  aux  pommes  1'odeur  de  quelques  fleurs,  et  alors  elles 
prennent  le  nom  de  ces  fleurs,  comme  pommade  de  jas- 
min, de  jonquille,  d'orange,  de  tubereuse,"  etc. 

In  France  the  pharmaciens  make  une  pommade 
jpcur  les  levres,  to  cure  les  gergures  or  chaps,  which 
is  composed  of  bleached  wax,  spermaceti,  and  oil 
of  almonds,  and  coloured  by  the  root  of  the  An- 
cliusa  tinctoria,  with  a  little  of  some  essential  oil  to 
give  it  a  scent.  The  word  is  undoubtedly  La- 
tin— 

"  Porrigis  irato  puero  cum  pnma,  recusat," 

Hor.  Sat.  n.  3,  258. 

and  it  is  only  as  an  esculent'that  I  find  it,  except 
with  the  French.  Samuel  Frederick  Gray  has, 
in  his  Treatise  of  Pharmacology  in  General,  4th 
edition,  1828,  pp.  465,  466,  a  list  of  all  sorts  of 
pommades  or  pomatums,  with  an  analysis  of  their 
component  parts ;  and  I  find  only  one  in  which 
the  i'ruit  of  apples  enters.  It  is  entitled  "  Pom- 
made  pour  rafraichir  le  teint,  et  ofcer  les  rougeurs 
du  visage."  2.  2. 

PAULSON  (3rd  S.  i.  210,  276.)  —The  story  here 
is,  as  it  is  usually  told,  the  Augur  says,  "Cut 
boldly."  The  king  cuts.  On  what  authority? 
Livy  says :  — 


"  Ira  regi  mota,  eludensque  artem,  ut  ferunt, «  Agedum,' 
inquit,  divine  tu,  inaugura,  fierine  possit,  quod  nunc  ego 
mente  concipio?'  Quum  ille,  in  augtirio  rem  expertog, 
profecto  futuram  dixisset:  'Atqui  hoc  animo  eogitavi,' 
inquit,  « te  novacula  cotem  discissurum.  Cap*  haec,  et 
perage,  quod  aves  tuae  fieri  posse  portendunt.'  Turn  ilium 
baud  cunctanter  discidisse  cotem  ferunt." — Lav.  Hut.. 
i.  86. 

Cicero's  account  is  different,  though  not  di- 
rectly contradictory.  He  does  not  say  who  cut 
the  whetstone :  — 

"  Cujus  cum  tentavit  scientiam  auguratus,  dixit  ei  se 
cogitare  quiddam,  id  possetne  fieri  consuluit.  Ille,  au- 
gurio  acto,  '  posse  '  respondit.  Tarquinius  autem  dixit, 
se  cogitasse,  cotem  novacula  posse  pnecidi.  Turn  At- 
tiutn  jussisse  experiri.  Ita  cotem,  in  comitiuin  allatam,  in- 
spect ante  rege,  et  populo,  novacula  esse  discissam." —  De 
Divinatione,  i.  17. 

What  is  the  authority  for  "Cut  boldly"? 

W.D. 

SIR  JOHN  STRANGE  :  JOHN  STRANGE,  D.C.L.  (3rd 
S.  i.  271.)  —  Sir  John  Strange  was  one  of  the  four 
eminent  clerks  of  Mr.  Salkeld,  the  famous  attor- 
ney in  Brooke  Street,  Holborn ;  the  others  being 
Yorke  (afterwards  Earl  of  Hardwicke),  and  Lord 
Chancellor  Jocelyn  (afterwards  Lord  Chancellor 
of  Ireland),  and  Parker  (afterwards  Lord  Chief 
Baron  of  the  Exchequer.)  His  wife  was  Susan, 
eldest  daughter  and  coheir  of  Edward  Strong,  Esq. 
of  Greenwich.  She  died  21  January,  1747,  set.  46. 
By  her  he  had  two  sons  and  seven  daughters,  who 
survived  him. 

John  Strange,  Esq.,  the  eldest  son,  was  of  Clare 
Hall,  Cambridge,  and  was  created  M.A.  as  a 
Privy  Councillor's  eldest  son,  1755.  In  1766  he 
was  admitted  F.R.S.  He  was  also  F.S.A.,  and 
member  of  various  foreign  literary  and  scientific 
societies.  For  several  years  he  was  the  British 
Resident  at  Venice,  and  he  was  created  D.C.L  at 
Oxford,  4  July,  1793.  He  was  a  very  distin- 
guished antiquary  and  naturalist;  his  death  oc- 
curred at  Ridge,  Hertfordshire,  19  March,  1799, 
at  the  age  of  sixty-seven,  and  he  was  buried  in 
April  at  Leyton,  Essex. 

His  wife  Sarah,  the  daughter  of  Davidge  Gould, 
Esq.,  and  sister  of  Sir  Henry  Gould,  Justice  of 
the  Common  Pleas,  died  in  1783,  and  was  buried 
at  Leyton. 

Matthew,  the  second  son  of  Sir  John  Strange, 
died  1759,  and  was  buried  at  Leyton. 

Martha,  one  of  his  daughters,  the  widow  of 
James  Wittewronge,Esq.,  of  Rothamsted,  in  Hert- 
fordshire, died  1758,  and  was  buried  at  Leyton. 

Another  of  his  daughters  married  James  For- 
ster,  Serjeant-at-Law. 

As  to  Sir  John  Strange,  see  Bromley's  Cat.  of 
Engraved  Portraits,  285  ;  Campbell's  Chancellors, 
4th  edit.  vi.  161,  189;  Georgian  Era,  ii.  535; 
Harris's  Life  of  Lord  Hardwicke,  i.  28,  33,  53,  72, 
75,  235,  351,  419;  ii.  298;  iii.  10,  11,  85,  530; 
Howell's  State  Trials,  xvi.  7  ;"xvii.  164,  637,  851, 
1093,  1191,  1211,  1255  ;  xviii.  317,  336,469,483, 


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.  I.  MAT  3,  '62. 


774;  Lysons's  Environs,  iv.  162,  168,  169;  Ni- 
chols's Lit.  Anecd.  v.  274. 

As  to  John  Strange,  D.C.L.,  see  Gent.  Mag. 
Ix.  (1)  348  ;  Lysons's  Environs,  iv.  168,  169;  vi. 
351  ;  Nichols's  Lit.  Anecd.  iii.  438,  735  ;  viii. 
9-12  ;  ix.  673,  720 ;  Nichols's  Illmtr.  Lit.  vi.  384, 
774;  Sale  Cat.  of  Dawson  Turner's  MSS.  lots 
454-459  ;  Watt's  Biblioth.  Brit. 

C.  H.  AND  THOMPSON  COOPEK. 

Cambridge. 

GRAD WELLS,  GORSUCH,  ETC.  (3rd  S.  i.  196,  213.) 
I  am  sorry  to  tell  A.  E.  L.  that  Gradwells  is  a 
y  rubbishy  "  old  farm  which  would  disappoint  him 
if  he  saw  it.  There  are  two  squares  in  a  window, 
with  a  W.  and  a  G.  in  yellow  stain,  and  the  same  let- 
ters, in  most  clumsy  brick  setting,  occur  on  a  gable. 
Either  the  house  has  been  studiously  common- 
place and  plain  from  the  first,  or  all  that  was  not 
so  has  been  removed.  The  chapel  is  gone,  so  is 
the  priest's  hole  in  the  kitchen  chimney.  There 
are  brick  foundations  of  walls  and  cellars  (as  the 
tenant  calls  them)  in  the  croft,  to  be  found  for 
digging  for,  but  not  otherwise.  The  cross  in  the 
garden  is  plain  and  rough,  and  does  not  look 
older  than  1740.  There  is  no  date  about  the  pre- 
mises. Unless  there  be  proof  that  these  Winck- 
leys  were  of  the  same  family  as  Lady  Shelley,  I 
should  doubt  it.  The  Gradwells  never  appear  in 
Heralds'  Visitations;  they  belong  to  the  yeoman 
class.  Gorsuch  of  Gorsuch  is  in  the  Visitations, 
and  Gorsuch  Hall  is  near  Scarisbrook  Bridge. 
It  is  true  that  Thomas  Eccleston,  Esq.,  repre- 
sented the  families  of  Scarisbrook,  and  Dicconson 
also ;  but  his  children  each  took  the  name  of  the 
iamily  to  whose  property  they  succeeded.  P.  P. 

HOLYLAND  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  259.)— If  ELIOT 
MONTAUBAN  will  communicate  with  me  under  his 
real  name,  and  show  me,  in  confidence,  the  ob- 
ject of  his  inquiries,  I  shall  be  happy  to  render 
him  any  assistance  in  my  power,  or  to  refer  him 

)  other  persons,  more  capable  than  myself  of 
answering  his  queries  respecting  the  particular 
branch  of  the  above  family,  mentioned  by  me  in 
a  former  reply.  T  >JORTH 

Southfields,  Leicester. 

TRIAL  OF  SPENCER  COWPER  (3rd  S.  i.  191,  214,  ! 

T  'l~    \       answer  to  J'  R  MB-  Foss  says,  that  i 
J.  *  .  rather  confuses  himself  between  the  mother  i 
the  deceased  and  the  mother  of  the  infant  heir- 
at-law       (the    appellant).     In    J.    F.'s   reply   he 
leems  to  me  to  be  still  more  confused.     He  asserts  i 
that  the  gunrdian  in  the  appeal  was  «  the  mother  ! 
ol  the  appellant, '  when  in  fact  it  was  the  mother 
)f  the  deceased:  and  it  was  the  appellant's  mother, 
not  the  appellant's  guardian,  who  obtained 
the  writ  of  appeal  from  the  sheriff. 

In  thus  delivering  up  the  writ,  the  sheriff  was 
undoubtedly   to   blame;    but  I   agree  with  MR.  i 
Foss  m  thinking  the  accused  was  entirely  inno-  i 


cent.  It  is  unnecessary  to  trouble  your  readers 
with  further  details,  or  to  puzzle  them  by  re- 
viewing a  controversy  which  has  been  judicially 
decided  for  more  than  a  century  and  a  half. 

LEGALIS. 

STANDING   AT   THE  LORD'S  PRAYER  (3rd  S.  i. 
268,  269.)  —Is  not  the  custom  of  the  minister's 
standing  whilst  saying  the  Lord's  Prayer  and  Col- 
lect at   the  commencement   of  the    Communion 
Service  to  be  accounted  for  by  the  general  prin- 
ciple that  intercessions — prayers  for  the  people — 
I  are  offered  by  the  minister  standing;  he  kneeling 
i  when  he  prays  with  the  people  ?  B.  L.  W. 

A  PREDICTION  (3rd  S.  i.  249.)— A.  E.  L.  defers 
to  the  close  of  the  next  four  septenaries  — 1500 -f- 
300  +  90  =  1890  —  the  TeAetW<£  of  Master  Ham- 
pole's  Chronogram.  Reading  its  "  fift,"  not  as 
flft/i,  but  as  fifty,  and  its  "x  and  c"  not  as  c 
minus  x,  but  as  x  phis  c,  we  obtain  1500  -J-  50  + 
10  +  100  =  1660  —  the  Annus  Redux  of  Charles 
Stuart, 

The  "  rejected  stone "  and  the  "  rebellious 
foes"  are  unquestionably  accordant;  as  is  the  leo- 
nine symbol  of  the  King  of  Scots,  whose  "friends 
i'  the  North"  crossed  the  Tweed  with  General 
Monk  in  a  "  fleeting  (floating)  wood,"  if  we  do 
but  make  allowance  for  his  lionship's  entering 
England  via  Dover  instead  of  Coldstream. 

A  diligent  inquirer  (2nd  S.  i.  225 — 410;  iii. 
510)  has  already  recorded  the  blazon  of  "  the 
blue  lily  "  among  the  fleurs-de-lis  of  our  native 
armory  in  their  several  tinctures,  twenty-seven 
ceruleans  appearing  on  their  roll,  some  whereof 
we  may  fairly  assume  to  have  escorted  the  lion 
gules  on  the  royal  May  morning  of  1660. 

Here,  however,  my  hermeneutics  are  at  fault. 
The  date  of  Britain's  "  trembling "  at  lily  or 
lion  demands  a  more  learned  chronicler  or  a 
shrewder  prophet.  Yet,  if  my  exposition  of  the 
Hampolean  oracle  be  not  in  se  teres,  at  least  it 
satisfies  the  past  more  nearly  than  A.  E.  L.'s 
reckoning  regards  the  future  :  the  twenty-eight 
years  between  this  our  day  and  the  year  of  grace 
1890  are  but  short  allowance  for  "  slaying  the 
tyger,  wolf,  and  ape  "  which  are  yet  unborn,  and 
"  crushing  the  rebellion,"  which  has  to  be  set 
up  before  it  can  be  put  down.  E.  L.  S. 

Aix-la-Chapelle. 

CLERICAL  KNIGHTS  (3rd  S.  i.  209.)  —  The  fol- 
lowing extract  from  Michaud's  History  of  the 
Crusades  may,  perhaps,  throw  some  light  upon 
the  question  of  the  knighthood  of  the  clergy  dis- 
cussed in  "  N.  &  Q."  Possibly  some  of  your 
readers  may  be  able  to  verify  the  reference  to 
Bartholo :  — 

"  The  great  privileges  granted  to  universities,  prove 
the  esteem  in  which  learning  was  then  held.  The  doc- 
tors disputed  for  precedency  with  knighthood  itself.  If 
Bartholo  is  to  be  believed,  ten  years'  teaching  of  the 


'J  S.  I.  MAY  3,  '62.] 


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Roman  law  conferred  the  title  of  knight.  This  dignity 
was  called  the  knighthood  of  learning,  and  they  who  ob- 
tained it  were  called  knight- clerks."  —  Rolson's  Transla- 
tion, vol.  iii.  p.  339. 

B. 

Your  learned  correspondent  J.  G.  N.,  whom, 
with  others,  I  have  to  thank  for  enlightening  me 
on  this  subject,  says,  that  it  does  not  appear  that 
Sir  Robert  Peat  "  had  the  degree  of  D.D."  My 
authority  for  the  statement  was  Townsend's  Calen- 
dar, p.  108,  where  his  name  is  spelt  correctly  Peat. 
I  have  looked  in  the  list  of  Oxford  Graduates  for 
his  name,  but  do  not  find  it,  and  I  have  not  my 
Cambridge  Liber  Graduati  at  hand.  G.  W.  M. 

The  Rev.  Henry  Bate  Dudley,  rector  of  Wil- 
lingham,  Cambridgeshire,  and  subsequently  one  of 
the  prebendaries  of  Ely,  was  created  a  Baronet  in 
1812,  upon  account  of  his  "uncommon  merits  in 
his  magisterial  capacity."  —  Vide  Annual  Bio- 
graphy, ix.  411.  E.  H.  A. 

DAUGHTERS  OF  WILLIAM  THE  LION  (3rd  S.  i. 
95,  138.)  — I  believe  that  HERMENTRUDE  is  quite 
correct  in  what  she  says  of  the  daughters  of  Wil- 
liam the  Lion,  barring  one  slight  inadvertence, 
that  she  has  corrected  in  her  last  communication. 
I  should,  however,  be  glad  to  know  whether 
Balfour,  quoted  by  Mrs.  Everett  Green,  is  an 
authority  for  attributing  to  Margery,  the  youngest 
of  the  three  sisters,  the  name  of  Marion  as  an 
alias. 

In  the  Annals  of  Scotland,  by  Sir  David  Dal- 
rymple,  Lord  Hailes,  a  writer  of  great  research 
and  singular  accuracy,  the  children  of  William 
the  Lion  are  enumerated  as  follows  :  — 

"ALEXANDER  II.  born  in  1198. 

"  Margaret,  married  Hubert  de  Burgh,  Justiciary  of 
England,  1222. 

"  Isabella,  married  Roger,  son  of  Hugh,  Earl  Bigot, 
122o. 

"  Marjory,  married  Gilbert,  Earl  Marshal  of  England, 
1235. 

"  Boece  says,  that  William  had  another  son,  John, 
drowned  in  his  cradle  at  Perth,  but  this  is  doubtful." — 
Annals  of  Scotland,  vol.  iii. 

Lord  Hailes  also  gives  a  list  of  the  natural 
children  of  King  William,  but  for  our  present 
purpose  I  do  not  think  it  necessary  to  transcribe 
it. 

It  remains  to  inquire  which  of  the  sisters  above 
enumerated  King  John  was  under  engagement  to 
marry.  There  is  no  one  of  the  three  that  has 
not  been  assigned  to  him  by  some  writer  or  other. 
Can  any  of  your  correspondents  throw  light  upon 
this  point  ?  MELETES. 

SHELLEY'S  "  LAON  AND  CYTHNA"  (3rd  S.  i.  283.) 
In  reference  to  the  article  on  Shelley's  Laon 
and  Cytlma,  allow  me  to  observe  that  I  purchased 
at  a  London  bookseller's  a  few  years  since  for 
3«.  6d.  a  second-hand  copy  of  the  first  edition  of 
this  poein.  It  may  have  been  a  presentation  copy, 


as  the  fly-leaf  at  the  beginning  waa  torn  out.  A 
few  passages  in  the  preface  are  marked  with  pen- 
cilling, not  apparently  of  deprecation.  It  Is 
still  in  my  possession. 

The  article  also  mentions  that  Shelley  had  sent 
to  Godwin  an  early  copy  of  the  printed  poem, 
who  had  forwarded  to  the  author  some  censures 
upon  it.  This  is  remarkable,  as  Godwin  asserted 
to  me  in  an  interview  I  had  with  him,  about  the 
year  1826  (having  been  introduced  by  Shelley's 
widow),  that  he  had  not  read  The  Revolt  of  Is- 
lam, respecting  which  mention  had  been  made 
by  me.  I  was  much  struck  at  the  time  with  this 
apparently  ungenial  remark,  but  did  not  venture 
on  comment.  I  had,  in  my  young  enthusiasm, 
associated  Godwin  with  the  "hermit"  of  The 
Revolt  of  Islam,  and  did  not  expect  this  literary 
alienation.  Godwin  at  this  period  was  resident 
at  a  bookseller's  in  the  Strand,  near  St.  Clement's 
Church.  A.  B. 

HERYDENE  (3rd  S.  i.  291.)  — Gilpin  takes  his 
statement  from  an  earlier  book,  History  of  the 
Life  and  Sufferings  of  Wiclijf,  frc.,  by  Rev.  John 
Lewis,  published  originally  in  1719,  reprinted  at 
the  Oxford  press  about  thirty  years  ago. 

Lewis,  after  relating  the  incident  of  the  earth- 
quake during  the  Council  of  Bishops  in  1382, 


"  Dr.  Wicliff  in  his  writings  often  speaks  of  this  Court 
at  the  Preaching  Friars.  He  calls  it  the  Counsayte  of 
Freres  in  London  with  the  Herdene,  or  the  Earthquake 
Council." 

To  the  word  Herdene  Lewis  appends  a  marginal 
note,  "  Herthdene  or  din,  i.  e.  earthnoise." 

In  a  glossary  at  the  end  of  the  volume  occurs 
as  follows :  "  Herydene,  ea]V5-byne,  din  or  noise 
of  the  earth,  earthquake." 

It  thus  appears  that  herydene  is  a  corruption  of 
the  Anglo-Saxon  word  for  earthquake,  viz.  eorft- 
byn,  or  as  above,  eajifi-byne,  literally  earth-din, 
which  passes  through  the  forms,  Herthdene,  Her- 
dene, Herydene. 

In  his  translation  of  the  Bible  Wickliffe  does 
not  use  this  word  for  earthquake,  but  the  fol- 
lowing, the  first  most  frequently  :  Erthe-mouynge, 
Erthe-schakynge,  Erthc-quaues,  (plural). 

ANON. 

WATCH  PAPERS  (2r-d  S.  xi.  451.)  — I  have  just 
met  with  the  following  verse  in  an  old  engraved 
watch-paper.     It  may  possibly  interest  U.  O.  N. : 
M  Content  thy  selfe  withe  thyne  estat, 
And  sende  no  poore  wight  from  thy  gate; 
For  whv,  this  councell  I  thee  give," 
To  learbe  to  dye,  and  dye  to  lyve." 

F.  SOMNER  MERRYWKATHER. 

PARODIES  ON  GRAY'S  ."ELEGY"  (3rd  S.  i.  197.) 
DELTA  asks  —  "Are  there  any  other  parodies  on 
the  Elegy  in  addition  to  those  which  have  already 
been  inserted  in  «  N.  &  Q.  ?  ' '"  Allow  me  to  cite 


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[3rd  S.  I.  MAY  3,  '62. 


the  first  two  verses  from  four  such  productions, 
which'  I  have  selected  from  The  Spirit  of  Public 
Journals,  a  curious  repertory  of  stray  pieces,  an- 
nually published,  from  the  year  1797  to  1814  in- 
clusive :  — 

"  From  the  Morning  Herald. 
11  St.  Paul's  proclaims  the  solemn  midnight  hour, 

The  weary  eit  slow  turns  the  master  key ; 
Time-stinted  'prentices  up  Ludgate  scour, 

And  leave  the  street  to  darkness  and  to  me. 

"Now  glimmering  lamps  afford  a  doubtful  ray, 

And  scarce  a  sound  disturbs  the  night's  dull  ear, 
Save  when  some  rambling  hack  directs  its  way, 
Or  frequent  tinklings  rouse  the  tavern  bar." 

Vol.  ii.  1798. 


"  AN  ELEGY  IN  A  LONDON  CHURCH  YARD. 

(From  the  Morning  Post.) 
"  Great  Tom  now  sounds  the  close  of  busy  day, 

The  weary  dray-horse  rests  from  labour  free; 
From  town,  till  morn,  the  merchant  speeds  his  way 

And  London  leaves  to  tumult  and  to  me. 
"  Now  stars  terrestrial  glimmer  through  each  street, 

Through  all  the  air  a  din  confus'd  is  spread, 
Save  where  perchance  some  list'ning  crowd  you  meet,     j 
By  nightly  songster's  strains  discordant  led." 

Vol.  iii.  1799. 

"  ELEGY  WRITTEN  IN  BARTLEMY  FAIR  AT  FIVE  O'CLOCK 

IN  THE  MORNING. 
(From  the  Morning  Chronicle.} 
"  The  clock-bell  tolls  the  hour  of  early  day, 

The  lowing  herd  their  Smithfiekf penance  see; 
The  watchman  homeward  plods  his  wearv  way, 

And  leaves  the  Fair  —  all  solitude  —  to  me. 
'•Now  the  first  beams  of  morning  glad  the  sight, 

And  oft  the  air  a  solemn  stillness  holds, 
Save  when  the  sheep-dog  bays  with  coarse  affright, 
And  brutal  drovers  pen  the  unwilling  fold." 

Vol.  xvi.  1812. 

"  From  the  British  Press. 
"The  curfew  tolls  the  knell  of  parting  day, 

The  lowing  herd  wind  slowly  o'er  the  lea; 
Now  to  the  Lords  see  Jenky  takes  his  way, 

And  leaves  the  House  of  Commons  unto  me. 
"Now  comes  the  dreadful  business  of  the  night, 
And  all  the  House  a  solemn  stillness  holds; 
While  Abbot  counts  to  see  there's  forty  quite, 
And  pens  my  muttons  in  the  Treasury  folds." 

X.  A.  X. 

SURPLICE  WORN  IN  PRIVATE  ADMINISTRATION 
OF  THE   COMMUNION   (3rd    S.  i.   170.)— All    the 
statutes  legalising  the  church  liturgy,  speak  of  it  | 
as  "The  Book  of  Common  Prayer  and  Adminis-  ; 
tration  of  Sacraments  and  other  Rites  and  Cere- 
monies in  the  Church  of  England;"  and  the  title- 
page  to  every  prayer-book  issued  by  the  royal 
printers  is  in  words  to  the  like  effect.     The  58th  ! 
canon  is  as  follows  :  — 

"Every  Minister  saying  the  Public  Prayers  or  minis- 
ring  the  Sacraments  or  other  Rites  of  the"  Church,  shall 

wear  a  decent  Surplice  with  sleeves,  to  be  provided  at  the  ' 

charge  of  the  Parish." 


There  can  be  no  doubt  that  not  only  in  the 
service  for  the  Communion  of  the  Sick,  but  in  all 
others  contained  in  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer, 
the  minister  officiating  ought  to  wear  the  surplice. 
He  is  in  the  rubric  throughout  such  services  re- 
cognised as  persona  ecclesice.  LEX. 

MASK  OF  ROSCOE  (3rd  S.  i.  250.)  —  In  answer  to 
the  inquiry  about  the  mask  of  Roscoe,  I  beg  to  say 
that  I  saw  lately  a  mask  in  Mr.  Mayer's  museum 
in  Liverpool,  which  appeared  to  me  to  be  that  of 
the  author  of  the  Lorenzo  de  Medici.  The  resem- 
blance between  it  and  a  portrait  of  the  same 
person  preserved  in  a  collection  of  paintings  in 
Liverpool,  induced  me  to  come  to  the  conclusion 
that  the  cast  in  the  museum  was  what  I  have  de- 
scribed. JAYTEE. 

"  NOT  TOO  GOOD  TO  BE  TRUE"  (3rd  S.  i.  332.)  — 
In  my  youth,  a  facetious  uncle  told  me  that  Day, 
of  "  Day  and  Martin's  blacking  firm,"  had  on  his 
carriage  (allusive  to  his  name  and  trade)  a  rising 
sun,  with  the  motto  "Mico  non  uro"  —  "I  shine 
but  don't  burn."  Was  this  so  ?  Or,  was  it  my 
witty  kinsman's  invention  ?  S. 

CHIEF  BARON  JAMES  REYNOLDS  :  BARON  JAMES 
REYNOLDS  (3rd  S.  i.  276.)  —  Was  Dr.  Edward 
Reynolds,  one  of  the  Puritan  divines  present  at 
the  Hampton  Court  Conferences,  and  who  after- 
wards became  Bishop  of  Norwich,  related  to  these 
two  judges  ?  F.  R.  R. 

BEAUTY  AND  LOVE  (3rd  S.  i.  225.)  —  These 
stanzas  were  printed,  with  the  music  composed  for 
them  by  Henry  Lawes,  the  friend  of  Milton,  in 
Select  Musicnll  Ayres  and  Dialogues,  for  One  and 
Two  Voyces,  to  sing  to  the  Theorbo,  Lute  or  Basse' 
Violl,  small  folio,  London,  1652  ;  and  also  in  the 
enlarged  editions  of  that  work,  which  appeared 
(with  varied  titles)  in  1653  and  1659.  There  are 
several  verbal  differences  between  the  printed 
copies  and  that  given  by  SIR  THOMAS  WINNING- 
TON  ;  e.  g.  line  3,  "  Quoth  love  "  for  '•  Says  Love  ;  " 
line  4,  "you  wait"  for  "  thou  waitest,"  and  so 
forth.  Lines  9  to  12  run  thus  in  the  printed 
copies  :  — 


fond  boy,"  then  Beauty  said, 
"  YVe  see  that  thou  art  blinde  ; 
But  men  have  knowing  eyes,  and  can 
My  graces  better  finde." 

The  printed  copies  make  no  mention  of  the 
name  of  the  author,  or  of  any  inscription  of  the 
stanzas.  W.  H.  HU&K. 

LEIGHTON  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  210.)  —  Burke,  in 
his  Diet,  of  the  Landed  Gentry,  gives  the  arms  of 
Lawton  of  Lawton  Hall,  Cheshire:  arg.  on  a  fesse 
inter  3  cross  crossletts  fitchee  sa.,  a  cinque- 
foil  of  the  first.  The  arms  of  Lay  ton  of  York- 
shire, borne  by  them  as  early  as  11  Edw.  III. 
A.D.  1337,  from  a  roll  of  arms  in  possession  of 


.  I.  MAY  3,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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Stacey  Grimaldi,  Esq.,  F.S.A. ;  viz.  "  port  d'ar- 
gent  ove  une  fees  et  sys  croiceletts  ficchees  de 
sable,"  are  so  similar  that  they  seem  as  of  a  com- 
mon ^ origin.  At  "N.  &  Q."  2nd  S.  x.  108,  is 
mentioned  an  extract  from  a  Leighton  pedigree, 
"a  quo  Leigh  tons  of  co.  York,  5  Ed\v.  IV.°A.D. 
1465."  This  cannot  allude  to  the  Laytons  of 
Yorkshire,  who  bore  the  above  arms  in  1337,  and 
were  located  in  Richmondshire,  7  John,.  1205. 
Can  the  Laughtons,  mentioned  by  your  correspon- 
dent, have  sprung  from  the  Cheshire  branch  of  the 
Leightons,  this  name  having  been  spelt  in  so  many 
ways?  Any  particulars  of  the  Richmondshire 
Laytons,  or  reference  to  pedigrees,  &c.,  would 
greatly  oblige.  Perhaps  some  of  your  correspon- 
dents could  inform  me  if  there  are  any  existing 
branches  of  this  family.  C.  M.  L. 

MICHAEL  SCOT'S  WRITINGS  ON  ASTRONOMY  (3rd 
S.  i.  131,  176.)  — 

"Id  genus  hominibus  (Astrologis)  quantum  fideret 
Fridericus  II.  Augustus,  complures  Historic!  testantur, 
sed  praesertim  Sabas  Malaspina,  tomo  viii.  Rer.  Italica- 
rum,  qui  cap.  2.  Histor.  haec  habet:  Astrologos,  et  Ni- 
gromanticos  adeo  venerabatur,  et  Aruspices,  quod  eorum 
divinationibus  et  auspiciis  Frederici  velocissima  cogitatio  ad 
rimilitudinem  venti  vagabatur.  Adservatur  ad  hue  in  Am- 
brosiana  Bibliotheca  manu  exaratus  Liber  particulars 
Michaelis  Sc:)ti  Astrologi  Domini  Frederici  Romanorum 
Imperatoris  et  semper  Augusti,  quern  secundo  loco  breviter 
compilavit  ad  ejus  preces.  Ibi  Astronomica,  Physica  et 
Phyio-gromonica  pertractantur."  —  Muratori,  Antiquita- 
tes  Italica  Medii  JEvi,  Dissert.  44,  944. 

BlBLIOTHECAR.  CfiETHAM. 

VISCOUNT  LISLE  (3rd  S.  i.  290.)  —  Arthur  Plan- 
tagenet,  Viscount  Lisle,  married,  first,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  of  Edw.  Grey,  Viscount  Lisle,  grand- 
daughter of  John  Talbot  also  Viscount  Lisle,  and 
widow  of  Sir  Edmund  Dudley,  by  whom  she  had 
one  son,  Sir  John  Dudley.  The  issue  of  her  mar- 
riage with  Arthur,  Viscount  Lisle,  was  three 
daughters. 

1.  Frances  married,  first,  John  Basset,  second 
son  of  Sir  John  Basset  of  TJmberleigh,  co.  Devon, 
and  is  thus  the  ancestress  of  the  present  family 
of  Bassetts  of  Umberleigh.    She  married  secondly, 
Thos.  Moule  of  Protheridge,  co.  Devon,  through 
whom  she  became  great-grandmother  of  General 
Monk,  first  Duke  of  Albemarle. 

2.  Elizabeth  married  Sir  Francis  Jobson,  Lieu- 
tenant of  the  Tower,  and  Master  of  the  Jewel 
Office  to  Queen  Elizabeth. 

3.  Bridget  married  to  Sir  William  Garden. 
Arthur,    Viscount    Lisle,    re-married    Honor 

Granville,  but  had  no  issue  by  her.  She  was  the 
widow  of  Sir  John  Basset  of  Umberleigh,  by  whom 
she  had  a  large  family  of  children — John,  George, 
James,  Philippa,  Catherine,  Anne,  and  Mary, 
Sir  John  having  also  two  daughters,  Jane  and 
Thomasine,  by  a  previous  marriage.  John  Basset, 
Honor's  eldest  son,  was  the  same  who  married 
her  step- daughter  Frances  Grey,  eldest  daughter 


of  Viscount  Lisle.  The  marriage  was  promoted 
by  her;  and  it  was  complained  that  she  injured 
the  prospects  of  her  other  step-daughters  by  per- 
suading her  husb'and  to  settle  a  large  proportion 
of  his  estates  on  her  daughter  Frances. 

When  Lord  Lisle  fell  into  disgrace  in  1541,  all 
his  papers,  private  as  well  as  public,  were  ordered 
to  be  seized,  and  are  still  preserved  in  the  Public 
Record  Office.  There  is  not  probably  existing  a 
mass  of  letters  of  the  period  so  full,  and  abound- 
ing in  details  relating  to  family  affair:?,  house- 
keeping, the  education  of  children,  &c.,  as  are  to 
be  found  in  the  Lisle  papers. 

M.  S.  EVERETT  GREEN. 

7,  Upper  Gower  Street. 

KILLINGTON  REGISTER  (3rd  S.  i.  290.)  —  If  there 
is  no  register  to  be  found  at  the  church,  inquiry 
should  be  made  for  the  transcripts  of  the  Killing- 
ton  register  in  the  Bishop's  Registry  at  York.  At 
the  tiirie  of  the  Population  Return,  1831,  it  ap- 
pears that  was  a  register  which  commenced  in 
1637,  extending  to  1772.  J.  R. 

TWILL  PANTS  (3rd  S.  i.  291)  are  Tulipans,  that 
is,  Turbans,  the  name  under  which  the  tulip  was 
introduced,  from  its  supposed  resemblance  to  the 
oriental  head-dress.  R.  C.  A.  P. 

POSTAGE  STAMPS  (3rd  S.  i.  149.)  —  A  short 
account  of  the  introduction  of  postage  stamps  at 
home  and  abroad,  and  the  development  of  the 
system  of  postage,  will  be  found  in  a  pamphlet 
entitled  :  — 

"  Aids  to  Stamp  Collectors  ;  being  a  List  of  English 
and  Foreign  Postage  Stamps  in  Circulation  since  1840. 
By  a  Stamp  Collector.  Brighton  :  II.  &  C.  Treacher, 
1,  North  Street  ;  London  :  Hamilton,  Adams,  &  Co." 

From  the  Introduction  to  this  little  work  it 
appears  that  "  There  were  two  printed  envelopes 
issued,  the  first  being  a  black  penny,  and  the 
second  a  blue  twopenny,"  with  a  design  of  Bri- 
tannia surrounded  by  representatives  of  all  na- 
tions, executed  in  1840  by  W.  Mulready,  Esq., 
R.A.  These  envelopes  are  rare,  as  they  were  not 
in  use  for  more  than  six  months,  and  then  an 
adhesive  stamp,  "  similar  in  design  to  that  now 
employed,  only  printed  in  black,"  was  used.  "  This 
was,  however,  in  a  year  or  two,  replaced  by  the 
red  one,  which,  with  a  slight  alteration  in  colour, 
has  been  used  ever  since."  Envelopes  with  em- 
bossed stamps  seem  to  have  been  issued  soon  after 
1840,  —  the  penny  red  oval,  and  the  two-penny 
blue  oval,  with  and  without  date.  Amongst  the 
early  stamps  was  a  penny  brown  one. 

HERUS  FRATER. 


:  SCINLAC  (3rd  S.  i.  189.)—  Sharon 
Turner  (Hist.  Ang.-Sax.,  edit.  1823,  vol.  iii.  p. 
133),  in  reference  to  the  superstitions  of  our 
Anglo-Saxon  progenitors,  says  :  — 

"  Scinla-ca  was  a  species  of  phantom  or  apparition,  and 
was  also  used  as  the  name  of  the  person  who  had  the 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  MAY  3,  '62. 


power  of  producing  such  things ;  it  is,  literally,  c?  shining 
dead  lady" 

In  a  note,  at  p.  135.,  he  gives  (from  Cott.  MS. 
Vitell.  C.  iii.)  this  recipe,  which  I  dare  say  was 
found  to  be  very  efficacious  by  all  who  adopted 
it:  — 

"  If  a  man  suffer  from  a  scinlac,  or  spectre,  let  him  eat 
lion's  flesh,  and  he  will  never  suffer  from  any  scinlac 
again." 

If  scinlac  and  spectre  be  synonymous  terms, 
there  can  Hoe  no  difficulty  in  deriving  the  word 
from  Ang.-Sax.  sciuan,  Icel.  skinn,  to  shine  or 
shimmer  as  phosphorus  ;  and  Ang.-Sax.  lie,  Icel. 
iik,  an  appearance,  form,  cadaver,  from  Icel.  leika, 
to  illude,  deceive.  WM.  MATTHEWS. 

Cowgill, 

EPIGRAM  ON  THE  FOUR  GEORGES  (3rd  S.  i.  328.) 
The  following  is  the  epigram  referred  to  by  Mr. 
Booth  ;  its  author  is  L  an  dor,  I  believe  :  — 
"  George  the  First  was  reckoned  vile, 

Viler,  George  the  Second, 
And  what  mortal  ever  heard 
Any  good  of  George  the  Third. 
When  from  earth  the  Fourth  ascended, 
God  be  praised,  the  Georges  ended!" 

JOHN  SOUTHWARD. 
Liverpool. 

JAMES  SILLETT  (3rd  S.  i.  39,  135.)  — This  artist, 
in  1828,  published  a  series  of  fifty-nine  litho- 
graphic Views  of  the  Churches,  Chapels,  and  other 
Public  Edifices  in  the  City  of  Norwich. 

WM.  MATTHEWS. 

Cowgill. 

STARACIITER  (2nd  S.  xi.  12.;  3rd  S.  i.  152.)  — 
A  detailed  account  of  the  actions  of  the  Scan- 
dinavian mythic  hero  Starhadr  (Starcaderus  vel 
Starcatherus)  is  given  by  the  very  learned  Finn 
Magnusen,  in  his  "  Lexicon  Mythologicum,"  ap- 
pended to  Edda  Eythmica  sen  Antiquior,  vulgo 
S&mundina  dicta,  published  by  the  Arnimagnsean 
Commission  at  Copenhagen,  the  first  volume  in 
1787,  the  second  in  1818,  and  the  third  in  1828. 
See  torn.  iii.  pp.  566,  .572  et  seq.,  587. 

WM.  MATTHEWS. 

SNUFFERS   (3rd   S.  i.  290.) —Ancient  snuffers 
were  timilar  to  those  in  modern  use.     They  were 
called   scissors,    and   are   thus  described   in    the 
"Boke  ofCurtase"  (MS.  Sloane,  No.  1986,  p. 46), 
in  the  British  Museum  :  — 
"  The  snof  of  horn  dose  away 
With  close  sesours,  as  I  zou  say, 
The  sesours  ben  schort  and  rounde  yclose, 
With  plate  of  irne  upon  bose." 

Old  fashioned  perpendicular  snuffer-stands  are 
engraved  in  Archceologia,  vol.  xiv.  pi.  liv.  In 
Privy  Purse  Expenses  of  Henry  VIII.,  edited  by 
t,  r  *['  Nicolas,  an  entry  occurs,  at  p.  184,  of 
"xx$"  paid  for  "  xij  snoffers  for  candilles."  "Fyve 
paire  of  snoffers  of  iron"  are  mentioned  in  the 


Inventory  of  Henry's  Furniture,  &c.  (Harl.  MS. 
1419,  fol.  141  b.)  F.  SOMNER  MERRYWEATHER. 

The  earliest  record  of  snuffers  is,  I  suppose,  the 
direction  given  to  Moses,  Exodus  xxv.  38 :  — 

"  And  the  tongs  thereof,  and  the  snuff-dishes  thereof, 
shall  be  of  pure  gold." 

This  verse  I  find,  by  referring  to  my  "Breeches" 
Bible  ("Imprinted  by  Robert  Barker,  1600,") 
reads  thus  :  — 

"  The  snuffers  and  snuffe-dishes  thereof  shalbe  of  pure 
golde." 

See  also,  1  Kings  vii.  50,  and  2  Chron.  iv.  22. 

G.  W.  M. 

A  friend  of  mine  has  in  his  possession  Cardinal 
Baynbridge's  snuffers,  which  bear  the  Archbishop's 
arms  enamelled  on  the  side,  and  his  crest,  a  squirrel, 
as  an  ornamental  knob. 

MACKENZIE  E.  C.  WALCOTT,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

ISLEY  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  310.)  —  L.  P.  will  find 
traces  of  this  family  during  the  period  mentioned 
in  Barbadoes.  There  are  families  in  which  the 
name,  as  a  Christian  name,  is  still  preserved  in 
that  island,  which,  as  is  well  known,  was  one  of 
the  chief  places  of  refuge  during  the  troubles  of 
the  Stuart  dynasty.  SPAL. 

CANADIAN  SEIGNEURS  (3rd  S.  i.  310.)  —  Dur- 
ing many  months'  residence  in  Quebec,  I  could 
discover  no  armorial  bearings  of  the  period  of 
French  supremacy  in  connection  with  the  "  Seig- 
neurs," which  even  indicated  that  they  were  en- 
titled to  coronets,  and  on  the  occasion  of  a  festi- 
val, intended  to  revive  old  associations,  and  at 
which  the  arms  of  Montcalm  (although  I  do  not 
say  that  he  was  one  of  the  order  in  question) 
emblazoned  carefully  appeared,  there  was  no- 
thing whatever  paraded  in  the  shape  of  a  coronet; 
and  I  think  that  I  am  right  in  saying  that  the 
Canadian  Seigneurs  were  simply  the  French 
counterpart  of  the  New  England  settlers  and 
West  India  planters.  Some  of  them  no  doubt  had 
titles,  but  so  had  the  planters ;  but  the  appear- 
ance of  a  coronet  was  exceptional,  confined  to  the 
individual,  and  not  appertaining  to  his  class  in  the 
colony.  I  should  be  glad  to  be  corrected  if  in  . 
error.  SPAL. 

These  seigneurs  were  merely  grantees  of  lands, 
with  special  privileges  not  much  unlike  our  lords 
of  manors.  There  were  233  of  such  grantees. 
A  note  of  the  terms  of  the  tenure  will  be  found 
in  the  article  "  Canada  "  of  the  first  Supplement 
of  the  Penny  Cyclopoedia,  p.  277,  and  probably  in 
no  other  easily-accessible  work.  I  knew  several 
of  these  seigneurs  in  Lower  Canada,  and  I  never 
yet  heard  of  their  having,  nor  do  I  believe  them 
to  be  entitled  to,  any  heraldic  coronet.  The  seig- 
niorial tenure  was  abolished  by  the  Canadian  Act 
of  Parliament  of  the  18th  of  December,  1854  (18 
Viet.  c.  3),  called  "  An  Act  for  the  Abolition  of 


3^  S.  I.  MAY  3,  'G2.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


359 


Feudal  Rights  and  Duties  in  Lower  Canada."  A 
volume  of  Decisions  on  Seigniorial  Questions,  edited 
by  Messrs.  Lelievre  and  Angers,  printed  at  Que- 
bec and  Montreal,  1856,  is  now  before  me. 

T.  F. 

THE  GRANGE  (3rd  S.  i.  269.)  —There  is  a  view 
of  "  the  Grange,"  erected  after  Inigo  Jones's  de- 
sign?, in  Duthy's  Sketches  in  Hampshire,  p.  148, 
published  at  Winchester  (1839).  S.  SHAW. 

ALCUMIE  (3rd  S.  i.  211,  257.)  —  The  word  used 
in  Welsh  for  tin  is  ulcam  or  alcan,  the  former 
spelling  is  that  (in  Tsa.  i.  25)  of  the  first  edition 
of  the  version  of  Bishop  Parry  (1620),  a  copy  of 
which  lies  before  me,  and  also  of  two  others  that  I 
possess ;  one  of  them  of  the  last  century,  and  one 
of  recent  date.  Alcan,  however,  is  the  form  in  the 
dictionaries  of  Dr.  John  Davies  (1632),  Dr.  W. 
Owen  Pughe  (1832), and Wm.Spurrel  (1861);  also 
in  the  Geiriadur  Ysgrythyrol  of  the  Rev.  Thomas 
Charles.  The  word  does  not  look  like  one  of 
British  formation,  whatever  be  its  orthography. 
How  early  is  it  found  in  Welsh  writings?  In 
Cornish  it  seems  ancient ;  for  the  name  Godolphin 
is  taken  from  the  Cornish  appellation  of  the  place 
Codalcan,  which  has  generally  been  translated 
wood  of  tin  ;  the  former  part  of  which  seems,  how- 
ever, to  me  to  be  more  probably  from  the  Cornish 
verb  cody,  to  raise,  meaning  therefore  "  a  place 
where  tin  is  raised."  The  occurrence  of  the  word 
both  in  Welsh  and  Cornish  gives  some  grounds  for 
supposing  that,  whatever  its  origin  may  be,  it  was 
naturalised  in  the  Celtic  dialects  before  the  sepa- 
ration of  Welsh  and  Cornish.  A  meaning  given 
by  Dr.  John  Davies  is  orichalcum.  Can  alcam  be 
formed  from  the  last  two  syllables  of  this  word, 
just  as  the  French  orchal  is  from  the  three 
former  ?  Some  true  Wrelsh  scholars,  such  as  the 
Rev.  Silvan  Evans,  of  Llang'ian  in  Caernavon- 
shire,  could  no  doubt  point  out  its  earliest  occur- 
rence in  Welsh  writings.  The  material  of  Michael 
Scott's  writing-pen,  in  a  quotation  given  by  Sir 
Walter  Scott,  seems  to  be  the  same.  We  may  have 
to  go  to  the  Arabic  for  the  derivation ;  al  being 
then  the  article.  L^SLIUS. 

VICINAGE  (3rd  S.  i.  150.)  — This  word  occurs, 
before  Lord  Chatham's  time,  at  p.  83  of  The  De- 
fence of  Pluralities,  by  Wharton  and  Stanhope, 
temp.  William  III.  See  the  passage  in  Todd's 
Johnson,  sub  voc.  WM.  MATTHEWS. 

Cowgill. 

UNIVERSITY  DISCIPLINE  (3rd  S.  i.  291.)  —  Allow 
me  to  remind  LEX  of  the  memorable  case  of  Mr. 
G.  N.  Ward,  M.A.,  of  Balioi  College,  Oxford,  and 
the  author  of  the  Ideal  of  the  Christian  Church. 
MACKENZIE  E.  G.  WALCOTT,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

"AD  EUNDEM"  DEGREES  (3rd  S.  i.  288.)  — 
LL.D.  would  best  obtain  information  by  applying 
to  the  Registrar  of  the  University.  I  believe  the 


only  advantage  obtained  from  one  of  these  de- 
grees is,  the  power  to  wear  the  hood  and  gown  of 
the  degree  in  the  University  in  which  it  is  taken, 
which  in  Cambridge  would  "gain  admission  to  the 
University  Library,  but  would  certainly  not  give 
the  power  of  taking  out  the  books  (which  privi- 
lege belongs  to  all  M.A/s,  &c.  of  Cambridge). 
May  I  draw  the  attention  of  the  readers  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  to  the  constant  mistake  made  in  the 
punctuation  of  the  LL.D.,  which  should  not  have 
a  stop  after  the  first  L,  but  only  one  after  the 
second;  thus,  LL.D.  Imagine  writing  "manu- 
scripts" M.S.S.  !  —  an  exactly  similar  case. 

G.  W.  M. 

SIR  A.  ALISON  AND  SIR  P.  PICKLE  (3rd  S.  i. 
128,  215.)  —  And  why  should  not  Sir  Archibald 
Alison  have  mentioned  Sir  Peregrine  Pickle  as  a 
pall-bearer  on  so  solemn  an  occasion  ?  It  was 
not  half  a  dozen  years  before,  that  the  then  V  ice- 
Chancellor  of  Oxford,  the  Warden  of  Wa<lhum 
College,  the  Rev.  B.  P.  Symons,  D.D.,  announced 
publicly  in  the  Theatre,  at  Oxford,  "  Sir  Pere- 
grine Pickle"  as  one  on  whom  the  honorary  de- 
gree of  D.C.L.  was  proposed  to  be  conferred  ; 
and  accordingly  it  was  conferred. 


PROPHECIES  OF  ARCHBISHOP  MALACHI:  GRE- 
GORY XVI.  (3rd  S.  i.  174.)—  F.  C.  II.  says,  "No 
one  has  ventured  to  show  how  De  l)alneis  Hc- 
trurics  applied  to  Gregory  XVI."  When  I  was 
shown,  in  the  spring  of  1846,  through  the  Etrus- 
can Museum  in  the  Vatican,  formed  by  this  Pope 
(by  means  of  a  private  order,  as  it  was  not  then 
open  to  the  public),  I  remember  that  we  were 
told  that  it  was  considered  that,  in  his  making 
this  collection  of  Etrurian  antiquities,  the  predic- 
tion of  St.  Malachi  has  found  its  application. 
This  was  then  the  opinion  in  the  Vatican.  On  the 
death  of  Pope  Gregory,  three  months  afterwards, 
the  election  of  his  successor  was  at  'once  rightly 
prognosticated  from  the  terms  of  the  same  pro- 
phecy. It  was  boldly  asserted  that  Cardinal 
Mastai  Feretti  would  be  the  person  elected. 

L2ELIUS. 

SUN  AND  WHALEBONE  (3rd  S.  i.  336.)  —  R.  S. 
CHARNOCK'S  quiet  disposal  of  D.  ALLPORT'S  ex- 
planation, reminds  me  of  a  ludicrous  case  in  the 
Christian  Annotator,  an  exclusively  religious 
N.  &  Q.  Some  one  found,  in  an  old  Puritan,  the 
expression  —  "a  note  above  Elah"  —  and  asked 
for  its  meaning.  Several  learned  divines  gave 
replies  full  of  Hebrew,  Greek,  and  Latin,  to  show- 
why  the  Valley  of  Elah  should  be  thus  alluded 
to  —  which  replies  were  duly  inserted.  I  hap- 
pened to  see,  in  the  Spectator,  a  letter  where  it 
was  said,  of  London  cries,  "Milk  is  cried  in  a  note 
above  Elah";  and  suggested,  that  it  had  some 
'reference  to  music,  which  subsequent  correspon- 
dents abundantly  proved. 

The  editor,  Mr.  Tonna,  who  was  one  of  the 


360 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  MAY  3,  '62. 


most  genial  of  men,  laughed  most  heartily  at  this 
homely  dispersion  of  so  many  profound  specu- 
lations. 5. 

MRS.  CUMBERBATCH  (3rd  S.  i.  269.)  —  Mrs. 
Cumberbatch  (nee  Jones)  was  sister  of  the  late 
Mrs.  Dokin  (whose  husband  was  some  time  mem- 
ber for  Southampton),  and  of  Lady  Arundel.  All 
the  sisters  were  beautiful  women.  A.  M. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 

The  Letters  and  Ijfe  of  Francis  Bacon,  including  all 
his  occasional  Works,  newly  collected  and  set  forth  in  chro- 
nological Order,  with  a  Commentary,  Biographical  and 
Historical.  By  James  Spedding.  Vols.  I.  and  II. 
(Longman,  1861.) 

Mr.  Spedding  has  in  these  volumes  followed  the  ex- 
ample set  by  Mr.  Carlyle  in  his  Letters  of  Cromwell,  and 
with  similar  good  effect.  The  life  of  Bacon,  up  to  the 
end  of  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  stands  before  us  in  these 
volumes  delineated  with,  affectionate  care  and  masterly 
skill.  Whether  Mr.  Spedding  has  succeeded  in  freeing 
his  hero's  great  name  from  blame  in  the  matter  of  the 
Earl  of  Essex,  we  will  not  venture  to  pronounce.  'Who- 
ever desires  to  investigate  the  question  will  here  find 
the  evidence  set  forth  with  the  utmost  fairness  and  can- 
dour, and  will  be  at  no  loss  in  forming  his  own  conclu- 
sions. Many  of  the  letters  published  or  referred  to  in 
these  volumes  are  in  the  Library  of  Lambeth  Palace,  ancl 
we  are  delighted  to  find  Mr.  Spedding  expressing  him- 
self with  marked  emphasis  in  reference  to  his  obliga- 
tions for  facilities  in  transcribing  them  to  the  late  libra- 
rian, Dr.  Maitland,  "from  whom,"  he  says,  "the  dili- 
gently disposed  student  never  failed  to  receive  all  possible 
assistance  and  encouragement,  and  to  whom  I  in  par- 
ticular am  indebted  for  facilities  in  studying  the  volumes 
under  his  charge,  for  which  I  cannot  sufficiently  thank 
him."  These  words,  we  are  sure,  will  find  an" echo  in 
the  heart  of  many  a  "  diligently  disposed  student/' 

Collectanea  Anolo-Poetica,  or  a  Bibliographic  and  De- 
scripti>-e  Catalogue  of  a  Portion  of  a  Collection  of  Early 
Enylish  Poetry,  with  occasional  Extracts  and  Remarks, 
Biographical  and  Critical.  By  the  liev.  Thomas  Corser, 
M.A.,  F.S.A.,  £c.  Tarts  I.  and  II.  (Printed  for  the 
Chatham  Society.) 

All  lovers  of  early  English  poetry  are  under  great  obli- 
gations to  Mr.  Corser  for  these  valuable  contributions  to 
our  knowledge  of  a  most  interesting  department  of  our 
literature;  nor  are  they  less  indebted  to  the  liberality  of 
the  Chetham  Society  for  the  judicious  application  of  its 
funds,  which  has  enable  1  the  editor  to  print  for  the  use 
of  its  members  such  detailed  notices  of  the  bibliographical 
treasures  in  his  well-known  Library.  No  publisher  could 
have  undertaken  a  work  of  such  extent;  and  of  the 
extent  to  which  it  is  likely  to  reach,  our  readers  may 
judge  when  they  learn  that  the  Poets,  being  arranged 
alphabetically,  the  4GO  pages,  of  which  the  Parts  before 
us  consist,  carry  us  no  farther  than  to  the  end  of  the 
letter  B.  Our  old  favourite  Richard  Brathwaite,  the 
autiior  of  the  well-known  Barnabas  Itinerarium,  figures 
as  the  author  of  no  less  than  48  volumes  (including  edi- 
tions) in  Mr.  Cursor's  library,  and  their  description  oc- 
cupies something  like  120  pages.  Yet  we  believe  no 
reader  of  the  curious  Notes,  Extracts,  and  Illustrations, 
which  Mr.  Corser's  industry  has  gathered  together,  would 


willingly  part  with  one  page  of  them.  We  shall  look 
with  considerable  anxiety  for  further  instalments  of 
Mr.  Corser's  Catalogue. 

A  few  Notes  from  Past  Life,  1818—1832,  edited  by  Rev. 
Francis  Trench.  (Parkers,  Oxford.) 

It  is  somewhat  unusual  to  find  a  private  clergyman 
printing  the  letters  that  passed  between  himself  and  his 
mother  in  his  teens.  And  yet  the  little  volume  is  enter- 
taining enough  to  atone  for  its  singularity;  and  pictures 
of  schoolboy-life  at  Harrow  mingle  pleasantly  with 
passing  notices  of  the  current  events  of  a  most  stirring 
period.  Glimpses  here  are  given  us  of  the  boyhood  of 
Isaac  Williams  and  Herman  Merivale;  of  the  late  Bishop 
Blomfield,  when  a  young  and  rising  man ;  of  John  Henry 
Newman  as  a  painstaking  and  unnoticed  tutor  of  Oriel; 
of  the  Irish  famine ;  of  the  Reform  Agitation ;  of  the 
Bristol  Ptiots,  and  the  Cholera  of  1831.  Even  those  who 
might  be  inclined  to  question  the  propriety  of  the  pub- 
lication of  such  private  letters  must  at  least  own  that 
they  are  the  letters  of  a  superior  mother  and  a  clever  son. 

The  new  number  of  the  Quarterly  Revieiv,  which  opens 
with  a  capital  historical  sketch  of  Dorset,  contains  two 
articles  of  especial  interest  to  our  clerical  friends — Hymn- 
ology,  and  the  Training  of  the  Clergy.  The  great  question 
of  the  day  —  Forts  or  Iron-clad  Ships  —  is  well-discussed 
in  the  article  The  Merrimac  and  the  Monitor.  There  is  a 
very  able  paper  on  The  Eastern  Archipelago,  and  another 
on  The  State  and  Prospects  of  Turkey.  A  very  depreci- 
ating notice  of  Thornbury's  Life  of  Turner,  and  a  very 
interesting  sketch  of  The  latter  Years  of  William  Pitt, 
founded  on  the  two  concluding  volumes  of  Lord  Stan- 
hope's Life  of  the  great  Statesman,  complete  the  list  of 
articles,  and  altogether  make  up  a  capital  Quarterly. 

Heralds  and  genealogists  will  have  a  rare  feast  at  the 
rooms  of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries  on  the  22nd  of  this 
month.  The  Council  of  the  Society  propose  to  collect  on 
that  evening  all  the  finest  specimens  of  heraldic  blazonry 
and  curious  genealogical  tables,  grants  of  arms,  &c.,  that 
can  be  procured.  Art  will  there  appear  under  the  deepest 
tinges  of  conventionality,  but  there  is  still  reason  to  believe 
that  the  exhibition  will  be  one  of  very  general  interest. 
Royal  ty,  Lord  Derby,  Lord  Winchelsea,  and  indeed  most 
of  the  noblest  families,  have  sent  contributions;  and 
those  who  have  seen  the  illuminations  and  embroideries 
in  some  of  their  baronial  halls  will  readily  imagine  that 
brightness  of  colour,  quaintness  of  form,  and  varieties  of 
pattern  will  not  be  wanting.  The  City  Companies  are 
also  among  the  leading  contributors.  Mr.  J.  J.  Howard 
has  undertaken  the  chief  selection  and  arrangement  of 
these  varied  materials,  man}7  of  which  belong  to  a  very 
early  date,  and  Mr.  King,  York  Herald,  will  read  a  paper 
on  English  Heraldry,  as  illustrated  by  the  collection  thus 
formed. 


t0 

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dress) extracts  from  the  Index  Nominum  to  Blomfield' s  Norfolk,  which 
Jiii/c  r,  our  Norfolk  friends  may  be  glad  to  learn,  has  just  been  published 
(>y  T/icw  and  Sons  of  King's  Lynn. 

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Correspondent  ? 

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[3r<*  S.  I.  MAY  3,  '62. 


ALBBMARLB  STRBBT, 
MAY,  1862. 

MR.   MURRAY'S 

LIST    OF    NEW    WORKS. 
THE   QUARTERLY  REVIEW,  No.  CCXXII. 

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CONTENTS— NO.  19. 

NOTES  :  —  The  Registers  of  the  Stationers'  Company,  361 

—  Passage  in  "  Romeo  and  Juliet,"  363  —  Patrick  Ruthven ; 
the  Earl  of  Northumberland :  and  MSS.  belonging  to  the 
Library  of  the  Faculty  of  Advocates,  Ib.  —  "  Luke's  Iron 
Crown,"  361  — Mr.  Galliard:  Sir  John  Hawkins,  Ib. 

MIKOR  NOTES  :  —  Oriental  Words  in  English :  Gazette,  Ma- 
gazine, Carat,  Satin  —  "  Philosophical  Survey  of  Ireland  " 

—  Years  and  Reigns  — England  and  France  —  Sebastian 
Cabot  a  Knight  —  The  Origin  of  exhibiting  the  Regalia  at 
the  Tower  — Unconscious  Plagiarism— The  Hearth  Tax  — 
The  only  Wooden  Church  in  England,  365. 

QUERIES:  —John  Oswen,  the  Worcester  Printer  in  the 
Reign  of  Edward  VI.,  367  —  Ancient  Seals  —  Anonymous 
Tract  — Bacon's  Essays— Battle  of  Preston,  1715— Vis- 
count Canada  —  Charles  I.  Rings  —  Cecily  —  Cornefers  and 
Cappers  of  Bewdley  —  Cornwallis  —  A  Fact  for  Geologists : 
Corps  Humain  Petrifle  — Sir  Thomas  Crew  (1638):  Sir 
John  Howland,  Knt.  (1638)  —Dr.  Donne's  Portrait  — The 
Fairfaxes  of  Bradford,  &c.,  368. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS  :  —  Reredos— "The  Lamentation 
of  a  Sinner  "—Amende— Book  of  Oaths— Dr.  Geddes,  374. 

REPLIES :—  Edmund  Burke  and  Lord  Verney,  374— Kings- 
mills  of  Sidmanton,  375  —  Yetlin,  or  Yetling :  Meslin,  376 

—  The  Old  Countess  of  Desmond  —  Mesmerism  alluded  to 
in  the  "  Amphitruo  "  of  Plautus  —  Thomas  Simon  —  "  Who 
steals  my  purse  steals  trash,"  &c.— Sir  John  Curwen  — 
Travers  Family—  Interments  in  Donnybrook  Parish,  near 
Dublin  —  Cromwell   Lee  —  King  of  Spain  —  The  King's 
Evil  —  Coin  or  Medal  of  Queen  Victoria  —  Wagner  —  Title- 
Pages— Palm,  &c.,  377. 

Notes  on  Books. 


jtatttf* 

THE  REGISTERS  OF  THE  STATIONERS' 
COMPANY. 

(Continued from  3rd  S.  i.  323.) 
xvjto    Decembr    [1592].  —  John   Oxenbridge. 
Entered  for  his  copie,  &c.  a  booke,  intituled  Tell 

trothes  Newe  Yeres  gifte vjd. 

[Some  satirical  and  ephemeral  publication,  of  which 
we  have  no  other  notice.] 

18  Dec.  —  John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c. 
a  booke,  intituled  Orthoepia  gallicana,  or  the  par- 
lement  of  pratlers vjd. 

Edward  White.  Entered  for  his  copie,  &c.  A 
ballad  shewinge  how  a  fond  woman  falsly  accused 
her  selfe  to  be  the  Kinge  of  Spaines  Daughter,  and 
leinge  founde  a  Iyer,  was  for  the  same  whipped 
through  London  the  xiiijth  of  December,  1592, 
leinge  knowen  to  be  a  butchers  daughter  of  London 

vjd- 

[Stow  gives  the  date  13th  Dec.,  hut  in  some  particulars 
uses  the  very  terms  of  the  entry.  He  says  (Ann.  p. 
1272,  edit.  1605),  "The  13  of  December,  a  certaine 
gentlewoman,  by  the  Councel's  commandement,  was 
whipped  through  the  city  of  London  for  affirming  her 
selfe  to  be  the  daughter  of  Philip  King  of  Spaine,  as  she 
had  been  perswaded  by  some  accompted  soothsayers, 
after  prooved  liers,  for  she  was  knowne  to  be  a  butcher's 
daughter  in  East  cheape."] 

xx°  die  Decembr.  — Tho.  Easte.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  a  booke,  entitled  The  maryner's  guyde 
set  forthe  in  the  forme  of  a  dialogue  .  .  .  vjd. 


[We  know  of  no  existing  copy  of  thia  early  work  on 
navigation.] 

xxij°  die  Decembrig.  —  John  Charlewood.  En- 
tered for  his  copie,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  A  Second 
procedinge  in  the  Harmony  of  Kinge  David** 
Harpe vj«i. 

[We  have  had  no  entry  of  any  "firtt  proceeding."  It 
must  probably  have  been  a  sequel  to  some  new  version  of 
the  Psalms.  Sir  P.  Sidney  and  his  sister  bad  made  an 
experiment  of  the  kind  anterior  to  1586,  and  their  trans- 
lations have  been  printed  in  modern  times.  Drayton  bad 
published  his  Harmony  of  the  Church  in  1591 ;  but  the 
above  entry  could  hardly  have  related  to  a  second  part 
of  his  work,  which,  in  fact,  was  not  founded  merely  on 
the  Psalms,  but  upon  different  portions  of  Scripture.] 

xij°  die  Januarij  [1592-3].  —  John  Danter. 
Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  a  booke,  intituled  The 
apologie  of  Pierce  pennylesse,  or  strange  newes  of 
the  interceptinge  certen  Letters  and  a  convoy  of  verses, 
as  they  were  goinge  to  victuatt  the  lowe  countries 

tf- 

[This'tract  by  Nash,  in  which  he  sought  to  avail  himself 
of  the  extraordinary  popularity  of  his  Pierce  Penntiess'i 
Supplication,  came  out  with  the  date  of  1592  on  the  title- 
page,  and  some  copies  have  no  stationer's  name :  it  was 
then  merely  called  Strange  Newe»  of  the  intercepting  cer- 
taine Letters,  &c.,  but  it  is  quite  clear  from  the  entry, 
that  when  the  tract  was  carried  to  the  Hall  on  12  Jan. 
1592-3,  The  Apologie  of  Pierce  Pennilesse  was  then  the 
first  part  of  the  title.  It  was  re- issued,  and  in  part  re- 
printed in  1593,  with  the  whole  of  the  title,  and  with  this 
imprint—  "Imprinted  at  London  by  John  Danter,  dwel- 
ling in  Hosier  Lane  neere  Holburne  Conduit,  1593."  Here 
all  the  preliminary  matter  had  been  newly  set  up,  but  the 
body  of  the  tract  was  struck  off  from  the  old  types.  The 
dedication  is  to  a  person  whom  Nash  calls  Apis  Lapis,  i.  e. 
Bee-stone,  and  persons  of  the  name  of  Beestonwere  con- 
nected with  our  stage  and  dramatic  performances  from 
about  1586  until  after  the  Restoration.  Apis  Lapis  was, 
no  doubt,  a  prolific  author,  for  Nash  terms  him  "  the 
most  copious  Carminist  of  our  time."  The  whole  wa» 
directed  against  Gabriel  Harvey,  and  others  who  had 
assailed  the  memory  of  Robert  Greene ;  and  Nash  con- 
cludes with  a  sonnet,  in  which  he  vows  eternal  hostility 
and  deadly  vengeance.] 

xvijmo  januarij.  —  Tho.  Easte.  Entred  for  hig 
copie,  &c.  A  plesant  conceyt  plainelie  set  out,  and 
plainelie  presented,  as  a  newe  yeres  gyfte  to  the 
queues  matie  at  Hampton  courte,  anno  domini  1592 

vj*. 

[One  of  the  many  forms  which  flattery  at  that  day 
took,  to  recommend  itself  to  royalty  on  the  return  of  the 
new  year:  for  "plainelie"  in  the  second  instance  we 
should  possibly  read  humUie.~\ 

29  January.  —  John  Windet.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  The  lawes  of  ecclesiasticall  politic,  Eight 

bookes  by  Richard  Hooker vjd. 

Authorised  by  the  Lord  Archbishop  of 
Canterb.  his  grace,  under  his  hand. 

[Such  is  the  precise  form  of  the  entry  of  one  of  the  no- 
blest prose  monuments  of  our  language:  the  note  un- 
derneath it,  upon  which  no  remark  has  hitherto  been 
made,  is  peculiarly  valuable,  and  shows  what  care  was 
taken  by  the  Stationers'  Company  that  a  work  on  such  a 
delicate  subject  should  be  duly  authorised:  the  arch- 


362 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  MAY  10,  '62. 


bishop  was  of  course  Whitgift,  and  -we  are  told  irf  the 
modern  biographies  of  Hooker,  with  just  as  much  posi- 
tiveness  as  if  a  search  had  really  been  made,  that  "  hav- 
ing finished  four  books  of  his  Ecclesiastical  Polity,  they  were 
entered  at  Stationers'  Hall,  in  March,  1592  ;  "  whereas,  in- 
stead of  four  books,  we  here  see  that  eight  books  were  regis- 
tered as  completed,  not  in  March,  1592,  but  on  29  Jan. 
1592-3  —  so  carelessly  has  information  been  obtained  and 
retailed.  Only  four  books  were  first  printed,  and  they  did 
not  come  out  until  1594:  the  earliest  impression  of  the 
fifth  book  bears  the  date  of  1597  ;  and  the  seventh  and 
eighth  books  were  not  published  until  nearly  fifty  years 
after  the  death  of  their  author.  Those  who  have  argued 
against  the  genuineness  of  the  two  last  books  are  contra- 
dicted by  the  important  fact,  not,  we  believe,  until  now 
known,  that  The  Laws  of  Ecclesiastical  Policy,  EIGHT 
BOOKS,  were  entered  as  Hooker's  in  Jan.  1592-3,  full 
seven  years  before  his  death.] 

Tertio  die  February.  —  John  Wolfle.  Entred 
for  his  copie,  &c.  A  defence  of  shorte  haire  .  vjd. 

[It  probably  arose  out  of  the  controversy  then  pending 
on  the  subject  of  long  and  short  hair,  between  the  Puri- 
tans and  their  opponents.  We  know  which  party  subse- 
quently gained  the  day,  and  that  love-locks,  about  fifty 
years  afterwards,  procured  great  scandal  to  those  who 
ventured  to  wear  them.] 

Tho.  Adams,  Jo.  Oxenbridge.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  Greene's  newes  bothe  from  Heaven  and 
Hell,  frc  .............  vjd. 

[This  was  one  of  the  numerous  tracts  growing  out  of 
the  premature  death  of  the  notorious  Robert  Greene,  in 
which  he  was  supposed  to  convey  intelligence  from  the 
infernal  regions,  as  well  as  from  heaven,  for  the  instruc- 
tion, or  rather  amusement,  of  readers.  It  was  by  Bar- 
nabe  Rich,  who  began  authorship  some  twelve  or  four- 
teen years  earlier,  and  who  in  this  instance  only  put  his 
initials  to  the  work,  which  came  out  with  the  date  of  1593. 
He  was  an  entertaining  writer,  not  over  scrupulous,  and 
devoted  many  of  his  productions  to  Ireland,  in  which 
country,  at  one  time,  he  held  an  official  appointment. 
His  prose  is  much  superior  to  his  verse,  into  which,  for 
the  sake  of  variety,  he  sometimes  deviated.  It  is  re- 
markable that  Ritson  does  not  mention  a  single  work  by 
this  voluminous  author.  Rich's  News  both  from  Heaven 
ana  Hell  is  very  scarce.  ] 

vto  Febr.  —  Ric.  Jones.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  a  booke  intituled  A  plesant  fancie  or  merrie 
conceyt,  called  the  passionat  morrys  daunst  by  a 
crue  of  Eight  couple  of  wores,  all  meere  Enimyes 
to  love  .........  .  .  .  .  vjd. 

[Richard  Jones  was  famous  for  manufacturing  attrac- 
tive titles  to  the  productions  of  his  press.  We  can  give 
o  information  regarding  this  literary  Morrice  DanceT] 

xxiij  Febr.  —  John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  a  booke  intituled  Philadelphia,  or  a  defence  of 


Brutus  and  the  Brutans  historye 


vd. 

that  this  was  a  vindication  of  the 
in  Britain  ?1    tradltlon'  that  Brutus  waj»  the  first  settler 

xxiiijto  Febr.  —  Raphe  Hancockes.  Entered  for 
bis  Lopie,  &c.  A  sadd  Sonnet  of  Thomas  Crowe, 
late  one  of  the  yomen  of  her  ma««  guarde,  wrytten 
by  oneofhisfellowes  ......  .  vjd. 

hn      ?e  existence  of  an7  information 
befallen  the  unfortunate  Thomas  Crowe.] 


vto  Marcij.  —  John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  a  booke  intituled  The  Garden  of  good  will  vjd. 

[In  the  Register  the  name  of  Wolf  is  struck  out,  and 
the  following  note  placed  under  it :  — "  Edw.  White  the 
xxvijth  of  August,  1596."  The  meaning  probably  was, 
that  by  that  date  the  property  in  the  book  had  been 
transferred  from  Wolf  to  White.  We  apprehend  that 
The  '  Garden  of  good  will  was  a  lapsus  pennce  for  "  Garland 
of  Good  Will,"  a  very  well  known,  and  often  reprinted,  col- 
lection of  ballads  by  Thomas  Deloney.  All  the  older 
editions  of  it  appear  to  have  perished,  and  we  never  saw  it 
under  the  above  title  earlier  than  1612 ;  but  the  entry  seems 
to  show  that  it  was  first  printed  in  the  spring  of  1593. 
Some  of  the  same  ballads  were  subsequently  inserted  in 
Deloney 's  Strange  Histories,  1607.] 

John  Danter.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  a  booke 
intituled  The  pleasant  history  of  Edward  Lord  of 
Lancaster,  Kt.  of  the  holy  crosse,  ivith  his  adven- 
tures, Sfc vjd. 

[Probably  a  romance  professing,  in  some  sort,  to  be 
founded  on  English  history.] 

18  Marcij.  —  Abell  Jeffes.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  a  ballad  intituled  A  joy  full  newe  ballad  of  our 
queues  goinge  to  the  parliament,  shewing  her  most 
happie  and  prosperous  reigne,  and  the  great  care 
she  hath  for  the  government  of  her  people,  made 
this  yere  1593 vjd. 

[The  year  1593  would  not  at  that  period  commence 
until  25  March :  "  the  19  of  February  the  Parliament 
began  at  Westminster."  (Stow,  p.  1272,  edit.  1605.] 

ix°  Aprilis.  — John  Wolff.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  a  booke  intituled  Churchyardes  Challenge  vjd. 

[Churchyard  had  been  a  poet  throughout  the  reigns  of 
Elizabeth  and  Mary,  having  commenced  while  Edw.  VI. 
was  on  the  throne.  The  collection  of  pieces  called  his 
Challenge  was  printed  by  Wolf  in  1593, 4to.  In  the  dedica- 
tion to  Sir  John  Wolley 'Churchyard  says,  that  he  called  it 
his  Challenge  because  he  challenged  "all  the  poems  as  his 
children."  Here  also  he  promised  what  never  appeared, 
viz.  his  "  Ultimum  Vale,"  which  he  tells  us  was  to  con- 
sist of  "twelve  long  tales  for  Christmas,  dedicated  to 
twelve  honourable  Lords."  In  his  Challenge  he  inserted 
his  "  Shore's  Wife  "  with  "  augmentations,"  in  opposi- 
tion to  such  of  his  enemies  as  had  unjustly  denied  him 
the  paternity  of  it.  ] 

13  April.  —  Jo.  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c. 
a  booke  intituled  A  shorte  Answer  to  the  reasons 
which  the  popishe  Recusantes  allege  why  they  will 
not  come  to  our  churches,  Francis  Bonny  being  the 
Author vjd. 

[It  was  in  the  year  preceding,  viz.  1592,  that  John 
Shakespeare  was  informed  against  for  recusancy  in  not 
coming  to  the  Protestant  Church  of  Stratford- upon-Avon. 
The  next  entry  relates  directly  to  his  son.] 

xviij0  Aprilis.  —  Eichard  Feild.  Entred  for  his 
copie  under  thandes  of  the  Archbisshop  of  Cant, 
and  mr  warden  Stirrop,  a  booke  intuled  [szc] 
Venus  and  Adonis vjd. 

[Such  is  the  exact  form  and  letters  of  the  earliest 
entry  of  any  known  production  by  our  great  dramatist ; 
but  in  the  margin  opposite  we  find  it  recorded,  that  the 
poem  had  been  "assigned  over  to  Mr  Harrison,  sen',  25 
Junij,  1594."  The  edition  of  1594  must  therefore  have 


3'd  S.  I.  MAY  10,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


363 


come  out  before  June,  1594,  because  the  imprint  to  it  is 
precisely  the  same  as  that  of  1593.  It  was  not  until 
1596  that  the  name  of  John  Harrison  appeared  upon  the 
title-page.  The  very  form  and  wording  of  the  original 
entry  have  never  been  accurately  given :  yet  they  are 
important,  because  they  prove  that  the  first  edition  of 
Venus  and  Adonis  came  out  in  the  middle  of  April  1593, 
and  such  was  its  popularity,  that  it  was  reprinted  before 
June  of  the  same  year.  Field,  the  printer,  was  a  native 
of  Stratford  on  Avon.] 

J.  PAYNE  COLLIER. 


PASSAGE  IN  «  ROMEO  AND  JULIET." 

The  Shakspeare  scholars  of  three  centuries  have 
published  so  many  more  or  less  ingenious  notes 
about  Juliefs  runaway,  and  yet  the  question  is  so 
far  from  getting  the  right  answer,  that  it  will  do 
no  harm  to  anyone  if  a  very  little  and  modest 
note  tries  to  give  it;  probably  with  the  same 
effect  as  the  other  notes  did. 

The  quarto  of  1599  has  the  quoted  line  as 
follows :  — 

"  That  runnawayes  eyes  may  wincke,  and  Romeo. .  .  " 
If  we  take  in  view,  that  the  four  last  letters  of 
"  runnawayes  "  are  nearly  the  same  as  the  letters 
of  the  next  word  "  eyes,"  it  will  not  be  through- 
out unjustified  to  suppose,  that  the  repetition  of 
these  four  letters  (for  a  and  e  are  very  easily 
changed)  results  from  an  error  of  the  compositor ; 
and  that  the  real  word  in  question,  or  rather  the 
mutilated  word  only  is  "runnawayes,"  and  not 
"  runnawayes  eyes." 

Now,  in  reading  Juliet's  soliloquy,  we  find,  that 
she  wants  not  merely  "  night,"  but  quite  directly 
"  cloudy"  night ;  she  is  of  opinion  that  — 

"  Lovers  can  see  to  do  their  amorous  rites 
By  their  own  beauties." 

She  calls  the  night  a 

"...    sober  suited  matron,  all  in  black," 
and  a 

" black-brow'd  night    .    .    ." 

In  short,  she  wants  all  as  dark  as  possible,  and 
probably  will  have  nothing  to  do  with  the  inqui- 
sitive, importunate,  and  prating  moonlight. 

The  "  close  curtain"  therefore  are,  as  I  suppose, 
the  clouds,  which  shall  make  wink  the  moon's 
eyes ;  and  Juliet  says :  — 

"  Spread  thy  close  curtain,  love-performing  night, 
[And  then,  lifting  up  her  hand  to  the  moon  and 

the  stars,] 
That  yonder  eyes  may  wink " 

If  we  now  remember,  that  the  quartos  generally 
are  published  after  some  short-hand  writing;  that, 
as  Collier  says, — 

"  The  person  or  persons,  who  prepared  the  transcripts 
of  the  plays  for  the  printer,  wrote  by  the  ear  and  not  by 
the  eye :  they  heard  the  dialogue,  and  wrote  it  down  as  it 
struck  them,"  — 


the  difference  of  some  of  the  letters  in  the  two 
words, 

runnawayes, 

yonder  eyes, 

will  not  be  of  any  importance ;  if  we  state  the 
possibility,  that  one  could  believe  to  hear  pro- 
nounced "runnawayes,"  while  the  other  said 
"  yonder  eyes."  (It  is  not  to  be  forgotten  that 
many  Englishmen  pronounce  to  instead  of  r  — 
gweat  for  great  /) 

For  the  rest  let  me  say,  without  laying  a  great 
stress  on  it,  that  Shakspeare,  twice  in  Romeo  and 
Juliet,  uses  the  word  "  yonder,"  with  regard  to  the 
moon  and  to  the  heaven,  for  — 

"  ....  by  yonder  blessed  moon  I  swear  .  .  ." 

One  word  more  for  those  who  mean  that  the 
sun  is  not  yet  gone  :  — 

("  Gallop  apace ") 

And  that  Juliet,  therefore,  cannot  lift  up  her  hand 
to  the  moon.  Well !  she  lifts  up  her  hand  to  the 
cause  of  light,  may  that  be  the  sun  or  the  moon, 
and  "  yonder  eyes  "  is  an  epithet  quite  as  fit  for 
the  one  as  for  the  other.  But  it  is  to  be  under- 
stood, that  if  Juliet  speaks  of  the  sun's  eyes,  the 
"  close  curtain  "  can  be  as  well  (and  even  better) 
the  darkness,  as  the  clouds. 

And  now  let  it  go.  You  conceive  that  I  believe 
my  emendation  to  be  the  best,  for  else  I  would 
not  have  published  it ;  but  that  is  not  enough, 
and  I  am  exceedingly  desirous  to  know  whether 
the  authorities  of  Shakspeare  criticism  laugh  at 
my  notes,  or  accept  its  contents. 

F.  A.  LEO,  Ph.  Dr. 

4,  Hafenplatz,  Berlin. 


PATRICK  RUTHVEN; 

THE  EARL  OF  NORTHUMBERLAND  ;   AND  MSS.  BELONGING 
TO  THE   LIBRARY   OF  THE   FACULTY   OF  ADVOCATES, 

In  the  collection  of  papers  from  which  the  black- 
letter  proclamation  for  the  apprehension  of  Earl 
Bothwell  was  taken,  and  which  the  reader  will 
find  on  p.  323,  occurs  a  variety  of  important  and 
detached  MSS.,  the  existence  of  which  do  not 
seem  to  be  generally  known.  There  the  account 
of  the  last  moments  of  Anne  of  Denmark,  and 
the  Answer  to  Weldon's  bitter  attack  on  Scot- 
land, are  to  be  found.  They  were  printed  in  the 
exceedingly  valuable  Miscellany  privately  printed 
for  the  Abbotsford  Club— a  work  which  is  hardly 
known  in  England,  although  from  the  historical 
portion  relative  to  that  portion  of  the  country, 
it  might  have  been  consulted  with  advantage. 
Upon  looking  over  it  recently,  the  name  of  Patrick 
Ruthven  caught  the  eye ;  and  as  anything  rela- 
tive to  that  unhappy  case  naturally  created  deep 
interest,  I  "procured  a  copy  of  the  paper,  which 
turned  out  to  be  his  letter  to  the  Earl  of  North- 
umberland, printed  in  the  Cabala  and  elsewhere. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  MAY  10,  '62. 


I  will  not  ask  you  to  reprint  the  letter,  admirable 
as  it  is,  but  merely  direct  attention  to  the  heading 
•which  is  given  to  it  in  this  manuscript.  I  do  not 
think  in  the  course  of  the  inquiries  respecting  the 
lady  to  whom  the  letter  relates,  who  was,  no 
doubt,  the  future  wife  of  her  protector,  and  the 
mother  of  Lady  Vandyke,  it  has  yet  appeared 
that  she  was,  at  the  time  of  the  incident  in  ques- 
tion, a  fellow-prisoner  in  the  Tower  with  the  Earl 
and  Patrick  Ruthven.  Her  imprisonment  in  that 
fortress  would  indicate  that  she  was  a  woman  of 
rank. 
The  heading  alluded  to  is  as  follows :  — 

"  Patrick  Ruthven  his  reply  to  my  Lord  of  Northumber- 
land, who  maid  sum  verses  and  ryme  in  disgrace  of 
the  said  Patrick  and  our  nation  because  he  tuik  the 
mainteanance  of  an  honest  gentlewoman,  whom  in)' 
Lord  had  more  than  ones  assaulted  of  her  honor,  being 
all  three  prisoners  together  in  the  Tower  at  one  tyme." 

Have    the   Earl's    lines    in   disparagement   of 
Ruthven  and  the  Scottish  nation  ever  turned  up  ? 

J.  M. 


«  LUKE'S  IRON  CROWN." 
At  p.  57,  vol.  ix.  of  "  N.  &  Q."  (1st  Series),  a 
correspondent  asks  to  whom  the  above-quoted 
passage  from  Goldsmith  relates,  and  he  is  referred 
by  the  Editor  to  a  note  in  Mr.  Peter  Cunning- 
ham's edition  of  the  poet ;  which  states  that  Luke 
Dosa,  and  his  brother  George,  headed  a  revolt  in 
Hungary  in  the  beginning  of  the  sixteenth  cen- 
tury :  adding,  that  it  was  George,  and  not  Luke, 
who  underwent  the  torture  of  the  red-hot  crown. 
This  information  is  to  be  found  in  the  Biographic 
Univcrselk,  at  the  word  "  Dosa."  It  is  strange 
that  Goldsmith  could  find  no  more  familiar  illus- 
tration of  torture  than  that  endured  by  a  man 
whose  name  not  one  English  reader  in  a  thousand 
ever  heard  of;  strange,  too,  to  designate  this  per- 
sonage by  his  Christian  name  only. 

In  the  Book  of  Familiar  Quotations,  1862,  3rd 
edition,  p.  128,  I  find  Goldsmith's  line  printed 
thus,— 

"  Ztck's  iron  crown,  and  Damiens'  bed  of  steel." 
And  the  anonymous  compiler  of  the  volume  says  in 
a  foot-note,  that  George  Zeck,  for  heading  a  re- 
volt of  the  Hungarians  in  1514,  was  punished  by 
having  a  red-hot  crown  put  on  his  head,  — evi- 
dently the  same  occurrence  related  in  the  Biog. 
Universellc,  and  other  works,  in  connexion  with 
George  Dosa.  Prior,  in  his  note  on  Goldsmith's  line, 
while  in  the  text  he  allows  the  word  "Luke"  to 
stand  — for,  no  doubt,  it  was  so  written  by  Gold- 
smith himself— quotes  the  RespuUica  Hunearica 
to  the  effect,  that  the  brothers  Zeck,  George  and 
Luke,  were  the  leaders  in  the  revolt  of  1514. 

Can  any  of  your  correspondents  refer  to  the 
Uespubhca  Hungarica,  and  verify  this  quotation  ? 

I  find  the  confusion  of  names  increased  on  turn- 


ing to  a  very  recent  work,  describing  the  Banat 
of  Temesvar  :  Gesckichte  des  Temeser  Banats,  by 
Leonhard  Bohm,  Leipzig,  1861.  The  leader  of 
the  insurrection  of  1514  is  there  stated  to  have 
been  "  George  Dosa,  a  Szekler,  born  at  Dalnok, 
a  village  in  Siebenbiirgen,  and  commonly  called 
Szekelyi "  (the  Szekler).  He  was  horribly  tor- 
tured at  Temesvar,  and  had  a  red-hot  iron  crown 
placed  on  his  head ;  but  his  brother,  who  was  be- 
headed without  previous  torture,  is  called  by 
Bohm  Gregor  (Gregory),  and  no  "  Luke  "  is  men- 
tioned. 

I  cannot  but  think  that  the  word  Zeck  has 
arisen  from  some  misunderstanding  as  to  the 
nationality  of  George  Dosa ;  and  Szekler,  a  na- 
tional appellation  of  the  original  inhabitants  of 
Transylvania  (Siebenbiirgen),  .having  been  mis- 
taken for  a  proper  name,  George  the  Szekler  has 
become  George  Zeck. 

Poor  Goldsmith  seems  to  have  been  almost  as 
unlucky  in  his  reference  to  Damiens,  as  in  that 
to  "  Luke."  Mr.  Cunningham  quotes  Granger  as 
saying  that  he  questioned  Goldsmith  as  to  what 
he  meant  by  "Damiens'  bed  of  steel,"  and  that 
Goldsmith  said  he  meant  the  rack.  Now,  according 
to  the  minute  account  of  the  tortures  inflicted  on 
the  culprit,  given  in  the  Biog.  Universelle,  Da- 
miens  (not  Damien,  as  the  name  is  so  commonly 
spelt,)  was  never  put  on  the  rack  at  all ;  for  the 
physicians,  having  been  consulted  as  to  the  form 
of  torture  he  could  best  endure,  decided  in  favour 
of  the  brodequins  —  "  the  boots."  His  final  exe- 
cution consisted,  as  is  well  known,  in  being  torn 
limb  from  limb  by  four  horses. 

It  is  worth  while  to  ascertain  the  correct  read- 
ing of  a  passage  often  quoted,  and  occurring  in  so 
established  an  English  classic  as  Goldsmith ;  al- 
though I  confess  that  the  last  four  lines  of  The 
Traveller — a  poem  containing  so  many  beautiful 
passages — have  always  appeared  to  me  very  nearly 
approaching  to  nonsense.  J.  DIXON. 


MR.  GALLIARD:  SIR  JOHN  HAWKINS. 

In  Sir  John  Hawkins's  account  of  Mr.  Galliard, 
is  the  following  paragraph,  which,  it  appears,  con- 
tains a  mistake  in  attributing  the  music  in  the 
tragedy  of  Brutus  to  Mr.  Galliard:  — 

"  About  the  year  1745,  he  (Mr.  Galliard)  had  a  con- 
cert for  his  benefit  at  Lincoln's -Inn-Fields  Theatre,  in 
which  were  performed  the  choruses  to  Sheffield,  Duke  of 
Buckingham's,  two  tragedies  of  Brutus  and  Julius  Censor, 
set  to  music  by  Mr.  Galliard." —  History  of  Music,  vol.  v. 

In  the  Rev.  Mr.  Duncombe's  publication  of 
the  Letters,  &c.,  of  Mr.  John  Hughes  (ed.  1773, 
vol.  ii.  p.  63),  is  the  following  note  from  Mr.  Gal- 
liard to  Mr.  Duncombe,  correcting  this  very  mis- 
take made  by  Sir  John,  who,  we  may  suppose,  had 
followed  an  older  authority :  — 

"Dec.  10th,  1734. 

'  SIR,  —  I  thank  you  for  the  present  of  the  works  of 


3*  S.  I.  MAY  10,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


365 


Mr.  Hughes,  the  long-continued  friendship  of  whom  was 
always  dear  to  me,  and  whose  talents  1  valued.  Con- 
cerning the  paragraph  you  mention,  I  must  set  you  right 
in  some  particulars.  I  did  not  compose  the  choruses  to 
both  the  Duke  of  Buckingham's  tragedies,  for  Signor 
Bononcini  set  to  music  those  of  Marcus  Brutus,  written 
partly  by  the  Duke,  and  partly  by  Mr.  Pope,  and  I  set 
those  to  the  tragedy  of  Julius  Ccesar,  entirely  written  by 
his  Grace. 

"  I  am,  Sir, 

"  Your  most  humble  Servant, 
"  J.  E.  GALLIARD." 

Mr.  Buncombe  appends  a  note  to  this  letter, 
from  which  it  appears  another  writer  had  fallen 
into  an  error  precisely  the  reverse  of  that  which 
Mr.  Galliard  corrects,  and  into  which  Sir  John 
Hawkins  also  fell,  as  to  these  choruses.  This  is 
the  note  :  — 

"The  author  of  The  British  Theatre  is  therefore  mis- 
taken in  saying  (p.  179)  that '  the  choruses  of  ooth  these 
plays  were  set  to  music  by  that  great  composer,  Signor 
Bononcini.' " 

I  do  not  know  that  thejmusic'of  these  choruses 
in  Julius  Ccesar  has  ever  been  printed,  but  I  have 
recently  had  an  opportunity  of  looking  at  the  MS. 
full  score  of  them,  dated  1723,  and  apparently 
Mr.  Galliard's  own  copy.  It  is  a  folio  volume  of 
above  200  pages,  the  choruses  being  rather  long 
compositions,  in  several  movements,  and  inter- 
spersed with  solos.  This  MS.  volume  bears  with 
it  a  mark  of  the  vicissitudes  which  books,  as  well 
as  men,  must  often  undergo.  Its  present  posses- 
sor obtained  it  from  a  principal  music-seller  in  an 
aristocratic  neighbourhood;  while  on  the  title-page, 
in  writing  apparently  eighty  or  ninety  years  old, 
is  the  ensuing  memorandum  — 

"  Granville  Sharp  bot  this  at  a  stall  near  Clare  Market." 

There  is  a  laudable  antiquarian  feeling  of  a  de- 
sire to  preserve  some  remains  of  that,  which,  not- 
withstanding a  certain  amount  of  real  merit,  has 
become  totally  forgotten.  Mr.  Galliard's  works, 
as  I  conceive,  contain  some  things  which  would 
constitute  a  case  in  point.  I  do  not  know  whether 
a  single  composition  of  his  can  be  obtained  in  a 
modern  form  (except  the  "  Hymn  of  Adam  and 
Eve"),  yet  there  are  certainly  several  which  might 
still  give  pleasure  if  revived.  Who  now  knows 
anything  of  the  fine  tenor  hunting-song,  "  With 
early  horn  ?"  —  characterised  by  Dr.  Burney  as 
"  Galliard's  most  agreeable  of  all  hunting-songs ; " 
by  Sir  John  Hawkins,  as  "  that  famous  song ; " 
and  of  the  former  celebrity  of  which  we  find  a 
trace  in  Smollett's  "  Count  Fathom,"  wherein  it  is 
told  as  one  of  the  feats  of  the  fox-hunter,  Sir 
Stentor  Stile,  that  "he  sung,  or  rather  roared, 
the  *  Early  Horn,'  so  as  to  alarm  the  whole  neigh- 
bourhood." 

In  Sir  Charles  Grandison,  Mr.  Galliard  obtains 
a  notice  of  another  kind  from  Miss  Byron,  who 
thus  writes  to  her  friend.  (See  Letter  xxii.) :  — 

"  Mr.  Greville begged  me  to  sing  that 


whimsical  song  set  by  Galliard,  which  once  ray  uncle 
made  me  sing  at  Selby  House  in  Mr.  Greville's  hearing. 

1  Chloe,  by  all  the  powers  above,'  &c. 
"  The  gentlemen  were  very  lively  on  the  occasion,  and 
encored  it. 

"'You  will  favor  us,  however,  with  your  Discreet 
Lover,'  said  Mr.  Greville ;  '  that  is  a  song  written  entirely 
upon  your  own  principles.' 

« '  Well,  then,  I  will  give  you,'  said  I, « set  by  the  same 
hand,  the  Discreet  Lover  — 

'  Ye  fair,  that  would  be  bleat  in  love,' "  &c. 

With  this  communication  I  send  a  music-book 
of  six  songs,  privately  printed,  and  containing 
three  of  Mr.  Galliard's  bass  songs;  two  from  his 
opera  of  Calypso  (1712),  and  one  from  the  Necro- 
mancer (1723).  This  last  song  is  "  Arise,  ye  sub- 
tle forms,"  of  which  Sir  John  Hawkins  preserves 
the  anecdote,  that  Richard  Leveridge  valued  him- 
self much  upon  singing  it.  There  are  some  excel- 
lent songs  in  Calypso,  and  Minerva's  song,  with 
oboe  accompaniment,  commencing 

"  See,  those  golden  beams  how  bright," 
is  truly  charming.  ALFKED  RO*FE. 

Somers'  Town. 


ORIENTAL  WORDS  IN  ENGLISH  :  GAZETTE,  MA- 
GAZINE, CARAT,  SATIN.  —  Merchandise  has  cer- 
tainly enriched  the  modern  languages  of  Europe, 
and  among  the  words  which  I  ascribe  to  this 
source  are  the  above.  As  English  words,  we  may 
owe  them  to  the  Continent,  Venice  or  Spain,  but 
where  did  they  originally  come  from  ?  Gazette  I 
would  derive  from  the  Persian  and  Syriac  word 
gaza,  treasure  or  wealth.  This  will  not  prevent 
us  from  admitting  that  the  Venetians  gave  the 
name  to  a  coin.  Gazetteer  is  of  course  formed 
from  gazette,  and  its  uses  are  well  known.  Maga- 
zine is  pure  Arabic,  and  properly  denotes  a  store- 
house or  thesaurus.  It  very  likely  came  by  way 
of  Spain,  and  is  no  doubt  closely  allied  to  gazette. 
Carat  is  applied  to  parts  or  sections  into  which 
gold  is  divided.  I  suppose  it  comes  from  the 
Shemitic  root  of  the  same  form,  meaning  to  cut 
or  divide. 

Satin.  Is  not  this  also  of  Oriental  origin,  like 
sindon  in  Latin  and  Greek;  Heb.  sadin;  Arab. 
sadan,  &c.  ?  B-  H-  C> 

"PHILOSOPHICAL  SURVEY  or  IRELAND."  —  It 
may  be  well  to  notice  a  very  prevalent  mistake 
regarding  this  work.  In  nine  book-catalogues 
out  of  ten  it  is  entered  as  "  Watkinson's  Philo- 
sophical Survey  of  Ireland"-,  whereas  the  author 
was  the  Rev.  Thomas  Campbell,  LL.D.,  whose 
Letters,  of  which  the  volume  consists,  are  ad- 
dressed to  John  Watkinson,  M.D.  Your  corre- 
spondent J.  P.  (3rd  S.  i.  311)  has  fallen  into  the 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'«  S.  I.  MAY  10,  '62. 


mistake.  Dr.  Campbell  was  well  known  in  his 
day;  and  one  of  his  publications,  entitled  Stric 
tures  on  the  Ecclesiastical  and  Literary  History  of 
Ireland  (8vo,  Dublin,  1789),  is  now  before  me. 

ABHBA. 

YEAES  AND  REIGNS.  —  Mr.  Nichols's  interesting 
article  on  the  Countess  of  Desmond  has  led  to  the 
following :  — 

1.  Old  Parr,  who  died  in  1635,  aged  152,  lived 
(if  that  be  true  *)  in  the  reigns  of  ten  sovereigns : 
Edward  IV.,  Edward  V.,   Richard  III.,   Henry 
VII.,  Henry  VIII.,  Edward  VI.,  Mary,  Elizabeth, 
James  I.,  and  Charles  I. 

2.  Waller,  the  poet,  who  died  in  1687,  aged  82, 
lived  in  the  reigns  of  six  sovereigns  or  govern- 
ments :  James  L,  Charles  I.,  Commonwealth,  Oliver 
Cromwell,  Richard  Cromwell,    Charles  II.,    and 
James  II. 

3.  Young,  the  poet,  who  died  in  1765,  aged  84, 
lived  in  the  reigns  of  eight  sovereigns :  Charles  II., 
James  II.,  William  and  Mary,  William  III.,  Anne, 
George  I.,  George  II.,  and  George  III. 

4.  Rogers,  the  poet,  who  died  in  1855,  aged  92, 
lived  in  the  reigns  of  only  four  sovereigns  :  George 
III.,  George  IV.,  William  IV.,  and  Queen  Victoria. 

The  case  of  Young  seems  to  me  the  most  re- 
markable :  Rogers,  however,  had  to  outlive  fifty- 
seven  years  of  one  reign.  PETER  CUNNINGHAM. 

ENGLAND  AND  FRANCE.  —  The  two  following 
proverbs  occur  in  a  chance  juxtaposition,  which  is 
very  amusing,  in  the  Adagia  Germanica  of  Be- 
belius:*  — 

"Taurus  revertetur  taunts;  etiam  si  Parrhisios  du- 
catur." 

"  Rana  ad  paludes  resilit,  etiam  si  in  solium  locaveris." 
Which  I  suppose  we  may  translate  — 

"  John  Bull  comes  back  from  Paris  with  all  his  national 
prejudices." 

"  Johnny  Crapaud  makes  no  long  stay  in  England ;  he 
soon  hops  back,  made  uncomfortable  by  the  stability  of 

TlOr    iTieti  f  «f  i/\no    " 


J.  ELIOT  HODGKIN. 


her  institutions.' 

West  Derby. 

SEBASTIAN  CABOT  A  KNIGHT.  —  Sparks,  in  his 
American  Biography  (Memoir  of  S.  Cabot,  p.  143), 
lias  the  following  passage :  — 

"  In  the  palace  at  Whitehall  formerly  hung  a  portrait 
of  Sebastian  Cabot,  under  which  was  the  following  in- 
scription :  <  Effigies  Seb.  Caboti  Angli  filij  Joannis  Caboti 
rmhtis  aurati.'  This  possessed  just  enough  of  oracular 
ambiguity  to  cause  great  trouble.  Were  the  terms  'militis 
aurati '  to  be  applied  to  John  or  Sebastian  ?  Purchas  saw 
the  portrait,  and  immediately  knighted  the  latter;  while 
Campbell  quotes  this  very  inscription  to  prove  that  the 
father  for  certain  services  became  Sir  John  Cabot.  We 
have  not  mentioned  either  as  having  been  knighted,  and 


[*  We  wish  Mr.  J.  G.  Nichols,  or  some  other  such 
patient  and  intelligent  investigator,  would  tell  us  what 
are  the  real  ascertained  facts  ia  the  cases  of  old  Parr  and 
Henry  Jenkins.  —  ED.  «  N.  &  Q."] 

t  Argent.  GrUninger,  1508,  4to. 


if  we  will  guard  against  inaccuracies  of  translation  we 
shall  see  the  above  inscription  affords  no  ground  for  as- 
cribing such  an  honour  to  either.  Eques,  and  not  miles, 
would  have  been  the  Latin  term  to  designate  knight- 
hood. Sir  H.  Gilbert,  Sir  H.  Willoughby,  Sir  M.  Fro- 
bisher,  and  Sir  F.  Drake,  are  mentioned  by  Hakluyt, 
each  with  the  term  eques  auratus,  and  no  other  of  their 
rank  is  thus  styled  otherwise." 

The  compiler  of  the  Biography  has  only  re- 
copied  the  ignorance  of  another  writer,  for  nearly 
the  same  words  are  to  be  found  in  Biddle's  Me' 
moirs  of  Cabot.  It  certainly  seems  a  very  bold 
assertion  to  make  that  miles  is  not  the  term  to 
designate  a  knight  when  a  host  of  inquisitiones  post 
mortem,  and  other  records,  might  be  adduced  as 
evidence  to  rebut  so  monstrous  an  averment.  Had 
he  taken  the  trouble  to  consult  any  Law  Diction- 
ary, he  would  have  found  that  although  eques  is  a 
term  used  by  the  heralds,  it  is  never  employed  in 
law,  miles  being  invariably  the  legal  designation. 
That  there  are  distinctions  in  knighthood  there 
can  be  no  doubt,  and  the  word  auratus,  whether 
appended  to  miles  or  eques,  may  have  some  con- 
nection with  gilded  spurs  or  gilded  armour;  but 
doubtless  there  must  be  some  of  your  corre- 
spondents learned  enough  to  determine. 

It  is  just  possible  that  Seb.  Cabot  may  have 
been  knighted  without  any  record  extant  of  the 
fact ;  but  if  not,  I  think  we  may  assume  it  to  be  a 
lapsus  on  the  part  of  the  writer  of  the  inscription, 
who  might  have  written  militis  aurati  in  error  for 
armigeri*  ITH  URIEL. 

THE  ORIGIN  OF  EXHIBITING  THE  REGALIA  AT 

THE  TOWER  :  — 

"He  (the  Master  and  the  Treasurer  of  the  Jewell 
House)  hath  a  particular  Servant  in  the  Tower,  intrusted 
with  that  great  treasure,  to  whom  (because  Sr  Gilbert 
Talbot  was  retrenched  in  all  the  perquisites  and  profits  of 
his  place,  as  is  above  mentioned,  and  not  able  to  allow 
him  a  competent  salary)  his  Majesty  doth  tacitly  allow 
him  that  he  shall  shew  the  Regalia  to  strangers,  which 
furnished  him  with  so  plentiful  a  lively-hood,  that  Sr  Gil- 
bert Talbot  upon  the  death  of  his  servant  there,  had  an 
offer  made  to  him  off  500  old  broad  pieces  of  gold  for  the 
place. 

"  Yet  he  first  gave  it  to  old  Mr.  Edwards  freely  (who 
had  been  his  father's  servant)  whom  Blud  murthered 
when  he  attempted  to  steal  the  Crown,  Globe,  and 
Scepter."  Signed  "  May  the  20th,  1680."  —  Archaologia, 
xxii.  122. 

W.  P. 

UNCONSCIOUS  PLAGIARISM.— Sir  Walter  Scott's 
couplet,  so  familiar  to  us  all, 

"  E'en  the  light  harebell  raised  its  head 

Elastic  from  her  airy  tread," 
most  probably  derived  its  parentage  from  the  fol- 
lowing of  Ben  Jonson  : 


*  In  one  of  the  State  Papers  (Colonial  Series)  written, 
about  1660,  Sebastian  Cabot  most  distinctly  has  the  pre- 
fix of  Sir  before  his  name.  The  passage  I  allude  to 
running  thus :  "  Sr  Sebastian  Cabott  being  in  the  year 
1497  employed  by  Henry  the  seaventh,"  &c.  &c. 


8'd  S.  I.  MAY  10,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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"  For  other  print  her  airy  step  ne'er  left ;' 
Her  treading  would  not  bend  a  blade  of  grass." 

jEglamone,  in  The  Sad  Shepherd. 
M.  F. 

THE  HEARTH  TAX.  —  We  often  now  hear  of  an 
estate  or  property  being  "mortgaged  up  to  the 
back-door,"  but  that  appears  to  be  the  ne  plus 
ultra  of  encumbrances  ;  and  mortgagees,  by  figu- 
ratively stopping  at  the  back-door,  seem  to  admit 
the  propriety  of  the  regulation  which  makes  every 
man's  house  his  castle.  But  there  was  a  time  when 
the  rubicon  of  even  the  back-door  was  passed, 
and  Englishmen  were  taxed  to  their  very  hearths. 
Just  200  years  ago  the  hearth,  or  chimney  tax, 
was  first  imposed  by  Charles  II.,  when  (1662)  it 
produced  200,000?.  a-year.  It  was  repealed  in 
1689.  The  following  receipt  from  a  collection  of 
such  matters  in  my  possession,  is,  I  think,  worth 
reproduction  in  "  N.  &  Q." ;  not  only  as  showing 
the  rate  of  the  taxation,  which  appears  to  have 
been  oppressively  heavy,  but  as,  from  its  date,  I 
judge  that  it  must  refer  to  the  last  collection  for 
hearth  money :  — 

"  Aug.  the  28, 1600,  and  Eighty  8. 
"  Received  of  Sr.  Tho.  Barker,  the  sum  of  *\ 
Eleven  Shillings,  in  full  for  1  half 


year's  Duty  for  11  Fire  I 

hearths  in  his  House  in  Lydon  due  [ 

and  ended  at  Lady-Day  Last  past.    I  say  I 
-  •    -        -        -        -J 
Fol.  25 


11*. 


Received  by 


«  Jo.  Borradale,  Collector." 

The  words  in  italics  and  the  figures  necessarily 
represent  the  written  part  of  the  receipt. 

The  Sir  Thomas  Barker  here  referred  to  was 
the  2nd  and  last  Baronet  of  Hambleton,  co.  Rut- 
land. The  Lyndon  (not  Lydon  as  in  the  receipt) 
estate,  also  in  Rutland,  was  purchased  by  Sir 
Abel  Barker,  his  father,  who  erected  the  house 
with  eleven  hearths,  which  was  completed  in 
1675.  S.  T. 

THE  ONLY  WOODEN  CHURCH  IN  ENGLAND.  — 

"  Those  who  take  an  interest  in  wooden  architecture, 
may  like  to  know  that  the  church  of  Little  Greenstead, 
in  Essex,  is  the  one  ancient  wooden  church  which  exists 
in  England."  -—  Vacation  Tourists,  p.  420,  note. 

E.  H.  A. 


Atstrtaf. 

JOHN  OSWEN,  THE  WORCESTER  PRINTER  IN 

THE  REIGN  OF  EDWARD  VI. 
The  interest  excited  at  the  annual  meeting  of 
the  Archaeological  Institute  last  July,  at  Peter- 
borough, by  an  exhibition  in  the  Temporary 
Museum  of  a  collection  of  valuable  early  printed 
books,  then  contributed  with  kind  liberality  from 
the  treasures  in  possession  of  Mr.  Tite,  M.P.,  and 
the  Rev.  John  Fuller  Russell,  has  suggested  a 


desire  for  some  similar  collection  in  the  Museum 
to  be  formed  at  the  Worcester  meeting  of  the 
Institute  in  July  next  By  the  courtesy  of  the 
Dean  and  Chapter,  the  ancient  Refectory,  now 
the  College  Hall,  has  been  appropriated  for  the 
purpose  of  forming  a  museum,  as  far  as  prac- 
ticable, illustrative  of  Worcestershire  antiquities 
and  history.  A  special  collection  is  contemplated, 
moreover,  in  connection  with  Worcestershire  wor- 
thies, to  consist  of  memorials  of  every  description, 
portraits,  autographs,  MS.  or  published  works, 
and  the  like,  illustrative  of  the  history  of  eminent 
persons  in  olden  times,  natives  of,  or  residents 
in,  the  county  visited  by  the  Society.  Amongst 
these  gatherings,  which  already  promise  to  form 
a  series  of  general,  as  well  as  special  local  interest, 
it  has  been  suggested  that  a  curious  feature  might 
be  presented,  in  illustration  of  one  of  the  earliest 
incunabula  of  provincial  typography  in  England, 
namely,  by  bringing  together  in  the  proposed 
Museum  the  productions  of  the  press  of  John 
Oswen,  which  are  of  considerable  rarity.  Oswen, 
it  is  well  known,  quitted  Ipswich,  where  two 
other  presses  had  been  established,  and  settled  at 
Worcester  in  1548.  He  had  a  license  from  Ed- 
ward VI.  for  seven  years  to  print  all  kinds  of 
books,  and  especially  those  set  forth  by  royal 
authority  concerning  services  to  be  used  in 
churches,  or  instructions  of  the  inhabitants  of 
Wales  and  the  adjacent  marshes.  The  volumes 
hitherto  known  to  have  been  produced  by  Oswen 
at  Worcester  are  enumerated  in  Ames's  Typo- 
graphical Antiquities,  ed.  Herbert,  vol.  iii.  p.  1459. 
Of  twenty-one  volumes  there  described  four  are 
New  Testaments,  of  which  that  in  8vo,  which 
appeared  in  1550,  is  accompanied  by  an  almanac 
for  twenty -five  years  commencing  from  that  date. 
This  rare  book  is  stated  to  be  "  newly  imprinted 
at  Worseter  by  John  Oswen  appointed  by  the 
King's  Majestic  and  his  highness'  honorable  coun- 
saii  for  the  principalitie  of  Wales  and  marches  of 
the  same :  they  be  also  to  sell  at  Shrewsbury. 
Oswen's  Liturgy,  printed  in  1549,  contains  a  sin- 
gular notification  of  a  restriction  as  to  price :  — 

«  The  king's  maiestie,  by  the  aduise  of  his  moste  deare 
uncle  the  lord  protector,  and  other  his  highnes  counsell, 
streightlye  chargeth  and  commandeth  that  no  maner  of 
person  do  sell  this  present  boke  vnbound,  aboue  the  price 
fi.  shillings  vi.  pence  the  piece,  and  the  same  bound  in 
paste  or  in  boordes  not  above  the  price  of  four  sbyllyngs 
the  piece.  God  save  the  King !  " 

In  1727  Lord  Oxford  became  possessor  of  a 
copy  for  10Z.  ;  the  volume  would  now  command, 
doubtless,  a  very  ample  price.  After  the  death 
of  Edward  VI.  we  find  no  trace  of  any  Worcestei 
press  until  the  following  century.  It  is  very 
probable  that  some  of  the  rare  relics  of  Oswen 
industry  may  have  escaped  the  keen  researches 
even  of  Ames  and  Herbert,  and  I  would  invite 
the  friendly  assistance  of  those  who  may  take 


368 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I.  MAY  10,  »62. 


interest  in  the  early  establishments  of  typography 
in  this  country,  in  this  endeavour  to  bring  to- 
gether at  the  Worcester  meeting  as  large  a  series 
as  possible  of  volumes  issued  from  this  compara- 
tively obscure  local  press.  Encouragement  has 
not  been  wanting  in  Worcestershire  on  the  part  of 
those  who  engage  with  interest  in  the  investiga- 
tion of  early  literature  ;  and  the  hope  may  be  ex- 
pressed that  our  friends  in  the  adjoining  county 
of  Salop  may  aid  in  bringing  to  light  some  for- 
gotten examples  of  the  rare  volumes,  of  which 
Oswen,  as  we  have  seen,  announced,  —  "  they  be 
also  to  sell  in  Shrewsbury."  Amongst  specimens 
already  promised  may  be  mentioned  the  New 
Testament  preserved  at  Balliol  College;  that 
typographical  rarity  will,  through  the  liberal  con- 
sideration of  the  Master  and  the  College,  be 
entrusted  for  exhibition,  and  form  a  valuable 
accession  to  the  collection.  A  copy  of  Bishop 
Hooper's  rare  "  Homelye  to  be  read  in  the  tyme 
of  pestylence,"  with  a  curious  woodcut  portrait 
of  Edward  VI.,  and  dated  1553,  is  in  the  library 
of  the  Rev.  J.  Fuller  Russell,  and  will,  we  hope, 
be  contributed  with  his  accustomed  kindness  in 
giving  furtherance  to  any  literary  or  antiquarian 
purpose.  An  Almanac,  also,  a  diminutive  volume 
of  very  portable  form,  probably  of  much  rarity, 
has  been  promised  ;  this  is  obviously  of  a  class  of 
books  seldom  to  be  met  with,  having  commonly 
been  thrown  aside  when  superseded  by  later  and 
improved  editions. 

I  shall  thankfully  receive  any  suggestion  or 
assistance  in  the  proposed  illustration  of  Origines 
Typographic®  in  the  Faithful  City. 

ALBERT  WAY. 

Wonham  Manor,  Reigate. 


^  SEALS.  — I  have  recently  been  per- 

mitted to  take  impressions  in  gutta  percha  from 
wax  impressions  of  various  curious  seals,  which 
belonged  to  a  deceased  lady  ;  where  she  obtained 
her  impressions  in  wax,  I  cannot  state.  My  igno- 
rance of  seals  renders  me  incapable  of  deciding 
whether  any  of  them  are  worthy  of  remark  ;  but 
I  transmit  the  descriptions  of  them  to  you,  for  my 
own  information,  and  possibly  for  the  entertain- 
ment of  some  of  your  readers  :  — 

1.  Round;  an  eagle.    Legend,  " Sigill. Henrici 
de  Fenhowe."    (Capitals.) 

2.  Round;   arms    of   Clifford,   chequy,    a   fess 
[gules]  :    the   tinctures   are  not  marked.      The 
shield  surrounded  with  small  boughs  or   sprigs 
Legend  (in  black  letter),  "Sigillum  [thome?!  de 
clyfforde  armig." 

3.  Round.     A  crown  surmounting  a  fleur-de- 
lis.    Legend,  "  S.  Subsidii  pannorincom  f?l  Es- 
sex."   (Capitals.) 

4.  Oval.     A  bishop,  crosier  in  hand,  under  a 
canopy.    Legend  (black-letter),  much  defaced : 


ihan 


eel 


"  Sigillum  .     .     , 
s  .  .  g  .  is."  [?] 

5.  Oval.    A  ship,  with  waves  and  two  fishes 
underneath.     Legend  (capitals),  "  S.  ivrdiggionis 
(?)  ecci'  ied'  Saltwode." 

6.  Oval.    Virgin  and  Child ;  monk  in  prayer 
below.     Legend  (capitals),  "  S.  pragris  [?]  nicolai 
de  sigovilla." 

7.  Oval.  A  saint,  or  the  Virgin,  at  the  top  (the 
bust  only)  :  two  saints  below,  the  hands  raised  in 
benediction ;  lower  still,  a  monk  [?]  kneeling  in 
prayer.    Legend   (capitals),    "  Si.    Ginaldi  :   de 
Tiweswullachi  [?]." 

8.  Round.    A  cross  of  branches,  with  leaves, 
three  dots  in  each  quarter.     Legend,  "  Sigillvm 
Alicie"  (capitals).     Rude  workmanship,  in  very 
high  relief. 

9.  Very  rudely  carved.     Round.  A  rabbit  (?). 
Legend  (capitals),  "  alas,  now  .  .  a  .  .  s." 

10  and  11.  Two  very  similar,  both  round. 
Two  heads,  looking  at  each  other,  man  and  wo- 
man. Legend  (capitals)  "  Love  me  as  nowe." 

12.  Seal  of  Edward  the  Black  Prince  as  Duke 
of  Aquitaine.     Impression   faint.     Round;    three 
lions.     Legend,  almost  undecipherable,  "...  reg. 
Angl.  due.  aquit  .  .  .  ." 

13.  Signet-ring  Of  King  John.     Round,  very 
small,  and  in  high  relief.    A  capital  I,  surmounted 
by  a  crown.     Legend,  in  black  letter,  "  Ayle  [?] 
m.  e.  c.  (or  r)." 

The  seals  numbered  1,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9,  10  and  11, 
appear  to  me  more  ancient  than  those  numbered 
2,  3,  and  4.  HERMENTRUDE. 

ANONYMOUS  TRACT.  —  Can  any  one  tell  me  the 
author  of  the  following  tract  ? 

"  Reasons  why  a  Protestant  should  not  turn  Papist :  or, 
Protestant  Prejudices  against  the  Roman  Catholic  Re- 
ligion ;  proposed,  in  a  Letter  to  a  Romish  Priest.  By  a 
Person  of  Quality.  London,  1687,  4to. 

I  am  aware  that  it  is  attributed,  in  the  Bodleian 
Catalogue,  to  the  Hon.  Robert  Boyle,  but  I  am 
unable  to  discover  upon  what  authority.  I  have 
looked  into  his  Life,  by  Dr.  Birch,  as  well  as  that 
contained  in  Kippis's  edition  of  the  Biographia 
Britannica,  both  very  minute  and  circumstantial 
respecting  his  writings,  but  could  find  no  mention 
of  it.  Dr.  W&tt'slBibliotheca  Britannica  contains 
no  notice  of  it.  'AAievs. 

Dublin. 

BACON'S  ESSAYS.  — Where  is  the  MS.  list  of 
editions  of  Bacon's  Essays,  made  by  Malone,  to 
be  found  ?  It  is  quoted  by  Mr.  Singer  in  the 
Preface  to  his  edition  of  the  Essays  (p.  viii),  as 
the  authority  for  the  statement  that  reimpressions 
of  the  Essays  were  issued  in  1604  and  1606  both 
in  12mo,  and  in  1613,  1614,  and  1618  in  8vo. 
Mr.  Singer  adds,  but  without  giving  any  authority, 
"There  were,  it  seems,  editions  in  1622,  1623, 
1624,  in  4to." 


3*<«  S.  I.  MAY  10,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


369 


In  the  "Maloniana"  at  the  end  of  Sir  Jame 
Prior's  Life  of  Malone,  p.  424,  the'impressions  o 
1606  and  1618  are  mentioned,  but  nothings  saic 
of  that  of  1604.  The  editions,  genuine  and  pi 
rated,  which  I  have  seen  were  printed  in  1597 
1598,  1606,  two  in  1612,  two  in  ]613,  1614,  162^ 
(not  4to),  and  1625.  In  Reed's  Catalogue,  No 
1683,  is  an  8vo  edition  of  the  Essays  printed  in 
1619,  and  No.  1772  is  a  quarto  copy  with  th 
date  1622. 

Are  these  editions  of  1618  and  1619  anything 
more  than  the  Italian  and  French  translations  o; 
the  Essays,  which  were  respectively  published 
in  those  years  ?  And  where  do  copies  of  the  im- 
pressions of  1604, 1622, 1623  exist  ?  Besides  these, 
are  any  other  editions  known  to  have  been  pub- 
lished between  the  years  1597  and  1625  ? 

W.  A.  WRIGHT. 

Cambridge. 

BACON'S  ESSAYS  — REFERENCES  TO  QUOTATIONS 
WANTED.  —  1.  The  saying  of  Cosmus,  Duke  of 
Florence  (quoted  by  Bacon,  Ess.  4.) 

2.  Invidia  festos  dies  non  agit  (Ess.  9,  Antitheta 
and  elsewhere.) 

3.  Ubi  peccat  in  uno  periditatur  in  alter  o  (EssA4.) 

4.  The  saying  of  Gonsalvo  (Ess.  57,  and  three 
other  passages  in  Bacon's  Works.) 

5.  Motus  rcrum  est  rapidus  extra  locum,  placidus 
in  loco.  (Adv.  of  L.  ii.  10.  §  1.)   W.  A.  WRIGHT. 

.BATTLE  OP  PRESTON,  1715. — In  Once  a  Week 
(vol.  vi.  274),  in  an  article  on  Crocker  the  medal- 
list, by  F.  W.  Madden,  there  is  the  following 
document,  approving  of  a  medal  for  this  battle,  as 
follows  :  — 

"  Mint  Office,  October  2, 1718. 

"  Having  perused  what  is  above  depicted  for  the  re- 
verse of  a  medal  upon  the  victory  at  Treston,  we  do  ap- 
prove thereof,  and  authorise  Mr.  Crocker  to  finish  ye 
same. 

"  WM.  THOMPSON,  Is.  NEWTON,  MARTIN  BLADEN." 

Are  there  any  of  these  medals  in  existence,  and 
what  is  their  design  ?  WM.  DOBSON. 

Preston. 

VISCOUNT  CANADA.  —  Who  was  Viscount  Ca- 
nada, and  are  there  any  representatives  of  the 
family  still  existing  ?  What  arms  did  they  bear  ? 

F.  G.  L. 

CHARLES  I.  RINGS.  —  I  have  in  my  possession 
an  interesting  family  relic,  concerning  which  I 
should  like  to  ask  a  question  or  two  through  "  N. 

It  is  one  of  the  Charles  I.  rings,  of  which  it  is 
supposed  that  several  are  extant,  of  plain  gold, 
and  about  44  grains  in  weight,  with  a  coarsely 
executed  miniature  of  the  Royal  Martyr  in  enamel, 
coloured  proper,  on  a  blue  field,  with  the  legend, 
"  Me  Regem  sequere,"  at  the  back  of  the  setting  : 
the  ring  is  traditionally  believed  to  be  that  given 
by  the  King  to  Bishop  Juxon.  Have  all  these 
rings  posies  ?  and  is  this  the  one  commonly  in- 


scribed? or  is  it  peculiar  to  the  memento  pre- 
sented to  that  Right  Rev.  Confessor,  who,  with 
the  same  fate  not  improbably  await  in*  himself 
never  wavered  in  his  dutiful  attachment  to  his 
Royal  Master  in  his  adversity,  but  bravely  and 
loyally  ministered  to  him  in  prison  and  on  the 
scaffold  ? 

Any  information  on  the  above  points  from  your 
antiquarian  readers  would  much  oblige 

E  .  PBISCA  .  FIDE. 

CECILY. —In  the  Chronicles  of  the  While  Rose 
of  York,  London,  1845,  p.  213,  a  genealogy  is 
quoted  from  William  Wyrcester,  wherein  Cecilia, 
wife  of  Richard  Duke  of  York,  and  mother  of 
King  Edward  IV.,  is  described  as  "  Daughter  of 
the  illustrious  lord,  Ralph,  Earl  of  Westmore- 
land, by  his  second  wife,  the  most  noble  lady  Joan, 
daughter  of  the  most  potent  prince,  John,  Duke 
of  Lancaster,"  &c.  I  have  not  elsewhere  found 
any  allusion  to  the  descent  of  the  family  of  York 
from  John  of  Gaunt.  Will  you  kindly  refer  me 
to  some  authority  for  an  explanation  ?  R.  W. 

CORNEFEHS    AND    CAPPEBS   OF    BEWDLET.  —  In 

the  ancient  chapel  at  Bewdley,  which  was  taken 
down  in  1746,  the  names  of  Richard  Taylor 
Cornefer  and  others  were,  according  to  Habing- 
ton,  inscribed  on  the  window,  together  with  the 
arms,  Sable,  three  goats'  heads,  erased,  argent, 
horned  or.  These,  I  presume,  were  the  arms  of 
the  Cornefers,  or  horn-workers,  —  a  trade  now 
flourishing  in  that  ancient  borough. 

The  trade,  I  have  heard,  was  established  in 
Bewdley  on  account  of  its  proximity  to  the  oak 
forest  of  Wyre,  fuel  from  oak  trees  being  neces- 
sary to  the  manufacture. 

I  do  not  know  whether  it  is  carried  on  as  a 
distinctive  trade  in  another  town,  or  has  been 
elsewhere  connected  with  guilds  bearing  arms. 

The  Cappers  of  Bewdley  were  also  an  im- 
portant trading  community.  An  Act  of  Queen  Eliz- 
abeth was  passed  for  their  protection,  that  every 
one  above  six  years  of  age,  except  some  persons 
of  quality,  should  wear  a  cap  of  wool  dressed  in 
England,  upon  forfeiture  of  3*.  4d.  Richard 
Willis,  Bishop  of  Winchester,  was  son  of  a  Bewd- 
!ey  Capper.  The  last  in  the  trade,  whom  I  well 
remember,  died  about  twenty  years  since,  and  the 
ancient  manufacture  is  now  extinct.  Yarranton 
mentions  them  in  England's  Improvement  by  Sea 
and  Land  as  an  important  industry  ;  but  I  cannot 
discover  the  record  of  any  society  or  guild,  or 
armorial  bearings  connected  with  them. 

The  trade  in  caps  is  said  to  have  been  ori- 
ginally introduced  into  Bewdley  from  Monmouth. 

Should  any  of  your  correspondents,  who  take 
nterest  in  the  history  of  British  industry,  throw 
any  light  on  these  peculiar  trades,  it  would  oblige 

THOMAS  E.  WINNINGTON. 
Stanford  Court,  Worcester. 


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CORNWALLIS.— Collins,  in  his  Peerage,  ed.  1756, 
vol.  v.  p.  274,  treating  of  Charles  Cornwallis,  a 
younger  son  of  Sir  Thomas  Cornwallis  by  Anne 
Jerningham,  states  that  his  first  wife  was  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Thomas  Farnham,  of  Fincharn, 
co.  Norfolk.  This  is  incorrect;  it  should  be 
Anne,  daughter  of  Thomas  Fincham,  of  Fincham. 
She  was  the  widow  of  Richard  Nicolls,  Esq., 
whom  she  married  18th  September,  1573,  and 
who  died  not  long  after  in  the  16th  of  Elizabeth. 
Anne  died  1584,  and  was  buried  at  Fincham 
29th  July.  William  Fincham,  brother  of  Anne, 
sold  the  Fincham  estate  to  Charles  Cornwallis, 
Esq.,  afterwards  knighted  by  King  James  in 
1603. 

The  Fincham  Register  contains,  however,  the 
following  entries :  — 

"  1576.  Charles  Cornwallis,  son  of  Edward  Cornwallis, 
and  Anne  his  wife,  Bapd  16  Oct. 

"  1584.  Edward  Cornwallis,  gent.,  and  Elizabeth  his 
wife,  were  married  28th  April." 

I  am  unable  to  connect  Edward  Cornwallis 
with  the  family  of  Sir  Charles,  and  shall  be  obliged 
to  any  of  your  readers  .for  information  on  the 
point.  G.  H.  D. 

A  FACT  FOE  GEOLOGISTS  —  CORPS  HUMAIN 
PETRIFIE.  — 

"  L'an  mil  cinq  cens  nonante  six,  Monsieur  Billiocti, 
homme  d'honneur,  de  la  ville  d'Aix  en  Proueuce,  estant 
&  Lyon,  recita  &  Monsieur  &  k  Madame  de  Botheon,  plu- 
sieurs  autres  personnages  presens,  puis  rait  aussi  par 
escrit  &  soussigna  de  sa  main  ce  qui  s'ensuit  —  L'an  mil 
cinq  cens  Imitate  &  trois,  vn  citoye  de  la  ville  d'Aix  en 
Prouence,  ayant  vne  planteed'Oliuiers  h  vne  harquebuzade 
des  portes  de  la  ville,  print  certain  jour  auis  de  faire 
rompre  certain  petit  roc,  qui  estoit  en  ceste  plantee.  Et 
comme  il  eust  fait  auancer  la  besogne,  fat  trouue  au  mi- 
lieu du  roc  le  corps  entier  d'vn  homme  de  petite  stature, 
incorpore'  dedans  ce  roc,  de  telle  facon  que  la  pierre  du  roc 
remplissoit  le  vuide  &  entre-deux  qui  estoit  d'un  membre 
a  1'autre.  Et  ce  qui  estoit  encores  plus  admirable,  ores 
que  les  os  fussent  fort  endurcis,  si  est — ce  qu'en  les  grattant 
auec  1'ongle  on  les  reduisoit  en  pouldre.  Mais  la  moiielle 
d'iceux  estoit  si  dure,  qu'vne  pierre  ne  Test  pas  d'auantage, 
&  n'estoit  possible  d'en  rien  enleuer.  Voire  que  le  cer- 
ueau  estoit  si  endurcy  &  petrifie',  qu'en  le  touchant  d'vn 
fusil  on  faisoit  voler  les  estincelles  comme  d'vn  caillou  h 
feu.  Ce  skelete  est  demeure'  en  la  puissance  de  M.  Baltha- 
zar de  la  Burle  habitant  a  Aix,  &  premier  audiancier  en 
la  chancellerie  de  Prouence.  Tout  ce  que  dessus  ay-je 
oculairement  veu,  dit  Billiocti :  j'en  suis  bon  tesmoin, 
ayant  mesme  tenu  entre  mes  mains  le  cerueau  de  ce  corps, 
convert  d'os  en  vne  partie.  Ce  que  j'atteste  estre  verit- 
able. Et  en  foy  de  ce  j'ay  signe'  la  presente  le  22  jour  de 
Nouembre,  J569.  Billiocti,  Memoires  de  Lyon.  (Histoires 
Admirable*  et  Memorable*  de  nostre  temps,  &c.,  par  Simond 
Govlart,  Senlisien.  A  Paris  Chez  Jean  Hovze  au  Palais  en 
la  galene  des  prisonniers,  allant  en  la  chancellerie  MDCX. 
16rao,  extracted  from  p.  177)." 

I  think  the  above  narrative  of  M.  Billiocti  may 
be  taken  as  authentic ;  he  has,  however,  forgotten 
to  mention  the  kind  of  rock  in  which  this  ancient 
pigmy  inhabitant  of  the  world  was  embedded,  but 
I  have  no  doubt  it  was  of  the  calcareous  or  lime- 
stone species,  and  that  the  present  example  is,  on 


the  whole,  pretty  similar  to  the  fossil  human  ske- 
leton from  Guadaloupe,  to  be  seen  in  the  British 
Museum. 

I  should  feel  obliged  to  any  correspondent  to 
inform  me  where  the  best  accounts  may  be  ob- 
tained of  such  discoveries  having  been  made  of 
human  remains,  whether  in  a  thoroughly  petrified 
or  in  a  simply  incrusted  state  ?  G.  N. 

SIR  THOMAS  CREW  (1638)  :  SIR  JOHN  HOW- 
LAND,  KNT.  (1638). — Any  information  concern- 
ing either,  or  both,  will  much  oblige  r. 

DR.  DONNE'S  PORTRAIT.  —  Can  any  of  your 
correspondents  inform  me  if  the  portrait  of  Dr. 
Donne,  Dean  of  St.  Paul's  in  the  reign  of  King 
James  I.,  taken  shortly  before  his  death,  as  he 
would  appear  in  his  grave  clothes,  and  from  which 
his  statue  in  Old  St.  Paul's  Cathedral  was  copied, 
is  still  in  existence,  and  its  whereabouts  ?  This 
picture  he  bequeathed  to  Dr.  King,  subsequently 
Bishop  of  Chichester,  as  recorded  by  his  bio- 
grapher, Izaak  Walton.  CLOUDESLEY. 

THE  FAIRFAXES  OF  BRADFORD.  —  In  a  vellum 
book,  entitled  Analecta  Fairfaxiana,  compiled  by 
Charles  Fairfax,  uncle  of  the  parliamentary  ge- 
neral, and  which  was,  a  few  years  ago,  in  the 
possession  of  a  daughter  of  the  late  Thomas  Pul- 
leyn  Moseley,  of  Burley  Hall,  there  are  found  the 
following  lines,  dated  Oct.  18th,  1647  :  — 

"  Fairfax  the  fourth  is  born,  a  gallant  boy, 
Father's,  grandfather's,  great-grandfather's  joy. 
Under  one  roof  these  dwelt  with  their  three  wives, 
And  at  one  table  eat  what  Heaven  gives ; 
Our  times  a  sweeter  harmony  have  not  known, 
They  are  six  persons,  yet  their  hearts  but  one ; 
And"  of  these  six  is  none  hath  hitherto 
Known  marriage  twice,  so  none  designs  to  do ; 
Mate  is  to  mate  what  dearest  dove  to  dove, 
Ev'n  grandsire's  wrinkles  are  top-full  of  love, 
In  these  three  pairs  BRADFORD  may  justly  glory — 
What  other  place  can  parallel  this  story?  " 

The  author  of  these  lines  is  there  stated  to  have 
been  the  then  rector  of  the  parish  church,  Bradford. 
On  referring  to  the  list  of  vicars,  I  find  that  Edward 
Hudson  was  inducted  in  1640,  being  presented  to 
the  living  by  Charles  I.  He  remained  until  1667. 
Can  any  of  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  inform  me 
where  I  may  find  any  information  about  this  fa- 
mily of  Fairfaxes  who  dwelt  here,  or  what  became 
of  them,  for  there  has  no  one  bearing  that  name 
resided  in  Bradford  for  many  years  ?  Were  they 
related  to  the  Fairfaxes  of  Wharfedale,  as  would 
seem  to  be  the  case  from  the  fact  of  C.  Fairfax 
being  in  possession  of  the  above  lines  ? 

ABRAHAM  HOLROYD. 

Bradford. 

FRENCH  TRAGIC  EXAGGERATION. — In  a  short 
Treatise  on  Rhetorick,  by  J.  O.  Jent,  London, 
1726,  the  following  are  quoted  as  specimens  of 
French  tragic  exaggeration :  — 


3rd  S.  I.  MAY  10,  '62.] 


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"  I  shrink  from  food,  fearing  that  lover's  tears 
Are  mingled  with  my  wine  ;  or  that  a  heart, 
Scorched  by  my  eyes,  or  broken  by  my  harshness, 
Be  served  in  a  ragout,  because  its  owner, 
Dying,  gave  charge  to  place  it  nearer  mine 
Than  he  in  life  could  hope."—  The  Enthusiasts. 

"  Then,  though  Etruria  tremble  at  thy  will, 
Rome  ever  will  be  found  invincible  ; 
Slaughter  nor  fire  can  give  her  sons  alarms, 
Nor  famine  cling  them,  while  they  keep  their  arms 
For  their  own  glory,  and  'gainst  thine  they  '11  fight, 
Eating  their  left,  and  smiting  with  their  right." 

Porsenna. 

Of  course  'these  are  not  fair  translations  ;  but 
are  they  exaggerations  or  pure  fictions  ?  What 
are  the  plays  in  French,  and  who  are  their  au- 
thors ?  S.  T.  G. 

REV.  JOHN  GORE.  —  Can  any  of  your  readers 
ive  me  information  respecting  the  Rev.  John 
re,  Rector  of  Wendenloft,  Essex,  and  preacher 
at  St.  Peter's,  Cornhill,  in  the  middle  of  the  seven- 
teenth century?  He  was  the  author  of  several 
sermons,  among  which  are  A  Winter  Sermon,  A 
Summer  Sermon,  The  Way  to  be  Content,  &c.  I 
am  desirous  to  ascertain,  if  possible,  something  of 
his  history,  and  shall  be  glad  to  be  directed  to 
any  source  whence  any  notices  of  him  may  be  ob- 
tained. J.  S. 

GREENE,  OR  GREEN,  OF  HEREFORDSHIRE.  —  The 
undersigned  will  be  obliged  to  any  one  who  can 
give  him  information  concerning  the  origin,  arms, 
&cM  of  this  family.  In  a  return  made  12  Hen.  VI., 
John  and  Richard  Green  are  described  among  the 
principal  gentry.  In  1481  Roger  Green  was  in- 
cumbent of  Cowarne  Magna.  In  the  reign  of 
Queen  Elizabeth  Henry  Green  was  M.P.  for  He- 
reford ;  and  in  that  of  Charles  II.  Thomas  Green 
was  Deputy  under  the  Marquis  of  Worcester, 
Chief  Steward.  At  Tamworth,  in  the  adjoining 
co.  of  Gloucester,  there  were  Greenes,  who  inter- 
married with  Herefordshire  families.  These  Tam- 
worth Greenes  bore  (with  a  difference)  the  arms 
of  the  family  of  the  same  name  at  Green's  Norton, 
co.  Northampton  (az.  3  bucks  trippant  or)  ;  and 
they  are  stated,  in  the  Visitations,  to  have  de- 
scended from  John  Green,  brother  of  Thomas 
Green,  of  Green's  Norton  ;  which  Thomas  is  pre- 
sumed to  have  been  the  first  of  his  name,  called 
also  Thos.  de  Boketon,  Green.  In  a  Shropshire 
Visitation  in  the  British  Museum  (Harl.  MS. 
1390),  there  are  three  generations  of  Greenes  of 
Brampton  Bryan  (a  place  just  within  the  borders 
of  Herefordshire),  without  any  coat  of  arms.  And 
at  a  later  date  there  was  a  family  of  Greens  at 
Ashford,  not  far  from  Brampton  Bryan,  probably 
an  offshoot  of  the  last.  There  was  likewise  a 
family  of  the  name  settled  at  Norton  Canon,  be- 
tween Hereford  and  Weobley,  known  to  be  now 
extinct  in  the  direct  male  line,  who  bore  arms 
similar  to  the  Greenes  of  Tamworth  before  men- 


tioned. There  was  a  sheriff  of  the  county,  36 
Geo.  III.,  whose  arms  are  described  in  Strong's 
Heraldry  of  Herefordshire,  as  like  those  borne  bj 
the  Warwickshire  Greens  (vert  3  bucks  trippant, 
within  a  bordure  or).  A  MS.  in  the  British  Mu- 
seum (Harl.  6139),  containing  arms  of  many 
families  of  the  name,  gives  arg.  a  fesse  gu.  between 
3  [apparently]  bulls'  heads,  couped  sa,  as  belong- 
ing to  Greene  of  Herefordshire ;  but  there  is  no 
clue  as  to  what  particular  family  is  meant.  In- 
formation is  especially  sought  respecting  the 
family  which  lived  at  Norton  Canon.  There  is 
reason  to  believe  that  they  sprung  from  the 
Greenes  of  Northamptonshire ;  and  there  may  be 
pedigrees  in  existence  to  show  whether  such  is 
the  fact ;  and  also  whether  the  family  came  direct 
from  Green's  Norton,  or  from  the  branch  at  Tam- 
worth, or  any  other.  The  earliest  volume  of  the 
Registers  of  Norton  Canon,  which  might  have  fur- 
nished a  link,  is  unfortunately  lost.  NEDALS. 

LORD  GUILDFORD  AND  Miss  TREVOR.  —  Will 
any  of  your  readers  interested  in  genealogy  in- 
form me  whether,  among  the  "  contraband  mar- 
riages" of  which  Horace  Walpole  speaks  in  his 
letters  to  George  Montagu,  anything  has  ever 
been  said  of  a  private  marriage  between  a  Lord 
Guildford  and  a  Miss  Trevor  ?  Any  information 
on  this  head  would  much  "oblige  the  writer. 

JATTEB. 

HAUNTED  HOUSES. —  A  long  time  seems  to  be 
required  before  a  ghost  is  laid,  and  periodical  re- 
vivals of  stories  about  haunted  houses  are  sure  to 
be  made  for  the  benefit  of  penny-a-liners. 

I  suspect  that'the  narration  now  going  through 
the  newspapers  of  the  "  woman  clothed  in  grey  " 
appearing  to  one  of  the  gentlemen  attendant  on 
the  Lord  Chancellor  at  Hackwood  House,  near 
Basingstoke,  is  a  pure  invention  of  one  of  those 
providers  of  the  daily  press,  founded  upon  the  an- 
cient reputation  of  the  mansion. 

My  cook  lived  in  the  neighbourhood  when  she 
was  a  child,  forty  or  fifty  years  ago,  and  at  that 
time  she  and  her  companions  were  always  fright- 
ened with  the  tale  of  a  woman  clothed  in  grey 
haunting  the  chambers.  This  is  a  long  time  for  a 
ghost  to  live ;  and  whether  it  has  appeared  in  the 
interval  may  be  the  subject  of  another  paragraph 
in  these  sensation  times.  D-  S. 

DR.  JOHNSON  ON  PUNNING.  —  In  his  reply,  en- 
titled "  Not  too  good  to  be  true,"  (3rd  S.  i.  332), 
MR.  DOUGLAS  ALLPORT  says :  "  the  man  who 
could  make  so  good  a  joke,  would  surely  never 
have  placed  pickpockets  and  punsters  in  the  same 

Ca  Where  does  Dr.  Johnson  dp  this  ?  I  have  often 
heard  the  learned  Doctor's  dictum  quoted ;  but  J 
have  never  been  able  to  get  anyone  to  point  out 
where  the  saying  was  to  be  found.  PUNSTER. 


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DR.  JOHN  LEE.  —  Wanted  some  information 
concerning  the  Rev.  Dr.  John  Lee  of  St.  John's 
College,  Oxford  (1608)  ?  F.  G.  L. 

MUS^B  ETONENSES.  —  Information  is  desired  as 
to  the  following  authors  of  Greek  and  Latin 
verses  in  Musce  Etonenses^  ed.  Herbert :] — 

Anguish,  no  date.  Jones,  1755. 

Anstey,  R.,  1776.  Lane,  1764. 

Bastard,  1772.  Lawrence,  1789. 

Bayley,  1783.  Longley,  no  date. 

Crooke,  1793.  Maddox,  1756. 

Duer,  no  date.  Rushout,  no  date. 

Fazakerley,  1775.  Sandys,  1755. 

Foote,  1761.  Sargent,  17G6. 

Gamier,  no  date.  Simons,  no  date. 

Griffith,  no  date.  Tighe,  1755,  1756. 

James,  1754.  Tighe,  G.  W.,  1794. 

We  believe  that  we  have  been  enabled  to  trace 
all  but  the  above.  C.  H.  &  THOMPSON  COOPEB. 

Cambridge. 

OBITUARY  OF  OFFICERS  OF  THE  ARMY. — Very 
likely  it  will  be  in  the  power  of  some  of  your  kind 
readers,  well  up  in  obituary  information,  to  favour 
me  with  the  correct  dates  and  places  of  decease 
of  the  following  officers  of  the  army  :  — 

Lieut. -General  John  Henry  Bastide,  engineers, 
died  about  Sept.  1770. 

Major- General  David  Watson,  Colonel  of  38th 
Foot,  and  Quartermaster-General,  died  7th  Nov. 
1761  ;  so  says  the  Gent.  Mag.  xxxi.  p.  539. 

Major-General  Matthew  Dixon,  Engineers, 
died  at  St.  Sidwell's,  Exeter,  —  1793.— GW. 
Mag. ;  Europ.  Mag. 

Lieut,- Colonel  William  Eyre,  44th  Regiment, 
died  about  1764. 

Major- General  George  Morrison,  Colonel  of 
4th  King's  Own  and  Quartermaster- General,  died 
26  Nov.  1799.— Ann.  Reg.  Prin.  Occ.  1799,  p.  176  ; 
Europ.  Mag.  xxxvi.  p.  430. 

Lieut-General  John  Archer,  Engineers,  died 
30  August,  1799. 

General  George  Garth,  Colonel  of  17th  Foot, 
and  Lieut.- Governor  of  Placentia,  died  about 

Major- General \  William  Roy,  Colonel  24th 
Foot,  and  Deputy-Quarter-Master  General,  died 
30  June  or  1  July,  1790.  See  Ann.  Reg.,  Gent. 
Mag.,  Europ.  Mag. 

Lieut.-General  Abraham  Daubant,  died  12 
July,  1805. 

General  Thomas  Hartcup  died  in  London  28 
Feb.  1820. 

The  only  dates  of  death  I  am  certain  of  are 
those  stated  against  the  names  of  Archer  and 
Daubant. 

The  Army  Lists  and  Haydn's  Book  of  Digni- 
ties afford  no  information. 

If  any  tombs,  tablets,  or  gravestones  mark  the 
resting-places  of  these  old  officers,  who  seem  to 


have  passed  away  without  the  notice  which,  in 
these  times,  would  have  been  accorded  to  officers 
of  such  high  rank,  it  will  materially  assist  the 
work  I  have  in  hand,  if  copies  of  the  epitaphs  or 
inscriptions  on  such  memorials  be  embraced  in 
the  replies  which  this  question  may  elicit. 

M.  S.  R. 

Brotnpton  Barracks. 

PEGLER,  THE  ARTIST.  —  I  possess  a  family  por- 
trait, admirably  painted  by  this  artist,  about 
thirty  years  ago.  He  is  said  to  have  been  a  pupil 
of  Sir  Thomas  Lawrence.  Where  can  I  find  fur- 
ther particulars  of  him,  and  of  his  works  ? 

QUERIST. 

PERCY  QUARTERINGS. — The  Percy  shield  is 
said  to  contain  892  quarterings,  among  which  are 
the  arms  of  — 

"  Henry  VII ,  of  several  younger  branches  of  the  blood- 
royal,  of  the  sovereign  houses  of  France.  Castile,  Leon, 
and  Scotland,  and  of  the  ducal  houses  of  Normandy  and 
Brittany,  forming  a  galaxy  of  heraldic  honours  alto- 
gether unparalleled."  (Quarterly  Review,  quoted  in 
Burke's  Heraldic  Illustrations.^) 

Is  this  unparalleled  ?  Where  can  I  find  a  list 
of  these  quarterings  ?  It  is  pretty  evident  that  in 
so  vast  an  assemblage  of  armorial  ensigns  a  series 
of  coats  must  occur  several  times.  In  a  shield  of 
200  quarterings  I  am  engaged  in  marshalling,  the 
arms  of  the  Earls  of  Chester  (Scot,  Meschines, 
&c.),  occur  no  less  than  Jive  times.  H.  S.  G. 

PIGOTT  OF  EDGMOND. — Where  can  I  find  a  fuller 
account  of  this  family  than  that  given  in  Burke's 
Commoners  ?  Of  six  sons  of  Robt.  Pigott,  Esq., 
of  Chetwynd,  sheriff  of  Shropshire,  1697,  only  two 
are  named,  the  eldest  and  fourth ;  and  I  wish  for 
further  particulars  of  the  other  four  sons.  In  the 
next  generation,  two  sons  out  of  three  are  not 
named,  and  of  the  daughters  one  only  is  recorded. 
As  these  sons  and  daughters  were  descended  from 
Henry  VII.  they  should  hardly  be  passed  over  in 
silence.  T.  R. 

"ROMANTIC  MYTHOLOGY." — Who  was  the  au- 
thor of  The  Romantic  Mythology,  in  two  parts. 
Part  II.  Faery :  to  which  is  subjoined  a  letter 
illustrating  the  origin  of  our  marvellous  imagery, 
particularly  as  it  appears  to  be  derived  from  the 
Gothic  Mythology  ?  4to,  Lond.  1809.  The  au- 
thor dates  from  Stratford.  Was  the  first  part 
ever  published  ?  SENNOKE. 

SACRED  LYRIC. — Who  is  the  author,  and  where 
may  it  be  found,  of  a  sacred  lyric  entitled,  "  Christ,    , 
the  Bread  of  Life  "  ?    It  commences  thus  — 

«  On  Thee,  on  Thee, 
Our  souls,  O  Lord,  must  ever  feed ; 
Support  to  frail  humanity, 
Thou  art  our  bread  indeed." 

T.  MlLLNER. 


S.  I.  MAY  10,  '62.  ] 


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SHERIDAN —  Was  tli3  song  in  the  School  for 
Scandal  (published,  I  think,  in  1777)  suggested 
by  some  anonymous  lines  in  the  Gentleman's 
Magazine  for  September,  1764,  entitled  "  The 
Batchelor's  last  Shift,"  and  beginning, 

«  Come  sweet  fifteen ;  come  thirty -five ; 
Come  misses  who  your  charms  survive ; 
Come  widows,  of  a  social  vein, 
Who  live  in  hope  to  try  again  ; 
Come  honour'd  madam ;  come  plain  goody ; 
Of  aspect  sallow,  pale,  or  ruddy : 
With  me  good  sense,  good  wit,  good  nature, 
Will  well  supply  defect  of  feature,"  &c. 

It  seems  as  if  this  must  be  something  more  than 
accidental  resemblance.  N.  B. 

P.  S. — After  I  had  sent  off  the  above,  having 
the  Gentleman's  Magazine  at  hand,  and  incited  by 
"N.  &  Q.,"  I  turned  to  see  what  Sylvanus  Urban 
might  have  said  on  the  subject  of  Fleet  marriages. 
The  Index  referred  me  to  vol.  v.  p.  93, — that  is, 
to  the  number  for  February,  1735.  There,  in- 
deed, I  found  a  short  paragraph  relating  to  that 
subject ;  but  my  eye  was  caught  by  an  essay 
on  the  same  page,  reprinted  from  the  Grub  Street 
Journal  of  Feb.  27,  No.  276,  and  entitled,  "  Of 
Ballad  Singing."  It  begins :  — 
•  "The  scandalous  Practice  of  Ballad-singing  is  the 
bane  of  all  good  manners  and  morals,  a  nursery  for 
Idlers,  Whores,  and  Pickpockets,  a  School  for  Scandal, 
smut,  and  debauchery,"  &c. 

Had  the  phrase  been  in  use  before,  or  did  Mr. 
Bavius,  of  the  Grub  Street  Journal,  invent  it  ? 
The  italics,  I  should  say,  are  mine. 

STOP  AND  STAY.  —  Are  these  words  of  equiva- 
lent meaning  to  signify  abiding  or  dwelling  in  a 
place.  Bartlett,  in  his  Dictionary  of  Ameri- 
canisms, states  that  the  use  of  stop  in  this  sense  is 
peculiar  to  the  United  States.  I  have  a  strong 
impression,  however,  that  a  similar  application  of 
the  word  prevails  in  several  parts  of  England. 

H.N. 

New  York. 

TAAFFE.  —  The  family  of  Taaffe  has  been  suf- 
ficiently interesting  in  its  vicissitudes  to  plead  my 
apology  for  now  asking  for  some  information  re- 
garding the  following  particulars,  which  are  to  be 
seen  in  some  of  their  wills  :  — 

Henry  Taaffe,  ob.  1770-1,  had  four  sons?  What 
was  the  maiden  name  of  his  wife  ? 

He  had  a  brother  named  Arthur  Taaffe,  who 
died,  advanced  in  life,  in  1750. 

His  father's  name  was  Christopher  Taaffe.  He 
was  a  native  of  the  county  Loutb,  and  his  wife's 
Christian  name  was  Mary.  What  was  her  maiden 
surname  ? 

To  return  :  Henry  Taaffe's  four  sons  were  re- 
spectively named,  1.  Arthur  Rodger,  "  sufficiently 
provided  for  with  his  mother's  estates"  (his 
guardian  was  John  Gordon).  2.  John  Armi- 


stead.  3.  Richard  Brownrigg.  4.  Thomas 
Wheeler,  "  heir  to  his  cousin  Thomas  Wheeler." 

The  nephew  of  Henry  Taaffe  was  a  Henry 
Gordon,  who  inherited  the  right  of  his  mother, 
"Anne  Taaffe,  a  portion  of  the  family  estate  in 
Ireland."  He  died  in  1788-9,  leaving  several 
children.  Where  was  the  estate  alluded  to 
situated?  Was  it  in  the  parish  of  Duniskin  (?), 
co.  Louth  ?  The  father  of  this  Henry  Gordon 
appears  to  have  resided  in  or  near  Enniskillen, 
and  to  have  been  twice  married,  first,  to  a  Mary 
Jones  (of  a  family  of  some  consideration),  and, 
secondly,  to  Anne  Taaflfe. 

Was  the  above  lady  a  daughter  of  Colonel 
Jones,  Governor  of  Dublin,  in  the  latter  part  of 
the  seventeenth  century  ? 

It  is  more  than  probable  that  the  clue  to  the 
connection  with  each  other  of  the  foregoing  fami- 
lies is  to  be  found  in  some  of  the  records  con- 
cerning the  descent  of  real  property,  preserved  in 
the  public  offices  of  Dublin  between  the  years 
1750  and  1790.  ^ 

Any  information  on  the  present  subject  would 
much  oblige  SP. 

TH  :  GH  :  PH.  —  Are  these  letters  interchange- 
able in  the  old  languages  of  Northern  Europe  ? 
I  refer  especially  to  old  Norse.  F.  C.  13. 

THREE  SONS  BORN  ON  THREE  SUCCESSIVE  SDK- 
DAYS. —  In  the  pedigree  of  Palmer,  one  of  the 
oldest  Baronets,  and  from  which  sprang  Roger 
Palmer,  Earl  of  Castlemaine,  the  husband  of  the 
Duchess  of  Cleveland,  besides  many  knights  dis- 
tinguished in  the  military  actions  of  the  sixteenth 
and  seventeenth  centuries,  occurs  this  marvellous 
story  :  —  Sir  Edward  Palmer,  of  Angmering,  Sus- 
sex, married  one  of  the  sisters  and  co- heirs  of 
Sir  Richard  Clement  of  the  Moat,  in  Ightham, 
Kent,  and  by  her  had  three  sons,  born  on  three 
Sundays  successively,  who  all  lived  to  be  eminent  in 
their  generation.  John,  the  eldest,  was  twice 
sheriff  of  Surrey  and  Sussex,  25  &  35  Hen.  VIII. 
Sir  Henry,  the  second,  was  killed  in  the  defence 
of  Guisnes,  1  Phil,  and  Mary,  having  founded  the 
family  which  long  flourished  at  Wingham,  in  Kent 
Sir  Thomas,  the  youngest,  is  memorable  as  having 
been  decapitated  with  the  Duke  of  Northumber- 
land in  1553  ;  after  having,  only  two  years  before, 
betrayed  his  former  patron,  the  Protector  Somer- 
set. It  is  not  necessary  to  cite  authority  for  these 
particulars,  as  they  are  either  of  historical  no- 
toriety, or  will  be  found  in  the  Baronetages  ;  but 
what  I  wish  to  ask  is,  Whether  the  passage 
printed  in  italics  is  at  all  probable  in  its  simple 
meaning,  viz.  that  the  three  sons  were  born  on 
three  successive  Sundays  in  the  same  year  ?  Are 
there  any  parallel  cases  on  record  ?  N.  H.  S. 

VENTILATE.  —  Can  any  instances  be  furnished 
of  the  use  of  this  word,  in  the  sense  of  sifting  or 


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[3'd  S.  L  MAT  10,  '62. 


discussing,  later  than  the  seventeenth  century 
until  within  the  last  few  years  ?  *  H.  N. 

New  York. 


REREDOS.  —  Will  some  correspondent  define 
accurately  the  meaning  of  the  following  words, 
postdbula,  retrotabularium,  retrotabidum,  postaltare, 
retroaltaref  Du  Cange  describes  them,  but  hardly 
enough  for  Protestants  to  have  a  clear  perception 
of  them.  Do  any  of  thenj  mean  reredos  f 

J.  DUNN  GARDNER. 

[The  manner  in  which  Du  Cange  refers  from  each  of 
these  words  to  one  or  more  of  the  others,  taken  in  con- 
nexion with  his  mode  of  defining  them,  seems  to  imply 
that  he  regards  the  whole  five  as  convertible  terms;  and 
it  appears  to  us  that  all  and  each  of  them  must  be  taken 
as  equivalent  to  our  reredos.  If  there  be  any  distinction, 
it  is  simply  this  :  that  reredos  had  a  more  general  signifi- 
cation. It  sometimes  stood  for  "  the  screen  or  partition- 
wall  separating  the  chancel  from  the  body  of  the  church ;  " 
sometimes  for  "  the  back  of  a  fire-place,"  an  "  open  fire- 
hearth,  without  grate."  —  Wright.'] 

"  THE  LAMENTATION  OF  A  SINNER."— A  hymn, 
or  religious  rhythmic,  with  the  above  title,  appears 
at  the  end  of  a  copy  of  Sternhold  and  Hopkins's 
Version  of  the  Psalms,  printed  in  1 632.  I  think  I 
have  also  seen  it  at  the  end  of  one  of  the  earliest 
editions  of  King  James's  Bible.  Some  few  reprints 
of  the  Prayer  Book  contain  a  modernised  read- 
ing—a reading  as  I  think  greatly  injured  by  the 
changes  it  has  undergone.  The  old  style  runs  — 
11  0  Lord,  turne  not  away  thy  face  from  him  that  lies 
prostrate,"  &c. 

The  new  style  begins  — 
"  °  ^.or  J  turn  not  1%  face  away  from  them  that  lowly 

As  a  whole  the  hymn  possesses  great  piety  and 

fervour,  nor  is   it  wanting  in  a  certain  kind  of 

^auty  or  dignity,  although  it  never  rises  to  the 

poetic.     I  hope  some  of  your  correspondents  will 

be  able  to  tell  me  the  name  of  its  author. 

H.  B. 
[In  Centura  Literaria,  edit.  1815,  i.  14,  is  a  valuable 

Sternh  i/     T&     ***}**«*  ™    the    contributors  to 
Sternhold  and  Hopkins's  Psalms,  the  first  metrical  ver- 

SinnPr  »P      H1^  ThUr°Th  SerViCe'     "  The  Humble  Sute  of  a 
Sinner,     and  "The  Lamentation  of  a  Sinner,"  signed 

M,  he  conjectures  are  by  John  Mardley,  who  « turned 
twenty-four  Psalms  into  English  odes,  and  made  many 
p  273.]3  80DSS*  VidC  al8°  RitS°n'8  mii°9raphia  Foetid, 

AMENDE  -What  is  the  real  etymological 
meaning  of  the  French  word  amende,  a  fine  ?  Does 
it  imply  either  retribution  or  compensation  ? 

MELETES. 

[Amende  »  is  supposed  to  be  derived  from  the  Latin 
vnendatw,  correction.  The  Latin  menda  and  mendum 
signify  a  fault;  properiv>  perhaps,  an  error  in  writing 


[•  See  «N.  &  Q.»  2-><  S.  ix.  443,  490;  x.  17.-ED.] 


The  term  answering  to  "amende"  in  Med. -Latin  was 
amenda,  or  emenda.  We  think  amende  implied  both  re- 
tribution and  compensation  —  retribution  adjudged,  and 
compensation  rendered ;  except  when  the  amende  is  vo- 
luntary and  spontaneous,  in  which  case  the  term  would 
perhaps  imply  compensation  only :  so  that,  should  acci- 
dent ever  betray  anyone  into  an  act  which  necessitates  the 
amende  honorable,  the  only  gentlemanly  way  of  getting 
out  of  the  scrape  is  to  make  it  voluntarily  and  promptly.] 

BOOK  or  OATHS.  —  The  Book  of  Oaths  and  the\ 
several  Forms  thereof,  &c.,  was  printed  in  1689. 
Is  it  known  by  whom  this  collection,  which  pro- 
fesses on  the  title-page  to  be  "  faithfully  collected 
out  of  sundry  Authentick  Books  of  Records  not 
heretofore  extant,"  was  compiled  ? 

Is  there  any  earlier  collection  of  oaths,  or  any 
enlarged  edition  of  the  present  work  ?  B.  O. 

[There  have  been  three  editions  of  The  Book  of  Oaths, 
1649,  18mo;  1689,  8vo,  and  1715,  8vo.  "  In  the  Appen- 
dix to  the  First  Report  of  the  House  of  Commons  Com- 
mittee on  Public  Records,  there  is  a  Collection  of  Oaths 
of  Office,  taken  from  the  Book  of  Oaths  in  the  Offices  of 
the  Clerks  of  the  Crown  and  the  Petty  Bag  in  Chan- 
cery, and  from  the  Black  Book  in  the  Chapter  House, 
and  the  Red  Book  in  the  King's  Remembrancer's  Office 
in  the  Exchequer."  MS.  note  by  Francis  Hargrave  in 
his  copy  of  The  Book  of  Oaths,  ed.  1689. } 

DR.  GEDDES.  —  Dr.  Geddes,  a  learned  Roman 
Catholic  divine  of  the  last  century,  was  buried  in 
Paddington  churchyard.  His  tombstone  has,  I 
understand,  been  removed  some  years.  I  am 
anxious  to  recover  a  copy  of  the  inscription.  Has 
any  biography  of  this  upright  scholar  ever  been 
published  ?  GRIME. 

[There  is  a  Life  of  Dr.  Alexander  Geddes  by  his  inti- 
mate friend  John  Mason  Good,  M.D.,  8vo,  1803,  which 
contains  some  valuable  criticisms  on  Geddes's  writings, 
as  well  as  other  interesting  information  to  the  biblical 
student.  In  1804  Lord  Petre  was  at  the  expense  of  the 
plain  upright  stone  to  his  memory,  in  the  churchyard  of 
Paddington,  with  the  following  inscription :  — 

"Rev.  Alexander  Geddes,  LL.D.,  Translator  of  the 
Historical  Books  of  the  Old  Testament,  died  Feb.  26, 
1802,  aged  sixty-five.  Christian  is  my  name,  and  Catholic 
my  surname.  I  grant  that  you  are  a  Christian  as  well 
as  I,  and  embrace  you  as  my  fellow  disciple  of  Jesus ; 
and  if  you  were  not  a  disciple  of  Jesus,  still  I  would  era- 
brace  you  as  my  fellow  man."] 


EDMUND  BURKE  AND  LORD  VERNEY. 
(3rd  S.  i.  221.) 

If  the  biographers  of  Edmund  Burke  have  not 
exerted  themselves  to  trace  his  lineage,  their  ex- 
cuse is  to  be  found  in  the  feeling  which  too  gene- 
rally exists,  that  such  matters  are  unimportant  in 
comparison  with  a  full  relation  of  the  more  event- 
ful episodes  of  Burke's  eminent  career.  If  such 
omission  be  found  in  the  existing  liveo  of  Ed- 
mund Burke,  those  who  address  themselves  to  the 
question  in  a  fair  and  candid  manner,  and  with  a 


3'<»  S.  I.  MAY  10,  '62.] 


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375 


view  to  supply  the  deficiency,  deserve  the  thanks 
of  all ;  but  those  who  make  such  inquiry  the 
vehicle  of  slander,  deserve  the  reprobation  such 
acts  must  excite  in  every  honest  breast. 

Although  the  columns  of  this  journal  may  not 
be  in  general  the  proper  place  for  a  disquisition  of 
this  nature,  yet  your  correspondent  J.  R.  T.  has,  in 
his  article  of  the  22nd  March,  passed  the  limits  of 
fair  inquiry  and  discussion  to  such  an  extent  that 
I,  as  the  representative  of  the  great  man  whose 
character  is  there  sought  to  be  maligned,  feel  it 
my  duty  to  come  forward,  and  challenge  such 
grave  charges  and  insinuations. 

J.  R.  T.'s  preliminary  assertion  that,  "the 
stories  told,  or  hinted  at  by  biographers,  about 
this  chancery  suit  have  not  been  to  the  credit  of 
Burke,"  is,  like  some  other  of  his  incidental  state- 
ments, made  without  any  authority  whatsoever. 

J.  R.  T.  admits  that  Edmund  Burke  was  never 
proved  to  have  been  mixed  up  in  any  gambling 
transactions,  yet  says  he  cannot  otherwise  account 
for  his  ability  to  purchase  the  estate.  Happily  I 
am  able  to  set  at  rest  all  question  on  this  point. 
Edmund  Burke  contracted  to  purchase  the  estate, 
mansion,  and  furniture  of  Gregories,  Beaconsfield, 
for  about  20,OOOJ.  Of  this  he  paid  nearly  6,OOOJ. 
in  cash,  the  remaining  14,000/.  being  raised  by 
two  mortgages  —  one  for  10,400£,  the  other  for 
3,600J.  During  his  life  the  estate  was  consider- 
ably increased  in  value  and  extent. 

As  to  the  suit  itself,  it  must  be  apparent  that 
to  every  specific  charge  in  Lord  Verney's  Bill, 
there  is  a  specific  denial,  full,  comprehensive, 
and  somewhat  contemptuous  in  Edmund  Burke's 
answer.  If  that  is  not  conclusive,  as  it  must  be, 
one  may  well  ask,  where  is  the  decree  ?  Doubt- 
less J.  R.  T.  has  been  diligent  in  his  search,  for  if 
hostile  to  Edmund  Burke,  with  what  triumph  would 
he  have  produced  that  decree.  I  think,  however, 
none  will  be  found,  for  I  have  carefully  searched 
in  the  proper  office  where  decrees  are  lodged; 
and  although  there  are  decrees  without  number 
in  suits  instituted  by  Lord  Verney  against  dif- 
ferent persons,  I  do  not  find  one  in  the  suit  of 
Lord  Verney  v.  Burke.  If  I  am  right  in  this, 
there  is  an  end  of  the  case.  At  even  this  distance 
of  time  we  see  the  whole  matter  clearly  before  us. 
Lord  Verney's  legal  advisers,  who  knew  their  busi- 
ness at  least  as  well  as  J.  R.  T.,  considered  the 
answer  conclusive  against  the  Bill,  and  wisely  for- 
bore to  pursue  a  claim  suspicious  in  itself,  and  by 
the  solemn  oath  of  Edmund  Burke  alleged  to  be 
untrue. 

Strange  it  is  indeed,  as  J.  R.  T.  says,  that  Lord 
Verney  should  have  waited  fourteen  years  before 
commencing  his  suit.  If,  as  J.  R.  T.  asserts, 
Lord  Verney  was  during  that  time  in  desperate 
circumstances,  fighting  against  his  creditors,  there 
was  the  greater  reason  for  the  prosecution  of  his 
claim.  I  am  far  from  wishing  to  make  the  slight- 


est imputation,  but  there  is  certainly  more  reason 
in  supposing  that  Lord  Verney's  necessities  origi- 
nated his  claim,  than  that  it  was  retarded  by 
them. 

When  the  judicial  weight  of  the  Bill  as  against 
the  answer  is  considered ;  the  latter  upon  oath, 
the  former  not  upon  oath, — when  we  observe  the 
absence  of  a  decree,  and,  not  least,  the  length  of 
time  supposed  to  elapse  between  the  alleged  trans- 
action and  the  suit,  can  doubt  any  longer  linger 
in  an  impartial  mind? 

Charges  which  if,  as  here,  unproved,  would,  be 
libellous  with  respect  to  the  living,  cannot  be  the 
less  so  when  they  affect  the  memory  of  the  dead. 
In  the  latter  case,  a  generous  mind  would  pause 
long  and  think  deeply  —  it  would  not  gather  from 
it  a  fancied  immunity. 

So  confident  do  I  feel  in  the  perfect  purity  of 
my  illustrious  ancestor,  that  beyond  giving  the 
above  facts,  I  am  inclined  to  treat  with  scorn  these 
dark  attacks  upon  his  memory.  Your  corre- 
spondent writes  anonymously,  I  give  my  name. 
EDMUND  HAVILAND-BURKE. 

Lincoln's  Inn. 


KINGSMILLS  OF  SIDMANTON. 
(3rd  S.  i.  309.) 

Of  this  family,  in  which  there  were  two  judges, 
S.  M.  S.  will  find  some  account  in  my  Judges  of 
England,  vol.  v.  p.  57,  and  vol.  vi.  p.  163. 

Of  the  different  members  of  it  I  find  the  fol- 
lowing notices,  which  may  be  of  use  to  your  cor- 
respondent: — 

Richard  Kingsmill,  of  Barkham,*in  Berkshire, 
is  the  earliest  of  the  name  that  I  have  traced. 
His  son, 

John  Kingsmill,  seems  to  be  the  first  who  was 
seated  at  Sidmanton,  in  Hampshire.  He  was  a 
Judge  of  the  Common  Pleas  in  the  reign  of 
Henry  VII.,  from  1503  to  1509.  By  his  marriage 
with  Joan,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Gifford  of  Islip, 
he  had 

Sir  John  Kingsmill,  no  doubt  the  Sheriff  of 
Hampshire,  named  by  Fuller,  in  35  Henry  VIII. 
He  married  Constance,  the  daughter  of  John 
Goring,  of  Burton  in  Sussex  (the  "  Ladie  Con- 
stance "  in  Bishop  Pilkington's  will),  and  by  her 
he  left  several  children. 

Sir  William  Kingsmill  was  Sir  John's  eldest 
son,  who,  according  to  Burke's  Extinct  Baronet' 
ties,  p.  200,  was  the  father  of  another  Sir  William 
Kingsmill,  who  died  in  1600. 

Sir  George  Kingsmill  was  the  second  son  of 
Sir  John.  He  became  a  Judge  of  the  Common 
Pleas  in  the  reign  of  Elizabeth,  and  continued  BO 
under  James  I.  till  near  his  death  in  1606.  He 
married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Sir  James  Harrington, 
and  widow  of  Francis  Lord  Hastings,  and  his  lady 


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after  his  death  took  Edward,  Lord  Zouch,  of 
Harrington,  for  her  third  husband. 

Andrew  Kingimill,  the  Puritan  preacher,  was 
another  son  of  Sir  John.  (Wood's  Atli.  Oxon.  i. 
373) ;  so  also  was  Thomas  (ibid.  758)  ;  and  Sir 
Richard,  Surveyor  of  the  Court  of  Wards  (ibid. 
ii.  182.) 

The  male  descendants  of  the  family  failed  in 
1766,  when  the  property  devolving  on  a  daughter, 
her  husband,  Admiral  Robert  Brice,  assumed  the 
name  of  Kingsmill,  and  received  a  baronetcy  in 
18QO,  which  became  extinct  in  1823  by  the  failure 
of  male  issue  of  his  nephew,  the  second  baronet, 
under  a  special  remainder.  EDWARD  Foss. 

I  have  at  present  in  my  possession  two  minia- 
tures joined  together,  on  the  backs  of  which  are 
engraved  as  follows  :  — 

"Frances,  daughter  of  Sir  Wm  Kingsmill,  Kn1,  of 
Sidmanton,  in  the  county  of  Hants,  who  married  Jn° 
Croker,  Esqr,  of  Barton,  in  the  County  of  Oxon,  Son  of 
Sir  Gerd  Croker,  Knt,  in  the  Four  and  twentieth  Year  of 
the  Reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth, 

"  John  Croker,  of  Barton,  in  the  Count}'  of  Oxon,  Esqv, 
Son  of  Sir  Gerd  Croker,  Kn*,  \vlio  married  Frances, 
daughter  of  Sir  Wm  Kingsmill,  Knt.,  of  Sidmanton,  in 
the  County  of  Hants,  in  the  Four  and  twentieth  Year  of 
the  Reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth." 

II.  W.  S. 

Sir  John  Kingsmill,  of  Whitchurch  and  Sidman- 
ton, Knight  (son  of  John  Kingesmill  of  Basing- 
stoke),  died  on  the  llth  of  August,  3  &  4  Philip  and 
Mary.  The  inquisitio  post  mortem  upon  him  was 
taken  at  Basingstoke  on  the  24th  of  September 
following,  when  his  eldest  son  was  declared  to  be 
of  the  age  of  thirty  years,  &c.  His  will  bears  date 
20th  July,  1556.  By  his  wife  Constance  (who 
died  26th  May,  23  Eliz.),  the  daughter  of  John 
Goring  of  Burton,  co.  Sussex,  he  had  issue  nine 
sons,  named  severally  :  1,  William,  son  and  heir; 

2,  Richard;    3,  Roger;    4,  Edward;    5,  Henry; 
6,   John;   7,  George;    8,  Andrew;    9,  Thomas: 
and    throe  daughters:    1,  Alice;    2,  Katherine ; 

3,  Mary.     Of  those  children  Richard,  the  second 
son,  was  of  High  Cleare*,  co.  Southampton  ;  and 
was  attorney  of  the  Court  of  Wards  to  Queen 
Elizabeth.     He  married  first,  Elizabeth,  sister  of 

Woodruffe,    Alderman    of    London;     and 

secondly,  Alice  Fawconer,  but  died  s.  p.   1605. 
linger,   Henry,  and  John,  are  noticed  as   dying 
sine  prole.     George,   the   seventh  son,  who  died 
39  Eliz.,  married  Sarah,  daughter  of  Sir  James 
Harrington,  and  widow  of  Lord  Hastings.     He  is 
also  mentioned  as  of  High  Cleare,  and  was  one  of 
the  Judges  of  the  Common  Pleas. 

Sir  John  Kingsmill  was  succeeded  by  his  eldest 
son  and  heir  Sir  William  Kingsmill,  Knight,  who 
^ed_on  the  10th_of  Dec.  35  Eliz.  Pie  married 

*  Some  of  the  pedigrees  make  this  Richard  of  Otturley, 
co.  Warw.,  and  invert  the  marriages  of  his  two  wives. 


Bridget,  daughter  of  George  Raleigh  of  Thorn- 
borough,  co.  Warwick,  and  by  her  had  several 
children :  the  eldest  of  whom,  William,  is  men- 
tioned as  aged  thirty-six  at  the  inquisitio  post 
mortem  of  his  father,  which  was  taken  at  Andover 
on  the  7th  of  April,  35  Eliz. 

This  last-named  William  Kingesmill  (the  eldest 
of  seven  sons)  succeeded  his  father.  His  wife's 
name  was  Anne,  daughter  of  William  Wilks  of 
Hodnell,  in  co.  Warwick ;  and  widow  of  Anthony 
Dryden,  of  co.  Northampton.  Wm.  Kingesmill 
died  20th  June,  1618  (will  dated  26th  Aug.  16—), 
leaving  a  son  and  heir,  Sir  Henry  Kingesmill, 
Knight  (at.  30,  at  the  death  of  his  father).  He 
married,  in  1610,  Bridget,  daughter  of  John  White, 
Esq.;  and  died  20th  October,  1624,  leaving,  with 
four  other  sons,  an  eldest  son  and  heir  William 
Kingesmill ;  who  was,  at  the  date  of  his  father's 
death,  of  the  age  of  eleven  years,  nine  months,  and 
fifteen  days. 

Pedigrees  of  the  Kingsmill  family  may  be  found 
in  Harleian  MSS.,  1139,  fol.  18b;  1544,  fols.  5  and 
89 ;  and  5865,  fol.  7  :  but  in  these,  several  dis- 
crepancies occur.  The  above  information  is  de- 
duced mainly  from  inquisitiones  post  mortem,  and 
brings  down  the  Sidmanton  family  in  the  direct 
line  for  five  generations,  which  perhaps  may  suffi- 
ciently answer  the  purpose  of  S.  M.  S. ;  but  I 
have  a*  few  other  genealogical  memoranda  of  the 
Kingesmills,  which  I  shall  feel  pleasure  in  placing 
at  the  service  of  your  correspondent,  if  desirable. 

CL.  HOPPEK. 


YETLIN,  OR  YETLING:  MESLIN.      ,  ' 
(2nd  S.  xii.  28,  398  ;  3rd  S.  i.  34.) 

In  thanking  your  four  correspondents  for  their 
answers  to  my  Query,  which  I  regret  not  having 
been  able  to  do  earlier,  I  may  briefly  observe, 
that  the  oblong  pan  which  MR.  REDMOND  de- 
scribes as  common  in  Ireland,  seems  to  differ 
in  form  as  much  as  in  name  from  the  yetlin, 
which  is  of  a  deep  punch-bowl  shape,  but  with 
three  feet.  May  not  the  name  grisset  or  grisling 
be  from  the  colour  of  the  iron,  which  must  have 
been  thought  a  contrast  to  the  earlier  pans  of 
yellow  metal,  or  earthenware?  Gris,  Fr.  gray, 
grisly  or  grisled ;  Todd's  Johnson,  gray.  Or 
can  it  have  any  possible  connexion  with  gris,  the 
old  word  for  pig  ?  "An  oblong  mass  of  unformed 
lead  or  iron,"  is  one  of  the  meanings  given  in  dic- 
tionaries to  the  word  pig,  but  perhaps  a  modern 
one. 

Perhaps  the  term  git  mentioned  by  Mr.  J.  E. 
HODGKIN  is  the  abbreviation  of  the  technical 
getto,  which  I  see  in  Chambers's  Encyclopedia  is 
applied  to  the  cast  in  founding,  and  which  is  said 
to  be  from  the  Italian.  I  do  not  know  the  date  of 
Italian  influence  on  our  art  of  metallurgy,  but  I 
have  been  accustomed  to  think  the  word  yetlin  in 


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our  dialect  much  older.  If  I  am  mistaken  I  hope 
some  person  acquainted  with  the  chronology  of 
iron-founding  will  kindly  correct  me.  Of  "  the 
Italian  iron"  I  happen  to  possess  a  specimen, 
which  from  its  ponderous  and  complicated  form,  I 
think  must  be  an  early  one.  It  is  cross-shaped, 
fixed  into  a  heavy  oaken  pedestal ;  the  upper  half 
of  the  pillar  is  twice  the  circumference  of  the 
lower,  and  hollow  to  receive  a  heater  like  that  of 
a  tea-urn,  which  has  a  loop  and  iron  to  raise  it,  and 
it  is  surmounted  by  a  spiral-shaped  lid  with  hinges. 
The  two  arms  are  of  unequal  thickness,  on  one  of 
which  has  been  ironed  the  frills,  on  the  other  the 
flounces  of  a  past  generation ;  but,  from  family 
tradition,  I  think  this  is  not  a  hundred  years  old. 

It  is  very  interesting  to  hear  of  the  meslin-pot, 
for  which  we  are  indebted  to  X.  X.  X.  But  is 
not  this  merely  the  old  word  for  "  brasse-potte," 
which  was  so  long  the  sole  metal  pan  of  many  a 
small  household,  and  the  name  of  which  has  de- 
scended when  its  signification  was  forgotten,  to 
the  pan  of  whatever  metal,  which  in  later  times 
served  for  the  same  offices  ?  English  dictionaries 
give  meslin  as  "  mixed  metal,"  as  well  as  "  mixed 
corn ; "  and  mastlin,  the  yellow  metal  of  which 
church  ornaments  were  made  (Imp.  Diet.)  Mes- 
sing, Germ.,  brass,  copper,  and  tin  ;  maslin,  A.-S., 
brass,  which  MR.  CHANCE,  in  his  explanation  of 
mazer-bowl,  says  is  strictly  a  mixture  of  metals. 
It  is  known  in  Cumberland  only  as  mixed  corn, 
and  bread  is  commonly  made  of  it,  but  it  does 
not  give  a  name  to  any  vessel  used  in  its  prepara- 
tion, and  porridge  being  madeaof  oatmeal,  is  less 
likely  to  have  done  so. 

I  cannot  help  protesting  against  the  calling  yet- 
lin  a  corruption  of  meslin  or  of  any  other  English 
word ;  such  a  corruption  would  be  contrary  to  all 
analogy  of  change  in  our  dialect,  though  changes 
from  y  to  z,  to  g,  to  en  and./,  are  all  usual.  Be- 
sides, a  word  which  I  hold  to  have  existed  in  this 
district  for  more  than  450  years,  is  surely  entitled 
to  more  respectful  treatment,  and  which  is  found 
in  an  inventory  with  a  Latin  commentary  and  an 
English  explanation.  I  confess  a  belief  that,  for 
the  word  and  the  article  designated,  we  are  in- 
debted to  the  north  of  Europe,  the  people  of 
which  were  so  skilled  in  iron  at  an  early  period, 
and  so  familiar  with  our  eastern  coasts.  But  if 
the  casting  of  iron  vessels  was  not  practised  in 
England  so  early  as  1411,  and  I  think  "yron 
pannys"  occur  only  in  later  inventories,  the 
"  iii  zetlings  "  of  Finchale,  if  really  of  iron,  must 
have  been  imported  ;  or  the  name  must  have  been 
one  bestowed  by  the  people  of  the  Scandinavian 
counties  on  the  mixed  metal  pan,  which  those  of 
counties  more  under  Saxon  influence  named  mes- 
lih,  or  brass,  and  with  equal  correctness  —  the  one 
regarding  the  mixture,  and  the  other  the  fusion  of 
the  metal.  And  it  is  consistent  with  many  other 
facts  that  these  names  should  have  existed,  and 


descended,  each  in  its  own  district,  to  our  days. 
If,  however,  as  Jamieson's  Yetland  suggests,  the 
name  was  one  of  local  reference,  there  are  plenty 
of  analogies  in  old  northern  names  to  tempt  con- 
jecture ;  and  the  Yetlin  pan,  as  an  ironmonger 
called  it,  may  have  been  brought  to  us  in  the 
same  way  as  the  "  Italian  iron,"  "Dantzic  rye,"  or 
"  Swedish  turnips." 

In  addition  to  the  mention  of  posnet,  in  an  old 
inventory  by  P.  P.,  I  see  by  a  specimen  of  York- 
shire dialect  in  the  Feb.  No.  of  "  N.  &  Q."  that 
the  word  is  still  in  use  in  that  county.  MET  A. 


THE  OLD  COUNTESS  OP  DESMOND  (3rd  S.  i.  301 .) 
MR.  NICHOLS  has  been  misled  by  an  error  in  the 
Dublin  Review  of  Feb.  last,  p.  61 .  The  document 
which  mentions  Gyles  ny  Cormyk,  first  wife  of 
Sir  Thomas  Fitzgerald,  afterwards  twelfth  Earl 
of  Desmond,  is  dated  20  Henry  VII.  (1505),  and 
not  20  Henry  VIII.  (1528).  Sir  Gerald  Fitz- 
gerald, grandfather  of  the  "  Old  Countess,"  was 
Lord  of  Decies,  and  hence  it  would  appear  that 
the  earl  renewed  the  grant  of  the  country  of 
Decies  to  his  father-in-law  on  succeeding  to  hia 
estates,  though  he  may  have  been  married  to  his 
second  wife  twenty-three  years  before. 

KlLDARE. 

Kilkea  Castle,  Mageney,  May  4. 

A  portrait  of  this  lady  was  exhibited  by  the 
Earl  of  Denbigh,  at  a  meeting  of  the  Leicester- 
shire Archaeological  Society,  held  at  Lutterworth 
in  September  last,  and  was  thus  described  — 
"  Portrait  of  the  Countess  of  Desmond,  taken  at 
the  age  of  121;  she  died  aged  140.  Artist  un- 
known." T.  NORTH. 

Southfields,  Leicester. 

MESMERISM  ALLUDED  TO  iw  THE  "AMPHITRUO" 
OF  PLAUTUS  (3rd  S.  i.  270.)  —  The  passage  in  Act 
I.  Sc.  1  of  that  fine  old  comedy  was  ^noticed  in 
reference  to  Mesmerism  in  Eliot  Warburton's 
Crescent  and  the  Cross.  The  tractim  tangam, 
however,  has  nothing  to  do  with  Mesmerism.  The 
tractatores  were  men  employed  by  the  Romans 
to  induce  sleep  by  gently  rubbing  the  limbs  after 
the  bath.  Sometimes,  indeed,  tractatrices  were  em- 
ployed, as  recorded  by  Martial,  Epig.  82,  lib.  3  — 

«« Percurrit  agili  corpus  arte  tractatrix, 
Manumque  doctam  spargit  omnibus  membris. 

Seneca  had  such  shampooers  among  his  slaves  : 
"An  potius  optem  ut  malacissandos  articulos 
exoletis  meis  porrigam."  (Ep.  66.)  Tractim .in- 
dicates the  slow  and  prolonged  rubbing  under- 
gone. In  Aulus  Gellius  (lib.  xix.,  c.  2),  a  "  litera 
tractim  pronunciata,"  is  a  letter  long  drawn  out  m 
the  uttering.  *•  D«R*N- 

The  passage  of  Plautus 'quoted  by  J.  E.  T.  has 
no  reference  to  Mesmerism.  The  words  *•** 
tangam  allude  to  the  rod  of  Mercury,  which  had 


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[3'*  S.  I.  MAY  10,  '62. 


the  special  property  of  conferring  sleep.  Thus 
Homer,  Od.  xxiv.  2  :  — 

"  eye  fie  pa/3Spv  (iera^P^V 
KaXTjv,  xpv<rei>ji',  Tjj  T*  avSpwv  a/a/mara  fle'Ayci, 
*flc  e0cAei,  TOVS  5*  a/Ore  icai  vTrvwoi'Tas  eyeipei." 

Imitated  by  Virgil,  J£n.  iv.  242  :  — 

"  Turn  virgam  capit :  hac  animaa  ille  evocat  Oreo 
Pallentes ;  alias  sub  tristia  Tartara  mittit ; 
Dot  somnos  adimiique,  et  lumina  morte  resignat." 

L. 

THOMAS  SIMON  (2nd  S.  xii.  403;  3rf  S.  i.  219, 
297.) — Recent  contributions  have'furnished  some 
valuable  materials  for  working  out  the  parentage 
of  Thomas  Simon  the  engraver. 

I  have  no  doubt  that  the  Peter  Simon,  born  in 
Blackfriars,  mentioned  by  MR.  COOPER  and  MR. 
HOPPER,  was  the  Pierre  Simon  who,  as  appears 
from  the  copy  of  the  marriage  register  furnished 
by  Mr.  Burn,  married  Anne  Germain  in  1611. 

We  collect  further,  that  this  Peter  Simon  was  a 
merchant  trading  beyond  the  seas;  that  his  father's 
name  was  also  Peter,  and  that  the  family  came 
from  Rouen.  Is  there  any  information  respecting 
the  family  preserved  at  Rouen,  either  in  the  pub- 
lic library  or  in  the  archives  of  the  Department  ? 
Supposing  this  Peter  Simon  to  be  the  father  of  the 
engraver,  it  becomes  of  less  importance  to  trace 
the  history  of  the  numerous  family  of  Simon  that 
appears  to  have  been  settled  at  Canterbury, 
though  I  think  it  not  at  all  improbable  that  there 
may  have  been  some  connection  between  the  two 
families.  I  believe  that  many  Protestant  refugees 
were  also  settled  at  Maidstone ;  and  I  should  be 
obliged  by  any  information  respecting  any  family 
resident  in  that  town,  in  the  time  of  Charles  I.,  of 
the  name  of  Simon,  Russe,  De  La  Marike,  or 
Fautrart. 

The  Abraham  Semon,  who  was  in  Bishopsgate 
Ward  in  1618,  could  not  be  the  son  of  Pierre 
Simon,  who  was  not  married  till  1611;  but  he 
may  very  well  have  been  his  brother. 

P.  S.  CAREY. 

"  WHO    STEALS    MY    PURSE    STEALS   TRASH,"   &C. 

(3rd  S.  i.  266.)  —The  coincidence  noticed  by  P.  P. 
was  pointed  out  by  Mr.  Staunton,  in  his  edition 
of  Shakspeare,  vol.  iii.  p.  711.  W.  McM. 

SIR  JOHN  CURWEN  (3rd  S.  i.  328.)— A.  F.  C.  has 
fallen  into  a  very  absurd  misnomer  in  adopting 
"  Sir  John  Cherubin"  as  the  name  of  the  person 
commemorated  by  an  ancient  gravestone  in  Brad- 
ing church,  Isle  of  Wight.  The  real  spelling  of 
the  inscription  is  Cherowin,  and  Sir  John  was 
one  of  the  well-known  family  of  Curwen  of  Cum- 
berland. He  was  Constable  of  Porchester  Castle, 
and  died  in  1441.  As  the  slab  is  incised  or  en- 
graved, not  inlaid  with  brass  plates,  it  is  not 
catalogued  in  the  Oxford  Manual  of  Monumental 
Brasses;  but  it  will  be  found  fully  described  in 
the  Archaologia  of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries, 


vol.  xxix.  p.  373  ;  and  an  etching  of  it  is  given  in  | 
the    Transactions    of   the   British   Archaeological  \ 
Association,   at   its    Winchester    Congress,   1845, 
plate  17.  J-  GL  N. 

Your  correspondent  A.  F.  C.  has  been  misled 
by  the  guide-book,  to  which  he  alludes.  I  have 
to-day  inspected  the  engraved  slab  in  Brading 
church  (representations  of  which  I  believe  have 
been  several  times  published),  and  have  found  the 
person  commemorated  to  be,  not  Sir  John  Cheru- 
bin, but  the  "  nobilis  vir  [JOHANNES]  CHEROWIN, 
ARMIGER,"  who  died  on  the  last  day  of  October, 
1441.  It  is  further  stated  in  the  inscription,  that 
"dum  vivebat"  he  was  "  connestabularius  castri 
de  Porcester."  The  "  Johannes,"  which  I  have 
placed  within  brackets,  is  now  covered  by  the 
altar  rail. 

What  a  pity  it  is  that  we  have  no  guide-books 
or  hand-books  that  can  be  depended  upon  in  little 
matters  of  this  kind.  The  one  mentioned  by 
A.  F.  C.,  with  those  which  I  have  seen,  are  all 
full  of  omissions  and  careless  mistakes,  even  in  the 
few  lines  devoted  to  a  little  place  like  Brading. 

BATRYDE. 

TRAVERS  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  231,  296.)  — I  am 
abliged  to  C.  J.  R.  and  A.  Z.  for  their  communi- 
cations. I  happen  fortunately  to  possess  a  deal  of 
information  about  the  Irish  branch  of  this  family 
referred  to  by  A.  Z.,  but  my  more  immediate  ob- 
ject is  to  get  a  decisive  solution  of  the  question  — 
Who  was  the  father  of  John  Travers,  ironmonger 
of  Chester?  For  his  Puritan  principles  he  was 
compelled  to  flee  that  city,  and  came  to  All  Hal- 
lows, Barking,  London,  dying  there  either  1672 
or  1674.  Could  any  gentleman  connected  with 
the  Ironmongers'  Company  of  Chester  furnish  me 
with  the  requisite  information  ? 

SIDNEY  YOUNG. 

4,  Martin's  Lane,  E.G. 

INTERMENTS  IN  DONNYBROOK  PARISH,  NEAR 
DUBLIN  (2nd  S.  xii.  470  ;  3rd  S.  i.  320.)  —  Since  I 
sent,  my  Query,  I  have  been  able  to  identify  two 
of  those  respecting  whom  I  wished  for  some  in- 
formation :  — 

No.  14.  "  John^Joeslin,  Esq.,  18th  December,  1765." 

In  Enshaws  Magazine,  1765,  p.  784,  the  follow- 
ing announcement  of  his  death  may  be  found  :  — 

"  December  17,  John  Jocelyn,  Esq.,  a  Major  on  half- 
pay,  and  nearly  allied  to  the  Right  Hon.  Lord  Viscount 
Jocelyn." 

No.  15.  "  Chitwood  Eustace,  Esq.,  28th  May,  1766." 

His  death  is  likewise  recorded  in  Enshaw's 
Magazine,  1766,  p.  444  :  — 

"  May  26,  Chetwood  Eustace  of  Harristown,  co.  Kil- 
dare,  Esq." 

With  regard  to  "Madam  Claxton,"  who  was 
interred  19th  November,  1727,  I  may  observe, 
that  she  was  probably  the  mother  of  Thomas 
Claxton,  Esq.,  of  Dublin  ;  whose  daughter  Frances 


8"»  S.  I.  MAT  10,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


379 


(relict  of  Richard  Gore,  first  Earl  of  Ross,)  mar- 
ried Robert  Jocelyn,  Lord  Newport,  15th  Novem- 
ber, 1754,  and  died  25th  May,  1772  (Archdall's 
Lodges  Peerage  of  Ireland,  vol.  iii.  p.  269).  The 
connexion  of  the  Jocelyn  family  with  Donny- 
brook  in  times  past  is  well  known.  ABHBA. 

CROMWELL  LEE  (3rd  S.  i.  310.)  —  Cromwell 
Lee,  who  was  a  member  of  St.  John's  College, 
Oxford,  and  in  a  MS.  pedigree  in  my  possession 
is  styled  "  of  Holywell,"  with  a  note  added,  "  An- 
cestors settled  in  Ireland,"  married  Mary,  daugh- 
ter of  Sir  John  Harcourt,  Knt.,  and  relict  of 
Richard  Taverner,  Esq.  (Arms  of  Harcourt : 
Gules,  two  bars  or.)  There  are  at  least  four  or 
five  branches  or  representatives  of  the  Quarrendon 
Lees,  at  present  existing  in  Ireland,  viz.  the  Lees 
of  Barna,  co.  Tipperary ;  the  Lee-Guinesses  of 
Ashford  Park  and  Dublin ;  the  Rev.  Dr.  Lee  of 
Trinity  College,  Dublin  (a  younger  branch  of  the 
Barna  family) ;  and  Lord  Viscount  Dillon  (Lee- 
Dillon),  whose  great-grandfather  married  Lady 
Charlotte,  eldest  daughter  of  George  Henry, 
second  Earl  of  Litchfield.  All  bear  the  old  arms 
of  the  family,  with  trifling  modifications  for  dis- 
tinction. The  Rev.  A.  T.  Lee,  Rector  of  Ahog- 
hill,  is  also  of  the  same  family,  but  traces  his 
descent  through  the  father  of  the  founder  of  the 
Quarrendon  branch, — John  Lee,  of  Lee  Hall,  co. 
Chester  ;  who  married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir 
Ralph  Hocknell,  Knt.,  of  Hocknell,  in  the  same 
county.  F.  G.  L. 

Fountain  Hall,  Aberdeen. 

KING  or  SPAIN  (3rd  S.  i.  248,  335.)— That 
Alphonso  X.  was  intended  is,  I  should  suppose, 
beyond  question :  but  I  am  not  aware  that  he  was 
himself  either  learned  in  astronomical  theory,  or 
given  to  astronomical  observation.  And  his  his- 
tory, as  usually  told,  is  that  of  a  king  who  was 
busy  enough  with  politics  and  administration. 
!The  Alphonsine  Tables  were  drawn  up  by  his 
Jewish  or  Mahometan  astronomers.  There  is  a 
Dispute  as  to  who  actually  compiled  them:  but 
the  king  himself  is  not  one  of  the  parties  to  whom 
they  are  assigned.  Historians  have  more  than 
once  given  to  persons  of  eminent  rank  the  reputa- 
tion of  actual  cultivation  of  the  sciences  which 
they  patronised.  Thus  Duke  Humphry  of  Glou- 
cester had  at  one  time  the  reputation  of  an  astro- 
nomer,  upon  the  strength  of  some  astronomical 

,'t  tables  which  he  suggested  and  aided  with  his 
purse,  and  which  the  author  therefore  called  after 
him.  It  is  shameful  that  this  worthy  duke's  name 

',  should  be  associated  with  want  of  a  dinner :  for 
he  was  celebrated  for  his  hospitality  to  men  of 
knowledge ;  some  of  whom  would  now  and  then 
Save  dined  with  the  mythical  duke,  if  it  had  not 

,:   been  for  the  real  one.  A.  DE  MORGAN. 

*•       THE  KING'S   EVIL  (3rd  S.  i.  313,  &c.)  —  An 
is    interesting  "  Essay  on  the  History  of  the  Royal 


Touch "  was  communicated  to  the  Archaeological 
Journal  in  1853  by  Mr.  Kdw.  Law  Hussey  (one 
of  the  surgeons  to  the  lladcliflfe  Infirmary,  Ox- 
ford), and  was  re-issued  from  thence  in  the  form 
of  a  pamphlet.  The  same  gentleman  has  since 
then,  I  believe,  accumulated  many  additional  ma- 
terials, with  a  view  to  the  re-publication  of  his 
paper  at  some  time  in  an  extended  form. 

W.  D.  MACBAT. 

COIN  OE  MEDAL  or  QUEEN  VICTOBIA  (3rd  S.  i. 
330.)  -—  In  reply  to  Y.  Z  ,  I  think  I  am  correct 
in  saying  that  the  piece  alluded  to  was  intended 
for  circulation  as  a  coin,  but  that  it  was  found  to 
be  too  delicate  to  stand  wear  and  tear.  I  believe 
that  only  1,000  were  struck  off,  one  of  which  is  in 
the  possession  of  a  relative  of  mine,  from  whom  I 
learnt  these  particulars  some  five  years  ago. 

GEORGE  F.  CHAMBERS. 

Kensington. 

In  answer  to  Y.  Z.,  the  coin  he  refers  to  of  her 
Majesty  Queen  Victoria,  is  the  pattern  gothic 
crown,  date  1847,  with  the  motto  "Tueatur  unita 
Deus." 

As  to  his  statement  that  collectors  give  ten 
sovereigns  for  a  specimen,  he  must  have  been 
greatly  misinformed,  as  there  are  plenty  to  be  pur- 
chased at  from  ten  shillings  to  a  pound  each. 

A.  MOULTON. 

WAGNEB  (3'd  S.  i.  330.)  —  Has  A.  M.  W. 
searched  the  Registers  of  St.  James's,  Westmin- 
ster? George  Wagner  and  his  son  Melchior 
were  carrying  on  business,  as  hatters,  in  Pall  Mall 
in  1785-95.  X. 

TITLE-PAGES  (3rd  S.  i.  250.)  — 

1.  "  Reflexions  upon  the  Devotions  of  the  Roman 
Church  with  the  Prayers,  Hymns,  and  Lessons  them- 
selves taken  out  of  their  authentick  Books.  In  three 
parts.  The  First  Part  containing  their  Devotions  to 
Saints  and  Angels.  Also,  Two  Digressions  concerning 
the  Reliquea  and  Miracles  in  Mr.  Cressy's  late  Church 
History.  Utinam  tarn  facile  vera  invenire  pattern,  quam 
falsa  convincere.  Cicero  apud  Lactantium,  de  Orig. 
Erroris,  lib.  2.  London :  Printed  for  Richard  Royston, 
Bookseller  to  his  most  sacred  Majesty,  1674." 

My  copy,  in  old  binding,  is  lettered  "  J.  Patrick 
on  Romish  Devotions."  FITZHOPKINS. 

Garrick  Club. 

PALM  (3rd  S.  i.  230,  295.)  —  Immediately  on 
reading  the  Query  concerning  the  Italian  palm,  I 
forwarded  a  reply;  which,  as  it  contained  some 
slight  inaccuracies,  I  am  rather  pleased  to  find 
omitted.  I  have  now  before  me  a  copy  of 

"  Le  Caissier  Italien,  ou  1'Art  de  connoitre  toutes  les 
Monnoies  ...  etc.  ...  les  Poids,  Mesvret,  et  autres 
Objets  re'latifs  au  Commerce."  FoL,  Lyons,  1787. 

In  vol.  i.  p.  25,  is  an  engraving  of  a  Roman 
palm :  — 

"Mesure  des  corps  <?tendus  —  on  se  sert  &  Rome  poor 
mesurer  toutes  Ut  etoffes  en  general,  de  la  Canne,  qa  on 


380 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  MAY  10,  '62. 


divise  en  huit  Palmes  —  Quatre  Palmes  f  correspondent 
a  une  Aune  de  France." 

I  have  accurately  measured  the  engraved  palm, 
and  find  its  length  to  be  9|  inches  ;  thus  differing 
considerably  from  the  length  given  by  A.  A. 

In  p.  65,  of  the  same  volume,  there  is  an  en- 
graving of  the  "  Palmo  de  Naples,"  which  exactly 
measures  lOf  inches  English.  The  same  page  in- 
forms us  that  the  standard  measure  for  "  les  corns 
etendus,"  at  Naples,  is  also  the  "  Canne,  composee 
de  8  Palmi"  ;  and  that  4|  of  these  "  Palmi"  corre- 
spond to  the  French  "  aune." 

In  p.  291  is  a  drawing  of  a  French  "  quart 
d'aune,"  which  measures  llf  inches  :  so  that,  ac- 
cording to  this,  the  French  "aune"  measures  46£ 
inches. 

In  Le  Livre  utile  aux  Negocians  de  I  Europe^ 
Bruxelles  (1767?),  8vo,  p.  268,  there  is  a  note 
which  says  that  the  "aune  de  France  contient 
524  lignes  du  pied  de  Hoi." 

I  may  add,  in  reference  to  the  answer  of  A.  A., 
that,  under  the  heads  of  Florence  and  Sardinia, 
no  allusion  is  made  in  Le  Caissier,  Sfc.,  to  any 
such  measure  of  extension  as  the  palm ;  but,  on 
the  contrary,  it  is  stated  in  p.  103,  under  the 
head  "  Toscane,"  that  of  "  corps  etendus  "  :  "  il 
n'y  a  actuellement  qiCune  seule  mesure  dans  toute 
la  Toscane  qu'on  appelle  TSraccio  ou  Bras,  quatre 
des  quels  forment  une  canne."  A  drawing  of  the 
Florentine  demi-bras  measures  llf  inches. 

CHESSBOROUGH  HARBERTON. 

KENTISH  MILLER  (3rd  S.  i.  335.)  — This  is 
merely  a  rifaccimento  of  the  old  epitaph  on  Duran- 
dus,  the  author  of  the  Rationale  :  — 

"  Hie  jacet  durus  Durandus  sub  marmore  duro ; 
An  sit  salvandus  nee  scio,  nee  quoque  euro." 

A,  A. 
Poets'  Corner. 

"  THE  STARS  OF  NIGHT  "  (3rd  S.  i.  290.)  —  The 
poem  referred  to  by  Mr.  J.  C.  HUNTER  appeared  in 
The  Athenceum  of  September  18,  1841,  and  is 
signed  "  F.  B."  G. 

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1,000  397  10*.  1,997  10*. 

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CONTENTS— N«.  20. 

NOTES:  — Dean  Swift  and  the  Scriblerians  v.  Dr.  Wag- 
staffe,  381  —  Hannah  Green,  commonly  called  "  Lint? 
Bob,"  384  —  "  The  Dying  Speeches  and  Prayers  of  the  Re- 
gicides," Ib. 

MINOR  NOTES:  — Broom  of  the  Gowdenknowes  —  Haber- 
dasher —  Longevity,  and  Three  Sets  of  Teeth  —  "  The 
Silent  Sister  "  —  The  Surname  Foley,  385. 

QUERIES:  —Athenian  Mansion  —  The  Arms  of  D'Arcy  — 
Annals  of  Ulster—  J.  Cole—  Henry  Ellison  —  Rev.  Dr.  B. 
Gardiner  —  Lady  Hamilton :  Nelson  Reliques  —  Kings- 
bridge,  Co.  Devon  — Lacemakers'  Custom :  Wigs,  &  Sort  of 
Cake  —  Medal :  Naval  Victory  of  La  Hogue  in  1692  — 
Moorings  in  the  Thames  —  P.  D.,  a  Painter  —  Lord  Pal- 
merstone's  Family  —  Rev.  T.  Polwheel  —  Poor  Poll  —  Pos- 
session Nine  Points  of  the  Law  —  Prideaux  Family  — 
Prayers  for  the  Great  Fire  of  London  —  Richdale  Family 

—  Rev.  Sydney  Smith  —  State  Coaches  —  Talreus's  "  Com- 
mentaries "— Toads  in  Rocks —White  Quakers  —  Her- 
mitages in  Worcestershire,  386. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS  :  —  Epitaph  —  Geast  and  Dugdale 
Families  —  Pantin's  Hebrew  Bibles  —  Tory  —  Thomas  Ig- 
natius Maria  Forster  — Anonymous  Tract,  389. 

REPLIES:  —  Origin  of  the  Word  "Superstition,"  390  — 
Postage  Stamps,  393  —  Reproduction  of  old  Witticisms,  394 

—  Heraldic  Volume  — The  Opal  Hunter  — Musse  Etonen- 
ses :  R.  Anstey  —  Maclean  of  Torloisk  -  Praise-God  Bare- 
bones— Relative  Value  of  Money  — Not  too  good  to  be 
true  —  Sir  John  Strange  —  Lastingham  Church  —  Fitz- 
William  Peerage  —  Coins  in  Tankards  —  Lea  Wilson's  Cata- 
logue of  Bibles,  &c.  —  Mode  and  Date  of  Execution  of  the 
Marquis  of  Argyle— Sun  and  Whalebone,  &c.,  394. 

Notes  on  Books. 


ftotrtf* 

DEAN  SWIFT  AND  THE  SCRIBLERIANS  v.  DR. 
WAGSTAFFE. 

Who  wrote,  or  who  compiled,  the  Miscellaneous 
Works  of  Dr.  William  Wagstaffe  ?  and  who  wrote 
the  Memoir  prefixed  to  the  volume  ?  The  ques- 
tion may  at  first  appear  somewhat  absurd,  seeing 
that  we  have  a  long  account  of  the  Doctor  and 
his  writings  in  Chalmers's  Biographical  Diction- 
ary ;  but  that  account  is  taken  substantially  from 
Nichols's  Anecdotes,  and  Nichols's  is  avowedly 
from  the  Memoir.  Nichols  indeed  adds  one  not 
unimportant  paragraph  :  for  he  tells  us  that  "  his 
[Wagstafle's]  character  was  thus  given  by  an 
eminent  physician,  soon  after  his  death  :  '  He  was 
no  less  valued  for  his  skill  in  his  profession,  which 
he  showed  in  several  useful  treatises,  than  admired 
for  his  ivit  and  facetiousness  in  conversation.' " 
This,  which  looks  like  an  independent  testimony, 
is  however  taken,  italics  and  all,  from  the  title- 
page  of  the  same  miscellaneous  volume  :  so  that 
all  we  have  for  authority  is  the  anonymous  col- 
lector, the  anonymous  Memoir-writer,  and  the 
anonymous  physician. 

Now,  without  reference  to  the  Memoir,  all  the 
information  I  can  collect  is,  that  William  Wag- 
staffe took  the  degree  of  M.D.  at  Oxford  in  1714; 
that  William  Wagstaffe  appears,  in  1723,  in  Cham- 
berlayne's  List  of  the  College  of  Physicians,  and 

one  of  the  physicians  to  St.  Bartholomew's  Hos- 


\: 


pital ;  and  The  Political  State  records  that,  on  the 
27th  May,  1725,  there  was  an  election  for  a  phy- 
sician at  St.  Bartholomew's  "in  the  room  of  the 
late  Dr.  Wagstaffe,  who  died  not  long  before  at 
the  Bath."  Thus  far  we  are  on  safe  ground; 
but  there  is  not  a  word  here  that  helps  to  esta- 
blish the  paternity  of  any  one  of  the  pieces  in- 
cluded in  the  volume  of  Wagstaffe's  Miscellanies, 
nor  any  hint  from  which  we  can  conjecture  what 
were  his  other  "  Works,"  which,  from  the  publica- 
tion of  his  "  Miscellaneous  Works,"  it  might  be 
inferred  that  he  had  written  ;  nor  the  name  of  any 
one  of  the  "  several  useful  treatises ; "  —  indeed 
all  I  can  learn  from  Dr.  Munk's  Roll  of  the  Col- 
lege of  Physicians,  and  from  a  search  in  the 
British  Museum,  is,  that  Wm.  WagstafFe  pub- 
lished A  Letter  showing  the  Danger  and  Uncer- 
tainty of  Inoculating  for  the  Smallpox,  the  third 
edition  of  which  was  published  in  1722  by  Samuel 
Butler,  in  Holborn. 

But  it  may  be  asked,  by  those  who  have  not 
the  volume  to  refer  to,  Does  not  the  writer  of  the 
Memoir  say  anything  from  which  we  may  infer 
his  authority  ?  I  think  he  does,  and  the  explan- 
ation is  curious :  for  he  tells  us  that  the  several 
pieces  were  originally  "  published  without  a  name ; 
so  it  is  presumed  the  Doctor  never  did  intend  it 
should  be  known  who  wrote  them ;  but  the  per- 
son who  had  the  copies  of  them,  thinking  it  worth 
his  while  to  reprint  them  at  this  time,  it  was 
judged  proper  to  give  the  public  this  account 
both  of  the  author  and  his  writings." 

It  is  strange,  if  the  Doctor  "  never  did  intend 
it  should  be  known  who  wrote"  these  several 
tracts  and  pamphlets,  that  some  one,  (another 
anonymous  be  it  observed,)  should  know  him  to  be 
the  writer,  should  have  preserved  copies  of  all, 
and,  in  defiance  of  the  Doctor's  wish,  be  ready 
for  a  republication  so  soon  as  the  Doctor  should 
die.  This,  at  least,  is  obvious,— that  the  public 
were  at  the  mercy  of  this  anonymous  collector, 
who  might  have  doubled  the  collection  had  he 
thought  it  "  worth  his  while." 

It  is  more  strange,  that  it  is  impossible  to  read 
many  of  the  papers  contained  in  the  collection 
without  a  conviction,  amounting  almost  to  cer- 
tainty, that  Swift  was  the  writer.  Sir  Walter 
Scott  said  of  one,  that  it  contained  internal  marks 
of  Swift ;  of  another,  that  it  was  probably  written 
under  his  direction  ;  of  a  third,  that  it  has  strong 
marks  of  Swift :  but  puzzled  by  the  Memoir- 
writer,  he  assumed  that  Wagstaffe  must  have  been 
"  an  under- spur  leather  "  of  Swift.  What  shadow 
of  evidence  is  there,  beyond  the  Memoir,  tending 
to  show  that  there  was  any  "  under- spur  leather" 
at  all ? 

The  Wagstaffe  Miscellanies  were  published  in 
1726  — the  very  time  that  Swift  was  collecting 
and  selecting  the  tracts,  squibs,  and  pamphlets 
which  he  was  about  to  issue  as  the  Miscellanies 


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in  prose  and  verse  of  Swift  and  Pope,  published 
in  1727.  There  must  have  been  many  squibs 
and  pamphlets  written,  between  1710  and  1714, 
in  his  days  of  political  savagery,  which  Swift  might 
not  choose  to  own ;  and  it  is  certainly  extraor- 
dinary that,  so  far  as  I  can  discover,  these  Wag- 
staffe  Miscellanies,  with  one  exception  which  I 
will  hereafter  notice,  were  written  within  these 
exact  limits  of  time ;  though  Wagstaffe  lived  more 
than  a  dozen  years  afterwards,  and  then  died  at 
the  early  age  of  forty  ;  and  they  were  all  pub- 
lished by  Morphew,  Swift's  publisher  at  that  time. 
Swift  and  Pope  acknowledged  in  the  Preface  to 
their  avowed  Miscellanies,  that  it  contained  per- 
sonalities which  they  now  regret :  — 

"  In  regard  to  two  persons  only  we  wish  our  raillery, 
though  ever  so  tender,  or  resentment,  though  ever  so 
just,  had  not  been  indulged.  We  speak  of  Sir  John  Van- 
burgh,  who  was  a  man  of  wit  arid  of  honour;  and  of  Mr. 
Addison,  whose  name  deserves  all  respect  from  every 
lover  of  learning." 

But  the  attacks  on  Steele,  which  are  the  marking 
characteristics  of  some  of  these  Wagstaffe  Miscel- 
lanies, were  beyond  tender  raillery ;  they  were 
coarse,  and  in  some  instances  brutal  —  written 
with  a  personal  knowledge  of  the  man  and  his 
most  private  concernments  ;  from  which  personal 
acquaintance,  if  not  friendship,  must  be  inferred. 
There  is  reference  to  his  personal  appearance, 
his  manners,  morals,  imprisonment,  and  to  the 
nature  of  the  claims  of  the  creditors,  who,  we 
are  told,  arrested  him  for  the  maintenance  of  his 
illegitimate  children.  Toby  insults  him  as  an  up- 
start Irishman,  who  has  set  up  for  a  gentleman  on 
some  little  estate  he  had  got  in  Wales  by  his 
wife's  mother's  death.  He  is  called  ajay,  made 
up  of  feathers  from  other  birds  —  told  that  "he 
borrowed  his  humour  of  Kstcourt,  his  criticism  of 
Addison,  his  poetry  of  Pope  ;"  —  no  mention  of  his 
obligations  to  Swift;  —  that  his  chief  assistants 
had  deserted  him,  though  I  doubt  if,  at  that  time, 
any  had  deserted  him  except  Swift  and  Pope ; 
says  his  reputation  is  as  dead  as  Partridge ;  that 
he  has  undertaken  to  overturn  the  Ministry  in 
one  session,  which  "  my  Lord  Wharton  and 
Somers  have  been  foiled  at  for  years."  Swift  de- 
clared himself  to  have  been  ill-treated  by  both 
these  noblemen,  and  avowedly  hated  them  both  ; 
but  why  should  Wagstaffe  select  them  specially  ? 
Steele  is  accused  of  ingratitude  :  of  "  throwing 
dirt  and  abusing  the  unblemished  character  of  a 
Minister  of  State,  by  whose  interest  alone  he  has 
been  continued  in  the  Stamp  Office" — "  a  man  of 
such  public  and  enlarged  spirit  is  as  well  qualified 
as  any  Judas  of  them  all  to  betray  his  friend."  Now 
what  personal  wrongs  had  Wagstaffe  to  complain 
of?  Why  should  he  protest  against  this  Judas, 
and  this  vile  betrayal  of  a  friend  ?  How  should  he 
know  of  this  special  favour  of  Barley's  ?  But 
these  are  the  very  charges  preferred  against  Steele 


in  Swift's  letter  to  Addison  of  13th  May,  1713: 
"  Mr.  Steele  knows  very  well  that  my  Lord  Trea- 
surer has  kept  him  in  his  employment  upon  my 
treaty  and  intercession  ...  I  was  reproached  by 
my  Lord  Treasurer  upon  the  ill- returns  Mr. 
Steele  made  to  his  Lordship's  indulgence."  The 
same  feeling  is  more  than  once  shown  in  the 
Journal  to  Stella,  where  he  notices  Steele's  "  devil- 
ish ingratitude." 

It  may  be  asked,  and  very  reasonably,  why,  if 
Swift  had  a  twinge  of  conscience  about  having 
written  these  virulent  attacks  on  his  old  friend, 
did  he  republish  them  ?  I  reply,  to  prevent  other 
people  doing  so ;  and  he  republished,  under  the 
name  of  Wagstaffe,  to  prevent  the  name  of  Swift 
from  being  prefixed  "  as  it  had  been,"  he  said,  "to 
works  he  did  not  write ;"  and,  no  doubt,  to  works 
that  he  did  not  choose  to  acknowledge.  In  fact, 
Swift's  name  was  prefixed  to  Toby's  "  Character 
of  Richard  Steele,"  in  Gulliveriana,  where  we  are 
told :  — 

"  This  success  of  Sir  Richard  Steele  so  incensed  the 
party,  that  the}'  took  every  measure  to  distress  him.  They 
turned  him  out  of  his  employment,  and  they  expelled 
him  the  House  of  Commons.  His  fortune  was  broke, 
and  his  person  and  life  were  reckoned  to  be  in  danger; 
and  it  was  under  these  prosperous  circumstances  that 
the  pious  and  humane  Captain  [Swift]  sends  Toby,  in 
his  ridiculous  way,  to  support  and  comfort  him.  That 
very  Captain,  who  was  Steele's  old  friend  and  fellow- 
writer.  That  Captain!  whom  Steele  loved,  and  never 
disobliged  unless  it  could  be  by  his  writing  in  favour  of 
our  Constitution  against  the  Pretender. 

"  But  I'll  detain  you  no  longer  from  the  entertainment 
of  Master  Toby  alias  Gulliver,  alias  Sw — t,alias  Examiner, 

alias  D — n  of  St.  P 's,  alias  Draper,  alias  Bickerstaff, 

alias  Remarker,  alias  Journalist  alias  Sonnetteer,  alias 
Scriblerus." 

Even  the  Wagstaffe  Memoir- writer  has  a  touch 
of  tenderness  such  as  might  have  been  felt  by 
Swift,  so  many  years  after  the  fever  of  contro- 
versy had  subsided ;  and  he  acknowledges,  as 
Swift  had  acknowledged,  in  the  Preface  to  the 
avowed  Miscellanies,  that  — 

"  The  character  of  Richard  St— le,  Esq.,  does  indeed 
want  some  apology  to  be  made  for  it ;  because  it  seems 
to  bear  too  hard  upon  a  gentleman  of  known  parts  and 
abilities,  though  of  contrary  principles  to  the  Doctor  .... 
The  Doctor,  who  had  some  friends  in  the  Ministry,  thought 
he  could  not  take  a  better  way  to  oblige  them  than  by 
thus  showing  his  dislike  to  a  gentleman  who  had  so 
much  endeavoured  on  all  occasions  to  oppose  them. 
Though  this  I  may  say  for  him,  that  he  was  so  far  from 
having  any  personal  peak  or  enmity  against  the  gentle- 
man whose  character  he  wrote,  that,  at  the  time  of  his 
writing  it,  I  do  believe,  he  did  not  so  much  as  know  him 
even  by  sight,  whatever  he  might  afterwards." 

Let  any  one  read  the  "  Character"  thus  referred 
to,  and  say  whether  the  writer  did  or  did  not 
know  Steele  personally, — not  "even  by  sight." 
Steele,  in  the  very  last  number  of  The  English- 
man, refers  to  the  many  invectives  which  that 
paper  had  brought  on  him ;  and,  amongst  others, 


3rd  S.  I.  MAY  17,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


383 


to  "  a  very  notable  piece  called  {  Toby's  Character 
of  Mr.  Steele  ' "  ;  and  he  adds  :  — 

"  I  think  I  know  the  author  of  this;  and  to  show  him 
I  know  no  revenge  but  in  the  method  of  heaping  coals  on 
his  head  by  benefits,  I  forbear  giving  him  what  he  de- 
serves ;  for  no  other  reason,  but  that  /  know  his  sensibility 
of  reproach  is  such,  as  that  he  would  be  unable  to  bear 
life  itself,  under  half  the  ill-language  he  has  given  me." 

Did  this  apply  to  the  illustrious  obscure,  Dr. 
Wagstaff,  "  who  did  not  so  much  as  know  him  "  ; 
or  to  his  old  friend  and  former  fellow-labourer, 
Dean  Swift  ? 

Swift  delighted  in  mystification.  We  all  know 
the  famous  papers  he  wrote  under  the  name  of 
Bickerstaff:  that  we  are  indebted  to  his  sugges- 
tion for  the  "  Lucubrations  of  Isaac  Bickerstaff," 
who  claimed  kindred  with  "  all  the  family  of  the 
Staffs,"  including  Jacobstaff,  Longstaff,  Wagstaff, 
Quarterstaff,  Whitestaff,  Falstaff,  Tipstaff,  Distaff, 
Pikestaff,  Mopstaff,  Broomstaff,  Raggedstaff;  and 
was  subsequently  graciously  pleased  to  receive 
"  as  kinsman  "  Mr.  Proctorstaff  of  Cambridge,  and 
others  ;  and  that  he  published  his  own  Polite  Con- 
versation under  the  name  of  "  Simon  Wagstaffe." 

This  Character  of  Richard  Steele,  as  I  before 
observed,  was  published  by  Morphew,  at  that  time 
Swift's  publisher.  As  Swift  suggested  the  name 
of  Bickerstaffe  for  the  writer  of  The  Tatler,  he 
may  have  suggested  Morphew  as  the  publisher. 
Steele,  however,  quarrelled  with  Morphew ;  The 
Taller  was  given  up,  and  The  Spectator  started 
with  another  publisher  :  but  Morphew  remained 
silent  until  Swift  openly  quarrelled  with  Steele, 
and  forthwith  Morphew  became  active  in  his  hos- 
,  tility.  He  not  only  published  Toby's  Character 
of  Richard  Steele,  but  A  Letter  from  the  facetious 
Dr.  Andrew  Tripe,  at  Bath,  to  the  Venerable  Nes- 
tor Ironsides  (the  name  under  which  Steele  wrote 
The  Guardian}  —  a  bitter  satire  on  Steele,  as 
Scott  acknowledges ;  and  one  of  which,  no  doubt, 
on  reflection,  Swift  was  ashamed.  Now  if  the 
strange  name  of  Tripe  be  not  so  intimately  asso- 
ciated with  Swift  as  that  of  Wagstaffe,  it  was 
more  so  at  that  time  than  with  any  other.  The 
poem  called  The  Swan  Tripe  Club,  published  in 
Dublin,  1704,  had  been  republished  in  London  by 
Tonson  as  by  "  the  author  of  The  Tale  of  a  Tub" 

The  reasons  I  have  suggested  for  the  publica- 
tion of  the  Wagstaffe  Miscellanies  would  scarcely 
excuse  the  republication  of  Tripe's  letter;  yet, 
among  these  Miscellanies  we  find  "  A  Letter  from 
the  facetious  Dr.  Andrew  Tripe,  at  Bath  " ;  and 
Pope,  in  the  Testimonies  prefixed  to  The  Dunciad, 
makes  profitable  use  of  the  fact.  He,  it  appears, 
knew  of  the  publication  of  the  Wagstaffe  volume  ; 
and  he  tells  us,  as  we  had  been  told  before  in  the 
Preface  to  the  Swift  and  Pope  Miscellanies,  that 
the  Grub  Street  people,  to  lower  the  author's 
success,  persevere  in  attributing  to  him  works  he 
never  wrote — even  works  "owned  by  others";  and 


then  instances  The  What  d'ye  Call  It,  "  which  is 
Mr.  Gay's,"  and  "  the  pamphlet  called  4  Dr.  An- 
drew Tripe,'  which  proves  to  be  one  Dr.  Wag- 
staffes?  By  this  reference  it  appears,  that  though 
Pope  knew  of  this  obscure  volume,  the  public 
could  have  known  very  little  of  the  writer  who  is 
here  described  as  "one  Dr.  Wagstaffe."  Yet  a 
more  remarkable  fact  is,  that  the  »*  Letter  from 
Dr.  Andrew  Tripe  of  Bath,"  published  among 
Wagstaffe's  Miscellanies,  and  which  publication 
{  was  turned  to  such  profitable  use,  is  a  wholly 
|  different  work  from  The  Letter  from  Dr.  Andrew 
|  Tripe  of  Bath  —  the  bitter  satire  on  Steele,  which 
the  Scriblerians  were  accused  of  having  written. 
I  give  here  the  full  title  of  the  tract  in  this  Wag- 
staffe volume  :  — 

"  A  Letter  from  the  facetious  Dr.  Andrew  Tripe,  at 
Bath,  to  his  loving  Brother,  the  Profound  Greshamite, 
showing  that  the  Scribendi  Cacoethea  is  a  Distemper 
arising  from  a  redundancy  of  Biliose  Salts ;  and  not  to  be 
eradicated  but  by  a  diurnal  Course  of  Oils  and  Vomits. 
With  an  Appendix  concerning  the  Application  of  Socra- 
tes his  Clyster,  and  the  use  of  clean  Linen  in  Contro- 
versy." 

I  have  not  succeeded  in  finding  a  copy  of  the 
original  publication,  and'the  reprint  has  not  that 
"  Appendix"  which  is  so  full  of  humorous  promise 
in  the  title-page.  There  is  no  copy  in  the  British 
Museum;  and  though  the  title  figures  in  the 
Catalogue  of  the  Library  of  the  Medical  Society, 
prepared  in  1829,  no  copy  is  to  be  found  in  the 
library.  It  is  a  medical  satire,  and  could  not 
have  been  written  before  1719  or  1720,  many 
years  after  the  Morphew  battery  had  been  silent, 
but  when  Arbuthnot  and  Pope,  and  the  Scrible- 
rians, were  active  in  their  attack  on  "  the  pro- 
found Greshamite,"  Dr.  Woodward  ;  and  I  should 
say  it  probably  originated  with  the  Scriblerians, 
and  was  written  by  Arbuthnot. 

It  would  be  impossible,  within  any  reasonable 
limits,  to  enter  into  a  like  examination  of  the 
other  contents  of  this  Wagstaffe  volume ;  but  I 
may  briefly  observe  that  The  Story  of  the  St.  Alban's 
Ghost,  a  skit  on  the  Duchess  of  Marlborough, 
was  thought  by  Scott,  "  from  the  style,"  and  the 
severity  with  which  Dr.  Garth  was  treated,  to 
have  been  the  joint  work  of  Swift  and  Arbuthnot. 
But  if  Dr.  Arbuthnot  was  assisting,  why  did  Swift 
require  the  further  assistance  of  Dr.  Wagstaffe  ? 

The  Comment  on  the  History  of  Tom  Thumb,* 
\  parody  on  Addison's  criticism  on  Chevy  Chase,  is 
j  an  amusing  trifle,  which  might  have  been  written 
I  by  anyone ;  and  it  is  not  improbable,  and  is  very 
I  much  after  the  fashion  of  the  Scriblerians,  that 
I  they    introduced   some   trifles   of  this   character 
into  the  Wagstaffe  volume  as  a  misleading  light. 
But  the  parody   contains  more  than  one  skit  at 
I  Swift's  old  antagonist  Dr.  Bentley  — on  Black- 
more   and    his   Arthur:    and    the   writer    refers 
certain  disputed   points   to   the  decision  of  the 


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[3'd  S.  I.  MAY  17,  '62. 


author  of  The  Tale  of  a  Tub.  It  was  evidently 
thrown  off  at  a  moment;  and  though  there  is 
no  ill  feeling  in  it,  I  do  not  think  it  would 
have  been  written  by  anyone  in  perfect  good 
humour  with  Addison.  Now  Addisori's  papers 
appeared  in  The  Spectator  in  May,  1711,  when 
Swift  was  very  angry  with  Addison  as  well  as 
with  Steele,  as  appears  from  his  Journal  to  Stella ; 
and  it  was  published  by  Morphew,  followed  in  the 
autumn  by  the  same  publisher  with  Swift's  famous 
pamphlet  on  The  Conduct  of  the  Allies.  Another 
of  the  same  class,  without  any  distinctive  cha- 
racter, is  The  Plain  Dealer,  also  published  by 
Morphew. 

The  Testimonies  of  the  Citizens  of  Fickleborough 
concerning  the  Life  and  Character  of  Robert  Hush^ 
commonly  called  Bob,  is  another  of  the  squibs 
which  have  no  such  literary  cbaracteristics  as 
might  help  to  determine  who  was  the  writer.  Two 
letters  appeared  in  September,  1712,  in  The  Fly- 
ing Post,  conducted  by  Ridpath,  signed  "Bob 
Hush  of  Fickleborough,"  which  excited  public 
attention.  They  were  noticed  at  the  time  in  the 
Tory  Examiner,  with  which  Swift  was  intimately 
associated  as  well  as  in  these  Testimonies.  Swift, 
we  find,  was  at  that  time  more  than  usually  violent 
against  Ridpath.  On  the  28th  of  October,  he 
wrote  to  Stella  about  "  these  devils  of  Grub-Street 
Eogues  that  write  The  Flying  Post  ...  are  always 
mauling  Lord  Treasurer,  Lord  Bolingbroke,  and 
me.  .  .  .  We  have  the  dogs  under  persecution,  but 
Bolingbroke  is  not  active  enough ;  but  I  hope  to 
swinge  him.  He  is  a  Scotch  rogue,  one  Ridpath." 
This  pamphlet  also  was  published  by  Morphew. 

I  submit  these  speculations,  as  speculations,  to 
the  judgment  of  the  readers  of  "N.  &  Q." 

D.  S.  A. 


HANNAH  GREEN,  COMMONLY  CALLED  "LING 
BOB." 

I  lately  picked  up  a  book  at  a  stall :  Literary 
and  Critical  Remarks  on  sundry  Eminent  Divines 
and  Philosophers  of  the  Last  and  Present  Age,  Sfc. 
It  bears  no  author's  name,  but  was  published  by 
B.  Crosby,  1794.  The  book  is  not  distinguished 
by  any  merit,  but  has  a  curious  Appendix,  fur- 
nishing a  number  of  remarkable  prophecies. 
Amongst  others,  I  find  mention  made  of  Hannah 
Green,  and  the  following  account  is  given  of 
her :  — 

"  The  Predictions  of  Hannah  Green,  commonly  called  LING 

BOB,  now  living  near  Leeds,  in  Yorkshire. 
"  This  woman  has  been,  for  many  years,  famous  in  her 
neighbourhood  for  the  gift  of  foretelling  future  events 
In  the  year  1785,  Dr.  *  '  *  *,  of  Sheffield  (who  has  been 
so  obliging  as  to  furnish  the  editor  with  the  following 
particulars),  being  at  Leeds,  had  the  curiosity  to  pay  a 
visit  to  the  noted  Hannah  Green.  He  first  questioned 
her  respecting  the  future  fortunes  of  a  near  relative  of 


his,  who  was  then  in  circumstances  of  distress,  and  indeed 
in  prison.  She  told  him  immediately  that  his  friend's 
trouble  would  continue  full  three  times  three  years,  and  he 
would  then  experience  a  great  deliverance  ;  which,  in  fact, 
is  on  the  point  of  being  literally  verified,  as  be  is  at  this 
instant  in  the  Court  of  King's  Bench. 

"  He  then  asked  her  if  she  possessed  any  foreknow- 
ledge of  what  was  about  to  come  to  pass  on  the  great 
stage  of  the  world  ?  To  which  she  applied  in  the  affirm- 
ative. She  said  War  would  be  threatened  once,  but  would 
not  happen;  but  the  second  time  it  would  blaze  out  in  all 
its  horrors,  and  extend  to  all  the  neighbouring  countries ; 
and  that  two  countries*,  at  a  great  distance  one  from  the 
other,  would  in  consequence  obtain  their  freedom,  al- 
though after  hard  struggles.  After  the  year  1790,  she 
observed,  many  great  persons,  even  Kings  and  Queens, 
would  lose  their  lives,  and  that  not  by  fair  means.  In 
1794,  a  great  warrior  of  high  blood  is  to  fall  in  the  field 
of  battle;  and  in  1795,  a  distant  nationf,  who  have  been 
dragged  from  their  own  country,  will  rise,  as  one  man, 
and  deliver  themselves  from  their  oppressors." 

The  notes  are  those  of  the  editor,  as  he  terms 
himself.  Is  anything  known  of  this  woman  ?  She 
appears  to  have  been  one  of  a  somewhat  numerous 
class,  many  of  whom  were  resident  in  Yorkshire. 
Very  few  of  them  went  beyond  the  attempt  to 
foretell  the  future  events  in  the  lives  of  indivi- 
duals; they  did  not  aim  at  such  an  ambitious 
scope  as  drawing  the  horoscopes  of  nations.  Their 
predictions  were  always  vague,  and  so  framed  as 
to  cover  a  number  of  the  most  probable  events  in 
the  life  of  every  individual.  As  the  pursuits  of 
these  persons,  generally  known  as  planet  rulers, 
involve  a  large  amount  of  privacy,  little  is  known 
of  them.  T.B. 


"THE  DYING  SPEECHES  AND  PRAYERS  OF 
THE  REGICIDES." 

The  month  of  October,  1660,  is  memorable  in 
the  annals  of  our  country  for  the  punishment  of 
the  leading  regicides  who  survived  the  Restora- 
tion. Pepys,  in  his  Diary  of  the  20th  of  that 
month,  says,  "A  bloody  week  this  and  the  last 
have  been,  there  being  ten  hanged,  drawn,  and 
quartered." 

The  first  that  suffered  the  vengeance  of  the  law 
was  Major-General  Harrison,  the  son  of  a  butcher 
at  Newcastle-under-line,  appointed  by  Cromwell 
to  convey  Charles  I.  from  Windsor  to  Whitehall, 
in  order  to  his  trial.  He  also  signed  the  warrant 
for  the  execution  of  the  King.  Pepys  says :  — 

"  Oct.  13.  I  went  out  to  Charing  Cross,  to  see  Major- 
General  Harrison  hanged,  drawn,  and  quartered ;  which 
was  done  there,  he  looking  as  cheerful  as  any  man  could 
do  in  that  condition.  He  was  presently  cut  down,  and 
his  head  and  heart  shown  to  the  people,  at  which  there 
was  great  shouts  of  joy.  It  is  said,  that  he  said  that  he 
was  sure  to  come  shortly  at  the  right  hand  of  Christ  to 
judge  them  that  now  had  judged  him ;  and  that  his  wife 

*  "  These  appear  to  be  France  and  Poland." 
f  "  I  know  not  what  people  this  can  allude  to,  unless  the 
Negro  slaves." 


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do  expect  his  coming  again.  Thus  it  was  my  chance  to 
see  the  King  beheaded  at  White  Hall,  and  to  see  the  first 
blood  shed  in  revenge  for  the  King  at  Charing  Cross." 

Two  days  after,  Colonel  John  Carew  was  exe- 
cuted. He  was  one  of  the  Fifth-Monarchy  men, 
and  a  violent  and  visionary  enthusiast.  Pepys  re- 
lates — 

"  Oct.  15.  This  morning  Mr.  Carew  was  hanged  and 
quartered  at  Charing  Cross ;  but  his  quarters,  by  a  great 
favour,  are  not  to  be  hanged  up." 

The  next  and  two  following  days  Pepys  was  so 
busily  engaged  in  domestic  affairs  that  he  kept 
away  from  the  gallows,  and  was  not  an  eye-wit- 
ness to  the  execution  of  John  Cooke  and  Hugh 
Peters  on  the  16th,  or  of  Thomas  Scott,  Gregory 
Clement,  Adrian  Scroop,  and  John  Jones,  on  the 
17th.  On  the  19th,  he  informs  us  that  Francis 
Hacker  and  Daniel  Axtell  "were  hanged  and 
quartered  as  the  rest  are."  Col.  Hacker  com- 
manded the  guards  at  the  murder  of  the  King. 
Axtell  was  captain  of  the  guard  of  the  High  Court 
of  Justice  at  which  the  King  was  tried. 

In  the  year  1660  was  printed  without  any  pub* 
lisher's  name  the  following  work  :  — 

"  The  Speeches  and  Prayers  of  some  of  the  late  King's 
Judges,  viz.  Major-General  Harrison,  Octob.  13 ;  Mr. 
John  Carew,  Octob.  15 ;  Mr.  Justice  Cooke,  Mr.  Hugh 
Peters,  Octob.  16;  Mr.  Tho.  Scot,  Mr.  Gregory  Clement, 
Col.  Adrian  Scroop,  Col.  John  Jones,  Octob.  17;  Col. 
Daniel  Axtell,  and  Col.  Fran.  Hacker,  Oct.  19,  1660; 
the  times  of  their  Death ;  together  with  severall  occa- 
sionall  Speeches  and  Passages  in  their  Imprisonment  till 
they  came  to  the  place  of  Execution.  Faithfully  and 
impartially  collected  for  further  satisfaction.  Heb.  xi.  4 : 
*  And  by  it  he  being  Dead,  yet  speaketh.'  Printed  Anno 
Dom.  1660,  4to." 

In  the  prefatory  notice  "  To  the  Reader  "  the 
following  apology  is  made  for  its  publication  :  — 

"  There  hath  some  speciall  reasons  moved  us  to  under- 
take this  matter :  as  first,  to  prevent  that  wrong  which 
might  be  done  to  the  deceased,  and  more  especially 
to  the  name  of  God,  by  false  and  imperfect  coppies.  Se- 
condly, to  satisfie  those  many  in  city  and  countrey  who 
have  much  desired  it.  Thirdlj',  to  let  all  see  the  riches  of 
:grace  magnified  in  those  servants  of  Christ.  Fourthly, 
that  men  may  see  what  it  is  to  have  an  interest  in  Christ 
in  a  dying  houre,  and  to  be  faithfull  to  his  cause.  And 
lastly,  that  all  men  may  consider  and  know,  that  every 
man's  judgement  shall  be  from  the  Lord.  Prov.  xxix. 
26." 

This  work  turned  up  in  one  of  Thorpe's  Ca- 
talogues, and  was  purchased  by  the  late  Right 
Hon.  Thomas  Grenville,  who  applied  to  the  Rev. 
Dr.  Bliss  for  some  bibliographical  account  of  it. 
The  Doctor  returned  the  following  answer  :  — 
«  Oxford,  July  18, 1842. 

"  MY  DEAR  SIR,— No.  13049  of  Thorpe's  Catalogue,  pp. 
142,  may  be  worth  7s.  6d.  to  you.  It  is  an  extraordinary 
book,  though  not  a  rare  one,  and  its  history  is  little 
known.  The  Speeches  and  Prayers  of  the  Regicides,  BO 
far  from  being  « faithfully  collected,'  are  all  forgeries, 
published  with  the  treasonable  intention  of  holding  up 
their  conduct  for  imitation,  and  putting  into  the  mouths 
of  the  dying  men  apologies  for  their  disloyalty.  It  is,  in 


fact,  an  incitement  to  the  discontented  to  do  by  Charles 
the  Second  as  their  predecessors  had  previously  done  by 
Charles  the  First 

"  In  1663,  Brewster  a  bookseller,  Dover  a  printer,  and 
Nathan  Brooks,  a  bookbinder,  were  tried  at  the  Old 
Bailey  for  printing,  publishing,  and  uttering  this  book  and 
other  seditious  pamphlets.  They  were  found  guilty,  fined, 
imprisoned,  and  put  in  the  pillory.  At  the  same  time  one 
John  Twyn  was  banged  for  printing  '  A  Treatise  of  the 
Execution  of  Justice,  wherein  is  clearly  proved,  that  the 
Execution  of  Judgment  and  Justice  is  us  well  the  Peo- 
ple's as  the  Magistrate's  Duty,  and  if  the  Magistrates 
pervert  Judgment,  the  People  are  bound  by  the  Law  of 
God  to  execute  Judgement  without  them  and  upon  them.' 
This  I  have  not  yet  met  with.  Always,  my  dear  Sir, 
faithfully  yours 

"  PHILIP  BLISS." 

The  trials  of  Twyn,  Brewster,  Dover,  and 
Brooks,  on  Feb.  19,  1663,  will  be  found  in  the 
State  Trials,  edit.  1810,  vi.  513-564.  J.  T. 


BROOM  OF  THE  COWDENKNOWES. — The  air  of  this 
beautiful  old  ballad  was  used  by  Gay  in  his  Beg- 
gar's Opera,  a  fact  noticed  by  the  editor  of  the 
new  edition  of  Johnson's  Museum,  who,  in  a  note, 
has  hazarded  a  belief  that  it  had  been  introduced 
into  England  at  a  much  earlier  period,  indeed, 
upwards  of  a  century  previously.  May  not  the 
Scotch  origin  admit  of  doubt  ?  In  Capt  Cox's 
collection  there  was  a  similar  ballad  —  one  with  a 
name  very  like  this  one ;  and  in  "  The  Carnival, 
a  Comedy,  as  it  was  acted  at  the  Theatre  Royal 
by  his  Majestie's  Servants,  written  by  Thomas 
Porter,  Esq.  London,  1664,"  the  serenaders  in 
the  last  act  sing  a  song  "  to  the  tune  of  the  Broom, 
the  Bonny  Broom,"  which  commences  thus,  — 

«  The  beard,  the  beard,  the  bonny,  bonny  beard, 
Oh !  it  was  of  a  wondrous  growth ; 
But,  eating  too  fast, 
His  spoon  he  misplac'd, 
And  scalded  it  off  with  the  broth." 

Chorus  still  of  music  — 

«  But  O,  what  fright,  one  part  did  stand  upright, 
As  if  it  had  guarded  his  face; 
The  other  off  by  the  stumps, 
Which  needs  must  put  him  in  the  dumps, 
Had  quite  deserted  the  place."    &c. 
Scotch  airs  were,  however,  popular  after  the 
Restoration ;  and  Mr.  Maidment  remarks,  in  a 
note  to  his  version  of  "  Gilderoy,"  that  a  ballad,  with 
several  lines  pretty  much  the  same  as  those  subse- 
quently attributed  to  Halket,  is  included  in  the 
Westminster  Drollery.  See  that  gentleman's  Scotuh 
Ballads,  Stevenson,  Edin.  J-  *•• 

[For  some  interesting  notices  of  this 
ballad,  see  Chappell's  Popular  Music  of  the 
ii.  459,  613,  783.  — ED.] 

HABERDASHER.— Some  months  since,!  tried  to 
find  the  origin  and  meaning  of  this  familiar  word, 
and  intended  to  have  troubled  you  with  the  un- 


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satisfactory  result.*  Now  I  can  do  better,  bu 
first  note  what  was  then  obtained.  "  Haber- 
dashers, or  hosiers,  as  they  were  formerly  called 
incorporated  1447,  were  anciently  called  indiffer- 
ently hurrers  and  milliners ; "  also,  "  mercham 
haberdashers  "  in  1501.  "  Milliners,"  from  Milan 
in  Italy,  whence  the  commodities  they  dealt  in 
chiefly  came.  Minshew  ingeniously  deduced  th 
word  from  halt  ihr  dass,  the  German  for  "  have 
you  this  ?  "  the  expression  of  a  shopkeeper  offering 
his  wares  for  sale.  (Johnson's  Dictionary,  fol.  edit.) 
Hosier,  above  cited,  it  is  scarcely  necessary  to  add, 
is  one  who  sells  stockings ;  but  this  does  not  tend 
to  clear  up  the  meaning  of  "  haberdasher."  Mr. 
Kiley  has  perhaps  solved  the  difficulty : 

"  In  the  Glossary  "  (of  his  last  volume  of  Munimenta 
Gildhalla  Londoniensis ;  Liber  Albus,  just  published)  says 
The  Athenceum,  April  5,  p.  458,  he  derives  "  the  word 
« haberdasherie  from  hapertas,  a  cloth  of  a  particular  tex- 
ture, '  which  may  be  identical,  he  suggests,  with  the  '  hal- 
berject,'  the  uniform  breadth  of  which  was  settled  by 
Magna  Charta.  If  this,  in  turn,  comes  from  hals,  the 
neck,  and  bergen,  to  cover,  implj'ing  a  dress  which,  like  a 
monk's  reached  from  the  throat  to  the  heels,  we  cannot 
say,  but  we  agree  with  the  editor,  that  in  the  word  «  ha- 
pertas '  there  can  be  little  doubt  that  we  have  the  origin 
of  our  present  word  '  haberdasher,'  the  more  especially  as 
the  word  is  represented  by  '  haberdassherie,'  in  an  almost 
similar  passage,  of  nearly  contemporary  date,  in  page 
231." 

W.  P. 

LONGEVITY,  AND  THREE  SETS  or  TEETH.  — 
Although,  from  the  article  on  "The  Old  Countess 
of  Desmond"  (3rd  S.  i.  302),  it  would  appear  that 
no  credence  is  to  be  placed  on  the  stories  of  per- 
sons cutting  teeth  at  an  advanced  age ;  yet  it 
may  interest  some  of  your  readers  to  be  reminded 
of  another  historical  record  of  this  nature. 

I  quote  from  Le  Neve:  "Edward  Progers," 
Groom  of  the  Chamber  to  Charles  II.,  died  A.D. 
1713,  at  the  age  of  ninety-six,  "  of  the  anguish  of 
cutting  his  teeth ;  he  having  cut  four  new  teeth, 
and  had  several  ready  to  cut,  which  so  inflamed 
his  gums  that  he  died  thereof." 

Also,  in  the  Limerick  Chronicle  (and  other 
Irish  papers),  May  29th,  1858,  is  the  following 
instance  given  of  the  same  phenomenon  :  — 

"  Mrs.  Fussell,  residing  at  Acton,  nearly  eighty  years 
of  age,  who  was  for  many  years  toothless,  has  recently 
cut  an  entire  row  of  new  teeth.  They  caused  her  a  great 
deal  of  suffering." 

M.  F. 

Mount  Prospect,  Cork. 

"THE  SILENT  SISTER."  —  In  Mr.  Goldwin 
Smith's  recent  volume,  entitled  Irish  History  and 
Irish  Character,  p.  87,  the  following  sentence  ap- 
pears :  — 

"  Trinity  College  [Dublin]  itself  held  its  ground,  and 
grew  wealthy,  only  to  deserve  the  name  of  the  «  Silent 

[*  In  our  lrt  Series  (see  Gen.  Index)  our  correspondent 
•will  find  ten  articles  on  the  etymology  of  Haberdasher.— 
ED.] 


Sister ;' while  its  great  endowments  served  effectually 
to  indemnify  it  against  the  necessity  of  conforming  to  the 
conditions  under  which  alone  its  existence  could  be  useful 
to  the  whole  nation." 

A  very  satisfactory  reply  to  this  oft-repeated 
charge  of  silence  appeared  in  the  Irish  Ecclesias- 
tical Journal  (vol.  i.  p.  20,  August  1840),  and  may 
be  consulted  with  advantage.  The  Report  of  the. 
Dublin  University  Commissioners  (1853),  I  may 
add,  contains  a  vast  fund  of  valuable  information 
respecting  "  the  state,  discipline,  studies,  and  re- 
venues of  the  University  of  Dublin,  and  the  Col- 
lege of  the  Holy  and  Undivided  Trinity  therein." 

ABHBA. 

THE  SURNAME  FOLEY.  —  Mr.  Lower,  in  his 
Dictionary  of  Surnames  (sub  voce),  states  that  this 
family  name  is  "  local,  place  unknown,"  and  quotes 
Collins's  statement,  that  it  is  "of  ancient  standing 
in  Worcestershire."  The  first  recorded  ancestor, 
however,  of  the  noble  family  of  Foley  was  an 
itinerant  musician  at  Stourbridge  towards  the 
close  of  the  seventeenth  century,  who  laid  the 
foundation  of  the  great  fortune  enjoyed  by  his 
descendants  by  discovering,  in  an  extraordinary 
manner,  the  Swedish  method  of  splitting  iron.* 
The  Foleys  of  Ridgway  (who  bear  the  same  arms 
as  Lord  Foley)  claim  a  much  more  ancient  de- 
scent, their  name  having  been  originally  spelt 
Fowleigh.  Among  the  mayors  of  Worcester  oc- 
curs, in  1457,  a  Hugh  Fplley  ;  in  1464,  a  Hugh 
Tolley;  and  in  1475,  a  Thomas  Tolley.  The 
surname  Tolley  is  still  extant  in  the  neighbour- 
hood of  Stourbridge  ;  and  I  cannot  help  thinking 
that  the  two  names  of  Foley  and  Tolley  are  iden- 
tical. 

'  Toli "  (says  Lower,  sub  voce,  Toll),  "  was  a 
Saxon  personal  name  ;"  but  strangely  enough  he 
;ives  as  the  origin  of  the  surname  Toly,  "  a  con- 
raction  of  St.  Olave,"  and  instances  Tooley  Street,, 
yhich  is  so-called  from  its  proximity  to  St.  Olave's. 
:hurch.  H.  S.  G. 


ATHENIAN  MANSION.  —  Mr.  Mitchell,  in  his- 
edition  of  The  Wasps,  describes  the  opening  scene 
thus :  — 

A  large  and  splendid  mansion  occupies  the  stage,, 
)earing  all  the  appearance  of  a  beleaguered  city. 

"  Bristling  spears  are  seen  at  a  distance ;  armed  men 
raverse  its  passages,  and  before  the  door  stand  two 
guards  in  panoply  complete." 


See  this  curious  anecdote  related  in  full  in  Scrivener's 
Hist,  of  the  Iron  Trade,  1841,  p.  120.  Shaw,  in  his 
Hist,  of  Staffordshire,  however,  asserts  that  it  was  one 
f  the  Brindleys  of  the  Hyde,  near  Kinver,  Staffordshire, 
who  was  the  real  Simon  Pure.  Which  is  right?  Kichard, 
^oley,  who  died  1657,  married  Alice  Brindley,  which- 
>erbaps  accounts  for  the  confusion  of  names. 


'd  S.  I.  MAY  17,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


387 


Mr.  Mitchell  is  a  faithful  translator,  but  is  he 
not  somewhat  exuberant  in  his  description  of  a 
private  gentleman's  house  at  Athens?  Is  there 
any  authority  for  such  magnificence  ?  S.  T.  G. 

THE  ARMS  OF  D'ARCY,  co.  York,  as  borne  by  a 
knight-banneret  of  that  name,  temp.  Charles  L, 
wanted  by  F.  G.  L. 

ANNALS  or  ULSTER.  —  In  the  early  numbers  of 
the  Ulster  Journal  of  Archaeology  were  given  ex- 
tracts from  these  Annals,  which  were  so  printed  as 
to  be  detached,  and  form  a  separate  volume.  I 
have  40  pages,  but  they  seem  long  since  to  have 
been  discontinued.  Will  some  of  your  corre- 
spondents inform  me  whether  the  project  was 
abandoned,  and  whether  40  pages  are  all  that  were 
printed  ?  J.  R. 

J.  COLE. — I  have  the  title  of  a  book,  written  by 
J.  Cole,  of  Scarborough,  Dialogues  in  the  Shades 
respecting  Cliff  Bridge ;  introducing  Quin,  Dr. 
Wittie,  Dicky  Dickenson,  &c.,  1827.  Is  this  a 
dramatic  piece?  Cole  published  a  book  called 
Herveiana,  about  1822,  and  many  other  works. 
Can  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  give  any  biogra- 
phical particulars  regarding  this  Yorkshire  book- 
seller and  author  ?  R.  INGLIS. 

Glasgow. 

HENRY  ELLISON,  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford, 
author  of  Mad  Moments,  or  First  Verse- Attempts 
ly  a  Born-Natural,  #*c.,  Malta,  1833,  2  vols.  12rao. 
May  I  be  permitted  to  repeat  a  former  fruitless 
Query  as  to  Mr.  Ellison  ?  I  am  very  anxious  to 
have  information  concerning  a  man  of  no  common 
genius.  All  my  inquiries  thus  far  have  failed,  r. 

REV.  DR.  B.  GARDINER. — Can  you  give  me  any 
biographical  information  regarding  the  Rev.  B. 
Gardiner,  LL.D.,  Warden  of  All  Souls'  College, 
Oxford,  1702-26.  He  was  Vice-Chancellor  in 
1714.  Thos.  Gardiner,  Fellow  of  All  Souls'  Col- 
lege, vacated  his  Fellowship  on  account  of  his  re- 
fusal to  take  the  oaths  in  1690.  Was  he  a  rela- 
tive of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Gardiner,  the  Warder  ? 

R.  INGLIS. 

Glasgow. 

LADY  HAMILTON  :  NELSON  RELIQUES.  —  I  pos- 
sess a  miniature  of  Lady  Hamilton,  which  was 
purchased  by  the  late  John  North,  Esq.,  at  the 
sale  of  the  effects  of  Sir  Alexander  Davidson, 
Lord  Nelson's  private  secretary.  I  wish  to  know 
the  date  of  the  sale,  and  to  refer  to  the  catalogue. 
The  miniature  is  by  Dun,  a  French  artist  settled 
at  Naples.  It  has  Lady  Hamilton's  hair  and 
initials  at  the  back,  the  latter  in  small  pearls.  It 
was  taken  from  Nelson's  neck  after  he  was 
wounded  at  Trafalgar. 

I  have  understood  that  a  small  cenotaph  was 
made  from  the  guineas  found  on  the  person  of 
Nelson  after  his  death.  I  believe  this  was  also 


sold  at  Sir  Alexander  Davidson's  sale.     What  has 
become  of  it  ?  F.  J.  O. 

KINGSBRIDGE,  Co.  DEVON.  —  In  a  catalogue  of 
the  printed  books  relating  to  the  county  of  Devon, 
by  Mr.  Jas.  Davison,  Exeter,  1852,  there  is  one 
mentioned  under  the  following  title :  — 

"  An  Extract  from  the  Will  of  Tbos.  Crispin,  of  Exeter 
and  a  Copy  of  the  Will  of  Wm.  Buncombe  of  Kingsbridre, 
for  Founding  and  Endowing  the  Free  Schools,  and  a  Lec- 
tureship, in  Kingsbridge."  Kingsbridge,  1842.  Private 
Library. 

Will  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  oblige  me  with  a 
perusal  of  the  above  ?  JAMES  KNOWLES. 

College  Street,  Putney,  S.  W. 

LACE-MAKERS'  CUSTOM  :  WIGS,  A  SORT  OP 
CAKE.  —  In  Buckinghamshire,  on  Cattern  Day 
(St.  Catherine's,  25th  of  November,)  these  hard- 
working people  hold  merry-makings,  and  eat  a 
sort  of  cakes  they  call  "  wigs,"  and  drink  ale.  The 
tradition  says  it  is  in  remembrance  of  a  Queen 
Catharine ;  who,  when  the  trade  was  dull,  burnt 
all  her  lace,  and  ordered  new  to  be  made.  The 
ladies  of  the  Court  could  not  but  follow  her  ex- 
ample, and  the  consequence  was  a  great  briskness 
in  the  manufacture.  Can  anyone  acquainted  with 
the  trade  inform  us  :  —  1 .  Whether  there  is  any 
such  custom  among  the  lace-makers  elsewhere, 
at  Honiton  for  instance?  2.  Who  was  this  Queen 
Catharine  alluded  to,  and  is  there  any  record  of 
the  story  ?  and  3.  What  is  derivation  of  the  word 
"  wig,"  as  applied  to  a  cake  ?  A.  A. 

Poet*'  Corner. 

MEDAL:  NAVAL  VICTORY  or  LA  HO<JUE  IN 
1692. — A  medal  was  struck  to  commemorate  this 
event.  The  obverse  bears  the  heads  of  William 
and  Mary  in  profile,  and  the  reverse  a  naval  en- 
gagement ;  with  the  motto,  "  Nox  NULLA  SECDTA 
EST,"  above ;  and  below,  "  PUGN.  NAV.  INT.  ANG. 
ET  FR.,  21  MAII,  1692." 

Five  at  least  of  these  medals,  in  silver,  are 
known  to  be  in  existence;  and  one,  in  gold,  with 
a  massive  gold  chain  attached  to  it  is  in  ttie  pos- 
session of  the  representative  of  the  eldest  branch 
of  the  Tupper  family  of  Guernsey,  who  have  been 
allowed  to  bear  it  on  a  canton,  as  an  honourable 
addition  to  their  arms:  the  medal  having  beeu 
presented  to  their  ancestor,  John  Tupper,  by  the 
King  and  Queen,  as  a  reward  for  having,  at  some 
personal  expense  and  risk  of  capture,  passed 
either  through  or  in  sight  of  the  French  fleet, 
and  opportunely  conveyed  to  Admiral  Russell 
the  information  of  the  enemy's  being  in  the 
Channel.  Can  any  of  the  contributors  to  "N. 
&  Q."  inform  me  to  whom  the  medals  were  origi- 
nally distributed  ?  And  more  especially,  whether 
any  other  instance  is  known  of  one  in  gold  besides 
that  in  the  possession  of  the  Tupper  family  ? 

SARMENSIS. 


388 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I.  MAY  17,  '62. 


MOORINGS  IN  THE  THAMES.  —  Peter  Burrell, 
Lord  Gwydir,  had  a  grant  from  the  Crown,  under 
Letters  Patent,  of  all  the  mooring  chains  for 
vessels  in  the  River  Thames,  subject  to  a  yearly 
rent.  Compensation  for  the  loss  he  sustained 
from  the  infringement  of  this  privilege,  in  conse- 
quence of  the  construction  of  Docks  in  the  Port 
of  London,  was  awarded  to  him  by  the  West 
India  Dock  Act  (39  Geo.  III.  c.  69)  ;  although 
the  Corporation  of  the  City  of  London  opposed 
Lord  Gwydir's  claim,  and  denied  his  legal  title  to 
the  mooring  chains.  Can  any  of  your  readers  give 
any  account  of  the  circumstances  under  which 
Lord  Gwydir  acquired  this  grant  ?  What  services 
were  rendered,  or  what  consideration  was  given 
for  it  ?  When  the  crown  first  assumed  the  right 
to  the  mooring  of  vessels  in  the  Thames  (of  which 
the  Lord  Mayor  of  the  City  of  London  was  the 
Conservator  from  time  immemorial),  and  when  it 
first  granted  the  profits  arising  from  such  moor- 
ings to  a  subject?  These  particulars  do  not 
appear  to  be  on  record  in  the  civic  archives. 

W.  T.  H. 

P.  D.,  A  PAINTER.  —  A  large  painting  (about 
5  ft.  by  3  ft.),  of  Prometheus  bound,  is  signed  P.  D. 
LE.  Whose  signature  is  it  ?  G.  A.  K. 

LOED  PALMEBSTON'S  FAMILY.  — 

1.  The   Hon.   Richard  Temple,   M.P.,  second 
surviving  son  of  the  1st  Lord  Palmerston  left,  at 
his  death,  8th  Aug.  1749,  an  only  son,  born  18th 
February  in  that  year.     Modern  peerages  make 
no  mention  of  this  son.     What  became  of  him  ? 

2.  The  2nd  Lord  Palmerston  is  also  erroneously 
stated  to  have  had  "  no  issue  "  by  his  first  wife. 
The^  Viscountess  "  died  in  childbed,"  according  to 
the  inscription  on  her  monument,  1st  June,  1769, 
leaving   a  daughter  born  17th  May  previously. 
Did  this  child  survive  infancy  ? 

3.  Old  and  recent  peerages  variously  state  the 
mother  of  the  present  Lord  Palmerston  to  have 
been  the  daughter  of  "  Beryaman  "  and  "Ben- 
jamin" Mee,  Esq.     What  was  her  father's  Chris- 
tian name  ?     And  where  can  I  see  any  account 
of  her  descent  or  immediate  family  ?  S.  T. 

REV.  T.  POLWHEEL.  — In  the  list  of  Nonjuring 
clergy,  in  Bowles's  Life  of  Bishop  Ken  (ii.  183), 
I  observe  the  Rev.  Thos.  Polwheel,  Rector  of 
Newland  (diocese  Exon).  Can  any  of  your 
readers  inform  me  whether  he  was  of  the  same 
family  as  the  Rev.  Richard  Polvvhele,  the  historian 
of  Cornwall?  R.  INGLIS. 

Glasgow. 

POOE  POLL.  — 

"  Who  could  endure  to  hear  and  sing  hymns,  the 
meaning  and  force  of  which  he  really  felt  — set  as  they 
frequently  have  been,  to  melodies  from  the  Opera,  and 
even  worse,  or  massacred  by  the  repetition  of  the  end  of 
each  stanza,  no  matter  whether  or  not  the  grammar  and 
sense  were  consistent  with  it?  Not  to  mention  the 
memorable  cases  of — 


And  — 


My  poor  pol- 
My  poor  pol- 
My  poor  polluted  heart ; ' 

Our  Great  Sal- 

Our  Great  Salvation  comes ! 


I  copy  the  above  from  an  article  on  "  Hymno- 
logy,"  in  the  Quarterly  Review,  just  published.  I 
shall  feel  much  obliged  to  anybody  who  will  tell 
me  where  I  may  find  the  hymns  and  tunes  re- 
ferred to.  N.  B. 

POSSESSION  NINE  POINTS  OP  THE  LAW. — What 
j  is  the  origin  of  this  phrase  ?  It  seems  to  indicate 
that  there  are  ten  points,  of  which  possession, 
'  though  wrongful,  has  the  strength  of  nine :  there 
would  be  less  point  in  the  proverb  if  there  were 
more  than  ten  points  in  the  law.  Coke,  in  his 
Commentary  on  Littleton  (section  41),  lays  down. 
ten  things  as  "necessarily  incident"  to  a  deed: 
but  he  does  not  call  them  points,  though  I  think 
I  have  seen  this  name  applied  elsewhere.  Are 
these  the  ten  points  ?  Does  the  proverb  embody 
the  notion  that  possession  is  nine-tenths  as  good 
as  a  deed  of  conveyance  ?  A.  DE  MORGAN. 

PRIDEAUX  FAMILY.  —  Information  is  required 
on  the  following  inquiry :  — 

In  the  Baronetage  it  is  recorded  that  "  Sir 
Edmund  Prideaux  "  married,  secondly,  Elizabeth, 
daughter  and  co-heiress  of  "George  Saunderson," 
of  Thorsby,  co.  Lincoln,  Esquire,  and  grand- 
daughter of  "  Viscount  Castleton,"  by  whom  he 
had  a  son,  "  John,"  successor  to  his  half-brother. 
The  exact  date  and  parish  is  wanting  regarding 
the  marriage  of  the  said  Sir  Edmund  Prideaux, 
with  "  Elizabeth  Saunderson,"  his  second  wife. 

ANON. 

PRAYERS  FOR  THE  GREAT  FIRE  OF  LONDON.  — 
When  was  this  service  appointed,  and  when  dis- 
continued ?  I  cannot  find  any  allusion  to  it  in 
any  work  on  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer  which 
is  accessible  to  me,  but  it  is  contained  in  a  Latin 
Prayer  Book  (published  in  1744)  under  the  title 
of  Formula  Precum  secundo  die  Septembris,  prop- 
ter  diram  Londini  Conflagrationem,  quotannis  usur- 
panda.*  The  same  Prayer  Book  contains  the 
"Forma  Strumosos  Attrectandi,"  the  form  of 
prayer  to  be  used  at  the  Touching  for  the  King's 
Evil.  J.  WOODWARD. 

New  Shoreham. 

RICHDALE  FAMILY.  —  Can  any  of  your  corre- 
spondents give  me  information  as  to  the  origin  of 
the  name  of  Richdale  ?  And  furnish  me  with  any 
particulars  as  to  the  ancestors  of  Thomas  Rich- 
dale  of  Calke,  Derbyshire,  who  was  joiner  to  Sir 
Harry  Crewe,  Bart.;  and  who  died,  and  was 
buried  at  Calke,  Jan.  1798,  in  his  seventy-first 

[*  The  Form  of  Prayer  for  the  Great  Fire  appears  in 
a  Prayer  Book  printed  at  Oxford  in  1682.  See  "  N.  & 
Q."l'*S.v.  78.  —  ED.1 


3'*  S.  I.  MAY  17,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


year?      His  armorial  bearings  were  "The  field 
sable,  eight  martlets  within  an  orl  argent." 

I  should  be  glad  of  any  copies  of  inscriptions 
from  tombstones  erected  in  Derbyshire  to  the 
memory  of  persons  bearing  that  name  ?  J.  H. 

REV.  SYDNEY  SMITH. — In  the  celebrated  Third 
Letter  to  Archdeacon  Singleton,  the  witty  ecclesiastic 
says,  — 

"  To  read,  however,  his  Lordship  [the  then  Bishop  of 
Gloucester]  a  lesson  of  good  manners,  I  had  prepared  for 
him  a  chastisement  which  would  have  echoed  from  the 
Seagrave  who  banqueteth  in  the  Castle,  to  the  idiot  who 
spitteth  over  the  bridge  at  Gloucester,  but  the  following 
appeal  struck  my  eye,  and  stopped  my  pen,"  &c. 

It  has  often  been  asked  what  circumstance  this 
paragraph  could  point  at ;  and  now  both  parties 
are  gone  where  all  controversies  cease,  it  would 
be  interesting  to  collect  any  information  that 
would  elucidate  this  popular  writer.  When  at 
Gloucester  I  inquired  as  to  the  "  idiot,"  but  could 
learn  nothing  on  the  subject.  Can  any  of  your 
correspondents  afford  us  information  as  to  this 
curious  passage  ?  A.  A. 

Poets'  Corner. 

STATE  COACHES.  —  Can  any  of  your  correspon- 
dents say  when  the  Lord  Chancellor's  state  coach 
was  done  away  with  ?  The  Speaker's  still  exists, 
and  we  learn,  from  Lord  Colchester's  Diary,  that 
it  was  built  in  1 700.  The  present  City  state  coach 
seems  to  be  the  same  as  appears  in  Hogarth's  pic- 
ture of  the  Lord  Mayor's  Procession,  and  must 
be  at  least  120  years'  old.  The  present  Royal 
state  coach  was  built  for  George  III.,  on  his  ac- 
cession, and  cost  7000Z.  G. 

TAL^EUS'S  "  COMMENTARIES."  —  I  have  a  copy 
of  The  Commentaries  of  Andomarus  Talceus,  on  cer- 
tain portions  of  Cicero,  edited  by  Charles  of  Guise, 
the  famous  Duke  of  Lorraine  (Paris,  1550).  Is 
anything  known  of  the  commentator  ?  On  the 
fly-leaf  is  inscribed  the  name  of  the  "  Rev.  Mr. 
Betham,"  with  some  notes  apparently  in  his  hand- 
writing. Is  it  at  all  probable  that  this  Mr.  Be- 
tham is  the  Rev.  William  Betham,  father  of  Sir 
William  Betham,  who  was  appointed  Ulster  King- 
of-Arms  in  1813?  ANON. 

TOADS  IN  ROCKS. — May  I,  as  a  perfect  stranger, 
trouble  you  with  the  following  Query  ?  Is  there 
undoubted  evidence  of  the  truth  of  what  has  been 
stated  as  a  fact,  viz.  that  living  toads  have  been 
found  imbedded  in  blocks  of  stone  ?  G. 

WHITE  QUAKEBS. — Reading  Neal's  Puritans,! 
was  struck  with  the  likeness  of  George  Fox,  in 
1650,  to  Joshua  Jacob  of  1850,  whose  practice  was 
to  go  into  churches,  and  under  the  influence  of 
spiritual  feelings  interrupt  divine  service;  also, 
the  "doings"  of  the  "female  who  went  into 
Whitehall  Chapel  stark  naked,  in  the  midst  of 
public  worship,  the  Lord  Protector  himself  being 


present;"  with  the  White  Quaker  women  of  Ja- 
cob's community.  I  have  heard  they  attempted 
to  do  the  same  in  the  public  streets  of  Dublin, 
and  which  is  hinted  at  by  your  correspondent 
EIRIONNACH,  in  u  N.  &  Q.,'  2nd  S.  xi.  362. 

Is  the  sect  of  White  Quakers  still  in  existence  ? 
And  I  would  also  ask,  Can  this  stated  religions 
freak  of  the  women  be  substantiated  ? 

GEORGE  LLOYD. 

HERMITAGES  IN  WORCESTERSHIRE.  —  Some  at- 
tention will  probably  be  bestowed  on  the  ancient 
hermitages  of  Worcestershire  at  the  approaching 
congress  of  the  Archaeological  Institute.  Black- 
stone,  near  Bewdley;  Redstone,  near  Stourport, 
both  on  the  banks  of  the  Severn ;  and  Southstone, 
anciently  a  cell  of  the  Great  Abbey  of  Eve&hain, 
in  the  Teme  Valley. 

I  am  desirous  of  knowing  where  cells  and 
chapels  of  a  similar  nature  exist  in  other  counties 
of  England,  in  order  to  compare  the  descriptions 
of  them  with  the  three  remarkable  places  above 
stated. 

I  believe  hermitages  are  found  at  Warkworth, 
Northumberland;  Corby,  Cumberland;  and  Ky- 
naston's  Cave,  Salop.  THOS.  E.  WINNIHGTOW. 


fttuttncrtf. 

EPITAPH.  —  The    subjoined    lines  were   on  a 
head-stone  in  St.  James's   churchyard,  Clerken- 
well,  about  fifty  years  ago.     Subsequently  (1851) 
they  were  not  to  be  found.     Probably  some  of 
your  contributors  may  be  enabled  to  throw  some 
light  upon  the  matter,  as  to  the  author,  &c. :  — 
"  Earth  walks  on  Earth  like  glittering  gold ; 
Earth  says  to  Karth,  *  We  are  but  mould.' 
Earth  builds  on  Earth  castles  and  towers ; 
Earth  says  to  Earth, '  All  shall  be  ours  ! r " 

ALFRED  JOHN  STRIX. 

[These  lines,  with  variations,  appear  to  have  done  duty 
in  Melrose  Abbey  and  in  several  churchyards.  See  Pet- 
tigrew's  Chronicles  of  the  Tombs,  p.  67.  They  are  quoted 
from  an  old  inscription,  consisting  of  seven  stanzas,  in  the 
church  of  Stratford-upon-Avon,  and  are  thus  noticed  by 
Mr.  R.  B.  Wheler  in  his  History  and  Antiquities  of  Strat- 
ford-upon- Avon,  p.  98:  "Against  the  west  wall  of  the 
nave,  upon  the  south  side  of  the  arch,  was  painted  the 
martyrdom  of  Thomas  k  Becket,  whilst  kneeling  at  the 
altar  of  St.  Benedict  in  Canterbury  cathedral :  below  this 
was  represented  the  figure  of  an  angel  (probably  fc 
Michael),  supporting  a  long  scroll,  upon  which  were 
written  the  following  rude  verses."  Vide  Lonpfellow  s 
Outremer,  p.  66,  and  "  N.  &  Q."  1"  S.  vii.  498,  5«b;  vm. 
110,  353,  575.] 

GEAST  AND  DUGDALE  FAMILIES.  —  What  were 
the  arms  and  motto  of  the  Geast  family,  whose 
representative  assumed   the  name   nnd   arms  < 
Du^dale  in  1799,  and  whose  descendant  is  Wm 
Stratford  Dugdale,  Esq.  of  Merevale  Hall, co. War 

Wick?  LlHDUM. 

[The  arms  given  in  Burke's  Armory  are  —  Qnarte 


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first  and  fourth,  arg.  a  cross  moline  gu.  in  dexter  chief  a 
torteau,  for  Dugdale ;  second  and  third,  barry  of  ten  arg. 
and  az.  a  lion  rampant  gu.  Motto :  "Pestis  patrise  pigri- 
ties."] 

PLANTIN'S  HEBREW  BIBLES.  —  What  are  the 
dates  and  comparative  merits  of  the  editions  (not 
interlinear)  of  Christopher  Plan  tin's  Hebrew  Bible? 
EDW.  H.  KNOWLES. 

St.  Bees. 

[Biblia  Sacra  Hebraica  cum'punctis,  Antw.  1566,  Mr. 
Pettigrew  informs  us,  is  a  very  elegant  edition,  scarce, 
and  much  esteemed  by  the  learned.  It  has  been  printed 
in  4to,  8vo,  and  16mo ;  and  according  to  Le  Long,  these 
editions  differ  only  in  form.  Two  other  editions  were 
published  in  1573,  in  double  columns,  8vo.  and  12mo,  the 
latter  in  2  vols,  and  another  edition  in  4to,  1582.  The 
type  of  the  edition  of  1566  was  also  used  for  the  first  in- 
terlineary  Latin  version,  fol.  1571.  Vide  Bibliotheca  Sus- 
sexiana,  vol.  i.  pt.  II.  pp.  151-155.] 

TORT.— In  Fuller's  Worthies  (fol.  p.  216,  edit. 
1662),  he  gives  an  account  of  the  Cumberland 
Moss-Troopers,  who,  he  says,  "lived  by  stealing 
from  their  honest  neighbours."  He  then  tells  us 
that  "Charles  Lord  Howard,  Earl  of  Carlisle, 
routed  these  English  Tories  with  his  regiment," 
and  finally  put  them  down.  This  seems  to  show 
that,  when  he  wrote,  the  word  was  not  applied  to 
any  political  party.  Had  it  been  so,  the  staunch 
old  Churchman  and  Royalist  would  never  have 
used  it  to  designate  a  horde  of  brigands.  Can  any 
reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  inform  us  where  the  word  is 
used  in  this  sense  at  a  later  date ;  for  very  shortly 
after  it  became,  as  it  is  now,  the  designation  of  a 
particular  party  in  the  state  ?  A.  A. 

Poets'  Corner, 

[Joseph  Glanvil,  who  died  in  1680,  uses  the  word  in 
this  sense  (Sermon  iv.  p.  212):  "Let  such  men  quit  all 
pretences  to  civility  and  breeding,  they  are  ruder  than 
toryes,  and  wild  Americans ;  and  were  they  treated  ac- 
cording to  their  deserts  from  mankind,  they  would  meet 
ever}T  where  with  chains  and  strappadoes."  In  De  Foe's 
Review,  vii.  (A.D.  1711)  the  following  account  of  the 
origin  of  the  term  is  given  :  "  The  word  tory  is  Irish,  and 
was  first  used  in  Ireland  at  the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth's 
war,  to  signify  a  robber  who  preyed  upon  the  country. 
In  the  Irish  massacre  (1641)  you  had  them  in  great  num- 
bers, assisting  in  every  thing  that  was  bloody  and  vil- 
lainous; they  were  such  as  chose  to  butcher  brothers  and 
sisters,  fathers  and  mothers,  the  dearest  friends,  and 
nearest  relations."  The  original  Irish  term,  alluded  to  by 
De  Foe,  is  supposed  to  be  toruiph,  from  toruighim,  to  pur- 
sue or  make  sudden  incursions.  J 

THOMAS  IGNATIUS  MARIA  FORSTER. — I  find  this 
name  on  the  title-page  of  an  extraordinary  volume 
of  prose  and  verse,  English  and  Latin,  called 
Philosophia  Musarum,  containing  Pan,  a  Pastoral 
of  the  First  Age,  with  other  Poems,  #•<;.,  Bruges, 
1843,  fcap.  8vo.  Can  any  reader  of  u  N.  &  Q." 
furnish  any  information  about  this  Mr.  Forster  ? 

r. 

[Notices  of  Thomas  Forster,  M.D.,  and  his  numerous 
works,  will  be  found  in  "  N.  &  Q."  !•*  S.  ix.  569 ;  x.  108 ; 
2"<i  S.  i.  122;  ii.  106;  v.  301  The  Doctor  died  at  Brus- 


sels on  2nd  Feb.  1860,  aged  seventy.  An  interesting  bio- 
graphical account  of  him  is  given  in  the  Gentleman's 
Magazine  for  May,  1860,  p.  514.] 

ANONYMOUS  TBACT.  —  In  the  Harleian  Miscel- 
lany, vol.  viii.  p.  315,  is  to  be  found  a  tract,  with- 
out name  or  date,  with  the  following  title  :  — 

"  An  Essay  towards  carrying  on  the  present  War 
against  France,  and  other  public  Occasions :  as  also  for 
paying  off  all  Debts  contracted  in  the  same,  or  otherwise : 
and  new  Coining  of  all  our  Monies,  without  Charge ;  to  the 
great  Increase  of  the  Honour,  Strength,  and  Wealth  of 
the  Nation.  Humbly  proposed  for  the  Parliament's  Con- 
sideration, and  submitted  to  their  great  Wisdom,  and 
Love  to  their  Country,"  &c. 

I  have  spent  some  hours  in  a  careful  search  to 
ascertain  the  author  of  the  above-named  tract, 
and  fix  its  exact  date,  but  without  success.  At 
p.  322,  the  writer  speaks  of  what  occurred  to  his 
own  observation,  "  whilst  1  was  the  unworthy  go- 
vernor of  the  province  of  Pennsylvania,  viz.  about 
i  seven  years  since."  This,  if  the  tract  were  dated, 
I  might  afford  an  apparently  easy  clue  to  the  name 
of  the  author ;  but  I  can  find  no  governor  of  Penn- 
sylvania mentioned  in  any  of  the  histories  of  that 
province  to  which  I  have  access,  who  is  at  all 
likely  to  have  been  the  author.  It  is  not  noticed 
in  Macculloch's  useful  work,  The  Literature  of 
Political  Economy.  From  the  statements  con- 
tained in  it  respecting  the  wretched  state  of  the 
coinage  from  clipping,  I  should  conclude  that  the 
date  was  probably  about  1696.  If  you  or  any  of 
your  readers  should  be  able  to  throw  any  light 
upon  the  subject,  I  should  be  obliged.  'AAteus. 
Dublin. 

[This  work  is  by  Sir  William  Keith,  Baronet,  Governor 
of  Pennsylvania  from  1717  to  1726.  It  was  written  about 
1733.  For  some  notices  of  Sir  William  consult  "  N.  &  Q." 
2nd  S.  iii.  266,  454, 516  ;  iv.  169.  Vide  also  The  Catalogue 
of  the  London  Institution,  vol.  ii.  Tracts,  p.  393.] 


ORIGIN  OF  THE  WORD  «  SUPERSTITION." 
(Continued  from  2nd  S.  vi.  301.) 

The  word  SUPERSTITION,  like  the  idea  which  it 
expresses,  is  wrapped  in  venerable  obscurity, 
reaching  back  till  it  is  lost  in  the  night  of  far 
Antiquity  :  like  the  thing  signified,  too,  it  adapts 
itself  wonderfully  to  every  variety  of  opinion  and 
fancy.  A  word  so  piquant  from  its  intrinsic  in- 
terest, combined  with  the  dim  uncertainty  which 
hangs  over  it,  and  its  peculiarly  flexible  character, 
is  naturally  very  tempting  to  Etymologists.  In 
illustration  of  the  versatile  powers  of  the  word 
itself,  as  well  as  of  those  who  exercise  their  in- 
genuity upon  it,  let  me  mention  a  few  out  of  the 
many  origins  which  have  been  assigned  to  it. 

If  we  take  the  word  on  its  own  showing,  and  ig- 
j  nore  the  historical  origin  of  it  recorded  by  Cicero, 


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the  first  idea  which  presents  itself  to  us  as  sug- 
gesting at  once  the  most  simple  and  most  probable 
origin,  is  that  of  Superfluity  and  Supererogation, 
Excess  of  Fear  and  Scruple,  Overdoing  of  Ser- 
vice, in  matters  of  Religion.  This  has  long  been 
the  popular  and  generally  received  derivation. 

Others  derive  Superstition  from  the  dotage  and 
foolish  fears  of  old  folk,  who  have  outlived  their 
generation  and  their  faculties.  Again,  Lucretius 
derives  it  from  the  fear  of  the  Divine  and  Heavenly 
Things  Above  us — fear  of  the  supernatural,  super- 
human, superterrestrial. 

S.  Isidore,  of  Seville,  gives  the  above  deriva- 
tions in  the  following  words  :  — 

"  Superstitio  dicta  eo  quod  sit  superflua,  aut  supersta- 
tuta  observatio.  Alii  dicunt  a  senibus  quia  multis  annis 
superstites  per  aetatem  delirant  et  errant  superstitione 
quadam,  nescientes  quae  vetera  colant,  aut  quae  veterura 
ignari  asciscunt.  Lucretius  autem  Superstitionem  dicit 
superstantium  rerum,  id  est  ccelestium  et  divinorum  quae 
super  nos  stant;  sed  male  dicit." —  Originum,  lib.  viii. 
cap.  3. 

Bp.  Taylor  follows  those  writers  who  assert 
that  Superstitio  was  intended  by  the  Latins  to  be 
an  exact  equivalent  for  Aei<n5ai/ioc/a,  meaning  a 
Timor  Superstitum,  a  Cultus  Dcemonum.  Without 
endorsing  this  derivation,  it  seems  to  me  much 
more  plausible  than  SIR  J.  EMERSON  TENNENT  is 
willing  to  allow.  Aej(ri8afy««H/  and  AettnSeu/ioi^a, 
like  Superstitio,  were  originally  used  in  a  good 
sense*,  and  so  St.  Paul  is  generally  allowed  to  have 
applied  the  epithet  Scjo-tSai/uoj/eorepovs  to  the  Athe- 
nians. Again,  Aal/juav  and  Aai/^oj/,  were  so  uni- 
versally used  in  a  good  sense  by  the  ancients,  that 
it  has  been  doubted,  and  by  some  denied,  that  a 
single  instance  can  be  found  of  their  being  used  in 
a  bad  sense  before  the  time  of  Christ.  Aafycw*', 
moreover,  has  a  closer  relation  to  Superstes  than 
at  first  sight  appears,  for  it  means  — 1.  A  Heavenly 
Intelligence,  a  Divine  Power  standing  over  us, 
dwelling  in  the  Heavens  above  us,  a  Supernatural 
Power  dwelling  in,  yet  above  Nature,  and  forming 
a  link  between  God  and  Man  :  from  this  order  of 
Spirits,  Socrates  and  Plato  believed  that  Guardian 
Angels  were  taken  and  assigned  to  men.  2.  The 
Soul  of  a  good  man,  which  has  survived  death  and 
iias  been  deified,  or  admitted  among  the  Heavenly 
Powers.  See  Rose's  edition  of  Parkhurst's  Greek 
Lexicon,  and  Dean  Trench's  Greek  Synonyms  of 
•the  New  Testament. 

The  passage  from'  Bp.  Taylor  is  worth  quoting 
here ;  it  occurs  in  the  3rd  part  of  his  Sermons 
On  Godly  Fear :  — 

"  I  am  now  to  give  account  concerning  the  Excess  of 
Fear,  not  directly  and  abstractedly  as  it  is  a  passion, 
but  as  it  is  subjected  in  Religion,  and  degenerates  into 
Superstition :  for  so  among  the  Greeks,  Fear  is  the  in- 
gredient, and  half  of  the  constitution  of  that  folly; 


*  Thus  Atitridettfuuv  signi6ed  Pious,  Fearing  the  Godt ; 
literally,  one  revering  the  Divine  Intelligences. 


8aid  Hesychias,  it  is  a  Fear  of  God. 
«,  that  is  more;  it  is  a  Timorousness :  the 
superstitious  man  is  afraid  of  the  gods,  said  the  Etymo- 
logist, 3i3«*  nut  6ui{  umt  Ttif  n(«,*i,(,  fearing  of  God  as 
if  he  were  a  tyrant,  and  an  unreasonable  exacter  of  dutv 
upon  unequal  terms. 

"  But  this  Fear  some  of  the  old  Philosophers  thought 
unreasonable  in  all  cases,  even  towards  God  Himself;  and 
it  was  a  branch  of  the  Epicurean  doctrine,  that  God 
meddled  not  with  anything  below,  and  waa  to  be  loved 
and  admired,  but  not  "feared  at  all.  ...  and  thence  came 
this  acceptation  of  the  word,  that  Superstition  should 
signify  an  unreasonable  Fear  of  God,  but  he  (Epicurus) 
made  all  Fear  unreasonable  .  .  . 

"  But  besides  this,  there  was  another  part  of  its  defini- 
tion, Ac0vd«/uav  o  r«  ii$«X«  riflon  fc'3*XoA*T»t;.-,  the  Supersti- 

tious  man  is  an  Idolater,  3».A.»f  *««*  Ot»lif  One  that  is  afraid 
of  something  besides  God.  The  Latins,  according  to  their 
custom,  imitating  the  Greeks  in  all  their  learned  notices 
of  things,  had  also  the  same  conception  of  this,  and,  by 
their  word  Superstitio,  understood  the  Worship  of  Dae- 
mons or  separate  Spirits;  by  which  they  meant  either 
their  minorcs  deos,  or  else  their  'H»a»«f  <x*o0i»0fYr«f,  their 
braver  personages,  whose  Souls  were  supposed  to  lice 
after  death ;  the  fault  of  this  was  the  object  of  their  Re- 
ligion :  the}'  gave  a  Worship,  or  a  Fear,  to  whom  it  was 
not  due;  for  whenever  they  worshipped  the  Great  God 
of  Heaven  and  Earth,  they  never  called  that  Superstition 
in  an  evil  sense,  except  the  \6uit  they  that  believed 
there  was  no  God  at  all.  Hence  came  the  Etvmology  of 
SUPERSTITION:  it  was  a  Worshipping  or  tearing  the 
Spirits  of  their  dead  Heroes,  quos  Superstites  credebant, 
whom  they  thought  to  be  alive  after  their  ««#*»«*,  or 
deification,  quos  Superstantes  credebant,  standing  in  places 
and  thrones  above  us;  and  it  alludes  to  that  admirable 
description  of  old  age  which  Solomon  made :  « Also  they 
shall  be  afraid  of  that  which  is  high,  and  fears  shall  be  in 
the  tcuy,'  Eccles.  xii.  5;  intimating  the  weakness  of  old 
persons,  who,  if  ever  they  have  been  religious,  are  apt  to 
be  abused  into  that  Superstition  ;  they  are  afraid  of  that 
which  is  high ;  that  is,  of  Spirits  and  separate  Souls,  of 
those  excellent  Beings  which  dwell  in  the  regions  above, 
meaning  that  then  they  are  Superstitious.  .  .  . 

"  The  sum  is  this: "the  Atheist  called  all  Worship  of 
God  Superstition;  the  Epicurean  called  all  Fear  of  God 
Superstition,  but  did  not  condemn  His  Worship;  the 
other  part  of  wise  men  called  all  unreasonable  Fear,  and 
inordinate  Worship,  Superstition,  but  did  not  condemn  all 
Fear;  but  the  Christian,  besides  this,  calls  every  error  in 
Worship  in  the  manner  or  excess  by  this  name,  and  con- 
demns it." 

Heywood,  probably  having  in  mind  the  re- 
markable passage  in  the  book  of  Wisdom  (xiv. 
15,  16,)  which  I  quoted  in  my  first  Note,  says, 
"  Superstitio,  quasi  superstitem  facere,"  and  thus 
explains  it :  — 

•'  Of  the  word  SUPERSTITION,  the  first  ground 
Was  to  preserve  to  the  future,  whole  and  sound, 
The  memorie  of  Fathers,  Sons,  and  Friends, 
Before  deceased :  and  to  these  seeming  ends 
Were  Images  devised ;  which  some  would  bring 
(As  their  first  author)  from  th*  Assyrian  King 
Ninus,"  &c.* 

This  I  believe  to  be  the  true  derivation  of  the 
word — Superstitio^  quasi  superstitem  facere ;  but 
the  right  explanation  of  it,  and  its  real  origin,  is 
recorded  by  CICEBO  alone  :  — 

*  Hierarchic  of  the  biased  Anyell*  Lond.  1685,  p.  9. 


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"  They  who  used  to  pray,  and  offer  sacrifices  whole 
days  together,  that  their  Children  might  survive  them,  were 
called  SUPERSTITIOUS  (Superstitiosi),  which  name  had 
afterwards  a  wider  application." 

In  illustration  of  this,  let  me  bring  forward  a 
most  remarkable  passage  in  the  Pcemander  of 
Hermes  Trismegistus,  which  I  have  never  before 
seen  quoted  or  referred  to  :  — 

"  God  is  the  Good :  His  other  title  is  the  Father,  be- 
cause of  his  making  all  things;  for  it  is  the  part  of  a 
Father  to  make.  Therefore  it  hath  been  the  greatest 
and  most  Religious  care  in  this  life,  to  them  that  are  wise 
and  right  minded,  to  beget  Children.  As  likewise,  it  is 
the  greatest  misfortune  and  impiety,  for  any  to  be  sepa- 
rated from  Men,  without  Children  :  and  this  man  is  pun- 
ished after  death  by  the  Daemons ;  and  the  punishment  is 
this;  the  Soul  of  the  childless  Man  is  adjudged  and  con- 
demned to  a  Body  that  hath  neither  the  nature  of  a  man, 
nor  of  a  woman,  which  is  an  accursed  thing  under  the 
sun.  Therefore,  O  Asclepius,  never  congratulate  any  man 
that  is  childless;  but  on  the  contrary,  pity  his  misfor- 
tune, knowing  what  punishment  awaits  and  is  prepared 
for  him."  —  Lib.  ix.  sub.  Jin. 

This  curious  work,  the  Pcemander^  even  if  it 
were  not,  as  many  have  supposed,  written  by  the 
Egyptian  Hermes  some  hundreds  of  years  before 
the  time  of  Moses,  but,  according  to  the  received 
opinion,  compiled  by  some  Gnostic  Christian  or 
by  some  Alexandrian  Platonist  at  an  early  period 
of  the  Christian  .ZEra,  is  yet  deserving  of  respect, 
as  it  is  allowed  to  be  based  on  ancient  records, 
and  to  be  full  of  the  genuine  lore  of  antiquity. 

Dr.  Johnson  observes  :  — 

"  Nothing  seems  to  have  been  more  universally  dreaded 
by  the  Ancients  than  Orbitv  or  want  of  Children;  and, 
indeed,"  &c.— 7Y<c  Rambler,'^o.  69. 

Herodotus  observes  of  the  Persians  :  — 

"  Next  to  prowess  in  arms,  it  is  regarded  as  the 
greatest  proof  of  manly  excellence  to  be  the  father  of 
many  sons.  Every  year  the  king  sends  rich  gifts  to  the 
man  who  can  show  the  largest  number*:  for  they  hold 
that  number  is  strength." — Lib.  i.  cap.  136. 

Sir  H.  Rawlinson  appends  the  following  note  to 
this  passage  :  — 

"  Sheik  AH  Mirza,  a  son  of  the  well-known  Futteh 
AH  Shah,  was  accounted  the  proudest  and  happiest  man 
in  the  empire,  because,  when  he  rode  out  on  state  occa- 
sions, he  was  attended  by  a  body-guard  of  sixty  of  his 
own  sons.  At  the  time  of  Futteh  Ali  Shah's  death,  his 
direct  descendants  amounted  to  nearly  three  thousand, 
some  of  them  being  in  the  fifth  degree ;  and  every  Persian 
in  consequence  felt  a  pride  in  being  the  subject  of  such  a 
king.  The  greatest  misfortune,  indeed,  that  can  befall  a 

*  This  reminds  one  of  Cristina,  Duchess  of  Savoy, 
pensioning  the  men  commonly  called  Sardinian  Nobles, 
i.  e.  the  fathers  of  large  families  in  the  Kingdom  of  Sar- 
dinia. A  law  of  Cristina,  bearing  date  the  2nd  of  June, 
1G48,  enacted  that  all  subjects  of  the  House  x>f  Savov, 
having  twelve  legitimate  Children,  should  be  exempted 
during  their  lifetime  from  all  taxes.  In  1819  this  privi- 
lege of  Piedmont  was  extended  to  the  Dukedom  of  Genoa. 
The  law  has  since  been  altered,  subjecting  them  to  taxes, 
but  giving  them  instead  a  pension  of  '250  francs.  See 
Forbea'a  Physician's  Holiday,  Lond.,  1852,  p.  340. 


man  in  Persia  is  to  be  childless.  When  a  chiefs  'hearth- 
stone,' as  it  was  said,  '  was  dark,'  he  lost  all  respect,  and 
hence  arose  the  now  universal  practice  of  Adoption."  — 
Vol.  i.  p.  277. 

Independently  of  the  mysterious  reasons  which 
are  hinted  in  the  Pcsmander^  and  which  stimu- 
lated the  Superstitiosi  to  extraordinary  efforts  for 
the  preservation  of  their  children  ;  the  Desire  for 
Posterity  is  a  powerful  instinct  in  the  human 
heart.  Non  omnis  moriar  was  a  thought  as  na- 
tural as  it  was  pleasing,  when  the  men  of  old,  in 
the  decline  of  life,  contemplated  their  offspring. 
Their  Children,  then,  seemed  the  only  links  left 
by  which  they  could  still  in  a  measure  cling  to 
life,  and  see  no  end  of  days  :  as  the  Arab  proverb 
says,  Mann  khallafa  ma  mata  —  "  He  who  has  left 
Children  is  not  dead."  To  survive  in  one's  Chil- 
dren was  considered  by  most  of  the  Ancients  a 
much  more  real  continuance  of  life,  and  a  much 
closer  connexion  with  it,  than  posthumous  Fame 
or  Glory.*  Yet  the  author  of  the  Book  of  Wis- 
dom, alluding  to  this  (iv.  1.),  says  :  "Better  it  is 
to  have  no  Children  and  to  have  Virtue,  for  the 
Memorial  thereof  is  immortal,  because  it  is  ap- 
proved by  God  and  men."  And  Solomon  asks : 
"  Who  knoweth  whether  my  successor  shall  be  a 
wise  man  or  a  fool  ?  This  is  also  vanity. "  Here 
I  cannot  refrain  from  quoting  part  of  a  striking 
passage  from  Dr.  Lucas  on  The  true  Notion  of 
Human  Life  :  — 

"  Convinced  that  the  decays  of  nature  cannot  he  long 
concealed  or  propt  up,  some  please  themselves  with  an 
opinion  of  Surviving  in  their  Posterity ;  as  if  Man,  by  gener- 
ation, did  but  multiply  himself;  and  Life  did  not,  like  a 
flame,  end  with  its  fuel,  but  were  conveyed  and  trans- 
mitted from  father  to  son,  grandchild,  and  so  on  —  like  a 
stream  that's  still  the  same,  though  it  passed  through 
numerous  pipes.  Well,  for  my  part,  I  cannot  fool  myself 
with  a  vain  gingle  of  words — I  cannot  flatter  myself  that 
I  shall  live  in  him,  who  probably  will  in  a  little  time 
forget  me,  however  he  owe  his  being  and  fortune  to  me; 
nay,  it  may  be,  proud  and  ungrateful,  will  wish  that 
others  forgot  me  too. ...  I  cannot  flatter  myself  that  I  can 
live  in  them,  whose  hopes  and  fears,  desires  and  joys,  will 
differ,  it  may  be,  no  less  from  mine,  whatever  they  now 
be,  than  the  dead  do  from  the  living.  Fools  that  we  are 
to  talk  so  wildly  ;  as  if,  when  dead,  we  lived  in  our  children. 
Do  we,  when  living,  share  in  their  distant  joys?  Or  do 
our  pulses  beat  with  their  passions?  I  would  not  be 
mistaken,  as  if  I  designed  to  oppose  or  extinguish  nature. 
I  know  the  great  Author  of  it,  for  wise  and  excellent 
purposes,  has  implanted  in  us  kind  inclinations  towards 
Posterity,  but  then  these  are  for  the  sake  of  others,  not 


*  Feltham  observes,  in  his  Resolves  :  —  "  All  men  love 
to  live  in  Posterity.  Barrenness  is  a  curse,  and  makes 
men  unwilling  to  die  ...  When  bragging  Cambyses 
would  compare  himself  with  his  father  Cyrus,  and  some 
of  his  flatterers  told  him  he  did  excel  him, '  Stay,'  says 
Croesus,  'you  are  not  his  equal,  for  he  left  a  son  behind 
him.' .  .  /When  Philip  viewed  his  young  son  Alexander, 
he  said  he  could  then  be  content  to  die.  Conceit  of  a 
surviving  name  sweetens  Death's  aloed  potion.  Tis  for 
this,  we  so  love  those  that  are  to  preserve  us  in  extended 
successions."  —  xxiv. 


3'*  S.  I.  MAY  17,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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myself;  they  ripen  into  actions  that  serve  the  turn  of 
others,  not  my  own :  I  only  bear  the  fruit  which  others 
must  gather.  And  whatever  pleasure  I  may  now  fea  in 
a  promising  prospect  of  the  honour  and  virtue  of  my 
Posterity,  'tis  such  a  one  as  that  of  Moses  beholding 
Canaan  at  a  distance,  but  such  a  distance,  that  he  must 
never  enter  into  it."  * 

In  my  former  Note  I  threw  out  the  conjecture, 
that,  possibly  the  motive  of  the  Superstitiosi  was 
to  secure  for  themselves  the  rites  of  sepulture. 

A  modern  author,  the  learned  W.  Wogan,  con- 
tends that  the  ancient  belief  on  this  subject  is  not 
without  foundation  in  truth  and  fact,  but  that  in 
principle  it  is  supported  by  Revelation.  Thus, 
commenting  on  Jer.  xxii.  18,  19,  he  observes:  — 

"  It  is  plain  from  this  and  other  parts  of  Scripture, 
that  what  the  Body  suffers  after  Death  (although  itself 
be  insensible)  is  not  an  indifferent  thing  to  the  person  it 
belongs  to.  It  appears  from  many  passages  in  Holy 
Writ,  and  was  consonant  to  the  sentiments  of  Heathen 
Antiquity,  that  mourning  and  lamentation  for  the  death 
of  friends,  as  well  as  decent,  funerals,  was  not  only  a 
custom  agreeable  to  the  dictates  both  of  reason  and  re- 
ligion; but  that  the  want  of  such  Funeral  Rites  and 
mourning  was  accounted  some  diminution,  at  least,  of  the 
deceased  person's  repose  and  happiness,  if  not  a  real  dis- 
gust. That  this  was  agreeable  to  Heathen  Theology, 
appears  from  the  citations  we  have  noted  at  the  end. 
But  the  passages  in  Scripture,  besides  this  that  occurs  in 
our  present  Lesson,  are  very  numerous,  and  express,  when 
the  want  of  Burial,  when  threatened  or  inflicted,  is  re- 
presented as  a  curse  and  heavy  judgment ;  which  it  could 
not  be  to  the  deceased,  if  the  departed  spirit  were  not 
sensible  of,  nay,  were  it  not  sharply  affected  with  the 
indignity  shown  to  the  body."  f 

Coleridge  fished  up  somewhere,  or  invented,  a 
most  characteristic  derivation  for  Superstition. 
He  gravely  tells  us  that  Superstition,  name  and 
thing,  arose  from  taking  quod  stat  super  for  quod 
stat  suiter,  i.  e.  Surface  for  Substance,  signs  for 
the  things  signified.  It  arose  — 

"  When  Religion  became  a  Science  of  Shadows,  unin- 
telligible to  the  majority.  For  these,  therefore,  there 
remained  only  Rites  and'Ceremonies,  Spectacles,  Shows, 
and  Semblances.  Thus,  among  the  learned,  the  Sub- 
stance of  things  hoped  for  passed  off  into  notions ;  and 
for  the  unlearned,  the  Surfaces  of  things  became  Sub- 
stance. Virium  et  proprietatum,  guts  non  nisi  de  substan- 
tibus  praedicari  possunt,  formis  super stantibus  attributin,  est 
Superstitio."  —  Aids  to  Reflection,  Sixth  Edition,  p.  147. 

Coleridge  elsewhere  repeats  the  same  deriva- 
tion in  another  form,  which  makes  me  suspect 
that  the  Latin  is  his  own  :  — 

"  Superstition  may  be  defined  as  Superstantium  (cujus- 
modi  sunt  ceremonies  et  signa  externa,  <juce,  nisi  in  signifi- 
cando,  nihili  sunt  et  pane  nihil')  Substantiate"  —  Ib. 
p.  301. 

An  equally  ingenious  derivation  is  that  pro- 
pounded by  SIR  J.  EMERSON  TENNENT,  whose 

*  Human  Life  ;  or,  A  Second  Part  of  Hie  Enquiry  after 
Happiness,  by  Richard  Lucas,  D.D.,  Fourth  Edition 
Lond.,  1764,  pp.  126-7. 

t  See  the  whole  of  this  curious  passage,  Essay  on  the 
Proper  Lessons,  Third  Edition,  vol.  iv.  pp.  191-2,  196 
Fourteenth  Sunday  after  Trinity. 


ecent  article  on  "  Superstition  "  (3rd  S.  i.  243) 
nduced  me  to  continue  my  Note  :  — 

"  It  admits  of  little  doubt  that  a  word,  which  in  iu 
original  signification  meant  merely  those  religious  delu- 
ions  which  « survived '  the  influences  of  advancing  Civl- 
isation,  came  in  process  of  time,  by  a  species  of  historic 
metonymy,  to  denote  the  stupified  ignorance,  the  unob- 
servant credulity,  and  the  unreasoning  awe,  by  which 
,hese  mental  errors  were  characterised. 

Thus  the  Philosopher,  the  Theologian,  the  Me- 
;aphysician,  and  the  Historian,  each  deals  with 
Superstition  in  his  own  way :  — 

"  Strikes  life  into  its  speech,  and  shows  much  more 
His  own  conceiving." 

For  my  part,  let  me,  with  Mr.  Gradgrind,'  en- 
deavour to  stick  to  "  Facts."  EIRIOKNACH. 


POSTAGE  STAMPS. 
(3rd  S.  i.  149,  195,  277,  357.) 
I   am   much    obliged  to   your   correspondents 
F.  C.  H.,  JOHN  W.  PHILLIPS,  and  HERUS  FRATEB, 

for  their  papers  about  postage  stamps.  When 
I  first  applied  for  information  on  this  subject 
through  your  columns,  about  four  months  ago, 
my  own  collection  was  quite  in  its  infancy,  and  I 
bad  not  been  in  communication  with  any  other 
collectors. 

Since  then  I  have  been  favoured  with  an  in- 
spection of  the  most  famous  collection  in  this,  and 
I  believe  I  may  say,  any  country.  It  consists  of 
about  eleven  hundred  distinct  specimens.  With- 
out the  owner's  permission,  I  cculd  not  mention 
his  name,  but  most  collectors  will  know  to  whom 
I  refer.  Mr.  Mount  Brown  has,  with  some  assist- 
ance from  this  gentleman,  compiled  a  Catalogue 
describing  about  1200  distinct  specimens  of  postage 
stamps  and  envelopes ;  which  anyone  would  have 
no  difficulty  in  obtaining,  it  having  been  ad- 
vertised in  several  London  papers,  "  N.  &  Q. 
amongst  the  number. 

I  would  accord  every  praise  to  the  enterprise 
of  the  Brighton  stamp  collector,  and  wish  the 
work  success ;  but  as  he  only  describes  856  stamps, 
it  will  require  considerable  addenda  to  make  it 

Modena,  Schleswig  Holstein,  and  Confederate 
States  of  America,  are  entirely  omitted ;  and  there 
are  omissions  and  inaccuracies  in  every  page. 

Argentine,  7   stamps  ;    Bahamas,    1  ;    British 
Guiana,  3  ;  Brazils,  3  ;  Bavaria,  9  ;  Baden,  all  the 
envelopes ;  Buenos  Ayres,  3  republican ;  Bruns- 
wick, the  envelopes ;  Chili,  3  ;  California,  4  ;  Caoe 
of  Good  Hope,  1 ;  Ceylon,  2  envelopes ;  Denmark, 
4 ;  England,  7  envelopes ;  Finland,  the  envelope 
and  so°on,  omitted.     Government  of  India,  1  anni 
is  a  bill  stamp,  and  not  postage,  as  therein  d 
scribed. 

In  Granidina,  there  are  14  omitted.  Holland, 
20  c.  pink  and  white  does  not  appear  to  exist. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3^  S.  I.  MAY  17,  '62. 


The  Romagna  is  described  as  Rome,  and  that 
following  "Papal  States";  the  stamps  for  both 
of  which  are  correctly  described,  as  are  those  of 
Portugal.  Parma,  7  omitted ;  Poland,  2  omitted, 
the  10  cop.  black  and  white  envelope,  and  the 
3  cop.  blue  and  white  Warsaw  envelope ;  one 
described  "  1  kop.  Ci,"  black  and  white,  does  not 
exist. 

Russia  not  all  accurately  described;  for  the 
correct  description  from  the  actual  stamps  them- 
selves, I  must  refer  to  Mr.  Brown's  book,  merely 
stating  further,  that  there  are  12  omitted  in  Swit- 
zerland, and  about  35  in  the  United  States  of 
America.  J-  S.  A. 


REPRODUCTION  OF  OLD  WITTICISMS. 
(3rd  S.  i.  324.) 

The  mistake  of  reading  an  order  for  "  3  or  4  " 
monkeys,  as  an  order  for  "  304  "  monkeys,  is  very 
pleasantly  told  by  Calderon  in  his  El  Secreto  d 
Voces,  which  we  know  to  have  been  written  not 
later  than  the  year  1662.  The  passage  is  to  be 
found  at  p.  416,  t.  i.  of  Hartzenbusch's  edition, 
and  at  p.  349,  t.  iii.  of  Keil's.  A  metrical  version 
of  it  is  given  in  my  translation  of  this  play 
(Dramas  from  the  Spanish  of  Calderon^  2  vols. 
London,  1853,  vol.  i.  p.  152).  The  following 
translation  of  the  passage  into  French  by  M. 
Damas-Hinard  (Chefs  <F(Euvre  du  Theatre  Es- 
pagnol,  Calderon,  3e  serie,  p.  77),  may  amusingly 
contrast  with  that  given  by  MR.  BRUCE  from  the 
letter  of  Sir  Edmund  Verney  :  — 

"  Un  habitant  de  Tlemecen,  vitrier  de  son  e'tat,  faisait 
la  cour  a  vine  dame.  II  avait  son  meilleur  ami  qui  (de- 
meurait  a  Tetuan.  Or  un  jour  la  dame  pria  le  galant 
d'ecrire  a  son  ami  de  lui  envoyer  un  singe ;  et  comme  un 
amoureux  est  toujours  pret  a  coraplaire  aux  desirs  de  sa 
dame,  celui-ci  en  demanda  trois  ou  quatre,  afin  qu'elle  put 
en  choisir  un  qui  fut  a  son  gout.  Or  vous  saurez  que  le 
malheureux  ecrivit  trois  mi  quartre'en  chiffres ;  et  comme 
la  has,  en  Arabic,  To  equivaut  &  zero,  notre  homme  de 
Te'tuan  lut  ainsi :  'Mon  cher  ami,  pour  que  je  puisse  etre 
agreable  a  une  personne  qui  m'est  cher,  envoyez  moi  sans 
retard  trois  cent  quatre  singes.'  L'homme  de  Tetuan  fut 
d'abord  bien  en  peine  pour  trouver  ce  qu'on  lui  deman- 
dait;  mais  le  vitrier  le  fut  beaucoup  plus,  lorsqu'au 
bout  de  quelques  jours  il  vit  arriver  trois  cent  singes 
faisant  trois  cent  mille  singeries." 

M.  Damas-Hinard  has  a  note  on  this  passage 
admitting  the  inferiority  of  his  translation  to  the 
original,  for  the  reason  which  he  assigns  :  — 

"En  espagnol,  la  conjonction  alternative  ou  se  dit  o,  de 
sorte  que  celui  qui  demandait  trois  ou  quatre  singes  de- 
voit  e'crire  en  chiffres,  3  o  4;  de  la  1'erreur.  De  la  vient 
aussi  que  cette  petite  histoire,  qui  est  fort  jolie  dans  1'ori- 
ginal,  perd  beaucoup  &  etre  traduite." 

D.  F.  MAC-CARTHY. 

Summerfield,  Dalkey. 

^  The  Note  on  the  "  Reproduction  of  old  Wit- 
ticisms," brought  to  my  recollection  a  ludicrous 


mistake,  which  occurred  about  fifty  years  ago.  A 
French  emigrant  priest  wrote  from  the  country  to 
a  friend  in  London,  requesting  him  to  send  him, 
as  soon  as  possible,  a  hundred  "  asperges."  His 
friend,  being  a  Catholic,  imagined  that  he  meant  the 
small  brushes  which  are  used  for  sprinkling  holy 
water,  though  he  could  not  conceive  how  he  could 
require  so  many.  Accordingly,  he  went  round  to 
the  few  Catholic  booksellers  ,in  London,  who  were 
accustomed  to  supply  requisites  for  Catholic 
chapels,  and  bought  up  all  the  asperges  brushes 
they  had ;  but  which,  it  need  not  be  added,  fell 
very  far  short  of  a  hundred.  The  French  priest's 
surprise  and  dismay  may  be  imagined  on  receiv- 
ing perhaps  twenty  or  thirty  asperges  brushes, 
instead  of  what  he  meant  to  order,  a  hundred  of 
asparagus!  F.  C.  H. 


HERALDIC  VOLUME  (3rd  S.  i.  352.)—  I  see  that 
one  of  your  correspondents  complains,  and  not 
unnaturally,  of  uncourteous  treatment  ;  which  he 
believes  himself  to  have  suffered  at  the  hands  of 
the  Master  and  Bursar  of  Pembroke  College.  As 
I  am  the  real  person  to  blame  in  the  matter,  per- 
haps you  will  allow  me  to  explain  how  the  ap- 
parent want  of  civility  arose.  Some  time  ago,  I 
am  afraid  to  say  how  long,  the  Bursar  handed  me 
one  of  the  letters  alluded  to  by  your  correspon- 
dent, and  requested  me  to  furnish  the  required 
information.  This  I  promised  to  do  ;  but  having 
more  work  to  do  at  the  time  than  I  was  able  to 
accomplish,  I  am  ashamed  to  say  that  the  matter 
passed  entirely  out  of  my  head,  only  to  be  recalled 
by  the  notice  in  your  periodical.  The  letter 
handed  to  me  I  cannot  now  find,  but  I  may  state 
that  Bp.  Hall's  books  contain  only  his  book-plate, 
and  not  his  autograph.  The  muniments,  which 
may  possibly  preserve  some  of  his  handwriting, 
are  in  the  custody  of  the  Bursar,  who  is  not  at 
present  in  Oxford.  If,  however,  your  correspon- 
dent will  favour  me  with  his  name  and  address,  I 
will  let  him  know  if  I  should  find  any  autograph  ^of 
the  Bishop,  and  will  gladly  compare  his  fac-simile 
with  it.  HENRY  W.  CHANDLER. 

Pembroke  College. 

THE  OPAL  HUNTER  (3rd  S.  i.  329.)—  I  have  not 
searched  the  Saturday  nor  the  Penny  Magazine, 
but  in  Inglis's  Solitary  Walks  in  Many  Lands  is 
"  The  Life  and  Adventures  of  a  Jewel  Hunter," 
and  the  story  refers  to  a  large  and  valuable  opal. 
May  not  this  be  the  narrative  inquired  for  by 
JOHN  H.  VAN  LENNEP  ?  S.  SHAW. 

Andover. 


ETONENSES:  R.  ANSTEY  (3rd  S.  i.  372.) 

A  conjecture  may  be  hardly  worth  inserting,  but 
it  seems  almost  certain  that  "  R.  Anstey,  1776," 
was  a  son  of  the  celebrated  author  of  the  New 
Bath  Guide.  He  was  himself  a  distinguished 


3'dS.I.  MAY  17,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


395 


Etonian,  was  married  about  1752,  and  had  thir- 
teen children.  LYTTELTON. 

MACLEAN  OF  TORLOISK  (3rd  S.  i.  329.)  —  The 
family  of  Maclean  of  Torloisk,  was  founded  by 
Lauchlan  Oig,  second  son  of  Sir  Lauchlan  Mor, 
Chief  of  Maclean,  and  Lord  of  Duart  and  Mor- 
vern,  by  the  Lady  Margaret,  second  daughter  of 
the  Earl  of  Glericairn.  Sir  Lauchlan  was  slain  at 
Tra-Gruinnart  in  Isla,  on  5th  August,  1598. 
Lachlan  Maclean,  the  grandfather  of  the  late 
Marchioness  of  Northampton,  was  7th  Maclean  of 
Torloisk ;  having,  in  1765,  succeeded  to  the  estates 
on  the  death,  without  issue,  of  his  elder  brother 
Hector,  the  6th  in  lineal  succession  from  Lauchlan 
Oig.  Lachlan  married  Margaret,  eldest  daughter 
of  Richard  Smith,  of  Auchtermairnie,  co.  Fife, 
Esq. ;  by  whom  he  left  an  only  daughter,  "  the 
well-remembered,  handsome,  and  accomplished 
young  heiress  Marianne  Torloisk,"  who  married 
Major- General  Wm.  Douglas  Clephane  of  Cars- 
logic,  co.  Fife,  sometime  Governor  of  Grenada, 
and  Commander  of  the  Forces  in  the  Leeward 
Islands,  who  died  at  Grenada  in  1803.  Upon  his 
marriage  with  the  heiress  of  Torloisk,  he  obtained 
authority  to  use  the  name  of  Maclean  before 
that  of  Clephane,  and  to  quarter  the  arms  of 
Maclean  with  his  own.  The  issue  of  this  mar- 
riage was  three  daughters  :  — 

1.  Margaret,  who,  in  1815,  married  the  late 
Marquis  of  Northampton. 

2.  Anna  Jane,  who  died  unmarried.     And 

3.  Wilmina  Marianne,  who,  in  1831,  married 
Wilhelm,  Baron  de  Normann  of  Prussia ;  by  whom 
she  had  one  son,  Wilhelm  Frederic  Carl  Helmuth 
Theodore,  who  succeeded  his  father  as  Baron  de 
Normann  in  1832,  and  was  one  of  the  victims  of 
Chinese  treachery  in  1860. 

Much  might  be  written  of  the  Macleans  of  Tor- 
loisk, and  I  shall  be  happy  to  give  2.  0.  any 
further  information  in  my  power  if  he  will  write 
to  me  direct.  JOHN  MACLEAN. 

Hammersmith. 

PRAISE-GOD  BAREBONES  (3rd  S.  i.  253.) — Your 
correspondent  W.  H.  does  not  appear  to  be  aware 
that  Barbone  was  one  of  the  sect  of  Fifth-Mo- 
narchy Men.  In  a  tract  which  I  lately  had  in  my 
possession,  entitled  — 

"  A  Declaration  of  several  of  the  Churches  of  Christ 
and  Godly  People,  in  and  about  the  City  of  London,  con- 
cerning the  Kingly  Interest  of  Christ,"  and  the  present 
Sufferings  of  His  Cause  and  Saints  in  England.  Printed 
for  Livewell  Chapman,  1654  "  — 
occur  several  lists  of  names  of  the  members  of  the 
different  "  churches,"  and  one  of  these  is  headed, 
''•The  Church  which  walks  with  Mr.  Barbone." 
In  another  rare  tract  which  I  have  now  in  my  pos- 
session, entitled  — 

"  The  old  Leaven  purged  oat,  or  the  Apostacy  of  this 
Day  further  opened.  Printed  in  the  year  of  our  Lord 
1658,"- 


I  find  "  Mr.  Barbone "  named  with  nine  others, 
among  whom  are  Mr.  Ireton,  Mr.  Cann,  and  Col. 
Danvers,  as  a  committee  appointed  to  treat  with  a 
section  of  the  Fifth-Monarchy  sect,  who  had  sepa- 
rated from  their  co-separatists,  and  set  up  a 
church  for  themselves.  In  both  the  tracts,  of 
which  I  have  given  the  titles,  Oliver  Cromwell  is 
spoken  of  in  anything  but  respectful  terras.  In 
the  latter  one  occurs  the  following  passage :  "  Is 
not  Oliver  Cromwell  a  greater  tyrant  now  than 
ever  King  Charles  was  ?  "  and  at  the  end  are  some 
letters,  the  first  of  which  begins  — 

"  John,  a  prisoner,  not  of  Cromwell  and  his  council,  but 
of  the  Lord  Jesus  Christ,  unto  the  saints,  and  faithful 
brethren,  which  meet  at  the  place  which  is  known  by  the 
name  of  Great  Allhallows,  London,"  &c. 

If  Barbone  was  a  Fifth-Monarchy  man,  as  ap- 
pears from  these  tracts,  I  think  he  must  be  allowed 
to  have  been  something  of  a  "  fanatic." 

F.  S.  ELLIS. 

The  Phrenix  Fire  Office,  in  Lombard  Street, 
London,  claims  only  to  have  been  established  in 
1782,  not  in  1682.  There  must  be  some  mistake, 
therefore,  in  the  statement  that  it  was  founded 
by  a  son  of  Praise- God  Barbone,  who  was  born 
in  1596,  and  could  have  bad  no  children  living 
nearly  two  centuries  afterwards. 

The  "promoters"  of  the  existing  office  were 
mostly  influential  individuals  connected  with  our 
sugar  refineries,  who,  as  the  event  has  abundantly 
proved,  thought  that  a  scale  of  charges  lower  than 
that  sought  to  be  imposed  by  the  other  insurance 
offices,  would  be  amply  remunerative  for  that 
class  of  risk.  DOUGLAS  ALLPOBT. 

RELATIVE  VALUE  OP  MONET  (3rd  S.  i.  182.)  —  I 
think  that  a  farther  review  of  the  statistics,  which 
are  available  for  the  comparison  of  the  prices  of 
necessaries  in  the  time  of  Shakspeare  with  their 
present  value,  would  have  led  MR.  KEIGBTLEY  to 
a  result  much  more  in  accordance  with  the  calcu- 
lations of  MB.  COLLIER  and  MR.  DTCE  than  that 
at  which  he  has  arrived.  For  the  purpose  of  as- 
certaining how  far  a  certain  income  would  have 
gone  at  any  period,  as  many  of  the  items  of  ex- 
penditure should  be  compared  as  is  possible  ;  and 
if  this  be  carefully  done,  a  very  close  approxima- 
tion may,  I  think,  be  arrived  at.  The  proportion 
between  the  value  of  wheat  at  the  beginning  of 
the  seventeenth  century  and  at  the  present  time, 
is,  it  is  true,  only  about  as  3  to  5  ;  but  almost  all 
other  necessaries  show  a  far  greater  difference. 
The  most  useful  calculations  on  this  subject  are, 
as  far  as  I  am  aware,  in  the  paper  read  by  Sir  G. 
S.  Evelyn  before  the  Royal  Society  in  1798. 

The  figures  there  given  are  the  result,  it  is 
stated,  of  great  research,  and  the  title  is  very  com- 
prehensive. He  gives  the  prices  at  various  times 
of  the  following  articles:  —  Wheat,  horses,  oxen, 


396 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  MAY  17,  '62. 


cows,  sheep,  swine,  poultry,  butter,  cheese,  and 
beer,  and  deduces  (inter  alia)  the  following  re- 
sults —  that  the  price  of  wheat  in  1550,  was  to 
that  of  wheat  in  1795,  as  100  to  426  ;  in  1675,  as 
246  to  426  ;  that  of  meat,  as  100  in  1555,  and  as 
166  in  1675,  to  511  in  1795  ;  that  of  12  miscella- 
neous articles  (poultry,  &c.)  in  1555  as  100,  and 
in  1675,  as  239  to  752  in  1795  ;  that  of  day  labour 
in  1553  as  100,  and  in  1675,  as  188  to  436  in  1795. 
And,  finally,  by  interpolation  and  average,  he 
finds  that  the  mean  cost  of  all  these  articles  was 
as  144  in  1600,  to  562  in  1795,  Wheat  was  then 
a  little  higher  than  now  [62.9.  8d.  per  quarter],  but 
all  other  articles  were  lower;  so  that  we  may 
take  his  proportion  as  applicable  to  our  own  time, 
which  would  make  an  income  of  l,000/.;a-year  in 
Shakspeare's  time  equivalent  to  one  of  3,8001. 
a-year  now. 

We  seem  to  have  more  scanty  materials  for  the 
investigation  of  the  subject  about  the  year  1600, 
than  at  periods  of  30  or  40  years  before  and 
after  that  date,  but  one  question  raised  by  MR. 
KEIGHTLEY,  that  of  the  price  of  ordinary  horses, 
seems  settled  by  the  replies  of  your  correspon- 
dents MR.  MERRYWEATHER  and  H.  C.  C.  The 
animals  mentioned  in  Jonson  must  have  been  like 
those  to  which  Harrison  alludes,  "  well-coloured, 
justly  lymmed,  and  having  thereto  an  easie  am- 
bling pace."  which  he  says,  "  are  grown  to  be  very 
deare." 

The  capon  in  FalstafTs  bill  would  hardly  be  an 
ordinary  fowl  ;  for,  by  a  proclamation  made  in 
1633  *,  the  price  of  a  fat  capon  was  fixed  at  2,s.  2d., 
and  that  of  a  fat  hen  at  Is.  The  wages  of  women 
servants,  in  1600,  were  fixed  at  rates  varying  from 
16s.  to  23«.  4d.  per  annum. 

Dress  is  the  one  article  which  would  pull  up 
the  average,  but  we  must  remember  that  the 
clothes  of  those  times  were  far  more  durable,  and 
less  frequently  renewed  than  in  our  days  of 
cotton,  shoddy,  and  paper.  J.  ELIOT  HODGKIN. 

West  Derby. 


TOO  GOOD  TO  BE  TRUE  (3rd  S.  i.  332.)  —  The 
jest  (an  excellent  one)  of  "Causes  produce  effects." 
for  a  successful  barrister's  motto,  I  often  heard 
repeated  when  I  lived  in  chambers  in  Lincoln's 
Inn,  and  always  attributed  to  Lord  Abinger,  then 
Mr.  Scarlet,  who,  if  not  so  profound  a  scholar  of 
law  as  Mr.  Holroyd  and  several  others,  was  said  to 
be  the  best  red  man  at  the  bar.  J.  C.  H. 

SIE  JOHN  STRANGE  (3rd  S.  i.  271,  353.)  —I  am 
much  obliged  by  the  information  furnished  by 
MESSRS.  COOPER  of  Cambridge.  I  have  had  ac- 
cess to  most  of  the  books  to  which  they  refer  me, 
but  fail  to  find  in  them  the  principal  object  of  my 
inquiry,  viz.  the  parentage  of  Sir  John  Strange. 
The  books  mentioned,  which  are  not  within  my 
reach,  are  Georgian  Era,  and  Lysons's  Environs. 

*  Macpherson's  Annals  of  Commerce,  App.TlL 


If  in  them  there  is  anything  that  touches  the 
point,  perhaps  they  or  some  other  friend,  will 
kindly  supply  me  with  the  particulars.  D.  S. 

[These  works  do  not  contain  any  notices  of  the  parent- 
age of  Sir  John  Strange.  —  ED.] 

LASTINGHAM  CHURCH  (2nd  S.  xii.  211.)— In 
conning  over  your  last  volume  I  found  a  request 
for  "  a  reference  to  any  description  and  historical 
account  of  the  very  curious  old  church  at  Last- 
ingham,  near  Kirby-Moorside  in  Yorkshire,"  and 
an3 answer  in  a  quotation  from  Allen's  History  of 
the  County  of  York.  It  may  interest  the  inquirer, 
and  perhaps  others,  to  know  that  in  Eastmead's 
Historia  Rievallensis ;  containing  the  History  of 
Kirkby-Moorside  and  its  Vicinity,  published  in 
1824,  there  is  a  much  fuller  account  of  the  church 
and  its  history,  with  two  plates  presented  by  John 
Jackson,  R.A.,  • —  a  very  eminent  artist,  who  was 
a  native  of  the  village  ;  one  containing  a  view  of 
the  church,  and  the  crypt  beneath  it ;  and  the 
other  a  ground  plan,  engraved  from  his  own 
drawings.  Soon  after  the  publication  of  East- 
mead's  History,  Mr  Jackson  presented  a  splendid 
painting  by  himself  of  "  Christ  in  the  Garden " 
for  an  altar-piece,  which  is  illuminated  through 
coloured  glass,  placed  in  the  roof  of  the  church. 
This  and  other  alterations  for  the  reception  of 
the  picture  are  not  approved  by  the  learned  in 
ecclesiastical  architecture,  but  certainly  the  effect 
is  striking  and  beautiful.  J.  !>• 

FITZWILLIAM  PEERAGE  (3rd  S.  i.  348.)  — MR. 
HARDMAN  will  find  at  least  some  of  the  informa- 
tion he  desires  respecting  the  extinct  peerage  of 
Fitzwilliam,  and  their  pedigree,  in  Blacker's  Brief 
Sketches  of  the  Parishes  of  Booterstown  and  Don- 
nybrook,  in  the  County  of  Dublin,  pp.  108-114. 
Richard,  seventh  Viscount  Fitzwilliam,  whose 
munificent  bequests  to  the  University  of  Cam- 
bridge are  well  known,  died  in  1816,  when  his 
large  landed  estates  passed,  according  to  the  terms 
of  his  will  (dated  18th  August,  1815,  and  printed 
at  full  length  in  3  &  4  Wm.  IV.  c.  xxvi.  s.  1,  and 
5  &  6  Viet.  c.  xxiii.  s.  1),  to  George  Augustus, 
eleventh  Earl  of  Pembroke,  and  are  now  in  the 
possession  of  that  nobleman's  grandson,  the  youth- 
ful Earl  of  Pembroke,  and  eldest  son  of  the  late 
deeply  lamented  Lord  Herbert  of  Lea.  The 
above-named  Lord  Fitzwilliam,  however,  was  not 
the  last  peer ;  for  the  honours  of  the  family  (with 
an  annuity)  devolved  upon  his  brother  John, 
eighth  Viscount  Fitzwilliam,  on  whose  death,  s.  p. 
in  1833,  the  viscountcy  of  Fitzwilliam  of  Meryon, 
and  the  barony  of  Thorncastle,  which  had  existed 
for  more  than  two  centuries,  became  extinct. 

Archdall's  Lodges  Peerage  of  Ireland,  vol.  iv. 
pp.  306-321  ;  Playfair's  British  Family  Antiquity, 
vol.  v.  pp.  38-44  ;  and  the  third  edition  of  Burke's 
Extinct  and  Dormant  Peerage,  p.  667,  may  like- 
wise be  consulted  with  advantage.  ABHBA. 


3*8.1.  MAY  17,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


397 


COINS  IN  TANKARDS  (3rd  S.  i.  50, 277.)  —  I  well 
remember  more  than  fifty  years  ago  that  when  a 
bowl  of  Bishop  was  provided  for  us  Eton  boys  at 
"  the  Christopher,"  the  ladle  with  which  we  helped 
ourselves  to  its  spicy  contents  had  a  seven  shil- 
ling-piece at  the  bottom  of  it.  R.  W.  B. 

LEA  WILSON'S  CATALOGUE  OF  BIBLES,  ETC.,  4to, 
London,  1845  (3rJ  S.  i.  308.)— The  late  Mr. 
Home  and  BIBLIOTHECAR.  CHETHAM.  are  mis- 
taken in  the  number  of  copies  taken  off  of  this 
valuable  privately-printed  book.  The  number 
printed  by  Mr.  Whittingham  was  120,  and  not 
25.  Most  of  the  copies  were  distributed  by  Mr. 
Wilson  to  public  libraries,  but  copies  are  to  be 
found  in  many  private  libraries,  both  in  this  country 
and  in  the  United  States.  Several  copies  have 
occurred  for  sale  within  the  past  year,  producing 
from  six  to  ten  guineas  each.  G.  M.  B. 

MODE  AND  DATE  OF  EXECUTION  OF  THE  MAR- 
QUIS OF  ARGTLE  (3rd  S.  i.  326.)— T.  says  "In 
Scotland,  as  in  England,  decapitation,  not  hang- 
ing, was  always  the  mode  of  putting  the  culprit 
to  death  for  that  crime  "  (high  treason).  This  is 
a  mistake  as  to  England.  In  high  treason  the 
regular  judgment  (until  altered  by  the  54  Geo. 
III.  c.  146)  always  has  been  that  the  traitor  "  be 
hanged  by  the  neck,  and  cut  down  alive,  and  that 
his  entrails  be  taken  out,  and  burnt  before  his  face 
whilst  he  is  alive  *,  and  his  head  cut  off,  and  his 
body  divided  into  four  quarters,  and  his  head  and 
quarters  disposed  of  at  the  king's  pleasure. 
(Hawk.  P.  C.  b.  n.  c.  48,  s.  3;  1  Hale,  350).  And 
this  horrible  judgment  was  but  too  faithfully  exe- 
cuted in  many  instances.  Now,  supposing  the 
law  on  this  subject  to  be  same  in  Scotland,  the 
different  accounts  as  to  hanging  and  beheading 
may  perhaps  be  reconciled,  for  the  marquis  may 
have  been  both  hanged  and  beheaded  ;  and  as  to 
the  statement  that  "  he  shifted  to  lay  down  his 
head,"  this  may  have  arisen  from  some  movement 
that  he  made  after  he  was  taken  down  from  the 
gallows,  for  there  is  an  instance  of  which  I  have 
read  (I  think  in  the  case  of  one  of  the  regicides), 
where  the  traitor,  after  he  was  disembowelled, 
actually  knocked  down  his  executioner.  It  is  pos- 
sible, therefore,  that  all  the  facts  stated  may  be 
true,  though  each  author  has  only  stated  a  part. 

There  are  many  instances  where  traitors  were 
only  beheaded;  for,  after  sentence,  the  King  often 
pardoned  all  the  punishment  except  beheading. 
(1  Hale,  P.  C.  351.) 

The  54  Geo.  III.  c.  146,  s.  1,  which  extends  to 
the  whole  of  the  United  Kingdom,  recites  the  old 
sentence  nearly  in  the  same  terms  as  I  have  used, 
and  therefore  probably  the  old  sentence  was  the 

*  Hale  has  "  ipsoque  vivente,"  &c.,  and  adds  in  a  note, 
;  These  words  are  so  material  that  the  judgment  was  re-  ' 
versed  for  want  of  them  in  Walcot's  Case.    Hawkins  has 
4  before  his  face.'" 


same  in  Scotland  and  England.  Since  that  act 
the  sentence  in  high  treason  is,  that  the  traitor  be 
hanged  until  he  be  dead,  and  that  his  head  be 
severed  from  his  body,  and  the  body,  divided  into 
four  quarters,  be  disposed  of  as  the  King  may  think 
fit ;  but  the  sentence  may  be  altered  to  beheading 
only.  C.  S.  GREAVES. 

SUN  AND  WHALEBONE  (3rd  S.  i.  336,  359.)  — 
I  do  not  imagine  that  the  Editor  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
would  have  devoted  an  entire  column  to  my  reply, 
had  he  thought  with  S.  that  MR.  CHARNOCK'S  three 
lines  "quietly  disposed"  of  the  question.  The 
difficulty  seemed  to  lie  in  the  oddness  of  the  asso- 
ciation of  the  sun  with  whalebone;  and  I  cannot 
see  that  this  anomaly  is  explained  by  the  infor- 
mation, that  Whalebone  is  the  name  of  an  estate 
in  the  neighbourhood,  any  better  than  it  would  be 
by  the  statement  that  whalebone  is  a  well-known 
article  of  commerce.  Had  "The  Moon  and  Mue- 
gleton"  figured  on  an  ale-house  sign,  would  the 
singularity  be  "  quietly  disposed  "  of,  by  the  infor- 
mation that  Muggleton  was  the  name  of  an  ob- 
scure village  in  Dickens' s  Pickwick  ?  " 

DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

STANDING  WHILE  THE  LORD'S  PRATER  is  BEAD 
IN  THE  SECOND  LESSON.  —  Not  having  seen  lrt  S. 
ix.  127, 257,  567, 1  am  not  sure  whether  the  parish 
church,  at  Windsor,  has  been  mentioned  as  one 
where  this  practice  prevails.  If  it  has  not,  it  may 
be  added  to  former  lists.  T.  R. 

REVIVALS  OF  RELIGION  :  MACCULLOCH  OF  CAM- 
BUSLANG  (3rd  S.  i.  329.)  — In  answer  to  2.  e?  I 
beg  to  state  that  he  will  find  many  memorabilia 
concerning  the  Revival  in  general,  and  the  excel- 
lent Macculloch  in  particular,  in  1,  Gillies's  His- 
torical Collections,  edited,  in  a  large  volume,  by 
Dr.  Bonar  of  Kelso  ;  2,  Whitfidd  and  the  Revival* 
of  the  18th  Century,  from  MSS.— a  volume  issued 
by  the  Free  Church  Publication  Society,  and 
easily  obtained.  There  are  also  very  extensive 
MS.  collections,  including  letters  and  other  me- 
morials of  and  to  Macculloch,  in  the  Free  Church 
Library,  Edinburgh.  It  will  not  be  difficult  for 
2.  €>.  to  hear  of  many  possessors  of  letters  of  Mac- 
culloch in  Scotland.  I  know  of  various  in  Edin- 
burgh. r« 

TITLE  or  PSALM  CXLIX.  (3rd  S.  i.  348.)— Turn- 
ing over  some  Bibles  in  my  possession,  I  see  that 
the  words  alluded  to  by  B.  H.  C.  are  not  found 
in  some  early  editions,  but  that  they  appear  sub- 
sequently; and  then,  still  later,  they  are  lost 
again.  In  1576,  the  title  is  — 

«  An  exhortation  to  the  Church  to  prayse  the  Lord 
for  his  victorie  and  conquest,  that  he  giueth  his  saints 
against  all  man's  power." 

In  1611,  folio,  black-letter  (first  authorised 
edition,  and  second  issue  of  that  year),  it  is  this— 

«  1.  The  prophet  exhorteth  to  praise  God  for  his  loue 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  MAY  17,  '62. 


to  the  Church,  5.  And  for  that  power,  which  hee  hath 
giuen  to  the  Church  to  rule  the  consciences  of  men." 

In  1794,  16mo,  Edinburgh,  printed  by  Mark 
and  Charles  Kerr,  his  Majesty's  printers,  we 
have: — 

M  1.  The  Prophet  exhorteth  to  praise  God  for  his  love 
to  the  Church,  5.  And  for  that  power  which  he  hath 
given  to  his  saints." 

In  D'Oyly  and  Mant's  edition  of  1817,  4  vols. 
4to,  we  find  the  same  title,  word  for  word,  as  in 
1611.  In  a  royal  8vo,  Cambridge,  1833,  we 
have  the  same  as  in  1794  above.  And  in  a  24mo, 
Oxford,  1846,  we  perceive  still  another  difference, 
where  it  occurs  in  the  last  two  words,  as  com- 
pared with  the  instance  above,  under  date  1794  ; 
as  thus :  — 

"  1.  The  Prophet  exhorteth  to  praise  God  for  his  love 
to  the  Church,  5.  And  for  that  power  which  he  hath 
given  to  the  Church." 

P.  HUTCHINSON. 

PARODIES  ON  GRAY'S  "  ELEGY"  (3rd  S.  i.  197.)— 
In  Bentley's  Miscellany  (vol.  xiii.  p.  554),  I  have 
found  another  parody,  besides  those  mentioned 
by  X.  A.  X.  (3rd  S.  i.  355),  entitled  "  Elegy  in  a 
London  Theatre,  not  by  Gray,"  the  first  two 
verses  of  which  are  as  follows  :  — 
"  The  curtain  falls  —  the  signal  all  is  o'er ; 

The  eager  crowd  along  the  lobby  throng; 
The  youngsters  lean  against  the  crowded  door, 

Ogling  the  ladies  as  they  pass  along. 

"  The  gas-lamps  fade,  the  foot-lights  hide  their  heads, 

And  not  a  soul  beside  myself  is  seen, 
Save  where  the  lacquey  dirty  canvas  spreads, 
The  painted  boxes  from  the  dust  to  screen." 

H.  PALMER. 

AGE  OF  NEWSPAPERS  (3ra  S.  i.  351.)  —In  the 
absence  of  books  and  memoranda  all  I  can  say  is, 
that  my  memory  fixes  the  origin  of  what  is  now 
called  the  Nottingham  Journal  in  the  year  1710. 
The  Nottingham  Date-Book  says  1716.  (The 
first  printed  books  under  my  notice  bear  date 
1713.)  I  have  seen  several  early  copies  of  the 
Journal  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Nottingham,  but 
they  seem  to  vanish  out  of  existence  when  ao-ain 
inquired  for.  Mr.  Job  Bradshaw,  Pelham  Street, 
.Nottingham,  the  present  editor  and  proprietor, 
would  be  able  to  give  further  information,  and 
probably  supply  G.  W.  M.  with  a  copy  of  a  re- 
print which  he  once  made  of  an  early  number. 

The  Castle,  Tonbridge,  Kent.         ^  *'  CRESWELL' 

Allow  ^  me  to  point  out  a  slight  error  in  MR. 
UILBERT  s  communication.  I  can  speak  with  much 
confidence  of  the  commencement  of  The  Times 
strictly  so  called.  I  was  at  school,  during  the  years 
1787  and  1788,  where  the  boys  used  to  club  and 
take  in  a  newspaper.  The  paper  so  taken  in  was 
1  he  Mar,  which  appeared  in  the  evening  till  a 
boy,  whose  friends  were  intimate  with  Mr.Valter 


announced  that  a  newly-modelled  paper,  under 
the  name  of  The  Times,  was  to  be  started  by  that 
gentleman  ;  and  then  it  was  resolved,  nem.  dis.t 
to  relinquish  The  Star  and  subscribe  to  Mr.  Wal- 
ter's Times  If  I  do  not  mistake,  the  price  of  a 
single  paper  was  then,  as  it  now  is,  three  pence. 

ANTEHAC. 

[  The  Times  first  appeared  under  that  title  on  the  1st 
January,  1788,  but  bore  the  number  941,  it  being  a  con- 
tinuation, under  a  new  name,  of  the  Universal  Register,  of 
which  940  numbers  had  been  published.  See  "  N.  &  Q." 
1"S.  i.  75.  — ED.] 

THE  VULGATE  (3rd  S.  i.  349.)  —  The  divine  to 
whom  allusion  is  made  is  the  late  Dr.  Routh  ;• 
who  used,  however,  to  join  with  the  Vulgate 
Schleusner's  Lexicon  to  the  New  Testament. 

E.  M. 

QUOTATION  (3rd  S.  i.  348.)  —  M.  T.  S.  will  find 

the  quotation  referred  to  in  a  little  book,  entitled 

Maxims,  Morals,  and  Golden  Rules,  published  by 

James  Madden  and  Co.  in  1843,  p.  26  :  — 

"  For  every  ill  beneath  the  sun, 

There  is  some  remedy,  or  none ; 

Should  there  be  one,  resolve  to  find  it ; 

If  not,  submit ;  and  never  mind  it." 
1  I  have  thought  it  well  to 'copy  it  from  the 
above,  by  there  being  a  slight  difference  in  the 
wording  from  that  in  "  N.  &  Q."  H.  TAYLOR. 

The  lines  — 

"  For  every  evil,"  &c., 

quoted  in  "  N.  &  Q."  for  May  3,  1862,  are  printed 
in  the  Hagley  Parochial  Magazine  for  Feb.  1862. 
They  were  given  to  the  rector  of  Hagley  by  the 
Rev.  Henry  Pretyman,  who  had  them  in  his  note- 
book. He  cannot  remember  where  he  got  them, 
but  believes' he  found  them  somewhere  as  an  anony- 
mous quotation. 

In  the  same  note-book  were  the  following  lines, 
about  which  I  shall  be  glad  of  the  same  informa- 
tion as  your  correspondent  asked  concerning  the 
former  ones  :  — 

"  It's  a  very  good  world  we  live  in, 
To  lend  or  to  spend  or  to  give  in ; 
But  to  beg  or  to  borrow  or  to  ask  for  your  own, 
It's  the  very  worst  world  that  ever  was  known."  * 

LYTTELTON. 

Did  not  the  lines  appear  in  the  Saturday  Ma- 
gazine in  this  form  :  — 

"  For  every  ill  beneath  the  sun, 
There  is  a  remedy  or  none. 
If  there's  one  resolve  to  find  it, 
If  not,  submit,  and  never  mind  it." 

E.M. 

The  lines  in  your  last  are  a  translation  or  am- 
plification of  a  well-known  Castilian  proverb  :  — 
I  Si  hay  remedio  porqui  te  apuras  ? 
<jSi  no  hay  remedio  porqui  te  apuras?" 

J.  B. 

[*  This  epigram,  with  variations,  appeared  in  our  1"  S- 
ii.  71, 102,  156,  but  the  authorship  was  not  traced.— ED.]- 


3'd  S.  I.  MAY  17,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


399 


CENTENARIANISM  (3rd  S.  i.  281.) — Having  been 
personally  acquainted  with  "old  Jack  Pratt," 
during  a  residence  of  some  years  in  Oxford,  I 
must  ask  permission  to  record  my  firm  belief  that 
he  is  not  a  man  likely  to  misrepresent  his  age  for 
the  sake  of  attracting  sympathy.  He  is  still 
living,  in  great  poverty ";  and  the  following  de- 
tails have  been  procured  from  himself.  My  in- 
formant "found  him  much  weaker,  and  in  her 
opinion  he  cannot  live  long." 

Old  Pratt  states  that  a  copy  of  the  register  of 
his  birth  is  in  the  possession  of  Miss  D.  Plumptre, 
of  University  College.  (I  have  been  told,  not  by 
Pratt,  that  Dr.  Acland  also  has  a  copy.)  He  was 
not  born  in  1756,  as  stated  in  Mr.  Tyerman's 
pamphlet,  but  in  March  1755 ;  this  date  he  has 
always  named  both  to  my  correspondent  and 
myself.  His  eldest  son,  William  Pratt,  was  born 
at  South  Shields,  Northumberland  (I  think  about 
1783-8)  ;  and  died  in  Shoreditch  parish,  at  the 
age  of  eighty.  Will  any  of  your  correspondents 
in  these  parishes  verify  these  statements  by  con- 
sulting the  registers  ?  The  age  of  the  son,  if  cer- 
tified, will  of  course  to  a  certain  extent  prove 
that  of  the  father.  The  date  which  I  have  given 
above  for  William  Pratt's  birth,  is  not  his  father's 
statement,  but  my  own  deduction  from  some  of 
his  remarks,  and  may  therefore  be  one  or  two 
years  in  error.  I  have  not  the  honour  of  Miss 
Plumptre's  acquaintance,  but  I  would  have  ven- 
tured to  ask  her  for  a  copy  of  the  register  had 
she  been  at  home,  which  I  understand  she  is 'not. 

HERMENTRUDE. 

DAMBOARD  (3rd  S.  i.  347.)  —  A  ludicrous  cir- 
cumstance is  told  arising  from  the  Scottish  cor- 
ruption of  the  word  to  dambroad.  Two  ladies  of 
that  country  went  to  a  London  shop  where  table- 
cloths were  sold  ;  the  patterns  of  which,  as  is 
known,  sometimes  resemble  the  squares  of  a  chess- 
board. After  being  shown  several  patterns,  they 
asked  the  shopman,  "  Have  you  none  of  the  dam- 
broad  kind?"  He  was  a  little  taken  aback  at 
what  he  thought  a  strange  question,  especially  by 
a  lady  ;  but,  recovering  his  composure,  replied : 
"  No,  Ma'am  ;  we  have  many  of  them  very  broad, 
but  none  of  them  dam-broad."  T. 

FOLD  (3rd  S.  i.  187,  353.)  —  That  the  name 
Dixon-Fold  is  not  marked  "  on  a  map  of  Lan- 
cashire, printed  at  the  end  of  the  sixteenth  cen- 
tury," will  be  believed  at  once  by  any  one  at  all 
acquainted  with  Lancashire  names,  without  the 
additional  assurance  contained  in  SIDNEY  YOUNG'S 
Note.  The  word  fold  originally  means  enclosure, 
and  is  the  enclosure  round  some  tolerably  large 
farm.  The  farm  increases  in  importance,  other 
houses  are  built  near  it — these  soon  form  a  ham- 
let, then  a  village,  next  perhaps  a  small  town  — 
and  the  original  name  of  the  one  house  is  retained 
as  the  appellation  of  the  larger  cluster.  That 


fold  is  not  a  corruption  of  / eld,  will  I  think  be 
evident,  from  the  systematic  and  repeated  use  of 
the  word.  I  can  enumerate  the  following  in  ray 
own  neighbourhood  (East  Lancashire):  Townsend- 
fold,  Gregory  Fold,  Hartley  feld,  Phinehas-Fold, 
and  Collinge  Fold.  All  these  were  originally 
single  farms,  but  are  now  either  clusters  of  houses 
or  small  hamlets.  The  omission  of  the  possessive 
*  is  very  characteristic  of  our  district :  u  Dick* 
Bradshaw-wife,"  would  be  the  earn  sposa  of  one 
Richard  Bradshaw.  Hence,  Townsend-Fold  would 
be  the  enclosed  farm  belonging  to  one  Townsend, 
probably  a  well-to-do  yeoman.  L.  H.  M. 

In  further  reply  to  J.'s  Query,  I  beg  to  state 
that,  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Bury,  in  Lancashire, 
are  dozens  of  places  the  names  of  which  have  the 
termination  fold.  In  almost  every  case,  the  name 
belongs  to  a  factory  and  its  attendant  cottages : 
the  outbuildings  and  yard  at  the  back  of  which, 
being  enclosed  with  a  wall  in  which  is  a  gate,  this 
yard  very  much  resembles  a  fold  yard.  In  almost 
every  case,  too,  the  prefix  is  the  surname  of  the 
owner  of  the  premises.  One  or  two  exceptions  I 
could  mention,  Wool-fold  for  instance. 

H.  PALME*. 

CROMWELL  LEE  (3rd  S.  i.  310,  379.)— Cromwell 
Lee's  descendants  lived  in  co.  Tipperary,  at  Craig 
Castle,  the  ruins  of  which  still  exist.  The  last 
proprietor  disinherited  his  only  son,  who  displeased 
him  by  a  marriage,  and  left  him  but  a  small  por- 
tion of  the  property  called  Barna,  which  lies 
within  half  a  mile  of  the  castle.  This  estate  has 
been  inherited  in  the  direct  line  up  to  the  present 
time.  I  am  one  of  the  sisters  of  the  late  proprie- 
tor, Henry  Lee,  who  has  left  four  sons  all  young 
children.  A  portion  of  the  Litchfield  arms,  carved 
in  stone,  still  remain  at  Barna ;  the  family  papers 
are  all  destroyed,  and  the  title-deeds  were  cut  up 
by  my  great-grandfather  for  tailor's  measures. 

1'. .  LEE. 

NUMISMATIC  :  COIN  OR  MEDAL  OF  QUEEN  VIC- 
TORIA (3rd  S.  i.  330,  379.)— Your  correspondent 
Y.  Z.  evidently  refers  to  what  is  called  the  "  Gothic 
Crown"  of  Queen  Victoria,  struck  as  a  pattern 
crown.  It  is  quite  of  the  type  of  the  current 
florin,  and  is  a  beautiful  piece  of  numismatic  de- 
sign and  execution.  The  artist  is  Mr.  Wyon,  R.A., 
chief  engraver  to  the  Mint.  The  following  is  a 
description  of  it :  —  Obverse.  Profile  bust  of  the 
Queen,  crowned,  to  the  left ;  her  robe  ornamented 
with  rose,  thistle,  and  shamrock.  The  legend,  in 
Gothic  letters,  "  Victoria  Dei  Gratia  Britannmr. 
Reg.  F.D."  Reverse.  The  arms,  crowned,  of  the 
three  kingdoms,  represented  not  quarterly,  but  on 
separate  escutcheons,  ranged  base  to  base  in  the 
form  of  a  cross.  In  the  angles  an  elaborate  fret- 
work, with  rose,  thistle,  and  shamrock.  The  le- 
gend, "  Tueatur  unita  Deus— Anno  MDCCCXLVII. 
On  the  edge,  "  Decus  et  Tutamen— Anno  Regni 


400 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  MAY  17,  '62. 


Undecimo,"  with  a  rose  between  each  word,  and  a 
crown  closing  the  sentence.  As  to  the  value  of 
this  beautiful  pattern-crown,  surely  Y.  Z.  is  in 
error  in  saying  that  ten  sovereigns  have  been 
offered  for  it  by  collectors.  My  specimen,  which 
is  a  very  brilliant  one,  cost  me  less  than  one 
pound ;  and  in  a  sale  catalogue  before  me,  I  find 
the  coin  quoted  at  one  pound  one  shillling.  ^  It 
may  be  noted  that  the  last  previous  sovereign 
crowned  upon  our  coins  was  Charles  II. 

JAMES  J.  LAMB. 

Underwood  Cottage,  Paisley. 

TITLE-PAGES  (3rd  S.  i.  250.)  -  The  "  Fables  " 
inquired  after  by  E.  D.,  I  believe  he  will  find  to 
be  a  volume  published  in  1768,  8vo,  by  Dr.  Wil- 
liam Wilkie,  an  eccentric  professor  at  St.  An- 
drew's, N.B.,  and  author  of  a  forgotten  epic,  based 
on  an  episode  in  Homer,  which,  to  the  confusion 
of  the  critics,  he  dubbed  The  Epigoniad.  For 
notice  of  Wilkie,  should  such  be  wished,  consult 
Grosart's  edition  of  the  Works  of  the  Scottish 
poet,  Robert  Fergusson,  who  wrote  a  pastoral 
elegy  on  his  death.  r. 

ISLET  FAMILY  (3'd  S.  i.  358.)  —Will  SPAL  ob- 
lige me  with  a  reference  to  any  printed  docu- 
ments ?  L.  P. 

UNIVERSITY  DISCIPLINE  (3rd  S.  i.  291,  359.)  — 
Friends  of  Mr.  W.  G.  Ward  will  hardly  recognise 
his  name  as  transmitted  to  posterity  by  MR.  WAL- 
COTT  in  your  pages,  as  Mr.  G.  N.  Ward. 

G.  M.  G. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 

The  Story  of  Lord  Bacon's  Life.  By  W.  Hepworth 
Dixon,  Barrister-at-Law.  (Murray.) 

The  second  edition  of  Mr.  Dixon's  Personal  History  of 
Lord  Bacon  having  been  called  for  too  rapidly  to  admit 
of  his  profiting  by  the  discussions  to  which  it  gave  rise, 
he  has  in  the  present  volume  availed  himself,  not  only  of 
the  ne\v  materials  which  have  been  discovered  at  Hat- 
field  and  the  Six  Clerks'  Office,  but  also  of  the  advice  of 
some  uf  the  most  able  lawyers  on  the  bench,  and  has  almost 
entirely  re-written  it.  His  views  of  Bacon's  charac- 
ter remain  unaltered;  but  even  those  who  differ  most 
widely  in  their  estimate  of  Bacon  from  Mr.  Dixon,  must 
admit  that  this  Story  of  his  Life  is  told  with  great  ability, 
and  will  be  read  with  great  interest. 

A  Memoir  of  Sir  Philip  Sidney.  By  H.  R.  Fox  Bourne. 
(Chapman  &  Hall.) 

That  Sir  Philip  Sidney,  who  seems  rather  a  hero  of 
romance  than  a  hero  of  historj",  and  whose  excellences 
were  marred  by  so  few  infirmities,  should  have  waited 
till  now  for  a  biographer  worthy  of  his  merits,  seems 
indeed  most  strange.  Well  indeed  might  Anthony  a  Wood 
remark,  that  it  was  "  to  be  wished  that  Sir  Philip  Sidney's 
life  might  be  written  by  some  judicious  hand,  and  that 
the  imperfect  Essay  of  Lord  Brooke  might  be  supplied." 
What  honest  Anthony  wished  Mr.  Bourne  has  success- 
fully accomplished.  We  have  in  the  volume  before  us 
the  details  of  the  active  noble  life  of  Sidney,  sought  out 
with  great  diligence,  and  told  with  great  ability.  But 


much  as  he  has  laboured  to  pourtray  Sidney  as  a  soldier 
and  a  statesman,  he  has  done  no  less  justice  to  him  in  his 
character  as  a  man  of  letters;  and  no  reader  will  rise 
from  a  perusal  of  Mr.  Bourne's  labours  without  a  just  ap- 
preciation of  Sidney's  character,  and  certainly  not  with- 
out acknowledging  the  merits  of  Sidney's  last  and  best 
biographer. 

BOOKS  RECEIVED. — 

On  the  Theory  of  the  English  Hexameter,  and  its  Ap- 
plicability to  the  Translation  of  Homer.  By  Lord  Lindsay. 
(Murray. ) 

An  Essay  which  will  be  read  with  pleasure  by  classical 
students. 

The  Book  of  Days :  a  Miscellany  of  Popular  Antiquities 
in  Connection  with  the  Calendar.  Parts  II.  III.  and  IV. 
(W.  &  R.  Chambers.) 

These  three  Parts  of  this  new  Every ~Day  Book  brings 
the  Calendar  down  to  Valentine's  Day.  More  varied 
than  its  predecessor  in  its  literary  character,  it  is  scarcely 
equal  to  it  in  its  woodcuts. 

Tales  Illustrative  of  Church  History.  England  :  Vol.  I. 
The  Early  Period.  England:  Vol.  II.  The  Mediaeval 
Period,  (J.  H.  &  J.  Parker.) 

We  are  glad  to  see  these  tales,  so  well  calculated  for 
use  in  Church  Schools,  issued  in  the  present  collected 
form. 

BRITISH  MUSEUM. — From  the  Account  recently  printed 
by  the  House  of  Commons,  it  appears  that  no  less  than 
35,579  volumes  have  been  added  to  the  library  during  the 
past  year.  That  during  the  same  period  there  have  been 
added  to  the  Manuscript  Department  no  less  than  454 
MSS.,  among  which  are  the  "Prudentius,"  the  "  Venan- 
tius  Fortunatus,"  and  English  "  Polychronicon,"  from 
the  Tenison  Library ;  Henry  of  Huntingdon's  "  Historia 
Anglorum  ;  "  "  Taxatio  Ecclesiastica  Anglia?;  "  Hocelyf's 
Transcripts  of  Privy  Seal  Documents,  from  Richard  II.  to 
Henry  V. ;  and  some  inedited  Chronicles  from  the  Savile 
Collection.  Various  other  articles  of  great  interest  are 
enumerated,  among  which  are  no  less  than  120  original 
Letters  and  Poems  of  Cowper. 

NATIONAL  PORTRAIT  GALLERY.— The  additions  to 
this  interesting  gallery  during  the  past  year  are  portraits 
of  Charles  II.,  Lord  Exmouth,  and  William  Huntingdon, 
donations.  The  purchases  are  fifteen  in  number,  viz. 
busts  of  Cromwell,  Charles  James  Fox,  Lord  Stowell, 
Francis  Jeffrey,  and  Lord  George  Bentinck;  and  por- 
traits of  Sir  Thomas  Picton,  Queen  Anne  of  Denmark, 
Cardinal  York,  Oliver  Goldsmith,  Whit  field,  Wesley,  Sir 
Richard  Arkwright,  Admiral  Hood,  Lord  Byron,  and  the 
Duke  of  Marlborough.  Well  may  the  trustees  call  out 
for  additional  space  in  which  to  display  their  treasures. 


to 

CENTENARTANISM.  We  continue  to  receive  so  many  communications  on 
the  subject  of  persons  who  are  stated  to  have  been  aged  upwa,'  ds  of  a  hun- 
dred years  at  the  time  of  their  decease,  that  we  think  it  right  to  remind 
our  Correspondents  that  the  real  question  which  was  originally  sta>  ted, 
was  not  whether  in  very  rare  and  exceptional  cases  persons  have  lived  for 
a  few  years  beyond  a  century  but  whether  there  are  any  authenticated  in- 
stances of  persons  reaching  'the  extraordinary  ages  popularlti  attributed 
to  the  Old  Countess  of  Desmond,  Old  Parr,  $c.  Is  there,  in.  short,  one 
known  instance,  established  upon  evidence  which  would  pass  muster  in  a 
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401 


LONDON   SATURDAY,  MAY  24,  1862. 


CONTENTS—  NO.  21. 
NOTES  :  —  The  Registers  of  the  Stationers'  Company,  401 

—  Etymologies:  Gossamer.  Vouchsafe,  Mess,  Glove,  Gate 
Catamaran   Cot-quean,  Baron,  Marry  gup,  Rabbit,  and 
Crawfish   403  —  North  Devonshire  Folk  Lore,  404  —  Old 
Memorial  Rhymes,  405. 

MiNOB  NOTES:  —  Emendations  emended—  Case  of  Forget- 
fulness  of  having  eaten  after  Sleep—  Holylaud  Family, 

QUERIES:—  Bishop  Coverdale's  Bible,  406  -Anonymous 

—  Arms  of  the  Kingdom  of  Leon  —  The  Battle  in  1016  be- 
tween Canute  and  Edmund  Ironsides  —  Robert  Bruce 
Prince  of  the  Picts  -  The  Blanshards  —  Robert  Campbell 
Esq.  —  Lord  Chatham's  Coffin  —  Cochran  or  Dundonald 

ar^llly  ^  Dou&las  Cause  —  Knighting  of  Sir  Francis  Drake 
—The  Rev.  Jas.  Gray—  Heyworth  Genealogy—  Hawkins 
Crest  —  Japanese  Ladies  -  Mackelcan  Family  —  Mathew 

—  Monastic  Orders  —  Montague  Baron  Rokeby  —  "  Ob- 
servations on  the  Lord's  Prayer"  —  English  Refugees  in 
Holland  —  St.  Catherine's  Hills  -  Stythe,  407. 


WITH  ANSWERS:  —  Lough  Killikeen  and  Lough 
Oughter-  Tapestry  in  the  late  House  of  Lords  —  William 
Browne's    "  Britannia's  Pastorals  "  —  "  Hurlothrumbo  :  " 
Tom  Thumb  "  —  Jacob  and  James,  410. 

REPLIES  :—  Centenarians,  411  —  Moneyers'  Weights  412— 
Kennedy  Family,  413  —  Alliterative  Inscriptions,  411  — 
Anglo-Saxon  —  Patrick  Ruthveu  —  Arms  of  Wilkes  —  Vis- 
count Canada  —Edmund  Burke  —  Italian  Quotation  — 
Canadian  Seigneurs  —  Insecure  Envelopes  —  On  beinsr 
covered  in  the  Royal  Presence—  Lambeth  Degrees  —  An- 
thony Devis  —  Portraits  of  Archbishop  Cranmer  —  Por- 
tr™sr&  Gt  Cecils—  Ulric  von  Hutten—  Orange-butter 
—  W.  Oldys,  &c.,  414. 


THE  REGISTERS  OF  THE  STATIONERS' 

COMPANY. 
(Continued  from  p.  363.) 

23  Aprilis  [1593].— Mr.  Woodcock.  Entred 
for  his  copie  a  booke  entituled  Idea.  The  Shep- 
perdes  garland.  Fasshioned  in  x  ecloges,  and 
alowed  under  Mr.  Hartwell's  hand:  intrat.  in 
curia vja. 

[We  have  a  copy  of  this  rare  work  by  Michael  Dray- 
ton  before  us,  which  has  the  additional  recommendation 
of  having  once  belonged  to  the  unfortunate  Earl  of  Essex, 
to  whom  it  was  doubtless  presented  by  his  client,  the 
author.  In  addition  to  the  portion  of  the  title-page  given 
in  the  entry,  it  is  called  Rowland's  Sacrifice  to  the  Nine 
Muses ;  consisting  in  fact  of  only  nine  Eclogues,  instead 
of  ten,  as  the  clerk  at  Stationers'  Hall  erroneously  repre- 
sented. The  imprint,  repeated  at  the  end  of  the  work,  is 
as  follows :  —  "  Imprinted  at  London  for  Thomas  Wood- 
cocke,  dwelling  in  Paul's  Churchyarde,  at  the  Signe  of  the 
black  Beare,  1593,"  4to.  This  was  Drayton's  second 
known  production.  The  concluding  words  of  the  entry 
mean,  of  course,  that  the  license  was  granted  in  a  full 
Court  of  the  Company.] 

Widowe  Charlwood.  Entred  for  her  copie  a 
booke  intituled,  Gervis  Mackwin  his  Thyrsis  and 
Daphne vjd. 

[For  Gervis  Mackwin  we  should  in  all  probability 
read  Gervase  Markham,  who  afterwards  became  a  very 
well-known  writer,  and  who  appears  to  have  mainly  sub- 
sisted by  his  pen.  No  such  poem  as  is  here  recorded  has 
come  down  to  us.] 


2  Maij. -Richard  Field.  Entred  for  his 
a  booke  intituled  The  fir*  part*  of  chrMa* 
swns  conteymnge  a  hundred  Sonnet*  of  meditation, 
humihaiion  and  prayer,  aucthorited  under  the 
nande  of  the  L.  Bisshop  of  London  .  .  .  .  Vj7 

[We  never  saw  any  copy  of  a  work  so  entitlnd  •  if  if 
now  exist,  it  has  not  fallen  in  our  way.] 

7  May.-Tho.  Orwin.  Entred  for  his  copies,  by 
sent  of  a  Court  holden  this  day,  these  bookeS 


assent 


/•    i  •  ,  J)      »**v*oc     UUUKcJJ 

folowinge,  whiche  were  Kingston's,  and  after 
Ireorge  Kobmson's,  whose  widowe  the  said  Orwin 
hath  married  :  — 

The  Whetston  of  Wytt. 

Mr,  Wilson's  Retorik  and  Logih. 

Acolastus 


v. 


[The  widow  Robinson  not  long  afterward*  became  a 
widow  again,  and  as  "the  widow  Orwin"  published 
various  works.  The  Whetstone  of  Wit  is  known,  and  ia 
merely  a  book  of  instruction  in  Arithmetic.  Dr.  Wilson's 
Arts  of  Rhetorick  and  Loalck  had  been  published,  fifty 
years  before  the  date  of  this  entry  of  these  reprints  of 
them.  Acolastus  must  have  been*  a  new  edition  of  the 
translation  (by  Palsgrave,  or  by  some  later  author,)  of 
the  Latin  play  for  the  use  of  young  people.  Acolastus 
first  appeared  in  Holland  before"  1530.] 

•  ix°die  Maij.  —  Richard  Feild.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  a  booke  intituled  The  Theater  of  fyne  De- 
vises, conteyning  an  hundred  morrall  Emblemes, 
translated  out  of  French  by  Thomas  Combe  .  vjd. 
[We  have  never  met  with  any  production  of  this  cha- 
racter, and  under  this  title.  Thomas  Combe  is  not  a 
name  much  known  in  our  literature  of  that  period.] 

10  May.—  Jo.  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copies,  twoo 
bookes,  &c.  thone  intituled  Analysis  logica,  Sf-c. 
and  thother  intituled  Parthenophil  and  parthenope, 
by  B.  Barnes  ...........  juj*. 

[The  only  existing  copy  of  Parthenophil  and  Parthe- 
nophe ;  Sonnettes,  Madrigals,  Elegies,  and  Odes,  is  in  the 
library  of  the  Duke  of  Devonshire,  having  formerly  be- 
longed to  Bishop  Dampier.  The  printer's  name  and 
date,  if  it  ever  had  any,  are  cut  off  at  the  bottom  of  the 
title-page;  but  an  address  "to  the  Reader"  is  dated 
May,  1593.  The  dedication  is  "  to  the  right  noble  and 
vertuous  Gentleman,  M.  William  Percy,"  author  of  Son- 
nets to  the  Fairest  Ccdia,  1594,  and  of  some  MS.  plays,  also 
now  in  the  library  of  the  Duke  of  Devonshire.  Gabriel 
Harvey,  in  his  Pierce's  Supertrrogatinn,  1593,  mentions 
the  Parthenophil  and  Parthenophe  of  Barnabe  Barnes  with 
extravagant  praise,  little  deserved  by  the  production  as 
it  has  come  down  to  us;  which  is  just  as  violently  over- 
abused  by  T.  Nash,  in  his  Have  with  you  to  Saffron  Waldtn, 
1596.  Harvey  puts  Barnes  on  a  level  with  Spenser,  and 
refers  to  his  services  as  a  soldier  under  the  Earl  of  Essex 
in  France,  Portugal,  and  the  Netherlands.  The  late 
Duke  of  Devonshire  promised  the  present  writer  an  op- 
portunity of  reprinting  Parthenophil  and  Parthenophe,  but 
unfortunately  his  Grace  died  before  a  transcript  could  be 
made  of  it.] 

xvj°  Juiiij.  —  John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  a  booke  intituled  A  short  dialogue  concerninge 
the  arraignement  of  certen  Cater  piUers  .  .  vjd. 

xvj°  die  Junij.  —  John  Wolf.  Entred  for  hia 


402 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


s.  I.  MAY  24,  '62. 


copie,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  The  Abuse  of  feeautye, 
represented  under  the  title  of  Shore's  wife  .  vjd. 
[Of  course,  by  Thomas  Churchyard:  it  was  re-written 
and  reprinted  by  him  several  times,  but  we  do  not  re- 
member ever  to  have  seen  a  copy  where  it  was  separated 
from  other  poems  by  the  same  author.  It  had  consider- 
able popularity;  and  the  writer  much  plumed  himself 
upon  a  performance  applauded  by  his  friend  T.  Nash. 
Churchyard  did  not  cease  to  write  until  some  time  after 
James  I.  came  to  the  throne.] 

25  Junij.  —  Robert  Robinson.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  twoo  bookes,  which  were  Singleton's 
copies,  thone  called  The  pensive  mans  practise, 
and  thotlier  The  precious  pearle  .  .  [no  sum.] 

[  The  Pensive  Man's  Practice  was  by  John  Norden.  It 
first  came  out  in  1585 ;  and  was  so  often  reprinted,  that 
it  reach  a  thirtieth  impression  before  the  year  1600.] 

xxvj°  die  Junij. — John  Norton.  Entered  for 
his  copie,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  A  discoverye  of 
the  unnaturall  and  trayterous  conspiracie  of  Scot- 
tish papistes  agnynst  God,  his  churche,  their  native 
Cuntrey,  the  Kinges  maties  person,  and  his  estate, 
& vjj. 

[At  this  period,  as  Camden  shows  (Kennett  II.  479), 
such  agitation  and  uneasiness  prevailed  in  England  re- 
specting the  King  of  Scotland  and  his  realm,  that  Queen 
Elizabeth  sent  a  special  envoy  to  the  North  on  the  sub- 
ject. Out  of  proceedings  there,  the  production  in  ques- 
tion arose.] 

xxvij0  Junij.  —  Abeli  Jeflfes.  Entred  for  his 
copies  twoo  ballads,  the  one  intituled  A  most 
godly  ballad  cxpressinge  the  wicked  behaviour  of 
age  and  youth,  fyc.,  and  thother  intituled  The  sadd 
lamentation  of  a  constant  yonge  gentlewoman,  fro. 

vjd. 

30  Junij.  —  Tho.  Newman,  Jo.  Wynnyngton. 
Entred  for  their  copies,  Tharraignment,  judgement, 
and  execution  of  three  wytches  of  Huntingdonshire, 
beinge  recommended  for  matter  of  truthe  by  Mr. 
Judge  Fenner  under  his  handwry 'tinge,  fyc.  .  vjd. 

[No  other  record  of  these  witches,  that  we  are  aware 
of,  has  descended  to  our  time.  The  note  respecting  the 
certificate  of  Mr.  Justice  Fenner  is  very  remarkable; 
and  so  unusual  does  it  seem  to  have  been,  that  we  are 
told  in  a  sub -note  in  the  Register :  "  The  note  under  Mr. 
Justice  Fennor's  hand  is  layd  up  in  the  Warden's  cup- 
bord."] 

John  Danter.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  a  booke 
intituled  The  Tyrror  of  the  night,  or  a  discourse 
of  apparisions ^ vjd. 

[By  Thomas  Nash,  whose  name  is  on  the  title-page: 
the  tract  being  called,  "  The  Terrors  of  the  Night ;  or,  a 
Discourse  of  Apparitions  —  •  Post  Tent-bras  Dies.'  Thos. 
Nashe.  London :  Printed  by  John  Danter  for  William 
Jones,"  &c.,  1594,  4to.  In  ft  Nash  with  gratitude  con- 
fesses his  obligations  to  the  Carew  family ;  but  it  is  clear 
that  he  was  then  writing  under  the  pressure  of  pecuniary 
wants.  It  is  one  of  the  rarest  and  worst  of  this  author's 
productions.] 

vj*°  Julij. —William  Jones.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  The  troublesom  Reign 
and  Lamentable  death  of  Edward  the  Second,  King 


of  England,  with  the  tragicall  fall  of  proud  Mor~ 
tymer vj*. 

[This  is  the  entry  of  Marlowe's  famous  tragedy;  but 
it  is  remarkable  that  it  did  not  come  from  the  press,  as 
far  as  we  know,  until  1598,  when  it  was  "Imprinted  at 
London  by  Richard  Bradocke  for  William  Jones."  It 
may  be  seen  in  vol.  ii.  of  Dodsley's  Old  Plays,  edit.  1825. 
Marlowe  had  been  killed  by  Francis  Archer  on  1st  June, 
1593,  about  a  month  before  the  date  at  which  we  have 
now  arrived  in  the  Registers.] 

14  Julij.  —  John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c. 

The  billes,  brief es,  notes,  and  larges  gyven  out  for 

the  sichnes,  weehely  or  otherwise       .     .     .     .     vjd. 

[Old  Stowe,  who  on  other  matters  has  been  unusually 

I  silent  at  this  period,  is  full  of  information  respecting  the 

j  Plague  and  its  ravages  in  the  summer  and  autumn  oi 

j  1593.     The  Assizes  for  Surrej7-  were  held  in  a  tent  in  St. 

I  George's  Fields,  and  Bartholomew  Fair  was  not  allowed 

I  to  be  celebrated.     At  this  date  Thomas  Nash   tells  us, 

'  that  he  was  living  at  or  nearCroydon  (doubtless  at  Bed- 

dington,  the  seat  of  the  Carews),  where  he  wrote  his 

noted  drama  of  Summer's  Last  Will  and  Testament,  which 

is  inserted  in  the  last  edition  of  Dodsley's   Old  Plays, 

vol.  ix.  p.  13.] 

11  Augusti.  —  John  Danter.  Item  entred  for 
his  copie,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  The  teares  of 
fansie,  or  love  disdained.  By  T.  Watson  . 

[Only  one  copy  of  this  graceful  collection  of  Sonnets 
(for  such  it  is)  is  known,  and  that  is  imperfect.  We 
would  willingly  insert  a  specimen  or  two,  did  our  limits 
allow  of  it:  the  full  title  is  this:  "  The  Tears  nfFancie; 
|  or,  Love  Disdained  — '  ^Etna  gravius  Amor.'  Printed  at 
j  London  for  William  Barley,  dwelling  in  Gratious  Streete, 
over  against  Leaden  Hall,  1593,"  4to.  The  initials  T.  W. 
are  at  the  close  of  the  last  sonnet,  but  the  name  is  given 
in  the  registration  at  Stationers'  Hall ;  it  seems  to  have 
been  inserted  there  as  an  afterthought.  The  sonnets  were 
sixty  in  number,  but  four  of  them  are  wanting  in  the 
middle  of  the  volume.] 

8°  die  Septembr.  —  Alice  Charlewood.  Entred 
for  her  copye  a  booke  intituled  Christe's  tears  over 

Jerusalem vjd. 

[A  well-known  work  by  Thomas  Nash,  in  which  he 

tried  his  hand  in  a  pious  strain  of  writing.     There  are 

only  two  editions  of  the  book,  in  1593  and  1613,  but  some 

copies  bear  the  date  of  1594.     In  the  first  the  author 

strove  to  make  amends  to  Gabriel  Harvey,  but  the  latter 

rejected  the  offer,  apparently  on  the  ground  that  he  did 

j  not  think  it  sincere,  and  that  Nash  meant  to  put  him  off 

'  his  guard,  and  take  advantage  of  him  —  hence  the  fierce 

I  renewal  of  the  paper  Avar.] 

xvij°  die  Septembr.  —  John  Wolf.  Entred  for 
!  his  copie,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  The  unfortunate 

|  traveller vjl 

[Also  by  Nash,   who   seems   to   have  employed   his 
j  leisure  in  the  country,  while  avoiding  the  infection,  very 
!  industriously.     His  Unfortunate  Traveller,  or  the  Life  of 
\  Jack   Wilton,  was  published  in   1594,  4to ;  and  was  not 
thought  to  be  a  very  successful  imitation  of  the  style  of 
Thomas  Deloney,  in  his  Jack  of  Newbury,   Thomas  of 
Reading,  &c.     The  only  copy  we  ever  saw  of  his  Unfor- 
tunate Traveller  is  in  the  library  which  George  IV.  gave 
or  sold  to  the  British  Museum.] 

xxviij0  die  Septembr.— John  Wolf.  Entred  for 
his  copye,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  Lucaris  Jirste 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


403 


booke  of  the  famous  Civill  war  betwixt  Pompey  and 
Ccesar.  Englished  by  Christopher  Marlow  .  vjd. 
[The  recent  and  strange  death  of  Marlowe  had  caused 
attention  to  be  directed  to  his  productions,  with  a  view 
to  their  publication.  His  translation  of  the  firat  book  of 
the  Pharsalia  did  not,  however,  come  out  until  1600,  when 
it  was  "  Printed  by  P.  Short,  and  are  to  be  sold  by  Walter 
Burre  at  the  signe  of  the  Flower-de-Luce,  in  Paule's 
Churchyard,  1600,"  4to.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Dyce,  when  he 
reprinted  it  in  1850,  does  not  seem  to  have  been  aware 
that  it  had  many  years  before  been  reprinted  by  Bishop 
Percy,  among  the  specimens  of  blank-verse  anterior  to 
Milton.  The  dedication  is  by  the  same  bookseller  as  the 
publisher  of  Shakspeare's  Sonnets,  viz.  Thorn.  Thorpe,  as 
he  signed  his  name  in  1600,  and  not  Thomas  Thorpe,  as 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Dyce  gives  it.  The  difference  is  very  im- 
material ;  and  we  only  mention  it  for  the  sake  of  extreme 
exactness,  and  in  reference  to  a  recent  question  raised 
upon  the  form  of  Thorpe's  dedication,  to  Shakspeare's 
Sonnets  in  1609.] 

John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copye,  &c.  a  booke 
intituled  Hero  and  Leander,  being  an  amorous 
poem,  devised  by  Christopher  Marlow  .  .  vjd. 

[Marlowe's  paraphrase  from  Musaeus  was  published 
two  years  before  his  first  book  of  Lucan,  but  here  we  see 
them  entered  together  in  1593 ;  and  in  1600,  the  title- 
page  to  Hero  and  Leander  informs  us  that  the  first  book 
of  Lucan  was  appended  to  it.  We,  however,  never  saw  a 
copy  in  which  they  were  combined.  We  do  not  believe 
that  the  words,  "  an  amorous  poem,"  were  ever  on  the 
title-page  of  any  printed  edition.] 

J.  PAYNE  COLLIER. 


ETYMOLOGIES. 

I  shall  commence  with  a  correction  of  a  wrong 
derivation  I  once  gave  :  — 

GOSSAMER.  —  A  good  many  years  ago,  in  a  note 
on  a  tale  of  mine  in  the  Fairy  Legends  of  Ire- 
land, I  regarded  this  word  as  gorse-samyt,  the  fine 
web  or  texture  that  lay  on  the  gorse  or  furze. 
Considering,  however,  that  the  gossamer  floats  in 
the  air,  that  the  Germans  assigned  its  origin  to 
the  dwarfs,  and  the  French  term  \\,fil  or  toile  de  la 
.Vierge,  I  now  think  its  original  name  may  have 
been  God's-samyt.  I  need  hardly  say  that  t  and 
d  are  commutable  with  r  as  well  as  with  I. 

VOUCHSAFE. — This  appears  to  me  to  be  merely 
veux  or  veut  .saw/:  as,  Veux,  sauf  ton  honneur,  me 
permettre.  As  to  its  proper  pronunciation,  I  think 
it  cannot  have  been  that  given  in  Walker,  which 
makes  two  words  of  it.  In  the  first  edition  of 
Paradise  Lost,  it  is  printed  always  voutsafe,  and 
so  it  may  have  been  pronounced.  But  as  vow  and 
avovj  were  forms  of  vouch  and  avouch,  I  rather 
think  it  was  pronounced  vowsafe. 

MESS.  —  In  the  sense  of  food,  or  joint-eating,  I 
derive  this  from  the  Spanish  mesa,  a  table ;  in 
that  of  confusion,  &c.,  it  is  merely  a  corruption  of 
maze.  So  guize  became  guess,  in  "  another  guess 
kind  of  person."  The  two  forms  occur  in  Fielding. 

GLOVE.  —  This  word  is  peculiar  to  the  English 
among  the  Teutonic  and  Romanic  languages.  In 


the  former,  the  terms  corresponding  to  it  signify 

hand-shoe;  and  those  in  the  latter  are  all  derived 

from  the  Teutonic  hand,  except  the  Portuguese 

|  luva,   which  I  am  inclined  to  derive  from  the 

I  English  word.     The  latter  is  the  Anglo-Saxon 

I  gl6f,  which  may  perhaps  come  from  cliofian,  to 

!  cleave,  in  allusion  to  the  separation  of  the  fingers ; 

j  but  as  in  all,  or  nearly  all  languages,  the  name  of 

I  the  glove  is  connected  with  that  of  the  hand,  so 

|  the  root  of  glove  may  possibly  be  the  Celtic  lav 

(Idmh),  hand :  the  g  being  prefixed,  as  In  some 

other  Anglo-Sax,  words.     In  Scottish,  loof  is  the 

palm  of  the  hand.     In  the  Danish  dictionary  of 

j  Rapp   and  Ferrall,  however,  I  find    haand-love, 

"hollow  of  the  hand";    though  where   the  love 

came  from,  unless  from  the  Scottish,  I  cannot  tell, 

for  the  Danish  love  has  no  such  sense. 

GATE.  —  This  seems  to  be  merely  a  form  of 
cake,  just  as  we  have  mate  and  make;  and  perhaps 
cot,  a  small  boat,  may  be  only  a  form  of  cock 
(-boat).  I  think  it  not  unlikely,  too,  that  cat-in- 
pan  maybe  cate-in-pan — alluding  to  the  frequent 
turning  of  a  cake  when  baking  in  a  pan,  that  it 
may  be  done  equally  on  both  sides. 

CATAMARAN.  —  If  this  name  of  the  surf-boats 
used  at  Madras  is  not  of  Indian  origin,  I  would 
derive  it  from  the  Portuguese  Gala  marina,  sea- 
cat,  as  it  is  never  submerged ;  but,  like  the  cat, 
always,  as  we  may  say,  falls  on  its  feet.  This, 
however,  may  be  a  well-known  derivation,  but  I 
have  never  met  with  it. 

COT-QUEAN.  —  This,  I  suspect,  is  simply  a  cor- 
ruption of  cook-quean,  or,  as  we  would  now  say, 
cook-maid :  — 

"  And  I  heard  him  say,  should  he  be  married. 
He'd  make  his  wife  a  cuck-quean." 

Four  Prentices  of  London. 

A  man  that  interfered  in  the  kitchen  was  called 
a  cook-quean,  or  cot-quean:  just  as  a  boy  that  is 
effeminate  is  called  a  Miss  Molly. 

BARON.  —  This  word  signifying  warrior  in  the 
Romanic  tongues,  comes,  I  think,  from  wehrman, 
warrior  —  still  a  proper  name  in  Germany. 

MARRY  GUP. — This  is  Marry,  go  up,  sc.  to  me. 
The  same  in  sense  as  Marry,  come  up,  sc.  to  me ; 
go  being  the  same  as  come,  as  go  to  is  the  same  as 
come  to,  sc.  me. 

RABBIT,  Lapin,  Fr.—  I  would  derive  both  these 
words  from  the  Greek  name  SeunJirowf,  -0801  (dasypus, 
-odis,  Lat.).  By  syncope  it  became  dapod,  and  d 
is  commutable  with  I  and  r,  and  the  French  were 
fond  of  substituting  their  diminutive  in  or  on;  so 
of  Alberich  they  made  Oberon. 

CRAWFISH.  —  If  this,  and  not  crayfish,  be  the 
original  form,  it  may  be  merely  crawl-fish  or  claw- 
fish,  either  of  which  is  expressive  of  its  nature. 
The  French  ecrevisse,  which  might  seem  to  be  the 
original  of  crayfish,  may  come  from  the  Dutch 
kreeft-visch  (pr.  viss),  crab.  Teos.  KEIOHTLET. 


404 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  MAY  24,  '62. 


NORTH  DEVONSHIRE  FOLK  LORE. 

Whilst  modern  supernaturalism  is  presenting 
new  chapters  of  the  marvellous,  you  may  be  wil- 
ling to  preserve  the  memory  of  a  departing  cre- 
dulity in  the  shape  of  a  strange  story  from  North 
Devon,  and  a  few  notes  of  wonderful  powers  not 
less  firmly  believed,  and  perhaps  not  less  worthy 
of  belief,  than  the  spiritual  intercourse  of  your 
London  saloons. 

Four  ^ears  ago,  as  Rector,  I  had  to  repair  the 
chancel  in  this  parish.  On  raising  the  pavement 
the  masons  came  upon  an  excavation  in  the  un- 
derlying rock,  which  had  contained  a  box  about 
15  or  18  inches  in  length.  It  fell  to  pieces  when 
discovered,  and  the  builder  supposed  it  might 
have  contained  the  body  of  a  still-born  child.  But 
on  returning  home  from  my  parish  round,  my 
man  accosted  me  with  the  inquiry,  whether  I  had 
seen  what  the  masons  had  found  ?  As  I  had  not, 
he  described  it  to  me  ;  adding,  that  he  had  every 
reason  to  believe  that  there  were  some  very  affect- 
ing circumstances  connected  with  it.  It  required 
very  little  encouragement  to  draw  the  following 
story  from  him  :  —  It  might  have  been  sixty  years 
ago  or  more,  at  Barnstaple  Fair  (the  great  epoch 
in  these  parts),  when  a  young  woman,  belonging 
to  our  parish  but  in  service  just  beyond  its  bor- 
ders, being  jeered  by  her  companions,  declared 
that  she  would  go  to  the  fair  and  not  return 
without  a  sweetheart,  though  it  should  be  the 
Evil  One  himself.  Molly  Richards's  charms,  how- 
ever, attracted  no  admirers;  and  she  was  jogging 
homewards  alone,  when  she  was  joined  by  a  man 
who  called  himself  Will  Easton,  and  who,  after  a 
little  parley,  was  allowed  to  mount  behind  her. 
He  frequently  visited  her  in  the  evenings,  but 
always  disappeared  as  soon  as  a  light  was  brought 
across  the  threshold.  Often  he  was  heard  singing; 
and  the  farmer's  wife  once  called  out,  "  Thee's  got 
a  beautiful  voice,  Will ;  I  wish  thee'd  let  us  see 
thy  face,"  —  but  her  request  was  in  vain.  So  the 
courtship  went  on,  till  one  night  a  terrible  noise 
was  heard,  as  of  a  number  of  men  threshing  upon 
the  roof;  and  the  unfortunate  Molly  was  found 
wedged  in  between  the  bed  and  the  wall,  in  a 
place  where  you  could  not  get  your  hand.  Ten 
men  could  not  draw  her  out ;  and  they  brought 
twelve  parsons  to  conjure  her,  but  all  in  vain,  till 
a  thirteenth,  the  parson  of  Ash  ford,  came ;  who, 
being  a  great  scholar,  outwitted  the  enemy.  He 
asked  the  spirit  whether  he  claimed  immediate 
possession,  or  whether  he  would  wait  till  the 
candle  which  they  had  lighted  was  burnt  out. 
And  the  unwary  spirit,  either  out  of  politeness,  or 
fear  of  so  many  clergy,  having  consented  to  wait 
until  the  candle  was  burnt  out,  the  parson  imme- 
diately blew  it  out  and  put  it  into  a  box  ;  which 
box,  it  was  believed,  had  been  built  into  the  wall 
of  Marwood  church.  But  when  the  masons  came 


upon  a  small  box  underneath  the  pavement,  my 
man  had  no  doubt  that  it  was  the  identical  box. 
And,  "  Sure  enough,"  said  he,  "  when  they  came 
to  search,  they  found  the  snuff  o'  the  candle."  He 
"minded  the  woman,"  when  he  was  himself  a  boy: 
an  awful  old  woman  who  used  to  wander  about  by 
the  lanes  and  hedges,  as  if  she  had  something  dread- 
ful upon  her  mind.  The  farmer  with  whom  he 
served  his  apprenticeship  was  one  of  the  ten  who 
tried  to  drag  her  out  from  behind  the  bed  ;  and  he 
never  liked  to  have  the  matter  talked  of,  nor 
would  give  any  satisfaction  to  "  his  missis  "  when 
her  feminine  curiosity  set  her  asking  about  it. 
They  said  that  her  death  was  awful ;  and  that  the 
overseer,  who  was  with  her  at  the  last,  spent  the 
night  reading  his  Bible,  and  declared  that  nothing 
should  induce  him  to  go  through  such  another 
night. 

Such  was  the  story  told  to  me  by  a  middle- 
aged  man,  who  can  read  the  newspaper,  and  is  by 
no  means  a  fool ;  and  he  says  it  shows  us  how 
dangerous  it  is  to  utter  such  rash  words.  I  after- 
wards asked  a  woman  of  eighty  about  the  case. 
She  remembered  the  woman,  and  told  the  story 
with  some  small  variations  :  "They  did  say — but 
people  will  tell  lies  as  well  as  truth  —  that  she  was 
heard  screeching  as  the  devil  carried  her  away 
over  Lee  wood ;"  but  she  was  sure  there  was 
something  in  it,  for  Jan  Janson,  the  tailor,  told 
her  so,  and  he  was  one  of  the  ten  who  tried  in 
vain  to  pull  her  out. 

I  found  this  latter  old  woman  one  day  searching 
for  a  verse  which  she  was  sure  was  in  the  Bible, 
which  enables  you  to  charm  an  adder  so  that  it 
cannot  bite  you  :  it  must  not  be  told,  however,  to 
one  of  your  own  sex  ;  but  only  by  a  man  to  a 
woman,  and  conversely,  or  else  "you  lose  your 
charter,  and  the  serpent  will  bite  you."  I  have  a 
worthy  parishioner  who  assures  me  that  he  knows 
words  that  will  stop  bleeding ;  and  that  persons 
have  been  brought  to  him,  wounded  or  bleeding 
at  the  nose,  whose  bleeding  he  has  thus  stayed. 
I  cannot  persuade  him  that  the  bleeding  would 
have  stopped  as  soon,  if  he  had  kept  his  good 
words  to  himself. 

It  is  generally  believed  that  the  seventh  or 
ninth  son  or  daughter  (the  succession  not  having 
been  broken  by  the  intervention  of  a  child  of  the 
other  sex),  has  the  power  of  curing  scrofula. 
Operator  and  patient  must  both  be  fasting ;  and 
something  of  a  mesmeric  treatment  (striking  is  the 
local  word,  cf.  2  Kings  v.  11,  and  streichen,  Germ.) 
is  repeated  seven  or  nine  times  successively  on 
the  day  of  the  week  on  which  the  operator  was 
born.  No  money  must  pass,  but  a  present  is  given 
by  the  patient.  A  blacksmith  in  this  parish,  and 
a  small  coal-dealer  in  the  adjoining  parish,  are 
famous  in  this  way.  The  operation  is  said  to  have 
a  weakening  effect  on  the  raesmeriser  ;  and  I  was 
told  that  one  of  these  two  men  (I  forget  which)  was 


S.  I.  MAY  24,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


405 


so  exhausted  by  the  resort  of  afflicted  persons  to 
him,  that  he  was  forced  to  change  his  residence. 
Usually  the  operator  and  patient  must  be  of  dif- 
ferent' sexes ;  but  some  persons  are  supposed  to 
have  the  power  of  healing  both  males  and  females. 
Several  persons  have  assured  me  that  they  could 
get  no  benefit  from  doctors,  but  that  the  striking 
had  not  been  performed  more  than  two  or  three 
times  when  they  found  relief.  I  knew  a  woman 
who  set  off  on  this  errand  upon  a  winter's  morn- 
ing ;  she  slipped  upon  some  ice,  breaking  her  arm 
and  extinguishing  the  light  in  her  lantern ;  but ' 
her  faith  was  so  strong  that  she  went  on  her  way, 
and,  as  she  says,  received  great  benefit. 

I  will  only  ask  room  for  one  more  story,  told 
me  by  a  clerical  neighbour.  A  man  had  lost  his 
way  on  the  moor ;  and,  somehow,  whatever  direc- 
tion he  took,  it  always  brought  him  back  to  the 
same  spot.  He  had  heard  of  the  pixies,  and  the 
tricks  which  they  will  play  folks,  and  how  they 
were  to  be  baffled.  Very'likely  it  was  all  non- 
sense, but  there  was  no  harm  in  trying;  so  he 
stripped  off  his  coat,  and  turned  it  inside  out,  and 
after  that  he  had  no  difficulty  in  finding  his  way 
home.  F.  W.  COLLISON. 

Marwood  Rectory,  Barnstaple. 


OLD  MEMORIAL  RHYMES. 

Amongst  the  MSS.  from  the  Tenison  Library 
sold  last  year  by  Sotheby  and  Wilkinson,  there 
was  a  remarkable  Latin  Service  Book,  or  Prymer, 
dated  1555,  unfortunately  imperfect,  but  full  of 
curious  particulars.  I  venture  to  offer  you  notices 
of  two  for  your  valuable  publication. 

1.  In  the  sale  catalogue  in  which  this  manuscript 
was  announced,  it  was  stated  that  on  the  recto  of 
the  calendar  for  March,  there  was  to  be  found  the 
following  stanza :  — 

"  In  Marche  after  ye  ferate  C 
The  nexte  Priuie  tel  you  me 
The  yridde  [thridde  or  third']  Sunday  ful  I  wis 
Paske  dai,  sikir  [surely,  certainly']  hit  is."* 

When  the  rule  which  is  expressed  in  this  me- 
mory-verse is  rightly  understood,  it  is  probably 
the  shortest  and  easiest  of  all  the  extant  formulas 
for  finding  the  real  date  of  Easter.  The  "  ferste 
C "  is  emblematically  the  first  new  moon  in  the 
month ;  the  crescent  C  ([  ;  but  the  next  line  has 
been  either  corrupted  or  not  understood. 

The  word  is  printed  priuie  in  the  sale  catalogue, 
which  might  signify  the  next  secret  symbol ;  but  it 


[*  This  imperfect  Sarum  Missal  is  to  be  resold  on  the 
27th  inst.  by  Messrs.  Sotheby  and  Wilkinson.  In  the  Ca- 
talogue of  this  sale  a  more  correct  reading  of  the  lines  is 
given :  -~ 

"  In  Marche  aftir  the  ferste  C 
The  nexte  prime  tell  to  me. 
The  thridde  Sunday  ful  I  wis 
Paske  dai  sikir  hit  is."— ED.] 


is  much  more  likely  that  it  ought  to  be  read 
prime,  that  is,  the  next  full  moon,  for  which  that 
term  is  used  in  the  tables  prefixed  to  the  Common 
Prayer  Book.  The  universal  application  of  this 
rude  old  rhyming  rule  of  the  fifteenth  century 
may  be  exemplified  thus  :  — 

1786.  NEW  MOON,  Wednesday,  March  29th ;  lit 
Sunday,  April  2nd ;  2nd  Sunday,  9th  ; 
3rd  Sunday,  16th — EASTER. 

1860.  NEW  MOON,   Thursday,  March  22nd;  1st 

Sunday,  25th;  2nd  Sunday,  April  1st; 
3rd  Sunday,  8th — EASTER. 

1861.  NEW  MOON,  Monday   llth;    1st  Sunday, 

17th;  2nd  Sunday,  24th;  3rd  Sunday, 
31st— EASTER. 

1862.  NEW   MOON,   Sunday,  30th;    1st  Sunday, 

April  6th;  2nd  Sunday,  13th;  3rd  Sun- 
day, 20th — EASTER. 
And  so  much  for  this  curiosity. 

2.  There  are  some  other  specimens  of  memory- 
verses  in  the  calendar  prefixed  to  this  very  curi- 
ous book.  Take  the  verse  for  November,  with  the 
best  illustration  of  it  which  I  can  give.  The  verse 
is  as  follows  :  — 

"  Sayntes1 .  Saules8 .  in  Heuen .  ben .  syc .  ker . 
As .  say .  eth  .  Mar .  tyns  .  Brice .  er* 
Re  .  corde .  Hue5 .  and  .  Besse* .  that .  tell .  Cade .'  (Qjr. 

canne  ?) 
Cle.  ments .  Ka.  the .  rin  9 .  and .  Sat 10 .  an «  .  " 

From  the  strange  division  of  the  syllables,  and 
the  insertion  of  the  full  points  between  them, 
these  nonsense  rhymes  were  evidently  intended  to 
be  said  as  a  game,  by  which  young  persons  or  the 
commonalty  might  learn  the  principal  holydays 
in  every  month.  The  manner  of  playing  this 
pastime  was  either  by  holding  up  one  hand,  and 
touching  the  ends  of  the  fingers  with  the  other,  as 
each  syllable  was  recited  ;  or  by  laying  one  hand 
down  upon  a  table,  spreading  the  fingers,  and 
touching  the  intervals  whilst  uttering  the  wordf. 

WILLIAM  TIT*. 

42,  Lowndes  Square. 


EMENDATIONS  EMENDED.—  Some  time  since,  in 
"  N.  &  Q  ,"  I  corrected  the  following  passage  in 
Peele's  Edward  I.,— 
«  To  calm,  to  qualify,  and  to  compound  n 

Thank  England?*  strife  of  Scotland  s  climbing  peers,  - 
by  reading  The  ambitious  for  Thank  Englawff, 
which  made  excellent  sense  ;  but  yet  d 


.,  All  Sainte. 


«  1  1  th,S 


.-s  taas 

Andrew. 


406 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  MAY  24,  '62. 


satisfy  me,  as  it  did  not  account  for  the  introduc- 
tion of  "  England."  I  now  read  : 

"  The  enkindled  strife  of  Scotland's  climbing  peers," 
which  I  regard  as  certain  :   for    The  enkindled 
might    easily  become    Thank  England,    in    the 
printer's  mind. 

Again,  in 

"  There  sleeps  Titania  sometime  of  the  night, 
Lulled  in  these  flowers  with  dances  and  delight ; 
And  with  the  juice  of  this  I'll  streak  her  eyes," 

Midsummer  Night's  Dream, 

I  saw  as  I  thought,  clearly,  that  a  line  or  a  couplet 
had  been  lost  between  the  last  two  lines.  I  was 
not  then  aware  how  frequently  words  seem  to 
have  been  effaced,  or  rubbed  out,  in  the  beginning 
or  end  of  lines  in  the  manuscripts  of  plays ;  but  it 
has  since  occurred  to  me  that  such  may  have  been 
the  case  here,  and  that  the  poet's  word  may  have 
been  Than  (i.  e.  then)  ;  and  the  two  first  letters 
having  disappeared,  the  printer  naturally  made 
the  remainder  And.  Then  (i.  e.  when  she  is 
asleep),  pronounced  with  emphasis,  will  make  very 
good  sense. 

In  my  reply  to  ME.  CHANCE  on  "  Reins,"  I  gave 
a  wrong  explanation  of  the  origin  of  the  Spanish 
rienda  :  for  it  was  formed  by  a  simple  metathesis 
of  d  and  n,  made  for  the  sake^of  euphony. 

THOS.  KEIGHTLEY. 

CASE  OF  FORGETFDLNESS  OF  HAVING  EATEN 
AFTER  SLEEP.  —  The  following  very  curious  case 
may  be  found  in  Adventures  in  the  Peninsula,  by 
an  Officer  in  the  King's  German  Legion,  pub- 
lished in  London  by  Colburn,  without  date  ;  and 
should,  I  think,  be  recorded  in  "  N.  &  Q."  It  is 
said  (p.  160)  :  — 

"  At  length  provisions  arrived,   but  were  not  to  be  j 
served  out  till  midnight.    I  Jhad  previously  composed  i 
myself  upon  a  delicious  bundle  of  straw,  and  slept  most  ! 
sweetly !     On  awaking  in  the  morning,  much  refreshed,  I 
I  could  not  avoid  expressing  to  an  officer  who  lay  beside  ; 
me  my  regret  at  not  having  aroused  myself  to  partake  i 
of  the  meat  and  soup.      After  listening  awhile  to  my  ! 
doleful  lamentations,  he  excited  in  me  no  small  surprise 
by  saying  that  I  had  so  partaken — had  been  awakened — 
devoured  my  share  with  uncommon  complacency  —  and 
dropped _  off  to  sleep  again;  and  in  a  few  moments  the 
whole  circumstance  floated  dimly  upon  my  recollection,  | 
like  a  dream." 

I  shall  be  glad  if  any  of  your  readers  will  refer 
me  to  any  similar  cases,  which,  if  not  previous- 
ly brought   forward,  they   might   transcribe    for 
"  N.  &  Q. ;"  and  here  offer  my  protest  against  the  I 
ridiculous  habit  of  publishing  books  without  date.  I 

J.  ALEX.  DAVIES. 

HOLYLAND  FAMILY. — As  correctness  is  essential  j 
in  genealogical,  no  less  than  in  other  researches,  ! 
I  may  be  excused  for  pointing  out  that  "  the  j 
Hazell"  in  "N.  &  Q."  3rd  S.  i.  259,  in  the  Query  j 
concerning  the  Holylands,  was  an  error,  caused 
possibly  by  indistinct  writing  on  my  part,  for 


"  the   Hazles,"   which  is  the  true   name  of  the 
ancient  seat  of  the  chief  line  of  the  Eltons. 

While  on  this  subject,  I  may  as  well  state  that 
the  connection  between  Elton  and  Holyland  was 
that  a  daughter  of  the  Nether  Hall  family  mar- 
ried a  Holyland.  She  was  eventually  the  only 
child  of  her  father,  of  whom  descendants  re- 
mained. Her  mother,  I  may  add,  was  an  Elton 
of  Pauncefoot  Court,  into  -whose  ancestry  and 
lineage  I  would  also  willingly  investigate.  I 
should  be  glad  if  any  correspondent  can  give  a 
clue  to  Holylands  in  London,  or  in  Kent,  or 
wheresoever  else  they  may  be  met  with. 

ELIOT  MONTAUBAN. 


BISHOP  COVERDALE'S  BIBLE. 

I  have  a  copy  of  Myles  Coverdale's  Bible  in 
quarto,  ]  537,  black-letter,  respecting  which  I  shall 
be  glad  of  some  information,  as  it  does  not  appear 
to  agree  exactly  with  any  of  those  described  at 
various  times  in  "  N.  &  Q." 

MR.  GEORGE  OFFOR  says  ("N.  &  Q."  1st  S.  v. 
60):  — 

"In  1537  this  book  was  reprinted,  both  in  folio  and 
quarto,  probably  at  Antwerp,  and  in  these  the  words 
'  from  the  Douche  and  Latyn '  were  very  properly  omitted 

these  are  ornamented  with  large  initial  letters, 

with  a  dance  of  death,  and  are  the  rarest  volumes  in  the 
English  language.  In  these  the  dedication  is  altered 
from  Queen  Anno  to  Queen  Jane  as  the  wife  of  Henry 
VIII." 

ISTow  my  copy  agrees  with  this  description  in 
some  points,  but  differs  in  others  :  1st.  The  words 
"  from  the  Douche  and  Latyn  "  are  omitted  ;  2ndly, 
the  dedication  is  altered  to  Queen  Jane;  but, 
3rdly,  there  is  no  "  dance  of  death  "  either  on  the 
title-page  or  elsewhere  ;  4thly,  it  is  stated  to  have 
been  printed  at  St.  Thomas's  Hospital,  Southwark, 
by  James  Nycolson,  and  unless  the  type  indicates 
the  fact,  there  is  nothing  to  show  that  it  was 
printed  at  Antwerp. 

In  the  same  vol.  of  "N.  &  Q.,"  quoted  above, 
p.  109,  the  late  Rev.  Henry  Walter  gave  a  colla- 
tion of  a  few  verses  of  Genesis  xli.,  according 
to  different  versions ;  but  it  is  evident  he  had  not 
seen,  or  at  any  rate  had  not  examined,  this  edition 
of  Coverdale's  Bible,  for  all  his  examples,  except 
the  last,  in  my  copy  agree  with  that  version  which 
he  gives  as  fyndales,  but  not  with  that  which  he 
gives  as  Coverdale's.  The  last  of  his  examples 
(Gen.  xli.  7)  differs  in  my  copy  from  all  of  those 
quoted  by  him. 

In  "N.  &  Q."  (2nd  S.  iv.  178)  it  is  said  in  an 
interesting  and  elaborate  article :  — 

"  The  first  quarto  edition  of  Coverdale's  Bible  in  a 
nearly  perfect  state  is  quite  as  rare  as  the  folio  edition 
of  1535.  It  was  printed  at  Zurich  by  Christopher 
Froschover  in  1550." 


3'<J  S.  I.  MAY  24,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES, 


407 


I  would  ask,  how  is  this  statement  to  be  recon- 
ciled with  that  of  MB.  OFFOR  above-given  ?  Or 
is  it  meant  that  the  only  rare  quarto  edition  is  the 
Zurich  edition  of  1550  ?  If  this  be  so,  then  it  is 
not  the  first  quarto  edition  of  Coverdale  that  is 
the  rarity. 

I  suppose  my  copy  may  be  of  the  same  edition 
as  that  mentioned  by  ME.  OFFOR  ("  N.  &  Q." 
2nJ  S.  vii.  484)  as  "  a  new  edition  in  4to,  1537;"  but 
it  does  not  agree  with  his  earlier  account  of  the 
same  edition  given  in  "  N.  &.  Q.,"  lgt  S.  v.,  and 
quoted  above,  unless  indeed  the  folio  differed  from 
the  quarto  of  the  same  year,  in  having  the  "  dance 
of  death,"  and  in  being  "  printed  at  Antwerp."  I 
therefore  venture  to  hope  that  MR.  OFFOR  or 
some  other  learned  bibliographer  will  kindly  en- 
lighten me  upon  this  point;  and,  to  facilitate  a 
reply,  I  will  briefly  describe  my  copy.  . 

The  title-page,  which  is  damaged,  has  a  margin 
with  pillars,  tabernacle- work,  and  flowers,  with 
initial  letters  in  red,  and  runs  thus  :  — 

"The  By[ble],  that  is  the  holye  Scryptu[re]  of  the 
Olde  and  Newe  Testamente  faythfully  translated  in  Eng- 
lysh  &  newly  ouersene  and  correcte.  [sz'c]  M.V.XXXVII. 
S.  Paul.  ir.  Tessa,  in.  Praye  for  vs  that  the  worde  of 
God  may  haue  fre  passage  and  be  gloryfyed. 

"  S.  Paul.  Coloss.  in.  Let  the  worde  of  Christ  dwel  in 
you  plenteouslye  in  al  wysedome. 

"  Josue.  i.  Let  not  the  Boke  of  thys  lawe  departe  oute  of 
thy  mouth,  but  exercyse  thyselfe  therin  daye  and  nyghte, 
that  thou  mayeste  kepe  &  do  every  tbynge  accofdynge 
to  it  that  is  wrytten  therein. 

"Imprynted  in  Sowthwarke  in  Saynt  Thomas  Hospi- 
tale  bj*  James  Nycolson. 

"  Set  forth  with  the  Kynges  moost  gracious  licence." 

In  the  margin  at  the  top  is  a  medallion  with  a 
male  and  female  head  fronting  each  other ;  I  pre- 
sume of  King  Henry  VIII.  and  Queen  Jane.  Then 
follow  on  the  reverse  of  the  title-page  the  names 
jor  "  Abreuiation  "  of  the  "  bokes  ; "  then  "  An 
Epistle  to  the  Kynges  hyghnesse."  Next,  "a 
prologe,"  "Myles  Coverdale  unto  the  Christen 
reader ; "  then  "  An  Almanacke  for  xix  yeares," 
beginning  with  1537,  and  ending  with  1555,  both 
inclusive  ;  then  "  A  prologue  or  preface  made  by 
the  moost  revered  father  I  God  Thomas  Arch- 
bishop of  Caturbury  Metropolita  &  Primat  of 
Englad  ; "  then  "  The  contentes  of  the  Scripture." 
Next,  "  The  names  of  all  the  bookes  of  the  Bible." 
After  these  preliminary  matters,  which,  including 
the  title,  occupy  13  leaves,  comes  the  Bible  itself:  ! 
1st,  The  Old  Testament;  2nd,  "The  Hagiogra- 
pha,"  i.  e.  the  Apocrypha  ;  3rd,  "  The  newe  testa- 
ment;" and,  lastly,  after  the  Revelations,  "A 
Table  to  finde  the  Epistles  and  Gospels  usually 
reade  in  the  Churche,  accordyng  unto  the  booke 
of  Conion  Prayer,"  of  which  the  last  of  the  two 

(leaves  is  wanting. 
The  above  copy  has  been  in  my  family  for 
many    generations,    and    has    been    much   used, 
'    being  largely  underlined,  and  with  many  marginal 
MS.  notes  in  Latin  ;  but  with  the  exceptions  above 


named,  and  one  or  two  leaves  partially  torn,  it  U 
Perfect.  E.  A.  D. 

[Coverdale's  Bible,  Imprynted  by  James  Nycolson, 
Souihwark,  4to,  1537,  is  noticed  by  Lea  Wilson  as  amone 
the  Bibles,  Testament*,  etc.,  in  hit  Collection,  4to,  1845.  He 
states,  that  M  a  perfect  copy  of  this  rarest  of  editions  is  in 
Earl  Spencer's  library  at  Althorp,  from  which  I  have  taken 
the  description  of  the  parts  deficient  in  mine."  There  is  also 
an  imperfect  copy  in  the  British  Museum,  wanting  title- 
page  ;  the  first  five  and  thirteenth  leaf  of  the  prelimi- 
nary matter;  fol.  Cxi,  containing  part  of  the  table,  and 
last  leaf  containing  the  colophon.  Mr.  Wilson  has  also 
given  a  description  of  Coverdale's  Bible,  foL  1535,  de- 
dicated to  Henry  VIII.,  and  in  which  allusion  is  made  to 
the  King's  "  dearest  iust  wyfe,  and  most  vertuous  Pryn- 
cesse,  Quene  Anne."  This  volume  he  conjectures  was 
printed  by  Froschover  at  Zurich.  This  is  followed  by  a 
description  of  Coverdale's  Bible,  printed  by  Nycolsbn, 
Southwarke,  fol.  1536,  in  which  mention  is  made  in  the 
Dedication  of  Queen  Jane.  Perfect  copies  of  this  ex- 
tremely rare  edition  are  in  the  Baptist  Museum,  Bristol, 
and  in  the  Cathedral  Library  at  Lincoln.  —  ED.] 


ANONYMOUS. — Who  is  the  author  of  a  Poem  on 
Queen  Annes  Death,  by  a  Lady  of  Quality,  1715  ? 
Also,  of  Dramas  for  Children,  18mo,  published 
by  Baldwin,  about  1825  to  1830  ?  R.  INGLIS. 

Glasgow. 

ARMS  OP  THE  KINGDOM  OF  LEON. — What  is  the 
proper  tincture  of  the  lion  in  the  arms  of  the 
kingdom  of  Leon  ?  Some  of  the  books  I  have 
consulted  say  purpure,  and  others  gules.  HISP. 

THE  BATTLE  IN  1016  BETWEEN  CANUTE  AND 
EDMUND  IRONSIDES. — The  site  of  this  battle  is  to 
this  day  a  vexed  question.  Various  places  have 
been  named :  Assundun  by  Florence  of  Worcester, 
and  Esesdune  by  Henry  of  Huntingdon.  Also, 
Ashdown,  Essex,  and  Aston,  Berks.  Opinions  of 
the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  are  invited.  I  have 
come  to  the  conclusion  that  the  battle  took  place 
iu  the  parish  of  Essendine,  Rutland,  on  the  bor- 
ders of  Lincolnshire,  through  a  portion  of  which 
ground  the  Great  Northern  line  passes.  Early 
earthworks  can  be  traced  there  a  distance  of  half 
a  mile,  and  in  the  centre  of  a  large  field  is  an 
artificial  circular  high  mound  of  considerable  cir- 
cumference. The  situation  of  and  access  to  the 
ground  renders  it  probable  that  it  has  not  been 
examined  by  the  antiquary.  It  is  a  part  of  the 
estate  of  Mr.  Hankey,  of  London. 

STAMFGRDIENSIS. 

ROBERT  BRUCE,  PRINCE  OF  THE  PICTS.  —  The 
following  statement,  on  which  I  should  be  glad  of 
further  information,  is  taken  from  A  Tour  in 
England  and  Scotland,  by  Thos.  Newtc,  Esq., 
London,  1791.  It  is  this  — 

"  A  silver  coin  of  Robert  Bruce,  value  half  a  mark,  was 
given  by  a  gentleman  in  Argyleshire  to  Mr. G.Dempster, 
and  lost  bv  him  at  Pool-Ewe,  Ross-shire,  with  this  in- 
scription, '  Robertus,  Dei  Gratia,  Hex  Scotorum,  PBINCEPS 
PICTORUM.'  This  fact,  which  ia  authenticated  by  Mr. 


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[3'd  S.  I.  MAY  24,  '62. 


Dempster  and  Dr.  Tborkelyn,  Professor  of  History  and 
cfvTl  Law  in  the  University  of  Copenhagen,  is  canons  on 
two  accounts.  First,  it  shows  that  the  Pictish  origin 
o7  the  people  on  the  eastern  side  of  the  country  was  still 
remembered  in  those  times.  And  secondly,  it  is  an  in  - 
stance,  among  many  others  (  ?),  of  the  Scottish  imitating 
the  English,  as  the  English  in  many  things  imitated  the 
French  Edward  II.  of  England,  contemporary  with  the 
ereat  Robert  of  Scotland,  was  called  the  Prince  of  Wales, 
a  country  subdued  oy  the  English.  Robert,  it  seems,  as- 
sumed the  title  of  Prince  of  the  Picts,  a  people  that  had 
fallen  under  the  dominion  of  the  Scots.' 

Now  this  is,  to  say  the  least  of  it,  a  curious  tale. 
What  light  can  numismatists  and  archaeologists 
shed  on  this  roundly  asserted,  but  certainly  not 
very  generally  known,  title  of  Kobert  the  Bruce  ? 
To  those  north  the  Tweed  it  may  seem  truer  to 
say  that  the  Scots  copied  the  French  in  most  cases 
directly,  owing  to  the  constant  intercourse  between 
the  two  nations;  while  those  south  the  Tweed  may 
prefer  to  cherish  the  belief  that  the  "  Britanni 
psene  toto  orbe  divisi"  were  always  essentially 
John  Bullish,  and  more  inclined  to  fight  their 
Gallic  neighbours  than  to  imitate  them.  Con- 
cerning this  unique  (?)  coin,  however,  and  its 
superscription,  I  should  be  very  glad  of  any  in- 
formation that  correspondents  of  "  N.  &  Q."  can 
afford  me.  C.  H.  E.  CABMICHAEL. 

THE  BLANSHARDS.  —  Can  any  of  the  numerous 
readers  of  your  valuable  periodical  give  me  some 
information  concerning  the  Blanshards  of  York- 
shire, those  who  have  always  spelt  their  name 
with  an  s  in  place  of  the  usual  and  more  correct  c  ? 
Was  there  not  a  family  of  this  name  seated  near 
Howden  or  Selby  in  the  beginning  of  the  last 
century?  What  are  the  arms  and  crest  of  Blan- 
shard?  R.  B.  P. 

ROBERT  CAMPBELL,  ESQ.,  father  of  William 
Campbell,  Esq.,  Commissioner  of  Stamps  in  Ire- 
land, &c ,  held  some  office  in  the  household  of 
George  IIF.  Any  information  respecting  him  will 
be  gratefully  received  by  C.  W.  B. 

LORD  CHATHAM'S  COFFIN.  —  It  is  stated  in  Mr. 
Cyrus  Redding's  Fifty  Years'  Recollections,  Lite- 
rary and  Personal,  vol.  i.  p.  25,  that  when  the 
Chatham  vault  was  opened  in  Westminster  Abbey 
for  the  burial  of  the  younger  Pitt,  Lord  Chat- 
ham's coffin  "  was  found  turned  on  its  side  .... 
This  was  attributed  by  some  to  the  influx  of  the 
Thames,  which  had  covered  the  vault  with  slime, 
but  could  hardly  have  overturned  a  heavy  leaden 
coffin."  This  statement  is  only  given  as  a  report 
by  the  author.  Is  it,  possible  at  this  distance  of 
time  to  disprove  or  confirm  it?  If  it  be  true, 
how  are  we  to  account  for  it  ?  GRIME. 

COCHRAN     OR     DUNDONALD     FAMILY. In    the 

local  history  of  Renfrewshire  Robert  Cochran  is 
stated  to  be  the  son  and  heir  of  Allan  Cochran, 
and  father  of  John  Cochran,  who  was  infeft  in  the 
lands  of  Cochran  about  1498,  without  any  other 


information  concerning  him  than  that  genealogical 
reference.  In  the  general  history  of  Scotland  it  is 
stated  that  Robert  Cochran,  a  mason,  became  a 
chief  companion  of  King  James  III.  from  his  taste 
for  architecture,  was  created  Earl  of  Marr  by  that 
monarch,  and  hanged  over  Lander  bridge  in  1484 
for  debasing  the  coin  of  the  realm.  And  in  the 
Autobiography  of  a  Seaman,  by  the  late  Earl  of 
Dundonald,  he  says  that  Robert  Cochran  the  ma- 
son was  an  eminent  architect  and  ancestor  of  the 
Earl  of  Dundonald.  History,  instead  of  saying  he 
was  hanged,  should  rather  have  stated  that  Robert 
Cochran,  Earl  of  Marr,  was  cruelly  murdered  by 
a  coarse  and  malicious  nobility,  from  his  talents 
for  the  fine  arts  and  his  elevation  to  the  peerage. 
Two  of  the  murderers  belonged  to  Renfrewshire, 
John  Stewart,  first  Lord  Darnley  and  Earl  of 
Lennox,  and  Robert  Lyle,  second  Lord  Lyle. 
Robert  Cochran  was  likely  both  a  mason  and  an 
architect.  Queries,  1.  Is  the  Earl  of  Dundonald 
correct  in  assuming  that  Robert  Cochran,  men- 
tioned in  local  and  general  history,  is  the  same 
person  ?  and  2.  Where  did  Robert  Cochran  re- 
ceive his  first  rudiments  of  masonry,  or  building 
and  architecture  ?  PAISLEY  ABBEY. 

DOUGLAS  CAUSE.  —  In  the  number  for  this 
month  of  Blackwootfs  Magazine,  there  is  a  state- 
ment made  (p.  547)  as  to  the  Duke  of  Douglas 
having  sent  a  gentleman  of  the  name  of  M'Gla- 
shan  to  Rugby  School,  in  1758  ;  at  which  time 
Archibald  Douglas  (afterwards  defendant  in  this 
great  law  plea)  was  one  of  the  pupils  there,  and 
that  this  gentleman  was  enabled  to  single  out 
young  Archibald  (whom  he  had  never  seen  be- 
fore) from  among  the  other  boys  from  his  likeness 
to  the  family  of  Lady  Jane,  his  alleged  mother. 
It  is  added,  "  that  from  this,  and  other  inquiries, 
the  Duke  became  convinced  of  his  nephew's^ legi- 
timacy, and  entailed  his  estates  accordingly." 

Now,  without  questioning  the  effect  which  the 
result  of  these  "  other  inquiries "  may  have  had 
on  the  Duke,  it  seems  fairly  open  to  doubt  whe- 
ther this  circumstantial  detail  about  Mr.  M'Gla- 
shan  is  not  somewhat  apocryphal  ?  Naming  the 
individual  gives  it  no  doubt,  at  first  sight,  an  air 
of  probability ;  but  it  is  certainly  singular  that, 
in  no  part  of  the  voluminous  printed  proofs  or 
pleadings  in  the  cause  —  which  extend  to  several 
thousand  pages  —  is  there  the  slightest  allusion  to 
this  subject.  Proof  of  likeness  was  amply  allowed; 
but  neither  is  this  Mr.  M'Glashan  produced  as  a 
witness ;  nor,  supposing  he  may  have  died  in  the 
mean  time,  is  the  evidence  of  the  Head  Master  of 
Rugby  School,  or  any  of  the  pupils,  to  be  found 
in  confirmation  of  the  statement.  What  adds 
much  to  its  improbability,  is,  that  what  was 
pressed  on  the  Court  was  the  likeness  to  Lady 
Jane's  family,  not  of  Archibald  Douglas,  the 
Rugby  scholar,  but  of  his  alleged  twin  brother, 


S.  I.  MAY  24,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


409 


who  died  young ;  while  as  to  Archibald,  anything 
that  appears  in  the  cause,  points  to  a  wish  to  show 
that  he  resembled  Sir  John  Stewart,  Lady  Jane's 
husband,  and  his  imputed  father.  S. 

Edinburgh. 

KNIGHTING  OF  SIR  FRANCIS  DRAKE.  —  On  the 
4th  of  April,  1581,  Queen  Elizabeth  dined  with, 
and  knighted,  Drake,  on  board  "The  Golden 
Hind,"  at  Deptford.  A  full  account  of  the  cere- 
monies is  said  to  be  extant.  A  reference  either  to 
a  MS.  or  printed  work  will  very  greatly  oblige 

QUERIST. 

The  REV.  JAS.  GRAY,  formerly  one  of  the 
Masters  of  the  High  School,  Edinburgh,  is  re- 
ferred to  in  "  N.  &  Q."  (2nd  S.  xi.  417,  &c.)  He 
is  there  mentioned  as  author  of  Essays  on  the 
Greek  Drama.  When  were  they  published  ?  He 
also  published  Coua,  and  other  Poems  [12mo, 
1816].  Can  any  of  your  readers  give  any  further 
information  regarding  his  poetic  or  dramatic 
works  published,  or  MS.  ?  R.  INGLIS. 

Glasgow. 

HEYWORTH  GENEALOGY.  —  James,  Lord  Aud- 
ley,  who  died  in  1 385,  names  Maud  de  Heiworth 
as  one  of  his  legatees.  (Testamenta  Vetusta,  vol.  i. 
p.  117-118.)  Was  Maud  any  relation  to- him,  attd 
if  so,  what  relation  ?  HERMENTRUDE. 

HAWKINS  CREST. — In  Burke's  General  Armory 
this  is  said  to  be  "  A  demi  Moor  in  his  proper 
colour,  bound  and  captive,  with  annulets  on  his 
arms  and  ears  or,"  and  to  have  been  granted  in 
token  of  a  remarkable  victory  over  the  Moors. 
But  in  Lower's  Curiosities  of  Heraldry,  it  is  de- 
scribed as  "a  negro  manacled  with  a  rope";  and 
is  said  to  have  been  granted  to  Sir  John  Hawkins 
by  Queen  Elizabeth,  in  allusion  to  his  laudable 
concern  in  the  slave  trade  !  Which  is  correct  ? 

J.  WOODWARD. 

JAPANESE  LADIES.  — Mr.  Oliphant,  in  his  Nar- 
rative of  the  Earl  of  Elgin's  Mission  to  China  and 
Japan,  tells  us,  "  the  Japanese  young  ladies  colour 
their  cheeks  and  lips,  and  deck  their  hair;  but  it 
is  not  until  they  have  made  a  conquest  of  some 
lucky  swain  that,  to  prove  their  devotion  to  him, 
they  begin  to  blacken  their  teeth  and  pull  out  their 
eyebrows"  (vol  ii.  p.  114). 

Should  Mr.  Oliphant  be  a  reader,  which  I  hope 
he  is,  of  your  excellent  miscellany,  will  he,  or  any 
other  of  your  readers,  inform  me  the  process 
adopted  by  the  Japanese  ladies  on  their  nuptial 
engagement  ?  I  am  utterly  at  a  loss  to  conceive 
the  process.  Painting  it  cannot  be :  for  the  saliva 
would  soon  wash  it  off,  and  one  cannot  for  a  mo- 
ment suppose  the  mouth,  after  painting  of  the 
teeth,  is  kept  open  until  the  paint  is  thoroughly 
dried.  Of  the  plucking  out  the  hairs  of  the  eye- 
brows, I  assume  they  are  few  in  number.  If  the 
eyebrows  of  Eastern  ladies  are  as  bushy  and  beau- 


tiful as  those  which  distinguish  English  ladies,  it 
would  be  a  question  of  arithmetical  calculation 
the  time  required  to  pluck  out  T 

FBA.  MEXVBI 
Larchfield,  Darlington. 

MACKELCAN  FAMILY.  —  Information  respecting 
the  Mackelcau  family  will  oblige.  What  does  the 
name  Mackelcan  signify  ?  Is  it  Scotch  ? 

H.  M.  N. 

MATHEW. — Abednego  Mathew,  an  officer  in  the 
Coldstream  Guards  (commission  dated  1741),  mar- 
ried Janet,  daughter  and  sole  heiress  of  \V.  P. 
Buckley,  Esq.  I  shall  be  glad  if  any  of  your 
readers  can  inform  me  what  issue  there  was  from 
this  marriage,  and  whether  the  name  of  Janet  was 
continued  with  the  female  branches  ?  H.  W.  S. 

MONASTIC  ORDERS.  —  What  are  the  colours  of 
the  habits  of  the  Carthusians,  Cordeliers,  and  Be- 
nedictines ?  Are  the  two  former  offshoots  from 
any  other  order  ?  HERMENTRUDE. 

MONTAGUE  BARON  ROKEBY. — I  am  anxious  to 
know  in  what  way  the  family  of  Montague 
(Barons  Rokeby)  descend  from  the  north  coun- 
try Rokebies?  William  Robinson,  Esq.,  Lord 
Rokeby's  ancestor,  purchased  Rokeby  in  the  North 
Riding  of  Yorkshire,  in  1610.  The  family  take 
their  title  from  that  estate.  I  believe,  however, 
it  was  principally  chosen  to  mark  their  descent 
from  that  illustrious  Northern  House. 

A  LORD  or  A  MANOR. 

"OBSERVATIONS  ON  'THE  LORD'S  PRAYER."  - 
Who  was  the  author  of  a  pamphlet  entitled  Ob- 
servations on  the  Lord's  Prayer  (Dublin,  1816)  ? 
It  is  in  the  form  of  "  A  Letter  from  a  Father  to 
his  Son,"  from  "Bath,  Jan.  1816  ;"  and  contains 
within  moderate  bounds  a  considerable  amount 
of  sound  information.  ABHBA. 

ENGLISH  REFUGEES  IN  HOLLAND.  -—  In  a  letter 
from  a  refugee  Nonconformist  minister  settled 
in  Amsterdam,  dated  Jan.  18,  1662,  N.  S.  the 
following  passage  occurs  :  — 

"  Several  of  our  friends  the  English  are  gone  an^l  going 
into  Germany,  to  Count  Weed  his  country,  40  miles  from 
Colen ;  the  place  is  called  Newinweek  upon  the  Rhine ; 
he  lets  them  land  very  reasonably ;  ....  the  pUce  they 
goe  [to]  is  live  or  6  daies  iourney  from  Amsterdam  .  .  . 

I  wish  to  obtain  some  information  concerning 
this  colony  and  the  noble-minded  personage  to 
whom  its  establishment  is  attributed. 

I  take  this  opportunity  of  thanking  D.  a. 
(p.  296)  for  his  reply  to  my  Query  in  reference  to 
the  Rev.  Chr.  Blackwood.  W.  W.  b. 

ST.  CATHERINE'S  HILLS:  — I  think  that  I  have 
seen  somewhere  that  the  many  St.  Catherine  I 
which  are  scattered  throughout  England,  are  cor- 
ruptions of  some  word  which  means  the  forttjuo 
hills.  Can  you  help  me  to  the  reference,  or  give 
me  the  derivation  ? 


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I.  MAY  24,  '62. 


STTTHE.  —  At  the  inquest  on  the  frightful  ac- 
cident at  the  Hartley  Colliery,  the  witnesses  de- 
scribed the  deadly  choke-damp  as  the  "  stythe.' 
Considerable  inquiry  was  made  as  to  the  etymo- 
lo^y  of  the  word.  Is  it  not  probably  deduced  from 
"stithy"  or  "sty thy,"  a  smith's  forge  — the  rising 
vapour  giving  out  somewhat  such  a  smell  ?  Ray 
(North  Country  Words)  says,  "  sty  thy  "  means  an 
anvil,  from  the  Anglo-Saxon  sti(5,  solid,  steadfast. 
^Elfric's  Glossary  gives  anfilt  and  onfilt,  as  the 
words  for  anvil.  What  was  Ray's  authority  ?  Can 
any  of  your  northern  readers  throw  further  light 
on  the  subject  ?  A.  A. 

"T  Poets'  Corner. 


<attcrt£g  font!) 

LOUGH  KlLLTKKEN  AND  LoUGH  OUGHTER. 111 

the  Life  of  Bp.  Bedell,  written  by  his  son-in-law, 
the  Rev.  Alexander  Closy,  and  published  by  Wert- 
heim,  &c.,  it  states  (p.  205)  — 

"  Upon  the  18th  Dec.,  possession  taking  of  the  Castle 
and  of  all  that  was  within  it,  they  took  my  lord  bishop 
and  his  two  sons,  with  Alexander  Clogy,  the  Minister  of 
Cavan,  prisoners,  and  brought  them  to  a  Castle  in  the 
midst  of  a  loch  within  two  miles  of  Kilmore  (the  only 
place  of  strength  in  the  whole  country)  called  Loitghough- 
ter.  There  was  of  old  a  little  island  "about  it,  but  it  was 
worn  all  away  to  the  bare  stone  walls,  and  not  one  foot 
of  ground  now  to  be  seen  above  water,  only  a  tall  round 
tower  like  a  prison-house  standing  in  the  midst  of  the 
waters,  and  above  a  musket- shot  from  it  to  each  shore. 
Thither  they  bring  this  blessed  servant  of  God,"  &c. 

In  Lewis's  Topographical  Dictionary  of  Ireland 
I  see  under  the  head  of  "  Kilmore,"  it  states  — 

"On  Trinity  Island  are  the  remains  of  an  abbey;  and 
on  a  small  island  in  Killikeen  Lake  are  the  ruins  of  the 
castle  of  Cloughoughter,  in  which  Bishop  Bedell  was 
confined." 

Will  some  of  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  kindly 
mention  if  Lakes  Killikeen  and  Oughter  are  the 
same  or  separate  lakes  ?  And  if  separate  lakes,  if 
there  is  a  water  communication  between  them,  so 
that  a  boat  could  get  from  one  to  the  other,  as 
in  the  Lakes  of  Killarney  ?  Is  the  small  island 
in  Killikeen  Lake,  upon  which  the  ruins  of 
Cloun;hou<;hter  Castle  stand,  the  same  as  that 
mentioned  in  Alexander  Clogy's  book  as  the  little 
island  worn  all  away  to  the  bare  stone  walls  ? 
From  what  I  can  make  out,  it  strikes  me  that 
Killikeen  Lake  must  be  a  branch  of  the  large 
expanse  of  water,  marked  in  the  map  as  Lough 
Oughter.  How  much  of  the  ruins  of  Clough- 
oughter Castle  remain  ?  A.  B. 

[In  the  Ordnance  Survey  of  the  co.  Cavan,  the  Castle 
stands  in  a  branch  of  Lough  Oughter,  about  a  furlong  off 
a  tract  called  Inishconnel.  We  cannot  discover  Killykeen 
Lake,  but  there  is  a  locality  so-named  lying  to  the  south 
of  the  Castle  —  the  islands  of  Derinish  More  and  De- 
rinish Beg  intervening.  Although  the  channels  are  very 
intricate,  there  appears  to  be  a  free  water  way  through- 
out the  Lough.  Oughter  Castle  stands  as  nearly  as  pos- 


sible in  the  centre  of  the  Lough.  In  Bishop  Mant's 
Church  of  Ireland,  from  the  Reformation  to  the  Revolution, 
ed.  1840,  p.  566,  is  an  engraving  of  two  views  of  the 
"  Remains  of  Lough  Oughter  Castle,  where  Bishop  Bedell 
was  confined  in  1641."] 

TAPESTRY  IN  THE  LATE  HOUSE  OF  LORDS. — To 
his  translation  of  Waghenaer's  Spiegel  der  Zee- 
vaerdt  (fol.  1588),  Ashley  has  appended  eleven 
charts,  exhibiting  the  progress  of  the  Spanish 
Armada,  from  its  first  appearance  in  the  English 
Channel  to  its  final  dispersion  off  the  western  coast  of 
Ireland.  As  Spiering's  famous  tableaux  in  tapestry, 
which  formerly  decorated  the  walls  of  the  House 
of  Lords,  appear  to  have  corresponded  in  every 
particular  with  Ashley's  charts,  I  am  curious  to 
know  who  was  the  real  designer  of  them  ?  Corne- 
lius Vroom,  an  obscure  Dutch  artist,  is  the  reputed 
author  of  the  tableaux ;  but  they  certainly  were 
not  designed  in  the  same  year  as  that  in  which 
Ashley  published  the  above-mentioned  work. 
What  is  known  of  Vroom  ?  Was  he  the  author 
of  any  similar  designs  ?  His  name  does  not  occur 
in  our  popular  biographical  compilations. 

QUERIST. 

[Henry  Cornelius  de  Vroom  was  undoubtedly  the  au- 
thor of  the  designs  for  the  tapestry  which  was  suspended 
on  the  walls  of  the  former  House  of  Lords,  and  which 
unfortunately  perished  in  the  great  fire  of  1834.  As  we 
nowhere  read  that  the  artist  was  present  in  the  several 
engagements  with  the  Spaniards,  or  was  a  spectator  of 
the  discomfiture  of  the  Armada,  we  must  conclude, 
therefore,  that  he  received  from  the  Lord  High  Admiral 
Howard,  for  whom  he  specially  prepared  the  tableaux, 
the  necessary  charts  for  his  guidance ;  which,  no  doubt, 
were  identical  with  those  published  by  Mr.  (afterwards 
Sir)  Anthony  Ashley.  That  gentleman,  some  time  clerk 
to  the  Privy  Council  of  Elizabeth,  was  a  personal  friend, 
and  an  occasional  companion  in  the  expeditions  of  Sir 
Francis  Drake,  and  not  improbably  accompanied  him  in. 
the  memorable  summer  of '88.  At  all  events,  the  assist- 
ance of  such  a  person  as  Ashley  was  likely  to  be  sought 
by  Howard,  when  he  had  resolved  to  employ  the  peculiar 
talents  of  the  Dutchman.  The  authenticit}',  therefore, 
as  well  of  the  charts  as  of  the  tableaux,  may  be  relied  on 
notwithstanding  the  depreciatory  judgment  of  Delvenne 
and  others:  "Quoique  ces  peintures  aient  joui  d'une 
grande  reputation,  on  trouve  que  le  dessin  des  vaisseaux 
est  lourd  et  sans  elegance,  que  la  disposition  n'en  est  pas 
heureuse."  Howard  desired,  and  doubtless  obtained,  a 
truthful,  and  not  a  fanciful,  delineation  of  his  glorious 
achievements.  For  notices  of  Vroom,  one  of  the  first 
marine  painters  of  his  age  (who  was  born  at  Haerlem  in 
loGG,  and  died  in  1619),  see  Hobbes's  Picture  Collector's 
Manual,  Chalmers's  Biog.  Diet,  and  Delvenne's  Biogra- 
phie  des  Pays-Bas.  Perhaps  some  of  our  correspondents 
will  kindly  inform  us  under  what  circumstances  Francis 
Spiering's  beautiful  tapestry  passed  out  of  the  family  of 
Howard,  and  was  suspended  on  the  walls  of  the  House  of 
Peers.  It  found  its  way  there,  we  believe,  in  the  times  of 
the  Commonwealth.] 

WILLIAM  BROWNE'S  "  BRITANNIA'S  PASTORALS." 
Can  any  one  tell  me  of  any  other  edition  of  these 
than  Guide's  [Haviland's  ?]  edition  of  1625, 
Thompson's  of  1772,  Sir  Egerton  Brydges's  edi- 
tion, and  that  in  Southey's  British  Poets  ?  Also 


s.  I.  MAY  24,  '62.  ] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


411 


are  any  facts  known  of  this  poet  other  than  are 
given  in  Prince's  Worthies,  and  the  above-men- 
tioned volumes?  Any  information  will  oblige 

PELAGIUS. 

[Our  correspondent  has  omitted  to  notice  the  first  and 
rarest  edition  of  \Vm.  Browne's  Britannia's  Pastorals,  in 
Two  Books,  with  frontispiece  by  Hole.  Part  I.  Lond : 
print:  for  Geo:  Norton,  1613.  Part  II.  London :  printed 
by  Thomas  Snodham  for  George  Norton,  1616,  folio, 
pp.  266.  At  p.  60  of  Part  I.  occur  some  verses,  with 
figures  of  a  heart,  a  shepherd's  hook,  and  a  comb,  on 
which  the  lines  are  inscribed.  These  figures  are  not  in 
any  of  the  later  editions.  The  second  edition  was  pub- 
lished in  1623,  8vo.  In  Haviland's  reprint  of  1625,  8vo, 
the  dedications  and  commendatory  verses  correspond  with 
those  of  the  first  edition.  Britannia's  Pastorals  have  also 
been  reprinted  in  Chalmers's  English  Poets,  1810,  vol.  vi. ; 
Sanford's  British  Poets,  1819,  vol.  v. ;  and  Clarke's  Ca- 
binet Series,  1845,  with  the  Rev.  Wm.  Thompson's  notes. 
In  1825,  the  Percy  Society  issued  a  small  volume,  entitled 
Britannia's  Pastorals :  a  Third  Book.  Edited  by  T. 
Crofton  Croker,  Esq.  The  MS.  of  this  work  was  dis- 
covered bound  up  with  a  copy  of  the  first  edition  of 
Browne's  Pastorals,  fol.  Lond.  1613-16,  preserved  in  the 
library  of  Salisbury  Cathedral.  This  MS.  was  first 
pointed  out  to  public  notice  by  Mr.  Botfield,  in  his  work 
on  Cathedral  Libraries,  and  is  there  considered  to  be 
Browne's  own  composition.  Mr.  Croker,  however,  states 
that  "  an  attentive  perusal  of  the  poem  has  led  some  of 
his  friends  to  entertain  doubts  on  this  subject ;  not  merely 
from  the  notices  of  « Will)','  which  might  probably  be 
explained  away  as  examples  of  poetical  license,  but  from 
the  character  of  the  composition,  which,  nevertheless,  it 
is  submitted,  will  bear  comparison  in  poetical  merit  with 
anj*  of  Browne's  verses."  At  the  meeting  of  the  Society 
of  Antiquaries  on  the  13th  of  February,  1851,  Robert 
Cole,  Esq  ,  exhibited  a  copy  of  Browne's  Britannia's  Pas- 
torals, containing  a  great  many  manuscript  notes  believed 
to  be  in  the  hand-writing  of  John  Milton.  The  Retrospec- 
tive Review,  ii.  149-185,  contains  a  valuable  article  on  this 
Devonshire  poet.  Mr.  Thomas  Park  has  justly  remarked, 
that  "from  the  additional  specimens  of  Browne's  talent, 
retrieved  by  Sir  Egerton  Brydges,  and  elegantly  set 
forth  by  the  Lee  press,  it  appears  that  this  poet  is  de- 
serving of  a  more  extended  reputation  than  had  before 
been  his  allotment.  There  is  a  peaceful  delicacy  and 
pure  morality  in  these  recovered  strains,  which  surpass 
those  previously  collected  in  his  works."  For  additional 
biographical  notices  of  this  author,  consult  Kippis's  Bio- 
graphia  Britannica,  ii.  624 ;  Gent.  Mag.  Ivii.  1170  ;  Ixxxv. 
"pt.  n.  299 ;  New  Ser.  March,  1848,  p.  249 ;  and  "  N.  &.  Q." 
1st  Ser.  iii.  274;  2nd  Ser.  x.  205;  xi.  181.] 

"  HURLOTHRUMBO  I  "      "  TOM      THUMB."— Will 

you  inform  me  who  was  "  Hurlothrumbo  ?  "  Is 
'it  a  character  in  any  of  Swift's  works  ?  Also, 
who  wrote  the  farce  of  Tom  Thumb?  It  was 
thought  to  be  a  character  in  it,  but  is  not.  It 
is  alluded  to  in  print  as  far  back  as  1774. 

H.  M.  HERTS. 

[Hurlothrumbo,  or,  the  Super- Natural,  4to,  1729,  is  a 
play  written  by  Mr.  Samuel  Johnson,  a  native  of  Che- 
shire, and  originally  a  dancing-master.  It  had  a  great 
run,  owing  to  the  whimsical  madness  and  extravagance 
which  pervade  the  whole  comedy.  Johnson  was  also 
the  author  of  five  other  dramatic  pieces,  and  also  of  a 
mystical  work  entitled  A  Vision  of  Heaven,  8vo,  1738. 
He  died  in  1773,  aged  eighty-two,  and  was  buried  in  the 
plantation  forming  part  of  the  pleasure-grounds  of  the 


Old  Hall  of  Gawsworth,  near  Macclesfield,  in  Cheshire. 
Some  amusing  anecdotes  of  his  eccentricities  will  be  found 
in  Baker's  Biographia  Dramutica,  ed.  1812,  i.  402. —  Tom 
Thumb  is  a  tragedy  by  Henry  Fielding,  8vo,  1730,  which 
was  subsequently  enlarged,  and  entitled  The  Tragedy  of 
Tragedies;  or  the  Life  and  Death  of  Tom  Thumb  the 
Great,  with  the  Annotations  of  H.  Scriblerua  Secundas, 
8vo,  1731 ;  5th  edit.  1765.  Mrs.  Pilkington  says,  "  Dean 
Swift  declared  to  her,  that  he  had  not  laughed  above 
twice  in  his  life;  once  at  some  trick  a  mountebank's 
Merry- Andrew  played,  and  the  other  time  at  the  circum- 
stance of  Tom  Thumb's  killing  the  ghost."  This  inci- 
dent was  omitted  after  the  first  edition  of  the  piece.] 

JACOB  AND  JAMES. — Why  is  the  word  in  the 
New  Testament,  which  in  the  original  is  Jacob, 
translated  James  ?  G. 

[There  are  in  the  Greek  New  Testament  two  proper 
names,  which,  though  of  common  origin  and  bearing  a 
common  resemblance,  have  distinct  significations.  One  is 
'Iaxw/30?,  the  name  of  the  two  Apostles  usually  known  as 
the  Greater  and  the  Less.  This,  in  our  received  version, 
is  translated  James,  James  being  the  name  common  to 
those  two  Apostles  in  our  language.  The  other  is  'I«»*^, 
indeclinable,  because  derived  with  less  variation  from  the 
indeclinable  Hebrew.  This  latter  our  version  renders 
Jacob,  and  it  has  a  threefold  application :  1.  To  the  father 
of  Joseph,  Mary's  husband,  Matt.  i.  15,  16.  2.  To  the 
patriarch,  Isaac's  younger  son,  Matt.  i.  2.  3.  To  the 
Jewish  people,  the  descendants  of  Jacob,  Rom.  xi.  26.] 


itrpltc*. 

CENTENARIANS. 
(3rd  S.  i.  281,  399.) 

Since  the  publication  of  my  former  article  on 
this  subject,  I  have  been  favoured  by  Mr.  W.  R. 
Cuningham,  of  86,  Great  King  Street,  Edinburgh, 
with  an  account  of  two  cases  of  centenarians,  sup- 
ported by  authentic  evidence. 

The  first  case  is  that  of  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Gray, 
who  was  born  in  May,  1 748,  and  died  on  the  2nd 
of  April,  1856  :  she  had,  therefore,  nearly  com- 
pleted her  108th  year.  The  following  is  an  ex- 
tract from  the  Register  of  Births  in  the  parish  of 
Dolphinton,  Lanarkshire  :  — 

"  May  17,  1748.  Elizabeth,  daughter  to  William  Gray, 
of  Newholm,  Writer  at  Edinburgh,  and  Mrs.  Jean  Dickie, 
his  lady ;  born  May— .and  baptized  May  17th.  Witnesses 
to  the  said  baptism,  John  Dickie  of  Corstorphine  hill, 
and  Mr.  James  Bradfute,  minister  of  the  gospel  at 

"  Extracted  from  the  Register  of  Births,  &c.,  in  the 
parish  of  Dolphinton,  by  Smollett  Whitelaw,  Sess.  Clerk, 
Dolphinton,  21  Feb.  1849." 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Gray  was  never  married ;  sho 
was  the  aunt  of  Mr.  Cuningham,  and  I  ain  assured 
by  him  that  there  is  no  possibility  of  any  mistake 
as  to  her  identity.  During  the  last  fifteen  years 
of  her  life  she  resided  at  Edinburgh,  in  the  house 
now  occupied  by  him.  She  was  in  perfect  pos- 
session of  her  faculties  nearly  up  to  the  time  of 
her  death ;  and  latterly,  although  confined  to  her 
room,  she  could  move  about.  Within  a  few  years 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3*<»  S.  I.  MAY  24,  '62. 


of  her  death,  she  could  play  at  cards  without  the 
aid  of  spectacles.  She  could  repeat,  and  was  fond 
of  repeating,  most  of  the  Psalms  of  David,  in  the 
Scottish  metrical  version.  She  was  quite  aware 
of  her  great  age,  and  was  very  proud  to  speak  of 
it.  Her  memory  for  old  events  was  acute. 

Mr.  Cuningham  likewise  informs  me  that  he 
has  recently  seen  an  authentic  certificate  of  the 
birth  and  death  of  a  Miss  Agnes  Forester,  who 
was  born  at  Perth  on  the  4th  October,  1755  ;  and 
died  there  on  the  20th  of  February,  1861,  and 
therefore  at  an  age  exceeding  105  years.  The 
document  is  in  the  possession  of  the  registrar  of 
births  and  deaths  in  the  Register  Office  of 
Edinburgh. 

It  will  be  observed  that  the  case  mentioned  in 
my  previous  article,  and  the  two  cases  supplied 
by  Mr.  Cuningham,  are  all  of  female  lives.  I 
have  not  hitherto  been  able  to  obtain  conclusive 
evidence  of  a  male  centenarian.  G.  C.  LEWIS. 


A  few  days  after  reading  SIR  GEORGE  C.  LEWIS'S 
remarks  on  the  probability  of  reputed  centena- 
rians being  younger  than  they  are  believed  to  be, 
I  chanced  to  see,  in  the  Berkshire  Chronicle,  that 
at  Seven  Oaks  there  is  living  one  William  Weaver, 
who  is  in  his  102nd  year.  I  at  once  addressed  a 
letter  to  him,  asking  for  evidence  of  his  being  of 
the  great  age  reported  in  the  newspaper  above- 
named,  and  the  following  is  the  repiy  :  — 

«  Seven  Oaks,  April  16th,  1862. 
"  SIR, 

"  In  answer  to  .yours  of  to-day,  respecting  the  age  of 
William  Weaver,  I  must  inform  you  that  he  was  born  at 
Frantfield,  in  Sussex;  and  was  baptized  at  Bufted,  in  the 
.same  county.  He  has  a  certificate  of  his  baptism,  which 
was  in  1762 ;  but  from  an  entry  in  a  family  Bible,  which 
contains  the  list  of  the  births  of  the  whole  family,  he  was 
born  December  27th,  1760  ;  and  he  is  now  in  good  health, 
and  gets  out  every  day  when  the  weather  permits.  He 
has  to-day  walked  out  from  home  nearly  a  mile,  and  back. 
"  I  am,  yours  truly, 

"  ELIZABETH  WEAVER, 
"  Granddaughter  of  Wm.  Weaver." 

Through  the  kindness  of  Mr.  Wra.  Coles,  Parish 
Clerk,  I  have  been  favoured  with  the  following 
extracts  from  the  Parish  Register,  relative  to  the 
baptism  and  burial  of  an  old  woman  who  died  in 
this  town  since  I  have  lived  here  :  — 

"  Hannah  Fulbrook,  baptized  December  7th,  1750. 

"  Buried,  February  12th,  1860." 

She  was  married  to  a  man  named  Varndell ; 
and,  before  the  last  modification  of  our  criminal 
laws,  had  the  misfortune  to  lose  a  son,  who  was 
hanged  at  Winchester  for  a  burglary  in  this  town. 

There  is  a  woman,  named  Sarah  Cooper,  now 
living  in  this  parish,  who  was  baptized  May  4th, 
1758.  J.  W.  BATCHELOR. 

Odiham. 

Though  the  Editor's  note  appears  to  close  this 
subject,  so  far  as  persons  under  120  years  are 


concerned,  I  hope  I  may  be  permitted  to  correct 
a  mistake  in  my  former  communication.  Miss 
Plumptre  does  not  -possess  Pratt's  register  (which 
cannot  be  found),  but  she  has  those  of  two  of  his 
brothers.  The  old  man's  memory  has  probably 
failed  him  in  this  matter ;  he  cannot  remember 
the  date  of  his  eldest  son's  birth.  He  maintains, 
however,  that  he  perfectly  recollects  the  corona- 
tion of  George  III.  in  1762.  My  correspondent 
adds,  that  "the  doctors  who  have  attended  him 
say  that  the  complaints  from  which  he  suffers 
are  not  those  of  a  man  of  eighty  or  ninety,  but  of 
a  much  greater  age.  There  are  persons  in  the 
village  where  he  was  born,  who  can  recollect  the 
family."  HERMENTRUDE. 


MONEYERS'  WEIGHTS. 
(3rd  S.  i.  347.) 

In  the  passage  in  question,  the  relation  of  nu- 
merical value  between  certain  coins  being  assumed, 
the  relation  between  certain  weights  is  deduced. 

The  livre  =  20  sols  —  240  deniers  =  480  oboles. 

As  £  =  20  S.  =  240  D.  =  480  ob., 
whatever  the  particular  weight  of  the  £  might  be. 

S  =  —  —  12  D,  whether  it  stand  for  the  French 

sou  or  the  English  shilling. 

That  being  assumed,  we  have  declared  that,  as 
20  estelins  or  8  gros  go  to  an  ounce,  therefore  a 
gros  is  worth  two  estelins  and  a  half.  Also  that 
the  estelin  is  subdivided  into  smaller  weights, 
of  the  smallest  of  which  32  go  to  an  estelin,  2  to 
a  quarter  felin,  4  to  half  afelin,  8  to  a,  felin.  16  to 
a  maille. 

It  is  further  declared  that  the  relation  between 
the  weights  marc,  once,  and  estelin  is  invariable, 
and  such  that  whatever  be  the  relations  between 
the  marc  weight  and  the  livre  coin,  whatever  the 
value  in  the  following  equation  of  x,  y,  and  z  — 

M  =  x  L  —  x  (480  ob.) 

O  =  x  (2  S  f  6  D)  =  x  (  60  ob.) 
E  =  x  (    D  +  ob.)  =  x  (     3  ob.) 

M=y(S  =  y(24ob.) 

0=y(D  +  ob.)      =y(    3  ob.) 

O  =  z  (S  =  z  (  24  ob.) 

E=*(ob.+  ^')      =  *(*  ob.) 

Whence  we  gather  that 

Marc  =  8  Onces  =  160  l&stelins. 
Among  themselves  the  weights,  and  amongst  them- 
selves the  moneys,  preserve  the  same  invariable  re- 
lative numerical  values.  If,  therefore,  a  relation 
be  established  between  one  of  the  weights,  say  the 
marc  and  one  of  the  coins,  say  the  livre,  at  once 
there  is  a  relation  found  between  the  weights  and 


3'dS.  I.  MAY  24, '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


413 


the  moneys.  The  English  sovereign  has  a  cer- 
tain definite  value  in  relation  to  all  other  English 
coins.  It  also  bears  a  certain  fixed  ratio  to  all 
English  weights. 

The  confusion  between  weight  and  number 
attends  us  in  all  numismatic  researches.  It  mis- 
leads much  those  who,  looking  at  money  from  a 
modern  point  of  view,  have  forgotten  that  the 
basis  and  origin  of  numerical  value  was  weight. 
Take  the  first  twenty  tolerable  intelligent  readers 
of  the  Bible  whom  you  may  meet,  and  see  what 
they  think  of  a  "  talent."  You  will  find  that  they 
look  upon  it  as  a  sum  counted,  rather  than  as  a 
quantity  weighed.  Ask  them  next  Sir  Robert 
Peel's  famous  question — "What  is  &  pound?" 
and  see  what  sort  of  answer  you  get  to  your 
query. 

Let  me  just  quote  the  old  lines  — 

"  Quand  lonnet  rouge  (Card.  Richelieu's  red  hat)  passera 

par  la  fenetre, 

A  quarant  onces  (M.  de  Cinq  Mars)  on  coupera  la  tete, 
Et  tout  (M.  de  Thou)  finira." 

w.c. 

The  more  conveniently  to  solve  this  passage, 
the  object  of  which  seems  to  be  to  ascertain  the 
value  of  one-20th  part  of  an  estelin  in  terms  of  an 
obole,  it  will  be  as  well  to  give  the  relative  values 
of  the  known  terms  in  English. 

The  marc  is  thirteen  shillings  and  fourpence. 
The  livre  is  20  deniers,  or  1  sol  (or  shilling)  and 
eightpence.  The  sol  is  12  deniers,  or  one  shilling. 
The  denier  is  1  penny.  The  obole  is  I  halfpenny. 

The  word  sols  in  the  ninth  line  is  evidently  a 
mistake  for  deniers.  Translated,  or  rather  para- 
phrased, the  meaning  of  the  passage — comparing 
the  currency  of  Normandy  as  to  value  with  the 
then  currency  of  France  —  seems  to  be  as  fol- 
lows :  — 

"  In  the  ounce  there  are  20  estelins,  the  ounce  also 
containing  8  gros ;  consequently  each  gros  is  equal 
to  2£  estelins.  The  estelin  is  divided  into  2  mnilles, 
and  each  maille  into  2  felins;  consequently  the 
estelin  is  worth  4  felins.  The  J elm  is  divided  into 
a  half,  a-fourtb,  and  an  eighth  of  afelin.  Now,  to 
compute  the  value  of  the  estelin,  it  should  be  ob- 
served that,  as  many  (8)  litres  (or  sums  of  Is.  Sd. 
each)  as  there  are  in  a  marc,  so  many  sums  of 
2s.  Qd.  each  are  there  in  an  ounce,  and  so  many 
sums  of  1  penny  halfpenny  each  in  an  estelin ;  or 
in  other  words,  as  many  pennies  (160)  as  there  are 
in  a  marc,  so  many  penny  halfpennies  (160)  are 
there  in  an  ounce;  and  in  the  same  proportion 
(20)  that  there  are  sols  in  the  ounce,  there  are 
sums  of  *  1  halfpenny  (obole)  plus  1/5  th  of  1  half- 
penny' in  an  estelin" 

The  result  being,  in  fact,  that  the  estelin  was 
the  same  as  the  sol  in  value,  but  not  similarly  di- 
vided. 

I  will  only  add,  that  the  calculation,  though 
made  in  a  somewhat  circuitous  manner,  seems  to 


be  correct  enough ;  for,  if  the  ounce  equals  20  sol* 
or  480  oboles,  the  estelin^  or  20th  part  of  an  ounce, 
equals  24  flboles ;  and  consequently  the  20th  part 
of  the  estelin  equals  1  obole  plus  1/5. 

I  suggest  the  above  solution  with  some  hesita- 
tion, as  I  have  little  doubt  that  some  among  your 
readers  are  much  better  able  than  myself  to  do 
justice  to  this  subject.  HENRT  THOMAS  RILEY. 


KENNEDY  FAMILY. 

(3'*  S.  i.  246.) 

Reference  to  Douglas's  Peerage,  i.  336,  (Wood's 
edition)  gives  the  three  sons  of  Sir  Thomas  Ken- 
nedy of  Culzean*  as  follows  :  — 

"  1.  Thomas  Kennedy,  younger  of  Cullean,  to  whom 
his  brother  James  was  served  heir  18th  May,  1602. 

M  2.  James  Kennedy,  of  Cullean,  who  had  a  precept  of 
Clare-constet  of  these  lands,  5th  Sept.  1606,  and  married 
Anne  Stewart ;  by  whom  he  had  a  son  James,  who  died 
without  issue. 

«  3.  Sir  Alexander." 

In  the  earlier  edition  of  Douglas,  Sir  Thomas's 
issue  is  confined  to  two  sons  :  James,  his  successor, 
and  Alexander,  who  carried  on  the  line  of  the 
family. 

Of  Sir  John  Kennedy's  children,  in  this  edition 
mention  is  only  made  of  the  three  sons  —  John, 
Thomas,  and  David.  According  to  Wood,  of  the 
twenty  children,  twelve  were  sons,  and  eight 
daughters.  Of  these  children  fourteen  died  young 
and  unmarried.  Of  the  sons  who  reached  ma- 
turity there  were  — 

1.  Sir  John. 

2.  Thomas,  ninth  Earl  of  Cassilis. 

3.  David,  tenth  Earl  of  Cassilis. 
The  daughters  were  — 

1.  Elizabeth,  married  to  Sir  John  Cathcart,  of 
Carleton,  in  the  county  of  Ayr,  Bart.,  and  had 
issue :  1.  Sir  John  Cathcart,  of  Carleton,  Bart., 
who  married  at  Rosel,  24th  Dec.  1764,  Margaret, 
daughter  of  Robert  Hamilton  of  Bourtreehill, 
sister  of  the  Countesses  of  Crawford  and  Eglin- 
toun,  but  died  without  issue,  1784  ;  2.  Charles, 
died  without  issue ;  3.  Hugh,  died  without  issue  ; 
4.  Sir  Andrew  Cathcart,  of  Carleton,  Bart. - 
1.  Jane,  married  to  James  Chalmers  of  Kildo- 
nan;  2.  Grizel,  married  to  Robert  Kennedyj>f 

*  I  regret  to  see  either  Cullean,  or  Culrean,  substituted 
for  the  time-honoured  and  classic  Culzean,  or  Colzean ; 
but  on  this  point  Burke  haa  the  example  of  Douglas  to 
quote  from  — 

"  Upon  that  night,  when  feiries  light 

On  Cassillis  Dunans  dance; 
And  o'er  the  maze  in  splendid  blaze, 

On  stately  coursers  prance : 
Or  by  Colxean  the  rout  is  ta'en, 

Beneath  the  moon's  pale  beams, 
There,  by  the  cove,  to  stray  and  rove 
Amang  the  woods  and  streams  — 
Unseen  that  night" 


414 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3r<i  S.  I.  MAY  24,  ?62. 


Daljirrock ;  3.  Elizabeth,  married  to  John  fJath- 
cart  of  Greenock  ;  all  three  had  issue. 

2.  Jane,  married  to  John  Blair  of  Dunskey,  in 
the  county  of  Wigton,  and  had  issue  :    1.  John, 
died  an  infant;  2.  John  Blair  of  Dunskey,  died 
unmarried ;  3.  James,  died  young  ;  4.  Eglintoun, 
died  young ;   5.  Thomas,   died  young ;    6.  David 
Blair  of  Dunskey,  died  unmarried ;    7.  Robert, 
died  young.  —  1.  Jane,  died  an  infant;  2.  Jane, 
heiress  of  Dunskey ;  married  to  James  Hunter,  Esq., 
banker  in  Edinburgh,  afterwards  Sir  James  Hun- 
ter Blair  of  Dunskey  and  Robertland,  Bart.,  and 
had  issue*;  3.  Clementina,  married  to  John  Bell, 
Esq.,  W.  S.,  whodiedatCullean,  12th  July,  1776, 
leaving   two  sons — John  Bell,  Esq.,  W.  S.,  and 
Archibald  Bell,  Esq.,  advocate. 

3.  Clementina,  married  to  George  Watson  of 
Bilton  Park,  in  the  county  of  York;   and  died 
without  issue,  llth  March,  1760. 

WILLIAM  GALLOWAY. 


ALLITERATIVE  INSCRIPTIONS. 
(2»d  S.  x.  447.) 

Every  man  lias  an  occasional  vacancy  of  time, 
too  brief  for  study,  and  too  long  for  idleness. 
Literary  folks  take  up  an  "Adversaria"  or  "Ana"; 
opening  at  hap-hazard,  and  reading  on  till  the 
hour-hand  bids  them  lay  it  down.  My  resource  is 
the  Sortes  Cuttlceana-,  in  one  or  other  of  "  1ST.  &  Q.'s" 
volumes  (now  two  dozen,  and  bidding  fair  to 
outflank  Philemon  Holland,  Nicholas  De  Lyra, 
the  Benedictine  Fathers,  or  the  Delphin  Classics) ; 
at  what  page,  or  on  what  subject,  matters  not : 
for  seldom  do  I  close  it  without  chancing  upon 
some  "Query"  still  unnoted,  and  worthy  to  be 
"  made  a  note  of." 

In  this  manner  MR.  GARSTIN  reminded  me,  the 
other  day,  of  a  less  palatable  dish  of  Ps  served  up 
to  an  unsuccessful  French  dramatist :  — 

"  L'Abbe  Pellegrin  avait  donne'  au  Theatre  une  piece 
de  '  Pelope'e  ' ;  elle  fut  sifflee  u  la  premiere  representation  ; 
et  1'auteur  le  meme  soir  recut  au  cafe'  Procope  ott  il  etait, 
une  lettre  concue  en  ces  termes  '  P.  P.  P.  P.  P.  P.  P.  P.  P. 
P.  P.  P.  P.  P.  P.'  II  ne  sut  ce  que  cela  signifiait,  et  comme 
il  en  demandait  ^explication,  un  plaisant  s'approcha  de  lui 
et  lui  dit  — '  Cette  lettre  est  e'crit  en  abreViation ;  elle 
signifie,  Pelope'e,  Piece  Pitoyable,  Pr&entee  Par  Pierre 

*  They  had  ten  sons  and  four  daughters:  1.  Sir  John 
Hunter  Blair,  died  unmarried;  2.  William,  died  in  in- 
fancy; 3.  William,  died  an  infant;  4.  Sir  David  Hunter 
Blair,  of  Brownhill,  Bart.;  5.  James  Hunter  Blair;  6. 
Robert,  a  Captain  in  the  army ;  7.  Forbes  Hunter  Blair, 
a  banker  in  Edinburgh ;  8.  Thomas  Hunter  Blair,  Cap- 
tain in  the  91st  Regiment,  wounded  at  the  battle  of  Tala- 
vera,  and  at  present  a  prisoner  in  France ;  9.  Archibald, 
who  died  young;  10.  Henry  Dundas,  died  young  —1 
Anne,  married  to  William  Mure  of  Caldwell,  and  has 
two  sons  and  six  daughters;  2.  Clementina,  married  to 
Capt  J.  T.  Birch,  of  the  Royal  Engineers;  3.  Jane; 
•J.  Jamnna. 


Pellegrin,  Pauvre  Petit  Poete  Provencal,  Pretre,  Parasite, 
Parfaitement  Puni.' "  —  Encydopadiana,  Paris,  1857. 

The  Alphabetica  Catena  supplies  another  link 
of  the  letter  P,  in  the  poem  which  I  have  some- 
where met  under  the  title  "  Pugna  Porcorum  Per 
Publium  Porcium  Poetam";  but  which  Vossius 
mentions  as  composed  by  Placentius,  and  which 
his  commentator,  Sandius,  pronounces  to  be  im- 
possible. There  exists,  however,  in  the  "  Deliciae 
Poetarum  Danorum"  (torn,  ii.),  Hader's  Canum 
cum  Cattis  Certamcn  —  the  C  being,  of  course, 
uniformly  pronounced  as  K  :  and  which,  but  for 
our  obstinate  obligation  of  articles,  signs  of  cases, 
&c.,  might  be  emulatively  rendered  "  The  Contest 
of  the  Curs  and  the  Cats,"  Its  p.t\vw  ««Se  3ea  opens 
thus : — 

"  Cattorum  Canimus  Certamina  Clara  Canumque, 

Calliope,  concede  Chelyn ! "  — 

and  so  concurs  (or  cat- curs)  through  ninety-three 
lines.  In  the  ninth  century,  Hubald  dedicated  a 
poem  "  in  laudes  Calvitii "  to  the  Emperor  Charles 
the  Bald,  having  this  courtly  commencement :  — 
"  Carmina  Clarisonae  Calvis  Cantate,  Camcense." 

These  opera  operosissima^  alike  discordant  as 
difficult,  have  given  place  to  the  syllabic  allitera- 
tion, more  easy  in  every  language  and  more  grace- 
ful ;  falling  in  with  that  accentual  unison  which 
assures  to  each  recurrent  letter  its  proper  har- 
mony. In  poetry  and  in  prose,  it  is  the  essential 
attribute  of  rhythm  :  even  the  Dog-Latin  of  the 
above  hexameter  and  a  half,  supplies  in  its  middle 
letters  a  proof  of  its  pervading  influence.  In- 
stances, ancient  or  modern,  would  be  matters  of 
supererogation.  E.  L.  S. 


ANGLO-SAXON  (2nd  S.  ix.  29.)—  It  has  been 
objected,  apparently  on  good  grounds,  to  the  term 
Anglo-Saxon^  that  it  breaks  the  continuity  of 
English  history,  and  ought,  therefore,  to  be  dis- 
carded, and  Old-English  substituted  in  its  stead. 

To  the  works  mentioned,  as  giving  an  account 
of  Anglo-Saxon  literature,  should  be  added  Pe- 
theram's  Historical  Sketch  of  the  Progress  and 
Present  State  of  Anglo-Saxon  Literature  in  Eng- 
land, 8vo,  London,  1840.  J.  MACRAY. 

PATRICK  RUTH  YEN  (3rd  S.  i.  363.)  — In  a  com- 
munication from  J.  M.  touching  the  letter  in  the 
Cabala,  from  Patrick  Ruthven  to  the  Earl  of 
Northumberland,  then  both  state  prisoners  in  the 
Tower,  that  gentleman  says  :  — 

"  I  do  not  think,  in  the  course  of  enquiries  respecting 
the  Lady  to  whom  the  letter  relates,  who  was  no  doubt 
the  future  wife  of  her  protector,  and  the  mother  of  Lady 
Vandyke,  it  has  yet  appeared  that  she  was  at  the  time  of 
the  incident  in  question  a  fellow-prisoner  in  the  Tower 
with  the  Earl  and  Patrick  Ruthven.  Her  imprisonment 
in  that  fortress  would  indicate  that  she  was  a  woman  of 
rank" 

Patrick  Ruthven  married  Elizabeth  Wood  ford, 
second  wife  and  widow  of  Thomas,  first  Lord 


3rd  S.  I.  MAY  24,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


415 


Gerrard  of  Abbots  Bromley,  in  Staffordshire,  who 
died  when  Lord  President  of  Wales  in  1617. 
Beyond  the  above  fact,  every  step  in  this  history 
is  a  mystery  and  a  romance.  To  use  Mr.  John 
Bruce's  words  in  the  Arcliaologia  on  this  union  : 

"  How  this  fair  young  lady  became  known  to  the 
prisoner  in  the  Tower  —  where  they  were  married,  and 
when  —  remains  at  present  unknown." 

A  knowledge  communicated  by  any  of  the  cor- 
respondents of  "  N.  &  Q."  on  these  points,  would 
greatly  oblige  R.  p.  R. 

ARMS  OF  WILKES  (2nd  S.  xii.  525;  3rd  S.  i.  216, 
318.)  —  To  what  arras  John  Wilkes  was  properly 
entitled  I  do  not  know ;  but  can  speak  with  some 
certainty  of  those  which  he  adopted  and  used, 
having  in  my  possession  a  valuable  classic  from 
his  library,  with  an  impression  of  his  book  plate 
inserted.  The  arms  given  on  the  latter  are,  or,  a 
chevron  between  three  birds'  heads,  erased,  sable, 
in  the  middle  chief,  a  crescent.  Now,  as  to  the 
birds'  heads,  which  are  called  those  of  ravens, 
they  certainly  look  very  much  like  eagles ;  and 
Edmondson,  in  blazoning  the  arms  of  Wilkes  of 
Leighton  Buzzard,  gives  them  thus  :  Per  pale  or 
and  argent ;  a  chevron  between  three  eagles'  heads 
erased,  sable.  The  crest  is  a  crossbow,  issuing 
out  of  what  appears  to  be  a  bush.  Motto :  "  Arcui 
ineo  non  confido."  Beneath  the  arms  is  written 
"  John  Wilkes,  F.R.S."  W. 

VISCOUNT  CANADA  (3rd  S.  i.  369.)— Sir  William 
Alexander,  Secretary  of  State  for  Scotland  to 
King  James  I.,  obtained  from  him  in  1621  a 
charter,  granting  to  him  the  territory  of  Nova 
Scotia;  and  seven  years  later,  on  the  2nd  of  Feb- 
ruary, 1628,  he  received  from  Charles  I.  a  grant 
of  the  province  since  called  Canada.  Two  years 
subsequently,  viz.,  on  the  4th  of  September,  1630, 
he  was  raised  to  the  peerage  by  the  title  of  Vis- 
count of  Stirling  by  patent,  to  him  and  his  heirs 
male ;  and  on  the  14th  of  June,  1633,  on  the  oc- 
casion of  the  King's  coronation,  he  was  advanced 
to  the  dignity  of  Earl  of  Stirling  and  Viscount 
Canada.  The  fifth  Earl  of  Stirling  died  without 
issue  on  the  4th  of  December,  1739.  Since  that 
time  the  peerage  has  been  dormant,  although 
twice  claimed,  the  last  claimant  having  been 
Alexander  Humphreys,  or  Alexander,  whose  trial 
for  forgery  took  place  before  the  High  Court  of 
Justiciary  in  Edinburgh  in  1839.  The  charge 
arose  respecting  certain  documents  and  charters 
on  which  the  prisoner  founded  his  claim  to  the 
Earldom  of  Stirling  and  Viscounty  of  Canada. 
The  jury  found  a  verdict  to  the  effect  that  a 
charter  and  certain  documents  were  forgeries,  but 
that  it  was  Not  Proven  that  the  prisoner  had 
forged  them,  or  had  uttered  them  knowing  them 
to  be  forged.  JOHN  PAVIN  PHILLIPS. 

Haverfordwest. 

This  title  was  claimed  as  a  second  title  by  the  per- 


son who  some  years  since  (about  thirty)  asserted 
his  right  to  be  Earl  of  Stirling.  I  believe  a  son 
of  his  actually  assumed  it  as  the  eldest  son  of  an 
earl.  A  Mr.  Bankes  (as  I  recollect  the  name), 
who  had  accepted  a  baronetcy,  which  the  alleged 
earl  asserted  he  had  the  right  of  creating  under 
some  Scottish  patent,  published  an  account  of  the 
family,  in  which,  if  it  exists  anywhere,  F.  G.  L. 
will  no  doubt  find  all  the  information  he  requires. 

J.  H.  L. 

EDMUND  BURKE  (3rd  S.  i.  161,  212.)  — In 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  the  practice  was,  and  I 
suppose  still  is,  that  at  the  entrance  examination 
the  Senior  Lecturer  asked  each  candidate  his 
name,  age,  place  of  birth,  &c.  It  is  therefore 
quite  certain,  I  think,  that  in  the  year  1743,  pro- 
bably at  midsummer  or  in  October  (for  these  are 
the  principal  times  of  entrance),  Edmund  Burke 
stated  either  that  he  was  sixteen  or  that  he  was  in 
his  sixteenth  year,  and  that  he  was  born  in  Dub- 
lin. We  therefore  have  these  two  facts  on  his 
own  authority. 

As  to  his  entrance  at  the  Temple  in  April  1747, 
that  is  before  his  undergraduate  course  had  been 
completed,  I  can  only  account  for  it  by  supposing 
that  in  order  to  lose  no  time  in  his  legal  career,  he 
had  run  over  to  London  for  a  few  days,  and  en- 
tered his  name  at  the  Temple. 

The  charge  against  him  mentioned  by  T.  C.  B. 
is  really  a  serious  one,  and  I  hope  it  may  prove 
not  to  be  true ;  for  if  so  it  must  sink  him  deeply 
in  the  estimation  of  every  honourable  mind.  K. 

ITALIAN  QUOTATION  (3rd  S.  i.  249.)  — I  had 
supposed,  as  a  matter  of  course,  that  M.  E.'s 
Query  would  have  received  many  replies.  Its 
not  having  been  the  case  proves  to  me  how  little 
Italian  literature  is  now  cultivated  in  this  coun- 
try. A  change,  I  trust,  will  soon  come. 

The  lines  quoted  by  M.  E.  are  not  in  Ariostp ; 
they  are  in  the  four  stanzas  inserted  by  Berni  in 
lib.  ii.  c.  xxiv.  of  the  Orlando  Innamorato.  The 
idea,  as  Mr.  Panizzi  has  shown,  was  taken  from 
the  Ciriffo  Calmneo  of  Pulci. 

CANADIAN  SEIGNEURS  (3rd  S.  i.  310, 358.)-  The 
late  Sir  Richard  Brown,  Bart.,  was  my  authority 
for  the  statement  that  coronets  were  used  by 
some,  at  least,  of  the  Canadian  Seigneurs. 

At  a  meeting  of  the  Committee  of  the  Baronet- 
age for  Privileges  held  in  1841,  among  the  drawings 
and  impressions  of  seals  then  exhibited,  were 
"  specimens  of  two  coronets  which  are  now  worn 
and  carried  by  a  class  of  our  fellow-subjects  in 
British  America,  who  rank  with  our  ancient  Lords 
of  Manors  in  England.  I  refer  to  those  Canadian 
proprietors,  of  French  extraction,  who  hold  their 
land  by  seigneurial  tenure."  JOHN  WOODWARD. 

INSECURE  ENVELOPES  (2n*  S.  vi.  261.)  —  "  The 
priests  of  Mopsus  were  as  skilful  as  the  pos 


416 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  MAY  24,  '62. 


master  of  Hugely  in  opening  envelopes  warranted 
secure."  —  The  Danger  of  Circumstantial  Evi- 
dence, a  small  pamphlet  of  twenty-four  pages, 
London,  1856,  apparently  written  while  the  trial 
of  Palmer  was  in  progress.  What  is  the  allusion 
to  the  priests  of  Mopsus  ?  Have  any  secure  en- 
velopes been  invented  ?  J.  R. 

ON    BEING   COVERED    IN    THE    RoYAL    PRESENCE 

(3rd  S.  i,  208,  313,  318,  350.)  — It  may  be  inter- 
esting to  your  correspondent  S.  T.  to  be  informed, 
if  he  has  not  already  noted  it  for  his  forthcoming 
work,  that  a  form  of  licence  is  given  in  the  JBooke 
of  Presidents  (vide  fo.  96,  ed.  1604.)  It  runs 
thus : — 

"  Henry  the  8,  &c.  To  all  maner  our  subjects,  as  well 
of  spirituall  preheminence  and  dignitie,  as  of  temporal!  au- 
thoritie,  these  our  letters  hearing  or  seeing,  and  to  every 
of  them,  greeting.  Forasmuch  as  wee  be  credibly  in- 
fourmed,  that  our  welbeloved  T.  M.  for  divers  infirmities 
•which  he  hath  in  his  head,  and  cannot  conveniently 
without  his  great  daunger  be  discovered  of  the  same: 
We  let  you  wit,  with  consideration  thereof,  wee  have  by 
these  presents  licenced  him  to  use  and  weare  a  Bonet  at 
all  times,  as  well  in  our  presence  as  elsewhere  at  his 
liberty.  We  therefore  wil  and  command  you  and  every 
of  you,  to  permit  and  suffer  him  so  to  doe,  without  any 
your  challenges  or  interruption  to  the  contrary,  as  ye 
tender  our  pleasure  and  will  avoid  the  contrary.  Given 
under  our  signet  at  our  Palace  of  Westminster,  the  xx 
day  of  May  xxxvi.  yere  of  our  raigne." 

FREDK.  HENDRIKS. 

LAMBETH  DEGREES  (3rd  S.  i.  254,  336.)  —  In 
my  last  article,  sec.  26  of  the  Medical  Practi- 
tioners' Act,  was  erroneously  quoted,  instead  of 
sec.  27,  to  which  I  intended  to  refer.  In  this 
latter  section-  it  is  provided  that  every  year  shall 
be  published  "  a  correct  register  of  the  names 
medical  titles,  diplomas,  and  qualifica- 
tions conferred  by  any  corporation  or  university, 
or  by  doctorate  of  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury, 
with  the  dates  thereof,  of  all  persons  appear- 
ing on  the  General  Register  as  existing  on  the 
first  day  of  January  in  every  year."  Schedule  D. 
gives  the  form  of  the  register ;  each  page  of  the 
book  is  divided  into  four  columns,  headed  respec- 
tively—  Name,  Residence,  Qualification,  Title. 
By  virtue  of  the  provisions  of  ss.  15  and  26,  the 
degree  of  M.D.  granted  by  the  Primate  prior  to 
the  passing  of  the  Act  would  be  inserted  in  the 
third  column,  and  no  other  qualification  would  be 
necessary  to  entitle  a  man  to  be  registered.  Since 
Aug.  2,  1858,  however,  as  the  Lambeth  degree 
does  not  entitle  a  man  to  be  registered,  all  such 
degrees  are  to  be  accounted  simply  as  "  Medical 
Titles,"  and  therefore  appear  in  the  fourth  column 
of  the  register.  The  same  remarks  hold  good 
as  regards  degrees  conferred  by  foreign  universi- 
ties, those  granted  prior  to  21  &  22  Viet.  c.  90, 
being  reckoned  as  a  qualification  ;  those  since, 
merely  as  medical  titles. 

It  appears  doubtful  whether  the  58th  canon, 
quoted  by  INVESTIGATOR,  with  the  terms  of  which 


I  was  well  acquainted  at  the  time  of  writing  my 
former  article,  applies  to  possessors  of  Lambeth 
degrees,  so  far,  at  least,  as  the  prohibitory  clause  is 
concerned.  Is  it  well  decided  that  graduate  means 
only  one  who  has  regularly  taken  a  degree  in  an 
university  ?  Is  not  a  Lambeth  M.  A.  a  graduate  in 
the  sense  of  legally  possessing  a  degree  ? 

J.  A.  PN. 

ANTHONY  DEVIS  (3rd  S.  i.  209),  not  Davis,  the 
painter,  was  the  son  of  Anthony  Devis  by  his 
second  wife,  Ann  Blackburn.  They  were  married 
on  the  4th  June,  1728,  and  are  buried  in  the 
ground  belonging  to  St.  George  the  Martyr,  be- 
hind the  Foundling  Hospital,  close  to  the  wall, 
between  the  piers  18  and  19. 

Anthony  Devis,  the  painter,  was  born  on  the 
18th  March,  1729.  There  was  another  son  by 
the  same  wife,  viz.  John,  born  12th  Dec.  1734, 
who  was  a  watchmaker  in  Lamb's  Conduit  Street. 
Anthony  Devis  bought  his  house  at  Albury  in 
1780,  of  Mr.  Marissall.  He  was,  in  1764,  at  the 
Hon.  Mr.  Vernon's,  Newick  Park,  Sussex  ;  1770, 
Sept.,  at  Robert  Child's,  Esq.,  Osterly  Park  ; 
1771,  Robert  Child's,  Esq.,  Upton,  Sir  John  Chi- 
chester's,  Youlton,  near  Barnstaple;  1773,  June, 
Duke  of  Manchester's,  Kimbolton ;  Sept.,  John 
Peploe  Birch,  Esq.,  Garnston,  Herefordshire ;  Oct., 
the  Hon.  Mr.  Vernon's,  Britton  Ferry,  Glamor- 
ganshire ;  1775,  July,  Lord  Ducie's,  Woodchester 
Park;  1776,  May,  Lord  Peters;  June,  Sir  Rich. 
Worsley's,  Appuldercomb,  Isle  of  Wight. 

I  shall  be  glad  to  see  an  account  of  any  of  the 
j  works  executed  during  these  visits. 

It  does  not  appear  that  Anthony  Devis,  the 
painter,  was  ever  married,  nor  whether  his  father 
was  in  business  or  of  any  profession.  His  mother 
was  from  Yorkshire,  and  born  at  a  house  called 
"Frier  Head." 

Anthony  Devis,  the  elder,  had  four  sons  by  his 
first  wife ;  the  eldest  of  whom,  Arthur,  was,  I 
think,  a  painter,  and  probably  also  his  son,  Thomas 
!  Anthony. 

I  have  a  copy  of  the  arms  of  the  Blackburn 
family,  and  pictures,  scraps,  and  sketches  of  the 
Devis  family  ;  but  I  will  not  lengthen  this  reply 
by  describing  them.  T.  W.  D. 

PORTRAITS  OF  ARCHBISHOP  CRANMER  (3rd  S.  i. 
269.)  —  Though  I  cannot  furnish  MR.  NICHOLS 
with  any  biographical  particulars  of  the  painter 
Gerbicus  Flicciis,  I  may  point  out,  that  his  por- 
trait of  Cranmer  is  evidently  the  same  which  was 
engraved  by  Vertue,  and  by  him  attributed  ^  to 
Holbein  ;  as  is  shown  by  its  bearing  the  same  in- 
scription, "  Julij  2°,  JEt.  57,"  (I  read  July  2, 
I  instead  of  20,  the  former  being  Cranmer's  birth- 
!  day).  In  the  old  History  of  Nottinghamshire,  by 
Thoroton,  is  another  from  the  same  original,  hold- 
ing a  book  with  both  hands.  Granger  has  pointed 
out  the  remarkable  circumstance,  that  this  picture 


s.  I.  MAY  24,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


417 


represents  the  Archbishop  entirely  without  beard 
whereas,  in  Verheiden's  Imagines  and  Holland' 
Heroologia,  1610,  he  is  exhibited  with  a  long  one 
Is  the  latter  to  be  regarded  as  the  imaginary  con- 
ception of  a  foreign  artist,  or  did  the  Archbishop 
change  his  fashion?  Possibly  he  allowed  hii 
beard  to  grow  during  the  long  confinement  tha 
preceded  his  martyrdom.  ftf.  H.  g^ 

PORTRAITS  BY  G.  FLICCIIS  (3rd  S.  i.  269.)  — 
I  am  told  that  there  are  several  portraits  attri- 
buted to  this  painter  at  Newbattle  Abbey,  the 
seat  of  the  Marquess  of  Lothian  ;  and  in  a  Cata- 
logue of  the  pictures  there,  made  for  Sir  William 
Musgrave  in  1798,  I  find  in  the  Great  Room 
<;  Lord  Douglas ;  he  was  wounded  at  the  battle  ot 
Otterburn,  painted  by  Fliccus,  1547."  Also,  in 
Lady  Ancram's  Dressing-room:  "Three  of  the 
James's,  Kings  of  Scotland,  by  G.  Fliccus  " ;  as 
well  as  "  Another  of  the  James's,  and  one  of  his 
wife,  attributed  to  Holbein."  I  should  be  glad  to 
receive  any  later  or  further  account  of  them  ? 

J.  G.  N. 

ULRIC  VON  HUTTEN  (3rd  S.  i.  171.)  —  S.  T.  will 
find  a  very  characteristic  portrait  of  this  cele- 
brated Reformer,  together  with  an  engraving  of 
the  murder  of  his  cousin  in  a  wood,  in  a  quarto 
volume  of  his  works,  having  the  following  colo- 
phon :  — 

"  Hoc  Ulrichi  de  Hutten  Equit.  Ger.  Invecti  varum 
cum  aliis  quibusdam  in  Tyrannum  Wirtenpergensem  opus 
excusum  in  arce  Stekelberk.  An.  M.D.XIX.  Mense 
VIIBRI.  "  [a  carious  abbreviation  for  Septembri.'} 

Ulrich  de  Hutten  calls  himself  "  Eques  Ger- 
manus."  By  whom  was  he  knighted?  Or  was 
he  a  member  of  one  of  those  higher  degrees  of 
knighthood  which  most  of  the  early  Reformers 
are  said  to  have  fostered  and  belonged  to;  and 
which  are,  at  the  present  day,  in  active  existence 
in  some  of  the  higher  degrees  of  the  "  Ancient 
and  Accepted  Rite"  of  Freemasonry  ? 

A  very  interesting  series  of  papers  on  Ulrich 
von  Hutten  may  be  found  in  the  Gentleman's 
Magazine  for  1852.  HENRY  BLENKINSOP. 

Eastgate,  Warwick. 

ORANGE-BUTTER  (3rd  S.  i.  205,  316.)  — 
Boswell.  "  Do  you  know,  Sir,  I  have  discovered  a  manu- 
facture to  a  great  extent,  of  what  you  only  piddle  at  — 
scraping  and  drying  the  peel  of  oranges.  At  a  place  in 
Kewgate  Street  there  is  a  prodigious  quantity  prepared, 
which  they  sell  to  the  distillers."  Johnson.  "  Sir,  I  be- 
lieve they 'make  a  higher  thing  out  of  them  than  a  spirit : 
the}-  make  what  is  called  orange-butter,  the  oil  of  the 
orange  inspissated,  which  they  mix  perhaps  with  common 
pomatum,  and  make  it  fragrant.  The  oil  does  not  fly  off 
in  the  drying."  —  Boswell's  Johnson,  anno  1783. 

W.  OLDYS  (3rd  S.  i.  343.)  —  To  the  interesting 
notice  of  W.  Oldys,  I  can  add  the  following  par- 
ticulars from  my  MS.  Register  of  the  Scholars  of 
Winchester,  relative  to  persons  of  his  name  :  — 


16"  °ldyg,  Ambrose,  adm.  scholar  of  Winchester  College, 

"Oldys, 'John,  adm.  1645,  of  Todmorden;  F.  of  New 
College,  1652;  B.A.  1656;   d.  1660;   bnried  at  Adder- 

"Oldys,  Thomas,  adm.  ir,r,7,  son  of  William,  Vic*r  of 
Adderbury,  of  Adderbury;  F.    N.   C.,   Dec    If     '  — 

1,  1690; 


Oldyg,  William,  of  Etminster,  Dorset,  adm.  1606; 

w*JTi^5P-  9'  1612'  res-  1627«  B-D-  1>roc^   1623 
V.  of  Adderbury,  March  24,  1624;  Preb.  of  Well»;  md 
Maria,  dau.  of  Tho«  Sacheverell;  murdered  by  the  rebels, 
1645 ;  bur.  at  Adderbury. 

"Oldvs,  William,  adm.  1648;  F.  N.  C.  1655;  D.C.L. 
1667 ;  Official  of  Bucks,  Chancellor  of  Lincoln,  Advocate 
in  the  Marshal  and  Admiralty  Court,  removed  in  1693, 
because  he  refused  to  pronounce  the  sailors  acting  against 
England  under  the  orders  of  James  II.  guilty  of  treason 
and  piracy;  he  died  1708." 

MACKENZIE  E.  C.  WALCOTT,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

"  NOSELESS  EtJSEBIA  AND  HER  NOSELESS  NuXS  " 

(3rd  S.  i.  348.)  —  For  Eusebia  read  Ebba.  In 
the  year  870,  according  to  Matthew  of  Westmin- 
ster, in  an  incursion  of  the  Danes,  under  Hinpuar 
and  Hubba,  S.  Ebba,  who  was  Abbess  of  Colding- 
ham  in  Berwickshire,  anxious,  not  for  her  life, 
but  for  her  chastity,  had  recourse  to  the  following 
stratagem.  Having  assembled  her  nuns  in  the 
Chapter  House,  after  a  very  solemn  address,  she 
cut  off  her  own  nose  and  upper  lip;  and  her 
example  was  immediately  followed  by  the  whole 
community.  The  frightful  spectacle  which  they 
exhibited  protected  their  virginity  ;  but  the  Danes 
set  fire  to  the  monastery,  and  S.  Ebba  and  her 
companions  were  given  as  victims  to  the  flames. 

S.  Ebba  and  her  companions  are  commemo- 
rated in  the  Latin  church  on  April  2.  (See  Al- 
ban  Butler's  Lives  of  the  Saints ;  Matthew  of  West- 
minster; Baronius,  ad  an.  870).  J.  L.  G. 

WOODMAN  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  346.)— The  Wood- 
mans  were  formerly  located  at  Twining  near 
Tewkesbury,  as  stated  in  Rudge's  Hist,  of  Gloster. 
Probably  they  are  a  branch  of  those  of  Exeter. 

E.  M.  S. 

BAITING  BEASTS  TO  MAKE  THEM  TENDER  (3rd  S. 
.  346.)  —  As  a  slight  contribution  towards  the 
nformation  solicited  by  N.  B.,  I  send  the  follow- 
ng  extract  from  the  MSS.  of  the  corporation  of 
,his  borough.  At  a  Common  Hall  held  "  on 
Thursday  before  St.  Simon  and  St.  Jude,"  1467, 
among  several  orders  then  made  was  the  follow- 
rr :  —  "  No  butcher  to  kill  a  bull  till  baited." 

I  imagine,  however,  that  this  unmerciful  regn- 
ation  had  reference  rather  to  the  amusements  of 
he  populace  than  to  any  supposed  improvement 
n  the  quality  of  the  meat  by  the  process  of  bait- 
ng;  as  it  appears  that  at  Southampton  it  was 
>art  of  the  mayor's  office  to  see  that  plenty  of 
)ulls  and  bears  were  provided  for  baiting.  At 
Winchester  (as  we  learn  from  the  Corporation 
ournals)  it  was  ordered  in  the  30th  Hen.  VIII., 


418 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[3'd  s.  I.  MAY  24,  '62. 


"  Thafc  from  hensforthe  ther  shal  be  no  bulstake 
set  before  any  Mayor's  doore  to  bay te  any  bull, 
but  onlie  at  the  bull-ringe  within  the  said  cytie." 

WILLIAM  KELLY. 

Leicester. 

SAND  PAINTINGS  (3rd  S.  i.  348.)— In  1st  S.  ix.  of 
11 N  &  Q."  two  communications  appeared  on  this 
subject.  One,  at  p.  217,  was  from  me,  stating  my 
intimate  acquaintance,  about  fifty  years  ago,  with 
a  well-known  artist  in  sand-painting,  who  indeed 
claimed  to  be  its  inventor.  The  article  described 
his  mode  of  forming  these  sand  pictures  ;  but  the 
process  of  fixing  them  he  kept  secret,  and  it  ap- 
pears to  have  died  with  him.  The  second  com- 
munication, at  p.  327,  was  from  a  relative  of  Mr. 
Haas,  MB.  JOHN  MUMMERY,  and  it  gave  a  very 
interesting  account  of  what  led  Mr.  Haas  to  the 
discovery  of  the  art. 

In  reference  to  the  Query  of  W.  F.,  ME.  MUM- 
MERY spoke  of  some  of  these  pictures  being  in 
Windsor  Castle.  I  had  previously  mentioned  that 
Mr.  Haas's  own  collection,  with  which  I  was  ac- 
quainted, was  sold  after  his  death,  and  dispersed. 
Several  of  his  sand-pictures  were  purchased,  I 
believe,  by  Mr.  Miles  for  his  own  fine  collection ; 
but  others,  no  doubt,  still  exist  in  Bristol  and  its 
neighbourhood.  F.  C.  H. 

SERVICE  FOR  HEALING  (3rd  S.  i.  313.)  —  A 
Book  of  Common  Prayer  in  my  possession  (want- 
ing title-page)  contains  the  Service  "At  the  Heal- 
ing," precisely  as  given  by  your  correspondent, 
substituting  "  King"  for  «'  Queen,"  and  "His  "for 
"  Her "  majesty.  It  is  uniform  in  type,  and  is 
bound  up  with  a  copy  of  the  Holy  Bible,  printed 
by  J.  Baskett,  Oxford,  printer  to  the  University, 
1723.  I  should  be  glad  to  know  in  what  earlier 
editions  of  the  Prayer  Book  this  service  is  in- 
serted, and  whether  it  is  to  be  found  in  any  after 
the  reign  of  George  I.  ? 

R.  E.  EGERTON  WARBURTON. 

Arley,  Northwich. 

DAME  MARGARET  AND  GEORGE  HALYBURTON 
(3rd  S.  i.  347.)  —  One  of  my  ancestors,  George 
Halyburton,  was  minister  of  Aberdalgy,  and  mar- 
ried Margaret  Playfair,  who  is  said  to  have  been 
allied  to  some  of  the  first  families  in  Scotland,  on 
her  mother's  side.  This  George  Halyburton  was, 
in  1662,  ejected  by  "his  near" kinsman,"  George 
Halyburton,  Bishop  of  Dunkeld.  Could  this 
Margaret  Halyburton  be  the  Dame  Margaret  re- 
ferred to  by  MARION  ?  If  so,  I  can  give  some 
particulars  of  the  pedigree.  JOHN  S.  BURN. 

The  Grove,  Henley. 

THE  SALTONSTALL  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  350.)  — 
Your  correspondent  ERIC  seems  to  think  that  the 
Saltonstalls,  having  received  contrary  instructions 
from  the  Court  in  1660,  were  not  likely  to  have 
shown^  favour  to  the  Quakers.  But  that  is  a  con- 
firmation of  his  supposition  that  Sir  Samuel  was 


the  son  (Samuel)  of  Samuel,  who  married  "  Eliza- 
beth, daughter  of  Mr.  Thomas  Ogden,"  because 
the  Ogdens  of  Halifax  became  Quakers  at  a  very 
early  period.  So  lately  as  1756  (Surtees's  Dur- 
ham, vol.  i.  part  n.  p.  46),  "  Thomas  Ogden  of 
Halifax"  was  the  husband  of  a  co-heiress 
of  the  Cold  Hesleden  estates  ;  she  being  the 
grand- daughter  of  John  Hall,  "  a  noted  Quaker 
preacher." 

MR.  NOEL  SAINSBURY  states  (2nd  S.  xi.  434)  that 
Sir  Samuel  had  a  cause  pending  with  "  his  bro- 
thers and  brothers-in-law,"  which  is  also  a  con- 
firmation of  the  supposition ;  because  his  father 
was  married  three  times,  and,  though  no  surviving 
issue  are  named  by  ERIC  except  the  second  Sir 
Richard,  son  of  Anne  Ramsden,  and  Samuel,  son 
of  Elizabeth  Ogden,  yet  "seven  others"  are  men- 
tioned from  this  second  marriage.  But  the  Samuel 
who  was  son  of  the  first  Sir  Richard,  is  called  by 
ERIC  an  only  son.  R.  N. 

SIR  ROBERT  PEAT,  D.D.  (?)  (3rd  S.  i.  209,  273, 
354.)  —  Upon  reference  to  Graduati  Cantdbrigi- 
enses  (1659 — 1823),  I  am  unable  to  find  any 
Robert  Peat  mentioned  therein,  as  having  gra- 
duated in  this  University.  Robert  Peet,  Emmanuel 
College,  B.A.  1686,  furnishes  the  nearest  approach 
to  the  required  patronymic.  He  does  not  appear 
to  have  advanced  beyond  his  B.A.  degree.  The 
required  Sir  Robert  appears  to  have  been  exer- 
cising his  ministerial  functions  considerably  more 
than  a  hundred  years  after  that  date,  as  may  be 
gathered  from  the  following  note  in  Watt's  Bib- 
liotheca  Britannica  :  — 

"  Peat,  Rev.  Sir  Robert,  D.D.,  Bart,  Minister  of  St. 
Lawrence,  North  Brentford.  Sermon  on  the  Thanksgiving 
Day  for  the  Peace,  1814,  8vo." 

Both  names,  Peat  and  Peet,  are,  according  to 
Patronymica  Britannica,  of  the  same  origin  ;  being 
either  diminutives  of  Peter,  or  local  names  derived 
from  the  bearer's  residence  on  a  peat  or  moorish 
ground.  I  do  not  think  that  either  name  is  re- 
presented in  the  Peerage  and  Baronetage  for  the 
present  year.  B. 

M'CuLLOcn  or  CAMBUSLANG  (3rd  S.  i.  329.)  — 
A  biographic  notice  of  the  Rev.  William  M'Cul- 
loch,  minister  at  Cambuslang,  will  be  found  in  a 
volume  entitled  The  Revivals  of  the  Eighteenth 
Century,  particularly  at  Cambuslang,  compiled 
under  the  auspices  of  the  Free  Church,  by  the 
Rev.  Dr.  Macfarlan  of  Renfrew.  The  materials 
for  this  biography  are  stated  to  have  been  chiefly 
furnished  by  Mr.  M'Culloch's  son,  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Robert  M'Culloch,  minister  of  Dairsie,  and  pub- 
lished with  a  volume  of  Sermons  in  1793. 

With  regard  to  the  MSS.  it  is  mentioned  in 
the  Preface,  that  — 

"  The  manuscripts,  from  which  this  volume  was  pre- 
pared, were  chiefly  left  by  the  Rev.  William  M'Culloch 
of  Cambuslang,  and  are  'now  the  property  of  the  Free 


3rd  S.  I.  MAY  24,  '62.1 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


419 


Church  Library  of  Mrs.  Coutts,  Mr.  M'Culloch'a  grand- 
daughter, and  another  lad}*." 

Of  the  MSS.  in  the  Free  Church  Library,  two 
quarto  volumes  are  noticed  "  containing  a  hun- 
dred and  five  cases,"  principally  in  Mr.  M'Cul- 
loch's  handwriting :  — 

"  These  were  preserved  by  Mr.  M'Culloch's  family ; 
and  were,  in  1844,  presented  by  Mrs.  Coutts  of  Edinburgh, 
a  grand-daughter  of  Mr.  M'Culloch,  to  the  Free  Church 
Library." 

The  Memoir  of  the  above  lady,  well  known  for 
her  Christian  character,  who  died  May  26th,  1849, 
may  also  be  consulted  with  advantage.  It  is 
written  by  the  Rev.  Dr.  Hetherington,  Edin- 
burgh, 1854.  WILLIAM  GALLOWAY. 

CECILY,  DUCHESS  OF  YORK  (3rd  S.  i.  369.)  — 
Had  your  correspondent  R.  W.  consulted  Sand- 
ford's  Genealogical  History,  he  would  not  I  think 
have  doubted  the  statement  that  she  was  the 
daughter  of  Ralph,  Earl  of  Westmorland,  by 
Joan,  daughter  of  John  of  Gaunt. 

A  most  interesting  account  of  this  lady's  daily 
life,  may  be  seen  in  the  Ordinances  of  the  Royal 
Household,  37*  ;  and  an  abstract  of  her  will  is 
given  in  Testamenta  Vetusta,  423. 

Touching  this  will  I  may  observe,  that  it  has 
occasioned  error  and  perplexity  in  consequence 
of  her  having  therein  called  her  grandchildren, 
and  grandchildren-in-law  her  sons  and  daugh- 
ters. The  persons  so  designated  appear  to  have 
been  Catharine,  daughter  of  Ed\v.  IV.,  and  wife 
of  William  Courtenay,  Earl  of  Devonshire;  Hum- 
phrey de  la  Pole,  clerk ;  William,  Lord  Stourton, 
who  married  Catharine  de  la  Pole  ;  and  Anne  de 
la  Pole,  prioress  of  Syon.  C.  H.  COOPER. 

Cambridge. 

SHELLEY'S  "  LAON  AND  CYTHNA"  (3rd  S.  i.  283, 
355.)  _  At  p.  85,  of  the  Shelley  Memorials,  A.  B. 
will  find  part  of  a  letter  from  Shelley  to  Godwin, 
from  which  it  would  appear  that  the  latter  had 
read  Laon  and  Cythna,  inasmuch  as  it  is  a  reply 
to  some  strictures  passed  by  him  upon  that  work. 
The  discrepancy  between  this  circumstance  and 
Godwin's  statement  to  your  correspondent,  may 
perhaps  be  explained  on  the  supposition  that  he 
only  considered  himself  to  have  read  a  work  when 
he  had  read  it  attentively:  a  labour  which  he 
would  have  been  unwilling,  and  indeed  unable,  to 
bestow  upon  Shelley's  epic.  In  a  letter  to  Mrs. 
Shelley,  hitherto  unpublished,  he  speaks  with 
much  commendation  of  the  Cenci,  and  expresses 
his  satisfaction  that  Shelley  should  have  at  last 
condescended  to  treat  of  "what  passes  among 
human  creatures."  The  hermit  of  the  Revolt  of 
Islam  is  not  Godwin,  but  Dr.  Lind,  the  friend  of 
Shelley's  boyhood. 

I  think  MR.  PEACOCK  must  be  mistaken  in 
stating  that  only  three  copies  of  Laon  and  Cythna 
found  their  way  into  the  world,  as  that  mentioned 


by  A.  B.  is  the  third  with  the  existence  of  which 
I  am  myself  acquainted.  R.  GABNETT. 

British  Museum. 

L ACE-MA KER'S  CUSTOM  :  WIGS  (3rd  S.  i.  387.)— 
For  a  solution  of  A.  A.'s  inquiry  how  wig  may 
mean  a  cake,  we  must  refer  to  that  great  store- 
house of  philology,  Adelung's  Deutsches  Lexicon ; 
where,  under  "  WECK,"  his  second  signification  is 
"  Eine  Art  feinen  Weitzenbrotes,"  &c. :  a  sort  of 
fine  wheaten  bread,  which  in  some  measure  has 
the  form  of  two  clubs  joined  together.  He  enu- 
merates Christtoeck,  Christstolle,  Osterweck,  Eyer- 
weck,  Spitzweck,  frc.,  as  various  denominations; 
there  are  also  forms  in  which  butter  is  brought 
to  market,  called  Butterweck.  His  derivation  is 
curious,  as  derived  from  the  form  of  a  club,  its 
ancient  form,  which  pounds  of  butter  still  retain 
in  some  places ;  and  also  because  Cuneux,  in  Me- 
diseval  Latinity,  is  often  used  for  this  sort  of 
wheaten  bread ;  and  he  adduces  the  following 
quotation  from  Du  Fresne  :  "  Uno  cuneo,  h.  e. 
albo  pane,  modicisque  cibariis  in  hebdomada  sus- 
tentebatur."  In  Picardy,  Cuignet  is  still  the  name 
of  a  similar  four-tailed  loaf,  worked  with  milk, 
called  in  Lower  Saxony,  cine  Wecke,  or  Wegge. 
WILLIAM  BELL,  Phil.  Dr. 

WHALEBONE  AND  SON  (3rd  S.  i.  250,  335,  359, 
397.)  —  In  ports  which  adventure  on  the  Green- 
land and  Davis's  Straits  Whale  Fisheries,  the  jaw- 
bones are  always  preserved,  and  slung  to  the 
shrouds  of  the  vessels,  with  tubs  below  them  to 
catch  the  oil  drippings  which  run  from  them ; 
and  when  dry,  frequently  form  entrances  like  a 
Gothic  arch  to  the  paddocks  and  fields  of  the 
neighbourhood.  Frequently,  too,  the  scapula,  or 
fin-bone  of  the  whale,  is  preserved,  but  not  so 
often ;  and  offering  a  broad  surface,  is  sometimes 
stuck  over  the  door  of  a  public-house,  and  painted 
as  a  sign  :  one  such  may  be  seen  at  Hull,  on  a  pot- 
house exactly  opposite  the  principal  entrance  to  the 
Trinity  House,  on  which  is  painted  the  sign  of  a 
native  fisherman  in  his  canoe — in  whale-fishing,  a 
Jackee-Ja;  in  the  Trinity  House  the  original  boat 
and  figure  of  the  Greenlander  is  kept.  The  surface 
of  the  bone,  like  the  gigantic  shoulder-blade  of  a 
sheep,  is  sufficiently  broad  to  receive  the  figure  of  a 
full-faced  sun ;  which,  in  the  sign  alluded  to,  may 
have  been  painted  upon  it,  and  thence  the  de- 
nomination. WILLIAM  BELL,  Phil.  Dr. 

LUKE'S  IRON  CROWN  (3rd  S.  i.  364.)  —  Gold- 
smith was  ft  student  of  the  University  of  L?yden, 
and  must  have  been  aware  of  two  celebrities  from 
that  town:  Lucas  of  Leyden,  the  painter,  and 
John  of  Leyden,  the  Anabaptist  leader ;  the  latter, 
after  suffering  a  long  siege  by  the  Bishop  of  Mun- 
ster  in  the  Metropolitan  See  of  Westphalia,  was 
taken  prisoner  and  tortured  to  death  with  great 
barbarity.  Amongst  other  violence,  an  iron  rim  or 
crown,  red-hot,  was  passed  over  hia  temples, 


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[3rd  S.  I.  MAY  24,  '62. 


possibly  in  derision  of  his  assumption  of  the  kingly 
state  or  title.  And  it  is  most  probable  that  Gold- 
smith has  confounded  the  two  celebrities  of  the 
town  of  Leyden,  and  that  we  should  read  John's, 
instead  of  Luke's  Iron  Crown.  The  inaccuracies 
in  "  Damiens'  bed  of  steel,"  marked  by  MB.  J. 
DIXON,  is  voucher  sufficient  that  the  poet's  memory 
was  treacherous  also  there. 

WILLIAM  BELL,  Phil.  Dr. 

The  concluding  lines  of  The  Traveller  were 
written  (Boswell  says,  in  A.D.  1766,)  by  Dr. 
Johnson.  C.  P.  E. 

DEDICATIONS  TO  THE  DEITY  (2nd  S.  xii.  36.) — 
Among  the  works  dedicated  to  the  Almighty  is 
the  following,  which  I  have  just  met  with  : 

"  Godofredii  Henselii  Synopsis  Universse  Philologise,  in 
qua  Harmonia  Linguarum  grammatice  e  natura  vocum 
et  geographice  nova  rations  eruitur,  &c.,  sm.  8vo,  edit. 
2nd.  (Noriinb.),  1754." 

Dedication. 

"  Gloriosissimo  Linguarum  Conditori  UEO  Triuuni  Ter 
Optimo Terque  Maximo.  Et  in  specie:  SPIKITUI  SANCTO 
LINGUARUM  Unitori  Celebratissimo  Conamina  istbiec 
Philologica  Sacrata  sunto !  " 

J.  MAC  RAY. 

Oxford. 

THE  HEARTH  TAX  (3rd  S.  i.  367.)  •—  S.  T.  is 
mistaken  in  supposing  that  the  receipt  in  his  pos- 
session refers  to  the  last  collection  of  the  hearth 
money.  I  send  you  a  copy  of  one  dated  fourteen 
months  later  :  — 

"  October  the  21,  1600  &  Eighty-Nine. 

"  Received,  of  Capt.  Jones,  the  sum  of  Twenty  Seven 
shillings  in  full,  for  one  half  year's  Duty  for  Twenty  Seven 
Fire  Hearths  in  his  House,  in  Clerkenwell  p\h.,  due  & 
ended  at  Lady-day  last  past.  I  say  Received  by 

Fol.  35-37 

L23 
"  THOMAS  BISHOPE,  Collector." 

The  return  of  the  number  of  fire  hearths  in 
each  house  was  at  first  made  by  the  parish  con- 
stable, but  from  the  unpopularity  of  the  tax,  it 
was  suspected  that  he  often  falsified  these  returns 
to  keep  peace  with  his  neighbours.  His  majesty, 
Charles  II.,  was  dissatisfied  with  this  mode  of 
assessing,  as  the  following  extract  from  the  ar- 
chives of  the  county  of  Middlesex  will  show  :  — 

"  His  Majesty,  taking  notice  of  a  retorne  of  fire  hearths 
within  the  City  of  London  and  precincts  of  the  Bills  of 
Mortality,  wherein  he  believeth  great  negligence  or  de- 
ceipt  hath  been  used,  hath,  by  his  letters,  required  such  a 
course  to  be  taken  as  may  produce  the  instant  number  of 
Hearths  (according  to  the  true  intention  of  the  Act  of 
Parliament),  propounding  that  two  or  three  honest  and 
active  persons  (*MC/I  as  the  Officers  of  his  Revenue),  may, 
at  his  Majesty's  charge,  be  joined  with  the  Constable  at 
each  parish  to  take  an  occular  view  of  the  said  fire 
hearths."— Aug.  14,  Car.  II.  1662. 

It  was  this  "  occular  view  "  of  every  man's  fire- 
side, that  made  the  tax  so  obnoxious  to  a  people, 


who  knew  how  to  value  the  sanctity  and  privileges 
of  home.  F.  SOMNER  MERRYWEATHER. 

Colney  Hatch. 

OBITUARY  OF  OFFICERS  :  MORRISON  :  ARCHER 
(3rd  S.  i.  372.)— 

1.  Was  not  George  Morrison  a  full  "  General  " 
when  he  died  ?     He  was  the  oldest  staff  officer  in 
the  army  at  the  time  of  his  death. 

2.  Archer  was,  and  perhaps  is  still,  a  Berkshire 
name.    A  Colonel  Archer  of  the  1st  Foot  Guards, 
probably  a  son  of  the  General,  was  married,  in 
1801,  to  a  Miss  Morgan  of  Bath. 

Can  M.  S.  R.  give  me  any  particulars  of  the 
great  R.  E.  family  of  Durnford  ? 

CHESSBOROUGH. 
Harbertonford. 

CLAIM  OF  ELDEST  SONS  OF  BARONETS  TO 
KNIGHTHOOD  (3rd  S.  i.  274.)  —  It  is  stated  that 
George  IV.  abolished  this  privilege,  yet  Sir  Wil- 
liam O'Malley  now  enjoys  a  knighthood  conferred 
on  him  (according  to  food's  Peerage)  as  eldest 
son  of  a  baronet,  in  1835.  T.  DAVIES. 


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WE 


STERN    LIFE    ASSURANCE 

ANNUITY  SOCIETY. 

3,  PARLIAMENT  STREET,  LONDON,  8.W. 
Founded  A.D.  1842. 


AND 


H.  £.  Bicknell,  Esq. 
T.  8.  Cocks,  Esq. 
G.  H.  Drew,  Esq.  M.A. 
W.  Freeman,  Esq. 
J.  H.  Goodhart,Esq. 


Directors. 


F.'B.  M arson. 'Esq. 
J.  L.  Seager,  Esq. 
J.  B.  White,  Esq. 


Physician.-W.  R.  Basham,  M.D. 

Bankers.— Messrs.  Biddulph.  Cocks,  &  Co. 

Actuary — Arthur  Scratchley,  M.A. 

VALUABLE  PRIVILEGE. 

POLICIES  effected  in  this  Office  do  not  become  void  through  tem- 
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ditions detailed  in  the  Prospectus. 

LOANS  from  100*.  to  5002.  granted  ou  real  or  first-rate  Personal 
Security. 

Attention  is  also  invited  to  the  rates  of  annuity  granted  to  old  livea, 
for  which  ample  security  is  provided  by  the  capital  of  the  Society. 

Example:  1002.  cash  paid  down  purchases— An  annuity  of — 

9  15*  10  to  a  male  life  aged  60\ 
11    7    4  „  65 1  Payable  as  long 

13  18   8  70  f    as  he  is  alive. 

18    0    6  „  75j 

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says  Humboldt,  "  that  orators,  clergymen,  lecturers,  authors,  and 
poets  give  it  the  preference,  for  it  refreshes  the  memory."  Empha- 
tically the  scent  for  warm  weather.  A  case  of  six  bottles,  10s. ; 
tingle  samples,  2s. 

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eOLLOWAY'S  OINTMENT  AND  PILLS. - 
SHOOTING  PAINS. —  These  frequently  direct  attention  from 
true  seat  of  disease.  Many  cases  of  "  flying  pains  "  in  the  back, 
shonlder,  neck  and  head,  are  daily  cured  by  rubbing  Hollpway  s  Oint- 
ment over  the  pit  of  the  stomach  and  right  side.  A  patient  writes— 
"After  trying  the  most  experienced  practitioners  and  galvamsts 
vain,  your  Ointment,  after  ten  rubbinzs  over  the  right  side,  completely 
removed  the  misnamed  neuralgia  from  the  head  and  shoulder,  though, 
I  believe,  your  Pills  facilitated  my  cure."  This  testimony  is  asencourag- 
in*  as  unsolicited.  Almost  all  the  low,  nervous,  irritable  feelings 
fidgeting  mankind  spring  from  defective  action  in  the  liver,  and  can 
only  be  remedied  by  clearing  that  organ  of  vitiated  or  surplus  bile. 


T  AW  LIFE  ASSURANCE  SOCIETY,  Fleet  Street, 

J-J  London.    Established  18M. 

The  invested  assets  of  this  Society  exceed  fire  million*  rterling  ;  its 
annual  income  is  four  hundred  and  ninety-five  thoiuand  pound*. 
Up  to  the  Slst  December,  1861.  the  Society  had  paid 
in  claims  upon  death—ium*  fcMured  ....    J4JM.I7» 
„  Bonn*  thereon  -      1.II&J86 

Together    -     «&,44«,676 
The  profit!  arc  divided  every  fifth  year.    All  ptrtidptUnc  politic* 

effect**  during  the  present  year  will   ft  In  force  beyond  31. t  December, 

1864,  share  in  the  profit*  to  be  divided  up  to  that  date. 

.  At  the  division*  of  profit*  hitherto  made.  revenSonary  bontue*  exceed  - 

ing  three  and  a  half  million*  have  been  added  to  the  several  politic*. 
Pro*pectu»e«,  forms  of  proposal,  and  statement*  of  account*,  may  be 

had  on  application  to  the  Actuary,  at  the  Office,  Fleet  Street,  London . 
February,  1862.  WILLIAM  SAMUEL  DOWNE8,  Actuary- 


UNITED  KINGDOM 

LIFE  ASSURANCE  COMPANY, 

No.  8,  WATERLOO  PLACE,  PALL  MAT.T.,  g.W. 

DIRECTORS. 

The  Hon.  FRANCIS  SCOTT,  Chairman. 
CUARLES  BERWICK  CURTIS,  Eiq.,  Deputy  Chairman. 


EDWARD  LENNOX  BOYD,  Esq.  I  A.  H.  MACDOUG  ALL,  ESQ. 

(Resident).  F.  C.  M  AITLAND,  EM. 

WILLIAM  FAIRLIE,  Esq.  WILLIAM  KAILTON.J**. 

D.  Q.  HENRIQUES.Esq.  THOS.  THORBY.E*q..  F.S.A. 

J.  G.  HENRIQUES,  Esq.  HENRY  TOOGOOD,  f!*q. 

MARCUS  H.  JOHNSON,  Esq. 

SUPERIOR  ACCOMMODATION  AFFORDED  BY  THIS 

COMPANY. 

This  Company  offers  the  security  of  s  large  paid-up  capital,  held  in 
shares  by  a  numerous  and  wealthy  proprietary,  thu*  protecting  the 
assured  from  the  risk  attending  mutual  offices. 

There  have  been  three  divisions  of  profits,  the  bonuses  averajrir.c 
nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum  on  the  sum*  assured  from  the  commence- 
ment of  the  Company. 

Sum  Assured .          Bonuses  added.  Payable  at  Death. 

£5,000  £1,987  10s.  £6,987  10*. 

1,000  397  10s.  1,397  10*. 

100  39  15*.  139  15*. 

To  assure  £100  payable  at  death,  a  per*on  aged  21  pays  £t  I*.  4rf.  per 
annum;  but  as  the  profits  have  averaged  nearly  8  per  cent,  per  annum. 
the  additions,  in  many  coses,  have  been  almost  a*  much  a*  the  pre- 
miums paid. 

Loans  granted  on  approved  real  or  personal  security. 
Invalid  Lives.    Parties  not  in  a  sound  state  of  health  may  be  injured 

No  charge  for  Volunteer  Military  Corp*  while  serving  in  the  United 

The  "funds  or  property  of  the  company,  a*  at  let  January,  IM1, 
amounted  to  £730,665  7s.  lOrf.,  invested  in  Government  and  other  ap- 
proved securities. 

Prospectuse*  and  every  information  afforded  on  application  to 

E.  L.  BOYD.  Resident  Director. 


CHOICE  PORT  OF  1858  VINTAGE  _  THE  COMET  YEAR. 

HEDGES    &    BUTLER  have    Imported  a   large 

1    quantity  of  this  valuable  Wine,  respecting  which  it  Is  the  veneral 

opinion  that  it  will  equal  the  celebrated  comet  year  of  1811.    It  t.  tn- 

asing  in  value,  and  the  time  must  soon  arrive  when  Port  of  thu  du- 


°I     .      . 

tinifiiished  vTn7a!»e"win"  be  at  double  its  present  price.    Mectr*.  Hedge* 

&  Butler  are  now  offering  it  at  36*.,  42*.,  and  48*.  per  dozen. 

Pure  sound  Claret,  with  considerable  flavour  ...  24*.  and  30*.  per  dot. 

Superior  Claret S6*.  42*.  48*.  60*.  7*. 

Good  dinner  Sherry «4*.3fl*. 

Superior  Pule,  Golden,  or  Brown  Sherry 36*.  4i«.  48*. 

Port,  from  flrst-claw  Shipper* 36*.  48«.  48*.  Kit. 

Hock  and  Mocelle  30*.  36*.  48*.  60*.  to  1*«*. 

Spark  linn  ditto • ....  «••  «••  J£ 

Sparkling  Champagne **••  **••  «*•  w*.  /<*•• 

Fine  old  Sack,  rare  White  Port,  Imperial  Tokay,  Malnwey,  Fron- 
tignac,  Constantia,  Vermuth,  and  other  rare  Wia§jfc_ 

Tine  Old  Pale  Coirnac  Brandy,  60*  and  7t*.  per  doten. 

On  receipt  of  a  Port  oflo  Order  or  reference,  any  quantity,  with  a 
priced  list  of  all  other  wine*,  will  be  forwarded  immediately  by 

HEDGES  &  BUTLER, 

LONDON:  165,  REGENT  STREET,  W. 

Brighton  :  30,  King's  Road. 
(Originally  e«tabli»hed  A.D.  1667.) 

ALD  BOTTLED  PORTS.  — GEORGE  SMITH. 


last  forty  years. 


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finest  condition,  and  all,  either  intrinsically  or  from  Association, 
worthy  of  the  Collector's  special  attention.  The  Collection  is  of  pecu- 
liar mark  in  the  classes  of  History,Genealogy,  Topography  (particularly 
in  reference  to  London"),  Biography,  Bibliography  (comprising  Cata- 
logues, MS.  and  printed,  of  celebrated  Libraries,  Sale  Catalogues, in- 
cluding those  of  some  of  the  earliest  Book  Sales  in  England)— Curious 
Books  of  all  kinds,  Relations,  Memoirs,  &c.,  many  being  profusely 
illustrated  —  Remarkable  Collections  from  Newspapers,  Ephemerae, 
&c.  Very  many  of  the  older  bindings  are  of  peculiar  beauty,  the  more 
recent  presenting  specimens  of  the  choicest  work  of  Mr.  F.  Bedford, 
Messrs.  Wright,  Mr.  Stamper,  and  others. 

Catalogues  are  preparing. 


State  Documents  and  Autograph  Letters  of  the  14th,  15th,  16th,  17th, 
and  18th  Centuries. 

ESSRS.   PUTTICK  &    SIMPSON  will   SELL 

by  AUCTION,  at  their  House,  47,  Leicester  Square,  on  MON- 
>AY,  June  30,  a  most  Extensive,  Important  and  Interesting  COL- 
LECTION of  STATE  DOCUMENTS,  principally  of  the  period  of 
Charles  Quint  and  Philip  II.,  and  relating  to  the  wars  of  religion,  and 
other  stirring  events  of  their  reigns,  and  especially  illustrative  of  the 
affairs  of  the  Low  Countries,  and  their  connexion  with  the  other  Euro- 
pean States-France,  Spain,  Germany,  England,  £c.  The  Collection 
comprises  about  150  Letters  of  Charles  V.,  250  Letters  of  Marguerite 
d'.'.utriche,  others  of  Philip  II.,  and  of  various  Royal.  Noble,  and 
Illustrious  Personages  of  different  nations.  The  Collection  is  also  rich 
in  material; for  the  family  historian  and  genealogist,  containing  nu- 
merous important  Pedigrees,  Public  Acts,  Ordonnances  and  Notarial 
Documents,  some  of  which  relate  to  families  of  the  highest  distinction 
in  the  Low  Countries  and  elsewhere.  The  Documents  relating  to 
various  Continental  Cities,  Abbeys,  Churches,  &c.>  are  most  abundant 
and  important. 

Catalogues  are  preparing. 

Mr.  Lake  Price's  Photographic  Apparatus,  Unpublished  Negatives,  &c. 

MESSRS.  PUTTICK  &  SIMPSON  will  SELL 
by  AUCTION  at  their  House,  47.  Leicester  Square,  in  JUNE, 
the  whole  of  the  superior  PHOTOGRAPHIC  APPARATUS  of  that 
distinguished  Artist  and  Photographer,  MR.  LAKE  PRICE,  whose 
ill  health  obliges  him  to  relinquish  Photography.  The  Collection 
includes  Instruments  of  the  highest  class,  and  in  the  most  perfect 
condition.  Lenses  from  7-8th  inches  to  8  inches,  and  Cameras  of  all 
sizes,  by  the  best  makers;  also,  several  unpublished  Negatives,  com- 
prising some  of  the  best  examples  of  Mr.  LAKE  PRICE'S  work. 
Further  particulars  will  be  announced. 

Catalogues  on  receipt  of  Two  Stamps. 


3'd  S.  I.  MAY  31,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


421 


LONDON  SATURDAY,  MAY  31,  1862. 


CONTENTS  —  NO.  22. 

NOTES  :  —  Mrs.  Anna  Williams,  421  —  Werrington  and  the 
Morico  Family,  422  —  Canning's  Essays,  423  —  Collateral 
Descendants  of  Admiral  Blake,  Ib.  —  Singular  Custom  at 
Corby  (Northamptonshire):  "Pole  Fair,"  424—  Dixon's 
"  Story  of  Lord  Bacon's  Life,"  Ib. 


NOTES:—  Blue  and  Buff—  Lord  Strafford  —  Jaco- 
bites and  Jacobins  —  The  Code  of  Menu  and  the  Chinese 

—  English  Language  —  Cats  in  Flower  Gardens  —  English 
Kings  entombed  in  France,  425. 

QUERIES  :  —  Baldwin  Family:  Sir  Clement  Farnhain— 
British-born  Emperor,  &c.—  Burning  as  a  legal  Punish- 
ment in  Ireland  —  Church  used  by  Churchmen  and  Roman 
Catholics  —  Club  —  Brian  Bury  Collins  —  Deaf  and  Dumb 
Literature  —  Euchre  —  Edward  IV.  —  Families  of  Field 
and  De  la  Feld  or  Delafleld  —  Ghost  Stories  —  Monk 
Family  —  Nevison  the  Freebooter  —  Overtoil  cum  Tadley, 
Hants  —  Plurality  of  Benefices  —  "  The  School  of  Improve- 
ment "  —  Yarwell,  or  Tarwhelp,  425. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS  :—  "  The  Diaboliad"  —"After 
meat—  mustard"  —  Chelsea  Oriental  China—  Cat  Ice,  or 
Cat's  Ice  —  Low  Sunday  —  Anonymous,  428. 

REPLIES:  —  Edmund  Burke,  429  —  The  Dying  Speeches 
and  Prayers  of  the  Regicides,  431  —  The  Fairfaxes  of  Bar- 
ford,  .75.  —  Gray's  "Elegy"  parodied,  432  —  Major-Gen. 
Dixon  —  Coverdale's  Bible  —  Fitzwilliam  Family  —  Gil- 
bert Wakefield's  "  Banse  Canorse  "  —  Greene,  of  Ware, 
Hertfordshire  —  American  Cents  —  Age  of  Newspapers  — 
Cecily  —  Lengthened  Tenure  of  Church  Livings  —  Ennis- 
killen  and  Rosse  Arms  —  Leighton  —  Wigs,  a  sort  of  Cake 

—  Audomarus  Talseus,  alias  Omer  Talon  —  Congers  and 
Mackerel  —  Fontenelle  and  the  Jan^enists  —  Coins  inserted 
in  Tankards  —  Family  of  Isley,  &c.,  433. 

Notes  on  Books. 


MRS.  ANNA  WILLIAMS. 

Rosmarket,  a  small  village  distant  about  five 
miles  from  Haverfordwest,  is  worthy  of  notice  as 
having  been  the  birthplace  of  two  personages, 
whose  names  will  be  handed  down  to  posterity  for 
two  very  different  reasons.  The  first  was  Lucy 
Walter,  the  mother  of  the  Duke  of  Monmouth; 
the  second,  Dr.  Zachariah  Williams,  the  father  of 
the  blind  friend  and  companion  of  the  great  and 
good  Samuel  Johnson.  Educated  as  a  physician, 
Dr.  Williams  was  a  man  of  ability  and  learning, 
and  possessed  considerable  attainments  as  a  He- 
brew Scholar.  I  have  in  my  library  a  small 
volume,  entitled,  The  Universal  Hebrew  Grammar, 
for  the  Use  of  Schools  and  Private  Gentlemen, 
which  in  all  probability  belonged  to  Dr.  Williams; 
on  the  cover  is  inscribed,  in  a  straggling  irregular 
hand,  the  name  "  S.  Johnson,"  and  a  note  on  the 
fly  leaf  states  that  it  "was  bought  at  old  Jones's 
auction,  Holborn,  June  12,  1859.  He  purchased 
many  of  Dr.  Samuel  Johnson's  philological  books 
and  books  of  travels."  That  the  book  belonged 
to  Dr.  Williams  is  rendered  more  probable  from 
the  statement  of  the  title-page  that  it  was  "  printed 
in  London  for  the  author,  by  T.  Brewman,  at 
No.  2,  Peterborough  Court,  Fleet  Street,  and  sold 
at  the  Academy,  and  by  Mr.Levi  Phillips,  jeweller, 
in  Haverfordwest."  Levi  Phillips  was  a  respect- 


able Hebrew  who  settled  in  Haverfordwest  nearly 
a  century  ago.  On  receiving  Christian  baptism 
he  took  the  name  of  Phillips,  and  having  amassed 
considerable  wealth,  was,  at  the  time  of  his  death, 
the  principal  banker  in  this  town.  At  his  shop, 
therefore,  it  is  probable  that  Dr.  Williams  bought 
the  Grammar,  and  passing  into  the  hands  of  his 
daughter,  the  book  may  have  been  her  gift  to  Dr. 
Johnson.  The  signature,  "  S.  Johnson,  is  not  the 
autograph  of  the  great  author,  but  appears  to  be 
the  handwriting  of  a  woman.  The  attainments  of 
Dr.  Williams  brought  him  under  the  notice  of  Sir 
John  Philipps,  Bart,  of  Picton  Castle,  who  was 
ever  the  muniBcent  patron  of  struggling  merit. 
Having,  as  he  imagined,  succeeded  in  the  dis- 
covery of  the  longitude  by  means  of  magnetism, 
and  animated  by  the  prospect  of  a  splendid  re- 
ward, Dr.  Williams  removed  to  London,  with  his 
daughter,  somewhere  about  the  year  1727,  and 
had  to  experience  the  usual  fate  of  projectors  and 
experimentalists.  Here  he  received  much  kind- 
ness, and,  doubtless,  help  at  the  hands  of  Sir  John 
Philipps,  and  was  received  at  his  house  on  a  foot- 
ing of  friendly  intimacy,  as  the  following  extract 
from  the  Diary  of  Sir  Erasmus  Philipps  will 
show :  — 

"  1728.  Feby  17.  My  only  sister,  Mary,  died  of  the 
small  pox,  very  early  in  the  morning.  She  was  taken  ill 
on  the  7th  ins1,  the  confluent  sort ;  attended  by  D™  Cotes- 
worth  and  Hulst  My  father  had  parted  with  M«  Vate, 
to  whom  he  gave  a  handsome  Present  Mr>  Ann  Williams, 
daughter  of  Mr  Zachariah  Williams,  came,  and  wth  my 
sister  when  she  died,  after  which  she  went  away.  Her 
Father  in  ye  House,  and  lay  there  all  the  time  she  con- 
tinued in  j'6  House  w"1  us." 

The  golden  hopes  of  Dr.  Williams  soon  faded 
away,  and  the  sole  result  of  his  splendid  visions 
was  an  admission  to  the  Charter  House,  which  was, 
in  all  probability,  procured  for  him  through  the 
instrumentality  of  Sir  John  Philipps.  This  asylum 
he  soon  forfeited  through  some  irregularity,  but 
in  a  pamphlet,  published  in  1749,  he  denied  the 
justice  of  his  expulsion.  In  1755  he  published  in 
Italian  and  English  an  account  of  An  Attempt  to 
ascertain  the  Longitude  at  Sea,  by  an  exact  Theory 
of  the  Magnetic  Needle,  written,  as  is  supposed, 
by  Dr.  Johnson,  and  translated  by  Baretti.  Mrs. 
Johnson  became  acquainted  with  Mrs.  Anna  Wil- 
liams, who  had  by  this  time  lost  her  sight  from 
cataract,  and  soon  entertained  a  warm  regard  for 
her,  which  was  shared  in  an  almost  equal  degree 
by  her  illustrious  husband ;  for  on  the  death  of 
Mrs.  Johnson,  when  it  was  proposed,  by  means  of 
an  operation,  to  attempt  the  restoration  of  Mrs. 
Williams's  sight,  Dr.  Johnson  not  only  obtained 
the  services  of  Mr.  Sharp  the  oculist  to  perform 
the  operation,  but,  as  her  lodgings  were  small  and 
inconvenient,  assigned  her  apartments  in  his  own 
house.  The  operation  proved  unsuccessful,  but 
Mrs.  Williams  never  again  quitted  the  hospitable 
shelter  of  Johnson's  roof.  Their  society  was 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'<»S.  I.  MAY  31, '62, 


mutually  beneficial :  the  conversational  powers  of 
Johnson  alleviated  the  solitude  of  blindness,  and 
the  cheerfulness  which  this  companionship  pro- 
duced in  Mrs.  Williams  served  to  mitigate  the 
gloom  by  which  the  fine  intellect  of  Johnson  was 
too  frequently  clouded.  Fenton,  in  his  History  of 
Pembrokeshire,  gives  an  account  of  a  visit  paid  by 
him  to  Dr.  Johnson  and  Mrs.  Williams  in  the  fol- 
lowing words :  — 

"  I  bad  once  the  pleasure  of  passing  a  day  in  company 
with  her  and  the  great  moralist,  whom  I  found,  contrary 
to  my  expectation  from  the  character  I  had  heard  of  him, 
affable,  communicative,  and  not  at  all  dictatorial ;  and 
making  allowance  for  some  awkward  habits,  peculiarities 
of  gesture  and  dress,  and  a  sort  of  constitutional,  charac- 
teristic growl,  perfectly  well  bred.  Mrs.  Williams,  his 
blind  protfgee,  fully  answered  Lady  Knight's  account  of 
her,  for  she  displayed  fine  taste,  a  retentive  memory,  and 
strong  judgment,  and  seemed  to  have  various  powers  of 
pleasing.  She  had  all  the  nationality  of  her  country,  for 
finding  I  was  a  Welshman,  she  increased  her  attentions; 
but  when  she  had  traced  me  to  Pembrokeshire,  she  drew  her 
chair  closer,  took  me  familiarly  by  the  hand  as  if  kindred 
blood  tingled  at  her  lingers*  ends,  talked  of  past  times, 
and  dwelt  with  rapture  on  Kos  Market." 

The  publication  of  a  small  volume  of  poems 
(the  best  of  which  were  written  and  polished  by 
Johnson,  and  one,  "  The  Three  Warnings"  the 
composition  of  Mrs.  Thrale),  and  the  proceeds  of 
a  benefit  at  the  theatre,  got  up  for  her  by  Garrick, 
secured  the  latter  days  of  Mrs.  Williams  from 
penury.  Lady  Philipps  and  other  ladies  of  her 
native  county  used  also  to  make  her  an  annual 
present. ;  and  she  died  at  the  residence  of  her  be- 
nefactor on  September  6th,  1783.  Johnson,  in 
writing  of  her  death  to  Mrs.  Thrale,  on  Sept.  22, 
says,  — 

"  Poor  Williams  has,  I  hope,  seen  the  end  of  her  afllic- 
tions.  She  acted  with  prudence,  and  she  bore  with  for- 
titude. She  has  left  me. 

'  Thou  thy  weary  task  hast  done, 
Home  art  gone,  and  ta'en  thy  wages.'  " 

JOHN  PAVIN  PHILLIPS. 

Ilaverfordwest. 


WERRINGTON  AND  THE  MORICE  FAMILY. 

The  newspapers  having  announced  that  the  pro- 
perty of  Werrington,  Devon,  has  been  purchased 
for  11.11.11.  the  Prince  of  Wales,  perhaps  some 
particulars  relating  to  it  may  not' be  unacceptable 
to  your  readers.  In  England's  Gazetteer,  by 
Philip  Luckombe,  vol.  iii.  1790,  Werrington  is 
thus  described :  — 

"  On  the  borders  of  Cornwall,  the  Iviver  Tamar  running 
through  the  park ;  this  delightful  spot  was  long  in  the 
possession  of  the  Morices,  but  is  now  the  property  of  the 
Duke  of  Northumberland." 

r  Of  this  ancient  family,  we  find  Sir  Win.  Morice, 
Knt.,  at  the  Restoration  in  1660,  was  appointed 


Secretary  of  State  *  ;  and  his  son  f  was  created 
a  baronet  in  1661,  under  the  title  of  Sir  Wm. 
Morice,  Bart,  of  Werrington.  Having  consider- 
able property  also  in  Cornwall,  we  find  Humphrey 
Morice,  Esq.,  representing  Launceston  in  several 
parliaments  after  the  accession  of  Geo.  III.,  as  his 
father,  Sir  Wm.,  had  done  during  the  reign  of 
Geo.  II.  In  1763,  Mr.  Humphrey  Morice  was 
appointed  Lord  Warden  of  the  Stannaries,  and 
Steward  of  the  Duchy  of  Cornwall,  and  also  a 
Privy  Councillor.  It,  however,  became  matter  of 
debate;!  in  the  House  of  Commons,  whether  Mr. 
Morice  having,  after  his  election,  accepted  the 
offices  of  Warden  and  Steward,  vacated  his  seat  for 
Launceston.  The  minister  of  the  day,  however, 
succeeded  in  its  passing  in  the  negative.  Mr. 
Morice  purchased  "  The  Grove,"  a  fine  seat  on  the. 
banks  of  the  Thames,  in  the  parish  of  Chiswick, 
Middlesex,  adjoining  to  which  the  Chiswick  Sta- 
tion of  the  South  Western  Railway  is  now  placed,, 
and  which*  spot,  in  former  times,  had  been  the 
property  of  Sir  John  Denham,  K.B.,  the  poet  §, 
and  where  it  is  supposed  he  wrote  his  celebrated 
poem  of  "  Cooper's  Hill."  Mr.  Morice  was  a 
keen  fox-hunter,  and  kept  at  "  The  Grove "  a 
capital  stud  of  horses,  and  a  'pack  of  hounds. 
There  are  several  records  of  his  predilection  for 
the  chase ;  and  the  attachment  of  Mr.  Morice  to> 
his  horses  and  dogs  is  described  by  George  Col- 
man  the  Younger  ||,  in  his  Random  Records,  2 
vols,  1830;  but  as  he  was  in  most  of  his  writings 
rather  given  to  the  caricatura,  we  may  quote  a 
more  stayed,  sedate  author,  Sir  Richard  Phillips 
in  his  Morning's  Walk  from  London  to  Kew,  8vo,. 
Lond.  1817,  who,  although  he  commits  one  error 
at  the  beginning  of  his  notes,  in  considering  it  was 
Mr.  Valentine  Morris,  instead  of  Mr.  Humphrey 
Morice,  to  whom  his  account  refers,  says  the. 
latter,  on  his  death-bed  in  Italy,  bequeathed  these 
premises,  "  The  Grove  estate,"  as  a  provision  for 
about  thirty  aged  horses  and  dogs  ;  and  that  some 
of  them,  living  to  the  ages  of  forty  and  fifty,  had 
died  within  the  last  seven  years.  "The  Grove"" 
was  bequeathed  to  Mrs.  Luther,  but  was  at  her 
death  purchased  by  the  Duke  of  Devonshire,  whose 
fine  seat  at  Chiswick  abuts  upon  it.  I  rather 
think  "  The  Grove  "  is  in  the  hamlet  of  Strand- on- 
the-Green,  in  the  parish  of  Chiswick.  Mr.  Morice 
died  at  Naples  in  1785.^f  The  benefices  of  Wer- 
rington and  Launceston  were  included  in  the 


*  See  Beatson's  Political  Index,  3rd  edition,  London,. 
1806,  vol.  i.  p.  401. 

t  Ibid.  vol.  i.  p.  276. 

j  Journals  of  the  House  of  Commons,  vol.  xxix.  p.  646, 
die  Martis,  Aprilis  19"",  1763. 

§  The  Antiquities  of  Middlesex,  by  John  Bowack,  fol. 
1705-1706,  p.  48. 

||  Vol.  i.  p.  280,  in  a  note. 

t  See  Gentleman's  Magazine  for  Nov.  1785,  vol.  lv. 
p.  919. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


423 


purchase  by  the  Duke  of  Northumberland  of  the 
Morice  property  in  Cornwall  and  Devon.  *. 

Richmond  Surrey. 


CANNING'S  ESSAYS. 

Looking  over  the  papers  of  a  relative,  who  died 
some  twenty  years  since,  I  came  across  the  follow- 
ing lines,  which  may  be  interesting  to  the  readers 
of  "  N.  &  Q.,"  as  being  a  continuation  of  the 
rhymes  celebrated  by  George  Canning  in  Nos. 
11  and  12  of  the  Microcosm,  and  which  I  need 
hardly  refer  to  more  than  by  saying  they  com- 
mence— 

"  The  Queen  of  Hearts, 
She  made  some  tarts,"  &c. 

The  continuation,  which  I  have  never  seen  in 
print,  apparently  contains  some  political  allu- 
sions :  — 

;«  Ye  Queen  of  Spades 

Herself  degrades 
By  dancing  on  the  Green ; 
Ye  Knave  stood  by 
In  Extac}', 

Enamoured  of  ye  Queen, 
Ye  King  so  brave 
Says  to  the  Knave, 
4 1  disapprove  this  dance ; 
You  make  more  work 
Than  Master  Burke 
Does,  with  ye  Queen  of  France.'  " 

The  following  is  written  as  a  variation  at  the 
•end  of  the  MS. :  — 

"  Ye  Queen  of  Spades 

She  beat  ye  maids 
For  their  immodesty; 

Ye  Knave  of  Spades 

He  kissed  those  maids, 
Which  made  the  Queen  to  cry ; 

Ye  King  then  curst 

That  Knave  who  durst 
Make  Royalty  shed  tears : 

'  Vile  Knave,'  says  he, 

'Tis  my  decree 
That  you  lose  both  your  ears.' 

"  Ye  Diamond  Queen 

Was  one  day  seen 
So  drunk  she  could  not  stand ; 

Ye  Diamond  Knave 

He  blushed,  and  gave 
Ye  Queen  a  reprimand. 

Ye  King  distrest, 

That  his  dearest 
Should  do  so  vile  a  thing, 

Says '  By  my  wig, 

She's  like  ye  pig 
Of  David,  ye  good  king.' 

"Ye  Queen  of  Clubs 

Made  Syllabubs ; 
Ye  Knave  came  like  Big  Ben, 

He  snatched  ye  cup, 

And  drank  it  up  — 
His  toast  was  '  Bights  of  Men.' 


With  bands  and  eyes 
That  marked  surprise, 
Ye  King  laments  his  fate : 
'AUal'saysbe, 
'  I  plainly  see 

Ye  Knave's  a  democratc.'  " 

From  the  paper  and  the  style  of  writing,  I 
should  think  the  above  was  not  written  during  the 
present  century.  Should  you  consider  it  worth  per- 
petuating, it  may  call  to  the  mind  of  some  of  your 
readers  the  author,  and  the  occasion  on  which  it 
was  written.  I  may  add  that  the  continuation  of 
the  tale,  recently  published  for  the  use  of  children, 
is  very  different  from  the  foregoing.  H.  W.  S. 


COLLATERAL  DESCENDANTS  OF  ADMIRAL 
BLAKE. 

I  have  found  so  much  difficulty  in  reconciling 
with  certain  ascertained  facts  various  statement* 
relative  to  the  family  of  Blake,  that  I  am  induced 
to  ask  for  such  information  on  the  subject  as  any 
of  the  correspondents  of  "  N.  &  Q."  may  be  able 
to  afford  me. 

1.  Admiral  Robert  Blake,  born  in  1598,  was 
the  eldest  son  of  his  father  Humphrey,  who  died 
in  1625. 

2.  Humphrey,  2nd  son,  it  is  said,  settled  in 
Carolina,  where  his  descendants  still  exist.     Qj. 
Is  not  this  an  error  ?    There  is  at  present,  resi- 
dent in  England,  a  gentleman  whom  I  believe  to 
be  the  only   male  representative  of  Humphrey 
Blake,  and,  moreover,  he  possesses  some  remark- 
able heir-looms  of  his  family. 

3.  William  was  a  Doctor  of  the  Civil  Law.    In 
one  pedigree  it  is  M.D. 

4.  Nicholas  had  three  sons,  extinct,  or  supposed 
to  have  been  so  in  the  male  line,  in  1832. 

5.  Samuel,   an  officer  in  Popham's   regiment, 
killed  in  1643-4. 

6.  Benjamin  had  two  sons  and  two  daughters. 

7.  George. 

9.' 

10. 

11. 

12. 

13.j 

14.  Alexander,  "  the  youngest  of  fourteen  bro- 
thers, of  whom  the  celebrated  Admiral  was  one," 
died  in  1693  at  Eaton  Socon,  Bedfordshire. 

The  names  of  seven  of  these  brothers  are  com- 
paratively well  known.  Not  so  the  remainder; 
and  probably,  from  the  assumed  fact  that  they  died 
in  minority,  although  there  appears  to  be  no  direct 
proof  to  bear  out  such  an  inference. 

Amongst  the  many  uncertainties  on  record  re- 
garding families  of  this  name,  I  may  cite  the  absence 
of  any  proof  that  Patrick  Blake  of  Montserrat 
was  a  son  of  Patrick  Blake,  2nd  son  of  Martin 
Blake  of  Ballyglunin,  by  hia  wife  Sibilla  Joyce. 


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NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


I.  MAY  31,  '62. 


Then  there  is  the  absence  of  any  baptismal  re- 
cords to  prove  the  parentage  and  descent  of  Sir 
Francis  Blake,  who  was  knighted  by  King  William 
III.  I  do  not  question  the  facts,  but  simply  the 
proofs,  and  it  is  this  want  of  care  in  preserving 
them  that  has  suggested  these  remarks. 

The  name  of  Blake  is  common  in  Hampshire 
and  the  adjoining  counties. 

In  St.  Lawrence's  Church,  Winchester,  there  is 
an  epitaph  recording  the  death  of  a  certain  John 
Blake,  Alderman  "  of  this  City,"  who  died  in  Oct. 
1723,  aged  fifty-five  years.  On  the  same  stone 
are  the  arms  borne  by  Admiral  Blake,  with  the 
difference  of  a  crescent  on  the  chevron.* 

There  are  fifteen  wills  at  least  of  persons  of  this 
name  recorded  before  1700  at  the  Probate  Court, 
&c.  in  Winchester ;  while  there  are  no  fewer  than 
seventeen  between  the  years  1700  and  1747.  In 
no  instance  have  I  found  the  "  fret "  of  the  Irish 
family  borne  by  the  Hampshire  Blakes. 

There  is  on  record  the  will  of  a  certain  Robert 
Reade  of  Linkenholt,  co.  Hants,  in  which  the  tes- 
tator bequeaths  a  portion  of  his  estate  to  his 
cousin  Nicholas  Blake,  who  it  appears  was  Mayor 
of  Plymouth  in  1626  f ;  but  this  was  not  the 
origin  of  the  settlement  of  the  Blake  family  in 
Hants,  for  there  are  on  record  wills  of  persons  of 
the  name  in  the  county  so  far  back  as  1603. 

In  the  pedigree  of  Allan  of  Blackweli  Grange, 
the  following  occur  :  — 

"  Robt.,  7th  son  of  Geo.  Allan,  died  at  Antigua,  leaving 

an  only  daughter  Elizabeth,  who  married  a  Mr.  Burke, 

and  had  an  only  daughter,  who  married  John  Blake,  Esq. 

"  Nicholas  Allan  was  the  8th  son  of  Geo.  Allan.    His 

marriage  in  1691  is  on  record." 

In  the  Blake  pedigree — whether  a  simple  coin- 
cidence, or  connected  with  the  above,  it  is  at  pre- 
sent impossible  to  say — there  occur  the  following 
names,  much  about  the  same  period  :  — 

"  Nicholas  Blake  of  London,  Barbadoes,  and  who  had 
an  estate  in  Kent. 

"  Nicholas  Blake,  Mayor  of  Portsmouth. 

"  Nicholas  Allen  Blake  of  Barbadoes. 

"Nicholas  Allen  Blake  of  Jamaica. 

"  Nicholas  Allen  Blake  of  Montserrat." 

Moreover,  contemporary  with  Martin  Blake  of 
Ballyglunin,  was  also  a  Martin  Blake  of  Jamaica, 
and  both,  strange  to  say,  had  brothers  or  cousins 
named  Nicholas  Blake. 

There  are  many  more  remarkable  coincidences 
and  similarities  in  these  pedigrees,  which  seem  to 
indicate,  either  a  want  of  revision,  or  some  ori- 
ginal error. 

If  any  correspondent,  who  possesses  a  copy  of  the 
will  (prov.  Sept.  1657)  of  Admiral  Robert  Blake, 
would  make  it  public,  possibly  many  of  these 
discrepancies  and  curious  (seeming)  coincidences, 
might  be  explained. 

*  The  impaled  arms  are  peculiar. 

t  The  date  of  his  decease  would  oblige  the  writer. 


In  some  instances,  I  am  inclined  to  believe  that 
a  colonial  connection  gave  rise  to  the  belief  of  one 
previously  existing  in  the  mother  country  between 
the  same  families,  while  the  absence  of  dates  in 
some  of  these  pedigrees  justifies  and  seems  to  in- 
vite inquiry.  SPAL. 


SINGULAR  CUSTOM  AT  CORBY  (NORTHAMP- 
TONSHIRE): "POLE  FAIR." 

A  very'curious  custom  prevails  at  Corby,  near 
Rockingham,  Northamptonshire.  Every  twenty 
years,  on  Whit  Monday,  the  inhabitants  assemble 
at  an  early  hour,  and  stop  up  all  roads  and  bye- 
ways  in  the  parish,  and  demand  a  certain  toll  of 
every  person,  gentle  or  simple,  who  may  have 
occasion  to  pass  through  the  village  on  that  day. 
In  case  of  noncompliance  a  stout  pole  is  produced, 
and  Mr.  Nonconformist  is  placed  thereon,  in  a 
riding  attitude,  and  carried  through  the  village; 
followed  by  the  hootings  of  boys  and  girls  of  all 
ages,  from  five  to  twenty-five,  joined  by  sundry 
old  women,  whose  shouts  and  yells  all  vie  with 
each  other  in  the  "concord  of  sweet  sounds.'* 
He  is  then  taken  to  the  parish  stocks,  and  im- 
prisoned — 

"  Where  he  in  durance  must  abide, 
In  dungeon  scarce  three  inches  wide  " 

(Hudibras), 

until  the  authorities  choose  to  grant  a  dismissal. 
It  appears  that  Queen  Elizabeth  granted  to  the 
inhabitants  of  Corby  a  charter  to  free  them  from 
town  toll  throughout  England,  Wales,  and  Scot- 
land ;  also  to  exempt  them  from  serving  on  juries 
at  Northampton,  and  to  free  the  knights  of  the 
shire  from  the  militia  law.  This  custom  of  taking 
toll  has  always  been  observed  every  twenty  years, 
in  commemoration  of  the  granting  of  the  charter, 
and  will  take  place  on  Whit  Monday,  June  9th, 
1862,  and  well  deserves  a  visit  from  the  curious. 
The  greatest  hilarity  prevails ;  a  band  parades 
the  streets  throughout  the  day,  till  night  throws 
her  sable  mantle  over  the  proceedings.  The  busi- 
ness of  the  day  then  ceases,  and  Corby  is  itself 
again.  God  save  the  Queen.  STAMFORDIENSIS. 


DIXON'S  "  STORY  OF  LORD  BACON'S  LIFE." 

The  following  letter,  which  has  been  addressed 
by  the  Master  of  Trinity  to  Mr.  Dixon,  should 
have  a  place  in  "  N.  &  Q." — 

«  Trinity  Lodge,  May  1,  1862. 

"  Dear  Sir, —  I  have  again  to  thank  you  for  your  kind- 
ness in  sending  me  your  Story  of  Lord  Bacon's  Life.  I 
have  read  it  through,  and  cannot  understand  how  it  can 
fail  to  convince  readers  of  the  absurd  injustice  of  the  re- 
presentations of  Bacon's  character  and  history  given  by 
Macaulay  and  Campbell.  In  your  story  all  is  consistent 
and  natural,  as  I  supposed  it  would  be  when  the  story 


3rd  S.  I.  MAY  31,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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was  told  simply  and  directly.  To  my  mind  there  is  some 
thing  very  pathetic  in  seeing,  not  only  how  easily  so  grea 
a  man  was  ruined,  but  also  what  a.  hard  and  obstinate 
^task  it  is  to  restore  his  fair  fame  in  the  eyes  of  after  ages 
•when  once  it  had  been  made  the  mark  of  sarcasm  am 
satire.  As  showing  how  easily  blows  struck  in  the  zea 
of  reformers  may  hit  very  pure  men,  has  it  ever  occurre< 
to  you  that  we  have  two  examples,  at  least,  in  our  own 
time  ?  I  do  not  believe  that  there  have  been  purer  men 
as  to  political  corruption  than  Warburton,  the  late  mem- 
ber for  Kendal,  and  Lord  Helper.  Both  were  vehement 
reformers ;  yet  both  have  been  found  guilty  of  corrupl 
practices  in  their  elections. 

"  We  have  in  our  College  Library  a  collection  of  letters 
given  us  by  Mrs.  Anne  Sadler,  a  daughter  of  Lord  Coke 
Among  them  is  a  letter  written  to  her,  giving  an  account 
of  the  battle  for  the  daughter  in  some  detail.  The  letter 
is  written  from  the  Inner  Temple ;  the  signature  is  torn 
off.  It  seems  to  have  been  a  short  name.  I  do  not  know 
if  this  account  contains  anything  new  to  you,  but  it  may 
be  worth  your  reading :  I  have  had  a  transcript  made, 
and  send  it  you  in  a  separate  cover.  You  may  publish 
the  letter,  if  you  think  it  worth  while.  Would  not  your 
book  be  more  easily  referred  to  if  it  had  an  Index,  and 
also  a  Table  of  Contents  in  detail,  by  which  the  reader 
might  return  again  and  again  to  the  parts  of  the  story  ? 
Believe  me,  dear  Sir,  yours  very  faithfully, 

"  W.  Hepworth  Dixon,  Esq.  W.  WHEWELL." 

F. 


Minor  f2atn>. 

BLUE  AND  BUFF.  —  Smiles,  Lives  of  the  En 
gineers,  vol.  i.  p.  217,  describes  the  formation  of  a 
company  by  Mr.  Thornton,  a  Yorkshire  gentle- 
man, in  October  1745,  soon  after  the  battle  of 
Prestonpans.  When  they  marched  to  join  General 
Wade's  army  at  Boroughbridge,  "Blind  Jack 
played  a  march  at  the  head  of  the  company, 
dressed  in  blue  and  buff]  and  in  a  gold-laced  hat." 
;' Blind  Jack"  is  John  Metcalf,  whose  life  Smiles 
is  writing.  The  dress  of  blue  and  buff  seems  to 
be  here  appropriate  to  the  regiment  fighting  for 
the  Whig  Hanoverian  King  against  the  Pretender. 
If  this  interpretation  be  correct,  it  carries  back 
the  use  of  blue  and  buff,  as  party  colours  in 
England,  to  the  year  1745,  and  is  therefore  in- 
consistent with  the  explanation  which  derives 
their  origin  from  the  time  of  the  American  War. 
See  the  remarks  in  "N.  &  Q."  2nd  S.  i.  269; 
v.  304.  L. 

LORD  STRAFFORD. — Those  of  your  readers  who 
are  interested  in  such  matters,  may  be  glad  to 
know  of  the  discovery  by  a  friend  of  mine  of  a 
red  and  black  chalk  portrait  of  Lord  Strafford, 
the  size  of  life,  the  armour  just  showing,  and  the 
garter  also.  It  is  at  Messrs.  Colnaghi's,  in  Pall 
Mall,  and  can  be  seen  there  at  any  time.  It  is 
said  to  be  certainly  by  Vandyck.  S.  C.  L. 

JACOBITES  AND  JACOBINS.  —  Lord  Stanhope 
says,  in  the  Life  of  William  Pitt,  vol.  ii.  pp.  174- 

'The  tide  of  seditious  publications,  which  had  been 
checked  in  the  previous  spring,  now  flowed  anew.  Among 


the  rest  we  may  observe  a  new  edition  of  that  eloquent 
incentive  to  tyrannicide,  the  tract  entitled  Kitting  no 
Murder,  which  had  been  written  by  Colonel  Titus,  and  is 
said  to  have  disturbed  the  last  days  of  Oliver  Cromwell. 
Jt  had  also  been  reprinted  by  some  desperate  adherents 
of  the  Stuarts  in  1743,  and  it  is  striking  to  find  that  on 
this  one  and  only  point  the  extremes  of  two  parties  dia- 
metrically opposed  in  their  tenets  — the  Jacobites  and 
the  Jacobins  —  agreed." 

The  logic  of  this  quotation  does  not  appear  cor- 
rect, for  some  of  the  Jacobites  only,  as  in  the 
case  of  Sir  John  Fenwick,  of  Hexharn  Abbey,  in 
1696,  advocated  the  lawfulness  of  killing  a  usur- 
per ;  but  they  did  not  adhere  to  the  opinion  that 
it  was  proper  to  kill  a  lawful  king,  believing  as 
they  did,  that  it  was  right  to  ••  render  unto  Caesar 
the  things  that  are  Caesar's,  and  unto  God  the 
things  that  are  God's."  Whereas  the  Jacobins  of 
1793  neither  believed  in  the  sacred  writings, 
which  point  out  from  whence  kings  derive  their 
authority,  nor  did  they  allow  kings  a  right  to 
their  lives,  while  assuming  the  right  of  existence 
in  common  with  other  natural  rights  to  every 
human  being,  except  kings  and  their  adherents. 

L.  A. 

THE    CODE   OF   MENU   AND  THB  CHINESE.  — 

Certain  writers  have  called  the  Chinese  standard 
of  faith  and  morals  a  "  philosophy,"  while  in  the 
act  of  descanting  on  the  original  purity  of  the 
Hindoo  religion,  as  discovered   in   the   Code  of 
Menu.    Now  is   it  not  rather  the  Chinese  who 
have  preserved  the  original  tenets  and  symbols  of 
the   same  faith,  while   in  India  it  has   become 
idolatry  ?    Of  course,  as  will   be   perceived,   for 
brevity's  sake,  I  abstain  from  qualifying  these 
remarks,  or  drawing  exact  distinctions.    The  dual 
reative  principle  of  Menu,  formed  by  the  division 
of  the  mundane  egg ;  and  the  "  self-existing  power 
that  with  five  elements  created  the  visible  uni- 
verse," —  are  they  not  identical,  or  nearly  so,  with 
;he  Chinese  circular  paqua,  divided  by  a  curved 
ine,  and  thus  forming  the  two  creative  principles 
of  Yin  and   Yan,   which   produced   a   third,    by 
which  all  things  were  created?  and  the  legend 
of  the  Five   Genii  (whose  temple  at  Canton  is 
especially  interesting),   who  wove   garments  of 
five  elementary  colours  (black,  white,  red,  yellow 
nd  blue,   according  to  the  Chinese),  and  rode 
each  on  a  ram  of  a  different  colour,  bearing  in 
heir  mouths  six-eared  heads  of  corn,  which  they 
eft  with  the  Celestials  and  then  vanished  ?  SFAL 

ENGLISH  LANGUAGE.  —  In  a  recent  historical 
work,  I  find  the  expression  :  "  The  king,  dissimu- 
ating  the  danger"  from  his  mistress.  Is  this 
English?  The  work  is  composed  from  French 
oaterials,  often  very  clumsily  translated  ;  but  * 
tand  must  be  made  against  the  introduction  of 
French  idioms  into  English  works,  or  "  the  pure 
rell  of  English  undefined  "  will  soon  be  a  mere 
igure  of  speech.  F.  C.  B. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  MAY  31,  '62. 


CATS  IN  FLOWER  GARDENS.  —  Correspondents 
of  "N.  &  Q."  (2nd  S.  xi.  515  ;  xii.  37)  have  pointed 
out  certain  plants,  such  as  the  Nemophila  insignis 
and  the  Valeriaw'offieindUs,  for  which  -cats  have 
such  a  natural  propensity  that  they  will  detect 
them  anywhere,  and  which  have  a  stupefactive  or 
narcotic  effect  upon  the  animals  when  they  roll 
themselves  upon  them.  The  nemophila  is  a  very 
pretty  neat  flower,  and  I  have  with  some  trouble 
secured  it  from  these  visitations  by  dusting  it 
freely  from  the  pepper-caster,  which  has  a  ster- 
nutatory effect  upon  the  feline  tribe  ;  though  the 
rain  washes  it  off,  and  makes  it  rather  an  expen- 
sive condiment  for  their  favourite  repast.  This 
year  these  creatures  have  played  sad  havock  with 
a  bed  of  the  Convallaria  majalis  (the  lily  of  the 
valley),  of  which  Professor  Martyn  remarks, 
"  How  different  is  the  sweet,  the  elegantly-modest 
lily  of  the  valley  from  the  flaunting  beauty  of  the 
tulip  !  "  Perhaps  some  one  may  be  able  to  indi- 
cate how  I  may  preserve  this  delightful  flower 
from  such  depredations.  AMICO. 

ENGLISH  KINGS  ENTOMBED  IN  FRANCE. — Read- 
ing a  work  lately  published  entitled  Reminiscences 
of  a  Scottish  Gentleman,  it  appears  that  the  author, 
while  travelling  in  France,  for  the  re-establish- 
-ment  of  his  daughter's  health,  visited  the  church 
of  Fontevrault  (Dep.  de  Maine  et  Loire),  where 
he  found  the  effigies,  which  still  remained,  of  two 
of  our  kings  over  their  tombs.  These  were  Henry 
II.,  and  his  son  Richard  I.  (Cceur  de  Lion.)  The 
author  adds,  "It  would  be  well  to  have  these  re- 
moved to  Westminster  Abbey,  to  which  it  is  pro- 
bable the  French  Government  would  make  no 
objection."  Surely  the  French  Government  will 
readily  accede  to  any  authorised  application  from 
the  executive  of  this  country  for  that  purpose, 
especially  when  the  generous  and  prompt  manner 
in  which  the  English  fconsented  to  the  transport- 
ing the  remains  of  the  Emperor  Napoleon  from 
St.  Helena  is  considered.*  HONORANS. 


BALDWIN  FAMILY  :  SIR  CLEMENT  FARNHAM. — 

As  no  reply  has,  I  regret  to  say,  yet  been  given 
to  my  former  queries  under  these  headings  (3rd  S. 
i.  110),  will  you  kindly  allow  me  to  revive  it  so  far 
as  to  enquire  whether  anything  authentic  is  known 
respecting  the  parentage,  life,  character,  and  also 
the  burial  place  of  Sir  John  Baldwin  of  Ayles- 
bury,  Bucks,  Knight,  Lord  Chief  Justice  of  the 
Common  Pleas  from  1536  to  1546,  the  year  of  his 
decease.  Lord  Campbell,  in  his  Lives  of  the  Chief 
Justices,  gives  little  or  no  account  of  him.  His 
pedigree,  commencing  with  himself,  is  given  in  the 

I*  A  communication  on  the  removal  of  these  effigies  to 
England  will  be  found  iu  "  N.  &  Q."  1»*  S.  iv.  265.— ED.] 


Visitation  for  Bucks,  taken  in  1634,  from  which 
it  appears  that  he  had  an  only  son,  John,  who 
married  the  daughter  of  John  Tyringham  of  Tyr- 
ingham,  Bucks,  and  died  s.  p.  in  his  father's  life-* 
time,  and  three  daughters,  his  coheiresses,  two  of 
whom  married  respectively  into  the  Buckingham- 
shire families  of  Packington  and  Burlace.  His 
arms,  as  there  given  and  as  described  by  Lips- 
comb,  Hist.  Bucks,  p.  309,  were,  Arg.  3  oak  leaves 
slipped,  sa.  acorned  prop.,  quartering  erm.,  a  fess 
chequy  or  and  az.  (qy.  arms  of  Aden  or  Arden). 
These  same  arms  and  quarterings,  with  some  vari- 
ations in  the  former  for  difference,  were  borne 
by  the  Baldwins  or  Baldwyns  (as  the  word  was 
more  generally  written),  of  Redheath,  Herts, 
therefore  I  presume  the  two  families  must  have 
been  originally  most  closely  connected,  though  I 
have,  much  to  my  regret,  been  hitherto  unsuc- 
cessful in  tracing  the  link  between  them.  Can 
any  of  your  learned  correspondents  help  me  ? 

With  respect  to  the  second  part  of  my  former 
query,  respecting  Sir  Clement  Farnham,  Knt.,  who 
married  Catherine  Baldwyn,  I  have  since  dis- 
covered, from  Peter  Le  Neve's  Pedigrees  of 
Knights,  Sfc.  (Brit.  Mus.),  that  he  was  knighted 
at  Leicester  July  4,  1665.  This  is  all  I  can  leara 
respecting  him.  His  name  does  not  occur  in  the 
pedigrees  of  the  families  of  Farnham  of  Quandon, 
&c.,  as  given  in  Nichols's  Hist,  of  Leicestershire. 
Perhaps  some  one  may  still  be  able  to  give  me 
more  information  respecting  him.  H.  C.  F. 

Herts. 

BRITISH-BORN  EMPEROR,  ETC.  —  The  following 

is  in  A  Letter  to  Dr.  C ,  on  Diet  and  Climate, 

London,1758,  pp.  32  :  — 

"  An  Englishman  never  forgets  the  weather,  and  con- 
sults the  barometer  at  Cairo  as  in  London.  The  British- 
born  emperor,  when  he  prohibited  witchcraft,  made  an 
exception  in  favour  of  health  and  weather.  Under  him 
one  might  have  whistled  for  a  wind  or  worn  a  charm  for 
the  toothache.  The  Isaurian,  used  to  a  steady  climate 
and  the  great  inland  lake,  felt  no  such  sympathies,  and 
forbade  all  charms  under  pain  of  death." 

An  explanation  of  this  passage,  which  seems 
to  be  studiedly  obscure,  will  oblige.  J.  K. 

BURNING  AS  A  LEGAL  PUNISHMENT  IN  IRELAND. 
When  did  "  burning"  cease,  as  a  recognised  legal 
sentence  in  Ireland  ?  and  who  was  the  last  victim 
of  this  brutal  form  of  punishment  ? 

I  find  the  following  note  in  an  interesting  Chro- 
nology of  some  remarkable  Accidents  from  the  Cre- 
ation of  the  World  to  the  Year  1742,  which  was 
published  by  James  Carson,  in  Dublin,  in  1743  : 

"  1722.  Mary  Allen  was  burned  at  Stephen's  Green  for 
drowning  one  of  St.  James's  parish  children." 

At  this  period,  and  subsequently,  the  Green 
appears  to  have  been  a  favourite  locality  for  exe- 
cutions, for  on 


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"  Feb.  14th,  1732,  Captains  Moony  and  Magwick  were 
executed  at  Stephen's  Green  for  enlisting  men  for  foreign 
service." 

W.F. 

CHURCH  USED  BY  CHURCHMEN  AND  ROMAN  CA- 
THOLICS. —  Some  years  ago  I  visited  a  friend  who 
resided  near  Winchester,  and  in  one  of  our  excur- 
sions I  was  shown  a  very  peculiar  church.  It  was 
divided  in  the  centre  by  an  iron  railing,  and  I  was 
informed,  that  one  part  was  used  by  the  Roman 
Catholics,  and  the  other  by  the  Protestants,  for 
divine  worship.  Perhaps  one  of  your  correspond- 
ents can  give  me  the  name  of  the  village,  and  can 
state  whether  there  are  other  instances  of  churches 
being  so  appropriated.  N.  H.  R. 

CLUB. —Would  DR.  CHANCE  (3rd  S.  i.  294) 
carry  his  researches  a  little  further,  and  inform 
me  anent  the  derivation,  &c.  of  "  to  club  a  regi- 
ment on  parade,"  a  general  military  phrase  for 
throwing  a  regiment  when  manoeuvring  into  in- 
extricable confusion  ?  EBORACUM. 

BRIAN  BURY  COLLINS,  son  of  John  Collins, 
painter,  and  Elizabeth  Jane  (Bury)  his  wife,  was 
born  17  June,  1752,  in  the  parish  of  St.  Michael, 
Stamford.  After  being  educated  by  Mr.  Head 
near  Richmond,  in  Yorkshire,  he  was  admitted 
a  sizar  of  S.  John's  College,  Cambridge,  8  Feb. 
1771,  his  father  having  then  been  dead  above 
twelve  years.  He  was  B.A.  1776,  and  M.A.  1780. 
George  Dyer  (Life  of  Robert  Robinson,  p.  125), 
terms  Mr.  Collins  a  person  of  great  worth,  an 
elegant  poet,  and  a  popular  preacher.  Additional 
information  respecting  him  is  desired  by 

C.  H.  &  THOMPSON  COOPER. 

Cambridge. 

'  DEAF  AND  DUMB  LITERATURE.  —  Can  you  or 
any  of  your  readers  give  me  information  where  to 
look  for  the  earliest  account  of  systematic  efforts 
to  teach  the  deaf  and  dumb  ?  Also  what  authors, 
English  and  foreign,  have  written  upon  the  sub- 
ject ?  Any  hints  relating  to  the  past  or  present 
condition  of  these  afflicted  people  will  be  accepta- 
ble to  your  reader.  A.  M.  Z. 

EUCHRE.  —  Can  you  or  any  of  your  corre- 
spondents give  any  information  as  respects  the 
origin  of  this  mysterious  word,  or  of  the  invention 
of  the  game  of  cards  of  which  it  is  the  name  ?  The 
game  of  Euchre  is  the  most  popular  card-game 
played  in  the  United  States  of  America,  into  which 
country  it  is  supposed  to  have  been  introduced  by 
the  early  German  settlers  of  the  State  of  Pennsyl- 
vania. E.  A. 

EDWARD  IV.  —  Authorities  are  very  conflicting 
as  to  the  time  of  the  birth  of  this  king,  ranging 
between  1441-2-3.  Can  any  correspondent  oblige 
'    me  with  the  reference  to  any  trustworthy  docu- 
ment of  the  period  as  to  the  real  fact  ? 

JAMES  GILBERT. 

2,  Devonshire  Grove,  Old  Kent  Road,  S.  E. 


FAMILIES  OP  FIELD  AND  DE  LA  FELD  OB  DELA- 
FIELD.  —  Can  anyone  give  me  information  tend- 
ing to  prove  that  the  family  of  Field,  anciently 
written  Feld,  are  descended  from  the  De  la  Felds. 
I  may  mention  that  the  arms  of  the  De  la  Felds 
of  Audley,  co.  Hereford,  are  sable,  three  garbs 
argent,  being  the  same  as  those  of  the  Fields  ex- 
cept that  the  latter  bear  a  chevron.  Also,  that 
in  the  adjoining  counties  of  Herefordshire  and 
Gloucestershire,  and  in  Hertfordshire,  where  the 
Felds  and  Fields  were  mostly  found  in  the  fif- 
teenth and  sixteenth  centuries,  at  an  earlier  date 
the  De  la  Felds  were  numerous.  To  name  one 
case :  I  find  that  Thomas  de  la  Felde  was  por- 
tionary  of  Bromyard,  co.  Hereford,  A.D.  1311; 
and  that  in  1565,  Roger  Field  was  patron  of  Aven- 
i  bury  church,  which  stands  on  the  right  side  of 
Bromyard  Brook,  in  1565. 

Lastly,  in  Rudder's  History  of  Gloucestershire 
it  is  stated  that  the  estates  of  Thomas  Field  of 
Parkenhall  in  that  county,  who  died  in  1510, 
passed  to  John  de  la  Field  Phelps,  Esq.,  of  Dur- 
sley.  I  have  never  met  with  the  name  Feld 
earlier  than  .1400,  except  with  the  prefixes.  O. 

GHOST  STORIES.  —  In  the  numerous  stories  of 
persons  appearing  at  the  time  of  their  death  to 
friends  separated  from  them  by  distance,  has  the 
difference  of  the  hour  ever  been  taken  into  ac- 
count? I  think  not;  yet  a  person  dying  at  noon 
in  England  would,  if  his  spirit  instantly  visited 
his  friend,  appear  at  New  York  about  7  A.M. 

MONK  FAMILY.  —  Can  any  of  the  readers  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  give  any  information  respecting  the 
Monk  family  and  the  Herveys,  who  married  into 
the  Monk  family  ? 

King  Charles  II.  granted  General  George  Monk 
a  pension  of  7000Z.  per  annum,  with  the  estate  of 
New  Hall,  in  Essex  (and  his  heirs  for  ever),  for 
his  services.  General  George  Monk,  Duke  of  Al- 
bemarle,  &c.,  died  in  1669,  and  was  succeeded  ia 
honours  and  estate  by  his  son  Christopher,  who 
married  Elizabeth,  eldest  daughter  of  Henry  Earl 
Ogle,  son  and  heir-apparent  of  William  Cavendish, 
Duke  of  Newcastle. 

The  Duke  of  Alberaarle,  son  of  General  Monk, 
&c.,  died  in  Jamaica  in  1688.  The  estate  de- 
scended to  his  wife,  on  whom  he  had  settled  it,  he, 
the  Duke,  having  died  without  issue.  She  after- 
wards espoused  Ralph,  Duke  of  Montague,  and 
before  the  decease  of  the  Duckess  her  heirs  sold 
the  reversion  of  the  Lordship  and  the  estates 
thereunto  belonging. 

How  could  the  Duchess  of  Montague  (though 
she  had  a  life  interest  in  the  property)  allow  hei 
heirs  to  sell  the  reversion  of  the  estate,  no  relatives 
of  the  Monk  family  ?     Who  is  now  receiving  the 
pension  which  was  granted  to  General  Monk  ai 
his  heirs  for  everf    Where  is  the  government 


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[3rd  S.  I.  MAY  31,  '62. 


office  where  information  can  be  obtained  as  to  th 
original  grant,  the  limitations  or  contingencies  o 
the  same?  Christopher,  Duke  of  Albemarle 
dying  without  issue,  would  not  the  heirs  of  hi 
sister,  Frances  Monk,  daughter  of  General  Monk 
succeed  to  the  pension  and  estates  ?  BLANCHE. 

NEVISON  THE  FREEBOOTER.  —  Can  any  of  you 
readers  inform  me  of  the  birth-place  of  this  famou 
robber,  whom  Charles  II.  nicknamed  "  Swif 
Nick."  In  Yorkshire  it  is  asserted  to  be  Upsall 
near  Thirsk,  and  a  good  farm  house  is  still  stand- 
ing there  called  Nevison  House,  with  two  hu 
iron  shoes  let  into  the  walls.  A  cottage  hard  1 
is  called  "  Nick's  Home."  I  can  find  no  entry  in 
the  parish  register  of  Upsall ;  the  only  names 
mentioned  are,  "1711,  Elizabeth,  ye  dau.  of  Mr 
Will.  Nevesson,  bapt.  Nov.  7.  1720,  Mr.  Will 
Nevinson,  gent.  bur.  March  26."  Wort-ley,  Pon- 
tefract,  and  Knaresborough,  also  lay  claim  to  be 
his  birth-places.  The  legend  of  the  famous  ride 
to  York  by  Nevison  was  in  existence  long  before 
Dick  Turpin's  birth,  though  Ainsworth,  in  Rook* 
wood,  gives  the  latter  the  fame  of  it.  Any  inform- 
ation about  Nevison  will  be  thankfully  received  ? 

EBORACUM. 

OVERTON  CUM  TABLET,  HANTS. — Can  the  Editor 
of  "N.  £  Q.,"  or  any  of  his  numerous  readers, 
supply  me  with  a  list  of  the  vicars,  rectors,  and 
curates  of  this  parish?  Information  respecting 
them,  or  any  of  them,  will  much  oblige.  D.  B. 

PLURALITY  OF  BENEFICES.  —  Has  the  Clergy 
List  existed  in  its  present  form  for  forty  years  ? 
If  not,  what  is  the  title  of  the  book  which,  forty 
years  ago,  gave  similar  information  ? 

And  will  any  of  your  correspondents  who  has 
access  to  such  a  book  of  that  date  give  me  a  list  of 
the  livings  held  by  a  certain  Reverend  William 
Williams  ? 

A  Leicestershire  man  told  me  the  other  day, 
that  forty^  years  ago  in  his  county  there  was  a  man 
named  William  Williams  who  held  twenty  different 
livings  in  all  parts  of  the  kingdom.  My  enquiry 
is  (if  the  number  twenty  was  not  a  fi-rure  of 
speech),  what  were  these  livings  and  where  situ- 
ated  ?  VRYAN  RHEGED. 

"  THE  SCHOOL  OF  IMPROVEMENT,"  two  juvenile 
dramas,  18mo,  with  plates,  was  announced  in 

19.     Was  the  book  published,  and  who  was  the 

author?  R.INGLIS. 

Glasgow. 

YARWELL,  OR  YARWHELP.  —What  bird  is  thus 
designated?  Bewick  (vol.  ii.  p.  78,  1804)  in  de- 
scribing the  Godwit,  gives  as  synonyms  "  God- 
wyn,  1  arwhelp,  or  Yarwip  ;"  but  "in  the  Appendix 
o  Ihe  Washington,  where  so  many  interesting 
extracts  from  the  Althorp  Household-books  occur" 
I  nnd  Godwits  and  Yarwells  entered  as  different 


birds.  At  p.  xiii.  there  are  payments  for  "  Yar- 
wells 1  dozen  and  11,  Dotterills  8,  God  wits  3;" 
and  at  p.  xv.  "  for  4  dozen  of  Godwitts,  and  for  2 
Yarwells."  JAYDEE. 


"  THE  DIABOLIAD."  —  Perhaps  some  of  your 
literary  correspondents  can  render  information 
concerning  the  unavowed  authorship  of  The  Dia- 
boliad,  a  metrical  satire  that  appeared  in  the  year 
1777.  The  poem  is  dedicated  to  the  worst  man 
in  his  majesty's  dominions ;  and  its  close  applica- 
tion to  the  characters  indicated  rendered  it 
extremely  popular.  By  internal  evidence  I 
should  attach  its  production  to  Thistlewaite,  the 
friend  of  Chatterton.  Its  caustic  style  and 
scenical  construction  bear  a  marked  resemblance 
to  the  Consultation  of  that  author,  which  was  pub- 
lished in  Bristol,  and  applied  to  local  characters. 
Thistlewaite  removed  to  London  about  the  date 
of  the  publication  of  the  The  DiaboUad,  which 
fact  may  strengthen  the  probability  of  his  being 
the  author.  JOHN  TAYLOR. 

[  The  DiaboUad  is  by  William  Coombe,  Esq.,  the  well- 
known  author  of  The  Tour  of  Dr.  Syntax  in  Search  of 
the  Picturesque.  (Vide  Gent.  Mag.  Aug.  1823,  p.  185,  and 
May,  1852,  p.  467.)  This  work  originally  excited  great 
attention  in  the  fashionable  world,  and  appeared  in  Two 
Parts,  the  second  of  which  is  far  inferior  to  the  first.  It 
is  thus  noticed  by  Horace  Walpole :  "  There  is  another 
scurrilous  poem  [  ?  Part  n.]  by  the  author  of  The  Diabo- 
Uad. It  is  particularly  hurled  at  the  heads  of  the  Hert- 
fords.  The  writer  is  supposed  to  be  a  Captain  Coombe, 
whose  title  to  the  office  of  censor-general,  is  having  been 
guilty  of  forgery;  and  to  be  executioner,  to  having 
married  a  common  woman,  who  was  kept  by  Lord  Beau- 
champ.  Are  not  we  an  exemplary  people?"  (Letters, 
edit.  1857,  vi.  430.)  Again,  "  I  heard  t'other  day  of  the 
World  as  it  Goes,  a  poem  published  last  spring,  but  which 
t  had  never  seen.  It  is  by  that  infamous  Coombe,  the  au- 
thor of  The  DiaboUad."— Ib.  vii.  262.] 

"  AFTER  MEAT — MUSTARD." — What  is  the  origin 
and  meaning  of  this  proverb,  used  by  Lord  Pal- 
merston  in  a  recent  debate  ?  CARL  B. 

[We  have  always  understood  this  proverb  as  referring 
x>  anything  which  comes  too  late.  The  mustard  is 
brought,  but  not  till  the  dinner  is  over.  So  in  Greek  MST* 
xoXtfAw  -/}  <rvfA[jux,%ioe,.  Post  bellum  auxilium,  When  the 
war  is  over  our  allies  appear  on  the  field.  Erasin.  Adag., 
ed.  1643,  p.  637.  So  in  English,  "After  death  the  doc- 
tor." (Bohn's  Hand- Book  of  Proverbs,  pp.  84,  306.) 
There  are  other  proverbs,  or  proverbial  phrases,  to  the 
same  effect.] 

CHELSEA  ORIENTAL  CHINA.  — Will  any  of  those 
readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  who  are  curious  in,  and  col- 
ective  of,  Chelsea  china,  inform  me  if  any  porce- 
ain  of  the   oriental   character   issued   from  the 
manufactory ;  and  if  so,  what  are  its  peculiarities? 

C. 
[Mr.  Marryat,  in  his  valuable  History  of  Pottery  and 


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NOTES  AND  QUE1UES. 


Porcelain,  Mediaeval  and  Modern,  in  which  will  be  found 
a  very  interesting  account  of  the  China  Manufactory  at 
Chelsea,   tells  us,  at  p.  277,  "  The  early  specimens  of 
Chelsea  were   painted  closely  to  resemble  the   Chinese  j 
porcelain,"  and  adds  in  a  note,   "  When    the    French  ] 
manufacturers  of  Vincennes  in  1740,  complained  of  the  | 
injury  which  resulted  to  their  fabrics  from  the  Chelsea  i 
porcelain,  they  probably  meant  the  Oriental,  which  was 
painted  and  decorated  at  Chelsea.    An  embossed  oval 
with  a  raised  anchor  upon  it,  and  the  anchor  with  the 
cross,  are  supposed  to  be  the  earliest  marks." — See  Mar- 
ryat,  285,  &c.,  for  other  marks.] 

CAT  ICE,  OR  CAT'S  ICE.  —  A  very  thin  coat  of 
ice  floating  on  the  surface  of  water  is  called  by  this 
name  in  Buckinghamshire  and  the  neighbouring 
counties.  What  is  the  origin  of  the  phrase  ? 

A.  A. 

Poets'  Corner. 

[Cat-ice,  according  to  Wright,  is  a  Northamptonshire 
term  for  "  ice  from  which  the  water  has  receded."  Cat's 
ice  has  in  Kent  the  same  signification.  The  expression 
may  be  allusive,  referring  to  the  boyish  amusement  of 
placing  on  the  ice  a  cat  shod  with  walnut-shells  —  of 
course  not  very  amusing  to  the  cat.  Ice  unsafe  for  the 
boys  might  serve  for  the  cat,  and  hence  be  called  "  cat's 
ice."  Or  "  cat's  ice  "  may  be  catch  ice,  from  its  dangerous 
character.  Or,  again,  it  may  bear  the  same  meaning,  but 
from  a  different  source.  The  old  word  cazzo  (pronounced 
catzo)  signified  in  Italian,  when  employed  as  descriptive 
of  character,  merely  "an  honest  simpleton."  But  in 
passing  into  our  language  the  term  lost  its  innocence ; 
and  in  old  English  we  had  catso,  a  rogue,  "  borrowed 
from  the  Italians,"  says  Nares,  "  by  ignorant  travellers, 
who  probably  knew  not  its  real  meaning."  From  catso, 
in  this  roguish  sense,  might  be  formed  "  cat's  ice,"  that 
is,  treacherous  ice;  in  short,  ice  that  will  let  you  in.'* 
Mica,  a  mineral  of  which  the  colour  is  often  a  silver- 
white,  was  formerly  called  cat-silver.  Nomenclator.~\ 

Low  SUNDAY.  —  I  should  feel  much  obliged  if 
any  of  your  numerous  readers  would  tell  me  the 
origin  and  meaning  of  Low  Sunday,  the  Sunday 
after  Easter;  it  is  purely  an  English  term.  In 
Germany  it  is  called  "White  Sunday,"  in  the 
Missal  "  Dominica  in  albis ;  "  in  French  "  Le  Di- 
manche  de  Quasimodo;"  but  why  Low  Sunday 
I  cannot  understand.  Nor  can  it  be  in  contrast 
to  the  higher  festival  of  Easter,  as  we  have  no 
difference  in  the  service,  with  the  exception  of  the 
proper  prayers ;  while  in  the  Catholic  Church 
there  may  be  a  difference  in  the  festival,  but 
nothing,  so  far  as  I  can  learn,  to  apply  the  term 
Low  Sunday.  H.  L. 

[On  Low  Sunday  it  was  formerly  the  custom  to  repeat 
only  some  part  of  the  service  used  on  Easter  Day.  From 
this  cause  it  took  the  name  of  Low  Sunday,  being  cele- 
brated as  a  feast,  though  of  a  lower  degree  than  Easter 
Day  itself,  which  is  emphatically  a  high  day  — the  Queen 
of  Festivals.  (Hook,  Procter,  Wheatly,  and  Mant.)  This 
day  has  also  been  called  White,  or  Low  Sunday,  because, 
in  the  primitive  Church,  the  neophytes  who  on  Easter 
Eve  were  baptized  and  clad  in  white  garments,  did  to- 
day put  them  off;  and  the  epithet  low  alluded  to  new- 
ness of  life ;  they  were  expected  to  be  low  (lowly),  hum- 
ble, &c.  (Brand*)  May  we  not  add  a  third  conjecture? 
In  the  interval  between  Our  Lord's  death  and  His  ascen- 
sion, the  Apostles  and  first  believers,  although  the  Saviour 


after  His  resurrection  did  occasionally  visit  His  "  little 
flock,"  apnear  to  have  been  in  a  depressed  and  low  con- 
dition. The  crucifixion  had  disappointed  those  expec- 
tations which  they  had  evidently  formed,  respecting  the 
re-establishment  of  the  Jewish  monarchy  under  the  head- 
ship of  the  Messiah ;  and  on  the  day  of  the  resurrection 
we  find  two  of  them  saying,  as  if  in  a  complaining  tone. 
"  We  trusted  that  it  had  been  He  which  should  have  re- 
deemed Israel,"  not  duly  sensible  that  Oar  Lord  had 
already  effected  the  true  redemption  of  Jew  and  Gentile 
by  His  sufferings  and  death.  Nor  even  at  a  later  period 
do  the  first  believers  appear  to  have  been  wholly  dis- 
abused as  to  their  expectation,  so  natural  to  them  as 
Jews,  of  a  temporal  kingdom.  The  short  interval  be- 
tween Ascension  Day  and  Whit-Sunday,  indeed,  was  pro- 
bably a  more  joyous  period ;  and  is  called  "  Expectation 
Week "  (though  less  than  a  week),  because  the  Early 
Church  was  then  cheered  by  the  hope  and  expectation  of 
the  Comforter.  And  in  the  same  way  the  octave  after 
Easter  Day  may  be  called  Low  Sunday,  as  a  day  of  some 
depression  and  despondency.  The  Holv  Evangelists  re- 
cord several  distinct  appearances  of  Our  risen  Lord  on 
Easter  Day;  but  on  the  Sunday  following  only  one;  and 
that,  it  appears,  paid  chiefly  with  the  benignant  pur- 
pose of  rebuking  an  Apostle's  imperfect  faith.] 

ANONYMOUS.  —  Can  any  of  the  readers  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  give  me  the  name  of  an  anonymous 
translator  of 

"The  Argonautic  Expedition  of  Apollonius  Rhodios 
into  English  Verse,  with  Critical,  Historical,  and  Ex- 
planatory Remarks,  and  Prefatory  Essays,  with  a  large 
Appendix,  inscribed  to  the  Duke  of  Marlboroogh,  in 
2  vols.  small  8vo.  London,  printed  for  Thomas  Payne 
and  Son,  at  the  Mews  Gate,  St.  Martin's,  and  Robert 
Faulder,  New  Bond  Street,  1780  "? 

W.  B.  Phil.  Dr. 

[By  Edward  Burnaby  Greene,  Esq.,  a  gentleman  well 
known  in  the  regions  of  Parnassus.  —  Vide  Gent.  Mag. 
voL  Iviii.  part  L  p.  276.] 


EDMUND  BURKE. 
(?'  S.  i.  374.) 

MB.  HAVILAND  BURKE'S  assertions  and  assump- 
tions as  to  other  people's  motives  and  feelings  are 
irrelevant  to  the  questions  at  issue.  As,  however, 
MR.  BURKE  writes  as  one  having  authority  —  as 
"  the  representative  of  the  great  man  "  Edmund 
Burke,  "my  illustrious  ancestor"— I  must  of 
necessity  test  the  value  of  his  evidence  as  against 
the  information  of  other  people,  even  of  an  anony- 
mous correspondent ;  for  your  readers  might  ex- 
pect from  this  relationship  some  special  information 
of  tradition,  or  of  a  fact  Let  us  then  consider 
this  question  as  one  of  probability. 

MR.  HAVILAND  BURKE'S  great  grandmother  was 
Edmund  Burke's  sister.  Edmund  Burke  was 
born  in  Dublin,  where  his  father  was  a  practi 
attorney.  His  sister  was  baptised  at  Castletown 
Roche,  county  of  Cork;  and  there  brought  up  by 
her  grandfather.  Edmund,  whose  health  was 
delicate,  was  for  a  time  at  Castletown :  not  long 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  MAY  31,  '62. 


I  infer,  as  he  was  taught  to  read  by  his  mother, 
and  we  find  him,  at  eight  years  of  age,  at  school 
in  Dublin;  whence  he  was  removed  to  Bali- 
tore,  county  of  Kildare,  and  there  remained  till 
he  entered  Trinity  College,  Dublin;  where  he 
took  his  degree  in  1748,  and  thence  came  to  the 
Inner  Temple,  London ;  where  he  had  been  en- 
tered twelve  months  before,  in  April  1747.  From 
that  time,  says  Prior,  "  circumstances  tended  to 
keep  up  little  more  than  an  epistolary  correspon- 
dence between  them."  I  doubt,  indeed,  if  they 
ever  met  more  than  twice  during  their  long  re- 
maining lives ;  and  we  know,  from  Burke's  own 
letters,  that  when  she  died,  in  1790,  Tie  had  not 
seen  her  for  four-and-twenty  years.  This  lady 
married  a  Mr.  French,  of  the  county  of  Galway  ; 
and  on  her  death  I  believe,  Miss  French,  their 
daughter,  was  invited  to  Beaconsfield.  She  mar- 
ried a  Major  Haviland,  who  soon  after  died  in  the 
West  Indies.  On  Edmund  Burke's  death,  in  1797, 
Mrs.  Haviland  was  invited  to  reside  with  Burke's 
widow,  and  did  so  until  within  a  short  period  of  the 
death  of  Mrs.  Burke ;  who  left  oOOOl.  to  Mrs.  Havi- 
land, the  rest  of  her  property  to  her  own  family — 
the  Nugents  ;  but  the  MS.  papers  of  her  late  hus- 
band to  Earl  Fitzwilliam^  the  Bishop  of  Rochester, 
and  the  Right  Hon.  William  Elliot.  Some  time 
after  Mrs.  Haviland's  death,  her  son,  then  only 
twenty-two  years  of  age,  applied  for  and  obtained 
license  to  take  the  name  of  Burke.  This,  the 
first  of  the  name,  died  in  1852,  while  your  corre- 
spondent was  a  boy  at  school.  Under  these  cir- 
cumstances, I  cannot  see  how  MR.  HAVILAND 
BURKE  is  likely  to  be  better  informed  as  to  the 
early  history  of  Edmund  Burke  than  other  people, 
or  than  an  anonymous  correspondent. 

I  will  now  proceed  to  consider  what  little  MR. 
HAVILAND  BURKE  does  tell  us  on  authority,  not 
on  evidence,  about  the  purchase  of  Gregories. 
"  Happily,"  he  writes,  "  /  am  able  to  set  at  rest  all 
questions  on  this  point.  Edmund  Burke  contracted 
to  purchase  the  estate,  mansion,  and  furniture  of 
Gregories,  Beaconsfield,  for  about  20,OOOJ.  Of 
this  he  paid  nearly  6000Z.  in  cash  :  the  remaining 
14,000/.  being  raised  by  two  mortgages  —  one  for 
10,400Z.,  and  the  other  for  3600Z." 

This  story  is  clear  and  circumstantial ;  but  what 
then  is  to  become  of  all  the  friendly  biographers,  and 
all  the  trumpeting  about  the  nobleness  and  gene- 
rosity of  the  Marquis  of  Rockingham,  which  has 
been  sounding  in  the  public  ear  for  more  than 
half  a  century  ?  Dr.  Bisset  told  us  that  **  the 
whole  price  was  twenty-three  thousand  pounds." 
Arid  to  meet  the  public  questioning  as  to  how 
Burke  obtained  the  money,  he  thus  wrote.  The 
best  authenticated  account,  is,  "  that  the  Marquis 
of  Rockingham  advanced  10,OOOJ.  on  a  simple 
bond,  never  intended  to  be  reclaimed ;  that  Dr. 
Saunders,  of  Spring  Gardens,  advanced  5,OOOZ. 
secured  on  mortgage.  It  is  certain  that,  at 


Dr.  Saunders's  death,  a  mortgage  on  Burke's 
estate  was  found  by  the  executors  for  that  sum, 
and  that  the  principal  was  considerably  increased 
by  arrears  of  interest."  Why,  the  Doctor  is  as 
circumstantial  as  MR.  HAVILAND  BURKE  !  And  yet 
both  stories  cannot  be  true.  "  How  the  remaining 
8,0007.  was  procured,"  the  Doctor  admits  he  could 
not  explain.  Here  Sir  James  Prior  comes  to  our 
assistance  :  "  A  great  part  [of  the  purchase 
money]  undoubtedly  was  his  own,  the  bequest  of 
his  elder  brother.  The  remainder  was  to  have 
been  raised  upon  mortgage;  when  the  Marquis 
of  Rockingham,  hearing  of  his  intention,  volun- 
tarily offered  the  loan  of  the  amount  required  to 
complete  the  purchase  "  ;  which  purchase,  he  tells 
us,  cost  Burke  "  above  20,OOOZ.  increased"  —  and 
this  on  the  authority  of  Burke's  own  letters,  by 
his  being  "  obliged  to  take  the  seller's  collection 
of  pictures  and  marbles." 

Here  are  contradictions  enough ;  but  if  MR. 
HAVILAND  BURKE'S  revelation,  made  just  a  cen- 
tury after  the  purchase,  be  true,  how  can  it  be 
reconciled  with  known  and  proveable  facts  ?  Thus 
Burke  swore  (ante  3rd  S.  i.  221,)  that,  "  in  order 
to  make  and  accomplish "  this  purchase,  he  had 
occasion  for  a  considerable  sum  of  money,  which 
he  believed  was  6,OOOZ.,  and  which  he  borrowed 
from  a  friend  who  voluntarily  offered  to  lend 
it  to  him.  Why,  if  he  gave  20,OOOZ.  for  the 
property  —  as  MR.  HAVILAND  BURKE  asserts  — 
then  he  wanted  twenty  thousand  to  pay  for  it : 
for  that  he  borrowed  6,OOOZ.,  is  as  certain  as 
anything  can  be  that  relates  to  Burke ;  and 
MR.  HAVILAND  BURKE  says  that  he  borrowed 
14,000?.  on  mortgage  ;  so  that  his  "  illustrious  an* 
cestor"  bought  the  property  without  having  a 
shilling  to  pay  for  it  —  and  with  a  noble  mansion 
on  it  which,  as  we  are  told  by  the  county  his- 
torian, had  "  at  a  little  distance  the  dignity  of  a- 
Royal  residence  in  miniature,  by  the  similitude 
to  Queen  Charlotte's  palace,  called  Buckingham 
House."  I  leave  the  reader  to  consider  whether 
MR.  HAVILAND  BURKE  has  "  happily  set  the  ques- 
tion at  rest." 

Here  I  would  willingly  take  my  leave;  but 
MR.  HAVILAND  BURKE  observes,  that  J.  R.  T.'s 
assertion,  that  "  the  stories  told,  or  hinted  at,  by 
the  biographers  about  this  Chancery  suit  [with 
Lord  Verney]  have  not  been  to  the  credit  of 
Burke,  is  like  some  other  of  his  incidental  state- 
ments, made  without  any  authority  whatever." 

My  attention  having  been  thus  drawn  to  the 
exact  form  of  expression,  I  see  with  regret  that 
it  admits  of  misconstruction.  The  biographers 
(Bisset  and  Prior)  are  blind  eulogists  of  ^Burke, 
and  defend  him  against  all  objections  or  objectors; 
yet  a  defence,  of  necessity,  includes  some  refer- 
ence to,  or  hint  at,  the  charges  themselves.  The 
only  real  difference  between  your  correspondent 
and  Mr.  HAVILAND  BURKE  is,  or  ought  to  be  — 


S'd  S.  I.  MAY  31,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


431 


Were  the  public  satisfied  with  Burke's  conduct 
in  the  trial  with  Lord  Verney  ?  Let  us  hear  what 
Dr.  Bisset  says  ;  who,  as  he  was  living  at  the  time, 
is  presumptively  the  best  authority  :  — 

**  About  this  period  Burke  was  Defendant  in  a  Chan- 
cery suit,  in  which  Lord  Verney  was  Plaintiff.  It  was 
alleged  by  Lord  Verney  that  Burke,  his  brother,  and 
cousin,  had  been  engaged  with  him  in  a  stock-jobbing 
speculation,  by  which  very  great  loss  had  been  incurred ; 
that  Lord  Verney  was  the  ostensible  man,  and  had  been 
obliged  to  make  out  the  engagements;  that  Edmund 
Burke,  being  the  only  one  of  the  rest  who  had  any  pro- 
perty, Verney  had  applied  to  him  to  defray  his  share  of 
the  debt.  On  refusal,  he  filed  a  Bill  against  him  in 
Chancery  claiming  Burke  as  his  partner.  Burke  making 
affidavit  that  he  was  not,  the  matter  was  of  course  con- 
cluded in  Burke's  favour.  A  great  clamour  arose  against 
Burke  for  clearing  himself  in  this  manner ;  but  a  positive 
oath  of  a  man  of  character  is  certainly  better  evidence 
than  any  vague  rumour." 

,  This  is  sufficient  for  my  purpose ;  but  I  will 
add,  that  Sir  James  Prior  hints  at  —  delicately, 
but  distinctly  —  "some  degree  of  misrepresenta- 
tion having  prevailed  upon  the  subject."  And  a 
contemporary  (Remarks,  SfC.,  on  the  Preface,  fyc., 
of  Laurence  and  King,~)  says  :  — 

"  It  has  been  confidently  and  repeatedly  asserted  that 
the  various  members  of  the  Burke  family  had  been  con- 
nected in  a  stock -jobbing  adventure  with  the  late  Earl 
Verney,  which  was  the  ruin  of  that  nobleman,  though  of 
great  advantage  to  Mr.  Burke's  connexions." 

I  shall  not,  on  this  occasion,  inquire  into  the 
truth  or  probability  of  these  charges ;  it  is  suffi- 
cient for  my  present  purpose  to  show  that,  with 
reference  to  this  chancery  suit,  stories  were  told 
or  hinted  at  by  the  biographers,  not  to  the  credit 
of  Burke,  that  the  public  were  not  satisfied  with 
Burke's  conduct  towards  Lord  Verney,  or  with 
his  defence  on  the  Chancery  suit,  and  therefore  I 
desired  to  know  what  were  the  facts.  J.  R.  T. 


THE  DYING  SPEECHES  AND  PRAYERS  OF 

THE  REGICIDES. 

(3rd  S.  i.  384.) 

The  assertion  in  Dr.  Bliss's  letter  to  Mr.  Thomas 
Grenville,  that  these  Speeches  and  Prayers  "are 
all  forgeries,"  has  rather  surprised  me.  Dr.  Bliss's 
authority  is  always  entitled  to  respect,  but  where 
is  the  evidence  for  so  sweeping  an  assertion  ?  It 
is  not  found,  certainly,  in  the  trial  of  the  printers 
(State  Trials,  edit.  1810,  vi.  513)  :  an  occasion 
when  so  material  a  point  against  them  was  not 
likely  to  have  been  neglected  by  L'Estrange,  or 
Chief  Justice  Hyde.  On  the  contrary,  it  seems 
to  have  been  an  admitted  fact,  at  a  time  when  the 
truth  could  not  fail  to  be  known,  that  however  it 
might  be  challenged  on  the  score  of  sedition  or 
disloyalty,  the  report  was  at  all  events  not  a  false 
one.  Again,  if  we  compare  them  with  their  un- 
doubted°writings — take  those  of  Hugh  Peters  for 
instance — the  internal  evidence  is,  as  it  appears 


to  me,  all  in  their  favour.  The  only  writer  of 
any  importance,  if  I  may  call  him  so,  that  occurs 
to  me,  who  has  thrown  doubt  upon  the  authen- 
ticity of  these  Speeches  and  Prayers,  is  the  violent 
and  unscrupulous  author  of  Regicides  no  Saints 
nor  Martyrs,  1700,  8vo ;  and  whom  White  Ken- 
nett  has  copied  in  his  Chronicle.  The  arguments 
this  writer  has  alleged,  in  proof  of  his  opinion,  arc, 
"  that  many  times  in  relating  what  they  spake  or 
pray'd,  'tis  ushered  in  with  that  common  salvo,  to 
this  effect";  and  that  it  cannot  be  imagined  "how 
anyone,  unless  truly  inspired  —  not  a  Fanatick 
Pretender,  whose  memories  are  generally  as  weak 
as  their  judgments— should  carry  off  such  abomin- 
able presumptions  and  religious  delusions."  That 
in  some  instances  the  report  of  what  was  said 
might  be  corrected,  or  supplemented,  from  the 
notes  prepared  by  the  speakers,  is  possible  enough ; 
but  this  does  not  impugn  the  general  authenticity 
and  bond  fide  character  of  the  printed  report. 
And  though  the  government  had  no  short-hand 
writers  to  take  down  the  speeches  at  the  execu- 
tion of  the  regicides,  as  they  had  taken  care  to  have 
at  their  trials,  it  by  no  means  follows  that  the 
friends  of  the  dying  men,  who  looked  up  to  them 
as  martyrs,  did  not  adopt  that  precaution  for 
perpetuating  their  testimony.  But  even  without 
short-hand  I  see  no  difficulty,  judging  from  many 
contemporary  reports  of  Sermons,  Lectures,  &c., 
which  I  have  seen,  and  which  are  in  unabbre- 
viated characters,  and  were  taken  on  the  spot, 
in  arriving  at  the  conclusion,  that  every  word 
which  is  given  in  the  published  report,  might  be 
taken  down  with  sufficient  correctness  as  it  stands. 

JAS.  CROSSLBT. 


THE  FAIRFAXES  OF  BARFORD. 

(3rd  S.  i.  370.) 

By  a  curious  error,  .Bradford  is  written  for  Bar- 
ford  —  a  village  near  Warwick.  In  a  somewhat 
scarce  book,  entitled  — 

«  Hi<t  n«At/T«/J/«f ;  or,  a  Discourse  concerning  the  Having 
Many  Children.  In  which  The  Prejudicet  against  a 
Numerous  Offspring  are  removed.  And  the  Objections 
Answered,  'in  a  Letter  to  a  Friend.  London.  8vo, 
1695,"  — 

is  to  be  found  an  account  of  the  Fairfax  family  of 
|  Barford.  At  p.  84,  we  find  the  following  raen- 
i  tion  of  this  family  :  — 

«  And  though  it  be  not  on  a  Marble  Monument  (which 

!  yet  it  deserves),  yet  in  the  best  Records  the  Parish  hath, 

i  is  the  Memory  preserved  of  the  Numerous  family  of  Mr. 

Richard  Fairfax  of  Barford,  in  the  County  of  Wffvfcft. 

1  Not  that  his  immediate  children  were  so  many ;  but  with 

Himself  he  could  number  in  the  tame  Houte  F< 
I  scents,  all  at  once  alive.     So  that  whereas  other.  « 
!  usually  count  their  single  Children  in  order  w  they  w 
!  born:  This  is  my  Eldest  Son,  and  so  onwards ;  hej™*« 
i  reckon  thus,  This  is  my  Eldest  Generation ;  my 
i  This;  That  my  Third;  and  all  these  in  w  perfec 


432 


NOTES- AND  QUERIES. 


L  MAY  31,  '62. 


manner,  that  the  Father,  Grandfather,  and  Great-Grand- 
father were  all  conjugally  pair'd,  and  not  one  of  them  twice 
married ;  all  living  moat  lovingly  together,  in  very  good 
Credit  and  Plenty.  The  thing  being,  in  all  its  Circum- 
stances, perhaps  not  any  where  to  be  match'd.  The  late 
Reverend  Rector  of  the  Place,  Mr.  Thomas  Dugard,  was 
so  affected  with  it,  as  to  put  it  into  this  Epigram  ;  which 
you,  I  dare  say,  will  not  blame  if  it  be  subjoin'd  here :  — 

*  Quartus  in  JEtheriam  Fairfaxius  editur  auram, 

Patris,  Avi,  Proavi,  gaudia  Magna  sui. 
Hos  tegit  Una  Domus,  cum  terna  Uxore  Maritos ; 

Unaque  alit  lautis  Mensa  benigna  cibis. 
Non  magis  unanimes  norunt  haec  Secula  Mentes ; 

Est  bis  corporibus  Mens  velut  una  tribus. 
Totque  ex  Conjugibus  bis  Vinc'la  jugalia  nemo 

Nexuit ;  et  nemo  nexa  soluta  cupit. 
More  Columbarum  Isetatur  conjuge  conjux; 

Deseruit  rugas  nee  juvenilis  amor. 
Hisce  tribus  Paribus  Barfordia  jure  superbit; 

Nam  par  his  Paribus  quis  locus  alter  habet?  ' 

"  Englished  by  the  Reverend  Dr.  Ford,  thus :  — 

« Fourth  Fairfax,  who  on  Earth's 'Stage  now  appears, 
Sire,  Grandsire,  and  Great-Grandsire  jointly  cheers. 
These  Three  one  House  doth  lodge,  one  Table  feed ; 
And  each  his  Partner  hath  at  Board  and  Bed. 
So  closely  all  in  mutual  Love  conjoin'd, 
Th'  whole  Six  seem  acted  by  one  single  Mind. 
And  none  e'er  had  or  wished,  on  either  side, 
A  Second  Husband,  or  a  Second  Bride. 
But  Turtle-like,  preserv'd  their  Love's  chaste  Flame, 
From  smooth-fac'd  Youth  to  wrinkled  Age  the  same. 
In  Three  such  Pairs  boast,  Barford,  till  there  be 
A  Place  for  Three  like  Pairs  found  like  to  Thee.'  " 

The  author  of  this  work  was  the  Rev.  Samuel 
Dugard,  a  native  of  Warwick,  and  son  of  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Dugard,  rector  of  Barford,  near  War- 
wick.* The  author  was  Fellow  of  Trinity  Col- 
lege, Oxford,  and  Prebendary  of  Lichfield.  He 
died  at  Forton,  in  Staffordshire  ;  of  which  place  he 
was  rector  in  1697. 

Camden,  in  the  Britannia,  mentions  Samuel 
Fairfax,  born  in  1647  ;  who,  at  twelve  years  of 
age,  formed  one  member  of  this  family.  And 
Ireland,  in  his  Avon,  p.  150,  says  :  — 

"  Neither  the  longevity,  nor  domestic  happiness  of  this 
extraordinary  family,  could  avert  the  ill-fortune  that 
pursued  the  last  male  branch  of  it  to  Warwick  gaol  a  few 
years  since ;  where  he  lingered  and  died  for  a  debt  con- 
tracted by  a  shopkeeper  in  his  village,  for  whom  he  was 
surety." 

A  Miss  Fairfax,  however,  a  spinster1  of  a  cer- 
tain^ age  and  the  lineal  descendant  of  this  ancient 
family,  is  now  living  at  Barford,  proud  of  the 
good  name  of  her  numerous  ancestors ;  and, 
standing  alone  in  a  field  in  the  midst  of  the  same 
village,  is  an  old  many-gabled  house,  said  to  have 
been  their  residence  for  many  generations. 

HENRY  BLENKINSOP. 

Warwick. 

*  See  Wood's  Athena  Oxonienses,  edit.  Bliss,  vol.  iv. 
p.  679. 


GRAY'S  "ELEGY"  PARODIED. 
(2nd  S.  xii.  128  ;  3rd  S.  i.  112,  197.) 

In  addition  to  the  parodies  mentioned  by  your- 
self and  your  correspondent  DELTA,  I  send  you  a 
copy  of  one  written  by  Sir  William  Young,  some- 
time Governor  of  the  Island  of  Tobago,  where  he 
died  in  1815. 

I  am  not  aware  that  it  has  ever  been  printed, 
and  therefore  the  transcript  may  be  interesting  to 
DELTA,  and  others  of  your  correspondents. 

"THE  CAMP. 

"A  PARODY  ON  CRAY'S  'ELEGY  IN  A  COUNTRY 
CHURCHYARD.' 

"  The  ev'ning  gun  declares  the  day  is  spent : 

The  drum's  tattoo  and  fife's  responsive  glee 
Each  soldier  bids  retire  to  his  tent, 
And  leave  the  world  to  sentries  and  to  me ! 

"  Now  o'er  the  camp  scarce  gleams  the  twilight  ray, 
And  all  is  hush'd  throughout  the  whiten'd  plain, 
Save  in  the  rear  occurs  some  wanton  fray, 
Or  from  the  mess-room  sounds  a  jovial  strain. 

"  Save  that  from  yonder  cliff,  where  breaks  the  wave, 

The  pickets  challenge  strangers  seen  below; 
And  such  as  pass,  nor  countersign  may  have, 
'Till  morn,  in  rear,  or  quarterguard  bestow. 

"Beneath  the  cloud-rob'd  moon  where  lowly  rise 
Those  tents,— in  each,  the  measure  of  a  grave, 
Five  crowded  vet'rans  close  their  lowr'ing  eyes ; 
Such  is  the  bed  of  Honour — and  the  Brave ! 

"  'Tis  but  one  shot,  and  each  no  more  may  hear 
The  loud  reveillee  greet  the  op'ning  morn ; 
No  more  the  angry  adjutant  shall  fear, 
Or  haste  for  guard  his  person  to  adorn : 

"  No  more  for  him  shall  Kate  the  soup  prepare 

With  verdant  cresses,  and  wild  marjoram  sweet ; 
No  more  with  him  the  soldier's  ration  share, 

Or  Sunday's  walk,  or  pay-day's  welcome  treat. 
"  Oft  in  the  embattled  field,  he'd  danger  face ; 
As  oft  returning  with  his  constant  Kate : 
How  jocund  then  the  sun-burnt  pair  embrace, 
How  quaff  their  nut-brown  ale,  and  smile  at  fate! 

"  Let  not  the  agent  of  their  dues  beguile, 

Or  mulct  the  comforts  of  the  veteran  band, 
Nor  peaceful  tenants  of  this  happy  Isle 
Neglect  the  men,  who  fought,  and  saved  their  land ! 

"  The  patriot's  speech, — the  gentle  courtier's  place, — 

And  all  that  power  can  give,  or  flattery  get, 
Await  alike  some  paragraph  to  grace : 
The  grant  of  honours  leads  to  the  Gazette ! 

"  Despatches  ne'er  record  the  soldier's  name; 

Senates  vote  thanks  to  armies  in  the  mass ! 
Yet  may  each  soldier  have  a  separate  claim, 
And  noblest  service  may  unheeded  pass ! 

"  Perhaps  within  that  canvas  cell  may  rest 

Some  genius  formed  for  stratagems  and  war ; 
Some  partizan  that  might  have  taken  Brest, 
Or  engineer,  to  plan  it,  from  afar ! 

"  But  them  no  military  school  inform'd, 

No  schemes  of  war  did  show,  no  tactics  teach ; 
They  knew  not  why, — they  yet  the  fortress  storm'd ! 
They  knew  not  how,— -they  got  within  the  breach! 


3'd  S.  I.  MAY  31,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


433 


«  Full  many  a  child  of  nature  and  of  love, 

Known  to  no  parent,  thro'  the  world  doth  stray  • 
Full  many  a  star  which  makes  the  heaven  above  ' 

Doth  gleam  unnoticed  in  the  milky  way. 
«<  Perhaps  some  village  NELSON  may  be  there,— 
For  star  and  ribbon,  with  a  Corporal's  knot ; 
Perhaps  the  tent  some  private  veterans  share, 

Worthy  the  gallant  LAKE'S  high  honor'd  lot ! 
"To  wield  Britannia's  thunders  o'er  the  main, 

To  lead  her  warlike  troops  with  vengeful  arm, 
Her  laws  with  temper'd  wisdom  to  sustain, 
To  rule  her  councils,  and  avert  th'  alarm, 
"  Their  lot  forbade !  nor  yet  alone  did  bar 

The  rise  of  genius,  but  the  growth  of  crime ; 
Forbade  to  make  a  shameful  trade  of  war, 

And  manage  contracts  in  a  foreign  clime ! 
"  The  claims  of  rival  merit  to  suppress, 

The  better  thus  to  make  their  own  appear : 
The  tale  of  victory  with  art  to  dress, 

And  gain  by  garbled  truths  their  Sovereign's  ear ! 
"  Yet—  e'en  the  humble  veteran  to  raise, 

Tradition  gives  the  story  and  the  song; 
Rude,  yet  alluring,  are  the  notes  of  praise, 

That  cheer  the  march,  and  urge  the  line  along ! 
"  Look,  gentle  stranger,  on  that  parchment  roll ; 

Their  names  thou'lt  read— for  thou  canst  read— they 

say; 

Their  humble  virtues  too — the  nether  scroll 
In  simple  truth  and  language  doth  display : 

"  « Ne'er  did  they  leave  their  arms  to  rust  a  spoil : 

Ne'er  vilely  barter  shirts  or  shoes  for  gin ; 
Ne'er  skulk  their  duty— or  refuse  their  toil; — 

Ne'er  feign  a  tale  to  take  their  captain  in.' 
"  Tho'  far  from  glory's  summit,  and  the  meed 

Of  mighty  actions,  wide  recording  fame, 
Yet,  for  their  country,  were  they  proud  to  bleed, 

Whilst  brother  soldiers  praised  a  soldier's  name. 
"  For  who  to  coward  infamy  a  slave, 

Fled  e'er  untimely  from  the  well-fought  day  ? 
E'er  left  his  foe  the  laurel  of  the  brave, 

Nor  felt  one  willing,  warlike  wish  to  stay? 
"  On  some  fond  love  proud  honour  still  relies, 

Some  praise  from  Nancy  still  the  heart  requires ! 
E'en  when  in  glory's  field  the  soldier  dies, 
E'en  from  the  cottage  glowed  his  martial  fires. 

"  For  thee, — who  ask'st  the  soldier's  humble  worth, 
Who  waits  this  evening's  chill  in  solemn  mood, 
Haply  his  comrades  say — « He  trod  this  earth 
With  love  and  honor,  for  the  wise  and  good. 

"  '  His  mien  was  careless,  and  his  manners  gay, 
Yet  now  he'd  sudden  knit  the  pensive  eye ; 
And  now  with  folded  arms,  he'd  musing  stray, — 
Then  smile  and  pass  the  gloom  of  fancy  by ! 

"  'Of  late  we  mark'd  him  on  the  trim  parade 

With  hair  loose-tied,  nor  shoes,  nor  gaiters  clean ; 
But  yester  morn  we  saw  him  slowty  tread 
From  yonder  hut, — at  noon  too  was  he  seen; — 

"  '  The  evening  came — nor  at  his  tent  was  he, — 

Nor  on  parade  was  seen  the  gentle  lad ; — 
The  night  crept  on  and  shadow'd  o'er  the  lea, — 
And  Laura  wept,  and  Damon's  heart  was  sad ! 

11 '  The  morrow  saw  him  borne  on  sable  bier ; 

His  sword  and  helmet  o'er  the  corpse  were  spread; 
The  grave  and  merry  gave  him  each,  a  tear : 
And  e'en  the  Muse, — there,  last  sad  honours  shed.' 


"  EPITAPH. 

«  Kind  was  the  youth,— and  honest  too, 

Who  rests  his  head  beneath  this  stone  • 
For  most  he  felt  another's  woe, 

And  most  the  faults  that  were  hi«  own. 
"  The  sage's  lesson, —poet's  theme,— 

Alternate  filled  his  raptured  mind ; 

But  happiest  was  his  fancy's  dream, 

Of  friend  that's  true,  and  love  that's  kind ! 
"  Nor  seek  now  further  to  disclose 

Or  aught  of  frailty,  or  of  worth ; 
The  God  of  Battles  either  knows,  — 
His  trumpet's  sound  shall  call  them  forth! " 
WILLIAM  JAMES  SMITH. 


MAJOR-GEN.  DIXON  (3rd  S.  i.  372.)  — In  reply 
to  M.  S.  R.,  I  send  the  following  copy  of  an  entry 
in  the  Register  of  Burials  of  my  parish  church  : — 

"Burials,  1793. 

"  NoV  7.  Matthew  Dixon,  Esqr,  Major-General  of  the 
Royal  Engineers.  —  JAMES  NEWCOMBE." 

J.  LINCOLN  GALTON, 
Incumbent  of  S.  Sidwell's,  Exeter. 

COVEED ALE'S  BIBLE  (3rd  S.  i.  406.) — Your  cor- 
respondent appears  to  be  in  error  as  it  regards 
this  book,  in  supposing  it  to  be  Coverdale's.  I 
consider  it  to  be  a  reprint  of  Tyndale's  Bible, 
Eot  Coverdale's.  I  am  well  aware  that  there  is 
an  edition  of  Tyndale's  Bible,  1537,  in  quarto, 
but  where  printed  is  unknown.  My  Coverdale's 
Bibles  are  printed  in  1535,  1536,  1537,  in  folio 
and  quarto;  also  by  Froschover  at  Zurich,  1550, 
and  the  same  edition  is  republished  in  1553. 
These  editions  by  Froschover  are  the  most  com- 

>n.  This  is  the  series  of  Coverdale  as  yet 
discovered.  The  quarto  1537  of  Coverdale  may 
be  known  by  its  having  the  Apocrypha  printed  in 
a  series  connecting  the  historical  books  at  the  end 
of  Esther,  and  not  at  the  end  of  the  Old  Testa- 
ment, as  is  usually  the  case.  It  also  has  prefixed 
to  each  of  the  books  a  large  initial  letter,  con- 
taining in  it  some  part  of  the  Dance  of  Death.  If 
in  these  respects  it  differs,  then  I  suppose  it  to  be 
not  Coverdale's,  but  Tyndale's  Bible,  an  exactly 
similar  volume  in  quarto,  1537,  usually  supposed 
to  be  printed  at  Antwerp,  although  under  the 
name  of  St.  Thomas's  Hospital,  Southwark. 

I  beg  to  suggest  to  E.  A.  D.  that  he  be  par- 
ticularly careful  in  his  collation  of  this  book.  If 
he  will  furnish  me  with  the  particulars  Priv***fct 

will  examine  the  different  editions.    The  Book 
f  Esther  ends  on  page  230,  and  the  Apocrypha 
commences  on  the  reverse  of  230.     The  initial 
etter  has  Death  drawing  away  the  Fool;    the 
ame  initial  is  also  found  in  the  Book  of  Joshua 
and  in  the  Book  of  Judges.    The  title  to  the  New 
Testament  is,  "  The  New  Testament  faythfully 
ranslated  and  lately  correcte  by  Myles  Cover- 
ale."     Quotations  from  Mark  xvi.  and  Romans  i 

am  much  mistaken  if  there   la   not  a  New 


434 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  L  MAY  31,  '62. 


Testament  the  same  size,  by  Tyndale,  but  of  a 
very  different  translation,  in    Canterbury  Cathe- 
dral Library.  GEORGE  OFFOR. 
Grove  Street,  South  Hackney. 

FITZWILLIAM  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  348.)— In  reply 
to  MR.  HARDMAN'S  second  and  fourth  Queries,  I 
beg  to  offer  the  following  remarks  :  — 

2nd.  The  pedigree  and  account  of  the  Irish 
Fitzwilliams  may  be  found  in  any  good  "  Genea- 
logical Peerage  "  previous  to  1833 — say  Sharpe's, 
3  vols.,  12mo,  1830.  It  was  not  the  last  peer  who 
founded  the  "Fitzwilliam  Library,"  but  Richard, 
the  7th  Viscount,  who  died  in  1816. 

4th.  In  reference  to  the  marriages  of  the  junior 
branches  of  the  Fitzgeralds,  between  1700  and 
1800,  I  have  been  able  to  collect  only  the  fol- 
lowing :  — 

I.  Younger  children  of  James,  1st  Duke  of 
Leinster : 

1.  Emilia  Maria  Margaret,  married,  1774,  Charles 
Coote,  Earl  of  Bellamore.     Title  now  extinct. 

2.  Charles  James,  created  Baron  Ardglass,  1800, 
married,   1808,  Julia,  relict  of  T.  Carton ;    died 
without  issue,  1810. 

3.  Charlotte  Mary  Gertrude,  created  Baroness 
Rayleigh,    1811;    married,    1789,    John  Holden 
Strutt,  Esq.,  of  Terling  Place,  in  Essex,  and  has 
issue. 

4.  Henry,  born  1761  ;  married  Charlotte,  Baro- 
ness de  Ros. 

5.  Edward,  born  1763  ;  married  Pamela,  nat.- 
daughter  of  the  Duke  of  Orleans,  by  whom  he 
had  issue  : 

a.  Edward  Fox,  born  1794 ;  married,  1827, 
Jane,  daughter  of  Sir  John  Dean  Paul. 

1).  Pamela,  born  1795  ;  married,  1820,  Sir 
Guy  Campbell,  Bart. 

c.  Lucy,  born  1798;  married,  1825,  Capt.  G. 
F.  Lyon,  R.N. 

6.  Robert  Stephen,  born  1765  ;  married,  1792, 
Sophia,  daughter  of  Capt.  C.  Fielding,  R.N. ;  and 
has  issue. 

7.  Lucy   Anne,   born    1778 ;    married,    1802, 
Admiral  Sir  T.  Foley,  G.C.B. 

II.  Younger  children  of  William  Robert,  2nd 
Duke  : 

1.  Mary  Rebecca,  born  1777;  married,  1790, 
Lieut. -Gen.  Sir  C.  Ross,  Bart. 

2.  Emily  Elizabeth,  born  1778;  married,  1801, 
J.  J.  Henry,  Esq.,  of  StrafTan.      And  others  who 
married  in  1805,  1806. 

I  believe  the  above  to  be  a  full  reply  to  MR. 
HARDMAN'S  fourth  Query.  CHESSBOROUGH. 

Harbertonford. 

GILBERT  WAKEFIELD'S  "  RANJE  CANOR^"  (2nd 
S.  xii.  503.)  — -  The  author  of  the  Letter  to  the 
Rt.  Hon.  Spencer  Perceval  described  a  book  which 
he  had  either  not  seen  or  very  cursorily  examined. 


The  full  title-page  will  show  that  he  intended 
Rana  Cornices  Evangelizantes,  or  the  Comic  Frogs 
turned  Methodist.  London  :  printed  for  E.  Mack- 
lew,  No.  9,  Hay  market,  1786.  It  is  void  of  wit, 
and  has  no  sign  of  learning  beyond  a  quotation 
of  seven  lines  from  the  Rana.  There  is  no  "adap- 
tation "  of  Aristophanes,  but  a  frog- chorus  of 
fifty-four  lines  of  bad  verse,  followed  by  thirty- 
four  pages  of  worse  prose.  The  whole  is  ^dull, 
dirty,  and  profane,  and  not  like  anything  which  I 
have  read  of  Gilbert  Wakefield's.  The  following 
lines  will  vindicate  his  memory ;  for,  though  his 
attempts  to  improve  upon  Pope  showed  that  he 
was  not  a  poet,  he  could  not  have  written  down  to 
these :  — 

"  Happy  lot  of  Lubber-land, 

There  reside  a  chosen  band. 

Pious  folks  who  ne'er  did  bend  the  knee 

To  cavelling  Philosophy; 

Nor  e'er  did  seek  the  sinful  tents 

Of  Hume  or  sceptic  common-sense ; 

But  to  the  parson's  eyes  implicitly, 

Trusting  with  Christian  simplicity, 

Swallowed  the  angel- smelling  ass, 

And  bolted  whale  that  swallowed  Jonas."— P.  11. 

FlTZHOPKINS. 

Garrick  Club. 

GREENE,  OF  WARE,  HERTFORDSHIRE  (3rd  S.  i. 
371.)  —  I  have  a  volume  of  Poems  and  Hymns  by 
me  composed  by  Thomas  Greene,  of  Ware,  Hert- 
fordshire, 1780  ;  who,  possibly,  was  of  this  ancient 
family  of  the  Greenes.  The  Hymns  first  appeared 
in  Dr.  Dodd's  Christian  Magazine,  1764,  before 
they  were  collected  into  the  above  volume.  I 
have  been  told  that  Thomas  Greene  was  a  farmer 
at  Ware.  This  book  reached  a  second  edition  in 
1802  ;  which  I  also  have,  as  well  as  Dr.  Dodd's 
Christian  Magazine  in  eight  volumes. 

DANIEI  SEDGWICK. 

Sun  Street,  City. 

AMERICAN  CENTS  (3rd  S.  i.  255.)— I  beg  to  give 
a  description  of  some  of  the  above  coins  in  my 
possession,  that  are  not  mentioned  by  SAMUEL 
SHAW  in  his  reply  to  CHARLES  CLAY,  M.D. 

In  addition  to  most  of  the  coins  he  mentions,  I 
have  cents  with  the  following  types  :  — 

1.  The  letters  U.  S.  A.   in  a  monogram,   on  a  plain 
ground.    Rev.  13  bars.     This  coin  is  extremely  rare,  one 
having  been  sold  lately  at  Philadelphia,  U.  S.,  for  21.  or 
10  dolls. 

2.  Head  of  Liberty  to  the  right,  with  a  bow  or  knot 
behind ;  1797  in  exergue.     Rev.  "  One  Cent "  in  laurel 
wreath  ;  ^  in  exergue,  "  United  States  of  America."   A 
duplicate  of  this  coin  sold  at  the  above  sale  for  21.  12s., 
or  13  dolls. 

3.  A  rather  scarce  £  cent,  with  head  of  Liberty  to  the 
right ;  a  cap  behind,  "  LIBERTY  "  over ;  1793  in  exergue. 
Rev.  As  last  coin,  but  with  ^±-  in  exergue. 

MR.  SHAW  does  not  mention  the  Massachusetts 
cent,  which  has  on  the  obverse  an  eagle,  with  a 
shield  of  arms  of  the  United  States  on  its  breast. 


3'd  s.  I.  MAY  31,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


43.3 


"Massachusetts,"  1788.  Rev.  An  Indian,  with 
bow,  &c.  "  Commonwealth." 

Perhaps  some  of  your  correspondents  can  give 
me  some  information  relative  to  three  coins  that 
I  have  lately  added  to  my  collection: — 1st.  A 
large  silver  medallion  of  Faustina,  Sen.,  with  her 
bust  in  very  high  relief:  "  FAVSTINA  .  AVG  .  AN- 
TONINI  .  AVG  .  PII  ML."  Rev.  The  Empress  sacri- 
ficing on  a  small  altar,  five  women  attending ;  a 
kind  of  temple  behind.  S.  C.  in  exergue.  I  have 
examined  various  works  on  numismatics,  but  can 
find  no  mention  of  this  medal.  Query.  Is  it  pub- 
lished, or  unique?  2nd.  A  silver  coin,  the  size  of 
the  Saxon  silver  pennies.  Obv.  The  Saviour 
seated  on  a  throne ;  IE  to  the  left,  and  xi  to  right 
of  head.  Rev.  Two  saints  holding  a  banner,  with 
o  E  H  in  a  perpendicular  line  :  "  S.  Odonvs  "  on 
left,  and  "  S.  Micael"  to  the  right.  This  coin  is 
evidently  of  the  early  Mediaeval  Period";  and  I 
wish  to  know  to  what  monarch,  nation,  and  date 
to  assign  it?  3rd.  Rather  smaller  than  last  coin  : 
Shield,  with  two  dragons  rampant,  party  per  pale ; 
"  DVX  .  BRABANTIB."  Rev.  Long  cross,  with  pel- 
lets in  three  of  the  angles,  an  annulet  in  the 
fourth  :  "  MONETA  .  LOVAN  .  M  .  M  ." — a  Maltese 
cross. 

If  any  of  your  talented  correspondents  can  give 
me  any  information  as  to  the  above,  I  shall  feel 
extremely  obliged.  C.  B.  JEEVES. 

•Greenwich. 

AGE  OF  NEWSPAPERS  (3rd  S.  i.  [287,  351.)— 
What  a  "battle  of  the  Standard"  some  of  your  cor- 
respondents have  engaged  in !  May  I  be  allowed 
to  strike  a  blow  in  defence  ?  Taking  my  stand 
on  Mr.  Mitchell's  Newspaper  and  Press  Directory, 
let  me  try  MR.  GILBERT'S  strength  first :  — 

1.  "London  Gazette,  established  November  7th 
(not  14th),  1665." 

2.  "Morning  Chronicle,  1770"  (not  1769). 

3.  "  Times,  1788,  1st  January";  at  all  events, 
Tinder  its    present  name,   which   MR.   GILBERT 
admits. 

4.  "Felix  Farley's  BristolJournal,"  born  1735 
(not  1715)  ;  married  to  Bristol  Times,  1853. 

5.  "  Caledonian  Mercury,  established  in  1660 ; 
first  a  day  paper  in  1722."     See  its  own  adver- 
tisement. 

Secondly,  G.  W.  M.  may  be  right  about  the 
date  of  the  Nottingham  Journal;  which  he  says 
should  be  1716,  Mr.  Mitchell  says  1710. 

Thirdly,  J.  MACRAY  will  find  that  the  pro- 
prietors of  the  Caledonian  Mercury,  in  their  ad- 
vertisement referred  to  above,  commence  thus  : 
"  This  journal,  which  is  the  oldest  in  Great  Bri- 
tain," &c. 

The  object  of  MR.  STEVENS'S  Note  was  to  test 
the  accuracy  of  the  dates  as  given  by  The  Stan- 
dard. This  paper,  no  doubt,  derived  these  dates 
from  the  Press  Directory.  I  do  not  undertake  to 
offer  an  opinion  as  to  which  of  the  accounts  is 


correct :  that  given  by  The  Standard  and  Mr. 
Mitchell,  or  that  of  your  correspondents.  Mr. 
Mitchell's  sources  of  information,  however,  I 
should  imagine  are  to  be  depended  on.  Surely 
the  question  of  the  Caledonian  Mercury  requires 
looking  into :  MESSRS.  GILBERT  and  MACRAX  al- 
leging, doubtless  on  good  authority,  that  it  was 
born  in  1720;  whereas  its  own  advertisement 
claims,  as  the  eras  of  its  two  phases,  1660  and 

1722.  ClIESS  BOROUGH. 

Harbertonford. 

CECILY  (3rd  S.  i.  369.)— The  genealogy  of  Cicely 
of  Raby,  wife  of  Richard,  Duke  of  York,  and 
mother  of  Edw.  IV.  and  Richard  III.,  with  the 
date  and  proof  of  her  will,  will  be  found  in  Sur- 
tees'  Durham,  vol.  iv.  pp.  159,  161. 

She  was  the  youngest  of  twenty-one  children, 
and  familiarly  styled  "  The  White  Kose  of  Raby," 
in  allusion  to  her  private  character,  as  well  as  to 
the  distinguishing  colour  of  the  Yorkists  in  the 
Wars  of  the  Roses.  The  novel,  with  that  title, 
published  in  1794,*will  interest  R.  W. 

H.  M.  VAN*. 

LENGTHENED  TENURE  OF  CHURCH  LIVINGS 
(3rd  S.  i.  109,  179.)— The  Rev.  Chas.  Isham,  rec- 
tor of  Polebrook,  Northamptonshire,  who  died  on 
the  17th  March,  1862,  at  the  age  of  eighty-six, 
had  been  rector  of  Polebrook  for  the  unusually 
long  period  of  sixty-two  years,  having  been  in- 
stituted to  the  living  in  the  year  1800.  But  what 
makes  his  case  a  very  remarkable  one,  if  not  alto- 
gether unprecedented,  is  this  :  his  household  con- 
sisted of  a  lady  housekeeper  and  five  indoor 
servants,  and,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  they  had 
lived  with  him  at  Polebrook  Rectory  for  the  fol- 
lowing periods :  — 
Lady  housekeeper  -  -  -  23  years. 

Cook 30$    „ 

Housemaid         -        -        -        -    24      „ 
Kitchenmaid      -        -        -        -     1 1       „ 

Butler 31      „ 

Coachman  -  -  -  -  34  „ 
This  remarkable  list  speaks  as  much  for  the 
late  rector  of  Polebrook  as  it  does  for  his  ser- 
vants ;  and  in  these  days,  when  domestic  servant* 
change  their  "  masters  and  raissusses  "  as  readily 
as  sheep  change  their  pastures,  it  reads  like  a 
record  of  past  days  that  are  never  more  to  be 
recalled.  CUTHBBRT  BBDI. 

ENNISKILLEN  AND  ROSSE  ARMS  (3rd  S.  i.  309.)— 
The  coat,  borne  by  Sir  John  Cole  of  Newland,  and 
his  son,  Lord  Ranelagb,  is  given  in  Lodge's  Peer- 
age of  Ireland,  published  1754,  in  the  heraldic 
terms  used  for  peers,  as  — Pearl,  a  bull  passant, 
diamond  armed  and  unguled,  gold,  within  a  bor- 
der of  the  second  bezantee.  In  a  dexter  canton, 
sapphire,  a  golden  harp  with  silver  strings. 

In  heraldic  terms,  applicable  to  the  armorial 


436 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[8"»  S.  I.  MAY  31,  '62. 


coats  of  Commoners,  the  arms  would  be  described 
thus:  Argent,  a  bull  passant,  within  a  border 
sable,  charged  with  eight  bezants ;  on  a  dexter 
canton,  az.  a  harp,  or,  stringed  arg. 

In  Burke's  Peerage  for  1861,  the  arms  are  as 
above  ;  but  he  does  not  state  whether  the  canton 
is  on  dexter  or  sinister  side.  I  apprehend,  when 
no  place  is  named,  the  dexter  side  is  always  meant. 
The  paternal  coat  of  the  Parsons'  family,  Earls 
of  Kosse,  is,  Gules,  three  leopards'  faces,  two  and 
one,  or.  The  present  Earl  bears  that  coat.  Your 
correspondent's  difficulty  is  caused  by  the  fact, 
that  when  Laurence  Harman  Parsons  was  created 
Baron  of  Oxmantoun  and  Earl  of  Rosse,  in  1792 
(with  remainder  to  his  nephew,  the  then  Baronet 
of  Birr  Castle),  he  assumed  the  name  and  arms  of 
Harman,  of  which  family  his  mother  was  heir : 
and,  consequently,  the  peerages  gave  as  his  arms, 
Sable,  a  chevron  between  three  rams,  passant,  or, 
being  the  arms  of  Harman.  On  the  death  of 
Laurence  Harman  Parsons,  Earl  of  Rosse,  in  1807, 
his  half-nephew,  Sir  Laurence  Parsons  of  Birr 
Castle,  Baronet,  succeeded  to  the  title,  but  not  to 
the  Harman  fortune ;  and,  therefore,  he  did  not 
assume,  as  the  late  peer  had  done,  the  arms  of 
Harman  ;  but  kept  his  own  ancestral  coat  of  Gules, 
three  leopards'  faces,  two  and  one,  or. 

However,  subsequent  peerages  improperly  con- 
tinued the  Harman  arms  to  this  nobleman,  hence 
the  confusion  created  on  the  subject.  Reference 
to  any  peerage  will  show  that  the  senior  line  of 
the  Parsons'  family  (ennobled  first  in  the  year 
1681,  and  extinct  in  the  year  1764,)  always  bore 
their  ancestral  coat :  Gu.,  three  leopards'  faces,  or. 
It  was  the  1st  Lord  Rosse  of  the  second  creation, 
in  1792,  who  was  heir  to  his  mother,  who  took  for 
his  life  her  arms  ;  which  were  laid  aside  by  his 
successor  in  the  earldom,  Sir  Laurence  Parsons,  of 
Birr  Castle,  Bart.,  and  the  incorrect  peerages 
assigned  to  the  latter  the  Harman  arms. 

CONNECTION. 

LEIGHTON  (3rd  S.  i.  188.)— Can  your  correspon- 
dent inform  me  which  of  the  several  coats  of  arms 
that  he  has  enumerated  was  borne  by  Sir  Thomas 
Leighton,  the  Captain  of  Guernsey ;  who  was  at 
the  siege  of  Rouen,  in  1591  ? 

Is  there  any  portrait  of  Sir  Thomas  Leighton 
known  to  be  in  existence  ?  P.  S.  CAREY. 

WIGS,  A  SORT  or  CAKE  (3rd  S.  i.  387.)  —  Cakes 
called  "wigs "were  very  commonly  sold  in  the 
Midland  Counties  some  years  ago ;  and  they  are 
even  mentioned  as  allowable  at  the  collation  in 
Lent  by  a  Catholic  writer,  nearly  two  centuries 
ago.  I  remember  them  well ;  they  were  light  and 
spongy,  and  something  like  very  light  ginger- 
bread. As  to  the  derivation  of  the  name  "  wig," 
as  applied  to  them,  I  never  dreamed  of  seeking  it 
anywhere  but  in  the  shape  of  these  cakes,  which 
greatly  resembled  a  wig ;  being  round,  and  having 


a  thick  rim  round  them,  which  turned  up  like  the 
curls  of  a  wig  of  the  olden  times.  F.  C,  H. 

AUDOMARUS  TALJEUS,  alias  OMER  TALON  (3rd  S. 
i.  389.)— He  was  a  native  of  Picardy,  and  a  great 
friend  of  the  celebrated  Peter  Ramus,  on  whose 
Dialectics  he  wrote  a  commentary.  He  died  at 
Paris  in  1562.  An  account  of  him,  under  the 
name  of  Omer  Talon,  is  to  be  found  in  the  Bio- 
graphic  Unwerselle.  'AAiefo. 

Dublin. 

CONGERS  AND  MACKEREL  (3rd  S.  i.  248,  332.) — 
The  extract  given  by  MR.  MACCULLOCH,  from  the 
Placitorum  Abbreviatio,  appears  to  give  the  result 
of  the  proceedings  in  quo  warranto  referred  to  in 
my  former  communication.  As  far  as  I  can  col- 
lect from  the  Report  in  the  Year  Book,  the  point 
of  law  decided  by  the  court  was  a  very  singular 
one.  If  I  understand  it  rightly,  the  point  was 
that  upon  a  quo  warranto  brought  to  try  by  what 
right  certain  dues  were  levied,  if  the  defendant 
pleaded  that  he  levied  them  by  virtue  of  a  fran- 
chise, and  it  was  replied  that  they  were  levied 
by  oppression  of  the  people,  the  quo  warranto  fell 
to  the  ground ;  and,  in  the  instance  before  us, 
the  consequence  appears  to  have  been  that  the 
claim  was  allowed.  I  may  observe  that  the  state- 
ment made  on  the  authority  of  Warburton, 
that  King  John  was  the  first  who  imposed  a  duty 
on  congers,  appears  to  be  at  variance  with  the 
case  set  up  by  the  abbot,  who  alleges  in  his  plea 
that  the  duty  on  congers  had  existed  from  time 
immemorial.  This  is  a  point  of  some  interest ; 
for  if  there  was  in  fact  a  duty  on  congers  before 
the  time  of  King  John,  the  solution  given  by 
MR.  MACCULLOCH,  of  the  point  of  natural  history, 
would  lose  much  of  its  probability.  XAVIER. 

FONTENELLE      AND      THE      JANSENISTS      (2nd      S. 

xi.  48.)  —  Is  not  "  Fontenelle  "  a  slip  of  the  pen 
for  Fenelon  ?  The  former  had  no  quarrel  with 
Bossuet,  nor  was  he  ever  banished  from  the  court, 
or  likely  to  be  suspected  of  any  decided  religious 
tendency.  To  the  latter,  I  believe,  Jansenism 
and  everything  likely  to  make  him  disagreeable  at 
court  were  imputed.  E.  N.  H. 

COINS    INSERTED    IN    TANKARDS    (3rd  S.  i.  277.)     | 

OLD  MEM.  appears  desirous  of  obtaining  inform- 
ation on  the  practice  of  inserting  coins  and  medals 
in  dishes,  plates,  tankards,  cups,  &c.  I  beg  to  in- 
form  him  I  have  a  silver  patch  box,  the  lid  of 
which  is  formed  of  a  medal  struck  in  commemora-  ] 
tion  of  the  coronation  of  Queen  Anne. 

H.  D'AVENEY. 

FAMILY   OF  ISLEY  (3rd  S.  i.  400.)— Possibly 
L.  P.  might  find  notices  of  the  above  name  at  the 
City  Record  Office,  Fetter  Lane,  in  a  MS.  volume    i 
containing  Transactions   connected  with  Barba-    j 
does  about  1660.     The  MS.  in   question  is  in-    j 
terestinsr.  SPAL. 


3rd  S.  I.  MAY  31,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


ORIENTAL  WORDS  (3rd  S.  i.  365.)— Is  your  cor 
respondent  aware  that  the  seeds  of  the  Abrus 
precatonus  are  used  for;  carat- weight  by  jeweller 
in  Northern   and  Western  Africa,  and  also  i 
India?  SPAL. 

UNSUCCESSFUL  PRIZE  POEMS  (3rd  S.  i.  58.)— 
If  it  be  thought  worth  recording,  I  can  give  G 
another  distich  of  the  unsuccessful  poem  on  Ne 
buchadnezzar  he  mentions.    I  believe  it  to  b 
genuine :  — 

"Nebuchadnezzar  ate  unwonted  grass, 
With  horned  cattle,  and  the  long-eared  ass." 

PELAGIUS. 

CORPS  HUMAIN  PETRIFIE  (3rd  S.  i.  370.) A 

petrified  corpse  was  discovered  in  Hathersa^e 
churchyard  in  Derbyshire,  of  which  the  following 
is  a  description,  copied  verbatim  from  a  letter  in 
the  possession  of  the  son  of  the  gentleman  to 
whom  it  was  addressed  :  — 

"  Carrhead,  Hathersage, 

"  9th  Dec.  1789. 
"Dear  Sir,— 

"  By  your  request  I  send  you  as  particular  account 
as  possible  relating  to  the  corpse  of  Mr  Benjn  Ashton 
he  was  interred  the  29*  Decr,  1725,  in  the  forty-seconc 
year  of  his  age  (very  corpulent),  and  was  taken  up  May 
31*,  1781.  His  coffin  was  of  oak  boards,  inch  and  half 
thick,  and  as  sound  as  when  laid  in  the  ground ;  as  they 
lay  over  head  in  water,  men  were  set  to  lade  water  all 
night  for  to  keep  it  down  while  the  corpse  was  laid 
in  the  ground  again.  The  coffin  being  opened,  his 
body  was  found  entirely  in  the  same  posture  as  when 
laid  in,  only  with  this  difference,  that  it  was  congealed 
as  hard  as  flint.  His  breast,  belly,  and  face  were  swarthy, 
but  when  turned  over,  his  back  and  all  the  parts  that 
lay  under  was  nearly  of  the  same  color  as  when  put 
into  the  coffin  at  first.  His  Head  was  broke  off  with 
taking  him  out  of  the  coffin,  but  was  put  in  again  as  near 
the  same  posture  as  possible.  This  is  as  minute  account 
as  I  can  give  you. 

"  From  your  obed'  humble  Serv*, 

"HENRY  IBBOTSON. 

«ToM*  N C , 

"Edale." 

In  a  memorandum  at  the  foot  of  the  letter  it  is 
said  that  Henry  Ibbotson  was  believed  to  be  clerk 
of  Hathersage  church.  The  above  circumstance 
I  find  recorded  by  the  Rev.  D.  P.  Davies  in  his 
History  of  Derbyshire,  pp.  670  and  671. 

JOHN  PARKIN. 
Idridgehay,  near  Wirksworth. 

TORY  (3rd  S.  i.  390.)  —  Although  De  Foe  says 
that  the  word  Tory  was  first  used  in  Ireland  at 
the  time  of  Queen  Elizabeth's  war,  I  do  not  think 
that  this  term  came  into  use  until  the  time  of  the 
Commonwealth,  when  it  may  have  originated  thus  : 
The  Irish,  to  signify  their  loyalty,  as  opposed  to 
the  republicans,  may  have  called  themselves  7\tath- 
righ,  i.  e.  the  people  of  the  King,  or  the  king's 
people;  and  as  their  pronunciation  of  the  two 
words  would  resemble  toa-rie,  the  term  may  have 
teen  so  derived.  Tuath,  in  its  various  forms  of 
spelling,  seems  to  be  the  same  word  as  Teuton, 


and,  as  signifying  a  people  or  sept,  IB  the  begin- 
ning of  many  local  denominations  in  Ireland. 

As  the  word  in  question  was  subsequently  an- 
plied  in  scorn  to  the  royalist  party,  perha^  the 
above-suggested  derivation  is  correct 

HERBERT  T.  UORE. 

Conservative  Club. 

WOODEN  CHURCHES  (3rd  S.  i.  367.)— Although 
the  interesting  church  of  Little  Greenstead,  in 
Essex,    is  chiefly  composed  of  upright  wooden 
blocks  laid  close  together,  yet  it  has  (or  had) 
brick  buttresses  and  a  brick  chancel.    Newland 
Church,  Worcestershire,  two  miles  from  Malvern, 
on  the  Worcester  road,  is  one  of  the  few  wooden- 
framed  churches  remaining  in  the  country.    The 
panelling  between  the  frame-work  is  lath    and 
plaister,  but  here  and  there  repaired  with  brick. 
The  little  church  is  supposed  to  have  been  a 
grange  belonging  to  the  Priory  of  Great  Malvern, 
and  resembles  many  of  the  half- timbered  houses 
in  that  neighbourhood  —  that  at  Pickersleigb,  for 
example.    There  is   a  wooden  porch,  a  wooden 
bell-cot,    and    two-light  windows  with    wooden 
frames.     It  is  supposed  to  have  been  erected  in 
the  fifteenth  century.     (See  Noake's  Ramble*  in 
Worcestershire,  iii.  7.)    The  font,  however,  is  early 
Norman,  and  is  thought  to  have  been  brought 
from  Malvern  Abbey  church.    I  enclose  you  a 
sketch  that  I  made  of  it  a  few  years  since.     The 
church  also  contains  a  chained  copy  of  Erasmus's 
Paraphrase,  date  1522.  CUTHBERT  BEDE. 

REV.  SYDNEY  SMITH  (3rd  S.  i.  389.)  — "The 
:diot,  who  spitteth  over  the  bridge  at  Gloucester," 
[  take  to  have  been  precisely  as  much  the  creature 
of  the  witty  Canon's  imagination  as  the  extract 
from  the  Dutch  Chronicle  in  Letter  One.  B.  B. 

BUNKER'S  HILL  (3rd  S.  i.  236.)  — Your  cor- 
respondent E.  G.  R.  on  the  subject  of  Bunker's 
[I ill  has  justly  complained  of  the  presumed  im- 
provement of  the  ordnance  officers,  and  adds, 
but  such  alterations  should  be  recorded." 
The  errors  committed  in  general  are  misnomers, 
and  consequently  possess  only  a  local  interest,  and 
the  corrections  are  matters  of  indifference  to  the 
mblic  at  large,  though  of  considerable  importance 
n  the  several  localities. 

The  following  deviations  and  corrections  are 
endered  in  no  unfriendly  feeling,  but  solely  with 
he  desire  to  correct  the  misguiding  influence  of 
a  great  national  work :  — 

"  Pedham,"  the  surviving  name  of  a  truly  small 

but  lost  village.     The  stream  is  too  small  to  turn 

mill  of  the  humblest  pretensions,  and  the  "pedn- 

ing  "  dam  "  but  a  trifling  effort  of  engineering. 

The  beautiful  sheet  of  water  has  now  been  re- 

orded  by  the  Government  surveyors  under  the 

>refix  of  a  non-existing  combustible,  at  leait  in 

his  part  of  Norfolk,  and  the  lost  villagers  now 

evived  under  the  misnomer  of  "  Peatham* 


438 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  MAY  31,  '62. 


The  boundaries  of  a  long-lost  village,  but  ap- 
parently from  recent  discoveries  of  some  import- 
ance, and  situated  on  the  estuary  of  the  Tare,  are 
accurately  marked,  but  no  name  given.  This 
was  "  Brundall  St.  Clements." 

Lechford  —  the  crossing  of  a  very  small  stream. 
The  derivation  may  be  from  the  residence  of  the 
".leech,"  or  the  "water  reptile,"  but  certainly 
not  from  lake,  the  word  broad  being  applied 
to  every  expanse  of  water  beyond  those  of  the 
most  trifling  dimensions  in  the  county.  This  is 
called  in  the  map  " Labeford." 

Brundall  Marsh,  in  the  oldest  records,  and  the 
only  local  evidence  of  the  ancient  village,  is  called 
"  Bradeston  Marsh." 

The  omissions  probably  are  a  subject  of  com- 
plaint of  equal  importance  with  the  misnomers 
already  named.  All  are  taken  from  the  map 
numbered  66  at  the  end,  each  within  an  ordinary 
ramble  of  the  other  :  — 

Brundall  St.  Clement's  church ;  site  of,  near 
the  station. 

Bradeston  Cross,  by  the  angle  of  the  road  from 
the  hall  to  the  church. 

Bail  Brigg,  a  very  ancient  name,  and  long  the 
terror  of  the  benighted  peasants,  who  firmly  be- 
lieved it  was  one  of  the  forty  bridges  Sir  Thomas 
Balyn  was  compelled  to  cross  to  avoid  the  tor- 
ments of  the  furies.  H.  D'AvENEr. 

"NOSELESS  EUSEBIA  AND  HER  NOSELESS  NUNS" 
(3rd  S.  i.  348)  — 

"  Les  Sarrasins  arment  leur  flotte,  ils  menacent  jusqu'k 
Marseille;  dirai-je  la  legende  de  sainte  Eusebie,  ab- 
besse  d'un  pieux  monastere,  affiliee  &  Saint  Victor,  d'an- 
tique  me'moire?  Elle  avait  quarante  sceurs  dans  leg 
cellules,  et  lorsque  les  Sarrasins  parurent  sur  le  rivage, 
pour  ne  point  etre  exposees  aux  passions  brutales  de  ces 
barbares,  elles  se  mutilerent  le  nez ;  tant  la  laideur  du 
peche'  est  plus  hideuse  que  celle  du  visage." — Capefigue's 
Charlemagne,  t.  ii. 

The  above  passage  has  the  following  foot-note 
appended :  — 

"  II  existe  encore  h,  Marseille  une  inscription  relative  & 
sainte  Euse'bie;  elle  ne  porte  pas  de  date.  Mabillon, 
Annal,  saint  Benedict,  place  la  martj're  de  sainte  Euse'bie 
en  732." 

^  In  Camden's  Britannia  (Gough's  edition)  is  a 
similar  legend  respecting  the  abbess  and  nuns  of 
some  English  monastery ;  but  I  cannot  find  the 
volume  and  page.  W.  D. 

PEACE  CONGRESS  PROPOSED  IN  1693  (3rd  S.  i. 
13.)  — In  reply  to  the  inquiry  of  P.  C.  P.,  I  can 
inform  him  that  the  work  he  mentions,  An  Essay 
towards  the  Present  and  Future  Peace  of  Europe, 
was  written  by  William  Penn,  the  founder  of 
Pennsylvania.  It  is  found  in  the  edition  of  his 
collected  works  printed  in  folio  in  1726,  beginning 
at  p.  838,  and  ending  at  p.  848  of  the  second 
volume.  ANON. 


TRIAL  OF  SPENCER  COWPER  (3rd  S.  i.  91,  115.)— 
A  correspondent  having,  in  the  latter  page,  re- 
ferred an  inquirer  to  Macaulay's  posthumous 
volume  for  a  full  account  of  this  trial,  allow*  me  to 
observe  that  in  Blachwood's  Magazine  for  July, 
1861,  will  be  found  some  strictures  on  that  ac- 
count, which  should,  in  fairness,  be  also  read  by 
those  who  wish  for  a  correct  representation  of  the 
matter.  ANON. 

"  MATTER  "  (3rd  S.  i.  290,  &c.)— PHILOLOGUS  and 
LITTLETON  will  find  in  Richardson's  Dictionary 
the  following  quotation  from  an  older  than  "  Old 
Ben  "  :  — 

"  For  Sosianus  and  Sagitta  were  men  vile  and  of  no 
account,  neither  mattered  it  where  they  lived."—  Savile, 
Tacitus'  Historic,  p.  161. 

C.  R. 

EPIGRAM  WANTED  (3rd  S.  i.  347.)  — 

"Pour  mettre  au  dessous  du  Portrait  de  N.  S.  J.  C. 
habille'  en  Jesuite. 

"  Si  Jesus  Christ  ressuscite', 

Sous  cet  habit  eut  pu  paraitre, 
Thomas  avec  raison  eut  meconnu  son  maitre, 
Et  nous  celebrions  son  incredulite." 

Recueil  de  pieces  choisies,  p.  96.  torn.  i. 
A  la  Haye,  1759,  2  vols. 
W.  D. 

HANNAH  GREEN,  COMMONLY  CALLED  "  LING 
BOB"  (3rd  S.  i.  384.)— The  editor  of  Literary 
and  Criticall  Remarks,  &c.,  has  dropped  the  more 
characteristic  cognomen  of  this  noted  sybil,  who 
lived  in  a  cottage  on  the  edge  of  the  moor  on 
the  left  of  the  old  road  from  Otley  to  Bradford, 
between  Carlten  and  Yeadon,  and  eight  miles 
from  Leeds. 

She  was  popularly  known  as  "  The  Ling-bob 
Witch,"  a  name  given  her,  I  suppose,  from  her 
living  among  the  ling-bobs,  or,  laying  aside  the 
provincial  vernacular,  the  heather  tufts.  She  was 
resorted  to  from  "  far  and  near,"  on  account  of 
her  supposed  knowledge  of  future  events;  but, 
like  the  rest  of  her  class,  her  principal  forte  was 
fortune-telling,  from  which,  it  is  said,  she  for  her- 
self realised  a  handsome  fortune. 

Many  strange  tales  have  been  told  of  her ;  such 
as  her  power  of  transforming  herself,  after  night- 
fall, into  the  shape  of  any  animal  she  list ;  and  of 
her  odd  pranks  in  her  nightly  rambles,  her  fa- 
vourite character  being  that  of  the  hare,  in  which 
personation  she  was  unluckily  shot  by  an  unsus- 
pecting poacher,  who  was  almost  terrified  out  of 
his  senses  by  the  awful  screams  which  followed, 
and  the  sudden  death  of  the  Ling-bob  Witch. 

Her  death  really  happened  on  the  12th  of  May, 
1810,  after  having  practised  her  art  about  forty 
years,  and  Ling-bob  became  a  haunted  and 
dreaded  place.  The  house  remained  some  years 
untenanted  and  ruinous,  but  was  afterwards  par- 
tially repaired  and  occupied,  and  probably  is  yet 
standing. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Her  daughter  and  successor,  Hannah  Spence, 
laid  claim  to  the  same  spirit,  but  it  need  hardly  be 
said,  without  the  same  success. 

No  doubt  some  of  the  older  inhabitants  of  Yea- 
don  could  yet  tell  some  wondrous  stories  about 
her,  and  parhaps  furnish  more  particulars  of  her 
career  than  C.  FORREST. 

UNIVERSITY  DISCIPLINE  (3rd  S.  i.  291.)— There 
is  no  doubt  that  the  University  of  Cambridge  had 
the  power,  under  the  old  statutes,  of  depriving  a 
graduate  of  any  degree.  For  instance,  Richard 
Bentley  was  deprived  of  all  his  degrees,  which 
were  afterwards  restored. 

If  I  recollect  right,  an  attempt  was  made  at 
Oxford,  some  years  ago,  to  deprive  Mr.  W.  G. 
Ward  of  his  degrees.  This  failed,  I  think,  through 
the  proctor's  veto.  I  believe  the  universities 
have  still  the  power  of  degrading  a  graduate  under 
the  reformed  statutes.  S.  C. 

KING  OF  SPAIN  (3rd  S.  i.  249,  335.)— Perhaps 
the  very  words,  in  which  the  sarcasm  is  given  by 
the  great  Spanish  historian,  may  be  worth  in- 
sertion :  — 

"Don  Alonzo,  Rey  de  Castilla,  era  persona  de  alto  in- 
genio ;  pero  poco  recatado,  sus  orejas  sobervias,  su  lengua 
desenfrenada :  mas  a  proposito  para  las  letras,  que  para 
el  govierno  de  los  vassallos :  comtemplava  el  ciello  y  mi- 
rava  las  eatrellas:  mas  em  el  entretanto  perdio  la  tierra 
y  el  Reyno."  —  Mariana,  Historia  de  Espanat  lib.  xiii 
c.  20. 

E.  N.  H. 

THE  SURNAME  OF  FOLEY  (3rd  S.  i.  386.)  — 
Richard  Foley,  of  Stourbridge,  was  a  nail-maker 
and  an  amateur  musician,  not  an  itinerant.  He 
went  twice  to  Ursula,  in  Sweden,  in  the  reign  of 
Charles  I.  His  son  became  High  Sheriff  of  Wor- 
cestershire, and  subsequently  Lord  Foley. 

JAMES  GILBERT. 
2,  Devonshire  Grove,  Old  Kent  Road. 

BABYLON'S  DEALING  IN  "  SOULS  OF  MEN,"  Rev. 
xviii.  13  (3rd  S.  i.  282.)  —I  think  I  shall  but  have 
to  remind  MR.  EMERSON  TENNENT  of  the  words 
tyvxep-iropos,  tyvxffJ-TroptK'bsi  and  tyvxtpiropLicii,  to  show 
him  what  is  meant  by  the  Apostle's  allusion  to 
Babylon's  trade  in  "souls  of  men."  It  is  that 
trade  which,  some  years  ago,  was  brought  under 
the  notice  of  Parliament — a  trade  most  appro- 
priately belonging  to  the  traffic  of  "  the  great 
whore  "  (not  Rome,  but  the  world  in  general,)  — 
the  trade  in  kidnapped  innocence. 

"""  But  whoso  shall  offend  one  of  these  little  ones,  which 
believe  in  me,  it  were  better  for  him  that  a  millstone 
•were  hanged  about  his  neck,  and  that  he  were  drowned 
in  the  depth  of  the  sea." — St.  Matthew,  xviii.  6. 

"  And  a  mighty  angel  took  up  a  stone  like  a  great 
millstone,  and  cast  it  into  the  sea,  saying,  Thus  with  no- 
fence  shall  that  great  city  Babylon  be  thrown  down,  and  shall 
be  found  no  more  at  all." — Rev.  xviii.  21. 

JOHN  H.  VAN  LENNEP. 

Zeyst,  near  Utrecht. 


LONGEVITY  AND  THREE  SETS  op  TEETH  (3"»  S. 
i.  passim.)— I  see  you  have  several  articles  on  this 
subject.  I  fear  your  correspondents  are  hoaxing 
you.  So  far  from  its  being  an  extraordinary 
event,  it  really  is  a  most  common  case,  and  I  will 
venture  to  assert  that  there  are  very  few  persons 
who  arrive  to  my  age  who  have  not  had  three  seta 
of  teeth.  I  can  speak  from  experience.  First,  I 
had  my  infantine  set.  Next,  I  had  the  set  which, 
after  serving  me  usefully  for  many  years,  gradu- 
ally decayed,  and  left  me.  And,  lastly,  I  now 
have  a  third  set,  from  which  I  can  truly  say  I  ntf. 
fered  much  cost  in  the  cutting  —  by  an  eminent 
dentist  in  the  West  End. 

SEPTUAGENABIUS  ET  PLUS. 

SHROVE  TUESDAY  (3rd  S.  i.  224.) —The  "Curi- 
ous Custom  in  Dorking"  prevails  also  here,  to  the 
great  annoyance  of  our  respectable  tradesmen; 
who  are  compelled  to  close  their  shops  while  the 
game  is  going  on. 

DOUGLAS  ALLPOBT. 

Epsom. 


NOTES  OX  BOOKS,  ETC. 

TJie  Church  and  the  Churches ;  or,  The  Papacy  and  the 
Temporal  Power.  An  Historical  and  Political  Review. 
By  Dr.  Dollinger.  Translated,  with  the  Author's  Permis- 
sion, by  William  Bernard  MacCabe.  (Hurst  &  BlacketL) 

This  pains-taking  and  most  conscientious  translation 
of  a  book  by  a  distinguished  and  liberal  Romanist,  on  a 
subject  to  which  the  attention  of  all  Statesmen  is  now  ao 
anxiously  directed,  is  one  well  deserving  perusal  by  all 
who  are  interested  in  the  solution  of  the  Roman  Ques- 
tion. Should  the  Pope  be  deprived  of  his  territorial 
possessions,  it  is  Dr.  Dollinger's  opinion  that  one  of 
three  eventualities  will  come  to  pass:  "Either  the  loss 
of  the  Papal  States  is  only  temporary,  and  the  territory 
will  revert,  after  some  intervening  casualties,  in  its  en- 
tirety or  in  part,  to  its  rightful  sovereign  ;  or,  Providence 
will  'bring  about,  by  ways  unknown  to  us,  and  combina- 
tions which  we  cannot  divine,  a  state  of  things  in  which 
the  object,  namely,  the  independence  and  free  action  of 
the  Papal  See,  without  those  means  which  have  hitherto 
sufficed  for  it ;  or  lastly,  we  are  approaching  great  cata- 
strophes in  Europe  —  a  collapse  of  the  whole  edifice  of 
existing  social  order — events  of  which  the  downfall  of 
the  Papal  States  is  only  the  precursor,  or  as  it  may  b« 
said,  the  '  Job's  Messenger.'  "  The  present  volume,"  be- 
sides developing  the  grounds  on  which  Dr.  Dollinger 
considers  the  first  of  these  possibilities  as  the  moat  pro- 
bable, is  replete  with  information  and  comment  upon  the 
state  of  Christendom  generally;  and  the  work  is  one, 
therefore,  which  deserves  and"  will  repay  the  attentive 
perusal  of  every  thinking  man. 

The  Life  and  Letters  of  Washinaton  Irving.  Edited  by 
his  Nepliew,  Pierre  M.  Irving.  In  Three  Volumes,  VoL  /. 

Washington  Irving  was  so  thoroughly  English  in  hi* 
admiration  of  the  Old  Country— and  appreciated  ao  jiutly 
and  heartily  the  time-honoured  customs  and  feelings 


440 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3"»  S.  I.  MAY  81,  '62. 


which  prevailed  in  it,  at  the  period  when  he  first  visited 
us  and  which  he  pourtrayed  with  so  much  feeling  and 
humour  in  his  Sketch  Book,  Bracebridge  Hall,  £c.  —  that 
all  one's  best  feelings  and  sympathies  were  enlisted  in 
his  favour,  and  he  was  regarded  by  many  as  more  Eng- 
lish than  the  English.  The  records  of  his  life  could  not 
fail,  therefore,  of  being  interesting  to  the  English  public, 
and  that  not  only  on  Washington  Irving's  own  account, 
but  for  the  incidental  sketches  which  they  contain  of  the 
men  of  genius  in  literature  and  art  who  were  his  con- 
temporaries and  associates.  The  present  Division  of  the 
work,  which  only  comes  to  the  publication  of  The  Sketch 
Book,  abounds  in  pleasant  gossip  and  amusing  anecdote. 

A  Cruise  upon  Wheels;  the  Chronicle  of  some  Autumn 
Wanderings  among  the  deserted  Post-roads  of  France.  By 
Charles  Alston  Collins.  2  Vols.  (Routledge.) 

These  two  volumes,  written  experimentally  to  interest 
the  public  in  a  mode  of  travelling  of  which  it  has  pro- 
bably had  no  experience,  and  in  which  fictitious  charac- 
ters are  introduced  and  their  adventures  described  in  the 
third  person,  are  as  amusing  as  any  two  volumes  of 
travels  need  be.  The  experiment  has  so  far  proved  suc- 
cessful ;  and  it  may  be  so,  beyond  the  writer's  expectation 
by  tempting  many  wandering  spirits  to  fly  the  beaten 
paths  of  ordinary  travellers,  and  seek  novelty  and  amuse- 
ment in  the  deserted  post  roads  of  France. 

Adventures  of  Baron  Wenceslaw  Wratislaw  of  Mitro- 
witz.  What  he  saw  in  the  Turkish  Metropolis,  Constan- 
tinople ;  experienced  in  his  Captivity ;  and  after  his  happy 
Return  to  his  Country.  Committed  to  Writing  in  the  Year 
of  our  Lord  1599.  Literally  translated  from  the  original 
Bohemian  by  A.  H.  Wratislaw,  M.A.,  Head  Master  of 
the  Grammar  School,  Bury  St.  Edmund's,  frc.  (Bell 
£  Daldy.) 

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1599,  and  apparently  only  for  private  circulation,  re- 
mained in  MS.  till  1777,  when  it  was  published  by  Pelzel 
at  Prague,  and  a  second  edition  was  published  by  Kra- 
merius  in  1807.  A  very  imperfect  German  translation 
of  it  appeared  in  1786.  The  author  went  as  a  youth  in 
the  retinue  of  the  Imperial  Ambassador  to  the  Court  of 
Constantinople,  and  narrates  with  great  minuteness  the 
circumstances  attendant  on  the  residence  of  the  Embassy 
at  Constantinople,  and  the  arrest,  imprisonment,  and 
long- protracted  sufferings  of  the  various  members  of  it, 
until  their  release  and  return  to  Vienna.  As  a  picture  of 
manners  and  of  the  times  it  is  a  work  of  considerable 
interest,  and  well  deserving  the  labour  which  the  Editor 
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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


LONDON  SATURDAY,  JUNE  7,  1862. 


CONTENTS -No.  23. 

^^]ft!^i«»:h! 


'ew- 


ManTihe^:rffi^^^ 

Bekesbourne 
447. 

-QUERIES:  -The  House  of  Fala  Hall,  448  -  Quotation 
Referencesv  &c.,  wanted^  449  —  Ad  perpendiculum  —  The 


rtHUrnfVhat,  IrC(?P!ed  °Ut  •"  *'  P°rtion»  Di- 
rectly relating  to  Leighton.  I  subsequently  cooied 

out  of  our  Parochial  Records  a  number  of  pas- 
sages  bearing  on  his  connection  with  this  ptrihh 
IP.  whnl«  of  these  were  read  by  Mr.  Laing  of 
to  the  Antiquarian  Society  there,  and 
m  due  course,  be  published  in  its  Transac- 


-  The  Ferula  —  Foreign  Barons"  m"  the  Commons -Ger- 
man Philosophers  —  Richard  Hune  —  "  The  Invective  "  — 
-  Lewis  —  Literature  of  Lunatics  —  Lunatics  in 
uJ^vt"iit;s  "^  *|ary  Quee,n  of  Scots :  Bolton  Castle  -  Medal 
°f  feft?6  Puk»  ^f  York  ~~  Moore  —  Noblemen  aud  Barons 
t  d  449S       Cereaha"  ~~  Verification    of  Quotations 


they  are  printed,  and  as  their  circulation 
form  must  be  comparatively  limited,  it  has 
occurred  to  me,  that  it  might  interest  your  readers 

to  quote  a  few  of  the  more  interesting. 

Before  proceeding  to  do  this,  I  may  mention 
that  a  part  of  Newbattle  Manse,  in  which  I  live, 
forms  the  house  inhabited  by  Leighton.  Jt  ap- 
pears from  the  parochial  records,  that  it  was  built 
m  1625,  during  the  incumbency  of  Mf.  John 

A  Iffl       tirliilrt    mm**    s\»-kj-k    *+.?    *U  •      .1  • 


Easter  Offerings  —  "  Babes  in  the  Wood,"  452. 

REPLIES :—  Centenarianism  :  John  Pratt,  453  —  Poor  Poll 
454  — Explanation  of  the  Corps  Humain  Petrifi6,  455  — 
Tenure  of  Livings  — "  Hurlothrumbo : "  "  Tom  Thumb  "— 
S'llP^an^  D.>D;~~ TExecution  of  Argyle  —  Monastic  Orders 
—St.  Catherine's  Hills  —  Gossamer—  Anonymous  Tract- 
Christmas  Day  under  the  Commonwealth  — Stithe-  Stithv 
-  Pageant  -  Pope  Joan  -  "  Ranse  Canorse"  -  Ghost 
Stories  —  White  Quakers  -  Horses  frightened  at  the 
Sight  of  a  Camel,  456. 

Notes  on  Books. 


ARCHBISHOP  LEIGHTON:   HIS  INCUMBENCY 

OF  NEWBATTLE. 

The  interest  felt  in  the  communications  of  your 
correspondents,  EIRIONNACH  and  ME.  SECRETAN, 
regarding  Archbishop  Leighton,  leads  me  to  think 
that  some  particulars,  which  throw  light  on  a 
period  of  his  life  of  which  little  has  hitherto  been 
known,  may  not  be  unwelcome  to  many  of  your 
readers.  It  will  be  remembered  that  Leighton 
was,  for  rather  more  than  eleven  years  (from  Dec. 
1641,  to  Feb.  1653),  minister  of  the  parish  of 
Newbattle  (then  called  Newbotle),  in  the  Pres- 
bytery of  Dalkeith.  His  history  during  this  pe- 
riod is,  in  the  biographies  of  him  which  have 
hitherto  been  written,  almost  a  blank;  indeed, 
with  the  exception  of  what  Bishop  Burnet  says 
on  the  subject,  and  which  has,  without  inquiry 
and  without  investigation,  been  servilely  copied 
by  one  biographer  after  another,  it  may  be  re- 
garded as  entirely  so.  Some  inquiries  which  I 
was  recently  making  having  led  me  to  peruse 
the  Records  of  the  Presbytery  of  Dalkeith  from 
1639  to  1653,  which  fill  a  closely  written  folio 
volume  of  about  four  hundred  pages,  I  was  so 
much  struck  with  the  new  light  which  they  throw 
upon  the  connection  of  my  illustrious  predecessor 
with  the  Church  of  Scotland,  and  with  the  re- 
futation which  they  give  to  certain  statements 


in  stone  the  inscription  "  Evangelio  et  Posteris." 
The  pulpit  in  Newbattle  church  is  that  from  which 
Leighton  preached,  having,  according  to  tradition, 
been  removed  from  the  old  church  to  the  new 
when  the  latter  was  built  in  1727.  The  four 
communion  cups  of  silver  are  the  same  that  were 
used  by  him,  having  been  presented  to  the  "  Kirk 
of  Newbotle "  by  various  parishioners  on  29th 
May,  1646. 

The  first  mention  of  Leighton's  name  in  the 
Presbytery  Records  occurs  on  July  15th,  1641, 
when  "Mr.  Rob*  Lichton  is  appointed  to  adde 
the  next  day,"  which  he  does.  On  September 
3rd  his  presentation  is  lodged.  The  usual  steps 
are  gone  through,  and  on  Dec.  16th  it  is  men- 
tioned,— 

"Qlk  day  after  sermon  Mr.  Johne  Knox  posed  y«  s'1 
Mr.  Ro«  Lichtone  and  ye  parochiners  of  Newhotle  w« 
sundry  questions  competent  to  y«  occasion ;  Mr.  Rol,  with 
imposition  of  hands  and  solemn  prayer,  was  admitted 
minister  at  Newbotle." 

Burnet  enlarges  on  the  fidelity  with  which 
Leighton  discharged  the  pastoral  duties  of  his 
cure.  This  is  corroborated  by  some  entries  in  the 
Parochial,  Records  which  are  extant  from  March 
12,  1643  till  about  1650.  Thus  on  14th  August, 
1643,  there  is  a  long  minute,  in  which  it  is  said  that 

1  The  minister  and  elders  of  the  parochin  of  Newbattell, 
lat  follow  upon  the  neglect 


not  only  ane  maine  cause  of  their  grosse  rudneaa  and  in- 
civility, bot  of  thair  ungodlines  and  ignorance  of  the 
principillis  of  religion,  and  makis  them  also  almost  un- 
teachabill,  have  ordained  that  all  parents  w'in  the  said 
paroch  be  cairfull,  so  soone  as  thair  childring  com  to  ca- 
pabill  yeiris  to  send  them  to  some  school,  that  they  may 
learn  at  y°  leist  to  reid,  and  that,  whosoever  Mil  be  found 
w'in  this  paroch  to  faill  heirin,  sail  be  obliged  to  par  as 
give  they  did  send  thair  childring  to  school  according  to 
the  number  of  thame  or  be  utherwayw  censured  M  the 
Session  sail  think  fitting." 

In  the  accounts  of  the  Session,  which  are  kept 
with  great  fulness  and  accuracy,  it  would 


442 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I.  JUNE  7,  '62. 


that  ^reat  liberality  was  exercised  in  paying  for 
the  education  of  poor  children.  Numerous  en- 
tries of  payments  of  school  fees  for  them  are 
found :  the  usual  rate  being  ten  shillings  (Scots) 
ijer  quarter,  or  somewhat  less  than  a  penny  ster- 
ling per  week. 

A  long  minute  is  found  under  date  Feb.  11, 
1644,  by  which  the  whole  parish  was  divided  into 
districts  of  manageable  size,  and  an  elder  ap- 
pointed to  visit  and  superintend  each  district; 
and  then  it  is  ordained  :  — 

"  That  everie  ane  be  cairfull  w'in  thair  awin  boundis 
designit  to  visit  frequently,  as  once  in  fyfteen  dayis,  and 
to  inquyr  about  family  exercises  in  everie  house,  and  the 
conversation  of  the  people.  Especially  to  tak  ordour  w* 
cursing,  swearing,  or  scolding  and  excessive  drinking, 
give  anie  such  disordour  be  fund  among  them,  and  to  be 
cairfull  in  visiting  the  sick,  and  sik  as  ar  in  want.  To 
give  notice  of  thame  to  the  Minister  and  Session." 

Subsequent  to  1645,  the  minutes  are  kept  with 
less  care  than  previously,  and  the  great  majority 
of  the  entries  relate  to  the  exercise  of  discipline. 

Burnet  further  says  "  he  had  a  very  low  voice, 
and  so  could  not  be  heard  by  a  great  crowd." 

On  6th  April,  1648,  the  brethren  present  were 
asked  whether  they  had  all  read  the  Declaration 
sent  down  by  the  Commission  of  the  General  As- 
sembly, and  all  declared  they  had  :  "  onely  Robert 
Porteous  the  Elder  of  Newbotle,  declared  that 
Mr.  Robert  Leightoun  had  made  the  precentor 
read  it,  and  that  because  of  the  lownesse  of  his 
owne  voice,  which  could  not  be  heard  thorow  the 
whole  Kirk." 

On  June  15th,  being  interrogated  on  the  sub- 
ject, Leighton  answered,  "  that  that  Sabboth  qn 
the  Declaration  wes  to  be  red,  he  wes  so  troubled 
w*  ane  great  dufluction,  that  he  wes  not  able  to 
extend  his  voyce,  and  therfore  wes  necessitat  to 
do  that,  farr  by  his  intention,  bot  it  shall  be 
helpet  in  tyme  coming." 

And  again,  on  3rd  Feb.,  1653,  he  assigns  as  his 
reasons  for  wishing  "  to  be  lowsed  from  his  minis- 
trie  at  ye  Kirk  of  Newbotle,  ye  greatness  of  ye 
congregation  farre  exceeding  his  strength  for  dis- 
charging ye  dewties  yrof,  especially  the  extreme 
weakness  of  his  voice ;  not  being  able  to  reache 
the  halfe  of  them  when  they  are  convened,  which 
hes  long  pressed  him  very  sore,  as  he  had  formerly 
often  expressed."  (A  Report  on  the  Estate  of 
Neubotle,  on  Nov.  2t,  1648,  says  that  there  were 
in  it  "  about  900  comunicants.") 

So  far  Burnet  is  confirmed  by  contemporary 
evidence.  He  makes  other  statements,  however, 
which  are  directly  contradicted  by  the  Records  of 
the  Presbytery.  Thus  he  says  :  — 

"  Leighton  soon  came  to  see  the  follies  of  the  Presby- 
terians, and  to  dislike  their  Covenant,  particularly  their 
imposing  it,  and  their  fury  against  all  who  differed  from 
them.  He  found  they  were  not  capable  of  large  thoughts ; 
theirs  were  narrow  as  their  tempers  were  sour;  so  he 
grew  weary  of  mixing  with  them.  He  scarce  ever  went 


to  their  meetings,  and  lived  in  great  retirement,  minding 
only  the  care  of  his  own  parish  of  Neubotle." 

Whether  the  sentiments  which  Leighton  is  here 
represented  as  having,  during  his  incumbency  of 
Newbattle,  entertained  towards  his  brethren  of 
the  Presbytery  of  Dalkeith,  were  a  mere  imagina- 
tion of  Burnet,  or  whether  Leighton  himself,  at 
a  subsequent  period  of  his  life,  fancied  and  told 
him  that  such  had  been  the  case,  it  ^  is  impos- 
sible now  to  determine ;  but  that  Leighton  did 
entertain  them  at  the  time,  the  Records  of  the 
Presbytery  show  was  not  the  case;  while  they 
prove  beyond  a  doubt,  that  the  statement  that 
"he  scarce  ever  went  to  their  meetings"  is  with- 
out a  shadow  of  foundation. 

That  he  did  not  sympathise  keenly  with  those 
who  were  very  zealous  for  the  covenant,  is  likely 
enough,  I  do  not  think  that  he  ever  sympathised 
very  keenly  with  any  party  whatever  which  de- 
nounced and  persecuted  those  who  differed  from  it. 
So  far  as  church  government  and  order  were 
concerned,  he  seems  at  all  periods ^  of  his  life  to 
have  been  a  thorough-going  latitudinarian.  But 
that  he  disliked  the  CoVenant  and  his  brethren  of 
the  Presbytery,  I  should,  for  his  own  sake,  be 
very  unwilling  to  believe :  for,  to  admit  this, 
would  be  to  deal  a  heavy  blow  to  his  sincerity  and 
straightforwardness. 

The  Society  of  Antiquaries  in  Edinburgh  pos- 
sesses the  Original  Covenant  signed  by  him,  by 
Lord  Lothian,  and  by  about  two  hundred  other 
parishioners  of  Newbotle,  in  October,  1643.*  At 
various  meetings  of  Presbytery,  at  which  he  was 
present,  resolutions  were  unanimously  come  to 
regarding  the  reading  of  declarations  connected 
with  the  Covenant;  and  specially  on  21st  Decem- 
ber, 1648,  when  he  was  present,  it  is  recorded 
that  "  the  Brethren,  being  particularly  enquyred 
by  the  Moderator  if  they  had  observed  the  fast, 
and  renewed  the  Covenant,  according  to  the  di- 
rections given  by  the  Commission  of  the  General 
Assembly,  answered  all  that  they  had  so  done, 
which  Mr.  Jh.  Knox  was  ordained  to  report  to  I 
the  Commission." 

That  he  was  not  on  good  terms  with  his  bre-  | 
I  thren,  there  is  no  evidence  ;  nay,  all  the  presump- 
!  tions  are  to  the  contrary.     He  was,  as  it  will  be 
immediately  shown,  a  good  attender  of  the  Pres- 
i  bytery  ;  and  from  the  circumstance  that,  on  May  2, 
I  1650,  Mr.  Robert  Cowper,  minister  of  Temple,  I 
i  was  censured   "  for  absenting   himself  from  the  i 
brethren's  company  at  dinner" — his  reason  being,  j 
"  an  unwillingnesse  to  be  reconciled  to  the  gud-  ! 
wife  of  the  house  where  they  dined,  with  whom 
he  had  some  variance,"  the  presumption  is,  that 

*  In  the  account  of  the  Session  of  Newbattle,  the  fol-  j 
lowing  entry  occurs  under  date,  22nd  October,  1643 :  — 
«  Given  for  the  Acts  of  y*  Assembly       -    00  13  4 
Mair  for  the  Covenant       -       -       -    00  04  Q  " 


'd  S.  I.  Jirsn  7,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


443 


it  was  the  custom  for  all  the  members  to  dine  to- 
gether. In  the  minute  for  April  15,  1652,  there 
is  inserted  the  Call  to  a  Mr.  John  Weir,  to  be 
minister  of  Borthwick,  a  parish  in  the  Presbytery. 
The  Call,  among  other  things,  makes  him  promise, 
"y*  it  will  be  your  studie  not  to  break,  bot  enter- 


a  committee  was  appointed  to  transact  any  busi- 
ness of  special  difficulty  or  delicacy,  Leighton  was 
almost  invariably  a  member.  On  the  whole,  there- 
fore, there  seems  no  ground  for  believing  that 
Leighton  did  not  live  in  amity  with  his  brethren 
of  the  Presbytery. 

Burnet  next  asserts  that  Leighton  scarce  ever 
went  to  the  meetings  of  the  Presbytery.  To  this 
the  Records  afford  the  most  explicit  contradiction. 
The  Presbytery  then  met  ordinarily  on  the  Thurs- 
day of  every  week.  For  the  whole  period  of 
Leighton's  incumbency  of  Newbattle,  the  Records 
of  the  Presbytery  are  quite  complete,  with  the 
exception  of  one  leaf  which  has  been  accidentally 
lost,  and  each  minute  shows  who  were  present. 
Up  till  May,  1647,  it  had  been  the  custom  to 
enter  the  names  merely  of  those  who  were  absent. 
At  that  time,  however,  the  Synod  found  fault 
with  this  practice ;  and  enjoined  the  Presbytery 
to  enter  in  full  the  names  both  of  the  present  and 
absent  members,  which  was  afterwards  done. 
There  are,  therefore,  the  most  ample  means  for 
deciding  as  to  the  regularity  of  any  member's  at- 
tendance. For  the  first  year  of  his  incumbency, 
Leighton  was  somewhat  irregular  in  his  attend- 
ance. Having  a  large  parish,  he  found,  I  dare 
say,  that  it  was  not  easy,  while  he  was  making 
himself  acquainted  with  the  state  of  his  flock,  to 
give  one  day  every  week  to  attendance  at  the 
Presbytery.  After  a  time,  and  as  his  acquain- 
tance with  its  members  increased,  he  became  more 
regular;  so  that,  from  1644  downwards,  he  gave 
at  least  an  average  attendance  at  its  meetings. 
I  took  the  trouble  of  counting  the  number  of 
times  he  was  present  at  the  Presbytery  during  the 
first  year  after  the  sederunt  began  to  be  entered 
in  full;  and  I  found  that  from  May  20th,  1647, 
when  he  seems  to  have  returned  from  London,  to 
which  place  he  had  been  sent  for  in  February 
"by  his  father,  who  was  lying  sick,"  till  March 23, 
1648,  when  he  again  left  for  England  on  "  some 
necessary  businesse"  there  were  forty-one  meet- 
ings of  Presbytery,  —  some  of  these  being  merely 
visitations  in  distant  parishes  ;  —  and  that  Leigh- 
ton  was  present  at  twenty-nine  of  them. 

The  fact  is  that  no  one  could  be  habitually 
absent  without  cause  from  the  meetings  of  Pres- 
bytery, so  strict  was  the  supervision  both  of  the 
Presbytery  and  Synod.  Thus  I  find  under  Nov.  23, 
1643,  the  following  entry  :  — 

"  Mr.  William  Calderwood  (Minister  of  Heriot)  being 


inquired  that  day  anent  the  reason  of  bis  absence  from 
the  Synod  answered,  that  he  wag  so  taken  up  with  sundrie 
weigh  tie  businesses,  and  especiallie  with  the  marjing  of 
a  wyfe,  that  he  had  no  leisure  to  be  present  thir.  Th« 
Brethren  thought  the  reason  not  to  be  sufficient  to  hinder 
him  from  the  Synod,  and  therfor  they  censured  him  for 
his  absence." 

The  only  occasions  on  which  anything  occurred 
that  could  give  the  slightest  foundation  for  the 
report  of  his  not  living  in  friendship  with  hit 
brethren  of  the  Presbytery  were — once,  when  he 
went  away  to  England  without  leave  and  remained 
for  a  considerable  time ;  and  another  time  when 
he  declined  attending  the  General  Assembly  after 
he  had  been  elected  the  representative  member 
from  the  Presbytery.  It  may  be  mentioned  that 
Leighton,  during  the  time  of  his  incumbency  here, 
was  a  frequent  visitor  to  England.  After  1646 
he  seems  to  have  gone  there  every  year,  —  some- 
times on  account  of  his  father's  health,  and  some- 
times on  account  of  "  weightie  businesse."  It 
was  then,  as  it  is  now,  the  law  of  the  Church  of 
Scotland,  that  a  minister  cannot  be  absent  more 
than  a  few  weeks  in  the  year  from  his  parish 
without  leave  asked  and  obtained  from  the  Pres- 
bytery of  the  bounds.  Year  after  year  Leighton 
appears  asking  for  leave  to  go  to  England,  usually 
to  see  his  father.  This  is  regularly  given ;  and 
great  kindness  and  consideration  seem  always  to 
have  been  shown  to  him.  His  absence  usually 
extended  to  two  or  three  months.  In  1648,  how- 
ever, he  seems  to  have  gone  away  without  permis- 
sion, and  on  June  15  —  the  same  day  on  which  he 
made  the  explanation  already  quoted  regarding 
his  not  reading  the  declaration  himself —  he  was 
asked  "  Why  he  went  away  to  England  without 
obtaining  libertie  from  the  Presbyterie,  seeing  ther 
wes  acts  expresly  prohibiting  ministers  to  be  ab- 
sent from  their  charge  three  Sabboths  together 
under  the  pain  of  deposition,  unlesse  the^  have 
obtainet  libertie  from  ther  presbyterie?  He 
excused  himself  by  saying,  among  other  things, 
that,  "  When  he  went  away  he  intendit  onlie  to 
have  been  absent  two  or  three  Sabboths  at  the 
most,"  "  bot  when  he  cam  to  York  he  found  an 
busines  of  an  neir  friend's,  but  non  of  his  own, 
that  necessitat  him  to  go  further  and  stay  longer 
than  he  intendet." 

After  further  proceedings,  "he  being  remoyit 
and  his  excuses  being  considerit  and  they  charit- 
ablie  constructed,  did  appoynt  him  to  be  gravlie 
admonishet  to  amend,  which  was  accordingly  done 
be  the  Moderator  after  his  incalling,  and  reseavit 
be  him  humblie  and  promisit  be  the  grace  of 
(God)  to  amend." 

At  the  next  meeting,  June  22,  Leighton  i 
elected  one  of  the  Commissioners  to  the  General 
Assembly.     He  assigns  various  reasons  for  not 
accepting  the  office.      The  Presbytery  persists, 
and  gives  him  fourteen  days  for  considering  t 
matter.    He  is  not  present  at  that  meeting,  but  on 


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[3'd  S.  I.  JUNK  7,  '62, 


Aug.  31  "  wes  posit  why  he  did  not  come  to  that 
meeting  of  Presbyterie  and  embrace  the  commis- 
sion ?  "  His  answer  was  that  "  he  wes  so  troubled 
with  an  (distillation  ?)  yt  he  was  not  able  to  come 
out  for  the  space  of  two  or  thrie  days,"  and  also 
"  that  he  wes  very  infirm  and  feared  that  he 
should  not  have  been  able  to  have  waited  on  the 
sitting  of  the  grail  Assembly."  Other  reasons  are 
assigned,  all  of  which,  "  being  ponderit  be  the 
Brethren  and  found  somewhat  weak  they  thought 
him  censurable."  On  Septr.  7, 

"  Having  charitably  considerit  bis  reasons,  and  finding 
that  it  wes  not  disaffection  unto  the  cause  of  Christ, 
neither  out  of  any  disrespect  unto  the  ordinance  of  his 
bretheren,  but  judging  it  modestie  in  thair  brother  whos 
infirmitie  in  bodie  movit  him  to  it,  Did  ordain  him 
gravly  to  be  admonishet  be  the  Moderator  for  his  impru- 
dent cariage,  and  to  beware  of  the  lyk  in  tyme  coming, 
which  wes  accordingly  downe,  and  wes  modestly  taken 
by  him  and  w'all  promisit  be  the  grace  of  God  to  amend." 

Another  statement  of  Burnet's  which  these  re- 
cords disprove  is  to  the  following  effect : 

"  In  the  year  1648  Leighton  declared  himself  for  the 
engagement  for  the  King.  But  the  Earl  of  Lothian,  who 
lived  in  his  parish,  had  so  high  an  esteem  for  him  that  he 
persuaded  the  violent  men  not  to  meddle  with  him, 
though  he  gave  occasion  to  great  exception ;  for,  when 
some  in  his  parish  who  had  been  in  the  engagement  were 
ordered  to  make  public  profession  of  their  repentance 
for  it,  he  told  them  they  had  been  in  an  engagement  in 
which  they  had  neglected  their  duty  to  God,  and  had 
been  guiltie  of  injustice  and  violence,  of  drunkenness, 
and  other  immoralities,  and  he  charged  them  to  repent 
of  these  seriously,  without  meddling  with  the  quarrel  or 
grounds  of  that  war." 

The  assertion  that  Leighton  declared  for  the  En- 
gagement in  1648  has  been  adopted  by  biographer 
after  biographer,  without  any  one  ever  taking  the 
trouble  to  make  any  inquiry  regarding  its  correct- 
ness. Of  course,  it  is  never  so  easy  to  prove  a  neg- 
ative as  a  positive,  and  therefore  it  is  not  so  easy  to 
prove  that  Leighton  did  not  do  a  certain  thing,  as 
to  prove  that  he  was  a  regular  attender  of  the 
Presbytery.  Still  I  am  sure  that  no  one  could 
read  over  the  narrative  of  the  proceedings  of  the 
Presbytery  of  Dalkeith  during  1648  and  1649, 
without  coming  to  the  conclusion  that  it  was 
utterly  impossible  for  any  member  of  the  Presby- 
tery to  have  acted  as  Leighton  is  said  to  have 
acted,  without  the  matter  having  been  taken  up 
by  the  Presbytery,  and  proceedings  instituted 
against  him,  —  and  this  apart  altogether  from  the 
positive  proof  which  they  afford  that  Leighton 
joined  with  his  brethren  in  finding  fault  with  and 
rebuking  those  who  joined  in  the  Engagement. 

To  bring  forward  all  the  evidence  adducible  on 
this  point  would  occupy  too  much  of  your  space. 
Investigations  were  made  in  every  parish  re- 
garding all  who  had  shown  any  favour  to  the 
Engagement,  and  all  who  were  discovered  to  have 
done  so,  including  the  Earl  of  Dalhousie,  Lord 


Ramsay,  and  many  others,  had  to  appear  before 
the  Presbytery  and  sign  a  disavowal  and  recan- 
tation of  the  Engagement.  A  whole  page  of  the 
volume  is  filled  with  these  names.  No  minister 
appears  among  them,  nor  any  parishioner  of  New- 
battle  ;  but  there  are  several  Expectants,  as  they 
were  then  called.  One,  named  Robert  Whyte, 
was  charged  with  not  having  prayed  in  the  Laird 
of  Lugton's  family,  where  he  was  tutor  and  chap- 
lain, against  the  Engagement.  After  a  long  pro- 
cess, in  which  Leighton  took  part,  Whyte  was 
suspended,  and  had  ultimately  to  sign  the  recant- 
ation. To  suppose,  therefore,  that  Leighton  could 
have  spoken  to  any  of  his  people,  as  Burnet  re- 
presents him  to  have  done,  is  simply  ludicrous. 

But  we  are  not  left  to  merely  negative  evidence 
on  this  point.  Unless  we  are  to  suppose  that 
Leighton  was  destitute  of  all  honour  and  sin- 
cerity, he  could  not,  if  he  entertained  the  views 
ascribed  to  him  by  Burnet,  have  acted  as  we  find 
him  doing.  Thus  on  August  5,  1648,  he  was 
present  and  took  part  in  arrangements  by  the 
Presbytery  about  copying  and  reading  "  The  De- 
claration against  the  Engagement."  In  Sept.  1648 
he  was  present  at  the  process  against  Robert 
Whyte.  On  Nov.  7,  1648,  he  was  member  of  a 
Committee  of  Synod  appointed  for  "  trying  if 
any  member  of  the  assemblie  had  bein  active 
promoters  of  the  last  sinfull  ingadgemenr,  or  had 
accession  yrto,  or  had  hand  in  carieing  on  the 
samen."  This  Committee  reported  that  they  had 
"  cleared  their  number,"  but  that  there  "  are 
fyve  ruling  Elders  who  have  had  accession  to  the 
ingagement."  On  Feb.  8,  1649,  John  Pringle, 
another  Expectant,  is  charged  with  not  preaching 
against  the  Engagement.  Evidence  is  led  at  some 
length,  and  in  the  end  certain  charges  are  found 
proven,  such  as  "  that  he  was  erroneous  in  his 
judgment  by  thinking  the  engagement  law  full, 
and  in  his  practice  by  venting  this  his  erroneous 
judgment  in  diverse  places  and  companies,"  &c. ; 
"  for  which  causes,"  it  is  added,  "  though  some  of 
the  brethren,  namely,  Mr.  Robert  Leightone  and 
Mr.  Jhone  Sinclare  (thought)  that  to  their  best 
sense  and  judgment,  he  had  testified  to  them  and 
evidenced  true  signes  of  sorrow  and  repentance  for 
his  errors  and  miscarriages  in  relation  to  the  late 
engagement,  the  Presbytery  suspended  him  from 
preaching  till  he  should  give  furder  evidences  of 
repentance."  Again,  on  Sept.  6,  1649,  when  Mr 
Rofc  Lighton  was  present  and  concurring,  "  the 
Presbyterie  appointed  every  brother  to  give  in  the 
names  of  all  qho  in  their  parishes  had  bene  upon 
the  lait  unlawful  ingagement,  and  had  not  as  yet 
neither  satisfied  nor  supplicate." 

Surely  it  is  inconceivable  that  a  man  of  Leigh- 
ton's  high  principle  and  honour  could  have  acted 
in  this  way,  and  judged  others  as  he  did,  if  he 
had  in  secret  held  the  same  opinions ;  and  it  is  still 
more  inconceivable,  if  he  had  actually  declared 


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for  the  Engagement,  and  spoken  to  his  own  pa- 
rishioners, in  the  way  Burnet  says  he  did. 

I  hoped  to  have  found  something  connected 
with  his  resignation  of  his  charge  that  would  have 
thrown  light  upon  this  step.  I  was,  however,  dis- 
appointed. The  proceedings  connected  with  his 
resignation  are  recorded  at  full  length,  and  he  is 
called  upon  to  state  his  reasons  for  desiring  to  be 
loosed  from  the  ministry.  The  only  reasons,  how- 
ever, which  he  assigns  are  those  already  men- 
tioned, viz.  his  want  of  strength,  and  the  extreme 
weakness  of  his  voice.  Shortly  before  he  had 
been  taking  a  more  than  usually  active  share  in 
the  Kirk's  business.  At  the  meeting  of  Synod  in 
Nov.  4,  1651,  his  name  appears  on  every  Com- 
mittee,— among  others,  on  that  "  for  healing  the 
present  ruptures  of  the  Kirk,"  and  on  that  ap- 
pointed "  to  consider  of  ye  mariage  and  fornica- 
tion of  or  women  w*  the  English  souldiers,  and  ye 
baptizme  of  children  gotten  betwixt  them  in  for- 
nication, &c."^ 

In  connection  with  Leighton,  however,  the  most 
interesting  proceeding  of  that  Synod  was  "  in  re- 
lation to  ye  prisoners  in  the  tower  of  London  and 
about  y4  city."  It  was  resolved,  among  other 
things,  "  that  a  letter  should  be  written  to  them, 
showing  sympathie,"  and  "  that  a  fitt  mann  of  the 
Synod  be  pitched  upon  to  be  sent  to  London  w* 
commission  to  negotiate  their  liberation  and  free- 
dom." "  Mr.  Ro*  Leightoun  is  unanimously  chosen 
and  earnestly  desyred  by  the  Synod  to  undertake 
this  charge,"  "  qch  he  accepted,"  and  "  50  peeces 
were  allowed  toward  his  charges."  His  commis- 
sion and  the  letter  to  the  imprisoned  brethren  are 
inserted  in  full. 

He  did  not,  however,  set  out  till  April,  1652,  as 
appears  from  the  Presbytery's  minute  of  April  29. 
"  The  qlk  day  ther  com  an  letter  from  Mr  Ro*  Lichton, 
desyring  the  Brethren  to  have  an  cair  of  suppling  his 
place  during  his  abode  in  England,  in  respect  he  wes  go- 
ing to  see  if  he  can  obtaine  any  sort  of  libertie  to  those 
ministers  who  wer  keepet  in  the  tower  and  uther  places." 
His  name  does  not  again  occur  till  Dec.  16, 
when  it  is  recorded  that  there  was  "  a  letter  from 
Mr.  Ro*  Lichtone  presented  be  Mr.  Heu  Camp- 
bell, qrin  he  demits  his  charge  of  his  ministrie  at 
Neubotle  :  qlk  the  Presbyterie  refused  to  accept. 
Appoints  the  Moderator  to  writ  to^him,  and  to 
desyre  him  to  returne  to  his  charge." 

From  this  it  is  evident  that  he  remained  in 
London  from  May  till  December  1652.  What  was 
the  secret  history  of  these  eight  months,  and  what 
the  influences  that  acted  upon  him,  it  is  impos- 
sible now  to  say,  so  that  the  precise  reason  for  his 
demission  of  his  charge,  whether  that  was  the  dis- 
tracted state  of  the  Kirk,  circumstances  con- 
nected with  his  mission  to  London,  a  change  of 
opinion,  or,  as  he  himself  alleges,  simply  his  bodily 
infirmity,  must,  I  fear,  remain  a  mystery. 
There  are  various  other  points  which  1  might 


lave  noticed,  but  my  note  has  already  ext 
o  too  great  a  length ;  I  must  therefore  content 
myself  with  the  notice  of  two  other  extracts.  On 
June  14,  1649,  "Mr.  Robert  Lighten  declaired 
.hat  his  father  being  under  sicklies  had  written 
for  him,  and  thairfor  desyred  libertie  to  goe  and 
visite  him."  Permission  was  given,  and  he  seems 
;o  have  remained  away  till  September.  It  is  pro- 
vable that  his  father's  death  occurred  at  this  time, 
as  on  his  next  visit  to  London  in  March,  1650,  he 
obtained  libertie  to  go  on  "  weightie  buainesse." 
This  "weightie  busmesse,"  doubtless,  was  the 
failure  of  the  merchant  in  whose  hands  was  placed 
the  WOOL  which  Leighton  had  inherited  from  bis 
father,  and  about  which  he  wrote  to  Mr.  Light- 
maker  on  Dec.  31,  1649,  and  Feb.  4,  1650.  In 
connection  with  this  a  curious  document  occurs 
in  the  Parochial  Records  of  this  parish,  from 
which  it  would  seem  that  Leighton  had  been  put 
to  inconvenience  by  the  loss  of  the  money.  In- 
deed, at  an  earlier  period  of  his  incumbency,  he 
would  seem  to  have  been  in  straits,  as  on  June  29, 
1645,  the  following  entry  had  been  made  (it  was 
erased  subsequently  by  a  pen  being  drawn  through 
it,  but  it  is  still  legible)  :  "  Thair  lent  out  of  the 
pooris  money  to  the  minister  w*  consent  of  the 
Session,  500  merks  scottis."  In  1650,  however, 
he  actually  did  borrow  from  the  Session  : 

« The  term  of  Mertemess,  1650.      The  qlk  day,  Ro* 
Porteus  did  disschairg  himself  off  the  mony  qlk  he  was 
dew  to  the  schurch  off  Newbottell,  and  his  deburseraent  u 
all  allowet.    He  restit  off  fre  mony,  v»  soume  off  ane 
thousand    merks  scotis,  quhitch  were  delyvent 
lichtonne,  minister  thaire,  for  y«  quhitch  he  hes  gevan 
his  bond  to  pay  interest,  and  now  at  this  term  of 
sonday,  1651,  y"  a*  Mr.  lichtonne  bea  debureet  y  ' 
veirs  interest  from  Mertemess,  1650,  to  Witsounday.  1G51. 
at  dispositione  of  the  Elders,  and  to  testifie  tbir  prer     sea, 
we  ve  Elders  underwritten  hes  sub*cryvit  with  o'  handa. 
«•  THOMAS  MBOOT,  Witnesa, 
"  Ro«  PORTBOUS.  Yonger. 
«  JOHN  TRENT,  Witness.  ^ 

"  JOHN  EDMONSTONE,  NVitnesa. 

I  have  only  to  add  that  the  •'  Extracts  "  which 
form  the  groundwork  of  this  communication,  wuj 
be  published  in  full  in  the  next  number  of  the 
Transactions  of  the  Antiquarian  Society  of  Edin- 
burgh. •  THOMAS  GOEDOH. 

Newbattle  Manse. 


SIR  JOHN  ELIOT. 

In  Mr.  Forster's  Life  of  this  Statesman  (; 
men  of  the    Commonwealth,   i.   9),   he   menti- 
fmistake  of  the  late  Mr.  D'Israeli,  who  appear, 
to  have  confounded  Sir  John  with  his  son  ;  and 
states  that  he  was  «  fined  by  the  Court 


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[3*d  S.  I.  JUNE  7,  '62. 


a  subject,"  viz.  "  an  entry  in  the  Earl  of  Leices- 
ter's Journal." 

In  turning  over  Hutchins's  History  of  Dorset, 
however,  I  find  another  record,  which  somewhat 
remarkably  corroborates  Mr.  Forster's  conclusion. 
In  the  church  of  Cranborne,  Dorset,  described  by 
Hutchins,  vol.  ii.  p.  144,  edit.  1774,  there  is,  or 
was,  a  monument,  the  inscription  of  which  I  tran- 
scribe, as  he  gives  it :  — 

«  MS. 

"  Desideratissimi  capitis  Johannis  Eliot,  Jo.  F.  Cornu- 
biensis  Armigeri,  ex  Honora  F.  Danielis  Norton  Militis 
South,  qui  dum  hie  vernaculis  literis  incubuit,  repeutina 
vi  morbi  oppressus  occubuit,  2  Februar.  MDCXLI. 

"At  qualis  adolescentulus,  quantas  spei  in  aetate  tarn 
puerili,  vix  uspiam  majus  exemplum  memoriae,  coraitatis, 
ingenii,  dotum  denique  naturae  omnium.  Quas  dum  arte 
sedulb  et  studiose  perpolire  conatur,  supercressus  fere 
modum  humanum,  Angelorum  inseritur  choro.  Avia  D. 
N.  Nepoti  bene  merenti  mserens 

«  P.P. 
"  Parvus  avos  referens,  puer  hie  non  degener  ambos 

Nortonum  vivos,  Eliotumque  dedit. 
Septenni  incidit  vitam,  laudesque  parentum, 

Mors,  vitas  victrix,  laudibus  inferior, 
QUJB  tamen  immodicos  virtutis  crescere  fructus, 
In  teneris  annis  imperiosa  vetat." 

Though  I  am  not  quite  sure  that  I  understand 
all  this,  and  specially  the  "  longs  and  shorts,"  I 
believe  the  long  and  short  of  the  matter  to  be, 
that  John  Eliot,  son  of  John  Eliot,  Esq.  of  Corn- 
wall, by  Honora,  daughter  of  Sir  Daniel  Norton, 
of  Southwick,  co.  of  Hants,  a  very  clever  little 
boy,  resembling,  either  in  person  or  character, 
both  his  paternal  and  maternal  grandsires,  died 
suddenly  at  Cranborne,  where  he  was  obtaining 
the  English  part  of  his  education,  at  the  early 
age  of  seven  years,  in  Feb.  1642  (according  to 
modern  calculation)  ;  and  that  his  afflicted  grand- 
mother, Lady  Norton,  erected  this  monument  to 
his  memory. 

Now,  as  good  Sir  John  was  "  done  to  death  " 
in  1632,  the  poor  little  boy,  who  died  aged  seven 
in  1642,  could  not  of  course  be  his  son;  whilst  all 
the  evidence  we  have  favours  the  hypothesis  that 
he  was  his  grandson, — son  of  the  wild  young  man, 
who  was  fined  for  running  away  with  Honora 
Norton,  daughter  of  stout  old  Sir  Daniel,  by 
Honora,  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  John  White, 
of  Southwick,  Esq. 

I  make  the  less  apology  for  this  over-long  note ; 
first,  because  it  is  possible  that  the  Epitaph  may 
have  been  overlooked  by  the  genealogists  of  the 
Eliot  family,  who  have  no  other  local  connexion 
with  Dorsetshire,  as  far  as  I  am  aware  ;  secondly, 
because  we  shall  be  glad  of  any  elucidation  of  the 
matter  for  Messrs.  Shipp  &  Hodson's  forthcoming 
edition  of  Hutchins ;  and  thirdly,  because  the 
smallest  fact  becomes  interesting,  when  it  relates 
to  men  like  that  illustrious  proto-martyr  of  Eng- 
lish liberty,  Sir  John  Eliot.  C.  W.  BINGIIAM. 


CURIOUS  CUSTOMS  IN  THE  COUNTY  OF  WEX- 
FORD. 

Having  spent  some  pleasant  juvenile  days  in 
the  county  of  Wexford,  I  was  enabled  to  observe 
many  curious  customs  amongst  the  people.  These 
customs  were  not  confined  to  any  class,  but  pre- 
vailed from  the  highest  to  the  humbler  classes  alike. 
For  instance,  when  the  children  of  a  family  caught 
the  "  chin  cough,"  they  were  at  once,  soon  as  it 
was  ascertained  to  be  that  epidemic,  sent  off  to 
the  nearest  country  mill,  and  dipped  three  times 
in  the  hopper  (everyone  knows  what  the  "  hopper  " 
of  a  mill  is),  and  then  passed  three  times  under 
the  belly  and  over  the  back  of  an  ass.  I  have 
seen  it  performed  several  times,  but  will  not  vouch 
for  any  efficacy.  The  operation  was  attempted  on 
myself  when  about  eight  years  of  age,  but  I  kicked 
so  vigorously  and  screamed  so  awfully  that  it 
was  given  up  ;  and  I  believe  that  kicking  and 
screaming  had  more  effect  on  the  cure  than  the 
hopper  and  ass  operation  could  have  exercised. 

They  had  a  custom  (I  suppose  they  have  it 
still),  of  lighting  candles  (more  or  less)  in  every 
window  in  the  house,  on  the  night  of  the  Vigil  of 
All  Souls,  and  when  travelling  along  a  country 
road,  where  farm-houses  and  cottages  were  plenty, 
the  effect  was  quite  picturesque  of  a  dark  Novem- 
ber eve. 

Another  custom  was  in  regard  to  a  "  stye  on 
the  eye."  It  was  supposed  never  to  get  well 
unless  it  was  pricked  with  a  thorn  from  a  goose- 
berry bush,  and  I  have  known  the  peasantry  to 
go  two  or  three  miles  for  a  thorn  of  that  fruit  tree, 
in  order  to  produce  the  cure. 

When  very  young  I  was  an  ardent  disciple  of 
old  Izaak  Walton  (and  so  still  if  opportunity 
served),  and  having  uncontrolled  liberty  of  the 
best  trout  and  salmon  rivers,  with  rod,  in  Ire- 
land (the  Slaney),  I  indulged  in  the  sport  with 
various  success.  One  day,  returning  without  any 
success  at  all,  an  old  man,  after  looking  at  my  flies, 
told  me  that  I  must  get  a  fresh  supply,  and  then  put 
a  grass  mouse  in  my  book  amongst  them ;  that 
there  was  a  peculiar  charm  about  the  mouse  that 
the  trout  could  not  resist !  I  procured  a  fresh 
supply  of  flies  from  Dublin,  and,  after  great  hunt- 
ing, got  the  mouse  —  for  it  is  a  peculiar  little 
thing,  not  easily  to  be  met  with,  —  and  on  the 
first  use  of  the  flies,  with  the  "  charm,"  I  was  ex- 
ceedingly successful.  In  the  evening  I  met  an 
old  and  experienced  "  whipper  of  the  stream,"  who 
appeared  quite  astonished  at  my  basket,  and  at 
last  asked  me  if  I  had  got  a  grass  mouse.  I  re- 
plied in  the  affirmative,  when  he  cautioned  me 
particularly  never  to  confide  that  secret  to  any- 
one unless  a  brother  of  the  "  gentle  art,"  for  if  I 
did  the  charm  would  cease.  Some  years  after- 
wards I  found  out  that  the  secret  of  success  lay  in 
the  flies,  and  not  in  the  mouse,  but  also  found  out 
that  the  all-successful  anglers  carried  one  in  their 


3'dS.  I.  JUNE  7, '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


447 


books.  Keason  had,  iu  the  meantime,  eschewed 
the  charm  so  far  as  I  was  concerned,  but  I  met 
many  old,  and  otherwise  sensible,  men  who  be- 
lieved in  it  most  firmly,  and  kept  the  secret 
amongst  themselves.  The  mouse  in  question  is 
much  smaller  than  the  domestic  mouse,  and  lives 
in  fields  and  groves.  From  the  snout  to  the  apex 
of  the  head,  is  nearly  half  the  entire  length  of  the 
whole.  The  colour  is  much  brighter  —  I  might 
say  gayer  —  than  its  namesake,  and  it  emits  rather 
an  agreeable  odour.  This  little  animal  is  difficult 
to  be  got.  What  is  it  in  natural  history  ? 

S.  REDMOND. 

Liverpool. 


tflfnar  ftatt&. 
THE  PBINCE  CONSORT  :  —  In  Memoriam. 

ALBERT! 

PRINCIPIS  OPTIMI 

VALDISSIME    DEFLETI 

IN  MEMORIAM. 

Fracta  columna  meam  posui  tellure  coronam  ; 
Fracta  tamen  reliqua  sidera  parte  peto. 

R. 

THE  NIGHTINGALE  AND  THE  HOP.  —  In  speak- 
ing of  the  nightingales  who  have  recently  been 
heard  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Manchester,  the 
editor  of  the  Worcester  Herald  makes  the  follow- 
ing observation  in  his  paper  for  May  17th :  — 

"There  is  a  tradition  of  hops  having  been  planted 
many  years  ago  near  Doncaster,  and  of  the  nightingale 
making  its  appearance  about  the  same  time.  The  popu- 
lar idea  was,  that  between  the  bird  and  the  plant  some 
mysterious  connecting  link  existed,  but  both  the  hop  and 
the  nightingale  disappeared  long  ago." 

This  is  a  bit  of  folk  lore  worth  preserving ;  but 
what  gave  rise  to  the  idea  ?  It  is  certain  that  it 
is  not  a  fact.  For  example:  although  within 
half  a  mile  of  the  house  in  Huntingdonshire  from 
whence  I  write  this  Note  there  is  a  large  field  by 
the  side  of  the  Great  North  Road,  which  still  re- 
tains the  name  of  "  the  Hop  Grounds,"  and  helps 
to  remind  us  of  a  time  when  this  county  was 
described  by  Bede  and  William  of  Malmesbury 
as  "the  garden  of  England,"  and  was  rich  in 
vines  and  hops,  yet  I  should  suppose  that  there  is 
not  a  hop-yard  within  a  very  extensive  radius  of 
this  locality,  nor  has  been  for  centuries ;  never- 
theless, nightingales  abound  in  every  direction, 
singing  night  and  day  — 

"  By  the  dusty  roadside  drear," 
and  in  every  spinny  and  wood. 

CUTHBERT  BEDE. 

On  the  25th  of  May,  at  half-past  10  at  night,  I 
heard  a  nightingale  in  a  shrubbery  belonging  to 
Ed.  Peyton,  Esq.,  of  Moor  Green,  near  Moseley ; 
and  as  it  is  almost  unknown  in  this  neighbour- 


ixcra 
j.  fjt 


hood,  and  I  believe  rarely  seen  or  heard  north  of 
Warwick  in  this  county,  I  think  it  rather  strange 
especially  so  near  to  a  large  town  as  Birmingham. 
Ihose  ot  your  correspondents  who  reside  in  the 
more  favoured  counties  of  the  South  of  England 
may  be  surprised  at  these  remarks,  but  thi/bird 
is  almost  as  great  a  rarity  here  as  the  robin-red- 
breast would  be  in  Australia. 

Can  you  inform  me  what  is  the  meaning  of 

-gale,  in  the  termination  of  nightingale  f    Bailey 

derives  the  word  from  the  Saxon 

(Node  canens  gallus). 

Edgbaston. 

[The  following  is  Richardson's  derivation  of  nightin- 
gale :  "  A.-S.  Nicht-gale  ;  Dut.  Nacht-gale  ;  Ger.  NachtigvL 
from  nicht,  the  night,  and  galan,  to  gale,  to  sing."  Chau- 
cer, as  cited  by  Richardson,  employs  the  rerb,  to  oo/e,  in 
the  sense  of  singing.—  ED.] 

SPANISH  ARMADA.  —  The  despatch,  preserved 
in  her  Majesty's  State  Paper  Office,  announcing 
the  arrival  of  the  Spanish  Armada  in  the  English 
Channel  is  a  relic  of  the  age  no  less  curious  than 
interesting.  The  writer  of  it  was  one  Edward 
Doddington,  a  gentleman  serving,  most  probably, 
on  board  the  Lord  Admiral's  ship. 

"  July  25th. 

«  Right  Ho.  Heare  is  a  ffleete  at  tbia  instant  coming 
in  uppon  us,  semid  at  north  west,  by  all  Jjkelywode  it 
shoudbe  the  enymy.  Hast  makes  mee,  I  can  write  noe 
more.  I  beseech  yr  LI.  to  pardon  mee,  and  soe  referr  all 
to  yr  ho.  most  depyst  considerationes. 

"  Your  ho.  most  humbel  lo  comarul, 

"  En.  DoDlNQTOJf. 

"  Ffrom  the  Ffleete  at  Plymouthe 

"  the  25  of  Julie  158$" 

But  the  most  curious  part  is  the  address  : 

"For  her  Majtle«  spetiall  sarvise 

To  the  Right  honorable  the 

Lords  of  her  Mau  moste 

ho.  prevy  cunsell 

hast  post  hast 

ffor  lyffe  hast1 

hast  post  hast 

ffor  Ijffe." 

Preserved  in  the  same  office  are  two  or  three 
more  letters,  also  having  on  their  covers  the  figure 
of  a  gallows,  to  denote  the  writer's  haste,  and  the 
consequences  to  all  dilatory  bearers.  When  and 
where  did  this  unmistakeable  symbol  of  despatch 
originate?  QUERIST. 

PARISH  REGISTER.  —  I  note  an  account  (2nd  S. 
xii.  412),  of  the  rescue  and  restoration,  by  Mr. 
Robert  Fitch,  of  a  register  of  the  parish  of  North 
Elmham,  co.  Norfolk;  and  on  the  next  page  an 
account  of  a  similar  rescue  and  restoration  of  a 
register  of  the  parish  of  Kingston-on-Tharnes  bj 
Mr.  J.  BELL  :  here  is  another  chance  for  some  one 
to  do  good  in  the  same  way. 

In  the  current  book  Catalogue,  No.  xix.,  of 
James  Coleman,  22,  High  Street  Bloomsburj, 
London,  is  the  following  item  :—  "  302.  The  Ke- 
ligion  of  Protestants  a  Safe  Way  to  Salvation, 


448 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  s.  I.  JUNE  7,  '62. 


with  this  note  by  the  bookseller  :  "  This  appear 
to  have  been  the  minister's  copy  of  a  parish  in 
Breconshire ;  it  has  the  original  register  of  mar 
riages,  baptisms,  and  burials  for  the  year  1695,  ir 
the  handwriting  of  the  minister,  '  Thomas  Har 
per's  book,  1693.'  "  JAMES  KNOWLES. 

BEKESBOTJRNE  PARISH.  —  When  looking  over 
the  "furniture"  of  the  Communion  Table  of  th 
parish  of  St.  Peter's,  Bekesbourne,  with  a  view 
to  my  answer,  as  churchwarden,  to  the  articles 
exhibited  by  the  Archdeacon  of  Canterbury,  ] 
copied  the  following  inscriptions  on  various  ar- 
ticles of  the  communion  plate,  which  may  be  de- 
serving of  record  in  "N.  &  Q."  On  a  chalice, 
"  BeksT)orn,  in  an0  dmi.  1578."  On  a  patine,  "  Ec- 
clesias  de  Beaks-born,  Nicolaus  Battely,  A.M. 
D.D.D. ;"  and  on  a  complete  service,  "  Beakes- 
bourn  Church,  1846,  the  Gift  of  Jane,  the  wife  of 
George  Gipps  of  Howletts,  Esquire." 

My  attention  was  first  directed  to  the  various 
ways  in  which  the  name  of  this  parish  is  spelt. 
The  foregoing  are,  however,  a  few  from  an  almost 
endless  list.  The  London,  Chatham,  and  Dover 
Railway  Company,  having  adopted  "  Bekes- 
bourne" for  their  station  here,  I  conclude  that 
this  form  must  be  accepted  as  final. 

CHARLES  BEKE. 
Bekesbourne  House. 

COMPOSING  TYPE  BY  MACHINERY.  —  Seven 
years  ago  I  submitted  a  plan  to  the  proprietors  of 
The  Timestbat  they  should  have  the  debates  in  par- 
liament reported  direct  from  thence  to  their  com- 
posing office,  by  means  of  the  electric  telegraph  ; 
this,  as  yet,  has  not  become  a  realised  fact,  though, 
doubtless,  it  will  ultimately  be  so. 

In  the  International  Exhibition,  however,  there 
is  a  machine  by  the  aid  of  which  the  speeches  in 
both  houses  might  be  there  and  then  put  into 
type.  A  brief  description  of  it  I  think  should 
appear  in  your  columns. 

_  This  machine,  the  principle  of  which  is  not  en- 
tirely new,  is  in  front  like  a  piano,  each  note  or 
key  being  marked  with  the  various  kind  of  letters 
or  numerals  used  in  composing ;  these  keys  com- 
municate by  wires  with  the  corresponding  letters 
in  reservoirs  above,  so  that  when  a  key-note  is 
depressed,  the  type  required  slides  from  the  re- 
servoir down  an  inclined  plane  into  the  receiving- 
case  ;  thence  by  means  of  a  small  pusher,  put  in 
motion  by  an  instrument  worked  by  the  player's 
foot,  it  is  pushed  forward  to  make  room  for  the 
succeeding  type.  The  machine  is  supplied  with 
as  many  reservoirs  and  keys  as  there  are  distinct 
characters  in  a  fount  of  type ;  so  that  any  player 
can  listen  to  a  speech  or  read  a  MS.,  and,  by  the 
aid  of  the  keys,  set  up  the  words  and  sentences  as 
fast  as  his  or  her  skill  in  the  use  of  the  instrument 
admits.  By  these  means  12,000  letters  per  hour 
can  at  present  be  set  up;  by  rapid  habit,  and 


constant  practice  double  this  number  per  hour 
might  be  composed  by  the  present  machine.  Who 
can  now  tell  what  an  improved  construction  may 
ultimately  accomplish  ?  JAMES  GILBERT. 

2,  Devonshire  Grove,  Old  Kent  Road. 


THE  HOUSE  OF  FALA  HALL. 
In  the  Scottish  Journal  of  5th  February,  1848, 
a  correspondent,  W.  D.,  makes  a  very  interesting 
inquiry  regarding  the  whereabouts  of  this  ancient 
baronial  structure.  He  states  that  he  has  for 
several  years  been  fruitlessly  anxious  to  learn 
some  particulars  regarding  the  condition  of  an  edi- 
fice designated  by  our  great  heraldic  authority,  the 
learned  and  judicious  Nisbet,  "an  ancient  monu- 
ment of  arms,"  and  to  which,  in  the  5th  [1st?]  vo- 
lume of  his  Heraldry,  he  makes  reference  upwards 
of  twenty  times,  in  illustration  of  the  armorial 
bearings  of  as  many  barons  "  illuminate,"  to  use 
his  own  expression,  in  the  House  of  Fala  Hall. 
W.  D.  appears  never  to  have  received  any  answer 
to  his  inquiry,  and  he  remarks,  that  it  seems 
strange  that  every  reminiscence  of  the  heraldic 
splendour  of  a  fabric  which  may  be  reasonably 
supposed  to  have  been  entire  for  nearly  half  a 
century  after  it  was  so  strikingly  characterised  by 
Nisbet  in  1772  (and  also  in  his  2nd  volume,  of 
date  1744),  should*  have  been  altogether  obli- 
terated. 

The  following  are  a  few  of  the  barons'  names 
whose  arms  were  "illuminate,  as  I  have  seen 
them"  says  Nisbet,  "with  those  of  other  Scots 
barons,  on  the  roof  of  Fala  Hall,  an  ancient  monu- 
ment of  arms  "  (A.D.  1604)  :  — 

"  The  Ogilvys  of  that  Ilk ;  the  Ogilvys  of  Inchmartine ; 
,he  Ogilvys  of  Finlaterj  Lundy  of  that  Ilk;  Muir  of 
Daldwell;  Maxwell  of  Calderwood ;  Jardineof  Applegirth; 
Kerr,  Lord  Jedburg;  Tweedie  of  Drumelzier;  Edmiston 
)fDuntreath;  McDougallof  Garthland;  Maitlandof  Leth- 
ngton ;  Falconer  ofHalkerton;  Blackadder  of  Tulliallan; 
Tvine  of  Drum  ;  Lumisden  of  that  Ilk  ;  Grierson  of  Lagg ; 
,ord  Thirlestane :  Crawford  of  Lacknorris :  Auchterlony 
f  Kelly,"  &c. 

That  Fala,  wherever  situated,  had  been  a  place 
>f  some  note  may  be  seen  from  the  following  pro- 
clamation :  — 

'JAMES  REX. 

"  We  James  by  the  Grace  of  God,  King  of  Scots,  con- 
iderand,  the  Faith  and  good  Servis  of  our  right  traist 
Mend,  John  Scot  of  Thirlestaine,  quha  command  to  our 
Host  at  Soutra  Edge,  with  three  score  and  ten  Launders 
on  Horse  back,  of  his  friends  and  followers,  and  beand 
willing  to  gang  with  us  into  England,  when  all  our  nobles 
,nd  others  refused,  he  was  ready  to  stake  all  at  our  bid- 
.ing  :  for  which  cause  it  is  our  will :  And  we  do  strictly 
harge  and  command  our  Lion  Herauld  and  his  Deputies 
or  the  Time  beand,  to  give  and  to  grant  to  the  said  John 
scot,  an  Border  of  Flower-de-Lisses,  about  his  Coat  of 
Arms,  sick  as  in  our  Royal  Banner,  and  alsewae  ane 


S.  I.  JUNE  7,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Bundle  of  Launces  above  his  Helmet,  with  the  words 
eaddy  ay  Readdy  :  that  he  and  all  his  aftercummers  may 
brnck  the  samen,  as  a  Pledge  and  Taiken  of  our  Goodwill 
and  Kindness  for  his  Trew  Worthiness ;  And  thir  our  Let- 
ters seen,  ye  naeways  failzie  to  do.    Given  at  Fala-muire 
1  Privy  Casket,  the  xxvn.  day  of 

;  By  the  King's  Special  Ordinance, 

"THOMAS  ARESKINE. 

I  should  be  glad  if  any  of  the  numerous  corre- 
spondents of  "N.  &  Q."  could  give  any  informa- 
tion regarding  this  ancient  baronial  structure. 

MARCHMONT. 

i  t^<Fal?  S11  k*s  lo1!6*^  been  inured  after  in  our 
*  S.  vi.  532;  viii  134.  Fala  parish  is  situate  in  Mid 
Lothian,  co.  Edinburgh,  and  is  now  united  with  Soutra 
in  East  Lothian.  In  this  locality  the  ancient  sites  of  Ha- 
milton and  Fala  Halls  (although  their  mansions  are  now 
deserted  and  dismantled),  by  the  singular  beauty  of  their 
situation,  their  cultivated  fields  and  wooded  enclosures 
and  their  interesting  hills,  afford  every  variety  of  delight 
to  the  lover  of  the  picturesque.  — .  Statistical  Account  of 
A»~"/'""/  '  *««  See  also  Chalmers's  Caledonia,  ii.  824.-1 


Wcotland,  i.  535. 


QUOTATION  REFERENCES,  ETC.,  WANTED. 

Can  any  readers  of  N.  &  Q."  kindly  help  with 
references  for_more  or  fewer  of  the  subjoined  quo- 
tations ?  As  the  work  for  which  the  verifications 
are  required  is  being  passed  through  the  press, 
early  answers  through  "  N.  &  Q."  or  by  letter  to 
the  Editor,  will  very  much  oblige. 

From  St.  Augustine. 

1.  "As  St.  Austin  saith  very  well,  between  these  two, 
tribulation  on  our  part,  and  comfort  on  God's  part,  our 
life  runs  between  these  two.    Our  crosses  and  God's  com- 
forts, they  are  both  mingled  together  .  .  .  ." 

2.  "  As  St.  Austin  answers  this  in  himself.    Do  but 
begin  to  live  as  a  Christian  should,  and  see  if  thou  shalt 
not  be  used  unchristianly  of  them  that  are  Christians  in 
name  but  not  in  deed." 

3.  "  As  St.  Austin  saith,  nothing  is  more  strong  than 
a  humble,  empty  spirit,  because  it  makes  the  creature  to 
go  out  of  itself  to  Him  that  is  strength  itself  and  comfort 
itself  ,  .  .  ." 

4.  "  Saith  St.  Austin,  I  dare  say  and  stand  to  it,  that 
it  is  profitable  for  some  men  to  fall:  they  grow  more 
holy  by  their  slips  .  .  .  ." 

5.  "  As  St.  Austin  saith  well,  A  man  that  is  freed  from 
sin  ought  to  thank  God  as  well  for  the  sins  that  he  hath 
not  committed,  as  for  the  sins  that  he  hath  had  for- 
given." 

6.  "  As  St.  Austin  saith  well,  God  hath  made  the  rich 
for  the  poor,  and  the  poor  for  the  rich  .  .  .  ." 

7.  "  So  holy  St.  Austin,  what  saith  he  to  a  Donatist 
that  wronged  him.  in  his  reputation?    Think  of  Austin 
what  you  please,  as  long  as  my  conscience  accuseth  me 
not  with  God,  I  will  give  you  leave  to  think  what  vou 
will  .  .  .  ." 

8.  "  Therefore  St.  Austin  doth  well  define  predestina- 
tion ;  it  is  an  ordaining  to  salvation,  and  a  preparing  of 
all  means  thereto." 

9.  "  As  St.  Austin  saith  .  .  .  Christ,  saith  he,  speaks 
to  the  sea,  and  it  was  quiet  ....  but  he  speaks  to  us  in 
the  ministry  to  stay  our  violent  courses  in  sin,  and  we 
puff  and  swell  when  we  are  told  of  our  faults." 

10.  «  To  force  men  to  the  means  of  faith,  it  is  not  to 


domineer  over  faith.    St.  Austin  himself  was  on<*  of  thi 
mind,  that  people  were  not  to  be  forced      It  is  tnu 


they  ma 


ed  to  the  means. 


12. 


From  St.  Chryiost 


13.  "As  St  Chrysoatom  saith,  whatsoever  is  written  in 
the  conscience  may  be  wiped  out  by  daily  repentance  " 

»  JM%£R!!!  °b8ervati°n  <*&•  ch^toni.  *«  do  .n 


From  St.  Cyprian. 


From  Luther. 

17.  "Luther's  speech  is  verv  good,  All  things  come 
from  God  to  his  church  especially,  in  contraries." 

18.  "  Luther  was  wont  to  say,  Good  works  are  jrood 
but  to  trust  in  good  works  is  damnable  " 

19.  ^'Luther  saith,  Go  to  God  in  Christ  in  the  pro- 

The  Schoolmen. 

20.  "  The  Schoolmen  say, that  Christ's  pains 

were  the  greatest   pains,  because  his  senses  were  not 
dulled  and  stupified  with  sensuality,"  &c, 

Anonymous. 

21.  "  In  a  war  of  theirs  [the  Papists]  with  the  Turks, 
the  story  is  well  known,  when  the  cardinals  had  broken 
their  promise  after  they  bad  in  a  manner  gotten  the  vic- 
tory, the  Turks  cried  to  Christ  that  he  would  revenge 
their  treachery,  and  the  Turks  again  came  upon  them 
and  overcame  them."     [  Authority  for  this  story  ?  ] 

22.  "  As  the  heathen  man  said,  The  disease  is  above  the 
cure."     [Who?] 

23.  "Many   build    castles  in    the  air,  comb-Downes 
[sic],  as  we  say."    [Comb-downes,  what?] 

From  St.  Ambrose. 

24.  "Saith  St.  Ambrose,  Et  nobis  malus,  &c.,  Our  care 
must  be  that  no  man  speak  ill  of  us  without  a  lie." 

25.  "  Remember  the  saying  of  St.  Ambrose,  We  must 
not  strive  for  victory  but  for  truth." 

From  Jotephus. 

26.  "  As  Josephus  writes  of  the  Samaritans,  thej  are. 
as  water  which  is  fashioned  to  the  vessel." 

From  Damascene. 

27.  "  The  very  angels  are  changeable  as  they  are  crea- 
tures :  all  things  created  are  mutable.    It  is  the  observa- 
tion of  Damascene." 

From  St.  Bernard 

28.  "St.  Bernard  pitched  his  hope  on  eharitatem  adop- 
'ionis,  the  love  of  God  in  making  him  his  child ;  and 
veritatem  promissionis,  the  truth  of  God  in  performing  his 
promise." 

From  Cicero. 

29.  "  Saith  the  heathen  man,  Tully,  I  thought  myself 
wise,  but  I  never  was  so." 

r. 


AD  PERPENDICULUM. —  Among  the  numeroui 
acts  of  oppression  that  Cicero  charged  Verrea 
with,  one  was,  that  when  the  Temple  of  Castor 
was  to  be  delivered  up  to  him  as  a?dile  in  good 


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repair,  he  determined  to  find  something  to  com- 
plain of:  — 

"Venit  ipse  in  ^Edem  Castoris,  considerat  templum: 
videt  undique  tectura  pulcherrime  laqueatum,  prseterea 
cetera  nova  atque  Integra.  Versat  se  :  quserit,  quid  agat. 
Dicit  ei  quidam  ex  illis  canibus,  quos  iste  Liguri  dixerat 
esse  circa  se  raultos  :  «  Tu,  Verres,  his  quod  moliare,  nihil 
habes  ;  nisi  forte  vis  ad  perpendiculum  columnas  exigere. 
Homo  omnium  rerum  imperitus,  quaerit  quid  sit,  ad  per- 
pendiculum. Dicunt  ei,  fere  nullam  esse  columnam,  quaj 
ad  perpendiculum  esse  possit.  «  Jam,  mehercule,'  xnquit, 
«  sic  agamus  :  Columnar  ad  perpendiculum  exigantur.'  — 
Cicero,  in  Verrem,  Act  II.  lib.  I.  51. 

I  would  beg  to  inquire  —  1.  What  is  the  pre- 
cise meaning  of  ad  perpendiculum  ? 

2.  Is  it  true,  in  point  of  fact,  that  in  Roman 
buildings  there   can  hardly  be  found  a  column 
that  is  ad  perpendiculum  f 

3.  Is  this  the  case  in  other  buildings  ? 

P.  S.  CARET. 

THE  ATHENIAN  MISOGYNIST.  — 

"  Les  femmes  sont  en  leur  droit  pour  les  affaires,  car, 
comme  le  misogyne  Athenien  dit,  elles  ne  seront  jamais 
trompees,  elles  sont  trop  habituees  h  tromper  elles- 
memes,"  p.  96.  —  Essais,  par  M.  D***.  Montpelier,  1  vol. 


The  above  is  from  an  essay  on  Charron  of  no 
great  merit,  but  abounding  in  allusions  and  quota- 
tions without  reference.  Who  is  Le  Misogyne 
Athenien  f  E.  H. 

MRS.  BRIDGMAN  or  HANOVER  SQUARE.  —  Wai- 
pole,  in  his  Anecdotes  of  Painting,  refers  to  a 
manuscript  office  book,  and  states  that  "  it  was 
in  the  collection  of  Mrs.  Bridgman  of  Hanover 
Square."  I  wish  to  see  this  work  :  can  any  of 
your  readers  inform  me  what  became  of  the  col- 
lection, or  of  the  library.  Cunningham's  Hand- 
book does  not  mention  such  a  personage  as  having 
resided  there.  W.  P. 

CAPITAL  PUNISHMENT.  —  What  was  the  original 
meaning  of  the  term  "Capital  Punishment?"  and 
when  was  the  term  first  applied  exclusively  to  the 
punishment  of  death  ?  XAVIER. 

MR.  CARRINGTON.  —  In  the  Gentleman's  Mag. 
1826  (Part  i.  p.  34),  are  some  observations  on 
Mr.  Carrington's  translation  of  Plutus,  by  an  Old 
Wykhamist.  Can  you  give  me  any  information 
regarding  the  translator?  He  was  of  Queen's 
College,  Oxford  ;  M.A.  1827.  R.  INGLIS. 

Glasgow. 

DAVIDSON  FAMILY.  —  Particulars  are  requested 
respecting  the  ancestors  and  descendants  of  John 
Davidson  of  Woodside,  co.  Dumfries,  Scotland, 
whose  daughter  Helen  married,  in  October,  1761, 
James  Reid,  merchant  of  Dumfries,  and  the  late 
Sir  Thomas  Reid,  Bart.,  was  their  son.  (See 
Debrett's  Baronetage  of  England,  p.  460,  Lond. 
1840.)  I  am  also  anxious  to  know  when  the 
above  John  Davidson  died,  and  where  he  is 
buried.  JAMES  HARRIS. 


THE  FERULA.  —  I  write  to  ask  if  any  of  your 
correspondents  can  give  any  information  concern- 
ing that  instrument  of  scholastic  punishment,  the 
ferula  ?  I  believe  there  was  something  peculiar 
in  the  ferula,  distinguishing  it  from  any  other 
instrument.  Can  they  inform  me  what  shape  it 
was,  how  it  was  made,  and  whether  it  was  used 
like  the  birch.  I  am  a  Scotchman,  and  have  made 
inquiries  among  several  pedagogues  as  to  what 
instruments  they  use  for  punishing  scholars,  but 
all  they  can  tell  me  is  that  they  have  a  tawse,  or 
leather  belt  cut  into  strips,  with  which  they 
inflict  stripes  both  upon  the  palms  of  the  hands 
and  elsewhere.  Perhaps  the  ferula  was  used  in 
the  same  way.  If  you  can  inform  me  I  shall  be 
extremely  obliged.  ALLEN  DUNSTABLE. 

P.S.  Are  the  birch  and  ferula  out  of  use  now  ? 

FOREIGN  BARONS  IN  THE  COMMONS.  —  Will  you 
or  any  of  your  able  correspondents  be  so  good  as 
explain  how  it  is  that  Messrs.  L.  and  M.  de  Roth- 
schild are  styled  in  Parliamentary  Records  and 
Lists  "  Barons  "  ?  The  general  impression  is  that 
none  but  British  subjects  can  sit  in  Parliament, 
and  that  no  British  subject  can  use  in  this  country 
a  foreign  title  as  a  nomen  juris.  If,  however,  the 
Messrs,  de  Rothschild,  without  bein<?  Barons  of 
England,  Scotland,  Ireland,  Great  Britain,  or  the 
United  Kingdom  are  allowed  to  sit  in  Parliament 
under  that  title,  have  not  all  holders  of  titles  of 
foreign  nobility  or  knighthood  an  equal  right  to 
use  such  titles  publicly  in  this  country  ? 

CENSOR. 

Aberdeen. 

GERMAN  PHILOSOPHERS. — 

"A  German  philosopher  has  committed  himself  fo  the 
idea  that  polytheism  will  be  revived."  —  The  Times, 
Aug.  24,  1859.  (Second  leading  article). 

"  There  are  most  illustrious  German  scholars  at  this 
moment  who  are  fervent  Catholics.  There  are  others  who 
believe  nothing.  There  was  lately  one  eminent  authority 
who  fell  back  on  Buddhism;  and  another,  we  believe 
still  living,  German  writer,  has  been  the  champion  of 
Mahound."  —  The  Spectator,  May  17,  1862,  p.  556. 

Statements  similar  in  purport  to  the  above  are 
of  frequent  occurrence  in  our  popular  literature. 
I  have  always  found  it  impossible  to  verify  such 
assertions.  Will  some  one  tell  me  which  German 
philosopher  it  is  who  anticipates  the  revival  of 
polytheism?  who  has  fallen  back  into  Buddhism  ? 
and  what  writer  has  become  "the  champion ^of 
Mahound  "  ?  Until  the  names  of  the  persons  in- 
dicated are  given,  I  shall  continue  to  doubt  the 
truth  of  the  above  charges.  GRIME. 

RICHARD  HUNE.  —  Can  any  of  your  numerous 
readers  give  me  any  information  respecting  an 
early  printed  little  book,  entitled  The  Enquirie 
and  verdite  of  the  Quest  panneld  of  the  death  of 
Richard  Hune,  which  wasfounde  hanged  in  Lolars 
towe  r?  It  is  not  paged,  and  the  copy  which  I 
have  is  unfortunately  imperfect  at  the  end.  I 


s.  I.  JUNE  7, 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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should  be  glad  to  know  how  many  leaves  it  should 
consist  of,  and  also  the  date  and  printer's  name.* 

G.  H. 

"THE  INVECTIVE."  —  There  appeared  in  1796 
at  Glasgow,  printed  by  Robert  Chapman,  8vo,  a 
poetical  tract  entitled,  The  Invective,  a  Poem, 
with  Specimens  of  Translation  from  the  Greel 
Comic  and  Tragic  Dramas.  The  dedication  is  to 
"  Dr.  J.  Hill,  L.H.P.,"  and  the  author  apologises 
for  presuming  to  solicit  Dr.  Hill's '"respect  to  a 
hasty,  and  perhaps  abortive  attempt  in  Invective 
Poetry."  The  gentleman  thus  addressed  is  Dr. 
Hill,  Professor  of  Humanity,  as  the  Scotch  usually 
designate  the  university  Professor  of  Latin. 

The  translations  are  upon  the  whole  very  good, 
especially  those  from  Aristophanes.  Can  any  of 
your  correspondents  throw  light  on  the  author- 
ship ?  J.  M. 

JOHNSON.  —  Robert  Johnson,  a  Baron  of  the 
Exchequer  in  Ireland,  1703  to  1714,  born  in 
London  in  1657  had  (with  five  others)  a  brother 
Hales  Johnson  born  in  London  in  1661.  Their 
father,  Robert,  a  Justice  of  the  Common  Pleas 
in  Ireland  in  1669,  was  admitted  into  the  Inner 
Temple  13th  Nov.  1644;  his  will,  dated  1683,  was 
proved  in  1687.  What  was  the  maiden  name  of 
the  justice's  wife  Elizabeth  ?  Was  it  Hales  ?  Her 
will,  dated  1699,  was  proved  1703.  The  justice's 
father,  Edward,  was  a  bencher  of  the  Inner  Temple 
in  1644 ;  he  was  admitted  into  that  society  19th 
Jan.,  7th  Jas.  I.  Who  was  his  wife  ?  He  was  son 
of  Robert  Johnson  of  London,  gentleman ;  the 
same,  I  believe,  who,  under  the  name  of  "  John- 
son of  the  Tower  of  London,"  obtained  in  1604 
a  grant  of  arms,  "  gules,  three  spears'  heads,  two 
and  one  argent,  a  chief  ermine."  Any  particulars 
of  the  family  will  be  acceptable.  Y.  S.  M. 

LEWIS.  —  On  the  monument  of  a  certain  Hon. 
Hugh  Lewis,  Esq.,  of  Jamaica,  who  died  in  1785, 
there  is  the  following  coat  of  arms,  with  quarter- 
ings.  Of  what  family  was  the  gentleman  in  ques- 
tion, and  whose  arms  did  he  quarter  ?  — 

One  and  four,  azure,  a  chev.  arg.  between  three 
garbs  or ;  two,  per  chev.  az.  and  arg.,  in  chief  two 

hawks  rising;  three,  on  a  field (colour 

perished),  a  cross  or,  charged  with  five  escallops 

.  .  .  (Villier  ?)  SPAL. 

LITERATURE  OP  LUNATICS.  —  I  am  at  present 
engaged  in  preparing  a  work  on  the  literature  and 
artistic  productions  of  lunatics.  I  possess  some 


original  papers,  emanating  from  mad-houses  in 
France  —  poetical  effusions,  rough  sketches  ^  in 
pencil  or  ink.  I  am  anxious  to  procure  similar 
specimens  illustrative  of  the  partitive  action  of  the 
intellect  even  in  those  afflicted  by  decided  mental 

F*  The  dale  and  printer  of  this  very  rare  piece  were 
unknown  to  Ames  and  Herbert.  —  Vide  Typographical 
Antiquities,  ed.  1790,  iii.  1152,  — ED.] 


aberration  from  English  lunatic  asylums.  If  any 
of  the  readers  of  »  N.  &  Q."  c,m  put  me  in  the 
way  of  procuring  such  documents,  printed  or 
nal,  I  shall  indeed  feel  truly  grateful. 


Paris. 


V.P. 


LUNATICS  IN  OLD  TIMES.  —  Can  any  of  your 
readers  furnish  me  with  any  information  respect- 
ing the  treatment  of  lunatics  in  the  fifteenth,  six- 
teenth, and  seventeenth  centuries,  particularly 
with  reference  to  the  "  tree  or  stump  of  truth," 
upon  which  they  were  wont  to  be  whipped  ? 

Numerous  references  are  made  in  the  State 
Papers  of  that  period  to  the  whipping  from  village 
to  village  ;  or,  as  Shakspeare  hath  it,  "  from  ty th- 
ing to  tything  "  of  "  vagabonds,  purposeless  per- 
sons, and  sturdy  beggars;"  but  I  am  doubtful 
whether  lunatics,  who,  at  that  time,  were  licen- 
tiated,  as  Aubrey  tells  us,  to  beg  throughout  the 
country,  under  the  badge  of  the  star  of  Bethle- 
hem, were  included  in  the  appellations  "  purpose- 
less persons "  and  "  beggars,"  and  treated  in  a 
similar  manner.  I  am  inclined  to  believe  that  this 
was  the  case  from  the  words  of  Shakspeare  in 
King  Lear :  — 

"Poor  Tom,  poor  Tom;  that  eats  the  swimming  frog, 
the  toad,  the  tadpole,  the  wall-newt,  and  the  water; 
swallows  the  old  rat  and  the  ditch-do;?;  drinks  the 
green  mantle  of  the  standing  pool ;  who  it  whipped  from 
tything  to  tything,  and  stocked,  punished,  and  imprisoned." 

F.  N. 

MARY  QUEEN  or  SCOTS:  BOLTON  CASTLE. — 
Is  there  any  published  collection  of  views  of 
Queen  Mary  Stuart's  various  places  of  confine- 
ment and  residence  in  Scotland  and  England? 
And  where  is  to  be  procured  a  print  of  Bulton 
Castle,  Yorkshire?  T.  J.  H. 

MEDAL  OF  THE  LATE  DUKE  OF  YORK.  —  What 
is  the  history  of  a  little  gold  medal  of  the  late 
Duke  of  York,  weighing  only  about  ten  grains, 
and  only  about  three-tenths  of  an  inch  in  diame- 
ter ?  It  has,  on  the  obverse,  a  head  of  the  Duke, 
with  the  inscription,  "FREDERICUS  DUX  EBORAC." 
and  the  letters  "  i.  P."  (I  think)  beneath  the  head. 
On  the  reverse  is  the  inscription,  "  MULTIS  ILLS 

BONIS    FLEBILIS   OCCIDIT.       WON.    JANUAR.   1827." 

C.  W.  BlNGIIAM. 

MOORE. —  Who  was  the  Rev.  Stephen  Moore, 
Vicar  of  Doncaster,  who  is  stated  in  Dodsley's 
Annual  Register,  vol.  xlix.,  to  have  died  in  Feb. 
1807,  at  the  age  of  fifty-nine  ?  Who  was  Stephen 
Moore,  surgeon  of  the  4th  Regiment  of  Howe, 
who  died  in  July,  1771  ?  Y.  S.  M. 

NOBLEMEN  AND  BARONS.  —  In  Cunningham's 
Church  Hixtory  of  Scotland  (il  36),  I  meet  with 
he  following  expression :  — 

"  At  the  sides  of  the  long  table  were  set  forms  for  the 
noblemen,  barons,  burgesses,  bishops,  and  doctors." 

This  is  in  the  description  of  the  Assembly  at 
Perth  in  16 18. 


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Are  barons  not  noblemen  in  Scotland  ?  I  con- 
clude there  is  a  technical  distinction,  for  Mr. 
Cunningham  is  not  the  man  to  use  words  without 
a  meaning  ;  though  he  delights  in  technical  terms 
(familiar  enough,  no  doubt,  in  North  Britain)  to 
a  degree  very  perplexing  to  a  southron.  S.  C. 

PHILLIPS'S  "  CEHEALIA." — In  Phillips' s  Cerealia, 
a  poem  in  praise  of  ale,  occurs  the  following  pas- 
sage, the  meaning  of  which  may  be  plain  enough 
to°certain  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q.,"  but  to  me  it  con- 
tains so  many  obscurities,  as  well  in  allusions  as 
by  some  of  the  terms  employed,  that  I  shall  be 
thankful  for  a  brief  exposition :  — 

"  When  Britain's  hardy  sons  too  slightly  prize, 
Should  they  with  high  defence  of  triple  brass, 
Wide  circling,  live  immured  (as  erst  was  tried 
By  Bacon's  charms,  on  which  the  sickening  moon 
Look'd  wan,  and  cheerless  mew'd  her  crescent  horns, 
Whilst  Demogorgon  heard  his  stern  behest) ; 
Thrice  the  prevailing  power  of  Gallia's  arms, 
Should  there  resistless  ravage,  as  of  old 
Great  Pharamond,  the  founder  of  her  fame 
Was  wont,  when  first  his  marshall'd  peerage  pass'd 
The  subject  Rhene." 

R. 

VERIFICATION  OF  QUOTATIONS  WANTED.  —  Said 
to  be  from  Pope  Gregory's  writings  :  — 

"Lento  gradu  divina  procedit  severitas,  sed  tarditatem 
gravitate  compensat." 

"  Non  caret  scrupulo  societatis  occultse,  qui  manifesto 
facinori  desinit  obviare." — From  8eneca.(  ?) 

"Heu,  mihi,  quia  semivivus  arbitrio  hostium'meorum 
sum  periraendus,  quia  arbitrio  inimicorutn  mori  est  bis 
mori." 

B.  A. 


cauemg  hriti) 

PARSON  WHALLEY' s  WALK  TO  JERUSALEM. — 

In  Hook's  Gurney  Married,  vol.  i.  p.  146,  ed.  1838, 
occurs  the  following  sentence  :  — 

"  I  should  as  soon  think  of  walking  to  Jerusalem,  as 
Parson  Whalley  did  in  my  father's  time." 

Who  was  Parson  Whalley  ?  Did  he  walk  to 
Jerusalem  ?  Did  it  happen  in  the  last  generation 
preceding  our  own  ?  CLERICUS  WHALLEY. 

[A  young  Irish  gentleman  of  the  name  of  Whaley  set 
out  on  the  pedestrian  feat  from  Dublin  on  Monday,  the 
22nd  of  September,  1788,  to  walk  to  the  Holy  Land  and 
back  again  in  one  year,  and  which  he  accomplished 
within  the  given  time.  The  different  wagers  which  he 
betted  on  the  performance  of  this  expedition  it  is  said 
amounted  to  nearly  20.000/.  —  Vide  Gent.  Mag.  and  An- 
nual Register  for  1788  and  1789.] 

CONSECRATION  CHARACTERS. — The  Penny  Cyclo- 
paedia, Art.  "  Consecration,"  speaking  of  the  form 
of  consecration  adopted  in  the  Romish  Church, 
says  :  — 

"  On  the  admission  of  the  Bishop  and  Clergy  the 
'  Veni  Creator  '  is  chaunted,  ashes  strewn  upon  the  floor 

in  the  form  of  a  cross,  in  which  the  Bishop  with 

his  staff  traces  some  alphabetical  characters,"  &c. 


Query.  What  are  the  alphabetical  characters 
thus  traced,  and  what  is  emblematised  thereby  ? 

C.  EDWARDS. 

[While  the  choir  is  singing  the  Ahtiphon,  the  Bishop 
resumes  his  Mitre  and  Staff,  and  beginning  at  the  angle 
of  the  church  to  the  left  of  the  grand  entrance,  according 
to  the  direction  of  the  lines  that  have  been  made  (a  sal- 
tire,  or  St.  Andrew's  cross),  he  describes  upon  the  ashes, 
with  the  extremity  of  his  staff,  the  letters  of  the  Greek 
alphabet,  at  such  distances  from  each  other  as  to  occupy 
the  entire  space ;  and  in  like  manner,  on  the  other  line, 
he  makes  the  Latin  Alphabet.  Durandus  informs  us, 
that  the  alphabet  written  upon  the  cross  represented!  three 
things :  1.  The  writing  made  in  Greek  and  Latin  cha- 
racters in  the  shape  of  a  cross  representeth  the  conjunc- 
tion or  union  in  faith  of  both  people,  namely,  the  Jews 
and  the  Greeks,  which  is  made  through  the  Cross  of 
Christ;  according  to  the  saying  that  Jacob  blessed  his 
sons  with  his  hands  crossed.  2.  The  writing  on  the 
alphabet  representeth  the  page  of  both  Testaments,  be- 
cause they  be  fulfilled  by  the  Cross  of  Christ.  3.  It  re- 
presenteth the  Articles  of  Faith  ;  for  the  pavement  of  the 
church  is  the  foundation  of  our  Faith.  The  elements 
written  thereon  are  the  articles  of  faith,  in  which  igno- 
rant men  and  neophytes  from  both  peoples  be  instructed 
in  the  church.  The  sambuca,  or  staff,  with  which  the 
alphabet  is  written  showeth  the  doctrine  of  the  Apostles, 
or  the  mystery  of  the  teachers.] 

QUIPOS.  —  Can  you  inform  me  what  the  quipos 
or  knot  records  of  Peru  were,  and  where  I  can 
meet  with  an  account  of  them  ?  C.  EDWARDS. 

[  Quipos,  ropes  of  various  colours,  and  with  different 
knots,  used  by  the  ancient  inhabitants  of  Peru  to  record 
memorable  events  and  keep  accounts.  (Neuman'a  Span. 
Diet.)  The  quipu  (says  Mr.  Prescott)  was  a  cord  about 
two  feet  long,  composed  of  different  coloured  threads 
tightly  twisted  together,  from  which  a  quantity  of  smaller 
threads  were  suspended  in  the  manner  of  a  fringe.  The 
threads  were  of  different  colours,  and  were  tied  into 
knots;  the  word  quipu,  indeed,  signifies  a  knot.  The 
colours  denoted  sensible  objects:  as,  for  instance,  white 
represented  silver,  and  yellow,  gold.  They  sometimes 
also  stood  for  abstract  ideas ;  thus,  white  signified  peace, 
and  red,  war.  But  the  quipus  were  chiefly  used  for 
arithmetical  purposes.  The  knots  served  instead  of 
ciphers,  and  could  be  combined  in  such  a  manner  as  to 
represent  numbers  to  any  amount  they  required.  By 
means  of  these  they  went  through  their  calculations  with 
great  rapidity,  and  the  Spaniards  who  first  visited  the 
country  bear  testimony  to  their  accuracy.  See  Prescott's 
History  of  the  Conquest  of  Peru,  edit.  1847,  i.  109-113.] 

LATHE.  —  Can  you  inform  me  the  origin  or 
derivation  of  the  word  lathe  in  the  sense  of  asking. 
It  is  constantly  used  in  Yorkshire  and  Lancashire, 
but  only  in  connexion  with  a  burial  —  We  were 
*  lathed '  to  the  funeral  is  a  very  common  phrase.* 

G.  V.  S. 

[Lathe,  to  invite.  Chesh.  Lathing,  an  invitation. 
(Wright.)  We  think  this  word  must  be  viewed  as  a 
modification  of  the  old  Teutonic  or  Gothic  laden,  lathon, 
to  call,  to  invite,  the  d  and  the  th  being  convertible.  "  Ni 
quam  lathon  uswaurhtans."  I  came  not  to  call  righte- 
ous persons.  (Evang.  Goth.,  Mar.  ii.  17.)  It  especially 
signified  invitation  to  a  feast,  or  to  any  other  friendly 

\_*  For  the  derivation  of  Spurrings,  or  publication  of 
banns,  see  "N.  &  Q.,"  2°*  S.  xii.  271,  332,  402.- ED.] 


3'd  S.  I.  JUNE  7,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


meeting:  "gelathode,"  were  called  or  invited.  (Evana 
Arglosax.  John  ii.  2.)  See  Wachter  on  laden.  The  Ger- 
mans have  still  the  expression,  "  Jemanden  zu  Gaste  zur 
Hoehzeit,  zum  Tanze,  zum  Essen  laden,"  to  invite  any- 
one to  an  entertainment,  &c.] 

EASTER  OFFERINGS.  —  Is  there  any  legal  claim 
for  the  payment  of  Easter  Offerings,  and  to  whom 
paid  ?  To  the  rector  or  to  any  clergyman 
under  the  rank  ?  How  much  is  the  legal  sum  ? 
So  much  per  head  in  a  family  ?  Or  what  to  the 
curates,  or  can  they  claim  a  share  ?  W.  H. 

[By  the  statute  2  &  3  Edw.  VI.  cap.rviii.  §  10  (which 
has  never  been  repealed),  it  is  enacted  "  That  all  and 
every  person  or  persons,  who  by  the  laws  and  customs  of 
this  realm  ought  to  make  or  pay  their  offerings,  shall 
yearly  well  and  truly  content  and  pay  the  same  to  the 
parson,  vicar,  proprietor,  or  their  deputies  or  farmers,  of 
the  parishes  where  they  shall  dwell  or  abide : "  so  that 
it  is  clear,  Easter  Offerings,  or  personal  tithes,  as  they 
have  been  sometimes  designated,  may  be  legally  de- 
manded. It  is  not  so  easy  to  determine,  however,  whether 
they  are  due  by  common  right  or  by  custom  only.  The 
decisions  of  the  law  courts,  in  this  respect,  are  very  con- 
tradictory. The  cases  reported  would  seem  to  warrant 
the  proposition,  that  Easter  Offerings  are  due  at  the  rate 
of  twopence  for  every  person  of  sixteen  years  of  age  and 
upwards.] 

"  BABES  IN  THE  WOOD."  —  Can  any  correspon- 
dent of  "  N.  &  Q."  tell  the  origin  of  this  tale,  and 
whether  it  is  founded  on  fact  ?  or  refer  to  it  in 
print?  KM. 

[Sharon  Turner  says,  "I  have  sometimes  fancied  that 
the  popular  ballad  of  The  Children  in  the  Wood  may  have 
been  written  at  this  time,  on  Richard  [III.]  and  his 
nephews,  before  it  was  quite  safe  to  stigmatize  him  more 
openly."  (Hist,  of  England,  iii.  487,  4to.)  This  theory 
has  been  ably  advocated  by  Miss  Halsted,  in  the  Ap- 
pendix to  her  Richard  III.  as  Duke  of  Gloucester  and 
King  of  England.  Her  argument  is  based  chiefly  upon 
internal  evidence,  there  being  no  direct  proof  that  the 
ballad  is  older  than  the  date  of  the  entry  at  Stationers' 
Hall,  15th  Oct.  1595.—  Tub  Chappell's  Popular  Music  of 
the  Olden  Time,  i.  200.] 


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Hqj  Tics'. 

CENTENARIANISM:  JOHN  PRATT. 
(3rd  S.  i.  281,  399,  412.) 

On  the  2nd  of  the  present  month  (May),  I 
called  on  John  Pratt,  in  company  with  the  curate 
of  the  parish  in  which  he  lives,  with  the  view  of 
ascertaining,  if  possible,  the  evidence  by  which  his 
assertion  respecting  his  age  may  be  proved.  I 
found  him  in  wonderfully  good  health,  but  nearly 
blind;  feeble  in  his  limbs,  but  with  his  voice 
strong  and  faculties  remarkably  clear.  His  ap- 
pearance is  very  venerable,  and  his  countenance 
pleasing.  His  chief  infirmity  appears  to  be  a 
constant  wakefulness,  and  he  complains  beside  of 
pains  in  his  head,  and  of  becoming  soon  confused 
and  dizzy  on  attempting  to  think  much.  He  is, 


however,  cheerful ;  and  appears  to  be  waiting  hij 
appointed  time  in  a  spirit  of  pious  trust  and  hope- 
fulness.     He  w  not,  I  am  glad  to  be  informed,  il 
any  actual  distress,  although  poor  :  one  head  of  a 
college,  and  several  members  of  the  university, 
frequently  contributing  to  his  relief,  and  the  visi- 
tors of  the  parish  affording  occasional  help.    With 
regard  to  his  age,  he  gave  as  the  date  of  his  birth 
the  same  which  is  mentioned  in  Mr.  Tyerman's 
pamphlet,  viz.  5th  March,  1756  —  not  one  year 
earlier,  as  stated  by  your  correspondent  HEBMEH- 
TBUDE.   With  reference  to  the  fact,  that  the  entry 
of  his  baptism  is  not  found  in  the  register  of 
Grendon- under- Wood,  he  says  that  he  was  bap- 
tised privately  when  one  week  old;  and,  since 
registers  were  not  kept  with  scrupulous  exactness 
in  the  last  century,  as  well  as  somewhat  later,  it 
is  probable  that  the  entry  may  through  this  cause 
have  been  forgotten.     He  states  that  he  had  a 
family   Bible   in  which  the  date  of  his  father's 
birth,  as  well  as  of  his  own,  was  entered ;  that  it 
was  from  this  entry  that  his  own  knowledge  of 
the  date  was  derived,  and  that  he  is  certain  of  the 
accuracy  of  his  recollection.     This  Bible  he  used 
to  carry  with  him  in  his  wanderings,  until  it  was 
worn  out :  he  then  copied  the  entries  on  a  paper, 
which  he  carried  with  him  in  a  tin  box ;  but  at 
length,  during  one  of  his  journeys,  the  box  was 
lost,  and  with  it  was  lost  all  the  evidence  he  had 
of  his  age.     I  forgot  to  ask  him  where  his  first 
marriage  took  place,  the  register  of  which  would 
of  course  afford  sufficiently  proximate  proof  con- 
currently with  that  of  the  baptism  of  his  eldest 
son,  as  suggested  by  HEBMEXTBGDE  ;  but  he  inci- 
dentally mentioned,  in  the  course  of  conversation, 
that  the  first  of  fourteen  Scottish  peregrinations  was 
made  in  the  year  1780,  eighty-two  years  ago.     It 
is  hardly  probable  that  a  self-taught  Oxfordshire 
"  simpler,"  all  of  whose  travels  were  made  on  foot, 
would  be  induced  to  extend  his  tour  to  the  wilds 
and  moors  of  Scotland,  for  the  sake  of  a  few  rare 
herbs  not  to  be  met  with  in  the  rich  dells  and 
woods  of  the  South,  before  he  had  reached  that 
age  which,   if  Pratt's   memory  be  correct,  this 
year  assigns. 

It  appears  from  your  correspondence,  that  au- 
thenticated instances  of  as  great  longevity  are  by 
no  means  unknown ;  but  as  Pratt's  case  has  ob- 
tained an  unusual  degree  of  notice,  it  may  be 
worth  while  to  endeavour  to  verify  it  still  more 
positively.  If  any  of  your  readers,  who  may  have 
been  interested  by  the  notice  of  him,  should  feel 
disposed  to  forward  any  trifling  contribution  to- 
wards increasing  his  few  comforts,  or  mitigating 
the  burden  which  his  load  of  years  imposes,  I 
shall  be  happy  to  be  the  bearer  of  their  alms 
when  calling  on  him  once  more  (as  I  propose  to 
do),  to  make  inquiry  about  the  place  and  date  of 
his  marriage.  W.  D.  MACBAT. 

Magdalen  College,  Oxford. 


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[3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  7,  '62. 


SIR  G.  C.  LEWIS  will  probably  be  interested  in 
being  informed  of  the  fact,  which  is  undoubted 
and  beyond  a  question,  that  during  the  last  six 
or  seven  years  three  persons  have  died  in  the 
county  of  Sussex,  all  of  whom  lived  to  upwards  of 
one  hundred  years.  They  belonged  to  the  gentry 
of  the  county,  were  well  educated,  and  were  to 
the  last  in  the  habit  of  mingling  more  or  less  in 
society.  In  that  society,  years  before  they  be- 
came centenarians,  their  age  was  a  topic  of  conver- 
sation and  remark ;  any  exaggeration  as  regards 
age  would,  therefore,  have  been  easily  detected 
by  those  who  were  their  contemporaries  or  a  few 
years  their  seniors.  I  believe  no  Sussex  person, 
who  was  acquainted  with  either  of  these  indi- 
viduals, ever  entertained  a  doubt  of  their  being 
of  the  age  ascribed  to  them.  Their  names  were, 
Mr.  Totty,  rector  of  Fairlight ;  Mrs.  Mary  Turner, 
of  Ditchling;  and  Mrs.  Constable,  of  Cowfold. 

LL.D. 

This  question  could  be  sifted  if  some  one,  hav- 
ing access  to  the  Registrar-General's  returns, 
would  post  in  your  columns  a  list  of  persons  re- 
puted to  be  of  the  age  of  100  years  and  more  at 
the  census  of  1861,  Local  friends  of  "N.  &  Q." 
could  then  test  the  entries ;  always  remembering 
that  family  names  repeat  themselves,  even  simul- 
taneously among  brothers  and  sisters. 

In  Murray's  Handbook  to  Kent  and  Sussex  is 
the  following,  p.  232,  sub  voce  Etchingham  (Sus- 
sex) :  — 

"  The  church  has  been  most  carefully  restored  through- 
out: the  chancel  at  the  cost  of  the  rector,  the  Rev.  Dr. 
Totty,  now  (1857)  in  his  101st  year/'  * 

I  fancy  his  death  has  been  announced  in  the 
pnpers  since  that  date,  and  that  he  was  in  the 
habit,  while  able,  of  going  to  Bath  yearly  in  his 
carriage,  by  way  of  protesting  against  railroads. 
This  is  an  instance  in  which  documents  and  family 
information  would  be  less  likely  to  deceive  through 
ignorance  or  interest  than  in  the  case  of  very  poor 
people;  and  besides,  this  may  supply  a  well- 
authenticated  male  example,  such  as  SIR  G.  C. 
LEWIS  desires.  S.  F.  CRESWELL. 

The  Castle,  Tonbridge,  Kent. 

I  copy  the  following  from  the  Cambridge  Chro- 
nicle of  May  31  :  — 

"  May8,  at  Syddanf,  Meath,  [of?]  Essex,  aged  114,  Mr. 
James  Bashford.  Up  to  the  moment  of  his  death  he  was 
in  full  possession  of  all  his  faculties.  He  was  born  in  the 
year  1748,  and  from  that  time  up  to  the  period  of  his 
demise  he  enjoyed  almost  uninterrupted  good  health." 

Can  any  authentic  information  be  obtained  with 
regard  to  this  case  ? 

Last  year  I  saw  a  pensioner  in  Chelsea  Hospi- 
tal who  was  said  to  be  106  years  old.  As  SIR  G. 


[*  His  death  took  place  at  Bath  in  Dec.  1857.— ED.] 
t  In  Fullarton's  Gazetteer  of  the  World,  Svddau  is  said 
to  be  in  co.  Meath,  Ireland,  4m,  E.S.E.  of  Nobber. 


C.  LEWIS  has  been  unable  "  to  obtain  conclusive 
evidence  of  a  male  centenarian,"  he  would  do  well 
to  make  inquiry  concerning  this  case.  F.  CHANCE. 

"  LONGEVITY.  —  The  Returns,  which  have  been  issued 
for  1860,  show  that  in  that  year  '22  men  died  in  England 
and  Wales  who  had  reached  or  passed  the  age  of  100, 
and  47  women.  The  oldest  woman,  111  years  of  age, 
died  in  Glamorganshire.  With  the  men  there  was  a  tie ; 
a  man,  aged  107,  died  in  Hampshire,  and  another  of  the 
same  age  in  Pembrokeshire.  Four  of  the  centenarians 
died  in  London ;  two  others  at  Camberwell ;  one  also 
at  Greenwich;  and  one  at  Lewisham.  More  men  died 
in  the  year  than  women;  but  of  the  595  persons  who  bad 
reached  the  age  of  95  or  upwards ;  before  they  died,  nearlv 
two-thirds  were  women."  —  Times,  May  22,  1862. 

J.  W.  BATCHELER. 

Odiham. 

I  enclose  the  accompanying  cutting  from  this 
weeks  Lancet  (May  31)  as  it  may  be  interesting 
to  some  of  your  correspondents  :  — 

"  EXTRAORDINARY  LONGEVITY.  —  Two  deaths  of  cen- 
tenarians are  chronicled  by  the  Northern  Ensign.  The 
former  is  that  of  Donald  Tarrel,  a  pauper  of  Wick  parish, 
but  residing  in  the  estate  of  Forse,  parish  of  Latheron,  of 
which  parish  he  was  a  native,  for  some  years.  Tarrel  had 
reached  the  great  age  of  104  years.  The  other  was  a  John 
Murray,  a  native  of  the  parish  of  Dornoch,  but  a  pauper 
of  the  parish  of  Latheron.  He  died  at  Boultach,  La- 
theronwheel,  at  the  still  greater  age  of  107  j'ears.  It  is 
somewhat  singular  that  both  died  on  the  same  day — 
Friday  last,  their  united  ages  being  211  years!  Both 
were  strong  and  healthy  men,  and  were  in  their  better 
davs  engaged  in  out- door  employment." 

W.  I.  S.  H. 


POOR  POLL. 
(3rd  S.  i.  388.) 

If  N.  B.  wants  the  actual  hymns  from  which 
the  lines  quoted  by  him  from  the  very  excellent 
article  in  the  last  Quarterly  on  "Hymnology"  are 
taken,  I  cannot  answer  him ;  but  I  can,  at  any 
rate,  supply  him  with  tune  and  verse,  in  my 
opinion  quite  as  ridiculous. 

If  he  will  sing  a  common  metre  tune,  called 
"  Miles's  Lane,"  to  any  of  the  following  hymns, 
he  will  produce  the  effect  set  forth  in  the  Quar- 
terly's illustrations  :  — 

Verse  5,  of  hymn  32,  book  2,  Dr.  Watts's  Psalms 
and  Hymns :  — 

"  And  see  Sal— see  Sal— see  Salvation  nigh." 

Verse  7,  of  hymn  107,  book  2,  Dr.  Watts  : 
"  Where  my  Sal — my  Sal — my  Salvation  stands." 

Verse  4,  of  hymn  104,  book  1,  Dr.  Watts : 
"  No  more  poll — more  poll — more  pollute  our  hands." 
Or,  crowning  absurdity  of  all,  let  him  try  the 

same  tune  to  verse  5,  of  hymn  126,  book  2,  Dr. 

Watts:  — 

"  And  more  eggs — more  eggs — more  exalts  our  joys." 
It  is  but  fair  to  say  that  this  tune  was  written, 


3'd  S.  I.  JUNE  7,  '62.] 


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and  is  usually  sung,  to  the  well-known  words  — 
"  All  hail  the  power  of  Jesus'  name" ;  and  the 
repetition  of  the  words  "  Crown  Him,"  in  the  last 
line  of  each  verse,  is  not  so  objectionable  as  is  the 
case  with  "repeating "tunes  generally.  Fortu- 
nately for  the  ears  and  risibilities  of  the  present 
generation,  our  tunes  are  now  selected  with  much 
greater  regard  to  the  proprieties  than  some  thirty 
or  forty  years  ago.  In  some  country  churches 
and  chapels  there  may  yet  be  heard  such  abor- 
tions as  "  Devizes,"  "  Cranbrook,"  "  Derby  Hun- 
dred," "Job,"  "Olivers,"  (taken  from  "  Miss 
Colley's  hornpipe,  as  performed  at  the  Theatre 
Royal,  Drury  Lane  "),  and  many  others  of  equally 
heinous  character.  • 
The  simple  line  — 

"  And  love  thee  better  than  before,"— 
when  sung  to  "  Job,"  produces  the  following  fine 
effect :  — 

"  And  love  thee  Bet — 

And  love  thee  better  than  before  " 
Or,— 

"  Stir  up  this  stu— 

Stir  up  this  stupid  heart  to  pray." 
An  old  fugueing  tune,  the  name  of  which  has 
quite  escaped  my  memory,  but  which  I  have 
heard  many  a  time,  commits  the  subjoined  havoc 
on  the  last  line  of  a  hymn  (No.  17,  in  Dr.  Raffles's 
Liverpool  Selection}  :  — 

Two  trebles  sing,  "  And  learn  to  kiss "  ;  two 
trebles  and  alto,  "  And  learn  to  kiss  "  ;  two  trebles, 
alto,  and  tenor,  "  And  learn  to  kiss  " ;  the  bass, 
solus,  "  The  rod."  The  line  is  then  repeated  by  the 
whole  choir. 

If  N.  B.  is  desirous  of  investigating  the  ridicu- 
lous or  incongruous  in  hymn-tunes,  as  applied  to 
hymns,  I  can  promise  him  some  very  hard  work, 
but  also  very  great  amusement.  GAEL  B. 

The  correct  version  is  "  Upon  a  poor  pol-",  and 
it  forms  part  of  the  2nd  verse  of  the  21st  hymn, 
in  the  first  book  of  Dr.  Watts's  Hymns.  It 
would  not  be  difficult,  I  think,  to  find  a  tune 
among  those  in  general  use  some  years  ago,  and 
not  yet  quite  out  of  use,  in  which  such  a  dissever- 
ance of  the  word  "polluted"  would  occur. 

I  believe  "  Our  great  salvation  "  is  to  be  found 
in  one  or  more  hymns,  but  I  do  not  at  the  present 
moment  recall  an  instance.  I  have  never  seen  it 
in  danger  of  being  so  atrociously  mutilated  as  to 
become  "  Our  great  Sal-".  This,  however,  has 
been  quite  possible. 

I  have  myself  heard  a  choir  sing  to  the  tune 
"Aaron"  7s.  :— 

«  With  thy  Benny— 
With  thy  Benny— 
With  thy  benediction  seal." 

It  has  just  been  stated  in  the  newspapers,  that 
very  recently  was  sung  in  a  fashionable  church  in 
London  :  — 


"  And  take  thy  pil— 
And  take  thy  pil— 
And  take  thy  pilgrim  home." 
May  I  ask,  through  "N.  &  Q.,"  where  these 
lines  are  to  be  found  ?  B.  W.  P. 

P.S.  It  might  not  be  amiss  to  supplement  a 
correspondence,  arising  out  of  Hymnology,  with  an 
account  of  a  curious  circumstance  which  took  place 
some  years  ago  in  the  church  of  the  town  in  which 
the  writer  lives.  The  hyuin— "No  strength  of  na- 
ture can  suffice  "—had  been  given  out  by  the  clerk. 
The  precentor  began,  "  No  strength  " ;  and  then, 
dealing  with  the  words  in  the  most  literal  man- 
ner, failed  to  go  further.  He  again  sang,  "No 
strength  " ;  but  with  no  better  result,  for  the  tune 
again  forsook  him.  The  third  time  he  sang,  "  No 
strength";  and  the  third  time  failed,  and  the 
hymn  was  not  sung  at  all. 

I  also  recollect  that,  at  a  dissenting  chapel  only 
a  few  miles  distant,  the  appointed  minister  had  to 
come  from  a  distance,  and  he  was  behind  time : 
so  late,  in  fact,  that  he  was  given  up.  The  worthy 
deacon,  therefore,  gave  out  the  verse : 

"  Lord,  what  a  wretched  land  is  this, 
That  yields  us  no  supplies." 

When  in  comes  the  parson ! 

In  searching  for  the  hymns  alluded  to,  perhaps 
that  to  which  the  following  belongs  may  also  be 
found :  — 

"  And  we  will  catch  the  flee— 
And  we  will  catch  the  flee — 
And  we  will  catch  the  flee— ee— eeting  hour." 

S.  II.  H. 


EXPLANATION  OF  THE   CORPS   HUMAIN 

P  ETUI  FIE. 
(3rJ  S.  i.  370.) 

Permit  me  to  suggest,  that  the  "  petit  roc"  of  the 
olive  grove  at  Aix  was  the  hardened  litnc  which 
had  been  poured  over  the  body  of  a  person  (pro- 
bably, from  the  "  petite  stature,"  a  woman)  of  the 
period  of  the  Roman  occupation,  or  later ;  or  the 
hardened  lime,  plus  the  encasing  stone  coffin  or 
tomb.  Four  examples  of  this  mode  of  sepulture 
are  preserved  in  the  Yorkshire  Philosophical  So- 
ciety's Museum,  and  were,  with  others,  found  in 
or  near  the  city  of  York.  Two  of  these  so  buried 
were  males  and  two  females,  and  of  the  four,  three 
were  buried  in  monolithic  coffins  (true  sarco- 
phagi), with  monolithic  covers,  while  the  lime 
around  the  fourth  had  originally  been  contained 
in  a  wooden  (supposed  cedar)  coffin  as  shown  by 
minute  portions  that  still  remain  embedded  in  the 
lime,  and  the  whole  enclosed  in  a  low  but  Urge 
quadrilateral  flat-topped  tomb  of  squared  slabs, 
two  forming  either  side,  one  either  end,  and  three 
or  four  the  top. 


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[3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  7,  '62. 


All  M.  Billiocti's  statements  tend  to  confirm 
this  suggestion.  The  "petit  roc"  was  evidently  not 
known  to  be  part  of  any  formation,  but  seemed  to 
crop  out  into  or  above  the  surrounding  soil,  as  an 
old  tomb  or  coffin  would  do ;  and  on  any  other 
supposition  it  is  passing  strange  that  a  little  out- 
cropping rock  should  be  exactly  that  piece  which 
contained  a  perfect  human  form.  That  there  was 
no  really  petrified  body,  but  merely,  as  in  the  ex- 
amples at  York,  a  more  or  less  perfect  mould  of 
the  shape  is  shown  by  the  mention  of  the  bones 
and  skeleton ;  and  it  also  appears  that  these  bones 
were  not  fossilized,  but  also,  like  the  bones  at 
York,  decayed,  since  it  is  stated  that  on  scratch- 
ing them  with  the  nail  they  could  be  reduced  to 
powder.  That  the  brain  and  marrow  of  the  bones, 
two  really  different  substances,  should  have  be- 
come so  fossilized  as  to  strike  fire  with  steel,  while 
the  flesh  had  wholly  decayed  and  the  bones  become 
softened,  is  impossible  on  any  supposition,  and  is 
a  middle- age  marvel.  So  far,  however,  as  it  can 
be  taken,  it  corroborates  my  view  very  strongly; 
for  if  the  person  had  been  killed  by  a  blow  which 
laid  the  skull  open  —  and  M.  Billiocti  states  that 
he  himself  had  the  brain  in  his  hand,  with  part  of 
the  bone  attached  —  and  more  especially  if  the 
body  had  lain  a  few  days  before  interment,  then 
the  fluid  lime  might  easily  have  entered  the  skull 
and  spine. 

That  tendency  to  see  marvels  which  made  people 
falsify  the  evidence  of  their  senses,  and  renders  so 
many  stories  of  similar  date  untrustworthy,  is 
shown  in  the  "  chose  admirable,"  that  though  the 
bones  were  "  fort  endurcis  "  greatly  hardened,  you 
could  scrape  them  into  powder  with  the  nail ;  and 
I  dwell  on  this  and  the  previous  marvel  as  proving 
the  inaccurate  nature  of  a  seemingly  formal  proces 
verbal,  and  as  justifying  the  following  consider- 
ations:—  First,  that  notwithstanding  the  word 
"  tout,"  it  is  not  at  all  clear  that  M.  Billiocti  saw 
more  than  the  results  of  the  exhumation,  and  pos- 
sibly not  all  those.  Secondly,  that  if  he  had  been 
a  little  bavard  in  talking  of  an  eagerly  listened-to 
marvel,  he  was  not  likely  at  Lyons,  where  none 
could  contradict  him,  to  falsify  his  own  words  by 
writing  a  tamer  and  more  exact  account.  And 
lastly,  that  his  account  is  dated  thirteen  years 
after  the  discovery.  Now  years  act  on  a  good 
story  much  as  they  do  on  wine,  they  improve  or 
destroy,  and  in  either  case  alter  it. 

If  the  body  were  like  those  at  York,  wrapped 
in  coarse  cloth,  as  shown  by  the  impress  on  the 
lime,  &c.,  the  sex  might  only  be  determinable  by 
an  anatomist.  BENJ.  EASY,  M.D. 


TENURE  OF  LIVINGS  (3rd  S.  i.  326.)  — A  friend 
to  whom  I  lent  this  number  has  just  returned  it 
to  me  with  the  following  Note  on  the  margin  :  — 


"  John  Tirabrell,  D.D.,  Vicar  of  Beckford,  near  Tewkes- 
bury  (some  years  in  advance  of  ninety),  is  at  this  time, 
May,  1862,  visiting  his  Archdeaconry  of  Gloucester ;  he 
was  inducted  into  the  vicarage  in  1797,  sixty-five  years 
since!" 

As  my  friend  is  a  very  accurate  man,  and  resi- 
dent in  the  Archdeaconry,  I  have  no  doubt  that 
the  statement  may  be  relied  on.  N.  B. 

"  HURLOTHRTJMBO  :  "    "  TOM  THUMB  "    (3rd  S.  i. 

411.)- 

"  Ye  Sons  of  Fire,  read  my  HURLOTHRUMBO, 
Turn  it  betwixt  your  Finger  and  your  Thumbo, 
And  being  quite  "out  done,  be  quite  struck  dumbo." 
Motto  on  Title-page. 

"This  play  was  performed  in a  1722,  at  the  Theatre 
in  the  Haymarket,  above  thirty  nights.  The  Epilogue, 
by  the  late  Dr.  Byrom,  of  Manchester,  was  written  with 
a"  friendly  intention  of  pointing  out  to  the  Author  the 
extravagance  and  absurdity  of  his  play.  Mr.  Johnson, 
however,  so  far  from  perceiving  the  ridicule,  received  it 
as  a  compliment,  and  had  it  both  spoken  and  printed." — 
Newspaper  Cutting. 

"The  subject  of  the  following  Epitaph  was  buried  at 
his  own  request  in  a  solitary  grove  within  a  mile  of 
Gawsworth  Church,  near  Macclesfield ;  — 

"UNDER  THIS  STONE 

"Rest  the  remains  of  MR.  SAMUEL  JOHNSON, 
Afterwards  ennobled  with  the  grand  title  of 

3L0rtf  Aflame, 

Who  after  having  been  in  his  life  distinct  from  all 

other  men 

By  the  excentricities  of  his  Genius 
Chose  to  retain  the  same  character  after  his  death 
And  was  at  his  own  desire  buried  here,  May  5th, 

A.D.  MDCCLXXIII,  aged  82. 

"  Stay  thou  whom  Chance  directs,  or  Ease  persuades, 
To  seek  the  quiet  of  these  Sylvan  shades, 
Here,  undisturb'd,  and  hid  from  vulgar  eyes, 
A  Wit,  Musician,  Poet,  Player,  lies ; 
A  dancing-master  too,  in  grace  he  shone, 
And  all  the  arts  of  Op'ra  were  his  own  ; 
In  Comedy  well  skill'd,  he  drew  LORD  FLAME, 
Acted  the  Part,  and  gain'd  himself  the  Name. 
Averse  to  strife,  how  oft  he'd  gravely  say 
These  peaceful  groves  should  shade  his  breathless  clay, 
That  when  he  rose  again,  laid  here  alone, 
No  friend  and  he  should  quarrel  for  a  bone : 
Thinking  that  were  some  old  lame  gossips  nigh, 
They  possibly  might  take  his  Leg  or  Thigh" 

Macclesfield  Courier,  Sept.  28th,  1811. 

The  printed  play  has  two  dedicatory  epistles ; 
one  to  Lady  Delves,  signed  "  Lord  Flame ; "  the 
other  to  Lord  Walpole,  signed  in  the  author's 
own  name ;  and  a  somewhat  aristocratic  list  of 
subscribers,  in  which  Lord  Walpole  figures  for 
thirty  copies.  Should  H.  M.  HERTS,  like  to  see 
the  play,  I  would  gladly  send  it  to  him  by  post, 
on  receipt  of  a  line  to  that  effect,  addressed  as 
below. 

Although  a  mass  of  gross  absurdities,  it  still 
contains  some  noble  thoughts,  of  which  the  two 
following  may  be  taken  as  specimens :  — 

"  Lord  Flame.— Oh  you,  I  know  you  well  (pointing  to 
the  King),  you  are  the  most  covetous  Man  in  the  Uni- 
verse, you  give  what  you  have  away  to  the  Poor,  that 


3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  7,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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you  may  enjoy  it  all  yourself;  and  when  your  time  is  to 
die,  you'll  not  leave  a  Farthing  behind  you  to  fling 

"He  that  lives  in  Pleasure  runs  up  a  Score,  and  he 
that  is  afflicted,  is  paying  Debts." 

My  friend  Mr,  Alfred  Roffe  informs  me  that 
Johnson  composed  music  for  the  songs  in  his 
play,  a  copy  of  which  he  has  met  with  in  print. 

Tom  Thumb,  in  the  first  and  second  editions, 
did  not  kill  the  ghost,  but  the  ghost  of  Tom 
Thumb  was  killed  by  Lord  Grizzle.  See  ed.  1730. 

S.  H.  HABLOWE. 

2,  North  Bank,  St.  John's  Wood. 

S.T.F.  AND  D.D.  (3rd  S.  i.  318/333.)— F.  C.  H. 
is  no  doubt  quite  right  in  taking  D.D.  (as  MR. 
TUCKETT  had  done  before  him)  as  standing  for  the 
English  "  Doctor  of  Divinity."  But,  in  the  Eng- 
lish universities  on  a  ceremonial  occasion  when 
Latin  is  used,  a  Doctor  may  describe  himself  as 
S.T.P.  or  S.T.D.  indifferently,  as  anyone  who  has 
witnessed  a  university  election,  more  Burgensium, 
can  testify.  And  this  is  in  accordance  with  an- 
cient practice ;  a  Doctor  and  a  Professor  in  any 
Faculty  are  identical,  according  to  the  constitu- 
tion of  the  university.  I  would  refer  F.  C.  H.  to 
Sir  W.  Hamilton's  Discussions,  £•<?.,  p.  391,  ed. 
1852 ;  but  the  same  truth  is  to  be  found  in  any 
work  on  university  antiquities. 

I  am  of  course  aware  that  by  modern  custom, 
the  name  "  Professor  "  is  appropriated  to  certain 
salaried  "Readers,"  "Lectores ; "  but  this  does  not 
alter  the  fact  that  S.T.P.  may  be,  and  is,  used  by 
simple  Doctors  who  are  no  "  Professors  "  in  the 
modern  sense,  to  designate  their  degree.  This  is 
so  common  that  I  wonder  that  F.  C.  H.  never 
noticed  it.  For  instance,  I  have  lying  before  me 
certain  "  Scriptorum  Ecclesiasticorum  Opuscula  " 
..."  recensuit  Martinus  Josephus  Routh,  S.T.P." 
I  suppose  Dr.  Routh's  authority  in  a  matter  of 
this  kind  is  not  to  be  disputed.  He  was  not  a 
"  Professor  of  Theology  "  in  the  special  sense,  but 
simply,  in  plain  English,  a  "  Doctor  of  Divinity." 
So  far  as  my  observation  goes,  S.T.P.  is  far  more 
common  on  the  title-pages  of  Latin  works  pub- 
lished in  England  than  S.T.D. 

If  F.  C.  H.  has  any  authority,  in  a  university 
statute  or  the  like,  for  distinguishing  between 
"Professor"  and  "Doctor,"!  hope  he  will  publish 
it;  for  I  fancy  most  students  of  university  his- 
tory are  as  ignorant  as  myself  of  such  a  distinc- 
tion. S.  C. 

EXECUTION  OF  ABGYLE  (3rd  S.  i.  397.)  — I  feel 
indebted  to  MB.  GBEAVES  for  his  correction  of  my 
former  statement,  which  was  not  sufficiently  ac- 
curate, as  to  the  English  mode  of  punishment.  ^  In 
regard  to  the  Scotch  mode,  I  have  looked  into 
various  instances  mentioned  in  Pitcairn's  Collec- 
tion of  Trials,  and  find  that  it  was  sometimes 
hanging  and  beheading,  and  sometimes  (in  the 
case  of  Peers  almost  invariably)  beheading  alone. 


When,  however,  the  culprit  was  doomed  to  be 
hanged  and  afterwards  beheaded,  the  first  part 
of  the  sentence  was  always  "  quhill  be  be  deid  " 
t.  e.  "  until  he  be  dead."  The  practice  of  par- 
tial hanging  and  disembowelling  (horribU  at 
MB.  GBBAVBS  justly  calls  it)  was  unknown  in 
Scotland  till  the  treason  law  of  that  country 
(previously  much  milder)  was  assimilated  to  the 
English  at  the  Union. 

There  is  no  ground,  therefore,  for  assuming 
that  the  Marquis  of  Argyle's  shifting  of  his  head 
at  the  block  took  place  after  a  partial  banging 
and  disembowelling;  and  bad  indeed  such  been 
the  fact,  it  would  have  been  absurd  in  Sir  Georg« 
Mackenzie  to  allude  to  the  shifting  as  showing  any 
want  of  firmness.  Let  me  add  that  tbe  alleged 
circumstance  referred  to  by  MB.  GREAVKS  of  a 
culprit  having,  after  he  was  half  hanged  and  dis- 
embowelled, knocked  down  the  executioner,  is 
(even  on  the  unlikely  supposition  that  bis  arms 
were  untied),  utterly  incredible,  and  would  need 
much  better  authority  than  that  which  he  give* 
for  it.  It  would  be  fully  as  credible  to  be  told 
that  after  the  culprit  was  decapitated,  be  threw 
his  head  in  the  executioner's  face. 

Pitcairn's  Collection  does  not  come  down  to  the 
date  of  the  Marquis's  execution.  T. 

MONASTIC  OBDEBS  (3rd  S.  i.  409.)  —  The  habit 
of  the  Carthusians  is  entirely  white,  when  worn 
in  doors,  but  a  black  cloak  and  hood  are  worn  over 
it  when  they  appear  abroad.  The  Cordeliers  are 
the  same  as  the  Observantins,  or  Friars  of  the  re- 
gular observance  of  the  Rule  of  St.  Francis,  as 
distinguished  from  the  Conventual  Friars,  who 
live  in  communities,  and  have  the  Rule  somewhat 
mitigated.  The  habit  of  the  Cordeliers  is  brown, 
and  confined  round  the  waist  with  a  cord,  having 
knots  in  it  at  intervals,  and  banging  down  on  the 
right  side.  The  habit  of  tbe  Benedictine  Monks 
is  black. 

H.  W.  S.  inquires  if  the  Carthusians  and  Cor- 
deliers are  offshoots  from  any  other  order.  The 
Carthusians  are  an  original  order,  founded  by  St. 
Bruno  in  1084,  but  they  follow  in  great  measure 
the  Rule  of  St.  Francis.  Tbe  Cordeliers,  as  above 
stated,  are  Franciscans.  F.  C.  H. 

The  Benedictine  dress  was  black:  hence  they 
were  called  Black  Monks  in  distinction  to  the 
Cistercians,  who  were  known  as  White  Monks. 

The  Carthusians  were  a  branch  of  the  Benedic- 
tines ;  their  habit  was  white  with  a  black  cloak. 
The  Cordeliers  or  Franciscans  were  called  Grey 
Friars  from  their  dress,  in  distinction  to  the  Do- 
minicans, who,  for  a  similar  cause,  were  known  as 
Black  Friars,  and  Carmelites  as  White  Friars. 
They  had  their  own  special  rule. 

MACKENZIE  E.  C.  WALCOTT,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

ST.  CATHBBINE'S  HILLS  (3rJ  S.  i.  409.)-  Mr. 
Lisle  Bowles  derived  tbe  name  of  Catherine  IhlJs 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  JUNE  7,  '62. 


from  Cateran,  which  he  said  meant  an  armed  man. 
The  two  St.  Catherine's  Hills  in  Hants  known  to 
me,  one  at  Winchester,  the  other  at  Christchurch, 
were  so-called  from  chapels  dedicated  to  that 
saint.  The  foundations  of  that  at  Winchester, 
which  was  destroyed  by  Cardinal  Wolsey,  were 
laid  bare,  I  think,  by  the  Archaeological  Associa- 
tion ;  the  marks  of  the  other,  near  Christchurch, 
are  still  upon  the  brow  of  the  hill,  and  the  site  is 
strongly  delineated  by  the  smoothness  of  the 
green  sward,  while  all  the  ground  about  it  is 
covered  with  gorse  and  heather.  Some  singular 
clay  knobs  marked  with  a  cross,  and  fragments  of 
Purbeck  marble,  limestone,  and  other  building 
materials,not  found  within  several  miles,  can  easily 
be  dug  up  upon  the  spot.  I  hope  shortly  to  hear 
that  a  perfect  examination  has  been  made  of  the 
site. 

The  idea  of  building  these  chapels  on  prominent 
hills,  doubtless  arose  from  the  old  legend  of  St. 
Catherine  being  carried  by  angels  to  her  grave 
on  Mount  Sinai. 

MACKENZIE  E.  C.  WALCOTT,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

When  I  was  a  boy  I  remember  hearing  from  an 
ancient  dame  in  Aberdeen  many  curious  stories 
about  a  St.  Catherine's  Hill,  which  had  to  undergo 
the  process  of  levelling,  in  consequence  of  the 
formation  of  a  new  street,  Union  Street,  and  its 
approaches.  Adelphi  Court  now  leads  to  the  site 
of  the  Hill,  which  was  popularly  considered,  ac- 
cording to  my  venerable  informant,  as  haunted  by 
the  fairy-folk,  and  the  scene  of  many  wonderful 
revels,  to  her  accounts  of  which  I  listened  with 
undoubting  faith.  Are  the  St.  Catherine  Hills  in 
England  associated  with  similar  traditions  of 
fairy-lore  ?  J.  MACRAY. 

Oxford. 

GOSSAMER  (3rd  S.  i.  403.)  —  In  German  folk 
lore  these  curious  films  have  very  numerous  de- 
nominations :  Sonimei-Faden,Mafien-Faden,  Ma- 
riengarn,  &c.  The  common  people  of  the  Catho- 
lic faith  consider  them  as  threads  of  the  garments 
of  the  Virgin  in  which  she  was  buried,  and  which 
fell  from  her  on  her  ascension.  The  reason  for 
their  being  called  sommer-  or  snmmer-fdden  is 
from  the  idea  that  flying  with  them  the  summer 
flies  away.  From  the  time  when  they  generally 
appear  (the  21st  September,  St.  Matthias  the 
Apostle's  day),  they  are  also  called  in  Bavaria 
mattcichen-sommer,  which  again  is  frequently 
turned  into  Marien-sommer.  For  this  period  we 
have  a  very  beautiful  piece  of  poetry  in  Sngen  der 
Baierischen  Lande,  by  Schoppner,  N°  1127,  Dei 
Liab  Frua-Summa,  in  the  dialect  of  the  Altmiihl 
Thai,  beginning  — 

"  Warm  koa  Bloama  mehr  bliiaht, 
Und  koa  Grasel  schiusst  mehr, 
VVann  da  Wind  voar  eahms  Laubat 
Treibt  ranschat  daher." 


"  When  no  flower  more  blossoms, 

When  the  grass  grows  no  more, 
When  the  wind  drives  the  leaves 

In  its  fury  before." 

In  these  numerous  attributions  to  heavenly 
patronage  no  doubt  one  may  have  been  Herrgott- 
summer,  from  which  the  deduction  may  be  right 
in  the  corruption  of  gossamer,  by  the  elision  of 
the  first  syllable.  WILLIAM  BELL,  Phil.  Dr. 

ANONYMOUS  TRACT  (3rd  S.  i.  368.)  —This  tract 
is  assigned  to  Boyle  in  the  Bodleian  Catalogue  on 
the  authority  of  a  contemporary  MS.  entry  on 
the  title-page  of  the  library  copy,  which  gives  his 
name  as  that  of  the  author.  W.  D.  MACRAY. 

CHRISTMAS  DAY  UNDER  THE  COMMONWEALTH 
(3rd  S.  i.  246. )  —  Some  pretty  specimens  of  the 
littleness  and  bigotry  of  the  Puritans  will  be 
found  in  the  Records  of  Broad-mead  Chapel, 
Bristol,  printed  some  years  since  by  the  Hanserd 
Knollys  Society.  Amongst  other  instances,  I 
remember  the  laudations  bestowed  upon  a  certain 
Mrs.  Kelly,  "  the  Bristol  Deborah,"  who  "  would 
keep  open  her  shop  on  the  time  they  called  Christ- 
mas Day ;  and  sit  sewing  in  her  shop,  as  a  wit- 
ness for  God  in  the  midst  of  the  city,  in  the  face 
of  the  sun,  and  in  the  sight  of  all  men  !  " 

"  How  rich,  how  poor,  how  abject,  how  august, 
How  complicate,  how  wonderful  is  man !  " 

DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

Epsom. 

STITHE  :  STITHY  (3rd  S.  i.  410.)— In  Sheffield, 
we  have  many  "smithies,"  and  more  "stithies": 
the  latter  word  undoubtedly,  and  everywhere, 
meaning  "  anvil,"  as  Ray  explains  it — the  former 
a  smith's  shop.  The  "  stythe,"  or  choke-damp 
of  the  northern  pitmen,  is  the  "  smithen  "  of  our 
forgemen  :  a  term  applied  to  the  carbonic-acid 
gas  arising  from  their  fires  under  certain  circum- 
stances, or  to  other  stifling  effluvia  of  a  similar 
nature.  I  have  not  met  with  other  instances  in 
print  where  the  "  stithy  "  was  confounded  with 
"  the  smithy."  D. 

PAGEANT  (3rd  S.  5. .)  —  A  correspondent  of 

"  N".  &  Q."  puts  me  to  the  blush  by  directly  ap- 
plying to  me  for  a  Dutch  derivation  of  the  word 
pageant.  After  some  research  I  have  come  to  the 
conclusion,  that  we  both  must  make  amende 
honorable  to  your  learned  and  friendly  medium 
of  intercommunication,  and  inquire  whether  pa- 
geant, in  its  original  meaning  of  triumphal  car, 
may  in  some  probability,  represent' the  Anglicised 
form  of  our  Dutch  wagen,  from  whence  your 
waggon  ?  It  is  useless  to  remind  you,  that  in 
the  public  shows  of  our  rhetoricians,  as  still  in 
some  outlandish  processions,  a  monster-vehicle 
constituted  the  principal  pageant. 

JOHN  H.  VAN  LENNEP. 
Zeyst,  near  Utrecht. 

P.S.  Will  you  allow  me  to  correct  a  slip  of  the 


8'd  S.  I.  JUNE  7,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


459 


pen  in  my  explanation  of  "  Whip  up  Smouchy  or 
Pont  "  (3rd  S.  i.  239)  ?  In  the  ninth  line  of  the 
second  column  I  wrote  submit,  and  meant  surmise. 
On  p.  86,  col.  2,  1.  24,  from  beneath,  your  reader 
changed  my  forded  into  faded.  It  may  seem  of 
no  consequence,  but  my  words  are  the  expression 
of  my  thoughts. 

POPE  JOAN  (!•*  S.  iii.  265,  306,  395,  463  :  vi. 
483  ;  2nd  S.  xi.  187,  252  ;  xii.  349.)  —Two  years 
after  the  publication  of  the  latest  of  the  Notes  in 
the  1st  Series  of  "N.  &  Q,"  above  referred  to, 
which  is  the  last  one  that  has  a  direct  reference  to 
the  subject,  namely,  in  1854,  a  work  was  pub- 
lished in  New  York,  in  two  volumes  small  8vo, 
called  "A  Refutation  of  Milners  End  of  Contro- 
versy, in  a  series  of  letters  addressed  to  the  most 
Rev.  Francis  Patrick  Kenrick,  Roman  Catholic 
Archbishop  of  Baltimore,  by  John  H.  Hopkins, 
D.D.,  LL.D.  (Protestant)  Bishop  of  Vermont." 
Letter  xxvi.,  vol.  ii.  pp.  13  —  23,  is  devoted  to  the 
examination  of  the  evidence  on  which  is  founded 
the  history  of  Pope  Joan  ;  which,  the  Bishop  says, 
"it  has  become  fashionable  to  call  a  fable  ever 
since  the  Protestant  Blondel,  and  the  critic  and 
philosopher  Bayle,  published  their  refutation." 
The  learned  Bishop  then  critically  examines  the 
evidence,  and  comes  to  this  conclusion  :  — 

"  On  the  whole,  therefore,  I  have  no  hesitation  in  de- 
claring, that  the  evidence  is  decisive  in  favour  of  its 
truth,  Messrs.  Bayle,  Blondel,  and  Bower  to  the  contrary 
notwithstanding.  And  I  am  very  confident  that  any- 
candid  mind,  accustomed  to  the  weighing  of  evidence, 
will  concur  in  the  result,  and  consider  the  proof  amply 
sufficient  to  establish  any  fact  in  history." 

That  the  good  —  for  he  is  good  as  well  as 
learned  —  Bishop  has  himself  a  "candid  mind, 
accustomed  to  the  weighing  of  evidence,"  espe- 
cially of  evidence  of  the  description  in  question, 
will  be  readily  admitted  by  every  one  who  knows 
him  and  his  published  writings,  particularly  his 
The  Church  of  Rome,  in  her  Primitive  Purity, 
compared  with  the  Church  of  Rome  at  the  Present 
Day  (1837);  and  his  History  of  the  Confessional 
(1850). 

Cooke's  Dialogue,  referred  to  by  MB.  HAR- 
RINGTON  in  1st  S.  iii.  306,  though  very  prolix,  is 
really  valuable  for  the  great  number  of  authori- 
ties cited  in  support  of  the  respective  allegations 
of  the  two  imaginary  antagonists.  It  will  be 
found,  reprinted  from  the  edition  of  1625,  in 
vol.  iv.  of  The  Harleian  Miscellany,  8vo,  edition  of 
1809,  pp.  9—109.*  ERIC. 

Ville  Marie,  Canada. 


CANOED"  (2nd  S.  xii.  503;  3rd  S.  i. 
434.)  —  I  can  assert  with  some  authority  and  con- 
fidence, that  the  late  Mr.  Gilbert  Wakefield  never 

[*  In  inserting  this  communication,  we  wish  it  to  be 
distinctly  understood,  that  we  do  so  on  account  of  the 
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wrote  a  piece  bearing  the  above  title;  and  I  am 
o,uite  sure  he  was  incapable  of  perverting  learn- 
ing  or  wit  by  publishing  anything  of  a  profane  or 
indecent  character.  R.  \yt 

GHOST  STORIES  (3r«  S.  i.  427.)  — I  took  the 
point  in  Booty's  case,  "  N.  &  Q."  1  S.  iii.  170. 
One  so  obvious  must,  I  think,  have  been  taken 
before.  II.  B.  C 

U.  U.  Club. 

WHITE  QUAKERS  (2nd  S.  xi.  362;  3f«  S.  i. 
389.)  — In  reply  to  MR.  LLOYD'S  Queries,  I  send 
the  following  particulars.  In  1835-6,  Joshua 
Jacob  and  his  wife  took  a  leading  part  in  the 
Dublin  Quakers'  monthly  meeting,  and  endea- 
voured to  revive  many  of  the  obsolete  customs  of 
the  early  Quakers.  They  succeeded  in  adding  to 
the  Book  of  Discipline  several  stringent  rules ; 
but  eventually,  the  "leadings  and  guidings,"  the 
"willings  and  runnings,"  of  this  worthy  pair 
proved  too  much  for  the  digestion  of  the  Society, 
so  they  separated  themselves  from  it.  Joshua 
then  published  a  series  of  tracts,  which  he  bad 
the  assurance  to  entitle  The  Truth  as  it  vt  in  Jtnu, 
in  which  he  attempted  to  prove  that  the  White 
Quakers,  and  they  only,  were  the  true  follower* 
of  George  Fox.  There  could  be  no  difficulty, 
I  should  imagine,  in  substantiating  the  fact  that 
they  attempted  to  go  about  naked.  I  have  a 
pretty  distinct  remembrance  of  reading  accounts 
in  the  Irish  papers  of  .their  having  been  brought 
to  the  police  offices  for  this  oflence ;  and  if  so, 
the  police  records  would  furnish  full  particulars. 
They  left  Clondalkin  some  years  ago,  and  I  be- 
lieve still  hold  together  somewhere  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood of  Rathmines,  or  Rathfarnham,  in  the 
outskirts  of  Dublin. 

Let  me  refer  MR.  LLOYD  to  a  most  remarkable 
and  interesting  book — the  only  book  that  has 
ever  appeared  which  unveils  Quakerism,  and  en- 
ables us  to  know  it  as  it  really  is  —  Quakerism; 
or,  The  Story  of  my  Life,  Dublin,  1851.  As  the 
respected  author  has  since  given  her  name  in  full 
in  another  work  on  the  same  subject,  I  may  men- 
tion that  this  valuable  work  was  written  by  Mrs. 
Thomas  Grier,  formerly  Miss  Strangman  of  Water- 
ford,  who  for  forty  years  was  a  member  of  the 
Society  of  Friends.  The  last  chapter  treats  of 
the  White  Quakers.  EIRIOSNACH. 

HORSES  FRIGHTENED  AT  THE  SlGHT  OF  A  CAMEL 

(2nd  S.  viii.  354,  406.)  —  Since  my  Query  in  the 
above,  I  have  noted  a  couple  of  instances  recorded 
in  the  Hexapla  on  Lev.  xi.  4,  and  which  may  not 
be  out  of  place  to  detail  in  "N.  &  Q." 

"  The  Camell  bath  natural!  enmity  with  the  Horse,  at 
Cyrus  (Herod,  lib.  i.)  vsed  this  stratagem  against  the 
Babylonians  who  excelled  in  horsemanship;  for  the 
CanielJ,  both  with  his  sight  and  strong  smell  terrifieth 

the  horse This  naturall  enmity  between*  the 

Camell  and  the  horse,  is  observed  bj  Aristotle  (Zfc  Ilutor., 


460 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'a  S.  I.  JUNE  7,  '62. 


lib.  vi.  cap.  18.),  that  the  Camell  alwayes  and  altogether  is 
an  Adversary  to  the  Horse." 

But,  as  the  old  saying  runs,  one  fact  is  worth  a 
thousand  arguments ;  I  enclose  a  cutting  from  the 
Huddersfield  Chronicle  of  April  19,  1862,  which 
is  not  only  a  fact,  but  an  illustration  of 

"  HORSES  FRIGHTENED  BY  CAMELS.  —  On  Wednesday, 
Sanger's  travelling  circus  and  menagerie  left  Scarborough 
for  Malton.  The  caravans  passed  safely  through  the 
village  of  Snainton,  but  not  without  considerably  ruffling 
the  tempers  of  two  horses  which  were  yoked  to  a  corn 
drill.  A  short  distance  behind  was  a  group  of  camels 
belonging  to  the  circus;  but  the  horses  refused  to  meet 
them,  and,  wheeling  round,  set  off  with  the  drill  at  full 
speed.  It  was  afterwards  found  impossible  to  calm  the 
fears  of  the  horses,  or  make  them  face  the  camels.  Un- 
fortunately, the  driver  of  the  horses,  Thomas  Stubbs,  was 
knocked  down  and  run  over,  and  is  greatly  injured  by 
the  drill,  besides  receiving  a  broken  leg." 

GEORGE  LLOYD. 

Thurstonland. 

SIR  FRANCIS  DRAKE  (3rd  S.  i.  409.)  —An  ac- 
count of  the  ceremony  of  his  knightage  will  be 
found  in  Camden,  pp.  354 — 360  ;  Stowe,  p.  687  ; 
Harris,  vol.  i.  p.  19.  JAMES  GILBERT. 

2,  Devonshire  Grove,  Old  Kent  Road. 


NOTES  OX  BOOKS,  ETC. 

We  may  well  be  pardoned  if,  on  this  week  of  sight- 
seeing, we  dedicate  this  portion  of  our  journal  to  a  few 
Notes  not  upon  Books,  but  upon  those  matters  to  which 
during  the  last  few  days  public  attention  has  been  more 
immediately  directed.  First  among  these,  in  importance 
as  in  interest,  stands  — 

THE  INTERNATIONAL  EXHIBITION.  Of  the  permanent 
success  of  this  great  work,  Wednesday  last  gave  unde- 
niable evidence.  On  the  day  of  the  most  crowded  Derby 
that  has  ever  been  known,  upwards  of  50,000  visitors 
presented  themselves  at  the  Exhibition ;  and  those  who 
watched  these  masses  most  narrowly,  had  the  gratifica- 
tion of  finding  that  the  impression  which  the  sight  of  the 
varied  objects  of  beauty  and  utility  there  collected  pro- 
duced upon  them,  was  one  of  thorough  and  hearty  satis- 
faction. Perhaps  there  has  been  no  incident  connected 
with  the  Exhibition,  which  has  touched  the  public  sym- 
pathy more  deeply,  than  Her  Majesty's  large  purchase  of 
tickets,  to  be  distributed  among  the  men  employed  in  its 
construction,  in  order  that  those  who  gave  their  energies 
to  the  work  might  see  the  result  of  their  labours. 

The  ART  TREASURES  COLLECTION,  which  has  been  for 
some  months  past  accumulating  at  the  SOUTH  KENSING- 
TON MUSEUM,  next  deserves  our  notice.  The  Collection, 
entirely  contributed  on  loan,  includes  goldsmiths'  work, 
jewels,  carvings  in  ivory,  decorative  furniture,  bronzes, 
porcelain  and  pottery,  glass,  enamels,  ancient  illumina- 
tions, bookbindings,  embroidered  vestments,  miniatures, 
&c.  Following  the  example  of  Her  Majesty  the  Queen, 
who  has  contributed  without  reserve  many  of  the  choicest 
Art  Treasures  of  the  Crown,  almost  all  collectors  of  im- 
portance in  Great  Britain  have  lent  their  aid,  and  will 
have  their  collections  represented  by  the  most  valued 
specimens.  It  may  indeed  safely  be  said,  that  so  rich  a 
gathering  has  never  before  been  brought  together  in  one 


building.    All  admirers  of  art,  and  lovers  of  antiquarian 
study,  will  be  delighted  with  this  unparalleled  display. 

THE  ARCHAEOLOGICAL  INSTITUTE  has  also  opened  a 
special  Exhibition  of  peculiar  interest,  illustrating  the 
Arts  of  Enamel  and  Niello,  not  only  in  Europe  during  the 
Middle  Ages,  but  in  countries  of  the  East;  but  more 
especially  the  varieties  of  the  Art  of  Enamel,  hitherto 
very  imperfectly  known  during  the  so-called  Celtic  and 
the  Roman  period,  and  in  comparison  with  these,  speci- 
mens of  the  Enamels  produced  at  Limoges,  in  Germany, 
and  in  Italy.  Specimens  of  Niello  —  relics  of  extreme 
rarity— from  the  earliest  period  to  the  times  of  Finiguerra, 
and  the  origin  of  Calcography,  add  to  the  interest  and 
value  of  this  Exhibition. 

THE  SOCIAL  SCIENCE  ASSOCIATION.  —  The  sixth  Ses- 
sion of  this  Association,  commencing  with  a  special 
Service  at  Westminster  Abbey  on  Thursday,  is  to  be 
signalised  by  a  Soiree  on  Saturday  evening  in  the 
Palace  of  Westminster,  which  has  been  granted  for  that 
purpose  by  the  First  Commissioner  of  Public  Works. 
Guildhall,  Exeter  Hall,  and  the  College  of  Physicians, 
will  all  be  open  for  the  meetings  and  for  the  reception  of 
the  members. 

We  have  much  pleasure  in  announcing  that  the  Master 
of  the  Rolls,  with  his  characteristic  liberality,  has  just 
issued  a  new  order,  by  which  literary  students  visiting 
the  Record  Office  (with  which  the  State  Paper  Office  is 
now  combined),  in  Rolls  Buildings,  Chancery  Lane,  may 
henceforth  consult  any  State  Papers  in  his  keeping,  down 
to  the  death  of  King  George  II.  Hitherto  it  was  re- 
quired, in  order  to  see  any  state  document  dated  subse- 
quently to  the  Revolution  of  1688,  to  obtain  a  special 
license  from  the  Home  Secretary.  These  increased  facili- 
ties for  making  historical  researches,  under  this  new- 
rule,  will  be  duly  appreciated,  no  doubt,  by  our  literary 
friends. 


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lads and  Browne's  Country  Parson's  Advice,  465  —  Who 
was  Sara  Holmes  P  Ib.  —  Bail  Brigg  —  «  Christmas  and  the 
New  Year"  -  Cryptography  -  llis  Grace,  the  King's 
Grace  —  Itineraries  of  Edward  I.  and  II  &c  —  "  La- 
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Malcolm  Can  more—  Merrion  Graveyard  near  Dublin  — 
Owtherquedaunce  —  Pitt  —  Rathlin  —  Rivaulx  Abbey  • 
Lords  de  Ros  —  Wailenstein  —  "  Yankee  Doodle  borrows 
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—  Soul-food  —  Works  on  Covetousnesa  —  Greek  Plays  — 
Bibliographical,  468. 

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TJnburied  Ambassadors  —  Burning  as  a  Legal  Punishment 
in  Ireland—  Relative  Value  of  Money  —  Deaf  and  Dumb 
Literature  —  Sir  Isaac  Newton  —  Superstition  —  Tithes  of 
Servants  and  Women  —  Devis  the  Painter  —  Families  of 
Field  and  Delafeld  —  John  Hutchinson  —  Canadian  Seig- 
neurs— Cutting  off  with  a  Shilling,  &c.,  473. 

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THE  REGISTERS  OF  THE  STATIONERS' 

COMPANY. 

(Continued  from  p.  403.) 

1  October  [1593].  — Jo.  Wolf.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  A  Letter  from  D.  Harvie  to  J.  Wolf. 

[This  was  Dr.  Gabriel  Harvey's  "  New  Letter  of 
notable  Contents,"  which  was  addressed  by  him  to 
Wolf,  the  printer.  As  it  was  reprinted  in  T.  Park's 
Archaica,  vol  ii.,  with  tolerable  accuracy,  it  is  not  neces- 
sary to  say  more  of  it  here,  than  that  it  bears  date  only 
fourteen  days  before  the  above  entry.] 

Stephan  Peele.  Entred  for  his  copie  a  ballad  of 
fietwixt  Life  and  Death,  the  true  have  with  you 
into  the  cuntrey vjd. 

[As  Stephen  Peele  was,  in  all  probability,  the  father 
of  the  celebrated  poet  George  Peele,  (who  was  born  in 
London,  and  not,  as  Wood  conjectured,  in  Devonshire), 
we  may  mention  that  Stephen  Peele  was  admitted  free- 
man of  the  Stationers'  Company  on  Nov.  13,  1570 ;  and 
that  on  Feb.  17,  1595,  he  "  made  a  presentment  of 
William  James  as  his  apprentice,  for  which  he  paid  the 
usual  fee  of  2s.  6rf.  He  was  himself  a  ballad-writer,  and 
has  left  several  favourable  specimens  of  his  talents  in 
this  department,  especially  a  laudation  of  the  dames  of 
London,  for  their  beauty  and  good  manners:  it  was  not 
published  by  himself,  but  by  Henry  Kirkham.  He  was, 
however,  the  publisher  of  Bishop  Bale's  God's  Promises, 
in  1577,  and  carried  on  business  in  Rood  Lane.  One 
of  his  earliest  productions  was  in  the  very  year  when  he 
became  free  of  the  Stationers'  Company ;  it  was  on  the 


execution  of  John  Felton.  for  hanging  the  Pope's  Boll 
on  the  palace  gate  of  the  Bishop  of  London,  butVbis  WM 
not  published  by  himself.  The  most  carious  perform- 
ance on  this  event  was  by  Thomas  Knell,  the  faraou* 
actor,  which  came  out,  not  as  a  broadside  such  as  8. 
Peele  had  put  forth,  but  as  a  tract  Only  a  single  cony 
of  it  is  known,  and  that  is  now  being  reprinted.] 

2  die  Octobris.  —  Rich.  Jones.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  a  ballad  intituled  A  sorrowfuU  songe  of 
London's  lamentation  for  the  losse  of  the  term*,  &c. 

[In  consequence  of  the  prevalence  of  the  Plague,  to 

which  we  have  already  adverted.] 

8  die  Octobris. — John  Jackson  and  his  parte- 
ners.  Entred  for  theire  copie,  &c.  a  booke  in- 
tituled The  Phcenix  neste,  frc.  Compiled  by  R.  S. 

vj*. 

[The  names  of  Jackson's  «  partners »  no  where  ap- 
pear, the  imprint  to  this  excellent  miscellaneous  collec- 
tion of  poems,  with  the  date  of  1593,  assigning  it  only  to 
Jackson.  The  entry  affords  us  no  clue  to  the  appropria- 
tion of  the  initials  R.S.,  but  we  think  that  Robert  South- 
well, though  subsequently  a  priest,  has  the  best  title  to 
them.  The  reprint  in  Heliconia,  vol.  ii.,  was  made  with 
singular  carelessness,  and  in  one  poem  only,  six  or  seven 
stanzas  are  omitted  in  different  places,  to  say  nothing 
of  minor  delinquencies.] 

ix°  Oct.  —  Abell  Jeffes.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  a  ballad  entytuled  A  Christmas  Caroll  .  vjd. 

viij°  die  Octobris.  —  Abell  Jcfl'es.  Entred  for 
his  copie,  &c.  an  enterlude  entituled  the  Chronicle 
of  Kiiige  Edward  the  jirste^  xurnamcd  Longshankcs^ 
with  his  Retoume  out  of  the  holye  lande,  with  the 
fyfe  °f  Leublen  Rebell  in  wales,  with  the  sinkiiige 
of  Queenc  Elinor vjd. 

[Of  course  Geo.  Peele's  historical  drama,  the  title  of 
which  may  be  seen  at  large  in  Dyce's  Peele's  fPorfa,  vol.  i. 
and  in  the  last  edit,  of  Dodsley's"  Old  Playt,  vol.  xi.:  from 
the  latter  the  text  of  the  former  was  in  the  main  taken. 
The  play  was  unquestionably  very  corruptly  printed  by 
Abel  Jeffes.in  1593,  and  it  was  so  far  not  improved  in 
1599,  when  it  came  out  for  the  second  time,  that  nil  the 
old  blunders  were  repeated,  and  new  ones  introduced. 
The  Clerk  seems  here  to  have  transposed  the  dates,  for 
he  has  made  the  9th  Oct.  precede  the  8th  Oct.] 

xj°  die  Octobris.  —  John  Danter.  Entred  for 
his  copie  a  ballad  intituled  Lancashiers  lamenta- 
tion for  thedeathc  of  the  noble  Erie  of  Derbie  vj*. 

[This  was  Henry  Stanley,  whose  death  Sir  Harris 
Nicolas  places  erroneously  in  1592,  whereas  we  here  see 
that  it  did  not  occur  until  Oct.  1593 :  Camden  also  in- 
cludes it  in  his  obituary  of  1593  (Kennett,  ii.  574.)] 

xij°  die  Octobr. — Willyam  Ponsonbye.  Entred 
for  his  copie,  &c.  Historic  de  Georges  Castriot^ 
sumomme  Scanderbeg,  Roy  d'Albanie,  contenant 
ses  illustres  faicts  d"armes,  et  memorables  victor  its 
a  fencontre  dcs  Titrcs  pour  lafoy  de  Jetus  Christ : 
le  tout  en  douze  livres.  Par  Jaques  Delavardin. 

[There  was  probably  no  intention  to  republish  this 
work  in  French,  but  by  the  entry  of  the  original  to  secure 
a  right  to  the  translation.  It  did  not  come  out  until 
1596,  folio,  when  it  followed  very  much  the  French  title, 


462 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  JUNE  14,  '62. 


and  professed  to  be  "  newly  translated  out  of  French  into 
English  by  Z.  I.  gentleman."  Who  Z.  I.  may  have  re- 
presented has  not  been  ascertained ;  but  at  the  bottom 
of  the  title-page  we  read,  "  London,  Imprinted  for  Wil- 
liam Ponsonby,  1596."  The  typography  was  the  work 
of  Richard  Field,  who  had  succeeded  to  Vautrollier's 
business.  The  most  remarkable  circumstance  about  the 
book,  of  more  than  500  folio  pages,  is,  that  it  was  intro- 
duced by  a  Sonnet  signed  Ed.  Spenser:  1596,  it  will  be 
remembered,  was  the  date  when  Spenser  issued  the 
second  edition  of  his  Faery  Queene,  and  we  may  feel 
assured  that  Ponsonby  had  resorted  to  our  great  romantic 
poet  for  this  letter  of  recommendation.  We  need  hardly 
say  that  Ponsonby  was  the  Stationer  who  put  forth  both 
impressions  of  Spenser's  work.  There  are  two  other  com- 
mendatory sonnets  to  the  Life  of  Scanderbeg  by  R.  C. 
and  C.  C.I 

xiiij  die  Octobr.  —  Thorns  Man.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  a  booke  entituled,  A  motive  to  good 
woorkes,  or  rather  to  true  cliristianitie  .  .  .  vjd. 

[By  the  famous  Philip  Stubbes,  the  author  of  The 
Anatomy  of  Abuses,  1583,  &c.  It  relates  his  observations 
during  a  journey  in  England,  and  we  have  never  seen 
any  other  copy  than  that  before  us.  The  title  is  a  long 
one,  and  the  imprint  is,  "  London :  Printed  for  Thomas 
Man,  dwelling  in  Pater  Noster  rowe,  at  the  signe  of  the 
Talbot.  1593,"  8vo.  Lowndes  gives  it  the  date  of  1592, 
but  he  clearly  never  saw  the  book,  and  does  not  mention 
the  sale  of  a  single  copy  of  it.  The  dedication  to  the 
Lord  Mayor  is  "  8  of  November,  1593,"  nearly  a  month 
after  the  date  of  the  preceding  entry.  We  shall  reprint  it 
in  due  course.] 

xix°  die  Octobris.  —  John  Daunter.  Entred 
for  his  copie,  &c.  Twoo  ballades,  the  one  entituled 
the  Lovers  lamentation,  fyc.,  and  thother  the  May- 
dens  witty e  answer e  to  the  same vjd. 

Symon  Waterson.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  a 
booke  intituled  the  Tragedy  e  of  Cleopatra  .  vjd. 

[Samuel  Daniel's  second  production,  his  Delia  of  1592 
being  his  first,  with  the  exception  of  a  poor  prose  transla- 
tion in  1587.  The  Tragedye  of  Cleopatra  was  obviously 
not  intended  for  the  stage,  being  constructed,  not  upon  the 
romantic  model,  like  Shakespeare's  drama  on  the  same 
subject,  but  upon  the  classical  model :  it  deservedly  had, 
however,  great  success  in  the  closet,  and  was  frequently 
reprinted.] 

20  Oct. — Willm.  Hoskins.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  A  Lamentable  songe  on  the  death  of  the  lord 
Gray,  who  deceased  in  Northpt  shire  the  16  of 
Octob vjd. 

[This  memorandum  ascertains  the  precise  day  of  the 
decease  of  Arthur  Lord  Grey  of  Wilton,  Spenser's" patron. 
We  shall  presently  have  to  record  the  insertion  of  another 
registration  of  a  poem  on  the  death  of  the  same  famous 
nobleman.] 

22  die  Octobr.— Jo. Wolff'.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
£c.  a  booke  of  Procria  and  Cephalus,  divided  into 
foure  partes vjd. 

[This^is  doubtless  the  poem  on  Procris  and  Cephalus, 
which  Nash  in  1596  imputed  to  Anthony  Chute,  who,  it 
also  appears,  was  then  dead:  it  does  not  now  exist,  but 
the  same  author's  Beauty  Dishonoured,  on  the  storv  of 
Jane  Shore  and  Edward  IV.  is  extant :  it  was  written  in 
rivalry  of  Churchyard.  Chute  has  also  some  rhimes  and 
a  Sonnet  against  Nash  in  G.  Harvey's  Pierce's  Super- 
err  ogation,  1593.] 


Tho.  Creede.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  An  epi- 
taph uppon  the  death  of  the  righte  honorable  Henrie, 
ErleofDerbie •  vjd. 

[A  poem  on  the  same  event,  we  have  seen,  was  regis- 
tered by  John  Danter  on  the  llth  of  this  month.] 

23  die  Octobris.  —  John  Daunter.  Entred  for 
his  copie,  &c.  an  interlude  of  the  lyfe  and  deathe 
of 'Jack  Strawe vjd. 

[Printed  in  1593,  but  with  the  date  of  1594  at  the  end 
of  the  play ;  which  is  most  imperfect  and  incomplete  ia 
every  respect,  and  is  divided  into  only  four  acts.] 

24  die  Octobr.  —  Thomas  Creede.  Entred  for 
his  copie,  &c.  A  memoriall  or  epitaphe  of  the  life 
and  death  of  Sr  William  Rowe,  knighte,  late  Lorde 
Maior  of  the  Cittie  of  London vjd.  , 

[He  was  not  the  Lord  Mayor  of  the  year,  for  he  was 
named  Cuthbert  Buckle,  and  was  not  knighted.  No 
such  piece  has  come  down  to  us.] 

25  die  Octobris.  —  Thomas  Creede.  Entred  for 
his  copie,  &c.  A  memoriall  of  the  life  and  deathe  of 
the   right   honorable   and  renowned    warrior,    the 
valiant  lorde  Graye  of  Wilton,  deceased    .     .     vjd. 

[See  the  Life  of  Spenser,  pub.  by  Bell  &  Daldy,  1862, 
p.  civ,  where  this  entry  is  quoted.  The  words  "  by  E. 
Spenser  "  are  interlined  in  the  Register,  and  were  after- 
wards struck  out:  there  is  little  doubt,  therefore,  that 
this  "  memorial "  was  not  by  the  author  of  The  Faery 
Queene.  ] 

29  die  Octobris.  —  Thomas  Creede.  Entred  for 
his  copie,  &c.  a  ballad  intituled  A  heavenly  pro- 
clamation  sent  from  God,  declaringe  his  greate 
love  towardes  London,  and  his  mercy  e  to  all  them 
that  truly  repent vjd. 

[A  sort  of  supplication  in  consequence  of  the  continu- 
ance of  the  ravages  of  the  Plague  in  1593.] 

Ultimo  die  Octobris. — Thomas  Creede.  Entred 
for  his  copye  &c.  a  ballad  intituled  The  Cun- 
treymans  sorrowe  to  see  the  tearme  kept  in  St. 
Albans vjd. 

[This  was  reprinted  in  1602-3,  as  in  some  degree  ap- 
plicable to  that  period.  See  also  the  entry  on  Oct.  2, 
1593.] 

14  Novembris.  —  Thomas  Creede.  Entred  for 
his  copie,  &c.  a  bocke  intituled  Arisbas  Euphues, 
or  Cupides  Jorney  to  Hell vjd. 

[If  this  tract  ever  appeared  it  has  now  totally  dis- 
appeared. It  was  probably  some  imitation  of  the  style 
and  subjects  of  Greene  and  Nash.  Creede  must  have 
been  uncommonly  busy  with  popular  productions  at  this 
period,  since  all  the  late  entries,  but  one,  were  made  by  or 
for  him.] 

xvj  die  Novembr. — Cuthbert  Burbye.  Entred 
for  his  copie  &c.  The  seconde  Reporte  of  Doctor 
Faustiis,  with  the  ende  of  Wagner  s  Life  .  .  vjd.  , 

[Mr.  Thorns,  in  his  Early  English  Prose  Romances,  i. 
305,  correctly  states  that  the  earliest  known  impression   j 
of  this  "  second  report  "  bears  date  in  1594;  and  he  adds  • 
that  it  was  "  not  a  translation,  though  the  chief  mate- 
rials were  derived  from  the  German  "  work  of  1593.    It 
was  printed  by  Abel  Jeffes  for  Cuthbert  Burby,  or  Bur- 
badge,  for  he  was  in  fact  the  brother  of  Richard  Bur- 
badge,  the  great  Shakespearian  actor.] 


3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  14,  '62. ] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


xxj  die  Novembr.  —  John  Daunter.  Entred 
for  his  copie,  &c.  theis  three  Ballads  ensuing,  viz 

The  first,  entytuled  the  Thisselkeper  s  wealthe 

The  second,  entituled  Youthfull  delyte. 

The  third,  The  honnour  of  the  tilthe  xvij°  No- 
vembris  1593 xviijd 

[The  17th  Nov.  was  the  accession  day  of  Queen  Eliz- 
abeth, on  which  a  tilting  match  was  commonly  held  at 
the  Court,  whether  at  Whitehall  or  Greenwich-  these 
displays  were  often  celebrated  by  the  poets  of  the  day.] 

J.  PAYNE  COLLIER. 


463 


FRITWELL  ANTIQUITIES. 

In  making  a  professional  survey  for  ratin"  pur- 
poses of  the  parish  of  Fritwell,  an  Oxfordshire 
parish  on  the  Northamptonshire  border,  I  "found 

and  made  a  note  of"  the  following  particulars: 

In  the  north-eastern  part  of  the  parish  the  Earl  of 
Effingham  possesses  three  fields,  known  as  "  Lon- 
don-ford-fields," wherein  and  near  which  I  was 
able  to  trace  vestiges  of  a  pitched  ford  in  the 
rivulet  dividing  the  two  counties,  and  of  a  road 
on  both  sides  of  it,  being,  according  to  tradition, 
the  way  by  which  agricultural  produce  was  trans- 
mitted to  London,  on  packhorses  and  in  heavy 
vehicles,  before  turnpike  roads  existed.  This 
must  have  been  the  outlet  fromiBanbury  and 
Brackley  neighbourhood  to  the  metropolis,  and 
the  name  survives,  though  the  use  has  been  aban- 
doned nearly  two  centuries. 

The  rector  of  the  adjoining  parish  of  Souldern 
has  an  estate  (appurtenant  to  his  rectory)  in  Frit- 
well  of  rather  more  than  120  acres.  This  may 
be  because  Souldern  was  once .  accounted  the 
mother  church  of  Fritwell.  This  much,  however, 
is  matter  of  history.  There  was  anciently  a  hide  of 
land  at  Fritwell,  called  Souldern  Hide,  the  tithes 
of  which  were  claimed  by  the  rector  of  Souldern. 
Hereupon  the  impropriate  owners  of  Fritwell  (the 
canons  of  St.  Frideswide  in  Oxford)  appealed  to 
Pope  Gregory  IX.,  who  delegated  the  trial  to  two 
Priors,  and  to  the  Dean  of  Northampton.  These 
delegates  decided  in  favour  of  the  canons  ;  but  the 
controversy  was  tried  three  several  times,  and 
eventually  the  decision  was  in  favour  of  the 
Rector  of  Souldern,  who  was  however  to  pay  a 
fee-farm  rent  of  two  shillings  to  the  canons.  This 
was  in  February,  1236,  and  it  led  to  the  excommu- 
nication (by  sentence  of  the  Pope)  of  Stephen, 
parson  of  Fritwell,  whose  submission  after  two 
years  was  testified  by  the  Prior  of  Brackley,  and 
the  Rector  of  Aynho.  Upon  the  inclosure  by 
Act  of  Parliament  of  Fritwell  in  1808,  the  then 
Ticar,  Dr.  Linton,  advanced  a  claim  to  vicarial 
tithes  on  the  estate  of  the  Rector  of  Souldern, 
which  the  three  commissioners  expressly  disal- 
lowed, finding  the  rector's  estate  at  Fritwell,  im- 
mediately before  the  enclosure,  to  consist  of 
"  four  yard-lands,  glebe-lands,  with  rights  of  com- 


mon  appurtenant,  and  three  bushels  of  whe 
yearly  out  of  the  lands  of  William  Fermor  Esq  " 
fragments  of  a  rood-loft  taken  down  in  1830 
are  incorporated  into  some  of  the  unsightly  pews 
and  wamscottmg  in  Fritwell  church. 

SteepleAston.  WILLIAM  Wnco. 


A  NEW  VERSION  OF  AN  OLD  SCOTS  BALLAD. 

The  other  day  I  purchased  a  copy  of  Jamie- 
son  s  Popular  Ballads  and  Songg  (2  vols.  Edin- 
burgh, 1806),  at  the  sale  of  the  Library  of  the 
Aliens  of  Erroi  in  the  Carse  of  Cowrie ;  and  on 
examining  the  book,  I  found  a  new  but  somewhat 
imperfect  version  of  the  old  Scottish  ballad  of 
"  Lizie  Lindsay,"  written,  in  a  female  hand,  on  a 
sheet  of  letter  paper,  which  was  folded  and  in- 
serted in  the  second  volume  at  the  place  where 
the  ballad  of  the  same  name  begins.  At  the  end 
of  the  MS.  is  a  marking  — 

"  From  recitn, 
Sept'  1828." 

Perhaps  this  fragment,  taken  apparently  from 
recitation,  may  be  worth  preservation  in  the  pa^es 
of  "  N.  &  Q."  It  differs  from  any  of  the  versions 
hitherto  published. 

"LEEZIE  LINDSAY. 

" '  Will  you  go  to  the  Highlands  wi'  me,  Leezie? 

Will  you  go  to  the  Highlands  wi'  me? 
Will  you  go  to  the  Highlands  wi'  me,  Leezie? 
And  you  shall  have  curds  and  green  whey. 

"  Then  up  spoke  Leezie's  mother  — 

A  gallant  old  lad}'  was  she,  — 
*  If  you  talk  so  to  my  daughter, 

High  hanged  I'll  gar  you  be ! ' 
"  And  then  she  changed  her  coaties, 

And  then  she  changed  them  to  green ; 
And  then  she  changed  her  coaties, 
Young  Donald  to  gang  wi*. 

"  But  the  roads  grew  broad  and  broad, 

And  the  mountains  grew  high  and  high. 
Which  caused  many  a  tear 
To  fall  from  Leezie's  eye. 

"But  the  roads  grew  broad  and  broad. 

And  the  mountains  grew  high  and  high. 
Till  they  came  to  the  Glens  of  Glen  Koustie, 
And  out  there  came  an  old  Die. 

" « You're  welcome  here,  Sir  Donald, 
And  your  fair  ladie.' 


" '  Oh !  call  not  me  Sir  Donald, 

But  call  me  Donald,  roar  son ; 
And  I  will  call  you  mother, 
Till  thia  long  night  be  done.' 

•*  These  words  were  spoken  in  Gaelic, 

And  Leezie  did  not  them  ken ; 

These  words  were  spoken  in  Gaelic, 

And  then  plain  English  began. 


464 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  JUNE  14,  '62. 


" '  Oh  I  make  her  a  supper,  mother, 

Oh !  make  her  a  supper  wi'  me  — 
Oh !  make  her  a  supper,  mother, 
Of  curds  and  green  whey.' 

"'You  must  get  up,  Leezie  Lindsay, 

You  must  get  up,  Leezie  Lindsay ; 
For  it  is  far  in  the  day.' 

"  And  then  they  went  out  together, 

And  a  braw  new  bigging  saw  she, 
And  out  cam'  Lord  Macdonald, 
And  his  gay  companie. 

" '  You're  welcome  here,  Leezie  Lindsay, 

The  flower  of  a'  your  kin ! 
And  you  shall  be  Lady  Macdonald, 
Since  you  have  got  Donald,  my  son.' " 

K.  S.  FITTIS. 
Perth. 


SACRILEGE.  —  The  occupation  of  the  Fairfax 
Court  House,  alternately  by  the  Federal  and 
Confederate  forces  in  Virginia,  has  caused  the 
almost  entire  dismantlement  of  the  Episcopal 
Church  at  that  place,  so  renowned  for  its  anti- 
quity ;  and  the  soldiers  of  both  armies,  when 
encamped  there,  spent  much  of  their  time  in  eon- 
verting  pieces  of  the  wood-work  of  the  sacred 
edifice  into  souvenirs  for  themselves  and  friends. 
Many  of  these  took  the  shape  of  smoking-pipes, 
and  we  have  seen  some  of  very  neat  shape  and 
finish.  The  church  at  Fairfax  Court  House  was 
built  by  Lord  Fairfax,  and  the  pulpit  and  altar 
were  constructed  in  England.  In  this  church, 
and  at  this  altar,  George  Washington  was  married. 
The  altar  has  nearly  all  been  cut  away,  and  it  is 
mostly  from  the  material  composing  it  that  the 
pipes  are  made  by  the  souvenir  seekers.  —  Weekly 
Missouri  Republican,  Nov.  8,  1861.  J.  Y. 

A  WITCH  IN  THE  NINETEENTH  CENTUKY. — The 
following  cutting  may  be  worth  preserving  in 
"N.  &Q."— 

"  A  BEWITCHED  WOMAN.  —The  Moray  shire  Advertiser 
is  responsible  for  the  following  horrible  story :  —  'A 
farmer's  wife  in  Kellas  grew  seriously  ill  the  other  day, 
and  her  imagination  having  struck  her  that  she  was  be- 
witched, the  sister  of  the  far-famed  Willox  was  conse- 
quently sent  for,  who  came  upwards  of  forty  miles  to  visit 
the  unfortunate  woman.  She,  being  a  believer  in  this 
superstitious  idea,  administered  the  following  cure:  — A 
large  male  cat  was  caught,  and  a  fire  kindled  in  the  kail 
yard.  The  cat  was  then  tied  by  the  hind  legs,  and  hung 
over  the  fire,  and  in  this  way  burned  to  death ! ' " 

N.  H.  R. 

PARACLEPTICS.— Victor  Hugo,  in  his  Miserdbles, 
has  favoured  us  with  an  ancient  charm  against 
larceners,  grand  or  petty,  which  was  put  in  opera- 
tion by  Madame  de  Genlis  for  the  safeguard  of 
her  library  against  book-lifters  and  borrowers. 
With  what  effect,  the  distinguished  romancist  saith 


not ;  but,  as  «'  N.  &  Q.'s  "  Folk  Lore  abundantly 
certifies  us,  Faith  being  the  sole  condition  in  such 
matters,  and  understanding  wholly  superfluous, 
the  original  Latin  may  be  conspicuously  ticketed 
in  every  shop  and  bazaar  throughout  the  Queen's 
dominions,  unencumbered  with  a  vernacular  ver- 
sion, for  the  dehortation  of  easy  consciences,  or 
the  paralyzation  of  slippery  fingers  :  — 
"  Imparibus  meritis  pendent  tria  corpora  ramis ; 

Dismas,  et  Gesmas,  media  est  Divina  Potestas; 

Alta  petit  Dismas,  infelix  infima  Gesmas. 

Nos  et  res  nostras  conservet  Summa  Potestas !  — 

Hos  versus  dicas,  ne  tu  furto  tua  perdas." 

E.  L.  S. 

PARISH  REGISTERS.  —  The  following  notes  re- 
specting the  deficiency  of  registers  in  the  parishes 
of  Pishull,  co.  Oxon,  and  Arundel,  co.  Sussex,  in 
the  handwriting  of  F.  S.  Townsend,  Esq.,  Windsor 
Herald,  may  be  worthy  of  preservation  in  a  page 
of  "N.  &  Q."  for  the  benefit  of  future  inquirers. 
Mr.  Townsend  has  evidently  been  searching  for 
entries  respecting  the  family  of  Jerningham,  for 
one  of  whom  he  had  found  the  inscription  there 
given,  which  supplied  the  defect  of  the  burial 
register. 

"  Pishull  Church,  Co.  Oxon,  2  Nov.  1807.  On  a  flat 
Stone  in  the  Chancel :  — 

® 
Here  Iveth  the  Body  of 

Of 
John  Jerningham,  Esq., 

Eldest  Son  of 

Sir  George  Jerningham,  Bar*. 

Of  Cossey  Hall,  in  the  County  of  Norfolk. 

He  died  at  Stonor,  June  ye  30th,  1757, 

Aged  22  Years. 

E.  I.  P. 

"  The  Church  was  robbed  some  Years  ago  and  the  books 
and  papers  burned  by  the  Thieves  in  a  neighbours  field. 
The  Register  was  produced  to  me,  but  it  contains  nothing 
before  1784." 

"Arundel.  —  There  is  no  Register  of  Burials  from 
13  Feb.  1738  to  9  Jan.  1764. 

"  Mr.  Groom,  the  present  Vicar,  began  to  keep  Regr 
Feb.  1780— he  observed  the  Want  of  the  Book  at  his 
first  coming,  and  enquired  for  it.  but  could  not  recover 
it." 

J.  R. 


CHARLES  LAMBE. 

CHARLES  LAMBE,  B.A.,  of  Christ  Church,  Ox- 
ford, 6th  May,  1701,  was  incorporated  in  that 
degree  at  Cambridge ;  where  he  commenced  M.A., 
in  1709,  as  a  member  of  King's  College.  He  was 
sometime  curate  of  Enfield,  and  afterwards  in- 
cumbent of  St.  Catharine  Cree  in  London,  and 
lecturer  of  Allh allows.  At  his  outset  in  life,  a 
zealous  Tory,  he  appears  ultimately  to  have 
adopted  opposite  opinions. 


3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  14,  '62.1 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


The  following  list  of  his  publications  is  pro- 
bably  incomplete :  — 

4to'  "l706 »ksgiving  Sermon  on  *  Chron.  xvi.  8.    Lond 

2.  «  A  Vindication  of  Dr.  Henry  Sacheverell  from  the 
False,  Scandalous,  and  Malicious  Aspersions  cast  upon 
him  in  a  ate  infamous  Pamphlet,  intituled  « The  Modern 
Fanatick.'    Lond.    8vo.     1710."    (This  Vindication 
heen   attributed   to   Dr.   William  Ving;    buHt  seem8 
erroneously,  as  Lambe  subsequently  expressed  his  con- 
trition for  certain  passages  in  it  ) 

3.  «  The  True  Faith  of  a  Christian  in  a  short  Abridg- 
ment of  Bishop  Pearson's  « Exposition  of  the  Apostles' 
Creed.'    Lond.    8vo.     1713." 

4.  "  The  Popish  Plot  a  fair  Caution  to  Protestants  not 
to  engage  in  a   Popish  Rebellion:    a  Sermon  on  Ps 
ex xiv.  6.    Lond.    8vo.     1715." 

5.-  "  The  Pretences  for  the  present  Rebellion  considered ; 
a  Fast  Sermon,  6  Oct.  1715,  on  Prov.  xxiv.  21.  Lond. 
ovo.  1715. 

6.  "  A  Thanksgiving  Sermon  on  Ps.  cxviii.  6.  for  the 
Suppression  of  the  late  Rebellion.    Lond.     8vo.     1716" 
,1. VTue  £ossibility  of  leaving  the  Tories  and  speaking 
the  Truth  afterwards.    Lond.    8vo.     1716." 

8.  ^  An  Assize  Sermon  on  Coloss.  iii.  15.    Lond.    8vo. 

9.  "  Stedfastness   to  the  Protestant  Religion  recom- 
mended in  a  Sermon  on   1  Cor.  xv.  58.    Lond.    8vo. 

10.  "  Ten  Sermons  on  several  Occasions.    Lond.    8vo. 
1717." 

11.  "An  Account  of  the  Charity  School  of  St.  Catha- 
rine Cree  Church.    Lond.    4to.    1718." 

We  shall  be  glad  of  any  additional  particulars, 
and  are  especially  anxious  to  obtain  the  date  of 
his  death.  C.  H.  &  THOMPSON  COOPER. 

Cambridge. 


BE  ARE'S  POLITICAL  BALLADS  AND 'BROWNE'S 
COUNTRY  PARSON'S  ADVICE. 

On  the  19th  October,  7  William  III.,  one  John 
Beare  of  Buckland  tout  Saints,  in  the  county  of 
Devon,  Esq.,  published  various  ballads  of  a  poli- 
tical  nature,   for  which  he  was  prosecuted.     I 
am  anxious  to  know  where  I  may  find  printed 
copies  of  these  ballads,  and  if  any  correspondent 
of  "  N".  &  Q.'|  can  assist  me  I  shall  feel  indebted. 
The  following  is  a  list  of  these  productions  :  — 
"The  Belgick   Boar,    to  the   tune  of  Chevy 
Chase,"  containing  the  following  passage  :  — 

"  God  prosper  long  our  noble  king,  our  hopes  and  wishes 
all; 

A  fatall  landing  late  there  did  in  Devonshire  befall. 

To  drive  our  Sovereigne  from  his  Throne  Prince  Nas- 
sau took  his  way ; 

The  babe  may  rue  that's  lately  born  his  landing  at 
Torbay,"  &c. 

A  ballad,  without  title,  containing  the  following 
passage:  — 

"  But  in  the  street  what  objects  we  meet 
Of  tradesmen  who  beg  for  reliefe, 
Whilst  the  Dutch  at  Whitehall  from  the  English  take 

all, 
By  command  of  P.  0.  the  proud  theife,"  &c. 


A  ballad  entitled  "The  Three  Williams,"  con- 
taining the  following  passage  : 

"  William  the  First,  surnam'd  the  Conquerour 

(A  Norman  theife  and  son  of  a  damn'd  w e) 

Rob'd  the  Knglish  of  their  rights. 

And  left  them  slaves  and  poor,"  &c. 

A  ballad  entitled  "  The  History  of  WM"  con- 
taining the  following  passage :  — 

"A  Protestant  muse,  yet  a  lover  of  kings, 
(Of  true  ones  1  mean,  not  Dutchified  things.) 
On  th'  age  grown  a  little  satyricall  sings,*  Ac. 

A  ballad,  without  title,  commencing  thus  :  — 
"Whilst  William  Van  Nassaw,  with  Benting  Bonrda- 
chan,"  &c. 

A  ballad  entitled  "  A  Satyr  against  Rebellion," 
containing  the  following  passage  :  — 
"Happy  the  time  when  men  rejoyc'd  to  pay 
All  just  obedience  to  the  Royal'sway, 
When  trueth  and  justice  rul'd  their  hearts  alone, 
And  no  Dutch  Boar  had  yet  defiTd  the  Throne,"  Ac. 

Beare  at  the  same  time  published  two  other 
seditious  libels  not  in  the  form  of  ballads.  The 
first  one  appears  to  be  entitled  "England's  Cri»is, 
or  the  World  well  mended  ; "  the  other  is  without 
title,  and  has  the  following  passage  :  — 

"  A  young  pragmaticall  fellow  just  come  from  the  uni- 
versity, very  brisk  and  bigg,  with  his  Barbara  Celarent 
and  his  catagoricall  and  hipotheticall  syllogisms,"  &c. 

If  I  recollect  rightly,  Wilkins,  in  his  Political 
Ballads  of  the  Seventeenth  and  Eighteenth  6>n- 
turies,  prints  one  of  the  before-mentioned  produc- 
tions.* 

Again,  where  shall  I  find  a  printed  copy  of 
"The  Country  Parson's  honest  Advice  to  that 
judicious  Lawyer  and  worthy  Minister  of  State, 
my  Lord  Keeper,"  for  publishing  which  Joseph 
Browne  was  prosecuted  in  the  fifth  year  of  Queen 
Anne's  reign  ?  WILLIAM  HENRT  HAIIT,  F.S.A. 

Folkestone  House,  Roupell 
Park,  Streatham. 


WHO  WAS  SARA  HOLMES? 

On  July  12,  1824,  appeared  the  following  ad- 
vertisement in  the  Morning  Chronicle  .  — 

'  Heir  at  law  of  Sara  Holmes,  afterwards  of  Sara 
VIonson. — The  said  Sara  Holmes  was  married  to  her  first 
msband,  Mr.  John  Holmes,  in  Nov.  1684,  by  whom  she 


[*  The  Belgic  Boar  is  printed  by  Wilkins,  vol.  ii.  p.  44. 
This  curious  collection  of  political  poems  is,  we  fear,  not 

o  well  known  as  it  deserves  to  be. The  Country  Par- 

on's  Honest  Advice  is  in  the  British  Museum  (Press 
mark,  Poetical  Broadsides.  C.  20,  f.  p.  223.)  In  the  same 
volume  (p.  179)  is  The  Lawyer't  Answer  to  the  Country 
Parson't  Good  Advice  to  my  Lord  Keeper,  fol.  1706.  Con- 
sult also,  A  Letter  to  the  Rt.  Hon.  Mr.  Secretary  Harley, 
by  Dr.  Browne,  occasion'd  from  his  late  Commitment  to 
Newgate,  together  with  his  Interpretation  of  that  paper, 
call'd  The  Country  Parian'*  Advice,  laid  to  hia  Charge. 
Lond.  4to,  1706.-ED.  "N.  &  Q."] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3**  S.  I.  JUNE  14,  '62, 


had  one  child  only,  who  survived  to  the  age  of  maturity, 
and  was  baptized  William  in  1689.  The  said  Mr.  John 
Holmes  died  in  1700,  when  his  widow  married  Mr.  Philip 
Monson,  by  whom  she  had  one  son  named  Philip  Mon- 
son. 

"  She  survived  her  second  husband,  who  died  in  1730, 
at  which  time  she  was  about  65  years  of  age,  and  lived 
in  St.  Margaret's,  Westminster;  where  she  died,  or  where 
buried,  is  not  known. 

"  Her  eldest  son,  Mr.  William  Holmes,  practised  as  a 
surgeon  in  or  near  London,  and  is  supposed  afterwards  to 
have  gone  to  Ireland. 

"If  any  one  can  prove  his  descent  from  the  said  Sara 
Holmes  through  her  son  William  Holmes,  or  in  case  his 
issue  hath  become  extinct,  through  her  son  Philip  Monson, 
upon  giving  such  information,  by  letter,  addressed  to 
Y.  Z.,  to  be  left  at  Mr.  Abrahams,  Law  Stationers,  Mid- 
dle Temple  Lane,  will  be  put  into  possession  of  a  landed 
estate  of  £4000  per  annum.  All  communications  must  be 
post  paid." 

It  is  believed  that  at  the  time  this  advertisement 
produced  no  results ;  and  of  course  after  thirty- 
eight  years  greater  difficulties  exist  in  tracing, 
not  only  the  object  of  that  inquiry,  but  who  was 
the  inquirer,  and  the  grounds  and  extent  of  his 
information.  What  can  be  ascertained  is  as  fol- 
lows. 

Mr.  Abrahams  is  still  living,  but  no  record  has 
been  kept  that  would  identify  Y.  Z.  He,  how- 
ever, has  kindly  assisted  with  a  surmise  that;  as 
at  that  period  he  had  business  transactions  with  a 
solicitor  of  the  name  of  Holmes,  the  advertise- 
ment might  have  proceeded  from  him.  The  Mr. 
Holmes  of  that  time  is  dead,  but  his  nephew,  Mr. 
Richard  Holmes,  on  being  applied  to,  courteously 
replies,  that  — 

"  While  he  is  unable  to  trace  the  name  of  Sara  Holmes 
in  his  pedigree,  there  are  several  families  of  the  name  of 
Holmes,  in  Sussex  ;  "  also,  "  that  his  uncle  and  father  did 
formerly  employ  Mr.  Abrahams,  a  law  stationer,  and  that 
he  has  no  doubt  his  uncle,  Mr.  William  Holmes,  inserted 
the  advertisement,  but  with  what  object  he  cannot  say." 

The  unsatisfactoriness  of  this  opinion  arises,  not 
merely  from  the  failure  of  any  clue  in  this  quar- 
ter, but  because,  if  the  late  Mr.  W.  Holmes  be 
the  originator  of  the  advertisement,  it  lessens  the 
hope  of  a  discovery  elsewhere. 

Still  one  chance  exists  now  which  did  not  in 
1824  —  we  can  invoke  Notes  and  Queries  to  the 
rescue.  It  is  just  possible,  among  its  numerous 
readers,  that  some  may  possess  the  knowledge  of 
that  which  would  be  the  key  to  the  mystery, 
namely,  icho  ivas  Sara  Holmes  ?  The  wording  of 
the  paragraph  shows  that  the  advertiser  knew 
this  ;  and,  moreover,  the  dates  referred  to  imply 
that  his  authority  was  derived  from  registers. 

I  will  merely  add  the  one  item  that  I  can 
supply  to  the  subject  in  question.  Philip  Monson 
was  the  scion  of  a  younger  and  very  distant 
branch  of  our  family.  The  son  by  Sara  Holmes 
also  married,  but  it  is  believed  all  issue  has  been 
long  extinct.  In  the  printed  pedigree  that  ac- 
companied the  Camoys'  Peerage  case,  Philip 
Monson,  the  elder,  is  said  to  die  s.  p.,  which  was 


certainly  not  the  case  ;  and  it  is  difficult  to  under- 
stand on  what  evidence  it  was  assumed,  or  the 
assumption  admitted.  MONSON. 

Chart  Lodge,  Sevenoaks. 


BAIL  BEIGG.  —  At  the  conclusion  of  the  arti- 
cle headed  "Bunker's  Hill,"  at  pp.  437-8,  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  for  May  31,  MR.  D'AVENEY  excites  my 
curiosity  by  his  reference  to  a  singular  supersti- 
tion at  Bail  Brigg,  which,  though  a  diligent  stu- 
dent of  folk  lore,  is  quite  new  to  me.  I  do  not 
even  know  who  Sir  Thomas  Balyn  was,  and  shall 
feel  much  obliged  to  your  contributor  if  he  will 
take  the  trouble  of  relating  the  tradition  in  the 
pages  of  "  N".  &  Q. ; "  or,  if  this  is  too  much  to  ask, 
if  he  wfll  refer  me  to  his  sources  of  information, 
though  I  much  fear  that  these  may  not  be  acces- 
sible to  me.  M.  F. 

"  CHRISTMAS  AND  THE  NEW  YEAR,"  a  Masque, 
in  four  acts.  Printed  by  E.  Lees,  Worcester, 
1827.  Who  is  the  author'?  R.  INGLIS. 

CRYPTOGRAPHY.  —  The  following  paragraph 
appeared  in  the  Journal  of  the  Society  of  Arts  for 
November  21,  1856,  and  I  should  be  glad  to  learn 
whether  the  inventor's  challenge  met  with  any 
response,  and  whether  the  cypher  be  really  as 
secure  as  he  appears  to  imagine. 

"  A.  new  Cypher. 

"  The  Secretary  has  received  the  following  specimen  of 
a  cypher  invented  by  Mr.  N.  G.  Wilkins,  of  27,  St.  Peter's 
Road,  Mile  End,  who  desires  the  opinion  of  those  versed 
in  such  matters  as  to  its  merits :  — 

"  280B,  112A,  25 Y. 

"  The  inventor  states  that  the  above  is  a  short  disser- 
tation (about  100  words)  on  the  subject  of  the  cypher; 
that  it  was  written  in  about  ten  minutes,  and  with  the 
aid  of  the  key  may  be  translated  in  about  six  minutes, 
though  he  considers  it  impossible  to  decypher  it  without 
such  assistance." 

DELTA. 

His  GRACE,  THE  KING'S  GRACE.  —  What  is  the 
meaning,  or  in  what  sense  is  the  word  Grace  ap- 
plied to  kings,  dukes,  and  archbishops  ?  What  is 
the  term  Baron  as  applied  to  the  Barons  of  the 
Exchequer  ?  INVESTIGATOR. 

ITINERARIES  or  EDWARD  I.  AND  II.,  ETC. — The 
Rev.  Joseph  Hunter,  in  a  note  to  his  Essay  on  the 
Death  of  Eleanor  of  Castile,  Consort  of  Edward 
1.  (_Arch(Rologia,  xxix.  169),  states  that  "  a  com- 
plete Itinerary  of  this  reign  was  made  for  the  late 
Record  Commission."  I  also  learn  that  a  similar 
Itinerary  of  the  reign  of  Edward  II.  has  been 
compiled,  but  I  do  not  find  either  of  these  in  any 
of  the  Record  publications  presented  to  our  town 
library,  which,  however,  do  not  comprise  the  whole 
of  the  series. 

Where  are  these  Itineraries  to  be  found  ?  I 
shall  also  feel  obliged  for  early  information  whe- 
ther any  other  royal  Itineraries  have  been  pub- 


3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  14,  'G2.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


ished  in  addition  to  that  of  the 
John  in  vol.  I  of  the  Kotuli  Litteraa 
and  the >,Iter  Carohnum,  in  the  Harleian  Miscd 
lany  An  Itinerary  of  the  reign  of  Henry  III 
yj  *  believe  prepared  for  the  2nd  vol.  of  the 
Rot.  Lift  Pat.,  but  which  was  not  issued  by  t 
Record  Commissioners.  I  seek  for  information 
respecting  royal  visits  to  this  town. 

Leicester.  WILLIAM  KELLY. 

"  LACHRYM^  HIBEENIC^,"  &c.— Who  was  the 
author  of  an  octavo  pamphlet,  entitled  Lachrymal 
Hibermca;  or,  the  Grievances  of  the  Peasantry  of 
Ireland,  especially  in  the  Western  Counties,  and 
published  in  Dublin  in  the  year  1822  ?  He  was 
"a  resident  native,"  as  would  appear  from  the 
title-page.  ABHBA 

LOFTUS,  NICHOLAS,  created  Viscount  Loftus 
married,  1st,  in  1708,  Anne,  daughter  of  William 
Ponsonby,  created  Viscount  Duncannon.  When 
did  she  die  ?  Viscount  Loftus  married,  2ndly,  the 
widow  of  Arthur  Viscount  Loftus  of  Elye 

Y.  S.  M. 

MACBETH:  MALCOLM  CANMORE.  —  Some  time 
has  elapsed  since  I  endeavoured  to  call  the  atten- 
tion of  some  of  your  contributors,  better  qualified 
for  the  investigation  than  I  am,  to  the  injustice 
with  which  the  reputation  of  this  unhappy  monarch 
has  been  treated,  but  I  am  not  aware  of  any 
answer  to  my  statement  — that  Duncan  was  never 
assassinated  under  trust ;  that,  on  the  contrary,  he 
was  wounded  severely  during  an  inroad  into  Mo- 
ray, the  territory  of  Macbeth,  who  held  it  as  mar- 
mor  or  sub-king ;  and  that  he  died  of  the  injury 
sustained  at  Elgin  —  then  the  capital  of  the  Mo- 
ray sub- monarchy —  from  whence  his  body  was 
transmitted  to  I-Colra-Kill  by  his  conqueror,  and 
interred  in  the  royal  cemetery. 

Shall  I  be  able  to  elicit  an  answer  to  another 
inquiry  —  Who  was  Malcolm  Can-more?  That 
he  was  son  of  Duncan  is  apparently  undeniable, 
but  who  was  his  mother  ?  If  Macbeth  married 
Gruoch,  the  widow  of  Duncan  —  a  fact  which  seems 
established  —  Malcolm  would  have  been  his  step- 
son, a  remarkable  circumstance  truly. 

Winton  removes  the  difficulty.  He  positively 
asserts  that  Malcolm  was  the  natural  son  of  Dun- 
can by  the  daughter  of  the  miller  of  Forteviot, 
whom  the  "venerable"  monarch  had  picked  up 
while  hunting.  Illegitimacy  was  thought  no 
impediment  in  those  days,  as  Malcolm's  con- 
temporary, William  "  Bastardus,"  indicates  ;  and, 
backed  with  a  good  Northumbrian  army,  why 
should  the  aspirant  to  a  diadem  not  make  his 
claim  effectual  ?  Surely,  as  the  son  of  Duncan, 
he  had  a  better  right  to  a  crown  than  the  Norman 
invader  had,  who  could  put  forth  no  -relationship 
of  the  kind  to  the  Confessor. 
This  also  explains  the  absence  of  the  two  chil- 


467 


u  P,articular  in  ^8  account  ofhe 
.  He  tell,  us  that  she  would  have  risen 
to  a  high  position  at  court  under  the  win*  of  her 
powerful  ppotector-thatihe  married  subsequent! 
y,  and  got  a  grant  of  lands  which  were  inherited  by 
her  survivors  and  were  known  in  his  (Winton's) 
time.  It  will  not  be  forgotten  that  this  usually 
trustworthy  writer  had  in  his  possession  and 
keeping  various  ancient  muniments,  one  of  which 
still  exists,  and  was  printed  by  Mr.  Tindal  Bruce 
for  the  Bannatyne  Club.  In  this  interesting  re- 
cord ^are  several  entries  of  grants  by  "iMacabeta 
Kex  and  "  Gruoch  Regina  Scotorum  "  to  the 
Luldees.  j  *, 

MERRION  GRAVEYARD,  NEAR  DUBLIN.— Can  any 

one  of  your  Irish  correspondents  tell  me  to  what 
religious  house  the  old  graveyard  of  Merrion  be- 
longed? "I  remember,"  writes  an  antiquarian 
friend,  whose  name  stands  very  high  indeed  in 
matters  of  the  kind,  "once  happening  on  it,  but  I 
forget  the  authority  ...  I  would  suspect  St 
Mary  s  Abbey."  ABHBA. 

OWTHERQUEDAUNCE.  —  I  should  feel  greatly 
obliged  by  an  explanation  of  the  word  owtherque- 
daunce,  which  occurs  in  an  "  Answer  to  the  De- 
maundes  of  the  Rebelles  in  Yorkeshire,"  temp 
Hen.  VIII.,  1536  :  — 

"  And  though  owtherquedaunce  of  som,  may  cbaunce, 
wyll  not  let  them  to  knowlege  it  so,  yet  J  trust  and  doubt 
not,  but  the  most  parte  of  our  lovyng  subjects,"  &c.  — 
State  Papers  Hen,  VII  I.,  i.  507. 

"  Quedaunce,"  I  think,  is  wickedness. 

VEDETTE. 

PITT. — There  appeared  a  pamphlet,  printed  at 
Edinburgh,  by  John  Ballantyne  &  Co.  for  John 
Ballantyne  &  Co.,  Hanover  Street,  and  Longman, 
[lurst,  Rees,  &  Orme,  London,"  in  1819,  8vo, 
consisting  of  forty  pages  (exclusive  of  title  and 
advertisement),  and  entitled  — 

"  A .  Vindication  of  the  Character  of  the  late  Right 
Ion.  William  Pitt,  from  the  Calumnies  against  him  con- 
ained  in  the  Fifth  Article  of  the  '  Edinburgh  Review.' " 

It  is  written  with  great  spirit.  The  author, 
lowever,  conceals  his  name.  Could  Sir  Walter 
Scott,  the  patron  of  the  Ballantynes,  have  any- 
hing  to  do  with  it  P  J.  M. 

RATIILIN. —  Will    some   correspondent    oblige 
me  with  a  reference  to  any  volume  containing  a 
ood  description  of  the  past  and  present  state  of 
le  Isle  of  Rathlin,  within  the  province  of  Ulster, 
reland  ?  INQUIRER. 

RIVAULX  ABBEY  ;  LORDS  DE  Ros. — Some  eight 
ears  ago,  Frederick  Mackenzie,  so  long  known  as 
ie  best  architectural  draughtsman  and  painter  wo 


468 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


S.  I.  JUNE  14,  '62. 


have  ever  had,  was  showing  me  some  exquisite 
outline  drawings  of  Rivaulx  Abbey  which  he  had 
made  thirty  years  before.  At  the  time  he  made 
his  drawings,  the  ruins  were  in  a  very  neglected 
state  —  choked  with  weeds  and  brambles ;  but 
Mr.  Duncombe,  the  then  proprietor,  upon  seeing 
the  drawings,  was  so  struck  with  the  beauty  of 
the  treasure  he  possessed,  that  he  set  to  work,  — 
fenced  round  the  ruins  to  keep  cattle  from  straying 
amongst  them,  cleared  away  the  brushwood,  &c. ; 
and  being  advised  to  do  so  by  Mackenzie,  began 
trenching  in  front  of  the  high  altar,  and  shortly 
came  upon  three  thirteenth  century  stone  coffins. 
Upon  being  opened,  these  coffins  disclosed  the 
remains  of  "three  figures,  each  with  red  hair  and 
beard.  Now  it  is  known  that  Rivaulx  Abbey  was 
founded  by  the  Lords  de  Ros ;  so  far  the  Note. 
The  Query  is,  Did  this  family  take  tlieir  name  from 
the  colour  of  the  hair  ?  Barbarossa  is  a  case  in 
point.  HENRY  DUESBURT. 

WALLENSTEIN.  —  Most  historical  readers  have 
perused  Colonel  Mitchell's  fascinating  Life  of  the 
Dulie  of  Friedland,  which  is  defective,  neverthe- 
less, in  two  essentials  —  an  index  arid  a  list  of 
references.  Recently  the  following  work,  in  small 
quarto,  came  under  my  notice,  as  to  which  I 
should  like  some  information,  Alberti  Fridlandi, 
perduellionis  Chaos,  sive  ingrati  Animi  Chaos. 
Cum  Licentia  Superiorum.  Anno  M.DCXXXIV. 

It  lias  neither  the  printer's  name  nor  place  of 
publication,  if  it  ever  was  published,  and  it  con- 
sists of  eighty  pages.  The  leaves  are  not  num- 
bered. J.  M. 

"YANKEE  DOODLE  BORROWS  CASK." — Some  years 
ago  there  appeared  a  clever  parody  of  "  Yankee 
Doodle,"  of  which  I  only  recollect  these  lines :  — 

"  Yankee  Doodle  borrows  cash, 

Yankee  Doodle  spends  it, 
And  then  he  snaps  his  fingers  at 
The  jolly  flat  that  lends  it." 

I  should  be  glad  if  any  of  the  readers  of 
''•  N.  &  Q"  would  refer  me  to  where  the  re- 
uiainder  may  be  met  with  ?  A.  DAVISON. 

Dublin. 


BEN  WILSON,  THE  CARICATURIST.  —  Who  was 

this  gentleman  ?  In  a  political  pamphlet  pub- 
lished in  1770,  in  which  George  Grenville  is 
charged  ^with  associating  with  men  who  have 
libelled  in  verse  and  prose,  and  hung  him  up  in 
effigy  fin  half  the  coffee-houses  in  London,  we  are 
told  in  a  foot-note  explanatory  of  this  latter 
charge  — 

"See  the  Funeral  of  Miss  Amy  Stamp,  a  print  en- 
graved by  Ben  Wilson,  an  intimate  friend  of  the  Marquis 
of  R 'S  "  (Rockingham). 


A  friend,  learned  in  caricatures,  to  whom  I 
have  applied  for  information  on  this  subject, 
writes :  — 

"  I  have  four  different  engravings  evidently  from  the 
same  original,  but  very  slightly  varied.  The  title  of  each 
is  The  Repeal,  or  the  Funeral  of  Miss  Amy  Stamp.  There 
is  not  on  any  of  them  any  reference  to  engraver  or  pub- 
lisher. But  I  have  attached  '  Explanation  of  the  Repeal, 
a  Print,'  which  says  it  is  to  be  had  at  the  print-shops  at 
the  Royal  Exchange,  and  all  others." 

B.  W.  C. 

[Benjamin  Wilson  was  a  native  of  Leeds  in  Yorkshire, 
and  was  patronised  by  Dr.  Beardmore,  master  of  the 
Charter-house.  By  his  natural  genius  he  acquired  con- 
siderable abilities  as  a  portrait  painter,  and  endeavoured 
to  introduce  a  better  style  of  relief,  and  of  the  chiar- 
oscuro into  his  pictures.  Wilson  had  a  taste  for  the 
drama,  and  performed  some  characters  at  the  private 
theatre  instituted  in  Pimlico  by  the  late  Duke  of  York 
and  Sir  Francis  Blake  Delaval,  under  the  management  of 
Foote.  He  had  also  a  considerable  knowledge  of  natural 
philosophy,  which  procured  him  admission  into  the  Royal 
Societj'.  About  1773  he  was  appointed  master-painter  to 
the  Board  of  Ordnance,  and  died  at  his  house  in  Great 
Russell  Street  on  June  6,  1788.  The  satirical  print  of 
The  Repeal  was  intended  to  ridicule  the  politicians  who 
supported  the  cause  of  the  Americans  in  the  affair  of  the 
Stamp  Act,  and  contains  the  portraits  of  the  leading  men 
of  the  ministerial  party.  His  other  etchings  are — An  Old 
Man's  Head,  with  a  hat  and  feather,  and  a  ruff,  in  imita- 
tion of  Rembrandt.  A  small  landscape,  lengthways,  in 
imitation  of  the  same  master.  His  own  portrait,  in  a 
wig,  with  very  little  drapery.  There  are  several  mezzo- 
tintos  after  his  pictures,  as  Garrick  in  Hamlet;  the  same 
performer  in  Lear,  and  a  portrait  of  Sir  George  Saville. 
He  likewise  made  some  drawings  after  pictures  of  the 
old  masters,  for  the  late  Alderman  John  Boydell.  Tide 
Pilkington  arid  Bryan's  Dictionaries,  Hobbes's  Picture  Col- 
lector's Manual,  p*  495,  and  Gent.  Mag.  vol.  Iviii.  pt.  II. 
p.  658.] 

SOUL-FOOD.  —  What  is  the  derivation  of  this 
word,  pronounced  "  soul-food,"  but  I  fancy,  is 
spelt  seawl  or  sowl,  and  means  any  kind  of  food 
except  corn  ?  G.  V.  S. 

[The  term  seems  properly  to  have  signified  any  food 
that  satiates,  or  satisfies  the  appetite ;  and  it  has  accord- 
ingly been  derived  from  the  old  French  saoul  now  soul. 
Saoul,  or  soul,  has  been  traced  to  the  Latin  satullus ;  and 
between  them  lies  the  Rom.  sadol:  "Elventre  del  felo 
non  er  ja  sadols : "  (The  knave's  belly  will  never  be 
satisfied.)  The  French  have  also  the  verb  souler,  formerly 
saouler,  to  satiate.  "  SOOL,  anything  eaten  with  bread. 
North.  Anything  used  to  flavour  bread,  such  as  butter, 
cheese,  &c.,  is  called  sowl  in  Pembrokeshire."  (Halliwell.') 
The  transition  to  this  meaning  is  probably  due  to  the 
prevalent  opinion,  that  bread  atone  is  not  satisfying.] 

WORKS  ON  COVETOUSNESS.  —  A  quarter  of  a 
century  ago  great  excitement  was  caused  by  the 
publication  of  a  Prize  Essay,  entitled  Mammon. 
In  the  advertisement  it  is  stated  that  many  com- 
peting essays  were  considered  by  the  judges  to 
be  of  very  great  merit,  and  they  hoped  that  some 
of  them  would  be  published.  Were  any,  in  fact, 
so  published,  and,  if  so,  under  what  titles  or  de- 
criptions  ?  R.  P. 

[la  addition  to  Dr.  Harris's  Prize  Essay,  Mammon ;  or 


3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  14,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Covetousness  the  Sm  of  the  Christian  Church, 
there  appeared  about  the  same  time  the  fo 
on   the   same    subject:  -On    Covetousness, 
Treffry,  jun    18mo,   1836.      Covetoutness, 
Evils,  and  Cure,  b 
tian  Liberality  in 


GREEK  PLAYS  -  At  the  time  Dr.  Parr  was 
master  of  the  school  at  Stanmore,  he  had  two  of 

^CiS.  Sophocles  acted  by  his  pupils,  in  1775 
and  1776.  This  was  the  first  occasion  of  Greek 
plays  being  acted  in  England.  I  believe  there  is 
some  account  of  these  performances  in  Memoirs  of 
the  Rev.  T.  Maurice  (Part  i.  p.  63,  &c.)  Does 
Mr.  Maurice  give  the  names  of  the  performers? 

ZETA. 

[Mr.  Maurice  has  only  given  some  notices  of  his  trans- 
lation of  the  (Edipus  Tyrannus  of  Sophocles,  acted  before 
a  vast  body  of  assembled  literati,  but  without  the  names 
of  the  performers.  This  tragedy  was  subsequently  pub- 
lished by  him,  and  entitled  A  Free  Translation  of  the 
(Edipus  Tyrannus  of  Sophocles,  the  noblest  production  of  the 
Greek  Dramatic  Muse,  8vo,  1822.  In  the  Advertisement 
he  says,  "  The  important  intelligence  of  its  not  having 
been  acted  before  for  <2440  years,'  could  not  possibly 
come  before  me,  because  I  happened  myself  to  be  one  of 
the  conspicuous  actors  in  this  very  drama,  when  it  was 
performed  at  Stanmore,  in  the  original  Greek,  before  Dr. 
Samuel  Johnson,  and  a  great  body  of  British  and  Foreign 
literati,  in  the  year  1776.] 

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL.  —  1.  The  date  of  entry  of 
Meres's  Palladis  Tamia  at  Stationers'  Hall  ? 

2.  In  the  original  quarto  of  Love's  Labours  Lost, 
is  (a)  the  word  exit  opposite  Beronne  or  Boyet  in 
Act  II  — 

Ber.  "   .        .        .        .        Sir,  adieu. 

Boy.  Farewell  to  me,  Sir,  and  welcome  to  you?  " 

And  (Z>)  is  Armatho  spelt  as  in  the  First  Folio, 
Armathro,  in  Costard's  remarks  at  end  of  Act  IV. 
Sc.  1? 

3.  What  is  the  nature  of  the  contents  of  the 
pages  of  Holinshed's  2nd  vol.  that  were  cancelled 
in  Elizabeth's  time,   and  republished  in  1703  ? 
and  to  whose  reigns  do  they  belong  ? 

BENJ.  EASY. 

[1.  Meres's  Palladis  Tamia  was  first  published  in  1598, 
small  8vo,  174  leaves.  The  date  of  its  entry  at  Sta- 
tioners' Hall  we  have  not  discovered. 

2.  In  the  quarto  edition  of  Loues  Labours  lost,  1631  (a), 
Exit  is  opposite  Boyet.    (6)  In  Costard's  remarks  Ar- 
mathor  is  the  spelling. 

3.  The  Castrations  of  Holinshed  were  republished  in 
1728  (not  1703)  by  Dr.  Drake,  in  a  thin  folio  black-letter 
volume.     In  the  second  volume  there  are  only  four  sheets 
suppressed,  and  those  in  the  Annales  of  Scotland,  and  are 
chiefly  some  of  the  additions  made  by  Fr.  Thin.  The  first  is 
from  p.  421  to  424  inclusive;  the  second,  from  p.  433  to 
436  ;  and  the  third  and  fourth  together,  from  p.  443  to  450. 
The  passages  relate  to  the  violent  contention  which  sub- 
sisted in  the  years  1577,  &c.,  between  the  two  opposite 
parties  in  Scotland,  and  Queen  Elizabeth's  interference 
by  her  various  ambassadors  —  points  which  she  did  not 
care  to  have  made  public.     For  a  notice  of  the  castrations 
in  vol.  iii.,  see  Biog.  Britan.  ed.  1750-7,  iv.  2625.] 


Ktpttr*. 
THE  OLD  COUNTESS  OF  DESMOND. 

(3*  S.  i.  377.) 

I  beg  to  thank  the  MABQDBSS  OF  KILDARB  for 
his  correction  of  the  date  of  the  record  relative  to 
'Gyles  ny  Cormyk,  wife  to  Sir  Thomas  of  Des- 
mond, which  I  was  misled  to  suppose  to  be 
20  Hen.  VIII.  instead  of  20  Hen.  VII.  Th^cer! 
tamly  invalidates  considerably  my  argument  for 
a  large  reduction  of  the  assumed  longevity  of  his 
second  wife,  the  Old  Countess  of  Desmond,  in  re. 
ference  to  her  becoming  a  mother.  But  still  that 
argument  retains  some,  of  its  force,  and  the  pro- 
bability of  her  being  nearly  of  her  husband'iigt 
or  within  ten  years  of  it,  is  not  restored,  jj 
20  Hen.  VII.  (1505)  he  was  fifty-one.  As  after 
her  marriage  at  some  period  after  that  date,— 
now  unknown,  but  it  may  be  ten,  fifteen,  or  twenty 
years,  —  she  gave  birth  to  Katherine,  subsequently 
the  wife  of  Philip  Barry  Oge,  it  is  at  least  probable 
that,  instead  being  only  ten  years  younger  than 
her  husband,  which  was  all  that  her  reputed  longe- 
vity made  her,  she  was  considerably  more. 

The  pictures  called  portraits  of  the  Old  Coun- 
tess of  Desmond  are  evidently  very  numerous. 
Besides  others  formerly  seen  and  mentioned,  as 
noticed  by  the  writer  of  the  article  in  the  Dublin 
Review,  the  following  are  now  preserved  in  known 
localities :  — 

1.  At  Windsor  Castle. 

2.  At  Chatsworth. 

3.  At  Knole. 

4.  At  Burghley. 

5.  At  Bedgebury. 

6.  At  Newnham  Padox. 
In  Ireland :  — 

7.  At  Muckross  Abbey. 

8.  At  Ballynruderry. 

9.  At  Dromana. 
In  Scotland :  — 

10.  At  Dupplin  Caotle. 

11.  At  Newbattle  Abbey. 
And  probably  others. 

No.  1 .  is  certainly  a  picture  by  Rembrandt,  and 
a  portrait  of  his  mother ;  and  it  is  certainly  the 
original  of  most  of  the  rest,  possibly  of  all. 

By  the  kindness  of  the  Duke  of  Devonshire,  hi* 
picture  (No.  2)  has  been  brought  to  the  house  of 
the  National  Portrait  Gallery,  and  is  ascertained 
to  be  derived  from  the  preceding,  as  Horace  Wal- 
pole  pronounced  it  to  be. 

All  the  four  next  I  believe  will  prove  to  be  of 
the  like  character,  or  otherwise  imaginary. 

The  picture  (No.  7)  belonging  to  Mr.  Herbert 
at  Muckross  Abbey,  is  that  which  is  accompanied 
by  a  long  inscription  of  the  assumed  history  of 
the  Countess,  and  photographed  as  the  frontis- 
piece to  the  late  Mr.  Archdeacon  Boww's  Esiaj 


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[3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  14,  -'62. 


on  her  history.  I  believe  both  picture  and  in- 
scription to  have  been  fabricated,  at  the  time 
when  these  pictures  were  admired  and  multiplied. 
It  would,  however,  be  a  satisfaction  to  have  it  cri- 
tically examined  by  some  competent  judges. 

The  Knight  of  Kerry  has  already  had  the  kind- 
ness to  bring  his  picture  (No.  8)  to  the  National 
Portrait  Gallery.  It  is  excellent  as  a  work  of 
art,  and  has  the  signature  of  G.  Douw,  but  is 
clearly  derived  from  the  Windsor  picture,  though 
with  some  varieties  of  treatment  and  of  costume. 
This  is  more  obvious  upon  examination  of  the 
picture  than  was  observable  in  the  mezzo-tint  en- 
graving by  Grogan.  That  Gerard  Douw  should 
have  copied  a  picture  of  his  master  Rembrandt, 
with  variations  of  his  own,  is  an  occurrence  quite 
in  due  course. 

Lord  Stuart  de  Decies  proposes  to  bring  his 
picture  from  Dromana  to  London,  and  I  look  for 
it  with  some  curiosity,  as  I  do  not  gather,  from 
the  accounts  of  the  Quarterly  Reviewer  and  Sir 
Bernard  Burke,  whether  it  resembles  those  already 
noticed  or  no. 

The  Earl  of  Kinnoull's  picture  (No.  10.)  is  cer- 
tainly derived  from  that  at  Windsor,  as  is  shown 
by  the  engraving  in  Pennant's  Tour  in  Scotland. 

Of  the  Marquess  of  Lothian's  picture  at  New- 
battle  Abbey  I  know  nothing,  and  I  mention  it 
now  for  the  first  time,  having  Ibund  it  as  an  item 
in  a  catalogue  of  that  collection  written  in  1798. 

Lord  Inchiquin  has  two  small  pictures  of  an 
Earl  and  Countess  of  Desmond,  and  he  proposes 
to  bring  them  to  London  :  but  it  has  not  been  as- 
certained to  which  Earl  and  Countess  they  be- 
long. 

Should  any  further  information  arise  upon  this 
long-debated  subject,  I  will  not  fail  to  report  it. 
JOHN  GOUGH  NICHOLS. 


NAMES  OF  PLANTS. 

(3rd  S.  i.  347.) 

The  dock  has  its  name  from  A.-S.  docce ;  the 
yarrow  from  A.-S.  gearwe.  Avens  would  cor- 
rupt from  adventus,  but  why  it  should  have  been 
so  called  seems  doubtful.  The  O.  Fr.  les  avens, 
signifies  the  "fete  of  the  advent."  The  name 
charlock,  or  carlock,  is  in  some  countries  also 
called  cadlock, garlock,  and  warlock;  and  in  Saxon 
is  written  cerlice.  Again,  cerlice  might  corrupt 
from  geurlic,  yearly,  annual ;  but  the  latter  appel- 
lation would  be  equally  applicable  to  any  annual. 
If,  however,  the  Saxon  had  a  corresponding  word 
to  the  Brit,  garw,  "rough,"  the  name  might  mean 
rough-ish  (gar-lie).  Indeed,  in  Yorkshire,  the 
charlock  is  called  also  runsh;  a  name  which  may 
have  been  given  to  it  on  account  of  its  hirsute  stem, 
from  the  provincial  word  runish,  "rough."  The 
wake-robin  has  many  other  names  —  as  cuckoo- 
pint  or  pintle,  priest's-pintle,  calf's-foot,  rampe, 


and  starch-wort.  Lords-and-ladies  is  one  of  its 
most  common  appellations ;  and  in  Worcester- 
shire it  is  called  bloody-men's-fingers.  According 
to  Miller  (Gard.  Diet.),  it  has  its  first  name  from 
its  acrimony ;  its  second  and  third  from  the  form 
8f  the  spadix  ;  and  calf's-foot  from  the  Dutch, 
kalfsvoet.  The  French  have  a  variety  of  names 
for  this  plant :  among  others,  pied-de-veau  and 
goult-commun.  Its  classical  name  arum  (in  Ger. 
Aron,  Gr.  "Apov,)  is  said  to  be  from  apa,  bane,  de- 
triment. Bailey  derives  tares  from  "  the  Low 
S.  teeren,  Ger.  zehren,  to  consume  ;  because  they 
consume  the  corn."  Rumex  (Plin.,  in  Gr. 
Aa0u5oz/)  is  derived  by  some  from  rumpo,  or  rupo ; 
or,  according  to  Vossius,  from  rumo,  to  suck. 
Prunella,  or  brunella,  is  said  to  be  from  the  Ger. 
die  braune,  "  a  disorder  in  the  jaws  and  throat," 
which  the  self-heal  is  supposed  to  cure.  The  plant 
called  "gold-of-pleasure,"  derives  its  classical  name 
Mydgrum  (Plin.  Mvcrypos,  Dioscor.),  from  /xu?o,  a 
fly;  ayptvu,  to  catch.  Varro  derives  "  vicia,"  d 
vinciendo,  "because  it  has  its  tendrils  like  the 
vine,  by  which  it  binds  other  plants;"  but  Vos- 
sius thinks  it  rather  from  the  Greek ;  because, 
teste  Galen,  the  Asiatic  Greeks  call  it  &KLOV.  Mil- 
ler says  the  Vicia  sativa  is  so  called,  because  it 
has  been  long  cultivated  under  the  names  of  tares 
and  vetches  (Provin.  fitches)  for  the  seeds ;  which 
are  an  excellent  food  for  pigeons,  and  also  for 
green  food  of  horses,  kine,  and  sheep,  particu- 
larly for  soiling  horses.  R.  S.  CHARNOCK. 


DUNFORD,  DUMFORD,  OR  DUREFORD. 
(3rd  S.  i.  278.) 

It  was  not  worth  troubling  you  merely  to  say 
that  the  doubt  which  I  meant  to  have  expressed 
in  my  former  letter  was  between  Dunford  and 
Dumford,  and  that  Durnford  was  an  error,  either 
of  mine  or  of  the  printer.  Your  correspondent 
J.  G.  N.  has  raised  a  new  question,  by  his  con- 
jecture that  Dunford  was  a  lapidary's  error,  and 
that  the  name  should  have  been  Dureford,  from 
the  abbey  situated  not  far  from  Harting  and  the 
other  estates  of  John  Caryll.  This  is  plausible 
but  not  conclusive.  Did  your  correspondent  re- 
member that  Harting  and  the  other  estates,  and 
the  abbey  itself,  are  all  situated  in  the  Hundred 
of  Dumpford,  or  Demetford  ?  If  this  be  one  of 
the  original  hundreds  into  which  the  county  was 
divided,  is  it  not  more  probable  that  the  little 
abbey,  always  a  poor  place,  took  its  name  from  its 
situation,  and  was  popularly  called  the  "  Abbey  of 
Demetford"?  The  county  around  is  studded  with 
names  of  like  derivation.  As  to  the  variations  in 
the  spelling  and  to  the  corruption  of  names,  your 
correspondent  is  much  better  informed  than  lam; 
but  in  illustration  of  this  special  question,  I  will 
observe  that  in  a  deed  I  have  seen,  a  reference  is 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


471 


therein  made  to  certain  legal  proceedings  in  the 
time  of  Henry  II.,  and  that  the  Hundred  is  there 
called  "  Demetforde  "  ;  and  in  a  subsequent  quo- 
tation from  or  reference  to  proceedings  in  the 
time  of  Edward  I.,  it  is  called  "  Dempforde "  ; 
while  in  the  document  itself,  dated  1632,  it  is 
written  both  Dempforde  and  Dumpforde.  In  a 
deed  of  1605,  referring  to  lands  which  I  believe 
belonged  formerly  to  the  abbey,  they  are  de- 
scribed as  situate  in  Dumptford;  in  another,  of 
1609,  as  lands  in  Durford ;  and,  1632, 1  find  men- 
tion of  "Durford  Bridge"  and  "Durford  War- 
ren." In  the  Ordnance  Map  there  is  marked 
upon  what  appears  to  be  the  site  of  the  abbey, 
"Dumford  Farm,"  and"Dumford  Park  Farm" 
adjoining. 

I  shall  now  refer  to  a  document  to  show  what 
may  have  been  the  opinion  of  the  titular  lord 
himself,  for  it  was  made  in  his  life-time,  and 
for  his  own  use.  It  is  a  "  Table  of  Customary 
fees  belonging  to  the  Steward,  Bailiff',  &u.,  of 
Rogate  Court,  as  agreed  upon  oath."  This  formal 
document,  on  parchment,  signed  by  the  jurors,  is 
headed  "Dumford";  and  the  abbey,  be  it  re- 
membered, was  situated  in  the  manor  of  Rogate. 


ARMS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  LEON. 
(3rd  S.  i.  407.) 

The  uncertainty  as  to  the  proper  tincture  of 
the  lion  in  the  arms  of  Leon,  noted  by  HISP.,  has 
\doubtless  arisen  from  the 'vagueness  attending  the 
use  of  the  word  purpureus,  or  molochinus,  in  the 
^Latin  blazon  of  those  arms.  There  can,  I  think, 
,be  little  doubt  that  gules  is  the  proper  colour, 
-both  from  the  fact  that  purpure  was  formerly  not 
admitted  as  an  heraldic  tincture  (see  on  this  point 
EArt  du  Blason  justfle,  par  le  Pere  Menestrier, 
Lyon,  1661)  ;  and  because  the  balance  of  autho- 
rities, as  well  Spanish  as  foreign,  is  decidedly  in 
favour  of  gules. 

The  only  work  of  authority  that  I  know  of,  in 
which  purpure  is  given  as  the  tincture,  is  Chifflet's 
Insignia  Gentilitia  equitum  ordinis  Velleris  Aure.i 
(Le  Blason  des  Armoiries  des  Chevaliers  de  la 
Toison  d'Or),  Antwerp,  1632.  There  in  the  Latin 
blason  of  the  arms  of  Ferdinand,  King  of  Sicily, 
the  words  **  leo  molochinus,"  and  in  the  French, 
11  lyon  de  pourpre,"  are  used.  (Vredius,  in  Sigilla 
Comitum  Flandrice,  also  uses  the  word  "  molochi- 
nus "  in  blasoning  the  arms  of  the  Spanish  family 
of  Manoel ;  but  see  below.) 

Favyn,  Theatre  cTHonneur  et  de  Chevalene, 
tome  ii.  p.  1159  (Paris,  1620),  gives  the  arms  of 
Leon  thus :  "  Le  Lyon  rempant  de  Gueules,  ou  de 
Sable";  whence  Guillim,  perhaps  (Display  of 
Heraldry,  p.  381,)  "Luna,  a  lion  rampand 
Saturn,"— which  is  certainly  incorrect.  Ihe  tc 


lowing  are  a  few  of  the  Spanish  authorities  for 
gules  :  — 

Argote  de  Molina,  in  his  book,  De  la  Nollfza 
del  Anduluzia,  liv.  i.  cap.  42,  speaks  of  "el  Leon 
roxo  rampante"  as  being  the  arms  of  Leon  ;  and 
p.  190,  in  describing  the  arms  of  Manoel,  says : 
"  Uso  por  armas  del  leon  roxo  en  campo  de  plata 
de  las  armas  Reales,"  &c. 

Rodrigo  Mendez  Silva,  in  La  Poblartion  general 
de  Espaha,  gives  to  the  town  of  Leon  for  arms  : 
"  En  Escudo  plata  leon  rojo" 

Ambrosio  Salazar  gives  the  arms  of  the  Girons, 
who  bear  Castile  and  Leon  tierced  in  mantle  with 
their  own  arms,  thus  :  "  Trae'n  por  armas  un  cas- 
tillo  rojo  campo  de  oro,  y  un  leon  rampante  rnjo 
campo  de  plata,"  &c.  (See  Henninges  Theatrum 
Genealogicum,  torn.  iv.  fol.  34 ;  and  L 'Art  du  Bla- 
sonjustijie,  pp.  58,  59.) 

Menestrier,  Methode  du  Blason,  p.  206,  6gures 
the  lion  gules  ;  and  Ashmole,  History  of  the  Order 
of  the  Garter  (8vo  edit),  p.  517,  gives  the  second 
quarter  of  the  arras  of  Ferdinand,  King  of  Castile 
and  Leon,  as  "  Arg.  a  lyon  ramp,  gules,  crowned 
or." 

Goussan  court,  Marttjrologe  des  Chccaliers  de 
Malte  (Paris,  1643),  tome  i.  p.  3,  blasons  Leon, 
u  d'argent  au  lion  de  gueules"  So  also  the  German 
heralds,  Triers,  Einleitung  zu  der  Wapen-Kwut 
(Leipzig,  1744),  pp.  28,  324,  520  :  "In  silbernera 
Felde  ein  rother  gecronter  Lowe."  In  Siebma- 
cher's  Wappenbuch  (Nurnberg,  1734),  in  every 
plate  in  which  the  arms  of  Leon  appear,  the  lion 
is  marked  roth  (vol.  i.  pi.  2.  4. ;  vol.  v.  die  Hoch- 
Meister  Teutschen  Ordens,  pi.  29  ;  vol.  vi.  Rom. 
Kayserlicher  Wappen,  plate  1,  3;  Wappen  der 
Ertz-Hertzoge  zu  Oesterreich,  pi.  5  ) 

JOHN  WOODWARD. 

New  Shoreham. 


SIR  JOHN  BALDWIN. 
(3'd  S.  i.  426.) 

As  H.  C.  F.  is  evidently  not  in  possession  of 
the  book,  I  send  the  following  fuller  account  of 
Sir  John  Baldwin,  extracted  from  Foss's  Judges 
of  England,  vol.  v.  p.  1 34  :  — 

"  John  Baldwin  was  the  son  of  William  Baldwin  and 
Agnes,  the  daughter  of  William  Dormer,  Esq.,  of  U  y- 
combe,  in  Buckinghamshire,  the  ancestor  of  Lord  Dor- 
mer. At  the  Inner  Temple,  where  he  studied  the  law, 
he  attained  so  high  a  reputation  that  he  received  the 
uncommon  distinction  of  being  thrice  appomted  reader, 
in  autumn  1516,  in  Lent  1524,  and  in  autumn  1531.  1 
last  occasion  was  on  account  of  bis  having  been  ci 
upon  to  take  the  degree  of  the  coif;  which  he  accordingly 
assumed  in  the  following  November,  when  he  was  im- 
mediately constituted  one  of  the  King's  Serjeants.  In 
1530,  he  held  the  office  of  treasurer  of  his  inn. 

«  He  probablv  practised  in  the  Court  of  Chancery,  a« 
he  was  one  of  the  persons  assigned,  in  June,  1529,  to  a. 
Cardinal  Wolsey  in  hearing  causes  there.    1 
jeant  Willoughby  were  knighted  io  1534  i  being  the  first 


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[3'd  S.  I/JuNE  14,  '62. 


Serjeants,  as  is  noticed  in  Spelman's  MS.  Reports,  who 
ever  submitted  to  receive  that  honour.  In  1535  he  was 
elevated  to  the  chief  justiceship  of  the  Common  Pleas. 
The  precise  date  of  his  patent  is  not  known ;  but  as  the 
last  fine  levied  before  his  predecessor,  Sir  Robert  Nor- 
wich, was  in  February,  and  the  first  before  him  in  April, 
it  must  have  been  granted  between  those  dates.  Within 
a  few  weeks  he  was  called  upon  to  act  as  a  commissioner 
on  the  trials  of  Sir  Thomas  More  and  Bishop  Fisher,  in 
which,  however,  he  does  not  appear  to  have  taken  any 
active  part.  He  continued  Chief  Justice  for  ten  years; 
resigning  between  Trinity  Term,  1545,  the  date  of  the 
last  fine  levied  before  him,  and  November  6,  when  his 
place  was  supplied  by  Sir  Edward  Montagu.*  His  death 
occurred  in  December  22. 

"  Notwithstanding  his  early  promise,  he  does  not  seem 
to  have  been  much  esteemed  as  a  judge.  He  differed 
frequently  from  his  brethren,  and  was  certainly  thought 
little  of  by  Ch-ief  Justice  Dyer,  who  on  one  occasion  says 
in  his  Reports :  '  But  Baldwin  was  of  a  contrary  opinion, 
though  neither  I,  nor  anyone  else,  I  believe,  understood 
his  refutation.' 

"  He  possessed  the  manor  of  Aylesbury,  in  Bucks;  and 
in  the  last  year  of  his  life  he  obtained  some  valuable 
grants  from  the  King  of  the  farms  of  several  manors  in 
that  county  and  in  Oxfordshire,  which  had  been  either 
forfeited  by  the  attainder  of  their  former  possessors,  or 
seized  on  "the  dissolution  of  the  monasteries.!  All  his 
property,  for  want  of  male  heirs,  was  divided  amongst 
his  daughters:  one  of  whom,  Catherine,  was  married  to 
Robert  Pakington,  M.P.  for  London  (assassinated  in  the 
streets  in  1536),  who  was  the  ancestor  of  the  baronets  of 
that  name,  of  Aylesbury,  whose  title  became  extinct  in 
1830."  t 

Wotton,  in  his  Baronetage,  I  sec,  makes  William 
Dormer's  daughter  the  wife  of  Sir  John  Baldwin ; 
but  that  she  was  his  mother  appears  in  the  lineage 
of  Lord  Dormer,  as  given  in  Brydges's  Collinses 
Peerage,  vol.  vii.  p.  67  ;  and  is  confirmed  by  Wil- 
liam Dormer's  will  in  Nicolas's  Testamenta  Ve- 
tusta,  vol.  ii.  p.  474.  E.  G. 


BLUE  AND  BUFF. 
(3rd  S.  i.  425.) 

Your  correspondent  L.  will  find  that  blue  and 
buff  have  been  party  colours  in  England  from  a 
period  long  antecedent  to  the  forty-five.  Blue 
was  the  colour  of  the  Puritans,  v/hen  or  by  whom 
first  chosen  is,  I  believe,  unknown.  It  is  probable 
that  the  English  Puritans  had  it  from  their  Scot- 
tish brethren.  Blue  had  been  for  ages  the  symbol 
of  truth,  that  alone  might  induce  the  members  of 
a  body,  suffering  for  conscience'  sake,  to  adopt  it 
as  their  badge.  Perhaps  a  stronger  reason  is  to 
be  found  in  the  symbolical  use  made  of  this  colour 
in  the  Jewish  law  :  — 

"  Speake  vnto  the  children  of  Israel,  and  bid  them 
they  make  them  fringes  vpon  the  borders  of  their  gar- 
ments throwout  their  generations,  and  put  vpon  the 
fringes  of  the  borders  a  ribband  of  blue  silke.  And  ye 
shall  have  the  fringes,  that  when  ye  looke  upon  them  ve 

*  Dugdale's  Orig.,  47,  137716371647170 ;  State  Trials, 
i.  387,  398. 

9  Eep.  Pub.  Rec.,  App.  n.  1G2. 
Wotton's  Baronet.,  i.  388. 


may  remember  all  the  commandments  of  the  lord  and  do 
them."  * 

I  am  not  aware  that  any  of  the  banners  used  in 
the  great  Civil  "War  are  still  preserved,  but  it  is 
probable  that  the  Bluidy  Banner  of  Drumclog 
was  a  reproduction  of  those  used  in  the  earlier 
struggle.  This  relic  has  recently  been  discovered 
sketched,  and  described  by  James  Drummond, 
Esq.,  R.S.A. :  — 

"  It  is  of  Blue  silk,  here  and  there  a  little  faded,  but 
having  been  treasured  as  a  precious  heir-loom,  is  in  ver3' 
good  preservation.  On  it  is  inscribed  in  Hebrew  charac- 
ters, gilded,  'Jehova  nissi '  (the  Lord  is  my  banner.) 
The  silk  has  given  way  where  some  of  these  letters  are 
painted,  and  what  letters  remain  are  so  tender  that  they 
will  hardly  bear  touching.  The  next  line  is  painted  in 
white,  '  For  Christ  and  His  Truth  ' ;  and  then  comes  the 
line  from  which  the  banner  derives  its  name — 

'  No  QUARTERS  To  Y«  ACTIVE  ENIMES  OF  Y*  CO- 
VENANT.' 

This  seems  to  have  been  painted  in  some  light  colour 
first,  and  afterwards  repainted  in  a  dull  faded-looking 
red,  in  fact,  quite  a  «  bluidy  colour.'  "  f 

Buff  or  orange-tawny  was  the  colour  of  Robert 
Devereux,  third  Earl  of  Essex,  the  first  General  of 
the  parlimentary  army. 

Whitelock  writes,  under  the  date  of  Aug.  22, 
1642  :  — 

"  The  Earl  of  Essex's  colours  was  a  deep  yellow,  others 
setting  up  another  colour  were  held  malignants,  and  ill- 
affected  to  the  Parliament's  cause."  J 

The  orange- tawny  scarfs  of  the  parliamentary 
general  became  memorable,  from  the  accident 
which  happened  to  the  troop  under  the  command 
of  Sir  Faithful  Fortescue  at  the  battle  of  Edge 
Hill,  23rd  Oct.  1642. 

It  would  seem  that  Sir  Faithful  Fortescue  had 
come  ou£  of  Ireland  a  short  time  before  the 
breaking  out  of  actual  war,  for  the  purpose  of 
hastening  supplies  for  the  campaign  in  that  country, 
and  that  when  in  England,  the  troop  of  which  he 
was  appointed  colonel  was  drafted  into  the  army 
which  was  destined  to  act  against  the  king.  There 
is  no  reason  to  suppose  that  Fortescue's  feelings 
were  on  the  side  of  the  Parliament :  it  is  impos- 
sible, however,  to  justify  his  desertion  of  their 
army  in  the  moment  of  battle.  The  Cavalier 
Historian  tells  the  story  thus  :  — 

"  For  as  the  right  wing  of  the  King's  Horse  advanced 
to  charge,  the  left  wing  which  was  the  gross  of  the 

enemy's  horse,  Sir  Faithful  Fortescue with  his 

whole  troop  advanced  from  the  gross  of  their  horse,  and 
discharging  all  their  pistols  on  the  ground,  within  little 
more  than  carbine  shot  of  his  own  body,  presented  him- 
self and  his  troop  to  Prince  Rupert ;  and  immediately, 

with  his  highness,  charged  the  enemy 

which  had  not  so  good  fortune  as  they  deserved;  for  by   I 
the  negligence  of  not  throwing  away  their  orange  tawny  j 

*  Numbers  xv.  38.     Geneva  Version. 

f  Memorials  and  Letters  illustrative  of  the  Life  and 
Times  of  John  Graham  of  Claverhouse,  vol.  i.  p.  xliv. 

J  Whitelock's  Memorials  of  English  Affairs,  edit.  1732, 
p.  02 ;  or  vol.  i.  p.  180,  of  the  Oxford  reprint  of  1853. 


S.  I.  JUNE  14,  '62.  ] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


473 


scarfs,  which  they  all  wore  as  the  Earl  of  Essex's  colours, 
and  being  immediately  engaged  in  the  charge,  many  of 
them,  not  fewer  than  seventeen  or  eighteen,  were  sud- 
denly killed  by  those  to  whom  they  joined  themselves."* 

K.  P.  D.  E. 


WHALEBONE  AND  SUN  (3rd  S.  i.  250,  419,  &c.)— 
DR.  BELL  has,  in  my  opinion,  "  disposed  "  of  this 
question  much  more  satisfactorily  than  any  pre- 
vious correspondent.  At  Brockley,  near  Lewisham, 
there  stands  a  little  rural  house  of  entertainment, 
the  proper  sign  of  which  I  never  heard,  though  it 
was  usually  known  by  the  name  of  "  Brockley 
Church,"  —  I  presume  from  its  being  so  much 
frequented  on  the  Sunday  by  our  pent-up  Lon- 
doners. From  a  tree  overshadowing  the  right 
wing  of  the  building,  there  hung  very  lately  the 
huge  blade-bone  of  a  whale,  which  was  likely 
enough  to  have  obtained  for  the  house  the  name 
of  "  The  Whalebone,"  in  addition  to  its  proper  or 
original  designation  ;  about  which  the  neighbours 
even  were  not  agreed. 

The  jaw-bones  of  the  whale,  disposed  in  the 
manner  described  by  your  correspondent,  formed 
not  unfrequently  the  entrance-arch  to  our  subur- 
ban tea-gardens  ;  and  were  very  likely,  in  a  rural 
district,  to  eclipse  the  older  glories  even  of  a 
flaming  sun  on  the  broad  grin,  as  he  is  usually 
figured  on  our  country  sign-boards. 

DOUGLAS  ALLPOET. 

NEVISON,  THE  FREEBOOTER  (3rd  S.  i.  428.) — A 
work  entitled,  A  General  History  of  the  Lives  and 
Adventures  of  the  most  famous  Highwaymen,  Mur- 
derers, Street  Robbers,  $r.,  by  Captain  Charles 
Johnson,  published  1734,  folio,  gives  a  long  ac- 
count of  William  Nevison,  the  highwayman,  and 
states  that  he  was  born  at  Pomfret  about  the  year 
1639,  of  "  well-reputed,  honest  and  reasonably 
estated  parents ; "  that  at  the  age  of  thirteen  he 
took  to  thieving,  and  in  after  years  was  so  noto- 
rious, that  a  reward  was  offered  for  his  capture. 
After  shooting  dead  one  of  two  brothers,  named 
Fletcher,  who  tried  to  waylay  him,  he  was  taken 
by  Capt.  Hardcastle,  lodged  in  York  Gaol,  and  in 
a  week,  tried  and  executed,  at  the  age  of  forty- 
five.  LOUISA  JULIA  NORMAN. 

CATAMARAN  (3rd  S.  i.  p.  403.) — Allow  me  to 
remind  MR.  KEIGHTLEY  that  the  surf-boats  used 
at  Madras  are  not  catamaran,  but  massoulah.  T. 

FRENCH    TRAGIC    EXAGGERATION    (3rd    S.    i. 
871.)  —-The  first  example  is  not  from  a  tragedy, 
but  a  comedy — Les  Visionnaires,  by  Desmarests 
deSt.  Sorlin:  — 
"  VA  table  je  redoute  un  breuvage  de  charmes; 

Ou  qu'un  d'eux  ne  me  donne  &  boire  de  ses  larmes. 

Je  crains  que  quelqu'amant  n'ait,  avant  son  tre'pas, 

Ordonne"  que  son  cceur  servit  &  me  repas. 

*  Clarendon's  History  of  the  Rebellion,  vol.  i.  8vo,  1843, 
pp.  308,  309. 


Souvent  sur  ce  penser  en  mangeaot  je  frissonne ; 
Croyant  qu'on  le  de'guise,  et  qu'on  me  I'aaaaisonne : 
Pour  mettre  dans  mon  sein  par  ce  trait  d&evant, 
Au  moins  apres  la  mort  ce  qu'il  ne  put  vivant." 

Act  I.  Sc.  C. 

This  comedy  is  generally  called  the  chefcTceuvre 
of  its  author,  who  had  the  literary  misfortunes  of 
being  patronised  by  Richelieu,  and  satirised  by 
Boileau.  I  have  ventured  to  say  a  good  word  for 
him  (2nd  S.  xi.  373),  which  I  am  not  disposed  to 
qualify;  although  M.  H.  Rigault  (Hist,  de  la 
Querelle  des  Anciens  et  des  Modernes,  c.  vii.) 
says :  — 

"  Son  pofcme  chre'tien  de  Marie- Magdalene  est  encore- 
plus  ignore  aujourd'hui  qu'il  n'a  <<te  celebre  au  xvii. 
siecle,  et  sans  Boileau  qui  connaitrait  Clovis  9  Sa  comedio 
des  Visionnaires,  agreable  et  spirituelle  (Moliere  n'etait 
pas  venu)  a  ete  trop  vantde  par  Pelisson,  qui  la  declarait 
inimitable." 

When  Moliere  came,  he  thought  sufficiently  well 
of  the  Visionnaires  to  transfer,  with  slight  altera- 
tion, four  lines  from  it  to  Les  Femmes  Savantes  ; 
see  Geruzez,  H.  de  la  Litterature  Franqnise,  torn.  i. 
p.  143.  Les  Visionnaires,  when  produced  at  the 
Hotel  de  Bourgogne,  in  1637,  had  a  prodigious 
success;  when  revived  in  1715,  it  was  not  borne 
till  the  end.  It  is  well  worth  reading ;  and  the 
description  which  Phalante  gives  of  his  visionary 
country  house,  shows  that  Desmarests  could  have 
designed  a  mansion,  a  palace  and  gardens,  worthy 
the  age  of  Louis  XIV. 

I  believe  editions  vary.  That  from  which  I 
quote  is  La  Haye,  1714. 

I  cannot  find  any  old  French  play  named  For- 
senna.  The  Dictionnaire  des  Theatres,  Paris,  1763, 
a  very  accurate  work,  does  not  mention  such. 
Perhaps  the  second  example  may  also  be  from  a 
comedy.  H.  B.  C. 

U.  U.  Club. 

PHRASES  (3rd  S.  i.  348.)  —  "  The  sad  shepherd 
of  Segrais" — I  remember  two  lines  ascribed  to 
Segrais,  but  not  where  they  are  to  be  found  :  — 

"  Ce  beau  berger,  portant  partout  son  triste  ennui, 
Ne  se  plaisait  qu'aux  lieux  aussi  tristes  que  luL" 

"  To  dance  Burnaby  "  : 

..."  Cavum  conversa  cuspide  montem, 
Impulit  in  latus;  et  venti  velut  agmine  facto, 
Qua  data  porta,  ruunt,  et  terras  turbine  perflant." 

•/£Vi.  i.  81. 

Rendered  by  Cotton,  in  Virgil  Travestie  : 

"  •  Bounce,'  cries  the  porthole ;  out  they  fly, 

And  make  the  world  dance  Barnaby." 

FlTZUOPKIKS. 

Garrick  Club. 

TILNEY  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  329.)  —  In  answer  to 
SIGMA-TAU'S  inquiry  respecting  the  knightly  fa- 
mily of  Tilney,  it  may  be  observed,  that  the  race 
of  sixteen  knights  began  and  ended  in  a  Sir  Fre- 
derick. Of  the  first  of  the  line,  the  companion  in 
arms  of  Cceur- de-Lion,  the  quaint  Fuller  thus 


474 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


[3'a  S.  I.  JUNE  14,  '62. 


"  Sir  Frederick  Tilney  had  his  chief  residence  at  Bos- 
tone  in  this  county.  He  was  a  man  of  mighty  stature 
and  strength  above  the  proportion  of  ordinary  persons. 
He  attended  King  Richard  I.,  anno  Domini,  1190,  to  the 
siege  of  Aeon,  in  the  Holy  Land,  where  his  achievements 
were  such  that  he  struck  terror  into  the  infidels.  Re- 
turning home  in  safety,  he  lived  and  died  at  Terrington, 
nigh  Tilney,  in  Norfolk,  where  the  measure  of  his  incre- 
dible stature  was  for  many  years  preserved.  Sixteen 
knights  flourished  from  him  successively  in  the  male 
line,  till  at  last  their  heir-general  being  married  to  the 
.Duke  of  Norfolk  put  a  period  to  the  lustre  of  that  ancient 
family." —  Worthies,  Lincolnshire. 

This  heiress  was  Elizabeth,  widow  of  Lord  Ber- 
ners,  and  daughter  and  sole  heir  of  Sir  Frederick 
Tilney  the  last  of  his  heroic  line,  whose  father, 
Sir  Philip  Tilney,  was  present  at  the  Field  of  the 
Cloth  of  Gold.  Elizabeth  Tilney  became  the  first 
wife  of  Thomas  Howard,  the  gallant  Earl  of 
Surrey,  who  commanded  the  English  forces  at  the 
famous  Field  of  Flodden,  and,  for  his  eminent 
services  there,  restored  to  the  Dukedom  of  Nor- 
folk, which  had  been  forfeited  by  the  attainder  of 
his  father,  Shakspeare's  "  Jockey  of  Norfolk,"  for 
his  adherence  to  the  cause  of  Richard  III.  From 
this  marriage  spring  all  the  peerage  houses  of 
Norfolk,  Suffolk,  Carlisle,  and  Howards  of  Corby 
Castle.  It  is  probable  that  an  account  of  some  of 
the  Tilneys  may  be  found  in  Blomefield,  or  other 
county  historians,  which  I  have  not  at  hand  to 
refer  to.  G.  R.  F. 

OBITUARY  or  OFFICERS  (3rd  S.  i.  372,  420.)  — 
CHESSBOROUGH  is  right ;  George  Morrison  was  a 
general.  His  being,  at  the  time  of  his  death,  the 
oldest  staff-officer  in  the  service,  is  made  clear, 
past  question,  by  the  annual  Army  Lists.  General 
Morrison  had  shared  in  much  hard  duty  and  ac- 
tion before  receiving  the  commission  of  quarter- 
master-general. At  Court  he  was  a  constant  at- 
tendant, and  sometimes  travelled  abroad  with  the 
Prince  of  Wales,  Duke  of  York,  and  the  King. 
He  was  with  the  Duke  of  York  on  his  last  foreign 
tour,  and  brought  home  the  remains  of  H.  R.  H. 
from  Monaco,  where  he  died,  1767.  At  that  time 
the  general  had  a  family  of  six  children  ;  one  of 
them,  Henrietta  Jane,  his  eldest  daughter,  was 
married  to  George  Arnold,  Esq.,  gentleman  of  the 
Privy  Chamber,  of  Ashby  Legers,  Northampton- 
shire, and  Mirables,  Isle  of  Wight.  She  died  17th 
Sept.,  1849,  at  Mirables,  aged  92.  Her  father, 
the  general,  must  have  died  even  at  a  more  vener- 
able age.  He  entered  the  train  of  artillery  Oct.  1, 
1722,  as  a  gunner,  and  dying  in  November,  1799, 
was  on  full  pay  for  more  than  seventy-seven  years. 
Could  the  date  of  his  birth  be  ascertained,  he  would 
probably  be  entitled  to  a  place  among  centena- 
rians. 

Of  the  descendants  of  Lieut.- General  John 
Archer  I  know  nothing,  but  shall  be  glad  of  any 
information  concerning  these  two  generals,  and  of 
the  other  officers  named  in  my  query  (3rd  S. 


i.  372)  which  it  may  be  in  the  power  of  your  cor- 
respondents to  offer :  dates  and  places  of  decease 
particularly.  M.  S.  R. 

Brompton  Barracks. 

INSECURE  ENVELOPES  (3rd  S.  i.  415.)  —  Mopsus 
being  able  to  penetrate  the  secret  of  letters  may 
possibly  refer  to  an   augur  of  that  name  in  the 
Argonauticon  of  Valerius   Flaccus,  lib.  i.  v.  207, 
who  sees  all  passing  in  the  depths  of  the  sea :  — 
"  Ecce  sacer,  totusque  dei,  per  litora,  Mopsus 
Immanis  visu  — 

Heu,  qusenam  aspicio !  nostris  modo  conscius  ausis 
JEquoreos  vocat  ecce  Deos  Neptunus,  et  ingens 
Concilium." 

WILLIAM  BELL,  Phil.  Dr. 

POSTAGE  STAMPS  (3rd  S.  i.  149,  278,  &c.)— The 
plate  engraved  with  Mulready's  design  for  the 
covers  of  envelopes,  described  by  MR.  PHILLIPS, 
is  now  in  the  Museum  at  South  Kensington  (near 
the  door  of  a  passage  leading  to  the  officers' 
rooms)  ;  and  I  would  suggest  that  a  few  hundred 
impressions  should  be  taken  from  it  and  sold  to 
the  stamp  collectors,  for  the  benefit  of  the  Chan- 
cellor of  the  Exechequer.  DELTA. 

MUSJE  ETONENSES  :  CHARLES  ANGUISH,  ROBERT 
ANSTEY,  SIR  JOHN  BAYLEY,  JOHN  SIMONS  (3rd  S. 
i.  372,  394.)  —  \Ve  have  received  from  a  kind 
friend  information  which  we  believe  enables  us  to 
identify  four  of  the  writers  about  whom  we  in- 
quired. 

Charles  Anguish,  son  of  Thomas  Anguish,  Esq., 
Accountant- General  of  the  Court  of  Chancery; 
born  in  St.  George's,  Bloomsbury,  15th  March, 
1769;  nominated  for  King's  College  31st  July, 
1786 ;  an  officer  in  the  army ;  died  at  the  Cape  of 
Good  Hope  25th  May,  1797. 

Robert  Anstey,  son  of  Christopher  Anstey,  Esq. ; 
born  at  Trumpington  30th  March,  1760;  nomi- 
nated to  King's  College  28th  July,  1777,  and  27th 
July,  1778 ;  admitted  a  pensioner  of  St.  John's 
College,  Cambridge,  7th  July,  1779;  took  no  de- 
gree ;  described  as  of  Canons  Leigh  House,  De- 
vonshire, in  1796 ;  died  at  Bath  12th  April,  1818. 
It  will  be  seen  that  LORD  LYTTELTON'S  conjecture 
respecting  him  is  perfectly  correct. 

John  Bayley,  son  of  John  Bayley,   of  Elton, 

Huntingdonshire,  and Kennet ;  born  at 

Elton  4th  August,  1763 ;  nominated  for  King's 
College  29th  July,  1782  ;  Serjeant  at  Law,  1799; 
Justice   of  King's  Bench  and  a  Knight,   1808; 
Baron  of  the  Exchequer,  1830-1834;  created  a 
Baronet  1834;  died  10th  Oct.,  1841.     Nothing  is    i 
said  as  to  his  education  in  the  memoir  of  this  emi-   , 
nent  judge  in  Gent.  Magn  N.  S.  xvi.  652.     In 
Georgian  Era,  ii.  548,  it  is  stated  that  he  was  of  I 
St.  John's  College,  Cambridge,  where  he  gradu-    • 
ated  with  distinction,  and  obtained  a  fellowship.    I 
This  is  incorrect.     His  name  cannot  be  found  in   I 
the  College  Register  of  Admissions,  nor  was  he  a 


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member  of  any  other  college  in  Cambridge  ;  or,  at 
any  rate,  he  was  never  matriculated. 

John  Simons,  born  at  Eton  17th  Sept.,  1755  ; 
nominated  for  King's  College  25th  July,  1774; 
admitted  a  pensioner  of  Queen's  College,  Cam- 
bridge, 4th  July,  1775 ;  rector  of  Paul's  Cray, 
Kent,  1782  ;  LL.B.  1783;  died  8th  August,  1836.* 
Author  of 

"  A  Letter  to  a  highly-respected  Friend,  on  the  Subject 
of  certain  Errors  of  the  Antinomian  Kind,  which  have 
lately  sprung  up  in  the  West  of  England,  and  are  now 
making  an  alarming  Progress  throughout  the  Kingdom." 
Lond.  8vo,  1818. 

C.  H.  &  THOMPSON  COOPER. 

Cambridge. 

UNBURIED  AMBASSADORS  (2nd  S.  xii/53,  424.) — 
The  editorial  note  to  the  Gent.  Mag.  for  1784,  pt.  I. 
p.  405,  runs  to  this  effect,  — "  Much  has  been  said 
about  the  Spanish  ambassadors  in  one  of  the 
chapels  of  Westminster  Abbey,  who  are  said  to 
have  been  kept  above  ground  for  debt,  but  this 
story  also  we  have  no  doubt  may  be  classed  among 
the  vulgar  errors."  It  is  certain,  however,  that 
one  ambassador  was  kept  unburied  from  1691  to 
1708,  the  date  of  the  New  View,  in  which  Hutton 
mentions  that  "  in  a  feretory  in  the  Duke  of  Rich- 
mond's little  chapel,  by  his  tomb,  lieth  visibly  a 
coffin,  covered  with  red  leather,  and  unburied, 
wherein  are  the  corps  of  Don  Pedro  de  Ronquillo 
Conde  de  Grenado,  Del  Con.  Sexo  de  Estado,  &c., 
ambassador  extraordinary  from  Spain  to  King 
James  II.  and  to  King  William  and  Queen  Mary, 
ob.  1691,"  (ii.  514).  It  is  not  improbable  that 
there  was  some  difficulty  raised  about  the  burial 
service  by  the  friends  of  the  departed  ambassador. 
MACKENZIE  E.  C.  WALCOTT,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

BURNING  AS  A  LEGAL  PUNISHMENT  IN  IRELAND 
(3rd  S.  i.  426.)  — In  Gilbert's  History  of  the  City 
of  Dublin,  vol.  i.  p.  94,  are  the  following  particu- 
lars :  — 

"  A  woman  known  as  '  Darkey  Kelly,'  who  kept  an  in- 
famous establishment  in  this  [Copper]  Alley,  was  tried 
for  a  capital  offence  about  1764,  sentenced  to  death,  and 
publicly  burned  in  Stephen's  Green.  Her  sister,  Maria 
Llewellin,  was  condemned  to  be  hanged  in  1788,  for  her 
complicity  in  the  affair  of  the  Neals  with  Lord  Carhamp- 
ton." 

ABHBA. 

KELATIVE  VALUE  OF  MONET  (3rd  S.  i.  395.)  — 
I  did  not  reply  to  MR.  MERRYWEATHER  and  to 
H.  C.  C.,  because  I  regarded  their  statements  as 
irrelevant,  as  they  and  I  were  speaking  of  differ- 
ent parts  of  England.  I  thought  everyone  was 
i  aware  that  in  those  times,  owing  to  want  of 
roads,  &c.,  the  different  parts  of  England  were 
like  different  countries ;  and  an  article,  especially 

[*  For  an  Account  of  the  Services  at  the  Funeral  of 
(the  Rev.  John  Simons,  and  the  Sermon  preached  on  the 
occasion  by  the  Rev.  Thomas  Bagnall  Baker,  M.A.,  see 
The  Pulpit,  xxviii.  381.  —  ED.] 


of  food,  might  be  twice,  thrice,  or  more  times  the 
price  in  one  place  that  it  was  in  another.  Even 
within  the  present  century,  there  were  places  in 
England  noted  for  cheap  living.  What  I  said  of 
prices  applied  only  to  London  and  its  vicinity, 
with  a  radius  of,  say  from  thirty  to  fifty  miles ; 
and  I  still  think  I  was  not  far  from  the  truth. 

MR.  HODGKIN  is  then  in  error  when  he  says 
that  the  question  of  "  the  price  of  ordinary  horses 
seems  settled  by  the  replies  of  your  correspon- 
dents " ;  for  they  and  I  were  speaking  of  quite 
different  things.  They  spoke  in  general  of  ordinary 
farm-horses  in  remoter  parts  of  the  country,  which 
were  at  that  time  a  poor  feeble  breed,  I  of  good 
roadsters;  not  those  to  which  Harrison  alludes, 
but  ordinary  serviceable  horses,  of  which  the 
prices  ranged  from  20/.  to  100/. 

Not  having  access  to  Sir  G.  Evelyn's  paper,  I 
cannot  speak  positively  about  it ;  but  the  results 
seem  to  me  very  strange,  and  I  suspect  that  he 
jumbled  together  all  parts  of  England.  I  really 
wonder  that  MR.  HODGKIN  did  not  see  at  once 
the  absurdity  of  setting  down  Shakspeare's  sup- 
posed expenditure  at  3,800/.  a-year  of  our  pre- 
sent money.  A  man,  with  only  a  wife  and  daugh- 
ter, without  horses  and  carriages,  or  a  retinue  of 
servants,  or  any  of  the  other  present  means  of 
wasting  money,  and  living  in  a  remote  country 
town  at  the  rate  of  nearly  4,OOOZ.  a-year  !  Surely 
the  vicar  of  Stratford  and  his  informants  must 
have  been  fools ;  they  to  tell  and  he  to  believe 
such  an  impossibility.  In  fine,  till  better  in- 
formed, I  must  remain  in  the  belief  that  in  London 
and  its  vicinity,  money  in  Shakspeare's  time  was 
not  of  double  its  present  value. 

THOS.  KEIGHTLEY. 

DEAF  AND  DUMB  LITERATURE  (3rd  S.  i.  427.)— 
Knight's  English  Cyclopaedia,  Art.  "Deaf  and 
Dumb,"  by  Mr.  Charles  Baker,  of  the  Yorkshire 
Institution  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb,  contains  the 
information  asked  for  by  A.  M.  Z.  J.  S. 

SIR  ISAAC  NEWTON  (2ud  S.  xii.  399.)  — If  your 
correspondent  C.  S.  GREAVES  will  refer  to  Burke's 
Peerage,  title  "  Rossmore,"  he  will  find  that  a 
title  is  not  always  limited  to  a  person  of  the  blood 
of  the  original  grantee.  General  Robert  Cuning- 
hame  was  created  in  1796  Baron  Rossmore,  with 
remainder  in  default  of  issue  male  to  the  issue 
male  of  the  sisters  of  his  wife,  under  which  limi- 
tation the  title  is  now  enjoyed  by  a  member  of 
the  Westenra  family,  a  total  stranger  in  blood  to 
the  family  of  the  first  nobleman.  I .  S.  M. 

SUPERSTITION.  —  I  fear  the  remarks  on  super- 
stition in  3rd  S.i.  243,390,  exemplify  the  tendency 
to  make  etymology  a  camel  for  every  burden,  whe- 
ther heavy  or  light.  As  I  take  it,  superstition  is 
ri«»htly  so  named  from  its  characteristic,  viz.,  the 
realisation  to  an  undue  degree,  in  the  superstitious 
man's  mind,  of  the  constant  pressure  of  unseen 


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[3'd  S.  I.  JUNE  14,  '62. 


agents,  and,  as  fear  of  the  unseen  generally 
predominated,  of  unseen  agents  for  evil,  always 
superstantes,  or  impending  or  hovering  over  and 
influencing  him  in  particular.  Hence,  in  its  very 
nature,  it  implied  fear  and  trist. 

So  accurate  and  concise  a  writer  as  Tacitus  did 
not  use  his  words  without  due  care  and  choice, 
and  when  he  applied  the  term  "  superstitio  "  to  a 
wholly  new  religion,  I  apprehend  that  he  did  so  of 
full  purpose,  as  one  who  judged  according  to  the 
lax  notions  of  the  educated  of  his  time,  of  those 
doctrines  of  the  ever-presence  of  the  Deity,  and  of 
Christ,  and  of  the  princes  of  the  powers  of  the  air, 
and  of  the  indwelling  of  the  Holy  Spirit,  which 
were  sure  to  be  preached  in  so  depraved  a  city. 

Hence,  SetcnScu^oi/m,  taken  in  malam  partem, 
would  be  a  good  Greek  equivalent  for  superstitio. 
St.  Paul,  however,  as  others  in  your  columns  have 
remarked,  doubtless  used  it  in  a  general  sense. 
*'  To  you,  Athenians,  who,  above  others,  are  fearers 
of  supernal  influences,  I,  who  from  similar  fear 
and  reverence  go  about  preaching,  address  my- 
self." Without  committing  himself  he  took  a 
common  ground  of  departure,  and  the  whole  open- 
ing, including  the  allusion  to  the  unknown  God, 
in  which  he  addresses  himself  to  the  two  charac- 
teristics of  the  Athenians,  their  superstition  and 
their  love  of  news,  is  probably  as  masterly  an  ex- 
ordium as  can  be  found,  and  succeeded  in  pro- 
curing a  prolonged  attention  to  the  little  Jew 
speaking  from  Mars'  Hill. 

It  is  known  that  to  be  unmarried  or  childless 
was,  and  among  Easterns  still  is,  a  great  reproach. 
The  reasons  were  partly  natural  feelings,  but 
chiefly,  I  suspect,  social  and  political,  and  to  these 
—  but  probably  not  till  a  later  period  —  religion 
lent  her  aid.  Cicero,  therefore,  had  a  better 
foundation  than  usual  on  which  to  support  his 
conjectural  etymology  of  superstition.  But  I 
wholly  deny  that  this  etymology  is  historical,  or 
gives  the  real  origin  of  the  word,  or  is  anything 
but  a  conjecture,  and  the  proof  is,  that  superstitio 
is  never  used  in  this  sense  by  any  Latin  author. 
I  likened  etymology  just  now  to  a  camel,  but 
ancient  etymology  would  be  more  fitly  repre- 
sented by  the  scholastic  "  chimera  bombinans  in 
vacuo."  Like  EIRIONNACH,  I  cotton  to  facts,  but 
many  so  called  are  but  empty  suits,  or  if  they  have 
any  entity,  it  is  that  of  a  lady  a-la-mode,  some- 
thing very  different  from  what  appears. 

BENJ.  EAST. 

TITHES  or  SERVANTS  AND  WOMEN  (3rd  S.  i.  231 .) 
I  do  not  observe  that  any  one  has  answered  the 
query  of  the  REV.  CHARLES  YONGE  CRAWLET, 
which  appeared  in  one  of  your  numbers  several 
weeks  since,  respecting  certain  money  payments 
made  at  the  beginning  of  the  seventeenth  century, 
by  certain  domestic  servants  who  received  the 
holy  communion  at  Trinity,  to  the  minister  of  the 


church  of  the  "  Holie  Trinitie  "  in  Gloucester,  as 
a  sort  of  tithe. 

On  referring  to  authorities  on  the  subject,  of 
tithes,  it  will  be  found  that  payments  of  this  sort 
are  predial,  personal,  and  mixed.  Personal  tithes 
being  those  which  are  paid  from  the  industry  of 
the  parishioners.  These,  says  Jacob,  Law  Diet. 
under  "  Tithes,"  are  "  the  tenth  part  of  a  man's 
clear  gains  in  trade,  &c.,  only  paid  when  due  by 
custom,  though  but  seldom  in  England,  and  are 
payable  where  the  party  dwells,  hears  service,"  &c. 

The  minister  of  "  Holie  Trinitie,"  Gloucester,  a 
church  which  was  pulled  down  at  the  Restoration, 
having  been  but  scantily,  if  at  all,  endowed  other- 
wise, was  evidently  supported  by  payment  of  per- 
sonal tithes.  MR.  CRAWLEY  seems  surprised  at 
the  small  amount  of  wages  paid  to  domestic  ser- 
vants at  that  period,  estimating  them  by  the 
amount  of  tithe  paid.  The  profits  and  emolu- 
ments of  that  day  may  be  calculated  by  another 
entry  in  the  same  MS.  from  which  your  corre- 
spondent quotes. 

"  Eecd  of  William  Sandie,  lodging  at  William  Joaneses, 
a  journeyman  shoemaker,  for  his  handes  (which  I  take  to 
mean  his  handywork,  industry)  this  year,  1625,  ijd." 

A  tithe  pig  in  the  same  MS.  is  valued,  in  1629, 
at  xijd. 

This  answer  will  also  apply  to  the  query  of  your 
correspondent,  MELETES  (3rd  S.  i.  311). 

The  "  Decima  de  Mulier  "  was  doubtless  a  per- 
sonal tithe  receivable  when  there  was  any  tithe- 
able  industry,  which  it  appears  there  was  not  in 
the  case  referred  to  by  MELETES,  as  the  women 
appear  to  have  been  "franc"  (free). 

It  may  not  be  uninteresting  to  your  readers  to 
add  to  the  "  moneys  for  offerings,  personall  tythes, 
and  houses,  due  to  Richd  Marwood,  Vicar  of  the 
Holie  Trinitie  in  Gloucester," — 

"  Recd  of  Edward  Smithe,  Phisition,  lodging  at  John 
Freames,  for  practice  and  his  offerings  this  year,  1624." 

It  is  much  to  be  regretted  that  the  amount  is 
omitted,  as  it  would  afford  an  interesting  evidence 
of  the  value  of  a  medical  man's  practice  in  those 
days.  SAMUEL  LYSONS. 

Ileoipstead  Court,  near  Gloucester. 

DEVIS  THE  PAINTER  (3rd  S.  i.  209,  416.)  — As 
your  correspondent  T.  W.  D.  asks  for  an  account 
of  some  of  the  works  executed  by  Mr.  Devis, 
I  would  remark,  in  the  first  place,  that  if  Edwards, 
in  his  Anecdotes  of  Painters  lorn  in  England, 
(1808),  be  correct,  the  name  of  the  portrait- 
painter  was  Arthur  Devis,  not  Anthony  or  Antony 
Devis*,  p.  122. 

Antony   is  said  to  have  been  the  brother  of 

*  Arthur  died  July  24,  1787,  aged  about  79  years.  It 
may  be  worth  while  to  re-examine  the  grave  stone  in 
the  burial-ground  of  St.  George -the-Martyr,  which  is 
referred  to  by  your  correspondent,  and  give  the  inscrip- 
tion. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


477 


Arthur,  and  for  some  years  in  "  considerable  re- 
putation as  a  landscape-painter  and  drawing- 
master."  Edwards  continues,  "  He  had  been 
residing  at  Lamb's  Conduit  Street,  but  had  long 
retired  to  Alberry,  near  Guildford,  where  he  was 
still  living."  We  may  conclude  from  this  state- 
ment that  Antony  was  not  a  painter  of  portraits 
in  oil. 

As  a  Lancashire  man,  Arthur  Devis  met  with 
employment  from  my  own  and  other  families  in 
that  county.  With  the  portraits  of  the  family  of 
Mr.  Peploe  Birch  (a  gentleman  referred  to  by 
T.  W.  D.)  I  was  familiar,  and  I  possess  three 
others  of  members  of  my  own  family,  viz.  a  gen- 
tleman and  two  ladies ;  they  measure  alike  19£ 
inches  by  13£  inches,  and  are  beautifully  painted. 
That  of  one  of  the  ladies  met  with  very  warm 
approval  from  my  late  friend  Sir  M.  A.  Shee. 

I  always  understood  that  the  painter  of  these 
portraits  was  the  father  of  the  late  Mr.  Devis,  the 
artist,  who  resided  sometimes  in  the  East  Indies, 
and  of  Miss  Devis,  whose  seminary  for  young 
ladies  was  in  high  repute  half  a  century  ago. 

Edwards  mentions  that  Arthur  was  a  pupil  of 
Peter  Tileman's  ;  that  he  "  painted  in  a  variety  of 
ways,  mostly  in  small  whole  lengths,  and  conver- 
sation pieces ; "  that  "  he  lived  long  in  Great 
Queen  Street,  Lincoln's  Inn  Fields,  where  he  sup- 
ported the  character  of  a  respectable  artist." 
(P.  123.) 

It  might  have  been  well  if  some  modern  artists, 
instead  of  covering  many  feet  of  canvass,  had 
confined  themselves  to  the  modest  dimensions  of 
Devis's  pictures.  These  can  claim  admission  into 
houses  of  very  limited  extent,  from  which  pic- 
tures of  the  size  of  life  are  frequently  excluded. 

J.  H.  MARKLAND. 

FAMILIES  OP  FIELD  AND  DELAFELD  (3rd  S.  i. 
427.) — There  appear  to  have  been  two  families 
in  England  of  the  names  of  Atte  Feld  and  De  la 
Feld  or  Felde.  In  the  Eotuli  Hundredorum,  the 
names  of  both  appear  in  the  same  page,  781,  temp. 
Edward  I. :  "Linot  atte  Feld  —  Ricd  ate  Feld. 
Willus  de  la  Feld— Rogrus  de  la  Felde." 

Whether  one  or  both  of  these  dropped  the 
article  and  assumed  simply  the  name  of  Feld  or 
Field  it  may  be  difficult  to  say,  but  in  the  Inqui- 
sitionespost  mortem  we  find,  "  Richd  Felde  Parson 
of  St.  Michael's  Cornhill,  1392;  Joh'es  Felde, 
17  Edw.  IV.  1478."  The  families  of  Hereford- 
shire and  Gloucestershire,  adjoining  counties,  were 
probably  identical. 

Wm.  de  la  Felde  was  summoned,  according  to 
the  Parliamentary  writs,  from  Hereford,  for  mili- 
tary service  against  the  Scots,  1301.  Robert  de 
la  Felde  was  certified  one  of  the  Lords  of  Hard- 
wicke  in  Gloucestershire,  1316,  which  estate 
continued  in  the  family  of  Field  for  many  gene- 
rations, and  is  still  called  Field  Court,  now  the 
property  of  John  Curtis  Hay  ward,  Esq. 


The  estate  called  Field  Place  at    Paganhill, 
otherwise  Pakenhill,  in  the  parish  of  Stroud  (not 
Parkenhall),  according  to  Sir  Robert  Atkyns,  had 
been  for  many  generations  in  the  family  of  Field. 
Thomas  Field  ob.  1510,  and  was  buried  at  Stroud 
Church,  where  his  monumental  effigy  existed  in 
Atkyns's  time.     It  has  since  disappeared. 
Fosbrooke,  Hist.  Gloucestershire,  says  :  — 
"  The  Fields  were  a  family  of  repute  long  seated  here. 

Feld  of  Pagenhull  or  of  Strode  had  issue  Tbomaa  of 

Paganhill,  &c." 

This  estate  became  the  property  of  Phelps  of 
Dursley,  descended  from  the  nephew  of  the  last 
Thomas  Field,  Esq. 

My  late  friend  John  de  la  Field  Phelps  re- 
ceived his  name  from  his  connection  with  the 
former  possessors  of  the  property.  The  arms  of 
the  Fields  of  Paganhill  parish  of  Stroud  were,  Or, 
a  fesse  sable  between  an  eagle  displayed  sable, 
and  a  stag's  head  sable.  Robert  de  la  Felde  died 
seised  at  the  Field  in  the  parish  of  Hardwicke, 
near  Queddesley,  of  a  capital  messuage,  132 
acres,  &c.,  leaving  Robert  son  and  heir.  (Esc. 
9  Ed.  II.  No.  16.)  The  families  of  Hardwicke 
and  Stroud  were  probably  identical ;  while  the 
Atte  Feldes  seem  to  have  been  of  Surrey,  Nor- 
folk, Sussex,  and  Wilts.  SAMUEL  LYSONS. 

Hempsted  Court,  near  Gloucester. 

JOHN  HUTCHINSON  (3rd  S.  i.  188.)  — As  the 
more  learned  correspondents  of  "  N.  &  Q."  have 
not  yet  furnished  an  answer  to  the  inquiries  of 
NOSNIHCTUH  touching  the  descendants  of  the 
philosopher  of  Spennithorne  and  the  arms  they 
are  entitled  to  bear,  I  may  perhaps  remind  your 
readers  of  a  want  that  is  yet  unsatisfied,  by  sug- 
gesting that  the  heraldic  pomps  and  vanities  which 
fall  to  the  share  of  this  branch  of  the  widely- 
extended  family  of  Hutchinson  may  be  those 
described  by  Berry,  Encyclopedia  Heraldica, 
under  the  head  "  HUTCHINSON  (Yorkshire  or 
Essex),  per  pale  gu.  and  az.  a  lion  rampant  az. 
betw.  eight  cross  crosslets  or." 

In  1660-1  Christ's  College,  Cambridge,  num- 
bered among  its  students  one  Simon  Hutchin- 
son who  came  somewhere  from  the  neighbourhood 
of  the  northern  Richmond,  but  I  am  not  aware 
that  he  was  connected  by  any  degree  of  cousin- 
ship  with  the  (at  one  time)  illustrious  John,  who 
did  not  come  into  being  until  fifteen  years  later. 

ST.  SwiTHiic. 

CANADIAN  SEIGNEUKS  (3rd  S.  i.  358,  415.)  —  I 
have  no  doubt  that  SPAL  is  quite  correct  in  sup- 
posing that  the  Canadian  Seigneurs  were  never 
entitled  to  coronets.  Even  in  England,  coronets 
were  not  worn  by  barons  till  they  were  assigned 
to  them  by  Charles  II.  after  his  restoration. 

CLIO. 

CUTTING  OFF  WITH  A  SHILLING  (3rd  S.  i.  331.) 
That  a  legacy  of  twelve  pence  was  frequently  left 


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[3'*  S.  I.  JUNE  14,  '62. 


as  a  mark  of  kindly  remembrance  is  shown  by  the 
following  extract  from  the  will  of  W.  Bagshaw, 
"  the  Apostle  of  the  Peak,"  dated  15th  Oct.,  1701. 
(See  The  Reliquary,  April,  1862.)  After  giving 
to  "every  sister-in-law  I  have,  a  practical  book 
worth  4*.  or  5s.  apiece,"  he  continues,  "  Item,  I 
give  to  every  one  to  whom  I  am  uncle  12d.  a- 
piece."  T.  NORTH. 

Southfields,  Leicester. 

ROKEBY  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  409.) —  Allow  me  to 
inform  A  LORD  OF  THE  MANOR,  that  there  is  no 
connexion  in  blood  between  the  present  Lord 
Rokeby,  and  the  ancient  and  knightly  family  of 
that  name,  seated  from  the  Conquest  on  the 
northern  border  of  Yorkshire,  in  a  domain  famous 
for  its  picturesque  scenery,  and  so  charmingly 
described  by  Sir  Walter  Scott  in  his  poem  of 
Rokeby.  This  domain  was  held  by  the  old  family, 
many  of  whom  were  highly  distinguished  as  war- 
riors, churchmen,  and  lawyers,  until  Sir  Thomas 
Rokeby,  Knight,  in  1610,  sold  the  estate  to  Wil- 
liam Robinson,  merchant,  of  London  and  also  of 
Brignall,  near  Rokeby.  He  died  in  1643,  leaving 
a  son  Thomas,  whose  eldest  son,  William  Robin- 
son of  Rokeby,  was  grandfather  of  the  Right  Rev. 
Richard  Robinson,  Archbishop  of  Armagh  1765  ; 
created,  26th  Feb.  1777,  Baron  Rokeby  of  Ar- 
magh, with  remainder,  on  failure  of  issue  male  of 
his  body,  to  his  kinsman  Matthew  Robinson,  and 
the  heirs  male  of  his  body.  At  the  Archbishop's 
death,  1794,  without  issue,  the  barony  devolved 
on  the  son  of  the  above-named  Matthew,  of  the 
same  name ;  but  he  dying  unmarried,  was  suc- 
ceeded by  his  nephew,  Morris  Robinson ;  who, 
leaving  no  issue,  was  succeeded  in  1829  by  his 
brother,  Matthew  Robinson,  as  fourth  Lord 
Rokeby,  who  had  taken  in  1776  the  name  and 
arms  of  Montagu ;  it  may  be  presumed  from  the 
marriage  of  his  aunt,  Elizabeth  Robinson,  with 
Edward  Montagu  (grandson  of  the  first  Earl  of 
Sandwich),  and  whose  heir  he  probably  became, 
as  they  died  without  surviving  issue.  The  title 
of  Rokeby  is,  therefore,  the  only  connection  be- 
tween its  holder  and  the  old  feudal  lords  of  that 
place.  This  estate  was  sold  by  one  of  the  Robin- 
son family,  in  the  last  century,  to  Mr.  Morritt ;  to 
whose  son,  "  in  token  of  sincere  friendship,"  the 
great  Northern  Minstrel  dedicated  Rokeby. 

G.  R.  F. 

TOADS  IN  ROCKS  (3rd  S.  i.  389.)— There  is  much 
reason  to  doubt  that  toads  have  ever  been  found 
alive  in  the  heart  of  blocks  of  stone,  hermetically 
closed.  They  may  have  sometimes  crept  in 
through  chinks  and  crannies,  and  have  continued 
alive  for  a  comparatively  long  period ;  but  the 
many  stories  told  of  their  discovery  in  the  solid 
and  undisturbed  strata  of  our  earth  will  not  bear 
examination.  To  a  geologist,  the  thing  is  simply 
impossible :  the  toad  belonging  to  one  age,  and 


the  rock  to  another,  separated  from  it  by  millions 
of  years.  The  toads,  for  example,  of  our  second- 
ary periods  —  the  labyrinthodons  of  the  Crystal 
Palace  restorations — were  vastly  unlike  those  of  our 
own  degenerate  days;  and  experiments  have  shown 
that,  so  far  from  being  able  to  sustain  life  for 
ages,  this  reptile  dies,  slowly  indeed,  but  surely, 
in  a  few  months,  if  immured  in  the  manner  re- 
ferred to  by  your  correspondent ;  who  may  find 
the  subject  very  fairly  discussed  in  White's  Na- 
tural History  of  Selborne,  edited  by  Capt.  Thomas 
Brown,  Edinburgh,  1833,  note  to  Letter  xxn. 
p.  55.  DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 

CHURCH  USED  BY  CHURCHMEN  AND  ROMAN 
CATHOLICS  (3rd  S.  i.  427.)  — The  church  alluded 
to  is  that  of  Titchborne,  near  Arlesford,  Hants. 
Whether  or  not  the  arrangement  still  exists  I  am 
unaware,  but  I  know  it  was  a  source  of  strife  and 
much  unchristian  feeling  a  few  vears  ago. 

S.  H.  H. 

PLURALITY  OF  BENEFICES  (3rd  S.  5.428.)  —  A 
Clergy  List  was  published  in  1822,  perhaps  before. 
It  contained  an  Alphabetical  List  of  the  Clergy, 
and  also  a  list  of  their  Livings.  I  had  occasion 
some  time  since  to  consult  it  for  a  "  Wright,"  I 
believe  the  Christian  name  began  with  "  J."  I 
found  the  party  inquired  after  had  about  six  livings, 
ranging  from  Bucks  to  Brecon.  On  referring  to 
the  List  of  Livings,  it  was  quite  clear  the  names 
of  all  the  "  Wrights  "  whose  Christian  name  com- 
menced with  the  same  letter,  were  in  the  Alpha- 
betical List  treated  as  one  incumbent.  Before 
the  Penny  Post  I  do  not  see  how  inquiries  could 
be  made.  J.  H.  L. 

In  1822,  Messrs.  Rivingtons  published  the 
second  edition,  corrected,  of  The  Clerical  Guide, 
or  Ecclesiastical  Directory.  The  Rev.  William 
Williams's  preferments  stand  as  follows  :  — 

"  Medbourne  cum  Holt.  R.  Mouseley,  C. 
Nether  Avon  V.  Flyford  Flavel,  R. 
Bishton,  C.  Eglwysnewdd,  C. 
Cadoxton  near  Neath,  V.  Caerwys,  R. 
Kegidock,  R.  Kelligarn,  R. 
Llangoven,  C.  Llantillio  Cressney  V.  cum  Penrhos; 

Mager,  V.  cum  Redwick,  C. 
Nandee,  C.  Pendoylonn,  V. 
Pen  y  Clawd,  C.     Rouslench,  R. 
Trallong,  C.     Trawsfyndd,  R. 
Llanadhaiarn,  R.  Llannor,  V.  cum  Denio,  C." 

I  believe  he  died  in  1825. 

LOUISA  JULIA  NORMAN. 

MONK  FAMILY  (3rd  S.  i.  427.) —George,  the 
General  and  Admiral,  was  born  at  Potheridge,  in 
Devon,  the  county  histories  of  which,  with  the 
genealogical  works  of  Mr.  Burke  and  Mr.  Wai- 
ford,  will  supply  BLANCHE  with  the  information 
sought  for. 

JAMES  GILBERT. 


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TORY  (3rd  S.  i.  437.)— Dr.  Lingard  says,  «  This 
celebrated  party  name  (1653)  is  derived  from 
*  toruighim,'  to  pursue  for  the  sake  of  plunder." 
See  O'Conner,  Sib.  Stowensia,  ii.  460. 

JAMES  GILBERT. 

AGE  OF  NEWSPAPERS  (3rd  S.  i.  287,  351,  435).  | 
With  regard  to  the  date  of  the  Nottingham 
Journal,  the  following  particulars,  kindly  given 
me  by  Mr.  Job  Bradshaw,  will  perhaps  be  in- 
teresting. He  says  that  the  Journal  was  first 
published  by  the  title  of  The  Nottingham  and 
Leicester  Journal  in  1757.  He  believes  that  the 
Post  commenced  in  1710,  and  this,  together  with 
the  Courant,  became  merged  in  the  Journal  in 
1769.  This,  therefore,  shows  that  the  Journal, 
properly  so  called,  did  not  commence  till  1757. 

G.  W.  M. 

The  Nottingham  Weekly  Courant,  of  which  the 
present  Nottingham  Journal  is  the  representative, 
appeared  first  on  Monday,  November  27,  1710. 
The  second  number  gives  the  Queen's  Speech, 
copied  from  Dyer's  Letter  of  Nov.  28. 

S.  F.  CUES  WELL. 

The  Castle,  Tonbridge,  Kent. 

I  was  aware  of  the  correct  date  of  the  Oxford 
Gazette,  and  detected  the  error  of  my  pen  when 
I  saw  it  in  type. 

I  adhere  to  my  date  of  the  Morning  Chronicle 
(1769).  Woodfall,  its  then  printer,  is  my  au- 
thority. 

So  I  do  to  the  date  of  1715  for  Felix  Farley's 
Bristol  Journal,  not  1735. 

I  must  doubt  the  "  advertisement "  about  the 
Caledonian  Mercury,  unless  supported  by  distinct 
evidence.  I  believe  my  dates  in  both  instances 
to  be  correct.  Mr.  Mitchell's  Directory,  for  com- 
mercial purposes,  is  a  very  useful  work,  but  I  am 
not  disposed  to  think  that  he  lays  claim  to  its 
being  a  final  authority  on  questions  of  date. 

JAMES  GILBERT. 

"LUKE'S  IRON  CROWN  AND  DAMIENS'  BED  OF 
STEEL"  (3rd  S.  i.  364,  419.) —If  Goldsmith  was 
inaccurate  in  saying  "  bed  of  steel,"  at  least  he 
may  have  had  some  excuse  for  his  inaccuracy.  I 
have  before  me  the  Pieces  Originales  et  Procedures 
du  Proces  fait  a  Robert -Franqois  Damiens. 
Paris,  1757.  These  fill  a  quarto  volume  of  610 
pages. 

On  page  399  begins  the  examination  of  Damiens 
by  the  "  Question  ordinaire  et  extraordinaire."  He 
is  said  to  have  been  "  saisi  et  lie  par  1'Executeur  de 
la  haute  Justice,"  and  to  have  been  "  assis  sur  la 
sellette."  What  is  the  "  sellette  "  ?  Richelet,  in  his 
Dictionnaire  (1732),  says:  — 

"Ce  mot  se  dit  en  parlant  de  criminels.  C'est  une 
espece  de  petit  bane  oil  Ton  fait  asseoir  en  presence  de 
ses  juges  une  personne  accuse'e,  pour  1'interroger  avant 
que  de  la  juger  tout-a-fait." 

This  is  not  a  bed.    But  Goldsmith  might  have 


thought  that  the  license  of  a  poet  entitled  him  to 
describe  it  as  one  ;  especially  as  we  read  at  p.  405 
that  at  the  end  of  the  "  Question  extraordinaire," 
"  Damiens  a  etc  detache"  Now  it  would  not  be 
easy  to  keep  a  person  in  a  sitting  posture  under  such 
terrible  circumstances  on  a  bench  (bane)  unless 
he  was  bound  flat  upon  it.  It  would  very  likely 
be  covered  with  iron.  Further,  the  account  of 
the  completion  of  the  sentence  in  the  Place  de 
Greve,  obviously  implies,  though  it  does  not  ex- 
press, that  Damiens  must  have  been  laid  down 
flat  upon  something. 

"Au  memo  instant  le  dit  condamne*  a  e'td  tenaille 
aux  mammelles,  bras,  cuisses,  et  gras  de  jambes,  and  sur 
les  dits  endroits  a  etc  jette  du  plumb  fondu,  de  1'buile 
bouillante,  de  la  poix-r&ine  brulante,  de  la  cire  et  du 
souffre  fondus  ensemble." 

These  tortures  could  only  have  been  applied  to 
a  person  laid  down.  The  bed  might  reasonably 
have  been  of  "  steel." 

It  is  impossible  to  read  the  history  of  the  suf- 
ferings of  any  human  being  without  strong  feel- 
ings of  pity  and  regret.  But  DR.  BELL,  speaking 
with  commiseration  of  the  painful  death  of  John 
of  Leyden  does  not  mention,  what  ought  never 
to  be  forgotten,  that  this  impostor  had  exceeded 
in  sacrilege,  blasphemy,  and  violence  any  of  his 
contemporaries.  Among  other  pleasantries,  he  had 
beheaded  in  the  market-place  one  of  a  crew  of 
women,  whom  he  called  his  wives,  because  she  had 
complained  of  famine.  D.  P. 

Stuart's  Lodge,  Malvern  Wells. 

ANCIENT  SEALS  (3rd  S.  i.  368.)  — It  is  probable 
that  Nos.  10  and  11  in  HERMENTRUDE'S  collection 
of  impressions  of  seals  are  of  a  similar  character 
to  a  brass  matrix  in  my  possession.  It  was  pur- 
chased by  my  father,  about  fifteen  years  ago,  from 
a  man  who  had  found  it  among  some  rubbish 
which  once  formed  part  of  the  outbuildings  at- 
tached to  the  Manor  House  at  Messingham,  in 
this  county.  The  design  is  two  heads  looking. at 
each  other  separated  by  a  branch  of  six  leaves. 
Legend,  "  Love  me  and  dye." 

EDWARD  PEACOCK. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

OBSERVATIONS  ON  THE  LORD'S  PRATER  (3rd  S. 
i  409.) — The  author  of  Observations  on  the  Lord's 
Prayer,  Dublin,  1816,  i«  the  Form  of  a  Letter  from 
a  Father  to  his  Son,  was  the  late  Wm.  Tighe,  Esq. 
of  Woodstock  Mistioge,  co.  Kilkenny.  His  sons 
are  Right  Hon.  Wm.  Tighe,  of  Woodstock,  and 
Daniel  Tighe,  Esq.,  of  Rosanna,  co.  Wicklow.  The 
late  Mr.  Tighe  was  author  of  The  Plaids,  a  poem 
in  four  cantos,  "  The  Rose,  the  Oak,  the  Vine,  and 
the  Palm."  His  brother,  Mr.  H.  Tighe,  was  mar- 
ried to  Miss  Blackford,  better  known  as  Mrs. 
Henry  Tighe,  authoress  of  Psyche.  H.  H. 

ARCHBISHOP'S  MITRE  WITH  A  DUCAL  CORONET 
(2nd  S.  viii.  248 ;  ix.  67.)— Pegge,  in  his  Assemblage 


480 


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[3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  14,  '62. 


of  Coins  fabricated  by  Authority  of  the  Archbishops 
of  Canterbury,  p.  7,  acknowledges  the  addition  of 
a  ducal  coronet  to  the  Primate's  mitre  to  be  a 
"  practice  lately  introduced." 

MACKENZIE  E.  C.  WALCOTT,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ETC. 

The  Anglo-Saxon  Home.  A  History  of  the  Domestic 
Institutions  and  Customs  of  England,  from  the  Fifth  to  the 
Eleventh  Century.  By  John  Thrupp.  (Longman  &  Co.) 
Taking  as  the  basis  of  his  work  The  Laws  and  Insti- 
tutes of  England,  published  by  the  Record  Commission, 
and  Kemble's  invaluable  Codex  Diplomatics  Anglo- 
Saxonum,  and  working  out  the  ideas  which  they  suggest 
by  the  fragments  of  Anglo-Saxon  poetry  which  have  sur- 
vived to  the  present  time,  and  the  narratives  of  the  old 
Chroniclers;  and  with  the  aid  of  occasional  illustrations 
from  the  laws,  &c.,  of  the  Angles,  Saxons,  Jutes,  and  Fri- 
sians—  Mr.  Thrupp  traces  in  this  very  instructive  and 
amusing  volume  the  life  of  the  Anglo-Saxon  from  the  cradle 
to  the  grave.  In  doing  so,  he  considers  the  Anglo-Saxon 
in  every  rank  and  station ;  and  shows,  clearly,  that  the 
social  state  of  England,  from  the  middle  of  the  fifth  to 
nearly  the  end  of  the  eleventh  century,  was  one  of  marked 
though  irregular  progress:  and  we  think  few  of  his 
readers  will  deny  the  justice  of  his  statement,  "  that  the 
social  history  of  Anglo-Saxon  England  exhibits  a  state 
of  moral  and  domestic  improvement ;  and  that  this  ad- 
vance may  be  mainly  traced  to  the  influence  of  the  Chris- 
tian religion,  and  of"  Roman  laws  and  literature,  and  to 
the  adventurous  self-reliant  spirit  of  the  Anglo-Saxon 
race/' 

Reqistrum  Ecclesice  Parochialis.  The  History  of  Parish 
Registers  in  England,  also  of  the  Registers  of  Scotland,  Ire- 
land, the  East  and  West  Indies,  the  Dissenters',  and  the 
Episcopal  Chapels  in  and  about  London.  With  Observations 
on  Bishops'  Transcripts,  fyc.  Second  Edition.  By  John 
Southernden  Burn,  Esq  (J.  Russell  Smith.) 

This  History  of  what  are  to  the  great  mass  of  the 
people  by  far  the  most  valuable  of  our  Records,  has  long 
been  out  of  print.  During  the  thirty  years  which  have 
elapsed  since  the  first  edition  was  published,  Mr.  Burn 
has  collected  much  new  and  important  information  con- 
nected with  the  subject,  such  as  the  "  Livre  des  Anc/lois," 
List  of  Chapels  ante  1754  ;  New  Law  of  Fees  for  Searches  ; 
The  Aquavity  Man ;  Saltpetre  Man,  &c.  But  not  the 
least  important  result  of  the  publication  will,  we  trust, 
be  its  drawing  attention  to  the  fact  shown  by  a  Parlia- 
mentary Return,  that  the  transmission  of  transcripts  to 
the  Bishops  is  still  neglected,  and  that  many  of  the  Dio- 
cesan Registries  are  not  secure  from  fire.  The  state  of 
the  Parish  Registers  generally  is  one  calling  loudly  for 
legislative  interference ;  and  besides  giving  to  antiqua- 
ries and  historical  students  much  useful  information,  Mr, 
Burn  will  have  done  the  state  good  service  if,  by  this 
publication,  he  recalls  attention  to  this  important  subject. 

South  Kensington  Museum,  Italian  Sculpture  of  the 
Middle  Ages  and  Period  of  the  Revival  of  Art.  A  De- 
scriptive Catalogue  of  the  Works  forming  the  above  Section 
of  the  Museum,  with  additional  Illustrative  Notices.  By 
j.  C.  Robinson,  F.S.A.  (Chapman  &  Hall.) 

Mr.  Robinson,  the  accomplished  Superintendent  of  the 
Art  Collections  of  the  South  Kensington  Museum,  has, 
by  the  publication  of  this  handsome  and  instructive 
volume,  done  much  both  to  make  these  beautiful  collec- 
tions better  known  and  more  instructive;  and  also  to 


foster  among  us  an  increased  taste  for,  and  a  juster  ap- 
preciation of,  the  beauties  of  Mediaeval  Art.  The  pur- 
chase of  the  Gherardini  collection  of  original  models  by 
great  Italian  artists  in  1854,  may  be  considered  the  foun- 
dation of  the  sculpture  series  described  in  the  work 
before  us.  Additional  specimens  were  gradually  obtained 
and  grouped  around  this  original  nucleus,  until  it  ob- 
tained its  present  state  of  comparative  completeness  by 
the  purchase  of  a  large  selection  from  the  Gigli  and  Cam  • 
pana  collections  in  1859-60.  These  various  objects  are 
here  carefully  and  critically  described ;  the  description  of 
the  more  striking  among  them  being  illustrated  by  en- 
gravings. Mr.  Robinson  pleads,  and  we  believe  justly, 
the  meagreness  of  our  present  stock  of  knowledge  with 
respect  to  the  history  of  this  branch  of  art  as  an  excuse 
for  any  shortcomings  which  may  be  found  in  his  Cata- 
logue. And  when  he  adds  his  hope  of  amending  it  here- 
after, he  adds  a  hope  which  will  be  shared  by  all  who 
know  how  much  the  Art  Collections  at  South  Kensington 
owe  to  his  zeal  and  his  intelligence. 

The  Invasion  of  Britain  by  Julius  Ccesar  ;  with  Replies 
to  the  Remarks  of  the  Astronomer  Royal,  and  of  the  late 
Camden  Professor  of  Ancient  History  at  Oxford.  By 
Thomas  Lewin,  M.A.  Second  Edition.  (Longman.) 

If  the  appearance  in  so  short  a  time  of  a  second  edi- 
tion of  the  able  Essay  in  which  Mr.  Lewin  advocates 
Romney  Marsh  as  the  site  on  which  Csesar  landed,  be 
not  a  proof  of  the  interest  felt  in  this  historical  question, 
such  proof  will  surely  be  found  in  the  fact  that  the  Society 
of  Antiquaries,  at  the  suggestion  of  Earl  Stanhope,  their 
President,  having  applied  to  the  Admiralty  for  their  as- 
sistance in  ascertaining  the  set  of  ;the  tide,  at  the  precise 
time  of  Csesar's  arrival,  on  which  the  whole  controversy 
indeed  may  be  said  to  turn,  the  Admiralty  have  with 
great  liberality  given  directions  for  the  necessary  in- 
quiries, and  we  may  therefore  presume  that  this  curious 
point  in  our  national  history  will  shortly  be  satisfactorily 
decided. 

BOOKS  RECEIVED. — 

Kangaroo  Land.  By  the  Rev.  A,  Polehampton.  (Bent- 
ley.) 

"A  warning  narrative  of  one  who  seems  to  have  failed 
in  his  endeavours  to  obtain  a  living  in  Kangaroo  Land, 
albeit  he  was  everything  by  turns,  and  nothing  long. 

Catalogue  of  the"  Antiquities  of  Gold  in  the  Museum  of 
the  Royal  Irish  Academy.  By  VV.  R  Wilde,  V. P. K.I. A. 
Illustrated  with  ninety  Wood  Engravings.  (Hodges  & 
Smith.) 

This  is,  we  believe,  by  far  the  most  complete  Collec- 
tion of  Irish  Gold  Ornaments  in  existence.  It  is  described 
by  Mr.  Wilde  with  the  same  accuracy  and  care  which 
distinguish  the  two  former  parts  of  his  valuable  Cata- 
logue of  Antiquities  in  the  Museum  of  the  Royal  Irish 
Academy. 


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ETONIAN-.  Eikon  Basilike,  which  first  appeared  in  1648,  is  not  a  scarce 
book;  neither  is  James  Howel's  Familiar  .betters.  A  new  edition  of  the 
latter  is,  we,  believe,  in  preparation. 

RKFERKNCKS.  We  have  once  more  to  request  our  correspondents  who 
reply  to  Queries,  to  add  to  their  kindness,  by  precise  references  to  the 
volume  anil  pa/e  on  ivhidi  the  Queri  s  replied  to  may  be  found.  The 
t.)\>nl>lc  in  vert/  little  to  the  writer,  who  lia*  the  page^  open  before  him,  but 
its  omisxion  costs  much  time  and  trouble  to  us,  in  getting  the  article 
ready  fur  the  printer. 

WM.  GCRNEY-.  For  the  derivation  of  London,  see  "N.  &  Q."  1st  S. 
iv.  437,505. 

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XOTES  :  —  Modern  Astrology,  481  —Folk  Lore,  482  —  Hynd- 
ford  Papers,  lb.  —  Ambrose  Randolph,  483. 


:  ~~  Etvmol°gy  of  Parson  —  Turner  the  Pain- 
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Musical  Sounds  —  Of  the  Climate  of  England,  484. 


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mous—Board of  Trade  —  Convocation  in  Ireland  —  The 
Dogs  of  Thibet  :  Heroic  Epistle  —  Madame  Louise  Dauriat 
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in  Cornhill  —  Barbadoes,  487. 

REPLIES:—  Coster  Festival  at  Haarlem,  488  —  Braoso 
Family,  489  —  Rabbit,  490—  Low  Sunday,  491  —  Dnrnlbvd 
Family,  492  —  Legends  on  Swords,  493  —  Stangate  Hole, 
494—  Edmund  Burke  —  Fala  Hall  —  Ghost  Stories  —  Ad 
perpendiculum,  &c.  —  Horses  frightened  at  Camels  —  Com- 

C'ng  Type  by  Machinery  —  Service  at  the  Healing  — 
ching  for  the  King's  Evil  —  Capital  Punishment  — 
Hymns  —  Passage  from  Phillip's  "  Cerealia  "  —  Noblemen 
and  Barons  —  Foreign  Barons  in  the  Commons  —  Cente- 
narians —  Deaf  and  Dumb  —  Edward  Jenner,  M.D.  —  "  The 
chaste  Leucippe  by  the  Patriarch  loved"  —  Tombs  of 
Henry  II.  and  Richard  I.  —  Dr.  Johnson  on  Punning  — 
Moore  —  James  Nihel  —  "  History  of  John  Bull"  —  Blue 
and  Buff,  495. 


MODERN  ASTROLOGY. 

It  would  be  an  acquisition  to  our  knowledge  if 
some  one  competent  to  the  task  would  collect 
materials  for  a  history  of  the  men  who,  within  the 
present  century,  have  made  a  profession  of  judi- 
cial astrology.  Their  pursuits  are  such  as  to  ex- 
clude them  from  public  notice,  but  the  men  them- 
selves have  exerted  a  very  powerful  influence 
over  the  uneducated  mind  of  the  country.  Several 
occurrences  lately  have  drawn  attention  to  the 
practices  of  itinerant  fortune-tellers,  many  of 
whom  still  procure  a  livelihood.  The  astrologer, 
however,  or,  as  he  is  denominated  in  some  dis- 
tricts of  England  —  I  speak  more  particularly  of 
Yorkshire  —  "  a  planet  ruler,"  and  sometimes  "  a 
wise  man,"  is -of  a  higher  order.  He  does  not 
itinerate,  is  generally  a  man  of  some  education, 
possessed  of  a  good  deal  of  fragmentary  know- 
ledge, and  a  smattering  of  science.  He  very  often 
conceals  his  real  profession  by  practising  as  a 
"  Water  Doctor,"  or  as  a  "  Bone  Setter,"  and  some 
I  have  known  possessed  a  large  amount  of  skill 
in  the  treatment  of  ordinary  diseases. 

The  more  lucrative  part  of  their  business  was 
that  which  they  carried  on  in  a  secret  way.  They 
were  consulted  in  all  cases  of  difficulty  by  a  class 
of  superstitious  people,  and  an  implicit  faith  was 
placed  in  their  statements  and  predictions.  The 


vulgar  are  ever  loth  to  seek  out  natural  causes  for 
any  of  the  calamities  of  life,  but  try  to  discover 
occult  springs  for  all  common  events.  The  "  wise 
man  "  was  sought  in  all  cases  of  accident,  disaster, 
or  loss.  He  was  consulted  as  to  the  probabilities 
of  the  return,  and  safety  of  the  distant  and  the 
absent ;  of  the  chances  of  the  recovery  of  the  sick, 
and  of  the  destiny  of  some  beloved  friend  or  rela- 
tive. The  consultation  with  these  men  would  often 
have  a  sinister  aim  :  to  discover  by  the  stars  whe- 
ther an  obnoxious  husband  would  survive,  or 
whether  the  affections  of  a  courted  or  inconstant 
lover  could  be  secured.  Very  often  long-con- 
tinued diseases  and  inveterate  maladies  were  as- 
cribed to  an  "  ill-wish,"  and  the  planet-ruler  was 
sought  to  discover  who  was  the  ill-wisher,  and 
what  charm  would  remove  the  spell.  It  is  need- 
less to  say  that  the  practices  of  these  astrologers 
were  productive,  in  a  large  number  of  cases,  of 
much  disturbance  among  neighbours  and  relatives, 
and  great  mischief  to  all  concerned,  except  the 
man  who  profited  by  the  credulity  of  his  dupes. 

It  may  be  interesting  to  give  from  time  to  time  a 
few  Notes  from  my  own  personal  recollections  of 
this  class  of  charlatans.  Some  of  them  no  doubt 
were  believers  in  the  imposture,  but  the  greater 
number  were  arrant  cheats ;  and  I  believe  the 
latter  were  the  most  harmless.  In  Leeds  and  its 
neighbourhood  there  were  several  "wise  men," 
with  whose  doings  I  became  acquainted  some 
thirty-five  years  ago ;  in  fact,  I  had  some  per- 
sonal knowledge  of  one  or  two  of  them.  I  am 
not  aware  that  any  local  history  speaks  of  them, 
and  their  reputation  seems  to  have  passed  away. 

Among  the  number  was  a  man  known  by  no 
other  name  than  that  of  «« Witch  Pickles."  He 
was  avowedly  an  Astrological  Doctor,  and  ruled 
the  planets  for  those  who  sought  him  for  that  pur- 
pose. He  dwelt  in  a  retired  house  on  the  road 
from  Leeds  to  York,  about  a  mile  from  the 
"  Shoulder  of  Mutton  "  public-house,  at  the  top 
of  Marsh  Lane.  His  celebrity  extended  for  above 
fifty  miles,  and  I  have  known  instances  of  persons 
coming  from  the  Yorkshire  Wolds  to  consult  him. 
I  remember  the  man  and  the  house  very  well, 
and  the  awe  in  which  both  were  held  by  boys, 
and  even  older  persons,  who  had  belief  in  his 
powers.  Little  was  known  of  his  habits,  and  I 
believe  he  had  few  visitors  but  those  who  sought 
his  professional  assistance.  Those  who  sought 
him  gave  no  doubt  exaggerated  descriptions  of  his 
sayings  and  doings.  I  never  heard  that  he  com- 
mitted anything  to  writing.  He  was  particular 
in  inquiring  into  all  the  circumstances  of  any  case 
on  which  he  was  consulted  before  he  pronounced. 
He  then,  as  he  termed  it,  proceeded  to  draw  a 
figure  in  order  to  discover  the  conjunction  of  the 
planets,  and  then  entered  upon  the  explanation  of 
what  the  stars  predicted.  Strange  things  were 
told  of  him,  such  as  that  he  performed  incanta- 


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tions  at  midnight  on  certain  days  in  the  year 
when  particular  planets  were  in  the  ascendant; 
and  that  on  such  occasions  strange  sights  and 
sounds  would  be  seen  and  heard  by  persons  pass- 
ing the  house.  These  were  the  embellishments  of 
vulgar  rumour.  The  man  was  quiet  and  inoffen- 
sive in  his  demeanour,  and,  I  should  think,  was 
fully  sensible  of  the  necessity  of  a  life  of  seclu- 
sion. From  communications  I  had  with  some  of 
those  who  consulted  him,  I  believe  that  he  prac- 
tised a  few  tricks  to  awe  his  visitors  —  such  as 
lighting  a  candle  or  fire  without  visible  agency, 
and  others  far  more  ingenious  than  the  modern 
table-rapping.  So  many  and  so  extraordinary 
were  the  statements  made  about  "  Pickles,"  that 
it  will  be  difficult  to  procure  reliable  information. 
I  had  left  Leeds  before  he  disappeared,  but  there 
will  no  doubt  be  many  living  who  can  supply  facts 
in  relation  to  him. 

He  was  only  one  among  a  number  who  derived 
a  large  profit  from  this  kind  of  occupation.  He 
was  in  many  respects  one  of  the  more  respectable 
of  the  class,  as  I  never  heard  of  his  descending  to 
the  vile  tricks  of  others  of  the  profession  —  tricks 
practised  upon  weak  and  credulous  women  and 
girls,  which  will  not  bear  description.  T.  B. 


FOLK  LORE. 

CUSTOMS  AT  CHRISTMAS.  —  From  inquiries  I 
have  made  since  I  wrote  you  last  on  this  subject, 
I  have  no  doubt  that  the  custom  of  seeking  a 
male  person  with  black  or  dark  hair,  to  enter  a 
house  the  first  on  the  morning  of  Christmas  Day, 
and  also  New  Year's  Day,  is  associated  with  the 
tradition  that  Judas  had  red  hair.  There  are 
several  other  matters  of  superstitious  observance 
which,  although  rigidly  adhered  to  even  to  this 
day,  cannot  be  explained.  One  is,  that  no  light 
must  be  allowed  to  pass  out  of  the  house  during  | 
Christmas  ;  that  is,  from  Christmas  Day  to  New 
Year's  Day  inclusive.  I  remember  cases  of  serious  ! 
inconvenience  occurring  when  I  was  a  youth.  ! 
This  was  in  the  days  of  the  old  tinder-box,  before  ! 
lucifer  matches  were  introduced.  Whatever  might 
be  the  emergency,  a  neighbour  could  not  without 
great  difficulty  procure  a  light  from  another.  In 
the  neighbourhood  where  I  was  brought  up,  in 
the  West  Riding  of  Yorkshire,  these  customs  still 
prevail ;  but  are  giving  way  before  the  advance 
of  education.  It  would  be  curious  to  discover 
the  origin  of  this  singular  superstition.  T.  B. 

SINGULAR  CUSTOM  AT  GRANTHAM. —  I  have  just 
met  with  the  account  of  a  singular  custom  at 
Grantham,  which  I  forward  with  this  Note.  It  is 
from  a  local  paper.  Perhaps  some  of  your  nu- 
merous readers  can  give  some  further  informa- 
tion as  to  the  origin  of  this  singular  practice,  and 
by  whom  the  land  was  originally  given  ?  — 


"A  STRANGE  CUSTOM  AT  GRANTHAM.  —  On  Friday 
evening  week  Mr.  W.  E.  Lawrence  let  by  auction  the 
piece  of  land  termed  the  '  White  Bread  Meadow,'  con- 
taining about  five  roods,  and  situate  in  the  Meadow 
Drove  in  Bourn  North  Fen.  On  this  occasion  Samuel 
Nixon  was  the  highest  bidder,  at  51.  15s.  A  novel  cus-1 
torn  exists  in  connection  with  the  management  and 
administration  of  this  charity.  On  the  evening  of  the 
letting,  which  takes  place  annually,  the  auctioneer  pro- 
ceeds to  the  Queen's  Bridge,  in  the  Eastgate,  where  the 
company  meet  him,  and  the  auction  commences:  a  boy 
who  is  called  a  '  runner,'  is  sent  about  fifty  yards  down, 
the  Eastgate,  and  returns  to  the  starting  point ;  if  during 
his  '  run '  any  further  bid  is  made,  another  boy  is  started, 
and  so  on ;  but  if  the '  runner '  returns  before  any  advance 
is  made  upon  the  previous  bid,  the  auction  is  declared 
to  be  at  an  end.  The  parishioners  of  the  Eastgate  appoint 
two  stewards,  who  on  the  day  of  the  letting  purchase 
between  41.  and  ol.  worth  of  penny  and  twopenny  loaves, 
and  distribute  them  in  quantities  of  from  a  pennyworth 
to  livepennyworth.  at  each  house  in  what  is  considered 
the  Eastgate  ward.  Until  this  year  it  has  been  the  cus- 
tom to  leave  the  bread  at  those  houses  only  which  were 
said  to  be  old  houses;  this  year  a  portion  was  left  at 
every  house  in  the  Eastgate  district.  At  the  close  of  the 
auction  the  company  proceed  to  one  of  the  Eastgate  inns 
to  'take  a  leetle  refreshment.'  Bread  and  cheese,  and 
onions,  and  ale,  in  abundance,  and  of  excellent  quality,  is 
brought  in,  and  ample  justice  is  done  thereto  by  the  com- 
pany ;  who  by  this  time  have  become  rather  numerous, 
and  each  one  on  good  terms  with  himself,  if  not  with 
everyone  else.  Then  follows  the  business  of  the  evening : 
the  stewards  receive  the  rent,  pay  the  expenses  incurred, 
and  then  favour  the  meeting  with  the  following  '  state  of 
affairs,'  namely,  balance  in  hand  from  last  year,  Is.  5d. ; 
this  year's  rent,  5/.  15s. ;  total,  bl.  16s.  od.  On  the  other 
side  there  was  —  paid  for  bread,  41.  5s. ;  the  two  stewards 
2s.[6r£  each ;  auctioneer,  5s. ;  crier,  Is. ;  bottle  of  gin, 
2s.  6d.  (to  stimulate  the  bidding  at  the  auction);  and 
17s.  6d.  for  cheese,  onions,  and  ale,  to  balance  the  account. 
This  left  5d.  in  hand,  which  it  was  suggested  should  be 
spent  in  tobacco ;  to  this,  however,  the  stewards  objected, 
being  in  favour  of  retaining  this  balance  in  hand  until 
the  next  letting." 

K.  F.  WHEELER. 

Whitby,  North  Shields. 

FOLK  LORE.  —  I  have  recently  heard  the  fol- 
lowing scraps  of  folk  lore,  which  are  new  to  me, 
and  I  believe  will  also  be  new  to  the  pages  of 
"N.&Q.:"- 

1.  When  it  is  a  good  apple  year,  it  is  a  great 
year  for  twins. 

2.  If  the  twins  are  of  opposite  sexes,  the  one  is 
sure  to  die  when  young. 

3.  You  should   always  kill   leeches  that  have 
been  applied  for  any  inflammatory  complaint,  be- 
cause the  inflammation  dies  with  the  leech. 

4.  If,  in  a  row  of  beans,  one  should  come  up 
white  (instead  of  green),  there  will  be  a  death  in 
the  family  within  the  year.         CUTHBERT  BEDE. 


THE  HYNDFORD  PAPERS. 

Accidentally  looking  over  a  fragment  of  The 
Scotsman  newspaper  for  October  last,  I  found  the 
following  "  Query  for  Antiquaries"  addressed  to 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


483 


the  Editor,  which  may  very  appropriately  be  in- 
serted in  "  N.  &  Q."  :  — 

"  SIR,  —  In  the  Topographical  Dictionary  of  Scotland, 
under  the  article  '  Car'michael,  a  Parish  in  the  Upper 
Ward  of  Lanarkshire,'  it  is  stated  that  John,  third  Earl 
of  Hyndford,  born  1701,  died  1767,  left  in  his  library 
'  twenty-three  manuscript  volumes  of  his  political  life  in 
his  own  handwriting.'  It  is  also  stated  that  on  his  death 
his  estates  and  property,  including,  I  presume,  his  library, 
passed  into  the  hands  of  his  heir,  Sir  John  Carmichael 
Anstruther,  of  Elie,  Baronet.  The  Earl  of  Hyndford  was 
a  man  of  mark  in  his  day.  He  was  sent  as  Ambassador 
to  the  Court  of  Russia,  and  on  his  return  to  Scotland 
took  an  active  part  in  the  social  and  political  improve- 
ment of  the  country. 

*«  Can  any  of  your  antiquarian  readers  give  us  an  ac- 
count of  these  volumes  ?  If  they  are  still  in  existence,  it 
seems  to  me  a  pity  that  they  are  not  exhumed  from  their 
hiding  place,  and  made  to  form  a  published  contribution 
to  the  history  of  Scotland. — I  am,  &c., 

"  MONKBARNS." 

There  is  some  inaccuracy  in  this  assumption, 
although  in  the  essential  portion  of  it  the  writer 
is  correct  enough.  There  certainly  was  a  collec- 
tion of  papers,  formerly  in  the  possession  of  the 
Hyndford  family,  which  had  carefully  been  pre- 
served, and  half-bound  in  volumes.  These  con- 
sisted almost  entirely,  so  far  as  I  can  remember, 
of  original  drafts  of  letters  by  the  Earl,  and  an- 
swers by  correspondents,  during  his  foreign  em- 
bassies. They  were,  sometime  after  the  extinction 
of  the  title,  exposed  for  sale  in  the  late  Mr.  C. 
Tait's  Sale  Room,  with  the  very  curious  and 
valuable  family  library  which  belonged  to  the 
noble  Earl ;  but  which  formed  no  portion  what- 
ever of  the  Elie  library  —  a  separate  collection, 
which,  as  personal  property,  was  disposed  of  by 
auction  by  Mrs.  Anstruther  and  her  husband. 
The  lady  was  sister  of  Sir  Wyndham  Anstruther, 
who  succeeded,  on  the  untimely  death  of  his  nephew 
(Sir  John  Anstruther),  in  1831,  to  the  landed 
estates,  while  Mrs.  Anstruther  took  the  moveable 
property.  Elie  has  now  passed  entirely  from  the 
Anstruther  family* 

The  Hyndford  papers  were  of  interest  and  value. 
Endeavours  were  used  to  induce  the  Faculty  of 
Advocates  to  become  purchasers,  but  without 
effect:  want  of  funds  being  the  excuse.  The 
collection  brought  a  small  sum,  and  it  is  believed 
went  to  England.  This  is  but  one  amongst  many 
instances,  where  the  injudicious  expenditure  of 
funds  prevented  the  purchase  of  manuscripts  and 
scarce  volumes,  which  were  generally  transferred 
from  this  kingdom  to  the  sister  country. 

The  Elie  library  was,  for  condition  and  value, 
perhaps  the  finest  ever  brought  to  the  hammer  in 
Scotland.  It  had  been  collected  during  nearly 
two  centuries  by  the  ancient  family  of  Anstruther, 
and  many  a  work  was  preserved  there  which 
money  now  could  hardly  procure.  One  instance 
may  be  given:  the  1610  edition  of  Barbour's 
Bruce,  printed  by  Andro  Hart,  in  black-letter.  It 


is,  at  least  so  says  Professor  Innes  in  his  curious 
and  interesting  introduction  to  the  Spalding  edi- 
tion of  Barbour,  the  only  perfect  copy  known  : 
the  one  at  Oxford  being  imperfect.  There  was 
also  in  the  same  library,  the  1620  edition  of 
Blind  Harry's  Wallace,  a  book  of  great  rarity ; 
but  of  which  there  is  a  copy  in  the  Faculty 
Library,  purchased  at  a  time  when  the  members 
knew  how  to  make  a  proper  use  of  their  funds. 
The  Hyndford  library  was  almost  as  valuable. 

Mr.  T.  Nisbet,  who  succeeded  Mr.  Tait,  has  the 
books,  and  probably  Catalogues  of  his  predecessor : 
so  that  the  purchaser's  name,  and  price  of  the 
Hyndford  MSS.,  might  be  procured  without 
much  difficulty  from  that  gentleman.  J.  M. 


AMBROSE  RANDOLPH. 

Of  this  gentleman,  who  was  one  of  the  sons  of 
Thomas  Randolph,  LL.D.,  the  famous  diplomatist, 
a  brief  notice  is  prefixed  to  the  Private  Corre- 
spondence of  Lady  Jane  Comwallis,  published  by 
Lord  Braybrooke,  1842,  I  am  enabled  to  add  the 
following  particulars :  — 

He  was  living  at  Ongar,  in  Essex,  in  1610. 

His  wife  Dorothe,  to  whom  he  was  married  in 
or  about  1612,  was  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Wil- 
son, keeper  of  the  State  Papers.  In  1618,  men- 
tion is  made  of  a  sister  Elizabeth;  yet,  about 
1622,  Sir  Thomas  Wilson  terms  Randolph's  wife 
his  only  child. 

On  25th  July,  1614,  he  and  his  father-in-law 
were  constituted  keepers  of  the  State  Papers. 
Levinus  Munck,  who  had  previously  been  joint 
keeper  with  Wilson,  having  surrendered  his  pa- 
tent. 

In  the  same  year,  Mr.  Randolph  presented  to 
the  rectory  of  Gunton,  in  Norfolk. 

On  24th  August,  1615,  his  father-in-law  wrote 
to  him,  advising  him  to  apply  for  the  office  of 
Keeper  of  the  Exchequer  Records,  then  vacant  by 
the  death  of  Arthur  Agarde.  It  does  not  appear 
whether  he  succeeded  in  obtaining  this  appoint- 
ment. Lord  Braybrooke  says,  that  in  1627  he 
was  appointed  to  a  place  in  the  Exchequer,  the 
duties  of  which  are  not  specified. 

About  1622,  Sir  Thomas  Wilson  requested  the 
honour  of  knighthood  for  his  son-in-law. 

On  26th  May,  1623,  Ambrose  Randolph  and 
his  brother  Robert  purchased  of  Edward  Cop- 
pin^er  of  Kirklmgton,  Nottinghamshire,  houses 
and°  lands  in  Fishtoft,  Frieston,  and  Boston,  co. 
Lincoln ;  which  they  resold  to  Francis  Empson, 
16th  Feb.,  1626-7. 

Dorothe  Randolph  was  second  cousin  to  Lady 
Jane  Cornwallis ;  Dorothe  s  father,  Thomas  Wil- 
son, having  married  at  St.  Clement's  Danes  19th 
July,  1593,  Margaret,  daughter  of  Henry  Meau- 
tys,  brother  of  Hercules  Meautys,  who  was  the 
father  of  Lady  Jane. 


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[3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  21,  '62. 


The  relations  between  Ambrose  Randolph  and 
Sir  Thomas  Wilson,  who  appears  to  have  been  in 
deeply  embarrassed  circumstances,  were  not  always 
of  an  amicable  character. 

These  facts  are  derived  from  Blomefield's  Nor- 
folk, viii.  123 ;  Green's  Cal  Dom.  State  Papers, 
Jas.  I. ;  and  Bruce' s  Cal.  Dom.  State  Papers, 
Car.  I. 

I  embrace  this  opportunity  of  bearing  my 
humble  testimony  to  the  immense  utility  of  the 
Calendars  of  State  Papers.  The  present  com- 
munication relates  to  an  individual  of  little  note ; 
it  may,  however,  serve  to  direct  attention  to  the 
especial  value  of  these  Calendars  as  sources  of 
biographical  illustration. 

In  one  of  his  letters  Sir  Thomas  Wilson  terms 
Thomas  Randolph,  the  ambassador,  Sir  Thomas 
Randolph.  Wood  says  also  that  he  was  knighted. 
The  statement  has  been  adopted  by  the  writer  of 
his  Life  in  Biographia  Britannica,  and  he  is  con- 
stantly referred  to  as  Sir  Thomas.  It  is  certain, 
however,  from  his  funeral  certificate,  that  he  was 
only  an  Esquire.  Wood's  assertion  that  he  was 
knighted  is  the  more  remarkable,  as  it  is  clear 
that  he  had  seen  and  used  this  certificate. 

C.  H.  COOPER. 

Cambridge. 


ETYMOLOGY  OF  PARSON. — In  Marsh's  Lectures 
on  the  English  Language,  recently  edited  by  Dr. 
William  Smith  (Murray,  1862),  there  are  some 
remarks  on  the  extravagance  of  certain  etymo- 
logists ;  in  the  course  of  which,  the  following  pas- 
sage occurs : — 

"One  can  hardly  believe  Roger  Ascham  serious  in 
deriving  war  from  warre  or  werre,  the  old  form  of  the 
comparative  worse,  because  war  is  worse  than  peace ;  but 
even  this  derivation  is  only  less  absurd  than  Blackstone's 
of  parson  from  persona,  persona  ecclesia,  because  the  par- 
son personates  or  represents  the  church"  (p.  51). 

The  reason  given  by  Blackstone  for  his  etymo- 
logy may  be  erronedus;  but  that  the  English 
word  joarsow  is  derived  from  the  Latin  word  per- 
sona, as  used  by  mediaeval  writers,  is  certain  and 
indisputable.  A  reference  to  the  articles  in  Bu- 
cange's  Glossary  is  sufficient  to  settle  the  ques- 
tion :  — 

"  Personse,  clerici,  qui  beneficia  ecclesiastica  obtinent, 
quod,  ut  quidam  putant,  magnum  propter  officium  per- 
sonam  sustineant;  sed  maxime  ii,qui  beneficiis,  seu  ecclesiis 
per  vicarios  deserviri  curant,  dum  ipsi  potiori  redituum 
parte  fruuntur." 

"  Persona  saspius  pro  Curio,  parochus  occurrit.  Bri- 
tanni  etiamnum  personne,  Angli  parson  e3,  notione 
dicunt." 

"  Personatus,  jus,  quo  personam  in  ecciesiS,  aliqufi,  quis 
constituere  potest." 

"  Personator,  idem  quod  persona." 


"  Personatus,  persona?  dignitas,  seu  beneficium  ipsum." 

"  Personagium,  idem  quod  personatus." 

"  Impersonare,  in  personatus  possessionem  mittere." 

The  word  occurs  in  Chaucer  in  its  original! 
form  :  — 

"  A  good  man  ther  was  of  religioun, 
That  was  a  poure  persone  of  a  toun : 
But  rich  he  was  of  holy  thought  and  werk." 

Prol  4680. 

The  word  persona,  or  parson,  seems  to  have 
properly  signified  the  incumbent  of  the  living, 
the  holder  of  the  benefice,  as  distinguished  from 
the  curate,  in  the  modern  sense  of  that  word.  L. 

TURNER  THE  PAINTER. — Mackenzie,  the  archi- 
tectural draftsman,  was  a  pupil  of  the  elder  Rep- 
ton,  the  architect  of  Rotnford,  in  which  office 
also,  was  the  late  great  painter  Turner,  as  a  clerk, 
respecting  whom  .Mackenzie,  shortly  before  he 
died,  told  me  the  following  anecdote  :  — 

The  surveyors  of  those  days  had  a  set  fashion 
in  getting  up  their  elevation, — light  brick-coloured 
walls,  blue  roofs,  and  black  windows,  with  the 
sash  bars  ruled  in  with  flake  white.  Repton  went 
from  home  for  a  few  days,  and  left  Turner  to  tint 
an  elevation  during  his  absence.  Turner  was  by 
no  means  inclined  to  keep  to  the  rule,  but  tinted 
the  drawing  according  to  his  own  notion,  —  the 
windows  neutral  tint,  the  high  lights  left,  and  an 
occasional  blind  or  a  curtain ;  the  walls  and  roof 
anything  but  en  regie  as  to  smooth  flat  tints,  with 
the  blue  of  the  roof  a  little  darker  at  the  top,  and 
carefully  "  softened  off."  When  Repton  came 
back,  he  asked  Turner  what  on  earth  he  meant  by 
making  such  a  mess  as  that  ?  —  asked  him  if  he 
did  not  know  the  rule  for  windows  was  black 
glass  and  white  bars  ;  and  even  light  tints,  not 
blotched  about,  for  the  walls  and  roof?  Turner 
answered  that  he  never  saw  a  black  window,  and 
couldn't  make  one,  whereupon  Repton  angrily 
desired  him  to  alter  the  drawing,  and  do  it 
properly ;  but  Turner  flatly  refused,  sticking  to 
it  that  he  never  saw  such  a  thing  in  nature,  and 
would  not  do  it,  and  so  they  quarrelled  and  parted. 
Query,  in  this  case,  Supposing  Repton  had  ac- 
quiesced in  the  innovation,  and  Turner  had  got 
money  enough  to  live  comfortably  by  tinting 
architectural  drawings,  would  he  have  ever  done 
anything  else  ?  Would  not  the  enjoyment  of  the 
certainty  of  mediocre  comfort  have  kept  him 
where  he  was,  and  deprived  the  world  of  the 
greatest  landscape  painter-poet  that  ever  lived  ? 
Just  as  Clive  might  have  been  a  trader's  clerk  all 
his  life,  but  for  the  combination  of  circumstances 
which  made  him  a  great  general  and  a  peer  of 
England. 

I  believe  I  can  rely  upon  the  accuracy  of  the 
facts  in  both  these  cases,  and  I  should  think  there 
are  plenty  of  persons  living  who  can  corroborate 
them,  if  thought  necessary.  HENRY  DUESBURY. 


"»  S.  I.  JUNE  21,  'G2.1 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


485 


THE  PHJEACIAN  SHIPS  {Odyssey,  viii.  555):  — 

"  Enre  5e  /toi  ycudv  re  Ter)i',  Sfj^i/  re,  iro\iv  re. 

"O(ppa  <T6   TJ?  TTf^TTCtifft  TlTV<ri(6(jl.€VCU 

Ov  yap  4>a(//Ke<r<Ti  /cugepj/TjTTJpes  <ia.<riv, 

OuSe  rt  TnjSaAi  eff-r),  TC£  T'  &\\ai  vyts 

'A\\'  abral  fcrcun  vo^/zara  Koi  Qpevas  AfSpwv* 

Kol  Trai'Ta)!/  fcraa-t  in>A.{as  Kal  iriovas  bypovs 

'AvOpuTruv'  Kal  AcuY|ua  rax"^' 

'Kept  KCU  ve<pe\r)  /ceKuAv/i/ieWi'  oi';8e  TTOTC  (T^tf 

Otfre  Tt  7r7?,uaj/0T)fou  CTTI  5eos,  ou5'  aTroAeVflai." 

The  Phseacian  vessels,  as  thus  described,  seem 
to  bear  a  vague  resemblance  to  steamers ;  at  least 
to  what  steamers  would  appear  to  persons  ignorant 
of  their  principle  and  construction.  I  have  some- 
where read  that  one  of  the  Pharaohs  of  Egypt  had 
steam  vessels;  if  so,  from  these,  or  from  the  report 
of  them,  Homer  may  have  taken  his  idea. 

The  Burmese,  in  our  first  war  with  them,  took 
the  little  war  steamer,  "  Nemesis,"  for  an  intel- 
ligent being,  or  rather  monster,  armed  with  super- 
human power.  W.  D. 

ANALOGY  BETWEEN  COLOURS  AND  MUSICAL 
SOUNDS.  —  Have  any  works  ever  been  published 
with  a  view  to  prove  an  analogy  between  colours 
and  musical  sounds  ?  The  two  following  facts  are 
worthy  of  notice,  and  have  led  me  to  make  these 
inquiries :  —  1.  The  number  of  the  colours  in  the 
solar  spectrum  (7)  are  identical  with  that  of  the 
notes  of  the  major  diatonic  scale  in  music.  2.  The 
proportion  of  the  three  primary  colours  in  the 
solar  ray  coincides  with  the  order  of  the  notes 
which  form  the  "  common  chord,"  viz.,  3,  5,  and  8. 

The  anecdote  of  the  blind  man  who  compared 
the  colour  scarlet  to  the  sound  of  a  trumpet,  may, 
perhaps,  throw  some  light  on  the  subject. 

CHROMOPHONE. 

OF  THE  CLIMATE  OF  ENGLAND. — In  this  month's 
Temple  Bar  Magazine  a  writer  "  On  Climates " 
informs  us,  the  climate  of  Brighton  and  that  of 
Torquay  are  well  known  to  differ  essentially. 
The  climate  of  Bath  is  very  different  from  that  of 
Cheltenham ;  and  Malvern,  again,  is  different  from 
both.  All  these,  the  writer  adds,  are  quite  dis- 
tinct from  Harrogate,  and  Harrogate  is^different 
from  Scarborough,  while  both  are  unlike  the  lake 
districts  of  Cumberland  and  Westmoreland.  The 
writer  observes,  it  would  be  difficult  at  present  to 
say  exactly  why  these  differences  exist ;  but  the 
fact  is  notorious,  and  the  full  bearing  of  such  a 
fact  is  extremely  important.  May  I  ask  any  of 
your  scientific  readers  to  turn  his  attention  to  the 
notorious  fact  stated  by  the  writer  on  climates  in 
Temple  Bar  Magazine,  and  explain  the  differences, 
giving  his  reasons  for  the  opinion  he  entertains? 
I  agree  with  the  writer,  "  the  full  bearing  of  such 
a  fact  is  extremely  important.  FRA.  MEWBURN. 

Larchfield,  Darlington,  May  19, 1862. 


ADJUSTMENT  OF  THE  EYE  TO  DISTANCE.  —  In 
Dr.  George  Wilson's  Essay  on  Chemical  Final 
Causes,  first  published  in  Edinburgh  Essays,  1856, 
p.  346,  reprinted  in  the  newly- issued  volume  en- 
titled Eeligio  Chemici,  p.  159,  it  is  said  :  — 

"The  Optician pressed  upon  the  attention  of 

the  physiologist  that  the  living  eye  must  possess  the 
power  of  adjusting  its  focus  to  the  vision  of  objects  at 
different  distances.  And  after  some  two  centuries  of  un- 
successful endeavours the  physiologists  of  our 

own  day  have,  within  the  last  three  years,  justified  the 
optician  by  solving  the  problem " 

Will  any  reader  of  "  N.  &.  Q."  favour  me  with 
a  reference  to  the  solution  here  spoken  of?  The 
date  indicated  must  be  about  1853.  J.  H. 

Glasgow. 

ANONYMOUS.  —  Can  you  give  any  information 
regarding  the  authorship  of  the  following  anony- 
mous works?  —  1.  Morgan  de  la  Faye,  a  Drama. 
Lond.  N.  D.,  priv.  printed.  2.  Barra,  or,  The 
Lord  of  the  Isles,  a  Drama.  Reading,  1825.  3. 
Dramatic  Sketch  descriptive  of  Lord  Clifford's 
Return  from  London,  1833,  Exeter.  4.  Orfried,  a 
Drama.  Canterbury,  1834.  ZETA. 

BOARD  OF  TRADE.  —  The  Mercurius  Publicus 
for  Dec.  6,  1660,  records  that—- 

"  It  hath  likewise  pleased  bis  Majesty  by  his  Let. 
Patent,  under  the  Great  Seal  of  England,  to  establish  a 
standing  Council  for  trade  and  commerce,  consisting  of 
many  of  the  most  honourable  Lords  of  his  Majesties  most 
honourable  Privy  Council  and  other  his  Lords,  Knights, 
Gentlemen,  and  Citizens  of  known  ability  and  approved 
integrity." 

Is  this  the  origin  of  the  Board  of  Trade  ?  Was 
the  idea  of  this  council  new,  or  but  a  continua- 
tion of  a  similar  body  which  had  existed  under 
the  previous  governments  ?  GRIME. 

CONVOCATION  IN  IRELAND.  —  I  shall  be  obliged 
to  any  of  your  correspondents  who  can  direct  me 
to  any  authentic  source  of  information  respecting 
the  proceedings  of  Irish  convocations,  from  1615 
to  1711,  besides  those  contained  in  the  Church 
Histories  of  Ireland,  such  as  Mant  and  King,  or 
the  works  of  Bramhall  and  Ussher. 

ALFRED  T.  LEE. 
Ahoghill  Rectory,  Ballymena. 

THE  DOGS  OF  THIBET  :  HEROIC  EPISTLE.  — 

"  Huge  dogs  of  Thibet  bark  in  yonder  grove, 
Here  parrots  prate,  there  cats  make  cruel  love. 

Heroic  Epistle  to  Sir  William  Cftambert 
(W.  Mason?). 

The  above  lines  were  brought  to  my  recollec- 
tion two  years  ago,  when,  in  Kensington  Gardens, 
I  met  with  a  person  leading  a  huge  mastiff;  I  was 
induced  to  inquire  of  what  country  this  dog  was 
a  native.  The  answer  was,  "Of  Thibet.' 
was  further  informed  that  the  price  of  the  animal 
was  50J.,  and  that  he  was  about  to  be  offered  to 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  JUNK  21,  '62. 


Prince  Albert.  What  was  the  result  of  this  offer 
I  never  heard.  He  was  of  a  light  brindled  colour, 
like  a  lion. 

I  lately  read,  in  the  police  reports,  of  a  person 
being  brought  before  a  magistrate  for  attempting, 
as  was  alleged,  to  steal  one  of  these  Thibetian 
mastiffs.  He  was  of  the  same  light  colour,  was 
eight  feet  long,  and,  I  suppose,  tall  in  proportion : 
his  price  was  1501. 

I  have  no  description  of  Thibet  at  hand ;  but, 
on  consulting  Rees's  Encyclopedia,  I  find  that 
that  country  is  "  remarkable  for  a  large  breed  of 
dogs." 

Perhaps  the  two  KWCS  apyot,  that  followed  Tele- 
machus  (in  the  Odyssey},  were  of  this  light  fawn 
or  tawny  colour. 

According  to  Horace,  the  Molossian  mastiffs 
(from  Epirus)  were  in  high  repute  among  the 
Romans  ;  but  we  have  no  information,  that  I  am 
aware  of,  respecting  their  colour  or  size. 

Xerxes,  on  his  expedition  to  Greece,  was 
accompanied  by  a  number  of  Indian  dogs,  with 
their  attendants.  These  dogs  probably  came  from 
some  northern  district,  perhaps  from  Thibet. 
Herodot.  vii.  187.  (Polyhymnia).  W.  D. 

MADAME  LOUISE  DAURIAT.  —  It  is  stated  in 
The  Athenceum  of  April  11,  1835,  that  "Madame 
Louise  Dauriat  is  giving  lectures  in  Paris  every 
Thursday  Evening  on  the  Social  Rights  of  Women." 
Have  the  lectures  of  this  lady  ever  been  pub- 
lished? If  not,  where  shall  I  find  any  contem- 
porary account  of  them  ?  EDWARD  PEACOCK. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

"  THE  KING'S  GIFT  "  RINGS.  —  Those  of  your 
readers  who  are  curious  in  rings  and  ring- posies 
will  be  interested  in  the  accompanying  extract 
from  an  old  newspaper  now  before  me.  Are  any 
of  these  rings  known  to  be  in  existence  ? 

"  We  cannot  forget  the  manner  of  disbanding  Sir 
Anthony  Ashley  Cooper's  Regiment  at  Salisbury ;  for 
after  a  pertinent  speech  by  that  worthy  Gentleman  the 
Major  of  the  Regiment  (better  known  "heretofore  by  the 
name  of  Col.  Brown,  a  gallant  Commander,  in  his  Majes- 
tie's  Army),  they  joyfully  welcomed  his  Majestie's 
Commissioners  by  shouts  and  acclamations;  and  under- 
standing of  His  Majestie's  goodness  in  bestowing  freely 
a  full  week's  pay  over  and  above  their  just  arrears,  they 
broke  out  into  another  great  shout,  and  then  unani- 
mously resolved  with  that  week's  pay  to  buy  each  man 
a  ring,  whose  Posie  should  be,  THE  KING'S  GIFT,  as  an 
Earnest  and  Memorandum  to  be  ready  on  all  occasions 
when  His  Majestie's  service  (and  none  but  his)  should 
call  them."  —  Mercurius  Publicus,  November  29,  1060. 

LUCY  PEACOCK. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 

LINES  ON  PITT.  —  Information  is  requested  as 
to  the  source  of  certain  lines  on  William  Pitt, 
beginning  — 
M  And  thou,  bright  star  of  Europe's  darkest  hour, 

Whose  words  were  wisdom,  and  whose  counsels  power." 

SCIOLIST. 


JOHN  MOTHERBY.  —  Who  was  John  Motherby, 
to  whose  memory  the  German  poet,  Schenkendorf, 
dedicates  some  affecting  lines,  and  who  is  de- 
scribed as  being  "  Royal  Counsellor,  and  a  Cap- 
tain in  the  Konigsberg  Militia  ?  "  J.  MACRAY. 

BOURSE  AND  PRINN  MSS.  —  Where  are  the 
MSS.  of  Nourse,  quoted  by  Fosbrooke  in  his 
Gloucestershire,  to  be  found  ?  Also,  where  are  the 
Prinn  MSS.  quoted  by  the  same  authority  ?  Who 
was  the  author  of  the  Genealogy  of  Jextyn  ap 
Gwrgan,  and  where  can  a  copy  be  obtained  ? 

SAMUEL  LYSONS. 

NUMEROUS  EDITIONS  OF  BOOKS.  —  What  is  the 
largest  number  of  editions  any  one  work  has  passed 
through  ?  It  would  be  interesting  to  the  general 
public  to  know  how  many  copies  are  usually 
printed  for  a  single  edition,  and  if  there  is  any 
rule  by  which  the  number  of  an  edition  is  regu- 
lated by  the  publishers.  A.  T.  L. 

POEMS.  —  What  is  the  name  of  the  author 
and  title  of  a  small  volume  of  poems  published 
not  very  long  ago,  which  opens  with  some  verses 
on  the  sailing  of  the  English  fleet  to  the  Baltic 
Sea  at  the  commencement  of  the  Crimean  War? 
I  subjoin  the  first  stanza :  — 

"  On  the  Baltic  Sea  the  sun  went  down, 

And  reddened  its  sounding  floor ; 
And  the  shadows  came  with  a  gathering  frown 
From  the  hills  of  the  Swedish  shore." 

SCIOLIST. 

POISONING  WITH  DIAMOND  DUST.  —  I  do  not 
consider  that  I  am  guilty  of  any  breach  of  deli- 
cacy, and  certainly  none  of  confidence,  in  placing 
the  following  on  record.  That  portion  of  what  I 
state  in  the  latter  part  of  the  above  sentence  was 
not  confided  in  confidence,  nor  was  there  any  re- 
straint placed  on  me  in  regard  to  it;  and  the 
other  portion  is  of  too  world- wide  reputation  to 
clothe  it  with  delicacy.  Reading  a  few  days  ago, 
of  poisoning  on  the  Continent  having  been  effected 
by  "  diamond  dust,"  I  turned  to  my  note- book, 
knowing  I  had  "  Cuttlised "  something  on  the 
point,  and  found  the  substance  of  the  following. 
I  was  in  London  immediately  after  Palmer  was 
hanged  for  the  murder  of  Cook,  and  when  hardly 
any  other  subject  was  spoken  of.  Amongst  some 
friends,  I  met  a  surgeon  and  two  students  be- 
longing to  the  University  College ;  and  they 
assured  me,  that  it  was  well  known  amongst  the 
profession  at  the  time  that  Cook  was  not  poisoned 
with  strychnine,  but  with  diamond  dust.  That  ex- 
periments had  been  made  with  it,  and  that  the 
symptoms  were  analogous,  or  nearly  so,  to  strych- 
nine ;  and  that  the  chemical  analysis  proved  the 
fact,  and  that  the  dust  was  mistaken  for  the  other 
substance.  This  may  raise  a  question  of  deep  in- 
terest to  the  profession.  Palmer  never  denied 
that  Cook  was  poisoned ;  but,  to  the  last,  he 


S"  &  I.  JUKB  21, '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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persisted  in  saying  "he  was  not  poisoned  with 
strychnine.      I  think  it.worth  recording. 

S.  REDMOND. 
Liverpool. 

PKIVATE  ACT.  —  Britton,  in  his  Architectural 
Antiquities,  speaking  of  certain  lands  in  Essex 
exchanged  with  Sir  Bryan  Tukev  refers  in  a  note 
to  "  Private  Acts,  35th  Hen.  VIII.  ch.  9."  Where 
can  I  see  the  Private  Act  in  question,  or  an  ab- 
stract of  it?  VEDETTE. 

TETBURY. — In  the  Archceological  Journal  of  the 
Institute  of  Great  Britain,  No.  72,  there  is  a  paper 
upon  the  names  of  places  in  Gloucestershire.  It  is 
to  be  lamented  that  it  is  much  too  brief  in  compass, 
though  well  treated  in  its  limited  extent.  I  have 
been  desirous  to  ascertain  the  etymology  of  Tet- 
bury,  a  considerable  town  in  that  county,  which 
seems  enveloped  in  obscurity.  The  Rev.  Alfred 
Lee,  in  his  History  of  the  place,  thinks  it  is  de- 
rived from  Tedd-bury,  which  would  signify  "  a 
fortress  in  an  open  plain."  In  the  midland  coun- 
ties, and  especially  in  Warwickshire,  Ted  and  Tet 
seem  to  have  been  used  indifferently, — ex.  gr.  as 
Ted  for  Edward,  and  Tet  for  Elizabeth,  or  more 
affectionately,  Tetty  — of  which  last  Dr.  Johnson 
always  availed  himself  when  speaking  of  his  wife*; 
and  with  regard  to  Tetbury  during  the  seven- 
teenth and  long  in  the  eighteenth  century,  it 
seems  to  have  been  more  frequently  written  and 
pronounced  Tedbury.  Of  the  local  Tokens  f  cir- 
culated in  the  neighbourhood  shortly  after  the 
Restoration  (temp.  Charles  II.)  four  are  stamped 
as^being  issued  at  Tedbury.  Still  as  I  think  the 
origin  of  the  name  is  problematical,  I  wish  to  sub- 
mit it  as  a  Query  to  your  readers  for  elucidation. 

DUBITANS. 

CHIEF-BARON  EDWARD  WILLES  :  JUDGE  ED- 
WARD WILLES. — I  have  so  often  experienced  the 
benefit  arising  from  inquiries  circulated  in  your 
publication,  that  I  venture  to  propose  another,  with 
a  conviction  that  I  shall  receive  all  the  informa- 
tion that  is  attainable.  My  present  question  is, 
whether  Edward  Willes,  the  Chief  Baron  of  the 
Irish  Exchequer,  and  Edward  Willes,  the  English 
judge,  were  one  and  the  same  individual?  And 
if  not,  who  the  former  was  ?  These  are  the  facts. 

Sir  John  WTilles  was  Chief  Justice  of  the  Com- 
mon Pleas  from  1737  till  his  death  in  1761 ;  and 
was  first  Commissioner  of  the  Great  Seal  from 
November  19,  1756,  to  June  30,  1757. 

Sir  Edward  Willes,    his    son,    was   Solicitor- 
General  from  August  6,   1766,  till  January  27, 
1768,  when  he  was  constituted  a  Judge  of  the  j 
King's  Bench.     He  died  in  January,  1787. 

*  See  Prayers  by  Dr.  Samuel  Johnson,  published  by  j 
Rev.  George  Strahan,  Vicar  of  Islington.  Lond.  1806,  ; 
page  4i,  et passim. 

•j-  Collectanea  Gloucestriensia,  by  Mr.  Phelps  of  Cha-  i 
venage  House,  near  Tetbury,  p.  238—251. 


Edward  Willes  was  appointed  Lord  Chief  Baron 
in  Ireland  by  patent  dated  March  29,  1757  (while 
fcir  John  Willes  was  first  Commissioner  of  the 
Great  Seal  in  England)  ;  and  resigned  in  1766, 
with  a  pension  of  1,00<W.  a-year.  J 

Smyth,  in  his  Law  Officers  of  Ireland,  says  in  a 
note  to  p.  144,  that  the  latter  afterwards  became 
the  Solicitor- General  and  the  Judge  of  the  King's 
Bench.  But  in  the  obituary  of  the  Gentleman^ 
Magazine,  vol.  xxxviii.  p.  349,  the  death  of  "The 
Right  Honourable  Edward  Willes,  Esq.,  late  Lord 
Chief  Baron  of  the  Exchequer  in  Ireland,"  is  an- 
nounced as  taking  place  in  July,  1768. 

As  one  or  the  other  of  these  statements  is  in- 
correct, I  am  puzzled  on  which  to  rely  ;  especially 
as  in  the  Willes  pedigree,  in  Berry's  Collections, 
the  Chief  Baron  is  not  named,  but  only  the  Ed- 
ward who  was  Judge  of  the  King's  Bench. 

Some  of  your  Warwickshire  or  Northampton- 
shire correspondents  will  perhaps  help  me. 

EDWARD  Foss. 


tcrf  tottij  3tuNDer*. 

REV.  WILLIAM  COLE.  —  Can  you  inform  me 
where  the  Rev.  Wm.  Cole,  the  eminent  antiquary, 
was  buried  ?  He  died  at  Milton  near  Cambridge, 
16th  Dec.  1782.  If  he  has  any  monument  °or 
epitaph  any  where,  a  copy  of  it  would  be  accept- 
able. Has  anything  like  a  catalogue  of  the  con- 
tents of  the  ninety-two  volumes  of  MSS.,  which  he 
bequeathed  to  the  British  Museum  ever  been 
printed?  F.  G. 

[This  celebrated  literary  antiquary  wag  buried  under 
the  belfry  of  St.  Clement's  Church,  in  Cambridge,  On 
the  right  hand  of  the  entrance  is  his  monument,  with 
the  following  inscription :  M  In  a  tomb  in  the  centre  of 
this  steeple  (erected  by  him  pursuant  to  his  will,  and 
with  money  left  by  him  for  that  purpose)  are  deposited 
the  remains  of  the  REV.  WILLIAM  COLE,  A.M.,  formerly 
of  Clare  Hall  in  this  University;  he  was  Vicar  of  Burn- 
ham,  in  the  county  of  Buckingham ;  but  resided  chiefly 
at  Milton,  in  the  county  of  Cambridge,  of  which  be  was 
a  magistrate,  and  Deputy- Lieu  tenant,  for  many  years. 
He  died  on  the  16th  day  of  Dec.  1782,  in  the  68th  year  of 
his  age."  The  front  of  the  steeple  bears  his  motto, "DEUM 
COLE.  The  epitaph  prepared  l>y  himself  on  himself  is  in 
Addit.  MS.  5808,  p.  179,  and  is  printed  in  Nichols's  Literary 
Anecdotes,  i.  668.  There  is  no  printed  catalogue  of  Cole's 
voluminous  collections,  although  their  contents,  for  the 
most  part,  are  entered  in  the  Index  to  the  Additional  Mann  - 
scripts  preserved  in  the  British  Museum,  and  acquired  in  the 
Years  1783-1835.  Printed  by  order  of  the  Trustees,  1849, 
fol.  This  indefatigable  antiquary,  however,  bequeathed 
to  the  British  Museum  three  folio  volumes  of  manu- 
script Indexes  to  his  collections,  namely,  1.  Including 
vols.  I.  to  XIII.  (Addit  MS.  5799.)  2.  Including  vols. 
XLI.  to  XLIX.  (Addit.  MS.  5800.)  3.  A  General  Index 
to  vols.  I.  to  XLVI.  (Addit.  MS.  5801.)  To  the  last 
volume  he  has  prefixed  the  following  note:  "This  is  far 
from  being  a  complete  particular  Index  to  my  forty-six 
volumes  of  MS.  collections.  My  old  Index  was  got  so 
numerous,  and  interlined,  and  double,  that  it  ww  very 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  JUNE  21,  '62. 


troublesome ;  so  in  a  fit  of  the  gout  *  in  the  summer  of 
1776, 1  set  about  making  a  new  one,  in  a  general  manner, 
each  volume  being  designed  to  be  indexed  in  a  particular 
manner,  and  many  of  them  already  completed ;  but  there 
being  several  of  my  later  volumes  that  were  not  put  into 
the  General  Index,  I  run  over  them  in  a  slight  manner, 
•which  has  swelled  this  General  Index  to  all  the  volumes, 
to  be  a  particular  one  to  many  of  them."] 

QUOTATION.  —  What  author  first  notices  this 
savin" — "  See  how  these  Christians  love  one  an- 
other"?" A.W. 

[We  find  the  first  mention  of  this  saying  in  Tertullian, 
•who  notices  it,  not  as  employed  by  any  particular  author, 
but  as  a  remark  current  among  the  heathen :  " '  See,' 
say  they,  '  how  they  love  one  another ' ;  for  they  them- 
selves ["the  heathen"]  hate  one  another."  "  Vide,  inquiunt, 
ut  invicem  se  diligant:  ipsi  enim  invicem  oderunt." 
(Apol.  adv.  Gent.  c.  39.)  Bingham  (Antiq.,  book  xv. 
cap.  vii.  §  10)  gives  the  saying  paraphrastically,  "  See 
how  these  Christians  love  one  another."  This  last  is  the 
form  in  which  we  now  have  the  saying.] 

DEBATES  ON  THE  UNION  IN  1800.  —  Does  any 
report  exist  of  the  debates  on  this  important  mea- 
sure in  the  English  or  Irish  House  of  Commons  ? 
The  5th  Article  of  the  Act  of  Union,  as  prepared  by 
the  Irish  Parliament,  provided  for  the  presence  of  the 
Irish  bishops  and  proctors  of  the  clergy  in  English 
convocation  (Query,  Canterbury  or  York,  or  both 
united?);  but,  in  the  English  Parliament,  on  the 
motion  of  Mr.  Pitt,  this  clause  was  omitted,  on  the 
ground  that  the  sovereign  could  summon  such  a 
convocation  when  he  pleased.  Where  can  I  find 
an  account  of  this  debate  ?  ALFRED  T.  LEE. 

[Consult  for  Ireland  The  Journals  of  the  House  of  Com- 
mons of  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland  from  the  18th  May,  1613, 
to  the  2nd  August,  1800,  fol.  Dublin,  1796-1800.  For  Eng- 
land see  The  Parliamentary  History  of  England,  vols. 
xxxiv.  and  xxxv.  Lond.  8vo,  1819.  The  Speech  of  the 
Rt.  Hon.  William  Pitt,  Jan.  31,  1799,  on  offering  to  the 
House  the  Resolutions  which  he  proposed  as  the  basis  of 
an  Union  between  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  was  pub- 
lished as  a  pamphlet.  See  The  Catalogue  of  the  London 
Institution,  i.  399-402,  for  the  titles  of  Tracts  for  and 
against  the  Union,  bound  in  seven  volumes,  8vo.] 

A.  DOUGLAS.  —  Can  any  contributor  to  "  N.  &  Q." 
tell  me  who  was  A.  Douglas,  who,  being  in  Swit- 
zerland during  the  French  war,  obtained  the 
special  indulgence  of  the  latter  government  to 
return  to  England  through  France,  and  who 
printed,  in  1797,  for  private  friends,  Notes  of  this 
journey  across  the  enemies'  territory  ?  J.  O. 

[Andrew  Douglas,  M.D.,  was  born  at  Teviotdale,  and 
received  his  medical  education  at  Edinburgh.  In  1756, 
he  was  appointed  a  surgeon  in  the  navjr,  and  afterwards 
settled  at  Deal,  but  eventually  returned  to  Edinburgh, 
where  he  graduated  Doctor  of  Medicine.  He  was  ad- 
mitted a  licentiate  of  the  College  of  Physicians  30th  Sep- 
tember, 1776,  and  then,  settling  in  London,  devoted 
himself  to  the  practice  of  midwifery,  and  was  for  several 
years  physician  to  the  Charity  for  Delivering  Poor  Mar- 
ried Women  at  their  own  houses.  Having  acquired  a 

[*  An  illustration  of  a  passage  in  Shakspeare :  — 
"  The  labour  we  delight  in  physics  pain."  —  ED.] 


considerable  fortune  by  marriage.  Dr.  Douglas  relin- 
quished practice,  and  in  1792  visited  the  Continent. 
There  he  was  detained,  and  it  was  not  until  1796  that  he 
obtained  permission  from  the  Directory  to  return  home. 
In  1800  he  removed  to  Ednam-house,  Kelso,  (one  of  the 
most  elegant  private  mansions  that  Nisbet  ever  designed,) 
which  he  had  recently  purchased,  and  was  on  his  way 
thence  to  London  when  he  was  taken  seriously  ill  at 
Buxton,  and  died  there  10th  June,  1806,  aged  seventy. 
The  first  edition  of  his  Notes  of  a  Journey  from  Berne  to 
England  through  France,  8vo,  1797,  being:  incorrectly 
printed,  he  republished  it  with  additions  at  Kelso  in  1802. 

Vide  Munk's  Roll  of  the  College  of  Physicians,  ii.  261 ; 

Gent.  Mag.  July,  1806,  p.  678,  and  the  Annual  Register, 
xlviii.  537.] 

STANDARD  IN  CORNHILL. — C.  A.  H.  being  anxious 
to  ascertain  the  exact  position  which  "the  Standard 
in  Cornhill "  (from  which  distances  were  mea- 
sured) formerly  occupied,  would  feel  obliged  if 
the  Editor  of  "  N".  &  Q."  could  give  the  necessary 
information. 

55,  Parliament  Street. 

[This  water  standard,  with  four  spouts  (hence  called 
the  Carrefour,  or  Quatre-Voies},  stood  at  the  east  end 
of  Cornhill,  at  its  junction  with  Gracechurch  Street, 
Bishopsgate  Street,  and  Leadenhall  Street.  It  was  erected 
by  Peter  Morris,  a  German,  and  we  believe  was  the 
earliest  instance  of  raising  water  in  England  by  means  of 
an  artificial  forcier.  The  inquisitive  Pepys,  wishing  to 
get  a  sight  of  the  Russian  ambassador,  stationed  himself 
at  the  Cornhill  Standard.  "  After  I  had  dined,"  he  says, 
"  I  walked  to  the  Conduit  in  the  Quarrefowr,  at  the  end 
of  Gracious  Street  and  Cornhill ;  and  there,  the  spouts 
thereof  running  very  near  me  upon  all  the  people  that 
were  under  it,  I  saw  them  pretty  well  go  by.  I  could  not 
see  the  Embassador  in  his  coach ;  but  his  attendants  in 
their  habits  and  fur  caps  very  handsome,  comely  men, 
and  most  of  them  with  hawkes  upon  their  fists  to  present 
to  the  King.  But,  Lord!  to  see  the  absurd  nature  of 
Englishmen  that  cannot  forbear  laughing  and  jeering  at 
every  thing  that  looks  strange."  The  Cornhill  Standard 
a  few  years  after  was  impaired  by  the  Great  Fire,  and 
finally  "removed  in  July,  1671.] 

BARBADOES.  —  Can  any  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
oblige  me  with  a  list  of  the  names  of  the  passen- 
gers shipped  in  the  "Virgin  of  Hampton"  for  Bar- 
badoes  in  March  1640  ?  And  also  the  names  of 
passengers  for  Barbadoes  between  the  21st  Dec. 
1638,  and  Jan.  31st,  1640?  Such  lists,  according 
to  the  Calendar  of  State  Papers  (Colonial  Series), 
are  to  be  found  in  the  State  Paper  Office,  and  are 
numbered  63.  SPAL. 

[The  MS.  contains  three  pages  loosely  written,  but  the 
persons  named  are  all  unimportant,  of  somewhat  mean 
condition.] 


COSTER  FESTIVAL  AT  HAARLEM. 

(2nd  S.  xii.  417.) 

I  cannot  find  any  history  or  programme  of  the 
Festival,  but  the  third  centenary  jubilee  of  the 
invention  of  printing  was  celebrated  at  Haarlem, 
and  the  claims  of  Koster  were  strongly  asserted. 
They  are  set  forth  in  "Het  derde  JubeljaJir  der 


3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  21, 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


489 


uitgevondcne   Boekdrukkonst,  door  Johan   Chris 
tiaan   Seiz,    Franco- Germanum.      Te    Haarlem 
1740."  8vo,  pp.  272.  I  do  not  know  what  "  Franco 
Germanum"  means,— perhaps  Alsatian.  The  book 
is  well-written,  and  has  six  plates  of  statues  anc 
busts  of  Koster,  medals  struck  to  his  honour,  anc 
the  house  in  which  he  lived ;  all  well  engraved 
and  the  medals  beautifully.    A  catalogue0  of  au- 
thors who  have  written  upon  the  discovery  o: 
printing  is  prefixed,  and  reasons  given  for  treating 
Koster's  Spiegel  der  Behoudenisse,  of  which  spe- 
cimens are  given,  as  the  first  printed  book.     On 
January   1,    1740,   Peter   Langendyk    recited   a 
copy  of  verses  in  the  Council  Chamber  of  the 
"  Pellicaannisten."     The  historical  element  pre- 
ponderates over  the  poetical,  but  a  few  lines  may 
be  quoted  to  show  the  belief  of  the  people  of 
Haarlem  as  to  printing  and  their  taste  in  poetry : 
"  Toen  wierd,  6  Haarlem !   in  uw  vindingryke  stadt 
Door  Laurens  Koster,  wiens  geschlacht  op't  kussen  zat, 
De  Kunst  gevonden,  waar  dooralle  Kunsten  leven. 
Hy  wandlende  in  den  Hout  door  beukeboomen  dreeven, 
Snyd  letters  uit  een  schors,  en  oft  de  hemel  gaf 
Drukt  by  die  op  papier  met  inkt  at  speelende  af. 
Da  bracht  er  in  den  zin  oft  mooglyk  mocht  gelukken, 
Een  schrift  dat  leesbar  was  op  deeze  wys  te  drukken. 
De  hemel  zegende's  maus  yver  wonderbaar, 
Hy  goot  de  letters  nu,  en  voegde  ze  aan  elkaar, 
En  vind  een  drukpers  uit.    Toen  zag  het  edel  spaaren 
Het  eerste  en  wettig  kind  der  nutte  drukkunst  baaren 
Genaamd  DE  SPIEGEL  DER  BEHOUDENIS,  een  werk, 
Dat 's  vaders  grooten  naam  verheft  tot  aan  het  zwerk." 

Six  medals  bear  the  date  1740.  They  are 
described  in  the  letter-press,  and  some  are  illus- 
trated in  verse  by  Peter  Langendyk,  who  also 
contributes  some  introductory  stanzas.  In  the 
body  of  the  work  the  claims  of  Gutenberg,  Faust, 
and  Scheffer  to  the  discovery  of  printing  are  dis- 
cussed, and  Koster's  preferred.  I  believe  such 
is  not  now  the  prevailing  opinion.  The  eighth 
chapter  gives  an  account  of  the  introduction  of 
printing  in  every  country  where  it  was  known  to 
nave  found  its  way. 

I  cannot  find  any  other  memorial  of  Peter 
Langendyk*  Perhaps  his  fame  did  not  extend 
much  beyond  Haarlem,  but  biographical  diction- 
i  aries  are  very  deficient  in  notices  of  Dutch 
writers.  If  any  Dutchman  has  attempted  to  do 
justice  to  his  countrymen  generally  in  a  work  of 
that  class,  I  shall  be  glad  to  be  informed  of  it. 
Burman  published  a  quarto  on  the  distinguished 
men  of  Utrecht,  and  I  believe  the  same  has  been 
done  for  other  universities.  Can  any  one  tell  me 
about  the  "Pellicans"  of  Haarlem.  Were  they 
a  literary  guild,  like  the  Italian  Arcadians  and 
the  German  Peignitz-Schaeffers  ?  H.  B.  C. 

BRAOSE  FAMILY. 

(2nd  S.  iv.  454.) 

Robert  de  Braose  was  the   son  of  John  de 
Braose,  both  of  them  judges  (Foss  ii.  47 ;  Exc.  e 


Rot.  Finium,  42,  &c.,  Hen.  III.).  Robert  mar- 
ried two  heiresses:  one  was  the  daughter  of 
Paulmus  Tayden,  with  whom  he  acquired  Tay- 
den,  &c.,  in  Essex,  and  Risington,  &c.,  in  the 
county  of  Gloucester;  the  other  was  Beatrice 
Lvermue,  with  whom  he  had  Runham,  in  Suffolk, 
and  estates  in  Lincolnshire.  He  left  surviving 
issue  by  neither,  and  their  lands  reverted  to  their 
respective  families.  By  another  wife  he  had  a 
son  and  heir,  John  ;  who,  in  4  Edw.  L,  succeeded 
his  father  in  the  family  estates  in  Somerset; 
and  whose  only  daughter  and  heiress  married 


A  few  other  points  may  be  noticed  in  the  his- 
tory of  the  Braoses. 

Genealogists  say  that  William,  the  last  Braose 
but  one  who  was  Lord  of  Bramber,  married  Maria, 
daughter  of  William  Lord  Ros  of  Hamlake  :  that 
she  married,  secondly,  Thomas  Brotherton,  son  of 
Edward  L,  Earl  of  Norfolk ;  and  thirdly,  Ralph 
de  Cobham.     Maria,  relict  of  William  de  Braose. 
died  in  19  Edw.  II.  (Esc.,  No.  90);  and  Maria, 
the   Countess  Marshal,    in  36  Edw.   III.  (Esc., 
No.  9)  ;  so  they  were  not  one  and  the  same.   And 
there  is  no  record  that  either  was  a  daughter  of 
a  Ros  of  Hamlake.     William  de  Braose,  who  was 
the  son  of  John  de  Braose  by  Margaret  Llewelyn, 
had  a  brother  Richard ;  who  married  Alicia,  re- 
lict of  Richard  Longespee,  and  daughter  of  Wil- 
liam le  Rufus,   or  Rus,  by  Agatha,  daughter  of 
Roger  le  Clere,  by  Matilda,  sister  of  John  de  Fay, 
lord  of  Bromley.     All  these  ladies  were  heiresses. 
The  Inquisition,  after  the  death  of  William  le 
Rus  (37  Hen.  III.,  No.  49),   states,   that  Alicia 
was  his  only  daughter  and  heir.     There  is,  how- 
ever, reason  to  suppose  that  Maria,  wife  of  Wil- 
liam de  Braose,  was  his  daughter,  but  illegitimate. 
This  would  account  for  the  name  in  the  pedigrees, 
and  the  grants  and  interchange  of  estates  inti- 
mate consanguinity.     In  56  Hen.  III.  William  de 
Braose  granted  by  fine,  to  Richard  de  Braose  and 
Alice  his  wife,  the  manor  and  advowson  of  Aken- 
lam,  with  those  of  Cleydon   and  Hemingstone 
[these  had  belonged  to  Le  Rus)  ;  they  granting 
o  William,  and  Maria  his  wife,  the  manor  of 
Bromley  in  Surrey,  &c.  (Blomefield's  Norfolk). 
"n  5  Edw.  I.,  Richard  de  Braose  proffered   the 
ervice  of  one  and  a  half  knight's  fee  for  Brom- 
ey,  &c.  (Palgrave's  Writs).    In^S  Edw.  L,  Wil- 
iam  de  Braose  and  Maria  his  wife,  in  answer  to 
a  quo  warranto  respecting  the  manor  of  Bromley, 
)roduced  a  charter  of  King  John  to  Ralph  de 
?ay ;  and  claimed  as  heirs  (Abbr.  Plac.  Ro.  23). 
n  9  Edw.  II.,  Maria  was  returned  as  possessed 
f  the  townships  of  Bromley,  Surrey,  Findon,  &c^ 
n   Sussex  (Palgrave's    Writ*).     In  14  Edw.  L, 
n  reply  to  a  quo  warranto^  Richard  and  Alicia 
laimed  view  of  frankpledge,  &c.,  in  Akenham, 
Suffolk,  &c.,  as  exercised  by  their  ancestors.  The 


490 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I.  JUKE  21,  '62. 


family  of  Rus  had  Suffolk  property  in  the  reign 
of  Stephen.  By  Maria,  William  de  Braose  had  a 
daughter  and  three  sons.  One  of  the  sons,  named 
William  (as  was  his  eldest  and  half-brother),  may 
have  had  for  his  second  wife  Maria,  afterwards 
Countess  of  Norfolk,  and  who  was  probably  a 
Wedon.  William's  first  wife  was  Eleanor,  daugh- 
ter of  Roger  de  Bavent,  sister,  and  eventually 
heiress,  of  John  de  Bavent.  By  her  he  had  a  son 
Peter,  who  married  Joan,  daughter  and  heir  of 
Sir  John  Wedon  by  the  daughter  and  heir  of 
Thomas  and  Ada  Sandford.  Peter  had  a  son 
John ;  and  John  (of  whose  wife  presently)  a  son 
of  the  same  name.  The  latter,  in  22  Edw.  III., 
conveyed  to  Maria,  Countess  of  Norfolk  and  Mar- 
shal of  England,  his  manor  of  Boyton,  Wilts 
(Harl.  Charter,  83  D.  44).  Maria  died  seized  of 
Wedon-on-the-Hill.  At  her  death,  the  King 
granted  it  to  her  son  John  de  Cobham  ;  and  after- 
wards (Rot.  Pat.  39  Edw.  III.  lma  Pars.  M.  6.) 
unto  Peter  de  Braose.  Maria  was  seized  also  of 
the  following  in  Bucks,  viz.  Masworth,  Saunder- 
ton,  Wedon  juxta  Aylesbury,  and  Wingrave  (Esc. 
36  Edw.  III.,  No.  9)  ;  and  these,  in  2~Edw.  III., 
were  held  by  Ralph  de  Wedon  (Esc.  49,  2nd 
Nos.).  They  were  at  that  time  confiscated  (Rot. 
Glaus,  m.  25)  ;  but  were  probably  granted  to 
Maria  as  a  Wedon.  These  circumstances  seem 
to  warrant  the  supposition  that  Maria  was  a 
Wedon ;  perhaps  daughter  of  Ralph  and  Eliza- 
beth, and  cousin  of  Peter  de  Braose's  wife.  Peter's 
son  John  appears  to  have  married  a  daughter  of 
John  de  Warrenne,  Earl  of  Surrey,  by  his  concu- 
bine Maud  de  Nerford.  There  is  much  circum- 
stantial, though  no  positive  evidence  of  this.  The 
Earl,  by  license  from  the  crown,  granted  to  John 
divers  estates ;  and  the  King  made  him  grants 
of  lands,  that  had  been  the  Earl's  (Rot.  Pat., 
8  Edw.  III.,  No.  27  ;  14  Edw.  III.,  No.  43 ;  and 
Pfc.  2,  M.  32).  In  8  Edw.  III.  (Rot.  Chart., 
No.  8),  the  Earl  and  John  de  Braose  had,  jointly, 
a  charter  for  a  market  and  fairs,  free  warren,  in 
Wanton,  Surrey.  By  an  Inquisition  held  here 
in  31  Edw.  III.,  it  was  found  that  John  de  Braose, 
who  died  in  16  Edw.  III.,  was  not  at  his  death 
in  possession  of  Wanton  ;  that  Earl  Warrenne  had 
it  for  life  ;  that  at  his  death,  it  should  come  to  John 
de Braose"  and  his  heirs;  that  after  the  Earl's  death, 
Maria,  Countess  Marshal,  had  it  four  years,  &c. 
Boyton,  Wilts,  that  was  granted  to  the  Countess, 
had  belonged  to  the  Nerfords.  Among  the  be- 
quests in  the  Earl's  will,  we  find :  "  leo  devys  a 
Monsire  William  de  Friskeneye  deus  botels  d'ar- 
gent  ove  escuchounz  des  armes  Monsire  lohan  de 
Breouse"  (York  Wills,  p.  43). 

Any  confirmation,  correction,  or  refutation  of 
the  above  particulars,  will  oblige  F.  L. 


RABBIT. 
(3rd  S.  403.) 

ME.  KEIGHTLEY'S  derivation  of  this  word  from 
ScurvTTovs  will,  I  think,  hardly  find  acceptance.  In 
the  first  place  there  is  only  one  letter  common  to 
both,  and  that  letter,  unfortunately,  is  a  vowel; 
and,  in  the  second  place,  although  MR.  KEIGHTLEY, 
from  what  he  says  under  "  Gossamer,"  seems  to 
think  that  everybody  could  quote  examples  in 
which  t  and  d  have  been  exchanged  for  r  and  I, 
or  vice  versa,  I  must  say  that  I  think  such  ex- 
amples are  very  rare,  and  at  the  present  moment 
I  can  remember  one  only,  the  far-famed  one  of 
Sdicpvov  and  lachryma.  I  am  inclined,  therefore, 
to  view  any  etymologies  involving  such  changes 
with  suspicion.  I  myself  have  investigated  the 
etymology  of  the  word  rabbit,  and  although  I 
cannot  say  that  my  investigations  have  led  to  a 
result  satisfactory  to  myself,  yet  I  think  I  can 
point  out  the  right  track. 

Rabbit  appears  to  be  the  same  word  as  rabbet 
(also  written  rabbit),  a  groove  or  channel,  by 
means  of  which  two  pieces  of  wood  may  be  fitted 
together.  Similarly,  the  Lat.  cunicuhis*  means 
both  rabbit  and  also  a  subterranean  passage,  a 
cavity,  canal,  or  mine.  Now  one  of  the  equiva- 
lents of  rabbet  in  French  is  rdblure,  and  closely 
allied  to  this  is  ruble,  which  means  the  back  and 
loins  of  certain  quadrupeds,  and  is  especially 
used  of  the  rabbit  and  the  hare.  Rable  and 
rabbit  are,  I  think,  therefore  clearly  connected 
(comp.  the  Fr.  rabouillere,  rabbit-hole,  but  what 
is  the  derivation  of  ruble?  Well,  here  our 
difficulties  commence.  It  is  derived  by  many 
from  rapulum,  dim.  of  rapum  f,  turnip,  &c.,  Fr. 
rave,  which  is  applied  to  several  roots,  whilst  the 
Span,  rabo,  which  is  generally  considered  to  be 
of  the  same  origin,  means  tail,  perhaps  from  the 
shape.  The  objection  to  this  derivation  is  the 
circumflex  on  ruble.  I  would,  therefore,  rather 
connect  ruble  |  with  the  Mid. -Lat.  raspa  (dim. 

*  From  this  word,  or  from  the  same  root,  are  derived 
the  equivalents  of  rabbit  in  most  of  the  Romanic  and 
Teutonic  languages.  Thus  we  have  in  Ital.  coniplio,  Span, 
cone/o,  Port,  coelfio,  Prov.  count/,  &c.,  Germ.  Kaninchen, 
Dut.  Konijn,  Dan.  and  Swed.  Kanin,  our  coney,  &c.  Cu- 
niculus  comes  from  the  Gr.  xi>nx>,oi,  also  written  xnixtot 
and  xcdvizXo;,  and  these  may  possibly  be  akin  to  x6»»,  xu\ 
dog.  The  Mod.  Gr.  is  xowi\i  or  ztvvi'bi. 

f  In  Mid.-Lat.  rapum  becomes  rapa  and  raba,  from  the 
latter  of  which  we  might  form  the  dim.  rabula  and  so 
rable  (without  a  circumflex),  just  as  table  comes  from 
tabula.  In  old  H.  Germ,  too  Raba  means  turnip,  and  cor- 
responds to  the  Mod.  Germ.  Rube  and  (Kohl)rabi,  and  our 
rape.  Has  rabbit  been  derived  from  these  words?  Comp. 
the  Fr.  rabette  (Hescherelle)  a  sort  of  wild  turnip,  or  rape. 

J  In  one  of  its  meanings  ruble  is  thought  to  come  from 
rutabulum  (ruo)  an  oven-rake  or  poker,  and  this  is  pos- 
sible, as  among  its  equivalents  in  Prov.  we  find  riable, 
redable,  radable,  roable,  and  in  Ital.  riavoh. 


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491 


raspula)  *,  a  rasp,  file,  (which  the  back-bone  f  of 
an  animal  somewhat  resembles),  Germ.  Raspel  \, 
Fr.  rape.  Now- the  Germ,  verb  raspen,  our  rasp, 
is  considered  by  many  to  be  akin  to  the  Lat. 
radere,  sup.  rasum  (comp.  rastrum,  a  rake),  and 
radere  means  not  only  to  scrape,  but  also  to  graze, 
to  glide  swiftly  past  anything.  So  again,  in  Mid.- 
Germ.,  raspen  =  the  mod.  Germ,  raffen,  to  snatch 
up,  whilst  the  low  Germ,  equivalent  rappen,  or 
rapsen  (with  the  sp  transposed),  is  interpreted  § 
geschwind  reissen,  eilig  raffen,  and  rips-raps,  is 
said  to  mean  in  otter  Kile,  raptim.  So  too  in 
this  dialect  rap  means  quick,  swift,  as  also  in 
Dut.  Dan.  and  Swed.  (rapp)  ||,  whilst  in  Dan. 
rappe  sig  means  to  make  haste,  hurry.  These 
words  are  evidently  akin  to  the  Lat.^f  rapere  and 
rapidus  and  there  is  therefore  some  reason  for 
supposing  that  the  rabbit  may  have  derived  its 
name  from  the  swiftness  of  its  course.  At  any 
rate,  wherever  the  origin  of  the  word  is  to  be 
sought,  I  expect  [that  its  root  is  contained  in  the 
first  three  letters  (rab),  and  that  the  second  b 
belongs  rather  to  the  first  b  than  to  the  it. 

Rabbet  is  by  some  connected  with  the  Fr.  robot, 
plane,  but  of  this  word  the  derivation  is  also 
doubtful,  though  I  think  (especially  as  in  Prov.  it 
is  also  spelled  ribof),  that  it  may  be  connected 
with  the  Germ,  reiben,  Old  H.  Germ,  riban,  to 
rub.  F.  CHANCE. 


LOW  SUNDAY. 

(3«  S.  i.  429.) 

The  usual  explanations  of  the  term  Low,  as  ap- 
plied to  this  Sunday,  are  very  unsatisfactory.  The 
service  on  this  day  in  the  old  English  Sarutn  Use 
was  the  same  as  on  Easter  Sunday ;  and  the  ru- 
bric expressly  says,  "  Ad  Missam  pmnia  fiant  sicut 
in  die  paschae  praeter  graduale,"  instead  of  which 
it  directs  a  different  one,  with  two  Alleluias,  and 
a  different  sequence,  of  which  presently.  The  dif- 
ference, however,  is  too  slight  to  afford  any  ground 

*  Raspula  would  readily  be  contracted  into  rdple;  see 
note  f  on  previous  page. 

f  Comp.  spine,  from  spina,  prop,  a  thorn,  and  hence  from 
the  row  of  spines,  or  spinous  processes,  the  backbone,  back. 

J  In  Hilpert's  Germ.  Diet,  one  of  the  meanings  given 
to  Raspel  is  RABBET-/f/e. 

§  Bremisch-niedersachs.  Wbrterb.    Bremen,  1768. 

||  From  this  we  have  Rapphona,  Germ.  RelkvJm  (also 
Repphuhn)  lit.  rapid  fowl,  but  =  partridge.  In  the  Germ, 
form  the  p  has  become  a  b. 

f  From  the  same,  or  an  allied,  root,  appears  to  come 
our  rob  and  ravish,  Germ,  rauben,  Dan.  rove,  whence 
(Si>)riiuer  (Germ.  Seer'duber)  lit.  sen-robber,  i.e.,  pirate, 
rover,  so  that  the  primary  meaning  of  to  rove  is  to  rob,  and 
not  to  roam.  Here  agai'n  we  see  the  connection  between 
to  seize,  gather  up  hastily,  to  snatch  (sometimes  =  to  steal, 
as  in  bodv-s/zateAer),  and  to  move  about  with  quickness, 
to  course  about,  to  rove.  So  the  Germ,  reissen  means  to 
rush  (comp.  Reiss-aus  nehmen),  and  snatcf^  tear;  and  we 
say,  to  tear  along. 


for  the  assertion  that  the  Sunday  was  called  Low 
on  this  account.  Besides,  as  the  octave  of  Easter 
Day,  it  has  always  ranked  as  one  of  the  highest 
Sundays.  The  second  explanation,  that  the  epi- 
thet Low  alluded  to  the  humility  expected  of  the 
neophytes,  is  hardly  worth  a  moment's  attention, 
and  would  have  been  far  more  applicable  to  them 
on  Easter  Sunday,  when  they  first  appeared  in  the 
Church  in  their  white  garments.  Nor  can  the 
third  supposition  be  at  all  borne  out  It  is  too 
vague  and  far-fetched  to  have  fixed  the  name  of 
this  particular  Sunday.  Indeed  it  is  directly  at 
variance  with  the  very  words  of  the  Gospel  read 
on  Low  Sunday ;  for  St.  John  says,  "  The  dis- 
ciples therefore  were  glad  when  they  saw  the 
Lord."  So  that  this  Sunday,  least  of  all  those 
after  Easter,  would  justify  the  epithet  of  Low,  in  the 
sense  of  sorrow  and  depression.  The  short  interval 
between  Ascension  Day  and  Whit  Sunday,  which, 
by  the  way,  was  ten  days,  instead  of  "  less  than  a 
week,"  is  wholly  inapplicable  to  Low  Sunday.  It 
was,  moreover,  a  period  of  lively  joy  and  expect- 
ation ;  for  the  eleven,  after  our  Lord's  ascension, 
"  went  back  to  Jerusalem  with  great  joy."  (St. 
Luke  xxiv.  52.) 

Other  attempts  have  been  made  to  explain  the 
epithet  Low.  One  would  derive  it  from  the 
Greek,  Aeu/cfcy,  white,  on  the  principle  of  its  being 
called  Dominica  in  albis ;  but  why  should  English 
Catholics  have  accommodated  a  Greek  name  to 
this  Sunday  ?  The  late  Dr.  Lingard  suggested  to 
me  that  the  word  Low  might  have  come  from  a 
word  used  in  the  north  of  England  for  twilight, 
dawn  of  day,  or  day-break:  but  this  appears  a 
mere  conjecture,  and  somewhat  fanciful.  I  have 
long  been  satisfied  that  the  origin  of  the  term  was 
very  different. 

It  was  usual  to  call  certain  Sundays  after  the 
first  word  of  the  Introit  of  the  Mass.  Thus,  the 
fourth  Sunday  of  Lent  was,  and  still  is  called, 
Lcetare,  and  the  third  of  Advent,  Gaudete.  But 
as  on  Low  Sunday  the  Introit  was  the  same  as  on 
Easter  Sunday,  Resurrexi  et  adhuc  tecum  sum,  it 
could  not  be  distinguished  by  the  first  word  of  the 
Introit  from  Easter  Sunday  itself.  In  the  Ro- 
man, French,  and  other  Missals,  the  Introit  for 
Low  Sunday  began  with  Quasimodo  geniti  in- 
funtes,  etc,  which  accounts  for  Low  Sunday  being 
so  generally  called  Quasimodo;  but  though  the 
Sarum  rite  has  a  Mass  also  with  this  Introit,  this 
Mass  is  appointed  to  be  said  during  the  week  fol- 
lowing only,  but  not  on  the  Sunday  itself.  It  was 
necessary,  therefore,  to  distinguish  this  Sunday  by 
a  name  adopted  from  some  other  leading  portion 
of  the  office ;  and  recourse  was  naturally  had  to 
the  splendid  sequence  or  prose  which  was  used, 
and  which  distinguished  Low  Sunday  so  remark- 
ably. It  began  thus:  " Laudes  Salvatori  voce 
modulemus  supplici."  It  is  most  probable  that 
the  Sunday  acquired  its  name  from  the  first  word 


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[3'd  S.  I.  JUNE  21,  '62. 


of  this  sequence,  Laudes^  and  that  Low  Sunday  is 
merely  a  corruption  of  Laud  or  Lauds  Sunday. 
When  I  first  met  with  this  solution,  it  appeared  to 
me  so  obvious  and  satisfactory,  that  I  at  once 
adopted  it,  and  have  long  ceased  to  look  for  any 
other.  F.  C.  H. 


DURNFORD  FAMILY. 
(3rd  S.  i.  420.) 

My  information  of  this  family  only  extends  to 
its  engineer  members.  "  The  great  R.  E.  family 
of  Durnford  "  was  great  in  more  senses  than  one — 
pre-eminently  so  in  CHESSBOROUGH'S  view  of  it, 
for  between  1755  and  1856,  no  less  than  ten  Durn- 
fords  are  counted  on  the  long  roll  of  the  corps  of 
engineers —  a  fact  sufficiently  novel  to  be  noted  ; 
more  so,  perhaps,  as  another  instance  of  genera- 
tion succeeding  generation  (direct  and  collateral) 
with  such  pertinacity,  may  not  find  a  parallel  in 
any  regiment  or  corps  in  the  army.  The  genealo- 
gical and  other  particulars  subjoined  are  copied 
from  notes  in  my  possession.  CHESSBOROUGH, 
who  has  appealed  to  me,  is  welcome  to  them.  As 
far  as  they  go,  he  will  find  them  accurate,  being 
derived  from  family  pedigrees  and  other  manu- 
script papers  both  private  and  official,  to  which 
I  have  had  access. 

The  first  of  the  family  that  I  have  been  able 
to  trace  is  Thomas  Durnford,  baptized  at  An- 
dover  June  14,  1684;  married  Mary  Lane,  May  16, 
1719;  buried  at  Ringwood  December  21,  1737; 
from  whom  came  — 

Elias  Durnford,  born  at  Ringwood,  March  11, 
1720  ;  married  Martha  Gannaway,  April  15,  1738. 
At  Norwood,  in  Surrey,  he  resided,  and  was 
buried  at  Streatham  in  May,  1774. 

Elias  Durnford,  their  eldest  son,  born  at  Ring- 
wood,  June  13,  1739  ;  entered  the  corps  of  Engi- 
neers in  1759,  attaining  the  rank  of  Colonel  in  1793. 
With  distinction  he  served  at  the  sieges  of  Belle- 
isle  and  Havannah.  Many  years  he  was  Lieut.- 
governor  of  West  Florida,  and  commanded  the 
little  nondescript  garrison  of  Mobile  when  besieged 
in  1781  by  a  crushing  force  under  Don  Galvez, 
to  whom  he  was  at  length  compelled  to  surrender 
himself  and  his  force  prisoners  of  war.  In  1794 
he  was  chief-engineer  at  the  siege  of  Martinique ; 
was  also  at  the  reduction  of  St.  Lucia  and  Gua- 
deloupe, and  died  at  Tobago,  June  21,  1794.  He 
married  Rebecca  Walker  of  Lowestoft,  August 
25,  1769. 

Elias  Walker  Durnford,  a  son  of  the  preceding, 
received  his  commission  in  the  Engineers  Oct.  17, 
1793.  In  the  expedition  to  the  West  Indies 
under  Sir  Charles  Grey,  he  served  at  the  siege  of 
Martinique,  the  captures  of  St.  Lucia  and  Guade- 
loupe, and  in  the  subsequent  actions  occasioned  by 


the  landing  of  the  French  under  Victor  Hugues, 
until  taken  prisoner  in  1794,  at  Point  a  Pitre. 
A  paper  by  him,  entitled  "  Scenes  in  an  Officer's 
early  Life,"  describing  the  hard  services  in  which 
he  shared  on  that  expedition,  is  in  the  United 
Service  Journal  for  August,  1850,  pp.  605 — 614. 
Speaking  of  his  ancestors,  he  states  that  he  has 
"traced  them  from  1590  in  regular  succession  to 
the  present  time,"  1850.  This  pedigree,  unfor- 
tunately, if  ever  committed  to  writing,  does  not 
seem  to  be  forthcoming.  His  subsequent  ser- 
vices were  passed  in  conducting  engineering  works 
at  Chatham,  Woolwich,  Portsmouth,  and  in  Ire- 
land ;  then  for  many  years  he  was  chief  engineer 
at  Newfoundland,  later  at  Quebec,  and  lastly  at 
Portsmouth.  Ultimately  he  was  advanced  to  the 
rank  of  Lieut.- General,  and  died  at  Tunbridge 
Wells,  March  8,  1850.  I  have  no  note  of  his 
marriage. 

Elias  Durnford,  eldest  son  of  the  Lieut.-Gen- 
eral,  was  commissioned  into  the  corps  in  1822,  and 
died  on  his  passage  to  Ceylon,  Feb.  6,  1835. 

Viney  Durnford,  sixth  and  youngest  son  of  the 
Lieut.-General,  entered  the  corps  as  Second- 
lieutenant  in  1830,  and  died  at  Portsmouth,  No- 
vember 5,  1836. 

With  Viney  ends  one  branch  of  the  engineer 
Durnfords;  another,  springing  from  the  same 
root,  follows. 

Andrew  Durnford,  third  son  of  Elias  and 
Martha  Gannaway  above,  born  in  1744  at  Ford- 
ingbridge,  Hants,  in  the  "  Hundred-windowed 
house,"  was  commissioned  into  the  Engineers, 
July  28,  1769,  and  was  next  year  appointed  As- 
sistant-Commissary to  superintend  the  demolition 
of  the  fortifications  and  canal  of  Dunkirk  ac- 
cording to  the  terms  of  the  treaty  of  1763.  He 
was  selected  for  this  office  from  his  well-known 
talents  as  a  draftsman  and  engineer,  having  been 
employed  for  some  years  at  the  Tower  under 
Colonel  Desmaretz.  Quitting  Dunkirk  in  1774, 
he  passed  two  years  at  the  defences  of  Plymouth, 
and  in  1776,  sailing  for  America,  served  through- 
out the  war,  holding  the  staff  post  of  Deputy- 
Assistant  Quartermaster- General  in  Georgia  and 
West  Florida  from  May  26,  1780,  to  June  4, 1783. 
From  1785  to  1787,  he  was  chief  engineer  of  the 
works  at  Chatham.  When  he  returned  from 
America  in  1783,  he  visited  Bermuda,  making, 
during  his  short  stay,  a  survey  and  report  of  the 
islands.  A  few  years  after,  Bermuda  was  ordered 
to  be  fortified,  and  Captain  Andrew  Durnford 
was  chosen  for  the  duty.  He  was  the  first  British 
engineer  sent  to  the  station.  On  July  18,  1788, 
he  sailed  for  his  destination,  and  remained  there 
till  his  death  on  Sept.  10,  1798,  when  he  held  the 
rank  of  Major.  He  married  Jemima  Margaret 
Isaacson,  second  daughter  and  co-heiress  of  An- 
thony Isaacson,  Esq.  She  was  born  at  New- 
castle July  24,  1741,  ob.  August  29,  1798,  and 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


493 


buried  in  the  Isaacson  family  vault  at  St.  Anne's 
church,  Soho. 

Passing  over  an  intermediate  link  (not  in  the 
Engineers),  comes  — 

Edward  William  Durnford,  grandson  of  An- 
drew and  Jemima  Margaret,  his  wife,  now  Colonel 
in  the  Engineers ;  then  — 

Anthony  William  Durnford,  eldest  son  of  the 
preceding,  now  Captain  in  the  corps  ;  and 

Arthur  George  Durnford,  youngest  son  of  the 
Colonel,  now  a  Lieutenant  in  the  corps. 

So  ends  this  line.  There  yet  remain  two  Durn- 
fords  to  be  accounted  for. 

Augustus  Durnford  bore  no  genealogical  con- 
nection, that  I  can  trace,  to  the  above  families. 
He  is  descended  from  Thomas  Durnford,  of 
Durnford,  near  Salisbury,  whose  son,  the  Rev. 
Thomas  Durnford,  rector  of  Rockbourn  and 
Witchbury,  Hants,  married  Susannah  Stilling- 
fleet  (a  descendant^of  Edward  Stillingfleet,  Bishop 
of  Worcester),  August  6,  1713  ;  ob.  July  18,  1741. 
From  this  union  sprang  a  family  of  ten  children, 
of  whom  Augustus,  fourth  son,  was  born  at  West- 
park  in  1735.  He  entered  the  corps  of  engineers 
in  1755,  attained  the  rank  of  Captain  Lieutenant, 
and  after  serving  at  Rochfort,  Louisbourg,  Que- 
bec, and  in  the  other  actions  which  ended  with 
the  conquest  of  Canada,  died  in  August,  1761, 
and  was  buried  in  Bramdean  church. 

Desmaretz  Durnford  received  his  first  commis- 
sion in  the  Engineers  in  December,  1770.  No 
positive  clue  can,  however,  be  traced  of  his  an- 
cestry. The  eldest  son  of  the  rector  of  Rock- 
bourn  and  Witchbury  was  Thomas.  In  the  family 
pedigree  he  is  stated  to  have  had  three  sons  and 
three  daughters,  the  names  being  omitted,  as  also 
that  of  their  mother.  It  is  very  likely  that  Des- 
maretz was  a  son  of  this  Thomas,  as  the  name  of 
Desmaretz  had  come  into  the  family  by  the  mar- 
riage of  Stillingfleet  Durnford,  second  son  of  the 
rector,  with  Mary,  daughter  of  Colonel  John 
Peter  Desmaretz,  of  the  Engineers,  who  died 
Sept.  16,  1768.  He  may  have  been,  although  I 
have  little  encouragement  for  thinking  so,  a  son 
of  Stillingfleet  Durnford.  This  Desmaretz  Durn- 
ford had  his  share  of  severe  service  while  in  the 
corps.  He  was  in  the  early  part  of  the  American 
War,  and  taken  prisoner  in  the  action  at  Ben- 
nington  in  1777.  In  1781  he  was  present  in  the 
naval  fight  in  Porto  Praya  Bay,  St.  Jago,  when 
the  French  squadron  under  Suffrein  was  defeated, 
and  in  some  actions  under  General  Meadows  in 
India,  where  he  died  in  1782. 

Of  these  military  engineers  I  possess  consider- 
ably more  information  than  is  here  given.  CHESS- 
BOROUGH  being  rather  vague  in  his  question,  I 
have  conceived  it  adequate,  for  present  purposes, 
to  confine  myself  to  these  salient  features  — 
enough,  certainly,  to  identify  every  individual  of 
the  engineer  Durnford  families.  Should  CHESS- 


BOROUGH  desire  more,  I  shall  be  ready,  if  he 
write  to  me  in  his  own  name  through  the  Editor 
of  "  N.  &  Q.,"  who  has  my  address,  to  furnish 
him  with  as  much  of  their  history  as,  perhaps,  he 
may  wish  to  learn.  At  the  same  time,  I  shall  be 
glad  if  he  will  disclose  any  facts  of  interest  which 
he  may  have  treasured  among  his  notes,  con- 
cerning the  Durnford  family.  M.  S.  R. 
Brompton  Barracks. 


'.LEGENDS  ON  SWORDS. 
(2nd  S.  xi.  390.) 

From  a  few  sources  within  reach,  I  have  ga- 
thered together  sundry  inscriptions  figured,  some 
on  the  blades,  and  some  on  the  hilts  of  swords. 
These  legends  may  be  divided  into  four  several 
classes  :  1.  Those  which  are  solely  of  a  religious 
character ;  2.  Those  which  commemorate  or  bear 
upon  historical  events  and  personages ;  3.  Those 
which  are  a  medley  of  religious,  patriotic,  and 
chivalrous  aspirations ;  4.  Those  which,  alluding 
to  "Mars  and  Venus,"  "Love  and  Glorj,"  may 
be  termed  posies  and  sentimental  mottoes.  Under 
the  head  of  Class  1.  I  note  the  following  :  — 

On  a  two-handed  sword  (in  the  Musee  d'Artil- 
lerie  at  Paris)  attributed  to  the  time  of  Philip 
Augustus  — 

"INRI." 

On  the  cross-guard  of  the  sword  which  Francis 
I.  used  at  Pavia,  and  which  for  a  long  time  was 
at  Madrid,  but  is  now  in  the  Musee  d'Artillerie 
at  Paris  — 

"IN  BKACHIO  suo 

FECIT  FOTESCIAM." 

On  the  blade  of  the  sword  of  St.  Ferdinand 
(Ferd.  III.)  King  of  Spain,  in  the  Armeria  Real  at 
Madrid  — 

"DOMIKUS  MICHI  ADIVTOR,  ET  NON  TIMEBO 
QUI  KACIAT  MICHI 

OMO  ET  EGO  DE8PICIAM  INIMICOS  MEOS, 
PREVAtS  ATVERSVS  EOS. 
MA(ria)  vi(rg)o        J.H.S.    ACTEM  TRA(n)srr 
p(er?)  SINITE  (e?)os  ABIRE  si  ERGO  ME 

QUERITIS. 

VIRGO  MAR.  C&l  MA  .   M 
IH3 

BKATA  nU  (tU?)  DIGNARE  ME  LAVDARE  TE.n 

On  the  pommel  of  another  sword  belonging  to 
St.  Ferdinand,  which  bears  engraved  on  the 
blade  his  patroness,  St.  Justine  of  Seville  — 

"ICH*  HALTE  JESVS  VND  MARIA." 

On  the  blade  of  a  rapier  by  Juan  Martinez  of 
Toledo,  in  the  collection  of  Wm.  Meyrick,  Esq., 
London  — 

"IN  TE,  DOMINE,  SPBRAVI.W 

And  on  the  blade  of  a  rapier  by  the  same  maker, 
in  the  possession  of  the  writer  of  this  Note  — 

"  IN  TE   DOMINE  8PERAVIT  («c) 
NON  CONFVNDAB  IN  ETBRNVM. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'd  S.  I.  JUNE  21,  '62. 


Nos.  2441  and  2599  of  the  Bernal  Sale  Cata- 
logue, are  swords  which  bore  — 

"  SOLI  DEO  GLORIA." 

And  hunting  knives,  No.  2636,  of  the  same  ca- 
talogue — 

"AVE  MARIA  GRATIA   PLENA   DNS  TE. 
MEMENTO  MEI,  MATER  DEI." 

In  the  2nd  Class  are  ranged  the  following  le- 
gends :  — 

On  the  pommel  of  the  sword  of  Gonzalvo  de 
Cordoba,  preserved  in  the  Armeria  Real  at  Ma- 
drid— 


"  GONSALVI 

AGIDARI 
VICTORIA 
DE    GALLIS 
AD  CASNAS 


GONSALVVS 
AGIDARIVS  TVR 
CAL  .  DEI  .  R.Q.C.D. 
DICTATOR   III. 
PARTA   ITALIC; 
PACE   JANVM 
CLAVSIT." 


The  blade  of  a  sword,  in  the  Madrid  Armory, 
attributed  to  Bernardo  del  Carpio,  bears  the  name 
of  that  hero  legibly  inscribed  on  the  blade.  The 
inscription,  however,  and  most  likely  the  sword, 
are  of  later  date  than  the  days  of  Del  Carpio,  and 
are  consequently  apocryphal. 

On  the  blade  of  a  sword,  blessed  by  Pope  Euge- 
nius  IV.,  and  presented  by  his  Holiness  to  John  II., 
King  of  Castille,  A.D.  1437  — 

"  EVGENIVS  PAPA  QVARTVS 

PONTIFICATVS  SVI  ANNO   SEXTO   DECIMO." 

On  the  blade  of  a  coutel,  traditionally  reported 
to  have  belonged  to  Henry  VIII.,  and  commemo- 
rating the  siege  of  Boulogne,  A.D.  1513  — 

"  HENRICI   OCTAVI   LETARE,  BOLONIA,   DVCTV, 
PVRPVREIS   TVRKES   CONSPICIENDA   ROS1S. 
JAM   TRACTA   JACENT   MALE   OLENTIA   LILIA,  PVLSYS 
GALLVS,   ET   INVICTA    REGNAT   IN    AROE   LEO  : 
SIC   TIBI   NEC   VIHTVS   DEERIT,   NEC    GRATIA   FORMJE, 
CVM   LEO   TVTELA,   CVM   ROSA   SIT   DECORI." 

Examples  of  Class  No.  3  :  — 

On  the  pommel  of  a  sword  attributed  to  Isa- 
bella la  Catolica,  in  the  Armeria  Real  at  Madrid. 

N.B.  It  is  curious  to  see  here  a  combination  of 
Latin  and  Spanish  in  one  sentence  — 

"NVN(C)  CAVEO,  PAZ   co(n)  MIGO. 

DESKO   SIENPRE   ONERA." 

On  the  blade  of  a  sword  which  belonged  to  the 
Emperor  Charles  V.  in  the  Armeria  at  Madrid, 
are  engraved  his  devices  of  the  double-headed 
eagle  and  the  pillars  of  Hercules,  with  the  in- 
scription — 

"NE  PLVS  VLTRA." 

On  the  blade  of  a  most  magnificent  specimen  of 
armourer's  work,  also  believed  to  have  been  one 
of  Charles  V.'s  swords,  at  Madrid  — 


PRO  FIDE 

ET   PATRIA 
PRO   CIIRISTO 
ET   PATRIA 


PUGXA  R(p)RO 
PATRIA 
PRO  ARIS 
ET  FOCIS 


NEC   TEMERE 
NEC  TIMIDE 
FIDE,    SED 
CVI   VIDE." 


INTER  ARMA 
SILENT  LEGES 

SOLI  DEO 
GLORIA 

On  the  blade  of  a  sword  of  the  sixteenth  cen- 
tury, in  the  collection  of  Wm.  Meyrick,  Esq. 
London  (No.  2132  of  the  Bernal  Sale  Catalogue) 
is  another  instance  of  this  often-repeated  inscrip- 
tion — 

"NO   ME   SAQVES   SIN  RA3ON, 

NO   ME   EMBAINKS  SIN   HONOR  " 

On  a  small  sword,  Bernal  Sale  Catalogue,  No. 

2448  — 

"POR   DIOS  E   MY   KEY.      1G30." 

On  a  broad-bladed  sword,  Bernal  Sale  Cata- 
logue, No.  2591  — 

"VIVE   LE    ROY.      REGIMENT   DE   RENEPONT." 

On  a  sword,  No.  2594,  same  catalogue  — 

"  PRO   ARIS   ET   FOCIS.      PRO  CIIRISTO   ET  PATRIA." 

On  a  sword  (Italian),  No.  2621,  same  cata- 
logue — 

"PACE   PORTO,   GVERA   CERCHO." 

On  the  sword  which  belonged  to  James  V.  of 
Scotland,  brought  from  Flodden,  and  now  at 
Heralds'  College  — 

"  KSPOIR   CONFORTE   LE   GVEVAL "    [Qy.   CHEVAL(ier).3 

In  the  4th  Class  I  have  placed  the  following  :  — 

On  the  pommel  of  an  Italian  sword,  seventeenth 

century,  collection  of  Lord  Londesborough 

"  CUE  SARA." 

On  a  dress -sword,  Bernal  Sale  Catalogue,  No 

2588  — 

"  EN   CHERCHANT   L'lIONNEVR,   JE    TROUVE   LA  MORT." 

On  a  dress-sword,  early  in  the  eighteenth  cen 
tury,  in  the  Cape  Town  Museum  — 

"  JE   VOLE    OU    LE   DIEU    MARS   M'APPELLE, 

MAIS   JE    GARDE   MON   CCEUR   POUR   3IA   BELLE.' 

For  almost  all  the  above  examples,  I  am  in 
debted   to   Jubinal's  Armeria   Jieal  de    Madrid 
Fairholt's  Miscellanea  Graphica,  Bohn's  Catalogue 
of  the  Bernal  Sale,  and  a  privately  printed  am 
illustrated  Catalogue  of   the  Collection  of  Wm 
Meyrick,  Esq.     I  would  here  add,  that  I  am  in 
duced  to  contribute  the  foregoing  mite  of  infor- 
mation in  the  hope  that  it  may   lead  to  further 
instalments,  from  the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q.,"  respect 
ing  the  very  interesting  subject  I  have  touchet 
upon.  SIGMA-TAU. 

Cape  Town,  C.  Good  Hope. 
April  15,  1862. 


STANGATE  HOLE. 
(3rd  S.    i.    13,    155.) 

In  the  Post  Office  London  Directory,  there  are 
three  places  bearing  the  name  of  Stangate ;  the 
district  so-called,  Stangate  Street,  and  Stangate 


3'J  S.  I.  JUNE  21,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


495 


Mews,  situate,  as  MR.  FREEMAN  states,  near  the 
site  of  Astley's  Theatre.  Stangate  Hole,  to  which 
the  inquiry  more  strictly  refers,  does  not,  I  be- 
lieve, at  present  exist ;  but  was  most  probably 
some  obscure  dock  or  creek  infested  by  mudlarks 
and  smugglers!  Not  many  years  since  a  vessel 
engaged  in  this  illicit  traffic  was  overhauled  as 
high  as  Battersea;  and,  within  memory,  these 
men  had  their  well-known  haunts  in  the  lonelier 
parts  of  Lambeth  parish,  and  with  other  bad  cha- 
racters kept  the  neighbourhood  in  a  state  of 
terror. 

It  may  probably  interest  MR.  FREEMAN  and 
others  of  your  readers  to  learn  that  the  liberty  he 
has  taken  in  striking  out  the  letter  d  from  the 
name,  is  justified  by  high  authority. 

"  Dr.  Stukeley  supposed  that  the  original  Atheling  or 
Watling  Street  passed  to  the  west  of  Westminster,  cross- 
ing the  Thames  at  Stane-gate  or  Stangate,  and  joining 
the  present  Kent  Road  near  the  end  of  Kent  Street. 
This  conjecture  has  been  confirmed  by  the  discovery  of 
various  Roman  remains  near  the  latter  spot  —  a  Roman 
vase,  many  fragments  of  pottery,  and  other  antiquities 
were  discovered  in  1825,  in  digging  the  foundations  of 
Trinity  Church.  This  is  supposed  to  have  been  very 
near  to,  if  not  identical  with,  the  locality  referred  to  by 
Defoe  in  his  Tour  through  Great  Britain,  1742.  '  At  the 
end  of  Kent;  Street,'  he  says, '  there  was  a  very  strong 
fortification  of  stone,  the  foundations  of  which  were  dug 
up  in  the  3'ear  1685 ;  this  ran  'cross  a  garden,  about  a 
quarter  of  a  mile  from  the  Stones  End.  In  digging  up 
of  this  foundation,  there  appeared  two  ancient  pillars 
of  a  large  gate,  upon  each  of  them  had  been  placed 
heads  with  two  faces  curiously  cut  in  stone,  one  of 
which  was  taken  up,  but  the  other  lying  in  a  quicksand 
from  whence  the  springs  flowed  out  pretty  freely,  was 
rendered  more  difficult  to  be  taken  up ;  and  the  curiosity 
of  the  people  being  not  very  great,  they  contented  them- 
selves with  getting  up  one  of  the  heads,  which  was 
placed  over  the  gardener's  door,  where  it  remained  for 
several  years,  until  it  was  known  to  the  learned  Dr. 
WoodwaVd,  who  purchased  it,  and  kept  it  in  his  valuable 
collection  of  curiosities.' 

•'  Now  Montfaucon  tells  us  '  there  were  several  cross- 
ways  in  old  Rome,  called  ./am,  where  there  stood  a  statue 
of  Janus,  usually  with  two,  but  sometimes  with  three  or 
more  faces,'  according  probably,  to  the  number  of  roads 
diverging  from  these  several  points.  It  is  therefore  very 
likely  that  these  heads  on  the  gateway  marked  the  junc- 
tion of  the  old  or  British  Watling  Street  with  the  nearer 
one  made  after  London  rose  to  greater  eminence,  and 
called  Stone  Street,  which  led  to  the  Thames  opposite. 
Dwr  gate  or  Dowgate,  and  thence  through  the  present 
Watling  Street." 

Lest  I  should  be  charged  with  plagiarism,  allow 
me  to  state  that  I  am  here  quoting  from  a  lecture  j 
delivered  by  myself  before  the  Walworth  Institu- 
tion  in  1845  ;  which,  though  printed  only  for  the  ; 
use  of  the  members,  and  not  published,  may  pos- 
sibly  have  been  seen  by  some  of  the  numerous  j 
and  widely-scattered  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q." 

DOUGLAS  ALLPORT. 


EDMUND  BURKE  (3rd  S.  i.  221,  374,  429.)  — 
J.  R.  T.  has,  by  a  refusal  of  my  challenge  to  sup-  ! 


port  his  statements  and  opinions  with  his  name, 
pronounced  a  practical  judgment  on  his  own  cha- 
racter. 

I  address  the  following  remarks  to  the  public. 
I  Some  of  your  readers  may  not  be  aware  that  a 
lecture  on  Edmund  Burke  was  last  week  de- 
livered in  Dublin,  by  the  Right  Hon.  Joseph 
Napier,  Chancellor  of  the  late  administration 
under  Lord  Derby.  Mr.  Napier  gives,  with  very 
severe  but  just  comments,  a  complete  answer  to 
some  long-forgotten  libels  lately  dragged  to  light 
by  certain  anonymous  writers  in  "  N.  &  Q.*1 ;  and 
he  also  gives  an  account,  which  confirms  mine,  of 
the  means  by  which  Edmund  Burke  was  enabled 
to  purchase  Gregories.  Mr.  Napier's  information  IB 
from  an  indisputable  source — namely,  an  exami- 
nation of  the  title-deeds  and  documents  courte- 
ously placed  at  his  disposal  by  the  present  owner 
of  the  estate.  EDMUND  II  A  VILA  M>-  12  r  HK  t: . 

Lincoln's  Inn. 

[We  certainly  had  not  intended  to  insert  this  commu- 
nication, in  which,  as  it  appears  to  us,  MK.  HAVILAXD- 
BURKE  substitutes  vituperation  for  argument;    but,  as 
MR.  BURKE,  in  complaining  of  the  omission,  states  that 
the  ''letter  contains  a  confirmation  of  bis  previous  state- 
ment," we  think  it  right  to  place  such  confirmation  before 
our  readers.    Edmund  Burke ;   a  Lecture,  by  the  Right 
Honble.  Joseph  Napier,  LL.D.,  has  the  merit  of  doing 
j  justice  to  Burke's  genius,  and  of  producing  new  materials 
i  for  his  biography.     But  whether  those  new  facts  warrant 
i  the  deductions  which  Mr.  Napier  draws  from  them  is  a 
j  question  on  which  we  suspect  many  will  be  at  issue  with 
Mr.  Napier.  — ED.  "N.  &  Q."] 

FALA  HALL  (3rd  S.  i.  448.)  —  I  ought  to  have 
sooner  communicated  to  "  N.  &  Q."  that,  about 
three  years  ago,  in  consequence  of  inquiries  made 
there  regarding  Fala  Hall,  and  my  own  interest 
in  a  house  alluded  to  by  Nisbet  in  his  Heraldry, 
I  addressed  inquiries  on  the  subject  to  the  Earl  of 
Stair,  a  large  proprietor  in  the  district.  Through 
his  lordship's  kind  intervention,  and  the  active  as- 
sistance of  Lord  Dalrymple,  I  was  able  to  identify 
the  house  as '  one  still  existing,  with  some  slight 
changes  which  it  had  undergone,  on  sinking  from 
the  condition  of  a  gentleman's  house  to  that  of  a 
farmer's,  and  it  yet  bears  the  name  of  Fala  Hall, 
being  the  property  of  the  Earl  of  Stair.  With 
some  help  from  the  people  thereabouts,  who  have 
their  traditions  about  the  former  condition  of  the 
house,  we  found  the  room  which  had  once  been 
adorned  with  the  heraldic  bearings  of  so  many 
good  Scotch  families  and  where  Nisbet  had  pro- 
bably often  been  an  honoured  guest ;  but  there 
was  not  a  trace  of  those  interesting  decorations. 
It  was  a  neat,  and  what  would  now  be  thought,  a 
moderate  sized  room,  at  the  end  of  a  passage  on 
the  upper  floor,  and  no  way  distinguished  in  ap- 
pearance from  hundreds  of  farmer's  parlours  in 
houses  of  the  last  century.  I  rather  think  the 
house  has  undergone  some  modifications  of  its 
exterior  also.  R-  CHAMBERS. 

Athenaeum  Club. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3'dS.  I.  JUNE  21,  '62. 


GHOST  STORIES  (3rd  S.  i.  427.)— Being  engaged 
for  many  years  past  in  collecting  materials  for  a 
work  upon  superstition  in  general,  ghost  stories 
naturally  form  a  section  of  it ;  and  I  have  by  no 
means  overlooked  the  important  point  indicated 
by  W.  P.,  namely,  the  lapse  of  time  between  the 
death  of  the  body  and  that  of  the  appearance  of 
the  spiritual  form  or  semblance  to  some  person  at 
a  distance ;  but  I  find  great  difficulty  in  obtaining 
the  dates  with  sufficient  precision. 

May  I  inquire  by  what  rule  W.  F.  has  calculated 
the  time  of  a  ghost's  journey  from  England  to  New 
York  ?  Does  he  consider  that  it  travels  with  the 
speed  of  light,  of  electricity,  or  of  some  other  ethe- 
rial  essence  ?  or,  if  the  freed  spirit  travels  upon 
"  the  wings  of  the  wind,"  may  not  its  progress  be 
sometimes  impeded  by  adverse  currents  ?  The 
subject  is  unquestionably  a  very  interesting  one, 
and  I  hope  will  awaken  the  curiosity,  and  stimulate 
the  observation  of  many,  as  it  would  tend  to  clear 
up  part  of  the  mystery  in  which  the  subject  of 
"  Ghosts"  is  involved,  apart  from  the  main  ques- 
tion "  Can  such  things  be  ?  "  M.  F. 

AD  PERPENDICULUM,  ETC.  (3rd  S.  i.  449,  450.)— 
In  answer  to  P.  S.  CAREY,  I  may  state  that  the 
words  ad  perpendiculum  simply  mean  "  plumb," 
according  to  the  perpendiculum,  or  plumbline. 
Scheller  (sub  voce),  adds  the  following :  "  ad  per- 
pendiculum columnas  exigere,  Cic.  Verr.  i.  51,  to 
examine  by  it  (sc.  the  plumbline)  :  thus  also,  ad 
perpendiculum  esse,  ib.,  to  be  perpendicular." 

With  respect  to  the  second  and  third  questions, 
I  should  reply  that  not  only  at  Rome,  but  any- 
where else,  it  would  be  very  difficult  to  find 
buildings  of  long  standing  that  would  bear  the 
test  of  the  plumbline.  In  many  cases,  particularly 
when  the  edifice  is  carried  to  a  considerable 
height,  or  adorned  with  heavy  cornices,  a  few 
months  suffice  to  throw  parts  of  it  visibly  out  of 
the  perpendicular.  I  have  noticed  this  in  the 
Free-Trade  Hall,  Manchester,  the  new  Town 
Hall,  Leeds,  and  St.  George's  Hall,  Liverpool. 
Of  course  age  would  aggravate  the  defect.  When 
Verres  adopted  the  notable  expedient  of  white- 
washing its  columns,  the  temple  of  Castor  was 
just  about  fifty  years  old. 

In  the  next  paragraph,  E.  H.  puts  a  query 
about  the  Athenian  Misogynist.  Of  course,  this 
means  Euripides.  I  have  not  a  complete  edition 
of  his  plays  by  me,  but  I  distinctly  remember  a 
passage  very  closely  resembling  the  one  quoted, 
in  Hippolytus  Coronifer.  The  story  of  the  poet's 
two  wives,  of  their  shocking  conduct,  and  of  his 
consequent  prejudice  against  la  torture  cliarmante 
du  mariage  is  well  known,  though  probably  un- 
true. However,  as  a  story,  it  is  no  worse  on  that 
account. 

In  reply  to  a  Query  lately  put  in  "  N.  &  Q 
about  the  derivation  of  some  [common  names  of 
English  flowers,  I  may,  perhaps,  be  allowed  to 


mention  that  I  have  in  preparation  a  paper  on 
the  trivial  names  of  certain  well-known  plants. 
When  complete,  I  intend  to  forward  it  for  inser- 
tion in  these  pages.  L.  C.  MIALL. 

HORSES  FRIGHTENED  AT  CAMELS  (3rd  S.  i.459.) 

Many  years  ago  I  was  travelling  on  the  top  of  a 
coach,  when  we  saw  two  camels,  driven  by  show- 
men, on  the  road  before  us.  The  horses  pricked 
up  their  ears,  and  it  was  evident  that  it  would  be 
difficult  to  make  them  pass  the  strange  animals. 
The  coachman  pulled  up,  and  called  out  to  the 
showmen  to  turn  the  camels  up  a  lane  to  the 
right-hand  ;  but  as  they  showed  no  disposition  to 
do  this,  the  passengers  all  got  down,  and  pro- 
ceeded to  compel  the  showmen  to  turn  their 
camels  out  of  the  way  till  the  coach  had  passed. 
We,  of  course,  made  them  do  so  ;  but  it  was  not 
till  the  camels  were  some  way  up  the  lane,  and 
made  to  kneel  down,  that  the  coach  horses  could 
be  got  by  in  safety.  . 

But  now  audi  alter  am  partem.  Only  a  few 
months  ago,  I  saw  the  camels  of  a  menagerie, 
— probably  the  same  spoken  of  in  the  extract 
given  by  your  correspondent,  —  driven  openly 
through  the  streets  of  a  large  city,  harnessed  to 
an  elegant  van,  which  contained  the  band,  who 
pluyed  as  they  rode  along.  I  saw  no  horses 
taking  fright  at  the  camels,  though  they  met 
many  as  they  went  steadily  striding  along  the 
streets,  and  turning  the  corners  with  admirable 
ease  and  adroitness  :  and  if  there  had  been  any 
apprehension  of  horses  taking  fright,  surely  the 
magistrates  would  not  have  allowed  the  camels 
to  be  thus  paraded  through  the  city.  Two  camels 
drew  the  van,  harnessed  one  before  the  other, 
tandem  fashion,  and  were  driven  with  reins,  like 
horses,  by  a  coachman  on  the  box.of  the  van. 

F.  C.  II. 

COMPOSING  TYPE  BY  MACHINERY  (3rd  S.  i. 
448.)  —  MR.  JAMES  GILBERT  was  possibly  not 
aware  of  the  fact,  but  I  think  it  just  (and  in- 
teresting to  readers  of  this  periodical),  to  mention 
that  the  type-composing  machine  at  the  Inter- 
national Exhibition  is  being  worked  by  the  en- 
terprising printers  of  "  N.  &  Q.,"  —  Messrs. 
Spottiswoode  &  Co.,  who  were,  I  understand,  the 
first  to  introduce  these  and  the  "Distributing 
Machines"  into  this  country,  and  who  have 
printed  vol.  viii.  of  Macaulay's  History  of  Eng- 
land, and  several  other  works,  by  their  means. 

SUUM  CUIQUE. 

SERVICE  AT  THE  HEALING  (3rd  S.  i.  313,  318.) 
MR.  WARBURTON  may  like  to  know  that  the 
writer  of  this  note  has  a  handsome  folio  edition  of 
the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  printed  "at  the 
University  Press,  Oxford,  MDCCXII,"  which  has 
the  Healing-Service  in  it.  The  Service  is  not 
included  in  the  list  of  contents,  but  it  forms  an 
integral  portion  of  the  book,  and  immediately 


S.  I.  JUNE  21,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


497 


follows  "  the  Form  of  Prayer  and  Thanksgiving  w 
for  Queen  Anne's  accession ;  at  the  foot  of  the 
last  page  of  which  is  the  catch-word  "  AT,"  fol- 
lowed by  the  leaf  containing  the  "  AT  THE  HEAL- 
ING "  service  ;  at  the  end  of  this  the  printer's 
"  FINIS  "  is  duly  placed,  as  the  termination  of  the 
volume.  X.  A.  X. 

TOUCHING  FOR  THE  KING'S  EVIL  (3rd  S.  i.  208.) 
The  following  regulation  connected  with  this 
matter  may  be  new  to  some  of  the  correspondents 
of  "N.  &  Q-"  "Touch  and  take"  seems  to  have 
been  the  rule,  and  if  the  patient  did  not  take  health 
by  the  first  touch  of  the  royal  hand,  no  further 
chance  was  allowed  him  of  recovery  by  the  same 
means :  — 

"His  Majesty  hath  commanded  that  notice  be  given 
that  no  persons  whatsoever  do  come  to  be  healed  of  the 
King's  Evil,  unless  they  bring  a  certificate  under  the 
hands  and  seals  of  the  ministers  and  churchwardens  of 
the  parishes  where  they  inhabit,  that  they  have  not  been 
touched  before :  And  his  Majesty  requires  that  the  minis- 
ters, in  their  respective  parishes  do  keep  a  constant  re- 
gister of  such  persons  to  whom  they  give  their  certifi- 
cates "  —  London  Gazette,  from  Monday,  November  18  to 
Thursday,  November  21, 1672.  (Printed  by  Thomas  New- 
comb,  in  the  Savoy,) 

J.  DOKAN. 

CAPITAL  PUNISHMENT  (3rd  S.  i.  450.)— XAVIER 
asks  what  was  the  original  meaning  of  the  term 
"  capital  punishment,"  and  when  the^  term  was 
first  applied  exclusively  to  the  punishment  of 
death.  The  origin  of  the  term  pcena  capitalis  is 
explained  in  the  art.  "  Caput "  in  Dr.  Smiths 
Diet,  of  Greek  and  Roman  Antiquities.  Its  use  us 
illustrated  by  the  following  passage  of  Paulus,  in 
the  Digest,  48.  1.2.:  — 

"  Publicorum  judiciorum  qusedam  capitalia  sunt,  quae- 
dam  non  capitalia.  Capitalia  sunt,  ex  quibus  pcena  mors 
aut  exilium  est,  hoc  est,  aqua?  et  ignis  interdictio ;  per 
has  enim  pcenas  eximitur  caput  de  civitate." 

In  the  language  of  modern  jurists,  the  term 
"  capital  punishment "  is  confined  to  death,  and 
is  not  extended  to  penal  banishment,  or  trans- 
portation. "• 

This  is  usually  explained  to  mean  punishment 
involving  the  loss  of  a  person's  head  (caput),  or 
life;  and  is  continued  from  the  usage  of  the 
ancient  Roman  law  courts,  in  which  capite  damnan 
meant,  "  to  be  condemned  to  death,"  and  was  pro- 
bably so  "  applied  exclusively  "  from  the  time  the 
phrase  was  first  used.  J.  EASTWOOD. 

HYMNS  (3rd  S.  i.  388,  454.)—  The  absurditiei 
practised  by  hymn  singers,  or  attributed  to  them 
are  endless.     There  is  a  hymn  which,  after  de 
scribing  the  good  things  of  this  life,  goes  on  :  - 
"  Ready  at  Thy  command  to  lay 

Them  down  I  always  am." 

This  has  been  sung  to  a  tune  called  "  Sprowston 
Lodge,"  necessitating  the  repetition  three  times 
over  of  the  last  line  ! 


A  favourite  Methodist  hymn  begins,  — 

"  0  what  shall  I  do,  my  Saviour  to  praise  ?  " 
This  was  "  given  out "  in  a  country  chapel,  where 
he  clerk,  among  other  duties,  had  to  snuff  the 
candles,  and  was  so  engaged  at  the  moment  when 
t  was  his  duty  to  lead  the  singing.  The  candles 
were  high  and  he  was  short ;  preoccupied  as  he 
was,  the  tune  forsook  him,  and  at  several  trials, 
lie  could  get  no  further  than  the  words  "  O  what 
shall  I  do  ?  "  struggling  all  the  while  to  reach  the 
candles.  Suddenly,  a  shrill  female  voice  struck 
up  to  help  him  out,  but  could  not  proceed  beyond 

O  what  shall  I  do  ?  "  till  the  preacher  in  de- 
spair was  forced  to  select  another  hymn,  with  a 
less  suggestive  commencement. 

The  Rev.  Samuel  Wesley,  rector  of  Epworth 
(father  of  the  original  Methodists),  had  a  clerk, 
to  whom  he  gave  his  cast-off  wigs.  The  clerk 
was  a  little  man,  and  was  buried  in  them  ;  yet  he 
was  proud  of  the  dignity  they  conferred  upon 
him.  One  Sunday,  when  his  face  seemed  to  be 
more  deeply  imbedded  in  wig  than  ever,  Mr. 
Wesley  determined  to  play  olf  a,  joke  upon  him, 
and  accordingly  told  him  he  should  choose  a 
particular  psalm,  which  he  desired  to  be  sung. 
The  clerk  promised  to  obey,  and  the  rector  had 
the  cruelty  to  make  him  read  out  these  words, 
which  he  did,  in  his  usual  cracked  treble,  amid 
the  laughter  of  the  congregation  :  — 
"  Like  to  an  owl  in  ivy  bush, 
That  rueful  thing  am  I." 

Severe  as  the  lesson  was,  it  did  not  destroy  the 
unhappy  clerk's  conceit;  for  some  time  after,  on 
the  return  of  King  William  III.  from  a  vibit  to 
Holland,  he  gave  out,  "  Let  us  sing  to  the  praise 
and  glory  of  God,  a  hymn  of  my  own  composing  : 
"  King  William  is  come  home,  come  home ; 

King  William  home  is  come ; 
Therefore  let  us  together  sing 
The  hymn  that's  called  Te  D'um." 

JOB  J.  BAEDWELL  WOBKABD,  M.A. 

PASSAGE  FROM  PHILLIPS'S  "CERE ALIA"  (3rd  S. 
i.  452.)  — Alluding,  evidently,  to  the  story  of 
Friar  Bacon's  brazen  head,  by  which  (if  he  heard 
it  speak)  England  was  to  have  been  walled  round 
with  brass.  It  spoke,  but  Bacon  was  asleep,  after 
many  days'  watching  ;  and  his  attendant  thought 
the  remarks  "Time  is"  and  "Time  was"  too 
trivial  to  trouble  the  friar  about :  so  the  image 
cried,  "Time  is  past,"  and  fell  with  a  crash, 
waking  him  a  moment  too  late.  England  has  in 
consequence  been  obliged  to  rely  upon  her  wooden 
walls  till  now ;  but  it  would  se.em  from  rece 
events  in  America,  that  Roger  Bacon  was  right 
after  all,  and  that  metal  is  the  only  thing  trust 
worthy.  JOB  J.  BARD  WELL  WOBKABD,  M.A. 

NOBLBMEN   AND   BARONS  (3*  S.  i.  451.)-  For- 

merly  in  Scotland,  "baron "did  not  neces 


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mean  a  peer,  but  often  merely  the  possessor  of  a 
baronial  estate.  Such  was  John  Napier,  Baron 
of  Merchistoun,  the  inventor  of  logarithms ;  and, 
to  give  a  more  familiar  illustration,  such  was  the 
Baron  of  Bradwardine,  in  Sir  W.  Scott's  novel  of 
Waverley.  Indeed,  in  the  very  same  number  of 
"  N.  &  Q."  with  S.C.'s  Query,  is  a  communication 
("  Fala  Hall,"  p.  448)  in  which  various  families 
are  enumerated  as  "  Scots  barons,"  two  among 
them  being  distinguished  from  the  rest  as  peers, 
Lord  Jedburgh  and  Lord  Thirlestane  :  these  alone 
could  have  been  called  "  noblemen." 

JOB  J.  BARDWELL  WORKARD,  M.A. 

FOREIGN  BARONS  IN  THE  COMMONS  (3rd  S.  i. 
450.)  —  I  think  CENSOR  will  find  that  in  all  legal 
records, — that  is,  the  return  of  the  election,  ad- 
vertisements in  the  Gazette,  &c.,  these  gentlemen 

are  described  by  their  legal  English  title,  as 

Esquire.  It  is  only  in  the  Division  Lists,  and 
other  papers,  printed  merely  for  the  information 
of  members  and  the  public,  but  having  no  legal 
bearing,  that  their  foreign  titles  are  given  to  them, 
as  matter  of  courtesy  ;  just  as  for  the  same  reason 
Mr.  O'Donoghue  and  other  Irish  Chieftains  are 
printed  as  "  The  O'Donoghue,"  "  The  O'Conor 
Don,"  &c.  JOB  J.  BARDWELL  WORKARD,  M.A. 

CENTENARIANS  (3rd  S.  i.  454.) — In  the  church- 
yaid  at  Battle,  in  Sussex,  there  is  an  ordinary 
looking  gravestone,  with  the  simple  fact  recorded, 
without  comment,  that  the  man  there  buried  died 
aged  120. 

When  I  was  there  some  years  ago,  I  happened 
to  see  in  the  churchyard  an  old  man  who  said  he 
knew  the  man  in  question  :  that  he  lay  in  bed 
for  the  last  years  of  his  life,  but  was  well. 

I  forget  the  name  and  the  date ;  but  I  saw  it 
myself.  LTTTELTON. 

DEAF  AND  DUMB  (3rd  S.  i.  427.)  —  Sir  W. 
Hamilton,  in  the  Edinburgh  Review  for  July, 
1835,  p.  407,  or,  "Discussions,"  p.  176),  gives 
some  interesting  historical  notices  of  the  inven- 
tion of  a  deaf  and  dumb  alphabet.  He  maintains 
that  George  Dalgarno  of  Aberdeen  first  exhibited 
a  finger  alphabet,  and  that  in  its  most  perfect 
form.  There  is  a  very  copious  article  on  the 
subject  in  the  Penny  Cyclopcedia,  and  in  the 
English  Cyclopaedia,  under  the  heading  "  Deaf 
and  Dumb  "  or  "  Dactylology."  W.  S.  J. 

EDWARD  JENNER,  M.D.  (3rd  S.  i.  292.)  —  Ac- 
cording  to  the  latest  edition  of  Haydn's  Dictionary 
of  Dates,  the  statue  erected  in  Trafalgar  Square, 
in  honour  of  this  universal  benefactor,  was  in- 
augurated Sept.l7th,  1858.  AMICUS  will  scarcely 
meet  with  a  better  account  of  the  ceremony  ob- 
served on  that  occasion,  or  a  fuller  report  of  the 
speeches  which  were  then  made,  than  may  be  ob- 
tained from  the  columns  of  The  Times,  and  other 
daily  papers,  next  published  after  the  public 


though  tardy  acknowledgment  of  our  gratitude  to 
the  discoverer  of  vaccination.  ST.  SWITHIN. 

"THE  CHASTE  LEUCIPPB  BY  THE  PATRIARCH 
LOVED"  (3rd  S.  i.  348.)  —  u  The  patriarch"  was 
Photius  of  Constantinople,  and  his  "  love  "  for 
Leucippe  is  shown  in  the  following  epigram,  said 
to  be  the  only  piece  of  his  poetry  extant.  The 
text  is  corrupt  and  the  sense  not  very  clear, 
nevertheless  I  will  transcribe  it  as  it  is  : 


"Epwra  Tri/cpby,  a.\\d  ffttxppova  ftiov, 

'O  KAeiTO<£c3;/TOs  /ief  irap€jji(pait>fi  \6yos' 

'O  Aev/f/TTTnjs  5e  ffutypoveffTfpos  ftios 

"A-Travras  ^•ur-njcri,  irws  reTvauevt], 

KeKapnevri  re  Kal  Ka.rt\xptua^vt}, 

T6  5/y  pfyiffTov,  rpls  Qavovs  eKaprtpei. 

Eftrep  5r;  Kal  eru  ffufypovstv  0e\eis,  fy'iKos, 

MTJ  T)}V  Trdpepyov  rrjs  ypatpris  <TK(hrei  flecw, 

TV  rov  \6yov  5e  irpbs  rl  ffvvftpofjsiiv  udOe, 

Nv,u.(po<TTo\iL  yap  TO'VS  iroOowras  e^u^pjj/ws." 

Antliologia  Grcec.  Oxon,  1766,  p.  106, 
Epigram  683  ('Extiuxrutlhj 

The  following,  from  Gibbon,  seems  to  militate 
against  the  notion  that  Photius  was  the  author  of 
the  epigram  : 

"  By  the  confession  even  of  priestly  hatred,  no  art  or 
science,  except  poetry,  was  foreign  to  this  universal  scholar, 
who  was  deep  in  thought,  indefatigable  in  reading,  and 
eloquent  in  diction."  —  Decline  and  Fall,  chap.  53. 

But  I  suppose  the  compilers  of  the  Anthologia 
know  best. 

By  Nicetas  Davides  Faphlago,  in  his  Life  of 
the  Patriarch  Ignatius,  Photius  is  spoken  of  as  dis- 
tinguished "  carminis  pangendi     ........  "  — 

(Hankius,  De  Byzantinarum  Rerum  Scriptoribus, 
p.  393.)  W.  D. 

TOMBS  OF  HENRY  II.  AND  RICHARD  I.  (3rd  S. 
i.  426.)—  It  was  only  the  body  of  Richard  I.  that 
was  buried  at  Fontevrault.  His  bowels  were  de- 
posited at  Chaluz,  and  his  heart  at  Rouen.  Ac- 
cording to  the  old  epigram, 

"  Viscera  Carleolum,  corpus  fons  servat  Ebrardi, 
Et  cor  Rothomagura,  magne  Richarde,  tuum." 

Camden's  Britannia,  i.  288  (Gough's  edition). 

The  French  did  a  foolish  thing  when  they 
brought  away  the  remains  of  Bonaparte  from  St. 
Helena  ;  and  I  think,  with  due  submission,  that 
we  should  be  doing  a  still  more  foolish  thing  in 
disturbing  the  two  royal  tombs  mentioned  above. 
Fontevrault  was  a  proper  place  of  interment  for 
princes  of  half-Norman  and  half-  Anglian  origin. 
They  were  more  French  than  English,  and  their 
possessions  on  that  side  of  the  Channel  were  very 
extensive.  W.  D. 

DR.  JOHNSON  ON  PUNNING  (3rd  S.  i.  371.)  —  I 
have  been  waiting  most  .anxiously  for  MR.  DOUG- 
LAS ALLI»ORT'S  reply  to  PUNSTER'S  query  on  this 


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subject.  As  he  makes  no  sign,  may  I  request 
some  of  your  other  correspondents  to  say  whether 
Dr.  Johnson  is  the  author  of  the  oft-used  quota- 
tion, and  where  it  is  to  be  found  ? 

Permit  me  to  add,  that  in  a  reply  to  a  query  of 
mine  put  to  ME.  ALLPORT,  he  said  (2nd  S.  xii.  140) : 

"  My  statement  made  at  the  late  meeting  of  the  Kent 
Archaeological  Society  is  not  given  quite  accurately  by 
your  correspondent,  and  I  only  met  with  it  in  a  quotation 
from  a  work  entitled  Thoughts  on  Laughter." 

Does  MR.  ALLPORT  get  the  saying  of  Dr.  John- 
son merely  from  some  quotation  ?  If  so,  it  is  a 
very  strange  commentary  on  the  objection  he 
made  at  Maidstone  to  the  exact  copies  of  the  Pipe 
Rolls  as  possessing  any  value  as  evidence,  and 
still  further  on  the  reason  he  gave  for  making  the 
statement  that  I  questioned : 

"  The  original  work  I  never  saw,  and  I  merely  adverted 
to  the  circumstance  by  way  of  illustration,  my  object 
being  to  show  the  necessity  of  practically,  personally,  and 
in  situ  investigating  all  the  •  belongings '  of  those  objects 
which  form  the  study  of  archaeologists,  instead  of  inspect- 
ing them  in  private  galleries  or  museums." 

A  statement  founded  on  a  quotation  is  as  likely 
to  be  as  incorrect  as  an  inference  or  a  conjecture 
formed  from  the  inspection  of  a  museum.  1  there- 
fore trust  that  MR.  ALLPORT  will  show  us  that  he 
has  read  Dr.  Johnson  in  "  the  original,"  or  aid  us 
in  discovering  whence  arose  the  most  illogical  and 
pointless  dogma  that  ever  obtained  currency  on 
the  authority  of  a  great  name.  CLARRY. 

MOORE  (3rd  S.  i.  451.)  —  ^Hunter's  account  of 
the  Rev.  Stephen  Moore,  given  in  the  list  of  the 
Vicars  of  Doncaster,  is  simply, 

"  Stephen  Moore,  1790—1807,  Chaplain  to  Archbishop 
Drummond,  a  Prebendary  in  the  church  of  York,  and  a 
Justice  of  Peace  for  the  West  Biding."— Deanery  of  Don- 
caster,  i.  36. 

He  also  adds  that  he  was  previously  Rector  of 
Brodsworth,  which  he  exchanged  with  the  Rev. 
G.  Hay  Drummond,  the  former  Vicar  of  Don- 
caster.  J«  EASTWOOD. 

JAMES  NIHEL  (3rd  S.  i.  329.)  —  I  have  in  my 
collection  an  impression  of  the  seal  of  Dr.  Law- 
rence Nihell,  who  was  consecrated  Roman  Catholic 
Bishop  of  the  diocese  of  Kilfenora  and  Kilmac- 
duagh  in  1783 :  the  arms  (which  must  be  his 
family  ones)  are  as  follows :  "  Gules,  a  man  in  ar- 
mour, helmeted,  holding  in  his  dexter  hand  a 
sword,  argent,  on  a  chief  azure  three  stars  of  the 
second,  over  all  a  cardinal's  hat,  legend,  -f  LAU- 
RENT .  NIHELL  .  EPISC  .  FINABOR  .  ET.  DUACENS. 
The  ancient  arms  of  these  sees  are  engraved  in 
Caul  field's  Sigifla  Eccles.  Hibernicce  Illust. 

R.  C. 

Cork. 

"HISTORY  OF  JOHN  BULL"  (3rd  S.  i.  340.)— 
Your  correspondent  W.  G.  asks  a  question,  touch- 
ing the  authorship  of  this  political  burlesque 
which  it  would  be  very  desirable  could  be  an- 


swered so  as  to  leave  no  doubt  who  wrote  it.  In 
Sir  Walter  Scott's  edition  of  Dean  Swift's  Works, 
ol.  vi.  (2nd  ed.),  from  his  introductory  remarks 
on  the  Hixtory,  Scott  seems  certain  Arbuthnot 
was  the  author,  and  says  "  Swift  was  not  the  au- 
lior."  His  reasons  for  this  assumption  appear  to 
)e  very  slight ;  viz.  a  few  Scotticisms,  and  "  from 
;he  character,  conduct,  and  language  of  Sister 
Peg  beimj  traced  with  a  Scottish  pencil." 

Now,  I  humbly  think  that  almost  any  one  who 
reads  carefully  what  "  Peg  "  says,  and  the  descrip- 
;ion  given  of  her  and  her  country,  might  reasonably 
nfer  that  the  Dean  was  quite  as  likely  to  write 
what  is  said  of  her  as  the  Scotchman,  Arbuthnot. 

In  an  edition  of  Arbuthnot's  Works,  two  vols., 
published  at  Glasgow  in  1751,  we  have  "The  His- 
tory of  John  Bull ;  "  but  as  Arbuthnot's  son  had 
said  that  not  one-third  of  the  writings  palmed  off 
as  his  father's  were  his  production ;  and  as,  with 
the  exception  of  the  History,  every  piece  in  those 
two  vols.  evinces  nothing  but  a  trashy  affectation 
of,  or  straining  after,  wit  or  humour,  we  may,  I 
think,  justly  conclude  that  the  History  was  not 
written  by  Arbuthnot. 

As,  in  the  edition  of  the  Miscellanies,  published 
by  Motte  and  Bathurst  in  1736,  but  two  years 
after  Arbuthnot's  death,  we  have  the  assertion 
made,  that  those  pieces  which  have  "  the  trade 
mark  "  (i^"  *)  of  Swift's  productions,  were  written 
by  the  Dean,  and  we  find  these  marks  attached  to 
the  History;  and  no  effort  appears,  that  I  am 
aware  of,  to  have  been  made  to  contradict  or  nega- 
tive Motte's  assertion,  either  by  Swift  himself, 
who  was  then  at  the  zenith  of  his  'literary  glorv,  or 
by  Arbuthnot's  son,  we  may  fairly,  I  think,  infer 
that  if  one  or  other  of  those  eminent  men  were 
the  author  of  this  justly  celebrated  piece,  it  must 
be  the  Dean,  and  not  Arbuthnot,  who  wrote  it. 

The  few  remarks  I  have  deferentially  offered 
on  this  most  interesting  subject  will,  I  hope,  in- 
duce W.  G.,  or  some  abler  person  than  myself,  to 
discuss  the  matter,  so  that  it  may  be  determined 
without  doubt  who  was  the  author  of  this  original 
satire,  inimitable  for  its  "exquisite  simplicity, 
brevity,  and  solemnity  of  narration." 

JOHN  BOOTH. 

Bromyard. 

P.S.— It  will  be  seen  that  the  few  remarks  I 
have  made  as  to  the  paternity  of  The  History  of 
John  Bull,  are  confined  to  Motte's  edition  of  the 
Miscellanies,  Scott's  Swift's  Works,  and  the  Glas- 
(row  edition  of  Arbuthnot;  but  there  may  be, 
and  most  probably  are,  other  editions  of  the  works 
of  Swift  and  Arbuthnot,  published  between  1736 
and  1751,  which  may  throw  some  light  on  this 
subject,  and  enable  the  candid  inquirer  to  deter- 
mine with  certainty  who  was  the  writer  of  the 
History.  If  such  editions  exist,  which  I  have  no 
means  of  ascertaining,  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  those 
who  are  possessed  of  them  will,  in  a  future 


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number  of  your  excellent  publication,  give  such 
extracts  from  them  as  may  finally  settle  the  ques- 
tion asked  by  your  correspondent  W.  G. 

BLUE  AND  BUFF  (3rd  S.  i.  472.)  —  Your  corre- 
spondent, K.  P.  D.  E.,  will  find  that  the  use  of 
true  blue  by  the  Scottish  Presbyterians  and  the 
English  Puritans,  and  its  supposed  derivation  from 
Numbers  xv.  38,  have  been  pointed  out  in  former 
articles  of  "  N.  &  Q  "  See  2nd  S.  i.  269  ;  iii.  513. 

He  has  been  the  first  to  call  attention  to  the 
fact  that  yellow,  or  orange-tawny,  was  the  colour 
of  the  Earl  of  Essex,  the  Parliament  General. 

But  the  separate  use  of  blue,  and  also  of  orange, 
as  party  colours,  does  not  prove  their  use  in  the 
peculiar  combinations  of  blue  and  buff.  Wraxall 
says  that  the  use  of  blue  and  buff  originated  with 
Washington  and  his  friends  in  the  American  war. 
The  passage  which  I  have  quoted  from  the  recent 
publication  of  Smiles  seems  to  carry  its  use,  as  a 
native  English  party  badge,  up  to  the  year  1745. 
Can  the  combination  of  blue  and  buff,  as  party 
colours,  be  traced  to  an  earlier  date  ?  L. 

LITERATURE  OF  LUNATICS  (3rd  S.  i.  451.)  — 
V.  P.  is  informed  that  there  have  been  occasion- 
ally published  specimens  of  literary  productions  of 
inmates  of  the  Royal  Morningside  Asylum,  Edin- 
burgh, and  I  have  no  doubt  that  Dr.  Skae,  the 
eminent  physician  to  that  institution,  will,  on  ap- 
plication, send  your  correspondent  copies.  G. 

Edinburgh. 

LONGEVITY  (3rd  S.  i.  281,  399,  411.)— The  late 
Mrs.  Drury  Lowe,  of  Locko  Park,  Derbyshire, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Steer,  was  born  July  21, 
and  baptized  July  23,  1745,  as  appears  by  [the 
Register  of  Burton  Latimcr,  a  certified  copy  of 
•which  now  lies  by  me.  She  died  Nov.  13,  1848, 
and  was  buried  at  Denby,  Derbyshire.  She  there- 
fore was  more  than  one  hundred  and  three  years 
of  age  when  she  died. 

The  present  Sir  Mathew  Blakiston  has  just  en- 
tered on  his  eightieth  year,  and  his  venerable 
mother,  the  Dowager  Lady  Blakiston,  is  now 
living  in  her  hundred  and  first  year ;  and  her 
picture,  taken  when  she  was  a  hundred,  is  now  in 
the  Academy  Exhibition  in  Trafalgar  Square. 

In  the  Register  of  Kedleston,  Derbyshire,  this 
entry  occurs, — "George  Curzon,  being  an  hundred 
and  four  years  old,  was  buryed  Mar.  25,  1652." 
The  Register  does  not  exist  early  enough  to  con- 
tain his  baptism ;  but  it  is  not  very  likely  that 
there  should  have  been  a  mistake  in  the  age  of  a 
member  of  the  Curzon  family. 

In  Robinson's  Whifby,  p.  137,  nineteen  deaths 
at  one  hundred  and  upwards  are  mentioned  from 
Registers  and  tombstones  at  Whitby  and  the 
neighbourhood ;  and,  should  I  visit  that  place 
again,  I  will  try  to  verify  some  of  them  by  the 
registers  of  their  baptisms.  I  am  at  present  in- 
quiring after  the  baptisms  of  several  in  Derby- 


shire, Staffordshire,  and  Warwickshire,  two  of 
whom  I  knew ;  one  of  them  came  to  a  magistrates' 
meeting  at  Mayfield,  a  distance  of  nine  miles, 
when  she  was  a  hundred  and  four.  She  was  a 
little  stout  woman,  with  no  appearance  of  great 
age,  and,  excepting  that  she  was  deaf,  had  all  her 
faculties  about  her. 

I  have  frequently  remarked  that  very  old  people 
generally  have  very  strong  and  clear  voices. 

C.  S.  GREAVES. 


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No.  8,  WATERLOO  PLACE,  PALL  MALL,  8.W. 

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shares  by  a  numerous  and  wealthy  proprietary,  thus  protecting  the 
assured  from  the  risk  attending  mutual  offices. 

There  have  been  three  divisions  of  profits,  the  bonuses  averaging 
nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annum  on  the  sums  assured  from  the  commence- 
ment of  the  Company. 

Sum  Assured.          Bonuses  added.  Payable  at  Death. 

*5,000  41.987  10*.  «fi,'J87  10,. 

1.000  397  10*.  1,397  10». 

100  3915..  1  ;.!:.. 

To  assure  t,  100  payable  at  death,  a  person  aged  21  pay«  «S  I*.  4rf.  per 

annum;  but  as  the  profits  have  averaged  nearly  2  per  cent,  per  annnm. 
the  additions,  m  many  cases,  have  been  almost  as  much  as  the  pre- 
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proved securities. 

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annual  income  is  four  hundred  and  ninety-five  thousand  pounds. 
Up  to  the  31st  December,  1861,  the  Society  had  paid 
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„  Bonus  thereon  -      1,115,298 


Together     -     45,441,676 

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CONTENTS— NO.  26. 

NOTES  :  —  The  Registers  of  the  Stationers'  Company,  501 

—  William  Godwin,  503  — Customs  in  the  County  of  Wex- 
ford,  Ib. 

MINOR  NOTES  :  —  The  Castle  of  Liverpool  —  Historic  Pho- 
tographic Gallery  —  ArchdalPs  "Lodge's  Peerage  of  Ire- 
land"—The  New  Bishop  of  Cork  — Mortars  and  Cannon 

—  Curious  Election  Return— Papa  and  Mamma,  504. 
QUERIES :  — Birth-day  of  George  III.,  505  —  John  Norden 

the  Topographer,  Ib.  —  Baxus  —  "  Coeur  Vaillant "  —  Lord 
Chatham:  Spanish  Language  — Cray— Sir  Everard  Dig- 
by's  Execution  — The  Faculty  of  Laughter:  Dr.  Last- 
German  Poet  —  Rev.  Timothy  Kent,  A.M.,  Denby,  York- 
shire —  Lae-chow  Islands  —  Map  of  the  County  of  Down  — 
National  Synods  —  "  Northern  Iris  "  —  J.  Nelson's  "  Mis- 
cellany "  —  Sark  —  Treble  —  Turkeycocks  —  Walsingham 
Family,  506. 

QUERIES  WITH  ANSWERS:  —  Bp.  Clayton,  of  Clogher  — 
"Le  Chef-d'(Euvre  d'un  Inconnu"  —  Mapheus  Vegius  — 
Peacock's  Works  —  Biddenden  Maids  —  Sir  Thomas  More, 
507. 

REPLIES :  — Cole,  of  Scarborough,  Works,  509  — Arms  of 
the  Kingdom  of  Leon,  510  —  Erasmus  and  Ulrich  Hut  ten, 
511  —  The  Ferula,  512  —  "  Yankee  Doodle  borrows  cash  "— 
English  Refugees  in  Holland  — John  Delafteld  Phelps, 
Esq.  — Poor  Poll  — Deaf  and  Dumb  Literature  —  Noble- 
men and  Barons  —  Quakers  —  Baron  —  "  Ranse  Canorse  "  — 
Mrs.  Elizabeth  Whittle  —  Portraits  of  Archbishop  Cran- 
mer  —  Dame  Margaret  and  George  Halyburton  —  Tory  — 
His  Grace:  Baron  — Mr.  James  Bashford  — Cutting  off 
with  a  Shilling  —  Owtherquedaunce  —  Hon.  Wm.  Pitt  — 
Bottefang  —  Unconscious  Plagiarism  —  Relative  Value  of 
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Notes  on  Books,  &c. 


THE  REGISTERS  OF  THE  STATIONERS' 

COMPANY. 
(Continued  from  p.  463.) 

22  Nov.  [1593.]  —  John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his 

copie,  &c.  A  booke  of  newes  of  Twoo  angels  that 

came  before  the  Cytie  of  Droppa  in  Slesia     .    vjd. 

Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  A  ballad  of  the 

same  Twoo  angelles vjd. 

[A  prose  "  book,"  and  a  production  in  verse  upon  the 
same  subject,  but  neither  of  them  now  known.] 

28  Novemb.  —  John  Danter.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  a  ballad  intituled  The  cuntrymans  Re- 
port of  the  usage  of  them  at  St.  Albons  Terme  .  vjd. 

[In  consequence  of  the  plague,  Michaelmas  Term  had 
been  kept  at  St.  Albans.  Stow  {Ann.  1274,  edit  1605) 
tells  us  that  no  fewer  than  four  aldermen  were  carried  off 
by  the  infection  in  London  in  1593,  viz.  Sir  \V.  Roe,  Lord 
Mayor,  Sir  Rowland  Howard,  Sir  Wolstone  Dixie,  and 
William  Elken.  We  have  already  seen  an  "  epitaph  "  on 
Sir  W.  Roe  or  Rowe  entered  on  24th  Dec.  He  had  died 
only  the  day  preceding,  so  that  the  poet  showed  great 
alacrity  ia  seizing  the  occasion.] 

iij  Decemb. — Nichas  Linge,  JohnBusbie.  En- 
tred for  their  copie,  &c.  A  booke  entituled  Pierce 
Gaviston,  Erie  of  Cornewatt,  his  life,  death,  and 
fortune vjd- 

[Marlowe's  tragedy  of  "  Edward  II."  included  a  part 
of  this  subject,  which  was  more  elaborately  treated  in 


Drayton's  Mortimer iadoi,  the  lamentable  Gvell  Warrtt  of 
Edward  II.,  &c.,  but  that  was  not  printed  until  1596.] 

4  Dec.— John  Danter.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  A  lamentable  Songe  of  the  Three  Wyches  of 
Warbos,  and  executed  at  Hunt. vjd. 

[We  believe  that  no  snch  "lamentable  Song "U ex- 
tant, but  an  elaborate  tract  upon  the  same  subject  was 
published  in  1593,  4to,  the  explanatory  title  of  which  we 
transcribe :  "  The  most  strange  and  admirable  Discovery 
of  the  three  Witches  of  Warboys,  executed  at  Hunting- 
don for  bewitching  of  the  5  daughters  of  R.  Throckmor- 
ton,  Esquire,  and  others,  with  divellish  and  grievous 
torments:  also  the  bewitching  to  death  of  the  Lady 
Cromwell."] 

7  December.  —  John  Danter.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  a  plaie  booke  intituled  The  historye  of 
Orlando  Furioso,  one  of  the  xij  peeres  ofFraunce 

[The  well-known  play  by  Robert  Greene,  the  subject  of 
which  had  become  popular  mainly  in  consequence  of  Sir 
J.  Harington's  translation  of  Ariosto's  Romance  in  1591. 
See  Dyce's  Greene's  Works,  i.  5.  Regarding  this  most 
favourite  performance  there  is  one  peculiarity,  unknown 
to  that  Editor,  which  we  apprehend  belongs  to  no  other 
drama  of  so  early  a  date,  viz.  that  the  original  MS.  of  the 
whole  part  of  the  hero,  as  written  out  for  Henslowe's 
Theatre,  has  been  preserved  at  Dulwicb,  the  character  of 
Orlando  having  been  originally  sustained  by  Edward 
Alleyn,  the  founder  of  that  college.  See  The  Life  of 
Alleyn  printed  by  the  Shakespeare  Society  in  1841,  p.  197. 
Had  the  Rev.  Mr.  Dyce  been  acquainted  with  this  MS.  he 
would  no  doubt  have  corrected  by  it  some  of  the  misprints 
in  the  early  impressions  of  Greene's  play ;  but  it  would 
not  have  applied  to  such  errors  as  "  rebated  "  for  rebutted, 
a  mistake  twice  committed  (pp.  8,  34) ;  nor  to  **  Lord's 
denial  "  instead  of  Love's  denial,  p.  21,  which  makes 

'  nonsense  of  Angelica's  answer  to  Sacripant.  In  the 
margin  of  the  Register,  opposite  the  preceding  entry,  we 
read  "  This  copie  is  put  over  by  the  consent  of  John  Dan- 
ter to  Cutbert  Burbye,  ut  patet,  28  May,  1594."  The  first 
edition  was  therefore  "  Printed  by  John  Danter  for  Cath- 

j  bert  Burbie,  1594,"  4to.] 

12  Decembr.  —  John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  a  newe  ballad  intituled  Christmas  Delightes 

[In  preparation  for  the  approaching  season  of  merri- 
ment. A  ballad  on  the  sports  of  Christmas  in  the  reign 
of  Elizabeth,  if  it  had  been  preserved,  would  have  been  a 
valuable  relic.] 

xxij  die  Decembr.  —  Tho.  Purfoote,  Senr,  Tho. 
Purfoote,  Junior.  Entred  for  their  copie,  &c. 
a  booke  intituled  Ceasars  dialogue  .  .  .  vj4. 

24  Dec.  —  Tho.  Gubbyn.  Entred  for  his  copie, 
&c.  A  Remembrance  of  the  late  righte  honorable 
Erie  of  Derby  deceased yj*« 

[This  "  remembrance,"  no  doubt  in  verse,  came  rather 
late,  for  on  22  Oct.  Creede  had  entered  an  "  epitaph  "  upon 
the  same  nobleman;  and  still  earlier,  on  11  Oct.,  Danter 
had  registered  a  "  lamentation  "  upon  the  event.] 

Ultimo  Decembr.  — Mr.  Ponsonbye.  Entred  for 
his  copie,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  Scianuctos,  or  the 
shadowe  of  nightc VJ  • 

FThe  earliest  work  by  George  Chapman,  the  translator 
of  Homer,  Hesiod,  &c.  2*,W»rK,  the  Shadow  of^r1" 
containing  two  pocticall  Hymnes,  dnixd  by  G.  C.  r 


502 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I.  JUNE  28,  '62. 


•was  published  by  Ponsonby,  with  the  date  of  1594.  It 
was  dedicated  to  M.  Roydon,  himself  a  poet,  and  then  in 
flourishing  circumstances,  but  afterwards  so  much  re- 
duced that  he  was  relieved  by  the  gift  of  sixpence  from 
Edw.  Alleyn,  after  he  had  founded  Dulwich  College. 
Roydon  is  also  mentioned  as  a  leader  and  patron  among 
literary  menjn  Lodge's  Pastorals,  1595.] 

vii°  January  [1593-4].  —  Rich.  Jones.  Entred 
for  his  copie,  &c.  a  comedie  entitled  A  Knack  to 
knowe  a  Knave,  newly e  sett  fourth,  as  it  hath  sun- 
drye  tymes  ben  plaid  by  Ned  Allen  and  his  Com- 
panie,  with  Kemps  applauded  Merymentes  of  the 
men  of  Goteham vjd. 

[This  anonymous  play,  famous  chiefly  through  the 
exertions  of  the  two  great  actors,  Alleyn  and  Kemp,  was 
published  by  Jones  in  1594.  Although  by  no  means  a 
good  drama,  and  partaking  in  a  considerable  degree  of 
the  style  and  form  of  the  old  Morality,  it  is  much  su- 
perior to  a  play,  intended  to  form  a  species  of  second  part 
to  it,  called  A  Knack  to  know  an  Honest  Man,  which  was 
printed  in  1596.  A  Knack  to  know  a  Knave  was  per- 
formed by  Henslowe's  company  in  1592,  and  few  pieces 
were  more  popular.] 

Rich.  Jones.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  The 
Arbor  of  Amorus  delightes,  by  N.  B.gent.  .  vjd. 

["  N.  B.,  Gent.,"  is  Nicholas  Breton,  gentleman ;  but 
some  difficulty  presents  itself,  because  his  Arbor  of 
Amorous  Devices  was  not  printed  until  1597,  and  because 
the  word  "  delightes"  in  the  Register  seems  taken  from  a 
previous  work  by  Clement  Robinson.  At  the  same  time, 
it  is  not  at  all  impossible  that  Breton's  collection  was  at 
first  called  The  Arbor  of  Amorous  Delights,  and  that  it  was 
originally  printed  in  1594,  though  no  such  edition  is,  we 
believe,  known.  "  Devices "  may,  in  1597,  have  been  j 
substituted  for  "Delights,"  in  order  to  avoid  the  resem- 
blance to  the  title  of  Robinson's  work  of  1584.] 

22  die  Januarij.  —  Rich.  Jones.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  A  newe  Songe  of  Londons  Joy  full  wel- 
come to  the  Nobilitie,  Gentlemen,  and  Commonaltie 
to  Hillarye  Terme vjd. 

[At  this  date  Term-time  was  the  period  when  much 
business  was  done  in  many  trades,  but  especially  among 
booksellers.  The  plague  having  disappeared  in  conse- 
quence of  the  cool  weather,  the  term  was  again  held  in 
Westminster  Hall,  and  not  at  St.  Albans.] 

26to  Januarij.  —  Nicholas  Linge  and  John  Bus- 
bye.  Entred  for  their  copie,  &c.  a  booke  called 
Cornelia,  Thomas  Kydd  beinge  the  Author  .  vjd. 

[Kycld's  Cornelia  came  out  anonymously  in  1594,  al- 
though we  here,  rather  unusually,  find  his  name  in  the 
registration.  It  was  a  translation  from  the  French  of 
Gamier,  a  fact  stated  (together  with  the  translator's 
name)  on  the  title-page  of  the  second  impression  in 
1595  ;  both  were  in  4to.  Very  recently  a  prose  tract  by 
Kydd,  on  a  dreadful  murder  committed  in  1592,  has 
come  to  light,  and  has  been  very  recently  reprinted. 
Kydd  began  writing  for  the  stage,  at  least  as  earlj-as — if 
not  earlier  than— Shakespeare;  and  his  power  and  popu- 
larity were  both  great  before  the  year  1590.] 

Christopher  Hunt.  Entred  for  his  copie,  &c.  a 
booke  called  Godfrey  of  Bulloigne,  an  heroyacall 
poem  of  Sr  Torquato  Tasso,  englisshed  by  R.  C. 
Esquier vjd. 

[Richard  Carew,  Esq.,  of  Anthony  in  Cornwall,  was  the 
author  of  this  earliest  version  of  Tasso,  and  it  was  pub- 


lished at  Exeter  (at  least  some  copies  so  state),  with  the 
year  1594  upon  the  title-page:  it  consisted  only  of  four 
books,  and  the  whole  poem  was'  not  printed  in  English 
until  it  was  translated  by  Fairfax  in  1600,  folio.  Some 
copies  of  Carew's  attempt'have  the  name  of  Thomas  Man 
at  the  bottom  of  the  title-page.  It  was  not  very  success- 
ful, or  probably  it  would  have  been  continued  by  Carew. 
Spenser  imitated  some  part  of  Tasso  in  his  Faery  Queene, 
and  Fairfax,  just  after  the  death  of  that  poet,  had  the 
merit  of  availing  himself  of  Spenser's  admirable,  though 
unavowed,  imitations.] 

27    Januarij.  —  Abell    Jeffes.    Entred  for  his 
copie,   &c.    A  ballad  of  the  Lamentable  lyfe  and 
death  of  Robert  Sturman,  who  suffered  at  Tyborne  ' 
the  24  of  Januarie vjd. 

[For  what  crime  nowhere  appears,  that  we  are  aware 
of.  Stow  does  not  mention  the  case.] 

Primo  die  Februarij.  —  John  Danter.  Entred 
for  his  copie,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  Greene  hisfu- 
neralles vjd. 

[ Greenes  Funeralls,  by  R.  B.,  Gent,  was  printed  with 
the  date  of  1594  in  consequence  of  the  above  memoran- 
dum. The  initials  only  have  led  to  the  supposition  that 
Richard  Barnfield  was  the  writer  of  these  sonnets,  but,  as 
the  Rev.  Mr.  Dyce  says,  they  are  unworthy  of  that "  pleas- 
ing poet :  "  he  was  not  apparently  acquainted  with  the 
fact,  which  he  might  have  ascertained  from  Barnfield's 
Cynthia,  1595,  that  the  "  pleasing  poet"  had  actually  dis- 
owned them.] 

vjto  die  Febr.  — John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his 
copye,  &c.  a  book  entituled  The  newefounde  Arle 
of  Catchinge  of  Connye  Catchers,  or  a  trapp  to  take 
a  hnave vjd. 

[This  tract,  which  we  have  never  seen,  most  likely  grew 
out  of  various  small  publications  imputed  to  Robert 
Greene  on  the  subject  of  pocket-picking  and  fraudulent 
trickery.  One  of  them,  The  Groundworke  of  Conny-catch- 
ing,  had  come  out  in  1592.] 

vjto  die  Februarij.  —  John  Danter.  Entred  for 
his  copye,  under  thandes  of  both  the  wardens, 
a  booke  intituled  A  Noble  Roman  Historye  of 
Tytus  Andronicus vjd. 

[The  earliest  known  impression  of  Titus  Andronicus 
was  "printed  by  I.  R.  for  Edward  White"  in  1600;  but 
there  can  be  little  doubt,  though  such  an  edition  is  now- 
lost,  that  it  originally  came  out  in  1594  pursuant  to  the 
above  entry  by  Danter.  We  were  once  told  of  a  copy 
dated  1594,  but  when  we  came  to  examiae  it,  the  date 
had  been  altered  from  1600  to  1594.] 

John  Danter.  Entred  alsoe  unto  him,  by  war-f 
rant  from  Mr.  Woodcock,  the  ballad  thereof 

vj". 

[Dates  are  seldom  given  upon  old  ballads;  and  though 
we  have  seen  several  reprints  of  the  ballad  of  Titus  An- 
dronicus, we  never  met  with  one  certainly  so  old  as 
1594.] 

ix°  die  Februarij.  —  John  Wolf.  Entred  for  his  i 
copie  A  letter  sent  by  Amorath,  the  greate  Turke  to  \ 
Christen/dome vjd.  j 

11. Febr. — Adam  Islip.  Entered  for  his  copie,  ! 
&c.  a  booke  intituled  The  triall  of  Bastardy  .  vjd. 

20  Februarij.  —  John  Dauter.  Entred  for  his    ! 


3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  28,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


503 


copie,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  The  Royaltie  of  Eng- 
land   V;d4 

22°  February.  —  Willm  Matts.  Entred  for  his 
copie,  &c.  a  booke  intituled  The  lamentation  of 
Troy  e  for  the  death  of  Hector,  with  an  old  womans 
tale  in  a  Solitarie  Cell yj^ 

[This  entry  serves  to  remind  us  of  two  distinct  produc- 
tions by  G.  Peele,  his  Tale  of  Troy,  and  his  Old  Wive's 
Tale;  but  it  is  not  connected  with  either.  We  have 
also  several  tracts  relating  to  tales  in  solitary  cells,  both 
by  Greene  and  Lodge.  Warton  (H.  E.  P.  iv.  73,  edit. 
1824)  directs  attention  to  the  preceding  registration,  but  ! 
affords  no  information  respecting  the  work :  he  attributes 
the  publication  to  Matthews  instead  of  Matts.] 

J.  PAYNE  COLIJEE. 


WILLIAM  GODWIN. 

The  following  particulars  relating  to  the  family 
of  William  Godwin  (author  of  Caleb  Williams), 
which  I  lately  gathered  from  an  abstract  of  title, 
may  be  acceptable  to  some  one  :  — 

In  1764,  his  father,  John  Godwin,  described  as 
of  Guestwick,  in  the  county  of  Norfolk,  Gentle- 
man, purchased  a  small  estate  at  Hindolveston, 
in  that  county,  which,  by  his  will,  dated  Oct.  20, 
1772,  wherein   he   styles  himself  of  Guestwick, 
Clerk,  he  gave  to  Ann  his  wife  for  life,  and  then 
directed  to  be  sold.     The    will  was    proved   at 
Doctors'  Commons  on  Dec.  30,  1772.     In  it  he 
names   the  following  eight  children  :  —  Edward, 
John,  William,  Joseph,  Conyers  Jocelyn,  Han- 
nah, Philip  Hull,  and  Nathaniel.      Of  these,  as 
appears   from  letters  of  administration,  Edward, 
described  of  St.   Leonard's,  Shoreditch,    in   the 
county  of  Middlesex,    Gent.,  died  s.  p.  in  April, 
1779  :  John  was  of  the  Inner  Temple,  and  died, 
also  s.  p.  in  Dec.  1805.    Conyers  Jocelyn  assumed 
the  name  of  John  Hull,  and  died,  s.  p.,  on  board 
the  "  Fox  "  East  Indiaman,  having  made  his  will, 
dated  March  6, 1783,  of  which  he  appointed  his 
mother  sole  executrix  ;  and  in  May,  1790,  she,  as 
Ann  Godwin,  of  Wood  Dalling,  Norfolk,  widow, 
proved  the  same  at  Doctors'  Commons,  as  the  will 
of  Conyers  Godwin,  otherwise  John  Hull.     After 
the  widow's   death,  the  estate  was  sold,  and  on 
June  11,  1810,  William  Godwin,  of  the  City  of 
London,  Esq.,  eldest  surviving  son  and  heir  of  j 
John  Godwin,  late  of  Guestwick,  Clerk ;  Joseph  J 
I   Godwin,  of  London,  Gent. ;  Hannah  Godwin,  of  j 
London,  spinster ;  Philip  Hull  Godwin,  of  East  i 
Bradenham,   in  Norfolk,  farmer  ;  and  Nathaniel  j 
Godwin,  of  London,  gent.,  only  surviving  children  j 
of  the  said  John  Godwin,  were  parties  to  the  deed  ! 
of  conveyance.     It  is  remarkable  that  John  God-  ! 
win,  the  father,  who  I  believe  to  have  been  a  dis-  | 
senting  minister,  and  therefore  might  by  custom 
have  adopted  the  prefix  of  Reverend,  should  in  so 
solemn  an  act  as  his  will,  have  used  the  addition 
of  Clerk.     I  can  only  attribute  it  to  the  ignorance 
of  the  solicitor  who  prepared  the  instrument,  as 


to  the  real  status  of  his  client.  The  fact  of  the 
sailor  son,  Conyers  Jocelyn,  having  taken  the 
name  of  John  Hull,  requires  explanation.  Philip 
Hull  Godwin,  who  was  a  tenant  farmer  at  East 
JBradenham,  died  there  only  a  few  years  since, 
without  issue. 

Since  writing  the  above,  I  am  informed  that 
Philip  Hull  Godwin  left  a  large  family,  some 
members  of  which  are  now  living  in  this  nei»h- 
bourhood.  The  father  of  John  Godwin,  of  Guest- 
wick, was,  I  am  told,  minister  of  a  dissenting 
congregation  at  Wisbeach.  G.  A.  C. 


CUSTOMS  IN  THE  COUNTY  OF  WEXFORD. 


One  of  the  customs  related  by  S.  REDMOND  is 
not  peculiar  to  the  county  of  Wexford,  nor  even 
to  Ireland.    In  1847  I  happened  to  be  at  Honiton, 
in  Devonshire ;  and  was  informed,  one  day  at  the 
dinner  table,  of  an  incident  which  had  recently 
occurred  curiously  illustrative  of  the  superstitions 
of  the  people.     A  girl,  as  I  believe,  labouring  in 
the  last  stages  of  consumption,  had  been  taken 
out    and    submitted  to   the    process    described, 
namely,  passed  three  times  under  the  belly  and 
three  times  over  the  back  of  a  donkey.     I  may 
not  remember  all  the  particulars ;  but  to  the  best 
of  my  recollection,  this  operation  had  to  be  per- 
formed at  some  place  where  four  roads  meet,  and 
on  a  night  when  the  moon  was  at  the  full.     This 
was   done   at  the  suggestion   of  a  "  wizard,"  or 
"wise  man,"  to  dispel  some  enchantment  or  "ill 
wish"  under  which  the  patient  was  supposed  to 
be  bound.     The  excitement  and  exposure  had 
hastened  the  death  of  the  poor  girl,  as  she  died 
either  in    being    carried    home   or   immediately 
after.     An  inquest  had  been  held,  and  thus  con- 
siderable notoriety  given  to  the  circumstance.    In 
the  West  of  England  this  is,  I  am  told,  a  common 
method  of  dispelling  enchantments  ;  but  I  am  not 
aware  that  it  prevails  in  the  Northern  Counties. 
I  think  it  would  be  in  vain  to  seek  any  origin  for 
this  custom,  except  the  cunning  of  some  professed 
dealer  in  spells  and  conjurations. 

There  are  very  many  curious  customs  in  the 
sister  country  which  were  quite  new  to  me.  I 
had  not  found  their  counterparts  in  the  parts  of 
England  with  which  I  am  acquainted. 

In  the  summer  of  1 858,  I  made  a  tour  of  Con- 
nemara  with  a  friend,  and  was  passing,  on  one 
fine  evening,  from  Galway  on  the  road  to  Lime- 
rick. We  travelled  in  a  car,  hired  for  the  occa- 
sion. When  some  miles  from  Galway  we  met  a 
funeral,  with  a  long  array  of  mourners  and  at- 
tendants :  in  all  kinds  of  vehicles— cars,  carts,  and 
waggons — and  attired  in  all  sorts  of  costume ;  and 
many  on  foot.  It  appeared  as  if  the  whole  popu- 
lation of  a  village  had  turned  out,  to  honour  the 
last  earthly  journey  of  the  departed.  On  nearing 


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[3'd  S.  L  JUNE  28,  '62. 


the  procession,  our  carman  stopped,  drawing  up 
to  the  side  of  the  road.  A  man,  who  appeared  to 
be  the  conductor  of  the  ceremony,  advanced ;  and 
with  a  native  politeness,  which  no  people  possess 
in  a  greater  degree  than  the  humbler  classes  of 
the  Irish,  asked  that  we  would  be  good  enough  to 
allow  the  car  to  follow  the  procession;  adding, 
that  it  was  a  custom  with  which  we  might  not  be 
acquainted.  This  was  done ;  and  after  our  cars 
had  followed  some  hundred  paces,  he  thanked  us, 
said  that  would  do  ;  and  we  observed  that  he  then 
resumed  his  place  at  the  head  of  the  procession. 
Our  driver,  who  was  a  very  dull  and  stupid  spe- 
cimen of  his  class,  could  give  no  explanation,  but 
that  it  was  usual  for  any  party  thus  meeting  a 
funeral  to  turn  round  and  follow  it. 

The  custom  of  lighting  candles  on  the  evening 
of  the  Vigil  of  All  Souls  extends  over  the  whole 
of  Ireland.  I  happened  to  be  in  Belmullet  some 
years  before,  on  the  evening  of  that  day,  when 
every  window  was  thus  illuminated.  Is  not  this 
the  custom  in  all  Catholic  countries  ?  T.  B. 


THE  CASTLE  OF  LIVERPOOL.  —  The  authors  of 
the  Pictorial  History  of  England,  vol.  i.  p.  83, 
describing  the  sentence  passed  upon  Alianor  Cob- 
ham,  Duchess  of  Gloucester,  in  1441,  state  that  — 

"  She  was  condemned  to  do  public  'penance  in  three 
places  within  the  city  of  London,  and  afterwards  to  pass 
her  life  a  prisoner  in  the  Isle  of  Man,  under  charge  of  Sir 
John  Stanley." 

I  find  in  the  Annales  of  William  of  Wyrcester 
the  latter  part  of  her  sentence  thus  described  :  — 

"Ettuncfuit  assignata  per  mandatum  Regis  ad  cas- 
tellum  de  Let-Poole  sub  custodia  domini  Thomse  Stanley 
militis." 

Now,  there  can  be  no  question  that  Let-Poole 
is  a  misreading  for  Lerpoole  or  Liverpool,  as 
that  place  is  well-known  to  have  belonged  to  the 
Stanleys ;  and  I  am  not  aware  that  the  historical 
writers  of  Lancashire  have  hitherto  observed  this 
early  and  interesting  notice  of  that  now  world- 
known  place.  The  Duchess  of  Gloucester  may 
have  been  first  committed  to  the  castle  of  Liver- 
pool, and  afterward  removed,  for  greater  secu- 
rity, to  the  Isle  of  Man.  J.  G.  N. 

HISTORIC  PHOTOGRAPHIC  GALLERY.— Will  not 
some  firm  undertake  a  historic  photographic  gal- 
lery of  persons  and  places  ?  Architecture,  land- 
scape (under  which  may  be  included  passing 
open-air  history  and  geographical  discovery) ; 
the  arts  and  the  technicalities  of  science ;  the 
professions,  the  stage,  and  very  still  life  indeed ; 
together  with  the  persons  and  scenes  of  the  day, 
fill  the  London  shop  windows  ;  but  if  it  were 
wanted  to  buy  a  photograph  from  a  statue  or 


painting  of  Edward  III.,  or  Loyola,  or  Colbert, 
or  a  correct  series  of  the  Napoleonic  medals,  or  a 
plan  of  the  Dutch  entry  into  the  Thames,  or  of 
some  dead  witness  of  antiquity,  as  London  Stone,  | 
the  chances  are  that  one  would  not  quickly  be  ' 
found,  or  would  be  very  second-hand,  or  not 
authentic.  Certainly,  where  a  spot  constitutes 
one  of  the  sights,  as  the  Tower  of  London,  or 
Killiecrankie  Pass,  or  Kit's  Coty  House,  there  is 
no  difficulty  in  getting  a  view  on  paper ;  but  what 
is  wanted  is,  a  shop  to  which  you  could  apply  for 
a  certain  series  of  historic  places  and  persons, 
with  the  certainty  of  a  previous  due  care  in  the 
artist's  selection  of  views  and  portraits.  Dates 
should  be  affixed,  and,  as  exceptions  to  the  pre- 
sent dear  practice,  some  specimens  left  unmounted 
for  the  purpose  of  being  pasted  in  portfolios  and 
books,  so  as  to  please  one's  own  taste. 

S.  F.  CRESWELL. 
Tonbridge. 

ARCHDALL'S  "  LODGE'S  PEERAGE  OP  IRELAND." 
I  would  suggest'  to  some  one  who  has  the  leisure 
and  ability  for  an  undertaking  of  the  kind,  the 
compilation  of  a  general  index  to  the  Rev.  Mervyn 
Archdall's  revised  and  enlarged  edition  of  Lodge's 
Peerage  of  Ireland  (7  vols.  8vo,  Dublin,  1789.) 
It  certainly  is  a  desideratum,  as  I  have  oftentimes 
found  to  my  cost,  and,  if  well  executed,  would 
prove  a  veryfgreat  boon  to  many  a  reader. 

The  work  in  question  is  wonderfully  correct, 
when  we  consider  the  vast  amount  of  particulars 
it  contains ;  but  there  are  some  rather  strange 
mistakes ;  for  example,  in  vol.  iv.  p.  314,  in  the 
copy  of  the  inscription  on  the  large  slab  in  me- 
mory of  James  Bermingham  and  Ellinor  Fitz- 
william,  at  Lusk,  in  the  county  of  Dublin,  the 
editor  gives,  as  the  concluding  portion,  "  w^  mi 
MERCATORI."  For  these  somewhat  puzzling  words, 
which  Archdall  copied  from  Lodge  without  cor- 
rection, read  "  v^  MIHI  PECCATORI."  ABHBA. 

THE  NEW  BISHOP  or  CORK.  —  The  following 
lines,  written  whilst  Bishop  Gregg's  appointment 
was  still  pending,  may  perhaps  find  a  place  in 
your  columns.  It  will  be  remembered  that  Dean 
Graves  and  Dr.  Magee,  of  Enniskillen,  were  men- 
tioned as  likely  to  Lsucceed  Bp.  Fitzgerald  at 
Cork. 

"  Who  shall  have  the  vacant  See, 
Down  beside  the  River  Lee, 
Gregg,  or  Graves,  or  Will  Magee  ? 
Asked  a  stranger  curiously. 

"  Graves's  manners  are  too  cold ; 
Magee  has  time  ere  he  grow  old  ; 
Gregg  shall  be  shepherd  of  the  fold, 
Answered  Carlisle  presently." 

D.  S.  E. 

MORTARS  AND  CANNON. — The  Archceologia,  1790, 
pi.  xxxvii.,  illustrates  a  mortar  at  Bridge  Green, 
of  cast  and  wrought  iron,  used  by  the  people  on 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


505 


«  Hon.  W.  J.  Skeffington  - 
Hon.  Chichester  Skeffington 
Skeffington  Thompson,  Esq. 
Alex.  Stewart,  Esq. 


holidays,  &c.  It  also  mentions  that  the  first  gum 
•were  made  at  Buxted  furnace,  about  ten  miles 
from  Lewes,  Surrey  (p.  472).  W.  P. 

CURIOUS  ELECTION  RETURN.  —  At  the  election 
for  the  borough  of  Antrim,  in  1776,  the  members 
were  as  follows  at  the  close  of  the  poll :  — 

-  162 

-  162 

-  134 

-  134" 

Each  party  seems  to  have  exerted  itself  to  the 
utmost.  A.  T.  L. 

PAPA  AND  MAMMA.  —  To  listen  to  the  conver- 
sation of  young  people  in  the  present  day,  one 
•would  think  that  fathers  and  mothers  were  as 
much  things  of  the  past  as  hair- powder  and 
patches  ;  and  that  the  world  was  getting  on  quite 
as  well  without  them  as  it  contrives  to  do  without 
other  articles  which  are  now  denounced  as  un- 
fashionable.- We  have  no  means  of  obtaining 
accurate  statistical  information  on  the  subject ; 
but  it  is  scarcely  possible  that  railways  can  have 
done  more  to  extirpate  mail-coaches,  than  have 
modern  slang  and  modern  affectation  to  exter- 
minate all  traces  of  the  names  by  which  children 
•were  formerly  wont  to  address  their  parents.  The 
managers  of  the  Crystal  Palace,  always  on  the 
alert  to  add  to  the  attractions  of  Sydenham,  will 
doubtless,  ere  long,  place  accurate  representations 
of  a  middle-class  father  and  mother  amongst  the 
other  extinct  animals  which  grace  their  grounds. 
Meanwhile,  in  anticipation  of  the  new  official  guide, 
which  shall  be  published  when  these  interesting 
objects  are  ready  for  public  inspection,  I  would 
ask  when  the  first  sign  of  decadence  in  fathers 
and  mothers  began  to  appear  ?  When  papas  and 
mammas  were  proposed  as  "  efficient  substitutes  "? 
and  if  the  innovation  met  with  the  ridicule  which 
at  deserved  ?  ST.  SWITHIN. 


i  the  first  day  of  the  year  1752;  and  "the  natural 
!  day  next  immediately  following  the  second  day  of 
i  September,"  in  the  same  year,  became  the  14th  in- 
stead of  the  3rd  of  that  month ;  and  the  sixth  sec- 
tion provided,  inter  alia,  that  nothing  in  the  Act 
"  should  be  construed  to  extend  to  ...  the  time 
of  the  attaining  the  age  of  one- and- twenty  years, 
or  any  other  age,  ...  by  any  person  or  persons 
whomsoever  now  born  or  who  shall  be  born  before 
the  said  14th  day  of  September  (1752),  .  .  .  and 
...  no  person  or  persons  whatsoever  shall  be 
deemed  or  taken  to  have  attained  the  age  of  one- 
and-twenty  years,  or  any  other  such  age  as  afore- 
said, .  .  .  until  the  full  number  of  years  and  days 
shall  be  elapsed  on  which  such  person  or  per- 
sons respectively  would  have  attained  such  age 
...  in  case  this  act  had  not  been  made.1'  Thus, 
the  Calendar  was,  if  I  may  so  express  myself, 
pulled  up  ten  days,  so  that  the  14th  immediately 
followed  the  2nd  of  Sept.  1752;  and  that  having 
the  like  effect  on  every  succeeding  month,  the 
4th  of  June,  N.S.,  took  the  place  of  the  25th  of 
May,  O.S.;  and  the  14th  of  June,  N.S.,  took  the 
place  of  the  4th  of  June,  O.S.,  in  the  year  1753. 
Therefore,  it  was  on  the  14th  of  June,  1753,  that 
George  III.  completed  his  fifteenth  year ;  and  on 
that  day,  and  not  on  the  4th,  in  every  subsequent 
year,  the  anniversary  of  his  birth-day  should  have 
been  celebrated.  Yet,  for  sixty  years,  and  through- 
out the  British  dominions,  it  was  celebrated  ten 
days  earlier  than  it  should  have  been!  I  hope 
I  have  not  "  discovered  a  mare's  nest" !  Has  the 
question  ever  before  been  mooted  ?  ERIC. 

Ville  Marie,  Canada. 


BIRTH-DAY  OF  GEORGE  III. 

I  should  be  glad  to  see  it  clearly  explained, 
that  the  birth-day  of  this  monarch  was  celebrated, 
throughout  his  reign  of  sixty  years,  on  the  right 
day,  namely,  the  fourth  of  June. 

That  day,  in  the  year  1738,  has  invariably  been 
stated  to  have  been  the  date  of  his  birth.  Now, 
that  must  have  been  according  to  the  Julian  Ca- 
lendar, or  old  style,  then  in  use  in  England,  as  the 
Act  of  Parliament  passed  in  the  24th  year  of  the 
reign  of  George  II.,  c.  23,  which  substituted  the 
new  for  the  old  style,  did  not  come  into  form 
until  "  from  and  after  the  last  day  of  December, 
1751;"  when,  by  the  operation  of  the  first  sec- 
tion, the  next  following  day,  the  1st  of  January, 
instead  of  the  following  25th  of  March,  became 


JOHN  NORDEN  THE  TOPOGRAPHER. 

In  my  Descriptive  Catalogue  of  the  Works  of 
the  Camden  Society,  I  have  stated  that  — 

"  John  Norden  was  a  surveyor  patronised'  by  Lord 
Burghley.  It  is  doubtful  whether  a  contemporary  John 
Norden,  the  author  of  many  religious  books,  was  the 
same  individual  or  no." 

In  making  that  statement  I  was  guided  by  the 
facts  stated  by  Sir  Henry  Ellis  that,  whilst  on  the 
one  hand  Anthony  a  Wood  ascribes  |to  one  and 
the  same  person  the  devotional  pieces  and  the 
Speculum  Britannia,  Granger  thought  The  Pen- 
sive Man's  Practice,  which  passed  through  forty 
editions,   The  Progress  of  Piety,  which   was  re- 
printed by  the  Parker  Society  in  1847,  and  the 
rest  of  those   books   in  divinity,    "  belonged  to 
another  person,  possibly  his  father."     Sir  Henry 
,  Ellis   did    not  notice  that  Hearne,  as  well  as 
i  Anthony  a  Wood,  ascribed  both  classes  of  books 
i  to  one  writer ;  and  tells  the  following  anecdote 
regarding  his  religious  authorship :  — 

41  This  Mr.  Norden  had  a  Patent  about  concealed  Land?, 
\  and  being  found  out  in  some  faults,  such  as  backward- 
ness in  returning  the  money,  &a,  it  occasioned  him  to 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


'[3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  28,  '62. 


write  his  pious  books,  whereof  there  are  several."— Notes 
at  the  end  of  Liber  Niger  Scaccarii,  8vo,  1728,  p.  751.) 

Whatever  may  be  the  value  of  this  story,  it  is 
a  somewhat  interesting  point  of  literary  history 
to  be  ascertained,  and  it  is  certainly  strange 
if,  among  so  many  works  of  both  classes,  there 
are  not  some  passages  that  would  identify,  or 
effectually  distinguish,  the  writer  or  writers. 

At  the  end  of  The  Language  of  Arms,  by  Syl- 
vanus  Morgan,  1666,  there  is  an  important  pas- 
sage regarding  the  works  of  I^orden,  that  is 
unnoticed  by  Sir  Henry  Ellis :  — 

"  The  Author  doth  also  advise,  that  he  had,  and  can 
still  procure,  several  pieces  of  John  Norden  his  Speculum 
Britannia,  viz.  Kent,  Essex,  Surrey,  Sussex,  Hampshire, 
the  Isles  of  Whight,  Gersey,  and  Gurnesey." 

IsTow,  as  of  all  these  portions  of  Norden's  very 
interesting  work,  the  only  one  since  published  is 
Essex  (by  the  Camden  Society  in  1840),  it  is 
much  to  be  regretted  that  the  rest  should  have 
been  either  lost,  or,  if  any  of  them  are  still  lurking 
in  manuscript  stores,  that  they  should  not  be 
drawn  forth  from  their  hiding  places.  Can  any  of 
the  readers  of  "  N.  &  Q."  assist  in  effecting  that 
desirable  object  ?  t,  JOHN  GOUGH  NICHOLS. 


BAXUS.  —  I  find  this  as  English  for  a  house  or 
residence  :  — 

"Paschalis  episconus,  halltatlonem  Anglorum  (Baxus 
eorum  lingua  nuncupatam)  combustam,  audiens,  et  ex 
iisdem  incendiis  pene  totam  porticum  quas  ducit  ad  ba- 
silicam  apostolorum  devastari,"  &c. — Anastasius  Biblioth. 
in  Pasch.y  quoted  in  Giov.  Severano's  Memorie  Sacre, 
1G30. 

The  nearest  modern  equivalent  to  JBaxus  is 
box;  "the  Cit's  country  box"  What  is  the 
word  really  meant?  Paschal  belongs  to  A.I>.  817 
—824.  B.  H.  C. 

"  COSUR  VAILLANT."  —  In  her  recent  work  on 
Henry  IV.  and  Marie  de  Medici,  Miss  Freer  has 
placed  on  the  title-page  the  following  motto  :  — 

"  XA  coaur  vaillant  rien  d'im possible." 

Leqende  de  Henry  IV. 

This  was  the  punning  and  somewhat  arrogant 
motto  of  the  famous  Jacques  Coeur,  the  merchant 
of  Bourges.  When,  and  on  what  occasion,  did 
Henry  IV.  assume  it  ?  CLIO. 

LORD  CHATHAM  :  SPANISH  LANGUAGE.  — 

"  Lord  Chatham,  at  seventy,  learned  Spanish  for  the 
sake  of  enjoying  Don  Quixote.'''— Saturday  Review,  Feb.  1, 
18G2,  p.  125. 

Is  there  any  foundation  for  this  statement,  or  is 
"  Lord  Chatham  "  a  mere  slip  of  the  pen  ? 

W,  D. 

CRAY. — I  am  told  there  is  a  stream  of  this  name, 
and  we  all  know  the  word  occurs  frequently  in 
Kent— St.  Mary's  Cray,  Foot's  Cray,  &c.  All  I 
want  to  know  is,  whether  this  word  is  the  same 


as  the  French  craie,  meaning  chalk.  I  think  it 
is,  and  am  confirmed  in  my  opinion  by  the  word 
crayon,  where  no  doubt  of  the  meaning  can  exist, 
and  where  the  form  cray  appears.  B.  H.  C. 

SIR  EVERARD  DIGBY'S  EXECUTION.* — The  fol- 
lowing appeared  in  the  "  Variety  "  column  of  The 
Birmingham  Saturday  Evening  Post  of  December 
10,  1859:  — 

"  Francis  Lord  Bacon  relates  that  when  the  execu- 
tioner, doing  his  office  upon  Sir  Everard  Digby,  sentenced 
to  be  hanged,  drawn,  and  quartered  for  his  share  in  the 
gunpowder  plot,  plucked  out  his  heart  and  held  it  up. 
exclaiming  as  the  manner  then  was,  '  Here's  the  heart  of 
a  traitor,'  Sir  Everard  made  answer, '  Thou  liest! '  " 

Does  Francis  Lord  Bacon  say  so,  and  if  he  does, 
where  ?  FITZHOPKINS. 

Garrick  Club. 

THE  FACULTY  OF  LAUGHTER  :  DR.  LAST. — 

"  When  we  find  Dr.  Last  asserting,  that  '  to  laugh  is  a 

I  right  given  only  to  man,'  we  recognise  a  portion  of  the 

moral  maxim  of  Epictetus,  which  begins  by  declaring 

that  of  all   animals  it  is  given  to  man  alone  to  be  a 

laughing  animal." — Athenceum,  Oct.  18,  1856. 

What  Dr.  Last  ?  Not  Foote's,  in  The  Devil  to 
Pay  ;  nor  Bickerstaffe's  in  Dr.  Last  in  his  Chariot. 

I  shall  be  obliged  by  a  reference  to  the  passage 
in  Epictetus,  with  whom  the  declaration  was  not 
original.  W.  D. 

GERMAN  POET.  —  In  the  Orbs  of  Heaven,  by 
O.  M.  Mitchell  of  the ''Cincinnati  Observatory, 
the  lecture  (viiij),  on  "  The  Scale  on  which  the 
Universe  is  built,"  is  concluded  by  the  wild  dream 
of  a  German  poet,  which  thus  begins  :  — 

"  God  called  up  from  dreams  a  man  in  the  vestibule  of 
Heaven,  saying, '  Come  thou  hither,  and  see  the  glory  of 
my  house.'  " 

Who  was  the  author  of  this  sublime  composi- 
tion, and  in  what  work  is  it  to  be  found  ? 

ERNEST  W.  BARTLETT. 

KEY.  TIMOTHY  KENT,  A.M.,  DENBY,  YORK- 
SHIRE. —  On  taking  down  the  east  wall  of  the  old 
church  at  Denby,  a  slab  which  had  been  buried 
in  plaister  was  discovered,  and  which  bears  the 
following  inscription.  The  present  rector  has  very 
properly  inserted  it  into  the  wall  of  the  new 
church,  and  inside  instead  of  outside  as  formerly. 
I  will  give  an  exact  copy :  — 

"Christum   olim  venturum  hie  praestolatur  Timotheus 

Kent, 
Artium  Magister,  et  hujus  Ecclesiaj  nuper  Minister 

Pastor 
Probus,  tidelis,  (si  quis  alius)  Vigilantissimus  Concio- 

nator, 
Assiduus,    utilis,    Facundus;    Argumentorum    tamen 

acumine 
Et  pondere,   quam   Verborum  Jenocinio  et  jactantia 

potentior 

*  See  Execution  of  Argyle,  3rd  S.  i.  397,  457. 


S'd  S.  I.  JUNE  28,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


507 


Vir  bonus,  et  elogio  melior.  At  qua  non  potest  Manner 

Propriae  Virtutes  et  Amicorum  desideria  loquentur. 
Obijt  Aug.  28,  anno  domino  1691." 

(I  wonder  who  penned  it  ?)  But  ray  Query  is 
about  the  Rev.  Timothy  Kent— What  college? 
Can  you  give  me  any  information  about  him  ?° 

GEORGE  LLOYD. 

LAE-CHOW  ISLANDS.  —  It  was  remarked  by  a 
traveller  who  visited  the  Lae-chow  Islands,  on 
the  north-eastern  coast  of  Siberia,  that  one  of 
these  islands  is  little  more  than  a  mass  'of  the 
bones  of  extinct  elephants.  Can  a  reference  be 
given  to  the  book,  its  author,  and  publisher  ? 

EENEST  W.  BARTLETT. 

MAP  or  THE  COUNTY  or  DOWN.  —  I  have  a 
copy  of  a  rather  larged-sized  and  curious  "  Map  of 
the  County  of  Downe,  with  a  Chart  of  the  Sea 
Coast,  done  from  Actual  Surveys  and  accurate 
Observations,  1755.  John  Ridge,  Sculp."  To 
whom  are  we  indebted  for  it,  the  surveyor's  name 
not  appearing  thereon  ?  ABHBA. 

NATIONAL  SYNODS.  —  This  question  is  now  ex- 
citing much  interest,  especially  since  the  memorial 
of  the  Irish  Bishops  on  this  subject  has  been  pre- 
sented to  her  majesty.  Has  any  national  synod 
assembled  since  1540,  when  Henry  VIII.  sum- 
moned one  to  annul  his  marriage  with  Anne  of 
Cleves?  A.  T.  L. 

"  NORTHERN  IRIS."  —  Can  any  of  your  Aber- 
deen readers  give  information  regarding  a  perio- 
dical called  The  Northern  Iris  ?  Who  was  the 
editor  ?  It  was  published  by  A.  Stevenson,  Aber- 
deen. ZETA. 

J.  NELSON'S  "  MISCELLANY."  —  In  a  volume  of  | 
Miscellanies  by  Jas.  Nelson,  apothecary,  London,  j 
1786,  there   is  a  comedy  of  considerable  merit 
called    The   Sentimental  Mother.     Where  is   the 
scene  of  the  comedy,  the  dramatis  personce,  &c.  ? 
See  a  notice  of  it  in  Nichols's  Literary  Anecdotes, 
vol.  ix.  ZETA. 

SARK.  —  During  my  absence  on  the  Continent 
for  the  last  few  months  there  appeared  in  one  of 
the  periodicals  an  interesting  little  article  on  Sark, 
one  of  the  Channel  Islands.  To  this,  being  about 
to  visit  the  island,  I  am  anxious  to  refer.  I  should 
be  much  obliged  for  the  information,  from  some 
one,  of  where  I  may  look  for  said  article  ? 

A  CONSTANT  READER. 

TREBLE.  — I  put  a  Query  (2nd  S.  i.  195.)  re- 
garding the  origin  of  the  word  treble,  but  got  no 
satisfactory  answer.  I  have  since  read  that  it  is 
derived  from  thuribularius,  an  incense-bearer. 
The  thuribularii  were  boys,  and  hence  the  de- 
nomination treble  was  applied  to  boys,  and  so  to 
their  voices.  I  dare  say  F.  C.  H.  can  give  me 
some  information.  NOTSA. 

TURKEYCOCKS. — In  the  Catalogue  of  the  Sheriffs 
of  the  County  of  Devon,  at  the  end  of  Izacke's 


Antiquities  of  the  City  of  Exeter  (1677),  I  find  in 
the  32nd  year  of  Edward  III.  :  — 

"  William  Yoo  bears  Argent  a  chevron  sable,  between 
three  turkeycocks  in  their  pride  proper." 

Is  there  any  sufficient  authority  for  the  suppo- 
sition that  turkeycocks  formed  part  of  any  armo- 
rial bearings  so  early  as  the  reign  of  Edward  III.  ? 

CLIO. 

WALSINGHAM  FAMILY.  — What  was  the  affinity 
between  the  celebrated  Sir  Francis  Walsingham 
and  Sir  Edmund  Walsingham,  who  was  Lieutenant 
of  the  Tower  of  London  for  twenty-two  years  ? 

See  Hasted's  Kent,  vol  i.  p.  99,  where  it  is  stated 
of  Sir  Edmund  that  he  was  son  of  Sir  Jameg  W., 
and  had  a  brother  James,  and  that  brother  James 
married  Eleanor,  eldest  daughter  and  coheir  of 
Walter  Writtle,  of  the  county  of  Essex,  and  died 
1540,  and  that  he  had  four  sons  and  seven  daugh- 
ters, and  "  one  of  the  sons  was  that  famous  states- 
man Sir  Francis  Walsingham."  According  to  this, 
Sir  Francis  was  nephew  to  Sir  Edmund. 

See  Lodge's  Portraits,  vol.  iii.,  where  it  is  stated 
that  "  Sir  Francis  was  third  and  youngest  son  of 
Wm.  Walsingham  of  Scadbury,  in  Chiselhurst,  by 
Joyce,  daughter  of  Sir  Edmund  Denny  of  Ches- 
hunt,  in*  Herts." 

Hasted  says  that  Sir  Edmund  succeeded  his 
father  in  his  estate  of  Seadbury,  and  married 
Eleanor,  daughter  of  John  Gunter,  Esq.,  of  Surrey, 
by  whom  he  had  Thomas  (afterwards  knighted), 
and  Mary,  Alice,  and  Eleanor.  I  should  be  glad 
to  know  whether  Alice  and  Eleanor  married. 
Mary  married  Sir  Thos.  Barnardiston,  Knight,  of 
Ketton,  in  Suffolk.  Is  this  contradiction  in  the 
pedigree  of  the  historical  family  of  Walsingham 
capable  of  explanation  with  certainty  ?  A.  K. 


toftft 

BP.  CLAYTON,  OF  CLOGHER. — In  the  Edinburgh 
Review,  No.  ex.,  mention  is  made  of  an  Arian 
Treatise,  published  by  Bp.  Clayton  in  1751,  but 
not  written  by  himself.  The  Irish  Convocation,  it  is 
said,  determined  to  proceed  against  him,  when  he 
was  seized  with  a  nervous  fever  which  terminated 
his  life  in  1758.  Is  anything  known  of  the  real 
author  of  this  treatise,  and  where  can  I  find  any 
record  of  the  proceedings  of  the  Irish  Convocation 
above  mentioned  ?  ALFRED  T.  LEE. 

[The  name  of  the  real  author  of  the  celebrated  disser- 
tation, An  Essay  on  Spirit,  8vo,  1751,  has  never,  we  be- 
lieve, been  avowed.  This  work,  though  ascribed  to  Dr. 
Clayton,  was,  in  fact,  the  production  of  a  young  clergy- 
man in  his  diocese,  whom  he  befriended  so  far  as  to  take 
the  expense  and  responsibility  of  the  publication  upon 
himself.  It  was  in  1757,  after  Bishop  Clayton  had  pub- 
lished the  third  part  of  his  Vindication  of  the  Hittone*  of 
the  Old  and  New  Testament  (in  which  he  renewed  his 
attacks  upon  the  Trinity),  that  the  King  ordered  the 
Lord  Lieutenant  to  take  the  proper  steps  toward  *  legal 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  28,  '62. 


prosecution  of  him.  A  day  was  fixed  for  a  general  meet- 
ing of  the  Irish  prelates  (not  the  Convocation)  at  the 
house  of  the  primate,  to  which  Dr.  Clayton  was  sum- 
moned, that  he  might  receive  from  them  the  notification  of 
their  intentions.  But,  before  the  time  appointed,  he  was 
seized  with  a  nervous  fever,  of  which  he  died  on  the  26th 
February,  1758.  Burdy,  in  his  Life  of  the  Rev.  Philip 
Skelton,  mentions  an  anecdote  that  Bishop  Clayton  con- 
sulted a  lawyer  of  eminence  on  the  subject  of  the  commis- 
sion, and  asked  if  he  thought  that  he  should  lose  his  bishop- 
rick.  "  My  Lord,"  he  answered,  "  I  believe  you  will." 
"  Sir,"  he  replied,  "  you  have  given  me  a  stroke  which  I 
shall  never  get  the  better  of."  Whereupon  he  was  in- 
stantly seized  with  a  disorder,  and  soon  after  died.] 

"  LE  CHEF-D'(EUVRE  D'UN  INCONNU." — Can  you 
give  me  any  information  respecting  a  curious  old 
book  which  I  have  lately  picked  up  on  a  book- 
stand in  this  city  ?  It  is  of  12mo.  size,  and  en- 
titled—  Le  Chef-d"CEuvre  dun  Inconnu,  Poeme 
heureusement  decouvert  et  mis  au  jour,  avec  des 
remarques  savantes  et  recherchees,  par  M.  le  Doc- 
teur  Chrisostome  Matanasius.  Quatrieme  edition. 
'A  la  Haye,  cher  Pierre  Husson,  1716.  It  is 
prefaced  by  recommendatory  verses  in  several 
languages,  but  with  regard  to  those  purporting  to 
be  in  Hebrew  and  Greek,  I  have  discovered  that 
the  former  are  merely  French,  and  the  latter 
English  rhymes  spelled  in  the  characters  of  those 
languages.  I  have  failed  to  make  out  any  object 
aimed  at  by  the  publication  of  the  book,  unless, 
perhaps,  it  be  to  ridicule  the  critics  of  the  time.  I 
should,  however,  like  to  have  the  opinion  of  some- 
body else  who  may  have  met  with  it  before  con- 
sidering it  (as  I  am  at  present  very  much  inclined 
to  do)  a  worthless  squib,  written  by  somebody 
who  felt  time  hanging  heavily  on  his  hands,  to 
while  away  the  ennui  of  his  abundant  leisure. 

T.  T. 

Trinity  College,  Dublin. 

[A  good  account  of  the  author  of  this  work,  whose  real 
name  was  Saint-Hyacinthe  (Hyacinthe  Cordonnier),  may 
be  seen  in  the  Biographic  Universelle.  The  work  itself 
appears  to  have  attracted  much  attention,  and  speedily 
ran  through  several  editions.  "  The  work  which  did  him 
most  credit,  and  to  which  he  owes  all  his  renown,  is  the 
Chef-d'oeuvre  d'un  Inconnu,  which  he  published  in  1714. 
This  Chef-d'ceuvre,  as  is  well  known,  is  a  popular  song, 
which  he  embellished  with  a  mock  commentary,  and  with 
all  those  prolegomena  with  which  Dutch  scholars  accom- 
pany their  editions  of  the  classics.  It  was  a  most  clever 
and  witty  expose  of  erudition  carried  to  excess,  and  in- 
flicted a  blow  from  which  pedantry  has  never  recovered. 
The  success  of  this  work  was  extraordinary.  Three 
editions,  printed  nearly  all  at  once,  scarce  satisfied  the 
impatience  of  readers.  Saint-  Hyacinthe,  who  had  con- 
cealed his  name,  had  the  satisfaction  of  seeing  his  work 
attributed  to  Fontenelle  and  to  La  Monnoye ;  and  when  he 
became  known  as  the  author,  he  could  not  resist  the  invi- 
tation which  he  received  to  Paris,  where  he  was  made 
welcome  by  the  literary  chiefs."  The  work  was  reprinted 
with  additions.  The  most  complete  is  that  published  by 
P.  X.  Leschevin,  Paris,  1807,  in  two  large  vols.  8vo.  pre- 
ceded by  a  "  Notice  "  of  103  pages  on  the  life  and  writ- 
ings of  Saint- Hyacinthe.  It  contains  amongst  other 
things  the  Anti-Mathanase,  a  mock  critique  on  the  Chef- 
d'oeuvre.] 


MAPHEUS  VEGIDS.  —  Can  you  give  me  any  in- 
formation relative  to  a  work  in  my  library  which 
unfortunately  is  defective  after  folio  xciii.  ?  The 
following  is  a  copy  of  the  title  :  — 

"  Maphei  Vegii  Laudesis  diuinaru  scripturarum  cu  pri- 
mia  peritissimi  oratoris  He  &  poete  celeberrimi  Martini- 
pape  quinti  Datarij :  De  perseueratia  religionis  libri 
septe  elegatia  no  minusq.  sententie  grauitate  redolentes." 

Then  follows  a  printer's  device,  with  "  BREM- 
BOLT  "  on  a  scroll  near  the  bottom.  Next  comes 
sixteen  lines  in  Latin  verse,  inscribed  "  Joannes 
Noctuinus  ad  lectorem." 

The  above  is  surrounded  by  a  neat  border,  but 
there  is  neither  date  nor  place  of  printing.  The 
dedicatory  epistle  commences  on  the  back  of  the 
title,  and  is  followed  by  an  "  Index  Alphabeticus 
annotatorum  in  hoc  opusculo."  J.  M. 

[Mapheus  Vegius,  a  Latin  poet  of  the  fifteenth  century, 
was  born  at  Lodi  in'l406,and  died  at  Rome  in  1459.  The- 
poem  for  which  he  is  most  celebrated  is  his  Supplement 
to  the  JEneid.  He  imagined  that  Virgil  had  not  con- 
cluded that  work,  and  therefore  resolved  to  add  a  thir- 
teenth book.  Ghilini,  (Teafro,part  ii.  p.  188),  erroneously- 
thought  that  the  seven  books  De  Perseveranlia  Religionis 
were  never  printed.  Our  correspondent's  copy  is  deficient 
of  the  last  three  leaves.  On  fol.  xcvi.  is  the  following 
imprint:  " Parisius  per  magistrum  Bertholdum  Rembolt 
&  lohannern  vvaterloes  In  Sole  Aureo  vici  Diui  lacobi. 
Anno  dni  millesimo  quingentesimo  vndecimo.  Die  vero- 
xxiii.  Octobris."  An  epitome  in  manuscript  of  the  cele- 
brated work  of  Vegius,  De  Liberorum  Educatione,  dated 
1444,  was  sold  in  the  miscellaneous  portion  of  the  Libri 
library  (lot  7327)  on  July  26,  1861.] 

PEACOCK'S  WORKS.  —  There  are  few  if  anj 
books  that  I  oftener  or  with  greater  pleasure 
recur  to,  than  those  inimitable  admixtures  of  learn- 
ing, shrewdness,  satire,  and  genuine  warmhearted- 
ness, pervaded  by  such  a  thorough  abhorrence  of 
cant  and  humbug,  the  one-vol.  novelettes  of  Pea- 
cock. I  believe  I  have  all  his  works,  namely, 
Headlong  Hall,  Nightmare  Abbey,  Maid  Marian, 
Crochet  Castle,  Melincourt,  and  GryU  Grange, 
the  last  of  which  originally  appeared  in  Frasers 
Magazine',  and  in  its  republication  presents  a 
choice  specimen  of  what  typography  has  been,  but 
what,  alas !  it  seldom  is  now ;  and  in  which,  as 
Lord  Facing-both-ways,  the  President  of  the  Panto- 


pragmatic  Society,  1  was  delighted  to  recognise 
again  "the  learned  friend"  of  Crochet  Castle. 
Can  you  or  any  of  the  correspondents  of  "  N.  &  Q." 
inform  me  whether  the  above  comprise  the  whole 
of  Mr.  Peacock's  published  works  ?  ION. 

[Add  the  following:  The  Philosophy  of  Melancholyr 
a  poem  in  four  parts,  with  a  Mythological  Ode.  Lond. 
4to,  1812.  Also,  Recollections  of  Childhood,  in  "Tales  from 
Bentley,"  Part  I.  8vo,  1859.] 

BIDDENDEN  MAIDS.  —Where  can  I  find  any 
notice  of  the  Biddenden  maids  —  a  pair  of  ancient 
twins,  a  la  Siamese?  Some  of  your  Kentish 
readers  will  doubtless  be  able  to  tell  us  how  the 
curious  Easter  cake  distribution  arose,  and  what 
its  concomitants  are.  I  have  one  of  the  cakes,. 


3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  28,  '62.3 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


509 


which  remarkably  resembles  some  of  the  leaden 
antiques  now  so  much  debated.  I  also  have  a 
small  handbill  about  the  "  Biddenden  maids,"  but 
I  want  the  real  history  and  mystery.  B.  H.  C. 

[Hasted  says  (anno  1798),  that  the  print  of  the  woman 
on  the  cakes  "  has  taken  place  only  within  these  fifty 
years ;  "  and  that  the  truth  seems  to  be,  that  the  land 
was  the  gift  of  two  maidens  named  Preston.  It  is  there- 
fore extremely  probable  that  the  story  of  the  conjoined 
Biddenham  Maids,  has  arisen  solely  from  the  rude  im- 
pression on  the  cakes,  and  been  chiefly  promulgated  by 
two  hand-bills,  one  of  which  is  entitled  "A  Short  but 
Concise  Account  of  Elizabeth  and  Mary  Chulkhurst ; " 
and  the  other  printed  by  Hone  ( Every -Day  Book,  ii.  443) 
called  "  A  New  and  Enlarged  Account  of  the  Biddenden 
Maids  in  Kent,  born  joined  at  the  Hips  and  Shoulders." 
That  there  were  really  no  such  persons,  the  silence  of  all 
the  early  historians  of  Kent  on  the  subject  affords  a 
strong  presumption;1  and  also  the  proceedings  on  a  suit 
in  the  Exchequer,  brought  for  the  recovery  of  the  lands, 
as  given  for  the  augmentation  of  the  Glebe,  by  the  Rev. 
W.  Homer,  Rector  of  Biddenden,  in  1656,  who  was,  how- 
ever, nonsuited.  Vide  Hasted's  Kent,  vii.  138;  Gent. 
Mag.  xl.  372;  Brand's  Antiquities  (Bohn's  edition), 
i.  166 ;  Beauties  of  England  and  Wales,  viii.  1207 ;  and 
"N.  &  Q."  2nd  S.  ii.  404.  It  may  be  remarked,  that  a 
similar  tale  is  told  of  two  females  whose  figures  appear 
on  the  pavement  of  Norton  St.  Philip  Churdh,  in  Somer- 
setshire.] 

SIR  THOMAS  MOKE.  —  What  was  the  date  of 
Sir  Thomas  More's  marriage  ?  P.  R. 

£Foss,  in  his  Judges  of  England,  v.  207,  states  that  Sir 
Thomas  More  married  the  eldest  daughter  of  one  Maister 
Colte,  a  gentleman  of  Essex,  in  1505.] 


COLE,  OF  SCARBOROUGH,  WORKS. 

(3'd  S.  i.  387.) 

I  knew  a  person  of  this  name,  and  probably 
the  one  R.  INGLIS  asks  after.  Something  like 
thirty  years  ago,  a  widower,  John  Cole,  and  his 
family,  went  from  Scarborough,  I  believe  to  live 
at  Wellingborough.  There  Cole  opened  a  small 
school,  and  placed  geological  specimens,  &c.,  in 
his  window  for  sale.  He  was  a  quiet  man,  and 
•was  regarded  as  very  eccentric,  because  he 
and  his  sons  would  go  out  all  cfay,  and  return 
laden  with  wild  plants,  &c.  Cole  wrote  a  small 
history  of  Northampton,  and  topographical  no- 
tices of  Ecton,  Weston-Favel,  Filey^&c.  He 
wrote,  and  published  by  subscription  in  1838,  a 
History  of  Wellingborough,  and  sometime  after  a 
History  of  Higham  Ferrers  and  other  places  near 
it.  His  industrious  curiosity  was  never  appre- 
ciated in  Northamptonshire,  where  he  dragged  out 
a  miserable  existence.  From  Wellingborpugh  he 
removed  to  Ringstead  or  some  village  in  its  vici- 
nity, where  he  ransacked  every  nook  for  relics  of 
antiquity  and  natural  curiosities.  One  of  the  last 
things  I  heard  of  him  was  his  finding  one  or  two 
Saxon  graves  in  the  valley  of  the  Nen,  with 


skeletons  and  iron  weapons.  The  bones  and  wea- 
pons in  part  1  saw,  but  one  of  the  latter  bad  been 
ground  down  by  its  possessor,  and  stuck  in  a 
handle  to  do  duty  as  a  small  knife  !  I  was  in- 
formed that  Cole  was  in  great  want  and  distress 
at  the  time  of  his  death  in  the  retreat  I  have 
alluded  to.  He  died  probably  ten  years  ago. 
That  this  is  the  John  Cole  inquired  after  is  toler- 
ably evident.  The  Herveiarw  was  doubtless  by 
the  author  of  the  History  of  Weston-Favel  ;  and 
as  the  writer  of  the  notice  of  Filey,  it  is  plain 
that  he  was  one  of  the  Coles  whose  names  are  not 
unknown  in  the  literary  history  of  Yorkshire.  I 
remember,  too,  that  when  J.  Cole  first  came  to 
Wellingborough,  I,  as  a  boy,  was  fond  of  reading 
the  little  books  about  Scarborough  in  rhyme,  &cn 
which  he  exhibited  in  his  window.  The  only 
man  I  knew  who  could  relate  this  man's  painful 
history  is  now  no  longer  with  us.  B.  H.  C. 

In  reply  to  the  inquiry  of  your  correspondent 
R.  INGLIS,  I  enclose  a  letter  from  John  Cole,  the 
Scarborough  bookseller. 

It  was  addressed  to  my  late  brother  in  1837, 
and  contains  a  list  of  Mr.  Cole's  various  publica- 
tions; among  others,  that  alluded  to  by  MB. 
INGLIS. 

1.  History  of  Northampton  and  it*  Vicinity.    Fcap. 
8vo,  pp.  151.    With  a  view  of  Queen's  Cross.    North- 
ampton, 1815. 

2.  The  Talents  of  Edmund  Kean  delineated.    Demy 
8vo,  pp.  19.    A  limited  impression. 

3.  A  Catalogue  of  Standard  Books,  made  out  on  an 
entirely  new  plan.    Fcap.  8vo,  pp.  8.    The  titles  of  books 
are  here  formed  into  aenigmas. 

4.  An  /Enigmatical  Catalogue  of  Books  of  Merit,  on  i 
entirely  new  plan.    Fcap.  8vo,  pp.  44.    Scarbro',  18 
The  above  is  a  second  edit.,  enlarged,  of  Ho.  6.    A  single 

C°  5?  'A  Key  to  Cole's  Enigmatical  Catalogue  of  Books. 
Fcap.  8vo,  pp.  1C,  1821. 

6  Herveiana;  or,  Graphic  and  Literary  Sketches,  il- 
lustrative of  the  Life  and  Writing*  of  the  Rev  James 
Hervey,  M.A.,  1822,3,  6.  3  Parts.  Fcap.  8vo  Twenty- 
five  of  each  part  in  post  8vo.  6  of  Part  1.  on  untad  paper. 
Appended  to  Part  II.  are  several  Ongjn.1  Letters  of 
Hervey,  never  before  printed.  An  unpublished  dedica- 


rap  and  Historical  Sketches  of  Scarborough, 
with  several  fine  wood  engravings  by  Mason.  Fcap.  8vo. 
Scarb.  1822.  50  copies  on  large  paper;  1  tinted. 

8.  Bibliographical  and  Descriptive  Tour    from  Scar- 
borough to  the  Library  of  a  PhilobibhsU    1824.^ 
impression  of  this  work  consisted  of  only   150   copies. 
Post  8vo;  50  on  writing  demy,  and  12  on  tinted  paper 
A  few  supplementary  pages  were  afterwards  printed,  bi 


.Thecaroroug      Repository    conning   of  bu, 
torical,  biographical,  and  topographical  subjects.    1 


a- 


510 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  28,  '62. 


Northampton.  Demy  Svo,  1825.  Only  150  printed.  A  few 
on  demy  writing,  and  on  tinted  post.    A  cancelled  sheet. 

13.  Memoirs  of  the  Life,  Writings,  and  Character  of 
the  late  Thomas  Hinderwell,  Esq.,  author  of  The  History 
and  Antiquities  of  Scarborough.   Demy  8vo,  1826.    Only 
250  printed,  and  18  on  4to. 

14.  The  Antiquarian  Trio.    Demy  Svo,  1826.    An  un- 
published leaf  was  printed  for  this  pamphlet.    1826. 

15.  The  Antiquarian  Bijou,  1829.    A  few  copies  on 
drawing  paper. 

16.  The  Antiquarian  Casket,  1829.    A  few  copies  on 
drawing  paper. 

17.  A  Tour  round  Scarborough,  historically  and  bibli- 
ographically  unfolded.    Demy  8vo,  1826.    Only  25  copies, 
with  a  few  on  tinted  paper.    There  are  etchings  attached 
to  this  work,  which  are  different  in  all  the  copies.    There 
are  two  copies  so  arranged  in  regard  to  the  letter-press  as 
to  introduce  a  portrait  of  Eginus,  a  fancied  character  in 
the  Tour. 

18.  Bookselling  spiritualised.    Books  and  articles  of 
stationery  rendered  monitors  of   religion.    Demy  8vo, 
1826.     Only  60  copies. 

19.  The  History  and  Antiquities  of  Weston  Favell,  in 
the  Co.  of  Northampton,  demy  8vo.     Portrait  of  Her- 
vey;    his  birth-place;    rectory-house;    and    figures    on 
bricks,  1827.     Only  50  printed. 

20.  The  Scarborough  Souvenir.    Fcap.  8vo,  with  fron- 
tispiece, 1827. 

21.  The  History  and  Antiquities  of  Filey,  in  the  Co. 
of  York.    Demy  8vo.    Views  of  the  Bay  and  Church  of 
Filey,   and   the  Representation,  of  an  undescribed  Bird. 
12  copies  on  tinted  paper.    The  whole  impression  small, 
1828. 

22.  The  Scarborough  Collector  and   Journal   of   the 
Olden  Time.    Demy  8vo,  with  plates,  1828.    Only  150 
printed. 

23.  A  Biographical  Account  of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Bot- 
tomley,  of  Scarborough.     Demy  8vo,   pp.   22.     A  few 
copies  on  tinted  paper. 

24.  A  Biographical  Sketch  of  the  late  Robert  North, 
Esq.,  the  Founder  of  the  Amicable  Society,  Scarborough. 
Demy  8vo,  pp.  15,  1823.    A  few  8vo  copies  tinted,  and  a 
few  on  4to.  paper. 

25.  A  Descriptive  Catalogue  of  a  Select  Portion  of  the 
Stock  of  John  Cole.     Demy  8vo,   1825.     2   copies  on 
drawing  paper,  6  on  tinted  paper,  25  medium  writing, 
being  the  whole  impression. 

26.  A  Pleasant    and  Profitable  Journey  to   London. 
Fcap.  8vo,  pp.  1 1.     Scarborough :  printed  (only  50  copies) 
for  private  distribution,  1828. 

27.  Scarborough  Worthies.    Demy  8vo,  pp.  64,  1826. 
Only  18  copies  printed. 

28.  Tribute  to  the  Memory  of  Mr.  Wm.  Abbott.  Demy 
8vo,  pp.  10,  1827.     Only  a  limited  impression. 

29.  An  Unique  Bibliomaniac  displayed  in  a  biograph- 
ical Account  of  Mr.  Wm.  Abbott,  1827.    Only  6  copies, 
with  the  Catalogue  of  his  Books  complete. 

30.  Dialogues  in  the  Shades  respecting  the  Cliff  Bridge, 
Scarborough.    Demy  8vo,  1827.    Only  a  limited  impres- 
sion. 

31.  Historical    Sketches   of   Scalby,    Burniston,    and 
Cloughton,  with  descriptive  Notices  of  Hayburn  Wyke 
and  Stanton  Dale  in  the  co.  of  York.    Demy  8vo,  1829. 
A  few  copies  on  tinted  paper. 

32.  Le  Petit  Visiteur;  containing  a  Sketch  of  the  His- 
tory of  Scarborough ;  a  Series   of  Cabinet  Views ;  and 
Scarborough  Lyrics  by  a  Lady.     Fcap.  8vo.   1826.     Only 
12  printed. 

33.  Casket  of  Poetry.    Fcap.  8vo,  1827.    12  copies  on 
tinted  paper. 

34.  Bibliotheca  Coleiana :  a  Catalogue  of  the  Collection 
of  Books,  the  private  property  of  John  Cole,  of  Scar- 


borough. Scarborough :  printed  by  John  Cole  for  the 
perusal  of  his  friends,  and  not  for  sale,  1829.  The  whole 
impression  of  this  Catalogue  consists  of  but  4  copies  on 
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WILLIAM  JAMES  SMITH. 
Conservative  Club. 


ARMS  OF  THE  KINGDOM  OF  LEON. 
(3rd  S.  i.  407,  471.) 

I  can  offer  HISP.  some  notes,  which  I  hope  may 
not  be  without  interest  to  him  and  any  other  per- 
sons entertaining  the  question. 

Elias  Reusner,  in  his  Boo-tAt/cwj/  Opus  Genealogi- 
cum  Catholicum  (Frankfort,  1592),  gives  at  p.  53, 
the  "  Stirps  Legionensis,"  that  is,  the  descent  of 
the  Kings  of  Leon.  He  begins  with  Pelagius, 
(Pelayo,  the  founder  of  the  monarchy),  A.D.  722  : 

"  Pelagius,  ex  regio  Gothorum  sanguine, a 


3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  28,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


511 


Christianorum  reliquijs,  quae  in  monies  Asturiaj  confute 

rant,  Rex  consalutatus in  ipso  statim  limine  rein 

hosti  Legionem  civitatem  eripuit :  ubi  seclem  sui  princi 
patus  figens  novum  castellum  ....  extruxit:  unde  comi 
tes  postea  Castellae  dicti :  qui  labentibus  annis  Castel 
laeReges  nominati  sunt.  Dimissis  autemGothoruminsie 
nibus  insignia  cepit  Leonem  rubrum  in  campo  candido 
quibus  hodie  adhuc  Reges  Legionenses  utuntur." 

This  seems  to  be  good  evidence.  But  Andrew 
Favine,  writing  in  1619,  says  (p.  132,  book  vi 
English  edition,  1623)  :  — 

"  Le  Lyon  rempant  de  Gueulles,  ou  de  Sable,  en  champ 
d'Argent,  which  is  given  to  the  Kings  of  Leon  for  arms 
belonged  not  to  Pelagius,  who  is  not  knowne  to  hav< 
any." 

Here  sable  is  given  as  an  alternative  to  gules, 
for  the  lion. 

Then  Father  Silvester  Petra  Sancta,  in  his 
Tessera  Gentilities  (Rome,  1638),  at  p.  672,  blazons 
the  coat  of  Leon  — 

"  lanthinus  leo,  cum  diademate,  lingua,  et  falculis  anreis, 
in  valvulo  argenteo." 

Here  we  have  the  lion  violet,  that  is,  purple ; 
and  it  will  be  noticed  that  the  lion  is  crowned. 
This  distinction  is  often  omitted.  Curiously  enough, 
it  is  omitted  in  the  engraving  of  this  blazon  of 
Petra  Sancta,  on  the  same  page. 

But,  again,  in  the  great  Franciscan  Map  of  the 
Arms  of  the  Popes,  Bishops,  Kings,  Princes,  and 
Nobles,  who  had  been  aggregated  to  that  illustri- 
ous order,  the  fourth  shield  in  the  eleventh  row 
on  the  left  side,  reckoning  from  the  top,  is  labelled 
"  Ex  Regibus  Castillo,"  and  has  Castile  and  Leon 
quarterly.  Here  Leon  is  given,  argent,  a  lion 
rampant  gules,  crowned ;  and  so  elsewhere  in  the 
map.  And  also  in  the  shields  of  nobles  to  whom 
concession  of  part  of  the  royal  bearings  was  made, 
the  lion  appears  gules.  This  map  was  published 
at  Antwerp  in  1650. 

Father  Menestrier,  in  his  La  MetJiode  du  Blason, 
Paris,  1688,  gives,  at  p.  313,  an  engraving  of  the 
Spanish  shield,  in  which  the  lion  is  gules.  Marc' 
Antonio  Ginanni  published  his  UArtedel  Blasone 
at  Venice  in  1756. 

In  blazoning  the  shield  of  Austria  he  says  :  — 
"3  di  Castiglia,  di  rosso  con  un  Castello,  o  maschio  di 
fortezza,  d'oro :  partito  di  Leone,  d'argento  con  un  Leone 
di  rosso,  o,  come  vollero  i  Frames!,  di  porpora" 

This,  probably,  is  the  solution  of  the  question ; 
and  one  would  prefer  taking  a  Spanish  statement. 

Guillim  (p.  381,  ed.  1660,  second  issue),  blazons 
Leon,  "Luna,  a  lion  rampand,  Saturn."  It  is 
worth  noting  that  he  places  Leon  in  the  first  quar- 
ter. Possibly  the  blazon  of  sable,  or  saturn,  may 
have  arisen  from  the  darkening  of  purple  into 
black. 

In  Paul  Wright's  edition  of  Heylyn's  Help  to 
English  History  (1773)  at  John  of  Gaunt's  mar- 
riage with  the  daughter  of  the  King  of  Castile  and 
Leon,  Leon  is  given,  argent,  a,Jion  rampant  pur- 
pure. 


Nisbet,  in  hlaSuttemof  Heraldry,  reprint  of  1816, 
Part  in,  p.  43,  blazons  the  lion  gules,  and  (motes 
Hoppingius  as  saying  of  the  Kings  of  Castile  and 
Leon,  that  they  bear  a  shield  "in  parte  superior! 
smistra  et  inferior!  dextra  leonem/u/mwn  in  campo 
albo  exhibens."  He  repeats  the  statement  at  p.  86. 
On  the  tomb  of  Isabella  Le  Despenser,  Countess  of 
Warwick,  in  the  church  of  Tewkesbury  Abbey, 
is  still  to  be  seen,  after  long  ruin  and  neglect,  a 
shield  of  Castile  and  Leon.  In  this  the  lion  is 
gules.  D  p 

Stuarts  Lodge,  Malvern  Hills. 


ERASMUS  AND  ULRICH  HUTTEN. 

(3rd  S.  i.  289.) 

I  have  notes  of  the  following  translations  of  the 
Colloquies  of  Erasmus  or  of  parts  of  that  work. 
They  are  all,  with  perhaps  one  exception,  to  be 
found  in  the  Bodleian  Library  :  — 

"  The  Colloquies  or  Familiar  Discourses  of  Desiderius 
Erasmus  of  Roterdam  Rendered  into  English  .  .  By 

H.  M.  Gent.    London,  1671,  8vo." 

"  Twenty  [two]  select  Colloquies  of  Erasmus  Roteroda- 
mus,  Pleasantly  representing  several  Superstitious  Levities 
that  were  crept  into  the  Church  of  Rome  in  his  days. 
By  Sir  Roger  L'Estrange,  K*.  To  which  are  added 
Seven  more  Dialogues,  with  the  Life  of  the  Author,  by 
Mr  Tho.  Brown.  London,  1680,  1699,  1725,  8vo." 

"Colloquia  Selecta,  with  an  English  translation  by 
John  Clarke.  Nottingham,  1720,  8vo." 

"Colloquia,  translated  by  N.  Bailey.  London,  1733, 
8vo." 

"Pilgrimages  to  Saint  Mary  of  Walshingham,  and 
Saint  Thomas  of  Canterbury;  by  Desiderius  Erasmus: 
Newly  translated,  with  the  Colloquy  on  Rash  Vows,  by 
the  same  Author,  and  his  character  of  Archbishop  War- 
ham,  and  Dean  Colet,  illustrated  with  Notes,  by  John 
Gough  Nichols,  F.S.A.  London,  1849,  8vo." 

There  is  no  book  of  the  sixteenth  century, 
lardly  indeed  of  any  century,  which  gives  in  an 
incidental  manner  so  much  curious  information  as 
;o  the  social  life,  religious  feelings,  and  supersti- 
tions of  the  past.  A  translation  of  the  Colloquies, 
with  notes  illustrative  of  these  matters,  would  be 
an  exceedingly  useful  addition  to  modern  litera- 
,ure.  I  have  long  intended  to  undertake  such  a 
work,  and,  in  my  reading  of  Mediaeval  Literature, 
lave  not  failed  to  make  notes  of  such  passages 
,s  seem  to  me  illustrative  of  the  subjects  discussed 
r  noticed  by  Erasmus.  I  hope,  however,  if  your 
orrespondent  has  any  thoughts  of  presenting  his 
avourite  to  the  public  in  an  English  dress  of  new 
ashion,  that  my  designs  will  not  cause  him  to 
bandon  his  purpose. 

The  Colloquies  of  Erasmus  must  have  had  a 
jreat  effect  in  forming  the  minds  of  former  gene- 
•ations  of  Englishmen.  I  believe  they  were  almost 
universally  used  as  a  school-book  until  about  a 
mndred  years  ago.  It  is  not  improbable  that 
here  are  persons  still  alive  who  made  their  first 


512 


NOTES  AND  QUEKIES. 


S.  I.  JUNE  28,  '62. 


acquaintance  with  Latin  in  the  pages  of  the  great 
Hollander.  The  Rev.  T.  Hewitt  of  Bacton,  in 
the  county  of  Norfolk,  who  prepared  Porson  for 
Eton,  tells  a  correspondent  that,  in  the  year  1773, 
his  pupil  and  his  own  sons  were  reading  the  Collo- 
quies together  (J.  S.  Watson's  Life  of  Porson,  p.  13.) 
Is  it  not  possible  that  some  of  Person's  feelings 
and  opinions  may  be  traced  to  this  school-book  ? 

I  do  not  remember  that  the  Epistola  Obscurorum 
Virorum  have  ever  been  translated.  How  could 
they  indeed  ?  In  the  original  they  are  among  the 
most  laughter-moving  of  books,  but  their  wit  and 
humour  is  frequently  of  that  kind  which  would 
entirely  evaporate  in  the  crucible  of  the  transla- 
tor. Besides  this,  an  abridged  version  would  be 
worth  little,  and  it  would  be  impossible  in  these 
days  to  present  the  whole  of  the  Epistolce  in  Eng- 
lish. Like  many  other  productions  of  its  age,  it 
has  a  high  moral  tone,  accompanied  with  a  coarse- 
ness of  allusion  and  expression  far  beyond  any- 
thing which  would  be  tolerated  in  our  modern 
literature.  EDWARD  PEACOCK,  F.S.A. 

Bottesford  Manor,  Brigg. 


THE  FERULA. 
(3rd  S.  i.  450.) 

Ferula,  fennel,  Plin.  Nat.  Hist.  Ferule  (a 
feriendo),  a  reed,  or  cane  from  the  fens,  giant- 
fennel.  "  Tristes  ferules,  sceptra  Pcedagogorum," 
rods  (reeds)  with  which  Roman  boys  were  cor- 
rected at  schools  ;  Martial. 

"  Et  nos  ergo  manum  ferulae  subduximus." 

Juv.  Sat.  i.  15. 
"Hicfrangitferufas,  rubet  ille  flagellis, 

Hie  scuti'ca."— Id.  ib.  vi.  478. 

Valpy  interprets  the  passage,  "  rods  broken  over 
the  back." 

"  Nee  scutica  dignum  horribili  sectere  flagello. 
Ne  ferula  csedas  meritum  majora  subire 
Verbera,  non  vereor." — Hor.  Sat.  I.  iii.  118.   * 

Anthon  says,  scutica,  a  strap,  or  thong  of  leather ; 
ferula,  a  rod,  or  stick ;  both  used  for  correcting 
school-boys  ;  flagcllum,  a  lash,  or  whip  made  of 
leathern  thongs,  or  twisted  cords,  tied  to  the  end 
of  a  stick,  sometimes  sharpened  with  small  bits  of 
iron  or  lead  at  the  end.  Dr.  Johnson  says,  ferule 
was  used  on  the  hand.  He  ought  to  understand 
the  difference  between  ferula  and  virga  (vrith, 
Sanscrit),  switch-rod,  having  himself  been  scourged 
over  the  buttery-hatch  at  Oxford.  The  virga  of 
the  mediaeval  ages  may  be  tested  by  turning  up 
the  old  oak-seats  in  Cathedral  choirs,  on  many  of 
which  are  carved  a  monkish  school-master  with  a 
bare-breeched  boy  in  his  lap,  and  the  uplifted  rod 
(fennel  ?)  in  bis  hand,  ready  for  execution.  Whe- 
ther the  Romans,  on  finally  quitting  the  island, 
left  the  ferula  a  legacy  for  the  Britons,  or  whether 
it  was  originally  a  native  instrument  of  punish- 


ment, I  know  not ;  but  this  I  know  from  personal 
experience,  that,  sixty  years  ago,  at  a  writing 
school  in  the  West  of  England,  the  master  fre- 
quently feruled  the  dunces  on  the  palm  of  the 
hand  with  a  flat  bat,  such  as  boys  use  for  "  bat- 
and-ball ; "  and  more  frequently  gave  idle  scholars 
"  a  rap  on  the  knuckles  "  with  a  round  ruler  (fe- 
rule ?)  Afterwards,  as  an  alumnus  at  the  King's 
School,  I  found  the  birch  and  the  block  used  for 
corporal  punishment  —  the  ferule  being  con- 
sidered infra  dig.  at  a  grammar  school.  I  learn, 
however,  from  a  contemporary,  a  Scotchman,  that 
the  tawse  was  the  instrument  of  correction,  in  his 
day,  at  the  High  School,  Edinburgh.  He  de- 
scribes it  as  a  stick-handle,  with  straps,  or  strips, 
of  leather  fastened  to  it,  and  that  the  ends  of  the 
straps  were  hardened  in  the  fire,  to  make  them 
knobbly,  i.  e.  like  the  knots  in  a  cat-o'-nine-tails,  or 
the  poTroAa  ruAcora  of  the  -^Ethiopians,  Herod,  vii.  69. 
No  doubt  for  the  same  purpose  the  Romans  sewed 
bits  of  metal  into  the  flagellum,  that  the  punish- 
ment might  be  sharper.  And  so  also,  in  the 
ferule  a  small  round  hole  was  cut  out  in  the  centre, 
that  the  skin  might  be  drawn  up,  and  the  pain  be 
more  acute.  Only  a  week  past,  I,  by  accident, 
got  into  conversation  with  a  Yorkshire  mechanic, 
"  an  engine-fitter,"  and  in  discussing  the  change 
in  education  of  the  present  day,  he  said,  in  the 
North  Riding  dialect,  "  When  master  feruled  me, 
I  thought  to  myself,  I'll  hide  thee,  when  I'm  a 
man," — the  cow-hiding  of  the  Yankees,  or  the 
bull's  hide  of  the  ancients.  Here  we  get  the 
tawse  —  taurus,  a  bull ;  Gaelic,  tiur ;  Persian, 
tawbn;  A.-S.  hwit  tawere,  a  dresser  of  white 
leather  (vellum  [veal]  calf's  skin)  with  size,  not 
with  the  oak-bark  the  tanner  uses  for  bull's  hide. 
A  tawer  is  a  fellmonger  (pellis),  a  skin-dresser ; 
touw  (Dutch)  tow  ;  to  give  a  towse,  a  common 
vulgar  phrase,  may  mean  the  rope's  end,  or  strap. 
The  tawse  (I  learn  from  another  Scotch  friend  of 
my  own  age)  was  used  both  on  the  hand,  and 
elsewhere ;  but  so  frequently  on  the  hand,  that 
boys  used  to  ask  each  other  in  the  play-ground, 
"  How  many  pamees  (palmce)  did  you  get  to-day?" 
And  the  manum  ferulce  subduximus  was  practised, 
not  by  pulling  back  the  hand,  but  by  pulling 
down  the  cuff  of  the  coat  over  the  palm,  to  catch 
the  blow  of  the  tawse. 

ALLAN  DUNSTABLE  inquires,  Whether  the  use 
of  the  ferula  still  exists  ?  It  has,  as  far  as  my 
observation  goes,  become  extinct,  through  the 
modern  exclusion  of  corporal  punishment  in  scho- 
lastic teaching.  But  the  birch  still  keeps  its 
ground  at  Eton,  and  elsewhere.  Indeed,  within 
the  present  Session,  it  has  been  enacted  in  the 
House  of  Commons,  that  all  boys  under  fourteen 
years  of  age  ordered  to  be  whipped  in  county 
gaols  shall  be  punished  with  the  birch,  not  with 
the  cat,  with  which  adults  are  still  to  be  corrected, 
when  spare  diet  and  solitary  cells  fail  to  make  a 


3«d  S.  I.  JUNE  28,  '62.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


513 


due  impression  on  them.  But  the  critical  ques- 
tion on  the  ferula,  still  remains  unanswered,  viz. 
Whether  Roman  schoolmasters  whipped  "small 
boys  "  with  a  rod  made  from  the  feathery  shoots, 
fceniculum,  F.  fenoil,  E.  fennel ;  or  whether  the 
giant-stalks,  the  big-fennel  of  Pliny,  were  the 
fasces  carried  by  the  Lictors  before  the  Prsetor  ? 
QUEEN'S  GARDENS. 

The  ferula  properly  'made,  and  wed,  is  an  in- 
strument of  corporal  punishment  in  schools  less 
objectionable  than  any  other.  Someferulas  were 
made  of  wood,  being  flat  pieces  of  wood  rounded 
at  the  end,  with  which  the  delinquent  was  struck 
on  the  hand ;  and  in  some  cases  they  had  a  small 
opening  which  pinched  up  the  boy's  hand,  with 
barbarous  and  unjustifiable  cruelty.  Indeed,  the 
wooden  ferula  was  a  hard,  ill-contrived,  and  cruel 
instrument  in  its  best  shape.  I  never  saw  one, 
but  I  have  so  often  heard  descriptions  of  it  from 
boys  who  had  felt  it,  that  I  give  the  above  descrip- 
tion with  full  confidence. 

But  the  ferula  of  leather  is  as  fair  an  instru- 
ment of  punishment  as  could  have  been  devised, 
and  is  still  used  in  several  schools.  Indeed,  if 
corporal  punishment  is  to  be  retained  —  and  it  is 
difficult  to  see  how  it  can  be  wholly  dispensed 
with — the  leather  ferula  is  the  least  open  to  ob- 
jection. It  is  about  ten  inches  long,  the  end 
being  rounded,  and  measuring  between  four  and 
five  inches  in  the  broadest  part.  From  this  it 
grows  gradually  narrower,  till  it  comes  to  the 
breadth  of  an  inch  and  a  half,  and  the  extremity 
is  fastened  to  a  long  wooden  stick,  or  handle. 
The  leather  is  thick,  being  such  as  shoemakers 
use  for  the  soles  of  shoes  :  it  is  hammered  rather 
hard,  but  retains  its  elasticity.  It  is  used  for 
striking  the  palm  of  the  boy's  hand  only.  The 
boy  holds  out  his  left  hand  to  receive  the  stroke, 
as  being  most  convenient  for  the  master,  who 
strikes  with  his  right.  The  pain  is  a  smart  tingling 
sensation,  which  while  it  inflicts  adequate  chastise- 
ment, is  accompanied  with  no  danger  of  wounding 
or  bruising,  and  is  entirely  free  from  the  re- 
volting circumstances  of  punishment  with  the 
rod.  One  or  two  strokes  of  the  ferula  upon  the 
hand  are  commonly  sufficient,  though  hardened 
delinquents  may  deserve  half  a  dozen,  or  even 
more.  F.  C.  H. 

I  remember  seeing  more  than  one  specimen  of 
this  very  effective  instrument  of  punishment,  in  S. 
Yorkshire  schools  some  thirty  years  ago;  the 
material  was  usually  leather,  or  tough  wood  ;  the 
form  that  of  a  spoon  beaten  flat ;  the  place  of  in- 
fliction was  the  open  palm  of  the  hand.  In  Gerard 
Douw's  picture  of  the  School-master,  in  the  Fitz- 
william  Museum,  Cambridge,  the  master  holds  in 
one  hand  an  elegant  specimen  of  the  instrument 


inquired  after.  I  have  not  seen  or  heard  of  its 
use  in  any  of  the  numerous  schools  that  I  have  of 
late  years  come  in  contact  with.  J.  EASTWOOD. 

At  a  large  private  school  at  Bath  I  remember 
to  have  seen  the  infliction  of  •*  pandying  **  by  the 
master  on  the  open  hand  of  offenders,  with  an 
instrument  of  torture  of  circular  shape  provided 
with  a  handle,  which  weut  by  the  name  of  a 
ferule.  A  common  round  ruler  was  sometimes 
employed  as  a  substitute. 

MACKENZIE  E.  C.  WALCOTT,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

If  your  correspondent,  ALLEN  DUNSTABLE,  will 
refer  to  a  Latin  dictionary,  he  will  find  that  ferula 
means,  1st.  "  An  herb  like  big  fennel,  and  which 
may  be  called  fennel-giant."  2nd.  "  A  rod,  stick, 
or  ferula,  wherewith  children  are  corrected  in 
schools."  3rd.  u  A  cane  or  reed  ;  a  walking  staff." 
Ecclesiastically  it  means  Virga  Pagtoralis,  seu 
Baculum  Pastorale.  "Episcopi  pastores  gregis 
Dominici  sunt,  ideo  baculum  (seu  ferulam)  in 
custodia  prasferunt."  "  Per  baculum  (seu  feru- 
lam) potestas  regiminis  figuratur."  (Vid.  Maori 
Hierolexicon,  verbb.  Ferula,  Baculnm  Episcopate, 
Narthex,  &c.)  Again,  in  the  ancient  churches, 
the  first  division  was  called  the  Narthex  in  Greek, 
and  Ferula  in  Latin,  and  was  "  a  narrow  vestibule 
extending  the  whole  width  of  the  church;"  "so 
called  because  the  figure  of  it  was  supposed  to 
resemble  a  Ferula,  that  is,  a  rod,  or  staff,  called 
by  the  Greeks  Narthex."  (See  Bingham,  book  viii. 
ch.  4.)  I  fear,  however,  that  the  information 
contained  in  the  latter  moiety  of  this  communi- 
cation will  excite  but  little  interest  (if  it  be  not 
rejected),  on  the  North  of  the  Tweed. 

E.  C.  HARTNGTOX. 
The  Close,  Exeter. 


"  YANKEE  DOODLE  BORROWS  CASH"  (3rd  S.  i. 
468.) — I  have  a  cutting,  unfortunately  without 
date,  but  not  less  than  sixteen  years  old,  in  which 
the  lines  inquired  after  are  said  to  be  copied  from 
the  Literary  Gazette.  As  they  are  worth  preserv- 
ing in  "  N.  &  Q.,"  a  copy  is  subjoined. 

"A  NEW  SONG  TO  AN  OLD  TUNE. 

«'  Yankee  Doodle. 
"  Yankee  Doodle  borrows  cash, 

Yankee  Doodle  spends  it, 
And  then  he  snaps  bis  fingers  at 

The  jolly  flats  who  lends  it. 
Ask  him  when  he  means  to  pay, 

He  shows  no  hesitation, 
But  says  he'll  take  the  shortest  way, 
And  that's  repudiation ! 

Chorus— Yankee  Doodle  borrows,  &c. 

«  Yankee  vows  that  every  State 

Is  free  and  independent ; 
And  if  they  paid  each  other's  debts, 
There'd  never  be  an  end  on't. 


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They  keep  distinct  till  *  settling  *  comes, 
And  then,  throughout  the  nation, 

They  all  become  '  United  States ' 
To  preach  repudiation ! 

"  Lending  cash  to  Illinois, 

Or  to  Pennsylvania, 
Florida  or  Mississippi, 

Once  was  quite  a  mania. 
Of  all  the  States  'tis  hard  to  say 

Which  makes  the  proudest  show,  Sirs, 
But  Yankee  seems  himself  to  like 

The  state  of  O-I-Otve,  Sirs ! : 

"  The  reverend  joker  of  St.  Paul's 

Don't  relish  much  their  plunder, 
And  often  at  their  knavish  tricks 

Has  hurl'd  his  witty  thunder. 
But  Jonathan  by  nature  wears 

A  hide  of  toughest  leather, 
Which  braves  the  sharpest-pointed  darts 

And  canons  put  together ! 

"  He  tells  'em  they  are  clapping  on 

Their  credit  quite  a  stopper, 
And  when  they  want  to  go  to  war 

They'll  never  raise  a  copper. 
If  that's  the  case,  they  coolly  say, 

Just  as  if  to  spite  us, 
They'd  better  stop  our  dividends, 

And  hoard  'em  up  to  fight  us. 

"  What's  the  use  of  money'd  friends 

If  you  mustn't  bleed  'em? 
Ours,  I  guess,  says  Jonathan, 

The  country  is  of  freedom ! 
And  what  does  freedom  mean,  if  not 

To  whop  your  slaves  at  pleasure, 
And  borrow  money  when  you  can, 

To  pay  it  at  your  leisure? 

"  Great  and  free  Amerikee 

With  all  the  world  is  vying  ; 
That  she's  the  'land  of  promise  ' 

There's  surely  no  denying. 
Be  it  known  henceforth  to  all, 

Who  hold  their  I.  0.  U.  Sirs, 
A  Yankee  Doodle  promise  is 
A  Yankee  Doodle  do,  Sirs ! 

"CECIL  HARBOTTLE." 
J.  EASTWOOD. 

ENGLISH  REFUGEES  IN  HOLLAND  (3ra  S.  i.  409.) 
Your  correspondent  will  probably  find  Newinweek, 
the  place  be  mentions,  to  be  Neuenwied,  now  Neu- 
wied,  a  town  on  the  Rhine,  about  ten  miles  N.  W. 
from  Coblentz,  and  to  which  a  party  of  French- 
reformed  members  of  the  United  Brethren,  who 
had  been  compelled  to  quit  Herrnhaag,  removed 
in  the  year  1750,  at  the  invitation  of  its  then 
prince,  John-Frederick- Alexander  Count  Wied. 
See  Holmes' s  History  of  the  United  Brethren, 
vol.  i.  p.  409 ;  vol.  ii.  pp.  27,  87,  199.  This  may 
possibly  serve  as  a  key  to  the  information  sought 
by  W.  W.  S.  D.  B. 

18,  Regent  Square,  W.  C. 

JOHN  DELAFIELD  PHELPS,  ESQ.  (3rd  S.  i.  477). 
This  gentleman  resided  at  Chavenage  House,  near 
Tetbury.  By  the  London  Gazette  of  January  31, 
1761,  his  father  was  appointed  Sheriff  for  Glou- 
cestershire, of  which  country  Mr.  Phelps  was  a 


native,  and,  in  correspondent  time,  a  magistrate. 
The  name  of  Delafield  was  adopted  by  the  family, 
in  consequence  of  their  possessing  property  at 
Pagan  Hill,  near  Stroudwater,  as  stated  by  your 
correspondent.  I  find  by  Clarke's  Law  List,  Mr. 
Phelps  is  designated  as  a  barrister  in  1824;  but 
inclination  and  an  ample  patrimony  seem  to  have 
induced  him  to  pursue  ardently  the  investigation 
of  the  antiquities,  and  to  collect  materials  of 
every  description  for  a  history  of  his  county.  A 
very  short  time  previous  to  his  decease  he  pub- 
lished the  result  of  his  labours  in  a  volume,  crown 
8vo,  entitled  Collectanea  Gloucestriensis,  being  a 
Catalogue  of  Books,  Tracts,  MSS.,  Prints,  Articles 
of  Topography,  Plans,  Coins,  Seals,  Portraits,  £c. 
&c.  (with  descriptions  of  the  local  tokens  which 
were  circulated  in  Gloucestershire  temp.  Crom- 
well, and  a  few  years  after  the  restoration  of 
Charles  II.,  then  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  Phelps, 
at  Chavenage  House),  Lond. :  Wm.  Nicol,  60,  Pall 
Mall,  1842.  These  were  printed  solely  for  circu- 
lation among  his  intimate  friends.  Mr.  Phelps 
was  one  of  the  earliest  and  most  zealous  sup- 
porters of  the  Roxburghe  Club,  which  met  for 
the  first  time  at  the  St.  Alban's  Tavern,  on  Wed- 
nesday June  17,  1812,  and  when  it  was  agreed  by 
the  seventeen  members  then  assembled,  that  each 
member  should  reprint  the  number,  limited  to 
those  present,  of  some  ancient  and  scarce  work, 
which  should  be  interchanged  among  those  form- 
ing that  meeting.  Mr.  Phelps,  for  his  contribu- 
tion, chose  The  Gluttons  Feaver,  by  Thomas  Ban- 
croft, 4to,  1633.  Mr.  Phelps  possessed  what  is 
now  perfectly  unique  —  the  Gloucester  Journal 
complete  from  its  commencement  in  1722  ;  and 
his  collections  are  so  diverse  and  general,  it  will 
be  much  to  be  regretted  if  they  should  not  be 
preserved  to  form  a  nucleus  for  an  archseological 
museum  much  wanted  in  that  county.  NOTANS. 

POOR  POLL  (3rd  S.  i.  388,  454.)  —  The  follow- 
ing was  pointed  out  to  me,  many  years  ago,  by  a 
musical  friend,  in  a  certain  metrical  psalm,  when 
sung  to  a  tune  called  "  Boyce  : " 
"  Thou  art  my  bull— 
Thou  art  my  bull — 
Thou  art  my  bulwark  and  defence." 

J.  EASTWOOD. 

Your  interesting  articles  on  "  Hymnology  "  ir- 
resistibly remind  me  of  a  negro-child's  school  at 
Barbadoes,  where  this  hymn  in  praise  of  the  Bible 
was  sung  to  the  tune  of  "  Soldier  Laddie,"  — 
"Holy  Bible,  book  divine! 

Tooral  loo,  tooral  loo ! 
Precious  treasure,  thou  art  mine ! 
Tooral  loo,  tooral  loo !  " 

It  was  Wesleyan,  I  think.  A.  L. 

Monkstown,  Ireland. 

DEAF  AND  DUMB  LITERATURE  (3rd  S.  i.  427.) 
Your  correspondent  A.  M.  Z.  may  find  some  of 


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the  information  he  desires  in  the  late  Dr.  Charles 
E.  II.  Open's  Anecdotes  and  Annals  of  the  Deaf 
and  Dumb  (2nd  ed.  London,  1836),  and  Messrs. 
Ringland  and  Gelston's  Report  of  a  Deputation  to 
British  Institutions  for  the  Deaf  and  Dumb  (Dub- 
lin, 1856).  ABIIBA. 

Your  correspondent  A.  M.  Z.  will  find  two 
articles  on  this  subject  in  The  Mirror,  vol.  iii. 
pp.  147,  195.  W.  I.  S.  H. 

NOBLEMEN  AND  BARONS  (3rd  S.  i.  451.)— Your 
correspondent,  S.  C.,  is,  I  dare  say,  not  singular  in 
not  being  familiar  with  the  constitution  of  the  old 
Scottish  Parliament,  in  which  the  Three  Estates, 
Clergy,  Baronage,  and  Burgesses,  were  not  sepa- 
rated into  the  Upper  and  Lower  Houses,  but  as- 
sembled together,  as  on  the  Continent.  Hence 
all  "  freeholders  by  knight-service,"  from  the  Earl 
or  Duke  to  the  smallest  Squire,  as  we  should  now 
say  in  England,  were  included  in  the  Baronage. 
The  Lesser  Barons,  who  were  not  ennobled  by  the 
sovereign,  were  usually  known  as  Lairds  instead 
of  Lords,  and  may  be  considered  much  the  same 
class  as  our  "  Lords  of  the  Manor,"  or  Squire- 
archy. These  were  the  Barons  who  sat  with  the 
Noblemen.  SIGNET. 

QUAKERS  (3rd  S.  i.  459.) — I  can  inform  your  cor- 
respondent, EIRIONNACH,  that  the  White  Quakers 
have  for  some  years  been  extinct,  and  that  their 
leader,  Joshua  Jacob,  has  terminated  his  vagaries 
by  seeking  rest  in  the  bosom  of  the  Romish 
Church. 

But  my  chief  object  in  replying  to  EIRIONNACH 
is  not  to  set  him  right  respecting  the  crazy  little 
community  called  White  Quakers,  but  to  correct 
his  statement  that  Mrs.  Grier's  book  is  a  trust- 
worthy source  of  information  regarding  the  Society 
of  Friends.  I  was  myself  a  member  of  that  So- 
ciety for  the  first  thirty  years  of  my  life,  and  for 
a  considerable  portion  of  that  time  I  had  frequent 
intercourse  with  many  influential  members  of  that 
community.  I  have  besides,  at  various  times, 
read  and  thought  much  on  the  various  contro- 
versies between  the  Quakers  and  other  Christian 
bodies.  I  have  now  been  for  about  twenty-five 
years  an  attached  member  of  the  Church  of  Eng- 
land, but  I  still  retain  a  warm  friendship  and  re- 
fard  for  many  members  of  the  Society  of  Friends. 
say  thus  much  about  myself  to  show  that  my 
opinions  on  this  subject  have  not  been  hastily  or 
superficially  formed,  and  to  serve  as  an  apology  to 
EIRIONNACH  for  assuring  him  that  what  he  calls 
"  the  only  book  that  has  ever  appeared  which  un- 
veils Quakerism"  is  a  gross  caricature, and  abounds 
in  fictions.  If  EIRIONNACH  had  had  the  same  op- 
portunities for  obtaining  correct  information  that 
I  have  had,  I  have  no  doubt  he  would  be  of  the 
same  opinion. 

To  any  one,  however,  who  is  desirous  of  seeing 
a  very  able  and  fairly  written  defence  of  Quaker- 


ism in  its  present  phase  (for  it  is  just  now  under- 
going [considerable  transformation),  I  would  re- 
commend the  perusal  of  a  little  book  just  published 
by  Bell  and  Daldy,  entitled  Charles  andJosiah,or 
Friendly  Conversations  between  a  Churchman  and 
a  Quaker.  One  peculiar  recommendation  of  this 
work  is,  that  it  is  mainly  a  genuine  dialogue,  the 
part  of  Charles  being  written  by  a  layman,  and  re- 
vised by  a  clergyman  of  the  church  of  England ; 
while  that  of  Josiah  was,  in  a  great  degree,  written 
by  a  Quaker,  in  consultation  with  some  of  the 
leading  members  of  his  own  community. 

HIBERNO-CATHOLICCS. 

BARON  (3rd  S.  i.  403.)  —  I  cannot  agree  with 
MR.  KEIGHTLET,  who  derives  this  word  from 
Wehrmann.  If  he  had  said  Wehr  alone,  his  de- 
rivation might  have  passed  muster,  but  the  word 
Mann  certainly  does  not  form  part  of  baron,  al- 
though baron  originally  meant  Man  (Germ.3fann). 
The  termination  on  is  not  a  corruption  of  Mann, 
but  a  mere  ending,  which  is  very  common  in 
Engl.,  Fr.,  and  Span.,  and  is  equivalent  to  the 
Lat.  O  (as  inpavo,  &c.),  and  the  Ital.  one.  What 
it  originally  signified  1  cannot  undertake  to  say, 
but  there  is  no  reason  for  supposing  that  it  has 
any  connection  with  the  word  Mann.  The  re- 
mainder bar  =  the  Sansk.*  vira,  Hind,  bir,  Lat. 
vir,  Goth,  vair,  Old  H.  Germ.  Wir,  Wer,  A.- Sax. 
Wer,  Iceland,  ver  (vir,  maritus),  &c.  &c.  That 
baron  is  derived  from  this  source  is,  I  think,  in- 
disputably proved  by  the  Span,  varon,  which  still 
means  a  male,  a  man  of  distinction,  and  a  baron.^ 
It  is  doubtful  whether  Wehr  (the  first  syll.  of 
Wehrmann)  old  H.  Germ.  Wer,  has  the  same 
origin.  Grimm  says  it  has  ;  Diefenbach  thinks  it 
has  not  If  Grimm  is  right,  then  the  second  syll. 
of  Wehrmann  would  be  a  translation  of  the  first, 
just  as  in  Benson  J,  son  is  the  translation  of  the 
first  syll.  Ben  (Hebr.  J3,  son). 

The  bar  of  baron  may  possibly  be  connected 
with  the  Chald.  "13  (bar)  son,  for  the  same  ex- 
pression which  we  find  in  Dan.  vii.  13,  viz., 

*  In  Sanskr.  rira  means  man ;  raro,  huslxmd  (in  Germ. 
also  Mann.)  Comp.  Diefenbach's  Vergleichendes  Wurterb. 
d.  qoth.  Spr.,  Bosworth's  Ang.-Sax.  Diet.,  and  Graff's 
Althochdeutscher  Sprachschatz. 

f  But  comp.  Faro,  and  Caro,  which  in  class.  Lat.  means 
a  stupid  MAN,  a  blockhead;  in  late  Lat.  a  strong,  vigorous 
man,  and  in  mid.  Lat.  a  husband.  The  primary  meaning 
of  raro  is  said  to  be  a  block  of  tough,  hard  wood  (Force!!). 
Graff  gives  bar  (from  which  he  derives  baro)  in  Old  H. 
Germ.  =  Mann,  /refer  Mann,  and  he  seems  to  connect  it 
with  the  adj.  iar,  which  he  translates  punt,  liber,  nudus, 
vacuus,  inanis,  and  which  =»  A.  S.  bar,  bar,  our  bart, 
Germ.  boar  (bare,  pure).  Curiously  enough  the  Heb.  1< 
(bar)  also  means  pure  and  (Prov.  xiv.  4)  perhaps  empty. 
The  connection  between  purity,  freedom,  and  emptnu**,  ia 
evident.  They  all  imply  the  absence  or  want  of  some- 
thing. 

J  Benson  is,  no  doubt,  a  contraction  for  Ben  i  ton,  L&, 
the  son  of  Ben,  or  Benjamin. 


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[3rd  -S.  I.  JUNE  28,  '62. 


OX  12  (son  of  wzan),  or,  contracted,  £0  "121  (bar- 
ncisfi),  is  constantly  used  in  Syriac  in  the  sense 
of  man.  F.  CHANCE. 

"KAN.E  CANOR^E"  (2nd  S.  xii.  503;  3rd  S. 
i.  434,  &c.) — I  feel  it  right  to  apologise  for  in- 
truding on  your  space  in  again  referring  to  the 
above  unworthy  subject;  but  with  reference  to 
your  correspondent's  (FITZHOPKINS')  remarks,  I 
think  it  only  justice  to  the  memory  of  the  late 
Mr.  Wakefield  to  say,  that  although  he  did  not 
imagine  himself  a  poet,  yet  some  of  his  altera- 
tions of  Pope's  version  of  Homer  are  conceived 
in  good  taste,  and  may  fairly  be  called  improve- 
ments on  Pope.  And  such  they  certainly  were 
thought  by  a  critic  in  BlackwoocCs  Mag.,  who,  some 
thirty  years  ago,  spoke  very  favourably  of  them 
in  reviewing  Trollope's  translation  of  the  Iliad, 
who  availed  himself  of  Mr.  W.'s  alterations,  with- 
out the  slightest  acknowledgment ;  in  confirma- 
tion of  which  I  find  the  following  remark  in  the 
Monthly  Review  for  June,  1830  :  — 

"We  are  sorry  to  remark,  and  deem  it  no  more  than 
justice  that  the  fact  should  be  generally  known,  that  Mr. 
Wakefield  has  experienced  the  fate  of  many  other  dis- 
tinguished critics,  in  having  the  most  valuable  of  his 
notes  pilfered  without  acknowledgment  by  succeeding 
editors.  See  some  remarks  on  Trollope's  I  lias  Homeri" 

R,  W. 

MRS.  ELIZABETH  WHITTLE  (3rd  S.  i.  288.)  — 
The  first  wife  of  Sir  Stephen  Fox,  whom  Pepys 
had  known  when  a  boy,  was  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  William  Whittle,  of  London  :  she  died  in  1698, 
and  the  names  of  her  children  will  be  found  in 
the  pedigree  of  Fox  in  Hoare's  Modern  Wiltshire, 
hundred  of  Alderbury,  p.  37.  I  am  not  sure  that 
OLD  MEM.  requires  this  information,  or  merely 
to  re-invent  Pepys's  anagrams.  If  the  latter,  I 
beg  his  pardon,  and  will  leave  the  undertaking  to 
those  who,  as  he  suggests,  have  more  time  and 
patience.  L  J.  G.  N. 

PORTRAITS  OP  ARCHBISHOP  CRANMER  (3rd  S.  i. 
269,  416.)  —The  suggestion  of  N.  II.  S.  that 
Cranmer,  though  he  had  been  close  shaven  in  his 
prosperity,  yet  allowed  his  beard  to  grow  during 
the  confinement  of  his  latter  days,  appears  to  be 
confirmed  by  the  following  passage  in  the  narra- 
tive of  his  martyrdom,  describing  his  memorable 
act  of  burning  "  his  unworthy  right  hand  "  :  — 

"When  he  was  bound  to  the  stake,  as  soon  as  the  fire 
was  kindled,  he  raised  his  left  hand  to  heaven,  and 
thrusting  out  the  other,  held  it  in  the  flames,  not  re- 
moving it,  except  once  to  strook  his  beard,  till  it  was  quite 
consumed." 

This  appears  to  fortify  the  idea  that  the  bearded 
portrait  of  Cranmer  may  truly  represent  him  as 
he  appeared  on  the  last  awful  trial  of  his  meek 
and  timid  but  faithful  spirit. 

JOHN  GOUGH  NICHOLS. 

DAME  MARGARET  AND  GEORGE  HALYBURTON 
(3rd  S.  i.  347,  418.)— Although  unable  to  iden- 


tify  Dame  Margaret  Halyburton,  I  have  no  doubt 
Bishop  Guthrie  refers  to  the  Lady  of  Pitcar ; 
from  which  .family  both  George  Halyburton, 
minister  of  Aberdalgie,  and  George  Halyburton, 
minister  of  Perth,  and  future  Bishop  of  Dunkeld, 
were  descended. 

The  Lordship  of  Coupar  was  erected  by  James 
VI.,  in  1607,  out  of  lands  previously  pertaining 
to  the  abbey  of  Coupar,  in  the  immediate  vicinity 
of  Pitcar,  and  conferred  upon  a  younger  son  of 
the  first  Lord  Balmerino.  This  Lord  Coupar 
married  Margaret,  daughter  of  Sir  James  Haly- 
burton of  Pitcar,  and  died  s.  p.  1669,  the  estate 
and  titles  devolving  upon  Lord  Balmerino. 

Assuming  the  date  of  Lord  Coupar's  death  to 
be  correct,  I  do  not  know  how  the  title  came  to 
be  in  dispute  in  1645. 

George  Halyburton,  minister  at  Perth,  had 
brought  himself  into  collision  with  the  covenant- 
ing party  in  the  church  on  account  of  his  com- 
munications with  Montrose,  with  which  party 
Lord  Balmerino  exercised  a  powerful  influence, 
and  hence  Dame  Margaret's  appeal. 

I  shall  be  much  indebted  for  the  particulars  so 
kindly  offered  by  your  correspondent  regarding 
!  George  Halyburton  of  Aberdalgie ;  or  by  any  in- 
j  formation  tending  to  elucidate  the  connexion  be- 
tween George  Halyburton  of  Perth,  and  the 
Pitcar  family. 

It  is  to  be  regretted  that,  owing  to  the  failure 
of  the  title,  the  history  of  the  Halyburtons  is  not 
to  be  found  in  the  Scottish  peerage  at  the  period 
in  question,  and  any  hints  upon  the  subject  would 
be  esteemed  a  favour. 

P.S.  Did  Sir  Walter  Scott  edit  a  History  of  the 
Halylurtons  (from  which  he  was  also  descended, 
and  whose  arms  he  quartered  with  his  own  arms), 
and  where  may  a  copy  of  it  be  seen  ?*  MARION. 

TORY  (3rd  S.  i.  390,  437.)— During  the  reign  of 
Charles  II.,  we  find  Dryden  using  the  word  Tory 
with  its  present  political  signification,  witness  the 
following  passage  in  his  epilogue  to  "  The  Duke 
of  Guise,"  1683:  — 

"  Damn'd  neuters,  in  their  middle  way  of  steering, 
Are  neither  fish,  nor  flesh,  nor  good  red  herring: 
Nor  Whigs,  nor  Tories  they ;  nor  this  nor  that ; 
Not  birds,  not  beasts,  but  just  a  kind  of  bat ; 
A  twilight  animal,  true  to  neither  cause, 
With  Tory  Avings,  but  Whiggish  teeth  and  claws." 

From  the  footnote  to  A.  A.'s  communication 
(3r<\S.  i.  390),  it  is  evident  the  word  must  have 
changed  as  to  its  application  since  the  time  when 
Joseph  Glanvil's  Sermons  were  published,  or  more 
correctly  written,  and  the  date  of  Dryden's  lines. 
I  should  be  glad  to  know  the  year  of  issue  of  the 

[*  Sir  Walter  Scott's  respect  for  the  worthy  barons  of 
Newmains  and  Dryburgh  was  testified  by  his  Memorials  of 
the  Haliburtons,  printed  for  private  circulation  only  in  the 
year  1820,  4to.  A  copy  is  in  the  Grenville  Collection, 
British  Museum.— ED.] 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


517 


said  Sermons*,  as  it  might  assist  in  defining  the 
exact  date  of  the  disuse  of  the  word  as  Fuller  ! 
quotes  it,  and  likewise  the  advent  of  the  term  as 
the  badge  of  a  political  party.  \V.  I.  S.  H. 

I  have  heard  another  derivation  attributed  to 
the  great  name  of  Tory  —  Tabhraidh  (Give  ye, 
stand  and  deliver).  The  pronunciation  of  the 
Irish  word  has  much  the  same  sound  as  Tory. 

H.  C.  C. 

His  GRACE:  BARON  (3rd  S.  i.  466.)— "His 
Grace  "  is  a  title  of  Lancastrian  origin,  Henry  IV. 
of  England  having  been  the  first  to  assume  the 
style.  It  would  seem  to  have  been  derived  from, 
the  Latin  formula,  Dei  Gratia ;  which  is  found 
for  the  first  time  on  coins  of  Edward  III.'s  reign, 
but  was  in  use,  though  whether  as  a  clerical  ad- 
junct only  I  know  not,  as  early  as  the  time  of 
Charlemagne.  The  title  of  Barons,  as  applied 
to  the  Barons  of  Exchequer,  probably  denotes 
nothing  more  than  the  chief  men  presiding  over 
the  court :  — 

"  Sir  Henry  Spelman  (Glossarium,  1626,  in  voce  baro,) 
regards  the  word  baron  as  a  corruption  of  the  Latin  vir ; 
but  it  is  a  distinct  Latin  word,  used  by  Cicero  for  in- 
stance, and  the  supposition  of  corruption  is,   therefore, 
unnecessary.    The  Spanish  word  varon,  and  the  Portu-  j 
guese  bar/ao,  are  slightly  varied  forms.    The  radical  parts  j 
of  vir  and  baro  are  probably  the  same,  b  and  v  being  con-  j 
vertible  letters.     The  word  barones  (also  written  berones) 
first  occurs,  as  far  as  we  know,  in  the  book  entitled  De 
Bello  Akxandrino   (cap.  53),  where  barones  are  men- 
tioned among  the  guards  of  Cassius  Longinus  in  Spain ;  ' 
and  the  word  may  possibly  be  of  native  Spanish  or  Gallic 
origin.    The  Roman  writers,  Cicero  and  Persius,  use  the 
word  baro  in  a  disparaging  sense ;  but  this  may  not  have 
been  the  primary  signification  of  the  word,  which  might 
simply  mean  man.     But  the  word   had  acquired  a  re- 
stricted sense  before  its  introduction  into  England."  — 
English  Cyclopaedia. 

" Baron,"  says  Mr.  Fosbroke,  "was  a  term  applied 
among  the  Romans  to  the  servants  of  the  Equites,  but 
from  the  time  of  Augustine  noblemen  in  the  service  of 
Princes  were  so  called.  Because  the  Franks,  and  other 
northern  nations  called  any  man  Baron,  the  word  came 
to  signify  any  man  or  husband,  whence  our  Baron  and 
Femme  in  law.  Princes  styled  their  vassals  by  knight's 
service  Barons,  because  they  would  distinguish  them 
from  other  men." 

F.  PHILLOTT. 

MR.  JAMES  BASHFORD  (3rd  S.  i.  454.)  — I  have 
this  day  (13th  June)  received  from  the  Rector  of 
Syddan,  in  the  county  of  Meath,  a  few  particulars 
of  the  late  Mr.  James  Bashford,  which  may  be 
acceptable  to  some  of  your  correspondents.  My 
informant  writes  as  follows  :  — 

"  T  delayed  answering  your  letter  until  I  could  ascer- 
tain something  correct  about  Mr.  James  Bashford.  I 
have  been  told  by  a  near  relative  of  his,  that  he  was  fully 
114  years  of  age;  that  for  two  years  back,  he  was  not 
perfectly  sound  in  intellect;  that  during  that  time,  he 
was  confined  to  his  bed :  but  that  he  had  a  good  appetite 

[*  Some  Discourses,  Sermons,  and  Remains,  by  the 
Rev.  Joseph  Glanville.  Lond.  1681,  4to.— ED.] 


to  the  day  of  his  death,  which  seems  to  have  happened 
rather  unexpected!}'.  He  was  reduced  to  a  skeleton. 
His  hair  had  not  turned  grey;  and  up  to  the  period 
above-mentioned,  he  was  always  in  good  health.  He 
was  the  son  of  a  Mr.  James  Bashford,  of  Donaghmoine, 
near  Carrickmacross  [in  the  county  of  Monaghan].  In 
after-life  he  became  wealthy,  and"  held  land  under  the 
present  Lord  Justice  Blackburne." 

His  father  having  been  a  Protestant,  the  child's 
baptism  may  be  on  record  in  the  parish  register 
of  Donaghmome.  ABIIBA. 

CUTTING  OFF  WITH  A  SHILLING  (3rd  S.  i.  331, 
477.) — The  Rev.  Dr.  Samuel  Annesley  (cousin  to 
the  first  Viscount  Valentia)  had  twenty-four  or 
twenty- five  children.  By  his  will  (made  late  in 
the  seventeenth  century)  he  left  one  shilling  to 
each  who  should  survive  him;  and  directed  the 
residue  to  be  divided  among  three  of  them,  who 
were  dependent  upon  him. 

JOB  J.  BARDWELL  WORKARD,  M.A. 

OWTHERQUEDAUXCE  (3rd  S.  i.  467)  is  merely  a 
form  of  outre -Guidance,  presumption,  overweening. 
The  "knowledge"  of  the  same  passage  is  our 
acknowledge.  BENJ.  EAST. 

HON.  WM.  PITT  (3rd  S.  i.  467.)— The  author  of 
the  pamphlet,  about  which  J.  M.  inquires,  was 
Mr.  James  Walker,  an  advocate  at  the  Scotch 
Bar,  and  who  latterly  was  one  of  the  principal 
clerks  of  the  Court  of  Session  ;  previous  to  his 
appointment  to  which  office,  he  was  sheriff- depute 
of  the  county  of  Wigton.  He  died  in  1856. 

The  date  of  the  publication  was  1810,  not 
1819,  as  stated  in  the  Query;  and  I  am  old 
enough  to  recollect  that  it  was  quite  understood, 
at  the  time,  that  Mr.  Walker  was  the  avowed 
author.  He  was  a  thorough-paced  Tory;  and 
the  pamphlet  was  consequently  much  be -praised 
by  politicians  of  that  party,  but  I  do  not  think  it 
made  much  impression  on  the  public  mind  gene- 
rally, and  it  was  soon  forgotten  :  nor  am  I  aware 
that  the  author,  though  a  most  worthy  and  re- 
spectable man,  was  ever  distinguished  in  the 
literary  world,  or  favoured  it  with  any  subsequent 
contribution.  S. 

BOTTEFANG  (2nd  S.  v.  394  ;  xi.  139.)— 
"  Julius  Cteser  Bottefang  pricter  singularem  in  omnibus 
artibus  liberalibus  peritiam,  femoralia,  thoraces,  sibi  ipai 
formabat  suebatque ;  omni  instrument©  musico  non  cane- 
bat  solum  egregie,  sed  et  illi  melius  quam  quivis  alias 
artifex  conficiebat;  penicillio  Pictorea;  acu  pinpcndo 
Arachnen  ipsam  provocabat ;  nt  raulierculijs  qua?  artem 
illam  profitabuntur  pudorem  incuteret."  —  Morhcfii 
Polyhistor,  torn.  i.  p.  2.  Lubeo,  1708. 

The  ballad  seems  to  have  been  taken  from 
Morhof's  account  rather  than  Moreri's.  The 
above  extract  is  not  very  important,  but  I  send 
it,  partly,  because  any  additional  knowledge  is  of 
some  value  where  so  little  is  known ;  but  prin- 
cipally, because  its  insertion  will  show  that  replies 
to  old  Queries  are  acceptable.  Some  readers  hare 


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[3rd  S.  I.  JUNE  28,  '62. 


an  impression  that  a  Query  which  has  appeared 
a  year  or  two  becomes  antiquated.  My  own 
view  is  that  by  answers  to  Queries,  old  or  new, 
the  value  of  the  work  is  increased.  E.  N.  H. 

UNCONSCIOUS  PLAGIARISM  (3rd  S.  i.  366.)  — 
Probably  both  were  suggested  by  the  floating 
hyperbole,  the  best  known  instance  of  which  is  in 
jEn.  vii.  807  :  — 

"  Ilia  vel  intactas  segetis  per  summa  volaret 
Gramina,  nee  teneras  cursu  leesisset  aristas  " ; 

which  Pope  has  made  even  more  familiar  by  — 

"  Not  so  when  swift  Camilla  scours  the  plain, 
Flies   o'er  th'  unbending   corn,    or  skims   along  the 
main." 

Heyne  says  it  was  trite  in  the  time  of  Virgil : — 

"  Velocitatis  denotationem  temere  reprehendunt  viri 

docti.     Nee  ilia  utique  convenit  nostris  sensibus;    sed, 

quum  Maro  ea  uteretur,  a  reinstate  quasi  per  manus  erat 

tradita." 

He  then  cites  Homer  and  Apollonius,  who  had 
used  the  thought  before  Virgil,  and  many  other 
good  writers  who  followed  him.  E.  H. 

RELATIVE  VALUE  OF  MONEY  (3rd  S.  i.  475.)  — 
I  EDI  quite  aware  of  the  great  difference  in  the 
prices  of  articles  of  food  at  certain  periods,  even 
in  neighbouring  counties.  Indeed  it  was  no  un- 
usual circumstance  for  the  magistrates  to  forbid 
the  transmission  of  provisions  out  of  their  own 
county.  This  was  done  to  keep  things  "good 
and  cheap  "  among  themselves.  But  allow  me  to 
say,  that  I  cannot  see  why  MB.  KEIGHTLEY  should 
regard  my  statement  on  the  value  of  horses  in 
Shakspeare's  time  as  irrelevant,  even  if  MR. 
KEIGHTLEY'S  remarks  were  confined  to  the  vi- 
cinity of  London,  seeing  that  I  was  quoting  from 
the  Sessions  Rolls  of  the  county  of  Middlesex ;  a 
county  which  embraces  the  limits  mentioned  by 
him. 

As  regards  horses,  cattle,  food,  rents,  &c.,  it 
would  be  easy  to  show,  that  money  in  Shak- 
speare's time  was  considerably  more  than  double, 
or  even  treble,  its  present  value ;  but  the  cost  of 
manufactured  articles  of  dress  and  household 
furniture  was  excessive,  in  proportion  to  the  cost 
of  the  ordinary  articles  of  consumption.  This,  I 
think,  explains  how  Shakspeare  could  have  spent 
so  large  an  income  without  making  any  extra- 
ordinary show.  I  gave  some  illustrations  of  the 
prices  of  such  things  in  the  sixteenth  century,  in 
a  paper  in  the  Gentleman's  Magazine  of  January, 
1861,  also  drawn  from  the  county  records. 

F.  SOMNER  MERRYWEATHER. 

Colney  Hatch. 

ARTHUR  ROSE,  LAST  PRIMATE  or  SCOTLAND 
(2nd  S.  xii.  309,  424.) — I  am  interested  in  ascer- 
taining whether  DACTYL,  who  sent  a  Query  con- 
cerning this  prelate  in  October,  1861,  had  any 
other  authority  than  Douglas's  Baronage,  for  as- 


serting that  a  daughter  of  the  archbishop  mar- 
ried the  Rev.  William  Smyth,  Parson  of  Money- 
die.  His  son  Dr.  James  Smyth  married  the 
heiress  of  Athernie,  in  Fifeshire,  and  there  are 
three  families  descended  from  his  daughters  and 
co-heiresses.  I  have  been  informed  by  the  head 
of  these  families  that  the  Parson  of  Moneydie 
married  quite  another  person,  viz.,  Mary,  daughter 
of  James  Aitkin,  Bishop  of  Galloway.  Either  the 
Peerage  Books,  as  Douglas,  Burke,  &c.,  are  wrong, 
and  the  information  given  me  is  correct,  or  else 
we  are  not  so  well  acquainted  with  our  descent 
as]I  believe  to  be  the  case.  It  may  be  that  Wil- 
liam Smyth  married  twice ;  in  that  case,  I  should 
fancy  he  may  have  first  married  the  Primate's 
daughter,  and  then  Bp.  Aitkin's,  and  had  issue 
by  the  last.  I  should  like  to  know  more  on  this 
point.  I  may  mention,  as  that  part  of  the  Query 
does  not  seem  to  have  been  answered,  that  the  Rev. 
Win.  Smyth  was  son  of  Patrick  Smyth  of  Braco 
and  Methven,  in  Perthshire,  which  family  still 
nourishes,  but  its  present  head  is  not  descended 
from  the  Rev.  Wm.  Smyth,  who  is  represented 
only  in  the  female  line.  Traditionally,  the  Smyths 
of  Methven  connect  themselves  with  the  "Fair 
Maid  of  Perth."  C.  H.  E.  CARMICHAEL. 

EPIGRAM  ON  THE  FOUR  GEORGES  (3rd  S.  i.  328, 
358.) — The  version  of  this  epigram  given  by  MR. 
SOUTHWARD  is  not  quite  correct.  1  think  he  will 
admit  the  superiority  of  the  following:  — 

"  George  the  First  was  always  reckoned 
Vile  —  but  viler  George  the  Second  ; 
And  what  mortal  ever  heard 
Any  good  of  George  the  Third? 
When  from  earth  the  Fourth  descended, 
God  be  praised,  the  Georges  ended." 

These  lines  appeared  some  years  ago  in  the 
Atlas  newspaper  with  the  initials  W.  S.  L.  an- 
nexed ;  so,  from  style  and  signature,  there  are 
good  grounds  for  assuming  Landor  to  be  the 
author.  A.  DAVISON. 

Dublin. 

CENTENARIANS  (3rd  S.  i.  passim.)  — 

"  Dec.  16th,  1753,  at  11  in  the  morning,  died  the  Rev. 
George  Brathwaite  of  St.  Mary's,  Carlisle,  Curate,  aged 
110  or  111  years,  being  Sunday.  He  retained  his  memory 
to  the  last,  and  was  between  90  and  100  3'ears  in  the 
Cathedral.  He  was  blind  before  he  died,  and  could  re- 
peat all  the  Psalms  and  Service  by  heart,  except  the 
Jessons;  could  marry,  church,  christen,  &c. ;  was  led  in 
later  declining  years  by  his  grandson  George  Dalton,  son 
of  Thomas,  and  always  shed  tears,  or  rather  tears  were 
always  seen  in  his  eyes  when  the  Psalm  was  read  con- 
taining the  words, «  O  that  I  had  wings  like  a  dove,  then 
would  I  flee  away  and  be  at  rest.' " 

The  above  is  an  extract  from  a  family  Bible 
belonging  to  a  member  of  the  Dalton  family. 
The  fact  is  no  doubt  capable  of  verification  by 
anybody  who  will  examine  the  records  of  St. 
Mary's,  Carlisle.  E.  F.  D.  C. 


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519 


LONGEVITY  OF  LAWYERS  (3rd  S.  i.  345.)  — 
Mr.  Leake  died  May  16th,  at  Thorpe  Hall,  Essex 
aged  89.  He  graduated  at  Cambridge  in  1794 
M.A.  1797,  and  was  senior  Master  of  Arts  on  the 
boards  of  St.  John's.  See  Camb.  Chron.  May  24 
'  P.  J.  F.  GANTILLON. 

NEHEMIAH  ROGERS  (2nd  S.  xii.  179,  &c.) — 
Several  "  Notes  and  Queries "  have  been  made 
upon  persons  of  this  name.  I  add  the  following 
Edmund  Porter,  Prebendary  of  Norwich  anc 
Rector  of  Heveningham,  had  a  daughter  Mary, 
born  Sept.  13,  baptized  September  21,  1628,  al 
Norwich ;  married  to  Nehemiah,  eldest  son  ol 
Nehemiah  Rogers,  Rector  of  Teye  in  Essex. 

C.  J.  R. 

NIGHTINGALES  (3rd  S.  i.  447.)— I  observe  in  a 
late  number  a  letter  signed  J.  L.  G.,  from  Edg- 
baston,  stating  that  — 

"  A  nightingale  has  been  heard  singing  in  a  shrubbery 
belonging  to  Edward  Peyton,  Esq.,  at  Moor  Green,  near 
Moseley  —  a  circumstance  almost  unknown  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood, and  1  believe  rarely  seen  or  heard  north  of 
Warwick,  in  this  county.  I  think  it  rather  strange, 
especially  so  near  to  a  large  town  as  Birmingham." 

In  the  year  1820,  in  the  month  of  April,  whilst 
walking  down  Great  Charles  Street  late  at  night, 
I  was  much  surprised  at  hearing  a  nightingale 
singing  very  sweetly;  indeed  I  heard  it  upon 
several  occasions,  both  in  the  day  time  and  in 
the  night. 

I  took  some  pains  to  trace  the  unusual  visitor, 
and  found  it  in  a  garden  in  the  sand  pits,  and  the 
last  time  I  saw  it,  I  observed  it,  perched  on  a 
tree  with  a  crowd  about  listening  to  its  sweet 
notes. 

A  few  days  afterwards  I  heard  that  the  poor 
bird  had  been  shot.  I  will  hope  that  the  late 
visitor  has  not  shared  its  fate  !  E.  C. 

London. 

BUFF  AND  BLUE  (3rd  S.  i.  425.)— I  believe  the 
uniform  worn  by  the  Scotch  troops  in  the  service 
of  Gustavus  Adolphus  was  buff  and  blue  ;  whence 
those  colours  came  to  be  regarded  as  the  badges 
of  religious  liberty. 

I  cannot  recover  my  authority  for  this  state- 
t.  Perhaps  some  reader  of  "  N.  &  Q."  will 


ment.     Perhaps   some 
confirm  or  refute  it. 


S.  C. 


EPITAPH  ON  DURANDUS  (3r<1  S.  i.  380.)  —  The 
epitaph  quoted  by  A.  A.  certainly  is  not  on  the 
beautiful  canopied  gothic  high  tomb  of  Durandus, 
in  the  church  of  Ste.  Maria  sopra  Minerva  at 
Rome.  I  have  a  copy  of  the  epitaph  (which  is  a 
long  one),  made  by  myself  on  the  spot,  and  shall 
be  glad  to  send  it,  with  the  dates  and  armorial 
hearings,  should  it  be  considered  worth  inserting.* 

F.  D.  H. 

[*  We  shall  be  very  glad  to  insert  it.  —  ED.  "  N.  &  Q."3 


CHARLES  I.  RINGS  (3rd  S.  i.  369)—  Irate* 
one  of  the  rings  alluded  to  by  E  .  PRISCA  \Vn>* 
I  he  family  tradition  is  that  it  was  given  to  a  ma- 
ternal ancestor,  one  of  the  Fiennes  family,  by 
King  Charles  on  the  eve  of  his  martyrdom.  The 
portrait,  in  enamel,  is  set  between  two  small  dia- 
monds ;  there  is  no  legend  at  the  back,  and  I  am 
at  a  loss  to  know  what  your. correspondent  means 
by  "posies."  F.  D.  H. 

CHURCH  USED  BY  CHURCHMEN  AND  ROMAN  CA- 
THOLICS (3'd  S.  i.  427.)  — It  would  be  curious  to 
ascertain  the  period  when  Tichborne  church  was 
thus  divided.  There  are  some  minute  church 
notes  given  in  Gent.  Mag.  April,  1810,  p.  305,  with 
a  view  of  the  interior ;  but  no  mention  is  made  of 
any  peculiar  custom.  The  Roman  Catholic  family 
of  Tichborne  formed  the  chief  residents. 

MACKENZIE  E.  C.  WALCOTT,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 


NOTES  OX  BOOKS,  ETC. 

The  Sufferings  of  the  Clergy  during  the  Great  Rebellion. 
By  the  Rev.  John  Walker,  M.A.,  sometime  of  Exeter  Col- 

',    Oxford,   and  Hector  of  St.  Mary   Major,  Exeter. 

itomised  by  the  Author  of  "  The  Annals  of  England." 
[J.  H.  &  J.  Parker.) 

Good  comes  out  of  evil.  The  advantage  which  the 
enemies  of  the  Church  of  England  are  taking  of  what 
they  are  pleased  to  designate  the  Bicentenary  Com- 
memoration, and  the  attention  which  they  are  draw- 
ng  to  the  so-called  "Bartholomew  Confessors,"  have 
leen  the  means  of  calling  forth  this  well-timed  epitome 
f  the  great  work  of  pious,  earnest,  honest  John  Walker; 
which  he  modestly  entitled,  Attempt  towards  recover- 
ng  an  Account  of  the  Numbers  and  Sufferings  of  the 
Clergy  of  the  Church  of  England,  Heads  of  College*, 
Bellows,  Scholars,  Sec.,  who  were  Sequestered,  Harrass'd, 
-c.,  in  the  late  Times  of  the  Great  Rebellion :  occa- 
ioned  by  the  Ninth  Chapter  (now  the  Second  Volume} 
f  Dr.  Calamy's  "Abridgment  of  the  Life  of  Mr.  Baxter.'" 
Together  with  an  Examination  of  that  Chapter.  Walker's 
losely  printed  folio,  of  700  or  800  pages,  is  not  likely  to 
all  into  the  hands  of  many  general  readers;  and 'the 
ruths  to  be  found  in  it  are,  therefore,  little  likely  to  be 
o  well  known  as  they  ought  The  present  epitome  will, 
owever,  well  supply  its  place,  and  probably  tempt  many 
o  turn  to  the  original  work. 

The  Leadbeater  Papers.     The  Annals  of  Ballitore,  by 
lary  Leadbeater,  with  a  Memoir  of  the  Author.     Letters 
rom  Edmund  Burke  heretofore  Unpublished ;  and  the  Cor- 
respondence of  Mrs,  R.  Trench  and  Rev.  George  Crabbe  with 
Mary  Leadbeater.     2  Vols.     (Bell  &  Daldy.) 

These  two  little  volumes  possess  considerable  and  varied 
interest.  Mary  Leadbeater,  the  daughter  of  Richard 
Shackleton,  Burke's  early  friend,  and  the  granddaughter 
of  Abraham  Shackleton,  his  schoolmaster,  was  no  ordi- 
nary woman.  Her  many  writings  on  the  Irish  poor, 
their  virtues,  their  sufferings,  and  the  best  mode  of  im- 
proving their  condition,  received  a  practical  comment 
from  her  endeavours  to  carry  out  her  views  of  ameliora- 
tion :  and  one  part  of  the  present  work,  her  Correspon- 
dence with  Mrs.  Trench,  originated  in  her  cooperation 
with  that  lady  in  her  endeavours  to  reclaim  a  nui 


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body  of  tenantry,  on  one  of  her  estates,  from  miser}'  and 
degradation  to  comfort  and  industry.  "The  Annals  of 
Ballitore  "  give  a  curious  picture  of  that  Quaker  village 
during  half  a  century;  and  the  hitherto  unpublished 
Letters  of  Edmund  Burke,  although  they  may  not  con- 
tribute much  new  materials  to  his  biography,  will  be 
very  acceptable  to  the  admirers  of  his  genius,  eloquence, 
and  statesmanship. 

A.  Literal  Extension  of  the  Latin  Text,  and  an  English 
Translation  of  Domesday  Book,  in  relation  to  the  County  of 
Middlesex.  To  accompany  the  Fac -simile  Copy  Photozin- 
cographed  under  the  Direction  of  Col.  Sir  H.  James,  R.E. 
(Vacher  &  Sons.) 

If  it  be  a  wise  and  proper  thing  to  publish  in  separate 
counties  a  fac-simile  of  that  invaluable  historical  monu- 
ment, Domesday  Book — and  of  the  wisdom  and  propriety 
of  that  proceeding  there  cannot  be  a  question — it  follow 
that  the  publication  of  an  extension  and  translation  of 
the  Domesday  of  each  county  is  equally  wise  and  de- 
sirable. Messrs.  Vacher,  in  undertaking  this  work,  are 
taking  the  first  steps  towards  securing  such  a  Local  His- 
tory of  England  as  Camden,  had  he  now  lived,  would 
himself  have  contemplated.  That  the  task  of  extending 
Domesday  is  a  formidable  one,  any  scholar  who  has  tried 
his  hand  at  it  will  be  the  first  to  admit :  and  we  feel  sure 
that  the  few  who  are  capable  of  appreciating  the  difficul- 
ties which  the  editor  of  the  present  volume  must  have 
encountered,  will  be  the  first  to  pardon  any  slight  inac- 
curacies into  which  he  may  have  fallen.  An  Index  of 
Places,  and  an  Index  of  Names,  give  additional  value  to 
the  work ;  which  will,  we  trust,  receive  such  a  share  of 
public  favour  as  to  encourage  Messrs.  Vacher  to  the  pub- 
lication of  the  other  counties. 

Isca  Silurum ;  or  an  Illustrated  Catalogue  of  the  Museum 
of  Antiquities  at  Caerleon.  By  John  Edward  Lee,  F.S.A., 
&c.  (Longman.) 

In  this  well-digested  Catalogue  of  the  various  Anti- 
quities, Roman,  Celtic,  and  Mediaeval  recovered  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  Caerleon,  and  now  preserved  in  its 
Museum,  we  have  one  of  the  most  perfect  Monographs  of 
the  archaeological  riches  of  one  peculiar  locality  which 
has  ever  been  published ;  and  when  we  add  that  it  is  illus- 
trated with  no  less  than  fifty-two  lithographic  plates  of 
objects  executed  by  Mr.  Lee'himseif,  and  that  that  gen- 
tleman has  been  aided  in  his  endeavours  to  describe  these 
objects  by  Mr.  Way,  Mr.  Octavius  Morgan,  Mr.  Franks, 
Mr.  Roach  Smith,  and  many  other  distinguished  anti- 
quaries, it  will  easily  be  conceived  what  a  valuable  con- 
tribution to  archaeological  literature  Mr.  Lee  has  pre- 
sented to  students  of  our  national  antiquities. 

'"  The  Cat-Star.e,  Ed'mhurghshire ;  Is  it  not  the  Tomb- 
stone of  the  Grandfather  of  Hengist  and  Horsa  ?  By  J. 
Y.  Simpson,  M.D.,  F.R.S.E.  (Edinburgh,  Neill  &  Co.) 

This  interesting  pamphlet,  in  which  the  author  argues 
with  great  success  that  the  well-known  Cat- Stone,  near 
Edinburgh,  is  the  monument  of  Vetta,  the  grandfather  of 
Hengist  and  Horsa,  shows  that  Professor  Simpson  is  no 
less  skilled  in  the  field  of  archaeological  research  than  in 
that  profession  of  which  he  is  so  distinguished  a  member. 

LEECH'S  GALLERY.  —  For  season  after  season  has  the 
clever,  yet  kindly  pencil,  of  John  Leech  sketched  in  the 
pages  of  our  witty  contemporary  PUNCH,  those  foibles  of 
our  sisters,  cousins,  wives,  sweethearts,  and  daughters, 
which  make  us  love  them  all  the  more  dearly.  The 
series  is  one  of  which  the  men  of  England  may  well  be 
proud  —  one  to  which  future  historians  of  our  good 
Queen  may  point  hereafter  as  evidence  that,  under  her 
influence,  English  beauties  were  as  good  as  beautiful.  A 
selection  of  the  sketches,  enlarged  by  a  new  process,  and 
painted  in  oil  by  Leech  himself,  may  now  be  seen  at  the 


Egyptian  Hall.  They  are  well  worth  a  morning's  visit ; 
and  many  will  no  doubt,  like  ourselves,  come  away  with, 
the  feeling  that,  if  it  be  true  that  John  Leech  finds  his 
fair  sitters  under  his  own  roof- tree,  a  happy  man  is 
John  Leech. 

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equalled.  The  Selection  on  Wednesday,  which  contained 
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INDEX. 


THIRD    SERIES.— VOL.   I. 


[For  classified  articles,  see  ANONVMOUS  WORKS,  BOOKS  RECENTLY  PUBLISHED,   EPITAPHS,  Fon  LORE,    PBOTEI 
AND  PHRASES,  QUOTATIONS,  SHAKSPERIANA,  AND  SONGS  AMD  BALLADI.] 


A.  (A.)  on  cat's  ice,  429 

Crony,  its  derivation,  50 
Durandus's  epitaph,  380 
Gloucester  idiot,  &c.,  389 
Lace-makers'  custom :  Wigs,  387 
Palm:  Roman  feet,  295 
Stythe,  its  etymology,  410 
Tory=a  robber,  390 

A.  (A.  0.)  on  Banqueting-house,  Whitehall,  177 
A.  (B.)  on  verification  of  quotations,  452 
Abbotstone,  views  of,  269 

Abhba  on  Archdall's  Lodge's  Peerage  of  Ireland,  504 
Bashford  (Mr.  James),  517 
Castle  Rackrent,  186 
Deaf  and  Dumb  literature,  514 
Donnybrook  parish,  interments,  378 
Droz  (Rev.  John  Peter),  a  French  refugee,  33 
Fitz william  peerage,  396 
Ireland,  its  national  colour,  68 
History  of  the  Kings  of  Scotland,  249 
Johnson  (Dr.  Samuel),  diploma  from  Dublin,  30 
Kennedy's  History  of  the  Stuart  Family,  230 
"  Lachrymae  Hibernicae,"  467 
Map  of  the  County  of  Down,  507 
Maxwell  (Mrs.),  an  Amazon,  68 
Merrion  graveyard,  near  Dublin,  467 
O'Bryan  (Wm.),  marriage,  218 
"  Observations  on  the  Lord's  Prayer,"  409 
"  Philosophical  Survey  of  Ireland,"  365 
Silent  Sister,  i.  e.  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  386 
Abracadabra  on  embalming  the  dead,  248 
Academy  in  England  for  eminence  in  literature,  266 
"  Acolastus,"  a  play,  401 
Ad  eundem  degrees,  their  advantages,  288,  359 
Addington  manor,  its  tenure,  170 
"  Adeste  Fideles,"  its  composer,  109 
Adrian  IV.,  manner  of  his  death,  313 
Adverb,  its  wrong  position,  88 
A.  (E.)  on  Euchre,  a  game  at  cards,  427 
A.  (E.  H.)  on  clerical  knights,  355 
Greenstead  wooden  church,  367 
Heworth  church  dedication,  257 
"  Ina,"  a  tragedy,  by  Mrs.  Wilmot,  233 
Naples,  religious  custom  at,  246 
Percy  (Lady),  258  ' 


A.  (E.  H.)  on  Simon  of  Sudbmy,  his  skull,  251 
Trinity  House  corporation,  349 
Vulgate  as  a  commentary,  348 
A.  (E.  P.)  on  Aggravate,  288 
Afghans,  literature  of,  299 
A.  (G.  A.)  on  Sir  Henry  Langford,  Bart.,  12 
Aggravate,  its  colloquial  use,  288 
Ainger  (Alfred)  on  Sir  John  Davies  and  Rob.  Montgo- 
mery, 108 

A.  (J.)  on  "  The  Progress  of  Pietie,"  298 
A.  (J.  S.)  on  postage  stamps,  149,  393 
A.  (L.)  on  Jacobites  and  Jacobins,  425 
Albeir.arle  (Geo.  Monk,  Duke  of),  family,  427 
Albert,  Archduke  of  Austria,  his  funeral,  65 
Albert,  Prince  Consort,  In  Memorium,  447;  proposed 

Order  of  Merit,  87,  113,  155 

Alchemy  and  Mysticism,  bibliography  of,  89,  136,  156 
Alcumie  stuff  explained,  211,  257,  359 
Aldermen  of  London,  list  of,  133 
Aldwin,  firi,t  prior  of  Durham,  102,  103 
Alida,  or  Adelaide  =  Alice,  29 
'A\ievs  on  Anonymous  Tract,  390 
Crony,  its  derivation,  118 
Dolscius  (Paulus),  116 

"  History  of  the  Three  Kings  of  Scotland,"  336 
"  Itinerarium  Italia},"  278 
Johnson  (Dr.  Samuel),  diploma,  98 
"  Reasons  why  a  Protestant  should  not  turn  Pa- 
pist," 368 

St.  Aulaire,  quatrain  on,  119 
Talon  (Omer),  436 
Alison  (Sir  Arch.)  and  Sir  Peregrine  Pickle,  128,  215, 

359;  blunder  in  "  Life  of  Castlereagh,"  128,  215 
All  Hallow  Eve  custom,  223,  316 
Allport  (Douglas)  on  the  beginning  of  the  end,  257 
Circular  bordure,  256 

Christmas  Day  under  the  Commonwealth,  453 
Coins,  defaced  and  worn,  215 
Earthquakes  in  England,  15 
Fossils,  315 

Interdicted  marriages,  153 
Jetsam,  Flotsam,  and  Lagan,  78 
King's  Evil,  form  at  the  Healing,  313 
Mottoes,  punning,  332 
Patents  forfeited,  195 
Paulson,  276 
Phoenix  Fire  Office,  395 


522 


INDEX. 


Allport  (Douglas)  on  quotation,  "  0  call  us  not  weeds," 
195. 

Sermons,  long,  256 

Shrove  Tuesday  custom,  439 

Squeers  and  the  Do-tke-Boys'  Hull,  319 

Stangate  Hole,  494 

Stonehenge,  59 

Sun  and  Whalebone,  335,  397,  473 

Sunday  newspapers  in  America,  197 

Superstition,  its  etymology,  335 

Tabard,  a  garment,  260 

"  The  beginning  of  the  end,"  217 

Toads  in  rocks,  478 
Allport  (John),  Recorder,  186 
All  Souls'  Eve,  custom  in  Warwickshire,  217 
Allworthy  (Squire),  i.  e.  Ralph  Allen  of  Bath,  186 
Alpha  on  heraldic  query,  230 

Alphonso  the  Wise,  studiousness,  248,  335,  379,  439 
Alsowlyn  branch,  149,  199 
"  Amadis  de  Gaule,"  translated,  202 
Ambassadors,  English,  to  France,  11,  78 
Ambassadors,  the  unburied,  475 
Ambrose  (Isaac),  allusion  to,  269 
Amende,  its  etymology,  374 
America  before  Columbus,  7,  75 
America,  European  ignorance  of,  177 
America,  names  of  towns  and  villages,  224 
American  cents,  208,  255,  434 
American  standard  and  New  England  flag,  72 
Amicus  on  Tottenham  in  his  boots,  132 
Amicus,  Richmond,  on  Edward  Jenner,  M.D.,  229 
Anderson  (James),  antiquary,  letters  to,  144 
Anderson  (Wm.),  provost  of  Glasgow,  245 
Angier  (S.  H.)  on  Arnenian  Society,  110 

Lengthened  tenure  of  church  livings,  179 
Anglo-Saxon  literature,  414,  480 
Angouleme  (Duchess  d')  and  Count  de  Chambord,  68 
Anguish  (Charles),  noticed,  372,  474 
A.  (N.  J.)  on  Knave's  Acre,  58 

Anonymous  Works :  — 

Apollonius  Rhodius,  Argonautic  Expedition,  trans- 
lator, 429 

Aristodemus,  a  mono-drama,  229 

Benevolent  Cut  Throat,  209 

Charles  I.,  Sermon  on  his  martyrdom,  250 

Christmas  and  the  New  Year,  a  Masque,  466 

Deposition,  a  drama,  28 

Devil  to  Pay,  a  farce,  289 

Diaboliad,  428 

Discourse  of  the  Communion  in  one  kind,  70 

Edinburgh  Delivered,  dramatic  poem,  289 

Essay  towards  carrying  on  the  present  War  against 
France,  390 

Essay  towards  the  Present  Peace  of  Europe,  13 

Epitome  of  the  Lives  of  the  Kings  of  France,  14 

History  of  the  Lives  and  Reigns  of  the  Kings  of 
Scotland,  249,  336 

Invective,  a  Poem,  451 

Innocent  Usurper,  a  drama,  132 

Itinerarium  Italia?,  209,  278 

Ivar,  a  tragedy,  148 

Jack  and  Sue,  29 

Job,  an  oratorio,  author  of  the  words,  29 

Julia,  or  the  Fatal  Return,  132 

Lacnrymas  Hibernicai,  Sec.,  467 


Anonymous  Works :  — 

More  Kotzebue,  or  My  own  Pizarro,  209 

Morgan  de  la  Faye,  a  drama,  485 

Observations  on  the  Lord's  Prayer,  409,  479 

Orfried,  a  drama,  485 

Othryades,  a  mono-drama,  229 

Parodies  on  Gay,  231,  255 

Piromides,  an  Egyptian  tragedy,  131 

Pitt:    Vindication   of  the   Character  of  William 
Pitt,  467,  517 

Poem  on  Queen  Anne's  Death,  407 

Reasons  why  a  Protestant  should  not  turn  Papist, 
368,  458 

Reception,  a  play,  148 

Redemption  of  Israel,  an  oratorio,  29 

Reflections    upon   the   Devotions   of    the    Roman 
Church,  250,  320,  379 

Romantic  Mythology,  372 

St.  Leonard's  Priory,  28 

Scraps  from  the  Mountains,  311 

Somerset  House  Gazette,  331 

Tancred  and  Gismund,  150 

Theatrical  Portraits  epigrammatically  delineated, 39 

Transubstantiation,  Discourse  against,  69 

View  of  the  whole  Controversy  between  the  Repre- 

senter  and  the  Answerer,  70 
Anstey  (Robert),  son  of  the  author  of  the  "  New  Bath 

Guide,"  372,  394,  474 
Anstruther  family,  483 

Antiquaries,  Society    of,   plea  for  admitting  ladies  as 
members,  168,  237;  exhibition  of  autographs,  300- 
of  heraldic  blazonry,  360 
"  Any,"  as  exclusively  adapted  to  negation,  23 
Appeal  of  murder  abolished,  91,  191,  214 
Arbuthnot  (Dr.  John),  "  History  of  John  Bull,"  300 

340,  499 

Archasological  Institute  Exhibition,  460 
Archery  proverbs,  59 
Architects,  medieval,  270 
Architectural  proportion,  58 
Architecture,  Indian,  327 

"  Arden  of  Feversham  and  Black  Will,"  a  tragedy,  202 
Argenton  family  arms,  99 
Argyle  (Archibald  Campbell,  9th  Earl),  executed,  326 

397,  457 

"  Arisbas  Euphues,  or  Cupid's  Journey  to  Hell,"  462 
Aristotle  on  Indian  kings,  56,  1 14 
Armiger  on  archery  proverbs,  59 
Armorial  glass,  temp.  James  I.,  10 
Army  lists,  75,  198,  220,  256,  317 
Army  officers,  obituary  of,  372,  420,  474 
Arne  (Thomas),  father  of  Dr.  Arne,  18 
Arnenian  Society,  110 
Art  Treasures  Collection,  460 
Arundel  parish  register,  464 
A.  (S.)  on  Hussey  or  Hurst,  a  local  affix,  196 
Ascham  (Roger),  quotations  in  his  "  Scholemaster,"  89 
Ashby  (Robert),  Lord  of  the  Admiralty,  marriage  of  his 

daughter  Elizabeth,  346 
Ashford  (Mary),  her  murder,  57 
Ashton  (Benj.),  his  petrified  corpse,  437 
Asmar  (Maria  Theresa),  a  Babylonian  princess,  247 
Ass  ascends  the  ladder,  explained,  14,  197 
Assundun,  its  locality,  407 
Aston  (Joseph),  editor  of  Rochdale  Recorder,  97 


.Astrology,  modern,  481 

Astyn  (Stephen)  of  Loose,  in  Kent,  208 

Athenian  mansion,  386 

Athenian  Misogynist,  450 


Avignon  inscriptions,  1  1 


B 


twuuui  jrrmcess,  z47 

a(Francis  Lord),  Letters  and  Life,360,400;  editions 

his  "Essays,"  368 ;  the  sculptor  of  his  statue,  148 


B.  on  clerical  knights,  354 
Peat  (Sir  Robert),  418 
Wolves  in  England,  232 

B.  (A.)  on  Lough  Killikeen  and  Longh  Oughter  410 
Shelley's  «  Laon  and  Cythna,"  355 
Tyson  (Gilbert),  Lord  of  Alnwick,"  &c    37 
"  Babes  in  the  Wood,"  origin  of  the  tale,  453 
Babylonian  Princess, 
Bacon  ( 
of  his 

Bacon  (Roger),  manuscripts,  288 
Bail  Brigg,  superstition  at,  466 
Baldwin  family,  110 
Baldwin  (Sir  John),  and  family,  426 
Ballads  entered  in  the  Stationers'  Registers  44  45  46 
463'  50l'  502'  Wlf  ^2'  321~323'  361,  362/461; 
Banister  (J.)  on  Stangate  Hole,  155 
Bank  note  of  satin,  111 
Bankers  of  London,  their  case  in  1676,  151 
Banqueting-house  window  at  Whitehall,  69,  177 
Barbadoes,  passengers  to  in  1640,  488 
Barebones  (Damned  Dr.),  211,  253 
Barebones  (Praise-God),  211,  253,  395 
Barnes  (Barnabe),  "  Parthenophil  and  Partheiiophe  "  401 
Barnfield  (Richard),  poet,  201 
Barometers,  their  inventor,  112 
Baron,  its   etymology,   403,   515;    as  applied   to  the 

Barons  of  the  Exchequer,  466 

Baron  (Robert),  "  Mirza,"  its  commendatory  verses,  80 
Baronets,  claim  of  eldest  sons  to  the  title,  275,  420 
Barons  and  noblemen  in  Scotland,  451,  497,  515 
Barons,  foreign,  in  the  Commons,  450,  498 
Bar-Point  on  Farmers-General,  251 
Barrett  (Wm.),  "  History  of  Bristol,"  101,  181 
Barrow-  Gournay  church,  family  monuments,  348 
Bartlett  (E.  W.)  on  books  and  their  authors,  66 
German  poet,  506 
Lae-chow  Islands,  507 
Seismology,  210 

Bashford  (James),  longevity,  454,  517 
Batchelor  (J.  W.)  on  centenarians,  411,  454 
Bates  (Wm.)  on  Mary  Ashford,  57 

Book-worm,  recipe  for  its  extirpation,  57 
Bathurst-  Woodman  family,  346,  417 
Baxter  (Richard),  his  long  sermon,  169,  256 
Baxus,  its  meaning,  506 
Bayle  (Peter),  editors  of  the  English  edition  of  his  Die 

tionary,  41 

Bayley  (John),  Bart,  372,  474 
B.  (B.)  on  Master  Brightwell,  288 

Smith  (Rev.  Sydney),  437 
B.  (B:  B.)  on  Franklyn  family,  209 
B.  (C.  E.)  on  mutilation  of  sepulchral  monuments,  1  7 
B.  (C.  W.)  on  Robert  Campbell,  Esq.,  408 


B.  (D.)  on  Rev.  Christopher  Blackwood,  296 

Overton-cum.Tadley  incumbents,  428 
Beans;  "  How  many  beans  make  fire?  "1)1 
Beare  (John),  political  ballads,  465 
Beasts  baited  to  be  made  tender,  346  417 
Beattie  (James),  early  edition  of  his  •«  Poem*,-  35,  95 

Beauty  and  Love,"  a  poem,  225,  356 
Bede  (Cuthbert)  on  Rev.  Charles  Isham  435 
Mole  and  the  Campbells,  58 
Nightingale  and  the  hop,  447 
Shoe,  a  prison,  207 
St.  abbreviated  to  T,  219 
Turbulent  (Mr.)  in  George  III.'s  court,  31 
Wooden  churches.  437 

Bedell  (Bp.),  imprisonment  at  Lough  Oaghter,  410 
Beech  tree,  legend  of,  30 
Beisly  (Sidney)  on  a  brace  of  shakes,  334 
St.  Patrick  and  the  shamrock,  224 
Twill  pants,  291 
Beke  (Charles)  on  Bekesbonrne  communion  plate,  448 

Eastern  costume,  95,  192 
Bekesbourne  parish,  its  communion  plate,  448 
Belcher  (T.  W.)  on  medical  degrees,  238 
Bell  (Dr.  Wm.)  on  derivation  of  Gossamer,  458 
Insecure  envelopes,  474 
Lace-maker's  custom  :  Wigs,  419 
Luke's  Iron  Crown,  419 
Sun  and  whalebone,  419 
Benedictines,  colour  of  their  habits,  409,  457 
Beranger  (P.  J.  de),  "  Le  Chant  du  Cosaque,"  330 
Berkeley  (Bp.),  his  giant  Macgrath,  31 1 
Besford  church,  co.  Worcester,  arms  on  west  window,  230 
B.  (E.  V.)  on  gold  rings  to  the  infirmarius,  149 
Bewdley,  comefers  and  cappers  of,  369 
B.  (F.  C.)  on  Mad.  D'Arblay's  Diary,  336 
Earthquakes  in  England,  94 
English  language,  425 
Natoaca,  Princess  of  Virginia,  135 
Th:  Gh:  Ph,  interchangeable,  373 
B.  (G.)  on  topography  of  Ireland,  117 
B.  (G.  M.)  on  Wilson's  Catalogue  of  Bibles,  397 
B.  (II.)  on  "  The  Lamentation  of  a  Sinner,"  374 
Bible  in  various  languages,  172,  233 
Bible,  Paris  edition  of  1586,  328 
Bibliography,  its  cultivation  in  England,  22,  43 
Bibliothecar.  Chetbam.  on  Manchester  in  the  year  1559, 

127 

Prophecies  fulfilled,  173 
Scot  (Michael),  works  on  astronomy,  357 
"  Sic  transit  gloria  mundi,"  36 
Spartan  duplicity,  292 

Wilson  (Lea),  "  Catalogue  of  Bibles,  &c ,"  308 
Siddenham  maids,  508 

Bingham  (C.)  on  "  God's  providence  is  mine  inheri- 
tance," 119 

Bingham  (C.  W.)  on  Bartholin's  work  en  Unicorns,  118 
Eliot  (Sir  John),  445 
Medal  of  the  late  Duke  of  York,  451 
"  Biographia  Britannica,"  Its  editors,  62 
Birch  (C.  E.)  on  interdicted  marriages,  218 
Birch  (Mr.  Serjeant  John),  Cursitor  Baron,  29,  78 
Birch  (Dr.  Thomas),  kindness  to  Wm.  Oldya,  63 
Bishops'  charges  inquired  after,  71 
Bishops'  thrones,  their  position,  56 
Bishops,  trial  of  the  seven,  temp.  James  II.,  303 
B.  (J.)  on  Jos.  Aston,  editor  of  Rochdale  Recorder,  97 


524 


INDEX. 


Black  (Dr.  John)  and  "  The  Falls  of  Clyde,"  129,  194 

Black  (Wm.)  on  Burns  and  Andrew  Homer,  256 

Blackwell  (J.  A.),  author  of  "  Rudolf  of  Varosney,"  129 

Blackwood  (Rev.  Christopher),  228,  296 

Blake  (Adm.  Robert),  descendants,  423 

Blanc  (Sir  Simon  le),  Judge  of  King's  Bench,  208,  277 

Blanche  on  Monk  family,  427 

Bianshard  family  of  Yorkshire,  408 

Blenkinsop  (Henry)  on  Fairfax  family,  431 

Ulric  von  Hutten,  417 

Bliss  (Dr.  Philip),  letter  to  Hon.  Thomas  Grenvillo,  385 
Blue  and  Buff,  as  party  colours,  425,  472,  500,  519 
B.  (M.  N.)  on  the  Bullen  family,  148 
B.  (M.  W.)  on  fossils,  238 
B.  (N.)  on  baiting  beasts  to  make  them  tender,  346 

Dunwell  and  Trillet,  248 

Hearts  of  Oak,  347 

Hymn  tunes,  Poor  Poll,  388 

Negro  servants  sold  in  England,  348 

School  for  Scandal,  373 

Tenure  of  livings,  456 
Board  of  Trade,  its  origin,  485 
Boc£ett  (Edward  Halsey),  tomb  in  Bath  Abbey,  38 
Bohn  (H.  G.)  on  Biblical  versions,  233 
Boiardo  (Matteo  Maria),  "  Histoire  de  Roland  L'amou- 

reux,"  241 

Boiling  to  death,  185 

Bolton  Castle,  Yorkshire,  engravings  of,  451 
Bolton  (Harry  Powlett,  Duke  of),  anecdote,  324 
Bolton  (Rev.  Dr.  Samuel),  parentage,  169 
Bonefire  and  bonfire,  109 

Bonny  (F.),  "  Answer  to  the  Popishe  Recusante.3,"  362 
Books  and  their  authors,  66 
Books,  number  of  copies  to  an  edition,  486 

Sooks  recently  published :  — 

Bacon  (Lord),  Letters  and  Life,  by  J.Spedding,  360 
Barra,  or  the  Lord  of  the  Isles,  485 
Beamish's  Life  of  Sir  M.  I.  Brunei,  180 
Bourne's  Memoir  of  Sir  Philip  Sidney,  400 
B  right's  Ancient  Collects  and  Prayers,  120 
B  argon's  Letters  from  Rome,  120 
Burn's  History  of  Parish  Registers,  480 
Burton's  Book-Hunter,  340 

Camden  Society:   Nichols's  Descriptive   Catalogue 
of  its  Works,  200  ;   Sir  Edward  Bering's  Pro- 
ceedings in  the  County  of  Kent,  279  ;  Parliamen- 
tary Debates,! 610,  edited  by  S.  R.  Gardiner,  279 
Carter's  Medals  of  the  British  Army,  100 
Chambers's  Book  of  Days,  100,  400 
Chambers's  Domestic  Annals  of  Scotland,  SOO 
Clogy's  Life  of  Bishop  Bedell,  159 
Collins's  Cruise  upon  Wheels,  440 
Corser's  Collectanea  Anglo-Poetica,  360 
De  Quincey's  Works,  180 
Dialect  of  Leeds  and  its  Neighbourhood,  79 
Dixon's  Story  of  Lord  Bacon's  Life,  400 
Dollinger's  Church  and  the  Churches,  translated, 

439 

Drake's  Memoir  of  Sir  Walter  Raleigh,  340 
Dramatic  Sketch  of  Lord  Clifford's  Return,  485 
Dyer's  History  of  Modern  Europe,  40 
Domesday  Book,  Middlesex,  520 
Essays  and  Reviews,  Replies  to,  159 
Everybody's  Pudding  Book,  159 
Ferrey's  Recollections  of  the  Pugins,  40 


Books  recently  published :  — 

Fosse-Darcosse's  Melanges  curieux  et  anecdotiques , 

139 

Gatty's  Old  Folks  from  Home,  40 
Gloucester  Fragments,  60 
Grant's  Original  Hymns  and  Poems,  240 
Guizot's  Christian  Church  and  Society  in  1861, 120 
Hibberd's  Brambles  and  Bay-leaves,  180 
Hislop's  Proverbs  of  Scotland,  79 
Hook's  Lives  of  the  Archbishops  of  Canterbury,  159 
Hymns  for  the  Church  of  England,  120 
Intellectual  Observer  Review,  159,  279  ' 
Irving's  History  of  Scottish  Poetry,  79 
Irving  (Washington),  Life  and  Letters,  439 
Jewitt's  Manual  of  Wood  Carving,  300 
Journal  of  Sacred  Literature,  159,  300 
Kennedy's  Essays,  Ethnological  and  Linguistic,  100 
Lacour  (Louis),  Annuaire  du  Bibliophile,  139 
Laun's  Graduated  Lessons  in  Translation,  159 
Leadbeater  Papers,  519 
Lee's  Isca  Silurum,  520 

Lewin's  Invasion  of  Britain  by  Julius  Csesar,  480 
Lindsay  (Lord),  Theory  of  the  English  Hexameter, 

400 

London  and  its  Environs  (Black),  380 
London  Diocesan  Calendar  and  Clergy  List,  40 
Markland  ( J.  H.),  The  Offertory,  240 
Men  of  the  Time,  180 
Oliver's  History  of  Exeter,  100 
Papworth's  Dictionary  of  Coats  of  Arms,  240 
Plato,  Selections  from,  by  Lady  Chatterton,  279 
Polehampton's  Kangaroo  Land,  480 
Pusey  on  the  Minor  Prophets,  240 
Quarterly  Review,  No.  221,  79  ;  No.  222,  360 
Raverty's  Poetry  of  the  Afghans,  299 
Rhind's  Thebes,  its  Tombs  and  Tenants,  340 
Robinson's  South  Kensington  Museum,  480 
Salverte's  History  of  Men,  Nations,  and  Places,  79 
Seymour's  Eighteen  Years  of  a  Clerical  Meeting.  340 
Shakspeare,  Life  of,  by  W.  S.  Fullom,  200 
Shakspeare:  On  the  Received  Text,  by  S.  Bailey,  200 
Shakspeare,  reprint  of  his  Works,  ed.  1623,  60, 199 
Shakspeare :  The  Footsteps  of  Shakspeare;  or,  a 

Ramble  with  the  Early  Dramatists,  200 
Shelton's  Historical  Finger-Post,  100 
Simpson  (Dr.  J.  Y.),  The  Cat-Stane,  520 
Smith's  Dictionary  of  the  Bible,  120,  240,  380 
Surtees   Society,  Depositions   from  the  Castle   of 

York,  239 

Sussex  Archaeological  Collections,  340 
Tales  illustrative  of  Church  History,  400 
Thomson  (James),  Works  by  Cunningham,  279 
T hrupp's  Anglo-Saxon  Home,  480 
Timbs's  School-days  of  Eminent  Men,  180 
Timbs's  Year-Book  of  Facts,  180 
Trench's  Notes  from  Past  Life,  360 
Turner's  Liber  Studiorum,  60 
Virgil,  with  Notes  by  C.  D.  Yonge,  159 
Walker's  Sufferings  of  the  Clergy,  519 
Westgarth's  Australia,  100 
Whitehead's  Village  Sketches,  40 
Whitmore's  Handbook  of  American  Genealogy,  34 
Wiffen's  Alfabeto  Christiano,  120 
Wilde's  Catalogue  of  Irish  Gold  Ornaments,  480 
Wood's  Illustrated  Natural  History,  279 


INDEX. 


,025 


Books  recently  published :  — 

Wordsworth's    Theophilus     Anglicanus,     French 

translation,  240 

Wratislaw  (Baron),  Adventures,  440 
Book-stealers  and  borrowers,  charm  against,  464 
Book-worm,  receipt  for  their  extirpation,  57 
Booth  (J.)  on  epigram  on  the  four  Georges,  328 
Earthquakes  in  England,  94 
"  History  of  John  Bull,"  its  author,  499 
Borage,  origin  of  the  word,  339 
Boroughmongering  in  olden  times,  226 
Bossuet  (J.  B.),  passage  in  his  works,  11 
Bothwell  (J.  H.  Earl  of),  proclamation  for  his  appre- 
hension, 323 

Bottefang  (Julius  Caesar),  517 
Bottesford  registers,  extracts,  343 
Boydell  (John),  Lord  Mayor,  arms,  257,  333 
Bradshaw  (H.)  on  Aristotle,  "De  Eegimine  Principum," 

114 

Brandon  (Jacob),  motto,  "  Quid  rides,"  245 
Bransgrove  family,  arms  and  crest,  310 
Braose  family,  489 

Brathwaite  (Rev.  George),  his  longevity,  518 
Brathwaite  (Richard),  "  Epitome  of  the  Lives  of  the 

Kings  of  France,"  14 
Brazil,  its  derivation,  256,  338 
Breachan  on  Prophecy  of  Malaclii,  77 
Breconshire,  a  parish  register  offered  for  sale,  447 
Breton  (Nicholas), "  The  Arbor  of  Amorous  Devices,"  502 ; 
"  The    Pilgrimage  to    Paradise,"  46 ;    "  Bowers  of 
Delightes,"  46 

Breviary,  Parisian,  Hymns  translated,  212 
Brewen  (John),  his  murder,  241,  242 
Bridgman  (Charles),  gardener  to  George  II.,  227 
Bridgman  (Mrs.)  of  Hanover  Square,  450 
Brightwell  (Master)  of  Oxford,  288 
Brining  (Thomas),  mayor  of  Liverpool,  296 
Bristol  Cathedral,  monumental  inscriptions,  209,  277 
"  British  Librarian,"  by  Wm.  Oldys,  22,  41 
British  Museum,  additions  to  the  library,  1861-2,  400 
Brodie  (Alex.),  "  Method  of  Book-keeping,"  305 
Brome  (Richard),  "  The  Love-sick  Maid  "  acted,  168 
Brown  (Christopher),  his  privilege  to  remain  covered 

before  royalty,  319 

Brown  (Francis)  of  Tolethorp,  co.  Rutland,  350 
"Brown  study,"  origin  of  the  phrase,  190 
Browne  (Joseph),  "  The  Country  Parson's  Honest  Ad- 
vice," 465 

Browne  (Mary  Anne),  verses,  "  The  Sleepers,"  19 
Browne  (Ned),  coney-catcher,  321 
Browne  (Wm.),  "  Britannia's  Pastorals,"  410 
Browning  (Robert),  allusion  in  his  poem,  89,  136 
Bruce  (David),  Moravian  missionary,  his  burial,  39 
Bruce  (John)  on  Abp.  Leighton's  library,  74 

Oldys  (Dr.  William),  Vicar  of  Adderbury,  343 
Witticisms  reproduced,  324 
Bruce  (John  Wyndham),  translator  of  Schiller's  "  Don 

Karlos,"  91 

Bruce  (Robert),  Pictish  prince,  his  coin,  407 
Brunei  (Sir  Marc  Isambard),  Life,  180 
B.  (R.  W.)  on  coins  in  tankards,  397 
Bryan  (Sir  Francis),  ambassador  and  poet,  1 10, 156, 176 
Bryans  (J.  W.)  on  clerical  knights,  274 

Order  of  Merit  and  the  late  Prince  Consort,  87 
Order  of  St.  John  of  Jerusalem,  230 


B.  (S.)  on  arms  of  Earl  of  Stair,  309 
B.  (T.)  on  Modern  Astrology,  481 

Capital  punishment,  75 

Comets  and  epidemia,  129 

Custom  at  Christinas,  482 

Fairfax  (Edw.)  and  Dajmonologia,  150 

Green  (Hannah),  alias  Ling  Bob,  384 

New  Year,  letting  in,  223 

Wasliing  parchment  and  vellum,  138 

Wexford,  customs  in  the  county  of,  503 
B.  (T.  W.)  on  the  cover  of  ".Burnt  Njal,"  187 
Buckton  (T.  J.)  on  Biblical  versions,  233 

Euripides  and  Menander,  178 

Isabel  and  Elizabeth,  59 

Knaves'  Acre,  58 

Polyphemus  of  Turner,  67 

Von  Raumers  citation  from  Cicero,  194,  220 

Walsall,  curious  custom  at,  316 
Bulkeley  (Sophia),  lady  of  the  bedchamber,  69 
Bull  (John),  origin  of  the  cognomen,  300 
Bullen  family,  148 

Bullion,  jokes  on  its  scarcity,  128,  196 
Bunker's  Hill  in  Norfolk  and  Suffolk,  236,  437 
Burbage  (Cuthbert),  stationer,  241 
Burdens  of  Easington,  their  descendants,  129 
Burgh  (Frances  de),  her  mother,  89 
Burial  in  a  sitting  posture,  38,  99 
Burke  (Edmund)  and  his  family,  161,212,277,415, 
429;  the  Clohir  estate,  212  ;  legal   proceedings  of 
Earl  Verney,  221,374,430,  495;  trustee  to  Capt. 
Kane  Horneck's  property,  269  ;  money  relations,  326; 
editor  of  the  "  Annual  Register,"  346  ;  his  admired 
poet,  228 

Burke  (Garrett)  and  the  Clohir  estate,  212 
Burke  (William)  and  Earl  Verney's  chancery  bill,  221 
Bum  (J.  S.)  on  appointment  of  churchwardens,  19 

Coins  inserted  in  tankards,  116 

Folk  lore,  482 

Halyburton  (Margaret  and  George),  418 

King  Plays,  220 

Nockynge  and  dowell  money,  220 

Simon  family,  219 

Burning  a  legal  punishment  in  Ireland,  426,  475 
Burns  (Robert)  and  Andrew  Homer,  147,  256 
"  Burnt  Njal,"  inscriptions  on  the  cover,  187 
Burton  (Robert),  his  works,  14 
Bury  (Dr.  Arthur),  Vicar  of  Brampton,  264 
Bury  St.  Edmund's,  library  at  St,  James's,  56 
Buzaglia,91,  119 

B.  (W.)  on  the  Emperor  Napoleon  III.,  334 
Byblua  (Philo),  "History  of  Phoenicia,"  313 

c 

C.  on  article  "  Use  and  Have,"  17 

Chelsea  oriental  china,  428 

Douglas  (Neil)  of  Glasgow,  19 
C.  de  D.  on  Mr.  Serjeant  John  Birch,  78 
Cabot  (Sebastian),  birth-place,  48;  an  episode  in  hii 

life,  125;  a  knight,  366 
Caesar  (Julius),  invasion  of  Britain,  480 
C.  (A.  F.)  on  Sir  John  Cherubin,  328 
Calas  (John)  and  family,  their  trial,  &c.f  151 
"  Caledonian  Mercury,"  newspaper,  351,  479 
Calendar,  memorial  lines,  405 
Calendars  of  State  Papers,  380 
Calver  (John)  on  Richard  Shelley,  59 


526 


INDEX. 


Cambridge  Chancellor  elected  biennially  formerly,  129 
Cambridge  Regius  Professors,  official  arms,  311 
Camel  a  hieroglyphic,  246,  333 

Camillas  (J.),  Genvensis, "  De  Ordine  ac  Methodo,"  331 
Campbell  (Hugh),  poetical  works,  310 
Campbell  (Robert),  of  the  court  of  George  III.,  408 
Campbell  (Dr.  Thomas),  "Philosophical  Survey  of  Ire- 
land," 365 

Campbells  of  Cantire  and  the  Mole,  58 
Canada  (Viscount),  arms  and  family,  36!),  415 
Canadian  seigneurs,  310,  358,  415,  477 
Candlestick,  the  seven-branched,  its  fate,  132 
Canmore  (Malcolm),  noticed,  467 
Canning  (Geo.),  parody  on  "  The  Queen  of  Hearts,"  423 
Canoe,  origin  of  the  word,  129 
Canterbury  Cathedral,  epitaph  in,  158 
Capital  punishment  of  the  innocent,  75 
Capital  punishments,  procedure  respecting,  33 
Cappers  of  Bewdley,  369 
Carat,  its  derivation,  365,  437 
Carew  (C.  B.)  on  old  allusions  to  Shakspeare,  266 
Carew  (Richard),  "Godfrey  of  Bulloigne,"  502 
Carey  (P.  S.)  on  Cicero's  "  Ad  perpendiculuni,"  449 
Deflection  of  chancels,  154 
Jones  the  clockmaker,  210 
Leighton  (Sir  Thomas),  436 
Lengo  Moundino,  37 
Moneyers'  weights,  347 
Simon  (Thomas),  medallist,  378 
Caricatures  and  satirical  prints,  arrangement,  227,  333 
Carl  B.  on  "  After  meat —  mustard,"  428 
Hymn  tunes,  454 
Island  of  Cerigotto,  29 
Carlile's  "  Weekly  Register,"  289 
Carmiehael  (C.  H.  E.)  on  clerical  knights,  274 
Bruce  (Robert),  Pictish  prince,  his  coin,  407 
Jeanne  d'Evreux,  Queen  of  France,  339 
Nihil  (James),  nonjuror,  329 
Nonjuring  bishops  and  their  ordinations,  311 
Rose  (Arthur),  Abp.  of  St.  Andrew's,  51 8 
Valcknaer  family,  210 
Came  (Edward),  epitaph,  259 
Carnival  custom  at  Boulogne-sur-Mer,  298 
Caroline  (Princess),  her  funeral,  64 
Caroline  (Queen),  consort  of  George  IV.,  anecdote,  188  ; 
residence  at  Blackheath,  89,  119;  "  A  Delicate  Inves- 
tigation," 32,  76,  137 

Carpenter  (Harriet)  on  Win.  Carpenter's  alleged  plagia- 
risms, 55 

Carpenter  (Wm.),  his  present  misfortune,  17,  55 
"  Carrack,'  a  large  Spanish  ship,  322 
Carrickfergus  described,  117 
Carrington  (E.  F.  J.),  translator  of  "  Plutus,"  450 
Carter  Lane  Meeting-house,  172 
Carthusians,  colour  of  their  habits,  409,  457 
Carylls  of  Harting  and  Ladyholt,  185,  203,  278.  334 
Castle  Rackrent,  co.  Fermanagh,  186 
Cat  ice,  explained,  429 
Catamaran,  its  etymology,  403,  473 
"  Catchinge  of  Connye  Catchers,"  502 
Gate,  and  cate-in-pan,  etymology,  403 
Catesby  (Robert),  conspirator,  341 
Catherine's  (St.)  Hills  in  England,  409,  457 
Cats  in  flower-gardens,  426 
Catullus,  authorised  tra.islator  of,  67,  138 
"  Causes  produce  effects,"  a  barrister's  motto,  332 


Cavendish  (Sir  Thos.),  note  to  his  Voyages,  9 
C.  (B.  H.)  on  the  meaning  of  Baxus,  506 

Biddenham  maids,  508 

Brazil,  its  derivation,  338 

Cole  (John),  of  Scarborough,  509 

Cray,  its  meaning,  506 

Dolscius  (Paul),  Psalter  in  Greek  verse,  1 1 6 

French  tragic  exaggeration,  473 

Isabel  and  Elizabeth,  174 

Luther's  version  of  the  Apocrypha,  39 

Oriental  words  in  English,  365 

Parker  (Bishop),  338 

Pascha's  Pilgrimage  to  Palestine,  12 

Psalm  cxlix.,  its  title,  348 

Repartee  by  two  gentlemen,  210 

Ryot  and  Riot,  338 

Somerset -House  Gazette,  331 

St.  Napoleon,  13 

Xavier  and  Indian  missions,  116 
C.  (D.  E.)  on  Latin  graces  in  the  Universities,  188 
C.  (E.)  on  early  appearance  of  nightingales,  519 
C.  (E.  F.  D.)  on  Centenarians,  518 
Censor  on  foreign  barons  in  Parliament,  450 
"  Censuria  Literaria,"  includes  Oldys's  notes,  83 
Centenarians,  alleged  cases,  281,  352,  399,  400,  411, 

453,  498,  500.     See  Longevity 
Centones,  or  patchwork,  53 
Cerigotto,  present  state  of  the  island,  29 
C.  (G.  A.)  on  William  Godwin,  503 
Chadwick  (J.  N.)  on  Eliza  Cook's  lines,  78 

Jakins,  a  family  name,  115 

Sillett  (Mr.),  miniature  painter,  39,  194 
Chambers  (G.  F.)  on  coin  of  Queen  Victoria,  379 
Chambers  (R.)  on  Fala  Hall,  495 
Chance  (Dr.  F.)  on  James  Bashford's  longevity,  454 

Baron,  its  derivation,  515 

Club,  its  derivation,  294 

Hebrew  Grammatical  Exercises,  139 

Isabel  and  Elizabeth,  113,  175 

Liquorice,  its  derivation,  46 

Reins  (bridle),  its  etymology,  206 

Toad-eater,  276 

Treacle,  its  derivation,  145 
Chancels,  their  deflection,  154 
Chandler  (H.  W.)  on  Heraldic  volume,  394 
Chapman  (Geo.),  dramatist,  his  baptism,  170  ;  "Scia- 

nuctos,  or  the  Shadow  of  Night,"  501 
Charles  I.,  his  rings,  369,  519;  lives  of  those  who  signed 
his  death-warrant,  291;  his  "Remember"    on   the 
'     scaffold,  76 

Charles  II.,  escape  after  the  battle  of  Worcester,  38 
Charlett  (Dr.  Arthur),   Master  of  University  College, 

Oxford,  261 ;  letter  respecting  Toland,  6 
j  Charnock  (Rob.),  Vice-Pres.  of  Magdalen  College,  263 
;  Charnock  (R.  S.)  on  Ikon,  a  termination, etymology,  111 

Names  of  plants,  470 

Rousseau  on  the  rearing  of  infants,  20 

Tenants  in  socage,  137 

Thackwell  family,  336 

Tiffany,  its  derivation,  75 

Uriconium,  or  Wroxeter,  16 

Whalebone,  its  derivation,  336 
Chasles  (M.  Philarete),  discovery  respecting  Shakspeare's 

sonnets,  87;  bibliographical  notice,  162 
Chatham  (Wm.  Pitt,  Earl  of),  his  coffin,  408  ;  on  im- 
possibilities, 129  ;  and  the  Spanish  language,  506 


INDEX. 


527 


Chatterton  (Thomas),  literary  forgeries,  101'.  181 
Chaucer  (Geoffrey),  Works,  1592,  322 
Chaucer's  Tabard  Inn,  and  fire  at  Soutlnvark  99   193 
C.  (H.  B.)  on  Clinical  lectures,  320 
Coster  festival  at  Haarlem,  488 
English  epitaphs  at  Rome,  209 
Ghost  stories,  459 
Lucian,  passage  in,  '194 
Paulson,  276 

Pelayo's  visits  to  north  of  Spain,  71 
C.  (H.  C.)  on  bonefire  and  bonfire,  109 
Degrees  of  comparison,  137 
Doomsday  extended  and  translated,  184 
Fulluht,  the  Anglo-Saxon  baptism,  158 
Horses,  their  value  in  Shakspeare's  time,  299 
Tory,  its  derivation,  517 
Turgesius  the  Dane,  150 
Chelsea  oriental  china,  428 
Chessborough  on  age  of  newspapers,  435 
Fitzwilliam  family,  434 
Obituary  of  officers,  420 
Chester,  Jacob's  well  at,  26 
Chettle  (Henry),  "  The  Baiting  of  Diogenes  ,"   141  ; 

"  Kinde  Hartes  Dreame,"  323 
Chiaucungi,  Egyptian  fortune-teller,  187 
Chief  Justices  quondam  highwaymen,  47 
Children  hanged,  39 

"  Children  in  the  Wood, "  origin  of  the  tale,  433 
Chilton  Candover,  views  of,  269 
Chinese  and  the  Code  of  Menu,  425 
Cholmeley  (Sir  Roger),  aspersion  on  his  character,  47 
"  Christ  the  bread  of  Life,"  a  lyric,  372 
Christening  bowls  and  spoons,  112 
Christmas-day,  its  observance  under  the  Commonwealth 

246/458;  customs,  482 

Chromophone  on  colours  and  musical  sounds,  485 
Chronicles  and  Memorials  of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland, 

380 

Church  aisle  and  monuments,  328 
Church  livings,  lengthened  tenure,  109,  179,  435 
Church,  Roman  form  of  consecration,  452 
Church  used  by  Churchmen  and  Romanists,  427,  478, 

519 
Churches  built  East  and  West  on  the  Continent,  187. 

334 

Churches,  wooden,  367,  437 
Churchwardens,  who  appoints  them,  19 
Churchyard  (Thomas),  "  The  Abuse  of  Beautye,"  402 

"  Challenge,"  362 

Chute  (Anthony),  "  Procris  and  Cephalus,"  462 
C.  (H.  W.)  on  aldermen  of  London,  133 
Cibber  (Theophilus),  "Lives- of  the  Poets,"  83 
Cicero  quoted  by  Von  Raumer,  111,  194,  220 
Circular  bordure  explained,  170,  256 
Clarke  (J.  H.)  on  P.  W.  Owtrem,  19 
Clarke  (Richard),  Lord  Mayor,  arms,  257 
Clarry  on  Dr.  Johnson  on  punning,  498 
Clay  (Charles),  M.D.,  on  American  cents,  208 

Isle  of  Lundy,  works  on,  171 
Clayton  (Bp.),  and  an  "  Essay  on  Spirit,"  507 
Clergyman's  right  to  take  the  chair,  18,  177,  193 
Clerical  Knights,  209,  273,  354 
Clerical  lists,  1780—1830,  346 
Clerical  longevity,  109,  179 
Clericus,  F.S.A.,  on  Prayer  Book  of  1604,  13 
Clever,  an  American  provincialism,  187 


Clifton  on  the  "Silken  Cord,"  210 
Climate  of  England,  485 
Clinical  lectures,  248,  320,  334 
Clinton  (H.)  on  name  of  the  Royal  Family  of  England 
258 

Oila  Podrida,  260 

Turgesius  the  Dane,  217 
Clio  on  churches  built  east  and  west,  334 

Canadian  seignenrs,  477 

Henry  IV.'a  motto,  506 

Rutland:  county  or  shire,  315 

Simon  (Thomas),  engraver,  178 

Sterling,  its  former  meaning,  186 

Turkey-cocks  in  armorial  bearings.  507 
Cloth  and  Woollen  trades,  209 
Cloudesley  on  Dr.  Donne's  portrait,  370 
Clover,  four-bladed,  298 

Club,  its  derivation,  294;  "To  club  a  regiment "  427 
Clubs,  four  and  deuce  of,  223 
C.  (M.  A.)  on  the  Courts  of  Love,  291 
C.  (N.  H.)  on  orange  butter,  417 
Coaches,  state,  389 
Cochran  or  Dundonald  family,  408 
Cockle  (James)  on  mathematical  bibliography,  64,  168, 

306 

Codrington  (Rob.),  monument  in  Bristol  cathedral,  90 
Coin  of  William  and  Mary,  leaden  one,  207,  259 
Coin,  leaden,  found  at  Clare,  197 
Coinage,  origin  of  pounds,  shillings,  and  ponce,  112 
Coins  inserted  in  tankards,  50,  116,  277,  397,435  ; 
restoration  of  decayed,    130,    196,  215  ;   tarnished 
silver,  31,  99,  116 

Cole  (John)  of  Scarborough,  387,  509 
Cole  (Rev.  Win.),  burial-place  and  epitaph,  487 
Coleridge  (S.  T.),  "  Table  Talk,"  name  wanted,  52 
Coliberts,  tenants  in  socage,  187,252 
Collier  (J.  Payne)  on  extracts  from  the  Registers  of  th« 
Stationers'  Company,  44,   104,141,  201,241.321, 
361,  401,  461,  501 
Collins  (Rev.  Brian  Bury),  427 
Collins  (Mortimer)  on  St.  Aulairc's  quatrain,  52 

Earthquake  in  Guernsey,  177 
"  Whip  up  Smouchy  or  Pont,"  117 
Collison  (F.  W.),  on  North  Devonshire  folk  lore,  404 
Colonel,  its  derivation  and  pronunciation,  130,  196 
Colours  and  musical  sounds,  485 
Colours,  primary,  246 
Combe  (Harvey  Christian),  arms,  237 
Combe  (Thos.),  translator  of  "  The  Theater  of  fyne  De- 
vises," 40 

Comets  and  epidemin,  129 
Common  Prayer  Book  of  1604,  13,  76 
Commonwealth  marriages,  228 
Concordances  and  Verbal  Indexes,  list  of,  345 
Congers,  a  franchise,  248,  332,  436 
Constable  (Henry),  "  Diana."   321 
Constantino  on  the  saying  <;  To  wit."  349 
Consumptions,  Scottish  recipes  for,  307 
"  Controversy  between  the  Fleas  and  Women,"  45 
Convocation  in  Ireland,  485 
Cooke  (Dr.  Benj.),  Shaksperian  settings,  265 
Cooke  (W.  B.)  on  Francis  do  Burgh's  mother,  89 
Cromwell  family,  336 
Hotel  des  Invalides  a  Paris,  309 
Tabard,  a  military  dress,  337 
Coombe  (Wm.),  author  of  "  The  Diaboliad,"  428 


528 


INDEX. 


Cooper  (C.  H.)  on  Cecily,  Duchess  of  York,  419 

Kandolph  (Ambrose),  483 

Cooper  (C.  H.,  and  Thompson)  on  Brian  Bury  Collins, 
427  :. 

Holden  (John  Rose),  199 

Lambe  (Charles).  464 

Manisty  (Edward),  of  Clare  Hall,  217 

Musffi  Etonenses,  372 

Sackville  (Sir.  Win.),  Lord  Buckhurst,  320 

Strange  (Sir  John)  and  his  son,  353 
Cooper  (Fenimore)  on  the  Bermudas,  128 
Cooper  (Thompson)  on  Feinaigle's  "  Art  of  Memory," 

169 
Cooper  (Wm.  Durrant)  on  smuggling  in  Sussex,  215 

Simon  (Thomas),  medallist,  297 
Copland  (A.)  on  children  hanged,  39 
Copley  (Anthony),  minor  poet,  242 
Corby,  co.  Northampton,  singular  custom,  424 
Cordeliers,  colour  of  their  habits,  409,  457 
Cornefers  of  Bewdley,  369 
Corner  (G.  R.)  on  Chaucer's  Tabard  Inn,  and  fire  of 

South  wark,  193 

Corney  (Bolton)  on  America  before  Columbus,  7 
Cornwall  (Pierce  Gavestone,  Earl  of), "  Life,  Death,  and 

Fortune,"  501 
Cornwallis  family,  370 
Corps  humain  petrifie',  370,  437,  455 
Cortez  (Hernando),  arms  of  his  wives,  137 
Coster  festival  at  Haarlem,  488 
Cctgreave  forgeries  of  W.  S.  Spence,  8,  54,  92 
Cot-quean,  its  etymology,  403 

County  and   shire  distinguished,  111,  197,  258,  315 
Courtney  (R.  J.)  on  English  ambassadors  to  France,  78 
Courts  of  Love,  works  on,  291 
Coverdale  (Myles),  editions  of  his  Bible,  406,  433 
Covetousness,  works  on,  468 

Cowell  (Dr.  John),  '•'  Interpreter  condemned,"  9,  74 
Cowper  (Spencer)  his  trial  for  murder,  91,  115,  191, 

214,  275,  354,  438 

Coxeter  (Thomas),  notes  on  English  poets,  83 
C.  (P.  S.)  on  St.  Beuigne,  Dijon,  18 
C.  (R.)  Cork,  on  James  Nihel,  499 
Craggs  (Thomas)  on  Burns  and  Andrew  Homer,  147 
Cranmer  (Abp.),  portraits,  269,  416,  516 
Craskell  (Thomas),  engineer,  96 
Crawfish,  its  derivation,  403 
Crawley    (C.  Y.)  on   servants   at    Holy   Communion, 

231 

Cray,  a  local  name,  its  meaning,  506 
Creech  (Thomas),  Fellow  of  A.11  Souls,  Oxford,  261 
Creswell  (S.  F.)  on  cases  of  longevity,  454 

Historic  photographic  gallery,  504 

Newspapers,  their  age,  398,  479 

Previous  question,  345 

St.  Patrick's  day  at  Eton,  329 

Visiting  cards,  267 
Crew  (Sir  Thomas),  370 
Crimean  war  foretold,  90 
Crinolines  in  1737,  286 
Cromek  (T.  H.)  on  "  Parodies  on  Gay,"  231 

Peacock  (Miss),  friend  of  Thomas  Campbell,  90 
Cromwell  family  arms,  109,  289,  317,  336 
Cromwell  (Oliver),  prudent  care  of  official  documents, 

109;  shield,  179 

Cromwell  (Col.  William),  circa  1642,  68 
Crony,  its  derivation,  50,  118    . 


Crossley  (James)  on   "  Speeches  and  Prayers   of  the 

Regicides,"  430 

Crowe  (Thomas),  "  A  Sadd  Sonnet "  on  him,  362 
C.  (S.)  on  authorised  translator  of  Catullus,  67 

Blue  and  buff,  519 

Coleridge's  Table  Talk,  52 

Degrees  of  S.T.P.  and  D.D.,  457 

Noblemen  and  barons  in  Scotland,  451 

Polygamy  in  Sicily,  231 

Rabbit,  its  etymology,  490 

Sermon  on  Charles  I.,  250 

University  discipline,  439 
C.  (S.  F.)  on  tenure  of  livings,  326 
C.  (T.)  on  mathematical  enigma,  334 
Cuber  on  Easter   and  Whitsuntide  viands.  248 

Wigan  mayors,  232 

Cumberbatch  (Mrs.)  portrait,  269,  360 
Cunningham  (Peter)  on  Squire  Allworthy,  186 

Lord  Bacon's  statue,  148 

Bridgman   (Charles),  gardener   to   George   II., 
227 

Brome  (Dick),  "The  Love-Sick  Maid,"  168 

Chapman  (George),  entry  of  his  baptism,  170 

Jonson  (Ben)  and  the  alderman's  pension,  149 

Martin  (Richard),  Recorder  of  London,  168 

Massinger's  widow,  188 

Wake  (Sir  Isaac),  207 

Years  and  reigns,  366 

Young  (Dr.),  noticed  in  a  poem,  188 
Curates,  three-penny,  271,  337 
Curmudgeon,  a  curious  etymology,  130,  194 
Cursons  of  Waterferry,  co.  Oxford,  228 
Curwen  (Sir  John),  governor  of  Porchester  Castle,  318, 

378 
Customary  of  the  Abbey  of  Milton,  148 

C.  (W.)  on  husbandman  in  former  times,  115 

Metric  prose,  115 
Moneyers'  wjeighta,  412 
Cypher,  a  new  one,  466 

D 

D.  on  hunter's  moon,  224 

Monk  (Christ.)  pedigree,  77 

Stithe;  Stithy,  458 

"  The  Passing  Bell,"  a  poem,  52 
D.  1.  on  the  Carylls  of  Ladyholt,  203 
A.  on  Stephen  Kemble's  baptism,  268 
A.  1.  on  clerical  incumbents,  346 
5.  on"  Not  too  good  to  be  true,"  366 

Sun  and  whalebone,  359 
Dacre  of  the  North,  217 
"  Daily  Advertiser,"  complete  sets,  187 
Dalby  (J.  W.),  editor  of  "  Historic  Keepsake,"  347 
Dambroad,  its  derivation,  347,  399 
Danby  of  Leake  and  Kirkby  Knowle,  97,  195 
Daniel  (Samuel),  "Delia,"  202  ;  "  Tragedy  of  Cleopa- 
tra," 462 

Danish  writer  on  unicorns,  50,  118 
D'Arcy  family,  co.  York,  arms,  387 
Dauriat  (Madame  Louise),  lectures,  486 
D'  Aveney  (H.)  on  Bunker's  Hill,  437 

Coins  inserted  hi  tankards,  436 

Sillett  (James),  miniature  painter,  135 
Davidson  family  of  Dumfries,  450 
Davies  (J.  A.)  on  Martin's  pictures,  345 


INDEX. 


529 


Davies  (J.  A.)  on  Robinson  Crusoe  and  De  Foe,  303 

Sleep,  forgetfulness  of  eating  after,  406 

The  swine  brother  to  man,  291 
Davies  (Sir  John),  "  Immortality  of  the  Soul,"  108 
Davies  (T.)  on  claim  of  eldest  sons  of  baronets,  420 
Davies  (Thos.),  Catalogue  of  Oldys's  books,  83 
Davis  (Jefferson),  his  family,  49,  118 
Davison  (A.)  on  epigram  on  the  Four  Georges,  518 

"  Yankee  Doodle  borrows  cash,"  468 
Davy  (Sir  Humphrey),  on  gas-light,  51,  117,  277 
Days  lucky  and  unlucky,  176 
D.  (E.)  on  Title-pages  unknown,  250 

Whateley  family,  225 
D.  (E.<A.)  on  Coverdale's  Bibles,  406 

Paulo  Dolscio,  "  Psalterium,"  68 
Deaf  and  Dumb  literature,  427,  475,  498,  514 
Deane  (W.  J)  on  quotation  from  Erasmus,  218 
Dedications  to  the  Deity,  420 
Deer  parks,  reduction  of,  187 
"  Defender  of  the  Faith,"  use  of  the  title,  347 
Defnial  on  a  curious  coincidence,  345 

Petronius  Arbiter,  10 
De  Foe  (Daniel),  "  Robinson  Crusoe,"  308 
Degrees,  "Ad  eundem,"  their  advantages,  288,  359 
Degrees  of  comparison,  48,  137 
Degrees  of  S.T.P.  and  D.D.,  231,  318,  333,  457 
Delta  on  bibliography  of  Alchemy  and  Mysticism,  89 

"  Delicate  Investigation,"  32 

Chiaucungi,  the  Egyptian  fortune-teller,  187 

Cryptography,  466 

Flight  of  wild  geese  and  cranes,  96 

Forman  (Dr.),  Discourse  of  Crystallomancy,  169 

Gray's  Elegy  parodied,  197 

Gnyon  (Madame),  "  Autobiography,"  51 

King's  evil,  works  on  the,  314 

Oughtred  (Win.),  mathematician,  210 

Postage  stamps,  474 

Steam  navigation,  207 
Delafeld  families,  427,  477,  514 

Deloney  (Thomas), "  the  ballading  silk-weaver,"  105; 
"  The  Lamentation  of  Chris.  Tomlinson,"  322;  "  Gar- 
land of  Good  Will,"  362 
Delta,  Richmond,  on  Army  Lists,  256 
De  Mareville  on  Foilles  de  Gletuers,  319 

Turgesius  the  Dane,  317 
Denkmal  on  monumental  effigies,  90 
Denton  (Wm.)  on  Dr.  John  Pordage,  136 
Deptford,  Love  Lane  Chapel,  210 
Derby  (Henry  Stanley,  Earl  of),  death,  461 
Desmond  (the  old  Countess  of),  biographical  notkes, 

301,  377,  469 
Devil  turning  fiddler,  206 
Devis  (Anthony),  the  painter,  208,  416,  476 
Devonshire  custom,  132  ;  folk  lore,  404 
Dewell  (Wm.),  resuscitated  after  hanging,  344 
D.  (G.  H.)  on  Cotgrave  forgeries,  54 

Cornwallis  family,  370 

Warner  pedigree,  53 
Diamond  dust  a  poison,  486 
Dibdin  (R.  W.)  on  West  Street  Chapel,  111 
Dicconson  (Wm.),  of  Wrightington,  209 
Dickens  (Charles),  and  Yorkshire  schools,  212 
Digby  (Sir  Everard),  his  execution,  506 
Dixon  (J.)  on  lawn  and  crape,  188 

"  Luke's  iron  crown,"  364 
Dixon  (Major-Gen.  Matthew),  burial,  433 


Dixon  (R.  W.)  on  clergyman's  right  to  take  the  chair, 

Dixon  (W.  H.)  "  Story  of  Lord  Bacon's  Life,"  400,  424 

Dixonfold  as  a  local  name,  187 

D.  (J.),  on  Lastingham  church,  396 

D.  (J.  R.)  on  "  Daily  Advertiser,"  197 

D.  (L.  L.)  on  modern  British  coinage,  112 

Christening  bowls,  112 

Dobson  (Wm.)  on  medal  of  Preston  battle,  369 
Dodington  (Ed.),  letter  on  the  arrival  of  the  Spanub 

Armada,  447 

Dodshon  of  Strauton,  descendants,  130 
Dodwell  (Henry),  Camden  professor,  261 
Dolscio  (Paulo),  "  Psalterium,"  68, 116, 
Domesday  Book  photozincographed,  184,  187,  252 
Domestic  architecture,  289 

Donne  (Dr.  John),  portrait. in  his  grave  clothes,  37O 
Donnybrook  parish,  interments  in,  320,  378 
Doran  (Dr.  J.)  on  America  before  Columbus,  75 

King's  evil,  touching  for  the,  497 

Mesmerism  not  alluded  to  by  Plaut us.  377 

Oldys  (Wm.)  and  the  bend  sinister,  97 

Shorter  (Arthur),  59 

Dorking,  custom  on  Shrove  Tuesday,  224,  439 
Doubler,  a  provincialism,  148,  216 
Douglas  (Andrew),  M.D.,  488 
Douglas  Cause,  408 
Douglas,  Duke  of  Tonraine,  288 
Douglas  (Mrs.),  "  The  Life  of  C.  F.  Gellert,"  289 
Douglas  (Neil),  Universalist  preacher,  18,92,  139 
Douglas  (Wm.)  on  "  Theatrical  Portraits,"  39 
Dowell  money,  149,  199,  220,  256 
Down,  Map  of  the  County  of,  507 
Dowson  of  Chester  family,  110,  178 
D.  (Q.)  on  Fairfax  and  Dajmonologia,  218 
Drake  (Sir  Francis),  ceremony  of  his  knighthood,  409, 

460;  note  to  his  Voyages,  9 

Drakenberg  (Christian  Jacobsen),  his  longevity,  353 
Dramas,  manuscript,  32 
Dray  (Thomas)  of  Farningham,  epitaph,  287 
Drayton  (Michael),  "  The  Shepperdes  Garland,"  401 ; 
Sonnets,    164;    "  Triumphes  of    the   Church,"   44  j 
Works,  edit.  1748,61 
Dreams,  phenomena  of,  187 
Droz  (Rev.  John  Peter),  French  refugee,  33 
Drunkard's  Conceit,  a  song,  305,  352 
D.  (T.  W.)  on  Anthony  Devis,  416 
"  Dublin  Literary  Gazette,"  to  editor,  28 
Du  Cane  (Arthur)  on  "  A  true  blue  apron  return,"  348 
Duchess,  or  Dutchess,  187 
Dudley  (Rev.  Henry  Bate),  Bart.,  355 
Duesbury  (Henry)  on  Rivaulx  Abbey,  467 

Turner  the  painter,  484 
Dunford,  Dumford,  or  Dureford,  203,  278,  470 
Dunstable  (Allen)  on  the  ferula,  450 
Dunwell  (Joseph),  portrait,  248 
Durandus,  epitaph  on,  380,  519 
Durham  on  Burdon  of  Easington,  129 
Durnford  family,  492 
Dutch  paper  trade,  86 
Dutch  Psalter  printed  by  A.  Solemne,  172 
D.  (W.)  on  Edm.  Burke  and  "  Annual  Register,"  3 

Chatham  (Lord)  and  the  Spanish  language,  50G 

Gowper  (Spencer),  his  trial,  9 1 

Epigram,  438 

Exorcism:  Luther,  171 


530 


INDEX. 


D.  (W.)  on  faculty  of  laughter:  Dr.  Last,  506 
Homer  on  hawking,  158 
"  Leucippe  by  the  patriarch  loved,"  498 
Noseless  Eusebia,  and  noseless  nuns,  438 
Paulson,  353 
Phjeacian  ships,  485 

Richard  II.  and  Henry  L,  their  tombs,  498 
"  The  Trifle,"  a  political  ballad,  327 
Thibet  dogs,  485 
Vane  (Lady),  152 

D.  (W.  J.)  on  leaden  coin  found  at  Clare,  197 

Paigles,  or  cowslips,  330 
Pronunciation  of  proper  names,  28 
.Walker's  "  Sufferings  of  the  Clergy,"  312 
Dyce  (Rev.  Alex.)  and  Thomas  Keightley,  85 

E 

E.  on  Sobieski,  semi-Welch  family  name,  210 
Earthquakes  in  England,  15,  94, 177;  statistics  of,  210 
Easter  and  Whitsuntide  viands,  248 

Easter  offerings,  their  legal  claim,  453 

Eastern  costume,  95 

Eastwood  (J.)  on  All  Souls'  eve  custom,  217 

Capital  punishment,  497 

Dacre  of  the  North,  217 

Ferula,  instrument  of  punishment,  513 

Hebrew  Grammatical  Exercises,  139 

King's  evil,  travelling  payment  to  London,  314 

Moore  (Rev.  Stephen),  499 

Nockynge,  Dowell  money,  etc.,  199 

Pheasants  first  known  in  England,  313 

"  Poor  Poll,"  etc.,  514 

Turners  of  Eckington,  198 

''  Yankee  Doodle  borrows  cash,"  513 
Easy  (Benj.)  on  bibliographical  queries,  469 

Corps  humain  petrifie',  455 

Derivation  of  Dambord,  347 

Superstition,  its  etymology,  475 
E.  j8.  E.  on  the  word  Toad-eater,  128 
Eboracum  on  Club,  a  military  phrase,  427 

Nevison  the  freebooter,  428 
Ecclesiastical  Commission  of  1650,  130 
Eders  (John),  highwayman,  209 
Edgar  (Miss),  author  of  poems,  328 
Edisfield  (Peter  de),  his  arms,  347 
E.  (D.  S.)  on  the  new  Bishop  of  Cork,  505 
Edward  L,  Itinerary  of,  466 
Edward  II.,  Itinerary  of,  466 
Edward  IV.,  date  of  his  birth,  427 
Edwards  (C.)  on  Quipos,  or  knot  records  of  Peru,  452 

Roman  form  of  consecrating  a  church.  452 
Egg,  a  symbol,  34 
Egypt,  the  royal  crown,  328 
E.  (H.)  on  Gray's  Elegy  parodied,  112 

Royal  library  at  St.  James's,  204 
Eiiionnach  on  "Discourse  against  Transubstantiation," 
69 

"  God's  providence  is  mine  inheritance,"  51 

Leighton  (Abp.),  library  at  Dunblane,  3 

Superstition,  origin  of  the  word,  390 

White  Quakers,  459 
E.  (K.  P.  D.)  on  All  Hallow  eve  custom,  223 

Blue  and  buff,  472 

Danby  of  Kirkby  Knowle,  195 

Earthquake  in  England,  177 

First  bank  in  Australia,  67 


E.  (K.  P.  D.)  on  Greek  orator,  110 

Sunday  newspapers  in  America,  49 
E.  (L.)  on  domestic  architecture,  289 
Election  return,  a  curious  one,  505 
Electioneerers,  a  vulgarism,  130,  197 
Elephant's  skull,  126 
Eliot  (Sir  John),  epitaph,  445 
Elizabeth  and  Isabel,  the  same  name,  59,  113,  174 
Elizabeth  (Queen),  letter,  267 

Ellacombe  (H.  T.)  on  clergyman's  right  to  take  the 
chair,  193 

Giles  Green  and  Capt.  Plunkett,  209 
Ellis  (F.  S.)  on  Praise-God  Barebones,  395 
Ellison  (Henry),  author  of  "  Mad  Moments,"  387 
Eltham,  Queen  Elizabeth's  entertainment  at,  141 
El  Uyte  on  Richard  de  Marisco's  arms,  91 
Ely  (Loftus,  Marquis  of),  arms,  309 
E.  (M.)  on  lucky  and  unlucky  days,  176 

Paulson,  equestrian,  210 
Embalming  the  dead  by  undertakers,  248 
Emperor,  British-born,  426 
England  and  France,  proverbs  respecting,  366 
England,  name  of  the  Royal  family  of,  258 
England,  the  climate  of,  485 
"  England's  Black  Tribunal!,"  112 
"  England's  Parnassus,"  by  Robert  Allot t,  82 
English  language,  written  and  spoken,  98 
Enniskillen  (Cole,  Earl  of),  arms,  309,435 
Envelopes,  insecure,  415,  474 
Epigrams:  Christ  dressed  as  a  Jesuit,  347,  438 

Four  Georges,  328,  358,  518 

Epitaphs :  — 

Came  (Edward),  at  Rome,  259 

Dray  (Thomas),  Farningham,  287 

Durandus,  380,  519 

"  Earth  walks  on  earth,"  etc.,  389 

Eliot  (Sir  John),  446 

Geddes  (Dr.  Alexander),  374 

Jerningham  (John),  of  Cossey  Hall,  464 

Kent  (Rev.  Timothy)  of  Danby,  506 

Peckham  (Robert)  at  Rome,  259 

Thoroton  (Rev.  Sir  John),  Bottesford  church,  273 
Erasmus  and  Ulrich  Hiitten,  289,  511 
Eric  on  birth-day  of  George  III.,  505 

Pope  Joan,  459 

Saltonstall  family,  350 
Esscndon,  locality  of  the  battle  of,  407 
Estcourt(E.  E.)  on  Sir  Francis  Bryan,  176 
Estefort  on  Vice-Adm.  James  Saver,  133 
Eton  College,  custom  on  St.  Patrick's  day  329 
Euchre,  a  game  at  cards,  427 
Euripides  and  Menander  quoted,  51,  178,  292 
Executions  in  France,  1831-60,  308 
Exeter  College,  Oxford,  its  affairs  in  1692,  264 
Exhibition,  the  International,  1862,  380,  460 
Exon  on  Robert  Browning's  Lyrics,  89 

"  Preces  Privates,"  1564,  70 
Exorcism  and  Martin  Luther,  171,  218 
Eye,  its  adjustment  to  distance,  485 
Eyres  (James),  a  respited  convict,  33 

F 

F.  on  Skelton's  descendants,  290 

F.  (A.  B.)  on  church  aisle  and  monuments,  328 

Fairfax  Court  House,  fate  of  its  church,  464 


INDEX. 


531 


Fairfax  (Edw.)  "Discourse  on  Witchcraft,"  150,  218 

Fairfax  family,  of  Barford,  370,  431 

Fairly  (Mr.)  in  Mad.  D'Arblay's  Diary,  96,  336 

Fala  Hall,  in  Mid  Lothian,  448,  495 

Falconia  (Proba),  "  Cento  Virgilianus,"  53 

Families  who  trace  from  Saxon  times,  51 

Fanners-General,  their  collection  of  paintings,  251 

Farnham  (Sir  Clement),  Knt.,  110,  426,  471 

Faustus  (Dr.)  "  The  Second  Report,"  462 

F.  (E.)  on  biblical  versions,  172 

Feasetraw  explained,  211 

Feinaigle(M.  G  von)  "Art  of  Memory,"  author,  169 

Fenelon  and  the  Jansenists,  436 

Ferrey  (Benj.)  on  Holland,  Duke  of  Exeter,  217 

Napoleon  III.'s  residence  in  England,  88 
Ferula,  instrument  of  punishment,  450,  512 
Ffolliot  family,  88,  158,  216,  338 
F.  (G.  R.)  on  Rokeby  family,  478 

Tilney  family,  473 

F.  (H.  C.)  on  Baldwin  family,  110,  426 
"  England's  Black  Tribunall,"  112 

Longevity  cases,  282 
Shorter  (Arthur),  family,  219 
Field,  or  Delafield  families,  427,  477 
Fielding  (Henry),  "Tom  Thumb,"  411 
Finch  (Hon.  Leopold  W.),  262 
Fire  of  London,  Prayers  for  the  great,  388 
Fishwick  (H.)  on  earthquakes  in  England,  94 
Fist  weighing  exactly  a  pound,  168 
Fittis  (R.  S.)  on  Leezie  Lindsay,  463 
Fitz  Gerald  family,  1700-1800,  348 
Fitzlmrris  (Mr.),  his  impeachment,  303 
Fitzhopkins  on  Sir  Everard  Digby's  execution,  506 

Patrick's  "  Reflexions  on  the  Roman  Church,"  379 

Phrases,  473 

Starachter  and  Murdoch,  152 

Wakefield  (Gilbert),  "  Ran*  Canora,"  434 

Weeping  among  the  ancients,  196 
Fitzwilliam  extinct  Irish  peerage,  548,396,  434 
F.  (J.)  on  the  trial  of  Spencer  Cowper,  191,  275 
Flag,  the  American  and  New  England,  72 
Fletcher  (Jacob),  dramatist,  110 
Flick  (Gerlach),  painter,. 269,  416,  417 
Florio  (John),  his  Italian  Proverbs,  82 
Flower  (Francis),  licenser  of  books,  143 
"  Fly,"  an  anacreontic,  2 1 
F.  (M.)  on  Bail  Brigg,  466 

Drinking  mayor,  296 

Earthquakes  in  England,  16 

Freeman  family,  269 

Ghost  stories,  496 

Longevity,  and  three  sets  of  teeth,  386 

Paper  money,  1 1 9 

Proverbial  saying,  189 

Ptainbowin  1644,  271 

Surnames,  177 

Unconscious  plagiarism,  366 

Willoughby  (Lady),  "Diary,"  272,  340 
F.  (M.  G.)  on  Commissariat  of  Lauder,  37 
Foilles  de  gletuers,  96,  319 
Fold,  a  local  affix,  187,  339,  399 
Foley,  origin  of  the  surname,  386,  439 

Folk  Lore  :  — • 

Apple  year  and  twins,  482 
All  Hallow  eve  custom,  223 


Folk  Lore  I—- 
Beans, white,  482 
Christmas  custom,  482 
Clubs,  four  and  deuce  of,  223 
Devonshire,  North,  404 
Ghosts  seen  by  persona  born  at  midnight,  223 
Grantham,  curious  custom  at,  482 
Irish  superstition,  223 
Leeches  to  be  killed,  482 
New  Year  letting  in,  223 
Folliott  (Hon.  Rebecca),  and  her  family,  88,  158,  216 

339 

Fonts,  Norman,  230 

Ford  (Joseph),  M.D.,  uncle  of  Dr.  Johnson,  310 
Forman  (Dr.),  Discourse  of  Crystallomaucy,  169 
Forrest  (C.)  on  Hannah  Green,  438 
Forster    (Thomas),    M.D.,   his    death,  390;    "At mo 

spherical  Origin  of  Epidemic  Disorders,"  123 
Forth  (Wm.),  mayor  of  Wigaii,  232 
Foss  (Edward)  on  Mr.  Serjeant  John  Birch,  29 
Cowper  (Spencer),  trial  of,  214 
Page  (Sir  Francis),  "  the  hanging  judge,"  13 
Reynolds  (Chief  Baron,  and  Barou  James),  149 

276 

Willes  (Chief  Baron  Edward),  487 
Fossils,  how  extracted,  148,  238,  315 
Foster  family  arms,  289 

Foster  (Sir  Michael)  on  impressment  for  the  navjr,  70 
Foundation  stones  of  churches,  248 
Foxlty  on  Joseph  Hallet,  272 
France  and  the  Pope  195  years  ago,  297 
France,  executions  in,  1831-60,  308 
Franklyn  (John  and  Richard)  of  Jamaica,  209 
Frater  (Herus)  on  the  Baron  Reynolds,  235 
Grantees  of  monasteries,  349 
Postage  stamps,  357 
Fraunce  (Abraham),  '•  The   Conntessc  of  Pemlrooke"* 

Ivy  Churche,"  and  "  Emanuel,"  44,  322 
"  Frauncis  Fayre  weather,"  1590-1,  44 
Frazer  (Wm.),  M.D.,  on  Puritans  and  Presbyterians  in 

Ireland,  311 
Freeman  family,  269 
Freeman  (H.)  on  Stangate  Hole,  155 
French  books,  monthly  feuilleton  on,  139 
French  revolution  predicted,  186 
French  Subscriber  on  the  "Wandering  Jew,"  14 
French  tragic  exaggeration,  370,  473 
Fridays,  Saints'  days,  and  Fast  days,  113,  155,  192, 

235,  298 

Friedland  (Albert,  Duke  of),  "  Perduelliouis  Chaos,"  4GS 
Fritwell  antiquities,  463 
Frye  (Thomas),  engraved  heads,  110,  172 
F.  (T.)  on  boroughmongering  in  olden  times,  22G 
Bransgrove  family,  310 
Canadian  seigneurs,  358 
Godschall  (Sir  Robert),  151 
Welsh  mottoes,  273 

Fuller  (Thos.)  "  Worthies  of  England,"  annotated,  84 
Fulluht,  the  Anglo-Saxon  baptism,  158 
Funerals,  princely,  65 

F.  (W.)  on  burning,  a  legal  punishment,  426 
Interments  in  Donnybrooke  parbb,  320 
Ghost  stories,  427 
Sand-painting*,  348 


532 


INDEX. 


G 

G.  on  Jacob  and  James,  411 

State  coaches,  389 

Toads  in  rocks,  389 
(G.)  on  Palestine  Association,  270 
G.  Edinburgh,  on  cutting  off  with  a  shilling,  245 

Doubler,  a  large  dish,  216 

Douglas  (Neil),  139 

Literature  of  lunatics,  500 

Passage  in  Cicero,  111 

Poems,  unsuccessful  prize,  58 

Prophecy  respecting  the  Crimean  war,  90 

Resuscitation  after  hanging,  344 

"  The  Stars  of  Night,"  380 
,  on  Sir  Thomas  Crew  and  Sir  J.  Rowland,  370 

Douglas  (Neil),  of  Glasgow,  18 

Ellison  (Henry),  387 

Forster  (Thomas),  M.D.,  390 

"  Heart  Treasure,"  an  anonymous  MS.,  29 

Macculloch  of  Cambuslang,  397 

Quotations  wanted,  270,  449 

Scottish  medical  recipes,  307 

Touching  for  the  King's  evil,  258 

Von  Raumer's  citation  from  Cicero,  195 

Wilkie  (Dr.  Wm.),  "  Fables,"  277 
G.  (A.)  on  Neil  Douglas's  works,  92 
Galliard  (J.  E.)  and  the  music  in  Brutus,  364 
Galloway  (Win.)  on  Kennedy  i'amily,  413 

M'Culloch  of  Cambuslang,  418 

York  Buildings  Company,  119 
Galton  (J.  L.)  on  Major-Gen.  Dixon,  433 
Games,  ancient,  53 

Gantillon  (P.  J.  F.)  on  longevity  of  lawyers,  519 
Gardiner  (Dr.  B.)  Warden  of  All  Souls,  Oxford,  387 
Gardner  (J.  D.)  on  Reredos,  374 
"  Gargantua,  his  prophesie,"  202,  241 
Garnett  (R.)  on  Shelley's  "  Laon  and  Cythna,"  419 
Gamier  (Robert),  "  The  tragedie  of  Antonie,"  241 
Gascoyne  (Richard),  record-heraldist,  destruction  of  liis 

MSS.,  3 

Gauthiotz  (S.)  on  bibliography  of  alchymy,  156 
Gazette,  its  derivation,  365 
Gd.  on  caricatures  and  satirical  prints,  333 
G.  (E.)  on  an  early  edition  of  Terence,  131 

Sir  John  Baldwin,  471 
Geast  and  Dugdale  family  arms,  389 
Geddes  (Dr.  Alex.),  epitaph,  374 
Geese  and  cranes,  flight  of,  96 
Genealogist  on  Scarlett  family.  231 
Geology,  corps  humain  petrifie,  370,  437,  455 
George  L,  statue  in  Leicester  Square,  227 
George  III.,  anecdote,  307 ;  birth-day,  505 
George  (Prince)  of  Denmark,  patron  of  science,  169 
Georges,  the  Four,  epigram  on,  328,  358,  518 
German  philosophers,  450 
G.  (F.)  on  biographical  queries,  208 

Rev.  William  Cole's  burial-place,  487 
G.  (G.  M.)  on  Bp.  Patrick's  "  Devotions  of  the  Roman 

Church,"  320 
University  discipline,  400 

G.  (H.)  on  being  covered  in  the  Royal  presence,  350 
Dowson  family,  179 
Paravicin  family,  179 
Pemberton  (Sir  James),  arms,  19 
Pitt  and  Orbell  of  Kensington,  77 


G.  (H.)  on  Robertson  family  arms,  77 

Scarlett  family,  299 

Wase  or  Wast,  family  arms,  178 
Ghost  stories,  427,  459,  496 
G.  (H.  S.)  on  Alderman  Boydell,  333 

Cromwell  family  arms,  109 

Edisfield,  Scotenay,  and  Passenham,  347 

Foley,  as  a  surname,  386         t 

Ford  (Joseph),  M.D.,  Dr.  Johnson's  uncle,  310 

Grammar  schools,  177 

Mathews  and  Gough  families,  157 

Percy  quarterings,  372 

Starch,  its  earliest  use  in  England,  156 

Verelst  (Lodvick),  171 
Giant  found  at  St.  Bees,  11 
Gibb  (John  S.)  on  James  Beattie's  poems,  35 
Giffardier  (Rev.  Charles),  alias  Mr.  Turbulent,  96 
Gifford  (Bonaventure),  at  Oxford,  263 
Gilbert  (J.)  on  Adrian  IV.,  manner  of  his  death,  313 

Drake  (Sir  Francis),  knighthood,  460 

Edward  IV.,  date  of  his  birth,  427 

Family  Registers,  320 

Foley,  as  a  surname,  439 

Monk  family,  478 

Newspapers,  age  of,  351,  479 

Roger  Bacon's  manuscripts,  288 

Tory,  its  derivation,  479 

Type  composed  by  machinery,  448 

"  Wandering  Jew,"  and  Croly's  "  Salathiel,"  77 
"  Gilded  chamber,"  as  used  by  poets,  68 
Gisors,  the  prisoner  of,  329 

G.  (J.  L.)  on  St.  Ebba,  abbess  of  Coldingham,  417 
G.  (J.  R.)  on  Scripture  paraphrase,  134 
Glasgow,  its  old  bridge,  123.  244 
Glassford  (James),  version  of  Guarini's  madrigal,  19 
Glastonbury,  origin  of  the  name,  148 
Glenham  (Edw.),  his  valiant  conquests,  45 
Gloucester  idiot,  389,  437 
Glove,  its  etymology,  403 
Glover  family,  182 

Glwysig  on  Mr.  Reynolds,  Wilkes's  attorney,  210 
G.  (M.  A.  E.)  on  Mary  Ann  Browne's  verses,  19 
G.  (M.  R.)  on  Euripides  and  Menander,  51 
Gnarus  on  the  egg,  a  symbol,  34 
Goddard  (Mr.),  satirist,  141 

"  God's  providence  is  mine  inheritance,"  51,  119,  237 
Godschall  (Sir  Robert),  Lord  Mayor,  151 
Godwin  (Wm.),  author  of  "  Caleb  Williams,"  503 
Godwyn  (Dr.  Thomas),  "Moses  and  Aaron,"  349 
Goodeve  family  of  Goodeve  Castle,  346 
Gordon  (Thomas),  on  Abp.  Leigh  ton  at  Newbattle,  441 
Gore  (John),  Rector  of  Wendenloft,  Essex,  371 
Gorsuch  family,  213,  354 
Gossamer,  its  etymology,  403,  458 
Gosson  (Rev.  Stephen),  noticed,  201 
Gosson  (Thomas),  stationer,  201 
Gothe  (J.  W.  von),  autographs,  310 
Gough  and  Mathews  families,  89,  157 
Grace,  as  applied  to  Dukes  and  Archbishops,  466,  517 
Gradvvell  family,  196,  354 
Grafton  (Isabella,  Duchess  of),  account-book,  205 
Grammar  Schools  founded  by  Edward  VI.,  36,  177 
Grange  Hall,  views  of,  266,*359 
Grant  (John),  of  Norbrook,  341 
Grantlmm,  singular  custom  at,  482 
Gray  (Elizabeth),  longevity,  411 


INDEX. 


533 


Gray  (Rev.  James),  his  poetic  works,  409 

Gray  (Thomas);  "Elegy  "parodied,  112,  197,  220,255 

339,  355,  398,  432 

Greaves  (C.  S.)  on  Marquis  of  Argyle's  execution.  397 
Carylls  of  Lady  holt,  278 
Learner,  a  nut,  36 
Longevity,  500 
Newtons  of  Whitby,  17 
Greek  orator,  110 
Greek  statues,  their  properties,  311 
Green  (Giles),  M.P.,  209 
Green  (Hannah),  called  "Ling-Bob,"  384,  438 
Green  (M.  S.  E.)  on  Viscount  Lisle,  357 
Green  Sleeves,  a  tune,  147 
Greene  (Edw.  Barnaby),  translator  of  "  The  Argonautic 

Expedition  of  Apollonius  Rhodius,"  429 
Greene  family,  co.  Hereford,  371 

Greene  (Robert),  his  death,  322  ;  intelligence  from  the 
!    infernal  regions,  362  ;  "  Groat's-worth  of  Wit,"  321, 

323  ;  "  Orlando  Furioso,"  501  ;  "  Philomela,"  242  ; 

"  A  Quip  for  an  Upstart  Courtier,"  242  ;  "  Spanish 

Masquerade,"  104;  "  The  Maiden's  Dream,"  106,  142 ; 

"  Notable  Discovery  of  Coosnage,"  142 
«  Greene's  Funeralls,"  by  R.  B.  Gent,  502 
Greene  (Thomas),  "  Poems  and  Hymns,"  434 
Greenstead,  Little,  its  wooden  church,  367 
Greenwood   (I.   J.)  on   American   standard  and  New 

England  flag,  72 

Gregg  (Bishop),  lines  on  his  appointment,  504 
Gregory  (Josiah)  of  Paulton,  49 
Gregory  (St.),  "  Regula  Pastoralis,"  136 
Grey  (Arthur  Lord)  of  Wilton,  death,  462 
Griffith  (T.  T.)  on  Taylor  family,  75 
Grime  on  Board  of  Trade,  485 

Philo-Byblius'  History  of  Phoenicia,  313 
Chatham  (Earl  of),  his  coffin,  408 
Geddes  (Dr.  Alexander),  epitaph,  374 
German  philosophers,  450 

Grosart  (A.  B.)  on  Sibbes's  "  Gospel  Anointings,"  13 
Grose  (Francis),  his  "  Olio,"  characterised,  64 
Grothill,  near  Edinburgh,  329 
G.  (S.  T.)  on  Athenian  mansion,  386 
French  tragic  exaggeration,  370 
Guildeforde  (Wm.  de)  on  Loftus  family,  170 
Guildford  (Lord)  and  Miss  Trevor,  371 
Guildhall,  Westminster,  painting  of,  89 
Guinea,  the  spade,  230,  299 
Gunpowder  Plot  papers,  341 
Guy  (Sir)  of  Warwick,  a  ballad,  201 
Guyon  (Madame),  "  Autobiography,"  51 
G.  (W.)  on  "  The  Histoiy  of  John  Bull,"  340 
Gwydir  (Peter  Burrell,  Lord),  grant  of  mooring  chains, 

388 
Gwyn  (Nelly),  her  first  love,  286 


H 

H.  on  alcumie  stuff,  257 

Haberdasher,  origin  of  the  word,  385 

Hacket  (Bishop  Thomas),  his  birth,  229 

Hacket  (Wm.),  his  execution,  105 

Hair,  a  defence  of  short,  362 

Half-bowls,  a  game,  54 

Hall  (Dr.  John),  Bishop  of  Bristol,  352 

Httllet  (Joseph),  Avian  minister  at  Exeter,  272 


Ilalybiirton  (Dame  Mareraret  and  George),  their  re!»- 

tionship,  347,  418,  516 

Hamilton  (Emma,  Lady),  miniature  portrait,  387 
Hampden  (John),  enthusiasm  in  his  favour,  17 
Hampshire  mummers,  66 
Handel  festival,  500,   520;  author  of  the  words  of 

"  lather,"  289 

Hanging,  resuscitation  after,  344 
Hannes  (Edw.),  professor  of  chemistry,  264 
Harberton  (Chessborough)  on  four  and  dence  of  clubs 

223 

Gray's  Elegy  parodied,  220 
Ireland,  its  national  colour,  219 
Irish  topography,  192 
Kennedy  family,  246 
Palm,  the  Italian,  379 
Pandects,  95 
Spade  guinea,  299 
Tabards  worn  by  ladies,  217 
Hardman  (J.  W.)  on  sundry  queries,  348 
Harford  (F.  K.)  on  architectural  views,  269 
Harington  (E.  C.)  on  the  ferula,  513 
Harington  (Sir  John)  "  Orlando  Furioso,"  44 
Harkirke,  its  meaning,  229 

Harleian  Library,  Oldys's  catalogue  of  pamphlets,  43 
Harleian  Miscellany,  edited  by  Wm.  Oldys,  43;  Park's 

edition,  43 

Harley  (Edward,  Earl  of  Oxford),  Oldyb's  patron.  21 
Harlowe  (S.  H  )  on  Sam.  Johnson,  alias  Lord  Flame, 

456 

Harp  in  the  arms  of  Ireland,  192,  259 
Harris  (James)  on  Davidson  family,  450 
Harrison  family  of  Berkshire,  51 
Harrison  (Major-Gen),  executed,  384 
Harry  (G.  0)  "  Genealogy  of  James  I.,"  330 
Hart  (W.  H.)  on  Domesday  B.;ok,  252 

Beare's  Ballads   and  Browne's  Country  Parson's 

Advice,  465 

Hurvey  (Dr.  Gabriel),  "  New  Letter  of  Notable  Con- 
tents," 461 

Haslewood  (Joseph)  his  annotated  Langbaine,  83 
Hatton  (Sir  Chris.),  discourse  on  his  death,  142 
Haughmond  on  Queen's  pennant  on  passage  vessels,  1 1 7 
Haunted  houses,  371 

Haverfurdwest,  address  to  the  electors  in  1718,  244 
Haviland-Burke  (Edmund)  on  Edmund  Burke  and  Lonl 

Verney,  374,  495 

H.  (A.  W.)  on  the  ass  and  the  ladder,  14 
Hawking  noticed  by  Homer,  158 
Hawkins  (Ca3sar),  family,  210 
Hawkins  family  crest,  409 
Hawkins  (Sir  John),  '•  Life  of  Walton,"  81 
Hawthorne  (Mr.)  and  Longfellow,  287 
Hawtrey  (Rev.  Dr.  Edward  Craven),  his  death,  100 
Hay  (Richard),  "  Origin  of  the  Stuart  family,"  295 
Hazles,  seat  of  the  Elton  family,  249,  406 
Hazlitt  (W.  C.)  on  Old  Street  fields,  186 
H.  (B.  L.)  on  Princess  Alice  as  Duchess  of  Saxony,  190 
H.  (C  )  on  Lady  Sophia  Bulkeley,  69 

Bankers'  misfortunes  in  1676,  151 
H.  (C.  A.)  on  Standard  in  Cornhill,  488 
H,  (E.)  on  Athenian  Misogynist,  450 
Carter  Lano  meeting-house,  172 
Unconscious  plagiarism,  518 

"  Heart  Treasure,  or  the  Saints'  Divine  Riches,"  an  ano- 
nymous MS.,  29 


534 


INDEX. 


Hearth- tax  in  1600,  367;  in  1689,  420 
"  Hearts  of  Oak,"  origin  of  the  phrase,  347 
Heath  (John),  Judge  of  Common  Pleas,  208,  276 
Heath  (Robert),  Recorder  of  London,  168 
Hebrew  grammatical  exercises,  89,  139 
H.  (E.  D.  )  on  an  historical  allusion,  249 
Heineken  (N.  T.)  on  sun-dial  and  compass,  39 
H.  (E.  N.)  on  Alphonso  the  Wise,  439 

Bottefang  (Julius  Cajsar),  517 

Ferielon  and  the  Jansenists,  436 

Kentish  miller,  335 

Phrases  unexplained,  348 
Hendrik  en  Alida,  a  Dutch  merchant-vessel,  29 
Hendriks  (Fred.)  on  being  covered  before  royalty,  416 

Prophecies  of  St.  Malachi,  49 
Henry  I.  and  his  surname  Beauclerc,  148 
Henry  II.,  effigy  at  Fontevrault,  426,  498 
Henry  IV.  of  France,  his  motto,  506 
Henry  ou  a  giant  found  at  St.  Bees,  11 
Her.  on  circular  bordure,  172 
Heraldic  queries,  30,  68,  77,  99 
Heraldic  volume  temp.  Charles  II.,  352,  394 
Heraldicus  on  Taylor  family,  317 
Heraldry,  sham,  31 

Herbert  (George),  poem  "Virtue,"  249,  319 
Hereditary  dignities,  149 

Hermentrude   on   the  Duchess  d'Angouleme   and  the 
Count  de  Chambord,  68 

Adverb,  its  wrong  position,  88 

Charles  L,  his  "  Remember,"  76 

Elizabeth  (Queen),  her  letter,  267 

Henry  L,  surnamed  Beauclerc,  148 

Heraldic  query,  30 

Hey  worth  genealogy,  409 

Isabella,  Duchess  of  Grafton,  account  book,  205 

Jaqueline  of  Hainault,  249 

Jeanne  d'  Evreux,  Queen  of  France,  230 

Journal  of  Louise  de  Savoie,  20 

Monastic  orders.  409 
Hermitages  in  Worcestershire,  389 
Herydone,  nsed  by  Wicliff,  291,  355 
Hewett  (Dr.   John),   warrant  for  his   execution,    54  ; 

execution,  etc.,  112 

Hewett  (Thomas),  father  of  Dr.  Hewett,  229 
Heworth  church,  its  dedication,  257 
Heywood  (John),  works,  105 
Heyworth  genealogy,  409 
H.  (F.  C.)  on  coins,  restoring  defaced  and  worn,  196 

Coins  inserted  in  tankards,  1 1 6 

Doubler,  a  large  dish,  217 

Drunkard's  conceit,  305 

Exorcism  :  Luther,  218 

Ferula,  an  instrument  of  puirishment,513 

Fridays,  saints'  days,  and  fast  days,  235 

Horses  frightened  by  camels,  496 

Jokes  on  the  scarcity  of  bullion,  196 

Low  Sunday,  491 

Monastic  orders,  their  habit,  457 

Neomonoscope,  183 

Nockynge,  Dowell  money,  etc.,  199 

Postage  stamps,  195 

Prophecies  of  St.  Malachi,  174 

Reading  the  Bible  in   16th  and  17th  centuries, 
218 

Sand-pain  tings,  418 

St.  Napoleon,  3(J 


H.  (F.  C.)  on  S.T.P.  and  D.D.,  333 

Trial  of  the  Princess  of  Wales,  137 
Wells  city  seals  and  their  symbols,  39 

Witticisms,  reproduction  of  old,  394 

Wigs,  a  sort  of  cake,  436 

Xavier  and  Indian  Missions,  116 
H.  (F.  D.)  on  rings  of  Charles  I.,  519 

Epitaph  on  Durandus,  519 

H.  (G.)  on  Richard  Hune's  "  Enqtu'rie  and  Verdite,"  450 
H.  (H.)  on  author  of  "  Observations  on  Lord's  Prayer," 

479 

Higgon  (Rev.  John),  his  longevity,  109 
Hinchcliffe  (T.  0.)  on  Rev.  Dr.  Sam.  Bolton,  169 
Hisp.  on  arms  of  the  kingdom  of  Leon,'  407 
H.  (J.)  on  abbey  counters  or  tokens,  71 

'Adjustment  of  the  eye  to  distance.  485 

Redmond  crest,  52 

Richdalc  family,  388 
H.  (J.  A.)  on  Dr.  William  Norton,  251 
II.  (J.  C.)  on  Heraldric  query,  68 

Legal  pun,  396 

Hodgkin  (J.  E.)  on  England  and  France,  proverbs  re- 
specting, 366 

Money,  its  relative  value,  395 

Yetlin,  an  iron  utensil,  35 

Hody  (Humph.),  Regius  Prof,  of  Divinity,  Oxford,  262 
Holand  family,  52,  157,  217 
Holden  (John  Rose),  longevity,  159,  199 
Holinshed  (Ralph),  "  Chronicles,"  castrations,  469 
Holland,  English  refugees  in,  409,  514 
Holmes  (Sara),  inquired  after,  465 
Holroyd  (Abraham)  on  doubler,  148 

Fairfax  family  of  Bradford,  370 
Holyland  family,  259,  354,  406 
Hook  (Charles)  on  a  fist  weighing  a  pound,  168 
Hooker  (Richard),  entry  of  his  "  Ecclesiastical  Polity  " 

in  the  Stationers'  registers,  361 
Hooper  (John),  Bp.  of  Gloucester,  family,-  229 
Hoop- petticoats  in  1737,  286 
Hopper  (Clarence),  on  Sebastian  Cabot,  125 

Dowson  family,  1 78 

Kingsmills  ofSidmanton,  376 

Motto  :  "  Causes  produce  effects,"  332 

Simon  (Thomas),  297 

Tenure  of  the  manor  of  Addington,  170 
Hore  (Herbert),  on  Orkney  Island  discoveries,  37 

Topography  of  Ireland,  96 

Tory,  origin  of  the  word,  437 
Horne(Bp.  Geo.)  and  the  Great  Masters,  248 
Home  (Rev.  Thomas  Hartwell),  his  death,  100 
Horse,  its  value  in  Shakspeare's  time,  182,  238,  299 
Horse  trembling  at  the  sight  of  a  camel,  459,  496 
Horticultural  Society's  Exhibition,  240 
Hotel  des  Invalides  a  Paris,  309 
Houses  haunted,  371 
Howell  (James),  M.P.  for  Richmond,  252 
Howell  (Laurence),  nonjuror,  his  ordination,  312 
Howland  (Sir  John),  knt.,  370 
Hoyle  (W.  D.)  on  Wellington  register,  290 
H.  (S.  H.)  on  hymn  tunes,  455 

Church  used  by  churchmen  and  Romanists,  478 
H.  (T.  J.)  on  Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  and  Bolton  Castle, 

451 

Huckle  (Godfrey  Kneller),  autograph,  97 
Hughes  (T.)  on  Cursons  of  Waterferry,  co.  Oxford,  228 

Foundation  ^ones  of  churches,  248 


INDEX. 


53.5 


Hughes  (T.)  on  Jacob's  well  at  Cliester,  26 

Webbc,  (Sir  William),  knt.,  31 
Humphrey  (Duke)  of  Gloucester,  his  hospitality,  379 
Hune  (Richard),  "  Enquiries  and  Verdite  on  his  death." 

450 

Hunter  (J.  C.)  on  "  The  Stars  of  Night,"  290 
Hunter's  moon,  224,  334 
Huntingdon  (Geo.  1st  Karl  of),  his  obit,  349 
"  Hurlothrumbo,  or  the  Super-Natural,"  411,  456 
Husbandman,  its  old  meaning,  30,  77,  115 
Husi,  the  protector,  31 
Husk  (W.  H.)  on  Dr.  Arne's  father,  18 

Beauty  and  Love,  356 

Gray's  Elegy  parodied,  339 

Latin  Graces,  339 

Mayerne  (Sir  Theodore),  326 
Hussey,  Hurst,  local  names,  137,  196 
Hutchiuson  (John),  his  descendants,  188,  477 
Hutchinson  (P-)  on  arms  in  Cromwell's  shield,  179 

Foster  and  Walrond  arms,  289 

Psalm  cxlix.,  its  title,  397 

St,  abbreviated  to  T,  296 
Hlitten  (Ulrich),  and  Erasmus,  289,  511;  noticed,  171, 

417 

Button  (Luke),  "  Repentance  of  Rob.  Greene,"  322 
H.  (W.)  on  Praise-God  Bareboues,  253 

Easter  offerings,  453 

Ryot  and  Riot,  257 

Slip-slop,  its  early  use,  250 
H.  (W.  I,  S.)  on  cases  of  longevity,  454 

Tory,  its  derivation,  516 
H.  (W.  T.)  on  moorings  in  the  Thames,  388 
Hymn  tunes,  poor  Poll,  etc.,  388,  454,  497,  514 
Hyndford,  (John,  3rd  Earl  of),  papers,  482 


"Idone,  or  Incidents  in  the  Life  of  a  Dreamer,"  188 
I.  (E.)  on  the  Cotgreave  forgeries,  92' 
Ikon,  a  termination,  its  etymology,  111 
Impressment  of  mariners,  statutes  on  the,  70 
Ina  on  origin  of  the  name,  Glastonbury,  148 

Jackdaw,  a  weather  proverb,  67 

Llewellin  family,  28 

Lottery  at  Wales,  A.D.  1568,  103 

Press-gang  in  1706,  70 

Prohibition  against  eating   flesh  in  Lent,  88 

Solicitors'  bills,  55 

Somersetshire  wills,  125 

Trade  prohibitions  at  Wells,  147 

Wells  city  seals  and  their  symbols,  10 

White  (Thos.)  Recorder  of  Wales,  31 
Index  (H.  C.)  on  Simon  family,  219 
Indexes,  Verbal,  list  of,  345 
India  missions,  works  on,  90,  116,  195 
Infirmaries,  gold  rings  of  the,  149 
Ingledew  (C.  J.  D.)  on  Mrs.  Kettlewell's  death,  91 
Inglis  (It.)  on  anonymous  works,  28,  289,  407 

Carrington  (E.  F.  J.)  translator  of  Plutus,  450 

Campbell  (Hugh),  poetical  works,  310 

"  Christmas  and  the  New  Year,"  a  masque,  466 

Cole  (John),  of  Scarborough,  387 

Dalby  (J.  W.),  editor  of  "  Historic  Keepsake,"  347 

Douglas  (Mrs.),  289 

Dramas,  Manuscript,  32 

Edgar  (Miss),  author  of  "  Poems,"  329 


InglU  (R.)  on  Gardiner  (Rev.  Dr.  B.)  of  OxfurJ,  387 
Gray  (Rev.  James),  409 
Moisey  (Dr.),  actor,  290 
Murray  (Mrs.),  authoress  of  "  The  Gleaner,"  12 

Pohvhivl  (Ut-v.  T.),  iionjuror,  388 

Reddel  (Constantia  Louisa),  311 

School  of  Improvement,  428 

Scraps  from  the  Mountains,  311 

Thompson  (Rev.  Win.),  poet,  220 
.    Westminster  plays  iu  1838 — 9,  233 
Innes  (Rev.  Robert),  circa  1740—50,  parentage,  170 
Inquirer  on  the  early  use  of  starch,  90 

Trap  spider,  70 

Inquisitor  on  Universal  Society,  250 
Inscriptions,  alliterative,  414 
Investigator  on  Lambeth  degrees,  336 
Ion  on  Peacock's  works,  508 
Ireland,  its  national  colour,  68,  219 
Ireland,  topography  of,  96,  117,  192,  259 
Irish  convocation,  485 
Irish  national  synods,  507 

Irish  peers,  arms,  309;  oaths  in  an  EnglUh  court,  52 
Irish  wolf-dog,  158 
Irvine  (Aiken),  on  epigrams  on  the  Popes  of  Rome,  1 1 

Pius  IX.,  acts  of  his  pontificate,  30 
Isabel  and  Elizabeth,  the  same  name,  59,  113,  174 
Isham  (Rev.  Charles),  rector  of  Polebrook,  326,  435 
Ibley  family  of  Kent,  310,  358,  400,  436 
Italian  proverbs,  12 

Italians,  their  fondness  for  English  fashions,  2C9 
Itlmriel  on  Sebastion  Cabot,  a  knight,  366 

Cowell's  Interpreter  condemned,  9 

Documents  preserved  by  Cromwell,  109 
Itineraries,  Royal,  466 

J 

J.  on  Dowson  family  of  Chester,  110 

Fold,  a  local  office,  187 

Husbandman,  its  old  meaning,  30 

Peerages,  errors  in,  37 
Jackdaw,  a  weather  prophet,  67 
Jacob  and  James,  in  English  New  Testament,  411 
Jacob's  well  at  Chester,  26 
Jacobites  and  Jacobins,  425 
Jakins,  origin  of  the  name,  68,  115 
Jal.  on  trial  by  battel,  259 
James  I.,  Harry's  genealogy  of,  330 
James  II.,  declaration  for  liberty  of  conscience,  304; 

abdication,  324 

Jameson  (Thomas),  his  prediction,  249,  354 
Janssen  (Sir  Stephen),  "  Smuggling  laid  open,"  172 
Japanese  ladies,  their  nuptial  etiquette,  409 
Jaqueline  of  Hainault,  249 
Jaydee  on  Autobiography  of  Cornelia  Knight,  108 

Bartholinus  on  Unicorns,  118 

Yarwell,  or  Yarwhelph,  a  bird,  428 
Jay  tee  on  Lord  Guildford  and  Miss  Trevor,  371 

Roscoe's  mask,  356 

Jeanne  D'Evreux,  Queen  of  France,  230,  339 
Jeannette  on  the  Shamrock,  319 
Jeeves  (C.  B.)  on  American  cents,  434 
Jenner  (Edw.),  M.D.,  statue  removed  from  Trafalgar 

Square,  229,  498 
Jendngham  (John),  epitaph,  464 
Jetsam,  Flotsam,  and  Lagan,  78 
J.  (F.)  on  Doiltbon  of  Strauton,  130 


536 


INDEX. 


Jigs  in  our  early  theatres,  143 

J.  (J.  C.)  on  coins  inserted  in  tankards,  50 
Fossils,  how  to  be  extracted,  148 

Joan  (Pope),  Bp.  Hopkins's  remarks  on,  459 

Jockey  Club,  lampoon  on,  290 

John  of  Milim,  and  the  "  Schola  Salerni,"  53 

Johnson  (Robert),  Baron  of  the  Exchequer  in  Ireland, 
his  family,  451 

Johnson  (Dr.  Samuel),  diploma  conferred  by  the  Uni- 
versity of  Dublin,  30,  98;  on  punning,  332,  371, 
498 

Johnson  (Sam.),  "  Hurlothrumbo,"  411,  456 

Jones  (Henry),  clock-maker,  112,  210 

Jones  of  Dingcstow,  family  arms,  111 

Jonson  (Ben)  on  the  withdrawal  of  the  pension  to  the 
City  Poet,  149 

Jopling  (Joseph)  on  Savonarola's  manuscripts,  147 

J.  (R.  0.)  on  Routh  family,  90 

Judges'  maces,  347 

Judges'  seats  in  courts  of  justice,  127 

Juryman's  oath  at  the  Restoration,  52,  138,  298 

J.  (W.  B.)  on  John  Eders  and  John  Wilkes,  209 
Weeping  among  the  ancients,  132 

J.  (W.  S.)  on  Deaf  and  Dumb  Literature,  49 8 

K 

K.  on  Edmund  Burke,  415 

Italian  quotation,  415 

Length  of  palm  in  .Southern  Europe,  230 
K.  (A.)  on  Walshingham  family,  507 
Kangaroo  Land,  480 
Keightley  (Thomas)  on  Mr.  Dyce's  criticism,  85 

Etymologies,  403 

Money,  its  relative  value.  182,  475 

Peele  (Geo.),  passage  in  Edward  I.,  405 

Reins,  its  derivation,  297 
Kellinston,  its  early  parish  register,  290,  357 
Kelly  (Win.)  on  baiting  beasts,  417 

Itineraries  royal,  466 
Kemble  (Stephen),  baptismal  entry,  268 
Kempe  (Win.),  his  "  Jigge"  143;  translator  of  Ramus' 

Arethmetike,  201 
Kennedy  (Sir  Archibald),  247 
Kennedy  family,  246,  413 
Kennedy  (Matthew),  "  History  of  the  Stuart  Family," 

230/295 

Kensington,  its  old  inhabitants,  24 
Kensington,  South  Museum,  480 
Kent,  proceedings  relating  to  the  county,  279 
Kent  (Rev.  Timothy),  epitaph,  506 
Kentish  miller,  335,  380 
Kernow  on  Domesday  Book,  187 
Kettlewell  (Rev.  John),  death  of  his  wife,  91,  119 
Key  (James)  on  family  registers,  248 

Place-Green  House,  Sidcup,  Kent.  188 
K.  (F.)  on  quotations,  69 
K.  (G.  A.)  on  P.  D.,  a  painter,  388 
Khevenhiiller,  volunteers,  33 

Kildare  (Marquis  of)  on  old  Countess  of  Desmond,  337 
Kilmacrenan  parish,  117 

King  Play,  or  Game,  temp.  Philip  and  Mary,  155,  220 
Kings,  English,  entombed  in  France,  426,  498 
King's  evil,  touching  for,  208,   258,  350,  379,  497; 

Service  at  the  healing,  313,  388,  418,  496 
Kingsale  (Lord),  his  privilege  to  remain  covered  before 
royalty,  208,  318 


Kingsbridge,  co.  Devon,  endowment  at,  387 

Kingsmills  of  Sidmanton,  309,  375 

Kissing,  salutation  among  men,  30 

K.  (J.)  on  British-born  Emperor,  &c.,  326 

Kleptomania,  Henri  IV.  affected  with,  169 

Klosse,  or  Closh,  a  game,  54 

"  Knack  to  know  a  Knave,"  a  comedy,  502 

Knave's  Acre,  its  locality,  58,  96 

Knell  (Thomas),  actor,  461 

Kneller  (Sir  Godfrey),  autograph,  97 

Knight  (G.)  on  Union-Jack  flag,  206 

Knight  (Miss  Cornelia),  "  Autobiography,"  errata,  108 

Knighthood  conferred  on  the  clergy,  274 

Knights  clerical,  209,  273,  354 

Knovvles  (E.  H.)  on  archaeology  of  snuffers,  290 
Plantin's  Hebrew  Bibles,  390 

Knowles  (James)  on  Kingsbridge,  co.  Devon,  387 
Parish  register  restorations,  447 

K.  (W.)  on  Rev.  E.  Mainsty,  or  Manisty,  99 

Kydde  (Thomas),  tract,  "  The  Murder  of  John  Brewen," 
&c.,  241,  321 ;  "  The  Spanish  Tragedie  of  Don  Hora- 
tio," 322;  "  Tragedy  of  Salamon  and  Perceda,"  322; 
"  Cornelia,"  502 


L.on  Blue  and  Buff,  425,  500 

Borage  and  Spinach,  339 

Capital  punishments,  33,  497 

Henrich  en  Alida,  29 

Mesmerism  not  alluded  to  by  Plautus,  377 

Parson,  its  etymology,  484 
L.  Oxford,  on  authorised  translators  of  Catullus,  138 

Duchess,  orDutchess,  187 
L.  1.  on  Handel's  Esther,  author  of  words,  289- 
L.  (A.)  on  hymn  tunes,  514 

Judges'  maces,  34-7 

"  Memoir  of  Lady  Vane,"  232 

"  Not  worth  a  rap,"  212 

Lace- makers'  custom  :  Wigs,  a  cake,  387,  419,  436 
L.  (A.  E.)  on  Wm.  Dicconson,  209 

Gorsuch  family,  213 

Harkirke,  its  meaning,  229 

Leaden  coin  of  William  and  Mary,  207 

Marginal  notes.  246 

Percy  (Lady  Mary),  170 

Prediction  in  manuscript,  249 

Seymour  (Jane),  prayers  for  her  safe  delivery,  186 

Winckley  family,  196 
Lae-chow  Islands,  507 
Laslius  on  Alcumie,  359 

Malachi  (Abp.),  "  Prophecies,"  359  * 

Sir  A.  Alison  and  Sir  P.  Pickle,  359 
La  Hogue  naval  victory,  medal,  387 
Lamb  (J.  J.)  on  jokes  on  the  scarcity  of  bullion,  128 

Coin  or  medal  of  Queen  Victoria,  399 

Spade  guinea,  230 

Lambe  (Charles),  incumbent  of  St.  Catharine  Cree.  464 
Lambeth  degrees,  36,  133,  175,  238,  254,  336 
"  Lamentation  of  a  Sinner,"  its  author,  374 
Laminas,  pictures  on  brass,  37 
Lammiman,  or  Lamb -man,  138 
Lammin  (W.  H.)  on  Gleanings  from  the  Statutes,  47 

Monk  (Christopher),  137 
Lancastriensis  on  Cotgrave  forgeries,  54 

Cowell's  Interpreter,  74 

Earthquakes  in  England,  94 


INDEX. 


537 


Lancastriensi.s  on  Taylor  (Bp.  Jeremy),   "  Great  Ex- 

emplar,"  27 
Langbaine  (Gerard),  "  Account  of  the  early  Dratnatick 

Poets,"  annotated  copies,  82,  83 
Langford  (Sir  Henry)  of  Devon,  12,  155 
Last  (Dr.)  and  the  faculty  of  laughter,  506 
Lastingham  church,  396 
L.  (A.  T.)  on  numerous  editions  of  books,  486 
Curious  election  return,  505 
National  synods  in  Ireland,  507 
Lathe  =  asking,  a  provincialism,  452 
Latin  graces  at  King's  College,  Cambridge,  and  Christ 

Church,  Oxford,  188,  339 
Lauder,  commissariat  of,  37,  55 
Laughton  of  Eastfield,  aims,  210,  357 
Lawn  and  crape,  188 
Lawyers,  their  longevity,  345,  519 
L.  (C.  M.)  on  Leighton  family,  356 
L.  (D.  C.)  on  letters  of  Napoleon  III.,  213 
Leach  (Henry)  on  Zuinglius'  "  Image  of  bothe  Pas- 

toures,"  151 
Learner,  a  nut,  36 

Lee  (Alfred  T.)  on  Bp.  Clayton  in  Ireland,  507 
Convocation  in  Ireland,  485 
Debates  on  the  Union  of  1800,  488 
Lee  (Cromwell),  children,  310,  379,  399 
Lee  (Dr.  John),  of  St.  John's,  Oxford,  372 
Lee  (E.)  on  Cromwell  Lee,  399 
Lee  family  of  Quarendon,  12 
Lee  (M.  H.)  on  Mathews  and  Gough  families,  89 
Leech  (John),  Gallery  of  Sketches,  520 
Leeds,  its  dialect,  and  that  of  its  neighbourhood,  79 
Legalis  on  trial  of  Spencer  Cowper,  354 
Leicester  Square,  227 

Leighton  (Abp.  Robert),  letters,  106,  121,  143,  165, 
244;    incumbency   at   Newbattle,   441;    library 
Dunblane,  3,  74,  179 
Leighton  (Dr.  Alex.),    107,  443,  445;  "  Sion's  Plea,' 

320 

Leighton  fomily,  356;  arms,  188,  436 
Leighton  (Sir  Thomas),  arms  and  portrait.  436 
Leighton  (W.  A.)  on  John  Allport,  Recorder,  18G 
Gorsuch  family,  213 
Laujjhton  pedigree,  210 
Leighton  arms,  188 
Parkes  family,  170 
Lengo  Moundino,  37 
Lennep  (John  H.  van)  on  Babylon's  dealing  in  souls  of 

men,  439 

Brazil,  its  derivation,  256 
Burial  in  a  sitting  posture,  38 
D'Arcy  family  arms,  387 
Dutch  paper  trade,  86 
i       Dutch  pugs  in  England,  289 
English  popular  books,  289 
Muff,  a  slang  word,  56 
Note  to  the  Voyages  of  Sir  Francis  Drake  and  £ 

Thomas  Cavendish,  9 
Opal-Hunter,  329 
Orlers's  "  Account  of  Leyden/'  239 
Pageant,  its  derivation,  458 
Vsenius  (Otho),  portrait  of  Justus  Lipsms,  256 
Whip  up  Smouchy  or  Pont,  239 
Lent,  flesh  prohibited  in,  88 

Leo  (Dr.  F.  A.)  on  passage  in  "  Romeo  and  Juliet,    36J 
Leon,  arms  of  the  Kingdom  of,  407,  471,  510 


Lewis  (the  Rt.  Hon.  Sir  G.  C.)  on  Arittotle  ou  Indian 

Kings,  56 

Centenarians,  281,  411 
Scot  (Michael),  writings  on  astronomy,  131 
Lewis  (Rev.  John)  of  Margate,  birthplace,  310 
Lewis  (Hon.  Lewis)  of  Jamaica,  arme,  451 
Lex  on  surplice  worn  in  private  communion,  356 

University  discipline,  291 
L.  (F.)  on  Braose  family,  489 
L.  (F.  G.)  on  Viscount  Canada,  369 
Lee  (Cromwell),  379 
Lee  (Dr.  John),  372 
Lee  of  Quarendon,  12 
Young  family,  349 
L.  (H.)  on^Low  Sunday,  429 
Library,  Royal,  proposals  for  building  one,  204 
Libya  on  Doddridge's  lines,  250 

Festrawe:  Alcumie  stnflv,  211 
Ventilate,  an  old  word,  218 
\Valsall  Christmas  custom,  223 
Lisjan,  its  derivation,  78 
Lilly  (John),  "  Endymion,"  &c.,  141 
Lindsay  (J.  C.)  on  Carnival  at  Boulogne-snr-Tner,  293 
';  Gustavides,"  and  Ben  Jonson,  248 
Hawthorne  and  Longfellow,  287 
Lindum  on  Geast  and  Dugdale  families,  889 
Liquorice,  its  derivation,  46,  119 
Lisle  (Arthur  Plantagenet,  Viscount),  issue,  290,  357 
Literature,  suggested  Academy  for  eminence  in,  266 
Lithgow  (Win.),  his  poems,  30;  "Discourse  npon  the 

Disaster  at  Dunglasse,"  308 
Liverpool,  anciently  Let-Poole,  504 
Lizars  family  in  Scotland,  178 
L.  (J.  H.)  on  Viscount  Canada,  415 

Plurality  of  benefices,  478 
L.  (L.)  on  Praise-God  Barebone*,  211 
Cloth  and  woollen  trades.  209 
Palatines  in  Kent,  252 
Whitney  (John),  a  lover  of  the  angle,  172 
Llewellin,  the  family  of,  28 
L.  (L.  F.)  on  "  The  Drunkard's  Conceit,"  352 
Lloyd  (£eo.)  on  Sir  H.  Davy  and  James  Watt.  ^27  7 
"  God's  providence  is  mine  inheritance,"  277 
Godwyn's  Moses  and  Aaron,  349 
Horses  trembling  at  cnmels,  459 
"  Laugh  of  a  child,"  30 
Kent  (Rev  Timothy)  of  Denby,  50G 
Quakers,  the  White,  389 
Rats  leaving  a  sinking  ship,  296 
Scripture  paraphrase,  317 
Wandering  Jew,  258 
Wiliet  (A.),  "  Synopsis  P.ipismi,"  3 
Lodge  (Thos.),  "  Eupl.ues  Shadowe,"  202 
"  Lodge's  Peerage  of  Ireland,"  Index  suggested,  5C 
Loftus  family,  170 
Loftus   (Nicholas  Viscount),   death   of  his  first  wife, 

467 

London  aldermen,  list  of,  133 

London,  books  and  pamphlets  on,  collected  by  OUts,  84 
London  stone,  its  palladium,  13 
Longevity,  remarkable  cases,   226,    386,  454. 

Centenarians. 

Longfellow  (H.  W.),  orijrin  of  his  "  Evangelme,   28  i 
Lottery  at  Wells  in  1568,  108 
Lord's  Day  observed  by  the  Puritans.  346 
Lord's  Prayer  in  various  languages,  172,  233 


538 


INDEX. 


Cord's  Prayer  in  Communion  Service,  the  minister  or 
dered  to  stand,  268,  354;  standing  whilst  read,  397 
Lough  Oughter  Castle,  410 
Louis  Philippe,  anecdote,  188 
Love  Lane  Chapel,  Deptford,  210 
Lovelace  (John,  3rd  Lord),  263 
Low  Sunday,  why  so  named,  429,  491 
L — r  on  Pordage  family,  57 
L.  (S.)  on  clergyman's  right  to  take  the  chair,  18 

Clerical  knights,  274 

Literary  anecdotes,  194 
L.  (S.  C.)  on  Lord  Strafford's  portrait,  425 
L.  (S.  D.)  on  Charles  I.'s  judges,  291 
Lucas  (Augustus)  on  Thomas  Craskell,  9G 
Lucian,  passage  in,  194 
Lucky  and  unlucky  days,  176 
"  Luke's  iron  crown,"  364,  419,  479 
Lumen  on  architectural  proportions,  58 

Follies  de  Gletuers,  96 

Irish  peers,  their  oath  in  English  court,  52 

Juryman's  oath  at  the  Restoration,  52,  298 

Rutland  :  County  or  Shire,  258 

Townships,  189 
Lunatics  of  old  time,  their  treatment,  451;  literature 

of,  451,  500 
Lundy,  the  Isle  of,  171 
Lunell  family  of  Stapleton,  346 

Luther  (Martin),  "  Table  Talk  "  quoted,  218;  and  exor- 
cism, 171,  218;  version  of  the  Apocrypha,  39 
Luxor  palace,  its  architecture,  154 
L.  (W.)  on  an  epigram,  347 
Lysons  (Samuel)  on  Field  and  Delafeld  families,  477 

Nourse  and  Prinn  manuscripts,  486 

Tithes  of  servants  and  women,  476 
Lyttelton  (Lord)  on  R.  Anstey,  394 

Centenarians,  498 

Cowper  (Spencer),  his  trial,  115 

Fridays,  Saints'  days,  and  Fast-days,  155,  236 

Herbert  (George),  poem  "Virtue,"  319 

Longevity,  282,  498 

Matter,  the  use  of  the  verb,  315 

Quotations:  "  For  every  evil,"  &c.,  398 

Sermons,  long,  319 

Superstition:  Acts,  xvii.  22,  335 

Toad-cater,  its  etymology,  176 

M 

M.  on  Order  of  Merit,  155 

M.  1.  on  Col.  William  Cromwell,  68 

M.  (A.)  on  Mrs.  Cmnberbatch,  360 

M.  A.  Cantab,  on  the  Cambridge  chancellorship,  129 

Macbeth  and  the  death  of  Duncan,  467 

MacCabe  (VV.  B.)  on  St.  Malachi's  Prophecies,  174 

MacCarthy  (D.  F.)  on  Shakspeare's  "Much  Ado  about 

Nothing."  264 
Shelley's  "  Laon  and  Cjthna,"   and    "Revolt   of 

Islam,"  283 

Witticisms  reproduced,  394 

MacCulloch  (Edgar)  on  congers  and  mackerel,  332 
MacCulloch,  the  revivalist,  329,  397,  418 
Mackelcan  family,  409 

Mackenzie  (Fred.),  drawings  of  Rivaulx  Abbey,  467 
Mackerel  a  franchise,  248,^332,  436 
Maclean  family  of  Torloisk,  329,  395 
Maclean  (John)  on  clerical  longevity,  159 


Maclean  (John)  on  Kennedy  (Matthew),  296 

Kettlewell  (Mrs.),  her  death,  119 

Maclean  of  Torloisk,  395 

Royal  Exchange  motto,  267 

Shrove  Tuesday  custom,  224 
Macduff  (Sholto)  on  Sir  A-  Alison's  blunder,  215 

All-Hallow  Even,  316 

Hunter's  moon,  334 

Kennedy  (Matthew),  235 

Paper,  uses  to  which  it  is  applied.  127 
Macgrath,  the  giant,  311 
Machifacture,  a  new  word,  27 
Macleod  (Malcolm)  on  Tilt  family,  52 
McM.  (W.)  on  passage  in  "  Othello,"  378 
M'C.  (R.)  on  Trial  of  the  Princess  of  Wales,  76 
Macray  (J.)  on  the  "  Caledonian  Mercury,"  351 

Dedications  to  the  Deity,  420 

Home  (Bp  ),  and  the  Great  Masters,  248 

Motherby  (John),  486 

St.  Catherine's  Hill,  458 

Scot  (Michael),  writings  on  Astronomy,  176 
Macray  (W.  D.)  on  an  anonymous  tract,  458 

Hampden  (John),  enthusiasm  in  his  favour,  1 7 

King's  evil,  379 

Nonjuring  consecrations,  225 

Pratt  (John),  his  longevity,  453 

Walker  (Dr.  John),  manuscripts,  218 
Macrobius  on  anecdote  of  George  III.,  307 
Magazine,  its  derivation,  365 
Mainsty,  or  Manisty  (Rev.  E.),  89,  217 
Maitland  (Dr.  S.  R.)  on  Dr.  A.  Charlett's  letter  respect- 
ing John  Toland,  6 
Maittaire  (Michael),  his  Dedication  to  "  Catalogus  Bib- 

liothecas  Harleianse,"  42 
Malachi  (St.),  Prophecies  respecting  the  popes,  49,  77, 

173,  359- 

Malcolm  Canmore  noticed,  467 

Malleson  (F.  A.)  on  the  Rev.  H.  Picrs's  Sermons,  14G 
Mallet  (David),  Thomson's  letters  to,  279 
Mancetter  martyrs,  182 
Manchester  in  the  year  1559, 127 
Manor  law,  works  on,  76 

Mansel  (Bp.  Wm.  Lort),  his  epigrams,  131,  199 
Manuscripts,  missing,  or  dislocated,  109 
Mapletoft  (Rev.  Edmund),  his  issue,  249 
Maquay  (Rev.  Thomas)  of  Dublin,  320 
Marble  Arch  at  Cumberland  Gate,  80 
Marchmont  on  the  house  of  Fala  Hall,  448 
Mardley  (John),  minor  poet,  374 
Marginal  notes,  246 

Marion  on  Margaret  and  Geo.  Halyburton,  347,  516 
Marisco  (Richard  de),  Bishop  of  Durham,  his  arms,  91 
Markham  (Geivase),  "  Thyrsis  and  Daphne,"  401 
Markland  (J.  H.)  on  Dcvis  the  painter,  476 
Marlow  (Chris.),  "  Edward  the  Second,"  tragedy,  402; 
translation  of  "  Pharsalia,"  ib. ;  "  Hero  and  Leander,'* 
403 

"  Marriage  of  Wit  and  Wisdom,"  105 
Marriage  special  licenses,  76 
Marriages  interdicted,  153,  218 
Marriages,  temp,  the  Commonwealth,  228 
Marry  gup,  L  e.  Marry,  go  up,  403 
Marsh  (Laurence),  249 

Marsh,  Marisco,  and  Marais,  the  sa"me  family  name,  91 
Martin  (John),  his  magnificent  pictures,  345 
'Martin  Mar  Sixtus,"  u  tract,  142 


INDEX. 


539 


Martin  (Richard),  Recorder  of  London,  168 

"  Mary  Magdalen's  Funerall  Tears,"  142 

Mary  Queen  of  Scots,  views  of  her  places  of  confinement, 

451 

Maryland,  early  emigrants  to,  148 
Massey  (John),  Dean  of  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  263 
Massinger  (Philip),  death  of  his  wife,  188 
Masson  (Gustave)  monthly  feuilleton  on  French  books 

139 
-  Metric  prose   in   D'Israeli's    "  Wondrous   Tale  of 

Alroy,"  67 
Pare  aux  cerfs,  49 

Master  of  Arts  degree,  can  it  be  cancelled?  291 
Materials=ingredients,  by  what  word  signified,  52 
Mathematical  bibliography,  64,  167,  306 
Mathematical  enigma,  229,  334 
Mathew  (Abednego),  his  family,  409 
Msthews  and  Gough  families,  89,  157 
Matter,  as  a  verb,  early  examples,  290,  315,  439 
Matthews  (Wm.)  on  Scin-Lajca:  Scinlac,  357 
Sillett  (James),  artist.  358 
Starachter,  358 
Vicinage,  359 
Maurice  (Rev.  T.),  translation  of  "  (Edipus  Tyrannus," 

469 

M.  (A.  W.)  on  Buzaglia  at  Great  Yarmouth,  91 
Maxwell  (Mrs.),  an  Amazon,  68 
"May den's  Choyce,"  a  ballad,  106 
Mayerne  (Sir  Theodore),  noticed,  326 
Mayor  (John  E.  B.)  on  quotations  in  Ascham's  "  Schole- 

master,"  89 

Mayors  noted  for  drinking,  206,  296 
M.  (D.)  on  Lizars  family,  178 
M.  (E.)  on  coins  inserted  in  tankards,  116 
Quotation:  "For every  evil,"  &c.,  398 
Ronth  (Dr.)  and  the  Vulgate,  398 
Medal  of  the  Peace  of  Monster,  298 
Medallic  query,  89 

Medical  degrees  and  the  College  of  Physicians,  134,  156, 
176,  254,  278,   336,  416;  conferred  by  the  Irish 
College  of  Physicians,  238 
Meletes  on  Amende,  its  etymology,  374 
Army  and  Navy  Lists,  317 
Chatham  (Earl  of)  on  impossibilities,  129 
Douglas,  Duke  of  Touraine,  288 
English  language,  98 
Holand,  Duke  of  Exeter,  157 
Tithe:  Canonici  de  Loch,  311 
William  the  Lion,  his  daughters,  95,  355 
Melton  (Edward)  on  medallic  query,  90 
Memor  on  Cities  of  Samaria,  151 
Mutiny  Act,  178 

Simon  (Thomas)  and  Peter  Simon,  178 
Tyson  (Gilbert),  198 
Menu  Code  and  the  Chinese,  425 
Meres  (Francis),  "  Palladis  Tamia,"  469 
Merrion  graveyard,  near  Dublin,  467 
Merryweather  (F.  S.)  on  Guildhall,  Westminster,  89 
Hearth  tax,  1689,  420 

Horses,  their  value  in  Shakspeare's  time,  238,  518 
Snuffers,  ancient,  358 
Watch  paper  lines,  355 
Mesmerism  noticed  by  Plautus,  270,  377 
Mess,  its  etymology,  403 
Meta  on  legend  of  the  beech-tree,  30 
Yetlin,or  Yetling:  Meslin,  376 


Medic  prose,   115;  in  D'Israeli'a  "  Wondroui  Tale  of 

Atroy,"  67 

Mewburn  (Fr.)  on  the  climate  of  England,  485 
Deer  parks,  187 
Indian  architecture,  327 
Japanese  ladies,  409 
Judges' seats  in  courts  of  justice,  127 
Men  kissing  each  other  in  the  streets,  £0 
Moscow,  burning  of,  228 
M.  (G.  W.)  on  "  Ad  euHdem  "  degrees,  359 
Book  of  Common  Prayer,  1604,  76 
Bristol  cathedral,  inscriptions,  209 
Clerical  knights,  209,  355 
Cumberbatch  (Mrs.),  269 
Devonshire  custom,  132 
Fridays,  saints'  days,  and  fast  days,  193 
Newspapers,  age  of,  351,  479 
Shropshire  visitation,  127 
Snuffers,  ancient,  358 
Micall  (L.  C.)  on  Ad  perpendicolmn,  496 

Derivation  of  Mysteries,  107 
Milan  cathedral,  saints  on,  98 
Millatd  (John),  and  "  The  New  Art  of  Memory,"  169 
Millner  (T.)  on  Sacred  Lyric,  372 
Mills  (Dr.  John),  Greek  Testament,  264 
Milton  abbey,  its  customary,  148 
Milton  (John),  residence  in  St.  Dunstan1*,  East,  146 
Miracle  plays,  108 

Mitre,  Archbishop's,  with  a  ducal  coronet.  479 
M.  (J.)  Edinburgh,  on  letters  to  James  Anderson,  144 
Army  and  Navy  List,  198 
Bothwell,  proclamation  for  his  apprehension,  323 
Brodie's  "  Method  of  Book-keeping,"  305 
Camillas  (Joan.),  "  De  Ordine  ac  Methodo,"  331 
Friedland  (Duke  of),  u  Perduellionis  Chaos,"  468 
Hyndford  Papers,  482 
"  Invective,  a  Poem,"  451 
Lithgow  (Wm.),  "  Disaster  at  Dunglasse,"  308 
Macbeth:  Malcolm  Canmore,  467 
Mapheus  Vegius,  "  De  Perseverantia  Religionis," 

508 

Raban  (Edward),  printer,  198 
Ruthven  (Patrick),  letter  to  Earl  of  Northumber- 
land, 363 

"  Vindication  of  the  Character  of  Wra.  Pitt,"  467 
Wilson's  "  Trigonometry,"  330 
M.  (L.)  on  Whitehall  banqueting-house  window,  69 
M.  (L.  A.)  on  Sun  and  Whalebone,  an  inn  sign,  250 

Wolves  in  England,  78 
M.  (L.  H  )  on  Fold,  in  local  names,  399 

Literary  anecdotes,  130 
M.  (N.)  on  "  Babes  in  the  Wood,"  453 
Moffet  (Dr.),  "  Health's  Improvement,"  61 
Moisey  (Dr.),  actor,  290 
Monasteries,  list  of  grantees,  349 
Money,  paper,  at  Leyden,  12,  119 
Money,  relative  value  of,  182,  238,  395,  475,  518 
Moneyers'  weights,  347,  412 
Monk  (Christopher)  of  Jamaica,  77,  137 
Monk  family,  427,  478 
Monk's  Sleigh,  church  library,  56 
Monson  (Lord)  on  Sara  Holmes,  465 

Newton  (Sir  Isaac),  his  family,  190 
Montague,  Baron  Rokeby,  ancestry,  409 
Montauban  (E.)  on  Rutland ;  County  or  Shire,  1 1 1,  a  58 ; 
Holyland  family,  259, 406 


540 


INDEX. 


Montgomery  (Rev.  Robert),  plagiarisms,  108 

Monumental  effigies,  90 

Monuments,  sepulchral,  their  mutilation,  119,  218 

Moore  (Stephen),  surgeon  of  4th  reg.  of  hor.se,  451 

Moore  (Stephen),  vicar  of  Doncaster,  451,  499 

Moorings  in  the  Thames,  388 

More  (Sir  Thomas),  date  of  his  marriage,  509 

Morgan  (Prof.  A.  De)  on  the  word  "  Any,"  23 

Brandon  (Jacob),  carriage  motto,  245 

Colonel,  its  pronunciation,  196 

Materials=ingredients,  its  old  English  word,  52 

Possession  nine  points  of  the  law,  388 

Scot  (Michael),  writings  on  astronomy,  176 

Vossius,  "  De  Historicis  Greeds,"  74 
Morgan  (Sidney  Lady),  paternal  arms,  311 
Morice  (Humphrey),  particulars,  422 
Mor  Merrion  on  Stonehenge  and  London  Stone,  13 
Mornay  (Philip  of),  "  A  Discourse  of  Lyfe  and  Death," 

241 

Morrison  (Gen.  George),  372,  420,  474 
Mortars  and  cannon,  504 
Moscow,  the  burning  of,  228 
Moses,  the  Finding  of,  a  profane  parody,  134,  317 
Motherby  (John),  486 
Mottoes,  punning,  245,  332,  356,  396 
Moulton  (A.)  on  coin  of  Queen  Victoria,  379 

"  How  many  beans  make  five?  "  111 
Mouse,  the  grass,  in  co.  Wexford,  446 
Moyer  (Samuel),  Puritan  M.P.  for  London,  153 
M.  (S.  R.)  on  Puritan  observance  of  Lord's  Day,  346 

Roscoe  (Wm.),  plaster  cast,  251 
Muff,  a  slang  word,  56 
Mummers,  Hampshire,  66 
Munday  (Anthony),  poet,  202 
Munster,  medal  of  the  Peace  of,  298 
Murray  (Rev.  Sir  Andrew)  of  Balvaird,  274 
Murray  (Mrs.),  authoress  of  "  The  Gleaner,"  12 
"  Musse  Etonenses,"  its  writers,  372,  394,  474 
Mutiny  act  extending  to  limb,  178 
M.  (Y.  S.)  on  Rob.  Johnson,  Baron  of  Exchequer,  451 

Loftus  (Nicholas  Viscount),  death  of  his  first  wife, 
466 

Moore  (Rev.  Stephen),  451 

Newton  (Sir  Isaac),  475 
Mysteries,  derivation  of  the  word,  107 
Mysticisms,  bibliography  of,  89,  136,  156 

N 

Name,  change  of,  327 

Names,  origin  of  those  of  men.  nations,  and  places,  79 

Names,  pronunciation  of  proper,  28 

Napier  (Rt,  Hon.  Joseph), ,"  Edmund  Burke,  a  Lec- 
ture," 495 

Naples,  religious  custom  at,  246 

Napoleon  III.,  residence  in  England,  88,  157,213,  334 

Napoleon  (St.),  his  biography,  13,  39 

Nash  (Thomas),  "The  Terrors  of  the  Night,"  402; 
"  Christ's  Tears  over  Jerusalem,"  ib. ;  "  The  Unfor- 
tunate Traveller,"  ib.]  "Pierce  Pennilesse,"  321; 
"  The  Apologie  of  Pierce  Pennilesse,"  361 ;  controversy 
with  Harvey,  322 

National  Portrait  Gallery,  additions  in  1861-2,  400 

Natoaca,  Princess  of  Virginia,  135 

Nature,  belief  in  its  general  decay,  328 

Navy  lists,  198,  220,  317 


Nedals  on  Green  family,  co.  Hereford,  371 

Negroes  imported  into  England  in  1 764,  348 

Nelson  (Horatio,  Lord),  relics,  387 

Nelson  (J.),  comedy  in  his  "  Miscellany,"  507 

Neomonoscope,  a  new  instrument,  183 

Nethersole  (John)  of  Kent,  350 

Nevile  (Rob.),  verses  prefixed  to  "  The  Poor  Scholar,"  80 

Nevison  (Wm.)  the  freebooter,  428,  473 

New  England  flag,  72 

Newland,  co.  Worcester,  its  wooden  church,  437 

Newspapers,  dates  of  English,  287,  351,  398,  435,  479 

Newspapers,  Sunday,  in  America,  49,  118,  197 

Newton  family  of  Whitby,  17,  97 

Newton  (J.  J.  C.)  on  Sir  Isaac  Newton's  pedigree,  158 

Newton  (Sir  Isaac),  his  family,  17,  97,  158,  190  ;  his 

home  in  1727,  24  ;  pedigree,  158,  475        • 
New- Year's  Day  customs,  52,  223 
N.  (F.)  on  lunatics  of  old  times,  451 
N.  (F.  M.)  on  Canute's  law  for  Saturday  half-holiday, 

10 
N.  (G.)  on  Geology  :  corps  humain  petrifie',  370 

Glasgow  old  bridge,  244 

Tongue  not  indispensable  in  speech,  268 
N.  (H.)  on  Stop  and  Stay,  373 

Ventilate,  its  early  use,  372 

Vicinage,  a  coined  word,  150 
N.  (H.  M.)  on  Mackelcan  family,  409 
Nichols  (Francis)  on  Abp.  Tenison's  library,  27 
Nichols  (J.  G.)  on  Sir  Francis  Bryan,  110 

Chief  Justices  quondam  highwaymen,  47 

Countess  of  Desmond,  her  longevity,  301,  469 

Flicciis  (Gerlachus),  portrait-painter,  269,  417 

Norden  (John)  the  topographer,  505 

Portraits  of  Archbishop  Cranmer,  516 
Nicholson  (C.)  on  Lord  Warden  of  the  Marches,  220 
Nightingale,  its   derivation,  447;   early  appearance  in 

1862,  447,  519 

Nihil  (James),  nonjuror,  329,  499 
Nil  Novum  on  the  French  king  and  the  Pope,  297 
N.  (J.  G.)  on  armorial  glass,  temp.  James  I.,  10 

Buzaglia,  or  Buzaglo,  119 

Clerical  knights,  273 

Gary  Us  of  Lady  holt,  278 

Curwen  (Sir  John),  378 

Liverpool,  anciently  Let-Poole,  504 

Post-haste  in  1600,  287 

Whittle  (Mrs.  Elizabeth),  516 
N — n  on  Norfolk  visitation,  1664,  91 
Nockynge  money,  149,  199,  220,  256 
Nonjuring  consecrations  and  ordinations,  225,  311 
Norden  (John),  "The  Pensive   Man's  Practise,"  402, 

"  Progress  of  Pietie,"  141,  298 
Norden  (John)  the  topographer,  505 
Norfolk  (Edward  Howard,  Duke   of),  befriends   Wm. 

Oldys,  63 

Norfolk  visitation,  1664,  91 
Norman  fonts,  230 
Norman  (Louisa  Julia)  on  Nevison  the  freebooter,  473 

Williams  (Rev.  Wm.)  preferments,  478 
North  (T.)  on  "  Cutting  off  with  a  shilling,"  477 

Earl  of  Huntingdon's  obit,  349 

Desmond  (old  Countess  of),  portrait,  377 

Holyland  family,  354 
"  Northern  Iris,"  its  editor,  507 
Norton  (Dr.  Wm.),  preacher  of  Gray's  Inn,  251 
Notes  and  Queries,  a  word  prefatory  to  the  Third  Series,  1 


INDEX. 


541 


Notia  on  the  composer  of  "  Adeste  Fideles,"  109 

Notsa  on  the  word  Treble,  507 

Nourse  Gloucestershire  manuscripts,  486 

N.  (R.)  on  Saltonstall  family,  418 

N.  (T.  C.)  on  recent  cases  of  longevity,  226 

Nugent  (Lord)  on  capital  punishments,  33,  75 

N.  (U.  0.)  on  respites  and  reprieves  of  executions,  34 

Satin  bank-note,  217 
N.  (X.)  on  churches  built  east  and  west,  187 

o 

0.  on  Field  families,  427 

Oaths,  the  Book  of,  editions,  374 

(Ehlenschlager's  "Hakon  Jarl,"  translator,  170 

Offor  (George)  on  catalogue  of  Alchemy  and  Mysticisms, 

136 

Coins  inserted  in  tankards,  116 
Coverdale's  Bible,  433 
Juryman's  oath,  138 

0.  (F.  J.)  on  Lady  Hamilton  and  Nelson  relics,  387 
0.  (J.)  on  Beatties  Poems,  98 

Black  (Dr.  John),  "  Falls  of  Clyde,"  &c.,  194 
Douglas  (Andrew),  M.D.,  488 
Earthquakes  in  England,  94 
"  Epitome  of  the  Lives  of  the  Kings  of  France,"  14 
Old  Mem.  on  coins  inserted  in  tankards,  277 
Parkyns  (Thomas),  a  famous  wrestler,  268 
Pepys's  anagram,  288 
Seward  (Anna)  and  George  Hardinge,  26 
Old  Street,  St.  Luke's,  its  fields  in  1614,  186 
Oldys  (Dr.  Wm.),  Vicar  of  Adderbury,  343,  417 
Oldys  (Dr.  Wm.),  civilian,  1,  2 

Oldys  (Wm.),  parentage,  1 ;   visits  Yorkshire,  2 ;  pa- 
tronised by  the  Earl  of  Oxford,  21,  41;  his  Life  of 
Ealeigh,  22 ;  "  British  Librarian,"  22 ;  assists  on  the 
Catalogue  of  the  Harleian  Library,  42 ;  editor  of  the 
"Harleian  Miscellany,"  43;  his  "Catalogue  of  Pam- 
phlets in   the  Harleian  Library,  43;  articles  in  the 
"  Biographia  Britannica,"  62 ;  pecuniary  difficulties, 
63;  appointed  Norroy  King-at-Arms,  63;  death,  81 ; 
portrait,  ib.-t   annotated  Langbaine,  82;   sale  of  his 
library,  83;  manuscripts,  84;  literary  labours,  85 
"  Olla  podrida,"  its  correct  meaning,  260 
Opal  hunter,  account  of,  329,  394 
Orange  butter,  205,  316,  353,  417 
Order  of  merit,  and  late  Prince  Consort,  87,  113, 155 
Orientation,  247 
Orkney  Island  discoveries,  37 
Orlers  (Jan)  "  Account  of  Leyden,"  239 
Orr  (J.  H.)  on  Fidei  Defensor,  347 
Osborne  (Thomas),  bookseller,  his  "  Catalogus  Biblio- 

thecs3  Harleianae,"  42;  exploits  and  wealth,  61 
0.  (S.  M.)  on  tarnished  silver  coins,  99 
Oswald  (John),  "  Ranse  Canonc,"  434,  459,  516 
Oswen  (John),  Worcester  printer,  367 
0.  (T.  C.)  on  the  Carylls  of  Harting,  185 
Oughtred  (Wm.),  mathematician,  210 
Overton-cum-Tadley,  Hants,  list  of  vicars,  &c.,  428 
Owtherquedaunce,  its  meaning,  467,  517 
Owtrem  (Peter  Watkinson)  of  Wirksworth,  19 
Oxford  ecclesiastical  affairs,  1688-92,  261 
Oxford  Regius  Professors,  official  anns,  311 
Oxford  (Edward,  Second  Earl  of)  library,  41,  42;  ca- 
talogue of,  42,  43;  his  death,  42 
Ozmond  on  four-bladed  clover,  298 

Medal  of  the  Peace  of  Munster,  298 


P.  on  officers  at  Quebec,  290 

Recovery  of  things  lost,  36 

Page  (Sir  Francis),  ••  the  hanging  judge,"  13,  153,  23T 
Pageant,  its  derivation,  458 
Pagles,  cowslips,  330 

Painter  (Dr.  Wm.),  Rector  of  Wot  ton,  2C4 
Palaeologus  family,  179 
Palatines  in  England,  252 
Palestine  Association,  270 

Palm,  its  length  in  Southern  Europe,  230,  295,  379 
Palmer  (H.)  on  Fold  in  local  names,  399 

Parodies  on  Grey's  Llegy,  398 
Palmerston  (Lord),  his  family,  388 
Pandects,  particulars  of,  95 
Papa  and  mamma,  origin  of  the  names,  505 
Paper,  its  various  uses,  127 
Paper  trade  in  Holland,  86 
PaYavicin  family,  110,  179,  234,336 
Pare  aux  Cerfs,  temp.  Louis  XV.,  49 
Parchment,  how  to  remove  stains  from,  138 
Parisian  Breviary,  hymns  translated,  212 
Park  (Thomas),  editor  of"  Harleian  Miscellany,"  43 
Parker  (Bp.  Samuel),  epigram  on,  262, 338 
Parkes  family,  co.  Worcester,  1 70 
Parkin  (John)  on  corps  humain  petrifie',  437 
Parkyns  (Thomas),  famous  wrestler,  268 
Parliamentary  Acts  repealed  in  1861, 268 
Parliamentary  members,  payment  of,  149 
Parma  (Prince  of),  his  "  Happie  Overthrowe,"  105 
Parochial  registers  of  Pishull  and  Arundcl,  464 
Parochial  registers,  their  history,  480 
Parr  (Old  Thomas),  longevity,  366 
Parson,  its  etymology,  484 
Pascha's  Pilgrimage  to  Palestine,  12 
Passenham  (Will,  de),  his  arm?,  347 
"  Passing  Bell ,"  a  poem,  its  author,  52 
Patents  forfeited,  195 

Paton  (J.)  on  Xavier  and  Indian  missions,  90 
Patrick  (John),  "  Reflections  upon  the  Devotions  of  the 

Roman  Church,"  320 
Patrick  (St.)  and  the  shamrock,  224,  319 
Paulson,  the  equestrian,  210,  277,  353 
P.  (B.  W.),  on  hymn  tunes,  455 
P.  (C.)  on  lines  on  "  Woe,"  290 
P.  (C.  J.)  on  the  Camel,  an  hieroglyphic,  246 

Davis  (Jefferson),  49 
P.  (D.)  on  arms  of  the  kingdom  of  Leon,  510 

English  epitaphs  at  Rome,  259 

Fridays,  saints' days,  and  fast  days,  192,  298 

Luke's  Iron  Crown,  &c.,  479 

Touching  for  the  king's  evil,  258 

Wandesforde  (Christopher),  314 
Peace  Congress  proposed  in  1693,  13,  438 
Peacock  (Edward)  on  Avignon  inscriptions,  11 

Bottesford  registers,  343 

Change  of  name,  327 

Dauriat  (Madame  Louise),  lectures,  486 

Erasmus  and  Ulrich  Hutten,  511 

Executions  in  France,  1831-60.  308 

Peacocke  (William),  his  will,  331 

Seals,  ancient,  479 

Peacock  (Lucy)  on  the  king's  gift  of  rings,  486 
Peacock  (Miss),  a  friend  of  Thomas  Campbell,  90 
Peacock  (Mr.),  his  works,  508 


542 


INDEX. 


Peacock  (William),  his  will,  331 

Peat  (Rev.  Sir  Robert),  209,  273,  355,  418 

Peckham  (Robert),  epitaph,  259 

Peele  (Geo),  "Chronicle  of  King  Edward  L,"  405,  461; 

"  The  Hunting  of  Cupid,"  105 
Peole  (Stephen),  ballad  writer  and  stationer,  461 
Peerages,  errors  in,  37 
Pegler  (Mr.),  artist,  372 
Pelagius  on  Wm.  Browne's  Britannia's  Pastorals,  410 

Unsuccessful  prize  poems,  437 
Pelayo's  visits  to  north  of  Spain,  71 
Pemberton  (Sir  James),  his  arms,  1 9 
Pembroke  (Win.  Herbert,  third  Earl  of),  87 
Pencil-writing,  138.  199,  237 
Pepys  (Samuel),  "  gadding  after  beauties,"  69 
Percy  (Bp.),  his  annotated  Langbaine,  83 
Percy  family,  heraldic  quarterings,  372 
Percy  (Lady  Mary),  170,  258 
Perpendiculum,  as  used  by  Cicero,  449,  496 
Petronius  Arbiter  quoted,  10 
Pettigrew  family,  126,  216,  260 
P.  (F.)  on  "  A  brace  of  shakes,"  91 

Apparitions,  who  see  them,  223 

Liquorice,  119 

Stonehenge,  59 
P.  (G.  P.)  on  Warren  of  Walterstaff,  190 

Tokens  of  Devon  and  Cornwall,  133 
Phsoacian  vessels,  485 
Pheasants,  introduction  into  Britain,  313 
Phelps  (John  Delafield),  477,  514 
4».  on  Warrington  and  the  Moricc  family,  422 
Philipps  (Sir  John),  address  to  the  Electors  of  Haver- 

fordwest,  244 

Philips  (John),  passage  in  "  Cerealia,"  452.  497 
Phillips  (J.  P.)  on  Viscount  Canada,  415 

Clerical  longevity,  109 

George  (Prince),  of  Denmark,  patron  of  science, 
169 

Shorter  (Arthur),  118 

Williams  (Mrs.  Anna),  421  \ 

Phillips  (J.  W.)  on  postage  stamps,  277 
Phillott  (F.)  on  His  Grace,  Baron,  517 

Gregory  of  Paul  ton,  49 
Philologus  on  the  word  Matter,  290 
Phoenix  Fire  Office,  395 
ts  Phoenix  Nest,"  first  edition,  461 
Photogram,  a  new  word,  226 
Photographic  Gallery  for  historical  subjects,  504 
Physicians,  Irish  College  of,  and  medical  degrees,  238 
Pickering  family,  270 
Pickles,  the  witch,  481 

Piers  (Rev.  Hem-y),  his  sermons  commended,  146 
Piessc  (G.  W.  S.)  on  tarnished  silver  coins,  100 

Orange  butter,  316 
Pigott  family  of  Edgmond,  372 
Pikeryng  (John),  "A  newe  Enterlude  of  Vice,"  131 
Pishull,  co.  Oxon,  its  registers,  464 
Pit  and  Orbell  of  Kensington,  77 
Pitt  (William),  lines  on,  486;  speech  on  the  Union  be- 
tween England  and  Ireland,  488 
Pius  IX.,  acts  of  his  pontificate,  30 
P.  (J.)  on  belief  of  the  decay  of  nature,  328 

Macgrath,  Bishop  Berkeley's  giant,  311 
P.  (J.  L.)  on  the  nightingale,  447 
P.  (L.)  on  Isley  family  of  Kent,  310,  400 

Works  on  smuggling,  172 


Place  Green  House,  Sidcup,  Kent,  188 

Plague  in  1593,  402,  462,  501 

Plantin  (Chris.),  Hebrew  Bibles,  390 

Plants,  derivation  of  names  of  some,  347,  470 

Plautus,  supposed  allusion  to  Mesmerism,  270,  377 

Plautus  and  "  Colyn  Blowbol's  Testament,"  345 

Plumbe  (Samuel),  Lord  Mayor,  family,  348 

Plunkett  (Capt.),  209 

Pn.  (J.  A.)  on  Lambeth  degrees,  254,  416 

Pope  burned,  170 
Poached  eggs,  derivation,  251 
Pocahontas,  Princess  of  Virginia,  135 
Poems,  unsuccessful  prize,  58,  437 
Poetry,  catalogue  of  early  English,  360 
Poisoning  with  diamond  dust,  486 
Pole  Fair  at  Corby,  co.  Northampton,  424 
Polwheel  (Rev.  Thomas),  nonjuror,  388 
Polygamy  in  Sicily,  231 
Polyglottus  on  Isabel  and  Elizabeth,  114 
Pomatum,  its  derivation  and  compositions,  316,  353 
Pond  (Miss),  the  equestrian,  172,  218 
Pope  and  the  King  of  France  195  years  ago,  297 
Pope  burned,  170 
Pope's  eye  explained,  300 
Popes  of  Rome,  epigrams  on,  1 1 
Popham  (Sir  Edw.),  his  character  aspersed,  47 
Pordage  (Dr.  John),  burials  of  his  family,  57,  136 
"  Portuguese  Hymn,"  its  composer,  109 
"  Possession  nine  points  of  the  law,"  origin  of  the  phrase. 

388 

Postage  stamps,  origin,  149,  195,  277,  357,  393,  474 
Post-haste  in  1600,  287 
Powell  (G.  E.  J.)  on  Goethe's  autographs,  310 

Mathematical  enigma,  229 
P.  (P.)  on  F.  Cooper's  notice  of  the  Bermudas,  128 

Caroline  (Queen)  and  Louis  Philippe,  188,  239 

Danby  of  Kirkby  Knowle,  97 

Fold,  its  meaning,  339 

Gradwell  and  Gorsuch  families,  354 

Harris  (Rev.  Robert),  207 

Shakspeare,  "  Who  steals  my  purse,"  266 

Satin  bank-note,  1 1 1 

Taylor  of  Bifrons,  137 

Yellow  starch,  237 

Yetlin,  an  iron  pot,  35 
P.  (R.)  on  bishops'  charges,  7 1 

Works  on  covetousness,  468 
Pratt  (John),  his  longevity,  281,  399,  412,  453 
P.  (R.  B.)  on  the  Blanshard  family,  408 
"  Preces  Private  "  described,  70 
Predictions,  249,  354 
Presbyterian  settlements  in  Ireland,  311 
Presentations  at  Court,  90 
Press-gang  in  1706,  70 
Preston  battle,  medal,  369 
"  Previous  Question,"  what  it  means,  345 
Price  (R.),  jun.,  author  of  "  William  Tell,"  170 
Prideaux  (Sir  Edmund),  his  marriage,  388 
Pi-inn  Gloucestershire  manuscripts,  486 
Prior  (R.  C.  A.)  on  names  of  plants,  347 

Twill  pants,  357 
Pritchard   (A.)   on  Acts    of    Parliament    repealed, 

268 

Private  Acts,  temp.  Henry  VIIL,  487 
Prophecies  fulfilled,  49,  90,  173,  359 
Prophecy  found  in  an  abbey,  230 


INDEX. 


543 


Proverbs  and  Phrases :  — 

After  meat — mustard,  428 

Archery,  59 

Ass  ascending  the  ladder,  14 

Brown  study,  190 

Champagne  to  the  mast-head,  112 

Cutting  off  with  a  shilling,  245,  477,  517 

Down  the  banks,  189 

Dwelling  near  the  rose,  29 

Exception  proves  the  rule,  177 

God's  providence  is  mine  inheritance,  51 

Hearts  of  oak,  347 

He  knows  how  many  beans  make  five,  111 

I  was  like  a  priest's  maid,  348 

Italian,  12 

Possession  nine  points  of  the  law,  388 

Shakes:  "  A  brace  of  shakes,"  91,  334 

Sic  transit  gloria  mundi,  36 

Sow:  "  The  right  sow  by  the  ear,"  232,  338 

Tetes  carre'es,  189 

Tetes  rondes,  189 

The  beginning  of  the  end,  217 

The  sad  shepherd  of  Segrais,  473 

To  dance  Burnaby,  473 

To  wit,  its  derivation,  349 

True  blue  apron  return,  348 

Weather,  78 

Whip  up  Smonchy  or  Pont,  171,  239 

Winkin:  "  To  run  like  winkin,"  91 
Proverbs  of  Scotland,  79 
Pryce  (George)  on  Thomas  Rowley's  biography,  181 

Turgot,  Chatterton,  and  Rowley  poems,  101 

Wasbrougli  (Matthew),    and  the  steam-engine, 

292 

Psalm  cxlix.,  its  title,  348,  397 
P.  (S.  T.)  on  clergyman's  right  to  take  the  chair,  193 
Pugin  (A.  N.  Welby  and  Augustus),  Memoirs,  40 
Pugs,  Dutch,  in  England,  289 
Punishment,  capital,  its  origin,  450,  497 
Puritan  observance  of  the  Lord's  Day,  346 
Puritan  settlements  in  Ireland,  311 
Puttenham  (Geo.),  "The  Arts  of   Englisi   Pocsie," 

142 

P.  (V.)  on  the  literature  of  lunatics,  451 
P.  (W.)  on  Mrs.  Bridgman  of  Hanover  Square,  450 

Exhibiting  the  regalia  at  the  tower,  366 

Haberdasher,  origin  of  the  word,  385 

Mortars  and  cannon,  504 
Pyne  (Wm.  Henry),  artist,  331 

Q 

Q.  on  burial  in  a  sitting  posture,  99 

Hereditary  dignities,  149 

Strype's  edition  of  Stow,  296 
Q.  (Q.)  on  Cowell's  Interpreter,  75 
Quakers,  White,  389,  459,  515 
Quebec,  officers  at  the  siege,  290 
Queen's  Gardens  on  the  ferula,  512 

Sacks  of  Joseph's  brethren,  71 
Queen's  pennant  on  passage  vessels,  1 1 7 
"  Quid  rides,"  origin  of  the  motto,  245 
Quidam  on  Orientation,  247 
Quipos,  or  knot  records  of  Peru,  452 
Quivis  on  shoe  nailed  to  the  mast,  1 1 1 


Quotations  :  — 

Cosi  colni  del  colpo  non  accorto,  249 

Et  qualem  infelix  amisit  Mantua  campam,  250, 336 

For  every  ill  beneath  the  sun,  348,  398 

For  let  your  subject  be  or  low  or  high,  69 

Forgiveness  to  the  injured  doth   belong,  69,  138, 

215 

Go,  shine  till  thou  outshin'st  the  gleam,  69 
I  love  it,  I  love  it,  the  langh  of  a  child,  30,  78 
It  was  a  night  of  lovely  June,  250 
It's  a  very  good  world  we  live  in,  398 
Just  notions  will  into  good  actions  grow,  69 
Move  on,  ye  wheels  of  Time,  170 
Of  this  blest  man,  let  this  just  praise  be  given,  14 
Please  all  men  in  the  truth,  170 
See  how  these  Christians  love  one  another,  488 
The  bridal  of  the  earth  and  sky,  249 
The  chaste  Leucippe  by  the  patriarch  loved,  498 
The  lark  hath  got  a  most  fantastic  pipe,  250 
The  strange  superfluous  glory  of  the  air,  170 
Till  with  a  pleased  surprise  we  laugh,  69 
Vous  deTendez  que  je  vous  aime,  69 
What  though  the  form  be  fair,  69 
Yet  died  he  as  the  wise  might  wish  to  die,  69 
• 

E 

R.  on  the  Prince  Consort :  In  Memoriam,  447 

Philips's  Cerealia,  452 
Raban  (Edward),  Scottish  printer,  198 
Rabbit,  lapin,  its  derivation,  403,  490 
Rainbow  in  1644,271 
R.  (A.  L.)  on  the  prisoner  of  Gisors,  329 
Raleigh  (Sir  Walter)  and  Virginia,  147;  Life  by  Oldyft 

22 

"  Rana3  Canonc,"  by  John  Oswald,  434,  459,  516 
Randolph  (Ambrose),  biography,  483 
Ranew  (Nathaniel),  bookseller,  311 
Rap:  "  Not  worth  a  rap,"  212 
R.  (A.  S.  P.  A.)  on  Thomas's  Historic  of  Italic,  291 
Rathlin,  Isle  of,  described,  467 
Rats  leaving  a  sinking  ship,  78,  296 
Raumer  (Von),  quotation  from  Cicero,  111,  194 
R.  (C.)  on  arms  of  Irish  peers,  309 

"  Matter,"  as  a  verb,  438 
R.  (C.  J.)  on  Bishop  Thomas*Hackctt,  229 

Hawkins  (Casar),  family,  211 

Marsh  (Laurence),  249 

Pateologus  family,  179 

Pickering  family,  270 

Rogers  (Nehemiah),  519 

Swinglehurst  (Richard  and  Henry),  250 

Travers  family,  296 

Reading  (John),  composer  of  "  Adeste  Fideles,"  1 09 
R.  (E.  B.)  on  the  Rev.  Charles  Giffardier,  96 
Rebecca  at  the  well,  her  costume,  95,  1 92 
Record  Office,  facilities  for  historical  researches,  460 
Recovery  of  things  lost,  36 
Reddel  (Constantia  Louisa),  particulars  of,  311 
Redmond  crest,  52,  157,  158 
Redmond  (S.)  on  Babylonian  Princess,  247 

Customs  in  the  county  of  Wexford,  446 

Poisoning  with  diamond  dust,  486 

Squeers  and  Dotheboy's  Hall,  212 

"  The  right  sow  by  the  ear,"  232 


544 


INDEX. 


Redmond  (S.)  on  Yetlin,  or  Yetling,  34 
R.  (E.  G.)  on  Bunker's  Hill,  236 

Dutch  Psalter,  printed  by  A.  Solemne,  172 

Scin-Lseea:  Scinlac,  189 

Spontaneous  combustion  of  trees,  237 
Regicides,  dying  Speeches  and  Prayers,  384,  431 
Register  for  families,  plan  for,  248,  320 
Reins,  or  bridle,  etymology,  206,  297 
Repartee,  by  two  gentlemen,  210 
Reredos  explained,  374 
Reynolds  (Baron  James),  149,  235,  276 
Reynolds  (Chief  Baron  James),  149,  235,  276 
Reynolds  (Dr.  Edward),  puritan  divine,  356 
Reynolds  (Mr.)  Wilkes's  attorney,  210 
R.  (F.)  on  Burke's  admired  poet,  228 

Danish  writer  on  unicorns,  50 
R,  (F.  R.)  on  Dr.  Edward  Reynolds,  356 
Rheged  (Vryan)  on  Hymns  from  the  Parisian  Breviary, 
212 

Plurality  of  benefices,  428 

Spelling  matches,  128 

Rice  (H.  M.)  on  Samuel  Plumbe,  Lord  Mayor,  348 
Rich  (Barnabe),   "Greene's  Newes  bothe  from  Heaven 

and  Hell,"  362;  pieces  by,  142;  noticed,  201 
Richard  I.,  effigy  at  Fontevrault,  426,  4,98 
Richdale  family,  388 
Riley  (H.  T.)  on  moneyers'  weights,  412 
Rimbault  (Dr.  E.  F.)  on  earthquakes  in  England,  94 

Kneller  (Sir  Godfrey),  autograph,  97 

St.  Martin's-in-the-Fields,  old  monuments,  329 

Waits  of  the  City  of  London,  337 
Rings,  gold,  in  the  Infinnarius,  149 
Rings  of  the  king.'s  gift,  486 
Rivaulx  abbey,  Mackenzie's  drawings,  467 
R.  (J.)  on  Annals  of  Ulster,  387 

Insecure  envelopes,  415 

Killington  register,  357 

Lambeth  degrees,  36,  133,  175,  336 

Paravicin  family,  234 

Parish  registers,  464 
R.  (J.),  M.D.  on  centenarians,  352 
R.  (L.  M.  M.)  on  "  Green  Sleeves,"  a  tune,  147 
R.  (L.  X.)  on  Warden  of  the  Marches,  171 
R.  (M.  H.)  on  Bristol  cathedral  monuments,  277 
R.  (M.  S.)  on  Durnford  family,  492 

Obituary  of  officers  of  the  army,  372,  474 
R.  (N.  H.)  on  Church  used  by  Churchmen  and  Ro- 
manists, 427 

Irish  superstition,  223 

Witch  in  the  nineteenth  century,  464 
Robertson  of  Strowan,  arms,  77,  99 
"  Robin  Conscience,"  an  old  interlude,  45 
"  Robinson  Crusoe,"  its  authenticity,  308 
Robinson  (L.  G.)  on  passage  in  Bossuet,  11 

Commonwealth  marriages,  228 

Henri  IV.'s  disease  of  kleptomania,  169 

Italian  proverbs,  12 

"  The  bridal  of  the  earth  and  sky,"  249 
Rodwell  (J.  M.)  on  old  libraries,  56 
Roe  (Sir  Wm.),  his  death,  462,  501 
Roffe  (Alfred)  on  Galliard's  music  in  Brutus,  364 

Shakspeare's  music,  265 
Roffe  (Edwin)  on  Thomas  Dray's  epitaph,  287 
Rogers  (Nehemiah),  noticed,  519 
Rogers  (Samuel),  poet,  his  longevity,  366 
Rokeby  (Montague,  Baron),  ancestry,  409,  478 


Roman  feet  explained,  295 

Romanes  (Robert),  on  Commissariat  of  Lauder,  55 

Rome,  English  epitaphs  at,  209,  259 

Ros  (Lords  de),  origin  of  the  name,  467 

Roscoe  (Wm.),  bas-relief  cast,  250,  356 

Rose  (Arthur),  Archbishop  of  St.  Andrews,  518 

Rose  (Robert),  the  bard  of  colour,  131 

Ross  (Alex.),  cut  his  son  off  with  a  shilling,  245 

Ross  (John)  on  Coney  family,  29 

Rosse  (Parsons,  Earl  of),  arms,  309,  435 

Rossetti  (Gabriele),  Neapolitan  poet,  157 

Rossetti  (W.  M.)  on  Browning's  Lyrics,  136 

Napoleon  III.  in  England,  157 
Rothschild  (Messrs.  L.  and  M.  de)  as  Barons  in  England 

450,  498 

Roundell  of  Gladstone  and  Screven  pedigree,  54 
Routh  (Dr.)  and  the  Vulgate  a  commentary,  349,  398 
Routh  family,  90 

Rowe  (Sir  Wm.),  Lord  Mayor,  death,  501;  epitaph,  462 
"  Rowland's  Godsonne  Moralised,"  202 
Rowley  (Thomas),  poems,  101;  biography,  181 
Royal  Exchange  motto,  267 
Royal  family  of  England,  family  name,  258 
Royalty,  sitting  covered  before,  208,  318,  350,  416 
Roydon  (M.),  a  poet,  502 
R.  (P.)  on  Rev.  Edward  Mapletoft's  issue,  249 

More  (Sir  Thomas),  his  marriage,  509 

Stephenson  (Rev.  A.),  descendants,  250 
R.  (R.)  on  James  Glassford  of  Dougalston,  19 

Newton  (Sir  Richard)  of  Newton,  17 
R.  (R.  P.)  on  Patrick  Ruthven,  414 
R.  (T.)  on  Pigott  of  Edgmond,  372 

Standing  while  the  Lord's  Prayer  is  read,  397 
Ruding  (Rogers),  annotated  Langbaine,  83 
Rugby  School,  early  notices,  271 
Russell  (C.  P.)  on  tomb  of  Edw.  H.  Bockett,  38 
Ruthven  (Patrick),  letter  to  Earl  of  Northumberland, 

363,  414 
R.  (V.  V.)  on  poached  eggs,  251 

Suicide,  286 

Tetes  rondes  and  Tetes  carre'es,  189 

Tom  Thumb's  ancestry,  31 1 
Rye,  riot,  and  ryot,  derivation,  207,  257,  339 

S 

S.  on  Champagne  to  the  mast-head,  112 

Douglas  Cause,  408 

Pamphlet  on  the  Hon.  William  Pitt,  517 

Rye,  riot,  and  ryot,  207 

Stangate  Hole,  13 

Watch  case  in  Scotland,  327 
Sacks  carried  by  Joseph's  brethren,  71 
Sackville  (Sir  William),  death,  242,  320 
Sage  (J.  W.)  on  Taylor  family,  76 
Sainsbury  (W.  N.)on  Van  Veen,  "  Emblemata,"  117 
St.  abbreviated  to  T,  219,  256,  296 
St.  Anthony,  alias  Tanthony,  219,  256,  296 
St.  Aulaire,  quatrain  to  Duchess  du  Maine,  52,  119 
St.  Bees,  giant  found  at,  1 1 
St.  Benigne,  Dijon,  18 
St.  Catherine's  Hills  in  England,  409,  457 
St.  Ebba,  abbess  of  Coldingham,  417,  438 
Saint  Hyacinthe,  "  Le  Chef  d'(Euvre  d'un  Inconnu," 

508 
St.  John  of  Jerusalem,  French  Langue,  230 


INDEX. 


Ml 


St.  Malachi's  prophecies  respecting  the  popes,   49    77 

173,  359 

St  Martin's-in-the-Fields,  old  monuments,  329 
St.  Napoleon,  his  biography,  13,  39 
St.  Patrick  and  the  shamrock,  224,  319 
St.  Patrick's  day  at  Eton,  329 
St.  Swithin  on  grammar  schools  of  Edward  VI.,  36 
Hutchinson  (John),  477 
Jenner  (Edward,  M.  D.),  his  statue,  498 
Papa  and  Mamma,  their  origin,  505 
Sham  heraldry,  31 
Salt  given  to  sheep,  1 36 
Saltonstall  family,  350,  418 
Samaria,  the  cities  of,  when  founded,  151 
San  (J.)  on  Engraving  of  a  sea-fight,  30 
Laminas,  or  pictures  on  brass,  37 
Shaw  of  Sanchie  and  Green ock  arms,  38 
Wolves  eating  earth,  20 
Sand-paintings,  348,  418 
Sandys  (Rev.  Sir  Edwin  Windsor),  274 
Sark,  an  article  on,  507 

Sarniensis  on  medal  of  victory  of  La  Hogue,  387 
Sarum  Missal,  memorial  lines,  405 
Sassenach  on  families  who  trace  from  Saxon  times,  51 
Satin,  its  derivation,  365 
Saturday  half-holiday  enforced  by  Canute,  10 
Savoie  (Louise  de),  Journal,  20 
Savonarola's  inedited  manuscripts,  147 
Saxon  families  now  in  England,  51 
Saxony  (Dukes  and  Duchesses),  a  title   borne   by  the 

English  Royal  family,  190 
Sayer  (Vice-Adm.  James)  noticed,  133 
S.  (B.)  on  minister  standing  at  the  Lord's  Prayer,  268 
Scanderbeg,  his  "  Historic,"  461 
"  Scarborough  Miscellany,"  21 
Scarlett  family,  231,299 
Sceptics,  their  supposed  advantages,  249 
"  Schola  Salerni,"  and  John  of  Milan,  53 
"  School  for  Scandal,"  origin  of  phrase,  373 
"  School  of  Improvement,"  dramas,  428 
Schott,  (Francis),  "  Itinerarium  Italia?,"  209,  278 
Scin-La3ca:  Scinlac,  189,  357 
Sciolist  on  lines  on  William  Pitt,  486 

Poem  on  the  Baltic  Sea,  486 
Scot  (John)  of  Thirlestaine,  grant  of  arms,  448 
Scot  (Michael)  writings  on  astronomy,  131,  176,  357 
Scotenay  (Lambert  de),  his  arms,  347 
Scotland,  its  domestic  annals,  300 
Scott  (Sir  Walter)  and  Ben  Jonson,  366,  518 
Scottish  medical  recipes,  307 
Scottish  poetry,  its  history,  79 
Scottish  proverbs,  79 
Scripture-reading  in  the  16th  and  17th  centuries,  166, 

218 

S.  (D.)  on  biographical  queries,  276 
Crinolines  in  1737,  287 
Haunted  houses,  371 
Page  (Judge),  237 
Strange  (Sir  John),  271,  396 
Sea-fight,  old  engraving  of  one,  30 
Seals,  ancient,  368,  479 
Secretan  (C.  F.)  on  Abp.  Leighton's  letters,  106,  121 

143,  165 

Sedgwick  (Dan.)  on  Green's  Poems  and  Hymns,  434 
S.  (E.  L.)  on  alliterative  inscriptions,  414 
Paracleptics,  464 


S.  (E.  L.)  on  Paravicin's  burial-place,  234 

Spirituality  or  spiritualty,  311 
Senescens  on  Lammiman,  138 
Senex  on  Jakins,  a  family  name,  115 

Tenants  in  socage,  31 
Sennoke  on  "  Romantic  Mythology,"  its  author,  372 

Shakspeare  family  pedigree,  111 
Sepulchral  memorials,  their  mutilation,  17,  119,  218 
Sermons,  long,  169,  256,  319 
Servants  at  Holy  Communion,  231,  476 
Sevigne'  (Madame  de),  Letters,  140 
Seward  (Anna)  and  George  Hardinge,  26 
Sexagenarius  on  Willet's  "  Synopsis,"  256 
Seymour  (Jane),  prayers  for  her  safe  delivery,  186 
S.  (F.)  on  Grothill,  near  Edinburgh,  329 

Nathaniel  Ranew,  bookseller,  31 1 
S.  (F.  R.)  on  army  and  navy  lists,  220 
S.  (G.  V.)  on  Lathe=asking,  a  provincialism,  452 

Soul-food,  468 

Shakspeare :  — 

Contemporary  allusions  to  Shakspeare,  266 
Hamlet,  Act  V.  Sc.  2  :  "  If  it  be  now,"  &c.,  266 
"  Measure  forMeasure,"  Act  III.  Sc.  1:  "  Delighted," 

266 
Midsummer's  Night's  Dream,  Act  II.  Sc.  1 :  "  When 

thou  wast  stolen  away  from  fairy-land,"  85 
Much  Ado  about  Nothing,  Act  IL  Sc.  1 :  "  Yonll 

beat  the  post,"  264 
Oldys's  collections  for  his  life,  81 
Music,  265,  364 
Othello,  Act  III.  Sc.  3:  "  Who  steals  my  purse," 

266,  378 

Pedigree  of  his  family,  111 
Romeo  and  Juliet,  Act  III.  Sc.  2:  "That  rvn- 

awayes  eyes  may  wink,"  363 
Sonnets,  inscription   prefixed  to,  87,  L63;  Biblio- 
graphical account  of  the,  163 
Venus  and  Adonis,  in  Stationers'  Registers,  362 
Works,  reprint  of  1623,  60 
Shamrock,  Oxalis  cwnicuktta,  224,  319 
Sharpe  (Samuel)  on  degrees  of  comparison,  48 
Shaw  (Samuel)  on  American  cents,  255 
Grange  Hall,  view  of,  359 
Leaden  coin  of  William  and  Mary,  259 
Opal-hunter,  394 

Shaw  of  Sanchie  and  Greenock,  arms,  38,  98 
Shebbeare  (Dr.  John),  supposed  author  of  "Memoir  of 

Lady  Vane,"  232 
Shelley  (Percy  Bysshe),  "  Laon  and  Cythna,"  and  "  Re- 
volt of  Islam,"  283,  355,  419 

Shelley  (Sir  Richard),  Grand  Prior  of  England,  19,  59 
Shemir,  or  Husi,  the  protector,  31 
Shepherd's  Calendar,"  1590-1,  45,  142 
Shepherd's  Starre,"  a  poem,  45 
Sheridan  (R.  B.),  song  in  "  The  School   for  Scandal, 

373 

Sherlock  (Dr.  Win.),  conduct  at  the  Revolution,  32 3 
Shilling:  "  Cutting  off  with  a  shilling,"  245,  331 
Ships,  armour-clad,  and  the  elephant's  skull,  126 
Shoe,  a  prison,  207 
Shoe  nailed  to  the  mast,  111 
Shorter  (Arthur),  noticed,  59,  118,  219 
>houldham  family  pedigree,  38 
ihropshire  visitation,  127,  218 
ihrove  Tuesday  custom,  224,  439 


546 


INDEX. 


S.  (H.  W.)  on  Abednego  Mathew,  400 

Kingsmills  of  Sidmanton,  376 

"  The  Queen  of  Spades,"  423 
Sibbes  (Dr.  Richard),  "  Gospel  Anointings,"  1 3 
Sicilian  Jews,  practice  of  polygamy,  231 
Sidney  (Sir  Philip),  Memoir,  400 
Sigma-Tau  on  Paris  edition  of  the  Bible,  1586,  328 

Legends  on  swords,  493 

Macculloch  of  Cambuslang,  329 

Maclean  of  Torloisk,  329 

Tilney,  or  Tinley  family,  329 
Signet  on  Noblemen  and  Barons,  515 
"  Silent  Sister,"  alias  Trinity  College,  Dublin,  386 
"  Silken  Cord,"  its  meaning,  210 
Sillett  (James),  miniature  painter,  39,  135,  194,  358 
Simon  (Thomas),  engraver,  178,  219,  297,  378 
Simons  (Rev.  John)  of  Paul's  Cray,  372,  475 
S.  (J.)  on  deaf  and  dumb  literature,  475 

Rev.  John  Gore,  371 

S.  (J.  A.)  on  William  Lithgow's  poems,  30 
S.  (J.  F.)  on  Fridays,  saints',  and  fast-days,  115,  236 

Gray's  Elegy  parodied,  220 

Spelling  matches,  239 
Skelton  (Philip),  present  descendants,  290 
Slaves  and  freemen,  their  status  as  noticed  in  the  Scrip- 
tures, 282,  439 

Sleep,  forgetfulness  of  having  eaten  after,  406 
Slide-thrift  or  shove-groat,  54 
Slipslop,  its' earliest  use,  250 
Smith  (F.  W.)  on  a  new  word  "  Machifacture,"  27 
Smith  (Wm.  James)  on  John  Cole's  Works,  509 

Sir  Win.  Young's  parody  on  Gray's  Elegy,  432 

Taylor  family,  76 
Smith  (VV.  J.  B.)  on  representations  of  the  First  Person 

of  the  Holy  Trinity,  17 

Smollett  (Dr.  Tobias), "  Memoir  of  Lady  Vane,"  232 
Smuggling,  History  of,  172,  215 
S.  (NO  on  St.  Gregory's  "  Regula  Pastoralis,"  1§6 
Snuffers,  their  archaeology,  290,  358 
Sobieski,  name  used  by  semi-Welch  families,  210 
Social  Science  Association,  460 
Solicitors'  bills,  55,  118 

Songs  and  Ballads:  — 

Broom  of  the  Cowdenknowes,  385 

Drunkard's  Conceit,  305,  352 

Leezie  Lindsay,  463 

The  Queen  of  Spades,  423 

Trifle,  a  political  ballad,  327 

Yankee  Doodle  borrows  cash,  468,  513 
Sons,  three  born  on  three  successive  Sundays,  373 
Soul-food,  its  derivation,  468 
Southward  (John)  on  epigram  on  the  Four  Georges, 

358 

Southwark,  fire  in  ^667,  99, 193 
Southwell  (Mr.)  of  Cockermouth,  befriends  Oldys,  63 
Southwell  (Robert),  "  The  Phoenix  Nest,"  461 
Sow,  a  vessel  with  ears,  232 
Sp.  on  the  American  flag,  74 

Robert  Ashby's  daughter,  346 

Taaffe  family,  373 

Spade  guinea,  when  first  coined,  230,  299 
Spal.  on  Admiral  Blake's  descendants,  423 

Canadian  Seigneurs,  358 

Code  of  Menu  and  the  Chinese,  425 

Isley  family,  358,  436 


Spal.  on  Lewis  (Hon.  Hugh)  of  Jamaica,  451 

Oriental  words,  437 

Passengers  to  Barbadoes  in  1640,  488 

Primary  colours,  246 

Vandyke's  Portrait  of  Roelef  Warmolts,  211 
Spanish  Armada,  Dodington's  letter  on  its  arrival,  447 
Spartan  duplicity,  51,  178,  292 
Spelling  matches,  126,  179,  239 
Spence  (W.  S.)  heraldic  forgeries,  8,  54,  92 
Spider,  the  trap,  two  species,  70 
Spinach,  origin  of  the  word,  339 
Spirituality  and  Spiritualty,  311  •    < 

Squeers  and  Dotheboys  Hall,  212,  319 
5.  (2.)  on  derivation  of  pomatum,  353 
S.  (S.  M.)  on  Indian  missions,  195 

Kingsmills  of  Sidmanton,  309 

Leighton  (Abp.),  notices  of,  179 

Mancetter  martyrs  and  Glover  family,  182 

Surnames,  unusual,  67 

S.  (S.  S.)on  epitaph  in  Canterbury  cathedral,  158 
Stair  (Earl  of),  his  arms,  309 
Stamfordiensis  on  derivation  of  Aveland,  346 

Battle  of  Assundun,  407 

Rutland,  a  county  or  shire,  316 

Singular  custom  at  Corby,  424 
Standard  in  Cornhill,  488 
Stangate  Hole,  its  locality,  13,  155,  494 
Starachter  and  Murdoch,  152,  358 
Starch,  its  early  use,  90,  156;  yellow,  237 
"  Stars  of  Night,"  a  poem,  290,  380 
Stationers'  Company,  extracts  from  their  Registers,  44> 

104,  141,  201,  241,  321,  361,  401,  461,  501 
"  Statutes  at  Large,"  gleanings  from,  47 
Steam  navigation,  207 
Steele  (Sir  Richard),  attacked  by  Swift,  382 
Steevens  (Geo.),   annotated    Langbaine,    83  ;   Fuller's 

"  Worthies,"  84 

Stephens  (Rev.  Wm.)  of  St.  Andrew's,  Plymouth,  57 
Stephenson  (Rev.  A.)  descendants,  250 
Sterling,  originally  a  penny,  186 
Stevens  (D.  M.)  on  Barometers  first  made,  1 12 

Christmas-day  under  the  Commonwealth,  246 

County  and  shire,  the  same,  197 

Crony,  its  derivation,  118 

Davis  (Jefferson),  118 

Election  eerers,  197 

"  God's  providence  is  my  inheritance,"  237 

Husbandman  =  farmer,  77 

Innes  (Rev.  Robert),  170 

Italians'  love  of  English  fashions,  269 

King  plays,  temp.  Philip  and  Mary,  155 

Longevity  of  lawyers,  345 

Maryland,  early  emigrants  to,  148 

Mutilation  of  sepulchral  monuments,  119 

Newspapers  in  England,  dates  of,  287 

Nockynge  and  Dowell  money,  149,  256 

Parliamentary  members,  payments  of,  149 

Raleigh  (Sir  Walter),  and  Virginia,  147 

Scripture  reading  in  16th  and  17th  centuries, 
166 

Spelling  matches,  179 

Sunday  newspapers  in  America,  118 

Terms  misapplied,  108 

Universal  suffrage  in  olden  times,  131 

Waits  of  the  city  of  London,  171 

Wheeler  (Capt.  Thomas  Lucas),  189 


INDEX. 


547 


Stevens  (D.  M.)  on  Winkin  :  "  To  run  like  winkin,"  91 

Winslow  (Col.  Thomas),  118 
Stonehenge,  composition  of  its  stone,  13,  59 
"  Stop  and  Stay,"  meaning  of  the  phrase,  373 
Stow  (John),  "  Survey  "  by  Strype,  211,  296 
S.T.P.  and  D.D.  degrees,  231,  318,  333,  457 
S.  (T.  R.)  on  saints  on  Milan  Cathedral,  98 
Strafford  (Thomas,  Earl  of),  arrival  in  Ireland,   251; 

noticed,  272;  portrait,  425 
Strange  (John),  antiquary  and  naturalist,  353 
Strange  (Sir  John),  Master  of  the  Rolls,  271,   353 

396 

Straw  (Jack),  "  Life  and  Death,"  462 
Strike  (Mrs.  Esther),  her  longevity,  282 
Strix  (A.  J.)  on  Sir  Humphry  Davy,  117 

Epitaph  in  St.  James's  Clerkenwell,  389 
Stuart  (James  Francis  Edward),  son  of  James  II ,  his 

birth,  304 
Stubbes  (Philip),  "  Discourse  on  the  death  of  his  wife," 

104;  "  A  Motive  to  Good  Works,"  462 
Stythe,  its  etymology,  410,  458 
Sudbury  (Abp.),  skull  exhibited,  351 
.  Suicide,  origin  of  the  word,  286 
"  Sun  and  Whalebone,"  an  inn  sign,  250, 335, 359,  397, 

419,  472 

Sunderland  (Eman.  le  Scrope,  Earl  of),  272 
Sun-dial  and  Compass,  39 
Superstition,  its  derivation,  243,  335,  391,  475 
Surnames,  unusual  ones,  67,  177 
Surplice  worn  at  private  communion,  170,  356 
Sussex  on  spelling  matches,  179 
Sutton  family,  131,  216,  277 
Sutton  (J.  P.)  on  Sntton  family,  131 
S.  (W.)  on  Chaucer's  Tabard  Inn  and  fire  of  Southwark, 
99 

Clever,  an  Americanism,  187 

Devil  turning  fiddler,  206 

Domesday  Book,  253 

Electioneerers,  130 

Mansel  (Dr.)  epigrams,  199 

Toad-eater,  its  derivation,  176 
Swift  (Dean),  and  the  "  History  of  John  Bull,"  499 ;  and 

Wagstaffe's  Miscellanies,  381 
Swifte  (E.  L.)  on  princely  funerals,  65 
Swine  brother  to  man,  291 
Swinglehurst  (Richard  and  Henry),  250 
Swords,  legend  on,  493 
S.  (W.  W.)  on  Rev.  Christopher  Blackwood,  228 

English  refugees  in  Holland,  409 
Sylvester  (Joshua),  translation  of  Du  Bartas,  106 


T.  on  Catamaran,  473 

Execution  of  the  Marquis  of  Argyle,  326,  457 

Dambroad,  399 
Taafe  family  in  Ireland,  373 
Tabard,  a  military  dress,  260,  337 
Talaus  (Andomarus),  his  "  Commentaries,"  389,  436 
Talon  (Omer),  noticed,  389,  436 
Tancarville  (Sir  Henry  Grey,  1st  Earl),  arms,  317 
Tapestry  in  the  late  House  of  Lords,  410 
Tarrel  (Donald),  longevity,  454 
Taylor  (Chevalier),  noticed,  81 
Taylor  (H.)  on  quotation,  "  For  every  evil,"  &c.,  398 
Taylor  (H."  W.  S.)  on  Argenton  family  arms,  99 


Taylor  (H.  W.  S.)  on  Cromwell  family  arms,  317 
Robertson  family  arms,  99 
Tunkerville  family  arms,  317 
Woffington  (Mary),  actress,  38 
Taylor  family,  75,  317;  of  Bifrons,  137 
Taylor  (Bp.  Jeremy),  early  editions  of  bis  "Great 

Exemplar,"  27;  on  Superstition,  391 
Taylor  (John),  author  of  "  Monsieur  Tonson,"  1,  63  81 
Taylor  (John),  oculist,  63,  81 
Taylor  (John)  on  Dr.  MansePs  epigrams,  131 

"  Diaboliad,"  its  author,  428 
Taylor  (R.  A.)  on  Norman  font*,  230 
T.  (D.  S.)  on  Caroline,  Princess  of  Wales,  at  Charlton 

89 

Teeth,  three  sets  in  aged  persons,  386,  439 
Temple  family  in  Yorkshire,  330 
Tenants  in  socage,31,  137,  196 
Tenison  (Abp.),  his  library,  27 
Tennent  (Sir  J.  Emerson)  on  armour-clad  ships,  and 

the  skull  of  the  elephant,  126 
Slavery  and  the  Scriptures,  282 
Superstition,  its  derivation,  243 
Terms  misapplied,  108 
Terence,  an  early  edition,  131 
Tetbury,  its  etymology,  487 
"  Tetes  rondes,"  and  "  TStes  carries,"  sobriquets,  189 
Thackwell  family,  250 
Thibet  dogs,  485 

T.  (H.  J.)  on  Fridays,  saints'  days,  and  fast-days,  155 
T.  (H.  L.)  en  James  Howell,  M.P.  for  Richmond,  252 
Strafford  (Lord),  appointed  Lord  Deputy,  2M 
Sunderland  (Emanuel  le  Scrope,  E/irl  of),  272 
Wandesforde  (Sir  Christopher),  271 
Thomas  (Wm.)  "  Historic  of  Italic,"  291 
Thompson  (Josiah)  of  Clapham,  his  MSS.,  228 
Thompson  (Rer.  Wm.),  poet,  220 
Thorns  (W.  J.)  on  caricatures  and  satirical  prints,  227 
Thomson  (James),  Poetical  Works,  279 
Thoroton  (Rev.  Sir  John),  epitaph,  273 
Three-penny  curates,  271,  337 
Thynne  (Francis),  "  The  Debate   between  Pride  and 

Lowlines,"  242 
Tichborne  church,  519 
Tiffany,  its  derivation,  75,  219 
Tillotson   (Abp.)    "  Discourse  against  Transubstanti- 

ation,"  69 

Tilney  or  Tinley  family,  329,  473 
Tilt  family,  52 

Timbrill  (Dr.  John),  Vicar  of  Beckfcnl,  longevity,  456 
Times  newspaper,  earliest  date,  287,  351,  398 
Timme   or  Tym  (Thomas),  "  A  Discoverye  of  Tenne 

English  Leapers,"  241 

Tindal  (Acton)  on  James  Eyna,  respited  convict,  33 
Tinclli,  his  "  Emblems,"  68 
Tite  (William)  on  old  memorial  lines,  405 
Tithe,  "Canonici  de  Loch',"  311 
Tithes  of  servants  and  women,  231,  476 
Titus  Andronicus,  "  Historyeof,"  502 
T.  (J.)  on  the  Rev.  John  Lewis's  birth-place,  310 
T.  (J.  E  )  on  dwelling  near  the  rose,  29 

Mesmerism  noticed  by  Plautus,  270 
T.  (J.  R)  on  Edmund  Burke,  221,  429 
Toad-eater,  origin  of  the  term,  128,  176,  236, 27 
Toads  in  rocks,  389,  4 78 
Tokens,  abbey,  works  on,  71 
Tokens  of  Devon  and  Cornwall,  133 


548 


INDEX. 


Toland  (John),  his  character,  6 

11  Tom  Thumb,"  a  tragedy,  41 1 

Tom  Thumb,  his  ancestry,  311 

Tongue  not  absolutely  necessary  in  speech,  268,  337 

Topling  (Joseph)  on  Newton's  home  in  1727,  24 

Tory,  a  robber,  390  ;  a  loyalist,  437,  479,  516 

Tottenham  in  his  boots,  132 

Totty  (Dr.  Hugh),  Rector  of  Etchingham,  and  Vicar  of 

Fairlight,  his  longevity,  454 

Tower  of  London,  origin  of  exhibiting  the  regalin,  366 
Townships,  places  to  which  n  constable  is  appointed,  189 
T.  (R.)  on  "  Brown  study,"  190 
Trafford  (Thro.)  of  Bridge  Trafford,  Chester,  210 
Trovers  family,  231,  296,  378 
Treacle,  its  derivation,  145 
Treble,  origin  of  the  word,  507 
Trees,  their  spontaneous  combustion,  237 
Trial  by  battle  abolished,  91,  191,  214,  259,  275 
"  Trifle,"  a  political  ballad,  327 
Trillot  (P.),  artist,  248 

Trinity,  representations  of  the  First  Person  of  the,  17 
Trinity  College,  Dublin,  called  "  The  Silent  Sister,"  386 
Trinity  House  Corporation,  349 
Trinummus  on  three-penny  curates,  271,  337 
Tristis  on  Sidney,  Lady  Morgan's  arms,  311 
Trouveur  (Jean  de)  on  Voltaire's  inedited  Works,  185 
T.  (S.)  on  clerical  knights,  274 

Ootgrenve  forgeries  of  W.  S.  Spcnce,  8 

Earthquakes  in  England,  94 

Ffolliot  family,  216 

Folliott  (Hon.  Kebecca),  her  death,  88 

Hearth  tax  in  1600,  367 

Heraldic  volume,  temp.  Charles  II.,  352 

Hiittcn  (Ulric  von),  171 

Ncwtoris  of  Whitby,  97,  190 

Palmerston  (Lord),  his  family,  38 

Pettigrew  family,  216,  260 

Spanish  ambassadors,  temp.  Henry  VIII.,  231 

Touching  for  the  King's  Kvil,  &c.,  208 

Visitation  of  Shropshire,  218 
T.  (T.)  on  "  Lo  Chef-d'tKuvro  d'un  Inconnu,"  508 
Tucker  (Dr.  Wm.),  "  Charisma,"  208 
Tuckett  (John)  on  degrees  of  S.T.P.  and  D.D.,  231 

Langford  (Sir  Henry),  155 

West  Street  Chapel,  215 
Tuppcr  family,  of  Guernsey,  387 
Turbulent  (Mr.),  of  George  III.'s  household,  31,  96 
Turgcsius  the  Dane,  150,  217,  317 
Turgot  the  historian,  life  and  works,  101 
Turkeycocks  in  armorial  bearings,  507 
Turner  (J.  M.  W.),  his  early   days,  484;  "Polyphe- 
mus," 67 

Turners  of  Eckington,  90,  198 
T.  (W.)  on  Bishop  Hooper's  family,  229 
Twill  pant,  its  meaning,  291,  357 
T.  (W.  J.)  on  Dr.  John  Howett's  execution,  54 
Tyndale  (Wm.)  proposed  column  to  his  memory,  240 
Typo  composed  by  machinery,  448,  496 
Tyson  (Gilbert),  Lord  of  Aluwick,  &c.,  37,  198 

u 

Ulster  Annals,  387 

Underbill  family,  notes  on,  285 

Underbill  (Win.)  on  Underbill  family,  285 

Uncdii  on  European  ignorance  of  America,  177 


Uneda  on  "  Exception  proves  the  rule,"  177 

Irish  wolf-dog,  158 

Natoaca,  Princess  of  Virginia,  135 

Surnames  in  America,  178 

Union  between  England  and  Ireland,  debates  on,  488 
Union  Jack,  a  flag,  207 
Universal  Society,  250 
"Universal  Spectator,"  its  writers,  21 
Universal  suffrage  in  olden  times,  131,  197,  316 
University  discipline,  291,  859,  400,  439 
Unyte  on  Dr.  John  Hewett's  father,  229 

Stow's  Survey,  Strype's  edition,  211 

Waters  family  arms,  199 

Wilks  (John),  arms,  216 
Uriconium,  or  Wroxeter,  15 
Ursula  on  pencil-writing,  199 
"  Use  and  uave,"  an  article  in  Chambers'  Journal,  17 
Utrecht,  St.  Mary's  Church,  28 


Valckenner  family  of  the  Hague,  210 

Vandyke  (Sir  Antony),  Roelef  Warmolts'  portrait,  211 

Vane  (H.  M.)  on  Lady  Vane,  236 

Cecily,  wife  of  Richard,  Duke  of  York,  435 

Vane  (Lady),  noticed  in  "  Peregrine  Pickle,"  152,  232, 
236 

Vane  (Miss),  mistress  to  Frederic  Prince  of  Wales,  152 

Vedette  on  mediaeval  architects,  270 
Owtharquedaunce,  467 
Private  Act  of  Henry  VIII.,  487 
Rats  leaving  a  sinking  ship,  78 

Vegius  (Mapheus),  "  De  Perseverantia  Religionis ,"  508 

Vellum,  method  of  washing,  138 

Venius  (Otho),  "  Emblcmata  Horatiann,"  53,  117,  256 

Ventilate  —  to  discuss,  its  early  use,  218,  373 

Verelst  (Lodvick),  ob.  1704,  171 

Verney  (Earl),  Chancery  bill  against  Edmund  Burke, 
221,  374,  495 

Vcrncy  (Sir  Richard),  knt,  350 

Vertuo  (Gco.),  notice  of  the  death  of  Edward,  Earl  of 
Oxford,  42 

Vestry  meetings,  appointment  of  chairman,  18,  177, 193 

Vicinage,  origin  of  the  word,  150,359 

Victoria  (Queen),  silver-piece  of  1847,  330,  379,  399 

Villein,  original  meaning,  207 

Virct  (Peter),  translation  of  his  "  Christian  Disputa- 
tions," 291 

Visiting  cards  in  1799—1800,  267 

Voltaire  (M.  F.  A.),  inedited  Works,  185 

Vossius,  "  De  Historicis  Grtccis,"  74 

Vouchsafe,  its  etymology,  403 

Vroom  (Hen.  Corn,  do),  marine  painter,  410 

V.  (R.  W.  T.)  on  Turners  of  Eckington,  90 

V.  (W.)  on  Jakins  as  a  surname,  68 

W 

W.  on  Isaac  Ambrose,  269 

Wilkes  (John),  arms,  415 
Winckley  family  of  Preston,  237 
W.  (A.)  on  "  Christians  loving  one  another,"  488 
Wagner  (Melchior),  his  family,  330,  379 
Wagstaffe  (Wm.),  M.D.,  who  wrote   or  compiled  h's 

"  Miscellaneous  Works,"  381 
Waits  of  the  City  of  London,  171,  337 


INI)  i:  \. 


Wake  (Sir  Isaac),  payments  after  his  death,  207 
\YakHielcl  (CilluTt ),  '•  Kana-  Ol  k,  459,  516 

Walcott(M.  E.  C.)  on  archbishop's  mitiv  with   u  tlural 

coronet,  -I""'.) 
Army  Lists,  75 
Correspondence  at  the  landing  of  the  Prince  of 

Orange,  303,  324 
Ferula,  513 

Hampshire,  mummers,  66 
Oldys  (Dr.  William),  417 
Oxford  in  1688—92,  from  original  letters,  261 
Snuffers,  ancient,  358 
St.  Catherine's  Hills,  457 
Tichborno  church,  519 
Un buried  ambassadors,  475 
Walford  (Edward),  on  Bristol  families,  346 
Walgrow  (John),  Rector  of  West  Charlton,  his  will,  125 
Walker  (John),  works  illustrative  of  his  "  Sufferings  of 

the  Clergy,"  312 

Walker  (Obadiah),  his  affairs  at  Oxford,  263 
Waller  (Edmund),  poet,  his  longevity,  366 
Walrond  family  arms,  109,  179 
Walsall,  Christmas  custom,  223,  316 
Walsingham  family,  507 
Walton  and  Cotton  Club,  273 

Walton  (Izaak),  his  life  by  Oldys  and  Sir  John  Haw- 
kins, 81 ;  couplet  on  Dr.  Sibbes,  14 
W.  (A.  M.)  on  Melchior  Wagner's  family,  330 
"  Wandering  Jew,"  English  versions  of,  14,  77,  258 
Wandeslbrde  (Chris.),  Lord-Deputy  of  Ireland,' 271,  314 
Warburton  (R.  E.  E.)  on  Service  for  Healing,  418 
Warden  of  English  and  Scottish  Marches,  171,  220 
Warmolts  (Roelef)  of  Groningen,  portrait,  211 
Warner  pedigree,  53 
Warren  family  arms,  109 
Warren  of  Waterstave,  co.  Devon,  190 
Warwick  (Eden)  on  origin  of  the  word  Canoe,  12U 
French  revolution  predicted,  180 
Monastic  orders,  their  dress,  457 
Shakspeare's  Hamlet,  Act  V.  Sc.  2.  266;  "De- 
lighted," in  Measure  for  Measure,  ib. 
Wasbrough  (Matthew)  and  the  steam-engine,  292 
Wase,  or  Wast,  family  arms,  68,  178 
Watch,  disputed  case  in  Scotland,  327 
Watch- paper  lines,  355 
Waters  family  arms,  199 
Watson  (T.),  "  The  Tears  of  Fancie,"  402 
Watson  (Thomas),  "  Amintae  Uuudia,"  322 
Watt  (James)  and  the  steam-engine,  293;  on  steam- 
navigation,  51,  277 

Way  (Albert)  on  John  Oswen,  Worcester  printer,  367 
W.  (B.)  on  mutilation  of  sepulchral  monuments,  218 
W.  (B.  L.)  on  standing  at  the  Lord's  Prayer,  354 
W.  (D.)  on  Walton  and  Cotton  Club,  273 
Weather  proverbs,  Scottish,  78 
Weaver  (Wm.),  longevity,  412 
Webb  family,  131 

Webbe  (Sir  Wm.),  Knt.,  his  family,  31 
Webster  (J.)  on  Alphonso  the  Wise,  335 
Weed  (Count)  of  Newinweek,  409 
Weeping  among  the  ancients,  132,  196 
Wellington  (Arthur,  Dake  of)  family  name,  330 
Wells  city  seals  and  their  symbols,  10,  39;  trade  pro- 
hibitions, 147 
Welsh  mottoes,  273 
Wenceslaus  (Clemens),  "  Gustavides,"  248 


Wontworth  House,  Yorkshire,  2 

\\nit\\oiili  (  lh< .in.,.).  M  i.ingham,  8 

Werrington  and  the  Moriee  i'umih 

\\ .  ( I-:.  S.)  on  Charles  II.  after  the  battle  of  Worcester, 

38 

Westminster  play  in  1839,  233 
West  Street  Chapel, bt.  Gilos'-in-the-FioU«,  111, 215 
Wexford  county,  curious  c  . 
W.  (F.  G.)  on  arms  of  London  Lord  Mayor*,  257 
W.  (II.)  on  anna  of  Jonea  of  Diugeatow,  1 1 1 
Wlwley  (Parson),  walk  to  Jerusalem,  452 
\Yhatdey  (Mr.),  banker,  miniatu  225 

W.  (H.  B.)  on  St.  Catherine's  HilU,  ; 
Wheeler  (Captain  Thomas  Lucas),  1 
Wheeler  (R.  F.)  on  custom  at  Grantlmin,  482 
"  Whetstone  of  Wit,"  an  arithmetical  work,  401 
Whewell  (Wm.)  and  '•  Story  of  Lord  Bacon's  Life,"  424 
Whiff,  origin  of  the  word,  349 
Whitby  (Dr.  Daniel)  and  Henry  Dodwell,  262 
Whitclwrch  in  Cemues,  330 
White  (Thomas),  Recorder  of  Well*,  31 
Whitehall  banqueting-house  window,  69,  177 
Whit-Monday  custom  at  Corby,  424 
Whitney  (Isabella),  poetess,  32 
Whitney  (John),  a  lover  of  the  angle,  170 
Whittle  (KHz.),  Pepys's  anagram  on  her  name,  288  516 
W.  (II.  M.)  on  Tmfford  family,  210 
Whyman,  its  derivation,  138 
Wigan,  mayors  of,  232 
Wigs,  a  sort  of  cake,  387,  419,  436 
Wilkcs  (John),  arms,  216,  318,  415;  last  speech  in 

parliament,  271,  339 
Wilkes  (John),  highwayman  209 
Wilkie  (Dr.  William),  "  Fables,"  250,  277,  400 
Willes  (Chief-Baron  Edward),  487 
Willet  (Andrew),  "  Synopsis  Pupismi,"  32,  256 
William  III.,  correspondence  at  his  lauding,  303,  324 
William  IV.  and  Mary,  leaden  coin  of,  207,  259 
William  the  Lion,  his  daughters,  95,  138,  355 
Williams  (Dr.  /acliariah),  421 
Williams  (Mrs.  Anna),  Dr.  Johnson's  friend,  421 
Williams  (Rev.  Wm.),  pluralist,  428,  478 
Willoughby  (Lady),  "  Diary,"  272,  340 
Wilmot  (Mrs.),  "  Ina,"  a  tragedy,  233 
Wilson  (Henj.),  the  caricaturist,  468 
Wilson  (E.  S.)  on  Sutton  family,  277 
Wilson  (John),  "  Trigonometry,"  330 
Wilson  (Lea),  "  Catalogue  of  Pamphlets,"  308,  397 
Winckley  family,  190,  237,  354 
Wing  (William)  on  Judge  Page,  153 

Fritwell  antiquities,  463 
Winnington  (Sir  T.  E.)  on  "  Beauty  and  Love,"  225 

Corncfers  and  cap]>crs  of  Bewdley,  36'J 

Falconia  (Probu),  "  Cento  Virgilinnui,"  53 

Ffolliott  family,  158,338 

Harry's  Geneulopy  of  James  1 ,  330 

Hermitages  in  Worcestershire,  389 

Paper  money  at  Loyden,  12 

Prophecy  found  in  an  abbey,  280 

St.  Mary's  church,  Utrecht,  28 
Winsloe  (Col.  Thomas),  ob.  1760,  09, 1 18 
Winter  (Thos.)  of  Huddington,  his  letter,  341 
Witch  in  the  nineteenth  century,  464 
Witches  of  Huntingdonshire,  1593,  402 
Witches  of  Warboys,  song  on,  501 
Witticisms,  reproduction  of  old,  324,  394 


550 


INDEX. 


W.  (J.)  on  Love  Lane  Chapel,  Deptford,  210 

W.  (M.)  on  Ecclesiastical  Commission  of  1650,  130 

Milton  Abbey  Customary,  148 
Woe,  lines  on,  290 
Woffington  (Mary),  actress,  38,  156 
Wolf-dog,  the  Irish,  158 
Wolves  in  England,  78,  232;  eating  earth,  20 
"  Woman's  Vagaries,"  a  tract,  141 
Woodman  family,  346,  417 
Woodward  (J.)  on  the  camel  an  hieroglyphic,  333 
Canadian  seigneurs,  310,  415 
Clerical  knights,  274 
Harp  in  the  arms  of  Ireland,  259 
Hawkins  crest,  409 
Leon,  arms  of  the  kingdom  of,  471 
Official  arms  of  Regius  professors,  311 
Prayers  for  the  Great  Fire  of  London,  388 
Privilege  of  being  covered  before  royalty,  319 
Royal  crown  of  Egypt,  328 
Shelley  (Sir  Richard),  Turcopolier,  19 
Woodward  (John),  prebendary  of  Gloucester,  211 
Worcestershire  hermitages,  389 
Workard  (J.  J.  B.)  on  an  amusing  blunder,  128 
Barons,  foreign,  in  the  Commons,  498 
Carpenter  (Wm.),  present  affliction,  17 
Clergyman's  right  to  take  the  chair,  18 
Cutting  off  with  a  shilling,  517 
Electioneered,  197 
Hyinnology,  497 
Lambeth  degrees,  175 
Literary  anecdotes,  194 
Money,  its  value  in  former  times,  238 
Noblemen  and  barons  in  Scotland,  497 
Philips's  "Cerealia,"  passage  in,  497 
Society  of  antiquaries  and  ladies,  237 
Tongue,  its  use  in  speech,  337 
Universal  suffrage,  197 
Weeping  among  the  ancients,  197 
Worthy  (Charles)  on  earthquake  at  Exeter,  177 
W.  (R.)  on  Cecily,  wife  of  Richard  Duke  of  York,  369 
Earthquakes  in  England,  16 
Herydone,  used  by  Wicliff,  291 
"  Ranaj  CanoraV'  and  Gilbert  Wakefield,  459,  516 
Wright  (Robert  le),  his  marriage,  228 
Wright  (W.  A.)  on  Bacon's  Essays,  368 
W.  (T.)  on  Domesday  Book,  252 
W.  (W.)  on  Harrisons  of  Berkshire,  51 

Webb  family,  131 

W.  (W.  0.)  on  Gunpowder  Plot  papers,  34 1 
Wylie  (Charles)  on  Princess  Caroline  at  Charlton,  119 
Frye's  engraved  heads,  110,  172 
Woffington  (Mary),  156 

X 

X.  on  Tinelli's  emblems,  68 
Wagner  (Melchior),  379 
Wellington  (Duke  of),  family  name,  330 


X.  (1.)  on  Col.  Thomas  Winsloe,  69 
Xavier  on  capital  punishment,  450 
Congers  and  mackerel,  248,  436 
Properties  of  Greek  statues,  311 
Redmond  family,  158 
Xavier  and  Indian  missions,  90,  116 
X.  (X.  A.)  on  Baxter's  long  sermon,  169 
Parodies  on  Gray's  Elegy,  355 
Service  at  the  Healing,  496     .     '•  ••*'•' 
X.  (X.)  on  Rev.  Wm.  Stephens  of  Plymouth,  57 
XXX.  on  Yetlin,  a  round  iron  pot,  35 


Yarwell,  or  yarwhelp,  a  bird,  428 

Yeowell  (J.)  on  Nelly  Gwyn's  first  love,  286 

Knave's  Acre,  Harp  Alley,  96 
Yerac  on  Galas  fanilly,  151 

Jetsam,  Flotsam,  and  Lagan,  78 
Manor  law,  works  on,  76 
Special  licences  for  marriage,  76 
Yetlin,  or  Yetling,  an  iron  utensil,  34,  376 
Y.  (J.)  on  Christian  Jacobsen  Drakenberg,  353 
Fairfax.  Court-house  desecration,  464 
Speeches  and  Prayers  of  the  Regicides,  384 
York  Buildings  Company,  119 
York  (Fred.  Duke  of),  medal,  1827,  451 
York,  offences  in  the  north  in  17th  century,  239 
York  (Richard,  Duke  of),  wife  Cecilia,  369.  419,  435 
Young  (Dr.  Edward),  Dean  of  Salisbury,  349 
Young   (Dr.  Edward),  poet,   his   longevity,   366;  de- 
scribed in  a  poem,  188 
Young  (Sidney)  on  Fold,  as  a  provincialism,  353 

Travers  family,  231,  378 
Young  (Sir  Wm.),  parody  on  Gray's  Elegy,  432 

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Z.  (A.)  on  Viscount  Lisle,  290 

Travers  family,  296 

Z.  (A.  M.)  on  deaf  and  dumb  literature,  427 
Zeta  on  Anonymous  works,  131,  133,  229,  485 

Bruce's  "Don  Karlos,"  91 

Fletcher  (Jacob),  dramatist,  110 

German  drama,  209 

Greek  play,  469 

"  Ivar,"  a  tragedy,  its  author,  148 

Nelson's  Miscellany,  a  comedy  in  it,  507 

"  Northern  Iris,"  its  editor,  507 

(Ehlenschlager's  Hakon  Jarl,  translator,  170 

Pickeryng  (John),  dramatist,  131 

Price  (R.),  author  of  William  Tell,  170 

Reception,  a  play,  its  author,  148 

Tancred  and  Gismund,  its  authors,  150 
Z.  (L.)  on  the  author  of  "The  Falls  of  Clyde,"  129 
Zwinglius  (Ulrich),  "  Image  of  bothe  Pastoures,"  151 
Z.  (X.  Y.)  on  Cromwell  Lee,  310 
Z.  (Y.)  on  coin  or.  medal  of  Queen  Victoria,  330 


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