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LITERARY MEN, GENERAL READERS, ETC.
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" When fonxi^ittate* i bduT h&^ Captain Cuttlk.
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THIRD SERIES. —VOLUME FIFTH.
Jantjaby — June 1864.
LONDON:
P|lHf JHtiKH AX 'I'HIt
OFFICE, 32 WELLINGTON STREET, STRAND, W.C.
1864.
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1864.
CONTENTS.— N». 106.
KOTB8: — Unpublished Hnmorous and Satirical Papers of
ATChbishop Laud, 1 — A State- Paper Brectified, 5 - A I^aw
Pastoral, 6 — Particulars regarding Sir Walter Raleigh. 7
~ Fashionable Quarters of London, 8 — Rye- House Plot
Cards, 9 — The Lspwing : Witchcraft — John Rowe, Ser-
Jeant-at-Law — Charles Lloyd — Oambridge Tradesmen in
1685— Robespierre's Remains, 10.
QTJK RIE8 : - Old Latin Aristotle — John Baroroft — Oeno-
ti^iih to the 79th Ri*giment at Clifton —William Chaiirneau
— B leaner d'Olbreuse— Hyoscyamus— Luurel Water —
Lewis Uorris — The Prince CouMort's Motto — Richard
Balveyne — Swinburne— Captaiu Torke, 11.
QvBKias WITH AHBW«it8: — Pholoy— Lines addressed to
Charles L — Crest of A tx>thecarie»' Company— Fru men-
turn : Siligo — John Burton — James II. and.the Pretender
— New l^raoslatioii of the Bible, by John Bellamy, circa
1818, 12.
RRPLI KS : - Exhibition of Sign-Boards, 14 - ** Est Rosa
Flos Veneris," 15 -Rev. P. Roscnhsgen. 16 -Collins. Author
of "To-morrow," 17 — John Hawkins— Rev. F. S.Pope —
Mrs. Cokay ne — John Donne, LL.D. — Scottish — Execu-
tion for Witchcraft — Mutilation of Sepulchral Monu-
ments — Longevity of Clergymen — Ehret, Flower Fain-
ter : Barberini Vase — Rev. Thomas Craig — Or. David
Lamont — Baptismal Names — Tydides — Capnobstn —
Joseph Washington — Handanyde — Early Marrifigcs —
Revalenta — Paper-Makers' Trade Marks — Christian
Names — As Mad as a Hatter, £0.
Notes on Books, Ac.
ADDRESS.
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Header, and warm Friend, under whose geninl influence
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Fourteen Years. — Yes, Fourteen Years !
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its own Publishing Office. So from henceforth *• N. Sc Q."
will be issued from No. 32, Wellington Street, Strand,
where. We trust, with the continued assii^tance of those
kind old friends who have rallied round it in its new I
office with contributions to enrich the present and fol-
lowing Numbers, it will go on increasing in interest and
usefulness for years to come.
UNPUBLISHED HUMOROUS AND SATIRICAL
PAPERS OF ARCH151SH0P LAUD.
Few people would look for humour in anything
wiid or written by Archbishop Laud. He, whose
'* hasty sharp way of speaking '' is commemorated
by Clarendon, who said of himself that he had
** no leisure for compliments," and whose voice
and manner in speaking were such that they who
heard and saw nim always supposed that he was
angry — such a man seems very unlikely to have
been gifted with the slightest predisposition for
drollery. Yet I had occasion, some time ago, to
point out that, in his letters to his friends, there
existed traces of a heavy but kindly pleasantry, of
T^hich I quoted several examples. I have now^
ffoing a step farther in the same direction, to lay
before you evidence that there really was within
that cold hJirsh man — for such in his " full-blown
dignity " he exhibited himself to the world — a
power of appreciating and applying wit and wag-
gery for which, without this evidence, scarcely
anyone, I think, would give him credit.
But I must premise a few words of explanation.
In 1618 the future Archbishop was, in his fortieth
year, President of St. John's, Oxford, a Doctor of
Divinity, and a Royal Chaplain. In that same
year a most absurd '' sedition," as it is termed
Dy Antony 4 Wood, was raised in the University.
Some of the youngsters, headed by one Henry
Wightwick of Gloucester Hall, deemed the dig-
nity of the Convocation House diminished by the
circumstance that the Vice-chancellor and Doc-
tors were in the habit of sitting in their assemblies
bare-headed. There have been many foolish re-
bellions ; but surely, if we know the truth about
this matter, no one was ever more silly than this.
Like many other hare-brained things, however,
it found patronage amon^ men of higher standing
than those with whom it originated; and, thus
supported, what appears to have been a mere
childish outbreak divided and excited the whole
University. We must suppose that, somehow
or other, it linked itself to party differences
of a higher character. Dons as yrell as under-
graduates were, for several years, kept in hot-
water by this contemptible dispute. Some of the
leaders of the dissentients even went the length
of threatening to follow an example which had
occasioned cousiderahle trouble once before — that
of secession from Oxford, and the erection of a
new college at Stamford.
Occupying an eminent station in the University,
Laud could scarcely have avoided taking some
share in the dispute ; and we know that he was not
a man to do anything otherwise than energetically.
Whatever he did or said, wo may be sure that on
such an occasion he took the side of authority ;
but we have no information on the subject, until
the proposal was made to dismember the Univer-
sity. Aroused by a suggestion, which was either
absurd or of weighty moment, he determined to
crush it at once by overwhelming it with ridicule.
The stories of the folly of the Gothamites,
which were then familiar to everybody, gave
him a foundation to build upon. He conceived the
design of publishing a burlesque account of the
contemplated foundation at Stamford, under the
name of Gotlkim (or, as he spelt it, Ootam,) Col-
lege, introducing into its imaginary regulations
such Gothamite recollections as could be made
applicable, with such other strokes of humour as
could be brought to bear upon the contemplated
design, in the way of quizzing and contempt.
Tne subject has not been mentioned (so far as
I know) by the biographers of Laud, nor ate there
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S'^iS.V. Jaw. 2/64.
any documeDta respecting it printed in the edi-
tion of his Works published in the Library of
Anglo-Catholic Theology ; but there exist, among
the State Papers in tne Public Record Office,
placed at the end of the year 1613, various papers,
mostly in Laud's handwriting, which clearly in-
dicate the nature of his contemplated publication.
None of them are probably quite finished ; but
all are, more or less, advanced towards comple-
tion. Why the intended pamphlet, or whatever
it was to have been, was laid aside, does not ap-
pear. The Qothamite scheme may have died
away, and it was not deemed advisable to stir its
decaying embers; or Laud*s execution of his de-
sign, after much touching and retouching (of
which the papers before us present ample evi-
dence), may not have pleased him. These manu-
scripts remain — mere wrecks and ruins ; but
there is enough in them to indicate clearly the
author*s purpose, and to demonstrate, unless I
very much mistake their character, that he pos-
sessed no mean power of making sport. He dealt
with the subject before him in his naturally sharp,
but also in a frolicsome and witty manner.
The first of these papers — ^an ** Epistle to the
Header," designed as a preface to the intended
work — seems to be all but complete. I shall give
it you as it stands. It will be found to be quaint
and old-fashioned, but not without touches of
efiective pleasantry.
"To THE Reader.
** Come, Reader, Ict*8 be merry ! I have a tale to tell :
1 would it were worth the hearing, bat take it as it ifi.
TIiere*8 a great complaint made against thiH age, that no
good work.s are done in it. Sure I hear Slander hath a
tongue, and it \» a woman's bird never born mute.* For
not lung since (bfsidcs many other things of worth) there
was built in the air a very famous college, the Skminart
OK Innocents, commonly called in the mother tongue of
that place, Gotam College. I do not think in these
latter freezing ages, there hath been a work done of
greater either protit or magnificence. The founder got
up into a tree (and borrowed a rooks nest for his cushion)
to see the plot of the building, and the foundation laid. He
re:H>Ived to ^uild it in the air to save charges, because
castles are built there of lighter materials. It is not to
be spoken how much he saved in the very carriage of
timber and stone by this politic device, which 1 do not
doubt but fouLders'in other places will imitate. Yet he
would not have it ralMi>d too high in the air, lest his Col-
legians, which were to be heavy and earthy, should not
get into it ; and it is against all good building to need
a ladder at the gate. '1 he end of this building was as
charitable, as the ordering of it prudent ; for whereas there
are many places in all commonwealths provided for the
lame, and the sick, and the blind, and the poor of all
sorts, there is none anywhere erected for innocents. This
founder alone may g'lory that he is the first, and may
prove the only patron of Fools. He was ever of opinion
that, upon the first finishing of his College, it would have
more company in it than any one College in any Univer-
•ity in Europe. Such height would b« waited upon by
* FiautuM,
malice. Ther^ore he resolved to build it in no Univer-
sity, but very near one famous one. Not in any, for
such a place cannot bear their folly ; not far off, for no
other place so liable to discover and publish their worth.
I could tell yon much more, but it is not good manners in
the Epistle to prevent the tract. If you will not take
the pains to walk about this College, you shall be ignor-
ant of their building. If not to read their orders and
statutes, yon shall not know their privileges. If not to
be acquainted with some of the students, you shall be a
stranger in all places, and not well acquainted in your
own country. One counsel let me give you : whenever
you visit the place, stay not long it ; * for the air i»
bad, and all the students .very rheumatic 1 have heard
that Lady Prudence Wisdom went but once (then she
was masked and muffled, and yet she escaped not tbe
toothache,) to see it since it was built, and myself heard
her swear she would never come within the gates again.
You think the Author of this Work (who for the founder's
honour, and the students* virtues, hath taken on him to
map out this building) must depart from the truth of the
history. Reader, it needs noL For there is more to bo
said of these men, in truth and stor>', than any pen can
set out to the world. His pen is weak, and mine too ;
but who cannot defend Innocents? Farewell. The founder
laughed heartily when he built the College : if thou canbt
laugh at nothing in it, borrow a spleen. You know 1
dwell a little too near tbe College that I am so skilful in
it, and have idle time to spend about it. But it*s no
matter. What if 1 were chosen Fellow of the house ?
As the world goes, I had rather be rich at Gotham than
poor in a better place. You know where I dwell. Come
to see me at any time when it is safe, that the Ears f of
the College hang not over me, and I will show you as
many Fellows of this Society highly preferred as of any
other. I know you long to hear; but you shall come to
my house for it,*as near the College as it stands. There
you shall find me at my devotion for Benefactors to this
worthy foundation."
This " Epistle to the Reader " is followed by
a variety of rough notes, scattered over seventeen
leaves, many of which contain only a sentence
or two. Ihey were apparently intended to be
worked up into the designed work.
We next have a Latin Charter of Liberties,
supposed to have been granted to the College by
the Emperor of Morea. There are among the
papers two drafts of this charter. Li one, the
Emperor's name is given as Midas. They are
both framed as if granted to the founder, who was
at first designated as " Thomas White, miles/' but
the " White " was subsequently struck out. Why
the name of Sir Thomas White, the founder of
Reading School, where Laud was educated, and
of his beloved College of St John's, was thus in-
troduced, I am unable to explain.
Xhe draft of a Foundation Charter of the
College then follows. It runs in the name of
"Thomas a Cuniculis, miles auritus, patriae Mo-
reanus."
We next have two copies, but with many varia-
tions between them, of a paper entitled " The
Foundation of Qotam College." This was the
author's principal effort In his account of the
* Aniwia pnuUm in tieeo. f Tkfjf are ttty long. •
8«i 8. V. Jak. 2, •U.']
NOTES AND QUEKIES.
rules and regulations of the college, he ]^ur8 out
his store of Gothamite recollections, with such
fresh wit as he could make to tell against the
chief members of the party to whom he was
opposed. It is difficult occasionally to identify
the persons alluded to, but many of them will be
easily reco^ised. The two brothers, Dr. Samp-
son and Dr. Daniel Price, top^ether with Dr.
Thomas James, the author of BeUum Papale^ were
clearly leaders in the suggestion which excited
Laud's dislike. Upon them the vials of his wrath
were consequently poured. All thn^e were strong
anti-Romanists. Antony Wood t^.lls us that Dr.
Sampson Price was so distinguislied in that re-
spect, that he acquired the name of *' ' The Mawl
of Heretics,' meaning papists ; " and that, both he
and his brother were regarded with especial dis-
like at Douay. Both brothers were royal chap-
lains and popular preachers, and of the same way
of thinking, — that way being in most respects
nearly as far removed from Laud's way, as could
co-exist within the pale of the Church of England.
Dr. Thomas James, tlie well-known Bodley libra-
rian, was a man of precisely the same anti-Ro-
manist views as the Prices, but probably of far
greater learning than either of them. All these
had no doubt, like other men, their vanities and
peculiarities; and it is upon these foibles that
Laud seizes, and applies them to the purposes of
his ridicule. Thus, we learn that James was
highly pleased with his dignity of Justice of
Peace, whence Laud styles him Mr. Justice
James, and appoints him library keeper of the
new college. We learn also, that Dr. Sampson
Price enjoyed his nap at the sermons in St. Mary's,
and that Dr. Daniel was fond of an anchovy toast,
and had a general liking (in which respect he was
probably not singular, either at Oxford or else-
where) for a good dinner. All these points come
out in the following paper ; which I print, with
one or two omissions, from one of the two manu-
scripts, adding here and there passages derived
from the other.
"The Foundation of Gotam College.
**Tbe founder (being the Duke of Morea*) made suit
and obtained leave for this foundation, that it might be
erected, anno 1613. The reasons of his suit were : —
*' 1. Because, in the midst of so many good works as
had been done for the bringing up of men in learning,
there had been none taken in special for the Gotam ists.
** 2. Because every College in the University had some
or other of them in it, which were fitter to be elected and
chosen out to live together in this new foundation.
'* 8. Because it is unfit that, in a well-governed com-
monwealth, such a great company of deHerving men, or
* This is not consistent with the foundation charter
noticed before^ and is an evidence that the author's
design was still unsettled. In the margin is written,
"Sir Thomas Cuninsby, con-founder." This is evi-
dentlv the "Thomas k Cnniculis,'* mentioned in the
fonndatioii charter.
youth full of hope as those are Tfor ttultorttm plena tunt
omnia), should want places of preferment or education.
" Maintenance. — ^Their mortmain is to hold as much aa
will be given them, without any stint ; which favour is
granted them in regard of their number (being the great-
est foundation in Christendom), and at the instant re-
I quest of the honourable patroness the Lady Fortunafavet:
provided always, that they hold no part of this their land,
or aught else, in capite, but as much as they will in
Knight's service, so .they fit their cap and their coat
thereafter.
*' Sociorum numerus, — The number of Fellows may not
l)e under 500, and 200 probationers (if so many may be
found fit) ; which it shall be lawful to choose out of anv
C^ollcge in Oxford : Provided that when, if ever, there u
any eminent man found in the other University of Cam-
bridge, or any other, it shall be lawful for them, which
after the founder shall be put in trust with the election,
to admit them in veros et perpetuns aocios.
*' The statutes are appointed to be panned in brief, for
the help of their memorj', which yet is better than the
wit of any of the Fellowships. [^Memorandum. In making
of a speech, they must not stop at any time, but when
their breath fails.] There is leave granted they may re-
move * Cuckoo-bush,' and set it in some part of the Col-
lege garden : and that in remembrance of their famous
predecessors they shall breed a Cuckoo every year, and
keop him in a pound till he be hoarse ; and then, in mid-
summer moon, deliver him to the bush and let him at
liberty.
" Because few of these men have wit enough to grieve,
they shall have 'Gaudyes'* every holyday and every
Thursday through the year; and their * Gaudyes ' shnll
be served up in woodcocks, gulls, curs, pouts» geese, gan-
ders, and all such other fowl, which shall be brought at a
certain rate in ass4uads to fumiiili the College. But on
other days which are not * Gaudyes,* they shall have all
their commons in calf's head and bacon.f and, there-
fore, to this purpose all the beef, mutton, and veal, shall
be cut out by their butcher into calvec»' heads ; and on
fish-days conger, cod's head, or drowned eel, with a piece
of cheese after it — of the same dairy with that cheese
which their wise predecessors rolled down the hill, to go
to market before them,
" Broths, caudles, pottage, aiid all such settle-brain,
absolutely forbidden. All other meats to he eaten aua,
" FcuU. — They are to fast upon O Sapientia, The
solemn day of their foundation. Innocent's day. [Another
solemn feast day to be renewed, St. Dunstan's.]
** Benefices. — Gk>tam annexed to the headship. The
other benefices belonging to the Fellows are Bloxam,
Duns-tu, Dunstable, St. Dunstan's ^East, West), Totte-
ridge, Aleton, Battlebridge, Gidding (Magna, Parva), the
prebend of Layton Buzzard, Little Brainford, Little Wit-
nam (Mr. Dunns being patron of Little VVitnam, gave it
to a good scholar), a petition being made by the (jollege
that Witnam, and all that Mr. Dunns had in his gift,
should belong to the (Allege. [Added in the marain : —
Cookeham (Magna, Parva), Steeple Bumstead^ Uggly,
St. Asaphs.]
" An Act of Parliament held for them.
" The College to be furnished with all munition save
head-pieces. None of the generations of Wisemen, Wise-
dom, or Wise, eligible into the house, for the disgrat^e their
predecessors have done to the College. The book of Wis-
dom to be left out of their Bibles. To abjure Pythagora*,
Tacitus, Tranquillus, and Prudentius.
• Diet, •* Nepenthe potus." A fool at second courset
Mustard with everything to purge the head,
t It being lawful for them, as well as the towns-bogs^ to
eat bread and butter in the ttreeU.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S'^S.V. Jaw. 2/64 J
* There »re throe qundrtngles; the north for Gota-
^hU; th<» Bonth ft'f tho»« tbiit would bn knaves if they
111 wit enough ; the miil«!lrmoat for *iich a* arc hij^amL
I fiiitwanl (iit£idru.nj$)e al»o, ftC both whiM« entrimces in
f *^Bftttkf.— Ufj>Ai jriven to the Ithrary^: Coiyat'g
Irwiiiien ; Dr. Drtu. Prit'e*!* Anmprrwrif$,f with his other
Orks tHumci with Xm'it Stu/tiftra; Justict' Jrimcs* Be/-
Fttptilt ; Ayirippm JEntomivm Afini ; FesthuM VituJui
Wuretta; Kncmnium Moria ; linim* LhUum An Magna tt
area; Dudtevt dn Ane ; Ihymiuicux a Sftlrt ; iMna Sea-
n; Litter an /fotnn ait Att'nu* i Bird* of All Souls, his
ifrrmon,; and Pmrik* (If .vou will), tiut not Cat<. ; Car.
fmrrrfr, ,§ Gruftii [Oruntiii] Corocoltie Porrelli Te$-
^f^Hf*mf ; tL \ir\nwT i Tcnlcrhclly ; Howes* Chronic, ;\\
^'.■^ Puerikt; 0 childre'u't dicliunary J Seneca,
ihey keep th d r A*-t, Dr. Jom ca to answer In
|Svinit;r»
f •• Hike Loftrry* — Dr. Sh- he\n^ out of office, and bo
irted with hi* castom, drew a plHow. Dr, Dan. Price^
H'hoviea/ ami ci>«ld rkot dniw jmythitig bat %'i^tual.
Sttitutr§ * in ffi-e.'^H^ ihflt die^, if he have not a son
C>rthy to iU(^eed hiio, tautit leave one of the Fellows
Vfdem e^ oMte.
r** Jitnefiictort. — WilL Scmmer^ Charles Cheater, Patch,
iJBuhle/'^ &c., Fffrtutut praeipue* [jMuJfym, Tom Cop-
r of Okingham.\]
*The CoJle^e never to be orerlhrown, because the
DiM emmut »tAUd withoat sncb & foumlatiuu. Tbere-
tre Ihe^e willing^ to (^uidc, &<?.
[*• Kjttrtu, St hoi, — Dii§putaliona Deanbnaet trUtlligenHtM
ridddt'Q. An fie grnitu ti ftenaatut They must maintflin
[tvirMHm. The diversity of moona in dinrs |ilac^| with
%c chee.<iy subittjiiice of it.
I •• Forgeo4;rnphy, 8ir John Mandeville'a Tratef$; and
» South luditfa/
I •* Ejirrcinn^t. — They niiy play at no caice at rjiH!? bat
loddy ond Lodauu Xo CbrUtmws pnMime liit i -
HI). pu5h-pin, and hlow-point; no mcc bu^
5 rttce ; no wolkin*; in the summer, but ti> i^ -. ^ - j
rtii* neet»^e#pecia]ly the t'uckoo.
I ** ji/j/wre/.— wrar no glove* hwi falf *< skin, ye*, and
5 »kiu ; no bn:icb»'»* hut m 1 are ihi*r«fore to
ive all uld clojik-bugH driven r rlic po«:trer sort;
I these to be k<?pt in thtir lill time serve j
*y are to plutk off their fur frnm their gown, that Ihcy
Hy prove >fin« niM^. A feaiiicr in their c«p» — ^they
Umot beti- ' tod,
"LantU,^^ . hubl ncthini^ i« capites but at
inch ne th^y 1 - < ;igr, and tiotliiii^ in fan tail but
simple
[ ** PntitrUinntra, — None admitted till piut twenty-four,
; he prove wi«?r, md h> Ik cot off frtJin the hope of the
tlowhhip.
' Ue miiy h^ ohoMen* lie he never *a old, if he b<r able
I ibofr hlmtelfjitvem* fnoribH*» ti $tc imdonrm audiiior,
[• Msiny of U»e l>o«lui »«d authors hor« mentioned are
dl known— thouji I bar« not thought it neceaBJiry to
hiome few I do not know.
r f WiK*d n<iUi?«^ Prinrt Urniy^ hit Firtt AHmver»afy,
fid, it a, n^ vrH'ti-n t.y fv, Dnniel Pricci^ He alao
iiion.
PrtrfrxM Partt^mj a
ii.„ ,.... .i,„,.i„,r, u,
tnn.
** Cauttt dttcrtmli Ooitf^mmt^'i f to be
jwUed for fear of corrupiinj; th' md yet
j nemo CAaeti to be admitteil, fi>r E^jr., .. ...... ualiurum i
fftttra*
" * lirnornmuj** to be pluyed every year, that they may-
be pertet t, and on their deeti<)o day a mock pJay* ' ~
** No pirtiireg but * \Vi" tlir»*o/
** Si sapitntiorjiat ipto facto antot^eatttr, non tldoctu
h«cauAtt ibe j^reatcat clerks ate not always the
men.
*• If he be honest and constant expeUttur^ be it nol nil
aeitled eoongb, &c.
** Thoft. Muriel* cho*cn^ bocnuse, Iw'ing senior proeta
of Cambridge, the University r«fu*ed him to be til
father of the Act ] a thing not knowu before, and tfiva
him for hid worth.
" Morly chosen for a roost fiimonii sermon made at Sl
SJary'd in Oxon, upon which both hfnd und fellows tfi^ol
Buch a liking to him thut there Wsie [a] particular ttatulT
for him, that he should not he hxji^IIikI whutevt^r
committed, but ^tiU to r' ' ' ' of his pluce,
*^ Tntvetier'n place.— rs : if he have I
child eli^'ible, they ar* iu. No man maj
travel hut in the Ship i'l i'\/<>l>. ntver coming nenr th
(*&im BuOiU S|>ei, and their travel must be moist towail
♦Gotsland* ; Fouliaua the fat ; Mor^a*
** The head to be marritHi and to keepe hii wife ill th
Colle|j*\ that the chiidren may be right-bred.
** He mu>»t K^ve over liU house that nocepi* of any othfi
benefice but 1ho§>e that are in the Colh-^e gift ; but wtti
any of them hi> may keep hla bouifl« oa long aa he will,
'^They must ro^t their own aggo, but their fuel 19 \
borrowed out of the town*
" FmmUri JhViiJwen,— The DuDcev Holf-heiids, QaM^
Medcaifes, WiK>dcock«, Bluckn, Gudtng^, Wildgoo9«
Ilarcbrains.
** /;^ecliba.— Their election to be at *Cookoe't tiir
more formally, but at all tiines due itxtra ordinrm, [ ^
cauM* of the nnmbof of thmo who oootintudiy wiU b« pro-
vided fur the place,
*« Picttt/09 t0 he lud mp in thtir tpaadran^lea. — *iXa«Tta
As^enUtiu, Oblivio. Murowoi'fa, VoluptnA, Amentia, De,
liiia*; Dw dii — K^juoi, Deiis commiaaatioui^ NifjrptTiij
0rvof, DulcJa douinus,
AtiioDg other rougli notes intended for inaar-
tion in their proper places in the complete work
occur the following : —
"Whereas there hath been a foolivl^ «" ' <^'^
buck intiluled An Honm tit AmIhus^ whi'
of that qiteetion, and kstlv resolves
hereupon tbcrt; mav be a collei^e which ah^il
quaint and AcipbiBtrcate nuidduie^, but by m*
Wfa^i' ' ■ '^•'>^" - "' 'V*' tnp> wholr I met To t>r tj.,
•' I phyjdciiihB are no fool».
•♦ > tn \nT •|v>l^tn thjiM their tnothfl
lof I ^M ; w hich Uwy we "
bom,
♦* ... ..,.,..., uo'cauiw no divli
muxi
♦ • , ^ ] , if i t w«r« not for their patroneai,
Furiir , '- . 'i ■.■■■■■ '. Hj./jo. ~
**^ I, I, ; |i > iiniit tbt conanmpiioo of Ut«j
wU.
** Young Mr. Linker tu b« tohoolmaiiar lo onU of IB
iemimtria vf th^ ColU-j**,
t «-K,
HVIl.
- uin«r mooiu"
8'*8.V. Jak.2,'64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
** Paul Oapham, another of the seminary schoolmasters
^ They have this privil^e of nature newly bestowed,
that thdr old men shall not be ever bU pueri^ if they
make a good choice at first.
** Tell the holes of a siere on both ades.
** Kxcluduntur nudicL 1st. Quiet, a fool or a physician.
2nd. Less he should core the rest. 3rd. Lest axiy man
that is sick shotdd borrow a physician hence and be
worse.
** DominuM Thomnt Lectus^ collegii con- founder, et ob
hoc preclamm opus jam nmperrime honort militis aasignaha.
" The schoolmen foresaw this worthy foundation should
be ; otherwise thev had never distiu'^^ished of
r Intdltctwdu^
^ppetuu8< 2Nrrtf«r«/i«, which no where
V. else is to be found.
** They must swear by nothing but • By this Cookoe,*
or ^ By' the swine that taught Minerva;' *Juro per
*<This title, * OeUnuM SapUntum* annexed to the
headship."
There are many other ^milar random jottings
which I must leave, at any event for the present,
and among them that which some people may
esteem the most curious thinff of the whole, — the
outline of perhaps an intended Latin play upon
the same subject It is divided into wnat would
have been acts or scenes, and the first of them
runs thus : —
** Ini^ediuntur, Dr. Sampsonus, Dr. Danielus, Albeeus,
Eqninua, colloquentes de Oxonia relinquend& et Stan-
fordiffi eri^endo coll«'gio suis inpeniis magis digno. Causas
hujus seceasionis euarrant, pnepropere faciendum. Dr.
Dan. et Albeeus statuunt statim Stanfordiam iter facere,
et ihi situm commodissimum designare. Iterea £quinus
recipit ee apnd Yilpoliim rhetorem insignem acturum ut
literas suasorias ad Dominum Lectum det, quae istos ad
hoc collegium junctis samptibus asdificandum eflScaciter
hortantur. £xeunL"
I shall feel obliged by your correspondents
directing me to any sources of information re-
specting the subject to which these curious papers
relate. On many groimds they seem to me to
have an interest. Unless your readers think so
too, I fear they will consider that I have trespassed
very unreasonably upon your pages.
JoHK Bbucb.
5, Upper Gloucester Street, Dorset Square.
A STATE-PAPER RECTIFIED.
In the Mucellcmeous state papers which were
edited by the second earl of Ilardwicke in 1778,
in two quarto volumes, we have various specimens
of the correspondence of James I. and the favorite
Buckingham. I shall not presume to characterise
the letters on either side, unexampled as they are
in some particulars, the interpretation of an ob-
scure phrase in one of the letters, assigned to the
year 1024, being the main object of this note. The
extract which follows, modernised by the noble
editor, CQntuna the phrase in question : —
** Duke of Buckimgham to king James.
Dear dad and gossip.
In one of your letters yon have commanded me to
write shortly, and merrily. • • • This inclosed will give
you an account of the Dunkirker*s ships. By this Uttle
paper you will understand a suit ofjiae ffollands, Br
the other parchment, a suit of my Lord President's. (5f
all do but what you please, so you give me your blessing*
which I must never be denied, -eince I can never be other
than
Tour Maje8ty*8 most humble slave and dog,
Stkksie."
Now, what are we to understand by a suit of
fine Hollands? No doubt the manuscript has
been mis-read, and we must have recourse to
another text
In 1834 a small volume entitled Letters of the
duke and duchess of Buckingham made its appear-
ance at Edinburgh. It contains the above- de-
scribed letter printed from the Balfour papers
LiTKRATiH, auu the extract must therefore be
repeated : —
** Dere dad and gossnpe.
In one of your letters yon have commanded me to
right shortlie and merelie. •* • * This inclosed will give
you an account of the Dunkerkers ships ; by this little
paper you will understand a $ute of hue HolLinfTs^ by this
other parchment a sute of my Lord PresidenU ; of all d»e
but what you please, so you give me your blessing, which
I must never be denied, since 1 can never be other than
Your Maty, most humble slaxre and doge,
Stbenir.
I have forgotten to write my legable hand in this letter,
forgive me."
The editor adds this note to the mysterious
phrase — " Ilardwicke makes this a suit of fine
Hollands.'* But the critic leaves it, with regard to
the majority of readers, almost as much a mys-
tery as before I I must act the commentator,
the form of the small A was sometimes used as a
capital. A fac-simile of the signature of sir Henry
Wotton appears thus, henry Jrotton—so hue means
Hugh.
We now advance to 184G. The same letter
was edited in that year by Mr. Halliwell. For
hue Holland he substitutes Hugh Holland, and
adds this note — " This is, of course, a petition of
a person of the name of Hugh Holland.'*
The accumulation of materials on the life and
writings of Shakspere, the splendor of the volumes
in which those materials are ornfcodied, and the
recent patriotic proceedings at Stratford-upon-
Avon, have obtained for Mr. Halliwell a very
eminent position, but I cannot conceal the sur-
prise which I felt on observing that he had failed
to recognise, in a person of the name of Hugh
Holland, the pupil of Camden — the friend of Ben.
Jonson — the eulogist of Shakspere I
The best account of Hugh Holland is given by
Fuller in his Worthies of JSnglandy 1602. (Wales,
p. 16.)— but it is devoid of dates. Tha Oy«rt^
6
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3'* 8. V. Jan. 2, *64.
pRrticulars of his career. Besides tbat poem, and
some fugitive verses, he left three works in ma-
nuscript,—!. A metrical description of the chief
cities of Europe ; 2. A chronicle of the reign of
Q. Elizabeth ; 3. A memoir of Camden. The duke
of Buckingham was his patron, and his services
are thus recorded : —
" Then you great lord, that were to me so gracioofl,
In twenty weeks (a time not vcn' spacious)
To cause me thrice to kiss (me thrice your debtor)
That hand which bore the lilly-bearing sceptre."
It is very probable that our non-poetical poet
presented one of the three manuscripts on eacn of
those occasions. Alas ! neitlier the praise of Cam-
den, nor the friendship of Ben. Jonson, nor the
patronage of Buckingham, availed. He did not
obtain the favor which he solicited ; and, as Fuller
expresses it, he '* grumbled out the rest of his life
in visible discontentment." He died at West-
minster in 1633, and letters of administration, of
which an attested copy is in my possession, were
granted to his son, Arbellinus, on the 31 August.
Bolton Cornet.
The Terrace, Barnes, S.W.
A LAW PASTORAL.
The Transactions of the Northern Circuit are
said to be recorded in a book accessible to mem-
bers of the circuit only, and to them under the
understood protection of ** private and confiden-
tial." So the Northern Circuit keeps to itself a
large amount of very good wit till it becomes
mouldy — a word which may be applied to jokes
when the circuni.stances under which they were
made aro forjjrotlen. Should some modem Cneius
Flavins treat this book as the Roman did that of
Apmua Claudius, he will serve the public; but I
wisn it to be understood that I have not seen
the sacred volume, or obtained an extract by
treachery. The poem which 1 offer was repeated
to me by one remarkable for the accuracy of his
memory ; and by putting down what I remem-
bered then, and hearing scraps quoted by others,
I think I can give a satisfactoiy copy.
About thirty years ago, Joseph Addison joined
the Northern Circuit. Sir Gregory Lewin had
been on it some years. Addison h^ been a pleader
under the bar: ho was a tirst-rate lawyer, a good
scholar, and a thorough gentleman. He was
neither pedantic nor obtrusive, but he loved to
talk law to those who could appreciate it Sir
Gregory Lewin broke with meteoric brilliancy on
the criminal courts, which he led for some time —
I believe till he died. In 1834 he published A
JReport of CaseM determined on the Crown Side of
the Northern Circmt,—h marvellous work, well
worth an hour's perusal, lie took a clumsy note
of the cases, and had a strange style in writing
the marginal summary. Take two examples from
consecutive pages (ll3, 114): — "The hand-
writing of prisoner, not in itself primd facie evi-
dence of forgery ;" and " Possession in Scotland
evidence of stealing in England." I could not
explain what follows more briefly. The Eclogue
is by the late John Levcester Adolphus, whose
reputation is still too fresh to need revival by
me. The best part of the wit will be understood
by lawyers only, and the Common Law Procedure
Act is making much of it obsolete. The next
generation will know no more about it than the
present does of attornments; but I think you
have enough of us among your readers to ex-
cuse the insertion of a piece which I know Lord
Macaulay thought the best imitation he ever read.
Persons are mentioned of whom I know nothing.
If anything interesting is known about them, a
statement of it will be acceptable. 1 believe all
but one are dead. I leave a blank for his name,
though I am sure he would relish the joke even
more than the char.
"THE CIRCUITEERS. An Ecloguk.
Scene : The Banks of JVindermere,—TiUK : Sunset.
ADDISON, LEWIN.
Addison. How sweet, fair Windermere, thy waveless
coast!
*Ti9 like a Koqdly issue well engrossed.
Lettin. How sweet the harroony of earth and sky I
*Tia like a well-concocted alibi.
A, Pleas of the crown are coarse, and spoil one's tact.
Barren of fees, and savouring of fact.
L. Your pleas are cobwebs, narrower or wider.
That sometimes catch the fly, sometimes the spider.
A, Come let as rest beside this prattling burn,
And sing of our respective trades m turn.
L. Agreed : our song shall pierce the azure vault ;
For Meadi's case shows, or my report's in fault.
That singing can't be reckoned an a^ssault.*
A, Who shall begin ?
/». That precious right, my friend,
I freelv yield, nor care how late I end.
A. Vast is the pleader's rapture when he sees
The clas8ical endorsement, ** riease draw Pleas."
L Dear are the words — I ne'er could read them
frigidly, —
•* We have'no ca^e ; but cross-examine rigidly."
A. HIackhurst is coj', but sometimes has been known
To utrike out •* Hoggins '* and write ** Addison."
L. Me Jackson ott deludes, on me he rolls.
Fiendlike, his eyes, then chucks the brief to Knowles.
A. Thoughts much too deep for tears pervade the
Court,
When I assumpsit bring, and, godlike, wave the tort.
L. When witnesses, like swurms of summer flies,
I call to character and none replies ;
Dark Attride gives a grunt; the gentle bailiff sighs.
A. A pleading, fashioned of the moon's pale shine,
I love, that makes a youngster new-aasign.
A. I love to put a farmer in a Aink,
And make the galleries believe he's drank.
A. Answer, and you my oracle shall be,
How a sham differa from a real plea.
* ** No words or sfnglng are equivalent to an assault.'*
^Meade's and Bdt's cast^ Lcvtn, Cro, On. 184.
S"" S. V. Jab. 2, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
L. Tell me the difference first— 'tia thought immense.
Between a naked lie, and false pretence.
Now let us gifts exchange, a timely gift
Is often found no despicable thrift.
A. Take these, well worthy of the Roxburgh Club,
Seven counts struck out in Gobble ver»u9 Grub.
L. Let this within thy pigeon-holes be packed,
A choice conviction on the Bum-boat Act.
A. I give this penknife case, since giving thrives ;
It holds ten knives, ten hafts, ten blades, ten other knives,
L, Take this bank-note, the gift won't be my ruin ;
Twas forged by Dale and Kirkwood, see Ist Lewin.*
A. Change the venire, knight ; your tones bewitch :
But too mufh pudding chokes, however rich.
Enough's enough, aqd surplusage the rest.
The sun no more gives colour to the west.
And one by one the pleasure-boats forsake
Yon land with water covered, called a lake.
Tis supper-time ; the inn is somewhat far.
Dense are the dews, though bright the evening star.
And . • . might drop in and eat our char."
An Inneb Templar.
PARTICULARS REGARDING SIR WALTER
RALEIGH.
Thirty or more years ago, I heatm to make col-
lections for a new " Life of Sir Walter Kaleigh ; "
but the publication of Tytler's biography, and
another subsequently by Mr. Whitehead, induced
me to forego my scheme. I find, however, among
my scattered papers, a few that 1 think may, some
time or other, be of use to those who are looking
for, or arranging, additional materials ; and, as I
do not know of a better depository for them than
" N. & Q.," I add two or three of them now :
hereafter, if acceptable, I will transmit others for
insertion. There are so many memoirs of Sir
Walter, that it is possible I may include some
particulars already printed; but, to begin, I do
not believe that sucn is the case with the follow-
ing information, derived from the original ac-
counts of the Lieutenant of the Tower, at the
time when Sir Walter Raleigh and his friend and
coadjutor Lawrence Keymi?, or Kemys, were
in custody early in the reign of James I. Of
course, this was only about the middle of Kaleigh's
career; but I do not profess to observe chrono-
logical order in my contributions to his history,
and those who at any future period may avail
themselves of them wiU be able at once to deter-
mine to what dates they belong, and what events
they illustrate. The first account is thus headed : —
" The demaundes of Sir George Harvie, Knight, Lieut*
of the Tower of London, for the diett and charges of
Prisoners in his cnstodie for one whole quarter of a yeare,
viz. firom Michaelmas, 1603, to Christmas following."
After a statement of the charge on account of
*' the late Lord Cobham, and the late Lord Gray,"
we arrive at this entry : —
• Kiricwood'scase^ £€aiwi, Cro, Ca. 143.
<* S' Walter ) Item for the diett and charges of 8"^ Wal-
Raleigh, >ter Raleigh, Knight, for himself and two
Knight. J servants, from the 16 Dec', being then sent
from Winchester to the Tower againe, for
one weeke and a half ended the 2cxv^>> of
December, att iiij" the weeke - - vj"."
** Lawrence ) Item for the diett and charges of Lawrence
Kemishe, > Kemishe, Esquior, from the '29*^ Sept. 1603,
Esquior. J untill the last of December, on which day
he was discharged from the Tower, being
14 weekes and two dayes, at xl» the weeke
xxviij" xj« viij V
Here we see the precise charge made for Ra-
leigh, and that he was attended by two servants ;
but no servant is mentioned in the entrv for
Kemys, who we know was often examined and
questioned as to his complicity with Sir Walter
and his friends, iu the plot for which they were
tried at Winchester. The next account relates
to the Fleet Prison, to which it should seem both
Raleigh and Kemys had been removed : it is from
Christmas, 1G03, to the feast of the Annunciation,
1G04. It is in this form : —
•* Sir Walter ) Item more for the diett and charges in
Kai. igh, y the Fleete of Sir Walter Raleigh, Knight,
Knight. J and two sen'ants, for two weekes and a
halfe, at v» the weeke - - xiju x«."
The charge, therefore, for Sir Walter was
greater in the Fleet than it had been in the
Tower : for Kemys, who accompanied him, it was
the same as in the Tower, viz. : —
"Lawrence) Item for the diett and charges of Law-
Keniishe. j rence Kemishe, from 26 Dec% 1003, untill
the last thereof, being one weeke at xl" the
weeke ------ xK"
Here we see that no addition of Esquire was
made to the name of Kemys while he was confined
in the Fleet. It is to be presumed that he was
discharged at the end of the week ; and we meet
with no farther mention of him, on this authority,
in either place of confinement. Of Raleigh we
next hear after his return to the Tower, in an
account by the Lieutenant, from the feast of the
Annunciation, 1604, to the feast of St. John the
Baptist in the same year. The charge is for
thirteen weeks ; not at 4/. per week, as in the
first instance, but at 6/. per week, as in the Fleet ;
and the total is 66/. The latest account by the
Lieutenant of the Tower, that I was abk to pro-
cure a sight of, was down to June 24, 1005 ; when
the charge of 6/. per week for Raleigh and his
two servants was continued.
I may mention by the way, and as a biogra-
phical note of some interest, connected with the
fate of Henry Constable, author of the beautiful
sonnets published in 1592 under the title of
Diana, that he was in the Tower for ten vveeks in
1604, between the feasts of the Annunciation and
St. John ; and that the charge by the Lieutenant,
for keepinflf and maintaininsc^ b.vccw^ ^v«. *^. j^
8
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3^* S. V. Jan. 2, '64.
bim ; so tbat we may infer that he was no longer
in custody there.
Reverting to Keniys, it may be farther stated,
that there is extant from him, but never yet
printed that I am aware of, a long letter to the
Earl of Salisbury, dated August 16 [1604], deny-
ing the truth of any allegations against him ; and
bearing testimony to his long friendship for, and
dependence upon, Sir Walter Raleigh. Kemys,
as is well known, afterwards destroyed himself on
shipboard, in a fit of grief and despondency at
the unmerited anger of Raleigh, who had been
his effectual patron.
Among my miscellaneous papers, connected with
the long and friendly intercourse between Raleigh
and Lord Cobham, tried together at Winchester,
I have met with the following letter, which bears
the date only of " 12'*» August,'* but in what pre-
cise year I am unable at this moment to deter-
mine : perhaps some of the readers of " N. & Q."
will be in a condition to supply the year from
circumstances mentioned in it It is addressed —
"To the ripht honoraMe my Bingnl^r pood I^orde, the
Lord Cobham, Lo. W'ardeu of the five Port,'*," <tc.
** My worthy Tx>rde,— I am now arived, having staydc
BO long as 1 had means. I caused the Antelope to be
revit]<9 for 14 dayet*, which was as much ns that plnce
could afforde ; and that being spent, I durst not tarry to
cam home towards winter in a fisherman. I presume
there is no cause to doubt it : the castells are defensibell
enough, the country n asonabell well provided, and the
Spaniards will either do some what more prayse worthy,
or attend a better opportunitye. I am rcddy now to ob*;y
your commandments. If you will come to the Bathe, I
will not faile yow, or what soever else your L. will use
me in in this worlde.
•' I will naw looke for the L. Henry of Northumber-
lande, who, 1 think, will be here shortly, knowing my
relume ; and I doubt not but he will meet us also att the
Bathe, if your L. acquaynt hyme with the tyme. It is
be««t. if your L. propose it, to take the end of this moneth
att farthest.
•• 1 here that the I-ord Chamberlayn is dead : if it be
so, I hope that vour L. may be stayde uppon good cause :
if it be not so, 1 could more willingly cum eastward then
ever I did in my life. IJ«>w so ever [it] be, they be but
things of the worlde, by which thos that have injoyed
them have byne as littdi happv as other noore men ; but
the good of *the>e thinges wilbe, that while men are of
necessity to draw lotts, they shall hereby see their
chances^ and dispose tliem selves acconlingly. I beseech
your L. that I may here fn»m yow: from hence I can
present yow with nothinge but my fast love and trew
affection*, which shall never part from studying to honor
row till I be in the grave
" W. Ralegh.
•* Wemouth, the 12 of August
[P.S.] "My L. Vicount hath so exalted Mierea' sates
•gaynst me in my absence, as neather M' Sergent Heale,
nor iinv one else, could l>e hard for me to stay trialls
while 1 was out of the land in her Mitjcbties service, a
right and curt««y afforded to every begger. 1 never
busied myaealf with the Vicount, ueather of his extor-
tions or poysonings of his wife, as it is here avowed and
•|K>keo. I have f(»rbome hyme in respect of my U
Thoma^ and chiefly beeanse of M' Soeretory who in his
love to my L. Thomas hathe wisht mee to it : bat I will
not indure wrong at so pevishe a foole's hand any
longer. I will rather loose my life ; and I think that mj
L. puritan Periam doeth think that the Queen shall have
more use of roggs and villayns then of mee, or ela he
would not att Byndon*8 instance have yielded to try ac-
tions agaynst me, being out of the lande.*'
The whole of the above ia in the handwriting
of Raleigh, as well as the following document,
which may serve to explain what is said in the
P.S. regarding Mieres.
** Know all men that I S*" Walter Ralegh, Knight,
Capitaine of her ma**~ Gard, and Lord Warden of the
Stanneries of Devon and Cornwall, doe hereby aucthoriae
John Meere, my man, to take, cutt, and cary away, or
cause to be cutt downe, taken, and caryed awaye, all such
manner of Trees, growinge in my manor of Sherborne, or
else wher within any other my manors, or lands, in the
hundreds of Sherborne, or Yedmyster in the county of
Dorset, when he shall think convenient, to be employed
to my necessarie use in my castell of Sherborne, as to
hym I have gyven dyrection : whom I have appointed as
w'tll keper of the same castell, and to demand and keepe
the kayes of the same, as also to be overseer of all my
woods and tymber within the sayd hundreds, that do
spoyle be made therein; or of any Fesaunts, or other
game of the free warren whatsoever, within the same.
Moreover I doe auctborise him hereby to receave to my
use all knowledge money, dew unto mee by my tenauntes
within the sayd hundreds. In witnes where of I, the
sayd S*" Waller Ralegh, have here unto put my hand
and scale the xxviij"» daye of Auguste in the xxxiiij***
veare of the Raigne of our Soveraigne Lady Elizabeth,
by the grace of God Queene of England, Praunce, and
Ireland, defender of the Faythe, &c W. Raleoh."
Out of this deed of 1686, no doubt, CTew the
lawsuit between Raleigh and Meere, which Jus-
tice Periam had heard during the absence of Sir
Walter from England. J. Payne Collier.
Maidenhead.
FASHIONABLE QUARTERS OF LONDON.
[ko. ii.J
Though York House (late Norwich House), in
the Strand, was granted to Archbishop Heath by
Queen Mary, for the town residenc of the Arch-
bishops of 'York, in lieu of their former palace
seized by Henry VIIL, it is doubtful whether he
or any of his successors ever inhabited it : for Sir
Nicholas Bacon was residing in it, certainly as
early as the second year of £lizabeth*s reign. Ho
had previously resided in Noble Street, Foster
Lane, Cheapside, in a house which he built, called
Bacon House.
Of the London residence of Queen Elizabeth's
next Lord Chancellor, Sir Thomas Bromley, there
is no record ; but it is not improbable that he
eJao inhabited York House, inasmuch as several
of his successors did.
Lord Chancellor Sir Christopher Ilatton had a
grant of the l^ahop of Ely's house, in Holbom,
long before ^e had posBesBion of the Great Seal,
3'«»S.V. jA3f.2/64.]
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9
and continued to reside in it till his death. His
name, and the bishop^s title, are preserved in the
streets built upon its site.
Sir Christopher's successor, Sir John i*uckering,
who was only Lord Keeper, lived at first at Rus-
sell House, near Ivy Bridge, in the Strand. He
then removed to York House, under a lease from
the archbishop ; which enabled his widow to keep
possession for a year after his death.
At the end of that year, the archbishop granted
a new lease to Sir Thomas Egerton, Queen Eliza-
beth's next Lord Keeper ; who resided in it till
his death, in 1617; having been created Lord
Chancellor by James I., and ennobled with the
titles of Baron Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley.
King James's second Chancellor, Lord Bacon,
after residing for a short time in Dorset House,
Fleet Street, removed to York House, the place
of his birth ; which, soon after his disgrace, be-
came the property of the Duke of Buckingham ;
and within fifty years was converted into various
streets and alleys, now, or lately, designated by
the names and titles of that nobleman — George
Street, Villiers Street, Duke Street, Of Alley,
and Buckingham Street.
Sir Thomas Coventiy, Lord Coventry, Lord
Keeper to Charles L, died in Durham douse, in
the Strand—now the site of the AdelphL The
Lord Keeper's country house was at Canonbury,
Islington.
I do not know the residences of King Charles's
three remaining Lord Keepers — Sir John Finch,
Lord Finch of Fordwich ; Sir Edward Lyttelton,
Lord Lyttelton of M(»unslow; and Sir Richard
Lane. Nor can I trace with any certainty the
London houses of the Commissioners of the Grreat
Seal during the Commonwealth.
The Earl of Clarendon, the first Lord Chan-
cellor of Charles II. after the Restoration, resided
at first in Dorset House, Fleet Street, before
mentioned as an early residence of Lord Bacon ;
then at Worcester House in the Strand, the same
as Russell House, where Sir John Puckering had
for some time resided as Lord Keeper in the
reign of Elizabeth ; and lastly, at the splendid
mansion he built at the top of St James's Street.
Sir Orlando Bridgeman, who succeeded the
Earl, while he held the Seal resided in Essex
House in the Strand — now the site of Essex
Street
Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury,
while he held the ofilce of Lord Chancellor, re-
sided in Exeter House in the Strand, where
Exeter Street and Burleigh Street now are. The
Earl afterwards lived at Thanet House, in Alders-
gate Street, where several of the nobility had
niansioDs in that reign.
Sir Heneaffe Finch, Earl of Nottingham, the
nest Chanoellori resided at Kensington m a man-
rioii which has nnce become a royal palace ; but
he also had a town house in Great Queen Streef,
Lincoln's Inn Fields, where he died.
Sir Francis North, Lord Guilford, who was
Lord Keeper to Charles II. and James H., resided
when he was entrusted with the Great Seal in a
great brick house, near Serjeants' Inn in Chan-
cery Lane. Ilis brother, in his entertaining
biography of the Lord Keeper, intimates that ho
removed to some other house ; but, as far as I
recollect, omits to name where it was situate.
The infamous Chief Justice Jefireys, the last
Chancellor of James II., heard causes m his house
in Duke Street, Westminster.
Lest I should fatigue your readers, and occupy
too much of your space, I wiU stop here, and
commence my next contribution with the Revo-
lution. Edward Fobs,
RYE-HOUSE PLOT CARDS.
I have met with a nearly perfect pack of play-
ing-cards, ornamented with figures and inscrip-
tions, all of which relate to the celebrated Rye-
House Plot. The cards are distinguished by the
mark of the suit, usually on the right-hand upper
comer, but in some of the suit of Diamonds, and
the ten of Spades, on the left-hand upper comer.
The number in the suit is indicated by the
Roman numerals, i!, ii., &c.,tox., and then by the
words Knave, Queen, King. The figures on
these last court cards have no relation to their
character as cards. Twelve cards are missing —
namely, the iv. and vii. of Hearts ; the iii., vi., viii.,
and X. of Diamonds ; the iii., iv., ix., and King of
Spades ; and the i. and x. of Clubs.
The figures upon the suit of Clubs are as fol-
lows : —
i. Missing.
ii. Figure of a man resting on a walking-stick,
and the inscription " West gomg downe to White-
hall."
iii. A man going to a door, with the inscription
" Keeling going to the L** Dart."
iv. A man, wearing a hat and robed, sitting,
and another man standing before him with his
hat in his hand. Inscription, " Keeling examined
by S' L. lenkins."
V. A man, wearing a sword and hat, with words
from his mouth, " I beg the King's mercy,'' bow-
ing to another man in an official dress. Inscrip-
tion^ " C. Rumsey delivering himselfe.'*
VI. Two men in official robes, one of them
wearing a hat, standing at a table, examining
another man, behind stands a ^uard. Inscription,
" Rumsey examined by the Kmg and Councell."
vii. A man in a hat writing at a table, the
words from his mouth " I must discover all." In-
ecription, " West writing a letter to S' G. J."
\
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3r<» S. V. Jaw. 2, "ei.
javelin, arresting another man from behind. In-
scription, " Lord Grey Anprehended/'
ix. The Tower of Lonaon in the back ground.
A man in a hat and flowing wig landing from a
boat, received by another man ; a coach standing
by. Inscription, " Lord Grey making his Escape.'*
X. Missing.
Knave. A man in gown and bands, with the
words from his mouth, '* Fight the Lairde's bat-
tle." Inscription, *' Ferguson the Independent
Parson."
Queen. In the front, a man standing hj an
overturned cart ; at a distance a coach and six on
the road. Inscription, ** A conspirator overturn-
ing a cart to stop the King's coacn."
King. A nobleman sitting in an arm chair, with
the words from his mouth, " Assist me friends."
Behind him a shadowy black figure with horns,
evidently the evil spirit, holding the back of his
chair. Inscription, ** The Lord Shaftsbury."
The six of Hearts has a representation of the
execution of Lord Russell, with the inscription,
** L** Russell beheaded in Lincoln's Inn's Feilds."
This may be sufficient to give a notion of these
very curious cards j and I should be glad to know
whether any other copy of them is known to be
in existence. T. 0.
The Lapwing : Witchcrapt.*— In looking over
an old French book a few days since I met with a
word which caused me some vexatious research.
The author tells his readers how they may render
themselves invisible, and his directions are — '* To
wear a wig made of the hairs of a person who has
been hung, having first had the wig steeped in
the blood of utte pupu^ I sought for the mean-
ing of pttpu in Chambaud*s quarto French and
English Dictionary, in French and Latin, French
and German, French and Spanish, French and Por-
tuguese, French and Dutch dictionaries in vain \
but at last discovered that the word was obsolete,
and synonymous with the modem hvppe, and in
English signifies a lapwing, peewit, and hoopoe ;
that in Latin it is upupti ; in Greek, (wa^ ; in
German JViedehopf ; in Dutch, kievet; in Italian,
hubhola: in Spanish, avefria ; in Portuguese, /Mivon-
cino ; and that it is our old Ovidian friend, the
naughty Tereus, who fell in love with his sister-
in-law Philomela, whose tongue he cut out lest
she should tell his \^ife how badly he had behaved;
and who afterwards dined upon the remains of
his son Itys. I traced the pupu afterwards
from Ovid, Mtt vL 672, 673, 074; to Virgil,
Eclog, vi. 78 ; to I'lautus, Capt, Act V. Sc 4. Ime
7; and fhimd honourable mention made of it in
Pliny's Kniural History^ in iElian, De Animal, i.
:J5; iil 20; vi. 40; x. 10; xvi, 6; in Pauaaniaa,
lib. i. c. 40. What I wish to know ia, does the
lapwing, 80 remarkable a bird in andeot lore and
legend, and an ingredient in mediaeval French
magic, hold any importance in the folk lore of
England?
I append in the original the receipt for making
one's self invisible : —
** Porter une peruque faite des cheveax d'on pendu, et
tremp^ dans le saog d*uiie pupa, afia de se rendre in-
visible."
W. B. MacCabb.
Dinan, Cotes da Nord, France.
JoHW RowE, Serjeant- AT-L AW. — Several in-
quiries have been made in previous volumes re-
specting Serjeant Rowe. From an Inq. p. f/». at
Exeter Castle, Oct. 28, 35 Henry VllL, it ap-
pears he died on the 8th of October, leaving a son
of the same name, aged thirty-five years and up-
wards, a widow Agnes, and property in Dart^
mouth, Totnes. &c, &c. Another copy states,
that his son John was thirty years of age, and YiIa
wifc*s name Mary.
It will be seen from the above, that Seneant
Rowe was closely connected with Devonshire;
and that, therefore, the statement in the Rowe
pedigree (HarL M.S., 1174), that he was the son
of John Rowe, of Rowes Place, Kent, is highly
improbable.
A family of the name of Rowe, or Roe, had
been seated in the West of England for at least a
century before the reign of Henry VIIL
C J. R*
Chakles Lloyd, the poet, the friend of Words-
worth, Lamb, and Southey, died at Chidllot, near
Paris, January 10, 1839, aged 64. {GetU, Mag,
N. S. xi. 336.) He was son of Charles Lloyd,
Esq., banker of Birmingham: was bom in that
town, and privately educated by Mr. Gilpin. On
August 31, 1708, being twenty-three years of age,
he WHS admitted a Fellow Commoner of Caius
College, but never graduated. The late Mr.
Justice Talfourd, in his Memorials of CTuxrleB
Lamb, referring to the year 1709, says: "Lloyd
had become a graduate of the University." This
is a mistake; but it must be observed that
another Charles Lloyd, a native of Norfolk, pro-
ceeded B.A. at Emmanuel College in that very
year. C. H. & TnoMPSOK Cooper.
Cambridge.
Cambridge Tradeshen in 1036.— Aristippus
foj.:—
**Ti8 boere that drowns the soules in their bodies.
HumiC$ cakes, and Paix his ale. hath frothed their braines ;
hence is the whole tribe contemned ; every prentice can
jeere at their brave CaMockes, and laugh the Velvet Caps
out of countenance." — Randolph, ArutippuSf 1635, p. 12.
** Topicks or Common-places are the Tavemes ; and
Hamom, WQ{ft^ and Farhtwty are the three best tutors in
the Univenitifls.'*— .^b-»ft9vm«, 1685, p. 15.
J. D, Campbell.
3'd S. V. Jaw. 2, '64.]
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11
ROBESPI£BRE*S ReMAIKS. —
** The mortal remains of Robespierre, St Just, and
Lebas," says the Patrie, ** have just been discovered by
some workmen occupied in digging the foundations of a
house at the Batignolles, at the angle of the Rue du
Kocher and the old Chemin de Ronde. Those men, who
played so important a part in the Revolution, were buried
at the above spot ; the cemeterj' of the Madeleine being
too full at the period of their death to admit of fresh
interments." — Leeds Mercury^ Nov. 5, 1863.
Qbime.
^Vizxiti.
Old Latin Aristotle. — In a volume of Latin
Semwnes, printed at Cologne, and in the original
binding, I nave found parte of two leaves of an
early edition of Aristotle in Latin. I know that
they are early, because of the contractions, of the
Gothic letters, and by the omission of the first
letter of qutmiam, which was to have been sup-
plied by hand. I give a short extract below, and
I know that it is from the 4th book, near the
beginning of the treatise " De Anima ; " and that
it is not the translation in the folio, Paris, 1029.
The page is printed in columns, just two inches
wide. As far as potentiof in the extract, the Qer-
man-text letters are half an inch high.
" [q]uoniara an | te ead6 poten | tia |] Post^; phBs detei^
mi^ne^'vit qua si qued& pambula | ad potencift ve^etativS
hie incipit | dt'terminare de ipa & dao facit. qr. | "
Will some of your bibliographical readers be
so kind as to tell me the edition to which my
fragment belongs? Wm. Davis.
Oscott.
John Barcropt.— In « N. & Q." 3"» S. iy. 187,
it is stated that Laurence HaUted, Keeper of the
Records in the Tower of London, was bom in
1638, and married Alice, daughter of John Bar-
croft, Esq. Is anything known of John Barcrof t ?
There was a John Barcroft, perhaps his son,
whose history presents some remarkable features.
He was one of Oromweirs officers in Ireland,
where it is to be supposed that he did good service,
as he was rewarded with the estate of Castle Car-
bery, near Edenderry, the name of which he
changed, according to the fashion of the times, to
Ask Hill. Tj^e Castle Carbery Estate reverted, on
the Restoration, to the CoUeys or Cowleys, ances-
tors of the Duke of Wellington, to whom it had
belonged from the time of Queen Elizabeth. John
Baicroft, sickened perhaps by the scenes of blood
which he had witnessed dunng his service under
Cromwell, joined the sect of Quakers, and be-
came one of the principal founders of the Quaker
colony at Balitore, co. ELildare, respecting which
tome intereatiiig particulars are given in the J^ad-
heaUr Ptipen. Ubsagellxjs.
Cqrloo.
Cenotaph to THEJOxn Regiment at Clifton.
Sir William Draper, nearly a hundred years ago,
erected in his garden at Clifton, near Bristol, a
cenotaph in memory of the oflicera and soldiers of
the 79th regiment who fell during the war in the
middle of the last century. This memorial is
alluded to in the Ann, lieg, 1768, vol. li. 230
(0th edit. 1800), The inscription, which is in
Latin, is given in the Gent, Mag, 1792, vol. Ixii.
part I. p. 168 : and a translation of it occurs in
the same volume at p. 162. According to the
Gent. Mag, 1789, vol. lix. part il.p. 607, it would
seem that under the base of the sarcophagus the
exploits of the regiment in the East Lidies are
particularised, and the names added of thirty-ftmr
[ officers who were killed in action. These names,
I as far as I have been able to learn, not having
been copied into any journal, I would suggest,
against the chances oi that obliteration wnich
time and the weather work on all exposed monu-
ments, that one of your Clifton or Bristol readers,
interested in preserving the records on such me-
morials, impose on himself the task of sending you
a list of the names of those brave fellows for'in-
sertion in " N. & Q." To your military readers
and others no doubt such a list would oe useful,
more so as the London Gazettes of the period — the
chief source of reference in many instances— only
note the deaths in war by totals.
For purposes of identity, the names should be
followed by any other information, such as dates,
and the names of the battles and sieges in which
the officers lost their lives, if such particulars occur
on the cenotaph. M. S. 1{.
William Chaioneatj. — The famous Irish novel
entitled T/ie History of Jack Connor^ and which
I believe first appeared in 1752, is attributed to
William Chaigneau, Esq., who, in 1796, is re-
ferred to as deceased (Gent, Mag.j Ixvi. 823).
Information respecting him will be acceptable.
S. Y. R.
Eleanor d'Olbreuse. — Where can I find par-
ticulars of the parentage of this lady, who married
one of the Dukes of Zelle, and so became an
ancestress of our present tojbI family P
J. Woodward.
New Shoreham.
HroscTAMUS. — In Bishop Hall's Quo Vadis
(sec. 6), the following passage occurs : —
*♦ The Persian Hyoscyamus, if it be translated to Egypt
proves deadly ; if to Jerusalem, safe and wholesome."
I wish to know whether this is a positive fact?
W. J. Smith.
Laurel Water. — It was stated in conversa-
tion after Donnellan's trial for the murder of Sir
Theodosius Bou^hton^ that a book on botany was
lent to the captam by Mr. Newsom, the rector of
Harboiough^ and that \t '^^Si ^^^wiaKsK.^ -^>jjia.*55as^
12
NOTES AND QUEEIES.
[8^ S. V. Jan. 2, '64.
leaf doubled down, saying that laurel-water dis-
tilled was a deadly poison. Can any of your
botauical readers state in what book this account
of laurel- water is to be found P A book called
the Toilet of Flora was published in 1779. This
book is not in the British Museum. Perhaps one
of your readers may possess the book, and be able
to state what the account of laurel-water is.
Ak Inqtjireb.
Lewis Morbis. — At the commencement of
Lord Teignmouth*s Life of Sir William Jones is a
letter signed Lewis Monis, in which the writer
states, that he has sent Sir William, as a new
year's gift, and in pursuance of an old Welsh
custom among kinsmen, a pedigree, showing their
descent from a common ancestor. Can any of
your readers inform me whether the writer is the
celebrated antiquary and poet spoken of by Mr.
Borrow in his recent work, IVild iraleSj and whe-
ther anything is now known of the pedigree in
question ? I should be glad to know, too, whether
Lewis Morris has now any lineal descendants
living ? 11. H.
Thk Princb Consort's Motto.— The motto of
the Prince Consort — "Treu und Fest" — was one
so strikindy applicable to his high character, that
I should be glad to know its origin. On reading
in the Book of ReTelations (xix. 11), that he that
sat upon the White Horse was called ** faithful
and true,*' it occurred to me that the £lector of
Saxony, from whom Prince Albert probably de-
rived it, might have taken the motto from this
passage in Luther's translation ; but upon examin-
tion. I find Luther's words are: "Treu und
Wanrhaftig." As it seems probable that this
motto, and the white horse in tne arms of Saxony,
Lave been derived from this passage, may I ask —
.When, and by whom they were first used P
T.
Richard Salvetwb. — In Chiswick church,
near London, upon a monument is read this im-
perfect inscription : —
** Orate pro anima Mathildis Salve3me axoris Rycbardi
Salve^iie militia Thesaurar: Ecclesie. mcxxx;xxxii.*'
So states an old MS. in my possession, but I do
not find it recorded in the copious list of inscrip-
tions under ''Chiswick" in Lysons's Middlesex
Parishes, though it existed in W'eever*s time.
It is further stated in the MS. this Richard
Salveyne was of the same family as Humphrey
Salway, escheator of the county of Worcester,
whose tomb at Stanford in that county is there
described.
The monument at Chiswick I presume to be no
^onger in existence. I do not find Richiml Sal-
)yne in Burke's elaborate pedigree of that family.
I anything known about him, why his wife should
'6 bu:icd at Chiswick, and what was his official
ipAcity P Thomas £. WnrKiKOXOv.
SwiNjjXJRisrE. — Is anything known of a person
of this name who was living about 1610 ? lie was
secretary to Sir Henry Fanshaw. Cpl.
Captain Yorke. — I am anxious to obtain in-
formation about a Mr. Yorke, a captain in the
Trained Bands of London, who lived about the
middle of the last century. It is thought that he
was descended from the Yorkes of Erthig, Den-
bighshire, Wales; and I should be grateful to
any correspondent who could give me any details
as to the Captain's connection with the Yorkes of
Erthig. Carilpord.
Cape Town.
Pholey.— What is the meaning of this word
in the following advertisement, which I copy from
a List of Books printed for and sold by Edward
Cave, at St. John*s Gate, Clerkenwell ?—
*• Travels into the inland parts of Africa, containing a
description of the several Nations for the space of 6cKl
miles op the river Gambia, "with a particular nccount of
Job Ben Solomon, a Pholey^ who, in the year 1733, was in
England, and known by the name of the African. Bein^
the Journal of Francis Moore, Factor for several years to
the Royal African Company of England."
E. H. A.
[An interesting account of the Pholeys, a free and in-
dependent people of Gambia, is supplied by the author in
the above work, in the first edition, 1738, p. 30, in the
second edition (no date), p. 21. He says, "In every
kingdom on each side of the river Gambia there are some
people of a tawny colour, called Pholeys, much like the
Arabs ; which language they most of them speak, being
to them as the Latin is in Europe ; for it is taught in
schools, and their law, the Alcoran, is in that language.
They are more generally learned in the Arabick than tlie
people of Europe are in Latin, for they can most of theiu
speak it, though they have a vulgar tongue besides, called
Pholey, They live in hoards or dans, build towns, and
are not subject to any kings of the country, though they
live in their territories ; for if ^hey are illtreated in one
nation, they break up their towns, and remove to another.
They have chie^ of their own, who rule with so much
moderation, that every act of government seems rather
an act of the people than of one man. This form of govern-
ment goes on easily, because the people aix of a good and
quiet disposition, and so well instructed in what is just
and right, that a man who does ill is the abomination of
all, and none will support him against the chief
The Pholeys are very industrious and fungal, and raise
much more com and cotton than they consume, which
they sell at reasonable rates, and are veiy hospitable
and kind to all ; so that to have a Pholey town in tlie
neighbourhood, is by the natives reckoned a blessing.
They are strict Mahometans ; none of them (uuless here
and there one) will drink brandy, or anything stronger
than water and mgar.*']
8«*S.V. Jaii.2,'64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
13
Lillys ADDRlt88BD TO ChARLES I. — I COpv the
following veraes from MS. on a tiy-leaf, at the
t-nd of a copy of Jus Imayinis apud AnyhSy or,
the Law of England relating to the Xohility and
6eniri/y hy John Brydall, of Lincoln's Inne,
Esquier, 1675." 8vo —
** Great Charles, thoa Earthly God. CelcRtial Man !
Whose life, like othera', thoap;h it were a span,
Yet in that life was comprehended more
Than earth hath waters, or the oceans shore ;
Thy heavenly virtues angels shall rehearse ;
It is a theme too high for human verne.
He that would know the ri^ht, then let him look
Upon this wise incomparable book.
And read it o*er and o'er ; which, if you do.
You'll find the Ring a priest and prophet too ;
And sadly see our lot, although in vain " —
QCetera desunt.)
They appear to have been written by the hand
of one William Thomas, as they fo'llow these
words: **John ffarr his Booke. William Tho-
mas witnes. 1076," But they were evidently not
William Thomas's composition, as he was an un-
educated fellow, who wrote —
** Grate charls, though earthly god se-
Lastiel man, hose Life Like others*'—
and no on — oshians for " oceans," Enyels for "an-
gels," &c : on which account I have modernised
the spelling, in order to make the whole intelligi-
ble. They seem to have been really the production
of one who could write verse, as well as the most
extravagant adulation, and may be taken as an
extreme example of the poetical hyperbole of that
hyperbolical age. The " incomparaole book," for
which they were first written, was probably the
JSikon BasUxke. Do they occur in print in any
edition of it? J.G.N.
£Thefle lines are entitled ''An Epitaph upon King
Charles,** signed J. H^ and are usually found printed in
the earlier editions of the Eikon Banlike, e. g, that by
RoystoD, 24mo, 1649 : that printed at the Hague by S.
BrofWDy 24mo, 1649 ; and in the Dublin edition of 1706.
Firfi «N. & Q." 2«* S. iv. 347 ; v. 393, 464 ; vL 179.]
Cbbbt oy Apothbcabies* Compaj^t.— F. H. K.
will be glad to know the meaning of the rhino-
ceros^ or whatever the animal may be, which orna-
ments all things sent from Apothecaries' IlalL
[The oniooniv as fictionized in heraldry, is a white
bont, having tlie horn of the narwhale emanating from
the fordiead ; the hdief in the animal being based on the
pssMge in Job xzzix. 9 : ** Will the unicorn be willing
to serve thee?*' but the original word *^ Rem,** thus
translated ** anioom," is, by St. Jerome, Montanus, and
Aqnila, Tendeicd ** rhinoceros *' ; and in the Septuagint,
** mopoeeros ** signifies nothing more than *'one horn."
The fUnooeros is therefore the misinterpreted unicorn of
i; and, from a belief in the fabulous medicinal
lof flie lioniy has been advanced as the crest of
of Apothecarici^ on some of whose sign-
boards the rhinoceros presented the similitude of any-
thing but the real beast ; and being frequently miittakea
for a boar, the practice of painting the monster became
more monstrous, and the boar proper has, to be more
a;;^eeable to the eye, been bedizened a*) a blue boar. —
Ueaufoy's Trade»men'$ Tokens, edit. 1855, p. 58.]
Fbumentum: Siligo. — In an account, /£»m/>.
Edw. III., I find these words used for distinct
kinds of grain. What kinds? In Littleton's
Latin Dtciionart/, ** silifjo " is defined as *' fine
wheat, whereof they make manchet;" and *'fru-
mentum" as *' all manner of com or grain for
bread." But in my account, the price of fru-
luentum is Is. and %s. the quarter, that of siligo,
bs. (kl. and (js. 4d. only. Can I be referred to any
more definite explanation of these terms ?
G. A. 0.
[Frumentum was used in the Middle Ages somewhat
Indefinitely, but it most frequently signifies wheat. Pure
wheat — •* i»a.'pe siopios designatum opinor triticum purum,
nee aliis granis mixtum." {Du Cange in verb.) In the
passage before us it is certainly wheat.
Siligo, in Middle- Age Latin, means rye. We know
that in classical Latin it signifies a fine wheat, praised by
Columella and Pliny, as preferable to ordinary wheat for
food, being finer, whiter, and lighter ; but in the Middle
Ages it almost always represents rye, as it assuredly docs
in this passage.]
John Burton. — I have in my possession a ^
rather scarce tract of 31 pages, entitled Sacerdos
Paroccialis BudiatSj published at Oxford in 1757.
Its author is " Johannes Burton de Maple-Durham
in Com. Oxon. Vicarius." The duties of the parish
priest are in it beautifully described in classical
hexameters, G80 in number, and occasionally re-
mind one of the picture, in Goldsmith's Deserted
VUlagCy of the country clergyman.
Is anything known of the author, and what
college in Oxford claimed him as an alumnus ? I
presume that the same person was the author of the
following efi*usions in " Selectee Poemata Anglonim
(Editio Secunda Emendatior, 1780)," viz. " De-
horse Ejpinicion." p. 28 ; " Psalmus cxxxvii.," p.
107 ; " Hortus Botanicus," p. 147 : and ** Tsalmus
xlvi.," p. 276 for the name "J. Biurton, S. T. P."
is appended. OxoNiEJfSis.
[Dr. John Burton, a learned critic and diWne, was
educated at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. He died on
Feb. 11, 1771, in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and
was buried at the entrance of the inner chapel at Eton.
His Life has been publLshed by his pupil and intimate
friend, Dr. Edward Bentham. Most biographical dic-
tionaries also contain some account of him,]
I James II. and the Pretender. — Can any of
i your readers refer me to any work giving detaila
I bf the coutt Vi^\^ V3 X^Hi^W ^^'^^"^^'^SU
14
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8rt S. V. Jan. 2, »64.
former P Did James II. confer patents of nobility
upon any of his adherents, and upon whom P
N. fl[* XV.
[The state of the Court of St Germains will be found
in the following works: (1) ^ View of the Court of St.
Germaitu from the Year 1G90 to 1695 [by John Macky],
8vo. 1696. (2.) '* The Life of James ILj containing an
Account of his Birth, Education, Ac, the State of bis
Court at St Germains and the particulars of his Death.
Lond. 8vo, 1702." (8.) Clarke's Life of James IL^ ii
472-647, copied from the Stuart Papers in Carlton House*
Consult also chap. xx. of Lord Macaulaj's History of
England, iv, 380. For the titles of nobility conferred by
James II. after bis abdication, see ** N. & Q." 2^^ S. ix.
28; X. 102, 215, 387.]
New Teaxslation of the Bible, by John
Bellamy, circa 1818. — Bellamy did not complete
the whole Bible. Query, how much did he pub-
lish? . Geo. I. Cooper.
[Eight parts of this new translation were published,
namely, from Genesis to the Song of Solomon, pp. 1868.
See Home's Introduction to the Holy Scriptures, ed. 18i6,
V. 304.]
VitpUti.
EXHIBITION OF SIGN-BOARDS.
(3'* S. iv. 307.)
Bomiell Thorn toD*8 object in establishing an
exhibition of sign-boards was to convey satire on
temporary events, objects, and persons. It took
place at an opportune time, when the good-
natured public was not disposed to consider it as
an insult; and for a period it is said to have
answered the witty projector's most sanguine
expectations.
The mention made of this exhibition by the
newspaper press of the day, presents so many il-
lustrations of the state of art, and of the spirit
of the times, that a few extracts from it may not
be unacceptable.
The St, James's Chronicle of March 20, 1702,
after noticing the preparations of the Society of
Arts, adds —
*The Society of Sign- Painters are also preparing a
bv tne ablest masters, and executed by the
best hands in these kingdoms. The virtuosi will have a
new opportunity to display their taste on this occasion,
by diticovering the different styles of the several masters
employed, and pointing out by what hand each piece is
drawn. A remarkable cognoM^enti, who has attended at
the Society's great room, with his eye-glass, for several
mornings, baa alreadv piqued himself on discovering the
famous painter of * The Kiiting Sun * (a modem Claude)
fti an elegant nightpieoa of * The Han in the Moon.' "
The London Begister for April, 1762, as quoted
in Mr. Pye'a Patronage of British Art^ gives us
the foUowbg aoooiiiit of the exhibition itwlf :—
^ On entering, yoxi paas through a large parlour and
paved yard, of which, as they contain nothing but old
common signs, we shall take no further notice than what
is said of them in the Catalogue, which the reader will
not find to be barren of wit and humour. On entering
the grand room, you find yourself in a large and com-
modious apartment, hung round with green baize, on
which this curious collection of wooden originals is fixed
flat, and from whence hang keys, bells, swords, poles,
sugar-loaves, tobacco rolls, candles, and other ornampntal
figures, carved in wood, which commonly dangled from
the pent-houses of the different shops in our streets. On
the chimney-board (to imitate the style of the catalogue)
is a large blazing fire, painted in water-colours ; and
within a kind of cupola, or rather dome, which lets the
light into the room, is written in golden capitals, upon a
blue ground, a motto disposed in the form following :—
SPRCTATUM
" From this short description of the grand room (when
we consider the singular nature of the paintings them-
selves, and the peculiarity of the other decorations), it
may be easily imagined that no connoisseur who has
made the tour of Europe ever entered a picture-gallery
that struck his eye more forcibly at first sight, or pro-
voked his attention with more extraordinan' appearance.
We will now, if the reader pleases, conduct him round
the room, and take a more accurate survey of the curious
originals before us ; to which end we shall proceed to
transcribe some of the most conspicuous features of the
ingenious Society's Catalogue, adding, by the way, such
remarks as may seem necessary for his instructiun and
entertainment : —
"No. I. Portrait of a justly celebrated painter, though
an Englishman and a modem.
" No. 8. • The Vicar of Bray.* The portrait of a beni-
ficed clergymen at full length. * The Vicar of Bray ' is
an ass in a feather- topped grizzle, band, and pudtUng-
sleeves. This is a much droller conceit, and has much
more effect, as here executed, than the old design of the
ass loaded with preferment.
"No. 9. 'The Irish Arms.' By Patrick O'Blanev.
N.B. Captain Terence O'Cutter stood for them. This
sign represents a pair of extremely thick legs, in white
stockings, and black gaiters.
" No. 12. • The Scotch Fiddle.' Bv M*Pherson. Done
from himself. The figure of a Highlander sitting under
a tree, enjoying the greatest of pleasures, scratching
where it itches.
**No. 16. ' A Man.' Nine tailors at work, in allusion
to the old saying, * Nine tailora make a man.'
^* No. 19. * Nobody alias Somebody.' A character.
The figure of an officer, all head, arms, legs, and thighs.
This piece has a very odd effect, it being so droUy exe-
cuted that you don*t miss the bodv.
•* No. 20.' • Somebody, alias Nobody.' The companion
of the foregoing, both* by Hogarty. A rosy figure, with
little head and a huge body, whose belly swags over,
almost auite down to his shoe-buckles. By the staff in
bis hand, it appears to be intended to represent a con-
stable : it migbt also be mistaken for an eminent justice
of the peace.
*«No. 22. 'Tbe Btmgglen: a Hatrim<mial Convcrsa-
tioD.' By Baniby. B^nmts a man and his wife fight-
ing for the biwehii.
S-^S-V. Jaii.2,'64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
15
•• No. 23. * A Freemason's Lodge ; or, the Impenetrable
Secret' By a Sworn Brother. The supposed ceremony
and probable consequences of what is called * making a
mason.' Represents the master of the lodge with a red-
hot salamander in his hand, and the new brother blind-
fold, and in a comical situation of fear and good-luck.
** No. 27. * The Spirit of Contradiction.' Two brewers
with a barrel of beer pulling different ways.
" No. 85. * A Man in his Element.' A sign for an eat-
ing-house. A cook roasting at a fire, and the devil basting
him.
** No. 86. * A Man out of his Element.' A sailor falling
off a horse, with his head lighting against a milestone.
« No. 37. * A Bird.' by AlUson. Underneath is writ-
ten—
< A bird in hand far better 'tis
Than two that in the bushes is.'
** No. 38. * A Man loaded with Mischief/ is represented
carrying a woman, a magpie, and a monkey on his back.
*'K^o. 39. * Absalom Hanging.' A peruk'emaker's sign
by Sclatter. Underneath is written —
* If Absalom had not worn his own hair,
Absalom had not been hanging there.'
'* But the cream of the whole jest is No. 49 and No. 50,
its companion, hanging on each side of the chimney.
These two are by an unknown hand, the exhibition
having been favoured with them from an unknown quar-
ter. Ladies and gentlemen are requested not to finger
them, as they are concealed by the curtains to preserve
them. Behind the curtains are two boards, on one of
which is written * Ha I ha I ha ! ' and on the other * He !
he ! he ! ' At the opening of the exhibition, the ladies
had infinite curiosity to know what was behind the cur-
tains, but were afraid to gratify it. This covered laugh
is no bad satire on the ihdecent pictures in some collec-
tions, hung up in the same manner with curtains over
them.
« No. 66. * A Tobacconist's Sign.' By Bransby. The
conceit and execution are admirable. It represents a com-
mon-councilman and two friends drunk over a bottle.
The common-coundlman, asleep, has fallen back in his
chair. One of his friends (an officer') is lighting a pipe
at his nose; whilst the other (a aoctor) is using his
thumb as a tobacco-stopper.
** Some humour was also intended in the juxtaposition
of the signs, as ' The Three Apothecaries' Gallipots,' and
* The Three CoflSns," its companion."
The locale of the exhibition was the house of
BoDDell Thornton in Bow Street, Covent Gar-
den— as we learn from the following advertise-
mentSy and. from the title-page of the catalogue.
The latter reads as follows : —
"A Catalogue of the Original Paintings, Busts, Carved
Figures, Ac. &C., now Exhibiting by the Society of Sign
Painters, at the Large Room, the' upper end "of Bow-
street, Covent Garden, nearly opposite the Playhouse
Passage. Price One Shilling." 4to.
An advertisement was inserted in the cata-
logue, and also in the daily papers, in these
words : —
** The Society of Sign Painters take this opportunity of
reftiting a most malicious suggestion, that their exhibi-
tion is designed as a ridicule on the exhibitions of the
Society for the Encouragement of Arts, &c., and of the
artists. They intend theirs as an appendix only, or in
the style of painteiB, a companion to the others. There
is nothing in their ooUection that will be understood by
any candid person as a reflection on any body, or body of
men. They are not in the least prompted by any mean
jealousy, to depreciate the merits of their brother artists.
Animated by the same public spirit, their sole view is to
convince foreigners, as well as their own blinded country-
men, that however inferior the nation may be uniustly
deemed in other branches of the polite arts, the palm for
sign-painting must be universally ceded to us, the Dutch
themselves not excepted."
The purchase of a catalogue entitled the owner
to an admission to the exhibition. A printed
slip was appended to it in the form of a ticket,
which was torn off by the door-keeper upon pre-
sentation, thus rendering the catalogue unavail-
able for a second admission.
Copies of the catalogue are of very rare occur-
rence. The only one I ever saw was sold at
Puttick's about a twelvemonth sice.
Edward F. Rimbault,
" EST ROSA FLOS VENERIS."
(!•' S. i. 214, 458; 3«» S. iv. 453.)
As this question appears to be of so ancient a
date as the first volume of " N. & Q.,'* it certainly
ought to be disposed of at the earliest oppor-
tunity. The lines will be found in the Anthotof/ta
Vetenim Laiinorum Epigrammatum et Poematum
of Peter Burman, the younger ; and, also, in the
collections of Wemsdorf and Meier, founded on
the same work. It is pretty evident, from their
epigrammatic character, that they are not a part
or a larger poem, but complete in themselves.
Burman quotes De la Cerda as his authority for
the lines, but I can give an earlier one, having
found them, introduced seemingly as a quotation
into a work of Lsevinius Lemnius, the learned
Canon of Zeric-Zee, entitled Herharum atque
Arborum qua in BibUis passim obvits sunt Expli^
catiOf AntwerpisB, 1566. Lemnius does not give
any authority or reference for the lines; but in
the Opera Omnia of Virgil, edited by the learned
Spanish Jesuit Johannes Ludovicus de la Cerda,
they are again quoted, the editor telling us that
they were found incised on marble. The lines
occur in a note to a passage in the first book of
the yEneid; and the first six books of the jEneid^
edited by La Cerda, were published at Lvons in
1612. This, probably, is all the reply that can
now be given to the first query of J. S. L. ; his
second does not admit of so ready an answer.
One, who had a very complete idea of the world
of literature, shrewdly observes that —
^ Commentators sometimes view
In Homer more than Homer knew."
And, in all likelihood, most of the readers of
" N. & Q.'' will coincide in the opinion, that,
generally speaking, the notes and quotations of
commentatozs and axm$^tAi^x& ^cis::j5lA.\si^'tfestsbcvj^
16
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8'd S. V. Jan. 2. '64.
cum grano, I would not presume to say that
Lemnius coined the lines to suit his purpose ; still,
withal, they have a comparatively modern aspect.
When the authority is so very vague as " reperi-
imtur in marmore,'' we have every right to look
for internal evidence, and that, as far as regards
the antiquity of the lines — which, indeed, is the
whole gist of the question — is, in my humble
opinion, wanting. For they seem to be deficient of
the sonorous ring of the ancient Augustan metal,
as well as of the quaint, flat chink of the mediseval
Latinity. And being the only authority, as far as
I am aware, for the often-repeated assertion, that
the ancients respected the rose as an emblem of i
silence, and consecrated it to Ilarpocrates, these !
lines, with regard to their antiquity, afford a very
interesting question; or, as J. iS. L. puts the
query — "Is the custom therein referred to the ,
origin of the phrase sub rom f " |
There is, nowever, something more than a '
custom referred to in the lines ; there is, also, a
sacred principle. As is well known, it was a
custom for the ancients to decorate their festal
tables with roses; but that they recognised the
rose as a sacred symbol of silence, through an
alleged mythical connection between the flower,
Cupid, Venus, and Harpocrates, is exceedingly
doubtful ; there being no other authority for the
assertion than these lines, of which the authorship
is imknown, and the antiquity most questionable.
La Cerda, though not the first to quote the lines,
is, in all probability, the first who alleges that
they were found on marble ; and the manner in
which he introduces them into print is rather sus-
picious, they being dragged in as an annotation to
the following passage in the text : —
** Hie Retina gravem gemmis aaroqae poposcit,
Implevitoae mero pateram. qaam Belus et omnes
A iklo soliti : turn facta silentia tectia.*'
A more inappropriate quotation than the lines
in question can hardly be imagined ; silence, it is
true, is alluded to in the text, but there is cer-
tainly not one word about roses. How then does
the commentator connect the two ? By artfully
and Dlogically dragging in another quotation, in
which roses are alludea to, without any reference
to silence. Here it is, from the nineteenth epi-
gram of the tenth book of Martial : —
" Haec bora est tua, dum furit Lvkus,
Cum regnat rosa, cum madent capilli :
Tunc me vel rigidi legant Catones."
It is not, then, without iustice observed in the
Bioffraphie Umcerselie, in allusion to De la Cerda*s
YirgW —
** Que le iesuite E«pagnol explique sonvent ce qui D*a
pas beaoin d^etre expliqa^ et qaelqnefois oe qui ne devrait
pas I'fitre."
Whatev^ doubt there may be respecting the
noient Komaiui usiog the loee at their feai^ a^
an emblem of secresy, it is certain that the Teu-
tonic races did from a very early period. The
custom and principle is particularly German^ ac-
cording to the ancient proverbial saying —
** Was Kir Kosen, bleib' unter dem Rosen.'*
And Wemsdorf decides against the antiquity of
the lines in question, because they form tne only
Latin notice of a peculiarly German custom and
idea, while Meier, m his edition of Burman, goes
further, and says the Latin lines were written on
the German proverb —
** Hoc epigramma factum est> nt proverbiam iUud, Hoc
\dict "
3ub rosd dictum e»U explicaretur poetice.'
When looking for the origin or explanation of
an emblem or symbol, we must study the natural #'
features of the subject, and resolutely reject every-
thing approaching to the fabulous or mythical.
A.nd so, we cannot conclude better than in the
words of our worthy English philosopher, Sir
Thomas Browne, who says ; —
** When we desire to confine our words, we commonly
Bay, they are spoken under the rose ; which expression
is commendable, if the rose, from any natural property,
may be the symbol of silence, as Nazianzene se^ma to
imply, in these translated verses : —
* Utque latet'rosa vema suo pntamine clausa, ^
Sic 08 vincla ferat, validisque arctetur habenia,
Indicatque suis prolixa silentia labris,'
and is also tolerable, if by desiring a secresy to words
I spoken under the rose, we only mean in society and com-
' potation, from the ancient svmposiac meetings to wear
chaplets of roses about their heads : and so we condemn
not the German custom, which over the table describeth
i a rose in the ceiling."
The lines which have caused so much inkshed'
have been thus paraphrased : —
•* The rose is Venus* pride; the archer boy
Gave to Ilarpocrates his mother*s flower,
What time fond lovers told the tender joy
To guard with sacred secresy the hour :
Hence, o'er his festive board the host uphang
I Love's flower of silence, to remind each guest,
When wine to amorous sallies loosed each tongue,
I Under the rose what passed must never be
expressed."
' William Pikkerton.
I Honnslow.
REV. P. ROSENHAGEN.
(2««» 8. X. 216, 315.)
Nobodv seems to have looked at Mr. John
Taylor's Jtmius IderUified, An extract from this
work, and the original communication to the
Athetiauniy on which the question was raised in
your pages, will secure your having all thnt has
been said (Taylor, p. 119, AtheruBumf Aug. 28 and
Sept.4, 1868): —
<* The Rev. PbiUp Roaenhagen was the schoolfellow,
and continued through life the mutual friend, of Sir Philip
Francis and Mr. WoodfalL ... It is a little remarkable.
3'«S.V.Jaii.2,'64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
17
that to Mr. Rosenhagen the letters of Janios were at one
time attributed, though certainly without foundation.
In the Essay prefixed to the last edition of Junius the
conjecture is thus noticed: — *It is sufficient to observe
that Mr. Rosenhagen, who was a schoolfellow of Mr. H.
S. Woodfall, continued on terms of acquaintance with
him in subsequent life, and occasionally wrote for the
Public Advertiser: but he was repeatedly declared by
Mr. Woodfall, who must have been a competent evidence
as to the fact, not to be the author of Junius's I^etters. A
private letter of Rosenhagen*8 to Mr. Woodfali is stiil in
the possession of his son, and nothing can be more dif-
ferent from each other than this autograph and that of
Junius.'"
The following are the communications to the
Atlufusum : the second by myself. The first is an
extract from the Gazetteer of Jan. 24, 1774: —
*• The celebrated Junius is at last discovered to be the
%Rev. PbiL R ^gen. He was originally a great ac-
quaintance of Mr. Home's, and a contemporary of his at
Cambridge. Mr. R ^gen was there celebrated, above
all others, for his classical abilities. Mr. R gen was
in London durinethe whole time of Junius's publication;
for a considerable time before, and ever since, he has been
abroad. He b now resident at Orleans in France, where
he cuts a very conspicuous appearance, having married a
very beautiful and accomplished young lady, sister of the
celebrated Mrs. Grosvenor ; nor does he make it any secret
where he resides that he is the author of Junius."
"The identity would have been perfectlv clear in
1774, though few would see it in 1858. The Rev. Philip
Rosenhagen is lost, because he published nothing with
bis name. But he was very well known in the literary
world, and better still in the convivial world : this, how-
ever, must have been more after 1774 than before. He
had the sort of reputation to which Theodore Hook
should attach a name, as the brightest and most enduring
instance of it. He took a high-bottle degree in England,
and was admitted ad eundem in India, where he went as
chaplain 8ome time before 1798, to increase and fortify
the well-earned gout which he carried out with him. I
think I have heard, from those who knew him, that he
had been one of the boon companions of the Prince of
Wales. He was a necessary man to be fixed on as the
author of Junius^ at a time when any man of much talent
and no particular scruple, who wrote nothing which he
acknowledged, was set down as one to be looked after in
that matter. And if it should turn out after all that
•TtiniiM is to be written by some biting scamo on whom no
lasting suspicion has settled, this same Philip Rosen-
hagen has a fair chance. I think that the Junius rumour
was current among his acquaintance."
It now appears that the Junius rumour T^as so
strong, that WoodCall himself had to deny it re-
peatedly. M.
COLLINS, AUTHOR OF *• TO-MORROW."
(3'* S. iv. 445.)
It will be difficult at the lapse of more than
half a century to obtain many particulars of the
life of John Collins. Of the many who laughed
at his humorous monologue. The Brush — per-
formed as an interlude at the Theatre Royal,
Birmingham, then under the management of the
elder Macready, at the end of last, or the begin-
ning of the present eenturj — those who are aliye
were mostly children, who cared little about the
private doings of the performer who amused them
m public ; while the eiders who accompanied them
have made their exits from that larger stage, on
which thev were fellow-actors with him. He was
^* bom at 6ath, and bred up to the business of a
stay-maker,'* as I gather from a short notice of
him, as " an actor,'* in the Thespian Dictionary^
8vo, 1805 ; and we may conclude that his father
was a professor of the sartorial art, from his
verses, " The Frank Confession," " inserted by the
author some years ago in the Bath Chronicle, in
consequence of a report being spread with a view
to injure him in the eye of the fashionable world ;
which report was nothing more nor less than his
being the son of a man who supplied his employers
with raiment for the body, wnile he was furnish-
ing the public with amusement for the mind,"
In this piece the yerses occur : —
" This blot on my scutcheon, I never yet try'd
To conceal, to erase, or to alter ;
But suppose me, br birth, to a hangman allied.
Must I wear the print of the halter ?
** And since *tis a truth IVe acknowledg*d through life.
And never yet laboured to smother.
That * a taylor before I was born took a wife
And that taylor's wife was my mother.'
"Yet, while Pve a heart which nor envy nor pride
With their venom-tipp'd arrows can sting,
Not a day of my life could more gladsomely glide.
Were it prov'd — I'm the son of a King ? "
From an expression in this piece —
** While I, brushing hard over life's rugged course,
Its up and down bearings to scan," &c. —
we may also infer that, while in Bath, he had
turned his attention to the stage ; and set to work
with his Brush to "rub off" cares and troubles.
His name is not to be found in Pye's Birmingham
Directory for 1785 ; but we may suppose that he
shortly afterwards made his appearance in that
town, as we find among his verses an ** Impromptu,
on hearing the young and beautiful Mrs. Second
sing, at the Musical Festival in Birmingham, for
the Benefit of the General Hospital there," — this
lady being one of the vocalists engaged at the
Festival of 1793. We find his name, ** Collins,
John, Great Brook Street," in the Dii'ectory for
1797 ; since which, and the previous one, a period
of six years had elapsed. It was in that street, in-
deed, nearly opposite the church at Ashted — and
not Camden Street, though he may have subse-
quently removed there — that he is Imown to have
lived; and he was editor, and part proprietor
with Mr. Swinnev, of the Birmingham Chronicle,
under the firm of Swinney & Collins. This paper
was subsequently purchased, or at least edit^, by
Mr. Joseph Lovell, a pin-maker in thd town. I
mention the fact as possessing some interest: this
gentleman haying been. tlsA «vBk ^l'^Jo53«?stfOwJ!s^^5i^
18
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8«» S. V. Jan. 2, '64.
the PantUocrat of former days, the early fHend
and brother- io-law of Coleridge and Southey, who
were consequently the uncles of our Birmingham
editor. Lovell also became a resident in Great
Brook Street, where he died. Collins had no fa-
mily : his wife, remembered as a handsome woman,
sufi^red from that fearful malady a cancer in the
breast, and neyer rallied from an operation for its
remoyal. His portrait — the chief characteristic of
which is so happily hit off by Mr. Pinkbbton—
is, as I haye been informed by contemporaries,
an admirable likeness. I belieye that the Brush
was never published. There is also a theatrical
portrait of him in the character of Master Slender.
Several copies of mnemonical lines on English
history haye appeared in these pages. The fol-
lowing by CoUins are illustrative of his manner,
and will be read with interest. I transcribe them
from the probably uniaue original broadside in
the possession of Mr. William Hodgetts, an in-
telligent printer of Birmingham, who knew Collins
personally; and whose portfolios are not more
crammed with literary and artistic scraps of rarity
and local value, than his head is full of the un-
printed traditions and memories — the " trivial
rond records "—of a long and active life wholly
devoted to letters. Why does not such a man
provide against the prospective loss of the vast
mass of facts he has accumulated, by embodying
them in an autobiography or local chronicler
But this by the way. The document is as
follows : —
"The
Chapter of Kinos.
A Comic Song,
In Do^erel Verse ;
Repeatedly sung with Universal Applause by Mr. Dignnm
at the Theatre Royal, Dmry Lane ;
and written by
Mr. Collins,
Aathor of the *Oral and Pictorial Exhibition,* which
bears that Title.
^ The Romans in England awhile did sway ;
The Saxons lou|( auer them led the way.
Who tu^g*d with the Dane till an overthrow
They met with at last from the Norman bow !
Yet, barring all pother, the one and the other
Were all of them Kings in their tarn.
•* Bold Willie the Conqueror long did reign.
But Rufus, his son, by an arrow was slain ;
And Harry the fimt was a scholar bright.
And Stephy was forced for his crown to fight ;
Yet, barring all pother, the one and the other, Ac
** Second Henry P]antagenet*s name did bear,
And C{cur-de-Lion was his son and heir ;
But Magna Charta was gained from John,
Which Harry the third put his seal upon.
Yet, barring all pother, the one and the other, &c,
*" There was Teddy the first like a tvger bold.
Though the second by rebels was bought and sold ;
And Teddy the third was his subjects' pride,
Though EU grandson, Diclnr, was popp*d aside.
Ye^ barring all pother, the one and the other, &e.
"There was Harry the fourth, a warlike wight.
And Harry the fifth like a cock would fight ;
Though Henny his son like a chick did pout.
When Teddy h|s cousin had kick*d him out.
Yet, barring all pother, the one and the otlier, &c
** Poor Teddy the fifth he was kill'd in bed,
Bv butchering Dick who was knock*d on the head ;
Then Henry the seventh in fame grew big.
And Harry the eighth was as fat as a pig.
Yet, barring all pother, the one and the other, Ac,
** With Teddy the sixth we had tranouil days,
Though Mary made fire and faggot olaze ;
But good Queen Bess was a glorious dame.
And bouny King Jamy from Scotland came.
Yet, barring all pother, the one and the oti^er, &c,
** Poor Charley the first was a martyr made.
But Charley his son was a comical blade ;
And Jemmy the second when hotly spurr'd.
Ran away, do you see me, from Willy the third.
Yet, barring all pother, the one and the other, &c.
" Queen Ann was victorious by land and sea,
And Georgy the first did with glory sway.
And as Georgy the second has long been dead.
Long life to the Georgy we have in his stead.
And, may his son*s sons to the end of the chapter,
All come to be King's in their turn."
** *,* As the idiom of this whimsical ballad may seem
rather nngular, it may be necessary to observe, that it
was originally sung in the character of an Irish School-
master.
"Printed and sold by Swinney & Ferrall, No. 75
High Street.'*
Tbis song, which was highly popular in its day,
will be also found in the Scripscrapologia^ but with
a different heading.
The first piece in this volume is & —
'* Previous Apostrophe f for it cannot be called a Dedi-
cation) to Mr. Metler, bookseller at Bath, at once the
most ingenious and most indolent Bard of his Day; who,
having written a Thousand excellent Things, which he
will not be at the troubleof transcribing and arranging for
Publication, is now become such a Buryer of his Talents,
that they are all consigned to an old Lumber Box in the
Comer of his Garret ; and he seems quite indifivrent
about adding to the Heap the bare composition of another
Couplet."
These verses were not without effect, for soon
after appeared : —
** Poetical Amusement on the Journey of Life ; con-
sisting of various pieces in Verse, Serious,' Theatric, Epi-
grammatic, and Miscellaneous, lij William Mevlcr.
Bath. 8vo. 1806."
At p. 193, of this amusing collection, we find a
retort courteous to " John Collins, Esq." —
•* The well-known and facetious author of The Morning
Bru$h ; who, in an Apostrophe, prefixed to a collection of
his Poems, published under the humorous title of Scrip-
Merapoiogia^hsM censured the author, &c.. . . . Perhaps
the vanity that was awakened by the praise, mixed with
those friendly oensures, was the pnme cause of this
Volume bdng pat to press.**
These lines will be thought, perhapa, a little too
8«*8.V. JA3I.2/64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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long ; but, especdally in connection with the sub-
ject, may appear to merit preservation : —
** To John Collins, Esq.
** When Players an^ MaDagers of Druiy,
Some fall of dread, and some of fury,
Consulted lately to enhance,
Their Treasury's cloee-drain*d finance ;
Ere bounced had ' Carlo * into water.
Or Cherry shown his * Soldier's Daughter ' ;
'Mongst various schemes to prop the Stage,
Brinsley declared heM now engage
His long expected p\&y to finish,
And all their cares and fears diminish ;
Make creditors and audience gay —
Nay, actors touch their weekly pay.
* Fair promises ! ' Mich. Kelly cries,
'On which no mortal e'er relies;
Again to write yon will not dare.
Of one man. Sir you've too much fear.'
* Fear ! whom ? I dread no man's control.'
* Tes, yes, you dread him to the soul.'
* Name him at once, detractive Vandal I '
*The author of The School for Scandal*
Thus, Collins, does it hap with me, 1
Since noticed by a Bard like thee, >
And blaz'd in thine 'Apostrophe.' J
I fain had written long ago.
Some tribute of my thanks, or so ;
Some warm and faithful swtet eulogia.
At reading thy Scripecrapologia ;
But whisp'ring fears thus marr'd the cause—
* Thy Muse is not the Muse she was ;
When scarce a day but would inspire
Her mind with some poetic fire.
Disus'd to rhyme, in *' old chest laid,"
She's now an awkward stumbling jade;
And if thou e'er deserved the bays, \
Kesume no more thy peccant lays, >
Nor damn thy friend's poetic praise.' }
Ah ! when'l now invoke the Nine,
Ere I have hammer'd out a line.
Some queer sensations make me stop.
And from my hand the goose-quill drop ;
* Richard's himself,' no more be said.
For Richard's of himself afVaid.
But hence, ye stupefying fears I
Why should 1 dread ? hence, hence, ye cares ;
Let'me in gratitude's warm strain.
Thrilling and glowing through each vein,
Prei«8 to my lip that friendly hand
Which points to where Fame's turrets stand ;
And as the path I upwards climb,
I'll pause and listen to thy rhyme ;
While Poe!<y around me glides.
And Laughter holds her jolly sides.
Oh ! as I read thy motley page^
Where wit keeps time with morals sage,
I trace those days when pleasure's morn
Bade roses bloom that knew no thorn ;
When many an Epigram and Song,
Came from thy voice with humour strong !
Those well-kuown notes again appear
To come fresh mellow'd to mine ear.
With accents faithful, bold and clear.
Mav ev'ry pleasure still be thine.
That hope can wish, or sense define !
May Ashted's shades — if shades there be,
For strange is thy retreat to me —
Afford thee health— Oh ! cordial bliss I
Enjoying— what can be amiss ?
ear ]
sar. J
Ma^ Ashted's blessings round thee pour,
Amid thy autumn's tranquil hour ;
And may the partner of thy cot,
(Whom never yet my prayer forgot,)
Loiig feel as cheerful, bright, and bonny.
As when she first beheld her Johnny." [1804.]
The well-known song "To-morrow" has figured
in many collections ; the last stanza, with its line
pathos, is eminently poeticaL The Rev. James
Plumptre has the following remarks upon it : —
**The serious pun, which is similar to the Parom>ma»ia
of the Greeks and Romans, is sometimes used by Collins
in his songs. The * Mulberry Tree ' has some, but the
fruit is not of the best flavour. The following, in his song
of • To-morrow, or the Prospect of Hope ' (the whole of
which is given in my Collection, vol. 1. p. 194), is not
bad : —
* And when I at last must throw off this frail covering,
\Vhich I've worn for threescore years and ten.
On the brink of the grave I'll not seek to keep hovering,
Nor my thread wish to spin o'er again :
But my face in the glass I'll serenely survey.
And with smiles count each wrinkle and furrow ;
As this old worn-out s/u/f, which is threadbare to-day,
May become everlasting to-morrow.* "
Letters to John Aikin, M,D., on his Volume of
Vocal Poetry f 8vo, Cambridge, 1811, p. 372.
Having, as we have seen, been successively a
stay maker, a miniature painter, and an actor,
Collins was somewhat advanced in life when he
took up his residence in Birmingham. He was
a big ponderous man, of the Johnsonian type, and
duly impressed with a conviction of his varied
talents. Men of this manner are apt to become
unwieldy with age ; and so it was, I am led to
believe, with our friend Collins — whose Brush
probably ceased to attract the public, with his
growing inability to sustain the labours of a
sprightly monologue. Even in 1804, the date of
his book, he speaks of it as his " once popular per-
formance^" and he seems then to have retired mto
private life. He continued to reside at Great
Brook Street, Ash ted, with a niece, Miss Brent.
This lady, to whose parentage some degree of
mystery was attached, was possessed of a fortune,
and kept some kind of carnage. The uncle may
not have been entirely devoid of means, but 1
fancy was somewhat dependent on his niece for
the comforts of age. He died suddenly a few
years later — probably in 1809 or 1810, as Mr.
Plumptre, in the book above referred to, pub-
lished in 1811, speaks of him (jp. 331) as " the late
ingenious Collins, author of The Homing Brush "
— and Miss Brent returned to Bath.
John Collins was undoubtedly a man of shrewd
and kindly humour, as well as considerable natural
talent. His song, " To-morrow," is a niece of
unquestionable merit : though whether it aeserves
the extravagant laudation of Mr. Palgrave —
whose opinions on poetry will be taken cum grano
by many who have read his criticisms on art — is
another question. Many other pieces in the UttL^
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
LS'd S. V. Jan. 2, '64.
volume before me — "How to be Happy," p. 110;
** The Author's Brush through Life," p. 162, Ac-
are of great, if not equal merit, and the entire
collection is well worthy revival and perusnl.
William Batbs.
Edgbastoo.
Your able correspondent, Mr. Piwkerton, has
been enabled to supplement Mr. Palgrave's very
scanty notice in The Golden Treasury ^ of the
author of the admirable poem " To-morrow.'*
So long since as June 9, 1855, I had called
attention, in the pages of this periodical, to Col-
lins and his Scripscrapologia, and said, "The
book contains a variety of poetical pieces ; among
which are several songs. One of these, ' In the
downhill of life, when I find I'm declining,' still
enjoys a justly deserved popularity." (" N. & Q."
1* S. xi. 450.) I also quoted at length {apropos
to a subject then under discussion) some other
very popular lines by the same ready vn-iter, but
which were often ascribed to other authors, —
" The Chapter of Kings," that historical memoria
technica wnich contains such well-remembered
lines as —
*^Then Harry the Seventh in fame fip*cw big.
And Harry the Eighth was as fat as a pig.**
The Scripscrapoloffia has another song of the
same character as " To-morrow," and embracing
many of its qualities. As the book is so rare,
perhaps you would like to print the song in ques-
tion, which I here subjoin : —
••how to BK HArPT. — A BONO.
*' In a cottage I live, and the cot of content.
Where a few little rooms, for ambition too low,
Are fumishM as plain as a patriarch's tent.
With all for convenience, but nothing for show :
Like Robinson Crusoe'ii, both peaceful and pleasant,
By industry' stor'd. like the hive of a bee ;
And the peer who looks down with contempt on a
peasant.
Can ne'er be look*d up to with envy by me.
** And when from the brow of a neighbouring hill,
On the mansionn of Pride, I with pity look down.
While the murmuring stream and the clack of the mill,
I prefer to the murmurs and clack of the town.
As blythe as in youth, when I danc'd on the green,
I difKlain to repine at my locks growing grey :
Thus the autumn of life, like the springtide serene,
Makes nppn»aching December as cheerful as May.
** J lie down with the lamb, and I rise with the lark.
So I keep both disease and the doctor at bay ;
And 1 fi'el on mv pillow no thorns in the dark,
Whid) reflection might raise from the deeds of the
dnv :
For, with neither myself nor my neighbour at strife.
Though the sand in my glass may not long have to
run,
I'm detcrmin'd to live all the days of life.
With content in a cottage and envy to none I
«* Yet let me not selfithly boast of mv lot,
Nor to self let the comforts of life be confin*d ;
For how sordid the pleasares mutt be of that sot.
Who to share them with othenno pleaaare can find I
For my friend IVe a board, I*ve a bottle and bed.
Ay, 'and ten times more welcome that friend if ho*8
poor;
And for all that are poor if I could but find bread.
Not a pauper without it shoujd budge from my door.
**Thus while a mad world is involved in mad broils.
For a few leagues of land or an arm of the sea ;
And Ambition climbs high and pale Penury toils,
For what but appears a mere phantom to me ;
Through life let me steer with an even clean hand.
And a heart ancorrupted by grandeur or gold ;
And, at last, quit my berth, when this life's at a stand.
For a berth whidi can neither be booght nor be sold.*'
CUTHBEBT BeDE.
I find the following account of this author in
Dr. Iloefer's Nouveue Biographie Genirale, tome
xi. coL 194 :—
• "CoLLiss (John), acteur et litterateur anglais, n^
vere 1738, mort en 1808, k Birmingham. 11 se lit re-
marquer au th^&tre dans presque tons les genres. 11
chantait avec une rare perfection des Rnmances etd'autrcs
poesies de sa composition. On a de lui : The Morning
Brushy ouvrage fac^tieux. Ses cours publics lui pro-
curferent une assez grande fortune. II <^tait aussi un des
propri<^tairus da Birmingham Chronicle"
Dublin.
P. S. A notice substantially the same as the
above may be seen in the new edition of Michaud*s
Biographie Universelie, tome viii. p. GOO,
JoHW IIawkiits (1»* S. xi. 825 ; ,^'«» S. iii. 459 ;
iv. 425.) — We beg to refer Mr. Harland to a
communication from us, which appeared in your
columns so recently as June 3 in the present year,
su^rgesting that the author of the MS. Life of
Henry Prince of Wales was John Hawkins, secre-
tary to the Earl of Holland^ and one of the clerks
of the council, who died in 1631.
C. II. & Thompson Cooper.
Cambridge.
Hev. F. S. Pope (3"» S. iv. 396.)— Mr. Brod-
RICK begs to inform the inquirer that Mr. Pope,
formerly minister of Baxtergate Chapel, Whitby,
left that place, and died at York, he believes,
some twelve or fifteen years a^o. Mr. Brodkick
knew and was well acquaintea with Dr. BHteniaii.
The Rev. W. L. Pope, Fellow of Worcester Col-
lege, Oxford, and now Minister of the Chapel of
Ease, Tunbridge Wells, is the brother of the late
Mr. Pope, of Whitby.
18, Talbot Square, Hyde Park.
Mrs. Cokatne (3"> S. iv. 305, 338, 415)—
i I thank Dr. Rixabult for his courteous and very
I satisfactory answer to my query. His account \b
confirmed in several particulars by W^ood in his
Life of Aston Cockaine, for so he spells the name
(A. O. iv. 128, ed. Blias.) The tradition of « Dr.
Donne*8 chamber ^ at Ashbourne is valuable as at
S«*S.V. Jah.2,'64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
21
onee yeatifyiog her witli Im '^ noblaBl. and lo?-
H. J, H. think* it '* odd tbit Mrs. Cokain ahould
bo ao little knowi]," £iot hemg aware perhaps that
tbere was more thrui on© lady af the name at the
period, t shrawdlj suap^ct thnt he haa learn I
8oinethmg more than he knew before^ through my
query, which, like many olhera, was addressed to
" N^ & Q./^ not ID mere ignoranrfSf hut in order to
aave time in further consul uog books of refiireace,
and to elidt som tithing mure than I did know on
the matter. As to the Mory of Oliarles Cotton's
witticiflm on her head^dros^ and his hmng her
estate by his humour, X am q^aroely rticouaik it
with the fact that ahe had children of her own^
unlesa she intended to di^inhtirit'them for the sake
of her nephew. Will H. J* H, allow me to aak him*
to traee the relationHhip F In the J£i«tortf attd
Topographtf of Ai^bmtme^ ^, published in 1830, it
is stated that Thomas Ouckavne lived in London
under the faigfned name of Brown (p. 16). On
what earlief authority do&& this statement restP
Some of Delt4^9 queriea are answered by
Wood (A, O, 17, 128), who aaya that "during
the time of the civil wars he eujirered much for hia
religion (which was that of Home) and the kind's
cause^ pretended then to he a baronet made by
King^ Charlfts 1, after he, by violence, had left
the paxliamtint aboni Jan, 10, 1G41, yet not
deemed ao to be by the officers of ormfi^ because
no patent waa enrolled to justify it, nor any men-
tion of it made in the docqut^t-books belon^^ing to
the clerk of the crown in chancery ^ where all patents
are taken notice of which pom the grt^at senl^ "
and afterwards he adds — >'*The fair lordship of
Ashbourne also was some years ago sold to Sir
WilHam BiotUbj, Bart" Dr. Bliss refers to the
BritUk BihtiogrQpJwr^ vol. ii, pp. 450-403, which
I have not got. Qpii.
Jqjls Donne, LL.D. (3^^ S, ly. 295, 307*)—
Thanks for the information given in your answer,
though it does not meet the precipe point to which
my query was directed. I wns aware of his ad-
dre^ing Lord Denbigh aa his patron, hut I do
not see the connection between iWv^ and his being
supposed to have held the rectory of Martins-
thorpe. May I ask whefe his will is to be found?
Was it ever proved P The " S' Cons tan tine Huy-
gens, Knight,*^ to whom Bonnets son addressed toe
letter in the preseutation copy of the BiaBana-
T02, now In the possession of your correspondent
A* B, G., was not the broiiter but the jfuher of
groat agtronomerr
« Hi: vciUEi^s ( Chretien), liu^htnim, vit 1e jour k La
II«yc, en 1629, da Conatjuitin Hay^h*»ij^ K^lUbummd
hDlUndob} ooano pur de matiVAJit<» p^^ifa Ucinvi, qnllA
ti^bien intltut^ Momcfita denuHari.i, 1665, ia-l?/' —
Dietionnaire M^torl^e, |rp., povr jf i-f iV if« SwrnddmaU
au^ Deiica tkM Paift-Bat, L J74 Psm, 1786*
Cpl.
ScornsH (3'^ S. iv. 464,) — I beg to adl a mora
complete answer to An 0 Lira than I last forwarded
to you.
It is true that mA, terminating some worda, haa
the signidcation of raih^rj as dfirkish: but the
other word, brackish j is not an English word at
all without the wA, But itth has no more mean-
ing in the word Scottish than it has in Danish^
Swedish, Spanish » &c. A Dane^ Scot, or Swed^
m abiolntely of Danish ^ Scottish, and Swedish
descent^ not in decree or rtither so.
lu Geruian McAis a termination to the word*'
Drmisehj Ent;fimh, St^hMi^ch^ Siostfuchf Spaniiichf
in the same sense as in Banish f Stc* ScoTva^
Ext5CFTioN FDR WrrencEiFT (3"* S. iv* BOS,)
Sir Walter Scott, in his Letter* on Defnonolof^
and Witchcraft^ mentions a trinl and e^tecution for
this supposed crime which took place in Scotland
of a date six years later than the Engliih case re-
ferred to by" PKLAotTTs, In 1722/ the Sheri ff-
Deptity of Sutherland pave sentence of death,
which was carried into execution on an insane old
woman who had a daughter lame of hands and
feet» which was nttribiited to the mother^s bein^
used to transform her into a pony, and getting her
shod by the deviL (See Leitsr mh.)
Sir Walter adds that no punishment was in-
flicted on the sheriff for thia grosa abuse of the
lu w. It wa& the last case of the kind in Scotland i
yet soch v^as the force of prejudice, and of mis-
taken interpretation of the Scriptures that, in a
declaration published eight years afterwards by
tiie Associated Presbyterj of Seceders from the
Church of Scotland (and" which will be found in
the Scoti Maf/nzim of 1743) there is clawed
among other national sins, against which they
dedre to testify, "the repeal of the penal statutea
against witches." S,
MnTLATlnK OF SkP^LCHBAL 5rOKFH129TS (B**
S. iv. 284t, 36^1, 4570— ^ly ^^^^ ^^ certain monu-
ments which had suffered mutilation has nrovoked
so many observations in the pages of ^^ N, & Q."
that I cannot let the subject drop without
maldng one or two remarks.
I admit that my language was strong, I in-
tended that it should be so. The uncalled-for
destruction of family records, if condemned at
all, muMt be cond e m ned strongly. H ad th e monu-
mentfl in question been to memhers of my own
family, I should^ without a moment's hesitation,
have placed the matter in the hands of ray soli-
citor ; as they did not, I sent copies of the in-
scriptions in order that for the benefit of future
genealogists, they might be rescued from oblivion*
Vebna assumes that the slabs in question " have
been overlaid by trie paving, more suited to the
sacred eharaetar of the spot" As far as I can
remember, the new paying was of white brichsf
such aa 1 should be sorry ta see^ va. *asj\ 4ssic^
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S'*S.V. Jan.2, »64,
kitchen. Vebna adds, that I am ''unfortunate
in my selection of a sig^nature." When I wrote
the note, I had just come from a place named
P , and wanting to put some letter at the
end of my note, ex P. suggested itself to me, and
so I wrote XP. I hope this solution of Vebna's
" mare's nest " will prove as satisfactory as that
equally intricate puzzle which, when deciphered,
was " Bill Stumps, his mark."
I a^ree entirely with the remarks made by
Mr. H. T. Ellacombb and Mr. P. Hutchinsok,
whom I have to thank for writing replies which I
felt too idle to do myself. I must add, in con-
clusion, that I think the destruction of our old
sepulchral memorials — the only witnesses to the
greatness of many a bygone family — is to be
deeply lamented. And I would ask, what place
is so well fitted as the House of God to oe a
storehouse and record room of the names and
actions of those who, while living, have worshipped
at His altars, who are numbered among the faith-
ful departed, and whose actions
** Smell sweet and blossom in the duat " ?
XP.
A friend of mine visited Hereford Cathedral
lately on purpose to see if the tombstone of a
great-ffreat-grandparent required rechiselling or
any other repairs. Alas I the cathedral had been
" restored." The tombstone was gone, and nothing
could be learned about it ; and the whole of that
part of the floor had been relaid with heautiftd tiles
to look like marbles and granites. The sooner this
sort of thing is put a stop to the better. P. P.
LoNeBviTY OF Clergymen (3'* S. iv. 370, 602.)
To the instances named by your correspondents
you may add the following : — The Rev. William
Kirby, the celebrated entomologist, was rector of
Barham, in Suffolk, sixty-eight years, and died
July 4, 1860, in the ninety-first year of his age.
(2^(5, by Freeman, p. 606.)
Dr. William Wall, the author of Vie History of
Infant Beqttism, was vicar of Shoreham, in Kent,
fifty-three years, and died January 13,- 1727-8,
aged eighty-two years. (Hook's Ecclesiastical
Biography, vol. viii. p. 642.) Dt, Wall was suc-
ceeded in the vicarage of Shoreham by the Kev.
Vincent Perronet, who held it fifty-nine years, and
died May 9, 1786, aged ninety-two years. (Me-
moir of Mn Perronet in the Arminian Magazine,
yoL xxii. 1799.) The case of two clergymen, one
immediately following the other, and together
officiating in the same parish for the space of one
hundred and twelve years, is a length of sacred
service I think not often paralleled.
Geo. I. Cooper.
Ehret, Flower Painter: Barberhh Vasb
(S^ S. iv. 432.)— I have a catalogue of the sale of
the Portland Museum, with the purchasers' names
and the prices in manuscript. There were many
purchasers of the works of the above flower-
painter. Among them are the names of Lady
Weymouth, who bought sixty-two pieces. Lady
Stamford twenty. Lord Brownlow twenty-seven,
Wedgewood (the potter) eighty. Lord Parker
nine. Walker ninety-two, Shepherd fifty-one,
Morrison thirty-six, and many others. I find the
prices varied from 1/. Ss. to SI. ISs. Qd, the lot of
four paintings. The celebrated Wedgewood was
a purchaser of prints and other things at this sale,
and the following note in the catalogue regarding
his bidding for the Barberini Vase may not be
imacceptable : — " y)29/., bought for the Duke of
Portland ; cost the Duchess 1300/. Mem., the
contest for the vase was between his Grace and
Mr. Wedgewood. On his Grace asking Mr.
Wedgewood why he opposed him, he replied, 'He
was determined to have it, unless his Grace per-
mitted him to take a mould from it for his pottery,
as he wished to possess every rare specimen of art
that could be attained ; ' on which his Grace gave
Wedgewood his consent, and the vase was knocked
down, and immediately put into the hands of Mr.
Wedgewood. who has moulded from the same in
imitation of oronze, &c.''
I notice Marryatt, in The History of Porcelain,
states it was knocked down to the Duchess at
1800/., whereas my Catalogue states 1029/. Which
is correct ? A. P. D.
Rev. Thomas Craig (8"> S. iv. 325.) — The
Rev. Thomas Craig, minister of the Associate
Congregation of Whitby, 1789, who published
Three Sermons on Important Subjects, Whitby,
1791, of the time of whose death your correspon-
dent, S. Y. R., wishes to be informed, was my
father. He died in the year 1799.
Thomas Craig,
SLxty-one years Pastor of the Congregational
Church at Bocking.
Dr. David Lamont (3'* S. iv. 498.) — Dr.
David Lamont, about the date of whose death
S. Y. R. makes inquiry, died in 1837. I cannot
tell the day of the year, but that mav, I suppose,
be had, from any contemporary local newspaper.
He was Moderator of the General Assembly of
the Church of Scotland in 1822, and preached be-
fore King George IV. in the High Church of
Edinburgh, on the forenoon of August 25, same
year. S.
Baptismal Names (3"* S. iii. 328 ; iv. 608.)—
I should say that in case of anv objectionable
name being given at the font, sucn as those cited
at p. 328, vol. iii., a refusal might be made to bap-
tise on the ground of the sponsors attempting to
throw scorn, and to bring contempt, upon so
solemn an office of the church. I very much
doubt, however, whether any cler^man could re-
fuse to give such a name as " Bessie." In one re-
8'dS.V. Jaw. 2, '64.]
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gister I have seen the Dame ** Bob " recorded, and
a clergyman of my acquaintance baptised one of
bis own children by the name " Tom." " Kate,"
too, is of frequent occurrence. Whether Sir
Thomas Dick Lauder's second name was a sur-
name; or an abbreviation of Richard, I cannot
say. OxoNiENsis.
TrniDBS (3"» S. iv. 139, 318.)— I have no
conjecture as to who or what is intended by
" Tydides ; " but a hint or two may "^ut others in
the way which I cannot find. Of course the head
of the clerical Melanippus on the table is that of
some clergyman ill-used by his bi8hop,^perhapa
his preferment eaten up. Fojt the meal of Tydeus,
see omith^s Classical Dictumaryy iii. 1195.
The " blazon" of Tydeus is given by iEschylus:
"Ex** 8* Mp4>poy ffTJfi hr' iunrl^os rSBfy
^K^yovB' vr Atrrpois obpayhv Ttrvy fi^voy *
Upwourrw iffrpwVf mtxrhi i^doKfios irp/irci.
Sqttem contra Thebaic v. 389.
Tydides has added to the arms of Tydeus,
Gwiilim says : —
** He beareth azure, the sun, the full moon, and the
■even starres, or ; the two first in chiefe, and the last
of orbicular form in base. It is said that this coate
armour pertained to Johannes de Fontibus, sixth bishop
of Ely, who had that fafter a sorte) in his escutcheon
which Joseph had in his dream.** — Gwiilim, Display of
Heraldne, p. 123, second ed. 1632.
Was any bishop of Ely, about a century ago,
charged (after a sorte) with ecclesiastical can-
nibalism ? H. B. C.
U. U. Club.
CAPNOBATiB (3^ S. iv. 497.)— The only in-
formation I am aware of, respecting the Capno-
batse, is in the French translation of Strabo, where
it is suggested that intoxication by inhaling smoke
and using the vapour of linseed as a bath are
intended by that designation, referring to He-
rodotus (i. 202, iv. 76). With due siibmission,
I think this very doubtful. Strabo, in the section
previous to the mention of the CapnobataB (vii.
lii. 2), refers to the Hippemolgi (milkers of
mares), Galactophagi (people who live on milk),
Abii (people devoid of riches), Hamaxced (dwel-
lers in waggons) ; and in the two following sec-
tions he mentions the Capnobatce (people who
cover the smoke), who are described as religious
(etarc^tiy), and abstaining from animal food (^/i-
^iptv)y but who lived in a quiet way on honey,
milk, and cheese. They were also remarkable
(Strabo, yii. iii. 4) for living in a state of celi-
bacy, which they also adopted from religious
motives. The obvious inference, I conceive, is.
that requiring no cooking, the Oapnobatae closea
the aperture (icairyo8<{in}), which served as a chim-
ney, and thus received the characteristic descrip-
tion of Kajrvo€((rai, people who cover the smoke.
Th^ir resemblance to the Hindoos cannot escape
notice : —
" Contrary to what might have been expected in a hot
climate, but aijreeable to the custom of almost all Hin-
doos, one small door is the only outlet for smoke, and the
only inlet for air and light." (•* The Hindoos," L.EJ[.
I 387.)
Their stat« of celibacy also had its parallel
amongst the Hindoos, who, by destroying female
infants, augment the ratio of the males, and con-
sequently of unmarried men, leading thereby to
the legitimatised prostitution of which Ceylon and
the Nairs of Malabar furnish examples. (The
Ilifidoos, i. 247, 285-287.) To remedy this evil,
marriage is rigidly enforced by the Hindoo parent
on his child, even prior to maturity, and the
widower speedily provides himself with another
wife. (Id, i. 284.) The geographical connection
is thus shown: "Tartary, or the environs of
Mount Caucasus, is the original natal soil of the
Bi-ahmins." (Id. i. 3^2.) This chain reaches to
the east shore of the Euxine, whilst the Mysii or
MsBsi, amongst whom the Cannobatee are found,
occupy the south-western and western coasts of
the same sea. The linguistic connection of the
Hindoos, the Romans and Greeks, is well ascer-
tained. This brief notice of the Capnobatae, which
Strabo extracts from Posidonius (a teacher of
Cicero), is an historical trace^of what baa been
called the Thraco-Pelasgian origin of the Greeks.
T. J. BUCKTOH.
Joseph Washington (3"* S. iv. 616.)— He
died a year later than is stated in the reply to
C. J. K., as his will was dated Feb. 25, and
proved April 7, 1693-4. He describes himself
as, not of Graves Inn, but "of the Middle Temple,
Gentleman.'' If he had a son John, he was probably
dead at the date of his will, for he provides for
his '' only daughter Mary,'' and then leaves the
residue of his pronerty to his son Robert^ who was
still living in 1703. The daughter, Mary, was
unmarried in 1739, when she proved the will of
her aunt Sarah Rawson. The earliest ancestor to
whom I can yet trace him positively was Eichard
Washington, gent., of co. Westmoreland, who, ac-
cording to an Inq. p. m, died Jan. 3, 1666-6. He,
Joseph Washington, is mentioned in Wood's Athen,
Oxon, (ed. Bliss) iv. 394, 8ub. James Harrington.
J. L. C.
Handasyde (S^ S. iv. 29, 96, 432.)— The will
of the Hon. Major-General Thomas Handasvd
(not Handasydtf), who died in his eighty-mth
year, March 26, 1729, is probably at Huntingdon.
Joseph Rix, M.D.
St. Neot*8.
Eablt Mabbiages (8"* S. iv. 616.)— I am
much interested in the inquiry started by Vectis,
and am tolerably weU. ^nn^^aaN.'^^ -«>i5ia. t«e«^
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[3^- 8, V, Jan. % VJi.
nence literature; bat do not know that any
J ,mter \m» entered upon a scleiitific demonstrrttiou
of the mptubvte, tbrtt early marriages tend to
purity 01 nioraU. The atBtement haa often been
tunde in fugitive essays, associiited with a con-
ieLiinAtion of thft «dvice given, and so often re-
'iteratfcd by a certain cla«s of economists, ajki^niust
early nmrriflges There have been n^ yet no data
. on which to establish it positively. The statistics
ec«?ntly publiahed in relation to Scotland, show-
Dg the great number of ilh^gitimate births in
Kce«a over the standard of Ireland, and even
Soglaiid — when taken in connection with other
[estubliahed fncta — will go far to prove that " fore-
^BJght and restraint" in etilering upon marriage
mav he a great evil It diiet> not follow that
early marriages are always imprudent ones ; but
that doctrine hue been taught to n most itijurious
extent. When this complex question is eutt-red
I lipon fairly, and the condition of Ireland con-
|||raj»ted wfih that of Scotland, it will be found
that great mistakes have been itH^de in our in-
vest igationa, and that hasty coucluiiiona haye been
arrived iit.
The whole question 14 a mo^t important one,
but to pursue it would not be coniri^teut with the
objects of *' N, & Q/' I am now manipulating
the Statistical Returns of the Three Kin^rdoms,
with the yiew^ of lilucidating this «ubject, Vectis
will do well to consult Que tele t In his Treatise
tm Mnn fsee Chambers's People's Edition) will be
found some valuable tables, accompanied by his
own remarks. Although he does not enter upon
tbia inquiry ?peciallyi his chapters, where he
examines into the causes whicu inlluence the
frcundity of marriiiges, may be read with much
^' ' ' who are interested in the
before us. It may be well
J i« . -I f. i^ I ( I Hi Mj 1 r r- ;idler*s work, Tl*e Lmv of Pnpw
wiutwn. Both these wori[s were published before
f onr statiistical knowledge had assumed a detinite
form, lint they are valuable in every research of
this kind. T. B.
Rkvai.e^ta (3"* S. iv. 496,)— I remember the
[first introductioD of the article now called " IJeva-
^lenta.'* I knew the man who first prepared it,
^♦nd advertised it under the name of *' Er^alenta."
It was then merely the meal of ground lentils ;
not of tho Ei^yptian sort, but the common lentil, of
ft lighter cohmr. The b<jt^mical name of the lentil
la ii>riiw» lifij ; and probably the name Ermtmta
"~ found rather too trsuspai-ent : and «io, by
tmnftpo-ing the first two letters, the article waa
^ ^-'aled, and swimo mTBtifieation gained —
Ji ivparation is now named ** Kevalentu/'
F* C, H.
Pa I'lnt -Makers* Tfitm; AI vkkk 00'** S iv*
nir> )_r d.>ubt if ; i of the trafte
mark^ i,[ the ol«l ; uid th« water*
marks in their papers, haa ever been published;
but the late Mr Dawson Turner had collected a
large quantity of specimens of old paper, which
he showed me with great self-gratulation on his
success in what he believed to be a hitherto un-
pai?u*>d inquiry. He entered into the «ubj»^cl
with lively mterest ; had all his samples of paper
arranged in chronologicJil order, and initiated me
readily into t!ie mysteries of •* Pot," " Crown/*
•* Feather,** and " Foobcap/* I quite understoiid
from liim that he could determine the age of the
paper by its texture and water-mark. vVhetheir
oe contemplated the publication of the resulta of
Ilia regearches in this line, I do not know ; nor,
have I any idea what l>Hcame of his large collec-
tion of old papers, which I suppose were sold, to-
gether with his extensive library, and very curious
and valuable collections in vaiioua other depart-
menta. F. L\ 11.
CHKisTiAif Namrs (3^'' S. iv. Sm, 41*3, 526.}—
A coiTespondent asks, how we are to account for
the great prevalence of P«gan names in a Catholic
country like France, if, as 1 had asserted, the
Catholic Church so ranch disapproves of Chris-
tiana beoi-iug baptisimal names which are not
Christian, luid admonishes her cl- ' > ' ■-
rate them ? I answer that the ! j,
when C.^hri8tianity wjv^ openly diwn^^ ii^u, an
eical models were aifected in everything, ^'
count in great meiHure for the inti'^n-
Pagan names; but it must also be r d
that many such names are altto the nam ...14"
tian saints, and as such allowuble. The following
occur to me at this moment: Achillea, Alexander,
Apollo, Bacchus, Horace, Justin, I^eanderi Luciano
Marcian, Martial, Marius, Nesitor, Plnto^ PoDiOp
Socrates, \'alerian. F. C H,
Ag Mad as a Hattkr f2»*» i^^ iv* 4(J2.)—
Although an inquiry reHpecting thia simile ap-
jieared in ** N. & Q." as far back oa June 1860,
It has not hitherto elicited a reply. The phrase,
however, has now ag^n come up in that very
amusing volume, Capt. Gronow's Revf.Mn'tifmM tmd
AnecdottSf 2nd series [may it be followed by a
third!] 1803, pp. 151, 152:— **on the subject of
politico, my dear Alvanley, ktf is tin mt^ as n
One is at a lofla to understand wby a hatter
should be made the type of insanity rather than
a tailor or a shoemaker; but may not thophm«
in question be thus , — 1^1^ The French
compare an ineapabh' liuded person lo
an oyster i— " He '-- - . . . i ^ »y»»tei* ' {hHHrt),
I would suggest, . that,* through simi-
larity of sound, L . . . li halhc may, in tho
eJi»el)efore u*<, have given occ anion Ui iJjfs Eng-
lish '* halter." From ** U misonno f.^mTVi^ nne
huiUt *' may have come out " as mad
Thero ans other atiuilar ioititucoa, u .ij
A
B^S.V. Jan. 2, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
25
k followed imther than signiiimtion. So In our
Teniae tilar pbraae, *' That's the ch^m" ; i, e,
" ThAt'a the thing *' (cAa»e). Schijt.
John Hasmsoit (3"" S. iv. 626,)— " Jotan
HorrioB** if of coursa an anFtgram of John Har-
rison. What was the relation of tbia person to
his hero, *' Longitude '* Ilftrriaon, and what led
Mm to adopt io tmnapar^nt a deirico for concf^aling
lib identiiy f Job J, B* Wohxaud,
STEPMofBEma' Blbsstkos (3^^ S. i^. 403.)— The
troubteeome splinters of eMn, which are of tan
fomifd near the KMite of the naila, are prohably
called " eteppiother's hleaaingSj" upon the same
prindpte that they are called ** back*fnenda ; ' '
Dotb ejcpressions deflignating somethinjic odious^
and bringing no good. F. C. H.
"Jou,r Nose" (3'^ S. ir. 488.)— An edition
of Olivier Baeselto'a Vaux de Vire was published
hj M, Louts du Boia io 1821, together with some
Norman songB of the tifteenth centarr from a
MS. till then unedited. Job J. B, \Vobkaki>.
Jake the Fool (3'<* S. It. 453, 623.)— Some
of the entries relatinj^ to thia person io Sir F.
Madden'a edition of the Prity Pttrg^ ETpemes of
the Prtnces9 Mart^ would saem to sujj^fjreat that she
waa the Tictim of meotol disease. Tbu tirst entrj
in which she is mentaoned bears date 1537. In
1543, in foar succfsaive months^ March, Aprils
May, and June, there ia a charge of 4rf, per month
for shaving her head. In Julj there is a char^
for 22a. 6dL paid to her duriujr sickneas. In
August, her bead ia again i^haved. In the suc-
ceeding January, the charge for shaving her head
ia M,, and a like entry appears in July, August,
&tid September, 1544. All the other entries re^
ferriog to her are far clothiog. In 1556, she bad
tome disorder of the eye. Is there anythiog to
fibow that she acted as a jester F
Job J. B. Woek.uid.
Eabthkitwabe Vessels touhd is CsTJBcnEa
(!■* and 2** S./Mw«Vn*)— Numerous communica-
tions have appeared in the !■* and 2°** Series of
" N. & Q." on the subject of the earth bn jars, or
potSp which have been found in several churchea
imbedded in the masonry, and generally under-
neath the stalls of the choir. Io one of these
(I" S. X. 434), I described a jar of this Mnd in
my poeseasion ; which was found, in 16^11, be-
neath the choir of St, Peter's MttQcroftr Norwich.
I saw several of the jars as they lav in the ma-
sonry horiEootallyi with their mouths outward,
though it could not be ascertained whether tbey
ever protruded or appeared in the wall. I gave
an opinion that they might have been intended
for sepulchral vases, to receive the ashes of the
hearty or some other part of the body of the
canons ; but that opinion I have for some time
excbasged for the far morts probable one^ that
they were intended to increafle the sound of tha
singing.
Indeed, I eonetder the question quite set at
rest by a recent paoer in the GtntlemntCs Mma--
stite for November last, where the following ia
quoted from the Chronicle of the Order of the
Ueleatines at Ketz, for the year 1432 :
"It was ordered that pots shoM be mftde far the choir
^f the church of Ceans, be (Br. Odo) sUting that he had
secu such lu another church, and thinking th^t ther
maao the chantuig neaound more stroagly."
It, is added, that such jars have boen found in
several churches in France, inserted horizontally ia
the wall, with their mouths emerging, F. C* IL
NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC
Miit*(m; mth im Ititradnctfjnf DUKrtaJtim oh tome
ear/y Usa^et nfihe Church m /rehnd, (md ifci historical
loMttionffom the EitahHthmeni nfihe Ef^gfiih €iflQRui&
the pre^mt Day. B^ Jus. Hen thorn Todd, D.D., 4c.
DubtiQ. (Hodgea, Smith, St Co,)
Any of oar readers who bavfi ever tafled (as was
latdy our own fortune^ through the previous biogmphies
uf St, Patrick, and toed to sia truth from* fabte in the
wntiuga of Us»her, Ware, Betham, Lanigan, aad Cotton,
wdl appreciate the welcome with whjeh we opened this
scholariy menjoir of Dr. Todd. The accomplished author
hafl studied to prod ore a complete monof^nph upon the
early history of Christbnity in Ireland, iiihjoinJog be-
aidfia twme Bupplemeoury reinarkn on the preaeat post-
Lion of the Rftabli^hed Chureh. He thinkt} it tiecesaarr
to argue for the hifltorical eKiAteod^ of the Saint, in oppo^
gition to the ultrn-Protesiaiit extravagance-, whit:h would
reactive the Apoj^tly of Ireland into a mythical personage;
he denies Patrick's a'jterled comml-'Jiion from Pope Ccle»-
tine, m wanting authority to establisib it, and scout? the
later fables by which the S^lnt'a real bli^tory has been
obKured. lie di«;uf«M\'i the whtilesate conv'emon of the
Iiiflh cldu^ umier thu iofiueoce of their chie^, and their
relapse into Pruidlsm after Putrick hid been leEnoved —
a uaernl lesson to our mlsaioiiariea in the preaentday.
He examlnett minutely into the Aingnlarepiseftpate which
obtained so long among the Irish, and the multlplicatmn
of biabops wiibout a see, who^ie wanderinij mini^tnitiona
were 0.5 unwelcome to the Eni;li:ib prelates of the day a^
Irish preaching hm since been atnon^ ourselves. He
d(M^rib^ at tenexth the ancient monn-^tLc infstitutions of
the country, which Patrick was so injiitnimentfll in iii-
au^narntin^, and in connection with stima of the unrnks,
tells a cnrifjua sitory of primitive copy- right Jaw, which
will amuae some of our literary readens. St* Flnnian
posaeseed a beaut tful copy of the Go»pcb ; St. Golttmba
boTToweij it, and made a trjinsoript ofit by stealth. Fm*
nian heard of the fVaud, and cJ aimed the eopy as his
own i and King Dinmiait, before whom the holy monks
carried their cause, decided in F Ionian's favour, with the
remark, " that as the cow ia the owner of her calf, so the
Book is the owner of aoy transcript made from it," Bat
for more of this sort, and for a great deal more valuable
lesming, we must send our readers to Dr. Todd'a in-
teresting and scholnriy volume.
7^e Scten d$es o/Moir, Described by Wifltam Shtxkipmrt,
Depicted b^ Robert Smirke. (L. Booth.)
The bits EoWrt Smirke's IlltistraCiona of Shakspeare'a
Stisai Aga are almoat va well known as the matchlffin
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bit of description which called them into existence.
They are here reproduced in miniature by Photography,
together with the Droeshout Portrait and the Monument,
and form a quaint and interesting little volume.
Ijetters of Queen Margaret of Anjou and B'uhop Becking-
ion and otherg. Written in the Reigns of Henry V. and
Jffenrg VL From a MS. found at Emral in Flintehire.
Edited hy Cedl Monro, Esq. (Camden Society.)
When we say that this volume contains a series of
early letters comprising, first. Forty-two Letters written
during the reign of Henry V. and Heniy VI. before his
Marriage ; secondly, seventeen Letters of Bishop Beck-
ington, written for the most part in the year 1442, when,
being then King's Secretaiy, he was on the pomt of
embarking as Ambassador to the Connt of Armagnac ;
and thirdly. Letters of Queen Margaret of Anjou after
her Marriage in 1445 ; and that the whole space of time
covered by these Letters mav be stated roughly at about
forty years, namely, from the Battle of Agincourt to the
Commencement of the Wars of the Roses, we have said
enough to prove the obligations which historical students
are under to the Bev. Theophilus Pulston for permitting
their publication, to Mr. Cecil Monro for the care and
learning witli which he has edited them, and to the
Camden Society for its judicious application of its funds
in giving so curious a series of documents to the press.
A Dictionary of the Bible^ compriting AnHquitie»y Bio-
graphy ^ Geography, and Natural History. By various
Writers, ifdiierf 6y William Smith, LL.D. Part XL
(Murray.)
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t
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CHRONICLES OF THE ANCIENT BRITISH
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the Ancient British Church,' has so collected the material fVom the
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densed the records, that there is no longer this plea. We recommend
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June 1«, 1S65.
** An excellent manual, eontainlng a Iar« amount of Infbrmation
on a snbjeot little known, and still less understood. We reoonunend
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LONDON, SATURDAY, JANUARY 9, 1864.
CONTENTS.— N« 106.
NOTES: — Walter Traven. B.D.. Ac^ 27 — Juitioe AHm
Park. 28 — Jamec Kirkwood. C9 - Of WH. SO - Dr. Robert
Wauchop. 31 — A }'a«sion for witnessing Bxeoutions —
lionftevity — Micbael Johnson of Lichflnld — Amen — Ring
Mottoes — Charlemont Earldom and Viitcount, 8S.
QURKIK8 : — AnonYmons-Mrs. Barbanld's Pmse Hymns—
Barial*plaoe«>r Still-born Children- Churchwarden Queiy
— Csptain Alfxinder Cheyne— Earl of Dalbousie — *' Pais
ce que tu dois," ^—Giants and Dwarfs— General Lam-
bert—The Laird of Lee— Langu>ffe given to Han to con-
ceal his Thoughts - Harriett LiTermore : the Pilgrim
Stranger—Madman's Pood tai»ting of Oatmeal Porridge-
Sir Edward May — B^-v. Peter FfH!kard. D.D.- Penny
Loaves at Funerals- Mr. W. B. Rhodes-Scottish For-
mula—Trade and Improvement of Ireland — Wild Men
— Portnut of General Wolf by Gainsborough, 83.
QiTXBiss WITH AirswsRS:- ** Adsmus Exul * of Grotius—
Cambridge Bible — BriUnnia on Pence and Halfpence —
John Wigan, M.D.— John Reynolds — Richard Gedn«'y —
Arms of Sir William St-nnoke-Wegh - Twelfth Nisht:
the worst Pun — Portrait of Bishop Uorsley — ** Educa-
tion/' 36.
REPLIES ; — Jeremy Collier on the Stage, Ac, 88- Roman
Games. 89 — St. Patrick and the Shamrock, 40— Uanrev
of Wangey House, tf-Virgir* Testimony to our Saviours
Advent — Richard Adams — Thomas Coo— George Bankes
—Quotation — Sir Nicholas Throgmorton — Pen-tooth —
Margar«'t Fox — Prith — Tedded Grass — Pew R^nU —
Longevity of Clergymen — Msy: Tri-Mllohi — Phol^s,
Ac. 42.
Notes on Books, Ac.
WALTER TRAVERS, B.D.,
•OUBTIMB LECTURER AT THE TEMPLE, A2n> PBOYOST
OF TRINITY COLLEGE, DUBLLN.
Bom circa 154S ; died in London, Jan. 1634.
In no published memoir of the life of this cele-
brated divine, have I ever met with an account
of his parentage, or the place of his birth ; the
following notes, may, therefore, be of use to some
future biographer, and save him the trouble of a
protracted search.
The will of "Walter Travers, Clerk," was
5 roved in London, at the Prerogative Court, on
an. 24, 1634, and in a clause of it is contained
this brief reference to his family :— ^
** My father dying seized of three tenements in Not-
tingham, left the one to his daughter Anne, and the other
two to his three sonnes then liveing, that i.<«, to me the
said Walter, the Eldest, John the next, and Humphry,
the youngest," &c.
Following up this clue, I recently found that,
among the inhabitants of Nottingham chargeable
to the subsidies of the 35th and 37th Hen. VIII.,
and the 13th Eliz., there lived, at " Brydelsmyth
Gate, w'^^in y* towne of Notyngham," a certain
" Walterus Travers," by occupation a " Qold-
smyth." I was afterwards lucky enough, at
York, to meet with bis will ; and as it, at once,
? roves that the goldsmith was fiftther to the divine,
think I need not apologise to the readers of
" N. & Q." for giving it in fuU :—
*<In the Name of God, Amen: the fiftenth daie of
September, in the yeare of our Lorde God a thonsande,
five hundrith, seaventie and five, I Walter Travers, of
the Towne of Nottinghm, Gold Smythe, beinge weeke
and feeble in bodie, but of good, sownde, and perfect re-
membrance, thanks be to God thearfore, do ordaine and
make this my laste Will and Testaroente, in mann' and
forme followeinge : First, and before all thinge^s I comende
me into the handes of oare Lorde, who haste created
and redemed me, beschinge the most humblye, for Jesos
Christe sake, pardon and forgiveness of all my synes ;
asseuringe myself also nndoubtedlie, as trustinge to thy
promeys, 0 lorde, which cannot deceave, that, altho* I
be in my selfTe most unworthie of thy Grace, yet, for that
Jesos Christe, thoue wilte receive me to the. Not ac-
comptinge to me my synes for whiche he hathe suffered,
and fully satisfied thie Justice allredie ; but imputing to
me, of thie fre grace and mercie, that hoh-nes and obe-
dience whiche he hathe performed, to thie moste perfecte
lawe, for all those that shoulde beleve in hime, and come
unto the, in his nanie. W^ithe faithe, O lorde, seinge that
of thy goodnes thoue haste wroughte and planted in me,
by the preachinge of the hollie go^pell, I stedfastelle hope
for the performance of thy promyse, and everlastlnge
lifTe in Jesus Christe. This blessed hope shall reste with
me to the laste daie, that thoue rayse me upp agane, to
enjoye that liffe and glorie that now I hope for. Thear-
fore, I commende my sowle into the handes of God, my
bodie I Will that yt be honest lie buried, and lade upp in
pease to the com^nige of the Lorde Jesus, when he shall
come to be glorified in his Sayntes, and to be marvelous
in theme that beleve ; in that daie when this corruptible
shall put on incorruptible, and this raortall immortalitie,
accordinge to the Scriptures. And as for those goods and
landes that God bath given me, I declare this my Will,
and fun mynde and intcnte tbearof, in forme followinge :
that is tu sale, I give and bequctbe all and singular that
my messuage, house, stable, and gsrdens thearto belong-
inge, whiche I latelie purchased of Thomas Cowghem,
late of the saide towne of Nottingham, slderman, deceased,
wherein I nowe dwell, to Anne Travers my Wiffe, for
and duringe her naturall lifie, and after her decease, to
Anne Travers my daughter, and to theires of her bodie
lawefullie begotten and to bo begotten : And, for defalto
of such issue, to Walter Traverse, John Traverse, and to
Humfrey Travers, my Sones, equallie amongste theme,
and to theires of theire bodies lawefuUie begotten and to
be begotten: And, for defalte of such Issue, to the righto
heires of me the saide Walter Travers, the Testator, for
ever. Further, I will that the saide Anne, my wiffe,
duringe her liffe, and allso the saide Anne, my daughter,
duringe her lyfle, after the decease of my said Wiffe,
havinge the saide messuage and prcmyses, shall give and
paie yearlie ten shillinges at two usuall daies in the yeare,
by even pof cons, to my Overseers ; to be by theme dis-
tributed to suche poore people, within the towne of Not-
tingham, as they shall thinke moste mete and conveniente.
Allso, I give and bequethe all my other lands, tenements,
and hereditaments^ not before b^ xba, ^<eBk*v&.'<^cS»^^s^
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[3'« S. V. Jan. y, o*.
Testamente and presente laate Will, to my said Wiflfe
Anne Traverse during her naturall liffe; and after her
decease, lo my saide three Sones, Walter, John, and
Hamfrey, eqaallle amongestc them, or so many of theme
as shal be then liylngo, and to theires of theire bodies
lawefullie begotten and to be begotten : and, for defalte
of such Issue, to Anne Travers my daughter, and to
theires off her bodie Jawefullie begotten and to be be*
gotten ; and for defalte of such Issue, to the righte heirs
of me the saide Walter Travers for ever. And I will
that' my saide daughter Anne peaceablie permjrtt and
suffer my saide thre sones to have and enjoye the saide
lapdes to them bequithed, which I boughto of Robert
Wynscll; notwithstanding anie bondes, or assurance
thearof, heartofore by me to the saide Annc^ or to her
use, made. And fur the disposinge of my goods and
chatteUs that God hathe given me, I will that my debts
be paide and my funeralLs discharged, of the whole : and
the rescdewe of all my goods and chattells, gold, silver,
plate, and howeshoulde stuff, moveable and un move-
able (my debts paide and funralls. discharged), I give to
Anne my Wiffe, and to Anne Travers my daughter,
equaUie betwixte theme. And I do make and ordeine
the saide Anne my Wiffe, and my saide daughter my full
Executrices of this my Testament and laste Will ; and I
make my wellbeloved Sones, Walter and John Travers,
Supvisors of the same, to sc the same justlie and trewlie
executed,' done, and performed : thois beinge Witnesses —
Lawrence Brodbent, Esquire ; the Queen es Highnes Re-
ceiver within the Counties of Xottinghm and Derbic —
Thomas Atkinson — Symon Willson — Richard Ogle—
Arthure Francis — John Warde, and others.'*
"This will was proved in the Exchequer Court
of York, 18th January, 1576, by the Oaths of Ann
Travers (Widow, the Relict), and Anne Trovers
(the daughter), the ("o-Executrixes therein named;
to whom probate was granted, they having been
lirst sworn duly to administer."
Two of the three sons herein-nanipd, Walter
and Humphry, entered at (^nmhridgts, where
Humphry became Fellow of C.C. Coll., and after-
wards married, but left no issue male. Of Walter,
the future I-recturer at the Temple, and opponent
of Hooker, I leave the Messrs. Cooper to give
an account, in their valuable Athence Cantabi'idg'
tenses,
John Travers, Fecond son, took his degree at
Oxford in 1570, and was afterwards presented to
the Rocti>ry of Faringdon, Devon, which he held
until his death in 1(520, He married, on July 25, i
1580, Alice, daughter of John Hooker of Exeter,
and sister to Richard Hooker, Master of the
Temple. This fact explains a sentence in Walter
Travers's Supplication to the Lords of the Council
(Hooker's Worksj iii. 557), where, speaking of
Hooker, he saya : —
** Hoping to live in aU godly peace and comfort with
him, both for the acquaintance and good will which hath
lieeu lietween ua, and for some bond of affinity in the
marriage of his nearest kindred and mine.'*
The issue of this marriage was four sons —
Elias, Samuel, John, and Walter — who all were
educated at Cambridge, and entered the chtirch.
Ellas Travers died rector of Thurcaston, Leices-
tershire, in 1641 ; Samuel was ejected from his
vicarage of Thorverton, Devon, in 1646, and
died soon after; John was presented to the
vicarage of Brixhom, Devon, in 1617 ; "was
ejected therefrom in 1646, and died curate of St.
Helen's, Isle of Wight, in 1659 ; and Walter
became Chaplain to King Charles I., was pre-
sented in succession to the Rectory of Steeple
Ashton, Wilts; the Vicarage of Wellington,
Somerset; and dying. Rector of Pitminster,
April 7th, 1646, was buried in Exeter Cathedral
Ot these four brothers, John and Walter only
married ; one of the sons of Walter being Thomas
Travers of Magdalen Coll. Camb., M.A. in 1644,
who .became Lecturer at St. Andrew's, Plymouth,
and Rector of St Columb Major, from which
living he was ejected by the Bartholomew Act, in
1662.
Perhaps some Nottinghamshire antiquary can
assist me in hunting up the origin of the old gold-
smyth of " Brydelsmyth Gate,*' from whom de-
scended so many distinguished men ? or can, at
least, point to some class of records likely to bear
fruit P If so, he would confer a great favour on
me, by adopting a like method of imparting his
information. H. J^ S.
Oxford.
JUSTICE ALLAN PARK.
Some thirty or fortv years ago, this learned
judge was travelling the' Northern Circuit with
one of his brother Judges of Afisize, and it hap-
pened that the business at an assize town was not
got through till late on a Saturday. It was abso-
lutely necessary to open the Commission on the
following Monday at the next assize town, which
was at a great distance in those days of travelling,
and either for that reason*, or because of the heavy
business to be disposed of there, Justice Park
propsed to his brother judge to set off late on
the Saturday, and to get as far as they could that
night, so that they might avoid the necessity of
journeying any part of the way on the Sabbath.
Ilis brother judge, who was not so scrupulous on
that point, protested against the proposal, and the
result was a compromise, the terms of which were,
that they should start at a very early hour on the
Sunday morning, and attend divine service at
whatever church they might reach in time for the
morning service. It thus happened that between
ten and eleven o'clock the steeple of a small parish
church within a ^ort distance from the high road
was sighted, and the postboys were ordered to
make for it. Thus the inhabitants of si quiet
country village in the Wolds were thrown into a
8r* S. V. Jan. 9, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
29
state of " intense excitement " by the announce-
ment that ** niy Lords the Judges " were coming
to church. The rector select^ a sermon, on
which he rather prided himself; the churchward-
ens dusted out the squire's pew, where their
lordships might be the observed of all observers,
and the rector's wife and daughters selected their
best bonnets in honour of an event, the like of
which had certainly never occurred before within
the memory of the very " oldest inhabi^nf The
Judges were ushered into church witn as much
state as could be mustered by the parish autho-
rities for the occasion, and all went perfectly well
and in order till the termination of Morning
Prayer, when the psalm was to be given out. In
those days, the selection of the psalms was con-
fided to the uncontrolled discretion of the parish
clerk, who, when the tidings of the arrival of the
au^st personages reached his ears, had become
quite as much alive to the importance of the proper
performance of his duties upon the occasion as
the rector and churchwardens were. His guide
in the selection of psalms upon special occasions
had been the Table of Psalms set out at the end
of Tate and Brady's Version, giving alphabeti-
cally the ;lirst words of each psalm. On coming
to the letter S, he found, " Speak, O ye Judges,"
and concluding that the psalm, of which these
were the opening words, must be an appropriate
one, he gave them out, and invited the congrega-
tion to join in singing the 68th Psalm, which they
proceeded to do most heartily, being struck by
the appositeness of the introductory words, and
thus they sang at the two learned judges: —
** Speak, O ye Judges of the Earth,
If just your sentence be?
Or must not innocence appeal
To Heav*n from your decree ?
" Your wicked hearts and judgments are
Alike by malice swayed ;
Your griping hands, bv weighty bribes,
"* To violence betrayed.*'
And so forth ; with all the other denunciations of
the Psalmist upon the imjust Judges of Israel
This is my Note of the circumstances; my
Query is. What was the name of the parish where
they occurred ; who was the rector, and who was
the brother Judge ? who, by the way, was atter-
wards heard to declare publicly that nothing should
ever induce him to go to church again with brother
Park. Dorset.
JAMES KIRKWOOD.
*
Under this name, in the Bihliotheca Britanm'ca,
Watt has rolled two persons into one, beginning
with James Kirkwooa, the Scottish grammarian,
going off to James Kirkwood, the minister of
Astwick, Bedfordshire, and again returning to the
mt, all under the same heading. Misled by this
authority, I have only recently, on becoming pos-
sessed of the several works of these Ki'rkwoods,
discovered the confusion ; and as neither (although
both are of sufficient mark) appear in the new
edition of L<ncnde8t I venture a few jottings by
way of supplviag the deficiency in " N. & Q.'*
James KirKwood, the schoolmaster, was a very
notable character. We first hear of him in 1675,
when he obtained charge of the school at Linlith-
gow j leaning to episcopacy when the Presbyte-
rians were resolved to extinguish it root and
branch from Scotland, Kirkwood soon got into
trouble with his superiors; and the struggle to
maintain office on tne one hand, and to oust the
schoolmaster on the other, which followed, must
have made it a cause cilehre in that quiet burgh.
The clever pedagogue, however, could not hold
his fpround against the local magnates, and the Do-
minie was deposed.
The litigation which arose out of these squab-
bles is recorded in A Short Information of the
Plea betwixt the Toicn Couticil of Linlithgow and
Mr. James Kirkwood, Schoolmaster there, whereof
a more full Account may perhaps come out here^
after, a quarto tract of twenty pages. Kirkwood
here intimates that he has a heavier rod in pickle
for his persecutors, and, being of a ^aggisn and
satirical disposition, he carried his threat mto exe-
cution. Among other charges brought against
him was, that he was '^ a reviler of the Gods of
the people." " By Gods," says Kirkwood, " they
mean the twenty-seven Members of the Town
Council, the Provost four Baillies, Dean of Guild,
Treasurer, twelve Councillors, eight Deacons;
so that the Websters, Sutors, and Tailors are
Gods in Linlithgow."
Tickled with this notion, aod being bent upon
ridiculing the magistrates, he crowned his con-
tempt for the burghal authorities by publishing,
in a small quarto, pp. 79 —
"The Historj' of the Twenty-seven Gods of Unlith-
fow ; Being an Exact and True Account of a Famous
lea betwixt the Town Council of the said Burgh and
Mr. Kirkwood, Schoolmaster there. Seria Mij^ta Jocis."
Edin. 1711,
which contains many curious particulars regard-
ing the social and religious state of afiairs during
the contention for supremacy between the Pres-
byterian and Prelatic parties.
Our schoolmaster, it might be supposed, steered
a safer course in his next appointment at Kelso.
But, no : the same cantankerous humour brought
about a collision there, and we next have Mr.
^irkwood's Flea before the Kirk, and Civil Judi-
catores of Scotland. London : D. E. for the Au-
thor, 1698. Another quarto of about 160 closely
printed pages, containing the story of his subse-
quent wranelings with the Kirk Session and
Presbytery there, in all its minuteness. Beyond
what can be gleamed from. h^& t^^^ -^^s^&O^^^ss^
30
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S^** 8* V. Jah. 9, •
but Utile recorded of thit remarkable character.
In PtfDney'8 HiAtinnf of Linlithgowsfiirey and In
Choluier's Life of Httd^iman^ he is gpokeo of as the
first grammarian of hk day* lie frequeotly him-
aelf alludes to the high repute in which he was
held in thifi respect by his learned oontemporariea,
but I question if he is to be found in any of our
blographiea, or his name oven to be traced in the
British Museum Catalogue.
In addition U) that I have mention ed, I posseas
his Prima Pars GrammatiaB in Metrum redacta :
Attfhort Jacvho Kirkwoodo^ 12mOf Edin. 1075.
With the Privy Council's Privilege for nineteen
year^ ; the Second and Third Parta. Editio S&-
cunda^ 1*170 ; and Ail the Edamples^ both Words
otid Smtetices of the First Part of Grammar^ trans-
lated inio Enj/liih btj I, K. 107(j. Containtid in one
Tolmne.
As with Watt, my first impression on becoming
acquainted with the namea of these Kirkwoods
was, that the grammarian and the minister at
Aatwick were identical, and that Jamee Kirkwood
waa one of the rabbled curatea for whom the
government had to provide for in the south j but
a very slight examination fihowed this to be a mlt»-
take ; and we lind that, while the pugnacious
fichoolmaater was fighting his battles with the
Gods of Linlithgow and Kelso, the minister of
Aatwick was engaged in England with his pasto-
ral duties, and in connection with the lion. Rob.
Boyle, labouring to supply the Irish with a Verna-
cular verMon of the Scriptures, The minister was,
however, alao a Scot. lie figures in Charters
Catnht;ue of Scottvth Writers as ** James Oirdwo<l,
Minister of Minto^ outed tor refusing the Te*t."
The only worit of hia which I have is, A ^'ew
Family Book: ar, the true Interest of FamUifn^
being Directiona to Ponmta and Children, &c
With a Preface by Dr* Homeck, 2nd «dit 12mo,
London, 1003. \ fniinti^piece by Vander Gutch
in two compartments — the happy and the un-
happy family ; the latter a grotesque representa-
tion of th^ wicked parents, with a hopeful lot of
Beven children all in a state of inebriety, with the
iiaual accompaniment of the religious chap-book
— the monster in the corner of the picture vomiting
fiames, indicating a family on the road to Tophot,
Perhaps some other correspondent may be able
to tell us what became of the restless gramma-
tian \ and, if any, what was the relationship be-
twom these two Kirkwooda. J. 0.
OF WIT.
Many of onr old Enpli'-I' arnH* have, in papuing
from one ag« to aooth U either wholly
or in a gnat me«aim, i > .. ^ ual slgniticatioti.
The elder I**I«r»u?U haa iUuatrat«Kl this in a very
ploasijig way in quo of his istitartaiaiag worka.
The word Wit has, however, been overlookedJ
and I have something to any, not in example, bal
in iiluatratton of it.
" Tell me, 0 tell," says Cowley, " what hind <
thing is wU f " a question I admit the prr»p i *
his asking, for be defines it but by negat i
negatives alone. Every one concedes to l.uticfJ
the name of a wit, and that Iludibras abounds *
itit of the finest quality. But this is in ita prefeat^
sense. W^at was wit m one a^e became bombast
or affectation in another : and he who was styled a
wil in the age of Elizabeth is styled a poet now,
*' Nothing,*' says Addison, '* ia so much admired
and ao littl^ understood as tmif." ..." Wit/^*
says Locke, *' lies in the assemblage of ideas, andl
putting those together with quickness and varietyiJ
wherein can be found any resemblance or con -I
gruity, thereby to make up pleasant picture*
agreeable visions in the fancy.'' Addison sho^
that any resemblance cannot be called wit : " thua,'
when a poet tells us the bosom of his mistress ia
as white as snow, there is no wit in the compari-
son ; but when he adds, with a sigh, that it is aa
cold too, it then grows into wit.** * . . *• True j
wit," says the same great writer, " consists in the
reaemblance and congruity of ideaa, and fal^^e wit
in the reaemblance of words. Mixed wit, whic'
we find in Cowley, partakes of the character ol|
both, a composition of pure and true wit/'
I select a few instances of the use of the wor
wit from the works of Bryden : —
•*Tru© wit i» sluirpneiw of conceit, the lowest and
most grovcUiog kiu*l of wit — ctencbea, , . . There arcl
mjiny witty men, but few poets, . . , Sftflk*po«r(p'!ia
c i ^^enerlLtisd into cJeodiea; h\^
i , . . , No mjiii < mi <Msy
hi ijcct for hiii wit» And that 1^
« . . One cannot aay Ilea Juuson wAntCMl wti, i)ut ri»th«^r J
that he waa frugal of It, . . . Wit, iud lAJ^gua^^^ mid I
humour, wo had bdbreJonsMti'imiays. , . , lrlwi>uldl
coiiifMire JonsonwithShukspe«re I iiiuat&cknowli'^l^.' him J
the mure corrci^t iKR^t, but Shakjpc«r(? the »?r^ :u(- 1 wit.
« . , ShakKitCiire, who many times has writ
than any poet in our Iringuage, is far from w
ftlwftvs, or expreBBiitg tli&t wit scoordiug to Lbi: lii^iiikv
tho subject. . . . Dormewas the greatest witi "
fiut Lhts matcat poet, uf our nation. . . . i
Satirtv abound m wit. I may safi^ly say this of th«^ [
aent s^e. that if we are not ao gn^at witj as L^onnc, yet ]
err' ■ ■■»' " - 1..r*..^ (rtjett. . . . Ttf " '^tianl
It hi lie, wit, which 1 ! 14*1 I
tv '!!, . . , r\V ■ TTlt '
fuUv, by iTiii
ofthou^^'btfe u . . , i . .^... , -i >",
word* elegiuiiiy ntlapted to th«^ aubjtK:L"
Twice has I)r)*den ^'Vw^usA }n- .1*.rir,iii.»f( of-^
description of wit J *' n>»
**i»o properly a deflcrii^ ^ _ rit*l
in^ ill general. If Drvdnn'e bo a trut* d^^nnitiou 1
of wit, I am apt to tfiink,*' Addison adds, ** that I
Kuclid is tho greatest wit that ever set pea to I
paper/*
a-* a V. Jaw. 9, •64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
3V
Wit, in its original signification^ Johnson tells
us, ^ denoted the powers of the mind — the mental
faculties — the intellects." The meaning has been
greatly extended ; it has been used for imagin-
ation, and for quickness of fancy or genius. A
wit, too, has been called a poet^ and a poet desig-
nated a wit
Ben Jonson uses the word toit for verse ; he who
possessed wit possessed the faculty of song. Shak-
speare, Fletcher, and Jonson formed, says Sir
John Denham, a triumvirate of wit What is
translated poe^, says the same writer, but trans-
planted wit Cleyefand, wishing to express the
rank of Jonson among the poets of his age, says,
he
^ Stood out illostrions in an age of wit,"
Pope, alluding to the little patronage which
poets meet with, speaks of
** The esUte which wiu inherit after death."
The mob of gentlemen that twinkled in the
poeticad miscellanies of the days of the Charleses
are called by Pope the '* wits" of their age.
*< But for the wiU of either Charles's days,
Th^mob of gentlemen who wrote wiUi ease.**
It is not poetry y says Butler, that makes men
poor, for men have taken to wit only to avoid be-
ing idle.
'* It is not poetry that makes men poor ;
For few do write that were not so before :
And those that have writ l^t, had they been rich,
Had ne'er been clapp'd with a poetic itch ;
Had lov'd their ease too well to take the pains
To undergo that drudgery of brains ;
But being for all other trades unfit.
Only to avoid being idle set up— «««.*'
Davenant has a great Nursery of Nature in his
Gondibert, and foremost in this delightful dwelling
has a band of pleasant poets: —
^ And he Who seemed to lead this ravish'd race.
Was Heav*n's lov'd Laureate that in Jewry writ ;
Whose harp approach'd God's ear, though none his face
Durst see, and first made inspiration witJ'*
That King David was a wit, and wrote wit,
sounds .in an ear of the nineteenth century as a
sad misapplication of terms. Yet in Davenant
the word, m its old signification, is very appropri-
ate, and very poetical.
Such have been the changes in the meaning of
the word wit, Shakspeare was a wit in his age,
but Wordsworth would have deemed it no com-
pliment to be called a wit in ours. Johnson's de-
finition of wit is admirable : — *^ That which though
not obvious, is, upon its first production, acknow-
ledged to be just, that which he that never found
wonders how he missed.'^ * This is near the mark,
but perhaps this is nearer :— " Wit/' says Corby n
* Morris,t ** is the lustre resulting from the quick
t
LifiofCowfe
fVowigi.
won mt,
JTtMHmr, and Jtail/ery, 8vo, 1744.
elucidation of one subject, by a just and unex-
pected arrangement of it with another subject"
Further illustrations of the earli/ use of the
word '^ wit " might worthily find a place in the
columns of " N. & Q." Shakspeare's daughter,
''good Mrs. Hall," was (her epitaph tells us)
*' witty above her sexe."
Peter CvmasQiLAM.
DR. ROBERT WAUCHOP.
A few months since an able, affecting, and most *
interesting appeal, in behalf of the Catholic Blind
Institution, Glasnevin, in the immediate vicinity
of this city, appeared in the Freenum^s Journal^
from the pen of its present guardian. Brother
Jerome Moroney. After enumerating several in-
stances of the high intellectual attainments of
which this afflicted class are capable, such as that
of Didymus of Alexandria, who had among his
pupils the illustrious St. Jerome and Palladius;
biodatus, the preceptor of Cicero ; Scupi Neria,
who held a professorship in Bologna, wrote poetry
in Latin and Italian, and was one of the most
accomplished scholars of his day ; Salinos, who,
although blind from his infancy, was yet elected
Professor of Music in the University of Sala-
manca about the year 1713; the writer of this
brief memoir — and to this I wish particularly to
direct the attention of your readers — mentions
that in the year 1642 Dr. Wauchop, although
blind from infancy, attained, as a divine and a
scholar, such distinguished eminence, that he
readily obtained the degree of Doctor of Divinity
in the University of Paris ; attended on the part of
Julius III. at the Council of Trent, ^d was sub-
sequently appointed by Paul III. to the see of
Armagh. Now, being under the impression that
blindness, as well as any prominent physical de-
fect, constituted what is termed a canonical im-
pediment, incapacitating the parties for the
reception of Holy Orders, I was, I confess, some-
what sceptical as to the accuracy of Brother
Jerome's statement, more particularly as I could
find no reference whatever to Dr. Wauchop in the
profound and learned work of Dr. Lanigan, or
such writers on Irish subjects as I happened to
have at hand. At length, however, this worthy
monk referred me to Dr. Renehan*s Collections on
Irish Church Historyy from which I make the
following extract : —
** Robert Wauchop (alias Venantius) was appointed to
the see of Armagh by Paul III. when informed of the
death of Dr. Cremer in 1542. Wauchop was by birth a
Scotchman, and although blind from childhood yet such
were the natur.il powers of his mind, and such his perse-
vering industry, that he distinguished himself highly
during his collegiate studies, and easily obtained' the
degree of Doctor of Divinity from that learned faculty.
Pope Paul III. had confirmed the Order of tK«. <I«ft?a2«&^
and selected Wauchop vbl VVkV \ft Nssx^^jft^xiRs. >ia*s- ^^*»«^
&r
NOTES AND QUERIES-
[8^* S. V. Jaik, fi, *64«
into [rclaiid. In coiv ' i iit
to this eounln.', and ^^
vvbom wa» Puschusiu/, . . ...,- .. .^..t ' - - — .,,...i.i,cd
AlphoHAas SAlmeron, whoatterwurtb attended tiie Coatidl
of Trent. Waochop was nhortly aftf^rword* appointed
to the aep of ArningUt bat it would appear he never took
po&Msisiim of bb ievt^ which w&a alre^idy takim possesRioti
of by Dr. DuwdAl bjr the np[>oiutmeut of Hcorr VllI,
Ub le«miug, piety, and prudence recomtncuded him to
th« confidence, and secured him the esteem of Pnal III.,
ftnd 40 blghlv did thftt di^rifninatln^ pontiflT, a^ also hia
eucc«»or Juiiur4 IlL, appreciate his iaaUi for bu^iness^ that
bti aent him as th^ir LepHnte k latere to the Emperor of
(tennany and to iJie Cburt of France, which j?ave oeca*
sioii to the fraying • Lcgatua aa^cm oculatia tiermania.*
Ill* aIao attended on the part of the pontiS^at the Coaninl
of Trent during t ho first ton session!* from 1545 to 1547.
After the death of Piuil 111^ his pAtron, and the oon«e-
qufnt prnrt^atioo of the (Council, he started for Ireland,
and subsequently retired to Francis where he died in &
convfsot of iii« JeAuita at Tatu, oq th«i ICItk of November
Now with reference to Ih. Dowdall, aboye
alluded iOf a few brief particulars may, evi passant^
brovts intere^Jtinj^^. Un the lOih of Marcb, 1543,
died Georg^e Cromer, Arclibishop of Ajmagh ; aod
ou November 28, a maadale was issued by Henry
VIII* for the coiuecratioti of George Dowdall.
He was consecrattid hr Dr. Staples, asabted by
other biahop9 ; but, unlike hia BufTragaD^ neither
tbe trowns nor careases of the world, could tujrn
him frttm the path of rectitude and duty, as the
following circumdtaoce will aatiafactorily prove*
The English liturgy was read for the fir^
time it! the cathedral of Chrisl'a Church, Dublin,
on Easter Simday, 1551 ; and in the same year,
Sir James Crofts, the Lord Deputy, invit<:d the
bishops of the Catholic Churcn and of the Ri^
formntioii Ic^aTe a di»cuti«jioti ou religion « The
prelates aasembled in th^ great hall of St. Mary's
Abbey, Dublin : the subject of debate being the
Sacrilioe of the AEiiAS. The piimate. Dr. Dowdall,
defended the Catholic docirines. His antagonist,
on the Protestant side, being no other than his
consecrator Edward Staples, once Catholic bishop
uf Meath/ Whatever may have been the rela-
tive learning or abilities displayed by the dis-
putsuts, there was no duubt on whict side lay the
prospect of worldly promotion. The result of tbe
disctission being, says Ware, that it gave to the
King and Council an opportunity to deprive Dow*
dall for his obstinacy of the title of Frimate of
ftU Irelatid, and of imuexing it to the see of
Dublin fur «ver. Accordingly^ Brown obtained
Lett«*rs Pntt^nt from King Edward VI., dat^^d
October 20, IfMl^thathn and hih successors should
be Primates of all IrvLmd. Dowdall, awitre of
the tone and t«jmpf r of die parties he had to deal
ifHth, fled to the Continent and took refuge in the
mODiirterj of Centre Brabant. Edward VI. died
* Sao Wsro'a BUhopt^ p. 351 ; Moraa'a Dhcut o/Mwth,
^ficsaitt tutti JlCodcTvi*
in July, 1553, and was succeeded by Mary, dauglt
ter of Catherine of Arragon. Soon after her ac-
cession, Archbishop DowdaU was recfllled froi
exile, and the title of Primate of all Ireland wi
by Letttjrs Patent restored to him. To reft
abtiaea which crept in during the last two reigtif,
and to remove false brethren from the saoctuaryi
were the especial objects of his care.
Dowdall having now obtained considerable in
duence in the goveniment of the coimtry, lived
see those principles triumph for which he j*uliere<
He saw the seeds of true faith and Christian piet jj
planted by his episcopal labours, growing up ini
a rich and abundant harvest, and Provideoi
spared him the mortification of seeing the croj
destroyed by the political elements that shortl;
after hift death checked their growth and threal
eued their entire ruin. Having held a synod
bis diocese at Drogheda in loo 7, he died In thi
year 1558 in England, on the Yeast of the At-^
sumption, just three months before the acoessioQ
of Elizabeth to the English throne. I ide RetK
han*s Collections cm IrUh Church Hidory.
To return, however, to the special object of thi
brief communication, I must not for^t^
Ware, that during the life of George Do^
who waa in possesion of the see of Armagh (by
donation from lung Henry VIIL), Pope Paul 111.
conferred that archbishopric ou Robert W^auchop,
a Scot, who, although biind from his youth, yot
anplied hi qi self with that diligence to leamingj
ihttt he couime-uced Doctor in Divinity in Paxia
He a^ist^d at the Council of Trent from the Isl
ScAsion held in 1545, to the eleventh in 4547. 11^
was seut by the Pope as legate d laiert into Ger-
many from whence arose the proverb, LtgtUm$
c^cus ad octdatos Gennanos — a blind It'gate to
the sharp- sigh ted Germans. By bis means thaj
Jesuits were iirst introduced into Ireland. It
died in a convent of Jesuits at Pari a, Not. 10,
1551. De Burgo, iu his Milfemia Dominicana^
statics that : —
*♦ I'ator NicolAUB OrUndiniii e Socletate Jatu V
pro<ltditi hue lemfH'sliite f1i>ruij^»« Kobertum H
virum insiii^em ct super alias fuli;euti3>!jima.s .
?i "U;rnuin, quod quaravw a pu ■
< \ tiiuu.'n miuuii cluro mentis
J.M -,. V . . rr.in ire, laborantirjij* -■ ■ «
ril, Atqua Has lioijatu noumill
prtifff'ttfs A- B. I;:nalii I'nt .
«• ;-di.J
J^roi'tMi'itdn /jTirrtfrw, I'arknitjf in ('(invtnla Pu
10 Nov. diiMii t.tltii"<'if rn vrrha tdTilidrrn fsT'
lloniit}«, fti 1' Hiu
ffciuo; fio ) la>
burioBbdmifj = .. , ^ ^;vinci|
tuo concpectu vi »ter«a' quui
O'Sullivan, in his Cai r/ry^ confirm*
the iiiy^cedLiig statement (torn. li. lib. 3^, aaatuing
tts that he olo«ed hij career in a maiiQc*r worthy of:
ot f
I
3rtS.V. Jah.9,'64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
33
his uniform piety, with the zeal of an apostle, and
the resignation of a saint. The last sentence he
was heard to utter was " 0 I-iord, if my continu-
ance here be necessary for the good of Thy peo-
ple, I shrink not from the useful task which Thy
wiU may allot to me ; but if it be not, I cheerfully
yield up my station in this laborious life, that my
spirit may enjoy beatitude in thy presence."
Such, Mr. Editor, are a few of the leading facts
I have been able to collect regarding this extra-
ordinary man : one who accumulated a vast store
of knowledge under circumstances, it must be ad-
mitted, of the most unfavourable character, and
of whom it may be said — humble Catholic priest
as he was — his history belongs to mankind at large
rather than to sect or party. T. Mc K.
A Passion for witwessino Exectttiows. —
Looking into Jesse's Life mtd Correspondence of
Sehcyn the other day, brought to my mind a story
I have heard of a laird in the north of Scotland,
who died some thirty or forty years ago ; who
seems to have had as great di penchant for attend-
ing executions as the witty George, and whose
local standing would appear to have made his
presence at such exhibitions a sine qua non. I
give the anecdote as I heard it, premising that it
may be relied on as authentic On one occasion
an unfortunate wretch was about to be " turned
off;'' the rope was adjusted, and everything was
ready. The hangman, however, stood waiting
with apparent anxiety, evidently for an addition
to the spectators. Being asked why he did not
proceed with the business, he replied, with a look
of surprise at his questioner : " A (naming
the laird) is nae come yet!" The hangman's
paramount desire to please the local dignitary
(who we may suppose he looked upon in the light
of a patron) under such circumstances, is fine.
RoBBBT Kempt.
LoifGEviTT. — As several instances of longevity
have lately appeared in your columns, is it not
worth while preserving the case of Mr. Hutches-
son, who died last September? He graduated in
1804, and was elected Fellow of Clare College in
1812 : so that he was more than half a century
a Fellow of that society. J. C. Boscobel.
Michael Johitson of Lichfield. — Besides the
work of Floyer mentioned in my recent Note (3"*
S. iv. 469), I have found another printed for
Michael Johnson. Considering the very humble
way in which he carried on his business, it is
amusing to read about his '* shops " at three dif-
ferent towns :—
** ^apftoKo-Bairapos : or the Touchstone of Medicines^
&C By Sir John Floyer of the City of Litchfleld, Kt,
MJ>.ofQaeni's College^ Oxford. London: Printed for
Hicfaael Johnson^ Bookseller ; and are to be sold at his
shops at Litchfield and Uttoxiter, in Suffordahire ; and
Ashby-de-la-Zoucb, in Leicestershire. 1687."
In the later works of Floyer, the name of Mi-
chael Johnson does not occur as publisher. Trea-
tises dated 1698, 1707, and 1725, have the names
of Londou publishers only. Jatdbe.
Amen. — As an instance of the curious deriva-
tions to which even learned men have been driven
for lack of pbilolo^cal science, may be mentioned
the notion of St. Thomas Aquinas respecting the
word OM'/''. That Father jrravely states, in his
Commentary upon Isaiah (xxv. extr.), that " the
word is derived from d privative, and fiijy the
moon, q, d. Sine luna, hoc est, sine defectu, puta
solidum et stabile.'' W. J. D.
HiNO Mottoes. — On a ring dug up at Godstow
Priory, Oxfordshire. Date early in the fifteenth
century, black-letter characters : —
jMost in mynd and yn myn herrt.
Lotbest from you ferto departt.
On plain betrothal rings of the seventeenth cen-
tury : —
I bane obtained wbom God ordained.
God unite our hearts arigbt.
Knitt in one by ChriMt alone.
Wee Joyne our loue in God aboae.
Joynd in one by God alone.
God above send peace and love.
All exhibited by the Kev. James Beck to the
Archaeological Institute, March, 1863. ( Vide ita
Journal, p. 195.) T. North.
Leicester.
Charlemont Earldom and Viscount.— James,
the " volunteer" Earl of Charlemont, succeeded as
fourth Viscount April 21, 1734, and was raised to
the Earldom on Dec. 23, 1763. Francis, his eldest
Bon, the late Earl, died last Christmas day ; con-
sequently, the father and son held the Viscounty
for more than one hundred and twenty years, and
the Earldom for one hundred years. S. P. V.
^Mttiti.
Anontmoxts.— ^Vho was the author of a little
treatise on Re^urrectum, not Death, the Hope of the
Believer, 12mo, pp. 46, issued in 1833, at the
Central Tract Depdt, 1 Warwick Square, London ?
Is this depot still in existence P Vectis.
Mrs. Barbat7ld*8 Prose Hymns. — Of this
charming little work, Mr. Murray has just issued
a charmingly illustrated edition. It contains
fifteen hymns, of which the tenth, eleventh, and
twelfth are not in the ''new edition, printed
1799,'* though they have appeared, I bebeve, in
some other modem copies, i have been famlUax.
with the lemBii^^Vw^^^V^j^sssis^^^'^*^^^^^
34
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8»* 8. V. Jax. 9, '64.
The other three hare the Rppearance of ^ imita-
tations. Can they be from Mrs. Barbauld's pen ?
Or who is the author of them ? S. W. Rix.
Bcccles.
BURIAL-PLACK OP StILL-BORN CHTLDREW. —
Standing beside the ruins of a Scottish parish
church built in 161>1, and talking with a friend
about it, he mentioned that he remembered having
been told hy his grandfather, that it had been
the custom to bury the still-bom children of the i
parish all along the outside walls of the church,
and as close to the walls as they could be laid.
Any information as to such a custom will oblige.
Y.P.
Churchwarden Quert. — Considerable con-
troversy has arisen as to the origin and duties of
the oificer called sidesman, who is annually elected
at the same time with the churchwarden. Is he
the same person alluded to in the 83d canon of
Archbishop Whitgift, 1G03, which is directed to
'* the churchwardens or questmen" ? A. A.
Captain Alexander Cheyne. — Seeing that
« N. & Q." has its readers in Hobart Town, Tas-
mania, I venture to ask J. M*C. B. (one of your
correspondents) to assist me with information
about Captain Alexander Cheyne, who died there
about six or eight years ago. Captain Cheyne
was formerly an officer in the Engineers, and hav-
ing resigned his commission, settled at Ilobart
Town, where he held some official colonial situa-
tion, such as surveyor-general. I wish to ascer-
tain the date of his death, and to be favoured with
a copy of the inscription or any tablet, or tomb-
stone raised to his memory. It will also greatly
serve me if any account be added of his colonial
services, together with the dates and names of the
offices he may have filled in Tasmania.
M. S. R.
Earl op Dalhoxtsie. — At the contested elec-
tion for Perthshire, in 18i^, when the Earl of
Dalhousie (then the Hon. Fox Maule) was un-
seated by the return of L#ord Stormont, it is said
that I^rd Dalhousie retired to the Ilicrhland Inn,
at Amulree, in the same county; and that he
there wrote the following, or similar lines, in the
visitor's book : —
** Rejected by the men of Perth,
Cast on the world an ex-M.P. ;
I floufi^bt and found a quiet retreat
Among t^y wilds, sweet Amulree "
Is the visitor's book, referred to, still in exist-
ence ? If so, where can it be seen ? I am told
that there were many curious stanzas and re-
marks in it. J.
"Fa 18 CE QUE Tu DOTS," ETC. — Can the famous
old knightly motto,," Faisce que tu dois,adyienne
que pourra/' be aligned, on good authority, to
any particular date or person^ and what are- its
variations ? F. H.
Giants and Dwarfs.— Can any of the readers
of " N. & Q." inform me where I can inspect the
best collections for a history of the giants and
dwarfs who have been exhibited during the last
and present century; and can furnish me with
the names and addresses of those now living, their
heights, weights, and ages P W. D.
General Lambert. — In Vertne's work on the
Medals of Thomas Simon^ originally published in
1753, mention is made (p. 31) of a medal of
General Lnmbert The medal, in silver, is stated
to be in the possession of the heir of the family ;
and, a^ I recollect, there was a cast of it in the
cabinet of Maurice Johnson, Esq., secretary of
the Gentlemen's Society at Spalding.
Maurice Johnson died in 1755.
Is it known what has become either of the
original medal or of the cast ? P. S. Caiiet.
The Laird of Lee. — At a road side just en-
tering the village of Mauchline, in Ayrshire,
there is a tombstone surrounded by iron rails.
On the stone is the following inscription : —
" Here lie the bodies of Peter Gilli«s John Brrce,
Thomas Young. WilUnm Tiddi^on, and John Bruning,
who were apprehended and hanged without trial at
Mauchline in 1685, according to the then wicked laws,
for their adhesion to the covenanted worke of Reforma-
tion.— Rev. xiL 11.
** Bloo^ly Dumbarton, Douglas, and Dundee,
Moved by the Devil and the Laird of Lee,
Draj^p^'these five men to death with gun and sword.
Not HufTering them to prav or read Ood's word :
Owninji: the worke of God was all their crime^
The Eighty-five was a saint-killing time.
** Erected by subBcri prion in 1830. The old decayed
tombstone from which this is copied lies below."
Who was the personage here alluded to as the
''Laird of I^e"? M. M.
Language given to Man to conceal his
Thoughts. — " Language is given us not so much
to express as to conceal our thoughts." This
famous saying occurs, as above quoted, in one of
Goldsmith's works (T?ie Bee); out it has also
been traced back to South, the eminent divine,
and it is well known to have been a favourite
saying of Talleyrand's. Are any of your readers
aware of any other celebrated person from whom
the dictum in question has proceeded ? I rather
think the stthstance of it may be found in the
works of Home Greek author, whose name I cannot,
however, recall. It is certainly, under any circum-
stances, a remarkable fact that three such totally
different individuals as the before-mentioned,
should have promulgated this Machiavellian sen-
timent independently of each other, unless we
suppose that Goldsmith derived his from South ;
but even then, how came the witty Frenchman to
think of it, who most certainly could scarcely haye
been familiar with the writings of the other two
persons desi£;nated P And, as I have said before^
S'iS.V. Jan. 9, •64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
35
it will, I belieye, be found to be of very great
antiquity, there being some classical writer upon
whom the bonour(P) rests of originating the say-
ing in the first instance. Alpha Thbta.
fThe saying hu been traced ia oar 1*' S. vol. i. p. 83^
to Lloyd in hid State Wvrtiiie$^ Dr. Yoiuig, Voltaire, and
Fontenelle.]
Harriett Livermore : the Pilgrim Stran-
ger.— In the year 1836, about the end of August,
Miss Livermore came from Philadelphia to Liver-
pool : from thence, she crossed to Dublin (through
the night of Aug. 31), and then proceeded by
steamer to Plymouth. She remained at Plymouth
for some time. She called herself '' the Pilgrim
Stranger ; " and she was then on her way to Jeru-
salem, in pursuance of what she designated to be
a divine monition. She spoke of herself as being
in some way descended from the North American
Indians; and also as bein^ the daughter (or
granddaughter) of "Lord Livermore, Attorney*
Ueneral to King George III., by whom he had
been honoured with an American peerage." She
said that Joseph Wolff was one of the two wit-
nesses in Rev. xi., considering herself to be the
other: hence, in her lodging in Plymouth, she
placed Dr. Wolff's portrait on the wall, that the
two witnesses might be together. After some
months, she went to Jerusalem ; and after a resi-
dence there, she returned to America. She paid
a second visit to Jerusalem ; and, on her return,
she a^ain stayed Tabout twenty years ssp) for some
time in Plymoutn, and was again in London be-
fore returning to America. Her opinions and i
Professions still continued to be very peculiar,
he absolutely identified Mohamet Ali and Na-
poleon Buonaparte ; remarking, however, that it
was very strange that there was a difference in
their ages. Can any reader of " N. & Q " give
information respecting Harriet Livermore? Is
she still living r And if not, when did she die,
and where P Did she visit Jerusalem more than
twice P KaiLiiTs.
Madman's Food tastdtg op Oatmeal Por-
ridge.—In a letter written by Sir Walter Scott,
dated March 16. 1831 (not published by Lock-
hart), he describes his state of health at that
time, and says : —
" I am better, bat still veiy precarioos, and have lost,,
as Hamlet says, all costom of my exercise, being never
able to walk more than half a mile on foot, or ride a mile
or two on a pony, on which I am literally lifted, while
my forester walks by his head, for fear a sadden start
shonld unship me altogether. 1 am tied by a strict regi-
men to diet and hoars, and, like the poor nuzduian in Bed-
htm, mo»t of my food teutea of oatmeal porridge.**
To what do these last words refer P Y. P.
Sib Edward Mat.— The second Marquis of
Donegal married Anna, daughter of Sir Edwaid
May, of Mayfield} county Waterford, Bart I
should be glad of any particulars relating to 'this
baronet, his ancestors, or descendants. What
were his armorial bearings P Carilpord.
Cape ToMm.
Rev. Peter Peckard, D.D., Master of Mag-
dalen College, Cambridge, author of a Ltfe of
Mr, Nicholas Ferrary published in 1790. I am
desirous of discovering his present representative
if there is one living, or, if otherwise, the deposi-
tary of Ivs literary collections and MSS. Were
they bequeathed to Magdalen College P J. L. C.
Penny Loaves at FtJNERALs. — A singular cus-
tom was wont to prevail at Gainsborough, of
distributing penny loaves on the occasion of a
funeral to whomsoever might demand them. W^hat
was the origin of this custom P And does it still
exist P Robert Kempt.
Mr. W. £. Rhodes, author of Bombastes Fw-
riosoj died in 1826. From the obituary notice of
the author in the Gent, Mag. he seems to have
written some other dramatic pieces. What are
the titles of them, and have they appeared i|i
print ? R. L
Scottish Formula. — Can any of your readers
inform me when the following formula was first
broueht into use, and employed by the Moderator
pro tempore in closing the General Assemblies of
the Scottish Church r —
*' As this assembly was const itated in the name and
by the authoritv of the Lord Jesus Christ, the only King
and Head of this Church, so in the same name and by
the same aathority, 1 hereby appoint the next General
Assembly of the Church of Scotland (or Free Chorch of
Scotland, as the case may be), to be held on the
day of May, 18—."
Or words to this effect 0.
Trade and Improvement of Ireland.— I am
now pursuing some inquiries into the commercial
history of Ireland. I have obtained a tract of 100
pages. An Fssay on the Trade and Lnprovetnent
of Ireland, by Arthur Dobbs. Published in Dub-
hn, MDCCXXix. It is full of important statistical
information. On the last page it is stated that
'' The rest of this discourse shall be given in a
second part." Can you or any of your readers
assist me to the second part, or inform me if such
second part was ever published ? I think it will
be the same Arthuar Dohbs vdio is given in Lowndes
as the author of a work entitled An Account of the
Cotmtries a^foining to Hudson 8 Bay, in the North-
west Bart of Americoy London, 1744. But no
mention is made of the work on Ireland abovn re-
ferred to. T. B,
Wild Men. — ^What work contains an account
of the sect who, during the last century, held
evangelical principles in Scotland, and were termed
"Wild Men," and theae rasassij^Xss^ *«isissv3E>s^c«<^»'
36
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3«» S. V. Jah. 9, '64.
Portrait op General Wolfe bt Gains-
borough.— In Mr. Thornbury*8/-BnVwA Painters, \
from Hoffarth to Turner (vol. i. p. 20), mention is ,
made ot* a portrait of " General Wolfe, in a silver- ;
laced coat, and Mr. Thombury has kindly re- 1
ferred me to his authority. In the Catalo^ie of
Portraits, appended to G. W. Fulchef s Life of
Gainsborough (1866), I have found, under the
heading of " Soldiers and Sailors : " '* General
Wolfe. (Head and bust) He is in uniform, and
wears his hat : the silver lace on which, and on his
coat, is touched with great brilliancy. Possessor,
Mrs. <jibbon." (Query, Gainsborough's sister?)
Wolfe and Gainsborough were born in the same
year; and the latter, it appears, did not remove
from Ipswich to Bath, wnere he acquired cele-
brity as a portrait painter, until 1700 — the year
after Wolfe's death. From this, and other cir-
cumstances, I think it improbable that the General
sat to Gainsborough. However, 1 wish to in-
quire whether any correspondent of ** N. & Q,"
ever met with a reputed portrait of Wolfe by that
artist H And if so, when, where, &c. ?
Robert Wright.
102, Great RumcII Street, W.C.
" Adamus Exul'' of Grotius. — In 18*39 there
wafl published "7%« Adamus Exul of Grotitis, or
the Prototype of Paradise Lost : now first trans-
lated from the Latin, by Francis Barham, Esq.''
(Pp. xii. and 51.) This pamphlet is introduced by
a dedication to John A. Heraud, Esq., then the
editor of the Monthly Magazine, in the October
Number of which, in 1830, this translation from
Grotius was also inserted. In the preface to the
translation, Mr. Barham gives a curious account
of the original Latin drama of Grotius, which
was not, it seems, included in his cr)llected works.
Mr. Barham concludes his introduction thus : —
"We may just add, fhat if thia work should excite
much intercut, it in our intent'on to republish the original
Latin — now extremely acarce."
Twenty-four years, however, have passed, and
there has not f so far as I know) been any edition
of the Latin or this drama.
Is the Adamus Exul a genuine production of
Grotius ? If so, why has it had no place in his col-
lected works ? Is there an^ mystification about this
book ? Where can genuine copies of it be seen P
What has become of the' copy used by Mr. Bar-
liamP
Who was the translator ? Was he the editor of
Collier's Ecclesiastical Ilidory, published in nine
vols, by Mr. StrakerP What other works are
there of Mr. Francis Barham P LlSLIXjs.
[A copy of the original Latin tragedy, with the auto-
graph of Grotius, is iu the British Mnsenm. It is entitled
« Ilvgonfs Grotii Sacra inqvibvaAdamvs Exvl Tragoedia
aliorvmque eivsdem generis carminvm Cvmvlva conae-
crata Franciae Principi. Ex Typographlo Alberti Heorid,
Hag« Comitatensi, 1601," small 4to. It will be remem-
bered that this was one of the works quoted by William
Lauder in his attempt to derraud Milton of his fame as
author of the Paradise Lost
Mr. Barham was the editor of the/r«* recent reprint
of Jeremy Collier's Ecclesiastical History, 1840. (The
edition of 1852, by Mr. Lathbury, is decidedly the best.)
Mr. Barham*s name i« also connected with the following
works : 1 The Life and Times of John Reuchlin, or Cap-
niort. 2. The Political Works of Cicero, comprising '•The
Republic" and the •• Laws," translated from the originaL
2 vols. 3. The Hebrew and English Holy Bible, from the
I text of Heidenheim and the version of Bennett. 4.
I Socrates, a Tragedy in Five Acts. 5. M.Guizot*8 Theory
\ of Syncratism and Coalition, translated from his cele-
I brated article on ** Catholicism, Protestantism, and Phi-
j losophy."]
I Cambridge Bible. — A Bible pnnted at the
I Pitt Press, dated on the title-page 1837, contains
j a preliminary inscription as follows : —
I ** In consequence of a communication most fcn^owAy
made by his Majestv Kin^ William the Fourth to the
Marqu^ Camden, Chancellor of the University of Gam-
bridge, the Syndics of the Pitt Press, anxious to testier
their dutiful obedience to His Majesty's wi^ihe^ undertook
the publication of this impression of the Uuly Scrip-
tures,"
A copy on vellum was printed for his Majestj'y
the iirst eight page^ being struck off at the Public
Commencement, Id3iji, by the Chancellor of the
University, the Duke of Cumberland, and other
royal and noble personages. The Bible is a quarto,
in a beautiful type, double columns withm red
lines. My copy was purchased at Sotheby and
Wilkinson's, and I am under an impression that
this edition was not sold to the pubbc.
What was the communication made by King
William IV. ? H. T. D. B.
[At the first commencement after the installation of
the Marquis Camden as Ciiancellor of the University of
Cambridge, on July 8, 1835, he and his friends proceeded
to one of the press-rooms in the north wing of the Pitt
Press,* when the first two sheets of a splendid edition of
the Bible were struck off by the Chancellor, the Duke of
Cumberland, Prince George of Cambridge, Duke of Wel-
lington, Duke of Northumberland, the Archbishop of
Canterbury, &c. On which occasion the Chancellor in-
formed the noble personages that His Majesty, William
lY., had expressed to him a desire to have a copy of that
Sacred Book from the press which bore the name of the
illustrious statesman, William Pitt See the Chancellor'a
speech aa reported in the Cambridge Chronicls and Jour-
nal of July 10, 1885. This ia the last edition of the BiUe
in which the reading occurs, Matt. xii. 23, ** Is this tlia
Son of David?** inbtead of *< Is no< this tht Son of
David? "]
8^ 8. V. Jan. 9. *64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
37
Britannia on Pence and Halfpence.— I
shall be glad of any information as to the origin
of this tigiire, when first employed, and why
adopted. Also why the fourpenny piece is the
only silver coin which bears it W . H. Wills.
Bristol.
FThe earliest coin we have been able to trace with the
fif^are of Britannia is a copper halfpenny of Charles I l.t
1672. This coin was engraved l^^' Koetier, and the
%are of Britannia is said by Evelyn to bear a strong
resemblance to the Duchess of Ricliroond. *' Monsieur
Roti (graver to his late Majesty Charles II.) *o accurately
expressed the countenance of the Duchess of Richmond
in the bead of Britannia in the reverse of some of our
coin, and especially in a medal, as one may easily, and
almost at first siuht, know it to be her grace." (Numit-
nuUa, p. 27.) Walpole says, he believes this was Philip.
Rotier, and that he, •* being in love with the fair Mrs.
Stuart, Duchess of Richmond, represented her likeness
under the form of Britannia, on the reverse of a large
medal with the king's head." {Anecdotes of Painting^ iii.
173.) In 1836 it was resolved to L«»sue silver o^roats lor
general circulation ; the reverse is a fif?ure of Britannia
halmeteil, seated, resting her ri^ht hand upon her shield*
and supporting a trident with her left. " These pieces,"
says Mr. Hawkins, ** are said to have owed their exist-
ence to the pressing instance of Mr. Hume, from whence
they, for some time, bore the nickname of Joeys. As
they were very convenient to psy short cab-fares, the
Hon. M.P. was extremely unpopular with" the drivers,
who frequently received only a groat where otherwise
they would have received a sixpence without any demand
for change. One driver ingeniously endeavoured to put
them out of circulation by giving all he received to his
son upon condition that he did not spend them or ex-
change them. This had, however, one good effect, as it
made the man an economist, and a little store became
accumulated which would be useful upon some unex-
pected emergence." {Silver Coins of England, p. 267.)
Consult also Ruding's AnnaU of Coinage, ii. 885.]
John Wioan, M.D. — Where can any sketch
of the life of this distinguished physician and
eminent scholar in the last century be found P
He edited a magnificent folio edition of Aretaus^
published at the Clarendon Press at Oxford in
1723. A John Wigan occurs in the list of Prin-
cipals of New Inn Hall, from 1726 to 1732, whom
I presume to have been the same person.
He was educated at Westminster under Dr.
Kobert Friend, elected to Christ Church as Stu-
dent in 1714, and died in Jamaica in 1730. Be-
sides Aretecus he edited Dr. John Friend's Works,
and was the author of several copies of verses in
the Carmina Quadreiffesimalia, Such particulars,
however, as I can discover about him are but
meagre. Oxoniensis.
[John Wigan, M.D., bom 1695, was the son of th« Bev.
Wm. Wigan, rector of Kensington. lie was edoeated at
the Wettminater school, and at .Christ Church, Oziord,
A.B. Feb. 6, 1718, A.M. March 22, 1720; proceeded M.D.
July 6, 1727. On Oct 5, 1726, he was adn^itted Prin-
cipal of New Inn Hall, Oxford, and about the same time
appointed Secretary to the Earl of Arran. He was ad-
mitted a fellow of the College of Physicians, April 3, 1732,
and settled in London. In 1738 Dr. Wigan accompanied
his friend Mr. Trelawny to Jamaica as physician and
secretary, and died there Dec. 6, 1739, aged forty-four.
Vide Munk's Roll of the College ofPhyticians, ii. 108, and
Welch's Alumni IVesimonaHterienses, ed. 1852, p. 262 ]
JouN Reynolds. — Can you furnish any parti-
culars of the life of John Reynolds, Esq., Admiral
of the White, who died in 1783. Ii. S. F.
* [Some particulars of Admiral John Reynolds after be
entered the navy, are given in Charnock*s Blographia
yavalis, y. 603. On the 30tb of October, 1746, he was
promoted to be captain of the " Arundel ** ; was governor
of Georgia, between 1745 and 1758 ; appointed captain of
the " Burford" in 1769 or 1770 ; removed into the •* De-
fence'* early in 1771, which was his last command as
private captain. On March 31, 1775, he was promoted to
be rear-admiral of the Rloe, as he was on Feb. 3, 1776, to
be rear-admiral of the White; early in Jan. 1778, to be
rear of the Red, and on the 29th of the same month to be
vice-admiral of the Blue. On Sept. 26, 1780, he was far-
ther advanced to be vice-admiral of the White, and on
Sept 24, 1787, made admiral of the Blue. His death took
place in January, 1788.]
Richard Gednet. — Can you ohlige me with a
few particulars regarding the life of this juyenile
poet 'f the date of nis death, 8cc ? R. 1.
[Richard Solomon Gedney was bom at New York on
Oct. 15, 1838. At the age of two years he was brooKht
oyer to England, and educated first at Chorlton High
School, near Manchester, and afterwards at Cheltenham
College. In his late years he manifested a strong par-
tiality for dramatic literature; but, alas! this youthful
Aspirant for literary fame did not live to complete his
eighteenth year. After a protracted illness, he died on
July 15, 1856, and his remains were embalmed and for-
warded to America for interment in the family mausoleum
at Malvern Hall, on the banks of the river Hudson. See
A brief Memoir of this youthful genius by James Ogdeii,
M.D., prefixed to R. S. Gedney's Poetical Works^ Second
Edition, New York, 8vo, 1857.]
Arms of Sir William Sennoke.— The arms
of Sennoke, Lord Mayor 1418, are seyen acorns.
I should he glad to know their relatiye position,
and the tinctures of the coat. C. J. R.
[In Stow's Survey, 1633, fol. p. 561, the seyen acorns
of the coat of Sir William Seyen oke are placed as three,
three, and one ; but in Burke's Armory we read, ** Seven-
oke (Lord Mayor of London, 1418). Az. seven acorns
or, two, three, and two.** Uad«t \.V>fc\a«JS.TJ3h5s>!fe.^ *%«*ssc^-
i
3g
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3'*S.V. Jak.9,'64.
Wegd. — In an account, temp, Edw. III., this
-^ord seems to express a particular or certain
weight or quantity : thus,^* wegh salts et dimidium,
a \vt'i<rh and half of salt Bos worth's Ang.-Sax,
Z)ic^ translates **w8eg, weg," a wey, weigh, weight;
"wegg, wfticg," a mass. The modem usa^e — ^a
weiph or wey of cheese, for instance — ^is also mde-
tiniie. A reference to any authority where used
otherwise will oblige. G. A. C.
[The following passages in the " Statutum de ponderi-
bu8 et mensuris " (which we transcribe from a MS. copy
in a hand temp. Edw. I. ; see also
will explain as well as may be the
correspondent : —
** Waga euim, tarn plambi, qnam lane, sepi, vel caaei,
ponderat xiiij petras." And in another place we have —
*' Quailibet petra habet xlij libras."]
Twelfth Night: thb worst Ptjw. — Among
the amusements of Twelfth Night, did any one
ever hear of a prize given to the party who could
make the worst pun f Joseph Milleb.
[We never did ; but we have heard many puns which
might fairly be admitted to the competition. We once
heard of a prize offered for the worst conundrum^ which
was won by the following :
" W^hy is the bellowing of a tingle bull less melodious
than the bellowing of tico f Give it up ? "
Answer : " Because the first is only a bull, but the
second is a bull-bull " (bulbul, a nightingale).
This was unanimously admitted by the fViends as-
sembled to be the worst conundrum they had ever heard,
and as such received the prize.]
PoRTK.UT OP Bishop Hobsley. — In any of
the numerous publications of the Bishop, was
there ever a portrait of him published in any of
them, or in any contemporary publications of his
time, or since P Geo. I. Coopsb.
[A memoir of Bishop Uorsley, with a portrait, may be
found in the European Magazine, IxiiL 371, 494. In
Evans's Catalogue of Engraved FartraitMt vol. i. p. 177,
■re the following : 8vo, (kL ; large folio, 6«. proof 7«. 6rf.,
by J. Green, engraved by Bleyer; 4to, 2«. Qd. by Hum-
phrey, engraved by Godby.]
" EDrcATioN.**— Who was the author of a work,
entitled. Of Education, es])ecially of Young Oen-
tlenien f Wy copy is ** the fifth impression, Ox-
ford, printed at the Theatre for Amos Curteyue,
anno 1087,'' and has a woodcut of the Sheldonian
Theatre on the title-page. H. T. D. B.
[This is one of the productions of Obadiah Walker,
sometime Master of University College, Oxford, who
espoused the faith of the Roman Qiurch on the aocesnon
of Jameif 1 1., and abj ured it on his abdication. Commons'
Jonmalt, Oct 26, l(>b9 ; and Dod*s Church History, iL 8.]
ISitvliti.
JEREMY COLLIER ON THE STAGE, ETC.
(3'd S. iv. 390, 435.)
The notice of Collier's Short View in Collej
Gibber's Apnlofft/, led me early to procure the
book, and its own proper merit and interest, to
search after the works of those who took part in
the controversy with him. One of these led to
^ another, till at length — (in the way that Charles
^si^ute7o/theIiealm) ' La™}) said that he had managed to acquire the
quesdon asked by our wonderful mastery over tobacco, by which he m-
tonished the weaker nerves of Dr. Parr: '•by
toiling after it, Sir, as some men toil after vir-
tue '') — I succeeded in obtaining a very complete
collection. In looking this over with the list of
your correspondent, I find that I am able to add
the titles of the following : —
" Overthrow of Stage-Plaves, by way of Controvcny
between D. Gager and D. Kainoldes, wherein is manifMy
S roved that it is not only unlawful to be an Actor, butt
>ehoIder of those Vanities. By Dr. John Reynolde." Los-
don, 4to, 1599.
**Theatrum Redivivum ; or, theTheatreVindicatedvliy
Sir Richard Baker, in Answer to Mr. Pryn's Hiatnh
Mastix, Wherein his groundless assertions against Sta«-
Plavs are discovered, his mistaken allegations ofUH
Fathers manifested, as also what he calls his Resaont, to
be nothing but his Passions." London, 12mo^ 1661;
pp. 141.
[These pieces of coarse belong to former controventa.
I mention them as connected with the subject, and Jist
I falling under my hand.]
I ** A Vindication of the Stage, with the Usefollnesi sad
I Advantages of Dramatic Representation, in Answer to
Mr. (Collier's late Book, entitulcd," &c. 4to, London, 1686^
; pp. 29.
I ** A Letter to Mr. Congreve, on his Pretended Amaod-
mentis" Ac 8vo, l^ndon, 1698, pp. 42.
** A Further Defence of Dramatic Poetry ; BtSmg ibt
Second Part of tlio Review of Mr. Collier's View, ^
Done In- the same Hand." 8vo, Lendon, 1698, pp. 72.
** A Representation of the Impiety and ImmorsIiQr of
the English Stage, with Reasons for putting a stop tberttOk
and some Questions addrest to those who tTequsiit ths
Play-Houses." 12mo. London, 1704, pp. 24.
"Serious Reflections on the Scandalous Abuse and
Effects of the Stage : in a Sermon preached at the Parish
Church of St. Nicholas in the City of Bristol, on Sanday
the 7th day of January. 170}. By Arthur Bedford, H.A.,
&c 8vo, Bristol, 170d, pp. 44.
** The Stage-Beaux tossed in a Blanket, or Hypooriiis
Alamode ; Exposed in a true Picture of Jerry — ^
a Pretending Scourge to the English Stage, a Come<ify,
with a Prologue on Occasional Conformity ; beings FdU
Explanation of the Fousain Doctor's Book, and an Jtoi-
logue on the Reformers. Spoken at the Theatre Itoyalin
Drur}' Lane." 4to, London, 1704, pp. 64.
[This piece was written by the celebrated Tom Buowil]
**The Evil and Danger of Stage Plays, shewing thdr
Natural Tendency to I)e8troy Religion, and introdnoe m
General Corruption of Manners, in almost Two Tbonsand
Insunces, &c. By Arthur Bedford." Svo^ London, 1706^
pp.227.
[•*As ths eminent Ubonis of Mr. CoUir and
S^S.V. Ja».9,'64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
39
have justly alarmed the nation; so I hope that my weak
endeavours mny be in some measure serviceable for their
further conviction," &c.]
** A Defence of Plays ; or. the Stage Vindicated from
several Pas!»apes in Mr. Oillier'a * Short View,* wherein is
offered the most ProbHble Method of Reformin^f our Plays,
with a Consideration how far vicious Characters may be
allowed on the SUge. By Edward Film or, Doctor of the
Civil Laws." 8vo, London, Tocson, 1707, pp. 167.
[This is the work of which the imprint is sought ]
« The Works of Mr. Robert Gould," &c, 2 vols. 8vo,
London, 1709.
[The second volume contains "The Play House, a
Satyr." In three parts, some 1 200 lines, very'" free " and
curious.]
•* A Serious Remonstrance on Behalf of the Christian
Religion, against the horrid Blasphemies and Impieties
which are still used in the English Play Houses, to the
great Dishonour of Almighty God, and in contempt of the
Statutes of this Realm, shewing their plain Tendency to
overthrow all Piety, and advance the Interest and Honour
of the Devil in the World ; from almost Seven thousand
Instances taken out of the Plays' of the present Century,
and especially of the last four years, in defiance*of all
methods hitherto used for their Reformation. Bv Arthur
Bedford, M.A., Chaplain to the Most Noble Wriothesley,
Duke of Bedford," &c. 8vo, London, 1719, pp. 383.
[In this very curious book, the reverend compiler has,
with singular' industry, and, as it would appear, out of
consideration for the convenience of lovers of obscene and
blasphemous reading, produced a manual whjch saves the
necessity of reference to our more licentious writers for
the drama. Thus we are reminded of those Judicious
editions of the Classics, in usum scholarum, so neatly sati-
rised by Byron in Don Juan, canto r. xliv. Very little is
known of the Rev. Arthur Bedford ; he was successively
Vicar of Temple in the city of Bristol, and Rector of New-
ton St. Loe, in the county of Somerset. He afterwards
resided in London as chaplain to the Haberdashers* Hos-
pital at Hoxton, and died September 13, 1745. His other
works are enumerated in the Fly-Leavet, published by
Mr. Miller late of Chandos Street, 12mo, 1854, p. 176,
1st Series."]
" The Conduct of the Stage considered ; Being a Short
Historical Account of its Original, &c., humbly recom-
mended toihe consideration of thosewhofrequentthePlay-
Houses. * One Plaj'-House ruins more Souls than Fifty
Churches are able to save,' Bul8trode*s Charge to the
Grand Jury of Middlesex, April 21, 1718." 8vo, London,
1721, pp. 43.
*« The AfafUute Unlawfulness of the Stage Entertain-
ment fully oemonstrated, by W. Law, A.M.'' 2nd ed.
8vo, London, 1726, pp. 60.
•• A Short View, &c., by Jeremy Collier." 8vo, London,
1728.
["Containing several Defences of the same in answer
to Mr. Conffreve, Dr. Drake," &c I cite this reprint of
Collier's original work here, in chronological 8€M)uence,
as being the best edition, and the one to be specially
sought for by the collector, as he will here have, without
further trouble, the ** Defence," the ** Second Defence,"
and the "Further Vindication" in reply to Dr. Filmer.]
" An Oration, in which an Enquiry is made whether
the Stage is, or can be made, a School for forming the
Mind to Virtue, and proving the Superiority of Theatric
Instmetion over those of History and Moral Philosophy.
By Chailcs Poree of the Societv of Jesus. Translated by
Mr. Lockman." 8vo, London,' 1 734, pp. 1 1 1.
The citation of the last two pamphlets has taken
me somewhat beyond the Collienan controversy
proper ; but they are not without value and im-
portance as bearing on the general subject.
William Bates.
Edgbaston.
ROMAN GAMES.
(3'*S. iu.490; iv. 19.)
Allow me to assure CnEssBuKoroH that, to the
best of my belief and information, I have not
" misquoted the passage from Justinian,*' sent by
me to your columns some months ago, in the hope
of eliciting, if possible!, an exact explanation of the
games therein alluded to. I have since consulted
several of the best editions of the Corptis Juris,
and cannot find anything to justify the substitu-
tion of " cordacem ** for " contacem ; " and, be-
sides, from an extract which I shall presently give,
it will be seen that the " quintanum contacem '*
is quite another thing from the *' cordax/* with
the aid of which Chessborough interprets the
passage.
Among those which I have consulted I may
mention the well-known editions of Dion. Gotho-
fredus^ cura Sima. van Leeuwen, Amst. 1663 ; the
Corpus Juris Academicum, Frienleben, 1780 ; and
a modem stereotyped edition (1868) of the Corpus
Juris, originally prepared by the critical brothers,
Kriegel.
The passage I before sent to you was (taking
the Gothofredan edition as our guide) from Code,
8, 43, 3, in med. By way of further explanation
I would take the liberty (assuming that the work
is not in Chessborouoh*s hands) of quoting a
previous passage, c. 3, 43, 1, which has the ad-
vantage of a few notes (jcurd van Leeuwen) in
explanation of the text : —
" Duntaxat autem ludereliceat iiov6Bo\ov^^^ liceat item
ludere Koirrofio¥6&o\^*9 Kovrai^Av Kdvrcuca, et item liceat
ludere*o x»pl» ^^^ »<Jpinj5, id est, ludere vibratione Quin-
tiana,^^ absque spiculo, sive aculeo aut ferro, a quodam
Quioto ita nominata hac lusus specie. Liceat item ludere
'KtpixvT^y, id est, exerceri lucta:»« liceat vero etiam ex-
erceri hippice,** id est, equorum cursu," &c
Having before me the information contained in
this passage, what I wanted was a reference to
some work of authority containing a full and ac-
curate description of the different games. If such
a work does not exist, I reciprocate the wish ex-
pressed by Chessborough, that some modem
" *• Id est, singulari saltu.
^ Saltu conto sussulto.
*o Alii legunt Kar Afjufw, vel Catampo, vel Catabo, quod
genus est ludi Festo.
*^ Ab inventore sic dicta.
*' Seu collnctatione.
»* 'linruai, Troia sive I^rrhica, curriculMsa.*ft^ssc«Ka.V
&c. '
40
NOTES AND QUERIES-
[8'* S. V. Jax. 9, '64.
" Strutt " would give to the world the results of
his researches in this neglected field.
A difficulty occurs in Cke8Sborou6H*8 render-
ing cf the '^singulari saltu'' a somersault; be-
cause supposing it to be a somersault, how, in the
'* saltu conto sussulto " could it be thrown with a
pole ? May it not rather have been an ordinary
flying jump? The note marked *<* may give
CHE9SB0R0UGH a better clue if he will kindly con-
tinue hi:) inquiry, and oblige one at a distance who
has not his facility for reference and research.
What was the " vibratio Quintiana ? " for if it
was " ab inventore sic difeta," as the note says it
was (note^\), it is at variance with Chkss-
B0R0T7on*s reference to the " Quintanus or five
deep rows of the circus." Would it not rather
be an exercise in which a Koi^rhs was hurled
at some object, the Hoprht being " sine fibula,"
X«p2f rvt vSpmis, i, e, without a hooked point or
prong, to avoid danger. I admit this to be an
explanation par hasardy and therefore will not
stake my " etymological sagacity " on its accuracy.
The TfpixwrV ^as evidently a wrestling matcn,
*' exerceri lucta/' but of what precise nature still
depends on some of your obliging correspondents.
I have no doubt that the '' hippice " was some
modification of the " Indus Troi®," for, judging
from the account given by Virgil {JEln, v. 545) of
that very intricate movement, it would scarcely
have been worth the performer's while to have
played for the single *' solidus," which Justinian
fixed as the legal limit.
I find I omitted to add another game to those c4
which I before sought explanation, viz., what ex-
actly were the " lignea eauestria " ? In the Code
3, 43, 3, adjin.y these words occur : — " Prohibemus
etiam ne sint equi (seu equestres) lignei," &c.
And in the "argumentum" preceding the (Go-
tbofredan) text, the following amusiUg passage is
given :— ^
** BalMmon notat de equi lignei significatione, inddiMe
apud Imperatorem gravem quondam dinpatationem, qui-
bufldam asflerentibua ilium ludum sif^xiificari, quo pueri
extra circum aurigando pro ec^uis hominibus utuntur;
aliis, vero, contro contendibus ligneam esse fabricam per
scalas llgneas exaltatam, habentem in medio di versa fo-
ramina : nam qui hoc genere ludebant, quatuor globules
diver$orum eoforum supeijiciebant ex superiore parte, et
qui primus globulomm per foramina ex ultimo foramin^
egrediebatur, hie victoriam dabat ei, qui projecerat.*'
This extract may assist in the solution of the
difficulty, although, if there was " gravis dispu-
tatio apud Imperatorem," as to its exact meaning,
we can hardly now look for a precise settlement.
I have no access here to the works of Balsamon,
who was a scholar and ecclesiastic of the Greek
church in the twelfth century, and wrote Com"
meniariuB in Photxi Nomoc€monem^ 4to, Paris,
1615. Photius wrote his Nomocanon about the
year 858 a.d. ; it was published at Paris, 4to, with
a Latin version, by Justel, 1615. The latter es-
pecially of these works might furnish us with an
explanation. We know that in the Roman chariot
races the charioteers were divided into ditferent
factions {greges v. factiones), according to the
colours of their livery (v. Adams's Itftm. Ant.) ;
thus we have the white faction (/. a/ba), the red
(russata), the sky or sea-coloured (veneta), the
green (prasina) ; and afterwards the golden and
the purple (aurea et purpurea) j and AdaraR tells
us, on tne authority of Procopius {Bell. Pers, i.),
" that in the' time of Justinian no less than 30,000
men lost their lives at Constantinople in a tuamlt,
raised by contention among the partisans of tiieae
several colours." The constitution prohibiting
these ** lignea equestria,'* CHBSSBORouon will re-
member, was Justinian's own : but can he trace
any connection between the two matters? In
conclusion I may add, that in the hope of satisfy-
ing my curiosity, I have consulted different com-
mentators on tie Code, but find that, like those
on the Digest, they deal with the general subject
of th»" alea " without specifying or inquiring into
the character of the prohibited games.
Cape Town, S.A.
Uum.
ST. PATRICK AND THE SHAMROCK.
(S'* S. iv. 187, 233, 293.)
I am certainly not a little surprised to find
Canon Dalton taking up this subject in a serious
manner, having always considered it as a weak
invention of an enemy. Admitting, as we must
do, that St Patrick was a Christian, a man of
common sense, and ordinary ability, the story
falls to the ground at once. For, surely, it must
be evident to the meanest capacity, that neither
as a symbol, argument, nor illustration, can any
material substance, natural or artificial, be com-
pared to the Divine mystery of the Trinity in
Unity.
It is pleasant to turn from this absurd, if not
egregiously irreverent, story of St. Patrick and
the Shamrock, to the charming and, instructive
legend of St Augustine, on the sad^ holy and
incomprehensible subject. When this revered
Palher was writing his De Trinitate, he one day
wandered on the seashore, absorbed in profound
meditation. Suddenlv, looking up, he observed a
beautiful boy, who, having made a hole in the
sand, appeared to be bringing water from the sea
to fill It "What are you doing, my pretty
child?" inquired the holy man. '*I am going
to empty the ocean into that hole I have jost
made in the sand," replied the boy. '* Impos-
sible ! ■* exclaimed the saint. ** No more impos-
sible," replied the child, <<than for thee, O
Augustine, to explain the mystery on which Uiou
art now meditating." The boy disappearedi and
\S.V. Ja»9/64*1
■Augustine then understood that ba had been
H vouchsafed a cekatlul vidon,
■ The earlieet notice that I know of the story of
Bst. Patrick and tJie Shamrock, U found in The
\ Koratij not that of Mahomet, by the way, but a
work attributed to the indeeent scoffer and dia-
^ grace to hia cloth, Laurence Storne, and runs aa
■ follows: —
" *• Yr: » • •-'^ T the mystery of the ttedemption once to a
vijui I bttppeaed l<> tiiiLke rq illusion, ndnpted
io iii iice, ot" the Uvtfing n JinCf ami tufferinff a
recQverp ; tlii» »imile was repeat&d »fUTwaril« to my di^-
udv«uUige { Aod I iriu deemed aa iiiti^lfsl theacefonrurd.
And why ? mertly becauae I am a merry pMaoii, I sup-
pose— for St, Pftuick, the Irish patroo, because he wiia
)« grave one, wftj oanonixed for iilufttratiag the Trinity
by the compariaoo of a Shiinrock/' •
The varioua differenoea of opinioni reapeetlng
what plant really is the shamrock, are most ludi-
croua» A Mr. Bicheno^ a Welshman, I believe,
discovered it in the wood-aorrel, Osalis acetoxUa ;
and Mb. Rkdmosd, who, at least, has an Irish
name, follows the example of Moore, and calls it
** a grass/' But it must be recollected that
Moore can claim poetical licence for his error,
and does not fall into Ma. Redmond's curious
Xusiun of ideas, by Bpeakiug of a *' trefoil
i,"t That "all flesh ia grass" we know,
It Mb. Rkdmokd will find a difficulty in per-
suading us that all vegetable is. The plant known
all over Ireland as the shamrock is, moat un-
doubtedly, the white clover, tri/oHum rrpms: it is
not ** puculiarly indigenous to some parts of Ire-
land only," but to my certain knowledge is found
in Eogland, Scotland, and France. Curiously
enough, in the last-mentioned country, it bears a
kind of implied sanctity, its common French
name being AUduia- while a kindred plant, the
large clover, cultivated for fodder both id France
I and England^ is termed Saintfoin — Fcenum iouc-
Mr, F. R. Datfes shrewdly hits the mark,
when he notices the white clover as a sacred
plant of ancient Pagan times. Almost all tri-
toHated plants have been so. Pliny, in his Katural
Ilidort/f tells us —
"TrifoUtiin scio credl pncvalGre contra serpent ium
ictus et scorpion [LID, -^Mrpentesq tie naoquAm in tri folia
NOTES AND QUERIES.
I
♦ From The PotthumotiM WarhM of a tate ceieitrat«i
GeniuSy iPeceanetL This rather rare bouk is reviewed in
the GentlananM Mftpazine for 1770. My copy lieara the
imprint, Dublin, 3iiic<i.xx. Si»me bibilograplicrs have
erraoeouily attributed this work to Svrif^ liiis error
can only be accirunti d tor by the wdl-ktiown fact, that
sa travelers not uiifrequ»5utly deooribe pljice& tliey have
not Vjdik'di 60 bibliographer:} very often take it uj»od
them to »|.'5*^ri)^K* iMUik* rh^'v have n»!vef »ppn [7"A* Ptnt-
huu.. .''' .■' ■ ' ''■''' ■ ' '-:■ r ■ ■ .,-,..' :n,,i
vty -I
Gnii.-. , . ' : . ■ i 1 . r ^ ■.. . ',..■.■, v; -., ■ ul.
tXTiL pt, LI, p. too, auU " ^. «* Q/' i" bu i, 'lid*— ^Ki».]
^ lira«» pioduce« bhides, not ieavu.
aspid- Pnoterea, cekbratibns aaoloiibaa, contra omnia
venena pro antidofco sufficere.*'
These arc very remarkable pa^sa^es, to the
comparative mythologist; takinj^^ thtfin in con-
nection with the legends of St, Patrick, the
soakeSf and the shamrock.
About fifty years ago, Br. Druramond^ a dis-
tinguished Irish botanist, found in the western
part of the county of Cork, a variety of clover
with a brown spot in the centre of each leaf,
which he poetically and fancifully named "the
real Irish Shamrock ; '* this plant, however, is
English, as well as Irish, and I have discovered
it growing, plentifully, beside the towing path on
the Surrey aide of the Thames, between the Cross
beep at f wickenbam and Teddingti>n Lock.
As I hftvejustobserved, many tri-foliated plants
have been held sacred from a' remote antiquity.
The trefoil was eaten by the horses of Jupiter* ;
and a golden, three-leaved, immortal, plant, af-
fording riches and protection, 19 noticed in Homer's
Hymn, in Mermtrmm. In the palaces of N'lneveh,
and on the medals of Rome, represeotations of
triple branches, triple leaves, and triple fruit,
are to be found. On the temples and pyraoiidsof
Gibel-el-Birkel, considered Xjq be much older than
those of E^rypt, there are representatinns of a
tri -leaved plant, which in the illustrations of
Ho&kins'a TraieU in Ethiopia &eexnB to be nothing
elj*e than a 8hamr<x;k. The triad is still a favourite
figure in national and heraldic emblems. Thus
we have, besides the shamrock of Ireland, the
three legs of Man, the broad arrow of England,
the phaon of henildry, the three feathers of the
Prince of Wales, the'tri-color, and the fleur-de-
lia of France, Key, in his exceedingly interesting
work, Ilidoire du Draj^au^ dtx Couleurs, d dea
Imii^nm^ de la Monarchic Frani,tiiA6 (T'kris, 1837),
gives engravings of no less than 311 different
forms of fleur-de-lis, found on ancient Greek,
Roman, Egyptian, Persian, and Mexican vases,
coins, medals, and monuraents. Including also
forma of the fleur-de-lis used in mediieval and
modem Greece, England, Germany. Spain, Por»
tugal, Georgia, Arabia, China, and Japan, It
also appears on the marioera* compass, and the
pack ofplaying-cards j two things which, however
essentiiOly'diflerent, are still the two things that
civilisation has most widely extended over the
habitable globe. WktixM Piskebtok.
Hounalow.
For a good summary of the evidence in favour
of the Wotjd Sonel, gee an article by Mr. Jdmes
Hardy in the Horder Magatiine^ i. 148. (Edin-
burgh, Sept 1803.) ^on. J. B. Wobjcard.
• CalUmicUus, J/ymit. ia i>winom.
^
42
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[ardS-V. JaH.9,*(ML
HARVEY OF WANGEY HOUSE.
(3'0 S. iv. 529.)
In answer to the appeal of your correspondent,
C. P. L., I beg to inform hiin that Wangey House
stands on the south side of Chad well Heatn, about
two miles from the town of Romford, but in the
parishes of Barking and Dagenham. The present
nouse was erected in the second quarter of the
last century ; but I have a rudely drawn sketch "
of the old Ilarvey mansion, from the large map >
of Barking Manor, a.d. 1663. The Manor of
Wangey has for some centuries been held distinct
from the manor house and lands. The Har?eys
lived at Wangey House from early in the reig^ of
Queen Elizabeth, — when Alderman, afterwards
Sir James, Harvey, purchased the estate from Cle-
ment Sysley of Eastbury House — until far on in
the reign of King Charles II. Of this there is
good evidence. See Visitation of Essex, 1634, in
the College of Arms ; Funeral Certificates, Col-
lege of Arms ; Dagenham Parish Registers ;
Harvey Wills at Doctors* Commons; Barking
Manor Court Rolls, &c. From these and other
sources, I have collected much relating to the
Harveys — as a considerable Essex family. Sir
James Harvey, who died in 1583, was father of
Sir Sebastian Harvey, who settled at Mardyke,
an old house still standing near Da^renham — i
James, who succeeded his father at Wangey — .
and William, who died, «. p, in 1610. Sir Se-
bastian Harvey died intestate in 1620, leaving
one daughter, Mary, afterwards the wife of John
Popham. James Harvey had 'a very large family,
ana died in 1627. His stately monument, with
its quaint inscription, still remains in the rector*8 I
chancel at Dagenham church. Samuel, his second |
son, who lived at Aldborough Hatch, in Barking
parish, married Constance, daughter of Dr. Donne, |
and widow of the celebrated Edward Alleyn. At
his house, of which I have also a tracing from the |
map of 1653, Donne was taken with his last ill-
ness. Samuel Harvey's children eventually in-
herited the property of the family.
Numerous entries of the Harvey family are
scattered through the Registers of Dagenham,
Barking, Romford, and Ilornchurch. There must
be many entries i^so in the Registers of St. i
Dionis' Backchurch, Fenchurch Street, as the
town house of the Harveys stood in Lime Street ;
and the earlier generations were buried in St
Dionis* church. 1 found about forty entries at
Dagenham. The last, Jannarv 21, 1677-8, re-
cords the burial of James Ilarvey, ggnt He
had, not many years before, sold the Wangey
estate to Thomas Walde^rave. •
These brief notes may be acceptable to C. P. L.,
as no account of the Harvey family is to be found
in Morant*8 or any other Uidory of Essex* They
* These Ilarveyt must not be confounded with the Har-
veys of Chigwel( 00. Essex; nor with the Heiveys of
are not, however, offered as a satisfactory accoimt
of the family, and I shall be happy to give him
further information. Edward J. Saqs.
Stoke Newington.
Virgil's TEsnMONr to our Saviour's AjDYnrr
(3'*S. iv. 490.)--The exact words of the line
quoted by your correspondent are not, I believe,
to be found in Virgil. The line intended by the
author of the Christian Mystery is doubtless the
seventh in the well-known fourth ecloguei or
FbUioof Virgil
** Jam nova progenies ccelo demittitar alto.**
In the '^ Argument " prefixed to this eclo^e in
Forbinger's Vtryil, LipsiaB, 1862, vol. 1. p. 62, the
writer observes —
** Vaticinationem Sibvllfle de Christi natalibns ezpres-
sam esse, quam Yirgilius iniceniose ad natales nobilis
poeri transtulerit jam Lactantius, Inst. vii. 24, Btatnit,
et Constantinus M. in Orat. ad Sanctorum Ccetum, Euaebii
libris (le demonstrare voluit. Cujus
auctoritntem quam dim plerumque Christian! homines
(cf. Wemstlorf, Poet. Lat. Min. t. iv. p. 767. tq.') tam re-
centioribus temporibus viri docti secuti sunt pleriqae."
And again —
** Succurrebat jam vaticiniam illad vul^atum de rege
sive hcrOe veuturo vel nascituro (cf. Suet. Aug. 94), quod
sub Nerone iterum increbruit" (Suet. Vesp, 4.) •
With this of Virgil's, we may compare the first
eclogue of Calpumius.
W. Bo WEN Rowlands.
In the mediaeval dramatic colloquy concerning
our Saviour's birth, contributed by Mr. Work abb,
he says that Virgil gives his evidence thus : —
** Ecce polo deniiasa solo nova progenies est/'
but that he cannot anywhere find the words. The
idea, if not the actual words, I thought, sounded
familiar to my ears on reading it, and on referring
to the fourth eclogue, 1 found the sentiment thus
expressed : —
** Jam nova progenies c(pIo demittitnr alto."
This is so very like what is put into Virgil's
mouth, that we may surely conceive the other to
be merely an error of copyists, or a line written
down from memory. Might not the Mantuan
possibly, when summoned after so long rest, have
somewhat adapted his metre to that of the rest of
the dialogue, and spoken thus P —
*♦ See, sent down from highest heaven,
Wondrous child to man now given."
Jos. IIarorove.
Clare College, Cambridge.
Richard Adams (2«* S. x. 70 ; S'^ S. iv. 527.)
Some light may be thrown upon his identity from
the facts, that the one of this name, who was the
second son of Sir Thomas Adams, Alderman of
j Marks, an important manor house, which stood within a
mile of Wangey. They were in no way connected with
famiUea.
8»«S.V. Jan. 9, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
43
London, &c., was bom on January 6, 1619-20 ;
and died without issue on June id; 1661. He
was buried in Lancaster Church, where there is,
or was, a monumental inscription. He would have
been only seventeen years of age in 1637 ; rather
young to be the author of the verses in the Cam-
bridge collection. If, also, he were admitted a
Fellow Commoner of Catharine Hall in April
1635, he would have but barely passed his fifteenth
year. The Mbssbs. Coopeb can j udge of the pro-
Dabilities better than I can. J. L. C.
Thomas Coo (2^8. vi.344, 375, 376.) — This
person who represents himself as starving in New-
Cin November 1633 (Bruce's Calendar Dom.
Papers, Car. I. vi. 310), was of Peterhouso;
B. A. 1586-7; M. A. 1500.
C. H. & Thompson Coopsb.
Cambridge.
Gbobob Banbbs (2* S. ix. 67.) — We make
no doubt that the president of some college, whose
Common-Place Book constitutes MS. HarL 4050,
was George Bankes, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cam-
bridge, B. A. 1597-8 ; M.A. 1601; Taxor, 1615;
Vicar of Cherryhinton, Cambridgeshire, 1629-38.
We have transcripts of many college orders signed
by him. In 1633 and 1635 he adds president to
his name.
For the information of such of your readers as
may not be conversant with the usages of this
University, we may explain that in that College,
Prudent is synonymous with Vice-Master. The
term certainly occasions confusion, as in one in-
stance here, and in several at Oxford^ it denotes
the head of the college.
0. H. & Thohpsov Coopbb.
Cambridge.
Quotation (3'* S. iv. 499.) — Li reply to your
correspondent M. S., the lines he alludes to must,
I imagine, be these : —
** Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings yoa for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,
And it soft as silk remains.
** Thus it is with vulgar natures.
Use them kindly they rebel ;
But be rough as nntm^-graters, '
And the rogues obey jou welL"
The author was Aaron Hill, and they will be
found at p. 822 of the ElegarU ExtracU. W.
Sib Nicholas Thbogmobtov (3'* S. iv. 454.)
I find in Nichols's Progresus of Queen JEUzabethy
ToL i. p. 215, mention made of a Sir Nicholas
Throcmorton, Knight, as having received the
degree of Master of Arts at a convocation held at
Oxford, Sept 6, 1566. A note at the foot of the
page referrmg to the convocation gives its place
u the Calen&r, viz., Fasti Oxon, voL L ooL 100.
Perhaps this may be of some assistance to the re-
aearchea of Mb. Thbobald Shid. Various other
memben^ I should suppose of the same fomily,
with variously spelled names, may be found in
the same book at the following pag^s : — vol. L
pp. 192, 197 note, 534 j vol. ii. pp. 73, 86.
K.R. C.
Pbn-tooth (3'* S. iv. 491.)— I am inclined to
think that the Huntingdonshire labourer meant
pin, though he said penriooih. : for the e and i are
very much confounded in the eastern counties,
and very likely so in the bordering county of
Huntingdon. In Norfolk, a person will speak of
9k pin when he means a pen for sheep, or cattle;
and a pen-tQoih was probably a /nn-tooth (a ca-
nine tooth), which is more sharp-pointed than our
other teeth. Thus the uvula, in Norfolk, is called
the pin of the throat ; and Shakspeare speaks of
the pin, or point of the heart. F. C. H.
Maboabet Fox (3'« S. iv. 137.)— The follow-
ing are the arms of her first husband, of the name
of Fell, of St Martin's-in-the-Fields, Middlesex,
granted Jan. 9, 1772 : Ar. three lozenges in fesse
vert between as many damask roses ppr. seeded
or barbed of the second. Crest, out of a mural
coronet, gu. a dexter arm embowed in armour,
ppr. garnished, or holding in the hand ppr. a tilt-
ing spear of the last. Dubiiax.
Fbith (3"> S. iv. 478), in the Weald of Kent,
where also it signifies a wood, is pronounced
" fright." This is another of the singularities of
pronunciation peculiar to that county, derived,
probably, from their ancestors, the Jutes. Thus,
a ditch, or dyke, is called a '' dick." It seems not
unlikely that such variations may throw light on
the original languages, or dialects, of the Angles,
Jutes, and Saxons. The word " burh," variously
pronounced " borough," "burgh," and *' bury," is
an instance which has already been given. Can
your readers furnish more. They might be of great
service to the philologer. A. A.
Tedded Gbass (3"» S. iv. 430, 524.)— Our best
thanks are due to your correspondents ; for, in all
archsBological investigations tne most valuable in-
formation we can have, next to the proof of what
a thing really w, is the being assured of what it ia
not. It seems pretty dear that tedded tjrass is
that first shaken out of the swath. Now what are
tods of grass; surely the weight of less than half a
truss of hay would have been in those times a very
inconsiderable remuneration. Are the tods the
hay-cocks ? I should explain my reason for this
query is, thatan answer may throw some light on
tnat very important subject, the wages of workmen
in the middle ages, A. A.
Poets' Corner.
Pbw Rents (3'« S. iv. 373, 443.)— -Your cor-
respondents are really in error when they suppose
that before the Reformation there were no pews
nor pew rents. This is one of the verythings ob-
jected against the R^jxiajMas^^^Nec^^s^ YixSass^^^
44
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3«* 5. y* Jajc, s^ im. '
in bis Image ofboths Churches^ printed by Ricbatd
Jug^e, London, no diil© (vtrca^ 1*550), B b viii.
recto. Among otber thingt* he eDumerate«^ —
" All sbrrnes, imflges, church strtlei, and pewe* that are
weil pti^edjor, all banner sUves, Pater-ooBter scores^ and
p9ce(i of tbti holy crosse/*
I say nothing of the spirit or taate which per-
Tftdes the work, but it is impossible that puch
things as pews and pew rents could have entered
into the bishop's bead if thev never existed. The
first edition is placed by NValt 1550, only two
years after Grafton printed the iirat Primer, and
'long before the Refornoation had time to influ-
ence the '^ miuiners and costonis '* of the people^
A. A,
LoKOEvmr of CLERGTMKiff (3^S. 7. 23>) — The
Rev. Peter Young, rainidter of Wigton, was ap-
pointed to that charge in 1799, and i« now the
only minister in the Church of ScoHund who
dates from the last century* G.
May: TBi-MiLcm (S*** 8. it, 516.) — Aa an
illustration of the milk- producing qualities of the
month of May, I may mention that when my
hijU8ekeeper expressed surprise to the fish boy,
who brought her shrimps one May morning, that
they were so early^ he answered : " Oh, yes, ma'am,
«hnmp« always oome in in May with the fresh
butter." KEifT.
PHOtmna (3'* S. v. 12.) — These people are
clearly the Fulas, otherwise called Fulani, or Fel-
latahs. The description of their character by
Edward Cave, in 17.'yi, ia singularly in accordance
with whiit iiindem travellers have stated of them.
The wurksof (Happerton and Dr, Barth should be
consulted by K. H, A,, if he is curious to learu
more. F. G.
ACtfcrlUctirotitf.
NOTES OX B(X)KS, ETC.
t Lift and CSnrrttfvnndehce of Georpe CatLttus.^ Luthrran
* Abbot of KifnitfSkhutttT^ and Prnfamr Prinutriu» in lA*
Univ^ritty o/ Ilelmalad(. By the Rcv, W, CL Dowdiflg,
M.A, (J. U.& Jojs. Parker.)
W<j hc»rtily thank Mr. Dowli •"
HA ripe n Hcliutur, as goiHl aCbrr
i man as ^vcr breathed. Antl
tooe oa time in making acq uftin
bioffrsphy. Her© th<?y may rr.i
aiadl, oul'horodiD^ the ^^
#rhtM>l«»^of COD vers 10113 t
<!foll^Ana» irhkh wtrre gs.
Profi'«*f»r — of lh<j thirty yt^ia* w*ii
«t*.iid4«mics to tba «liidj» — af the »l>
It k 4i Ll4l>j,l.>
thuoifbtfal tvp
Ifitejwt, ai in
•t«in atid SI*
■ 11^ us to
h«art<»d
.r> will
II
iiig ^n tnir jailiiic
ag hia old fdlow-
{o .,ur ProteatJint
hU ^OO
tCDCG at
u " nj m'ni uver the
It U a touching
unvs at thi" luvirt.
-a\
'1 before
Narratitnf9nfthtETpui»ion ufthitl^mth^h f'nrm
MCOrCXT IX — MCCC<?U ifftberiu,^
Her, ,", ' ," '^ '
bugSn
Jo«tj L '- :■_ ._._ ' ' ' '_ '
the Master vi the Bt^lk.) j^Liii^fiunn,)
The leamei! editor of the prc«Jnt volume reniarkp,
great truths that tb<>Te could be oo iiion*
eompaniment to the volumes which trrat >
tht Enghah in France — which have win >
the pre-HOut Sirica of ChrookJe*— than [
printed from MSS. in the Imperiul Lii
which eoabje us to trace, day by day, tn
the cnUMS which led to the expnLsion of ti
Normandy. Bloadtd'a narrative record-* *>.i.
able minuteness tbe eventii which o<*cufTvd froii
capture of Fougeres, when tbe truce betwrm Fng
and France was broken* to ibti final ex
English after the 1(i»b of Cherlwurg — an<1
mprtant n?cord which we have of ihi^ inti . ...^ j-*
The w<.frk nf Jat'ques le Bouvter, Riunumt^d iWr
firist King of Amu?' of CharU* VIL, closely fnH.tiv^ tij
Blondel in its arranji^ement and dctidlH :
Bome pflrticubkTis not reci»rtlpd by Idra. '\
between the Ambasaadora of France and I .^.-, wf
cxit'Juit.'d from tbe 2uth Juu« to Uh July, t4tt>. ^it
compietenesd to the work, on which the editor Uoa
stowed his wonted diU|g;eaee and karning,
A Spring and Suinmur in Lapiamt* *if*th Nat^t am
Faufm of LuteH t>apnvirk* By an Old Bu *
(Groombrid^e.)
Ori^nally published in 77m« FitUt^ where t^
favmirubly received* then* Xote» on Laplan
Fauna will be \vry acceptable to lov^^rs of n^L.. :
tory» ftud paitieulaVly so to student* of omit liology,
Thf Brown Book: a Btv^h ^f litad^ p,t\*^r.,^^ t
Jlotgh^ Lt»ltting and BonnJivp Mount
JUning Ib*omx^ Littrarien (Puhtir um
AmUtrttfteHt*^ liotftiftifn, .SV/if-o/* aur/ C/ifJr>>r'.'Jr /ij
tiimt, in LfOnittm ; t^Uh fuil tufnnmjtion at tt Sftut^
Spei'itffty^ ^ c. ; autt «i ftamty Ltut, *ftt>u\thj/ the
I*oat Office, Money Ontet Office, CfJutt^ind, Poiict Sk
tiont Hrt-Enffin€, Ptrt-K$mpe, Hoapitah, jfe„ Id
Th^umnd of th* Prineipai &tri»t* if ih* Jti^rvpofkk
(Saunders & Otley.)
A book containing tbe iiiforrantion dctnilwt in thl^
amfd4> title-page cannot but be very usf ful, if Uitf iti^j
fornittliun be correct ; and we are Lxiund to stiite that,
tBt aa we have been able to t^^t it. 7'he Bnjttn BmtJi ia i ^
correct, and consequetitl)' oa u-^^ful, an any vf iIa Kvd or,
Blue cootemporaries.
The Commim Prayer in Latin. A Lfttm- ^ddrtutd to jl
ffep. Air W: Cope, Bart. By ,Will»am John Ht«w]
With a PoMtBcrijA »n the Citmiuon Prayer tn tir\
(C.J.Stewnrt)
A k'arned ami teniperati* pNntpbtet nti a iubjecidti
ing'thc ik'rious attention of all Chunhmen.
Afontinpt t^i'enlny, and JfJi/ntV/Zif Hymmt by'T\\t\mm% Ke
11. D, With an IntTfiductvry iMtrr hy Sir Kmifid«^
Palmer,' and u Bi&yrapkital tikitch Oy a Ijiynia
(S«dgwick.)
Thia edii
merV bitn. i
46
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8»*8.V. Ja».9.'64.
JNOIfiKSTION.— THE MEDICAL PRO>bi>SION ,
..lout M*»US<»NS rilKl*ARATm!f uf I'KIVINK "the trut
i.„,'.ly. SnI.l in ll^rtlc. ..,.1 Hoxw. fr-n; l*- •'-'•^ Mwos'i'^N
lx4.Suut]iiii:«|>t<Hi K»w. KuMi U Si|uarc, I^jinlnn. |
LK.V AND PEURINS' SAUCE.
TBB •• 'VTOXCUTBKSBZSB.**
lirtuiiHiiiiTd hy I'linmilMvun
"TIIK OSLY good 8ACCK."
Imi'iiivm the ii|ipciltr aiid aiiU ilim-'tion.
UNIIIVAI.I.KI) KOH IMUrANCY AND FLAVOUR.
Ask for "liKA AND PERRINS'»* 8AUCB.
11 K \y A U E () F I M I T A T I o N S,
Mil KC the Nttiiu> ot Ll^A AND VERllINS on all botUri uid Ubclf.
ARCiitft-C'i;( 'SSK * IILAi:K WKLU l^miliHi. mU aold by all |
iH-aii-r* in ^Kuivi thruutshout th« World.
DZIVBEFOBD'S FXiUZB MAOBrBSZA.
flip »»c*t roinp.lv K»ili At'IDITY OF THE STOMACH. IHSART-
lirUN, MKAOAfllK. (H»|:t. AM) INl)l(JE«iT10N: and Hiv hnt
■iilil aiMTiiiit iiir ilflii-ait mmtltutiuni, e«|«ci«ny adapted for LADIlus,
CtllUmKN, and INK ANTS.
DINNKKORD ft OK. 17». NewRond Strcet.liondon,
And of ail Chvmi»t<.
FARTRIDOE AND COOPER,
MANIFAOTIJKING STATIONERS,
192, Fle«t Street (Corner of Chttiirt^ry Lane).
CAUUIAOE PAID TO T1IK COUNTRY ON ORDERS
EXCKKDINU Sibi.
NOTE PArRK.rrramnr Iilur..\f.,4jr., &ji..andii«. per ream.
ENVKUU'F.S.rrvHiiKir llliir. I«.A//., :»ji.i-H/.,aiid Kn.iW/. i«r 1,000.
TIIK TKMI'I.K F.NVKI^)i'K,vith llich I niur I Up. la. per 100.
HTllA W I'AI'Ell- Iiii|T.ivi'«r i|iiality.l«.(i</. mr ream.
F(HlI.SCAI'. lluiid-iiiai|i-Miit>idi--^M. rt<^ i^er ream.
BLACK- IK iK|>F:HI:I> NOTK. I*, and I'.Jt. In/. iN-r ri-am.
fiLA('K-»«ii:iiKUl-:iiKNVRl/il'KS.I>.|ivr1iNi-Sii|i«>r thick quality.
TINTI!i> LIM^r) NOTE, for llnnic i>r ForeivitCurr«k|Hjndcncc (flve
I'iiliiiir ■■, ;■ ■|uiri-» fur In lii/.
C0]^>I'I:KI) '^I'AMl'INt; Jltclipn. redu«>rd to it. M. per ream, or
hji. i\f. in-i l.iiNi. l'iilii.)iid Kui-l Cn-kt Dirt i>iii!ravi>d fVoni &«.
Miiiii«--'rHiiih.twi> IfitiT*. tfun A».t tlirce ieiii-m. fruni 7a. Builnaia
or A'lilri" li't«.tr..ma«.
8ERMIIN I>M'KI<. plain. t«.ptr ream i RiilH •litt«i.4a. (V/.
HC'I11M)L STa i'ltiNKKY •upplivdun the iiiim>I lilKTal lerina.
IlluMtrativl rriif l.i«t of Inkufaiidm IVvpMN'li U»vca, Stationery,
Caliiiici*. rujiatrc St-aU-a, Writinir Canci. Turtrait AHiuina, fte., pott
frw.
<EKTAHI.IH||ICn I'M].)
MR. HOWARD. Surprron-DeDtist. 64, Fleet Stmt*
haa Introduced an entirely new deacripikm of ARTIFICIAL
TEETH, flsed without aprinpi, wirei, or liKaluraa. Tbev mt rtttmVk
IwinW the da««
tlie natiiVml teeth a« niit to he diatlnffiHohed fhiin then L, ....^
olMrrver. Thfa inelhud (^lc« nut rvi|ulre the ntraetion of rmtt.«i
any fiainflil mcnulim i will aiipimrt and preaerTe looae teeth, and b
guaraiiiec«l tu rmtore articulation anil martlcalloii. De^ytd mih
■topped and midared eound and ukAiI in niaatioBCioB.
M. Fleet 8trcct. At home frtmi 10 Ull a. CgaralMloai ftot.
TO INVESTORS.
Dividends 10 to 20 per Cent on Onfli|.
Inveatora dcrirout of making aafr InTentmenla ahoald applf li
MR. Y. CIIKISTIAX.
RTOCK * SHARE DEALER, II. ROY AT^ EXCRA2C0E.
LONIM)N. R.C. I lUnkcr«-Ba&k of Enjrland^
Who will forwanl, uimn appllmtion. hia enmpirhvndTe rerlev ef At
Mnxicr Mahkkth. tiicvthcr with a avleeted llet of InrcauncDti Mikv
from 10 tu VI iK'r ivnt.
G
ILBERT J. FRENCH,
ROLTOX. LANCASHIRE.
Maiiafhctnrer of
OHUBCH FUHNITtTBX.
CAR1»ET8. ALTAR-CI/YTHB,
COMMimrttN MNEN, fiURPLICEJt. and ROBCt,
HERALDIC. ECCLESlA>iTICAU and EMBLBMATICAl
FLAOS and BANNERS, *c. fte.
A Cafalinrue acnt hy piiat on appliratloa.
Paroela dclivcre<l ftec at all principal Railway SUtfoBa
'old ENGLISH" FURNITURE.
Reprodiirtiona of Simple and Artiatte Cabinet Wnrk ft«
Manahmi of the XVI. and XVII.rei>turies,nDmUnliiffgoailMh~
■iiund workniaiiahip, and cuonom/.
COLLINSON and LOCK (late Henli«a^
CABINET MAKEBS,
100, FLEK r STREET, E.C. EnUbHsfaed 1781
TAPESTRY PAPERHANGINQ8
The Vellum Wove Club-house Paper,
MaaiitXotiiM'.lrVMiS'.ly t.> niivt mh tiiilvvrinlly «-<|HTlcnccil want.tf. t. a
|Ni|N>r wiiii-li dial I in ii-i-ti' iMinhinv a itcrfi'clly MiitNjtli aurlaoe wltk
tutjtl fr«- diini fi nil L'n-MM.'.
The Now Vollum Wove Club-House Paper
will U- fmiini tu |NNio(»M llii-M" |iiriiiiitr<lU»c<iiii|<K-li-ly. iK-inu niMle fhmi
till' U>*t iiiii-ii ra:» mil). ii<i<«c4<iin(r irnat ti'iiai'itv and diirnhility,and
pn-i nthiL- :i Mirfniv •■•lunlly wll ■linHfd fur i|ui|| ur hti-el in-n.
i».r n: U VEM.l M WtiVE Il.ril-IHUSK I'Al'EK iiirnaMCi
all 'iijii |. fur siii.i.itliiii-<H ofiiiirl'mr, ililiniry uf iiiluiir. ttrmiii-Mot tev-
tiin-. «tiiiii> oli-t-iiii- uf any <Mliiiiriiiir matti>r ur iiijiiriniia chcmirali,
tviiiliii»."t>i iiii|Kiii it^iiliirnhility nr in any way atTtvlinu lt< wrltinn pro-
Brrti.-ji. A >.iiiii.' ■ rm-ki-t cuiiitainliiK an Amnrtnieut of the varloui
izeii, |Ni«i tri« t-ir 31 >t:iiii|ii>.
I'A KTHilUiE \ Ci N )PI:R. Mann fact nrrn and Side Vendors,
isa. IticiSlnct.K. l".
Ij^HKNCH. •>. Knval Exchanco, I/.iulon, Wutch,
('l<H-k.aiHl ( liri.ni.'niitrr Makur. Extahl'wiud A.li. I*>lt.
lfE«":nrs AVEI)l)lN(f PRESENTS consist of
ifl Dn-iiiic ('ok*. Dn-MlM',.' Daira Work Hinea and Baffa. Writlnjr
CaM-a. J.WI It iiM -. M I'll iu>\al- nil luiitcd Writinir TaMe Seta In Wood
Md <• It. AjljiuiH. l-apiiT-nurh.' Tea Traya. Chvati. and Caddlea,
piirtaiiU; Wririni: ( aM>a. and Deapafch Biiie» | a'- an inHnltc variaty
of No»vliic* t.i ih.H»e fMm.-n«. Refvnt Siiict.W. Cataloffnci poat
five. Mh. Mix.' II I ur hla Sun atlcudi |«rwnali> louiy.
Imitations of rare old BROCADES. DAMASKS, and (
TAPESTRIES.
COLLINSON and LOCK (late Herring)|
DECORATOBSp
109, FLEET STRKKT. LONDON. EsUblUbed 1781
TBB BTB'Vr a&AOX ZBB
(blPFRUKilT PItnM A!«TTIilS(a KUtR KVKU PaODUaiD.)
DRAPER'S DICHROIC IHX.
Writinic tMnnnra a pleasure when thia Ink la iianl. It has been alopM
by the iiriucii-al lianka. i>iiMi« ulHcva. and railway citmpanict ihrBMjfc-
out Ireland. It wriii-» alniiMt ini>rantly ftill Idavk. Jjuea i"* ^
by the iiriucii-al lianka. i>iiMi« ulHcva. and railway citmpanict I
out Ireland. It wriii-< alniiMt ini>rantly ftill Idavk. Jjuea not
iti-el iwnii. Driva ranidb un ih«- i>a|ivr. la eleanly to nae and noC lUUl
to liK>t. FlowHvaMiy fruin tla' ivn. Bliitlin< paper may be anlM ri
the minni-nt uf writint:.
In hail-pint. pint, and i|u«i« )ara,at (W/.. la., and li. each.
AA'nta: Mi'<->r«. Ban-lay « S<ma, Farrinirdim Hiivet. I^raidaBi 1
Mather. Mam-lieiitiT : A. K%aia & C-ii.. Ewtvr i F. Ncwbcry t fl
»\. Paul's (.'hun!h> ard. l^tunUiti i Wm. Edwnrda, aa. Old QmI
London. Stdc whiilv*ale ain-nti, Bvwley & Draper. Dublin.
ORATKKrL — COMFORTING.
EFFS'S COCOA.
BREAKFAST.
"By a thornuffh knowlc<lge rf the natural Uwi which fovera ttl
oneratiiina uf illm^tlon acd nutntiun, and liy a careftil apnllraflcMir
the flne pmiicrtlra uf well-K-leclsd Cnctia. Mr. Epps has nravldadav
break fk^t tahira with a delicatci.* flaT.mrcd bemSn wUShaur m
u« many lu-avy doctor*' bllia."— C/nY Srrrict b'tisrifc. ^^
Mafia simply with hniUnf watir or milk. Bold ooItIb ftl^ Ilk.
and 1 lb. tln-lmed packets, rabelldi- ««• wuj m t !»• • »•
JAJIES KFP8 k GU.
8'*aV.jA». 16,'M.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
47
*
LQSTDOSf, SATURDAW JAKUARYV^ 1B64.
CONTENTS.-^N". 107.
I
NOTES: — Mr, Frotido In Ulitflr, 47 — S!uikspeaxl&DA :
Slcphuio — **Hunl«t** '— Hftmtet'a Gimv«, 49 — "The
Grand Impostor/' ISO— St llAry'i. Beverioy. ei—Fuitoo-
d&i, £iS — ** Ob» SwftUov does not mak^ m SamxB«r " —
Draidlcftl Benuliu In I&dla ** Aiiagimztii — A Notd on
NotM — ZacIuij Bojd* 63.
QUERIES: — Mjuioscrlpt EngUih Chrotiide, M — BAmneBi
— ^The Bloody HAod — Books of Mojumeoiikl InacriptloDi
— Alfred BuDU — Tbomu Cook — mmwell — Cullum —
EnlcEBA — Eogliab ToporrAphy is Dotch — Fowl* with
fiiunwi Bonudni — " The ijt^roKy ot Nuunaji " — KicholM
Newlin — NorthomtKrUa (Anglo-SAxon) Moa«j — Oidor
of St iJolm of JeniMlem — F&lntcr to Hit li^mij —
Pocl«t Fender -^ PaoiSoe Stone — References Wuitea ^
Bpuilih Drought — Tonington FKtniljr, 54.
Quutictf vmt AurgirmfiB: — H&Ilf&x Law — duu-lei Left-
ley — Pmlni xe. 9 — rHMolutfon of MonAiteiiee, 4cl —
Hiorse, the Architect— Copy! d{( ParUh fiegiiten^ 50.
RBPLIS9 : - B*tfAbl«, 08 — Bir Robert GifToid, 50 ^ Mn.
PltshertMTt, 2b.— Si. retrlck and the Shjunroclt, 00 —
QootAllon: **Ant tn Morus ei " ^. — Stoniae — Henldic
YLfitAtioni printed — Clerk of the Cheque — Quotatlont
"W Anted — Vken i FUea — Rob. Bumi — BrettinKbAm —
BhAkepeAre and PLAto — LAurel Water — Fholey — Penny
LoAvei At FonefAli — "Trade and ImproTement of Ire-
lAod"- Armt of StaioDf— "EbI BotA floe Venorli "— " The
AraAteiu'i BfAftAKtne ** — Mad a» a Hatter — ftichard AdAmi
— Madmmti'a Food tARting of OatmeAl PonkSire- Sir Bd-
vmrd May— Sir WUliaxn Sevenokft— Longevity of Oargy-
men — Paper Marks — The Laird of Lee — Frith SUrer —
PotAto aad Potnt-^reek And Roman Games, &&» 61.
Notes on Books, 4c
■ sett
H^ teen
I
MR, FROUDE IN ULSTER,
In two chapters of tlie eighth and Uat pub-
lished volume of his History of England^ Mr.
Froude has sketched the leading events of the
SFtruggle with Shane O'Neill at the commencement
of Elizabeth's reign ; but the theme was worthy
of a much larger space, and indeed required an
ampler treMmeut, to render it intelligible to Eng-
lish rea<len«. In that Btruggle the Scots formed a
principal element, and, in con^nection with their
settlements in Ulster during the fifteenth and six-
teenth centuries, Mn F. had rare and plentiful
iterials at hand. The whole story of the^e
ittish settlements, however, h told at page 10,
in the following words : ** The Irish of the North,
and the Soota of the Western Isles, had for two
centuries kept up a close and increasing inter-
course." This intercourse, practically speaking,
began with the marriage of John Mor Macdonnell
to Marjory Bisset, sole heiress to the Glyons or
Glens of Antrim, about the year 1400, and a
simple recite of facts in the history of their de-
Bcendants, the Clan Ian V<5r, or Cl&ndonnell South,
would have been highly important in reviewing
the le:iding parties throughout Ulster during the
sixteenth century.
But without any previous knowledge of these
Boots^ the reader is introduced to a company of
them thus, at pKige 10 ;—
No. 107.
" James M 'Conn ell {MacdonneU) and bis two brothers,
near kinsmen of the House of Argyle* croMicd over with
2000 followers to settle in Tyrconnell. while to the CaJ-
logh O'Donnell, the chief of the clan, the Earl of Argyle
hiiuaelf gitTe hi* half -sister for a wife."
Jamea Macdonnell had not only two, but seven
brothers, the sons of Alexander of Isla, all of whom
were lead ere of greater or less not© in the ranks of
the Clan Ian V<5r, and all of whom were probably
bom and brought up on the Antrim coast, where
their father resideil from the year 1493, having
been then banijibed from Scotlnn<i by James IV.
They were not, however, " near kinsmen of the
house of Ar^le," neither had they any immediate
family relationship with the Campbells, farther
than that James Macdonnell, the eldest brother,
was married to a daughter of Colin CampbeU, the
tliinl Earl of Arg^de. James Macdonnell and
two of his brothers may have gone on some expe-
dition into Tyrconnell (Donegal), as the allies of
the O'BonnellSj but they never went there for the
purpose of settling permanently, although their
movements may have been bo representeil, or mis-
represented, by English officijus, Jiimes Mac-
donnell, when in Ulster, had his own well-known
town and castle at Red Bay, on the Antrim consti
and his two brothers, Colla and Sorley (who no
doubt went with him into Tyrconnell, on the oc-
casion referred to by Mr. Froude), dwelt re-
spectively at Kinbann and Ballyca^tle, on the
same coast. Mr. Froude always speaks of Calvagh
O'Donnell as " the Callogh," thus adopting the
phraseology of English emissaries. By them he
ia no doubt also milled, in supposing that Argyle
gave his " half-sister " to the " Callogh " as wife*
The fact that the kdy in question Is alwjiys
termed Countess of Argj'lc naturally enough puz-
zles Mr. F., seeing that, had tshe only been the
Earl's half'*wfU»r, she could not have had the
title of ConnkM. This lady, however, baii been
hitherto regarded as the sttp-mother only, of
Archibald, fourth Earl of Argyle, having been
his fathers second wife, and conyecjuently Countess
dowager of Argyle. She afterwards became the
fiecond wife of (jalvagh O'Donnell, but continued
to retain her Scottish title. She was one of the
seven daughters of Hector Mor Mai^lean, Chief
of the house of Dowart, in Mull, Her mother
waa Marv, daughter of Aleximder of Islay, and
sister to Jtimea Macdonnell, After her abduction
by Slmne O'Neill, Sussex wrote to Elizabeth tlint
"Thre of the Mac lUanes (Macleans), Kynsmen
of the Countess of Oirgyle" had offered great
services to her captor for her release. It must
be admitte^i, however, that the lady is still some-
what of a genealogical puz/ie, but it is certxiin she
could not have Wen hulf'sUtcr to the then Eai'l
of Ai^yle. The latter is represented as being a
wonderful match-maker, for he is deacrihed as
proposing to marry Jamea MiWida\iSsft.W>fe W\^s«.
48
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[z^ a Y. jAir. le, 'u.
("another hivlf-sister of Argyle/* page 395) » to
bhane O'Neill, after tlie latter had repurUated or
put away James MacdoDnell'a daughter ; and,
aeain (pa^e 387)^ m making arrangements with
O'Neill for manning two of hh children by the
Connteas of Argyle^ with two of the ehildiin of
James Macdonnell I This husine^a waa mooteti
in 1565, when O'Neill's children by the Coiintesa
could not have been more than thre^ and four
years of age respectively !
The following is Mr. Fronde's account (p. 38<))
of fc^hane O'Neill's celebrated expedition against
the Scots, in the spring of 1565 : —
"O'Neill lay qniet through the winter. With the
spring and the Hut weather, i^hcn the rivers fell and the
grouod dried, he roused himielf out of hin luir, Btid with
Hit galloglns^e Rtid kcn>, nnd a few hundred 'harqucbiiia'
men.* he d&«hed tuddeiilj do^m tipon the * Redshanks '
and broke them to pieces. Six or seven buudred were
killed in the l)ehl; Jumea M'Cotinell and Lis brother
Borleboj were taken prisoners ; and for the moment the
whole colony wus ewept away.**
In this brief spaco, ^fr. Fronde compresses all
the stirring event* of that remarkable campaign ;
the mnsterlnp of O'Neill's force in Armagh lifter
the solemnities of Easter— his march into Clande-
boye, and the grithering of the gentry in that ter-
ritory, with their adherents, around the standard
of their great chief— the brittle of Knockboy, near
Bttllymena, where .Somhftirle Manlonnell with-
stood, for a time, the overwhelming force of
0*Neill— the siege and capture of Red Buy
Castle' (Uaimderghl— the landing of the Scots at
Cushindnn under James Mtuxlonnell, and their
union with Sorley Boy's small force — their re-
treat before O'Neill northward along the coast
to Baile Caialean (now Bally castle) — the furl-
otu battle of Gleanntaisi, in that district, com-
mencing at five o'clock on the morning of the
2nd of May— O'NeiU'e halt at Ballycastle, — where
he listened to» but rejected, the despairing pro-
posals of the Scots, and from which he addressed
iiifl oelebrated letter to the Lords Justices, in-
forming them of his victory— his subsequent
capture of the Castles of Downe«terick and Dun-
luce — his sending Jnrnes and Sorley Macdon-
nell, together with nineteen other Scottish leaders^
o»ptured on the field of Gleannt-aisi, to dungeons
in Tyrone— and his own triumphant return into
Armagh.
In selecting the season of epring for this *' da^h**
again Bt the Scots, Shane wai* not My much con-
oerne*l about " when the rivers fell and the grouod
dried * liH ubnut tl fty of having the blow
dealt brforr- the | i reinforcements began
generally to txiu^, .r (n Scot hind. The ScottJ
wen? known to leave Antrim each sea80n in Oc-
tol>er, or early in November, except mrh * -
ben a« were nece«ary to hold certain ji
^ong the const, cuid aa regularly to return
spring, after they had sown their own ba
putihes of soil with here or barley, throughou
Cant ire and the Iblea, If an emerpjency aro*
however, reinforcements were summoned by «!:
simjile means of lighting a great tire on Tof}
Mmd, which is the nearest point of the Anlriu
coast to Cantire, the Cliannel her© beicK ^td^
eleven miles and a half in breadth. 31?. Vmiu
asserta that the Warning Fire waif light^i on
"gigantic coluiani of Fairhead/' but Icical indl
tion invariably assigns that distinction to *"~
Head ; and in Nordcn's Map of Ulster prefi j
vol ii. of the State PaptTS, we have the follfl
announcement at the latter h(3idland : *' At
marke the Scotts u»ed to make their Wumifi
Fires," It is not unlikely, however, that Fa
bead, which is much higher and more prouii
although further from Cantire, may have bee|
n!*ed for the same purpose ] but on what autl
Mr. Fro ude's statement nests, I do not know.
At page 418, Mr. Fronde thuH desonbea
plac^ of Shane O'Neiirs aBsassination : —
** In the far extremity of Antrim, lieside the faiTI* <
liimleara, where the bliick valley of GlcnarifT opens o<
into Red Day, ^heltere*! aurnng the hilla and closa iip«^
the gea, lay th** camp of AUo-^ter M'Coiinell (Ales
Ogc Macdonnell) and his nephew GilleBpie*"
The county of Antrim extends along the
from Belfast to Coleraine, but the point here
indefinitely referred to is neither at ntie €*x^
tremity nor the other. Shane O'Neill w:
the present townbind of Bally teerim, o\.
Cushindun Bay, and still containing tracer uf ti]it|
building in which hia laat fatal Interview w^i
the Macdonnells took place. In Norden% Mn
prefijced to the StaU Faptrs^ vol. ii., the mune
this toTSTiland is Balle Teraine, and it is accom^
panied with the following note : " Here Sbanij
O'Neal© waa slayne/' Mn Froude has, no dont)t|
some authority for associating that chieftain'^
death with the ** falls of I?«naleara*' and tl
*' black valley of Clenariff." Wo are told, al
that O'Neill's lifeless body was "flung into
pit dug ha^^tily among the mined arche* of Glf»n^
arm," and if so, the assaKsins nun^t have cameq
the corpse a diPtance of at least fwdre miiet i
Local tradition afhnna that the mutilates! remain^
wen? buried in rm old church enclosure, at,
near, the tdnce of assassination, and <!ampioi|
t^Us us that O'Neiirs last resting-phico
*' within an old chapcil liard by.*'
The ScottiJ^h leader whom Mr. Froude deaJ^
nates as " Gille^rpic '^ was the eldest *on of Jam«
Macdonnell, and, as such, wai* ; ' " in^
t^a^stcd than imy othiu* in a^ ler
death, and repudiating tlie i *■ -?!
motlier's profTei'ed marriag<?s as
t''«"i''ic, misled by others, n ]
Mfmcll aj< ntphrw of Juin
■ion is correct in bIul^., .i^
3^ 8. V. jAir. 16, '04.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
49
I
(Jamea Maedonneir* widow) hatl a aonne Mac
Gillye Aspuckc, who betmyed O'Neal e to avenge
lu8 fathers and uncle's nuiUTfU*" It is not likely
that n nephew of the huly oaly by marriage wouM
htive BttXHl cij» so fiercely for her reputjition. ThU
Gilkwpio, or Archibald, wob Jumes Mat:«lonnell*s
ehk'tst son, Jtnd U always rrn.*iitioned .is his lieir in
the vivrious gnints of lands in Cuntlrc made to
hi* father by >r'*' ' *'!*'en of Scota ♦ Jame3 Mac-
doiinell hud son of hh brother Colla)
named alao < Vmt be wa3 killt^l by an
iiccident nt 1 ]^'-t on the day he ciime
of age, and cn w lifen more than fifteen
year* of age jvt the time Shane O'Neill was skin.
Mr, Froude writes too decidedly in the vtt
ifiditi style, and is angry because the Irish did not
Accept with a better gnice the bleasmga of subju-
gatioo. He utters complaints as he proceeds,
pretty much in the spirit wkich dictated the let-
ters of Fitzwilliajn and Piers. The queen, for-
Booth, ** cared to burden her excheauer no further,
in the vala effort to drain the bhick Irish mora*a,
fed as it was from the pereuninl fountains of Iri^ih
nature." (r*!^;?e 377-8.) Thi.s writer also speaka
m if he really belie ve^i that ihe Irish and Scott iah
chieftidmi were more truculent or ferocious than
English officials. Shane tVNeill 13 de^crilwd
(pcfcjjc 42C)) iL'i a *' drunken ruffian," and Allaster
M*ConneU (Alexander O^q Macdonnell) acts
(mi^e 413) "like some chief of Sioux Indiana,"
All this may be true, but their '' Irish nature " ia
not blacker than fSngliah nature aft^r all. The
EngEah were caught twice plotting the secret
assaaaination of Shane O'Neill by poison ; and
Susiiex, the Lord Deputy, was concerned in at
let^t one, if not both, of these infamous affairs.
An Mr. Froude proceeds, iie will find that Sir
Jiiities Macilonnell, of Durduce, was poisoned, in
letH, by a government emissary, named Douglas,
whom that chief was hospitably entertaining at
his custle on the Antrim coast. Mr. F. will idso,
do ditubt, mt^et the ftillowing extract from a letter
written by Sir Arthur ( 'hichester, and descriptive
of ti journey made by that fiimous statesman and
soldier from Carrickfergus along the banks of
Lough Netigh : —
*■ I burned tklX along the hr>\v^h wUhin four rayle* of
Duniraiinon, aoJ killed Ion . ,rjngnitne, of what
quality, »it?» , f>T sex socTcr , r.ij burned in de^th :
w kill m»n, womaa and s.,...^ . »©, beMt« and what-
BO«ref we fimj."
This atolid nionsti r% m.Ucy wjia, th^t fhn Triah
OOtild be iii'jre f| need to «fi iiy
huH'jerihMi i\T\y i' n- ; hence 1: rd
com and cjittle in every direction ; and during
bis administration, little children in Ulst^ir were
Keen eating the tlesh of their dead mothers !
^^f'^ft Gko. Hill.
t'i Paroekiai^f ScQtiaf toL ii. pftrt 1, ttodor
BUAKSPEARtANA.
'^But roomer, fairy, here come* Obcron/'
Midaumtiier ytjffU'i Ifteatn, II. 1. (Puclc.)
By thus adding r to the roome of the first folio,
on the supposition that the printer or copier
dropped it through carelessness or ignorance, the
line can be scanned, and the rhythm is, I think,
better, and the expi'easion less prosaic than tho/se
of any other reading. Room and roomer were sea
plirases, which, in speaking of the sailing of sbipa,
meant to alter the course, and go free of one
another, or of rocks or land, or more generally in
reference to tlie wind, to go, as we now say, large
or free (or roomer, freer) before the wind. Thus
we read in Hakluyt —
"Then might the Hopewell and the Sw»Ilow hftvo
pftyed ronme [payed oflT before the wind] to ie>cond biin,
but they failed him, as they did ua, atandiug off cloM by
A wind to the eastward;*'
and in the same, Best, airrating how in Frobisher's
second voyage the ships were caught in a et^rm
amidst drifting ice and iceberg.s, says :^
"We went roomer [off our course, and more before tho
wind] for one (tceberi^), and loofed [Tuffed up in the
wind] for another (and to up and down during the whole
uitsht.)"
Henoe rooftur aptlf expresses one of the two
courses which must be adopted by an inferior
vessel when it meets another, whose sorercignty
entitles her to hold on her way unchecktnl, and
the courec which would l>e adopted if it were
wished to get away unohalienged. The fairy had
liitfed, and ao stayed her course to sfieak with Puck.
Having interchanged civilities, Here, says Puck,
comes Oberon, bearing down upon you full sail ;
do yoo, vassal as you are of a power that he is
unfriends with, alter your course ; go off befot©
the wind, and free of him. In a word, roomer.
Why should not the earth-engirdling imp have a
few such phrtises at command, or have gone mas-
querading as a sailor-boy, especially in Attica or
in England in 1.595 I in botn which places even
Titania fieema to have been fond of Neptune's
yellow Bondfl* Or, if objection stdl be made, I
would quote the inlander Romeo, who talks as
though by nature of the high top-gallant of his
Strpbako. —
'*Now is the jerkin under the line. '^—7*CTJi;j«»f, IV, 1.
meaning it was put as were the stnkes at tennis,
and so could be taken by the winner.
** Let ua keep the Uwet of the court ;
That ii, Blake niouey uudcr the Uue^^tottu la corda), is ti
not po ?
Yea, Sir, you hit it right :
Here ii toy aiouef , now ft^ke yon.**
Fbiriu'i Sfcund f rutin, ch. 2. "At tennis
in Charter Houdc Court/*
B. NtcuciXAcj-^,
NOTES AND QUERIES. [S"* 8. v. jm. le, •«.
*' ThuB hnft be (and maoj more of the iunf breed tbit
I know the droKjuy age dot«^0 o»*) only got the tunc of
the time und outwaH habit of encounter,— a kind of
je«t,v collection, which cai riet them through and through
the most fond ntid vfinitoafif't opinions, und do but blow
them to their triul, the bubbles ure out,'* (First Folio.)
Act V, So. 2.
" Pi«pbane and trennowed {trennowned) quartos fanned
and winnowed "— Warhurton,
Hamlet of course means that Osric and his com-
peers have not that inward wit necessary to parley
true euphuism, but only the outward trick of the
language, which, while it tmssed with folks of Like
mind, would not stand the trial of better judg-
ments. So at leuat he ejiys in the rest of the pas-
sage ; but when he is made to say that their
yesty collection of words carries them through
and tiirough the winnowed, or fanned and win-
nowed, opinions of the age — through the wheat of
the world — he is made to say the contrary of what
be means, and the contrary to tlie fact ; for Oaric
did not pass through two fuch winnowed opinions
ua those of Horatio and Hamlet. Or if contrary
to all annlogy of speech, the fanne<l and winnowed
opinions are the chatf and not the wheat, what
sense is there in a ye&ty collection carrj'ing one
through either whe^t or chaflW or if a ye^ty col-
Jection did such a strange net, where, after such a
passage, would be the bubbles that the puff of air
is to blow away f But if for winnowed or tren-
nowed, we read vincwed or vintuwed^find blue
vinney is Dorsetshire^ and vinewedst is spelt in
the folio edition of Troilus and Crusida " wbinidst "
— we have a chiinge that restores the sense— a word
not incongruous with, but suggested by, the meta-
phorical yesty collection, ana a repetition of that
iSh ikspearian expression, a mouldy wit. In truth,
liamiel's metaphor is drawn from Sly's pot of ale,
h» is shown by the words, "blow them to their trial/'
The yesty collection is the frothiness of sour and
stale beer, which passes with those of corrupted and
vitiated t4iste ; but when tried and blown upon by
more sober judgments flies off, and does not remain
like the true head of sound liquor or wit.
B. NiCHOLSOK.
Ha.mlet'9 Grave,— Writing of Elsinore, Mn-
bony, in a small work on Tht, Baltic, published in
1B57^ says :—
« Ii wiii mt here, but in Jtithmd* according lo Bnxo
Onn from whose ClironicW 8b »kB|>fftri'drrw the
pl' t iLnble tmge«Jy, that AmblettU!*. or Humlet,
fth^'M turiei before tho €liri*timi ura, »ven»ct'd the
tdufder *4 hifl father. But thoueh the tourtHt will seek
in fain the ifrav© of th** I>nni*h prince, he will find
fcinp' ' Mio^ntic fitonei eon-
iie» i oat hednd Mild the
glOo;
This reminds me of the following story, aw
wnimircy lately told l»y a friend. He visited
Elsinore this autumn, and liearinff that the En
liah who called there always asked for and visit
*' Hamlet's grave, ^' he undertook the same pil4
grimage. On his road-, at a short distance oii^
of the town, he came to a place called Mariealyst
a public garden nicely laid out, and with thi
usual refreshment rooms of the continental stat>e4
Sauntering along the walks, he met a gentlemai]
with whom he entered into conversation^
stated his object in being there. After a (ew
turns of the path, the gentleman pointed to i|^
block of stone about three feet high, somethindfl
like part of a columji standing on a slight moimiM
and said, ** That is Hamlet's grave/' My frieiKS
thanked him, but seeing a smile on Ids couxi^
tenance, asked, ** What is the matter?" '* Well,*
said he, ** I will explain. On the establishment of
this place a short time since, a countryman ^^n<i4B
on the pro2)rietor to say that he was so ti)ll<^|
troubled with the English visitors who flocked to
his garden to Foe * Hamlet^s grave,' and did him
50 much damage, tbit he would be greatly oblig
if the proprietor would allow him to place
stone at the back part of his garden, by which me
he would be relieved of it, and both of them
greatly benefited. This was acceded to, and her
is the grave. I fear you will think you have
your walk for nothing." As dinner was not i
ready, he ma^ie a sketch of the spot.
Have any of your correspondents and
experienced this walk to ** Hamlet's grave"?
if BO, have they ever heard how this block CAme 1
be originally attributed to this so-called ** Priiic
of Denmark/' and when it may have been
named and placed in its former position t It
would seem to lie between 1857 and 1863.
Wtatt Papworth*
"THE GRAND IMPOSTOR."
I have lately acquired a copy of 77il«
Imfosim* Detected, or an nhUn'ical Di^uU i>f ih%
Fapanj and Popish Uclifjion^ bv B. C, Part l.^
4to., Kdirdjurgh, lti73. The inilials upon the titJ*
arc, in the dedication to the Duke of Lnuderd&le
and preface, extended to Samuel Colvill ; and ib
is still a moot ooint whetlier the man, who \wm
m i^etiously lumdles the Pope is identipai witli
he of the same name ^ ho, in the (»ppo*iite rein-
showed up the Scottish Covenanters in the Mock
Voc m , Of U 1* m[f* S I fpp I ication , 8 vo. , L4^ nd i • n , 1 tj8 1 ,
The last iH uQiloubt<yiy a piece of coarse l^xtunp,.
uiid, at lir-wt gLmce, assorts w» ill with the formcrt
that without clo^fr ii ' i . t*pt
t lit* inference drawn '> •*re
two of these Hn ' ■ .ns. i n
louke*! into the ; t> of the ]
on comparing ptir.-...^^ '^rrsin un- Au<,lu, '^
r
3"'a.V.JA«. 18, 'W.]
NOTES AND QUERIES. ^^
51
»
Apology for the Mock Poerti, find siiMcient re-
semblance in the phraseology to warmnt the belief
that they are both written by the same hand ; and
should the books be in the possession of any of
your correspondents, I shall be glad to have my
oninion checked. Charter, a contenipomry, in
his Cataloijue of S<'oUish Writes (not published
until 1833), certaialy assies both to the sjime
person — Samuel Oolvill, Gentleman, and brother
to Alex, CoItjII, B.D., and it i^ only upon the
apparent incongruities of style displayed by the
polemic and poet, that any doubt upon the sub-
ject existed. With respect to the author, there
does appear to be a moat remarkable want of in-
formation. Can nobody supply a biographical
►te which would explode or confinii the ix»pular
^ef^ in his being a son of Lady Culros ?
A correspondent, some time back, suggested
that he might be also the " S. C," who wrote TIic
Art of Compla'Uan€'€f 12mo., London, 1673 ; but^
believing him to have written the Grand Impon-
tor, it is highly improbable that in AprQ of that
year the same individual obtained an imprimatur
both at Edinburgh and London : and that, too,
for works of such an opposite character. It seems
to me also, that we should know something more
regarding the publication of the liliuft/s Suppli-
cation. There are many contemponiry manu-
scripts of the poem about, which, coupled with
what the author says in his Apology^ would almost
lead to the belief that it waa at &-st extensively
published in that way : indeed, as far as we know,
it may have got into print surreptitiously — the
original edition bearing only ^* London, printed in
the year, 1681,*'
In Chalmers's Lift ofRuddiman, we ^nd that our
author was alive in 1710 : it being noticed that
the North Taller was printed at ^inburgh that
year by John Reid for Sam, Colvili As the
author of the Scots Hudibras has come in for
more abuse than commendation, I may record
Daniel Defoe, when dealing with his own ene-
mies, adopts the language used by honest Sam.
ColviU in his Apology^ to repel malicious criti-
oiara. Cunningham, too, in his HisL of Great
Britain (always suppoeing there is but one
Samuel), is said to have complimented him upon
being a strenuous defender of the Protestant re-
ligion ; but I do not find the passage in Thomson's
edition, 1787. Finally, who was the "S. 0.,"
alluded to by Peterkin in the following extract
from his Records of thi Kirk of Scotland, Edin-
burgh, 1838 ? Speaking of the powers exercised
over the Kirk by the English commissioners in
ie54 :—
•* They put/* iays he, '* Mr, John Row, in Aberdeen ; Mr.
R. Lei^fhtoii, in Edinburgh: Mr. P. Gillespie, in Gla*-
wm; and Mr, Samuel C^jIt'iH they offered to the Old
College uf SL Andrews : this last if stUi held off; but the
other three act oa prLac'ipttU."
A. a
P.S, The author of the Grari^d Impostj^r designed
a much larger work, but says it would be difficult
for him to publish it ail at once ; and, I think, no
more than this Part L, treating " Of the Bishop-
rick of St Peter/' appeared* Samuel Colvili, m
his dedication, calls himself a condiscipU of his
jMtron ; and reminds his grace that he had before
received his countenance, by the acceptance of
several trifl^^t from hira. What were they I
I should add, while upon the subject, that to
me the London imprint, 1681, to the Mock Poam^
appears a blind. At the period the Prefibyteriana
were at the height of their resistance to the
epitcfypal intriLswn; and it would hardly have
been safe to have openly publislied at Edinburgh
such a book, with the aggravation of what may
be considered a Puritanitil armoriu! device upon
the title, Colvili wai?, of course, a prelatic advo-
cate ; and my belief is, that the book was printed
at Edinburgh, and not at London as indicated.
The second impi^ssion of 1687 waa avowedly from
Edinburgh, without the device ; and ** Sum Col-
viU " signed to the Apology for the first time.
8T. MARY'S, BEVERLEY*
Some seven years ago I explored for the first
time the priest's chambers belonging to this noble
perpendicular church. The inner roona^ which, if
I remember right, contained no furniture but an
old box and a shelf or two, waa strewn, and heaped
with antique books, folios and quartos, brown,
wormeaten, dilapidated. They lay jumbled toge-
ther on the shelves, tossed together on the Boor ;
some open ; all dusty and uncared for. The lat-
tice stoo<i wide, and the wind and rain were driving
in ; the bindings of the books were wet accord-
ingly, and clouds of loose leaves were eddying
about the room, Tliese books were the renuiins
of the old church library of St, Mary's, and this wb«
their normal condition.
After seven years I returned to the place last
September in company with the parish clerk.
The window was still open, but it was not raining
this time, and the boofcs, such of them «a survive,
had been, by some pious hand, thrust piecemeal
and sausage- fashion into that same old box. When
the lid was lifted, and the simoom of disturbed duat
that arose had been fanned away by the clerk's
coat-tail, I spent my ten minutes in jotting down
the titles, as far as I could discover them, of the
topmost volumes. Behold the mndom result : —
** St. Bernard on the Canticlea, folia,
** Crakenthorp'a Lptcic.
" Calvini Op. (one >oL of),f»lio,
"The TVoltri^tt Nfttiinilii of Riymond LeVon, folio.
"The Tbeatrnm Hist. lUuft, Exemplorum, folio,
"Bylto^ter's L>u Baitaa. (A fine, 1 think folio, copy,)
*• O'uicciardini'f History of Florence," (A fine und
early Itali^in edition.)
52
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8- 8. V. Jam. !«,•«.
Nearly all these were 'seventeenth century edi-
tions, jin<l hiid ori^rimilly been noble copies an»i well
bound ; und everyone of tliem had lost itH title-
pa«^e, and few or many of its leiives. As I closed
the liil, I iiddri'sscil to my com|)anion certain
brief, and iKWsibly, caustic remarks ; but he, re-
adjusting his coat-tjiil the while, in a spirit of
meekness, replied, "Sir, it was always so! Why,"
he continued, " they used t^) make l»onfires of the
books, and I remtmlHjr when I was a boy (he
looks about forty now) the clerk tliat was use<l to
light the vestry fires with *em."
Aj>rc8 tout, what matters it ? For, as my
friend again ri'marke*!, with a symiiathi'tic snutlle,
" T* books is nigh all gone now, Sir." A. J. M.
Bevkiiley Minster. — I have foun<l the follow-
ing lines on Beverley Minster in an old newsijajier
(date 183(J), and should like very much to know
who is their author. They are of considerable
merit, and ai)tly describe that beautiful stnicture,
the west front of which is jwrhaps the finest sixfci-
men of the [Kjrpendicular style in Kngland : —
" Built in far other times, those sculptured walls
Attest the fuith which our forefathers felt, —
Stnnig faith, whose visihle preiieiico yet nmains :
We pra J with deeper reverence at a shi ine
Hallowed by many ])rayer8. For years, lon^ years,
Yrars that make centuries — those dimlit ainles,
Where rainbows i>lay, from coloured windowH flung.
Have echo««d to tne voice of pmyer ami pruise ;
AVith the last lights of evening; llittiuK round,
Making a nisy atmoxfthere of hofie,
The vesper hvmn hath rinen, bearing heaven.
But purified tlie many CHn-s of eurth.
How oft has nmsio rocked tho^e ancient towers,
AVhen the deei> bells were tolling ; as they rung,
The CMtle anu tlie liumlet, high and low.
Obeyed the summons : earth grew near to Qod.
Tlie piety of ages is around.
Many the heart that ha* before yon cross
Laid down the burden of its many cnres.
And felt a joy that is not of this world :
There nre both sympathy and warning here.
Mothinks, as down wo kneel by those old graves.
The Patt will pray with us."
OxONIENSIS.
FANTOCCINI.
Exhibitions of pupi)ets have always been amongst
the favourite amusements of the British public.
I speak not of that most popular of wooden per-
formers, Mr. Punch, but of such entertainers as
have aimed at the representiition of more regu-
larly constructed dnimas. The allusions to them
in our older writers are numerous ; but it will
suffice to notice here thase of Shakspeare, in his
Winter'i Tale, where, having " compassed a mo-
tion of the Prodigal Son," is mentioned as one of
the many callings which the merry rogae Auto-
lycus had follow^ ; and of Bon Jotison, whose ex-
quisitely hnmorous portrait of La&tbotn Lesthe^
head, with his "motions*' of Hbto §Md Lttmder
and T>amon and ryihiaSf in his oomsdy of Bar-
tholomtw Fair, is familiar to every reaur of tin
old dramatists. A large circle of readen of sb-
other class of literature will remember how, i
century later, Steele and Addison celebnted thi
" skill in motions ** of Powell, whose place of t^
hibition was under the arcade in Covent Gardca
In April, 1751, the tragedy of Jane Short was si*
vertised for representation at " Panch's Theane ■
James-street, in the Haymarket," by popped;
" Punches Theatre " being, of course, locttsd k
Hickford's Room ; and other puppet exhibMoM
were announced at different times during dttkit
century. S^trutt (iS/>orf« ar^d Faatimei, edit HoH^
1838, p. 1G7), says :—
** A few yean back JTi'. e. before 1801] a pBp^_ _
was exhibited at the Court end of the town, vitk I
Italian title, Fatitocdni, which greatly attracted tkt ■»
tioe of the public, and van spoken of ba an eztiMVfiHB
performance : it war, however, no more than a p«||>
tfhow, with the motione conntruoted upon bettsr^
ciples, dretied with more elegance, and mansfedill
greater art, than they had formerly been."
I have a note of an " Italian Fantoocioi* l»
ing been exhibited at Uickford's Room in Yutti
Street (the same place as the before-DMoliMi
*' Punch s Theatre m James-street^** it hanfS*
trances in both streets), in 1770 ; but it lian
likely that the exhibition referred to bjlW^
was one which was shown in Pic^^dilly, iallR^
and which continued open during the fi^valvitfl
of that year. Many different pieces, chiefs M
operatic kind, were represented ; and fiui
advertisements, which are very numeronsi I
selected the following as best explaining thai
of the performance : —
"Italinn Theatre, No. 22, Piccadilly. At tlis
Fantoccini, cin ThurMlay next, will be peffflMrf a
Comedy in three Actn, called ' The TransformatiNi; Mi
Harlrquin Soldier, Chimney Sweeper, Astrolon. Msik
Clock, and Infant.' End of Act I. ^ereral Msaftl j
Italian Songs, Duets, and ChorusAes. End of AfllU A J
Dance in Character. And End of Act III. A miAWf"
niflcient Kepresentation of a Koyal Camp. The lAM
conclude wich a general grand Chorus. Tickets Wfc
Shilling each may be iiad as above, and sfaNv
Mioheli, No. 61, Haymarket, where Places mayhlwa
from Eleven in the Forenoon till Five in the iMli^ l
The room is neatly fitted up, kept warm, and^'
illuminated with AV ax. The Doors to be openedsll
and begin at Seven o'Clock precisely. * Vi«*nt loi
Regiua.'"
" (Tuciidfty, January 18th, 178M"
" Italian Fantoccini, No. *22, Piccadilly. ThS^ i
Every Evening during this Week, will be jpresnle
new Comic Opera in two Acts, called ' Tiinnstti
Cour; or. The Fair Nancy at Court' The BdsIi
Mons. Favre. The Muiio composed by the ediF
Signor Peigolesl. Signer Jomelli, and other esW
Gomposen. Bnd of Act II. A Dance in Ohei '
End of the Opera, a Meny new Danoe. To
a-'s.v. Jix. le. w.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
53
[ m new SotorUinmetit, in one Act, called * Hnr-
nli Love-Triumpli, By the ftfaj^ic Art.' With mi
1 J^«r«« of Uaritsqain, wbiie refreshing himAelf
k of Hac&mtu^ ia lurprised bj the Appearance
■lard from & remote Corner, whu sinjica a inToiirite
Bong. In which Uarlequin will take bis Flight
^ ii of 60 Feet long Aiid 40 Ftct wid»?, in a Man-
truly vvrynxitig. and never ber^ne exhibited in
The whoie of the Scenery and Machinery en-
Ittrelj o««, T\m public i* acq ')*!!» t-ed by the Managers
I Ui«% tblftiaAn^le &iiiioe Uy..-' d fmm Italy;
Vbd 11^ n flMli Compaa:^. the < if the superb
pftl Bologtia, an J u are the Puint-
I mlj-brntei Bibbiena. Fiont iieata 5f. Back
Tickets may be had as above, ar^d of Signor
'*' '^ rket Plioea may bKi takenlrom
i till PiTC in the Evening* The
' ]i, kept warm, and will be illu-
with \Va.t. The Doors t*» be opened at Half-
y Six, and lo be(pn at Uulf-pa^t Seven o' Clock pr^i-
LadieJ or Gentle men muy huTe a
any Hour in the D»y, by giving
r>ay before. ' Virant Rex k R^gina,
' tWedfla«day, February 2:Jd, IZJiO.)"
!hlich«li nained in these axiDounceineDts
, ia ftil prt^biibility^ ft gentleman who held the
; III copyi*t to the Opera-house, at that period,
Viit few opera songs were printed aingly>
i tbe c<»pyist had the privilege of supplying the
id vith manuscript copies^ a yerj lucrative
F iwder of »N, & Q."* say whiph of the
in Picciidilly bore the No, 22 id
nambering of the houses was al tiered
removal of several for the formation of
El, I maj just remind the reader of
tlois" exhibited aome years since at
I Gallery behind St Martin's Church,
PfBotical Science" baa now given way
f md coffee and cheap icea), and of Greorge
lt% ttdmirabie delineation of the itinemnt
i shown in the streetn of the metropolifi
W. H. Husk.
"'ALLOW DOES yOT MAKE A SUMMER."—
il of this proverb appears to be the
-ita \(ktSiiiv €ap ov TTOttt" — which we
^ifl Ariatotle, Ethic Nic, (A) ; and I think the
"oo ia the better. Was the form— "One
[doe« not make a Spriyig "—ever in use i
' i me to notice what appears lo me to
' Bngular omission. We are accustomed to
L thft advent of the swallow as one of the
jam of returning Spring ; and yet I ciin-
^ift present^ recall a single passage of our old
Uduing any allusion to the swallow as
^rbinger. And not only this, but I find
w cotmected more especiaUy with sum-
Imr foUowB not rammer more willing, than
miip."
e. Ttmon of Athfus. Act III, ic. <i.
A modem poet has th@ same idea : —
''And the swallow 'ill comeback again with iQnunfir
o'er the ware."
Tennyson^i Af ay Qann.
It ia true Shakspeare says : —
" daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares, and take
The wind* of Murch with beauty ; . ."
WinUr'* TaUt Act lY. Sc. 3.
And allownnc* must of course be made for poetic
license \ but that which strikes me as remarkable,
is the absence of passages connecting the swallow
directly with the first return of spring. And I
sbidl be oblitfed if your correajKindents will refer
me to any su<:b passBgea, if such there be. No
poet bos shown a greater love for our small birds
than Chaucer, and ytjt he seldom mentions the
swallow. Tb** only instance I can recollect is in
"The Assembly of Foules/' and that is not com-
plimentary ; —
" The awalowfl, murdrer of the bees smidfl,
That iLiukeii hunie ol flowres fresh of bew."
Perbfips the bird*s bck of song was the cause
of the poet's neglect, for he loved the small birds
for their song. No one can read Chaucer without
noticing bow be loved the w&rbling of the little
feathered aongstera, eepedidly in the early morn-
ing. R C. Heath.
Dectidical Eemains m India. — After the pub-
lication of the Notes on the religion of the Druids
in "N, & Q.** (S'^ S. iv. 485), it may interest
some of your readers to learn that throughout the
south of Indian situated in secluded spots, such as
mountain summits, sequestered valleys, and tracts
overrun by jungle, are to be found cromlechs,
cistvaens, tolmens, npright stones, double rings
of stones, cairns and barrows, containing earthen-
ware cinerary urns, spearheads, &c, &c., and
every other relic of the Druidical religion occur-
ring in our own country. They have been exa-
mined, and are fully described in one of the
periodicals of the Madras Presidency. They
furnish another interesting link in the chain of
evidence connecting the ancient inhabttanis of
Europe with those of India. H. C.
An'Aorams, — A copy of the Jesuitu Vapxilajit
[Lugd. Bat. l(>3d] lias written upon a dyleal ai^_
follows : —
" AimaKAi RiTXTtrs,
AnaffT.
'* Veritas res nnda,
Sed natur^ esTir,
Vir natura tedes,
E nature ea rudia,
Sed esiriti rarua,
Sed rure vanitas.
In terril aufi Deua,
Yeni, sudas terra.'*
4
54
NOTES AND QUERIES,
[Z*^ 8. V. Jam, 19, IBA,
A NoT« ojf Notes. — The wordi of O&pt&in
GuttliL " When fouiul, make n note of," are ofU»n
quoted, but there is a much older authoritj for
inch a quotation ; ^ Note it in a book, that it niay
be for the time to oome/' la. xxx. 8. — City Prut>
Zachart Botd. — ^Thd foIlowiDg i^otice of thiA
Boots worthy, whose poetical version of the Old
Testament still xemains in MS. occuis in the
Commiflsaiy Kecords of Glasgow, end of Maj,
1625:—
** E]izab«ih Flenuii^, executrix, oonfirmed to omqubne
Rolwrt Fyiidlojt Merchant, and Mr. Zacharia Boyo^ now
her •pouA. *'
__^ J. M.
MANUaCBIFT ENGLISH CHRONICLR
I hare before me a boand Yolume, containing a
MS. Chronicle of £nglADd ; comprlaing 103 leaves
of vellum, written probably by the same hand, and
22 leaves of paper, by another.
The Tellutn is manifestly deficient of a leaf or
leayes at the beginning, as it commences in the
middle of a sentence, aod the first marginal
ebapter^itle, in the (present) first page, is Oxx^,
It ends also with an imperfect sentence, in
C ccxx**.
The paper appears complete at its beginning.
The ftrtt chapter-heading is 0* ccxxadlj, but it is
deficient at the end.
The dntos of the vellam ran from, say, a a 400
to A.i>. 1345.
Those of the paper, from 20 £dw. III. (say
1346) to the Battle of Aginconrt, 1416.
In the vellum, the initial letters of the chapters
are fine, and finely illuminated with red and blae
ink, the decorations sometimes occupying the
entire mar|^ of a page ; and the chapter-head-
it]g» in the outer margin are Ukewise red and
blue, and the chapter-titles red.
In the paper oontinuatlon the ink is inferior ;
the chapte^ headings, initbls. and paragraph marks
are in red ink ; the handwriting more current and
neat, but lesji legible, at leaat to me.
The foEowing are extracts. Pftge 1 begins
with these words ;—
'• hdr unto the Rfulme hot he wm not of atrenirihe,
Bot nororthelcMO thb l^onebikudo ordeyncd hiin »jpcat
pow#r aiitl c«ri»[uer« ! i -^.-^<| j^jjd than this Doiic-
baude wentQ into :- r to conquer It. Bot
8eatt«r (Hcorttcrt) ti reof aiwmbled s grvto
pcrwer of Uyn t>eu|)ie taiA u( WiillHheinon whoa niter «?iii
one PmUli (aixlifrh? Riidakfl, Hot 8e»t(cr bitd Hudiik
Wftfl slasxift iknd then thti Uonebnude toko foialU and
hontaft (»f tlu' cuiitree ■.nd rtrlgned thair in [»eji«e mod
qolete that niau/ yor^ »fore U traa not «o«.
(Iti rad ink] ** Horn liiynitftiud vat thi firH ling thai
tv^ •ffTfii cmwht nf goltU m Rritaiwt v* honour and
wurikfppj*
(P. 102J ** fn the yert of our Lorde ucccxxxru and
of King llenry XIU itit,' It was ISdw. Ill J In the
moncth of Marcbe, at a Fleuit bolde mt
King Edw&rde made of the Erkdorn of of [#t<] <
walle a Duchie, and gvrt it unto Bir Edvmrde hia f&fSI
Bonne, and he gave him alio the erledom of Cheater. ati4J
he lOftdo ri erles, that is to aay. Sir Henry the Rrlet Maj
of Lancaater was made JBrle of Lejxfar [ ! LaacBfltarl
iford,
fejuffolk, William of Clynton, Erie t>f Huuteyndoa
iic. kc." [Howe put* this in 1336.]
" Sovt Kynff Edwardt eamc to SltUM {%) and *
f^i aUe the power of IVanee,
" And in the xv yero of Kyng Edw&rdya r&igne Kin_
Edwarde eomaunde fro tb&t t jme forthe for to wryte la
hy* wrytfceft and all bye other wrytinife the d&te of hy
reygne of Prance the fante« and so fie wrote tuito h
lofdea of Englonda^ aptell and temporell, and thanne I
come a^ifalne into Englande with the queue and hywM
childn, and aoone after yat be wente agayne into Fkaoceff
for to warre upon the King of France, the whiche haidl
aiaembled and ordered to him a grete power of Almanal
of {potorlnsT), and at BIujb they mette togetlier
foughte sore, when was killed xxxiij menne of the I "
[power t] of France, &c. kc. kc/^
1 should be glad to learn whether the Chroni^M
is a known one, and whether it has been prlnt^U
The handwritings indicate that the MSS. r^"^
respectively produced at or soon after the
periods to which they refer ; and the sty I
narrative^ in each case^ towards the end, WQ
lead to the belief that the writers were cost
poraneous with the facta they record. W. P. P.
Baeok^iss,— Is the daughter of a Fretheir en- '
titled to be addressed as baroness in England f
In Germany the address is Franlein* or Min.
Which is correct ? Abraco.
Berlin.
Thje Bloody Hand. ^ — James L gmnted tin
arms of Ulster as an honourable augmentation to
be borne by " the baronets and their descendanti.*
Out of this concession arise two questions : — If
the word (laundanU to be interpreted aa in-
cluding those not in tail to the baronetcy — datigh>
ters, for example, and tlieir children ? If so ta be
interpreted, is the concession limited to the de-
scendants of baronets of 1612? For example, »
baronet of Anne's creation has a son and daughter:
Does the daughter bear the bloody band within
her lozenge f Does her husband retain it in her
ooat whicn he impales ? Her brother dies, and
she becomes her father's heiress : Does her hua-
band bear the bloody hand in the eecutohcon of
pretence which thereupon he assumes^ and dooi ft
ap|}ear in the children's quarterings 7 £. Stirpb.
Books of Mokukkntal Inscriptions. — Where
shall I lind a list of the difTetent collections of
monumental inscriptions which have been pub-
lished Y Of course, I am well acqnainted with
•uoh la Weerer, Le Neve, Parsons, Gough, &c»
; of some of the principal collections
OsoBOE W* Marshall.
y. — Where ws^a this comedian born*
His mother died in Dublin, Was
Irishman ? Bunn's father was an
)f what rank I In what regiment ? Bunn
»man Catholic. Had he been educated
hurst, U&haw, or any other Roman
college ? What were the leading facta
EicfL^ro he became lessee of the Theatre
■muighara in 1826?
merely for information's sake, with no
purpose. Mi^ny persons mast be quite
' L all the incidents of his career. Bunn
^volume of poems in 1816.^
Querist.
DK, alderman of Yoaghal, is men-
I author of MS, Memoirs of that town
2*^* S. xLi. 310). Information re-
tiitn will be accepuble. I particularly
icertfun at what period he lived.
feS. Y. It
— la it generally known that Sir
r wiis created at the Restoration Vis-
knnon, for his signal gallantry in
ver Cromwell at the battle of Mar-
»r ? His daughter was the second wife
cestor of the late Lord Bimgftnnon^ by
ath without issue the title h^ again be-
i&et. E. H. A.
IL — I am anxious to asoertaLu whether
%m Cullam^t the first Baronet^ had any
uuned Dorothy Cuilum, and who '* Master
iher'* waa, to whom he bequeathed a ring,
i&Bcriptioa **Asi8 : t.c so shali ihu'' f
S.
-Will some one of your fair readers
►lution of the following^ by the cele-
I of Surrey !
ave K gift, which ahe had not,
c«iTe<iher gift, which 1 took not :
I it me willingly, and vet she would not ;
rrecoiTed it, albeit I could not ;
I gives it uie, I force not^
faho Uk«» it again, fhe carei opl,
ime what this is, uid teil not ;
m&sl sworn, I mxf not."
XL.
m TOFOQRAPHT IK DtTPCH. —
Dtscriptian of England and SwUnnd, written in
tch, and printed at Nuremberg:, 1669i Maps of
pal towns are giren, which are generally pretty
mi Btoiford is repiesented u » walled town,
^bridge and port-ouUis, and MTen hills in the
p. 809 of our last Tolnme for some notices of
iphj of Alfred Bunn.— En.]
"Jumat Culluui waa the ftrst Baronat. Wotton^s
ih. 20.— En.]
I
distance, and Rutland ha4 a citadel and artillery/*— {TV
poqrotjkical Note*, by John Ridley, M.A., London, 1/62,
p.l7-)
Was Stafford ever walled, or Oakham fortified t
Any fuller account of the book printed at Nurem-
bergf or in^formation where I can see a cony^ will
oblige T. P. E.
Fowls with Human Reuains.— About twelve
years ago, during the construction of the new
docks at Great Grimsby, LlncolnsbLre, I waa pre-
sent at the exhumation of some human remains,
on the banks of the Humber. They were found a
short distance above the highwater line, beneath
six feet of sand, and one or two feet of clay, which
appeared to have been the original surface before
the deposition of the sand. They consisted of the
perfect skeleton of a figure of sipali stature, and
were laid east and west There were no remains
of any metallic or other substances iu connection
with them ; but under the left arm were the bones
of a fowl, a cock apparently, from the long spurs
on the legs. Can any of your readers inform me^
through jour columns, whether similar instance*
have occurred of the bones of fowls being found
in juxtaposition with human remains, and to what
people and customs they may be referred ?
J. D. Macktenzie, Captain.
"The Leprost of Naaman." — Can any one
acquainted with the literary history of Leeds
inform me who is author of this sacred drama (by
J. C), Leeds, 1800? It seeroa to have been the
production of a very young author, and contains
at the end a few pieces of poetry. The editor of
this little book mentions that the juvenile author
had written another sacred drama on the subject
of Joseph. R I.
Nicholas Newlin.— Can any of your Irish
readers give me any information respecting the
family, arms, &c. of Nicholas Newland, subae-
qucntly written NewHn, of Mount Mellick,
Queen's co. Ireland, afterwards of Concord and
Birmingham, in Pennnylvania, Eaq. ? He was a
Quaker and a gentleman of good family, as will
appear firom books of that time, and came to
Pennsylvania in 1683 with William Penn. He
was a friend of Penn*s, and soon after his arrival
was made one of the provincial, or governor's
council, and a Judge of the Cumnion Pleas.
The council was at this time (1685) the supreme
legislative, judicial, and executive body* His
son, Nathaniel Newlin of Concord, Birmingham,
and Newlin, Esq., was a Juatice of the County
Courts, a Member of the Provincial Assembly,
Commissioner of Property, Trustee of the Geneial
Loan Of5ce of the province, kc. He was one of
the largest landed proprietors in the colony.
Newlin township, in Chester county, was first
owned by, and called after, him.
James W. M, K«?«njEi-
No. lOOfi, PiaaStxt^V^^NiiaiSisetiJfiLvk.
Dd
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3^' S. V. Jan. W, 'U.
North OMBKi AX (Anglo-Saxon) MoNKr. —
Mr. Bruce, in his invulu^ble work on the Manuin
Wall, says, at p. 433 of tho edition of 1851,—
''Saxon money is found in North umberlund of a date
coevul with the arrtTul of tliat people.'*
Will Mr. Bruce kindly describe that Saxon
money in the pages of " N. & Q.*' 1 C*
Order of St, John of Jkrusalkm. — Wlio are
the pabUshers of Sir R. BrouD's Synoptical Sketch
(3«* S. Ui. 270), and Sir G. Bowyer's lUtual of
Fraffsitt&n, dtc, {ik note to p, 450,) R W.
Painter to His Majesty. — Not finding any
list of those who filled thia post^ can you inform
iiie who was the person hereiu referred to ? —
" In 1700, tjp<in n vacancy «f the king's painter in Scot-
land, Ite (Michael Wriubt) aoUcitcd lo sueceisd, but a
rfiopkoeiier was preferred,'* — Walpole's Afucdota, Ac,
Wornumi edition, 15(J2, p. 474
W.P.
Pocket Fender (3"1 S. iii. 70.) —
"He tmvelB with n pocket fender/*
''PiH.'ket toaa ting fork* have been invented^ as if it
wa»po«-iM<* in want a toaatinj^-fork in the pocket; and
cvt'' ^»etn exceeded by the fertile gfnuw of a
eel' Lctor, who ordered a pocket feiitlcr for his
o*^ ' li wws tocofit2tK)/, The article waa made,
bat iM a did Out please, pajmentwas refused. An acticm
W»« ill conseqricDCG braugbt, and the workman satd upon
the trijil that he was Tcr? sorry ttJ disoblige si good a
cast'.tuer, and would willingly b&vc taken the tbin;f Uuck,
but thwt really nobody except the gentleman in (|uesticm
wniiM t'Tcr want a pocket fender.
** Tills ^ame gentleman haa pnntrived to ha?© the whole
»et of lire-irona iiiftdc ' " ' ' f solUl. Tobeeure
tiie CMSt m more thu wbut U that to tlie
convenience of hfAi m the hand when
you stir the fiie, inat'.ui ol'ii lew pmniisl This cunoua
Jiroj ct4:if b fiiilJ to have Ukcn out about seventy patents
or inrentioim eHualiy ingcnioua and imfmrtunt. -^ Ev
priella (Southey), LttUrt from ^a^/ajw/, London, 1807,
vol. i. p. 185.
Who was the gentleman ? Was there any such
trial i At that time the plaintiff could not have
nifMlc the statement tia above described, aa he
could not have been a witness when u party.
J. M, K.
PCMICB Stonc— In a note to Grtrth's Ovid's
Art of Love^t in vol. iil of Poetical Trnv^Utimut
(mo diit* or editor ifiven), I read on the lines—
*' Hut dhen not like a fop, nor carl your hair,
ifor with a pumiee inttke your bwly We *'—
*!Du use ofilie I no is very ancient ; the
plueked Tj, with it, and the hook*
Bfiwiinooth Lh ...,..* with it .... The
patt*ant* in piottio part* of ^jogjand take off tb«ir beards
with ilt.iuMteiid of a razor."
What dat« could thiji hare been at f And wtwj it
with the pnuiice «t<jne that Uje ancient Britons
removed their beards t W, P. P.
RKFKnKNrrifis WANTED.— 1. Alexander, being
Mkt*d where be would lay hi!i treaanre. answered,
amon^ hu frieiult ; being coufident that there it
would be kept with aofetyj and returned witli iit^
terest»
2. When or by whom was the phrase **P<i^
fert'idnm ui^eriium Scoioruvi'^ tirst employed M
embodying a x>eculiar characteriatic of the Scot-j
tiah nation ? Viectis.
Sl'ANlSR DbOUOHT, —
*' Tlxere is a tradition that in the ^n-eat droi _
8{iatn, which lasted a quarter of a century, the ri'
wrre dried np and the crncV" *it rhr cftrtU wfte ^o
and dcef» that the fire of " '' ' i
them. Alluftiiina to thi-
rrnnunco3." — Notice of Ln
TiHt, December, )77'2.
I wifih to know if there ia any historical record
of this drought, and shall be glad of any reference
to the poets who mention it. J, M. K.
ToRRFNOTox Fahtlt. — lu the north tnma^t
of Great Berkbampstead church ia a handaoine
monument, " whereon,** »aya Weever, *' the shape
of a man in knightly habilimenta, with bis wiib
lying by him, are cut in alabaster." These aj«
!<^»&id to be the memorials of Richard and Margatet
Torrington, who lived early in the fourt^enti
century. Ia anything further known respecting
them ? C. J. R
Halifax Law.— I find iji Motley's UniUd
N€th€rhind$ (i. 444), the following pu-ssage, oc-
curring in a letter written by Leicester to
BurghTey : —
** Under correction, my jjood Lord, I have had Halilax
law— to be condemned first, and inquired upon after,**
I have often heard of that peculiar kind of trial
as applicable to Jedburgh, whence the tenn
"Jedburgh justice;'* but, with the exception of
the gibbet law, I have not read of any peculiarity
attached to Halifax, and ahall feel obliged by aDj
one referring me to any other instance by any
author in which Halifax law is mentioned in the
same spirit as Leicester quotes it j and judgtop;
by the manner in which he usea the phrase, tt
would seem to have been proverbial in his time.
T. Wji^k.
%% Southgate, Halifax.
[Tliere wai a slight difference between the Jedbuffsh
and Halifax law, although the mode of procedurt by
the Intter wa« not very mtiifactory to the poor erSmi*
mil The inhabitants within the fon»»t of Hardwiek
claimed a right or ciutom, from time immemorial that If
a fofon be taken withgoodi ti^the amount of \'i\^d. Mtotan
within their rihoriy, aHcr being carried befor^o the lord^a
baililT and tried by four frith burgert, from fuwr towna
within the said precinct, ho wjii» on condf-r-"-*'-" tn be
executed on the next marketday. But cu*
tioH a coroner was to take the verdiet w, » .,.i,, luid
I
3" 8. V. J*s. 18, 'Bi.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
57
ometioies of those ivho oonil&mned liim. The inttru-
Qt or process of execution, ^miUr to the noted French
' gmllotmo, wiiB detvominalted '^ HaLif&x gibbc-t law/* Sc6
B€ alley's J/ali/tLr, and its Othbd Law placed in a true
Light, 12mo, 1701.]
Charles Leftlet. — The followiog elegant
lyric was given to me, many years ago, by a per*
aon of considerable poeticid taate^ who told me it
was written by "Leftlcy/' I neglected then to
inquire who Leftley was ; but I should be glad if
any of your correspondent* could give informa-
tion as to who he wiis, and whether any of his
writings were publijihed, aud aro now in ex-
istence I
The style of this little lyric is so truly aerial
and Shakspearian^ that it reminds one of ArieFs
«ong in the Tempest — " Where the bee sucks,
there suck I *' : —
' " TO THR ZEl'UYRj BT liSTTtlY*
H " Zephyr, whither iLrt thou fftfaying I
■ Tell me where I
H With pronkiah girla in gard^itfi playing^
H False as fair I
^M A biitterdy'e light back besindliig 1
H Queen l)eea to honeysuckles ipiidingi
^M Or on a swinging hureboll riding^
H Frc« from care]
H " Before Aurora's car you amble*
^M High in air ! ^
H At noon with Neptune's sea- nymphs gamU*; ^^C
H Bmid their nair.
^m Kow on tumbling bi!l
H Or on the smooth sai ^^^S «
H Or in cool grottoes, 1 1 igi
^m You sport there I
^^^^ '* To chase the moonbeams up the mountains,
^^^K You prepare;
^^^H Or dftncc with elves on brinks of fountains,
^^^■^ Mirtii to share !
^V Now with ioYe-iom lilies weeping:
^fc^^ Now with blushing rose buJs sleeping,
^^^H While fays, from forth their chambers peeping,
^^B Cry, <Ohr&ro!'"
^^ C. H.
(Charles Leftley was educated at St. Paul's School,
»and subsequently employed as parliamentary reporter to
Tkt TifHi^* A cunntitution uuturally weak was soon
impaired by lik constant exertions of mind and body : a
decline eniued, and he died in 1707, aged twenty-seven.
For farther partieulara of him consult the foUowkig
work : " Sonnets, Odes, and other Poems, by the late
^ Mr. Charles Leftley, together with a abort account of
B hii Life and Writings. By William Lintey« Esq.^ Lond.
^ 12mo, 1816/' This work is noticed in the Gent, Mafj. for
June 1815, p, 536.]
Psalm xa 9. — Our Prayer-Book version (and
the Bible version is to the same efiect) runs thus :
" W© bring out years to an end, as it were a tah
Ihai u ioldJ^ What b the authority for this transla*
tion 1 The Septua^nt version is aa follows : " ra
€T^ »J/jtwi/ tLiCTit fipd^mi e/ioVcrr^t'.*' The Vulgate
aayt: "Anni nostri sicut aranea meditabuntur.**
De Sacy has this paraphrase : " Nos ann^^ea aa
passent en dea vaines incpiit^tudes comme celle de
raraign<l»e/' Wycliffe's rendering is curioos.
Has ircifjt found its way into any of our archaic
glossaries l He says : " Cure yeris as an irtyn
sbul be bethoyt'* James Dixo*?.
[The olil tWyn is, no doubt, equivalent to tratn and
araiii, aram^^and arran, which in ourlungunge formerly
aignified a spider (arunea). It would appear, theHj that
WyclifTti intended to foUow the version of the LXX. and
the Vulgiite. For this rendering, we are utnable to os-
pigu a shadow of authority ; but the passage is obscure,
as it stands m the original Hebrew.
It will be remarked that, in our Authorised Version,
the passage stands thas— ** As a tale that u told: " where
the last throe words, being italicised, are Intended as
explicfttlve, and have nothing that corresponds to them
in th« Hebrew. Moreover, in the mai^nal readeringi,
for *' as a tale " we find, ** Or, a* a nieditalwn,'* — which is
perhaps the better rendering of the two. In Halliwell wo
find I ram, arain, amwyf, and nrran, but not irepi^]
Dissolution of Monasteriks, etc. — Arcb-
biabop Laud» in his IHary, under the date of
1G22, June 22, &c., observee : —
** I saw two books in folio of Sir Robert Cotton's^ In
the one wa^ aD the Order of the Eefonoittion in the time
of Hen. VIII. The original letters and dispHtcheis under
the King's and Bishops', &c., own hands. In the other,
were nil the preparatory letters, motives, &c., for the
^;:; f the Ahbies : their suppression and value,
in i]d. An extract of boLb which books I have
Are these in existence, and have they been
printed ? W. P.
[The two books consulted by Abp. Laud are now
among the Cottonian manuBcripts in the British Museum, .
Cleopatra, E. IV. v., and entitled " A volume of papen
and letters imoat of them originals) relating to Monas-
torieit, and the Diaaolution of them in the time of Henry
VIIl/*— "A collection of papers, chiefiy originals, con-
coming the Reformation of the Oiurch in the reign of
King Henry VIIL, many of them corrected by the King's
own hand." For the contents of each volume see the
Cnialoi/ue of ift4 Cottimia n L ilrary, pp. 589— 6t*6. M uch
of the former MS. has been priuttd in the volume odited
by Mr. Wright for the Camden Society.]
HionxE, TiiE Architect.^A tower in Arun-
del Park is called Hiome's Tower, from the name
of the architect called in seventy years ago by the
then Duke of Norfolk to rebuild Arundel Castle.
He also built the tower of SL Mary's church, Nor-
wich. Can any of your readera give an account of
him, where he was bom, where he died, and his
Christian name ? An Inquikbr.
[F. Hiome, who was architect to CharlcB, Duke of
Norfolk, and built the three -cornered, or triangular tower,
in the park, recently used as an armoury for the Arundel
Y'eomanry, was an architect at Warwick, and then at
Birmingham, at the early part of the ^c«sB»*.<s«cawac\X
m
NOTES AND QUERIES.
ir* S. y. Jam. itf, -ei.
Copriwo Parish Reoistebs,— Will any corre-
fpondent of " N* & Q." tell me if I have a right
to muke copies of pariBh registers (if acconi panted
hj the parifih clerk to see that I do not mean
mischiefji without bebg compelled by the incum-
bent to have certified copies^ and to pay Sa. 7d,
for each of them ? IL E. 0.
[There it no right to take extracts^ or to make copies :
the legal right is limited to inspection, and to a compari-
■OD of the oertifi&d extract with the origuialj
RELIABLE.
(2»* S. iiL 28, 93, 155, 216 ; 3^^ S. iv. 437, 524}
The word reliable was so fully discuised in
" N* & Q-" 2»^ S. that I almost wonder at your
reopening the question. Having done bo, how-
ever, dooDtleas you will give me a small space to
reply to some points in F. C. E/s letter*
If you remember, Sir, the very same objections,
£ar better put, though with much less strong lan-
guage, were brought agninst this word as have
been now reiterated* The beginning of the
diicassion rose from a letter by Alpha in the
AUiOfUEum, Then the controversy seemed to be
carried on by the AthenctJim vera us The Times.
(''Slipshod newspaper writers*") Now the Aifu-
naum itaelf comes in for its share of polite Ian-
rlrst^ then, I am at a loss to know how this
word can be a vile " compound.*' I thought that
it being a word quite incapable of composition
wan ita one fault ; but no, it haa another, it ap-
pears, for, says F. C H., such a word as reliable
ought to mean ** disposed to rely npon,^* appli-
cable only to such amiable '^pergont,* "It is a
gross perversion of language to use it in the sense
of anything to be relied upon/' So I suppose
Credible, which I have proved incontrovertibly
to be an txacily corruponding word^ of the same
form and sense, and suffering from the same ac-
knowledged defect, must mean '^ disposed to be-
tieve " ; Datable (= debateable) disposed to bate
or fight ; amci^ttf, disposed to love, not loveable,
but iim&n abundatig ; cum mulHs aliit. If it were
not for what comes after, I should have thought
that a sentence, so muDtelligible, must have been
incorrectly printed. Alpha and many others have
stat#d that -ble, -able, always are equivalent to
passive infinilivea. This I showed by numerous
examples to be a mistake. Now we are told that
it la a grOBB perversion to make one particular
example anything ebe than a weak future par*
Uciple active, *'DiBpo^d to," F, C. 11. should
really explain what tliis sentence means, for to
<ibe uninitiAted it seems to lack sense altogether*
The reason given by the supporters of the word
reliable for its use is, that it is a most convenieiit
word, perfectly intelligible, and now really under-
stood by all, and that it expresses a partioolai
shade of meaning not to be found in any other
word. This is uniformly denied, and usually tlie
word troatworthy is propfiaed as a synonyroe ; but
this word does not e}!])re8S the exact shade of
meaning; for it apphea properly to persong^
whereas we want a word to en press the some rf
thitifjs. It is an un thoughtful and inaccurate
expression to speak of a thing being wortlkj of
trust ; and so thoughtful writers want a worn to
suit the idea of a '* thing to be relied on.** F. C, H.
wflxes very bold upon thia point. "W© can,"
says he, " use in the same sense a ftoif of legiti-
mate expressions ; in fact, our language abounds
with words expressive of the meaning to which
this vile compound has been so lamentably ap-
plied/' And yet I venture to affirm that ho haa
not adduced a single instance. But then in placa
thereof he has given us a good long string of
words which have a perfectly different signifioi-
tion. Quantity must njake up for auality. Suoh
as they are, then, let us glance through tbem.
We can proclaim a person or a source of in/omuh
imn to be —
1 . TruAty. — Yea, of a person ; no, of a thing.
2. CrtdibU—Oi a person or fact. True ; but
the word is in Latin at least as defective at re-
liable.
3. VertMfiouf. — Applied to a fact would be atlcr
nonsense. Veracious m<*ans tp^ahing truth.
4. Authmtic. — Absurd of persona, and nMi ad
rem in any way. The facta might be authentic
but quite unreliable.
5. Ee^utahl€. — These men are respectabla ;
these facts are reapectable. Would any one traxui*-
kte either expression into worthy of being relied
upon ?
6. Und^niahl^ — "The persons I shall next
produce, my hid, are undeniable.'^ Hta Lordsh^i
would be a clever fellow if he made much out of^
it. Again : these facts are undeniable, would be
sense, but would not mean the same as tinr^
liable.
7. Jnduputo^k— The same. Witnesses being
indisputable is not sense. If it means anything, tl
most be such as cannot be dUpuUd agaimt^ — as
vile a word, therefore, as reliable.
8. What are we to say of an undoubted irit*
neas ? Has the word ever been used in the
of trustworthy ? I trow not. We all know wbail
undoubted facts are. We can rely upon them
certainly, because they are undoubted and eer^
tain, but the reliablenesa is not even hinted at^
the word undoubted*
9. Ina>^itr0veriibk can surely nevpr be m
persons. It may well be used of facta, but
It also Bufftn torn the same defect as No. g
I
I
3^ 8. V, JAif, 16, -64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
59
8IE EGBERT GIFFORD.
expresses much more than reliable, though it doea
not give the exact shade of meanLng at all.
In conoluBion, I can only say that I think this
word haa oaas«d a great deal of causeless irrita-
tion and stormy language — lanj^uage ahowing far
worse taste than the use of this word, which I have
shown before to be only one out of many, and quite
as well formed as many worda in Latin and Englisfa,
which haye been used at all times by the beat
writers J, 0. J.
^^ft (3"^ S* IT. 429.)
^^^Tfn answer to the query of your correspondent
as to the politics of this worthy man and sound
lawyer, perhaps the following facts, coming from
one that knew him, may not be unaccepUbfe :~
Sir Robert Gifford, like many other able law-
yers, is DOW forgotten* His appearance on the
trial of Queen Caroline was, although on the
unpopular side, remarkably brilliant. It was
neither so rhetorical ot eloquent as that of his
opponent, Brougham, but it was powerful and to
the point, and worthy of the poaition he held as
Attorney -Gen eraL
He was a Tory from the time of hia first ap-
pearance, and was never a " rat*^ He rose from
the ranks, and in attaining his ultimate high sta-
tion, had no aid from ^litica! jobbery or aris-
tocratic connections. He early attracted the
notice of Lord Eldon for his ability as a lawyer.
Latterly, from holding briefs in Scottish cases, he
acquired a sound knowledge of the law of that
country. Then, as now, the peers had been
grumbling at the vast quantities of appeals from
Sie North ; and as Lord Eldon, even with the
aid of Lord Redes dale, could not master them, it
became a matter of seriouB consideration how to
dispose of them.
Thus it was that Sir Robert was pitched upon
by the ministry to abate the evil, and, as Deputy
Speaker of the House of Lords, to hear and
decide them. It was at one time thought that
Sir Robert should only have a life-rent peerage ;
but the expediency as weD as leaality of such a
measure wus doubted by sound constitutional
lawyers. Indeed it was generally rumoured that
on the thing being suggested to the proposed life-
rent nobleman, it was without hesitation declined.
He bad been raised to the Bench as Lord Chief
Jostioe of the Court of Common Pleaa January 8,
1824, and created. January 30, a Peer of the Realm
by the style and title of Baion Gifford of Su
Leonard's, in the county of Devon, In April he
resigned his office as Chief Justice, and was ap-
pointed Master of the Rolls. His decisions in
Scotch cases gave general satisfaction ; and as he
.wu somewhat more rapid in giving jttdgmont
tkan Lord Eldon was, he very soon disposed of
the greater portion of the arrears. His tordship
died prematurely on Sept. 4, 1826, to the great
regret of his friends and to the loss of his couotry,
for he was both an able and impartial (judge. As
he was bom Feb. 24, 1779, he was therefore in
the forty-seventh year of bis age.
Lord Gifford was a good-looking man ; mild in
his general demeanour, and courteous to counsel ;
a kmd husband, and an affectionate father He
married as soon as his circumstances would admits
and he was fortunate in the object of Ins choice,
for Lady Gifford was as amiable as she was beau*
tifuL She was, if I mist;ike not, a clergyman's
daughter. His eldest son, and inheritor of his peer^
age, married a daughter of the Lord Fitzhardioge,
a nobleman whose claim to be Baron Berkely by
tenure was, we are inclined to think, somewhat
hastily disposed of some short time ance hj a
Committee of Privileges.
^
MBS. FITZHBEBERT.
(3«»S.iv. 411,522.)
I am quite unable to answer M. F.*s inquiry aa
to whether Mrs. Fitzherbert had a child either by
her first husband, Mr. Weld, or her second, Mr.
Fitzherbert ; but if not, the child introduced into
the caricatures referred to by M. F. is probably
an alloslon to a piece of scandal current at the
timBp and which was given to the public in a
mmphlet entitled Nemstu, or a Letter to Alfred,
By * ♦ * ♦, There is no date, but there can be
little doubt that it was publi.^hed in 1789, inas-
macb as it contains an aflSdavit by the Rev.
Philip Wither, stating that it reached him by
the Penny Post ; thiit he was totally ignorant of
the author ; and tbivt he believed every part of it
to be strictly true, except so much of it as related
to himself. The affidavit is dated Feb. 11, 1789.
The following passage gives Nemesis' scandaloua
account of Mrs. Fitzherbert :■ —
"The first tiiiifl the Prince saw Mrs. Fltslierbet was
io Lftdy S«f ton's box at the Oi>pra, and tlie novelty of
her face, more thai) the brilliancy of her charms, had the
uBual effect of enftmounng the Prince. But he had uot
to do with a raw, unpractised jiirL An eiperienced
dame, who had been twice a widow, was not tikely to
surrender upon common terms. She looked forwards
toward B a metre brilliant prospect which her ambition
might artfuJIy tuggeBt, founded upon the feeble character
of an amorous young Prince. She adoptc'd the stole arti-
fice of absenting herself for Home monthf, uid went to
Plombiers, in Lorrain, where she contraeled an intimacy
with the Marqub de Rellero^e,* with whom flhe with-
drew for »ome time, and lived ia the greatest familiarity.
The conjequenoc of this intercourse was a neceastty of
* Reputed the bandsomost man in Fnotce before he was
shot ill the f&co, but that accident coolfd Mn. Fitahor*
berths ^tMiQn.—NoU in Original.
60
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3'*a V. jAF-ie,^*
retiring to PAri»,* where, by me&nB of Her two Scotch
To(ul-«ater9, the BC&ndaloui trajiEaction wu industnoualj
concealed^
*' Leat Ihd m&tter ibonld come to the ears of the
Prince, it wm thought nVbt to come to En^h'tid imme-
diately, and by Mr. BouTorie and Mr. Erdnstiui aa«'
dutty, the niBiriaf^'e wjis conchided. Whether in Grafton
Street or Clevelarid y^unre j^hall b« fully disclosed. Her
reliition9, particuhirly her uncii , >lr. Faimer and Mr,
Throgmorton, were tint pruiid of the ercnt ; but aince
the publication of your biK>k, they haTC been Tcry shy
upon the subject
**Thc Mafquifl camo orer la^t winter, and became
known to the Prince. Mm. Fitxherbert. fearing a disco*
Tery, spoke of him as a man unworthy the Prince's «c*
quamtaiice. The Marquis, pir|ued, demanded tlie two
thousand pounds she had borrowed from him ; she re*
fu^ed to pay bim uidei^ia he gave up her lottt tp, with her
notes of hand, which he refused, ishc then wnt Anthony
St. Loger and Weltje to ncgncittte ; ami aficr luuch dc
bate, by means of tlie Abbt^ Lcoharup, tiie nintter wan
coin promised for the sum of two hundreJ pound'* ; but
the letters were not girttii up, and nijiy hereafter be nub-
hshcd tiJ the di«»srac* of a P • ♦ * ♦ ♦ * who Htauds in
■o eminent a ret Uian with respect to this countrv. Her
brother Wat Hmith, whom *he h/id ill-treated, dirul^^ed
many of the itcrets, but he has been Intely silenced by a
hiri^c sum of money. ImmeuBe sums have bten tavislied
in trinkets, and much is due to Groj and CoAttetroDC on
her account. The eirpenses of puffing paragrapht in her
favour, and of suppressing others ajEoinst her, have
amounted to large tums^ which must come out of the
public purse .....
•'8ho has correspondence in France through the Gros
Abbe, the Duke of Orlet^na'a bastard brother, and through
Abb6 Taylor, and some Irish Friurt id many part* of
Italy/' kc.
A cbargA so gross cotild not pftM nnnoticed by
the Iftdy. The Rev. Philip Wither, who Btyled
himaelf "ChapUin to Litdy Dowager Hereford,''
and WAS a writer of potitical and polemical tracts,
wiiB indicted for libel, found guilty, A^utenced to
imprisotiment m Newgate, and died there before
the term of his impnaonment htid expired.
T. S.
ST. PATBIGK AND THE SHAMROCK.
(Z^^ S. F. 40.)
Though no one is bound to beliere the tradi'
tion of 8t. Patrick and the Shu tti rock, it is not
to he samtnarily disposed of as attempted in the
article referred to above. This is the first time
I have heard that any one considered the subject
aa a weikk invention of the enemy ; though this
oorreepondent declarer that ht has always so con-
sidered it I am perfectly at a loss to conceive why
he should so consider it. It is a very respect-
able tradition, very widely received, very firmly
believed, very respectably defended, and very
warmly - t'^-r.-Kod by a whole tjation, and many
others for many centuries. What could an]
enemy to Christianity have hoped to jpiin by i
venting such a story? We may perhaps gae
what SIr. Pinkerton would aj^fcign for hia
tives, as he seems to consider the tradition unten
able, because Saint Patrick was too much i»f
Christian, a man of common sense, and ordins
ability,^ to have recourse to euch an expedient
Now I should maintain exactly the reveT»e, ttid
contend that it wug prticisely because the saint
Wiis such a man, that he was most likelj to employ
the Shamrock as he is believed to have done.
He laboured to convert a rude, illiterate tiatiaii_
of PivsratKs to the belief of the sublime truths
Christianity. What more Datur^l, when he inca
Gited the belief in the great, fuodamentAl doctrin
of the Blessed Trinity, than to employ an ob^
calculated to facilit4(te in some degree to
uncultured mimls the beli*?f of the mya
Trinity ? As a ** Christian," he woulil be anx!
to gain their soula to Chriht, and gladly take up
simple plant to help to illustrate his divinity,
a *' nisiu of common sense,** he would see that til
easiest way to enlightt^n their rude minds won
be to adopt some very simple inisge, which
ctipaclty could readily take in ; and a« a tnan
"ordinary ability »" he would employ that ahilit
in choosing an illustration most likely to produo
the effect which be desired. Certainly every t
knows that no material substance can he
pared to the divine mystery of the Trinity ;
this St. Patrick never attempted. He used
shamrock, not in comparison with the myster
but as some sort of illustration, however U
and iniperfectt to soften the difficulty for the
Pagans, which it waa well calculated to do, Fo
myf^elf, I am free to own, that being a " Christian,'^
and I hope " a man of common sense'* to bo
were I engsged to preach Christianity now to i
nation of hf'athena, I should readily make use
any »uch illuKtraiion ; and am confident that
would greatly facilitate their belief in the divio
mystery of the Blessed Trinity.
The well-known name of Herb TritUty given
the Ariemofu Bipatica, on account of the
lobes of its leaf, shows that other Christians an^
men of common sense, besides St Patrick, hav _
found plants with similar leaves, in some degiei
symbolical of the adorable Trinity. F. G. H,
wr»
Hi
di>si|^n to in«in»titi« thnt Plombiere
' ' r accom-
:e divine
I send you these few lines merely with thfl
view of informing Miu W. PiJfKKRTON that
really see no reason why he should express hii
surprise on finding "that Ca5<on Dai*tuk take
up the subject in a serious manner/*
What waa the suljj#?cl I I sent a QtJCTy,
know on v,]iAi fiujijtlfitlon rtstid the ancieiil
tnidition, y of the Shan
rock to ill iity ? K
^a v.jah. iai'64.j
Hpmflwered, with his usual kindneas, to the effect
Vthat, though the tradition wria (incient and vene-
■ mblej their seemed to be no kiatoricid foUDdaiion
for it.
Mr, Pi^fKKRTON now comes forth^ and culls
the tradition an **absurd» if not egregrously ir-
reverent story,'* ^^hy^ I cannot uaderstsindi
except that he appeara, in his first paragmph, to
have made a Tery stnuige mistake : these are his
words ;—
" For, iupely. it mtiat be eTideot to the meanest capa-
city, thut neither aa a aymbol, str^uraont.nor UlueiratioiH
oau any mtticrijil aubsiance, Djatural or ariificinl^, be com-
pured to th« Dirin© Myettry of the Tfinity in LTiiity."
ThuB yonr correspondent tjupposea that St.
^ Patrick compared the Shamrock to the mystery
H of the Trinity ! Surely there must be some miu-
" take. 1b there not a great difference between
camparing the Shamrock to the Blessed Trinity,
And makmg use of it merely aa a faint illustra-
tion of Three distinct Persons united in on©
Divine Person 7 This latter is all that the tradi-
tion affirms ; hence, I cannot see the least absur-
»dity in supposing the Biint lo have made use of
the Shamrock for thi^ pUTpoae.
Mr, PiNKEBTON reters to the well-known trear
tise of St* Augustine De TriniUite, There the
Saint makes use of an illustration to explain, in an
imperfect manner, the teaching; of the Church on
the adorable Mystery uf the Blessed Trinity, He
mentions that* as there are three Persona in one
God, so the three distinct powers of the Soul —
the Will, the Memory, and the Understanding —
is an emblem or illu^jtmticm of the Trinity. Now,
I mantain that^ these two different illustrations,
made use of by St. Patrick and St. Augustine,
are far from being absurd or *' egregiously irre-
Ttrent." J- Dalton.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
61
I
Without interfering in the diaousaion u to St
Patrick and the Shamrock, which I am content
to leave in CASfox Dalton's bunds, I beg to point
out to Mr, Pinkerton that the appearance of the
fleur^de-Iys on the mariner's compasB has no
bearing at all upon his case. Hia words are these
(p. 41):-
It*' (the fleur-de-lye) "aLio appears on the mariner's
compaii iind the pack of playin^i; curda ; two things
winch, howerer essenfcuLllj diSferi^ut, are still the two
things that civiliBation hu moft widely cxteiLd«d ovisr
the huhi table globe/'
I will not pause to examine the escactness of
the assertions contained in this extract. My only
object In this reply ia to mention the facta which
ooncem the Ueur-de-lys.
I The fieui^de-lyB appears on the mariner^a com-
pass, because Gloia invented, or perfected, it.
Moreri says : —
" Giota (Jciui) natif d'Anulphi dans le Eojanme de
Naples^ ayantotjt parler de la rertu de la pierre d'Aimant,
B'en servit dans aes navigation*, et, pea & pea, 4 forces
d'experiences, il invents et perfectionna la BoumoIo.
Pour runrquer que eet instniment avoit tit^ invent* par
un Bujet des Boia de Naples, qui ettiietit alora Cadeta do
la Maison de France de la Bnuicbc dci Comt«e dAitjtm,
U morqua le Septentrion avec une Fleur^dedys, ce qui a
^i£ Buivj par touttis 1«b nations.**
Moreri girea no date to Gioia. Bat the Tahhtte^
Chrormlogiquex of the Abb^^ Lenglet dn Fresnoy
place him under the year 1302. It ia tme that
Du Fresnoy says, "H paroit par Gnyot de Pro-
vins, Poeta Francois de U fin du xii siecle, que
la Bouasole etoit d^4ors en usage en France.*'
Butj if that statement is true, it only carries the
fleur-de-lya to the place from which Anjou and
Naples obtained it. And if, as ia usually sup*
poaed, playing cards " were extended over the
habitable globe** from France, the appearance of
the fleur-de-lys upon them is taken back to the
same source, and the value of both these instances
will be determined by the value of the French
fleur-de-lys itself liS an instance.
The introduction of the well-known incident in
the life of St. Augnatino does not seem very appo-
site, and not a sufficient excuse for the expressions
"absurd, if not egregiously irreverent," which I
regret to see in the pages of " N. & Q.," as used
by MU. PlNKEKTON. ^' F*
Stuarts Lodgo> Malvern Wells.
Quotation : " Aut tu Morus es," etc, (3^** S.
iv, 515,)— J. W. M.will find the required quota-
tion in Dr. Kiog*s "Supplement to the Life of
Sir Thomas More " (printed in extenMo in Faulk-
ner*8 CkcUea, vol. i. p. 113 — " Ayseough's Cat.
MSS. Brit. Mus. No. 4465 '^ is the reference given
in the foot note.)
The passage at length is aa follows :—
"Sir Thomas being one day at my lord mayor's table,
word was brought him, that there was a gentleman,
who was a foreigner, inquired for his lordship (he being
then Lord Cbaucellor) ; they having nearly dined, the
Lord Mavor ordered one of hia officers to ti*ke the gen-
tlemau into hia care, and give him what he he«t liked.
The officer took Erasmus into the lord mayor's ccllHr.
where he choae to eat oysters and drink wine (m the
frtBhion WM theu) drawn ia to httlhern jacks and poured
into a silver cup. As toon aa ErKStnua hud well pcfrei»lied
himself, he wi*s introduced to ISir Thouiaa More. At lua
iirst coming in to himi he saluted him in Latiu.
Sir Tfioma* asked him^ Cade veuisl
Eratmui. Ex infeiis.
^fV Tkomcu. Quid ibi afpturl
Etajmm. Vivifl vcseuntur at hibunt ex ocreis,
^Sir Thomoi. An noeci* I
SrnM^nus, Ant tu ei Morua aut nollus.
,St> Tkouiai. Et tu as aut deua, aut dsemon, aut mem
Elrasmtu/'
Walter Rye.
King's Eoad, Chelsea.
The words "Aut tu es Moms aut nullus,*" wre
those of Erasmus ; and the retort '* A.u.t tja. <»*.
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Krtmiuji luit dkbolui*' wn thote of Sir Thooias
Mor0.
ArijoDjifit bifl other eminent acqiiEintunce, he
?i1ore) woji pAiticiilarly uttoolied to Erasmus,
boy hiwl lonii r.orrc«|)ondcd before they were
I^inMnmlly known to ciu.h other Eraamui came
to Erij{liiiiii (ijr thu purpose of Kt*4?in(; hifl friend ;
and it vfiiA v.uuirweA that th<»v should meet at the
Lord Mjiyor'n lubln bi^fore they were introduced
to mch other. At dinner they engaged in argu-
ment. Knuiinua folt the keenness of bis antngo-
ubt's wit ; and when hard pressed, exclaimed,
** Yoii ait» More, or nobody," the reply was,
"You ar© Knuium8| or the devQ/' {Gallery of
PmtiraiU, L, V, A\ ii. 27.) T. J. Buckton.
8ti)!wjur (3*^ S. IT. 475.) — DoBB not Ogygius,
in o^Uiiig hit victim^ **my stork/ taunt him with
Ul« exoMI of ^rvpyy he ha« displayed If
In thi» copy of lUndulph's poatbumous Poim$^
ir^JM, in tho Britifih Muaeuiii, the following ana^
gram of ihii name of Richard, I^cd Weiton,
ChuntH'llor of tho Exchequer, created Earl of
rmrltuid in 1632, U written on a flyleaf; —
**Virdurus ac boneBiui,
Kicli&rdu* VVcatouui,
Virduruiao boiiua.
*• T« lloet dtinim vocut WJ honostum,
NoTidiili fiulit aiiiiitmnima veatH,
Kli tanivn t|uatt mUi't mit^* duru8«
Vhlde «t honcitiu,
* AlUbough your Lordalitp[>« s ImpTiy juinKgninime,
Oifi you of hard atid boriMt both tho niuiie*
Yel l«l tbfti hard (1 prayc you) fall an me«
Gently, atid |»a/ mo* wUo /aur Uuneitv.
Tho, Rahi^li'h/'
Ai Randolph diinl in 1G34, and the Poenu were
publiihed bv hid brothi?r aftt^r his death, I am at
« lots to underatand thin flyleaf insoriptioo.
Joa J, B. WaiiKAnD,
HkRAT Pir VtaiTATlOK* rRtKTKD (3*^ S, IT, 433,)
^Tho ' of txindon, taki^n by Kobrrt
Cookr, ^ 1, l^(*^ ba» recently been edited
fft>m MS, liiuri. U6a, by Mr. J. J. Howakd mid
Mh, J. Q. Nk'Moia
Jon J* Barohtkll W0IULAItl\ M.A.
Glikk Of TKV Cnftqtri (3^ a ir. 43, 417) it
Uk oAoir In Uit KiQg% Ocmit, to oalltd beoaute ht
bftUk lib« «Jb«dt mid eoiilrolmmii of tlie yvomeo of
lh« gnmd, and all c^hm ordbmrytfomra bdbogiog
•illltf 10 tlie king, fiutmi» or pmioa ; giting Ieli1r^
tn dUovbiig Ui«ir tWnee in «tUiidaikO#» or di>
mittlthiiif; iK^if wapra for tho mme : ht tho^ by
ymttlf kee the riew of iKone that
ftivio ^ \t%^ and hath the ftctting of
IhitvmKfL l^i I "T c, IJi AW Ibi^ra it
«i«AM?of the ^ tn th« kin{*'ii navy at
niyvimitk, Dtpttoni, >^ ^Hdwicb, rh»ih^^ '
10€bik IL Q, L (JacoV» U^ lHeli*mn>
QUOTJLTIOKS WAITED (3^ S. IT. 474^ 408^
— The lines oommeDoIng —
" Few the wordi that I have tpoken/'
are by the Rev. J. Moultrie, Rector of Rtigl
and appear in the Tolume of PotmM ptiblisticd
him.
In Bishop Alley's Commentary on SL jPffiv't
Epuiluy the linei^
'* Hoc eit nc«cire, dine Chrlsto pturima scire ;
Chriitum li b«ne scii, eati« eit^ li eietera neeoii^**
are thua rendered : —
" To know mucb without Chntt if nothing expedient;
Bui well to know Christ is onelj sufficient.**
The original source of the thought I atn tmablt
to indicate.
What authority hat J. L. for caUing the ooopbl
an epitaph 7 0« J. B^
'* God and the doctor," &c.
The following linea by Quarles convey the same
ientimeut :■ —
** Our Ood and soldier we alike sdore,
Et'u at the brink of ruin, not before ;
After delir'niica both alike requited.
Our God's forgotten, and our soldier's slighted.^
I have heard the lines at quoted by T. C« B^
fiincy they are only a yeision of the aboTew
W. I. a HORTOA
YixKN : FiXKH (3^^ a IT. 389, 463:)— In looki^
through Gammtr GurtorCs Needle (printed 157^
or, accordinjf to Oldys^ as quoted by Hawkio
155IX in DodsleVs Old Playa^ I have dlacoTe
tho word " fixen * twice uaed —
" That false /Mrnt^ that same dmxaa Chat/' itc.
Act iiL e^i
" A%, Hodge, HodjK, where was thy help, wheu Ana
had me downr'-Act III. Sc. 3.
JoffK AuDDl^
Ron, Buiuw {3*^ S. IT. 497.)— Watt'i
th§ea BtitannicQ is far £rom an immaculate '
und I Tentuie to think the Codtdonian ATu
Museum of 1809, there ascribed to the yaua
Bumtf b among the compiler's errors of
ilon« A hook under that title is mentiooid
Lowndet under '^ Songs,'' with a portrml
Burvi ; thill, with the probability that it b ,„
oommoB with a host of books, under the tttlai
Oahdomimm M%dtoi Btpotiicrf, Edifihw^ Jfis-
eiool MuHwm^ 9uk ^\ Mi of the lyriet of Um
A^fmh^^ hafd» is, t presume, its only ooit]i«<itioa
wtth the name of Burnt.
That Roherl Bumx^ Jun. in early life had aa
UMliniklioB fiir his father's dtnai aH, we know;
but C%ambeffa— one of the laieat of the poet'i
bi4%gi^«fi, t^lli fit that atthoQgh be vrtite m-.^
* ^ngi and » ^ of mitcellaneoiit
0 'oaidexmbl Kis rvmoTii in Id
iiomiott upwiki lits uttrary
5
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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I were ultiraAtely crushed out by a long life of
I routine drudgery &t the Stamp Office. J. O.
Baettinoham (3^ S. It. 468.) — Thanka io
IHessrb. Ooopkr for the dates of the deaths &c. of
I this architect and of his son. Can they furnish the
Tdate of death and place of burial of Robert Furze
' Brett ingham, also an architect, and supposed to
bare been a nephew of the father above named,
and whom he appears to have succeeded in the
art 1 The latest date of him given in the profes-
sional account in the DUtionary of ArchiUdurt^
is that of 1S<)5, when he resigned his official post
in the Board of Works, but waa probably in prac-
tice much later, as he was then only al)out forty-
five years of age. Wtatt 'pAPWoRTn.
Sbakbpsarx xwd Plato {%*^ S. iv. 473.)—
"It b truly lingular," lajs Coleridgir, '*th&t Plato,
g«nume prophet and antiotpator as he was of the Pro-
teat&nt Chrieti&n Km^ should b&Te given, in hia Dmlogue
of tht Bunr/iici, a justification of our Shakspeare ; for he
rslat«e that, when all the other i3;uMts bad either dU-
iwrsed or fallen aileep, i^ocniica only, together with Ari-
atophanea and Affathon, remained awuke ; and that
while he continued to drink with them out of a large
goblet, he compelled them^ tbougli mo^t reluctant! j, to
admit ihiit it waa the bniineea of one and the tame
genius to excel in tragic and comic poetry, or that the
tragic poet ought, at the same time, to contain within
himself the powers of comedy." — Eemains, vol il p- 12.
0,
hAVKRt Watur (3^* S. V. IL)—
'* In the observations on Donelhin's caae contained in
Mr. Townsend*B Life of Justice BuUer {Livet of Bngluh
JudgtM, p. 14)^ the following stateinent is made :— ' In his
(Dooellan's) librarj tfiere happened to be a cingle number
of the PhUotepkical TratuactionM ; and of this single num-
ber the leaves had been cut only in one place, and thin
^lace happened to contain an account of the making of
Imuret water by ditiilhition.' Nothing is said of this in the
reports of the trinL It is something like the evidence in
Palmer's case about the note on etrychninein the book,
although much Btronjtt'r."— Steplien'^* General View of
the Qrtminal Law of England, 18(18, p. 348 n,
R R. Dkes.
Wallsend, Newcaitleon-Tyne,
I have a copy of the Toild of Flor€t^ which I
procured through a notice of ** Books Wanted"
in " N. & Q/' There is no mention in it of knrel
water ; but in a work published nearly hiilf a
century prior to that — namely, the Supplement to
Mr, Ohambers'a Dictionary of ArU arid Scknccs^
1753, the poisonous cpuUity of laurel water is no-
ticed under the article ** Lauro-Cerasu?." The
author there observ^es : ** This was discovered in
Dubhn by the accident of two women dying sud-
denly after drinking eome of the distilled laurel
water/* Several experiments were then made by
Dnk Madden and Mortimer, and communicated
to the Ro}^ Society. See PhiL Tram, Noa. 418,
420. SkPTIOTS PiKBflE, F.C.S.
Chisirlck.
I possess a small 8to, printed for J, Murray,
32, Fleet Street, and W, NicoU, St. PuuPs Church-
yard, 1779, entitled Tht ToiUt of Flora, I am
afraid An Inquirer will not obtain the informa-
tion he expects from the book. The only mention
of laurel water is at p. 1, io the following terms : —
" A-n A romatic Bath, — Boil for the space of two or threa
minutes in a sufficient quantity of river water^ one or
more of the following plants— riz. laurel, thyme» ro«e-
mary, wild thyme, &«., kc. ; or any other herbs that hava
an aj^reeable scent. Having strained off the liquor from
the horbft, add to it a little brandy or camphorated spirits
of wine. This is an excellent bath to strengthen tlie
Hmbs ; it removes pains proceeding from cold, and pro-
motes perspiration. *
A. F. B.
Pholet (3^ S. V. 12.) — The Pholeys, better
known as Foulahs, are well described Ln Mungo
Park's first Travels in Africa, He speaks of
them in several parts of his book as he happened
to come among them. They are found neur the
Gambia, and in all the kingdonia^ of the windward
coast of Africa. They are of a tjiwny complexion,
with silky hair and pleasing features. They are
of a mild disposition, and retain their own lan-
guage, though most of them have liome knowledge
of Arabic. They are employed in husbandry ;
have large henls and flocks, and use milk chiefly
as their diet, but not till it b *1H^*^ ^^^^* They
make butter, but not cheese. Tliey also possess
excellent hoi^s, the breed of which seems to be a
mixture of the Arabian with the original African.
See Mun^o Park's Traveh in Africa in 1795-6-7,
chapters ii. iv. xiv. F. C. H.
Penny Loaves at Fukeralb (3'** S. v. 35.) —
Whether the custom of distributing penny loavea
at funends still exists at Gainsborough, 1 do not
know ; but the other ciuestion of Robert Kempt
is very readily answered. He asks what was the
origin of this custom. It waa the pious pnictice
of our ancestors to direct in their tmIIs that doles
of bread or other alms should be given to the
poor at their funerals, whereby they performed
a double act of charity, relieving the corpora!
wants of the poor, and securing their prayers for
the repose of their own souls. This custom not
only i^revailed in England till the change of reli-
gion in the sixteenth century, but has been kept
up among Catholics ever since. I could point out
many recent instances where sums of large amount
hiive been distributed in loaves of bread to the
jx)or at the funerab of wed thy Catholics. There
can be no doubt that the cus^'ra at Gainsborough
is a remnant of thiH ancient practice. F. C. H.
Trade and lirpRovEiiENT or Ireland {3^ S.
V. 35.) — Arthur Dobbs published a second part
of his Essay on the Trade, and Irnprovcment of
Ireland in 1731, Bvo. There is no account of
him in Chalmers's Biographical Dictionar^y but
your correspondent may fijad. -^ %Wi^ x«^\st«t '^
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8«>S. V. Ja». le, *6i.
him in McOiiIIocIi'b Literaturt of FolUical Etc-
nomy (1846, Svo^ p. 46), taken from a note bj
George Chalmers in hi^ copy of Dobbs's Essay.
There is, however, a fuller bioi^niphj of Arthur
D^bhK in George Chalmers's valuable ** Livea of
the Writers on Tiude und Political Ef!onom;y\"
which is a storehouse of infomiation on the sub-
ject. It IB in manuseript in my possesaion, form-
ing a thick 4to, volume, and bw never yet been
published. Jas. ORossLBir.
The second part of Arthiir Dobbs's Essay on the
Tradt and Tmprtftrmr.nt of Ireland Wits ptibliyhed
at Dublin in 173 L Both parts of the work have
recently been reprinted in vol. ii. of—
•* A Collection <if Tmcts ajid Trentises illustrative of
th* Kftlurftl History^ Antujuitica, ottfJ th*? Politic nl and
SociaI Stute at Ireland, ftt varidua Periods prior to the
present Century : in Two Volumes/* Dublin. 18^1» 8-vo,
All the above-mentioned works are in the
libniry of Trinity College, Dublin. ^A\i€vs,
Dublm.
Arms of Saxony (3^^ S. v. 12.)— Tlie writer
of the Query entitled **The Prince Conw>rt's
Motto/' expresses his opinion that the white horse
of Saxony is derived from a passage in the Book
of Revehitions (xix. lU. The armorial beiiring
in question i^^ without doubt, of a date long ante-
rior to the era of the Reformation, The Ib>Tse
was the emblem on the standard of the earliest
Saxon invaders of the South of England, and is
preserved in the names of the Saxon leiwiers
Mengisi (German, Hencrst^Stullion) and Horsa
ioiir " Horse " and the German " Ross "). We
Ind it ai2^in in the arnia of Kent. Those Saxon
invaders most probably were of the Siime race as
the present innabitantB of Hanover and TlVjff-
phalia^ if we may judge from their speaking the
** Platt-deutsch," or Low German, which is the
same branch of the Teutonic from which the
Anglo-Saxon was descended. Further, the arms
of Hanover, as well as of WeBtphalta^ are, to this
day, a white horse. De Lzun.
"Est Rosa flos Vr:^ri»" (!•» a L 458;
3^''' S. iv, 4,^3 ;t. 15,) — Th<? pft*«age nought after
in the Hhodohffia of Rosenheim is as follows :—
*. n.._..v.. r..,.:A.. v-.--- <v' -^ -^ ..«*... f;iulantur.
IT: iouiiyil.
li k-iso vidc-
tii.'' u.- jiUi-'j-i nieiietirum
▼r t\ tenux ea^et, nt-C
ftn ,.-.,;.,, - ...citjcilcntilfidodicU.
Qua Ud T* v\' ' i*ot:(a Mquentem in modum
caaii :— " Kni .ncris/' &c» Part I, caji. 2.
The author of the linos b not named.
Job J. B. Woukaru,
"Trk AiCATEtR's MAOAErNR" (3"* S, V. 200 —
ITiere wat* yet anoth^^r monthly pf*ri'>-li- ,1 .„lIod
Tkt^ Am*tt(ur, ^^linh aUo had an of
nine moot hs, having been bora in JnU, . aid
having expired in March, 1856, during which tim«
eight numbers were published. It was int^nde
to be a quarterly publicjttion ; but ** in conse
tjuence of the encouragement " that the fir
number received* it was altered to a monthly*
its fourth issue its price was reduced from Is*
6t/. It was ** prnji^cted by a small stalf of u^t|l^
fessional writer*,'' and was published at Hi, Gt«»ft
Marlborough Street. I believe that its
was Mr. E, C. Mus^ey, a young and clever ^
whose first publi^ht^d work (anonymous) was '
Grcfu-fijed Monsttr; a Chrutviai Le4son*
Wlmtsiiisname (pp. 101). Jnun^a Cooke, Fe
church Street, 1854, Cutbbeut Bei>b.
Mai> ab a Hatter (3^ S. v. 24.) — Colchest
and all ita natives remonstrate ugainst your
respondent Scnts's sugfreetion as to the origin
this phrase* Even the hatters lb ere are not will^
ini? to remove the obnoxious cap from their own
heads on such temis. Neither sound nor sensi
could reconcile them to ih© notion of making th^
oyster a symbol of madness. Finding some tin
ago — I think iu Haliiweirs iHrtiofnary — thil
ffnait^y is used in some parts of Enghind in !!•"
sense of irritable, I fancied that in the same pla«il
a gnat might be called a gnattcr^ and hence *' it
mad as a gnatter/ I do not think I was far
wrong ; thongh perhaps natter^ the German name
fur adder, points to the true origin. It is eajsy to
trace the progress — a natttr^ an atttr^ a hatter.
B. L. C0LCE6T RICKS tB.
RicQARD Adams (S"'* S. x. 70 ; 3"^ *S. iv. 627]
v. 42.) — We see no reason to doubt the ideutitr^
of the Richard Adams, who died in 1661, with thd
Fellow Commoner of Catharine Hall At thfl
period in question admission at a college at
age of fifteen was no unusual occurrence, nor
there anything remarkable in Latin versos by
l»d of seventeen. We i*ball be oblijred by a cop
of the monumental inscription to Richard Adau
in Lancaster church.
C. R & THOMrsoH Coorxit,
Cambridge.
Madmai?'s Fooo tastiko of Oathbal Plf»H
RJDGK (U^** S. V. 35.)— The followiuj; extr
from the Kactes A mbrotian^t may enlighten yoo^
correspondent Y. P, It is necesRtry, however, iq
the first pUce to observe, that the conversaMoii
hiiB been turning on the LdUrt on Jinnmiohyg^
and iViUhaafU recently contributed by Sir Waliel
Scott to the Family Librarxf^ then in isoura©
publication : —
** Sfi^phfrd 1' g iiYani; wt* you, fih
** AV(A. You ii uic, Jnuiet,
therr: :■•!
♦• SI
** i\ me ptitjcnt In the In
firmiin ,-_:„, ii , l: _ ,^4 fill liii iiienl*
8- S. V. Ji«. 16, St.]
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■ 1 th^ ho h*d f^try daj » dinner of
, and ih desMrt; aiMi j^ t»t^Jfi3^
, ^_ _ . , '. V€ri/<hi»p h€ <tU tatted of porrxtifji I **
' Wirktoi i^rofcMor Wikon, ird. iiL pp. 137, 1SS«
OxoNiEJfsia.
Sir Edward Mat (3'-'» a t. 35.)-Sir Edward
Mny, M.P. for B^lfAst, was the eon of Sir Jumes
MjiV, M.P* f«ir tbi* CO. VV*iterford, wbo was created
a baronet June 3(\ 17*53. A few pArticulara
of the p«?di^^pee appear in Burke*8 Extinct and
Dormant Baronstci^, Arms : gu. a fees between
eight biJleta, or. R. W,
Sra WtLLiAU 8evt5nokb (3"* S. Y. 370^In the
** List of MttyOfB of London/* compiled Ly Piiul
Wright, B*D., F.8A., 1773, Appended to Hey-
lin*8 Help to Englhh History^ tne amia are de-
scnbed — ** Az. seven acoms or/** and are engmved
three, three, and one. ThU is probably correct.
R. W.
liOXOEVTTT OF Clero-tmf.n (Z'^ S, V. 22, 44.) —
The Frtston ChroiUrU of Jjtn. 9, 1864, records the
demise on Jah. 3, of the Rev. Joseph Rowley, in-
cumbent of StaJmine^ Lanciushire, for sixty* four
years ; having bt»*?n Jippoioted thereto in the your
1799. The reverend gentlernnn wtia for fifty-four
yeara— VIZ. from 1803 to IboS, chapUin of Lan-
caster Castle, during which period be attended
the execution of no leas than 170 persons.
PaESTONIKNSIS,
Paper Marks (3^ S. iv, 515.) — The Rev.
Samuel D|nue, son of the archdeacon, an Jinti-
qnary of some eminence, communicated in 1705
to the Arch(mlf}gia. i\ very interesting and valuiible
article on Paper Marks, It is cliieBv drnwn up
from some nmterials coDected by Mr. Thomas
Fisher, printer, of Boche«ter, and ia illustrated
with B\x platea exhibiting various markii from
1473 to 1712. The size and form of the paper
bearing the mark is shown, and the subatance of
the material is described as far a« it can be. Alto-
gether it 15 a very carious document. X- A. X,
Tex Laird of Lee (S'** 8. r. 34.) — The
Laird of Lee is comtnonly understood to be Look-
hart of Lee. Wodrow (vol. i, p, 2S2) says that
Sir James Lockhart of Lee was the only sober
man at the drunken meeting of Council at Glas-
gow, 16G2, which ejected ao numy ministers, and
that he alone f>pposed it. Thi» waa more than
twenty years before the Mauchliue Mh rty nhuu ;
80 that, however likely, it cannot be quite cerUin
either thikt he is the person alluded to in the
inscription on the Mauchtine Monument, or, Bup-
posirit; be is, that it does law justice. J. R, R
Ediuburgh.
FaJTH Silver (3'<^ S. iv. 477, 629.)— Fee-farm
rent* are p>iyable to Lord Somers in most parts
of the North Riding of Yorkshire ; and regular
aaditi held at certain market towns, and cc»llec-
tioii0 made by Mr. Samuel Danby, of 7, Giay's
Inn Square, The devisees of a Mr. Ef»blnsmi hmr^
liho a similar claim ujmu aU e!?tates which onise
poeseswed a deer pjirk, 8urround'*d by a bow rake.
I believe frith aUver is tn lieu of underwood.
Although I apprehend Mr. Danby is our beft
authority. Eboracxju.
Potato and Point (Z'^ S. iv. 496.) —
" 1 wuB indobted for my firat glimmering kiiow1ed?« of
history and aiitiijuitica to ihom; evening 'oni
round our Piuall mrf Jire, whire, after u LSt
upon Ihiit ima;j;iuativc di«h. ^potivtoes m uiy
father himhI to talk of the traditani of other tiiu«4.
** When there ip l»iit a itual]! |»ortt(iQ of eaU left, the
potfttoe, iiittcad vf f - d if, to it by the gueAtt, is
invrcly. aa a Nort oi to the fnncy. prtintffim%
Greek and Roman Ga3IE!=i (3»^ S. v. 3iK) —
It may be added that the Xunioranon of Photiug
find the 6VWia of Bal^amou, were republished in
Vt»elli et J 113 te Mi Biblwihtca Juris Canoniei Vt"
Irru^ Qrfici ti Laiitu^ Paris» 1061, 2 vols, fol. lu
loc, cit. Tit. xiii. c. 29, Balwamon supplies no
further iltustratioQ than what has already bei^n
(jQoted. He only adds : —
*' Videtur etium mihi quo<jue alteram biiao ladum a
lege Mvenabynde vitari et puxtirij utpote ^ui oottum
confirraot/'— P. 1131,
For KOTTc*^, see Ducange, Glossarinm Media H
Tt^im(P Latinitatis: **Toi^ kvPov^ rjroi tov k6ttov»*
Blbliotbecar. Cuetham.
Churchwarden Query (3^ S. v. 34 ) — The
sideumen appoint^ed last Easter at the meeting of
the parish of St. Michael's, Lichfield, were tbir-
teen in number ; and were designated to the
eight out- townships included in that parii^L They
are only assiatants to the churchwardens, in re-
ference to their respective townships. Their
dudes in recent times sppeara, from Canon 90 of
the Constitutions of 15(j2, to be to prevent ab-
sence of parishioners from church, and disturb-
ance to the congregations by absentees. In
Canon 89, the word " churchwarden ** is made
equivalent to questman (say inquestman or in-
quirer) ; but prior to these Con&titulionSj there
was a distinction, for —
" In the ancient < ' ' ' the bishops were wont
to §iimm<^ii divcJ-B > out of every parish,
to ^ve iiif^jniiftiiofi .lie diAordors of clergy
and peofile. Tbe^ wt^ro catkd tejiia tt/nodaU^; and
were in iif^cr times a kind of impannelid Jury, consisting
of two, thrce» or mort; )jfiion* in every parish, who were
upon oaili Co present all horuticks and olbcr irrfgular
per^onn (AVn. Par, A^f <J41»)- And these in process of
time hecunie staoriing r^fficiri imeverul places, etpedaliy
in gpfftl cities ; and Ironi hence were ciilled fyaJoj-wefi,
and by corruiifinn iirJcumn. They ate also sometimes
cidled f/vr-itmat, from tlio nature of their office, in making
'iuquiry conccrniiig ofTeftcea.**
£y Canon 90, if the minister and parishionerfl
cannot agree in the choice of iheae aidflBBM^^ «sc J
66
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[Z'^ 8. V. Jah. 16» *
qaestmec, In Easter week^ the ordinary of the
diocese is to appoint them (Burn's EccUs, Lan\
L 399). T. X BucKTON.
Sir Edward Mat (3'* S. v, 35,) — I have se-
veral old letters in the iiuto^raph of Sir Edward
Mny in my possession, and (jAaiij'ORD might,
perhaps, joommunicate with me direct in his own
nntne. J. Rearix>n.
Sttllorgi^n, CO. Dublin.
CHAJONEAt; (3''^ S, V, 11.)— The name has re-
vived my boyish remenibrancc of a stoiy, strangely
Uloatrating the social habits and feelings of the
kst centuiy ; aa I heard it narrated more than
seventy years ago, by a then elderly aunt of mine,
a lady aa well nurtured and as kindly hearted as
any of hpr time.
The Mr, Ohaigneau ^hom it commemorates
was an eminent luceman in Dame Street (the
Regent Street of) Dublin, wbt?re his speciality,
though less expanaive, was more expensive than
are our wives' and daughters' crinoiines. One
day^ a titled lady honoured hii shop with a visit
in her sedan chair ; during her eiplorations,
the ahopman observed her "couveyiug" a card
of lace into her muff. On her departure, he
informed bis master of this Iha-boutiquej who
posted after her ladyship^ andj with the requisite
oows and begging pardons, suggested her having —
unconacioiBly, of course — taken, &c. &c. Of
course, also, Madam was indignant. That a parson-
age of her fortune and position could condescend
to the vulgarity of shoplifting ! The laceman per-
Slated in the ** mistake *' : would she be good
enough to order her sedan back to the shop?
would she aUow it to be examined f Growing
desperate, he inaisted on the search ; whereupon,
drawing the card of lace out of her muff, she
exclaimed (well do I remember my aunt's words
and tone), " There, fellow : there ia your lace ;
and it shall be the dearest lace to you that ever
oame out of your ahop." The promise was duly
kept: the emit de corps was too strong for the
tradesman : from one of the richest of bis calling
he gradually became one of the poorest ; dwindled
down into bankniptcy, and obtained his discharge
by catting his throats
Such was my aunt's story ; she never mentioned
the lady's name, and, if she had, I would not dis-
entomb it. K L. B.
NOTES ON BOOKS, BTa
Post Orvtos Lokdov DraiscroBT for 1864.— When
Macaulay't mueli txlketl-of New Zealtmdir takes bift seat
itpoti the ruins of 8t. rauri, he will got but a r^rj im-
perf^t notiuu of what ths great city wa«, of which th«
r«t]ialu» He ppreaU before him, imleii ho has the good for-
ioDe to pick up from among them an old Poet Office
London Dircctcn-y. There he wotild be told in
takeable characters the true history of London*f grcat^
iie««,— a volume of newly 3000 ctoaely, yet clearly pnntedJ
pages, pointing out not only CFcrv Wiart where men da|
ciiugreicatc^ but the quiet homes to which the hundredsJ
and thoiuatids of those busy men retire when the day'j
work ii done, would speak more clearly of Uie wealtT
intelligence, and vast extent of London than acres <
crumblin;? ruinx. For siity-fiye years haa the Pott O0Ut
Loudon Dirtctor^ gone on increa«ing in dze, acciiraej«
and utility until tt lias reached a completenos comxxum-
surate with the labour and expense which have been be-
stowed upon it, and which mukes it a Commtreial AnRHtd
Register of the metropolia of England. If the reader
would wish for evidence of tlie progress of oommercc and
msnufaottires in London^ and now the Post OMtt EHrtc^^
lory keeps pace with this progresSt he will find it in thi
almple fact that about^/i/%y nem trades hare been
to the present volume. *
BODES AKD ODD VOLITMES
WA^TEI) TO puneHASE.
Pitrtletilftri of Price^ ftc. of the fulloiritijir BcMika to h% ami dlr«ca
the ^cotJ«ii««u by whom they fti« required, vkd wboM OASacii ojul i
drwMB »Fe FlTf n rot tb»t puri>o«« :—
Ujc4V«<»*t 4>f) KutcnjiRDLS l*i,ATS. T Voli Sto, liOttda>o»l711^ Fd
I. tl II l. only wanted ; or ft poor oopjr of th« «oihpln« wrt.
W&nt<4 by Meun. lamsmmM A C(t 38, r»u>niD«t«r Raw. B,OL.
iket«U D«|>*itineiil.|
flAjTjtJiM HrviTT ; or, the Female Cruioe, by Clurlea Dibdiii.
iruv. iiJ^Stnnd.
Zftn4 IN mi DufRT ; or, the Fttmil« CrutoCi tram tbe FFfftush.!
4aii: F4»t«r»l78», ISmo.
Wutt«d \>f Mr. iWrw S. St, JtJkm, Soatli«nd, Emci,
LKCTCRCt OK Enautii BiiToaT,.b7a Lftdy. a Vali. P«ft«rt
TuLK Caht ov Ejavam. Rnlfbt: Loudacu
Affviupit'ii BoiAt Oor»ALX)«icAL TABLii. FatJ<». Bindlof^ a»f
A pamphlet or oatuliiv ooataloJuff aa irtlelv on anttmr4 ca* I
by Rer, E* Trollops, \m>-^
Wuited bj Mr. GKfronM, 9S. fijr«hla Laa«, £.a
fiaticiA to CiJm^p0ntifnW,
OtOBOt W. MAUBttkLV Tkt frtmrt rr!f,ftyr to iKe ditrm-rr^ 4f ^mil
bam fifjiii* u/nm our mim eiUumn*, Srr mnn^ arhrln on tUtt oM It i
o«r IK Sent,, t1 3M, 4«, fl« ; fU. 11, <W7 ; Till. 1*1. j
H. 4EdiDt.UTVh.( ftrr the origin 9/ tf,, n;,m* o' tKt "* Dmimdtm-Mmk\
T. BewTt.Et. Hat our rorr&tmi^. KuAm Mom^-^ LUl
of Pr R»qh»rd H<ij««j, fA# #fPi«..f . >«A JRH? ^vSim
tMtdiiltnfptuJn'dcr*tie:.
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Tin Fdit It **•
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*' Notes iiQt..,. ;-
,.. registered for tj-axum!nlon ^hroftd
Aod tH-"
Inquire
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NOTES
LOHDOh, SATVitDAY, MHVAHY^ 1864.
CONTENTS.— K** 108.
NOTES: — Tho lI.^5nrrrptiGn ffif^^ SL GilL-jtVin^thn Fields
«: — Curloiui Modern
Cv I'fttnrile,** by GoorjKB
Ui r =/»rd JtilTrey io Br/r-
■ w hr-K. Ih. — The Owl— Early
-OriJ^iu of Names — "County
7L
QITBHTES: — i.
Popf^i^. — B
Burton — "T
PjMnily " Nfti i
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nl
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1^'
. 72 — A yine Portrait of
runicol Writer — Samuel
' iM 1- .J _ Tk >" dnswull
'■ Jodi —
I _iu*o of
I,, itfiivenny
nta^'- Wll-
'*'— Omtary
rarcba — Por-
iriEvi^tor —
lapew — PiM-
T-
AKiWTBSj— WillUm Itell.D.D.— ** LinrtM
W. F. — LrnnartiiK >ViinlnK<'ruA — Miaw
I y Qu«»rlcs — Mottoes and Coats of Xrxtxn —
iL iIereury"""Notc* to Sliakaiwure/* 73.
I'iid Ijftpwinp-- ^*'-— 1----1 ' *..-: -v ^7
* orsrTomb s
id thf^Slvi
vity of
Notes on Booka. &e.
THE RESUKRECrrOK GATE, ST* GILESMN-
THE-FIKUJS.
I notice with regret tbiit fchi* giite, with itit in-
ti?reatinj^ old curving, bii» recently been removed.
Whether it is the iiit<}ntion of the vestry to re-
atoro it remjuus to l»tt »een.
The gilt e-ei» trances to churuhyarcU were for-
jnerly designated by carvings in wood, of which
only a ftiw remain : one of" tbette wuh the senii-
cii-cular basKo-relievu of the ** Las^t Judgment;*
within the pediment of the north gate of St.
GiIes*-in»the-Field8, Another on the siune sub-
ject, but much inferior^ is preserved in the east
gnte of St. Stephen, Coieman Street. A fi^re
of Time wns formerly to be gueii **ver the north
^ate of St, (riles*, Cripplegate. It has been taken
down and set up wilhhi the ehureh, over tiie west
enfcfancc.
The ** Resurrection Gate,'* by which name it
is comraoniy known, was origin ally erected in
\mi, Itt th< ' ^
order; —
be previous year the vestry made an
•• Thtt a substantial gate, oat of tho wall of tit*
ehtifchyitrd aear the round-houso, slimtld Ih« m«idot und
al»u « door Anawerable to it, out oi ilic cIiuk'1j» at th^
foot of UiH 8t4irfl, leading up to tbtj uorlU gtillciy."
In pursuance of this resolution^ the gate was
trttotoa md adorned with the curious piocQ oC
wood*carving, representing, with various altera*
tions and additions, Michael Angelo's ** Laet
Judgment."
In Edward Hatton*s Nbvs Vxtm ofLandan^ 1706,
speaking of the gate and wall, the author says ; —
" The churchyard is fenced with a good brick wall |
and under a large compaiig pediment over th« gate, near
the we^t end, is a pro^lii^ious number of carved J3gur«8|
boing an emblem of the ReAurrection, done In 'mii^o,
very ctmoualy, and erected in the year 1087,**
The erection of the eate, and the et ceteraM
connected with it, cost uie parish 165/. and up-
wards; out of which, 27/. was paid for the carving
work. The several other items of charge, accord*
iiig to Partonj were as follows : — -
" 77i4j New Gate, £ m. d.
Mr. Hopgood'fl bill - - - - U 10 0
— WnicAtley^fl bill - - - - 67 0 0
— WoodiLiaxi, tho TOason - - - 23 0 0
— Bailey, bricklayer - - - - 31 0 0
— Towiisend, painter - - •TOO
— tjandi, plumber - - * US 0 0
Gravel fur A?alk . - * - * 2 6 0
Spreading ditla, and rubbi^L - • • 0 19 G
Love, the carvcr'a, bill - - ^ - 27 0 «J
Total 185 14 (t»
This gate was of red and brown brick, and
stood near the centre of tfic L'hurchyard wall It
was taken down in 1800 ; and the Tuscan gate,
recently removed, erected in its place — the carv-
ing being placed in the new gate in tJie sjunc
situation it occupied in the old one.
Tho author of the second edition of Ralph's
Critical Review of the Public Building s^ Stahtvit^
and Ornaments^ in and about London and Wi?Hi^
minster^ 1783, speaking of St, GUes' Uhurch,
snys : —
** The biUi-relittf uf the Hesurr^^tioQ, yt\.' r the
aurth gate of the churchyard, is a remai lud
oharacUjristic piiijce of carving, and ia in ^, . i va-
tioa. This Wst circumtitauLe is, porhapji, uwiog tu tho
narrowness and hurry of the street, \Thir*h prcvt'uts its
bejnj^ taltea notice of. But th« sul i > ven
for a painter, and much tnore for u ini-
{KKSfiibto for the moat creative fancy t ^. mall
number in thi» piece con represent tbtr ' uiiilUiud«» uf all
nations gathered from all the corners of the earth.* The
faces seem to want variety,"
Malcolm also commends the carving. Speaking
of the church, in hi^ Londinum BmiviDUm (ill.
4dl), he says: —
•* A vory ne^t Tuscan gate baa recently been erected;
and iUa nrch is filled by the celebrated repreaiiDUtion of
tho Resurrection— a p<}rfonnanoe of infinite labour and
flinch merit, carved atcmt 1G87.'*
J. T. Smith, however, was of a diiferent opinion
to that just expressed. Speaking of the old gaie-^
way, in his /3ook for a Rainy Day (1S45, p. *iO),
he add£ : —
♦* Ovtt V\iU ^%.\.t, A«A5St \\* v*^M«Je.V ^^ *^ ^^^
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3'<aV. Ja>.-^
^^iCkliMl Angelov but firom the worldiigs of the brain of
*^^ ne ship-carTcr.**
Who shall decide upon the merits of a work^
when aa^es difler? Some years ago, examining
the carving with a powerful glass, 1 was much
E leased with its execution* It appeared to nic to
e a work above the ordinary degree of merit,
I may add that I discovered, eut upon a snnll
aquare in the middle of the lower group of fifrurts,
the ToUowing inscription : *^ A. P. 3°." What
does thia mean ? The entry in the old ac^tounts
informs us that the sealptor*s name was Love*
EflwABP F. Ulmhault.
DECA.Y OF STONE IN BUILDINOS.
At a time when so much is j^ald and though I of
the de<r.iy of stone in our publie buUdinj^s, ihc
following passage from a letter to King Henry V,
f^om nn olfici^r flavin^,' the cliarge of public Works
at Caliiitt, may not be read without intoresti au
showing tlio precautions taken in earlier limes to
preserve them, II b to be found in a late publi-
cation ul' the Cumden Soricly, entitled Lvtlers of
Queen Mnn^aret of AnJoUi BiBhitft Bechittgton, and
others, p* 20; ^
"Sou\TLUATiffR Loi«»E» Pcc.« »9 t^iieliifig the ilone of
thi« cuatr«, tb«t »titiJd b« for tbr ittiiihp* of your lioonis
*im1 viiDdowciii q( your ; li I thipflC 1 dojo not luke upon
workes, hit frtttih
had I not on t. lined
I
■ . , 1 Lit
oi« t« «clt any morr
<knd frrtth *»i fmtlt
lyno4F*<yle oylc to I , , ...
hav© frDd(tf«^, (»r plesoci %'vur
have |i« veyed xiiij toti& fight [ v.
■*»^**-do youre workes withal/'
_^Frora tliia it will be seen that, at that early
period, linseed oil was applied to stone to preserve
it, and wbaterer those who eonsider only the
htnfjii of trade may say, it did and still doe^
answer the purpose; but not unless properly ap*
|4ied. Yat storje should be duly kept and sea-
Kinrd before being used in u building, especially
ifinu*nd*»ti for enrvi>» h as timber;
for the stone which i L ardent to
cuti* by no means, a^ jui u' ' *'ir» most
durable; but the best \% t' being
cut, harden^;, and form: it^. m .i.« .. , .1 nt*r coiit;
and this h the case with the Caen stonr^ which \%
Mitt when fiwt taken out of the quarry. But if
cx|»ectt;d tu tbrni itstdf a coat, it must not be cut,
and then exposed at ^mvc U\ ihe inclemency of
the weather, but shoi* od for a time in
the dry» under a shctl, ly exposed to the
air, but not to rain or temj»cJtA. When thi* ha*
l>eeTi priori V donv. and th<^ stone is thnrnvt^hly
dry, I in i ty be applied, and v
it : mjt i r*»ak4, ar. might be tif
unlciu \!.ry luick'^^lj laid 00, but produA*iiii^ ^
plett»in^ and subdueil gray tmt* There is vaftic,
1 <?oito«iTr, ia %k^ «Eiggi8tUoii oAeamade of placing
the stone as it lay in its natural bed ; Imt to <
it out of the quarry, and use it g^reen (so
workmen term it), as is too often done at p:""~
what is it but a knavish practice of the buiJ
provide for a second job? For, in this sta
sun affects* and the winds and frosts eraij
shiver it ; and if oil be ap|ilicd» this niak^
matter still worse by confining that moi^tu
which ought to be permitted to oo7.e out, aocj
hastentu;^ instead of preventing the decay (
stone, which, as a general rule, should havt
tjuarried for some time, and have become perfecll
dry before being used in the construction
buildings. It is no uncommon thing among &mi
churches to find the clusters of pillars in the id
terior composed simply of hard cJinlk, whid
answers the purpoi^ts very well. But let uei aufl
pose these to have been put together while tlj
chalk was yet diimp, und what would have beij
the consequence f That the fii-st frost would ha^
shivered and broken them ; but the chulk bclai
quite iiry when put together, frost does not at 1
affect it. And something analogous U\ iWva tntf
be observed in the use of much of our stiinc,
I have beture me an instance of linseed oil 1
plied mure than twenty yearfi since to orname
tal carving in slorie out of doors, and deeply cii
which it h&H preuerved.
CURIOUS MODERN GREEK AND T1TBKIS& |
NAMES.
I have devoted some spare hours to maojr [
of '' N. k Q,/* where, especially of late, haw ap-
peared lists of Christian names and sur
curious and otherwise^ together with their tup
po*ed dei'ivations. It was my good fortune, whc
»n Asia Minor, kc^ to be intimate with
scores of Greek and Turkish better cJass ]
and acquainted with perhaps as many of 1
sex of botli nations; indeed, to use theifj^
phrast?, "Was 1 not their good T
struck mo, a few day» a^o» that as i
ft ' ' "f ihe^e oh] tru n i .
> s some time and attentia
lu M .„ r...-.i .4i . iiA of thcni might, if pri
amuse your readers. It would at nil t^ventaj
hap« help some orni writer of on r F. » ,t» m he
to a ivw unstercotyped nam
and heroines ; for really we li
a doj&cn proper names in t
thi» lasft half century. I
some other time* j;ive the i
niin names — ^a thiujj total I
vhili.s I append » ftsw
rtfid Turkbh nanicjt, t»
Uiid H thography bet»t aibcd tu Uicif ttii«
proniJ:
The luUowing art a few doMse^ flist^;
S'J a. V. Ja». S3, •«,]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
69
I
I
wy fCftrce : Feynate — Calliope, Cle-
^ Fefieiope, Sophi, ITt»bi. Male —
•nyevani, Adonj, Xerxo.
Of modern names ptilpubly ullicd to ancient
ones, take for mstance: Fefiiale — Angelica, Pipina,
Xristftlaniji, Harcoadoo, MaU — Marco, Apostoli,
Manolif Thcofani, Stephani, Michali, FetnUi,
Yeoree, Yanako.
An examples o[ fenude name^ made from male
names, witness the following. The mide roots are
in italies : Female — Panat/oteaisa^ Athamisoola^
Xrw^ofoolelhtt, Zaehoroola^ iS/rtwm/eetsa, Coatin-^
dinn, TaniyodlB^ Photentso^ Sevastil&nia.,
To f?ontinue with female namejs, and as I litis -
trating how, by menn;) of affixes to some female
names, other Christrnn female names are formedj
I have n of iced : Female — Zoe hecommg Zoe-
teetsa; llelene, Ilelenika; Seva^tee, Seva^talania;
Katina, Kateriteena, and Vasili, Vasilikee.
Sometimes again, the various nouns Viy lliis
German system of addition beeome female nuraes,
thus : Femrt/*?— Pai*a5kevooJii, or born on Friday;
Kirittkeetsa, or born on Sunday ; Staphelia, or so
named from the grape (the red variety of which
they will, by-the^ye-, not eat on St. John the
Baptist*3 day) ; Triandafooletha, from the numeral
30, and so on In endl(?^a variety.
Nor are comical names scarce ; and these, as
in our own country, ^ipem to have lost their eviJ
power, lind are uj'i'tl in common with the less
susjgiesfcivc ones ; for instance ; Female — Castnnia,
the chestnut -haired; Astrienne, the starfaced ;
Troumethela, the onion-lieaded ; and, as illus-
trating pood nunlities Kalee, the good one ; and
Gramatiuhe, the writer.
As examples, however, of real nickname^^ the
mention of which sets the cafe in a roar, but
which are nevertbeles? tratiamittcd to posterity,
take these few : J)/«/r — Garf^lia Faga, or (tot-
pelia the glutton ; Alexi HcsLi^ or Alcxi, the
open bowel led ; Evendria Glcgori, or the Jiliarp
Eyendria. It is noticeable also, that if the poor
wight resides in some of the littoral villat^es
where Turks and Armenians "most do con^re-
gat«/* the nichmmcy to be more effective, will
take a Macaronic construction ; as for instance,
Lefteri Sakolee, or Lefteri with no beard ; or
agaiDf Ancftti Kirklyelani, or Anesti the forty
liam. Neither friend nor foe escapes this ten-
dency to give every one a name that will de-
mons trat*^ your person to Uiem in a moment.
And 1 may »is well fidd thut for two years T cer-
tainly had no other n^me amongst the Greeks
than CockinetiM Dutpolox, and no otlter amongst
the Turkomans than y'tipigi Bashi,
When a stranger comes to reside in a village
or town large enough to render surnames n&c&'
ffftry, he is cafled after the village or liland from
which he emijrrHted, thus: ^/a/r^Klreeako Dar*
li ; AniUuii Nichoretta ; Sali Mytilene ;
Panayote Tenedeo ; Yarghell Gallipolliti^ and so
on ; and if he has been a traveller abroad, in some
cases, when he returns, the family name altogether
changes, and Nikifori Lala, who has been to Eng-
land (or Bays hehAi*), becomes Nikilbn Englaiso ;
and by the same rule, Steliano Gheyikli becomes
Steliauo Spania.
Other surnames are derived from the occupa-
tiona of the persons who bear them, and remain
similarly permanent in the family. Thus we have,
Male — AnchoU Seece, or Ancholi the Groom;
Fotaki Arabajee, or Fotaki the cart driver ; AH
Meelona, or Ali the Miller ; Adam Caifajee, or
Adam the Cofl'ee- keeper; Seraphim Asvesti, or
Seraphim the Lime-burner ; and Steii Pappuchce,
or Steli the Shoemaken
The above are a few of the rules which the^e
m(.Mlern Greek proper names, &c. neem to follow.
Of course there are s<^orcs of other names, which,
like irregular verbs , are, so to say, words *' in
their own right," such as the male names Spero,
Pani» Xafi, &c. The first niuned / hope never to
meet again. Of female names of this nrder, take
Reyiuee, a matron from Giourkioi ; and Murootha,
the beiiuty of El-Ghelmez.
It must be understood that the foregoing names
were all noted down in Asia Minor. In Greece
Proper, other rules have away with still more
grotesque results. On a future occasion, I may
send the more striking combinations found in the
larger towns, in comparison with which even the
name of Cbronontonthologos would sufier.
To conclude, here are the more common Turkish
names from the villages in the interinr. These
rarely alter even in towns, and above idl, have no
jokes performed upon them ; rarely either do they
take surname? : Male — Of old favourites, say
Mehmet, Mu staph a, Magrup, Evrahaim, Mussa,
Sulieman, Ishmael, Hussein, Achmctj and Osman.
Female — ^ Of old favourite female names, take
Futimeh, Ayeaha, Sultanna, Musleumeh, Esmeh,
and Gulezer ; and amongst those not so common
to u?, I quote from out of my married friends,
Kusoon, Sabuer, Gulu, Nacharlu, Baghdati, Yaa-
galoo, Mavehlec ; and from my single (at leaf^t
then single) list, take Sheriffeb, Aleef, IsnuVban,
and Sevier -- the last-named being the intiuitive
mood of the Osmoidi verb to love^ and a very
pretty verb too. W. Eas^iU!.
High Orchard Hunae, Gloucester.
"THE TEMPLE," BV GEORGE HERBOT
•* The Chunh F^rcK
'* IToiifltaiity kuitB the bones, ttiirt makei us thrit.>f
Some copies read tmrer.
*' 77tt TUanhii^vlng.
** SUalt I W<*cp bTond? Wbv, thou host wept »uch ntort
That all ih v hody wan on© door,''
70
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[f^av. jam.%m
Some copies read gore. See this word in " The
Agony.
** BqiaUance.
** Man's ige is two hoars' work, or three."
What does this meanf The expression, ** An-
geFs age,** is used in the poem entitled *« Prayer.**
" Jordan,
** May no lines pass, except they do their duty
Not to a true, hnt painted chair f
What cluur is here alluded to ?
•* Riddle who list, for me, and puUforprimC*
What is meant by pulling for prime ? It can
hardly mean, I presume, rin^ng for matins.
Does it refer to the old game " Primero ** f •
** So devils are our sins in pen^tive."
Query, Does this mean that our sins in per-
spective appear to have '* some good** in them P
•< TheQ^iddily,
<^Bat it Fa verse] is that which while I nse
I am with thee, and moat take aU.**
Some copies read, ** must take all.** Does not
'* take** here mean captivate f It seems to be so
used in the poem entitled ** Gratefulness.**
*■ CkriatmoM*
** We sing one common Lord ; wherefore he should
Himself the candle hold."
Should there not be a comma after " should **
and "candle**; **hold*' meaning, as I think,
"fftiy**P
" Vtrtut.
•« Only a sweet and virtuons soul,
Like season'd timber, never gives ;
But when the whole world turns to coal,
Then chiefly lives."
Some copies read : '* But tho' the whole world
turn to coaL'* Neither reading makes the sense
yerr clear.
AH the editions of The Temple I have met with
differ materially in many parts, and I much doubt
whether there is one that is free fh>m many
errors. J. D.
INEDITED LETTER FROM LORD JEFFREY TO
BERNARD BARTON.
"Edinburgh, Jan. 28th, 18S0.
"Dear Sir, — I have very little time for correspondence
—especially at this season, or I should have great plea-
sure in cultivating yours. My answer to vour former
letter to me makes it less necessary to write' at large in
this. The novelty of a Quaker poem will rather attract
notice and cariosity, I should imagine, than repel it.
[•In the JForks of George Herbert, edit. 1869, 8vo
rBpII 8c Daldy). is the following note to this line : " Pull
for prime.** A French phrase, meaning, * to pull, or draw,
for the first place,' espcciallv in sporU involving a trial
of stpengtli.*' Vide « N. & Q.," 2»« B. iv. 496.-ED.]
But if I can consdentionsly promote your notoris^
without hurting your feelings I certainly aoaU do mx
**I confess to the review of Clarkson, and also li(r
claim to the ];>aper on Prison Discipline. There Is sow
necessary levity in the former— tne latter was writtti
Arom the heart. As to the phrase about honMtj to whM
yon objsct, it was not set down in mere nmamnfag wsa-
tonness, but was intended as the mild and mitigated Ex-
pression of an opinion founded perhaps upon too namsr
an observation, but very seriously and consdentionsly ca-
tertained, that the lower classes and ordinary dealers d
vour society, were rather more canning and ^laapingt aid
illiberal in their transactions than the associat— of otlMr
sects. I liad recently had occasion, in the conrae of mj
profession, to see several instances o( this, and was raths
shocked and disgusted at finding instances of harahnea
and duplicity that amounted almost to criminal finuid,
coolly [raised? illeg.'] and defended bv persona of tUi
persuasion. It is posAble that our Northern dimate mtf
corrupt them, and very likely that the instances may bi
rare and casual— yet Quaker traders, I learn, are gene-
rally reckoned among traders to be sly and stingy, aad
ready to take advantage, and I cannot believe the repa-
tation to be wholly without foundation. I hmr% said
that the body is generallv illiterate, and I think yos
agree with me. That it has contained many eminsnt
men since the days of Penn and fiarday no candid pv*
son will dispute I have myself the happiness of knoim^
severaL I am well acquainted with Mr. Walker of loi-
don, and flatter myself I may call W. Allen my flimd.
To the philanthropy and calm and wise persevarswiiC
the body in all charitable undertakings, I shall alwaysbi
ready to do justice. But I trust I need make no pmes-
sions on this subject, nor does it seem necessary to dit-
cuss further the points of difiference between as. I sop-
pose you don't expect to make a convert of me^ and I
certainly have not the least desire to shake yoa in yoor
present convictions. There are plenty of topics^ I hoac^
on which we may agree, and we need not seek after tve
exceptions. I shall be liaopy if my opinion of your poem
can be ranged in the first da^. Being always, with great
esteem, vour faithful ser*
•• F. JsrFasr.
"P.S. Do not let your Quaker Whigs be diacoaraged
by abuse or ridicule. Being Whigs they most hive
borne abuse whether they were Quakers or not. That
circumstance only suggestctl the [^word Uieg,'} topics —
abuse is one of the ways and means of electioneering, and
cannot be dispensed wiUi. Never mind it*'
The above letter has not, I think, been printed.
It is well worthy recording for many reasons.
I received the original through Mr. Dawson Tur-
ner's sale. The penmanship is as hard to deci-
pher as any MS. in modem £uglLsb well can be.
J. D. Caiiphbu.,
BOOK nAWKING.
I should like you to publish the following as a
Note, worthy of remembrance of all literary per-
sons. A man, dressed in a suit of black, with a
white neckcloth, called recently at my private
residence ; and, as I was at my of uce, he expressed
a wish to sec my wife. On entering her room, he
8tate<l that be had been re4]uested by the rector
of the parish to call u|X)n me, and wished to see
me personally. My wife told him I returned
p
8, V. Ja5«. >3, 'M.J
NOTES AND QUEEIES.
71
home to dincOT at six. and could be ieen soon
iiftt^r tiittt Uoar j but he stated thiit the nmht air
wju injurious to liis health, and asked for my
olUce address, which ahe gave hira. WhtMj I
returned home, sho mentioned the circumstance ;
and wc both concluded thut it was the rector*3
new curate, who wanted ray ffub&cription to some
local charity. I was, therefore, fully prepared
fbr the ** curate/' when he presented himself a
few daya after at my office. However, to my
•urprisc, he stated that his object in calling was
" reijiiOMt uiy aubsrription to a new work — Bun'
"m Life and Writings ; which he led me to infer
ic rector waa about to edit, lie produced ft
ter from the clergyman, whose handwriting I
' ; and, aa I wua very busy, I did not
' at once told the man I would sub-
ijc I or one copy, He tried to get me to take
; but I told him one would suffice. He then
uced an order book, and requested me to
ite the usual order ; and asked me how I would
c the work, in numbers or volumes ? So I
ired him to supply it m volumes, aa the work
/eared. He produced what seemed to be n
umber,'* and opened it at the middle, where a
idnomely engraved frontispiece showed the
Tocter of the work. Thin volume was in
let calff and in a handsome binding. A few
dfty« after, while I waa in Ireland, my wife in*
formed me that /£>Mr volumes of Bunyan's Worh^
i«nd in clothe had been sent, with a demand for
\6g. — and^ luckily, she hud not paid the money,
my return home, I found it waa an old work
(t'd uf Stebbing's, which I (mbsequently as-
taincd had been published in 1859. Soon
erwarda, the publisher sent me an impudent
tply to my letter of remonstrance^ that the work
not the some I had ordered, not having been
^ited by our rector; and the result was, a
County Court summons. I wa.*», however, not
daunted bv this, and told my story to the iud^e ;
and he, ftller hearing my " clerical** friend (who,
by-thc-bye, appeared in his ever? -day dress* and
had dropped the white ^ choker^'), decided that
tlic man had no claim on me^ the order havmg
Ijcen obtained under false pretences. I truest,
If my Clapham and Brixton neighbours have
been similarly imposed on, they will adopt a like
course with the *' Canonbury*' publisher.
N. H, R.
DvTonihiM Eo«4 Soutli Lambeth.
Till Owt..— I had no idea until I met with the
following items in the churchwai'denM* ficcounts at
8t,Mttry s Church, Beverley^ that the oWwa^ a pro«
acribcd bird* but had supposed that he was pro-
tected. Such, however, seems not to have been
the case at Beverley. I transcrihc the text and
OQUlvsl Ibr the years 1642 and 1646 : —
1642» 26** April To the riogcrs, wTien the Idng
came in and went out - * - xi« viij**
tt C^^ July. Paid the ringers when the king
came In - - - - * iij' viij*
„ IG^ July- For rJR^ng when the kiag
comfi from Newwark - * - ilij* viij'*
Paid to Jas. Johtuson for killing thred
owlei In the Woodhall cloaeSf that
lie did ateadliistly aflirmo them to
b<$loo^ to thia church - - • xvU**
IfllC. Paid John P<'Ar? ^ - ^ " - - - "^.i-mt tj**
Paid John Peiirnrjn IV r Is vj**
Paid Dtikii Kedmau 1 k
dawes ....--* v]«
Paid to tho il^xton fbr killing ao otd^ and car-
ry! ag the ammuoition in the chamber * j* ij'
Oxonmrsis.
Eablt Works or LrvixG Authors. ^ — In the
year 1809, Mr. E. B. Su;;den first published his
Lelttr^ to a Man of Property ; and on Feb. 12,
1863, the 7th edition of the same work, under its
new title of A Handy Book on Property Laii\ was
issued by its author (now Lord St. Leonards),
still in the vigour of his faculties,
In the year 1815, Dr. Charles Rich-ardson pub-
lished hii TlUutratioiis of Englinh Philology ; and
in 1854» published his valuable summary of the
Divermin^ of Ptwlq^, with the title of The Stwly
of Lmiguage. T. H.
Obioim or Kambs. — The following extract
from the letter of an emigrant to Kalferland, is a
modern specimen of giving flumumea to parties
descriptive of Bomc (quality or neculiarity in the
party named, and as such may uo worth record-
ingin^K. &Q.:" —
"OlU• maatpr^ Mr. V ^ li called K-gon-a*»halaw»
which means broad-JihoQldfrwl ; Mr. L> — — , Emooonyoui,
becatue he rojir earty when he first came out; Mr* T ■ -»
Unjolotagost that is, thia-faccd ; Mr. F -, Maka-wba,
because hi* ej*c-brow9 meet ; Mr. S , Ins-w-bo,
weakly- looking; Mr. K , Mnfumbo, stooping; Mr.
R , Ift-stop, largf noioi Mr. G ^ El-tabala, very
silent; Mr. W— % Mack-ka-«ob% because he stoops in
^'"^'^•" H.T.E.
'' CotJirTT Famimes of EiiaLAjm,** etc. — I ac-
cidentally met with the above work a few days
since, and am induced, in the cause of heraldry
and genealogy, to suggej^t that in anch compila-
tions it would be better that a distinction should
be made between clainut and dencentff founded on
documentary evidence or the undisturbed posses-
sion of real estate, and those put fjrth on the mere
conjecture of the parties immediately interested.
I say this because many are misled by a claim^
and take it for granted that there is evidence for
the same ; but in the work referred to several
such claims have been inserted without any inves-
ti;?ation, and, consequently, Peppeir*H Ghost is so
like a reality, that serious errors arise, when suoh
a record is considered as a book of reference* B.
n
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3^ ay. JA!f.ta.i
RICH.IKDSON FAMILT.
Conon Ricbardson, Abbot of Parshore Abbey,
miirried, after the dissolution, a Miss Pates of Bre-
don, CO. Vigorn ; and had issue two sons, Conon
and ThoTuas, Conon had issue an only son, Sir
William Richai'dson, Knt, who died #./). Thoma^^
by hi3 ijrst wife Elizabeth, had a 8on Conon, of
Tewkesbury ; and by bb second wife Anne, daugh-
ter of Leonard Mazey, of Shechenhurst, Worces*
ter«ihire, he had further issue : seven sons, and eix
daughters. The sons were Henry, of London,
haberdasher, burieil a.d, 1634; who, by his wife
AnnC) dau^^hter of Anthony Nieholls of Morton-
Tlinmarsi, Glouceaterahire, had i^sue a ^^on Kenelni.
The other sons of Thomas were Edmund, Leonard^
Kafe, John, William, and Christopher. The arms
borne by this family were : " Arfjent, on a chief,
sable; 3 leopards' heads erased of the 1st.*'
I find^ in the IlarL MSS, the very Kame arms
given to another family of Richardson : — John
UiobardBon of Roskell, or Roatill, eo. York, mar-
ried Isabel Ilai't of Botriugton, and had issue two
«ons and three daughters, William, the elder son,
was of South witrk ; and by his wife Jane, daugh-
ter of RobL Harrison of Milton Green, Cheshire,
had issue Thomas (<Ft 17, anno 1623J, John, Wil-
liam, Francis, and Mary. George, the second
son, had issue by his wife — who was a sltster to
Sir John King, KnL— a sou Richard.
Sir Thomas Hichartbon, Serjeant- at- Law (antto
1620), bore the same arms as given at p. 240 of
Dugdale*9 Originest JuridimleM. And 1 find that
Capt. Edward Hit^hardson, of Colonel James Cas-
tles'Regiment, who was '* second son of William
Richardson, Esq.« descended of the ancient family
of the Richardsona of Pershore, in the county of
Worcester,'* wa.s rejristered May 'i2, 1647, by
" Win. R*>brrt8," Ulster Kinjj, as beurin'; the same
arras, with a crescent for diderence. ifis descen-
dant !^ continue to tise these arm^.
William, the father of this Edward, may have
been a »on of Conon of Tewkesbury. I am
anx^iou^ to know his exact descent. I shall feel
greatly obligt'd to any of your corresjiondents
who will kindly furnish roe with any additional
information renpectinfr this family ; so as to con-
nect the 9«!veral branches which are named above.
I shall be glad to know any thing respecting the
parentage and descendants (if any) of Sir Thomas.
and whether he was (he j«ame pcnion as the Chief
Justice [of the Common Plea», IG'i<i, and] of the
King** Bench, Ui3I Y whose arm*, however, Dug-
<lj|le gives, at p. 23Hj h.h ** Or (jiiKteail of argent)
on a ch,,** &e,, quarterly with *'ei'mineon a Ciwi-
ton, aaurt', a iialtire gules."
Nanh's Worcegternhirc contain* a slight i-cfcr*
ence to Conon and his issue.
H, Loi"Tl!8 ToTTKJIIIAM.
A FINE PORTOAIT OF POPE.
In The 5«tWerofthisday (Jan.dth, 1864).ll^
the foiJowit];:; "curious,'* or rather marvellaus **^
covery at Gloucester," in which " a fine por
of Pope *' h concerned, and which, if true, ij i
taialy worth recording in " N. & Q." : —
" CUaiOUS DISCO VKItY I!C QlX)VCBJiTT:
" It ma3' not he generally known, or it n
he forgotten, that in the olden time county U> ;^ . ,
came into tlicir principal city or town for some of
winter months, where they had thar regular town bo«OTir|
and those who had not, bestowed themselves in lodgtBgai
A vtait to the metropolis was then a much more ■ariliP '
btisinesa than it is now-a-days. Folks were then cAitt^nt
with the ajiius<?incnta the city afforded them: lh^
alreu, the ussembUcH, parlies, &c., were asoflririeiit m
tion; consequently many fine old maoiuona will b*- i<
hi our principal towns now devoted to vert dirt-'
purposes from what tliuy were original )v l.uiji
of these abodes, the town bonse of the ^
of about Queen Aunc*^ prrioiK ba«< of V
BA a school of art; nn
this purpose, the ar<l<
it seemed to hini, au ■ . ,.;.j .. , .
small sitting-room, always called ^ Pope's roou
made up his mind to remove thiaprujectioa, and {
so brougbt to lii;ht a line portrait ot Hof*e. This 1
to Biispect that the oppotitc side miglit aij^o con tail
treasure, and on taking it down a paiuting^ wa3 r«fl
since said to be the * T*?mptation,* bv Gui*hx A man L
rich dress of the time of Frftn<;ois l^mier U holdiD«; I
a string of pearls to a woman, who appears to be r«si»ti|
bis entreaties and tempting offer. It ia de3crib<?d to J
as a remarkably fine painting,
'* Pope was a frequent visitor in Gloucestertbi
the neiirhbonrinrr ro»iity of Herei<iTd, Hia w«ll<
line?^ ' ; *" '- ;
ill til
of tb- ^
Court* nut i'ar troni the city ; another, cAlitrd il^uil
in the same county ; and Uie house in Glovice^fter I
to. He was also a'not iafbcquent visitor at the ]
Lydnev Park, near Cirencester.
" why thca«? pictures were * WJilled up-
form any ntasonable conjecture: thei-e were noj
iroublbg Iti (tlnucpster ai that time. Are wci tu
r,^---'-*'- '» , •■ , ': v,t to pomo ar"--'--'
h inlRht b
[ I ._ ■; thnu out p
J t>rlLiu»Leiy ihey wiSfB iii a dry pl<U'i', ou each
fire-place, and Jiave received tio injury* from tliei
impriMonmrnt.
•' Tlie pi<nnre^ are ntjfVf in the possession of Mr. Uiy
Tliami'ji ilaak. Fulbaiu/*
Mr Baylis*^ very remarkable collet t ion of jUiill
(luiiics and articles of virli\ particuhrly piclj
is now of long repute; but is rt M] at '^"
Bank» Fulhum? I wa*? under the iinpresaJo
it had for many years left that loeaJit)'.
And are the?e picturcn from Glouei-stcr no
in his ijallery, or have they ever been ? Even
they are so, eoUectors arc liable to be impo
uf»on bv the dcjilers, .and such a tnle as the i '
is sui"eiy a mtist suspicious one. I* it evani
or rut from on old newspii|M?r ? Peil
resfrfmdent al Ifbucejtler will clear fs.
i r^riii.lii.r|.i;a* I
I & V. X«M. 2a. 'MO
JfOTES AND QUERTEP.
W
BaBO UxSltSEItUS, AlCII^MICJU. WaiTEK/ — I
nsk for inrormatioiircepiictinnrthe under- described
work and its autbor. I am unable to find aoy^
tHiog ubout either in ordinary books of reference
at h&nd.
It is a thin 12mo of 66 pages, coOi^isting of two
treatiBes continuouslj paged. The first title-page
id wanting, but the title at the beginning of the
101 AphoriBnis of which the fiirt treatise is com*
posed runs thus : —
•* Ariioniaaii llKDiQKnAM; Or, CtHain R*dttt dearly
dtmoHMtratintj the Thrtt Injltilibte Wtips of prrfmring thf
Gbaho Elixir t^fthf PiiiLfiarjpiitiis,**
The title-page of the second treatise is vla fol-
lows:—
^ 1 minux f" ^ . fht, TlIB PlllU*-
in OK Vr ; With The Three
»J Pr«!pArin^ i,. ., . „jid clearly M.'t forth
in One ami thirty ArfiaKi^Ms. by Bmio LIiiitHiEitiiM,
A Servant of God in the Kingdom of Nature. Sjptrt*}
CWdt. LoNtJON, Printed for Henry Faithome, at tht
Kofi<f in St. Paul's Churt h-yard, 1000/* •
John Avmn.
Samuki. Burton. — Wanted, any information
respecting Stiinuel Burton^ Esq., whose decease at
Sevcnoak*, in Oct. 1750, is mentioned in the
obituary of the GfjitU'man« Mnfrarine, He had
served the office of High Sluiriff for the county of
Derby, and bad attained the age of sixty-cight
yeara^ E. H. A.
"Tab Cobk Magazine" 1847-8.— Who was
author of an artitrle in thi5 Magazine on Georffe
Sand's ** Seven Chords of the Lyre," No. I. pp. 35-
43. R. I.
DowiiEswtM. Pamu.y. — "Etch. Dowdcswell,
lEtatis sua* 46, anno 17*26," is writltm cm the back
■ of a portrait in my possession. Can any of your
H correfipon dents iniortn my who ihh Kichard
H Dowdeswell was ? 1 think he or his son married
■ a Miss Levcrlon, J. D-
H Nathaniel Eaton. — One of my matcrntil :in-
■ ccatore, Nathaniel Eaton, of Manchester, in 1674.
^ngrried Chri>.tian Yawdry, of '* The Biddings,"
^^■p Bank Hill, Timpcrly, Cheshire, ile was a
^TTOmber f+f the Society of Friend?, but I suspect
wjis a 5on or grandf^on of one of the six Xon-
conforniist ministers, of the name of Eaton^ who,
iiccording to Calamy, were ejected frnm their
livings by the Act of Uniformity in 1662. This
conjecture is strengthened by the fact that Uie
jnother of Christian Vawdry (Margaret, daughter
of Oswald Moseley, of Garratt, near Manchester),
\ after tht? death of her first husband, Robert Vaw-
► dry, father of Christian Vawdry, married the well*
[• TbtTc ought to be a beautifully engraved frontis-
fHCce, nfhkh it explained at the end of the volattie. A
Gtintita translation of it was printed at Hamburgh in
l«rt5, l*h(j uatno UrLiijtrus lot-ks like a jieeiidouyni,^
I
known John Angler, minister of Denton, Lanca-
shire^ who bad as intimate friends or coadjutors,
seireral Nonconformist miuistera of the name of
Eaton,
I Khali feel obliged by any luforiuation or sur-
mise as to the parents or relations of the above
^athanid Eatmi^ at the same time remarking that
hid marriage in 1674 is inconsistent with his being
the NeUhaniel Eaton^ born in 1^09, who, according
to Cola my, was the first master of the College at
New Cambridge in New England, and who after-
ward r died in the King's Bench. H. D.
FncGERs or Hjisdoo Gods. — ^What is the mean«
ing of the position of the fingers below descrilwd,
which I have observed in effigies of gods and
kings on Hindoo pagodas, as well as in sculpture*
uf faaints and abbots on Christian cathedrals?
The upper part of the right arm is pressed close
to the right side, the lower pait of the arm
doubled up against the upper part, so that the
hand is brought uji to the shoulder ; the palm of
the hand is turned to the front, the fore and
middle fingers pointing upwards : the thumb and
other tingem being doubled on to the palm.
n.a
IIebaldic. — I shall feel obliged if you can tell
me, is there any tradition by which the history or
origin of the following arms can be found ? —
'* Per chcvcron inverted or and sable, a lion
rampant. Countercharged crest, a demi-moor
holding in dexter hand an arrow, and in sinister
a ihicld or. Motto: filers pcrtiuH macula."
J. B.
DubliiLi
** liBRACLiTtrH Rn>EKS," » weekly fly-shee^
iH^sucd in 1681-2, and republished in 1713, nuis
over with abuse of Whigs and Dissenters. It is
in the form of dialogues between Jest and Earnest.
The wit is coarse and slrong, and the book i^
nl together a racy specimen of people s English m
fhojic huppy day?. There are some useful his-
torical and literary allusions in it. It lived to be
eighty-two numbers old. In his postscript, at
the end, the author alludes to his successful pre*
servation of the nominis mnhra ; wherein he says*
"he has had such a felicity (uotwithatanditig all
the conjectures that have l^een made of him), as
that he is not more publiclv known than the
author of the Whole Dutt/ of Man:*
Wm Beraclitut liulens ever revealed ?
B. H. C.
TfTE Holt Hoosk of Lohetto* — Not long
since, I read a letter in the Dailif Telegraph that
the Sarda Cam has been removed to Milan. Is
this a fact? And if eo, what are the circum-
!jtance8? A Loretto guide-book says, that angels
curried this house, in 1291, from Nazareth to
Tcrsatto in Illyriu ; and, in 1294, from Illvrta to
Loretto* U.\?^.^.
74
NOTES AND QUEBIEa
[p*^Y. jAw.nf'u.
Rbv. Edwaed Jamba, A.M., Vicak or Abeb-
OAVEWifT FMOM 1709 TO 1719. — Can and will
any reailer of " N. k Q.^ oblige by giving lome
reference where to find any further particulars of
him, and did he leaye any descendanta, and their
namei f Glwtsio.
** Mamacbb or TiiB Ibvocbhts.** —
methodi of killing are exhibited. Beneath is a deecrip-
tion in uncouth Latin and Dutch, which I am eorry I
hud not timu to copy. One child*8 throat ia said to be
too small for the dagger, and the eyes of another are at
the back of its clefL skulls- illnstrating * ocdIos per vnl-
nus vomit.' '* — Jowneu through UoUand tmd the Nether'
lantU in 1777, by U. Ward, p. 56.
I do not think that there ia any such picture
now in the hospital. Any account of thia, or a
copy of the verses, will be acceptable. Is Ilamlin
a slip of the pen for Memling P T. P. K
Wiujam MiTcnBL, " The Gbbat Tibclabian
DocTOB." — Can any reader of "N. & Q." supply,
or direct nic to, information regarding this fanatic,
who published many indescribable books and broad-
sidcH in Edinburgh and Glasgow at the beginning
of last century, of which I possess a few ?
** The reason I call myself the Tinclarian Doo-
tor, * says he, '^ is because I am a Tinklar and
cures old Pans and old Lantruns,** which humble
oc(?upati(m he seems to have neglected and set
himself up for a Light to the Ministers and a
dirootor of crowned heads.
8|M)akiiig of Popidh practices abroad, he ob-
8erv(*H, ** I have written so much about them in
my French Travels, that I need not write of them
here.** Is this book of the Tinker's known ? *
J.O.
P.S. The Doctor seems to have been at one
time literally the Lamplighter of Auld Reekie.
When the magistrates dismissed him from that
post, he uAsumod the more spiritual office ; and
flirt portiiinHty in teaching both the clergy and
laity in liirt mrolicrent fashion must have been
sumricntly annoying to the Kirk. Some time
ago I purchased his Tcetament^ in which, in the
usual style of these mad prophets, he applies, and
inveighs against '*the beast in the Revelations,
whoso number is six hundred, three score, and
six.** If the ministers had had the lotting of this
b<M>k, they could not have retaliated better than
the auctioneer, who, as may be seen by the undis-
turbed ticket, accidentally lotted The Qreai Tin-
eliirian Doctor^ 6G6 1
Obatobt of Pitt ahd Fox: **Sabs Culo-
Tn>Ka.** — In a contemporary satire — Sans Culo"
[* The death of this shifi^lar character is thus an-
aouDCMl in The State Mtuaeime for March. 1740 (iL 148) :
•« WiUUm Mitchel, Whlte-ironsmith, Kdinbuiyh, wiU
known by the name of Tindarlan Doctor.*'-^£i>. J
tides^ bv Cincinnatoi Rigshaw, Profesior of Tbeo-
philanthrophy, &o., 4to, 1800 — there ia a curiooi
passage illustrative of the different atjies of ora-
tory of Pitt and Fox. It is an imitation of
Virgil's eighth Eclogue, and runs as follows : —
** Inconstant man I firom roe thy fancy rovea.
And Pitt's big vofce, and sounding perioda loreai
'llioa lov'st no more, when I impaMion'd speak.
My shriil-ton'd treble's energetic smieak :
Thy taste no more Judaic charms allows.
My chin's black hononrs, and my shaggy browa t
Bejfjrin my mnse, begin the phdntive strain !
Hear it St. Ann's, and hear each neighbouring pUia."
No one who only knows the two great atmtei-
men by their portraits, could suppose that thi
*^big voice and sounding periods belonged to
Pitt— and "shrill ton*d trebWs energetic squeak**
to his great rival. Among the readers of ^N. & Q."
there are still some who must have listened to
them both. Will they kindly give m^aelf and
your readers Hio benefit of their reminiacenoesf
One confirmation of the statement I hare met
with, though I cannot now recollect my autho-
rity, namely, that the late Lord Stanhope, in hu
style of speaking, bore a marked resemblaaee to
his distinguished relative. May I add a aeeaiid
Query : Who was the author of Sans Culotadee}—
obviously, a violent Pittite. S. H. T.
Petbabcha. — I have three editions of thii
poet, that of Filclfo, folio, 1481, and two others.
Reading in that most agreeable of bibliographers,
Dibdin, p. 7^6, Lib, Comp., he says, ** an ^idon
by Rovillio, 18mo, 1574, with two suppreased
leaves. The previous editions of Rovillio are
1550-1.** Now on examining my two copiet I
find " II Petrarcha ; in Lyone appresso G. RoviUio,
1564,** size 4 in. by 2 in., printed with italio letter.
The other II Petrarcha, Venice, bv the well-known
Nicolo Bevilaoqua, 1564, size of the text 4| in. by
2 in. ; and this edition has a preface of four pages
by G. Rovillio. So that he (Rovillio^ printed, or
caused to be printed, two distinct editions of the
poet in the same year. I don*t think this has
Deen noticed before. Of the earlier edition above
named I know nothing. I should be fflad of any
information concerning the suppressed leaves men-
tioned by Dibdin. Wm. Davis.
Hill CotUg^ Erdington.
PoBTBAiT or OuB Savioub. — lu the AnH'
ouarian Repertory, vol. iiL (ed. 1808), p. 428, I
find a letter ftom Wm. Lottie, Canterbury, dated
July 15, 1780, with a drawing ^ of a very dd
picttire painted on oak on a gold ground.**
The accompanying drawing in the Repertory ia
a very fine representation of our Saviour, bearing
an inscription that it was —
** Imprinted hy the prcdeseisors of the grsat Tmk^
and sent to the rope Inaooent the YIII. tt the coat of the
Greta Tnrka Ibr a token for this canse to rsdema his
Brother that was takyn preaooor."
r
s^ s. V. jAK. as, "fi*.]
NOTES AND QDERIE&
Wbere the original of tbij painting waB at tlio
date of the eomuiunk'atiori (1780) is not stated.
From the newspapers I observe that a cameo
has lately been disjcovered, said to have been
executed by order of Tiberius, and supposed to
be a representation of our Saviour.
Could any of your correspondents inform me
where the painting above referred to is to be
seen? What resemblance it boors to the alleged
OAmco, iind if the painting is a copif of the catneo?
Awow.
^Mrs.Parkbs tui CnciTJiiiAviGATOB.— Iq 179^
I publiihwd at Limdoii, in 8ro, A Vo^agu rQtmd
World in the ^'Gorgon '* A fan of IFicr, Caj^laiJt
I Purker^ per/orm*ffl btf hts Widow far the A4*
runtagi of a tmtneroiL^ Fnmihj, (NiuhoU*» LiL
AfteciUeg, U. 158, QtaU, Ma,;, Uv. 041.) I shall
be «r};id to know the Christian name of this laiiy,*
and the date of her deatli. The work appears,
from the review of it, to be of a very interesting
chai'ttcter. S. Y. R.
PeitiLiKs PJUIOI.T* — Does there exist, m MS. or
in print, a more detailed and complete history of
the family of Perkins than the one to be found
in Buvke*s Lmuiai Gentry / A reference to such,
if in existence, would hu;jc'ly oblit^e me.f
IF. iilLBTSAKD D'AUFCE.
Quotation. — Are the fidlowinrr lines by Geo,
Wither, or by any one of his time? Or, are they
of more modem and Ie§M illuittrlous parentage ?
** Oh God of 1 ' ' " 1 u iiast ti«iuari»d up
For 111(9 my la of dlitrcsa %
Bat with La ^' t, in every bitter cup
^^ Thy haiul Uitih uiixU to make iu soreness losSf
^P Somo cordial drop; for which Thy NwrnL' I bless.
And olti^r up my mito of thankfubeu.'*
W» CAMrBEIX.
ScssiEx Kkwspapehs- — I have iu my posseftsion
the first number of the Haitiiigs Chronicle^ (>rf.
[July 29, 1&2«)], and of the Brighton Chrouicle,
2#f. [Alay 13, 1829.] The latter is composed of
facetious skits on contemporary abuses^ but the
Hastings production is of a more pretentious
character, devotin*^ three columns to a " rctrO'
spective review of literature.** Did any subse*
auent numbei*s appear ^ Is anything known of
le contributing staff of the Haitirtgs Chronicle?
Arc any of the earliest numbers of the Stusez
Advertiser in existence J* } An imperfect copy was
sold a short time ago, and now, I believe, fonns
part of the plant of that newspaper, but the
earlier numbers are wanting.
Wv'itMB E. Bakteb.
Fassagb m TKMwtftOK.— To what docs Tenny*
son allude when he speaks of the rtght tar filled
with tlmi^ in tlie following ataiua itoui hU poem of
the Two Voicen f —
I
[* The Dedl^tion to the Prlace^i of Wales in the
sbov* work ts si|;iifid " Mary Ann Parker, Xo. 0, Xattlo
CI«lMJt"-Kr,.l
tt A . 1 *^ V r of the Pcfklui of
Ortoii»ot> ; rintcd in Kichols**
Lnettttrr ^ [■ L>.]
[! Au^ SH3tBKx Adf-ertiaer, from iu com-
tn'*: J the present time, is in the Brtttah
* Go, VQKiid &pJrit, alccp In trust ;
Tho ritfht mr that is liltw! wilh rtu$t
Hears' little tif the fAlso or jU5t/*
M,0.
J. G. WiLLK.^I hare in my ncssession a large
folio volume of engravings by tuo ehkr Wille, of
which I can find no mention in any bibiiogr.iphicHl
work. The title is as follows : fEuvrcM de Jean
Georges WiUe^ celchre graoeur AUemarul . » . , ,
Faris, 1814, Then follows a Lite of Wille in
English, French, and German ; and after that,
furty-one of bis most celebrated |ilutes. At the
end of the volume is a ^^Keeueil de payeugas et
autres figures «... Foris, 1^01 ;" thirty-six in
number, by the some engraver.
I hope some of your readers will be able to in»
form me how manv copies of this work were pub-
liahcki ; whether the engravings contained therein
are late or early impressions ? and what is it«
present market value. J. C. LiKDSAr.
New Tork*
Wllliam Deij., D.D. — Can you iofomi me
whether the ** Mr. Dell," who was sent by the
Conimissjioiiers as one of the tniinsters of religion
to attend King Charles I. before his execution*
was I he William Dell, al\erward8 Master of Gonvil
and Caius College, Cambridge, and Rector of
Yeldon, Beds?
Is anything known of William Dell beyond the
iew sermons of his still extant ? S. S.
[William Dell, 0.D, received his e(]ucatiuii st Emanuel
Collejje, Cmiibridgc, where he waa chosen Fellow, and
held the living of Yeldon, co. Bedlbrd. About tho ycsr
1615 he became chaplain to the army, constantly attend-
ing 8ir Thomas Fairfax, and preacliiog at head -quarters.
On May 4, 1649, he was made Master of Caius Coltoge^
Cnmbridgc, which he held with hi* living at Yeldon till
ho was ejected by the Act of Uniformity. Although
tinctured with the enthusiasm of the timea, he was a man
of some learning, with very peculiar and unsettled princi-
ples. Wm. Cole has left a rery unfavourable account of
Dr. Dell among bis MSS. He says, •'On Dell*B appoint-
ment as Chaplain to the General Sir Thomas Fairfax, at
the surrender of the garrison at Oafbrd, he;, among others
of hia tribe, was sent down there to poison the principles
of that umversity i and on tho morning of the martyr^
dom of King Charlei, he, wilh other bold and insokxA
fanatical ministcrK^«iaJL^'v>ii^Ss.>^Q&v3s&Tsi^^^
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[m S. V. J«r.1
A better cause; iiid nil llie cunfidcncc and AssarAnco pecu-
liar to the ftmalical tribei lo ofler their unhallowed ser-
vices to the blessed martyr, whom they had thus brought
to the si^itifold ... . , . . * Dr. Dell wajiso little curioitH
where hia carcase was depoaited, that he ordered himself
to be buried ia a little {spiriDey, or wood^ on his estate
in the parish tpf Weslooioj?^, co. Beds; and I was told hy
my worlhy Rood friend^ Dr. Zachary Grey, that hia son
irurapbrey Dell, riding or walking by the Bpitiney with
nri acquaintance, reflecting too Aev&rely aa a bod upon liis
futher't base conduct and aclings in the Itttc Rebellioai
could uot. help exclaiming — pointing to the place where
hia father WAB buried^* There lies that old rogttc and raa-
caJ^myfaiiier!'" (Add it. MS. 5834, p. 271.) DeH'aworks
were repubUahed in 2 vols. 8vo. in 1817. Vide T7u Non^
t^m/ormhfs Jlemorial by CaUmy and Palmer, ed. 1802»
i. 258; Neal's Hittory of the Puritan, c*l 182*2, v. 191 ;
and the Monthly MaQOiim, xv.426.]
'^^LiHGUA Tersincta/' bt W. F. — Can you
^iveme any infomiation ctmcernmflj the foHowmg
book ? I« it a rarity, or nf any vidue ? It con-
mu of four parts cacb having a acparftte title-
p<ige: —
** Ling^iia Terjmncto \ or, a moat Sure and Com pleat
Allegorick Dictionary ta the Holy Lan^ago of The
i^pirit; Carefully and i^aitbfully expounding atid illUMlral-
ing all the several Words or Divine Symbols in Drcaiu,
pViaiion, and Apparition. &c. By W. ¥., Esq., Author of
hilM Wew Jerusalem. London: Printed for tbo Author,
'ilidaold by E. Mallet near Fleet-bridge, 1703."
The other pgrts are — " The Fountain of Jloni*
lion/' "The Divine Grammar;* *^Thc Pool of
Betheida wateh*d" The first i)art, the title-
page of which I have ^iven at length, runs (in-
cluding an index) to ^^^ puges. Clutoa.
[Thi« work appears to be one of the singular produL*
tigtis of William Freke, Kaq. (a youDger soo ofThomai>
Frekcv £<q. of Hanningtoti, WUtft), of Wadham ColliAge,
O-Ttfordt and aflerwartls a barrir»ter ^i low. He wrolfs
An Ku^if t&tvtirdton fTnion Af^irren LHvifiiity and MortjUfi/,
1687, 8vo. la thic hr styles himaelf Gul Libera CIavIb,
I. r. Free Kej% L e, FrtAe. Also A Dialogue^ /*y wa^ t\f
Qmttkm and AnMPert comcrrning the Vettj^ : to wbich ia
Addetl, a Clear end Brief ConftitatioD of the Doctrine of
the Trinity, !€[►?> j which he »ent to several momberd of
parliament, who voted ibem to be burnt in PiUace forcl,
the author being indicted in the Ring's Beach, 1(J33, and
found guilty, the following year wos fined %>00i, and to
make a recantation in the four courts in >\'c!atminster
Hall, He publiahcd also a Dieliomuy of I/remm, 4to, a
medley of folly, ohfH^Bity, and blasphemy. Although bia
ttndvrstanding wu derang«d, he was permittod to act sa
juBlice of the peace for many year*. Ho rciiiled at tbf
Cbapelry of Hlnton St. Mary, eo, Dortct, where he dif<i
in I74(}.^IIotLhins'B Dor^Hthirt^ liL 153 ; Wood's Athamx^
by Bllas» iv. 740 j and *♦ N. & Q.'* 2"'» S, at. 188.]
I^roNAitTTTs PAMti^GVitrs.^ — Thcfc If a cunoug^
and it may be premmed a raro collection of
£it3gi«9 to tbo meiuory of ihta penoo, wl»o died
on May 3, 15fi7. It wa* printed at Ratisbon i
Aujrust, 1568.
His porlniit in given at the end of the yoliimi?,
with the following " Ilex as ti ebon " abovtii it ; ^ —
'* lata Leciuarii r : r ^,^|^
Attamen arti ilpta manu.
Sic igitur pftuJ J u :. . i .^ i^eunilcai;
Corporn vir pne^tans, logenioque fait,
£t bene Chrirticola de poateritote mcrendo,
ExluUt bjirinouim dogmata sacra modia.**
The woodcut, notwithfitandin^ the stut^oseflt
above, has every appearance of being a good
likeness. Paminger has on him a fur robe« Mnd
holds in his hand vr hat seems to be a music book*
He is represented as being seventy-three years c»f
ajre. Where can any account be found of him cir
hia works P J» At.
[Loocard Pamlnger, or PamFger, an eminetit motlcal
composer of the dxleenth century, resident at Pataan,
was a learned man and intimate friend of Luth«r. H»
computed a great variety of church music, edited bjr Ills
BOO after his decease, and published at different potiodiw
1 573, 1 .57(>, 15^0. See Diet ianurtf of MasiciaHi^ ed. 1 821* ii.
259.]
Mi5s Bailey. — The popular sona: of " Unfor-
tunate Miss Barley ** was admirabTy translated
into Latin not later, I think, than 1807 or 1808*
Can any one oblige we by stating where I can
find the Latin vcreion in question ? Eurydice if
dying to see it. OaPH&cra.
[As probably many olhere would be as pleased to art
%Vim Bailey in her Latin costume aa Eur^'dice, me iuf»«
joiii atopy of it: —
**Sedu?: ii, reci^ptus in hyberai\
Prairi .^e tran^ttilit Avemi^
impr*ut.^ .-_....., ^<!d acriufi potabat,
Ef, consciua facinons, per vina clauiitabat —
* MiBeram Bulisira, infortunatam fiaUam,
Prodi Lam, irnditatu, iniscrnmamque Baliaoi.*
** Ardentc demujn siinguiQi*, Uum repAit ad cuhik,
♦ Ah, belle p- '*■■'. » ♦ -*. <i»tiim vile!*
Nfictumji' 4 ) multaf* imag^dtra
Anteoraictui iniojis ira,
* A»pi«'e Bdliaiii, iiilurtuualiJUi U.iliam,
Froditam, traditam, miherriinamque Baliam.*
iSuiiLidaiii ijuii>at«.'r nuucupiiL, ^y-A Uin culpa, Cainuf^ju
TiiA culpa, camifcx, qui violasU Baliam,
Pt' ' ' * ' * ' — imamque Bsliam,*
"*bui iranitidi quam pakbll
Hos n , , ^ j]iabere si:pttlchri J '
Turn Lcuiurifl non tacicj ut anlca iracundior,
Argentum ridenjt numurat, fit ipsa vox jucuudiof—
* i^alve, Riihi corculum ! Ittsiatt satis Baliam ;
Vrtlo, mrhl corculum! nunc hide,*! via, allatn.*"
It was written by the Iter. G, FI, GlasBe, aod printed
in the Grnttfmaf^*t Mognzifu for Aogast, 180$, ytiL Ucjtr*
pt. 2, p. 7:^0]
Strnunr QtiK«t>i. — L When an Engliahtnaa
would iajT ^ I got a regular scoldiqg for tkot^ m
»s.T. jAK.2a,'6i.]
NOTES AND QUERNS.
77
Seotcbnuin wmild any ^* I got my kail through tlie
reck for thaL'' What is the origin of this kst
phrase?
2. Were Supiyrville's sermons vvcr Iranslated
from the Freacb into English ?
3. Is there an Englkh tranalaiiim of Saurin*s
[1, Jatnieson «cpUiB»tbe plinue, bat does out giive its
origTiD' ** * To gic one hm kail throw tbe r«fik,* la to give
one a s«vcre reproof^to iubject to » severe scolding match.
" U h« brings in th« Gleagylo folk, and the GJenflnlaA and
Bdqubiddfsr I ads. be may romti to gie yott joar kaO
throagb the re<sfc/ i£o'* itiy, iii. 75/*
2* Daniel de 8up«rville'& Scrmonii Iiatc been tronftUted
hf John Reynolds, 2 voU. 8vo* York, lerj; and by
John Allen, with Memoirp, Lond« 8vo, 1816.
5, Jtmes Saiinn*s Sennons have been traoilated by
Robert Eobinwn, Dr. Henry Hiint<T, and Jowph Sut-
diiTe, in 8 vols. 8yo, fifth edition, 1812. ]
MoTTOss AJfP C0AT8 or Asara. — Could you
direct me In what book I can (iiiU tbe mottoes
used by »omc of the nobility (pcera^s now ex*
ttnct)^ with their coats of iirmf?. about the toidiilc
of the fieventcciiih century ? The i-rost and arms
are found in many works on heraldry, but tbe
mottoes ore not given In any work I have con-
aulted. G. W.
QTbe following worka may be consulted : Svtik of Fa-
mify LVtat^ and Motioe$^ with 4000 engravings of tbe
Crif*)i»i of the Peers and Gentry of England nnd W&le«,
SrotlAnd »ind Irutand : a DicttouHry of MottocS| JSrc. —
Klvitfd iJttnd'Bnok of Mntfftfgf trAnfibted witll Notes nnd
Qnotations, 12mo» 1 800. ^ Kairbaim's CWmIb <*J' Great
Sritnin and Inland, by Butters, 2 vols^roy. 8vo^ 18flb]
"The ATiiiatAi« MtaciiBi.'* — Over what
period of time did thii^ publicntion extend ? Who
were the writers therein ? Are copiea scarce ?
R A. G.
DuQgatioosi^ Ireland.
[The Athtniun Mercury «ii« a eontinustion of tKe
Aihmian Gazette under another title* both of them super-
uitcmled by that 4?i,cefttrie Irooksellor, Jobn DunUm,
- assisted by the Rev. BaitiQfd Wifsley, !^lr. Richard SatiJl,
aad l>r. Norris. Tlic first number of the At/unian Ga-
gttie was published 17th Martb, 1690-], and that of the
AthtHmn Mercurtf Idth Dec 26$^: the last number eame
out on iUooday, lilh June, 1(197, Both works at last
flweltad to twenty volumes fuHo; these becoming (Vcry
•caieew a ooUoctJon of the most curious questions and
answers was reprinted under the title of The Ath€nian
Ofoekt in 4 vols. 8to. Ckinsolt KiehoU*t Liientry Ante*
doitM, Iv. 74. 77 i V, fi7-73 1 and " JT. d^ Q," I- a v, 280 ;
ti.436.]
" NoTRS TO SitAJtspSARis/* — Who 19 the author
of Not fit and Various Beadin^s to Shakspeare,
Lond. Edw, anil Chws, Dilly f The Jiddresa to the
reader ia subscribed "£. U.," and dated 1774. I
have only the first part Was a second presented
to tliG public ? Wtjjnb E. Baxt&b.
[This appcai'i tu ha the flfbt volume of Edward Capeirs
AW«ji and Varhtta Retidirigg ia ShaJtMpeare. Load. 177IM80»
4tOt 3 rols, VoL iii. of this work Is entitled " The School
iff Shakspeaf e, or Authentic Extracts from divers Kugliih
B(H;ks that were in print in that A uthor*8 Time, evidently
show jug fram wbeuce his f4blaB were taken."]
Hr^Iifjif.
TO K LAPWING : CHt KCHWAKDENS* ACCOLNTS.
(3*** S* iii. 423 ; v. 10.)
1 thank Mr. Mac Cade for his note^ as it throws
light, I thinks on an old provincial word that has
pusticlcd me very much. In the church wardens'
arcounts of a parish in Dorset, 1701-24, 1 found
amoug.st the various and numerous payments for
** varments' " heads one entry which all inquiry
had hitherto failed to elucidate, vix. the payment
of urie shilling per dozen for "popes* popa, or
poops' heads,** Wlicther bird or beast remained a
mystery.
In the parochial accounts of Chedder, Somerset,
*' woope's heads" are mentioned — a synonymous
word, it seemed probable, vai-ying; with tbe dialects
of the two counties. It now turn^i out that pupti
la an obsolete French word, and synonymous with
huppc^ hoop (Bailey's Dici.\ a lapwing.
^V^hy a price should have been put on the head
of this barmk'ss and beautiful bird I won't pre-
tend to say, unlejis it were from the mi^tiikeu
opinion Ihut it fed ou the g^rain in those cornfiolds
which it often frequented for the purpose of pro-
curinjj its natural food. The names by which it
was known in this countiy 150 years ago seem to
be quite obsolete now. W. W. S.
Your correspondent W. B, Mac Cauk wishes
to know whether " the lapwing, so remarkable a
bird in ancient lore and legend^ holds any import-
ance in the folk-lore of England." I am not
aware that the lapwing {Vaftellus cruftattts^ Flero.)
1i;{ures at all as a remarkable bu^d in ancient lore.
The pupu uuquestionabty denotes the hoopoe
(Ujm/Mi epopti), a bird belonging to an entirely
diflterent onlcr, and which has been long, and is
htill, regarded in the East with superstition. It
is the ^iro(^ of the Greeks, and the ypuita of Pliny,
and certainly the term is used in a restricted
sense to signify the hoofioc alone. In my article
on ** Lapwing," in Dr. Smith's Diet, of (he Bibh\
I have endeavoured to show that the hoopoe is
the bird meant by the Hebrew diihrphath. Tlie
Egyptians seem to have spoken of this bird under
the name of koukonpha (see Ilora polio, i. 55 j and
comp. Lcemau's notes ; Jablotikl O^^c^^a^^^ ^^^^^
78
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
[sr-av. jaium;««4.
Bochart^ Hierof^. Hi. 107-115, ed. Rosenmuller.)
The Arabs call it hudhud; comp. Mooro, LaUa
Uookh^ p. 395 (ed, Lond., one vol. 1850)—
*' Fresh as the fountain underground.
When first 'tis by the lapwing found " —
where Moore has the following note : " The bud-
hud or lapwing is supposed to have the power of
dbcovering water underground." (See "Lapwing,"
Smith's DicL) The blood of this bird was be-
lieved by the Arabs to have supernatural eSects.
To this day tbey ascribe magical powers to the
hoopoe, and call it the ** Doctor." As to the old
French word pupu^ I refer your correspondent
to Belon, LHistoire de la Nat, des Oyaeaux^ p.
293, who says : —
** Nous luy donnons ce nom (Ja huppe) Ik cause de sa
creste, mais lea Grecs Tont nominee ejDop<, h cause de son
cr^. Nous la nommos un pvput : car, en oultre ce qu*e11e
fait son nid d*ordure, aussi fait une voix en chantant qui
dlt puput"
I need not say that the account of the materials
which arc here said to form the nest of the hoopoe,
— originally proceeding from Aristotle, though
still, Ibelieve, credited by some of the lower orders
in Prance, — contains a gross libel on the bird,
which, it is true, is not very cleanly in its habits,
but is not so bad as is reported.
Prom the fact of the lapwing, or peewit, having
a crest, and being a better known bird in Europe,
it is easy to see how la huppe might occa-
sionally be used to denote this bird. The lap-
wing, according to Dr. Leyden, quoted by Yar-
rell (DnY. BirdSjU, 484, ed. 2nd), is still regarded
as an unlucky bird in consequence of the Cove-
nanters in the time of Charles II. having been
discovered by their pursuers from the flight and
screaming of these restless birds.
W. Houghton.
PARISH REGISTERS: TOMBSTONES AND THEIR
INSCRIPTIONS.
(Z'^ S. iv. 226, 317.)
If it would be performing a really useful work,
and if others will take it up, I will do my part
by copying the inscriptions on all the tombstones
in the churchyard of my parish. I have often
thought of doing it, but have never had resolu-
tion. Some of my friends tell me it is not neces-
sary, for that the parish register is quite enough
for all purposes. It may however be remarked,
that the register contains the date of the burial,
but not the day of the death, as the stone does.
In some registers I know, I have seen occa-
sionally both circumstances recorded ; but this is
rare. And the stone contains more than the
register. It generally mentioni the age of the
deceased person, or date of birth ; together with
some genealogical particular, as whose son or
daughter. AnTiQUABnis and £. are ^mte lif^t
ill advocating the desirableness of having copies
taken of all parish registers down to the time
whenUhey first began to be made in duplicate.
The insecure places in which these valuable books
are kept, in moat parishes, is a subject deserving
the most severe censure. I know instances, and
have heard of others, where the register has been
burnt or otherwise destroyed ; because it was in
some closet at the vicarage instead of safe in the
parish chest, where it ousht to be. All the
original registers ought to be deposited in some
central office in London (accessible to the public
of course), and an attested copy of each one fur-
nished to each parish. It has always been mar-
vellous to me that some Member of Parliament
has never taken up this truly national subject.
And it is high time that some check should be
put upon the reckless destruction of old churches
that is now going on all over the country. How
many crimes are committed in the name of
** restoration ! " Of course, it b the interest of
architects to knock one church down, and build
up another. A clergyman consults an architect
on the state of his church ; and then, very soon
afterwards, unconsciously to himself, becomes
little better than a puppet in the hands of his
architect. Many of our old churches, which are
now being levelled with the ground, might be re-
tained to the admiration of generations yet un-
born, if the spirit of preservation, instead of the
spirit of destruction, were more prevalent in the
land. It would be well for our churches, if ever/
vicar of a parish were something of an architect,
for so indeed he ought to be. In that case he
would be the master over his architect, instead
of being his servant, as he is now in too many in-
stances. As for churchwardens, they need not be
named ; because they are, generally, three degrees
more ignorant, and ten degrees more pig-headed,
than their betters. It has long been a dictum
with me, that not one clergyman in ten, or one
churchwarden in a hundred, is fit to have the care
of his own church or parish rcffister. These
are hard words, no doubt ; but I beg to say this
opinion has been forced upon me by clergymen
and churchwardens themselves. I have watched
them from time to time, and have found them
wanting. Remember, I am speaking of the great
majority : for there are some few honourable ex-
ceptions, but only a few. Let clergymen study a
little of architecture, and a little of antiquities ; and
then they would be better able to appreciate the
venerable features in the fabric of their churches,
and guard them with a jealous care against the
sweeping measures of an architect, or the igno-
rance ofchurchwardens. P. HuTCHncsoir.
Bldmonth.
NOTES AND QUERIES,
TO
I
I
I
»T, PATRICK AND THK 811AHKCICK.
(3"^ S, V. 40. tiO.)
While innocently wandering in tlio pleasant
meads of literary antiquities, culling a flower hero
and there, and occasionally interchanf;ing courte-
Btii^ wUIi cniiK^intal spiriu delighting in similar
pni'Bui: Iiat 1 have unwittingly fituriibled
into a I : uda Barbara of something very
like odimn iheoiogicunu Of course, the conse<^uent
explosion took place, sudden^ fierce, and strong
as a treble charge could make it, but, with respect
to myself, quite innocuous ; In all frood feel in;?, I
earnei^tly hope that the magazine has suITeriid a^
little injury a^ the intruder, and that the cnj^inecrs
have not been hoisted by their own petards*
First in place, as first in ability and can il our,
appears F. C. H. Dis argument, if it be worthy
of the name, has no reference to what St. Patrick
did or did not, but as to what he (F. C. IL) would
do, if placed in aimilar circumstances, and just
amounts to this — I would do it, argal St. Patrick
did. Apart from it;* obvious weakness, this is a
niogt dangerous method of dealing with things
anirttuiil, Kliminate the beautiful Lmguajrc and
tlorid Frv'nch sentiment from M. Rcnun s Fi« de
Jc9xu(t and we shall find a very similar absence of
reaftuning, if I may so express myself, inipotently
bninJIshed against the miracles of our Saviour —
M. Kenan cojinot work miracles, he would not if
he could, and therefore, &c. &c, I have not the
honour of being personally acquainted with
F. C. H,, but from his communications in this
Journal, I believe him to be a Christian gentleman
and scholar, a man of common sense, and more
than ordinary ability; nevertheless, he must ex-
cuse me for not placmg him in the same category
as St, Patrick, the venerated Apostle of my mucu
loved native land, " What could any enemy to
Christianity have hoped to gain by inventing such
a story Y ** asks F. C, II. I answer, the story is
one eminently calculated to throw contempt on
the sacre«l mystery of the Trinity ; but I would
certainly despair of being able to bring F. C. H,
to my opinion.
With respect to Canon Daj*ton*9 communica-
tion, I am sorry to say it is characterised by
Dthing less than dislngcnuousness. He says,
Huding to me, ** Your correspondent supposes
that 8ti Patrick compared the Shamrock to the
mystery of the Trinity,** This is incorrect ; my
]>' on the contrary, an objection to that
isi s as expressed by others. Again, he
iay:i, *'iMa. Piara^EaTON refers to the well-known
treatise of St, Augustine De Trinttate.** This
al!io ii : ; I referred to and related a legend
of St, , said to have occurred when he
w- jjt TrinitaU* Cawow Dai>ton then
:<' . Augustine's verM illustration of the
Ttii.iv/* .iiid ends by saying, '* I maintain that
these two different illustrations, made usfe of by
St, Patrick and St, Augustine, are far from being]
abijurd or egregiously irreverent," thereby im-
plying that I had applied these epithets to St.
Augustine'd illustration — which ogain is incor'
rect.
It IS curiotis to observe how the word ill us tr a*
tion has been modiHed by F. C* IT. and Cxnosi
Daltow, since they first used it, regarding this
alleged act of St. Patrick. The former now termtj
it *' some sort of illustration, however feeble anil
imperfect," and the latter, ** a faint illustration.'* 1
To illustrate a subject is literally to throw Ughl |
upon it, and may bo done either rhetorically, or,]
in our commonest use of the word at the pivsent
day, by a pictorial or material representation |
the latter, of course, being the stronger and muro 1
forcible, A wretched man, named Carlile, a foiff |
years ago, exposed in his shop- window in FleciJ
Street, a hideous enj;ravlng, under which were
the words " Jews and Christians, behold your
God ! " A Jewish gentlem.'m smashed the pane,
and in consequence was taken before a magistrate.
The gentleman pleaded just indignation as
excuse ; while Carlile urged that the cng^ raving
was carefully made from Scriptural descrij)tions c '
the Deity, The magistrate at once dlsmtssed th
case, observing that the ex^iosure of such an en*
graving was a blasphemous insult to the com-
munity at large, Suppoiic Carlile had put a
shamrock in his window, and had written beneath
it, Christians, behold your Trinity ! — would the
blasphemy or insult be any the less ?
I could say something of the word compartsoai
its derivation from the Latin com par^ sii^nifyingJ
the putting together of equals ; of the well-knownl
mode of comparison by illustration ; but I fear i||
would be of little service to persona seeminglj^I
ignorant of the meanbig of the simple word trudi* '
iion. (Vide a'** S, iv. 187, 233, •>f>3).
D. P. points out ** that the appearance of the
fleur-dc-lys on the mariner's compass has no
bearing at all", upon my case. As in the same
paragraph, I wa.s endeavouring to show that " the
triad is still a favourite^ figure In national and
heraldic emblems," I am certain that it hujj a very
extended and important bearing. For D. P.*b
information on tlie antiquity of the nianner'f|
compass, I am obliged \ but as an old sailor and'
traveller in almost all parts of the globe, who has
long studied the history of that most valuable
instrument, I fancy that I know much more about|
it than is to be found either in Moreri ur Dtt^
Fresnoy.
The legend of St. Augustine, which D. P.
terms a well-known incident in the life of tliat J
saint, is not apposite, I am told. If words havel
any meaning, it was not intended to be so. I
designated it as charinistg and inatnictive, while I
stigmatised the story of St. Patrick ^ ^Jr^qc^^'^^
80
NOTES AND QUteRIES.
[«^s.v. jAw.2a,'«4.
not egregiously irreyerent. As these last words
refer to a simple matter of opinion, and seem to
have jriven onence, I retract them, with regret
that I had ever used them ; though, of course, my
opinion remains unchanged. And it is consoling
to me, in this case, to be informed bj F. C. H.
that ** no one is bound to believe the tradition of
St. Patrick and the Shamrock/* Having thus
retracted my expression of opinion, I shall con-
clude with a matter of fact. The reply of F. C. H.
though feeble, was at least fair; but the com-
munications of Cakon Dalton and D. P. are
tainted by either a stolid misapprehension, or
wilful perversion, of what I did write. And I
confidently appeal to the grand jury, formed by
the intelligent readers of " N. & Q.,'* if this lan-
^age be too strong for the occasion.
WliUAM PiNKERTON.
Honnslow.
JOHN SHURLEY.
(3"* S. iv. 499.)
ThiB author, John Shurley, or Shirley (for he
wrote his name both ways), was a voluminous
writer of ephemeral productions in the last quar-
ter of the seventeenth century. He is, undoubt-
edly, the person so graphically described in the
following passage from old John Dunton^s Life
and Errors : —
" Mr. Shirley (jaliai Dr. Shirley) is a goodnatured
writer, as I knoir. He has been an indefatigable press-
mauler for above these twenty years. He has pubii»hed
at least a hundred boand books, and about two hundred
sermons ; but the cheapest, pretty, pat things, all of them
pence a-piece as long as they will run. His great talent
lies at coUectunif and he vnW do it for you at six shillings
a sheet. He knows to disguise an author that you shall
not know him, and yet keep the sense and tne main
scope entire. He is as true as steel to his word, and
would slave off his feet to oblige a bookseller. He is
usually very fortunate in what be goes upon. He wrote
Lord Jeffreyt^g Lift for me, of which six thousand were
Rold. After all, ho subsists, as other authors must expect,
by a sort of geometry."— Edit. 1818, i. 181.
Besides numeroua small tracts and ballads,
mostly printed by " William Thackeray in Duck
Lane," Shirley was the author of the following
works, chiefly " collections " as Dunton expresses
it— a list very far short of the " hundred bound
books ** which came from his ready pen : —
1. The Most Delightful History of Reynard the Fox,
in heroic verse. 4to, 1681.
2. The Renowned History of Guy, Earl of Warwick;
containing his noble Exploits and \ictories. 4to, 1G81.
3. Ecclesiastical History EpitomizM. 8vo, 1G82-A.
4. The Honour of Chivalry ; or, the Famous and De-
lecUble History of Don Bellianii of Greece. Translated
out of Italian. 4to, 1688.
5. The History of the Wars of Uangary, or an Ac-
(coant of the Miseries of that Kingdom. Inao, 1685.
6. The lllnstrions History of Women ; the whole Work
enrich'd and intermixed with corioos Poetry and delicate
Fancie. 8vo, 1686.
7. The. Accomplished Ladle's rich Closet of Rarities.
12mo, 1688.
8. The True Impartial History of the Wars of the
Kingdom of Ireland. 12mo, 1692.
9. The Unfortunate Favorite; or, Memoirs of the
Life of the late Lord Chancellor [ Jeffieries]. 8vo, n. d.
When T. B. says, '* there is no mention of him
[J. Shurley] in Bohn*s edition of Lowndes,'* he ia
in error. The works in the above list, marked 2,
6, 7, and 8, are duly chronicled by Lowndes ; but
under Shirley, not Shurley. There should have
been a counter reference under the latter name.
In this respect much might be done towards im-
E roving this (with all its errors) valuable hand-
ook to the literary collector.
Anthony Wood mentions a John Shirley, the
son of a London bookseller of the same name,
who was bom in 1648, and entered Trinity Col-
lege in 1664. But for the certain fact that this
person died at Islington in 1679, I should have
imagined him to have been the John Shirier of
whom I have giren a notice ; especially as Yr ood
tells us '* he published little things of a sheet and
half-a-sheet of paper.**
Dunton, it wdl be seen, calls our author '* Mr.
Shirley, alias Dr. Shirley." If, therefore, wc sup-
pose him to have been originally educated for the
medical profession, he may have been the author
of the following works, unnoticed by Lowndes or
his editor. They were certwnly written by a John
Shirley : —
1. A Short Compendium of Chirurgery. 8vo, 1678.
2. The Art of Rowling and Bolstring, that id, the
Method of Dressing and Binding up the several Parts.
8vo, 1683.
Edward F. Ribibault.
Fr£nch Coronets (3"* S. iv. 372.)— lu answer
to M. B., there are descriptions and engravings of
the coronets worn by the French nobility in Sel-
den's Titles of Honour^ and in the Vicorate de
Magny*s Science dn Blason, Paris, 1S58.
F. D. H.
Baroness (3"* S. v. 54.) — Foreign titles give
no rank in this country. The daughter of a baron
would be received as the daughter of a baron by
the style to which she is entitled in her own
country. G,
Thr Bloodt Hand (S'* S. v. 54.) — Your cor-
respondent has raised two questions upon false
data : a reference to one of the thousand patents
which exist would have shown that no such grant
was made to baronets and their descendants. For
then* greater honour and distinction all baronets
of Ensland and Ireland, as do now the baronets of
the United Kinsdom, enjoy the privile|ire granted
to them and ** their heurs male *^ of their body, of
SMS.T. Ja)i.SS.'$4.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
81
beiAring in a cjintan n hand gules, which wmi in
faof a grant to the baronet for the time being,
and h a distinction borne bj, and pt*rM)Qal to, the
individuals enjoying and |>ossessed of the dignity.
Such a grant as your correspondent alledgesj wouU
have overshadowed the land by this time with the
« Bloody hand of Ulster." G.
Ajims of Saxony (3"* S, v. 12, 64.) — Let lue
add a passage from Fllessbach^s Muntzsarnmlttft^^
to what Dk Leth saja about the arms of Man-
ov*»r ; —
" ETaQXiovcr bat kcin clgcothUmUchei Wappea. Aof
i1«iii Revf^r^ det' Muiizea ^eigl sieh entweder das Alt-
JoKir DAvmsoM.
Satibical Sokmet : Gt>Z36o anh Pasquim (a'"
S. lii, 15 L) — Chevreau gives a sonnet by M. des
TTeteaux, founded on Martiars Viiam qu<t fact*
ttnl beathrem (lib. x. ep. 47), and says : —
** Un Abh4 <I<n avott la le sonrint rrut me donaer quel
que chose de fort hou* eu roe donoiiat h Boiiie U soiin«^t
qui suit : ^^
" HftT^r la mogUe brutta ed iiigelo^liL;
Atnar chi mni veder non hS po69A ;
K ritmvArii in rour quAndo 9*ii}g;roa9ii«
V* non avcT da chi aperar aita ;
Lo star soUngo in parte erma, e rotnita;
Viver prigioiie in sotteirvnea fotSia^
H.iver il mal FnmceM iniiuo al usuf
£ eof tiiig^kiido dtnipesaar 1ft vita.
Haver Ferrarj, e zingari vici«i ;
Ti attar con gt^Dte ctihmoniosa ;
L' hiivvr b, fitr cou b(j«ti, e %-cttoriiJii j
Orto rend on la vitn iKaai noiosA %
Ma nUf ft Komn o nna Uarer qriittnoii
E piu d*ogQ* ultra msoppurubil cfxta."*
Chevrtmna, t. i. p. 295» AmsL 174X1.
GravtnA settled at Rome, in \i)S5, Hin repu-
tation WSB high^ and be was the prinripal founder
of the Arcadians in 1695 ; but he waa not ap-
pointcd Professor of Civil Law tiU 1699. His
temper was not gooil, im may be seen by tho
ttanels between him and Sergardt, and probably
' wa» unrjniet at waiting »o long for promo-
^. The Letter M from Rotna (tnd Bologrtu arc
^d 16yiJ. Chevreau does not say when he met
the "Abbe'*; but supposing him to t>e Gravina,
we may guesa that the sonnet as described in the
LeUers was written in an impatient spirit before
the appointment, and the sting chimg»:»d from* **to
acek promotion at Rome without ready money/'
to •* jtor in Roma e juyji aaer fputtJrim^** af^er it.
He might have (bought the sonnet too cood to be
loflt, ihouph the point waa r^noiled, a* »ie evil of
being w 1 1 V = i ey Lk not felt more at Knfn«^ than
in iUJi"} ^9. I think this is enough Ut fix
the imtJi<jisiijji *u fho Hni' ^ ' i \r(mld Chfvrcau,
who never omits an ly of namin;; a
cJfv..f .>i' '^'Mstrious a* .jiiaup..nMr, have called so
*li" ' I a man as liravjna ** IJn Abbe"?
^- ' «'*^nir5il dialoHjiie been Cobbo (not
Gozxo) and Pasqnln, of which 1 cannot give an
account, not having been tempted to read enough
of it. Though probably stinging when fresh, it is
not interesting now. The title is —
" Lc Viiioni poHtiche sopra jjli ialiircssi piu rticou-
diti\ di ttitti PrGnci|ji a Ki^publicbe dtlb Cbrjstianit/
diviti in vnrii Sogni e RagionameDti tra I'Asquino e
Qohho di Eialto»" Germania, 1071, 24mo, pp» 54U-
H. B,a
U. D. Clttb.
BiLL-BLiix (3*^ S. V. 38,) — A joke on this
name of the nightingale is told as having ^
made by the late Lord Robertson (a Judge of th
Court of Session^ well known as Peter or Patrick
Robertson), in order fully to see the wit of whichi
it is necessary to explain to your English readeraj
that in the Scotch vernaeular the word ** cow " ii
prnnonnced "coo." A lady having asked hiu
** What sort of animal h th»? hull-bull ? '' he renlied J
** I suppose, Ma*am, it niu^t be the mate ot the '
c&o-coo '* (cuckoo). (t.
Edinburgh.
Saldrn Mansiok (3*^ S. iv. 373.)— Kappa will
find a fimall engraving, with a history of the old
mansion at Salden, and of the branch of the For*
tcscTies to whom it belonged, in the first volumg
of the Eecords of Buck high amsh ire, published asf
Aylesbury, by Pickburn, for the Bucks Archajolo-
gical Society. F, D. IL
Madman's Foon TAaxrKG or Oatmj&ai. Poa-
RiDOB (S'* S. V. 35, 640 — ^n Sir Walter Scott's
noveU TTie Pirate^ there in the following note : —
** A late medical geatlemon* my particular friend* told
ine t be case of a lunatic patient confiued in the EiJiiibiirgb
Infirroftry. Ha was to far happy that his mental ali«i-
ation was of a gay and pleasant cbarscLcr, giving a kmd
of joy oat explanation to all that came iu contact with
hjni. He considered the large hoiise, oum^roiu Mrvants,
^c.» of th« boffpttal* as all matters of state aiiil coufiequenc*
belonging to his own [MT^onol establishment, and hiid no
4loubt of his own wealth and grandeur. One thing alone
puzzled this man of wealth. Although he was provided
Tvith a Urst-rate cook and proper aMisiants, altbongli his
table W8J! regularly aiipplieil with everj' delicacy of I ho
season, yet he confessed to my friend, that by 0ome un-
common depravity of the palate, evervthing which h«
ate ^tasted of poi ridge." Jhis pecufiarity, of course,
arose from the poor man being fed upon nothing eise^ and
because his Ntotnath was not so easily deceived as his
other seoies.'* — 7%e Firatet voL ii. chajk xiii* note i.
A WTlLBB.ili19T.
Chdscuwaiii)Kic Quksy (3'* S. v, 34, 65.) —
In answer to A* A. I exti'act the following : —
"Sidesmen (ffHiwi iiynodanien) is used for those per*
sons or officers thnt are yearly chosen in great parishes in
Ixtmitm and other cities, according to cuntom, lo siisint
the cbnrchwardens iu their prescuLmentfi of duch oHeadirni
nnd oiluncefi to the ordinary aa ore punishable in the
ii pi ritual courtA: and tbey are alio called tpusim^n. They
take* an oath for doing their duty, and are lo present per*
ijKiiLH that do not reaort to ehurcb on Sundays,, and there
continue during tlie whole time of divine service, Ac
Canon 90 They shall not be tttetl by tin* cicdLisjBXH ^
82
NOTES AND QUERIES.
l^^^ is. V. Ja». SE, *^L
Mitr hut at QSii»l times, uhIcbi ttit^ btT« wilfhtly
miltd far fivouf, to mak« preMntmiiii of noiorioiu pub-
Httk erimfi«, whim ihejr way bA pirocAedod i^ftinat for
bre^'ich of oatli, ai for poijiiiy/' Canon 117. —> Jacob's
Z^aw Dictionary^ 1772, «ii6 r.
W. I. S. HORTON.
Dbviii a Pjiopsb Naiu (a'^ S. iv. 141, 418,
470.)—
" Fornwrly th«re irere munf p<*r*ons sunuimetl *thft
Devil/ In an an i f one Rogerius
DiAlwluf, Lord ot i^h Moiik, Wil*
Idmiuu cingnotTient. l .i.; . , ->^ . , ihi^hes le Dinble*
Lord of Lusif nan. Hobert, Duke of Normtmdy, son of
Will tarn the Onqaeror, was lumamcd * the Devil,* Iq
N" 1 Swredeii thtre were two farailiea of the name
II ill KngUsh, * Devil;" and *?very branch of
ill ,. ; : had an emblem of the devil for their coat of
arms, in Utrecht there was a family called * Toufel/ (or
Dfn-il); j«nd in Brittany ther« waa a family of the name
of • Diable.* '*— MwKAItf Mirror^ August. 1790.
W. L S. HottTOW.
WATSftlf OP LorTHOLgfi» ToHK9tttRE (3*'* S. IV.
515.) — The folIowmjT may assist Sigma Thkta in
\i\9 inquiry after the Watsons of Lofthouse, York-
shire. The pedigree in the British Museum is
evitl^intly that of the Watsoua of Loithouje near
Waketitildi a branch of ilie Watsons of Bolton-ln-
Craren. In the year 1493 W- Watson, of Lofthouse,
had a quarrel with Gilbert Leighi Esq*, about
some lan(U and referred the case to Sir Ed, Smith,
and Sir John York, of Wakefield, for arbitration.
About the year 1600 John Rooks, of Royds Hall,
near Bradford, mar. Jennet, dau. and co-heir of
Rirhard Watson^ of Lofthouse, Esq.; soon afl^r
Ii event the family appear to have removed to
J have, near Poniefrat!t, as we find that Ed-
nun J Watson, of Eaathaye, answered to the sum-
notis of Ougdalc at lua aitting at " Pomfrct, 7
Ipr, 1666" and ctaiuitjd, ~ jlrmjr- Argent, on a
Bhevfon azure between three martlets gules, as
Qany crescents or.* CresL A gTilThi*8 head erased
able, Lolding In Ins beak, or, a rose-branch slinped
|V»-^rt. •' For proofe hereof there is an old masse
f indow in an house at Loftui, which was antiently
olorigihg to this famiiy, as Alr» John Hopklnson
Jftfftrms " This was Str, HopkinKon, tim Loft-
lliouse antiquary, who attended Dugdulc, in hf«
[Visitation of YtjrkHhire, 4k8 hti secretary, and com-
piled the MS« pedigrees of the Yorkshire familiedi
A copy of which is in the British ^luseum.
I do not trace any connection between the Wat-
sons t»f Lofthouse and those of Bilton Park, who
appear to have sprunir from the Nortlj T?i<13iM',
kftnd to have acquired Bilton Park by l»'
||hc Stockd^ef. See Har^ove'a Knar
J Tung), mid Dugdftlo'fl VUitaiuinM of York^hirf^
id, 8urti*oii' Society, Whitakcr*s Craven^ obo his
Loidis and Kimetr^ James's Bradfirrd^ and the
' Hichnrdson Vorrr^poTidrncc. C FoBjit^tT*
Lofthouic, uin '
• The«o iinn»i
»e^, 1AI4.
* r from tht WalM^iB of Ntrw-
LoifQBViTT or CtBHOifMBN (9^* S. r. 6^.)""
The pcntlenian whom PRKSTowxEifBis terms iba
Rev* Joiicph Itowlev, wa,s named Joskxta* He Wli
a son of Sir Joshua kow ley, Bart,, and after beii^
educated at Harrow School, was admitted b pen*
aioner of St. John'jj College. Cambridge, Marofi 2d«
17S7, and a fellow commoner, March 1, 178S* pro-
ceeding B*A», 1791, imd commencing M.A., 1794.
C. H. & ThompsoH Coofvb.
Cambridge*
Arthor Doans (3"* S. v. 63.)— May 1 eicpre^i
a hope that your correspondent, Mr. Cross ley,
will kindly favour us with «ome particulars from
(if not with the whole of) George Cbulmers's un-
published biography of Arthur Dobbs ? Francis
Dobbs, whose Concise View from IliHtory and
Prophecy, &c. (Dublin, 1800), 'is certainlv a curi-
osity, was, I presume, a member of the aaine
family. Ajjuha,
Bti^HOP DrvB DowNBs's " Tour TitRoroti Cokh
AND Ross ** (2^ S. IX, 43.) — Having sent a query
respecting this valuable and interesting document^
I may be permitted to record in " N, & Q,," that
*' the whole of Bishop Dive Downe«*s Tour thrott^k
the DhC€ii6 of Cork and Ross, in 1G9L) and follow-
ing years, has been incorporated into'* the Rev*
Dr, Brady's Clerical ana Parochial Records of
Cork, Clmjne, and Rots, of which two volumes
have appeared (Dublin, 1863), Abhba*
Or Wn (3^ S. V. 30.)— Ma. Peteb CuTisriHO*
HAM has favoured us with several interesting ex-
I amples of the various uses of the word **wit:"
may I be allowed to append to hts UluBLraUons one
or two Biblical passages which show the prostne
definition of the term, 8«i implying ingenuity, sa-
gacity, discernment, or knowledge generally : —
"Fori WM A loitfy child, and had a good spirit." ^ —
m$dom of SoUtmnn, viii. 1S>.
•* I wisdom dwell with pradcnce, and find otit know-
Icdgo of witty Inventlone.** ~ Ptcwerbii vlli. 12.
Holof*2mcs commends Judith for her wii, or
wisdom : —
" And they msr^'-tillfecl at her wi«dom, and aaid^ th^rrc is
not Bucb a woman ft-om one end of the earth tn t!tf othiT»
both for btauty of face and wisdom of wor. u*
llolofcrn«9 aald nnto b^r, . . . and now tit
be«Qtifiil in tliy couQtenaacci, and idUj^ in tl. t „v,>.-.'-^
Judith, xi. 2i)'U.
I ..-,.... .1... ...K.^t »*^ of thiii word, as acon-
nU\ ■' Sa]ton, i0t/«na-jreinolr,
wlu .. ...,., • ..« . ^ vt! renr«f«nted too col-
lect! ve wisdom of the nation in those day<i» What-
ever inn\' li.ivr hkicn the intellectual powers of
thouc w "d the witan^ wo may presumo
that tbi lire of which tlic senators gave
proof, was solid, pro»*alc, and practical ; we call
hardly fancy a ?[n j^'brly Sax on cutting jokes, or
capable of i association of ideas, that
could find ii^ jent ta a pun worth reoord*
Ing In " K. & *4-" F. Puii44)TT.
H8iV,^AJr.2«,*e4.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
83
8t.M*«t MAtTifi/>*i (y« S. ir. 5, 56, 419, 483.)
I iJid injt lit all uiidcrt^e to interpret the word
^* iVT.iiritfin . " all that! attcni!it<^'^ ][i ijtv former
c*i! win wa« an atxon of
thr _ «iiM Iv ( ^ ^ to have
been traditi n to it.
I'ennunt i: ily intimates tliat the word
" Mtttfelon '* yiiia bdid to be Hebrew or Chaldaic,
Clialdalc being formerly employed In a vag^ue
sense to express tlie almost identJcid dmlects of
Arabic »nd Syriac. This word, " Mutfclon,*^
after Jillowinii for the corruptions and abbrevia-
tions nftturally IncJderJt to ita n-^e for centuries,
benrs so strong a resemblance to the Arabic par*
ticipie equivalent to the word *' Paritura," that
even if 1 quoted Pennant incorrectly, yet I think
it mure probable that be ^should be mistaken in
citing a current tradition, than that so curious a
coincidence should be entirely unfounded, But
my inipreawion \$ that I quoted Pennant cor-
rectly ; and, at all events, if we credit Pennant'a
testimony to a mutter of fact, r. e. the existence of
luch a trjiditiofi, the word **Matfelon" ira* sup-
posed to expronn one of t)ie sacred functions
iag}(cned by the divine counsel to ilte Jlle^tsed
Viipgin Mary in ber relation to the incaraation of
ndornble Son.
_ iince I last wrote I find thai it ia not at all
necessjiry to regard ** Mat felon " ab feminine, and
abbrevint'Cd from " Watvaladatum," because, al-
thouD:h in opp<r>sition with '* Mary," Eastern syn-
tax commonlr admits tho agreement of an cpitiiet
in p^ender with the more worthy masculine to
wbirh it may refer. In tracing also the word
"Matfelon** to the Arabic " Matvaladon,*' or
•* Mfttfaliiflon*' I should be rjlad if one oC your
correspondent* would supply inc with examples
of d being passed over in Vapid pronunciation.
The f/ is nenrly = the harti th, and this is dropped
in the pronoun them^ In Greek and Sanscrit
there is a kind of interchanse of the letters t/, f,
and h; some Ljitin supines lose thn d. In Eng-
lish Cholmonileley miurcii CHomley^ Haw bridge-
worth, Sapmorlh, In Scottish bridge makes hrigg^
&c. 1 should Ije pleased with some more exam*
pies.
My luarned fnend A. A. ttppcars to ignore
Pennant's tradition, and therefore mj remarks
do not apnly to his suggested interpretation.
But, I would a^k, are any examples of li similar
form in «iedlcating churches? Would the iiame
of God be subjoined even to that of his greatest
saints? J, Ji^
St, Moiy's, Great Ilfv>rtL
QtroTATioxs Wantbd (3'* S. y* 69*) — I have
been accustomed to the f<»llowing form of the
verses : ** Hoc est ncscirc^** etc* : —
" <4tti ChrL*»t?ini nosdt, ssl eit si c*t«ra nweiti
Qui Christum noseit, nU sdt» si ctitani oascit,"
I have seen these verses attributi^d to St. Ait^
gustin. The thought was very likely his origU
nally, but the verses smack rather of mcdinsval
quaint ness. F. C. U.
Mm. F1T2DE1168BT (3'^ S. iv. 411, 522 i v. «»,)
I was personally acquainted with Mrs. Fitzher*
bert, and have long been intimate with her re- '
lativea and connexions ; and I have always hcar4 <
that she never had a child at all. Indeed I have
not the least doubt that this b correct.
F, C. H.
**Okr Swallow i>oes hot haxjs a StrvMBR**
(3"* S, V, 53.)— The late ingenious Dr. Forster,
in his Circle of the Setuont^ quotes a line from
Horace, connecting the Zephyrs of Spring with
the arrival of the swallow : — ■
** Cuin Zcph^Tts si concedes et hirandiae prima,"
He also mentions! that the iwal tow's return wna
a hoUdny for children in Oreecc, In aniiaipation
of which they used to exclaim \ —
** n Etvf xiM^Qi¥ £^roT« ^HurntrBcu,**
He quotes some poet, to hira unknown, who
says, writing of Spring : —
** The swallow, for n moment sesn,
Skimined this mom the village greon ;
Agda at evf, wheo thni«hefl fdng,
I mw her glide on rapid wingi
O'er yDnder pond*i3 smooth surface, when
I welcomed hur come Imck agiuiu"
Br, Forster gives the 15th of April as « Swal-
low Day," and m named in the Ephcmeris of
Nature, K*\i9a^^pta; and he mentions that the
west wind is called in Italy Chelidoniita^ from its
blowing about the time of the swallow** appear-
tttR'e. All these passages bear upon the sut»jeet
i'fC Mr, Ueath*s enquiry, as connecting the swiil-
low with the first return of Spring, F, C, II.
I can refer Ms. Hbatu to one modem poet,
who» in a well-known passage, oouneots the swal-
low with the earlier of the two seasons : —
*< . . . * nudameath thv eav«s.
The brooding swallows cHn^ •
As if to show me their ^ '.-,
And twit mo with til
Ji i of the Shirt,
Alfred Atnqisr.
Alrewss, LtehUdd.
Psalm xc. 9. (H'^ S. ¥. 57*) —The following
extract, from a \ery striking sermon by the Rev*
A. J. Morris (I believe) un IndepeodeDt minister,
may be uitercsting to Mb. Ddlom, and to other
reailert : • —
'* * W« itp«nd our years as a tntr "' r' 'hi/ The
words irareely give the trae idea. Id/ is in
italica, the aigu of insertion by iht^ i ihcrs ts
nolbing Answering to it in the origiuU. iii^jltud of * Ude,*
ths margin has * mcdit&tlon j * * we spend our yenrs
as n meditation.' Bat ©Vco Ibis hardly ^!«wfc.*fc*.^^^
I
84
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3'-* a. V. JAJf. 23, %L
thought HengBienberg observes, that Uie word 'o«ii-
not signify a, converMtion, a Ule: for it nlwiys de-
notes somethiog iowiirdt and is nerar uaed of a eoarer-
sation ^ih Another. As little can it denote a pure
thoaght» for the ootin in tho other two passages where it
«)QCQT9 fitands for something loud; and the verb properly
denotes, not the pare thought, but what is intermediate
between thought and discourse. The Psalmist compares
hnman ejtistence, as regards its transitory nature, to a
BollloqaTt which gener&Uy bears the character of some-
thing transitory and broken. The mind does not ad^
vance beyond single half-nticred words and sentences,
and soon retires again into the region of pure thougbL
To such a tmnsitory murmur and ejaoulation is that
httman lifb oomp«red» which stupid dreamers look upon
as an eternity.'
"The word occurs twit^: in Job xxxvii. 2,— * Hear
attentively the noise of his voice, and tkt wttnd that
goeth out of his mouth ;' and Ezekiel ii. 10, — * And there
was written therein Ismentationa, and mourtuna, and woe/
In the first passage, the reference m to the thunder, tho
loud and sodden claps of thunder, which is the voicx^, thc^
utterance, the grand soliloquy of God. In the second
passage, the word describes the broken accents of grief—
the abrupt and incomplete exclamations of deep and
Qverwbehuing aorrow. So when life is described in the
text : the moaning if, that it is a brief and broken ex -
clamation, a hurried voice, a short and startling sound,
which soon is lost in the silence of eternity/'
A[.rftEB AiNGEB.
Alrewasi Lichfield.
Quotation : ** Aut tu Moaus es/' etc. (3'^
8. iv, 515; V, GL) — The Ht-ory mentiooed hy
TOur correspondents is of very doubtful authority.
Jortin ignores it. Ktiight knows nothing of it.
It is nowhere noticed in Erasmus's own works.
The German writetB, Hess and Miiller, do not
even allude to it. Burigni narrates the tale on
very daubtful evidence. His words ore : —
•♦ [Vf Aulenrf, doiit le suffrage k la v^rit<^ n'est pas
ml poids, ont pnfteudu que la c^onaissance de
rkra^me arait commence d'une fcu;on smgtt-
Ami he rcf<?rs, for the origin of the incident, to
** Vanini et Garasae, Doctrine curkme^ lib. i. s. 7,
p. 44," {Vie tCEramne^ L 184.) There is one
circumstanre which ^eems at once to render the
story incredible. The scene of it is laid in
London^ after More bad become famous. Now
Erasmus wm at Oxford in 1470» probably at the
very time that More was resident there. Ho
distinctly mentioned More (ep, <>2) 3imf»ng the
friends whojc n^^quaintance he had made At Ox«
ford, Chnniock and Colet. It is scarcely likely
that two ^uch men should have been residing at
the University at the sam*? time ; and hnvt* pos-
ie?ii<ed mutua,! Iriends, and yet have never met
till a Inter period in London. But if tlio date of
the storv be refemni la llie tiin<» whrii Mon? hud
bor' " " : ». <% in 1520, or cv^
bn-l i, i. V, Hlxmt 1517* if
i^ u« i ' (piito c^rT.iIn, from rninHrnuN
letli r , siiM l.ri nms and Mom had often met
before llu fi s; and we know th.'it llic Kn-
comium Morimifns completed, in 1510, in More's
own house* W. J* D.
Sm Ei>w/iRi> Mat (S'"* S. v. S5» 65.) — R* W.
should have mentioned where, in Burke* jj Exiinct
and Dormant Baroiietcies, the pedigree of thb baro-
net is "iven. From his nnns, '* Gu* a fes«c between
eight billets or,'* he was clearly of the fanaily of
the Mays of Kent, of which one of the late repre-
sentatives, the eccentric but amiable and worthy
Walter Barton May, Esq., built Hadlow Castle*
near Tunbridge, a singuliu* and handsome struc-
ture, after the fashion of Beckford*s Fonthill
Abbey. It is now the property of Robert Rodger,
Esq., J. P, A.
ScoTTisfl Games (S'-] S. iv. 230.)— Permti me
to help in the elucidation of my own queries on
this subject. I would remark that I naturally
thougrbt it needless to refer to Jamieson's i>if-
timmry^ when one so learned in Scottish matters
as Mr. Fraser Tytler indicated ignorance ; but I
have done so, and the following is the result : —
Prop=: a mark or object at which to aim (only
reterence, Dunbar's PoenL% Bannatyne ed. p. 5^)
Sax. Prap. ■ It means a thing supported, propped
up. This justifies my ^ Aunt Sally " conjecture.
" Lang Bowlis,*" — *' a^anje much used in Angus,
in which heavy leaden bullets are thrown from ihe
hand. He who flings his bowl furthest, or can
reach a given point with fewest throws, is liie
victor. It 19 not " Golf" then ; but " Row-bowUC
as distin^iished from *^ Lang Bowl is,"' is likely to
be our modem game of bowls — the bowls U£«d
in it resembling (and perhaps originally ikef
were) bnlletj. There is no trace of the game m
Jamieson. ** Klles" are referred \h in Jamie#oa
AH " Keil?,** not, however, a^*? Scotch ; and the d**
liniiion given of cognate words anpports my sug-
gestion that " nine pins " is meant. There is no
trace, so far as I can see, of ** Irish Oamync " in
Jamieson. ^^ Tables "' must be chess ur draughts.
Jamieson ri notes " Inventories, A 1539» p* 4R»'* in
which distmction is made between ** table men **
and ** chess men," but he thinks ** tjibles ** nev^
meant draughts, only chess and dice. Perhap*
Mr. Ty tier's constnirlion misled nin in thinking
he asked the nieantnt^ of ** Tables/* lie ranst
have known, J. D. Caufbru.*
CKNysAvn or Tin: 7Htu Bkgimuht at CurTuw
(il*^'* S. V. IL) — In t'ompHiiarc with the sugges*
tion tif your correspondent M. S. IL, 1 send joo
the following, copiwl from the cenotaph in front
of Manilla Hall Clitlon; —
oKKti ffn» or ruK 79rn n%Q, wuo rKt^L IX AttA,
i
{
I.ieut
•>n,
'\U 1
•1], I IMMSV l< k,
^»#.— Collins, Pftalette, LiTonf, Hosla-* M'Mdioiu
nrgeonM^ — Smith, Athertmn
As your correspondent points to tbe particular
volumes of the Amiiud Reginter und GettttcmtifCs
Magazine^ in wbich the Ijatin inscription mid a
translatloii are to bu found, I dti not send them
witli tbis, but tbe nameei and dMm of ibe bjittks
(of wbich he de^irua to bo infunucd) ini^cribed uu
the cenotjiph lire as follow : —
The lined of Pondichcrry stormed, SpjU lU, 17lW,
Pomliclierrv aurrviidi?retl, .Ina. 16, 17q1,
I'rtrrk'rttl t liken, April i>, 17 GO.
licgt" wf MtutrjJis rwisfd, Feb. 17, 175t«.
Iiitlli' of W4a*iew«*h, Jim. 22, 17<>0,
Ircot rcoovtTCil, l-cb. 10, 176U.
Manilla Uall, wbich wa^ built on CHftou Downs
by Su" Win. Draper soon after his return from
tbe capture of Manilla from the Spaniards, is now
tbe Boarding School of C, T. llud^on^ M,A. of
St. John's College, Cambridge, for some years
Head Master of the Bristol Grummar School,
The cenotaph in question stands on the ri^ht-
hand of the portico (a^ you cume out of the bail)t
and on the left-hand is u. hundbomc obelisk, uonie
twenty-live or thirty feel bitjb, to the memory of
Lord Chatham, beai'ing thid in^ci iption : —
'* GrrLiKuio Pitt, Com. deCbatham: Hoc Amicitim
pnvatix! 'I'cJitniioDiiim, simal et Honoris publid Monu-
meutum posutt Gulidmud DfAper."
J. C.H.
Reliable (3"* S. v. 58.) — The strictures of
J. C. J. on the new-coined word " reliable/* arc
more confident than convincing.
As I bave not bad the advantage of &cein^ what
he may bave previously written on the subject^ I
cannot judge whether he has shown that it is ^* a.
mistake to consider the terminations ^ble and
-able equivalent to Passive Infinitives," but as the
^IJQird under discussion is intended by those who
employ it to come under that rulef this in imma-
teriaL The objection to it^ construction is ob-
vious. It expresses only "to be relied,'* whilst
it is meant to express ** to be relied upon.'* It
may possibly be that otber words in common use
have an equally dcfeclive ftirniation, but that is
no justification for encuiiibcring the language
with more of such awkwardneuaei. '■^ Depend-
able'* is, to use J. C. J.*s phrase, an ** exactly
correspondiDg word'' with reliable, which " cre-
dible (to be believed) is not.
J. C. J. maintains that the word supplies a de*
ficiency in the language, and he rests ids plea on
the broad allegation that '* trust'* and its deriva-
tives are *' properly *' limited to persotuil applica-
tion. I altc^etber demur to so arbitrary a re-
itrictioD. To " trust a tale/* " trust his honesty,**
*' trust kt2i heeb,** &c. &ti., mdA Sbakspcare,
poMidnt^
*' H« tnifthl io yume great aud truii^ buainevi in « mitio
liwgM fait yow. "— X/r# WtU thai £,ult fVttL \
In what old romance does the valiant knight
fall to boast of his ** trusty blade'* ?
** Trustworthy data** — " trustworthy fecta,"
'* trustworthy documents,*' &c. &Cm are phniaes of
everyday occurrence, and I must take leave to
Uissert not less correct than common.
" Trustworthy '* itself is not a word of great
antiquity ; but as I consider it, till better prcKif
be ott'ercd to the contrnry, to answer every pur-
tmne for which " reliable ** or '* dependable " can
DC requiretl, I must unite in the protest against
the intrusion of adjectives —
** . « . Scarce half miide up,
And that so lamoly and unfaabioaably ; '* —
and it is a satisfaction to mc to observe that the
use of " reliable ** ta hitherto confined to a class
of writers tittle likely to influence aspirants to n
pure English diclion, X,
Lewis SIorris (3^* S, v. 12.) — I have amongnt
nay btK>k« a large-jiaper copy of the first edition
of Camhria Triumpkamf, by Percy Endcrbie,
which was once the property of Fabian Philipps,
the author uf Vrriiris Jm:oncusAa^ and has his au*
tograph on the title*paj»e» One hundred and two
years after its publication, the book became the
property of Lewis Morris, the antiquary ; whose
autograjih, with the date 1753, ia also on the title-
pa;;e* On one of the ily* leaves is the following
note : —
** TliiM copy of CoMiUtrux Triurtipkam belonged to that
distingutAbed antiquary, Lowis Moms; the marg^inal
notes are ia hia oivii handwritiof^. This book \vtf« given
to me by hi^ soa Wjlliam ^[orris. of GwaeTod. nenr
AberyatwJLb, Cardiganshire, S. W.—Robt, F. GrtvilU:*
This very rare book passed into my bandt> after
the dispersion of the library of the Hon. Robert
Greville about two years ago. I wish that I
could afford U. H. more information on the sub-
ject of Lewis Morris ; but I have shown that, not
many years ago, he had a son living at Gwaelod,
who is perhaps yet alive,
JOHTS FaVIW PhUXIPS.
Haverfordwe&t.
SocEATEs* Dog (3"^ S. Iv. 475. )~G- R J. wiH
liud the following in Bryant*s Mt^tholoft/^ vol. ii.
p. 34: —
'* It 13 said of Socrates that be fi4}metime« laadd wiS of
ao uacomajon oath, fia ^rht' icvva aoiT^v x*!*^ *y '*« </(Cw
andrjnose, whifih dt tirst does not seem consistent with
tho gravity of his character. But we are informed by
Porpbyn% ih^it this was oot done b^' way of ridicule : for
Socrate/ofitcomed it a v«ry serioas and religioua mode of
uttlfistadoa : and under tbes« terms made a soieaia appeal
to the son of Zetu."
Thus far tbe learned Bryant ; what reference
the oath has to Bible matters, I cannot now dis»
custi ; but Daniel, xii, 1, ha^j reference to it/
Lje Cke\ axjer Dh CiAkM^
* *»to^*.^V\a3iX^\s»^5G^\^l^>«»^^^**»^^^'
86
NOTES AND QUERIES,
[8»*B.V. Jah.M,'«4,
Miit$TUatavui.
NOTES ON BOOBK, ETC.
Thi Pstdms inUrpreUd of ChriaL JBy lAe Bey. Imoc Wil-
liams, B.D. VoL L (RiviugtoiM.)
Those of our readers who are acquainted with Mr.
Williams's Yolumes on the Gospels, will know what to ex-
pect in this Interpretation of the Psalms. They will find
the same accumulation of patristic learning, the same
devotion to the rery letter of Holy Scripture, the same
vein of kindly thoughtful piety. Mr. Williams (as might
be expected^ adopts that ^stem of interpretation, which
supposes all the Psalms of David to be spoken in the
person of Christ, which St. Augustine has worked out in
his £!narratione*, and with which English readers have
been familiarised by the Expotition of Bishop Home. It
is matter of interest to tee this old patristic interpreta-
tion rising up now-a-days, and not afraid to confront the
rude trenchant spirit of modem criticism.
Alexandri Ntekam De Naturit Kenan Libri Duo, With
the Poem of the tame Author ^ De Laudibus Ditnrue
Saptentiic, Edited by Thomas Wright, Esq., M.A., &c.
Publiehed under the Direction of the Maeter of the Bolls,
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The present volume fbmlshes a very curious addition
to the Series of Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain
and Ireland during the Middle Ages, now publishing
under the direction of Sir John Romilly, for it supplies
us, in Neckam's Treatise De Ndturie Berum^ with a
manual of the scientific knowledge of the dose of the
twelfth century, made yet more interesting and instruc-
tive by the contemporary anecdotes so freely introduced
by its author. Alexander Ncckham, for so was the au-
thor of the two documents now first published generally
designated, was foster-brother of Richard Cosur de Lion,
having been, moreover, bom on the same day in the
month of September, 1157. He was educated at St Albans,
then became a distinguished professor at Paris, and i^er-
wards, according to Mr. Wright (p. xil.^, proceeded to
Ital^, though that gentleman seems subsequently (p.
Ixxiv.) to doubt such visit. Neckam eventually became
Abbot of Cirencester, and, dying at Kempeev in 1217,
was buried in Worcester Cathedral. Mr. Wright's in-
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MediiBval Encyclopedia.
7%e Divine Week ; or^ Outlines of a Harmony of the Geo-
logic Periods witli the Mosaic Days of Creation, By the
Rev. J. II. Worgan, M.A. (Rivingtons.)
Mr. Worgan's title sufficiently explains the subject of
his work and the method by which (in his judgment)
the Mosaic Account of the Creation is best snuared with
the discoveries of geology. Instead of understanding
the sacred writer to be describing the preparation of the
globe for man, its present highest occupant, and to ignore
(as not coming within the compass of his design) the
previous revolutions which it had experienced — a view
adopted by the late Dr. Buckland— our author maintains
the theory which at one time found favour with the late
Hugh Miller, that the Mosaic Narrative exactly covers
the geological period, each •* day " coinciding with some
well-marked epoch in the formation of the crust of our
earth.
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that book,^holds a mean between the ezcesalFe adula-
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Drnmann. A good paper on ** Captain Speke*a Joomal "
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learned paper on " Rome in the Middle Ages " nejct fol-
lows, and the Quarterly winds up with a long paper on
that most intricate and vexed question, ** 'Hie fianlsh
Duchies."
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iEthiopic Hymns, Liturgies, &c., by Mr. Rodwell.
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BRBQirflOUB MONUMENTAL rNSCRIPTIONS IN
BUISTOL*
XOBBBT FjTX-HAntmva,
Beneath an arch cut in tlie wall which separates
the FAilnv Ltt*ij Chaj>el fivaji the north aLsle of
^Bristol Cathedral is an altar tomb, which is asu-
mtiily ^kscriWd to Robei*i Fiu-Ilw'diog, the founder
Boif the Berkeley Camilj, and Eva Uis wife. Mr.
■Britlon, however, says (Bristol Cathedral, p, o7)»
*it **may with more certainty be referred to the
thirfl Mjiurice, Lord Berkeley, who died in 1368,
an d K ' - ' * ^ '- ^ ■ - 5 i\^** Both of wh tch s tatemeo t*
8xe. I Oct,
At: ..,.. ,._;,.. ^, ..iiA tomh is & modSprii la^cription
on A plam marble tablci^ which records that it is —
' ' ' r» 1 .. Fltx-Hardjti ' " f
uev of Dei I
^»aad tv : _
he first of this Famiiv
: Thu KoImH Fitz-
Iving
I l*'d iti
I7n; iii iiic iTili wi'Kiufcf Utfiio' ibe Second."
turn ITS If of ()ii^ t( mh repose the efRg^rcs
I iner habited in the
nth century, and the
Uie female aitiro of the same period*
latter
Fv^m this eh^caniitanee H n ohe«r that those
filjure^ could not be intended to ix?prv»ent Kobtsft
Fil«*nHrdintT and his laily, who iiouriahed two
'• i>fmies before; and it will a[»f»eHr also uptni
iiination that it is equally ihuorrect to appro-
. Lta them to a warrior who died in 136l}, aud hi«
wife.
The head of the to ale ^giive h covered whh a
conical skull-cap or helmet which is attached to
a httwbefk or tippet of mail by an interiacfsd oord*
Chain mail ul&o appears ou uje lower part of the
body and the feet; but the upper ponion, iva well
as the front of the arms an a legs, are a>vei'^
with plftte armour. This kind of" mixed hody-
arrnoiir was introduced in the reign of Edward
ir», who ascended the throne in 1307. Tht? dress
of the female etlitry ali*o refers to i ' period
—namely, the beginnintr of the i cen-
tury, when the iittire of ladies ot ruik was coai-
posed of the coif, hood, or veil, nod wimple
covering the head, neck, and chin ; whiht the
bo ly was enveloped in a long loose robe^ over
which was worn a cloak or mantle, Tf>'^ f'ldnnn
appears to have change*! eai"ly in the r<
wurd IIL» who succeeded his father in 1 ii
the loose dress was superseded by the ti^ht- bodied
gown conforming to the shape of the person.
These particulars clearly decide the age of this
monument^ and lixes the date of its erection at
the commencement of the reign of the last-named
monarch. If additioutd evidence were required,
we And it in the tomb itself on which these etfigtea
repose, for the side? are embelliahed with a series
of recessed • ' niches and buttresses, of a
style clearly i that the monument be-
longs to the mnur | period QA the figures resting
upon it.
A comparatively recent iuscrlption on a Hniall
brass plate, on the south side of this tomb, recordii
that it ** was erected to the memory of Maurieej
Lord Berkeley, ninth Baron^ of Berkeley Castte,
who died the 8th day of June, 1368. Also of the
Lady Margaret, his mother, daughter of Rr>ger
Mortimer, Earl of March, and firtit wife of Thomas,
eighth Lord Berkeley. She died the 5 th day of
May, 1337." Why a female should in this ca5e
be represented on a tomb by the side of a maft
who wa£ the husband of another* it is difficult to
conceive. Mr. Br it ton is aiifiuredly wrong in as-
si|fning these eiEgies to so late a jieriod aa 1368^
when th^ fourth, and not ua L' ' third
Maurice^ Lord Berkeley, died; i tire of
botl *" ' ly for that *laie. ma third
M y, died in 1326. He wua
twicL' tJ! lu-L wife being buri^^ ' ^' rt'
bury, II nghi«^ to the family, n
miUa frri.i ,,., viiv\ and in the couniv -
set; but his Sfc^coud wife, who was Is i i^-
ter of Gilbert d& Cl1M:^^V^iiW;5. ^xvoe. ^- ^ "^^
NOTES AND QUEREEa
[B^av. jAx.acvu
tBe female represented with this third Maurice,
her husband^ on the monument referred to,
JUDGE CBADOCC
On Q chantry tomb in the Newton Chapel also
in the cathedral, is the following inscription,
which was placed there " by Mrs. Archer, sist^sr
to the late Sir ^lichael Newton of Barrs Court,
1748 "—
** la memory of Sir Richaril Newton Cradock of Barra
Cmtrt, iu the County of Glouceat«jrp one of hia Majeatifls
Jiulicea of the Common Pleftt* who died December the
13th, 1444, and with hia Latly lies iaterr*d beneath thia
nioaumeoC*
The above inscription remained undisputed bj
any writer until the meeting of the Archaeological
Institute for 1851 %x\\^ held in this city, when, iu
n paper by the Rev. H. T. Ellacombb, M.A.,
F»8.A, the atateraent it contains was completely
refuted. It was there shown that, although its
erection *' may have been to the memory of a Cra-
dock, the notion that the judge was buried there
tnu5t have arisen from some misapprehension, and
it is not true that he died in 1444 ; (for) the last
fine levied before him was in November, 1448/'
Mr. ELLAco»t»E then proceeds " to prove, be-
yond a doubt, that Judge Cradock and hia lady
rest in Yatton church, Somerset ;" where^ in the
centre of the De Wyck Aisle, or north transept,
stands a very handsome alabaster altar tomb. Its
sidea are enriched with five beautifully-wrought
niches, wlthiji which are full-length figures of
angets holding; shields, which Collinson says {Hist,
o/ Somerset^ yo\, iii. p. 619), were once charged
with the arms of Newton and Shirburn, impfded
with Perrott; but they are now almost entirely
obliterated. The east and west ends of the tomn
hftve each two niches, with figures and shields
corrcfponding with those on the sides. On the
summit, the venerable judge is represented in the
coniume of men of his rank at the time in which
he Uvc<i — * a skull* cap (beneath which his hair is
seen) tied under his cnin, and his person is covered
with a robe reaching to his feet ; over hia ahoulders
he wears a tippet extending halfway down his
iiztns. Covering alt is a cloak or mantle, falling
nearly to the ankles. This is fastened on the
right shoulder by a button, and beneath it round
the neck is a cmltir of esaes. This cloak hangs
gracefully on the left side, and ia passed over
the left arm after the manner of tue chesible
on thj*t of ecclesiastics. Hound the middle is an
ornamental girdle^ from which depends a abort
sword in an enriched scabbard; and also the
gjmcicre or purse, common in the reigns of Henry
VL ftnd Edwmd IV, The head of the judge rests
tm what Appears to liave been a helmet* but-
motsoted «^«th •> ^rrcath crowned with a ducsl
coronet^ ' li issues a garb, tbo creat of tha
family; i t agamst two doga.
On the left side of the judge lie the effigkaafi
slender female habite^i in a flowing robe, reicb*
ing to the feet ; but to the upper part of the pr
son it fits tight down to the wrists* wliere ili
laced, leaving however the breasts expoaed. Oft.
this is another robe reaching to the kiieeiiiri|
terminating with a broad hem ; it is iiai
from the neck by narrow bands, passing over
chest, and leaving the under robe^ whicb alts c
at the hips, exposed below the waist, which ii
circled with a small ornamented girdle, Tram
curb-chain round the neck was apparentljr •»-
pendcd a cross, beneath which a cord, reaching t^
the knees, terminates with small tassels* Higher 9
in the neck is an ornamental collar or bajid, frvm.
which hangs a jewel. A cloak or mantle, fasUajri
across the breast by a cordon and jewel a, c^xtoai)
to the feet, which it nearlv envelopes. The boi
once supported by angels, is covered with Ck
mitred head-dress, the front having a broi^
turned-up lappet above the forehead, from wheoe
the mitre issues. On each side at the feet ki
small dog, and the hands of both figures ore nmi
as in supplication ; but the entire inotmiBiiiC,
with ita emgies and beautiful sculpture, ifl nae^
mutilated.
" This tomb (says Mr. Ellacombe) is by tradiCiOB at*
cribed to Judge Cradock. The female figure !■ BU^pomi
to reprcaent Emma de Wick. The inBcnption i« fooc
There can be no doubt, from the eoatame, that tlie vffk
effiiry Is that of a judge. That it is a Grndock is
firmed by the garb or wheat-shaal^ on which hi* liasd ii
laid, BMidea, m the interesting accounts of the chvch*
wardens of Tattoa, anno 1450-1, amon^ th« rteeipta t^an
is this entry : * It, rccipimus de D'no ue Wirlca pir maaa'
J. Newton^ filii sai de legato Dn*i RicL Newtoo, ad— ff
Camoana xx».*
** That this date is nearer the time of hta doaUl ttei
1444, as stated on the monument in the C4ith««|fal^ ||
conilrmed by the fact of the fine levied in 144S/'
Mb. Eixacostbe then proceeds to give ath<r
reasons for his opinion, and finishes his remarJ
follows: —
" I conclode, therefore, that Judge Cradock**
in Tattoa Churth, and that the tomb io Bristol Catli«iifal I
it not hia I hare not been uble to assign th«t torn h to 1
any otbar of the family, uai«ss it ti« to Rieha^'f
a grandion of the judge, the time of whose Aa^i
would accord well with the design of themontuaeni ; mtm i^
is Dot known where he was buried. If my view b««onvd»
the circumstance of his being celled RucAard, oUcr kii
grandfather, mi^ht have led to the iitistako^**— -(/V«ca«
i»gs of the Archaoloffical lH»fit^t9t 1S51, pp. 237 — 342^)
A third erroneous mnnuraental inseription Ui|
Bristol Cathedral is that to the memory of
mOIIBBT fOUTUSTt
which is cbisellcd oo a pedesUl of marble* aAer i
tlu 1 " * f 'he rerpendicular ttylo of Ei^lajli j
uaih a bust of tho poo( IsiireAfei^ f
an^i
i^
» Jau. so, '64]
NOTES AND QUEBIES-
8d
••K45bert Soothey,
Born in Bristol
October iv., mjccuutn-.
Died ftt Keswick,
March xxL^ mboocxuji."
is perhaps the most iDexcusabtc of all,
,ey himself aay 8 (SeUctioru from hU Letter s^
^ r, p. 334), I was born August 12tb, 1774, in
e Street, Bristol, where my father kept u
hdraper*5 fihop;*^ and in another place he aays
lie "was bom at No. 11, Wine Street, below
pump : " the house now occupied by Mesgrs.
\ and Clark, furriers, inc. Sou they 'a family
p, in its elder branch, to have ^*^ long since
ipeored;" but a younger son *^ emigrated
I Lancashire, and established himself as a
|ier at Wellington, in Somersetshire^" From
jfotinger son t^e poet derived his descent.
|e last error of the same character which I
L notice at present, is on a tablet erected in
fbury Nonconformist Chapel in this city, to
paiDOTate the names ot Jive sufierers, and the
of their martyrdom, who, in the reign of
ki Mary, rather than abjure th*^ Protestant
I sealed the truth with their blood on this
[ The tablet records as follows : —
^_^ " la Memory
^^k of the undernamed
^^ Martjrt
i who, during the reiga of Que«n Mary,
j for the «vowiil of their Clinatian faith,
were hurat to death on the groood
upon which this Chapel is erected*
ftkhard Shaptoo, Richard Sharp,
pered OcL 1555. May 17th, 1567.
Kdwurd Sharp, Tbomas Hale,
Rath, 1556, May 17th, 1557.
I Thomas Banion,
' Attgiiat 17tb, 1557.
t afiraid of them that kilt the body, and i^er
\ that have no more thai they caa do/ *'
^e error on this tablet is in the number of the
fers, and not in the fact; and it occurs in
ames of the first two martyrs there men-
&d, the mistake resting with Mr. Seyer, the
lOr of the Memoirs of Briiiol, who perpetually,
pghout his work, quotes the dubious manu-
^ calendars relating to this city, which I have
te shown were, according to his own testi-
^, utterly unworthy of credit {2°* S. v. 154).
of these records (says Mr. Seyer) contabs
[allowing : —
W5. Oo the irth of October, one WHliam Shepton
I Shapman, aHat Shapcn), a weaver, was burnt for
kotber cdendtr (he continues) is thus : —
T-^ T • ea, one A weaver, the other a
I' - Michaer* 11 ill for religion.
JL y - ijan was burnt for denying the
got the aitor to Le the very body and blood of
\y and suhetantially."
e then mean to say there were three ?
;ites a third of these mischievous calen-
dars, in which the name of Edward Sha,rpe occurs,
and this, I have no doubt, has caused the error
referred to : for there is no mention whatever of
such a person having suflered martyrdom in Bris-
tol by any writer deserving the name of an autho-
rity. In the best edition of Fox's Martj/rs — that
of 1646— /oar only are recorded, namely, William
Sarton, who was burnt September 18, 1556 ;
Richard Sharp, May 7, 15a7 ; Thomas Hale,
burnt in the same fire with Richard Sharp, and
Thomas Benion, who Bufl*ered on the 27 th of the
same month and year. {AcU and Momanent$, voL
iii. pp. 749, 750, 855.) Geobqs P*tcb.
Bhstot City libraiy.
KEDDCTION OF BATHLIN IN 1575.
Many are of opinion that Milton's well* known
similitude of EngUshhistory, prior to the ac-
cession of Henry Vll,, applies better to the
early state of Ireland than to his own country.
Notwithstanding, however, the deliberate judg-
ment of so eminent an authority in the one case,
and its very ready acceptance by the multitude in
the other, I fuUy concur with your correspondent.
Mm. Gso. Hlzx, that the history of the Conquest
or " Plantation*' of Ulster, in the sixteenth century,
is deserving of more extended treatment than it
has hitherto received at the hands of tbe proft^sed
historian, more particularly in our own time.
Happily, the day nos dawned when the governing
policy of Queen Elizabeth and her immediate suc-
cessors in the land of St. Patrick, can be discussed
by all sincere loyalists and lovers of truth and
justice* as well there as here, without any danger
of rekindling the extinct fires of national bigotry.
In the lapse of three centuries, the angukrities of
the Celtic and Saxon natures respectively have
been rounded ofiiold factious riYalries have ceased,
and, under themore benign sway of our present most
excellent sovereign, the two peoples Lave become
one indeed, cherishing the same loyal sentiments,
the same political aspirations. The experience of
the Past IS the property of both, and both may
deduce from it, t£ they will, many invaluable les-
sons for the Present and Future, But this, by-
tbe-way. My purpose is, in some measure* to
supplement the paper of Ma, Hox (mde snnrd^
p. 47.) I do not pretend to have studied so
deeply the various incidents of the sanguinary
struggle in Ulster, in the beginning of Elizabeth's
reign, as that gentleman hus done ; but when in-
vestigating, some months ago, the early career of
Sir Francis Drake, I had occasion to consult
sundry documents and ^."orrespondence of the
period bearing ujion it, which are preserved in the
State Paper Office. That labour resulted in the
discovery (or that which is tantamount to it) of a
very interesting passage in the life of the admiraL
90
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S'AS.V. JAH»mti
After his successful voyage to the West Indies
in 1J72, Drake, in the following year, joined the
standard of Walter Earl of Essex, when that
easily-ffulled courtier was moved to undertake
his quixotic expedition to " the gall and nursery
of all evil men in Ireland," as m one of his de-
spatches thence to the Lord Treasurer, he desig-
nated Ulster, the scene of his exploits/ Ostensibly
his object was ^^ to rid her majesty*8 subjects of
the tyranny of the Scots ; '* f Dut really to seize
upon the district of Glanheboy or Clanhughboy (co.
Antrim), the ancient territory of the 0*]Seils, de-
scendants of the princes of Tyrone; which, after its
conquest, the too confident adventurer proposed to
divide amongst the most distinguished of his fol-
lowers. This pretty little scheme of spoliation
was patronised by, if it did not orimnate with, the
(]ucen, and was finally brought to oear by the in-
tervention of Leicester, who only desired to banish
his rival from the court. It generally happened,
whenever Elizabeth condescended to participate
with any of her subjects in speculations of a pecu-
niary or [)olitical nature that she got the best of the
bargain, and such was the case in the present in-
stance. She bestowed upon tissex two birds in
the bush for the one whicn he placed in her hands.
In other words, the earl was compelled to surrender
fifteen of his manors in England for the possible
acquisition of half a county in Ireland. Amongst
his followers were, besides Drake, the Lords Dacre
and Rich, Sir II. Knoll vs and his four brothers,
and three of the "black sons of Lord Norreys.
According to all the published biographies of
Drake, the fact of his service in Ireland, between
the years 1573-1575, is known only by tradition.
It has been said that he fitted out, at his own ex-
ponce, '* thrnc frigates " (or rather /rigots, a very
dilfereiit class of vessel to our frigate, which was
not intro.lu«.ed into the royal navy until at least a
century later), with which he rendered material
aid to the filibustering cause; but in what parti-
cular way, or in what particular place, had passed
out of reinenibrance. The facts which I have dis-
interred from th«' national archives show, that he
was coinniissioned for the service by the queen, and
that he commanded the squadron which conveyed
Essex and his force, comprising 1200 horse and
focit, to the R'cne of their adventure. lie landed
them at Carrickfeigus in the last week of August,
1573. His own ship, called the " Falcon,'*' was
jirobahly a hired one, as aUo her consorts. If so,
the duty ^^C selecting them had dcvtdved u|h)1i
hiin>elf, and hence the tradition of his having sup-
pli' «l them at his own cost.
llf)w Ky-ij'x fared on his arrival in Ireland: how
he was per^i9lL•ntly thwarted by a jealous Lord-
Depuiy; ht)w he was gradually deserted by his
folinwers of eviry di*;:ree; and how, in fine, he
• K!«94X to IhirKhlev, 23 Junf, 1674, k^. I'. O.
t VkU Ills ProclanuiUoii, 20 fe^pu lOrs.— /A.
was crushed to death by an ever-increasing wdgk
of disappointment, sorrow, and anguish, are ma-
ters too well known to need recapitulation in us
place. The only real success he could boast d t
his Irish campaign, was the sutprisal and reductia
of the island of Kathlin — a sei-vice in whidik
had no personal share. It was effected by ft
naval skill and military courage of Francis Dnk
and John Norr^vs.
Of the early history of Rathliti or Rsgliery*
know very little, beyond the fact that, fW>m a te
remote period, it served for a steppinf;r-8tone 1
the Scots, " who came (as that marrellously »
dustrioUs compiler, Mr. Rowley Lucellei^ tt
presses it) swarming from the filebrideii fak
Ulster/* It lies about five miles off the norttet
coast of Antrim, immediately opposite to BsHi^
castle. Its shape is that of an acute wnpe^i
which the upper or horizontal line eztena («"
cording to the Ordnance survey) four miles, vi
the lower or perpendicular line three mOs
Access to its shores is, I believe, at all times H
ficnlt, so many shoals encompassing them; ist
owing to a very singular and violent conflictisB
of the tides, known locally as the ** Slofftn-
morra," or gulp of the sea, it is somethnei ex-
ceedingly dangerous, if not altogether imprac-
ticable. The Kinramer, or western end of tie [
isle, is craggy and mountainous, and the cosft '
destitute of a harbour ; but the Usheti or easten
end, is more level and fertile, besides being sup*
plied with several small ports.
At the time when K^sex resolved to sulpriftc
it, the island was subject to Sorlcy Boj, or
Somhairle M^Doiinel (youngest son of Alexander
M*Donnel, quondam Lord of the Isles), who, on
the death of his bmther, Alexaiider Oge M*Doi:-
ncl, possessed himself of it, assuming at the same
time the chieftainship of the Irish- Scots, and
seizing upon the person of his nephew, the son f
of his deceased brother, whom he detained there
as an hostage. This captive is "the pledge'
mentioned below by the Earl, in his despatch to ;.
the (Jucen, and one of the few who was specially '
exempted from butchery by his exasperated
troops.
The want of provisions, although it was the
height of ^ummer, obliged Essex to break up fab
camp, which was then in the vicinity of Currick-
fergus, and betake himself to the Pale. Before
his retreat, lie garrisoned the town, and left it in
charge of John Xorreys. Its safety was further
in.su red by the presence of Drake. Although, as
before int'niated, Essex took no personal shari* in
the attack u{)on Kathlin, the plan and all its de-
* I liAve rfiail soiiiewhen.*, that thp nanioof tlie iaUnd
has fuiYtfTVil Ml ninny vRriutioiis in its uitho^raphy as
reiulvr:* it luiw iinpOMtible to ilcKTinino wliat inav bv the
most proper. From the days uf Pliny to our ovrBt it has
been spelled in tan or a down dlfferedt ways.
8^ 8. V. Jaic. 80, '84]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
91
tails orif;inated with, and were perfected by him-
self. The whulc shows that he was not doficicnt
in military sagacity or skill. In his despatch to
Elizabeth he says : —
" I thought good to leese' no opportunity that might
lerve to the annoying of the Scot (ti^ainst whom only I
have now to make war), and flnding it a thing very
necessary to leave a good garrison at Carigfergue, for that
purpose 1 appointed t36& footmen and iftj» horsemen to
reside there, noder the rule of Capt John Norroyce, to
whom I gave a secret charge, that having at Caricftrgus
the three frigates, and wind and weather serving, to
confer with the captains of them, and on the sudden to
set out for the taking of the island of the Raoghllerns
(with care in their absence to leave a sofHcient guard for
the keeping of the town of Carigfergus) ; and when I
had given this direction (to make the Scots less sus-
picions of any such matter pretended), I withdrew myself
towards the Pale, and Capt. Norryco with his company
to Carigfergus, with my letters of direction onto the
captains of the three frigates, which he found there nady
for my service." *
Norreys, accordingly, on the departure of his
chief, took counsel with Drake, Potter, and SydaT*
" the captains of the three frl|?ate8," who, readily
assenting to the practicability of the proposed
scheme, concludea to take it in hand at once.
They collected all the small boats belonging to
tlic town, which would suffice for transports, and ,
on July 20th, the expedition got under weigh |
from Carrickfergus. It is not added what number
of men was told off for this service. Owing to
the variableness of the winds the fleet, when at
sea, parted company, and nearly three days were
consumed in making the island. Ko other incon-
venience, excepting the loss of time, resulted from
this delay ; for (says Essex), " all so well cuided
tliemselvcs, that they met at the landing-place of
the Raughliens the xxij day in the morning at
one instant." The spot chosen for the debarca-
tion of the troops was probably in Church Bay.
The islanders, perceiving the tardy approacn of
the English, and fully comprehending their object,
had ample time to prepare for resistance. They
drew up all their forces on the beach, every foot
of which they obstinately contested ; but being
at length overpowered by the invaders, they fled,
panic-stricken, " to a castle which they had, of
very great strength," where, outstripping their
pursuers, they shut themselves in. The castle
referred to by the Earl was probably that which
bore the name of the Bruc », from the fact of his
having found an asylum there, in the winter of
1806, when driven out of Scotland by Baliol.
The foundations of it are still visible in the north-
eastern corner of the island.
The English proceeded to invest the place, and,
afier^ much hard fi^jhting, in which several fell
on either side, including " the captain " of the
besieged, the latter were conipellecl, on the 26th,
, */"i <^' A -P. O. Essex to the Qiiemj Jolj 8L
10/0.
to capitulate, almost unconditional! v. Only the
lives of the ** Constable," and of his wife and
child, were guaranteed ; " all the rest were to
stand on the curtesy " of the victors. What fol-
lowed is best described in the language of Essex :
" The soldiers being moved and much stirred with the
loss of their fellows, which were slayne, and desirous of
revenge, made request, or rather pressed to have the
killing of them, which they did all, saving the persona
to whom life was promised, and a pledge which was
prisoner in the castle was also saved, who iii son to ^Uex-
ander Og M*Alyster Harr>'. . . . There were slayn that
come out of the Castle, of all sorts, CC i and presently
news is brought me, out of Tv'rone, that they be occupied
still in killin^^, and have slayn [all] that they have
found hidden in caves and in dins of the sea, to the
number of CCC* more.**
Deteriores omnes namu licenHd I For myself^ I
am thankfid to have lived in the age of Mormon
and Zadkiel, instead of in that of Bacon and
Shakspere.
The spoil taken in the island amounted to 4000
sheep, 300 kine, 200 stud mares, and sufficient
" beer-corn " to supply 800 men for a whole year,
besides other more valuable household property.
If ferocious to his enemies, Essex was grateful
to his friends, more especially to the conquerors
of llathlin. In beseeching the (lucen to favour
them with a letter of thanks for tneir services, he
assures her majesty that, ^* both for captains and
soldiers, there is no prince in Christendom can
have better, nor more willing minds to serve her *'
than these. He reiterated this request to the
lords of the Council, as well as to Walsingham, to
whom, in a private communication, he adds in a
postscript,—
*< I do understand this day by a spy, coming from
Sorleboy's camp, that upon my late journey made against
him, he then put most of his plate, most of his children,
and the children of the most part of his gentlemen with
him, and their wives into the Itaughlicns, which be all
taken and executed, as the spy saith, and in all to the
number of viC*. Sorley then also stood upon the main-
land of the Qlynns, and saw the taking of the island, and
was likely to run mad for sorrow (as the spy saith),
tearing and tormenting himself, and saying, that he then
lost all that ever he had."
" As the spy saith,** — twice repeated! Let us
flatter ourselves with the idea, that the writer*8
humanity was slightly touched — that he was har-
bouring an agreeable suspicion that some, if not
all, of these helpless women and children had
escaped from the swords of his fiendish soldiery.
Essex set great store by his conquest of Kath-
lin : it was the only fruit of his costly labours in
Ulster. Among the Cott. MSS. in the British
Museum, there is one (Titus, B. xii. f. 417),
entitled ^' The Earle of Essex Declaracon in what
Estate he founde Ulster ut his arrival there, and
how he left it at his comeiiig awaye." The Karl
remarks therein, inter alia, "when I was dis-
charged, I left the Raughliens in her maj*" pus-
session, as the bea^ T&»ia^ \s^ '«ki ss^xsi^^s?^ "^^
92
NOTES AND QUERIEa
1$^ S. V, Jam. 80, %i,
hunish the Scot/* He la asked (probably hf
Burghley) : " What Is meant to be done with the
iaie of Ruughliena ; and how mny It be recovered
and kept ; and what profit may grow thereby ? *'
To which Et>»ex replies ; ** A for lifi cation in the
BaughlieoB, with a salBcient force to resifit their
landing at the first, ia the moat requisite ; within
short space fit] will bear the charge with a gain/*
Of the subsequent fortunes of the island, llcnow
nothing. 3.
FASHIONABLE QUABTERS OF LONDON.
[no. UL'^
The Revolution introduces us to the great
Lord Somers ; who, soon after he was appointed
I/ord Keeoer of the Great Seal, removed from
the Temple to Powis House, in Lincoln*!! Inn
Fields. This house Kin^ William determined
should be for ever appropriated to the use of the
Chancellor or Keeper. It was, therefore, pur-
chased by the government, in 161^6, for that pur-
ni'ise ; and Lord Somers, and hia successor Sir
Nathan Wright, both remained in it while they
held the office.
Lord Cowper^ during his first Chancellorship in
Queen Anne*s reigHi also resided in the same
bouse, as also did hia aucceasor Lord Ilarcourt;
but before Lord Cowper'a second Chancellorship,
in the beginning of the reign of George I,, the
houfle had come into the possession of the Duke
of Newcastle, and was thenceforward called New-
castle House, It still exists, and forms the north-
west angle of Lincoln*8 Inn Fields, leading into
Great Queen Street, After leaving this house.
Lord Cowper removed to Great George Street,
Westminster.
I am not certain where Sir Thomas Parker, tbe
unfortunate Earl of Macclesfield, resided while he
WJ1H Lord Chancellor of George L ; but be was at
the time of his death building a house m St,
Jameses Square; and he died, in 1732, in his son's
house in Soho Square,
Of George ILs first Chancellor, Peter, Lord
King, I do not know the town rcfiidence. His
second Chancellor, Charles^ Lord Talbot, lived
and died in Lincoln*a Inn Fields, but in what
house is not stated, Ilis third Ohaiicellon Philip,
Lord Hardwicke, who held the Great Seal nearly
twenty years, died seven years after his resigna-
tion in a house so far west as Grosvenor Square ;
but bis residence, while he was in office, was in
SDOther Powis Hou^te in Great Orraond Street,
tll6 site of which is now occupied by Powis Place,
Of the numerous Cbancellori of Gcor*rti HL,
I do not know the olficial residenccM of Itobcrt
||^„T ... r, ,.] ^,(* Northington^ nor of Charles
Pi Camden ; but tho latter died at his
btH ,. ,1 Street, Berkeley Sciu^re, iu 1794,
twenty-four years after his retirement, wben i
gration to the west had become commmi.
Henry Bathurst, Lord Apsley and Karl of I
t hurst, on receiving the Great Seal, re-sided in D*
Street, Soho ; but afterwards built Apsley Hou
in Piccadilly, now the residence of the Duke i
Wellington-
For the town residences of the Hon.
Yorke, of Kdward, Lord Thurlow, of AJejj
Lord Loughborough, and of some oiber
which I am unacquainted, I mtist rely upo
numerous correspondents.
John Scott, Earl of Eldon, resided wben
Chancellor, at first in Bedford Square, and thei]
in Hamdton Place, Pi<:cadilly.
Thomas Enikine, Lord Erskine, during the brW
period in which he held the Great Seal, resided
on the south aide of Lincoln's Inn Fields, in ik
house afterwards occupied by the Vernlam Clu
John Singleton Copley, Lord Lyndhurst — Li
Chancellor to three sovereigns, Geor;^e TV,, Wil
tiam IV*, and our present Queen — dred tli«oC^
day (as we all have cause to lament) at tli(^ j
archjd age of ninety-two, in the house in
Street, Hanover Square, which he occupied i
in office.
Lord Brousbam's residence while L«
cellor to William IV., was in Grafton Str
Bond Street.
With regard to Queen Victoria's CbanccUow, 1
require information as to the residence* of ^ ' ^
Earl of Cottenham, Lord Truro, and Lord
Leonard's, while in office ; but they were wXL
the west.
Lord Cranworth resided in Upper Brooke St
GroBvenor Square*
Lord Chelmsford's house was, and if, in ]
Square.
Lord Campbell carried the Seal as far aontl
west as Stratheden House, Knightsbridge : aa|
the present Chancellor, Lord Westbury, Uvea
much the same distance north-west, in Hj
Park Gardens, Bayswaler Rood,
Having thus shown the migration of tbe^e leg
functionaries from one extreme to the other,
hope some of your correspondents will supply youf
with the progress of fashion which ha^ led oLbe
classes and professions from the east to the w<
And I shall be obliged by any a*iditions to,
correetionfi o/» the dctjula which I have oflTigr
you. EnwAaii Fon, I
Th-
and b'
th •
t^
JOH?^ FREDERICK LAHPK
' * V the mujit< ' ^''
'If the lim^
"i"
8»* S. V. iJji. SO, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
93
»
In the true spirit of burleacitie,) are rety contra-
dictory.
Hawkins (History of Music, London, 1776, v.
371), say? **Lampe died in London about twenty
Tears ago/' Bumey {Hiitory of Muitic^ iv. 672«
London, 1789,) tells us tlint Lampe, "quitting
London in 1 749, resided two years at Dublin \
and in 1 750 went to Edinburgh, where he settled,
very much to the satisfaction of the patrons of
muaic in that city, and of himself; but in July,
1751, be wai» 5eij?ed with a fever which put an
end to his existence at the age of fifty- nine/'
This statement is repeated, in nearly the same
words, in the article "Lampe" in Rees*^ Cyclo-
media (also written by Burney), the date 1748,
however, being substituted for 174J). The ac-
count given in Bumey'a History is copied in
Gerbers Lexicon der Tonkiavttler (iii. 166, Leip-
zig, 1813), and in Schilling's Lexicon der Ton*
kUrut (iv. 312, Stuttgart, 1837). The Dictionary
of Musicians (London, 1824,) states that " Lampe
died in London in the year 1751;" and Fetis
{Biographic des Musiciens^ Brussels, 1840, vi. 34),
says, " II raourut en 1756.'*
The General Advertiser^ London newspaper, of
Thursday, September 12, 1751, has the following
paragraph : —
** By letters from Edinburgh, we have the following
inscHptioa, tAkeo from the monaraent of Mr, Lampe, the
cdebnited Master of Musick^ who lately die4 there : —
" ' Here li^ the mortal Remains of John Frederick
Loinpe, whose bannonjotis Compoeitions shall outlast
moonmental I{eg:uter8, and with melofiious Nolea through
future Ages perpetuate his Fame, 'till Time nhall sink
into Eternity. Hii Taste for moral Hfirrnony appenri'd
through all big Conduct, He was a must loving Hus-
band, an nfTectionate Father^ Friemi, and CompAnion.
On the 26th Day of July, 1761, in the 48th Year of his
A^e, he was sammoned'to join that heavenly Concert
with the bleeeed Choir above, where his virt'uooa Soul
now enjovns that Harmony which was bis chief Delight
upon EarthJ "
It is curious fsupposing thia mneription to be
ac^umte) that the statements of nil Lampe'a bio-
graphers should be more or less tainted with
error : Bumej, whose account in other reapecta
is correct, erring with respect to the deceased's iwge.
Can any of your readers inform us in what
church, churchyard, or other place of sepulture
in the Scottish metropolis^ Lampe^'s remains rest ?
Wliat ia the character of his monument, if exi^-
iT\g ? And whether the copy o( the inscription,
gtTeil in the Oeneral Adnertiser^ is correct or
not? W. H. HosK.
PAIJNT>ROMICAL VERSES: JANl DE BI89CHOP
CHORCS MUSARUM.
The pages of ♦* N. & Q,/' have repeatedly con*
tained specimens of Palindromical verses and
other kinds of misdirected literary labour ; but I
do not recollect of having ever met with any
notice of a work now before me, which I should
imagine to be unparalleled in the annals of tiuch
trifling.
I subjoin its title, verbatim : —
^* Jani De Bisschop Chorus MuMrani, id cat, Elogia,
Poemata, Epfgrofflmata, Echo, jEnignidta, Ladua Poeti-
CI19, Ars Hermetica, &e. Lugduni Batavorant,
r Job : Da Vivie, )
Ex Offidna < ct >mdcc."
I Is: Severini J
The volume, a stout small 8vo of 434 pages,
commences — after two dedications, one of them to
Cornelius De Witte, Baro de Ruiter — with a
series of elo^ia on different members of the Dc
Ruiter family. A poem on the Birth-day of
William IIL and others on the Praise of Amster*
dam, the Fire of Loudon, &c. succeed. Next
in order are the Epigrams, occupying nearly 160
ptt;jes, and for the most part wofuUy deficient in
Sjint, all at least I have had patience to read*
ere is one of the best : —
'■ ErwttmuM infans,
** Pamts eras, nee Erasmos eras mus, dictus Erasmus,
Die age, ai Sum mus, tunc quoque summua ero."
The next division of the work, and the first
which is characteristic of it — entitled Lndus
Posticus — begins with a Palindromical poem ;
apparently, however, not written by Bisschop, u
it IS termed Melos retrogradum iLypi^mv,
This composition extends to no less than sixty
lines, but the first six will probably be enough for
the readers of " N. & Q*" —
** Sumere tironem si vis, me norit oremas:
Jurem non animo, nomina non meruL
Aspice : nam niro mittlt timor anna, nee ipsa.
Si se mente reget, eon tegeret Nemesis.
Me turn animat rect^ me dem, et cert&mxna matetn,
Si res una velit utile, van us eris."
It will be observed that each line may be made
the same syllabicaUy, whether read from right to
left» or vice rersd.
Next in order is a poem, In NataJem Christie
extending to eighteen lines, and constructed on a
model which wUl be best understood by a speci-
men : —
" Msgne pnelle^ jaces lectd» te stringit egeitas;
Agne tenelte, tacea tccto, me cingit hooestaa.
jEthera pax sp«roit, dux roajestate tremendi:
Sidera fax cemit, lux libertale verendft."
Various classes of similar verses succeed, which
I shall name in order, giving a specimen of each.
" Qmcordantes Vemu,
veatui - q|oaa obruit
Accendit dammss, unda,
vioum quod temperat
Cifrretaiivi Ferms.
Pripdotort miles, lictor* neco, saacio, tnict^
PJebem, hoalcm, ftircnn fraudibus, ense, cnice»
Sic It^o prtBctdmit* vertirtttot: ^<Bia*MT i»»s*>V**-
94
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8M&V. Jas.
M,**! 1
fraudibu*: miks samcio hottem enu; Ketor aocto fitrtm
cruet,
Scalarii gradaiio,
Sol solas solidat solamina sollicitornm
Sollicitatorum sollicitudinibus.
Gigantei Versus.
** Terrificarenint Otthomannopolitanoa
Intempestivis anxietudinibiu.
Debellaverant GratianopoUtanos,
Teniculamentis, Carlomontesii.
Depag:iiaverunt Constantinopolitani,
Opprobramentis illachrymabilibos/'
Vertus reeurrwUs teu rtciproeif exharoico FtmUmttnan,
'^ Agros cultor arc non pigra sedulitate.
Sedulitate pigra non aro cultor agros."
LitertB HetrogradtB. — This is. a letter regarding
a joun^ man to his father, which, read from the
beginning, expresses praise, and, from the end
(the punctuation at the same time being slightly
alter^), censure. One sentence, forming about
one-fifch of the whole, will suffice : •—
'* Pater, illius tuns fnigi viyit« nee preciosios tempoB,
ct pecuniam dilapidat ; fruquentandis identidem tempHs
et gymnasiis, non compotationibas, comessationibos, ve-
natui, aleifl, ludis operam dat. Vice versa,
*' Dat operam ludi8» aleis, yenatui, comessationibus,
compotationibus, non gymnasiis ct templis identidem fre-
qnentandis : dilapidat pecuniam et tempus prociosius, nee
vxvit fnigi tnus filius, pater."
Lunu in hterd A, Law Gulielmi III., ^e,
** Agglomerata acics, addensans agmiois alas,
Advolat auxiliis, arroqao affiilget aperto:
Auriacusquo aniens animis, aniroosior arte*
AuctoratuH adost, arraa aureus, auroud arma
Adfrumit ; auratis armis accingitur armos."
And so on for thirty- three lines more.
J-Jcho in Ignuticolas. — This is a long poetical
invective against the followers of Ignatius Loyola,
extending to fifly-two pages, and containing many
references to notorious members of the order and
their nefarious doings. Each line ends with an
" echo," thus —
" Patros Jesu nomen sibi arrogantca, ftirantur, — urantur.
Est MK^ietus superba, famosa, passim invisa, orbi fatalis ;
—talis.
PatroM quflBrunt gloriam sui, non Deimajorem ;— o rem !
Ignatiuni, hominem militarem Deo, assimolant,— simu-
lant."
Ixtgogriphi. — Virtus, vims, vir, tus.
T si sustuleris medio do nomine ; rcrum
Optima qu» fueram, rt'rum tunc poHsima flo.
Mas caput est ; mea cauda petit sibi funus, et ignes.'*
JEni^mata, — Of these there are upwards of
three hundred. We subjoin the sixty-ninth, on
a telescope : —
•* Non video ; per me facio vidisse remota :
Kxtcndor, minuor; manus adiuvat. Aspicisex mo
Sidora, qus fugiunt oculos. Ego servio nautis."
We al<o subjoin one of a different class: —
" Oi> pajKipa, ii mamama : mors mmrum crit phusphus-
phus iFa>.Tnns, ct miniiminu^ \\\9 rererente : felicicici iii
ad pamnim mimiminare popopount.
** Sie Ugiio voces prtectdentes : Obis paler, ibis maier :
mors duorum erit iriun^pkus tetemuM, et to mimuM viim to*
reruB : fdiciter iter adpatriam temdnare poteruni,*'
Among some Sentenlioi retragrada^ p. 414^ o^
curs the famous line which has been diacoised b
" Sator erepo tenet opere rotas."
It will be observed there is a slight difierenee
between this version and the common one. If
we suppose Erepo to be a proper name, then,
some such meaning as this might be educed from
this puzzling line, which it is worth noting Biss-
chop speaks of as ancient (antiquum) — The planter
Erepo holds (or arrests) by an effort the wneels.
Anagrammaia,
- Quid est Veritas ? Est vir qui adest
Ignatius Xaverius. Gavisi sunt vexari.
Cornelius Jansenius. Calvini sensus in ova."
I have now furnished the readers of " N". k Q,"
with sufficient materials for forming an eatin^te
of this extraordinary volume. Their aatonidi*
ment will be immeasurably enhanced when thej
read the following sentence, which comprises tbe
whole of a preliminary address to the reader, witb
the exception of a reference to the very numenos
typograpliical errors which occur throughout Um
work : —
" Si poematuro mcorum fontes, ingcnii tui palate stpnmti
addam praeterea fcrculorum delicias, qninqae alia vola-
mina, eadem, ut hie libellus, forma in octavo imprimenda;
quorum secundum volumen erit Heroicoram poematniB;
tertium FLIegiacorum variorum plurimorum : qnaitam
Klegiacorum in Patroni Comniire Jesuitam Galium, qoi
Maui^ STirAKTj£ reginn) Manes cunsceleravit : quinlnB
Lyricurum : sextum i'llogiorum : septimum iindecim mil-
lium sententiarum fere novarum : octavum ComoBdJariB
ac Tragcediarum Latinarum: nouum dcoique ixuagiiMB
secundi saecuU Jcsuitarum."
^ The discrepancy between the general and spe-
cific enumeration of these MS. volumes is veiy
curious, and not corrected in the list of errata.
I suspect the work is rare. Besides my own
copy, I have only traced it in three Cataloguea —
ono of these that of Dr. Parr*s Library, where it
occurs under the head of " Recentiores Foetid,
Satirici, Faccti, &c." No note appears to have
been found in Dr. Parr's copy, but I may quote
what he says of the whole class in which he had
placed it : " Most of them very rare, and very
expensive ; all expensive except one, and that
not a very cheap one."
Should any of the readers of ** X. S: Q.*' desire
to see some further specimens of Bisschop's la-
bours, I shall be hnppy to transmit a few lor in-
sertion in Its pages.
ICdinburgh.
J. D.
Esquire. — I have just found the following
among some papers, which may be interestinir to
readers of" N.&Q.: " —
" In the year 1825, at the Glo^ter Spring Quarter Ses-
sions, three vinegar-makers indicted certain thievea for a
«»«» a V. Jah. 80, '64.]
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95
robbery, and called themMlyei Eaqolrea in tbe indict-
saent In proving the case they proved themaelves to be
vinegar-makers, and the witnesses who swore to that
iact, were cross-examined at length at to the fact of their
being esquires, which they negatived. On this. Counsel-
lor Ludlow took an objection to the indictment on the
ground of misdescription, which was fiilly argued. He
aaiil, tbat if the culprits were convicted on snch an in-
dictment, they might be indicted at a future time for
the same offence by the same parties under the true de-
signation of vinegar-makers, without being able to sup-
port a plea of autrefois acqmit by the prodnctiim of the
first iodictBMQt It was argued on all hands, that if a
person be an eamiire, and also a vinegar-maker, he may
call himself bv ais more worthy addition ; but it was
contended that a person who was not an esonire had no
right to cidl himself so to the detriment of a party ac-
cnsed. In support of the indictment, it was said among
other things, that the vioegar-makera might be esqairas
lay rap^ta1uon, sqeh esquires being mentioned in some old
law books; but this was opposed by the diehm of Coke,
lUpMtafio eit vulgaris npinto «6i non est vtritoM, The
Oourt decided against the validity of the indictment, and
the thieves were acquitted. Bhntt and Jostioe were the
counsel for the prosecutors." — From a note given many y§ars
ago by a Barrister who was in the court at the time.
H. T. E.
LoBD Gabpenstoit, one of the Jud<rc8 of the
Court of Session in Scotland founded about a
century ago the present village of Laurencekirk,
on his property in Kincardineshire. To encourage
atranffers to settle in it, he gave Free Rights (copy-
holdaj at an unusually low rate, and consequently
got several of them taken b^ parties of question-
able respectability. He built an inn in the vilf
lage, ana put into one of the rooms an album,
inviting travellers to write in it any suggestions
or observationa ; and he called frequently to look
at the contents. It is said that he felt much nettled
on finding in it one morning the following lines: —
« From small beginnings Bome of old
Became a great and populous city,
Though peopled first, as we are told.
By outcasts, blackguards, and banditti ;
Qnoth Thomas, *Then the time may come
When Laorenc^urk sha)! equal Borne.' "
G.
Edinbnrgb*
Engush Wool in 1682. — ^Li taminff over the
pages of a learned disquisition written by a Ger-
man and published ^^ Franoofurti ad Viadmm *'
in 1682, I found the fbllowina passage relatire
to the merits of English wool, whidi maj be worth
transferring to your columns : —
** Post Hispanicam pnocipua bonitas est lann Angli-
cans ; ut enim oves AngUcapsB nostras Germanicas magni-
tudine ac pinguedine superant ; sic melior etiam illamm
lana ; cujos rationem reddunt. tum anod pabulis alantur
minus latis, qu» opiliones iVigere jubent, torn quod ea
Ttgiona oves via bibant, sed ad sitim axtinguendam
ccslesti fere rora sint contentai. Qoibus alia adhtmc ad-
Jicitur ^uod AngU lac agnis non subducant. ut in Ger-
maaia contiogit, sed ejus usum continuom ipsls conca-
dant." • ** *^ •
This occurs at section 64 of a Disserfatio jvri-
dica de Lana et Lanifieis^ by David Coffler. In the
rammary of ooateata the paaaago is thus indicated :
(* Lana Anglicana melior est Germmxica, et qusB
ratio ejus." J. M.
A Testimowt to cub Climats. — ne Time$ of
the 20th instant chronicles the death of eight per-
sons between seventy and eighty, of five between
eighty and ninety, and of four over ninety. The
united ages of these seventeen persons giving an
average of eighty-two years for each. On the
2 1st we read of fltteen dyin^ between seventy and
eighty, of eight between eighty and ninety, and
one over ninety. The average of these twepty-
four being very nearly seventy-six years a-piece.
On the 22nd there appeared two over ninety, six
between eighty i^na ninety, and ten between
seventy and eighty. The average here being
nearly seventy-nine. On the ^Srd, thirteen be-
tween seventy and eighty, seven between eighty
and ninety, and one over ninety, making an aver-
age of seventy-nine and a half each. We suppose
our American cousins would say, if these eighty
individuals, whose longevity we have noticed, had
lived anywhere else but in our awn land of fogs
and changeable weather, they would never have
died at all. R. C. L.
^ViXtiti*
MILTON'S THIRD WIFE AKD ROGEB COMBER-
BACH OF NANTWICH.
In turning over the leaves the other day of a
little book, entitled jPeieription of Nuneham- Court'
My, in the CowUy of Oxford, 1797, 8vo, I met with
the following note, in the catalogue of pictures in
the library, given at p. 28 : —
*' Milton, by Vandergiiaht, aftw the origiBal in the
poasassioii of Lord Onslow ; at the back of which is the
followipg inaoription ; re-
•* <Thia original pictare of MiHon* I bought in the
year 1729 or 1780, and paid twenty guineas for it, of Mr.
Cumberbatcb* a gentleman of veiv good consideration
in Chester, who was a relation and executor of the will
of Milton's last wife, who died a little while before that
time. He told me it hung up in her ohamber till her
death, and that she used to say bar husband gave it her,
to show her what he was in his youth, being drawn
when he was about twenty -one years of age.
• Ar. Onslow.' "
In Mitford*s edition of Milton*s Works (p. vii.,
note), I read: "The picture of Milton, when
about twenty, was in the possession of the Rt.
Hon. Arthur Onslow." Tnis portrait <brms a
frontispiece to Masson's Life of Milton, My
object in troubling you with this Note, is, to
ascertain the connection between Mr. Comber-
bach and Mrs. Milton, alluded to in the above
• An account of the diflferent portraits of Milton will
he found in the Lancashire and QV»k\T^ YLNafiu VaR»^
FabUcaUona, vo\. siv > \V&,
m
NOTES AND QUERIED
[S'^av. ^Ajf.wi^l
extract; and I may ad*!, that any information
rclativi? to the faraity of Comberbaoh, or, as it is
fVcquently spelt., Cumberhatch, will be very ac-
ceptable to and gratefuUjr received by me.
In the first volume of Pickering's edition of
Milton's TTorA^, 1851, there is a pedigree of the
family of Milton by Sir Cbarles Young, Garter.
Prom this, it appears that Milton married three
times : first, to Mary, daughter of Richard Powell \
second, to Catherine, daughter of Captain Wood-
cock ; both of whom died in child-bed, having had
issue. By his third wife — " Eliasabeth MinshuU of
Stoke, near Nantwich, co* Chester, marr. lie.
dated 11 Feb. 1662 ; died, very old, at Nantwich*
in 1729 (a relation to Dr. Pajjet) ; will, in which
she is described as Elizabeth Milton of Nantwich,
CO. Chester, wid,, dated 22 Aug. 1717, proved
at Chester, Oct. 10, 1727/*— he had no iasue. To
this extract (from Sir G. C. Young*s |>edigree)
there is this note : —
" Eh'Mbeth MUton, after payment of debts and ftineral
esLpcnces^ gives the residue of her cffetita to her nephews
and nieces iti Xamptwich equally to be divided^ witbottt
naming them, and appoinu her loving frienda Samuel
Acton and John Allcock, both of Namptwich, exOrs:
the latter only proved the will."
From this it would appear that Mr. Comber-
bach waa not an executor. That he knew some-
thing of the Milton family, is shown by the
annexed extract and note from Peck^s New Me-
fttoirs of Milton, p. 1 : —
••Mr. Milton'i mother (I am informed •) was a Haugh-
ton of Hatighton Tower in LaaeaahlreL''
" • From a letter of Roger Q»nl>erhach, of Chetler^ Esq.,
to William Cowper, Esq., C^erk of the Partiunent, dated
U Dec 1736."
This letter is, I suppose, lost ; but, if extant, it
might afford some intormation.
I have consulted the accounta of the Minshull
family given by Orroerod {History of Cheshire^
vol. iti, pp. 181, 191), and in the Publications of
the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire
(Session II. pp. 85^ 232), but am not able to dis-
cover the connection between Elixabeth Minshull
find Mr. Comberbach from them,
Mr, MttBSOQ (Lif9 qf Milton, vol. i* p. 2S),
•tys:^
** Roger Coml>orbftth was Roger Comherbach • the
younger, son of an elder of that name, who was bom in
1666 i and b«c«Jiie recorder oT Cbcflter, and author of
wma lagaJ works. Both Tather and sun were interested
in tba ainitKntiH^i of Cheflhin\ and both knew Xaotwich
Wid I, rt\ ' \vt had been bora. MiltOD*i widow
died St .11 17:t7t and might have been known
ta both/^
I cannot tell in what way the Comberbacfas,
father and son, evinced an interest in the anti-
quities of CliPfthire. I must say I doubt it. At
* S«a an ac^ toionidanti in OrmerotU vol. iii.
pD. 23(9^ 189 ; 1 ^^mtnmt, vaL il p, 461 l Burke's
Zmuhd (Wry, arU '* i^wetenbam oCSomaefortl Bg^Uiat'*
the last Visitation of Cheshire, we find
Comberbach, of Nantwich, among those whn
claimed their right to arms. And ajs far tts I onfl
learn from the College of Arms, no grmnt hM |
ever been made. My desire to obtain informi^
tton concerning this family, must be my apolog]^ |
for trespassing so much on your valti&ble !
GSOKOB W. "
Americak AtTTHOES. — Can any of yoiir
rican readers give me any biographiaU parlic
lar^ regarding two American poet5 and draxnatistil
L Jonas B. JPhillips^ author of CamiUuMf n. play*
acted at the Arch Street Theatre, Pbil&deipbiai
in 1833. He was also author of several other
plays. 2. Dr. Ware, author of Dion^ a PUj,
acted at Philadelphia, about 1S28. Who wti
this Dr. Ware P There are two or three Ameriou
Dr. Wares. I find these authors mentioned i&
Rees*s Dramatie Auihors of America, Pblljulelphii^
1845. R.L
An Axdine Book. — Looking over & very h^
shelf of classical books during the Cbrutmis
holydays, I met with Pompomus Mela ami So-
linus, commencing with an address by
Asolanus, 12 mo, Venice, 1518. On coi
A. A. Renouardf I find that it is an ini
edition, considered as science or literature ; but
am only concerned here with it bibliogri
Renouard (I write from memory) deacnbea
book on two 8vo page*, but he omits to say
it is printed in ItSic letter, that large squart
spaces have been left for an illuminated or orna-
mental letter at the beginning of each cbapi
which (in my copy) is only & piccolo in the mid<
of the sou are. But* in the collation, after mi
tioning that there should be 233 feuiUefs
three more, the last with the anchor (one of
most elegant and delightful bookmarks I know
he says nothing of four at the beginning of
book, which there should be to make it complti
The register says that •», b, &c are in duatc.
nions. Renouard has omitted altogether tbe ibtir
leaves with the star. Will some of thoM who
enjoy the luxury of Aldu8*s editions, and of Re*
nouard*s Aide in 8 vols., be so good as to tell Bf
whether I am correct, and whether the tit]c«n«g«
is given literally correct by Renouard, and how
it is arranged lineatim ? Wm. Dxwn^
HDl Cottage, Erdiagton.
Balloohs : THEiK DnmviioiTB. — la M. Kt<
ilar*f ** Geaut " balloon the birgest that hrw ever
been constructed ? I »hotild be pur
obliged to any of your corrcspondenft
furnish mc wtth the dimensions of -rmn ] th^
most reniarkabh* nmyi that hnvf^ v - < i' 'I
Anronautio Tn
so Htrikingly «ti
to know how to gci ai uiv »ruin, IL v» u
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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I
I
Bescb Trees nbvcu srmtJCK at LiGmTtntQ*
This la an opinion which previiiU in Kent, but,
strange to relnte< in Buckingbamshire, which
abounds in these trees, the saying is unknown.
On taking aome long rides through the woods
there last aummer^ we observed Oak, Elm, and
Ajb, which had evidently snflfered more or less
from the thunder-atroke, but not one Beech,
though they are often the loftiest trees in the
foresta. Since this time my friend has made re-
peated Inquiries on the subject, and cannot meet
with any one who has seen such a thing. Can
any of your readers assist me with any further
information? If it be true that the Beech is
proof to the electric fluid, it will be very valuable
information, as lives are lost almost every year
by persona taking shelter from storms of rain
beneath trees which are not so favoured* The
same thing is said of the Bay (Lawm nobilia) in
Italy.* A. A.
Poets' Comer.
John BaisTow. — Mr. Samuel Tymms, in his
Familu Topo£rrapher (vi. Cumberlaad, 37), makes
the following statement : —
"Of Staimon was Mr. John Brurtow, who published a
Surtsty of the Laim* ailer »ttAiDiiig hta &4th year. He
ne%'er employed » mrgeon or pby^dan, nor gave a fee
to a 1aw)'er ; his clothes were spun tu his bouse, and made
of the wool of his own sheep.**
It will be seen that the material matter known
as a date is wanting in this account I cannot
trace the publication alluded to. Under the cir-
cumstances I have recourse to your columns, in
the hope of obtaining from Mr. Tyroms or from
some other quarter more definite and precise in-
formation respecting John Bristow and his book-
S. Y. R.
BamsH 6AI.LEBT AHD BaiTisH Institutioh. —
I posaess a landscape thus Inscribed on ita back :
" Exbibited at the British Gallery, 1821." I want
to know in what this designation differs from that
of the British Institution (so called at present),
where are exhibited the works of the ancient
masters, in Pall Mall ? L. F. N.
CuBious EssRx Saitwg, — They aay in this
county " Every dog has his day, and a cat has tim
Sunda^f,*^ The former half of the proverb in some
form or other may be said to be cosmopolitan, but
what can the latter half mean? Does it allude to
the supposed tenacity of life of the feline race, or
IS there any special folk lore attached to it ?
A, A.
Poets* Corner.
To CoMPBTB. — Can any correapondent favour
me with the earliest recognition, in an Engli$h
work, of this verhf In reading an old smoke-
[• Fw several* iirticlcf on this subject see •• K. & O "
!•* S. vi. 129, 231 ; ril 2$; x, 61S.-Ed.]
dried Scotch book, Guthrie*s Cheat Inierett^ Glaa*
gow, 1736, I find the verb, and I find Jofmeton
has no other authority than the passage in which
I found it independently* He mentions that the
verb has no exbtence in English. It is not in
Walker's Dictionary^ 1831. J. D. Camtbei-l*
Earldom or Duivbar. — Can any of your
readers intbrm me whether anything more than
may be read in Douglas's Peerage^ is known re-
specting this earldom having been claimed or as-
sumed after the death of George Home^ or Hume,
created Earl of Dunbar in 1605? A "Lord
Dunbar '"" is mentioned in a paper now before me,
dated Feb. 2, 1613-14: who was he? George,
Esirl of Dunbar, died in January, 1610-11.
Jomt Bruce.
5, Upper Gloucester Street, Dorset Square,
Elma, a new Femai^b Christ! am Name. —
The late much-lamented Earl of Elgin and Kin-
cardine has left an only surviving daughter by
his first wife Eliafabeth-Mary, only child of Charlea
Lennox Cumming-Bruce, Esq* Her name is Lady
Elma Bruce. This name of Blma is one I never
saw before. Is it a compositioQ from the first
syllable of her mother's two names^ — Elizabeth
and Mary ? J. G. N.
Free masons. — I have lately found an allusion
to the craft in a place where it would be least
ejcpected. In the edition of the tetters and pane-
gryric of Pliny the younger, published at Leipsio
in 1805, with notes by (Jesner and others, I find
the following passage in a note of Gesner : —
" Novimus, quid nuper de Colkffit Fahrum Lihrralium
Britannici c4>loniis per FraQcisui et Italiam metueriiit
quidam principes.** — P. &28.
Perhaps some member of the craft will elucidate
this historical ailusion of the German annotator.
H. C. C.
Gaihsborouoh Fbatbr-Book. — Is anything
known of the editor of an edition of the Common
Prayer Book, with notes, and ^* ornamented with
a set of elegant copper plates;'* bearing the im-
print, " Gainsborough : Printed by J. Mozley,
MDCCi-xxvni?" The volume is octavo, and con*
tains the Common Prayer ; the New Week*a Pre-
paration ; a Manual of Private Devotions ; and
Brady and Tate's Psalms, The plates are original
enough^ and are all inscribed "Gumill* Sculpt**
The Dook is curious as an edition of the Prayer
Book, and as a specimen of the Lincolnshire press.
Probably, with a view to escape danger from
prosecution, Mr. Mozley put at the head of his
title-page: "The Christian's Universal Compa-
nion,** B, H. C,
Haccobihe akd its Pbiyilbges. — Prince^ m
his Worthies of Devon^ under " Thomas Carew "
speaking of llucccmxb^ ta.-^^ —
98
NOTES AND QUEEIES.
[ffrt a V. Jam. so, "^
<< It la, ai to tlie Dumber at dwaHisgiw the amalleit
pariah in England; coosiatiog bat of two dwallinga. the
manaion-houae and the paraonage ; bat it enjoya privilegea
beyond the greatcat ^or it ip out of any hanared, and
bevond the precincta of any ofBcer, civil or militanr, to
take cognizance of any proceeding therein. And by
royal grant from the crown, it ia exemptad from all dntiea
and taxes, for aome noble aervice done by aome of the
anceatora of thia iiamily [Oaraw], toward^ tha tnpport
thereof"
What were the •ervioei readered, to gain for
this parish such extraordinary privileges? Mr.
Maclean, in his Life and Timee qfSir PAr Copew,
reproduces in a note this account from Prince, but
offers no explanation. It is also ^ven in Gorton
and other topographical dictionaries. It appears
from the Carew pedigree ffiTen by Mr. Maclean,
that the founder of the Haccombe branch was
Nicholas Carew, who lived in the middle of the
fifteenth century ; it is therefore to be presumed
that the services in question were rendered by
him, or at a subsequent period. I have not been
able to find a notice of any grant of the kind in
Bymer, but the Index to that work is very faulty.
Prince further says that the Rector of Hac-
combe ***tis said,** may claim the privilege of
wearing lawn sleeves, and of sitting next the
bishop; gnd is under the visitation only of the
archbishop of Canterbury : a kind of chorepi-
•oopus. Lysoni, however Xjiiet, ofJXevoH)^ denies
that the rector has any such privileges.* £. Y.
The Haioht Family. — I would feel truly
obliged for any facts regarding the locality and
genealogy of the Haight family which any of
your correspondents may be able and willing to
communicate. I believe its origin is undoubtedly
English, and the limited information I now have,
tends to show that one branch of it, at least,
settled in this country some little time prior to
the middle of the last century, at Rye, West-
chester County, N. Y. Perhaps your corre-
spondent, A, who so kindly furnished important
facts respecting the Tylee family, may possess
and be willing aUo to impart information touching
this inquiry. D. K. N.
New York,
Ibbmjbos QUOTBD.-i^
** Irenaua aacribea to the ptnonlflcatloBa and anspenalon
of tlie powers of nature by the evil apirita, the apparition
of Caator and Pollux, the water carried in a aieva, the
ahip towed by a lady'a hand, and the blacl^ b^ard which
became red at a touch." — A Letter to Dr, Gortin, by
Thomaa Severn, B.D., London, 1759, p. 22.
The author quotes abundantly, but seldom by
chapter or page. I have found him accurate in
those quotations which I could trace. I cannot
find the above, and shall be obliged by being told
where it is, or where the delusions are mentioned.
C, T. H.
[• These privileges are nodced in our 1* 8. ix. 185.—
Ed.]
TnoMAa Lbv or Daevhaix, go. CHEtHnui. —
According to the pedigree of the Lee famil j given
in Ormerod's HiUory of Cheshire, vol. i. p. 466,
Thomas Lee of Dam hall married Franoes, daugh-
ter and coheiresa of R. N. Yenables, of Antrobus
and Wincham. The issue of this marriage was Na-
thaniel, bom 1655 ; Thomas, bom 1661 ; Robert,
bom 1664 ; John, and Elizabeth. Ormevod says
nothing of tiiis marriage or issue of the Thomas
Lee bmm in 1661. In a pedigree I have seen, he
is laid to have married Jane, daughter of Thomas
Davis, £sq. of Corby Park, Northamptonshire.
Can any of your correspondents give me any in-
formation on this point f D. 8. £.
Lepxl. — I should be obliged by any infmnnation
on the following pointy relating to Brieadier-
General Nicholas Lepel, father of the celeorated
Mary Lepel, who was married in 1720 to Lord
Hervey: 1. When did he enter the army? 2.
What were his arms? 3. What the date of his
death ? 4. Wfcat is the name of his father ?
Fusii^urm.
Col. James Lowther. — Col. James Lowtho',
who was M.F. for Westmoreland, died at Caen, m
France, in 1837. Can any of your readers state
the day and month ? Also, tho date of his birth
and marriage f F. R. A.
Wm. Russell McDonald. — This gentlenum,
who died Dec. 30, 1854, is noticed in the obituary
of the Gent Mag. Feb. 1855, as editor or pro-
prietor of a work called The Literary Humourut
What Is the date of this publication ? Was it a
magazine? R. I.
6iB Wm. PoLB*i Chaetebs. — Can any reader
of " N. & Q." inform roe where is to be seen a
copy of Sir William Pole's (the celebrated Devon-
shire antiquary) " great volume of MS. Chartera,"
" as big," as he says himself, " as a church Bible ? "
I do not &t present recollect to have seen it
quoted in any work later than Collins's Peerage
of England^ by Brydges, published in 1812.
Kappa.
Poor Cock Robin's Death. — Is it a fact that
in a church, the name of which I forget, about
twenty miles from Stamford, there is a colored
glass window containing a representation of the
death of poor Cock Robin? If so, could you or
any of your readers tell me the name of the
church? And are there supposed to be any
similar instances ? W. P. P.
" Li Sette Salmi.*' — Under this title I havo a
metrical version of the Seven Penitential Psalms,
in MS. It comprises US verses of eight lines
e^h ; one verse to a page, with the Latin text
above. The seven psalms are followed by fif^n
lines, which I give below for the sake of the inter-
weaving of i& Latin linea. Book-worms hare
8" a y. JDT. 80, "e^]
NOTES AND QUEBIfSa
99
almost destroyed this pious effort, and jet nearly
all of it can be read. Unhappily, the enemy hat
devoured the more important portion of the
author's name : '* Can. Jacopo — nt — ." I should
be gratified to ascertain this author's name. The
first line of the sixth psalm is —
" Signor* che uedi i mici pensieri aperti"
" T^nzBTTA. d'un peccatob coif ukbttto,*
" Eoco che h mia pnprte •* aoidna,
K di molti peccati ho colxno U p^tto,
Domine ad ^dbmandn mefistina.
^ Hor tempo ^ ch' io pianM il mio difetto,
£ spieghi auanti a t« lo mie qaerele,
Vt patter toHtariut m tedo.
** 30mpre fni peccator ftro, e cradele,
Ma sol pCT taa bontii Bignor ti pragfao,
Omnet iniqmtaUs Mcat ckle.
** Auanti il te le mie genocchia piegho,
£ in te sol la mia salote pende^
Quia wucua, ttpoMper mw tga,
** Dhe fa ch* io scampi quelle pane hoirende^
Gho nel inferno si paton el graoi,
Veut in atUutgriit meu intwdt,"
B. H. C.
Stamp Ddtt on Paihtsbs* Oamyass. — Various
conflicting statements have been Tolunteered ai
to the exact date at which a stamp duty was
imposed by the government of the day on the
canvasses used by artists.
The Excise mark is to be often found upon the
backs of pictures of the period ; and upon some
said, by competent judges, to have been painted
by Sir Joshua Heynolckt about ^ yean 1760,
1781, 1782.
The mark is of this charaeter : --n
374
83
68
G, R. (doQble cypher, rmm^)
It is important to establish the aboye fact be?
yond controversy, as the genuineness and origi-
nality, and thus the grea^ money value, or
otherwise, of various pictures said to be by
Thomas Qainsborough} and Sb Joshua Reynolds,
depend upon Jixin^ of the date (by official refer-
ence) on which this duty mark was first stamped
on canvasses : as well as when the same mark
ceased to be impressed thereon on the repeal of
the duty. It is by some alleged to have been
flrst imposed during the American war, which
began in 1775, and terminated during the Pitt
Administration in 1788; but the Excise duty is
{• The spelling is eawfully copied.
m jQe^oa Bevnolds di«d Feb. 28, 1792.
Thonas Gafaisboroiig^ died August % 1788.
said to have remained unrepealed till long tSU^'
wards.
The proprietors of theatres also are said to
have loudly complained, during its imposition, of
the oppressiveness of this tax ; from the great
expense added thereby to the canvasses used fos
scenery.
The recitsl of the Acts* of Parliament —both
imposing and repealing this duty — would be im-
portant, as placing the question beyond dispute.
It is desired to icnow, decisively, at what date
a duty was first imposed by the government of
Great Britain on the canvasses used by artists ?
And also, the d^te of repeal of said duty ?
Mx. Thacksrat*8 Litbbabt Joubnal. — It is
stated in the Edinburgh Review (1848), that Mr.
Thackeray started and edited a weekly critical
j^ournal. Can any reader tell me the title of the
iournal referred to? The statement has lately
been repeated in several quarters — the old Par*
thenoH being named by Mr. Hannay ; but I think
a very slight perus^ of the Purthemm would con-
vince any one that Mr. Thackeray's hand was not
there. T.
CoLovBL KoBBBT Yebables. — This officer,
author of The Experienced Angler^ served in tho
Parliamentary army, and was Governor of Chester
in 1644. In 1649, he was Commander-in-Cbief
of the forces in Ulster, and Governor of Belfast,
Antrim, and Lisnegarvey. In 16^4 be, with Ad-
niiral Penn, was joint commander of the expedi-
tion sent by Cromwell against IJispaniola; and
on their return, in the following year, both com-
manders were committed to the Tower. Here I
lose sight of Yenables. Any other information
respecting him will be thankfuUjr received.
In the Harleian M8S. there is a naper, partly
in the handwriting of Colonel Yenables, detailing
the time he served in Cheshire, and the amount
of pay due to him from 1643 to 1646. A similar
record of his services in Ireland, if it could be
obtained, would be of great value and interest.
The notices of Yenables in the Civil War tracts,
NTickolls's State Papers^ and the reprint of his
Experienced, Angler^ are known to the inquirer.
En tN last wor](, there is a curious tyDograjihical
error. Speaking of fish rising to the artificial
fly, the author is represented to say : " and they
will bite also near Tom Shane's Castle, Mountjoy,
Antrim, l^c, even to admiration.'* Who was
Tom Shfl^ne, qr where was his castle P one, who
knew the district referred to, would be inclined
to inquire — ^if he did not at once see that the
words should be—" near Toome, Shane's Castle,
Moun^oy, Antrim, ^c"
* The information might possibly be obtained h^ v
reference to some qC tht CMkdk^ Ksfuik
100
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S^&V. jAif. 80,'ei
VenftbleB muH have \e(i much, curious doeu*
mentary matter behind liim ; and it is with the
hopes of discovering some of itv, if still in exist-
ence, that this query is penned.
What was the connexion between Venables and
I Xsaac Walton ? The latter sajs that he never
taw the face of the former, and yet he wrote a
commendatory address for the Experienced
Angler. W. PtiTKERToif.
Mm. WisB. — ^Warton, in a letter written in 1790,
mentions " Mr, Wise, the librarian/* I should be
I glad if any of your readers could kindly tell me
' who this Mr, Wise was, and what was toe destin-
a'tion of his papers ? J. O. Halliwei^l.
Weat Brompton.
Words bbbiteb fbom "^vdm*" — Will you
permit me to ask which is the correct way to spell
words derived from the Latin tBvwn; whether
, eoertil^ primeval^ and medieval, or with a dipth-
I thong? There is the authority of good authors
f for both? P.
RoTix Aems. — L Do princesses, daughters of
I the sovereign, wear coronets similar to those worn
' the younger sons of the sovereign ? and is that
the Princess Royal diflerent from those of her
sP *
2. When is the label of 5 points used to dif-
ference the royal arms ? Should it be used in the
case of the present Duke of Cambridge and his
1 sister? ?
3» Should the arms of a Royal Duke be im-
paled with those of his wife ? and if so^ the Duke
oeing a Knight of the Gurter, should the Garter
\ encircle the escutcheon P
4. In emblaxoning the arms of her Majesty and
Ifbe late Prince Consort, would it be right to
' make use of two shields, — one with the Queen*s
arms, and the other with the Princess ? and should
each shield have separate supporters, and be in
fact in every way separate from the other f
H.F.
[Aniwefi' to sach professtood and ischiiica] qusries
' ean hardly be expected from tha generml readeiji of this
wofk. Its pag€S would be oatrua speedily by such
quettions* We have endeavoured to procure a satiefac-
torjr answer in thu cam.
1. The oorooett of the Princesses, iocludiog the Prin-
^ oaes Boyal, are exactly stmilar to those of the brothen.
2* The tftbel of d points has been osed to difference the
wrmB in the cAAes of gr«odchildren and nephews of the
Sovereign ^ bat it does not follow as a rule that the UbrJ
of 5 point! iboold be used. The Duke of Cambridge
ises the label of 8 points granted to his father.
8* If the Royal Dake be a Knight of the Garter, tho
arms of hicnMlf vid wife should be on separate ihidds,
rto own \K^ng fftuToimded by the Garter.
4. In emblaaoning the arms of the Queen and her lale
Consort, two shields with separate iupporters, crowns*
&(!., must be used under the same mantle (if mantle be
included). lu the cate of a Prtnceas of Wale% her anoi
would only be put in a separate shield by the side of her
buiband'fi \ ber coronet would be that of her tuaabaod*
See answers,]
Bacon Queries, — Lord Bacon heads the lega-
cies to bis friends by one of *^ my books of onaong
or psalms curiously rhymed," to the Marqula
Fiat, late Lord Ambassador of Prance,
Was this a MS. or some early copy in Engliah
or French ? Was it Marot's ?
The great chancellor also orders the sale of his
chambers in Gray*s Inn^ calculating the produce
of the ground floor, with the third ana fourth
floors, at 300/* as a small relief to twenty^five
poor scholars of the two universities.
Is the situation of those chambers now known,
and is the tree that went by tbe name of this ^cal
philosopher and lawyer stdl standing ? If so, at
what part of the gardens ? J. A. G.
[The book of ** orisons or paalnis ** was doubtless bJi
own prodoction, entitled Ctrtaim Pmhne* in Vtrte^kj
Francis Lord Yeralam. Lond« 162S, 4to. Dr.
mentions two editions of this work^ one for ** Street i
WTiitaker," the other for " Hannah Barrett and R, }
aker." The Psalms are^ I xii xc. civ. cxxvi. cxxxA
cJtUx. Walton, in his Life o/ C«wp* Herbert^ iufonm
us, that •* Sir Francis Bacon put such a value on Mr.
Herbert*! judgmenV that he usually desired his appro-
bation, before be would cxpo«e any of his books to hi
printed ; and thought him eo worthy of his fricndahlp^
that having translated many of the prophet Davids
Psalms into English verse, he made George Herbert his
patron, by a public Dedication of them to him» at the
beat judge of Divine poetry."
Lord Bacon'i chambers were in Coney Court, looking
over the gardens towardi 8l Pancras church and High*
gate Rill: the site is that of No. 1, Gray'i Inn 8qaar«v
first floor. The house waa burnt Feb. 17, 1679, with lixty
other chambers. (Biiittman*$ Guidt, 3rd edit. 168«. ) The
trees said to have been planted by Lord Bacon ia Griyls
Inn Garden* are probably destroyed j at any rate, •• no<M
now extit coeval with hti time" Cunoiogham'i B«md»
Book 0/Londtm, ed. 1850, p, 209.]
" Hbrsoppus RjsDimnJS ; oa, tbb Sao«*s
TaiUMPH ov£a CHd Aqe aitd tbs GeatbJ" — In
Bohn's edition of Lowndes, this book app«acn
under the heading of CohauMcn^ John Henry, In
brackets is added (" translated by Dr. John Caia^
bell"). A quotation from Dr. Johnson is a»-
pended« and a reference to the Re^vip^HA^
Neview,
The writer in the S^tranpective Review (ynu 76)
begins l»s account of the book thus : —
** The author of fftrmif^tu HmSvirttM waa John Henry
Cohaueeni a German pJiyiiciaa» who did not %mlM m§hm
ft
rood Mb own theory, but died In a sort of nonage« when
ne wms only eighty ^five yeara of age* His book mna
tnnslated into Engiuih by Dr. John Oiinpboll, and hai
always b««D considered cniiona, as givio|^ a aummary of
the many facta and opiiikuii which hare b«en publMed
r«ip«cting thia very intereati^g subject/* &cu
D^Isrskeli, in bis Curioiities of Literature^ under
the bead of " Lit^rar/ Bluodera," writet of this
book as follows : —
^ But th€ tiioat alofTtilar blonder was prodncnl by the
ingenious Hfrmipptis Redhwvt of Dr. Campbell^ a curious
banter on the hermetic philosophy, and the uaiTei^Ml
mfidieine; but the grave iron^ is so closely kept np, that
It decnVed for a length of time the most leuned. Ilia
notion of the art of prolonging life, by inhAling the breath
of young women* was eagerly credited. A physician,
who himself had composed a treatise on healthy waa so
influenced by it, that he actusJly took lodgings at a
female boarding school, that he might never be without
a constant sapply of the breath of yonng ladies. Mr.
ThickneaM ssnotisly adopted the proicct. Dr, Kippis
acknowledged that* after bo bail read the work in his
Touth, the reasoning! and the facts left him several days
in a kind of fairy-Und I hare a copy, with maaiiscript
notes hf a learned phyaidan, who aeemx to have bad no
doubts of its veracity* After all, the intention of the
work waa long doubtful •, till Dr. Campbell oasured a
firieiul it was a mcrs jen cfc^pnt/* iac^ &c.
JoBif Abdis.
HusttDgton.
[The penon whom Dr. Campbell mesLUt to represent
under the character of Hermsppu* Bedwitm* was Mr.
Catverley, a celebrated dancing-master, whose sister for
many years kept a school in QueenV Square, London,
where likewise he himself li?ed A picture of him in the
dancing-school was formerly there, drawn at the great age
«f ainetyone. May 28, 1784. Vide ** N. & Q." !*• a adi
IWl 2'^^S.ix* 180.]
Maiden Castlk. — I wisb to Icdow tbe derlva-
tion of the name Mniden Castle, whicb h applied
to nn ancient earthwork situated on an elevated
plain between Dorchester and tbe sea-coaat, and
which appellation I believe attucbea to several
other similar camps or fortresses in England.
Middn is a word belonging to the Indo-Euro-
pean, or Aryan, class of languages, and tneans a
plain. It is possible that the same word with the
same meaning may have been employed by the
early inhabitants of that part of Britain whose
ancestors were Aryans, Were such the case,
Maiden Castle, or Alidan Castle^'would be synony-
mous with the Castle on the Plain. H. C.
[Maiden Castle is one of the largest and most complete
lUunan camps in the west of EngLmd. Some derive tho
word Maiden from the British Mad^ fair or beautiful
(whence the Saxon word Maid or Maiden), and thence
conclude that fortifications so called were deemed im-
< pregnable. Mr. Baxter's derivation (Glost,voee Duuium)
H is mare probable, wbo deduced it from the British Mai
^U^^ tbe Castle of the great hill : tn his opinion, it is the
^^^Himotf Ptolemy, the capital of the Durotriges, Cam-
^^^KihaogQB this into Dornium to moke it correepond
I
I
with Dumovaria. Baxter calls Dunium ^ Arr in exjcelao
cnonte podta ad mtlle ftrt paasuom a Dumovaria," now
Maiden Castle^ 9. d. Mai dun, or the great hill, or hill of
the citadel or burgh. Vide Hutckias'i DormtMhinf ii.
171.]
HosaES riEST Suod wixa Ibon . — Can any of
your readers inform me when horaes were nrst
shod with iron ? I have just had brought me a
stone about five inches over, on which is pl^nly
impressed the oiark of a pony^g or mule's shoe* It
was £>und near the scythe-stone pits on the Black-
borough Hills, between Iloniton and Cullompton.
Henbt ^Iatthbws.
[Beckmann {Uiitoty of /Ni?e»/umf, i. 4i2 — 454, ed.
184<>) bos a valuable article on tho history of horse-ahoes
from the moet remote period. Their early use in England
is thus noticed by bim : " Daniel, the historian, seems to
give OS to understand that in the ninth century horses
were not shod always, but only in the time of &ost, and
on other particular occasions. The practice of shoeing
Appears to have been intn)duced into England by Wil-
lioiQ the Conqueror. We are informed that this sovereign
gave the city of Northampton as a fief to a certain person,
in consideration of bis pajring a stated sum yearly for tbe
shoeing of horses; and it is believed that Henry de
Fcrres or De Ferrers, wbo came over with William, and
whose descendants still bear in their arms six horse^
8ho«Mt, received that surname because he wojs entrusted
with the inspection of the farriers. I shall here observe^
that horse -shoes have been found, with other riding fhr-
nitnre, in the graves of some of the old Germans and
VandoU in the northern countries; bat the antiquity of
them cannot be ascertained."}
Bishop of Salisbubt. — Who was John^
Bishop of Salisbury in a.d. 1661 ? In Cardwell's
^^iwKte/ia (sub anno 1661) p. 683, xxxi. Sessio
ex XV., I find, ** Introducto Ubro precum in La-
tina concept', relatum fuit curae et revision! re*
verendi in Xto patris Jobannis permissione divina
Sarumepiscopt.' Brian Duppa was Bishop from
1641 to 1660^ and Humphrey Henchman from
leeo to 1663 ; John Earle, 1663 to 1665.
M. N.
[The Convocation summoned by Archbishop Juxon on
May 8, 1661, continued its sittings unUl Sept. 26, 1666,
Session 125. was holden on the 18th of May, 166S, at
which time John Earie was Bishop of Salisbury, having
been recently translated from Worcester to SoranL] ;
MUTILATION' OP SEPULCHRAL MONUMENTS.
(3*^ S. iv. 286, 363, 420, 4^7 ; t. 21.)
I have read with much interest the communica-
tion from your correspondent upon thia subject.
The matter is one welLde«fcw^^^^i»►''5iJ5ft^.^!:»s^^
102
NOTES AND QUEMES.
[8»i&V. Jah-SO^IM.
attention of all who arc engaged either in the
enlargement^ or restoration of our churches ; fur
it is while carrying on these works, that the de-
struction of ancient memorials is generally per-
petrated; but it is extremely dinicult to know
what is to be done in some cases where really, if
monumental absurdities are to be left untouched,
there must be an end either to the enlargement
of churches to meet the spirit aal wants of an in-
creasing ])opulatinn, or or such improvements as
good taste would dictate in the restoration of
fiiie architectural features wantonly cut away to
make room fl)r ridiculous and costly monuments
encumbered with weeping cupids, heathen urns,
lamps, festoons, and other inappropriate devices —
mostly ill chosen, and badly executed. As far,
therefore^ as these mistaken designs are con-
oemed, I can see no reason why they may not be
removed (with proper sanction), when they inter-
fere with church extension; but whenever this
becomes necessary, the utmost care should be
taken to preserve the inscriptions. Frequently
it hap{)ens that the obituary occupies a very small
part of a gigantic monument ; surely the refixing
of these small tablet:^, without their offensive
framework, would be sufficient. In regard to
brasses upon the floor, incised inscriptions and
effigies on stone slabs, &&, it would really be well
that these hbuuld neither be hid or materially
altered in their positions, excepting under the
most cogent circumstances; and then a re;rular
entry of th(; fact should be made in the parish
book. It frequently happens that, from exces-
sive tlampness, there is a necessity for raising the
church floor, anil sonu'times in the re-arrangement
of seating', parts of the floor formerly seen be-
come concealed ; and others, hitherto hid, are
brought to view. Whenever this occurs, the
altered state of thinj.^ should be duly nott'd, and
this si^ems all that can be iloni* under the circum-
stances. Few will <leny that there is much more
beauty in wpU arranged encaustic tiles than in
damp mu\ bn»keii grave slabs ; but if this a<lvan-
tage is to be only gaine^l l)y destroying memorials
of well-known ancient families, it is certainly bet-
ter to forego artistic feeling than to aunihihite
the records. Colour apf tears to be one of the
induc*/tnentfl for substituting tilis for intone ; and,
no doubt, the flooring of a church muy i>e as
much an object of design and skill as any other
part, but ('(jlour is not essential. Perhaps no
floor is more beautiful than that of the Cathedral
f)f Sienna, wholly devoid of colour, yet rendered
exjpiisite by its numenms incised effigies and
other <ievices. It is rarely, however, that such
floors arc to be nii-t with. However, whether
plain or enrichi-il. 1 f^el the force of your cor-
respondent's ob!***rvati<»is; and hope that his
remonstrance will induce those who are the
authorued guardians of our churehes to be a little
more careful when meddling with monumental
inscriptions. And here I may add, that feeling
the importance of this and kindred subjects, a
standing Committee has been appointed by the
ftoyal Institute of British Architects *^ for the
conservation of ancient buildings and monuments;*'
and that the members will always be ready to aid
those who are altering or adding to old structuresi
in resisting wanton and unnecessary spoliation.
Bbnj. Fs&bet, F^&A.
PSALM Xa 9.
(3^* S. v. 57.)
" We bring our years to an end like a tale [that
is told] •• is not quite correct as to the last word,
kUe; and the Greek and Latin versions are de-
cidedly wrong in translating Hjil (=l7c in pronun-
ciation), ipidir. According to Galasius, this word
occurs thirty-eight times in the O. T. The errors
of WycliflTe and De Sacy arise from copytne the
Septuagint and Vulgate. This is remarkable in
De Sacy, who was a Jew, or of Jewish extraction,
and who altered his name, Isaac, by anagram, is
De Sacy. The word n|n {hl^f) has the Btm
meaning as Lfpi (^^^) ^^ Syriac, and j^
(hajv) in Arabic, namely, meditation, and the re-
sult of meditation. This meaning is very clear
from Psalm i. 2 : *' And in thy law will I meditaU
day and night**; also from Psalm ii. 1: "The
people imagine vain things." The word was used
first by Joshua (i. 8), and is not found in the Pen-
tateuch, although the ninetieth Psalm is attributed
to Moses. See Gescnius. Mendelssohn has eta
getchwatz, a chattering; Dc Wette, ein laut^ a
sound. Others translate, it, a breath, a sigh, a
thought. A Spanish Jew, who spoke Arabic,
once told me tuat HJH meant any thought that
arose in tlie mind. In Arabic it means to com-
gose a poem, and in that language, us well as in
yriac, it means to divide a word into syllables, as
an effort of thought. From the same root the
Chaldee derives its words for rhetoric and logic.
The projMjr and only known Hebrew word for
»pider is C^^?^^j^, aecaoish, as Mr. Aldis Wright
states in Smith's Bihle Diet, (iii. 1370). See
Job, viii. 14, and Isaiah, lix. 6, The Arabic, fol-
lowing the Syriac version, has spider in Ps. xc. 9,
«-*-\j*Q^\l (goge) in error, I conceive, for
LjL^ai , (hagogo)^ a phantom, or an imagination ;
f^\^f haggUy being also a phantasm in Hebrew,
which is the sense given by J. D. Michaelis to
Ps. xc. 9. (See Eichh«.nr« Ileb. Lex., i. 415,) The
inference may be drawn that the int'Tpreier, mis-
taking the llebrew word for the Syriac one sig-
nifying spider^ gave that aa the meaning to the
S^S,Y.Jtli.60,ti,J
NOTES AND QUEMEa
1,03
Greek nmanuensis of ^^'^ T XX. Simtkr errore
of heart fig occur in iL rsion. In Eich-
horn's HepfrL (xviiL 1 -. ,, j. jIlt quotes Sctiul-
ten3 on tbia word (Prov, xxv. 4), **ut vaporem
CjlteftUAntem," but aUributefi to Kimchi a oettcr
aensf?, who wijs, " the word nan denotes speech^
which cottes from the mouth; as this pa^set
rwiftlff so Bwiiily fly our years/ ^ In ^luch waj
alfio do Riebi tnd Aben Ejefa eiptaiu the word,
and so Jerome tro&ala^ea *^ut iermonein/'
T. J. BtcKTOf*.
venture to send you some further remarks —
in udditmn to your own — res pectin g the meaning
of the latter portion of Fflalm xc* y ; Vulgate,
Tlje only diffictilty arisen from the obscurity of
the Hebrew word HiH, Professor Lee, ia hi»
Hebrew, Chaldee, and Euglish Lexicon (ytih voce),
tmnslateg it as mieanin^ a mtrrmor, '• '/•
ally declint A and Jails, Winer render- -i»
tatio : ffo also does Gesenius {^trxicon MtmuaU
Hffb, et Chaldakvtfn) , Cnyfel! (^th vfirr) preS
several tneaninj^Si a^^ s- r-
mtir, anil refeni to t' i np
i^' '■■ . .| Tul. xii, in Clark's
"^ y, Edinburgh, 1848).
Wiil cini, a<;miT timr liu- vvoid can mean a eontrtT'
^'tbdon^ or iah; but prefers the translation — a
*^' ■ ^ ■ ■* -^nerolly bears the character
of.
1j- -v ^^'" ancient Syriac, Arabic^ and
iEthionic Versions, such as we find them in Wal-
ton's liih/ia PiJmrloaa (Londini, 1656, torn, iii.),
it IS nil to See how closely they agree
with tbr iig of the Septun^ntit VeraioD,
and with the Vulgate. Thus, in the Syriac we
have — to quote the Latin translation : •* Nam
cuncti dies nostri confecti sunt indig^atiotoe tul;
et defecerunt anni nostri slcut aranea.**
Iti the Arabic we have: *' Nam cuncti dies
nostrt finicTunt, et liv \tK tufi cotisumpti sumns :
anni nostri ceu textura araneie sunt labentes/'
In the j^thvopic version, the translation runs
thus : ♦* Qunniiim omnes dies tiostri defecerunt ;
et in iri tua defecimua. Anni nostri slcut ara-
ne<B medrtatl sunt,**
The Chaldee Paraphrase (Targum) pitea» how-
ever, a dilferent meaning to the Hiibrew Word
njn, as if it originally si;.Miilied the breath of the
tna^ithi " Consumfjeiinir ^ - ikuli'
turn oris In hyeine." /.« ,>,
Vepm Tfginmenium, Pai. /- mu -r, iu.muilh^, torn,
ill. Lip*lie, 1804, p, 2'iy8) remarks, that this mean-
lag U ]jv (in rneons Ui be rej*^ct<jd,
J' me, that all ih*^ various rendenn;rs
^\ ^ vvDii] cuTi fii^iily be recon« ileil one
With an< 10 cipre^ the mean*
»<^ vf th , \^ tu show mi with
what rapidity OUT j^nr a r*tj«« ,iw«v T^i% trimsla-
tors of the bitle V> I the
words, a tale that k i . , . _ . _ , the
Latin words serrno or lanuela. K' (ui
sji/fra) appears to give the meanin^ ex-
pression : " Evanescunt vit» nostrie dies, sicut
verbum emissum in aerem statim disfiolvltur,
uequti revocari ainplius potest/'
But I am inclined to consider the ^rti ^p^x"!
of the Septuaglnt version, and the sicut aranta of
the Vulgate, the most correct rendering of the
Hebrew, particularly as the Syriac agrees with
them.*
Boctart, in his H' (Cap. XXII* toiiii
iii, p, 501, ed» Lips.) i hat m the Hebrew
Codices which were usen ny the LXX., another
word, ^10^, was then found, with the meaning
sicut ur€tma^ which is almost the same in Arabic,
(See Eosenmiiller's Scholia, in Vetus Textamentum^
Pars Psalmos contluenfi, torn. ill. p. 2300^ ed.
LipfiiK.) J. Dai^tox.
Korwich.
SasBiDAH a Gb&xic {%'^ S. iiL 209.) — Another
version of the story of Lord B ' ' {uotaiion
t>om Demosthenes iti the Hcju auons^ is
gi%'ea by Mr. De Quineey ju in> Selections
Graife and Gay, Autobiographic Sketcheu, Edin-
burgh, 1854." Vol. ii, p. 40. Bmslvb Fbatkr.
QtJOTATiOTf Wa?jtei> (3'*' S. It. 2S8.)—
*« Stand still, my 5t<»«Hl,
Let me r«5«icw the mxue *' —
is from Longfellow*s poem, " A Gtcam of StiB-
shitle," E. V.
Enigma (S'^ S. v. 55.) — Is tlie answer to the
Earl of Surrey s enigniA *' A refusal " It E, V.
If we suppose the recipient of the gift to be an
illegitimate child^ and the lady its mother^ I think
the word Awwie will answer all the irequlrements of
this enigm^. F. C IL
CfetEL KiJfo PtetUt* (2" S. xii, 393; S*^ S. I
1 5B*) — The lines are a parupbrase of Lucian : —
♦lA/inhrr yovv rh¥ ManMi^a iyit Qfmrd^fvof <w«i
Kpccrtw d^JLavToZ Svvarhs ^V iBtix^V ^^ M*** ^*' 7^^^^^^
rit4 fuv06i iito^cvn tA <raBp^ rie¥ ^a^ft^drmw* w^AXtivs
It Koi lAAowr tJ I'Jttt' iv T(Wf Tftt^if ^*«wrawn-tr,
i'Atib^iwfej.— "ATinra itrfn to *f|>l rirtt fiamMlmv^ icfti
• Tlii$ f«tiMark of course implies, that as th« word T^^H
ilo« not incjia a apirlt-r, some other word wm origidnlly
u-^-^ Tt. I..., . i\,......ii .....r, in his
C I idle ihe
S. ** Anni
tHJaU! 5i::ua.^ .iUuL ■ , Id
iMil, qUJiB tfKutit/' tlia
liehraw aoun »^ '"' - ^,.--^-
104
NOTES AND QUERIES.
l9^s.Y.iAm.m,m.
fUKpov St^ &wtara,* rl S« <t Xonrpcfti}! $wparT§j teed Aw-
yiini%^, Kdl ff Til 4AA«;if rtav ao^w¥ ;
Metappus,'-*Q fitv iwKpdrrjs xixfT xtpi4px^^ ^**"
x4yx^¥ Itiroyrttf* <rCvtiiri It air^ noAofi^STjs^ Koi *09^*
mfr, irot N/orwpf icai ff ris \dkot Mitptii* (ri ^Ivrai
iir^wrrfTQ awT^ ^oi lit^Ktt ix t^t tpvLptiOKOwoirins To,
tritiKu, d Jf $f ATKTTtir A»tf7^»^f vaptfiHu ^tp ^iapdoMowdK^
wi^vr^Amtf^ K,T,K—NtcmmaJiti(h c. 19, od. Bipout. 1790,
If X K- will lend me What S iaw m ike
Inpuible World for a day or two, and let me
know through tie office of ** N. & Q/' where I
ma J send for it, I shall be greatlj obliged.
H. B. C.
U, U, Clab.
OsBtB Centrum (S^ S* iy. 210.)— Ebn Haukal
begins hh Oriental Geography (p, 2 of Ouseley'a
transliitioQ) with the followmg Benience : —
" We begin with Arabift, because the Temple of the
Lord 19 situated there, aod Uie holy Koaba ia the Napet of
the IVm-kL"
Perhaps your correspondent does not know that
the inhabitants of Boston fMaasaohusetts), with
that Belf4uiidatory spirit which they inherit to
fluch a remarkable degree from their English an-
cestors, call their city " the hub of the universe/*
J. C. Ldidbat.
SL Paul, MinnesQta.
Gbbul pROTfi&BS (3'* S, iv, 286); Greek
Gambb (vols. iv. and v. ) ; Ancient UuMonB
(iv. 471).— « I shall be glad," says Mb. W. Boweh
Rowi^AimSf *^ of any examples of this s^ji^g ^^^ ^
^Qt in Greek authors.*"
***HXi( f/AiKaTf/nrf{« ate. JEquaXia »qaalem detecut]
Huic paria soot, Stmiper similem dactt Deus ad iiEnilem,
CI A V urn clavo et paxillum paaullo pepali^ti i hoc est, er*
ratum altero enato caruAU,** -^ JPfmrinonm, Dwjfeniani
CeQturia Y.
**''HAv tV p^or 4Kitpo6titJ] Pollnx, lib. ix. OmNiuMtf.
oHginero refert ad ludtmi quom KivBaXuffjhy Gneci notni-
DAQt: *0 Si KisfitaAiiTftit, &c Verum ciudaliiiiDiua ludus
eet paxiUorom. Kofid^oxn enim paxillofTocavenrnt.
Opoa aatem er&t non modo paxillum teirae argilloaw in-
d^re, Aisd e^am infixam elidere verberaQtem caput altero
paxillo. Unde etiam proverbium maoavit, *HAw rhv I^Xov,
wmrdXm rhf »«tt4a©k, Clavo damm, et paxlllo paxil-
lum.'*
Schottufi the editor of Adagia, tixre Pinverbia
Or^corum er Zenobio sen Zenodoto^ Diogeniano, et
8mdm CaUMetmm*^ Antverpis, 161'2f folio, refers
t» / '^ *r Cent. TiL) to Hieronymi EftifL ad
i?** nachum, and to Erasmus, ChiJ. i.
Ceni, u. ijinio, whii quotes Publii Syri Mimue,
**Nunquam periculum sine perido vincitur."
There is an English proverb not unlike — vix.
" Every man cannut hit the naile on the head.'*
And the Greeit word jJ\oj reminds us of an in-
tftancc uf patristic humour* Chrysoat. in 2 Cor. xi.,
Ol XMTifwrTu f^fftff, iktintf t^ioi^ quoted in Alex.
Mori in Komtm FtBduA Notes^ ed. by J. A* Filbfi*
cius^ Hamburgi, 1712, ad Act. xxvi. v. 14«
BiBUOTBBCAB. ClUmtAlC
Tioi Shamsock and tax Blbsssd Tbhtitt _
(a*^ S. V. 61.) — I request you will kindly aUow me '
to correct a serious mistaxe which I inadvertently \
made in my remarks on " St. Patrick and the
Shamrock.** The proper expression should have
been, — *^ As a faint illustration of Three dliti&et
Persons, united in one Divine Nature^ Tnstefiil
of using the word Nature, I unfortunately wrote
PersoTu J- Daltoh.
Teaub ANn Imfeovisment of Ireland (3*^* S,
V. 35.) — The second part of the Essay on the above
subject was published m Dublin in 1731, and
dedicated to the Duke of Dorset* at that dftte
Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The author was m
member of the Dobbs family of Antrim, nmoj^
whom are several n&mes of distinguished Uu&rmrjr
reputation.
The second portion of the Essay is replete with
curious and reliable information on the social and
industrial condition of Ireland 140 years ago. I
happened to open that part at p. 96, where ik
author notices one remarkable impedimeat to
industry, which happily has been in great part
removed within the last thirty years. I m^^an,
the great number of holidays. He writes : —
" There are forty- nine more nolidavs in Ireland
than our law allows, including^ St. l*atrick*8 day,
hb Wi/€*Sj citd kiji Wife's Mothers'' Now» on
referring to the life of the great Apostle of Ire-
land from the pen of his most distinguished
biographer, Dr. Todd, I cannot find any mention
whatever of his wife^ or whether he left oflispring
to transmit bis name and virtues to Posterity;
though the learned Doctor informs us, pp. 353-4,
that the Saint*s ancestry, both on father's and
mother*B side, were highly resjx^ctftble ; and quotes
Patrick's own statement to tbut effect in the cele-
brated epistle against Coroticus : ** Ingenuus Bum
secundum camem ; nam Decurione patre nasc<jr,*'
&c. It is conjectured that it was this pa5^ag«
which suggested the composttlon of the aucitmt
Irish bidlad —
" St. Patrick was a geotlcman, and bom of decent peoj^^
I enclose my card for T. B^ who is weleoow Uk
any further information trom J* L.
Dublin.
AnTHtia Donns (3^ 8. v. 63, 82.) — It may in-
ter^t AnuBA to know that I fjossess an impri?s-
sion of a book-plate * '' ' ^ ' ' ' " ' N. The
annn on it are inoHe oi 1 >al way,
with an cs<jutcheon of i There
is no name printed on 'd it tu
Arthur Dobbts *» i ^-^ •' - ^ '*'^ed
Gentry that an M.P. of that i ^n
hciresi of the Osborne family. i.- .1. L.
S^aV. Jjur.80.'64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
105
I
Rnn)i.tB Tkkakts (r* S* iv. 355,) — The ex-
tract from the supplement to Jamieson's Diction-
ary does not exacily answer H. E. N/s question.
Dr. JamiesoQ was a divine, not a lawyer ; but
even in the popular Scotch law-books (see Burton's
Mantlet p. 29*2), the answer given applies more
precisely to what are termed "rentallers" than to
the peculiar class of holders called kindly tenanU^
known only to exist in Anoandalc and Orkney.
Perhnps the following interesting extract from a
work written so far back via 1 842, but still excel-
lent, afibrds the most definite information. Speak*
ing of four contif^uous villages called Four TowiWi
in the parish of Lochmaben, FtdlerioTis Chzetteer^
▼oL i. p. 588, says : —
" The villages are Hlghtae with 400 inhabitants, Green-
hill with 80, and Heck and Smailholin with aboat 70
each. The lands are a larg« and remarkably fertile tract
of holm and haugh| stretching along the we^t side of tbo
river Annan from the immediate vicinity of Lochmaben
Castle, the onginal seat of the royal family of Bruce, to
the southern extremity of the pari^ The iahabitanta of
the viUagee are propnttart of the landi» and hold them bv
a species of tenure nowhere else known in ScoUana,
except in tbe Orkney Islands; and they have from time
immemorial been called "The Ktne^'s 'Kindly Tenants,'
and occasionally tbe * Hentallora of the Crown/ The lands
originallv belonged to the Kings of Scotland* or formed
part of their proper patrimony, and were granted^ a« is
generally believed, by Brace, the Lord of Annandale, on
his toberiting tbe throne, to his domestic sarrantSi or to
the garrison of the castle. The rentallers were bound to
pro vision the xoval fortress^ and probably to carry arms
m its d&fence. ^ey have no charter or seisin, und hold
their title by mere possession, and can alienate their pro-
perty by a deed of cjjnveyance, and procnring for tbe
vorchaser enrolment in the rental-book of Lord atonnont.
The new possessor pays no fee, takes up his saccession
without service, and in his turn is proprietor simply by
autoal possession^ The tenants were in former times so
annoyed by tbe constables of the castle that they twice
made appeals to the crown ; and on both occasions — in the
reigns respectiirely of James VL and Charles IL — ^they
obtatoed orders under the royal si^^manual to be al>
lowol uodtstnrbed and fall poasesston of their siognlar
rights* In more recent timea, at three several dates, these
rights were formally recognised by the Scottish Court of
Session, and the British House of reers."
Thia, then, is a species of holding sui generic,
atid altogether dliferent from the low cottiers of
the hurd's rental-book, because the law will not
recognise these unless there be two things in
existence besides mere possession ^ — there must be
s lease, and there must be a rent.
Sholto MAGBirrr.
QtJOTATioKS Wahted (3** S. V. 62, 83.) — In
the verses quoted, the word ut is unfortunately
printed instead of ifcit, so that the point and anti-
thesis are marred. The Unas should run thus : —
••Qui Chdstnm na<K:it, sat sdt si cietera neseit j
Qui Christum neadt, nil sett si castera noacit,"
F. C. H.
Baptismal Nakss (3^^ S. ir*S08.) — I can sup-
pi/ an instance of a Christian muoe which strikes
me as more curious and unaccountable than any
mentioned in your colunans. The present Vicar
of Canon Pyon, Herefordshire, is the Rev. E.
Cockahoo Dawes. I should be interested in hear-
ing of any other instance of this euphonious
cognomen. R. C. L.
Passags ni TsmrrBon (3^^ S. v. 75,)— I cannot
see that there is any particular allusion in the
second line of the passage: —
'* Go, vexed spirit, sleep in tmst;
The right ear that is filled with dust
Bears little of the false or just.**
The words M. O. gives in italics^ are simply an
expression for the peace and silence of the grave*
The specification of the right is not uncommon^ as
in St. Matthew : " li* thy right eye offend thee,"
&o. E. J. N*
Alfrsd BuiCN (3^ S. V. 55.) — Mrs. Bunn^ the
mother of Alfred Bonn, about the year 1819, kept
a lady^s school at South Lambeth. D. N*
^itfcrllaiiraujtf.
NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.
Slererntapic Views of the Etdnj of Copan, Central Amtriea,
toAtn by Oabert SaJvin, M.A-
We are indebted to Messrs. Smith, Beck, it Beck for a
series of Stereoscopic Views, which cannot fail to interest
alike tbe antiquaiy and the ethnologist They cooi^iftt of
Photographs of Monoliths and other sculptured remains
of Indian art from tbe ruins of Copun, which is situated
in the republic of Hondi^ras, close to the frontier of Gua-
temida. That these monuments are connected with the
ancient worship of the country there can be little doubt
though the date of their erection, and tbe race of Indians
by whom they were erected^ are alike unknown, Mr.
Salvin does not look upon them as of remote antiquity,
for the stone of which they aj% formed is not one capable
of offering ^reat resistance to the action of the weather,
and it is therefore matter of congratulation that such
effectire representations of them have been secured. Some
of the mooolitha are very striking, so is the representa-
tion of the Jaguar's Hesd, the Square Stone with Hiero>
glyphicB, and especially that containing a flead, and other
sculptured stones. Tbe whole fieries, indeed, must be roost
acceptable to ethnological students.
SibRotheta OiethamenxiM : Sivr Bthiuttheca FubHeat Jfon-
tuniitnsis^ ah Humfredo CfM-thnm armi^ero fundatir^ Cata^
fom Tomiu /F,, ejrhtbrns Ltbrxti in varioM Cius»ea pro
VarieleUe Argumentt dUtrihutot. Edidit lb o mas Jones,
JL, ^iMioMsoff tHpra dictm Ciato§, (Simms, Mau>
hestcr.)
The readers of " N. ft Q." hare seen in the contribu-
tJoos to our pages of the learned Librarian of theChetham
Library such unqu^iionftblo evidence of his erudition,
diUgence, and knowledge of books, as to render any com-
mendation of the preacut Cutalogae perfectly uncaJIedfor.
A glance at tho four goodly volumes of the Chetham
Catalogue i^ sufficient to call forth from all reading men
their congratulations to the people of Manchester on the
pnesession of so valuable a library, and also of .% Librarian,
who stiive9 60 sealoualY to t^ira. xSxaxX^t^ri Ma ^£«3^ ■•'a^
GOUtti.
NOTES AND QUEBIE8.
■■X2r
h' ■■■-. • .. '.. -. a Cntf^
Ii.i , / Part I L The Go»'
pel <>/ SL Ju.'in^ and the AcU of the ApottlsM. rRiriiig-
tons,)
W« kftw St rv h ntion to tfaa FinI Ptrt
of thii reiy tt»i > may couunt ournWes
with annoandn^^ , —-., pwsrfl*a. T^e pr«9<iJ]|
portion, it will bv »pen^ o^teniis to tfa« coodasiou of the
AcU of the ApoAilesw
A»^fitm^ iH till AJ^t€r» relalim to (hokery and ^oifne-
k«p%np^^ J5y Ore- PvUJ. (Simpkin A Marshall)
THi»re lire threi? r<?i.Y»mrnu-nil-itian^ to this new Mamuil
of D
avail ;
Aruivdcl Sociktt, — The snnaal pnblicstions r -
Socifty for the your 18fi3 y^iW bt — a chromolith«
from A dr-i^'^f"" ^•^ s;.rn,,r m iri.r.n... ..j^ after F* L.^ ^., ..
frMf^ "Til ; *' another irom
h99« will n-tJfMMir in a r^w weeks. At i ' -^ wtU
car t^vo *»»tTf» |iiiMt'*ft!!Ani« • — 1. A - : utrapli
In? ConveratoTi of
R4, will r<i!
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NOTES AND QUBBIE&
107
y, SMTifiif»4T, FKBUujnY 0, im.
CONTENTS. —N*. HO.
|te piiblinkttoii at DiftriM, Ifff — "nocinmimtft, 4c«.
^_- c;_ vt_,... f>..',. ...1. ,... ^'r....vif>s. Hay, 109 —
foae, Z6, — '
1 1 V— Men-
x>«r..^. l>ifttee&» of
, l!L
Mr.
>rth
riiim-
! Holdoil —
1 Towers of
— Literati
; : uiiiresft Uhud —
— Wcwbaven in
!*roverb Wanted
ScfikU ~ ^UaktLHi'iuw Portmlto —
— Viehy — WnU of SumBMMW —
I Wirn A ^vwKKs : — C<klkitl» and A. 8. — The Nile
lar RidinnJboM I'ack — Sp«iMier'« " CaUntl&r "— Quo*
I — Sfirinigs — Retreat — Durocobnvi* — Ajaonr-
.— Tf oinwrir* Rt^ad, IIP — Coloiiel Robert Vena-
" • ^ Barham, Ih — >1 r, WIjw?, 121
nke a Summw-" — BtrnjutUi
VVillibroni : Friik" Literaluro
«i*eri of Huidn^i u.^u -- Lon-
nTOfgOOd t-' -I M'- I. hil'M" —
l^pwmg —Will, ;i rvi S 1 L UhfiW,
nnii 1) 'vtnr — Eltoa,. a ChriKtiftti Name —
lie Navarre : Speii^e, &<k, 1Z£.
PITBLICATJON OF DIAKIE8.
who publi«ii the pr'ivAte diaries of de-
persone, or rxtmets from them, are apt to
trror of bio2raphei"S, They /eel a
toward* the writer^ and omit nnvtbing
r show him uiifuvourablj. Objection
tiiki^n to thli^ prnctice, even when the
\% only speaking of himself. But, when be
<iiher?i» itnd especially when he i«
■'-I others* jtueh omi&^ion may be a
w**ai*^ U» eliose who nre represented. It
i that the omitted pftrt"! would completely
f the value of th« whole testimony* Sup-
br instiince, a porson ofsnni*? unme should
^ of VHTl-
i(, among
iniio DO invma iiKif. rhf late Duke
rlliniJitiiD either wanted courage und eon-
n the tjeldt <*r, was bribed by the enemy.
a future time the&e memortiada ahoufd
publisher or an ex^tractor, who should
»e ehmder on the Duke and retain what U
hoiit t ihpr^ who would not Vie so well
it I it tliose othera would not be
i ^> i^nl fairness. The editor or
for noi^iit very innocently think only of hit
ami of the wretched fiiiure he would
but his readi:'r8 have a ri;iht to expect
e should think of them, nnd of the other
I Ass&iled.
In 1855 (!■* S* xii. 142) I quoted some brntAlly
coarse remarks which Reuben Burrow wrote in
the fly -leaf of a book. In giving them I had a
meaning which I did not explain. Two years be-
fore* some extracts from the diary of Reuben
Burrow had been published in a scientific journal ;
these extracts contained variotis disparagements;,
which possibly might be slanders; accompanied
by the statement, taken from a friendly bio-
graphy, that '* his habits had been formed bj
casualty and the necessities of the moment rather
than by design and the prudent hand of a master.**
Ihia bioffrnphy also describes him as having, in
private life, ** some of those excentricities which
frec|uently attend genius, though by no means
necessarily/* This gentle allusion to the habits
of a man whose stories about other perions were
put into prints induced me to publish the t!ydcaf
above tdludcd to. I then knew nothing of the
journal or diary, except the extracts. I have
l«tely been made aware that the extractor, ft
friend from whom I am obliged to differ widely
in this matter, presented the diary to the library
of the Astronomicnl Society soon nft^r the com-
pletion of the extracts. 1 am thus enabled to
supply deficiencies, and to give the character of
this accuser of the brethren in the manner in
which I hold it ought to have been given-
It is very gratiiving to think that such " ex-
centricities" m private life as Burrow es^hibited
are not ** neceasarily ** the flccompaniments of
** genius/' Even in his day the gifted man would
not often leave to his son and three daughters a
note book in which obscene epigrams are recorded,
and in which the dismissal of a servant is noted
with his nmne mispelt into the foulest word in
the langungCi vowels and all* But this is pos-
sibly consistent with truthful evidence, and s«mnd
judgment upon the conduct of others* For a
specimen of the reliance to be placed on Burrow
in these particulars, X shall content myself with
quoting the following passage* He was starting
for India, and Lord Howe, with the fieet which
was to relieve Gibraltar, protected the India
fleet for a time, and then left them a convoy : —
" The weather continned pretty much the samo till
the <?nd of Septemhcr, and the wind vrm lometiroca
f^vorjMe; ret Howts never took the leant ad van taipe of
it; but on S(»pT. .^0, wlien we were in lat, 48^ 6', and the
Fiiinch \^ ileet were expecte^J evexj/i moment
vrli.li live lin<^ tiiii scouodrfi Uowe Wfi as
entirely i i ..^ .,. ., with only a fifty-pn *hin t« take
care m na, and went away from us, tnou|;h he might
have rnnrrtred tii a much greater distance without the
lea*f ire with hi* n. From iho ato*
nj«lit l^aanneap of ' bvliaviour, I can
fi 4 iHJion but I -. -J hi« brother are a
[Uiireis* orviiiie that thev nre bribed
• m certnin iHir* thry mipbt bv this
r.n, ull :.[■■■,.■:•'*■ pd
..V iiSii .1 1 i ■^^--'
I ' • ■■■.M.-.L.-iV tWiv:-,,' ,■ ■ '■ ■ ''-v ^
cmn hat faUen \Tk\o. *lVv««i^\i Vttv* criTwS. t*i<^v\fe
NOTES AND QUERIES.
.V. Fiai.<%1
brolber have nlrettdy beh*ved in the woret miinncr poa-
aUile in A^leric4^ yet ibey are now truaKid \rith another
expeditioQ ,...."
At the time in question. Lord Howe had run ft
very briUiiint career : and as he did relieve Gibral*
tar ftocortling to instructiouB, and iis the India fleet
was not hurt by the French, we may surmise that
he knew how to manage. The whole of the above
passage is omitted in the extraeta, though parts
before and after come under marks of quotation.
This omission is not due to supposed irreievnncy
or waiit of interest, for it is quoted that the car-
penter had forgotten to close the port^s by which
the water came in and created ularxn, I hold
that enough ought to have been given to show
what kind of person the writer was. Having ex-
amined the storiea which he tells about other
mathemaiicianSf I find much reason to think that
be is no more to be depended on about them than
about Lord Howe. His plan seems to be, to take a
rumour^ or the gossip of an acquaintance^ and to
erect It into a positive fact of a decided character.
There h an old joke — it seems to have been no
more — against Holley, which has lived in oral
tradition, and I think has been printed. Hallej
was sent to Germany by the Royal Society to
examine the astronomical methods of Hevelius,
and it was the luugh of his friends against him
thiit he had flirted— as we now say ^ — with Mm,
Hevelius, and made her husband jealoun. Such
badinage was sure to arise — especially in the
reign of Charles 11. — ^ where a young and highly
accomplished single man was entertaine^l in the
hduseof a friend who had a handsome wife. Bur-
row HlHrms that Halitty betrayed the confidence of
hia host to the utmost^ and uses the plainest words.
I have given enough to show that Reuben
Burrow must not be taken as a witness against
the character of any othej* person. I may add
that he records notmng but what is diapjiraging,
nothing — or Just next to nothing — to the honour
or credit of any one whom he mentions. Hia
antipathy to Widea, the hero of the abuse trans-
cribed by me, as above mentioned — and with
whom he seems to have been on terms of friendly
acquaintance while lly-leafing him in t-*very one
of his works — bus Bume of its sources laid open.
The chief of them seems to bo that to Mrs,
Wales he attributes the lies — as he calls
them — about Mrs. Burrow owins black eyes
and a «wt?Ued f?ioe to some of her nusband's cx-
©entrieitics which attend genius, but not ncces-
Mirily, in private life. This is the most credible
•ipersion of Burrow *s whole lot. His bio;;rapher
6(lmita that be was an occasional pugilist; !hc
witness is one ugoimit whom nothing has ever
been produced ; and the story is^ taking all we
know of Burrow, natural and probable in its
detailf. A. Dis Mohgaii.
DOCUMENTS, ETC, REGARDIXa SIR WAV
RALEIGH.
I send for insertion, if you think tij
of a place in **N. & Q ," a few more i
my collections regarding Sir Walter Hai
friends, and relatives : the dates of some
are uncertain, as no year is mentioned ; a\
others the commencement of the vcar» whcthw .
January 1 or on March %% will ni«ke a difRj
ence, for which, of course, allowance mu4t not
omitted. The dcjcumenta were copied by
from the origin«ls at various periods, some
them as far back as the year 1S30 or 1831.
Addressed in Raleigh*s hand thus :
**Forhertna*» speciall affaire. To the ritrht Im
my very good L, the L« Cobham, L*"** W
Cinkporte*, her ma*** lelftenant generall *
Plytnoutho. From ShBrbomc the J3 of Aug it i
the night. Post hast, hast, post with spedeu Haal,
host, hast for life.
" 1 have sent your L. M'' S^cr^tories letter, ttj m\
you may perceve that 8 *ayle of Spaniartla ar eatrvf
our seaa as hlj^h as S^ Mallow. Yoar L. may sea tii^
you wearenot ioo!ie» you should be tied abore ilg^^ pIms.
If you needs will into Corn wale, then make ht^ w J^
think yow wilbe »ent for. I can my no more, han llBI
I am voar Lordshipp's before all that kve.
** W. RALean.-
Lady Raleigh added the following postscript A
her own hand- writing: —
" And I could diggeat this hi*t word of S«r WaKaA
letter, I wold ex pres my love Ukewiie: but tutl
agree and am in all ivith Stir \Valt«ir» and
Lovfi to yoa: I pray hasten your retume 1 .
sake, that we may «ee the bath« to gether.
»» Your trew poorc frind, E. Rai^cil'
(Indorsed) " 17 Jaijy, 1595. S^' Jo. Gilbert to i
Raleghe. Report of a Frenchmau ktdie cosnQ
Spaiiie.
** To my ho. good brother, ayr Walter Rjiylygh,
lo. warden oft' the Stanerys and oaptai'no of
jcstys garde, att Sherborno^
** My ho. good brother. H«ane arrj'vwl, yn fhja««^
shona weak e, a Frenche mane wKtcb came ow'i of Spiav
nnd VB wrvfliite Ickj my Lis. off the gowarsen* who'
portta that the Kynge of Spayac ha? sfsint^ nil hit fi
of Spanynrdi* and llullyana frum C
of Savovc» and f^oo into the Ioh*
cary \%ith theaime 3 mylllons of! i
fodger* theare, Antony Gndd(?fdi5 dn
wh<ethiT iho Kyngc of Spayju? io(int<» f
Indojp tn the littipyer c»f GwyttiiM ':
that empyer he hardf? nott, but
foriea too llie doll awr.ntln<i [the L
procUmaayontborro 8paviie« that they thut w«ldi
Iiave lvli*»rtv V* p^^^ w\th th#»«r*» vfvv<»» nnd chvl
The f'
iitakr
and fl>
«tretca iOu nayiio oU
sett sayllti by the e«pi
hard*'.' The Lo. bVa^*' jm ytinr an^Mjni, i.
17 uir Janowary* 1695.
•* Vowres for trvertoo ht\ vimnn:un\\A,
"Joi
(Iiidoraod) ''16 Mtr. U^5, 6' Jo. <<
■m^^
■^^^^^
8^ SL Y. Fwi. e. *64]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
109
Too my ha ffood ferolher. nyr Walter lUylygli, Knyglit,
Lo/^Vanlen o(t th« Stinerjs, And coptaync of htr
majwtr'i garrte*
** My ho. good brother. Hearc Are arryvyd 3 fly
' 'bottM from Saynt LucaTf which citni« from thensc tlie
^ 26 of febmary laste, who reporte that theare are thenrc
SO Baylies of men of war amakinge reddy, butt nott with
L^ Jfiaftte'j wheareoff 3 of thftame are of the greteste *liypp<i
Hkoff Spayne. Theare carae owto of Saynt Lucar, yn thear«
^Bcompaiiy, aertyno ahyppes whirh weant for Lasburne,
^^^oden with \A()0 tones off com too lie bakyd ynto by sky
^P^r the kynges prov^-slonj and theare came at thatt
■ tyme too oth^r p-pntte shyppes too Saynt Lucar, off 600
H ^anen apewe, too lode come and tfio retornc too Liiaborae.
^P ** They farther reporte that the Kynge bofte 6 hiilkes
" ©If 200 tones apease, which are gone to the ddlawrado,
^ full of men, womene, ami chyMcme, and vyttelli; wheare
o0 theare weante 1400 soldyers.
^j *• Theare are arr^-vyd /itt Saynt Lukar, abowte 5 wekea
|piiste» 3 of the Kynjiffts frygotte*, whi'ih brafte from
SAvnte John de Purtcryka 2 mylliona and a halfe of
•yfver, n» the report© wa» amongesto merchantea; and
that «7r francy* Drake rechyd tbeare owtewarda: at
that tymc ther were ulodynge off the Ire^uro. He en*
teryd the hwrbor* with hys pyna**e5, and fyryd one of
Ihi! frygot!c5i. Syr francys cowlde nott enter the har-
boor with hie shyppes, for they had sunke a fn'gotte vn
the harboro, and by that meatiea lost both t&e towQe,
. treaaure, and frygottea* Thya ys all that I can at thys
prenaunte advertya yow off; and soo lewnge to troble
Yow, 1 commyt yow to the protectyon off tbe Allrayghty.
^rom Gfeanewn^e thie IC off marc lie^ 1595.
^ *• Yottrea for erer to be commandyd,
•* JOEIX GlLBEHTB."
The following paper seeing to have reference to
the Expedition to Cadiz, under the Earl of Essex ;
it is without date or indorsement : —
" And becanae it m%y happen by Hghtt or otherwise,
that yoti, our AdtniraU uf tbeae fbrcea committed to your
charge, may mi*canye in this action (which God* we
hope, will prevent), we have thought good (providinge
for all event!4) to appovnt and authoristc in such extre-
mitye our Servant S*^ Waller Raleigh, Cuptayne of our
GuariJ, and Lieutenant of otir County of Cornewalle* to
take the charge of our aaid fleet and forcea, beinge now
oar V ice -admy rail of the same. And in the meane while
that he be auiatant unto you in all your enterprisea and
attemptea, and all other reKolutiona and determinaljona
for these onr eervices, as well fL^r the annoyance of the
Enemye as for the aai'egarde of oar fleet, and forces afore-
aayd. In wytnea whereof we have caaaed theae our
Letters to be made Patentes, to coatynue daringe our
pleaaare. — VVitoes oar ael^** ^.
J. PaTWE CoLLISJt.
P.S. From a ^[S* volume of miscellaneous
poetry and prose, in the library at Bridge water
Flouae, I extracted the following; but it strikes
me that I hove seen it in print, and if any of the
correspondents of **N, k Q." can tell me where
the lines are to be found, I shall be obliged to
** KftTAT^.
•• 1 ^ ry or \ hat never blunted awonl :
f ' rtier that never kept his word ;
li. rr n >-^ ii.^ i,\..'ii.'ucy that ^jovem*d all the State j
Here )yca the L. of Leiceater that all the world did
hai», Wa, Ra/*
I
I
I
TWELFTH-DAY,
It 18 Btill the custom in parta of Pembrokeshire^
on Twelfth-night, to carry about a wren.
The wren is secured in a small house made of
wood, with door and windows— the latter glared.
Pieces of ribbon of various colours are fixed to
the ridge of the roof outside. Sometimes, several
wrens are brought in the ^ame cage ; and often-
times a stable-lantern, decorated as above-men-
tioned, serves for the wren's house* The pro-
prietors of this establishment go round to the
principal houses in their neighbourhood : where,
accompanying themselves with some musical in-
strument, they announce their arrival by singing
the *' Song of the Wren.'* The wreu*a visit is a
source of much amusement to children and ser-
vants ; and the wren*s men, or lads, are usually
invited to have a draught from the cellar, and
receive a present in money. The " Song of the
Wren*' is generally encored; and the proprietors
Yery commonly commence high life below stairs,
dancing with the moid-servants, and saluting them
under the kissing- bush— where there is one. I
have lately procured a copy of the song sung on
this occasion, I am not aware that it is in print.
I am told that there is a version of this song in
the Welsh language, which b in substance very
near to that given below ; —
** THE 80KO OF THB WRBN,
" Joy, health, love, and peace,
Be' to yon in this place*
By your leave we will sing.
Concerning our king :
Our king la well drest,
In allks of the beat;
"With his ribbons ao rare.
"So king can compare.
In his coach he d^ios ride,
With a great deal of pride j
And with four footmen
To wait upon him.
We were four at watch,
And all nigb of a match ;
And with powder and ball,
We fired at his halL
We have travail 'd many miles,
Over hedges and stiles,
To find yoa this king.
Which we now to you bring.
Now Christmas ia past.
Twelfth -day is the last.
Th' Old Tear bids adieu—
Great joy to the New,"
It would appear, from the ninth line of the
song, that the wren at one time used to occupy a
coach, or that her house was placed upon wheels.
The word **hair' la fitly used for (he wren's
nest: it is really a "h%ll/' or covered place. And
it is from the shape of his neat, that the u*ren gets
his name, meaning catered.
The reference to ** powder and balP' is curious ;
and there is another ftOQ% «!ticy(^x* ^^*& ^^t^^^ ^^
110
N01*ES AND QUERIES.
[9^av«rBB.
surviving in this district, which contains a refer-
enoe to guns and cannons. I regret that I can
only remember two verses; and as far aa I know»
they are not printed : —
** * Whw9 are joo going ? ' stys the milldef to tile malder.
' Where ere voa going? ' saya the youoger to the eider.
' I cannot tell/ says Fizzledyfose :
' To catch euUy wron,* says John the-red-nose.
" ' How will yon get hint ? * says the ttfllder tefhe malder.
' How will yoti get hhn ? ' says the yetm^ te the elder«
* I cannot tell/ says Piisledyfoee s
'With giins and great caononsy' sa>j» John the-red-
Perhaps I ought not to eall thia.a song^ as I
never heard it sung^ and it h very little known
hsre ; bat I suspect it used to be iung When the
party of seekers were setting out in searoh of
the wren, which they wanted for the TwelfUi-
night*
The wren here is generally called^ by the oooh
xnon people* " crttty wron," or ^ cutty wran"
Query. What are the meaaingt of the Words
«<milkler*' and "nudder" ? J. ToiiJia.
FLT-LEAF SCHIBBUNGS, BTC.
In a MS. circa 1450 : —
** Q(]» librum scripsit ipsnm
Yideat in patria Jesam GbriSCata.
Amea."
In a Salisbury book, 1537 : —
" Mi bewte ys fayr ye may well see
Wherfor I y*nke mi mast'^Dygbe
Wberaomever ye me sea or happyn to mette
I dwel w* mi master Dygbe in Lym Stretie
Whereaomever I am in vilage towne or cite
Mi dwellyrifir is in Lyme Stretwith mi master digbe
Pore pepull for mi master digbe doth py (pray)
For he refreahyt them both night and day
Many a poore body ye may here see
Pray for that ma mi master digbe
Mi master digbe is of London noble cite
Wherein I was made& bed mi fayre bewte
Poor men & rich men of evry degree
Is bound to pray for mi master Digbe
Whosoever in me doth look & rede
Pray for mi master Digbe— God be hys gpedt
Mi master digbe dwellethe in Lyme Strett
Wher mony a noble marchand there doth mette."
Time of Elizabeth—
•* Omnipotens Christe
Mihi Salter cui constat liber iste
Dignare
Dogmata plura dare."
*• Si tibi copia— >sf sapientia ftyrmaqne dettir,
Sola saperbia destrnit omnia si domloetar."
The following, from a book formerlv belonging
to the celebrated John Dey, Uie astrologer : —
**!» Dei Nomine Amen«
The thirde day of December a° Dai 167G. I. Thomas
Watson of Walton in the ootinty of .**
Then follows, in the same hand —
"When ye hande shaketh memento
When ye lippes blacketh confessio
When ye harte paineth contrissio [sJe.]
When ye winde wanteth satisfactio
When ye Toiae roleth mei miserere
When ye limmes fayletb Jibera nos domine
When ye eyes holloweth nosce teipsam
For ther doth forbere{ ?) vade ad Jadidam.
I Will conclude this With an aoroetic
where I copied it I quite forget : —
**I llostrator mentiom
£ rector lapsoram ^
S anctificator cordinm
y itajnstoram
S alas peccatomm
''M ater orphanoram
A dJQtrix lapsornra
R efagiam miseromm
I llominatriz casoomm
A drocata peocatoram."
THE NEWTON STONE.
In reading Dr. D. Wilson's interesting wo
the Pre*huCrie Annals of Scotland, I was f
with the resemblance of the inscription c
Newton stone (vol. ii. p. 214,) to those of c
rocks In North-west India. It appears ths
Sykes also detected the similarity, in aboi
letters — the powers of which are well knowi
with the appearance of which I am famiiiai
almost precisely those of the Arian variet
grayed on the sepulchral stones of the tope.
in other Buddhistic inscriptions found in Afl
istan, the ancient Ariana. The character
known as the Arian or Bactrian, anil are c
related to the Phoenician. The letter like
however, not in the Arian ; but in the Pboei
it has the power of the Hebrew ay in, V. 'i
is one word, at the end of the fourth line, i
is in the Lit character — the oldest form of
scrit : thb word is Nesher,
Having so clear a clue, I readily wrote
whole inscription in equivalent Hebrew lei
thus: —
jny TDP -3K nn
mn 'cv VP^
In English letters, thus : —
Be;rababa
domiti babeth
auth Ab-ham-howha
nin phi Nesher
^ii caman
8h*p*ha joati hodhi.
¥^
a V* P^m. 6, »«4,]
NOTES AND QUEKIES.
tt will be ot>s6fTed tlist tiie lines are arranged
in meikiure r tbr€!e lines of four ajUables, tmii
three of five.
The words are linmbtakftbly Hebrew^ mih
Cbaldftic admixture, as in the word man (\^0) ;
and the literal rendering is m follows :■ —
"Silently I rest m the tomb;* Ab*ham'howhaf
IB in the home of .*plenf!our. From the mouth
for doctrine) of Kesher^l my life was h9 an oyer*
flowing yessel ; my wisdom vra^ my fjlory/*
The word Npsher beintr inscribed in the ancient
inscrit character, employe<l by the early Hud-
hisfs^ indicates thrit the person 90 named was an
pcient teacher of the doctrinea of Bnddha, from
first ^eat of Buddhism ; and that the person
am em orated ou thi^ sepulchral stone, as one
f tructed by thia teacher, was himself a Buddhist
oary.
fact that we find an insieription in the
and L.4t character of India, known to be
liddhistTc, on a tombstone of very early date in
hch a place, i5 sufficient proof thnt a Buddhiut
Dl*mj was established there at the time uf it*
ection. The form of the letters in the word
Ngjih^r^ h certainly that of the SanBcrit of the
£fih century ax.
From Buddhistic history we know that, soon
after the death of Godama BiMldha, or Sakya, mi»-
Hiooaries went out in all directions to proittul^ate
|M doctrinea* This occurred about five hundred
jetLTs B.C. Northern mythology plainly indicatesi
iti connection with India and Buddhism.
.But thy most interesting circumstance b the
ebrew character of the inscription on the
Jftwtoo stone, though the ktter* themselves re-
tible those in use in North-western India at
]>eriod of Buddhist ascendency, and both the
pcient Sanscrit form of letter and that of the
pian are found together in several instances on
J fame rock, as tranitcripts of the same inscrip-
Dn and ill the same language.
How cnn an inscriptliin, presenting examples
f lx»th those forms of ktters, and expressing
lebrew words, and found in Scotland, be ac-
punted for? There are numerous evidences
Bt many of the Israelites, especially those of the
fcn Tribes, wandered from the place of their
"iptivity into Bactria and North-western India,
hd there beeame Buddhists. Traces of such
■sons are ftiund in several parts of Europe, but
pecially in Great Britain ; where an extensive
lehrew influence, and yet not Jewish, was cer-
^nly established at a vtry early period. Among
e wveral facta connef*rin5r thi!i Hebrew inflti*
ce Iti Britain with Buddhism, h a singular pafl*
fc? 333i mound, tumulus or vault.
^«tbi» In I ! as fl prttper name, slit-
her of a *^ [ or pcn^erae people^
fTfc In Hti6(\. >T , ii4,cA4ij» an eagle.
aage quoted by the Rev. E. Davies, in his work
on the Mythology of the Briluh Druuh (Appen-
dix, No. 12)» Thii pftMiaae cons iti t^ of four short
lines, which Mr, Davies suitpected might be
Hebrew ; in consequence of TalicsMO^ the WeUh
bard, having stated that the bardic lore wa^ do*
rived from a Hebrew or Hebraic source. The
lines referred to are in an ancient Drutdical hynm
in praise of Lludd the Great ( Wehh Archmdagif^
p. 74). These lines are described as the prnyer
of five hundred men^ who came in five ship«.
Mr. Davies irans'Tibed the passafje in Hebrew
chnracters, but did not attempt to translate it.
When literally rendered, however, even from Mr.
Davies*B translileratitm, It makes very jrood Bud-
dhistic sense. The Hebrew source of this passage
is further indicated by the fact, that those who
used it are represpntcd as aayin" : *' We ail at-
tend upon Adonai," — the Hebrew name of the
Almighty.
The Dannaan of Irish tradition are not un*
likely to have been Israelites of the sailor- tribe
Dun, who very early mingled with the maritttne
population of Zidonia (see Deborah's Sonjr, fice.).
Dr. Latham thinks it probable that the Danai of
Homer, &c., were Danites. {Ethn* of Europi^
p. 137.)
If the Dannaan of the Irish were Banttes, we
can account for the presence of Hebrews in Scot-
laud during the pre-historic period : for, as we
are informed, the Tuatha de Dannaan Introduced
their monuments Into Scotland, Ireland, and
Wales, long before the Christian era.
Then, as Great Britain was known to India
before the death of Godama, we can understand
how Israolitish converts to Buddhism there might
also know that Hebrew colonists dwelt in Britain,
and desire to join them ; and, a<'cording to the
zeal of the time, introduce Buddhism.
From the direct reading of the Newton stone,
as well us from collateral evidence, there Is then
reason to coocltnle that It whs erected to the
memory of a Hebrew Buddhist missionary of
aome influence in pre-historic Scotland. The
inscripliou in the Ogham chai'acter, on the same
stone, is pojiaibly a transcript in the same or an-
other language, and may serve to test the cor-
rectness of the reading thua confidently offered.
Can yon fayoor ine with information concern*
ing any other northern insrriptiou in the same
character ? And also inform me, where I may
find a copy of the Ogham inscription on the New-
ton stone ? la there any published explanation
of the Ogham alphabet ?
Gso. Moons, M.D«
tlasttflga^
CAttDtKAT- BeTON AWD ARCHBIiHOF GawIN
DoitDAR. — In the book of protocols or notarml
instruments before the Reformation kept by nota-
ries public, occasionally vnluable facts are re-
corded. Very many of these books Imve peri*heil,
but still there are several yet preserved. In
looking over certain ejt tract* from the Protocols
of Cuihbert Simon, the following entries occur :
" Jncobiis secundaa ArchiepiscopuB Glas^eoBja Ordi-
natos et consecratu* fuit apud btriviling dominicn in
tlbhh vis. XV Aprilis, anno m» quinquagesimo none* et
dEiravIt mqae ad quintum junii anno xxiij^ et sedw
torn vac* V it p«r translatiooem ejus ad ArcbicpiscopAlum
Sancti Andree*
" Jacobiia quartua Scotorum rex coronatoj! ftiit apud
Scon am in die Sanctae Mari» Magdalene videlicet xxij
*• Jaoobua qaintas coronatna fuit in caatro de StriviHng
per Jacobuni Gloa^uenaem Arch ^ xxij Sep*
tembria. Anno Domini M. quinqu >
" Gavrinui Arcbiepiacopus Gla?'- -f-cratns fiiil^
Edinbufi^i quinta Februarii, Anna i>onuiii n, quioqaogea-
imo xrxiiij."
The first prelate here mentioned was the cele-
brated Cardinal Beaton, whose hostility to the
English interest wa« the foundation of all tht? mis-
fortunea of the unhappy Mary. Had she been
affianced to the youthful Edward, and rec*?ived a
Tirtuous education in Englantl, instead of havinjr
her youth corrupted by the vicious, wicked, and
immoral practices of the French Court, her fate
would have been otherwise than it was ; but
j under the training of Catherine de Medici — a
worse woman than even her namesake of Russia —
1 ind with the example of Diana of Poictiers, the
king's roistreas, before her, whose pet she was —
how waa it posaible that the best disposition in
the world could eacape contamination ?
Beton was the second James ; the first was
James Bruce, a son of Bruce of Clackmanan,
Archbishop of Glasgow. Keith was not aware
when or where he waa consecrated. Sec ScoHnk
Bi$hap», Edin. 1824, 8to, p. 255,
Gawinus waa Gavin Dunbar, a nephew of
Gavin Dunbar, Bishop of Aberdeen. He was an
\ ftccomplished man^ and the education of Jamefi V,
Iwt* entrusted to him. He was Prior of White-
llkaven in Galloway. J. M.
Ms]fDBi.aaoBii'i OaAxono, " St. Pacl." — It
always desirable that any erroneous statement
f of fact, particularly when contained in a work
ieirryin^ on its face an appearance of authority,
lihould be pointed out as tOQti as passible. In
Ithe recently published vnlome of Iftfrnt it/ FeUx
LM^ndfiUxohn Bartholdt/^ there Is ;' ' to a
llettcr written by Mendebsohn to ! t on
[October 4, 1M57, in which he refers tu tho 31u»»cal
festival held at BirniitiL^ham tn that year (at
fhAmb he had conducted I: '>>, St, Puul)^ a
by the editors, Mr h brother and
lin, stating that Si, J^atu was performed for
the first time in England at that festiirmt. ^Wil
note has been retained^ without c^Knment^ in tie |
English traniflation (by Lady Wallace)
Letters. But the statement is inc^irreot, OJ I
had been three performances of tb*^ '
England prior to that at the Biini
tival on September 20, 1837. The li
performances was at the Liverpool
tival, under the direction of Sir Go
on Fridny morning, October 7, 1836 ; the i
was in London, by the Sacred Harmonio 8
on March 7, 1837, and the third by the
body on September 12, in that year. The
poser was presents as an auditor, at the
performnnce, whi<?h he would have^ condu
but for the interference of the Birmingham ' ^
tival Committee, who considered that hi>» doiif |
so would have been a virtual breach of hia (
gageroent with them. He had, however, siiptf* I
intended three of the rehearsals, and it mm a
remembrance of his aasociation with the Socicfir
on this occasion that the silver snuff-lKix tofaa-
tioned by him in the letter of October 4, }SSJ,
was presented to him. W. H. llrtf«
E ASTER, — In The Chronohgy of HtAtan^ \rf
Sir Harris Nicolas (at pp. 88—91), a rule U'p'rtk
for finding Easter, independently of all lalilti.
The rule as printed is incorrect, and gives ss
erroneous result when G is the Sunday lHt«^
and the epact is either 6, 13, 20, or 29. Tbt
error occurs in subdivision (g) of the rul«, p» t$.
It should provide that, when subdivision {_fy jjiv«i
no remainder, G is the Sunday letter ; land ihn
number under G should be, not 7, but O. Fee
instance, in the year 1849, the cpnct wuj 6 ; anil
G was Sunday letter, and Easter fell on Anrll ^
Applying the rule as printeil, it rt
fallen on April 15. Thus, under sal' 5 io>,
45*- 6=39, Under subdivision (o), 27— t»^2lj
which, divided by 7, gives no remainder. Thfv
by subdivision (/»), to 39 must be added 7» and
no remainder is given by subdivision {o) to he
deducted. 46— 31 =15, the day of April on wliiell
Easter did not fall in that year. T«
DiAXECTs OF TH» ScBtHwa. — M? engagcmeAU
in London, and my residence in toe direction of
Highgate^ necessitate a diurnal transition from
end to end, between Kentisli Town and the Ox-
ford Street extremity of Tottenham Court Eoad«
These daily journeys by omnibus, up ami dowmt
have brought me into acquaintance with immoq
extraordinary specimens of suburban dialect*
Allow me to place on record in ** N. & Q.** »
few examples, not only for the amusement of yoor
readers, but as evidences of thtit modificcilinn ati4
d»s?ui«»mcnt, whereof our pliiible vcrnactiliir haa
alv
— *^Addle^ht'ftd
Fkb. 6, '64.]
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»
« Bekkap J " ** Geddish Down J " Whereby
please to unrlerstaDtJ — ArlelaMe Tavern ; Breck-
nock Arms; Higbgate HUl; Bed Cap; Kentiih
Town.
Here the news-boys interpose, with a phrnseology
of their own — *• Heaving Staw ! '* Dillitilli-
c^rawph 1 *' " Heaving 8tannVd ! '* ** Inibortint-
frummimerrikey I " **" Littcrfr'm ^lan Ha Jd*n ! "
— E%'ening Star; Daily Tele^aph ; Evening Stan-
dard ; Important from America ? Letter from
Manhattan.
Here a cad shouts — **Full inside ! *' "I viah /
V08 ! ** responda a hnnfrrj loafer from the footway.
" I owney viah / \09 ! '*
In the morning thiis is altered — " Full Inside ! "
cries the cad. To whaoi tarcsutically replies the
driver of a rival bus — *'Hope yer injoyed yer
brekfast I " Scum.
SwoBD -BLADE lK«iCBTpnowa. — The columns of
your interesting and valuable journal have, from
time to time recorded, for the amusement of ita
readers, quaint inscriptlans on sundials and on
bells. Permit me to send you two curious mot-
toes, which were found on sword blades, Skud
cnmnitinicaled to me by Mr. Luthani) of the firm
of Wilkinson & Co*, the eminent sword-niakeri in
Pall Mai!. The first is from an old Spanish blade,
and runs thus : —
** Kon U Bdnr ili me se U Cor te miuK^a.**
•• Trust not to luo if ihy hc^u^t full tUeo '^ —
axid the second is from a Gascon sword : — <■
'• Si nion bras redoutable estoit nrm6 de co Fer.
J*Attaqtierois le DiabJe au milieu d« rEufer/*
W. F. H.
SotiRCE or TBE Nrui. — The following note may
be interesting at the present time : —
" Xovumber. 1668.
" At a Meeting of th^ C43unc)l of the Uoyal Society of
London for Improving Natural Knowledge:
** Ordored, that these docoments bo priuted.
'♦Brounker, Prea."
The discourses were printed accordingly, with
the following title ; —
« A Short Relation of the River Kilc» of its Soorce and
Current^ &c., &c« London: printed for John Martyn,
printer to the Rovnl Societv ; and are to be sold at tho
sign of The BcH, without temple Bar, 1669/*
In this little book, which [ have recently been
reading, there is a wonderful resemblance in the
description of the source of the ^ile, and that
which has been lately read before the Royal So-
ciety. Sefttmub PifssB, F.C.S,
Tbb Pbincbbs de Lamdallk. — It will be
remembered by the readers of French Histor\%
thftt one of the n.ost horrible atrocities of the
ReijTfi of Terror wfts the murder of this unfor-
pTinceft in 1793. After deaths the remains were
subject to the frreatest indignities, and the head
carried upon a pike through the streets of Pari 5.
A question has been raised since as to what be-
came of the head nfter the mob had satiated their
fury by its public exhibition. A late number of
Giibgiioni sets the question at rest by the publi-
cation of a document which has been lately dis-
posed of at a sale of autographs in the Rue Drouet-
The document is as follows : — ►
" Section of the I.">.20. Permanent Committee, Sep-
tember 8rd, Year IV. of Liberty, and L of E^aality.
Citizen Jacques Pointal of the Corn Market* 69 Rue dea
Petita ChampA, applied to the Committee for perroisaton
to inter the head of the d-devant Priaceaa de Lainballef
which be had sDccecded in obtaining possession of. As
the putriotifim and htimanity of the said diixen could
not but be commanded, wo immediately proceeded to the
cemetery of Enfanta-Troovea, near the place where onr
(Committee met, and within our section, where we had
the said head bnried, and we hare given the present act
to serve the said dtixeo as a discharge and auihorizalion.
Done by the Committee, in the nb'Ove -m^^utioned day
andycar,— Desequelle, Commlasioner of ihe 16.20*"
T.B.
ANCIENT SEALti.
I hare a cast of the 6ne old seal of the borough
of Stamford, the matrix of which, I believe, is
preserved in the Mtiaeum of the Society of Anti-
quaries, London. Its relief is very hi}>b, and it^
workmanship sin|TiiIarly beautiful. The device is
the Virgin and Child, seated under a rich canopy,
wilh a praying ligrure beneath, the legend appa-
rently being, " Stavnford . Bvrgenses . Virgo *
Fvndvnt . Tibl . Preces." From its having four
projecting hinges, similar to those on King Ed-
ward's double staple seals, I feci almost satisfied
that this is only one side of the ancient double
seal, of Stamford. If I am correct aa to this, is
the other side of the matrix still in existence, or
&re impressions from it still extant ?
I have also copies from the scab now used by
the Boroughs of Glastonbury, and Bury-St.-
Edraund's, but both aire very small and modern,
the former having for device a mitre in front of
two croBsed croziers on a shield, with the legend,
*• Floreat Ecclesia Anglic ; " and the latter, a
crest merely of the wolf with its paw resting on
the crowned head of the martyred king, with
motto of " Bvry . Sci . Edi." As both of ihese
towns once posst-ssed ancient and striking seals, I
would like greatly to ascertain where casU from
them are to be procured.
Seal-engraving appears to be almost a lo&t art
for the last 300 years, as the high relief, beauty
of desii^i, and richness of execution of even the
amallest seals up to that period contrasts forcibly
with such as have been executed since then, es-
pecially with the more recent exau\\vl«is, T\\«!x^
are ^umc exte^Cvm*^ \ mu'iX ^s5wEi«^\>i.^^^'w'^^ '^^
114
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8^S.V. Fsp.6,'64.
•ad decadence, but they are far from being nu-
merous. Can any reason be assigned why seals
cannot now opparenily be engraved in the bold
and beautiful manner in which this was done four
or five centuries ago?
My collection of English municipal seals is now
a very extensive one, mainly through the kind
facilities afforded by your columns, but I have
long been desirous to obtain some of the older
seals of cities and towns, which I yet want, to
render it as complete as possible. I beg to
name those above referred to, also the double
seals, now used, of the cities of London and
Dublin; the double seals of the boroughs of
Shaftesbury, Southampton, and New Shoreham ;
the 1589 seal of the city of Winchester; the
ancient seals of Hereford and Northampton ; and
those now used by New Windsor and Queen-
borough. To those I would add two ecclesias-
tical examples, viz., the singularly beautiful seals
of Christ Church, Canterbury, and of Thomas
Arundel, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1396—1414.
You know my address, and should any readers
of " N. & Q/* communicate with me, and kindly
favour me with gutta-percha casts of all or any
of the seals I have named, I would gladly re-
ciprocate the obligation out of my own very ex-
tensive collection of medisBval seals.' £, C.
Prof. Duncan Forbes, 1860, in The EUtmjf «f
CheBB f Did nothing more appear abont this sub-
ject ? Couxmk,
Oroningen.
ThbCombt op 1581. — Reading lately Bret-
Schneider's Collection of MelancthonM Letters, b
four quarto volumes, I came upon the following
notice of a comet, which may be interesting if.
some readers. It is in a letter of Melancthon to
Camerarius, of date August 18, 1531 : —
"Yidimas Cometen, qui per dies amplios
jam se ostendit in occaia SoLstitialL Videtor antoi
super Cancnim aat extremam Gemiaomm parttm posi-
tos. Nam occidit post solem horis fere duabns ; et hum
paulo ante soUs ortum in oriente prodit ; ita cum cok
circamagitar, proprium motum quem habaat qnjMii
Est aatem colore candido, nisi si qoando nab«a cum
lidiorem reddunt. Caudam vertit versus Orientem.
t\
Author wanted. —
" This wor1d*s a good world to live in.
To lend and to spend and to give in ;
But to beg or to borrow, or ask for one's own.
Tie the very worst world that ever was known."
It was thought by a friend to be Sheridan*s ;
he has, however, searched his works without suc-
cess.* K. R. C.
Me. Dahiejl Campbblu — ^Any information will
be gratefully received respecting " Mr. Daniel
Campbell, Minister of the Gospel," author of
Sacramental Meditationt on the Sufferings and
Death of Christ. The seventh edition, published
in 1723, is dc<iicated to Archibald, Duke of Ar-
gyle, with a preliminary letter, also addressed
" To my own Flock, and Parishioners of the
Parishes of Kilmichael of Glasrie, Killimire, and
Lochgear.'* C. W. Bingham.
CuEss. — Has not at last a copy been discovered
of Vicent, Lihre delsjochs, partUis, ^c, 1495 ?
According to the Ulustratea London News, No.
833, a rumour to this purport was afloat some
years ago. Wns ever a reply published by the
writer of the JE^say on Persian Chesn (N. Bland,
E>q.), or in his behalf, to the critical remarks of
[• This quoUtion, with variorum readings, was in-
Juircd after nnsnccessfhUy ia our !•• g. ii. 71, 102, 166.—
In.]
quidem videtur minari his nostris regionibua, et proiK-
modum ad ortum meridianam vertere caudam. !»«i
vidi ante cometen uUum, et 'descriptionas hoc non disere
exprimunt Erigit caudam supra reliquum corpusw (^
dam affirmant esse ex illo gcnere quoa vocat Plinii
{f^af, quia sit acuta caada. Id ego non potui ocola
judicare. Qusbso te ut mihi scribas an apud ros iCiiii
conspectus sit; quod non opinor; distat anim a tens Wx
dnobos gradibus ; si tamen conspectus est* describe dih-
ganter, et quid Jadicet Schonerus, significato.** (YoLii.
p. 618.)
In a second letter to Camerarius, of data Sapt
9, he remarks : —
" Cometen hie judicavimus a Cancro ad Libram osqve,
proprio motu vectum esse. Quanquam autem in Libra
nunc est Jupiter, tamen illius motus causam ezlstimaat
Martis motum esse, qui nunc ab Arcto discedit £t plaae-
tas comeUe sequuntur, ut scis." (/6. p. 537.)
Melancthon at this time was in Thuringia, I
think in Erfurt. I believe there is a letter of
Luther regarding this same comet, but I cannot
lay my hand on it. There was a comet in 1527,
on which Gerhard (Gerhardus Novimagus) wrote
a treatise ; and how did it happen that Melanc-
thon had not seen it ? H. B.
Chawobth OB Cadurcts : Hesdenb. — ^Wtio wsi
Sybilla de Chaworth, wife of Walter d'Evreux,
and mother of Patrick, Earl of Salisbury ? " Pat-
rick de Cadurcis or Chaworth, and Maud his wife,
testified and confirmed by their deed all dona-
tions made by their children,*' &c. Of what
family was this Maud ? Temp. Edw. I. we find
that '* Maude de Chawardc held the Vill of Etlawe,
CO. Glouc'."
On what authority do the Scropcs* quarter
the arms of Chaworth ? Several of the posaes-
sions of Emulphde llesdcne in Somersetshire and
Gloucestershire are found {temp. Wm. Rufus) to
be the property of Patrick de Chaworth. Rud-
der (Hist. Gloucestershire, p. 510), says Hesdene
conveyed Kempsford, and adds, under **Hathepop,"
* It does not appear to me that the Tiptofls, through
whom (apparently) the Scropes claim this right, ware
jasdj aatitled f it
I
9^ EL V. Su*. G, 'CI]
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
that th^t manor "probnbljr passed to the Cha*
wortli* at the inine time,"
Cullinson (//w/. Som. i* 160), sUteg timt soni«
Iiiiles iu \\'c5«on» formerly the (>rop**ny of lies*
di^ne, were ifi the possession (temp. Win. Rufus)
of Pttlrick de Cadurcis; "but how he (lle^ileae)
[larted with hi» est:iLe does not appear*"
Is tliere any authority for Rudder's statement,
or dtd he not^ from the fact of the manors in
quesuou being found afterwards m the possession
rif Ch ft worth, conjecture that they were conveyed
by Hesdenc Y Does it not 5eem that Cliaworth
become possessed of this property in ri^ht of hU
wife Miiu<i, who might have been a sister or daugh-
ter of tJesdeneP
I may a*ld» that I have reasons for doubting the )
ncctiraey of a pedigree of llesdene inserted in
Burke*s Visitation of Seats aiut Arms- H. S. G.
Dltvrr de DcaiiKTf, etc.— Tn vol. it p. 63, of
ft piihtiealioii of the year 1742, entitled Antiquities
I of lh9 Ahhey Churchy Westmifuitur^ and under the
b'.'jid of " Monuments to reniiu-kable Persons
Buried in that Chvircb*" it mentions that next to
the monviment of Kln^j; Henry HI. is one of** Oli-
ver de Durden, a Baron of England, and brother
ofKing Henry II L"
Query. — L What was the tmme of his mother,
and was he a half-brother of Kin^j Henry IIL P
I cannot obtain the in formation from Rapin or
the other historians of that period.
2. Is there any book or record In wbioh the
les cf Henry IIL's baroos are given ; *ind if«o»
e eati it be seen ? AurrauAaT*
GntiiiaoLrD Hold. — Ons of the three manors
in the parish of Hrickney has this name. It for-
merly bclonjjed to the vicars of the old church,
and the tra»Uiion in ihcy were «o tcverc in exACt-
inp their fines, and ihere was such dtssatisfaction
and grumbUn'T among ibc tenants in consequeme,
thiit it nc<]Ufr*id the nickname of Grumble Hold.
Surely, if this were tltc case, no h:>rd or steward of
a nian^r would have chosen to place such a nnme
at the very head of each Court ItolL M»y it noi
rather be St. Grumbald*f or St. Runibold's
Mwnor? The name is a corruption of Rumusd-
dus. Hasted {IfiM, of Ktnt, lii. p. 380) says that
the fishermeti of Folkestone used to make a feast of
whitinjfs every Christmas Eve, and call it "Rum-
bold Night." The old chunh at Hacknev is
sometimes cnlled that of St. John^ and aometimen
of St. Augustine. Any further information wouhl
oblige. A* A.
potty Comer.
Da, Hill: PErmow of I. — In 17o9, Dr. Hill
wrote n pnmphkt, entitleii To Dntid Garricft,
E*if.y the Petition of /, on bfhalf of hi^rs^ff find
Suttir*, Thf! purport was to ch;t ':
with mispronouncing some word
J^ter i,M/tfrm for firm^ Purtu* for virtue, aad
others. The pamphlet is now forjrntten. (Dra^
malic Tahle*To!k, IL 144, Lond 1825.) What
pronunciation did Dr. Hill insist upon? Was the
I mfirm and virtue ever sounded as in vine^ar^ or
piraUnce f W. D.
HrL.i HoLDEH of Wcdnesbury, went., bom 1719,
died 17B0; married in 1745 Elizabeth, dan£rhter
of John Wttlford of Wednesbury, gent. (Bttker,
Hiat. Northamptomhirw, u 317.)
Particular* of their is«ue and dMcendanti will
oblifre. Also any parttoulart of the Walford
family. H. S. G.
Kt7STaa*B Dbath. — In Monk*s Life of BenHey
(p. 317), the following communication is made in
a letter of Kuster's friend, Wjisse t —
•• W<3 heard noon after that he [Koiter] had b«en
blooded five or six time« f:>r n fever, and that upon open-
ings bis br^dy there was foand a c&ki of Jtand aloti^ th«
lower region itf hii helly. 7 bit, 1 tukt it, wat oocAi)an«d
by his «ilting nearly lioiibie, tind writinjr on a v«ry low
tablo, surmnn^leil with thrw? or four circle* of books [for
his edition of Hesychi us probably] placed on the croand*
which was th« situatioa wt usually found him tuu'
Is any reliarice to be placed upon the story of
the " cake of san<l alon^ the lower region of his
belly," or is it merely a case of ctdculuA 9
T. J. Btjcaxoir.
Lahterns or iffB Dead: Rodnb Towbes op
Ireland. — In the admirable dictionary of M.
Viollet le Due (vol. vi. p. 155) is a very curious
account of certain towers which are found in
cemetericf in the centre and west of France, and
in which formerly lights were burned at nii»ht to
indicate the proximity to the hist resting-phices of
the dcid. He states they are also called fanal,
tourni^le^ and phare. The earliest notice he gives
is from an old chronicle of the Crusades^ which
states : —
" Then died Salad in (Salahedina), the grcateitt prince
that there vrxi in Pa^andoni, and woa buri<ed In the
eem<-'tery of St» Nixrholaa of Acre near hia mother, who
wtts there very rielily interred ; and over them a b«iititi-
ful and grand tower (une loumi^le bi^ie irt praut) where
is night unci dny a Umpfull of otiveoit, ami tli<« hospital
of Si. Joim of Aero paya, and causes it to be lighted, who
hold ^reat rents which Euladin and lus motiier left
tbeiri."
The author says, however, there is a tradition
that they were "menhirs," or erections of stone,
conspcrnted to the Sun in Druidical times. He
give« illustrations of three of these lanterns of the
death They have all a amoll door raised some
distance above the ground, and an opening or
window at the top, where the lighted lamp was
exhibited. One is from Celfrouin (Charente),
ond is like a pier surrounded by clustered columns
about six feet in diameter, and including a $ort
of conical top or spire about forty feet high. The
moulding*, etc., show it to be tlie work of the
thirteenth century* TU% %ft<yti\ A «:ikvfc\^ iaN.^\\w\
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
[a^ 1 s. V. Fs». c 'w.
!it the top, and is not more than twenty-five feet
hi^h. The third is at Ariri;;n_y (Vienne), and is
iqunre with small j it mb^shtifts at the an^leSi and
h ahout thirty- five feet high, ami seems also to be
of the thirteenth century. They all stand on
flights of stops.
Is it possible that the round towers of Ireland
were intended to serve na cemetery lifjhtd or lan-
terns of the dead ? In France these faimU scorn
to be confined to the Celtic dlstrictSi and it is not
impossible that the Celtic races in Ireland may
have seen and copied them. They have the sanae
entrances a little above ordinary reach, the same
windows at top, and the same conical caps. Could
miy amonjr the French antiquaries who peruse
** N* ik Q/' favour us with some further iitformsi-
tinn with regard to these curious towers ? It is
not impossible after nil that they may be the means
of dUpelltn^ the mystery which hika hung so long
over the for-fomed roitnd towers of Ireland.
A. A.
Letok FAMtty or SiAiDBcnTv, co. York. — I
wish to obtain information relntive to the ancestry
of Richard Lel^hj of Birkitt, in Bolland, in the
county of York. He wa^ buried at Slaidburn,
March 1, 1676. His wife's name was June ; I do
not know her surname. They had issue Leonard,
of whom presently ; William, who married and
left issue ; James, also married and left issue ;
Ellin, married to Nicholas Parklnsou, and had
issue five sons and one daughter.
Leonard Leigh married (May 9, 1657,) Eliza-
beth Bri^nr ; jinil bad issue Richard, who was
father of Leonard Leigh of Harrop HrdI, who left
issue a diiughter Anne, married to Samuel Har-
rison of Cranage Hall, in the county of Chester.
The arms borne by this family were : A cross
in^railed ; and in the first quarter, a mascle.
To any of your correspondente who will favour
MO with a reply, I shall be happy to give further
information as to the descendants of the first-
mentioned Richard Leigh.
GfiosGJi W« Massii AIX.
LiTBEATi OP Berlin. —
•• Nothmg could l>e more teeonJ-rate and aecond-haiid
than the Htt^rattur* of the court of Uerlin< Voltaire was
the only able mnn whom Frederick ever penuadtd to
')C>in th«ni : he ridiculed ibetn &nd their matter aa sooa a^i
tinttery ceased to he proJitable, Maupertuis was a small
astronomer; Boyerp a i^edant, quoting' Greek and Latin,
which he could not coTTsfnjp ; CUtrfons, who tranftlated
Dante into uurvadabl 4 nd Henited, whose dnu hie
vemion of thw ffenr^, >t- taken for a burlcjqne.
Yet Fr^erick wa* at* ^j.-.^-i .. iheao and hit other medi-
ocritiea, that hit p(ihh<iihed a catalog a e of them ia three
laripe volumy*/'— Notti tnadt in N^rth Otrmanyt p* 17L\
Loodoo, toG.
I shall he glad to Imow the full title of the
Catalogue in thret volumes, and anything about
Clftirfons or Hersied, of whom I cannot find any
•ccouat. E* T. H»
Massing of SAODLsa, etc. — In an oH docn'
ment, of a.d. 1570, relalin;? to the bouodi oft
forest and the ri^j^hts of certain owners of land
therein, it is mentioned that ** The servants of Se
A. B. did, in the fence-month, mark saddles^
Waynes, and oarts, at certain prates and othff
places;" and that "the said marking tv:v '^ -
out at so much per annum." Can any r<
duce notices of a, similar custom in expl^i..,^,...*.
J.
Tub Empsess Maub. — ^I have rejid tliat a Lift
of the Emprejis Maud^^ dauijhter of Henry IL, wn
written by Arnulphus, Bishop of Liseux ; and thit
it is now in the library of the College of Navarre
at Paris. Ho^ this life ever been translated or
published ? G, P*
^ew York.
Model of Edinbuboh. — About twenty yoan
ago there was exhibited^ first in Edinburgh^ ami
afterwards in Glasgow^ London, and other plaeea
A beautiful model in wood of the city of Edtii*
bnrgh Fhowin;^ the Castle, the public bnildiDj?r»
and each individual hon^e in the different aSniu
and squares with much accuracy and di:3titict&flM>
It waj*, according to my recollection, about ivi^te
feet in lenjjth and ei«:ht in breadth ; was terfi
elaborate, and must have taken lonjj to construi
being in every respect moat creditable to
framer. It attracted considerable notice at
time, and a friend told me that^ being in tlie
at Piccadilly where it was shovrn, the late Dti!
of Wellington was among the visitors; and ht"
heard his grace sav, that hh seeing this model wcMild
Induce hitXL to visit the original, which, however,
never did.
Can any of your readers state whether tbii
piece of work is still in existence, where it i#,
who was the artist ? J. U. B.
Mottoes Wahteo. — A company Is established i
to^ supply Burton -upon-Trent with water ffomj
Lichfield and the tributaries of the river aboveS
that city : the object is not to supersede the US4
of the present Burton water in brewing, but to
economise it by bringing water from another source
for domestic and manufacturing and other pur-
poses, and also for all other brewing purposes ex-
cept that of making ale. Mottoes, convevlnjr the
following ideas in Greek or Latin, especially f
classic authors, are requested : —
1. To succour, not to supersede.
2. We bring silver to wive gold*
The latter means that the Burton tavtiw^'i hi
valuable as gold, we bring silver to lU]
use, T. J .X.
Lirhfleld.
Newuaven m FtAKCB* — DugdiJc,
Baronetage, under " S tour ton,'* nays '
Lord Stourton, died a. o. L54», ♦♦ l^ ; ty
General of KewbaY«ii» in France^ and Uii» Mttrehisa
r
s** s. V. F«iir
NOTES AND QUEKIES.
117
I
thereof/' Lord Stourtoti was in command of one
of Hen. VII I/s fortifications, near Boulogne^ Is
thert* any place at or near thnt town bearing, or
known to liave borne, the Englieh name of >iew-
haven ? J.
Order of tub Cocklb in FttAScs. — In the
Peerage of 1720, which has already been the sub-
ject or a query (S^ S. H. 67, 117)* and which the
kindness of your correspondent G. enabled me to
identify aa the third edition of Francis Nichora
British Compendium^ the famous Sir James Hamil-
ton, Ettrl of Arran, and Rej^ent of Scotland
durin;r tbe minority of King James V., is said to
have been " Knijjht of tbe Cockle in France/'
This 13 doubtless ** L'Ordre de Chevalerie du Na-
vire, ou de la CoquiUe de Mer, institue en 1*269, par
S* Loiiin^*^ in commemoration of a hazardous naval
expedition.
Tbe coHar of tbe Order waij composed of
escallop shells alternately with double crescents,
and their badge was a ship-ringed ar:?. floating
upon waves of tbe game. What were tbe circum-
stances of tbe hazardous naval expedition, in com-
memoration of which it was instituted ?
UtTTTB.
Cape Town, S, A.
Pbovxrb Wanted. — Can you tell roe where I
may And the first mention of the followingf and
which is this earlier form ? — ** We praise the food
as we find it " ; and " We prm?e the fool as we
find him," An early reply will much oblige.
Absba.
ROHAK HiSTOBIAN. —
" The Roman hiatorian describes a supposed lanatic
matiUted and confined so long in a narrow c«11, as bo
nearly to h&va tosit the human fornix thaU on his libera*
tion, he was too ofTensive to be pitied — de/brmitate muneri'
cordUim amUiL** — A Lelitr to Sir W, Garroufy A. G., by
Chartes Barton, M,D., London, 1813, pp. iJ4.
The Letter is on the bad management of lunatic
asylums.
Who is the Roman historian so vaguely quoted,
and where can I find the passage ? M* M.
Sbals. — Will any collector of seals, &c., kindly
H furnish mc with an impression or cast of a seal
^^^^e/« repreaentin^ a man approaching a house,
^■w[ carrying on bis back what appears to be a
^H||af of corn ? The seal is oval, and about an
inch long. If sent to the post office at this place
it would be gratefully received, and repaid in
kind. M, M. S.
Camberwalt
Shaxesfeabe PoRTRAtTS. — What works are
there treating especially on tbia subject, besides
those by Mr. Boaden and Mr. WeviU ? G, W-
Teanslatobs op Terencb, — 1. Can you give
me ajiv account of tbb Charles Hennebcrt ? He
publithcd Terence (volume i,), translated into
French^ Cambridge University Press, 1726, 8vo*
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2. Who is translator of the Andria of Terence,
Cambridge and London, Hamilton, 1659 ?
3. The comedies of Terence, translated by S.
Patrick, 1745, revises! and materially improved by
James Prendeville, Dublin, 1829, 8vo. Wanted
any information regarding the editor* R, I,
Vichy. — WTiere can information as to Vichy
and its mineral springs be procured ? Th^se aqum
caiidee appear to have been known to the Romans,
S. P. Q. R.
Warra of StrMMows. — William De Rythre,
Lord of Rythre in the county of I'ork, had sum-
mons to parliament from tbe 28th Ed. L to the
6th Ed, II, inclusive. In the 26tb Ed I. he had
summons to Carlisle tquijt et arrnis^ in which writ
he 13 desig^tati'd as a baron ; tbe earls and barons
then summoned beinj? respectively distinguished
b V their rank. Is it therefore to be inferred that,
although in this case, no record of a summons to
parliament earlier than that of tbe 28th £d. I, is
extant, yet that a previous summons had been
addressed either to himself or an ancestor?
HiPPBCS.
Situation or Zoab. — The exact «tuation of
this ancit^at city is, I am aware, still a matter of
discussion amongst biblical critics, but I was not
prepared for such exactly opposite statements re-
specting it as appear in the arti'^les on " Moab **
and ** Zoar " in Dr. Smith*s Dictianartf of (he
Bible, both by an author to whom students of the
Bible are deeply indebted — Mr. Grove of Syden-
ham,
Under the article "Zoar/* vol, Ui* p. 1834, we
find tbe following remarks : —
**Th6dcfimte position of Sodom is, and probably will
always be, a mystery, but there can be httle doubt that
the pUin of Jordan was at the north of Ibe Dead Sea; and
that the cities of the plain must thererore have be«n
situated there iiisteail of at the aouthern end of the lakct
as it is geacrally taken for granted they were."
And then, after giving what seems to my mind at
least very satisfactory reasons for this opinion, Mr.
Grove concludes : —
" These considerations appear to the writer to render it
highlv probiible that the Zour of the Pentateuch una ta
the north of the Dead Sea, not far from its northern end,
in tbe general parallel of Jericho."
Let us now turn to the article " Moab^" vol. ii.
p. 391, also written by Mr, Grove, and what do
we find —
** Zoar was the cradle of the race of Lot Although the
exact position of this tc>wn baa not been determined,
THi^BE 18 NO DOUBT that it wot iituoted on tht JotttA-
eattern border of the Dead Sea."
Can these two statements be reconciled? If
not, which, in Mr. Grove's opinion, contains the
most probable account oC ^Aaa ^\\XiftSl\K>tw ^cS. ^^v«s!^
Zoatv ^^^^^-
118
NOTES AND QUBMBS.
[gr*&V. FkB.e,'i4.
CoLKiTTO AND A. S. — In Milton's Sonnets^
there are flome obscure allusions. Thus, in the
Gth [nth], who is meant when he says ; —
" Why U it harder. Sin. than Gorehn,
CnlkUiOf or Macdonnel, or Galasp ? "
The last two were chieia in Ireland in the war
of 1565 ; but who are the first two, Gordon and
CoUutto f Again, in his lines ** On the New
Forcers of Conscience," we have —
•* . . . . A classic hierarchy
Taught ye by mere A. 8. and Rutherford."
The latter is the well-known Scottish divine,
Samuel Rutherford ; but who is " A. S.**
POXLOMATBES.
Glasgow.
[ Warton has the following doU on the first passage :
*< Milton is here collecting, from his hatred to the Scots,
what he thinks Scotti/^h names of an ill sound. ColkUto
and Maedonnd are one and the same person; a brave
officer on the royal side, an Irishman of the Antrim
family, who served under Montrose. Tb« Macdonalds
of that ftmily are styled, by way of distinction, Mae
CollcUtock, t. e. the descendants of the lame Colin.
Galmap is a Scottish writer against the Independents.
Ha U Gaorge Gillespie, one of the Scotch members of the
Assembly of Divines, as his name is subscribed to their
Letter to the Belgick, French, and Helvetian churches,
dated 1648 : in which they pray * that thene three na-
tions may he joined as one stick in the hands of the
Lord : that all mountains may become plains before them
and us : that then all who now see the plummet in our
hands, may also behold the top-stone set upon the head
of the Lord*8 house among us, and may help us with
shouting to cry, Grace, Grace, to it* (Rushworth, p.
S71.) Such waa the rhetorick of these reformers of re-
formation ! ••
A. S. noticed in ** The New Forcers of Conscience," is
Dr. Adam Steoart, a minister of the Scottish Kirk, and
a doughty champion he appears to have been in the
polemics of that time; witness his effusion entitled,
" Zerubbabel to Sanballat and Tobiab," imprim. Mar.
17, 1644, 4to. Consult Watt*s Bibliothtca for bis other
works.]
Thb Nilb. — I have noticed in The Times and
other papers, recently, the Question mooted as to
whether Captain Speke dia really discover the
aource of the Nile. It haa oeeurred to me that
he may have done so in part, by tracing one of its
sources. Some of your readers are, no doubt,
well acquainted with the moorland dietrtcts of
this kingdom ; and if those regions are visited in
the summer season, they will leave with the impres-
sion of having discovered the rise of one of the
many rivers flowing from that district; but visit
that place again the following spring, ftnd thai
aaoM spring, whidi tliej thongfat waa the riTer
bead, will in many caaea be traotd for a »ile a
more in some other direction. May not this be
the case with Captain Speke's discovery P
J had recently a parcel from a bookeeller^e ahop,
wrapped up in an old map. On examinatioo, I
found it to be an old mop of Africa, having the
N^ile to the lakes Zaire and Zastan. The map is
curious, and apparently about two hundred veers
old. It was once, I should think, part of a booL
On the back is printed a description of Africa,
commencing thus : *' Africa as it lay neareat the
first people." It is engraved by Abraham Goos.
I shall be glad to know from what folio work it
Is taken, and if of any real value ? G. P.
[Abraham Goos published varions maps at Aoaatardsm
In tha early part of the seventeenth centaiy. Dr. 0.
Dappars*s Buehrtibung von Africa (Description of AfHcs>
Tol. Amsterdam, 1670, has a large map of Africa ( bit
this map does not bear tha name of Goos. — ^Tha qoestiM
respecting Captain Spake and the Kile will probably firt
oocaaion ere long to sharp discussions, bat on a scale ftr
beyond tha disposable space in *< N. & Q.'*]
Major Ricsaedson Pack.— I should be |W
to know something respecting the author oC t
small volume, entitled Miscellanies in Pram and
Verte^ the second edition : London, printed for
B. Curll, in Fleet Street, ildccxix. The volune
is dedicated to the Honourable Colonel William
Stanhope, His Majesty's Envoy Extraordinaiv
and Plenipotentiary at the court of Madrid. This
dedication is signed ** Richardson Pack," who is
styled Major Pack in an eulogistic poem by G.
Sewell, prefixed to the work. The author ap-
pears to have served in Spain, and to have pos-
sessed an elegant literary ta^te ; although his
poems are disfigured by the licentioua freedom in
vogue in his day. Among the prose artiolea in
the volume, is a Life of Wycherley, the poet.
John Pavin Philxips.
Haverfordwest.
[Richardson Pack was adoeated at the Merchant Tay-
lors' School, and was for two years at St John's Collage,
Oxford. His father intending him for the legal profes-
sion entered him at the Middle Temple; but the study of
the law not agreeing either with his health or inclinatioo,
he joined tha army, and served abroad under Gen, Sua-
hope and tha Duka of Argyle. The Major died at Aber-
deen in Sept 1729. The various editions of his Fottw&l
MiteeliauiMh all published by E. Curll, may be seen In
Bohc's Lowndes. For other particulars of him cQoaoIt
Cibber's Livet of the PoeU, and the biographical dic-
tionaries.]
SpBRasa'a " CALBiDAm."— I have recently met
with an old translation into Latin hexameters
of Spenser's Calendar. As the title-page of my
.copy is missing, I should feel obligea if anv one
would inform me of the author's name ana the
date of the publication. Let me inquire, too.
8'* S. V. Feb. 6, '64.]
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
119
whether there is any Tersion extant of the other
poems of Spenser, and of the " Faerie Queene " in
particular? X. 1.
[The following is the title: — " Calendarinm Pastorale,
give iEglngn duodecira, totidem Anni Mensibut accom-
xnodatsB, Anglic^ olim 8criptfl% nunc aatem eleganti La-
tino Carmine donats a Tbaodoro Bathurst. Lond. 1668,
8vo." It is dedicated by the editor, William Dillingbam,
to Francis Lane. Some copies have no date. It was re-
published by John Ball, with a Latin Dissertation, '^De
Vita Spenseri et Scriptis," and an angmented^glosaary.
Lond. 1782, 8fo, with cuts by Foadrinier.]
Quotations. — ^Where are the following quota-
tions to be found? —
** A thing
0*er which the raven flaps her funeral wing.**
[Bjrron's Corsair, canto il stanza xvi.]
** Perhaps it was right to diasembla jonr lova,
Bat why did you luck me downstairs? *'
[These lines first appeared in the Awium for Fugitvoe
Pteces, 1785 ; and again in The Pand, by J. P. Kemble,
1788 (Act I. Sc 1). It has been conjectured that Mr.
Kemble was the author of them. See " N. & Q.," 2»« S.
Tii. 176; via 87.]
** Tis sweet to know there is an eye will mark
Our coming, and look brighter when we come."
[Byron*s Don Juatif canto i. stanza 123.]
G. F. B.
Who is the author of the following specimen of
grandiloquence ? —
"Britanniamm majestas ad ortnm solis ab hesperio
cobili porrecta."
J.L.
Dublin.
[This quotation, wharevar it ocemra, is alterad from the
following passage in Horace, Od. lib. iv. carm. zy. :^
" Famaqae et impert
Porreeta majestas ad ortum
SoUs ab Hesperio cabili."]
Spbitvgs. — What is the meaning of the word
" springs** in the following passage ? —
** If aught of oaten atop, or pastoral song.
May hope, chaste £ve, to spothe thy modest ear,
Like thy own solemn springs.
Thy springs, and dving gales.**
Collins, 0<U to Evening, 1—4.
B.
[Spring, as used in this passage, is a Scotch word, and
signifies a quick and cheerful tune on a musical instru-
ment The word occurs in Douglas's Virgil, clxvU. 6 : —
'* Orpheus mycht reduce agane, I gesa,
From hell bis spousis goist with his sneit atringis,
Playand on his harp of Trace sapleaand fpringi*.**
Vide Jamieson's Scattith DieHenarg,'}
Rbtbbat,-*A certain time during the day at
which the guard turns out under arms, the
piMuata are inspected, and the band or dnups
aodTAfti play fto^ aboul ten minutes. **S0taafc"
IS in some way affected by the time of the year ;
the hour at which it comes off being regulated by
the time of sunset. What is the reason for the
name retreat being applied to this particular pa-
rade, if it may be so termed ? John Davidson.
[The military term retreat has various significations ;
but whenever it is applied to a parade or muster of the
troops, we think the expression must have originally
referred to the men*s retiring to their quarters when the
muster was over, not to the muster itself.]
DuaocoBBins. — Can you direct me to any
book, where conjectures are hazarded on the site
of the Roman town Durocobriva, besides those
contained in the works of Camden, Chauncy, and
Clutterbuck, which are within my reach ? In
modem atlases this town is represented as occu-
pying the present site of Maiden Bower, near
Dunstable. Are there sufficient reasons for this
decision ? C. D.
[The learned William Baxter is of opinion that the
site in question was Wobam, in Bedfordshire. He also
maintains that the proper orthography was IHtroeobrivis,
See his Ohuarimn Antiqmtatum Britannieanim, edit.
1719, p. 118.]
Anontmous. — 'Who was the author of —
** An Autumn near the Rhine ; or Sketches of Courts,
Society, and Scenery, kc., in some of the German States
bordering on the Rhiue. With a Map of the Eastern
Part of Germany as settled at the Congress of Vienna.
London, 1818**?
T. H.
[By Charles Edward Dodd, Esq., Barrister of the
Ifiddle Temple, who died very soon after the publication
of his work.]
HmTM.
CROMWELL'S HEAD.
(3"* 8. iv. 175.)
Mr. Frank Buckland, in his letter to The Queen
newspaper of the 16th inst., which no doubt some
of Tour readers have also seen, has thrown a new
light upon Cromwell*s head. Visiting a friend
lately in Hampshire, who possesses some interest-
ing relics of Charles I., he was informed by him —
•* that, despite all the curious stories about the existence
of Oliver Cromwell's head, he thought he knew of the
existence of a head, which att evidence seeme to prove to be
ike very head of thie great man, j^These iulieised words
I do not know whether Mr. Buckland*s, or his friend's.]
The stoiy ia as follows: »* Oliver Cromwell was buried
in Westminster Abbey. I well recollect my father, the
Dean [Buckland, of course], pointing out the place* to
his friends. The grave ume situated in the very centre
of the centre chapeC at the east end of Hen. VII/s Chapel ;
but there is no stone to mark the place.' *' [These italios
ar« Mr. Buckland's.]
Mr. Bucklaad thftu ^Vf^Xx^'Oa^ \«,^y^\L^s^JCB^sa^
at WeBtminster (wbtcli tfl sfill & disputed point,
however) ; and that it was disinterred by the
Hnyaltstii, hun^ at Tjburu, and cm&t into a bole
beneath the gallows.
He then continues, what T preuume to be hia
friend's story (for he is rather involved in Lis
mode of stating it), thus; —
** The hcAd was subsequently separated from the body,
unU p]iir«d on an iron spike over the gate at Temple
liar- Here it remained till it waa blown down by the
^ind. It wait at that moment picked np by a soldier,
who imtnediatcly secreted it. It remained in Uiia BoldiBr'u
family for Beveriil generations; till at last, not many
year* ngo. it was fjiveti by the la«l' Burvivor of hi& family
to Mr. WilkiD^orit a 6ur^eon of Sandgato, near Folke^
atone, and h at tliis moment in the posfiesHion of that
(fcntI»«mnn'A son. The ekin covering: the ikuU is q,uitc
dry and hard, hut in excellent pre^nenation. The hair of
the muAlat'he still remains; and the wart o/jo, which we
nee repre»ented in his portraits, is plainly to be teen; and
the fleih htu teen embalmtd^ which would not have been
thfl caae with the remains of an ordinarx' person. I ri»-
irrct to say 1 have not aeen It my.-elf. [l presume, Mr.
Backlimd means he haa not?] With the head are pre<^
servfid the actaal documenta, in which nre offered large
rewards fw the reatoratioa to the authorities of the head,
after it was blown down ; and severe threat! upon thoito
who retained it knowingly, after thcae notices were
poblisihed."
I will not now enter upon the vexed quest ion
aa to the place of burial of Oliver Cromweil ; but
if the above facta are correct, and there api tears
no reason to doubt, surely some means ought to
be taken to have the head and dcK!uments ex-
amined, by Mr. WilkinsonV permission^ by some
person oompctent to judge of their bi^^torical
value, H. W.
COLOJJEL ROBERT VENABLES.
(3^ S. V. 99.)
He favoured the ritinp in Cheshire under Sir
George Bfw)th on behalf of Charles 1 1, in Aug^ust,
1659, but lay concealed, desi^rning to surpriee
Chester had Booth succeeded in his bold en-
terprise. In March following, General Monk
^ve Colonel Venables the jyovL^rnment of Cheater
Custle, and he aided the Restoratiou, What re-
ward he received we cannot utat**, but his friend
Dr. Peter Barwiek petitioned Charles II. th:U
Colonel Yenables might be honoured with some
eminent mark of the royal favour, since It was
Buffiriently known that he formerly both could
have restored his mnjesty to hi« throne, and %vou!d
bflVP done it, if he had not been hindered by the
pcrfidiousness of some to whom the king*a bueiDe4Ss
wn* trtt»ted.
Colonel Vrnablet wnu an Indepeiidaut in re-
ligion, and in lli64 wag denounced to the govern-
ment as nnt* who hud secri-'tly promoted the rising
io Yorkshire, known as the l-aridey Wood Plot.
Hiere was probably little truth in the accusn-
tion. He seema thenceforward to have lircd tl
retirement at his seat in Cheshire. He died iq
1687, being: buried on July 26.
As repfiects him, vre have references to Life *
Br, Fetter Barwich, 1<>2, 1S4— 186, 190, 1>'»^ ^^^
2G2, 277, 4.*11, 451, 456, 471, 521, 522; i
/ri>A BebeUwH, '111, 282. 283, 314; A; ,
CampbelTs Chancfllor.% 4th ed. vi. 2; Ca
C^omwelU ii. 65.66; iii. 81,97, 144, 14d; CL
dSn, Cromwelliam, 55, 58, 65, 70, 71,
Green*i Cfil. Dom. State Pap. Car. IT., iih Sl^i
Leon. Howard'^ Letter*, 1 ; Ilunter*s Li/c of K
ver Hey wood, 179 ; Lancmkire Civil War Twtk
63, 354; Liftt of Adam Mftrlindak, 210. 2 16 J
Autohio^, of Hen. Ncwcome, 207 ; Norris Ptip
19; Ormerod*s Chexhire^ i. 487 ; Granville Prnn'l
Afemorfah of Sir Wm. Peiiu ,* Sainsbury's Cofi
Col. State Pfip.; Thomas's HiJit. Noteti^ 657 [
Thurloe's State Papers; Whitelock'js Memoriak^
Zouch's Life of WnUon, ed. 1823, 33, 34.
Lord Campbell was evidently under the impr
Bion that Colonel Venables was a mere cotiotiy"
squire ; and a more recent writer, having occi-
8 ion incidentally to mention the colonel, tmp«tn
to have been equally unaware of his historit* "* '
literary fame. C. H. & Thompson Coop
W0BE8 OF FRANCIS BARHAM.
(3'* S, V. 36.)
I observe with tome surprise in " N. & Q*** i
note of inquiry respecting my published writing
to which note is appended an account of n few
them. I do not know, nor even gueas, the tiAG
of those correspondents who have thus favou
me with their notice ; nor do I complain of ibeil
remarks, which are written with that gentlemanly
courtesy which distinguishes the pages of your
periodical. But, as tlie titles of my books ba
been thu3 publicly rec|ue»ted, it see mg fair that J
should be allowed to give a completer li&t of thein
than that which appears in your pagcS| which
abound in bibliographic information. 1 have
such an eateem for your journal as a permanent
record of the curiosities of literature and aciencc^
that I take the pains to correct your lUt bjr tiia
following additions : —
Besides my English versiorw of Cicero*8 /?4*
public and Laws^ I translated for the Ural time
inrn English Cicero*8 Dininatton mid Fate, pub-
lished in Bohn's Classical Series. Som<* other of
my publications arc versions of the Eccleiiiaat«i
nnd Canticles of Solomon, and the Prophecfri* of
Micflh from the Hebrew. An imnroved Afomo^
tc$naron, ar Harmony of the GoAprU^ in a n^vtaiHl
Tl ' ' '' I rd by Messrs. Hivington;
V WiTTft frf>m the French |vrUE9
tlr,iii3r in ^*j . iuMJisicT; 7%fl PteaMliTCS of Pict^^ A]
A
8^8.V. FM-e,"**.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
121
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poem. A Key *.o Alism and the Highest Initut'
tiong; beinjj a treatise on the sjstem of univeraal
theology, theosophvt anri phllosophj. A Life of
James Pierrepani Oreaves^ an eminent n>vstic,
noticed at lartre in ^In Moruirs Hutonj of Philo-
sophy, A Life of Cohton, the Bristol philanthrfi-
pist. The Nete Bristol Gnide^ ^c. Of course I
do not mention u multitude of compilntiooB to lead-
ing journals and periodicals,
Aa to the Adamus Exul^ to which the inquiry of
your correspondent ia especiiilly directed^ 1 would
mention that the only original copies of the Latin
1 ever saw were two contained in the library of that
great book collector, Mr. Heber, Long before
his death, he told me he possessed them, and his
words were verified ; for after his death they were
sold among the books of his library. One copy
of these scarce literary curiosities passed into the
hands of Mr, Lilly, the London bookseller ; and I
persuaded my friend Mr, Hal lam, the historian, to
have it purchased for the British Museum. Whe-
ther it was so or not I cannot tell. The other
came into the possession of a private gentleman.
Both of these copiea were kindly lenl; to mc, and
1 collated them with Lauder's edition of the Ada*
muM Exnl^ Dr, Parr's copy of which I still possess.
I found thiit it faithfully agreed with the Latin
originiil of Grotiua, with the exception of a very
few words* My English version of this wonderfully
rare and grand tragedy is sometimes very literal,
and sometimes merely paraphrastic, especially in
the choruses* But The Timesy and other leading
organs of criticism, seemed to grant in their re-
views that 1 had established this fact — ^that Milton
was more indebted to the Adatmts Exul than to
any poem in existence* It is desirable that the
Latin original should be reprinted. But the
public taste for truly Mittonic poetry is at a very
low condition. I fear that if new Miltonswere now
to arise they would suffer as much from neglect as
he who received five pounds for the copyright of
the noblest epic in the universe.
FBAjrcia Baehaii.
Bath.
MR. WISE.
(3^ S, V. 1CM>.)
As Warton in the Life of sir Thomas Pope^
published in 1772, records his obligations to •* the
late learned Mr. Francis Wise^ ^keeper of the
archives^" for transcripts of some curious papers
from the collections of Strype and Charfctt, I
cannot but conclude thnt he is the Mr* Wise paid
to be alluded to bv VVarton in 1790; but 1 do
not find any of his letters of that date in ALuit,
or Wood, or in the Garrick Carrespondtnce.
Francis Wine whs educated at Oxford, and
obtained a fellowship in Trinity College, M.A.
1717; B.D, 1727. At an early period of his
career he was a Bab-librarian in the Bodleiati ; in
1726 was elected keeper of the archives ; and in
1750 Rftdclifle librarian. He retained the two
latter offices till his death in 1767, aged 72. His
edition of the Annoles renun gestarum ^^Elfredi
ma^i seems to have been carefully prepared,
And the List of 340 subscribers proves the esti*
aiation in which he tvas held.
For his otbcr works, I must refer to the four
noble folios, compiled by the reverend Bulkeley
Bandinel and his oiisoclate^, which exhibit to the
students of all countries^ at all hours^ and at a
very mo«lerate expense, the incomparable treasures
of the Bodleian Library. Boltok Cobnbt.
3
The Mr. Wise about whom Mr. J. O. Halli-
wEf.L makes inquiry wrs Radcli6>j Librarian at
Oxfiird, There is a good deal said of him in
SoswelTs Johnson under the year 1754, in which
year Johnson and Boswell visited him at Elslidd.
He took a great interest in the gift of the M.A.
degree which Johnson received from the Univer-
sity, by diptomn^ in February 1755. A short
account of him is given in a book ni»t quite so
commonly seen as BosweWs Johnson — the Lines
of Leland, Heame^ and Aniltont/ a Wood^ edited
by Warton and Huddesford, Oxford* 1772. The
Life of Anthony « Wood was republished by the
late Dr. Bliss in 1B48, I do nut know of any
second issue of the Lives of Lelaiid and Hearue,
which are contained in the first of the two volumes
of Warton and liuddesford. I therefore tran-
scribe the passage. It is a note, at p. 26 of the
Life of Heame : —
" Francis Wise, B.D. was son of Francis Wise, Mer-
cer ill Oxfordt and was entered of Trinity College in the
year onei thousand seven hundred and eleven, elected
schoUr, and nfterwanls Fellow of that Society. In 1719
he was appointed Under Keeper of the Bodleian Library,
and lu 1727 was elected Custos Arcbivorum bv the Cnj»
versily. At this time be was domestic chaplain to the
Right Honourable the Karl of iiuilford, then Lord
North, in whose family he frequently resided at Wroxton
in Oxfordshire: by that Noblemai) he was presented to
the Donative or Curacy of Ebfield near Oxford, under
whom also be held a small Estate in that Place on a long
Lease, upon which he bailt a commodiaas little Houses
where he resided during the last Years of his life; and
speut his Time in literary pursuits, and as an Aninsemcnt
in forming an elegant Garden, which, though a fmall
Siece of Urouodt was diversified with every object in
[jniature that can be found In a larger Scale iti the most
admired Places tn this Kingdom. In HqO he was ap-
pointed Radctiffe Librarian by the Officers of State, and
died October 6» 1767. He pabliahed —
* Asserts Life of Alfred'
* Account of I ho Vale of White HorM, Berks, 1786/
* Of White Uii( Cross Bucks,'
•Hed H«r!n.s Warwick**
*Aii Knquirj' concerning tlio first InhabitoQt&t &<*i
1738.'
* History and Chrooology of the FAbuions Ages, 17G4/
He had a younger bioV,\i«t» ^^VsretX^v^^'^^Tki- ^'S^'^ '^^
122
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S««&y4 WMB.Bp'H.
Trinity Collejfe, Oxford, an eminent tot or there; an iinl-
yersal Scholar, more particnlarly an excellent Mathema-
tician, but of anch extreme Diffidence and Modesty, that
had a longer life been allowed him, the public never
would have reaped any advantage from his Studies. He
died in 1750. This note is subjoined to preserve the
Memory of a worthy Man which otherwise will be loet"
To this extract I will only add that many Oxford
men, all who were fond of that beautiful walk to
Elsfield, will recollect Mr. Wise's garden, in
which some at least of the *' objects ** mentioned
by Warton and Huddesford were visible when 1
was last in Elsfield. I am sorry that I can give
no account of '* the destination of his papers.**
D. P.
Stuarts Lodge, Malvern Wells.
"Ohe Swallow dobs not makb a Summer**
(8^ S. V. OS.) — All poetical references which I
have seen speak of the appearance of swallows a»
harbingers of summer only. The readers of
'* N. & Q.** may nossibly remember an impromptu
attributed to Sheridan when George lY* was
Prince of Wales. One very cold day the prince
came into a coffee-house where Sheridan happened
to be, and called for something to drink to warm
him. He was so pleased with the first glass that
he called for a second, and then a third, and then
declared himself comfortable. Sheridan imme-
diately wrote on a Dlip of paper the following
lines, and handed them to George : —
** The Prince came in, and said 'twas cold,
Then put to his mouth the rummer,
Till swallow after awalbw came.
When he pronounced it sumtner.*
Dublin.
J. 0*B.
I would add to examples from Horace, for
R. C. Hbath*8 information, a citation from Cow-
ley, exactly what that correspondent desires.
(•• Anacreontic xi. The Swallow.**) Our poet re-
proaches this vivacious and active, but tuneless
bird, fur breaking his rest and rubbing him of a
delightful dream. It commences : —
" Foolish prater; what dost thou
So early at my wlndoir do
With thy tuneless serenade? "
and concludes thus, which is to the purpose of
R. C. H. : -. r k™
** Thou this damage to repair.
Nothing half so tweet or fair ;
Nothinff hair so good can'st bring.
Though mtn toy thorn Irin^ti tht Spring."
J. A. G.
Bermuda (S'^ S. iv. 397.) —You might add to
your (juotations, in further illustration of a diver-
sity ot opinion u|>on the same subject, the follow-
ing from two works of good repute : —
*lt is onlvtrtally agreed that the nature of tha Ber-
da lalanda has imdergoiM a snrpriaiDg aharaOon t9t
th« worse since they were first discovered ; the air bang
much more inolamcnt, and the soil much mor« barrea
i than formerly .... In short the Summer Isbnds
are now far from being desirable spots .... The
water on the islands, except that which falls from the
clouds, is brackish, and at present the aanM dlaeaaeB
reign there as in the Caribee Islands .... Tha
north or north -eaat wind renders the air very cold.**—
DobsQn*8 EmevcioptuHa, 1798.
** The islands are healthy, the climate is delightfiaL" —
New American Cyelopcsdkh 1858.
If Selbahb*8 object is a literary one, this note
from Pinker ton*8 Qeograpky may nelp him : —
•'In the Noom» OrhiM of De Laet (pp. 27-80) there is
some interesting information concerning these taland^"
Also the description in Raynal*s HUt of the Eati
and West Indies^ iti. 524.
From my own knowledge I can state (what
everybody knows perhaps), that it is the custom
for invalids to spend the autumn and winter there,
until about the middle of February, when they
generally leave for Santa Cruz (also called rery
unhealthy by some writers), the Havana, or else-
where, the prevailing winds of the " vexed Ber-
moothes** beginning at that season to be terf
unpleasant. With the exception of the etify
spring months the climate is delicious.
I observe the variety of spelling Summer,
Summers, Sommers, and Somers. The same oc-
curs in the name of Sir George Somers, from
whom the name of the group is said to come. If
age gives authoritv, see Smith's Oeneral Histarii
of Virgima, New JSneland, and the Summer Isles ;
but the title is all I know of the book, having
never seen it. But, ajjain, A Plaine Description
of the Barmudas^ now called Sommer Island^^ with
the manner of their Discoveries anno 1609. By
W. C, London, 1613.
Since writing the above, I have made a note of
Letters from the West Indies, by William Lloyd,
M D., London, 1838; An Historical and Statisti'
cat Account of the Bermudas from their discoverjf
I to the present Time, by Wm. F. Williams, London,
I 1848 ; Bermuda, by a Field Officer, London, 1857.
' St. T.
"Pig AMD Whistle'* (3'* S. iv. 101.) -- Pro-
bably many of your readers are familiar with this
name at Cambridge. I believe it existed once on
the signboard of an inn in Trinity Street, now
called the Blue Boar; but, however this may be,
a few years back it was the popular cognomen for
a new hostel built opposite the Gate of Trinity
College. The arjrument for the name being at-
tached to this building was rather a droll one. It
was because it was situated midway between a cer-
tain college (which shall be nnmeloss) whose so-
ciety was styled, in rival -undergraduate slang,
j *^ Pigs,** and another whose Principal has a name
i said to be uDpronoonoeable without a ^ whistle.**
! B. C. L.
m
a V. fBjf. <^ *«4i
NOTES AND QUERIES,
ISS
ii, 388,) — The bookseller Hugo Suringar, of
Leeuw;ird<;n writes to me : —
** If you have not yet replied to ibe aecond part of
W, C.'s query ia the\Via»w#cAe»*, voq might lell bifn»
there ejtista a Ffisic OrAnnnar bv Fla*k« rBvis*d by De
Ha«n Hettema in Iddi (|iric« fi. 180, or dr); tbat,
betides, in 1868, « rerr concise Frisic Graoiroar wm pab-
li«hed by Colmjin (for about fl. I, otr 1«. M.); and
that tbe' Frtiic Vi>C4ibularies are* tliAt on the Poema of
Gysbert Juplx, by Epketna, in 4tcs 182-4 (antiquarjAn
price fl 5, or 8t. id,} ao excelkot buok; Kiehthofcn,
AI(frk9mhu WUrttr^eh, in 4to^ 1840 (fl. 7 k A, 10,
lit. $d. to l<j«. 84I, nntiquAHiaii pric«): I think out of
iHm": '■ I'"'" ^^ *' '^. Proere can een, Prieseh Neder-
o, 1832 (a. 1»U Sd)
Uf I have ifaeMi all for s&Ia. I
BhouM tJiua be able to duit 3'our querist, and further ac-
commod/ite him with any production of Friaic literature
be might de«ire, lu 1 try' to keep these iu Mock as com-
pletely ai poMible.
** IWgive tne, that I, though totally tmi cquAioted irith
you, yet make free to forward you the above: the pur-
pon of the Navortehcr wUI, I hope, be promoted by 11,"
JoBK H. YAM Lbukjip.
iK9ar Dtrecht»
£'
RAVB OF PooJ^qoKTAS (2** S. VlL 403.)^
" I cm, Jnrj*'.— 0«, Lord Carew. ExtrecUfrora Letter
1 irm of a journal :—
ried from Virginia and brought
- thiit country to be educated in
England. One Hoife aiiK) brought his vrife, Porahuntat,
the daughter of Powhatan. ** the BarharoiM Prince/'^
R Jt. ( Caiendar a/ State Paperg, CJoboial Seriee, 1574-
ledo.)
*' 1(117, 18 Jan. Lo&dou.— The Virginian woman Foes*
huutas httfl been vrith the King. She it r^turuing liome^
sore ogainst h<T will." — P. 4^8. {Calendar 0/ State Fapfrh
Domettie Berica, 1611— J 616.)
•* 1617, 29 March, London* — The Vjrgitiijin womaa
filed At Gravesend on her retuni/' — P. 454. {CaUndar of
Siaie Fiipers, Domestic Series, IGli— 1G18.)
Sboulcl not tb^ tlate of her burial b« March 21,
IGff. uiateud of Mojf2U ltjl6. The tburch uf
St. G(?orge at Grave siend was destroyed by lira
ID 17:i7, where she was buried. I itic^ose you m
IransL'jjpt from tbe pariah register that waa sent
to we in 1859 1*-
**lC16,May2J, Rebecca Wrtytbe,WYif of Thomas Wroth, I
e^t.f a Virginia Lady borne, waa bahed in the Chauaa- |
O. J. Hat.
FiKosia OF HiHDoo Gotjs (a"* 8» V. 73,) — In
HIggins** AHQcalypm H. C. will find »ome curious
ppeculations and tht/ories on this subject. How- I
ever, I have not the book xvithin reach, and rhcre- '
fore cannot pive partii-uhir references. Enne- |
tno^er, in )mHiit o//l/#/^i>?CHowitt*s transhitiim,
I Bohn*fi Sciiffitific Library, vol. i. pp. 251-'i7l)» |
givei lo thig syrnbci] a magnetic inferpretntion.
lipw fur rhiH 4n-ciilled mat^neftc hand is connected
With the ■ ' " ' nid of the Konians seems doubt-
tul. On Bee a note of Douce on a pas-
I sage m ^^nt^ * . JoHW AjDotB,
LoitGiTiTT Of Cumeruwsf (»*• 9. v, 22, 44 )—
The Rev, James Powell, cloie upon eighty veari
of age, haa *>een over filty yean curate of Dill*
wyn, in Herefordshire, and is so §tilL R. C. L.
I send you iin extract from the Preston Chr(mi~
de of January 23» 1864 : -r-
** On Friday last (Jan. I9tb), the venerable rector at
Croaton, the Reverend Streynaham Master, M-A., died a| t
the rectory there, at the p'atriarrhal age of !f7. The de-*
ceaaed, both in ye«w and In length of mi&ii«ierial mrvic4^
yra* the oldest tfergyman iu LoncaabTre, having bee it in th#
^ J ve seventy- five years. He was a)«o the ohleal
>i rg>'man, having been induL-ted to the roclorj
f 1 . . ... uu the death of bis father, in 1798, and had
thua been iu the enjoyment of that valuable benefice
above six tv -five years'. His Ikther, the Rer. Robart
Maner, D D, wat 'the ractor from May, l'^i>. to Sep*
tember, 1708, so that the incumbency of father and son
ea^tended over the letig period of nearly 105 yeara, a rara
ioalaocQ of prolonged eDJoymeni of aa ecclesiaatical b«*
□efiea.*'
PjisaToMTBiiaia.
** AvTtterk OF gooH to Titbr I ftjxii " (3'* 8. iy*
353.) — Some few weeks ajijo a correspondent In*
quired who wrote tJie hymn, commencing ** A»ithoF
of good we rest on Thee.** He will find it in
Marti ne8u*9 By mm for the ChrUtian Churth and
Home,, attributed to Merrick ; but, as lliut version
seem^ lo difler in a few pJucrs frotn the one printed
in ** N* k Q,,** I append a copy : —
"Author ofgrwail ! to Thee I ttiru ;
Thy ever wnkeful eye
AJone can nil my wnnVs disaefVV
Tby hand alone suppty.
**0 let Thy fear within me dwell,
Tby love my footsteps guide ;
That love shall vainer loves expd,
Thdt fear all fears beside.
"And ainee, by passion's fort^ sabdtwd.
Too oft, with stubhorn will
We blindly shun the latent good,
And grasp the specious HI ;
*• 3fot to mv wish, but to mv want,
DoTUn- '^ 'v
The good V grant
Th«Hl. •. ^ : ny."
E. Y* Hbwkkjiw.
Richardson Family (JX^ S. v. 7*2.)— Tliough
I cannot ofi'er a satisfactory reply to your corre-
spondent, or trace out the various brandies of the
Richardson family, I may point out some inac-
curacies in his t|uery. No person t>f the name of
Conon Richardson is recorded as Abbot of Per-
flbore, either in Du^dale, Stevens, or Styles*» his-
tory of the Abbey ; but Ui a person of this name,
the Sheldon fiimily, who received the grant
at the dissolution of monasteriea, conveyed the
manors of Pershore. Hiu son married Anne,
daufihier of Leonard Meysey (not Maxey) of
Sheeh en hurst, near Bewdley.
At the close of the seventeenth century, there
existed in the Abbey church of T^vks^^^vx^ ^^
taoaum^t to CckH^ti l^v^CkSC^&cstL — ^**" ^ ^fljtf*^^
124
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Ca'A S. V. Fkji. 6*
fkmiliA de Persbor onuELdo;" who died nged
eighty-six. The tomb was erected by his only
son Edward, and may possibly be now in the
church. The arms — Argt. on a chief sable, three
lions' heads erased of [live first], langued gules —
are drawn on my MS.
Tbe Richardson family have eo long been ex-
tinct in the county of Worcester, that we have
lost all trace of their descendants i but the stately
Abbey of Perahore, whose property they once
held — a small part indeed of its ancient mai^ni -
ficence— is under restoration by Mr. Gilbert
Scott ; who, I understand, thinks its ojreat Iant«rn
tower was erected by the same architect^ or by a
clo^e imitator of him, who built the steeple of
Salisbury Cathedral, Thomas E. Winnijigton,
An account of the parentage and descendants of
8ir Thomfts Richardson will be found in the sixth
volume of Fo5S*s Judges ofEnglandy p. 359. He was
created a Serjeant*at-Law in Michaelmas Terra,
161 4t and King's Serjeant in February, 1625 ;
was chosen Speaker of the Parliament that met
in January, 1620-1 ; appointed Chief Justice of
the Common Plens in November, 1626 ; and pro-
moted to the Presidency of the Court of King's
Bench in October, 1631.
The two representations of arms in Dugdale^s
Originejt Juridicialei are oi" the same person. One
in p. 240, in the chapel of Lincoln's Inn, of which
society he was a member, put up Mrhen he was
Speaker in 1620-1 ; and the other, in p. 238, in
Lincoln's Inn Hull, when he became Clbief Jus>
tice of the Common PJeaa.
There was no other serjeant of the name during
the reigns of James L or Charles I. E. A. O,
Th« Lapwnio (3^^ S. v. 10, 77.) — Notwitb-
stantlin^ the lexicographers, I cannot think it
likely that the same word would have been used
to designate two such very dissimilar birds as the
kpwin«j or peewit, and the hoopoe ; and there can
be but little doubt, I should suppose, that ^ir<4,
upupa, pttptt, hiippe^ or, as given in the Petit Ap-
faral Hoyal, hupe^ are only various forms of tne
latter name.
That the common name for the lapwing in
former days was peewit would appear from what
Mr* Mackenzie Walcot calls "the Bursars
RebuM," in one of the windows of the Bursary at
New College, Oxford, vir. a lapwing with the
vu)lto " Kedde quod debis ; ^ i. e. ptty i7, or pay
weifght, which has long been its traditional reu*
dering.
In the west country I cannot find that it bcirs
any other name than peewit; and it certuinly
ieesns to me exceedintdy impn^bable that its name
ihould have been altoiieiher chanited, and it«
former designation utterly lost, during the cum-
> paratively suurt peritni of'l50 yearf, tn the neigh-
Douring couotiee of Dorset and Somei^t.
The question, then^ still remains what
these tDapejt^f or jwpot^ or pops^ or poupn wp»^n
whose unnappy heads a price was set Viy tnir nide
forefathers in vestry n5seinbl»:d ? If 1 rnijjht
hazard a conjecture, I shotild be inclined to »up-
gest, though with some difliidettce, that they luisriit
have been bullfinches^ which birds, under the oaiue
o^mopeSy or tnwoaps, are still buttoojustJy retjarde«i
in the west with the tiercest animosity, on account
of their bud-destroying propensities. The curiotit
interchange of the letters M. and P. in the nick-
names Molly and Polly, Matty and Patty, Meg and
Peg, rather helps my supposition.
C. W. BtKlSttAW.
We need nnt^, I think, go to Old French fur »be
word pifpe^ aa applied to a bird. The hnllfinrh is
so-named in some parts of England^ aod he bat
always had a bad repute as a mischief- nuiker in
gardens and orchards. Jatokb.
I think that I can elucidate the mystery which
at present hangs over the parochial accounts in-
ferred to by your correspondent W. W, S. Pope.
Nope, Alp, Red-Hoop, and Tony- Hoop, nre all
provincial appellations of that beaut* ful and ia*
teresting, but very destructive bird, the cornmun
Bullfinch. To li^ mischievous propensiries orm-
thologists, from Witlughby downwards, have un-
fortunately been compelled to testify.
'* Libentissime veacuntur pKniia illis geiiimis ^
boribus ante foHa cc florej erumpentibus, pn»:ipii« S(
Mali, Pyrit Peraica;, alimruniqQe hortensium, a4i ^^_^^
noa lev« damaam hortulanis infeniat, fitiibus idi^ref^
maxima invUae sunt et odiosas/'
Thus writes Willughby. I could give quof attons
to the same effect from Montagu, Selby, Yan-*-!!,
and many others ; but I have cited quite enough
to show ** why a price should have been put on **
popes' or woopes* or hoops' heads by clrurch-
wardens at the commeDcement of the eighiecnth
century, W, T.
Worcestar.
WiixiAM Mitch ELI*, thk Grkat Tiwclaeiah
DocToa (S*"** S. V. 74.) — For information respect-
ing this oddest of characters, J. O. cannot do
better than consult the very valuable and most
interesting JJomestic AnnaU of Satttand, written
by Robert Chambers, LL.D., &c., vol. iii. p. 358.
Sec also, Traditiorui of Edinburgh (p. 42), ijy tli«
author, William PtffitKBTOii,
Elma, a CnatsTiAK Namk (a'^ S, v. 97.)— In
answer to the query of J. G. N., I have to say
that Elnia was the name hv which (he lat#» Lady
Elgin WHS fjittiiriarly called, aa he Buppo*cii. froia
the firtt ^yllabh:*^ of her two Christian namet*
Her diiughter was so christened ; her fathc^r, tH
his distress at her mother's deaths being utuibld
to think of any other name.
Orh or u&ft iiBAJUiaT Ruw^Ttirat*
Natter (3** S. v. 64.)— One query begetii
mmiy. Your correspondent B. L* of Colchester,
wlitle senrcbing for the origin of ibo simile ** Mud
as A batter,** oas dug up some etymologicul re-
mains, which lead my thoughts in another direc-
tion. When, at Carabrid|Lie» wc used to make
botanical ejccursiona under the delightful guidance
of the late Professor Henslow, we used to be
shown at Gamlingay a species of toad found in
that neighbourhood, and known to the villagers
as the natter-jack. What is natter in this word ?
Is it the German word for adder, or li it merely
a corruption of the English word adder — as thus,
an adder-jack^ a natter -jock, and so called from the
fact that the animal in question crawU instead of
hoppin^r like common toads ? Does the word
occur in any other compounds among obsolete or
merely local names of reptiles P
Alfred AiirGSB.
Alrewas* Lichfield.
Caspar de Nava&be : Sfemglb (3'* S. iv. 88.)—
It would seem, from the notice in the Bibliotheca
Hispana Nova^ that there was a Latin version of
Gaspar de Navarre's work ; but perhaps Antonio
transUittfd part of the title only. I believe the
Spanish book is very scarce, but there is a eopy
in the British Museum :■ —
*• Tribunal de SupersLicion Ladina, dirigido a JeJim
Nature DO, por el Doctor Gaspar NavArrov canonigo de la
santA if^kma de Jesoj Nazjireno de MontaragoQ, nature!
lie la ViiU de Aronda de Moocago. Hueeca, IGSV* 4to,
pp. 244.
The passage, corresponding with that quoted,
is: —
*^ Malpfido tacito 1 lam an ]os mago<! a a<qiid que se dk a
laa Brujafi, para que no ttientan loa tormentos que les da
la juatici'i : esle sm suele dar por comidn o por bevido o9
le* jmprime cl Deroonio en loa eirpaldas, o lea pone y ub-
soondtt en Ire la came y el pellejo, para que no digan la
verda*!, annque mas les alormenteii: como lo dixen los
Inquisidores de Germanio, in Malim, part. i. quaL^t, 14.
Y C4in cuofi hechixos dU* se eMtau burlaodo, y riendo de
lo9 tormcntoa; y para que e^ta^ no sientan, sucic cl De-
lUiinio Apliciir remediojt fri^idissimos, Y viendo eito la
ite barbara se espantan mucho, p&recieadole^ que ee
miln;^rou, y es dcrto que no lo es; porquo e^to lo
' i>emionio» el quel, cutno tengo provado en la« dia-
dafl, no puede hazer miiagro^ Pero haze el
tAto, poniendo cierloa medicahientos, qu« quie-
' leu 0 entorpetean el Mniido, o detergan el iuBuxo de la
fiicultiiJ uaitiifll a los organoa en el lal persona, que cau-
e«u hum ores craaos, y gruesoa qae tmpieden la via, pa-
raque loa eapirituii vi tales no piL&»eji a la« partes exleri-
orea y assi tmpieden el oecitimiento y dolor. Otras veces
d mo^mo Domonio »e apodera ^i i ^teriores
pof *i proptm para que no sicn ie cosai
nttlufnlt!S en quantitad bate me^li , urban l<is
humoru; otrof veees detieue el Uemonto km ionneiitofl»
ao tlojgrn#»n »! ««iMi!mjVnto» subllevando al pacienLe^ y
alh ' ' -, floxos,
y ijiancift^
qu' ^ Ujj coEiaa
iorp<yri»l«* ipi liiua ^e ila iMiviicia) hiug& lu uaa quiere
delfa«."^P.56, U
Author of MalletiM MaUJicorum^ which is often
cit^d by Gaspnr de Navarre. Fitzhopkihs.
Gairick Clab.
Epitaph : " Hcm: mt NjsscimB " (3'* S. v. 83.)—
This epitaph (as written, 3'* S. iv. 474) is in-
scribed on a monument in the church of the vil-
lage of Atcham, near Shrewsbury. Whether then
and there original, I know not The mode of
sentiment would sugofest Bocthiua (Anieius) or
Laetantius, as the author, rather than the cele-
brated Bishop of Hippo. ^ J. L.
Dublin.
Aro. a Sai-tijib Az. (S'^ S. iv* 325.)— This
coat of arms, mentioned by your correspondent,
jippertaina to the family of Yorke, of Bewerley,
Yorkshire. See Burke*s UUtory of the Com-
moners of Great Britain and Ireland (edit. 1838),
vol. iv,ju. 744. Caailfobo,
Capo Town.
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F, W. Tjumujicir. TU ComiiA provtrtm vo^dd fie vtnf aeo$piM»*
Ttn R«T. F. Pwi w*TT. WtAar thai Me m-HcltM om tht /fKmeofla 'a
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ilLMutmi" u puhlMtud at Hoom on Frtdmy, ami <• otos
, ,,LT Paut*. 7A< :^»Jt«criptkni fbr BrAitrxi Cur»M W"
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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. i iiidito Gijda — The
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First — The Oath
of Picric toy WU-
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Trousers — Dr. Georpt* QUvrt — Bbhop Andrewcs* Will —
Top of his Bent — Blind Alehouse. 13*.
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bjthe rK)g, V IR5, /&. — Ro-
man Games, i imp Ehityon
Painters' C*iiv^. ^...„.>...u .., ^ ,..; . .„ Old Bridge at
NcwingtOTi — Mftiden Caaile — Eye HauHti Dot Cards —
Newhaven in France — Lewis Morris — Twelfth Ntght:
the worst Pun ~ Sir Edward May — Quotation — Toad-
eater — Crapaudlne —The Owl — BuAldie— Paassge in
Tennyson^ Ac, 141.
Notes on Bookie tt.
I
SCHLESWICK: THE DAKiVE-WERKE.
Tbe war now dbturbing Denmark bag recalled
attention to the very ancient fortification which
forms* a defence for Jutland from attacks on the
southern frontier* Torfseus says the name is not
Dana^verh " Danomm opus/' but Danu'virki^
" Danorum TallunV* or the " Danish entreucb-
saept;'* and the narratives of various assaults
which it ha^ withstood^ and of ltd vicisi^itudes of
destruction and restoration, are to be found in the
collections of Lanr^ebek, Wormiua, and Suhm^
as well aM in the Saga of Olaf Trygg\'e3on and
Others of the Korse chronicles.
There is some confusion as to the time of its
original construction* Mr, Laing, in bis version
of the Heifmkn'ttgla^ says in a note at p, 390| vol, i*
that it was rmsvA by Harald Blaatand to resist
the incuraioiia of Charlemagne ; and the Archjc-
ologteal Society of Copenhiisren, in their Index
to the Scripta Hi&torica Jslandorum, vol. xii.
p* 118, describe it as "vallum vel munimentura
illiistret in finibus Daniie merldlonalibus posi-
tum ; tpiod a Regina Thyria filioque Ilaraldo cog*
nomine Blaioijn extructum esse fertun"
Hilt \vh itever ihc dare of its orif^miil formntion,
tin V>Ie work was in conn nn
ail \ in the time of the K W v e*
aon, who reigned in Norway betweeu am. O^J and
1000 ; and his Sag» nfiounts ilie two espeditlonB
conducted by the Emperor Otho, to compel the
Dimea by force of arms to conform to Christianity.
In the second of these, when Otho, a;d. 996, led
an army to the Daneverk, its condition is thus
deficribed in] the Saga : —
"^De meridie Ottho Imperator venians, Danarirkum
accesait, taanimentoruni tstius valli defenaore cum soia
Hakono Jarlo. Danevirki autem ea erat constitutio, nt ab
utroque inari doo ainus longiui iu eonttneotem pmsljaiit,
inter iatimoi quorum receAsiis relictum torna niatiiiin
mmuarant Dini^ ducto ex lapide, cespite, atque arbontaoa
vallo, extra qood fo&sa lata at quo profunda in aitum <yrat;
depresaa, sed ad portas disposita castella." — Saorri Stor»
leaon, HeitiaJhrif^a, voL L p. 217.
Another version of the same Saga, edited by
Svienbjorn Egilsaon, in the collection of the histo*
rians of Iceland, published by tbe Royal Society
of Copenhagen, gives some minuter particulars,
describing the nature of the country between the
Eider and the Schlei ; —
" Duo sinus hinc illinc in terram iniinuant ; Inter Ul-
tima vero ainuum bmcbia Danj aggerem altum et firnmm
extnierant, etc* — C«mteni quiquc pasaiis portam habebant
cui fluperstructum erat caAtellum ad defenaionem munf-
menti ; nam pro singnlifi portis pons fosas erat impoaitus."
— Scrip. Hiit, laloMiia, L L 144 : see also i^*, U x. 328,
etc* I xL23*
History it is said repeats itself; and the result
of the assault of the Emperor Otho has a parallel
in the present war between the Prussians and the
Danes : when the former, instead of persevering
in the attack on the Danne-verke, turned the
flank of tbe defenders by a movement across the
Schlei, by which they succeeded in landing their
troops in the rear of the great embankment-
Precisely the same strategy is stated, in the Saga,
to have been resorted to by the German Emperor
nearly a thousand years before. Earl Hakon,
who commanded on the side of the Danes, so suc-
cessfully repulsed every assault of tbe enemy,
that Otho fell back towards the south ; collected
bis ships of war at the mouth of the Schlei,
landed them t^ tbe north of the Danne-verke,
and eventually achieved a victory. The cata-
strophe is thuB narrated in the Saga of Olaf Trygg-
veaon: —
**Ceddcrc Jbi ex Imperatoris acie pluriml, nutlo ad
vallum capiendi emoluniento ; quarc Imperator (re noa
Piepioa t€ntatal)inde deeeaait .... turn flexo mox
Skovicum versum itinere, cum totam illuc olaseem aoci-
Ytiratt e.xercituni indo iu Jnllajidiam traasportavlL'* —
HdrnMhinglti^ torn. i. p. 218.
This battle is celebrated, in the VelUkkt^ in ft |
pas^iige thus rendered into Engliah by Mr*
Laing : —
" Earl Hakon drove* by daring deeds,
The*e Saxons to their ocean sleeds;
And the young hero saved from fall
The DAoavork— the ptopte*a walL**
1^
128
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[d^flLY. FKa.ia»%i
A VflTlT ARCHBISHOP.
An industrious studenti a deep thmkeri an acute
reason er, a learned mind, a correct, and at times,
elegant writer — these are titlei of honour which
the mere outside- world, travelling in its flying
roilway-carriage, will gladly award to the l»te
Archbishop of Dublin, Not so familiar are cer-
tain minor and more curious ^ifta, which he kept
by hira for his own and hia friends* entertainment,
which broke out at timea on more public occa-
sions. He delighted in the oddities of thought,
in queer quaint distinctions ; and if an object had
by any possibility some strange distorted aide or
corner, or even point, which waa undermost, he
would gladly stoop down his mind to get timt
precise view of it, nay, would draw it in that odd
light for the nmuBcment of the company.
Thus he struck Guizot, who dt*scribed hira as
^ startling and ingenious, strangely absent, fami-
liaft confused, eccentric, amiable, and engaging,
no matter what unpoliteness he might commit, or
what propriety he might forget." In shorty a
mind with a little of the Sydney Smith*s leaven,
more eager was he to speak. It has been tup-
posed that the figure of the " Dean/' in Mr. Li-
ver's pleasant novel oi'Boland Cashel^ was eketchei
from him. Indeed there can be do que^tioti but
that it is an unacknowledged portrait.
*^ What is the difference,** he asked of a jo«ik
I clergyman he was examininn;^ *''' between a fonn anl
I a ceremony ? The meaning seems nearly tte
I same ; yet there is a very nice distinctioii.** Vt*
I rious answers vrere given. *^ Well," he said, **il
lies in this : you sit upon a form^ but jou
upon ceremony.'*
"Morrow*a Library*' is the Mudie of I>uhU&;
and the Rev. Mr* Day, a popular preacher. *• How
inconsistent,'* said the archtishop, ** is the piety uf
certain laiiiea here. Thev go to daff for a
and to morroic for a novel !
At a dinner party he called ont sudrlenlr to fit
hosft, ** Mr. ! ** There was silence* ** Mr,
what is the proper female companion of this JtAu
Dory ? ** After the usual number af guesMs *»
whose brilliancy lay in precisely these odd analo- I answer came, " Anne Chovy.'*
gies. It was his recreation to take up some in- .
tellectual hobby, and make a toy of it. Just as, | Another Riddle. — ^**The laziest letter in rhi
years ago, he was said to have taken up that strange alphabet ? The letther G ! ** (lethargy.)
instrument the boomerang, and was to bo seen on
the sands casting it from him, and watching it
return. It was said, too, that at the dull intervals
of a visitation, when ecclesiastical business lan-
guished, he would cut out little miniature boome-
rangs of card, and amuse himself by illustrating
the principle of the larger toy, by footing them
from hb fiiigen
The even, and sometimes drowsy, current of
Dublin society was almost alwaysenlivened by some
little witty boomerang of his, fluttering from mouth
to mouth, and from cfiib to club. The archbishop's
last was eagerly looked for. Some were indif-
ferent, some were trifling ; but it was conceded
that all had an odd extravagance, which marked
them ajs original, quaint, queer. In this respect he
was the Sydney Smith of the Irish capital, with this
difference — that Sydney Smith's king announced
that he would never make the lively Canon of St.
Paulas a Bishop.
Homoeopathy was a medical paradox* and was
therefore welcome. Yet in this he travelled out
of the realms of mere fanciful speculation, and
clung to it with a stem and consistent earnestness,
laithfulljF adhered to through his last illness.
*'"Tmerism, too, he delighted to play with. He ,
I J in fact, innumerable dudas^ as the French call
^lem, or hobby-horses, upon which he was con- |
tinuHlly astride.
This led him into n pleasant aflectation of being
able to discourie tie ommbtu rebns^ ^'c,^ and the
more recondite or lets known the subject, the
The Wicklttw Line. — The most unmusical m tiift.
world — having a Dun -Drum, Stlll-Organt and i
Bray for stations.
Doctor Greg^. — The new bishop and he
dinner. Archbishop : ** Come, though you o
John Cork, you mustn't stop the bottle here."]
The answer was not inapt : ** I see your lordsEipl
is determined to draw me out.**
On Doctor K x's promotion to the bit!
of Down, an appointment in some quarters
popular : ** The Irish government will not be I
to stand many more such Knocks Down as thv!" I
abltl
The merits of the same bishop being canraased
before him, and it being mentioned that he had
compiled a most useful Ecclesiastical Directoty, ,
with the Values of Livings, &c., *^ If that be ho^
said the archbishop, *' I hope ncJtt time the claimi I
of our friend Tliom will not be overlooked.'*
(Thorn, the author of the well-known Almaimek^
A elergyman* who had to prcuch befons hifl% |
begged to be let ofl*, saying ** 1 lif>pe your Gra
will excuse my preaching i !;iy,*' ** Cer-
tainly,*' nnh] fhi' othoi indui iinday came,
and ih-' »p »aid to biui, '' Well I Mr. -^
what h , nu Y wc expected you to preach
to-day.' *' Uii« your Grace said you would cxcuK
I
^*&.r. FKB.i8,'e4.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
129
^
k
my prejithing to-day," "* Exjictly ; but I did not
aay I would excuse yon from preaching.**
At a lord lieutcnaofs banquet a ^race was
giren of unusual length. "I^Iy lord/' sJild the
archbishop, " did you ever hear the story of Lord
Mulgrave's chaplain ? " ** No/* md the lord lieu-
tenant. " A younpj chaplain had preached a ser-
mon of great length, * Sir/ said Lord Mulgrave,
bowln;^ to him, * there were some things in your
seruion of to-day I never heard before/ * 0» my
lord/ 8a«d the flattered chaplain, * it is a common
text, and r could not have hoped to have joid any-
thing new on the subject/ */ hmrd the dock
Mtrike tmce,* said Lord Mulgrave,"
At Bome religiouj ceremony at which he was to
ofBcIate in the country, a young curate who at-
tended him grew very nervous as to their being
late, " My good young friend/' said the arch*
bishop, " I can only ?ay to you what the criminal
going to be hanged said to those around, who were
hurrying him, * Let ub take our time ; they can't
begin without us/ " YoaicK Junior.
THE INFANT PRINCE OP WALES.
I have met with the curious fact, that the
infant Prince of Walea, whose birth is now the
subject of universal rejoicing, is descended from
King Henry VII. in eight different ways, six
being through his mother ; so that he derives
more Tudor blood from his mother than his father
in the ratio of three to one. The subjoined out-
line of the descents may not be uninteresting to
some readers of *' N. &'Q."
Paternal Descents,
I. 1. Princess Margaret; 2. James V. King of
Scotland : 3, Mary, Queco of Scots ; 4. James I.
King of England;' 5. Princess Elizabeth of Eng-
la/id ; 6. Princess Sophia of Bohemia ; 7* George 1.
Kin^ of p^ngland ; 8. George IL King of Eng-
land; 0* Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales ; 10.
George III. King of England; 11. Edward, Duke
of Kent; 12. Queen Victoria; 13. 'Albert-Ed-
ward, Prince of Wales.
U. 1. Princess Margaret; 2. Lady Margaret
Douglas; 3. Henry Earl of Darnley ; 4. James L
King of Englnnd ; 5. Princess Elizabeth of Eng-
land; 6* Princess Sophia of Bohemia ; 7. George I.
King of England ; 8. George IL King of Eng-
land; 9. Frederick Lewis, Prince of Wales; 10.
George TIL King of England; 11. Edward,
Duke of Kent; 12. Queen Victoria ; 13. Albert-
Edward, Prince of Wales.
Maternal De*ceJtU.
in. I to 8, OS Descent I. ; 9. Princess Mary
of Esfknd; 10. Charles, Landgrave of Besse
Cassel; 11. Loui^^a-Carollne of Hesse Cassel : 12.
Christian IX., King of Denmark; 13, Alexandra,
Princess of Wales.
IV. 1 to 8, as Descent I ; 9. Princess Louisa
of England; 10» Princess Loiiise of Denmark;
IL Louisa- Caroline of Hesse Casael ; 12. Chris-
tian IX. King of Denmark ; 13. Alexandra,
Princess of Wales.
V. 1 to 3, as Descent IL ; 4 to 13» aa Descent
ITL
VI. I to 3, as Descent II. ; 4 to 13, aa Descent
IV.
VIL I to 9 as Descent HI. ; 10. Frederick,
Prince of Hesae Cassel ; IL Willinm, Prince of
Uesse Cassel ; 12. Queen of Denmark ; 13. Aleai-
andra, Princess of Wales.
VIIL 1 to 3 as Descent IL ; 4 to 13 as De-
scent yU. CaARLES BSTDaEV.
AX OLD LONDON RUBBISH HEAP.
Having determined to build a bridge over the
Thames, the first thing to do is to sink shafts for
the foundations of the piers ; and a nice Long work
it is, for the deeper you get, the more you canH get
liny foundation at all. Even as far back as Thames
Street thb li the case — very unsatisfactory to
contractors i but the old rule holds good here as
elsewhere — the ill wind to the bridgeuiakers is all
in favour of the antiquaries. For why is all this
land on the Thames bank up to Thjimcs Str*:et so
rotten and unstable ? Simply because it is a vast
rubbish heap. At the top we have the debris of
former buildings, the ruins of the Great Fire.
Let us watch awhile the navvies as they pick
away and cart off the rubbish ; 6rst a few coins
af later reigns, old broken pots and crockery of all
sorts, not unlike the roughest of the present day.
Here some ancient weights remind you, that once
upon a time here stood the old Steelyiird. What
are those black bits of leather the men are shak-
ing and knocking the dirt oiT? Look closely at
one, and you will see it once covered the dainty
foot of some fair city damsel. How prettily her
little red stocking must have peeped through the
curiously cut open-work in front, mighty pretty
to look at, but not over warm one would think.
Here is a shoe of the reign of Queen Besa, with
its long heel, and pointed toe ; not thrown away
before a huge hole had been worn in the sole.
How any feet could have been tortured into
the boots belonging to those soles, not unlike
hour-glasses in shape, one can hardly imagine*
Close to these more pottery, broken, but still in
other respect the same as when it was thrown
away ; jugs of common unglazed stoneware, orna-
mented round the bottom with the great thumbs
of the potters. Here and there «i (iV^. ii^ Va«30jst
quality ot l^^ ftMCia ^«^^ \wX \yt»:i^i ^
Here a good bit of fine glazed Wack ware^ — surely
perfect; no, its handle has gone. Next cornea a
glorious old BelUrmine jug, with the three lions
of Englimd on eitljcr side. The pick has imfor-
tuDAteljT made a smalls hole in one side, but no
great consequencCi for, on ncftrer observation, you
jou see it is like the rest, thrown uwuy bec&use
cracked.
Dig a little further, and up turn relics of
knightly deeds miited with the tbrown-awuy tools
of the craflaman — spurs without rowels ; some
with long spikes instead; some with rowels «n
inch and a half in diameter, having a terribly
fierce look. How did the horses fare, you wonder.
Up turns a great horseshoe ; and you remember
that the beasts in question were the g:reat Flemish
fellows, and you hope they had thicker skins than
our more graceful and beautiful favourites* Those
horseshoes are worth looking at. See how for-
ward the nails are put : surely better than we
do. Again, they are evidently cut with a sharp
instrument out of a thick sheet of metal, pro-
bably when cold ; a fact which would account for
their being as good as new. What are those queer
looking bits of pipe-olay, with the names of the
makers stamped on the edges ? Are they tobacco-
stoppers ? Let us try. Here^are a lot of old pipes,
but what tiny bowls. It wilt not do, the things
will not go into them at all ; and still there are
BO many, they must have been for some use.
They served oiir ancestors for curl papers to keep
their wigs in order. Just look at those pins —
some three inches long ; some with leaden heads,
no doubt considered highly ornamental. What
a curious collection of old knives and forks, and
bow strangely time ha^^ a^ected them. This fork
— see ! might be polished agnin it is so nearly
perfect, even the ivory handle witli silver studs is
un decayed, though discoloured. Its partner, the
knife, is quite gone — nought but the shape re-
remains— -handle all powder, and blade not much
better.
Shall we never get down to terra firma? Surely
we must now be over twenty feet below the sur-
face, and how dark the soil la getting* It looks
as if we were on the banks of a great river.
And so you are ; in a few feet more you will be on
the old Roman river bank, and then the rubbish
heap will be still more interesting than higher up,
Even here, however, will be some familiar things
not unlike those in ufe in the present day*
** Would you like to buy some of these things
we've found,** says a simple looking navvy P *^ Let
us see what you have.^* "Pve got th^ ' ' "
this lime, guv*nor ; but the man as he
wants a tmy bit. Here is a big lead batut-jixu ;
I sec it took out of that there hole with n»y own
eye*.
If you ore a collector beware I That man,
Bimple oa he looks, can supply you with an un-
limited store of false relics of all Ages <-* oil i
on the ^ot of course. If you are noi m mi
judge of such things leave them alone altogclJittv
or you will lose your money, and be well Ifti^ghai
at by friends and foes.
" It caligattia in agros.*' So it seems by those boot
soles which have just been once more brou^ttll
light. Surely Aese must be the horrible inStaR
naUed boots so harassing to the corns of the cii^
lian ; there is not a space without a great ]ui»
Look here, too^ on this one is abit of Ramftn poUttj
sticking \ Military boots ! — no suck thinp ; wl^
they would only fit a lady ; and here h a liajr 490^
just so armed, which must have belonged to i|ldll I
a child. No doubt this hill side was then i
and muddy enough, and so they required
under leathers. Why here is a sandal, beul^
fully cut out of one sheet of leather — no nsula has.
It was well worn, however* before the wearer cmA
It off; the boles in the bottom are still vtiibla
Here one is struck by the enormous quantity d
broken red pottery. How perfectly iudeatiudlh
ble it is, but all broken ; much had beea mflMllI
and rivetted by the llomans themselves. T^eir
drills must have been as good as ours, so perfect
and smooth are the holes for the rivets. llcte«
too, we have A and B scratched on tke sur&oa to
show how the bits fitted. Broken to fragmoU
as it is, all the pottery and gta^s is weU mtalk
examination. Though not one perfect, or ntasAf
perfect, bowl be fi^und, from the fragments y<ai
may make a regular Roman pattern book« aad
very excellent patterns too ; consisting of adfapla*
tions of all sorts of English and other plmti
beautifully conventionalized. Here and there ai«
fine geometrical ornaments; but, above all, J
excellent are the animals — lions ■' t '
boars, wolves, dogs, kopardi, tiger
spring. On one bowl are many J
tne gladiator*^ labours ; surely that n
with a bull; here the secutor ispui^...-.^ ^i
tiarius^ There arc wild beasts ; one poor
is lying flat on his back, dead ; the author <
death Is missing. Mixed with this redwarw|?
have ladies' ornaments, some vtry odd ;
bracelet is formed out of a bit of iron I !
is all ; another is made of iron, broil/
wire twisted together, showing how cUtap or
ments were fashionable among the lower ordc _
then as now. Among them must probahlv bt
classed those great bone skewers, of which 1 i
so many lying about, if indeed Home of
were not tools. Do vou want to know wh
;nnj Witty ; lu.TtiiiL'.-^ iii>u lu u
bronze very well made* but
an inch to six inohes n- i..»w,.i,
a good and perfect ^
the top to put a cri - i-. ,
^S.V. FEii.i3,'61)
NOTES AND QUEItIE&
ISt
instead of oyer m witli ns. Those two long
gpikea are no doubt iVie Knjv^ of pi la. Now tnrna
tip a meat hook, a ' H, and un iron finger-
rmg; some soldier i. Here are a quan-
tity of ivr ' +0
write wif ■''•
To mtikc Tis ^ure Ihai tut." u:in}i. ui; Lii'J iiiunniS
in Koman time^ extended thus far, we now ac-
tually come npon their embaiikment ; *^eat pile«
driven in with transverse timbers all along the
old water line. Bui now we must bid good bye
to our rubbiah heap, for down comes the conorelef
and in a day or two the hole will be closed ibr
ever ! Jt C» J.
A GENERAL L1TLTL\RY INDEX: INDEX OF
SUBJECra
io« lun: Qntrrno m watt's
BRITAfrNrCA-"
' mnuQfTttMCA
** Daring tbreo yeAta (<58 — 4(jO) Auvergae anil Dau'
{were conirulsed by violent and contintied votcMiia
« . * . ntimdiKl by cArdiqiiAkes* shaking: (u it
fbimiintion* of the cAntt. Tbuiiders rolled
■y< c«vern«4 to «¥rftil vrena tbo
cotv 'i(i tiroA, that the bcAsts of tho
forc-i, LI haunta* ftoaght refhge in the
abodes ui mwiikiiid.
' An impend in 17 invaxiAn nf the Gothi added to the
terrorof thetht ; "" 'uii8l ]iiitrootad,ajidpf»-
fiting hy thi KioevH«t» Mamcrtas,
Bishop of \k\\. iii^ people in prayer and
bnmiJiation. To jivert the evil, he tnAlitnted tli« solemn
Litanies, or Ro^Uona on th« tbfc« days preceding the>
Feaat of Ibe Aaotojion, because they were the only days
of the year then aetaaljiy set apart fur the purpoAe of such
solemn supplications. Theee forma of prayer, rendered
more impresnire by the awful cbaractcr of the calamities
and portents which had sngpeated (hem, corresponding
so nearly with the sigoe and jadgmenti of Scriptarc
were speedily adopted throughout Gaul and England.
Here they were oonlimtsd by usap^ and tiadition, uatil
finaUy established as a portion of the national rttnal in
the Ooancil held nt Cleofesboe (>,d. 749), which ap-
pointed that thrae days should be iccpt holy, afler the
manner of fanner Ume^ ; an^i it i^ hardly needful to ob-
serve, thnt the Koprattori lavs r* tnin their italion in the
UuIm .,:>nt day.
*' uaris^ Bishop
of <- ■■- a^.. - . i,i.^ Uimself . • . -
praserres a fu iiakM and volcanic
tfruption»!« A! .^^sor of Mamertus,
came«t on the duun of tc^iiuiiju>. This prelate . . . .
composed an ample sericiof Ronation Homilies; and in
addf.»,.;i>.. tn^ ,,,.-, ,..1- u... ...... ,11. ..-. ♦v., I, '■" '^ VI ory the
eve:. ,ve wit-
tiflrmo i*>ru tenia in Rogau t. Martene Theta^rm, I.
•li ■ " -
lati^
arri.
dill ;-
^^* n
quoted Hi 4?iur!Uatln^ <Hlhi'r ^idonitii, or Grcgofy af
Toor^-^he latter of whnm also notieea the enrenla, though
with more bnevitv/* — Quurtcrlg JltuMV, voL Ijcxtv.
294, fV7.
This is a strange statement, tnaamuch a« in the
edition of Sidonius by SirmonduA^ referred to by
this writer, as in that by Bavaro, tKe.^e two au>
thors — Sidoniua and Avitus — ore iiluitrated by
eaoh other; and Sirmondtui expreesly remarks:
** Cum hac autem episioia [lib* -vii. ep 1" compn-
raaida etft Alciini Aviti Homilia (it fius
. - . sunt enim ut arpfumento, sic to >nh
aerie aimlllimse/' The spLritnal weapons with
which the Arvemi were Instructed by Pope Ma-
mertus succeeded, observe^i Sidoniua, ^^ai non
efiectu pari, a^eotu certe non impart ...... ^
Dooea deimntiat» soUtudinis minaa oratlonum
frequentia esse amoliendas : monea aaeidultateia
fvtrentia ineendii aipa putt us oculorum qtuun
tluminum posse restiiigui : moues tninaceni temn
motuum con die tat ion em fidei Habilitate fir man -
dam" Cf* liaronii Annai. EccL ad a.o, 475 ;
Beyerllnck, Thfotrum Humantr Vit(£^ vi* 356.
*' The title of Pope U j;iven to Mamertua by the
early writers^ and perhaps the style of Pope waa
assumed by or given to the see of Vienne — ao
venerable for its antiquity*"
The treatiae, De Siatu Animm, inaerted In Gry-
nasi Orthiydnmographa (pp. 1246 — 1306)( and in
Biblioth. Maxima^ vi., i» by a brother of the bishop.
See Butler' a Lio6$ of the Saints, May 11.
" Quid plura,*' writes Gregory of Tours, refer-
rinjf to the issmie terrors (Hist. I'^'ranc,^ lib. iL
s. 34- in Bou<jnet, GaUicarum R, S.^ ii. 553;
Acta Sanctorum^ Maii xt.) "penetravit excelsa
poU oratio Ponlificis inclyti, restinxitque domus
mcendium dumen proilueutium lacryniarum." Cf.
A don if? Chronicofh ad anntim 452 (in Bihl. Pair,^
1618, ix,; BihL Maxima, xv. 796); "Binii Notaa
ad Hilari Papro Epistolns," in Labbe, \\. 1047;
and '* Goncil. Arelatense," ibid. p. 1040, sqq. ;
Rupertus, lib. ix. c. 5. (In Hittorpii Sttpnl, de
Divinis Officii^, i. 1028). Liturgia GaUicaim^
Mabillonii, p. 152. Barontus (ubi mprd, vj. 310,)
adds : " At de hia (liog;\tionibua) consule a nobis
dicta in Notation! bus ad Romanntn Mariijrolrfgium
(ad 25 Aprills) locupletius/' Other authoritiea
are given m Ducange^s Gloimrium,
** We have two sermons of St. Blammertus, one on the
RogAtioos, ihty othor on the Eopcniflnce of the Ninevites,
b«ing the twentv- fourth and twenty-flfth amon;^ tlic dia*
courses which Wir tb<» n<irr>fl of Eosebius of Emisa."
[These an? printtvl l " '" ' " ^^ » 161 8, torn. v. par. 1,
pp. 468*9, sub non I i n i . By Hooker these
Homilies an- all nus llouk vl iv. 6.]
*' ' these Ilomiljca,
n . f-n mitertained
' ' " ptor.
ane
the
claims vf Ailtis, «u.i|aiti4»i:e^ In ihat
of Fni!
CoKGSFVE THE PoET. — In a foot uotc to p. 213,
voL iL, Cunningham's edition of Johnson's Litres
of the Poets, it is stated on the authority of Leigh
Hunt, thnt Cong revels mother was Anne Fitzher-
bert, daughter of Sir Thomas Fitzherbert. This
statement is erroneous. The mother of the poet
w«B a Miss Browning; his grandmother was the
Anne Fitzherbert spoken of. Congreve's father
was Colonel William Congreve, who was the son
of Hicbnrd Conj^reve, a ciivalier named for the
Order of the Royal Oak, Richard Congreve was
deaeended from Richard Conj;reve» temp, Henry
VI , whose ancestor was Galfrid de Congreve of
Stretton and Conp^eve, temp. Edwnrd IL He
was descended from another Cralfrid de Cronfn*eve
and li daughter of the house of Drawbridgecourt
of HantSy temp. Richard I. The family was settled
at Congreve, m StaflTordsbire, long before the Con-
qiieiit. The best portrait of Congreve is undoubt-
edly that by Sir Godfrey Kneller, now in tLe
possession of the junior branch of tbc family,
H.a
A Heroine. ^ — The following, whidi I have
extracted from a New York paper, seems to me
worthy of preservation : —
** Mr9. Catherine Shepherd has ju«t died at Hadson^
Now Jersey, apworde of lOO years of nge. Her father
vras Jn^ob Van Winkle, a descendant of one of the origi-
nul Dutch set tiers there. Her husband was a soldier of the
revolution. From a steeple at 8oath Bergen she saw the
British fleet take possession of New York, and the Britieh
army mrirrhiTi^ to Philadelphia. The British soldiers
huri r t^pcau^ he would not ^ivc them up his
niri; r leaving him fur de^d, aiie cut him tiown,
and ^ _ , ..An to life She risked her life in carrying' a
iueaiag« to the American commjinder at Be11evi'lle» to
warn mm of a night attack from the British fnrceii^ by
wbkh she saved the American troops from deal ruction.***
T. B.
PsiMnia : TIIB PltIUR0S£. —
** *Cur/ raea Phillii ait, Me to mihi primula Teoit, i
Frimula, Haventes rore gravata tromas?*
Sdlicct ingenti permiicet gnudia cura?»
Atque inter medias ape« rjiKVjue p.illet amor.**
I forget where I met with tlicse lines, but sua- |
pect they are of Etonian origin. I do not think |
they have ever appeared in print.
PrtMula here undoubtedly means the primrose;
but the London o;ardenera give to a different pknt
of the same specief, which bears a crimson i!ower,
the tiame of primula. See in the conservatory at
the IVtntbeon, Oxford Street, Jan. 1864-
W. D.
Camel borw i!« EfiOLAND. — On Thursdflv the
7th January last^ a young eamcl waf born at Ilaelc*
ijey, during the itay of WombweU's Menagerie
there. As this U ^atd to be the &rst instance of
one being born in this country, it i« worth noting*
By- the- bye, what la tJie proper name for s
young camel ^ Is it a calf P J, C. J.
Sib Fbakcij* Walsinoham. — It may be
wbUe to record in " N» & Q/' that Lodge ia i
memoir of this statesman givea him the title
K. G. But on reference to Beltz's History e/ikt
Order of the Garter^ I do not find ! • — — v. ncr
does it appear in the Catalogue of i f^hli
contained in Sir Harris Nicolas*;* iS'^, ..,..,.« ^j' i£i
Peerage. Sir Francis seems to have recotvedi
very little recompense from Queen Elixabetli 1
his services. Sacaf.,
Neologt. — A few days ago, I was at a [
of literary people, where the question was askedl
** Whflt IB neology ?" The answer that w
j whatever might be Its merits in other
appeared to me to have so much wit in «l »> i .
deserve beinp made n Note of
"Neology" — said the ^ntleman who under-,
took to solve the question — ►** Neology ia r* ^
visible horizon that oounds the out-look af I
popular mind ; and, t\s sucb^ it recedes
popular mind advances. In the time of
the revolution of the earth round its axij
neology. Half a century ago, n<fology was
diatinguishable from g'^ology. In the preseirt^^
neology consists in the application — or, as
deem it, the misapplication — of leamiog ant! <
mon sense to the records of revelation. Who t
say what wilt be the horizon of the popular ]
ten years hence f ** AlBLETtf.
Ltwcii Law ik the Twelfth CENTriRT. — I
have lately atumbted upon the following in Hafll
MS. 3875, fo. 288. The scribe, in a si
naively remarks that it is ** a aharpe reck
und in this most of the readers of ^' 1^ , & n^^
will I think ttgree i —
** Tetticnli prrtbiteri al/$cin, — Alexander ardilc^
(EbO'r*) sat u tern, ^r. Noverit univenitui vra, quod m
den« ad nostram p'&entism Soh*m de Claphanu nobis
poeuit, quod ipso olim quendam d*num Jo^hcm Bi
capellanum, cum Jolinrma CiUk J.<vlowiri de ^kirrnncki^
uxoro mikf solum cum sola ia ^ Unai
turpiter invent t, qui dolorem h \emk
tatieulot prefati Prabyteri al'K
et pleniui intcltectia fQctieant^dicLisi i^^uiii
p7atum Jo'hem dc Clapham ab cxocesu bi
viuiua in forma jurif, et eidetn pro p^inmsi^ pcnAfii J
jonxinttti lalutareni. Dat' apud Ca wooden 20* T
1877,"
Jona StJttQit.
Oucrtrrf*
TOOMAS JKNXY, REBEL AND POET*
Tiomaa Jenny, gent., was one of the per^oiis I
attainted by Parliament in respect of the great
northern rebellion in lAOD.
From an abstract of his examination in Sir
Cuthbert Sharp's MemariaU (271, 272) it an*
tiears that he had been trained up under Sir
Ueni^ Norriji and Thomait Kaudolph tu the
queeuV service £ti France and Scotlsiid.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
138
I
I
These clrcum«tnnce8 fender it almost certftin
tbat he was the outhor of the following fKJcms : —
Poem by Thomfta Jenye, entitled " Maister RAmlolpbc'i
PbftntAsy^ B brief cftlcuUtioa of the proceedings in Scot-
Innd, from the first of July to the lut of December."
[This poem extendfl to Jiboist 800 lines, sod is dedlcnied
to Thomas Handolphe, in an epi«tle dated by the author
" Al Ilia Chamber in EdinburgV 31 Jaly, I5fj5. It
y*rofe«es to aire an account of the profetding* and
Lroublea ia Scotland, consequent on the mArringe of the
queen vrllh E^rd Darn ley, and ia supposed to be narratcii
by Thomna Randolphs**] (Thorpe** CaL ScottUh State
Paper K, 227.)
" A Distovra of the preient troobles in Frauncc, and
miseries of this tyme, compyled by Peter Ronsard, gen*
tilman of Vandome, and dedicated tinto the Queeno
Mother Translated by Thomas vTt*oey, gentilraon. Ant-
M"«rp, 4 to, 1568. Dedicated to Sir fienry Norries, Knipht,
L. nmb«i$«adoar resident in Fraunce/* (Kitson^s BibL
Foetica, 257.)
Randolph* in a letter to Cecil, dated Berwick,
May 2(>, 1566, alludes to an untrue accusation
against him of writing a book a^rainst the Queen
of Scots ealied liandtdphea Pkanttuy^ and Queen
Elizabeth, by a letter dated Greenwich, June 13»
in the same year, remonstrates with the Queen of
Scots on her unjust treatment of Mr. Randolph
in regard to bis Phantasy. (Thorpe, 234, 235,)
Jenny, after his attainder, fled from England, and
was at Brussels in June 1570. (Thorpe* 293.)
lie was living there in 1576, and bad a pension
from the king of Spain,
He is sometimes called Genynges or Jennings.
In \Vrigbt*s Queen Elizabeth and her Times
(i. 255) iaa letter from Mr, Jenye to Cecil, dated
Rye, 13 July [1567], whereby it appears that the
writer had come from Dieppe to Rye in order to
provide an English barque for the escape of the
Earl of Murray from France, The allusion to
** my Lorde my master " is apparently to Sir
Henry Norris, and there can be no reasonable
doubt that this Thomas Jenny is the writer of
the letter referred to.
I desire specially to ascertain, (1,) Whether
Maister Randolphe*s Phantasy was printed, and
if so, where ? (2.) Whether Thomas Jenny can
be idenliBed with Tliomas Brookesby, alias Jen-
nings, who figures in the investigations relative
to the Gunpow^ler Plot? (See Cireon*ji Cai Diwi.
Slate Papers, Jaa, I. i, 250, 292, 293, 297, 303.)
And generally I shall be glad to receive any other
informatton respecting Thomas Jenny and his
Wnrki*. S, Y, R,
Amebicanisms.^ — Are the words, "conjure" and
** conjuration!*/* unknown in England? So it
would seem from a note on the passage, " I do
defy ihy conjurations " (Romeo and Juliet^ Act V,
Sc. 3), in Djce's Few yoies (p. 115), where the
commentator cites a passage irom an early drama
I to prove that conjuration means earnest entreaty.
The word, in this sense. Is in every-day use in
the Unired States,
I find, in the London Spy for April, 1G99 (p. 15.),
the expression : " When we had liquored our
throats," &c. Perhaps this may be regarded as
the origin of our cant phrase, *' to liquor," or " tn
liquor up** ^meaning, to take a dram. It is, of
course, confined tu the vulgar,
Mr. Trollope, in his North America^ uses the
verb ** be little,** which has always been consideTe*!
a gross Americanism. The Greeks used the verb
fiiKpvt^u^ the (Jermans verkleinen^ and the French
rapettisser^ in the »amc way. J. C. Liwdsat,
SL Paul, Minn&iota.
Akok^Mocs. —
" The Honour of Christ vindicated; or, a Hue and Cry
after the Bully who as!^ulted Jacob io his Sohtude.
Printed for, and sold by the Booksellers of London and
Westminster, st.ti.ccxxxii."
Who wrote this tract, which is dedicated ** To
the Reverend Dr. J. T.** Who was the Doctor ?*
It advcicates the view that an emissary of Es-iu
invaded the quiet of Jacob, and tried to assassi-
nate him. It is certainly not a reverent pnvduc-
tion; but it is hard to say what was cunsiilered
irreverent in days when Swift cuuld write as he
wrote on the subject of the Spirit. Would the
date admit of the tract having been written by
that bookseller, named Annette who was pro*<e-
cuted some time or other for blasphemy ? C.
AtTBEBT AND Du Val^ ^ — Cttn you refer me to
any information respecting Mons. Aubery and
Mons. Du Val, who came to England as Conimis'
sioners of France in the reii*n of King Edvrard
VL ? They are mentioned in a letter from Tho-
mas Barnabe to Sir William Cecil, Secretary of
State, to be found in Strype*s Ecclesiastical Me-
morials (edition of 1822, vol. iv* part n., fol. 491).
P. S, C.
Gbeat Battle or Cats, — More than thirty
years ago, I have a perfect recollection of hearing
the following strange story told as a fact, by a
gentleman who believed it to be true. I was
very young at the time, and the story nmde a
strange impression on my mind. I find it in an
old note-book of my own, from which I wish to
transfer it to a lasting niche in ** N. Sc Q. **
The narrator, was a Kilkenny gentleman, ami
the scene of the alleged contlict was laid on a plain
near that ancient city. The lime might have been
some forty years before the tale *' aa it was told to
me .*' so that, calculating up to the present time,
the hella hnrrida hella would be about seventy- five
or eighty jcars ngo. My informant stated that
he knew persons, then alive, who actually in-
spected the ** field, after the battle.'*
One night, ui the summer time, all the cats in
t* PTOU\j\vt\iftt^.T^i.^wi\sV'\twj%.— '^^^
134
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Cft^&V. IfB&Ub'ii
the city and coanty of Kilkenny, were absent from
their " local habitations ;" and next morning, the
plain alluded to (I regret I have not the name) was
found covered with thousands of slain tabbies ; and
the report was, that almost all the cats ii^ Ireland
had joined in the contest ; as many of the slain
had collars on their necks, which showed that
they had collected from all quarters of the island.
The cause of the quarrel, however, was not stated ;
but it seemed to have been a sort of provincial
faction fight between the cats of Ulster and
Leinster — ^probably the quadrupeds took up the
quarrels of their masters, as at that period there
was very ill feeling between the people of both
provinces. I have no doubts that this Note will
elicit something further on this curious story, of
which the above is a skeleton.
This has nothing to do with the story of the
two famous Kilkenny <;ats. S. Redmond.
Liverpool.
Becket. — Can any reader give me a clue to
the history of a " Captain Becket," who perished
fighting under Marlborough (where, I cannot
say) ? He married Elenor Percy. The tradition
is, that she was a ward in Chancery ; and that, in
consequence of his marriage with her, Becket was
obliged to escape to the Continent. His descend-
ants are quite numerous. St. T.
Robert Callis was author of The Reading upon
the StatuU 23 Hen. VIII. cap. 5, of SewerSy 2nd
edit. 1685, 4to. I shall be glad of any informa-
tion concerning him or his family.
Edward Peacock.
Bottesford Manor, Brigg.
Posterity of the Emperor Charlemagne. —
It would appear by Burke's Peerage^ and indeed
by other publications of a kindred character, that
Lord Kingsale derives his descent from John,
only son of William De Courci, Baron of Stoke-
Courci, CO. Somerset, and Lord of Harewood.
An inquisition held on the death of this Wil-
liam De Courci, who was Justice of Normandy,
and who died a.d. 1186, represents that he had
but one son Willi tun, and a daughter Alice, who
married Waryn Fitz-Gcrold, Chamberlain to
King John.
According to the testimony of deeds, the au-
thority of which is unquestioned and unquestion-
able, William de Courci, brother of Alice, wife of
Waryn Fitz-Gerold, died unmarried and without
issue, 9 Ric. L, whereupon his sister Alice became
his sole heir, in which capacity she had livery of
all his estates. In further confirmation of this
fact^ Warj'n Fitz-Gerold, only son and heir of his
mother Alice, obtained, a.d. 1205, a charter of
free warren in respect of the manor of Hare-
wood. That William de Courci was the last
lineal descendant in the male line of the Emperor
Charlemagne. This being the case, perhaps from
some of your numerous correspondents informi^
tion may be obtained as to the origin of the hooK
of Kingsale. Hxtpeos.
Family or Db Scailth. — Can your corre-
spondent P. inform me whereabouts in Hokteir
stands the stone marking the place where ftU
Skartha^ the friend and companion of Swein*
This Swein, or Sweync, must be the Kinj^o'
Denmark who, in the year 1003, established him-
self in England ; if so, he probably bestowed tk:
lands in Orkney, bearing the name of Skarthi 0£
his descendants (after whom they wxmld be tiic5
named) to be held by udal tenure, which it seeob
is peculiar to Orkney, though your other cam- \
spondent, Sholto Macddff, says that in Annin- '
dale some lands were granted under a somewht:
similar title by Bruce, the Lord of Annandale, oa
his inheriting the throne, to the garrison of l^
castle. I merely throw out this suggestioD t
the sake of a reply from those better infonii&
than myself, and I should be glad to hear mort
on the subject. J. & D.
The Dahish Right or Succession. — Cmtny
of your numerous Shaksperian readers aooouot
for, or explain why, the right of succession, whidi.
on the death of the king should hare teaUi
Hamlet on the throne of Denmark* is never
alluded to by any one in the whole course of tbe
play ? And I should also be clad to know if anr
of the commentators have made any ohBervaJ&aoi
on tho subject ? G. E.
Engbavikg on Gold and Silver. — Permit nk*
to inquire, how long has the art of engraviD<:
articles of gold and silver been practised ? 1
have looked into Herbert's History of the Gold-
tm%th£ Company^ but he is not definite on thii
head. I should like to know tho first enCTaved
arms. This was probably on a salt, whidi wsj
formerly placed in the centre of a table : above
which, sat the lord and his family ; below, tbo
higher servants of the household. Hence the by-
word, to " ait below the salt.** Inquuee.
Descendants of Fitzjames. — In what book,
English or foreign, can I find an account of the
descendants, to tlie present time, of James Fitz-
james, Duke of Berwick, natural son of James II. ?
Chables F. S. Wabbbiu
Thomas Gilbebt, Esq. — A volume, Htyled
Poems on Several Occasions, by Thomas Gilbert,
Esq., late Fellow of Peter Ilouve, in Cambridge,
was published in London, 8vo, in the year 1747.
The dedication of the work is to J. Hall Steven-
son, Esq., of Skelton Castle, and dated from
Skinningrave. Information respecting this gen*
tleman is requested by Edwabd Hailstomb.
HortonHall.
!».•«.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
PosTEBiTip or HAmoLOs Kmws or £hgi«and. —
A genealogical work, entitled, Micherche^ xur
rOngine de plmieur* Jl/oMtwr Souvtruint* tTBu-
rope^ corapOed at St* Petersbureh hy the Baron
de Koehiie, aod printed ut Berlin by Ferdinand
S Schneider in 1863, states that Wladimir, Grand
* Duke of Ikiew» aeventii in descent from Rurick,
^ and aneeslor of the Bomanof Emperors of Russia,
K mjuTied Gida, duughter of liar old LL, King of
» Can any cenealo^st any whether Harold had a
f daughter named Gida, or whether he left any
t posterity at idl ? Hipfecs.
Hixpoo Gods. — Is there any book with a li§t
of most of the Htnflu gods and illostrAtions of
their images? Having a number of idola in bronze
and stone, T am desirouB of naming them; and the
account given in The Wandermgw of a Piigrim in
Search of (he Ptctnresque is tho only book I ha¥e
OQ the subject.
IAiiOv I should be obli^d if I could be in*
Ibraied what constitutes the diiference between
the louges of Budha and Gauda.
JoHs Davixmok.
Tee Iso?! Mi^r. — Among the arms brought
from Paris lo this country, after the defeat of
Napoleon, and no'r ^ .u..,,.q ^ ^^ trophy in the
Rotunda af Woi>l , be seen the armour
of the renowned , .. ,^x .r de Bayard, and a
enrious helmet, or iron mask, which 1 have heard
some persons ailirni to be the iron mask which
figures »o conspicuously in the rom&ooe of French
hwtory. Can you, or any of your readers decide,
whether it h that famouf headpiece f H. C.
Lbichtof Family. — ^ A daughter of the Hon,
Mr. Comptoii, one of the younger son^ of the Earl
of Northampton* married Mr. Lei^jhton, whoj^e
«0D, Wm. LcJghtun, married Miss Dilly, of the
family of the publisher Dilly, of the Poultry, Lon-
don. I wish to ascertain the true spelling of
LerghtOQ. Has the family ever spelt it Layton ?
Capetown.
Matthew Locsji, — I am anjtiotu to find out
whether Matthew Lock, the coniuoser of the
muaic in ^/fl/?Zfe/A, married A b,
Edmund Smyth, of Ann: (s, had ten
children, of whom Alice wiw probubly the youngest.
I do not know the exact dale of her birth, but her
father*^ seventh child was born in 1648. Alice
was uiiirried to Matthew Lfx'k, whose arras were:
1*3' ; 2, 4^ 6, or ; a (klcon« with wings
exT
i\ "h: I urse the arms of the musician ? And if
he wu not the husband of Alice Smyth, was he
any relation P F. L.
Loud Mouuii's Dsatk, 1677.— In a MS. letter
before me, written to Locke in October, 1677, it
is mentioned : *^ My Lord Mohun hath lately de-
ceased of his wound, to the great alfilction of all
bis friend^/' This was the fourth Lord Mohua« ;
who was an active politician in Charles IF/s reiffu
in opposition to the court, and had made a eele- ^
brateu motion in 1675 for the dissolution of the
PurliamenU Can any of your readers help me to
any particulars about Lord Mohuu\s death ?
a H.
NAn>jjK>N THS FiBST.^ — Is there any published
work in which 1 can find the actual number of
men raised by Napoleon : the details, manner,
and times of the several levies, whether by en-
rolment, enliBtmcut, or otherwise ? The histories
to tvhich I have access simply say that he took
the field with so many men; that ho now en-
larged hii* army by such and such a number, kc.
The information which I seek is such as might W
valuable to a general recruiting- officer, or a
provost- marshal. St. T,
Tna Oath bx-officio. — Cao any of your
readers refer me to the form of this oath ? It was
administered in the Star Chamber, and in the
Court of High Commission. It compelled the
person tb citnfesa or accuse htmseli* of any criminal
matter. It was abolished by the 13th Cor. 11.
cap. 12, John S. Bctbn.
HeoJey.
PoPE*s Portrait.- — Can any one explain the
allusion to Pope's portrait in the followin^^ pas-
sage of Trutram ShamJ^^ vol. viii, chap, I'uf —
" Pope and Mm portrait are fools to me — ivo martyr if
ever so Aill of tmL or fire — I wUb I could aaj of good
works too."
Sterne has added a note to the passage, " Vide
Pope*s Portrait/* J. B. GaBSNiiro.
Practice of Physic by Wiixiam Drags. —
I possess a curious old book with the title : —
" The Practice of Physick j or, the Law of God (caUcd
Natare) in the Bodv of'Maa, fiic. &c. To wliich is added
A Treatise of Diseases froin Witchcraft. By WiUiam
Drage, Med- and Philos, at Hitchiu, in HartfordaUire.
London : Printed for George Calvert, at the Half-Moon
in St* Paurs Churchyard, 1656,"
A aecoad title describes the latter work : —
** DaimamNmaqein j a Small Treati^ of Sickn«aieft and
DiMa^efrom IrVitchcrafi and Snpematural Caasea. Kever
before^ &t loait in thiji comprised Order and guaeral
manner, was the like published."
Thia appears to have been printed by J. Dover,
living in St. Bartholomew's Close, 166^, and is
separatelv pac;ed
have beiore seen a copy of this work, but
without the " Treatise on Witchcraft ; " but I
find no mention of the author in Bohn^s Lowndes^
Can you givi> me Information respecting him, and
whetner he is the author of t^Sk^ ^^tV& ^\^ ^'^^^
80T;j\nctd su^lJec^a ^ 'v . ^*
136
NOTES AND QUEEIES.
[9^ &. V. Fmm. Hi
pROYERBiAL Satings. — Two common shylnga
are, " One half of the world knows not how the
other lives," and ** Needs must when the Devil
drives." They are (the latter slightly varied) in
Bishop Hall's //o/y Obtervaiions^ Noa. xvii. und
XXX. (Work*, ed. 1837, 101, 103.) 1$ this their
original source Y Ltttblton.
Stonb Bbidgb, — In a document beiinng dnte
159P, un event h recorded ii« having occurred at
"Stone Bridge, in the Parish of St» MttrtinVin^
the-Fields." Where was Stone Bridge ?
F. S. MsRBTWKATaJSK.
Ulick^ a Cbristiah Namb. — What may have
heen the origin of this name, which at first was
peculiar to members of the family of De Burgh,
but was subsequently used by many others in
Ireland? Abhba.
WuiTE Hats. — Wbcn did the fashion of wear-
ing a white hat conimencc? Had the colour in
question any j'oftrtco/ significance ? Whence, also,
its continued unpopularity ? for, twenty years
fince, the wearer of one was hooted at by boys
in the streets* and rermed a " Radical ; ** and, even
now, he is frequently questioned by them as to
his affinity to the " Man who stole the Donkey/'
White hats are evidently of old date (whatever
their shape might have been), as can be shown
by the following extract from one of the letters
carried by Lord Macguire to his execution (a. d.
1644): —
•• Most loving Sir* — My mMter bis coach shftll wait for
yon JDfalliblv.'-That day yoar friend William shall go
by cufich alt the way, upon a red horse, with a white hat,
and in a srray Jacket, and then," &c. &c — llde Rush-
worth's OoUt^onSj vol, V, pL m. p, 737,
Arthur Houltoit.
Life or Edwari), Second Mabquis op W^ob>
CBSTSR.^ — Having been some years collecting ma-
terials for a Life of Edward, second Marquis of
Worcester, author of the Century of Inventions^ I
have consulted the British >IuBeum Library,
State Paper Office, Bodleian Library, and the
Beaufort MSS.,&c.
The work affords an excellent opportunity for
the introduction of any information, particularly
arising from stray MS. documents, however ap-
parently uninteresting. I have reason to believe
that many of his letters lie scattered, one here,
another far distant ; also, receipts for the loans of
money during the Commonwealth, and between
leeOand 1666.
Information respecting his "honoured friend,'*
Colonel Christopher Coppley, would likewise bti
interesting. He was under Fairfax's command
in the north.
My work is written in order of date, and will
extend to from 400 to iOO-page^ octavo. H. D.
HiLTOK Cbest : " HooMotT.** — L Why do
Hiltons of Hilton Hall, Durham, bear as
crest the singular device of a Moses' bead ?
2. The entire motto of Edward the Blad
Prince is stated to have been, " De par hournr.ai
ich dicn " To what language does ** i
belong, and what is its signification ? 1
[Tho HilUm crest, as given by Sorteea (^ Out ham,
20), LB "on a close helmet, Moses's head in proGlf^ lu ■
rich diapered mjiiitle, the horns not in the leAsi radial'
bat exactly resembling tx^ poking tttcks" TltiA is
hsbly ooe of the earliest exemplars of ihiii singular hnt^
ing, which Dr. Burn (Histofy of IVtstmoretand^ i» &4!
calls " the cr^t of cuckoldom." He says, ** Ilomi ujma
the cre«t (according to that of Silius Italicua;, *Ca«Bt«
comiy^a dependena infala *) were erected m
Aud after the hasband had been absent for Llir«e or tm
years, and came home in his regimental accoutr^maiilawi
might be no impossible suppoaition, that the
wore the horns was a cuckold. And this «uoeoiiitts tli^
why no author of that time, when this droll notis*
started, hath ventored to explain the conoeeti«^ Fer
woo be to the man in those days that should hura aaAa
joke oflbe buly war; which, indeed, in cousideratka
the expence of blood and treasure atteudiog ic^ m
Ter>' serious affair/^
Several attempts bare been made to ascertain ilie
and the meaning of Houmout, one of the mottotta or£4^
the Black Prince. (See two papers in the AtcA^otn^iot vda
iLXJLu and xxxii. ; the first by Sir Nicholas Hiu-rla Sie^
las, and the second by J. U. Planch<!?, K«q. ) Aecovdi^
to the former, *♦ the motto Is probably formed of tlm !••
old German words, ffooffh nvwi, hoo moed, or hoag/i^^m
L e. msgnanlmouj^ high-spirited, and w&a probiliiy
adopted to express the predominant quality of th« rHaca*s
ralnd." Mr. Plancbi^ on the other hand, eonc^ivea ikM
" Houmout is strictly speaking Flemish ; and, inatfifti af
considering * Houmout' and* Ich Dien* na two sepatat*
mottoes, is inclined to look upon them as farming
complete moito."
Df. Bell» however* by dividing ** Houmout " into
words, is of opinion that "the entire renderinnf Hot;
ICH mxji is almost vernacular, and plain Knitlish How
Jfosrr I sKEVK,** Vtdt his recent work JVwp
/&r the Mom of tht Brinct of WaltM, Part I. 8vis |«6I,J
TaousKRS. — When did the word "trousCTi
come into the language ? It is never u^ecj in ih!
country except among Englishmen, "pantuk*oiis
being the substitute. J. C. Lukmat.
St. Paul, Minnesota.
[This word (variously spelt trossers, trf>i; ■- --
2ers) freqaentty occurs in the old dram : la
Act 1. 8c 1, of Ben Jonfon*s SlapU (>/ A. ..., i ^a^iito^,
junior, "walks in lua gowne, waistcoat e, and rroiwi^'
peering his tailor. A man in 71^ Co^mmh t^t Ih
and Fletcher, speaking to an lri«di sen
have thee flead, and troamrt mat!«t t^ thy
in.*' Troesefi appear to have h^^n tight hi
parat*
A
-A
I
I
I
•• TrowMS (sayi ihe explsnmtorx Index to Cox'a Bittory
oflretamr) »re breeches und »tockiii^4 made to tit as cloae
to the body as can \h>.** See ihe Commentaton on Shak*
ipeare, King Henry K, Act IlL Sc» 7,]
Db, Grobgb Oliver. — What relation ia the
Dr. Gtjorge Oliver, the author of The Religious
Houses of Lincolnshire and other works on Frec-
masonrj, to the late Dr. George Oliver, the Hia-
toritin of Devon, and author of several works of
a kindred nature? They appear to have been
written about the same penod. As the names
are si mi I or, can a distinct list of each author's
writing be procured, as it appears very difficult
to make it from the Publishefi Catalogue f
A DfiVOKIAS.
[Future biographers and bibtiographerst it is to be
fearedf will be «ore]y puzzled in astigiung to each of the
above aothora his own special productions. Their Chris-
tian and auroamei are not only the some ; but both were
contemporaries, and both divines. Doctors in Divinity, as
well as ecclesiastical sntiqaaries. For lists of their re-
spective works consult liohn'a new edition of I^owndes.
Wo cannot trace nny relAlionshjp between the late Dr.
George Oliver, D,D- of St Nicholas Priory, Exeter, and
the present Rector of South H ykeham, Lincolnshire. ]
Bi5UOF A?«DRBWB9* WiLi« — In a Ust of printed
wilb, given hy Ma, C. H« Cooper (3*^* S. iu. 30),
is that of Bishop Andrewes. May I a«k your cor-
respondent wluro I can find n copy? An outline
of the will is pub I i .shed in Gntch'a Collectanea
CurioMa (vol. ii,)^ and an extract in *^ The Life
of Andrews,*' No. lu. of The Englishman s Li'
braty ; but I do nut think the will has ever been
printed in its integrity, I posseBS a MS. copy,
JUXT4 TuiULUI.
[Bishop Andrewes*8 Will* with three Codicils, is priotod
la erttHta from the original in the Registry of the Pre*
rogati^e Coart of Canterbur)-, in his 7\co Angw€r$ to
Cardimal PerroM, published in the Library of Anglo^Ca-
tfaoltc Theology, 8vo. 1854.]
Top or ms Bbht. — How is this expression de-
rived ? St, T.
[From Bendf to moke crooked ; to inflect ; as in Hamlrtr
Act IV. Sc 2. : " They fool me to the top of my bent> **
to which Mr. Douce has added the following note: ** Per-
haps a term in archery ; I. c, as far as the bow will admit
of being bent without breaking.**]
Bi,rNii Alkuouse. — ^What h the meaning of
this? I find it in the Life of Nich, Ferrar^
Wordsworth A /i^cc/ej. Biog, v. 183, edit, 1818,
^ St, T.
[The phrase ** BIlnd-Atehoase *' occurs also in Etberege's
Cmkai Revemgt, U99: ** Is the fidler at hand that us*d to
ply tl the IMwl^thoKK * " W« also read of a biind paih.
The tncMoing of both phrases is dearly that of aoseeji ;
otu of pubhc view ; not eoAy to be foond j private. Go«son«
in his SehaU of Airme^ lo79» mentions Cheuas, "a hlind
vilUge In comparison of Athens.'']
A FINE PICTURE OF POPE.
(3'* S. V. 72.)
Incbbdulus having^ appealed to a Gloucester
correspondent to clear up the myatery of the
" Curious Diaccvery at Gloucester ** of ^' a fine
picture of Pope," and of " The Temptation*" by
Guido» I gladlj embrace the opportunitvofpUcin*;
your readers m potsenfion of what information 1
have been able to glean in reference to it. The
*• Curious Discovery " surprised no one more
than Mr. Kemp, the master of our School of Art,
An Italian maater found under bis very nose, and
he not aware of it!
The paragraph ia The Builder baa but a very
alight substratum of truth. In the first place, tbe
" cSacovery,** if a discovery at all, is by no means
a recent one. The picture said to be by Guido
was never walled up in any recess, but occupied
a panel in Mr. Kemp^s bedroom, and was never
considered to be of any value, either by Mr.
Kemp, an artist of experience, who closely in-
spected it, or by any gentleman connected with
the Art School, It was, I am assured, coarse in
execution, and as a work of art almost contempt-
ible. Mr, Kemp remarked, also, that the head
of the Tempter appeared to have been painted
more recetdly than the other parU of the body.
The picture said to be of Pope occupied an
oval panel (evidently constructed for it) over the
kitchen mantelpiece, and, from what I have heard
of it, I ara inclined to think it m»,'rits as little con-
sideration aa The Builder's Italian master. It
was surmounted by a bust, which certainly bears
a resemblance to Pope, judjring from the most
authentic portraits of him. The old housekeeper
at the Scnool (an illiterate woman) believed it
to be a portrait, not of Pope, but of a Pope (of
Rome), and on that grountl had a great aversion
to it, and regarded it with a painful degree of
awe. She used to eay that the eyes of the pic-
ture (though it was much injured by dirt, smoke,
&c., ** followed her all over the kitchen when she
was at work ;" and she did not attempt to conceal
ber satisfaction on its removal.
The house in which the alleged discovery was
made once belonged to the Guises, aa is evidenced
by the arms of that family being carved in aeveral
of the rooms. The modem owner was Miss Cother,
from whom Mr. Baylia probably obtained the
pictures. By the way, if I am not misinformed,
Mr. Baylis, some years ago practised as a surgeon
in this city, and was doubtless acquainted with
Miss Cother,
There is a tradition that Pope was a frequent
visitor at this mansion, and one of its old walnut
pannelled rooms is yet called ** Pope's Study.*'
I shall be happy to fvutA^Vk ^xv^ laJCoaT Ktv^tar^aa*-
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S»* S. V. Vawl U, "U.
SOCRATES' OATH BY THE DOG.
(3»*S.iV. 475,527; yf. B6.)
Your oorrespondents who have remarked upon
ilsc above welf-known oatb of So(^rate»^ have not
noticed the fact that the pbLlosopber is alluding to
tht worship paid to the Egyptian divinity, An Lbia.
Socratef expreasly refers to this deity in the words,
^ «2 toSto Mmlt &.v§KvytcToify M t2)iv KimOy rhr Alyvwrianf
$94vi^ otf 9ot 6nokoy4ia^H KaAAiifA-^r, H.r.K, The ueo of
this fbrtn of oath has its orij^in in the religioiis
Mruplea of the mind of the devout Greek. Ac-
eordiD^ to tradition Rhodamantbus first imposed
U|>on tie Cretans the law " that men abould not
swear by ths Gods, but by the dog» tiie ram, the
coosc, or the plane tree." Your correapondent,
Ms. J* EjiSTWooi> (3"* S, iv. 527), very perti-
nently refers to Potters Grecian ATitiqiuiies for
information on the subject* The passage in ques-
tion is to interesting that 1 will briefly quote some
of ita parts : —
** Sometimes cither <mt of hOAlOi or nssiinitjcc of their
baiiig in the right, tb^ swore iadeliuiuly by anp ot the
Gods. . . . Others*' thinkiag it unlawful to use tho
Hams of God opon every slight occasion, »id no more
than Nal ^ t^ or "-By," &c*, by a religious eliip&ts
oniittmg the mime. Suidas also mentions the same eus'
torn, whid)» soith he Qv^fiiiti irphi ivat^iaif)^ inures
m«n to ■ pjous regard for the name of God. Isocratcjs, iu
StoUiciiBt forbida to swear by nny of tbi* QmH in any suit
of law about money, and oii' t^ro aceofint«,
either to vindicale yourselt lion of some
wickfldnoM, or to deliver j i aomo groat
dsRijper. , . . Pythegofikkf a si UUroek^ informs ms,
, . . rarely swore by tho Gods himself, or allowed bis
aohohitt to do so { instead of the Gods, he advised thom to
ewirar by rV rtrpatrrvv^ »♦ fA^ number four,** . . . aa
thinking the perfectif^n of the soul consisted in this number.
tliere being in every soul a uiind, scieucis opinion, and sense.
, ♦ . By wliidi ir?"?tnTir*»§ it appesrs that though the
I'l Irivolous occa«ions was
. . yet the inoti5
I. lined a most religious re-
gard ll.r ortOia.*— ^inri^ywiiiM of Oreect, I pp. 29S, 294.
Porphyry's words, to which Bryant (Ancicni
MtjthoUigijt i. p. 345) refers, are as follows ; —
oAAci KBTti rhv Toif Au^t hclI Moiat vcuSo hfmwro rby
^Qv^^Ih AAiiumU, iii. 285.
The Egyptian Aniibis was identifi«d by the
Greeks witu Hermes^ the son of Jupiter and
(S«e on this subjeet JablonsEki, I^mihcon
.:»,» i ^ TT.
regard to the termii ** by the dr. t
The whole of the arsument eni, y Bryttl
in tJie chapter from which your corrt^peindei^i
quotation is takeUi id meant to show that 1h»
Greek words, kw^ and XH*^^ *re a con
term "Caben, the Cohen, IH^ (pries
brews." The Greeks, says Bryant, wmi nib cua-
racteristic mode of explaining myths, ^^ catild not
jjpi.. 'M -'ning from the sound of the word* wydk
m nearly to that of fcuwi/ aod canij» that
it ^^.^ . .u.iO reference to that animaJ, and ts ^
sequence of this unlucky resemblance tkejf j
tiuually misconstrued it a dog*^ (i. p. 321P.)
W. HotKlKTOS.
j£g^piior»m. I
coitfjd, 1
Socrale^,
Herfues, uaw an espre^
meaning; or Gl»e» as poi I
merely stveiifUi«iiin;f his
with ihm eoaunand of lihndamanthus, without re-
ference to any definite God. I may state thiU
your corragpotidimt, Li CuavAiajsit l)v CIG^E
(a** S, r* d5), misrcproiaDti Bryant*s opinion with
e, if Porphyry is
u* and reverent
m:ii! Mil name of
"loooioe
u.beit
ftssertion in accorflance
DECAY OF STOBfK IN BUILDINGK
(3«" S. V. 68.)
W. appears to be unaware that thia fatal
lity in most kinds of freesstone may be an
or averted by means of a solution of silica aniic
calcium; by which ]Vir. Frederick Eimaoma Gjtwf^
sand into an artificial freestone, surpassiif ~
strength and (so far as chemical testa can
show the efiects of time and weather exposing)
in durability, any kind of building-stone knowc^
Freestone^ aa found in quarries, con sins i
of sand consolidated into a mass by cen
sabetonces introduced amongst it in the
tions of nature ; and h more or leas dur&ti
coi'ding to their composition, and to their iAiolOi^
bility m the water and the acidn to wkidi tliflrp
may bo exposed under the influences of the ai^
mosphere. Even in different parts of tho
quarry, tlie strength of the^e cementing siibsi
aeems to differ : so that, in selecting the at
a building, it is impossible to make sure
indestruc tibility*
Boiled linseed-oii has long been a means
sorted to, in thig part of the country, to
the disintegration of building-stone ; an*!,
doubt, it is found to efiect its purp
yearsi that is, so long ns it remains ^ H
the stone to bar the entrance ofmoiiiure,
ultimately, the oil itself becomes decompotod i
washed out by the action of the wenf* ^ —V
parts of the stone that had been bbi>
crumble more readily than those "•
been anointed with it
By a judicio^l*^ tr.nl;. MtJ-in nf "Mr
solutions, the ori
that held tom.tb,
and the gni'lu:.' A.'<:,
it crumble intn .,;inii,
on the surfiMo aMrttiy* but :
within the rahitiiiico of tht? r.
cate of Umc', insoluble in r'
tur«^ : a cenaent which u.
hardens, and the atroiigth q£ ivkkh, aai wil
I S. V. Fmi. U. ••A]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
139
I
»
I
Ml tile eoncrete remaios ot our buildings of the
«arlv *g;eH, la proverbiaUj known. ALmoapherk;
mfluerices have no effect upon it. I Lave exp^ri-
men tally applied these solutions to the purpose
I mention ; and» although it w only the hpie of
many years that can jufard the absolute te&t of
thetr efiicacj, the instantaneovB arreet of the de~
cay that was rapidly d-^^'*"'"' the building, and
which has not reappea r weather of the
moat trying kind, coav,.,^^. ,,*. tliat lime will
prove the remedy to have been moat efiociually
apolied.
iir, Kansome's discovery is one of the mo«t
remarkable instances in our time of the practical
result of scientific induction. ExrjBBTa Cbbbou
Mo&troee.
The cjommTmication of W. on this subject, and
his suggestion that stone should be kept some
time before it is used, reminded mo thnt there is
jTTeat authority for the antiquity of the practice.
We find, in the Holy Scripturtj.^ (I Chron. xxii.ji
^ it King David *"" set masons to hew wrought
DCS," anil prepared ** timber also and stone "
Itr the building of the temple by Solomon a/^r
his tieaih, M. E. F.
The remarks of W. are worthy of nolo, espe-
cially as to the use of linseed oiL I can speak of
ita virtue from experience of forty years and
more ; but when it is applied, the stone should
not be in a greeit state.
In the quotation from the recent Camden vo-
lume, in ft letter in which the writer speaks of
** Lynsede oyle to bed hit," the editor of that
volume put a qucr^ whether it means bathe, I
must diner (roui him, because to bed a stone is a
phrase in common use among masons for setting a
stone in iu place ; and in setting freestone (indeed
I believe all stone), it is usual to some the beds
with water. And I would suggest, that instead of
sousing wilh water, the clerk of the works had
provided linseed oil to be used in bedding the
dtones instead of using water ; and as the king was
to pay, tlie cost was not heeded. By such a pro-
cess evury atone would be thoroughly saturated
with the oil, which would no doubt be a greater
preservative of it than merely brushing oil over
the surface. IL T. kixAcoMn^, MJ,.
HOMAX GAMES.
(3*^S, ill 490; iv. 19, &e.)
Will you allow me to answer that part of my
owo query, under tins head, which rof he
k6i>tq^ UDi^av^i^y and to apolojjize for tr- ^o
largely upon UuBssnoRouoB's patience, as w ji as
upon your space : for I find that almoitt all the
information I required is given by Strutt, in his
Sportu and Pastimes of the People of England
(London, 1801, 4to, p. 92) ; where, speaking of
the derivation of the exercii^e of the Quintain, he
I'efers to this very code of Justinian's (De Alea-
tarilmg), and identifies the MStnai KovTai4y^ " vibra-
tio Quintana,'' therein mentioned, with the pet or
post Quintain of later times; adding that the
words, x*^pi» '"J* r''pir»jf, *^sine fibula," provided
that it should be performed, ns I suggested, with
pointless spears, contrary to the ancient usage,
which required, or at least permitted, thera to
have heads or points.
This exercise, as in common use among the
the Hcimans, is spoken of at large by Vegedus
{EpUorne Institutomm Rei MUiiaris^ Paris, 1762,
lib. i. cap. xi. et xiv.) ; and also it would appear
by Johannes Meursius {De Lrtdis Gnscorum^ in
tit. »e4yTa^ iroi^or^*', Florence, 1741), who is, I be-
lieve, Van Leeuwen's authority for the statement,
that ** a Qnincto auctore noroen habcbat ;** and Du
Fresnoy Du Cange, in his Glo^arium ad Serip-
tbres Medift et Infitjup Lalinitatis (Paris, 1733«36,
foh, ill taitee ** Quint ana").
I regret that I have not access to the works of
the two last-mentimied authors, and would feel
very gruterul to any of y*»ur correspondents, who
are more fortunute in this respect than I am, for
an account of the Quintain as given by them*
I would also ask, if the words x^'P*^ 'njj x<ifflnjs
"sine fibuli,'^ do not refer more to the point
(msnivi, aeies^ a*x^>7, ^TtS^o,) of the weapon, than
to the head ? lf» that is, it were not a spear
having a blunt or pointless head — *^ hedded with
the morne" — so that it could do no hurt?
Scidiger's definition of the word "fibula^" as
used by Cajsai* {De B, G,^ iv. xiv.), is ** Corpus
durum, oblongum fiuod ingreditur in foramen
oliquod, quasi findat, lUud quud periorat" (Casar.
Commen,, 1G61, Amstelodamt, ex ofiicinS Ebee-
virianii, p. 139, curfi. Ainoldl Montani)*
Strutt also tells us, on the authority of Julius
Pollux (Onomasticon, lib. ix. cap. 7), that the
Greeks had a pastime called ''^llippas" ('imras);
which was one person riding upon the shoulders
of another, as upon a horse ; and gives two very
curious illustrations of a sport of this kind, as
practised in England, at the commencement of
the fourteenth century, from MSS. in the Royal
(2, B. vii.) and Bodleian (2464, Bod. 264^ dated
1344,) Libraries. May this not be the '* hippice''
('linriH^) of Justinian's code? If so, it was a
modification of the Ludus Trojae ; for the per-
formance of which, a single aoLidus must have
been an ample reward. Aa before, I reserve my
** etymological sagacity " ! UurxB.
Capetown, S» A.
BURTON FAMILT.
(2"^ S. iv. 22, 124; ix. 19 ; S'* S. v. 73,)
The following memoranda, na showings some-
thing of the ongin of the Burtons of Weston -
under- Wood, the ultimate ownership of their
Ituided estaieSf the precise way in which those
estates passe d» and other facts destructive of state*
ments hitherto uiiopted, may be considered rele-
vant hy your correspondent E. H. A*
Francis Burton of Westrm-u rider- Wood, parish
of Mugginton, co. Derby, yeoman, was living 13
Jac. L, oeing then 56 years of a^e (Add- MS.
6692, p. 261, British Museum.) William Burton
was buried tit St. Alkmund's, Berby, April 7, 1680*
(Parish Register,)
Francis Burton of Weston-under- Wood, gent.,
was father of one son and two dau^^hters, viz. : —
I- Francis Burton of Weston-under-Wood, Esq.,
whose descendants, by his first wife, appear to have
been — Francis Burton of Kdnaston, gent., died
Oct, 9» 1742, a{?ed 70; Richard, his son, died June
3, 1745, aged thirty- six; Mary and Francis (in-
fants) died 1740; John Burton, died Dec. 29,
1708, aged thirty- five, all buried at Brailsford.
Margaret Burton (probably widow of one of the
fore-named) was burled at Brailsford in 1779.
Francis Burton married (secondly ?) Mary Good-
win at St. Alkmund's, March Ifl, 1682. He was
Hiffh Sheriff of Derbyshire in 1706, and died July
6, 1709, leaving, by Mary his wife, one son ; —
I. Samuel Burton of Derby, Esq., High Sheriff
of the county in 1719, buried at St. Alkinund's.
His monumental inscription (according to Glover)
reading, in brief, thus : —
** Dndenteatb this pldce lies interred the body of Samuel
Burton, Esq., who died October 24tb, 1751, ageil €7. Hii
decease haviiig rendered exUoel, in tha mate line, a
family wbich liad been very andently seated in this
c«anty, Joeepb l^ikes, Eaq., of Newark, Notts, as only
surviviDg issue of Mr. Burton*i first cousin in the femalo
line, became bi?ir-gifneral of the family and estates/*
n. Margaret Burton married William Cham-
bers of Derby, gent. She died Nov, 26, 16»5,
and was buried at All Saints, Derby. Their only
child (to survive) Hannah Chambers, married
Joseph Stkes of Derby, gent., at Sl Alkmund's,
April 1722. She was buried at St. Michael's,
Derby, May 3, 1751 ; and he at the same place.
May 23, 17.52, having made his will April 11 pre-
ceding?. They had — 1. Samuel Sikes, baptised
at Alknmmrs June 18, 1723; said to have mar-
ried Sarah Webber ; predeceased his father, t. />.
2:. Joseph Sikes, of the Chauntry, Newark, heir-
general of the liurtoiis, baptised at Si. AlkmumrA
Nov. 14, 1724; msrried Jane Heron, who died
s* p* ; iind 2. Mary Hurton, by whom ho left nt
bb d6Qeasi% March 10, 1798, Joseph Sikes, LL.B.
tfy) ; Hannah-Mar* ""'
ried George Kirk, Esq, ; Sophia- JoseptiA Slkill, |
married Rev. Hu^h-Wade Grey, >LA. 3. Bm* \
jamin Sikes, bsiptised at St. Michael's Aug. 1$, |
1726, predeceased his father, s. p,
III. Mary Burton, married Kbenezer Greet of I
Derby, gent., who died March 5, 169l» And wii J
buried at AH Saints'. Joseph Sikes, LL.B.oC tke I
Chauntry, Newark, thus inherited the eaUlat of I
the Burtons, situated in the parishea of St. AI|J
mund, Derby, Brailsford, and other dispi
parts of the county, the value of whicJi csU
considerable. This gentleman had a fani^
adding initials to his name other than those ts I
which he was really entitled. Thus, in one edi^ ]
tion of Burke*s Commoners, the letters ^* F.RJS.' '
are ao attached.
Your correspondent has asked, *' Who w«s Sir |
Francis Cavendish Burton ? '* The answer ii ii
ima^inarv person, who existed only in the l*rtii
of Mr. Sikes, who, instead of ascertaining the noi
parentage of his grandfather (if he did not knew
It), made a " short cut," and attached his name a:
once tn the pedigree of Sykes of Leeds, by m»
cocting the marrtafje of Martha Burton *il^
Richard Sikes, thus imposing upon Dickiatoibi
Im AntiqiiWen of Notts, BnvkQ in his Comrmmerh
and Hunter in his Famdits Minorum '
The latter is in the British IMuieum, A
24,458, the learned compiler of whieb, when
found out the hoax, wrote ajrainst this particuh
statement— Buf this is alia mistake.
As a specimen of what Mr. Sikes could do I
the way of " mistakes," allow me to append tl
following from the Clerical Journal Directory {
1855, the italics being mine : —
" Sikes, Joseph, F.^.X, Autlior of Strictiiww aml^
meatary on the much- appreciated L'fo Cff i '
Dr. AnihtiH^ Ashley Sike?, as uppUcd ■•
* CbmraetertMlics * of bi* ^mct celebrnterl n«vi
Asbley, *ecot*d Earl of Shafio'ikmry."
That the " Strictures and Commentary " wou
have been a literary curiosity had they extste
the readers of " N. & Q.," will be prepared
admit.
Joseph Sikes, LL.B., die<l April 21, 1857, le»v
ing his property to Mr. Francis Biiines (wHos
daughter Mr. Sikes h.id [previously atIo|>ted), *nd
who is the present owner of the estates of th^
Burtons, whose heraldic honnurs lie h.as not appn '
priated, though h^ has lissumcd the name
arms of Sikes.
The arms of Cavendish (!) were quart^rirtl bj]
the late Mr. Sikes, the imaginary miirriage re
ferred to in this letter being the sole founda
tion for such ao absurdity. Riv'hily or not, ib^
Burtons of Weaton* under- W^ ' ' the
of those of their name at 1> fid tb
Mr. Sikes ipartcrcd with *omi
but their i^msanguinity (if ai
fr*S.V. Fed. ia/C4.]
NOTES AND QUEBIEa
^.jiilv named Sykes wai contemporaneous with
bat of Burton» at Dronfiela — members of it
ervmg as churchwardens, &c., in the sixteenth
Ind seventeenth centuries. It also terminated in
1 heir-geneml in 1799, the eetatefl now vesting in
Mr. liobert Syki's Ward. Qnerj : Could there
possibly be a comtnon ancestry between Sykes of
Dfonfield and Sikeifi of Derby and Newark ? In
the endeavour to solve this question, the informa-
tion concerning tlie Burtons of Weaton-under-
Wood was acquired. Jamss Stkbs.
Stamp Dutt on Painters' Cawyass (3^ S* v.
.) — The query of L. F. N. may be thus an-
ercd. The excise duty on painters' canvass waa
led in July, 1803, under the Printed Linens Act,
Geo. ni, capp. 68—69. It was one of Pitt's
themes for the mnintenance of the war against
'ranee. The duty, paid by the colourmen or
ndoTS of the strained canvasses for artists, was
ree pence-halfpenny the square yard, and the
ciae officer used to viait their workshops three
imes in each week, measure the strained can-
for the amount of duty to which they were
liable, and stamp them on the back. The order
from the excise Office, for the non-gathering of
the duty, was issued on March 17, 1831 ; stating
the duty had ceased on the first of that month.
It is idle, therefore, to suppose that any asserted
licture by Gainsborough, or Reynolds, having
be excise brand on the back, could be painted
ll>y artists who were deceased long before : the
former in 1788, and the latter in 1792. Several of
the supposititious paintings by Sir Joshua, painted
during the infliction of the war tax, were doubt-
less painted by Christopher Pack ; of whom some
»otice will be found in the 1867 volume of Wil-
Kb s Current iVo/tf/i, while under the writer's edi-
torial management. J. H. Bukn.
Londoa lu^tilution.
SmtATioK OP ZoAR (3^^ S. V. 1170 - I am
f ery grateful to A. IL L. for the good-natured
Way in which he has noticed my misdeeds. The
lU-ticle under the head of ** Zoar *' (Dictionary of
Ut€ Bibk^ vol. iii. p, 1856, &c.J contains my own
conclusions as to the position of the place — if
conclusions they can be called on evidence so im-
rfect. When I wrote the article on " Moab,** I
d not looked into the question for myself; but
icepted without hesitation the positive state-
ents of Robinson and others. I discovered the
Qt some rime since, and it will be corrected in
ond edition. G. Gbovk,
Olu Bridge at KRwrn^TON (2*** S- xli.
►) — ^ Allow me again to call attention to the
e inscription, once more threatened with ex-
inction. After 1 noted on it in '' N. & Q.*' the
>e was replaced nearly upon the same site, and
screened by wooden palings ; but now new build-
ings are being erected on the grounds once occu-
pied by the ( ishmongers* Almshouses^ and I sadly
iear the relic of civic jurisdiction will be totallj
martyred unless some one in authority flies to
the rescue. To those who saved it in its Jxtrmer
peril I address this, and I hope they will assist in its
being restored upon as near its former site as pos-
sible. Our landmarks are being torn dawn, but
this one should remain to tell of olden times in
South London. T- C. N.
Maidbn Castlb (3** S. V. 101.) — The de-
rivation of Maiden from the Celtic Mad^ cannot
be satiisfuctorily established, since the word in ita
I)riraitive form existed in the Teutonic tongiiea
ong before the Saxon had come into contact with
the Cymry. It is found in the A. S, mcegd^ maid,
daughter; maga^ son, male relative; Goth., magu&^
the equivalent of ir«ry, r^Kuoif ; magaths^ vap^S^of ;
Old High Ger., magad; Mod. Ger,, mtigd; Old
Frisian, maged^ &c. These may all be traced to
Sanakrit, IfpQ , madkya^ unmarried woman, vir-
gin; but the connection is more apparent than
real. Madhya is doubtless derived from ^m ,
madhuy sweetness, honey; Gr., /*^8v; Lat., mtl;
A. S., medn; Eng., mcad^ &c. Mctgd^ maga^ and
their congeners, may be traced to Sanskrit, V!% t
wj«A, the primary idea of which is "power," but
which is also applied in the sense ofgignere^ par-
ticularly in the Teutonic derivatives. (See Bopp,
Sam. Gloss., 253; Grimm, Deutsche Gram,^ ii. 27;
iii, 320.) Originally, then. Maiden^ with its male
equivalent (now lost), signified blood relations.
Grimm derives the Scottish Mac (tilius) from the
same source.
A maiden fortress is generally understood to
mean one which has never been captured; a
maiden mountain (Jungfrau) one which has never
been ascended. Is it necessary to go further for
an explanation in the present instance ?
J, A. PiCTOM.
Wavertre«,
Rte-Hoube Plot Cards (3^ S. v. 9.)— Alder-
man Masters lent me a pack of these cards to
exhibit at the soiree given by Dean A I ford at Can-
terbury, on the occasion of the Kent Archaeologi-
cal Association holding their annual meeting in
the metropoUtical city. *
AurB£Il JOHK DUKKIM.
Dartford.
NBwnAVE!^ iw Frawcb (3'« S, V. 1160--I^
answer to your correspondent J., I beg to state
that Newhaven in France, so called in English in
1548, 18 identical with the place now called llavre,
C.F. S. WAB.B.lt«.
142
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8»*s.V. FnuUll
LiBwis MoKmis (3"* S. v. 12.) — In the Intpo-
dnotion to the Wdsh Poems of Graronwy Owain
(Llanrwst, 1860), pp. bczxv. IzxxyI., there is
giTen some little account of Lewis Morys amongst
others who were at idl connected with that highly
gifted, but unhappy, Welsh writer. As this ac-
count of Lewis Morys was drawn up by DafVdd
Ddu Eryri, it must have been written a good while
ago, probably fifty years. I think that it first ap-
peared in some earher edition of Gkronwy Owain.
fVom it we learn that Lewis Morys was bom
March 12, .1700, in the parish of Llanfihangel
Tre*r Bcirdd, in Anglesey, as shown by the re-
nter. He was the eldest son of Morys ap Ehi-
siart Morys and Margaret his wife, who was the
daughter of Morys Owen, of Bodafen y Glyn, in
the same parish. Lewis Morys, in his early days,
followed his father's employment of '^cowperiaeth.'*
He afterwards became a land-surveyor, and sub-
sequently obtained a situation in the cnstom-house
at Holyhead; he afterwards was collector at
Aberdyfi, in Merioneth. He was long connected
with various Welsh literary undertakings, and he
had a reputation amongst his countrymen as an
antiquary and scholar. He died April 11, 1765.
DafydJd Ddu Eryri does not mention Lewis
Morys*s troubles, especially his imprisonment on
account of supposed deficiencies in his accounts.
He also passes by his quarrels with other literary
men. Some curious statements on these subjects I
have seen in Welsh Magazines. As he died ntTiety^
nine years a^o, a son of his can hardly have been
recently living at Grwaelod, as Mm. John Pavin
Phillips seems to suppose. Lablius.
The Cambrian Res^ister, vol. ii. 1796, contains a
Memoir of Morris, aidorned with a portrait, taken
from a mezzotinto print, after a drawinpr by Morris
himself. Thomas Puemell.
TwELfTH Night : thb worst Ptw (S"* S. v. 38.)
The detitr pejori, not for the worst " pun/' but for
the worst conundrum, as our grand master itali-
cises the distinction between the two perpetrations,
is mine: I protest myself the Senior Peesime.
In 1815, when the Byronic muse was mystifying
and tristifjing the world, I indited a ballad, which
my old friend, John Taylor, of The Sun, got sight
of^ and inserted therein. Half a stanza will show
the bitaurine bellow no less luscinian at Istamboul
than Snug the Joiner^s leonine roar had been in
Athens : —
" When my lord he came wootng to Miss Anno Thrope,
He WM then a * Cliildo ' from school ;
He paid his addresses in a trope,
And called her his sweet bul-bul :
But she knew not, in the modem scale,
That a couple of built was a nitfhtingale,** &c.
Some vears later Mr. Jcrdan noticed my idle
joke in his Ajutdbiography, honouring it with the
ascription to one of tub Smiths, I forget which.
Being too conscientious to descend from my *'hid
eminence," I declared to him its paternity, whiek
he promised to record in a forthcoming effitnii.
Whether this ever forthcame I know not ; but if
the saddle be put on the right horse by **N.& Q."
I shfdl rest contented with the tidU aiUer komora.
The conundrum has long been unjustly ditcreditil
Johnson etymologised it ** a cant wcwd," and de-
fined it " a low jest, a quibble, a mean coneeit,"
like the dislocated Hs and supemamerary Rs
which have possessed themselves of our tbeatro.
Better justice has, however, been done to this ill-
used term (2^^ S. vii. 30), distinguishing it as &
play of sentiment, whereas a ptm is but a woid- |
play ; and, referring it to the classical etyaoa. I
Koufhir Zvow, commune duorum.
£Difinn> Lemthai:. Swim.
Sir Edwam) Mat (3^ S. v. 35, 65, 84.) — See
Burke's Extinct Peerage, xi, 611, *' May of Mav-
field,*' commencing with Edward May, £sa., w
first settler in Ireland, from whom Sir E^wiii
May appears to have been in the fifth deseeoc
Numerous references to pedigrees, in the EarL
MSS., of the Mays of Kent, may be found inSsas
Index to those and other MSS. in the Biikiik
Museum. B. "W.
Quotation (1«* S. xii. 204). —
*< Death hath a thousand ways to let out lift."
The only reply which seems to have been
offered respecting this cjuotation is in 2*^ S. viL
177, and that is unsatisfactory.^ These worib,
slightly varied, are placed in the mouth of Zeno-
cla, in Beaumont and Fletcher*s play. The Custom
of the Country, Act II. Sc. 1 : —
*' Death hath «o 9nany doors to let out life,
I will not long survive them."
Blair, in The Grave, v. 394, has these woids
(in connection with suicide) : —
" Death's thousand doors stand open — who could fbicc
The ill-pleos'd j^uest to sit out hi^ full time.
Or hlame him if he goes^ "
Cf. Virgil's expression, ^n. ii. 661 : —
** . . . iiatet isti jonua letho.*'
Acre.
ToAD-BATEE (2'»* S. ii. 424) is, literally, our
Dutch dood-eter (dead'cater), fern, dood-eetster^ a
person, who, to borrow another Dutcli expression,
** eats one's clothes off one's body," or " one's
cars off one's head." In English, the adjective
dead in composite words, also ai>sumes the sense
of " hopelessness " or " worthlossness," as, for
instance, "a dead bargain" (for the salesman),
a " dead-wind," a " dead-lifr," &c.
John U. van Lennbp.
Zeyit, near Utncfat.
Cbapaudive (3"* S. iv. 423, 443.)— The answers
of R. S. Charnock and W. I. S. Hobton on this
S^&T. fjra.l8,'M.}
NOTES AND QUERIES.
143
»
I
subject Tery much interested me, and I have been
trjiivjr to find out sometbiag more of its physical
properties than was contained in the replies of
those gentlemen, but witliout auccess. One finda
in French diclionnries the word crapaudiiie trans-
lated ** loadstone," but what is exactly meant by
the word I cannot say : for the toadstone is an
Igneous rock (almost a porphyry), found in
Derhyihire^ near Matlook, and dcriToa ita name
from the German tadatein (death-stone)^ because
where it occurs the lead lode dies or eeeaes;
therefore, it is plain that, in the aense in which it
is now used, it has no connection with crapaud.
JVIentioning the subject to a friend, I find the
word has a great number of meauings* My friend
writes to me : —
" D'abord en ce qui regarde Tarticle des ' Xotes and
Qaeriea* je crols que la r^nae a M oondaanBt: il ^t
Evident quo Pexpression 'Crapaod Ring' signifie una
bagae avcc nne Crapaadiae moat^ ea (^ton : c'est-^-
dire, tine sardonic ocill<^e qu*on croyalt jmdU exister dans
la t€te de certains craps ads. Mais co mot Cmpaadioe
fct c*fi9t ce qae je tous ai dit) n*a pas rien qnc ce sens eu
•* 1°, Dans un sens mecanique ce mot s^appligne k una
sorte de lAbot en m^tal (fer on bronze) crcnse ponr rc-
ceToir le pivot d*une porte, ou TarbrQ d'una mAchine ; il a
poor synonyme le mot Grenonitle,
" 2*^* Dans nn sens fa^'drauliqne^ on appelte Crapao-
dine nne sorte de .^oupape qui sert k vider lea eaox d*uii
bassln et dont la forme ressemble auez k la crapaudine
d*nne porte»
•* 3*^, En architcctore militalro tl a ^t^ employ^ dans le
moyen ige pour dgni6er un ongin gtwirier, poss^daot la
forme d*iui morceau de fer crenx, qpe ysa puappafer assea
impropremenc de nom do ' ciuion' (^bictionnmre d'ArehUec^
ture sU Fioilet Lfduc)."
Spiers, in his Dictionary, aays it also means
(Bot») iron*Wiirt
The Derbyshire toadstonc is a rather coarsely -
grained dark green rock, amygdalotdal in part^
and aotnetimes containing small picce§ of a white
crystalline mineral (calcite ?) — it could not pos*
sibly be used for a ring. An account of it will
be found, I believe, in Beete Jukes's Geology.
Although the name is taken from fudstein^ I find
no rock mentioned as iodstein in Blum's LUho*
logie^ I should imagine the stone to be a cliryso-
lite variety, peridot (a dirty green one, peculiarly
marked). Joaar DAriDsos.
The Owi. (3'* S. r. 71.)— Time was when this
bird created ptmica when it made its appearance,
and aet all the augurs consulting. It ccrtdnly
has been responsible for much mbchief in this
way. Except as a great recluse, a meditative
character, and having the singular faculty of
seeing e%*erything when ordinarily gifted mortals
gm see noUiing, one really wonders how the owl
came to bo re^ratded as an attribute of the
goddess of wbdom. But the entry quoted
►jr OxoNiENM[«* proves, pretty clearly, it had not
mped away its reproiu^ in the seventeenth cen*
tury* Perhaps the Beverley sexton was only in*
dulging a chisslcal prejudice, when he charged
in the churchwardens' accounts for killing bis
**oule;" thinking that a bird of ill omen, thut
presaged calamity or death in the place where it
appeared, was not fit to enjoy life — and that
" ignavus»" ** profanus,*' " funereua,'' were epithets
too good (or it-
This bird met with very rough treatment at
the hands of rustics. It was a custom in sonie
parts to hunt and kill owls on Christmas Day.
A barn-owl, *' screeching " its invocation to Mi-
nerva behind a clap-net, could hardly hope for
quarter from her village votariea. An alluiion
tu tLis pastime appears in some Christmas carols.
The pi*ophct has made ibis bird the symbol of
desolation : '' The screech-owl* shall rest there.**
Isaiah xxxiv. 14, F. Puillott.
I fear that many benighted farmers still con-
tinue to slay this, one of their best friends, though
I know of many honourable excepticms. In the
days of Apuleius, poor " Billy Wix" had a worse
fate to encounter than being shot first, and then
nailed to the bam gable — the polished Greeks cru-
cified him alive ! Hear what Apuleius says in
the third book of the GoMefi As* : —
** Qoid? qaod et Utaa noctumas aves* cum p«Dctravte-
rlnt Laxem quempiam, solUcite prehensas foribus videmus
adfigi; ut, quod infau^tis volatibiu familifc mtnantur
aJciUaoit suis loant crudaiibus."
W. J. B^&ifHaBD Smith.
Temple.
Hbxaldic (3"* S. V. 73.) — The arms inquired
for by J. B., Dublin, are those of the family De
1r Barca, and are derived from those of Leon,
They are no doubt derived from some gallant
exploit during the wars of the Moors in Spain.
The create now changed into a ** blackamoor,"
was originally a Moor of Spain. This is, of course,
attributable lo the ahill of the herald engravers
of a past age. The arms are borne by one of the
branches of the family of ** Barker ;'* but I doubt
if they could give authority for the nssumption.
I suppose "chevron innerfed^^ is a misprint for
intMcted; and the punctuation of the query is
somewhat astounding. Latrans,
Passage in Teknyson (3'^S. v. 75» 105.)--Xhe
poet laureate elegantly alludes to tkitt side on
which we gencralh/ sleep. The right ear h thus
distinguisircd from (hrU which is turned heaven-
ward. It IK, antjiheticttlly, of the earth earthy.
No poetry could stand such materialistic probing
as has been applied to the lines in cjuestion. We
should never think of asking a chemist for a scien-
tific explanation ot^ Gray's beautiful line, —
*• E*en in our asfta liw their wonted Jfren."
• Margtoal readings ** aight roon«l<ir.**
144
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3T^ a V- Fit*i*
Without a perception of the immateriality of the
iUeflt even Shakspeare'a
** Pitj\ like & naked new-born babe, striding the btast/'
rould seem a physical impossibility, and hi^rhlj
absurd. The very explanation is injurlouis. B.
"AuT TV Mofius E»/* ETC, (3'^ S. V, 84.) — In my
communication on this subject, the date of Eras-
muses sojourn at Oxford was printed 1479 in-
stead of "l 497. W.J. D.
Elkanoe D'OLiiBEtiSB (3"* S. V. 11.) — She was
the daughter of Alexander IL, Baron d'Olbreuse^
hy Jttcquettei daughter of Joachim de Poussart,
Baron de Wandre. Charles BRfDOEB.
Aldine Volume (3"* S. v. 96.) — There is in
Stanford library a copy of Pomponius Mela, Soli-
nus» &Cm from the Aldine Press, Venice, 1518.
It is printed in italic type, with large square
spacer left for onamental letters at the beginning
of each chapter, aa described by your correspon-
dent. Renouard, as regards this copy, is not
juit^ literally correct.
The title-page states the contents as given in
his Annalei de rimprimerie^ but with the anchor,
and wtthoQt the djate and place of publication.
-Then follows the preface of F. A. Grolanui, and
i^e 233 ** fcuillets, ' but only one additional page,
containing the register, publisher's name, and date.
Renouard*s account, to which I have referred^
is, however, a substantial, though perhaps not pre-
cisely literal, account of this curitms voiume.
TnOB. E. WiNNlNGTON.
Stanford Caart, Worcester.
Gainsborough Prater- Book (3^^ S. v. 97,)—
11 possess a Prayer- Book not unlike the Gains-
j borough copy of your correspondent, printed by
I Gower and PenneJJ, Kidderminster, without date,
[but probably published about the close of the last
I century. The Litany and Occasional Prayers are
inserted in the Morning Prayer, as they are read
in churches, not in separate services as in the
Authorised Version.
It 18 aD 8vo vol. containing the Common Prayer,
E^salma, CoUecta, &c., but no metrical version of
the psalter. It has one copper opiate of the Nati<
vity as a fronttspiece.
Thos. E. Wiuninoton.
Stanford Coart, Worcester.
KOMAN CO!fSISTORT: HkWBT VIIL AJIuQuBK!!
CATiiiiAiivB (3^* S. iv. 270.) — A thin volume of
1 05 ftiltOB or 130 pages, 8 J inches high by 5 J broad,
[fin thick paper with narrow margins. Evidently
I printed in a hurry, Uw type employed varying,
J the sheets being alU*matefy in small and large
l^jpo. It waa no douht printod for the exclusive
I use of thti members of die jMipal consistory. A
liniall round has been cut out of the first folio
out the sixe of a half-crown piece, thereby re-
^moving the stamp of the particular cardmal*t
IK X., & ad
mi ac jntii<
. ii.iii4 de
I tie Oetoi^
istriasiitii
c
arms to whom this copy belonged, and altjflitif
injuring the text of the verso of the first CbHo.
Otherwise this volume^ of which no other copy ii
known to exist, is in excellent preservation.
The title is tm follows : —
De licentia ac eOtes.^
Ham priDclari D. oxc
Re^s Anglis, New ."m^-
aduocatus COftistorialia mn
Tuderto utriusq I iuris Do< ;
gis & D. excusatoris Aduociii in i^acro |>ybUc<» Pootiild^
con&istOrio, pricaideato summo PontijEiee cum auo i
sancto Scnatti, infra9en{)tad Conclusioaes pro tenal
nostro aigillatim, ac sln$?ulanter defemare cooal
Dio aut xri. pnosantis Menaia, prima er mftaaulpUl
concluaionibas djaputabltur & Buccessioe alls 4i«{Hlir
buntur."
On the verso of the title, the pleadio^ oMp
mence : —
FacH Contingentia Talis Proponitur»
CM ad auresclarifistmi DomJai Odoardi KAmeu ILDot*
toris Aoglicaoi perlata ea^iet, maiato li. P« D. BmA
de CapisQcchis aacri Auditorii Pontificii Auditons whH'
tiftsimi^ in causa matnmonlali inter llenricum nif
Angliic, St Catlierinaul illuBtrlaaimam Hegina uertiai^at
a&aeritur, delegati Apoiatolici, prKJcripta lllostriariaBMa
Regem ad iustantiam memoratic iUustrissimn regiftK fet
e dicta citatam extitisde, ut comparcra deberet in Cam
coram eo per se uel per procuratorem, idem D. Odoard*
ton^. exctisator & ezcaaatorio nomine dicti He^ia
pnudicto 1>. Panlo comparuit, quaadcm mat«n«s
satoriaa exhibena," &c &c.
The conclusions are twenty- five in number,
occupy two pages. The six next pagea are
pied by —
*^ Tenor Materiarum pro parte Domini excuaatoiia Sa^
reniasimi ac inuictiBsimi Regis Angtiie PropoaitanaiHL*
The heading of page nine is as follows : —
" Beatissiroe Pater ex articolis couteoUa in matcriis
alias datia, S. V. elidantor Conclu^ionf* inrraacHpfii
coram S. V. & suo SacrosaRcto Seaatu in ampUnmw
COaistorio penaltlma Febniarii projw>§i!f it divpntac«w*
Kesponaa data pen vl '^ 'Hi,'"
EespoQsadata aext
in Cosistorio ad allegaL ^ - um
niMJme Refine deductaa contra tn» cuciuBlones iQa
disptitatafl,'*
(P. 42.) *' Kesponaa data xiii. Martti," Sec
(P. 61.) " Responsa data xx. Martii,'* &c.
The volume ends thus : —
^ Et ex predietis rem&et iuatificata predicta olUfuaooa-
dodo, St reiponium est advcr^ariorum obtoctioot/*
W. H. J. W.
PmrvATK SoLmaB (Z'^ S. iv. 501.) — I fear 7^0*
will have some difficulty in arrivinj^ at n irwt
derivation of this title. I apprehend it ii «oldfer'«
slang. The word is not recognised by militar/
authority. In the army there are offit^ors, n»>n*
commi-sbned officers (tnat is, serjeant* and cor*
porals), and rank and file. If. by court- martial, a
non-commijisioned ofliccr is re<iuced| the pun*
tAhment it thus wordinl : m the cavalry, ** to tli^
f P. VIA
(P. 2G.)
a D. N. in
B^ a V. Fm. 13, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
145
I
I
I
rank and pay of a dragoon;" In ihe artillery, to
^gunner, or driver ''-^ta the case may be; in
I infantry, to a " gentineV* You will observe, that
I in no case \s *' private soldier*' admitted. I will
iCTive your readers another query : Why do soldiers
I call the dark clothes of the civilian, which they
occasionally wear when putting off their scarlet
tunics, ** coloured clothes"? Bar a luctis a non
lucetidot I am at a Joss to conceive. Ebobacom.
Thb FnuT Book vrthtbv nr BtEMiNQHAM
f3"' S. iv. 388, 520.) ^-Possibly A Loyal Oration
(1717) may be the first trad printed in Birming-
bain, but the earUest hook printed there that I
have met with, is —
*♦ A HELP against SIN in our ordinary Discourse. As
also against prophaue Swearing, Cursinih^, evil Wishing-,
and taking God's Holy Name in vain : And abo against
Trimjng on the Lord's Day — Showing that it is neither a
Work of Mercy, nor Cftsfi of Neoesalty : and* therefore,
ought not to he done on that Day.
*» RememUr Uit Sabbath Day to kem it JToty. — Exodus
20, 15 (fiV).
** Six DaoM may IFofk bt done^ but the Set^entti is a
Sablath o/"/Z«f * . Haty to tht Lord; tcfttiBOftfer doth any
IForA tAerrow, thall turtfy l>€ put to Deatl*^, see Es-ocliu
31, 15.
" PoblishM by the Author, R. H[amerslflyJ, Chyrur-
geon in WahaU, Stfifforththire, 1719, Btrmingham :
Printed by H. B- in New Street."
It is a l2nio (pi*, 64), and my copy is to the
original leather binding. At p. 27, Hamersley
says : —
'* Some years post I pat oat a Httle book , . . called
Adviee to Sunday Barberi, bat there were bat a few of
those books printed."
If the Advice was printed in Birmingham, it
would be before A Loyal Oration.
Information respecting Hamersley, or " H. B."
the publisher, will be thankfully received.
Chas. H. Batlet.
Westbromwiclu
Holt House or Loretto (3'* S, v. 73.) — The
Holy House of Loretto has certainly not been
carried to Milan, or anywhere else : its removal
from beneath the dome of ihe church, where it
has stood for ages, is impossible except stone by
stone.
The history of the Santa Cam is one of the
most wildly imaginative legends which yet hold
any place in the world's belief. It probably grew
np around a cottage, built in imitation of the
dwelling at Nazareth by some pious Italian pil-
grim; who, on his return frcmi the Holy Land,
wished to revive in the neighbourhood of his
home the religious emotions he had felt when
contemplating what he believed to be the scene of
the Annunciation. At a time when historir* crili-
ciam was unknown* the legends of Palestine be-
came attached to the Italian building; and that
which had once been poetry, hardened into
dogma«
Dean Stanley's Sinai and Palestine contains an
interesting account of the Santa Caaa^ and the
house at N'azaretb. A far more curious book
has, however, recently been published by a de^
vout believer in the legendary history of the
building : —
" Loretto and Nazareth : Two Lectures contaiulng the
Results of Pi^rsooal Investigation of thtiXwo SaacLunries.
By Willi nm Antony Hutchinson^ Priest of the Orator v.
8vo. 1863/*
The author died on the 12th of last July, whiles
his book was in the printer's hands.
The literature of the Holy House is extensive,
but little known in this country. The following
is, I think, in the British Museum; —
** LouETTo.-^Philippon (A,)» Histoire de la Ssinte
Maisan db Lorette. Paris, lG4d. Oblong iU>"
A LoBi> or A MAifoa.
TsDDixQ Hat hi Scotland and YomKsniBR
(3^ S. iv. 430, 524.) — This term is \ised to this
day, meaning lo spread hay ; and the patent im-
plement, for that purpose^ is called a *• iedding
machine.** EnoBACt^M,
Folk Lore (3'* S. iv. 514.)— Might I suggest
that, when the whitethorn bears an abundant
crop, it arises from a warm summer, that gtvea
plenty of blossoms to ripen into fruit. This was
so in 1851-2; and in Warwickshire, at leasts we
had the mildest winter I ever remember.
Eboracuh.
£nigma (3** S.T,55, 103.)— Is it not o Am that
is indicated by this riddle ? Such gifts are not in
the possession of the giver before the giving, nor
in that of the receiver after it. The giver, we know,
sometimes gives them $iKov<ra kov 04hau(ra; even
when there Is resbtance she is said to give the
thing in question, which cannot therefore be said
to be forcibly taken, and she may take it again
without any eflbrt to do so. Nufeb Idofbus.
Carlton Club.
Both E. V. and F. C. H. are wronff as to the
solutions of the Earl of Surrey's quaint enigma.
The answer, I take it, rnd juid also give it, is evi-
dently — a kiss. H.
Chelmsford.
"A SnortJL*' (2"^ S, x. 410.) — As I do oot
tbink that the query of your esteemed correspon-
dent, A. A., as to the derivation of this slang de-
signation of a Hansom cab has ever been answered,
I send my notion of the etymology of the term.
A. A. 6 ay SI, — " The other day, a witness, giving
evidence at a police office, was asked what hia oc-
cupation might be ? He answered that * be drove
a shoful,' which he afterwards explained to be a
Hansom cab." Most persons who have observed
the occupant of a Hansom cab in the summer
time, have noticed that the doors are generally
thrown open, thus aflbrding an entvt<a, vvt^^ w
**show full" ot \\ift \3feTW\\%\VC\w%*\^ SjMt -i^N'S^:.
^
I
G liuBy " There goe« a show full," might ensily be*
come curreot slang. John Pavi?« Phuxips.
Hav«rfordwe«t-
Eam. or Leccestee (3"* S. t. 109.)— The epi-
taph on the Earl of Leicester which Mb. Fatite
Ck>LUEB inquires after will be found ^with the last
two lilies Bomewhat T&ricd) in the Collection of
Willi am Drummond of Hawthornden*
C. F, S. Wabeek.
Olitbil he Dubben (S'^ S. t. 115.)— It ^eems
probable that Oliver de Durdeoi whom Akti*
QUABT inquires after, is ideDtical wiih *^ Oliver^
a militarj ntan/' mentioned as a natural son of
King John bj Rapin» Anderson* and Sandforci
He would then be half brother to Kin<^ Henry III.
C. F. S. Wabbew-
NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.
K'^^SfS!^ ITfSflu/l/mi and kit Contemporaries ; or the Rim
' ' it^Bi Am^fitun Constitution. By Christopher James
RlatlimttUer, (Bell Sc Daldy.)
W« haro in this well-timed volume a brief account of
the rise cif tbo Americaa Constitution, in connection with
the life and opinioni of the remarkable man ** who did
tbo most to call it into exiatence and bring it into work-
ing order, while he foresaw its dangers from the beginnine^,
and Laboured iuces&antly to g^nard against them.'* Tba
story of Hamilton^M varied life; li is labour- ■ '^ ''-M
and in the connrit; hia iufluericA! and hiii l-
aeaa, are iDterwoven vrith the history of the i ,1
the ris« of the Conadtution; and arei nanu : Mr.
EieihmuUer in a pleoaia^ and graceful style, i vUl
eatiafjr' the Engliah reader, and wiih a fecl.ii^ iu; iLlie
difSculLie« and strogglef in which the countrymen of
Hamilton are now unltnppih' cncr^^^cd, Trhirh \fi}]^ ire
aboold think, avrvt u of
England view with •
grot the calamities Vku.... ^^. .......... u.^... » ^.^ m
blood, in language, and in religion.
An Es§aif i0tear(tji the iHterpretation of the Apomijffae,
By tkf Bev. D. Stacey Clarke, ( Rivingtoaa.)
A new Interpretation of the Apooilyp^e, basL^J utwti no
hight'T authority than the writer*!! own ] i «
hardly likely to carry weight with th-. n.
Bat there is another rea^ian, we think, wnii r
tlia ifioaptance of Mr. Clarke's work | and ir it
fha loUffpratatioo it more obiciit« than tbi tic
s«eka to eaplain.
Tltprinii of tiU mfifmtd ntwf
'''ivt hetn, H»ed bu Shake*
'utui^frmn the omjf hnonm
itiuttion and
•tlieran.)
soms faw yaara since Mr. Siagw TaprinCcd a wy fittM
iropressioa. Of the "Hnodrod Vuaj T^e&T <Htlf
copy, and that formed of fiortions af two
imperfect, ia known to exi^u It was ;
Bastetl about 1525, and aflenrnrd? h^ ^
and Charlwoodj but not a tf.'.
known to exjsL The •* Mf i
sweresv" originallr printed 1
was reprint*^ by Wykes, witli n uf twent)-«i
new stories, in 1567. Mr. U . "pnirltic*! tiba
latter, which is of extreme riiriLj, r has otni-
onjly bestowed great care and atteu t. wiidt,sai
hia illufitralions are pertinent and aau^.....^^.^.
T%« Book of Daye i o MtMeeflaHy of Popmfar
'-"•"^'^■firtn wiih the Calendar^ iju^uding:
. and Hietory^ Cunoaiiie* of
I Hitman Lite and Qtaracter. CP'arfe XXJt
to JCA VL ) ( W. & R. Chambers.)
We coDgratulate Messrs. Chambers on haTio^ 1m^^
to a socceasfhl conclusion the ver}' useful Compaolosll
the Calendar, which, under its appropriate Uttt «f 81
Book of Day St is destined, we have no dotibU 9^ OAT
years to take itH place on the ehclres of nil loven ^A
times and old cufitoms, beside the now veuemble bd s
waya amusing Svery Day Book of Wil liana H«m«, Ik
Book of Days u not only a book to be coomlled ^eim
infbrmation connected with Dayi and Seasona ii to Ir
sought for, but it mav be taken up at odd moisaftlS*
a volume of the Frencli AntL, and will be foujidftfk II
amusing, while its utility 14 doubled by- on IndaaaaM^
is a model for all similar Mlscollanias.
*''"•■ TY DoMssDAT Booa. — We l«artif ftoa IV
i\ ide of the month, that Mr. C. M. Boap^
b a Jiiw, has been sppoinled by the Adminltyti
eouipiiij ii Domesday Book or Heg^i.^ter of all the iifoaaif
belonging to or unider the control of the Bcmmlxu ciii'
miralty.
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
WAirTBI> TO PHECBASB.
BKrtlefllan«ff Priet» ao.^ of the IWloiriiui Book* fen ba
the flvntlfliiMfi bjr vtidoa tW «r« nquiml, uid wiuMc
dretnsi an etvm foe tSM pwoMt —
L II. nr. ^d IT. fioclr, ■ftMwteljrtor ia the <iaa«taf)f' ^na |
W«BtedbyJ.5.jt,CMeofM*.BijieWf,i
LooXQii. JE.C.
lli|ira»»> Exmmwvm wnm i» Smi
l]aacd&fbUo,llSr.
WntK Iqr Mr, ^. Jfoe»iV,W. O^OfSw
Shttheepeure*e Jml BtKilt ;
rare Jft Bo&k»t »'
mtarr. /. A Uua.^
Copy. //. MiTU 7,rrr,
ran Edition nj Ih^l,
Noin, fry W CirefT Umz
fiatim ta CotTfipoiitrcuttf.
s--^^ M<
A
forn
iiuiji inc luo
oaks of the {jaopk—'^ wliidi with all thvfr
(\t\m»* and *>i«f^«*»«t dulnwMi, «rtf," at Mr.
MtUn iruuld
•4 a ieriat i
cxirinndiy rare voiumci or wuitu
*• Nurta & Qt*£
LONDON, SATURDAY, FSBUUARY m, 1964.
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
CONTEKTS.— N". 112.
PBS:— Unpn i .o D^Arcy Cnui-
H, Ac, 147- utftrtainineiitf 118
jkMkriailctxj^j' — ■ ? —^ flAU-
lao — Bowyer cAeta
^xiana of Bcniii- f Rir-
* I*w, lai.
^ITBBIKS: — Thomii HaMort Ouittio Tobi« Holdi!r, 159
— AU^g^ PtairtartMn — Ofow« Ffeid — Cuittoms iii Scot-
Uuitl — Digby Motto — BnlgEUA — Gaelic Mauiucrtpt —
Greek CiutoiD af to Htir^cs — Hf rodottis — Incbg»w r
Ruflblda — luci
IBUrtin — Mr<>
— Bo«fy — Til
tbiJ Saltere' Cottijiany— A
Prter Moor — TrWa of k\
— WaDderful Character? —
tuiy of IriTentlonji," 1.
Duubar -- Pope ami
d&a gc»otiuiii ^ — J. II
on DomLoBtiiig the Sb
SBPLreS:— Portnat 01 our r^nvicjur, IW — Mi ' '
Sopulobral Monumoiita* 158 — WhikjJioro F
Psalm xc. 9 (TuTpit*- 1t5x(t. 10), IW — St. Ma.
161 — On V ' ' " 'i M<»aQlijji? ; *' Maeaacre * t iii«' lu-
aocents " ibtea — Wlio writa omr Ncfrro
Soiij^ ? ruet's House atul Cellar —
Gaintborotikni rra> . :r k<mjk — Moticbines — SprLnKS — Cokl
in June and Warmth at Chritttoaiis — Baint SwitaiLi's Day
— TurtiBpit DogT»— illuu'Ua Honuebcai— Tbo Brtjul Arrow
_ Blohardson Famil j| ^Ic, UA.
Note* OQ Bookik Ao.
Ma:$tora —
ions wanted
I s Tomb and
v — Sbcridan and
rWfaaUoy.M.?.-
Wopcester's "O^n-
nttld PitxUTfle— ' WiUiom
1 - 8t. lahBoael — " Offl-
u\n— Oath of the Judge§
lit, 150.
I
UNPUBLISHED POEMS BY HELEN D'ABCY
CRANSTOUN^
3SCOND WIFE OF rSOFILSSOR DtTGALP STKWAnr,
(J?ar/y refrtviMt to Sir Wnli^r SeoH.^
Mifis Craiiatoun is known to the lovers of Scot*
tish minstrelsy aa the atithotess of a song — " The
tears I shed must ever fali,'* which Robert Burns
denominated ■*» soT»g ol" genius;" and to which,
in order to ^t it for the muaic to which it was
set in Johnson's Scotith Musical Aftiseum^ he did
not disdain to add a verse. Among the additional
* Notice* vf the different inemb^jm of the Cranatoim
I AtTnilv will be found In Anderson's ScoUuh iVaftoJi, pub-
b^d br Kollnrfrm & Co. Thi« admirable Biographical
~^' ' itc that secmi to attend booksisau«d
jl! tnitdi! "Number Publishcra" —
„ . _ 11 to those best qualilied to enjoy its
«li€ioii« stores, it fliabraLc^ under ooe alpbahet, dud In
I Itie comp'txs nf thrp«» imperial 8vo volumes, a very ftill
[•lid " rapby, a history of Scottish
Vteutn lOft, and the best subetitute
Ithtt , , _^ . ,.: that great defSideratoin — a
^JStUiuthtKu ticotiea, Ihe author was for some time Auh-
Jiirjr nf Th* Witn€§* il«w»pap«n nnd4«r Hwgh ^^!le^
kii^ws bow tu vnhie — thnt bo iunl louiid in tL
namofl he had M^^iti^bt ft>r lilsewhere in vain. In
' ' li hi» ikciaive approval
»l tidicap* Lfrict, wliich
/\ ' lisliea.
notes to the last edition of the Museum (Edla*
burgh, 1839), there appeared for the first time a
copy of verses by Miss Cranstoua, becinning^ —
" Returning Spring, with "gladsome ray. These,
so far as I am aware, ure the only productions of
her pen which have been nublished.
In an album which belonged to the family of
a baronet in the Corse of Cowrie, and which
came into my possession lately when his library
was dispersetl, 1 find — amid a melange of original
verses which passed between various members or
connections of the family, with dates appended
ranging from 1771 to 17J>2 — eight pieces "By a
young lady ;" who is identified, apart £rom inter-
nal evidence, with MJiis Cranstoun by the occur-
rence among them of both the poems above men-
tioned. The titles of the other six are as follow :
1. '*Vow for Wealth;* 2» Without a title, but
with this note at the beginning, in pencil : " On
L — n — n, composed in an hour, and written down
hy 31 friend.** 3. *' A Prayer." 4- Without a title,
5. ** A Fragment, or, Verses to Winter." 6. Also
without a title.
We give below the first three. No reader of
Lockhart*s Life of Sir Wailer Scait can ever
forget his intimacy with the Cranstoun family ;
nor the iniluence of Jane Anne, the second of its
three daughters, in promoting his earliest at-
tempts in verse » There is something very inter-
estiug and suggestive in the kind of reference ta
Scott in the third of the poems, now printed* It
seems to mark him out from all the other gentle-
men named^ as of a more thoughtful cast of mind,
" Boyle," I should think there h little room to
doubt, muiit have been David Boyle, Estj., ulti*
mntely Lord- Justice- General of Scotland ; and as
little that ^* Gray '* was Francis, fifteenth Lord
Gray, born in 17(55.
The other allusions T nmst leave it to J. M^ of
this city, whose * us to "N. & Q.'* arc
so valuable and in. ^, to explain.
1. ** vow FOR W»AI*TH.
" Far, ftir remote from busy life,
From giddy mirth, or hateful striA?,
How sweet, in i>ensive iuood« to muse
While BofUy fail the erouinf; dewal
Bow sweet* while all arooad is calm.
To pour on care oblivion's buliu ;
I'o hush the throbbing heart to rest*
And court fond hope to till the breast I
Savt^in this soft romantic M:en^
IVhere all is soothing and serene.
What eattsr wish vet fondly apringt
On glad Imagination's wini^s.'
It is not p- "• '. - '^ i:., .,^.^
Thanks M is minf.
It ism L ins,
I scorn liliki i.
GralefuU I fv i.
And blumhiiiL^ u.-iii "^''^^.tlth.
.\od yet the mean.
lxK>k roaod with c(
148
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8«*av. Fw.1
Thoa^b richee n«v©r aw beslaw
Such joys OS peace and virtue know«
Yet, cannot poverty diacloso
An awfUl train of bUokest woca?
Genina depressed, and worth obscur*d>
Pleasure forbid, and care ensured ;
And mean dependence, painful aiate,
Oblige<l perhaps to those we hate ;
While those we love^ around us sigh
In unassisted misery.
Think on the helpless, wretched niftid,
Un blest by fortune's pow'rful aid ;
Perhaps, the youth whom she approves
With virtue glowSf with fervour lovea :
In vain'— for honour bids her fly,
Nor give herself— 4Dd poverty f
Or g^raut that Heaven's less harsh decree
Still ^acious, gives a heart that's free;
Yet» should some sordid, wealthy fool,
Or passioD^s slave, or vice's tool,
But decked in fortune^s smv parade.
Admire, aud woo the luckless maid —
Think on the paugs her bosom tear.
Her agitation, doubt, de^ipair*
While parents, broth urs, sisters, wait,
Her choice may fix their future fate.
And shall she deem the task severe,
That re«coes all her heart holds dear !
*Tig not the frown of stern control,
ThAt deepest wounds the feeling soul :
The faulf ring voice, the speaking eye.
The sigh of fond aniciety :
Thes»--lhe8e^ in mercjV Heaven avert.
And snatch from woe a bursting heart.
AH'pow'rfull wealth, my prayer regard.
And deign thy vot'ry to reward.
YeU tho' thy influence I adore,
Small w the bounty I implore.
Unheeded shall thy treasure shine.
Oh ! make but independence mine«
Enough in ease my days to spend.
Or, sweeter still, to bless a friend.
'Tis alt I ask, for all thy store
Can never add a blessing more.
But may it never be the price
Of slav'ry, meanness, or of vice*
Nor e'er my toul the aognish in<mn>»
To owe it to a hand I Boora."
** Oh ! say, thou blest abode of calm conteut,
Where my first hsppiest years of life wen; spent,
Where joy, unmiatt with care, my bosom knew,
And wing'd with innocence mv momcots flew ;
Where all my Uttlc scenes of bliss were laid,
I And all my youthful fondest friendships made:
&0b I vj, when I those happy hoars review,
iCnn I, unmov'd, prouounce a last a^iieti ?
*^n I for ever from thy shade--* depart,
gor feel deep anguish rend my bleedir^ heart :-
w h:it, the* noT Art nor Nature detgna to smile,
geak are thy hills, and barren is thy soil s
Vhat, tho' no ancient grandeur charms the sight.
Hor aofi romantic val*'* iiupirw d*'light ;
, Fet sweet si rr-' -- .
And ttroog <> ^w divine*
But since t!i jstoUfv.
Not on the place depends our joy or reitk
Our happinejs must flow from our ovo tii«Ht
Guilt aud disquiet make the palace aad»
Conteut and innocence the cottac:e glad.
But 3'et, whene'er before mv faimfiu e^'nt.
Fancy shall make thy much lov'd image ts«e.
The well* known sight must to my soul b« ilttr.
Come with a si^b, norpart wiiliout a tear.
And when propitious Heaven the bliss beeSow^^
To see again tnii seat of calm repose.
Charmed with the view my soul in joy will
Kecall each *ccne of bliss I saw, and felt.
And hail the spot where peace and 1 have df
3. '* A PKAYtR*
« I ask not titles, wealth, or pow'r,
A Gascoigna's lace, or Pultnty'a dow*)
I aak not wit, nor even sense,
I scorn content, and innocence.
The gift I ask can these forestall—
It adds, improves, implies them all.
Then good or bad, or, right or wrong.
Grant me, ye Gods, to be the ton.
My Heavens! what joys would th^o be L__,
How bright, how charming, would I abinat
How changed from all I was before;
With friends and lovers by the acore I
No more the object of disdain,
Ev'a Clara then would grace my train, i
Hang on my arm from mora to night.
Her dearest friend, her sole delight.
Torphicben at my feet might sigh.
Scott might approve, and Maxwell dte|
While I degag^ cool, and gay.
Whisper with Boyle^ and dance witli Ora^.1
Tell not to me, when age draws ni^b.
That frolic, feathers, whims, should fly.
Poor vulgar wretches ! not to know.
That evVy year we younger grow;
Or, what la roucli upon a par.
We dance and irisk as if we were ;
OC true philoiophv posseas'd.
No cart^ no pity, breaks our «at ;
Thoughtteec we flutter life along,
Aad die content— if it*s the tm,
Edinburgh,
TOM OR JOHN DRUM'S ENTERTAINMKNT.
** A kind of pnoverhiol expreasion for in-treaioiaBl,
probahhr altudiog originslly to some jMirticular a
Most of the allusions seem to point to the dUoii
some unwelcome guest with more or leas of ignt
itisulL" ({^area's Ghttaty,}
In tiU probability the phraue originiU#»iJ
reference to that militarj punishraent for
graceful crlcnes and incorrigible offendcra
oommonlj known as ** drumming out of the
vice," and, like various other miijt4iry pbroat,
nrobably became current in Enghind durioif
Low Country Wars, The description of the c<
mony, a«^ given in Gniee's Military Anttqtdi
iigrew in all ea*ent.ial» with tbat now or
very lately practijied : —
** 7%ecaf7>o^r
i^HtuHct being '
witbotit arms [, , ^,.,
3'* S, V. F>B. 20. '64.]
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
149
the prisoner is brought to the ' ' ' t under an escort
of a corporal and six men w/ (ixed [and the
regimcnt&l fAcinga and btiltrr b«en cut off hii
coat, Had th^ coat itself tamed tn^idt^ uot ], the h<er is
then put ronnil hh neck, and frequentlv a label on hi»
bock sipn^i^}^ '^^ [though thifl last practice has
now fallen I; a dr«mraor [^fcnerally the
9maile:«it in ti; i]« then takes hohl of the end of
the rope, and le^td^ laru along the front, the drams fol-
lowing and beating the Bogae*a ]^[arch. Wheit they
have poMod to the lelu the procession moires to the rear,
if in camp, or if ia quarters, to the ead of the town [or if
in endoeid quarters or barritcka, to the i^ate]* where [he
ia thrust out and] the drummer* giving him a kick on
the 1ire«ch, <llsnii&ses him with the halter for his per-
quisite." (Vol. ii. p* 110, ed, 1801.)
At flJi earlier (leriod (the halter being a retlc of
this), the Hogging and diamissal were performed
by the hiingjnan instead of by a drummer ; but
though 1 have not found any earlier deacription
than Grose*s, the form was probably in other
respects very similar, since it explains several of
the old idlusions, Thus the recipient, whether
Parolles or any other, was called Tom Drum,
because, like the drum that formed so noisy and
demonstrative a part in the entertainment, he
was well beaten. So also the flogging seems to
be alluded to in Kare«'f quotation— "it shall have
Tom Drum's entertainment, a flap with a foxtail/*
Again, in the quotation from Holinshed, where
the entertainment given is said to bo, ^^ to hale a
man in by the head and thrust bim out by both
the shoulders,** — we have allusions both to the
halter and the expulsion. As usual, Shake-
speare^s uses of the phrase in AlF^ Well is both
uibbiing and pertinent to man and matter,
^arolles was drummed out for cowardice and dis-
•aceful conduct* and with poetical justice, the
m which he so loudly boasted he would re-
vor, called the world to witness his disgracei
id wnii remembered in his nickname.
BrIKSLET KlCHOLSON,
P.S. I am aware of the quotation from FloHo,
^» flap with a fox-taile, a jest,'* but in the pas-
" i from '* Apollo Shroving," there is probably
a double allusion, in part to the flogging and in
art to the jests so freely broken upon the dnira-
"7*8 victim.
doSta MABIA DE PADILLA.
In the war of th*e Comuniros^ in the early part
''the reigTi of Charles V., the two most remark-
ersonages— who were the soul and life of
ebellion — were certainly Juan de Padilla
bi5 wife^ Maria de Padilla, wh<^e maiden
ne was Pncheco.
Respecting the husband, we know sufficient to
tiable u» to form a high idea of his courage and
.^^A ^^f ^jjg noble resignation with which he
i on the scaflbid at TordealUas, imme-
> ^icr the defeat of bis forces on the plains
of Villalar, by the Conde de Haro.* The insur-
rection had certainly some just frrounds of com-
plaint against Charles and the foreigners, by whom
Lis majesty was influenced for some years. It is
related that when Juan de Padilla was led to ex-
ecution, together with another prisoner named
Don Juan Bravo, the latter requested the execu*
tioner to decapitate him Jirfit, " in order that I
may not see the best Cavalier in Castile put to
death.** On hearing which words, Padilla ex-
claimed : ** Juan Bravo, heed not such a trifle ;
yesterday it became us to flght like gentlemen ;
out to-day it is our duty to die like Christians.**
(Robertson's Hist, of the Emperor Charles V»
vol. ii. p. 256, ed. London. 1774.)
But some strange and contradictory accounts
are related of his wife, Maria de Padilla^ daughter
of the Marquis de Mondejar. She seems to have
been a lady of remarkable beauty, courage, and
wit. After the defeat and death of her husband,
she hastened to Toledo, of which city she was a
native, and called both upon the clergy and people
not to lay down their arms until they bad secured
the " Liberties ** for which her husband fought
and died. She also sent numerous letters to the
Commons of Castile, exhorting them '' to take up
their iirms which they had so dishonourably laid
down ; and moreover, that if they did not take ad-
vuntage of this favourable opportunity, it would
bring upon them eternal infamy, and that they
would remain slaves for ever,** &c.
As Toledo was almost impregnable* and its
citizens — animated by the example of PadiJla^
were determined to hold out to the very last
extremity, the Marquis of Vilkna endeavoured
to succjeed by negotiation: accordingly, he sent
PadBla's brother to have an interview with her,
and to try and induce his sister^ either to leave
Toledo, or to persuade the citizens to come to
terms. But she refused, declaring — " That as
she had no wish to outlive the hberties of her
country, so^ had she a thousand lives, she would
rather lose them all, than receive any favours
from the traitors of her country/*
When the news, however, came that William
de Croy, the young Flemish Archbishop of Toledo,
was dead, and that Don Antonio do Fonseca, a
Castiiian, was nominated by Charles to succeed
him, the people then turned against her, having
been persuaded to do so (it is said) by the clergy
of the city, who spread the following reports
about her, viz. ** That she was a witch ; that she
was attended by a familiar demon in the form of
a itegro-mmd^ who regulated all her movements;
others, again, asserted ** that the maid was not a
woman, but an imp of hell, who famished her
• The Bishop of Zamorn, Don Antonio de AcnSa, wii
executed at iSimAocas, by order of Charles \.^ Vu«v^sl
been connected with th^ ^^\y^<3(Qu
150
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[a»*8.T.
fO.^
with charms to fascinate people into a veneration
for her."
Antonio Guevara, in one of his " Familiar Let-
ters," thus addresses her : —
" People likewise say of you. Madam, that you have
about you a tawny and frantic slave — a female who is a
great Sorceress; and thcv say she has affirmed, that
within a few davs you shall be called * High and Mighty
Lady,' &c'* (Quoted by Mr. Borrow in his Zineaii ; er^
JLceouni of the Gypnu of Spain, voL i. p. 98, London,
1841.)
This writer, in the work quoted above (p. 100),
thos speaks of Maria de Padilla : —
** She lived in Gypsy times, and we have little hesita-
tion in believing that she was connected with this racey
fatally for herself: her slave!— *&»ra y ioca,* tawny and
frantic — what epithets can be found more applicable to a
Gypsv, more descriptive of her personal appearance and
oocanonal demeanour, than these two? — And then again,
the last scene in the life of Padilla is so mysterious, so
nnaoooantable, unless the Gitanos were concerned; and
they were unquestionably flitting about the eventful stage
at that period Perceiving that it was necessary,
oither to surrender or to see Tol^o razed to the ground,
she disguised herself in the dress of a female peasant, or
perhaps that of a Gvpsy ; and leading her son by the
hand, escaped from Toledo one stormy night, and from
that moment nothing more is known* of her. The sur-
render of the town followed immediately after her dis-
appearance." (P. 101, vi ct^pra.)
I believe that Mr. Borrow is quite mistaken
about the negro-maid having been a "Gypsy.**
He quotes no authority for his assertion, but
seems very glad to have such a good opportunity
of trvinji: to connect his favourite Zincati with the
heroic Maria de Padilla. There are two authori-
ties quoted by Robertson, viz. the Letters of
Peter Martyr, and the Hist, of Charles V, by
Sandoval*: these writers may contain some
further particulars, but unfortunately I cannot
consult tnem. The tawny frantic slave, called a
sorceress by Antonio Guevara in one of his let-
ters addressed to Padilla (Epistohs Familiaretj
Salamanca, 1J78), does not by any means imply
that she was a Gypsy ; besides, he merely refers to
a report — " People likewise say of you, Madam,**
&c. The fact seems to be, that as Padilla was a
character so extraordinary, and had such won-
derful influence over the people of Toledo, it was
but natural that they should ascribe this influence
to some occult power, or believe that she was
herself a witch, or that a demon under the form
of a black slave regulated all her actions. Such
things were said of the Maid of Orleans, of Friar
Bacon, and others, in an age when men were
placed in a state of society so diflferent from our
own.
When Padilla escaped from Toledo, she fled to
Portugal, where she remained the rest of her life,
* He was Bishop of Pamplona. The first part of bis
History was printed in folio, at Yalladolid, In 1604, and
the second part in 1606. It has since been nprinted in
Barcelona.
with her relations of the noMe fkm9]r of tk
Pach^cos. She never afterwards applied to thi
Emperor, or any of his miniiten» lor a sardos.
(See a curious tract on this sabjeet by Dt
Geddes, in his MisceUaneaia TViKsCt, vol. i p. M
London, 1730.) Amongst the Egerton MS8. in Oe
British Museum (No. 303) there is an aoeoiBt
entitled ^ Relacion de las C!omunidadei,* sai
another M& (No. 310), entitled, ^ TntaOo *
las Communidades.** A Spanish writer, nasMd
Martinez de la Rosa, has alsopubliafaed a tkttA
of the war of the (^astilian Commona under tk
title of ** Bosmiejo de la Guerra de laa Coohb-
dades." Don Vicente de la Fuentc^ in his Bit
iorid Edesiastica de Efpdka (torn. iii. p. M, ed.
Barcelona, 1855), makes the Mowings f^w resaDfa
on the character of the Castilians, in their ft
against the £mperor*8 foreigners : —
'*No tnvo la Iglesia de Espana qae agradacer nsfci
los Comnn^ros ; y antes alfpinos de ellos se le mestitf
harto desafbctos, apoderibidose de soa bienei^ 7^1^
dando sus preceptos.**
The spot where the Bishop of Zamora «a
executed is still pointed out to the viator st
Simancas.* The Emperor was obliged ts it-
ceive absolution from tne Pope, on accooal cl^
death of the Bishop which he had ordered.
J. Dawoa
Norwich.
roK. P
of "Lsi
BEAU WILSON: LAW OF LAURISTOK.
In the recent romance on the subject
of Lauriston," publishing monthly in JB€wtt§*i
MisceUantf, although the writer is entitled to ded
with his hero in any wav he chooses, I am vcit
much inclined to think that, in what is intemW
to be a historical fiction, it would have htm
better to have kept nearer the real facta thsc
the author has done. Law himself was not the
beauty he is depicted; and the conversion of tk
young, handsome, and accomplished bachelsr.
Beau Wilson, into an old married roaifp ia &r
from satisfactory : for all readers, excepting those
whose historical knowlcd<re is confined to Ife
literature of circulating libraries, must be struck
at once by the extraordinary metamorphose.
Wilson*s singular rise in fashionable life has
never been explained, and perhaps never will be.
The account of him in Nichols's LeietsierMrt
(vol. iii.), is only accurate in j)art. There is a
most extraordinary pamphlet, in octavo, pnb-
lished after his demise, which gives a very diflar>
ent representation of the sources from whenoe
his income was derived. It is of very rare oc-
cnrrenoe, and is entitled : —
• Thanks to tha liberality of the apaaiah^ ,
there is now eveiy fiwUity given lo scholars who wish to
eoBsolt the documsBts prsssi^ed at Sia
i:
8Ma.r. Fxa.10,'64.]
NOTBS AKD QUERIES.
151
fjimn H story and
Surpi.^ -e, ^ " .^- -: " .- .^.-..>-. ^ 1-,-: /
It is printed for A. Moore, near St. Paul's.
Tbe nobleman la s»itl, in an MS. note on tte title,
to indicate the Earl of Sunderland.
Tbe reputation of Moore h no guarantee for
the truth of what he published: for he was a
dealer in scandal, and made some nionej, it i»
understood, bjr his dealings in that line, Tbe
l?hole thill" perhaps arose out of 8ome passing
I rumours, which had no reul fuundalion*
In the GcntlematCs JonrnrU for May, 1694,
I there is an enitnph by one Edmund Killingworth,
[©n the deatu of Wilson, deficient in anything
I like po3try. In a commentarj on a passage in
Ipne of Hornce** Odea, in tbe same work, trans-
ttted by J. Phillips, there in this remark : ^-
" VV<! h»ire had a lait^ mstuico of this in Mr, WilfiOii,
without any visible e^^tatc. on a fiudden mode sp
a fii^Tire, and who p^^l^r(bly had held on to thii
f, hud be not b^n unt'ortunQtoly killed."
Of Law^a beauty, some idea may be formed
I from the advertisement for hia apprehension in
the London Gazette^ January, 1694-5. He ia
> described as ** Captain J. Law, aged twenty -six :
I a Scotsman, lately a prisoner in the Queen* g
Bench for murder- A black lean man, about six
feet high, large pocks in his fuce, big high nose,
and speech broad and loud.*' Fii^y pounds was
K offerea for bis appre)ien$ion, J. M.
I
I
HowTRB HousF, Cambkrweu..— In " N. & Q."
(2^ S. xii. 183), I told of the demolition of this
old mansion house ; and I have now only to add,
after a lapse of two years and a half, that since
that periofi the site of it has been made a depiit
for all kind^ of builders* rubbish. The old red
bricks (reserved at the auction) atili remain on
the ground, a broken-do^vn wall surrounds the
site ; no entrance gate, but a putched*up wooden
erection, gives entrance for carts ; and on the
whole, the spot upon which the renowne*! Bow-
yers, the Lords of the Manor of Camberwell,
resided for centuries, presents one of tbe most
woeful pictures which our modern improrementfl
bring about, T. C. N.
The jhodkbm Magiciaivs or Egtpt. — Every
one ia familiar with the accounts given b; Lane
and other travellers in Egypt, of the magioiati«,
csipecially of one most celebrated, who wben ibey
undertake to produce the figure of any person
called for, invariably employ a young hoy« in the
palm of whose hand they pour ink, to ai&Tv& as a
mirror, in which the boy is to see the images
summoned to appear. Reading lately in St. Ire-
ociai, 1 was surprised to find mentiun oi' tbe same
practioe of employing boys, aa customary amang
the heretics of his time, who attempted to work
miracles : —
^ Sed etsi m1 nUp*r mag{casioptrati»fraada-
lent«r seduct^r iiserisAtos: fractmn quid«m cA
utilit&tem nulU - , .. . i»4ite«, io quos virtutM pcrflc«ra at
dicant ; oddHcenie* ttuttm pmanm inmttu *, H mh&m liflAK
d^mttn rt jfhanffismfitfi <*ff^Hdeni€$ statim cesBaatla, et a«
qii^ Is pera«venuiti&| Don Jesa Do*
n\n mago similes osteodttatur."
P. C. H.
RlCHAJlD ClIANPLEK, COMPII.Ett OF PablLIAIIBN-
TAXY Debatkb. — Watt has tbe following article
in his BihL Brit. : —
"Chajtduer*— */>cft(i/« II* tkf Iloute of Lord* /rtttii
lf»60 tn 1741, Lond. 176*A S vol*. 40*. VdHiie* i« tht
Ilou$e of O^mtmA from 10*10 to 17il, Lond, 1752, li
volft. 120*."
The Bodleian Catalogue (iii. 48) states the
compiler*s Christian name to have been Richard.
His sad fate is thus related in the Life of Mr.
Thomas GmU Printer of York, icriUen by him-
«(/-(191, 1J>2): —
•• About the 13th of January, 1738. Mr. Alexander Su-
p\ei was quite broken np by Dr Pnr* --' not long
lifter the Messrs. Cmiar Ward and 1: i slier be-
came poss€A8ora of bis printing inatiM tic^, thay
earned ou abunduoce of business in tha bouka^ltog way,
having bad ahopa &t Loudon, York, and ScarbdfOQ^.
Tbe latter collected divers volumes on Parliamentary
affkirs, sod by the mn they seemed to take, one would
have imagined that he would bava ascended to the apex
of ht« de»tree ; but, alas 1 hi« thoughts soared too high,
and sunk his fortunes so low by the debts he bad coo*
tracted, that rather than become a despicable object to
the world, or bear the miseries of a prison, be nut a
period to his lift? by diijcharging a pistol into bis head,
liB be lav r<?clin€d on bU bed. As I knew the man fiw-
merly* t was very sorry to hear of hi* tragical suicide— ^
an action thit for a while seemaul to obumbrate the
ffloriea of Ctcsar, who fooad such a deficiency in hi^ part^
nera' accounts, m great a want of monej, and such a
woful sight of flr>wing creditors, that made him succumb
under the obligation to a statute of bankruptcy; during
which time he haj* been much reflected on by a Scot, who
had been his servant, and obnoxious for a while to many
persons, who were not tboruughly acquainted with him.
But he now brightly appears again, amidat the dissipat-
ing cloud* of distress, in the publieation of a paper, that
Lransccnils those of hit contemporaries as much as the
rieing sun does the faihog stars,**
It appears from Mr. Timperley'a Encyd. of
Printittg that Caesar Ward of York, was a bank-
rupt in 1745; and it wag, therefore, probably in
that year that his partner Richard Chandler de-
stroyed himself.. S. Y. R.
LoHi> Bau. of Baoshot, — Reading Coryat*s
Crttditieg, T6tl, I come upon the following curious
allusion ; which, if unknown, may be interesting
to the Hampshire readers of *' N. k Q.** : —
♦* This costome dotb carry soma kind© of nffinitv wHl*
ccrtaine sociable ceremonies that wee haoe ta a place of
England, which are performed by that most reueraod
' Id est, impoltatot, ^ft&^v\. K3aS3«fc..^5ff^£wft-
152
NOTES AND QUERIE&
[«^&V. Fkb.10,
J
Lord BaU of Bagshot, in Hamptahins; who doth with
many, and indeed more solemne rites inuest his Broth era
of his vnhallowed Chappell of Basingstone (as all our
men of the westeme parts of England do know bv dearo
ezpenence to the smart of their purses) then these merry
Burgomaisters of Saint Gewere vse to doe.*'
J. O. Halliweli..
Common Law.— The term •* Common Law " haa
lost the one simple and grand signification which
it formerly had. Its use is rendered ambiguous
in consequence of the various ways in which it
maj be employed according to the objects with
which it is contrasted. It is found in the follow-
ing senses : —
1. As the lex nonscripta (i. Btack. 637) ; 2. A^
the antithesis of equity (Step. Comm, i. 81, et
seo.), and according to Wharton (Law Diet arL
'•Common Law"V as the antithesis 3. of the
civil and canon law, and, 4. of the lex merca-
iorta.
The reason assigned by Coke (Co. LUt. 142, a,)
tor the first meaning is, that " it is the best and
most common birthright that the subject hath for
the safeguard and defence, not onely of his goods,
lands, and revenues, but of his wife and children,
ni8 bodv, fame, and life also."
Stephen says {Conm. i. 82), that the words in
my first and second meaning indicate that which is
more ancient as opposed to that which is less so,
the statute being of modern creation when com-
pared with that which is of immemorial antiquity
and equity being of considerable later birth than
some of the earlier parts of the statute law.
May not the term in its primary signification
rather derive its force from the fact that it repre-
sents the general customs or maxims commonly
employed m the administration of justice throuirh,
out the nation ? What, lastly, is the connectfon
between the term, and my 2nd, 3rd, and 4th mean-
"*-^^ Wynne E. Baxter.
<SLntx\ti.
THOMAS HOLDER: CAPTAIX TOBIE HOLDER.
Thomas Holder was a very active agent of the
royal party during the civil war, and appears to
have been repeatedly the medium of communica-
tion between Charles I. and his devoted adherents
Anne Lady Savile and Sir Marmaduke Lanc-
<laIo (afterwards Lord Langdale). On the very
Jlay the latter was overthrown in Lancashire by
Cromwell (Aug. 17, 1648), Thomas Holder w^
wized by some of Skippon's soldiers near the
±-xchange m London. He was for some time con-
fined m Petre House in Aldersgate. In October,
Windsor Castle is named as the place of his cap-
"'''*^\,.?.'*\»equently he was imprisoned in or
near Whitehall, and made his escape from a I
house of oflice near the river on the day fol-
lowing the king's decapitation.
At a later date, Prince Rupert had a aecretai;,
whose name was Holder, and who appean to
have been a Roman Catholic, but it u uncertai
whether Thomas Holder were the man. Tk
compiler of the Index to the third volume of tb
Clarendon State Papers, calls Rupert's secKtin
William Holder, although I can find no authoriti
whatever for so designating him.
Thomas Holder and Benjamin Johnson gxn i
certificate, dated St. Sebastian, April 4, iSo, ■
to the services at sea of one John Synnott, ad
on May 11, 1661, Thomas Holder certified am
the assistance he had received from Sir Thon
Prestwich and Clement Spelman in negotiata
the late king*s transactions in 1648 ^th Loi
Langdale to bring in the English of the kii^
party to join with the Scotch. In 1661 he iSi
occurs as governor of the African company, nj
in 1663 as its treasurer. In or about 1671, wba
he is termed auditor-general to the Duke of Yoii
he made a communication on the subject of ki
negotiations with Charles L, Lady SaTile, S
Marmaduke Langdale, and John Barwie^ to tk
brother and biographer of the latter.
The late Mr. Eliot Warburton, in that •
methodical and almost useless compilation wU
he was pleased to term " Index and Abstntf^
Correspondence " appended to the first vote/
his Memoirs of Prince Rupert and the Cosfc
Cpp. 536, 537), abstracts eight letters to Ym
Rupert from Job Holder, in 1650. They s
fiated Heidelberg, July 25 ; Aug. 1, 8, 26 • Septl
Oct. 7, 14; and Paris, Dec. 3. • r- •
f In Mr. Warburton's"ChronolofficalCatalo«e"
(wrhich is even more absurd and unsatisfa^
than his Index and Abstract), I find mention i
the following letters to Prince Rupert from HoMv
(no Christian name given) : Paris, Dec. 3 165S-
Heidelberg, July 25; August 1, 8,26; Septli
Oct. 7, 14 ; Nov. 20, 1654. ^ ^
Mrs. Green thus abstracts two documenta k
the State Paper Office : —
«1660. July 14. [Whitehall.] Petition of Toble Holdv
to the King, for the Registnirship in Causes of Iiutaoec
nnd^ Ex Officio under the Chancellor of the Arehbishet
**u X?r^' ^"^ ^^^ ^^^ "^**^*' P^*^®- Ii*» served throuE
tjie W ar, in Lord Langdale's aiTair, at Brest, under Mm«
Ktipcrt, Ac, and has now only debtu left. With
ence thereon to the Bishops 'of Kly and Salisbnrv "-!
Col, Dom. State Papers, C. II. i. 119. ^^'
M660? Account of the services done by CaDt. Toh.
Holder during the Civil Wars, as an officer, as ^entur
Jo Lord Lanedale in ScoUand, as serving under PrioM
Uiipert, and then as messengrer, for which the Klnc dio-
rnised him a kindness when be was restored."— /iS; 458L
Now, I suspect that Capt. Tobie Holder is the
person whom Warburton calls Job Holder, for
T^fb. might be easily misread as Job, and in ooe
i>( the letters which Mr. Warburton has abstraoted
is an allusion to a letter which the writer had
received from Sir Mtrmtduke Langdale.
0»*».V.
.90,
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Additional information about either Thomns
[ Holder or Capt. Tobie Holder is much desired.
' S. Y, R,
I
*
»
AxLBGEB PLAGXJkRistf « — The Kev. Richard Jft^o,
M.A*,publijhed aTolume of pleading poems, chiefly
written about the middle of the last century,
which Chalmers has reprO(!uced in hi a Works of
the Engliih Poets, vol. xvii. Mr. Jago, in the
work alluded to, has an elegy entitled "ITie
Blackbirds,^' which no sooner appeared than the
manager of the Bath Theatre claimefl it as havin"^
been written by him. This impertinent assump-
tion gave rise io a controversy with much excite-
ment in Bath. Can any reader of ^* N. & Q*," *o
far enlighten me as to ptve me a reference to par-
CiotilftTB of this dispute ? 1.
Ceowe Fi£LD. — In a paper dated June, 1642^
mention is made of a ** conduit near Crowe
Field," in the parish of St. Murtin'a-in-tbe-Field:5,
In what part of the parish was Crowe Field ?
F, S. MEBatWEATILEIl.
Ccttoms m ScoTLAKi). — In the MemoirM of
Lord Longdate^ Bentley, 1852, 1 find the following
pusage (vol. i. p. 55) : —
••Being io Scotluad, I ought to tell you of Scotch
costoms; And rcaltv^ they have a cbArniing one on this
oocAitcn, aa you will fay (he is writing of the first d«r
o( the N^w Year). Whether it is meant as a farewell
ceremony to the old one, or an introduction to the New
Year, I can't tdl *, but ou the Blai of December^ almost
everybody have either parties to dine or siipw Tlie com-
pany, aloioit entirely cmisisting of young people, wait
together till twelve o*c]ocJe strikes, at which time every
one begins to move, and they all fall to work^at what"?
Why, kissiog. Each male i» successively locked in pure
riatonic embrace with each female ; and after this grand
ceremony, which, of course, creates infinite fun, they
separate and go home. This matter is not at all confined
to these, but wherever man meets woman, it is the per*
tJeuiar privilege of this boar. The common people think
it neceeaary to drink what they call hot pint^ wbieh con-
sists of strong beer, whiskey, eggs, &c,,— a most horrid
composition ; as bad, or wor«e, as thnt infamous mixture
called i^-oHe, whldi the EngJisU people drink on Good
FritlajT'
" Give a conjecture about the origin of this folly."
The letter from which this is an extract is
signed Henry Bickersteth, and dated Edinburgh,
Jan. 1st, 1802.
I do not know that the question be asks as to
"the origin of this folly " has ever been answered ;
and I have doubts, knowing something of Scot-
land, whether this custom was universal or even
general I am curious to ascertain whether it
haa prevailed, and also what ia the composition of
Jig'one^ nnd among what portion of the English
people it may have been used. It is entirely new
to mc. Was it not the slang term for some
ftbomiftfttion in tlie shape of mixed akohoHc li*
ijuors, known only to the students of the law.
when Lord Langdale was himself a student, and
entitled to subscribe himself, as in the letter from
which I have quoted, Mennf BicAersteth f
T. B.
DioDT Motto. — On the tomb of Keiielm
Digby at Stoke Dry Church, Rutland, is his coat
of arms, and this motto (1591) — "None but
one {nut que urU).'' Can you suggest any solu*
tioD, aa I have never heard it explained?
Philip AuiiJt.ET Auduit-
Enigma. — Are there any naturalists among the
readers of " N. & Q.** that can solve the following
enigma? —
^^Qulnqne sumtis fratres, sab eodem tempore nati,
litni barbati, sine erioe crest i,
Quint us habet barUam, aed tamen dimidlatam.**
A WriLCiLaMJST.
Gaelic Manuscript. — Can any reader of
*' N. & Q.'* furnish information a« to the present
place of deposit of the MS. here described ? I
quote from the Dean of Lismore*fi book edited by
Rev, Thomas M*Lauchlan and ^Villialli F, Skene,
Esq.^ p. xliL : —
** Mr. DoDsId MAcintoeli, the Keeper of the Highland
Society's M8S., in his tint of MSS. then existing in Scot>
laud in 1806, mentions that * Mr. Matlieaon, of Femaig,
had a paper MS. writleii In the Ronisn churai^ter, and in
an orthography like that of the Dean of Lismore, con-
tatntog aongn and hymns, some by Bishop Careswel!/
This MS. has not been recovered."
K. P. D. E.
Gbeek: Custom as to Horses, — In the early
part of the Clouds of Aristophanes (line 32), the
youth who is dreaming of horse^racing, and is
talking in his sleep, cries out : —
The scholiast tells us this means, *^ Lead home
the horse, Erst letting him roll on the sand/' This
custom is kept up in Italy to the present day,
I biive often seen the veUuriui take the harness
off after a long journey, and the horses would
directly walk down to the seaside and roll
in the sand for a long time, and seem to enjoy
it thoroughly. The practice was said to be
most healthy for them, particularly to keep off
renal diseases. I mention this, first, as some
doubt has been thrown on the meaning of the pas-
sage, which does not certainly commend itself to
English Uorsekeepers at first sight ; and next, to
a«k if it be in use anywhere else than in Southern
Europe? A. A,
Poets' Corner,
Herodotits. — In an article on the Pyramids, in
the September number of Blachmood's (n. 348, b.),
the writer, who is speaking of the history of
Herodotus, says: *Hhose same travels were hon-
oured tbrough all Greece with the names. qC U\«.
Nine Muse*.'*
154
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8"«aT.
.tO.'Vl
Tt seems to me that this is speftkiiijT too poei«
tivcly of a matter which is, at least, doubtful. It
is certainly not in accordance with the views of
the best scholars. Kenrick says : —
*• It is not probable that it (the history) had originally
dthtr a general title, or diritfon into boolu; the preeeat
arrangement, which is perhape the work of the Alexan-
drian gramnuuiana» sometimes interrupting the con-
nexion of the particles. See the close cf the seventh
book, and the commencement of the eighth, and the
close of the eighth and commencement of the ninth :
where itkw and M are separated from each other ....
From Lacian (*« Herodotus s. Aetion" 4, 117, ed. Bfp.)
it is evident that the name of the Moses was commonly
applied to the books of the history in his time (a.i>. 180}
.... The ancient critics and scholiasts cite them by
the number." — Tha Eggpi of Merodotuh London, 1841,
p. 1-2.
I send this, not in any spirit of fault-finding,
but with the hope of eliciting further discussion
of this interesting (question. Dahlmann, I believe,
does not mention it, except to postpone its con-
sideration (p. 27 of Cox*s translation).
J. C. LniiMAT.
St Paul, Mfamesota.
iRCHaAw : RuFiOLCiA. — 1. By what name is
Bnflfblcia, a castle of the Bruoas, mentioned in
Bymer's Fmdera^ now known P
2. I lately observed the name of ^ Inehgav **
given to a barony in Fife — ** The Barony and
tower of Inchgaw.** Should not the name be
Inchgarot, or Garvtef (a small island in the Frith
of Forth). If so, how came that island to be
styled a barony ? S.
IsiauisrnoNs vnasna VniraTioHs. — Robert
Lord de Lisle of Rougemont, only surviving son
of John rx)rd de Lisle, one of the founders of the
Order of the Garter, and his wife £lizabeth de
Ferrers, is represented by an inquisition as having
died unmarried, his sister Elizabeth, wife of Wil«
Itain Lord Aldeburgh of Harewood, co. York,
being his sole heir.
According, however, to a pedigree which oc-
curs in the Visitation Book of Somcrsctuhire,
anno 1623, he had a son William seated at Water-
ferry, CO. Oxon, from whom a lineal descent is
given down to George Lisle of Compton Dom-
villc, in the former county. Lord de Lisle died
in the year 1399 ; his sister Elizabeth inherited all
his estates, with the exception of eighty-six knights'
fees, of which the crown was in possession at the
time of his death, and which it was suffered to re-
tain aflcrwards.
Theiic circumstances would seem to indicate
accuracy as to the Inuuisition, and error in respect
of the entry in the Viiiitation Book. Is the dis-
crepancy susceptible of any other interoretation ?
Uirrioa.
Mart Mastim published a volume of poetry
under the title. Poems on Several Ocaukmt^ 8vo,
London, 1733. Who was this lady ? And vlwre
did she reside P Edwamd EUunon.
Martin. —Can you refer me to any informatioa
respecting the family of Martin of Aireafbrd Hall,
in the county of Essex ? P. & C
MooRB. — Arms : Arg. 6 lions nunpoi werti, I,
2, and 1. These arms are upon eld plntep whseh
formerly belon^red to Dr. Mordecat Moored who
married Deborah, daughter of Thonins Llojd, tiK
first Governor of Pennsylvania. Can tlie faaS^
of Dr. Moore be identified ? 8t. T.
A VBW Qontus wtth Quotatiovs w j
1. Where can I get an account of the origin «f
kissinffthe Pope's toe or slipper?
2. Which of the Latins is it who epolBO of '^ov
dyinff often in the death of our frienda aid
chilien " P
3. Who is the cardinal referred to in the ibl-
lowing? **As that proud carcUnal in Gknnaav
said, ^ confess these things that Luther finda ftu
with are naughty; but shall I yield to m hoe
monkP*''
4. Who is the bishop spoken of here? *<It«si
a worthy work of that reverend biahop thsKfe wt oit
in a treatise all the deliveranoes that hawe htm
from popish conspiracies from the beginnivof
Queen Elizabeth's time to th'ia present** (I<K^)!
5. Where do these passages occur in AHgai
tineP (1) Qmtqmis damut swi, ffc^ ^^^7 """^ ■ *
stranger in his own house. (2) '*Wliett ttaf
is contention between brethren, witneaaea vt
brought, but in the end the wwds of the wifl of
the dead man is brought forth, and theae daCcr-
mine; so . . . .**
6. Who is " the chief paoist ** of this rcfercuotP
** One of them, the chier or them, a great achofar,
will have the water itself [of baptismj to be ele-
vated above its own nature to confer gimce.** If
Bellarmine, where P
7. Which •« heathen ** is it who says "^Hie prais-
ing of a man*s self is burdensome hearing** ?
8. Is it Bernard who says *^ There is a child of
anger, and a child under anger ** P Where?
9. Cyprian saith, ^Non potest seculum,** te^
the world cannot hurt him who in the world hath
God for his protector. Where P
10. ** You know whose ensign it is, whose motto;
Deiu nobiwcum is better than Sancta Maria f^
Whose P
11.^ NikU torn cerium^ ffc^ nothing is so certain
as that that is certain afler doubting — *^. Where if
this to be found P
Early answers will very much oblige
A SruiMBirr.
RoaAKT. — The institution of the Rosary ia gen-
erally attributed to St. Dominic (b. 1 170). fooaa
writen have, however, attributed it to Bedej and
some have given to its institation an aatiqaity aa
IS. V. fan-acsi.]
NOXCS AND QUEEIES.
165
I
larly as the time of St. Benedict (b. 480). I wisli
lo inquire, through the medium of ** N. k Q^"
IietUer thLTO Is evidence to sht»w that the roanry
10 in use previously to the time of St. Dominic?
I have often thought thnt the beads, which are
found in large numbers in Anglo-Saxon tumuli
in Kent and other parts of England, may have
been used for religious purposes^ and perhaps for
rosaries; if so, it would help to decide the much-
disputed question M to wnether the interments
were Christian or Pagan,
AXOmElVOZf B&KHT.
The Saa or GL^sa. — I send the following
beautiful passage from the Ltfra Apoxtolica (12th
edition, p. 62), and should much like to know
whether the idea of the sea before the throne re^
jUctntg events on earth is based uixin Scripture,
or taken from any ancient Father ? —
" A sea b«fhn
"the throne is spread : its |mro still glass
Pktutta aamHh memn aa tbej peaSb
We OB lie sbora,
Share, in tbo baeoia of our rait»
God*s kaow ledge— and ere blest ! *^
The account of *'* the sea of glass/* is of course
taken from the Apocalypse, and is a part of the
portion of Bcripiure appointed to be read for the
EptaUe on Trinity Sunday : —
** Ami before tiie throne there was & ma of gtau like
unto cr}'Btal**^Bev. ir, 6.
03E0NfBNSIS»
8ia JoKS S4x^TB&*6 Tomb amd tils Sai-tbes*
CoMTAXT. — The following curious custom de-
serves enshrining in ** N, & Q." :■ —
** The beadles and aervaata of tbo worebipfiil Cempany
of Salters are to atteod Divine Senrice at SL MflkgnusV
Church, London Bridge, pursnaat to the will of Str
Jolia Salter, wbo died in the year \$Q5, and waa a good
bsMCactor to tbe said Company; and ordered that Ike
beadks and terranta should go to the said chitrch in the
first week in October, and anock npon his grareetoiie
with sticks of stayea three limes each peraon» and aay ;
* How do Toa do brotbeir Salter? 1 hope yon are well/ "—
Ammmat i^.. Oct 1769, vol. xiL p. 1S7.
Is this ceremony still observed f If not, is it
known when it ceased ? S. J.
A Sac EST SocEviT. — I am desirous of obtain-
ing infornitttion respecting a secret society that
was suppressed some thirty-five or forty years ago
in consequence of proaecutions being inatituted
against its members. At the meetings of this
aociety, the chairman would ring a bell, at the
same time calling upon the £vLl One ; the mem-
berii thereupon, in turn, endeavoured to outdo
Lone another in cursing and swearing, and the
victor in thii wickedness received a token of ap-
probation from his fellows. I understand that in
some periodical of that day an account is given of
Ijie r-T.-- ' ,^ pj* ^|jg society J
br' :^ will be able to
nfO'iiu iMv *TiL*j. luw ii.iuit; till me periodical con-
taining the information. I believe the members
met at a house in or near the Strand, C* S. H.
Sa&RTDAX AWB Peter Moorji. — SheHdan's
body, after his death, was removed to the house
of his friend, Mr. Peter Moore, in Great George
Street, Westminster, to be near the Abbey for in-
terment. What waa the number of Mr. Peter
Moore s house ? Is It still in existence as in 1S16,
and who now inhabits It P W. T. H.
read
in tlie jQumni de* Uibatt an article on 8oail*
picking in the Vineyards in France, which gaT6
curious instances of many criminal trials in the
Middle Ajie^ in France, with all the usual for-
malities, both in civil and eccleaiastieal courts,
against animals and insects which had done
damage to man. And, In a pamphlet published
in 1«5S by Dumoulin of Paris, and written by
Mons* Em lie Agnel, entitled Curifmtia Judicuiires
0i Utstoriques du Mtf^en Age^ ** Procis eonlrt Us
Ajtimuus,^ the subject is treated more at large*
I should be obliged to any of your corre-
spondents who can supply Information on thk
Tbiaj^ op AwniArs. — Ten years since 1 1
X the Joumfil de» JMbaU an article on 8i
subject, especially if they can say if such triala
. ilace in " ' "
of them.
ever took place in England, and cite any inatanfiaw
The origin of the proceedings against larse
animals may be traced to the Pentateuch. The
pecuniary advantage and superstitious influence
they gained by it probably induced the clergy to
proceed against snails, locusta, and other insects
m their eccleaiaatlcal jurisdictions.
JOHBT P. BoUsRJLU*
KetteriDgham Park, Wymotidham, Norfolk*
Boca Whai^ht, M.P. (3*^ S. ii. 314.)— What
is the date of this queer fish's birth ? And what
place did he represent in the Irish Parliament P
ZAcaABiAa Cadwaixadsb Sacxth.
WownBUFtji* CBAUACTEtis* — Can any of your
readers inform me where I csn find a list of all
the books and periodicals that have been published
from the earliest period to the present time, on a
History of the Lives of Eccentric and W^onderful
Chnrncters ? Also, where I can inspect collections
tor a history of the Eccentric and Wonderful
Charact«ra of the present century? I should also
be glad to know if any of your rea^Jera are aware
If it is the intention of any one to publish a his-
tory of the remarkable characters of the present
day. J' Hi
MABQina or Wobcsstbr's ** Cebtubt or Ik-
VBHTiONs." — There was an edition printed in 1748,
and another in 1763. But where, and by whom
printed, I cannot ascertain. Nor do I find any
edition noticed later than 182-5 ; although I have
been informed that Messrs. Cundell printed one
about l850-5e, ^.^^
NOTES AND QUERIES.
tSHSwV.
Bkqoalp Fit^uese. — I hiive a picture in*
scribed "Reginald Fitzurse'g Chapel/' Query
the parish and county ? A. J. Dunkin*
Djirtford.
[Sir Reginald FiUarae, •* *on of the Bear," was one of
the fourmordercri of Thorn m Becket. Hi« father, Richard
Fitzurse, became poseessed in the reign of Stephen of the
maoorof WiUetoniD SomerMtAhirer winch had descended
to Reginald a few yeare before the murder of the Arch-
tii&hop of Caaterbur}'. He was also jl tenant in chief in
Northamptonshire, in tail in Leioesterehire {Liber yigri
Scaccariif 2 16-286), and waa alao poaieaaor of the manor of
Baibam Court in Kent. ( Baated'a JTen^ iii. 7^«) The
medi&val tradition ii^ that the four intirderer<i atruck irith
remone, went to Rome to receive the sentence of Pope
Ale^cander III., and by him were sent to expiate iheir
aina in the Holy Land. Dean Stanley {tiUtorkal Memo-
riaU of Canttrbvri/, 8yo, 165fi), has, however, carefully
traced the facts of their subsequent historj', fi-om which
it appears, that Fitsurse is said to have gone over to Ire-
land, and there to have become the ancestor of the
M'MahoQ family in the north of Ireland — M*Mahon
being the Celtic translation of Beards son. On his flight*
the estate which he held in the Island of Thauet, Barham
or Berham Court, lapsed to his kinsman Robert of Berham
— Bcrhani being, as it would seem, the English, as M'Mab on
was the Irish version, of the name Fitzurse. Hia estatea of
Willeton, in Somersetshire, he made over, half to the
Knighta of St. John the year after the murder, probably
in expiation — the other half to hu brother Robert, who
built the chapel of Willetoo. This probably is the chapel
of which our correspondent poesesws a picture. The de-
•ccadaiita of the family lingered for a long time in the
naigbbourhood under the same name, successively cor-
roptad into Fltzour, Fishoor, and Fisher, Vidi Collin*
son's SopterultAire^ id, 487.]
William Dtitbab, — Some of your readers may
be glad to read the enclosed gem of poetry. Why
18 such a writer forgotten ?
" The Nychtingall said, Bird, <^uhv doUt thou raif?
Man may tok in his lady sic delyt,
Bim to forget that hir sic vertew gaif.
And for his bevin rassaif her caUour quhyt ;
Hir goldin trcesit hairis redomyt.
Like to ApoHois bi^mis thocht thay schone,
8uld nocht him blind fVo lufe tllat is perfyt ;
All Luve is lost bot vpone God ailone."
The 7W Lupu, sL x., «L 1788, by
W. Duobar, circu 1505.
EowARD IL Kkowles.
[Aiihoogh Witljam Dunbar, ** the darling of the
Bcottiih Muses," as he has been termed by Sir Walter
Scott, received from his {-otitemporarias the homage dot
to the greateit of BcotiandV early makan, his name and
tkmt were doomed u» a total eclip*e» during the perio^i
ftom UBQ (when Sir David Lyndaay roi'ntions htm
among the poets thrn deceased) to the year 1724, when
^omf of his poems were publisiietl by Allan Ramiay in
The Evergrmiu A considerable part 9f ih« voiai
titled Amtignt ScoitUh Poem*, published by Lard
in 1770, is occupied with poems by Dti -•>••* '.h
complete collection of hia Poems was p
David Laing, 2 vols, Edinburgh, 1834, vs ..
Memoir of his Life* " If any miifortunei,"
Laing, ** had befallen the two nearly coeval i
collections of Scott bh poetry by Bannatyue
land, the great chance Is, that it might havebaeo i
known to posterity that such a poet as Dunbar had I
existed." (Vol i, p. 5.) In Mr. Laing^s edition tbe|
quoted by our correspondent « ** llie Twa Lutci,** ii I
titled ** The Merle and the NychtingailL** It la
as an apologue, bel^een two birds, the Merle or I
bird, and the Nightingale,]
Pope km> Chesterfield. — In Cax$omBm^\
136, it is written: —
"Pope, in the graceful epigram whldi compUMS
Chesterfield, had said**
** Accept a miracle ; instead of wit.
See two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil writ*
Am I right in doubting whether this epigrais •
correctly ascribed to Pope ? and If I iuiiao,ii]
some one kindly say where else it is lo b« fovad* I
Had it not ita origin at a meeting of t4ie lLil*€li|
Club, and what is the story ? H. W. E
United Arts Club.
[This epigram Is attributed to Popo by John 1
in his amusing work, Record* of my Lift^ 1831^ L '
He says ; " Pope maniftbatad his opinion of Lord I
field by the following couplet on usinf; his
pencil, which ought to have been fncltidtd in IW t«KI
works : —
* Accept a miracle \ instead of wit.
Sec two dull lines by Stanhope's pencil wriC* *•
In 7^ Ah of Poetry on a New Plan, edited by iHw
Goldsmiili, 17^2, vol, i p. 57, the couplet is atAted Cotei*
been written by Pope ou a glass with the Earl of Clilg*
field's diamond pencil. " For my pari," atja Goldaailfc
" I am at a loss to determine whether it doea mora ti«0av
to the poet who wrote it, or to the nobkmaA fbr wliott III
compliment ia designed.*'']
St. Isbmakiw — In the county of CArm«r(te_
there is a parish of St. IshmaeL Can too j *
me any information about this saint f
CaciL 'Blxwt.
[8L Ishmael, or more correctly Ismael, waa thn aoa i
Budic, a native of Comugallia, the western diviidon
Brittany. His mother was the ititcr of St. Teilo. j
brsUopof Llandaff. St. Ishmael had two yonngorbn
Tyifei, aocidentally alain when • childt who Ilea i
Penaly, and Oudoceus, afterwanln flrrlit>i*hop of I
According to the L»Afr F^miav^ngi* St. tshmai«I
after the decease of St, David, uppointrrl
David's, under his aftcl<« SL Tflil», wIki ''
Llandaff. St, Tshu ' Urt foiiml«"r
near Kidwelly, < liirw, and i
maston, Kosttmark<-i, ^^r, 4'*timj)fitV| anrl \,n'-x w
Pembrokdaliire. Consult Rice Kece'ft E*»ay an the Wehh
SmntSf p. 252, and W. J. Beta's LitJCM of the Cambro*
British Saints, p. 406.]
" OrnciHA OESTiCM.'* — In wbat author does
the phrase occar> *• officina gentium,** applied, I
believe, to the numberfi of the northern nations,
If hose irruptions overwhelmed the* south of Eu-
rope on the decline of the Roman Empire ? a.
[The phnue occurs in the treaties by Bishop Jor-
nandes De Gttttrum, ttc« Gothorum, Online et rebta gestis.
It wiU be found in the edition of 1597, Logd. Bat. p. U.
(see first aeotence of cap, iv.)» and is employed in tbe
vanm which our corrwpondent mendoos : — *• Ex bac
igitor Seanjda insula, quasi offidua gentium, act cert^
Tclat vagina nationum, cum rege suot** &c. Scanziat or
tbe Scandinavian peninauhi, was formerly deemed an
island.
Any difficulty that haa arlaen in the aeaicb for this
expresilon may have been occaaioned by ita too frequent
miaqootation ; tbe phrases, both remarkable* ** ofiicioa
gentium " and ** vagina nationum," having been jumbled
together^ and cited aa " vagina gentium,'*]
J. UoLLAKB, OrriciAW. — I have a fine achro-
matic telescope, of five feet focal length, and four
inches aperture. It bears the name of J* Holland,
London. I should lleel obliged to any of your
afitronomical readers who could give me some in-
formation respecting this artist, and when be died.
Wbb he the inventor of a microscopic object-
glass which bears hi^ name ?
Joan Pavui Philups.
[We have not been able to trace any optician of the
name of Holland. May it not be one of the telescopes of
the old-estabUahed firm of Dotlond, of St. Paul's church-
yard?]
Oath or tub Jubges on nominating this
Shbeuts. — Where is a copy of this oath to be
found? It is udministercd in Kormaii-French.
Lord Coke, in his Institutes^ gives many official
oaths, but not this one. T. F.
[In the BooAo/ Oatht, London, 1689, will be found, at
p. 14, " The Oath of a Sheriff of a County ; " at p. 123,
** Tbe Oath of a Sherifi;*' which appears to have been
Ukeu by the Sheriff of Bedford and Berka ; and at p. 126,
*' Tbe Oath of tbe Sheriff of Oxon and Berka» Cambridge
and Huntingdon^" All three oaiha are in English.]
Maint. —In Moore's poem, "The Ring, a Tale,'*
Works, voL ii. p. 4J (ed. 1840), stanza 43 reads
I thus : —
^^ ** Now Auftin woa a reverend man
^H Who acted wonders mamf —
^B Whom all the country round beHev*d
^m A devil or a saint \ '*
H What is the meaning of tbe word italicized?
H Halliwell (jincA. Diet,) bos only maynt = roain-
■ Imned E- V.
H [ ^ niaint in the semie of manjf, Moore, how*
^■ever, look .a Fretjch adiective for the J4ike of
Bthe rhyme
(S'^ S. V. 74.)
I have an ** old picture painted on oak on a
goM ground/' whicn answers so exactly to the
description quoted by Anon, that at first it '
seemed to be no other than the portrait inquired
for. On comparing it with the engraving in the
AntiquariaH HepertoTy^ I find that, although the
words of the inscription are exactly similar, are
written in gold capital letter^! on a black ground,
and are set out in the s^me number of lines — in
all these points resemblin;^ the painting deline-
ated : the division of the words, and the spelling,
are here and there different. There is agreement
also in the handling of tbe subject, and in tbe
outline of the features ; but It is obviously difficult
to judge of a likeness which has filtered through
" a drawing taken by a young lady of this city
(Canterbury)," and an eugravmg, probably re-
duced in size from the original in order to suit
tlie page of the work in which it appeared.
I am assuming that tbe painting in my posses-
sion is old. Of course^ it may not be ; although
I can adopt the words of the Repertory and say,
** from the manner of writing, and appearance of
the wood, (it) has been done a great many years.*''
Its merits, as a work of art, are slender; and I
have not yet indulged in tbe luxury of paying a
guinea fee to a high professional authority for nis
opinion as to its genuine age. Since there b a
possibility that two paintings, so nearly alike,
may be of the same date, I append a description
of mine for the purpose of compariaon with that
from which the arawing was made.
Tbe panel is 1 1 J inches high, by 9 J inches wide.
The upper space, 5 inches in depth, has the por-
trait in profile, issuing, as it were, out of a golden
chief. The head has brown hair, thickly llowing
to the shoulders ; the nose and forehead nearly a
straight line; the mouth and chin conspicuous,
though wearing a full beard. The upper part of
the ^dy (shown to about three inches below the
shoulder) covered by a red garment, which leaves
tbe throat bare ; and has a hem, or border, on
each edge of which is a dotting of white bead8.
The lower portion of tbe panel ia taken up with
tbe legend, contained in ten lines, as follows : —
" TMIH PRESENT KKiUHK IS THB
SIMILITUDE or OUa 1-.ORD JUV
OUR 8A\^OVR ISIPntKTED IN
AMinALD n^ THIS rKKDICSESSORS; OF
THE GREAT TCRKj AND aBNT TO Tftf
rOPE; INNOCENT THE VIU AT
THE COST OK THE OnCAT
TUB a FOR A TOKE» FOR THIS
CAtJSB TO REUlLElitK. ViA& \iVJQrtWtSJ.
THAT ^Xf\ tk«A1R YMsfiraa*.^
158
NOTES ANI> QUEEIE&
t^* & T,
In connectjoti with thU subject, I may udvert
to tlie existence of (what is described to mo a^)
an excellent old eograring, which also ^ivcs the
liead of our Saviour in profile, wiih the following
words beneath : —
" Ver* Salmfttom nostrf «fR^«8 ad imiUtionem inm-
ffifiii SfDamgilo i ^ " ' ^i i Cieisa ri s quo Amamgdo
'PbilM (Wi the- lolirano lurcArvm im-
psnilor Innoteni Max: Kota: Doaiivit
pro Bodimend<» frAUo <;t*ri#tutmii Captivo."
Will your correspondent pardon me for saytn^,
that one or two worda in bis extract from th«
in«crrption, as given in the Repertory^ ure not
precisely exact; and that the name of tlie writer
is Zj&iV, not " Lottie " ? I believe he will, for
literal accuracy is one of the mAny udeful aims of
*• N. k Q." JoHZf A. C. VtitcB»T*
have been liberated through this tefnpftinjpt bilt of
the holy tapestry ; but after varied vtckiittt^tak il i
supposed to liave been poie>oned« in 1496, bjctw j
of Alexander VI. Pkiito«U-
I have a picture in my possession that I believe
to be the one Awoh inquires about. The portrait
is on a gold ground^ painted on oak \ and under-
neath is the following inscription^ in capital
letters ; —
** This present llgvce is the similitvde of oar Lord
tBkff DTTQ Savior tin printed in amlrold by the pradcsei-
wtm of IhE; great Tvrkew and tent to tbo Pom Innoteoi
the YIU. at the cost of the Grate Tvrka for a token
for this cftwse to rodeme his brother that was tskyii
priKmor/'
The picture has been in my poiseaaioa some*
where about twenty years. I purchased il at the
sale of the e Sects of the late Mr. Isherwood of
Marple Hidl» near Stockport^ in Cheahir*. Marple
Hall was the residence of the celebrated Prestdent
Bradsbaw, and I believe Mr. Isherwood came
into posscHsion of the estate through having mar-
ned a descendant of the judge. T. Topdam.
Chestsf.
I lately pnfchased» at an old print shop, a print
of no great merit as an engraving ; evidently cut
out of a book or periodical, and apparently not
more than thirty or forty ye-ars old, perhaps lesa.
It bears the following inscription : —
•* The only true tikeuess of our Saviour, taken from
one worked on a piocQ of tapeitry by command of Tibe-
tiat CatSWf and wao given from the Treiiury of Con-
irtaafcino by the Emperor of the Turlu to Pope Innocent
Vin., for the fadeniplidii of his brother, ihcn a captive
of ihe Christiaas. J. Koger*, »c."
It is an oval, set in a square frame of elaborate
tieedlework-pattern, 9 inches by 7, I have occa-
sionally seen a similar likeness in modem cheap
prinU, but do not recollect ever to have met with
one bearing the aame inscription. The Penny
Ctfchpadiu «Ut<t (see « Innocent VIII." and ** Ba-
yaj£id^*)» that the name of the Turkish monarch
wjfi Baja^et II, ; anel that of h'n brother, Jen^ or
Zigim. Poop Jom, however, does not appear to
MUTILATIOX OF SEPULCHKAL MU2^L
{S«* 8. IT. lOU)
The letters in *' N. & Q.'* on this aulj^ct '
doubtless impressed your readers with it« to _
ance; the lost communication from Mm. Fxa
is especially interesting. In two cbttrcbea thai 1 j
could mention every monument was taken
the walls, and thrown together, pell-meiJ.
many of these were restored ?
That the compartment or tablet
the inscription should be carefully preserved all
re6xed, whilst the absurd deeorattcrais tliat A«- 1
quently surround it should be abstracted, I htm
myself strongly recommended. With eTery ^9t^
ing of respect for the dead» we may aitrcilj ik*
card, without hesitation, the lamps ftnd tu
hour-glisses, weeping cherubs, and atber
devices. Is one instance a monumeixt of i
able sijse^ and of surpassing nglinaas,
nearly the whole of a waU in a amall
chapel, but notwithstanding remonjitrAnoeai I
it has been suffered to remain*
The Abbey Church of Bath^ perhaps, cont
a larger number of tablets and gravestoiM lo-XKi^
tions than any church of the aame size in B^
laud. *' Snug lying in the abbey '' seems to Imps
been desired boUi l^fore and since the daws of Bok
Acres. A grave was prepared in this cbtirdi fix
the distinguished political economist^ Halth ua* Hi
cofhns on each stde the grave presented a fatfUol
piL'ture, and the resting-place for this
man could not have been obtained but by the i
pulsion of remains that ou^bt never to have f
disturbed. The Introduction of wailed gtii?«%
now so common in cemeteries, will do mtieh to
promote decency in our interments.
The more correct tuste of the present %lmf h
shown in removing monumentSi eometimea iwt
fabrics^ from situations which they ought newer It
have occupieil* to places more fitted for tbem.
Ihis has reeeoHy been done in someof ourc«tll^
drala, and several years ago the tablets oa lilt
pillars in the nave of Bath Abbey were raa
to the adjoining walls. Two monwmenta to i
ben of ray own family, of the dates of 1706 i
1707, — a dark period in the history of numii-
mental sculpture,— originally held prominent aila*
at ions in Coester cathedral, when? oolumna musl
have been hacked and hewn to r On
my last visit to that cathedral : 'tC]p
had been removed to a less oonsp*ei{otiR nui;*tii3fi^
an act of propriety of which ao desctodints eC a
family in sioiilar catfli Cftll eooillllo*
I am ariJtious ta preserve in *' X. & Q.'* the
liggeslUitiK of BO canoe tit an arcliitect as Mr. G.
' Scuit, R.A., on A subject connected wjtb tbia
^^er. Extensive resUiratiooji umi improvements
re conteijipluted id the abbey o( Bath by the Rev.
be Rector, und In Mr. Scott's letter to tbttt gen-
emftti occurs the following passage : —
*Iii doolin^ witb tba floor of tile nave* mtieb eoovider-
\ -will liitve to b« prea to the exbilng graved aad
^imeTitiU atones which occupy iUmo»t its entire area.
Did recommend a stroog etrataTxi of concrete to be
laid between the grmves and the floor throughouf, and all
proper means fo be taken fbr rendering the support of the
^oor strong and immoveable, a» w«ll as for preventing the
posBtbilitr of gmMoua exhaLations from the gnirea. Aa
the wood flfjors would cover tn&tiy of the monumental
Atones, I would recommend a perfect plan of iheir posi-
tions to be made ; copies being kept of ult the inecnptions,
and, where desired, braai plates to be put on the walls,
eontaiDJog the same raAnipUoos,"
^Thia last recommendation of Mr. Scott^ would
impracticable, as there would be little if any
space on the walls for brass platca, but copies of
the iimcriptions* with reference to (he exact spots
where hud^ might be preserved in a volume of
vellum or parchment, protected by an impregnable
bindings itidexes to be appended. There is no
saying bow precious a date or a fact may be to an
historian or antiquary, and to the descendants of
the person recorded, the inscription may be in-
valuable. J. U. Mabklanp.
b
WHITMOBE FAMILY.
(S'* S. iiL 509.)
_ Three places in Staffordshire may have onjiin-
Ked this aa a family name, viz. Whit more, nesir
ewcaatle-uader-Lyme; Wetmore, in the parish
^f Burtoh-on-Trent; and Wildmoor, in that of
Bobbing lon^ the last running into Shropshire*
These pli&i-ej, thou;»h dblinguishable enough in
tnodern writing, are not so in old MSS., where
Ibey are spelt very nearly alike* There is no
4oubt, however, that Erdeswick was correct in
aaseriioo, quoted by your correspondent, that
ice of gentry, springing from one Raufe, took
ir name from the manor and parish of Whit-
ore (the Witemore of Doniesday), now a sta-
n on the N. W, Railway, Radulpb de Boterel
_ styled Custos de Novo Castello, Stafford,
5 Hen, II , an office subsequently held by Henry
*- first Lord Audley. Will, de Boterel, 28
n« IL, granrb^on of Kadulph, married Avnsa de
itmore, which came into his possession, and
Aft its nume to his grandson, Rob. de Whitmore,
*e Wytmore, 14 John— 26 Hen. III. The
xt generations seem to have increased their
rty cuufliderably ; Robtus de Whytmore,
de Whytmore, 41 — 44 Hen. III., son and behr
* the last, holding in right of his wife, Ada de
Wallesbull ** in vasta foresta de WiUleshuU,** the
manor and vill of Brocton sup. Wytemor (the
modern Wildmoor), and his son Will iTiua *\q Wyt*
more, surnamed For«>starius, Dus de Wytmore,
45 Hen. III. — 10 Edvr, I., holdiug (I presume in
fight of his wife Agne^ de Haselwall, who was
poaeeaied of an estate in the neighbourhood) land
in the aarae Wytimore and in Burchton, both
being within the manor of Claverley, Salop. He
had likewise, by gift from the kin<r (in rtfWttrd, I
suppose^ for hid services in the Welsh wars) tbe
church of Claverley and its members Burchton and
Bobiton. It must be this Will. fil. Rob, de Whit-
I more, with whom Ormerod commences his pedl-
I gree of the VV^hitmores of Hunstanton in Cheshire.
The history of the Manor near Newcastle be*
) comes after this less easy to follow. There was a
John. Lord of Wytemore, 22,27, and 29 Edw, I,
! :ind Rad. fil. Johis de Whitemore, also lord, 7
Edw. IL The former of these should be son of
William, according to Ormeroii; but this author
makes no allu&ion to either W^lUiam or John
being lords of Whitmore, though he could hardly
fail to meet with the designation in the public re*
cords* The last of the name in possession of the
maiior was another John de Whitmore, 15 — 41
Edw. IIL, who appears to have been a witness
to the ileed quoted by Erdeswick (Har wood's ed.
p, 1 12), He married Joan, sbter (not daughter,
as stated by Shaw and by Harwood from Degge)
of Sir John Verdon, Kt. They had a daughter
Joan, wife (8—12 Rich. IL) of Henry Clerk of
Ruyton* once mayor of Coventry ; and perhaos
a second daiighter Elizabeth, wife of James ae
Bogbav (47 Edw. IIL— 16 Rich. IL), who be-
came lord of Whitmore, purchasing one moietj
from the Clerks. In the Brit, Mus. (Harl. Rolls.
No. 21) there is a pedigree of Whitmore ofCaun-
ton, CO. Notts, beginning with John de Whitmore
in Cora. Stiifford, /#»in/3. Edw. L and bis son Wm.
de Whitmore, Arm., and ending in the reign of
Elitabeth ; but there is nothing to show from
what Staffordshire family they proceeded. Thej
acq^uired this property by Inarriage with the
heiress of Blyton de Caunton, iernp, Heory VX
For particulars of the localities iu Burton and
Bobington parishes, respectively, I n\a.j refer
to Shaw, vol. i- p. 20, and Eyton^s Aniiquitie*^
vol. iiL p. 166, 171. Blakeway remarks of the
Whitmores of Apley, that they do not appear In
have had any connection with the Cheshire familj^
^* though the heralds have given them similar
arms, with a cre^t allusive to the springing of a
young shout out of an old stock," The grant
may be accounted for by the fact that the Shrop-
ahire family is by some derived from Thos. Whit-
more of Madeley, near NewcaaUe-under-Lyrae,
where the Whitraqres of Whitmore bad land as
early jjs $6 Hen. HL There was a Tbcis. WbUr
more, of Mad^W^j, «i^\OTye^ \a \Si%^M Q^ssvol
160
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3^ 8. v. FMakm,'%L
as failiog to bring proof of his gentility, who miiy
have been ibe same person far advanced iu years,
(HarL lilSS. 1396 and 1570; Mor»nt*a Essex,
▼ol, i. p. 49*2.) The family at Apley are said at
this day to quarter the differenced coat panted
in 1593 to their uncestor William %Vhitmore of
London. The HarL MS. 1457, foK 148ft, as-
cribes to the name of Whitmore, Vert a fret or,
and this coat (not the fretty) I understand is ac-
knoi»l edged by the College of Arms. The earliest
recorded coat that I am aware of is on a seal to a
deed of John de Whitmore, Lord of Whitmore
29 Edw. L (HarL MS. 506) ; and the some coat
is said in the Visitations to have been borne by
John de Whitmore de Thurstanton^ 25 Hen. VL*
the tinctures being added, arg. a chief az, (HarL
MS. 1535). John de Whitmore, who, according
to Ormerod, was father of the last named^ and
mayor of Chester 1369 — 72, bare the fretty coat,
if we may credit the topographers in attributing
to his memory an old monument in the church of
the Holy Trinity, Chester. Ormerod ascribes
the plain coat with a chief to Haselwall as its
original owner; still a doubt may be hazarded
whether it was not really the coat of the Whit-
mores. It is almost identical with that of the
ButiUera, who were superior lords of Whitmore ;
and the mayor of Chester may have assumed the
fretty in consequence of his marriage with the
eventual heiress of Ralph de Vernon, especially
as he was a claimant for property in her right,
which was ultimately recovered. (Ormerod, vol. ii.
276.) At Whitmore Hall, the Manor House as
rebuilt after the Restoration, among several coats
of arms connected with the Mainwarings in a
window of stained glass, i!» a small shield of four
quarters, the 1st and 4th a fret gold, the 2nd a
DCnd sinister charged with three trefoils slipped
or (for Coyney ?), and the 3rd three stages heads
caboshed sa. The field -tinctures are not dis-
cernible, but the 2nd and 3rd quarters are pro-
bably arg,, and there is in both of these a ahght
branch-like ornamentation or diapering. Against
the dexter side of the shield there is the initial
letter M, and against the sinister A- The history
of this shield I believe is unknown. If it could
be ascribed with any probability to Whitmore of
Whitmore, its date would be antecetlent to the
commencement of the fifteenth century, whereas
the sha{>e(thc top and bottom convex and pointed,
the sides concave outwards) indicates a more re-
cent period. Tl»e Whttmorcs of Caunton bare
Vert fretty arg. The Whitmore fret may possibly
have l»ecn borrowed from the Verdon, for Theo-
bald, the Jirst Baron, wjis superior lord of the
manor 24Edw- 1., succeeding Nicholas le Butiller.
Your correspondent will find that Erdcswick de-
rivca the Audley fret fmm the Verdon. And if
Koesio^ the heiress of Alvcton (Erdc^wick, p. 500),
ant! •econd wife of Bertram de Vcrdon, who
founded Croxden Abbey in 1176, waa a Vcr
(as stated in HarL MS. 1570), all these
would be traceable to a common ormin, tJi
undoubtedly having pertained to Vemoa
the earliest times. According to a seal of (
den Abbev, in the Augmentation OfficOt llr*"
tram de Verdon used the fretty co«t| mi
own descendants;, and those of his ^otuoger bci ^
Robert, in Warwickshire tad Leicestershira^l
charged it upon a cross. But the Norfolk braadl
of the family, founded by Wm. de Verdun, BcrJ
tram*s uncle, bare a lion rampant; ai]4 ibera ii]
some reason to think thai this was the
bearing of Verdon. Where it is not oltowvi
stated, the rolls of Stafford, Salop« Cli«gbH
and Wales have furnished the greater portion of j
the dates and other particulars in these nodt
The border lands of Went StaffonUliire ami t^
adjoining counties were evidently for the tnif
part forest in those days, aud the local jut '
uncertain. The subject is not exhaust
should have added more, but from unwinrnr-e=-
to trespass too largely upon your space. Sm
PSALM XC. 9 (VDLGATB LXXXIX. 10).
(3** S. v. 67, 102.)
Has not a great deal of linguiatic lor^
wasted, not to say paraded, upon a verjr nm^
matter? Your correspondents have prooeeMl
u|>on the erroneous aseumption that the Septoa-
gmt translators mistook the meaning of a H&pe«
word meaning meditation^ and translated it Mpiitft*
One correspondent goes learnedly to wot^ mA
overwhelms us with a train of authorittes^ Lee,
Winer, Gesenius, CastelL and Hengstenherp; vA
then displays his Syriac, Arabic, -Ethiapie, ao^
Cbaldee — idl, however, by means of Latia tranK
lations^^to come, first, to the extraordinjirj ooa*
elusion, that xpider is to be considered tbe ncit
correct rendering of the Hebrew ; and then to
nullify his own conclusion, by observing: ia i
note, *^ that this remark of course implies tluU ai
the Hebrew word does not mean a spider^ tooie
other word was originally used.**
Another correspondent pronounces the Greek
and Latin versions decidedly wrong in trana*
the Hebrew word by spider \ and after Icidlflff
us a learned course through Syriac, Arable^ tm
Chaldee, coaies out with his conotusion, thai cbe
interpreter mii^ttiok the Hebrew word for a Syiw
one signifying spider, and dictated iccordtogij fiOl
the Greek amanuensis.
We have here, then, two sji' ' ' "■
Dalto?! suppo^j* that the 1 1
upon the S ^ '
fore them,
3^ S. Y. Pkb. 20, 'U.}
NOTES AND QUERIES.
161
Hebrew word for Sjriac, and bo dictated spider
as the meaning.
But is not the remark of Calmet the most
QAtiiral and probable solution of the difiicalty,
that lite word meaning a spider <t thongb wantiii|[
now ifi the Hebrew text, was formerly there ? la
^ it not most unlikely, indeed all but impossible,
* tbat the LXX. should have inserted this word, if
^ it was not before them in their Hebrew copies ?
^ And is it not very likely that some copyists of
► the Hebrew may have omitted the word meaning
* a spider^ while they transcribed that which ex-
^ pressed its labour ? The meaning of the author
► of tbift Psalm, ^upposedj to have been Mosea» is
* obvjou3 : that our days pass away like the mtdita^
iiOfLt the toil, the frail structure of the spider.
St, Jerome*s annotation ia worth attention : —
** n ' iiaaea quae mittit fiJii, et hue ijlucqae dii-
can tou die, et labor quidcm tjraniii* est, seJ
effc' : est : 4ic et vita horajnurn hue illucque dia-
procreamus filios: l&boranius: in regna sostollimur, et
omnia fAciams, et non inteUigimus qaia aruneie tetnm
texinuis,"
F. C. H.
I
k
ST. MARY MATFELON.
(3^ S. iv, 5, 55, 419, 483; v. 83.)
I now think thnt I may have cited Pennant's
words jneorrectly ; but that does not afiect the
point uneler diseussioui for my intention was, not
to dispute Pennant's accuracy in reporting the
traditionary version oT the word ** Matfelon" —
which version I could not reconcile with the
Hebrew or Arabic — but to suggest another ver*
sion, which I could so reconcile.
Pennant's authority is evidently Stow {S^trrey^
vol. ii.). After alluding to some conjectures re-
specting the origin of the word, he says : " It was
a more probable account which I once heard given
by a reverend minister in Essex (Mr. Wells,
sometime vicar of Hornchurch), that the word
was of a Hebrew or Syriac extraction, Matfil, or
MatfiloB, I. e, auffi nuper enixa est," Stow gives
the Hebrew cnanicter«| and from them I per-
ceive that the word is derived, not (aa 1 i ma-
nned) from valada, but from tafah, I do not
find that the word in the sense mentioned by Stow
survives in Hebrew; but in Arabic the root im-
plies " to bear an infmit^' whereas I had supposed
It to mean 'Uo bear a child or a miu* Mtiifil^
MaljUy or Mutfilun^ signifies either secum hahens
in/aniem, or ftr tit rts propingna, which may, I sup-
pose, be rendered riear to canceplioji^ mxe who will
mm conceive, Bej?ides, m the root {tafala) be-
gins with the letter t, the different, although
fiimikr letter t which forms the fifth conjugation^
may coalesce with it, and the word may belong to
that conjugation; and the leading idea of the
^h conjugation is, affectation of the action im*
plied btf the root This may include the idea of
being promised, proposed, or set forth as one who
would fulfil the object of the root, and therefore
this conjugation very nearly resembles the inde-
finite Latin future in rus. There is another
meaning of the root which seems to support my
conjecture. It signifies the later evenings ihe time
immediately before Bunset ; and St. JVIary's is
fitly symbolized by the eve which precedti^ the
night which ends in the Day-spring. I prefer
upon the whole my rendering of the word " Mat-
felon,'" because a dedication to the Virgin and
Child would be too obvious and common to need
the subtle nicety of an Arabic root to express it>
whereas (except at Chttrtres) a dedication ^* \^r»
gini Pariturse ' would be unknown, and not easily
expressed in English. Jas. Retnoi.i>s.
bt, Mary's Hospital.
In reply to J. R.'s request to be supplied with
examples of the softening or omission of the
letter d (and without reference to previous com-
municationa under this head , which I have not
seen), I would mention Moladah (^^7^0), a city
of southern Palestine (Josh. xv» 26)» which was
softened by the Greeks into McLva^a, was further
modified by the Romans into Moleathia and Mo-
leaha, and in the modem Arabic nomenclature of
the country appears as Milh. E* W,
Hatton (vol. ii. p. 406) very prudently .says:^ —
** Why the word Matfellon was added is uncer-
tain ; but the church was called Whitechapel ad
being formerly a chapel of ease to Stebunheath."
The derivation of the word from the Hebrew is
too far-fetched a solecism to carry any weight.
The word Matfellon is old English^ and the name
of the black knapweed, the heads of which are
still used hs a tonic, Lovell spells it Materiilon^
otherwise Matrefillon ; and the monks of Bury-
St.-Edraunds used Vedervoy, Matfelon, and Mag-
worte (feverfew^ knapweed, and wormwood) as
ingredienta in ^'a drink for the pestilence/* The
knapweed probably grew as abundantly at Ste-
bon- heath as Saffron at Audley* St, Anne's in
the GrovCnf or BrierSi is the name of a church at
Halifax. Hinton-in-the-Hedges is a parish in
Nonhunts; Thiatleton, ly Rutland; Nettlebed,
Oxon; Flax Bourton, Somerset; Mychiirch»
Kent ; kc.
Mackenzie E. C. Walcott, M.A.» F.S.A.
ON WIT.
(S^'^ S. V. 30, 82.)
In addition to the illustrations of this word
already published, perhafw the following more ex-
tended etymological inquiry may not be devoid of
interest: —
162
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8>«&y. IkB.M.*Si
The ultimate radical to which the word can be
traced is the Sansk. vid, 2nd conj. Faraflmai. In
inflexion it becomes gunated, as ''yedmi, vetsi,
Tetti/* According to Bopp, its primitive signifi-
cation is 'Widere,** inde 1, percipere, sentire;
2, cognoscere, comperire ; 3, scire ;^ 4, noase, no-
tionem habere ; 5, putare, arbitrari. Causative :
facereut quissciat; certiorem facere ; nuntiare —
indicare. The Ved^aa were the sacred books of
knowledge.
In Greek it becomes TS-m, %X^, having lost the
diffamma. Here it signifies to see, discern, per-
ceive, cTSof, that which is seen, shape, form, image,
fffSwAoK, idol.
In Latin we have the original root in vid'eo,
with the same meaning, branching out into nu-
merous derivatives : in Lithuanian, weizd-mi, toeid'
as; SlsLyoman, vjed-mi,vid'jati; Erse, /e/A, science,
knowledge.
In the Teutonic tongues it is very prominent
and prolific.
Grothic, ffit-an, or vet^^an, to know, be conscious
of ; mt»oth, the law ; Old Low Ger., vU-a, vit-en ;
Old Frisian, i&i7-a, wet'O ; Swedish, v«/-a, vit-ne ;
Danish, vid-e^ vidne ; UolL, wet^en.
In High German the tenuis ^' t " of the Low
Grerman, and the medial " d ** of the classical is
changed, according to Grimm*8 law, into *'8," which
stancu for the aspirate, and the root becomes wis :
tpissen^ to know ; weis-eitj to demonstrate ; weiss,
certain, true, ge-wiss. Anglo-Saxon, wit-an, to
know; irtt, knowledge; wit-ig^ skilful (witty);
wU'ga^ a seer ; witena^gemot^ the assembly of wise
men ; a-wiht, aught ; wiht, or hwit (whit), any
thine that can be seen, however small.
The correlation of seeing and knowing is shown
in the various translations of the following pas-
sage, Matt. ix. 4:— Greek, iS^y toy iydvfirifffis
alnmv\ Latin, " et cum vidisset cogitationes eo-
rum ; " Gothic, " vitands thos mitonins ize ; *' Ang.-
Sax., ^^geseah heore gethane ; '* German, "ihre ge-
danken sake;"' Wicliffe, "whanne he had seen
their thougtes;" Authorised V., ^* knowing their
thoughts."
Another class of words, there is every reason to
believe, has sprung from the same radical idea.
Weiss in German meant originally both "certain"
and " true," and white or bright colour, a relation
which is cquallv found ifl all the Teutonic tongues.
A.S.,hwite; Franc, iciz; OldGer., Airir; Gothic,
iceit; Belg.. loiV; O, L, G., hvitr; O. Sax, Ami/;
Swed., Airi«,- Dan., hviid; Holl., wit. Wachter
says, sub voc, " sapit originem a icissen * vi<iere,*
quia alba sunt maxnne conspicua." Again, " Pro-
prie autcm est pcrspicuus a wissen * ccrnere,' et
dicitur de cerio, quia prisci mortalos ea certa ct
▼era putabant, que in oculos incurrerent." Com-
pire Greek, Atmctff, from K^icvu^ to see; Lat,
eerfttf, from eemo, to perceive.
Wavertree, near Liverpool. J. A. Ptcitm.
On an inscription in Stanford Gharch, Worc»
tershire, to the Right Hon. Thomu WinniagUn,
written by Sir Cluirlea Hanbury Williuns about
1747, the word *' witty" is pbu^ apparently it
opposition to " wise" : —
" Near his paternal seat here bnried lies
The grave, the gay, the witty, and the wise."
Thomas £. WmmwoToa.
Having read with much interest Mb. Prb
Cdnningham*s treatise on •* Wit," in •* N. & Q.'
(3'* S. V. 30), I venture to send you the foUoiist
on the same subject. Wlien Davenant publiiba
his heroic poem, Oondihert^ be prefixed a hjp
epistle " to his much honoured friend Mr. Hohba'
In this preface he has favoured us with a defia- :
tion of " wit." The passage is very long; bni
some of your readers may not possess the booL.'
will transcribe the more remarkable eenteu
and refer the curious to the work itself: —
** Wit is the laborious and the lackv resaltaaetf c
thought, having towards its excellence (as wo ttrdtkt
strokes of painting) as well a happiness as care.'
It is, ill divines, humility, ezamDiariness, and mknr
tion; in statesmen, gravity, vigilaDce, benign cbob^'
cency, secrecy, patience, and dispatch ; io leaden c
armies, valour, painfulnesa, temperance, boonty, ia-
terity in punishing and rewarding, and a sacred ccrtitiit
of promise. It is, in poets, a full comprehenston of i
recited in all these : and an ability to brine those mb-
prehensions into action .... That which ia not^ ja
accounted wit, I will but slightly remember: vhitS
seems very incident to impeHect youth and aicklyaci
I young men (as if they were not quite delivered fi«
childhood, whose first 'exercise is language,) imagiscSt
! consists in the music of words, and believe they are naa
I wise by refining their speech above the vulgar diaka
.... Old men that have forgot their childhood, and Ki
returning to their second, think it lies in a kind of tiak-
ling of words ; or else in a grave telling of wondttH
things, or in comparing of times, without a diacoveni
partiality."
ii
Dryden, in whose prefaces are to be fonad
many instances tending to show that *'' wit'* wus
svnonym for genius (as " Sir George Mockeuie.
that noble wit of Scotland **), defineK it to be *"&
propriety of thoughts and words ; or, in other
words, thoughts and words elegantly adapted to
the subject." Very similar to this is the defini-
tion given by Pope, in his Essay on Criticism:^
** True Wit is Nature to advantsg<* drees'd ;
What oft was thought, but nc*er so well exprcaa'd.**
P. H. Tbepoubt.
Among the thousand examples that may be
brought for the use of this word in the Benae of
wisdom, intellect, verse, &c., Cowley haa out
of peculiar distinction between Wisdom aad TFitf— >
miJLing the latter to be, ai I suppoee, an e^gvd
tool tiSwn out of the armoiiry of Wudom: —
3'< 8. y^ Feb. 20, *e4.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
163
** Wiadom to men ihe did afibrd—
Wiadom for shield, and Wit for fword.*'
Anaereonlie IIL
J. A.G.
The transition from one meaning of the word
wit to the other may be exemplified from succes-
fiiye verses of George Herbert s admirable Church
Porch : —
** When thoQ dost tell another's jest, therein
Omit the oathes, which true wit cannot need.**
(Versa 11.)
** The cheapest sins most dearlj pnnfsht are ;
Becaose to shnn them also is so cheap :
For we have wit to mark them, and to spare."
(Verw 12.)
Again —
** Laugh not too much : the wittU man laughs least :
For wk is newes only to ignorance." — (T^erse 99.)
" Profanenesse, filthinesse, abnsivenesse —
These are thescumme, with which eoarse witM abound."
** All things are big with jest: nothing that's plain
Bnt may be wittie, if thon hast the Tein."
(Verse 40.)
** Wii*t an unruly engine, wildly striking
Sometimes a fHend, sometimes the engineer."
(Verse 41.)
** TTsefhlness comes by labour, wit by ease."
(Verae 49.^
Job J. Babdwell Wobkasd, M.A.
Ham8 Mbmltkc : " Massacbb of the Imro-
CBHTS*' (S^ S. V. 74.) — There is no such picture
now at Bruges. If H. Ward^s work contains
notes of any other paintings by this great master,
or by Roger of Bruges, or Roger de la Pasture
(van der Weyden), your correspondent would
greatly obliee me by oommunicating to me ex-
tracts of such passages.
For scTcral years past I have been engaged in
collecting materials for a complete history of the
School of Bruges. With this view I have ex-
amined a considerable portion of the archives of
the town, and of its dinerent churches and corpo-
rations. ^ I have copied a great many documents
concerning paintinm, some of which disappeared
horn Bruges in 1578 — 84, and many more since
1792. There is reason to believe that a consider-
able proportion of these are in the possession of
private collectors in England. Brief notices of
any paintings supposed to have been imported
from this town would be extremely useful, many
could be recognised at once by the armorial bear-
inffs of the donors.
Permit me in concluding to correct a popular
error concerning Memlinc, reproduced m your
notice of the Arundel Socie^*s publications, lliere
is no proof whatever that the figure looking
tfmnu£ the window in the ** Adoration of the
if«««i^ is « portndt of Memlinc. Indeed, the
l^gena of his poverty and sojourn «t St.
John's hospital appears to be a fiction invented in
the latter half of the last century. Documents
discovered by me in the archives here prove that
he was married and settled here in 1479, and pos-
siblv still earlier. In 1480 he figures in the list
of the principal burgesses of Bruges who advanced
money to the city towards the expenses of the war
against France. His wife, whose name was Anne,
and who bore him two sons and a daughter, died
befi)re September 10, 1487. The painter himself
died before December 10, 1495. (see AAenaum^
Oct. 12, 1861 .) W. H. Jabiss Weals.
Bruges.
CoL. RoBEBT Yenables (3"> S. v. 99, 120.}—
The reprint of the JSxverienced Angler was edited
by the writer, chiefly Induced by the being in the
possession of the manuscript of the Memoir pre-
fixed to that reprint. It was a small quarto, m a
very old hand, apparently a transcript from the
original by Col. Yenables, or by one who knew
bis history. What became of the manuscript
has escaped my recollection; and the error of
'* Toome " may possibly have been in that tran-
script, and passed unnoticed by me while reading
the proof sheet J. H. Buen.
London Institution.
Allow us to correct two errors which we inad-
vertentlv made. For "his friend Dr. Peter Bar-
wick," should be read "his friend Dr. John Bar-
wick;" and for "Life of Dr. Peter Barwick,"
should be read " Life of Dr. John Barwick."
C. H. & Thomtbok Coofkb.
Cambridge.
Who write oue Neobo Soros P (S^ S. iv. 392.)
To complete the record begun by A., it may be
well to add to his note, that Stephen C. Foster
was buried at Pittsburg on Januaiy 21, 1864, and
that over bis grave were played some of his well-
known airs, including his " Old Folks at Home."
St.T.
PhUadelphia.
Thomson the Poet's House ahd Ceixab (1*
S. xi. 201.) — Having a copy of the catalogue of
the effects of Thomson, referred to by Mb. Cab-
buthebs, allow me to correct some mistakes into
which Mb. Cabbutbebs appears to have fallen.
In the first place, the catalogue consists^of twenty
pages, instead of " eight pages octavo ;" and the
library consists of 386 lots, instead of " 260."
The number of volumes is about 514; and the
oldest book (No. 199 of the third day*s sale) is
the 4to edition of // Decameron di Boccaccio^
Venice, 1585. So far as I notice, there are no
pictnres properly so-called ; but there are eighty-
three engravings, including ten^ instead of " nine,"
antique drawings by Castdll ; and the engravings
embrace, apart from those by the masters men-
tioned by Mb. CAB&uTBia&^ «^wsots«sa 'sR^ *^^
164
NOTES AND QUERIEa
[ar^&T. VE^Wi^M}
works of Autlenaerde, Audran, Cesi, JeAumt, Le
finSi Scotin, W. Chateau, Lepicle, KouUet, Sam.
Bernard, DesplaceSt Procaecmi, G, und J. Ede-
linck, Teresa (?), Crozei (?), P. P- Rentenade-
tin (?). The enf^ravinga must have been a choice
Jot, since the subjects named are some of* the more
celebrated works of these eminent artists ; whose
names, by-tbe-bye, are not always correctly gjiven
in the catalogue. It is somewhat curioua that I
should have procured my copy of this catalojiue
at Inverness in 1S62 ; but whether it be the copy
from which Mr. CARBUXttEBS compiled his in-
teresting paper to '* N. & Q." in 1 855, I am not
aware. It is bound up with several other pam-
phlets. The first in the volume h The Art iff
Politickjt^ in Imitation of Horace's Art of Poetry^
with a curious frontispiece, inscribed " Risum
teneatifi amici,*' and which is thus described in
the opening lines of ihe poem ; —
*• If to a Human Face Sir Jamvn ahoald draw
A Gelding'a Maoe, and Feathers of Maccaw»
A Lady's Bo»oin, and a Tail of C<kU
Who could help laughing at a Sight so odd? **
The "Sir James''' alluded to in these lines is
Sir James ThornhilL Can any of your corre-
pondents inform me who wrote The Art of Pali*
chtf It consists of thirty-six pages 12rao, and
km this imprint : —
" London ; Printed for Lawton GiLUVKit, at Hamer^§
Head^ against Sl Duntiaii* CbarcbT in Fteet-stred,
Mofxxxrx,"
A. J.
Gaiwsdobough Psatsb Book (3"* S. v. 27.) —
Gurnill, the engraver of the plates of the Grains-
borough Prayer-Book, was a self-taught artist,
who dwelt at that place during the latter years of
the eighteenth century- He was, I believe, a
brazier by trade. My father, the late Edward
rSbaw Peacock of Bottesford Moors, knew him
* when he was a boy, and more than once bought
engravings of him. One is now before rae^ of
which I never saw or heard of another copy. It is
. called " A Draft of the two remarkable Rounds in
he River Trent, near Bole and Burton, Notting-
hamshire : GurnilU Scidpt., Oainsbro', 1795."
Size, 13^ by 8| inches. Cruruill was also a seal
engraver ; but his works in this line of art were,
if 1 may judge from the only specimen I ever saw,
And which I use in closing this letter* of a very
[-rude description* I think lie died aliout the year
rlSlO, EnwARD Peacock.
Bottcafofd Manor, Bfigg.
"' uNKs (3'* S. iv. 401.)— If Randulph de
, Earl of Chester, was grandson of
\\ A\ivr ic Espagne, I presume that it was through
I'hts father, who had the same name as him^i'lf ; an
his mother Maud was sister of Hugh Ltipui*,
whose parentage is well known. I cannot find
any account of the descent of Randle Menchines
the elder in Dugdale, Ormerod, or otlier w
which I have access. Can you refer me
authority for the statement of your corre^pnti I if
I shall be obliged to any one who will d-^ • , -•
his concise note says enough to tantalize^ bur :; :
to satisfy. Siu h
Spbisqs (:!'*• S. V. 119.) — It is suhi
reference to the explanation given ? i
that, by ** mlemn springs^*' Collins can banily hmt
intended " quick and cheerfid tunes/* And doeanol
the contejtt^ and especially the expression •*dyinj
gaies^** point rather to some natural sound Uiaa 19
tunes ** on a musical instrument " ? E
CoLn IW Jo WE AND WaRMTH at CirB19TMAS (^
S. iv. 159, 295.)— Archbishop Laud, in his Di^
remarks, that June, 1632, '^ was the coldest Juoi
clean through that ever was felt in my memmf*
The previous January was " the extremest mt
and warm January that ever was knowa In m-
mory/' The Christmas of 1632 was a *^wm
open'* one. In 163^, ^Hhe extream hot and ftfH
October and November, save three dajs* fal,
the dryest and fairest time. The lenTetiOCiV
off the trees at the beginning of Deceiiiba;^
vraters so low that the barges could not |«l^
God bless us in the spring, after this ptm
winter."
The following December he notices^ the letttt
being still on rhe elm trees: "Dec. 10; thi
nigbt the frost began ; the Thames almost ftoMi
over." W. P*
SAiirr SwiTHUf's Dat (!•» S, xU. 137, 258 ; S^
S, xii. 188,239.) —
' 1623, July 15. St Swythin: A very fair Ajjr tSt U^
1
wftrdi five at night. Then great extr«niitjr
and lightning} much hurt done. The lantfaons cf Sti
Jamcis^s House hlasted^ the vane bearing the ptioei^
arms b^Aten to piecen.
^ 1028, July 15. St Swithiu**, and fair with H^*—
Arcbbisbc^p Laad*s Diaru.**
ToRSSPiT Dogs (3" S. ii. 219.) — About twdft
years ago I dined oflT a leg of lamb at one of ih^
hotels at Caerleon, which I had seen cooking Vf
the aid of a turnspit dog. The dojj was perrhied
in a box near the ceiling, on the left hand aidt o^
tJie Bre. I afterwards bad the dog brought into
the room^ and giive him some of the lamb be Iii4
roasted. Ali'rei> Joarf Dtmajst.
Dartford.
Charles Hrhhebebt (3*^ S. v. 117») — He wat
assistant for the French lanf^uage to the Pro<fcnor
of Modern History in this University, and lUi
French poems in the Univ " ^ns on
the marriage of the Prince •'!, and
the marriage of Frederick Prni! • oi ^\ lut-, 173^
C, H. k TiiOMPfo?e Cooras.
Cambridge.
I
Thu Beoad Abbow (^^ S. xiL 346.) — Per<
ceiTing that jou have not yet obtained any satis-
factory replies as to the origin and first use of
this national markf I be^ to forward the accom-
panjing cutting, which may reopen the inquiry : —
" The bow and the arrow were so nAtloaallsed in the
mffectlooA of the Eoglish by G<Mitribating to their sofflty^
and miQisteriDg to their pieaiorei, that these weapons
insensibly become emblems of the power and soTereignty
" ■ ■ ' ' ' „ ' ^ ' ]' >f *
nfttnral than toatthe emblem of a nation ^s power and
of the king, who was the legitimate rcpreseutative of the
might and majesty of the people. What, then, more
sovereignty should be used to identify the property of
that natioa? And this, we believe, was the reason, com*
bined with its simplicity of fonn, why the * broad orrow '
was selected in preference to other avmbols for the mark*
ing of oar national property/' — United Service Magasine,
RicKARDSOK Family (3'^ S. v. 72. 123.) — I ob-
ved in tlie Calendar of Inquests for the County
Worcestert one taken at the death of " Co nan
^hardson, gent, 13 Eliz." It will be found
among the compotuses of the Exchequer at the
Public Record Office, where olsd are tne inqueata
of William Messy, 5 Hen. VIH. ; Humfry Mey-
sye, Esq., 33 Hen. VIII« ; and Thomas Meysie,
Ksq., 8 Eliz. Probably these documents would
supply your correspondent with some informal
tion.
There is no record of a grant oCany abbey lands
to the RichardsoDs; but the brothers, William
and Francis Sheldon, were lai^e purchasers of the
Pershore manors. C. J. B.
Sbals (3^ S. T. 117.)— Such a seal as M.M, S.
describes was found not long since near Rich-
mond, in Yorkshire. My informant told me that
on minute inspection he discovered a female
figure in the sheaf of corn, and the seal bt>re the
suggestive motto, in Norman-French, of " Food
for the convent." C. J. R.
Leigh or Yobkihibb (3'* S. v. 116.)— A Wil-
liam Legh was an escheator in Yorkshire, 15 & 16
Hen. V]ll», and in the latter year an inquest was
held before him on the death of a Thomas Legh,
E»q. C. J. R.
Yicux (3^ S. V. 117.) — S. P. Q. R. can ob^
tain all the information wanted by referring t^o
my couain*8 book —
•* Vichy ct see environs par Loula Piesse« Auteur do
i*Itinctraire de TAlgt^rieL Paris: Librairie dcL. Hachcttc
et Cie, Boulevard St. Germain, 77."
CH4&LE8 PlESSK.
DuaocoBRivis (3^* S. ▼. 1 19,) — See Siukcley'd
IHnerarhim Curiomm, foL ed. I724p p. 100. The
Doctor Bays : —
"* From Ditostable the Itinerary (Iter Eomanum V.)
leads as mit of the rood going straight to Verttlam, and
Ukesin another station by the wav, Darocobrivis» About
I
this station antiquaries have been much di%4de<i, when it
certainly ought to be placed at Berghamsted (Berkhamp-
Bteod) m Hertfbrdstnre, which well suits the aaaigned
distances from Magiortntum (Dunstable), and the sub-
sequent Verolanlum, and has evidentlv been a Roman
town, as its name imports ; and probably the caatte there
stands upon a Bomon foundation. Tis certain Roman
coins are frequently found there,"
Here follows a description of the castle : —
**Thl8 town fully answers the distance in the Itioemry,
and remarkably the import of the name, according to Mr.
Boxler'a derivation, though he erroneously places it at
Wobuni, cimtas paludoji profiventis^ For here ia a large
marsh or bog, wherein the ancient British oppidum was
placed.'*
Stukeley considers Maiden Bower undoubtedly
a British work. J. D. M. K.
BaiTisB IjiSTiTtTiON (3"* S, V. 95.) — The
British Institution was founded on June 4» 1805^
and the first Exhibition opened January IS, 1806,
It was established for the exhibition and sale of
the Works of Living British Artists, and still
continues on the same principles. I am going to
the private view of this year's show to*morrow
(Feb. 13), and it will be opened to the public on
Monday.
In the year 1813 the Directors commenced a
second series called Stunmer Kxhibttioos, consist-
ing of the works of deceased artists j the first two
of which contained the works of English painters.
Th(i Jtrstt those of Sir Joshua Reynolds only; the
second, those of Hogarth, Zuflany, Gainsborough,
and Wilson, Subsequently, and up to that of last
year inclusivct they have contained the best works
by deceaied painters of all countries, borrowed
from the Royal and other collections* I have a
complete series of both these catalogues.
The Spring Exhibition opens generally on the
second Monday in February^ and the iummei* one
on the second Monday in June.
Wm. Suitu.
Ei^EAHOR d'Olbiectse (S'* S. v. 11,) — Her
parentage and the descent of her family (the Des-
miers, Seigneurs d'Olbreuse) is ^iven in IHcliott*
noire de la Noblesse^ par de la Cheitayc dts Bais^
vol. v. pp. 581-2, 4to, Paris, 1782. Farnham.
RESDEftECTioK Gate (3^* S. v. 68 ) — Dr. Rim-
BAtiLT asks for the meaning of the inscription
" A. P. 3"* " in the carving upnn the Reaurrectioii
Gate, St. Gilea's-in-the-Fi^ld!«. It is agreed that
this carving was executed in the year 16d7| which
was the third year of James 11. I think, there-
fore, we may reasonably conclude that the pre-
sent P. waa originally an K , which has had the
misfortune to be decawloied ; and we n>ay then
read " Anno Regis tertio.*' E. V.
Nkwhaven in France (3'« S. v. 116.)— In
former times Cape la Howvi^'^^^^^\ax\<:/^^^*'^^"
haven by ibc ^n^v^V. KX^^^^^'-^^'^ -
166
NOTES AND QUERIES-
C8r«&Y. f)ni.M,'(4
NOTES ON BOOKS* ETC.
Tk€ Work* of WHUam SkaJupeare. The Text revieed bv
ike Kev. Alexander Dyce. In :^iglU Foiumes. Vol. ll.
Sectmd Edition. (Chapman & UalL)
This second volume of Mr. Dyce's revised edition of
Shakspeare contains, The Comedy of Error* i Muck Ado
about Nothing; Lovers Labour** Loat; A Jlidtummer**
Night* s Dream ; and The Merchant of Venice ; and is
characterised by the same evidences of sound scholarship
and familiarity with the writings of the contemporaries
of our great dramatist, which we have already noticed,
as distinguishing Mr. Dyce'a labours as an editor. We
think the volume before us furnishes unmistakeable evi-
•lenco that, as he worms to his work, Mr. Dyce is dis-
posed to exercise greater boldness in recognising and
adopting suggested amendments of obscure passages, let
the originators of such suggestions be who they may.
XxiA he is right in so doing. But we wish that m cor-
recting the errors, or what he considers the errors of
others, he would consider what is due to his own posi-
tion in the world of Shakspearian criticism; and not
descend, as we regret to find ne is too frequently disposed
to do, to speak slightingly, and sometimes contemptu-
ously, of the labours of those who are engaged like him-
self in the endeavour to make as perfect as possible a text
of the writings of Shakspeare. The day when we shall
see such a text is not, we think, far disUnt ; and to none
of the many who have devoted themselves to the attain-
ment of this great result will the thanks of the admirers
of the great bard be more justly due, than to the accom-
plished editor of the volume which has called forth these
remarks.
Leechdonu, JVortcunning, and Starcraft of Early Eng-
land ; being a Collection of Documentg. for the mott pari
never before printed, iUuetrating the History of Science in
this Oiuntru before the Nonnan Conquest. UoUeeted and
edited by Theliev. Oswald Cockayne, M.A- (Vol. I.)
Published wider the Direction of the Master of the
Rolls, ( Longman. )
While the majority of the books which have as yet
been printed by the authority of the Treasury, and under
the direction of the Master of the Rolls, treat of the acts
and iloings of the people of England and of their rulers,
the present volume is altogether of a differeut character,
and is a contribution — and a most valuable one— to our
knowledge of what the {leoplo thought and believed in
the earlier periods of our history. We have here most
curious and interesting specimens of the botanical and
medical knowledge of the Anglo-Saxons; their belief in
charms and amuleLn; their magical and mystical prac-
tices; and iu the very learned I*reface by which the
Editor introduces the Saxon Herbarium, Leechdoms, and
Charms, which are hero printed, he investigates how tar
our ancestors had a knowledge of their own of the kinds
ami powers of plants, and how far they hail acquired
such knowledge from a study of Greek and i^tin writers.
The book before us is one which will excite as much in-
terest in Germs nv as in this country, for in throwing
light upon the Folk Lore of Eughind,' it illustrates that
of our Teutonic bicthreu; and certainly, ihr* prcjwnt
volume doi's throw consideral)le light upon thekuowkdge,
tlie supvrstition.s and wo may add also, upon tho lan-
guage of our forefathers.
HandDmik ofthr Caihedttth of England, JVesfern Did-
rijiion: Bristol, GloHcister, Jlertfurd, Worcester, Lich-
Jitld. With Jllustratimut, (Murray.)
This new contribution to a pictorial history, in a mo-
'leratc compass, of those magnificient specimens of
eccleeiastical architecture ^ oar rathwlTila — viB bt wel-
come to many classes of readers, at v«U u to all theie
who delight, like Browne Willis^ in visitiDg thew moin-
ments of the piety and skill of oar finvfintlien. Hie in^
cathedrals dracribed in the present yolame have all m-
dergone extensive restoration and repair daring the Istt
five years ; and the editor of the work before ai hai hid
the advantage, not only of the recent writiagt of Piiift—
Willis, Mr. Godwin, and Mr. Bloxam on ■nbjoetf cot-
nected with it, but the book has received reviik» hm
the various distinguished profeeiionAl men, wbo hcf«bs«
engaged in restoring those cathedrals to tbeir
beauty. The work is illostrated with eome «
wood-cuts, and forms an indispensable hand-book to
tiquariee, and art-students about to visit and e
western cathedrals of England.
Debrete* UluiiraUd Peerage and SarotmteufB of At Vwitd :
Kingdom of Great Britain and Irdomd^ 1864. (B» )
worth & luirrison.) <
This is indeed an old friend with a new face ; for lidt€.
was for years the, if not the only. Peerage the fashieoib
world consulted. The present is, we beOere, the r*~
and most compact Peerage which contains the \
arms of the Peers.
BOOKS AJ^D ODD VOLIJIUS
WANTSD TO PUBCHA8B.
PutIeaIwgofFriee,ae..of thflfoUowiac Books to bo M^Ae^to
thauMtltmen Iqr wiMMn tWare nqiilrtd;aBd whow aasBM^i*-
dreMcs are given for thai parpoMt—
Nbwu FBuai Fowuf, ko. One aheet quarto. 1649.
Wanted by JTr. RfAert Jlorris, Biehmood Hone, :
Cherter.
ni.
DoDHur't Oui Plavs. * Volfl. 11.
l*xowett, 18a»-7, In 11 Toli.
Wanted by Ihr, DitchjUhU IS. Taviton Stieet, Oordan
Bbkbt's Kairr rsniuRse*. Fulio.
Wanted by Mr. J. J. IluicanU i. Afhbnmham Terrace, Grecnvki
Blomfuld'i NoaroLK. Vol. Vlfl. Perkins*! Svo editioB.
Wanted by Mr. Uto. Bark, London Street, NorwMu
fiatitti to Corretf^otOleiitf «
Thb MiiLiToa Bocoii. Then ar^. many tmtKtiom*, ^oSk m M
rountry ami on the. eonthunt, umilnr to that oh urhieh tMiT^mM^e
Jhumded,
G. M. C. iChclmafurd.) 1/ our Cttrrcsitomlrnt will t-omfHum.^,^
ourFtibliatur,he teiU itrobabljf be aUc to ^pplg the. missimf Sms^
and imilfxc.
A. B. willJtHd tMelimc-
" When Greek Jolna Oraek, Uien oomc* the tug of war *■
in ynt. Lce'M Alezaodcr the Great.
LiaYA. H'e txmnot ducnrfr iti any lift of the aaimtn the iir y *
llumolu,St. Jinniyio, oH't ,St. Itaexv. ^'ir Cvrreffuviu/mf, Aot(w«r,MV
t'rmnult Dr. Cuiiyrr* MiihllrtoH4 Jitter frutn Kume, edit. ir«l, w>
161. ihO; ti^fthtr u-ith A Plain Aittver to Iir. Mkldlctun'n Z^cttcr.t***
1711 Omtult alifo the R' v. T. Sfviitft tpurt. The Conflormifer WtW
Pot«ry and Paganiui, hto, I74C.
<)TO!«ii?ifrs. The inin'ription <m the iniU'j^tal at Mot timer 'm Crvmu
printoi ifi Tho Ucaatltt uf England and Wales, tI. MO.
J. 8. 1 Birmingham.) liou»u,intuxietittiLiiiimit>'xblM Jrom the Timuf
boiMon, tiri'ni; piUatiom. in Firming' s riruch DwUonary, wt rtoi
c/** liovtoH yftmienmc (aom tpie fivrtatt utttr*foit la 6■^rf ),'* oasr.
EuvALA^rAirriR uillfihitu dirtrtino ncC"Hmt '•/ 'Ar /rfnAJM X«r ^
Leap I'enr in our Xsd S. I. ^.
TunMA* Dry. The. fj-imct j'rot.i lUu-i'ur on Crinolines in J*larini^
pfurrd I a onr 3rd 8. jil. tA.
"NoTi:* A^o QcPHiK*'* i* jfttMithtd a* noon tut Friday, amd isei^
i**iud in M<i.<«TBLT Pabta. The .iidHt^Ttption for Stampsb Ob«»ai t^
Si, MnHih" J„rtciinled 'Ur,i.f mtm thf l-nhlidur {inelmtima the Hatf^
yailii Ihukx) w lU. 4if., irAiVA u,tt}i b< pnid hy /\m| CMba OHer,,
iNi.,.t'./i- ut th< Stntnd Voft OJuf, in tnvftur of William OF. ffntni,**
Willi .\OTOM (^asrr, Htmand, W.C, to M-hom all I'—ninirmesw ran
THi KoiTOH Jikimkt be a^tirtMM.
** NfTfEa & QuERiKs '* ij registered for transniMion abnwi
SLV. Fw.27.Hi4.]
NOTES AND QtTEBIE&
167
L0SJ>Oy, SATURDAY^ FSBRUAMY ^, imi.
ooNTEXTSw— N». na.
r— Th«» W*>ftl "PvnpM***," jH B^mftlosrr ^Dfi Sig-
itirt — "Albu-
rn — E*xjth of
- ■Men
' V — Lord
tof Liff-
of
. _ ..aas
- yuitri —
ll»vius
11 — CoJ.
~Lh)W
I'maco —
' Cuncjius E«5«x
uafordj ScAl —
IB06U.A&
WOKD "PA^rPnLTTT," TTS ETTMOLOGT
AND SIGNIFICATION.
Ipood dea.1 has been already ^d in these
t BS to the origin of this word ; but it has
struck tne that any improveraent has beea
,e upon the conjectural derivations of Minsheu,
lea Davjes Oldys, and other etyiuologiats. 1
e no siigge*ti'n> mv. li" t,> make u\)On the point,
purpose to y illustrAtloriS to the
\er aad p^c^L , Lation of di^^ word. I
lannot, how<nrer, retrain from of
ihe opportnnity (o cm tor niy i i^he
*par un flkt" ist» i thiuk, pro-
»ounded. Notlt juiars to me more
probiible than iLiit a pilatcd sheet, or sheets,
wever attaehed together, should be so termed
I French : except that wc shoidd have adopted
^nd corrupted the term, if bile the original inTen-
ors should have so forgotten it as to style it
root Aiiglaia,'* from the Manud Lexiqne^ 1755,
4) the last edition of the Diet de VAcadhme.
If I am compelled to adopt a foreign etymology,
el. ,...11 ' -tamiy prefer to derive it from the old
i pabtte^ a palm, or hancl's breadth ;
., t,fi].. .t... .» > +1,;^ Ijcinir the deriva-
_e, who^e remarks
/, cent. 1, XX vi.)
iblc in themselves
ig much in a few
Perhftpe an earlier instance of the use of the
word cannot be adduced than that in the PhUo*
hihlon of Richard de Bury, written in the four-
teenth century. Deecribiug in elocjuent terras
his ardour as a book-collector, and his intense
love for the objects of hb darling punuit, he
excUims: —
" Sc'd rereta tibrat aon librai maiuiraus, CodfMsquA
pluBquam floretsos^ ic pan^leit^ eidguoji incrofSAtis pna-
tuUmufl palafridis.'* — jITS. HarL^ foL m Ai MS, Cbtt..
fuL 111 a.
Here the learned Bishop of Durham probably
Latin iacd a word already in colloquial use i for 1
do not recollect another miitance of its occurrence
io mediaeval Latin, and it will be sought for in
vain in the Lexicotui of Ducange and Charpcn*
tier. A century and a half later, the word is
used in its English form by Caxton in his Boke
of 'Entydoi^ ctmipyted bif lyrgile , . . translated
oute of Latine into Frcnshe^ and oute of FrcjiMht
reduced into Englystthe^ ^r., folio, 1490 : —
•• Afl«r dyversa Werkes made, tronslatct), and achieved*
liavittg &09 werkc in bmide ; I, ulttyng in mv Studye^
vrbercAB laye many dyversQ PaunJUUit ittd BocSu^*' ^€.
It is evident that iu these esses the word is
used in coatradLitinction to hook^ as denoting
simply the comparative size of the document^
witDout any reference to its kind. The word,
indeed, was necessarj-, as the term '* tract,*' which
we now use in n simdar sense, though especially
with a rdmoui signification^ was then ap[<liLd to a
treatise ofwhatever size or character it might be.
Thus Wooldritlge, in the preface to his ^St/ sterna
Ag^rictdturtBj 1081 (afoliovolumeot more than400
pages), speaks of the ** succeeding trad** — just as
a posthumous volume of Dr, Thon»as Brown is
entitled by its editor, "Certain Miscellany Tmcts.**
For this simple signification of the word pamphlet^
Oldys contends, in the curious ** Dissertation on
Pamphlets," which he contributed to Morgan^s
Ph^gnix Britannicm : —
** And thus tlie word Pamphtetf or Utth paper \3o6kt im-
ports 00 reproachful character, any more than the word
iJrtikt Book^ sigailiea a Fasquil, as littie as it does a
Panegyric, of iteelf. Is neither (jood nor Bad, I^eamcd
nor Illiterotc, True nor FoIms, Serious nor Joeolat, of its
own naked M««inmg or Construction; but it either of
thwM, accoraiog s« tU' um keg the DiitmctioD,
Thiu of scucrikMia an! ! amphlei*, to b« baraed
•■,,f^. \t..\7 ^e rond ill ^^„^;.„.. , , j; and bv the namo of
i the Encomium ot Queen £mma called in
But Oldvs, when thus contending for the siimile
meaning of the word, must have been aware of its
tendency to acquire a more complex signification,
and that it had come to denote the ktnd^ a» well
as the Mise of the work ; or perhaps^ indeed, the
first without regard to the latter. Thus, as Dr*
Nott has njmarkcd in his notes to Dekker, this
word, DOW applied almost exclviSAN^Vt ^ ^ y*'*^'**'
NOTES AND QUERIES.
I
poetical one. Thus, Biiliop HuUt In his Satires
(1597), bos: ~
" Tet when he hath my crabbed Pamphlet re*d»
Ai oftentimes u Philip hath been dead."
Virgedemiarum^ Sat I. book iT»
And Marston : —
** These notet wen bettor sung 'mong bettor sort.
But to my jMM^piUBf fevr, save foots, resort.^'
Scourge of Viilany, Sat. IV- book L
While Robert Arniin, in the *' Address to the
Reader," prefixed to his curious poem, Theltahan
Taylor and his Boy (1609), says : —
** I have to thy pleasure, and ray no great profile,
written this Pamphlet, oncly nir Adventure in presuming
into the hands of so noble a Patron/* &c.
But, a century aud a half later, the word seems
to Lave become signt^cant of political treatises
especially, in a much more definite sense than it is
at present used. Thus, Dr. Johnson says of
Swift:-
**He entered npon the clericAl state with hopes to ex-
cel in preaching; but comphiiimd tbut, fiom the time
of hit political controversies. *he could only prench
pamphlets J '*^Live$ of the Poet* (Swift).
While Harris, giTing the word aa unfavourable
sense, warns the young against ^-
^ That fungoua growth of novcli and pam^ieti^ where,
It is to be fearedi ibey rardy find an}^ rational pleasure ;
aod, more rarely still, any solid improvement."— /JTermeai,
book ill.
By the way, Swifl himself bad humorously
expressed his contempt for the class of literature
indicated at this time by the word, by placing the
slender-bodied warriors in the rear of the literary
army.
" The rest were a confused multitude, led by Scotas,
Aquina.% and Bellarmine; of mighty Bulk and Stature^i
but without either Arms, Courage, or Discipline. In the
hut Place came infinite swarms of Cdhnet, a disorderly
R<Mit, led by Lestraoge : Rogues and Eaggamuffins, thnt
ibllow the Camp for nothing but the Plunder, all without
Coats U> cover iiiem"—Batld of the Book*.
So much for the word in Englbh^ As to French,
idthough your correspondents would attribute to
it tt French origin, I am not able to call to mind
mn early instance of the use of the word in that
language. Voltaire, in his ETamen Important de
M^rd Bolin^broke^ informs us that —
** Grub-Street est la rne oil Ton imprime la plupart des
mmny »ih jHitnphUu qu'on fait joarncliement h Londres."
And in the more modern edition (I2mo, L'An
vUi*) of La JJunciade^ by Palis30t--7io/ in the
older one (1771, 2 vols. 8vo), where Uie couplet
sUnds altogether diderent — ^wc have :
** . . . Morellet^ dlstillont lo iMkiaoa
D*ua noir pampideit pense <%aler BufTon.**
I merely, however, cite the*>e paasage* to show
that the word is generally used in an unfavour-
able sense in French ; where^ indeed, it la often
employed to designate a libellous or per«oiiil#
lack: "Cest une libelle atroce, — un pasnlii
meme,^' will be said of such a production, wilW
any reference to the size of the work. So the autJv
of La Minerve Fran^Ue (4 vols. 8 vo, Paris^ ISU;
say, in their address to the public : —
** Les person nallti^ les moyens dc scaiidale,
i^trftncer&; d^fonseura t^is des principes, noiian^
t\ii% a*hf)norable succ^ ; en un mot, d(>iis compoadOifl
livre, et noujs n'^rivons point an pamphletj^
With regard to the derivative
which we find written ** pampheleter" ia
who has the phrase ^to pamphlet on a peniftr
and Greene, who, in his Pier('e*8 Supef iir^^tm
or New Praise of the Old Asse {159^\, mfk
Delone, Stubs^ and Armin, ** the commoo
phleteers of London, even the painfuUeat
clera too,** &c. ; and says of his anta^nist
that —
** He weeneth himself a special penman* aa hi w
head man of \ho pamphletimg crew."
And of his manner of writing —
^^ I have seldom read a more garish and pidbdAit^ I
in any scribbling inkhomiat ; or tasted a mora uai
alaump-paump of words and sentences in any i
pamplileteer, that donounceth not detianc« ags&M H* I
rules of oratory, and the direction of the £figliab ^at ]
taiy"
On the other hand, the word ia of com]
recent introduction into the French
and probably first came into use, ex
in tbe truly pamphleteering times of the fini 1
lution. It is found in theZej-iccgrropAia-iVtft,^
GaUica of William Dupre (London^ dnvTl
who sayi that it is
" A word which the French have borrowed froa i
EngHsh, and now apply to the anthors of fagitival
and obnoxious ^7iipA/£<i and brochurea,"
This was the word, it will be remeinbend, '
terrible to the Gallic ear, with which, on Uie ixd
of Paul Loub Ck>urier, the advricate for the ps*-
secution indignantly apostrophised the oslbil^
nate vi^nerou. The eflect q{ this rhetorical 0Mf
upon the court is described in a fine «ttlib«
banter by that able writer ; —
** n m'apostropha de la sorte: VH pmphiikmrti fit*
coup de foudre, noo, do mafiauf. v" Tf - -
dont tl m^asaomma sans remc '
tre mot let jugea, les ttfnioiu %
avocat lu]-m£me en narut (
Je fus coodamn^ d^ Theun
d^ que I'homme du roi m'cn:
je so BUI que r^poudri' ;
tote avoir fait cq qu'ori
oa^ nier. J'l^ia Uonv ; .,
mi^ni, et voyatit i'horrcur ou'un i'
raudttoire, Je demeurui conAis /'— ;
Another passage, from i!
will lead iw to (he Freii'
tnueli^vexed word :—
fty|« 4o PoraMb
t, smilarant Ka-
mot dMdm tiM.
i«na oa Via
wcTlul wrtfcr.
n f»f the m^
i
I S. V. Fee, 27, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
169
Je ne Vol point la, mo dit-U ; mftia c^eBt un pamphictt
. mei sui£t. Alora je luJ demandiu c« que c'ctait qu'uii
' let, ot le flcns do ce mot, qni, «aiu m*etre nouvtiau,
bi-'J^in pour moi de quelqnea explicatione. C'cst,
"it'iJ, tin ^crit de peu de pazea, comme \e votre,
ftiille, ou deux BeulemenL l)e troia feuilles, re>
MT&it-ce encore un pamphlet f Peut-cLre, me
daiif TAceeption comnmQ«>; maui proprement par-
1« pamphlet n'a qu\uie feoiUe aeulc ; deux ou plus
it UD{) brochure. Lt dix fcuUle^? quinze feuilfes?
DRt feuillea ? Font ua volume, dit- il, im ouvrage,'* —
So much for this tmyrd^ about which I have said
much, that I shall be held to have almost
bbieved the things — if, indeed, my illustrations
icape comparison with Gr;iiiajao*s reasons, which
^ere ** as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels
f cfaaflT; you shall seek all day ere you find them,
lid when you have them they are not worth the
rch.*' {Merchant of Venice,}
WiLUAM Bates.
[£dgha5tofl*
I In the ^A^««PMw for November 28, 1 863, the
'igitt of this word is ascribed to an entirely new
arce, of which you may think it worth while to
\te a note. Pamphlet is there said to be —
^M The name of a lady, slightly modified, who first em-
oyed herself in writing pamphletu, who compoeed a
•tory of the then known world, in thirtj-five little
^ka, in Greek, and made the public all the wi^er by her
"itig leaves. The lady was nooe other than the sage
jnphyia, whose works, written in the reign of Nero,
> now lost.**
J. DORAN.
SIR JOHN MOOEE'S MONUMENT.
> Lord Clyde, almost the last of the Peninsular
lroc5, has recently been laid in his well-earned
,mb in Westminster Abbey, and a national mo-
liment is about to be raised to his honour*
Sir John iloore, Protesilaus among the chief-
l^ins of that great war, rests on the ramparts of
■omnna; and this country is indebted to the
-nerosity of a ibreigner for the stone that marks
( resting place.
But it is strange that, for more than half a
•Titurjr, our gratitude for this noble deed has
en directed to one who had no hand or part
I Napier/ usually so accurate, is here at fault.
'i writes (vol. i. p. 500) : —
I** The guns of the enemy D«id his Ameral honours?
M SouU, with a uoblc fccVmg of respect for his valour,
led a monument to hta mettjory,'*
IBriahnont follows suit to Napier, and savs
f ** Marshal Soult canted a monument to be erected over
Tw place where the hero had fallen."
' Then, in the Life of Moore, written by his own
^ther, while no reference whatever is made to
Soiilt, a long and somewhat turgid epitaph, writ-
ten by Dr. Farr, is given in full (Appendix,
p. 2S8), as " Inscril>ed on a marble monument,
erected at Corunna."
JMaxwell, in his Life of Wetlingkm (i. 466),
gives us two inscriptions: the one in Spanish,
which he says was written ** on a small column,
erected to the memory of the British General ;"
the other in Latin, which be tells us ** Marshal
Soult ordered to be engraved upon a rock, near
the spot where Sir John ^luore felL'*
And now, if we turn to the Life of Sir Howard
Douglat^ recently published, it appears (p. 98)
that not one of these conflicting statemeuts are
true. The monument was not erected by Soult,
but by the Marquis de Uomana. The Spanish
inscription, which was really written by the Mar-
quis himself, is quite diflerent from that given in
Harwell's account; while the Latin epitaph,
written certainly by Dr. Parr, at the instance of
the Prince Regent, never was inscribed upon the
monument at all. Sir H. Douglas, with great
good judgment, prevented the obliteration of what
Homana had originally written.
From the official connection of Sir H. Douglas
with this matter, there can be no reasonable doubt
as to the correctness of his account. The course
of error in thb case is easily to be traceil. Na-
pier's partiality for Soult made him too facile in
accepting for truth what would have told so much
to bis credit. Brialmont txK)k upon trust what
Napier had vouched for. It is far from impro-
bable that a copy of the epitaph^ which was
actually written by Dr, Parr, might have been
sent to the family of Sir J, Moore; and so his
brother would naturally conclude that its in-
tended transfer to tlie monument at Corunna was
cai'ried into effect. Maxwell's book is an amusing
t^oliection of sketchy narratives, but it is not
history.
And so it has come to pass that a fact, notorious
in 1810, has been hidden in a mist till 11^63.
Ernor,
PASTICCIO OPERA&
Several years ago (see " N. & Q." 2^'^ S. iv.
251, 320) I had occasion to allude to the fact,
that Mr. Shield's Pasticcio opera of The Farmer,
said on the title-page to be selected and composed
by Wm. Shield, had no nig^ put to the individual
pieces of music, by which to distinguish the te*
lected from the original compo&»itions» a defect, by*
the- way, not unfrcquent in the old Pasticcio
Operas, I then gave thj authority which seemed
to show that "Ere around the huge oak^" usually
attributed to Mr. Shield, was really the work of
Michael Arne. I have since chanced, amongst
the single-sheet songs in the British Muhcum
Library, to come upon one entitled ^^ Great Lord
170
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[a»*s.v.
17, tl
Frog (written by D'Urfey), of which it is said
that the melody is from a favourite cotilion,
while a pencil note calls attention to the fact
that this melody had been used by Mr. Shield in
The Farmer. I accordingly foimd that it was
the music of one of Mr. £dwin*8 songs (in the
character of Jemmy Jumps), beginning " Look,
dear Ma*am."
The opera of Mahmovdj by Stephen Storace,
was published by his widow without a reservation
as to any of the pieces being by other composers.
Loddng over Salieri*s opera, La OroUa di Tro-
fonio^' I found that a spirited base song in it, ** Da
vn Fonte istesso,** had been transferred with some
abbreviations to Mahmoudy where it appears as
llie base song, " Revenffe, revenge, her nres dis-
plays,** sung by Mr. Sedgwick.
There is a song in the Pasticcio opera of ne
Maid of (he Mill (in the part of Giles), beginning
** m be bound to fly the nation," which song, some
five or six-and-thirty-years ago, I heanl Mr.
Bedford sing so effectively as to gain an unani-
mous encore. Both in the table of the songs pre-
fixed to the opera, and on the song itself, the
composition is attributed to Rinaldo di Capua.
Now, in Dr. Bumey's account of 11 Fiheo/o di
Campagna, an opera by Galuppi (see vol. iv. of
the Dr.^s Hitiofy), he informs us that -^
" The base soncy * IIo per loi in mezzo al core,' was
always heard with pleaaore, though song by Paganini,
almott without a voice.*'
This song will be found to be the original of
the one in The Maid of the Mill; the only change
is, that of English words instead of Italian, the
whole of the music being retained. In addition
to the fact that Dr. Burney thus assumed the
song in question to be Galuppi*s composition, I
have met with a book of the printed music, in
which it is attributed to him. It may, however,
be observed that in a MS. score of II FHosqfo di
Campagna in the British Museum, and which
contains several base songs, this particular one is
not to be found. This circumstance may perhaps
(notwithstanding Dr. Burney and the printed
book), force us to allow that Dr. Arnold might,
after all, have had his reasons for the attribution
to Rinaldo di Capua.
Having made these notes, I wish to conclude
with a query respecting a certain song in the
Pasticcio opera of Orpheus and Ewrydice^ said on
the title-page to be composed by Gluck, Handel,
Bach, Saccliini, and Weichsel, with additional new
music by William Reeve. No separate piece has
its composer*s name affixed to it, except one song by
Weichsel. I would ask, who was the composer of
the base song, ^ Let hideous moans,** sung by Mr.
Darley in the character of Pluto ?
On the title-page of the opera of Mahmomd is a
portrait of Stephen Storace, without an engraver's
name. In the autobiographj (privately prnUedy
1843) of the eminent line-engraTer, Abnbi
Raimbach, he tell us that he was the engraver tf
this portrait, which was from a miniature by A^
land (a Swiss), of whom Mr. Raimbach vziki,
that—
"His likenesses were generally very good; lUc if
Stqthen Sioraet being a iottd faShart ma^ be mmSkf »
eoonted for, when it is considered that it was azaciM
almost entirely from description " (p. 28).
I have subjoined these facts as being; interal>
ing both to the collector of Mr. Raimbach*a wodo,
and to the collector of musicians* portraits.
AunuBD Bom.
SomersTown.
The Passiho Beix of St. SEPtnLCHBi*s. -
The following extract from a letter addrened to
the City Press seems to me worthy of preserve
tion in the columns of " N. & Q.** It was inserted
Feb. 20: —
**When the great bell of St. Sepulchre tolls otfi
solemn warning before the public execution of crianrik
few who hear it are moved to pray for those poor siai*
going to execution ; bat yet that was tbe intantioa •
good Mr. Robert Dowe, who, on the 8th of May, 1605, bj
deed of gift, gave 50/., on condition that the pnish of
SL Sepiuchre should appoint some one to go to Kawgati^
about ten o'clock on the night previous to the tiTmtii^
* there to stand as near the window as he can, wh«i thi
condemned prisoners do lye in the dungeon, with a hssA-
bell, given to the parishionerB by the said Mr. Dowci, mi
shall give there twelve solemn towles, with doable sIraiBa:
and then, after a good pause, to deliver with a loodaii
audible voice, with his face towards the prison windsf^
to the end the poor condemned persons may give good
ear, and be tbe better Htirred up to watchfolness isd
prayer/ Then follows a long exhortation to rapentSDoi,
at the end of which he was to toll the bell again.
** This was at a time when executions were Ud it
Tvbnm. and there are further instructions for the nu
when * the cart shall stay a small while against the'
wall, to hear a short exhortation pronounced by
standing bare-headed,' with the hand-bell, aa before. 1W
great bell, which is, properly speaking, the passng-W
was also tolled. I have merely auoted that part of the
deed which relates to a custom long since grown isto
disuse.— I am, &c. \V. U. W."
T.&
Suicides. —
** At the funeral of a suicide at Scone, N. B., some ftitf
women endeavoured, by persuasion and threats, to caaM
the body to be lifted over the graveyard wall instead flf
being carried through the gate. The reason for this ii
supposed to be, that in the event of the body betas
allowed to pass through the gate, the first bride * kiiked*
thereafter will commit suicide within a very short period
after her marriage ; and that the first child carried to cmnch
to be christened, will commit suicide before it reaches tht
age of eight years."— 7%« Guardian, Jan. 20, 186i.
K. P. D. £.
A Genuine Centenabian. — Reading "N. Ac C^**
I find remarks made on ** Longevity ;** and aa I
am personally acquainted with ue following nmt
interesting old man, I venture to send 7011 m finr
at^ & T. Sua. £7, "Si,]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
^
I
pftrtxeulars of his esse ; and sbouM it in any waj
interest jou, and you like to insert it ia your
loagazine, I hope you will do so. I .shjill be iilso
very happy to present you with his photo<?niphic
likeness on ^lasi. HJs nAtne is Richard Purser ;
bom, in 1756, on July 14, — so be will be 108 next
July. He 19 residing at Cbeltenham, and ha«
6jr. BtL a-week allowed him: 4$. 6d from the
partsh, and 2s. a-week from tbe 5L sent annually
by the Queen to the clern^yman of the place ; he
hairing satisfied her Majesty as to the correctness
of ttke statement, and discovered tbe register. He
is a Tery good old man, attending his church
regularly every Sunday, and sacrament once a
month ; and was a regular attendant on the
weekly lectures up to the last two years, when he
was obliged to discontinue some of Ins habits. lie
18 hale and hearty, and has all his tacultles about
him; and is, in every way, a most interesting
person. I visit Cheltenham every spring, and see
him almost daily for two monthiji, and have a chat
with him. Last spring his legB were bent, and
his knees touched, with his two feet bowed oiit«
wards ; but he managed to get about for his daily
strolls with two strong cmtches* He hju» the
most charming countenance, and always looks oa
the bright side of everything*
Wia. Edwakd Bsia.
Colbobnb: Lobds Seatov ajtb Coldosjiii. —
Although two families bearing the name of Col-
borne have been during the present century en-
nobled, the Peerages afford little or no information
respecting the ancestry of either of them.
Lord Seaton, indeed, was, I Mieve, the founder
of his line, and, in a genealogical point of view, a
mnms homo. But Lord Colborne (if the arms
borne by him are a trustworthy indi ration of de-
soent) w *' ■ ' ' ' ' to the Col-
bomesn ily recorded
m the \ i.-in uinjiia VI iinj cuuiitY, iinti entitled to
wear coat -armour.
I shonT' >■ ' -^>d to have some definite informa-
tion on I, as well as corrections and ad-
ditions tL -jjoined particulars of the family,
which are all 1 have hitherto been able to col-
lect : —
A Mr. Colborne of Chippettham was, I have
oildertitood, the father of three sons ; viz. —
Wiljiain of Norfolk, who died without issue.
Benjamin of Bath, whose daughter and heir
married Sir M. W. Ridley, and wivs mother of
Nicholas Ridley Colborne, who was raised to the
paerage in 1839 as Baron Colborne, of West Har-
ling, and died leaving no male issue.
Joaeph, of Hardenhuish House, Wilts, whose
daughter married John Hawkins, second son of
Sir CsDsar Hawkins, Bart. There was also a
djkugUler Emma, who married the Rev. Samuel
Towers.
Mr. William Colborne was, I believe, a gentle*
nan of large fortune, but whether derived from
bereditttxy sources, or acquired in profession or
commeroe, I know not ; and I am equally ignorant
of the reason far the elevation to the peerage of
his great-nephew, Nicholas Ridley. I have some
reason to think that a connection cxiated between
tbe Colboraes and the Branthwayts of Norfolk ;
but here again my information is cxtreaiely_vague,
and I can cite no reliable * authority. WttTJ.
Ebls: "Qr»A8T." — An article on "Eels" in
the Qimrterhf Beview for January last, contains
an extract irom Juliana Berners, wherein the
reviewer interpolates a query thus : "The ele u a
quaysy (quasi f) fyashe. * The lady's " quayey "
IS evidently the old Shaksperian word ** queasy,"
used in Much Ado, Act IL S. 1 : —
•* J, with yonr two lieips, will so nractisc on Beoedickt
tliAt, Id despite of bis auick wit ana his gNeoiy itontadi,
he shall fdll in Io^d with Beatrice."
In Antony and Cleopatra, Act HI. Sc. 6 : ^ —
** Who, giMojry with hia insolonce ulrtady.
Will their good tboughUcall from him."
And in Lear^ Act U. Sc. 1 : ^ —
^^ And I liave one thing, of a fuaoqr qatatioil*
Wliich I must act."
Many years ago I frequently heard the word
applied in Yorkshire to a greasy-stomached man,
who was called "a queasy fellow," The words
UokliMh and qualmish seem to oome near it in mean-
^?- .1.
The reviewer notices the strong aversion wito
which the Scotch regard eels. In corroboratiofi,
I may observe, that when travelling along the
Caledonian Canal, I once fell into conversatioa
with a half-starved, bare-legged Highlandm»l«
who complained of the dearnesa of provisions. I
remarked that food must surely be scarce when
the people of the district were driven to eat ** hill-
kiUed " and " braxy ** mutton ; adding that there
must be abundance of eels in the canal. My
''bag ''-less friend assured me that the mutton was
not so bad as it seemed to a Southron ; but as to
eating eels, *' Na, na,** said he ^ — " snaaks ! "
G.aoFS.
ikntxkH.
FicTiTBJi or TH8 BATTua OF Agincouet. —
Some years ago was exhibited at. Guildhall a large
picture of ** The Battle of Agincourt," which had
been painted by Sir Robert Ker Torter when
quite young, and subsequently presented by him
to the city of London. This painting had been
put away for several years, and was accidentally
* 1 venture to employ this much-abused word, abelter-
ing myself from p«Dal contcqaeuooa under an unituggeitive
NOTES AND QUEEXES.
[3«4 a V,
found in one of the vaulted chumbers under
Guildhall. It vr&& then supposed to be a picture
of great antiquity^ and to have remained con^-
cealed ever since the great fire of London.
What has become of this picture ?
A. CKArrsRS.
Bedfbrd Roir,
" Ai*nuMAZAR/' BY T0MKI8. — There is an edi-
tion of this old pi a J published in 1634, " newly
revised and corrected by a special hand." Is it
koown who was the editor of this edition ? K. L
Akcient Beix-fount>erb. — Having made a
collection of inscriptions from church belb in the
different parts of Scotland, and being desirous to
learn something of some of the makers of them,
laluill feel obli;ied by any of your correspondents
informing me where I can obtain information re-
garding the foUowing makers, viz. Peter lansen^
1643; Ons lleeren, 1526; P, Ost end, Rotterdam,
1684; C. Ouderocci, Rotterdam, 1655; Jacob
Sen 1565; Ian liurgerhuys (1609); Michael Bur-
gerhuys (1624) ; and John Burg;erhuys, 1662,
possibly all three of Rotterdam; and Gerot
Mejert 1656. The dates annexed to the respec-
tive names appeal* upon the bells. A. J.
Booth or Gjldrksome. — Jones, m bis Views
of OentUmetCs Seats^ has the Ibllowing under the
heading of " Glendon Hall ** : —
** Joha Booth, Esq., of Glatlon Hall, in Huntingdon-
iihirp, purchfi««d Glendon H*ill. 1758. The immt^dJAtc
Ancestor of thh brnnch of the family of Booth, and niibifr
of the 11! ir of Gleadoi/JittU, was Mttled at
Oildfe»(i/ tda, Yorkshire; and waa detceaded
from ay,, uch of tho Booiba, of Danham Maaaey,
who Vftr^ oi' great repute in LaDca&fairo and Cbcahixe,
long hefore it arrived to the rank of peerage, ai Earls of
Warrington and Lorda Delamere."
CouhJ any correspondent of ** K. & Q^ give
any informatioTi if there are any desecndantd of
that familr of Booth left at Gildresome, or in that
part of Yorkshire ? H. N. S.
BsoatzE STATUBa jlt Gbahtham. — On the
west front of Grantham church are twelve niches j
it ifl said that these, before the Reformation, con-
tained bronze statues of the A|f>ostles, and that
at the chaniie of relig^ion they were removed and
buried under the floor of the crypt, !■ there
any truth in the legend, ur is it but the vatn
iinaginatioD of some ancient sextoa f
In the crypt of the same church is a stone altar
with raised foot nath^ apparently in it^ original
condition. The slab, however, hm no considera-
tion crosses on it. Have they been worn away f
The stone is white and by no means hard. Or is
thi» an altar erected in the reign of Mary I.,
which had not been dedicated at the time of her
death f Grimk.
Comic Sobegs Trams laticd. — Seeing in
" N. k Qr of Jnn. 23, ah ejtcellent traftdkUoii
into Latin by Dr. Gtasse of the well-kjiowii
sonjT of ** Miss Bui ley,'* I was reminded of
translations into Latin of other comic
amonpt which there was one of *♦ Billy Taylot-
This, if I mistake not, was by the late Eev. C
Bigge^ with two additional versea by Lord Vernon
They were translated by the Rev. C. Horcourt or
by Lord Ravensworth (perhaps by botb^« and west
printed, I believe, at Oxford.
Can any of your correspondents inform me if
the same wero ever published, or wliere to U
other translations of comic pieces ? Tis.
"DrcTioNARTorCores/' — On Erick XIV. rf
Sweden killing the husband of —
" Martha Lejonhufved [she] recairod a thoujiaa4 mili
of pare silver ns blood^money for the maasacra cC Iv
husband und her two sons — disgoMinir wr^mtn ? $» f
thought and wrote, till by chance ti Uy^
beauty of a diamond -shaped coin l' i «^
and the fraternal cipher J, C, twint J ^ ..-....,,. , ^-^^rtla
I looked in the Dictionary of (^tni, and there fbuml Iw
the Ladv Martha^ object of my wraths hjid given dp
thonflaod marks, price of ber ford's and sooa* lilas^^a
aid the rebel caasc« From this ailvur was strudk^ia IM
a coin aiill called Blod-ldippiag."
So says Horace Marryat in his work Om Ymr
in Sweden^ including a Vi*it to tht I^le of G3to4
London: Murray, 1862, 2 vols, Svo^ platoa, f^
1G0-16J.
What is the Dictionary of Coint f Wliere pok-
lisbed, and by whom, idze, and price ?
WiixiJiM DuDGEOK (a fjentleman in Berwick*
shire.) — In the Memoirs of the Life and Writim
of the Rev. John Jackson, Master of Wiggiimt
Hospital in Leicester (Lond. 8vo, 1764)* I fini
mention, pp. 139, 140, of the following work: —
Mr
.Tnnlre
"Several Letters to tbe Revcr^-itjl
William Dudgeon, a Gentleman i'
Mr. JackfiOQ^j Annwers to tbem, i;<n
sjty and Unity of God» the Existeocc i»r
ritUiU Suljitance, God's Mora) GcvemmoTr
the Nature of Ntjceaiitv and Fate, and of i
tioD; and tbe Foandatlon, Distinction, and 0«a.>«qi
of Virtue and Vice, Good and Kvil. WritlfMi la
Veart 17S5 aud 1736, and o^r T^jok^ ^rn-
lea by Mr. Jackaon, one enr ivn^ «■!
Unihf of God pfttrndfrom Kh ' > ' »^f#*. tki
tbe other being Tht Dtfenct of it. Load, tivov 17^7.'
This book is abo briefly noticed bv Waft
It appears that there is in Dr. Will i
Red Cross Street, another work whirii
the attention of both Mr. Jacksor»*s bic
and Watt. It is thus deKTib<?d iu the p
catalogue : —
"^Snme Additional Tvett^re to tbe R«v. Mr.
f^om VViUiam Dud|reoa, with Mr. Jackioit*a Aiaawtit tO
them. Lond. 8%*o. 1737/*
I sIimU be glad to know more of Will tarn Doid*
geon/ S. Y. It
Ma^tih IX a that h% cOT- |
^ftioa
3»^ & V- Fea, 27, '64.]
KOTES AND QUEKIES.
•'An Eastebit Knio'g Deticb,** — Who ti
iTluded to in the foHowm^ ? It is an erased pu*
iBge in the MS. of Addiion'a £tMajf on the Jma-
fhtation : —
*• I beli«ve mMt ratdera ifftt plouftd with the Eiistcra
ting*§ devica^ y* mada hit Gardtti y Map of bw Empire j
»h*?re y» great Roada were n«rf»«it«d bj j* apacimia
^alka and allies^ j* woodt and fbr««ts by little thicketa
ind tufta of Bushca. A crooked rill discovered v^ winil-
bga of a mighty RiTer, and a Snmmor-house or Turret y*
lituatloQ of a bngo City or Meiropoli****
J. D. Campbeli.
Flbtchbr*8 AmiTHHETic.— Is any one of the
Borrespondenta to " N. & Q/* in possession of a
gopy of the following work ? If so, he will confer
1 obligation by permitting me to inspect it ; —
** The T^desman^$ Ariihmittiet in which a shown the
let of common Arithmetic, «o plain and easy, that a
y of anv tolemble capacity may learn them in a week's
Sine, witKout the help of a Maafcer. Halifax, prictad
^y P. Darby, 1761,"
The alxjve does not appear in Professor Dk
!oRGAi?*s " Chronological Liat." The author
iras " Natbnniel Fletcher, a scboolniastcr in
Ovenden, who also wrote a pamphlet entitled,
MethmlUt DUsecied ; err, a DescripiUm of their
Brrorf, T. T. Wujun&ov.
Bamley, Laocaabire.
JoHH GooDTss, of Mapledurbana, in Oxford*
lire, jfl mentioned aa having an extensive and
itical knowledge of botany. Ue appears to
have been living in 1626. Additional particulars
respecting him are much desired. S. Y. R.
tHBHUiG Of WoRCBSTBR. — Edward Villiers,
ond son of Robert Wright, nltiu Dan vers, and
younger brother of Robert V 11 liera, third Viscoont
Jurbeck^ and Earl of Buckingham, married July
B4, 1665, Joan, daughter of William Heming^ a
nbrewer of Worcester, Tbia Mr. Hcming i» i^tated
to have been rdatecl in Dr. Thomas, Bishop of
Worcester. I should be glad to know the precise
gree of relationship, and also to obtain some
rther information respecting the Hemin^ Ed-
ard Villiers was bora at Knighton, co. Radnor,
'arch 28, 1661, and died at Canterbury, 169L
C, J.R.
Thr HoMii.tRs. — ^Taking up a volume contain-
Ig the two books with the Ecclesinslical Canons,
loGCurs to me to inquire why the Uoinilles are now
'ftot read yearly In churches, as orflered? Several
of them are still very pertinent ; and if more
read, and belter known, we could not have our
churches decorated in that extravagant manner
fiplayed in some late exampleji* Perhaps some
of your reverend readers will afTord an ex*
ion. Very few lay persona appear ever to
ead them.
tfi query wife laid aside, but meeting with
following very pertinent query in the ** Arti-
es to be inquired of in the Visitation of the Kev.
Knightly Chctwood, D.D., Archdeacon of Torki*'
in 1705, I forward it, and wait a reply : —
*• And doth your miniater (to ilu? Mid the people may
the better understand* and be the mor*? thoroughly ac-
qaainted with the doctrine and discipline of the Church
of England) poblicly read over unto the people, the Book
of Canons at least once, and the Thirty-nine Articlea
twice every yexti **
W.R
HoR4CE, Ode xjii, — Is it known who was the
trwislfttor of the passage quoted m ne Spectator ^
No. 171? J. D, Campbeh.,
IjrvBimoii OF Irow Defencrs. — I have re-
cently perused, in the Madras Artillery Records,
published at St Thomas^'s Mount, some papers
headed " Extracts from the unpublished MSS.
of the late Sir Wm. Congreve, Bart., the inventor
of the Congreve Rocket," in one of which, written
in 1824, is a suggestion for protecting with iron
coatings the embrasures of Martello towers and
casements, as well as the sides of vessels of war.
Is Sir Wm. Congreve entitled to the credit of
this invention, or is there any earlier record of it?
H. C.
Jrrrmiah Horroces, tur Astronomer. — In
Mr, Whatton's memoir of this great precursor of
Newton, I find the following copy of the register
at Emmanuel College, Cambridge : — ** Jeremiah
Ilorrox. Born at Toxtetb, Lancashire. Entered
Sizar, May 18, 1632.'* In an earlier portion of the
same work, Mr. Horrox is said to have been
** born at Toxteth Park, near Liverpool, in the
year 1619.'* If this be correct, he must have
entered at Cambridge when only thirteen years of
age. This circumstance, cou[>lcd with the many
works he had written before his death, on Jan, 3,
16*ft, leads me to inquire whether any register of
his birth, or baptism, is known to exist? As there
was only about one church in Liverpool at that
time, the point might perhaps be settled by an
examination of the registers there. May I request
some of your correspondents to make the search?
T, T. WiLJtmsoN-
Bnmley, Lancashire.
Medieval CDnRCHES withik tbr BouicnA-
RiES or RoMA!( CampSs — ^At Caistor and at An-
caater, in Lincolnshire, at Great Casterton and
at Market Overton, in Rutlaiul, and at Castor, in
Northamptonshire, the reroaina of Roman camps
exist. It is a noteworthy fact, that within the
boundary of each, and within a few yards of the
western wall at each place, is a mediieval church.
Do these churches occupy sites of Roman tem-
ples ? And has this peculiarity been noticed in
the sites of other Roman camps that are to be
found at the present day in Britain ?
STAMFORDtBItSIS.
MxLBORKK FAMTI.T. — John Mllbomc of Al-
lestcy [Alveston ?], co. Gloucester, who was
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ST.'Si
descended from the ancient family of Milbome of
Milborne Port, and Dunkerton, co. Somerset,
the eldest son of George Milborne of Wonastow,
CO. Monmouth, Esq., by Christian his wife, the
daughter of Henry Herbert of Wonastow, and
grand-daughter of William, third Earl of Wor-
cester, appears to have married three times. I
shall feel obliored for any information respecting
name and family of his first wife. Also the family
of his third wife, whom he mentions in his will
dated July 21, -1661, and proved in London, May
16, 1664, as his " beloved wife, Anne Lady Mor-
ffan.** His second wife was Susan, daughter of
Thomas Clayton of Alveston, Esq. I also wish to
know what issue there was by each marriage, and
the names of the several children.
Thomas MmioumN.
1, Basinghall Street, £.a
Hanitah Morb*8 Dramas. — There is a German
translation of Hannah More*s Sacred Dramas,
Can you give me date and name of translator ? Is
the name of translator given in Fernbach's Thea"
terfreund in 3 vols. 4to, 1849 ? R. L
Thb Pratts, Baroitets of Coleshill, Co.
OF Berks. — Henry Pratt was an alderman and
sheriff of London, and received the honour of a
knighthood, and afterwards a baronetage from
Charles L m 1641. He purchased the manor
and estate of Coleshill in 1626, and died there
1647. A very handsome monument is in Coles-
hill church to his memory.
By will, now in the prerogative Court, dated
1648, he names three children, George, Richard,
and Elizabeth. He entails his estates upon his
son, and heir, George Pratt, and his male issue ;
and in the event of failure of such nude issue,
then to his daughter and her male issue. To his
son Richard Pratt he leaves the sum of 5/., and
farther expresses himself thus : ** and my desire
is, that he may not possess my estate.**
Burke, in his Extinct Baronetage of Pratt,
Plydall, or Foster, makes no mention of this
Richard Pratt, or his sister Elizabeth, or their
issue. I shall feel greatly obliged to any reader
of " N. & Q." if they can supply me with any
particulars respecting the marriage and death of
this Richard Pratt, say from 1648 to 1700.
I hare in my possession a large China juf
bearing the arms of Sir Henry Pratt of Coleshill,
and this has descended to me through several
generations. My ereat-grandfather, Joseph Pratt,
was grandson of Richard Pratt, and consequently
great-grandson of Sir Henrv. He died at Cla-
Terdon, in the county of Warwick, August 8,
1786, aged eighty-eight years. He came to re*
nde at Claverdon about 1728. The family had
lived at or near Southam, in the same county.
Any information will be thankfully receired re-
lating to this Richard Pratt and lua immediate
iflflue. Gkobgb Pbatt.
John's Town, Carmarthen, Sonth Wales.
Parliament House at MACHTwrxarH. — h
Welsh Sketches, 3rd series p. 74, 1S54, 1 read the
following : —
*<The great event of the dosing year (1402) wit tb
Welsh Parliament, which assembled at Machynlleth, ia
Montgomeryshire, in which the claim of Owen Glyndvi
to the princedom was solemnly confirmed. A part of ths
most interestinff relic, the old Parliament Hoiue, ctiE
exists. It should be preserved with reverential care b? p
a nation to whom are justly dear the recollectaoos of their
brave anceston» contending for ancient liberty."
May I ask if it has been " preserved,*' and what
condition it is in at present ? What is its sist
and are there any engrarings extant of it?
Chas. Wuxiami.
Patbioiav Familbs of Bru88ex8. — I laie
only been able to discover the names of five ta
of the ^* seven patrician families of Brusaels." Ca
any correspondent of ** N. & Q.** oblige me vts^
the other two ? Those which I know are^ C<ar
denberg, Serhuygs, Sleews, Steenwc^gfae, and
Sweerts. J. Wooswaan.
Quotations wanted. — Can any of your readers
^ive me the reference for a passage (which I tUnk
IS either in Fuller or Baxter), running aoaaethipf
like this —
** Neither should men turn [preachOTsPI as Niha
saith Herodotus, breeds frogBj whereof t£a ona-^
moveth while the rest is but puiin mud.*'
I would be glad to have the reference to Hero-
dotus as well. J. D. Cabifbkll
** God of a beautifhl necessity is love in all he doeth.*
iGNOKAMUa
I have seen the following lines quoted tf
Dr. W. King's. They are not in Tike Art rf
Cookery. Can any of your correspondents t&
me whose they are, and what is the meuuDg of
•'Evander's order"?
** The Scotsman's faith and practice please me not;
He serves his meat half-cold, his doctrine hot ;
A churchman's stomach very hardly hears
Scant mutton curdling 'neath redundant prayers ;
My zeal 'gainst puritanic haggis glows.
And cockaleekie makes me hold my noee ;
Evander't order suits me when I dine.
So say a common grace and bring the wine.**
A. R
" A name that posterity will not willingly let die.^
** Come to my arms, and be thy Harry's angel."
CD.
In a judgment pronounced by the late Lord
Campbell, he quoted the following lines : —
** Her did vou freely from your soul forgive?—
Sure, as 1 hope before my Judge to live ;
Sore, as the Savionr died npon the tret
For all who sin« for that poor wretdi, and ms^»"
Whom Bsvtr mors on earth will I forsake^ or see."
•■♦S.V. Fr».27,'M.]
NOTES AlfD QTTEEIES.
175
His LtmUhip s«d they were by ** a fwiet, wko
moi*e than most otLtrr men hail sounded ibe deptlut
of human f'erliiig*" Where is the pusetige to be
found? E. C. H*
** Tbo wr«tcbcd Ate Lite rftilhfuL Tu their fate
To have all flwtlaff lave the on« decay/* &c*
RA.
Who wai the object of the Ibllowicg food ealo*
gium P —
•* Every virtue under HeAven
To the aufferiug saint wat gttren ;
R;iljed from earth, she n&w iLoih ahow
Virtue, never known below,
VVbicht in Christ, by God, ts given
To tbe Ainlesi Mint in Heaven.**
M.
**TllBB* Ore gods I vrhat readeri— oita and tU I
From Higb Church gabble dofrn to Law Chofch
drawl.'*
B.a
* A hnman heart should beat for two.
Whatever Ba^ your ■ingle scomers,
Aud all the hearths I ever knevr
»
JoKN SuTTOH, M.D. — I hare before toe a copy
of Mtmoirs of the Life of the late Reverend Mr.
Joht Jacksmif Master of Wigaton^g Hospital, in
Leicester^ ifc. (Lond. 8vo, 1764.) On the fly-
leaf ifl this note in pencil ; *^ These Memoirs
were published by Dr. Sutton of Leicester.
(Lempriere,)" Mr. Nichob (Lit, Anee, ii. 528 ;
Hut, of Leicestershire^ i. 500) olao attributes the
authorship to Dr. Sutton, of Leicester, Dr.
Munk {Holl of Coll ofPhyg. ii* 133) adds to this
•canty and unsatisfactory information the facts
that ur. Sutton was a doctor of medicinO; that
his Christian Dame was John, and that he was
admitted an Extra Licentiate of the College of
Physicians December 10^ 17-12. I hope through
your columns to aacertain his parentage and uni-
versity, also the date of his death. S. Y* R,
Tea Statistics. — From an .^bIc article on
•The Progress of India,*" tn The Edinburgh Jle-
w*ew for January, 1864, I gather the following:
that 13,222 acres in Assam are estimated to yield
1,788,787 lbs.; 6,0771 acres in Cnchar are esti-
mated to yield 336,800 lbs, ; 8 J62 acres in Dar-
jeeling are estimated to yield 78,244 Ibf.
Accordinff to these figures, one acre in Asstm
yields over one hundred atid thi ' ' nnds of
tea; and one acre in Cnchar, ovi pounds
of tea ; while one acre in DarjC' - under
ftme pouJtda xjC tM'.\^ What yield quired
per acre to repay the ordinary t^:»v v.i\,uiuvatbn ?
Doubt.
J4)B9 WiLUAMS, oUtUf AUTROST PAiQUlH. *—
This person is justly characterised by Watt as a
literary character of the lowest description
The latest of hi^ works which Watt enumerttes
ts The Dramatic Camor^ to be continued monthly ,
8vo, 181 L
Under date Jtine 4, 1821, the poet Moore re-
eorda: ** Kenny said that Anthony Pasquin (who
was a yery dirty fellow) died of a cold eai^t by
washing tits face."
The date of iJiia event will oblige.
S. Y, rsL.
Thomas Wiluams.^ — Sir George Hutchins, a
Scrgeant-at-Law, was knighted, 1689. He was
subsequently Lord Commissioner of the Great
Seal to William «»d Mary. He had two daugh-
ters cohei revises ; the younger married W'ilUam
Pierre Williama, Esq,, of Denton, co. Lincoln ; his
eldest son, Hutchins, wm made a baronet^ 1747.
Qy. Who married the other daughter? Was her
name Mary ?
Richard Williams, by his coat of arms, handed
down 00 his seal — viz, crest; a Saracens head
erased ; the artns : gules, a chevron ermine, between
three Saxons' [Saracens'?] heads couped ; quarterly,
H«d got a pair of chimney comecL
Sec, here, a double violet —
Two locks of btii^-a deal of scandal —
of the
Duw a dij^on,*' shows him to have been
ancient family of Williams of Fenrhyn, Cochwillan,
and Meillionydd, co. Carnarvon. lie was born, co,
Carnarvon, July 17, 1719; married Mary (?),
bom Feb. 18, 1713, and settled at Leighton-Buz-
zard, CO. Bedford, where his eldest son Hutchini
was born Dec 8, 1740.
Was Ma^ the elder daughter of Sir George
Hutchins, Knight? WTiose son was Richard ^
Williams P Was he youngest son of Arthur Wil-
llames of Meillionydd, who died Oct* 1723? By
a petiigree sent me, the children of Arthur and
Meriel his wife, heiress of Lumley Williams, were
— Lumlev, born Oct 1704; Meriell, Kov. 1705;
Lumley, June, 1707 ; Edward, Oct 1708 ; John,
1712; no others are mentioned.
W^ Richard born July, 171D, aforesaid, as I
have heard, is stated in Randulph Holmes's He-
raldic MS. of North Wales, Arthur^s youngest
son ? All Arthur Williames*s children appear to
have been minors at the time of his death*
R. P. W.
LoBD WiHToys Escape from the Towum,—
In the report of the trial, in 1716, of George,
Earl of Win ton, for accession to the rebellion at ]
the previous year, it is stated (see Howell's Stata
Triali^ vol. xv.) that ailer sentence of death had
been given, ** he was carried back to the Tower,
whence he afterwards made his escape.'* Itt
Wood's edition of Do^latM Scotch Peerage^ it iE|
stated (vol. il p. 648) that ** He found m^wis.^
eicape out of th^iTfi^^ ^^YiQXi^'i^ ib^iz^^v V
176
NOTES AND QTJEEIES.
[!Sf*S»V. FKB.ST.nM.I
171G, and died unmarried at Eome^ December 19,
1749t ajred upwards of 70.**
Smollett, in iiis Hisiorvi makes no mention of
the trial ; nor is any explanation ^ven by Wood
wby the Earl bad remained so lon^ under the
sentence without it having been carried into exe-
cution ; for the date of tbo escape, us I have just
quoted, wns in Au^rujat, and the eentence wfts
pronounced on March 19 previous.
Can any of your coirespondents refer me to a
detailed account of the means by which the escape
was ejected ? or an ex plait at ion of the reason of
the long delay which I have noticed ? Gr,
Ediabiirgb.
<aucrinf SDitlj ^nmm*
Ivakhoe: Wavebley. — In what counties of
England lie the villaj^es of Ivanhoe and Warerley,
which perhaps furnished the namejs of two of Scott's
best novels ? I once saw them in looking over
the maps in old Camden, btit cannot light upon
them again. Is Ivanhoe Celtic, Saxon, or Nor-
man ? What is the meaning of Ao#, or Aoo, which
terminates the names of many English villages
and hamlets ? Iixm is the same as John or Juan,
which seems to be derived from the Asiatic word
Judn, meaning, a youth* Many European names
have their etymons and analogues in India: for
example, Jane in Sanscrit for a woman ; Amina ia
Tamil for a mother, and is a common name among
Hindoo women ; Finetta is the Sanscrit Fcmi/la,
a woman ; Pamela is Indian (Tamil) Tot a woman ;
Emma ia Indian (Tamil) for a mother ; /»«,
Emily ^ Ella, Anita, Elsee^ are names of Hindoo
women as well as of European. H. C.
[Tho aama of Ivanhoo was suggested, «a the story
goes, by an old rhyme recording three naniei of the
maiufs forfeited by the ancestor of the celebrated Hamp*
deOi for striking the BUck Prince a blow with bis racket,
when tbej qQ&rrcUe^l at tennis : ^
*• Triop, Wing, and IvADhoe^
For dlrikinc of a bloyr,
Uampd^n did forego,
And glad he could escape so.^
The word taited Scott*s purpose ; but, as the Messrs.
Lysons remark* ** this tradition, like many others, wilt
aot bear the test of exsminstion ; for it appears by r«-
COfd«tbafc neither the roaDors of Tring, Wing, or Inmhoe,
«ter were in the Hampden fittiily." {Bw:k$, vol i. pt. iii
^ 571.)
As to the title of his work l^averley, Scott informs us
that he ^'had only to sciito upon the most soanding and
enpbonic sumAine that Kngliidi htatory or topography
aJTords, and elect it at oocv 4s thti title of my work, and
the nstno of my hert»." Tbe encidnt sbbey of Waverley,
the Ami of th<?Ci«<crcian ortler in this eourttry. was three
m})e>f f^0m Farnhani^ in the rouuty of Surrry, and its
^liei^tfttl mtQMtha has b&tm (tlh*n MivtHe^i to by traveJ-
fi WS9 ^TMiited, with mU Lbc £«£ates beloogiag to %
to Sir William Fitx- William, Earl of South ampCoo, i
1537. Moore Park» the seat of Sir William Tea
beautifully situated on the bank of the Wey, mmj be said
to adjoin Wavcrley Abbey; and there are aomo wild
legends connected with the locality which would capti-
vate the fancy of Scott sts a novelist, especially the cafsis
still popularly called " Mother Ludlam's Hole,** tha np»
posed dwelling-place of a hag or witch ; wbo^
beings of her class, is said to have been reiy kindly i
posed towards her ncighbonrs.
Hasted, in hia Ktnt, snjs, " Hoo comes finona ih% i
hout a hilL*' Ihrc derives the word from hatgi^
Spelman, voc fioffo, obaeryes that Ao, how, stg
collia.]
Lord GLBKnERviE. — The other day m
repeated the followinir lines^ and asked me i
could supply the remainder. He attributed^
to Sheridan : —
*< Glenbervic, Glenbetvie,
So clever in scurvy.
Has the Peer quite the Doctor for|»ot?
For thine arms thou shalt quarter
A pertlo and tnortar ;
Thy crest be thine own gallipot"
The lines were new to me, and I hare alwayi
been under the impression that the antecedeola <
Sylvester Douglas had been legal, and not oie^^
caL Still, he may have embarked in pbjsic t
fore he took to the law.
Can any of your readers supply the lines,
enlighten me as to Mr. Douglas*8 oricrinal
feasion ? Or can they fix. the Icwiu in quo
marriage with the daughter of Lord North 1
[Sylvester Douglas, Lord Gleaberri^ waa
Ellon, ea Aberdeen, oo May *2it 1T4S ; and anaplelad I
education at the Universily of Aberdeen, where ha i
distinguished both as a scientific and classical arhoiBi '
He studied medicioe at first* but adt^rwards fbtwotk ll
for the profession of the bar. On Sept, 26, 1789, lia w»
mani^ by special license, at Lord North*s hooac^ to ifcf
Hod. Miss Katharine Anoe Noirth, his lordship*B cldiit
daughter. In 1800, Mr. Douglas was appointed ^Ttfaof
of the Capo of Good Hope; and was on that fwvashM
advanood to the dignity of a peer of Ireland, by iKo tllk
of Boron Glenberrie of Kincardine.
Towards the close of tbt! last, and die commenc
of the present cenlnry, appeart'd a string of psi
prindpoUy by Sheridan, but a f«w mUuixos W'
bated by Tickell and Lord Juhn Tonmhcud. A
to Moore^s IHaiy^ ii. 312, thOAO on Lortl Ulef^li
were by Sheridan, and were almost written off-han
himt —
** Glenhi>n ir\ ntrnlij'n.if.
Wh;i*
For neVr ;^.
I- ■■
An-.i ■ ' ' !•'<
t wx w«W.\s* a %vTORa %uiiV\vt^.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
in
»
I
" Glenbervia, Glcnbervfe,
The woHd'a topay-turvy,
Of this Irath 3'ou're the fittest attester;
For who can denj
Tb«t the Low b^ome Bi(^U,
When Ibe King nukea a Loni of Silvester?
Glenbervie,
When the Kiog^ makes a Lord of Silveatcr ? "
As Lor4 Glenbervie ascribed his rise to the reputation
he had acquired by reporting Lord Manifiold^s dectaioa0»
he wisely took for hia motto, « Per vaiioa cASt'S." "This
is rather better," rumatks I^rd ClampbelJ, ** than that
adopted by a learned acqtiaintance of mine on setting tip
hia carriaipe, ■CaoJios prodace EfTecta,* which is pretty
much in the ityle of *■ Qvid ridti* for the tobacconist ; or
'Qoock, Quack,* for the doctor whoae creat was a dnck.^'
For the remaimng pasqainade^^eleven in all— consult
Moore'a Msmtnra of Shrndan, edit- 1826, 4to, pp. 440—
448; and Sheridaniana, Bvo, 1826, pp. 109— lia.]
"OrncmA Gkwtium" (3"* S. v. 157.) — I use
the freedom to notice that it does not seem cer-
tain that Bishop Jomandes was the author of this
phrase. On the contrary, Sir Thomas Craig
ascribes it to Pliny : —
" Postea factum ^t cum *a aepientrtonci quam Pltniua
qfieinam mtium verissime dixit,** &c.f &c. — Craig's
Jmm Feuddle^ edition 1732, p. 26, a. 4.
G.
Edlnbargh.
[Our reply to the inqmry of a (^ante^ p. 157) wai
penned under the fall persuaJiioo thnt the phrase ^'OfBcina
Gentium*' not only occurs in Jomaades, but was to
be found in no earlier writer; and we are bound to con-
fess that we ttilJ retain the same impreaaiOD, though with
all due deference to so respectable an authority as 3ir
Thomas Craig. Our present correspondent G. appears to
have fdt satisfied with the statement of that learned
writer ; at least, so far as this, that be docs not inform
us whether he felt it necessary to verify Sir Thomas's
statement by a reference to Pliny's own pages* Where
accuracy is required» we feel it safe to say that no cita-
tion, by ANT author, is trustworthy, without reference to
the antbor cited.
Before writing ottr previous article we had taken proper
means to ascertain whether the phrase in question occurs
in Pltny, or in any writer of classical Rome. So far as
Pliny is concerned, we have now with greater care re-
peated our examination. The result is. cot only a decided
Impression that in the pages of Pliny no such phrase as
" Officina Gentium '* is to be found, but a slight suspicion
that Pliny, living in the first century, was a very unUkel^
person thus to designate Scandinavia, which he speaks
of as an immense island only partially known, and, so
far as known, inhabitctl by one race, the Hilleviones
(iv. 27)» Jomandes, on the contrary, living in the sixth
centory, knowing full wtfli what the Empire had sufltered
from nations of northern origin in the interval between
PJiny*s <lay and his own, and believing that many of
those naUons carao in the fir9t ioBUnvefrom Scandinavia,
wtmJd rvy BMtamllv mmB thu countrj the "Offieina
Gentium," or *♦ Vagina Nationam.'* Of course, to wpmk
with full authority on this question, we ought to re-
pemae our old friend Pliny from end to end. This our
avocations forbid. At present then we can only say,
with thanks to our correspondent, that if he will show ua
the passage where Pliny applies to Scandinavia the
phrue ''Officina Gentium,** we will renew crar acknow-
ledgments, and own ourselves corrected.]
** Ik the Midst or Lifb wb ajib ik Dsath,"
ETC. — This beautiful passage in the Burial Ser-
vice of the Book of Common Prayer, I observe
by a note in The City Press for Feb. 13, 3864,
is " ttiJcen from Martin Luther*" In which of
Luther's writings do the words oceur f They
have been often quoted in sermons as a verse
from the Bible ; and the same story is told of
two celebrated nonconformist divines, Robert
Hall and Dr. LerfchilJ, viz., that when called
upon to preach a funeral sermon, one, or both,
of these popular preachers scleeted this passage
for the text, at the same time saying that if it
was not a verse of Scripture, it ought to be. Can
these masterly sentences be referred to Doctor
Martin? Juxta Turrim.
[This pasaage is derived from a Latin antiphon, said
to have been composed by Notker the Stammerer, a
monk of St, Gall in Switzerland, a.d. 911, while watching
some workmen building a bridge, at Martiusbruek* in
peril of their lives. It occurs in the Cantarium SH. Gallic
or Choir Book of the monks of St. Gall, published in J845,
with, however, a slight deviation from the texL Hoff-
mann says that this anthem by Notker was an extremely
popular battle-song, through the singing of which, before
and during the fight, friend and foe hoped to conquer.
It was also, on many occasions, used as a kind of incanta-
tion song. Therefore, the Synod of Cologne ordered
(A.D. 1316} that no one should sing the MetUd vitd withont
the leave of his bishop. The passage also occurs in the
Salisbury Use drawn up by Bishop Osmund in the
eleventh century (Sno, Saruh. P§aU, fol. 5a):— "Media
vit^ in morte sumus; quern quicrimus arljutorem nisi to,
Dominc I qui pro peccatis noatris juste irascaris.** It
forms the groimd work of a long hymn by Martin Lu-
ther:—
" Mitten wir in leben sind ^^
Mit dom tod umbfiinf^wen (umfangen)/
That is, "In the miiUt of life we arc with death sur-
Tounded."—Lut blur's Gej/stlkhtt Lmhr (Spiritual SongsX
Hymn xxxv., Niimberg, 1558. Ficfc "N, & Q>,*' !•» 8.
riiL 177, and The FarUh Choir, iii. HO,]
Ekdtmion Pobter. — Was Endymion Porter,
Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles I., and ati
officer of the Court of Star Chamber, a member of
the family of Porter of Belton, co, Lincoln ?
[We cannot Im^ift ax^y taww«s?Cw^ <A ^Joft ^^^^^^,^
lis
NOTES AND QUERIES.
lP*Q.Y.WmB.tJ,'9L
edebrftted courtier was a descendant of William Porter
of Mickleton, co. Gloucester, Serjeant-at-arms to Henry
YII^ ob. 1513. Edmund, the father of Endymion, mar-
ried Angelica, daughter of his cousin Giles Porter, of
Mickleton. It is traditionally stated that Endymion was
bom in the manor-house of Aston -sub-Edge, ca Glouces-
ter. In Burke's Qmummen, ed. 1886, liL 577, the Walsh-
Porters of Alfarthing, in the parish of Wandsworth, co.
Surrey, are traced to this family, of whom a pretty full
account is given. In Colleetanea Topog. et GeneaJog., vii.
279, are many extracts from the register of Weston-
nnder-Edge, including several Porters and Overburys.
For the pedigree of the family of Endymion, see HarL MS.
1548, p. 69 ft.]
CROMWELL'S HEAD*
(3'*S.v. 119.)
The cmoUtion from The Qnsen newspaper, given
by H. W., 18 exceedingly curious and mteresting ;
as it fairly exhibits the amount and kind of in-
formation possessed by believers in spurious relics,
as well as their generally *' rather involved** — as
H. W. mildly terms it — style of composition, and
their utter deficiency in anything approaching to
logical acumen.
"The head," says our author, *<wa8 subsequently
separated fh)m the body, and placed on a spike over the
gate at Temple Bar."
Here is an instance of the manner in which
many an important historical question is com-
plicated by sheer ignorance, and want of the
slightest research or inquiry. The heads said to
be those of Cromwell, Ireton, and Bradahaw, were
put on Westminster Hall, not on Temple Bar : —
" Bradshaw's being placed in the middle, immediately
over that part of the Hall where he sat as President at
the trial of Charles L ; the other heads placed on either
side."
With the Wilkinson head of Cromwell (to my
certain knowledge there arc many others) we are
told that there " are preserved tne actual docu-
ments, in which are offered large rewards for the
restoration to the authorities of the head, after it
was blown down ; and severe threats upon those
who retained it knowingly, after these notices
were published." Of course, these " actual docu-
ments** would state the place from whence the
head was blown ; and as, m the same paragraph,
we are told that it was Temple Bar, the value of
such documents may be easihr guessed. But,
S anting that such notices, ofiiering reward, and
reatening punishment^ are in existence, and
that their genuine character is indisputable, they
do not prove that the Wilkinson head b the head
of Cromwell; nor do they throw the slightest
n^bt oa the mjrsteriouB qnestioii of the great
Eaglubauuk*a barud pUce.
\
rations ; till at last, not many years ago, it was gtrm, bf
the last survivor of his fiunily to Mr. Wilkinsoa, a SK^
geon of Sandgate, near Folkestone; and is, at tUl
moment, in the possession of that gentleman's son."
Again we read in "N. & Q.** (1* S. xii. 76) :—
<* The head in question has been the property of tlw
ikmily to which it belongs for manv years back, aad li
considered by the proprietor as a relic of great vahui H
has several times been transferred by legacy to ^"** ~~"
* Italics, in writing, seem to have a considerabla
The writer in The Queeti says, evidently as an
argument for the authenticity of the head : ^ the
flesh Juu been embalmed^ which would not have
been the case with the remains of an ordinarj
person,"
But the embalming, though the words, **hss
been embalmed,** are italicised, does not prove
that the head was Cromweirs. This argument
was much better put in the last centurry when
the American and French revolutions haa raised
a republican mania in £ngland; and, eoose-
quently, almost every penny show had its rcsl,
actual, old, original, identical CromwelTs lead, i
Then an embauned head was valoable, fixr Mr. |
Showman could say : *^ Observe, ladiea and ^Oh
tlemen, this head has been embalmed, and m it
is the spike upon which it was placed ; now, em
vou mention any other historical character whoa
head was embalmed, either before or after it hi^
been cut off and spiked ? ** *Thi8, of course, wodf
be convincing to some of a certain calibre amo^
the spectators; hut certunly not to othen^ wbi
had common sense enough to consider that la em-
balmed head might have quietly rested attadied
to its body in its coffin for many years; and then
might have been cut o£f^ and placed on a mkit hf
some sacrilegious scoundrel, and sold or exjiibitea
for filthy lucre.
In a periodical (^The Phrenoh^cal Jomnd^
that once assumed a sort of semi-scientific dii-
racter, but has long since fallen into well-meritad
obscurity, there is a paper (vol. xvii. p. 368)1^
a Mr. O Donovan on the Wilkinson head. Ths
gentleman, hegging the question by overlookiiig
the obvious absurdness of the embalming argo-
ment, lays great stress, with plenty of itaUcs,* (»
it thus : —
** But the capital fact, on whose evidence the claims d
this interesting relic rest, is one to which there is n
parallel in history. It is this — the head must hare be«
embalmed, and mnst have been so before its tnunftiisa
Th& Hke eondUioni^ it i$ believed, cannot 6e j^rmUctdai^
any known head in the toorUL"
The Wilkinson head, we are told, haa nefcr
been publicly exhibited for money. And thsre
is no allusion to exhibition in the quotation fima
The Queen, which merely states : —
It remained in this soldier*a family for several j
8w S. V. F«8. 2r, •«-}
KOTES AND QUERIEa^
179
s\ and bis Ulelv, k ia said, heea. in-
' in great gecrw,
. jnti mated in the
lublicv it would be
parly to which ll
' 1*» S- V. 275.)
I
I
I
I
Oae more notice af tbia wonderful head : —
*»ThiB ' '•" - *""^"'
thr
reign of '
seized by n^ovtrumtsut, as uic oxaly
could prop«riy belong.'* (" N. 15c Q^'
Now, as an embalmed head of Cromwell has
been publscly exhibited, it ia clear that there are
two em^ Is; and coaseijiiently the argu*
mentali ./l>alDiracnt,prc?inusly alluded to^
worthless a^ it iiS falls to the ground. Thiii fact
b proved by the following axhibition adirertlse-
insnt from the Morning Chronicle of March 18th,
" The Roid Embalmed Head of the Powerfal and Re-
nowned Usarper, Oiirer Cromwell/* &c., &c.
I need not iiuote the whole of the advertise-
ment, OB it has already appeared in " K, k Q-"
(1** S. 3Li,496) i but it endii with the following
words ; —
•* A genuine Karr ' - '"^^^°f ^^ *he Acquisition,
Conceolment, und I of thoae Articloa, to be
bad at tiiti pIttcQ of i:
We all know what showmen s genuine nttrra*
tires are worth ; tlill there seems to be a rather
suspicious relaljonship between the " genuine nar-
rative," and the ** actual documents '* already
noticed.
I must apr>logise for occupying so much space and
attention with this embaloain^ argument, as used
by the proprietors and eJtJiibitora of Cromwella
heads. I merely did so, to show the mental calibre
of the race of anatomical relic-mongers. For I could
have disposed of the question at once, by proving
that Cromweirs head was not embalmed ; nor can
it be said even that his body was, in the sense in
wbldi the word embalmed is used now, and at the
period of the Protector s death. Dr. George Bate«
who was successively physician to Chorlett I'«
Cromwell, and Charles II,, gave the autopsy of
the usurpi.T to the public in the second part of his
Eleyichi Motuiim Nupcrorutn in Anglia^ publiiihed
just 6vc years after Cromwelfs death, when there
must have been plenty alive to contradict him if
he dared to state that which was in any form in-
correct; and thus he tells what was done with
Cromweirs body : —
*Carpiis ct*j tx^nhinhitn animate replettim, ceratifiqae
fextn^pHdbus
ligneo forttqu
peffomfHut*" 1 i: ,
Klephiti. I'.' . 'i -'il^MiiLL--
aarium huiiL"
So we learn that the intesUnes were neoiovcd,
imd liieir place being filled with apices, the body
was wrapped in a six-fold cerecloth, put into a
leaden coliin, and the last into a strong wooden
one. Tct the oorraptsoa burst diraugii all ; and
ti» (tcin
uui versa
;*<L-i j.jji> aL aiicius uJ^O tettA
jllL^i^ tecft» mandari n«ces-
tbe foul smell pervading the whole house, it was
necessary to inter the body before the solemoiiies
of the funerid. Not a word is said about the
bead : ao it is to be hoped that wc shall hear no
more of the Wilkinson embalmed cranium, and
that IL W, will acknowledge that the magnificent
burial of the Protector is not "still a disputed
point." For if the preceding quotation from the
Ekncht Mtftiium be not history, it is the material
from which history b formed, and would be re-
ceived as good and lawful evidence in any English
court of justice at the present day. Bate does
not tell us what was done with the body ; yctj
probably, he did not know. But it was well known
by the populace, at the magnificent lying in state
and public funeral, that the body was not there,
that its place was supplied by a waxen figure :
and, while the better informed understood that
Cromwell's friends— to use the words of Cku-
^Q3 — "in hugger-mugger" did inter him, the
more ignorant and vulgar confidently beliei^ed
that the Devil had saved all posthumous trouble,
by dying away with the Protector wholly and
con>o really. So general, and so strong was this
belief, that even the grave and learned royal
^1 •> r ,, absolutely condescends to
t: he proceeds to describe the
aUn* ui v^iDiuwcii ^ body after death.
The best and most rational argument for the
authenticity of the Wilkinson head yet adduced,
was given, as I am informed, at a lecttire, not
long since delivered in a suburban locality, whexe
the nead itself was exhibited. I may presume, that
whatever the public paid for admittance was re-
ceived for hearmg the lecture, and not for seebg the
head. However that may be, the lecturer, having
called the attention of his audience to the round-
ness in form of the cranium, said : " Ladies and
gentlemen, this is a convincing proof that the
head is Cromwell's ; for, as you all know, he was
the chief of the Roundheads " N
The subject is, indeed, quite beneath criticism;
but any allusion to the heads of deceased notabili-
ties has a very peculiar import at the present lime,
when a swarm of ephemera are only noticeable by
their basking and buzzing in the reflected rays of j
a great name ; when, on all sides, thtre re-echo«s
the jubilant chorus—*^ How delightfully we Shak-
speiu-ian apples swimT* In the church at Strat-
ford-upon-Avon, there are the following well-
kuown lines ; little better than doggrel, it is true,
yet of serious if not solemn signification : —
•• GOOD FREITTJ FOB JBSIHI RAKB FORBEAB*
TO mca Tills i>i?hT r.xrt.OA.siitri jirAJiK;
llUtaTK Kit T» MJLH T^ fil'AlifiS TRE.H STOHI
AJ«n c\TisT «n uc t* movks my uones."
And it is txt be hnpe<i» that if an
wret'
our ^
tlie \iiubVi
•A'ii
>^^a^.
spare nor respect the bones of such pra ve- grub-
bing (rboulcs ; who, being destftute of moral feeling
tad intelligence, can be only impressed by the
urgumentum Mctdinum^ freely admmiatered under
the <IUchim of Judge Lynch*
William Pinkertoh.
Attention h&s once more been directed, in your
columns, to the head said to be that of Cromwell,
and now in the possession of Mr. W. A. Wilkin-
son, I have the pleasure of knowinj^ that gentle-
man ; and although I have not spoken to nira on
the subject, I feel assured that he would most
cheerfully aiford every facility for a proper ejt-
amination, find I agree with your correspondent
H. W. that such is desirable* I have seen the
head several times ; and, as 1 stated in a former
communication, it is difficult to resist the evi-
dence in favour of this being the head of the
Protector. Mr. Wilkinson treasures the relic;
but offers to those who view it, the evidence in
his own possession, leaving each observer to draw
his own conclusions. Ma, Bccillakd is in error
m some not unimportant particulars; and I will
eive the true version of the history so far as it
has descended to Mr. Wilkinson, and this version
is sustained by documentary proof in his pos-
sesion.
The head was not placed upon Temple Bar, but
UfMjn the top of Westminster Hall, along with the
beads of Ireton and Bradsbaw, About the latter
end of the reign of James II., it was blown down
on a gusty night, and picked up by the sentinel
on duty. Probably this soldier might have been
attached to the memory of the dead General, or
have disposed of it to some old republican ; but
it is certain that it was not recovered, although a
proclamation was issued by the government com-
manding its restoration. It was at length sold to
a member of the family of Russell, of Cambridge-
shire— a family which had been united to that of
Cromwell by several marriages. It descended
down to Samuel Russell, who exhibited it for
money ; but who ultimately sold it to Mr. Cox,
who had a museum in Spring Gardens* This was
m 1787. Mr. Cox, however, did not exhibit it;
but, at the sale of this museum, sold it for 320^.
to three joint purchasers. These ]>ersons ex-
hibited the head about 1790, charging hali-n-
crown for admission. The aocount then goes on
t« state, that the last of these persons died of
apoplexy, and the head became the property of
his daughter ; and she sold it to Mr, Wilkinson,
the father of its present proprietor. There is n
memorandum in ihii handwriting of Jktr, Wilkin-
son, and the following ia an exiracst (nyu\ it : —
ThiA hoftd has now bten m tnv 1
forward iin objection to any port of tbc evidencfc
was a Member of ParH&me'nt, and a deAc«ntlant br i
collateral broach from Oliver Cromwell. He told m«v i
conimdiction to my remarks, that che«tnat hair ntTi,
turned ^y \ thai he had a lock of hair,, at his eoixatn.
house, which was cut from the Protector** head on h^
death -bed, and bad beeu carefully paaaed down thrva^h
his famUy to his poflseaiion, which lock of hair wai Mf -
fectly grey. Thia gantleman has iineB expr^aaed hk
opinion that the long; ezpo«are was attfficieut to luvia
changed the colour of the hair."
I think it has been stated, that when the <^fl
of Charles L w«b opened, the hair was found
be of a light brown colour; while it is knovq
that, at the period of his execution, the hair '
ft grizzly black. The change in thia coje
attributed to the process of embalmiDg.
head, in the possession of Mr. WiikioM
been embalmed.
The meuiorandum from which I have
goes on to say, that the late Oliver Cromir^l
Esq. (a descendant of the Protector), compsnT I
ihm head with an original caat in hia poaaemA I
and was perfectly satisfied of the genuineiMM d]
the skulL Dr. Southgate, the librarian d tkt
British Museum, after comparing it with icf^
modei^s and coins^ expressed himself to the j«iil
proprietors : ** Gentlemen, you may be iisored
that this is really the head of Oliver CromweH**
Mr. King, the medallist, has also left an opidiQO
in writing. He says : —
** The head shown to me for OIifw C^QiwdtV t
veHly believe to be his real head, ai 1 have carMSs
examiaed it with the coin ; and think the outllnt c^ tto
face cjcactty correaponda with it, so far as remains. Tit
nostril, which is still to b« seen, inclines downwards, m
it does in the coin : the check bone secmi to be as a
WM engraved ; and the colour of the hair is the mom ai
in one well copied from an original paintinf; by CooiM^fe
hi9 time, by John Kirk, Bedford Street, CoventGiSit.
1776/*
The eminent B^ulptor, Flaxman, pronouned
in its favour ; and pointed out one remarkaiilv
feature, which he aaid was peculiar to the Crom-
well family, and strongly marked in OlifW
himself — that of a particularly straight towir
jawbone*
The head is still upon the spike to which H wm
attached originally, and there is every nppeai^ii^
of the whole having grown into decay together,
viz., the iron spike, the shaft to which *it hwi boeii
altmihed, and the head*
I will, in a second article, give a recapitnlatleii
of the evidence on both sides of the question, if
this is found acceptable to ** N, & Q." ^' '
I belie vt?
poftsefiaion oi
ti...-. :.
•* June 25, 1827. inw bead baa now been m tnv nog- 'Tiiitinsc
jremm/brs penmt of afiwn yean. I have ahowii U to I sought it
JiiiadrfftU cf people god an/jr one gwiknian brongU \ 'i^ltH^^
rm doubt *' *
insun o{ I
i* that of L ..,:, Let 11* ^t.
Wilkinson; 1 believe he will grant :
for, Jami.^.
T 11
in ijii-
Kent,
Mr.
S«iaV. Fite, 27»'d4;l
NOTES AND QUEBlEa
181
THE DAXISH RIGHT OF SUCCESSION.
(3»* S, V. 134.)
In the time of Hamlet, the throne of Den-
mark was elective In the reigninff house. (Koch,
Tableau de9 Rivolvlions, u 27"2, n. 2,) According
to Saxo Grammaticus, Hamlet " counterfeited the
madman to escape the tyraany of hii uncle, and
waa tempted by a woman (through his uncle's
procurement), who thereby thought to undermine
the prince, and by that means to find out whether
he counterfeited madness or not'^ Such madness^
real or assumed, was necessarily a bar to his
election to the monarchy. The Hamlet of his-
tory was not cut off in his prime, as Shnkspeare
disposes of him, but, on bis return from England
to Denmark, he slays his uncle, burns his palace,
makes an oration to the Danes (a most eloquent
one as given by Saxo) and i> elected king. He
goes back to England, kills the king of that
country, returns to Denmark with two English
wive*, and, finally, falls himself through the
treachery of one of these ladies. (Knigbt*s Studies
of Shahperr^y ch. iii. p. 67.) Other instances of
election are on record, Denmark since 1661
has been an ab?;olute and hereditary monarchy,
and was so confirmed by the whole nation. Fre-
derick ViL, the last king, on July 31, 1853, pub-
lished a new law of succession, to the e.xeliision
of females, and appointing the present king, then
Prince Christian of ScLleswig-Holstein-Sonder-
bourg-Glucksburg, his successor, and after him,
the male descendants of his present wife Louise*
Wilhelmine - Fredertque-Auguste- Caroline- Julie,
bom Princess of Hesse, ^* daughter of the sister
of the former king, Christian VUI.'* He thereby
directs that the order of succession shall then be
excluiiively ** a^natique ; '* and should a failure in
male descent be likely to occur, he further di-
rects (?) that the successor to the Danish throne
shall take care to regulate the succession so as to
preserve the indcj^endence and integrity of the
monarchy, and the rights of the crown, conform-
ably to the second article of the treaty of London i
of May 8, 1852, and to obtain for such arrange-
ment the assent of the European powers, (An-
miaire de Deux Mofidejt, 1853-4, p. 424.)
T* J. BtJCKTON.
*'Popp«d in b«twecti th$ eketion and my hope*."
And when, in his own last moments, the throne
being again vacant, its occupant and its expectant
each *' bloodily fetrjcken,** he prophesies that the
election will light on Fortinbras, to whom he gives
his dying voice. Claudius, to be sure, speaks of
himself more as an hereditary than an elected
sovereign; conciliating his nephew as **the most
immediate to our throne ; '* and talks of the Jum
dicinum as confidently as if he had a dynasty of b
thousand years to reckon back upon ; the argu-
ment, however, goes for little; it is a trick of
custom with usurpers to prate as glibly of their
legttimaoy as usurers do of their consdence.
E. L« S.
Among the causa; camantes »f FLimlet*» discon-
tiait, set forth in the protasis of the drama which
t hid nnmt*, is the wrong done to himself in the I
' of the Danish regality; which Shakspenre*s I
, as well us authentic history, &hows to have '
been elective; so continuing to be until the com-
parative yesterday of 1660, when it was made
hereditary in the present regnant family. His
uncle's procurement thereof, and fajs own disap-
potntmcni, are ever before him ; summing up bb '
*^*her*B murder and his mother^s marriage with —
SlTUATIOW OF ZoAB (S'^ S. V. 117, 141.) —On
a journey some years since from Jerusalem to
Pctra and back, I struck the Dead Sea on mj
return towards the Holy City at its southern-
most point, and coasted along the beach for some
dbtance between the .sea and that very remark-
able salt ridge, Kbasm-hsdum, which, in my
humble opinion, is Lot*s wife. At some little dis-
tance from the northern extremity of this ridge
is a small heap of stones having more the appear-
ance of the circular foundations of a tower, or,
more correctly perhaps, the foundations of a circu-
lar tower than anything else. My Arab guides
unasked called it by that name^ or rather by its
present Arabic represeotative, Zogheir. The ex-
pression was familar to me, though no Arabic
or Hebrew scholar, from the fact that my guides
always spoke of my companion by that title, El
Zogheir, the lesser, as distinguished from myself
(£i Kebir) as being rather lofty of stature. This
site must not be confounded with another in the
neighbourhood where I afterwards passed the
night. Zuweirah El Fokah and El Taitah^ the
L^pperand Lower, which has a different etymolo-
gical root alogethcr 1 believe.
Now, to proceed to a still darker and more my-
sterious subject — the sites of the other cities of
the plain. At a subsequent visit to the Dead Sea
at its northernmost point, about two miles from
the embouchure of the Jordan, I saw an isbuid in
the sea, which, owing no doubt to the shallowness
of its waters after two seasons* draught, had
emerged from its depths, and on it I could make out
distinctly roughly-squared stones, and columns of
the simplest form. Whether this be any vestige
of Sodom or Gomorrah, Admah or Zeboim, 1 00
not venture an opinion ; I simply state the fact.
May we not look for the fearful fate of the
cities in the word Gomorrah itself, which I have
understood to be perpetuated in its present Arabic
form, Ghamarah^ to submerge.
I shall bo hap^y 1q ^\.s<t C ^"WiH^ Q^ ^^^^
ai\y CurtWr \\\ioiu\u.\AiiumtK^ Y^"^*^- '
182
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[a»*av. ^BB.ST.'M.
Architects of Pershorb Aim Salisburt
(8^ S. T. 72.) — Your correspondent, wiitiag
upon the Bubjeet of the Richardson Family, ohn
aerVea in reference to what remains of the once
stately Abbey of Pershore, which is now being
restored, '' that Mr. Gilbert Scott thinks its great
lantern tower was erected by the same architect,
or by a close imitator of him, who built the
steeple of Salisbury.**
A few years since, when making sketches of
tins building, I was also struck with the close re-
semblance mentioned, and being now engaged in
writing a paper to show some remaibble simi-
larities m the accredited works of some of our
great mediseval architects, such as Lanfranc,
Gundulph, Flambard, William of Sens, and others,
I sought in the History of Pershore Abbey, for the
name of the abbot under whose rule it was pro-
bable that the tower and choir of Pershore were
built, but could find no information on the sub-
ject. Upon searching, however, the Pratlington
Manuscripts in the Library of the Society of
Antiquaries, I found a full account of the abbots
of the once famous monastery of Eyesham, near
Pershore, and singularly enough, I discovered
that, in the year 1282, "^William de Wytechurch
or Marlborough, a monk of Pershore, was elected
Abbot of Evesham," and that by him and his suc-
cessors extensive additions were made to the
abbey church.
Nothrnfi^ can, therefore, be more probable than
that this William de Wytechurch (not many miles
from Salisbury), either brought with him into
Worcestershire the master masons from Salisbury,
or such working drawings as enabled him to erect
the tower of Pershore in a manner so like that of
Salisbury, which was then building. -The coin-
cidence may, I think, be thus satisfactorily ac-
counted for. Behj. Ferret.
Stamp Ddtt oh Painters* Canvass (y^ S. v.
99, 141.) — Your correspondent, J. H. Burn, is
correct as to the year (1^31) he assies for the
total repeal of the excise duty on linens, can-
vasses, &a ; but he is incorrect as to the date he
cites as that on which the above duty was Jtrst
chained.
The excise duty on " silks, calicoes, linens, or
stuffs, printed, painted, or stained/* was first im-
posed by the statute 10 Anne cap. 19, for thirty-
two years from July 20, 1712-13, but subsequently
made perpetual; and under various Acts making
regulations for securing the duties, &c., continued,
till finally repealed by 1 Will. IV. cap. 17 (1831.)
" Linens,** &c., produced to the officer of excise
to be charged with duty for printing, paintings
&c, had a mark impressed by him on each end of'
the piece, to denote that an account of it was
taken. This mark was tedinically termed a frame
mark ; and the ciphers thereon, when expluned,
incontestibly point out the year in which this
mark had been used on the fabric found wfewnped
with it. The writer has cognisance of the/n»e
marks used in 1781.
A seal, or duty charge stamp, was also used.
The statement, therefore, that pictures paintedbf
Gainsborough (who died in 1788), or by »
Joshua Revnolds (who died in 1792), eoakl not
by possibility bear the excise mark, is thus shorn
to be erroneous. J» K. B.
Poor Cock Robin's Death (3"» S. ▼. dS.) —
In case this query should not catch the eye of
any one more accurately informed, X venture to
reply that I believe the coloured glass, representp
ing Cock Bobin*8 death, is to be found in tk
church of Clipsham, in Butlandshire, near Stnk- |
ford ; though I saw two or three fine churches oa
the same day last summer, and neglected to make
a note of i^ so that I cannot be quite certain.
My impression is, that it was neither very oU
nor English glass ; but a Low-Country glass, of i
late date. C. W. Bihghak
LOHGEVITT OF CxiEBGTMEN (3*^ S. ▼. 2S; 44^
123.) — The Rev. James Fishwick was liceMsd to
the Chapelry of Padibam, Lancashire, Apiil<^
1740, and was buried at Padiham, April 26, 17W,
aged eighty- two, and having held the incumbeBcy i
for fifty-three years. H. FumncB.
Let me add to your list the Rev. John Haynei,
rector of Cathistock, Dorset, who enjoyed that
living from 1698 to 1758, a period of sixty yean.
His age was ninety when be died, and his length-
ened tenure must have been rather annoying to
the patron, for he was presented by the bishop oa
a lapse. His predecessor in the livings ^^as one
Michael Cheeke, who succeeded his father, Robert
Cheeke. The latter died in 1G77. Can any of
your readers give me information about either?
DOKSXT.
Fowls with Human Remains (3'** S. v. 55.)—
In reply to Captain Mackxnzib*8 query whether
the bones of fowls have ever been discovered as-
sociated with human remains, I inform him thsi
during the excavations at Warka, in Chaldea,
carried on by Mr. Lofbus between 1849 and 1852,
bones of fowb were frequently found deposited
upon the coffin lids disinterred there, and in one
case the bones of a small bird were found inside a
coffin. Flints and steel, glass bottles, beads, terra-
cotta lamps, dishes, &c. &C., were exhumed at the
same time. S. C.
Alfveb Bonn (3'* S. v. 55.) — Probably the
Rev. H. T. Bunn, of Abergavenny, who, 1 have
been informed, was a brother of the above, would
supply the information required. H. B.
MiBVius (3'"» S. iv. 168, 238.)— The Mseviui of
I Virgil and Horace (Buc. iii. 90, Epod. x.) was
probably a real person who bore that name. (See
Smithes Class. Dictionary, i. 478, tit. *' Bavias.*0
r
3'< S. V, Wmb. 27, •€4.]
NOTES AND QUEKIES.
16a
p
I
I
Ab Horace died forty-nine years and Vh^U sixty-
two before MiLrtial was born, we may infer that
their Msevius w^ not his. De MtEvio, lib. x. ep. 76,
does not relate to the same per^n as In MtEoium^
Kb. xL ep. 46. The first la, —
" Jucondas, probiu, ionocenf^ omicoa
Lingua doctus utraqne, cu!u$ unum «ft;^
Sed magnum Titiam, qpaa f»t pcMsta.**
It is better to refer to than to cite what i^ said
of the other* On the first Le Maire quotes from
a commen tutor whose tiame he does not giYe, —
*■ Quen^lA bjBc ct indigtiatio ipsina Martiidii Tidetur, ped
p« moditf tiAin albi adsctacit Baoien Mbtu mali aciiicet
ppeta; ^ and adds, ^* Non hoc credo: Marv-ii Ticem dolet
poat% et poetArum (urmiam, et auam, at ngn soam aab
ptiaoaa M»vii"
In the examples of the civil law Msvius hears the
same relation to Titiua aa Bog to Doe in the Eng-
lish. Aulua Agerius is one of the aatne family.
Hia name occurs in the form called Slwulatio
AgtdUana^ firen in Imi, iiL t* dO, &nd D, xlvi.
tie:
"Quidqtiid'tc mihi cjc quae unique cftnaa dare faeere
OfWrtet oportebiL pne*uns in diemve, auI anb cooditioute,
qwmaque tcrum mihi tvcwn aotio eaW qiucquc vcl ad-
Tmtm te petitio, rel adveraua te perftecuUo ^U critrt^
miodqiiia tu meum haboSf tencs, pwides, dolora malo fe-
dati, qoo intnni possideas, qnanti quteque caram renim
res etiu iantun pecmiiAm dare stipuUtua tsi Aulua Age*
riaa apop - '^ ^^ - ^ Uus. Quod NuBQeriuaNi*
gidioa A I baberetne a »e acc«ptum,
Kitm^s o rogaTit, Aulas Ageriua
Nunieno 2sjgidio accepluiii fcdit*"
I cannot find any " Caius Sigseufi,** and suspect
that " Sipeus " is a fault of the peu or press for
5eiW, which would connect the last name with the
rest* Plutarch notices the furm : —
inrStTm Ka} iyii Kvpia KoX oUoZttrraara ' ro7s 8' hi^fiatri
TO[(5T#if iXAwt tt^xpT^t^cu Koivo7t oZ<rw^ &(nr9p ot ^ofux&l
rdiov^ ^ilHof, ttal AmtKioVy Tmoi», irol qI <^iX(f(rof ot Awfci
tctd efWa vapaXttft§itfouirw ; — QaaattojuM Romana,
Q. XXX.. ed. Wyttcnbttch, iii, UL Oxon., 179S.
The writer in The Enqidrcr must have been
imposed upon, or have thought any names good
eoough for hia readers, H. B. C.
a U. Qub.
Hti*a Holder (S"* S. v. 115.) — In answer to
the guery of H. S. G., I beg to give the following
particulars respecting « Hyla Ilolden, of Wednes-
bury, gent," being, as I am, hi» ^reat-great-grcat-
nephew. He was born in 1719, and married in
174^» Bebecea (not Elizabeth, as H. S. G. states),
daughter of John Walf.ird, of Deritend, co. War-
wick (not Wcdnesbury), gent. He died in 17C6
(not 17£K>), and his wife died in 1S04, I have
only heiu-d of one child of hid, Hyla, who died in
the prime of life from the effecta of a broken
thighf and leffc several children, hb eldest ion be*j
ing the Rev. Uyla Holden, who, at the time of I
dcith, held the perpetual curacy of Erdingtoa
near Birmingham. Two sons of his are now living^
vix., the Rev. IL A* Holden, LLD., bead master 1
of Ipswich School, and H. A. Holden, Esq , so-
licitor of Birmingham. 0. M. Holi^ef,
Corpus Christ! CoUoge, Oxford.
QuoTATuyivs WAKTED (3'* S. iv. 288,) — The
Unea commencing with —
** O mark again the councm of the sun 2 "
will, I believe, be found in HogertV " Epistle to a
Friend.*' W. J* Till.
Croydtm.
Sidesmen (3*^ S. v. 34, 65, 81.)— With refer- ,
ence to tbe censorial dutie?? of Sidesmen, the fol*
lowing extracts may be interesting. They are
from one of the old parish books of St. Mary
Matfelon, Whitcchapel. There were altogether
notices of twenty -two such pre*«entments in the
years 1582 — 1587. It would be interesting to*
know when this practice arose, and how long it]
continued.
** 1582. Aug, 29, Agreed that preaentmettta be made
for tbe wyfe of ThOTnaa Lownary, suspected to be a aor-
Bandall Ridgewaie ibr ndlmea nppon tb« chuTch-
wBcrdeas when y^ went toatraine f distrain.]
Richard Tailor for absenting* uimsftlf one Sondaie j*i
25 of August frooi churchy and for warkiog. ^ f
Itm. ilie saiBd Bychard and his wyfu for akatdin^ 1
fighting, and othar disorders.
The wyfe of John Woods for skolding and mylhig.
Oct, 1, 1583, A presentment agaJnftJRalphe Dudley tori
bari>onnge of sosspected parsons aa Jane iVoaao and
like.
Against y« wyfe of Willm. Bridge aa a notorious ikaldil
Again&t iThomaa WTiitflckerfl for plaingo at cardes andT
tabic* one y* Sabbath dale at y* time of comou prayers.
Feb. 4, 1684. Robert Banister for a roiler and dia-
q meter of the neighbuttis. W^ Collins for barbouriago
the same Robert."
A. D. T.
Merton College.
CoLKiTTO (3'<* S. v. 118.) — It mvLj intereat
your correspondent PniLoatATHES to cite the fol-
lowing passages, from the Lesend of Montrose, hf
Sir Walter Scott, whom nothing escaped, in whica
mention ia made of Calkitto : —
« * Our deer-sUlkerm' aaJd Angus M'Aulay, ♦who were
abroad to bring in venison for tbU bonoarable party,
have heard of a band of strangers, speaking neither
Saxon nor pure Gaelic* and with difficulty roaking them*
selves underetood by the people of tbe country, who aifl
march Lag this way in arms, under the leading, it is said,
of Attuier JVLktnatd, wbo Ia commonly called Fcw«y
Calkitto: " Kdition 1830, p. 107.
And again : —
** Beliintl tbeae cbarging columns marched in line tb«
Irish, under C&ikittf^ intended to form the reserve.'* —
Chapter xix. p. 277.
OjLtynsBMtm.
184
NOTES AND QUEEIES.
[S'* &. V. Fwfc. tr, 1S4.
TwELiTK Day : Song of the Wbbk (3"* S. 'r.
1090^^1" verges about Ihe ** Wreo»" occurs this
line:^—
•* ♦ Where are you going? * says the mlldtr to the maldtr**
The meaning of the two words in italics is en-
quired for. Surely we need not go far in seiirch
of it: they must mean the miller and the maker
(mnltster). F, C. H.
Nattbb (S'* S. v. 125.) —Natter h the Ger-
man for un adder; but why a species of toad
should be called nailer-jack is by no means clear.
The Bufo culumita \a called iiatter'jack, and there is
a species nearly resembling this, called the Running'
Toad, They are usually confounded together*
but from having kept aeveml of the latter m pets,
[I am well acquainted with the distinctions be-
tween it and tbe natter ^jach. For the present
purpose these are immaterial ; as both sovU walk
und run, but never hop or jump, as the common
toad does occasion ally ^ though it usually crawls.
Yet tbe movement of these toads in no way re-
sembles the wrigfrling motion of the adder, and
they have legSj while the adder has none. Nor
can the name natter have been given from any
resemblance to the adder in colour, for this is less
like in them than in tbe common toad. I own I
am^at a loss to account satisfactorily for the name
natUr-jacL ' F. C. H.
Lutes ATTRtntiTfiD to Kembi^ (d** S. v. 119.)
I remember an amusing caricature by Rowlaudsoo,
which came out more than fifty years ago, repre-
lenting the complainant, with one eye bound up,
and one arm In a sling, addressing a very repul-
9ive looking woman in the lines alluded to; but as
I remember them, they ran thus : —
,'»0 why will yoQ still- " ?
Why dea^f to my \ ra?
Perbap# it was right i - love,
Bui why did you kick oie down i»t&irs? '*
F. C, H.
Order of tbe Cockle ts Frapjce (S'* S* v.
117.) — I imagine tbat the French order of knight-
hood, of which the Earl tjf Arran (Regent of
Scotland during the minority of James Y.), ^^
A member was thut of St. Alichacl. The collar of
thb order was comf>Oi«cd of escallop sheila (co-
quiUeit)y connected by golden knots; its badge
was St Michael be siting down the dragon.
The Order of tbe Ship, otlierwise known by the
name of the Order of the Double Crescents, be-
came extinct in France a short time after Its
institution by St. Louis; but in Naples and
Sicily It appears to h:ive flourished under the
House of Anjou for about three ccnturle*. It
was instituted by St. Loui»!i in 1209, as an induce*
ment to his nobles to enjjage in the unfortunate
eatpedition to Africu. Cliiik {Orden of Knight*
hoiiHl, voL i. p. '255), ad<l* that it was aUo intended
*o mduce the nobility to riH8i-»t thu king in for-
warding the works at his newly-btitll tiiAriUiiic
town of Aiqucs-Mortes in the Pyrenees.
' J. WooD«r.Aiu>.
Baftishal Names (5'^ S. v. 22.)^ — In the
case of Sir Thomas Dick Lauder, the second name
is a surname, and not an nl>breviation of Ilichard.
In the family of the Needhams, Earls of KUmorej,
Jack is a very usual Christian name.
J. WoonwAMii^
The Stj>hbt Postage Stamp (8^* S. i^- 384.)
You cursorily notice this earliest of Auatralisn
stamps by explaining to a Bristol querist the
exact motto, ** Sic fortis Etruria crevit*** It is
said to be a n notation from a Latin poet. If 90,
I should be glad to know where it is to be fotuuL*
Having made a fine collection of foreign and colo-
nial postage stamps, I have been lucky enough to
secure an almost new specimen of this generaUy
dirty stamp* The landscape, motto, and legeaa
are quite perfect; the Ibrmer is said (E believe oo
the authority of the present local postmaster) U
be a view of Sydney, but on comparing it witi
the various engravings of that town iu CoUmi^s
Account of Neiu South Wate^, 4to, 1798, than »
not the slightest resemblance between the two. 1
am aware that is only within tbe last tea year5 or
thereabouts that our Australian colonies bare
used postage labels, but as the legend states that
it represents the great seal of tbe colony, it would
be interesting to ascertain when this thriviajj
settlement first felt of sufficient importance to
adopt a national seal, and why these rough tons oi
enterprise recurred to classic Latium for m motKK
who probably knew no language but their own*
FcMTUiaA*
SiB Waltee Kaleiqh (3'^ S. v. IDS.) ^ Wii
Sir Humphrey Gilbert a brother of Sir Jobn^
Gilbert, whose letter is inserted ? Did tbey " "** '
marry sisters of Sir Walter ? Where cmn a
graphy of them be found ? Was Dr. W» Gilt
physician to Queen Elizabeth, of the same fjunily
James GuoiJtST.
% DoTooshirQ Grove, Old Kent Rosdp SvE.
John FaRDKaicit Lampis (3'^ S. v. 92.)— Me.
HnsK has raised an interesting question relative
to this able musician, and» on the strength uC hk
having so done, I could wish to add certain que-
ries respecting Mr. Lampe's opera of Amelia^ and
its extraordinary scarcity. Of the two workf
mentioned by Ma. Husk» the Dragon of Wftutley,
and Pyramm and Thisbe^ the first in ' to
be very common, and the scconrj, ai i*
sible. It is in both the British Mu> rj
and that of the Sacred Harnuioir nd
also occasionally occurs in Cat i
On the other haTid, t?ir* opern ol
that it has been i^ uud m la;^
Jou
nil*?
[• See
J
p*s.r. Fte. tr, ti.^
NOTES AND QUERraS.
185
I
>
library or Collection that I know of, acd I never
SAW it entered in any Catalogue. The only trace
of its existence that I can find, is in the Sale
Catalo^ie of Mr. Bartleman^ the eminent singer,
who had the opera in MS, My queries are, can
anyone say where a printed copy of the mustc in
Amelia is to be found, and is it known what be-
came of Mr. Bartleman^'s MS. of the opera ?
ALrEED RoFrK.
The son of this gentleman was Charles J. F.
Lampe^ or|pantst of AllbaJlows Barkin^^ from 17^8
to 1769. Was not Mr. Lampe, senr., 8on*in-law
to JVlr Charles Youn^r referred to in " K» &: Q,"
(3^* S. iv, 417), who was the younger Lampe's
predecessor in this office ?* Jcxta Tcrrim*
You will find a notice of J. F* Lampe's death
itt the Gent. Mag. for 1751, p. 380.
Wm. Smiths
Curious Essex Sating (S'"" S. v. 97.) — As I
am not an Eissex man, I have never heard the
addition to *^ Every do^ has his day " of ** and a
cat has two Sundays ; " but I presume it refers to
the common tsaylug that " A cat has nine lives,"
which, interpreting a life to be a day, might carry
the cat's existence over two Sundays*
I have beard another addition to the common
proverb, ** Every dog- has his day," of " but the
dog-days do not laat all the year ; ** — a serious
consideration for the puppy ! ZZ.
ParvATB SoLDiEB (3^^ S- V. 1440 — Ebobacum
must allow me to correct him. The word in
question is fully recognised by military authority,
as well as by Act of Pariiaraent. In the Mutiny
Act (1862), for example, at par, 39^ p, 86, occurs
" Reduction to . . . the rank of a prwate soldier/'
&c. In the Articles of War (1862), par. 130, p.
61, ** rank ofprieate soldier," fltc.
In Endlc's edition of D*Aguilar*« Practice of
Courtg Martifd, 1858, p. 134, ""private soldiers,"
&c. War Office Regulations (1848, latest edi-
tion), p. 122, "sergeants, corporals, drummers,
and privates*^
I have taken these instances at random, and
have not even opened the Queen's Regulations, or
the Field Exercises, where the style of private is
constantly repeated. Moreover, a N. C. officer is
reduced to the ** rank and pay of a pricate sen-
tinel.'*
Your correspondent puts the qitery — Why
soldiers call the dark clothes of civillanSi in
contradistincHon to their own red^ ** coloured
clothes?" They call them "plain clothes "an«l
"mufti,** but never to my knowledge "coloured
clothes ; " and in saying so I am certain that I
shall be borne out by all who have mixed with
"^1iePB. Sl.
lar s Courts Martial^ edited by Mr. En die, of the
Adjutant-Generars Office, one of the text-books
on that subject, EnoRACtrif will find priuaie used
as a technical designation at pp. 109, 156, 00],
203, 216. It is alijo used in the Queens Keguta- i
tions for the Army, and wIU be found in Johnson's
Dictionary, S. P. V.
Apr EAatT Stamtobd Sbal (3'^ S. v. 113.) —
The matrix of the seal alluded to was exhibited at
' Peterborough when the members of the Archas'
I ological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland
I held their onnual congress there. It is of the
, time of Edward III.^ and is a beautiful specimett ]
of art-tvurk of the period, every detail having been
exquisitely wroujiht. An impression of it, pro-
duced in gutta perch a by Mr. Robt. Ready, of
the British Museum, is in my possession. There |
is no example of it in the archives of the Stamford
Corporation, none of the records in the possession
of that body being earlier, I understand, than the
reign of Edward IV, In Peck's Antiquarian
j Annals of Stamford there is an engraving of this
seal: the side not described above exhibits the
arms of the town — Gules, three lions passant
guardant in pale or^ impaling chequy or and azure.
The following Ictter^press accompanies it : — '* The
arms of the town or borough of Stamford as an-
ciently curved upon the south ami north gates of
the town* from a book in the Heralds* Office
touching the visitation of Lincolnshire. Anno
1634," Stamfobdiewsib*
EriTAFH ON THE £aBL OF LeICBSTBH (S""** S* V.
109,) — The accompanying quotation from the,
final Dote to Sir Walter Scott*6 Kenilwarth
(Abbotsford edit., vol. vi. p. 312), answers Mb. J,
Paote Courier's query : —
*♦ The f">llowing satirical i^pitaph occun in Druramond^s
Gditvtion^ but is evidently uot of his composition: —
*** ICPITAI'II ON TIIK KRhK OF LEISTER.
* Here lies a valiant warriotir.
Who never drew a iword ;
Here lies a noble courtier,
Wlio never kept his word;
Here liei; the Erie of Leister,
Who govern 'd the e^tat&s.
Whom the earth could never living lovs.
And the just Heaven now hales/ "
K. P. D. E.
^ Whatever may be the origin of the term private^
it ii oertAinljr now recognised. In Sir G, ]3*Agui»
NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC
73ie Coins of the Ancient Britoni arranaed and dutrihed^
hy John Evans, F.S.A., and engraved by ?, W. Fairholt,
r.SJL (J. Russell Suiitb.)
It i« « great ^ain to studcntf in every branch of know-
ledge when one who, by ittaloua attention, and well-
directed reiearch h&a uwJfi UvcowtVl *. ts^^wx ^-Qe^
186
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
[S»* & T. Fto. 27, %L
branch, is induced to ccnnmit to the preas the remits of
bis inquiries, and the fruits of his persistent studies.
British Rrchsologists will henceforward be deej;>l7 indebted
to Mr. Evans for this valuable summary of all that is
known, all that has hitherto been discovered upon the
subject of the coinage of the ancient Britons. Mr. £vans*s
thorough fnmiliarity with this interesting division of nu-
mismatics is well known ; and how much of gross error
and absurd theory exist upon the subject, and how widely
scattered are the known facts, may readily be ascertained
from the introductory chapter, in which Mr. Evans re-
views all that has, up to this time, been published re-
specting ancient British coins, from glorious old Camden
to the fate worthy Secretary of the Sodetv of Antiqua-
ries, John Yonge Akerman. The book is the work of an
intelligent, pains-taking, and eminently careful and sen-
sible antiquarv; and, gpreat as its value is on that ac- '
count, that valoe is immensely increased by the beauty
and scrupulous accuracy of Mr. Fairholt*s engravings of
the coins, to which Mr. Evans— himself the best judgo—
bears the highest testimony.
AMtobiography of Thoma» Wright, of Birkauhaw, in the
County of Fork, 1736-1797. Edited by his Grandson,
Thomas Wright, M.A., F.S. A. (J. Russell Smith.)
The present little volume is well and fairly described
by its editor as furnishing <'a curious and striking pic-
ture—one perhaps almost unique— of domestic lifa among
a very important class of English society during the
latter half of the last century in what has since b^me
one of the greatest and most active manufacturing dis-
tricts in our island." The book indeed gives something
more than this. It shows the state of the class of society
just alluded to, under the influence of the strong religi-
ous movement then rising up through the length and
breadth of the land, and the controversies which raged
between the Calvinistic and Armenian sections of the
dissenting communities. While, scattered among the
writer's account of his own life and that of his family,
there will be found many curious and interesting anecdotes.
We think Mr. Thomas Wright has done wisely in giving
the book to the world.
Ten Months in the Fiji Islands, by Mrs. Smythe ; with an
Tntrtniuction and Jf^ypendix bv Col. W. J. SmN'the, K.A.,
late H.M. Commissioner to IiijL (Oxford and London :
Parker.)
Quite a book for a drawing-room table. The subject is
terra incognita except to those versed in Wesleyan mis-
sions, and it is sketched by Mrs. Smytho in the most
lively and agreeable manner. Col. Smythe adds his ap-
propriate quota of solid matter. A sympathising narra-
tive of Bishop Patteson's Melanesian mis*iion is thrown
into an appendix; and the whole is brightened up by
views of Fiji scenery in chromo-lithograpL
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livOTpooli le, iiutal SiNtl. MMwhMteri ant Uimmtm I
WdlTtrtiainptop.
S'd S. V. Mae. 5, »64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
187
LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 5, 1864.
CONTENXa— N*. 114.
H0TE8:— The Proper Deflnitton of "Team." 187— B«la-
tioMhip of the Prmce uid Piiiioeai of Wales. 188— B«th-
ven. Earl of Ford and Brentford. Jb.— A Divine Medita-
tion on Death, 189— Absolute Monarchy of Denmark. /6.
— Bibliognqphy of Heraldry and Genealogy —Uanginjg
and Transportation — Sir John Coventry. ICB. — Mounds
of Human Remains — Records of Epitaphs—" Cui Bono ?
—Old Paintingat Easter FowUs, 190.
QUERIES : — Henry Crabtree — Forfeited Estates — " Ho
digxed a Pit"— Judicial Committee of the Privy CouncU
— JLesdlng Apes in Hell — Mozarabic Liturgy — Paoet and
Milton's Third Wife — Fuume in " Tom Jones " —Private
I^rsyers fbr the Laity ^ Quakers' Yards — Bundale Tenure
— Simon and the Dauphin — "The Sound of the Grass
growing," Ac. — Tttty, Piddy, and Sandy — Wadham
Islands — " Wit without Money " — Wolfe. Gardener to
Henry VIIL - William Wood — Thomas Yorke, 192.
QUEBISB WITH AiTBWBBSi— Sir Thomas Scott— Sortes
VirgilianK — Greek Epigram — Blair's " Grave " — Bishop
Bichanl Barnes — Map of Roman Britain — " The How-
lat" — Baal Worship — "Nullum tetigit quod non or-
navit" — Gormogon Medal. 195.
B£PLIES: — Hindu Gods. 197 — Characters in the "Rol-
Uad." 198 — Alleged Plagiarism. /&. — Monkish Enigma,
199 — Italics — Sir Robert Vernon — Sir Walter Raleigh —
Paahionable Quarters of London — Balloons : their Dimen-
sions — IrenaBus Quoted — Quotation — Revalcnta Arabica
— Cardinal Beton and Archbishop Gawin Dunbar — Sir
Edward May —Christopher Copley — Esquire — Elkanah
— Beech Trees never struck by Lightning— Descendants
of Fits-James — Dr. George Oliver— The Iron Mask —
On Wit — Retreat —Primula. Ac, 200.
Notes on Books. Ac
THE PROPER DEFINITION OF "TEAM."
On Thursday, Feb. 11, the learned Judges of
the Court of Queen^s Bench were enj^aged in a
subtle inquiry into the meaning of this word, the
determination of which involved serious conse-
quences. A lessee of the Duke of Marlborough
was required by the terms of his lease, " to per-
form each year one day's team work with two
horses and one proper person, when required."
The tenant refused to send a caft to carry coals
when required, though he offered to send the
horses and man, and thereupon issue was joined.
The case was tried at the Oxford Assizes, and a
verdict found for the Duke ; but the point was
reserved, and came on for decision before the
Judges sitting in Banco.
The question was argued very ingeniously by
the counsel on both sides, and illustrated by quo^
tations from various sources. On behalf of the
Duke, a passage in Csssar, 2>e Bett, OaU. iv. 3^,
was quoted, of the ancient Britons leaping from
their war-chariots, " percurrere per temonem,**
As the iemo here mentioned undoubtedly sig-
nifies the beam or pole to which the horses were
harnessed, the quotation proves too much, if it
proves anything, as it would imply that the team
meant the cwnage without the horses. On the
same nde» tlie line in Gray's EUgy —
<* How jocQBd dIA thqr MTe theirlMMi a H^"
was held to imply both horses and cart. This is
certainly not tenable, as the poet's reference
would be quite as appropriate to horses or oxen
going to plough, a.s to a cart or waggon.
On the part of the defendant, the illustrations
were much more numerous and pertinent, de-
rived from Dryden, Roscommon, Spenser, and
Shakespeare, showing that the term was usually
applied to the animals drawing rather than to the
carriage drawn.
Ultimately this reasoning prevailed, and the
Court decided by a majority, Mr. Justice Mellor
dissenting, that the tenant had fulfilled his con-
tract in tendering horses and man without the
cart.
Several of the authorities referred to present
£omc cmious points of interest connected with
the history of our language.
Those who have occupied themselves with phi-
lological inquiries are aware that one great cause
of confusion and misunderstanding is the fact that
words originating from diverse sources, owing to
the unsettled condition of orthography in former
times, are frequently mixed up and mistaken for
each other. So it has been in the present case.
For instance (I quote from the report in The
Times) : —
«* Tlie learaed Counsel cited Bosworth's Anglo-Saxon
Dictionary, * Team; issue, offspring, progeny, a succes-
sion of children; anything following in a line.*
•* Mr. Justice Crompton : * Surely the word there must
be spelt teemf* (Laughter.)
" The learned Counsel cited Richardson's Dictionary,
^Team; a team or yoke of working cattle'; adding,
* Somner applies it to a litter of pigs.* (Laughter.)
" Mr. Justice Crompton : * What, is the word apphed
to a string of little pigs? ' (Great laughter.)
** The learned Counsel observed that it- was even ap-
plied to a line of ducks ; in fact to a line of any sort of
snimals."
Now here are two words of entirely different
origin and signification, owing to the carelessness
of our lexicographers, classed together as one, and
leading to uncertainty and obscurity as to the
meaning of either or both. The A.-S. substan-
tives tema, tern, team, tyme, ge-tem, and the verbs
teman, temian, teaman, tyman, fire-temiari, ge-teman^
are employed interchangeably to represent very
different ideas. Let us endeavour to unravel the
mystery. ^ ...
The Gothic verb tamjan and its primitive, (iinan,
are identical with the A.-S. tam/ow, Eng. tame.
Along with the Gr. 5oa«£«, and Latin dom-o, they
are derived from Sansk. dam, to set in order, regu-
late, and applied to animals, to tame. In the con-
crete sense, as tenia, it was applied to the trained
cattle yoked together, in the same way that in
German and Dutch a team is called a spann^ from
spannen, to harness, and in English a " yoke " of
oxen is spoken of. The first instance of the use
of the word which I have mftt^^Vi Wwx Kx5Ss^>^|^
188
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3^ S. y. Mar. 6, *S4.
Lat. jugalis is translated by ioC'temay where it
has precisely the meaning of the modern " team."
In Piers Ploughman s Vision we read —
" Grac6 gaf Piers a teeme
Of foure grete oxen."
And 80 the term has continued to be employed
down to the present time.
The other application of the word to a litter of
pigs, issue, oiTsprinff, a succession of children, &c.,
18 really derived U'om the verb tepnif which is
descended from the Norse tihnu, originaily to pour
out, empty, and metaphorically, to bring forth ;
then appli^ in the concrete to what is brought
forth. The A.-S. form of teem is written incuf-
ferently tyman^ tematij &c., and is naturally con-
founded with the deriyatives from tanuau, with
which it has no connection. On the Wear and
T^ne, the teem of coals signifies the quantity
shipped, the coals being teemed^ or poured into
the hold of the vessel. The word is most in use
in those parts of the country where the Danish
element prevails. The Scottish toom, empty, is i
derivative from the same stock.
The word team or tkeam^ with the nine ida
of ofispring, was used also in another teiue in tke
Middle Ages. When the Baron of Bradwar^ae
enumerate to Waverley his long list of ftodil
jurisdictions, sao and soc, infangtfaeof and ont-
fangtheof, &c., amongst the rest, toll and tkmM
are mentioned. Spelman gives the foUowmg «-
planation in the words of an old charter : — -
*< * Theam,' hoc est, * quod habeatis totem gtowitiw
villanorom vestromm, com eomm atctis et catallis iki- |
cnnqae inventi faerint in Anglia ; excepto qood d ^ i
nativus quietos per annam unam et unum diem in iS^ |
villa privilegiata manserit, ita qaod in eomm emtm- ^
niam give gildam tanqoam civis receptua fonit, eo i^
k villenagio liberatus est' "
Tkeam was in fact the fueitive-stare law cf (Xi
England, with the saving clause of a city of v-
fuge.
J. A.. Picfii
Wavertree.
RELATIONSHIP OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES.
I inclose a table showing the fourfold relationship between the Prince and Princess of WAa
through the House of Saxe Coburg. FABHaix
Cavan.
I. Fras. Jo*Im, Duke of SAzesAnne Sophlt, of Schwartzb.
CobarK,ob.l76l. I K»dolatMit.,ob. I77«.
3. EmMt Fmlk., Dake ofaSophia Antoinette, of
Sue Colnirg, ch. IMO. I Bmiuwkk, ob. 1802.
. Cherloite SophUsLouia, Prince of MecklenbiiiK
Ob. 1910. I Schwerin, ob. ITn.
3. ypa. Fred. Ant., Dnke of=Aiiff. Soph. Car. of 3. Louise CharIotte=Au<nitai, Duke of 3. Sophia Fiederica=^re(]criGk, Priaoe of Iln-
SazeCobuiv,ob.l808. l Rcum Ebertdorff. ob. 1801. I SaxeUoCha. ob. ob. 17M. I mark, ob. IMSb
ob. 1831.
isn.
eLooIfe 1
t. MarieLoalN rtetoriapEdvard, Dnke of 4. Ero. Ant. Chas. i:x>ulas4. I^tnlae of Saxe GoUu, 4. LouIm Char1otte=Wm.. PriMC ef
ob. IWl. I Kent.ob. leso. DukeofS&xeCoburvl heir. of Denmark. I " ^ '
Gotha, ob. 1M4.
. Alexandrlna VictoHa=b, Albert, IPrince Coniort,
Qneen of England. | ob. 1861.
. Looiie. of HeMe»Chrittlan IX., King of
Caawl. I Denmark.
6. Albert Edwardsse. Alexandra, of
Prince uf Wales. I Denmark.
RUTHVEN, EARL OF FORD AND BRENTFORD.
In the preceding series of ** N. & Q.'* there
occurs an article rdative to Patrick Kuthven, the
friend of Gustavus Adolphus, who recommended
him in the most urgent manner possible to
Charles I. (2"«» S. ii. 100). It may not be out of
place to say a few words relative to the ancestors
of this person, who subsequently distinguished
himself as a warrior in Britam, and fully justified
the encomiums bestowed upon him by the Lion of
the North.
The friend of Gustavus was not descended from
the Earls of Gowrie. He was a male descendant of
WiUiam Ruthven of Ballindene, a younger son of
the first Lord Ruthven ; and upon his retiun
to the land of his forefathers, Charles at onoe took
him into his favour, and made him, in 1639, a
Scotch Baron, by the title of Lord RuthTen of
Ettrick, and conferred upon him the go¥«nior*
ship of Edinburgh Castle. Subsequently he was
elevated to an earldom in Scotland by the title of
Earl of Forth, March 27, 1642, with limitatioii to
the heirs male of his body ; and in 1644 (July SSX
he obtamed the English earldom of Brentford,
with a sin^ar remainder. He died at Dundae ia
January, 1651 » when his earldom became extiaet
for want of heir male of his body. The BtlHek
peerage may exist, as he left three daii|^itcn:
, Mar. i, '6i.]
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
' whom married^ ftnd Had Issue ; but the
)f the patent are not kiiown. The second
er. Lady Jenn, inArried Lord Forrester
storphine, and had bj him five sons, who
d tht5 nutTie of Buthveu,
iaui, dii /atto fourth Earl of Gowrie, fled
continent^ nnd h said to have " been famous
knowledge of chemistry.'* He escaped ap-
[v f]n^ .'latches of King " Jeinmie the Sa-
a';*' who ^ot hold «»f his brother
jopped him in the Tower : where he
d, and had one child, a daughter — who be*
Lady Vandyke. In her issue, the direct
mtation of the Earls of Gowrie remains,
82 that of the Kuthvens of Ruthven ; and
more ancient Halyburtons of Dirlet^n — I
ij which came to the third Lord Huthven
b his motlter, Jenn, or Janet^ Lady Haly-
of Dirleton,
Sari William is siaid to have been learned
iiistry, it was conjectured that he might be
rd Ruthven alluded to in the preface to the
Cabinet. Assuredly it could not have been
c, Earl of Forth and Brentford ; who, if all
are true, was equally powerful vn wine as
br Gustftvus availed himself not only of his
>8 us a warrior, but aa a toper, who could
potations ** deep and long,'* and never be a
s worse j a man who, as " field-marshal of
lilies and glasses," enabled his master to
i the secreu of those he thought politic to
to his table.
ie Catalogue of the valuable library of Sir
w Balfour, M.D-, which wsis exposed to
, Edinburgh in 169.5, several MSS, were
?d; amongst others, is the following in 4to~
gius Ruthven, Liber Miscellaniua ^ledi-
Who was this George Ruthven Y Was he
the grandchildren of the Earl of Fortln who
d bts name in prefei ence to their own ? J.M*
pblTlNE MEDITATION ON DEATH.
following verses, dated 1696, ai'e from a
f contemporary date, or nearly so. As they
BBibl^ hitherto unpublished, I send them to
larE MKDrrATtosr made ufon death ix titesb
UlIfE WORDKS rOLXjOWlNQ, VIZ**: —
VblAui^ TOi>« wure than Deaths ffr all must Diu
ing more wish't thnn Wealth, yet y^ mil leave ns \
tbiog more dear llua Love, that k^ta not ever;
Ing more rare than Ff lender, yet they deceive ua;
thiDg more fast than Wedlock, yet tSey sever.
kVwrld moat end, all thinj^a away tntiu'flie;
lug more dure tti«ia Denth» for all mmt Die,
Strength ~— '- ■■*' •- 'i, but 'twill decay;
Te Beat) [ it 'hvill not last ;
t'Ki 'twill away J
I fuUu'^, ^^h^iil aomti of thelr^ are past.*
Qa. Car It be corrected
J. a N.
For loog contianaiice it is vain to trie ;
Xothing more sure than Death, for all must Die.
n-irt;
'hi
., J J. „„.ij iTrieudj roust
" Sure Love must Ti
8ure 'tis v* all •
Snre ffricndi are , -.
part;
^ Sure *tij y* all things here are variable.
Not twO| nor one may *8cape» nor you nor I ;
Nolhing more sure than Death , for all mast Dte.
•* llien let y Rich no longer covet Wealth,
Then let y' Proad vaiie hi« Ambitioua tbonghC,
Then let y* Strong not glorv in their ttrength,
Then let all yield, 8ino<* all must come to nought —
The Elder ffitii, and then the Younger flfrie;
Nothing more sure than Death, for all muat Die.
" Death tooke away King Herod in hit pride;
Death spared not Ilerculca, for all bia strength j
Drath shooke great Alexander, till he d^-'d ',
Death spared Adam, yet he dyM at length :
Tlie Beggar and y* King together lie ;
Nothing more sure than Death, for all must Die.
** For Sceptort, Crowna, Imperiails, Diadema,
For ait y* Glory that y* World can give;
For Pleasnres, Treasures, Jewells, costly Jemm?,
For all y* Beantiefl y* on Earth do live,
He will not apare his Dart, but still replie.
Nothing more anro than Death, for all most Die.
** AJl from y* liigh&Bt to y lowest Degree;
All People^ Nation?, Co untrycA, lungdomea, Lands;
All that in Earlb or Aire, or Sea that bee ;
All mnsl yield up to his all Conquering Ilandi:
He wounds them all with hi* Imperiall Kye;
Nothing more aure than Death, for all must Die.
•* Must all then Die? then all mu»t think on Death ;
Must all then Tunisfa — the Snn, Mrnon, and Starrs?
Must everv .single Creatwre v ' r ath?
ISIu s t all t h en cease— on r J ' i is, and Cares ?
Yes : All, with one united viii. . : ,
Nothing more aore than Death, for ail must Die.
** Die let us then, but let ta Die in Peace;
Die to y world, that dyingc wee may live ;
Die to oar Sians, y* grace may more increttsc ;
Die here, to live with Him "that Life doth givp, .
Die, Die wte must, let Wealths and Pleaaure-s lie ;
Nothing more sure than Death, for all mu»t Die.
JoHX GotjoH Nichols.
ABSOLUTE MONAKCHl^ OF DENMABK.
At the present crisis in the alfriirs of Denmark,
it is important to know how Frederick VII. de-
rived the power to *' will away '* his kingdom.
The narrative is found in the Memoirs of Lord
Moieiitorih^ who resided in 1660 as envoy of the
King of Englanrl at the court of Copenhagen
(ch. viL) ; hut the fallowing Is extracted from
The World Displayed (xx. 6o) : —
« Denmark waa, till lately, governed by a king choieti
by the people of all ranks ; but in their choice, they paid
a due regard to the family of the preceding prince, and,
if they found one of his line qualified for that high honour,
they thoaght it just to prefer him before any other, and
were pleased when they had reaion to choose the elde*t
9on of their former kingi WVVL ^Xla«t^^Sa»T»1^^«»^^-
190
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S»*S.V. Ma«.5.'M.
were deficient in abilities, or had rendered themselves
unworthy by their vices, they chose some other person,
and sometimes a private man to that high dignity.
Freqaent meetings of the States was a fundamental part
of the constitution : in those meetings, everything relat-
ing to the government was transacted ; good laws were
enacted, and all affairs relating to peace and war, the
disposal of great offices, and contracts of marriage for the
royd family, were debated. The imposing of taxes was
purely accidental ; no money being levied on the people
except to maintain a necessary war with the advice and
consent of the nation ; or now and then, by way of free
giil, to add to a daughter's portion. The king's ordinary
revenue consisting only in the renta of his lands and
demesnes, in his herds of cattle, his forests, services of
tenants in cultivating his ground, &c.: for customs on
merchandise were not then known in that part of the
world ; so that he lived like one of our noblemen, upon
the revenues of his estate. It was his business to see
justice impartially administered ; to watch over the wel-
fiire of his people ; to command their armies in person ;
to encourage industry, arts, and learning: and it was
equally his duty and interest to keep fair with the no-
bility and gentr}', and to be carefm of the plenty and
prosperity of the commons.**
Molesworth then proceeds to show that —
** In 1660, the three states, that is, the nobility, clergy,
and commonalty, being assembled in order to pay and
disband the troops which had been employed against
Sweden, the nobility endeavoarcd to lay the whole bur-
den on the commons ; while the latter, who had defended
their country, their prince, and the nobility themselves,
with the utmost braveri', insisted that the nobles, who
enjoyed all the lands, should pay their share of the
taxes ; since they suffered less in the common calamity,
and had done less to prevent its progress."
The commons were then officially informed that
they were slaves to the nobility ; but the word
shtces not being relished by the clergjr and bur-
ghers, tlipy, on consultation, determined as the
most cfTectuul way to bring the nobility to their
senses, and to reme<ly the disorders of the state,
" to add to the power of the king, and render his
crown hereditary." The nobles were in a general
state of consternation at the suddenness of this
proposal; but the two other states — the clergy
and commons— were not to be wrought upon by
SDQooth speeches, explanations, and appeals for
time and delay : —
»*The bishop made a long speech in praise of his
maicstv, and concludud with "offering him an hnreditary
and ahaohtte dominion. The king returned them his
thanks ; bnt observed, that the concurrence of the nobles
was necessar}'."
The nobles, " filled with the apprehensions of
being all mas:>ncred,'' were now in a great hurry
to confirm the decision of the two other states ; but
the king would not allow of such cowardly precipi-
tation, ami, conse(|uently, with all the formalities,
on the 27th Oct., 1G«0," the homage of all the
senator^ nobility, clercv, and commons," was re-
ceived by the king, «» which was performed on their
knees : each taking an oath faithfully to promote
hii majenty's intercit in all things, and to serve
him faithfully as became hereditary subjecti.*
One Grersdorf, a principal senator, exprened t
wish that his majesty's successors might ^follow
the example his majesty would undoubtedly set
them, and make use of that utdimiied power for
the good, and not the prejudice of hia rabjects."
" The nobles were called over by name, and orderad tt
subscribe the oath they had taken^which th^ all did.'
. . . . <*Thu8," continues Molesworth, ''in nor din*
time the kingdom of Denmark was changed fhm a stMn
bnt little different from that of arittocraoy. to that tf ■
unlimited monarchy."
I may add, as an illustration of ShnloMBt
that '* the kettledrums and trumpets whidi sn
ranged before the palace, proclaim sloud the tbj
minute when the lung aits down to table.** Bk
one of the greatest of blessings must not be
omitted : —
** What is most admirable with nspect to
are its laws; which are founded on equity, and tmif
markable for their justice, perspicuity, and Vimf
These are contained in one miarto volume f wrote ia^
language of the country with such plainnew, that me,
man who can read is capable of nnderstandJiMr U on
case; and pleading it too, if he pleasest, wnooC tbe
assistance of either an attorney or of counael "111— 8t»
Schmanss, Corp. Jmr. Gent. Acad.^ i. 858; Hflta^
Daemtmarkuche Staata-und-Beicht'HiwtaHe, p. 84; iMtm
aur le Danemarkt 1. 118 ; and Mallet, iii. 47o.
T. J. BOCKIQS.
Lichfield.
BinUOORAPHT OF IIeRALDRT and G£3fBALMI-
I have nearly completed, to be put to pretf s
soon as the names of a sufficient number of so^
scribers are received, a new Catalo^ie of tk
published and privately printed Books on He-
raldry, Genealoprv, and kindred subjects ; and ts
no work of the kmd could be accomplished, with
any dejn*ee of accuracy, without the aid of
** N, & Q.," I hope I may be permitted to briK
the subject of my compilation before its resdcn
' Brieily I would say, that my Catalogue will be s
j classiiied one, and that every work which may he
' found in the Library of the British Museum wil
be noted in the same way that Mona. Guigard hmt
in his Bihliotheque Ileraldique de la France in-
dicated the works which are in the Biblioth^ue
Luperiale. To my work will be added an Index
to the Line Pedigrees in the county histories snd
other topographical publications. It is knows
that Mr. Sims contemplated the addition of loch
an index to the Catalogue of Heraldic Alsna-
scripts and new edition of his Index to the Vlaits-
tions, which he is preparing for the press ; but
he has waived his prior right in favour of the
work now announced, in the belief that the sepa-
ration of the two indexes would be productrvs of
unity of purpose.
I beg Uien. through " N. & Q^" to aik ths
favour of information relating to, 1. Bars *
¥
I
% Privately printed freneiilo^iea and sheet pedi-
grees; 3. Topo^rripbicul pntnphletjs, kc*^ ©on*
larninfr line pedigree?* Cm^jii.Kf Bhipger*
Witlcy, Surrey.
HAlCGHiG AND T&AWSPOBTATION. — It has ofteH
been asserted with great confidence, by advoeateei
for the abolition of cnpital punishment, that men
would be fis efTectaaJly deterred from crime by
the fear of bein^ transported a.^ by the dread of
being banged* The following? curious fact, re-
cently met with in the Scots Magazine for 178J)
(p. 481^, does not, however, beur out that stnte-
ment. At the close of the Session at the Old
Bailey, in September, ! 789, there were bo Urge a
immber «>r i^ntence of death, but
whose c - > delayed in conse-
quence ol the fclute ul (lie Iving's he&Jth, that the
authorities were unwilling to carry out the ex-
treme penalty of the law upon tbeoi, for there
were, it would seem, no le^s than eightv-two ; and,
iv^j„^ . ... „.r. .K ,. yr&r^ brought to the bar on
Se) ! asked whether they would ac-
cep 1 mercy on condition of being
trwi to New South Wales, A vast
mnj' ^ , ' this conditional pardon, but I
mmny with great hesitation. Eight, however, re- i
fused ; and though warned by the court, that if
tbey persisted in auch refusal they should be
ordered for execution, they &tili persisted, and
were removed to their cells. In three hours af^er,
five of these entreated that they might lie per-
mitted to accept of the mercy of the sovereign.
Two of the remainder, later In the day, sent in
their acceptance ; and on Monday, Sept. 21, when
every preparation was ready for the execution of
the ' ■ ' *iesc poor wretches, he beggtd and
Majesty's mercy on the torinR firjt
oflli.. .
IL A, 1\
Sir Johtc Covktitkt, K.B. — This gentleman,
the flon of John Coventry, Etq. (eldeHt son* by hk
second wi!>, ofTfifmn*; Lnrd Coventry), by Eliza-
*>^*' "»ey, Esq., and widow
o** ^ wiw of Pitmiofiter in
thi^ I, ru(d Mere in Wiltshire,
"^^^^ filth in aJl the pariiaraents
af Crtnrir^ M.
A violent and moBt dastardly a^saurt on him in
consequence of a somew - ji^st of his in the
Home of Common Sf en ime excitement,
and led to the act aganiM *uiiiii ' iiming,
denominated the Coventry Act. in his
lifetime »>> -Stt' *'.',- ^^ .f<..,.n,.i. ^ ^.nd
Wiig, Iv to the
I Uiw.
uncW, Fr^iKw Covenirv-
Sir John Coventry probably died between 1581
and 1686. The exact date of that event will be
very accMiptablc*
He founded a hospital for twelve poor men at
Wiveliscomb in Somerietshire, but X have not
succeeded in discovering any notice of this insti-
tution in the Reports of tic Charity Commis^
aionera. S. Y. H.
MotnvDS OF Human Rbmaitis,^ — I am not aware
that «iy vestiges remain of the mounds of human
heads said to have been raised by Zenghts Khan,
or Tamerlane, during their devastating wars in
the West of Asia ; but in the peninsula of India,
in the oeded districts of the Madras Presidency,
ia to be seen at the preseut day a very targe
mound, consisting of burnt organic matter and aahefi,
which thfj voice of native tradition allrma 1^ have
been formed of the remains of a multitude of Budd-
hists or JainaSf who were here burnt alive in a vast
pile by their Brahmin conquerors. The south of
India, especially that part of it which formed the
old Cheru kingdom, now the provioce of Coim-
batore, was formerly inbftbtteu by JaiuiiSi who
were conquered by BraJbmiii IIind«K>s, One of
these invsulers w^s the king of Chola'-mundalum
or Coromandel, and I have frequently seen in that
part of the country " vera'Culs,'' or heroic stoues,
raised to warriors dlsiinguished under him, and
who are represented in suits of armour much resem-
bling those worn in England in the middle of the
fourteenth century, though less substantial. Maba*
vuilipoor, or the Seven Pagodas^ on the same
coast, the suppo.sed capital of the Chola kings, is
celebrated for its monolithic temples, rock sculp-
tures, and other interesting antiquitieji, H- C,
Recoros or EprrAPHS, — From curiosity partly,
1 lately looked at a work by P. Fisher —
*♦ Cutalrjgito of most of the Mi'morabk Tombes, Grave-
stones, Pinter, &c., in the domollaht or extsat Cburehss
of London, fVom St. Kflih«ria«*a b«vond ttie Towvr to
l^gtmpls Barre,'* Jkc 4lo, Limdoa, 1668.
It is indeed nothing more than a " catalogue,"
for none of the inscriptioDs are given, and only
in a very few instances does he state in what
church the memorial was placed. Two or three
names occur which I should be glad to trace so
a^ to obtaiti the epitaph, but am completely foiled.
Is it known how the author compiled the list?
Whether from a series of publications, or from his
own notes f The British Museum has two copies,
perhnps a first and second edition, both imper-
fect; one having fitty-two pages, and the other
Only forty-four. Quaritch lately advertised a
'^' for twenty -five ^I'H^"^- ^ - *Mmperfect at
I," A comple t \ \*e some such
.* j;Jition as I have .^ -, . . .;.e.
Since writing the above query 1 had occasion
to look into Stow*s Surz^ey of London^ and though
not able to compare ttwi tw^ ^«aK^ v:isg!?fisiS2c^VSs^\.
192
NOTES AND QUEKIES.
19^ 8. V. MAtt. I
f onvitjced that Fisher jj work is merely an abstract
of the epitaphs given in Stow* Seymour's London
jilso appears to contain the same epitaphs — beinf^
sm enlargement of Stow. In these works I found
the three epitaphs I wanted. W. P.
"Ciri BONO? " — Not a day pa/ises but some wri-
ter m a newspaper, or speaker at a county meet-^
ing, wishes to express the simple idea^" What's
the ^od of it? '' and thinking? it finer to say it in
Latin, he uses the words " cui bono?" Those who
know the meaninpr of "cui bono" shru'i their
shoulders, and let it pass. But when a publication
like the Saturday Review^ conducted by able
scholars, has a long article headed *' Cui bono ? *'
the whole tenor of which proves that the writer
so understands these two words, it is tiint* that
you should explain to those who are daily using
the f)hrase, that they entirely misconceive the
meaninf*^ and force of this pithy idiom, which
Cieero • calls " lilud Cassianum."
A very logical argument is contained in these
two little words. If we were to inquire who was
ihe author of the murder of Darnley, Cicero would
have asked " Cui bono fuerit ? " vcho wajt to gain
by the death of Darnley ? And the question sug-
fieats the answer --undoubtedly Botliweil and the
Queen. All this iseonireyed by "cui bono" when
properly used, which is very rarely its fate.
J. C. jVL
Olt) Pait^tiicg at Easter Fowijs. — Some
y^ars ago I wna favoured with a view of a unique
pninting, which I think so curious that it deserves
to be noted in '»N- 8< Qr At a place called
Easter Fowlis, a few miles from Dundee, there
is, in tolerable preservation, an old Roman Ca-
tholic chapel which is now used as a Protestant
f'hurch, in and about which are several very in-
teresting relics of bye-gone times ; altogether the
pla^e^ is well worth a vfait. The painting I refer
to 19 in the church, and is of considerable size. It
is executed on wood, and occupies almost the en-
tire wAll at one end of the small building. If I
wit informed of the subject of it I have forgotten
lfi but what makes the work remarkable is that
among iho figures represented arc to be found
two of extraordinary character ; one is the devil,
and the other the soul of a man leaving \m body.
The artist has evidently not been aware of the
modern notions of Satan*^ appearance* or if .so, Ue
lias departed widely from it. He represents the
arch-enemy as mm ' " i mze and shape be-
tween a pair of Iw . and a black lobster. I
xhts soul is remesLJnrn vrry much like one of I
those embryo dolls to l>e found in the toy-shops, i
hiving neither arms nor legs, but of a wedge I
''hape. It appear* to be comin*i out of the dying I
posiewor's mouth, and the lob«i«r-IJko dovil is
tjvidentjy on the alert to catdi it.
• 8m Ch?eR> pro MiUmt.
I scarcely think such another piece of code
tical painting is to be seen anywhere eUc in '
land, at least adorning tlie walls of what U
a rural Protestant church. I have no idea of
exact age of the work or its artist's naiiie, butj
must be of considerable antiquity. The ndjo'tnii
churchyard also contains some old tomhaton
worth notice. G. G. M.
Edinburgli.
«&ueriej|.
'?rfi,
Henry Crabtbse. — ^In a Histarp of the Tom
and Paruk of Halifax^ printed by E. Jacob*, fbe
J. Milner, Bookseller, in the Corn Market. 37*5.
I find the following notice of ** Crabtr^
sometimes wrote Krabtree.*' He wa^ i ..
some have thought, in Norland; as otbi
village of Sowerby, where he was initij
school learning with Archbishop Tillotsoa.
has left behind him the character of Mn^
good mathematician and astronomer. ^'
lished ^^Mcrlimis Ettsticus^ or^ a Counttjf .
yet treating of courtly matters, and tuo
sublime affairs now in agitation through^
whole world. 1. Showing the beginning, ii
and continuance of the Turkish^ or Ot^
Empir*?. 2, Predicting the fate and st • -
Roman and Turkish Empires. 3. F
what success the Grand Seignior shall .-,
this his war, in which he is now eug&ged
the German Emperor. All these are endearand
to be proved from the motst probable and lodft*
bitable arguments of history, theology, iftstroJoft; ;
toffether with the ordinary furniture fif otW
Almanacks. By Henry Krabtree, Curate of Tod*
murden, in Lancashire. London, printed fnr
Company of Stationers, 1685.**
I may now u%k if anything further iV knowv
of this rienrtf Crabtree, ami whether a tr»py u*
this Almanac is still in ejtistence? ' ^ ' r ril**
tree, Gent., author of a Ci^nctM J r' ^
Parish and Vicurage of Hali/tu^ " | h j i ♦ n > i j od
" Hartley and Walker, 1 83G,*' c^ndently confc
this Henry Crabtree with the friend and
spondent of Horrocks and Gascoigne. Mr. Crab*
tree adds, that *' he married Pilling;,
of Stansfield Hall, near Todmorden.
T. T, WiLi
Dumte}', Tjmeashire.
FoavKiTED EsTAtaa, — Can any of your i
tell me where I can obtain tnformatiosi
estates in Scotland, said to have been coa
in 1715 or 174«? 1 wnnt to n^rrrtntn tlie paff^
ticularvof ri mr ptf^
«on, and tlh r miMk
they were seizua. A- F. &
, V. Ma«.5,'«4.]
NOTES .VND QUEttlES.
H* DIGGED A PiT."^ — Can tny of your contri-
ttitors inform me who wus the author of the follow-
g itaazK, iLfjd iti what biKik tt maj bd tound ?
** He iH^gtMl & |jit»
Uts il" - ■'■ ' '- ir-cp,
lie Jig^; brolhcr ;
But ' -.sin
Ho tUa Uil m
The pit he ilijjg'd for t'other."
Thomas tiiA&iif*.
Weit Cr«m]ii3giort.
Jt^DlCUL CoMMITTEB OP THK PRIVT CoUNCIL.
The Church Times for Feb. 13, 1864, p. 52, col 2,
\By9 that —
The M(imti«rii of the Prirv Goancil have aM a thccr<!L-
rr: ' - '— ' -- --. .' n ^.. .-- ^..,. t^^^^y
1 for-
bn , t, hut
f any uppariiEit branch of propriety, bdvci the judges
|&io3t AS he wilL Therefor^ if pwAons to b*i tried by ihi:
udici&l Cowmittee have," &c. ate
WTiat follows may be true, but may be also
^nfuUj libellous, and is therefore omitted. It
iill perhaps serve future bbtory t*j iLsk, (1) Whut
the uctutil custom to wliich members submit ?
2) What is the title of the summoning officer ?
|3) To ivliout U he responsible Y
The CathiHirul School, Durham,
Lkadisg Apes isc Hell. — Can ony uf ^uur
jeaden inform me of tlie origiii, or earliest mGH'
Ion of, a jocular supet^tition an to llie ultimate
ite of iincicnt maiden ladies ?
We find HuncAmunea, on bein* prouiiso*! Tom
humb for u husband, exclaiming : —
*• Oh ! happy fat€ ! hcuceforth let rirt o!ie tfH,
'ITint Huncaiutmea shall leod npcft in htU."
Aguiu, in Love m a Village, a gix^ singa : —
•♦ T*wt!ru bpUtir ou t?arth.
Have live brats At a birth,
Tliftu ill heli be a leader of apca.'*
While,,^ ia the Ingylthhy Legend of '* Bloudie
Jui;kc ui' bbrcvTsiburie/' we ure told tbat *'the
young Hary Anne," who ufterwards ditjd on old
maid, is not only now a leader of upe^ but also
^* mends bachelor/ amall clothes below.*'
I shall be <jlad of any iiiforuiation ou tlxi-i
•ubject. T. D. H.
MozARAmc LtTLHOT. — Cttu any of voiir chiricul
readers verily the statement maiie in 1' ord'3 Hnnd'
Book of Spaitt^ that many of the eolkcta of the
Mf*/^rabsc Litur^ have been truaafcrred to the
' lolc of Cimmiun Prayer ? Further* ure
uts common ti> tUe GalHciau and Mojs-
ttJubic Liturgies, or pLciuliar to tin* Utter ? If we
owe anything to the Mozarabic Litur»:y^ by what
ohaunel ha* the benefit eome to us ?
Fbeo. E. TaoK.
Chaptltown, Lo^diL
Paoet akd Mjlto!«'s Tbirj> Wife, — What re-
lation waii Dr. ra;;;et to Milton*s third wife Eli7:a-
beth Minsbuli? He is often quoted as the friend of
boilu and euubtn to Mr^. Mihon. In the Rev. John
Bu* ' k on the Anciettt Chapel tyf BlacMey
in 1 PurUh, p. G6, aftei" stating that the
fauiuv wi L u*;et are deseended from the Fttgets of
Rothley, in the county of Leicester, where one of
its members was vicar in 15G4, he ^yc» on to say,
' that Mr. Psvjzet was ajspttioted ndn»»tei' of BlatK-
I ley about 1(100; he atterwavda became rector of
Stockport, and died in IGGO. By his will dated
May 23, 1650, he leaves his property to bis two
^ »on5 — Nathnn, a phyeician ; aud Thomas, in Holy
OrderF. He alludes also to his three daughters
Dorolliy, Elizabelb, and Mary, and entreat? his
j coll^in ^finshull, apothecary of Manchester, to be
' supervisor of his wtIL Dr. N^atfaan Paget was au
, inttutate friend fif Milton^ and cousin to the poetV
third wife, Elizabeth MinshulL By will dated
I Juimnry 7. 1G7H, he leaves lieouesis to bU cousin
^ Jobti Goldsmith, of the Middle Temple, fjentle-
man, and his cousin Elizabeth Milton.
The mother of Minshull, the apothecary, was
I Ellen Goldsmith, datjjuhter of Richard Goldsmith
I of Nantwicb, and this Tliomas MinshuU was uncle
to Mrs. Milton.
I shall esteem it a fnYOur if any of the readers
of ** N. & Q." can give me the conneetingr link
between the families of Paget and MinshulL I
have two hundred pedI<;reo» of the MinshuH
family by me, lo;: ether with the fumdies they are
allied to, but can only find ihc following concern*
ing them, which I extracted from Warmincham
registry in Cheshire : —
** Huried, OcL 8, 1580V ^fargaret Minshall, alias V'agH;
Married OeL 28, lo93, Euadk Hinihidl lo Jaue Vni^et,''
John B. Mixshull.
21, Ilcaumout Stiaama.
Passage ik **Tom Jonks/* — The meamng of
the followinir passage ia perhaps apj>arent oti the
face of it; but can any of your readers throw
light upon the particular ** wondrous wit of the
place," to which it all^ides ? —
*• Or as wliea Iwa pMitleincn, strj«»c«i's to the won-
drous wit of the ptac«/Mrtj craekinif a bottle together m
M»me inn or tavern «t Salisbury, if the great Dowdy, who
arts thp piirt of « m^i.ljihjn :i4 VH| as soihh of his natters -
t.lj .1. ':'■■■'.■' ■.■.." ,■',.■■.'■■.. ^r- ' ' ;>['
ful: -■ :
th.-' ^ : :-^ . ,. i i-'H^
ho: ; -'-ek 9ume plu:*? o( itheltci' Iroui ihi*
nfM ; and if the well-barred windows did
I, uouUl veuture iheJr neck* to escape the
I y now foniiiJg upon them/*— T<fm Jonf\
J. S.
PaiVATE Pbatces roR the Laitt, — In a re-
cent notice of a popular book of family devotions
objection was raised to all such wotk*^ ov\ ttw^
194
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[SM&V. MAB.5.*li
ground that the Church has provided an autho-
rised form for Christian families. 1 do not see
Low the Book of Common Prayer can be meant ;
and I wish to be informed, what forms of prayer
for families and private individuals have been
. set forth by authority. Some such prayers were
formerly appended to the Common rrayer Book,
but are now omitted; and were, therefore, ap-
parently not " authorised." B. H, C.
Quakers* Yards. — I am collecting, during
leisure hours, all information I can get, as to
number, site, and history of old cha()els and
churches now extinct, in Carmarthenshire and
Cardiganshire. Also, of old extinct burying-
grounds, amongst which there is a considerable
number of " Quakers* Yards.'*
Query. Can any one of your readers refer me
to any work, either historical or biographical, &c.,
that can throw any light on the Quakers* Yards,
or the Quakers' era in Wales ? Llwtd.
RuNDALE Tenure. — Can any of the readers of
" N. & Q." explain the origin of the term " Run-
dale,** as applied to the tenure of land in the north
of Ireland ? ** Rundale tenure ** in thus described
in the Report of the Irish Society , 1836 : —
" Rmndalty which is a most miachievous way of occupy-
ing land, was, till of late years, the common practice of
the north of Ireland. It is thus, three or four persons
become tenants to a farm, holding it jointly, on which
there is land of different qualities and valuM ; they di-
vide it into fields, and then divide each field into as
many shares as there are tenants, which they occupy
without division or fence, beinfi; marked in parcels by
stones or other land-marks; ivhich each occupies with
such crops OS his necessities, or means of procuring manure
enable him. So that there are, at the same time, several
kinds of crops in one field."*
J. S. K.
Simon amd the Dauphin. — Can any one con-
versant with the obscure personages of the French
Revolution, answer the following Queries relat-
ing to the shoemaker into whose keeping the
young Dauphin was consigned? The late Mr.
Croker might have answered them, and I suppose
M. Louis Blanc could do so. 1. What was the
Christian name of Simon ? 2. Had he any chil-
dren; and, if so, what were their names? 3.
Where did Simon die ? And is anything known
about his descendants ? IIistoriccs.
" The Sound or the Grabs growing," etc. —
The following lines occur in Al Aaraaf. a poem
byE. A.Poe:— *
" The sound of the rain,
Which leaps down to the flower.
And dancca again
In the rhythm of the shower ;
The murmur that springs.
From the growing of grass —
Are the music of things,
But are modell'd, ala«>!*
Mr. Hannay, the editor of theie poems, hen
adduces a passage, which he says is from ^'aaoL
English tale *' : —
" ITie verie essence and, as it were, springeheade ak
origine of all musicke, is the verie pleaaaunte soimc:
which the trees of the forest do make wnea tliej growe.**
The same fanciful idea of this sound is intrc^
duced in the Noctes AmhronofUBy No. ucx. TIk
Shepherd saying : —
" My ears, in comparison with what they were whe= .'
was a mere child, are as if they were staffed wi'
then they cou'd hear the gerss growin' by mooiiii^
or a drap o' dew slipping awa* into naething ine t
primrose leaf.
To this note I would append a query, for tk j
name of the book from which Mr. Ham^ '
I quotes !
£. J. KoBXii.
Taftt, Paddy, and Sandt. — We all bfr
that Taflf^r is the ideal of a Welshniaiif and^
the word is a corruption of the name of Dvi
the famous bishop and saint. Paddy is mien.'
believed to be a variation of Patrick, or At,- U
the writer of the article "Pallade," in Didoi:
NouveUe Biographic GSnSrakyBAja^ Paddy iifraa
' St. Palladius, the precursor of St. PatriclL TTk
j author writes the word "Padie." Is he i^t?
> Sandy is, of course, the universal Scotchiaia—
j properly designated Alexander. But what Alo*
I ander — bishop or king? My notion is, that it is
I one of the kings. Am I right ? B. H. C
Wadhav Islands. — Are there any records V
tell at what time, or by whom, this small daster
of islands, near Newfoundland, latitude 49® 57-
and longitude 53° 37', were named ?
Were these islands discovered and named b
any of the gentry by the name of Wadham. wlk
embarked with Sebastian Cabot, when he dis-
covered Newfoundland ?
Or, were they discovered in 1583 by Sb
Humphry Gilbert when he went to take pos-
session of the newly di.scovercd territoiy in Nortk
America, by authority of the crown of Knglaad?
Harris & Kerr, in their Histories of Fcyofei
and Discoveries, say, that Sir Humphry was aiM
by the gentn^ of Devonshire and neighbourinf
counties in fitting out his ships; and we fin^
moreover, that gentlemen by the name of tiM
Courtneys and Cliffords, who, by marriage, were
allied to the family of Wadham, acconopanied him
in his voyages. IxJUKaraB.
"Wit without Monbt," a comedy (witb
amendments and alterations by some persons of
quality), 4to. No date ; acted at the Haymarkflt
Who were the persons of quality referred to P
ILL
Wolfe, Gabdbnbb to Ubnbt VIII. — A
French priest, one Wolfe, gardener to Eha. VIIL,
NOTES AND QUERIES.
B 18 Bftid to have mtrodueed the aprioot into £ng-
H land' {Biog, Brit. 24f>2n.) Hti<! Cbrbtian nnnie
and the time at wUick be floumlicd are desired.
The late Jtlr. Jobn Cdc (UUL and Aniufuitie* of
H Wdlinghoravghn 195J, says: "The apncot tree
H was first brougbt to England from Itiily in tbe
Kyear 1524 by W leaer of Ilenrf the
HBigbtb.'* I cannu . Uia autbority lor this
H dat«- S. T. R.
WtujAM Wood, author of A Survetf of Trade^
in Four ParU^ with Conaideratitms tm Money and
BuHion, London, 8to, 1718, afterwards became
secretary to the Commissioaen oTCuitoms. Par*
ticulars respecting him are mtich deabred.*
S.Y.R.
Thomas Yorkb, — In Campbeirs Livtts of the
Lord Chancellors, vol, ▼. p. % Thomas Yorke is
said to have been thrice Hiffh Sheriff of Wiltshire
In the time of Henry TUL What relation ira**
the fibenff to Simon Yorke, ancestor of the Earl
of Hardwricke? Caru^fosd*
CapQ Town.
8ia Thomas Sgott. — ^Wzll any Kentiah geoea-
logift give any particulars of the family of Sir
Thomas Scott, of Scott's Hali» in that county ?
He was appointed by Qaeen Elizabeth to com-
maud tbe Kenti^sb force against the projected
Armada^ in 1588» The following verse from an
old balladi describing the diiferent events of his
^ life, is appended to an etching portrait of Sir
■ Thomaa Soott; and it is desired to obtain the
■ rest of tbe poem : —
H • Hii Men and Tcuants wailed tbe deye ;
^^^^ Hi* kinu and cantrie cried!
^^^L B^th youn^e and uld in Kent may sayc,
^^^ Woe woonb tbe daye be dhd."^
Of the same family was Reginald Scott, oi
Smeeth, author of tbe DUcovery of Witchcraft,
printed 1634; who is supposed to W the author
of tbe ballad- It was said tbe ballad was printed
in Peck*6 Collection ♦»/ Historicnl Discourse*, but
it IS not to be found in that work. T. S»
[Sir Thomas Scott, Knt, ^ Scott'a Hall ia Kent, was
^ "Tof that county in the 18th Qa<>en Elizabeth, and
Ttha 15th and 28tfa, knight of the shire in parbument. In
the memorable year of the Spanish Armada, aniio 15«8,
h« was appointed commander- in -chjcf of the Kentish
forcei to oppose that formidahle inrasioiL The day after
ln> rwwvcd tho letters from th© Coundt, #o much was he
belovwl in the county, that he was eiiat>l<i>d to colI«ct and
send to Dfi'f^x 4,000 armed men. He was celelirated for
his liberal houaekeeping, providing tables dailv for ahoivt
f Wm. Wood died on March 25,
«*'— ^«wi. 1%., xxxr-147; and , . . . a
100 peFAons for lhirty«aight years at Scott's Hall. No
man*H death could be morfi lamented, or memory more
beloved. lie died on the 30th December, 1 594, and was
hurknl with his ancestors in Braborae church. 1 u Thoipe^a
Caialogue of 1847, art. 2504, there appears tin Kpitnph wi
Sir Thomaa Scott, printed on a folio Jc?af» which has be«n
reprinted by Francia Peck in A Cotttethn of CutioHM
UiKtonval Biect$, 4to, 1740, No. V„ at the end of hi*
Memob-Mof Oliver C^xmweU. TMa hallod eonslsts of •evcn-
teon verses, with oimotatioas. and is too long for quota*
tion. Reginald Scott, the author of that remarkable
work The DUcovtry of Witchcrajt^ 4to, 15^*4, was Sir
Thoniua^fi half-brother. Vide Qastcd's Ktnit iii* 292, and
far other nottoei) of Sir Thomas, the Calendar of Sioti
Fttpen^ Domestic 1547—1580.]
SoETKS ViHGiixuc^. — MTiat IS the origin of
iS'ortes VtrgiliaTt<e^ and are there any other in-
Btances of the tradition besides the well-known
one relating to Charles I. Of this, by-tbe-way,
there are two very different accounts — by tbe one
of whirh it is tbe ftiture Charles II., who, in com^
pany with the poet Cowley, makes trial of the
'*VirgilIan Oracles*' at Paris in 1648; while, by
tbe other, Charles I, himself consults a Virgil in
the Bodleian Library at Oxford, when Lord Falk*
land, who was with him, is said to have found an
equally starlllng prophecy of his own fiit« in the
linea where Evander laments the death of hi« BOa
Pallas. The tradition is a very curious one, and
I shall be glad to have any information on the sub-
ject. W. G. R-
[Biblkoaneyt ot IHvittatMO hy Book% was known to
tha aaoietits luidtr Hke apptUali«i of Sartu Momtrimh
and Soriet Vvyilmmak Tba ffietke wac. to taka up th«
worka of Bonnr and Tiigi], and to consider tha tei
vafM that ptmeaM itself as a ptognoslieatioD of fbton
ereota. Thus 8e?«rfts entertained ominous hopes of Uie
empire from that verse in Virgil^ — * Tu regcre imperio
popnlofi, Roaume^ memento i" and Gordiaoos, who tailed
but few days, waa diaeoura^ed by another, that ia, •■ Os-
tendant tcrris banc tanthm fota^ nee ultra ane waant."
From pai^aniiiTi, this mode of penetrating into futurity,
was introduced into Christianity In the fourth ceotnry,
under the name of S&rita SanctorMm ; and the Christians
consulted the Bible for the same purpose. Whatever
text prasentod itself, on dipping into the Old or New
Testament, was deemed to be tbe answer of God Mmidfc
The practice, however, waa laudably condemned by several
couocilf- Consult Gataker, 0/ the Natun md Une of
Lot*, 1616} an able article on Biblioinancy in the Enof^
chfkxdia Metropditana, xv. 540; Fosbroke's Encyclope-
dia of AntiquitieM, 4to. edit 1825. i. 326; and Sir Thomaa
Browne's fVorhMt by Wilkin, edit. 1B62, il 97. In a nofea
of the latter ii Welwood^s account of ihe Smim Vtrgt^anm,
as tried by Charles L and Lord Falkland at Oxford.]
Gaaaa EpioaAM. — It is a pretty Greek epi-
gram which says to the new-bom babe, '* Xou
wept while we all smiled %l^s\i^ -i^soct <at^^ft-\ ^R^
live as to smile upon your deatb-bed when others
are weeping." Whence is this taken ? Esi-ksh.
[The Dpignim, respecting which our cori^spondeat
inquires, will b« found in iin EmflUh form at [k 2H of ihe
Sabrimi Corolia (ed, alUira, 1B59), where it » attributod
to Sir W. JoQes, auU tons thtia i —
" On parefit kneai, a naked new-born child,
Weeping thou Mtat, while all around thoe smiled :
Sr> live; that wuktng to thy life's last sleep.
Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.**
On the opposite page i$ a Latin translation, with a
Greek heading : —
** Parvulus in gremio matrLs, modo nalus inopsquOf
Tu locrimas, at aunt omnia Inta mii,
Sic vivaftt puer, ut, ^lacfda cum niorte recnmbai,
Ooioia lestsL tibi sint, lacriniitque taifi."
To these Latin tines are appended the initials ** T.W, P.,"
which stand, ua >rc are informed^ for T. W. Pdle, editor
of the Choephorm (1840).
We have never met with this epigram in a Greek fonii ;
but if any audi exii^ we should be very glad to see it;
and 80, no doubt, would many of our readers.]
BLaiit's ** Grave." — To the earlier editions of
tills poem — a slender pamphlet in a coloured
wrapper — ^ia prefixed a frontispiece ; cir^jular, I
think, In shape, and rep reaen ling a schoolboy
'* whistling aloud to keep his courage up,'' aa,
satchel on back, be walks with fearful aspect
through a ^aveyard by moonlight, Tho portal
of the church appears on one aide ; on the other,
Jb the distance, a pyramidal momuoent is seen,
and gravestones are scattered about. In the more i
modern editions, I have seen the Hame design re- ^
produced, but without the name of the artist. I
This, possessing the original drawing, which is in '
the «tyie and of the period of Corbould, I am de* I
fliroili to learn ; and should be obliged if anyone |
who may posstjss the book would kindly refer to
it, and afford me the information.
William Baxfii. |
EdgUaiton.
[No f^ontiaplcCti to bijur ^ f-rurr Is'to be fi^nd in the
cditiona of 1743, 1749, ITfA ITufi. of*17»;j. In that of
1782* 12mo, is a ctrculflr one by •• Barron, tkdS Macky,
fCUlp'," a dAV- light BCtiue, as two gTavtf'diggtrsi are at ,
work; a girl la redding a book, with tier amis rt^^ting on j
a tomb; and a boy with satchel on back. Tberi* staniU I
tha church, but no pyramidal monument is to be seen.]
Btiuor RiPfiAED BiHTEs. — Godwin, in his '
Cabdogv asserte that Hichord \
Baroef, ! <im, was "?nfrraj;an
unto th« ArcLibuhoi* ut York.'' In :r t |
in my poaMi'ssion, he h said to be sufTr.;. p I
to li •' ' • Lincoln, WliJ<^. i ^ 'f
Neir M lujr Lc Neve tl. :■.-.> Auy \\A\i |
€>n thi?, lUi was coofeerftted sufii'agan March % j
1566 ; and was afterwards Bbhop of C«rl
Durham, W. H.
[ lo Wharton's list of the Suffragan Biabopa in
capiiKl from the original manu»:rlpt? in lh«
library, Richard Bai-ces appears 9S suffragan la Uie
bishop of rorJfe. Nottingham being in the lUotttt «
LincolA may accoant for tho error. TIic fl*la of ha
crarfwit as iiuffragan of Nottingham, given in l« Nrr/i
FaiSi, edited by T, Duffua Hardy, ediU 1*454, rvLB
p. 241, is « 4th Jan. 1&67 ; Pat 9 Elii^ p. 11» wi, JX*" b
the list printed by the Rev. Mackesxik W'AU^m
(•*N. «c Q," 2"'i S. ii. 8), the date of Richard Baiavi
coosecratioa at York is April 6, 1567.]
Map op Rom in Britaik. — la tliere aaj a#
or aila>^ whii^h alms to show ail the Roman ^M^
ments (camps and stations) in Oritmn, widi «
without the ancient names ? If not, ia tbera WBf
map which exhibits existing traces of Roman «€r
cupatioQ with anything like minuteiiea« of detat '
In any case, which ia the best map for an intju.!
In this direction ? B. U, U
[The following maps may aaaiat onr corraapoo^iat i*
his inquiries ; 1, •♦ An Hittarical Map t>fA.n^to*SAama»d
Roman Britain^ by the late G, L. B. Freeman, t«V •*
Cains College, Cambridge, published by James WjV*
Charing Cro*s East, 1838," It contains the maatM. mA
modem name* of the Roman Stations and C^donlts »
well as the boundaries of the Roman Provincu*. t. B^-
tannia Romarui, by W. Hughes, F.RG.Su of Aldlueauai-,
hers, Paternoster How, 181^3. This map conUtas
stations mentioned in the Autontne Itinerary, n* v^tll
the Notitia. The ancient names are quoted frou
Cvaar, Pliny, Tacitus, Amniianus, the Anooy?!
grapber of ttarenna, &c j and the modem
throughout in smaller characters,]
'* Tau HowLAT." — Can you inform me wl«
Sir John [Richard?] Holland's poem of
Howiat is to be met with ? In Scott*!* A.hbti
of the characters quotes from it the well-,
linea : —
" O Douglas, Douglas,
Tender and true."
I have never come across it in any coUection
old balla<ls* OmMmuungm
["The Howlat^' was first printed in the Aj
subjoined to Plnketton's CoHectitm pf $coli$h Pt
140, edit. 1?D2. It has since been reprinted aiit
oditcd by 5f r. l>avid ^LaJng for the Honnatyne ClnK
1«2D.]
Baal WoRtiiiip. ^I shall be oblii;*:»l to an/
your readers who will inform uie of any
which treats fully of tho worshln of Baalt and U
the other gods of Syria and the Kust.
buOiJ
^We know of no work exflti'»lvfly i th«
worfihJp of Bail* but would t ur ^utjx>4«9fi-
dciU to consult Sir M^jxry \U\. . ojt ^n t^ i(i^
ii^um o/tht BiU>phniam snd As^^f uau (,Goo. tUwlJ
NOTES AND QUERIES.
>
k
fferothtitM, I 684); Professof Mail Mtiller's Etmy on
Stmitic Mnnolkeitm ; untl Jtcob Bry*inl*s ^nol^m of
Antkni 3fythalrtgyt paasini. For further inrumiation on
Biui], seti » list of workei r^errt^rl to At th«i end of the
xu-iicio Baal iq the Penny C^lopttdia, lu, 221<1
" NuLLtJM T£TIOtT ilVOD SOJf OBWAVIT" In
tbe debate on the Address my Lord Derby is re-
ported to have said of our Foreign Secretary,
'■^Kihil intiictuai relinuit, nihil teti;;it quod non
[I must alter the wora] contarbavit.'*
Is this very pudsage to be met with In anj an-
cient author, or is it merely an adaptation from
Golditmith^s Epitaph in the Abbey ? —
''Qui nullum fere scribendl genua non letig it, nullum
teUgtt <\awi noQ omaviL"
D.
[Thb hn» not, we believe, been traced to any chudcal
aoiirc«. Mr, Croker, in his edition of Bowwei/^ Uma a note
00 it to the effect, that the phrusc quot«il resetnbles Fene*
loii^i FQtogy on Cia?ro — ••Ue adom* vrbat«ver ho ut*
Consult also Forster'a Life of Olivtr QoUiUmth,
1S54,U. 472.]
GoKMoGOH ilxDM.. — What is the medal I de-
scribe below. Ob. **c . a . ku . po . cecum . yolg .
*i»p , ooRMOQo.** Round a draped bust of a
Chiiieae, ** ex , ajt . E£o . xxiix." Rev, ** um-
VEttSUS - SPLENDOR, UMVBRSA . BEWEVOLEWTlA,"
round a full-faced sun with rays. The medal is
sarin oun ted with a dragon. W. Z.
[ U is one of the niedala worn by the Suciety^of the Gor-
inugoua, a species of rlvaU of tho Freemasons, who are
mentioned by Pope in Tim Dunciad; laujj^hed at by
Harry Carey in his Poems (1720) ; and caricatured by
Tlogarth in the plate entitled "Tbe Mysterj^ of Majsonry
brought to Light by the GormogonB." See Nicholi^a
Hogarth, c*!. 17«2, p. 384.]
niNDU GODS,
(3'* 8. V, 135.)
5avii>8i>w will fmd much iurormation upon [
thia subject in tbe HUtory of India (Murray,
1867, fourth edition) by the late Hon. Mount-
8tuart f^lphin.^tone, formerly Governor of Bombay,
with whom I had the honour to be acquaintcti,
and whoise name and work I quote with profound
[reiiiect and ndmiratiou.
The devotion of the Hindus —
F**h djrect<*d to a v.triety of u ,f
I trlmin it ia imposifniii? to llx tbe tr
I with til*' 15 Nil! Ilni-iii exlrdva:' . «
"'\ but U103L
M ^jttiTCwiiig distinirl mud divioQ tanotiaiia^
jind therefore entitled touor«hjp: — L Rriihmn, tbe cre-
ating principle J 2. Vishoti, the pfc*crving primiplc; B.
Siva, the dedtroyint»^ pHndpIe; with their corre«poading
female divinities, wbo are mythologically regarded at
their wives, but, m<'taphysieully, as the active powers
which derelope the prindplo represented by each member
of the triad; nimely, — 4. Screawati. 6. LakshmL 6.
Parvflti, called also tte'vi. Bhavaiu, or Durga. 7, Indra,
god of the sir and of the benveuB. 8. VarunSt god of the
watent. 9. Puvana, jiofl of tho wind. 10- Agni»cod offire:.
H, Tama, god of the infernal region-* sad judge of the
dead. 12, Cuvrfra, god of wealth. 13. Cdriiiceiat god of
war. 14. Coma, god of lovr. lij. Surya. tbe FUd. IG.
Soma, the moon. 17. (JutuVa, wIjo L^ the removtT of
difficulties, and, us tueh, pre-sid&s over the entrances to all
edifices, and is invoked at the commencement of all un-
dertakings. To these may be added tbe planet^ and
many sacred river*, cspcdaily Ganges, which is person!*
tied as a female divinity, and honoured with ever\' sort
of worship and reverence. The three firat of these* gods,
Biahma, Vishnu, and Siva, form th« celebrated Hindu
triad." •
Brahma is usually represented ji^ a rod or
tfolden -coloured figure, with four Leadii, He has
ukewfse four arms^ in one of which he holds a
spoon, in the second a stTing of beads, in the third
a water jug, and in the fourth the Veda, or
sacred writmgs of the Hindit^ : and he is fre-
quently attended by his vehicle^ the goose or
swan. Durga, or Doorga^ is represented with
ten armi. In one baud she holds a 5pear, with
which she is piercing the giant ^{uhisha ; in the
other a sword ; in a third the hair of the giant,
and tbe tail of the serpent turned round him ; and
in tbe othersi the tridenti discus, axe, club, and
shield.
The usual pictures of Siva represent biui as
gloomy, ** with the addition that he has three eyes,
and bears a trident in one of hi^ hands; hia uair
IS coiled up like that of a leligious mendicant ;
and be \& represented seated in an attitude of pro-
found thought.'* A luw cylinder of stone occu-
pies tbe phu^c of an imatie in all the teuiptes sacred
to Siva. Devi or Bhavani '* is a beautiful woman,
Hdtog on a tisfer, but ia fierce and menacing atti-
tude ♦ , . But in another form . . . she is repre-
sented with a black: skin, and a hideous and terrible
countejiai\ce, streaming with blood, encircled i*ith
snakes, huog round with skulls nnd human heads.**
Vishnu is represented as a comely find pLitid
youn|^ man, of a dark azure colour, and dressed
like a king of anelent days, fie is painted also
in tbe forms of his tea principal incarnarions.
The first was that of a fish, to recover the Vedas,
which had been carried away by a tlemon in a
delujze ; anot)ier was that of a boar, who raised
on his tusks the world, wliich had sunk to tlie
bottom of the ocean ; and another was a tortoisei
Ihat supported a mountain. The fourth was in
the shape of a inaii, with the bend and paws of a
lion. The fifth a Bramin dwarf. The sixth wu
Paris Riim, a liramin hero. The seventh ww
E4ma. The eigbtb was Ballw 1J.W^^ ^ V'a:t^^'«^w*
198
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[a»*B.V- Mab,6,'64.
delivered the earth from giants. The ninth was
Budha, a teacher of false religion, whose form
Vishnu assumed for the purpose of deluding the
enemies of the gods. The tenth is still to come.
R4ma is represented in his natural form. Gan-
doba, the great local divinity of the Marattas, is
an incarnation of Siva, and is represented as an
armed horseman. Surya is represented in a
chariot with his head surrounded by rays. Gan^sa,
Gun^sa, or Ganpatti, is a figure of a fat man, with
an elephant's head. There are numerous local
divinities, or village gods, who bear some re-
semblance to the penates or lares of the Romans.
A regard for space compels me to condense
Mr. £lphinstone*s description of the Hindii gods,
but perhaps I have quoted enough to lead Mb.
Daviuson to peruse the History of India, ^ I shall
be hnppy to lend him my copy, if he will instruct
me (5, Charles Square, N.) how to forward it to
him. I refer him also to Coleman's Hindoo My-
^olofy^ in which he will probably find all that he
requires. Ogilvie*s Imperial Dictionary contains
engravings of some of tne gods above named.
Edwasd J. Wood.
12. Fauconberg (Belasyxe) an ancient peerage
Became extinct in 1815. I know nothing mort
(Collinses Peerage.)
13. Le Mesurier. No doubt one of the Jenej
family.
** And thou of Dame uncouth to British ear.
Prom Norman smugglers sprang, Le lierarier."
Wilson's translation of Vikramorvan {Hindu
Theatre, i. 219); Moor's Hindu Pantheon ; Cole-
man's Mythology of the Hindus^ and Rhode Ueber
Religidse Bilding^ Mythologie und Philosophie der
Hinaus, will supply the information desired by
Mb. Davidson. T. J. Buckton.
CHARACTERS IN THE " ROLUAD.*'
(2°'«S.x. 45.)
The following are all the answers I can return
to FiTSHOPKiN s's queries : —
I. Lord Momington was the father of the
Marquess Wellesley, Duke of Wellinffton, Lord
Cowley, &c. He was meant by Achilles. Lord
Graham was the eldest son of the Duke of Mon-
trose, Marquess of Graham. He was Atrides. A
heavy man. Momington, lively and gay. (Lodge's
Peerage.)
9. Willis, the mad doctor, I suppose; though
he was not a Member of Parliament. How " com-
fortably calm " is probably an extract from one
of his bulletins of the king's health, if this does
not involve an anachronism.
II. Bastard (John Pollexfen), M.P. for Devon.
He was one of the meeting at the St. Alban's
Tavern in 1784, and was angry with Pitt because
he would not unite with Fox, except upon his
own terms. Otherwise, the whole family were
and are (if not extinct), Tories. His son, Ed-
mund Pollexfen, B., sat many years for Devon
before the county was divided. (Kitley Paik,
J^raaalure.J
A good deal of smuggling used to be carried «
between France and England through the Channel
Islands. Probably the illicit traffic is not j«
extinct.
14. Lord Westcote. An Irish title of Loni
Lyttelton, assumed by his ddeat son. (Lo^gt
1864.)
15. Wilbraham Bootle. Some eonneetioi af
the Bootle Wilbrahams, Lords Skelmersdale, of
large property in Cheshire. I do not undentad
the allusion. (Lodge, 1864.)
16. Lord Bayham. Eldest son of Earl Canfti
(now Marquess Camden and Earl of Breckno4
Bayham Abbey, Sussex. I know nothing mxt.
20. Lord Winchelsea (Finch). The Una
family are, or at least were, very dazk-com-
plexioned. Sir C. H. Williams, in one of )tts
political odes (1742) speaks of the •* black ftme-
real Finches.** (New FoundUng Ho9piialf<or IR
vol. iii. p. 12, 1784.) No doubt there ara ftt-
traits of Lord Winchelsea extant. The frnt^
have added the name of Hatton to Finch.
21. Lord Sydney. (Hon. Thomas Townshcnd)
A member of the Whig opposition to Lord Nortk
Joined Pitt's Administration. His chin wedi
have ** reached to Hindostan.** {Rottiad^ A
connexion of Marquess Townshend. ProbtHy
the family have a portrdt of him. W. D.
I ALLEGED PLAGIARISM.
' (3'* S. V. 163.)
i YoMT correspondent 2. wishes for a reference
j to^the particulars of the dispute relating to the
I authorsuip of the elegy entitled " The Black-
i birds." These particulars, I am inclined to think,
are not to be found in print, but were only i
topic of chit-chat in the literary and theatncil
circles of a fashionable watering-place.
This beautiful and pathetic elegy 6r8t appeared
in The Adventurer^ No. 37. It was communicated
to Dr. Hawkesworth by Gilbert West, without
naming the author. West, however, did not
claim It, although Dr. Johnson {Livee of the PoeU%
ed. 1854, iii. 278) writes doubtfully respecting the
authorship.
When the elegr first appeared with Mr. Jagj^l
name in the fourth volume of Dods1ey*s ColUelm
of Poenu^ edit 1755, it is said that a manager of
the Bath Theatre, with unparalleled affroarfM
3"» S. V. Mar. 5, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
199
was the author of " The Blackbirds ; " and that
Jago, which name ho adopted, was taken from the
character in Othello, This brings us to the ques-
tion put by your correspondent. Who was this
manager ? It has been conjectured that it was
John Palmer— "Mail Coach Palmer,*' as he was
familiarly called, a manager of the Bath Theatre
in Orchard Street in 1767.
I am, however, more inclined to attribute this
ruse to John Lee the actor, who became within a
short time after the publication of Dodsley's fourth
volume (1765) a manager of one of the Bath
theatres. Lee*8 principal character, it will be re-
membered, was lago in the tragedy of Othellot in
which it is allowed he excelled; but unfortu-
nfttely, as is well known, he entertained too high
an opinion of his own talents. When he had the
command of the Bath prompt-book, he altered
some plays in so bad a manner, that Eemble,
when he came to Bath, refused to act in them till
they were restored to their proper state.
Lee's character is well described by Cooke in his
Life of MackUn. He says : —
** Lee*s lago was very respectable, and showed a good
judgment and thorough representation of the character.
JThls actor was not without considerable pretensions, were
they not more than allaye J by hig vamt^. He had a good
person, a good voice, and a more than oidinary know-
ledge of his protfbsBion, which he sometimes showed with-
oat exaggeration; but he wanted to be placed in the
chair of Garrick, and in attempting to reach this he often
deranged his natural abilities. He was for ever, as Foote
said, 'doing the honours of his ftce.' He affiMsted nn-
common long pauses, and frequmtly took snch out-of-the-
way pains with emphasis and articulataoo, that the
natural actor seldom appeared."
Lee was banished at last from almost every
theatre but that of Bath, wherc he continued at
different periods, either as manager, actor, or
lecturer, till his death in the year 178L
Amicus.
Bamsbury.
M019KISH ENIGMA,
(a** S. V. 153.)
A Wykehamist will find an explanation of the
lines quoted by him in a little volume, entitled
Memoirs of the Rose, by, I believe, Mr. Holland
of Sheffield. Addressing a lady, the author says : —
** In the common rosebud there is a singolar arrange-
ment of the armature, or beards of ^e sepus forming tiie
calyx, which is thus stated in an admired scrap of
monkish Latin : —
* Quinque snmus,' &c.
Tbeee leonine (rhyming) verses, with an English version
which follows, I extract from the MtmUdy Mr — ''— ^-
Apiil, 1822 ; to which work they were sent by our fa-
vourite poet (James Montgomery). The translator fAh
serves, that— * The common hedge rose (and every other)
hasa calyx, which encloses the bud, consisting of five
two piniHk* (MfiaiO, sad m HAb pinaMtB coly mi m
side (non barbatus vtrinqwe). The three leaves then,
described in the above lines, are the two which are pin-
nate, or bearded ; and the one which is pinnate on one
side only, or *♦ not bearded on both sides,** as the verse
rather ambiguously expresses it ; consequently, the two
leaves omitted in the description must be the two that
are *< simple," or without any beard at all' The poet
then gives the following translation : —
* Five brethren there are.
Bom at once of their mother;
Two bearded, two bare ;
The fifth neither one nor the other.
But to each of his brethren Aa/f brother.*
" You will find it interesting to notice this botanical
singularity; which the tranuator tells me he never
found to vary in any specimen he had examined — a
sUtement which is corroborated by my own observations
on hundreds of roses of different species."
D.
The Latin enigma, given by A Wtkehamist,
was proposed in Yotmg England for December
last ^ear. It has never been answered, and the
publishers of that periodical are now offering a prize
of 1/. to any one who will answer it and another
that appeared in an older number of the same
publication. The following is a free translation
of the enigmas. The translation and the enigma
appeared together.
*• Five brothers we are.
All bom at one birth ;
And brothers more strange,
Ton will scarce find on earth.
« Two of us beardless
From youth to old age ;
And two with such beards.
As would grace e'^n a sage.
<* But what is most strange.
In this so strange case,
The fifth has a beard
On just half of his faceu
** Now, if yon will please
To find out our name.
Just send it T. K,
And give it world-wide fame."
The publication of the foregoing may fkcilitate
the solution of the enigma. Thomas CmAQOS.
West Cramlington.
The following extract, from Miss Yonge's
Herb of ike FieuL, will solve this enigma : —
" « Of us five brothers at the same time bom.
Two, from our birthday, ever beards have worn;
On other two, none ever have appeared.
While the fifth brother wears but half a beard.*
*< This is a fine puzsle for most people ; but if yon can-
not make it out with a rose calyx before your eyes, 1
think you must be rather dull** — Htrh of the Fidd, 2nd
edit, p. 82.
200
NOTES AND
!S.
IP^kV. 11ail^M4
Itaucs (3"* S. r. J 78 n.) — There septus to nie
much exatf^emtton iti the objections often made
against iulic^^ ^"^1 ^ ivliolly demur to this parallel
between tbem ami oaths. The true parallel is
obviously between them and a strong emphaaU in
speaking ; and there can be no intrinsic objection
to the one more than to the other. Does any one
really recoraraend conversation in which no words
are emphui^iBed more than others ? Undoubtedly
more than a lew itaiicSf as, for instance, in Young^s
Night ThottghUf gives a great look of weakness to
the writing, Ltttelton.
Sib Robert Ve^nox ($^ S. iv. 470.) — In
answer to W. B.'s query, I beg to say that Sir
Robert Vernon, of Hodnet, was the son of John
Vernon by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Kichard
Devereux, Knight. He was born 1577, created
K. B. by Queen Elizabeth, and made comptroller
of her household ; he married Mary, daughter of
Robert Needhara, of Shentun, and sister of Sir
Robert Needham, who, in 1625, was created first
Viscount Kilmorcy. Sir Robert Vernon, Knight,
died in 1623, leaving a son, Henry Vernon, who
waa born 1606, and who, in 1(^60, was created a
baronet, Tor his services in the royal cuuee, This
Sir Henry Vernon, Bart,, married in I()3t>, Eliza-
beth, daughter and heir of Sir Richard White,
Knight, of Friers, in An^lcsea (she was one of the
beauties of King Charles's court). Sir Henry
Vernon died 1676, leavings a son, Sir Thomas
Vernon, of Hodnet, one of the four Tellers of the
Exchequer. In Hodnet Hall, co. Salop, is, or
was, asliield carved In oak, contaiuin<r the Vernon
arms of twenty-four quartering?, of the dale of
1509, united with the Needham arms of ten
quarterings.
It is quite probable that Sir Robert Vernon is
the same person who wns on the council of the
Lord Marchers at Ludlow, in 1609, as his father-
in-law, Robert Needham, was vice-president of
the Council in the Marches in Wales.
W. F. V.
Bin Waltkit Rai^etgh (3^^ S. v. 108, 1840 —
Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleiich
were uterine brothers, sons of the same mother by
diflerent husbands. Coaei^ks F. S* Wabrew*
Fasuiomadle QrARTXSS or LownoN (3'^ S, v.
02,)— As regitrds the residence of Edward, Lord
Thurlow^ when Lord Chancellor, there is do
doubt thai he oceupiiHl a house on the noi th aide
of Great Onnond Street, where the Ormond Club
met (of which I WHS a member), and our reading
room at the back was the one from which the
seals were stolen. Tuomas Fakmer Cookk.
Lord Chancellor Thurhjw lived in Great Gcijrge
Streetk Westminster, Wm, Smitij.
BALfA>0?lS : THKIK D|IIKIW8tOK« (9^ S. V. 96,)
R. C* L. wouM do well to visit the Free PuoUc
Library in the Patent Office, Chaneery t#wie. Ii
addition to the printed specificatioDs retftitng to
aeronautics (including the Earl of Aldboroagh*t
expensive follies), that library contain* • ^'■'^'•«
number of treatises on tlie auViject, and
and unique collection thus described ia l:., ,^ .
logue : —
*' Ai'ronantiGa llliutrata. — A complete Cabtn«i d
Atrial Ascents and Detccnis, from the earliett fMfiod U
the present time. C<>llected and armnged by G«tf^
Jumea Norman, Cymprising —
1. All knowa engraved portrait*, and a few oi
drawings, or al^rouAula,
2, Autograph letters and other writing of
and their patrons nnd f*n>nds.
Si. A large cotk'ction o»
trating an c rent a
the air, including I .........
4. Historieal and deocripiivo matter in ranoua t»-
^ages, consisting of cuttingj from pgwipiyw
and other periodical worLft ; and pmmpl&Set* fti
excerjits reduced to leaves and s«paratelv aoolt
$, Specimens of the silk and other luateruila of «l»
ihe most celebrated balloons and their Appcoii^
have been composed.
Collected probably between 1^30 and IB50, h f wiji.
folio/'
1jkeivj£us QuoTfLD (^'^ S* iv. ^S.) — I eumt
take upon myself to ^ay that the p«j$siige k «t
in Irenosus, but as it is in Tertulhan, I tKiil «]
not unlikely that one father is misremetBbered It'J
the other.
** Quid ergo de oeteria iageiitis, vel - '
^pirttftlis ediaservRi? FhantaamatA
cribro giestatam, et aavem dnf^ulo [ e& bafli*!
tactu irrufatam ; ut numina Inpick's crcder«;utur, «t IN»
vcrus nou crederetur/* — ApoltM/. .yp. xxiL mi Jhu Ia
Sender, llalrti Jliigd. I773r t, ^*. p- **^''
See also Ma urn ei Pratique t tU* J^emom^ fO
Gougenot des AlouMseaux, p. 43, Purl$, I - : .
FlTZM' ;
Garrick Club.
QooTATiON (3'* S. V. 134.)— 7. TEc grnt^
work of the greatest orator that the vorld lnl.J
ever produced contains the idea ascribed tol'
** Henthen." It occurs in Dcmoflthcii«9* ~
" De Coronil '* (Reiake, ed. p. 226, line 20, J
g 4; Whiston, p. 402*3.) Wtnkk E. Bjtxi
Rbvalbnta Ababica (3'* S. iv. VJG ) — Yg
correspondent Ma.. TBc^icit will tin
murks upon the couiponition of thi-
been anticipated by Burton. Spe^^ku*^ \if
Arabian dislij called *' Adas" (IcntiU), he say»:^
** llii* tjrain is dieaper than ricv on tbe bAoks ^
Xil<?— a fii<*t which enlfghUnod Kn{,HBU<l, nov jm\
\v ' II )i lis valu« for ♦HcvaiciHH Arabh*,'j
I V." — I'ihjrinmtft I0 Kl MrfUui oi
1'; 'AH,
Movi KboracK T. U^ 9:^
CAJu>titAx. B1.T0X Sk3iv Anciitttsiior Gawc
DttcBAK (3'< 8. V. 312.) — In J. M/f notr nad
a"» s, V. iiAu. fi, 0*-]
NOTES MiD QUEBiES.
I
I
tbi!< title severfll things occur requiring notice.
James BcAton was not the famon.s Cardinal, but
the uncle of that prelate, whose Christian name
was David. The date of the consecration of
Archbishop Jame?, Although unknown to Keith, is
given conectly in Mt. Grub's Ecclemattical His*
tonj of Scotlajfd (1861), a work composed with
that care and conscientious accuracy which alone
makes a history of value as auch. (Sec vol, i.
p. 411.) Jaroes Beaton was translated to St. An-
drew'd in }52% and Gavin Dunbar, Prior of
Whithorn (not Whitehaven)^ was consecratcid as
hrs successor on February 5, 15'2| (not 1534).
Some of the mi^akes now pointed out niaj have
happened in transcription, or in printing. The
remarks about Queen Msry and the unworthy
names associated with hers, imply to such an ex-
tent moral depravity in the unfortunate Scottish
princess that I cannot concur in thenu N. C.
Si» EuwARD ^Ut (3'^ S, V. 35.) — Among the
grants of lands in Ireland, in the reign of King
Charles II., mention is made of the following
lands in the co* of Waterford^ and parish of Mothel,
a? having been grant4Mi to Sir Algernon ^lay : —
Mothel, Kilenaspijr, Jeddins, Clonmoyle, Ross,
Old Granj^CT and Ballynavin, Smith in his //»>*
iari/ of Waterfordf ed. 1746, mentions the Mays
among the gentry of that countj. He also says, —
** Mat field is the plea&ant sejit cf James May, Esf|.,
"^y^ sjtu^Ite^i on tho bonks of the Suir, with 'scveriU
itatfoDs and \nrc;Q itnprovemerils. This pUce was
llwly callocl Rockf^tt's Castle, from a castle erected
fliere by one of that name."
Jos, May was the gentleman created a baronet
[ in the year 1763. KitLOKGroRD.
Cir i ta CoPLKY (3'<« S. V. 1360-Chris-
^^} came of a great Yorkshii*e fmnily,
whicii •r.ri.'s both its name and origin from the
village of Copley, a hamlet in the parish of Uii- |
hfax. His immediate ancestors were William
Copley, of Wad worth, who died May 20, 1658, and
Anne daujihter of Gervas Creasy of Birkin, He
married u lady of good Yorkshire family, and
puritan principles, Elizabeth, daughter of Gervns
HosviUe, of Warrasworth. Like his connections,
the Brookes and the Bosvilles, he espoused the
Dopular side in the great civil war, and seems to
lave been an active and efficient officer. Evidence
exists to prove that he spent considerable sums of
Ik is own Tiioney in forwarding the cause he had nt
cart, which were repaid to him when the struggle
-as^^for a time, over* On July 8, 1648, the House
" immons made an order that tho sum of
0*,, arrear:* due to him, was to be paid out
le Yorkshire sequestration monies. He had
the commaml of the Parliamenfary forces at the
batthf of ShcHmrn, Au^st 15, 1045, where Lord
Dighy was routed and Sir Frimcis Carn.iby jmd
*^ir Richard Uutton, high sheriff oi" Yorkshire,
were killed* I have seen no record of his deaths
but It certainly took place before 1664. His
younger brother, Lionel, married Frizalina, daugh-
ter of George Ward, of Capesthome, co. Chester.
He died December^ 1675, and lie« buried in Wad-
worth church, Lionel Copley entered the service
of the Parliament at the beginning of the war as
muster- master general, and I believe served it
faithfully, although his subsequent troubles are
evidence that he was at times an object of much
suspicion. From him descended, in the fifth ge-
neration, Godfrey Higgins, F.S.A , of Skellow
Grange, near Doncaster, the profoundly learned
author ai Anacolypiis^ an Attempt to drawaMd^ the
Veil of the Saitic Isiti or an Enquirtf into the
Ori^n of Languages, Naiiowi^ and Eeligions^
j 2 vols, 4to, 1833, who died August 9, 1833.
The arms of Copley are argent a cross motine,
i sable; those of Higgins ermine on a fess sable,
I three towers argent. I hope to include lives of
I the Copleys in my " Civil War Biographies/*
I Therefore any unpublished facts relating to them
I will interest me.
I (Clarendon, Hist., 1 vol, 1843, pp. 578, 690.
I Hunter, South Yorh., u 252 ; ii, 482. Commotut'
Joum.f iii. 431 ; v. 627- Memorable Duy« and
Works of God, 1G45. The Royal Martt/nt, 1660,
I Graingc s Battles and Batdefields of Yorhshire^ 187.
I Gentleman s Mag.^ 1833, ii. p. 371.
Ei>wARD Peacock.
Bottesfbrd Manors Brigg.
Esquire (3*"^ S. v, 94.) — A cunmis point arose
in 1859, in a law case reported in th*i 29\h vol. of
the Law Jourjial^ Queens Bench, p. 17* A per-
son proposing for a life assurance, in answer to the
questions put to him as to his address and occu«
pation, wrote ** Hall, Esquire," naming his
private residence. It happened that, in the neigh-
bouring town, he carried on the trade of an iron-
monger; and when he died, the assurance com-
pany refosed to pay, on the ground that he had
been guilty of suppressio vert in not disclosing
that he was in busmess. Of course the Court was
a^iiinst them, and it is hardly neces»ary to add,
that they did not succeed in thus evading the
claim. Job J. B. Workabp.
Elkakab (3^^ 8. iv. 394,) — So Quarlea, in
1(135, accents the firsit syllable ; —
"• O tbcrc I'll feed thee with *:ole3tiul manna j
ril be tby Elkanah.' • And 1 thy Hanoah.'
* T'll sotinH my tnimp of Joy** "And I'll f««ntnd Ho-
jannab.'"
^/fi^enur, Book iv. £mb. 7.
Job j. B. W^oskabd.
Bii£cu Trees njivxe struck bt Liobt^ihg
(S*^ S. v. 97.) — I regret I cannot give any in-
formation on this subject, although 1 know per-
sons who entertain the opbion, As regards hr^
202
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8»*aV. MAft.5,*Sl
being a preservative against L'ghtninpr, I find in
Greene's Penelope^ s Web, &c., 4to, 1601, —
**He which weareth the bay-leaf is privileged ftom the
pr^odice of thunder."
And, in the old play of The White Devilj Cor-
nelia lajB, —
" Reach the bays :
111 tie a garland here about his head.
Twill keep my boy from lightning."
Also, in A etrmtge Meiamorphoeu of Meat irons-
formed into a WUdemesse, deciphered in Characters^
12mo, 1634, under the bay tree, it is observed,
that it is —
'<so privileged by natanv that even Umnder and light-
ning are here even taxed of partiality, imd wUl not touch
him for respect's sake, as a sacred thing."
Again, cited from some old English poet, in
Bodenham's Belvedere, or the Garden of the Muses,
8vo, 1600, we read,—
** As thunder nor fierce lightning harmes the bay,
So no extremitie hath power on fame."
W. L S. HOKTON.
DsscBNDAMTS OF Fits-James (3'« S. V. 134.)
From various articles which have appeared in
'I N. & Q./* and from some other sources, I be-
lieve that accounts of the descendants of the Duke
of Berwick will be found in Burke's Extinct Peer-
age; in the Annuaire de la Noblesse de Francey for
1844 and 1852; in Moreri's Dictionmire Histo-
rimie; in Rohrbacher*s Histoire UmverseUe de
VEngUse Catholique, tenth ed., 1852, torn, xxvii. ;
and in the Memoires published by his grandson
in 1778. Meantime the following particulars may
be of some service to the inquirer : —
The Duke of Berwick was created Due de Fitz-
James by Louis XIV. in 1710. He was twice
married. By his first wife, Honora de Burgh, he
left one son, James, who i^as Duke of Liria, in
Spain. His second wife was Anne Bulkeley, and
bjr her he had a numerous family. His ehJest sur-
viving son by this marriage was Francis, Duke of
Fitz-James, and Bishop of Soissons, and died
about the year 1761. The next was Henry, who
also entered into Holy Orders. The third son
was Jame^ from whom is descended the present
Duke of Fitz-James, in France. He bears the
royal arms of England within a bordure, with the
motto " Ortu ct honore." F. C. H.
Db. George Olivee (S'* S. v. 137.) — Having
had the pleasure to possess an intimate friend and
frequent correspondent in the late Rev. George
Oliver, D.D., of St. Nicholas's Priory, Exeter, I
can assure A Devonian that there was no rela-
tionship between him and the Protestant Doctor
of the same name. They were, of course often
confounded with each other; and Uie Catholic
D.D. has told me of amusing mistakes made, and
that he often received letters intended for his
namesake, as no doubt the other reeeiTed soik
intended for him. But, as far as I know, thev
were not even personally acquainted. P. C. H.
The Ieon Mask (3-* S. y. 135.)— The carios
helmet, or iron mask, mentioned b^ H. (X> la cts-
tainly not that worn by the mystenoaa priaonerot
Louis XIV. His mask was made of black velvet
on a wire frame, fastened at the back of his heid.
but allowing free liberty to his mouth and jav&
and intend^ only to conceal his featarea.
F.aR
I believe I may safely assert that there is »
authority whatever for supposingthe suit in qos-
tion to nave been that of the Uhevalier Baynd
As to the so-called *^ Iron Mask,*" it is only a piece
of tilting armour, worn in the lists as an additiODii
protection for the face. The real maak, worn if
the mysterious state prisoner, was of black veba
secured by a lock, and made to open and ahiti
the mouth by means of springs.
W. J. Bbbithabd StKin.
Temple.
On Wit (S'* S. v. 162.) — In Six Tmos
Wtnnington*s quotation no doubt wit^ and sv
are put in contrast, as is shown by the anqaestka-
able opposition just preceding, grave and gm
But in the church here it is still more evideat n
the epitaph by George, Lord Lyttelton, on l»
first wife, Lucy, adorned by the vile allitaralia
in which poetasters delight : — *^ The* meek, lUf'
nanimous ; and the' witty, wise."
Hagley, Stourbridge.
Retreat (3'«* S. v. I19.)~;l have road vwr
answer with reference to the origin of the milila;
term ** Retreat,** but can hardly look upon it «
conclusive. It is stated in your answer that yoi
" think the expression must have originally it*
ferred to the men\s retiring to their quarters wfai
the muster was over, not to the muater itseUT
But, I would suggest, that if this be a tme sob-
tion of the question, why should not the ten
" retreat " be applied to every parade which takei
place during the day, since the men would, oa
each of those occasions, retire to their quarters oe
the dismissal of the parade ? F. ti
Primula (3''* S. v. 132.) — The lines quoted
by W. D. are a kind of compressed version of s
lovely little poem, given under slightly diffenitf
forms, both by Carcw and Ucrrick. In Herrkkf
poems it stands thus : —
** Ask me why I send yon here
This sweet infanta of the year ?
Ask me why i sead to you
This primnMO thus bepearrd with dew?
f will whisper to yoar cars
* The sweets of love are mixed with i
i»««.r. iujtfi,'M.]
NOTES MUD QUERIES.
203
I
• As h ^ ^ ' V ' i nw'r doei itiow
gr, irisicklrtOO?
A.^1- ' ilk ifl w««k.
Ami, i>*i4iiUitg, y«L it dutb Dot breaks
I will answer: "^Theie di*cover
Wbat fiiintii]^ hopea ore Id « lorer/ "
May X add a more literal Latin version, printed
ft good ninny years ago P —
** Po«d9» cnr tibi tkdicem
Hano anoi teneram pro£^i«jii HOTI ?
MilLim cur tibi primuijuii
Qu« gemmata nitei rore modens adhuc?
Et reddo ~ * 8aa sic »raor
^terntim Iichnrmia craudia temperat.'
uU
[L ia flosctilo?
!taiig«reiiceqofat7
J- amantjam
Pcclu^ null alitcr laoguida jfpes alitr^**
A little closer aftentlon to boUtiical noinencJa*
ture would have told your corred|>ondent that the
crtmsoti plant he ao^w was not *^ a different plant
eiea/* but a different ttpecies of the
C, W. BniGHABi.
The PrimiUacffit being a great natural order,
the London gttrdeaert probably made no miat^e.
Roi> nr TiTB Mn>DLB Aobs (3*** S. iv. 32.) —
Your correspondent E. D.» and I shonld think
most of your readci's, will be surprised to bear
that the severe discipline so vividly described bj
FranciaNewbery in le<15, is not only not obsolete,
but actually practised at the present day* Hap-
pening to look over a file of the Family Herald^ I
found amon^^t the mlK-ellaneous stores of infor-
mation contained under the head of ** Correspon-
dence " a eeries of commutiications respecting the
nae of the rod m girla* schools. It appears that a
discuatora baa been going on in the columns of the
Famify Herald as to the propriety of this mode of
puntsbmient^ and, in answer to one corrcBpondent,
the editor aays : —
" From the numerous letters that wc receive, we be-
lieve I hut tho practice you condemn is not only indiiTgpd
in, bnt that it i^ ■ ' ' i In b«caiiM se%'ere oorftction In
thought neoee- 1 rnanv caafts it probably h s^r
Nq. 1077, vol. >: 1', 186l^
What is still more extraordinary is, that the
editor approves the practice, aa. in reply to another
correspondent, he thus states hi^ views : —
*«> ^rt ti*j vrc, i he fnct w thii, there abould
h« f niff Abtmt the miilter.'*— (Ko. 1085, vol.
xai» jju, ciw, ib»i4)
Thit shows that not fmly h tbe rod tinw in nst
aa a corrective for reft s hut
that ihcT»? ar»! person'* rroi*i.
It may alao thciw ui how little one iiail of the
world knows what the other half does ; and If a
Question of the domestic customs of the present
nay admits of denial, how much more ditbouU it
must be to trace the manners and habits of former
times. ViROA.
PKOVSRBI1.L Satthgb (3"* S* T* 136.) — The
saying ** Needs must when the devil drives,*' is
probably taken from AlTs Weil thai Ends Well,
Act I* Sc. 3, where the Clown says i "He must
needs go, that the devil drives." N* M- F,
PORTTIAJT or BiSttOP HoRSLET (S'* S, V. 38.)
A small but very excellent Une-cngravtng of this
admirable champion of orthodoxy adorns the six
volumes of Dr. Dibden's JSunday Library. Ig this
included in the set in Evans's List ? May not The
British AStmator contain another portrait ? 1 know
it has several of contemporary prelates, Bishop
Douglas to wit, for whosie portrait a correapon*
dent was inquiriog in the bye^gone age of your
First Series. E. Lxjc
Oath by the Dor. (S*^ S. v. 138.) — In Hin-
doo, Scandinavian, and Classical Mythology, **the
dog," "dog grass," "the dog star,'* and all the
variations of analogoira mytlis and superstitions
are almost interchangeable. {Vide Moor's Hindu
Pantheon^ Sfc,}
I once made a large table of such analogies, in*
eluding those of the Hindoo cosmogony, and the
succession of geological strata, but unfortunntely
lost it* Such a tabular work in the hands of one
better able to compile it might be made exceed*
ingly interesting. S.
AHosmoirs : •* Rescrhection, rot Death, tor
Hops of thb Brliever" (3*^* S. v. 33-)^Vectis
is informed that this tract is by the Rev. Hunry
Borlaae« It was originally a paper in a quarterly
periodical, called The Christian Witness^ which
appenred at PIvmouth from 1834 to 1840, and of
which Mr. Borlase was the original editor. The
paper in question was inserted in the second
number, Aj>ril, 1B34. Mr. Borlase was a native of
Helntooe, m Cornwall, He graduated at Trinity
CoUcfTC-, Cambridge; and after his ordination in
the Church of England, he held for a short time
the curacy of the parish of St. Kcyne, in Corn-
wall. He withdrew from the ministry of the
Church of England ; and he was from that time
associated with a Christian congregation at Ply-
nioufh, to whom first the name of "Plymouth
en " was given. It ought, however, to be
tij stated, that they did not then hold the
ptnniltarities of theology, nor did they carry out
the same course of action which characterise those
who now in many places arc known as Plymouth
Bretltrcu. The aoctrinal system now held by
theii) is utterly at variance with the principles
cherished by Mr. Borlase.
After many months of illness Mr. B<\T\as^^ai»l^
204
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[a"* s. V* hiMM^ fi, 14
in October, 1835. In tbe following jear, a emtkXL
volume was published —
" Pii;>ef* by the late Henry BorlAse, connected with the
Pre^nt Stale of the C}iarchl" Hamiltou, Adama, & Co.,
London.
*rhe tract about which Yectu Inquires, was
included in this volume.
The "Central Tract Depot, l^ Warwick Sauare,"
about the continuance of which Vectis asKs, has
been long removed elsewhere. It was set up by
Mr. George V. Wigram, brother of the present
Biibop of Rochester — a gentleman who has taken
a leading part in much connected with the
'* Brethreuite" movement. It is remarkable that
so mtiny of the *' Brethren ' ■ have been closely
connected with ecclesiastical dignitaries : for in-
stance, Lord Conglcton, a '* Bretbrenite" teacher,
and the present Archbiahop of Canterbury, his
brother-in-law. L^lius.
Execution or Chajii.«3 L (3"* S. iv, 195*) —
The following extract purports to be a circum*
«tanlia! account (printed 1660) of the execution of
Charles I., and may throw some light on a doubt-
ful question ; —
"Tnesday, Jan^ 80 (the fatal il«y). He was about
hi of the efock brought from his Palace at St. James' to
Whitehttll -, marched on ffwt, guarded with a regiment of
Toot •oldiere throngU the Prtrk, vrilh their colours flying.
&e Being come to the end of the Park, ho
sifcend« the staim leading to the long g.-dlery in White -
halU and ao into the Cabinet Chamber, where" he fonnerly
&r
From th*'^c^^,
mier! by r» ^ 1
, former fy
lurd of Pan i Lli
i.:li the Banqueting House,
. I > V114 prp'*t<?d, b*' I ween
a«ed to lodge. There,
iibuat 1 o'clock, he ^\
Col. Tomlinaon, «ind
attend him, and thf :
muakotcers. on each si i
adjoining ro whioh tl
Wluttdtall Gate nnd i ' y
from St, Jamefl'. i li
blavk, th« floor cav«jr i ^ v - '^'-
axe and block laid in the middlii uf the scMloi^. Tiiere
w^re divers companies of foot of Col. Pride'* regimcntf
>intl several troopa of horsey plaeed on the one side of the
<CA0bld towanla King Strtet. And on ihe other aide
nrda Charing Crc««g** &c., &c
^ S.S.
>LL(^$ THE ACTOE ilND PoET : THE JE KE
8CA1 utfoi Club (3'^^ S. v* 17,) — I was quite pleased
to find my old friend ** The Chapter of Kings ** re-
sutcitatctl by Ma. Bates from the realms of ob-
livion. From the tone of his remarks I should
suppose he had seen onl^ the words» which be
considers unique. I beg to say that I possess
these wo4^1s set to music, and a very merry tune
it is — merry enough to scare away the most de-
termined crew of blue devil* that ever intruded
on a mijity November morning. It was given me
by an a«jed friend* a native of Birmingham, who
reasiMl to reside there alYcr 1 «0f5 ; so that it must
have b*Ten published bcfure that date. The title
varitss somewhat from that citud by Ma. BkTit$.
It runs thus: ^ —
" Tbe Chapter of Kings. A c:«I<^bTatlMl UiMlatte^ $m^
written and sunp with nniTeraal apolauiM by Mr, ColHiii
Author of The Bmth, and by Mr. Digniun at tlic Ic ti
si^ai qnoi Ctubb/'
Was thla club a Birmingham or Londoci
elation ? and by what class of roen wms li fift*
quentcd? FKarram*
De Scartd : EiKiA* (a"* S, ▼. 1S4.)— Iti«
on snich a tenure that many persana beArln^ tk
surname Edear held their lands near RolMtt lk
Bruce'tf ca^tTe of Lochmaben. Edgars mpfttuU
have been amongst the personal follow en oi til
Bruce family. This may be proved bjr m r«to»
ence to Rymers "Ficdera," a MS- canUliui^i
list of the witnesses at the marriage of Rabst
the Bruce, in the W. S. Lib. Edin., &c. &c
A proBos^ who was " James Edgar, FeaibcR^
burges in Edinburgh," who died between 17M
and 1739 ? Was he related to the fumilj td ^
same name settled at Keatalrig, aad atso «!•
town of Leith ? i
RoB^T Callm (3^^ S. V. 134.) — lo iW
edition of The Bending (by W. J. B "
author is alluded to as a ** gentlemm
parts both natural and acquired,'* ana ab
Commissioner of Sewers **in His native
of Lincolnshire/* He also wrote Tfte Case
Ar^ment agaitist Sir Ignoramus of Ctumhrii^
(Lond, 1G4B, 4 to), the title-page of whidi if
scribes him ** of Graies Inne, Esq', afterward Sfr
jeant-at-Law in his reading at St rM'h^< Tnn -n 1,41
14 la. R." He is noticed by AT ^
Bohn. W-k ^ ^ ! , _.t».
m
^ and I
«* CLAJtA Chesteh;' Etc. (8^^ S. lit. 25.)—'
poems were written by John Chaloncr, at ca*
time a captain in H.M. S6th Regiment, lie wa*
a native of Clonmel, Ireland, where he wi^ ten
in the same house in which Lawrence Si^mfl w«
born. He died .Time 3, 1862, aged ei-'
yenrii, and was buried at Fethard, near C
His poemt* wer^^ Rome, published in ir^-^L
Longman, Hurst, Ree^, Orme, and Brow a,
don ,* The Vale of Chamouniy 1822, John
ner, London; Clara Chester, 1823, Oliver utii
Boyd, Edinburgh. BAm-FoixT.
Philadelphia, U. a A.
The Story of Lord Mi;ix3E4vb'8 Cm
(3^'^ S. V. 129.) — It IS a very good «tory.
like all good stories, it has seen much servKeJj
The joke has been ascribed to a Lord Major j
well as ft Lord MuJgravc; and a more
rruifihed fDfta than the namele-^s chaplain ■
famous Dr. Samuel Parr — hn>
The Doctor had preached iIk
Christ Church on the iuvitatiou nl ti
of London (Harvey Combe); and
coming out of chtirch iQg«th«r (it i>
a- 8. V. JUn. 5, '<4.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
205
I
Monifdy Jlfo^azin^, November^ 1826, that telh the
1 storj) : —
I ** * Well/ says PafT» * how did you like th«j eermoa ? *
[•Why, Doctor/ repHci hl» lordibip. * there were lour
I things in it that I did not tike io hear/ * State theiiL*
*Wb7f to epeak frimkly» then, they were the quarters of
the church clock, whicfistiiick fciur times before you had
fiaJLihed.* "
J.C.
•*Thb Aet op Politicks" (3^ S. y, 164.) —
This excellent satirical poem (reprinted m Dods-
leT*8 CollecHon) wiis by the Rev. James Braiustoti,
M.A» He was born in or about 1694| being eon
of Fmucis Bramston (fourth son of Sir Mounde-
ford Bramston, Master in Chancery , who wa.s a
younger son of Sir John Bramston, Chief Justice
of England). In 1708 he was admitted at West-
minster School, whence in 1713, he was elected
to a studentship at Christ's Church, Oxford, pro-
ceeding B.A. May 17, 1717, and M.A. April 6,
1720. In 1723 the University of Oxford pre-
^ sen ted htm to the rectory of Lurgarsale, in Sussex,
and in 1725 he became Vicar of llarting, ux the
same county. He died March lt>, 1743*4, He
also wrote The Man qf Twite (reprinted in Dods-
ley and iu CampbeU*s Specimens)^ and The Crooked
Sixpence^ and has poems in Cartnina Qiuidtagcsi"
media and the Universitj Collection, on the death
of Dr. Radcliffb.
Dftltaway and Cartwricjht, in their account of
Lurgareule, written nearly a century after Mr.
Bramstoa*s death, say *^ he was a man of original
humour, the fame and proofs of whose colloquial
wit are still remeraberea in this part of Sussex,"
{Hist ofSwsex, u. (i.) 365.)
In accordance with a slovenly practice, which,
as the cause of error and trouble, cannot be t^>o
generally condemned, Dodeiey has suppressed Mr.
Bramston s Christian name. The GentUmans Ma-
gaziite^ in announcing his death, designated him
3lr. Bram;7ston, vicar of Starting. This ludicrous
misnomer of his benefice has Wen repeated by
Chalmers, Campbell, Watt, and Roae.
Your correspondent A, J. has, we believe,
reason to congratulate himself on the posM^ssion of
a copy of the original edition of The Art of PoU-
iich. C. H* k Tmompsom Cooper.
TuA Statistics (8'" S. v. 175.) — Leaving
DoDBT*8 query — "What yield of tea is required
per acre to repay the ordinary cost of cultiva-
tion ?**— unanswered, I can, I tnink, remove from
hb mind the difficulty which the article in the
Bdinhttrgh Reciew appears to have produced,
Tlie leiii' h not plucked from the tea plant for
the purpose of bemg manufactured into tea be-
fore? the fmtrth year ; and the plant is not at its
full power of bearing before the sixth year. Now
the proportion of tea plant in Assam of four
years and upwards is very much greater than in
Cacbar and barjeeling; indeed, in the last-named
districti little or none of the plant has come to
full maturity : hence the small yield represented
bj the cultivation in that district.
Three hundred poiiTjds of tea, from an acre of
well-grown plant, will be about a fair average.
It will therefore appear, th»t the figures in the
Edinburgh Review do not represent half what the
present cultivation in As&am will produce three
or fom* years hence. E. M« D.
NOTES OX BOOKS, ETC.
H^ordi and Ptacu : or„^tymolagieal Rhstratfttnt of Hi»-
tory, £dinoiagjf, and Geography. Bp the Hev. Isaac
Taylor, M.A* (Macmillao.)
Th<> rfU'ler mast not suppov^^ ibiil the present work
h^ ' -^ Lily prepared, to ' ' sowing want of
a .' work o« ibis subject. The
au li ill hii Preface, i ears have been
devuted uiotti or \vJ^ to the colk-t^itou oi uj ate Hals for it ;
and that much of it hMB^ duhog the la.^t two yeara, been
rewritten. Mr. Taylor'a introductory chapter, abowing
the value of lo^ral uauiea, which are always si^uificiitit —
b*iog cither dti^riptiveof the country, records of ethno-
logical or hiBLoricat facta, or ilhi^tralive of the atate of
civiU^ation or rvligiou in pajit ti;;ea — is well calculated to
stimulate the reader to a, careful perusal of the entire
book; aud he U'ill read it, amused and iuformed, by the
curious and iimtructive fact.^ which Mr. Taytor^s learning
and re^arch have gathered together, and pleaded with
the ingenuity and n^ji^onableae^s of tbe deduction* which
be draws from them. That we agree cm every point
with Mr. Taylor can scarcely be exi>ected j but ire are
{Creatiy indebted to hira for a capital book^-one in which
the authorities are honestly quoted, and one which t^
moreover enriched by an admirable BibliogrApbicaJ List
of W'orkit ujiou the subject ; aotue useful appandioda, and
J copious Index of local iiamti; and aaother equally
copiaus of the various poiuU discuaiod and matters
introduced*
Thii Btiok <
the late
with a Trantiati&n and Additional Aofej, by F. Cbance.
B.A., M*B., &c. Ulc. FoL I. (London : Hamilton and
Adatns.)
Worthy Mr, Bernard has not been fortunate in h Is ad-
mirer and editor. The peraoimt goasip with which
ftir. Chance tilla bis ptiges dilutes his author's meaning,
wewrica hisreaderV patience, and makes one regret the
old davji when scbolars wrote Iu Latin, and compressed
into orie terse aentenco what Mr, Cbance, and mam* like
him. Would tipread over an octavo page.
Lucasia, The Pocmi af (iiifuird Lovetact, Uttf, AW
Jint edited, and tht J\xt earrfuUy revtMedf with mmc
Account of the A ttthor* and a ftto NottM, By W. Carew*
llazUtt, (J. R. Smith.)
Thcfv are few of our readers who do not know some
thrci' rir four of tbe choiceat etlu*ions of Lovelace^a iituse;
<-i no doubt that there are many who«ie know-
li ATitiiigs of the author o( Lucasta is Iimit*'.d
lit. il-known iyritiL Mn Carew HusUtt, who xa
ciirniiig lorwanl ui* au active and intelligeut editor of our
ohier wtiterH, hii?f just issucil an edition of LovelaiVa
Work* much more complete thmn iAi% \^^y\\\V «*is!w^ wj^
t of Johf OM eiponnded to his Cambridge Pupils^ h^
e \L H. Bernard, On. a, M.A., &c, &c. Edited,
206
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8r«&Y. Mab.S^'M.
efiiuions of tliis gallant Cavalier within the reach of alL
Mr. Hazlitt has l^towed considerable attention with the
text, which has hitherto been very incorrectly printed ;
and has taken pains to clear up soine of the obscure points
in the poet's life ; but his efforts in the latter case have
not been attended with the success which he deserved.
A Dictumary of the Bible ; containing Antiqmities^ Bio'
^aphy, Geogrtiphy, and Natural Hutoru. Bg Various
Writers. JBdUed by William Smith, LL.D. To be
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both well known, but his most useful work. The Bibluh-
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Supplement), is one which must cause all future students
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infurmation to others, and his general courtesy, endeared
him to a large circle of literary friends.
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NOTES AKD QUERIES.
id^fHWy, SMTUBDAV, MdRca IS, mA.
CONTENTS.— N». 116.
K0TB8: — Sir W&itffr iCaJfligbt Addltioaal P»pei«, 807 —
Oonmh ProverliB. £06 — Modem Folk Ballsy. a(H»— Itfil
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QUERIED: — AnoMior Woiahip — Hun^h BranhEun — A
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ysj . ii.. ,.... o,. . .. .. " — 'iir — Kir John Jicofi,
K : ^ nvfc Puuk-l — fi«r.
Ci Ice— Rapier — Sao-
Qrnmw wtrs Airtwrnmi : — The Mliikteirfca Woofcn
gpoou — Bishop Banwbj Pott(«r — Willittm Speaea— Sir
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SIB WALTER BALEIGa ADDITTONAL PAFEBS.
I continue the extracts from my mi^ccHaneoiis
papers regarding Sir Walter Ealei^b. I am not
able to arrange them with precision as to tlie
datcR, but, QA in the former instances^ those readers
of ** N. & Q." who are acquainted with the main
incidents of hw career will not find any difficulty
in this respect.
(Jiidorted by Lord Burghley] "Itl Deeemb. 1687.
SJ Walter Balegb letter of 2000 foote and 200 hone in
Dev. Jind Cornwall.
Addressed " To the B^bi hfworabl* my tineiiler good
L. the L. higbe Treaonrer of Ingland."
" My singulcr good Lorde acoordinge to your Lord*
•hips aod the rtat of ray Lord& dirertiona, I have attended
thA Larle of Bath, and coofeired with the deputes of
DcTon and the Citty of Exoo for the drawinge to gethct,
of 2000 foote and 200 horae, «id I finds gre^it difference
of oppmioo amottge them : tuine are of oppinion that thii
Imrden wilbo mvona unto Ibe coimtrey-, stundinge ott
thu tyme voydo of all trafiqnt, the sabiide not belnge
yet gathered, and tbe pait moiters bavin jr bvn TPry
cbaigcable, S' John Gilbert, S^ Kiohard <; ' .jli
the Earle hynioeolf, beinge more zelous bet a
and her maiiisties «ervic«, who hai^i ahv.*.. , ,^.^..^^ &
"*^'' '>n in their devlsiona, and wiUingnes to
^*^' v'«r pih«!b6 fhon^ht meet for her majestieji
aarvi... nv (ut iulon that the matter and
»ervic« wilba ia most aanred that the
caraftill usage cH i - e deputes in their aeverall
*^'*"°I Jill eaaeiy induce the inferior aort to what
•o^ar walbo thottght ncceesory for bar mAjettiei aanfly
and IheJr own delboee : but same other iff tbe oommiabiofi
of Devon (in my conscience before the Lorde") beinge
both infected in religion and vehemently nialcontoat^
who by how much the more they at« tamperat, by so
much the more dangerous, are aecreatly great hinderance
of all actions tendinge to the good of her majatty or eaofty
of the present ftaie. Tho men make doabt 'that your
honor's instmctJoDa alone ar not auffieient and sanib
warrant for their discharge ; and that if any refoae to
contdbvte they aee not by what they ahoutd be inforsed,
with a tbowsaod dilatory cavelations. For mync own
oppinion, under yotir L. correction, if it might notwith*
standing stande with ber roajeatiaa likinge to beare the
one bane of the charge, being great, it wonld be vefy
consonant to all good pollicy ; and the cotmtroy, as I judg%
will willingly defray the rest, which, onles ther wear
miniHtera of otbsr disposition will not be ao sanfly and
aascly brought to effect I have sent your Lordahnie axL
estinaateof Die whole, with which I humble pray your I*
to acquaynt her majesty, and not otherwise to impart my
letter, because I am bold to write my simple oppioion
Elaynly onto yonr tordjiljipei the same beinge, as the
lOrd doth judge, without respect or parciallity, bayisM
rowed my trmvidle and Ufe to her majesties service oufy
and for ever.
** I have writen to the depatea of Cornwall, and §m
reddy to tepaire thitber witnall diliigeiiee, and to ptr-
forme the reat of hir najtstiea oomraand geven mea III
charge by your Lordshipa.
" And yeven so, htimble cnrnmcDdyng my aervioe onto
yonr Lordiihipe favorable constiiictioD, I take my \sf^
From Rxon thia 3uc of T
** Your L. to do you tU boDor and service,
•• W. B^r^iffH.
** Tbe Ctttiaeiia of Exter as yet
reftise to beare sncfa oart as was
thought meet bvthe leretcaants
of Devon and thtj rest^
[In an Account entitled ** Extraordinarie pai*
ment^ out of the Kecelpt, from our Ladie daie
1587, untH Micbafl foUowinge,^ occurs tbis item:
•• 18 JimiJ 1687. To S' Walter Ealcigh to be impJoiad
accordlnge to hir Males ties direction . . M. M^.]
(Indorsed by Raleigh), " Order for the pnttingein red-
dines of 2000^ footmen accordinge to your honor's diieo-
tions.
f S'' K. Grenvill with hia Band of * 80O
2000 men un- Richard Carew irith hia ... 300
der capta^^na S»" John Arrundcll with bis . - 200
to r«rpairo to W Bevill with his , . . . . 200
the Court or A The provost manhall John Wrey
elsewher with
my L. direc-
tions^
Thomas Lower with his .
Tristram Arcote with his .
John Trelany with his . .
^ John Eeskener with his . .
200
200
200
200
20O
« Wea have apoyntcd 4 waynee to each hmidred, and
Titles for fourteen dayes, and wee accompt to monnt the
one half on hackncs for cacpedition : wee provide tooles
for 200 pioners, as well for our own incampinge as to
aerve her majesty in her camp reolL Also wee bava
ordayned a cornet of horemcn to be in reddinea, if your
honours shall command tho same, to bo added to thia
2000 footmen ; and if I shall not be commanded down my
seaJf, I have thought good to direct S*^ Richard Grenvill
to have the conduction of this regement to bringe them
to the campe, wher after yonr hononrs may oSierwiso
dispose of the charge, as it shall best like yonr wiadomflB'
" Tour boaora btunble att command.
NOTES AND QUER:
[«^ a V. Ma*."
Indorsed " xiuj**i September, 1588. M. for ttay of all
shipping upon the north coaste of Devoa and Cornwall.
To S^ Rich. Gr«nvil!. Entred.
" B. Tr. and wdb. we grete you well \^Br we have
some occaaioa oi&ed to lu, by reasoa of certen ahippes
part of the Spa. Armada, that cotning about Scotland ar
dzyveo to soDdry portea in the west of Ireland, to put in
reoTnee some foroea to be sent io^o Ireland ai ikrder oc-
caalon ihall be ffyren tu, which we meane to be shipped
in the Ryvcr of Sevcm, to pass from there to Watertord
or Cork, we have thought mote to make choUs of yow for
this aerrice foUowyng, We reauire yow that upon the
north cost of Devon and Cornwall, towardee Serem, yow
make stay of all shippyiig mete to transport loldiera to
Waterford, and to gyre chard g tlut the same sblppes be
made redy with Masters, Marynors, and all other maritym
provi&ions nedefuU, so as upon the next warning gyven
from us, or from our Coansel, ther msj[ be redy to re-
ceave our sayd soldiors, which shall be tii'^ out of Come-
wall and Devon, and ii]j« out of Glocester and Some^sett-
ahire. We have also some other further intention to use
your service in Ireland with these ahippes aforsayj,
wherof S^ Walter Ralegh, Knight, whom we have ac-
niiaynted therewith, shall inform yow, who also hath a
dispoaition for our service to pass into Ireland, ether
with these forces or before they shall depart.
The following is in RalexgVs handwriting, and
ia indorsed by Sec. Windebaok thus : " Consider-
aiiona concerning Eeprysalks " : —
" All that haih or shalbc taken may be brought in
qoestioD.
^ The pepper of the last carrecke claymed by the
Takers.
** The Italians may as welt clayme the goods brought
irom the Indies.
" Jftdgmeuts alreddy goven in this case of late for
Brass and others.
*« If the Quecne held her kingdome of the Venetians,
yet conld thev not clayme such n prehcminence.
** The Itaiiens goods taken by the Dankerkers in our
shippB never by them claymed.
*■ The French never clayine thdf goods taken la
Spaniahe bottomes.
" The Vcneciens are not ignorant of this law, for b«-
aydes that it is a la we among all uations, they have had
a snte against S* John Gilbert this two yeare upon the
aamepoyot
^ Tne Kings of Sweden and Denmarko in their late
warn did not only confiscate all shipps that came to the
contrary syxle, but putt people to the sworde, of what
nation soever, that traded with their enemies.
*• The proclamation rertraynethe all other bottomei^
and if (piestlon be made of the Spanlshe shipps, the sea
warr of otir part is at t an end.
•• The Queeae will lose ten thowsand pound a yearc
cuitome by this Judgment
*' And besides tlic loM to the realme of goods taken
Drom the cncm ve, Ujier will follow many inconveniencoB,
MM welt the impovcrishinz of the enemy* the not setting
I our mariners a worke, the disuse of our men from the
waim^ and the want of hitelliffonco dayly gotten,
" It ware strange to veld in a case wher ther ts a
dirwt lawe to warrant
** The clamors of the maivhant is not to bo esteemed*
** Wee shall loss more by leviog repriaall than by the
trado of Vennis.
** The Tenetiens am not heal p us nor harmo oi.
** It is matter of great consequence to be yeildod onto.
** Wee OBgbt to be curious in such a case where hoooTi
priviledge* and greatnes of states and princes an In qws^
tion.
** It were atraoge that the Queen should Aonht loyrfM
that the IngUsho should not serch French bottomed sat
now doubt to avow good taken in Spaniaho ahipftt fiaa
Venetiens.'*
J. Fatzts Ccilliii.
CORNISH PROVERBS.
Whilst the study of the provincial diaketi bi
greatly increased during the past half ceoteft
that of local proyerbs still remains nlnooft to(«llf
neglected. In the hope of calling attentioo Is
this comparatively new pursuit, and abowing hm
large a number can be gleaned ereii fVom one
county, I send you this, the first part of a ool*
lection, and with your permission omera atiaU Si*
low : —
I. COnKlSn PROVKBBUL RIITlfSa.
1. He that hurts robin or wren.
Will never prosper boy nor man.
In the vulgar pronunciation, the rhyme U at-
tained by a long d, man. See also the ncxi
example : —
2. By Tre, Pol* and Pen,
lloe, Caer and Lan,
You shall know all Cornish men.
The second line of this old saw is freqtiaiijy
omitted, and certainly the prefixea tnentioned ■
it are not so common as those contniDe<l in tb
preceding line. The antiquity of this saying may
be gathered from the fact that, in Andrew Bordai
Book of Knowledge (1542) occur the^e lines —
•* My bedaver wyl to London Uy try the law.
To sue Tre, Pol, and Pen for wagging of a strmif,"
5. Better a clout than a bole out.
4. More rain, more nest; more water will sttlt 1^
ducks best.
The following distich refers to magpies : —
^. One f^r lorrow. two for mirths
Three for a wedding, four for a birth.
Ms. Couch, in his Folk Lore of a Carmak Fl^
lage O'N & Q:* 1-» S. xii. 37l has nude lli
strange substitution of death for birth*
6. Cornwall will bear a shower every d^»
And two on Sunday.
7. A Scilly ling is a diBh for a king*
8. Cross a ctile, and a gat« hard by.
You'll be a widow before you dte.
9. The mistress of the mill
May lay and do what she wilL
10. One is a play, a&d two la a gay [a toy].
Mr. Halliwell, in his DicHonary qf ArtMf
Wordi^ quotes the following passage : —
* As if a thid^ should be proud of hU halter, a (xW*
of his dontes, a child of his gay, or * fool of hia baM^^*-
Dent*B pMtkmagi, ^ 40.
F 11.
V. JUb. 12, •64]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
209
11, A Satorday or a Sanday moon
Comes onco in Beven yea» too 900ii^
This proverbi slightly varied, appears to be cur-
rent in several counties of England as well as tn
the Lowlands. Cf. **N. & Q/' 2^^ S. il 516;
liL 58.
13. With one chUd you may walk, with two yoa may
ride;
When vou bard three at home too must bide«
13. Liko a ribbon doubli9-dy«d.
Never worn and never 'tried.
14.
kl4. Raifi^ raiti, go to Spain^
And come again another day ;
When I brew, when I hake,
Ton ahall have a figgy cake.
And a glass of brandy.
With the lower cla«ses of the Cornish, a " plum
pudding "and a *• plum cake" are chttnged into
** ^ggj pudding and cake." Those, however, who
wisn to he more correct, alter the fourth line into
" You shall have a piece of cake,"
P. W. Tbepolpbk.
¥
MODERN FOLK BALLADS.
In former days almost every event
that at-
tracted popular attention was versified in rude
fashion by some rustic poet, and the ballad was
the common song of the lower classes. These
quaint old effusions have now become nearly ob-
solete; and you bear instead snatches of negro
melodies, or songs from farces or comic enter-
toiumente, wherever you go, but rarely anything
like the old;* folk poetrjr."
A short time ago, taking a long run out to sea
with some of the boatmen from Ramsgate — who
I^ should say, par paretdheae^ are generally very
civil and intelligent men^— 'severaf of the usual
tales about smuggling were narrated to me.
Among the rest was the story I venture to relate
below. I was also told a ballad had been written
on the subject by some of the fishermen, which
was often sung by them ; and a '* very touching
song it is," my informant said. With some
difficulty, a copv was procured ; and as it is pro-
bably y^ry nearly the laat of that class of poetry,
it is enclosed escactly aa given to me.
The story is this* About twenty years ago, an
attempt was made to "run" some tea at a "gap,"
or opening cut through the cliff down to the
beachf not far southward of Margate. The pre-
ventive men got scent of the matter, and opposed
the landing ; and at last one of them fired on the
smugglers I and wounded one of them in the thigh
a little above the knee. This man was a fine
strong feUow, called Dick Churchman : a first-
rate aeaman, and a great favourite all along the
coast. So slight did the wound seem to him, that
be took no notice of it at all, but kept on rowing,
** aAer six hours they landed at Broadstairs,
and went into a public- house there^ called "The
Tartar Frigate." Whether they had succeeded in
" running their goods " or not, I was not told.
However, shortly after they entered the house.
Churchman for the first time complained of feel-
ing "a little faint;" and asked for some beer,
which he drank, and then slipped gently off his
seat, and fell on the :6oor stone dead. It was
found a small artery had been divided, and the
man had literally bled to death without any one
of his mates having the slightest idea that he had
received a serious hurt.
A report soon spread that the preventive man
had cut his bullets into quarters when he loaded his
piece, for the better chance of hitting the men ;
and in the horrible hope that the wounds, in-
flicted by the ragged lead, might be more deadly*
As might have been expected, there was a tre-
mendous burst of popular indignation, and the
authorities were obLged to remove the preventive
man to some distant part of the country. A sort of
public funeral was given to " poor Dick Church-
man," and these are the lines that record his fate*
They are at once so simple and genuine, I make
no aj)ology for them, rude as Ihcy may be. At an^
rate it was some satisfaction to find that the spirit
which had listened to the popular lay of the bard,
the glee-man, the minstrel, and the ballad-finger,
was not wholly extinct in England.
•* UNES ON THE DKATU OF BlCBAItD CHUBGOMAir*
** Good p«op1e give attention
To what I will unfold,
And, when this song i^ snng to you,
Twill moke your blood ron culd :
" For Richard Churchman was that man
Wai shot upon his post.
By one of those preventive men,
That guard along our coaat*
" It was two o^dock one rooming,
As Tve beard many say,
Like a lion bold he took bia oar,
For to get under weigh :
" For six long hours he laboured.
All in his bleeding gore.
Till at eight o'clock this man did f^t—
Alas ! he was no more !
** And then this bold preventive man
Was forced to run away,
For on tlie New Gate station
He could no longer stay.
** There was hopes they'd bring him back again,
And tio him to a poat ;
As a warning to all preventive men,
That guard along our coait*
« Then they took him lo St Lnurence church,
And ho liea buriod there ;
All with a heane and mourning coach,
And oU his friends were there :
** And tixty coople of blue-jackets,
With tears ail in their eyes,
All for the loss of Churchman,
Unto their great surprise.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
LiH&ir* iiAB.1411
•* For he waa belov^ed by all hia friend«»
likewise by rich and poor ;
Let's hope the mux tlmt mardcrod him
Will never rest no more I"
Enclosed h the original, in tlie boatmanV
writing ; both which, Euid the epelling, are much
better than might be expected from one of his
cLass* A* A.
Poeto* Comer.
LORD RUTHTEjg-.
In Park's edition of Lord Orford's Roval and
Noble Authors, n long notice is giren of Patrick,
third Lord Ruthven, who was a marked man of
the time, for hts participation in the slaughter of
Eiwo — an act which was a year afterwards re-
Tenged by the aflsassination of Ilenry Lord Darnley
at the Kirk of Field, In a foot-note, the accom-
pliiihed editor has taken notice of a curious little
work entitled tbe Ladies Cabinet Enlarged and
OpeMd^ a portion of which is said, in the pre-
^.e dated m 16S6, to have been derived n-om
the learned and scientific observations of a ** Lord
Kuthvcn/* Mr- Park, who bad before him only
the fiturtk edition, dated 1667, has made a mis-
take as to the authorship, which, strange to say,
is shown by evidence furnished by himself. In
the preface, the portion of the volume previously
mentioned is represented as taken from the papers
of the late Right Honourable and learned Chymistj
the Lord Ruthven.'' Now Lord Ruthven of
Freeland, the party supposed to be the author,
was alive in 1672; his eon David, the second
Lord, having been served heir of his father May
10, 1G73. The date of the peerage was Feb, 7,
1650. From this it follows that the hUe Lord
Ruthven of 1666 could not be the person who
was ennobled in 1650, and lived at least until the
year 1672.
It would be very obliging if any of your readers,
possessing earlier editions, would inform tbe writer
ma to whether the preface partially quoted by Mr.
Park, occurs in any one of them^ and especially
what are the dates of the Erst editions ;* because
it is poaslble that the Lord Huthven referred to
may have been the immediate surviving younger
brother of the murdered Earl of Gowrte, and
who, d€Jure, was entitled to be so called, as the
moment the breath had passed from his lord-
ship's body, the title Jure sanguinis came to him,
fljia he never was lawfully attainted as Earl of
Crown e*
It is an historical fact that IV'illiam, by ri^ht
fourth Earl, was addicted to scientific pursuits,
and had great knowledge in chemistry, whereas
C* Watt and Lowmlee ^ve the data of iCSi, ISnio, as
the flnt editioo.— £d.]
the Ruthvens of Freeland w^ not la ft
degree given to such investigalioiiBt
liara might have safely come back mxf
the demiHe of tbe iumily persecutor, to lk|
Charles does not seem to have entertilacl ^
same detestation of the Ruthven^ aa fust h^M
had, for he r^'sed one of the fanaily to Ike hii
rank of an earl both in England and SeotlM
This nobleman having left only two dinghtst
the Earldoms of Forth and Brentford expired w^
himself. J« ^
DESTRUCTION OF THE TITAl^B AND DIUO0Slr|
AND ORIGIN OF THE XTSJL
** Androcydea, sapieatia dania, id AlexAndruM i
scripsit, intemperwitiani ejus oohihent : • VisiiB _
Hex, mcmonlo biber© to sanguloem Tetne.'*<^ll^
Aa^ HtMl. I* xjv* c 5.
In the astral myths, the giants sjmbotisiiAr
terrene energy ; and this sage adtnoDilioo rf^
renowned Androcydes suggested to me ifttfl^l
lowing mythological fancy : —
Great Terra trembled — surging witb iffnght
Did Keptune in his deep recesses cowvf {
Till the swift Hours, sphere -circling, waked ■
Star.*
In darkening twilight of the west tJkr
Then flashed Orion's splendent sword, wad I
Arcturus beaconed from hl5 zenitli tower
ToCepheua, Sagittarius, Sirius — all
Heaven's mighty host to mount the tlAitung wil
Startled from slumber, Nox beheld *
Of their dread darts, a meteor ten
Frequent and thick, against tL-
who, with hia sons, and Dr:
(Unnatural 1 eagu e ) woul d van n u i v 1 1
And mar the orbed order ol Ihc ^
Dubious the war, till Lucifer'a jiale crr*.t
Signalled Apollo from the kindling east.
Scarce had Aurora cleit the veil of doods
That wrapped Olympus, when the
roee. —
Struck by the dreadful lightning of his €y% _
Overthrown, transfixtsd, the monster Bauftew &^
(Mcmorialled hideouJ in their stony abrowiti)
• ^AffTpoUi H pikgyjas arof^kf JhrAi0w»*0^
War*-
|,. m the I
gcnjiuijitM ii
flliatioa «f I
fpel di^ixjAcsl > :4 in tlia i
I
-^
9rt & y. Kak. H, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
211
I
I
I
While ^neatb theiuai^ig hdlts!' redoubled blows
Typhceus* life -blood o*er the dark soil flowa :
TEence sprang the sanguine fruitDge of the Vme,
Yielding for gods and men the glorious purple
wine.
J.L.
Dabllo.
IlXEOrmtATE ClItLPlL£N OF Kxxo Cff ABij;s II.
I enclose a cutting from a newspaper, purporting
to give as correct a Ibt of these as eon be ascer-
tained, or I should rather say, those whom King
Charles acknowledged as bis own. Perhaps some
correspondent of ** N, k Q." can point out mac-
coracies in the statement; at any rate there is
one In calling the Duchess of Cleveland Barbara
ViUiers Instead of Palmer : —
'• Tbo illcHtimate children of King Charles II. were
popularly believed to be legion, but he acknowledged
onij (1) James Sittart, son of .i yoQD|^ lady in Jersey^
who took hobr ord«ni, and died a Catholic priest; (^)
Jaivh t Monmoutb, sou of Lucy WiU ten, cxe*
cut' n by bis uncle's command; (3) Mary,
dau^:..^. ..i^ same lady, married first to William Sar*-
field, an Irish gentleman, and afterwards to Willmm
Fanabaw; (4) Charles Fitzrov, Duke of Southampton,
(5) UiUfy FitBxoy, Duko of Gmfton, (6) George FJtz-
Toy^ Doke of NorLliumberland, aud (7) Anne, Couotesa
of Sttasejc — all children of Brifbara ViUiera, the fierce
Ducheaa of Cleveland ; (8) Charles Beauclerk, Duke of
St AlbanX and (0) .TRmpfl K^fifv lf*rk, sona of Nell
Gwynno; (10) Chnrl ' ' Ulchmaod, son
of Lootae Qnorouaii liouth; (H)
Mary Tudor, nmrrief . .: _ _. Lttrwentwater,
daughter of Marv Davis; (12) Charles Fitzchorlcs, and
(13) a girl who died young, children of Catherine Pegge;
and (14) Charlotte Boyle, aluu Fitsroy, wife af Sir
Robert Pa«ton, Hart., afterwards JEarl of Yannonth*
daughter of EliMletb, N' Iscountess Shannon. Thres of
thes« founded dukcdomi which atlll exist — Grafton,
Richmonil, and St. Albana — and other families trace
their t\sf* to connecrtion tiith the children of the last
popular Stuart"
OxonjiKBis.
Loeh, Lai>t : thxib Dbritation *' My
Lord," as a style of address, is of frequent occur-
rence in the Bible, while the nse of ^ Sir " is
comparatively nire, the earliest passage in which
we meet with it being Genesis xliii. ^O, " O Sir,
we came down/' &c. See John iv. 1 1 ; xx. 15 ;
Acts xiv. 15; Rev. vu. 14, and elsewhere. It
waa useti, as now, to strangers, or to elden, im-
plying respect as instanced above.
** My lord ** seems to have been universally
adopteiL Kings and prophets were so addressed.
** Sara obeyed Abraham, calling him Lord." (See
Gen. xviij. 12.) Enehel thus speaks of her father,
Esau is thus oomteim&ly mentioned by Jacob,
Joseph is so addrt'stfed by the brethren, though
of oourse as a stran^pr of note. Joshua to his
chief--" My Lor^l ' " ^bid them.** But the
following is on c 1 use; one which I do
not remember to have met with elsewhere in the
Bible : « Now therefore Lord Bohfernesy'" &c.
Judith V. 24.
" Lord " is said to be an abbreviation of the
Anglo-Saxon compound Hlaf-ord^ and was for*
meny so written ; =: AZa/, raised, and onf, origin,
of hjgh birth. So ** lady '* is the Anglo-Saxon
Hlafd-ig: the initial letter omitted gives Lafd^ig^
which, with the final ^ changed into y, becomes
Lafd'tf; the/ suppressed, we have Ladv — lofty,
raised, exjilted. ** Lord *' and " Lady '* have been
otherwise traced from A.^S. ; but the derivation
already given is preferreil by etymologiBt**. (See
Richardson On the Stuify of Words, and Dict^
i.w. '* Lord,** ♦^Lady.") F. Phillott.
Toe Vai.u£ of a Dailt Pateb is 1741.^ — From
an indenture, dated August 31, 1741, between
Dorothy Beaumont and James Myonet, it appears
that one Mr. Vander Escb assigned to Mrs. Bean^
mont "three'twentyeth portions, or shares of, and
in the public newspaper commonly called or known
by the name of the Dayly Adverfizert^ as an
equivalent for the payment of 200L The trans-
actions detailed in this curious document arise
out of the sale and purchase of South Sea Stock ;
by dabbling in which poor Dorothy Beaumont
found her way to the Fleet, l£ 200^. was the
selling price of the aibresaid shares, it is scarcely
necesaary to add, that the" Daily Advertiser was
worth about 1332/. Is this likely ? B. H. C*
TowT, TowTXK* — These words are looked upon
as vulgar, and arc banished from respectable aic-
tionnries accordingly, I consider them unjustly
treated, and I beg to offer a word in their be-
half. Those staid personages, whom we see so
constantly about Doctors' Commons, with tradi-
tional gravity and unimpeachable white aprnns^ —
I the im memorial (meters — one would think sufficient
vouchers for the respectability of thd name. But
further than thig, I believe the word towt occurs,
with only a slight alteration, in the Authorised
Version of the Scriptures. In 2 Cor. viii. 1» in
the phrase " we do you to wit/* I think " to wit**
is certainly to be considered as only one word,
and *' do" as the auxiliary verb. Otherwise th^e
would be an archaism^ difficult to account for at
the time of our translators. Of course, originally
** I do yon to wit," meant " I make vou to know ;"
but "do" ceased to mean **make,* and came, it
would seem, to be regarded in this phrase as a
metQ auxiliary verb : *' to- wit," or iawi^ being the
principal verb. " To-wit** f>r ^«-^A accordingly,
came to mean ** to inform," or " direct ;" and a
** to- witter," or towter^ one who inform f or directs.
Some candid reader of " N. & Q." may have
foincthmg more correct to impart; if not, his
xUaiur mecum. B. L.
ExKCDTioN OF AwnK BoLrrw, — In Houssaie's
Etgaifa (vol. i. p. 435) a little circumstance is re-
lated coQcernlng the decapitatioa of Axsss&^ft^VtT^
212
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[j«i 9. V, aum. ij;i|i
'which iUuairateB an observation of Hume. Our
historian notices that the person who executed
her wfts born in Calais ; and the following story
concerning her is said to have been handed down
by tradition from an account of the executioner
himself: —
" Aane Bolayn, beincr on the «caffald, would not con-
scnt^to h*ve her eyes bandaged, sayiog tbat ahe had no
fear of death; but, as she wai o|j«ning Ihem every tno-
ment, he could not bear their teoder and beaatiful
glances; he, to take her attention from him^ took off his
shoos, and approached her sUeatly while another person
advanced to her, who made a great noise. This drcum-
stance b said to bare attracted the eyes of Anne fioleyn
to him, whereupon he struck the fatal blow/*
Thomas Fibmingeb..
ScHLESwiG-HoLiTBiK. — The following; his-
torical facts may assist in removing the Gordion
knot of red tape with which diplomacy has en-
veloped the question of right to the dominion of
these duchies : ^
1- Schleswig h admitted universally to be an
appanage of the Danish crown ; its government
or constitution varies from that of Denmarki in
retaining more of the representative element.
The Gottorp portion of Schleswig was formally
ceded to the King of Denmark in 1773. The
population of Schleswig in 1848 consisted of —
Danes, 185,000; Frisians, 25,000 ; and Germans,
120»000. Total, 330,000.
2. Holstein, after various conquests and revo-
lutions, was, in 1715, by a treaty with France,
England, Russia, and Prussia, guaranteed to Den-
mark in perpetual and peaceable possession.
3, In 1806, upon the breaking up of the Ger*
man Empire, Holstein was incorporated with
Schleswig and Denmark as one monarchy*
4. In 1815, tiie King of Denmark, conformably
with the treaty of Vienna, joined the German
Confederation as Duke of Holstein, with one
vote in seventeen, and three votes out of the total
ofaixtjr-flix, according to the subject-matter dis-
cussed in the Diet.
5, The Kin^ of Denmark, Ferdinand VIL, in
1815, proposed to give a constitution to Holstein,
which was disallowed by the German Confederal
tion.
6* On July 4, 1850, the London protocol, signed
by Great Britain, France, Prussia^ and Sweden,
guaranteed the integrity of Denmark, and ap-
proved the steps taken bjr the Kinp relative to
the fcitiement of the Danish succession,
:: 7. The protocol of August 23, 1850, was agreed
to at London relative to Denmark^ Schleswig
and Holstein, by Austria, Denmark, France,
Great Britain, Russia^ Sweden, and Norway.
8. The lait important treaty of London by the
above European Powers, on Ma^ 8, 1852, regu-
lated the settlement of the Danish Crown, and
ftet aside the claim of the house of Augustenburg.
T. J. BtJCKTOH.
Ancbstoe WoasHip. — Will any of your read
inform me, for the benefit of a clergyman
gaged in missionary work in South Airiei* cCi
any English or French works which treat of 0»|
ces tor worship, and ancestral worshipping natioBs!*!
If of sidereal worship and sidereal worshinpia^i
peoples or tribes also, all the better. H. T J
Hugh Brakham— In Hakluyt's CoUectim t
Voyages (about p. 590 of the edition 1 «aed i
the British Museum), there occura in an acoov
of Iceland, mention of a letter sent to the Bia
of Holar (Gudbrand Thorliac) by the^r
and vertuous Master Hugh Brarthantf m'~
the church of Harwich in Endland, in A*J>* ;
or thereabouts. The letter of Parson Braohtfil
not given, only the Icelandic bishop's reply. C«1
anyone tell me where I can find Bran1iam*a liH^ j
or anything about Branham? K- <
A Butx OF Bdrke*8. — Burke, in his ** Sf>^
on the Petition of the Unitarians** (I79'2),«w:-
"la a Christian Commoa wealth, the ChurcJi aarftk
SUte are oae and the same thing ; being diflfef^ taU^Etf
parts of the same whole.^
Can any one help me to a logical interprelalas
of this passage, and explain how two titfferw^'pti^
of the same thing can be identiccd f Are wt »
account for Burke's language in thia ifiitance bf
recollecting his nationality ? C G* P*
CAMBHinoB ViLLAaBS.— Two villagea^
ously called sometimes Papworth St. Asn«», J
Papworth St. Everard^as Papworth AgAOi
dedicated to St, John the Baptist, and Fapwo
Everard to St, Peter— exist in CambridgQi]|iic>
Can any of your readers explain the peesiliir
** agnomen** of Agnes and Everard ? I never j«l
heard this explained. F. Auubbt AotiLif'
JjLURs CiTMRTtKG, F,S.A. (sou of Alexandff
Cumraing, F,R»S.) was one of the chief clerks of
the Board of Control, and edited Felthaiu'a Bf
sohes, 1806. He also drew up so much of thi
East India Report of 1813 a«* relates to MaUna.
Mr. M^CuHoch {LH, Pol Ecmt, 106) aays be wai
•* remarkable for his minute and extensive knov^
ledge of Indian affairs;' llie date of bis daOli k.
requested.* S, T.
Hatdn's Cawzoh ets*— May I trouble yow
another query respecting Haydn? Winch of I'
beautiful compositions — beautiful nui^i/^ w«dd
to charming verse — were written to '**nr»
lish poetry? The first six were wnr v*5iii_
[• Oar corrtipoadent wiU l\nd meny p^rtimUrt ef 3
Cumming'i pttiiic lift in th*' f Iv p»*«
pamphlet, a copy of which • Mti
*+ Ttr;..f V,.r,,M i-if iVir^ SfTA'iri , LiLtV 1
r Oflkwef
li,, 'ur Uw Af*
faixa of India, daUU July TU, i«'^4,j
scuov^
ealliii I
^iIimH
Sf^a V. Mas. 12, '«!.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
213
I
I
supplied bj Anne Horoe, the wife of the celebrated
John Hunter. Which of these six were nri^inals,
and which imnslationa ? Juxta Tubrim.
Hebaxi»ic. — I should be grateful to any of your
heraldic contributors who could furnish rne with
the blasoD of the differences (marks of cadency)
borne by the following members of the rojoi
bouae of Flantagenet : —
1. Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of Clurence.
2. John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster. (Baines'fl
Lancashire gives him **a label of three points,
ermine." Is this correct ?)
3. Richard, Earl of Cambridge (son of Edmund
of Lanii^ley, Duke of York) beheaded, 1415,
4. Richard, Duke of York, his son, slain at
Wakefield.
5. George, Duke of Clarence: he of "the
Malmsey buttJ*
6. His daughter Margaret, Countess of Salifl*
owjr, wife of Sir Richard Pole, K.G.
FlT2'JoHN.
Snt JoaN Jacob, Kmr. — Sir John Jacobs Knt^
of Bromley, Kent, was living in 1653. Can any
of your correspondents kindly inform me as to
his parentage ; on what occasion and by whom be
was knighted ; whom he married, and whether any
of his descendants are still living ? H. C. F.
Latin QooTAxioif. — Can an? reader of "N.& Q.'*
reduce to ^nse the following bit of Latinity in an
old Concio ?^
" Hinc dicitur ftpiritu wrritatis quam obsignat indutu
dibias noatris; non credencit a ergo eat spirita qui ab-
daom dqxtstto ad bumana comtnunta.'*
Good Latin and Knglish of this specimen of
type, printed off after being driven into **pie,"
will be acceptable. A Stctdbnt.
Mbccah.— The elder l^iebuhr (Desc, de FAra-
hie^ p. 310) mentions Jean Wilde as having vis^ited
Meccah. Where can I find an account of his
travels?
It seems, by-the-bye, to be a not uncommon
belief that Burton was the first Christian who
visited the shrines of El Islam, There were cer-
tainly eight who preceded him, to wit, Ludovico
Bartema (1503), Jean Wilde, Joseph Pitta, Ali
Bey (1807), Giovanni Jinati (1814), Burckhardt
fl815), Bertolucci, and Dr. George A. Wallen
1845). There is no evidence that any of these
were renegades; though they were, of course,
compelled to adopt Mohammedan rites and cus*
toms, and to avoid any open profession of their
Christian belief.
Will some of your readers help me to enlanra
this list ? P. W. S;
New York.
GioigbPodi.et. — In £o\[\m*B Peerage (1812),
imeration of the issue of William Poulet,
in ttie enumeration <
fijfst ilarquis of Winchefter^ I find tbe following
passage : —
' ^ ' " ' Toulet, of Cossifiglon, in the county of
S- •[!» namwi Mftry, tjaughter and iieir
i^r 1 i f Melpasli, in Dorsetshire^ and bad by
ber» first, (ieorge Poulrt, who by Alice bis wife, daughter
of Tbomiis Pney (or Plesey) of Holberry in Hunts, was
fath«?r of Rachel, married to Philip do Carteret, Lord of
St. tjwen's j*nd Sark, anceator to the Jate Earl Uranvilk,
Iec*' — "V^ol, ii. p. 373.
Oil the other band, the author of Lea ChrO"
mque9 de rile de Jersey, written in or about the
year 1585^ and published in Guernsey in 1832^
says that the George Potdety whose daujibter
Ritcbul was married in January, 1581, to Philip
de Car terete, was the brother of Sir Amiaa Powlet^
at that time Governor of Jersey, belter known in
history as one of the jailors of Mary Queen of
Scots, and ancei*tor of the Earls Poulett.
I am fully persuaded that the Chronicler is
rights and that Collins is wrong. I should, how-
ever, be glad to receive any confirmation on the
point. P. S. CA^Br.
Rev. Cubistopbee Richaadsok. — Can any of
your readers give me any information respecting
the birth-place and parentage of the Rev. Chris-
topher Richardson, ejected from the parish of
Kirkheaton, near Huddersfield, in 1G62 r I have
obtained many particulars of his after life, but I
have no account of him before 1649 ; at which
time, by the Parliamentary Survey of the Livings,
now in the library at Lambeth Palace, he was at
Kirkheaton. I presume that he had Presbyterian
orders. No trace can be found of him, as far as I
can learn, at Cambridge or Oxford, I have been
told that the correspondence of Cromweirs Com-
missioners, respecting the fitness of the men put
into livings, is still in existence ; but I am unable
to find anything of the sort at the Record and
State Paper Office^ in the printed list of papers
belonging to the interregnum period. J. R.
Rotation Otficb, — What is the meaning of
this? I understand it to be some oflice where
justices of the peace met. Query^ for what pur*
pose? W.
Rapirr. — This family was settled near Tborsk,
Yorkshire, about 1650. I should be glad^to find
a pedigree. St. T.
Sakcroft. — As my Query (3^ S. iv. 147) hsE
received no reply, may I be permitted to repeat it
in a form more likely perhflps to meet with an
answer ? Archbishop Sancroft is said to have had
six sisters. Are the names of their husbands
known ? There was a legal firm in London, some
thirty or forty years ago— the lilessrs. Bogue and
Lambert — who could probably have answered the
question ; and tt is just possible tbat this ma^
meet the eye of their ffuoceacora in business, if
such there be. St. T.
214
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8»'&T. MA&Ulilii
Joi23c SAacKWT, Esq. — ^Where cao I obUiit the
beat account of Jobn Sargent, Esq., M.l\ for
Seaford and for Quecnborough, sometime Secre-
tary to the Treasury, and Author of The Mine and
other poeine ? He died in ISao.* M, A. Lowsr.
Ds. Jacob Sfissstus. — Can anj of jour
readers tell me where I cnu get sight of the foi'
lowinrr book by Dr. Jacob Sereniii3» who was
Swedish chaplain in London^ 1723-1734, and who
died Bishop of Strenjinaes in Sweden, 1776?
Examtn Harmonm Ueligimtis Lu^efwts et An^U^
cma, Leyden, 1726, 8vo, B* S, M.
Th« MmtsTsaiAj. Woodej? Spook» — There is
a note in " The Inner Life of the House of Com-
mons,*' in the TlluslraUd TimcM of March 5, under
the aboTe beading, iind the writer au^g^ts a re*
ferenee to the Editor of " K* ^ Q/* for explana-
tion. It is stated that a rigorous account h kept
of every vote of every member of the government.
At the annuid dinner of the ministers, held at the
close of each aeaaion, the chief whin reads this
list, and it is said that the man to wnosc name la
appcmled the smallest number of votes, is pre-
sented with a wooden spoon. It will no doubt be
interesting to many readers to ascertain the oriorin
of thia strange custom, T. B.
[It bp we believe, quite true that a liit of the votes of
thoM mambers of the government n^ am in the Houm
of CommonM is produced ftt the Whitohait Dmnir^ and he
who is lowest on tho list ia probably regarded, by his
Cambridge frieadd &t least, os^tbe woodon spoon. Dtmag
the administration of Sir Robert Peel, when the minis-
terial party wa« starting for Greenwich, one of them, in
paasiag through HungerfonJ Market, bought a child*a
penny mug snil a wooden epoon. After dinner, when the
hit of votes hud been read out, the penny mug, oa whiok
was piloted either *• Jaroe*," or " For a good boy," was
pt««Dted, with all due solemnity, to Sir James Graham,
and the wooden ^poon to Sir William Follett. This is
probably the origin of the statement quoted by our car-
respond eat,]
Btafior Darj? ABY Pott eh. — Can any of tout
north-eounlry readers inform me whether there
was ever a Bishop of CnrllsT.* l^v r». !>-. Xur-
naby Potter? Dr. Pot
rick, the pout, in the livi „ . _ _ _ _,*
flhbe; but what his subsequent career was I
cannot Bsoertain. W. E, D.
tB«iiaby F(>tter was horn at or near Kondal io 167a
He wu eduoited in Qaeen*! College, Oxford* where he
^1 afterwards mads Provoit. He held this post for ten
[♦ John Sargent, Esq, died at LavhkgdMi. in ^ttasejc,
iSsI, p. Sbo.-'^Ed. J
years, when he was chosen chaphdn la Kiit|f JaB»U
and by his interesU his nephew, Christoidaar P^iM
succeeded to the Provostship. From the Uflivmil^ la
resorted to tho court, ^v here ho at drst attended oft Fdaei
ChaHea. When Charlci fiS4;cndcd the thmm (IBS)
Potter was made Jitshop of Carlisle, ** nufWilTiillllH
there were other suitors for it, and he neVr so^g^ ftr ^*
He waj consecrated at Ely House, in Holbocil,
OTi 15th March, 1G28-9, and was ce(mmo>nl3r
puritam'cal bbhop.'* Fuller remarks, that ** it was mtk
of him, in the time of King Jamea 1^ that organs woiill Iter
him out of the church, which I do not b«ll«ir«9 the isikr
because he was loving of, and skilful In, vttcal HDie^
and could bear his part therein. He was of a walk i^
Atitution, melancholy, lean, and a hard stmlent.'* In
died in London in Jan, 1641-2, and was bt
Paul's, Coveni Garden. Vidt KichoUon's
Kendal, second edition, 1861, p. 333 ; and Wood's Jlii J
by Bliss, iiL 21,] 1
Wiu^iAM Sp^cs (Political Writer*Y*-ll
gentleman, who lived at Hull, was auliior i%
remu'kable pamphlet, entitled Britefm
€itmt of Commerce^ first published in 1 807.
wei*e several subsenuent editions, and it '
noured by answers irom James Mill and C«LTar«
rens. He also published other works, (N
1815. Uis disciples, who tvere en^Iisd S|
created much alarm in or about 1818.
of Air. Spence*s death will oblige S. Y, E
[Well may we exclaim **Tempora motanttuv aat «
mutamur in illisi " William Spence the t»oliac*l <
miat is bow clean forgotten; while William
F.L*S., the entomologist (the same gifted ia»diYi«tesI>
will be loug remembered for his assiduous haboaia ia as^
tural history. Mr« Spence was a native of Bishop Bttztsa,
near Beverleyy and on the estahtishmcnt of %,hm JM
Bockin^unti became the Arst editor of thsc wecAdy Jo«r»
nsL His reputation as a ^ptitioal ecoiKN&iat was dlftlx
eilablished by the publication of the wt»rk uotioad bj mm
oonespondeilt. Four of Mr. Spenee'a early
wcfe republiihed by himself in cue volume 8iro ta
eotitlsd Trmta on, PoHtkol Economy, vis. L Beitelsi la-
depsndent of Commerce. 3. Agriculture th« Soosw d
Wealths S. The Objections against the Ccvrn Law Bfll
RelUted. 4. Bpeech on the Eait India Tratla. In dto
Dedication to John Symmoiiti B«{, he says, «^t bsfv^ti
thank E^Htomolo^ for procsfiog mt the i-rinalHiMini rf
my excellent and learned Aiaociate In aneibar I
undertakiag, whose /Headship haa, for fifteen y^T% i
one of the principal enjoymenta of life,"»alla cling to lbs
Bcv. William Kirby, hi* coUeagiia m that vaJoable i
An IntfKiduetifm (o^iomokgy,
Mr. Spence died at his house in Lowor Seymooi'
on Jan, G, 1860, aged seventy- scrtn. In the ohim
memorials of him at that time, not the least notioe, J
ever, was taken of hb works on PoUtical Kctmomy.
Oar correspondent mnst not confoaad Wllliani Spcsea I
tha antniadfltfist, with ThnmoM Spane^ lbs ~ '
ardaV, HailU •«!]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
215
of the Spencera SdMBft Thii TisiooAry writer at
one timo kept a ftaU «t Ko. ^ Little Turnstile, High
Holborn, whicli he cillod •The Hivo of Liberty," whew
he not only i«tAi1«d salcniiv but his notable production
^ Piga* Meat ; or Leeeooff Ibr the Feople* alias (according to
Bofltt) the Swiaiih Multitude^ pablisbod in Penny Nam-
beri) weekly coUeetedbj the Poor Man*a Adrocate (an old
perswuted Veteran in theCanae of Freedom) in the course
of hie Iteading Hx Ttrvnty Tears, &c.** To attract pobllc
attention to M9 Scheme, Spaooe Btrack a ranety of me-
daleftaor aeditUnia takesisMma of which are politically
aaliiieal and extremely eoiiaai. On one waa hie bust
Bamnmded with the worde, ''T. Spcnce, a State Pri-
soner in 1794.** On the obTeroe is a representation of
George IIL nding opon John Bull* liaving an obs^s head,
mad ezdainiing sabmi^Tely, *«Am I not thine aas? "
See Balaam (•» N. & Q," 2^** S. vi, 348). Aiter his chival-
Tone laboura for the **awini3h multitude," poor Spence
<:]oeed his earthly career on Sept. 8, 1814, aged fifty-
•eyen. At his funeral appropriate medallions were distri-
buted, and a pair of scales, indicative of the joatice of hit
viewi^ preceded bit body to the grave.]
Sia Jon?! Cjulf. — In 'a Bible in the poeaesBion
of Mr, Bourne of BoxhuUe, near Battle m Sussex,
X9 the following copy of a aingular epitaph. It is
inscribed on the blank page between the Old and
New Testaments. The Bible is, I think, the
first edition of the Anthorised Version, and the
handwriting appeaw to be of about the time o£
Charles L : —
" heare Hea Sir John Calf
thriae mayor of londan with
hoaner honner bonnor
Q2woe worth tubtil death more
snbtil then a fox | would not let
Sir John Calf live til he hod
beene an oxt- [ that he might
have got his bveing a mongvt
briers and thorues | and don as
his fore-oldera did were
homea horoea
The book appeari to have been in'the possession
of a famiJy of GUpin of London about the time
when thb fly-leaf scribbling was made.
Query- Was Sir John Calf a real personage ;
and, if so, when did ho serve his mayoralty ? I
I have no list of Lord Mayors by me,
MaEK AwTour Lowkb*
f Another vcwion of this singalar epitaph appeared in
•• N. ^ Q," 2^ S. vii. 147. The Mayoralty of London has
certainly never been ornamented with a "real'* Sir John
Calf; althoogh the original lince, in (which there ia no
ttoation of a Bfay^r of London, may have been satirically
appMed to lome civic magistrate. The epitaph occurs in
Oatnden'f Bemainet^ first published In 1€04. Wo quota
'^'iw^*''' ' n of 1764, edited by John Phiiipoti —
•* lad maker, as they call poets now, was
h«» ^- !je time of King Henry IIL made tUis for
JohnCatit^
'^ S?" omiriliotiaa Vrnru miserere Joasui^
^^ ' I naloil emt bcrveni.'
« Which in oar lime (saysCamdco) was thos paraphrased
by the translator ; —
* All Christian men in mv behalf,
Pray for the soul of Sir* John Calf*
O cmel death, as subtle m a Fox,
Who would not let this Calf live till he hid beat an
Ow,
That he might have eaten both brambles and thortu,
And when he came to his £^her'ii years, might have
worn horns.* "
The Latin couplet is ^ven by Franciacus SwertiaB»
^Uaphia JocO' Stria, ed. 164a, p. 87, where it is entitled
" MagisLd loannis le Veau.'* Camden's version is also
printed in Pettigrew*8 Chvnictu of the TomAit, p. 121. ]
Becajvcbld ob BACCAifCELD, ^ — Two cottncils
were held here. Are we to understand Becken-
bam or Bapchild, both in Kent? B. H. C*
[Bapchild in Kent is considered to have been the place
by^ some of our most learned antiquariea, namely, Camden,
Dr. Plot, Johnson of Cranbrooke, J. M. K^emble, and by the
editors of the Motntmenta Huiorica BrittuinictL, foL 1848*
" Some few," says Hasted, ** have supposed it, from tho
similitude of the name, to have been held at Beckenham, a
place at the western extremity of Kent; but Bapchild
has fiill as much Bimilitude of name, especially as one
copy writes it Bachanchild ; and its b<!lng si touted in the
midst of the ooanty, dose to the high road, and so near
to Canterbury, makes it much more probable to have basn
held here."— flistory of Keni, ii. 6O0.]
War or Iwtebtitures. — What was the origin of
the War of Investitures, and when did it take
pkcc ? T, O. 8.
[The war between the Emperor Henry IT. and Pope
(Gregory TIL, 1075- 1086, arising out of the endeavoor of
the pope to deprive sovereigns of the rights of nominatllig
bishops and abbots, and Investing them with the cross
and ringi was called the War of Investitures.]
PUBLICATION OF DIAKIES.
(3^* S, V. 107.)
When I communicated three articles on **Ma-^
tfaematics and Mathematicians" to tlie PhihaO'*
pkical Magazine for March, June, and September,
1S53, 1 had no idea that, after the lapse of dtn^m
jrears, I should be compelled to '^take up the
other battledore " in defence of my extracts irom
the MS. journals of the late Mr. Reuben Burrow.
Nor should I have deemed it neoessary, even now»
to have added anythinir to what is there stated,
had Peofessoe De Mobgah confined himself
within the limits of legitimate criticism. But
when he distinctly charges me, in p» 108 of the
current volume of this work, with having omitted
certain portions of these journals from motives
which are " not due to supposed irrelevancy, or
want of interest," 1 feel that I <iajajMi\.'wm«ffw*«»:\
216
NOTES AND QUERIES.
& V. IUk.U,^
longer silent. I wish emphatically to asaert, that
sucn is not the case. If in any extract I have
incluUed a sentence or two which may appear
immaterml to my subject, it must be put down to
inadvertence ^nty^ and not to design ; inaBmucb as
ft sense of impropriety, and ** supposed irrele-
vnncy," were the only motives whicu led me to
omit all the other passages which may be found
in the MS. journals, now belonf^ing to the Royal
Astronomical Society. The omitted portions had
nothing whatever to do cither with mathematics or
mathematiciam^ and hence their nonappearance in
my published papers.
When those articles were written, I knew
nothing of the abuse of Wales and Green, con-
tained on the fly-leaf of Prof Esson D£ Moroan*s
copy of the MisceUaiica Curiosa; and when he
forwarded me a trnnscript of these seribblin^s,
with a request that I would send them for inser-
tion in ** N. & Q.," I declined to do so from the
repugnance I felt against becoming the means of
pcrpetuatinj^ private slander and obscenity, whe-
ther it concerned '* the highly accomplished Dr.
Halley," or the ** very low-minded" and ill-fated
Mr. Reuben Burrow,
Those who read Pbofessor Dk MoeoaVb re-
marks« without referring to my original papers in
the PhiL Magazine^ will naturally come to the
conclusion that I have omitted everything ** which
maj show (Mr, Burrow) unfavourably." Such
pertoni, however, will hold a very different opinion
on the iubject afier due examination ; since allu-
sions to Lis irregular habits— his irritable disposi-
tion^— ^his extreme prejudices — ^his frequent quar*
rels — and his violent antipathies — occur in almost
every page* Nor have I failed to caution my
readers against adopting the literal sense of his
words, whenever it seemed to me to be required,
I hold all these characteristics to be sufficient to
portray the general " character of this accuser of
the brethren," without including^ those objection-
able items upon which such <iuiililied opinions
and cautions are founded. It is indeed matter of
cratidcation to me, that the task of laying on tbe
darkest tints has passed into other and abler
hands* My opinion respecting ^Ir, Burrow's
general trustworthiness, so far as mathematics and
mathematicians are concerned, remains unchanged.
No court of law, with which I am acquainted,
would reject his testimony on the grounds al-
leged : for I know of no syllogism in formal logic
which will suffice to prove that, because a man is
occasionally coarse in his hinguage, and brutal in
bis conduct, he is therefore not to be credited on
matters of mathematical history or biography,
which have been deliberately communicateu to
him by a librarian of the Royal Society, who was
iniimfttelj acquainted with most of the persona
named. T. T. Wujux»oir.
Dumt«7.
TALLETRA>D*8 MAXTH,
(3"* S. V. 34.)
I have already furnished an earlier autkoc^
than Talleyrand, Gohkmitli, South, Dr. Yoim
Voltaire, and Fontenelle, see " N, & Q^** 2^ 5
xi. 416. I now propose to ascend tlirouglii
disQval times up to the remotest antiqistty.
Erasmus, Lingua, sive de lingttm usu ci oh
(Opp, iii. par. 2) : —
**£xubUatur in Ethnicortim theatiia ijnjiia WVM
yK^rr h^fxox^ M 5i <^p»i»' oiw/uuror* Id «il;^ JTtl
lingua est, animas injuratua est. Quin poUtia ejip
fl viu Christianorum? Cfr. Cicero, Dt 0^Scu4, Ilk i
c 20."
The Jesuit, Joannes-Eudaemon, or J^'Heuma^
took Casaubon to task for saying that he kiiff
not what authorities Garnet could h^ve for Ik^
doctrine of equivocation : —
« If thou liAtlst road Augustin, Gregory, «nd tht^
Fatbcrs, thou woaklat have found that the Patrii*
tbe Prophets, mod God himself are tbe nathoritiea ^1^
riet*s equivocation." — Eudtemon -Joanne^ Mtmt^t^
Epiit It. Cdtautf, c. viii* p. !G4, ediL CoL A^np^ i
quoted by Stdametz, HUl of the J**ttitM, ilL l€Z
Abbot, in his Antdogia, denies that then \
sions are any where justified either in Sotiyfeat
or in the works of the Fathers : —
"^ Nequc calluit banc doctrin&m Aitgustinua. eui
ilia tractationQ (de Mendacio) ubi occa^jo tsni
qa&m arB lata ad vitaodji utrinqufi tantft dlscrii
n«c««ftariA, jn mentcm venit . . , . Lhi milll
fer ttx orniii hominum antiquitate. loquor indii
et &ger, da ex omoi antiquitate. Ethnic^ JudAicd,
tlana, da veL unum cui reservatione^ iatae tit»
sunt, nisi slqul forte in in/amiam notati siint» e£
generis in pestem habiti-'* — P» 26.
He might have added these severe ex|
from the same Father, Augustine (/)^ umico Btf^
tismo) I —
** O quum diHestandui est error hominam qui cIororvB
viromm qaaadam noa recte facta laudabilit<rr mo ImltXR
put ant, a quorum virtutibus abeni sunt. Sje mtkim <l
nonnuLti Pctro apoitolo comparari m volant, li Chriatsv
oegaverinL" — Opp. ed. Benedict, ix. 5S7,
Although primitive Christianity exhibits in the
pages of TcrtuUian and Justin Martyr's Aooh^
giety the same love of truth, '*the fountam oC
goodness," which is expressed by Moral PhUoao*
phy (Arist. Eih. lib. d. and iv. ; DnexeUi pm
SpirihmUa, ii. 311)^ religion waa saorif^-^ "^ ^^
sacerdotal ambition for pur posej of preset'
From the maxim "Vuft populus oecipi
piatur," sprung the tribunal of ecd cf i : i s t i c n 1 in i il -
libility, and Uie verdict of priestly ttittiuioii
The laws of Casuistry, afterwards d<v*-l<>pr>i i;r
the Jesuits, were founded on the thcvilt»j»y of lb''
Fathers by Franciscan and Dominican SchoolllMD-
" Sed verbum aapicntt ."
It IS to be remarked that the maxim that
is juttifiable in matters of religion exfienatv^}
pmaiied m the Heathen world. The opiniooa
S'O S. V. Ujm. 12, '61.]
NOTES AND QUERIES,
217
»
Cicero (De Ltf^ibm, ii. and vui,) were probably
derived from Flato» the foundation of whose rea-
soning conuists in the expediency of deceit in
certain cades, for the purposes of government,
De RepMieOj lib, iii. (0pp. vu 446*) The same
maxim was adopted even by the moat estimable of
the Fathers; by »ome during the third, and by
many during the fourth and fifth centuries ; e* g,
Ori^en^ Ambrose, Hilary, Augustine^ Gregory
Nozianzen, Jerome, Chrysostom, Stc, It appears
in common with the rest of the political philo-
Bophy of Plato in the Strontata of Clemens Alex-
andra u?, ed* Potter, i. xxiv. p. 417. Newman, in
his nUiory of the Arians af (he Fourth Cenhuy^
refera to Clement of Alexandria as accurately
deicribing the rules which should guide the Chria-
tlan in speaking and writing ecotiomicaUt/ : —
** The whole sabject opened by him deBorret a fuller
coQsideratioa than is on the present occasion poasibK hut
< * . • there la cause for much bcaitation before it can
be granted that the language of the Fathere expresses the
meanifig of modern Divines, It wouM seem to be under
the inflnence of this reasonable hesitation that the Bishop
of Lincoln (pp, 898-403 of his Acamnt of the JFritin^s of
Clement) has furnished & long list of passages in vrhich
olKovofiia and its conjugates occur, for the soke of show-
ing that the authority uf that Father in particular has
been erroneously quoted in support of a mode of interpret-
ation, "for' otKOVOfiiajf" — (Ogilvio's Bampton I^turet,
1836, pp. 238-4.
Synesius, who lived in the fifth century, has
been cited in ** N, 8c Q/* as sanctioning this species
of hypocrisy, but I cannot verify the reference.
I now hope to furnish your correspondent with
the name of the Greek author inquired for.
The poet quoted by Cicero, ui siiprd, is Euri-
pides, IlippaL V. 612 : —
/* Uunc locum ita Oridius in Cjfdippa Epiitola exprea-
at. Quae jurat Mens eatj nil conjaravimuB Ula," &c.
Barnes in toe.
Other examples may be given from the same
poet, e. g, Andromache, 445, sjy. In p. 147 of
Meric Ca»aubon*s treatise, De Verhorum U^ are
the following pertinent remarks : —
•* Porrp id genus borainum (Matth. xx. 6 ; 2 Petri, L 8 ;
S. Jacobi iti- 7-14) apud omnes cordatos et probos quam
male semper audierint, tiqueat tcI ex celebratiflsimo illo
Poetamm principis diaticho :
'Ex^pif yap fiol tttttrm &t^m AiUcL ir^i^cn,
[Of. Caaaubon's Epktle to Fronio Duc^rus^ p. 412.] Ho-
taerum imitatas est, qui vulgo Phocylides :
lUngtui mentem proferto, oocultum autem in animo ser-
f monem ritato , • • . Idem paulo post
M»)8 rnpo¥ titv^s npaJRit) v6ov, &AJC i.yop€6mP '
M^V i/s ir*rf>0(pxfrtt ^oK6wovs Kark x^p^ ^fittQav,'*
BlBUOTHECAB* ChST&AM.
POSTEEITT OF HAROLD 11*. KING OF ENGLAND.
(3^^^ S. V. 135,)
The following extract from Kaplans HUtary of
England (vol i. 2nd ed, 1732, p, 142), shows that
Harold left sons and daughters, but docs not give
the name of the daughter who married into the
Russian royal family : —
"Harold was twice married. By bia first wife, whose
name Is unknown, he had three bods, Edmund, Goodwin,
and Magnus, who retired into Ireland after the death
of their father, liy his second wife, Al^tha, sister of
Morcard and Edwtu, he had a son called Wolf, who was
but a chiid at the time of the battle of Hastings, and was
allerwarda knighted by William Rnftts, By tliis second
naarriage he had also two daughters, of whom Guailda, the
eldest, falling blind, passed her days in a nunnery. The
youngest was marrteid to Waldemar, King of Rusaia, by
whom she had a daughter, who was wife to Woldemary
King of Denmark (6).**
In the foot-note (6) it is stated —
"Tyrrel says (from Speed) she was mother to Walde-
mar the first king of Denmark of that tiamet from whom
the Danish kings for many ages after succeeded."
Does the genealogical work which Hippsua
mentions refer to the armorial bearings (if any)
^vhicli Waldemnr (or Wladirair), the husband of
Harold's younger daughter, assumed in her right?
Nisbet, in his Heraldry (vrd. ii. part iii. p. 88),
after mentioning that after Edward the Confes-
sor*3 death, Harold, the son of [Goodwin], Earl
of Kent, usurped the crown, states "his arms
were, as by the English books, argent a bar be-
twixt three leopards' headii sable/*
But Edmond^on (vol. i. p. 163) mentions that
Harold bore for his arras *' Gu. crussilly(?), two
bars between six leopards* heads or, three, two,
and one," and refers also to Nisbef s statement ;
but says he did not know upon what authority it
was made.
Some think the Saxon arms, such as thcae« are
fictitious. However that may be^ having regard
to the fact that Goodwin was the name of one of
Harold's sons as well as of hb fatber, it may be
remarked, that there still are, or lately were,
extant families of the names of Goodtm/n or God-
wyn^ who bear the charges of three leopards* heads
upon their coat armour — vi«. Goodwyn^ Wells, co*
Somerset, and Godwyru, Dorsetshire, " gu. a che-
vron erm, between three leopards' heads or ; ** and
Godwin "sa, a chevron erm, between three leo*
pards' heads or/^
Do any of these families claim descent from
Earl Goodwin, or his son Haruld ?
Morris C. Jovrs*
Liverpool.
HippEUS inquires for the posterity of King
Harold H, It was as follows : He married (I) a
lady unknown, by whom he had issue — 1. Good-
win ; 2. Edmand, both died m Ireland ; 3, Mag*
HUB, resided in Irelaiid.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S'^av.
He married (2) Al^IthA, daugbter of Algir,
Earl of Mercla, and widow of Griffith, Prince of
of Wales, hy whom he had issue— 4. Wolf, who
survived the death of the Cooqueror, and was
knighted by William Rufua ; 5. Gunilda, a ntm ;
6, Gida, married Vladimir, Grand Duke of Kiew,
m the author of the work referred to correctly
says. Chajiles F. S. WitR&Gif .
10, Green Street, Cambridgiy.
TRIALS OF ANIMALS.
(3"* S. V. 155.)
By the Mosaic law, the 03t that had slain man or
woman by his horns was condemned to die, and his
flesh was prohibited as food, ^lian notices the
brii^ing of oxen before the altar, their general
oondemnatioD to death, the pardoning of all but
one, and, finally, the trial and condemnation of the
weapon by which the animal had been despatched.
These are ancient examples. In France the ex-
amples are numerous, from the twelfth to the
middle of the List century. M. Berriat St. Prix
(Mem. de la Soci&i ties Antinumrejt) enumeratea
ninety-two cases : the first of the trial of field-
mioe and caterpillars, at Laou, a.d. 1120; the
Urt, of a cow at Poitou, in 1741. The accused
animals consist of those just named, and flies, pigs,
bulls, oxen, sows, horses, mares, cantharides, raU,
leeches, cocks, moles, snails, mitea» grasshoppers,
dogs, bitches, male and female asses, goats, sheep,
mules, worms, and, towards the end of the aix-
teenth centurv, of tortoises in Canada, At Lau-
sanne, in the Deponing of the tliirtecnth century,
the bishop, William of Embleua, condemned the
eels of the lake to be confined in one certain part
of the water, the cause is not named. Felix min-
merlein records that, in the diocese of Constance,
cantharides, and the larvie of various insects, were
sentenced to confine themselves within specified
remote and wild districts. Ants seem to have
frequently troubled the religious law courts of
Southern France. In 1587, there was a cele-
hratcd trial of the vine proprietors of St, JuUien
tfersus the weevils. The vines had sufiWed by a
Tisuation of the latter. The proprietors appealed
to the bishop, who recommended the complain-
anU to pay their tithes. This having been done,
and the remedy fuiling, the matter was carried to
the regular court*, where long pleadings took
place ,* and tho plaintifTs, though they got a ver*
diet, were comf»€lbd to find a Fuitable place where
the defendants could live, feed, and flourish in
peace. Some of the larger animals were brought
to death for having been the instrtmienta of name-
MM Crimea ; others, fbr " murder."
A BOW, in 1403, killed and devoured a child at
M«tilan. All the forms iif trial followed, and
oere ia the bill of costs : —
** Expfias€« of the sow 'wfithin {^ol, lix sola.
Do. the executioner, who came from Paris by ofiivtf
aur master the Bailli, and the ^procoreof da n4*
fifty- four sols.
Do. for cvTiiige of sow to ex«catioti> aix loli.
Do. for cord to bind aod drag her, two ^U, lA^A 4mam.
Do. dor ^gan$^ (lic), two deaiers,"
I remember nothing correspotidiiis to tiif a
England ; but, in one sense, anloukb her^ wcr
proceeded against in cases of their ItilHtie, aeek
dentally or otherwise, a human beitis. Ai| 6i
instance, if a horse should strike bis keeper^ aad
so kill him^ the horse was to be a deodktmL Bf
was to be sold, and his price given to tlie poor, b
expiation of the calamity, and for the ftmsetti^
of the divine wrath. J* Doitf;
IH'oceedings against animals, wilii nil Icmll^
matities, did occasionally take plar * ^^^^m J
Pigs were tried and burnt for assa s^ fl
ing children, and horses also for killuig peu^ji^va
one was at Dijon, in 1389, for ktUiag ^ mmm,
Bertrand Chassan^, President of the l^mBmmm
of Provence, defended the rats who were iftffMft
even so late as the be^jinning of the Jtl^fiw^hA
century. In a work which he publiahcij
he decides that animals are amenable l
and gives accounts of indictments agsutsft
bugs and snails at Autun and Lyons, and
celebrated "Cauae des Rata,*^ in wbiiii
counsel for the defendants. A treatise wu
lished, even so late as 1668, by Gaapard Bi
lawyer at Chambery, on le^ proceedings i
animals ; with forms of indictments, ^dTaic
pleading.
Such trials have taken place in T
An account of one of these trials, c
published in a pamphlet ; from whicu j r apj,^
that the trial took place near Chichester iji 1771^
and that the chief actors in it were four oos
gentlemen named Butler, Aidridge, Challim,
Bridger. A clever burlesque of thia trial
written by Edward Long, Esq., Judge of the Aik
mlralty Court in Jamaica ; but it waa foitiidttd 00
fmU Such proceedings appear strange Co fi% aai
may seem unaccountable ; but tbey w«r«, aftor ol^
but a grave and formal mode of prooeeditig; ftr
the end which is attained in our day« by a man
BUDMnary process,— the destniction of atiirmd^ who
have been tlie cause of death, or icrioua iitjiify Oa
man. There was no oeijafioa to throw out Ifto
gratuitous supposition, that the clergy institutod
the^c trials from pecuniary or inii m^
tiyes. I hud hoped that we sIj> ,j poinod
with such inainuations in the iu>crai t>ij|«i oCj
3^S.V. Vau.I^'MJ]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
219
*
I
I^WTS MORBIS.
(a** a T. 12, 85, 142.)
My attention haa ju3t been called to a Query,
by H. IL, in one of your January numt>ars ; and
also to what purports to be »n answe^ thereto^ by
a gentleman sii^tnjr: himself L-^urus.
As H, H/i Queries are really unanswered, you
will allow me to say in reply to the first, that, to
the best of my belief, notolng ia now known of
the existence of »uch a pedigree aa ia spoken of
by Lewis Morris in Lord Teignraouth's Life of
Jones. However, on looking through the coDec-
tion of Lewis Morris*^ manuscript works in the
Library of the British MuseuDi, I find sereral
apparently authentic pedigrees of various anoea-
tora of hifl, written by hb own hand i one bj the
mother's side, tracing deacent from a prince, or
chieftain, named Madoc Goch. Perhaps one of
these may show the aUeged connection between
Lewi* Morris and Sir Wiliiam Jones. Lewis
Morris's lineal descendant is the gentleman of
that name who will be found holding a distin-
guished position in the Oxford Class List for 1855,
or 1856 ; and who is now, I believe, pra<;tising
either at the Common Law or Equity Bar.
With regard to L^nus. I am afraid some
patriotic Welshmen will be a little shocked at
finding their idol* the patron of ** Goronwy '* — the
Miecenas of contemporary literature — described
80 having succeeded in obtaining a situation in
the custom-house at Holyhead. The fact is, that
if he ever held such a position, he speedily emerged
into what was then the yetj important and lucra-
tive post of Government Inspector and Surveyor
of Mines in Wales ; and his reports as a public
aenrant are sUll, as I have reason to know, con-
sidered by the crown ofiicials as authorities on
the subjects to which they relate. Moreover, he
was twice married — on both occasion.^ prudently ;
and by the latter* marriage he obtained, through
his wife, the estate of Penbryn, in Cardiganshire,
where he resided till his death. Nor perhaps is
it a sufficient account of his intellectual position
to say, that he was connected with literary pur-
suits in Wales. The fact is, that he is stiU con-
sidered in Wales to have been a man of extraor-
dinary intellectual power. As an aDtiquary he
was so djstin|ruisbed a scholar, that his unpub-
lished work, "Celtic H«>mains,'* is supposed to
have created more than one reputation. His
Webb poetry is thought to have the true poetic
ring, and is quoted to-day by manv a homely
fimide in Wairj. And his acscomplishments in
es and music were ooosidered wonderful in
' • — whose time was always taken
;il work. As to his quarrels
men, I <lare say huTn-" "•^*vre
not • uged within the la
ucard of (beitL. As tu .. t,^^.. ,
with reference to irregidarities in his accountt, of
which Ljfiuus finds no aceoont in any recogniaed
writer— but with regard to which he haa seea^ in
some " Welsh magazine," *' curious'' statements-^
I can only say ihat^ with some knowledge of
Welsh literature, they would be to me extremely
** curious *' if they were true^
H. H., if he wishes for real knowledge of Lewis
Morris and his character, will find it in a com-
pendious form in the chapter devoted to his
"noble character," by Mr, Borrow, in his recent
work, Wild Waie»* His picture is now at the
W'eLsh School at Ashford, of which he was a
benefactor. Many of his works, and of those of
his brothers Richard and \^llliam — both distin*
guished acholara~-are to be found under the head
'•'■ Morrifilan Manuscripts ** at the British Museum.
Cambkujc*
There is a discrepancy as to time and place of
birth between the memoir of Lewis Moiria quoted
by L,aEij:us, and that given in the Cambrian
BefriiUr for 1796. L,si.ii7« says, that his ac-
count of Morris was drawn up by D afy dd Ddu
Eryri; and by it we are informed, that Lewis
Morris was born, on March l^, 1700, in tlie
parish of Llanfihangel Tre*r Beirdd, in the Isle of
Anglesey. According to the Cambrian Be^sUr^
he was born in the aibresaid island, at a village
called •• Pentrew Eirianell," in the parish of Pen-
ros Llugwy, on the first day of March, 1702. He
was married twice : first, on the 29th of l^£arch,
1729, to Elusabelli Grifiiths, heiress of Ty Wrayn,
near Holyhead ; of which marriage were bom a
son and two daughters. His second wiie was
Ann Lloyd, heiress of Penbryn, in Cardiganshire i
at which place he died in 1765, and was buried at
LLanbadarn Vawr, in the aforesaid county. I^ine
children were the ofispring of this second mar^
riage, via« five sons and four daughters. At the
date of the memoir, there was only one son living,
the third of the second marriage : *^ William, now
living Q796) in Cardiganshire. He is engaged in
republishing his father^s Suroeif of ike CmuI qf
Wales, with additions ; and is also bringing out
his own Map of Andesey,"
This is the ** William Moiris of Gwaelod, near
Aberystwitb," who gave ray copy of Cambria
Triumpham to the Hon. Robert Fulkc Greville*
Colonel Greville was bom either in 1800 or 1801;
and as be was, doubtless, of full age when Mr.
Morris gave him the book, it would show that the
latter was alive a i^ood way on in the present
century « A son of his may be now living. I
made a mbtake when I stated that Lewis Morris
became the owner of my copy of Cambria Trium-
phofu one hundred and two years after it^ publi-
cation. X should have said nmety-two year$ : the
book having been published in 1661.
Jomr Pavnr PKimpf .
220
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[&'<!& V. MAK.tlp'^
WniTMottE Familt (3^^ S. v. 159 )— Your cor-
respondent aays, that ** three places in StaflTord-
sbire muj have originated thi* as a fftmily name,
vix., Whitmore, near Newcastle-under-Lyme ;
Wetmore, in the partah of BurtOD-on-Treut ; and
Wildmore, in that of Bobbington^ the last running
into Shropshire." Buf, rs regards this last place,
your correspondent ia not quite correct ; and, as
the correction of his mistake (such ns it 15) may
tend to strengthen his surmise. I here note it,
Wildmoor is a spot on the Staflbrdshire aide of
the high range of ground, called Abbots Castle
Hill* between Claveney and Seisdon, and is about
a mile and a half from the boundary of the parish
of Bobblngton, a small portion of which parish is
in the county of Salop, It is just at this spot,
within Shropshire, and on the outskirts of the
parish of Bobbington, adjacent to the parish of
Clarcrley, that we come upon one of those better
class of form-houses which may, at some previous
time, not improbably have formed the residence
of II squire's younger son, if not of a squire him-
self. This aubstuntial house, with its banu and
Btables, and outlying buildings, its four cottages for
workmen^ and its well-stocked farm, is that same
" Wyttmore within the manor of Claverley, Salop/*
to which your correspondent refers as having been
held by the Whitmores in the reign of Edward I.
On the ordnance map the place is marked as
** Whitimore;" but it is locally pronounced Wit-
tymere. Mr Whitmore, of Apley, is the patron
of the parish m which Whitimore is situates.
CUTHBERT BSDE.
TsousBBS (3** S. V. 136.)— I believe the word
Trousers, in its present signification, is not more
than eighty or ninety years old. The following
quotation from " The Tnte Anti* Pamela; or^
Memoirs of Mr, James Parrtf^ of Rou^ in Here-
fordshire^ in which are in.sertcd His Amours with
the celebrated Miss of Monmouthshire* 12rao,
1741,'* — a disgusting memoir of the last century,
seemt to show that m 1741 an article of dress^
entirely different from that now in use, was in*
dicated by this word : —
** I fliipt down tbi Garden BtaLrs with my Trowzera •
attny hcel^** p. 188,
The word Trowzers has a star attached, and
this note at the bottom of the page : —
** •Trowzera arc commonly worn by thow Uiat ride
post down into the Norths and arc very worm ; at thu
same time ihcy keep the Coat, Breeches, &c, vej-y clean
bj being worn over tbem,'^
In later days the articles of attire Mn Jnmes
Farry here describes were called overalls.
This book contains a few other sentences worth
extracting, «* /r< * —
** Tbit woman ..... hated me worse fhtti a Quaket
doca ft Parrot."— P. JO,
** la the Spring of the year 1732-8, the ^mall Pox
bfoka out at Btm^ aad prov'd Yaij Altai, so that Mies
and her mothtr bardlv ever itiir'd oat of doors»
Tije old Ltttly stuff'd all the windows witli Tobicoi
DuF^t, In order to keep out the infectious elr . , . , t * I
carried daily a large Bundle of Hue in 017 Ppf.**^
P, 81 82
« He told me he had been buying a iiijt of GMAa
trimmM with Frosted Buttons* at Kicholna FiohcrX lat
Nichulus navi^iffd htm .... to have the luit lined lift
white ShagreeD."— P. 129.
"Weir, mv dear, »id I, it is oeedleMs oryii^
•bed milk/ — R 181.
" The bouic that Mm. P. liv'd in was IntiU ^ wgti
and plaiater'd over, then painted in imitatioci of
-P. 134.
'^ A fiercer look than any of the Tancolonuvd Detli
which are painted upon the Church Windows of Tug§gi
in GIoucestcTfihire." — P. 504.
** Well, tbink."^ I, if I muit go over tU« H«rrtiif-FMt
there h no avoiding it." — P. ii4<J»
" Mri. J— s, whom I hate worae than a Mag]ij« tei
Tood."
GlIMt.
Harriet LiVEttMoaB (3*^ S, t. 35.)^ — Th«Mf
is now (January, 1864) Jiving in PliiUdelpliia
St, I
BiGBT Motto (^'^ S. v. 153.)^ — Tbert lauih
little doubt, 1 think, that the motto " Nal W
unt/* refers to the Supreme Being. Cam|isftai
foUowin*; ideas : — " None other God b«tt «»*
(1 Cor. viii* 4) ; " None good but otic, thii k,
God*' (.Matt. xix. 17); and many similar
Wyxne E ■
FEM;tLE Fools (3^* S. iv. 453, 523.) — 1 1
that tlie earliest female jester was Iamb€* wh
Queen Metanrra consigned as a merry cot^
to Geres, when the latter wob lookinp;^ for ,
pine. The Har paste of Seneca's wife's IioiimIi
vf&s a poor idiot, who took the darkness of \ "
nesa for that of ni^bt. Theodora, befura I
came the wife of Justinian* was famoua
way in which she acted buffoon characters.
cola la Jardiniere, who was with Mary Stuart, I
been the folte (»f Catherine de Medici, la \
** Diversoria** (CoUoijuUs of Erasmus) we £ad
that female jesters were kept in the "ti: -* f .yoef
to bimdy jests with the sojourner^ fU-
Grand-Duoheas Catherine of Kussia li<4.. » ; uaM
girl for her jester. The male jester has not died
out in that country. The Dowager Docboat of
Bolton (natural daughter of the Duke of MaOi*
mouth, by Eleanor Needham), undertook to ]
the jester to George L, whom she co
amused by her affected blunders and capii
Lady Bridget Lane Fox, daughter of the 1
Chancellor North ingt on, did the same
Georp; IIL and Queen Charlotte. The
female fool atill ejtbts. Mrs. Edmund Hociibj
found a very efficient one, in 1858, in tbo hmre«ai
of Kiza Fasha^ at Conalantinople. How tiiia jcitar
kept the hareem in hitoiious laughter by ber hM.
wit, A. J* M* may Icom by consulting Mra. Iloftt-
bj*s book| In and abofU Siambtrid,
s^s-v. MAB-isv-et]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
I
Renders of the Frcndi debates will perceiTe
tbat the Euaperor lb ere retains an ofHcial jester,
in the person of bis illegitimate brother, M. de
JHorny. When an opposition speaker becomes
troublesome, M. de Momj interrupts him by
quips and jokes, or simulated angry words, either
of which produce those rires prolongh duly re-
corded by the Momieury which show that the
office has been happily ejteouted. J. Dora.k.
The Sea or Gulsb (Z^ S- v. 155.)— I find, in
Pole's Synopsis, extracts from the writings of
Grotius, Ritcra, and Gomarus ; suggesting the
same idea so beautifully rendered in the lines
quoted by Oxoxiemsis : —
** Hoc mare vitreum dicit — quia D€ii9 et actionem et
eo^iUitii popiiil perspicJt, ut rect^ judicet et reddat nni-
raiqne socundam opera ejiu." — This from GrotiuM and
Ribera.
" Solum et quasi pavimeDtum eieli bealorum, perquodt
quasi per mare vttream et crxntallinum* Deui onmia qua
in tern sunt cooipioit,** &c — From Gomartu.
The idea of the "sea of glass*' (Rev. iy. 6) re-
flecting the scenes on earth, seems to be merely a
poetical fancy, based neither on Scripture nor on
ancient exposition. The Fathers regarded the
crystal sea as a type of baptisin, shadowed forth
by the molten sea in the Jewish Temple. One
Protestant commentator, Gomar (Ap, Poli Su'
nopM. CriL)^ speaks of it as being, as it were, the
pavement of heaven, through whidi men*s lives
on earth were watched. This is the nearest ap-
proach to the thought in the poem which I can
discover. W, J. D.
The O&nBB of the Ship in Fbamce {Z^ S. v.
117.) — A long account of the foundation of this
Order will be Ibund in Favine s Theater of Honour
and Knighthood (English translation, London,
1623, pp. 355—364). St. Louis s first voyage to
Egypt was from Marseilles, th/n belonging to the
Count of Provence, August 25, 1248, On his re-
turn, he built a port and haven in Languedoc, bo
that he might depart on a second voyage firom a
port in his own territories : —
*♦ For the greater animating and encouraging the No-
biliti© of France, in attempting Ibis Voyage over the
Sttas with him, as a new Recompence and Priae of
beoour (besides the two Orders of France, then ia full
pride mid requeat, of the Stam and of the Browne
/Iwiiy). be inntituted a third, particolftrly for thia laal
Voyager the aabject and clrcamtlaAcea whereof wero
reprnaciited by the collar of this Order, called of the Ship,
and baaging at, the lower end thereof."
Job J. B. Wobjuuid.
Oath "Ex Officio" (3^ S. v, 135.) — The
nature of this oath is more fully set forth in a
previous Act (16 Car. L, c. 11, s. 4), whereby it
was enacted —
•• That BO Ardibiihop, Bishop, nor Vicar Genera^ nor
soy ChaaceUof, Official nor C{>aiiiuMiry of any Arch- ,
bishop, Biahop, or Vicar General, nor any Ordinaiy what-
soever, nor any other Spiritual or EccletiastJcol Jadg«,
Officer, or Minister of JujitieB, nor any other person or
persons wbataoerer, exercising Spiritual or Ecclesiastical
Power, Aathority, &c. . . . shall award, impose, or
ioflict any pain, penalty, fine, &c., apon any of the Kiog^s
mbjecti for any contempt, miademeanor, crime, &cl, &-
longing to Spiritual or Ecclesiastieal cognisance or jtuis-
diction, or maS ex officio, at the inttance or /nromohbit of
any other Perton whalaoever, urge, enforce, tender, ^ve,
or minister unto any Churchwarden, Sideman, or other
person wlsataoeyer, any Corporal oatk, teherehjf he or tht
shall or may be chargedt or obliged to make any prttent*
ment of any trime or offence, or to eon/tm, or to atcutie
hitntelj or hertelf of any Crimet offenoe, deliaqaency or
mlidemoanor, or any neglect, matter, or thing, whereby,
or by reason whereof, be or she may be liable or exposed
to any cetutire, pain, penalty, or punishment whaterer.**
As to the oath £X officio^ see Gibson^s CodeXf
tit. 44, c. 4, p. 1010, of the 2nd edition, 1761 '
and 12, Lord Coke's Reports, 26.
Job J. B. WosjLamx),
Thb Vebb **to LiQuoa'* (S*^ S. v. 133.) —
Tour correspondent J. C. LurDaar seems to dass
this word among " Americanisms^** adding, " It ia,
of course, confined to the vulgar.*'
Nevertheless»wefindold Anthony Wood telling
us, nearly 200 years ago, in his Athena Oxunienses,
that, on the occasion of a Mr. James Quin, an
Irishman, who san^ a fine bass, being presented
to Oliyer Cromwell at Oxford, that he might pro*
cure the Chancellor's pardon for some college
irregularity —
■* Oliver, who loved a good voice and instrumental
moiic well, heard him with great delight, and Hqwrr^d
him with sack, aayiog. ' Mr. Quia, you have dona very
well, what shall I do for you ? ' &c. &c"
The word is to be found in almost all our
modem dictionaries as a verb ^* to drench, or
moisten."" R. S. Daoosit, D.D.
Customs of Scotulwd (3'* S. v. 153.)— »* Fig-
one'" is a mixture consisting of ale, sliced figs,
bread, and nutmeg for seasoning ; boiled together,
and eaten hot like soup. The custom of eating
this on Good Friday is still prevalent in North
Lancashire, but the mixture is there known as
" fig-sue," the origin of which term I am unable
to make out. The dish is a very palatable one.
vv: p. w.
WiujAic Djsix, D.D. (3** S. v. 75.)^! happen
to have access, at this moment, to the register
book of the parish of Dr. Dell, Yelden (not Yel-
don), sometimes written, and still pronounced
Teilden, an abbreyiation of its old form YeveLj or
Gevel-dean. The following exceqita therefrom,
relating to members of the Dell family, may prove
not unserviceable to your correspondent, and an
aid of your editorial note : —
" Tne Register for the Births of Children in the
Toune of Yelden " has, for its first item, the na-
tivity (for the rite of baptism is subordinated het<i
222
NOTES AND QUERIES.
I9^&v*mjkwui%*u.
QTitil after thie Bestora^oo) of one of this rector's
childrcQ : —
** An: 1653, De<%jnU: IB, Aonm Dell, tbe dngtiteir of
WUliAm Detl and AUrtiia his wife was borne.*'
It alflo records —
••Anno Domini 1655, Bbje tlu) 16lb, NathAniel D«ll,
SQtme of Willim Delt, recior» and MnrtbA hh wi& waa
*Aimo Domini 1656, fTebniiiry tha 10tli, MAiy Dell,
dtngbtof of WiUiam Ddl o&il Matthew (tic !} lik wife wiks
boniA."
From "" The Begitter for Burialls in the Tonne
of Xelden/* we have these further statistics Del-
Domini, 1655, July the 6th, NAthanael Dell,
flonne ofWUltm Dell, rector,* and Martha his wife woa
hurred.
•• 165G, JontMUT the 12tb, Sttrojioil Dell, aonne of WU-
Liam Dell, and Matthew (tCenun) hia wife woa bnrjfed."
I should be glad to be informed whether the
puritanical doctor « tomb in the spinnejr at Wes-
toning be an extant memorial. No note of it
oocurs in Tymm*s useful Topography^ and I hare
not Cooke's to refer to. R. Lxm.
Martin (f^ S. v. 154.) — Amon^ the numerous
ponetsors of Alresford Manor and inhabitants of
Alroifacd Hall were Matthew Martin, who died
July do, 1749, and Samuel Martin his eon, on
whose death the property fell into the hands of
hiB brother Thomas, a barrister. (Morant's ffitt,
of Esiexy L 453.) The vocation, arms, family,
and other useful and interesting information arc
given in Morant^s £j«ez, vol. ii. 188, Hteq,
Wtkhb E. Baxte*.
Tbb Fiest Paprb Miu* m Amsbica (2*** S.
IT. 105.) — The statement that the &rBt paper
mill in America was at Elizabeth Town, in New
Jersey, and that the second was at Milton, near
Boston, Mass*, is an egregious error that has been
perpetuated in nearly every standard work ou the
subject of paper- maJcing. The first was situate
m Boxburgh township, Philadelphia county, Fa.,
and was at the commencement owned by a conn-
pany or partnership, among the members of
which were Willinm Bradford William Bitting*
houscn [Bitten ho use], Bobert Turner, Thomas
Tresse, and other jirominent citizens of Pennsyl-
vania. WiiUtuu Kittenhouse and his son Claus,
or Niohulas, were the practical paper- makers.
Thw were Uollanders, and were Dutch Baptists
or Mcnnonists in their religious faith. Claua was
a preauher at the German Town Mennonist
church.
Thix paper-mdl was buOt in the year 1690,
and was in operation - -^ frty years before
the Elizabeth Town \x\ uiilUwere b**jrun.
1 have lately read bdt.i^ u*^ *.4.-u>rical Sucioty of
Pennsylvania an essay, sntitled HUloricd Skrtrh
* Sruad hy some retrlhotiv« hand*
a/the MiienhouMe Paner Mil!, ihtjir^i in AwmiuL,
sraelWf aj>. 1690. My e»?8ay i^ written esttftly
on paper made at tbis*fin*t paper-iuill by tbe im
paper-maker and his son, prior to the year IML
William Bradford, the first printer of Fmm^
vania, and the other middle colon ies, w^$ fiipfwri
with paner from this mill ; and Dr. FranktlD tls9
procured his paper from the same sotjree. TV
second paper-mill was erected in the yemr 171©
by another Hollander named William Da Wcea.
Both were situate near the Wissahickon Credk^a
tributary of the Biver Schuylkill.
I have a great variety of Americjui **ftfft
marks ; " and I propose to prepare an ttsay «
Pennsylvania paper marks. Further inibcmatiai
about the first paper-mill in Anaenca nav k
found in The Hisioriecd Magazine^ j^, toL l ff
123-4 (Boston); and also in Bishop's HiMtrۤ ^
American ManufaciMres : to both of which I 0S»*
municated the facta. This coramunicatli:>ii is in»
ten on some of the paper made At the first rf
prior to 1699, by Bitteabouse and his aoii.
HoaaTio Gatmb '
Philadelphia, Feb 1, WA.
GiAifTS AKD Dwarfs {V^ S. v. 34.)— AlBtt^
n urn's Museum in New York are now, Fcfe. I*
exhibiting four giants, which, or who, npr*^ *•
authority of the advertti*emcnt, are **
eight feet high, and weigh *' altogether *
teen hundred pounds." Also, ^* The 1.
King, fourteen years old, only twenty- 1
high, and weighs but seventeen pouncb,"
Ai;sTitiAN Motto: the Five Vowfita (3'*i
iv. 304,)— In the -i4f/a^ Qeographm, 1711, I
in a description of the Imperial Palace at *
that —
•* Over the gate f»f the pilace there are Ibe flvtt "^
A, E,1,0, IT, in r r the gate; toi
bmw given this AwKtHa- tm «■
HiutCT-wj 1, «., • *i.^ ... K^^rt of AH$tria to j
whole world;* bat 'tis not dtrtaia thai
meaniitg of tbe orchttecL"
A Utile further on, in the same book, in tla
account of Neustatt, or Neai)olis Auatrias^ ia Ibe
following ; —
** Orer the chief Gate, Civey bave the llv» i
Vowels, OS ovi^r tbe Pal nee at i^ttnna^ which tli#y
pret tlnii, AquUn ^Itcta. jugt* ommiu mncii, Lf* Tun Kifll
being chosen juitly. ovefcooes all.'* r
W* L 8. BoBTcis*]
a luiri
Common Law (3^^ S. v, 152.)-
♦* couimon law" has a genenit umt
signification. In its general
notes a law which extendi o\
in contradistinction to fi
are confined to particulu
In this fsense, it will evcit i
realm, {Co. litt 142a.) i:ia
the term was probably origin ally uppU^^d to a i
r
^& V. Mah. I^.^M.J
NOTES AND QITERIES-
223
ooainkon to all the re ■ ' t is, the ^*tf oom-
mvfie^ or folc-right e^ by KiDg Edward
the £ld£r, ai'ter he Wu A.ijut4alied various pro"
TiDcWU eufltomi aad pmicalar laws. (B/o* (7£>n.
b7 Coleridge* J. §7.)
In ita partieolar Bignifi cation^ the common laur
comprises, L General cuetomSf or unwritten laws
which ejttend over the country generally; 2. Par-
ticular customs, or those which are confined to
particular districts and persons; 3. Particular
lawFf or those which are admimstered in par*
ticular courts.
1. The common law is defined as lex rum icripia
in opposition to lex seripta. This is a particular
signincation of the common law.
5- It is opposed to such part of the ciril and
canon law as it does not recognise, because foreign
laws, aa auch^ have no force in this kingdom.
3. It Is opposed to equity in a particnlar senee.
Equity is a suppletory system^ which wa« es-
tablished in later ages to enforce xighta which the
common law did not, and does not now, recognise,
0Bt aqiiity is not altogether opposed to the
oooNnon law, for in many cases the maxim ^qui'
las seauitur legem hoUlfi good.
4. The iex mercatoria^ or law merchant, though
it may be distinguished from the common law in
the general sense of the term, is part of the
common law of England, in the same way that
other particular customs and laws are parts of it.
The connection between the general and par*-
ticular sense of the term common law is now
rather remote. The introduction of equity, and
the incorporation into the old common law of
particolar customs, the lex tnercotoria^ and parts
of the civil and canon law, necessarily intrench
upon the term " common." But I should think
that the common law of England may at the pre-
sent day be defined with moderate correctness, as
thatsystem of unwritten law (as opposed to equity
and statute law) which is administered in coorts
of juaticef and prevails through the kingdom.
^ ^ W, J. Tux.
St* Makt Mattelok (3"^* S. v. IGl.)— Will
yon admit another note on this vexed question ?
I am not familiar enough with Arabic to say that
it nowhere contains a form from which Blatfelon,
in the sense of paritnra^ can be derived : but what
I^kaow of most of the cognate languages con-
vinces me that it is not derived trom any offkhoot
of the root ycthidy *^^i : it might come from the
root naphaly ^|jj, and in fact we have a word
from that root in Syriac, signifying an untimely
btrtht an abortion. I have iar more sympathy
Mb. Wax-cott's view, and had copied out a
IS passage bearing upon it from Dr* R. C. A,
s Popular Nameit of BriHnh Plants, p. U7.
will not now send it, but I earnestly beg those
I who can refer to it to do so, to see what vagaries
this word Matfelon has played. And y^i^ I do
not think the church of St, Mary Matfelon owed
its name to the plant except indirectly. The
case I take to be this : In the middle ages, the
plant Mat/don was believed to be useful for
softening and haBtcning the removal of hoih :
hence it is a compound of the old verb fnaiery
to macerate, and felon^ a boU. Probably a St.
Mary (which I know not) was famous ws ooQu-
pying the same province of " Leechdom ; " and
what more natural than that some one, who as-
ciibed the removal of a terrible /e^ibn to her kind
offices, ihould found the Whitechapel of St Mary
Matfelon ? The old explanation of " felon-slayer
is doubtless verbally correct, but its sense has
been lost sight of. B. IL C.
GRnMnau> Hotn (S'* S. v. 115.) — Is not this
connected with the old Saxon (?) name of Grim-
bald? One Grimbald was Abbot of Hyde in
Alfred's time; another was famous in the six-
teenth century, and others exist in our own day.
B. H, a
p*. JoHH WiGAW (3"* S. V. 37.)— Br. John
Wigan and my maternal ^reat- grandfather were
two of the sons of Dr. William Wigan, Vicar of
Kensington, who is mentioned as such in Bishop
Kennett's Rtf^ister. I have an admirable portrait
of Dr. John Wigan, kit-cat size, painted xxwsiblj
by Hogarth, and by his side, on a bookstand, b a
volume lettered " Friend's Opera." I possess also
his diploma, signed by Sir Hans Sloane, as Pi^*
sident of the College of Physicians, and a few of
his letters, written" in a more or less hnmorons
rein, from Jamaica, Dr, John Wigan went out
as physician in ordinary with his college fr-icnd,
Mr., afterwards Sir Edward Trelawny^ when he
was appointed Governor of Jamaica. Sir Edward
was son of Sir Jonathan, one of the seven bishops.
Tlie two friends married two sisters, daughters
of the principal planter in the island, and Dr.
W'igan appears to have died tnancipiis hcttplf^, as
shown by the inventory of his efiects, taken for
the purpose of administration.
Ii OxoNi£:Ngi8 wishes for any further inform-
ation, may I refer him to you for my name and
address? W, Wigan H .
Come BOHGS TRANSLATBP (3'* S. V. 172.) —
Latin translations of " Billy Taylor *' and of
" One night it blew a hurricane,** are appended
to the second edition of JoHannis Gilpini Iter^
Latinc redditum, which was published by Vincent
at Oxford, in 184L
If this bo the translation of *♦ Bil!;r Taylor/
after whicli your correspondent Tis inquires, I
have the best reason for Vnowing that it was not
made by the Kev. C. Bigge, uiou^h, curiously
enough, the original of the two additional verses
was given to the translator by the late Venerable
£. T. Bigge, first Archdeacon of I*ln5l\s£^x't^^.
For the name of the transktor I beg to refer
your readers to two RepUes on " Oxford Jeux
d' Esprit," at voL x. 431, and vol* xl 41G» of your
First Series. C, W, Bingham.
Several tronsktions of coimc pieces may be
found in the Anmdines Cami*
a F. S. Wasebf.
Tis may see tranaktions of several comic songi
among the Beliques of Father ProuL X* Y. Z.
Mr. Kelly, publisher, Grafton Street, Dublin,
bas printed for a student of Trinity College, Latin
and Greek versions of "The Ratcatcher's Daugh-
ter," and **Wilikm9 and hU Dinah." They are
very clever and amusing, far in advance of" Stak-
kos Morphides of OTrulkghan." A. B.
IifQuifliTioNs V. Visitations (3"* S. v* 154*) —
The InquiBition represented Robert, Lord de
risle of Rougeinont (1357—1399), as having died
unmarried. The Visitation Book of 1623, named
a son of his, William, Hipfeus seems to trust the
Inquisition rather than the Visitation. Nicolas,
quoting Dugdale, says that Robert was summoned '
to Parliament in 1357 and 1360; but never after*
wards, nor any of his poMterittf^ — " therefore (saya
Dugdale), I shall not need to pursue the story of
ihem any fiirther;** but (adds Nicolas) ** the
Barony muBt be deemed to be still vested in his
deMcemania and representatives." The words I
hare put in italics would seem, perhaps, to justify
the record of Visitation, rather than that of In*
quisition. The barony of Aldeburgh, of Hare-
wood, the possessor of which was the husband of
Bobert's sister Elizabeth, had the same fate as
that of Robert de Insuld de Rubeo Monte. WU-
Ikm de Aldeburgh left a Intimate son, aged
thirty, at his father's death, in 1388 ; but the son
was never summoned during the three remaining
years of his life. Both baronies are now in
abeyance. J* Dohan.
P.S* I observe that, in making out a census of
the peers, some doubt is expressed as to whether
''* Auckland '' should be reckoned as a bishop or an
earl. Here h a precedent. John, Baron de
Grandiaon, succeeded hia brother Peter in 1358.
John had been Bishop of Exeter since 1327 ; he
sat in Parliament in nght of his episcopal dignity,
and was, consequently, never summoned in hia
barony. He left o nephew as his next heir ; but
be waa never summoned, and this barony is olao
in abeyance.
Nattkb (3^ S. V. 125, 184.) — Though, very
probably, the Anglo-Saxon name of Nadre^
whence the German NtUUr^ and our Adders waa
finit given to the snake-famiW with reference to
their creeping position, from the word *' Nrther^
or Niihtr^ Down, downward, Wow'* (Boiworth),
still, the name once glvcn^ how easy would be its
transference to other qualities of the bateiixl teibt^
so as to be associated with the idea of penom^ kt.
Thus Natter-jach might represent Poijon-jaicJk^ ad
express a part of his character, which is not, I
believe, quite attributable to the malice of ha
enemies. C, W* Binouak.
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betf.
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cvt. 1614, foL
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Surttei SockC7'i PublicaUoDi^ A oompkle 9>(.
F«r^ Bodotf '■ PabUewtJooti—
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Vol. Xi. No. I. aucctsomi vmam «■■ Mi7io» Pbobimi i
No. 8. E^LinLr JSawAS. Bmaaim or Ehoxawo.
Tmv Camri^rwr or Bnm^MO. LCffleb'l edlUoO,
Wuted by Mr. Jtu. MaekAtm, il. 81. VUboeal atrect. ai
fiatifftf t0 Cirrrr^iiiinlTtiittf*
Owiitg to tUm reipdttmmt* qf ff^ advo^i»inff fritnd*^ kv are
9 omil oMr 2rete» OB Sboli.
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" tmmv
Mat. Dte*
P. W, 8, W« ham mH »«« tm L>'UtamAimlx9 das (
Cojiiiox) on Note* and Q,ii«ri«* Fnia«iilMi hu daaif mae^m
ihnmvk M«mv. WiWam* and I^orfni*.
\<^l, Fart L pp. «•« 114, amd »!«.
** ....... If othiat ta Ilk Uft
Became Mm U^ the lesTtnc iV-af^^delA, AM 1. Ba. 4.
Beajrm QoBatu. Thett thall Ik ititen^d ifthi
lAcm vkert tKa amtte«rv art tff U wnit. AU owrfe
„„. . , _ owrfee f^mfmettmg $m
indimdmah mwA imMtrt giv*^ OU In/WmaKfln.
Ew S. T. " The Imm ittRkhmamd HiW* wu fih« jMrorfMcDiM aT W
Vftcm^amdtKttfrHpnKhctdMamtfmd/^vwfHMmmm
Thtl^sM.mtkfiAt.wtuaMalkt^fiagvtantit'deiam. rl4b*1V.a
tod 8. U. «t xL for.
U jrtm'» UmvmtaiA Aaf B^m «
~ -tmm»$, fro. iriT-J/it, *<^
iril. tfitLlTe»o#U»f^ '
JCBVlwl.Ai new Pvit^wm* ptMiahtd «» 17I0,»to.
tBtL^heaA.imt*^«i>iidwvHued in 17H with mAppemkit.
Cuiot. T%< oJ<l rAynw ~
"When Our Lady fall* In Oar Lord'e l<p«
Tbcn^ E«igUi]4.be««j« of mkluipi"—
OlO Ma«74UTT.
/'our I'tgrtB mtd a Mq
r Day, mat to OoQii Friday, S** "Jf . * ^. 1
haaeivtm a Hrt qfth* #«ttn om wHtek Ae otd
the ComqmeH,
If 011Y1* a h
b»iiaiv«>-iihi e. T. p^ 110,0^. u. umii j^ *'0flaik-w«iii
rmad ** H«vli Wul«-Q«97/'
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J
S^ & T. Kab. 19, '$*,]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
SSfi
LOKDOX, SATUHDAY. MdRCU 19, im.
I
CONTENTS,— N*. 116.
HOrBSt — 1iVlir*ii wu Bliftkspere Bom? 22S-'Ad uttempi
to ajHaertftin the Kind of Hulk in which Prospero, Duke of
MilAn, was set Adrift, aa«— Ttie Stratftord Buit of 8hak-
fip^rc, 227 -- 6h^ki|MAnAiti, CSS — Tb« Second Shttkapearo
Folio. l<53*. 2?W — l^«c»a|rc !n "Cvmbpllw " t^i —'Morxntxntk
and Eljr ■ " ' r T - Hymns
b» the 1 * ion« to
of the M» rinajd — i/l-irgK^s — 1 Uoujas Anunis, anait wel-
howte» 238.
QtlBBIES: — *'Ad efundem** Hoods^Anrm wnrit/xl— Sir
WiUiam BfTraford^ — Cunpotoofco's xm*' —
John Dinicl. und other earlV Flayem - ijfree —
••T»'" r;i,..r„ rr Ac. — Family of Good: . .. ], Hamil-
tf Query — Rev. Jauiua* K« tin* Li>— William
1, via — Joseph MMsie — RiTbos wanted —
Itu..^. i Lh — St John CUinachus— SotiR: *' la it to
try Qit)^ '— Sophodfli-'TheoerUui'Willa al LlaadaiT,
Qtn' ii AlTBWKRat — MUton'a "iimhto A. Sw and
Rt ^84r Biohard FonI — Aa Epitaph— Gut-
tr? ^ a TVative of Shored itoh—" Chough aiid
Crow — « Karaufik Odours — Bishop Pndeaux*s Portrait —
** Youug liovcll's Bridt%" 242*
BEPLIE8: — l*nri«h U^^in'.ur^ '?4.i — HnH-k mad Eotnan
Gamea. Ac.. 2 1 — Sir Robert
Vernon — Sor i »« Baiiphin —
Posterity ^f iL- ml Hi ►«•-.'* —
Harvej' F:m v.i;. — ' ' -
Quotatii'"' '.- H|t..j
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gram attribute to Fopti — Jeri.'iiDUAliliorrt>okii^ lh<i^A^Uo«
nomvT — Torriti^Q Family , Ac.. MB.
Kotos on Bopka. Ac
jl0tetf.
WHEN WAS SHAKSPERE BORN 7
(FrOim An Argummt on. the AiMumed Birthday of
I muii ii(YW)* in order to refresh the memory of
tbe render* give a reirospective sum mar j of facts
and fiction** with comments — the subjects being
BHAKSPEftc, William Oldys, esquire, Norroy-
king-aV-arms, tbe rcT. Joseph Greene, B,A., and
Edmond M alone, esquire.
Wii.LiAMf son of John Shakspere, was baptised
at Stralford'upoD'Avon on the 26 April 1564,
and died on the 23 April 1616 in the tirty-thlrd
year of his age« He was buried at Stratford on
the 25 April, and is described in the register as a
gentleman. — I rely on Malone, and have said no
more on Shakspere than the argument requires,
but cannot avojd rell-jcling on the proceedings of
this year. W' ith the utinost respect for the Lou-
don committee, I must crave leave to record my
opinion that et|uity ami cungruityare rather more
conspicuous in Warwickshire.
Oldjs had much experience in biographic com-
position, but he ai«serts that Shukspere was born
on the 23 April 1503, and that he died at the age
otS^t AD. 1616. — He converts the day and month
the decease of Shakspere into the day and
ath of hia birth ; contrddicts the parish register
the year of his birth ; and contradicts the
toonumeDtal inscription as to his age at the ttme
of decease. The assertions of Ohiys, testified by
his handwriting, have no other basis than his own
misconcept i ons*
Greene was for many years master of the grnm-
mar-school at Stratford, and therefore had the
means of verifying current reports, but be as
much as asserts that Shakspere was born in )503,
for he stfttea that he " died at the age of 53."
This statement was printed in 1759. At a later
date^ he added this note to the baptismal Item of
William Shakspere, in some extracts from the
Stratford register, which were published br
Steevens in 1773 — '' Bom April 23, 1564.** Thia
date was adopted by Malone in 1778, and bu
been repeated by numerous authors, native and
foreign, to the present time. Even those who do
not adopt it, condescend to notice it as troditioa
or reported tradition. — The assertions of Greene
are almost identic with those of Oldys, a circum-
stance which I cannot explain. But this I can
affirm : He was a reader at the British Mnseum
before 1772 ; transcribed the will of Shakspere for
his patron, Mr, West ; and may have consulted
the annotated Langhuinc. He names the birthday
of Shakspere without one iwrd of evidence ; con-
tradicts the parish register as to the year of his
birth ; and contradicts the inscription as to his
age at the time of decease,
Malone, as above stated, had precursors on the
birthday theory, but it was the reputation of
Malone that gave it currency. He afterwards
found time for inquiry. The proof appears in the
pofthuraous Life of Wtliam Shakspeare, 1821, S**.
He therein states that Shakspere was born pro-
habltf on the 23 April 1564, and admits that " we
have no direct evidence for the fact,'* In a note
on the Stratford register, which records the bap-
tism of Shakspere on the 26 April 1564| he writes
thus : " He was bom three dsys before, April 23,
1564. — I have said this an (he faith of Greene^
who, I find, made the extract from tbe register
which Mr. West gave ^Jr. Steevens; htd tjueere^
how did Mr. Oreene a»ctriain this facif* He
also says, ** for tfaia, as I conceive, his only autho-
rity was the inscription **■ — which affords no such
evidence! The sum of the above remarks is
surely equivalent to recantation, and I am jasti*
tied m asserting that Malone, on due reflectioD,
renounced the authoritv of Greene. Now, it was
on the faith of Mr, Greene that Malone had pro*
claimed in positive terms, and as his own con-
tribution to the life of Shakspere — ** He was born
on the 23 of April 1564.'' — I need not point out
the inevitable concluition : the stream cannot be
more pure than its source. In plain terms, Thji
ASSUMED nraTHDAY OF ShAKSP£BE 18 A FICTIOW.
In u short note, published on the 23 April 1S59,
I declared my persuaevon, on the evidence of the
inscription alone, that Shakspere ** waa born h^ore
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
[a»-i &. V. Mah. is^^
the 23 April 1564.** I must now declnre^ after
tracing the qaeslion through the printed evidence
of two centuries, that there is no subatanrial evi-
dence of a contrary tendency — btit, as Johnson
remarks, " Every man adheres as long as he can to
his own pre'conc^piioius'*
An the eulogist of Oldvf , some twenty-five years
sincei and also, at a later dnt^, of Malone, I
must not be taxed with prejudice or criiical harsh-
ness on this occasion. In fact, the discoveries
now announced have been a source of vexation to
me — but whichf once made, it would not become
me to suppress. Boltom Cobhst*
AN ATTEMPT TO ASCERTAIN TOE KIND OF
HULK IN WHICH PROSPERO, DUKE OF MILAN,
WAS SET ADRIFT
That the rotten carcass of a butt was an old
wine caskf is a supposition too ridiculous to be
entertained by any one whii baa seen sjdt water.
Had Shakspeare said tbi^, it would have been a
fiore point for ever, a tavern joke of which be
never would have heard the last; but he was too
good a sailor to have dreamt of such a thing even
at his slcepicHt, and the mention of the wanting
tackle, sails, mast, and rats shows that he did not.
But this bein^ set aside — and it bus been suffi-
ciently set aside by Mr, Dyce — there remains
the question whether the word \s a misprint, or
an unknown nautical term. For my own part^ I
had for long held the latter opinion, and for this
reaaun, that we find Othello saying : —
** H«ro U my journey *a end, here is my butt,
And Tcryiea'niarlL of my utmoat saiL*'
Act V. So. 2.
Now there is no reason of circumslance why
Othello the soldier should use or f^o off into a
sea-simile, unless this, that the sound of the word
butt, by the laws of association, brought vaguely
before his mind (that is to ShaknpeAre's fruitful
and versatile imagination) the idea of the sea,
and 50 led him to speak no longer of a land but^
but of a sea beacon. And this argument will, I
think, Appear the stmnger to those who have at-
tended to Shakspeare s language, because I think
it can have escaped none such that he has made
word suggest word (of course in subordination to
the leatliug thoughts or emotions), and phrase
sug^eat phi*ase according to the law of association
of ideas, and this not merely because he wrote
hastily, or because the ability to see an object
simultiiueously ia all its aspects and resemblances
was a leading peculiarity of hi* mind, but because
he wittingly and of |)urposc made use of thii law
knowing it to be a main law of extempore oad
xinpremeditnte^i ppticch.*
• The I,
• in King f^«iirt tome of which hav«
urn mtf aro wonilerful exam^^lM m%
My only doubt was, whether the word ww m
English sea-term, or one borrowed by Shak-
epeare from the Italian original, and u«ed a» ol^
words are used in other plays to friv<; a tool
colouring to the tale. It may yet tw fi.urul tr
have been English, but at present I '
found it in Italian, Looking in Vau^
Unio. d. L. Italtana for another word, I came wrga
whut I ought to have seen long ago, riz. : —
*' BoTTO, a nautical term* A kind of ^hJIIoC, Datii
or FJemiah, the after part of which is UuiU like a •flaji'
(In cqi poppa La la forma d*une flaato)/'
Turning thence to" Galea," I fotintl under hi
♦♦Galk-a orTA. Olandesc, Baatinaen to di caries ck
ha suir e.<itremita dcUa poppa una m«annett« coa m
ghisso cbc inaiemc col suo torn rimanc affjatto fiutri M
horde ; unti matstra a piffero con una randa ««1 uiufiMit
molta allunota ; uno striM^Uo di pnia all* Alberodi mtmifk
chc fa lo vcci di un trinclictto^ e dc* flocci a^kvra Q ^m-
presso."
That is to say, a Dutch galliot Is a merdtft
vessel with a small niizenmast stept far aft^a
that the boom and gaff of the small spanker^
ject in great part over the bulwarks, m sqcarc
Diainsail with a main topsail, a topsail, ft wt^l
to the mainraaat (there being no foremAat), wi»
forestaysail and jibs. A rig, in fact, sttxular l»
that of the old Welsh sloops. Now as to til
shape of the hull, Vauzon has said that tlie tftw
part is built like a iluyt, and he dej^cribea % fkjt
as a large Dutch cargo vessel with very roanM
ribs, very little run and Cattish bottom, the^ii
joining the keel almost horizontally, a sort <l|^Hri
of a thing ; and this agi-ees with the de«<»rii
a Dutch galliot just given me by a
knows them, they being round-stern
in build^ though good sea boats. A\ ua i
agreej? the word Botto, the root biitt
Italian and in our own boat, butt, vat> &<•..
the Portuguese botcLt along boat, signifying
thin^ rounded, and as it were, barreled
Lastly, the word " hustle," an article of fcmak
attire, and the old ^* buxzled," will erempitiy lir
change of the Italian o into the Englisii v.
There being, therefore, in the Italian liarboin^
or possibly lying on the beach, some old
hulk of this kind, t^o rotten to be tak^n ham^
to be even worth the trouble of breaking up^ tW
nobleman in charge of Prospero was orileiNi?d to
take it in tow, into mid-i^a and well out of m^
of laud, and then turn it adrift with Pro^nerD m
it Luckily for us, he was cast ashore at Laia|iir-
dusa. BRiivsLRr Nictio;
In the Mediterranean, off Algiers,
well as proofs of thi», the association ofidnaa
M would occnr not to a sane, but to a crmaed i
mam
itiy^j
arboin^fl
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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THE STRATFORD BUST OP SliAKSPEARE.
Of the value and importance of the Stratford
monumental bast, and of the Droeshout engrav-
ing— not na works of art^ but tLs trustwoithy
rep resenUU ions of Sbakspeare in his habit as he
lived, there can scarcely be two opinions. Tkat
the monumental effigies erected to the memory of
the illustrious dead were, in the majority of cases,
faithful likenefses, few can doubt. Few can have
stepped flora the south aisle of Henry VIL's
chapel, after gaasing upon the beautiful effi^ of
the unhappy Queen of Scot*, and then cost liis
e^e* upon the sterner features of her huccessful
nval, the great Elizabeth, without feeling con-
vinced that he had looked upon faithful Ukene&aes
of those remark iible women.
To the truthfulness of the likeness in the Strat*
ford monument we have the best evidence, as Mr.
DrcE has well observed, in the fact that it was
raided at the charge of Shakspeore'fi family, in the
laudable anxiety that the features of their illus-
trious relative should be known to posterity ; and
if the bust exhibits somewhat more than one
should ex[»ect of a certain ''^ bonhommie and good
nature," as Mr. Friswell declares it doea — and if
he is right in his assertion, that ** the cheeks are
fat and sensual " — it must be lemembered that
Shakspeore was not only the mighty genius to
whom we owe works almost divine, but that he
was foremost *' in the things done at the Mer-
ttiaid,** as if he had "meant to put his whole wit
in a jeat ;'* that Aubrey describes him ns a ** hand-
some and welUshaped man, very good company,
and of a yery ready, and pleasant, and smooth
wit;** that tradition asserts he took part in the
drinking bout with "piping Pebwortb and drunken
Bidford;'* Mbde >N ard, in his Diary, says his
death was hastened by a merry meeting with
Drayton and Ben Jonson. It should be added,
that the photograph of the bust, just published in
Mr. Frisweirs Life Portraits of WiUiam Shake-
spearey while it must be unquestionably a faithful
copy of the original, exhibits this joviality of tem-
perament in a i>eculiajly marked marmer.
The bust, as we now know, was the work of
Gerard Johnson; and as it is clear, from the
verses of Leonard Digges, that it must have been
put up before 1623, there can be little doubt that
it was placed in its present position as soon as
possible after the poct*8 death. Sir Francis Chan-
trey had no doubt, and his opinion deserves the
highest consideration, that it was taken from a
cast after death; but thought that the artist, in
chiselling the lower part of the face, had not made
titiftident allowance for the rigidity of the dead
muscles about the mouth, and attributed to tliis
error on his part tUe extraordinary length of the
upper lip. Hut whether it was executed from a
ca*t laket) after death or jiot^ there can be little
; doubt, OS I have sdd before, that it is a faithful
likeness of the poet.
I fully believe it to be so. Yet, at the present
moment, when so much i uteres t is felt in every-
thing connected with Slmkspeaie and his writings,
I have thought it right to record a tradition ou
the subject which has not, to my knowledge, ever
before been committed to paper. It is probably
without any foundation ; but it seems to me that
It ought, nevertheless, to be recorded for the use
of future inquirers.
In the year 1827 my late kind friend, Mr.
Amyot, introduced me to that accomplished anti-
quary and diligent illustrator of Shakspeare,
Francis Douce. When wc entered l\ospero*s cell,
in Gower Street, we found there Sir vVnthony Car-
I lisle. After some time, the conversation turned
on the recently imUialied Life^ Diary^ and Cor*
responfkncc tf Sir Willtam Dttgdale^ by which,
it will be reoicmbered, the name of the artist who
executed the bast was first made known, and
thence very naturally to the bust itself*. In the
I course of conversation. Sir Anthony Carlisle
stated ^und my impression is, that be then mcn-
I tloned the source from whii'h it had reached him —
! that he bad heard a tmdition that the Stratford
bust was not taken from any portrait of Shak-
fipearc, or from Shakspeare himself, but from a
blacksmith of Stratford- upon- A von» who bore a
remarkable resemblance to the bard.
I Mr. Douce shook his bead very doubtfully at
the story, which he said he bad then heard for the
I first time ; and, in the course of some after re-
I marks, ox pressed an opinion that it might have
' originated in some hoax played by that Puck of
commenta-tors, George Steevens, But it is a curious
circumstance, that a similar tradition with respect
to the portraits of Shakspeure was in existence as
long ago as 1759, as will be seen by the following
extract tVoni the GaUUmans^ Magazine, p. 3fiO,
It is contained in a letter, signed " J. S ," and
J dated from Crane Court : —
" Tbnt there is no gciiuine picture of Sbakapeare ex*
I isting, nor ever was; that calkti liis having been taken
long after Lis dcAth from a person supposed extremely
. like him, at the direction of Sir Thomas Clur^e^* ; «wid this
i 1 take upon me to a0rin ju an nlaolute fact '
I Since the foregoing was writti^n, I have had an
' opportunity (thanks to the kindness of Professor
I Owen) of seeing the curious cast^ soid to be that
of Shakspeure taken after death; and from which
Gerard Johnson is sujiposed to have executtfd the
bust at Stratford* Thwt it is a cast taken after
death, there is painful and unmiatakeablc evidence.
That anybody looking at it, withtjuL having been
told that it was Shakapearc, would at uU recog-
nise it as the face of the ^«^i^ V it^'^ww^v ^<st *a^x^.
moment \j€Vv<i\Q. liul \ Wn t W^^\ ^^'^^^^ ^^-^
owing to iU \Wcvii ^VwVe ^^ VV^ ^N^t.^'^^. ^^^
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NOTES AND QUEBIE&
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dissimilarity between sucb a cast and the ordinary
likenesses of dq iiidivlduuli Is very common ; and
ss 11 proof, it WHS added, that tlie cast from the face
of Napoleon is so unlike any of the existing por-
traitii of bim, ibat it is ditficult to recognise in it
bis well-known features. Judging from tlie cast
itielf^ I should uiit be disposed lo regard it as a
memorial of Shakspearc : for^ as Mr* Hain Fris-
well h;is well pointed out in his recently published
Tolimie (Life Portraits of SMkexpearej^ " it diflers
very widely from the bust said to have been
taken from it" The forehead is delicate and fine,
fully developed^ and^ though capacious, by no means
equal in size, to the foreheaci of the bust< The
maiik has a short upper lip, the bust a vary long one.
In the castf the nose is fine, thin^ and aquiline ;
in the bust it is short and fieshy. In the ca^t
again, the face is a sharp oval, the chin narrow
and pointed, and the cheeks thin and drawn in ;
while, on the contrary, in the bust the face is
blunt, the chin squan^, and the cheeks full, fat,
and aluiusi coarse* In short, if it were not pro-
fane to say SO) I should say that the cast was of a
higher and more intellectual character than the
bust. It certainly bears more resemblance to the
Droeshout engraving than to the bust.
Still, the cast is an object of great interest.
It wa* not brought forward by Dr. Becker with
any pecuniary views ; and if the history which is
given of it could be satisfactorily confirmed, it
would certainly assume the place of the most in-
terciiling memorial of Shakspeare, except His worktf
which ihti ravages of time have spared to us. It
IS said to have been originally procured in this
country by an uncesror of Count Kessclstadt, who
was attached to one of the ambassadors uccredited
to the court of J^me^ I,; imd who, being a great
admirer of the poet, it is siipj>osed, bought the cast
as a memorial of him from Gt.Tard Johnson. In the
year IM3 his descendant Count and Canon Francis
voo KedseUtmlt died at M aye nee, and in the same
year his collections were disposed of by auction.
Among the objects hoM was a small painting of a
csorpse crowned with laurel (dated 1637), which
Dr, Becker purchased in 1847; and then, hav-
ing learned the exiitence of the plaster of Paris
cast, after two years* inquiry, he succeeded in dis-
covering the broker In whose poftsession it was,
and becante the possessor of that also ; and was at
once sati^sfied that the picture had l>een painted
from such cast. On the burk of the cast ia ia-
scribed : '* -f A'' Dili. 1010."
Can any reader of ** N.& Q/' who is acquainted
fpifh -kitr r..rv,rJ< f Mruish cvidcncc of nv^' iu/'iiiJi.i3j-
of I ainily hnvin;*^ been ' o
a Or I _:!un to tliis country j:. ue
of Jame^ 1. Ir
Can any rcider of '* N. & Q.*^ fumiah satia-
factory evidence of the t?\ it teniae of such ttti ad-
'-•'jtiitm of :$hiiki*pt!uris in GennoDy «l m mAf
a period at would be likely to lead a
j wish to possess a memorial of him F
And may I be permitted to apmnd a (
I query upon a somewhat cognate subject?
tells us (hat Gryphius' Abmrria Catnica odtr Bm
Ptiter SmteitZy in which *' Peter Squeaa"
" Bulla Bottom" deiighte<l the German bug
loving public as Peter Quince and Bully
torn had amused English audiences, irs
proved form of the same comedy* trmcisU
Daniel Schwenler from the Droll publii
Kirkraan and R. Cox. Was Bcbweiiier*sl
ever published, and if so, where ? And
not an earlier Droll on the same aubja
found in the literature of the Low Carni
have a strong impression of having once j
reference to this Dutch version, before C
Cuttle enunciated his great ** Canon **
readera. Perhaps M. Delpierrb, or
gentleman well versed in the Hteratune of i
Netherlands, will kindly solve a queaiion «f a
slderable interest with respect lo the source cifti i
portion of the Mid^umtH^r Nights Dream la i
the mock tragedy of P^ ramus and Thisb* k i
duced, Wu^xoAM J. t«
P.S. Can the cast be, after all^ not of Shikn
speare, but of Cervantes, who died in If ' "
on the same day, it will be remembered, «•«
robbed us of Shakspeare? The date cm tbetv
would suit equally well, while the featura tr^l
think, more Cervantes-like than SlmkapetfiaB*
^fjaiiprartana.
FaasAGa ii« *^ Tuc T£Mr£ST." — IVay End «|H
in your Shakspeare Number to recuUl att«iiiioa la
the Old Corrector s admirable eiociidatAtui of 1^
vexed passage in 73i<? Tempesi : —
** fiat th«fle swqH tlimi^btJi do ever rtiimh my UbtOl
Moat bu»y, ktat wheu 1 do it."
The Old Corrector substitutes '* Bu8j*6J^ ht
^* busy, lea4t(;''* and though Mr. Singer, wlio W
suggested " most bmteni^"^ pronouncea •* bast
blest" the yery worst and most improbable rvnd*
ing of all that harci been suggested, I foe one ea*
tirely dissent from him. I1ie passage at atnendadr
** Ftut tb«M sw^t tlioughtj do «v«r rolttth way
Moat busy blc&t wUeii I da il^ —
conveys tomy uilu I a rI»-iiraod sirikincr nl
one who find»» tl
nfM pain : and i i
the text sfarc^dy le?<9 happy thun ihv s<
of ** abler** ior ** nobler** in Juiitu Cmsor^
*' baiter " for '* ha»te" in Tnwn qfAiktmi.
In the Athf^ntfum of January 9, 18G4« b n r^
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NOTES AND QUERIE&
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d tiiere is given tW different readinjia of tbe
mowf litus (as it U colled) from The Tempextj
ci III. Sc. '2, tpoken bf Ferdinand as m the
'irst Folio : —
•♦Bat th«30 sweet thoti^hu <lu even rcfreali ray Inbontv
Most ntJsiK LEST, when I do it/'
*rhese difTtjrent readings arc —
" ilost hunest when I do iL" {Hah IVtiUe.^
'* Mo9t bu^y least whan t du iL'* {Q>ltUr*a /Wtb.)
" J>a4ii^ AiiJiy when I do it.** (Pn/r)
** 3To*t AsMy &M whOQ I do it,*' (Oitfr/e.t Kni^ and
** Most bunf/Hi when I do iL" ( Staunim,)
With nil these readraga, I beg t^ suggest another,
which flppenrs to me /fte con^ct one : —
** Most buMUfd mh&n I do (t.**
That la, Ferdinand's sweet thought? of his sweet
mistress, whicli refreshed his labours were tnt^si
bfmied when he laboured for h«ir sake ; and for
this rcading^ we have the authority of Sbakspeare
himself In nomen and Juliet^ Act L Sc. J , in the
following lines : —
" I me&auring bis ftffectiona bj my owup
That moat arc ^iiisKd when they are most alone/'
Sidney Bblslt.
lAwrie Pork* Sydenham.
^* After sunset merrily.'*
Theobftld^s rending was Approved of by Hunter,
and I Hnd Macauky of the same opinion. Tbaa
writes the poet* historian : — " Who does not sym-
pathise with the rapture o( Ariel, flying after
sunset on the wings of the bat?"^" Ariel riding
Ihrougb the twilight on the bat." — MisceUaneous
WritingSy vol i. pp. 64/2*21. C\
**TwBi,FTH Night.'' —
aovn, " 1 did impeticot thy grotilHtr,*'
TuHtl/th Night, Act 11. Sr, 3.
With the change of one, or at most two letters,
I would read impiticoa or impitkote. In Florlo's
Quren Anitas Ntw WoM of WonUt we find the
libl lowing : —
" Fitocean^ to beg up ami down fbr broken |viecei of
meat or semps. Aliio to dodge and patter.
** Pitoccot an old crafty begigar, a niicher, a patcht*
coat beggar, a dodger, a patterer, a wraiit;lor."
Now, one distinctive obaract eristic of Feste is,
that he is a beggar over any other of Sliiik^peare'a
Clowns, and a piticcOj a crafty and patcbt-coatoiie.
" Would not two of these have bretl. Sir ? '* say.^
be, **aarl then tbe bells of St* Bennet, Sir. might
put yoti in mind— one, two, three ; and though it
please you, Sir, to be one of my friendft," &c. &c.
He, therefore, having observed what a mine Sip
Toby had in Sir Andrew, was minded to try to ex-
tract some of tbe ore for himself, and eonrlc^cend*
ing to the inteUigence of this Kobold, or gun rdian
apirit, endeavonr to propitiate him by so oh gib*
berlah as that of the Vapinns posing tbe ccjuinoo*
tials of Queubus, and the like. But what got he
for his pains? A paltry sixpence; just what Sir
Toby, tne improvident younger brother, was ae»
customed to t^ive him when he was in funds. Yes,
and he got also what Sir Toby never gave, an
ostentatious reminder of it next morning. With a
covert sneer, therefore, he coins a diminutive to
express the smallness of the gifl, and acknow-
ledges the gratiliih/^ and in the same vein coins
impitirnst {tt being the usual causative, and I'm the
usual intensitive augment) ; and says, I did make
A great *' begging up nnd down/* and after much
ado imd importunity, I received " a scrap ** of
your bounty, a crumb from Dives — I did impiii*
cwte ihy grrtidlity.
There might also have been an intended quib-
ble in the phrase, if Shakspeare bad been aware of
another and npparcnlly primary meaning ofpUacco^
not given by Florio, but which probably gave
rise to his explanation of patcht>coat beggar.
Vauzon gives " pifocco, also a part, in old times, of
mule attire, perhaps a species of mantle ; *' and in
this sense the Clown would mean I did ifnpon£k^
or, as some editors, by a happy corruptian of the
wordf make him say — I did unpetlicoat thy bounty.
Bbexslet Nicholson*
" Mbasube for Meascbe." —
" Die, periali I might but my beading down — **
Act III. Sc. L
As Isabel, in her diigust and indignation, ex-
claims : —
" O yoa beast !
O fWthless coivard ! O diahoncfit wretch I "
we may with some confidence read: —
" li'iOf perish, wretch I might but niy bfioding down
Reprieve thee from thy fate, it should proceed."
** Wherein have I so de«erv'd of vou.
That you extol me thus? * — Act V. Sc. i.
I venture to propose the following emendation
us natural and coni^nant with the feelings of the
Duke. Having addressed Aogelo in a friendly
spirit, he then turns angrily to Lucio: —
" You, frirrali, that knew me for a fool, n coward,
One ail uf Juxar>% an aaa, a madman ;
Wherein luive I, air* so deserved of you.
Thill you i^tol tnc thus? "
Lucio replies, and the Duke answers : —
•* Whipp*d drat, air, and hangM after.*'
Pope's emendation, in each instance, is sin-
gularly feeble : —
** Wherein have I deterved to of you*"
** Njpis youth in the hradt aad folHes doth tmfn*w,'*
If •* encw'' be, flt^ Uik, )&.m<iwtv%x «e.i^ -b."^ tcx-
tain'' emcw\ftU«u t^Yt ^* ^m\w«tV' —^^^^^^ "^^^
230
NOTES AND QTJERIEa
[ans. V.
^
"liead" be a likely mi aprmt for hud f **Kip in
the bud/' U proverbinl : which "Nip in the head"
lit not, nor verj apposite to the particular case
in view.
** How luigbt she tongae me I Bat reowm darof her
no," &c.
I, for one, gladly accept Mr. Keightlky's
" soys ** for *^ dares,'' in tbe line as it stand,i. But
might not the error lie in the transposition, rather
than substitution of the words? and the line
uriginallj have run : —
'* How mtgbt she tongue me? Bat her reason dares
Dot/*
Qvivis.
"The CoMEDr of Breobs'*: Aktipholcs or
AnTiPBiLtra, — Some tlnys since, a critique ap-
peared in rAtf Timejt on Sbak^pearc's Comeihj of
Errors^ occasioned by the production of tlmt piny
at the Prince?8'a Theatre. The writer of the
notice in c[ue$tion, when speaking of the brothers
Antipholu?, used these words : " It ought to have
been Antiphilu^ though." Now, it an[>ent8 to
me, that this obaervjition is more indicative of
etymological skill tbtin |»hilological sagacity ; and
argues a better acquaintance with the text of
Terence, than with the rules and priictice of
Oratnatic composition. The suggestion as to the
change of name is one which carries with it no
weight whatever : for, supposing that Antipholus
were changed to " Antinhdus," wliat benefit would
result? Why, none whatever ; but, on the con-
trary, an erroneous idea would be conveyed, and
the nieaning expressed by the name would be at
variance with the circumstances in which the two
men are placed. Undoubtedly, Shakspeare de-
liberately chose the name Antipholus, not for it»
etymohigical force, but becau?e it sounds well
when declaimi^d, and, moreover, has a Greek
look, ** Antiphilus" would have a thin sound,
which would necessarily be less effective for stage
purposes than the more full one of Antipholus.
We cannot imagine that Shakspeare*^ acquaint-
ance with the dead languages was sufBctcnt to
enable him to manufacture a name having a fine
sound and an appropriat>; fiigniiication ; nor can
we think that Shakspeare would have taken the
trouble to consult the scholars of the day on so
trivial a subject. If we adopt the word ** Artti-
philuss," we imply that the two brothers were
mutual friends; whereas they were unknown to
each other, throughout almost the whole play*
Terence, in his Hrmttontimorumcno*^ has An*
tiphila, but there the name is ajiplicable : having
tt meaning, cognate with that of A»^i^iAia- I
mnt that Antipholu!* has a peculiar senst?^^ if it
n*n any at nil ; tint if wc could believe? in Shak-
speartj's scholarship, we might conjecture that he
took the word from ianUoXn, In consequence of !
the respective places in which tbe brotlieafs i
But speculations in the matter arc uselei
absurd. Perhaps some of vour learned i
snondenta will favour roe with their o|iin^
Inis subject. ^
1
" Thb Msbbt Wives or Wn»i>80B,'
'* A vrord, Monsieur Moekwater." — Act H S(
This ia literallv a stale je«t, jiimI perl
Johnson inuppoiea, an allusion to tlie fniji
inspection of the urine. The Host hmi
ously called the worthy doctor, ** BuUy I
and " King Urinal," and here we may r^d
*• Hoit A word, Monsieur Makewater.
Orttt*. Mackvaterl vat is dat?
Ha»K Makewater, in our Eagliah tooj
bully,"
Every child knows it means coi«
has just b€f^:>re called hini^ *^ heart of elderJ
** Hamlet.*'— In the Saturday Rev
12, a writer on *^ The Novel antl
says» " Shakspeare never mentions lia
observttti»*n reminded roe that once,
singular circumstances, we seem to _
of Shakspeare's idea of that play. In
in an interlineation, while bequeatbint' ^^fl
buy him a ring/' he wrote his f-
probably the godfather of his onlv
instead of Hamnet Sadler. So rVi
his Hamlet seem to have possessed ii<
to have been written on unconsciuii*ly
sickness*wa8ted hand. Ought Sonnet ICWJ
read as having reference to hit son — Ih^n
New HsjiDt^vG : *• Lqv8*s Lai»ov:
Act in., ftir —
♦* A lehluty wanton with a vrlvet
where Porson suggests WhUclcM^ J tJun
should read mlleM, Samukl 1
•* JIkrcwakt opYb^icb,** AJtl* **Tin>u.t>
Cressioa*' (r* S. iv. 121.) — Mr, Kino
note, on the Merchant of IVaice, ia ctrrt^'inl^^
valuable: his improved readings ar*\
more thrm hnppy ronjcctures. I i
however, my surprise that he doi?a t\
to be contented with the remarkably
emendation, by the corrector* of lli«
I63*i, of the celebrated passage t *^
** I'Uus orOAfnctit is but tb«i gihlni] stiorc^'
The mere change by thi^ Great 11 nh'
comma in the punctuation, ha« rem*
scurltv% and tu;u1c the pwsage one Oif
«r4 a V, Mail 19, •64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
231
beauty. Earelj bu so much been done bj n
comma,
I am sorry to Lave my faith in this emendation
ih&kcn by an implied disbeHef in it, by so able a
Sbaiutpeffrlan as Ma. Keighti^t.
Before leaving the great poet, permit me to
ask Ma. KEiGKTf.ETf or any other equally capable
critic, to point out the connexion of the fine line
in Troilux and Cressida —
** One touch of nature makes tlic wholo world kin,*'
with those that precede and follow it.
I The idea expressed in this line, seems to me to
be complete in iUelf, and not suggested by the
main thought or sentiment of the pasa^ige.
H.N.
New York.
^Shakspcarb and his COMMENTATOaa, OR
^BMDATORs: Palm. — In the ^/i^aceifi^ of Janu-
1^ I864» is the following passage : —
" Sbakspenre was thought to hnro coaitnittal a slir> of
L the pen wh«n* in A* Tou Like It, he nllowed Kosalind to
^m find & palm in tbo forest of Ardeo. Com menia tors Imve
B been sadlx puxzled about it, and Bugge«ted every possible
^ explaniition save the most nalural one Ttie country
* people fitill call tbu paat wilbwt jnat when the young cat-
^ kins make their appearance, /»a/j»."
y This is certainly a new version of the readlne
of palm' tree, but I think the writer will not find
^ many persons willing to accept it. In the first
place^ there is nothing in As You Like It to show
- that the forest in which Rosalind found the palm-
^ tree was the forest of Ardcn in Warwickshire.
H If BO, it would be strange to find any one of the
V palm i^pecies growing thcrci and equally strange
to find a tuft of oUves near Rosalindas house ; and
more strange still, to find a lioness couching in
that forest — unless it had escaped from some
I travelling menagerie, exhibiting such beasta in
the neighbourhood. If it is admitted that, by palm-
tree, Shakspetire intended the goat willow (Salix
caprea), and this being our English tree, it might
grow in the forest, we have to substitute an-
other name for the olive, to make an English tree
of it. But it should be remembered that, al-
though the branches of the SaUx,^ or willow, when
gathered for Palm Sunday celebration, are com-
monly called palm, the wdlow itself is not called
palm-tree by the writer* of Shakspeare'^ time.
L Tlie fact, [ believe, i^, that the forest in which
H Itosalind found the palm-tree and the oUve-treea
V wa^ a southern one — in which the lioness might
naturally find a hiding place. What will Dr.
Prior say to this ? Sipu^r Bbislt.
I
"FiEST CouriJiiaiTf' " Corioi-awcs," Act II,
Sc. 1. — Menenius Agrippa. speaking of himself,
aays, as it is generally prmted : —
*^ I am known to be a buuiorous patridan, and one
that loves a cup of bat wine wttli not a drop of allaying
Tibci- in't : said to be something imperfect in fiivotiniig
VtxzJitU complaint,*'
It has been proposed to read this, "the thirst com-
plaint**; but is not the passage belt<!r as it stands?
%Ienentus says he has two Jliults, or complaints.
The first that he is ** liumorous," i. e. hot-headed
and crotchetty ; the second^ ihat he is too fond
of a cup of wine : nnd that this second com-
flaint has rather n tendency to af»gravate the jtf>**/.
di) not remember such a phrase as ** the thirst
compltiint^' in any author. A, A,
Poeti* Comer.
TausTv: Tklist: as used by SnAKsrEAEE. —
Shftkspeare has been cited as using the word
tfust and trttMy in the sense of the modern words
reliance and reliable* It will not be uninteresting
to exnmine hia use of thesa words, which were
favourites of his, Tnisty he uses seventeen times ;
fifteen times directly of persons^ Once in AlTg
Well that Ends Weil (Act III. Sc, 6) indirectly
to persons, when he speaks of a trusty, business,
i". e. requiring agents who could be trusted ; and
once of a sword. Here also he really, as it were,
applies the word to an agent, swords and other
weapons having a sort of personal existence attri-
buted to them, — ^sometiraea being actually named.
He trusU his sword to help him.
He uses the word trust over one hundred and
twenty times: of these, for more than seventy
times, he applies the word to persons directly ; in
about twenty instances to attributes or things,
but in most of these cases with reference to per-
sons trusted ; and scarcely ever in such a sense
as would be exactly synonymous to our ** relj
on." Frequently it is in these places followed by
*^ on/* " in," or " to."
Thus we have— judgment, age, word, Ijonesty,
heels, the mockery of unquiet thoughts, condi-
tions, oaths, honour, virtue, speeches. In most
of these, there is not that absolute reliance upon
the thing itself implied in the word relinble. It
would hardly be good nineteenth-century Eng-
lish to say, that "your honesty is reliable/'
Though it was good Elizabeth sin to bid a man
*^ trust his honesty." At any rtite, Shakspeare is
entirely with me' in the word trmty f and evi-
dently prefers my use of the word iru^t, if he
very occasionally diaregards it. ^ *"* ^
J, C, J.
" lucoNT.''^ — This word is used twice by Shak-
speare in the same play, Lovers Labours Lost;
and by tlie game speaker, Costard. When Ar-
mado gives him money (Act HI. Sc. 1), he calls
him "my incony Jew;" and after the by no
means delicate jesta between himself and Boyet,
he call the conversation "most incony vulgar
wit." Many very wide conysxitv«^"i \iw<i Na^^'^
232
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8-S.V.
191 1L
made as to the origin of the word. Is it not pro-
bably merely a corruption of the Old French
inconjiu, unknown, unheard of: a phrase answer-
ing very much, also, to our own vernacular, " no-
end-of"? The passages would then mean, **8uch
a Jew as never was heard of**—" no-end-of vulgar
wit.** A. A.
Poets' Comer.
•• Vebt Peacock*' : "Hamlet," Act III. Sc. 2.
(2"* S. xii. 451.) — It seems very probable that
this passage is corrupt. There seems no reason,
from the King's character and bearing, to com-
pare him with a peacock. He rather affects a
grave and condescending manner. The crime of
which he is guilty, and which Hamlet is so anx-
ious to bring to some certain test, is not pride,
conceit, or affectation, but poisoning. Is it not
likely the word ought to be read paddock, i. e. a
toad? The "venomous** and "poisonous** toad,
is mentioned in As You Like It ; Macbetk ; Henry
VL; Richard III,\ and in many other places,
by Shakspeare, and, in Macbeth, it is called by
the very uv^me—paddock. If we read —
**. . now reigns here
A very, yety— paddock,** —
it would seem to be quite in consonance with what
Hamlet says next :
•* Didst perceive 7 Upon the talk of the poi$omng—"
A. A.
PoeU' Comer.
Shakspeaeb (" N. & Q.,** passim,) — While
committees and sub-committees are arguing upon
the methods, and means, and measures of its cele-
bration, the dajr of our household poet*s orient
and Occident will, 1 fear, pass by, leaving us to
console ourselves with Milton's solution of its
difficulty — finding in his own works, and in the
everliving heart of England, bis already erected
monument. The birth-and-death-day of Shak-
speare, nevertheless, will hardly miss of its due
heralding in " N. & Q."—
" With one auspicious and one drooping eye,"*-
enriched, as through fourteen years it has been,
by the successive commentaries; which, of them-
selves, form a valuable addition to our Shak-
sperian library.
Among the many tributes paid to our ^* great
son of memory** — unconsciouslv paid, I micht
«ay— is the question, so variously debated, of nis
especial profession and its precedent studies. Was
he a /atryerf— inquired the late Lord Chancellor
Campbell. A soldier f — was the no less presum-
able argument of Me. Tboms (2"* S. vii. 118,
820, 351). I know not which of these, or what
other, was our English noA^^Mvt; but, should a
poetical cairn be resolved upon, I beg to oast my
nnd-grain into the heap ; which, if rendering to
him his due honours, will '^make Ossa like i
wart.**
Men ask — what Shakspeare WM?-— A Ywmff.
skilled
In form and phrase ? — ^A Soldier^ in the Fidd
Wdl theorised and practised ? — Or, was he
A Sailor on the wild and wandering aea f —
A Traveller, who roamed the earth to tiaee
The homes and habits of the human race ? —
A Student, on his cloistered task intent
Of mystic theme or subtile argument? —
A Ckurchman erudite P — A Statesman wisef—
A Courtier, apt in shows and revelries ? —
A sage Pkysician, who from plant and flower
Won the deep secrets of their various power ?—
A Teacher, whose kind spirit loved to bring
"Sermons from stones, and good from ef«n-
thing** ?—
Not one of these, but alL — Dispute not whu
Our Shakspeare uhu, — but say. What was kndf
Edmund Lerthai. Swim-
SiiAK8P£ABB*8 Abms. — In Knlsht's ntarii
Shakmere (" Biography,** vols. i. iL)« Ifta vm
are blazoned —
** Gould, on a bend sable and a speare of the fiist. Ar
point ateded, proper; and his crast or ossaiaMfci
Ikaleon, his wings displayed, argent* staadiagea t
wrethe of his coollors, supporting a spenre moSd,tsi
as aforesaid, sett npon a helmet with manteila and ts-
seUs.-
In Bouteirs Heraldry, p. 410,. 2nd edit, ik
blazon is —
"Or on a bend sable, a spear
displayed argent, holding in its beal
I hsTe seen the crest depicted as a falcon dif*
played, holding in each claw a spear in pik
Which of these is the true blazon r DidS&-
speare use any motto ? Cabuvoib^
Cape Town.
[The following extract, from the Grant of ArsH i^*
served in the Heralds* College, printed by Mr. X &
Nichols i^ The Herald and Gemsahfpst^ No. 6. p. £11, k
the best reply to this query :—
<* Gould, on a bend sables a speare of the firat, aMW
argent ; and for his crest, or cognizance, a fidcoa, kH
wlnffes displayed, argent, standing on a wrethe sf la
Ih ' . . -
ffold. Crest, a ftba
lak a spear in psle**
coulTors, supporting a speare gould, steeled
sett upon a helmett, witn mantelles and tenaclles, m
been accustomed, and dothe more playoely appiiMa dr
picted on this margent."
Mr. Nichols adds: '^In the margin are aketahedmtt
a pen the arms and crest, and abore them this srtto^
* HOH SANS DBOICT.' "]
Statistics or Shakspeabian Litsbatubb.-*
The following ourious tabular view of the i
proportion of books connected with
published in each period of tm
I
I
I
»*S,V. ]I«ll.t9,'64.J
NOTES AND QUERIES.
to 1630 inclusi^ef U deiived from n very int^reii-
in^ paper upf>n tlie i^ubject by Mr, W. S. JevoDit
of Owen's C( 1 1 hest«r, whicli Appeared tn
the AtkmmLm lay last : —
Number of Sfmhtptarian Bo«kt publit^d in each Period ef
ifffti \
in
II
li
li
^1
iftsi-ieoo
*..
ao
...
4
...
43
1601—1610
29
4
88
J6I1— fO
•«»
17
..*
&
fi«
22
1^21—30
1
12
.«.
1
.*.
14
ICfll— 40
1
16
<•<
a
•*«
20
1641—60
..,
f»>
!»•
Ml
•*•
1651-60
• *<
4
>■• 1
I
■■>
&
l«ei^70
1
I
1
2
««•
B
1671—80
*>•
10
8
*»»
1
H
168I-1M)
1
11
6
••>
«w
17
IGyi— 17(>0
»«
7
7
...
4
IS
1701—10
I
7
6
1
1
16
1711—20
2
4
i
*••#
2
16
17JI— 80
a
4
1
M
2
16
ITS I— in
2
1
7
1
i 2
15
1741 -■'
4
2
2
*•♦
10
16
1751^r.ii.
2
12
8
1
17
40
17«I^70
9
4
6
1
21
41
177t-#0
I
S3
6
***
92
60
17tH— 90
6
i
2
■ >■
26
44
1791—1600
7
20
S
I
1 ^
60
1801—10
14
25
2
1
82
74
1611—20
7
87
1
2
84
81
1821-60
U
10
I
...
44
69
SiiAKdPBARb'a EpiTAim {3'** S* V. 179.) — I am
sorry to obaerie your correspondent, Ma. Pinkeb-
tow, speak cif ihis a* " little better than doggrel,'*
though be afYerwards qualifies the deacription.
Still, I cannot think that he is Aware of the catiBe
of the lines being written, which is supposed to
have been this. A little beyond SbalUp«are*s
tomb towards the east is a gothic doorway, now
walled up. This once led, not to a Testry, but a
eharneUhouae of considerable size, above ground,
lighted, and ventilated by certain loop'holeSf in
which a large quantity of human bones waa dc-
posited. This, m the progrew of iraprovement or
ruhr^ion (fls they now call it), has been re-
moved— I know not at what period; but when
very young I have been, more than once, in the
charnel*hou>^e} which appears to have been so far
an object of terror to the poet that he wrote the
lines now inscribed on his monument to prevent
his bones being disturbed, and added to the heap.
Such, at least, wus th*; acreount i^iven ; and lurky
W10 it for htm, lit III!
tioD, or, in ihc^se tm
glil or pbrtmoUkgist wouui lutve nmi tmai up ajjirnn
to meaaure the length nnd breadth of his skull, or
or pcrbapfi make an exhibition of it at the tercen-
teoary^ I.
ShAKSPBASB PoBTRAlTS (3"* S. T. 117-)— ThcTC
are the following works on the portraits of Shok-
speare, besides those by Boadcn and by Wivell
(not *» Wevtir^): —
Mtfridm% John — **A Catnbgue of engraved Partrsit«
of P«r«ona connwted with the County of Wjirwiok."
CoventTy, Ala. 1849L
QiUier, J, F.^-** DiaMTtation on tbs impuLsd PortruU
ofSbaksapears." London. 8vo. 1651.
There is also Mr. Friswelfs new work, entitled
Life PortraiU of Shak*ptare. B. A.
THE SECOND SHAKSPEARE F0J.10, 168«.
Nothing definite is known regarding the fouroos
from which the new readings m the Shakspeare
folio, 1632, were derived. The prevailing opinion,
BO far as our researches show, is, thnt they are
conjectural emendations of some now unknown
editor. Ben Jon son has, in some inf^tanees, been
guessed at. As an examinution of tlie folio de*
raonstrates that some editorial revision and over-
sight were exercised u]>on considerable portions
of it, and as many of the changes introduced into
it have been adopted into the subsequent reprints,
it becomes a legitimate subject for curiosity, nnd
a proper topic for having " N. & Q." about it.
Let me, on the condition that Ben Jon son is
supervisor is abandoned, suggest John Milton;
and in support of my hypothesis, lay down the
following statements and ar^ument^ : — 1st. JMil-
ton was a diligent and admiring student of Shak-
speare*fi works — of which the proofa are, the
special Shakspearianisms in his poems ; liis mak-
ing both L" Allegro and // Pensero find enjoyment
from the "stage**; his early inclination for the
drama, as exhibited in Arcade$ and CoimtSj as
well as in his design to compose a Tragedy on
Adam*s Fail, from which he was probably dissuailed
by a perusal of the Adamus ^xul of Grotius.
T'his love for dramatic forms of composition re-
mained with him like a *' ruling possion " to the
last, as SamMon A^onUies, published in 1671,
shows plainly. The nll-prevuiling proof of this
thesis IS, however, the epitaph on Shakspeare,
written in 1630, and preExed in the place of
honour to the Second Folio just after Ben Jon-
8on'9 lines ** Upon the Efligies of my worthy
Friend, the Author, Master William Sbik-
spesre and his Works*' on p, 7 of the book,
counting the title. This poeni — issued anony-
moualy, an<i only acknowledged in lG45^cotdd
only have been written regoriUng the iirni fidio,^
and as it was unpublished, the propri«»tors of
the folio must have got knowledaja ^iC >A. ^t'jissi.
^Pi
S34
NOTES AND QUERIEa
1$^ & V. MAK^ti^m'
BOtne private source- Our supposition is, that
the lines were written in Milton's copy of the
first folio, which while readiti^ he had conjectur-
fllly revised, and that the publishers had asked
bitn for permission to print the lines and use his
emendations. This lends me to point —
2nd. Milton was a fastidious and habituid cor^
rector and annotator of the books he read. Of
this, amon^ other proofs, we may note his ela*
borate emendations of Euripides, many of which
secured the approval of Forson*
3n1, The time of life at wbtch Milton had ar-
riveil when the poem was written. He, a diligent
student, was just at the ai^e when Fuch an exercise
wouhl be a " labour of love/* Perhaps some other
Shakspeare student and admirer of Milton may
be able to clear up this matter further.
I may further add that the poem in the sawie
folio signed I. M. S., if certainly the work o^ John
MiUorij Student^ would strengthen iny hypothesis ;
but I incline lo consider these latter lines as the
product of the author of Emayea of a Prentice in
the Divine Art of Poesie^ 1584 ; and if mv jiuess
were correct, it would add interest to Jonson's
praise of —
" Those fliglit j upon th« banks of Thames.
That so did uke FJfsa and oar J a M fi S."
Molffttt, N, B.
Samuei^ Neil.
PASSAGE m "CYMBELINE."
** Bttt alack
You flimtcli som« hence for Utile faults; that*s love
To Uttve tbem nin no more : you some pormit
To second ills with ills, eacheldtr worset
And make tbem drvad It, to tho doerV thri/l."
C^mbdine^ Act V. Sc. 1. Poilh.
Here the printer may have put in type trift,
and then amended it, as he thought^ by inserting
h ; but without insisting on the particular steps by
which the mistake arose, the word trist will, I
think* approve itself to itll as that used by Shak-
ffpeare, for while its unusunl form gives a reason
for the uideurned printer's mistake, it dears up
the only real obscurity in the pjtssaj^e, I am not
indeed aware of its occurrence elsewhere as a sub*
stantive, but it was used as an adjective, and the
employment of a wortl as a part of speech other
than that in wliich it was ordinarily used, was a
licence commonly allowed in Plliaabcthan times.
Moreover, trist would be the substantive form or
root of an adjective twice used by Shakspeare.
In the First Part of Kiujr Henry /K— where, by
the WBT, the printi^r mistook it for the commoner
trustful— when FalstalT would reproach the prince
for his nitxle of fife, he s|»eskB, not of tlie sor-
PDwful, or sorrowing, or tearful, but nf the trist-
ful queen, and »o refers to her habitual and settled
me/mtcboff, whteh U m> great that tht mens wgU W^iv u ^v \.xvi>A\i wx^\\^ vw\ \wai£.
hd^f
of her son, on his rare return to tli« |>alftce, i
her to tenrs. In like manner, Hamlcf,
of the settled sadness* of the earth at bla i
act, talks of, ** The tristful visage thai,
the doom, is thought-sick*^'
So is the sense liere, while it may hti also
as to so Latinate a word, that Shakspeare ii
fond of occasionally introducing a word
will recal the hearer's mind to the time and j
of the action, Postbumus is gazing on thai ^
alone remains to him of Imogen, her handke
dyed in her blood, and he is full of remorse i
her murder. In his self-accusinga be exi
her supposed faulty and his revenge seema to J
a hideous unpardonable crime. Naturally T
death, in his bitter despair he c1 asset hSa
among the examples of a doctrine as to the i
ance of human aflalrs by the ^ods, which '
his desire to leave life. " Tou," saja he,'
thoujirh we evilly do the ill, you overrule il ir I
the victim's good, you for slight faults take (
hence, and Imogen among them, and this is t^ I
that they should sin no more. Other
do ill (and auion^ them mvself) you
live, and withdrawing your love from
is their punishment, that to every one an
able necessity arising from the tirst crime I
like an avenging fury, and compels thetni
greater crime to greater crime Qontinti "
while thus driven on they yet, before the!
mission of each crime, dread it, and aAer iu <
mission sufier still more from the stings nf i
and from that overhanging dread which, whSii
fears thenii goods tbem on, ^o.ids me on« to furtW^
ill to my lasting and abiding sorrow.** Botk I
take to be his thoughts expressed more at hiOfAt
and if it be asked how he h:id as yet adiled efiat '
to crime, I answer that to his remorseful inu^ja^
tion tortured by love of her he had fo
crime was doubt, his second, lending' : as •
accomplice to tempt her, and facilitate his 0W
dishonour, and his third her death. I would M
too, that though his reasoning is greatlv i
inasmuch as, though not doubting a fultire i
he neither here nor elsewhere shows the pooa^Mtf
of any sure hope or fear, but would j^m^i
after enquiry, vaguely trusting to the mcray if
tho gods ; yet the doctrinp that ill produces dl
and generally a grenter ilt, is a favourite one witi
Shakspeare, and is, for instance, one of the Ic^yiuf
the whole story of lago, Desden '^n • f^— » ' u*-r^-.
But to return to our passage ; t
make is clearly ** ve ffodf ," and as > , : . , •_ a* '
are the " some' who arc permitted to live; has
grammarians have been puKzle<i n^ to ? l^* rhsi^
from the plural " them lo ih doer rf
ill*
plural " them lo _
and also of crimes to the i
though the crimes had been pn
into ** each elder worse." But tL
m
f* 8. V- Mae. 10. 'M.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
285
Jon son flaitl, Shnkspe^re struck the second beat
upon the Muses* onvU ; turned the siime and
himself with it to write these living lines. The
despair of Posthumus leads him to a general re*
0ection, which shows a passing bitterness ugaiitst
providence, afterwards atoned for by "your blessed
wills be dnne^'* but his remorse is so great that be
cannot continue in generalities; but when be
comes to ** each elder worse," the Image of himself
and of his own act, and the bloody handkerchief, all
start forth in full and conscious mental and bodily
view, and he cries, ** and makes them do it," their,
tny, last crime ; and then dressing the handker-
chief to his lips and hiding dis face in hi;* hainds,
aye to my sorrow — for ever. It is only such an
outbreak that can redeem the scene from tame-
ness, and Posthumus from the imputation of a
siillenness und mere dogged resolution to die,
which is foreign to his whole character. And it
is onljr such an outbreak of passion, and the ex-
haustion consequent on it, that will allow of the
despairing resignation of the subsequent lines*
** Each elder worse" has also been objected to,
but most readers see and understand the fitness
of the phrase, though they may find a difficulty in
explainmg it. To the bystander, each isolated
act is indeed younger, the nearer it is to the pre-
sent moment ; but as in the history of human
progress, the invention of the steam-engine ia
older than that of fire, so to Posthumus himself,
who viewed his deeds as existent as much in
thought as in action, and both as parts of himself,
each after crime was but the growth and maturing
of the once tender plant, or the enveloping ivy
from the little seed. Beihslet Nicbouoh.
MORGANATIC ANB EBENB&RTia
Both these words, though of considerable im-
portance at the present day, are bo totally mia-
represented or misunderstood, that some elucida-
tion of their meaning may be acceptable, as both
stand in some degree of relationship to one
another.
For Morganatic, the best, in fact the only solu-
tion, is found in the derivation of the word. When
in the arid deserts of Arabia, the parched tra-
veller is mocked by the optical illusions of run*
ning streams und green meadows, these the Italians
call Fata Morgana^ the delusions of the Fee
lyforgana. Something thus delusive is a Mor-
ganatic Marriage. For though it involves no
immorality, and has always the full sanction of
the church, it is, as regards the wife and children,
I an illusion and a make>belicve : they do not enjuy
the rights of the husband, if a sovereign prince,
nor take his title ; and it is only amongst sovereign
princes that the practice obtains. The children
have only the rtgbu of the mother, unless she is
ehenbiirtigy or, as is expresaed in the closing act of
] the Treaty of Vienna, IS15, d^uM naUsanc« igale
avec les princes souremiiu, or those in succession
to become so.
It was, therefore, a prudent arrangement for
princes who preferred the claims of natural af*
fcction to those of ambition, to form morganatic
marriages, which should reconcile the duties of
their station with their social wishes. In this
manner, after the death of hii^ first wife, the
Princess of MeckJenburg-Strelitz, Frederic Wil-
liam m.j father of the present and previous king
of Prussia^ was enabled to follow the dictates <S'
his a flection for the Countess of Liegnitz, who
was received by all his family as a true wife, and
still continues to enjoy their respect. In a similar
manner, the last Kmg of Denmark associated to
himself and ennobled the Countess Banner ; nor
would, ill our country, the union of the kte
Duke of Sussex with the Duchess of Inverness
be dissimilan The social position of all these
families was affected In no disreputable manner
by such a connection, but they could not attain
the full rights of morriage, or the civil state of
their husbands, because they were not ebenbitrtig
or de naissance egale.
In the Golden Bull of the Empire, promulgated
in the fourteenth century, legiUmacy is expressly
demanded as an imperative condition 'to any
sovereignty ; and it is of no consequence how long
or how distant that stain may have blemished a
family. Our ducal houses of Grafton and St.
Albans have every right of their high rank, but in
their royal quarterings the bar sinister is in-
delible.
This would entirely preclude their ebettburtig'
keit with our own or any other reigning house ;
nor is this question without bearing on the present
political discussion of the succession to the duke-
doms of Schleswig and Holstein. In lineal sue*
cession there is no doubt but that the elder Duke
of Augustenburg has a prior claitti, but hia
marriage with the Countess Danskiold^Samsoe,
a family which has its origin in an illegitimate
scion of a Danish king, is as much unebenifHrtig as
the families of the ducal houses of Graflon or St.
Albans ; and her son, therefore, the present claim-
ant, the younger Duke of Augustt?nber^, now at
Kiel, is entirely precluded, being, iiko his mother,
unebenhiirtig^ and more especiully whilst his father,
who has been bought off by the Danish Crown,
ia still alive.
I may be here allowed to state that, when in a let-
ter published in the Times on Feb. 29, 1 confirmed
this fact by an exact tranjjlntion from Wegener's
Actenmihsige Zummmen^teUntig (a .documentary
collection of acts in the history of Denmark), I
was contradicted the follow \\\^\i^"riXT\\\\55j\tvTwV^x*et
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[Sr'&T. liM*ll»*«i
wliicli I am aBtonifihed neither the writer nor the
editor did not perceive was entirely beside the
issue I had raised. The Indies of the fAimlj of
Danskiold*Sam80t^ like those of our own ducal
families abovenamed, are undoubtedly fully pre-
sentable both at the Danish and every other
Court ; but the question is, are they not itnehcn*
hiirtig f evinced by their not having the haut pa»,
and being refused the entrance by the grand
portal of the palace. Hamlet may, like hisname-
iftke» be willing " to take the Ghost's word for a
thousand pounds," but he must excuse me if I am
not equally credulous, and ilecline to admit the
mere ipse dixit of a mb umbra controversialist.
Wn-LiAM Bell, Phil. Dr.
4, Cf«se«Dt Place, Burton Croiccnt
NORFOLK FOLK LORE.
I send you a few little bits of " folklore,'* picked
up Rt S 1 an out-of-the-way coruer on the
Norfolk coast, to be added — should you think
them worth the honour — to the collection ahready
safely stowed away in " N. & Q.'* As the super-
stitions to be found in any pwirticuUr district
always taie their tone to a great degree from the
character of the scenery ajid people about, and
can only be properly understood when considered
in GonnecttoQ with thenii I may as well begin bv say-
ing that the parish consists of two distinct viitages
and populations — Upper and Lower S — --. The
former is a pretty, clean -looking, agricultural
place, with a magnificent ohl church, and tiled
cottages of blue shingle. It stands at the foot of
rough heathy hills, with thick woods above, and
the open se^i be]ow. Lower S — ^ is a mile and
a half off in a valley between what were once two
high round sand hills, which the sea has broken
half away, and changed into abrupt clifls. It con-
tains a church-chapel, till lately a boat-house;
lair vpecimens of probably every filthy smell in
the ooufkty ; and for inhabitants a remarkabl/
handsome set of fishermen, who marry, almost
before they have done growing, girb of their own
village (a wedding with an ouuider is a very rare
event), and rear rough and ready famittes in a
state of chronic starvation* They are insolently
independent, and iu their own calling fearlesa
enough ; but in Lower S there is hardly a
man to be found who would at any price venture
half a mile inland alone in the dark. The const
is dangerous, and drowning almost the commonest
ibape ill which denth vbltJi the village. It would
BOt, I belicvt\ bt* hard to fmd women who havy
■ fid huslwin*'' ' -■'"" --^ -• '• 1' "v^
loit
pcj 1
thu<
,.,..,, a will Hit Hi V
wardji and forwards! in their cl* r
Mtm^s whe§ ruMh wiliUy oo to the v.-, .-:,^ _. .uu
their eyes out to sea, as the wind « geiiins n^
when tie boats are out. It Is no woa«l«r tbt
when the minds of aU are continuallv liamtw
with the one great fear, storiea fi&t abool fM,
for such as can read them, there is mmnj a win-
ing t>f the coming of the dreaded storms.
A little way cut to sea there ia a apof^ ihnfftf,
just opposite a particular cliff, where tlie capUA^ \
some old ship was drowned, and there more Jam
once fishermen have heard sounds like a ItmmM.
voice coming up from the water : wbichcver mm
they pull, the voice is in the other dircctiom tfl
at last, on a suddea, it changes, and come* jai j
beneath their boat like the last vrild cry of r"^
sinking hopelessly. Then, if they ^e wir-
settle down to their oarsi and row for
shore; for life it ia— for they are luckv
reach home in time to escape the aquali ml
9UTe to follow. _ ,
On the boundary of the parish, at a gao n ■
cliffs, if the story an old man gravelj loUl mk
true, is a place where a hundred years aga iwiB
drowned sailors, who were washed up a&a^ *
great gale, were thrown one on the top of i — —
fnto a ditch without Clu-iaiian burijil, and cmn^ '
with a heap of stones ; and still, if anyone ii I "
enouoh to venture there by night in bad mtT
he may distinctly hear an lU-omened soun^l^l
my old friend illustrated by taking a hajidL_
shingle, and dropping them slowly one by oae *•
to a big stone.
I asked him whether he had ever b«iM •
himself. "No," he said; but once, m long Qm
ago, when he was a boy, he remeinbened oosiif
nfong the road a quarter of a mile olH snd m
thought (but he could not be quite sure) that Ii
saw a light Uiere !
The old women are apt to feel uncomfartahU if
a cat should begin to play with their gowna «
aprons, for that is a sign of a gale. But pe>^iP
the most respectable of all the premoiutorv d
storm is the huge dog *' Shock " {Skack^ not Sktid
with us), who comes out of the sea, and rvfli
along ^* Shock*8 Lane/' and up on to souse liiBi^
after which his course is uncertain. His anj '
generally is somewhat anomttlous, fof^e aa ^
f«8S,** but haa ** great saucer cyei "
The (KKirl^
I y, for he hm
r " tictl
low seems conscious of sot
been met witha**whito 1
the place where his head shuLild be.
The *^ shrieking woman ** is aJiother, and
the worst. When she k heard, I' ' at©
ing indeed* She had been siji nu ._^
till Ifl&t Chrifltmoii, when she il*jr>y p^jvi.-nd gmd
j^eopte in Upper 8 into great alarm witk lift*
ufcually hi'l "— ^- '— "- a lafft
party of y^ 'oe &vm
a ball that : ^he lAni
that tbo on ^iserii^
ti Of* .
eefl»B
\
&•* S. V. Mah. 19, 'M.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
237
f
P
melodious, it seems just possible thtit in this in-
stance there may have been sotno slight nii^stnke ;
especiiiUir as the stonn, which, accortlinr^ to pre-
ccdcnt* should have followed the old bag'^ j^hrinkft^
did not fume. Poor nervous wives a.^ they *it
anxioi]!^ly at home mending the nais, hcjir their
husband's voices talkiu^r or sbuuting above the
wild noise of the wind, though their boats may be
miles uwny iit seo.
Only a very few years ngo, the old clergyman,
who for a great many years had been vicar of the
parish, as he waa walking home one Sunday even-
ing after service at Lower i^ chnpel, fell down
in the middle of the road, and was t^Ven up dead.
His congi-egution, who not an hour before had
seen him fipparently in his usual health, could not
fail, in their own way, to be mueh ini pressed by
the awful suddenness of the good old j^entleman s
death ; and there was no lack of ready believers
when, a little while afterwards, a boy driving a
fish-cart ctime into the village in a state of wild
alarm, declaring positively that he passed hira sitting
silent and motionless^ leaning forward on his stit.k
on the heap of stones beside the roiid where first
they liud him,
Faiih in the power of the Evil Eye, and the effi-
cacy of the old plan of securing exemption from its
hurtful influences by "blooding the witch," is
niiii common in S , and I could quote in-
stances of very recent occurrence.
The superstition that it is unlucky to interfere
with swallows' nests is bo universal, that I should
not allude to it here except to add, that in Upper
S they explain it by saying that when the
birds gather, as they do in thousands, before they
leave us for the year* and sit in long rows along
the leads of the cl ' ' v ore settling who is to
die befiire they c<i
I heard aquaiiu ^.t^ - Mj.iion in 8 the other
day, earnestly recovnmen<led by an old woman to
a young iady suflering from a weakness in one of
her ankli!5s ^ viz, some " grey dodmen " (hobby
snails) olT the church walla, prepared in a parti-
cular way (I I hi Ilk boded in a brass pot), and
ftiuashed into a salve.
While on the subject I may mention a remedy
for ajnie, which was told mc last year by a far-
mer's wife not far from Ayle&bury, which 1 do not
remember having ever heard elsewhere. It was to
take a black ketik% and draw a line on it with a
Eicce of chalk, and put it on (he fire. As the line
ecomcs black like the rest of the kettle, the ague
should disappear. " But lor. Sir ! " as my good in-
formant said at the end of her expbnaiion, " I
don't know as that do tlo any goad/' I have heard
of the [»eopIe in Pinner, near Harrow, curing the
ague by getting up at twelve in the night, and
gotni^ fiut m their night-gowns to cut a stick from
^ ' It does not sound ^mfortable in a
Anyone who has read anything of the witch
trials, conducted by Matthew Hopkins in the
seventeenth century, will remember that one very
common charge on which many poor creatures
were ejtecuted, was the possession of ''imps,**
shaped usually like some of the lower animals,
which were said to be in constant attendance upon
them, and to urge them on to iniquities of f^Jil
sorts. The belief appears generally to have died
out at the *' witch -finder-generara" death; but
the following story, given as nearly as I can recol-
lect in the words in which I received it direct from
the clergyman to whom it was originally told, *
seems to show that remnants of that, as well as
almost every other superstition, ftiU linger among
us at S » Some years ago, Joe Smith, a
parishioner, %vho had once been very regular in
his attendance at church, was aKked how it ^
that of late he had never been there? **It's no
use my coming. Sir,'* he said ; *^ I'm in bad hands I
Tm in bad hands ! I had a filly, and ^e hanged '
herself, and my pigs take to foaming at the {
mouth I "
Some little time before, he had been to do some
harvest work for an old woman occupying a nmall
farm in the next parish* llie wheat was nearly
all carried, and he and the old lady's son were
waiting on the top of the rick for the next waggon- ]
load, when Joe happening to look towards hii ,^
companion, who was lying down half asleep on
bis back with his anna spread out, and his eyes
shut, saw a larse toad crawling quietly along his
chest towards his open mouth. He called out to
him, and he jumped up and shook the beast offj
and Joe stuck his fork into the poor thing, and
** hulled him away.*' Before long ihe toad made
his appearance again, and, this time with his "in-
nards hanging out,*' made his way straight towards
the eame man. Feeling somewhat uncomfortable
at this, the two took it into the wiisliJhotue, and
threw it into the fire under the boiler; but the
old lady rescued it, and, scolding them for their
cruelty, " pitched it into the horsepond."
One might have supposed that this would have
been enough for it ; but, no I Soon they saw it
again, torn with the fork, blackened with the fire
and mud from the pond, coming straight up to
them for the third time.
The explanation given waa, that the seeming
toad was in reality the ** imp " of the old woman,
who died shortly atlerwards I believe; and that,
knowing her death to be near, it was leaving her,
and attaching itself to her son and heir.
Whether by his conduct Joe had incurred the
displeasure of the " imp/* or why it was, I cannot
tell, but ever after that he hail been an unlucky
fellow, and the conviction that be was in "bad
hands" had bo completely taken possesiion of hlm^
that Ue be\ie\<id \l n\i\^ ^is^^tfss* \Si ^ ^ '^'^^
'^,^-^^
238
NOTES AND QUERIES,
t«»*awT*acAiLiitia
Htiiii9 dt the Dukb of EoxBufiGif.^ — Some
time ago I fell in with a very nice copy of a book
entiLleJ, Hymm and Spiritual Songs on Severid
Subjects^ to which is added the Marriage Supper of
the Lamb^ a Poein^ 8vo, pp. 144. Edin,, printed
by II. Galbraith, and gold by W. Gray* and by
Jolm Hoy, at Gattonsidef 1777. Lettered on the
back ** Hymns, &c., by the Duke of Roxburgli,"
toe authority for which beinr^, appareiiKy, the
original blue paper cover of the booK, whereon is
writteni " Spiritual Hyrons, by his Grace the
Duke of Roxburgh," preserved in the volume*
The book has a preface, in which it is expressly
stated that —
" th« author is a m«a of law estate, and lives ia a lonely
village, where he labours for his own and f«niMy'5 bread»
thtit h*i majf not be chargeable to any man. Another
bmrich of his employment, he says, is to water and feed
a Hitle flock of Christians, who have called him to take
the oversight of them, st whose desire these Hymns have
made their appearance/*
There is certainly nothing here to warrant the
ascription of these spiritual Eongs to the duke, or
to entitle them to figure in the Cat, of Uoyal and
Nobte Authors. The book in its blue-paper*cover
state, has passed through the hands of George
Chalmers, who marks it No. 685 in his missing
Bibliograpkia Scotica Poetica; and there is little
doubt that Dr. Bliss is chargeable with the bind-
ing and lettering ; yet neither of these book -men
note the mamfest absurdity, in the face of the
Srefacc, of fathering the volume u|X)n the duke,
ly own opinion is that the real author is the
John Hoy of the imprint, A person of this name
and locality, called the younger, was the author of
ft posthumous volume of poems, printed in 1781,
but he died early, and could not nave been a mau
of the matured responaibUities of my subject^
whom I shall designate the elder ; nor is there the
slightest allusion in the junior s book to the father,
beyond the fact that he calLi himself the 9on of n
email farmer, whieh the author of the spiritual
songa was. Finally, from the old man's tlescrip*
tion of himself, we may infer that he was the pa-
triarch of the village of Gattondde^ and a type of
the old covenanting layman, so well drawn by
Bums in his Cottar's Saturday Night. A. G.
AxORTMOtlS CoXTRinirTlO^'S TO *' X. & Q/*
Mr. Cobden, a gladiator daring the dangers ot' the
arena in defence of another's political integrity,
hna compelled the editor of The Time$ to lay aside
the garb of ** airy nothing,'' and to assume, like
other folk» " a local habilation and a name/*
Though the strug;.de has been unseemly in the
extreme, thougli the scheme propased by that
gentleman ha« been condemned by the fouriU
estate of the realm, ond though it would, if carried
ottt, incvitablv destroy the freedom and beneficial
ioHuence of the English presf, it may yet leod to
•ome iUfrgeMhnti with regard lo the auouymoua
nature of man^ contributions lo '^ N. & Q.^* mi
other publications purely literary. A retief
would be read with greater avidity if it wtn i
known that a Macautay or a JeBVeyl had fwuti
it. In a similar manner the value of this wo.*!
wouldf I submit, be increaaed a biindrcd fold if |
all subscribed their names to their eommuiiki-
tions. It is only after an experience of the umaL
justness of a writer's deductions that :rnv we^ I
can be attached to a Shem, a Heb^i i
l\ C. n, Kor would the same ati*.
to tbe ideas or sinrgestlons of a Pa of
MOBGAN, a LoRl> LtTTKLTOK, Or a IIa^i
tbe authorsHp of their articles rcmoined a muc^ j
Wrii5i?B E, Bjuctm^
Hehalds* Visitations. — Permit tne to 1
in your columns, that it would be a vctyj
convenience to genealogists and histor
quirers if some one would compile an ind^x 1
printed Heralds' Visitations and County Htiiair '
similar to Mr. Sims*s valuable Index to (kih-
Tuldji VisitatioHM in the Brituh JliuseuMm,
A GKHKAtxicm
VisHWU THE Prototype or tbb M&BjgAD^-* |
The prototype of the fabulous mernaaid
the I'ish Inc^irnation of Vishnu, the second |
of the Hindoo Triad. Vishnu therein ia
sented as a comely youth ; his hair fiUliDS ifm
hiB shoulders in curl lug locks, holding in ha n^
hand a chukram or wheel by a handle fsssleoH ti
it. In his left he holds a conch abeJl lka«im
many well defined convolutes. If the spokftt
taken from the wheel, we have the circular Joak-
J tig-glass of the mermaid ; and little fancy is r«- J
quired to change the convolutes of the ahcll la|
ibe left hand into the teeth of a comb* The upp
part of the god is that of a man, the lower beiiK,
that of a tish. This Incarnation of Vishnu la tdoiv
UcaI with the Chaldee 6sh gtHJ Anu^ and in belk
the memory of Nu or Noah is preserved, ^^Ishcs
is sometimes represented floating in a shtdl or ori.
Clajioes. — Perhaps the enclosed letter of <
staunch cavalier may interest the readers
**K. k Q." Who the writer is, that bis autog
consists of his surname only, I cannot fiay, Bil
Mxtinet Baroneiage givloj? a baronet onlTV o(|
name of Clarges, as flourishing during t&oicl
happy times* The volume in which 1 met '
it (Harl MS. 6804), contains many pftp
interest relating to the Great Kebcllion, AnHMif ^
others, a list of such as were known to be welt I
affected to the ♦*Kinge's Majesty withm Ibo Cdy j
of Gloucester."
«' ITor M. Walker, Secretary cf ths Caoi«Il cf wms^ ]
thwe ; —
•* S%-^1 know you have §o much .^aa
not Ihinkn of cvi^ry {n^rtiruler to nii" f».
t'M;>W, KwX \\\*\. \\\V\\gfivw:it Va \»u\, x<<\i »\v i,v,\vv i<s, ■^i4ir u «||,
r
•^ 8. T. Mar. is, 'M.]
NOTES AND QUERIE&
sa9
▼atices nay bnatineft, w*^ iiiAkes mce trouble rou ir*^ the
iivipc»rtunity of jny bov to lotrcato that you would be
pleasini to oblt!{K«2 God AUmighiy, your servant, and a
thousand poorc Lasarea w*^ your zeale in thit buasinfls
ytUl iMjrUtnely doe. The last troabletoma letter you saw
of myne Ua& all oar wnnts in it except a ChirargieuT
wUi«:!b mme courao muit speedily obteine; for we want
loucU bii asdialfinccw and bury moro toes and Jjng^erj then
veo doe mo 11, I am now, by a iubtle Philosophy, be*
come a D*" of Fhiiick, two ApotbecaHes, three overseers,
a»d t\^elve utteitdance; uiid I'll assure you thi4 service
la as ditngcn>u4{thoi}j;^h not so honorable) as the kadirtge
oa of Jufjints perdues. I hope this will be enough to
*"' -eate you to lot thia day ende all our neceasitiea : for I
so great a Z^Iot in this cause, that I beglnnc to thinkc
inyteUIs in a better coodition to serve these poo re misers
heere then the Galli^try at Court} and from this pursuit
neither the rinffeinge of bells yeaterdaj* the bonfires, or
tlie joy of the Kiuge, and blessed inteitaininent of m}*
Boyall mist Ha, could tempt mee. And to adde to this
miracle, I never had a better constitution of healthy w**»
1 am very proud e to prcsenre, to serve the Klnge and
live to ackfiuwledge how much you have ingigeU
" T^ Servant,
** CutBOKS.**
John Si^eigb.
Thornb ridge. Bake well.
Tbobijlb Adam, aliat Welhowas. — Ou an an-
cient stone slab in the beautiful but neglected
church of Langham, co, Rutland, is an inscriptjon
now being fast obliterated by the feet of "the
rude forefathers of the hamlet," and 1 am desir-
ous of storing it up in the sanctum of "N, & Q.,*'
«B it is curious and fast approaching UlegibitUy.
In fact many persons have in vain tried to deci-
pher it : —
( In €*ien$tK}
••Hie jaect Thomas Adam alias Welhowse Senior et
Helena uxorejui mercatordeStapell Calesie^anno domini
in^cccclxxjtiit, obiit xxvii die menaia Aprllia. Thomas
Adam Junior, filius ante Tocati, ctiam mercator Stapell
de Cak'sio anno domini Mcccccxxxii, quarum propicietur
DeuA," Amen.
PlULIP ACBEBT AtJDLBT.
^{trriti.
*'Ad euhobm" Hoods. — Much has been in-
serted in " N. & Q.'* on the subject of University
hoods and degrees; and, probably, my question
hUR been anticipated^ although I cannot find a
reply to it. The query is — Has a M-A. of Cam-
bridge or Dublin any right to wcnr the Oxford
M.A. hood, merely because admitted mi euudem
gradum* This is a thing never done by Cantabs,
who, with perfect justice, are as proud of their
University a« Oxonians of theirs ; but it is com-
monly done by Dublin men^ who, after taking an
ad enndem d*.'grce, without scruple discard the
blue hoo*i for good and for aye. Is this right ?
1 believe not* Juita Tueejm.
Abm6 waxted,-* On an old figured traj made
of papier machec^ or other cctnpositioa, in mj
possession are the following arms : Vert, two bil-
lets ragulcd and trunked pLiced saltirewise, the
dexter surmounted of the sinister, or. Cie^t : An
arm embowed, in armour, holding an arrow. This
is placed on a helmet reversed, or turned the
contrary way to which it is usually represented.
The nearest resemblance to this bearing that I
have met with is for the name of Shurstab, •^a
Dutch coat/' says Gwillim. The one I have given
above is probably a fureign one also. Can any
one inform me to what familj it pertains?
C. J.
SiE Wii^tiAM Bkeesfobd. — I euclose an ac-
count of an old portrait in the possession of a
friend. The date is quite irreconcilable with the
date of any P^nglisb portrait, and the English
style, "Sir William/' is equally irreconciUble
with a painting of the alleged age. I shall
be glad if any of your readers can suggest who
the 8ir William Oeresford was to whom the
picture is assigned* Probably he was some Der-
byshire man of the fifteenth or sixteenth cen-
tury, well known to the local historians of that
coimty : —
DESCntPTlON OF A nALF- LENGTH POtrTRArr OF SIE
WILLIAM BERESFOnD, KNitillT, 1341^.*
The picture in painted on n panel of oak very roughly
dressed, thin at the edge*, and with two longitudinal
eracka, as if composed of three boArds like some of the
early Flemish pictures. On this uneven back surface, the
following inscription occur* in large old lettering, "Sir
W™ Bercsford, Knt. ; " and below is written in the hand
of the last century, •*Pinri. 1345." On the frame the
name and date are* repeated, showing the anxiety of the
former owners to preserve what is now scaiing cff from
the face of the picture, viz. the artist's date of execution.
In the left' hand corner of the fi-ont of the picture occur
these letters and figurea ^AO 13 5." The third figure
** 4 ** has disappeared altogether. In the right-hand cor-
ner ia painted ••jETATiS 75." Were it not for the
rather hftivy outline there would be difficulty in making
out the exact shape of Sir Wul^s cap from the black back>
ground. Though this cap bears some resemblance to tboa«
worn in Edw. v lth*a reign, yet caps of many shapes were
worn in Edw> lUrd's time with a single feather upright
in front of the bonnet Thefscc of Sir Wm. is tolerably
limned, and he looks out upon you siern and resi>lute.
The eyeB have life and character/lbuugh they appear tew
a mall. The flesh-colour of the checks ia wijll preserved,
and the nose is nicely proportioned, and in gOLMl relief.
Immediately beneath 'it fails a noble brown moustache,
twisted tu on each side to show the smallest bit of mouth.
The beard is heavy, and long enough to cover the whole
chest \ it falUnaturallytand divides near the end into two
thick points. Sir Wm. wears a black sable-trimmed gar-
ment, the fur wide on the shoulders, narrowing in its
descent in front like a lady's boa. In Kdw. Illrd's reign
we are told that furs of ermine snd letlice were strictly
forbidden to any but tbc royal family, though nobles |ioa-
•esaing a thoust&d pounds per anuura might sport ibcm.
Peeping from under the right whiaker, and re^sting 0at
upon the shoulder fur, is a fragment of kce with a tassel.
A tight-fitting black sleeve covers the left arm, and tha
wrist is encirdcd vitVv Vait* «i^ \\wfe tasESA ^jaX\sA^ ^^^^
240
NOTES AND QUEEIES-
C t»< a. V* ,
li^m
collar, o Hilled. The Hffbt band gnsf>» a pair of glovea^
eviii«Mitly intended for stroDg buckfikJo; they have two
tags, axil) one giovo has a btitton oa it cover«d with
leather. Varnish hiu been iporiagly tuedon the picture,
and the Llistcriii/^ appears to have been caused by tbo
shrinking of the fibre of the wood. The hoods arc fairly
paintcdi hut display no rin^ upon the lingers.
CxMPOIiOKQO'l ^^LmtOLBXlCON.'* 1 BftVC In
my possession a curious book» pubUshed in Naples
in the year 1782, called Lithokxicon, It consiist^
principallv of inscriptions, containing unusual
words collected rrom brasses and marbles in vari-
oun parts of Italy. The author, Emmanuel Cara-
polongo, gives a not very i!itellig:iblfi account in
a loiij^ preface ofllie manner in which the manu-
script copies of tbeae inscriptions came into his
hands. MuL'b mention is wade in the pre! act*,
and in several inscriptions, of a sect called Adei,
about whom I should be glad to receive naore
particular infonn«ition. The following is the ac-
count the author gives of them : —
** Adei, sec La qundam Deos el i minims, arcbaica, et
u«qiie perdnrans sjbcuHs post«rioribu«, fundala iup^rbia,
irav luxu'- * - ' ] i ; per totum terraram orbem dis*
semioat^t. le sic, ut nulla Mogistratus vi colii-
beri poas< r i quaquaversum ; de qua nltum femie
silentium upuU S<: ri^j tores, quoniam iinusquii^ue metuebat
f^mtin sibi malum aooersere; nisi quod de ea Copltus
ftodl^inus meminit. FAcdosui Adeua citatus cum Deiata
aftt« fenim diaboloia, oedera Caino Adeatuiu, furore cor-^
riFptus dedit alapam dlabolo'De»ta;quo. — Ca»iiua Eodigi-
uu«, Libro Geomantife, cum Ritterhuaio.*'
From many Gfjually strange inscriptions re-
lating to tliiK sect I trauHcribe thu following: —
•• lei (ins, AdeuA, Asiuio, Dedit, AUpam, Vesti%*iDo.
Adto. Miiiii^Miv-«;ni, L't, DedidicedU Adei», Dare, Ala-
\u%s Astnius, Calcibuir, AsinJ. Digcus. A. Conjuge.
Amiaso, G«menti&."
I shall be obliged for any Information respecting
these Adei^ and the authority of the LUhmexicon
of Emmanuel Canipolongo^*
Colchester.
JOUM I)j|7tiBL» Aim OTBBJl BAJU*T Pl*\fBHS.
Between the yenrs 1619 und I63:5t various pay-
ments were made by the corporation of this town
tu tbe leaders An«1 managers of several courpantes
of plajrera visiting the place. The following
names occur in these entries : Ellis Gest, or
Guest; Thomas Swinnertou ; Artliuret Grimes;
John Daniel; Terry; Slater;
Townaend ; Knight ; Kite ;
Moore ; Diahley ; and Perrie. A few
of them are mentioned in Mt, J. P. Collier's An^
naU of ihf Stage, I shall feel grateful for an
earljf communication of any additional particidara
rtspeeting any of them. William Kklxt.
'HC"i and
(• For a fhort account of Ev.
a itst of bis »r«rk/i, rotjifuit the ^
DiGBT PBmonBE. — Wc ' ^»Fiiied by Aa- 1
thony Wood, in his Life oj ^m Dighf^^ |
a book wHi compiled by oriu r m the latter, <
tftinin^r a history of the Dig by family. It ■«-— .
that the Tower, and all oUier simil&r dep«tianaJ
in London, were ililip-ntly searched for rei^l
evidence as to this illustrious fnniiTv - n^d tlnl At|
vol ume contained drawinj^s of ri u ei
sepulchral monuments of that r
the then recently erected tomb of '^
wife of Sir Kenelra. Where i^ thi>
A LOKD OF A MaSiOA.
**TffE Gleaner^" jetc. — In Janoar
weekly periodical^ entitled The Gleaner
and Gtftdlemana Mt/gazine, was started iji l'u
and I have a copy of the first number. C«aiil|
tell me whether any other numbers SLppem^f I
Family ofGoodwch. — The inquirer waall^ I
histoi*y and pedigree of a family of tlita
Any information will be a favour. He i
Elands that the Enn^ltsh locality of the beadcf^j
family was at one time at Lym; "^xtimi
but they had a connexion, mv
with America, at Kew York an*.i m v ir^ipi
at the Kevolution» took the Koyalist Stidc
and in England, they were mucb cooti«
busincssi and by man-iage, with the UmMy i
SLedden. About fifty yeara i^o, then* «{i|iMill
have been five or six brothers Goodriches*. Jdtk
beli*jved the eldest, lived at Everglyn, near Ca^
pbilly, Glamorganshire, His eldest son waa Wu-
lianif of Gloucestershire ; his youn^:e^ iJae Mi^
Barley Vicar of Great Suling, Essex* Wl^ifli
of Gloucestershire had several sons and dmy^lil^
The sons, as far as known, William ^arrf |B.)^
James; the Rev. Octavius, Vicar of lljiJnaMi
near Leominster ; and Arthur. The f«uiu1y iiW
lately. If not now, In Glouccstersbire, at Matjsa
House, and at Maisemure Court, both near Gti*-
ccstei\ Of the five or six brothers nK'nlifMic^
nnother, Bartlet, once lived at Lutwich Hall
Salop ; and had a house in Quoca Sijuure^ Londoa
He removed from Lutwub « ^v:. .- * v. ^^ £^
sex* He had eight dau \nm,
Margaret, married her cuLi ,^ . ..^.ilM^
of Lenborough, Bucks, son oi' usioihvt of the f ft
or six brothers; and another it( the iT.iiiL»lnici
married another cousin, the Rev. I tyf^
rich, already mentioned. Bartlel
Saling Grove, was certainly one ni ; i
who had had a connexion with Atii.uMi.
wife wais Mary Wilson, believed of N«w
Mm.
ra/e, viii US. — Eu,]
I
8"«S.V. jaK.19,'04.]
NOTES A2fD QUEBIE&
241
I
I
iDformaeioti, sent either through " Hf. k Q.," or
under cover addre«»ed *' Bojc» No. 62, Post Office,
Derbj/' wUl^ as ^d, b< a favour, M. A. J«
Abp. Hamiltow, — Tn the Cathedral of Upsal,
in Sweden, lies buried (m (he same grave as
Laiir^nt'tus Petri Nerieius, the first Protestant
trchbishop of Upsal), Archibald Hamilton, Arch-
bishop of Casbel, who dfed at Fpsal, 1650. Can
ao/otie gtve me any information as to this Irish-
infia*B doings in Sweden ? When did he fly thither ?
£. S. M,
Hbkauiec QcmtT. — A. belongs to a family who
have never been annigeri, and obtains for himself
a ertnt ot arms. He dies without issue. Have
A.S brotherHf or other relative?, any claim what*
©FCr to bear ihe arms granted to A. ?
It appears to me they can have no sueh right,
but I should wish to have my opinion sanctioned
by the autliority of "N. & QJ' J,
Rev. J^mb« Kbnkedt. — In the year 18 J S, the
Rev. Jumes Kennedy, A.B., published a 12mo
pamphlet, entitled —
** Laehryrns Aca^mnicie ; compnaio^^ StAOzas tn Eng-
lish and Greek, sddre&sed to ttie MeiDiory of the Princesa
Charlotte." Dublin, pp. 34.
The author, I think, is dead ; and I wish to
know where I may End any particulars respect*
ing him. Abhba.
Wji^ljam Luxikgtom Lewis, of Pembroke Col-
lie, Oxibnl. became B.A. June 26, 1764. He
occurs, ill 1 765, as first usber of Repton Grammar
School, Derbyshire. He published, by subscrip-
tion» the Thebmd of Statius, translated into
English verse, Oxford, 2 vols. 8vo, 1767. It is
dedicated to Henry, Duke of Beaufort; and,
amongst tlie subscribers, are many inhabitants of
Gloucv'stenabire and the adjoining counties. A
second and improved edition of the work ap-
peared at Oxford in 1773* This translation is
comprised in the poetical collections of Anderson
and Chalmers. More about the translator is
desired. S. Y. R.
JoaePH Masste, a celebrated political writer,
who died Nov. 1, 1784, is mentioned in M 'Col-
loch a Literature of Political Econoim^ 251, 330,
S31. It is observuble that Watt calls him John.
He Jrt '«Ur» -Milled JoKk in the published Catalogue
of i^r : Books in the British Museum. In
the i Catalogue he appears as J. Massla
I suppose that, like too mimy of the autliora nf the
jiresent day, he gave only the initials of his Cluris-
ii&n name on the titles of his books. S. Y. R.
Reikts wasted. — I should feel obliged to any
correspondent who may be able to give me a
description of any rebus, or punning molto, borne
{ for the name of Ford, CARJLfoftB.
CapaT«wti,
RicBARt> Smith.— Born at Bramham, York-
shire, in 1626 ; died there in 1668. A MS. journal
says that he *^ was educated for the gown, but y*
troubles in England at that time prevented lus
proceeding." Is his name upon the records of any
of the Inns of Court ? Does the word ** gown
apply to all of the three learned professions ?
St.T.
St. John CLiMACin^s. — I have a copy of the
Climax of thin father (the great work from which
he derived his surname) in Latin, which very
closely resembles the Farts edition of 1511, de*
scribed by Panzer (vol. x. p. 6, art, 469), a copy
of which is in the British Museum*
Mine diHers from that edition in the following
particulars : —
1. It bears no imprint of place or date.
S2. Bach folio is numbered.
3. The type is somewhat neater, and the initi&l
letters more ornamental.
4. The title is simply "Doctor spualia dy-
macus.*'
5. The printer's mark is that of Denis Roche,
who flourished in Paris, 1501*1510.
My copy WAS formerly in the Library of the
late Mr. Peter Hardy, F.R.S., a distinguished
actuary, and a very excellent and learned man.
I do not find Rocue*s edition mentioned either
in Panzer, or in the prefatory Remarks to the
Reprint of the Climax in Migne's PatrohgitB
Curtm Completuw, Series Grseca, vol. Ixxxviii.
This famous work of St. John of Mount Sinai
was translated into English for the first time a«
recently as 1857, by a priest of the Roman
Catholic Church, whose name escapes me at thi«
moment.* An account of the saint is given in
Aiban Butler, under March 30,
Possibly your learned correspondent Canon
Dai*ton, who takes so much intere<^t in the labotirs
of Ximenes, may be able to contribute some bib-
liographical notes of this Treatise — the popularity
of which on the continent, in the early part of the
sixteenth century, was no doubt due to that car-
dinal^s repr'mt of it,
Job J. B. Workaeb.
SosG : ^* Is rr to tet mk ? "—Can any of yo«r
correspondents tell me where to find the words of
a song (said to have been sung by the late Ed-
mund Kenn), of which the first verse is as fol-
lows:—
•» Is it to try mo
That yon thus fly me? —
Can y'oa deuy me
Day after day?"
F. F. a
[ • Th§ llofy Ladder of Per/eciion, % wliich urn man
A»cend to Htavtn. TxnAvMX^A tto^j^ ^^t^'t^^^W-^. ^^>Ja.^
Robert. Mount ^t.^mwCi'^ >W^^[. \«oSl.VWs^A^^^***
242
NOTES AND QUERIES.
IS^ & V. Mam. aii
Sophocles, — AVho are authors of 1. CEdipus
Tprannm^ literftlly transUted by a Graduate,
Dublin, 1840, VImo? 2. (Edipus Tyranniu of
Sopbocles, literalfy tranBlatecl, London ^ Bell,
1847 f 3. Sophocles^ Greek and Latin, cum
Scholils. Cantab. J. Field, small 8 vo, 1665. Re-
printed 1668, 9, 73* Who 18 the author ofthU
Latin Yersion ? R. L
Theocsitdb* — L Theocritug, Six Eclogues
IranBlfttcd by E*D. Oxford, 1588.— 2, TheocriU
(pnedam seUctwra Eidyllia^ Greek and Latin, by
David Whitclbrd, London, 4to» 1659. Is the
14th id vll'of Theocritus^ ** The Syracusan GoBsipe,"
included in these Latin and English translations?
Is anything known of the tranfilatora ? K. L
Wills at LLANDArr.^Can any of your readers
inffirtn me of the fate of the earlier portion of the
wills that have been proved at Llandaff ? The
existing documents, preserved in that dijninutive
city do not go back ao far as 1700; and a tradi-
tion reports that the more ancient records were
destroyed by fire. If any of your correspondents
can enlighten me on this subject, or can inform
me whether the wills in question have been trans-
ferred to any other diocese, they will much oblij;©
Antiquitas»
<^ttrrttif foftf) ^ttj0»fnf,
Milton's " mebb A. S. and Rutdbrpobd **
(3^** S- V. 118.) — In your editorial reply to the
above query, you alBrni that " A. S, tlenotea
Dr. Adam Steuart ; but I believe that this is a
mistiikf, and that the right name is indicated by
Dr. Irving iu hi^ Lives of Scotuh TfriYcr*, Edinb.
1839: —
« Warton remarks of A. S. that * his DAm« was never
known.* But we learn from Corl>et'a vituperiitive Epitile
that his naine was Alexander Scmple. (Ephtle Con-
ffratuluiory of Lftunarhut Nicanor, p, 69. edit, Oxfonl»
1684, 410.) Among other works, he publiihcd a Ballad
callfd ThM Sithop's Bndie$r—YQl iL p. 12a.
ElBlOMHACn.
[The Rev. H. J. Todd {Poetical Work* of Joha Milton,
vu* H edit. 1809), after quoting Warton's note, remarks
that *» TJic name of A. S. was well known, and a doughty
thampton be appears 1o have been in the potemics of
that time: wito@« his effusions, entitled ' Zerubbabel to
S«al>alUt and Tobiah : or, The first part of the Duply to
M, S, iklioM Two Brethren, hy Adam Sleuart, 8tc. Imprim.
Miir. 17. 1644,' ito. Again, • The second part of the
Ouply to M. S. aikis Two Brethren. With a brief Epi-
tome and RefutatioQ of all the whole IndejtendeHt Go-
vernment: Most burobly snbmllted tw thw King's mo»t
•xcellsnt Msjeitie, to ihe most Honorable IIoums of
Parliamrnf, the mo«t Reverend ntul Teamed Divines of
Ihn Ai»emlh% and all the TrwteiUnt Churthei In the
Island and abrmd. by Adim Stttmirt, Impriin* Oct 3,
1644, 410.* Jn thJs »ec<mil part liie observations of Wia
Two Brtthrtn are stated^ ttnd the r«plJe« at]
with A, S. prefixed. Poaaibly Milton ridkillca tlii» |
nutenesB, in here writing only * mora A- 9.' Bf
the Tracts above stated contain in Ibcir tilla-pagti tk|
name at targe. See also, * An Answer to a Libell i
A Coole Conference bctweene the cleered Hafiic
and ihe Apologfiicalt NarratioHt brought togftLtrl7i|
^Veil-Wilier to both, &c. By Adam Stfwtrt, hall
iG44* 4to. I have found him called, in 9tli«rtiKlitf|
the time^ Doclot A. Stauart, a Divine of th«€liafflil|
Scotland."]
Sir Richard Ford. — In Strype*» editioi Jt
Stow's Survey, vol. ii. p, 148 (edit. 1720). 1 id
an engravinf^ of the arms of Sir Ricliard I^J
Mercer, Mayor of London. What arc the lor I
tures of this coat^ and what cre^t and iiio4li> H^i
Sir Richard bear ? I should also be gladafMI
further information respecting the innyorr vvl
iiimily. CxmMijn^
Cape Town,
[Sir Ki chard Ford (of the Forda of Hadldntl j
folk) was knighted by Charles 11. at tho li^ga
1660; Sheriff of London. 1663 j Lord Mayor, II
M.P. for Sou t bam pi on ia tbe first session of i
parlinment of Charles II. A.D. 16T8. Sir KicliaM^
town residence was tn Hart Street, Crutched I'riar^ «t0i1
he bad our amusing Diarist, Samuel Pepysi^ Ibr a i
bout and an acquaintance. " I do 6Qd»^ eaya I
** Sir Richard Ford a very able man of l»i«
tongue, and a scholar.** When Pepys atarled at
of his own, he tells us that "This evenings (?
166^), to my great content, I got Bir KidiafH IMI
give me leave to set my coach in bis yaxtl.** A^ttailsi
days after, be says, "AH the momingr at tH« [Km|
Office, where, while I was fitting, one cornea and t«^s
lb at my coach is come. So I was force4 ta go o«^ ^
to Sir Rtchard Ford's, where I spoke to bins, and^i
very willing to have it brought in. and stand Ijscvvf «i
so 1 ordered it. to my great content, it betn^ mifltr
prettyi only the horses do not plaaae me, axid tik
resolve to have better."
Sir Richard Ford's country residence wae at Hav
wins [Baldwins], a manor situated at ihe aotatli-
comerof Dartford Heath, in Kent. He died &u Au|pislit.'
1G78, and was buried in Bexle^* Church, in K^nU w)k«f«
there Is a long Latin inscription on his gravevtons^asl
printed in Le Keve*s Mnnwmrnia An^tctina^ Part H.
p, 187, His arms, as given in Burke's Armary, mrtk Q^
two bends vair^, on a canton or, .to anchor sa. Crwl,e^
of tbe naval coronet ... a bear's bead, sa, muaaJed g»]
Aw Ei'iTAPU. — I lately found the Rooaa^HUiy
ing lines amongst some old MS. pa perm. Cca
anyone inform me to whom the cpitAph Rf
and by whom it waa written ? —
** Hers he% unptUed both by Churrh and Staler
Tha subieet of their Flatter v
Flattered bv those on whcftn • fl«>w*d«
»"• S. V. Mas. 19, '04.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
24d
Who aimed the Chnrcli by Church men to Itetray,
Ami hoped to ahare in Arbitrary .SvrAV:
In Tuidar» ami in IIoadlev*.4 Pulhs she trod.
An Hypocrite in all — but Oi^belief in God.
Promoted Luxury, oncou raged Viee,
HeTsdf a Stave to lordid Araricc.
True Friendship, lender l^ve^ no*er toncVd her HeAiti
Falsehood nppeared, in vain disi^ised by Art;
Fawning and Haughty— when Familinr, Bade,
And ne\'€r Gracious «eom'd, but to delude;
Inqui5itivc in trifling mean afiTain,
Heedless of Public Good or Orphani' Tears j
To her own Offspring mercy she denied.
And uaforgiriog^ im^rgiven dkd."
Biscopuf.
[This lampoon waa drawn up tn Answer to an Epitaph
ou Queen Caroline, Consort of George IL, commenc-
ing—
**nere lies, lamented hy Iho Poor and GretU
Prop of the Church, and Glory of the Stale," &c
Printed in Ver$e» on the Death of that Qtiecn, fol 1738.
The copy of thtf Lampoon in the British Mujieum is so
cleverly written as scarcely to he distinguished from
typography. The author is unknown to us.]
GuTTElltnGE, TBK PoET, A NaTIVB OF SuOBB-
©iTcn, — Wanted, particulars of birn knd bis
works. ^_
fNofliing appears to he known of Tliom&s Gutteridge,
who was simply a doggrel rhymist of Elegies, which he*
printed on folio iheeU, much in the style of those by
Master James Catnach, residing in that Bohemian locality,
Monmouth Court, Seven Dials. Six of Giitteridgc's Ele-
ipes are preserved in the Britiah Museum. In a postscript
to that on the Memory of the Rev. John Dabbiird, who
died July 13, 1743, Gutteridge haa the following note
reapecting himself: ** Tlie Author of this tcachoth Short
Hand from schemes of hia own, intirely new, and will
wait upon any person at thetr own house." hi 1750, he
was residing at No. 47, New Inn Yard, Shoreditch. The
laal Elegy we have met with was on the Rev, Thomas
Hall, who died June 3, 1762.]
" CtiouGii A?f D Crow." — Who wrote this well-
know ti poem, best known through Bishop's ad-
mirnbl© glee ? A. Aingss,
[This bejiutifbl poem is by Joanna Baillie, and ought to
have appeared in the collected edition of her Dramatic
and Poetkal Work$, 8vo, 1861. It is entitled " The Gip-
»ey Glee and Chonu," and ia printed in Daniel Terry *i
Muaical Play of Guy Munneringi or, the Gipfy*a Pro-
phecy, 8vo, 1816, p. 42. Mr. Terry adds in a note, " To
Mrs. Jo'inna BaiUie's friendly permisaion, I feol proud in
acknowledging myself indebted for the nte of this heau-
liAil poem; accompanied by the music of Bishop, the
effect it produces is most powerful and characteristic"]
Champak Odours. — What is the meaning of
ibe wonl **Cbatnpak" as used in the following
Jines by Percy B. Shelley : —
"TW wand'ring airs they faint W
Olv 0>« dark^tbe silent stream,
The Chnmpak odours fail
Like »we«t thougbu in a dream.
If The njghtlngle*s conplalutlit dies upon her heartt r
/^yjL As I must on thiQe,|beloveR as thou art." C
^ h c. s.
[The following notice of the charming and celebrated
plimt Cbampac occurs in Sir William Jones's "Botanical
Obicrrfttiona on Select Indian Plants," Worki, vol. v. p.
129, edit. 1807 : — " The strong aromatick scent of the
gold' coloured Champac is thought offensive to the bees,
who are never seen on its blossoms; but thdr elegant
Bppearance on the black hair of the Indian women is men*
Cloned byRun)phius; and both facts have supplied the
Sanscrit poets with elegant allnsiona.**]
Bishop Pridbaux's Portrait. — I recently
raet with a portrait of John Prideaux, Bishop of
WorceBter, and underneath the portrait a view
of the rectory of Bredon, where he died. I wish
to know from what work this folio plate ia ex*
traded, and where the origlnnl oil-painting of
the bishop is now to be aeen ? Is it at Exeter
College, Oxford f G. P.
[The folio plate of Bishop PrideatLx and the Rectory-
house at Bredon ia taken from Nash's HiMtory of Warcet-
ia-ihi^l 132, edit. 1782. Parker's /fafu/AeoA /or llnior»
to Oxford, ed. 1858, p. 182,notice« a portrait of Dr. Pri-
des ux (most probably the Bishop), at present in Exeter
Hall, Oxford.]
" YocKO LovELL*8 Bridb.**— Is the incident of
tbe death of ** young Lovell's bride," related in
the ballad, " Tbe Mistletoe Bough,*' founded on
fact ? And if »o, where is the fact stated ? H.
[Mr. Rogers ia his //Wy, ed. 1640, p. 110, haa a story
headed " Giaevra," and which he lays the scene of at
Modena. In a note he says, ** I believe this story to be
foiuided on fuct* though I cannot tell when and where it
happened ;" and adds, ** many old houses ta this country lay
claim to it." Two versions of the dramatic narrative of
** Ginevra^ the Lady buried alive,'* are given by Collet in
hia BtlicM of Literature, p. 186. Vide « N. & Q." I* S,
V. 129,209,333.]
tB^tpliti,
PARISH REGTSTERa
(3^^ S. V. 78, et passim.)
The registers of the parish of AVilby, Northamp-
tonshire, deserve to be noticed as presenting a
ba|>py exception to that injury nnd destruction
which similar records have too often experienced
through the neglect of their legally constituted
guardians, assisted by the ravages of the general
enemy Time and damp. But thej^e happened most
fortunately, it appear*, to fall under the care of
one whose well-known appreciation of ancient do*
ctiments secured for them the privilegje of a.l<iwgx
244
NOTES AND QUEBLE&
[B^^aT. iiA«.i
And aniiquariau tastes as Tbomas Percy, tiie rec-
tor of tbi5 small countrj village ; but we may^ at
all events, hold up bis example as worthy of their
imitation. It ibes honour to the raemorjr of the
author of Reliquea of Engtiah Pot try to hnd him
thus usefully employed in preserving the huoible
annals of his parish for thie bene&t of those that
•hould come after him.
The title-pnge to the registers bears the follow-
ing inscription in his own hand : —
** Tli«ie old Registers were rescued IVom Destruction ^
and for their further Preservation gathered into ihia
volume in 1767,
** TflOMAfi P&RCY, Rector:*
**l]lOina8 PeroVt A.M. (Vieer of Eastern Maudit), In-
ititnled Aug 14f 1756. Appointed ChsptAin hi Ordiaof^r
' to IL Ge" 8* in 17f>9, and Deao of Carltsk in 1778 [and
Bishop of Dromore in Ireland in 1782/3
"Ac the end of this Volume is a Fragment of en an*
eient Book of R&tcs, which was thought to be a curionty^
that doerved to be preeerved.
" Memorandum <
" Feby 25*, 1767* This day I transcribed into the three
Ibllowing Leavte of Furchment all the Articloi of Births,
Baptiema, and Buriab during the years 175G, 1757, 1758^
1759* 1760, 1761, 1762. 17G3, 1764, 1765, 1766. wiach I
found entered in a Paper Register of the Baptisms and
Burials of this Parish of Wilbye, Tis. all that have hap«
poned since I have been Hector of this Porish ; and after
a very exact Collation of this Copy with the oaid Qrigi-
^ oalf, 1 hereby decUre it to be very correct and perfect.
*' Thomas PKacv, Ruiorof WlS^'
The "fragment " of the "ancient book of rates*'
contains many curious and interesting entries in
reference t*^ the period when the court of Charles
L took up Its abode at Wellingborough, in order
that the que<?n uiit^ht drink the chalybeate water
of tins "red welL" And it appears from tliem
that the adjoining parish of Wilby was laid
under contribution for the supplies of her ma-
jesty ^s household. Specimena af the entries a^
fellows: —
'* A Levy made the 16^ of July, 1627, for her MaiMtifis
honeehold, at xlj* a yard lanJ.f
Sum tot', xxxiij* xi'^
" 1627. Laying* <hUJ'or htr MaiestitM honu^X
8c Fflyd for cerrving nix chicken and a
capon to Vvellingt>orei)gge - - lUj^
IK Payd for earring fonr stnkea of wheat
to y* Court e • . . « ^X*
IK Payd for nix chickens and a capon - i^j*
!•, Par<1 \n fhnmns Ilericke for driving
r<<ol« to thu Co arte - xtl'^
IK pound of butter • vj* vig''
I', i -v ' ■ ^ -...iJlje of the name * iifj*
It written by another hand, evidently that of
in the living, the tt«v. Palmer Whatley,
*' jk;^ '^*fns to have been i«rh#n
harlee l. cume down u>
I lolaeral water in \Vel-
«1>«n slie wsa down at Wtl-
l^ Payd to tU» ringer when h«r Maiaatlg
went thoroagb the toune to KarlJft*
tow _.----
I*. Tayd to «lx women for gaihefiDga
ruahes(?) • - . - *
IK Payd for tow quarter of oatcs '
It Payd fiir a load of Wood ibr the Coosta
To'the men to load the wood* andgoto^e
ta Wellingbonough w* it *
Sum tot^
« jdtijT i
lade the xxx^ Dav of July of twelve fBR
a yard iaiid for nnorviaton for the Qoeeo At Wallii^^
row, and for the Qaole and Marshalaea House of Ctin^
tion.*
•*ALcry made the 5 E>ay of flfebruary of 6<a f«l
land for tlie <sirriaj^ of a lode of Coaler fur her Miff. Bli^
peeter man from Yaxley to Ringstead.**
Enough has been here cited to ahcysr ihaX tl>
^* fragment** is highly illuBtraiive of a PV ^
history extending beyond the Hniitri of Uie p«nA
boundaries, and the general as well ft9 the leed
annalist will be gratdful to the worthjr redfl' w
the care bestowed on its presci^ation.
GREEK AND ROMAN GAMES (3^* S, iii, -IL- .
65); GREEK PROVERBS (iv. 286; t. 1 i.
In ronipliance with your correspondent^ llrrwb
request, 1 here supply the extracts ref|(iired »
illustrate the subject of his communicattona.
In order that they mtiy occupv little rdom. I
have only occasionally given the Oreck orlgioal :
1. MearsiuA, De Lndia CnFffyntfn fOpp 16, lOH)
'^QuintanuB contax I rwMtd Qi
interlicia, Ju^tiniui ,^ | (^
dc Aleatoribu-^ Dun . a _i Maathi
ion, Contomouobolon, Uuaiianuin canta^tt mUm li^ia
Iterum in L, Aiearum 3 ihtd. T>(«inrAm Tmn^ tHiT
quinque ludo^, uionobolo! ' .on, Qitlsit]
conttjcfi eiric fibula, jn^ri* ! Rmt i
jaculatio, llebutque pme it fmrw%n
Quincto auctore nomen haUliiiL UHl^ctmon Ad
Nomi>can. tit. xiii. [<'ap. 2D.1 Quiiiiunus contmx i
filnilenn, : - ' > ...
quedam
bertUA M
p» oL3 ii^utviia vuiua m; null 4'
tentur^ terra* infixi^ sudthus
in cmjitinnmQTi"' — - '■ '
Ubi amplias •
ad iudcA, itt u I
•' Cmitomonoboton. Meminit Imtierator in ci talis i
verbis. Krat veru iahatio ut e B4iliMimnne accip
nuem jam nuuc laudavj. Contomonobdou,
mil
As un illustration of the passngc In PoRos
(Ommuutiean^ lib. ix. 7>t describing tlj<» ^astlm« I
• Not© bv 'i\ Percy :
Vfife of K. (>liarW« 1. wan
the witem.'*
t " Ktiiim Apud uo« Quinianei liulue haiul
iidi I
1 i oolittiai, adpaa
I
m&r. mab. 19,
NOTES AND QUERIES.
245
cfilled " Hipiias,** I subjoio anolber extract from
•• £t lu«u8 aliqms ludilur, dictus in vols (^ KorvXft) \
procedit nutern ttr: niTmmduc«»u« qatdmn retro manoe
connect it digit t - -m quit in oonr^vi* mflumttm
quB* dunt voliv apaeiUti, <;t itu nUollena M,
poriatur tinnitu, w, — . hcuIom* portAiitiV' ^'-*
The word*, *E^ icwnJXp i^#p««i dej?cribinw tUig ye*
hicular or equestrmti eport^ K.nm>^ to be ufted as a
proverbiiii sayUig.
" Ludi hoc genus puerile Korvhfff eopiote exp!i€Jit
Joliu» Pcllux, lib. ix. [122] J AtheiiKus, libro xi. [p.
479 A] ; Ku5Luthiua id Homerum [//. *. p, joO.] Dictum
videtur do lis qui uliena paseuuttir ]ib«:mHtiite : qtiulc
iJlud, Equua me porUt, alit Rex. Schotttn ud Proverbi*
2^TJ' ^ ' I' ' <H1 Goiaford, Oxooii, J8ou.
♦' , ? Dli Frcane, Ghnarium Metiiat tt Inftms
Ijati' liJitiina, Qfiiatenu, Deeur*io equratn* lu-
dicriw &'- \ ule Froiiwrtiim, 4 toI. eap. 03* p. 187, et
qu3U de hoc lodicro coogeMimas in Disaert 7, ad Jaio^
villum.'^
" The lust of all these military cjtordws* which I men-
tiotied is tbuL of * the Quiniuin/ which ii a bulfSgura of
0 niiiD placed on a post^ an<]i turoirig on a pirot, so thit
if the Afdftiliuit does not with bta lance hit him right on
the middle of the bT«Lst, but on the extreinitiei, he makes
the figure turn round, which haviog a staff or sword in
his right hand, and a buckler on the others strikes the
person who shall have given him an itl- aimed blcrw.
This exercise seems to have been invented to leaeh those
who used the lunce to point it wetj ; for in tiltd they were
bound to give tbetr thrusts between the four members,
or tliey wcij^ MiiMnd for their awkwardness*' — Memoir*
o/Jakn / ilie. To which ure added the Notes
and Djsi-i M. Du Cauge> on the above, &c j
TxAELslatcii >jj iu'JUiMtJi Johnoi, Esq. VoL ii. pp. I03i 4>
BuiLioTiLECAit. Chatham
THE KEWTON STONE.
(a^^S. ▼.110.)
If Dn. ^loonE is right, the nmn T*bo carved
the Newton stone must have been one of no or-
dinary attaintnenU. He was familtar with the
alpbubels cu]lcd Fhcentdau, BactriAn^ and Lat,
and he waa nfquainted witli the Hebrew and
Cbaldee languages. It is not loo niucb to saj,
that Dr, M. considers Jim languages to be repre-
sented upon this siotiG bv this one inscription ;
i£ we include the 0«iham line^ there are six. Now
it is not easy to conceive the motive for employing
five languages in recording the vapid memorial of
forty-two letters, as Dr. M. explains it ; and in
truth I believe tbut expliuuition \itti?rly uiifoundeJ.
Tu arrive at it, we have to suppose other mar-
YcUoue vappositions. I mention one or two of
them ; that the 42 lettera on the stone can be-
come 48 when " {ransliterated'* upon paper; that
these letters not only change their number, but
their order on the stone (\\'ilfiond Prekidoric
* t>ac9 this feature in the game accoutfl fur the sub-
fttetttAco of the wofd hmtitij for tintucift In the Teittua of
AnnaUt of Scotland, it. 214) ; the letters upon
the stone run from lett to ri^bt, but Dr. Moosb
hoB been com pel le*! ttj make them read from right
to left^ to suit his theory, which requires us to
believe that the author of this inscription wrote
Hebrew in a style and idiom unknown to the
literature of the languaf^e. I defy nny scholar to
show that tiie translation of Dr. M. can be ex-
torted out of his Hebrew, or that the Hebrew ietten
you have pftntci accurately represent either ihek
supposed Enj^Ush equivalents, or what is offered
ne a translation. 3133 is not Hebrew at all; cer*
Iftinly no »ucb noun occurs in the Lexicons, and
if it did, it would not be represented by begabatmt
but by begabeh^ or heguhab. The Doctor s word
is found m Chaldee, where it means 1, stubble;
2, a fleece of wooL Another word with Mmitar
consonants has the meaning of " a bill/* For the
real Hebrew word 33 in the sense of" vault," see
the lexicons. ^n*!rr (damiti^ as the word is given
" in Englisli lettera '*) can only be derivetl from
ntrr, and is the Ist person sing, preter hal; it
means either to resemble, or t» come to an end,
to destroy. The very form occurs iti Hos. iv, 5,
and Jer. vi. 2, where it is translated •* lay waate **
and *"' destroy '* by Gesenius, but in our Biblet
*^ liken " and " destroy.'* In Pa. cii- 6, it is " I am
like," Not one example can be found where the
word means *^ sQenlly I rest,** as Dr. M, translates
it. n33, babetk, is rendered '' in the house ; but
in Hebrew the form ri3 means ** daughter/* and
not *'home," or ** house,'* which is never 00
written. The next word niti or suth, is a pure
inventiou of your correspondent's, so far as He-
brew is concerned- What follows refusea to obepr
even the " open sesame " of the magician, and it
is left as a most eccentric proper name,--i46-Aai»i-
kowhOf of which the suggested sense is, " father
of ft wrong-doing, or perverse people ; *' very per-
verse^ no doubt, if they do not believe p^y to be a
Hebrew word, or say that they cannot find the
others upon the Newton stone ; but assuredly no
like Hebrew compound exists as a proper name.
We came to the fourth line : min phi neshcTf and
here I should like to see a genuine specimen of suck
a combination as ntiti-phi. When 1 learned Hebrew^
I was taught that min, as a preposition, dropped
it« » before certain lettera, of which pe was one.
This is not all. Dr. M, gives us new spelluig
as well as new grammar and lexicon, and writen
the word pD forjO, or rather "O. And what of
phir Fiel It should be written pi, and only
means "doctrine** in the vocabulary of your
atninble correspondent. The next word. Nether
(eagle) is correctly written and translated; but
that it was the name of an eminent Buddhist
teacher is only revealed in the pages of ** N-^ Q/*
The filth Une,c/tii ounwm, v% Vc^v^^^xa^ "" ^"n^^^'*^
was as ax. cvx^ti^oWviv^ ^^»A\- V^^:^^^^^
i quit« wV^Tili^ \\sM^. CWniax X.tx^^ ^^'^
\sc^
246
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S*' & T. Mas. lK%k
life;'* and man is a Chftldee word for TCitsel;
but it would be very Lard to ehow that it meaoff
.m vesstil in the sense put u^yon it by the new
'translator of the Newton stone. Both in Chaldee
and in Syriac the word has a significance as ex-
tensive as the Greek <r*fe5or, or the Hebrew ^^3,
I >tid would include the arms, armour, and baggage
I of im arniy, the cluthea they wear, or the enipe
they 3uil in* It would therefore include a vessel
or vaaculuni, but only ns our own word thing; in
fact Dr. M*s fifth Hebraso- Chaldee line is non-
sense. His sixth, sh^p'kajaati hodhi^ is no better*
**My wiedom was my glory/* is a sense which lies
not in the Hebrew letter:^^ and certainly not in
their fancied English equivalents. In this line
we get eleven Hebrew characters for nine in the
inscription, as in the preceding line we get nine
for seven. But for my knowledge of Dh. Moorb'*
character and previous achievements, I own I
should have suspected a hoax in bis reading, or at
least an experiment, and especially in this last
line. Sh*p*ha is taken as an adjective (partic)pia])»
meaning ** overflowing ! " The word U found but
once (Deut xxxiii* 19), and then ns a noun. The
next word, Joati^ translated ** my wisdom," occurs
but twice (Ezr, vii. 14, 15), is properly rendered
** counsellors,** and is a Chaldee word. Of the
last word, I only say that it refers to personal or
external beauty or splendour. That your cor-
respondent has lost a fine opportunity of showing
that he could say " My wjsdom was my glory, '
is, I think, now apparent* I am sorry, and I am as-
ioniahed, that after the experience he has had since
the publication of The Lo*t Trxbei and the Saxons
0/ the Mast and WeH, Dm, Moore should still
cling to a shadow, and endeavour to propagate a
theory which no scholar in the world will adopt.
I had a strong reluctance to reply to the article
in your pages, and now I only touch upon a por-
tion of It; and this I do for the sake of those
whose studies have not lain in this direction, and
who are likely to be led astray. The Newton
Sphinx has not found an (Edipus in your cor-
respondent, and he has not proved that Hebrew
Buddhist missionaries of the tribe of Dan preached
in either Ireland or Scotland. Although allusion
is made to another like experiment, upon a passage
civen by Rev. E. Davics, I do not touch that
here; — is it not recorded in ne Loit Tribet^
pp. 172, 17«3 ? But even of this, I should like to see
a copy in the original form. I rci^pectDii. Moore,
but when he ventures to put forth such strange
speculations as those above discussed, my apiril
pronipti me to reply. As I have had direct cor-
respondence with hiui u|K)n the subject of his
book (The Lost TribeaX where he turns Sanscrit
into Hebrew, I shall append my numc to these
remarks upon what seems to me a turning of some
Celtic inscription into what Dr. Moore confesses
U>bejt medJe/ comjxksiiion of five kii^uages.
B. U, Cowrr.m.
Sir Robert Verwok (S** S. ▼. 476 s ▼. 200.)-
In the Warrington Register of Sept- 13, liO,
there occurs the burial of Sir Robert V'era<in,ail
on April i27» 1607, the same register recorditb
burial of Lady Mary Vernon, widow. It msm
probable that these entries relate to the Sir Robeit
Vernon who, in 1609, was on the council i>f ik
Lord:^ Marchers at Ludlow, and to Uis wife, Mary,
the daughter of Robert Needbam, Will yaw
correspondent W. F. V., who baa so obtigie^j
noticed this query, say on what grrounds lie $Uta
Sir Robert to have died in 1G23 ? W. &
SoHTES ViROiUJJCiE (3'* S. V. 195.) — Brside
Homer and yiro:il, it was common among tk
ancients to practise divination by caiiisulttng liw
works of the Greek poet Musieus. ThU ts laia-
tioncd by Herodotus (lib. vii. in Poi^b.}, Wb«
tbts pagan practice was superseded bj tlte osj rf
the Sartes Apostolorum, and Sortes SaXiUsfm
among the Christiana, these practices were ctf
sured by St. Augustin in these terms : —
" Hi qui de pii^iiiis Evangelicts sortes le^imC <Mi^
tandum est ut hoc potiu^ faciant quam ut «il^ dalSii
consulenda coacurrant, tanien etism Istii tuilii disffcsl
consuetudo, ad negotla juccularia et ad vit» bi^iia vmC^
tatcm propter aUam vitam loquentia oraculA dtvifliavA
converlere*"— £». 119, ad Jaouar, c 20.)
w. lA)-
inquiriei d
SlilOM AJIJ> THB DaUPUIH (3'" S.
Though unable to answer all the ii
Hi^TORicus respecting Simon the
whose infamous charge wns to corrupt the
and debilitate the body of the unfortanate clul4
Louis XVn., I can give the foUawin^ inlbro*
ation :^Simon'8 Christian name waa Anttiooy ; he
was involved in the fall of Robespierre, and wo
guillotined the day after him, which was Jul/ S$%
1794. He was fifty-eight years of age^ aiiil wii a
native of Troycs. F. C H-
POSTERITT OF HaROLD, KtNG OF KHauLmt (T* '
S. v. 135.) — There is, I believe, no doubt tiiRl
Harold left issue, though the i-xact names 8*4
number of his children Tiavii been disputed. Hii
tirst wife was Gyd«, whose children were — I.
Goodwin; 2. Edmund; 3, Magnus; 4. GjtU.
His second wife, Edith, Algitha, or Agatka»
daughter of Leofric and Godivii, amieam to bo
identical with the Edith so generally called bli
mistress. Her children were Wolfe and GauUdi,
married to the Emi>eror Henry IIL
Another daughter, named by some, is appareDtly
identical with Gyda; and Harold, also tipokeci w
as a son of this monarch* seems a rather lUifitttfnl
personage ; perhaps an illegitiujate son.
The above is Uie t '/ ' T '
arrived as respects th'
many <»r ^V .^I'-pcar lo vi^ ^-im iu<
by get The first tl :ed
\ at«m X" ^>^ vvi- v^»»X v^yt*NkiW<s.^* v>— . — ^^^^.
a. T. Mar. 19, '81.]
NOTES AND QUEBIE&
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Vavj. Bowta (1** S. vii. 547.) — The editor of
Sir Simonds D*EweB*s JournalM was a son of Sir
Tlionizis Bowes, by Mary, daughter of Paul
D*Kwes, Esq,, and siater of Sir Siniomls D'Ewe^t,
He was born ut Great Bromley, Essex ; and
fli'ter being educated in the school at Moulton,
Norfolk^ was admitted a pensioner of St. John's
Colkge, Cambridge, Dee. 21, 1650. He took no
degree i indeed, he does not appear to have been
matriculated*
He occurs, in 1700, ai owner of the manors of
Ruiihlon, Stockford, and Binnegar, in East Stoke,
Dorset. We hope this information may elicit
more, C. H. & Thompsoh Cooper.
HAftTMY Family (S-* S. v. 42.) — I, like Mr.
Saob, am interested in collecting notes about tins
family, and finel his notes very tisefuL If he has
not nlready the information, I beg to supply Ihe
following addenda.
Sir James Harvey, Alderman, Sheriff 1573, and
Lord Mayor 1581, was a ** Citizen and Iron-
mongfer" of London ; and, to judge from Sir Har-
ris N icolas's Memoirs of Sir Christopher HaHon^
had little reverenee for clergy or the bishops of
that day, which drew from Aylmer, the Bishop
nf London, a scolding letter, dated March 1,
1581-2 — a very model of a letter of sneers and
sarcaams* In some notes on funerals, supplied by
John Nicholl, Esq., F.S.A. (the respected Master
of the Company in 1859), to Mr. Nichols as edi-
tor of the Diary of John Machyn (Camden Soc,
No. 42), appears an extract from the Ironmon-
gers' books, stating that Alderman Harvey's wife
was buried on Monday, June 27, 1580; and that
John Masters and Harry Page were appointed
stewards, to aee to the management for the livery
funeral feast at the Hall. Alderman Harvey,
who died in 1583, was a ** benefactor " to hia
Company in the yenr 1573, and by b*?quests, which
came to the guild by their books, 1590*
His son. Sir Sebastian Harvey, Alderman,
Sheriff 1600, and Lord Mayor 1618, was also of
the fame Company ; and it is worthy of note that,
on November 12 that year, ** Izaac Walton, late
apprentice to Thomas Grinsell," was ** admitted
and sworne a free brother" of the same guild;
** paying for admission \M.^ and lOc/. for enroll-
ment.'* Alderman Harxfy*s funeral feast is thus
described: —
* 1620. A Court the 12th Mureh, whereas, the lady
Han-ey hath psiid to the Wnrdcns xxi" for a dynner
for the Couipfinyr, the 21 of this moneth, being the
funeral I day of Sir Sebusttan Harvey deceasctt It is
ordered, that Jlf. Thomu I^rge and' Mr. John Wilson
shall join with the VVankn,s for the provision of that
dinner, to hri»band the same to the Companv*^ be£t
profit,"
T, C. N.
OwaN Glt5dwr*s pASLiAMEifT House (O'^ S*
Y. 174,) — An i*j)gravwg of this old buiJding, as it
appeared in the year 1886, may be ?een in the
GwLidgnrwr (a Welsh magazine) for February of
the same year. It is there described as being, at
that time, in the possession of Col. Edwards, the
then M*P» for the Montgomery shire boroughs.
X. Y. Z.
There is a small engraving of the above in
the Youth's Instructor and Guardian for August,
1845, accompanied hj three or four pages of
letterpress respecting it and Owain Glyndwr.
G. J* CoorsR.
Woodhottso, Leeds,
QiTOTATioiiB Wawtbd (3'"* S, v. 62, 83, 105.)—
I have lately seen another form of the verse en*
quired for. It occurs in the parish register of
Eaaton-Maudtt, Northaraptunshire ; and is thence
copied into the Mirror^ vol, xxvi. p. 338 ; —
** S) Christum diseis, nihil est si cmtera nesda;
Si Christum aoscis^ nihil est si caetera dtada.'*
F. a H.
Great Battle or Cats (3'« S. v, 133,) — The
Catus domesticua has not ceased, I see, to be a
myib and a mystery. Successively an idol, an
imp, and an inmate, Tybalt or Maudlin, Tom or
Tabby, the hie et h<tc puss has finally achieved a
niche in "N.& Q."
Ireland is the especial field of feline celebrity.
Well for her that the witch-finding *'rei;^n of
terror *' has passed away ; when any one of the
numberless cat-stories which I have heard right
soriouely narrated would have brought its nar-
rator to the stake! Among them, not one 1ms rC'
tained a longer or a stronger hold on my memory
than has Mb. Redmond's BeUum Catilinarinm*
In my ears it is more than septuagenarial, first
and frequently heard when I was quite old enough
to estimate (I detest the verb " nppreciatc ") its
actual worth ; not from the unread cottier:* only,
but in mj own circle of society, with some of
whom it was not altoof ether so apocryphal Jis the
caudal relics of the Kilkenny combatants. In the
nineteenth century, were it not for the |>leiisure
of Mb, Keiimond's reminiscences, I might be
tempted to exclaim — Chiousque taftdern, Catitinaf
E. L. S.
~ RosAUT (3'* S. V. 1540— Though the institu-
tion of the devotion of the Rosary has been attri-
buted to various persons who lived before St»
Dominic, such as the Abbot Paul, contemporarv
with St. Anthony, St. Benedict, Venerable Bedt
(if this is not a mere play upon a word), and
Peter the Hermit, it is well established that St.
Dominic was the real founder of the Rosary,
about the year 1*208, It is certain that the an-
cient hermits had various methods of counting
their prayers. Some used small T^^aW^Ws.^ -ax^^
others bstd aluii% m vWvt ^vt?^^st%-,w:^v^ -^Vx^ ^*^X3ew
mrm9
NOTES AJfD QUERIES.
CS'^ a. Y-
the tombs of St. Gertrude of NJvelles, who died
ia 6G7, find of St. Norbert^ whose death occurred
in 1134, there were found certain beads sirutig
together, which may have bean used in a stmlliir
manner to our Rof^ariea ; but the devotion, as we
have it now, was undoubtedly instituted by St*
Dominic. ' F. C. H.
" Rbtebat '' (8^ S. V. 1 19, 202.)— It is ordered
in Her Majesty^s Regulation's for the Army,
p. 253, that **" The Retreat is to sound or beat At
Eunset ; after which no trumpet i» to sound, or
drum to beat, in the garrison, except at Wmtch-
fletting and Tattoo, and in case of fire or other
alarm."
The word is only the French retraite^ signi-
Sring the retirement of the men from their daily
iities, or, perhaps originally, tn their qunrtcrs ;
as the Riuetlle is used for the morning alarm at
sunrise. This is the only signitieation o( the
word in military parlance, the word retire being
always used to express a backward movement.
J. D. M*K.
An Eastern Kiko's Dbvick (3'* S. v. 5,
173.) — I have met wifh other instances of gar-
dens in the form of maps. The following extrnct^
from the Bull Advertiser newspaper, March 26^
1796, describes a most interesting one: —
** The garden of the Thuileriea, at Paris, once planted
with pout««s, when the wanU of the people reqnfn!(! tht?
$acrifir««, cff«irs Down beautiful and correct mil ■ i
It comorise.^ Jeinappe, Savoy, und the oilier
"nhkhnave been conquered and uniteii tu ih^ 4,. ,.„.....
This ideii, which ia roost carefully conceived lo dalier the
vanity of the Parisiflns 19 as teJtutiruJly executed. Each
path marks the I TddepartnienL E\»en' nrjour-
t«in is repreient' i^kt er^ forest by a' thicket^
and evQfy river t respootltng streamlet, Tbuv,
every PaVisian in biii moriiiii£; walk can now itntlaw the
^hole of the Kepublk, and of uar conquests."
Edward Peax^ock.
Bottesford Manor.
IircoGAw (3** S. V. 1540— This is not Inch-
garvie, as your correspondent conjectures. He
will find various reft^rences to the name in the
Jnflcx to Scotch Reiour^ (voce *' Fife"), from which
it appears to be near to Locli Gelly, in that
county ; and it will be seen from Thomson's
Map of Fife (1827) that Inchgaw Mill h in the
parisli nf Abbotshali, close on the borders of that
of Kinghorn, in the some shire. G.
EridHAM ATTftlDtJTlCO TO PoPE (B** S V. 156.)
I am much obliged by your double-iihotled reply
to my query; which, however, did not remove
^tny ^ '^ id my incredulity has eincc been
\ rew . ^o discovery of ihL^ genuine bialory
iUi^ ^,u,.yyin. It ifl to be fiiutrd »t p. 287 of
r'i *'dition of Spenets Anecdolrg^ and runs
♦* Thrr* wttii A CUi\u hi'ld at tha • King** Head ' io Pall
' dJ, liiat MrroffMoU/ caJktl ii¥»lf ^hi^ World.' Lotd
Stanhope (now Lor"^' "^----'^ ^ V— » HeHMfl,&MK.
>\ ere members. I ^*\ la ba w^lai
on the gla;99«'^ Viv nef. CI«c«.f%S
Dr, Yodng v ■, lUc Doctor woold Im
declined wri> had no diaoioiiiL lad
Stanhope Uoi u£ui iu>. huw iic wrote immaxUaliiix}*
'Accept a miracle itjatead of wit ; —
See two dull lines with Staubope'a pencil wot'*
When Spence ascribes the epi^ain to
than Pope^ there can, I think, be no dxiuU
the matter.
The punctuation should be aa ttb<Mr^ not ^A
the semicolon after ihe word " miracle*'*
United Arts Club.
jEHiinnAH IIoaaocKs, the AsTaojroMm (y*E
v. 173,) — Doctor OlnuJtcd, in his Jftehamum ^
the Ileupetifty states that Horrncks *^ died in lk
twenty- third year of his age." He waa e^
twenty when the transit appeared '* (1639). m
muj^t therefore have been barn In 1019. 7W
register of hia birth, if it still exist a, iriQ jm^
baoly be found at the church of VVjiltoci^oQHii^
Hill| to which, until the year 1698, tibe flAte
church in Liverpool (St, Nicholaa) wnsAtA^
of cAf^e ; and Lower Lotlge^ the Uoum^ wm
Horrucka was born, is aituAt4i in llie panib d
Walton. II. Fianwicft.
Tonaj?ioToiv Family (3'* S, v» 56. y — ^^ammf,
Hint, of HerU, p. 584, in describing t!i*' ta^m^
ment i\( Richard Torringlon and "* \m
wife, in the church of Berkhampsten <ti
says : —
" Thcffl IS a tradition that th?^ T Wfts tht? fbtmaif <4
this chuTvb, a man of capei
Plantagienct, Duke of Oiniwal: f
Plantagenct* the areoud son of
wall, aud King of the Hom.ir
honours and yearw, ended lu^
Berkhampstead, but was hunod nt :ji^ Auim v ^^f
Pits wife Margaret was probably of t]»e iani^
of the Incents, who formerly reaiikd at Pgi
hampatead, and arc interred in that part of lla
church called St. John's Chnpel. Ono tnembif
of this family, John locent. Doctor of I^nwAan^
ly^im of St/Paurs, founded the ^' ' -41
in his native town in the I5th y li
The anna of Torringtou (a St' »),
with tbo«e of Incciil (a bend cli e«
rosea) are en jr raved on *the m« *),*.,.. .^§-
tion, and boar a great iiimilnrity to ; od
bandit 4C
m
Hala^
in stone on \\
limber)! of i :
cumstance m
ludcd tr>, 1 1,
church, or ir
Joii?» f-r'«-
your r(
iIm'U which bUstHln ; , ,.^. . |it
of the niiv^s and tiii« cir*
'be
a. a F.
IUb. 1», 'SI]
NOTES AND QUERIE&
24S
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wliicb, with your permmion, T wUI rekte in de-
t^l. He Bjiks for inforrniition rerj^arding John
firlstow's suppoaM^d Survejf of the LaJifs, and gives
mn ejttrjict from Tynoni«*s Family Ti>p*)grapher.
^ymvn^ no doubt, haf been mUleil by t'te tiLultj
conslruetion of a 5t»ntence nt p. 476, voL i. of
Hutchinson'* Cuml^riatid, where S. Y. R. will
find the»e words :■ —
""-^'' jrive «n jiceoun* '^'^ '^♦**» ^o?.n Briatow, a
rjirtiT of hill vil inn)* who, at
.iU&btug his ^M/f /^ie«,«rai 94
The prunoun *i«, in ihe foregoing sentence,
bfts for iu Htit«cedetil, Clarke, not Bmt<jw; and
Clarke*? Survey of the Lahe* is not an uneomniun
btu»k. I have seen a copy in the po^i^esMon of
a descendant through females of the said John
Bristow, who lives on his ancestor s property, " a
prosperous gentleman," and pointa with pride to
the parajjrapli respecting his nonajjenarian ances-
tor; indeed, he adda that an ancient c^t, which had
scalped many generations of her natural enemies^
and an elderly coek that had (rrown prey in the
eervice of this senile household, are improperly
omitted from the grand summary. J.
The Phatts, BamonvrtoF Colbshill, Corwrr
OF Bbrks (3** S* y. 174) — From a pedigree I
possesj of this family, copied about the year
181S-9, out of a MS. Visitiitinu in the Bntiah
Museum^ made in 166 J, 1 find thut Richard,
©econd son of Sir Henry Pratt, the first baronet,
bad an only child Margaret, Your querist must,
therefoTc, be under a mistuke in claiunng to be
desceudetl from him. lie may, however, find a
clew to the inquiry as to how the " china jug *'
desrended to him, in the fact recorded in the same
Sedigrec : that Elizuherh, the siRter of the said
Liuhurd, marrieii— L Edward Baker of Tew, in
Soineri»etahire ; 2. Henry Pratt, of Weldon, in
^orthant« ; 3. Edmund Beale of London ; and
4, Francis Philjipa, of the Middle Temple, London,
Eaq. ' D. B.
Saihts* ^Kameb wanted (3^* S. v. 1G6.) — I
observe, in the *' Notices to Correspondents" at
this reference, that the editor cuTinot dibcover in
any list of saints the names uf SS. Hoinolo, Re*
migio, and Bacco. The 6r8t i» St, RiHuulus, a
tn&rtyr; whose name appears in a Lai in book,
with figurrs of pnin- d by llennan Weyen,
and printed at 1' saint h represented
there in a cofn?, jmi - t uiitre; ind an
arrow^ bruk«ju in h\n 1 "tea tlie mode of
his martyrdom* It apf^t^i. . -xi... ^er, from Fleury^
that he wns only a sub-deacon; that he lived at
DiospoUs, and was bL»hcaded by Urbinua, the
governor of Palestine in 304* [UitL Ecch X*,
ix* n. 8.)
The I i Reuuy;iuti, or rtemi, the well-
known J i^hop who ha;>r/«e</ King Clovia^
and died in 59$. His feast ts October 1. Boceo
is St. Bacchus, who is comaiemorated with St.
Sergius on the 7 tb of October. They were mar-
tyr^ in Syris, under Maximian* 1^, C. H.
F^MALB Fools (3'^ S. Iv. 453, 523.)— Allow
tne to add the following extract to my last com-
munication on this subject ; —
** La Czarine, qui parlott trfes-mnl allemand et qni n'ea-
teadott pas bien c« qia« la B^ino lai dtsoii, fit approcher
sa folic, fct s'entretint avec ellc en Husee. Cotta pnuvr^
creature 4toit un« Pi-Jnc«sM GstitEtn^ et avoiL Aif r^odte
4 tfkini ce iD^ti^r-ia pour aauver aa vie, Ayant et^ vbA^
daot noe asnspiration contrc 1e Czar^ on lui nvoit doiintf
deux fob le knoati. Je ne «aii ce qneJle disoit k la
Czorine, mals cette Prince&ae faiaott de graoda eclala de
riifc." — Mimmru dt la Margract dc Bareiih, vol L p. 43,
Brunswick, ed. LB4a.
This Czarine wat Catherine L
HERMEKTKirmi*
Omght of Navbs (3^ S. ▼- 71.) — The follow-
ing extract from an old book belonginfr to the
parish of Keel, Stafibrdshire^ on this subject, ia
worth recording : —
" Sarah Legacy, who was left aa such to the town hy
•one aorrr penoa or other oq the 5^ of Novcmbar laat,
tiaptiaed J^ebruary 20*^, 17^7."
W. L a Homrow*
Loi0 SoEEBT^s Enigma (3** S. v* 55.) — J. L,
baa, I think, deceivetl himself in the author. I
imagined so, and carefully looked through two
editions of Surrey to no purpose, and bethought
me it might be Wyatt^s ; and there, in Bell's edi-
tion (Parker, IB^4), I found it, with dight diS*er-
ence from J. L/a text. I incline to the opinion
of those who hold it answered best by a kiss,
although, like the conceits of thote days, leaving
much obscure.
Mr. Bell give^ a note, which I subjoin, for the
sake of the poem added to it of another and mtich
more elegant poet.
" Of the ottweroiu riddlea on the same toffjsestive sub-
ject, this may probably claim to be the enriUiit. It haa
heen frequeotly imitated, bat in no instance so closely as
in the IbHowtng dextroits lines by Gaacoigne: —
•* • A lady (wce did ask of me
This [ LT in privity:
Goo^j :^be, rain would I crave
One tli— „ ., :..-'i yim j^ourself uot have ;
Nor never had yet in tiniea ya^st,
Kor n«v«r abalJ while life doth last;
And if yoa seek io find it out,
Tou lo«e 7oar labour out of doubt.
Yet, if vou lov« me aa you aay,
Then give it me, for sure you may.* '*
The Uat two lines of VVyatt seem to me conclu-
sive of the meaning, carrying out the adage^ futver
kin and telL The writer u bound by it, and he
wsho gueasea it trdl be* J. A, G.
Soirrn»T*B Birth-plach (S*^ S. h, &a*\— *^V-
tbougb Robert ^o>iV\i«^ ^^ V^^^ *^^ "^^^^ ^\
Wine SiTCet, Bml^V ^V^ Vx>wt ^^ ««>2v3««^^^^
250
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S^&V. UAiLl9.'i4.
divided into three separate dwellingt ; and I find
that the actual room in which he fint drew breath
is situatecl under the roof of No. 9, now in the
occupation of Mr. Trcnerrj, boot and shoemaker,
and not in the house No. 1 1 as it now stands in
the street. Gbobqb Pbtce.
NOTES ON BOOKS, EXa
The Works of Wittiam Shukapeare. Edited by William
George Clark, M.A.. Fellow and Tntor of Trinity Col-
legr, and Public Orator; and WiilUm Aldia WriKbt,
ALA., Librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge. VoIb.
IL and III. (Macmillan.)
These two new volnmes of Tk€ Cumtmdge Shakemeart
contain Afwch Adoabovt yothing; Jj)T€*» Labomr't lAMi;
IHuUuwuur NiMt Dream; Merchant of Venice; As
rom lAke U ; Taming of the Shrew ; AWe Well that Ends
Well; Twelfth Night ; and 7^e Winter's Tale. When
noticing the first volnmo of this edition, we entered so
fully into the particulars of the well-considered and nse-
fnl 'plan which the Editors hail proposed to follow, and
allowed so cleariy the great pains with which they had
endeavoured to carry out such plan, that wo may well, on
the present occasion, content ourselves with sayins that,
although Mr. Glover, the Librarian of Trinity College,
has been compelled, in consequence of his removal from
Cambridge, to resign his share of the work, his place has
been very eiHcientlv supplied by his successor in the
librarianship, Mr. \Vright, who has already given good
proof of his capabilities ss an editor by the care with
which he recently put forth Bacon's Essagt. The pains
witli which all the different readings adopted into the text
liy other editors, and all the various emendations suggested
by the Commentators, have been recorded, will go far to
make the Cambridge Shakeepetire m> satisfactory substitute
for the 21 volnmes of 1821, tlio Variorum Shakspeare, as
it is called, and which has hitherto been regarded as in-
dispensable in the library of orerv student of the great
Dramatist. While the absence of those biting allusions
to the shortcomings of their fellow-editors, Messrs. C & D,
in which Messrs. A & H so frequently indulge, to the
detriment of their own reputation, and the disgust of all
righ^minde4l readers, will give the Cambridge Edition
favour in the eyes of those who think that the writings
of Shakspeare should be edited in the noble Catholic
spirit in which they were produced.
JJft Portraits of William Shakspeare. A History of the
various Representations of the Poet, with an Exasnina"
tiom into their Anthentieitg. By J. I Iain Friswell. Illus-
trated by Photograp/is of the most authentic Portraits,
and with Views ^c. By Cundall, Downes, & Co. (Samp-
son Low.)
Addison was doubtless right when he spoke of a
reader's desire to know whether the author whose work
he is perusing was ** a black or a fair man, of a mild or
cholerick disiposition." And if this be true of ordinary
authors, how true must it be of Shakspeare! For the
solution of this natural curiosity, Mr. Uain Friswell has
compiled a pleasant, chatty, and instructive volume, in
which we have the various dsims of the Stratford bast,
the Kesselstadt mask, the Droesliont engraying, the
Chaados, Felton, Jansen, and other paintings, to be con-
sidered as trustworthy represenUtions of the great poet,
carefally weighed, and their orighi and history traced as
far as it is possible to do so. While not the least amusing
portion of the book is the notiee of the many clever and
ingenious forgeries by which unscrupolous mannfactaran
of "genuine portraiu" have from time to time robbed
I their credulous customers. As Shakspeare portraiu sis,
we believe, still in process of manufacture, we espsdsDj
commend this portion of Mr. Friswell's volume lo the
attention of our readers. One word more, and that it i
i word of praise to Mr. Cundall for the capital photographs
I by which the book is illustrated.
' The lUferenee Shakspere ; A Memorial Edition of Skaki-
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John a Marsh. (Simpkin, Marshall, & Co.)
It would seem at first sight somewhat difficult to liit
upon a novel treatment of Shak9peare*s Works for tk
purposes of publication. Yet this is what Mr. Msnk
has accomplished in this Memorial EdUum, in which hii
object has been to make Shakspeare self-interprstatin^
and to enable the readers of his Plays to judge hioi ftr
himself by means of some 11,600 references upon fRl
diiferent subjects. How much pains it has cost Urn nor
be surmised from the fact that he has devoted the leinre
of four years to its accomplishment, and that opoa thi
suhject of Love alone, there are more than 700 sspsnii
references.
Shakspere*s Songs and Sonnets. Illustrated by John Gil-
bert. (Sampson l«ow.)
An elegant little book, which cannot be better de-
scribed tlian in the words of the Publishers, who exprai
a hope ** that in bringing together in an accessible km
the whole of Shakspearo's Songs and the best part of
his Sonnets, in enriching them with the graceful sdon>
menu of Mr. Gilbert's pencil, and in presenting thm
with all the advantages of choice tm and paper, tiicjr
are doing becoming nomsge to the Great Poet, and la
acceptable service to his world-spread readers."
Another Blow for Life. By George Godwin, F.R.S.
Few men are better able to strike a blow in the cssn
of life and health against disease and death than Mr.
Godwin, who has long done the state good service si s
champion of sanitary reform. Ilia present work, tboogh
evidently prompted by a most earnest purpose, is ntj
wisely written in a popular style, and there are fteqaot
glimpses of a quaint humour tlist forcibly reminds u if
Thomss Hood. Those who would f^in know somethiog
[ of their poorer neighbours — how they live and why tbiy
die — yet have no stomach for such explorations ss Mr.
Godwin here deKribes, cannot do bettor than resd Ui
book.
• The Lives of Dr. John Donne, Sir Henry Wotton, Mr
Richard Hooker, Mr. Georae Herbert, and Dr. Aokrf
Sanderson. i7y I sask Walton. (Bell & Daldy.)
A new edition of Walton's Lives, and one of the nieMt
, volumes which our late worthy Fubliahers have indoM
I in their beautiful Series of Pocket Volumes.
Earlt Enousii Tkxt Societt.— Under this tills s
Society is in the course of formation which has for its
object the printing an octavo series of Eariy Eugliih
Texts, some for the first time, others re-cdited Arom ths
MSS. fh>m wliich they were originally printed, or fran
earlier MSS. when such are known to exist. The whols
of the Arthur Romances in English will, if possible, bs
produced. The first year's operations will include ** SS
Sciret,** a fanciful piece on the text Si tcirei pudtt'
famiHas,^'* llali Mddenhad,"— and ** The Wooing of oar
Lord," or « Woh:ing of ure I^oncrd,** to be edited by ihs
Rev. Oswsld Cockayne, whose Sajcom LmeMamt vt
noticed very recently, — and four Early Englidi
to be edited by R. Morris, Esq., the editar oine Msii
q^Cmseimer. One of these poems is "Sir Q«wqrn%"thi
^^nt of
V. Maju 1% NM,]
NOTES AND QUERIES-
Keei
III
._ or
, of th« Englbh Artlmrieri^ The secoad work of
the Arthur Serica will probftbly be the prose Meriin, or
The Early Uiaton* of Arthor," of tlie middle of the fif-
seotli century* which has hitherto Iain in the C^mbridgfl
_aivei*sity Librarj% unnoticed by bibljojjraphera and eUi-
ors of Arthur Rotnances. Tbii will tie edited by F. J.
B'arnivaJU \is({. The StibscriptioD u One Gainea, which
mny be forwarded to Henry B. Wheatley, Eaq., the Hon.
63, Benier*8 Street, W.
^&ec^
BOOKS AND ODD VOLUMES
WAICTBO TO PCTBCHABB*
I
FAfUcnlATi of Prioe, Ae.« of ihe foUoiriiK Boolu to be leat db^cl lo
Cb« K«ntl«4)>en by whom ilicj u-fl rt(]uU«d.&nd irtuMe n&mei iizi4 »»«•
di^Mti Af* fives for tli»t purpoac: —
Qcaiir EutMrnmrn't GoMr rii«vt>«.ti(t Cdltkiou Poor oi»pr«ir lanc«*
would do>
lookKliidloc - •
:— G«o4 ipvdiMcu «r (ooUd or ttamped itdei.
Warned by ittw. /. C JTodbiMu ^Cluthua Plaoe :
^ BiuuA PwtTfltJjrrA. «d- Lee.
PAiMfti«TQ«ittrntcAt. Soctrrv'* Ptrei-tCAnoii*.
ILliioht «r AttftLuumTtby MiMUord.
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Tbi Muen Vooiti4t4c>
Taa %Jitm Sin Rojianr Paul imif tH Oj^rd^ t»l ai Ciambridgi', and
■ m IftMttb Firtt Cltt***
, Wmam M., *riwr T. B, Wt hatt IttHr* foe lAeee Corre*pondfmiM,
m «oa tee /bnitar«t iJhiiiN f
F, It. K. (8«lh.1 *• W» A Q." r* repHftPKf for tran»mi»»iom a^nmd.
A I* *iwfrt*ip*rf <3optf may tiWrt^ltr* *• wmi to /«rfui vlA d'o«lAfuiuki«fa JW
0aB
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^JtramOm^f^uiektBif^^ftkt Mnglith X<M|n»e, tnOmird amd ith vult. of
t Uk 0riifiA qf lAe Ontetrnt at a Ptand«rd
Otttwallr^ -
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iM of CA« tOMinp
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COodUaeM,*' Acu
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1. UU^auifc n kaahun ix>n^eciurtd^tkatjkt orj^^
|«t 8. I*, tvt
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Aua. It 1<I3& < Gciii. Mac. ^rH. I^U, tt« 930. J /V a (iff a/* Aw loorl:* nee
Bio*« PtcL of LMat AMllMink if l«. ITe ^nnot JUtd that he pttbHthtd
petHe «r dramatit y^neeev*— «. Ptrformtw* in thm IfV^fnuMier
' - c*t r^'ymi^r.ot. Jm* i. 1197. G ent, Mrc. 'S*pt. » 8»7, p. Ml .
"f Cu^*fkmt SwTtM* C/en. Hen.ry Olfn, *iA,
ne, IS47, p. t70, a^. Htntagt IfVU, W4W^
Now rM4]r»eiUi te» etvcd* li.irfl. clotJi boiitdi.
NOTES AND QUERIES
OBVBAJLX. XVSKX TO SBCOVB ttBS
''*Cotiiain» alkotit ao.CKX) re'feMrntc* to ertlclM irritttn br lomf of our
beat teholwi mK>n tvtfj ennr^lvable Bubjcct, " frqrn pru-rl^MtJitfttion to
•lea ■ilk/* for io Ihe p«5ei of thle Eferybody't < 'i.tnmttnpta'i' li**ot, sio
■tibjeet comtB amlae. . . . IC ^ a boolt whkh wJU be fimnJ moet
utcful toUuM who pcwtM Aotue ami QiKniw. mnt\ JMdlinentable lo iLe
ec»Tclier> Mier Uie ** cunonlue of literature."— Tmh- *,fita Nor. Ih^.
X xvi»:
TO
Prioe i#. clotU boanJi.
ST
" The ntliHToffiKJi aTolon**, not nnljr U» irnni of Ivttert. tmt to ««]|.
Inlhrmed nedera geoerallj, k too obritua in fc^quin nraof, mutv eeoe-
eiiillrirben II li remembered tb«,t rn«D>' uf tbctr t^frrenoea ibetwaen
Sd^OOO ftnd M^oei^) ere to artlclci wliJcli th«mfe«|vf« noliit out the btet
•ourcee of iotonnatkm upoo tbdr reijiectlire iubj«el«^
7Mwe#»t8lhJuly, JBM.
WtLLtA^M GHCIG SmTH^ U« W«lUfist(m Strtet. $trend.
Aad all Bookeenert and NcinmefL
AMtoffrKph Lcttcri ^ Fftpen rclatluff lo Ooaati'
"iunlly Uiitoryt Shakcipeftfiena, ac
ESSRS. PCTTICK & SIMPSON, Auctioneers
Literary Frpr^rir. »f U BKLt* by AUCTION, et th«ir llo<uc,
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of AtrroORAPU LET-
_ Jl illeiincatehed Amatrurv,
Spccluvena, J>ltert^ in «o<ne
GoKTpa
Ul'uo Ga<iTroi
Jontrii HiVD,"*
l>ATtI> IIUMJI
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OtJM«tt.&x. Woi.r«
I>tten of Royelty, Eji^lbh and Foreign, Femily of a«onie the THlrJ,
nutnctout Letter* of Bi»hora Aod Divine*, AftUt«, i Baoaaipunkd in
inaay eaJCf «ith oficis*! Utnwirtga), Toete end Llterunr Men. Mu-
etciene^ end Drmm&tuti ; many curiutu und Talu«lile DiaciiUKLit* II-
luelretWeof County and Fkinily HiBiory; cnme curiiNU SihakeiiCieariau
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BY MR. T. O. WEIQEL, of LEIPZIG.
A CATALOGUE of Rare and Valitablb Books
In all Clajee* of Literuturc ; AbclLcuC Menutcrtriie on VclJiim
end Peper 4 Early 2CyIoffr«^bJc Produoilua* t Ubtorlcal ead Satlrlvai
Brdod«ld«i of the i:tth, Ifith, and 1 7th CJentiiri^.
Alio the Firth Pert of hl«
GENERAL CATALOGUE, Gootaimog I^amed
Fiociftiea ; JMemrt end SeientUlc Feriodiealit Uterary BLtlary ead
Bibltoorapby.
Theie Catalogruef m^y be ubUinexI of Sir. H. KUTT, Stn^ Strand i
of Hvure. WILLIAMS » NORGATE. I«. Ucnrieita Street, Corcnl
Onrdea t vndof Meaire. DULAU. a CO.. Suho Square.
'jtirt. Old Mttttty ai. Addttu tht
_ jor uinnm// fft" . .«fieo* q/ »* N. A Q." malt b» had qf ih4
antt 0f9U MooimUtr9 ami JV eiFMn«n«
"NtrpM Afft Qt'*«fc«" %M publiMhed at nmm *m Fttday* omd Id ttXto
r/rt
uMcA
IBS" b regiitertd for tntotmisdjon Abroad*
In i}to, etccantly printed, Pott Free for Thrte ^tampe.
riATALOGUE of a HIGHLIMNTE RESTING
\J CXILLKCTIOX of BOOK** from tUf IJBRARIE^^ of Hi* lati
H: T. BUCKLE. E*q.. ind I *»HH \< at UILAV. caoiiijtJnir of the
AtjthorltiM c«n«tilt«l by thoi' .ri*iu In com t^lUoff their
cclcl)T.it<:d workf."Tb« IIi^to^^ u' and "^ The Hlitory of
Knpl&nd/' At»o & I'Drtujin of i a well-known antl eml-
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Valuabl' itd from vMriuu« •trtircet.. FOR 8ALC fc*
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BooltelMii .Qtitf.
TO AUTHORS. — Murray & Co.'s New Mouw
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on their own (i«^?nnt. bii opiwriopity of coturiosr e Profil. EeHinatct
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O In all CLaieei of Standard Literature, warrwiVA Y^rtes** 5fl»ft^>k
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Mod etamt> tor oorteca^VJ . U?.kT\\. vfl, Q-riw^l %vw^.
NOTES AXD QUERIES.
11
252
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I«r d<jMO.
WhtuBwdMu tto. ■adiOf.pcrdoi.
Owod Iffick lOiiu „>«•.„
Hbarkllnc eprnwy ChAinyaCUE 3m„ l:«. ^ 4^. n
Owd Uaner bJwrry 'i'- •• -*«•
Fwl su..«ii. « 3«t. ..
They laviti the attention oTCONNOISSErHf* to their rutod rtvek
ofCUUlCC UI.U P«>Rl',(yir.HalJDV«rWlnciof Ihc
OlcbraiMl vlutaftc IM* at iiow. pcrdes.
Vintacc i-dM low.
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all of flandcmkii'i •hipi-iiiCi ^nd in flr«i-rat« conditidB.
riDc old "bcMvltic " l*«irt. ***. and cr« : iui^ri-.r nierry. S««.. «•.
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other rare winca. Finr uld Pal* Covnac Bramiy.cn*. and 7S«. per doa.i
VI If ehuiee Cuvnar. vliitacc 1«» which italacd the flnl eiaai void
medal at the Parfa KxhlMiion ul \w»'. l«o. wr doa. loreUn IJqMun
of r very drMvifftkHi. <>ti r»eri|H f#f a iiuaU'tfllce order, or relcreafle, aay
fiuaniity will be furwardcd Imnwdlalcly. by
liKDiiKS & liLTLKR.
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Field. "Lf-
i'aiitain Hriuley. R^iyal hniBll Arms
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SPKEBT WITHIN. K.C.. witbuut whicn tiw luk to not fl«rin
iMd by all mprrUblc chemlato. statlooer*, ac. ia the tlallod JU«*
dam. wkw Is. per boUlei no ad. slie ever maOe.
NOTlCh.. REMOVED from «. Luac Laua iwlicn it Im feM
•rtabUahed nearly halfaeeatuiy). to
10, B1SUOP8UATE STREET WITHIN, MjC
£11 U BBS LOCKS and FIREPROOF SAFBS^
with all lh« newMt improrrnu-nts. Strcet-doar I^tohaa. QMkwl
i Boxes. >ull iliu»trat.d piM« Ibuseai tree.
CHUBB » 80N. H.St. Wars Chuehyard. I oadoBi V. Laid Mml,
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mi lH,TliSltt.XXL
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V. Mar. 26, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
258
LONDON, SATURDAY, MARCH 96, 1864.
CONTENTS— No. 117.
— Hymns of the Chiuroh, 268— HawisU Domina
ireoloo, 254 — Mrs. Williams's Miscellanies, lb. —
iment : " Peine Port et Dure/* 256 — Pre-dcath
and Monuments, /6.— "La Langue Roftiane," 266
lication of Wills — Tho "Niels Juel" —Ancient
Parai^ram — Church Music — ^nigmata — Long
) of Vicarage and Curacy, 267.
88 : — Brown of Coalston — A Centenarian and
ling more — Circle Squaring — Joseph Porster-
r Goose —Harrison and F»rr— Haydn's Sympho-
• The Surprise** Ac — " Here lies Pred," Ac. — "TThc
ike," 1828 — London Smoke and London Light —
fleacham — Mitlcy — The late Dr. Bafllcs — Edward
den Rose — Swallows — Tratle Winds — Witches in
(ter Castle, 258.
B wiTTT AitswBKS : — Dr. Jacob Cats — " The
h Spy"— Quotation— Ply-leaf Scribbliugs— Quo-
wautcd, 250.
IS: — Publication of Diaries, 2fil — Situation of
62 — Hindu Gods, iS. —Thomas Gilbert, Esq., 26S—
'ell's Head. 2B4 — Reliable, 266 —The Misses Young,
L Bull of Burke's — Judicial Committee of Privy
1 — Tho Mozarabic Liturgy — Nica»n Barks — Pitz-
— Hemming of Worcester — Wolfe, Ghirdcner to
VIIL — Arms of Williams — Epigram on Infkncy
islatoTS of Terence : James Prenderille- Motto for
i-upon-Trcnt Water Company — Sir John Moore's
nent— Family of De Scarth, or De Scmt — Pos-
of the Emperor Charlemagne — Robert Dillon
10. M.P.— Ruthven. Earl of Forth and Brentford —
e Prayers for the Laity — Latin Quotation —
m Dudgeon — Quotations wanted, Ac, 267.
1 Books. Ac
HYMNS OF THE CHURCH.
y take an interest in the bjmns in use in
'ious offices of the Catholic Church. As
[ know, there has been no list printed of
thors of these hymns. In many cases the
ship is well established ; but in others it is
ul : some even are attributed to seyerfd
It authors. Without goins into the proofs
borship, I have thought that " N. & Q.'*
be a very proper Museum, where a list
be deposited of a number of hymns, with
nes of the authors attached. The following
; been carefully compiled from a variety of
3, and will, I trust, be found useful for
ice : —
is ortus cardine
aa Christi munera
ae rerum Conditor
ne Rex altissime
iiei nuntius
, Redemptorls mater
a deserti teneris sub annis
benigne Conditor .
t tyrannus anxins .
ra jam spargit polom
ra lucis rutilat
maris
i nobis gandU .
SeduliMs,
8L Ambrote,
8U Ambrote.
St. Gregory.
Frudentiug,
Peter of Compoetena—
Hermannus Contra c
tus.
Paul the deacon.
St. Ambrote.
Prudentiut.
St. Ambroee.
St. Ambroae.
Si. Bernard -^Xotker
— Fortunaiut,
St. Hilary.
Beate pastor Petre .
Christe Redemptor omnium
Coslestis urbs Jerusalem
Cceli Deus sanctissime .
Conditor alme siderum .
Consors Pa tern i luminis .
Decora lox eternitatis
Deus tuomra militum
Dies ins, dies ilia .
Domare cordis impetus .
Ecce jam noctis
Egregie doctor Paule
£x more docti mystico .
Fortem virili pectore
Qloria, laus, honor .
Hymnum canamus gloria;
Jam lucis orto sidero
Jam Christus astra aacenderat
Jam moDsta quiesce querela .
Jesu dnlcis memoria
Jesu corona celsior .
Jesa corona virginnm
LaudaSionSalvatorem .
Luds Creator optime
Lnstria sex qui jam peregit
Lux ecce surgit aurea
MagDSB Deus potentin
MartinsB celebri
Nocte surgentes
Non illam crucians .
Nox atra remm contegit
Nox et tenebne et nubila
Nunc Sancte nobis Spiritos .
O lux beata Trinitas
Onimisfelix . . . .
Opes, decusque reginm .
Orate nunc omnes .
O sola magnarum urbinm
Pange lingua . . . corporis mys-
terium
Pange lingua. . • lauream cer-
taminis . . . .
Pater sopemi luminis
Quem tarra, pontos, sidera
Hector potens, verax Deus
Rerum Creator optime .
Rex Christe Factor omnium .
Rex gloriose martymm .
Sacris solemniia
Salve Regina . . . •
Salveteflores martymm .
Somno refectis artubus .
Splendor Paternie glorin
Stabat Mater .
Summa; Parens dementi A
Te Deum landamus
Te lucis ante terminom
8t.Amhrote.
St. AmhroK.
StAmbroee.
St. Ambrom.
St. Ambrom.
Elpia.
St. Ambroae,
Tkamae OtUmo^
Humbert — Unmi-^
Tranifipant,
Pope Ifrban VIIL
St. Gregory.
Elpia.
St. Ambrose.
Sj/hiua.
fheodulphua.
St. Bede.
St. Aifibroae^St Ber-
nard.
St. Ambroae^St. Grt-
pr-
St. Bernard.
St. Ambroae.
St. Ambroae— 8t.Gre-
St. ThamaaofAquin.
St. Gregory—St Ber-
nard.
St. Ambroae — FortU'
natua,
Prudentiua.
St. Ambroae.
P. Urban VIIL
St. Gregory.
P. Urban VIIL
St. Ambroae.
Prudentiua.
SL Ambroae.
St. Gregory—Akaiin.
Paul the deacon.
P. Urban VIIL
Notker.
Prudentiua.
St. Thomaa ofAquin.
Fortunatua Mammer-
tua.
Bellarmine.
St. Gregory — Fortw
natug.
St. Ambroae.
St. Ambroae.
St. Gregory.
St. Gregory.
SL Thomaa of ^9MM.
Peter of CompoeteUa —
Adhemar—Herman"
nua Contractma —
King Robert,
PrwdenHua.
St. Ambroae.
St. Ambroae.
Jacoponi—Pope Inno'
cent III.
St. Ambroae.
88. Ambroae and Au-
guatin. wtt
254
NOTES AND QUEBIE&
lav. iLkL^i
Telltirifl ingens Conditor .
TriMes w&ot Apoatoli
Tu naCAle solum
Tu Trinitatis uaita^
I7t quGant UxIb
Vcni Creator SpiriCtia
Veoi Siinctfl Spiritus
Verbum saperoum prodiena
Vexilla Regis prcKleunt .
VicUtti« Pflsch&li l&ndfta
P. UrhoA VIIL
SL. Ambrose.
Paul thtdtaenn^
St. Atnbros€ '—^ Rfthfi*
Mwi 3/aurKj — Char-
ffermanntts Contrac-
tus, King Hifft^rt
St Grt^r^—St. Tho*
ma* ofAqHtn.
SL Ambrose — Theo-
dtdphut — FortunU'
tu§'^Sedulivrt.
Mother.
F. C. IL
HAWISTA DOMINA DE KEVEOLOC.
A word upon her seal, described (I'^S. vii. 292)
by John ap WilHnm ajp John, in liis learned dia-
sertiition upon Owen Glyndwr's arms, and there
liscrihed by him to Hawiae (Gadarn), heiress of
t!ie Wenwynwyn line, and wife of Sir John de
Cbarleton. From a note of John ap \ViUi»m ap
John's, in Archaiologin Cambrensis (New Series,
IV. 200) U[>on this seal, he app»cftrs to hii%*« agreed
in opinion with the lute eminent Shro[ishire gene-
ulofEiKtf Mr, Joseph Morris, so far aa regards the
asfTibing of it to this ladj ; though (in **N. & Q.*')
differinjJT from Mr. Morris tn ruference to the
shield in the left hand of the ^inire on the aeal.
In the ArchaioiofrictilJoum, (x, 143) there is an
account of this seal, in which, with unquestionable
tiorrectneas, it is assigned not to Hawiie (Gadnrn),
bur- to her ^randmotlier, Hawime, daughter nf one
of the Johns le Strange, of Knockyn, and wile of
Griffin an Wenwynwyn (who has been styled as
de Kf'veoloc)^BLp Owen de Kcveoloc. Acc(»rdinjr to
this account, the lady on the seal holds in her
light hand her husband's shield, the lion rampant
uf Powyitf and in h<*r left, her father's, the two ;
Hong passant of Sirauge^ thus afford injj an inter-
esting instance of an early step in the united dis-
playing of a husband*s and wife's arms, eventually
resulting in the more modern enipalenient. In the
Arch^ Journ. it is surmised this liuwisc, the
grandmother, nmy have heUl Kevcoloc (an im*
portant central district of Wales) fur life, by some
family arrangement, after her husband's decease
(she does not ap|>ear to have obtained it in dower).
1 would rather, however, conjecture, that the " de
Kcveoloc" on the seal may not refer to any actual
ownership of that part of ber deceased bus band's
territory, but rather, that as he, fullowin^ bis
father's and g^mnd father's example, may have ap-
m-nded this Welsh designation to his name, so that
his WMiow, Hawise, also may have thus retained
tlie same addition Uj her name, though wtyled,
Ai her hufiband, in Knglish rccordN *' do la I*ole/*
^ Pole or WcUhpofjl being the family residence. Am
to the ori|rin of the additional designiiiA'
Keveoloc/' or simply *' KeveolocJ* ai mp^
to Griffin's gi-andfather, Owen^ it b to be a^
this Owen and Owen Gwynedd were co(i«|(
princes, and each Owen ap GruffffiA^^ ^
prevent confusion, these reapecUve t«r^'
signations may have been appendr
names, Gwynedd being Nortb Wale*.
the seal to Hawiae, tbe grantkuoth*
clearly belong to her period of widoi
ber husband's to ber own decease, IS
about, and the dress of th^ figure
posed to be that of a widow of thci^e
gravin«r!* of the seal are in both AncA.J
Arch. Cambrensis, I would add, tbe
whicb aome of tbe foregoing names j
*' N. & Q." (2»* S. xi. 77), i» a mixtm
and fiction ; tbe family of Pole, Dukefl
was not derived from tbe Lrorda of W«
MRS, W1LLIAMS*S MISCELLAJf
Since I wrote the article oa
Williams," which ap[teared in *' N. ic i
421), I have procured the volume i
the publication of which, and the (
ance receivetl by Mrs. Williams, im\
Boswell in bis Life of Johnxort, Tlii
Htatej that Johnson furnished " the
"Epitaph on Phillips," Translation*
Epitaph on Sir Thomas Hanrner ;
an Ode " ; and ** The Ant, a parupbr
Proverbs." Johnson also wrote ** 'i'hiTj
a Fairy Talc, in prose/' and ftri-s.
tributed that admirable ]fM>eoK ** The Tl
in^s;" perhup,s the best n ! - * re*l j
contents of the volume. '1
on persons of the name oi i iJMnjja-
nmsiciun called Chiudy Phillips, hmB
cxprcifsed thought : —
'* Phillip:^, whose touch UarmoRicms eoiiTd I
'Ihe pang* of guilty powV miiJ LHrd«*^
Kest ht'rc diatrisjit by novf> i
Find bi!r« that cidro l\u*u »
Steep undi?»turb'd witldn tlu-v p>iirt,uil
Till Angeb wnke tlice viiih n note liko l
The other ij* in memory of Sir F-
portions of whose Diary have a]
to time in tbe {lagcs 4>f ** N» .t^
thus I ^ —
" (}n (fit Dtath r>f Sir Enumm Pk
droHmid in lAe River Avoum tuar
1743,
** Why dish thp flwHls? Wlmi
How itet-'p the precipice! U<
T'' ■■ ^ ■ -r- nunk ill A^ ■■'
wflt-'iTi h|r!
*v«
u^l
y*S.V. MAK.se.'M.]
NOTES AND QUERIEa
25d
F
}
Wbat now rem&ins? It yet remilni to try
^Vlrhat hope, whst peace, religion can ioppiy :
; It yet remains to catch, tbe parting ray.
To note hia worth ere memory ^« awRy j
To mark bow various excellence conibinM—
y* :t his virtues. And trimacnbe bis mind ;
, < tnainM with holy riles to lay
:dthlesfl reliques in their kindred clay.
\ e wite, ye good, tbe holy ritea attend :
H^t^re lies the wise ouui's ^uide, the good man's friend;
Awhile let faith exalt th* adoring eye.
And meditation de«p sogpend the sif^h i
Then close the grave* and found the futi*ral knell.
Each drop a tear, and take a lut far«wdl ;
In peace retire^ and wish to live a« weLL"
Although it would give me much pleasure to
— feink that the fore<?oing eulogy on a member of
^"*' family from which I sprung should have been
ed by such a man as Samuel Johnson, I
liik the first epitaph bears the strongest im-
Cl» »refs of the ** fine old Roman hand." Besides,
^m iif«. Witliams hod Wen upon terms of the most
tniilifir intimacy with the family of Sir John
•hilipps from her childhood ; and if any thing
tould give an impulse to the chorda of her lyre,
t would be tbe untimely fate of a friend and a
t>enefnctor. It may, however^ be like the poem
{• On the Death of Stephen Grey, the Electrician,"
itained in the Miseellanie*, Bo6well, on reading
maintained the poem to be' Johnson\ and asked
_"Mrs. Williams if it were not his. " Sir,*' said nhe
^J\ with some warmth, ** I wrote that poem before I
Cpbad tbe hotiotir of Dr. Johnson's acquatotaDce/*
K^3oiwell, however, was so much impressed by h\»
^B first notion, that he mentioned it to Johnson^
^B repeating at the same time what Mrs. Williams
H hflid said. His answer was, ** It is true, Sir^ that
^B she wrote it before she was acquainted with me;
W but she has not told you that I wrote it all over
« again, except two lines/*
Im John Pavih PiitLLirg.
Usverfordwest.
PUK18HMEJJT: "PEI>JE FORT KT DURE,"
It has generally been supposed tlmt Mr. Walter
Calverlwy, who was arraigned at Yoik for mur-
der and refused to nlead, wa^ one of the ta^t
to persons who sufllred the horrible punishment,
* and that, althougU the law remained, it was never
►. put in execution.
*• In an old 4 to newspaper called the Nottingham
m Mercury of Thursday, January 19, 1721. Tlie
following purugraph is given as part of the Lon-
^ don news, from which it appears that as late as
• that year the law was practically put in force: —
** Yesterday the S&^AJonn begun at the Old Bailey*
1 Wbc***' -*.v<.rr,l " r«n,F||, ^^f^ ^[J|■,.,,..^.r^ t., » ^, ^ ^,|f fg,,. ||,g
liJ^ ' thtm Ihr : II Utety tiik<Tn
>c » f»f whirh. li Cri>M, <i/iu(
P^' ' ii.,;- SiL'^ii!, .:j... S}.'Ji;:ii» rdtuting to
P^' ■ I fr.,.. r,..;,.i !n. T,,,.r.^ « 1 1*) foligwiDg fwitcDce
** * ToQ that are pHsoners at iHa bar, shall be sent fhmi
hence to prison from whence you came, and put into a
mean honse stopped from tightt and there ihall be laid
upon the bare ground without any litter, atraw^ or other
covt^ring, and without soy garment about you saving
something to covor your privy members, and that you
•ball lie upon your backs, and your heads shall be covered,
and your feet bare, and that one of yonr arms ihall be
drawn with a cord to one fiide of tbe houae, and the other
arm to the other aide, and that your legs sball be used in
the same manner, and that upon your bodies ahal! be laid
so much iron and stone at you can bemr, and no more ;
and tbe first da^ after you shall have three morsels of
barley bread, without any drink; and tbe aecood day
jou shall drink ao much aa you can three times of tbe
water which ia next the pnion door, saving running
water, without any breadt and this ah all be your diet
untiMrou die*'
'* The former, on sight of the terrible machine, desired
to be carried back to the S^saiooji House, where he
pleaded Not Guilty ; but the other, who behaved himself
very insolently to the ordinary who was ordered to attend
him, Beemingtv resolved to undergo tbe torture. Aceofd-
ingly, when t&ey brought oorda, aa uaual, to tye him* he
broke them three several times like twine thread, and told
them if they brongbt cables be would serve them aiier
the same manner; but, however, tbey found means to
tye him, and chain him tjo the eroand, having bis limba
ejitended ; but after enduring we punishment an hour,
and having 300 or 400 weight pat on him, be at lost sub-
mitted to plead, and was carried back again, when he
pleaded also Not GuiUy/'
The form of the judgment li tbe same as giTen
by Cowel and Blount in their works. The law
was not repealed until a much more recent date
than above-named. Edwaeb HArLstons.
Horton Hall
PRE-DEATH COFFINS AND MONUMENTS.
Having occasion, in 1 857, to visit the coast (own
of Wester- A nstruther, in Fifeshire, Scotland, I
was induced to step into a dwelling-houie of two
stories or floors, which stands on the cast side of
the burgh, in consequence of noticing this curious
invitation painted on each side of the entrance
door : —
** Here is the splendid GrDttO-room,
The like** not seen in any town *,
Those thai it do wish to' see-
It's only Threepence nsked as fee.'^
The "grotto-room," which is upon the second
floor, is an apartment of about seven or eight feet
square. The ceiling and walls are covered with
marine- shells of great variety, disposed in many
curious and ingenious devices. A mirror and
several prints :irc set in frames ornamented by
the same interesting objects. But the most ex-
traordinary piece of furniture (if it may be so
called) is a coffin or chest for a dead body, the
lop, sidoB, and ends of which are also closely
covered with sen-flhells, and painted black, except
that the masonic sif^ns of the sun, moon, and seven
star;, the tigure of a hutuan heart, and the initials
of the artiiitc, whose bodjr the cofiin is intended to
256
NOTES AND QUEEIES.
[8^ S. V. Mae. «C. *iL
contain some day, arc in gold-gilt upon the top or
lid. The coflin lies upon two black painted stools,
and stands before a bed — the " grotto-room " bc-
inff used as a sleeping apartment.
In the same room, enclosed in a shell-covered
frame, was the following curious notice written in
a neat ornamental style : —
*' This room was done by my own liand ;
The shelln I f^ot from many a strand ;
For all the Ubor that you see,
Seren white shillings was my fee
The outside work, Across the Brid;,'t',
both rich and f^ood, a gable nice ;
wan seven shillings for nuch a jub
for each roo<l. £2 the price.
' The work Vm sure was almost lost.
When, as above, was all the cost
Anstruther Wester, 1H3G, Alkx. BAtmiLOR, slater."
A photographic portrait of "Bacthlor" exhi-
bited the happy countenance of a man of about
threescore and ten, with a fur cap upon his head.
He had been twice at the hymeneal altar ; and the
strangely-ornamented coffm of his own workman-
ship was "shown off" by his second wife, to whom
be bad been married only a fevr weeks before the
time of my visit. Whetlier " Bacthlor *' is stilL
alive I am not aware ; but, as above seen, he was
a slater by trade, and ho contrived to eke out a
living by ornamenting houses in the way above
notiml, of which there were several examples
both in Easter and Wester Anstruther.
Although the idea of havinjj one's coffin made
during life is not uncommon, 1 have never before
heard of it being made for public exhibition. Not
many years ago an eccentric cart and plough-
wright on the north -e:uit coast of Scotland made
his own coflin, and used it for a considerable length
of time as a press for holding working tools ; it
being fitted up with slip-shelves, and the lid or
top of it went upon hinges.
In the old buriul ground at Montrose, a tomb-
stone erected to William Fcttes, a wriglit or car-
penter, who died in 1809, thus records the part
which he took in providing a chest for his inani-
mate frame : —
**The handicraft that lieth bore —
For on the dead truth should appoar —
Part of his bier his own hands made.
And iu Uie same his body is laid.*'
In the neighbouring burial-ground of St.
Braoch, tlie inscription of a tombstone, dated 1802,
after the usual record of the period of the death,
&c., of a stonemason named Turnbull, concludes
by stating that —
''This humble mcmorUl of James Turnbull was the
work of his own bauds during his leisure houn."
Although, unknown to mo, facts may be re-
corded u]>on grayestones in other parts of the
country Bimilar and equidly cnrioiu to thoje
above quoted, as well as instances known oi
i)eople having their coflins made during t>if»ii
lifetime. ^' J-
" LA I^\N(3UE KOMANE."
In an interesting Memoir on La Langue Romoi
(Trans. K. S. of Lit.), M. le Due du Roustillo
is of opinion that the Latin, as well ai otlM
languages, is largely indebted to that in qua
tion, and he illustrates the subject by manjr b
genious references ; and seems to be of opinia
that the latter should be reckoned amongst tk
original tongues, if it be not indeed the tn
PeUutf^ itec(/; modified by local circumstaiei
and the lapse of ages through which, so to ipe^
it has been {>ereolated.
The ])aper referred to has another significaifli
in connection with the much-vexed questiostf
the gipiiet, and possibly it ma/ tend to nAmi
the mystery that surrounds that ancient and p
culiar race: and there ore m?LTiy rcsembluai
between words in this and the gipsy langnga
which will readily bo recognised by even a eusf
reader : still this is rather a secondary oouid^
ation.
The Polasgio race, it is known, disputed p
dence in antiquity with the Egyptians; ■!
Herodotus seems to leave the nucstion open, aoli
withstanding his leaning towards the latter.
According to M. Ic Due du Kousaillon, sm
nyllahic names, as being less exf)oscd to cnrnp*
tions, are the sources from which we must derin
our knowledge of those ancient races whose »•
cords have perished ; if in<lee<l they had uf
susceptible of preservation, beyond the brief tn*
ditions of the remotest period of human historf.
In a study of the present oriental languam
including those of China and Japan, the prindjli
laid down would in all likelihood be productive of
results the most satisfactory. We would thsi
perhnns determine the relative antiquity of the
two la^t-named races more accurately than it
present; and gradually we might even hope-
passing from th<^ Old to the New WorM — to coin
the problem of the origin of the ancient tribvs ol
Mexico, Peru, and those who arc now only re*
cognisable in the ruins of their ancient ciliei
which have been preserved in the depths ol
almost inac(;e8sible forests.
In pursuing the geological inquiry as to tb
remains of pre-higtoric mon, philology would pro-
bably tend to correct too hasty conclusions ; and
l):in<l-in-liand with phyxiology^ might perhaps in-
dicate physical peculiarities in the anatomy of tb<
human organs of speech, which would still fur
ther throw light on the origin of one primitivi
language. &
>S.T.UAS.!S,'e4.]
NOTES AKD QUEBIES.
2fi7
Public ATioK or Wills* — It has often struck
that the pubticntion in the pft)>cra of the wills
' persons recently dL*€eitsed ia h very indecent
Qceeding, and u gross uiisuse of the facilities
lorded by the Probate Court lor insnectioii of
Ills. On referring to an old Law boolc (1 Bur-
rdiaton, 240, anno 1729), I observe that tbU is
I new grievance. It is there ro corded, that —
' Mr. Kettleby moved for an infonnation ngainst the
printer of one of the newspapera for in«erting in it Mr.
llijngerfoTd*s T?iIL Hr ?iia this was a practiee tbat
"atijht tend to gr^^ n by discovering men*t prl-
ate difttjri in ill ; and* thtreforo, h« made
UQtian in l^..,.... v.. the widow. On Jane 81,
b« House of Peers made nn order that do person
take npOQ hiiu to print tha will of one of their
The Court did not see their way to granting
be relief requested ; but I cannot help thinking
at the present practice \& a very unwarrantable
' JLiojk of the sanctity of private life.
Job J. B. Wobkaku.
The " NiiLS JcEL/'—This name has been lately
efore the public as that of the Danish frigate
ruisinii ou our coast. The origin of the name,
applied to a ship, may be mveresting to some
f your readers.
Niels Juel, or Juui, was descended from an old
)anisb family, and was distinguished as an Ad-
niral in the seventeenth century : for his services
be was ennobled, and the beautiful island of
Taasingc south of Fiihnen, wai awarded to him
by his country* The name is as familiar in Den*
mark as that of Nelson in England.
^ Medals were stnick in honour of one of bis
victories* Hie lai^est of gold^ of the value of
0/. ; and two other sizes of silver. I saw a copy
' the largest, made of copper, at the Exhibition
at year. On one side, Heeta were represented
action. It is a very beautiful work of art.
I may add that, in the comprehensive collection
Df portraits at Evans's in the Strand, I obtained
[ group of the Juel family* Sassenach.
AwciBBTT 6itB£K Paeaobam. — Thc following
.aragram (wapdrypafifta, calembour)^ mentioned by
Thei^eua, tbe Grecian aophbt, ia worthy of being
otioed; —
hlfhtfrpU ircirot'<fa fcrro* ^;^(Mr/a|
which, ^ differently pronounced, Las also the two
following meanings : —
Ahk^fpU wixii ohaa Iffrti iitptoffiBt^ and Ai/Kh ^p^t i^*
^ffawra ferv Bf|^Ao^r{a, llBOPOCAIfAJLia.
CtiirRGff Mu^ic. — I transcribe the following
jr the amusement of the musical readers of
^ N. & Q/* If the statement is correct, it is clear
liat a wonderful chan^^e for the better has taken
place m the last twenty years, and one scarcely to
be credifced : —
**The present poverty of our choirs is monrafullv ap-
parent by a reference to some of the noblest coQt|>o:^ition«
of the chtirth. Take one of the earliest, for e<3tamj;i]e» the
Service of To] lis : tbe prrccM and responses of tliis Senric*^
are of unequslled propriety of expresnoio, majeatv of
£tyle, ftnd grandeur of harcnouy. Tbey have never been
rea^ and probably never will ;* but they demand tbe ftid
of a Minor Caooa educated as all such were in Tal*
lis's time : he intones tbe prayers to a prescribed form
of notes ; he leade tbe choir from key to key ; be is the
master-spirit who guides tbe movements of a finely^con-
atrDcle<l machine. Tbe power of peTfonning this noble
Service is now approaching its period of extmctum : one
prieat-vicar almu in tbe metropolis is able to fulfil his
duty as its conductor, and when Mr. Lnpton ia gathered
to his fathers, Tallia's Service will be heard no more.
The public seem to bo aware of this fact, for whenever
the * Talli 3 Day' occun, Westminster Abbey is thronged
with heareis.**<^ATticIe on ^^ Kngliiih Gathednl Muiic " in
The BritiMh amd Form/gn Rtvitto^ vol. xvii. pp. US and 114,
published in 1B44.
O^oiriERSia.
P.S, Long indeed may Mr. Lnpton live^ whose
beautiful voice must be familiar to many fre-
quenters of Westminster Abbey; but still let us
hope that he is not ulHmns Romanorum.
iS^KiGMATi. — ^In one of your January numbers
(p. 93), I met with the Latin ajnlgmata of Disschop^
of which ** N* & Q.'* does not express a very high
opinion. I was tempted to try my hand at the
three which follow, and which you may perhaps
be disposed to submit to the judgment of those
among your readers who fancy such trifles. Tbe
first two wtire suggested by those quoted from
Bisschop : —
L
Si titulo diCTius tftli niea prima vocaria,
JVor/ma Diis (Ijominem te memor esse) ferts-
Inde ubi prima perit, pc»st fun us iota vigebit,
Ut nihilo Spirent suave secunda magis*
2.
Hei mihi, demonstret quod te pars prima fuisae ?
Quanquam homines (totum est) nomen in one
ferunt.
Res nihili est — minima est — vltil sed proxitita
gaudet,
Dum tibi facundo pulvis to ore jacet.
Ehetoribua mea prima subest, et grande poetis
Auxilium : laudat, convocat, orat, nmat.
Httnc vocitcs, vexet si sub cute proxivm vulnus :
Quae sint, scire tibi totiimy ut opinor, erit.
C. G. Pbowett*
LOKG TfilttlltE OF VlCABAGE AND CxTRACT. —
The present vicar of Basingstoke, Hants, who ts
now, I believe, in his ninetieth year, hfts held bis
vicarage for fifty years; and tbe present curate
of Basingstoke has held his curacy for forty years.
Can any of your readers mention a more remark-
able instance of longevity among rectors, anti of
long service among cturates ? ^S^^.'^*
268
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[Sf^av. MAm.lK,^
Browk op Coalstom. — Wliere can I obtain
flill partieulara of the aDcient family of Brown of
Coabton, hi Hadciin^tonahire ? I am awure that
the pedi^ee in Burke*s Baronetage is incorrect;
and I am j^eeking information for a literary pur-
pose, and wish to know if a genealogical tree, or
r>edigTee^ with all the family alliances, is in ex-
istence at the ancient seat of Coalston or eliewhere ;
aud also, if a view of it can be obtained, or a copy ?
Gkosgs Lee*
A Cewtenabian and sometht??o M08K, — The
Stamford Mercury of Feb. 2G, 18G4, says : —
" Tliere hii« really been found an auth«ntic case of
'aged 112,* certified by biipitmnml register book of Frescot
church, i^tAtin/^ thut the old iitdy wu bum on the 24th of
Miiy, I7ai;*
Can this be true ? It wouhl be %*ery interest-
ing to (see the evidence on which go extraordinary
an assertion is based perpetuated in *' N. & Q."
K. P. D. E.
Circle Squab ikq. — In the Life of Thomas
Gent, Printer, York, under the date a.i>. 1732, I
find the following entry : —
*' I printed a book for Mr. Thomas Baxter, school-
niNSter, Crathorn, Yorkshire, inlitted 7'A« Cttcie Squared,
but it Um never provud of imy effect ; it was con verted to
waste paper, to the great mortiii cation of the author*"
la anything known of this work, or of the me-
thod employed by the f^quorer? T, T, W.
Burnley*
JosKpn FoitsTBR, of Queen*s College, Cam-
brid>fe, B.A. 1732-3, M.A* 1736, was author of
two essays : the one on the oricin of evil, the
other on the foundation of morality; to which is
annexed, " A short Dissertation on the Immate-
riality of the Soul." Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 8vo,
1734. We much desire to know more respecting
him. C. H. & Thomfsoh Goofbe.
Cambridge.
MoniEit Goo&E. — Can any one tell tne who
Mother Goo&e was, nnd where the orijrinal lej»end
concerning her is to be found ? She lutist belong
to the mythology of German legend, but I find
no allusion to her in Grimm's tales, and, oddly '
enough, the first edition of Pemult's Fairy Tales
ifl entitled CanteM de ma Mire rOye, Was she a
French witch? A* E.
Harrison and Fakr. — iVIy great uncle, John
Farr, Appears to have married a Norfolk lady,
oanied Hiirrisoiu This I gather from a book in
my powcHsion (the fir*t volume of Mat ho, or the
Coimttthrtirin pttt^ritiM^ London 4to, 17(j5), on the
cover of which i* written^ in an old hand, ** A
Norfolk hirj^eh^ frrnu Tlio»» Harrison, of Plum-
tlead Magna, to John Ffxrr, of London, gent., on
his marrying Hannah Harrison — * Virtus in or*
co«t of m
ng tlie f«u)f|
r. S. FaB&
dnis.*** Beneath is a qir'^rr ^
Waoteil any infonnatiori
and descendants of this Tln^iutL- i i
was the relationship between bin
Perhaps some Norfolk cor?— ' «'«
copies of monumental iij
cords extant, of the Hari i:; -. ,* i
Plumstead.'
Haydn's STMPHOifiEs: "TnK Suarfttra,*"
Is anything known to account fur the tJlI«i [
fixed to many of Haydn's tynipbonies ? Then i
but one biography of this composer in tJbie £ii|
language, Bombet's Letters an Haydn^ ^^'^J
very meagre in many parts. 1 should be tha
to be made acquainted with the history <
curious titles as " The Surprise ;" ** The Polla
"The Shipwreck;'* ** The Fair Circassia^
Haydn is great in descriptive music ; but in I
of these fine compositions, the connexion I
music and title is very obRCure, and oniMt \atti\
existed only in the acute brain of the eomp
Certainly, it is rarely discoverable by A tesm
auditor, however well educated in tnusic.
JcatTA T\:mmsL
** Here lies Frkd," etc. — Professor Sisytb,A|
his Lectures on Modem History, used l*> V'^l
the well-known epitaph on tiie Prince of Wa^J
" Here lies Fred," &c.,* and call it a gocMl ^
of a French epigram, which he read, Thkia' |
many other matters too good to be forgot tei^ i
omitted from the printed copy. Can any of yiK j
readers oblige me with the French verset f
"The Keepsake" 3828. — Can the author of
Drearns on the Border-land of Poetry in the Jiborr
be identified? 1 acquired the MS. thri'
son Turner's sale, and there a pencil ii
butcs the authorship to Charles LatuU. lie
writing is certainly not hisj but is Tery like ikl
of Leigh Hunt* J. B. Canrtt^i.
LOKDON $MOK£ AND LoSTDOH LtGHT.-
years ago, while residing on high ground at {
ford, near Dartford, in Kent, I waa €>ccaalc
able, when the wind was westerly, to traoe a t
of London smoker extending along the low litl ^_
Essex, north of the Thames* ap|>aretiiljr as fir
down da the Nore. Gilbert White, in bia Mek^
orokfgical Observations^ writes thus : —
** Mist called LomJon SmaJtr — Thh tP « l)to«
which baa mmewhat the xn* i'
atwttvs eooiea to un wtlli a t^<
to rnnii* ffnlLL l^mlolh It h** -
J lighl-s. Whtn curJi ni tbfV
Hi - 1 by dr}' weather.'*— » iStti,
p :iy:.
Recently I have? been told that the Ugki
London, reHt^cted in the sky, is under
[• See - N. & Q.'^ 2»« S. X. a; W ]
I mbM
a»<a V. mjul it>, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES-
259
*
I
I
circumstances observed by night afc Hertford.
Permit me, without wishing to excite a nieteor-
ologieul discu&sion, so far to tresptiss oti yonr
|iages lift to seek, being tn that quarter most likely
to get it, the iufomialion that I want, namely,
where to find any itatUfactorj particulars as to the
extent of the area within which our jrrcat over-
grown metropolis makes itself perceptible, whether
By nightly splendour or by daily smoke ?
The C1.ERK OF THE Wratheb.
Joffir Meacham.— In the QentlemaiCs Moga^
zine, June, 1813, there is a poem on " Stratford-
on*Ayon " by John Meacham, who is said to have
died June 1, 1784, a^ed nineteen. This juvenile
poet was a native of the town of Stratford or its
neiffhbourhood. I* he known to have written
anything else ? R. I.
MiTi^T. — I should be much obliged to any
Yorkshire genealogist who would communicate
any notices of a family named I^Iitley, of Little
Preston, in the parish of Kippax, and possessing
property in that parish about the midille of the
seventeenth century. The name is of such rare
occurrence, that all possessors of it may probably
be referred to the same original stock.
Clericus.
TwK LATB Dr. Rat ri^s. — The fallowing ex-
tract is from a number of the New York iTuUpen-
deni of this year, and from a correspondent to
that journal : —
" On landing at Liverpool I cdled, with a bundle of
AUtoi^raphs, on the late Dr. Raffle*, wlio, next to An gel 1
.Tftmoa, wasthemost iDfluentiiil Independent divine m Great
Britain. An AQlogriph wns a key to Dr. RntHeV hcflrt»
as it ii now to our friend Dr. Spntgue'A. Hia collection
wiu irnmcnM, He had the orijrinAl MSS. of Scott's
* Kcnilworth,* of Montgomery's * i'clican I s Jan d/ and of
eeTeral of Bums's songs. He had abo Melunehtbon's He-
brew Bible — the margins covered with notea in the neat
hand of that •beloved disciple/ The ^eate^t curioMty
in the coUeetion was a rough draft of a cballenf^e froM
Byron to Lord Brougham; it was written atMis80kin|?hi»
jiiBt before the poei'a death, and endorsed, • To be for-
warded immediately on my return to England.' The
letter ran gall and vitriol^ charged Brougham with shin*
denng him* »nd breath c-d revenge in every line. The
hand that wrote the challenge was soon laid'in the vault
h«neatb Uucknall charch. Let me say, also, that Dr.
HafRt'A prepared some of hk sermons on the tahle on
which Byron wrote the *Childe Harold;' it was portable
and couid be Iblded up on hiniKs lu the shape of a hujee
book"
Can any of the friends of Dr. Raffles, or mem-
bers of bis conj^regation, say what became of these
ftlttographfl and relics at the death of the Rev*
Dr. r I very much doubt whether tlie corre-
apondeni of the New York paper is not under a
mistake as to some portion of the articles named.
T.B.
EnWABi> Hamfdsk Rosj^ a native of Dublin,
who WBs ii purser's steward in the navy, died at
the Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, Aug, 1810. He
wrot^ the Sea Demi, (a novel?) and is saJd
fo have written abo MS. poems. Is anythirifj
further known .ibout his poetical or other w^^rks?
R. !•
Swallows, — A correspondent informs me that
in Norfolk there exist!* a tradition with respect to
swallows^ viz. that these birds *' always conjrre-
gate about a house in which a death is expected,
and that the departing spirit goes away with
them,*' Can you give any further information on
this subject P
Can YOU refer to any passage, ancient or mo-
dern, where the departure of the soul is associated
with the mir^ration of swallows ? G. S* C.
TjtASB Wncns. — Can any of your readers in-
form me whether Halley is the autbcir of the
modern theory of the Trade Winds ? and if not,
what was the proposition that he maintained on
this point ? W, IL
WrroHES IN Lascaster Ca0TL1b. — In the Anr-
roHve of the Life of Mr. Htm^ Burton^ written
by himself, and printe<l in 164:i,intlie description
that he gives of his confinement in the castle of
Lancaster, in the autumn of 1637, there occurs
the following passage : —
** — to add to their cmeltiea* there was a darke roome
under mine, where they pat five witches with one of their
children, which made such a hdliah noise ni^jht and day»
that I seemed then to he in hell, or ut least in some
popif^h pnrg^atory^ the region next above belli as the
papists tell us."
It is instructive to observe that in the eye« of
Mr. Henry Burton, the cmelty of the case con-
sisted not in the five witches and one of their
children being consigned to prison, but in their
being put into a room under his, whereby he was
disturbed. Can any information be now obtained
respecting these poor witches, and what became
of them and the child ? P. S. Ca»et,
fSurrtfif £D(tt) ^ttJfDfrif*
Db. JACon Catz. — I take advantnge of the
great variety of knowledge exhibited by your
correspondents to inquire, if anv one of them can
inform me of a Dutch and English Dictionary
adapted to the languafje of the fniiious emblema-
tist, Jacob Ca(z K Any information which would
tend to the understanding of this excellent author
would be most acceptable.
Is there any full account of the Life of Father
Cat?, or of his embassy to England in Cromweirs
time ? Irt there any good iiterory notice f>f him ?
G. S. C.
[Dr. Jacob Catz, the diiUnguished Batch civilion and
poet, WAS bom at Brouwershaven, pro%'ince of Zeeland,
Nov, 10, 1577. After studying jurisprudence — ^firsUy,
in the universities of Levdtiw w^^^iNmoa V>\*.^v^^»«*^
260
NOTES AND QUEEIES.
ta»^av. iiAitxtiL
of whith be took the degree of LL.D.) j nnd secondly,
under the celebrated Cornelius Van der Pol— he settled
ftt Mlddleburg, where he acquired great reputntioa us a
pictdor. Some time nfterwardji, Cutz practised with
equal distinction at Zieuwrockzee, and at hla native place.
At this period ho applied himself no lest assiduously to
poetry; and not only became distinguishwi among tho
literati of Holland for the purity and elegance of his Latin
verses, but aoon took rank as one of her first lyrinti in
his native tongue. Becoming seriously ill by orer'appH*
catmn to study, he wa^ advised to travel^ and thereupon
repaired to thi^ country. Whilst herOi be Tiaited Cam-
bridgo and Oxford, but failed to recruit bis heattli. He
was eventually cured in his own cooutry by an old
alchemist. In 1631, he was nominateil Pensionary of
Holland and West Frie4land; and in 164ft, wm elected
Keeper of tho Seal of the safne statOt and StadLholder of
the F'iefs; but, after filling these important oOices for
eighteen years, he requested permission, on account of his
advanced age (seventy- two), to retire into private life,
which was reluctantly granted by tho Sutea. Aa the
post of Grand Penaionury had been fatal Uy almost all
those who had held it, from the beginning of the Hepablic
to that time, Catz delivered up his charge upon his knees
tMfbre the whole AMOmbly of the Statu: weeping for
joy, and thanking God for having preaarved him tVom
the dangfin which aeemed attached to tho duties of that
office. At the earnest solicitation of the States, he con-
sented to go on an embassy to England at the delicate
conjuDcture when the Bepublic found itself compromised,
during tho Protectorate of Crorawell. He arranged a
treaty of commerce between the tw^o countries. That
was his last public service. He devoted his few remain-
ing years to the Muses* and died at Sorgvllet, whither
he had retired, in 1060, aged eighty- three. The most
popular of the works of ♦• Father Cutx " aa he wos, and
iiiJl is» affectionately called by his admiring countrymen,
is his Moral Embttnn^ recently translated into Engliah
by Mr. Riclu Pi got (Longmans, 1860); to which is pre-
fixed a brief l^lemoir of tlie indefittigable author. B^
also, Nomtik Bit}^. Gin,^ vol. ix. 223 ; and Hallam*s Lit.
of Eurojit, voL iii. 26 (edit 1854). A spurious account
of Catz appears tn the Gent.U Mag., voL Ixxvii. 1093,
1100. Perhaps ono of oor correspondento will kindly
oblige G. 8. C* with a refisrence to a Dutch and English
Dictionary adapted to tho laoguagt of the old emUema-
tiat : we know of none.]
**Thi Tdrkjsu Spt.** — Can ynu inform ro(»
who wrote a work named The TurkUh Spjf, which
appeared in the begin Ding of the lost century ?
Eyam Evan«, M.D.» Loud.
BMch StrMi« Rarbioail.
[The aathorsbip of Tht TarMik Spf^ by tlie myttcrl-
«!• MAhmttt, hat been froinently dlsiTiusAd by p«r»ons of
eootfdfniblt learning and acuteoQaa, We ctti promis«
OBf eofnapondenl a few hours* pleatant nading on thla
6MitMV«rt«d subject if he will only eonsuli Hallam'a In-
tPiariwdoa to tk* lilBratmr$ V E^npn, «diW 1864, iiL
569-578; D'lsraeh's Chtrtofitiew of JMer^tmrt^^SiL l«t
i. 419-421* the papers by F, R- A^ J. Roeba, stf Csi
Mr. Rol t on Comey, and Joseph Hunter, ^ ^
raaa** Magatim fo r 1 840 n n d 1 8 1 1 * Th
la, whether Jka3c Paul Mai i iti^- *^ ♦j-i*
was the author of the whole o \ p>}rtioo sT lb J
celebrated work« Mr Hallam at 1 1 1 u uics ia Ilia «■!/ di I
thirty letters published in lt^84, and of twantf ntfi i |
1G86, which have beeu literally trniulatad into fi
and form about half the tint volume in EngltA ^^\
TurkiMh Ajjy. Mr, Bolton Comcy, oa the other
oscribf^ the entire work to l\Iarana. He aays^lflb-l
rana composed the entire Turkuh Sp^r what h^uum 4 \
the manuscript? He was scarcely sUK>ve want, fliii
not insensible to the profits of autborahlp. Ho biJi
with obstacles to publication in Fraac«; and fa HiQfl
to the press of which state he had recoar«*^- lii*' mimfi^ I
was not cherished. Was tliore no al 61
might with reason expect a pnrchaaer \u ^ __ ft|
had done hira the honour of translation. Mr.
publisher of the volume, was in constant (
with Holland ; and from HoUand, I have no db«l<lri4^ |
taintd the inediied manu9cr(pt. He was the JCilt {
of the subsequent volumes. Dr. Midg:ley may bmil'l
vanced the purchase money, and so obtainad Has mif I
right. He may have employed Bradshaw, wbo «»kl
his debt, to transUte tho manuiorspt ; and ba <
deny himself an Imprimatur! All the nndottlilai bi* ]
of the case tend to establish the main potfit of tblll|^
ment; and so does the fiof c^rf crrtiiU^ tJile of Kfil^
marsh, which introduces the second and anbaifiB
volumes, if properly interpreted. Thla rotvI tWf I
•ervea to explain why the reported Itallao t>^Xim ki 1
never been produced ', and why the French edfur d lli
was content to follow the English tex^t* It al«> wtnm a |
Acootiflt for the mystery which was thro%m ovw tlie t
Otftira on this side the channel. It is the aoIutSoB «f m I
enigma; a solution which lias ts*: ^ n /|
UCaraiy history — Italian, French* m . ^
hnudred and fifty yoapa"^<?«il, JWnj? ^uv. i •*iu. p. Ml,
consult also Gent. Ma^* March, 1841, pp. 2(J5-VT0-]
Quotation. — Can any of your r-
me in what classical author tbr wor<
quani nactus ea, orna/' are to be fouud ? V\ &]
[We doubt whether these wortl% In Latin, arw tt I
found in any classteal author. In the Gre«k Ibrtt {
are cited by Cicero, in his EpUtUt io Aiii^us : **l
est, ZirApra^ i\ax*h ravray tioffpm, Kon
posittxn.** (iv. 6.) Erasmus, in his Ada^ (1<S49^ pw MI^X
commenting upon the phrase, says that it ia frooi
m^f I — **> Quod k Ctoerone refi.<>rtur carmoi ^it i
ticnm, h tragovlia qiupiam. 8partsm nadua ra, hm»
exorna.** Vet» presuntly afWr, Erasmus stat«« tlmt fin*
tarrh attribntps this saying to Solon, * In imiMn U*
bsllo '' (/><• An^Tmnq."^ " monet hoc dl^tnm \\ Soliwt pn^
ditum." Yet we can hardly pairoci w«nl* tt
Plutarch* at least in the paoage i>> lanoH f^_
firs, will bear this interpretation i •>
r.jf«i
r« s. V. lUtt. se» *tL}
NOTES AND QUERIEa
261
' oilf «r* «". A«
7er0 Solon teems t/i bo cited fix the autJior rather of
Other i^vo^dgCf than of that now in riuestion.
j« r«miirkabl« also, tbat Era^mas glvti sometliing
Identicil with thii luiter, &$ "cited from JSTuri-
'i — •♦CiUtur ftutem ex Eurlpjde, ^^dprrtif lAax<^
^ fe4r;tci ♦ , . Videntur vcrbo esse Againemnoms ad
mum."
W« Ahoiild be thanVfUl to any of o»r learned renders
uld supply us with a refcr(^nc« to the vordu
iSuripidei; or who could point out any pis-
rlook^ by ua, in which Plutarch nliributes tbo
i baring Adopted by Cicero to .l^o/on.]
Lrs.AAr ScRianoNGg. — In a black-letter edi-
Fox*s Book of Martyrs^ I have found the
rlf))§* It b vvritton in Jiik, and dated 1702.
I Ally of your readers interpret it ?
•* When u uid i together meet.
We niAke up mx in house or street;
Dut 1 and u shall meet once more.
And then we two can make but four;
Bat \ihen that u from i nre g'^w®*
Then my poor i can make bat one.*'
Trstahs.
[Thd Bo man numeral letters, VL» IV.^ and 1.]
^QroTATioN WAKTED. — A. K. H* B, jh a sermoD
itiblishedt says : —
?Iy in a higher atnsc than even that of the Bubllmest
els, ihe believer may take up his wonli —
* I feel the atirrings of a gift divine;
Within my bosom glow* unearthly fire,
Lit by ito ikiii of iDine.' "
_^ri iireftume that by the ** subUmest of poets ** is
meant MiltoD^ but I do not remember the passage.
Will some one supply the reference ?
A. AiitGca.
tTb«M Uoei am by Him EUiabeth Lloyd, of Pbiladel-
|iltlH. The poem, of whkh they are the concluding lines,
ii printed in " N. & Q." 2»« S. v, 114.]
fXtuliti.
PUBLICATION OF BIAUIES.
(S'^ S. V. 107, 215,)
I 1j forgotten that I ev<!r proposed to
Mil. \^' ' to be hirasflf the communicator
of whar i utiLr«'arda gave (1" S. xii. 142). No
doubt I Tifiib^^d that the quotation which would
be «omc iiraends for his own deficiency shoitld
oome front biinself.
I liore "cbar^jed" Mr. Wn.Kia»oN — if bo
Hrourr » word must be used ^ with the "error
•eo of whoin thop
jud^e. For instance, it U omitted that Burrow
deckrci the "scoundrel" Howe to be either a
coward or traitor, which opinion would have been
good meana of estimating the value of what be had
said about others. Ma. Wii^ilinson replies —
Firjt, that the omitted portiLms had nothing to
do with matiiemntics or matbemaiicians. This is
part of the *^ charge/" which is, that by omitting
the slanders on non-roatberaaticians who were well
known^ Mb, Wllkitison deprived his readers of
their best means of judging what the aspersions
on the mathematicians are worth.
Secondly, that " aUusions ** to Burrow*s defects
occur in almost every page. This means either
that Ma, Wlleinsoji alludes to these dufecta in
every page ; or that manifestations of the«o de-
fects occur in the quotations from Burrow him*
self. I am forced upon the ambiguity by the
rarity of Ma. Wjliciiiiboii's own remarks on'Bur
row's **ejtct»ntricifcie» of genius.*' If Burrow
the alluder to bimBelfp then I say that he ii no
made to allude to all that he ou^ht to have ilJ
ludcd to. But if Mr. Wilkinson refer to bini
self, then I say that not only is nearly every pag
dejtitut'e of any allusion from hioi, but that wbi
allusions there are pive no idea oi tbc slander
of Wales and Lord Howe. For instance, in the^
last page of all. Burrow is only a *^ somewhat
excentric but able mathematician.'* Should Mb.
Wilkinson deny what I have here Faid, I will
reprint fl/^ I can Ymd of aiiusion from himself —
little sp.ice will do It" and leave him to find
more if he can.
In the last paragraph, Mb. Wileinson makes^i
comparison and an allusion, both unfortunate,
says that no court of law he knows of would re
ject Burrow's testimony on the ground alleged
rhe jury decides on testimony : and nothing i
more common than to hear a witness cross -ex«|
amined as to what he said about B, that the jur
may judge of what he said about A. And why)
because counsel know that it will weigh with
the jury. A man who swears that Private Smith
run away in the Crimea, would not gain much
credence if it turned up in cross-examination that
he bad said Wellington ran away at Waterloo,
Nextj Mb. Wilkiubow knows of** no syllogism in
formal logic " whieh will ** suffice to prove** tbat_
because a man is occasionally coarse, &c., he
not to be credited in matters of mathematic
biography. To understand this allusion, the reade
must be informed that 1 have written a book oii|
formal logic, stuck full of syllogisms. lieferenc
to a man's own specialty is a figure of smartne
which often succeeds, jest or earnest* '* Mucla
use your syllogisms ore oft *' said a friend to me
L' ran past each other in a most categorica
er, without a halfpenny* worth of umbrelh
I ■ ween us. But tlie sroiitU\via% \Ei>i'4\ Vife ^^S. -k'
kind iwbicU ^IVV &Uti^ iW Wiuci^x ^l iaR»\»^ ^"v
262
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[a'«&T. lftML«;«
•ccurncy, or it docs not tell at nil No synogism
of formal logic "aufficca*' to prove anytbing:, any
raore than a spinninj^ mitchlrie suffices to make
thread. Both Hyllogism iind jonny mu»t be sup-
plied with matter, on the goodne^is of which it
tiepends whether the conclusion and the thread
will he sound, Mr. Wilkinson feeds n form with
mutter which I had rtjjected in express ternis,
and presents the result as havin:; been implied by
me. I will extract hiM material and put in niy
own. The form is — Every Y i? Z, X is Y, there-
fore X is Z. Mr, Wilkikson'b compound, im-
plied to be niine^ h — Every coarse* &c* perAoo
IS unworthy of cr*?dit in biography; Reuben wajj
a coarse person, therefore, Sec, My syllogism is —
Every person who deliberately ^vrites what we
know to be slander is without authority in mat-
ters of which we cannot have knowledge ; Reuben
WAS such a person, therefore, &f. Burrow calls
Lord Howe a scoundrel, and either coward or
traitor. We, therefore, pause when we find him
applying: Bad Words to a lady of rank, or ira-
putatinnji of paltry conduct to men of whom he is
the only accuaer. 1 say that the publisher of the
extracts ought to have enabled his readers to
make this pause. A. Ds Mobgan.
SITUATION OF ZOAK.
(3^ S. V. 117, 141, 18L)
In my communication on the site of Zoar, I
stated my opinion that the salt ridge (Khasm Us-
dutn) wiis Lot's wife ; «nd I now trust you wilt
atTord me space to justify that opinion.
That the immediate neighbourhood wis tlie
scene of the catastrophe d*»tttiled in Gene*«is
xix. 17 — 26, there can exist little, if any doubt;
up in ions can differ only as to the actual locality*
The statement in the chapter above alluded to,
is, not th«t she was transformcil into something
hamng the appearance of a pillar of salt, nor that
she became incrust^l with saline pnrticles, more
or less dense ; but the broad and simple fuct is
enxinciated (ver. 26) : ** She became a pillar of
aalt."
When I returned to England, after my Syrian
journey, I was introduced during a visit to Cam*
hndjre tn several nf the Professors ; among others
the Professor of Hebrew ; and 1 took advantage
of the opportunity to ask him what were the
distinct and separate significations of the word
in Hebrew, which in our ordinarv version is trans-
lated "pdlar;* His reply was: "A pillar, a
monftmetit, a mound or ri^e** The Inst is prf.
cisoly and literttUy what Khasm Usdum i«,— it
can scarcely be culled a hill, though it might be
termed hillock ; but it exactly Hu the expression,
*' ridge."
T/ie /earned Professors asked mc how 1 couVd
reconcile my belief that Kbitim Utdtiai i
wife^ with the fact which I gave tbem» ikal a i
own rough estimate of (iiiiieti£io>tt9 llie
was one and a h<ilf to two miles lon^* nardi i
south, as I estimated from my ramdV
and I thought an hundred and fifiy p^%
Exact accuracy of length or altitude, it iii>b«ia
is not of vital importauce; for, if only oaa i
long and fifty feet high, it would noL mfldii
the argunient
To this rather staggering crods-exttmia
replied: ^*That the purpose of the Alnuglitj. i
far as our finite judgments would wan
reasoning and presuming on, was to exbibU tod
a-jes a monmnent — an example made of *i ""
disobedience to His direct and positive o^l
mandfl ; while, if wc take her l)ody to liavc IimI
covered merely with an incrustation of aiilt« a^l
days', nay, hours' rain — when, to judge froiat^l
ravines and boulders in nil dtrectiotia, tbe d
are rery heavy — would have immediAtdj i
it away/'
My powers of logic will not admit nny •
tive between a ridge ^ to all intonts and pu
perpetual in it a character, or, a ye^rlv renewrf^l
the miracle— I had utmost written daily. ** I7lis|
horum mavis accipe.**
Nor do I reply on my own erring jud^nvii 1
Josepbus is, 1 presume, to be udmitt^ea aaVi^ I
worthy. He ampliBes the htstoricxd d^tA d
Scripture ; but it hiis never been laid v ^ |
charge that he fnlMifies them.
He snys {AntU^mtUg^ bw)k i. chap, m
graph 4), rccounimg what took ptftce 1801 |«i|
before the Christinn Era: **It remaiiit to till
day, and I have seen it/' I
It is also attested by Clement of Homm 1*1
contemporary ; and in the next cent^uy, If I
Irenaeua. i
One more quotation of chapter mnd vctic, tfll
be it remembered who is speaking; I^ttkes&l
32, 33, K. a
HINDU CODS,
(3^'* S, V. 197.)
I am tempted to offer a few remarks on
reply referred to.
Brahm is (he Unity of the Hindu Triad, ilra1iau»l
Vishnu, and Siva. Saras wat hi, and not Durv^M
a cursory reaijcr might suppose, i^ tbe suctf m
peculiar *• encrffy *' of Brahma,* as Luclcsbmi brf
Vishnu, and Durga, under her VHrioua nmnns, k
thjit of Siva,
There is an amricnt well in th<9 fort nf AVItte* I
bad (or, as it in called by Tt " " |,^
is believed by the native/ 1 t^J
• llv a %it
iitn€9 them tf« nu f«fQ|i
cCK%^ d^^vcAUd ta tilt Jln$ j
3^«» S. V. Mar, ^6» *U4.]
fand » commuDication h «aid to exist between it
and the confluent rivers Jumna and GaDr;es :
hence the peculiar aanctity of this locality, and its
Itnvstic name Tribeni^ or the three braids, in allu-
sion to Par&ati (the energy of Sivn), represented
by the Ganges ; Luckahnii, the sncti of Vishnu, as
the Jumna and Saraswathi as ubove*
The colours oi the gods themselves are not un-
worthy of note, as indicating the origin of these
myths in the natural features of the country and
its rivers. To call these divinities goddeMes is
scarcely correct, for they are in a ^etit measure
identical with the deitiej** of whom they are rather
I the acfive principle thon the separate* agents,
I« it not an error to represent Siva as having
^ three eye«, anil is not the central eye simply the
IBrahmmicai mark f
The worship of Siva, the whiie god, whose spirit
(Narayan) la described as having ** moved on the
face of the primeval waters," is iit present, I be-
lieve, paramount in India ; although the tiestroyer
he is likewise the regenerator^ destroying only to
reproduce. His $acti^ or energy, has many names
according to her attributes. As Bhawani, she
8<fems to ctHTCBpond with the classical Cybele.
Parvati, Devi, tlie warlike Durga, and blood-
frlained Kali/ are one and the aame aa regards
their origin.
Vishnu is a peculiar god in this respect, that,
when considered with reference to Siva, one per-
ceives a trace of the idea which produced, in the
Christian world, the Gnostic here«y.
Care should be taken to tiescribe in their exact
order the Vtahnaiva inc^iroationsi, as, in thai system
of cosmojiony, a derangement of the progressite
development would injure the occult meaning of
ita inventors, and probably its only practical value
nt the present day» There is something geologi-
cally suggestive in the succession of incarnations :
(1) ■ £ftb, (2) a tortoise, (3) a boar, (4) a hybrid,
(5) a man, &c.
Krishna or Krishen, the most important atara
L (or tti^aUtr)^ has been overlooked in the observa-
B tions under fHscuasion. His worship seems to
P^ have originated in some garbled version of the
New Te^ttament, a», so fur as I have read, Uie
atteniptd to give it a higher antiquity have utterly
failed.
The tenths or comiV;^ incarnation, of Kalka is re-
markable, first as regards its number ; and secondly,
a« combining a seemingly Apocalyptic fragmenr,
with the myth of fhe Rhodian Genius, so pleas-
ingly expluined by Humboldt.
Indra is the Jupiter Tonans of Hindu mytho-
logy, and to him is sacred the beautiful Sonm or
moon- plan f, from which the god-i distd their
, favourite drink. Knma, the boy-god of love, is,
NOTES AND QUERIES.
263
like his classical confrere, represented with bow
and arrow ; and to him is sacred the elegnnt
Ipomcra qnamodit^ or Ishkpecha^ with its scarlet
stars, and delicate spider- likt; leaves.*
Ganesha is an inferior deity, worshipped chiefly
by the commercial classes, and his images, distin-
guished by elephant's head, are to be found
always about banking establishments and shops.
He IS the god of prudence and wisdom, and in
some other respects represents the classical Janus*
As we aav ironically that such an one is like an
rtu'4 ID allusion to the bird of wisdom, so probably
has originated the Hindu expression with refer-
ence to a foolish boaster — ** His throat is like an
elephant*8.**
It would be tedious perhaps to continue these
remarks, and therefore I shall conclude by ven-
turing the suggestion that, profitably to study
Hindu mytholoory, one ou^ht not to confine him-
self to ewnpilations on this subject, but should
proceed to a study of the ancient languag^es of
India, or at any rate have at hand dictionaries
of ihein, if, as i take it, the study of mythology
be considered the pioneer of ethnology. Spal.
Ma. Davidson vtiII probably find much, if not all,
of the information he desires in the late Major
Moor's Hindu Fantheon (4 to, 1810), This work has
been for many year^i very scarce, and copies which
have fi^m time to time cjccurred for sale, have
fetched high prices. A short time since the ori-
ginal copper-plates, 104 in number, came into the
Eissession of Messrs. Williams k Norgate, of
enrietta Street, Govent Garden, who have pub-
lished a new edition, with a descriptive index by
the author's nephew, the Rev. A. P. Moor, sub-
warden of St. Augustine's College, Canterbury.
[the
The goddaw of the Thugt, aad whoae dttt resemble
irp^ t^tunm oftirn Maeimt saturnalia.
THOMAS GILBERT, ESQ.
(3''* S. V. 1S4.)
He was B*A. of Trinity College, Oxford, May
25, 1733; and commenced M.A. in this Univer-
sity 1737, being then Fellow of Peterhouse,
There are two letters to the Earl of Bute In
MS. Addit. 57-26 D, C 222, 223, which are stated
to be from Thomas Gilbert ; but from each of
them the signature has been cut oC
• I have noticed these flowers merely to touch on the
subject of the u He of pccuUsr plants in hesthen worship.
The eharnheU and perpul^ &C.t of India, the toe fa of Chiiie,
the dog tp-oMB of the aiicieat Carians, the rrur of UiAf so
prominent in th»t roinAiK^e of Apuleius — these* awd maoy
others more or less familiar, might form subjects for ia-
teresting discussion.
of the RoaacecB Wvei ^^\ Wii VisffiMi ^sassa^J^- Ss«k5» ^ "^
period aaViirVoT \q ma,ti'l
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NOTES AND QUERIES
[S'-'av. mar.o.'cl
The first letter, indorsed witli tlic date of May
2-i, \7r>[\ is in these terms: —
•* ^ly Lonl,
** Mnvint: lately mot with an opportunity of paying;
my l{<!SjH'i'.t'* ti> yt;ur I.onMiim after .ho loiiff an intnrvnl,
1 jjrcMiiiui tt) triMihli- you with thi« letti-r, which I mIuhiM
si-an:o have vi'iitunillo have done, had I not honn Kii-
cour:i>:c«l l»y the i^i-nerous prvtcction j;ivi'n to the 'Orphan
of ('hina;*'whtdi incline!* nie, as well as the rest of th«
world, to look upon your I,onK!iip a* tho patron of politD
lituraturt> — a nohlo ex-iniplo nnnli wantci! in Hie pre-cnt
a^C*'* tho* likely to tliul hut few folio werM. Therefore, Ijei;
the favour f.f your I^>nlHhip to n'lvo. me h-ave to sen<l y<u
a Tragedy called * .Tn«;urtlia,' which you may take into the
country with yon "to pcru^o at your leisun*: ami oven
tho* it should* not h« so fortunate to meet with your
J.onl.-<hi)>*s appr'd)atiun, it will ntfiril some pleasure to
tho Author to have tho real opinion of an impartial
.lud^c. The place of my reiiidcnc.e thi.s Nummer bein^
very uncertiin, a> 1 prohahly niav have occasion to visit
my I'state in tho North, if your f^inUhip p;ive8 me leave
to !»ond the mainiscriptH; at my return, I will either do
invNelf the plea.>iurn of waiting on you, or take the liberty
of Hendini; you a letter in expectation of an answer,
which will be estccmeil m a favour
*• by your L<irdshi[»'a
In tli'.^ s«»eond lotter, einlorscd with the <hite,
Oct. 8, 17j>2, thii wrilJT exj)resses his rupture at
being lu^rmittc*! to lay his hook at his Maje.'Sly'^
feet; and sinys that, if his Lordahip approved of
the work, the author nni,dit vpntiire to print it.
Kach of these Idtorsis marked ** Ifd^notus,*' pro-
bably in the handwriting^ of the Karl of Hute.
Th(» allusion in thr first of these letters to the
writer's estate in tiie north, peems to indicate
Thomas (iilbert, of Skinningrave to havo been
the author.
One Thouias Gilbert, Esc]., died at Kin^land,
near London, Oct. l;i, 1771 (Gent. Mafr.j xli. 475).
This may have be<'n the gentlenian who had been
FeUow of Teterhouse.
There wils another Thomas f Jilbert, Esq., who
was M.P. for Newcastle- under- Lyne, and I.ichlield,
chairman of the Committee of Way.s and MoMns,
and for some time Coni})troller of the (Jreat Wanl-
robc. lie acquired honourable distinction by his
cflR)rts to amend the poor laws, and even yet some
of his h';rislative measures are cited by his name,
lie died Dec. 18, 1798, tut. seventy-nine. (As to
him, see Gent, Mag.^xxxi. 603; xxxii. 45 ; xxxiii.
1203; Ixviii. 1090, 114G. KichoWs Lit. Anecdoten,
ix. 203 ; and Watt's Dibl. Brit., where, however,
he is confminded with a naval captain of the same
name.)
It may here be noted, that Dr. Gloucester Kid-
ley was author of an unpublishc<l tragedy, entitled
* Jugurtha* {Gent, Mag., xliv. 556).
C. II. k TlIOMPSUH COOPBB.
Cambridi^.
CKOMWELI/S HEAD.
(3"»S. V. 119,178.)
I promised to supply some further ]>articulars
resiH?cting the head supjK)^e(l to he that »if Crmn-
well, now in the ])08session of Mr. Wilkinson, bnt
am diverted from the course T intcmlcd to pur«itt
by the remarks of William Pixkkiitwn. 1 can-
not but think that if your coiTcapondcnt hal
looked carefully over the several articles whicli
have appeare<l in " N. & Q." bo would \mt
adopted a tone more respectful to those wlux
after much examination of the lieail, and of tW
documents relating to it, have arrived at the con-
clusion that there is strong, if not conclusive evi-
dence, that the head is genuine. Mr. PiSKEiTia
reproves the loose method of statement adopted
by some writers, and immediately falls into tb
same ern>r himself; and after occupying abow
three columns of your valuable space, he tclUn
that the subject is " beneath criticism." I sub-
mit, on the contrary, that the nubject is one not
unworthy of candid and ])atient investigation.
It is anything but good taste t« employ the
designation " the Wilkinscm head." Mr. Wilkin-
son is a high-minded and Ixmourable irentlemn,
who does not ostentatiously display the bead, nor
prefer any claim respecting it ; nor to_ my kno*^
ledge has he ever expressed an opinion as to iti
genuineness. He gives the history very much «
I have given it (3"* S. v. 180), and just as freely
reports the opinions of one side as he does tlioie
of the other. He has no interest in it beyond that
of arriving at the truth in a matter which hti
excited much curiosity; and no living person cia
have any other motive but the very laudable one
of settlmg a point of dispute which unquestion-
ably has an historical value. In fsict, no one with
whom I am actpiainted has written or spoken in
reference to it in so dogtnatie a spirit as ]Mb.
TiNKKiiTON himself. I must trouble you with I
j few remarks cm his article.
I Mr. PiNKERTON confounds the misatatemcnti
' of the writer in The Queen newspaixir with tlie
statements of those who have carefully examined
the documentary evidence. This is not veiy
logical, to say th«j least of it. Whatever may be
the defects of the testimony offered, it has been
consistent throughout. Temple Bai* is an error
i of Mr. Uucklamrs, as I have shown ; and I hare
I never heard any other place name<l than Wertp
j minster Hall until I saw the extract in ** K. & QT
, (3"* S. v. 119). The value of the documents m
, the ])ossc:<Hion of Mr. Wilkinson arc not impaired
because Mr. Buckland, along with other erronb
' has substituted Temple Bar fur Westminiter HalL
I Mr. FiNKERToic, after making much of thia mil*
I take, then tells us that to his certain knowlcd0
I there are " many others ** i. e. heads of Crom*"
I I should have expected from so kam •
.▼.Mab.M.'«4]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
^65
more precUlon in languag-o. Many may mean
anT number firom six to a thousand. Without
bira for nuDierical exactness* perhaps He
l us somewhere about the number. He
r» that, ** almost every penny show had
. actual, old, on^^mulj iilentical Cromwell's
|iftea*i.'* As penny shows hare always been very
Inttinerous, the heads must of course have been
I very numerous also. I object to such statements
prriss exa^gL*rations. I do not think that
► PrNKKRTos can show more than two or three
where headi? of Cromwell have been ex-
i in what he would call penny shows. But
i he coidd show that a hundrel heads had
bihited, what then ? It would prove that
giine must be spurious, but it does not
at one out of the hundred might not be
genuine head ; much less does it prove that
1 in question may not be the head of the
ctor.
PixKEKTOsr then says, " The Wilkinson
we are told, has never been publicly ex-
ited for money," Who has told us so ? Every
pentic account of it has stated the contrary.
^ history, of which I have given an alwiracfc,
anctly states that it was twice exhibited for
|iey ; first by Mr. Samuel Eusseli, and after-
by the persons who purchased it of Mr.
The head in the possession of Mr. AVilkin-
evidently that which was advertised in the
Chronicle, March 18th, 1799; so that it
f clear "that there are two embidmed heads."
D«9 writer in the Phrmahgtcfd Journal was
naraiif not 0*Donovan. It u neeeaaary to be
ect in names.
' { of value in Mb. FofK.BSTOif*s
>n to the embalming. The head
iiu^ been embalmed, and no doubt
aimed before death. If, therefore, Mb. Pi**
n show that the head of Cromwell was
d, it is at once dispo«ed of. Icon-
strange that Dr. Bate does not men-
iH that so conclusive as Ma. Pinkkr-
> ? I am imperfectly acquainted with
>f embalming, but believe that it was
to commence with the head; if so,
ot refer to what was a matter of
trie himself to a description of
r p^rtjoii of the embalming which created the
Iculty, and which he was obliged partially to
hidon* The question raised is, however, of
, importance, and may help our inquiry,
relation to the illastrativ)^ anecdote, I be*
! that no such lecture has been delivered as
ivvos^ nor Las the
b-
»ose while in the
mg^Q&t thnt Mm. Pj^KMBTorf n
have spared us the repetition of such a piece of
puerility. Ma. Pikkertos has gone into the
whole subject in a spirit of trifling, and one not
calculated to lead to any proliiable rejuU.
What are the facts? A head U in existence,
which has become the property of Mr. Wilkinson,
by a series of circumstances perfectlv clear, con-
nected, and intelligible, accompanied by docu-
ments which t4;nd to prove that it h the head of
Cromwell. It is not oflTered to us by a showman
to make money, nor by any enthusiastic antiquary*
It comes to us without any flourish of trumpets
or rhetoric, not by any act of the owner, but from
information afforded by others, who, by Mr. Wil-
kinson's courtesy, have been permitted to examine
it. All the facts in relation to it agree, and agree
with the firiit loss of the head from the top of
Westminster Hall. Very many have arrived at
the conclusion that the evidence greatly prepon-
derates in favour of its genuineness. It is no
answer to all this to say that there have been
** many '* heads put fortli as those of Cromwell,
nor that various and varying statements have been
made by those who have seen it or heard of it
The logical inquirer will go back to the original
doeuruentii themselves — to the first link in the
chain of evidence — and by separating the true
Irom the false, and eliminating the irrelevant^ form
his own condusions upon the whnle.
I have some other facti* to supply, if the sub-
ject be not already wearisome to your readers.
T. B.
4
n
I am reminded of a potsage in the Relations
Historifjues H CarieuKS de Voyages of Charles
Fatin (Lyons, 1674). This writer says : —
*• London Bridge haa n<>thing extraordinary but its
spectacle, which is at fri|*btful as hAs ever been reared to
tno memory of crime. Yon »e<i tlieTo impaJed upon a
tower the head^i of those execrnbte parricidei) of Majeaty.
It Kcmi th«t horror aniumtea them^ and that their
punish m en ts, ivhich jjtill (ioujours) continue^ rurce them
to eternal repentance. Those of their chiefs, Crrmwvlf,
IretODt hia aon-inlair, and Bradafaaw, are upon the ^eat
e^liUce rallcKl the PatliamenU in fiiglit of the whole city.
You cannftt look at Ihem without turning pale, nnd with-
out imaginiu^ that they are going to utter these ter-
rible words,** ^c— P. 168, in Letter 3, dated Oct. 167L
B. H. a
The late Mr. Joseph Hunter told me, but I
sillily " made no note '* of it, that in a diary of
the time, some one said that, being in Red Lion
Square^ he f^aw the mob dragging about the head
of the late Frotector, and that it was rescued from
the raob by a surgeon who lived there.
I wish to ftdd that A Puritan surgeon^ named
' ' Red Lion Square, or Kings- ■
iLe, and that he hiid a brother I
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8^&V. MAm.:K.X4.
Sheffield, named Flctcljcr. The late Mr. Jamca
Montgomery, of ShefTieM, on one occasion aaked
his friend Mr. ll<»lland " What haii become of
Oliver Cromweirs head ? " and related that, when
he first came to Sheffield, a head so described
was in the possession of Mr. Wilson in Pond
Street. This was about 1788.
Imagination can easily forge a chain of history
out of these facts ; so easily, that I need say no more
except that the story is related somewhere in
Mr. Hunter's MSS. now in the British Museum.
H. I. H.
RELIABLK.
(3'* S. V. 58. 85, &c.)
That there are forcible objections to this word
appeara to be evident to a large number both of
writers for the press and others. It has not come
to be regarded with general favour, but holds
much the same position in the language as the
verb to pn^retn^ which most persons who are care-
ful as to their style avoid. Diit the true reason
why it is not a word of just English formation, I
have not seen fully and clearly given. I would
state my objection to it thus : When the passive
voice of a verb can be used without a preposition
attached to it, it is practicable, si rolet tmi«, to
form from it an adjective ending in able or ilfU ;
but if a preposition necessarily adheres to the
verb in tne passive voice, the formation of such
adjectives is not allowable. Thus from the active
" people credit the 8t«»ry,** we form the passive
*• the story is credited," and can say ** the story
is credible." So from " to justify,'^ •* to be jus-
tified," "justifiable." But from " we depend on
the man, " the man is to be depended on," we
cannot form the adjective "dependable"; nor
from " to trust in," " to be trusted in," can we
form " trustable." If we would form words in
able and ible from such verbs, we must take in
the preposition, as in the odd words, sometimes
jestingly used in common conversation, camf^at-
able^ get-at-able. Similarlv, from " to be relied
on," " to be depended on, we should say relion-
able, dependonable. Also, if we want an adjective
from " to get on," with reference to a horse, we
must say "the' horse is get'on^able ;'* and if an
adjective from " to put on," with reference to a
man*s hat, we must say " the hat is put-on^ble ;
not the horse is getable, or the hat is nuUible.
All this being so evident, I eincerely hope that
the word "reliable" will be at length excluded
from the pages of our newspapers and magaxines,
and especially from all books that wish to take an
honourable place in English literature.
** Diipoaable," which has been adduced to sup-
port '^reliable," has been tolerated because we
ima use the rerb " to dispoae" with or irltbooi
a preposition after it. We aay " things are dis-
posed in order," and consequently, " thinps ire
dhposable in order"; and hence " disposible"
has been applied by attorneys, auctioneer!, an^
others, to property ichich may be dUpoeed of. Tbii
use of the word is, as I aay, tolerated, but ii
certainly not to be approved. PniLocALn.
THE MISSES YOUNG.
(3«* S. ir. 417.)
A strong ray of light is shed upon the qnestioi
of the parentage of these ladies by the atatemeak
contained in a Memoir of Barthelemon, the vio-
linist, compiled by his daughter (with the aid d
Dr. Busby), and prefixed to some selections fiw
her father*s oratorio Jejie in Mdjtfa^ which ik
published in 1827.
Barthelemon, it is stated, waa married in I7fl
to Mary Young, the vocalist, who is described »
the "great-granddaughter of Anthony Yoiib|*
(for whom the composition of the popular toai^
" God save the King " is claimed), and also astki
niece of Mrs. Ame and Mrs. Lampe. She ii f» |
ther described as " a daughter of Char lea Yoim| {
Ksq., a senior clerk in the Treasury, and*sisterli
Isabella Young, who was married to the Hoa
John Scott-, bn>ther of the fourth and last Earl d
Deloraine." We are further informed that Ifrt
Barthelemon waa bn)ught up by her aunt. Ilia
Arne (Cecilia Young), who, in tier latter yean,
became an inmate of Barthelemon*s house, and m
continued until her death. These circumstaees
must have afforded the memoir- writer opportani-
ties of becoming well acquainted with the fandl/
nedijn^ee. and her statements are, on that accoooli
1 think, entitled to consideration.
The mystification aa to the Young family ki
extended to other writers besides tlie two musiod
historians. Lysons, recording the? appearance d
the Hon. Mrs. Scott at the Music Meeting U
Gloucester in 1763 (Histoiy of the MeeHmge t§
the Three Choirs, 193), describes her aa '*thi
Hon. Mrs. Scott, formerly Isabella Young, dauf^
ter of the organist of (3atherine-Cree church, a
mezzo-soprano voice." Yet the distinction be-
tween the two Misses Isabella Young ia perfectly
clear. The first, probably soon iJter Octdbtf,
1737, but certainly in the following year, ««
married to Lampe the composer, and always afto^
wards appeared under her married name. Sba
was left a widow in July, 1751. The aeoowi
came out in 1751 at a concert given on Mareh
18th, "at the New Theatre in the Haymarket*
" at the Desire of several Ladies of Quautr. Far
the Benefit of Miaa Isabella Young; a Sdwlff t^
Mr. Waltx, who nerer appeared before in Fid|
S.T. Mar.!«,'64.]
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I thmk, under nil the circumstances, it is ww-
rantuble to assume that the pedigree of thti Young
family stand is thus : — Anthony Youn^r, auccea*
aively orpanUt of St. Clement Danea and St. C<i-
iherine-Cree church, was father of Charles Younjj,
orgHniist of Allhallo^s Barking^f who was father
of the three Misses Young — Cecilia (Mrs. Arne),
Isabella ( Mrs. Lampe )« and Esther (Mrs. Jones) ; —
and also of Charles Youngs the clerk in the Trea-
sury, who was the father of Isabella (Mrs, Scott)
and Jlary (Mrs, Bartheletnon).
Should this be so, Sir John Hawkins's account
IB correct ; and there is one thin^ in Dr. Burney's
account which seems confirmatory of it— viz.
bis description of St. Catherine-Cree church as
situated " near the Tower." Now, that church
is really situated on fhe north side of Leadenball
Street, at some distance from the Tower, whilst
the church of Allhallows Barking, is situated in
Tower Street, almost contiguous to Tower HilL
Hurney has evidently confounded Anthony with
Charles Youn».
The fact of John Frederick Laiope*s son having
borne in addition to the baptismal names of his
father that of Charles (3^** S. v. 185) strengthens
the supposition of his mother's having been the
daughter of Charles Young,
Can any correspondent furnish evidence on the
point which I am compelled to rest on conjec-
ture— the relationship between the two organists
Anthony and Charles Young? W» H. Husk.
A Boll of Btojcb's (3^* S. v. 212.)— The
passage here quoted is plainly what Carlyle calls
^ clotted nonsense,^' taken by iteeli', and as it has
been handed down to us : and it would be so no
less, even if the word " different'* was omitted.
It is evident that " parts of the same whole " are
the parts which tnnkr up that whole; and they
cannot possibly be identical, either with each
other or with the whole. Two joinls may make
up a tad, and they may be so exactly alike as to
be un distinguish able, but they are not identical.
At first sight it is difficult not to suppose that
Burke was alluding to ilooker's well-known
theory, and that the second oluuse is a confusefl
and inaccurate way of saying that the Church and
the State are '^ the same whole looked at in two
difierent aspects." But this Is perhaps made, not
more, but less clear, if we take the whole passage
together : —
*' An alliance between Church and Stats in a Christian
Common wealth IS, in my opinion, an idle and a fanciful
■pecuUtion. An Alliance is between two things that are
in tbelr nattire distinct anil independent, such as beiwi!<en
two aorvervign states. But in a (Jhriatian CoinmonMreaUh
thA Church find th«* Stiite Hre onu and the same thing,
* " '"^ " tsof the DAinc whole. For**
lureh has been alwaya divided
--, I jjjd theJ^ivi of which the
LaftT fs as much an essential fntegral part, and has as
much it^duticiand itA privileges, as the Ctericat member.**
The whole seems to me inconsequent, especially
the lust sentence as connected with what precedes.
I leave it, however, to the consideration of your
readers: only suggesting the probability thut it is
not what Burke really said, or deliberately wrote.
It is at p. 44 of tb'e 1 0th vol. of the edition of
1S18: of which the editor (Bishop King of Ro-
chester) says (Introd. to vol. x,, pp. vi. vii. and
note b^ore p, 2), that the notes from which the
speeches were printed were detached fragments,
and in a very confused and illegible etate.
Ltttbltom.
JODICIAX COMMITTKE OF PftlVT ConWCCL (3^'"
S. V. 193.)-^ The Act of 3 & 4 WilU IV. c. 41,
added to the Privy Council a body entitled ** The
Judicial Committee of the Privy Council," con-
sisting of the Keeper of the Great Seal, the Chief
Justice of the King*s Bench and of the Common
Pleas, the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-Chan*
cellor, the Chief Baron of the Exchequer, the
Judges of the Prerogative Court of Canterbury
and of the High Court of Admiralty, the Chief
Judge of the Bankruptcy Court, and nil members
of the Privy Council who have been presidents of
it^ or have held the office of chancellor, or any of
the before- named offices. Power is nUo given to
the king by his sign manual to appoint any two
other persons who are privy councillors to be
members of this commrttec. (Penni/ Cyclo, xix.
24.) The general duties'of privy councillors are
to be found in Blackstone (i. 230, 231.) In the
Gorham case, the two archbishops and the bishop
of London were summoned to be present as as-
sessors. (Memoirs of Bishop Blom fields ii. 114.)
The unsuccessful eflforts made in 1848 to 1850 by
the Bishop of London to amend the Act of 1833,
quoad " questions of doctrine and points of faith,**
are recorded in Bishop BiontfiekTs Memoirs, (Vol.
ii. ch. vi.).
There is a registrar attached to this Ju'dicial
Committee, to whom matters may be referred, as
in chancery to a master. As to the summoning
officer, he must be under sufHcient control to
prevent him, for example, selecting Mr. Glad-
stone or Mr. DTsraeli, in the Gorham case, in-
stead of Archbishops and Bishops, in aid of the
Privy Council. The clerk to the Privy Council
issues summonses by himself or a subordinate, at
the instance of the President, and under the
authority of the Sovereign. T. J* BucxTon,
' The MoxaaAnic Ltturot (3*^ S. v. 193.) —
The following is the passage in Ford's Handh&ok
I for SpaiH^ referred to by your correspondent,
Fbsd. E. TontK : — " The prayers and coHtyLt^
are so beftulifvi\^ vVvnV w^\\^ Vv4%^\«ftv\ ^^'sj'^^ "^"^
our PrayeT BooVr g?o.T\\\.^,n%\.^^^H^^'^^-
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
C»^s.y. MAs.it.-«i
1855.) In answer to Mr. Toti<ib*s inquirj, I
believe that Mr. Ford is not correct in his state-
ment. I have examined the Mozarabic Liturgy,
such as it is jjiven in llobles and in Dr. liefele's
Life of Cardinal Ximencz, but I can observe no
siujilarity between the collects of the Book of
Common Prayer and the Mozarabic Liturgy. It
is, however, true, that some of the collects and
prayers in the Book of Common Prayer, seem to
Lave been taken from the Roman Missal. Though
the ancient Liturgy of the Spanish church ogrees,
in all essential pomts, with the Roman Liturgy,-
yet there is a considerable difference in the prayers
and collects. Uoblcs is the great authority on the
Mozarabic Kite ; his work is entitled, Compendia
de la Vida y Hazanas del Cardenal Don Fray
Francisco Xiinenez de Cisnents; y del Oficio y
Minsa Muzarahe (Toledo, 1604). I possess a
copy of this scarce volume. The original edition
of the Mozarabic Liturgy was published by Car-
dinal Xiinenes in 1500. A reprint appeared at
Rome, edited by the learne<l Jesuit, F. Lesley, in
1755 ; and another edition was published in 1770, in
l^Iexico, by the Archbishop Lorenzana, who after-
wards became Archbishop of Toledo, in Spain.
J. Dalton.
Norwich.
The resemblance or identity of the English,
French, and Spanish Collects in their several
liturgies does not arise from any one of them
copying the other, but from all of them being
derived from a conunoii source.
" Many bchcvo/' says Wheat I v, " that the collects
were first fraim-«! by St. .leroine. ft is certain that <jela-
siurt, who was bishop of Uoine, a.d. 41)1', ranpe«l the col-
lects, which were thi-n usetl, into onUr, and added some
new ones ot' his own (Comber, Jlitt. JMunj. part ii.
§ 11, p. OK) ; which ortice was aj,'ain corrected by Pope
(jre^'ory the Great in the year fiOd, whose Sacramentary
contains most of the coUe'ctn we now use. Hut our re-
Ibrniera observinj; that some of thesr colh-rts were after-
wards corrupted by supcrutitious alterations and additions,
and thai otheri were (luito left out of the lionian Miss^ds
and entire new ones, relating to their present innova-
ti«m?, added in their nMmi, thry ihenfore examined cverv
collect strictly, and where they fouml any of them cor-
rupted, there they corrected th*em; where' an v new ones
had been insi.rted, they M'stored tlie old ones;' and lastly,
at the Ilestoration, every collect was a-^ain reviowed,
when whatsoever was deficient was mpplicd, an«i all that
was but improperly expressed, rcctitied." (Wheatly's
Jkwk of Comutun J'raytr, ch. v. 7. § 2.)
T. J. lUcKTON.
There is n(jt a ^inglc collect of ^lozarabic
(»ngin in the Book of Common Trayer. Dr. Neale
has pointed out tlit» hopeless error and eonfusicm
of tiie ]>:issin;re cnncerning the Mozarabic rite in
Fonl's Handbook of Sjmin, For the fullest in-
foriualioii CDruvrnin^r the Spani.sh collects and
their relation to those of other Western ollieos.
Dr. Neale's Eimays on Liturf^ioloay niav ])rolitably
be consulted. A LoNDo'jf Triest.
Nic^AM Barks (S'^ S. iii. 8, !287.)— I ikiti
the conjecture of your correspondent Dcmii
extremely probable; but, this being grmntcil
must observe that these boats conveyed Alexai-
der himself, with the main body of his army, dor
the Indus to its mouth ; whence they accom|Miik^
him, along the sea-coast of Mekkran and Henuii
to the Persian Gulf, where he considered kiaue^
at home. The division under Cratems, with tie
heavy baffgage, elephants, and women (I b^w
ladies* pardons), was sent by a more inland row.
through Belooohistan and Seistan ; and did k
rejoin Alexander till he bad nearly, or qui^
reached the Gulf. Sec Arrian*8 JEipeditio AIg'
andri^ and Vincent (Dean), On the Commurce m :
Navigation of the Ancients, where the line of msri ,
supposed to have been pursued by Crateros.)
traced on the second map (vol. i. edit. 1807). U^
copy of Arrian (Venice, 1535,) is not paged, m
was an arduous undertaking, before the inTentk
of the compass, to traverse those wild and ^aa
countries ; which, even now, are almost unknon
to Europeans. But Craterus was considered S:
most intelli":ent of Alexander*s generals.
As for the navigation of the fleet, from u
mouth of the Indus to the Persian GulC os
sailors are at a loss to explain how it coold i>
performed during the south-west monsoon.
It is plain that Craterus did not embark a! C
excepting once to cross the Indus, and aftfiivj::^
to recross it. See Vincent, vol. i. p. 141, it
W.D.
FiTZ- James (;r«' S. v. 20;2.)— The- motto ui *. : ]
Due do Fiiz-JauK*s, according to the A.nhvairt-
la Noblesse for 1843, is *• 16S9 semper et aLw-i 1
iidelis 1789." H. S.t-
IIkming of Worl estkr (3"* S. v. 173.) — .^•
thoujrh I cannot exactly identify the BriTc*
mentioned by C. J. K., I think it is probable \:^
he was a member of a civic family of that na-ti
who bore for arms—** Or on a chev. between thrr
lions' heads sa. us many plieons . . ." Th,?.
arms are ast>i;inod by P^dmcmdson to Ilefiin!: ■
Lomlon, "dcscendetl from Worcestershire,** a:.-
were borne by Juhn lli^min^, mayor of Worceiia
in 1G77. The surname is not uncommon in ti::-
county. One of the name, Richard liemmir.;.
of Bentley Manor, was high sherilT in the f^
year ; and Walter Chamberlain Hemming, ha
brother, was also sheriflT in 1859. To the Uc
father of these gentlemen, William Hemming cl
Fox Lydiate House, was granted, in I84G (die
year of his shrievalty), a coat of arms founded on
I ho one 1 have just described, viz. Arp. on a chev.
engrailed, azure, l>etween three lions^ heads era>e«i
^'u., an ostrich with win^is endorsed of the fir»L
in the beak a key, between two pheons or. And
ibr crest, An eagle aru:. charged on breast with s
d^ a V. Mar. 26, '64.]
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azure, charged with three leopards' faces or;
being the arms of Chamberlain, of which family
also the ostrich and key is the crest : so that this
coat is a combination of the two coats of Hemfng
and Chamberlin. H. S. G.
WoLrE, Gabdensb to Hbnbt VIII. (3^* S. v.
194.) — The following occurs amongst the month*s
wages in October, 2 Edw. VI., paid by Sir Wil-
liam Cavendish, Knt., Treasurer of die Eang's
Chamber : —
** Item, to sir John Wolfe, preist, maker and deviser of
the Kinge's herbors and plantes of grafts, xx* viij<>." —
TreoelycM Fegpen, ii. 15.
Mj attention was drawn to this entry shortly
aAer I had dispatched my query, which it seems
completely to answer except as regards the date,
1524, named by Cole. S. Y. R.
Abms op Williams (3"" S. v. 175.) — I do not
think R. P. W. is correct in placing a query to
these bearings. Saxmi or Englishmen's heads is
right. There is some legend connected with the
arms, which I cannot exactly call to mind.
H. S. G.
Epigbam on Inpakct (3^* S. v. 195.) — The
translation of the beautiful epigram from the
Arabic, by Sir William Jones, is cited by Whately,
in his Rhetoric, as an example of perfect anti-
thesis (part in. chap. ii. § 14). There is another
version of it, but not nearly so good, in the Au'
thologia Oxoniensis, attributed to Carlyle, which
I transcribe : —
*' When born, in tears we saw thee drowned.
Whilst thy assembled friends aroimd
With smiles their joy confest:
So live that in thv latest hour
We may the floods of sorrow poor.
And thou in smiles be drest."
From the Arabic, p. 18.
The following translation into Latin verse, from
the pen of Lord Grenville, accompanies it : —
"infahs.
" Dnm tibi vix nato l»ti risere parentes
Yagitu implebas tu lacrymisque domnm ;
Sic vivas at summa tibi cum venerit hora,
Sit ridere tuura, sit lacrymare tuis."
" G."
The version, as given in " N. & Q." is again to
be found in the Arundines Cami^ editio quarta,
p. 88. It is there headed " To a Friend," and the
following rendering of it is given by Mr. Drury,
formerly second master of Harrow : —
"AD SEXTIUM.
** Quum natalibus, O beate Sexti,
'luU adfuimus caterva gaudens,
Tagitu resonis strepente cunis
In risum domus omnis est soluta.
Talis vive precor, beate Sexti,
Ut circum lacryroantibus propinquis
Cum mora immineat toro cubantis,
Mm noQ alio froare risa. H. J. T« D."
This, according to a note in Ilolden's Foliorum
Silvula, part i. p. 521, third ed., 1862, is a trans-
lation from the Arabic. Reference is there made
to Carlyle (J. D.), Specimens of Arabian Poetry,
p. 80. Carlyle was Professor of Arabic at Cam-
bridge from 1795 to 1804.
P. J. F. Gantillon.
' Tbakslatobs op Tebehce: Jambs Pbende-
villb (S"* S. v. 117.) — James Prendeville supplied
a part of the descriptions and illustrations to Mr.
Tyrrell's Catalogue of the Poniatowski Oems,
London, 1841, 4to. Joseph Rix, M.D.
St. Neot*s.
Motto roB Bubton - upon - Tbent Watee
CoMPAKT. — As no one has replied to this query
(3^** S. V. 116), let me suggest from Horace, ^pisL
i. 1, 52 : " Argentum auro villus.'*
P. J. F. Gantillon.
The following mottoes appear to me appro-
priate, though they do not convey the precise
ideas suggested in the above communication : -—
** Opitulatu alitur spes." — Anon.
** Formidatis auxiliatur aquis." — Ovid, Ep, ex Fonto,
lib. i. ep. 8.
*• Succurrere saluti fortunisque communibus.*' — Cic.
Fro Rab., cap. L
*• Parcitati beneficium ministrat luxuria." — Falladius,
lib. i. cap. xxvi. »
Should any one of these be adopted, I hope the
fact will be notified in " N. & Q." F. C. H.
SiB John Moobe's Mokumeut (3^* S. v. 169.) —
Borrow, speaking evidently from actual observa-
tion, says : —
" There is a small battery of the old town which front*
the east, and whose wall is washed by the waters of the
bay. It is a sweet spot, and the prospect which opens
from it is extensive. The battery itself may be about
eighty yards square ; some voung trees are soringing up
about it, and it is a rather iavourite resort of the people
of Coruna.
*' In the centre of this battery stands the tomb of Moore,
built by the chivalrous French, in commemoration of the
fall of their heroic antagonist. It is oblong, and sur*
mounted by a slab ; and on either side bears one of the
simple and sublime epitaphs for which our rivals are
celebrated, and which stand in such powerful contrast
with the bloated and bombastic inscriptious which de-
form the walls of Westminster Abbey : —
* JOHN MOORK,
LEADER OF THE ENOUSH AR31IE8,
SLAIN IN BATTLE,
1809.*
** The tomb itself is of marble, and around it is a quad-
rangular wall, breast high, of rough Gallegan marble;
close to each corner rises from the earth the breech of an
immense brass cannon, intended to keep the wall com-
pact and close. These outer erections are, however, not
the work of the French, but of the English government."
The Bible in Spaiji, c. 26, p. I6(i^«dit.. ^1 V^A^.
Borrow ia»q\iwv5i\«Kii \Kk^^^^ "^.^^^v
OzoKiiNSis. I persona 'b^ \uvQia. ^Sofc mw^swsift^^ ^"*^
270
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but the above \s evidently a eircumstantbl de-
ftcription by an eye-witness. Hb version of the
inscription, I assume to be a trnnslation ; be does
not 9uy what is the languat^e of the orij^inaL
David Gam,
Famix*y or Db Scabtb, om Dk Scabs (3'<* S* v.
1 134 J — J^ S. D* will find an account of the dis-
Icovery of the monumental dtone of Skartba, the
friend of Swein, with an engraving of the stone,
in one of the numbers of the Illtuttrated London
News for April or May, 1858. 1 am sorry I cannot
refer him to the exact number, but I am almost
certain the date is somewhere about the time
I mention. K. S. T.
PoiTBRlTY OF TUB EmPEBQR CnABLEMAGItfi
(3^ S, V, 134.) — The descent of the House of
LKingsale is commonly said to be as follows : — '
ftCharles, Duke of Lorraine^ last male descendant
of the Carlovingian Kings of France. His son,
Wifferius; hissoUf Baldwin Tevtonicut ; his sons —
I, Nicholas, from whom the Houses of Warrenne
[ftnd Mortimer.
5. Robert de Courcey.
John, Baron of King^ale, was fourth in descent
from Eobert, son of the llobert de Courcey above^
mentioned.
But this Charles, or Huph,i8 not named by An-
^derson (Eoynl Genealogies) amonj; the children of
'Dharlea, Duke of Lorraine. Mcz^ray says, speak-
ing of the latter —
** II eut, k ce qu'iJs rAcontenl, dtux femmes . . .la
. teconde fut Agnes fille de Hebert Comte de Troye, doot
pfouiDdrttDt deux fil* dumnt qu'il fut en prison h Or-
L leans, Hugttea et Louys, qui m retirereDt vers TEmpcreur.
Ge dernier fut Landgraue de Hesse * . , ntah d vroy
f dirtf ie dmtUfort dt* enfant de ce Mecond /jcf,*' — Histoire de
JTranee, folio^ vol. i. p. S7L
Hbrmentbudk,
If HiPPECs will- refer to the pedigree of the
Lords of Hare wood in Whi taker's LoidU and El'
mete^ or that of Dixon of Seaton-Carew, in Burke's
Royal DeitcenU^ he will find that the Barons Kinfy-
•ale derive from Robert de Courcey, the uncle of
the William, who died *. p. The former pedigree
will also show him that there were two con-
temporary Roberts, Lords de Rougenvont (first
cousins) — viz. Robert, the son of John, and
Robert the son of John's brother George, and
that the latter had a son WUliam and other issue.
I This Wdliani may have been the projycnitor of
Gvjorge Lisle of Compton Domville. John Lord
de Kougemont's wife was Matilda (not Eliza-
beth) de Ferrers. R. W* Dixojt.
Robxbt Dillok Browhb, M.P. (3^ 8. iii* a69.
479.) — I am informed by a friend (an Irish Ca-
tholic), that tije Hong which this gentleman used
to be fond of repeAtiug is set to the time of a
French hymn to the Virgin Mary, which is sung
in her baooiLr, oa a certtiin day in each year, \u
the churches of France and Ireland. Ht '
me that the song, as well as the hyinn^
niorily known in Ireljind, »nd se^'" * "^'-r«aed to
wonder that any question shoubi i asked
on the subject. However, I, as ... ^..^usb t^»»
testant, must confess, that betbre the present «e»
casion I never heard of either tbe hymn or tfe
song. Robert Dillon Browne died at tbeigt«f
thirty-nine, just as he had obtained ftn appoiat-
ment to a post in one of the colonies. Wb«
living he was, as is well known, mn itnporlaai
joint in O^Conneirs » flexible taiL" W. P.
RUTHVEN, EaBI* of FoRTH ATfU B&B3ITT«}|]|w~
Your correspondent J. M. se^nis to have fp4
the articles respecting Patrick Ruthven (2^ S.
it, 101, 261) through the wrong spectju^les. 8ft
writes &s if the letter of Gustavus Adolpfae^
printed in the first of those articles, hwd been }^
sumed to i^pply to tbe Earl of Forth and Brat*
ford. Upon reference a second time to the artidr
in question, he will find thut this wns not so. IV
letter was treated, and I think rightly treated, •
relating to Patrick Ruthven, 8on of John. Ik
third Enrl of Gowrie,
Again, with reference to the second arftH*—
that contributed by myself on the Z -^
net— J. M. is mistaken in supposing : fH
conjectured" in that article that the *VL,urd RA
ven," of the Ladies* Cabinet^ wsls ** Earl WQIin'
the ''de facto fourth Earl of Gowrie.'* Iti«
held, throughout that article, that he w«^
same Patrick Ruth ven, son of the third EiH ^
Gowrie — the person who was long confin^ btk
Tower, and whose daughter married Vjuidjke.
If J. M. thinks that he has anj reason to ioi
fault with the attribution of the interferctiot d
Gustavus Adolphus, or the connection witk ll*
Ladies* Cabinet^ to that Patrick liuthven* ii?
facts upon the subject will be verjr jtladlj ft*
ceived ; but if, before he again addresses iroit, k
will be good enough to re-read the arttdes to
which he has alluded, he will percotve that m ll«
first of them there is no allusion to the Earl d
Forth; nor in the second to *♦ William, de /ad^
fourth Earl of Gowrie.'* Joui« Btti;CB.
5t Upper Gloucester Street.
Private Prater** roa thr Lattit (3*^ S* v.
193 )_B. H. C. will find m Dp. I lock's Chwrdk
Dictionary, under the bead " Primer, ^r-
ticuUrs about forms ol' prayt?r fur i .ttd
private individuals, as set forth by rti Ii
18, inter tdin^ there stated that the :i#t
which appeared was Dr. f afterwards I «'»
*• Collection of Private Devotions : ii i^
tice of the Ancient Church, call '
Prayer^ ns they were uCtiT this t.
by uxithorittj of Qiwvn Ehinbeth,
was published in 1(127 ** by r
CbsMi^tft L." l^ \Vv^ PT*j<*K<i *i<^vi<.-. v., TjjjLT
8H&T. MAB.i«.'<4]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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*
I
Itf [oultrie] to " the Primer set forth at large for
the uae of the Members of the Anglican Church
in Familv and Private Prayer, m the Rei^n of
Queen Elizabeth," published In 1863 by Masters,
it is stated that ** the Primer is the authorised
Book of Familj and Private Prayer for the Laity
of the Engibh Church/' And the Editor adds:^
" Eirlier in the time of i!« first pubiiLAtion tbiia the
Book of Common Pmyer, iu subsequent editionn Atid
reridiona rnti pamlltil with that Book. The Invocations
of the Saints, the * Ave Maria,* ond other features of the
Primer of Henry VUL* disappear from tbe revised edi-
tion* of Ell ward VL and of Elizabeth. In the reign of
Edwafd a rival Primer of vary inferior merit, with fixed
lewoos lor every day in tbe vtmkt and fixed Psalm» in
c»rder, striiggleii into life, and after maintainmg a brief
and precarious existence alongside of tbe origiu;il Primer,
finaify died out in Elizabeth's reign, leavin^f the ground
unoccupied to the nobler Book which continued to tbrovr
out it^ editions rili Bupersedcd by tbe altered (unhap*
ftily altered) versions of liter ant! more private bands.
lisbop Gown's Hour* of Prayer, which are based upon
the Primer, are well known at the present day. Perhaps
a devotional Manual which claims to be not the work of
a sinf^le divine, nor of a single year, nor of a single edi-
tion, hut tbf L'arefully matured'tyift of the Fathers of the
r.nplish Ueformation, perfectwi bv the berst of all Re-
visionists — ««e, throufjfb many editions in an earnest and
lenrned aire, may be welcome to the Faithful of the Eiiff-
lish Communion. Its intrinsic value has been recognised
by the editors of tbe Parker Society, who published the
edition of ]o59, together with other docomen^ with a
view to making known tbe true principlea of tbe English
Heformacioo/*
C. W.
The only " Family Prayers " which now have
any authnnty in the Enj?li^*h Churtdi nrc those in
Queen Elizabeth*!* Prin3»?r, which is drawn from
the Saruin Enchiridion of pre -Re form at ion times.
A London Priest .
Latik Qootatioh (3'* S. v. 213.)— The fol-
lowing may be the proper reading and tranala-
tion of the passage proposed : —
" lliDc dicitur Spiritus caritatis quam obaignat in cor-
dibns nostns: non credent est ergo a spiritu qui abducit
deposita ad humana commeuta."
Hence he is called the Spirit of chanty, which
lie impresses upon our hearts : an unbeliever,
lherefi)re, is of the spirit which carries away the
deposit (of faith) to the devices of men.
R C. H.
WtLLtAM Dddgeon (3'* S. V, 172.)— This very
singular and learned person was a farmer in East
Lothian, J I adding ton j)hi re. There was published,
in 176^, a 12mo volume of his^ which was en-
tilled : —
•* PbiloMOphicul Works, via.^The Stat« of the Moral
WorUt ...n-iitertd^ — A Cstecht^im founded u|>on Experi-
\ View of the Necessitarian or Best
d Lett em conceruift|^ the Being and
Copies of this aee now rarely to be aoett.
s.
Quotations Wanted (3'* S» y, 174, 175.) —
T, Lesujs will find the lines —
** A human heart should beat <br two,** ^<^''t«
in a book of poems called London Lyricft^ pub-
I lished a few years since. H. W. H,
This QuotJition #k I'm ni the Ingoldshy Legeiifk,
m*ith^kifimi% a F. s. WABKBtf.
" God /tori a beautiful necessity is love in all he donlh.**
TuppeT*s Fromrtual PkUotnphjf : Of ImmitrtrilUg.
E. J. NOBMAM.
" AiTTHOR OF Good, to Theb I tcen " (3"* S.
iv. 353 ; v. 123.) — In addition to what hiw already
been communicated, in reference to the above
hjmn, allow me to say that the four sUxttza»
quoted by your last correspondent form, with a
few verbal alterations, the last hnlf of a hymn on
the ** Ignorance of Man," by Merrick. It begins
thus :■ —
** Behold yon new-born ir.f«nt» irrleved
With "hunger, thirst, and pain ;
That asks to have the wants relieved
It knows not to explain.*'
The composition consists of eight stanzas, and
may be found in James Montgomery*? Christian
Psalmist, Hymn 333, edit. 1828» X. A. X,
HtGtt Brarbam* M.A, (a^" S. v. 212), was
instituted to Dovercourt^ with the chapel of Har-
wich, Oct, 7, 1574 ; and to the rectory of Little
Oakley, Essex, Nov. 20, 1579. He also held the
rectory of Peldon, in the same county. He died
iu 1615 (Newcourt's Repertorium^ ii. 220, 446,
467). C. H. & Thompson Cooper.
Cambridgei
Kev, Christofiteb RicaARj>80ir (3'** S. v. 213)
was of Trinity College, Cambridge; B.A. 1636-7,
M.A. 1640, and it is probitblc that he had epi-
scopal ordinuiion. C. H. Sc TnoMi^fKiiT CoorsB.
Cambridge^
Cambbioge V1U.AGE8 (3'* S. V. 212.) — In
7 Edw. I. the Papworths ure called Papworth
Everard and Papworth Ann^^ys (Hofuli Hunfire*
dorttnit ii. 472, 473). They were, very priibubly,
so denominated nfler the principal owners at a
former period. The prefix of Saint is a silly
innovation, certainly introduced since Messrs*
Lysons published their account of Cnmbridge-
shire. Indeed the former parish is called Pap-
worth Everard in the Act for its enclosure
passe^ in 1815. C. H. & Thompson Cooper.
'* Exposition of Eccle<*iastbs, 1680'* (2°* S.
iii. 330.) — George Sykes (Sikes), a mystical Cal-
vinist, is supposed to have been the author of the
book in question. He also wrote Evarigelical
MssfJifs tiwardx the Discovery of a G^ikijit^. S>VA<t^
166fl. He sftft\U-i \C\ W-^^ Vi'i^tW ^v.wxx^itx.'a^^'vvv w
UgiOMS ovu\wm Wa\x ^vt W.^^vx^v^^ '^^^^^^ ^^^
272
NOTES AND QUERIES.
f.^rrtS. V. Mar. 26, •M.
;^{!frrlTaneauir.
NOTKS OS BOOKS. ETC.
Diartf nf Hfnrv, Omnt^n^ (^vrpcr^ Latftiofth^ Tinlrhmnftrr
to 'ihr I*nm'rsx of iy,wii^ 17M— 17;Jil. ' (Murray.)
This is oni" of tin* iim^t v.iliiaMo I'ontributiotis to coii-
tPiii Horary liislory wliirh iht* t>urio.<tity of the prt'si-nt day
has yot iinonrthnd. Tlio jutIocI of our aiinalit to whii'h
it rcfiitc'ii i<t OIK! singularly dofldutit ia aiiiiilar mali'rialN ;
and tlio gomipinf; n-oord wliirli I^dy CowpiT jjiv«»* uh of
the iMiHliral intn^uos, and the otifpiotto and obMonMnt'CH
nt tll^ fourt of tho FirMt deorj^i', is n'plcto alike with
information and nniusunu'nt. 'X\w. authorosM, Mary Cla-
vcrini^, the wife of Lord (Ihaiuvilor Cowpt.T, was not only
an observant, hut al>o an ac<-oinpli.sh«>il woman; as is
shown hy I ho f;ict that slm was in th<' habit of trnns-
]atin<r into Fri'mh ln'r liunliand's mcmori.ils, that they
mi;;ht hi; inli'i:i^ibh> to his siivi>n'iKn. And ns it is plani
8h«' was. UN shi> di>v^rvi>d to he, in th(> tull contidciH'c (^f
hpr husband tli<- I^onl (MinncfUor, ami (>((ua1iy so in that
of Inr rijyal mistress and tin* I'rinr^ of \Vai«s, slw had
pwuliar opportunitirs of knowinj^ all that was f^oini; on ;
and tho prrusal of tho ]iros('nt fraf^mrMit, for we rc^ri^t to
say it is but u fragment, uwaki-ns a fKulin^ of d(>cp ri';;n>t
that then) sfvnis littlo hopu of nn'ovtirin^ thu missing
portions of this must intnrestin;;; narvativi'.
Maqna Vita S. Iluijonh Kpi^mpi lAnrolnini"}*. I'mtn
ManH»cript» in tht» linfllcittn fjhran/t Oxf'on/^ and thr ,
Iii}prnal Library, Par it. Kditvl l>y tin; Ki*v. Jumos \
F. Uimoi.'k. M.A. Pnhlifhtd umUr thn Dirvcfion of the
Maxtf-rnfthfi /^)//,^. (Loii^min.)
Thn name of Iln^h Hisho]) of Lincoln still fi^^urcs in
the Culvndar of thiM.Miunh. 'J'hat h«; .should havo won
that distinction few will bi» surprisi-d whi» read this ela-
horati! bio^ra]»hy of n prelate whom tin* pn"«oni e-litor
dcsrrilios as an n]iri;^ht, honest, fvarh-sH mun~>Hn earnest,
holv Christian birihop, adding "that in th» whole ruuKC
of I'Ji^Iish worthies, it-.w mm deserve a higher and holiiir
niche than liishop llu^h of Lincoln. That he should
have, built IJiicoln <'athedral — that ** templuin ^luriosis-
simum,** as his bict^rapher terms it, is mou^h to recom-
mend his mcmorv to our ar(ddt«x*tur.il friends. Ilut hn
had far higher claims than this; and thu story of hia
useful lit'u ia well told in the narrative hefori> us, the
work of one. Adam, a IJenedictine Monk, which the rditor
has can'fuUy printed from a IJodleian MS.,compareil with
another in tlie Imperial Library at J'aris. As the I'ita
S. Iluyoni* throws considerable li;;ht on the. history of
this country durinjj the periiMl of which it treats, it fur-
nishes many valuabN* additions to our kuowled};n of those
eventful times. Mr. Diniwk has ohvioiislv bestowed
^reat care and labour upon the work, for whfch his pre-
vious labours on Uurih of Lincoln had well preftared him,
and wo have to thank him fur a capital Index.
Chrieal and Parochial liticorda of Cork, Cioyne, and Jlout^
tnktn from DitH'esan and Pari*h lirgintrictt^ JUSS. in
the PrincifMtl Lihrarirx and Puldic Officen of Oxford,
Dublin, and I^mdon; and from PriiHitr. or Family
PufM-rM. Jiy \V. Mazierc JJrady, D.l)., Chaplain to the
Ixinl-Lieutimant, and Vicor of Clonfcrt Cloyne. fi Vols.
Hvo. (Longman.)
The ecclesiastical records of Ireland have of late yours
nttrnctod tho attention of the lenrneil. Tho succnjwion of
nil tho bishops and cnthodral diKnitaries, from ancient to
moilem times, luu Jieen duly recorded and preserved in
tho admirable J'atti JCeclaur Jliha-ninB of Archdeacon
Cotton ; and Dr. T<Kld, Mr. IC. 1». Shirlev, Mr. Caiillidd,
and njanv other scholars, have publishecl works illustra-
tive of the Church. Bat fow attompti haTe been made,
Mad tbo90 few very tuiiinjiortaDt, to IncQ tin ^uoebli^
cJerRy of Ireland from the p«frio<l of the Koformation to
the jjroscnt time, or to extraet from her own r<s'iirls the
hihtory of the Church. As Ux iis the united I»i.iir-«v of
lJork,*Oioyne, and Ross is conferned, this want ha« miw
been suppliiMl; and so completely, that in very in4nT
fMirinhes the succession of incumbi-nts for more ihan twj
cnturies ond a halt', is completi-. In many ca«»€'A, Dr.
Ihady has been able t<» imlic.itt? tl»e par.'ntag«», birth-
t»l.ice, colloKC matriculation, and Knivorsity decree of the
*'leri:ynian ; ns vrell ns his ordination and clprical ap-
pointments, his marriage, isMie, and death. To these arr
sometimes addc<l. his published works, charitable be-
cfuests, and genealogical notices. Tho book ia one of grest
JnlK)ur and rewarch; and we simrrely tnirt that this
endeavour to "do justice to Ireland " will meet with
Kueh general approval as to induro other members of the
Irish church to follow the admirable example which I)r.
Ilraily has jilnei-il before thorn.
Ivflandic J^rgrndi. CtlUchd by Ion Anmsori. 7>an^at$i
by (jeorge* K. .1. rowell and Kirikur .Ma>;iiUbeii. IfUi
(irtnty-niyht Illuittrtiliuni. (lientley.)
No one who has paid the slightest attention tu the
4:hur.ii-ti!r of Icelamlic literature will be siir]Yniii'd to li<:3r
Uiiit the ledm<'<l librarian of Keykjavick, Mr. Ii>n Ania-
non, the (irimm of I«i<land, ns he* has been happily design*
natedt should have siicreciled in gathering in an almo*
inexhaustible store of I'opul.ir legends and Tradition^
which are still current in tlie mouth of tho p4Mipl«t. Krai
1 selection publiohed by him in 1H(;2, the pp'^cnt tranfU-
lors have made a further seU^^tion, which they hare
divided into .Stories of Klvos, Stories of Trolls, .SlorinnT ,
(iho.sts and (ioblins, and Miscellaneous Stories. Tbev
iro extremely well i:alculated to give nn idea of the Folk
Lore of Iceland, ami are very valuable as nmteri.iU furi
llistory of Popular Fiction. The illustrations are laDi'ifal
%m\ characteristic.
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278
LGifmm^ sdTURDAr, dpnit % iwi.
CONTENTS — N». US.
:*-IHRaii: Le^?«id» Mid TrtdUiooi. 275 — CotniaJi
rov«rln» s75 — The Libnrr of tiw Bscorial, 8p«in, 5»7«—
nrkMu Mode of ukir« an 0«tli to lndi», *:77 — What be-
une of VolUii^'s RomaintF /£. — 8wm .-» —
i Yankee Word ^ Me&tiinf^ of Ho ' \ ool
e^^TbeOoldenDropwr — Pratt«r^J I trma
S<M> of Chkht*9tor— MiM^prBbeiuioii of a Text —
of Books — Traniportatioo of Mulr, 218.
Authors of Hrmns -— Bev. Bdwird Boiiroblcr
— Sir J oho do Conituiby— Gowper — John
M*A,— Do Pi>e and Dr. LiTinrttojw — Guslavp
__— Thomas Fuller— Heakbur fiannof — The Ordur
Tkt4.Ha and AIIm rt — Parietinei — Parson Chaff —
Bflb Roy" — A G« ntleman'a flirnot — *Thou art like
like, as the hervH said to Vam OolUer'*— Tumer'a
Curioaa " — Value of MoQ^^ 90 Edw. 111. —
Wilson's Father, 280,
■SSi wiTir A^rffWBsa : — John Lund of Ponteflract, a
iflUKTOui Poet — Preflur« to the Bible— (joosc Int«ijioa
Cliarlet BaUJey — WUde*5 KaoiakM Pbnm —Ursula,
Kdj AJthaia— Bentinck F&miJy. im»
fldSB : — Beau Wtlaon, 2d4 — Sir loha Terdon and his
SitaL 285 — The Barth a \i\im CT!?atur«, SStt— Colkitto
m Oalaip, SS7 — Haydn's Canaouptj — Inchjiraw —
'n Jamu Oifford and Admiral GifTonl — Brroneous
lODtal Inscriptions in Ijriatol — Wildtoore aod
nre — lilegitifoate Children of Charles IL — Lead-
in Hell— Pamphk't — Anccrtor Worship— Vori-
QuotatioDJi: Traditions, ite, — Portraits of Oar
- Soncroft — Trust «id Trusty, SSS.
ooBboki. Ac
HjyiAS: LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS.
To one who has passed seventeen years in
loadon — ^in the very heart and centre of life,
i politics, commerce, science, literature, and the
arte, and who has now been Yegetating for
i time in the remote, torpid, and mediieval
0e of Dinan, it is alike curious and amusing to
e what semblance there ia in the facts that
ibout the same ptiriod agitating the metro*
wli* of the universe nnd tbis decayed fortress of
U Plantagencts. AVhilst tbe Londoners arc
f^t at the invasion of their parks, nquares, and
••"•^ by multitudinous railways, the Dinanese are
s desperate struggle to baffle an enter-
^ Maire, who seeks to light their mansions
nth gas, to make smooth their streets with Dagged
ithwajs, to pull down tottering fabrics, tbe
BQtemponmes of Duguesclin, and — worst of till
TMwattmis -^ to connect their town with the
ily T It has yet passed over the borders
Fani^ iny.
The a^gritivcd Londoners have Tlte Times to
tfa«tn fr»>m thi» a.Mnults of those modern
— ill rs ; but the adhe-
to by-gone manners
vocote, unleaa it be
LfMiauv^ii uesii-^ in |)reser¥e their ancient
^ith aU its qualat aid buddiogB — to keep it
aa ft gem of antiquity in a land that is strewed]
over with anticjuities. They believe that so long!
as it is left undisturbed in its antiquated form, so J
long will it be peculiarly attractive to those who]
find charms in what is old, and beauties in what |
is picturesque. Whether or not you can fully]
sympathise with the Dinanese in their desire tHi
repel the first advances towards modernising their]
town, yet your readers will, I am sure, feel aal
interest whilst glancing over a brief recapitulutioiil
of the various legends and traditions that are
connected with Dioan, and the arrondissement to
which it gives its name.
Of the Breton warriors who took part in th^J
battle of Hastings, and were richly rewarded by tho]
Conqueror were the Counts of Leon and Porhuet^l
the Sires of jDinan, Gael, Fougeres, and Chateau-
giron ; and, amongst those attracted to the Court
of William by the fame of his munificence, and
who believed that " lands in England were to
be had for the asking/* mention is mode by the
Chroniclers of a certain Seigneur William de
Cognisby (not Coningsby), who came all the way
from the lowest end of Lower Brittany, and
brought wiih him (as helps to the Norman army),
his Old wife " Tifanie,"* his servant girl *^ Monfa,"
and his dog " Hardi-gras " ! Connected with the
annals of Dinan are the names of some of the most
illustrious kings of England — as well as that of
the most unfortunate of them — the luckless
James II. Passing from the town, its history,
encircled walls, gates, tower, and ancient touma*
ment-place, we come first to Plcudihen, in which
there is a Druidlcal monument, that the honest
people of the neighbourhood firmly believe to be
" a work of enchantment,'* placed on the very
spot in which it now stands by the hands of
fairies ! In the commune of St. Helen, the tra-
veller is made acquainted with one of the many
parishes in Brittany named after Irish saints.
This particular parL5h derives, it is said, its de-
signation from a family of ten Irish saints ^ —
seven brothers and three sisters * — who landed at
the mouth of the Bance in the reign of King
Clovis, and edified the whole country by thexr
fjiety and miracles. Of tbe commune of Aucan-
euc the most remarkable thing to be told is thftt
it originated a species of doggrell, far more in-
dicative of a " Feenian " passion for fighting with
a shillelagh than of poeticjd talent. Here is a
specimen of what are called ** The Vespers of
Aacanleuc ** : —
« Fnmiirt voir, Un b&Con, deox b&toa% trois batons;
Si j*avais encore un baton* cda foraii qnatre bAtons!
Ihmxieme eaix. Quatre bAtons, clnn bAtons, six biUona ;
Si J'avais encore un b*ton, eel a f«r»it sept bAtonal
2>«i«j|Bir eotr. Sapt bitoRA, huit tiAtoDa, oenf b&toai ;
Si j'avaii wicore on biton, ceU ferait dix bAtoas! **
The commune of St. C«rn4 ia odWl i^to ^
Bretoa aamt, w\\o >iiM m^ \ia >a^ ^<Jt ^x'w^'*
274
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[r<av. APBn.t,ti
Patrick, and who, afler helpinj; to convert the
Irish, went to Encland, and settled on the banks
of the Severn, wnere he killed a monatrous ser-
pent that was desolating the entire countir. He
then returned to Ireland, where he died in the
year 506. The commune of Lamelas is so called
because it is " the church of those who were
slaughtered** bj the Romans, when that all-con*
auering people were fighting for possession of
bis country. In the commune of Lamelas ia a
rock called " La Koche-au-gcant,** on which
human sacrifices were ofiercd up to Hj-ar-Bras,
or DianafT, the vanquisher of giants. It is pierced
with a deep hole, in which, as tradition tells, was
received tne blood of those immolated by the
Druids. In the commune of Flouame is the
Castle of Caradcuc — a bard who was the con-
temporary of the enchanter Merlin.
The commune of St. Jurat affords a tradition
of its own, that bears upon a disputed point in
British and German history — the well-known
legend of ** St. Ursula and the eleven thousand
virgins." The various versions of this legend
may be thus briefly told : —
St Jurat, priest and martyr, in whose honour
the Dinan commune is designated, was the
spiritual director of St. Ursula, daughter of Dio-
notus. King of Albania (Scotland), and accom-
panied her, when she embarked with 11,000
virgins, all the daughters of noble families, and
these 11,000 ladies, were, it is said, attended bpr
60,000 virgins, the daughters of low-bom indi-
viduals. The fleet of virgins Icf^ Great Britain
for the purpose of repairing to Armorica (Brit-
tany^, where they were expected by Conan-
Menader, who was betrothed to Ursula ; and, at
the same time, there were Breton bridegrooms
awaiting each fair dame and humble damsel who
started upon this matrimonial voyage. A fright-
ful^ tempest forced, as some of the legendaries
maintain, the fleet of maidens to enter tne mouth
of the Rhine, where the 11,000 virgins, with the
Princess Ursula, were martyred by pagan Picts
and heathen Huns on October 21, 383. Such is
the more common version of the story ; but the
Breton tradition is, that the 11,000 virgin mar-
tyrs were massacred in the isle of Pilier, in the
Loire Infdrieure ; whilst the other ])oor maidens
met with a similar fate, at the mouth, not of the
Bhine, but of the Kaiice (RJnetum) ; and the
proof of the correctness of this latter version is
the commune called after the pious spiritual
director of so many devout young ladies, who
preferred death to tbe dishonour of becoming the
spouses of infidel barbarians. *
* A certain Father Simiood boldly maintains, in op-
position to GtOry of Honmoatb,SigeWt,Natahbiis,and
Banmios, that there never were any such persons as St.
Ursula and 11,000 virgins— that «« the 11,000 " was only
"ooe virgitfy^Mttd ba name was ** UndMlmUW* — UmSI
Not less remarkable than the commune of 8c
Jurat is that of Pledcliac, and ito Caatle of Hi.
nandaye, the ruins of which reek widi legends oC
incredible horrors perpetrated within its vilk.
These legends are preserved both Id prose sad
rhyme, and should they ever meet wita a poe^
gifted like Mrs. Norton, then the fkme of Huaa^
daye may equal, if it cannot aurpaaa, the Toan
recently conferred upon ** La Garsje,** whi^ i
also in this arrondissement. In the commune i
Pl^nee^Jugon, there is to be seen the Abbef 4
Bosquen, well deserving of honourmble mentM^
because its former possessors had taken meh or
of the interests of their community, that no mrtiv
from what quarter the wind blew, it was aoieti
pass over lands that had to pay them rent — a firt
that is perpetuated in a species of rhythaicri
proverb : —
" De tons cdt^ que le vent ventait
Bosqaen rentait."
A certain Abbe du Ooedic has ffiven celefai^ J
to the commune of lines, where he resided i^/
some time. Of this Abb^ it is said that he |^/
so wonderful a memory, he could repeat withgf
book the four volumes of his Breviary, witk i|j
the offices of the church|; and havinc, at thetf
of the Revolution, to emigrate to (jermaoy, i
finding it necessary to speak the langusn k
began his studies with IcarniiKr the whole tft
German dictionary from the fist word to ii -j
last. This Abbe was, however, nothing bH i
modem marvel, and scarcely worthy of compirM
with the saint ^- Lormel -— who has bestowed ki
name upon another Dinau commune. Thisl
phenomenon, it ap])ears, was tlie son of HmIp
the-Great, and of nis wife St. Pompea. He M
born in 569, in Wales, where his parents hadfti
a time to take refuge. When he was five jm ^
old, he was committed to the care of St Dtadi
his teacher ; and the first day the alphabet i*
put into his hand he learned all the retten;ihl
second day he was able to spell and to read; Mil
before the third day*s lessons were quite finM 1
he knew how to write I These are not the o^ 1
remarkable statements made in connection lii 1
the patron of the commune of St Lormel ; ftck ^
was the brother of the wicked Prince of Geuo;
and upon the misdeeds of Canao is founded thi
well-known nursery tale of ** Blue Beard."
In the commune of Crehen is the Caitle d
Guildo, the scene of a very remarkable event ii
Breton history — the arrest of the unfortoall
Grilles, by order of his brother, Francia IL ; InI
it is still more interesting to the readen of i
British history, as recordin(^ an event which gift
rise to the tradition respecting the daath K£§m
the mistske arose firom some marty
oontabiiag the woids «8S. Ursala et Un
^ and these wsre anpgwsd to signiiy '
F
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
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" Vortigern.'* Near to this castle h a tumulus,
^ wlilcb was found to be fillc<i with calcined bones \
»Tid these bones are believed to be the remains of
[Chramnui* (the rebel son of Clotaire)^ who, with
hh family, was burned in a cabin, where they
had taken refu;re, after being defeated in battle.
The simple- minded inhabitants of Crehen have
* for ages believed, and still believe, that on cer-
^ tain eveninfTS, a female figure, all clothed in
^ whit-e, is to be seen creeping out of the tumulus,
and bearing in its bands a bundle of linen satu-
rated with blood, which it is seen to wash in the
t clear waters of the river Arguenon.
t The commune of St Mailen is called after a
c saint who was, in his life-time, a servant — the
' name Ma deit in Breton signifying literallv " my
, in*m/' This pious domestic enjoyed the singular
IBdvantage of being valet to another saint — St
Gouiven — and of the two saints is told an anec-
dote worth preserving. One day St. Goulven
despatched Maden to a rich individual living at
B Plouneur-Triez, with a request that he would
, send whatever he might have in his hand at the
J moment Miiden met him. Unfortunately, the rich
^ man was holding nothing of more value than a
bucket filled with earth at the time that Maden
:. delivered his saintly master^s message* The bucket
of earth was transferred to Maden, who was
astonished at tlje great weight of the burden he
was carrying home. Upon presenting it to St,
Goulven, Maden was amaxcd at seeing that the
ciLTtb hud been changed into a yellow metal; but
he was not at all surprised to find bis master, who
was, like many a monk, a yery skilful mechanic,
make out of the bucket of earth a chalice, three
crosses, and three square bells, all of the purest
virgin gold!
I pm over other legends connected with the
arrotiditaement of Dinon to mention Corsent,
within two hours' walk of this place. At Cor^^ent
is undoubtedly to be found the capital of the
Ancient Gauls — the ^' Curiosolitas^' of Ciwar
(Bell^ Gall. ii. 34) — and a chief place of abode
for the Uoumns during their occupation of Brit-
tany. Numberless antiquities have been die-
covered, and are daily discovered in this locality*
More than 2,000 coins^dating from the time of
CiBsar to Constantine — have been found, with
statues, vases, and medals of various kinds. So
abundant are [its antiquities that il has been
designated ** a second Herculaneum," ■ Fortu-
nately many of the antique remains are now pre-
served at Dinan, where they are arranged by an
accomplbhed scholar, Signor Luigi Odorici, the
Conservator of the Museum. And these vene*
rable mementos of men and times passed away for
ever it is now propt^scd to have illuminated wtth
flaring gas, or the still more modem camphine !
If " K. Ik Q," cannot aid, it may at least sym-
pftthisc with a quiescent population, who bate aH
modem improvements, and love to ponder over
the days of old, and who prefer the ages when
men armed themselves, and not their walls nor
their ship's sides with iron ; who seek for no other
fjivour but that they may be let alone, and that to
the town in which they dwell, as to a ** Sleepy
Hollow " or the palace of Somnus, these lines may
be completely applicable ; —
" Non fera, non pecadea, non rooti fl amino rami,
Homaoftve sooum reddiuit convitia linguic:
Tuta quies babiUL**
W. B. Mac Cade,
DiaoOjC^teadtt Nord, Frince.
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CORNISH PROVERBS.
n» pRovtituB nELATtao to places,
1. You must go to Marazion to learn manners.
Thi« proverb is probably a relic of the time
when Marazion was relatively a luore considerable
town than it is at present.
2. In your own light, like the ILiyor of Market^
Jew.
Tlic pew of the Mayor of Marniion (or Market-
Jew) was so placed, that he was in his own light.
A reference to this was made in " N. & QV* 2"*
S. ix. 51.
3. Kot a word of Peostaoce.
The cowardice of the inhabitants of this town
during the invasion of CorowaU by the Spanish.
in 1595, was so glaring, ** that the^ added,* as old
Heath, in his work on Seilly, quamtly says^ " one
proverb more to this county.**
4. Like Monmb dowTis, bard and never ploughed.
5. Always a feast or a fast in gcilEy.
The prodigality of the Scillonians in old times
was proverbial-
6. All Cornish gentleniea are cousins.
Formerly, when the Corni&h were almost en-
tirely separated from the rest of England, they
used to marry "with each others* stock,*' — whence
the origin of this saying.
7. The good fellowship of Ptdatow : Pride of Tmro:
GAllArits of Foy.
By-words invented by the neighbouring and
envious towns ; or, according to Corew, " by some
of the idle- disposed Cornish men.**
8. There are more Suinta in Cornwall than in Heaven.
The process of creation is continued even at
the present day : I lately, in a Cornish paper, met
with Saint Newfyn*
d. All of a motion, like a Haifra toad on a hot
ahowl (sashovol).
1 0, Blown ftboot like a MulfVa toad in a gale of wind,
t L When Rame Head (wvd. O^aAASiWvxasfcX.
Two famo\i% ^oimQitiV^TV^w^^M v^^^^=^^^^
11
rrt. The deBtructton of the world will occur at
time of their union.
12. Backwards and forwards like Boacastle Fair.
18. All plaj and no play, like Boscastle Fair, which
begins at 12 o'clock and ends at noon.
Highly parallel to this saying is the prorerb :
•* Twill take place on St. Tib's Eve.- That is,
never, for " St. Tib*8 Eve** is neither before nor
after Christmas Eve. Some account of this saint
will be found in " N. & Q.," 2»* S. ii. 269.
15. The Devil won*t come into Cornwall for fear of
> being put into a pie.
In Cornwall every article of food is dressed
into a pic. In a time of great scarcity, the at-
torneys of the county, at Quarter Sessions, de-
termined to abstain fiom every kind of pastry ; an
allusion to the proverb was introduced into an
epigram preserved for us in Dr. Faris^s Ouide to
the Mount* Bay, p. 77 : —
" If the proverb be troe, that the fame of our pies.
Prevents ns fkt>m falling to Satan a prey.
It is clear that his friend^-the attome3^8 — are wise.
In moving such obstacles out of the way.*'
16. There are more places than the parish church.
17. To be presented in Halgaver Coart
An allusion to a carnival formerly held on
Halgaver Moor, when those who had m any way
offended '* the youthlyer sort of Bodmin towns-
men '* were tried and condemned for some ludi-
crous offence. (Carew*s Survey , 126 a.)
18. Elingston down, well wroogbt.
Is worth London Town, dear booght
From this down, large quantities of tin were
formerly derived, though the mines have long
become exhausted. Another proverb relative to
Kingston affirms, that when the top is capped with
a cloud it threateneth a shower.
19. 'Tis nnlacky to begin a voyage on Childermas
Day.
Carew (p. 32 a) mentions that, " talk of Hares,
or such uncouth things, proves as ominous to the
fisherman as the beginning a voyage on Childer-
mas Dav to the Mariner." In the play o{ Sir John-
Oldcastle (Act II. Sc. 2), allusion is made to this
beUef: —
** Friday, quotha, a dismal day : Childermas Day this
year was Friday."
P. W. Tbepolpsn.
THE UBRAKY OF THE ESCORUL, SPAIN.
I have often thought that the manuscripts and
printed works, in toe library of the Escorial,
nave never been properly examined by English
scholars. Though they mav not be so valuable
as those at Simancas, yet the librai^ ii acknow-
ledged to be, even not^, the richest m Euroj^ in
manuflcriptf . Before the French invasion, it is
said to have contained 30,000 printed vel
and 4300 manuscripts ; according to the
ment of Towntend {Joumey ikrough S^aim^
Years 1786 and 1787, vol. iL p. 120, Lc
1791). Mr. Jsxglis, who yisited the libn
1830, mentions that, in spite of the havo
pilfering committed by the French, uid tli
struction caused by the (conflagration i
Escorial in 1671 —
** The nnmher of manaaeripts v«t {Hreservad tibi
ceeds 4000 : nearly one half of the whole being ,
and the rest in Latin, Greek, Hebrew, and the
tongnes. I shall name a very few of the most n
able. There are two copies of the IHad of the ten
twelfth centuries. There are many fine and i
Bibles, particolarly in Greek, and one Latin copy
Gospels, of the eleventh century. There are two
of Ancient Cooncils, in Gothic characters, and il
ated: tiie one belonging to the tenth century,
* £1 Codigo Tigilano,' becaase written by a moek
Yigilia; the oUier of the year 994* written by a p
the name of Yelasco. Avery ancient Koran is also i
and a work of considerable value, written in sii
volumes, it Is said by the command of Philip H
the Revennes and Statistics of Spain. Bnt the m
dent mannscript is one in poetry, written in 1
bfljrdic : it dates as fiur back as the ninth oentorr
Arabic MSS. are also many and curiooa," &c — J
M Spam, 2nd edit, London, 1881, p. 276.
Mr. Ford states in his Handbook far
(Part n. p. 760, edit. 1855) —
** that King Joseph removed all the volumes to 1
but Ferdinand sent them back again, minus some I
and amongst them the Catalogue, which was nMt
ciously purloined. Thus, what is lost will ni
known, and will never be missed," &c.
A catalogue of the Arabic MSS. was pnhi
by Miguel Casiri at Madrid, in two toIs.
with the title, Bibliotheca Arahico^HUpama .
rialensis, 1760-70. But, I believe, tlie wc
full of inaccuracies.
There is an account, in Spanish, of the Es
and its library, written by one of the Fi
named Francisco dc los Santos ; the work i
titled:
** Descripcion del Real Monastcrio de San Loren
Escorial, Unica Maravilla del Mundo." Madrid, 1
At p. 84, &c. TDiscurso xvi.)* cornea an ao
of the principal library. But it is a verj m<
description of the books and manuscripts whi
the seventeenth century, must have been so n
rous and complete. The author was evident
bibliomaniac. He certainly mentions a few c
curiosities : such as the manuscript of the *^ '.
Gospels," named *^ £1 Codice Aureo ;'* becai
is " un Libro en que estkn con letras de oro i
simo y resplandeciente, los quatro Evana
enteros, con los Prcfacios de San Gerom
Has this Codex ever been examined by
Biblical scholar? Is it still to be seen in
library ? These are questions whioh I ea:
answer. The ancient Bibles, in varioiu langw
Amtv % *64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
2n
also menttoned; but he does not state the
»tes, nor particular editions^ A Greek Bible is
Bfared to in these words: "Y una Griecra del
idor Catacuzeno {?% de mucha correspon-
con la de Io9 Setenta, que sc imprimI5 en
No date is given.
A treatise of St. Augustine^ entitled ** De Bap-
nno Parvulorum/' h mentioned as written m
e siunf 8 own handwriting ; and another MS. :
JJ^ae contiene los Eracgtliot que *e cftiitan en la
*^~* por el discoTSO del auo, en la letra Griega an-
t is also preserved the manuscript Life of
, written by herself, besides other trea-
be saint ; which are now allowed to be
Tisitors, thongh other mnnuscripts are
bout special permission. The books used
choir — Los libros del Coro — are splen-
illuminated : moat of them are of gigantic
and were orijjinally 218 in number
din^r to Ford. Philip 11.^ Arias Montanus,
^'Philip IV., were the principal benefactors to
[ Ubritry. The books have their tdges^ not
r backs, turned towards the spectator : the
seeina to be, because they were thus ar-
by Mont an us according to the |>lan ob-
in his own Library. I am not certain,
T a correct and complete catalogue of the
tni] MSS. bos been published within the
I few jears. Permission may, however, be easily
'ned to examine or copy from any work or
cripL J. Daltoic*
irich.
CUBIO0S MODE OF TAKING AX OATH IN
INDIA.
A friend of mine, who spent several years in
lodiauan oiBcer in the European and native forces,
told me the following curious anecdote • and, as
1« vouches for its accuracy , I think it worth re-
eordiitg in a corner of *' N. fit Q." The transac-
tion took place in Secundrabad in 1824, where
ray friend was stationed at the time with his regi-
locBt An English serjeant- major, who was very
■rttth respected by the officers and men of the
f«ipm*>rit liriHT^cned by accident to wound, but
B/'f 'y»by a random shot^ a coloured na-
t*»^ u. person of some consequence in the
locaiitr.
Although it waa well known that the affair was
parrlv acetdental, Uie wounded man and bis
mend* ratsef! considerable discussion about it, and
•**i" ' ving the offender brought to trial
1 rge of having attempted to murder
'']LUvi.>. The colonel wbo commanded the re-
>t at last consented, and the accused waa
1 10 trial. A jttidra (a native), an indivi-
• eombincd the character of lawyer, priest,
ifpretcr, undertook to have the pneoner
acquitted, and he was gladly engaged for thai
purpose.
The whole case rested on the single evidence of
the injured man, nnd on the mode of swearing
him the padra rested his defence. The manner
in which the natives of India sre sworn is aa
follows : —~ A piece of ckunam (lime) about the
Bixe of pea, with a piece of leaf called a betel
leaf, are given to the witness to chew and swallow,
and he is then solemnly warned that if he speaks
anything but the truth after swallowing the above,
the first time he expectorates afterwards his
hearths blood would come up. The padra knew
that the natives were strongly impressed with this
notion, in fact it is a dorr ma of their religions
belief; but they are quite ignorant that the amaU
gation by mastication of the leaf and the chuham
with the gaatric juice, produces a substance much
resembling blood. In the case under notice, the
oath was put or administered in the usual man-
ner, and when the witness had swallowed the
contents, the padra called on him to expectorate
which he did, when a loud cry was raised in the
court that be was a false witness as the substance
resembled blood, and the witness himself became
so alarmed that lie refused to proceed further in
the case, and the sergeant-major was ae qui tied*
My friend at the time was rather startled, but on
a subsequent interview with the padra^ the latter
explained the whole affair, which i.*, to say the
least of it, very carious.
I have ascertained since the above was written
that the mode of swearing alluded to is the com-
mon mode in India, another Indian officer having
told me he saw it administered in all cases where
the natives are iworu, in cnminal or civil easea.
S« Rbumowd.
Liverpool.
WHAT BECAME OF VOLTAIRE'S REMAINS ?
Some of the French pnpers are now discussing
thw question- The Figaro (this rcsunie of the
stateuieut i^ taken irom an English daily newa*
paper), states —
** That a rumour, for some time past ia cirealation, to
the effect that the remains of Yoltairu are no loager at the
Pantheon, ha* now been confirmed. The tomb is empty^
and nothtnji^ is known as to what has become of Ita eoD'>
tenta. Thii discovery was made. It decloita, throagh tba
following incident :— The heart of Voltaire, aa is generally
known, wa« left by will to the Villette familv» and had
been deposited in their chateau ; the present Marqoifl de
VtllBtte, a descendant of Voltaire, having resoWed to sell
the estate, offered the celebrated relic to the Emperor; it
was accepted by the Minister af the Interior in the nftme
of his Majesty, and the qucstiom then arose as to what
iboiild ho done with it. 1 ho moat natural idea was to
place it with tlie bodr in the tomb of the Fatitliconj
bwt a Bf-r—'" •■- ■■ *i-- «^>-'bn-- »-i -/'..- i..^-^^m« ft
place o( I f c
was fttill , n.
iidfiration tUat \i ha \iti visi^y^^' v&^mq.
I
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
fhiin unjr other ; at. all evenUi, no fresh cereinonj reUtf ire
to Yoluire coutd take place in that buildine idtbotit the
ftttthoriMtion of the Archbiahop of Pmii. Mgr. Darboy,
on b«iDg consulted, before niaking a reply, ^rai hinted
that there was a belief that, stnco ldl4^ the Pantheon
poaaefiied nothing bclon^iog to Voltaire but an empty
tomb. lu con^qtience, it was determined to verify the
tmtii of the report, A few days back the atone wae raited,
audi as the archbishop had stated, the tomb wa< found to
be empty. A strict inquiry into the subject hoi been
orderra. and the Emperor has given inAtractlons that the
be«rt fhali be encloaed in a silver vo^^ and deposited
dither in the f^reat hali of the Imperial Library, or at tlie
Inatituto of France."
In a subsequent paper I find the following : —
•• The removal of the remains of Voltnirc from the
vaults of the Pantheon is related in the following tertni
in one of the numbers of the iHttrmilfdiartt which waa
dincled by tbe bibliophilist Jacob. It will be seen that
ili« mortal remain a of Houaseau wero carried awav at the
aame time:—' One night in May, 1814, the bonea'of Vol-
taire and of Housseau were taken out of the leaden cof*
fins in "which they had been enclosedt put into a cAnvas
bag» and carried to a hackney-coach, which was in waitinj,'
at the back of the church. The vehicle drove olf slowly,
accompanied by five or six persona, among whom were
the brothers Piiymorin. They arrived at about two in
the morning, by deserted streets, at the Barri^re de la
0are, opposite Bercy. At that place whs a Inr^e piece of
ipround, intended as* the site for an entrepot of the com-
mtrce of the Seinet but which project was never carried
Into execution. This ground, surrounded by a wooden
fence, belonged At that time to the city of Parir, and hod
not yet received any other destination ; the neighbourhood
was ftUl of low wine shops and eatin.e:-hoasps. A deep
pit had been dug in the midst of this waste f^round,
where other persons, besides those who accompanied the
carriage, were in waiting. The hag containing the bones
was emptied on a bed of hot lime. The pit was tlieu
filled up with earth, and trampled on in silence by the
authors of this lost inhumation of Voltaire. Then they
drove off, satisfied with themselves at having fulfilled^ In
their opinion, a sacred duty as HoyaHsts and Christians.*'
Ij it correct that the remains of Voltaire were
placed in tbe Pantheon? It is related by one of
Ilia bioffrajibers, F. IL Standiahi tbat his body
wan embaljoed and carried at night out of Parts
to tbe convent of Selliore, of which his nephew
Mignot was abbot ; hig heart was sent to his
friend the Marquise* de^Villelte, enclosed in a
sarconhncus, &c. Tbe same writer s^tates pre-
viously, that the Curate of St. Sulpice had declared
that he would not bury him^ and that if the com-
mands of his superior obliged him to perform the
office, he would hnve the body dug up during the
night. Mr. Standish treats this as an improbable
rumour, but mentions it as one that had been
publicly made.
In Gorton*a Biographical Dictionary it is stated
that by a decree of tbe Convention in 1791 the
body wa« brought to the ehurch of St Genevi^ve,
which chunh during the revolution was eoiiati-
tutcd the Pantheon^ The same authority sajs,
that he was interred secretly in the first place at
^Selliiire,—
''in consequence of the refutial of the AidUbt^bif «
Paris to allow him Christian bariAl. It in pmmlit/ fv
ceived that the body was exhunsed *ud ilep^t^lij
Pantheon, and this is stated by Albon in hb ffM
Europe. Tbe bodies of Rousseau and Dej^cartea i
moved and deposited there aIso^ and no doubt
decree was made by the Convention ; but it nuiy te ^ I
to question whether the fact of the tooib of TeHavi
being now found empty is not evidence that tha M||
had not been removed from its first resting* ptat^ :
than that a second exhumation had taken fiMm miii^
the circumstances named by the Iniermidiar^^
It might be the removal waa only toade ii|
form. X.E
SwiTT AUD Hughes. — When the
Hu;rhe8^ the prattle of Cowp^r and Maodeafiill
died in 1720^ almost within hearing q€ the fat
night^s applause which crowned his Sieg^ ofH^
mascus^ his friends began to collect his potdol
pieces, and^ though they were loujf about it, dif
published them io two vols, in 1735. A (i|f
was sent to Swift^ who, acknowledging iht ir
ceipt of it to Pope, writes : *^ 1 never heard of&
man in my life, yet I find your name as a fl^
scriber.** $wit\ does not add, what im tkt ^
that bis own name is down as a aubacrilMrt Si
says of the small bard who wrote a tra^^d^fe
show the inexpediency of spreading religioB h
the swordi and penned lines on MoTinda cat *
peacocks out of paper^ and Lucinda makinf
*' He is too grave a poet for tne, and I im>
among the medtocristji in proae a« w^ va
verse." Pope thought that what Hughes yid
in genius was comjiensated for bj his hon«fiy »
a nian^ — which was Pope's way of agreeing wid
Swia. J. BoaAJ.
Latisst Ya?(kee Word. — I see from ih« A«»
rlcan papers ft»r February that the people of ik
Federal Hepublic have coined for theou^fos i
new word. If it be worth ** makin|r a note trf*
here it is : Miscegtnaiiotu the act of ajnalgajM-
tion, of mLxing races ; more especiaUy of frw^
negroes and whites. It is made up of saaicm
and gemts.
As the result is so ugly, one may be aHoarcd ^
hope that It will never become *^ a honaehoU
word " on this side of the Atlantic. fl- B*
MfiAHtHO or Hoo, — Seeing a mu'sjmTi io ait*
cent number of '*N, & Q." rcsj. endh^
of certain local mimes with thr _ htm^^
hoo, I venture to put forth a sutrgpstirm to hopei
of extracting some further information cm 1^
subject. In Thoroton's Histonf of iVb^ Biag^
ham is stated to have been calhni Rtnghimifcw:
and the author remarks that it waa ao eaUvd oa
account of the great turnc or pit near the Font
Roadf about a mile from tbe town, where anclentlj
court leets were held^ and borough btisincai tl'ana*
acted ; such meetings being convened tbffc ^tm
fi.V. ArmL2,'01,3
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279
t
lis lute as the days of the Jameses, though the
members usually adjourned to a neiglibouring
village for the transaction of buaine-'^s. This pit
still retnaina, and though much ellaced by long
ploughing, is yet a remarkable spot. It is on
very high ground, sunk to a depth of about twelve
or fourteen feet deep* aod forms a complete am-
lb i theatre of about eighty yards acrosji. It goes
>y the nauie of the Moot House Pit ; a phrase that
points to the originnl meaning of the expression
still in use, to moot or debate a point. It would
be interesting to find out whether the ancient
synod called Clovinhou was Leld in some such pit,
and perhaps there may be yet a legendary trace
of it in the neighbourhood which might elucidate
the matter and support my theory, that hou simply
means hole. M. E. M.
Ekglish Wool iw 1682. — Subjoined is an
earlier testimony to the excellence of English
wool and cloth : —
** Colics passim tnalti, nul!is srboribus oonsJtt, ncque
aquanim fontibu* irrigui, qui Uerbam tenuissimatn atque
brfrrisatmatn producunt, qQic tamea ovibus abuml^ {tubu"
luin fiuppediut ; per coa oviuDi greg^es cAndiUi^imi va-
gantur, qasc sivei cceli, seu bonitate terrec, molliat et loog&
omnium aliartiin regionum lenuiisinia ferunt vellero.
Hoc Yel1u<< verb aorum est, m qua potissitniim insula-
noruin di%*itiaj consi^tunt ; n*m magsa ct utiri €t aryenU
copia h negociatoribuB ejustnodi imprimis co^mendiu mercis
gratid, m inAulam quotaQnls iiapoitatur,"
Again : —
" Nntissimum est et itlud, pannos Anglicox ob tnatflriflB
bonitJiteni valdh comtncodart, fit in omnia Europos ro^na
et proviijciijA impartari." — From the Jtmwrary of Paul
Heat^uer, 1568. (Sw " N, & Q." Z^ a iv. 428.)
Job J. B, Woekaru*
The Goi.dbn Dropsy. — This was, perhaps, n
well- warn phr&s<^ when Arthur Bent wrote of
somt% ** These men are sick of the golden dropsi/^
the more they have the more they desire." A
very good illustration hereof is supplied by Garth
in The Dispensary : —
••Then Hydrops next appears amongst tbe throng ;
Btouted and big abo ifowly aaila along:
But, like a misert in gxcub she'a poor,
jVnd pines for thirst amidst her vtai^ry store."
B. H. C.
PaKSiTEa-Jonw in the Anus or thb Sbb or
Chic!TK5Tkb. — Mr Bouteli, in his book on
Heraldry, sajs (p. 436), that be has never seen a
satisfactory blazon of these arms, and suggests
that Prester-Jobn is intended to represent St.
John the Evangelist*
I sn^v^ some time ago, an instance of tbe figure
being drawn rather dif!*erently from the usual
manner : tbe sword being represented, not as
pif'rcing the mouth, but as proceeding from it (the
nilt, and not the blade, being between tbe lips),
and the blade extended towards the sinister. To
my mind it is p«rfecily clear that the figure re-
presents neither Prester- John nor the Evangelist,
but our Blessed Lord Hlniself, seated, and in the
act of benediction. The reason of His being re-
presented with a sword proceeding from Hh
mouth will be clear to any one who refers to the
Book of Revelation, u 16 ; ii. 12 ; jcix. 15.
JoiiK WOOPWABB*
NeW'Sboreham.
[Mr. Daltaway's remarks on the arms of the dioccM
of Cbich ester and its ancient BeuU ^pon which was ea-
graveu the figure of Christ, mav be found in our I* S» x.
186.]
MiSAPi>mEH£i«siox or a Text, — A curious in-
stance of a mistaken reference to Scripture is
found in Gesner's edition of Horace. Comment-
ing on the words, ^^sagittas et celerem fugam
Partbi" {Cnnn., ii, 13, 18). Gesner refers to
Psalm Ixxvii. 9 — "Filii Ephi'em intendentes ct
mittentes arcum converst sunt in die belli ** — as a
proof of the Parthian motle of fighting bting prac-
tised by the Jews, The passage, ns every one
knows, has nothing whatever to do with this
matter. W. J. D.
Titles op Books, — Not less curious, perhaps,
than the derivation of the titles of serials from
poets, would be titles of celebrated books, having
a simihir origin; e.g. Gibbon's great work evi-
dently owes its title, perhaps its suggestion, to
Tbumson's lines : —
** . . , . The lage bistoric muse
Shoaid next condact us through the decpa of Tim«»
Show us how Empire grew, tkdintdj unAfdL^
As does tbe scarcely less famous work, in its own
line, of Adam Smith appear indebted to Dryden,
who says : —
*» The winds wer« hushedt the wave* in ranks were cast
As awfully as when God's people paaved ;
Tlio»e, vet uncertaia on who^c sails to blow;
Thes*-, where lAe Wt<xWi of Nationa ought to fiow."
Such an instance as Douglas Jerrold*s taking a
title from Shakspeare's words —
'* Doft thou think because thou art virtooas there
shall be no more CuJki and Akf^' —
\A not much in point ; but I should ihink that,
wbeti Prof. G.L, Craik wanted a title for his book
called The English of Shahpeare, he must have
bad some latent memory of W ordsworth's wurds^
•• Wo must b? free or die who speak the tongue
Tliat Shakspeare tpake,
By-the-bje, may not Leigh HuQt*s volumes —
Afen, Wmnen, and Books ^h^ somewhat indebted
to the same writer*s
" But equally a want of 6oo*f and nun " f
Sajivbl Nbil,
Moffat.
Trasspobtation of Muib. — Perhnps you may
regard the following extract, from the Diary and
Correspondence of Lard ColcheiiUr^ 'is^ v\^x\V^s&^
the gr^alet ^\MvQi>X^, ^\iv^ \\. ^'^ x%R»vH<t>an
280
NOTES AND QUEBIBS.
CS^aV. AnaXli
I
being copied into yonr widely-circulated colamns.
The subject to which it relates is now an old one,
Tiz. the trials which took place in Scotland in
1793 and 1794, of Thomas Muir and others, on
the charge of sedition ; but though old, it has not
et entirely lost its interest, and public attention
las been recalled to it in the Memoirs of Lord
CoMum, The sentence of transportation for
fourteen years, which followed on the convictions,
has generally been thought very severe— even after
making allowance for the excitement of the times ;
but it now appears to have been utterly illegal.
Lord Colchester's words are : —
** The Act, 25 Geo. III. cap. 46, for removing offenders
in Scotland to places of temporary confinement, was
•itfibred to expire in 1788, when the Act 24 Geo. III.
cap. 66, for the removal of offenders in England, was con-
tinued by Stat. 28 Geo. III. cap. 24. And this acddenUl
expiration of the Scotch Act was so much unnoticed, that
Mair and Palmer were actually removed from Scotland,
and transported to Botany Bay ; though there was no
Statute then in force to warrant it"— YoU L p. 50.
That this outrage on the law (for it deserves no
milder term) should have been permitted, seems
equally dbcreditable to the court, the public pro-
aeontor, and the legal advisers of the accused.
J. A. B.
Bdinborgh.
eduerietf*
AuTHOBS OF Htmvs. — I should feel greatly
obliged if any reader of " N. & Q." could state
who composed any of the following hymns : —
" Ere another Sabbath's close."
BickersUtfi'a ColL 1833.
** God of mercy, thron'd on high."
Bickenteth*a Coll 1838.
•* Hosannal raise the pealing hymn."
Cams WUmoiCb Coll 1838.
•• In memory of the Saviour's love."
WhUtingluutCB CoH 1885.
" Jesus Christ is risen to-day."
« » , , Prayer Book,
" Jerusalem, my happy home."
, , . , C^6oirfl790.)
" Lord of my life, whose tender care."
Society Hymn Book, 1853.
" Lord, when before Thy throne we meet"
Society Hymn Book, 1853.
** 0 God, Thy grace and blessing give." '
Society Hymn Book, 1853.
" Rejoice, though storms assail thee."
Burgeas't CoH 1853.
" Saviour yrho Thy flock art feeding."
Amertean Prayer Book,
" TTiou God of love, beneath Thy sheltering wings."
Church Porch, July 2, 1855.
„ ^ Daniel Sbjkswick.
Sun Street, City.
Bbv. Edwaed Bourchieb. — Information as to
the parentage and ancestry of the Rev. Edward
Bourchier, M JL, is much denred. He was Ei
tor of Bramfield, Herts, from 1740 to IV
Vicar of All Saints, and St. John's^ in Hertfo
Justice of the Peace for Herts ; died Nov.
1755, aged sixty-eight, and was buried in Bn
field church. The arms on his monument tli
are those of the old Earls of £we and Ess
from which it may be inferred that he was <i
same stock. Can any reader of ^ K. k Q.**
how he derived from Uiem ? His brother, Ooi
Bourchier, ^' went to Ireland after the Revolat
with the Hon. Gen. Yilliers, his (Chmrles*s) wi
uncle ;** was M.P. for Armagh at the time of
death, in 1716 ; and father of Charles Bourck
sometime Grovemor of Bombay.
£i>WTir AP Gboi
Chaperon. — Will some of your French cor
spondents, with an authority which I cannot p
tend to, inform the British public that this m
does not assume a feminine form, when applied
a matron protecting an immarried girl ?
It sipiifies **a hood;** and, when used nc
phoricaily, means, that the experienced man
woman shelters the youthful aebuitaUe as a h(
shelters the face. ISut almost all our anth
especially our novelbts, write the word **dbi]
rone," wnen used metaphorically.
One is reminded of the British female at Call
who, on being asked by the blamchUseuse wked
a certain piece of linen was not sa chemtu^ ii
plied with dignity : "Non, c^est le ekemis diao
mari." SttlUB
Sib John de Coninosbt. — I should feel obfif
if any of the numerous correspondents of " N.iv
could give any particulars respecting the lineage
the Sir John de Coningsby, who was slain in i
Barons* Wars at Chesterfield, temp. John, 1266
G.J.:
Leeds.
CowpBB. — I should feel obliged if some cor
spondent of " N. & Q.** would kindly furnish
with a complete list of the Biographies of Cowp
and Sketches of his Life. Exclusive of the i
mirable productions of Southey, Grimshaw, Tj
lor, &c., I believe there are other publicati<
extant which appeared shortly after his demis
I should also feet thankful for a list of the varic
lectures which have been given on the life a
genius of the poet. C. i
John Cbanidgb, M.A. — This gentleman pu
lished : —
''A Mirror of the Burgesses and Commonalty of I
City of Bristol, in which is exhibited to their view a pi
of the great and manj interesting benefactions and c
dowmenU of which the City hath to boast, and for wlii
the Corporation are responsible as the Stewards ai
Trustees thereof. Correctly transcribed ftom snthsirt
documents. Bristol, 8vo."
[• VkU Bohn's Lowndes, art "Cowper,** p. 641.— Ea]
81* a. V. Apbu, 2, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
281
There is no date on tbe title- pagei but the
Dedication ia dated Upper Easton Row, Nov, 20,
1818. Tbe work, includitig index, contains 296
piigcs. It would seem to have been published in
numbers. I desire to know more about ibis
author. S. Y. K.
De Fos ash Ds. Livikgstoive. — I think it
nearU' < oriain, from u perusal of De Foe*s Life
of ( ingUlon, and Dr. Livingstone's late
irav- De former must have been acquainted
with some traveller who had crossed the southern
part of tbe African continent, and had seen the
Victoria Falls. I remember having once met
with an old map on which, and nearly in the lati-
tude of Livingstone's discoveries^ was marked tbe
track of a Portuguese traveller who had crossed
the continent, but I forget in what book. Can anj
of jour readers remind me? H. 0.
GusTATB DoBK.^ — Will some French reader of
*' N, & Q*" put on record in your pages a Ibt of
tbe books illustrated by that wonderful artbt
Gustave Dore, who has gained world-wide fame
by hb Dante and Don Quixott f I have seen
cheap French novels, containing woodcuts by him,
irhidli are unsurpassed by any of his later works.
A Lojti> or A Mahos.
Db. Thomas Fdixeb* — Can I be informed
where I can consult a copy of The Life of that
BevereTid Dwine and learned Hidtorian^ Dr, Thomas
Fuller^ published anonymously, in 12 mo, in Lon-
don, 1661 ? Has it ever been republished? and
who of bis many friends is supposed to have
written it? I have reccQtly been compiling a life
of this quaint and witty author, but have never
been able to come across the Life referred to. I
may perhaps have read most of it second-hand,
because being the only authentic narrative of this
noted writer, it has frequently been quoted from
by the old authoritictf. Oldys, in the article in
the Biographia Britannica^ seems to have quoted
most liberally from it^ and the articles in recent
cjclopffidlo.', &c., have been compiled, for the
most part, from this and not the former authority.*
May I also ask if any of your Cambridge cor-
respondents cjin inform me whether it was Mr.
Fuller who buried old Hobson, tbe University
carrier, who for tbe mercy shown towards his
beasts, still lives in a well-known proverb, and
who '* sickened in the time of the vacancy, being
forbid to go to London by reason of the plague?**
He died in the parish of St. Ben'et, at a time
when Fuller was the curate thereof. J. E. B.
Dr. Bm'»> l4MikAL-Ei^]
9 of the Life cf Dr, TTtomas FuUtr ar« in
i^cum. Only one edition ww printed, al*
" rent Utlepngva, one dat«d
•xford, IGCl" A copy,
ivennett, wa« aoH
HsATHSB BuBBrniG. — Ln 7^«»Ft>/ii newspaper of
Aprd 12, 186a, I find, in a letter signed *< Fharoe,**
on the subject of burning the heather, or muir-
bum, as it is called in Scotch law phraseology, an
inquiry implying something like an assertion : —
•* If there WAS not a convention between France aed
Scoilnui, sometime before tbe Union, which limited the
bttrning of heather, owing to tbe iojury occasioned by tJie
pioceas to the vineyards of f raa(»/'
^^ Fharos " suggests some other curious specula-
tions as to tbe contingent ejects of burning the
heather, but I would only ask, whether there is
any foundation for tbe above, or whether it can
be answered in the affirmative? J, C. H»
Thb Obdeb of Victoria aitd Albbbt. — Can
any of your correspondents oblige me with in-
formation about this order, saia by tlie Court
Newsman to have been worn by two of the Royal
Princesses on the occasion of the baptism of tlie
infant Prince Victor Albert ? I should be glad
to learn the date of its institution, tbe number of
its members, and the character of the decoration.
J. WOODWABD.
Pabibtdtss. —
** We have many mines of eodi bathei found ia Ibis
island, among those partcttJMur and rubbish of old Eomane
townes." — Burton, AnaL 3rel 2, % 2, 2.
I presume this means itaUs* I do not find the
word any of tbe old dictionaries to which I have
access, nor in Halliwell. J. D. Campbbll,
Parson CeArr. —
*^Biit, if some poor scholar, some parton chaff, will
ofier himself; some tpencher chaplain, that will take to
the halves, ttiirdB* or accept of what he [the patron] will
give, he is welcome , . .'* — ^Barton, ^itoi. Md. 1, 2, 8, 15.
What is the exact meaning of this ? Does chaff
refer to talk (our modem slang, literallyy<iir, among
bits of slang), or to chaffering = selling or bar-
gaining, or what ? J. D. CAMFBBiiL.
*^RoB Roy." — ^What are the alluaionu, either
political or historical, in the following passage in
Rob Roy r^
" • Oar allies,* continued the duke (i. c of Montrose),
* have deserted as, gentlemen, and have made a separate
peace with the encmv.'
* lu just the fate of all alliancen,' said Garschattachin :
* ihe Dutch wtre gaun to urm us the aame gate^ if we had
nof tjol the atari of them at Utrecht*
• Yon arc face'tiona, iir,* said the dake^ with a Oown,
which showed how little he liked the pleasantry; 'liBt
our bttsioeaa is rathar of a grave eaat just now.' *'—Bah Aqf,
U. 2ol, edit. 1^0.
OxORIBBaiB,
A Gehtj.bman*s Signet. — A gentleman's signet,
pendent from a watch-chain, has recently been
picked up here. Crest : a horse's head, and motto
ji^as vE TBAMiTE RECTO. A couple of advertise-
ments have failed to find an owner for it, and I
ahall be glad if some corre^.^^viaX,^'^ >siSi^R*^*'
tbe famWy, m^ «m^V^i ^'fc lvi!^\i»!<^^^^'^^.^^«
282
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[a^^a V. AjpaR.S,*6i
"Thou abt lixe ittto like, as tiie Dbvil
8ATD TO TH^ CoLUEB," — In ft deposition made be-
fore the magistrates of tbis borough, in the year
1603^ in a case of riot respecting the cutting down
of a Maypole, the origtiial MS. of which is noif
before rae, the witness deposed that one Agnes
Watkio, the wife of a shoemaker* railed against the
witness and Mr. Gillott (one of the magistrates
who was ordering the reraoval of the MayjKjle),
sajring, "Thou art like unto like, as the Devil
said to the collier." I do not find this proverb in
Kelly's Proverhg of all Nations^ or Bohn*s Hand'
book of Provei'bs, The latter work has, ** Like to
like, 88 Nan to Kicholas." Butler, however, in his
Htidibras (canto ii. I. 350J, clearly refers to it
when he says, —
** Ab Uke the d«Til aa a colli^n"
Is it prevalent in any part of the kingdom at
ing?
TlLJjAM FlELLT.
the present day as a popular saying?
Leicester.
Turner's I^Tiscellanea Corxosa. — There have
been several works bearing this title, or with some
trifling specific addition ; as, for insUncc, the Afi^-
cellanea Scientifica Ctiriosa^ by Wales and Green.
In Gent's Ltfe^ p. 183, under the date a.d. 1734,
it is stated, —
** I printed MUctJianea Curiam for Mr.TliomasTumcr,
a work which got credit both to the Author and to me,
for the beautiful |>orformance thereof. It wa* pubtiftbed
quarterly; butt for waat of encourafrcinient, tko work
c<!ased in lets thtin a year's time, vrUen the laathcmaUc
types ceased to he of an^' ua© to me/*
I have never seen a copy of the work, nor have
I been able to find any other notice of its editor.
Can any of the correspondents to ** N. & Q.."
supply lurther particulars ? T. T, AV.
Value or Moket, 30 Eow. IIL — Pote, in hia
History of Windsor^ p. 33, a ay a that —
"Wiltiam dc Wyckham (who afterwards attAined to
the dignity of the Bishop of Winchester) had a Sur-
veyor'i place granted to him bv Letters Putent, bearing
tsst at Weatminattr the SO**" of October^ Anno 30 Ed. iij.
He had a sraot of the same fee ai had imiu formerlj
allowed to Robert dc Bemhain — via. one shilling a day
while he fUtyed at Windaor in hit employment; two
shilUiigs A day when he went elae where abottt that boai^
neas; and three shiilinga a week for hia C!cfk: which
allowances bad been firal of all made to Richanl do
Rochell."
My Query i«, what was the value of the above
wages in comparison with the value of money at
tbis time and feed now paid to architects ?
QUBEUT.
PRorEssoR W[LioR*g Faturr. — Mrs. Gordon,
in her liCcmoir of her father, says : —
** Of 3Ir. W»I«M»ti» icnior. I know litt]#» more thati that
he was a wealthy maji, haricfs' ' ' " ' ^ rtune In
trade as a mat Bianttf^rttirer. < ^s t ha-
racttr and bia mercantiie ioori?- i iiuDor-
tafit potttieo in todety. and he h» ttiU remeiuUred in
Paisley as having been in his own dav one of tlk«
and moat respected of its comtiiuntty* *
The lack of infonnatiou regarding I^lr. Wilfould
family exhibited in the above extract is very i
markable; especially when so rnaoy aUuaionjai^
made to his mother*^! connexions, atid tione wbu-
ever to his frtther's, exceplin^ to bis brother,
through whom the nephew lost nia patrimony, tad
whose name is not even given. Surelj aonadliiQf
more mi^ht have been given to the world relativt
to the progenitors of so remarkable a man ai {
Christopher North. It wonUl be interesting to
know something of his pedigree^ so ns to Arr^itAt
for the remarkable physical pecul^ f tht
man* Can notliing be learned of hi- ^ (Wn
sources outside of the family circle ? Did tk
professor never sjiy anything regarding hia gr^ad*
father J or any of his father's conoexioxia f IlB
would doubtless be difficult to get what might bS
called a history of the Wilson family, but cei**
tainly something more might have beeti prociirei
than is to be found in the above extract*
T. a D.!
Leiih.
Jons LrxD or PoNTEraACT, a Hur
Poet,— In that inaccurate and most unsatis
work, Boothroyd's HUtory af Pontefraei^ ill
following paasage : —
'» The aathor of the NfweiutU Ridtr and oth#f ^
merita aoticci oa an jnstAUce of uaiire genius,, witbooiC
advantage of a literary education. His name waa J~
and his occapation tliat of a barber. The first j
obtain the fre«lom of the borough broag^ht hifi \
tAlent^mto exercise; and his various sqiit^ -
obtainefl considerable appUusitf. The&o ]':
collected together, and pubU«hcd umJe ia
J^unioiL Some of the piacus in the coUe^^Uou^ f%^ kt
nesa of aatiro and ju.ttii&» of nciitiineiii, %roul<i not dis-
grace the pen of a Churchill." — P. 4^5.
The obscurity in this aocount, ariaio^ from tlic
want of a ChrUlian mmm and of a datt u obrioniv
though it may perhaps be inferred from iiJM>tte
part of the bookf that '^ the ^rst attempt to ob-
tain tl)e freedom of the borough ** rettfljr mottm
1768 or thereabout4S. The collected poems be£iw
cmlltd Duniad^ induced a suspicion that ^^I^itii
might be a miaprtnt for " Dun."
On looking at Lowndetf'a BtUiograpkerM' Jiftuatd
(ed. Bohn, 1413), I discovered the foUowi^
work : —
'* Lcxn, Jo,, Orifffnal Tales in Vartf^ and Othliiiaa ia
Prose and Verse." Donoidtcr, tivo, 2 vols. ^I^nrnftiiaa. Hi
From this I concluded ihid Lund waa llie f^
surname of htm whoi i d haa called Litfi*
The "Jo" Ic^ft mc* /i . to the Chnatiaa
name bcin2 'ph.or Jonathm : rt*
fcrringtoKi . JJorderrri IV-, .;vi
I69)f I found The Ntwcastle Ridtr; oi\ Uu.cl»aid
I
Z'* S. V. Aran. 2, "«.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
I
P
Peas^ a tale hy Jobn Lund. Hence I suppcxse bis
ChriBtiun name was *' John "
Accortltnnj to Mr. HotteM*s Hand Bonk of Topo*
grapht/ (6115, G116), Ducks and Green Peas^ or
the Newcantle Rider was first puVtlished at New-
castle, l*imo, 1785 ; andilierewaa an edition, Aln-
K?ick, 12mo, 1827.
I hope through your columns to ascertain wlien
JoUn Lund dted^ and when hh work ineutioned by
Lowndes was printed. It must, I imaginef be of
rare occurrenee, but it is prubabl/ in the great
Yorkshire collection of your correspondent Ma,
EdWASP HaIL8T077£. S* Y. R.
[We have before us a pamphlet of 104 pages in pflp«r
covers, entitled " A CoHection of Original Tslei in Verso.
in tlie fnnnncr of Prior. To which ta added, A Second
Editioa of Duckt and Pease: or, the Newcawtlc Rider*
Together with the nbore Story in a F*rct of One Act, as
it waa performed at the Theatre hi Hontefract with great
applaaae, and several other OriginaU never befor« pub*
lisbed. London: Printed for the Author^ and sold by
him and J, LyndleVi Bookjeller, in Pontefracl, 1777, 8 to/'
Th«Q follows the Preface, signed John Lund; after that
another title-page, eatitled Diukt and Pemei at, the
iVeit'Cfuf/e Rider : a Farce in One Act. By John Luad^
of Pontefract, 1776.
A reprint ()f tha farce Dut^ and Green Peas was f>ub*
liabed at Kewcaatlo without date^ but probably abont
1888, Idoio.
Lund was alao the author of the following work: "A
Collection of Oddities^ in Prose and Verae, Serious and
Comical. By a very Odd Author. Printed for, and sold
by the Auttior (John Lund) lu Ponrefract, and by C.
Plommer, in Doncaaler," 8vo. No printed dale; but
lotne one baa added in ink 1779 in the British At useum
copyO
PaBrACB TO THIS Bible. — It appears that both
a Preface and Dedicalton were written by the
translators of our Authorised Version of the bible.
The Dedication generally accompanies our ordi-
nary editions, not so the Preface. Where can I
find a copy of the latter ? Query, Any where
except in the first or early editions of the Au-
thorised Version ? Is it reprinted in any biblical
work of modern date? G. J. Coopek.
[The inexpediency of publialilng the Authorized Ver-
sion of the English Bible without the Translators' Preface
and the marginal readingSp his of bte years engaged the
atteotion of the epiacopal bench. This important matter
was diacussed in the Upper House of Convocation on FcU
18, I860, when the following resolution waa passed:
•*That tbe Most Kovcrend the President be prayed to
draw the attetition of the Curator of the Pre.'tt at Oxford
ike jmhlicjiLion of th« Holy Bible without the uiorgi-
,dingN, and without the TransUtora* Preface ; and to
that edtUons of all sizes shall bo printed with the
marginal readings, and with at least such portions of the
TtiOiUtow* Praface as are necessary to the true undcr-
atanding of their intention in what they give oa as oar
Bxbio."
Tbe Preface makes forty pages in the quarto Bibles, and
its great length is the rt-aaon aissigned by the Oxford,
Cambridge^ and Qaeen^a printers, why they do not re-
print it In the ordinary Bibles, inasmuch as they would
&nd it extremely diflicult to compete witli tho Scotch
press. Thus, from a principle of economy, they exhibit
the version of the text of what is called " Tbe Bishops^
Bible;** but by the omission of the Preface and tbu
marginal readings, they do not exhibit the Bible in the
seuse whieb the translators of the Authorised Version in-
tendeds
Tbe Preiace is so seldom reprinted, it is to be feared
that to the present generation it la almost unknown. We
are indebted to tbe present Archbishop of Dublin for
bringing this important documeut to the notice of the
public in the year 1839. ** This Preface," remarks Dr.
Trench, " ia, on many grounds, a most interesting study,
chiedy, indeed, as giving at considerable lengtli, and in
various aspects, the view of our Translators themselves in
regard of the work which they lied undertaken, while
every true knower of ottr language will acknowledge it as
a masterpiece of English composition.'" On the Ah*
thmixed Verrion of the New TeHament, edit 1859, p. 85.
Consult also an article on this important subject by our
eeteemed correspondent, J. IL MAnivLAND, Esq,, in our
2"-* S. ix. 194.
The f^reface has been reprinted in the Standard Editlou
of the Bible, corrected and edited by Dr, Benjamin Blay-
ney, Oxford, 17G9, 4to ; also in that printed at the request
of King William TV. at the Pitt Press at Cambridge, largo
4to^ 1837 (see ** N. & Q." 3^** S. v. 86), as well as in the
Oxford English imperial 4to editions of 1851 and 1803.]
Goo$B Iktkiitos. — In ^n Universal Mtymoh*
gicat English Dictionary^ by N. Bailey, London,
1745, I read ^
** Goose-Inteutoa, a goose claimed by custom by the
hnsbandmen in Lancaahir«^, upon the lOth Sunday after
Pentecost, when the old church prayers ended thus, ac
hcmit operiiwM Jttgiier praMt€U e«§e intentot"
Can anyone tell me the origin of this custom,
who tbe goose was claimed of, whether the custom
still exists, and what can possibly be tbe connection
between a goose and the collect Ibr tbe 16th Sunday
after Pentecost ? It is curious that the 16th Sunday
after Pentecost should be named, as in the old
Sorum books those Sundays are reckoned poai
Trinitatem as in our present Htur;2:y, ^^^n*"^. ^^^
collect occurs on the 17th Sunday after Trinity.
AqnncAfl.
[Blonnt^in bis Ghuosrapkia, sayi^ that *Mn Lanca-
shire, the husbandmen claim it as a due to have a goose-
in ten tos on tbe 16th Sunday after Pentecost: which
custom took its origin from the last word of the old
church -prayer of that day : * Tiia nos Domine, quassumuSf
gratia semper et pi*i«ventAt et sequatur ; ac bonis operibaa
jugiter pnmtet es«o intenioi* The vulg^^r people called
it a goose with ten <ocj.** Beck with, in his uay? 'tikis.vvx
284
NOTES AND QUERIES
[trt&T. AnoLl^^
of Bloant's FYagmenta Antigmtatii (Lond. 4to, 1815, p.
413), after quoting this passage, remarks, **Bui besides
that the 16th Sanday after Pentecost, or after Trinity
rather, being moveable, and seldom fidling upon Michael-
mas-day, which is an immoveable feast, the service for that
day could very rarely be used at Michaelmas, there does
not appear to be the most distant allusion to a goose in
the words of that prayer. Probably no other reason can
be given fbr this custom, but that Michaelmas-day was a
great festival, and geese at that time most plentiful. In
Denmark, where the harvest is later, every) fkmily has
a roasted goose for supper on St Martin's Eve."
It must be borne in mind that the term hutbandman
was formerly applied to persons of a somewhat higher
position in life than an agricnltnral labourer, as for in-
stance to the occupier and holder of the land. In ancient
grants from lords of manors to their free tenants, among
other reserved rents and services, the landlord fluently
laid claim to a good stubble goose at Michaelmas. After
all, the connection between the Goose and Collect is not
apparent.]
Charles Baillet. — From a communication
made several years since by Mr. Cu Hopper
("N. & Q." 2'»* S. viii. 267), I learn that this
person, who was the secretary of the unfortunate
Mary Queen of Scots, died on December 27, aged
eighty-four, and was buried in the churchyard
of Hulpe, near Brussels. Unfortunately the
year of our Lord in which his death occurred is
not given. I hope it may be supplied. I am also
desirous of ascertaining how his latter years were
spent I must say that I am not favourably im-
pressed by his conduct as developed by the papers
which appear in Murdin^s Collection and elsewhere.
S. Y. R.
[Sir Charles Dailley died on Dec 27, 1626, aged eighty-
four. Ho was among the members of the household of
Mary Queen of ScoU present at her execution on Feb.
18, 1587. Nothing seems to be known of the circum-
stances which brought Bailley to close his life near Brni-
sels. — L^Ind^pendance, quoted in The GuarcUan news-
paper of Sept 21, 1859, p. 799.]
Wilde's Nameless Poem. — What is the ** cele-
brated nameless poem ** from which quotation is
made in Smith's Students Manual of the English
Language^ p. 407 ? P. J. F. Gamtillon.
[The poem is by Richard Henry Wilde, an American
poet, bom 1789, died 1847. It is called by Marsh ** a
nameless poem," because it is simply entitled '* Stanzas."
It commences —
" My life is like a summer rose
That opens to the morning sky," &c.
The poem is printed in Griswold*s Foeta and Poetry of
America, edit 1850, p. 127, with a biographical account
of Mr. Wilde.]
Uesula, Lady Altham.— This lady, the daugh-
ter of Sir Robert Markham of Sedgebrook, in
Lincolnshire, became, in July, 1697, the second
wife of Althim Annesle^r, Lord Alkham. ft
died in April, 1699, and in 1701 she todiiihI
Samuel (^le, Esq^ M.P^ who died Mavck IQ,
1718. She continued her ftther^a I^ary (]f&
Addit. 18,721.) When did she die ? S. T. L
[Lady Ogle died at Bath on October 12,1723. POSd
State, xxvL 462; HUtorical iZeytsfgr, Chroii. 1718, p^C.
Although the Christian name of this Iftdy ia not giim
we are inclined to think that she was the wifr of 1h
Member for Berwick, as he died at the same plm
1718.]
Behtinck Family. — Can any of your
inform me in what work I can obtain the Uiue;
and pedigree of the Bentinck family down toii
present day ; also if any branch of we famO^ i£
resides in Holland? E.&
[Consult Collini's Peerage, by Bzydges* ^dL Mit,i
29-41; FUkytui^BBriti^FamMfyAntigimty^l.l^iBMi
Patrician, iy. 159 ; and Burke's Peerage amd
BEAU WILSON.
(3"» S. T. 150.)
Your correspondent J. M. is incorrect k li
comments on Mr. Harrison Ain8worth*g utenir
ing romance of John Law, Beau Wilaoi^ st tie
time Mr. Ainsworth introduces him — ^m l^
could not have been young, for, after seniDI a
the wars of Flanders, he had been the friend od
protcg6 of the celebrated Barbara TiIBaii
Duchess of Cleveland, who introduced him isD
fashionable life, and who was herself in her tq|*
about 1670, in the reign of Charles IL, soat
thirty years prior to 1694. See also the nodee
of fieau Wilson, a kinsman of Lord Bernert bT;
the-way, in Sir B. Burke*8 Vicissitudes^ Seeosd
Series, p. 384.
As to John Law*s personal appearance, whom
three- and- twenty only in 1694, there is no dook
that he possessed great beauty. His Tery daif
nation ot Beau bears out that, and all the portititt
extant of him confirm the fact. The aa▼ertil^
ment, after the duel, for his apprehension, whid
J. M. cites, notoriously described him wroi^^ : it
being either, as some supposed, the producttoncf
an enemy, and done to annoy him, or inserted bf
his friends to mislead any search that might ht
made for him. The author of The HisSry <ff
Cramond, fully aware of the falsity of the descrip-
tion, inclines to the latter view.
The following is what, writing in 1794| lie 1171
on the subject : — ■
*'Thi8 description fthe advertiiement ia
conveying no fayonrable idea of Mr. Lawls
■ioncd at fint no smAll degree of sorpriMi , ^-^
municating my suspicion to the present Mr. Law ef
Lauriston, that it had been drawn up to fiwitlifsts Jste
8r« S. V. Apnn. S, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
I eicape, which, it w Miid, Wfi* r.mr»t^...i by th« pfo-
' Application of tnonflv, Mr. L . ' with the
niae. To maiiifesi die more - t this bii»l
L tbs case, he hjkd tht ^oodxkeaa to orikr an cngrAving
l>e Ukca from an ongioal portrait of his uiicle,
koned un exact Ukeoeo, in hia possessioa^ and to
Dsmit me the plate, which, he aasarea me, was exc-
l T^ iih attention and fidtlitv. The impressioos thereof,
scd to this work (the portrait is of a handsome man),
fthow how far the conjee tnro h well founded. In
" \ CaialagM of Sngraced BritUh Fartraitt, four
1 cr diai^na of Mr, Law are noticed— 1, foL en-
^^,^_„ V LaMffbia ; 2, ito, deaigncd by JIuIterl ; 3, 4to.
Tn^avftd'by Dt* Rocker; and ■*, 4 to, painted br Bigaudt
and eDgmv^ bj F, de Schmiik, The Earl of Orfbra haa
In the library at Strawberry Hill a beautiful portrait of Mr.
£»avr, done in crayona by Somiba.'^
Tims it is quite clear that Mr, AmaTrorth is
right in iosisting on the personal beauty of John
Law. In 5U8t4uning also his heroes high mentnl
<]U^iiiea and honourable chitrncter, I teel sure be
is equally correct. A,
SIK JOHN VKBDON AIO) HIS HEIRS,
(S'* S. V. 169.)
This Chevalier, oa he h called (47 Edw. III.),
was joint Lord of Darlaaton^ and possessed of
lands in Buckenhall and Blddulph^ co. Stafford.
He may be safely identified with the sheriff of
the name, 48 Edw. III. and 3 Rich, XL, who bare
the arms of the Barons Verdon — Or fret gu. ;
and who appears to have resided at Alveton
Castle. He died childless, previous to 12 Rich, IL,
aflcr havin<f appointed, in conjunction with Eva
his wife, Eraieiitrude, wife of Ralph de Houton,
and Elizabeth, wife of James de Bo;*hay, his co-
heirs ; of whom the former succeeded to Darlas-
ton, and the latter to Buckenhall and Biddulph.
And they in turn conveyed the property to their
respective heirs, 19 and 16 Rich. 11. : the manor
of Whit more, and a fifth part of that of Kindcs-
ley (Annesley), being included in the settlement
of James and Elizabeth <le Boghay, The clerks
joined with the Uoutona and Boghays in alienat-
ing the aiivowson of the church of Biddulph with
an acre of land, 12 Rich. IL The Verdons of
Darlaston (whose Christian names, it may be noted,
were mostly Henry or Vivian) were founded by
Theobald^ youngest son of Theobald le Butiller ;
but who, like bis elder brothers, assumed the sur-
ame of his mother Roesia, the daughter and
eiresB of Nicholas de Version, and granddauffhter
" Bertram, who had obtained the Staffordshire
States by niarriafje, Shaw says that the Bidjjert.
* this note descended from a younger brother of
TieobaJ<l, the first Baron Verdon; and he pro-
'>ly hud '/nnil n k^nti for the statement, though it
Bay not i of proof According to an
Ury in tii uentary Writs, in M8,. at the
L'cord Otiicc, Theobald and Vivian de Verdon
re jomi Lords of Buckenhall, and brotbor^ ;
which, if genuine, would at least show tbat Tlieo-
bald had a younger brother. But this particular
entry is not found in the printed edition, though
the name of Vivian occurs in 1316 as Lord of
Darlasion^ and joint Lord of Buckenhall with
Theobald, the second baron : an indication that
Vivian belonged to the Darlaston branch, which
approaches to certainty on hnding that there was
a Vivian of that family living at the time, Erdes-
wicke, too, mentions these parties as joint Lords of
Buckenhall, 9 Edw. IL ; but says nothing of the
relationship existing between them (Harwood*s
edit,, p. 17). Still, it is necessary to seek other
parentage for Sir John Verdon than in his pre-
decessor in the lordship of Darlaston ; since the
latter lived beyond 25 Edw, IIL, the year when
Joan, wife of tlohn de Whitmore, is described us
Sir John's sisier — ^tbeir fatber, to all appearance,
being dead. I conjecture that he was the son of
Thomas de Verdon, who had a daughter Joan^
10 Edw. HI. (Staffordshire fines); and that an-
other Thomas, who lived a little later, was his
brother. And I conclude that Sir John acquired
the Darlaston property through his wife Eva, who
may have been the heiress alluded to by Erdes-
wicke under the name of Emme (p. 8). The
younger Thomas de Verdon, Km., just mentioned,
was of Dens ton, in the parish of Alveton ; whence
he dated a cbarter, 30 Edw. III., and sealed it
with the aherira arms (Harl, MS. 1077). The
Welsh Rolls, from which two or three of these
particulars were gleaned, are in a decayed state,
and very often ille^ble; otherwise something
more satisfactory might have been ascertained.
A few words shall be subjoined respectinir the
heirs of Sir John Verdon. The Houtons, I sup-
pose, were from the township so called in Che-
shire ; and they are said by Ormerod to have
used three different coats of arms. Hoton de
Hooton merged in Stanley by marriage of the
heiress, temp. Hen. IV. The Boghays were origi-
nally seated near London, and possessed some in-
terest in Bermondsey Abbey. Their name firat
occurs in Staffordshire, 12 Edw. HI. The Bog-
hay coat of arms, according to the heralds, w_ft»' —
Gu. a scythe, arg. But there is extant a joint
charter of Christina, daughter of John de Boghay
de London, and another lady, sealed with a stag
trippant, respecting the sinister (Harl- Charters,
76, c. 4G) ; which may have suggested the coat of
the Bougheys of Colton, co. Sufford. Shaw bla-
zons this — Arg. three stags sa. ; but I see that it
is given in Burke's Armon/ as identical with the
third quarter in the old shield at Whitmore, de-
scribed in my former note. The arms of the
Baronets Boughey (Arg. three bucks' heads erased
and affrontee, erm.) were evidently formed on the
same model. Ed word, a younjrer son of Man-
waring of Over Peover, Cheshire, married the
heiress of Boghey of Whitmore, in 1519. His
286
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8*4 &V. AnB.S,1^
family fumishen ao iuBtancc of tbe contmuiince of
a Cbrtstian nume, Mrithout a break, through
several niecessive generations ; tlie representative
at Wbititiore having been invariably Edward
Malnwiiring^ and son of his predccessori until the
death of the proprietor ia 1625* Shem.
THE £ARW A LIVING CREATURE.
(3*^ S. ii, 125, 176, 236.)
To the exti^act furnished by Mk. Bucktox from
Kepler's Harmonice Mundi, in wb»t?k modern
science does not disdain to revive the pantheistic
idea of the Academicians and Stoics, that the world
is a great living creature, Rivinus, in his **Disser-
trttio de Veniiitt, Salacia, et Malacia'* (apud
|6ra?vii Sj/ntagma Ditsertaiionum^ Utrajecti, 1702,
o), adds a ludicrous commentary : —
' Quam opiniioncm qaoque no*s(ro t<^mpore Mathema-
ticua ille DObitissimuii Jo. K«|)lL'rii.s tlnrmanifc libra iv.
e* 7, Btatuminare nL^us ct visiia e^t : Terram intjens e»»«
animaitinkdenUt^vod immanihtu pulmonum foUihu* marinat
aquat fter inUrvaUa vi§C€rUtiui ifuywVrt rexpiretquct cui ritli-
culc^ nUviB oggtviU Jbrtt /a*'uto$am hnnt: bellutim anno looO
^uinivxMf quoqut, cum Oceanun Uritannicn* tui Tameftm
tvmtm horarum tpatio Ur redprocoisct**
For human opinions, like tlic waves of the
ocean, are merely in a state of ebb and llnw :
"there is nothing new under the sun." Rtvinua
refers for otlier authorities to Natalis Comitis
Mytholog,^ lib. ii. c* 8 [Cf. Ciceronis librum i. De
l^at. Deor, s. 39] ; Philostratus, De ApoUonio
Tyanaoy lib. v. c. iu : —
•* Haviog often considtred the caiu« of this pbaicxm^noai
mmti'ly* the flux And refitix of siich a bodv of waters, 1
«m of opinion Apolioiiit» has discovered iti true origin,
tti one of hts epiilloa, writtisn to the Indians he sAyi:
^The ocean moved underneath, by winds blowing from
the many caverns which the etirth ha^ formed on ereij
side of it, puts forth its waters, and draws them io, as u
the case of the breath in respiration/ This opinion ia
corroborated* be adds, by the account ho : ' f tho
sick at Gadea. For at the time of the t\^ tide
the breath never leaves the dying man, \ i not
happen if the tide did not supply the earth with a portion
of mr sufficient to produce this etfect. All the phases of
th -IV ■ hiriiiif the ioer«a»e, fttlnc.^, and wane, are to
h II) tite sea. fleuce it como to pass, that the
(^ - the change* of the moon by increasing and
d«cf*uijsjng with it,*' — iVo<* to Gades above, by the trans-
lator* the Rer. Edw. Berwick.
*^ So lilile.*' says Posidonius, *' did the inhabitants of
BMliea know of phytic that they used, like the Lusilani
(and thti Kr^viitians], to lay their sick relations along
we pill rvnd ro»id,s to have the advice of such
psssei' It giv« it to them, and perhaps that
fhor Dj H'v v,.p-i the supposed advantage of the flowing
of the Ude, a« menaoned in the text"
^ C. Julius Soliuuf ; in cap, xxvi. is the follow-
ing;—
*' "' ^ itttodam animal «sse» oamquc ex
'^^ '^iribus coiiglobatum moverj ipi^
<^^ iUtqtie dJiTiiaa per nietnbn omnia.
lanrn Afl
1
astcrtiiD molis vigorem exerceant Slcal. ergo in
bus nostris coramercia sint spirttalia, ita. io
Octant narei^ qunsdam wuadi conatitutss^ per quae
anbelitus vel redacti modo effleot mAriat unodo t»
At hi qui syderum," &c,
Koeler, In his Animadv, etd Senec€t iVter«b
Quasiiones (lib. ii. c. 1, § 4), obserrea, ia rde-
ence to this passage : —
•*Ibi rairor S.nlmasium in ExtrciL [PIini4Utia]l»p.9L
doctrinam non trmgis oeteniasae. Haram opintoaBm
moidia I'lato ministniverit, qui ia Phaexlon« r*d]
tiontrm quandam spiritns ct aquarum p^r t^rrm
Aumebati c. 179. Pneter illam tamen
et aliffl e*8c quae banc opiniouem gigtv
ignis quem in penetralibus ternc iav» i , ,_
primii iacbnaverit Empedocles .... Fiutnina ena^
bat esse venis montesque ossibtis aimilea, ut uo^ttfl^
ad iiL 15. § 3, et ad vi. 14, § I, seqq, . . . " '
Zenonetiiquc Citticum, Pytbagora pneennia^ i
pro animali habuisse, quod ut reliqua anlmalla
notum est ex Fhih», i*lac. Phttarchi^ ii, *.
LaerL vii. U 70, iZ% sed non item eos i
statuiase. Ftiere tnmen alii qui boc credebanc. la- .-->
io banc rem est locus Straboms, ill. p. 262/'
If, as Atbenodorus asserts, the ebb mxd i^v
resemble the insrpiration and expiration of ^
breath, it is possible that some of the currr
water, which naturally have an efflux on
surface of the earth, through v.irioii'^ -
the mouths of which we denominate
fountains, are by other cbanncU dra
the depths of the sea, and raise it s^i
duce a flood-tide; when the expirnt .
cient, they leave off the course iu win
then flowing, &c. Strabo (Bohn'a C
hrarift vol. i. p. 259.)
** This method of explaJnlng the «bb tatd flow «C
sea, by comparing it to the reepiration of stiiiaal%b
so extraordinarv when we remember tbual It
opinion of many philo«opheri that the uniretve i
an animal. Pomponius Mela {£h Siim OHi«w ^
c 1), speaking of the tides, says: — ' Neque atlHi
C4>gnttam est, anhelitune luo id mundus «flici^
tamque cum spiritu regeral undam iindiqiac at, ai ^
tioribus placet* unum (7«^ univeraum) animal «(«;»
sint depressi aliqux specus, quo rectproeata mm^fiM tv^i^-*
atque uude se rursus exuberantia attoll*Qt ; «a iMt>'
causas tantis meatibus pncbeat.* ** — Noig fey til* ^
later.
The subject of one of the nameroiu inaji<
of Dr. Dee. ia, ** The true Cause aod Ai?coiiiit(i
vulgar) of Fluds and Ebbs," 1553 : —
** Perch an nee they thtnke the Sea aad RlrHV {■
Thames) to be some y l *» - - - -.^,| ^ j^ ^^^
flow in, run in and ou al ihuir owm
ioBies, God beipe, Ii. ^ftit\fmtitm^
fact, b. iiij.
He probably adopted Roger BicoB*« Ji
theory; or did be characteristically fullosr tbi
culation of the mathematician —
* apud Ffomuodoro, qui natuare mare «xi«Limavti3-
f^n<*i1 An|;4«hii9 »liqui« terrp* motor (iaccrttun m^t^ flP*
" ' ^wpra centnim t^od
t: per oetta at cNaMsta
I
r
8t<8.V. Arrai-S/ei.]
NOTES AlTD QUEKIES.
f!
I
Seeing these attributes given to the elemeitta,
we cannot be iiiq)rised at their receiving? f'^m
the ancient Pajjans the veneration paid to deiiie»^
as npneats in the subjoined extract from Acnlu-
thus, J)e Aquis Amaris Maiedictionem Inferentibiis^
LipdiE, 1682, 4to: —
** (n lanta qaondam apud Getitiles reneratione erat
Aqno, lit nummii loco illam faerint veoerati, Sap. xiii. 2.
( Vid, ct B, Dti, M» Hoffmaimi Umbram in Lntt^ can. ii,
4 33 ; Kircheri (Edip. -^^^'-t t. iij. p. 347), ubi de Nilo
riab€t« DivlnH honoribtu calto. Juveo. lib. L Sat. 3,
V. 19f p. 61t edit Yarior. ad qaem tocum, nt et ad v. 13,
vide Grangasi notaa p. 90, 91, edit Paris et B. Autumni,
p. 49 f. [v. IS» Nanc encri fontii neitiui; 18—20, Q nan to
pneaentitis esaet Namen aqnje, viridi »i marg^ine clau-
dcret undaa Herba, ii«c ingtnuum viokrent marmora
topbum?] Hoornbek Ih Omv^rMnme Jndorxtmtt GmtiLt
p. 4t 5, Sic df! Chaldieis ait SMoriius ApoUiDam tn
'anegvr. Antbemii, Juratur ab illii Ignia ct Unda Deos.*'
This subject Las been exhausted by Jo. Albert
Fabricius in hia Theotogie de tEau, Sec Demon-
MtraiiortH Evangcliquet^ L ix. To the iiuthorities
there cited, Maximiis Tyrlua should be added,
Diaa* viit. 7*
** * ' * . Among tliemBelves all things
HavQ order ; and fh>iii henca the form, which nudces
The universe reaemble God.
• *.*.. All natnrea lean
In this their order, diveraely, some more.
Some lo8«, approaching to their primal source.
Thus they to differeat havena are mov*d on
Through the vast sea of being, and each one
With instinct giv'n, that bears it in its courae.**
Dante'a Paradw^ by Gary.
For a curious description of the origin of fire-
worship, I would refer to the Shilh Ndrtwh, trans-
lated by Atkinson, p. 4. (Oriental Translation
Fund*) BiBUOTHECAR, CH£TBAM.
COLKITTO AND GALASP.
(3'«S. V. 1180
It 19 curioua that Alilton should have considered
these names as " harder/* or even harsher in sound,
th on his own. He wrote them both incorrectly,
and to answer his poetical requirements, he lop-
ped off the concluding syllable from the latter, not
eeemin^ to think that hia own act of mutilation
only made Gillaspick appear barbarous as Gal-
, ttMp. They were both Christian names of frequent
[occurrence in the great family of Macdonnell,
I Col I a being originally adopted from one of their
■Irish ancestors — a prince named Colla, aurnamed
l^iwiTA, or " the noble;" and Gillaspick from a
■ Norwegian ancestor. The latter never, I should
Iftuppose, took the form of Oalagp but in Milton*s
■line. It Ja composed of the common Celtic word
I6r^e, and the Korse word Uj^pahr^ meaning
■*• fierce" or "unruly," and was first applied, as
. ChriatiJU) name, to' one of the grandsons of the
jrreafc Somhairle, or the ** mighty Somerled,**
Thane of Ar^ryle, in the twelfth century. Since
then^ it may be safely asserted, that thei-e has
been almost no family of Macdonnells without a
Gillaspick araon^ its sons. This name has be*
come Archibald in modern times ; but why^ it
would not be easy to determine. See The ChtQ*
niele of MafL, edited by P. A- Munch, pp. 94, 95.
The Scottish chief CoUa, or Coll, sumatned
Ciotachy or Kittogh., "left-handed," was a con-
temporary of Milton, and a cousin once removed
of the well-known Marquis of Antrim^ married
to the Duchess of Buckingham. He resided in
the island of Colonsay* from which be was ex*
pel led B short time before the commencement of
the j^reat Civil War. But previously to hia ex-
pulsion, and frequently afterwards* he dealt many
fatjil ** leA-banded '" blows i^ainst the Campbells,
the hereditary enemies of his clan. He was ap-
pointed by the Macdonnells to hold the fortress of
Dunyveg, in Isla, agunsi General Leslie, to
whom he was induced] to surrender it, and by
whom he was treacherously handed over to his
deadly foe, the Earl of Argylc* It was always
supposed that Coll-Kittagh was hung from the
inaat of his own galley, placed for this purpose
over the cleft of a rock, near the castle of Duu-
staflnage, but the mode of his execution was
somewhat different^ as we learn from a manu-
script originally written by the Kev. James
Hamilton, and of which extracts were printed for
the first time in Dr» Reid's Hutory of the Presby-
terian Church, vol. i. pp» 441, 533, Hamilton,
the writer of this MS., and Coll-Kittagh, hap-
pened to be imprisoned at the same time in the
castle of Mingarrie, Ardnamurchan. The Earl
of Argyle, fearin«T that CoU might be rescued by
the soldiers of Montrose, sent him to a certain
Captain Gillaspick of Kirkcaldie, with strict in-
junctions that the latter should keep him **sickep'*
(secure) under the deck of his ship, until he
(Argyle), and none but he, should send a written
order for his re-delivery. One of Argyle*s agenta
soon appeared with the fatal order, to whom Coll
was given up, and by whom he was forthwith
hanged over the ship's side, between I nnerkei th-
ing and Kirkcaldie, ** So,*' an Hamilton expresses
it, **was he both hanged and drowned/*
Thus far the real Coll-Kittagh. Dot the per-
son whom Milton speaks of as *'Colkjtto»" waa a
Mon of the former, whose Chrjatian name wta Alex-
ander, or Allasier, and who was always named,
in Gaelic, AUmter Mac Coll-Kittagh, to distinguish
him from other Alexanders, the sons of other
Colls, his kinsmen. This Allaater Mac Coll-Kit-
tagh was notorious in Antrim, during the mas-
sacres of 1641, as an able and ruthless leafier of a
murderous band of Irish and Scottish Highlanders.
He became still more widely known as Ihe com-
mander of an expedition sent by the Marquis of
288
NOTES AND QUERIES.
18^S.Y.Atsml%%L
Antrim, in 1644, to assist Montrose in Scotland.
His name of Allaster Mac CoU-Kittagh was rather
a lengthened appellation, especially for English
writers, who did not know what it all meant.
They, therefore, dropped his Christian name alto-
gether, and gave him hb father*s Christian name
and surname, corruptly spelled *' Colkitto.** And,
indeed, in some of their pages he actually figures
as *« Colonel Kitto I'*
Once for all, howeyer, his name was Alexander,
the son of CoU-Kittagh ; the son of Gillaspick ;
the son of Colla-Z)tf D-na-^Can^^tc^, or, '* Black C/oIla
of the Horses ;" the son of Alexander of Isla ;
the son of John, sumamed Cathanach^ or the
*^ warlike ;** the son of John ; the son of Donnell,
sumamed Ballath^ or "freckled;" the son of
John, sumamed jSfor, or " large- bodied ;** the son
of the " good John of Isla,*' and his second wife
Margaret Stewart, a daughter of Robert IL (See
Donald Gregory's History of the Higklandg and
lileg of ScoUand.) Geo. Hill.
Belfitft.
Hatdr's Cakzonets (3"» S. t. 212.) — Though
unable to answer your correspondent's question
with respect to all Haydn's canzonets, I can giye
you some information concerning one of them.
The late Geo. Dance, architect, told me that he
himself directed Haydn's attention to " She never
told her love," and recommended him to set it to
music. There is a story told on the authority of
Dr. Clarke Whitfeld, formerly professor of music
at the University of Cambrld^je, that Haydn read-
ing " She sat like passion " (instead of patience)
" on a monument," struck a fortissimo chord on the
pianoforte, which he changed to the present ex-
quisite chord as soon as he learned his mistake.
While my pen is in hand, I will give you two other
anecdotes of the great composer, told by the late
Mr. Salomon, the violin player, who, as is well
known, brought him to England. Among the
novelties introduced into music by Mozart were
quintetts with two violas, Salomon asked Haydn
to write some quintetts on this plan ; but he re-
fused, saying, ** Mozart has written you some
quintetts." When Haydn had completed his
" Twelve Grand Symphonies," which his engage-
ment with Salomon required, Salomon compli-
mented him, saying, " Sir, I think you will never
surpass these Symphonies." " Sir," replied Haydn,
" I never mean to try." Musicians will know that
he kept his word, though he continued to write
quartctts as long as he lived. Septuagenarius.
Imcuoaw (3"* S. V. 154.) — Inchgaw, or Inch-
g[all, was the name of a small island, which was
situated in the now nearly drained lake of Lo-
chore, or Loch Orr, in the parish of Ballingray,
in Fife. There was idso a chapel here ; and, ac-
cording to Sibbald, so early as the rei$;n of Mal-
colm lY. (1153— 1165)— others say Malcolm UI.
(1057— 1093)— Duncan, of Lochore, built a caitie
upon the island ; and there the Lochores, u vdl
as the Yaloniis and the Wardlmws, who were sa^
cessively proprietors or barons of Inchgall and
Lochore, for many ages resided. It is |irohahk
that the '* barony of Inch^w*' had originated
with Duncan of Lochore. Kobert, Duke of Al-
bany, when regent of Scotland, granted a coa-
firmation charter of the lande of ^Trakewut*
(Traquair), in Peeblesshire, to Watson of Cranf
stoun, dated *'apud Inch^alV Sept. 27, 1407
(Reg. Mag. Si^ f. 233). Notices of this baraq
will be found m Inquisitiones Speciales; and,iB-
der "Fife," No. 389 (May 23, 1627), the serria
of one of the heirs runs thus : —
** In terns et baronia de Lochiracbyre-Westcr Jm
nuncnpatis Inchegall ; terris nancopatis Flockhou <
Bowhoais de Inchgall, cum lacu de Incfagall et jvicpi-
trooatas capeilae de Inchgall," &c.
'' The loch of Inchgaw, with the castle," ii
mentioned in Monipennie's Brief e I>escriptk^if
Scotland. In an antiquarian point of Tiew, IndfiL
or Lochore, possesses some interesting featnrtL
Some say that there was a Roman camp, and ib:
the Ninth Legion was attacked here, and net:?
destroyed by the Caledonians. It is just poiu^
that, upon a careful examination of the site of tk
old Inch, traces of a crannoge may even vet x
found. It will be remembered that Snr Wate
Scott's eldest son married Miss Jobaon, haitmd
Lochore. " Inchgarvie," referred to bj &, if «o
island in the Forth, near Queensferrj; locally
attached to the parish of Dalmeny, co. LirAiili-
gow. Ga, or Gaw, is used as a coonmon abbre-
viation of the surname of" Gall," in the north-«fi
of Scotland ; as also is Ao, for " hall,** &c. A. J.
Captain James Gifford and Admiral GI^
FORD (3'« S. iv. 472, 528.)— 1. Captain Jame?
Gifford of Girton, Cambridgeshire, died Jamury,
1814, and was interred in the church of All Saint.'-
Cambridge ; where his parents also He buriel
His father was one of the aldermen of that to«.
and served the office of mayor in 1757; tai
thenceforward, continued in the Commission of
the Peace. Tablets to the memory of Captaia
Gifford and his parents are to be seen in that
church.
2. He was in the army, and Captain in tbr
14th Regiment of Foot.
3. On looking over memoranda of accounti
kept by him, I find this entry : —
** 1784, March 8th. Paid Hodson in fhll for pristiBC
Elucidation of the Unity, &c., in full, £6 14«. 6d."
This is the first mention I find of publisbhi^
account : coupling this with a memorandum pre-
fixed to a prayer, written and offered up by niffl,
^ On occasion of my endeavours to elucidate the
Unity of God," and which bears date Sept. 178S,
it is pretty evident the first edition of that work
appeared m or about the year 1783. At regards
aM S, V, April 2, '64.}
NOTES AND QUEKIES.
289
the Letter to the ArchbMop of Canterbury ^ I find
thia entry ; —
« t7^' o..*«hfr 25lh. Paid Rfvtnglon for pnnUng
ArcJi '>r in full, Atkd SfttUed with B<>uksflU«r
Bftldtv. '
W I can give no further information as refi^ards
any previous edition of tbiu Letter^ nor can I state
wLcQ the other three editions of the Elucidation
appeared*
4. The enlargements and additions were all the
authors own. His son, Major-General Gifford,
determined to print them in full on bis futber^s
death ; and then brought oat the 5th edition. He
knew it was a Fubject entered on in the spirit of
devout piety^ and had occupied the writer*s
thoughts for manj years of his life. Capt. James
GiiTord (Sen.) was also the author oi A Short
JEsioy on the Belief of an Universal Providence,
Cambridge, printed by J. Archdeacon, 1781 ; and
of a little work entitled, Jtejiections on the Necessity
of Deaths and the Hopes of a Future Existence.
In the Chrinfiaft Rvformer for January 1854
(No, 119, New Series), there is a Memoir of
Rear-Admiral Jomes Giflbrd, the eldest son of
Capt. Gifibrd, and an account of the good recep-
tion his Remonstrance met with. He wrote it
when he wiw Captain in the Navy. In this Re-
^brmer, we read m a note : —
■ *< See A brief notice of Captain James GiiTord, Sen.,
^K:eon]paajHng a prayer of his compo&iUoa in Okrittian
Reformer^ vol. i.» x. s., p. 821 ; and of big worki MontlU^
Repository, vol- xj» p. 144."'
The writer adds, ** a sixth edition of the Eluci-
dation was published bv the author's son, General
Gifford "—but he should have said^A.
^ GbO. S. J* GllTDRD.
m. EaaoKEoua Mohumejitai^ Inscbiptions m
Bbistol (3^^ S. V. 87.)— It may be as well to
Kotice two inaccuracies of date m the tablet on
The west wall of Bristol Cathedral erected by a
** devoted friend ** m memory of the Porter fumily.
Col. John Porter is said to' have died in the IsJe
of Man in the year 1810, aged 38 years. It
should have been 181 J, as appears from a letter
of Miss Jane Porter, now lying before me, dated
'N'ov. 18» 1811^ in which she speaks of having
dv been Afflicted with the news of the death of
orother John, who was the me reliant in the
feBt Indies. It would appear from the Gentle-
vins 3fagazine that he died, poor fellow! in
istie Ku^hen, an imprisoned debtor, on the
WBih. of Augustjea ving a widow and child. (Query,
What became of them ?) The father of " tins
kigbly gifted and most estimable family "' is said
"^ have died at Durham in the year of our Lord
?80, It should huve been 1779. I add a copy
^hi' jt on hh tombstone in the i:hurch-
^d t ,ii4'4j iti Durham : —
« To the Memory
of
WllXtAM PoRTBn,
Wbo was SnrgeoD 23 yeart to Uie
InniikilUng fiegiment of Drag^oiWy
Atid de|)Arted iliia life the 8th of
September, 1779, in the 45th year
of hit age.
Ho was a tender hnsband, a kind fklher,
And a faithful friend."
WnJJMooii ATTD Wbittmobb (2^ S. V. 220.) —
Not being personally acquainted with the country
in question, I was obliged to depend upon others ;
and while writing my note, I had before me Fa-
den's large map of Staffordshire in 1799, together
with Cmchley 8 Maps and Walker's County At-
las — the two last reduced from the Ordnance
Survey. It will be seen, I thinks that I could
hardly come to any other conclusion than that the
two names applied to the same place. Cruchley
omits WTiiti more, in Shropshire; and lavs down
Wildmoor farm within the borders of Stafford-
shire on the same spot, near Abbots' Castle, where
Faden has inserted Willmor* Walker follows an
opposite course, noting WhlUmore (Wc), in Shrop-
ihire, and not giving either name in Staffordshire*
I knew that the parish of Bobbington extends into
Salop ; and when I said that Wildmore did so, I
was of course alluding to that portion of Bobbing-
ton, which your correspondent observes is now
locally known as Wittymerc. After all, it may
be that Willmore was the original appellation,
and that the property of the Whitniore family
came to be called after them, one name easily
passing into the other; or, vice versd^ Willmore
and Wildmoor may themselves be corruptions of
Whitimore, and instances of the changes in no-
menclature which so frequently occur. The dis-
similarity of the ancient and modern names cer-
tainly struck me ; but they are scarcely greater
than those of the place near Burton- on-Trent,
The authorities quoted by Shaw prove that W^et-
more was formerly written Witt more, W^ythmere,
Wightmere, &c. I will not conclude without
offering my thanks to your corre.^pondent for bis
friendly correction. SflBst,
lUJBGlTlMATE ChIUIIEV OF CrA&LES IT. (3*^
S. v. 211.)— In the list, given by Oxomubnsis, of
the illegitimate children of Charles IL, there are
omitted Charlotte, Countcsa cif Lichfield, and
Barbara, a nun at Pontoiae : both daughters of
Barbara, Duchess of Cleveland. And I will add
a query : What authority is there for the exist-
ence of James Stewart, a Catholic priest^ with
whom the list begins? I have never seen him
mentioned in any list of Charks 11. s children.
Chabi^bs F. S. Wabbjsn.
LBAniNo Apes is Hisij* (3'* S. v, 193.) — I am
not aware of the origin of the phrase^ *' Leading
290
NOTES AND QUERIED
[S'^av. Araxtl^'ll.
apes in hell,*' ai applied to old maiden ladies ; but
&8 T- D. H* asks for earlier mention of the BUper-
Btition, I would refer bim to Much Ado Aboui
Nothing (Act II. Sc. 1), where the theme is en-
larged upon at considerable length hy & tfoung
maiden lady of certain age, but of uncertain tem-
per. Probably some commentator on this pas-
sage may throw light on the matter. C. A* L.
Shenstone^ in one of his Levities^ or Pieces of
Hrnnour^ entitled "Stanzas to the Memory of an
agreeable Lady^ buried in Marriage to a Person
undeserving of her/* and which commences —
** *Twt» always held, atid ever will,
By aage mankind • di*creetcr,
T* anticjpnte ii leaser iH
Thnn tinder j^o a greater" —
thus, in the sixth verse, alludea to the above
singular superstition : —
" Foor Grutia, in her twentieth year*
Forupciog future woe;
Chose to nttrnd :i monkey here,
Before an ape hclow."
MoBRis C. Imes.
lirarpoot.
Pamphlet (3^* S. v. 167.)— It aeems worth
while to make a note of a somewhat unusual
employment of this word, upon which I have
just happened in Shakspeare'a Finit Pari of
HenryVLi-^
" [. . . Gloster nffert to pui^a Bill : Winchester
maiekti iU tt*ir» it
«* Whiek§»ttr, Com'st thou with deep premeditated
lines?
With written pamphhiM, stadiotialy devised ? "
Joinir Addis.
A?»CE9T0R WoRsinp (3'* S. V. 212.) — For in-
formation on this subject, aee Faiths of the Worlds
by Rev, J. Gardner, M*A., published by Fullar-
ton & Co. This work abo contains notices of
** Sidereal Worship/' H. PitawicK.
VBmifTIKO Q DOTATIONS I TaADmOMS, BTC.
(3'* S. iv. 193, 292.)— A curious instance of the
chance of continuing an error, unless a subject be
thotpughly gone into, occurred the other day in
editing the Architectural Publication Society's
Dictionary^ which is perhaps worth recording.
On coming to the biography of Fra Giovanni Gio-
eondo, the writer found there was an epigram
addressed to him by the learned Sannazarius, in
which the former is described as the architect of
**geminum pontem^* at Paris. On consulting an
able Frencli authority, the editing Committee
were told there was no question that the bridge
was the old Pont aux DoubUs^ a bridge which led
from the front of Notre Dame to the Qu artier
Latin ; and which has just been pulled down, in
eonscnucnce of the public improvements— in fact,
that tne name itself was sufficient evidence to
rely on. Having, however, the fear of our vigi-
lant seorelftry before our eyes, it was determitied
to search further. And after raDftoekiiig BmmL
and a host of authorities, it was diaooTctcd iki
the Pont aux Doubles was not erected tUl iftv
Giocondo^s death, and that it waa so oalled, ait
because it was a " geminuni nontem," or 4adk
bridge^ but because formerly tberc was a toil of t
double, or double denier (a smalt French eoir*.
worth the sixth part of a penny), payable bj ill
who passed over it. The discovery that so nr&-
bable a conjecture, and one that appeara to iiit
been so universally received, waa, aAer all, m
error, seems so curious that it is, I hope, woril
recording in ** N. & Q.'* A. JL
Poets* Comer,
PoaTaAiTs or Our Loan (3'* S. ▼, 74, 1W.V-
There is evidence thnt such portraits;, or naff
portraits asserted to be such* were ^^iani ia ifci
second and third centuries of our aera. la tk
Latin version of Ireneeus (AdversuM ilffmtt) 9
the following passage, relative to the ^LjUowenif
the hercsiarch Carpocrates : —
" Ktism imaj^n&s iiuisdara qiiidetn depictAi* tiauiM
autefti et de rcUqua materia fabricatoa h.tb^nt* dteVHi
formam Christi factam a Pilato, iilo in tempore qooM
Jesiu cam bomimbos- Et ha^^ coronant, «i giimyf
fsas CDm JmagiQibus mundi philoaophoruin, viddksMO*
tmagiae Pythagoras, et PbtoaU, et Anstotelia,'* Ac
Hippolitus, the bishop of Portus, m liia 0»
responding book, Kar^ Tnurmv alp'ifrt<»y^ bis a
passage to the same effect : —
Both passages throw doubt upon thm
ticity of the representations. See Hunaen^i flip'
poly t us and his AgCy vol. i, pp* 80, 81, H. G. C
Sancboft {Z'^ S. v. 213.)— Francia SaoovAt
of Fressingfield (co. Suflblk), bad by hb viK
Margaret, dau|;hter and co'beiress of Tbottfl
Boucher of Wilby, in the same county, two lOM
Thomas, and William, the Arebbtshopi and «t
daughters — Deborah, Elizabeth^ Alice, Fnaci^
Mary, and Margaret.
Although I have been unable to fitid ottt
of their husbands* names, I would aitggest
the follow injg probable sources should ba l^tcii
The Archbishop, who was fond of obl~*~^
any information connected with bis family,
ktbofSi
tiiH Mttur
hebifiH
V9 b
extracts with his own hand
books, of the parish of Fresain
marriages, and deaths of all m
croft family from the year 1734*»
existence some few years a^o, and
sion of the Kev.'Mr. Holmes of
Suffolk.
Three larjie volumes of letters, •
private matters, addresse^l to Aj*
crofl at difl'erint time:?, arc in the lliuUiaw
lection (Nos, 3783—3785)*
In Dr. Ay9cough*B Catalogue (4223, 130),
Gawdy
a** S. V. ArBB. 2, '64.]
NOTES AND Ql
F
H pftpers left by Dr. Bircb, ore several documenU
H relfttlog to the private bktory of the Arcbbishop.
H About the year 1661, bU «bter Catherine lived
H with the Archbishop, fto that it h probable that,
H in that year, that Imj if as a spinster.
H Wyk?<e E. Baxter.
P coi
291
P
I
TacsT AHD TBUSTr (3'* S, v, 231.)— Your
correspondent J, €. J.^ who hoa taken under bis
epeciat patronage the new word — or would-be
word — reliable^ in order to obviate the objection
that ita use has been anticipated and supplied by
tniatwortMi/^ advanccil, in a letter to " N- k Q,"
some weeJcd or months q^o, the ingenloua theory
that " tru5t '* and its derivates are, properly,
BUiceptible only of a personal application. I pro-
tested against the limitation as novel, arbitrary
and untenable, and I cited Shakspeare. J. C. J.
replies in an article headed "Trusty: Trust, as
used by Shokspeure/' I waive all discussion of
** Trusty," bccauue it was not the equivalent sug-
gested for " reliable." Let us jjo to the root,
•* Trust." J. C. J. says that Sbakspeare uses
this word 120 times; that for more than one Lalf
of these he applies it to persons, and frequently
in the remaining cases to ihings whicb have refer-
ence to persons. J. C. J. considers swords and
other weapons to possess (poetict) a sort of per*
aonal existence ; and from these premises he con-
cludes that Sbakspeare^ though ** lie occasionally
disregards it," prefers his (J, C. J.*s) use of the
word ** trust"
With these assumptions, inferences, and re-
servations it is not easy to deal. Shakspeare's
prefercfice of the personal to the material appli-
cation of the word, if he be admitted to have
employed both, is too loose and conjectural a
thesis for argument. In the mean time, the word
is used by every one in its material sense a dozen
times a day. A man trusts or distrusts his watch,
his weather-glass, his wall, as it may be well or
ill built — his horse, as it may be sure-iboted or
otherwise, Sec. kc. ; and he does so in perfectly
cood English. The distinction is too fine to
handle* J, C. J. is much less nicely discriminate
in matters of neology, when he tnlks of **tlje
modern words reliance and reliable^** as if they
were parallel in date and authority, — whereas the
one is to be found in Sbakspeare, is used by
Dryden, Atterbury, Bolingbruke, and probably
S every great writer of the Knslish language for
3 last two centuries — whilst t^be other is, os we
all know, the newspaper spawn of the last ten or
twelve years.
I quite a^ree with J. C. J. that it would be
execrable English, even for the nineteenth cen-
tury, to say that " your honesty is reliable **
(though I am rather sur|}risctl that he should
admit it to be so) ; but to 5;iy *' your honesty is
trnstworthy " would be as good Victorian as
" ElirebeOiMi." X.
NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.
E$mif» tm the Adminittrationt o/ Grtat Britain from 1783
to 1830. Meprinttdfrom the £dinbur^ Review. Bjf the
Ht Hon. Sir George Come wall Lewis, Bart. Edited
hf Sir Edmuad Head, Bart. (Longmaa.)
Thoee who reineniber the very iuterestiag stries of
napers on the varioos AdmioUtratioos from the time of
Lord NortU, Lord Eockingharo, Lord Shelbume, the
Coalition, and Mr. Pitt, down to those of Mr. Caanioig,
Lord Godericlu and the Duke of WeUinK^ton, whicb were
from time to time contribated to the Edinbur^i Review
by that accompliebed scboUr and exceUeat man, the
late Sir George Lewi*, owe their beat thanks to Lovit
SlAOhope aad the other dlsi-erning critics to whoee sag-
gestioDS tber are iadcbtcd for this republicatioii of them
in a collected form. The articles are not so much a his*
tory of England during the period to which they relate —
a period of deep interest, and replete with ijutructioii —
as a commentary on the ministerial historv of that day.
isuch a commentary by a maa like Sir 6eorge Lewis,
who in addition to being aingalarly acute and Indus*
tnouj, and as aingularly joat and impartial, combined
|iractical ttateaiaaailiip with a pbiloaophical appreciaiioa
of the acta and motives of men, oiimut faU to rivet the
attention of historical students, and to be read with
advantage by alb la the present republication, the Es-
say s are given with manypajieages, uotes, and refer ences*
which, for want of space, were omitted in the JKdinhtai^
Rrview^ while a certain air of completf'ne&s is given to
the sericA by the additiou of au e.^cell{!iit Index.
TAe Bibiiographtrt Mamud of English Jjiteraturtt btf
WiUiam Thomas Lowndea. Nete Edition, reviwd^ cor*
Ttcied, and enlarged by Henry G. Bohn, I'art X.
(Boho.)
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labouraon the nucleua furnished by Lowndes; bnt, as bo
tells us, does not complete the work, as it ia to be followed
im mediately by an Appendix, which will coatain, inter
aliat a cnoipleto list of all the books printed by the Lite-
rarj' and Scientific Societies of Great Britain, This will
certainly be a most useful addition to Bohn's Lowndes,
vrhich if not perfect, it an enormous improvement upon
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8^&V. Aniu.9.'Al]
KOTES AND QUERIES.
393
LOSnOS. SATaSDJY, AfBTL ». WM.
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of Rf)bln Kood. 203— KXaXvce*
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Tir,
Bril.i*h Mtjiury — L'iiL^e Rowe, Ei<l-, iin Autlmr — Stum
fiotl — Dr, Jon&tb&D Wagslaffe, 297.
ij,. . —
EEPLI ES : — HerAldie Quwy, SOI — Sit uatton of Zcwir. /J. —
A^.. ' ■.,-, ^ .■•-■.,-- . ,--.-_
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— Arohbuboii HataLltuti — Toi*t, Towter, 4c,, 307.
Notoi OD fiooktt Ic
THE BIKTH-PLACE OF ROBIN HOOD.
The melancbolj caU^opbe &t Sheffield has
brought before the ejes of the public the name of
A river or rivulet called the Lorlcy, On neeing
thiit name in the Leeds Merctjrtf it iiiime»liattflj
occurred to iii<?, hns this river any connection
with the rejiuted birth-place of Robin Hood? I
ftt once turne<l to the Ordnance Survey, sheet
294, SIX inch scale^ und lht»re sure enough I not
only found the river Luxley, but a very smull
hamlet on its northern bank called Loxley also.
Now, is this the ** Alerry swett Lookaley town " of
the ballad? Hunter, in his Hallaimhire^ states
that within the memory of man the di&trict was
wboUr unenclosed und uncultivated; and he is
of opinion that it has '* the fairest pretensiouf to
be the Locksley of our old ballads. The remain*
of a house in which it was pretended he (Robin
Hood) wa« bora wej-e formerly pointed out in a
etnAlt wood in Loxley, called liarwtjod ; and a
well of fine clear water, rising near the bed of the
river, ha* been called Robin litK>d*ti WelL'*
The traditions respecting the '' mythical per -
§onafie*'aie still uoforpotteri in thiit district, for
within II quarter t»f a uitlu of thi:$ hamlet there is
% public'housc calt'id ** Robin Hoo<I and Little
Jolin ^* ; whilst u{>on the moors two or three
roil^'A In Iho norlhwost we find "Robin Hood'«
part of the moor is distln-
riounding wilderness by the
IWbLu Hood's Moss/'
A propoa of Robin, I may be allowed to make
the following remarks: —
Hunter conjertures, und nnf. without some de-
rt^f*** of plau-<il)ility, that Sir Richard atte Lee,
I Robin befriends, was a member of the
" of Lee or Leigh of IHiddleton, near Leeds.
11 >?ir Richard did go from Middleton on his
journey lo meet the Abbot of St. Mary's, his rood
would lay across the present Leeds and Wake-
field turnpike road, just about nt a spot where
*^ road crosses a bank spanned by :i ' '-
:nown by the nnnic of Robin Hood
*., . cd the whole dijitrict, now the site i^ ua^j.t
coul-piti, is called by his name; and if this was
the bridge where *Mh*?r was a whk ^ rnr " i^ it
not probuble that the kriight in hts l j^ave
the district (which would be Ms owri ^ ^ :/^ ita
present name ** for love of Robyn ilode it '*
Is there any evidence to warrattt un in stating
that the hill about three quarters of a mile north
of Wrenthorpe, near Wakefield, now called Robin
Hood's Hill^ was the scene of the battle between
Robin and the Jolly Plnder ? The hill in ques-
tion is near tbe Wakefield and Bradford turnpike
road, and the pinder in terms of reproach states^
" For you have forsflUen thP king's higliway> ,
And madD a path over the corn.^*
In the ballad relatinji: Robin's blrth^ breeding,
valour» and marriage, mention is made of ** Tit-
bury town," which, from the line " Where the
bagpipes baited the bull,** we are led to suppose is
a clerical error for "Tutbury,** the place cele-
brated for its bull-rinj^ ; but in a few stanzas fur-
ther on we are told that Sir Roger, the parson of |
Dubbridge, brought his masd-book, —
** And joyned them io marriage full fast"
Has tbe ballad*smithler in bis ignorance changed
Tetbury in Gloucestershire into Titbnry, and
then by a full use of the poet's "license" assured
us that it ehouhl be the present Tutbury ? Some
seven or eight miles from Tetbury, there is a vil-
lage now called Dudbridge, and if it could be
proved that a Sir Roger wa;* the officiating priest
at that place during either of the periods Robin is
said to have lived, it would go far to settle which
is really the correct one.
Robin s adventure with tbe curtjil friar in "fair
Fountains* dale *' appears to be commemorated by
the fact that the wood overhanging Fuunlaint
Abbey, on tbe south side of the Skell, i* still
called Robin HoikJ's Wood. In it, towards the
south*we«t end of the nbbey, there i^ a sprintf
calkd Robin's Well ; and the neighbourhood around
Ripon comprehends other places named at'ler the
pi»pular hero. One of his band is called Willi
Stutly, and is it not probable that he was a native J
of Studlcyt who joined Robin perhaps at the very j
period of bia adventure with tbe redoubtable
294
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8'«&V. Anii.9.14.
ALABARCHES.
In Juvenal (i. 130) this word, in the line
*'Ne8cio quis titulos iCgjptias Atone. ArabarcJies^^
is translated by Dusaulx chef eC Arabes, und he is
quit-e at a loss in his notes to furnish a plausible
meaning. But there is no doubt that the word
should be written Aldbarches^ the correction ^ven
in Cicero (Ep, ad Attic, lib. ii. ep. 17). It is so
found in Josephus {Ant, xviii. 7, 3, xviii. 9, 1,
XX. 6, 3), in Eusebius (JEcd. Hist ii. 5), and in
the *^ Epigram. Palladse Alexandrini '* (Brunck,
Analect, t. ii. p. 413, n. xxx). There is no ques-
tion as to its meaning for Philo (/it Flaccwn,
p. 975, or 528, Mangey,) uses as its equivalent
r€pdpxnf% chief of the people ; and Hug (Introd,
New Test § 149) considers it as equivalent to
ni^^ fiWl. Raish Oalvathf prince of the exiles.
So does Kaphall {UisLJews^ ii. 71), but he is un-
able to assign any etymology for the word (Uabar-
ches; and Milman does not make the attempt.
There can be little doubt that the terminal Apxnf
is Greek, and the initial, instead of a\ae would
probably have been in the same language had it
been invented by the Jews, as the equivalent for
ni^;i, galvath^ which in the New Testament is re-
presented by ittunropd (1 Peter i. 1; John vii.
35), and means the community of Jews settled out
of Jerusalem, either in Asia, of which Babylon was
the capital; or in Greece, of which Alexandria
was the metropolis. But the word is probably of
Greek formation, and instead of being Apxns '<«-
(Txopasy or iiaunropdpxrih the Greeks took, I con-
ceive, the Hebrew term, galvath^ ya\ae, pronounced
galavy and added tipxn^ forming Ta\a€ipxn^, The
Greek y was sounded like g in the German tage,
lagCy whence c>ur day^ kty^ approximately to the
Knglish y. Thus, yoKaidpxns was, I consider,
corrupted into ixaedpxns and by the Romans into
arabarches (Cod. Justin, 1. 4, tit. 61, 1. 9).
T. J. BUCKTON.
Lichfield.
JOSEPH HUME.
The general public would be startled at finding
this staunch patriot enrolled among the poets. It
seems ncvertneless true that his mind was at one
time, at least, captivated by the Muse, for there
lies before me the —
*' Inferno: a Translation from Dante Ali^hieri into
English Blank Verse. By Joseph Home, Esq., 12mo.
I^nd. Cadell, 1812."
It was long before I could believe that my
book was really written by the politician, but on
referrin*: to a Memoir of Mr. Hume in the Scotdsh
Nation^ I find it unhesitatinglv placed to his ac-
count. Considering this, therefore, a settled point,
I would ask if it is at all likely that at a later
period he did a little bi^ of satire in the same
rein?
Is he, then, or is he not the anthor of a tlun
12mo, of a square form, entitled 2^e Palace Oof
N h Built : a Parody on an Old English Poem.
By I. Hume. Neither place, date, nor printer ;
but having, as will be seen at a glance, reference
to a great squander of money upon the Pimlico
5alace by George lY. and hit architect Nash,
'he verses are iUustrative of nine caricatures de-
scriptive of the palace, and smack strongly of the
calculating propensities of the member for Mon-
trose.
For example: Parliament, it might seem, had
supplied the means for additions to the boilding;
these the caricaturist represents under demolition,
the poet singing their dirge : —
" These are the wingi which by estimates round
Are said to have cost Forty-two thoasand Poand»
And which not quite accordinfc with Royalty's taste,
Are doomed to come down, and be laid into waste.**
The last print represents an over-'wrought sod
dilapidated biped^ dragging a heavy roller, with
these concluding lines : —
** This is the man whom they Johnny Bull call.
And who very reluctantly pays for it all.
Who from his yonth upwards has work'd like a slaTt,
But the devil a shilling is able to save ;
For such millions expended in mortar and 8tone»
Have drawn corpulent John down to bare akin tai
bone;
And, what is still worse, 'tween Greeks, Turks, ui
Russians,
He'll soon be at war with French, Austrians, aDdi"^
sians.
But he*s kindly permitted to grumble and gase^
Say and think'what he yriW, provided he pay».**
But I can hardly put my question seriously, for
it seems the squib of some wag, who probahlj
founded his new version of an old ditty upon t
grumbling speech of the senator, and here holds
him responsible for its paraphrase in verse.
A. G.
APPLICATION OF GUSTAVUS ADOLPHUS TO
CHARLES I. OX BEHALF OF PATRICK RUTH-
YEN.
When I first heard that a translation of a letter
addressed by Gustavus Adolphus to Charles I. on
behalf of ratrick Kuthven (the same which is
printed in your 2°** S. ii. 101), had been found
among the State Papers, I concluded that it could
not have relation to the Patrick Ruthven so lone
a prisoner in the Tower, but to the other Patrick
Ruthven, who served for many years under Gus-
tavus Adolphus ; the same person who afterwards
transferred his military services to Charles I., and
was rewarded with the earldoms of Forth and
Brentford. But when I saw the paper itself, and
found that it made mention of Patrick Ruthveo^f
*^ hereditary honours," of the *' splendour of his
ancient house,*^ the ^* place and dignity of hit aa*
cestors,** and offered the thanks of his «* whole
8rd S. V. April 9, •64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
295
fftmilj** for munificence to be bestowed upon
them, and when I also found that by a contem-
porary endorsement the letter was ci^nstrued to
DC an application that Patrick Ruthven ^* might
enjoy the former honoars and dijirnity of his pre-
decessors ; ** and, finally, in aildiition to all this,
when I found that Mead, the news-letter writer,
mentioned a previous letter of GustaTus Adol-
phus in 1625, as an application that ** Mr. Buth-
ven,** writing of him as if he were some person
well known m London, ** might be restored to the
honours of his predecessors,** I concluded that,
stran^re as it seemed for the great Swedish hero
thus to interfere, his interference reallr was — as
it had already been concluded to be \>y Colonel
'Cowell Stepney — on behalf of Patrick Ruthven,
son of the thinl Earl of Gowrie. I was tbe more
especially led to this conclusion by the circum-
stance that the passages from the letter which I
have quoted above, whilst they fitted in most
peculiarly with the position and connexions of the
last mentioned Patrick Ruthven, did not seem
applicable to what is to be found in English his-
torical books respecting the other Patrick. Under
these circumstances I appealed to your correspon-
dents to refer me if possible to the other letter of
Gustavus Adolphus mentioned by Mead.
Writing lately in " N. & Q." in reference to
the letter of your correspondent J. M. (3** S. v.
270), I avowed that this was my opinion, and in-
vited J. M., if he thought he had any reason to
find fault with my conclusion, to communicate
any facts upon the subject to your pages.
J. M. has not yet replied to my invitation, but
I have now to announce to you that a recent
discovery of another letter of Gustavus Adol-
phus— probably that referred to by Mead — has
convinced me that in this instance second thoughts
were not best, and that the application of Gusta-
vus Adolphus was made, not on behalf of Patrick
Ruthven, the prisoner in the Tower, and the
father of Lady Vandyke, but, as J. M. supposed,
on that of the soldier of Gustavus Adolphus,
and the subsequent Earl of Forth and Brent-
ford.
The new evidence which has occasioned this
change in my opinion, has turned up, since I last
wrote to you, among the MSS. of the Marquis of
Bath, and by his permission I am enabled to lay
it before your readers. It is an original letter
signed by Gustavus Adolphus, and has been fur-
ther authenticated by an impression of hb seal. It
reads as follows : —
"Gustavus Adolphus to Charles I.
■*Nos Gustavas Adolphus, Dei Gratia Suecornni, Go-
thonim, Vandalorumq? Kex, Magnus Prineept FiiilaD-
di«. Dux Estonifl Carelicq?, nee non Ingria Oomintis,
Semiissiiiio tt Potentisumo Principi ac Dfio Domino
Carolo, Uagu Britamii«B^ FrandiB ac Hyberai« Bcffi,
Fidei detauorf, Fntri, Consangutnoo ot Amioo nostro
charisrimo, Balofim et ftUdtatem.
•• S«TOiijmin€ PotentiuiiMq^Priiiceps, Prater, Codmii-
fpunee et Amice chariaeiaM. Postquam intelleximus
Ser*' y* non siieo offeoMm tme fainili« Rithuanianw,
ildtnt minime sapersedendnm dtudmos, pro sincere nobie
dilccto ChTlUrcha n'ifltro Nobiii Patrico Ritbuen apud
Scr'tem Vnm iotercedere: Et aaaniTie noBquftin ani-
Bom iadnxiinaj ea refricare qam lonaa Ser'tis v'rie utatoi
adTtnari anthomantur , tamen cum Chjiiarcha noster a
naltis anais iam nobis fideliter •errieht, et per omnes
fluUtia grsdoa itttando iu m ^tmthu proot vinim nobi-
1cm tt maaortsm deect : non pctoimos noo iotermittere.
quia Scr^cm vVsm amice pciMafflaf, m iu Ser'tis v'rs
gratia patiatnr vitro, at in noetri f^ratiam prafir/minatnm
RethaiB et bonis aritis et honori rcatituatv aoi clenen-
tik eoadtm amplczctsr. Id ai sappUcaoa aMeqoatus
foeritv Doos aiba Donqoam magia foiaie propitioa i^oria-
bitor. Hiaca Scr. ITram Deo OpCioko maziau« animitua
commeodamoB. Dabantorc B««^ noeira StM;i(Lo.io4rnsi
die zxiv«» Xcnaia Jocij Abim X* IK* xxv*.
" S. V. Uabs fiater et oonaangnioeus,
'^GcVTATCt AMiLKUCS.
rAddKtted.1
" Dercniaaimo et PcKetitiawmo Priacipi ftc
Doo Doouoo Carols Maiput Britaiiout
Frsiidae ac Hybeniiae R^p, Fides DeHai-
aorif Fratri, Copwangninooot Amio»
Boetro CbariftUBo."
I presume it will not be contended that thia
letter can apply to any one but to tbe Colonel
Ruthven, who was knighted by Gustavus Adol-
phus, with frmr of his companions in arms, on
September 23, 1627, on the occasion of tbe receivt
by Gustavus of tbe emblems of the Order of toe
Garter (Walkley, p. 122).
This new "^find** compels me to withdraw that
portion of my letter (y* S- v. 270) which reUtes
to the application of Gustavus Aoolpbus, and to
confine it to the Lord Ruthven or the Ladiet'
Cabinet, If J. M. can show that that "right
honorable and learned chymist*' was any other
person than Patrick Ruthven, son of the thini
JSarl of Gowrie, I shall be r^ry much obliged to
him if he will ooD)municate the facts, with proper
references to authorities, to your fjageti. J'he
subject of these Patrick Rutbvens has evidentJ v
a Scottish, as well as an English side, and truth
will gain by bringing togetW the results of in-
quiries made on both sides of the Twe<Hi.
Jouff liaix'fc-
HsvBT Dbrkis.— On a monument in thf nnrlh
aisle of Pucklechurch church, co. (ilourmlrr, »
this inscription : —
i "la Xemoriam Johania (me) Dcnni* Arniticrii. pi,.
mogesiti et heredia Henrici Dennin Arm iff m, qui V(l ihi.
I Junjj, Anno Domini 1C38, ex bar yjta iIpi-mkiI, |hi«||||iiiiii
' ex uxore sua Marf^areta, Dni (>«Hir^ij Sprakn, «i» Whif/hi
I ackiogton in comiutu SoinerMM. KquiiiN lUlnri, «« nli«
. bus una, duoa accepit filioa. Johanncin miIih-i «,i Mm
ricum : E quibua Johanhefl Pfnnia tl(> Purklrrlnui \^ (Him*
PnJcherchurch) in com. (•loceatria* Ann. iluxii Mmmin.
Nathanielis Still, do Ilutton iu Coniiiaiu SiinriMi. Arm.
filiamm et coberedum unam; rx qiiA trp* aivrpit tlli*>*
et filiam unam, vis. Hcnricum, Jobannem, Itnlioimum, «'
Margaretam.
" Hoc qaod ait ^IdkTV TrcKy\««v ^-vV v^«\ce>f»*r
296
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8»*a V. APRii.d.'R
This inscription has led Rudder, Sir Robert
Atk^DS, and others, into numerous errors ; thereby
causing a generation, which never existed, to be
inserted in the Dennis pedijnree.
The Packlechurch register of burials states,
that "John Dennis, Esq. (father of Henry), was
buried 7th August, 1609;" and "Henry Dennis,
Esq., was buried 26th of June, 1638." This proves
beyond a doubt, that the inscription is not in
memory of John^ but of Henry ^ and should read
thus: —
" In Memoriam Henrid Dennis Armigari, primogeniti
et heredis Johannis Dennis," &c
It is also noticeable that the day of death is
^ven June 26 : so that if the monument is not
incorrect in this, Henry Dennis was buried on the
day on which he died. Samuel Tucker.
East Temple Chambers, Whitefriars Street, E.C.
Corpse : Dbfuib.— Dr. Trench remarks in his
Select Glossary^ that, whereas the word corpse was
once used in speaking of the body of a living
man, it is now only employed to denote a body
which has been abandoned by the spirit of life.
I find that Thackeray held the word to be of the
same value as did Surrey, Spenser, and Ben Jon-
son, as he tell us in the Four OeorgeSy 103, that
one of his heroes was found " a lifeless corpse^
which he certainly would not have done had he
looked only with modern eyes upon corpse^ and so
seen in it an equivalent o^ cadaver.
The old meaning of defend (forbid) still sur-
vives in Nottinghamshire. A few years ago I
heard a governess say to a round-backed pupil,
** I defend jou from sitting in easy chairs."
St. Swithin.
Thomas Nugent, Esq., etc. — Many British
subiects have, at various times, been honoured
with titles of nobility and other dignities by
foreign sovereigns ; yet, with the exception of
such of them of the present day who are noticed
in Burke*s Peerage^ there is no work in which
they are recorded. The contributors to *'N. & Q."
would perhaps give, in its useful columns, sucli
instances as they may from time to time meet
with ; and thus, a complete list may be eventually
obtained. The subjoined are ofTorcd as a com-
mencement : —
Thomas Nugent, Esq., "Major- General in the
service of King Charles II. of Spain, was by that
monarch created Count de Valdesoto, and killed
when deputy-governor of Gibraltar. He married
Margaret, eldest daughter of Hugh Parker (who
died in 1712, a;red thirty-nine), eldest son of Sir
Hy^le Parki»r, Bart. ; and by that lady, who was
cousin to the distinguishcl Admiral Sir Hyde
Parker, had one son, Edw. U. Nugent, Count de
Vahlesoto.
Austin Park Goddard, Esq., was a Knight of
the Military Order of St Stephen in Tuscany,
and married Anne, second daughter of the above,
named Hugh Parker ; by whom he had one diiugi»>
ter, Sophia, the wife of William Mcrvyn DiUoa.
Esq.
The Chevalier Laval Nugent, who died at Ids
" Schlops," near Fiume, in Aug. 1862, was a Count
of the Holy Roman Empire, Chamberlain of the
Empire, Freiherr in Croatia, and Knight of netrij
all the European Orders : the bare enmneratioc
of whose dignities would require da octaYO page.
Elk.
BuBiAL OrFEBiNGS. — The following cattisf.
from the Chester Courant of Sept. 26, 1 86d» rebm
to a custom which is, I imagine, merely a kiea
one at present : —
** Larceny of Buried Offerings at Denbigh, — Teitadv
week' Evan Davies, an a^ person, was charged at tb
Denbigh Police Court with having sttilen 8«. friNi tkc
communion table of the parish church, on Tbnnda.7tk
17th inst, such money being the offertory made npcDt^
burial of a deceased parishioner. Suspicions having bca
entertained of such moneys being abstracted, the recu
of the parish, the Rev. I^wis Lewis, on this orciRa
placed himself in a position, unnoticed by the canxnffr
tion, to watch. It was the curate, the Rev. TUmv
Thomas, who officiated ; and after the funeral proceuis
had quitted the church, the prisoner came inndp, i^
called out the name of the sexton. Price, thrice. Fin^
that there was no answer, he deliberately walked o;i
the communion table, and helped himself out of thr ne-
tributions at both ends of the table. Then he deor^
but was quickly brought back by the rector, ip^
being accused of the theft be imniediately adaim iu
and prayed for forgiveness. The prisoner pleaded gtffey.
and was sentenced to three months* imprison meat-''
I should be glad if any reader of "N. &Q"
would inform us whether this custom of huriil
oil'erings exists elsewhere at the present day. F.
Funeral Offerings. — The notes on loava
at funerals which have lately a])poared in jocr
columns bring to my recollection an old cu^tos
that exists in some parts of Wales (and elsewhere
for aught 1 know). In many parishes the parsoi
receives no burial fee, but when any one die s hij |
friends and neighbours, as ninny as attend thefuoe-
ral, lay their voluntsiry offerings on the communioo-
table for the clergyman. These being regulari/
inserted in the registers, form some guide to the
esteem in which persons were held by their neigh-
bours; for instance, no less than nineteen shil-
lings and sixpence was contributed at the funeral
of Mrs. Mary Hughes, who died at Aber, 1741;
and the rector of that i)Iace assured nie that be
onre curried off eighty- live sixpenny-pieces from
such an occasion. On the other hand, Martha
flones of the same place was probably little cared
fi)r by her iR%dibours, for a solitary penny wif
all the parson received for his " heavy task.
In connection with Aber, 1 may mention that it
is one of those secluded siK>t8 into^ which the Ge-
nevan custom of the parson's changing his dxtm
3»* S. V. April 9, '64.]
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
297
in the middle of the service h&s never reached, for
that indisputable authority "the oldest inhabi-
tant ** cannot remember a gown in church.
Jos. HAaQROYS.
Clare Coll. Camb.
^uttM.
"Abel," Oba^bio of. — Can J. R., or any
other musical antiquary, say who wrote the words
of Abelj an oratorio ; to which Dr. Ame composed
the music ? M. C.
Geobge Augustus Addehlet. — Will any of
jrour readers who have access to old arnoy lists
inform me of the rank and regiment of deorge
Augustus Adderley : in 1792, he is supposed to
have been major. Is this the case ? If so, what
regiment ? and when did he quit the army, and
what was his rank then ? He was son-in-law to
the last Earl of Buckinghamshire. T. F.
" Aubea VIWCE5TI," ETC. — On a stone formerly
over the fireplace in one of the chambers at Ham
Castle, Worcestershire, is the following inscrip-
tion : —
** Aarea vincenti detar mcrcede corona ;
Cantat et seterno carmina digna Deo,**
together with the arms of Jefierey — 3 scaling
ladders. The stone is now preserved in the hall
of that place. Can any of your correspondents
explain from whence such on inscription is de-
rived? ThOS. E. WiNiriKOTOH.
ANEBoms. — I have two aneroids ; their move-
ments are identical. My position is nearly 800
feet above the level of the sea ; and yesterday,
for instance, I registered 28*90 by both, which,
according to the usual rough calculation would
represent 29*70 at the level. I find, however, by
The TiWtf report, that the barometer, correctedy
showed 30*13 at Liverpool on the same date, and
about the same time. A few hints to a tyro in
meteorolo^ on the subject of this correction
would oblige. I should add that I am not fifty
miles from Liverpool. L. ilL
March 17, 1864.
The Ballot. — I have read, I cannot remember
where, that Burke, speaking of the Ballot, said,
" Putting three blue beans into a blue bag will
not purify the constitution." I cannot find the
uncouth expression in any of his speeches on
constitutional questions, but shall be obliged by
being told whether it is his or some other writer's.
C. P.
Bbbch-Dboppings {EpiphegUB Virghuana,) —
Can any medical man give any information re*
specting the medicinal properties of this curious
parasite f It grows as a parasite on the roots of
beech trees in Canada.
I find the following description of the plant in
the December (1863) number of The British
American Magazine, published at Toronto, Canada
West: —
** Here, in this ^ood* is an odd looking plant : a naked
and slender thing, with stems which are never covered
with leaves, but bear nothing more than small scales in
their stead. It is called ' b^ch-drops ' (^Epipheffus Ftr-
ptntitnia), and grows as a parasite on the roots of beech
trees. In October the plant is fall of life and vigour : the
stems, which have been hard and brittle the summer
through, are now tender and succulent, and shoot out
many branches. The flowering season is scarcely over ;
but the flowers being small, arc not readily found. It
bears the reputation ^poneuing medicinal virtuti"
So far for this quotation, which creates curiosity
without satisfying it in the smallest degree.
Now I happen to know some of the virtues of
this valuable plant. It is used by the Indians for
curing hemorrhoids. An acquaintance of mine in
this town, who suffered terribly for months with
this most weakening disease, for which he could
find no relief from the medical men of the town,
was entirely cured by a farmer s son with this
plant — the use of which he learned from the In-
dians. As I understood him, he boiled about a
handful of the stems in milk, and drank a small
quantity two or three times a-day. The cure
was effected in two or three days ; and years have
passed since without any return of the disease. A
medicine of such power may, no doubt, be useful
in other cases of congestion, I trust, through the
medium of " N. & Q.," tbis note will attract the
attention of some medical men in England. I
shall be only too happy to afford any further in-
formation on this subje'ct, either through the post
or ** N. & Q." J. W. DunBAB Moodib.
Belleville, Canada West
" The Chubch op oub Fathebs." — Who was
the author of two verses of poetry that appeared
some twenty years since in a Portsmouth paper,
and said to be written at that time by a distin-
guished member of the House of Commons. It
IS entitled, " The Church of our Fathers," and
commences thus —
" Half screened by its trees in the Sabbath's calm sniile,
The Church of our fathers, how meekly it sUnds." •
Who was the author of the following, and how
many verses does it consist of. Where can it be
seen? —
"THE cnURCII.
^ Oh ! doth it not gladden an Englishman's eyes.
To see the old tower o'er the elm trees rise? "
A Chubchman.
Lieut. Col. Cotterell was, in 1648, governor
of Pontefract for the Parliament. He was pubse-
[• " The Church of our Fathers " appeared in a iwri-
Odical entitled The Churchttuut^ i. 94, ]2mo, 183'), where
it is sisped R. 8., and was copied into The Church of
EngUmd Magazine^ iv. 32.— En.]
KOTES AND QUERIES.
[S^aV. araa.1^1
quently employed on militurj service in Scotlanrl,
and seems to have bet'n in that kingdom in 1 657
(CUrendon; Boothroyd's Poni*fract, 248, 261 —
263* 267 ; Drake's Siegeji of Ponie/ract, 84—90 ;
Conmwm JourtuiU^ uh 497 ; Whitelockei 527* 561,
582 ; Baillie's Latters and Jtrnnmht iii» 225 ;
Niekolls*fl State Papers^ 130). In no instance do
I find his Chrittian name specified. I shiill be
thankful to any correspondent who can supply it,
or furnish any other jnformatiou about him,
" Fea8T of the Despots." — In what volume
or collection of recitatioos may this piece be
found ? It commences —
** There were thrde mQaarchs fierce and itronf?."
W. B.
The gkeat Italulk Pokt. —
" The great Italian po«t who described Cimabue**
gioT}' as eclipsed by GiottOi and Giotto*s by Guido» and
iaid ihat anoibor and greater Guido would arii«, has been
allied a prophet by ihofie who wish to 3atttir succeed ing
painters, and Carlo Dolce and Barrocchio hnve been cam-
plimented ai second Guidoa. Mere poetry baa heen
turned into prophecy, aB the soutbt^ru crosM of Daotc, and
the diacovenr of Anaerica of Seneca."— TAowN^Atj on Pro-
phtcy and For^mmkdge. London, 1736.
** The great Italian poet *' UiJually means Dante,
Kut he could not have seen Guido*s pictures. I
flhdl be ^lad to have the [wsfliige pointed out to
me, and also that in Setteca. C. P.
** Tmi HouBE THAT Jack Bt;iLT."— Who was
the author of thb " Nursery Rhyme," and if it
was, as has been said, a political squib, to what
circumstances does it refer ? J. C. H,
Thomas Mobe Molyxeux. — There was pub-
lishei] at London, 8vo^ 1759, ** Conjunct Expedi*
iions; or, Escpeditions thai have been carried on
jaintltf by the Fieet and Arrmf, with a Commentary
on a Littoral War. By Thomas More Molyneux,
Esq/* The work is not mentioned by Lowndci or
Watt* The author was second son of Sir More
Molyneux, Knt., by Cassandra, daughter of Tho-
mns Cornwallis, Eso. He represented Haalcmere
from 1759 till his death, Oct. 3, 1776, «et, fifty-
three, and was a colonel in the army.
Ill Brayley & Britton's History of Surrey f i.
415), he is called Sir Thomas More MolyneujE,
but in the pedigree (418) the prefix of Sir docs
not occur.
Was he km'ghted, and if so, when ? 8. Y. K.
Majsachusetts SroNE.^^Vljere can I find a
description of the Massachusetta atone in the
United States, fv^hich I am informed has ancieiit
Runic characters inscribed upon it ? Have any
attempts l>een made to read the characters or
hieroglyphics on the ruined temples in Ci-ntrHl
America and Peru, and what has l^en the re*iult ?
H. a
NORTBAMFTONSHIBE iNHAIIlTAKtll or Cw.t|
Extraction. — Ten or twelve jiiJin ago it
there appeai-ed in The Times newspaper a \
graph stating- that the native inhaUlani* of (
midland parts of the county of Northampton i
generally dark-haired, and were suppo^c^i u» I
of ancient British origin. The subject bcti^i
of considerable importance in a phvsio
and ethnological point of view, I sbAlI f
obliged to any gentleman who" will fu
with a transcript of the parap-apli in qu«stidtii
the date of the paper in which it ar *
any inibrmation corroboratiYe of sucu tti
A,]
Pit anp Gau-ows, — When was the lail i
stance of the punishment of death betn^ i
by the baron in Scotland under powers of '|i
and gallows " before hcrediUiry jurisdicuoof <
abolished in 1748? J.ll|
Timothy Plain. — In the Scats* Ohrtmikkl
to 1800, inclusive, are a aeries of letusrt i
Edinburgh Theatricals^ by Timothy Flaiai«
lected and re-printed at EdinburgUk IliOOjl
Geo. Chalmers says it waa the ntym de i^
A writer to the signet ; perhaps aome
dent can tiaiae him.
Rev. William Komaine, M.A.^ nLarr!e«l(
Price in 1755 (Gent:s Afa^.y 1795» p, TftiJ
any reader of ** N. & Q." state, and will i '
stating, the Christian name of ftlists
giving some account of her parents or i
some refcreuce where to find any ruch i«i
herP* Gt
Komano-Bbitish Mokst. — Iq J^lr.
Brandreth*s Ohsereatiom on the
StycoM^ I find the following passage : — '
** Among the coins meationed by Batt«]tfy ae
been foaod at Rocnlvorf and cnllefl liy him whhvk
ttMumL are some which wei^h U^i^n ttieiiieet*^"
part of a Roman dnichui. 1 he h«a«l« U tr
mam emperon, and are m«a , *\ njLi-iL ^\*^
baa beeo found at Reculvisr iu lui
Lbey hear no legend, and were mo-
Britons and perhaps by the earlier ibu^voa^^ ui tuut«i>*
of thu Homun money."
I will ask such of the readers of ** N. & Q*
who are acquainted with these money a» what c^
perors' beads appear upon them Y
Perhaps the whole pus^agc afu^r all \» oolf i|
careless assertion. Somelhfng of the ii4Ib« ksall
has appeared in print, touching the laie RoiBia|
discovery in Gloucestershire. C%
CuBn<E Bowif, Emih Aif AirrnoK. — ^I Ibid a I
the will of this gentleman (dated Ui-I " " ro, (
E»sc]t, August 10, 16l*l*)t meut(oo n-
[* Mra. Kotiittiuu dif!
barv, Oct 4, l«ui. ^L
p. 1NJ6.— Ed.]
r
1^ 8. V. Ana. »,
NOTES AND QUERIES.
books, vtz», Fire uprm the AUar^ and a volume of
poemi entitled Ourama. At tbe time of the tes-
tator's death, these books were npparentfy in the
printer's hands, nnd arc spoken of as being " in
sheets/' I should be gla/l to know whether they
were ever published, and if the author's nume
was attached to them. There can be no doubt
from the terms of the will that Chejne Rowe wo.^
hiro^lf the author, though it may seem somewhat
0tran^e to find in such a quarter undoubted proof
of the fact. Cheyne liowe was third son of Sir
William Rowe of Ili^hamt and ^randgon of Wil-
liam Rowe, by Anne, daughter of John Cheyne of
Cheshara, co. Bucks, C. j. R.
Stum Rod —
" Like an lies, he [a scholar] wears out his time for
provender, and can shew a ttum rod^ io^m trilam ei lace*
roMi. siith Flsdas, no oM turn i;nwn, .in enslg^n of tiis fell-
*:ity. '^—Burtoin Anat Met. 1, % 3, J 5.
AVhnt it this ? J. D. Campbell*
Dr. Jowathaw Waostaffe. — In the Gentle*
maii» Mafftizim for February, 1739, there is a
paper dedicated to the Lord Den in Ireland, the
object of which is to demonstrate that the rela-
tions in Air. Gulliver's voyaffes are no fictions.
The writer signs himself Jonathan Wagstaffe,
M.D. Who was this Dr, Wagstaffe ? He dates
from the Inner Temple^ and he speaks of himself
as being a member of the University of Oxford.
But the internal evidence leaves little doubt on
my mind that Dean Swift was himself the writer
of the paper. Was Dr. Jonathan Wajystaffe re-
lated to the undoubted Dr, William Wasrslafie,
whose name appears in the List of the Colle^re of
Fhysicians ? Or was he the representative of the
more mysterious Dr. William WDfr^taffe, whose
personal identitv has been discussed in your
columns? (3'** 8. i. 38 L) Perhaps your corre-
spondent D. S. A. could throw come light upmi
this point. Mbletbs.
^urrtr^ toftfi ^tuRDtrif,
FojfT AT Cbslmoetok. — Can you inform me
of the meaning of an inacription on an ancient
octagon font in an old church at Chelmorton, co*
Derby, said to be the highest site of any in Eng-
land. The church was built in the twelfth cen-
tury, and on the eiffbt sides of the tbnt, in old
English, are the following letter®, preceded by a
kind of cros*» query a T. No*. 1 and 3 are some*
what alike, but in the first the upright h longer,
and the cross-bar much lower :
^ 0 t 4 it i t m.
W, H, E,
[W« should hart wioch preferred a nMmif. Thaaking
our Corrrtpondcnt, bowevtr, for aach parttcalars «i he
hai hmn tkhU to supply, we tffer a conjectoral ititerpro*
tation i nabjfct f»f course to auth ameadm^nti as may be
suggested to competent jadgei, byacttaal inspection and
examination of tbe font itself.
This being an " alt round " inscrrption» we are dispoiad
to take the »oc«iid t barred higher than the fint, aa an
initial and terminal cro$t ; thmt «, as one which marka
the beginning of tbe inscriptiont and its end at the sama
time. The iafcription wtU then stand thus : —
tf f t tf I m t a -I-
H Pro wo think it may be fairly ooojeottirad that tbo
five conscciitWe letters —
tf I m t a
are the framework, or skeleton, of
Che/morlon,
which is the name of tbe Chapelry. The r» as often in
old inscriptionii may have been omitted. Or it maj
have been represented by a lloarish over the m (^),
overlooked by the copyist, perhaps obliterated by time.
How $ shootd hold the place of the initial C% of Cbet-
morton. may perhap4 be explained on the SQppotitioii of
diversities in spelling, such aa commenly occur in iho
old names of places. Or Sd-, by use, may have hardenod
into Ckel'.
Granting tlmio (or tltklo) to be Chdraorton, the rest
i» easy* Let it be only borne in mind that Chelmorton i»
a CbApelry of Bakew-ell (in Domesday book Badeqvella),
and ihy whole inscription may be read thosi —
lS\ th\ tflthta I •>-
.Sacellttm ) £'cclesie de badeqvella [ Che/morton ( 4 .
That Is, " Chapelry of the Church of fiakewell, Chel-
morton. ^ "
Should it be objected that Chelmorton, according to
Pilkington, was formerly Chelroerrfon, which pots our t
out of court, it may be suiticient to reply that, though
-morton may at some former period have been -merdoup
yet still -morton also ma}"^ have been on old spelling.
Thus another place in Derbyshire, now called Morton, in
Domatday Book is MoEtTVKB, not Mordone or Mordon ;
so that the t may be fairly permitted to do duty, as a
const! taent part of Chelmorton.]
GsAMMAR OP THE Gat Sctewce. — The con-
ventional jargon in which Dante, Petrarch, Boc-
caccio, and othera wrote, must have its key some-
where, and a Grammar of tbe Gay Science is
most likely extant. The inquirer is by no means
a linguist, but, having access to one of the beit
libraries, he wishes to know what early English
poets, or writers, were in the habit of writing in
an exoteric and esoteric manner. He would nlso
be glad of any hints whereby he can be led to
trace the Grammar of the Gay Science*
B. I. C. E.
[The "Gay Science/' in Fr. "Gaic Science^" in Roro*
''Gayn Sciwnsa," '* Gaya Scien^** and sometimes ** Gay
Saber," in its hirgest sense meant poetry generally ; more ,
piLrticuUrly and more frequently, it signified the poetry
of the Trout>adours ; and in a tivt^t^ «^«6a\. ^ascM. <«ft52^
300
NOTES AND QUEBI^S
[»«ay. AnuLS^'si
their erotic poetry. See Bescherelle, ed. 1857, and Stip-
plement to the Eneye. CathoUque. The following are
examples of the two phrases, as used in the Romance : —
" La presens scien^a del gay $aber**
(The present kno\^ ledge of the gay science)
" La foos d'esta gaya iciensa,**
(The fountain of this gay science.)
" Doctor en la gaya tcienga,^
(Doctor in the gay science.)
A short grammar of Romance may be found in vol. i.
of Raynouard's Lexique Roman ; a longer in vol. i. of his
Poesies des Troubadoun; but the most complete work on
the subject is F. Diez*s Grammatih der RomaTiUcAen
Sprachetit 3 vols. 8vo ; the Introduction to which Gram-
mar has been translated by Mr. Cayley, and published
by Williams and Norgate, who are about to publish the
same author*s Romance Dictionary^ translated by Mr. T.
C. Donkin. The best account of the Troubadours and
their writings is that given by Diez in his Poetic des
Troubadours, Svo, 1826 ; and Lehen und Werke des Trou-
badours, 8vo, 1829. But our correspondent will probably
find all the information he requires in the late Sir George
C. lewis's Essay on the Romance Language, 8vo, 1840.]
" CoLiBBBTi," &c. — Can I be informed what
species of villenage is indicated by the term colU
hertusf In the Cornish portion of Domesday
Book, I find that the canons of St. Picran held
Lanpiran, and that dutB temt had been taken
from it ; which, in the time of King Edward, re-
turned to the canons **firma iv. septimanarii.'*
What is meant by " firmam quatuor septimana-
rum'*? There is probably an omission of the
word acra in this passage.
Thomas Q. Couch.
[The learned Dr. Cowel, in his Iauo Dictionary, fol,
1727, informs ua, that " these Coliberts in civil law were
only those freemen, who at the same time had been ma-
numised by their lord or patron. But the condition of
a Colibert in English tenure, was (as Sir Edward Coke
asserts) the same with a soke-man, or one who held in
free soccagc, but yet was obliged to do customary ser-
vices for the lord .... They were certainly a middle
sort of tenants; between servile and free, or such as
held their freedom of tenure under condition of such
works and services ; and were, therefore, the same land*
holders whom we meet under the name of Conditionahs. —
The " Firma " of so many " Septimans " is supposed by
Du Cangc, who refers to Spelman and Sclden, to signify
so many weeks* provision or maintenance. " Firma noctis
pro coiiia, ut firma diei pro prandio: Firma denique]7
septimanarum pro pastu tantidem temporis videtur usur-
pari." It mii^ht, however, be commuted for a payment
in money. W«» find also the phrase " Firma unius noc-
tis " in the sense of one night's provision or entertain-
ment for the king.
It appears to hare escaped our modem lexicographers
that the idea of «* firms," a firm, in connection with that
of maintaining or provieioning, has not yet disappeared
entirely from our language. Thus, when a contract is
iftade for the " finding" or proTiiioninif of a wtnba i
persons, this is sometimes called "farming them nl'*
Oonf. the old English word '^flmne,'* food, m maiL]
Quotation. — Whence are the following lintt!
** Where is the man who has the power and ^ill
To stem the torrent of a woman s will ?
For if she will, she will, you may depend on*t;
And if she won't, she won't ; fo there's an end onV
F.ca
[The authorship of these well-known lines has alnadj
occasioned some discussion. In Shakspeare we find !■>
tonio thus addressing Proteus : —
** My will is something sorted with his wish;
Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed.
For what I will, I will, and there an end."
Two Gentlemen of Verona^ Act I. 8c. S.
Similar lines occur in Sir Samuel Take's p1^, Tk
Adventures of Five Hours, Act V. : —
** He is a fool, who thinks by force or skfU,
To turn the current of a woman's wilL"
Aaron Hill, too, claims two of the lines in his Eptiip'
to his play of Zara : —
" A woman will, or won't, depend on't;
If she will do't, she will, and there^s mn end on't:
But, if she won't — since safb and socind jov tn«i
Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice."
The lines, however, as quoted by oar corrMjpMdot
occur on a pillar erected on the Mount In the lisi/idi
Field, formerly called the Dungeon Field, CsBtslvrrif
we may believe the Examiner of May 81, 18J1 ^i^
act of gallantf}', we hope some Kentish antiqaarrirS
tell us what misogynist placed these intrasiye liBei s
the pillar at Canterbury.]
James VI.'s Natural Son. — Who wm Ae
mother of King James YI.'s natural son, who w
the father of the forfeited £arl of Bothwell mes-
tioned in Old Mortality (edit. Edinburgh, 1816)'
No ScAXDAJb
[Sir Walter Scott's genealogy is at fault. The latkr
of the forfeited £arl of Bothwell [Francis Stewart] «»
the natural sou of James Y. In Douglas's Peerage, br
Wood, i. 231, we read that " John Stewart, prior of 0>
dinghame, natural son of King James V. by KHystp^fc,
daughter of Sir John Carmichael, captain, of CrawM.
afterwards married to Sir John Somcrville cf Csnbef-
nethan, obtained a legitimation under the great ssil
7th Feb. 1550-1, and he died at Inverness in 1568. Ht
married, at Seton, 4th Jan. 15G1-2, Lady Jane Hepboit,
only daughter of Patrick, third Earl of Bothwell, and by
her had two sons: — 1. Francis, created by James TI.
Earl of Bothwell. 2. Uercules."]
" CUBONICLE OF TUB KiNGS OF ErQULXD **
(1" S. xii. 168, 252.WThe name of tho aatim of
this anonymous work was inqaired afler, mad Mi
answered. Some time ago, I bought a oopj df
the work called '* Trifles" (of which ^bttT
icle forms part), by K. Dodsley, of a
'
8^ 8u V. April 9, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
301
second-hand bookseller. Underneath The Chrfm->
icle of the Kings of England h filled up, in hand-
writino: " By Lord Chesterfield." Bj whom this
was written, and on what authority, I know not ;
my copy of the work is dated 1745. D. W. S.
[This work was attributed to Robert Dodsley in our
1«< S. xii. IfiS ; and is entered under his name in Bohn's
Lowndes, p. 657, and in the Catalo;juo of the British
Museum. It is also printed in Dodsley's Mitetllanies, or
Trifles in Prose and Feru, 2 vols. 1777. The Economy of
Human Life has frequently been attributed to the Earl
of Chesterfield, See " N. & Q..*' !•« S. x. 8, 74, 318.]
ISitpliei.
HERALDIC QUERY.
(3'^ S. V. 241.)
Certainly " the brothers or other relatives" of
A have no rijjht to the arms granted to A and
his desc<M»dants. I know the case of two families,
one member of each of which obtained a grant
of arms to himself. The other members of -the
families never used those arms. The case of A
is illustrated by the cxampliis given by Camden in
his Remaineft concerning Britain (London, 1657),
p. *i21, H scqq. under '* Armories." These are
examples " touching th(i granting of arms from
some great Earls, and passing of coats from one
private person to anotlier all before the re-
duction of the Heralds nnder one regulation."
That is to say, before the Crown interfered with
the property and liberty of the subject ; an inter-
ference which has ended in our day in the adver-
tisements of " Arms found," and " Heraldic
Offices."
Camden*s first example is a gift from " Humfry
Count de Staff, et de Perche Seigneur de Tun-
brigg et de Caux" to Robert Whitgreve, of the
arms still borne by that antient and honourable
house. I preserve Camden's spelling. The Earl
says : —
** Sdches que nous ... Iny avoir donne et donoos par
icentes presented pour memorv d'onneur perpetuell, au-
portre set armes ensigne de I^oblesse un Kscue de Azure
a quatre points d'or, quatre cheverons de Qules, et luy de
partire as autres persones nobles de mm linage en deieemt
avecques les differences de Descent au dit blaxon."
This is dated " Le xiii jour d* August, I'an du
rcigne le Koy Henry le Sisme puis le Conquest
vintisme."
Next, in the fifteenth year of Richard II.,
Thomas Grendale of Fenton grants arms which
he had himself inherited, to William Moiffne, ** a
ces hehres et assignes a tons jours." And Phomas
de Clantowe, chivalier, transferring his arms to
William Criketot, ** consanguineo meo,** in the
eleventh yetr of Henry IV., adds, " et ego prw-
dictiu Thomas et hmedes mei prisdieti, arma, et
juseadem gerendi, pnefato Willielmo hcsredUnu
et atsignatie suis, contra omnet gentes Warrantiz-
abimus in perpetuum."
But in som<» cases a grant has been made re-
trospective. I have before me a copy, transcribed
by my own hand, of a grant made by Sir Isaac
Heard, Garter, and George Harrison, Claren-
cieux. This assigns arms to the petitioner and his
descendants, and authorises him to place those
arms ^ on any monument or otherwise in memory
of his said late father." I do not know how old
this practice is ; but it is plainly a way of acceler-
ating, by one descent, the period at which a family
becomes a family of *^ gentlemen of blood."
*' At this time," says Camden, having men-
tioned in the preceding clause, " the siege of
Caerlaveroc, the battail of Sterling, the siege of
Calice, and divers Tourniaments," — " there was a
distinction of Gentlemen of bloud and Gentlemen
of coate-armour, ctnd the third from him that first
hafi coate-armtmr was to all purposes held a Gen-
tleman of bloud."
And such a grant as this of Sir Isaac Heard
might easily place the whole issue of the father in
the rank of armigeri. Here the petitioner was
an only son. But supposini; such a grant to be
made when the deceased father had left several
children, the terms of the grant might be so varied
as to give the ri«rht of using the arms to them all.
If, however, the grant only specified one out of
several children, and the issue and descendants of
that one child, then, I presume, that not even the
permi-ision to place the arms "on any monument
or otherwise," in memory of the father of the
grantee, would imply a right given to the other
children to carry those arms. D. P.
Stuarts Lodge, Malvern Wells.
In reply to J., on reference to an old document
issued from the Heralds' College, granting and
depicting the arms and crest to be borne and used
by an ancestor, I find this paragraph : —
" To be Iwme and used for ever by him the wiid T. B.,
and his de!4ce^daot^ and the d«»'cendunts of bis late
father deceasetl with due ami proper differences
according to the laws of Arms," &c. &c.
If the foregoing is, and has been the usual
wording of such patents, I am inclined to think
that it IS so comprehensive, that J.'s brothers and
their descendants would be entitled to use the
arms and bear the crest of those grants to him-
self, " with due and proper differences."
T.C.B.
SITUATION OF ZOAR.
(3'«S. y. 117,141,181,262.)
I fear that the hypothesis of E. H. — that the
Hebrew word tcitfte«i**'^^ta;" \si^^\v.Txi..'ifc>
302
NOTES AND QUERIES.
{[8«iS. V, AC
IS more accurately a ** mound or ridge;*' and that
IrOt's wife was actually turned into the ridge of
Kfaashm Usdum — is not withrmt its difhcuUies.
L The word in question, netsib^ h derived from
a root natsab^ which has simply the force of
*' standing," "being fixed;" no idea of beig:ht,
length, or breadth, or any other quality apper-
taining ti» a ridge or mound, is present in the
root. (See Geseniu8*8 Lexicon; Fiirst, Hand-
wiMerhuch^ &c., &c.) Netmb itself, besides mean-
ing a pillar or column (souiething set up)* ban a
secondiiry meaning of an officer (one get over) ;
«nd aUo, though this is uncertain, of a garrisQii or
military post (see the lejcicons as above, and
'* Garrison,'' in Smith's Diet, of Bible),
•2* It seems less suitable to the biblical narra-
tive to f^uppose that Lot's wife was turned into a
ridgCt which is nvnre than five miles lon;r, a mile
or st» wide, and 300 feet lii^h (see Smith's Dict^
ii. 1180), than into a column or statue nearer the
«i*e and proportions of the human fi;:^ure. Sueh
columnar fra^cments appefur to be in the habit
of iiplitting off from the Khashm Usdum; and do
actually suggest to those who sec them, even in
our own day, identity with Lot's wife. (See the
quotations in the DiW., ii. 144; also, iL I ISO).
3. la it so certain, as E. IL aj^sumes, that the
neighbourhood of the Khashm Usdum was the
scene of this catastrophe V I am aware that nuc^h
U the general opinion ; but the question of the
site of the "cities of the plain*' has not yet re-
ceived the consideration which it deserves, and I
obnerve that the latest inquirer, vir. Mr. Grove, in
Smith's DicL of Bible, t\. 1339-41, and 1856-7,
brings forward some reasons which are not without
Jbrce for believing that these cities lay at the
north, instead of the south end of the lake.
4* Khashni Usdum can hardly be said to be a
ridge of salt, in that strict and literal sense in which
E, IL accepts the narrative of Gen. xix. : since
the rock'salt, of which the bulk of the mountain
is formed, is mixed with other strata, and hfis a
capping of a marly deposit of considerable
thickness.
5* How far is it necessary to take the narrative
of Gen. xix. as a literal Riatemcnt of fncts? Are
we bound to believe, historically, that a torrent
of burning sulphur was poured down from the
sky at a temperature sufficient to jgnite the walls
and houses of the town* ? Or may not this be
merely the impressive imagery, in which a writer
of those early times clothed the fact of the ftnal
doom, which ihe luxury and recklessness of the
inhabitants had, through more natural means,
brought on tlieir cities* ? Such raodet of speech
are in every day use with orientals* The Jews of
Monnstir, within iho last few week*, in language
which mitdit be thiit of one of the author* of the
Pentateuch itself, describe the conflagration which
dcHtroyed their city — ^ueunflngration produced by
the most ordinary means — a» " fire fram Ihssvol*
(See their letter to Sir M. Montefion:!*)
Travellers, even in our own day, ofUo ^jtA
of the burnt calcined look which perrwlo tk
fihores of the Dead Sea, as a renu ' ta
of the catastrophe in which the *
sumed. There is every reason to tj«.*ittve
the appearance in question is therc^ as eli€wh
due to entirely natural cau^'ceii. It is alao \
recognised, as our knowlt^dge of the »poi
the subject increases, that the Bible tloea not ^
mand that the formation of the Dead Sem wh i
any way connected with the destrtjctmci nit
cities ; and that its formation dttfes frv>tn an i
long anterior to the historic period, (See J
Diet., ii, 1 187. 1308,) If, even in our own ^
tnriil agencje« have been thus super naturally
preted, suruly it is not unreasonable or trrv^f]
to ask if they may not have been ^imilarlf m
preled in nn earlier and less critical m^; fll]
if the statuescpje columns, which must i
many centuries have been pcriodtcaUy Eptfttii^l
off from the Khaifihm Usdum, may not^hatvi^l
gested to an early Hebrew poet the imp
and profitable apologue of Lot's wife. O.L '
Xot only the authorities already quoted ttt ^ '
first and second centuries of our erm atlot 1^
eAisteuce in their time of "the jdllar uf ^i*i«
many subsequent historians and traTelkn^ os
up to the present day<, profess to hnv^f iMsU
it in some outlying fragment of the KhaflA^t^
dfiiii, or Jebel Usdiim, According to Kabbnioi
tradition, the name of Lot*s wife wa« HeU
(signifying ** witness "), given to her in jadka^
forecast of her terrible destiny, and tbe pqiai
nence of its testimony. How it came Co endor^
with all the memberjt entire^ is curioualr oainMi
by Irena?u8 (iv, 51, 64); but the crideiies ii
more than dubious on this point, the Hefcrft
word denoting rather fixation than form : and fi
is probable that the unbelieving lingerer ^wmg $9i-
denly destroyed by the rushing lava behiw* m^
showers of sulphurous salt^ from above enYv^kitiiid
the charred body in a sha|ieli ■ ' • t-
coraiuj; an isolated object upon : :,^«.
LSut ihe very nature of the tnui ,,» uoet^
sarily yield to atmospheric n^i tnav hi
also to the destroying hand of l....... ,, ^ao<j|j4 pf»-
served by a miraculous intervention, of whidi •«
have no authentic record, Riu fiMr< m.^tTirtciii
pillar wa>* in tact 600 yen ruafr or 1 md
X. 2), but there is no allu&ion in , t^
permanence of the "pillar of *iiitV iiriort tit
iniliction of r» fi*>rr rloom upon Sodorn atTd Qt^
raorrah, thi 'ound '*the vii' Nm,
which i^ i!i ,/' wen* Intth ^
fruitful ((i en, .\ a. J And* > » oitar*
ward they seem to have »u 'fj^^ 0^1
prosperity according to bUaijOj >vUu
I
I
i
NOTES AND QUERIE&
303
numerous villages buOt of the rock-salt, or toIc&iuc
debris, in tbe vicEnitj of the Aspbaltite:^, tben, as
now, termed by tbe Ambs (Edomites) Bubr L^t,
tbe Sea of Lot.
The proximate or physical causes of sterilitf
throughout the niedtfeval East Are in every in*
stance tbe same ; and tbe restoration of priroitiTe
fertiUty depends on wells and irrigation, or an
industrial appropriation of the substratal %irater,
in the present day, just as it did 4000 years ago
in tbe days of Abraham and Lot.
The information in Smith's Diciimiary is inter-
esting and erudite, yet unsatisfnctory ; and I
rather expect, from a more careful peological re-
siearch» that we ahflU discover in *' the testimony
of the rocks ** the only genuine clue to the an-
cient sites of Zoar and the cities of tbe plain*
In the salt mines of Cracow there is a rude
isolated block, somewhat reseniblinr; tbe human
figure, which the superatitioua people believe to
be tbe actual ** pillar of salt " into which Lot's
wife was metamorphosed.
The uiorid of that ttanding monument ofanufi'
Mieving Jtout (Wisdom of SoTomon x. 7 ) was truly,
though qtiaintly, drawn by Thomas Joixlan two
hundred years ago in his fancied inscription : —
** In tliia pillar I do lie
Buried, where no mortal eye
Ever could my bones descry.
When I »ftw great Sodom bum,
To this piUar I did turn,
Where my body is my nm,
Tom, to whom my corpso I show,
Tftko true wurning from my woe —
Lovk not back, when God cries * Go.*
They that towani yirtoe hie.
If but back they cast an eye.
Twice at far do' from it tly.
Counsel then I g^ive to tbote.
Who the p&tli to bbss have chose,
Turn not back, ye cannot lose.
Tbiit way let yot>r whole hearts lie;
If yo let them backward fly.
They'll qoickly grow us bard as I.**
J. L.
Dublin.
PDBUCATIOK OF DlARTEa
(S'"» S. V, 107. 215, 26L)
Since Peofessob De Morgan's memory fails
tbim, I must now further state that, neither in the
communication olluded to, nor in any other with
which t have subsequently been favoured, did he
I ever expresn any ^* wii^h''* that I should make
•* amends" for»*Mjy own de6ciency" This i» a
new id*»tt which was only fjiven to tbe world on
March 26, IHCA, I was totally ifrnorant of having
committed any otf'ence by the piiblpcation of Biir-
row*a journals, until the moniing of Christmas
Day last ; when I accidentally turned to tbe article
•* Tables" in a copy of the EHglish Ct/chpisdia,
in tbe library of a friend. Tbe scurrility from
^* K. & Q»" is there reprinted, together with the
implied charge, which has now become expanded
into such large dimensions. I expressed my sur*
prise in a letter to Ma, Db Morgan shortly after,
and informed him tvhere the journals could be
inspected. Tbe weapons with which I am now
assailed have, therefore, been famished from my
own quiver.
The Howe c^ase, it appears, is still standing
over { but since part of tlie charge only U now
enforced, the rest ought to be abandoned on the
ground that, when Burrow speaks of Howe, be is
venturing an opinion on things which we know he
did not understand; but when he speaks of
** mathematics and mathematicians,"' we know that
he understood a great deal about both. The
testimonv In the two cases, therefore, rests upon
very dillerent foundations. We do not put ma-
thematicians into the witness-box in order to give
evidence on questions relating to the efficiency or
non- efficiency of naval commanders. Were such
a thing to be attempted, " ne autor ultra crepi-
dam " would soon be urged with efiect by some
modern Apelles in the garb of an opposing
counsel.
I urn not to be deterred from attempting my
own justification by the threat contained in the
fourth paragraph ; but will certainly prefer giving
the allusions myself, rather than trust to its being
done by an opponent who only selects ane in-
stance in illustration from ** the last page of alL"
In tbe Philosophical Magazine for JMarch, 1853
(p. 18G), I stated broadly that Mr. Burrow a
"supt^riority in geometry" did not enable "him
to subdue his natural irritability : for, at various
periods of bis career, he had differences with
almost every person of eminence with whom he
came in contact.*' In the same page, bis " special
education '* is slated to have been " in advance of
his general." His "antipathy to Dr. Hutton,"
and his quarrel with Dr. Maskelyne, are also
noted. Further down, I propose to " select '
some passages from his journals for preservation,
" accompanied by such reraark;* as may serve to
render the extractji intelligible." On p. J 87, I
place the expression — ** Hutton, by-the-bye, docs
not know how to make an Almanack "—in italics,
as a caution to the reader not to interpret the
prt^sage literally; and *y\\ pp. 188 and 189, the
snme caution is repeated when I direct attention
to the surmise, that '*Mr. Burrow, it seems, would
have had no objection to 100^. a-year from the StJi-
tioners' Company." In a previous extract he had
charged this Company with giving Dr. Hutton
this sum, in order " to st^op his mouth," — and this
is also given in italics on p. 188. His motives in
assisting to establish Ciirtiatv\ DiaLT^> ^^ ^^«^
304
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8»«S.V. AnxL^.'Si
questioned by me on the same page ; and p. 190
contains my expression of dissent from what Mr.
Jones is stated to have told ^fr. Robertson, rela-
tive to Hooke's penurious habits.
In p. 51J, of the June number of the same
magazine, I agnin italicise one of Burrow*8 me-
moranda — ** take the rest out of the Ephemeris."
And to prove that his practice did not accord
with his professions, I remark that he " knew how
to make an Almanack, whatever might be the
defects of Hutton and Maskclyne ." On p. 517, 1
state that *' Mr. Burrow's opposition to Maskelync
does not appear to have rested on good grounds,
and there is little doubt that many of his sup-
posed injuries were merely imaginary. All wno
arc acquainted with the writings ana labours of
this astronomer-royal, will not place much credit
in such depreciations of scientific character ns are
exhibited in this extract ; whilst the fact, that the
mutual friends of both parties disapproved of Mr.
Burrow's views and conduct, affords strong pre-
sumptive evidence that Dr. Maskelyne's proceed-
ings arc not represented under their real charac-
ter." P. 520 contains a quotation from Mr.
Swale's memoir to the effect, that though "his
heart was good," yet his habits were not justi-
fiable ; and I may here add, that 1Mb. De Mor-
GAK*s pet phrase respecting " excentricities of
genius " is due to Mr. Swale, and not to myself.
Wc all know that genius is Komctimes excentric ;
and timt it occasionally flashes forth in pmu^ by
way of <li versifying more serious discourse: al-
though it must be admitted, that the poitit of the
satire is sometimes so excessively ^«e, that nothing
short of a high microscopical power can show it.
On p. 5'20^ I note an ebullition of temper on the
part of ;Mr. Burrow, and distinctly state that his
language is such as to *^ render it necessary to
suppress a portion of the journal at this point."
The next page contains another caution, in italics,
respecting what is said of Dr. Ilutton; and the
motives attributed to Dr. Bliss are noticed as
seeming ** scarcely sufficient to account for his
opposition to t he publication " of the catalogue of
Mr. Jones*s library.
The September number of the Phil, Magazine
contains Mr. Burrow's account of the causes which
led to the loss of the " Royal George ;" but I pre-
face the extracts by the remark that, " if literally
true, [ihey] do not convey a very pleasing im-
pression of the state of naval discipline at that
period." The " Howe case " follows next in order ;
an(l it Is now, perhnps, remsu-kable for the grave
omission, which 1 imlicated by dots towards the
bottom of p. 198. Probably, Mr, Burrow only
gave permanence to the sentiments of the officers
by whom he was surrounded. History tells us
that Lord Howe and his brother had been some-
what unfortunate in America; and they were
consequently undergoing the ordeal of an excited
public criticism at the time ; bendes, the Fnsd
fleet was expected in sight every bour. There is,
therefore, some excuse for Mr. Burrow's hirA
expressions ; although thev may be pronomred
as being unworthy of the sfigfateat attention. Bit
will the fact of his having dr.iwn erroneous co^
elusions as to what a naval officer ongbt to hxn
done, or might have done, under certain circnp-
stances, serve to invalidate what the same ic*
dividual may have written on other subjects ? 1 1
venture to think I am not reasoning illogiesL' I
when I affirm the contrary ; for in f£e one cv^
he knew absolutely nothing, bat in the &is
he knew a great deal respecting those msttes
upon which ue gives his own opinions, or tte
of others. I have served more than an o*
prenticeship on the juries at our Assize Coor^
and have taken instructions from some ef ti^
ablest judges on the Bench ; but was never ts
directed to reject a man^s evidence on snchs-
tenable grounds. "We may now dispense witi^
that is said in " the special-pleader case " of i-
" Man versus Private Smith,'* inasmuch s ^
cases are not parallel. Both lo<^ic and comf
sense are here at fault, and the promoter of 7
case is left without even ** a halfpenny-woir '
umbrella" to cover his position. My last u.-
sion is that given by Ma. Db Morgan himfdt z
his recent reply, and need not be again r»i.'«i
I have now given " ail I can find " in tbewip*^'^
caution and allusion ; and as they are & tt'*4e
by myself, I will leave my readers to '^-K*^-
whether or not I had anythinpr to fear frnm t:-
threatened exposure in case of denial. I '^^r
there will be no "ambiguity" in what is a--'
stated ; but I will leave to my opponent the i»si
of explaining by what process in logic I am ex-
pected to find *' more if I can," after " alP U
been reprinted ! This appears to me to be worn
of a place in some " Budget of Paradoxes.** s:-
as such I commend it to its author. I pass or-'
the syllogistic form, "every Y is Z," by siaij
denying the major: for we have knowledge tiu
Mr. Burrow was a com|)otent witness, anJ -■
known credibility, in matters relating to ''matbr
matics and mathematicians." All the rest is
simply an attempt to create matter for furtbe:
discussion. Both in "N. & Q.," and elsewhere.
Pbof. Df. Moegan has evidently been building
"great gates" to very ** small cities." Ereir
attack upon me has been made through a maze «)<
special pleading, and a " world of verbiage ;" bat
I do not suppose he will thereby induce man? to
join him in my condemnation. The cautioas
which I have so liberally scattered will, I hope,
fully plead my justiGcation ; nor can I repret
having fallen into the common '* error of bio^*
phers/* in suppressing improper or irreleTant pis*
sages. Were biographies compelled to be written
after the model now proposed, the profits of boA
8«« S. V. April 9, *64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
3<»5
publisher, bookseller, and author, would rapidlj
dinoinish. Prohibitory clauses would soon find
th'.'ir way into *^the last wills and testaments"
of eminent persons, and the present generation
would witness the last bsae of sueh works from
the press. T. T. W1LK15SOS.
Ihimloy, Lanea^bire.
CROMWELL'S HEAD.
(3'« S. V. 119, 178, 264.)
It may be " anything but ;rood taste," whatever
these words may imply, for me to u«o tho phrase
" Wilkinson head " to designate that particular,
alleged head of Cromwell, still, I need scarcely
hay that I did so without the sli'ihtest idea of dis-
respect to Mr. AVilkinson, as all who have ever
heard of the Chandos Shakspeare, Medicaean
Venus, Hastings diamond, or any other like-de-
signaied and much-valued object of nature or
art, must be well aware. Mr. Wilkinson, we
are told, con.«i<lers his head of Cro:ir.VL';l to be a
rare and valuable riilie, consequently ha cannot
object t«» have his name connected wiili it ; if he
were ashamed, or had reason to be ashamed of it,
is quite another afVair.
One word, now, aljout a suliject, intere>tin;^ in
itseUi that has been dru;rg<:d inro this head-stnry ;
I allude to Cox and hi:> museum. Cox was an
eminent jeweller, silversmith, and mechanician of
the last century. ^A'hen there was a prr)spect of
the interior of India being opened to British en-
terprise, he marie a number of curious mechanical
toys, of the richest materials, hoping to sell them
profitably to the Indian princes. AVar prevented
the sale of these articles in India; they were
cpiitc unsuitable for tlie European market, and
Cox, as a (Jemier rcsxort, exhibited th'.iu in Sj«ring
Gardens. The insecurity of property at the pe-
riod compelled him to take the strictest precau-
tions to guard his treasures ; only a few persons
were admitted at a time, twice in the day ; the
charge for ailmission was half-a-guinea ; so, as
may be imagined, poor Cox made little by his
enterprise. In 1773, Cox obtained a i^rivnte Act
of Parliament ])ermitting him to dispose of his
museum by lottery. The schedule attached to
that Act, containing a list of the things Cox was
thus allowed to dispose of, is now beiore me, as
well as two different Catalogues of the contents
of hid museum, and there is no mention of a
CromwelPs head in them. In short. Cox's Mu-
seum, though a noted collection in its day, was
the very worst, the mo.st unfeasible, place, that
the concoctor of a Cromwell's liead story could
possibly haye fixed upon. There was nothing
vulgar or Barnum-like connected with it. It
consisted, wholly, as described in the writings of
its period, ** of cxquialta and magnificent pieces
of mechoniBm and jewellery."" In th^e days of
-.::r\. c-.-rr.
l^ cf z .1
-.1 *;.vcr zv.i
:.jLLu ''.i
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r; . "a tn2«.
I, ::^r ver a
zrari'j cas-
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L-:.» .j'.iL.r.':
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T.-*: -»:.. ■-■ -
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.f :Le .'■ k.
r-i:.: :he
" Great Exhibl:i'jns," a re'jospective j;lin. j at
Cox'* Museum may have sutEv'.^at interc-t to
merit a place her^r. I Take at rjindom. on peniaz
the Cat.i^zue, •• Tiecl the Fobtt-*eco!«d — .1
Casre of .•^V-.^'-V.j" -'">■/• " : —
" It is r ^.1'. \ -:' 7. a •:..?'
iC'l Up:4 )a2u. . «■;: in iriT.*
g«.'lii; orna'.r.-rLl-ri w::;. !"..... ^
\*ith tropiiici ir.i f.:.-..y iij
?uppjr:e-.i i: l^i fyj.: .-.: ,\-.s '.
fron: tv an c!-: ^jh: T:. . :
b>!LMbat rlc^'^ -.Y.zzz^^. ir.i
The doors in fror.:, when -r*;
cade of artinciai Tra:*r filiicj
fre^h sCreanu are :-«:arc»i -L -v:. ir^ :.•
up by Trlt'.z? •:-: ii ::.-.:r -K
mirrors, J'\j,lk\ :a :h: ■ ivi::^? .f
trhole, ani r«i?r ih* -TfT.t ry. .;: p:-=-s*'r_'!v -..r T-.i.ir.s".
Upon a SBMrlj j:.*'irr«*il -:ia-is a cm* •:( ::. ■.'rrr.sra',.f
riL-hrie>ii anl beaatv. Cjmto^ti y: j.-. 1. - .*•:.". . -•^■.•. :::>,
anda^aie; ;: i» ar-.^ri'i: :"r.::i 27. ■:'rziz: -r.-.'.-:. -ril
piaii wrou^Lt :a y..V'.: a:. I j '. „ w.:.. i:. ■->.•.-:..:.
truly m-'-ti.-r'.y. I":. :-.r :L: •". r-: f ::.' -_-.■ =.■•''.--'
b: rl* are F>--:*:n zz- '.:.?.; .r. '.:.i r.S:.' i-:r.:i : --• :
bJri-i fri by ibr :] '■•rrz .n !:.^ .-.r't. .■:- i-r -•:=•:!
pi'-kinj fmit an-i ri/xtr-*. Lf. ri ::.•? i- ,•- .* ■•. - _ .:■
riay iiiu«ic:il .l'>:k. tr;'i: cii'.T.*:-. -::."•:■-. i" : ; ■-r-*.-, --l-.
two iiiils. -r.rj. 1: th-v :iz..'. -'-1 •-::'. • i :..'. u-. - yj
mo:;- n to V :::!■. al -v.r? ::. -■^r! ■■-". A-.^. ■■::.: '.'. \
a Itmri!-.- of ara**?, •;.'. rz.-:\ v.i*.*.' -.Wiz-. r -:'-.i: 1:,
orrani'.rls •/ j-.-l : ar: : '-.■•Ar.>ry : ::. f' ■•.: :V':r: i- :h
repr r^^ritation of a b .1=:. \si\'.\ i :;;..:. i •:.-'•'. :*:....'
ai.il o:ii- r j'-..-': ^ t. jr-.v ;:: t.j':: r.. Ai-'.-v-: '.•.■: \::i.\,.
is a hex^jT-.r.rJ yiv.I;. n. :'; li.* '.■■:.•.:-.' 'A -.:.:■•. '.-.
doublt v«-r?i'-iil r'.ir. !*:^.^^:^.3ti: j: w:i:i a h.z^*: •::% :;
»r, th.i! -f'^'T.' "•/ *-3:i^r. ! it? : .:*.-. W.i'.v
yj.flrj .:i-:i--.:f::«}j. a!!
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.-pfral motfo:
f_rr..f:l ifv.rr.
T 3
■:r*:
ih^
bi;is :■> tv^:ry X::.U ■,: ::.■: :.:5-r-::.t :ur.^- th^y »::.", *».:■».
are bf'th daeta ari w/io^ tir:#n-..r:if!y 7nfcl-,-«*l'/u-. *.•; :-•■
ociver'sai a4t'in:ahir.ent «.f :Lr: a- i-: cs."
'J he fifty-six " pieci-i,*" vaiu^d ai 107.-''/^/.
C'«!P.po*inj Cox's Museum, w^r^ all i^f a sirr; .u'ly
rich and rare charai.-trr. The L'.-a'l |,r!z .- in ;:,•:
lottery was a pair of diamond ear-rir.j-. m :•; lor
the Enopress of RuBsia, and v:;lj';d a*, iy.'.'/'^.
Cox wa-s not merely an injer.io'j- n. *:'■:. ^:.'': : ''*?
wa? probably the fir#t of his Tr:id»; in Kri:;!.i:»;i who
•tudi^d artistic effect : and he enii/'-y^-'i l\*>\.f:^*tUi.
the sculptor, and Zoffany th- :i;ii:»'Tr, t» liiukc
desir;n>> for his works. The preaiiible of the Act
of Parliament states that •* the painter, tb-: irold-
smith, the jeweller, the lapidary, the •culntor,
the watchmaker, in short all the lib';rul arts haTo
found employment in and worthily co'>perated "
to Cox's Museum. Truly, one would no more
expect to find a Cromwell's h^a/l in such a collec-
tion, than in tlie SufiirrK-r J'al;i':e of I'ekin, wh'rr«r,
curiously enouirh, rlieri: w.;re found, at the laV;
plunderinj? of that imperial residenc, several re-
markable sp'?cimens of jewellery and m'^r^hani-m
bearinrr the name of James Cox, Jeweilor, 10:j,
Shoe Lane, London, for in that now comuv<»^v-
place locality did Uv\a wA)«\m\tv«^\A?rA^\^N."^'^^
ingenloua vxnial <indL\ wA wen ^>^ Vv8.\^>^'«^^^'^-
NOTES AND QUERIES.
The Act empowerinfr Cox to dlnpose of his mu-
seum by lottery receive*! the royal iissent by com-
mUsion on June 21, 1773, and on May 1, 1775,
the drawing corameDced at Guildhall, " when
No. 57,808, dmwn a ,blnnk, -was, a* first drawn
ticket, entitled to 100/."* Among the annals of
lotteries this is a memorable one, a man having
suborned one of the Blue- coat boys to conceal a
ticket, the fraud was detected, and gave rise to
much litigation f ; this, however, is beyond my
subject, my object being merely to show that
Cox's Museum was dispersed by lottery in 1775,
and consequently was not in existence with a
CromwelTs head in it, as incautiously alleged by
T. B., in 1787 (p. 180).
T, B* believes that " no such lecture has been
delivered as that referred to by Ma. Pikkbhton,**
and yet, in the next sentence, he says that — *' It
would be ft pity to drag the name of such a sim-
pleton as the lecturer before the public.'* I do
not know the name of the lecturer, for I have mis-
laid the newspaper cutting which gave an account
of it ; but I may have a shrewd suspicion as to
what the initials of the simpleton {the word is not
mine) are* The writer in the Phrenologictil
JoufTial^ whose name — T ac!knowiedge my error —
is Donovan and not O'Donovan, partly corrobo-
rates my " piece of pueriBty " in relation to the
lecture, thus : —
** It was decidedly s round head ; and, indeed, when
the CavalkM bentovrtd the nioknamc of * Roundhead* *
upon ihc sourer fanalicA of the opposite fv*- - "'m y
were iiueon^ciously giving utterance to a ; il
fact — A pbilonophicAl truth co«V4l with the • ti-
jHtitntion of maiu"
Whatever difference of opinion there may exist
between T* B. and me as regards CromwelVs bead»
1 think he will now agree with me in considering
that there are more simpletons than one in the
world. And I may add that ** the sourer fana-
tics,** being practical men, and totally ignorant of
the beauties of phrenology, did not recognise this
"philosophical truth coeval with the cerebral con-
stitution of man/' as the followiniij title*page of a
work now before me amply testifies : —
** Caveats for Aiiti- Roundheads. A sad Warning to all
mtlif^iiant Spir;* *^ ^ |^|m fgftifu] Judgementa that
fell on several r speakin;^ contcinpttioiiily of
Rcmndheadfl, i [des of fimrfal Jndg«m«(}is vn
profane and roaligtuiiit i?pirit«» who reproached true Pro*
ttttanta with the name of Koundhcads, London : 1642/'
1ft justice to Mr. Donovan^ I must state that
hta account of the head is the only one I have
feen deserving of any attention. He tells us
ihftt the corunul region has been sawn oft' and
replaced. Of cour?*i? it had been taken off, in
the operation of embalming, to remove the brain,
• (JmfV Mtiff,
t S«a GnL'i Mag, aad^nn, iZfyuKr fiw Mvitia fiar-
Uculan of the «• Mufwio Lottmy.**
and replaced afterwards. But it b neaUv rtr
that not one of the believers in the Wilk
head has ever wondered how this small, \tm \
piece of skull has been preserved during' thr mn^
rude vicissituiles the head has pa?- jh— i
the rais^ing from the grave, identil : db I
body, the dragging from the coffin, the Lanirin; j
on the gibbet, the chopping ulF of the head* tb 1
spikingf the long position over Westminster HilL I
the blowing down, the hurried grasp of the j
in a dark night — wonderful, mi racri' ^^\
afler all this contvemptuous buffeti t nii |
region is still in its place! — **Cre<jtii. *jui;
Apella." Thewildest legend of saintlr relic t
pale its ineflectual fires before the WilkiiiaoR h^ |
of Cromwell*
T* B., aa a proof of the genuine cKaradis ^ I
the head, says, ^' it is not offered to ua bj a i*
man to make money, nor bv any enthm
antiquary " — an observation* however un
mentary to antiquaries, no doubt strtctlj
The relic-collector is not an antiqujirj,
sense of the word ; the old race of mid
tiquaries has utterly disnppearetl, arch
become a science, and most of its darker ]
can be solved with nearly matbemattcal <
N'o antiquary, on the evidence addoctd, (
for an instant entertain the idea that tlifl
WQS Cromweirs. Simple common-seuM il*
without any antiquarian acf^uirementii, m^
sufficient to decide the question in thi*^*^
If the head be that of Cromwell, accorda(ifi^
showing of its advocates, it must havc> l«a«^
grave ^r about a year and a half, it thm W«|
upon a gibbet for a day, and next ft s^mf^ j
upon a spike over Westminster Hall till tJie ^Bm
end of James the Second's reign, when H *i
blown down, through the wooden pole thai fif
ported the spike becoming deeayetl. Noir, <» i
tinues common -sense, no head could have vit^ '
stood the summer's sun and wint4^^*a etorw ^ I
twenty- eight * years in this variable elimnt?, ^
bo ultimately capable of identification,
was embalmed — tanned even if you w i
if it had been carved in the very stcme *if C< ^
great building now adjoining Westminatisr BA I
the distinctive features would, in iwefify^cMl
years, have been completely obliterated* It ri^ I
is pitiable to read of an nrgument (p. \%0) «l* I
tempted lobe founded on the colour of hair ate J
a bleaching exposure to tV » - -— r |^
eight year*!. Itut the ai^mr re
by T. B. When I conclu,. '■
Bate*8 pout mmrttfrn report on tl
" At tbt« lowrst computation, fbf
ihjit thf^ bca.l wA3i hlo\w: iffiwn in th# gT^af iX'fmii\
I .
tku
«nytiitng about Cronfiwtir* head.
^.•64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Ibalmed head could not be that of Crom-
dve the »8toundin;T repl/i thnt the
I** no doubt einbalnied before death*' 1 1 •
I of getting aside Dr. Bate*8 eviderjce is
Swivelier would have called " a stag-
ad 1 CAU ooly reply in the words of
. . The times have beeoi
1 the bruiift were oat, the man would die,
I an end/'
^that (be ca»e u altererl, —
utautur, not et mutmnur in illiA.**
rseriouslj. I flatter myself that I
Bj d)SfH3&ed of the Protectoral preten-
'. Wilkinson head ; and I shall buve no
' of it, as a bead of Cromwell. But as
meaiia an ordinary head, as it bas a
us 1 1- agi -comical bi^itory of its own, I
F future period, with the pemiisaion of
tidce the liberty of letting Mr. Wil-
pw whose bead it really is that he poa-
WUXIAM FiNKJERTON.
CONTSIDUTIONS TO ** N. & Q-"
^.y — Doubtless the names of some of
ibutors give weight to their communi-
t In some instances, such would not
and the anonymous contributors them-
be supposed to be the best judges, I
St that the value of all contributions,
lymous or avowed, would be greatly
h contributor giving, when pr^c*
tbority upon which bis statements
I that any reader may have the oppor-
.isfying himself of their correctness or
y, and of judging what weight is due (o
Anonymous and unsupported statement
if little, if any, value. J.
Ition lias two sides to it. The anonymous
Ay eontaiDed, or nearly contained, in
1. Those who have a feeling — a
Uig tlian a reason — against being known,
ho have a reason, either in their official
their relations to the facts they state,
)se who write with their names when
to give the authority of their names,
ily desire to avoid giving that autho*
they feel that their knowledge of the
not juhtify them in employing their
Suence. If it were a certainty that all
i would comnmnicate, in any cusc'i
perhaps be no harm in pressing pub-
Ihem. But the real question h i\\U :
Binion gain ground that all comrauni-
it to be tinymous, wouhl those who
lite anonymously atid their names, or
sWp of tlic pen for " before buriaJ," and
lkaT9 bteti corrected.— En.}
would they cease to communicate? I suspect
that a majority would choose the second alterna-
tive, to the great disadvantage of the work. The
anonymous communicator has no authority until
he gains it by the value of bis communications :
this is one of the arguments adduced in favour of
avowed articles. Is this really in favour of avowal,
or against it ? The answer is one thing for one
reader, another for another : it depends upon the
manner in which authority is allowed to act. It
must be remembered that so far as a note or re-
ply is only indicative or suggestive, it matters
nothing what signature is employed. On the
whole, let things remain as they are : and I give
this recommendation the more confidently because
I am persuaded things will remain as they are,
whether or no. It is always in the power of any
one who has a good reason^ to communicate that
reason to the contributor through the editor, and
to ask the contributor to allow himself to be
privately named. From the notices to corre-
rndents, I should judge that the editor himself
s not always know who the contributor is. If
so, I should certainly recommend the adoption of
the plan followed by many newspapers, which
never print anything without being in private
possession of the writer's name. * ^" ^'
A. Ds MoBOAii.
Qdotation (3'^** S. v. 260.) — I have a reference
to the quotation from Euripides, which runs
thus: ** lirdpTTji' i^(tx*ii Htii^ffif ic"<rM«/* (3f«/., fr.
xjt. 1); but not having the complete works of
Euripides ni hiind, I cannot verify it.
J. Eastwood.
[We are greatly ohligccl to our corre«poDdenti end,
avaiUng ourselves of the duo which he has thus aflbrded
us, hare found the posaago from Eoripidi^s aa cited by
Stobicaa, xxxix. 10 : —
" Bvf>tniBov Tiihtipat,
On thia paBMge Wagner reiuark9, in lib tragmenia
£uripitiis^ ** AgamemnoDem loqui liquet* — Priniuin vm.
qui in proverbium abiit, prJtheiit etiiim PluL iJv Trtm^,
Ah. 13, Dt Exni, 8, Cic. Ad AiL iv, 6. L 8q., H Dioge-
m'an. viii. 18, sed printer Diogeaianum Tai/rov pro Ktiyrjt^
babent," Since writing the foregoing, we have received
the following coramunictttiona from Mu. Da vies and
A.G. S. of Oxford.]
W you have not received any other communica-
tion, furnishing your readers with the whereabout
in Kuripides of the above famous proverbial ex-
pression, I limy direct them to the 29rd Fragment
4»f the TeUphm of Euripides (pngo 112 of the
Fragments at the end of the Patta Sceuici Gr<£ci
of Dindorf, ed. 1830). There I find two dimeter
anapfests —
'S.wdfnfitf *AaXf t * nfiynv itiafLti,
Tat ik MuK^Far i^fTt tSta.
308
NOTES ANP QUEBIES.
[8^*8. V. April 9. "Si.
which may reasonably be supposed to be words of
Agamemnon to the younger Atrides. They are
cited from Stobajus, 37, p. 226, and occur in the
Collection of Proverbs, by Diogenianus, cent. viii.
18. I have not Plutarch's MoraUa, but probably
the passage from Plutarch would be found there.
Dindorf says that the proverb 'S,w<ifnriv ^Aaxc;, K.r,\,
is to be found there, p. 602, 6.
Jambs Banks Davus.
Moor Court, March 28, 1864.
" Iwdfrrav cAaxer* Kciyav jc^/ict*
Eur. TelqM Fragm, (Cf. Fmgm. Trag. GnBC,
Nauck, § 722. p. 461. Leiptig, 1856.)
Erasmna (Adag. p. 638, ed. Wecfael, 1643) ieemB
to think that they were the words of Agamemnon
to Menelaus. [Cad. Aurel. Tard,, 4, 9, init. —
" Cum nulius cupLlitati locus, nulla satietatis spes
est, singulif Sparta jwn sufficU sua. Loquitur de
viris rooUibus, qui propter libidinem nonnullis
corporis partibus ob8C4?ne abutuntur."]
The proverb seems to be derived from a use of
the Greek word (nripm\, -ijy, which meant a rope
made of a kind of broom (FunU sparteus). But
funiculus (and the Hebrew ^M) ^^ "sed to sig-
nify a portion of land measured by an extended
rope ; and hence came to be applied to land lefk
to an heir. And so the proverb means, that every
man should adorn the station of life in which he
is placed, i. e. be content with that station. So
Hieronymus {Ep, 2, ad Nepotian.) says: "Si
autem ego pars Domini sum, et funiculus keredi-
tatis ejus, nee accipio partem inter ceteras tribus,
habens yictum et vestitum, his contentus ero."
This is the explanation given by the dictionary
of Facciolati and Forcellini, s. v. ** Sparta." There
are many forms of the proverb, all of which may
be seen by a reference to the passage in Nauck s
Fragm, Trag. Grcec, (Cf. Cic. ad Att., i. 20, 3 :
"Earn quam mihi dicis obtigisse Iviifnav, non
modo nunquam deseram, sed etiam," &c.)
C. C. C. Oxford.
Elma (3'«> S. V. 97.) - Lady Elma de Ruse is a
character in Miss Hawkins's Countess and Ger-
trude, published early in this century, therefore
the name is not of recent fabrication. I suppose
it is the feminine of St. Elmo. I think it occurs
in BlomfieUrs Norfolk. F. C. B.
Hugh Beaniiam, M.A. (3"» S. v. 212, 271.)
We wish to add to our reply respecting Hugh
Branham, that he was matriculatea as a sizar of
St. John*s College, Cambridge, Nov. 12, 1567,
proceeded B.A. 15G9-70, commenced M.A. 1573,
and became B.D. 1581.
C. H. & Thompson Cooper.
Parish Registers: Tombstones and their
IN8CRIPTION8 (S^ S. iv. 226, 317 ; v. 78.)— It has
been well said, by a writer of another natioiu '^le
meilleur moyen d'intdresser les vivans, c'est tf itre
pieux k regard des morts." Englishmen have
never been indifferent to the memory of their fore-
fathers ; and the su^^gestions and strictures of your
correspondents will meet, it is to be hoped, with
that attention which the subject mooted by tfaem
so well deserves. Universal concurrence on die
part of individuals is scarcely to be expected;
but the good will shown by Mr. Hutchqksov will
no doubt be followed bjr many others. Still the
subject ought to be considered a national one, and
taken up in the spirit which led Sir John Romillj
to propose the puulication of our national records,
a most patriotic proposal, which met with lo
ready a response, and has been followed by lu^
valuable results. And let not the work be con-
fined to one part of the empire, but embrace Scot-
land and Ireland also. Surely among the readers
of" N. & Q." there will be found some M.P. who
will submit the undertaking to the wisdom of
the legislature, and leave no means untried for its
adoption. Scorri.
On Wit (S'^ S. v. 162.) — Pope, in his Emg
on Criticism, uses the word wit upwards of eiiibtT
times with the following distinct significatiooi^
viz. — 1 . Men of talent, especially poets, lines 3(
45, 159, 517, &c. ; 2. Poetic genius and its result,
poetry, 80, 302, 652 ; 3. Intellectual ability, 53,
61; 4. Judgment, 259; 5. Conceits, &c., 292, SOS;
6. The unexpected and ludicrous association of
ideas — the modern sense, 421, 447, G07, &c.
Samucl Neil.
James Cumming, F.S.A. (3'* S. v. 212.)—
"Died, Jan. 23 [18271, at Lovell Hill Cottage, Beits.
James Gumming, Esq., F.S.A., and late of the CWBce of
the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of India." —
See Gent. Mag. for 1827, Port 1.
WlLUAM LlLLINGTON LeWIS (3'* S. V. 241.)—
In replj to S. Y. II., who seeks through your
columns more particulars respecting \V. L.
Lewis, translator of Statius, and sometime " first
usher " of Kept<m school, I beg to refer him to
p. 271-2, of Dr. Robt. Bigsby's quarto History of
Repton, published in 1854. It will be gathered
thence tnat Mr. Lewis quitted Repton under
somewhat awkward* circumstances, having, "in
point of fact, been bought out of his ushership
for 50/. Dr. Bigsby refers to a contemporary
Diarist, who records that Mr. Lewis's departure
gave " great joj to all who were under him." As
to his translation of Statius, any one who will
take the pains to compare it with the original,
and the Ist book with tbe translation of rope,
will, 1 am sure, be struck with its poornew and
inferiority.
At the beginning of this year I was led care-
fUlly to examine ue translation of the 1st Book
3»d a^ V, AfBU, 9, ^64]
I
NOTES AND QUERIES.
309
bj Mr. Lewis with that of Pf>pe (which is itself
often !f>o«e and fj^ulty), but! came tx) the conchi-
l-«ion that he wa* not more fitted for the office of a
poeiicai translator than he seems to have been for
that of first usher.
I cannot just now la/ my hands on my not^s,
or 1 could justify these remiirks by passages which
I transoribed. Lowndes, in his Bibliographirs
Idammlt rightly characterises the translation as a
I poor performance. 1 should add that, as an old
Keptoniao, I could wish it had been possible to
speak otherwise of the work of one of its Masters.
jAMm Ba?vks Davies«
A. E. L O. U, (3^ 8. V. 222.) — These Tcwreb
wet* adopted aa a device by Frederick, Emperor
of Oerroany, who waa elected in 1424, and from
tlie period of whose election the imperial succea-
sion, though content ed^ ha^ been uninierruptediy
I in the House of Austria. Frederick waa an al-
kchymi»t| an astrologer, and a believer in magic.
H#le died at the a^e of eighty- three, of a surfeit of
"melons, after reigning fifty »three years* In his
reign th»* vowels figured on government build-
Iings, regimental flags, on the backs of imperitil
|>ooks, and even on the bandies of the emperor's
flpoons. They were, for a time, a pu«zle ; but the
following triple interpretation of them was ma«le
for the benefit of the perplexed : —
11«4 1^ Mrelch I >| I Icvtcneieli I ntbrrthui
UMitU XJter Xoit«rUl \Jttt K^' niy^nt.
I J. DoSAN.
It Wia Frederick ITT. of Germany who mystt-
I fied the world by inscribin;? •* A. E. I. O. U/'
wipoii his belongings. Ai> tb, the solution
^b' the riddle was found ;'' papers. Ma.
^HTooDWAan hs« given ub {h<: ijiiiin and German
^versions of the Htriigtuit legend. It bus bt^en
^%one into English as loUowa ; *' viustria's £inpire
!& OverjJl i/nlversal.*' St, bwixHur.
QcoTATioN Wanted : Evandee*^ Oansa (3"*
S. V. 174.) — Tlie lines a.^cribed to Br, W. King
are not in Nichols's edition of bia works. London,
1776, 3 vols. 8vo. 1 do not know their author.
**Evander*s Order/* I think, is in the JEtieid^
B>, viif. I. 973 t —
O juvenas, < udum
_' cQiTiAS, et
I'.- pOCate deurrt^ n iujif. I- 1 fill r'>/i'/tli'.s.^^
Iter a rather long story, but aho
C
c
It
■ *' Po»tquAm exempta fames at amor compreasas edendl^
■ Rex Eviiijdrus »ut, Stc, —
and must have been acceptable to those who bad
fed " perpetui tergo bovis et lux&Qlibttg eTtis** —
ibe laat diah being probably a^ nasty as haggis.
H.B. C,
OoilAJii (S'^ S, V. 110, 145.)— The first aa-
hority as to Ogham inscriptioEis is Frofeaaor
Graves of Trinity College, Dublin, I beliere
there is a published explanation of the Ojibaratc
alphabet. Da, Moobe should write to Prolcssor
Graves, who can probably tell him about the
Newton atone, and at the same time admit him to
the Oghamic mysteries. Such a keen antiquary
as the Professor would no doubt feel a pleasure in
rendering as^iistance. Should Da. Moobe decline
writing to the Professor, I will endeavour to pro-
cure an answer as to the Oghamic alphabet.
J. ToiiBa.
EKioatA(3"* S. V, 15a, 199.)— The following
enigma was proposed for solution at the first of
the above references : —
" Qulnque t^umu^ frUn's, sab eodsm tempore nati ,
Bini bttrl e cresti,
Qulaiuj 1 N» aed lAmen dimidiatam,**
At the second reiurtfiice nppeared the solution, by
which it appears that the calyx of a ro«e was de-
signated by the^e lines. But what I have to
object to, 19 not the answer to the enigma, but
the translation of tlie words bini barbati. I ob-
serve that all the three translations suppose the
second line to mean that trto of the five brothers
only had beards. Moreover, all of them reprc*
sent *M?o others as beardless. Surely this is neither
the meaning of the Latin, nor the pru}>cr de^^crip*
tioQ of the calyx.
« Bini (Hirbaii, mnt erine enatif"
I take to mean that two and turn, that is four \u
idl, have beards, but no hair. If £»i>» meant only
two, the verse would contain no dtscrlption at all
of the other two, but jump at once to the descrip-
tion of the fifth, which would be unusual and
unsatisfactory. Bini signifies two and hto^ usterai
means three and three. The enigma then* afs I un-
derstand it, means that each (tvo, that is, fuur of
the brothers had beards. Thus Terence says in
his Fhormio: "Ex his pra*diis talenta argenti
hina statim capiebat,'' meaning that from tack
farm he received two talents, of course four in all.
But our translators have assumed what the enigma
does not say, that two others of the five were
smooth and beardless* This is neither the sense
of the verse, nor the true description of the calyx
of a rose, which will be found to consist of four
fringed, or bearded divisions, and one with a little
fringe on one side only, which the enigma de-
scribes as half bearded — barbam dtmidiatam.
F. C. H,
FiTZ-JAMisi, Dun: ot Bebwicx, and Fitz-
Jameb, etc. (a*"** S. V, 202.) — The following are
the peerages and arms of the present famtiv: —
Boron Bosworth, Earl of Fin mouthy and Dulte of
Berwick in En^lumJ (March 10, 1687); Duke de
Fitz- James in Frunce (Miy, 1710) ; and Duke de
Lcria et de Xericii in Spain «
The arms tu'e, I and 4, France and Enirknd
quarterly ; 2. Bcotland ; 3. Ireland, all vrithin %
310
NOTES AND QUEKIES.
[8*<iS. V. ArKix.fl
bordure g^obony, az, and gu, ; the azure pieces
charged with a fleur-de-lis of Prance, the gulea
with a lion of England. The supporterA are a
lion and a jrrifTou, both proper, and reguardant.
ilottoes : " Ortu et honore/* and ** 1689, Semper
et ubique H del is, 1789.*' J. Woouwabd.
Kew shoreham.
WiTTT Classical Quotatioi«s (2*"* S. ix. x. xL
pagaim.) —
** If the tradilionaiy story be tniet there w&a ooe yoang:
sclioUr, whose wit and readlaoBS deserved a pxa»t of gold
better than Master Coryatt** oration, iter Majesty
(Queen Elixabeth* on a viiut to Winchester school in 1570)
pteaaaotly asked him if he hud orer made acquaintance
with that celebrated rod, whose famo had reached even
her royal earn. Both the question and the questioner
would have embarrasaed inoat schoolboys, but he replied
by an admirabte quotation from Virgil-^a faniiluir line,
which the Qtieen was like eaottgh to have understood —
* Infattdum, r^na, jnbce renovare dolorem.*
It ia very ungrateful of the Wykeharoiffls not to have
preserved his wmxi^." ^^ Bhukwood for Jan. 1864^ p. 71
particle on ** Winchester College and Commoners,*')
E. H. A.
HOTAL CAOKKCr fS'** S. V. 213.) — FlT7,-JoiIS
will 6nd the information he requires in Bouteirs
Heraldry^ Ilittorical and Popular, whence I ex-
tract the following answers to his queries : —
1. Lionel bore various diflerences, but that
known as hi« special cognisance appears to have
been a label arg., on each point a canton gu.
This seems to have beea afterwards known as the
Label of Clarence*
2* John of Gaunt bore a label of three points
ermine* " This/* says Mr, Boutell, *' may be
blazoned * of Brittany^ having been derived from
the ermine canton borne by John de Dreux, Count
[? Duke] of Brittany and Earl of Richmond, on
whose death, in 1342^ the Enrldom of Richmond
was conferred by Edward 111, on his infant aon
Prince John/*
3. Richard Earl of Cambridge, a label of three
pointi! arg., charged on each point with three tor-
teaux.
4. Richard Duke of York, a Label of For*, as
his father.
5. George, Duke of Clarence, a Labd of Clar*
ence^ the same as Lionel.
6. I do not find any notice of Margiiret*s label ;
but her brother Edward, Earl of Warwick, bore a
Ltibel of Beaufort^ cf»mponee arg. and ax. She
would probably use the same. Hsamet^truds.
Ma>»CHiNa§ (3** S. iv. 401; v. 1154,) — Some
account of the paternal nncestors of Rannulph*
called by English antiquaries Dp Meschinva^
Earl of Chester, is io be found in the introduc-
tion to StapletonV RolU of the E:^chequtr of Nor-
mandy (1848), I have riot the w*»rk at hand ti>
refer lo^ but froia 'it I took from it some
time ugo« I find ' iinnulph, wh(» married
Maud, the sister « >i i i iv^n i^upus, was bereditary
deAJMH
lown M^^
Vicomte du Besson^ his father*8 name being Ria- j
nulpb^ and his grand fatber^s Anschitill. 1
anxious to learn more of this AnscbltilL,
should be glad to ascertain whether I am riska^
supposing that the estates of the faniily were foi
feited in his time, and afterwards restored to 1
son.
If the statement above given is correct, it wl
be seen that the connection with any sucb ]^
as Walter de Espagne must be more remote !
Le CHavALiES DD Ctqne suppose^ it lo be* kiA
while on this subject I would beg to inqiurvh
what manner, if at all, Ralph de Toeni and Wii-
ter de Espagne, described as his brother, were rr
lated to Robert de Todeni, Lord of Bel voir. It a
somewhat singular that this Rt>bert*s graodsA
William de Albini, is by English antiqiuni
commonly styled De Meschines, But this does vm
imply any relationship with the Earl of Chatfr>
In both cases the real appellation wa
chin, or the Younger ; and Robert de
grandson, William de Albini^ was sq
distinguish him from bis father Willi&ni de 4
the elder earL I believe it is not known I
Robert de Todeni's son William came to (
the name of Albini. Nor have I ever bee
to ascertain how the Albini s of thia fjumlj
to be distinguished by the appeUation of j
P. S. CatfT*
Aechhisuop Hamiltoh (3'*^ S. v. 241*) — Ft
an account of Archibald Hamilton, Archbisbap
CasheU E. S. M. is referred to Ware^a BiMk»p9 ^
Trehndy edited by Harris, p. 486, and CoUan'i
Fo^sti EcvUsia Hibernian (Munster, p. 14.) \
these authorities give 1659 as the dat^ of this
late's death. Is 1620 a typographical ei
your correspondent*s query ? Thomas
who succeeded Hamilton at Cashel, was trai
from Ardfert by letters patent^ dated Feb*
16G0.
E. S. M. asks, *' Can anyone give me any tnfa(
tuation as to this Irishman t dobigs in Swe *
Why does he call him an Irishman f TI
that be was an Irish bishop wouhl be a pi
tion against his being an Irishman. W;irc saji
thai he was a native of Scotland, and D,D. iif ibe
University of Glasgow. It is probable tbat b*
fled from Ireland to escape the dangers of the
Irish Rebellion of 1641 ^ but if lie survived lo
)659, where was he, and what was h** dt»»fig all
that time? and what brought hiu> i? I
should be very glad to have an j;- :ti«sc
questions.
Would E. S. M, kindly «ay whore b« foiiod
facts he has s^tated, that Archl ' ' *^ ' li wi
buric^d at Upsal in the year I '
Banu? tomb with the first rrotounK .^n jri-itbop
Upsal ^ JAwiea H. Tone*
Tritt. Coll. Dablti).
i«sc
i
3'dS.V. Apbil9,'64.3
NOTES AND QUERIES.
311
TowT, TowTBB (S"* S. V. 211.)— The word
tout or toot is probably from the Dutch toeten^ to
blowr a horn (toeter^ a winder of a horn, toothoom^
bugle-horn), evidently derived by onomatopfma.
I talce it that originally your touter wound his
horn to attract customers. A^ain, Tothill may
mean the place where the houn£ met.
R. S. Chabmock.
Enigma, by thb £abi« op Subbey (S'* S. v.
55, 103, 145.)— Amongst various old pamphlets
and periodicals in my library, I chanced to pick
out one, now lying before me, and bearing the
following title : —
<* T^haaunu jEnigmatieus ; or a Collection of the most
ingenious and diverting Enigmas or Riddles. The whole
being designed for aniversal Entertainment ; and in par-
ticnlar for the exercise of the Curious. To which is pre-
fix'd a Preface, and a Discourse of iEnigraas in general.
London, printed for John Wilford, in Little Britain.
1725."
This work is in three parts ; the first occupies
30 pages ; the second part, printed in 1726, ends
at p. 68 ; and the third part, also printed in 1726,
goes to p. 105, and finishes the work.
In the first part, p. 5, of this work is printed
as " ^ni<rma 5 ; called the Earl of Surrey's
Riddle," an exact copy of the one inserted ante,
p. 55. Ill the second part of the Thesaurus
JEnigmaticus is given, or professed to be given, a
solution of the enigmas contained in the first part
of it ; and to that of No. 5, the following is given :
** No. 5. Some think it one thing, some another ; for
my part, I own myself partly of the sentiments of an
honourable Person, who believes that it refers much to
Cowley's verses : —
* Thou Thing of subtle slippery kind.
Which Women lose, and yet no Man can find.'
And as the Lady had it not to give, I suppose she
pretended at least to give it him, to make the blessing
the greater."
From this equivocal solution of the riddle, one
may conclude it was not over-modest.
D. W. S.
Abms AV anted (3"* S. v. 239.) — I have a note
of two shields, each of which bears much re-
semblance to that inquired atler by C. J. Neither
of them correspond in tinctures : —
** Duoi truncos evulsos in decussim trajectos nigros in
argentea parma. Stumpp de Tettingen Rhgn, §• Franc,
patrit, Itidem nigros, sed utrinque refectos, simili situ in
aarea parma. — Bikckeh, Insignium Theoriot Autore PhiL
Jae. Spener. Francf, ad Mctnvm. MDOxa p. 260."
I remember seeing a tray with arms identical
with, or exceedingly like those inquired after, in
a shop in Doncaster a few months ago. Circum-
stances hindered me from examining it at the
time, and the next time I passed it was gone.
Edwabd Peacock.
Bottesfoid Mnor, Brigg.
Bbown of Coalston (S** 8. v. 258.) — The
following extracts from the Index to the Retaurs
of the Services of Heirs in Scotiand, may possibly
be of use to Mb. Lee.
1. On April 26, 1604, George Broun of Cols-
toun was served heir to Patrick Broum of Cols-
toun, his father (observe a slight difference in the
spelling of the surname^ in the lands and barony
of Colstonn and other lands in the constabuUury
of Haddington.
N.B. Lands situated in the shire of Hadding-
ton are always described in the title-deeds as
lying in ** the constabulary of Haddington and
county of Edinburgh.**
2. On October 31, 1616, George Broun of
Colstoun was served heir in general to Elizabeth
Broun — his sister-german — and
3. On May 6, 1658, Patrick Broune (sic),
younger of Colstoun was served heir male of
George Broune Fiar of Colstoun, his immediate
elder brother, in the same lands and barony, and
other lands.
4. On October 4, 1677, Patrick Broun of Col-
stoun was served tutor-at-law to his nephew,
James Broun, son of Alexander Broun, his
brother-german. G.
Tbadb Wihds (3^* S. V. 259.)— The theory of
Galileo, although attempts have been made by
Kiimtz and Hadley partially to revive it, has
yielded to that of Halley (Phil. Trans, xvi.), which
forms the basis of the subse<}uent labours of
Marsden, Beid, Maury, Le Verrier, Fitzroy, and
others, from which navigation and commerce have
derived incalculable benefit. In the Companion
to the British Almanac (186} , p. 29), there is a
summary of the recent practical applications in
meteorology; and more detailed information on
the atmospheric currents will be found in Keid*s
Law of Storms^ Maury*s Physical Geography of
the Sea, and in Fitzroy*s Weather Booh,
T. J. BUCKTON.
Clabqes (S^ S. v. 238.) — It is probable thnt
the writer of the letter, printed in your last issue,
was Francis Clarges, M.P. for the borough of
Tregony in the Parliament that begun April 25,
1660. There was a double election. Tlie names
stand thus in the list of Members published im-
mediately atfer the returns were made out : —
•* Borough of Tregony.
" Sir i"''" ■^'"'P'i' *^'- \ by one Indcn.
W. Boflcawen, Esq. } ^
Will. Tridinham, Esq., bv anoth.
Ft. Clarges, by another.
He was high in favour with the Royalists. On
Monday, Feb. 27, 1659 (60^, the House of Com-
mons conferred upon him tne Hanaper office, be-
eaoae he was a friend of Greneral Monk, Com.
J<mr^ sab die ; Whitelock, 2nd edit, 697.
312
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8'«&y. Apbil!
AuTffoss OF HTKifs (3^^ S. V. 2S0i)— Tbe hymn
(or rathe rsUnza*) besfinnin* "Thou God of love/*
is m a book called 7%e Sheltering Viiw^ published
some timo ago bj ihe Countea^ of Bouthesk, but I
have it not hert^, and I cannot reoolleot whether
she composed or ontj edited it. I think the latter.
Lttxej*toh*
Chipbvoei (3'* S. T, 280.)— €ftn STTLirsa find
"ehaperone*' in any "book publbhed ten, or even
fire, jreara ago P I doubt it It in an ignorant
barbariJim, and corresponds exuctlj to the " cha-
mb** Btorj winch he quotes. Ltttaltok.
ffUccEjairiittf*
NOTES OSf B0OE$, ETa
IJftt nf WtlBm BiaJie, ** Pieiar IgH^yim." Wiih SdsiHtmM
/torn hit Pimiiu and iilAo' Writtftg^ by the late Afexi^bdar
Amthm- ef the Life nf WWiam Bttiff E,A. llluMifaied
from. JSiake'x oKJt! WhrkM in J'aciimile h^ W^ i/» LifUtm^
and in Fkit&-iUl»itffraphy, with a fww nf BlfMMi original
Phtet. In two t'olumM. (MKemlUan.)
This book filla ap a void In Art- Btog^^niph^^ yfMth liaa
existed fur too loiij^ ; for unfuttunntelj '' Pictor Ignottu ^*
i$ Aii epithet too juatly applied to the rcmjirkftUle ma.a
whosa ide Eiitd la^ara form tUQ j»ubj«ot of it ** At tlie
p^AGftt momeitt, Blake dratringft and Blake prints fi&tcli
prlceg which would hare aola^ a Hie of penury, had
their prmluet^r recolred tbesi.^ There ia ftomethm^ rery
melojichaly la thin pannr^apl] from th« opeaiog chapter
o-f tba boolt borprc as; and when one r«fteci8 that thi» ii
84.id of that poet -painter of whom Flaxman d^lared his
poem* art? " ^rand HAhvs pictorea,'' it uttiked oae am Mill
more fiiid. But the ittory of Blake^a fttrungi:, viuonarr*
■waywiirili and my a tic lire m here irritten by loving haiids,
ami with 4 ftilue*! of detJiib more cspoeiiiily with reganl
to blst worka of poetry and art, which leave Utile to be
d^ired. Hia lifd ja first traced step by step j then we
hava a valudible aelecticm front hiji peiblijiheil and unpub-
llsheil wriliiiga ; and these are followed by Catalogued of
his Pictures, Draw i no-, and Engravingn; and iasilyp m
addition lo many atriking lUustrationa acaltered through
the two vniumc^ we have twenty* one Photo -^ Li thoj^raphs
ik»tn Blake's mitr^ellout (engraved) deigns, The Bat/k of
Joh, aiiii aixieen i^f tlie orif^ina] platea of hla Si^ttiit of
Innocftitt fnd E^pfTitmx^ Which fitly bring to a Ilo^e
the interesting Memolir of tbl» original and negketed
man orgeniiii.
An EitmenioFi^ Ttxi-Bnok of the An^rot&fpe ; imsiadtm^ a
iMKrtpikm of the MHh^§ of Freparimf amt Mummimgi
mjtHii. By J. VV. Griffiths, M.D. " With Trntir^
'Qihurtd PiateSf containiMg 451 FH^wtt^ (Van Voorst*)
Thia it essentially a practical book. The atithor pre-
fluiui,'^ the reader to have liad no preirious acquaintance
with the microAcojta* or with the study of natural hh*
tory; im ihjit it fi^rma an iiitroduction to both, ITio
eubjiNTts gre^ jicuordingty, treated in sHentlfic order; com-
ment i«i; with an explanation of the principles on whiih
the action ef Ihv mieruacnpe dependa. Then romea a
aerifc* of aubjecta ibr aJtarainaUoo, wilh dir^qtSona how to
prifp^t^ mount, and examine tbem. When we add, that
thi- br^olc is produced with tho eare which diBtin|?uJib»
all 31r Vaji Vwtrt^t'i publications^ it will be seen bow
Talnable a contributi'oct tlii» ia to b«guui«[S of micro*
jKxpteaJ studies*
71m Siudenth Manual of En^tid LrieraitEre^ A
f>f' English lAtertihire, Bt/ rhomas B. Shaw, K
J^iJe EdiiioH tniargtd ttnd rt-tr*riite^^ Kdk
Sai«» and ISvthvHo**, % WJiUaoi Smitb,
(Marray,)
Thia new edition, revised and cotnitleted in eom
of Mr. Shaw^a death by Dr. Smith, ia probably t
complete, aa it is certainly the moat compact, h
j^fi^irA lAiiraturt which has yet been given
public : and when tbe promised acconnpaziying
forming a selection of choice pasaAgea from tbe
includ^ in the present book, is publi^^hM^ tbej
gether form a perfect retiami of the subj ect.
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
313
LOUDON, SATUEBJY, APRIL 16, 1864.
CONTENTS.— N«. 180.
NOTES : — The Danish Warrior to his Kindred. 81S — " The
Chnhlee Manuacrlpt," &c, 814— Epitaphs. 817 — Denmark
V. the Germanie Confederation, 8i8— John Braham, the
Vocalist— Int^restioK Antiquarian Discovery— Rolics of
Old Loudon : the Holborn VaU^— Curmudgeon— Marine
Bisks in the Seventeenth Century. 818.
QUERIES: — Lient.-OoI. Sichard Elton: Oa|>t. GeorRo
Elton. 819— The Ber. John Acland— Austrian Peerages-
Colonel Ballard— Boispreauz's " Eionsi " — Bcv. Archi-
iMild Bruce — Joseph Bundston — D*Abrichoourt —
Draught of Plymoutu Bound — Do Lojtcs Family— The
Fairies' Song — Ferrers Queries — Forfeited Estates in
ScoUand — Irish HeraldicBooks and M8S. - " The Letter
Box" — Mary, Queen of Soots— Maurice's "Family Wor-
ship **— " Nocromantia,'* Ac — Pclham Family — Quotation
— Sepia — Shelley's Sonnets on the Pyramids, ACh 820.
QuBBiES WITH AirtWESS:- Salmagundi — Order of the
Elephant — "Andromache " — Bowing Match — Witch
Trials. 822.
SEPLIES :— Punishment : " Peine fort et dum," 324— Paget
and Milton'8 Widow. 825 — Lewys Morys, lb. — Harvey of
Wangpy House, 320 — Gentleman's Signet — Edward
Hampaen Rose — Governors of Guernsey — Greek Epi-
gram — Sack — Count do Montalembert —Morganatic —
Iiondon Smoke, Ac— Reliable — Mediaeval Churches in
Boman Camps— Sir John Moore's Monument — Poetical
Quotation — Family of Nicholas Bayloy — Longevity of
Incumbent and Curate— Jleraldic, Ac, 827.
Notes on Books, Ac.
THE DANISH WARRIOR TO HIS KINDRED.
BT PROFESSOR GEORGE STEPHENa^ F.8.A.
(From Facdrolandet of March 20.)
" Not alone for Denmark fij^ht I,
Not alone for Right and Freedom,
Not alone for Souihem Jutland —
Denmark's March from grayest yore -time,
Denmark's Danish soil and ontnost,
Days from when our Northland's Sea-kings
First began — some fifteen hundred
Winters since — o'er western billows,
Swords to cross gainst Pict and Roman,
Gaining so from hordes barbarian,
Winning from clans in vice deep sunken,
Wresting from chiefs to slavery Romaniz'd,
liomes where freedom still doth flourisb.
Kingdom 'stablish'd firm and righteous,
Northern offshoot last and greatest.
Sent of Anns and Arts, as £ea-Queeo,
Ruling now with mildest sceptre
Far-off lands tlie wide world over !
Even yet our stamp indelible
Rests on England's proud dominion.
Scandian is the tongne she speaketh,
Scandian is her Ocean-prowess.
Scandian is her iron yieonr,
Scandian is her wit and wisdom, —
Shtkspearc's genius bnt the reflex
Of the deep and wondrous heart-lore
Breath'd in Northland's Song and Saga,
Chanted in our Edda-legendi^
TrMinr'd in our woods and valleys.
England's Runes our fathers risted.
We an an Old Woden's children.
* Hoi done fbr Seamlia fight I,
Dmmarkt Astdm, Norway, Jcdand
All the shirei and rich rememhrmncM,
All the rights and all the glories
Of those gallant stalwart races
Whose great deeds, whose matchless exploits,
Round the brow of Scandinavia
Have a halo shed so shining
That she sitteth, gemm'd and diodem'd.
Flickering Nortlilights hovering o'er her,
Bright example through all ages.
How fresh blood and hardy freemen
(Goths and Swedes, and ^orse and Angles,
Danskers, Frisers, Jutes and whatso
Were the names those warriors jov'd in)
E'en out of Rome*s degraded provinces
States could fashion where the citiseu
God might fear and Woman honour.
Fatherland might live and die for.
Liberty might grasp for ever ;
How, in later ages, champions
Stand can 'gainst a host in battle.
Faith and Freedom still their watchcry.
Wend and Saxon still defying.
Grappling still the greedy German,
Native hills undaunted holding
Gainst the bribing bloody Muscovite.
«< Not alone for Denmark fight I,
Not alone for Scandinavia;
Sword I swing and rifie shoulder
Eke for Scanmnavian England.
For a Northern Brother have we.
One with us in birth and lineage.
One with us in Northern tongue-foil.
One in History's lustrous memories,
One in common daily interests.
Our allv, our natural backstoy.
Is Uie England we have planted.
England's shield, ally, and backstay.
Is the Scandia whence she issued.
Blood is thicker yet than water.
Ties of kindred are not broken.
Where the Scandian Baltic billows
Surge and dash 'gainst British headlands;
Where, with stealtby Cat-Uke footpace^
Or with ponnce of savage Tiger,
Russia creepeth, glideth, springeth.
Province buying, kingdom crushing,
(Finland, Poland, her last victims).
Till she reach the White Sea's havens.
Till in Stockholm and Cbristiania
Cossack cannon boom Death's * order ' ;
Where the German Eagles gather,
Prey and plunder sniffing, gorging.
Tearing Italy, chivalric Poland,
Noble Hungary, brave tribes many.
Trampling out each tongue not * Gennan,*
Now « annexhig,' now • incorporating,'
Now as ' pledge ' in faithless inroad,
• Occupying ' from * motives military '
Lands of better nobler peoples.
And with crimes unheard of filling them.
Deeds of cowardice, cant, and cruelty.
Deeds most infiunoos, deeds most * Gennan.'
Reaching so our Southern Jutland,
Seizing so North Jutland's harbon^
Till a German Fleet shall lord it
In the Sound's free* flowing waters «
Thence with armaments lately Scandinit
Thence with navies we most nmiah,
(Like as Finland's fearless sssmmi
ilow must man the Roarian frinte*
Built to TnaiMcn^&rdada.\iaM^iiaaiitaSv
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S'OS.V. ApbilIC
Giving law to England's statesmen,
Eneland their cow'd vassal making,
Lighting their pipes with England's Charters,
(So the Holy Alliance willeth !)
Leaving her only two foul liberties :
* Mammon's Mill,' * my son, make money,'
And, to pay them bondmen's tribute ; —
There toe stand, a granite bulwark,
There we guard the British Islands,
There we stem the tide of conquest.
There our musquets glint and glitter.
There our gun-boats thread the coastwayi.
In our shadow England slnmbreth.
In our lee her sons are shelter'd ;
Need she not be bristling war-camp.
She can use her power and riches
For the boon of furthest folkships.
** But one nail lost shoe — Ahorse — ^horseman —
Battle— victory — the whole empire I
Slesvig is no mere Danish question,
Slesvig is no mere Scandian question,
'TIS an English, a Northern question.
Slesvig Germaniz'd, torn from Denmark,
Stolen by bandit propagandists.
Made into a * Slesvig-Uolstein '
(* Personal Union ' now the Court-phrase),
Sle$mg'Gennamz*tl— Denmark dieth !
Slesvig is the gate of Denmark ;
Denmark gone, all Scandia falleth ;
Scandinavia once, like Poland,
Broken, slave-chain'd and ' partition'd '
(Soon * partition second ' cometh !) —
England's day of gprace is over,
England's sun shall set for ever,
England's sinewy strength is hamstrung,
England's Oak shall quickly wither, —
Our Whole North becomes a booty
Shared by Trolls and Frost-giants loathsome ;
France shall sink, like all her sisters,
Prussians' camp once more in Paris.
** All alone we stand, — a handful
Struggling for our Ring and Country,
For our Name and Fame and Freedom,
For our Hearths and Homes and Altars,
For our Wives and little Children,
For Old Scandinavia,
For Old England, our Fourth Northland,
'Gainst marauders tenfold, fiftyfold,
'Gainst the Saxon, 'gainst the German,
'Gainst barbarian slaves by millions.
And, unhelpt, at last we yield us I
Denmark's Realm, the oldest kingdom
In the page of Europe*s annals,
Crumble shall ; its name shall vanish,
Or shall only mark a Canton
Of *■ das grosse Yaterland.'
^ But our death- throe shall be famous,
Grand shall be our pyre funereal ;
Like to Samson 'mong Philistines,
Mourners many shall lament us ;
All Scandinavia quick will follow,
England's rule not long surviveth,
Norman France iiiall brigands devastate.
Club-law reign in all our Europe.
Holger Dansker die shall dearly.
Should no Good Samaritan aid us.
Heartless kinsmen Heav'n blasts justly.
God us made, one race, together ;
And together shall we perish !
** Warning words thrill weirdly round i)S,
While time is, ere Opportunity,
G«nie dntd with flowing forelock.
Hurrieth past in flight mysterious;
While time is, ere ebbs that fbll tide
On whose back we 'scape the shallows
Sown ^rith misery and ruin ;
While time is, list, Swea, Nora,
While time is, Britannia hearken ! —
Helm steel trieth, need tries flriendship ;
Soft steel smash we, false friend mock at.
Bare his brotherless back soon cloTen*
Woe that faggot asunder falleth I
Stand we notln Liberty's ring-wall
Swift in common thraldom sink we.
Names and harness make no hero.
Money-bags ne'er yet built a kingdom.
Champions strike, not reckon and palter.
Love and Duty than crowds are stronger.
Fortune's Wheel rolls on and onward ;
One good turn deserves another.
King of Beasts is the Lordly Lion«
Yet the Mouse once gnaw'd his meshos.
Brother fodihleu is each man'a Nithing ;
Ail is hit, when Honor's dead! "
"THE CHALDEE MANUSCRIPT."
AUTOOKAFH KEY TO THE CHARACTERS BT
WATT: KARLY HISTORY OF " BLJiCKWOOD's
ZINE:" JAMES HOGG, ETC.
Half a century bos now passed away since
ascendancy, social and literary, in the A
Athens — under the presiding influence <
"Blue and Yellow'*— was first startled fh
long undisturbed dream of security, bj tbe f
cation of tbe farfamed "Chaldee Manosc
Its wit, its personality, its perhaps irreverei
plication of scriptural language, the very i
dity and extravagance of tne allegorica
figurative types under which its characters
shadowed forth, all contributed to give to it i
terest which we can even now understand ; altl
to account for tbe full effect it produced, we
make ourselves acquainted with the literar
political character of the time and place
appearance. As Professor Ferrier remarks,
introductory note to its republication at
end of the third volume of Professor Wi
Works : —
** It is a mirror in which we behold literary Edin
of 1817, translated into mythology. Time, it it
ceived, has taken the sting but of its personalities,
out having blunted tbe edge of its clevemesa, or dai
the felicity of its humour. It is a pithy and syml
chronicle of the keen and valiant strife between Tc
and Whiggism in the northern metropolis. Und<
guise of an^allegonr, it describes the origin and earl
tory of Blackwood $ Magazine, and the discomfit an
rival journal carried on under the auspices of Cooi
To sa^ the least of it, the Chaldee Manuscript is qa
good m its way as Swift's Battle of the Books; and«l
fore, on these several accounts, it seems entitled to i
manent place in our literature, and worthy of a
extensive circulation than it has hitherto obtained."
The circumstances- which led to the public
of the satire are briefly these. Blackwood, in
junction with Thomas Fringle, and Thomi
'8.V. AFBIL16, *64.]
NOTES AND QUEEIES.
315
j|e»jhom,had carried out aschemesuuL - ^^-f t- him
fee;moJlT by Jamea Hogg, the Ettr rd,
' the eatAblishment of a magazine iui . at: advo-
Cy of Tory principles, entitled The Edinburgh
My Magazine, The joint editors fioon ciinie
S loggerheads with their proprietor, and in spite of
a mediation of the Sbtspberd, who was i»umiuoiied
peacemaker, went over to the enemy, Con-
lible, to enable him to resuscitate the old EdiU'
jk Magazine. Blackwood, tiothing daunted,
fetermined to aasociate his own name with a yet
'iiore vigoroufl proclamation of Tory doctrinea;
and after having announced in the sixth number
of his periodical, " this work is now discontinued,
the preiwnt being- the last number of it,** — mean-
ing probably 'that an entire change of name ai]d
principles was contemplated, — reopened the cam-
iii^ by the publication, in October, 1817, of the
irenth number under the title, for the first time,
' Blackwtmd's Edinburgh Magazirm, It was in
ph fiumber that the *^Chiildee MS/' appeared,
r which, according to Professor Ferrier, the ori-
Inal conception, and the first thirty-seven verses
"^ chap. i. are to be ascribed to Hogg, while the
St ol the composition falls to be divided between
Tibon and Lockhart, in proportions which cannot
BOW be determined. Hogg himselfi it may be
remarked, in the autobiographic sketch prefixed
^1 the first volume of his Altrioe TaUs^ 12mo,
S32, claims a larger portion of the work, and
erts that in proof he has preserved the onginaL
of-slips, and three of BlackwQod*s letters relat-
^g to the article. He says : —
" These prroofi show exactly what part was mine, which,
\l remember aright (for I write this in London), conaista
f the first two chapters, part of the third, and part of the
»t« The r«st was said to have been niado up conjointly
full divan. I do not know, but 1 alwavs suspecteiLl
khert of a heavy respoosibiUty there." — t*. Ixxvii,
Professor Ferrier, in his general preface to the
tToelef, vol. i., seeks to explain this discrepancy
the assertion that^ though Uogg sent consider-
biy more to Blackwood, only about forty verses
^ his contribution were published. Still Hogg's
atement remaini, as he had of course, when he
ote his autobiography, seen, and must have
riown by heart, the *' Chaldee MS/* in its pub-
shed form*
The '' Chaldee MS/* says Professor Ferrier, fell
I Edinburgh like a thunderbolt. It should have
en received and laughed at as, what it was, and
tiDtended to be, a clever and harmless joke. Its
'iher and author were alike astounded at the
, of their own work ; the latter speaka of it
I ^* a droll article," and declares that he ** never
.u.-...MV"i n( .ri,r;»»-r -mybody oflence," meaning
I iry of the transaction and
^ti., that was to be fought."
^ilt I L' spark he should have
erMHh I uhle matter was not within
reach* The explosion took place. Autlior anil
article were anathematised; the " personal itit^
and profanities** of the Chaldee, and the ^*^ veiled
editor " were attacked ; " friends and foe4i were
alike confounded^ the Tories were perplexed, tht^
Whigs were furious " ; and, to crown all. Profes-
sor licslie, placing bis wrongs before a jury, ob-
tained damages to a considerable amount in an
action for libel agiunst Blackwood. Meantime
Hogg, whom no one suspected to be in the head
and front of the offending, highly enjoyed the fun,
when he left hia sheep- farm in Et trick Forest to
visit the metropolis^ and listened to the complaints
of his literary friends over their whiskey toddy
at *• Awmrose*8 " or some such place of convivial
resort. He even contemplated a continuation of
the **MS.,** and was hardly dissuadeil from its
publication by the advice of more prudent
friends : —
" So little had I intended givinif offence by what ap-
peared in the roagaztne, tbet I bad written oot a long
continuation of Ibe manuacripti, which 1 have by me to
thia day^ in which I go over the pAintera, poetA, lawyeiv,
buokjielleFS. magiatratea, and minif ten of Edinburgh all
in the same style; and with reference to the first part
which was pabliahed. 1 might say of the latter, as King
Rehoboam said to the elders of laraeU ' My little finger
WAS thicker than my fktber's loins/ It took all the
energy of Mr. WOsod and hi« friends, and eotne aharp re-
in onAtrsncea from Sir Walter Scott, m well aa a greet
deal of controversy and battling with Air* Grieve, to pre-
vent rae from pabUshing the whole work as a large
pamphleti and patting my name to IL*' — P. IxxLx.
In one sense, truly, mischief enough had been
done already ; but in another, in spite of the en-
mity and illwill engendered, it cannot be doubted
that the extraordinary sensation occasioned by
the article was of immense benefit to the infant
magastnef and secured for it an amount of popu*
larity and interest, which Its intrinsic merits, how-
ever great, might have failed to obtain. However
this may be, Blackwood felt the necessity of
with drawing the obnoxious article in the second
eiKtion of his periodical, which the unprecedented
demand for the first called him to issue, and pre-
fixing the following apology to his November
number : —
"NoTK rnoM the Editor.
•*The Editor has learned with regret that an Article
in the fi«t edition of Uat number, which was intended
merely as a jm (ttqtnL^ has b«en construed so as to give
ofience to individuala jnatJy entitled to respect and re-
gard ; he haa on that account withdrawn it in the aecood
edition, and can only add that, if what bos bappeoed
CO old have been antidpa&ed, the article in qaeatioa would
certftinlv nev<»r have ftppe«f'*d.
-V ;• ' " ' I ' "'---r^n eight pages
to uission of the
arti. 1 ^ij^L . ijuldee Mana-
script."'
These circumstances fully account for the great
rarity of the first edition of the number ftonlain-
ing the article in question, and the prices whuh. %V
316
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S^ASbV. Afbil16^*M.
is said to have realised. A good account of the
whole transaction will be found in a notice of
James Ilo/rg in Fraser*s Magazine^ vol. xx. p. 427,
where it is stated that "private copies,* with
MS. notes, that is, a key to the names of the
offended parties (or those who insisted on wearing
the cap because it fitted) were in immense de-
mand, and looked upon as a great prize.
One of these ** private copies* is now before
me, and is the more worthy of notice as having
belonged to the great James Watt, and contain-
ing a mS. kev to the characters in his handwrit-
ing— probably obtained from some one of "the
little band of northern literati,** who assembled to
welcome the illustrious mechanic to the modem
Athens, on that memorable occasion so delight-
fully chronicled by Scott in the preface to the
Monastery . A " marginal commentary *' is given
by Professor Ferrier, though, as he informs us
"the allegorical veil which covers up the text has
not been altogether removed**; on this account,
the somewhat differing hey I have alluded to, may
appear to merit preservation. It is as follows : —
**Chtp. I. Verse 8. Blackwood; 5. Pringle and Cleg-
hom; 17. Constable; 18. Gordon; 4-L Sir Walter Scott ;
49. Jamieson; 54. Hrcvr.ster; 55. Cockbnm; 56. T. Le-
ver( ?) ; 57. A. Tliomson.
'•Chap. II. Verse 2. The Editor; 10. J. Wilson.
••Chap. HI. Verse 15. Jeffrey; 21. Leslie; 22, Plav-
fair; 27. W. Scott; 86. Graham Dalvell.
"Chap. IV. Verse 1. Macvey Napie'r; 8. Neil and Son,
Printers; 18. Gray; 19. Maccormick; 21. Graham; 23.
Principal Daird ; 24. Bridges ; 25. Dancan ; 28. S. An-
derson ; 34. Juo. Jcflrey."
The reference to Mr. Dalyell in the 36th verse
of chapter iii., necc.'^sitates the transcription in
this place of four verses suppressed, for some
reason, by Mr. Ferrier; thoi^e who possess the
reprint will be thus enabled to fill up the gap : —
"8(>. Now the other beast was a bea^t which he loved
not A beast of burden, which ho had in his courts to
hew wood and carry water, and to do all manner of un-
clean thingfs. II is face was like unto the face of an ape,
and he chattered continually, .nnd his nether parts were
uncomely. Nevertheless his thiphs were hairy, and tnc
hair was as the fihiniiig of a sattin raiment, lie skipped
with the branch of a tree in his hand, and he chewed a
snnil between his teuth.
"37. Then said the man, Veril}* this l)ca!*t is altogether
unprofitable, and wliatsoever I have ;;iven him to do, that
hath be spoiled ; he is a sinful thing, and speaketh abo-
minably; his doings are impure, and all people are
astoned («iV) that he abideth so long within my gates.
** ;)8. Hut if thou lookest upon him, and obser>'C8t his
ways Ijehold he was bom of his mother before yet the
mo'nthH were fulfilled, and the substance of a living thing
iH not in him, and his Ixmes are like the potshen), which
is bmken .'igainst nny st(»no.
* 3V. Therefore my heart pitieth him, and I wish not that
he be utterly faminhod. and I give unto him a little bread
and wini', that hit} soul may not fiint, and I sind him
mossagt!!) into the towns and villages which are round
aboul ; and I givt; him such work aa is meet fur him."
An interesting note in further illustration may
be tranvcribeU from Lockluurt*s Ltfe of ScoU : —
*< It was in this lampoon that Constable first saw kiio-
self designated in print by the wohnguet of tbe'Crrtr/
long before bestowed on him by one of his moot raaot
Whig supporters; but nothing natUed him so mod ■
the passage in which he and lilackwood are reprepolri
entreating the support of Scott for their raspecuv« wp^
zines, and waved off by the ' Great Magician,* in ili
same identical phrases of contemptoous iadifiennoe Ik
description of Constable's visit may be worth transcribfs^
«for Sir David Wilkie, who was present when Scott nl
it, says he was almost choked with Uraghter; onla
afterwards confessed that tb« Chaldean author had pn
a suffiqienlly accurate version of what really poMcd •
the occasion'"— P. 862.
It may be remembered that tbe ^^ Chaldee ]i&'
the publication of which had taken place msj
opportunely in the previous October, was oce ii
the works cited by William Hone, in justificaui
of his religious parodies, on occasion of his it
trial at Guildhall before Mr. Justice Abbou, i
December 18, 1817. The defendant audiaii
address to the court : —
" It was remarkable that in October last a most wx!t
lar parody was inserted in the Edinburgh Alagaxnt^'^iA
was published by Mr. Blackwood. The parody wu vr:
ten with a great deal of abllitv, and it was inposij^
but that the authors must have heard of this proseccGS
The parody was made on a certain chapter of Eie^
and was introduced by a preface, stating tiut kv«'
translation from a Chaldee MS. preserved in i^
library at Paris. There was a key to the parodr. v^
furnished the names of the person;* described in fi. TW
key was not published, but ne had obtained a copr i. t-
Mr. Blackwood is telling his own story ; sad tht m
chembims were Mr. Cleghom, a farmer, and Mr. Fnas^
a schoolmaster, who had been engaged with him Si cdiui
of the former magazine; the * crafty ir.an* wi»C«ciii-
blc; and the work * that ruled the nuticn ' wasth« Ed«-
burgk Review. I'he defendant then read a long fxtro.-:-
of which the foUuwing is a specimen : — * Now in thw
days there lived a man who was crafty in council. At*
** lie observed that Mr. Blackwood was much rerpMttl
by a great number of persons. Mr. .Justice A bboti sui
he could not think their respect could be incresitd kv
such a publication. lie must express his di.sappn^cSioB
of it : and at the name time observed th.it the defen.^irJ.
by citing it, was only defending one offence by aoecbtf.*
Bone's First Trial, p. 18.
The enmity and ill-feeling occasioned by thislB^
morable satire, which, harmless thou;;h it reallr
was, transgressed, it must be admitted, the limiit
of good ta.<c, and legitimate personality, has biKB
alluded to ; the editor was to be flogged, the au-
thors shot by the more truculent of those attacked
Their ire, however, found a more appropriau
Tent through the medium of the press ; shortly
appeared a furious counter-attack —
*♦ Ilypocrisy Unveiled and Calumny Detected, in i
Keview of Blackwood's Magazine," t(vo. Edinborgb,
1818, pp. fw.
The following extract from this will show the
kind of fueling evoked : —
" llie aberration of intellect and per^'ersity of heart
now so visible in the articles published in this' magazine,
wero seen from the beginning ; bat no one imaginwi tkot
the wiittn would ooiuinus Co conrt InihBqr horn ytir la
St^aV. Afsil16,'M.]
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
317
year, or remain reckless or blind to the consequences of
persisting in their mueemly work of defamation and de-
traction Each succeeding number of this work
distils a more deadly poison, and betrays a more demonia-
cal spirit than its precursor, and it would manifestly dis-
grace the public, and amount to an acknowledgement
that society is bereft of all right feeling if it were suffored
longer to escape with impunibr. It nas now earned to
itself a character of sheer blaekenardiam, and is unques-
tionablv the vilest publicatloa tnat erer disfigured and
soiled the annals of Utentare,* ftc— P. 5.
On the fly-leaf of this pamphlet is announced,
though I do not know if it ever appeared —
** A Letter to the Dean and Faculty of Advocates, on
the propriety of ezpellicg the Leopard and the Scorpion
fh>m that hitherto respeetaUe body."
ar the* '^Leopurd " was symbolised Professor
0, db'as Chnstopfaer North ; by the *^ Scor-
pion," J. W. Lockhart, aUat Z^ aUas the Baron
Von Lawerwinkel.)
Next came : —
"Memorials of an Intended Publication, with Stric-
tures on the Chaldee Manuscript," 8va Edinburgh, 1818.
The saUre was also attacl^ed on religious grounds
in two pamphlets, the latter of which is en-
titled:—
*< Another Letter, being the Third, and Two more Let-
ters, being tlie Fourth and Fifth, to the Bev. Thomas
M«Crie, and the Rev. Mr. Andrew Thomson, on the Parody
of Scripture lately published in BtacAwooeTi Magazmeir
«vo. Sldinburgh, 1817.
Next may be noticed — before alluded to —
*• Report of the Trial by Jury, Professor John Leslie
against William Blackwood for Libel in BiackwoaPs
Edinburgh Magazine,'' 8vo. Edinburgh, 1822.
Two folio quizzical broadsides may be also no-
ticed, as being now probably almost unique. One
ia headed —
** Entire change of Performances, Roval Mohock
Theatre, concluding with Maga, or the dkaidtt Aum-
tins,** &C.
The second —
" The Performances at the Theatre Royal Pantheon ;
The Midsummer Night's Dream, recast by an eminent
hand ; Characters given to Mr. Jef&ey, 6. Cranstoun, Mr.
Ivory, Mr. Cockbum, &c Between the Acts The SUh
Gowns, or Who shall have them?**
I have now exhausted my own knowledge of
the subject; but have little doubt that those
better acquainted with the literature of the place
and period may bo able to make further contribu-
tions to the bibliography and history of the once-
famed Chaldee Manuscript WuxiAX Batxs.
Edgbaston.
EPITAPHS.
The two following epitaphs are from the ceme-"*
tery at Bow ; a place well known to amateurs of
" black jobs** and lovers of the Irish howl. J
am not quite rare that the first of them is not to
be foundfelieiriiere also. It runs thus : —
" Oh ! the worn, the rich worm, has a noble domain.
For where monarchs are voiceless I revel and reign ;
I delve at my ease and regale where I may ;
None dispute the poor earthworm his will'or his way ;
The high and the bright for my feasting must fall ;
Touth, beauty, and manhood, I prey on ve all !
The Prince and the Peasant, the Monarc'h and Slave,
All, all must bow down to the worm and the grave."
The reader will observe a bold and masterly
change of persons in the second Inie of this poem.
The first fine is striking enoush ; but we are
thrilled with yet deeper awe when we suddenly
find that the Kich Worm is himself the solilomust.
The second epitaph, unless it be meant for a
satire in stone, is one of the oddest bits of hyper-
bole that a graveyard can wdU show. The sub-
ject of it IS a boy, who died some fifteen or twenty
years ago, at tlie age of fifteen, and lyu interred
•* per mendship," as the business-like bard who
mourns him states in preliminary prose. Warming
presently into verse, the poet explains to posterity
the nature of his young frienas occupation in
these remarkable words : —
** To the blank Moon, the Planets, and Fixed Stars,
Their Office he prescribed ; and taught their
Iniuence benignant to shower, when Orbs
Of noxious efficacy join
In Synod unbenign."
This is all. Unfettered by the trammels of sub-
lunary metre, and with such a theme before him,
the writer, by a divine instinct, halts in mid-career,
trusting doubtless to the effect of kwoatAwn^is.
And so we learn nothing more of that tremendous
youth, who, though to the eyes of Bow he seemed
a beardless creature of the ordinary human spe-
cies, was in reality able to control the sky, and
to put down those noxious (and apparently here-
tied) orbs, by a judicious application of moon,
planets, and fixed stars.
The tomb of this immature Fanstus, which is
of considerable size and of original (not to say
eccentric) design, exhibited, when I first saw it,
not only the epitaph just quoted, but also a vast
and mysterious hieroglyphic, af^r the manner of
Zadkiel and Old Moore. This noble ornament,
however, is now gone. Perhaps it was felt that
epitaph and hieroglyphic together might raise the
adnuration of the spectators to a dangerous pitch
of enthusiasm. A. J. M.
P.S. Since the foregoing was written, a learned
funereal friend, whom I asked to verify or correct
it, has informed me that he went to the spot the
other day and found, not only the hieroglyphic,
but the epitaph and the monument itself, of the
infant astrologer, absolutely sone^ a commonplace
" upright" being now all that marks the grave
of so much merit. However, I send you this
note after all. It is a comfort to know that such
a tomb did once exist, and that for not a few
years.
318
NOTES AND QUERIE&
[8r«& V« Al'Ktl.l6i.%i
DENMARK 9enu$ THE GERMAIHC CONFEDEBA-
TION,
In the treat J of Maj 8| 1853, the third article
runs thus : —
** U i» expressly tuiderstood tbut tbe reciprocal rights
and obligAtions of Hiis Alajesty the King of Denmark^
and of the Germanic Coofederatioii, eoQcerniflg thi
Duchies of Holat«in and Laueabargh, n^hU and obliga*
tlone establlahed by the Federal Act of IHL5, and by tbo
itisLiiig Federal right, sball not be afiibcicd by the pre*
Dt treaty," — AnnMtat RtgtMter, 1852, p, 44L
On June 28, )$32, the Germanic Confederation
pro<;liiimed as follows : —
1 . The German sovereigna are not only autho*
riacii but even obliged to reject uU propositions
of the States, which arc contrary to the funda-
mental principle, that ail sovereign power ema-
nates from the monarch, and that ne is limited by
the assent of the Statca only in the exercise of
certain rights.
2. The stoppage of supplies by the Statea, in
order to obtain the adoption of their propositions,
is to be considered as sedition, against which the
Confederation may act.
3. The legislation of the Federative States must
never be in contradiction either to the object of
the Federation or to the Jullilment of federal
duties ; and such laws (aa, for instance, the law of
Baden, which establiahea the liberty of the press)
may be abolished by the Diet.
4. A permanent commission of Federal depu-
ties shall watch over the le^lativc assemblies of
tbe Federal States, in order that nothing contrary
to the Federal Act may occur.
5. The deputies of the legislative assemblies
of the Federal Stales must be kept by the regula-
tions of their government within !^ucn limits that
the uublie fieace shall not be disturbed by any
attacks upon the Confederation.
6. The interpretation of the Federal laws be-
longs exclusively to the Federal Diet.
On July 5, 1833, the Federal Diet proclaimed
a new law consisting of the following ten arti-
cles : —
L All German works containing less than
twenty sheets, which appear in ft»reign countries,
cannot be circulated in the Federal States with-
out the authoriBution of the several govern-
ments. 2. Every associatimi havin? a politi-
cal object is prohibited. 3. Politick meetings
and public solemnities, cjccept such as have
been established for a long time, and are nutbo-
ri»ecl, cannot be held without the permission of
the several governments. 4, All sorts of colour?,
batlge&i &e-, denoting a party, "arc proscribed*
5* The regulations for the surveillance of th*»
univertitics, prociaimeil in 1819, are renowct! .inil
rcndcretl more severe. By the remaining five
articles* the federative states pledged themsnlvcs
to «?xcrcise a vigilant watch over their rcspttetivc
Wibjecis, as well m over foreigners residing in
their states, in respc?ct of revor-'*
to surrender muttiully all li
had been guilty of politicjtl oU^;^
ception i>f their own subjects,
punished in their own country;
Idoab'
.L , /itU lhe<
who arc U» h» '
to uive tiiut
military assistance, in case of dlsi
notify to the Diet all measure? n
ference to the above-mention
On Oct. 30, 1834, the met IttV^
tive Diet unanimously agreed tt» tbe |in>i
of Austria, to establish a tribunal of arbitratioa|
order to decide differences which might break i
in any state of the Confederation between lk
Government and the Chambers reapectiiig ^'m
terpretation of the constituttonY or iIms ji^ietm»
menta on the rights of the aoyendgn b? Ik
Chambers^ or their refusal of subsidien, Tho 0>
bunal consists of thirty -four arbltratort, AMh
nated by tbe seventeen members of Uftf «tar
council, each member nominating two arbiOvltfi^
(Penny Cyclo. xi. 19 L)
The King of Denmark, member of tke XM
as Duke of Holstein and Lauenburgbf is W
issue with the German Diet on the subjefll «^ •
constitution proclaimed by him, MareJi 30i, \Xk
On the IGth of the following month tbe Pieri**
entered a protest, to which the Diet
against the assertion of the King of Deisisw
that the Diet had no right to interfei^ m t
question of the Duchies.
The prejient King Christian IX. on tif ;
ult. [March], in his message to the Higs4i^ |
the point of controversy in this form : —
**By threats of employing forc^i, our predeosMl w<*
the throne were induced to assign to the Dtidli^ tf lii^
Btein and Lauenburg a peeoliar position in CI101
and the aitualion theri^by rendere>d neoa
styled a breucb of tre.]^ ns. An
been carried out in It • pretext o^ IbcMsl^
gations, aod Schleswig ia ^^.u^ni^k aa a pled^a,**
T. J^. Btici:TOi.l
JoaN Braham, twb, Vocalist^ — In Mr. \
Cunningham^ Handbook of London, fnlii. II
suh* tit, ^^ Goodman's Fields Theatre," the un\n
ance of Braham as a boy in 1787 is rocftt^oa
with the addition that, '' In the bill BnJivii
called ' Master Abrahams.* *'
In an advertisement which appeared m
newspapers of August 17, i7«7, annou
entertainments on that evening at th^
Theatre, Well-Street, near Gooduiui 1
(and which is now lying before mc), .a i
** Mapter Bralmm " <> i c.
^ This thifafre wa- r the: first tisM 1
June *iO, 17B7» so tpju
iioimced AS ** T^fa^ter A 1
b»?cn belwcen that clati* in.-i
alk^j^cd bill in exiatisne**, or w ;
misitrd by (a\wt informfltion ?
B^ a V* APmu 16, '640
NOTES AND Q0ERIE&
ai9
IwrBRESTntCl ANTlQWAttUN DtSCOVEfiY. — I
have cut out the following from the Irish Times
of March 24 : —
** A vciy intereilinip dltcorenr has been juiit made itt
conUnuing tlio «xcjivaUofui in the narthex of the oM
Boaihrji of Ban r.|pm«nt» — a fMiintlng^ representing our
SttVJour Aeatcii ' ' ^ 'c^mng the beoeiliGtion to
Iwni ponwuaijk m i m, presented by att^old.
Tbo outBtretcl (' i ^lour is placed according
to the Qreek foniu^ L e. tbt: iLunib and third digit anitp<i.
Tbfl head is very good^ turroundCK] by a deep nimbu$; on
eiUier si'lr —- '-^' length figures of BL Clement and 8t
Andrew, ^ame«p and a long inacription, almoat
niegiUte h I I ternefttb. It it very possible that thia
fresco miw btj til.l^r than the other hitherto discovered in
the nartnex of the BasilicJit possibly dating from the
middle of the Ilth c^nturv. ^L4!i((T from RttmeJ'
Rkucs of Old Lohdos : the Holborn Vallet.
la not tbiH note, a cutting from the Morning Ad-
tertiser of March 25 ult, worthy of preservation
in your more permanent and portable publica-
tion ? —
"Thia great work (the Hoi bom viaduet) will, it i* osti-
mat&d« cost abont 575,000/*, and require $cvon ytan, in
completioo. The pulling down of the hoiLs^s in Skinner
Street has already tieen comraenced witli No. 41, where
WiUiamCiodwin, anthor of Ckkb h^ilh'amn^ kapt a book-
sellers shop, and ptjhiished hi« ^orks for young persona
under the name of Edward Baldwin. In the lunette over
the door wa» an artificial atone relief of iEsop narrating
hia fiibles to children. The curious may $eek in vain the
hoa«o of Strudwick, the grocer* at the a{gn of the Star^ on
Snow Hill, where his friend John Bunyan, author of the
FUgrimU Frogrn*, died, August 12, 1683, This house,
w« Bttspect, waa removed in the formation of Skinner
Street^ in which there is no house old enough to have
been Strud wick's. Ita situation is stated to be on Saow
Hill in moat accounta; but in the fir*t volume of The
LabcmrM of that nuttt eminfr^t Sti ' ' '" '^i**, Mr, John
Bunyan, ton don, 1692, folio, he i have died ' at
hia very loving friend's, Mr. Mi , a grocer, at
ffolbom Bridget London, on Aoguat 8i.' ''
JtrxTA Tdbbim.
CusMttiGEON.^ — I see by the notice in the Mom'
ing^ Post of Ogilvie's Compreheimue Dictionary^
that the etymology of the aoovc word is still un*
decided. \Vhat objection is there to the follow-
ing?—
Ceorl, in Saxon, meang i^ohurl ; Mod, in Saxon,
is mind ; Modig^ the adjective form, means moody;
Ceorlmodig is, therefore, churlish-minded and tlio
substantive formed from it would be ceorlmodi-
gany a churlish-minded one. The change frotn
eevrlmodigan to curmudgeon is easy and natural.
J. C. M.
Makdtr Risks nf the SitvBiiTiifisTH Cektitbt.
•♦A merchaat adv.
blahasuml begrt^nr
ttiakn « Mving vov-
't ;:^ood8 at sea ; and though
/) rrtumoffour^ h<* Hkelv
Jon, AttaL Mel. 1, 2, 3» Ui.
J. D. Cahpbsu^
LIEUT,-COL. RICHARD ELTON: CAPT. OEOBGE
ELTON.
I have before mc a work with the foUowbg
title: —
"Thp r- V - V.-^.v of the Art Military: ExacUy
compile compoaed for the Foot, in tb'e
l>est r«! I oording to the practice of the
Modem TiweA. Divided into Three JBooka: The firsts
contetning the Postures of the Pike and Mutket, with
their Conformities, and the Dignities of Hanks and Filet :
Their maoiier of joyning to the compleating of a Body:
TTiclf a«veral Di*tftnce^ Facings, Doublings, Counter-
march es, Whaeliaga» and Firmga. With divert Experi-
menta upon thigle Filea. The second, compreheoding
twelve Exefdaei.
Via.
Man.
Tbe Til / forth tlic drawing up and exercising
of K*?- r the manner of Trivatc Companies,
with lLi^ ,u i.^ Brigarles, and Armies; the placing of
Cannon and Artillery, according to tbe practice of several
Nations, Armies, and Commanders in Chief. Togelber
with the duties of all private Souldiers and OQicers in a
negimcnt, from a Sentinel to a CoUonel. As also the
Duties of the Military Watches. Lastly, directions for
ordering Regiments or Private Companies to Funeral
Occasions. Illustrated with Variety of Figures of Bat*
tail, \-ery profitable and delightfnl for all Noble and
lieroick Spirits, in a fuller maimer then hath been bere*
toforo publiahed* The second Edition with new Addi*
tiona. hj Hichard Elton, Lievtenant CotloneL Loiid.
for. 1659.
Prefixed is the portrait of the author : W. S.,
fecit. ; John Droeshout, sculp., Lond^ Around
the portrait are miiitary emblems, and this in-
HCription : —
"Vera ct accurata Effigiea Richardi Eltoni Genejoal,
Bristol, nee non artis miUtaria Magistri, Anno 1649,
ifitatis BttSD Z^.**
At the top this coat of arms, Paly of aix . . . ,
and . • . on a bend .... three muileta ....
a crescent for difference. Crest, On a wreath a
dexter arm embowcd in armour holding in the
gauntlet a scimitar. Motto, *' Artibiis et armis."
Under the portrait are these versea : —
♦* If Rome vnto Her conquering Cesara raise
Rich Obelisks, to crowne thier deathles Praise,
What Monument to Thee must Albion rearc.
To shew Thy Motion in a brighter Sphere f
This Art'n too liull to doe*t, *tia onlv done
Best by Thv Selfc ; so light's thr World ihe Sunne.
Wee may admire thv Face, the Sculntor^s Art;
But Wee are extasi'd at th* inward Port."
There are three dedications — y\t* to " Thonma
Lord Fairfax, to the Right Hon. the judiciotJS and
;?raye Trustees of the Militia of the Hon. City of
London (names givpn^, and to the truly valiant
and expertly accompliBhed officers and comman-
ders in warlike affairs, hia fellow soldiers of the
honourable exercise and military meeting in that
lonrtittll area adjoining to Christ CbuT<Ll^^V4»'«*JiKi^^
320
NOTES AND QUEEIE&
[8M&Y. AnoLKi'M.
Major John Haynts, Cftptain Henry Potter^
Cflptftiu Williftin JohnitQCir Master Hickard Habbj,
with the resi of those worthy leaders and souU
diers of that out aociety.^'
The imprimatur of" Sir Nathnnael Brent, April!
13, 1649," 13 at the end; and thou jjh the kingly
oflice waa nb{)lisbedf it is aur rounded by ^ eoUar
of roses aurmounted hy the crown* There are
prefixed commendatory veraei wherein the author
i& called " Major Hichard Ekon," and in two in-
stances "Serjeant-Major Richard Elton "
Another edition Appeared in folio, 1668, with a
Supplement by ThomaH Kndd, Engineer* There
10 a copy in Sion College library. In Beading's
Oatalogue, Elton is called " Colonel/*
I hope some Bristol correspondent may be able
to elucidate Richard Elton's history. It will be
seen that his arms are the same aa those borne bj
the Eltons, baronets*
I shall olfo be dad of any information as to a
Captain George Elton « who lived sometime at
Botterdam^ but was on July 6, 1663, committed
on a chai^ of high treason to the Tower, whence
he was subsequently removed to I^'ewgatei and
ultimately to the Ciistle of Carlisle. His wife was
named EliiEabeth, and he had son named John,
who appears to have been bred a scholar.
Some of George Elton's letters and writings on
religious subjects are preserved in the State Pap^r
Office* I suppose be was a Flflh Manarehy man.
S* A* B.
Turn Rev. Jonzr Aclaku was author of ^ Plan
for r^dering the Poor hidepeudeTii on Public Con'
iribuiimiSy founded on the Smia of the Priendl^
SocietieSt commoniif called Ciubs^ Exeter, Svo,
1786. Infonnation respecting him ii requested.
S* X « R*
Adstkiaw Feebaobs. — Can any correBpondent
refer me to the titles of any Austrian peerages,
print etl at tbe beginning of the last century,
which I should find at the British Museum f
M. B,
Cou>NBii Ballaeh, who dlstingnlshed himself
at the batUe of Bdgebill, was subsequently gover-
nor of one of the king's garrisons, and fell at the
siege of Taunton, 1647 (Warhurton'i Rupert, Vu
13 ; Thomases HiMt, JVofej, 554 \ Poa<!oek*s Army
LutM, 13). His Christian name wiU oblige.
BoispREAni's "BiKHXi."^ — It strikes me m
tome what remarkable tbat Sir K Bulwer-Lytton,
in his Bcreral editions of Riemi^ speaking of the
merits or demerit* of some of his biographers,
does not once quote cff mention that other French
memoir of his hero ; I mean the Mist, de Nic
Rienz^M par M. de Boi»preauJt* It may be out
of print, or perhapa BIr Edward had not heard of
it- Dr* RoherUou^ haweT^, refers to il In hj^
Hiit&ry &f Ckarks V- (vol, L p. I55X wfaenh
touchei so shortly on Rienzt and liis career.
Boispreaux'i work throws little fuTiher I^
probably, on the character and deeda of that ci*
traordioary man : perhaps it la almost a trtnal^
tion from the ItalJan "Life'^ the Baronet moei^
consulted — Vita di Cola di Hieitsi — for Dr.
Robertson refers to them both on the same occft>
ston. Yet it would be interesting to know vb
this unnoticed biographer waa ; * and whet^
hia facts and opinions bear out the two Jwti
and Gibbon, in their nnfayonrable views of Ik
Boman Tribune; or, on the contr^^', tend k
ConBrm those more exalted ideas of hioi wm
Sir Edward has eoneeived and reoorded.
Poasibly some of your correspondenta might ii
able to oblige us with a brief account of the book
if there are copies still in existence. T. S,
Rev. Abchd, BEucB.^The Eev- A. Bmee, i
Whitburn, a leading man in the Scc^ision Chofti
who died in 1316, is said to have written afffn
manjr books and pamphlets, priuci pally ii|i«
passing events, and to have entertained a pdiur
at the Manse, Whitburn* Can an j one gm i
complete list of his produetione F Tliat ia Ik
Scott i$h Natian I have seen, bnt it does m^f-
fegs to be complete. A &.
JosFTu BuEmsToiti — • Infonnation b i^i^
respeetin? this gentleman and bis fami^* »*
was an Irish agitator in I7dd| and la btfinvd to
have been executed, his property beisccQi&fii-
cated« He married, 6rst^ a lady named uudOey.
a member of one of the noble houses of that DioKt
it is thought, and had issue a daughter, bom fi
Cork in 1 773, He married a second time* Per-
haps some of your Irish readers can help me to
further particulari about the llfi3 and ueath a
Joseph B.f his property, hl^ two wivea, and alaj
his desoendants* M, E^
D'AnaicucouET. — ^ Infonnation is wanted re-
specting the family of D'Abrichcourt, a mcmbc
of which WAS one of the founders of the Order i
the Garter, H. C*
DBAtGin or Pltmocth Souhd. — I reoeatif
met with a' curious old charts entitled " A new
and correct large Draught of Plymouth Somtd,
Catt water, and Ilam-owse, by Sam^ Thorn icwu
Hydrographer, at the Si^ of England, SootJaai
and Ireland, in the Minoriea, London*'^ It ii
apparently taken out of a book of charts ; if m,
from what, and at what date was it published?
From the drawinfr of the town of Plymoutbi it ap-
pears to have been made before 1 64S, as it onlf
shows one church (Bt. Andrew's), the church o(
Char lea- the- Martyr not being commenced till a
year or two afterwards. An &d PLTttoimnAii,
[* BdripT^anx ts a pKadonym for Beoigiis DoJiniiB.
Vide Querard, ha J^net Liitirainf aad
jn^te GinimktXT. 117*— En*]
3«« S. V. April 16, "ei]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
321
Db Loobs FABnLT.— By the Doomsday Surrey
it appears that the manor of Guiting Powers, in
Gloucestersliire, was held by Gunuld, the widow
of Geri (Ror^erii) de Loges. Can you inform me
who were her descendants? About a hundred
years after, Roger de Loges was twice sheriff of
Surrey and Sussex. The name subseciuently ap-
6 ears in the county histories of Warwickshire. Sir
Lichard de Loges was lord of the manor of Ches-
terton, I think in the reign of Henry V. D. L.
The Faibus* Sono. — Who is the author, or
translator, of the Welsh Fairies' Song (Can y
Tyhoyth Teg), conmiencing : —
** From gnusy blades, and ferny sliades,
My nappy comrades hie ;
Now day declines, bright Ilesper shines,
And night invades the sky," &c.
?
Febbers Queries. — 1. Where was, and who
has, the property entailed on Ferrers of Chartley
Male?
2. " William de Ferrers, sixth Baron Ferrers, of Chart-
ley, died 28 Hen. VI., 1450-1.
** His Lordship's great landed possessions passed, in
conformity with the entail, upon his only brother, y« Hon.
Edmund Ferrers. This Edmund died ». p." — Burke's
Extinct and Dormant Peerage^ p. 197.
Did Taplow Court, Buckt, and Cookham, Berlu,
form part of the entail ? Hbved.
FoBFETTED EsTATEs iH ScoTiiAKD. -- Can any
of your correspondents inform me whether a com-
plete list of ttie Scotch* estates was ever printed,
which were forfeited durin*r the Rebellions of 1715
and 1745 ? If so, where is it to be found ? A.
Ibish Hebaldic Books and MSS. — When
James II. lefl Ireland after the battle of the
Boyne, he was attended by Sir James Terry, the
Athlone Pursuivant, who took with him ail the
heraldic books and MSS. in his office. From
these he compiled, for presentation to the Cheva-
Uer St. George on his comin;^ of age, a very
splendid book. The Arms of Irish Families, and
Sir James evidently intended to have attached an
account or pedifrree of each family to its respec-
tive coat of arms in his work ; but either from want
of time, or some other cause, he did not carry
thia out
Can any of your Irish heraldic correspondenta
inform me if anything is known respecting the
original books and MSS. which were in Sir
Jam€» Terry's possession? They are probably
still in the Terry family, or deposited in some
libraij in France. Perhaps Mb. D' Alton of
Dubbn may know. Sap. Dom. As.
" Thb Lbttbb Box.-— Who was Oliver Old-
staffe, editor of The Letter Box, a literary peri-
odical of whidi I have vol. i. 8vo. Edin. 1823?
A G.
Mabt, Quebk of Scots.— I believe that the
enemies of this unhappy queen contend, that she
had some offer of rescue during her short im-
prisonment by Bothwell, of which she would not
av^l herself.
I shall be glad to have a reference to any evi-
dence « that her secretary Maitland ever pro-
duced any document in support of this charge, or
alleged this as a fact against the queen. It is but
fair to state that my reason for the inquiry is,
that the draft, or copy of a letter to the queen,
and to this effect, is in my possession, in MaitlancTs
handwriHng. Rich. Almack.
Melfbrd, Saffblk.
Maubice's " Famelt Wobship." — Has there
ever been any criticism of, or reply to, a book of
Prof. Maurice's, entitled Family Worship f If
there has been, where is it to be found ?
Eflow.
"Nbcbomabtia ; A Dialoge of the Poete Lu-
cyen between Menippus and Philonides, for his
Fantesye faynyd for a Mery Pastime, &c. Kastall
me fieri fecit."^ Printed about 1530. This trans-
lation is noticed in the Biographia Dramatiea,
on account of the author having '* reduced his
dialogue into English verse after the manner of
an interlude, &c.'* Is the dialogue written in
anything like a scenic form, or is it simply a lit-
eral versified translation from the Greek of Lu-
cian ? Iota.
Fblham Family. — ^l' notice a great conftision
in the accountd of this family as given in Collins*8
Peerage in different editions. Herbert Pelham,
Esq., an early settler in New England, returned
to England, and his will, dated in 1672, mentions
his grandmother, Eatherine Pelham, sister of
James Thatcher. Berry says that Katberine,
daughter of John Thatcher, married Herbert Pel*
ham ; thus we have the grandfather of our Her*
bert Collins, however, says that Thomas Pel-
ham of Buxted, CO. Sussex, had sons, Anthony
and William, the latter being the ancestor of the
Duke of Newcastle. Anthony had Herbert, who
was bom 1567, and died 1625, and the latter was
father of our Herbert. He also says that the
Herbert, sen., married Elizabeth, daughter of
Thomas West, the second Lord Delaware ; and
his fon marridl Penelope, another daughter. He
also says that a second Klizabeth, niece of these,
and daughter of the third lord, nmrried a Her-
bert Pelham. To add to the confusion. Berry
says Robert Pelham married Elizabeth West.
It seems most probable that Herbert, son of
Anthony, married first, Katherine Thatcher, and
had a second wife Elizabeth West. That his son
Herbert married Penelope West, and had a third
Herbert, who came here, and who probably mar-
ried a Waldo^^N^.
322
NOTES AND QUERIES.
ty*aV,Anui*l*t%ij
The nueries arc, (1) Were there three Her-
bert PelhajJift ? (2.^ Who were their wives ? (3.)
Which Elizabeth West married ti Pclhom ?
As the fuiniiy haH been m distinguished, I pre-
sume some oi' your readers can eaeily answer
these questions, and enable u» to correct a tnaDt-
feit error. W, H. Whjtmobk.
Bo«toD, IT, S. A,
QuoTATiow. — Who is the Author of the fol-
lowing Imes, and where can I find them? —
" KnowIcrtt:« thftt leaves no trAce of acta behind,
Is like mere botly destitute of mind :
Knowledge the ttom* and acta the fruit shoald be ;
*Ti« aimiily for the froitflge grows the tree," &c
Eflow.
Sbpia. — The ink of the cuttlefish was. aa Cicero
gay 5, used aa ink in his day* At present it is used
aa a pigment, untler the names either of India or
China Ink, or the water-colour Sepia. Rome is
the place whither the dry ink-saes are »ent for
aale, and whence the dealers purchase them lu
the crude state* N'aturalista say that the molluscs
shed their ink, or spirt it out» upon the least fear
or alarm. If so, how are the animals taken with
their ink-bags still charged with the colour mat-
ter ? F. S.
ShFTJ^KT's SrtNKHTS ON TttE PtR4MID8. — In
Thackeray's From Cornhill to Cairo, he aay«, that
there is more of intercut in Shelley's two aomicts
iihout the Pyrainids, than in the sight of the
Pyramids themselves. What are these sonnets,
und where are they to be found ? Kot, I think,
in any edition of his works. Poi^yprac.
•* SoLOMOn'a SoHo/* — A poetical version of
thia wag published in 12mo at Glasgow, 1703,
under the title of The Wise or Foolish Choice,
&c, " Done in metre by one of the Ministers of
the Gospel in Glasgow." Is it known which of
them wnj! the poet? Jas* Clark, of the Tron
Church, published about that time Merchandizing
Spiritualized, which might throw the suspicion of
opening " Solomon's Song" upon him, A. G,
Ensign Sittherlakp, — In May, 1833, there
lived in Pitfour, Sutherlandshire (on leave of ab-
sence) an ensign, W, A. Sutherland, 78th High-
land rejjiment, son of Captain Hugh Alexander
Sutherland, and nephew of Lieu tenant- Colonel
Alex. Sutherland, 93rd Highland regiment^ of
Torbreck and Braegrudy. in the parish of Rogut,
Sutherlandshire. Is anything known regarding
£nsign Sutherland or his deK*endant8, if be had
•ucbF A. Mackat.
Berlin.
ViCToma AW© AxttmmT Oei>«ii- — In common
with Mil. WooDWARi>, I als** nin ro know
the particular* in regard To t!i vorn on
the occiiaioa alluded to. I huu uio houour of
suggestinff the institution of f "I ^ ' ' uif
lust December number of th*^ ^f<i
zinc, but had no idea that it a I m.^i»vi.
This new Order will, I tbink t i u^id to '
private decoration worn in nn-nunry o£ Htm
Prince on family gatlienngs; and comEiittl
course, to the immediate members of tliA
family. If such be the case, the idea b S '
beautiful one; and might be extended tft
public under the enlarged title of tlie Order i
Albert the Good, or the Albert Cross, ji#^
to that already existing, and so much pnsei. I
allude, of oourae* to the Victoria Cross,
J. W. BmtA
W^iu^iAM Verral, master of the Wliite
inn nt Lewes, was author of " A CompUU *
of Cookery; in which is set forth a Varirty t
genuine Receipts, collected from several yaa
experience under the celebrated Mr. de ^
Clouet, sometime Cook to his Grace i)»e Boka^
Newcastle. Together with a true diRJuctcr ^
Mons. de St. Clouet. Lond. 8vo» 175a.* h
formation about William Verr&l Qmnd ^fgP^
the date of his death) will oblige. S. 1^ I
SAJJUAGtnfDi. — Who wrote Saimitfrntt^ « i&-j
ceUtineoux Combination of Original
The first edition seems to hnv T^T.
misdated in Watt*s Bihliotheca Bri/^^.
Is it the same book with that al>*'
Watt's Saimogtmdi; or^ Whim^Wheam md t^^
nion** (181L)
The word Salmagundi is used in the \ft't
itselfi p. 93. It is in Johnson said t«> be tc«P»
ruption of selon mon gout, or sale d man goml; 9»i
tleacribed as a mixture of chopped meat
pickled herrings with condiments. But h*«
no (|uotations. Can your readers point <Wtt iy
frequent use anywhere ?
The author seems to have been an Ardid
(p. 77) ; oddly described, in the rery fl«
(p. 75), as ft Deacon*
Thia venerable person was not ortr-clsitiaJt
but he docs not actually wrrto anythmg iciiidalfg^
and his light productions lxth vl^tj &ir pM '^'
ad es, better, as it seemn lU tlioo^ t
Charles Williams, and ^ (h whiell
might naturally be compared.
As usual in tho«e tjm<?s, ihc^r ttilirlcjil
are full of names thinly dt^mu !iiika
asterisks. Some of these 1 frlad i
have explained. In the " I
(p. ^4)* the first line emi
dleftcx.," and the third liiv
to it, ends with " AJdir
be '* Becks/* a cant name i^r
nil. 18. "B*.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[In tlic cditipu of 1 W)I Hio nntnes are printed : —
«John Wilkes h« w«f» for MiddJeacx,
Tb«y clioae tiira knijcht of the shire:
And be madti a fool of A]J<!rniari Bull,
And cAird Fatsoo Hornc a Ujir**]
P, 07. Who is tbe subject of thia son^, who
constructed the Pond-Head near Windsor Great
Park ?
P. 124. Who was •* Lord A~, of White-
haul, near Oxford '* ?
[Willoughby Bertiei fourth Earl of Abingdon. See
Daokia'j Ox/ordMhire^ I, 11 7.3
P, J 32, Scientific men are quizzed on wearing
blue gtockijigg ; now confined to women,
P. 132. Who was " B "?
[" Whero Science eendfi her sonii in stocJcings bloa
To b&rter prfti^e for soup with Montage?
Or point prepare for Boawrirt anecdote,
Or aongs inspire, and tit *eai to hia throat? **
Edit. 180 1.]
P. 136* Doea " S " mean Major Scoir,
Warren Haatings'a advocate in the House of Com-
tnons?
A ft^w popular or slang phmsea In this book
may be compared or contrasted with present use.
P. 134. Golgotha (see note) was tlien, as now,
used for the place occupied by the Cambridge
Heads of Houses in St, Mary's Church.
P. 145. Tcwemy now spelt Tureen,
Omitted, p. 94. Sallad, or salad, as we know,
is in old books written %vMet. In this book per-
haps the turning-point is made ; for it is spelt
sal/ac/, but rhymes to palate.
Omitted also, p. 143. Who was *• B R
G E"?
r"Fame says (bat Ftme a slandVerstaada confess'd),
Dick bit own sprats, like Bamher Gaacmgnc^ dressed."]
EdiL 1801.
And p. 144. What was Kian-Gunpowder ?
[Cayenne pepper. }
Ltttkltojt.
P.S, On looking again, it seems doubtful if the
author meant to describe himself^ an archdeacon,
I for the piece quoted is a ** Free Imitation "^ from
Walter de Mapes, who was Archdeacon of Ox-
ford, and this designation may be meant only for
him* See, however, pp. 18, 19, which rather
give the impression that the writer was a clergy-
man.
[The fditor of Salmaprndi^ 4to. 1791. was the Rev.
f George Huddeaford, M A. of New Coilege, Oxford, and
I Ticar of Ix:txley, co. Warwick* and [most of the articles
[in this humorous production are fhnii bts pen. He
I U alto juithor of the following works: 1. Topwy*
T^rey, with Anecdotes and Obaervationa illastraUve
I fif leading Characters in the Govomnient of Frnoec,
\ 17!»», ?. nuhhh\Hfid Strwnk, n i^A\\^•fmt1s'r^if <>r
\^iitu, tt i^ecottd Couriw of Bubble and Squeak, or lintiab I
Beef Gdli-miwfry'di with a DevdM Bitcuit or two lo
Help Dig^tfatioii. ami cIo«<? the Orifice of the Stomach, 8vo,
179D. In 1801 he collected the abore into two rda,
under the title of T^fc* Poetfu of George ITuddtB/ord^ JML4.,
with Corr^tiona and Original Addition*, In thii edition
the irtiGtos contributed by others to bis StdmafjunHi are
distlagaiflbad with aaterisks. In 1604 he edited The fVit^
f9mi6al Chapigt, a Selection of Original Poetry, compriaing
amaller Poems, serious and comic» Claaeieal* Trifle^, Soii-
neti, iQAcriptionv snd EpiUphs, Sooga and Bailad*,
Mock Hcroicki, Epigrams, Fragments, &c 12rao, Ua
■Aerwards pabliahed fTood and Stone,, a Diiilogae betweea
A Wooden Dttke and a Stone Lion; and La Champi^ona
dm DiatUti or. Imperial Mtttkrooirut a Mock Heroic Puem
in Five Cantos; includiag- a Conference between the
Pope and the De^il on hi« Holine*«*i Vi«t to Paria, illaa*
irated with Notes. 1805. Mr. Huddesford's death occurred
in London in 1809, at the ago of fifty-nine. (Gent, Mag*
1809»ii l2'dH.)—Salfm^fUHdi ; or the Whim- Whams and
Opinions of Lanncelot LangitafTe, Esq. and others, in by
Washington Irving. See Alibone's IHct, o/EmfflUh LUm-
aturt, I 937.]
Obd£r or THB Ei^PHAHT. — Can you inform
me of any reliable authority for the story that
the Order of the Elephant, of Denmark, was in-
stituted by Christian I, in commemoration of the
fidelity of his hound when deserted by his cour-
tiers ; and that he had the letters " T. I. W, B/*
written on the Order—*' Trew is Wildbrat" ?
No mention is ma<le in the Jlistoire de Danne*
marc^ by Mallet ; nor in Selden*a Titlea of Honour,
Bircherodius, in bis Breviariutn Equestre^ or
treatise on the Order of the Elephant, says the
letters "T, L W. B.'* were introduced by Frede-
rick IL| date 15dO ; but no dogi or anj mention
of one« is made. J, J.
[Sir Bernard Burke^ in his Book o/ Ordert o/Kmghi'
hood^ 8vn, 1828, p. 82, states that " the date of the origin
of the Order of the Elephant cannot be lucertained with
historical accaracyr since even the Daniah hi§toriaaa
themielves are not agreed on the point. Some would
have it founded daring the time of the ftrst cruaade,
others in the time of Kanut VL (consequently at the
end of the twelfth century), while others refer its crea-
tion to the second half of the fifteenth century, under
Christian L The Danish goTemment, in its official docu-
ments, aa^anies the dato of the fouadatlon to fall in the
first half of the fifteenth century, while Christian Lp il
says, has only renewed the Order in 1458.]
" Aki>romache,** a tragedy, hr John Crown e,
4to, 1675. This play is said to be a translation
from Rsfine by a young gentleman, chiefly in
pri alterations by Crowne. What is said
iit 1 -e about this? Who wss the young
uji f Iota.
ne has nut divulged the aawA ^ ^<^ "* t^vq^^^
324
NOTES AND QUEEIES.
[8^&y. Aran.l6>*U.
to the Reader," as an apology, if not a nue, for tbe pub-
Ucation of this tragedy. ♦* ThU I thought good to say,"
he tells ns, ** both for the play, and also in my own be-
half, to clear myself of the scandal of this poor transla-
tion, \rherewith I was slandered, in spite of all that I
could say in private, in spite of what the Prologue and
Epilogue affirmed on the stage in publick, which I wrote
in the Translator's name, that if the play met with any
success, he might wholly take to himself a reputation of
which I was not in the least ambitious.**]
KowiKG Match. — Can you give me any infor-
nifttion respecting tbe following extract from T?ie
Weekly Journal, Saturday, August 15th, 1715,
• in my possession ? —
« Monday last, six watermen, who were scullers, rowed
from London Bridge to Chelsea for a silver badge and
livery, which was won by one John Hope ; and this trval
of skill, which is to be performed yearly on the Ist of An-
Est, caused a great eoocoorse of people to be then on the
ver of Thamea."
I think it has something to do with the water-
men of the Lord Mayor. Biukb Rosabu.
[This extract has reference to the first rowing match
founded by that zealous Whig and comic actor, Thomas
Dogget, to commemorate annually the day (August 1st)
on which Greorge L ascended the throne. The competi-
tors are six young watermen*— the prize, a waterman's
eoat and silver badge. The distance rowed extends from
the Old Swan at London Bridge, to the White Swan at
Chelsea, against an adverse tide.]
Witch Tbials. — ^Where can I read anything of
the Witch Trials, conducted by ^latthew Hopkins
in the seventeenth century, to which reference is
made by T. D. P. in his paper on " Norfolk Folk
Lore"(3'*S.T.237)P P. S. C.
[Consult the following scarce works : 1. " A True and
Exact Relation of the several Informations, Examina-
tions, and Confessions of the late Witches executed at
Chelmsford, in the county of Essex, who were condemned
by the Earl of Warwick. Lond. 1645, 4to." Reprinted
at the private press of Charles Clarke, Esq., Great Totham,
1687, 8vo, with a portrait of Hopkins. 2, **A True Rela-
tion of tbe Arraignment of Eighteen Witches at St Ed-
mondsbniy. Lond. 1645, 4to." Vide Bohn's Lawndts,
p. 2960.]
PUNISHMENT: -PEINE FORT ET DLTtE."
(3'* S. V. 255.)
There seems to be some diversity in the evi-
dence as to the persons who suffered the sentence
of "pressing" in 1721.
It appears from the Old Bailey Sessions Papers
that, at the January Sessions in 1720, one Fhil-
lips was " pressed " for a considerable time, until
he begged to stand his trial ; and at the December
Seuhns, 1721, Nfttluuiiel Hawei conUnufid under
the press with 250 lbs. for seren minatet, mnd was
released upon his submission. (Penny Cjfcto. xvil
S73.) From the Nottingham Mercury^ quoted by
Mb. Hailstone, it seems that Thomas Spignt,
a/iVwSpipat, was *' pressed" on January 18, 1721,
and that Phillips did not undcrj^o tbe punishment.
Perhaps the date 1720 mentione<i in my quota-
tion is a clerical error for 1721, which mav have
arisen in extracting the information from the Old
Bailey Sessions Papers. On the other hand, the
report of the Nottingham Mercury may have been
erroneous as to the person who actually suffered.
At all events, it seems that there 'were cases
of "pressing" since December 1721. Mr. Bir-
rington says (JBorr. Antient Statutes^ p. 86), that
he had been furnished with two^ instances in the
reign of George II., one of which happened at
the Sussex Assizes before Baron Thompson, and
the other at Cambridge in 1741, when Mr. Baroo
Carter was the judge. In these later instances
the press was not indicted until,^ by direction of
the judge, the experiment of a minor torture bad
been tried, by tying the culprit's thumbs tigh:!/
together with string, though this course vai
wholly unauthorised by law/* (^Penny C^
xvii. 373.)
As to the language of the judgment gfnt
against Spigat and Phillips, the NoUif^hamMff'
cwry quotes part of the judgment thus: "in'
that upon your bodies shall be laid so mock inoo
and stone as you can bear, and no mortT Tbe
italics are my own. Now in all the forms of Ae
judgment for standing mute, beginning with tbat
which was established in 1406 (Year Book, 8 Hes.
IV. 1), and which substituted the punishment of
pressing to death for the old punishment of im-
prisonment with scarcely enough food to sustain
life, the words and more^ instead of and no mare,
invariably occur. The reason of this is evident,
for the practice of laying weights on the body of
the delinquent was, asBluckstone remarks (Comm.
iv. 328) intended as a species of mercy to him,
by delivering him the sooner from his torment. ^
A form of the judgment, which will be found in
Ilawkins' Pleas of the Crown^ vol. ii. p. 466, is as
follows : —
** That the priBoner shall be remanded to the plan
from Trhence he came, and put in some low dark room,
and there laid on his back without any manner of cover-
ing, except for the privy parts, and that as many weights
shall be laid upon him as he can bear, and more; and
that ho shall have no manner of sustenance, bat of the
worst bread and water, and that he shall not eat the
same day on which he drinks, nor drink the same dav on
which he eat^ and that he shall so continue till he die.**
The following words were added by 14 £d. IV.
8, pi. 17» and 2 Inst. 178, to the word " room'* :—
*< That he shall He without any litter or other thing
wider him, and that one arm shall bt dimwa to OM
quarter of the room with a conl, and the otkor to I
tad that hit ftet shall bo used in the I
axAT. Amu.UI.'M']
NOTES AND QUERIES.
The same
of the sent LI
imciemis with
• Tti&t lie thai I onlv li*vo iliTte momcla of barVj
*-*iite for thtt l»rt
1.? word ** mor^ "
h;%Y9 tliA wtttur m-xt iUd
:o death wt-? n>wiTI«!nMl
.:^ arrnli'TL'
,1-' rriv.v. ; tO the
ivir.t-'J ni ' ^ • i.n:", as if
bread a ^ji iha».
prison, fo that K b<'
The 7>- — •'•- •
by iht-
that ir L. J
wilfully nmt'
offence, he ^li
he had been convicted by yerdict or by confession
of the crime. But now by the statute 7 & S
Geo. IV. c. 28, i. 2, in such a case, a plea of not
guilty can be entered for the prisoner, which is to
have the same ^ect M if he bad pleaded it.
W. J. Till*
CrojdoEL
PAGET AND MILTOH'S WIDOW*
(3** S. V. 193,)
TbOQgb I caanot answer the inquiry of Mr. J.
BiHntsatTix, I can t1 .....^^t.:^^ toward* put-
ting him on the right t ; rsuing it. There
were two (venerations lA .v.. , ... .iuUs, who married
into families of the name of (ioUUmith, as shown
in the pedirrree printed in "N. k Q." (1** 8. i%,
39); and your correspondent, probably misled
by a faulty pedigree among Barrett*s MS. Gene-
alogies in the Chethani Library, and a more than
faulty one by Mr. Palmer of Manchester, has
fallen into an error in stating that the mother
of Thomas Myn-««hull, the apothecary, was Ellen
Goldsmith, the daughter of Richard Goldsmith, of
I^antwich. It was his grandmother who was a
ughter of Goldsmith of Nantwicb. Her name
0 Dorothy ; and her father's may have been
Richard, for anything I know to the contrary ;
but his Christtan name is left blank in the
Cheshire Visitation of 166|. Thomas MynshulKs
mother was, according to that Visitation, Eliza-
beth (or, according to the Lancashire Visitation
of 166|, family of MynshuU of Manchester, Ellen),
the daughter of Nicnolaa Goldsmith, of Bosworth,
tn the county of Leicester. And thereby bangs a
clue to your correspondent's inquiry: for the
Rev, Thomaa Paget, minister of Black ley, and
afterwards Rector of Stockport, is showii (see
"K* & Q.;* !•' S. V. 327) to havejbeen the grand-
ion of the Rev. Harold Paget, Vicar of Rothley,
in the same county. On comparison of the facta
stated in the last-quoted article with that which
heads mj present communication, and another at
1" S. yiii. 452, it appears that the Rev. Thomas
Paget calls Thomus MynshuU, the apothecary,
bis coustn ; and that Thoiniw Ptijret*« pod. Dr.
N.i ' ' ills John r; • ^ " ' I-
bt ' iisins ; stiv ;>:;
pedigree nru t^uoted abore) tnat x nomas ivijn-
abnll waa Elisabeth Milton's uncle* The sub-
joined scheme of a pedigree would reconcile,
and something very like it '^ T,ni.s..iu tn r-ron-
cile, thej»e ?i<iVfriil Hitif^^mK. i^he
link which is want hi;; ti> * , ar-
rittge of a ilaijt:htcr at ^uihoUn ^ , of
PoMvorlh, with the lather oi Tli .h who
iwn to be connected witi, tiounty :
no notice of the Goldsini . b found
ill iNtcholss Lcicrsttrthire^ a se^titU iu the Bot»
worth registry miglit furnish tlj>* required inforiB^
atioll, so might Nicholas Gjildsmith's will. If
your eorrefpondent, or any^ reader in the neigh-
bourhood of Boswortli^ should be induced to make
the search, I hope h*, will communicate the result*
Tlie pedigree, wliich to the extent above ex*
plained, is conjectural, wotild stand thus : —
NlibolM OaliUmlth
RiBrtle iton- TbotnM Hjni- Brt.
Eliaabetb,
•feoIL
I, MUtoa't 1
%tf* Thorani
r*Me^
l>f,- —
Ptfft,
J* F. Marsh*
LEWTS M0RY9.
(3^S.v. 85, 142,219.)
In referrinjBf to the troubles of Lewys MorySp tn
connection with irregularities in his accounts, I did
not say that I did not 6nd them mentioned by any
recognised writer, as Cambrian concludes: I
merely said that such things were found stated in
Welsh Magazines; but at the time I had not
leisure to search for them, nor have I now. But
let me refer Cambriah to the Llanrwst edition of
Owaith Goronwy Owen^ p. 322, I860, where be
wni find a note, appended by the editor, to a letter
of Goronwy's to Rhisiath Morys (the brother of
Lewys) dated May 20, 1766; this note states that
Gornnwy ** refers to some trouble which fell on
Lewys Morys on the part of his official masters;
who (says a tetter which I have seen) threw him
into prison." This note is signed " O. W,** On
the preceding page it la said that it was at this
time that Goronwy wrote his Cyn^dd t Ddiawl
(Couplets to the Devii)^ and that the Ddiawl in
duestion was Lewys Morys himself. Goronwy's
forgiveness of Lewys Morys is shown by the EIe*Ty
an bis death, written in Virginia; a noto. on rTie
of the stanzas (p, 119) say-s of son
"This, and much of what fblln'^rH, {
circumstances which liappi
fore his death; it is not l
more particolarly, further thiin
to explain themselves.'' In a i
Owen Cp. 335) GAjaTi^^ai^^ «»«^q^
!»a,
■ ---uue
MiUebe-
326
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S^aV. AniLlSi'M.
\ William Morys, after the death of bis brother
js (July 23, 1767), he mentions tiiat Sion ab
^d Welshman from Merioneth, had informed
; before his leaving Wales " Lewjs Morjs
had be^ cast in law, turned out of his office,
ruined, alw thrown into prison,** although this
Sion ab HW^ had not heard of his deaUi. (I
translate tbeso^Tarious statements as literally as
possible.) I hNpe that Cabcbrian will be satis-
fied that howeveM'alse the charges against Lewys
Morys of embezz^ment were, and howerer un-
justly he was imprisoned, these things are no in-
ventions of mine, tks^ ^ both " curious ** and
*| true ; ** but that all who wpp familiar with Welsh
literature misht know something about the matter.
If friendly biographers pass such things by in
silence, they omy do what they can to increase
suspicions. ^
I shall be greatly surprised il^any " patriotic
Welshmen** are shocked at he^Hng that Lewys
Morvs obtained a situation ip'^the Custom-house
at Holyhead ; for those wb6 read the works of
Goronwy Owen are familiar with the statement of
Da(ydd Ddu Eryri : — " After a time he (Lewys
Morys) was elevated (derchafwyd ef) to a situa-
tion belonging to the customs at Holyhead.** I
remember the remark from almost as long ago as
when I could first read Welsh.
For the last thirty-three years I have been an
occasional contributor to Weuh magazines, though
no Welshman by birth or ancestry, yet belonging
to^ a true Cymric branch of the Celtic stock ; and I
wish to assure Cambrian that I have no desire to
depreciate anything connected with Welsh litera-
ture or literary men; that I highly value the
language (one which I learned many years ago
with enthusiasm) ; but in my long acquaintance
with Welsh literature, I am struck with the want
of appreciation shown to the living, and with the
manner in which praise is bestowed thickly on the
dead. Some discrimination in these things might
be judicious : also, it is not wise to represent men
who have risen as though they had through birth
that which they have obtained by abilities and
exertions. A nomu homo is not elevated by giving
him a supposed position. L.£lius.
HARVEY OF WANGEY HOUSE.
(S'* S. V. 247.)
So much interest seems to be felt in the Har-
veys of Wangey and Aldborough Hatch, in con-
sequence I suppose of their connexion with Dr.
Donne, that I am induced to publish idl the
entries of the family to be found in the parish
registers of Dagenham, Barking, &c. ; and also
the very ouaint epitaph of James Harvey, at Da-
genham, by way of addenda to my note on the
the family m " N. k Q.,** a-* S. v. 42.
Many more Harvey entries m^ear in these
registers, but they manifestly reuOe to fimiliei
holding an inferior social position to the Donne
Harveys.
No record of Samuel Harvey*s burial, nor of
the burial of hb first wife Constance Donne, ap-
pears at Dagenham. He died in, or aboat^ the
year 1655, and was most likely buried in tiie
family vault at Dagenham; but the register there
was at that time badl^ kept. It is posMble, how-
ever, that he was buned with his grandfather, Sir
James Harvey at St Dionis Backchurch.
KNTBIES AT DAOKHHAM.
{BegUter he^ 1598.)
1598-9. Issabell, y daughter of James Harvie, gectk-
man, was bapt. y* dale of Feb.
[Of Wangey House, second son of Sir James Harrcr.]
1600. John, the sonne of James Harvie, gentleman, wa
bapt. the 23 Sept
1602. Thomas, the sonne of James Hanrye, gent, bi^
the 21 Julie.
1604. Mary, the daughter of Mr. James Hanriep bnt
20 Nov.
1605. Sarah filia Jacobi Haruve Armiger, bapt IS Dk
1607. Samuel, sonne Jacobi HaruiArmiger bapt 6 i|al
[Married at Camberwell, June 24, 1630, to ContM
daughter of Dr. Donne, and widow of £iM
AUeyn.]
1609. MarUia, daughter of James Hamve^ £sq^^
29 of Sept
1612. Rebecca, y« daughter of James Harvye, "Em^ \i^
26 of Oct
1614. Thomas, sonne of Mr. James Harvje, bapt 17 (K
1616. Edward, sonne of James Harvye, Esq., bapt t*
30 June.
1659. Thomas, sonne of James Harvey, Esq., bapt Dec
24, 1659.
[Second son of Samuel and Constance Harvey.]
1661. Anne, daughter of Mr. James Harvey, bapt May 31.
1663. James, the sonne of Mr. James Harvey, bapt
Aug. 8.
1664. Winnifrith, the daughter of Mr. Thomas Harm,
bapt May 30.
. Elizabeth, y« daughter of James Harvy, Esq., bapt
Dec 16.
1665. Katherine, daughter of James Harvey, Esq., bapt
Dec 11.
1667. John, sone of James Harvey, Esq., bapt Aug. 29.
1615. Edward Osborne, Eaq^ and Frances, dangbtar of
James Harvye, Esq., marryed 4 Decembris.
1624. Roger Thometon, Esq., wid., and Ann Hervjti
sing., were marryed y« third of June.
1603. Thomas, the sonne of James Harvie, gent, bmyid
the 24 Oct
1605. Sarah, daughter to James Haruye, Esquire, sepolt
Dec
1609. Thomas Haruve, buried 30 Nov.
1610. Mr. William llaruje, gent., buried y* 9 March.
[Youngest son of Sir James Harney of Wangev
House.]
1614. Thomas, sonn of James Haruye, Esq., bvried 14 of
March.
1616. James and Edward, sonnes of Jamsa Hii^y% Ha^
boiyed y 26 Sept.
Bf«* a T. Apml 16. *64]
NOTES AND QUERIES,
327
162& Martha, daoghtei' of Jamea Qarvye, Esq., Iiiu]r«d
y* 14 of Mareli.
1627. Ma*" Jecinei Haniey, Em., baryed y* 3 of Apgrili.
His UoniLment in the i>orti«r cf y* Yeatry.
— ^ Rcbeecflt daughter of Mn, Hftrvy, wid.» burj'cdy*
4 ofJuncu
1638. France* Harvey, buryecl Jan. 23.
1644. SasannA, the wyfla of Mr. SamoeH ELarueVf bofyeU
April 9.
1656. John Hoirtj, Eaq^ buryed Sa()t. 20,
[1 am not aun if tbta gentleman waa elder broUiar
or eldest aoD of Samuel Uarvoy.]
16<i8, John, wn of James Harvey, Eaq^ buried Oct 21,
1670. Ann, daughter of Mr. Harveyi Kiiq., buried Nov. B.
1CT2. A Major Deringham, from Mr. Harviei, Jan. 21.
. Arm,\dfeof J&meaHarrey, E«q., buried Jane the 12.
[1 Miere that tht waa daughter of Thomas Bon-
ham, Ks(]^ of TaJonee: a carious old moated houae,
itilt standing, near Waiigvy Houae.]
i677-a. Jomea Hamsy, Gent, buiyed Jan. 21.
[Seconds on, and cveotaal heir, of Samuel Harvey.
He sold the Waogey estate shortly before hit
death.]
BA&JUHG REGiarsu.
1C32» Tbomaa, the sonne of Mr. Samuel Horvy, bapt. at
Aubrey Hatch, SepL 13.
1631. ffroncia, daughter of jLimcii Horvle, bapt. Jan. 23.
1024. Cftptaine Harv SepL 16.
1G30. John Haruie, : j7.
16S5. KHzabetli Hojw. ; ,..we, Jan. 19.
k Fraoces Harvcy/widdowt, March S.
nOUFORD R£016TJ£K.
1634 Jatues Hairey, son of Samuel, at HaTering, bapt.
JuJy 7.
1648. Agues Harvie, daughter of Samuel Harvie, gent.,
bapt. Nov. 17.
[Samuel Harvey inherited Poodmana, and other
estatea, in Romford purisb.]
OORNCHUKOH BKOISTER.
1&98. Mr. Nicholoi Coirtrood and Mrs. Elizabeth Harvye,
married Aug. 31,
U99. Sebastian Harvy, gent., and Mary Tryon, of the
pariah of St, Chcutfer's, in London, married
Api^28.
[£ld«at son of Sir James Harvey : died 21 Feb. 1620. ]
STliATPOXtD*LB-BOW ILBOISTER.
1622. Sr Thomas Hyntonp of Chilton FoUot, Knt., and
the Lady Mary Harvie^ late wife of Sir Sebas*
tiun Harvie, iCnt., married OcL 1.
[Quoted by Lyiona.]
On east wall of the rectorV cbaticel (used as a
ve«lry room), Dagenham churoli : — Arrrn, Or, ft
chevron between three leopards* face^t gules, for
Hsrvey. Argent, two bends eo^n-niied sable, n
lubel of three points (query gulea ?), for RadcliFc.
Siiise, inipaleo, at bottom.
Iftttrifftion,
•• Were hero 00 Epiiii] »,
Nor line, iior raarbli itnt,
Yet goodne* hath a
ThN jvst are Hku to ^ (ye,
Tbctr tlt'Mh 1 pi?i^n, ■ ^ i it,
An
Tl,:
The 1
w pontes
><..:» uutl holvufiaa
Now God itwaHi ih^-irH niim*.* fin>^ ''horitve,
Their strict ob>
Here were they ivcnth day,
He«re wa* theiro [uu« , Mjcjr lit*:, thtiie Heaven's way.
Heefo did they pray, bvt now they prsiseji singe.
And God accepts their Sovles fweete OSerioge.
<ln1e^e theirs bodyes heen remaiue in ground,
Waittnge the STrge of the last Trympet*s sovod.
** Heerv treth Jamcs Barvt, Esq., second Sonne of
S' James rfarvj', Knt, some tyme Lord Mavor of Lon*
:{ TT Tooke to wife Ehiabeih, second ^vghter of
idcliAe, some tyme Alderman of Losdou ; and
ji her la holy wedlocke above six ^and- thirty
yeorea, and had iasve by her eight Sonnes and nine
darghters; he departed this life the second of April,
An* DoL 1627, satotis tvx 67 : and the said Elisabeth
svrvived htm one yeare and odd dayes, and departed thja
tife the eight of Ivne^ Au« l)aL U2S^ statis tvi& 95.* . . .
whose bodysfl are both heere interred, wayriog for the
gloriora Cotainge of orr Blessed Sairiorr."
Ei>wAii» J. Saqk.
Stoke Nawiogton,
A GEHTi;]£MAit*8 SiourT (3'* S. V. 281)^1 know
Dot to whom the signet urny belong ; but 93 to
the crest, it belongs tn the Ikiuity of Hurobrugh^
of Horsbrugh, in Peeble«hire, i^oiuetimes called
Horsbrugb of Pirn, from another estate which
they possess in the county. A brunch of the amne
family has been long settled in Fife, and they also
use the crest* The legimd about tbe crest, how
it was obtained, and the meaning of the nonie,
may be found in an old book, entitled The SeauHev
of Seodandy in the account of Feebleahire* I have
not a copy of the book ; but so fas as I remember,
it contamjs a sketch of Horsbrugb Gas tie, now h
ruin. J. H.
Ej>WAa0 HAnrDBif Rojb (Z^ S. v. 259.) — I
well remember that poor Kose waa an ordinary
B«aman on board ** LTmpetueux/* of eighty gufis ;
and that while belonging to that ship, he pub-
lished various small poems in newspopers, and in
the old Naml Chronicle, under the signature of
** A Foremast Man."
The Sea Devil^ to which R, L alludes, was not
published at the time I speak of; but it is said to
nave evinced much knowledge of human nature^
though with a tendency to satire.
With a view of bettering his condition, Rose
was sent from ^* L*Impetueux " into the ** Senai-
ramia " frigate as puraer^s steward! He died in
the Naval licspital at Plymouth, in 1810, of a con-
sumption ; alleged to be a consequence of his
having served on shore in the pestilent marshet
of Walch«:^ren. Some elegiac verses to bis uie-
mory, signed "N. T. C," are to be »een in the
iwenty-lourth volume of the Narml ChranicU,
pp* 32-5. 326. 2.
• Her burial i*
uutii*ed inaiiv imch ^.i.^.
ut* register. I huve
i.ahaTOi.
328
NOTES AND QUEBIES
[8^8.y. AmLU.IC
Governors of Guernsrt (3'*^ S. iv. 456.) —
The following names mre given in Warburton*s
Treatiie on the History, Lawa^ cmd Cuitoms of the
Island of Guernsey (1822) : —
" 1554. Leonard Cbamberlaine, and Francis Chamber-
laine. The words of the patent are :— * Ipsoiq.
L^on. et Franc. Chamberlaine^ Gapitaneos,
Costodes, Gubemaiorut et eomm utramq.
Capt Gust et GvJbem, Insulamm et Castro-
mm, &c* Pat. 1 and 2 Maria, p. 18. (Jnly
26, 1554—24 July, 1555.)
** 1570. Sir Thomas Leighton, 12 EUz. (Nov. 17, 1569
—Nov. 16, 1570.) The Lord Zoache was bis
Dqnttu Governor, and is, in an order of Coun-
cil, called his substitute.
** The Bcdlifft of Guemtey, during the reign of Eliza-
beth were —
** 1549—1562. Hellier Gosselin.
1563—1571. Thomas Compton.
1571 — ir)81. Guillaume De Beauvoir.
1581 — 1687. Thomas Wigmore; who was deprived
of his post Sept. 16, 1587, by Older of
of the Queen.
1588—1600. Louis Devyck; who resigned, because
of sickness.
1600—1631. Amice de Carteret"
The former of each of the double dates is the
year when ** sworn in." As somewhat fuller than
the list given from Berry's History of Ouemsey^
I venture to send this, for the information of In-
QUisrrus. A. S A.
Gbbbk £pigram (3'* S. t. 195, 269.) —
N^ioi' itpriBaX^ yvfiv6v t' M yo6vturi fxitTp6sy
i^<pi <rt fitiirjcay ^OKpvdtvra <pi\ot '
*ni fc£5i', i)s tnarSy tok itrtp^ova y* Orvov i^pwwPf
iaKpvufyras Spwv ftc(8i({ots (Tv ipi\ovs.
Can any of your readers point out where the
Arabic text can be found ?* The Enpillsh version
attributed to Carlyle by the Autkologia Oxoniensis
is in my private MS. copy ascribed to the late
Rev. C. Col ton, the author of Lncon, in which in-
stead of *' So live Uiat in thy latest hour," is read
" at thy dying hour ;" and for " we " and " floods"
of the following line, " they " and " flood." Some
trifling variants also occur in the other English
form given in 3'* S. v. 195. Wittalp.
Conservative Club.
Sack (2-* S. xii. 287, 452, 468.)— By a singular
coincidence I called upon a wine-merchant and
was invited to taste *' a cup of sack " with him on
the same day that I chanced to light upon certain
notes in your Second Series in reference to this
word. The wine given me as a great honour by
my friend, who is of the old school, had been im-
ported by him many years ago from the Cmiaries,
and 1 was assured that the only real thing of the
kin<l was, and is, a Canary wine. He added that
sherris such, beloved of FalstaflT, was either a made
wine or else a negus, maintaining that sachpure was
[• The Arabic text is given by Mr. Carlyle in his
Specimau ofJrabitM JPotiry, p. 25.— Eix]
only to be had from the Canari€$. It obtained iti
name, he sud, no doubt, from the Mmrce indicated
by Qubsm's Gabdbns, viz., from Maeemty tht goal-
skin sack in which the wine was originnlW brought
down fh>m the mountain-side Tineyara. S<Niie
one present contended for sec or nccut^ but the
wuie was anything but dry. It agreed wiUi M. F.*i
description (2"^ S. xii. 452), pale amber in colour,
slightly sweet, just a wee bit earthj, and if
pleasant and sedactiTe, I fear, to m jacli; a poor
curate, and therefore, per force, a teniperate man,
as to the ft<m tfivant Falstaff. The rana of ** lOi.
a pinte of sack and a role,** was, according to fre-
auent entries in the churdiwardena* accounts of
the parish in which I reside, the usual Testry
dlowance for lecturers and preachers in tbeseTen-
teenth century. Sometimes it is *'*' a pinte of Cs-
narie.** From the wealth and importance of Cftp
narie merchants, this must have been a popular
drink in Shakspeare*s time, and during the Stuan
dynasty. See The Life of Marmaduke Rmcdox
Camden Society, 1863. Juxta Turbul
Count de Montalembbbt (8'* S- iw. 453.) —
Charles-Forbes Comte de Montalembert, watbon
March 10, 1810, in London, where his £itks;
Marc-R6ne, descended from an ancient familji
Poitou, was then residing as an emigri; i
mother* was Eliza, only daughter of Mr. Jafi
Forbes, F.G.S., F.R.S., F.A.S., &c^ author i
Oriental Memoirs (1813), and of several other
works. Mr. Forbes was born in 1749, in Loodoo,
of a Scottish family, and died Auj?. 1,1819; he wis
in the civil service of the East India Company at
Bombay from 1765 to 1783; and bein^ in France
in 1 803, he was among the numerous detenus con-
fined at Verdun, but was released with his family
in 1804, as a man of science, by the mediation of
the French Institute, a fact highly honourable to
that learned body, and creditable to Napoleon.
Though I am unable to affiliate Mr. Forbes with
the Aberdeenshire family of the same name, either
at Donsideor Corsindae, the fact is very probable;
and it reflects honour on Scotland, or any country,
to be connected with such a philosopher and
Christian as Montalembert. Local inquiries could
surely elucidate the descent, and Scotus must
have opportunities of doing so, which I cannot
possess in India. A. S. A.
MoBGAKATic (3"* S. V. 235.) — In attributing
to morganatic marriao:cs any connection with the
Fata Morgana, I take it for granted that Db.
Bell is merely indulging in a play of fancy. But
as the word is, as he observes, one of considerable
importance at the present day, it may not be amiss
to look into what its etymology really is. A letV
handed or morganatic marriage is one contracted
* Who is styled ** a Scotch lady of strong character,
and remarkable ability'' (characteristics inhentad by her
distingaished son).
a^&.V. Arwt.l«,'«4.2
NOTBS AJfD QUEBIEa
339
r-if t
ai"^v#iir«iirrn hmiat« 91
trl .> *^U0
any par
£ngli&li
of the
from Uii6 %it>i'ii — or, aa iieiui^cius hupbonei, if* .
«Hor^£i^Rba/ir — WM Ibrmed the Low Lutiti mo)
ic, and A miirriAge oontroctod on ihene tenui»
iiy led matrimmium od hg^m vtorg^maticam,
nflture of iucli ft to < clearly aod buc-
cinctlj »c?t forth by ii , EUmenta JtirU
Oermtmicif lib* L § 31 1 : —
'*Kitur{i BC Indolefl earnm [nuptiaraml coniistii in
pstctif marrj^inatieo, qno» acceptfa certia pneaii^ V€l pro-
tDimd crrih peenntft* flammflkr tuni tutoT* turn liberi mdo
iiAtJ, «t digit liatif patenziB ct sucoedenda joria exaorttfl
M&LBTE8«
LojfiMjH Smokb, etc. (3'^ S. ▼. 258.) —A re-
flection from the numerous iron works in the dis-
trict adjacent to Dudley, popularly called the
Black Country, is i1i-tnu ilv visible at nig-ht from
my residence in V^' • iiire, twenty miles dis-
tant, exhibiting ii i illumination of the sky
in that direction, 8(»nie years paist, on asccndtnj^ the
Brown Clee Hill^ the lijgHest elevation in Shroj)-
shire, I observed the larch plantations near the sum-
mit covered with a smoky deposit, similar to the
trees in the London park?. This is said to ari^e
from the smoke of the iron district above men-
tioned being carried by elevated currents of air,
nntil deposited on this lofty isolated hill, the first
high emmenee to the westward, and at least four-
teen miles distant. Has such a phenomenon of
&dteMi|B|g|e been observed cUewliere ?
^^B^m^^f ThoS. E. WilfKIHQTOlT.
Reliabi^ (3^* S. V. 260,> — 1 have a word to
say on beh*df of *' reliable,** and am encourai?e<l t»3
sty it now by observing, that the laat objector Ui
the term who ap^iears in **N. k Q-"' has had the
kiaditcsa to ttate Uia objection in clear terms. We
may 9^y ** justifiable'* from ** to justiiy ;** but we
cannot nay "dependable'* from "totfepend on,**
because of the ** on.** " Beliable,** from **to rely
on," is equjUly faulty.
I would submit, however, that ** reliable" refts
on much the same footing as " liable ;" both must
stand or fiill together. Liable is from the French
Her : reliable is from the Frc ' * •.
First, from /t>r, to bind, c >, properly
meaning; ** that maybe bouiiu : rh/jice, one that
is answenible ; one that i« actually obliged, m
Ijiw "t- - ri.Mf^',— w'itii other meanings.
S trom Tflter (also in the sense of to
hill • j/n Iwre^ to bind a book,) eomes
**»^' ty 'Hhat may be bound," aod
So when the quesfcioii m about liberating tk
prisoner on bail, the hail^ if rood and sufficients is
;iUlp-" and may be taken; i, ^. the person
iiijiflf us surety may be hound for the
MM>:'iirance in court, and the prisoner
I from custody. In a more ex*
^ any person or any thing oa
ice can be pkced, may be called
It jii;iy be freely panted, that if *^ieUable**
bad no belter source than the verb ** to rely
upon,** the etymolo^ would be vicious, as shown
by your correspondent. But thiii, I would humbly
submit, is not the whole of the story. As ** liable'*
from Uer, so " reliable** from relier, Sguxh*
MsDUiivAL CHi;iaca£i nr Romas Camps (3'^ S.
V. 173) — Some years ago, at Chcster-le- Street,
in Durham, I was present at some excavations
where insci'lpttoais proved that the second legion of
the Tuugrians had once been quartert'd there. In-
?uiring where was the supposed site of the statiuo,
was shown an oblon*^ siie, parallel to the Grt^at
North Road, and containing within it not only
if ' V I hureh and church)^ ard, but (unle&i my
r il:i me) &l:iO the rectory and gardens.
CruisjuLj jnif whether this fact worked for or against
the troiditionary locality, I concluded the»t in its
favour^ reasoning thu6, that when the last Human
soldier left it, the neighbours remaining would noi
permit it to go into any private appropriation utileis
by arrangement, and therefore it would remain
common to them all, and a very likely site to be de-
voted for all public pur[>oseis and especially for
those of worship, on the introduction of Chris-
tianity. Viewed thus, I think that where tradi-
tion places the site of a station around a church or
any other public institution, such tradition has
the probabuitieu in its favour, K. N.
Stm Jmim Mooez^s Morument (3^<* 8. r. 2e»>)—
Your correspondent Davio Gam is not perhaps
aware, that the inscription on the monument of
Hh John Moore, At Qoruua, if in Latin, and runs
tbus: —
*< Hie eeoidit Jottnnes Mooru :
J3(ix £a«rcttui: in pa^roA;
Jan. xvi, lfi09: cotilra GsUos;
^A Dac« Dakiatia ductos.''
The <?f ftsph as given by Borrow, ts not, there*
fpT <L Indeed, his well-known work,
7 at 11^ is not to be depended upon ;
it !> ruli ol ID iiL curacies and misstatements. Mr,
Ford, in his Handbook of Spain (Part u. p. 597,
London, 18d5), gives a shf i^ i - v— - -i^ monu-
incnL it appi'iirs that the led and
cijcloseil, iu 1B24, by oui '^-tt;
by the order, and at the ' i i !sh
^vcrument. In the year *..,zh*
redo, who had lived some t i rabed a
subscriptioa amongst his Ll^..^ ....j.
330
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[d^S. V^ Araa. 16,^4.
the tomb, and planted aboat two acres of ground
afl a public walk, or Alameda*
It was not Soult, or the "chivalrotts French'*
who rawed the monument, but the English go-
vernment. Soult, however, added the inscrip-
tion ; which seems to have given some offence to
the Spaniards. The inscription was orifrinally
cut on a rock, adjoining the spot where the gal-
lant General fell* J. Daltom.
Korwich*
PoBTiCAX QuoTiTioM (3** S* li. 9.) — The paa-
lage beginning, " As when they went for Pales-
tine" i^ from "The Aristoci*acy of France,*' in a
volume of Historic Pancies^ by Hon. Geo. Sydney
Smythe, M.P. London, 1844. W. S. Appi-bton.
Familt of Nicuolas Bayi.et (3"* S- iv. 351.)
Some account of the descendants of Nicholas Bay-
ley may be found in Burke's HiMtory of the Landed
Gentry^ edition of 1853, under the family of the
name ; also in an^ genealogical account of the
Paget family^ as in the Supplement to Collins'a
Peerage, Concerning his ancestors, I believe
nothing more in known than can be read in the
Athenm Oxomemet. The statement inserted by
Dr, Bliss that Nicholas Bayley was the biahop^a
younger son is probably wrong, and is entirely at
variance with the words of Ant. A'Wood himself;
every other authority with which I am fami-
liar, makes him to be the eldest son and heir. I
will add here a fact which seems not to have been
known to any biographer of the bishop, that his
second wife was Judith, daughter of Thomas
Appleton of Holbn^ok Hall, in Little Walding-
field, Suffolk, and sister of Samuel Appleton, who
emigrated to New England in 1635. She was
the mother of the bishop's younger sons Theodore
and Thomas. Her son Thomas carelessly calls
her a knight's daughter, whereas it was her oldest
brother L»aaC| who received that honour in 1603.
W. S- AppLBTOpr,
Boston, Mttsa., U, a A
LONGEVITT OF ImCITMBBHT AK© CuaATK (3'* S.
▼. 257,)— I am surprised that Juxta Tukrim, or
some other contributor, has never sent you the
remarkable instance of the Rev. Samuel Johnes
Knight, vicar of Allhallown Barking for sixty-
nine years, from 1783 to 1852; and that of hig
loeum teneriM (for the vicai" never resided), the
Bev* Henry G. White, curate of the same parish
wd to the flame incumbent, fur furty-two years.
E. S. C.
Hkealdic (3*^* S. v. tai3.)— Sandford, in his
QehtalttgicuX Uistory of Engtmui, describes the
coat armour of Lionel of Antwerp, Duke of
Clarence, taken from monuments at We*tmin8t4*r
and Windsor, thu**:— Quurlerly France and Eng-
land Semce, a lal>ct of 3 p^nnt^ inr. nt t.u'h thiWU'd
with a canton gultv*. * .^
the arms of John ol ' niA
ermine, to distinguinh his coat from liia
Lionel, The arms of Richard, Earl of Cambfidffi,
and Anne Mortimer his wife, weri? in thi? tAo'
window of Fotheringhay: quarr '
Englxind, a label of 3 points ar-
with as many torteaux, impalii
Burgh. I cannot discover any
Riebard, Duke of York, his son. Uc
Clarence bore a distinctive label ol
gent, charged with a canton gules. 14 is a j
Margaret, Countess of Salisbuiy, bore t^
arms, together with those of Salisbury,
champ, and Warwick^ Thos. E. WunrurG
Akontmods CoNTamCTioss to ** ^
S- v. 307.) — As others are giving i i .
perhaps one who has been a contributur tVo
second volume of the First Series may be i '
a few lines. I concur with all that P&ori
Db Mokoan says, except that the editor shodl]
"never print anything without being in
posj^ession of the writer's name/' IIa.d tbiii fciai<|
the rule, I should never have hegufi to contr
Many apparently trifling queries have led to j
correspondence, though probably the qti
would have thought them too trifling for en
their cards. An anonymous statement o^ ( _
I presume, is always rejected. In quoting 6s
books it is desirable that the chapter, pagci, d>
edition should be given ; and I have often de^sl
what seemed to me a satisfactory communlciiii
because I would not quote at second-hand ^^ 1
might expect to do at first. If a verificaliB h
made at tne British Museuoit the book tick^ ii >
good voucher.
" N. & Q " has grown loo big fur lodgin^^ ipl
is obliged to have a house. \\ ith such eridefiae
of thriving, I should thiuk a long time bef<>rc id-
vising any change. H. B. C *
Paul Bowes H-* S. vii. 547 1 a** S* v. 247*) —
His son Martin, born in London, was adisttlid •
pensioner of St. John's College, Cambridge, A{ff^
16f 1686, set. sixteen, but took no degree.
C, IL & THOBfpsoiif Coorxi.
"Cbntcet or iNvjBNTtonB " (jy^ S. T. 155.)—
Watt, in his Bibliotheca Britannica, meotions wj
the London edition of 1603. I pijssets another it
1767, printed by Foul is, Glasgow, in the beaatifal
type of that press, but htive no knowlcdjjc of any
others, Tuos. E. WtsmucttTo*.
AjfTDowT H AMMONIA, li"* S. xi. 431, 4B^i x5.
33, 56, contains references to the ** silver* to«f««4
Hsimmond " in the early psu-t of the In^t cenliiiy
M.P. for Huntingdon, and Ctn the
Navy. A common-place b«»k • Ttl
other note-books in htn liHiult^ : uwd to
be pre»ierved in rijo Kuwliniiun rW Bod*
letan Library. He in suid to L;iVi 'U«tl»
[• n It. a i* ri».'ht. \VV ^liflffl hh t**- >^ 1
3n« 8. T. AnuL 18. •«*] NOTES AND QUERIES.
331
»
I
Being interested in tiie pencx], 1700-30, I should
be glad to obtain any particulars of any sucli
poemfi* I bnve evidence that he was a pampliletenr,
and ti bcK»k collector, in a thick octavo volume of
TracU, dftted from 1710 to 1725. To this volume
he baa written ti tuble of contentp^ occupying two
pages, &nd hnit also annotated the margins. No* 5
is, *' Some Keniarks nnd Observationa relating to
the TranMclions of the Year 1720*' (pp* 27),
London, 17*24, In the contents Mr. liaraniond hiia
written, " Bubble year, 1720. Stole iVom No. (9)/'
Behind the title, '"27 March, 1725. Ant Ham-
mond.** I do not stop to quote his mari^inal notes,
which are chiel^r verbal^ but turn to No. 9, in the
aame volume^ ** A Modest Apology occasioned by
the late unhappy Turn of Affairs with Relation to
Public Credit, fay a Gentleman. In/elicit Domutt
unicm clieuM,^" (pp.29). London, 1721. In the
contents, after the word " Credit," he has written
"p. A, H. Vid. the plaginrism^ No. (5).*' On the
the title, after the word ** Gentleman,** is written,
•*p, A. H.'* Behind the title, *' 24 June. 1725,
Ant. Hammond." The tract is a clear, concise,
und moderate retrospect of the preceding year, in
which (besides thofte covered by act*! of parlia-
ment), Mr, Hammond sayti he had made a list of
one hundred and seven bubbles, with a nominal
fltock of 93,600,000^., involving a loss of 1 4,040,000/.
No. 2 in the volume is entitled ** Advice and Con-
giderations for the Electors of Great Britain"
(pp. 32). London, 1722. At the back of the title
Mr. Hammond has written, *• This pamphlet was
writ by WilL Wood, Esq. It contains many use-
ful Guiculations relating to the public debtd, re*
tentiea, and trade. 26 Mar. 1725. Ant. Ham-
mond/' I ought to add that a considerable part
of Tract No. 5 in the volume, is clearly stolen
from that written by Mr. Hammond, No. 9.
W. Lbe.
The Passing Bbll or St. SEeuLcuEE's (3"* S.
J V. 170^ — ^In the letter quoted by your correspon-
dent, T, B., it is stated, ** that the parish of St.
Sepulchre should appoint some one to go to New-
fate on the night previous to the ejtecution/' &c.
^ *rom the following extract from Stowe*s Londoti^
1G18. p. 25, it would appear that the exhortation
to repentance ought to be repeated by a clergy^
I man : —
••Rfib^ D«ii^ citizen and merchant taylw, of Ix)ndon,
nah chtuth of St. Sepulchred the sonittic of
r the aevtral seMioDs uf London, ^ hen the
— .-.,*.4i in the gaote, aa condcinned men to death,
espucriinf: esi'cution on the morrow following^, the clarke
rthnt 1*^ thr jHtrjtrrri^ of thf ""htiifh t^lioold come in th«
In tht? morning, to M«?
lye, and thens rinjcjng
]M>inteil for the piir{>09«,
h« *i fian mnnner) put them
in " ..»n, and ensuing execu-
tion, u.'bUiHt; '^'^1" t*' '•« i»rep«ired therefore u they
ought to be, \\li<io thev urc in tho cart, and brought
before the wall of the church, there he utatiileth rf!>ady
with the fksroe bell, and, after certain toles, reb«a»eth an
appointed prater, desiring all the people then pnieent to
6r»y for them. The beadle al*o of Merchant Tayloii*
[all hath an honest itipend allowed to ma that tlbiii is
dtiely dune,"
W. L S, HoxTOK.
DAiftfU Right op Succe«8Iok (3^* S. v. 134.)
G. E. ia in error in supposing that in the play of
Hamlet the Danish right of succession is never
adverted to. Like other crowns in early days, the
crown of Denmark was (within certain finiita)
elective; and Hamlet expressly compbiina of hia
uncle having " popped in oetween the election and
his hopes." For further observations on the »ub»
ject, G. E» i& referred to two notes; the one by
Steevens, the other by Blackstone, in Reed a edi-
tion of Shahgpean!, 1793, vol. xv* p. 33. P, S. C.
QooTATiopr (3'« S. V. 174.) —R. C. H. is in-
formed that the lines he alludea to as beinp quoted
by the late Lord Campbell, and commencing —
"* Her did you freely from your aoul forgive? '
' Sure a« I hope before my Judge to live," " Ad
are by the Rev. G. Crabbe, and are to be found in
his Tales of the Hall, from the one, I believe, en-
titled '* Sir Owen Dale.^ R, D. 8.
Patrician Famioes'op Brussels (S'* S. v. 174.)
Tbe lignages^ or patrician families of Brussels,
were ; —
1. S^Leeitw^s-gcHlachte : The race of the lion.
Arm*. Guies, a lion rampant, BTg* armed and
lajigued, azure«
2. S We&rU'^exlachte : Race of the Host (^«-
pUU). Emancho, argent and gules.
3. ST Hughe KittiM^gesiachte : Race of the sons
of Hugh ; called also Chttings. Az. three fleur-
de-lya org. (2 and 1).
4. Ser Roeh/s'geisiachte : Race of Sire RwJolf.
Gulea, nine billets or (4, 3, 2).
5. hie van Cundenherg : They of the Cond en-
berg. Gules, three towers argent ; doors arure.
6. Die utenSteenweghe : They of the road.
Gules, five scallop sheik argent (I, 3, 1).
7. Die van Jiodenhehe : They of the red stream,
Arprent, a band ondC'e, gules.
This list is from Henne and Waters Hiitmrfi de
Bnucelles. It need hardly be said that similar
i^fnfl^ir#("wel-geboorne-jreboortege lieden," "gode
lieden,*' **divites,** " fortiores,*') are found in most
of the Belgian and German cities, K.
MoTDBK Goose (3^^ S. v. 258.) — I remember
that, when I first went to Oxford, a woman wn»
pointed out to me in the street as the original
Mother Goose. She was stout, past the middle
age, and with large prominent features. Sb^
usually carried a basket, such as were used by
lauudiesses in those days; but what here c^wcvv^aaf*
tion really was, I ha.N«t fet^^CiWjcw^Si \ «H*i:* ''•^f^T '
Of course, isW d\^ ^Q\mMii\\ ^>.<iv^^^»«^ ^iNktv^*^"!
332
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[iNa V. apkel lei's!
of a young man, so I made no inquiry as to her
character or habits. Probably she had eccentri-
citiea, but no doubt much was engrafted on the
character that did not belong to the original.
The author of the pantomime might draw from
German or French sources, but as to that I know
nothing. There must be natives of Oxford, still
liying, who could supply fuller information on
this not very interesting subject W. D.
LoKGEviTT OP Clbrqtkev (S^ S. V. 22, 44,
128.) — The following is from Baines*s History of
Lancashire : —
« Henry Pigoit, B.D., inducted Vicar of Sochdale,
1662 ; died April 10, 1722, aged 94. He was Rector of
Brindle' seventy-one years, and Vicar of Rochdale fifty-
nine years and seven months."
H. FiSHWICK.
fSiiittViKxienvA.
NOTES ON BOOKS. ETC
The Life of Lawrence Sterne, By Percy Fitzgerald,
M.A., M.R.I.A. With lUuttratiofu from Drmwinpt by
the Author and Others. In J\o9 Volumes. (Chapman
& Hall.)
Mr. Fitzgerald seems to have been led to his present
task by a feeling that injustice had been done to Sterne
in Thackoray*8 lecture upon him — that the revolting pic-
ture of " the mountebank " who ** snivelled " over the
dead donkey at Nampont, and expended his *< cheap
dribble " upon *• an old cab " was grossly over-coloured
and exaggerated. In the belief that if wc knew more of
Sterne wo should hesitate at adopting this harsh judg-
ment, Mr. Fitzgerald has applied himself with diligence
to a study of his writings and an investigation into the
incidents'of his life. Thu story of that life may now be said
to be told for the first time. Indeed it is really the first
Life of Sterne that has been put before the world. Essaj-s,
sketches, and articles upon the subject abound, but no
attempt has, up to this time, been made to trnco his
strange career from the cradle to the grave. In the book
before us we have abundance of new materials— letters
hitherto unpublished, letters hitherto buried in obscure
periodicals, extracts firom registers, un»l minute books
hitherto unsearche<l for, and contemporary illustrations
hitherto unregarded, have been gathered together with
considerable pains, and the result is what Mr. Fitzgerald
is certainly justified in calling *' one of the most carious
biographical stories in English literature" One of the
results of Mr. Fitzgerald's Life— which will be read with
considerable interest — will certainly be to call renewed
attention to the writings of Lawrence Sterne.
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CONTENTS.— N», m.
lihtt Prludp^l Fttrtmiti of Bhnltsp«ir*». 333 - I
jpitlliify Quc?m of Scots, 3;?S — A Ni'sv 9,t\tiX-
I— The !>'
LMuk of Sliak^i.K-rire, /A,- 1
1^ on Shakjit>eare, '\^ — Do \
of Biidc47i Brid^ — John t i t
Minseni» — Bt/molo^y anil Cleaning of
'BuiltflUsta ia Britdan. 344.
h^
* " -Ttoocmat CberCDgton — Potiplmr —
' D^ltiT^euee, 3W — Ciiclo Sqwuini^ —
1 SoolUfld : Fi«K>n© — Bir JoknCoo-
PKINCIPAL PORTRAITS OP
SHAKSPEARE.
ng a few notes at this ffeAson, on the
•^prc'entationfl of Sbakspeare, I propose
mm aUctilion to the three best known
■jf aeoepted types. These are ( 1) the
IF (3) Stratford monuinent, and (3)
portr.i»(a; which embody resptnillvcly
, sculpture^ and oil painlinof. The two
count of the circumstances connected
and from the testimony aflorded by
]ry evidence, possess a special claim
city- The third ii drntinffuished by
anger hiBtory tbiin any of the other
traits connected with the name of the
15 certainly, in itself, a genuine and
U'preserved picture of the commence-
seventeentb century, painted pro-
ItilO. Its existence as a recognised
Shakspeare can be readily traced
iime when there was no popular de-
I works^ or ev - - "^ - - 7-'
This merit nui'
\% counterfeit ui ii.,'.»j/(fi..\i..iu, 1.. m^
Bntly %Tortb vlxxj one's while. 1 do not
, into controversy; but ?iTTirJ.. *o
ad factit ^ihI to note twc
risoti which these three jj ru^i
In the first rank I would phce the enjfraving
by Martin Droeabout, whi< h is nrof-'uxt^ti/o a run*
trait of the <:reat dramtv.
verv tltl'_'-rtn:."? of the first •
1 the actual wordjj of the tUie and
1 the publisliera : *^ London, printed
by l^tm l»g;rard and Ed. Blount, 1623/' Upon
the leaf, facing this title-page, are the wcU-known
f.^^t i-v - addressed to the reader by "B, IV'
. u LI! J, on the part of the players who issued
the volume^ ibr the correctness ot the likenesft.
Thelmes —
■■ This figure that thou here s«e*it put.
It wM for gmilt Sbakespeara cat ;**
and —
•* O c<mJd ha but have drawne his wit
As wall in bnune u he hath fait
Hlfl ftct: tli9 Print would then smpaaM
All that waa ev«r writ in braaaie,^'-
leave nothing to be desired either in point of
att^ngtht or directness of testimony.
The exact dat« of the execution of this en-
graving remains a matter of uncertainty. All we
know is, that it was the work of Martin Droe*
Bhout^ probably a Dutchniun ; who, judging from
the other portraits he engraved, must have re-
sided some time in Eaj;land. Thia portrait of
Shak^peare bears the enf^raver's signature in full ;
but the only date on the page ia that of 1S23,
marking: the publication of the book seven years
after Shakspeare'jj death. In the third folio edi-
tion, 1664, the lines are brought into still closer
relation with the engraved portrait. Droeshout's
plate was then removed from the title-page, to
make way for the enumeration of the seven addi-
tional ploys, and placed over the ton lines on the
left-band page ; so as to face the title, like j\
modern frontigpiece. By this time the copper-
plate had become very much worni and the print-
injr of it was conducted with much less care.
When badly printed, an engraving of thia kind
degenerates into a mere caricature ; but tliosc
who have seen impressiona in a perfect state,
^specially that of the fine Grenville copy, now in
the British Mujseum, will admit that it affords a
very satisfactory indication of the individual ap-
pearance of the man. As the style of wearing the
hair, and the smooth round cheeks, accord with
the monumental bust, the engraving very pro-
bably represents him as he appeared towards the
dose of his life. His dress, far from indicftting
anything like the theatrical or character-coitume,
*r ^ V that which was worn by the opulent
0 personages of the day r witness nume-
r raits, especially of James I., Richard
i (third Earl of Dorse »)» and Sir Philip
Vhc^ '^rilT tint collar which he wears
1 1 which appears in many pic-
_ ; L^ i ' hJ, was dc»«ix\^^ va. ^^ q»^3w-
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Qa^a V. Anm^mii
of almrpDess and coartenefts pervade Droesho tit's
pkte, and tbe head looks very large and promi-
nent wilh reference to tbe »ixe of the page and tbe
type-letters round it ; but there is very little to
censure with respect to tbe actual drawing of the
featurcjr. On the contrary, they bave been drawn
and expressed with great care. Droci^bout pro-
bably worked from a good original, some ** liiun-
ing, or crayon-drawing, which, having served
its purpose, became neglected, and is now lost.
The disposition of tbe lines, and the general treat-
ment of tbe sbttdowB, do not give me the impres-
sion of the engraving having been taken directly
from an oil painting. Tbe Droeshout bead and
stiff collar, were evidently followed by William
Marshall in his snuill oval portrait of Shakspeare,
prefixed to the 1G40 edition of bis poems. That
Marshall worked on bis plate with an impre&sion
of the Droeshout engraving before him, is shown
by the bead in bis copy printing the reverse way,
The body-dress, and close-fitting sleeve, are quite
similar in point of construction to those of bis
prototype. The buttons are all there, even to the
exact number ; whilst tbe embroidery is omitted.
The cbief deviations are a light back ground,
recessed tike a niche ; the introduction of bis left
band bolding a epng of laurel ; and a cloak with a
cape to it^ covering his right shoulder. This cloak
bas become a distinctive feature in Eome of tbe
later imitations and Shak spear ian fabrications.
It appears in tbe oval woodcut which Jacob Tou-
flon, of the *^ 8bakespear*3 Head over against
Katharine Street in tbe Strand," used a« a device
on the title-page of his books (witness the Sjiec-
tator} as early as 1720. This little woodcut, a
curious coiubmation of the Chandos and other
portraits, with bold deviations on the part of tbe
artist^ originated from B. Arlaud, of whom more
will be said hereafter. In this design Arlaud
seems to bave been influenced by a painting by
Zoust, which Simon afterwards engraved in mez-
zotint about 1725 (see Wivell's Remarki, p. 15^);
but upon this, my remarks must be reserved till
speidcmg of ibe Cbandos picture.
Another early copy from the bead by Droe-
shout is to be found in the frontispiece to a volume
of Tarqmn and Lucrece* It is a small oval, in-
serted m an octavo page, above two figures of
Tarquin and Lucretia stabbing herself* The
Shttkspeare head is turned the same way as in
MurshaH's engraving ; but it is more directly true
to the Droeshout original. The Ifnes of the hair
are more correct, and the dress has all the era-
broidery, and no cloak. The date of this volume
»« !6'/? (tbe period of the second folio edition of
^ '5 T>la^«), and the workmanship in at-
' i Fiiithorne. The background to this
' '-'cn fthmknl, like in Marisbatl*f cngmv-
as if ii were placed in a nicbe«
Ih'j iicond unquettionably authentic portrait
of Sbakspeare i^ to be found in hU nion
effigy at Stratfonl- upon- Avon, where be ipeHa
large a portion of bis life, and wbere bis ^attoi^i
townsmen knew him so well. Tbe uaims 4<l»|
sculptor was Johnson, as shown by tbe fa2b«B(
entry in Dugdale*8 Pockei-Boak of ld3S: —
"The monumeivt of Jobn Combe, at StralifaH'^
Avon, and Sh*kcspeare% w^romaiie by ooeOtrirli
ao«.**— (H. Friswell, Life Portraits, p. 10.)
This monument, Mr. Britton justly ny«, kh
be regarded as a family record ^ and was JfMt
erected under the superintendence of ShatiyiPi |
son-in-law, Dr. Hail. It is, nevertb«l<e«> w
rude and unsatisfactory as a work of arU On
in soft stone, intended to be viewed at a dif=2
and moreover destined, in accordafii
prevailing fashion of the day, to be fui ^
or completed in colour, it contrasts verj \
ably with the highly- finished and mure
modelled figures, both in marble and i
which are so frequently seen recumbent
cathedrals and country churches. We il
that many of the most important detwiiT'
poet^s countenance have been slurred ofer«^
lected, either through ignorance or in depcoip
on the correcting and supplement^&l powen */i
painter s brush ; yet when originally done a
factory effect may have attended tbe combii
But it is manifestly unfair to place a plaaHf
from a rough sculpture, wrought at on fki
position, and fl/iray« iuteiided to be loakcd ttf A%
by side with a finished picture or engravir**
and adapted for a convenient distance rrom
That is one great advantage which tbe Dr
portrait bas over tbe Stratford bust> TWlJlP^
shout can always be seen, as it was inteivkd.* ^
book, and at such a distance from the ey« i* da
legibility of the letter-press connected wiA **»
would readily determine. The eyebrows aT ^
bust are most imperfectly defined, whilst tbt i^
are composed of mere straight lines wttbooi tkj
modelling. The shortness of the nos« i» a dcA^
as little striking when seen from below ia ik
chancelt as it is oflensive when the plaster cist a
brought down to a level with tbe special
measured with the Droeshout or any al '
traits.
It may reasonably be inferred that tbe
on the monument exhibits S!i»i-^ '"•"»-"• a« <
peai'ed towards the cloae of 1= -md
respect the engraved portraiL . .
in close accordance with it. 1 have all
pressed my conviction thai the title^poffe
pluvs doc« not represent bim in any utt
cositume, nor do t see any r^TBon for a«i
that Ute huir seen in the l)r
otherwbf Thjtn hts rwtt. T!:
on T'
mot
by the eu^mvcr arc no more tiiiia ii ;
I 3. V. ArwD 18, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
335
fdressing wotild natnr-r^'v — niluce^ In the bust
! hair ia arranged ii riveJj short round
rls. The Ml indlc^t --...- m the en^ravln^ of
(ibble on the cheek and chin^ and also the short
itumtng hairs on the moustaches, mark a period
' transition towards the smooth full cheek and
»ply projecting pat4!hea of hair about the mouth,
I seen at the lost on his monument, lliese quaint
Btumed moustaches, large tutls of hair under
'tbe chin, and smooth checks bear a sinj^lar resem*
blniice to the well-known porfraits of Archbishop
Laud, the expression of whose countenance has
been so unfortunate!/ distorted by the adoption
t of a ridiculous fashion.
I Much of the expression of hilarity which has
' been noticed by many on the countenance of the
StratforO bust, is protfaced by the prominence and
pward <l«ri?otion of the moustaches. The upper
elids In the Stratford bust are remarkably poor
narrow, whiljit in the Droeshout engraving
^y are full, and exhibit a great refinement of
ve* This, ngain, is a point which is at once
It sight of when the monument is seen from its
^opcr position, the pavement of the chancel, and
^lour may have originally played an important
_ art, if the eyeballs were faithfully and judiciously
h idded by the pencil. The collar or band round
r bis neck is quite plain, but so brought over the
: top of bis dress as to give rather a hig^h-shouldered
P or short*necked appearance to the fipjre, Cam-
^A0n*s effigy in Westminster Abbey wears a similar
^pUar and a ruff above it« The fulness of the lower
^art of the cheeks is a remarkable feature.
The picture discovered recently at Stratford,
Eld upon which much stress has been lald^ismani^
istly an imitation or lame transcript of tbe Strat-
' monument. It certainly has no appearance
having been done from the lif<?, and, excepting
be form of the lips, has all the faults observable
the modelling of the bust. The moustaches are
nply ridiculous. The picture may possibly be
ro hundrcci years old, for competent judges have
clared that the paint employed on it is such as
^as used at the close of the seventeenth century,
would, theretbre, stand in its relation to the
Jtratford monument as the Marshall and Faithorne
nrrravings do to tbe Droeshout.
The Chandos portrait Is a far different painting,
nd a much lesa injured picture than has gene*
illy been supposed. During many years there
ias great difficulty in seeing it. Even when ac-
ess was obtained to it at Stowe, the light and its
position in the deep recesses of a cumbrous frame
were alike unfavourable to anything approaching
a eritical examination. At present it is placed in
str^"" t;^T.f in the National Portrait Gallery,
^nd i Jthin easy reach of the eye. It is
Dftint'_ ; . , uirae English canvas, covered with a
roundwork of greenish grey, which has been
ibbe^bire in severnl part^, where the coarse
threads of the canvas happen most to project.
Only a few parts have been retouched with a
reddish paint. Some portions of the hair seem to
have been darkened, and a few touches of deep
madder red may have been added to give point to
the nostrils and eyelids. The background is a rich
il.irk rtJ : hut the whole tone of the picture has
ned, partly in consequence of the
^rolruding, and partly from tbe red
ixiloui-B oi the flesh tints having deepened to a
brownish tone. This at 6rst sight gives the com-
plex ion a dull swarthy hue. The features are well
modelled, and the shadows sklUuily massed, so as
to produce a portrait in no way unworthy of the
time of Van Somer and Cornelis Jansvens. It
would be folly to speculate upon the name of
the artist, but any one conversant with pictures
of this period would, upon careful examinutl. n,
pronounce it remarkably good if only the pn
tion of an amateur. ^lost of the historians oi liua
picture, it may be remembered, lay no superior
claim for it than to have been the work of one of
Shakspeare's brother actors. Amateur artists have
certainly attained a very high degree of merit" in
this country, and it is remarkable that at this very
period a gentleman of high rank was occupied in
painting sume very excellent pictures merely for
his own amusement. This was Sir Nathaniel
Bacon, K.B., half-brother to the great Lord
Bacon, whose pictures are still preserved at Gor»
harabury, Redgrave, and Oxford. It is also ob-
servable that in the whole-length portrait of
himself at Gorhambury, he wears a ffat wired
band round his neck, and a very similar dress to
that already described in tJie Droeshout engrav-
ing- The Chandos portrait is stated to have
belonged to Sir William Davenant. After his
death in 1668, Betterton, who bad industriously
collected information relating to Shakspeare, and
visited Stratford for that purpose, bought it.
Whilst the picture was in his possession, Betterton
let Kneller make a copy of it as a present to Dry-
den, who acknowledged the painter's gift by the
verses beginning —
" Shikapcare, thy gift, I place h^forc my sight i
Wiih awe I nsk his ble»ing ere I write;
With revenence look on hia iDfljestic face, *
Proud to be lets, hut of his godlike race."
These lines were written between 1683 and 1692.
Whilst still in Betterton's possession, the picture
was engraved by Vandergucht, in 1 709, Ibr Rowe*8
edition of Shflkspeare. It is remarkable that the
first volume of Kowe's Shakspeare contains iipo
portraits of Shakspeare. One from the Chandos
picture, turned the same way as the original, in a
small medallion surrounded by female 6gures;
and a second, fVicing "Some account of the life/*
&c. by Duchange, from tlie drawing by Arlnud.
This is the first appearance of the Af' '"*
and it is & curious comhinaihfi of th^ h
NOTES AND QUERIES.
ta^&T.
MarskalK and Droei^hout likenesses. The second
edition of Rowe, ISmo, 1714, Hkewiae contams two
portmit!^ but the picture in the oval is no longer
m>m the Cbundos ; it is & reduction of the At laud,
only turned a different way. It corresponds
exactly in sijse with the Shakspeare head wood-
cut which Toneon afterwards adopted on his title-
pages.* Alter Rowers death, the Chandos portrait
ntiaed to Mrs. Barry the ivctress, who sold it to
Mr. Robert Keck, of the Inner Temple, for 40^.
WhiliJt in hl^ possession it was engraved in 1719,
by Vertue, ibr his series of poets.
The picture afterwards passed into the pofses-
«on of Mr. Nit^oU of Mincheoden House, and was
engraved, in 1747, by Iloubraken for Dr. Birch's
JUwUriom Hendg, On the raarriajre of Mr, Ni-
coU's daughter with the Duke of Chandos, it de-
volved to his family, with whom it remained till
the dispersion of the effects at Stowe in 1 B48»
The engraving by Vertue in 1719 exhibits
sereral unjustifiable modifications and departures
from the originaL He alters the nature of the
curling of the hair, and changes the epaulettes or
bands across the shoulders of the sleeves. He
covers the black satin dress with sprigs or S-lIke
flames of black velvety and, by Getting the figure
in a large oval, creates a false impression as to
the size of the person. That Vertue afterwards
lost con6dence in this Chandos portrait might
naturally be inferred from the circumstance of his
having engraved a tc»tally difl'ereni picture, as the
frontispieee to Pope's 4to edition of Shakipeare,
published by Ton$on in 1725. But a curious
example of his method] of working occurs in the
very same volume. He engraves on one of the
pages of an account of ShakspeareV life, a very
inaccurate, but pretentious, representation of the
entire monument at 8tratfon]-upon-Avon, in
which the original sculptured head of Shakspetre
IQ supplanted by a poor adaptation of the Chandos
picture, retaining all bis faultH of the curly hair,
and introducing the round gold ear-ring — a dis-
tinctive feature of the Chandoi portniit. From
these circumstances it becomes tolerably evident
that Vertue sldl adhered, in his own mind, to the
Chandos picture, and that both Pope and Vertue
• When Jacob Ton«on pablfsb«<l th« fif«t c«dJtion of
Sowft*ii i'^Aoi^pcnnf b« retddedHi " Utement
oil tbo titl«-p«*c •♦ within Gr « i Gray't
tan Lane." In the sftcootl t^^ !7M, wo
find by tn imjcr title- j .* f**iaeiJ 'Mn th«
StrtituV* Tlio BigD of tl> <*'« H<!«a i» snppliVct
«n thi» fani« p*g« by o very iw ' ' ah
Iffi^ *y^s» and iin a gigantic Bi'al« in ho
nist of t!h« liirf!iil!Irin borinift.'il hv a
The lnrfin»vc1
t« h'm cililioij
gutwi b* -
OD tba (
were willing to gratify Lord Oxlbff^ 1
by selectint: a portrait in hia pnaenMB m
,he had fondly believed to be ^mkMicflh
picture which they adopted is in remiitj ta
portrait of a gentleman of th« perittd
James 1., and not eron, as wna^ bave i
one of the monarch himaelf. Tlw m
however, is admirably executed
was aware of the hijstory of the
is shown by tJie following extri
taken from one of his note-boo!
Museum, 21, 111, Plut. cxcix. il.
?d. 'ny|
eCli^H
''iledbf ,
re, a«ft
Aot^ne ArUud, /I* died in Lou doUg 1719.
" Mr. Betterton told Mr. Keck aeveral
fjictore of Shflkspearc ^" ' "' *'
or, a player, who acti
Taylor in'hifl Kill lelt
terton bought it, and ul hiii lIcuiU Mr. Kjodli^
whote possesion it now is, 1711^'*
This was the date at which
his engraving. The migchicvous4
tion from the original picture
nately, to have possessed otlier ftrtla
may particularly name Zoust and
productions have been alreadj meiti
withKtasding these alterations, tbe
cottar and style of dres« in the ooe, \
forehead and ear-ring, with shade
of the nose towards the spectat^
that the Chandos picture afforded *
cipai groundwork. In both ih^^se
treatment of the hair difiera
the original ; each of them being in
direction. The one has short, *"
curls; the Other, wavv and loom
In Arlaud's portrait, the dress, it
the cloak derived from Marshall,
been modified according to the
eighteenth century, for the shirt-eoll
buttoned vest betray a clone atUnitv ^_
of Kneller'a portraits of Sir liiuic jfevtl
Dry den, and Locki?. Tb© coont
in both these t
bearing some i
prepared the way U->t lur jk ruii:iril
m Koubiliac'i statue and other —
bard about the period of Garric
Stratford. The monument in Wef
was executed bv ^.4,. ..,,, l.^-^ [n
tlemana Magoz v 1741,
In Hanmer's 41' rd, ;
ford monument, in illusU'ation of
tion, is exchani^t'd flir un r^irniviii
novel one at M loC^
The marked
^Shaiapeaft
.^wA ill a IkHUT I
1 u pon- A vun, May~ I
(j!rruicmans Moguiin^ for that
1
NOTES AJfD QUERI
Court, Aug. SO (piige 380 of llie
stating —
•* Thnl ther<» h no
volume).
emcly
Tim broad nfserlion was clmllenged, but never
^js plfl I n ed. Bood •
Zoust portroit^ vth
account for the d^
pervswiing it, (B(
I now proceed t
priodpftl portraits.
upon the
r^a far to
character
„ ....... ,,.,.un of tlie three
The Cbandoa, on internal
evidence ali»ne^ h a genuine old picture^ and is
the only one in which the colour of the eyes and
hair has remuiueil undisturbed. It haSi more-
over, several points in common with the Droe-
»hout engraving, and which are entirely deficient
io the bust. This is e^pccinlly the case in the
large broad eyelid and the full &oft lower lip.
The gi*owlh of the moustaches, descending from
the centre of the nose to the corners of the
mouth, forms a triangle, which, in the Chandos
picture, as the division of the Up» is remarkably
V*$haped, alinoi^t a^fsumes the shape of a lozenge.
With eiceprion of the neck-bands, the comtruc^
tion of the dress is* the sume both in the engraving
find painting; but there is no ear-riofr in theDroe-
sliout portrait* The manner in which the white
sparklinrr touchea are introduced in the eyes are
T&j different in the picture and the engraving.
They are on opposite sides of the central part of
the iris. The tuft of hair immediately below, or
hanging from, the lower lip, with an almost bare
place on the chin under it, and a gathering of hair
on the under part of the chin, seems common to
all tliree. The form of the noatril likewise is the
smne in all. The eyebrows are strongest defined,
in fact, quite ropy, in the Droeshout engraving.
Thvnr are lc8« marked in the Chandos, and least
of all m the modelleii surface of the bust ; but in
the last instance, that might naturally have been
reserved for colour alone to express. There is
but little depression in the engraving between the
ejel>rows, a marked characteristic observable in
b<>th the otlier portraits. The white falling bands
both in the bust and painting are quite plain. The
top of the Le:iil seen in the bust and m the en-
graving, h quite bald, whiUt in the picture there
IS m decided growth of hair along ihe top of the
lofVy forehead. This latter point has led me to
:i dtlTerent conclusion from what I had formerly
held, Tlie very dark tone of the flesh and worn
iiature of the surface of the Chandos picture, had
nlwaya given the impression of a more ndvanced
iige than Hm* r*^nlly soil and careful mmlelling of
th*^ : ii,i plumpness of thecheeka in the
I'r) of this picture would warrant,
if pec n umter mors favoar&ble circamsUniQ^n.
The smooth*»hftvcn face, such as actors *r«
genemlly compelled to exhibit in private life,
always gtves a comparative appearance of youtk.
They have no grey hairs to tell tales. The full
rich eye is common both to the engraving and the
picture ; but in the latter it i^ softer, and at the
snmns time more penetrating. The «m ' o-
pcarance and disappearance of hair i»e
of »n actor would afford very little inuK im n of
hta age at relative periods* The shaven checks,
upturned moustaches, and pointed beard at tb«
bottom of the chin, were very fashionable afttr
the middle of the reign of Jame^; I. It was •«•
companied with the tlat wired-bands.
1 now believe the Chandos picture to represent
Shakspeare at a somewhat earlier period than
that of either the engraving or the bust. It may
probably belong to the time of his retirement,
when occupied upon some of his best play«-
"Anno wlatis40" appears on one of the engravings.
The other two portraits have both of them
smooth ahaven cheeks ; whilst the moustaches in
the Droeshout engraving show signs of the ooin*
mencement of that training which subsequentiif
took such ft positive and Laud -like form at the
close of his career. That the Chandos would
probably be the earlier, is shown even by certaiii
poinls of costume, as the falling plain white band
was used ejitensivcly from the middle of the six*
leenth century^ whilst the wired bands, as seen
in the Droeshout engraving, hardly appeared be-
fore the time of James I.^ but continued to be
used some time after the period of Shakspeare'i
death, as seen in a portrait by Mytens of Crcorge
Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, painted on can-
vas, and several times repeated, A whole-lengtk
miniature of the Earl of Dorset by Isaac^ Uli-
vcr, signed and dated 1616, the year of Shak-
speare's death, exhibits a striking example of the
flat wired band ; and the well-known picture of
Milton as a boy, dateii 1618, and painted also on
canva«<, affords a marked instance of the same
peculiarities. Although this style of neck-collar
remained in vogue for a considerable time, the
falling band continued much lunger in use till,
after various modifications, it fell into the pu-
ritanical cut, as seen in portraits of Milton m
advanced life, and finally degenerated into the
small strips or appendages fastened by modern
clergymen under their chins. The term "bands,**
bv which they are shll known, has undergone no
change. It probably had its ori«in in the Italian
word bajuh^, which was ample in its extent and of
sufficient importance to have served as the bad^
of a well-known order of knighthood. The plaio
fulling band occurs very frequently in the porlniits
of noblemen during the reign of Queen EliTiab^itli.
Ben Jonson md ^^xvmx m^ ^\,t^vw^ ^tfso5«ws£V
A very cuYVOwa ^mm?} m\i^v "^^ "^"^
338
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8^&Y. APHLtS,
cbance resemblances, and their mischievous in-
fluence on the pursuit of authentic portraiture.
It would, in fact, be very serviceable to work out,
as a commencement of this branch of investiga-
tion, a list of all the contemporaries of Shakspeare
who, with a high bald forehead, and other simi-
larity of features, might, if their likenesses were
discovered unshackled by any pedigree, be very
plausibly invested with his name.
George Scharf, F.S.A.
SHARSPEABE AND MART QUEEN OF SCOTS.
Miss Strickland, in her rather too flattering
Life of Mary Stuart (^Queens of Scotland^ vol. v.
p. 231), alluding to the period just after the mur-
der of Damley, says : —
" Among oth«r cmel devices practised against Mary
at this season by her cowardly assailants, was the dis-
semination of ffToss personal caricatures; which, like the
placards charging her as an accomplice in her husband's
murder, were fixed on the doors of churches and other
public places in Edinhnrgh. Rewards were vainly offered
for the discovery of the limners by whom * these treason-
able painted tickets,' as they were styled in the procla-
mations, were designed. Mary was peculiarly annoyed at
one of these productions, called * The Mermaid,' which
represented her in the character of a crowned syren, with
a sceptre fbnned of a fish's tail in her hand, and flanked
with the regal initials * M. R.' This curious specimen of
party malignity is still preserved in the State Paper
Office."
This caricature fully corroborates the idea first
propounded by Bishop Warburton that, in the
well-known passage quoted below from 3/irf-
summers NighCs Dream, Shakspeare, by the
** mermaid on a dolphin*s back,'* made a pointedly
satirical allusion to Mary, Queen of Scots. For,
here is historical evidence that Mary was so re-
presented, many years before the comedy was
written ; —
" Oberon, My gentle Puck, come hither : thou remem-
ber'st
Since once I sat upon a promontory,
And heard a mermaid, on a dulphm's back.
Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath,
That the rude seas grew civil at her song ;
And certain stars shot madl^ from their spheres,
To hear the sea-maid's music
** Fuck. I remember.
**.Oberon. That very time I saw (but thou could'st not),
Flying between the cold moon and the earth,
Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took
At a fair vesUl throned by the west.
And looa'd his love- shaft smartly from his bow,
As it should pierce a hundred thoosand lieartd ;
But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft
Quench'd in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon,
And the imperial vot'ress passed on
In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell :
It fell upon a little western flower;—
Btfore milk-white^ now purple with love*s wound,—
And maidens call it, Lovt in Idleness."
How Ritaon attacked this idea of Waxbi
in his ustud slashing style — how Boaden and
pin advanced theories on the passage very s
to each other, but auite at yariance with tl
the Bishop— is well known to all Tersed i
literature of the commentators. All agreed,
ever, that Elizabeth was figured by
" The fkir vestal throned by the west;*
but the grand bone of contention was, whet)
*^ The mermaid on a dolphin's back,"
Shakspeare denoted Mary, Queen of Sootf
by the stars, which "shot madly from
spheres," such persons as the Duke of Norfe
the Earls of Northumberland and Westmm
who fell from their allegiance out of reg:
her?
The late Rev. J. Hunter, in his New li
tians, re-opened the question : ably showin
the mermaid of Shakspeare exactly corresp
with the character and history of Mary.
dolphin being symbolical of her first mam'
the Dauphin of France ; and the ^* dulcet an
monious breath,** referring to her ^' allurii
cent,** which, with the agreeableness of he
versation, fascinated all that approached
subduing even harsh and uncivil minds.
" Some,'* says Mr. Hanter, ** were touched by i
than others. She had not been long in En^Uod
the two northern Earls broke out into open rebelKa
would have made her queen. Leonard Dacre, tm
of another noble house m the north, ventured emj
for her; and finally, the Duke of Norfolk forgot hH
giance, and sought to make her his bride. Here, at
it most be admitted that we have what answers rei
to the Stan that * shot madly fh)m their spheres ti
the sea-maid*8 music' "
In the other half of the allegory, Mr. H
is equally ns pointed. The time being indie
For " that very time," to use Shakspeare*s
words, when the Duke of Norfolk was u
shooting from his sphere by aspiring to the
of Mary, Elizabeth was strongly solicited to d
the Duke of Anjou. But the " fiery shaft," a
by Cupid against the Queen of England^ fe
noxious ; and she passed on —
** In maiden meditation fancy free.*'
A copy of the caricature in the State I
Office, alluded to by Miss Strickland, was a
a year ago published in the Illustrated ^
Mary might well feel a peculiar annoyanc
being represented in the character of a mem
Jeremy Collier, alluding to sea monsters,
woman and half fish, says : —
** By this fable poets give us an ingenious descri]
of the charms of voluptuousness, which men of i
avoid by tibe force of their courage.**
In the caricature, the mermaid is reprewi
on a butcher's block, as an emblem proMblT •
cruel bloodytbirsty character. Tlie artfal \
z^ & T. ArniL 23, HU,] NOTES AND QUERIES.
339
lie iorepretent her fascinating voice pictoriallj,
III! plB<3ed in her rigbt-band a hawk's lure, which
he ra in the aet of waving round her head ; while
her left gra«pa a dark lanihornt no verj dark em-
" Jem of the fate of Darniey, Miss StricklaDd
lisdescrlbes the cttricature bj stating that it is
a sireptre formed of a fish*s tail " the merniftid
holds in her hand ; while the writer in the Illus-
irated Neic^, with equal absurdltj, and lef^s ex-
cuse, sayg that it ij "a Hail or tail?' A reference
to any old engraTing of a lure, either proper or
heraldic^ will at once show what it is the mermaid
holda in her right band. The arms of the house
of Broc— urgent upon bend sable, a luer or, as
engmved in Halstead*a ♦ Sticcinct Genealogies —
would decide the question at once* The writer in
the lilustmted News, not contented with one plar-
ing error, makes another, by stating that the lant-
horn in the mennaid's left-hand represents au
hour-glass, and with great simplicity confesses
that he is puzzled to understand why she carries
such an implement. In illustrations of the Gun-
powder Plot^ that used to adorn many of the old
Common Prayer-Books, Guy Fawkes is repre-
sented as carrying a lanthorn of an exactly similar
description.
According to the article in the Ilhutrated Nevsn
there is another rude satii^ical drawing iu the
8tate Paper Office, representing a hare sur-
rounded by swords, emblematical of the "cowar*
dice and peril ** of BothwelL And to quote the
CAUct words : ~
•^On a sliect bound up with the ont^inal drawing; the
artist hot left a still cruder «kt;tck of the same figures.
Ill this, hesJde the initidls M. K» to iaiUcnU the Queen,
and J. H. to mark John Hepbam, there are over the mer-
maid the wordu ^ ${ie illecto inani/ while round the inner
r»n(;» which suTTOunda the hare, wc read * Foris vastabit
te gladjUA et inliw pavor/ And in lh<s centre of the
circltt just ubtive the aaima], may be dociphored, 'Timor
Uiidiquc clftdes/ "
The quotation completely corroborates my as-
aertion, that it is a lure the mermaid hulds ; for in
the Symhula flcroica of Claude Paradin, published
at Antwerp in I583,t the motto appended to the
representation of a lure is ^*Spe iliectat inaoi,"
The device of the hare surrounded by swords
issuing from clouds, and thus representing the
vengeance of Heaven, occurs in the same work,
with the motto " Malo undique clades ; *' and at
the ^n^i of the explanation of this symbol there is
the following quotation from the Vulgate (Deu-
teronomy xxjcii. 25), *''Furis vastabit eos gladiua
ct intus pavor,"
* A fietttintis name, the work beini; really wftlten bv
bof'.
t Ileroiaut* ii
f^f"' l,a^Jl;^hed A L Pari a ill ii'^T ; tUc iifttslrs-
tio' Lecuted by Dupetit Ik'niJinl ilie fatnuas
WUULi '^U^ ... ^i^
Towards the eloie of the liAt century, when
there prevailed a complete erase for commentat-
ing on Shakspeare, an amiable clergymao, Mr.
James Pluntptrc, writing from the classic shades
of Dwt.. f f ii], Cambridge, undertook to show that
th r of Hamlet*s mother was founded on
M of Scots. That Uamlel*f father was
D I Claudius, BothwelL Aa a specimen
ol -n ess of the analogy, I may give just
one or two instances. Hamlet's father was
poisoned while deeping in an orchard^ and Dam-
fej waa blown up at night when asleep^ and his
body found the next day in a garden. Again, in
the play, the Queen dies bv poison, of which
Claudius is the involuntary aaministerer. In the
history, Bothwell poisons Mary's cup of huppiness,
and it waa her marriage with him, which was the
cause of her sorrows and her death. But as Ham-
let appeared almost in James's reign, why should
Sbakipeare thus insult the memory of the mother
to the risln;? sun? The reply is, he made his
peace by applying these flatter mg lines to James: —
**Tlie eoortier*s, soldier's, scholar's eye, tongue, sword;
Tho expectancy aod rtnie of the fair itate.
The gloss of fashion, snd the mould of foon.
The observed of all observers.'*
James certainly was well flattered, and well he
liked to be ; but this is too, too solid.
It may be questioned whether the evident bias
in favour of the Tudor party, which Shakapearc
shows iu his historical dramas, relating to the
Wars of the Roses, was adopted in compliment to
the Queen or derived from the chronicler he
studied. But there can be no doubt that A TF*a-
ierg Tide was composed as an indirect apology
for Anne Boleyn, and consequently a direct com-
pliment to her daughter Elizabeth* Space, how-
ever, will not T>errait me to do more thim refer to
Horace Walpole's remarks on the subject in his
keenly-written, if not convincing, Hixiorkal DottbU :
and most who read them will agree with thctr
writer, that A IVtfUerjt Tale is in reality a second
part of King Henry VIIL
William PiNtERToH,
A SEW SHAKSPEARE BOKD.
Few and scanty as are the contemporary notices
of Shakspeare, which the industry of bis biogra-
phers and illustrators have yet brought to light,
many of the most valuable of these have been
(fiscovercd within the last half century ; and few
who know the activity which now prevaib— as iu
the Public Record Office, so among the possessors
of family papers — in catjiloguing and arranging
»tr'- ' - K lustorlcid, and literary renifiins as are
t(i ved» but must feel a somewhat con-
(i, rl.iit in Him rniirii.i nf Hiise researchcs,
,B, i iksf>eare will
be: - 1 Lit there Uvtfi
340
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8^ & Y. AmLtt,«ii
•ne engaged in reaearcfaei and labours among old
jnanuscripts but indulges the hope of bein^ one
day the lortunate discoverer of some such docu-
Our readers will then judge with what feelings
a gentleman, who has lyeen fur some time em-
ployed in calendaring a long series of papera,
which the nobib owner is desirous of having pro-
perly preserved, lately discovered among them a
small paper endorsed in a handwriting of the
time of James I., " Suail£Speabe*s Boxd,'* and
the haste with whioh he unfolded it, in order to
discover whether it was a bond which had been
executed by the Shakspearc.
Alas ! it was only the bond of a contemporary —
a lliomas Shakespeare of Lutterworth. A Shak-
spcare who has hitherto, we believe, escaped the
industrv of Shakapearian investigators. Thanks
to the kindness of the noble Lord, to whom the
deed belongs, we are enabled to lay the following
copy of it before our readers : —
^Memorand, that I, Thomas Shakespeare of
Lutterworth, in the County of Leic, gent., doe
by these piites bind mee, my heires, executors,
and administrators, for the payment of twenty-
five shillings and eighte pence to James Whitc-
locke of the Middle Temple, London, csquier,
uppon the sixte daye of {February ncxte cnsewinge
the daye of the date of these putes. In witncssc
whereof I, the said Thomas Shakespeare, have
hereunto put my hand and scale the xxvij*** of
November, Aug Dili, 1606,
" Perme Tuomam
Shakespeare.
'* Sealed and dely vercd
in the presence of
Anthony Bulle."
Whether Thomas Shakespeare, of Lutterworth,
Gent., was in anyway related to his dibtinguished
namesake of Stratford-upon-Avon — under what
circumstances he was le<l to «rive this bond for [
" twenty-five shillings and eiglit pence** to "James i
Whitelocke, of the Middle Temple, Lon<lon, I
esquier*' — we know nothing. IVrhaps some of '
our readers may be able to turn to account this '
new contribution to Shakspearian bio(;rapliy. All I
of them will, we are sure, join us in thanking the '
owner of this curious document for hid liberality !
in giving it to the world. j
1628) are to be found. They are genenUjWl
lieved to have been among hu earlieit veEWi,ai |
nuiy therefore date about 1590 or so : —
" Void dn grand Montaigne mm enti^re>l9vrff;
Le peintre a peint le corps, et lui son bel espot;
Le premier, par sod art, dgale 1* oatare ;
Mau I'autre la mrpaue en tomi ee ^'U icnC*
Did Ben Jonson, when writing under Dm*
8hout*s portrait, imitate or plagiariae theK lina^j
The epigrammatic point seems strangely alib '
both pieces.
How far would the grantinn^ of the imitatiosf
plagiarism of these lines by Jonson afieet Dnt
shout*s portrait as " the only authenticated" «£'
Was the epigram fitted to the portrait, or «
the portrait, being ready, suggestive of the «p
gram, as beiqg too good to be lost under tk»
cumstances ? Let me recall *'^ a modem instaw
In 1832, FraMer's Magazine, No. 26, coataH
an engraving from Goethe^s portrait by Stiebi
Munich, of which Carlyle said, " So indbs
lives . . . the clearest, most universal man ofi
time ^^Tf the very soul of tlie maa h
canst likewise behold,*' &c. And yet the toffi
Frasers Magazine proved a total failarai
involuntary caricature, resemblinrr, as warfl/'
the time; ^* a wretched old-clothesman, «i*a|
beliind his back a hat which he seemed ftWt
stolen." (Carlyle's Works, il p. 422.)
I do not quote Jonson s lines, beoauie^
arc known to every one. Samuel >'ib-
Moffat.
KoBiN GooDF£Lix>w AND PucK. — In the Jfi^*
summer Nighfs Dream, printed in the folio <
1623, I do not find the name of " Puck," iid
should like to know when it was substituted for
that of "Robin Goodfellow " — the name gireo
to this character in the folio. If the name of
Puck is not Shakspcare's, why is it ret.iined ?
Sidney Beislt.
[We do not understand what our Correspondent nem
by sayinc that the name of Puck does not occur in thi
First Folio ; it doea not occur in tlie List of I>ramabi
Personal for there is no such list ; but it occurs in tbi
Play ; for instance. Act 11. So. 1 : —
** Those that Hobgoblin call you, and sweet Pucke," &c.
*' My geutle Pucke, coinc hither," &c.]
jbiauiptaTimK.
JoH60N*s Links on Suakspeaqes Portrait.
Under an enpraving of Montaigne by Philippe de
Leu, the following lines by Mulhcrbe (1555 —
Curious Fact in Criticism. — On readin*; the
last number of " N. & Q." (March ID), I wai
much struck by a proposed emendation by Quiri?
of hud for head in —
" Nips youth in the head, and follies doth emnnew.**
Mcaaumfor Measure, Act lU. Sc. 1.
It seemed to me very obvious and probable«
and 1 wondered that it had never occurred to me;
and on consulting the Cambridge Shakspeare, it
appeared that it had not occurred to iinyonc
else. Judge, then, of my astonishment wheoa oa
ax&y. Afbix.28, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
341
ookmg into the MS. of my own SkakMpeare^Es^
wutoTy I fuund the line, which I sapposed I had
copied accuratelj from the folio, given thus : —
** Nipi yoQth in the bad, and follies doth emmew,"
vithoat a single syllable of remark, the whole note
>eing devoted to emmew! It is quite evident
hen, that tnp had suggested hud^ which I had
inconsciouslj written. When lately printing the
ilaj it never recurred to my mind. This I think
s worth noting, as it is a key to many of the
srrors of printers.
When my edition of The Tempest appears, the
reader will be perhaps surprised at my simple
tolution of the difficulty in " Most busy lest when
[ do it.*' I cannot with H. N. receive gUded for
rmM thore; the correction of the Second Folio in
^erehani of Venice, Act III. Sc. 1, for a gilded
hore is nonsense ; and guUed, in the grammar of
he time, was equivalent to gw'ling, guileful.
As to H. N.*s question respecting the connexion
•f ** One touch of Nature makes the whole world
:in" (Tr, and Cr^ Act III. Sc. 8), I would reply
hat Nature gives the one and self-same touch to
ill mankind, t. e. affects or disposes them all alike ;
10 that they all think and act m the same manner,
md the connexion with the following line is thus
nanifest.
I would beg to refer A. A. to " N. & Q." for
1861 for the real origin of incony.
Thos. Keightlet.
American Shakspbabe Emeitbation. — Is the
bllowing absurd Shakspearian emendation, re-
ferred to by Burton, in llie Book-Hunter (p. 64),
■eally American ? —
*« Without venturing too near to this very turbulent
irena (Sbaknpearian Criticism) where hard words have
atcly been cast about with much reckless ferocity, I shall
list offer one amended reailing because there is something
n it quite peculiar and characteristic of its literary birth-
>lace beyond the Atlantic. The pasiiage commented upon
is the wild soliloquy, where Hamlet resolves to try the
test of the play, and' says: —
* The devil hath power
T* assume a pleasant shape ; yea, and perhaps
Out of my weakness and my melancholy,
As he is very potent with such spirits,
Abuses me to damn me.* **
The amended reading stands —
*< As he is very potent with such spirits.
Abases me to<5--damme ! "
[f 80, I should like to know in wjpit publication it
Srst appeared. It is difficult to believe that such
3tuff could have been written except as a satire.
J. C. L.
Ihtbetobt of Shak8pbare*8 (toods. — It is
probable that the inventory mentioned in the
'' Probate Act,** appended to Shakspeare's will,
then constrained to be made by law, and now
lodged in the rqpatry of the Prerogative Court of
Canterbury, at Doctor*8 Commooa, made some
mention of the manuscript plays : for the fact of
Dr. Hall provioff the wili in that C»urt, instead
of doing so in the Diocesan Court, demonstrates
that the poet left personal property in one other
diooese, at least, besides that m which he died ;
and as this other diocese could only be in London,
the hiventory must contain some detail relative to
his managerial interests and concerns. J. D. D.
Leadihg Apes ik Hbi.l (3^^ S. v. 193.) —
Shakspeare has the following allusions to this
phrase : —
In Muck Ado About Nothing (Act II. So. 1.),
Beatrice says :
** I will even take sixpence in earnest of the bear-herd,
and lead his ages into heU."
In Taming of the Shrew (ActIL Sc. 1), Kathe-
rine says :
" I must dance barefoot on her wedding-day.
And, for your love to her, lead apes in hell."
N.M,T.
THE DESCENDANTS OF SHAKSPEARE'S SISTER
JOAN.
In William Howitfs Visits to Remarkable Haces,
and in his Homes and Haunts of the Poets, mention
is made of the descendants of Shakspeare*8 sister
Joan, who married a Hart; indeed allusion is
made in the last-named work to the remarkable
likeness between the bust of Shakspeare in Strat-
ford-upon-Avon church, and one of Joan*8 de-
scendants then educating at Stratford. The
former pedigree of Shak^)eare and his connec-
tions is given in Shakspeare's Home, by J. C. M.
Bellew.
The descendant of the Stratford-upon-Avon
branch of the Shakspeare Harts is now in Aus-
tralia.
I send you a pedigree of the Tewkesbury branch,
kindly furnished by the late post- master of Tewkes-
bury, Mr. Jno. Spurrier, and from the writing of
Mr. W. Potter, an old inhabitant of Tewkesbury,
whose sister, Hannah Potter, married William
Shakspeare Hart. The inscriptions on the tomb-
stones also relate to the same subject; and, in
giving these particulars to yOur pages, a hope
may be expressed, that in building monuments,
collecting the scattered property, and founding
museums and libraries to Shakspeare, when the
curatorship of these places is to be bestowed, the
living descendants of Shakspeare's sister Joan will
not be forgotten.
Pedigree of Shakspeare's sister, Joan Shak-
speare, who married a Hart. The Tewkesbury
branch : —
John Shakspeare Hart, about seventy years
back, was livin^^ in Tvv^Lfis^'^') \ V^ \sffla:t.>s^ ^
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
[•rt&T. ImLtl^ti
person of the name of Eichardson ; he was the
owner of some property at Stratford, which his
family sold some for^ or fifty years back. He
hftd three children, William, Sarah, and John.
John died; was not married. William married
Hannah Potter. He had six children ; Elisabeth
married Russell; died, left no children. Mary
Ann died unmarried. Thomas died leaving two
children, a son and a daughter ; his son Is named
George, and his daughter Joan ; they live at Bir-
min^rham. Ellen married John Ashley, carpenter
of Tewkesbury ; died leavingfour sons and one
daughter. Sarah married William Ashley, a
carpenter. She is living at Evesham; has a
family. Hannah married Edwin Elliot, lace wea-
ver ; lives at Beeston, near Nottingham. She has
a familv of children.
Sarah Hart married William Whitehedd ; died,
leaving a family of seven. Thos. Whitehedd, two
children, at Cheltenham. William Whitehedd, at
Tewkesbury, twelve children. George married,
but no child. John, stocking-weaver ; three chil-
dren, at Bubtone. Henry, single. Martha mar-
ried George Grubb; keeps a beer-house in the
Oldbury. Ann married Henry Key, glazier and
plumber, living at YiTinchcomb ; seven children.
On the north side of the Abbey Church, Tewkes-
bury, there is a headstone on which is written the
following, in good preservation : —
^ In Memory of Jno. Hart, who died Jan. 22n<*, 1800>
the sixth descendaDt from the Poet Shakespear, aged 45
years.
Here lies the only comfort of
mj' life who was the best of
Husbands to a Wife, since
he is not no Joy I e*er shall
have till laid by him
within this silent grave ;
Here we shall sleep, and quietly
remain till by God^B Power
we meet in Heaven again.
There with Christ eternally
to dwell, and until that
bleat time, my Love, farewell."
In the old Baptist burial-ground there is ii head-
stone with the following : —
1.
" In Memory of Jno. Turner, who departed this Life
May 18»«», 1808, aged 54 years. Also of Wm. Shakcspear
Hart, who died Nov' 22n«», 1834, aged 56 years. Like-
wise Hannah, Widow of the above W. S. Hart, died Feb*"/
13»h, 1848, aged 67 years."
2.
*' To the Blemorv of Thomas Shakespear Hart, who died
Nov 13«', 1850, aged 47 vears.
* Boaitt not of thyself, /or thou knowest not what a day I
may bring forth.* "
A.E.
SOMETHING NEW OX SHAKSPEARE.
As a general rule, extrncJs from newly-printed
books are not suited to " N. & Q.," but I think
an exception may be made in favour of one which
is not pabliihed in England, and of wbidi I |R-
sume presentation copies alone hawe amTcdMit
It contains an entirety new Tiew of one of Shik-
8peare*B heroines by the late John Qniiwcy
Adams, sixth President of the United Sutea :—
''Whatever srmpathy we mayfiMl ftr the
of Dasdemona, ^owa from the conaideratioa that iht ii
innocent of the particnUr crime imputed to her, aaA tkM
she is the victim of a treacberooa and artful intrigie.
Bat while compaaaionatiDg her melancholy &tB we emc
forget the vice of her eharacUr. Upon the stage her^
ling wUh Othello is disffmsUng. Who m real Ufk weM
have her for sitter, dauakter, or wife 9 She is notg^
of infidelity to her hasband, bat she forgets all thsafc*
tion for her father, and all her own filial affection Ibrkia
When the Duke proposes, on the departure of OthcOtk
the war, that she should return during his absoMft
her father's hoase, the father, the daughter, sad lb
hasband all say *no,' she prefers following OthcUolik
besieged by the Turks in the island of Cyprus.
"The diaracter of Desdemona is admirably drtwaai
faithfully preserved throughout the play. It is ^
deficient in deHeaey. Her conversation with Em "'
catss unsettled principles^ even with regard to dke
of the nuptial tte, and she allows lago, almost iil
to banter with her very coarsely upon womca. &
character takes from us so much of the sjmpathaie »
terest in her sufferings, that when Othello smoAm^*
bed, the terror and pity subside immediately into Jr^
ment that she has her deserts," — Notes and Gji— ^y
certain Plays and Actors of Shah^fteare^ by JaoMl*!
Hackett, New York, 1868, p. 286.
The above is from a letter of Mr. Adams. *
Hackett, in a note, says that he does not shsitb
correspondents opinions on Desdemona. Ifc^
that the Americans are descending from thatlu^^
standard of purity which prevented the yw»i
lady telling Sam Slick her brother^s rank ui ^
navy, and are going to plays as bad as OOt^
"Manhattan's" letter in the Standard of Fet
19, says: —
** hsst night I went to the Olympic Theatre of lb-
John Wood, formerly Laura Kean*s Theatre. It «•'
jammed before seven* o'clock, and the piny commeoceda
eight. The cream of our citizens — I counted thirtr-
seven fur capes, that our Mayor, Gunther, never sold f*
less than 300 dollars each, oii females close to me. 1^
music was superb. The play was a new one, writta
conjointly bv two Bohemians, named Beaumont Vi^
and Fletcher Woo^J, and called Taming the Bmtterfig. 1
stayed it over, and dared not lift my eves or look at sir
respectable female in my vicinity, for fear I should mor-
tify her by seein;; her blush and cover her face. It wt»
cheered from beginning to the end, but was fuH ofdoMn
eittendres — no, there was no doubt it was such as o^
respectable lady would hear twice.'*
I should like to know whether the second per-
formance was to empty benches. Fitzhopuks.
Garrick Club.
THE KESSELSTADT MASK OF SHAKSPEARE.
Since my notice of this supposed mask of Shak-
speare was written, I have received some informa-
tion upon the subject, which I think ought to be
laid before the readers of ''N. & Q.**
In the firal place, I am usured that attlMn^
the worthy Cation of Mayence was of a very w-
ipectable family ^ it wa« not a family of ^u^eot
importance to have furniabed an ambassador to
this country, or even an attatki to an embassy ;
one not at nil likely to have numbered among its
branches any member of the diplomatic body.
Secondly, the late canon and his brother were
driven to such distress during the oontinental
troubles which followed the French Revolution, as
frequently to have been in want of the common
necessaries of life— even of food; and had they
possessed at that period such a collection of anti-
quities as has been aupposedi they must neces-
sarily have parted with them for their support.
With the peace came better times ; the canonry
was bestowed upon one of tbem^ and the other
contrived to get together the means of living very
quietly; and they then amused themselves by
forming the coUe'ction of antiquities which was
eventually sold by auction ; and I am assured that
the zeal with which they applied themselves to its
formauon far exceeded their judgment and good
taste.
Thirdly, that collection was well known to an
English gentleman distinguished for his know-
ledge of early English Literature and Antiquities.
Mr. De Pt-arsall, whose madrigals and *' Hardy
Norseman ** have made his name familiar to all
lovers of sweet sounds, and whose contributions
to The Arckaoh^ia on *' The Kiss of the Virgin,"
"Duels in the Middle Ages,*' &c, are justly re*
garded as umong the most interesting papers in
that valuable collection* was well acquainted witli
the brothers KesseltsUdt, and at the sale of the
collection purchased some of the most interesting
objects in it, whli^h ore at this time in the pos-
session of his daughter, ^Irs. Hughes,
When we consider how highly a gentleman of
Air. I>e Pearsair« taste and acquirements would
have prized 6uch a Shakspearian relic as the Kes-
selstadc Mask if satisfied, as he had every oppor-
tunity of siitLsfying liirasclf, of its genuineness, we
cannot but roni«ider the fact that he did not be*
come the purchaser of it, as a strong proof — for
though only a negative proof it is still a very
strong one — that, in the opinion of a very competent
authority, who had the advantiige of being able to
iuvestigiite its history thoroughly, the Kesselstadt
mask was not what it proteased to be, a cast
j^en from the face of Shakspeore after his death.
William J. Tboms.
PROFESSOR AECHER BLTTLER*S ESSAY OK
5HAKSPEARE.
^ Among the many literary plans and works de*
vited at thiH season to honour the memory of
' Shakspeare, has it been suggested, or attempted, to
collect from periodical literature and other out-of-
tbe-way and fbr^ttcn loiiivsea, Eiicli papen oo
Shakspeare as are reall]r woriK reprinting f Okie
such paper I shall mention,^ — so Essay written by
tbe late gifted and lamented Professor Archer
Butler, while an undergraduate in the Universitj
of Dublin, between the age of eighteen or nine-
teem Though written at such an early age, this
Essay has much of the vigorous thought, discri-
minating criticism, and eloquent diction^ which
marked his maturer years. It appeared In the
first number of the Dublin Unitenit^ Rcnitw^
January, 1833, p. 87, and, I believe, haA never
been reprinted. The concludin;: passage is as fol-
lows, but it cannot give any notion of the charm-
ing and genial £s8ay fi'om which it is taken : —
**Th€ Hcirt of Man — the stme la even* dime and Bet-
ftoa— was the sohject which SiiAxsrK.iak toaght to exa*
mmei and h« disencumbered the mtglity |>roblem of
every term which did not immediately eJitsr into that
caleuktLOa. Scomioi^ to confine himself to the supcrfl*
cial VArietJes of chart^ter, be explored tlie qaality of the
metal that lies beneath. OLberi an content to conii^
to Ytrse the eodkis modificatioas of lOGial man ; it waa
SuAKSFCAaE^s done to grasp the abstract Sptdt of Hu*
mftnity."
There is an admirable paper on Cowper by Pro-
fessor Butler in the same volume, p. 325, and
next to it a story by Carleton,* which have not»
either of them, been reprinted.
As a Query was made not long ago about the
Dnblin Universiiy Hemeii\ I may mention that it
consists of two volumes, or six numbers, reaching
from January, 1833, to April, 1834. After it
ceased to exist in this form, it began a new Vife
as a monthly serial under the title of The IJubliti
Unimrsity Magazine.
I have often wished to see all Dr. Johnson^s
papers on Shakspeare collected and published in
one welUprinted volume. His otht?r papers would
form a valuable supplement to his famous Preface,
Perhaps some of your correspondents would
help to furnish a list o^ the best Shakspeare papers
in periodical literature with the writers* namea
when known ; also critical notices of Sbakspeare
or illustrations of his works not generally known,
or not to be found in works professedly devoted
to Shakspeare.
Among those who, from a moral and religious
point of view, have furaied a very unfavourable
estimate of Shakspeare, may be noted the writer
of a remarkable article in the Eclectic Review^
January, 1807, and also the excellent Richard
Cecil. See CeciVs Reviains, published by Knight
(no date or index), p. 100. This is a point, how-
ever, on which the best men difler.
EimiOKKACH.
* It hss been & matter of mach inrprise to me that the
exHtinf; niateriali for several additional volumes of Carle-
ton 'i inimtUble TraiU and StorieMofthe Iri*h Ptamntrtft
have never been collected iVom the various serials m
which they ore scattered aad lost iSj^^^
344
N0T5S AND QUERIES.
[8««aY. Anax.2S>14.
Dx VxBB, Eabl ot Oxfoeb: Battle of
Radcot bmiDGB. — The author of the Marriage
of Thame and his describes the manner in which
Kobert De Vere, the favourite of Richard II.,
escaped from the field of battle : —
" Hie Yerus, notissimiu apra^
Dom dare ter^pt negat virta*, et tendere contii
Kon sinit invictc rectrix prudentia mentis;
Undique dum reaonat repetitis ictibiu umbo,
Honituque Btrepit circum suatempora caaeia,
Se dedit in fluvium ; fluviua latatus et illo
Hospite, auscepit aalvum, aalvumque remisit."
(Quoted in Camden*a Btitannia^ vol. i. p. 285.)
Froissart relates that, when Pe Vere was in-
formed that the army of the Barons was approach-
ing from London to attack him, he caused all the
foridg[es over the Isis to be broken down, to pre-
vent their crossing ; but that, owing to the ex-
treme dryness of the season, a ford was found by
which they parsed throuorh, horse and foot, and
easily defeated him. (Froissart, vol. iii. p. 491,
translated by Johnes, of H.ifod.)
Is any in^stance recorded in modern times, of
the river having sunk so low ? I never ascended
it so hin;h as Evesham, but I know that to a con-
siderable distance above Gods tow it presents the
Appearance of a deep stream, not fordable in any
part.
De Vere escaped to the Netherlands, whence,
after some time, he was invited to the Court of
France, where he was received with distinguished
honours. He bore a part in the great tourna-
ment which was given to celebrate the entry of
Isabel of Bavaria into Paris. His race has perished^
but I believe that several of our nobility and
gentry claim relationship with them. (The Tour-
nament is described by Froissart, vol. iv. p. 85.)
The Marriage of Thame and hit is supposed
to be the production of Camden himself: and it is
remarkable that he, who as a Westminster man,
probably thought it incumbent on him to have a
fling at Eton, should, in the single line which he
devotes to thai purpose, have committed a false
quantity : ~
" Qua fuit Orbiliia nimiiim suhjccta plagosia." •
The first syllable in plagosus is long, as most
fourth-form boys at Eton know. W. D.
John Clotwortht, first Viscount Massa-
RBEME.— Sir John Clotworthy was, in 1G60, created
ViHCount Massareene, with a special liniitJition in
favour of Sir John SkcfBngton, who had married
his daughter, and who accordingly succoe«led to
the dignity on the death of his father-in-law,
which occurred in Sept. 16G5.
Mention is made of the first Viscount Massa-
reene in the first and second volumes of Mn^.
(jrecn*s Calendars of the Domestic State Papers of
Charles Jl., but the index to each volume erroive-
Camdcn, L 152
ou»1y ascribes the title to John Skiffk^ifBm i&Acsd
of John Clatworlhy.
As a general index to the Calendsn of Stite
Papers may be expected hereafter, it b deairshle
thai errors which may be discovered in the inte
to any Tolume shoulcl be pointed oatL
We cheerfully embrace this oppottanity of re-
newing our acknowledgment of much informatioa
of a valuable and varied character derived firos
those Calendars. C. H. & Tbompsoh Cocxm.
Cambridge.
Ettmologt akb Meaning of thb Name
Moses. — Though writers difier respecUng the
etymology of the name (Moses), yet the remsrb
of Kalisch on the subject are so satisfactory tkis
I think they deserve a comer in " N. & Q."
**The etjrmology and meaning of the name Mfli
(who is called by the Scptuagint M»0<r^*, and by tk
Talgate Monies), is nstarally much diapated ; for tk
explaaation given in the text, * because I dnwhiatf
of the water* JExodus, iL 10), would reqaire not di
active form, JIBTD, bat the passive participle, *1BT3. Ik
furmer would rather imply the notion of a generil hti-
it^^ the people of Israel from Eg\'pt, an archagetm. k-
ftide.^it is questionable that the Egyptian princes*^
\ have given her adopted son a Hebrem name. Anti^^
and historians have, therefore, justly endeavoured W
the name of Moses to an Egyptian origin : hence^J»
phus observes {Antia. il ix. 6), • He received his a«
from the particular circumsUnce of aw infanry, wh«»
h.id been exposed in the Nile; for the Egyptians cdl*
wai;er Mo, and one who is rescued from the waveiaaL
TliL- Septuagint, then, which renders the word by M»^6ns
ha^ accurately preserved the etyraolofry. Similarly. J^
fiephus. Contra Apion, i. 81 ; Philo, De Vitd Mom, B-
WS » Eusebius, Prap. Evang. ix. 9, 28, and others ; whew
Moses has sometimes been called w8o7ck^s, « filiiu a<js«.'
thu son of the water. (See Jablonsky, O/nca., L 157;
Eusj^ius, Etymohg. JEgypt.^ p. 127, &c.)**
This etymology of the word Moses is the most
satisfactory which I have yet seen. The remvb
or Dr. Kalisch are taken from a note in his Ntm
Translation of the Old Testament, part "Exodus,"
ii. 10. J- D ALTON.
BoDDHisTS IN Britain. — It is not likely that
the Buddhists, if ever they reached the British
Isles, came from the eastern shores of the Medi-
terranean, although it is nearly certain that Pali-
^tnrl, literally the country of the Pnli or Buddhists,
w^B at one period occupied by that great race of
aht^pherd?, who are known in Indian history as
Pali-pootras, and spoken of by ancient gr*-'<^Ta-
phers as Pali-bothri; and who, emigrating from
India, traversed many countries of the West, aiid
n'viixi conquered Egypt, leaving behind them ia
India, Affghanistan, Northern Arabia, Asia Minor,
and perhaps in Egypt, their cave dwellings or
temples with painted walls. It is far more pro-
bable that Buddhist missionaries would Mve
TesL«^^^ "^rvV-wiv Kxwft. ^"Mv^vcvwvv ^^ «ttli«rt in-
p*s.Y. AnuLta.'ei.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
345
votaries of Woden or Bu^hun, one of whose names
was Gotama, whence the German name of God.
Some Buddhist sculptured stones I once saw in
India are singularly like the ancient upright
stones found in Great Britain, both having circles
wrought upon them: for example, the centre
stone of the Aberlemno groupe in Scotland. The
right-hand stone of thst groupe resembles a stone
found in Cuttak, and the Ictt-hand stone is ac«
tually the same thing as the sacred snake stone
set up for worship in India. Mr. 0*Brien and
Mr. Wilson describe ancient stones in Ireland and
Scotland, on which occur elephants forming cano-
pies with their trunks, whicn is a very common
accompaniment to statues of Buddha. The snake,
rhinoceros, and tiger arc found sculptured on
Buddhist as well as on ancient British stones.
Mr. 0*Bricn*s theory that the round towers of
Ireland ore Phallic, and of Buddhist origin, is
quite untenable, as the Lingam or Phallus has no
Elace whatever in the Buddhist religion. The
Ltely discovered markings on the rocks of the
Cheviot hills and elsewhere in the North, a draw-
ing of which appeared in a late number of the lUus-
trated London News, may be of Buddhist origin.
These markings consist of concentric circles sur-
rounding a half moon. The Jainas, a sect of
Buddhists, perform their festivals at changes of
the moon. The greatest of all their festivuls is
the feast of the Siddha Circle ; the worship is
performed before nine sacred names written on
the earth in a circle containing nine divisions of
different colours. H. C.
tSinttiti.
Alexander the Great s Grant to the Scla-
yoMiANS. — In a MS. dated 1714, in my possession,
is the following passage, the original of which is
said to be in the lUyrian character, attributed to
St. Jerome, in the church at Progue : —
** We, Alexander the Gruat, of Philip, Fonndcr of the
Grecian Empire, Conqueror of the Fenians, Aledes, &o.,
and of the ^hole worlil from east to west, from north to
south, Son of the great Jupiter by, &c., so culled : to you
the noble stock of the Sclavonians, ro called, and to your
Language, you have been to us a hflp, true in faith and
valiant in war, wo conArm all that tract of earth from
north to south of Italy from us and our successors, to
you and your posterity for ever: and if there be any
other nation found there, let them be your slaves. Date(i
at Alexandria the 12 of the Goddess Minerva. WitncAs
Ethra and the Princes, whom we appoint our Succe^sons."
1. Can any one inform me whether the original
of this grant is now in existence at Prague ?
2. Is there a copy of the original to be found
in any printed book r Llallawg.
Akpbos, Sib Edmund, Governor of Massa-
chusetts, was from Guernsey. What was his coat
of armfl? TV. IL TFuitmobb.
Jambs BoiiTON was a botanical artist residing
at Halifax. His latest publication appeared in
1794. When did he die, and where can I obtain
information respecting him ? S. Y. R.
BCBUESQUE PaHCTE^S. —
" Paul Veronese introduced portraits of bis siMtomers
in pleasant situations; Michael Angelo painted those
whom he did not like in Purgatory and worse. Coypel,
to please Boileau, gave Sanatol's fac^ to Satun at Confes'
Mfom; and Subleyras represents the same personage
obliced to hold the candle to St. Dominick, ax ver}' like
to Cardinal Dubois.*'—^ Letter to the Membert of the
Society of Art*, p. 7. By an Engraver. Loud. 1796.**
The pamphlet from which the above is taken is
a complimentary notice of Barry*s pictures, and a
recommendation that they should be engraved on
a large scale. I shall be obliged by information
as to where the two pictures are. Who was San-
atol ? and what is *^ holding the candle to St.
Dominick"? J. R.
CooTE, Lord Bellomont. — Richard, £nrl of
Bellomont, was Governor of New York and Mas-
sachusetts. I have his seal with numerous quor-
terings. Can any one say what arms would be on
his shield ? W. H. Whitmore.
Boston, U.S. A.
Fellowships in Trinity Coixege, Dublin. —
I have a copy of (I think) a source publication,
entitled The Difficulties and Discouragements
which attend the Study for a Fellowship in the
College of Dublin (12mo, Dublin, 1735). It is
in the form of " A Letter to a young Gentleman,
who intends to stand Candidate at the next Elec-
tion"; and appeared anonymously. Who was
the author ? Abuba.
Hill, Middlesex anb Woecesteeshibb. — I
shall be obliged by references to pedigrees of
this family. I have Sims's Index. K. W.
Hymn Queries. — ^I should feel much obliged if
you, or any of your readers, would give me the
name of the author, or authors, of the hymns, of
which the first lines are as follow : —
*' O it is hard to work for God,"
"O Faith, thou workest miracles,"
«• O how the thought of God attracts,"—
which I have not met with in different selections ;
and —
" Mv Go<l I love Thee, not because
1 hope for hvaveii thereby,"—
In Hymnsy Ancient and Modem. I should be glad
also to know to whom the hymn, " Jesu Redomp-
tor omnium," and that beginning, " O filii et filia;,"
are attributed. These, together with several other
Latin hymns, your correspondent F. C. II. has
not given us in his list. Is \t V^^<«Ni<QA ^w "^.n^.-
thorBbin \d loo uxiweV^JATi^ C*tts^ i^>i^ ^^- wv
whetber YaWr^UNmrnVw^ ^i^«\i^^^^ V^^^^^
by tbcmacVvca? *
346
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
[a^av. afblss^
CiUBun Lamb*s Aucb W . — Are there
anj perticulars known concerning this jounjr
lady ? Who was she? Talfourd, in his "" Letters '*
of the poet, hints that LamVs passion for her was,
on his own confession, not very lasting, thoush
the sumposition seems hardly consistent with the
fond manner in which Alice W is mentioned
even in the later writings of Elia. Talfourd says :
*' A yoathfal passion, which lasted only a fern monthi,
and which he afterwards attempted to regard lightly as a
folly past, inspired a few sonnets of very delicate feeling
and ezqnisite music"
In the Final Memorials^ however, we are told
that Lamb's verses were partly inspired-—
*« by an attachment to a yoon^ lady residing in the
neishboarhood of Islington, who is commemorated in his
early verses as * The Fair- haired Maid.' How his love
prospered we cannot ascertain, but we know how nobly
_ xA
_ ^ _ I on the catastroE
which darkened the following year.'
that love, and all hope of the earthly blessings attendant
on such an affection, were resigned on the catastrophe
Lamb was at this time twenty years of age. I
should be obliged for any information about
Alice W , if such is to be had.
Robert Kemft.
Monks and Friars. — In a recent review of
Mr. Froude's Hiitory^ 1 read : —
** We have obsenred another inaocnracy, which makes
one really doabt whether Mr. Fronde has ever read the
ecclesiastical history of the Middle Ages, not to say the
poets and novelists. He continually speaks of Dominican
tnonka and Angustinian monks. The Dominicans and
Augustinians were friars^ not monks. Friars were not
beard of till many centuries after Europe had been over-
spread by monks, and there were no more bitter enemies
than the monks and friars. As well might the historian
of the Jews speak of the Pharisees and Sadducees as if
they were convertible terms."
I wish to ask : 1. What was the distinction be-
tween monks and friars ? 2. Was the difference
as great as the reviewer implies ? F. H. M.
Nebf. — Can any one give me the derivation of
neefj the North Yorkshire for a clenched fist ?
Eboracum.
" The Nemo,*' etc.— There was printed about
thirty years ago two literary periodicals edited by
students of Edinburgh University, having the
titles of The Nemo, and The Anti-Nemo, As I
have been unable to get a sight of these papers,
would any reader who may have copies oblige nic
with the titles of the articles ? I believe there
were only two or three numbers printed of each
periodical. A son of Professor Wilson (Chris-
topher North) was, I understand, one of the edi-
tors. Iota.
"Rbvbnoms a nos Moutomb.*' — What is the
name of the play which gave rise to this saying P
wAai wBBJti dBtCf and who was its author?
I. O. S.
tftttftifif toOft
"RoTAL Stbipbs,** etc. — On WediM
March 80, died Mr. George I>Miiel, sath
The Modem Dmciady but perfaam move gen
known as the editor of Cwmferhmrfe 1
Theatre, In an obituary notice itt The J5
April 3, is a Ust of his works : he published
"In 1812, Boyal Sttym; or, A BSek from Tc
1 to Wales, for the suppression of which a large m
ordered to be paid by the Prince Regent. Ten
were advertised and paid for a copy.**
I wish to know the evidence on which tl
very probable statement rests. Mr. Dani
pears m all his works which I have read V
been a Tory and a rather high churchman.
In a list of the works of Peter Pinda
(Thomas Agg*), on sale bv Fairburn in 1
*» The R— I Sprain; or, A Kick from Yarm
Wales, Is. Qd, I once had one, which, esti
at its literary value, I threw away, when se
from my pamphlets those which were wort!
ing. I remember only two lines, which i
valuable if a copy really was sold for 10/. :
** Blacks in one moment both his princely eves
While from his nose the blood in torrents flii
The style is not like that of Mr. Danii
far as I can recall my impression of the b
was one of mere stupid ribaldry, and not
to be bought for suppression while T?ie Tk
Post Bag was in full sale.
Is there any reason to believe that the
Regent ever paid for the suppression of a \
book P H.
U. U. Club.
[The pamphlet inquired after is now on our tal
as it appears to be somewhat scarce, and no copy
to be found in the British Maseum, we give the
full: —
" R— 3'— 1 Stripes ; or, a Kick from Yar— h to ^
with the Particulars of an Expidition to Oat —
the Sprained Ancle: a Poem. By P P
lAureat.
•* Loud roar*d the P e, but roar'd in vain,
L d Y h brandisb'd high his cane.
And guided evVy r — ^y — 1 movement ;
Kow up, now down, now to and fro.
The R — g— t nimbly mov*d his toe.
The Lady much enjoy'd the show.
And complimented his improvement,
« London : Published by E. Wilson, 88, Comhil
Price One Shilling.**
The title-page of our cop}* is indorsed " By '
Daniel,'* in the neat handwriting of a gentlenu
has been personally known to the author of Mtrri
land ever since he left Mr. Thomas Hogg's boi
school on Paddington -Green, or from the lima t
\
JoK-a K^<^. N\\« BVcVVoMiT^ of
«r* a. V. Apml 28, -64.] NOTES AND QUEBIES.
347
was mounted on m stool as a clerk in the office of Mr.
John Cox, Stock-broker, in Token-Hoose Yard. To
set the matter finally at rest, BIr. Daniel himself has
laid claim to the authorship of this satirical poem in the
** Memoir of D. G.," with his own portrait, both of
which are preflzad to George Colmsn's comic piece, T%i
Blue Dttfiis, in Cnmberiand's British Theatre, 1838. Mr.
Daniel says, ''In 1811 he published The Times: or, the
Fropkeey, a poem. In 1812, a volume of mfweOaManu
Foeme; Boyal Stripm; or, a Kick from, TamumA to
Wake I (for the suppression of which a large sum was
given by order d the Prince Begent— ten pounds were
advertised and paid for a copy !)— and The Adveniuret of
Diek DisH^ a novel in 8 vols^ written before he was
eighteen.**
Allusion is also made by Mr. Daniel to this stifled pro-
doetion in some of his subsequent works, e. g, in the
** Supprened Evidence; or, R—l Intriguing, §r. By
. P P » Poet Laureat, author of R—l Stripee (sup-
f pressed), 8vo, 1813." Again, at the commencement of
Ophelia Keen !! a Dramatic Legendary Tale, 12mo, 1829
^ (printed but also suppressed), we read : —
** Come, listen to my lay : I am
The tuneful Bard — you know me —
That sung the whisker d bold Geramb ;
* What lots of fbn you owe me !
" I sung The Royal Stripeg — Come, listen ;
I sing the devil to pay ;
Your hearts shall leap, your eyes shall glisten :
Come listen to my lay ! "
It must be acknowledged, however, that the statements,
that ** for the suppression of the Royal Stripee a large
sum was given by order of the Prince Begent," and that
** ten pounds were advertised and paid for a copy "—have
always excited surprise in literary circles.]
"Htmek*8 Triumph." — Can you tell me who
was the author of the tragi-comedy, called Hy-
metCt Triumphj written in honour of the nuptials
of Lord Roxburghe ? I presume this was Habbie
Ker, the first Baron and Earl of Roxburghe, who,
by the way, was married thrice; and the poem
baying been published in 1623, it was probably
written on or ailter the noble lord's second mar-
riage, the date of which I, however, don't exactly
know. W. R. C.
[ffymeH*M Triumph is by Samuel Daniel, the poet and
historian, termed by Headley ** the Atticus of his day."
This pastoral Tragi-Comedy was presented at the Queen's
(Anne of Denmark) court in the Strand, at her Majesty's
magnificent entertainment of the King's most excellent
Majesty, being at the nuptials of the Lord Boxborough,
on Feb. 8, 1613-14, and is dedicated by a copy of verses
to her Mijesty. It is introduced by a pretty prologue, in
which Hymen is opposed by Avarice, Envy, and Jealousy,
the distubers of matrimonial happiness. It was entered
on tha SCatSooers' Begisters on June 18, 1618-14» and is
reprinted in KiGhoU'siVt9r«Meto/'JMet/.iL 749. Tbe
mUtrtaiammit'' was the nuurriage of Sir
Robert Ker, Lord Boxburghe, td his second wife, Jeane,
third daughter of Patrick, third Lord Dmmmond. She
was a lady of distinguished abilities^ preferred before all
to the officeof governess of the children of King James L]
Yiacor^iT CHSBnrGTON publbbed his Memoirs,
eoMiaimMiig a Genuine DeMcriptum of the Qovem^
niteai amd Manners of the present Portngmeee. Lond.
a Yds. 12mo, 1782. Who was he P S. T. B.
[lUs work is fictitious, and is criticised as a novel in
the MomAfy Review, Ixvii. 389. The author was Gapt-
B. Mnller of the Portuguese service, who, having commu-
nicated it to a firiend, received from him the following
laconic acknowledgemoit : —
** Carissimo Amkxs
Se non 4 vero^ 4 ben trovato.
Fbahzqil
Lisbon, 24'a9»»~, 1778."
Which, says the author, when paraphrased into English,
is as much as to say : —
" My dear Friend, — ^Though all the circumstances yon
relate may not have actually happened or come to pass*
yet they are descriptive of the people you give an account
of as if they really had."
Nothing more is known of Lord Viscount Cherington
than that he was bom in BraziL His father. Dr. Castle-
ford, is the hero of the Ule; and the principal informa-
tion relating to this gentleman is, that he was physician
to the English factory at Lisbon, and was banished firom
thence to Brazil by the villanous artifices of a Jesuit]
PoTiFHAE. — In the Septnagint Version, Poti-
phar is described as being 6 tbpodxos *dpa»» (Genesisy
xxxix. 1). Is this a correct translation of the
Hebrew word? Melbtis.
[The question is one which the learned have not yet
decided. There can be no doubt that the Hebrew word
Borie, D^^D> ^bich the Septnagint has here rendered
cvroD^or, did properiy and primarily signify an eunuch,
in the strict sense of the word. It has, however, been
plausibly maintained that mrie often implied simply an
officer (^ the court ; and, in accordance with this view, it
is rendered by our translators chamberlain in Esth. i. 10,
and officer in the passage now before us, as well as in
Gen. xxxvii. 8^ where they have annexed the marginal
note «• Heh. etmaicA. But the word doth signify not only
emnuhe, but also ehamberlaine, courtiere, and officere, Esth.
i. 10." This, however, has been controverted.
The foil discussion of the question is not exactly suited
to our pages.]
The Robin. — Can any of your readers inform
me whether there is any foundation for the popu-
lar belief, that the young robin will frequently
fight with and destroy its own father ? L. G.
[Yarrell {History of BriHth Birds, i. 261) speaks of
the robin as one of the most pugnadons among birds, but
not as a parricide.1
348
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[d^av. ApBn.»»14.
ELEANOR D'OLDREUSK.
(3^ S. V. 11.)
Elconore d'Esmiers was the onljr child of Alex-
andre, Seigneur d'Olbreuse, by his wife Jacobina
Poussard de Vaudre (also styled by some writers
Jacquettc, or Jacqueline, Poussard du Vij^ean) ;
and was born in March, 163f, at the Chatcan
d'Olbreuse, near Usseau, in the parish of Mauz6
(now in the arrondissement of Niort, and depart-
ment of Deux-Sevres), province of Poitou. Hor
father, the lord of the Castle of Olbreuse, from
which he derived his title, was a nobleman of an
ancient family in Poitou, and one of the numerous
French Protestant families exiled by Louis XIV.
On his being sent into banishment, and his pro-
perty confiscated, he sought an asylum in Holland ;
taking with him his only daughter, the beautiful
young " Marquise D*Esmers." She was married,
morganaticnily, in September, 1665, at Breda, in
Dutch Brabant^ to George William of Brunswick
Zelle, Prince of Calemberg, who had just succeeded
to the duchy of Zelle by his elder brother's
death. The newly-married pair took up tlieir
residence at Zell, where the lady was known by
the^ title of Lady of Hnrbourg, or Von Ilarburg,
which she had been created on marriage by her
husband. On September 15, 1666, their first
child was born, and christened, with great cere-
mony, by the name of Sophia Dorothea. It was
she wlio became subsequently the unfortunate, if
not guilty, spouse of her coiisin-gcrman George
Louis, then Prince of Hanover, and eventually
King of England ; through which alliance she
was ancestress of our present royal family.
Wiihin the next few years, Madame von Har-
burg had three other daughters, all of whom died
in infancy. And in 1672, she was further en-
nobled as Lady Eleanora von Harburg, Countess
of Wilhelmsburg, from an island in the Elbe,
nearly opposite to Hamburgh, which ^m settled
on her by her husband.
In August, 1676, the nuptial ceremony was
solemnly performed at Zelle; on which she be-
came the acknowledged Consort and rightful
Duchess of Zelle; to which rank her previous
morganatic union did not entitle her. The rank
of Princess of the Germanic Empire was, at the
same time, conferrcjl UfKin her by the Emperor
Leopold I. ; but it was stipulated that any issue
of the marriage should not succeed to the Duchy,
but lie styled Counts and Countesses of Wil-
helmsburg— so j«trict was the code of laws re-
gardinnr such alliances at that period. However,
by treaty of July 1.3, 1680, the Duchess Eleanora
was allowed the title of Duchess of Brunswick-
Liineburg. Her husband, Duke George William,
died August 28, 1705, at the age of eighty-one;
while she survived till Feb. ^ 1 722 : ber desti
then occurring at her resideiioe in Zelle, in ihe
eighty-third year of her age.
It li unnecessary here to record the well-knova
events in the career of her daughter^ the Prinoea
Sophia Dorothea of Zelle : it will be sufficient i
remark, that her marria;:e with Prince George a
Hanover was dissolved by decree of the CoD>i*-
toridl Court, at Hanover, on Dec. 28, 1694; lai
she was thereupon imprisoned in the small ta-
tresis of Ahlden, with the title of Duchess «
Ahlden. Here she was compelled to spend tk f
remaining long years of her sad life in strict oo".-
finement, till released by death, nflcr a captiritr
of nearlv thirty-two years, on N'ov. 13, 1726. I:
is recorded that her father never once visited br
ill the castle of Ahlden ; though her aged motl-:
was allowed occasionally to cheer her soIitsJ'.
and see her at intervals, up to the period of h-'
own death. Her remains were consigned, wb
proper honours, to the family vaults at ZcT.
where her corisort, King George I., followed k
to the tomb in June following.
The dates of the death of either the Se^aer
d*Olbreuse, or of his spouse, have not been i.^~-
tained by me from any of the authorities Ji«'-
consulted in drawing up this reply to Mr. (He-
wARD*s query ; but the Lady Jacqaette, es-
ently, died before the period of the familTV*
ting France. And it is certain that the hiaai^
noble of Poitou survived for some time the dv*
riage of his daughter Elconore, which W0 ^>
make him ancestor of so many royal hoa«i ^■
Kurope. A. & A.
Cawnpore, East Indies.
Circle Squarino (3'* S. v. 258.) — The hzJi
inquired after by T. T. W., is mentioned ly
Mr. De Morgan in hU Bwfget of Poradoi^-*
{Afhenamm, Nov. 14, 1863, p. 646) : —
" Tlio Circle* Sqiiar'il. IJy Thomas Raxtcr, Crasher:.
Clvvelanil, Yorkshire. I^ndon, 1732. 8va."
" Hero T = 30C25. No proof ia offered."
I think, but am not sure, that I have seen i
copy of this book in the British Museum. It i<.
no doubt, great rubbish. Kdwabd p£4COca.
Gkoghaphical Garden (3^^ S. v. 173, 24^.)—
The learned divine John Greporie, in his Dt^erip*
Hon and U^e of Maps and Ckarit, thus speaks of
what he calls a " Geographical Garden *' : —
" It is propoande<1 by a man incrcnioaslv enough rm-
ceitcd, as a Device nothing besides the Meditatioa d a
Prince, to have his Kinploms and Doniiniom, by the
direction of an able Mathematician. Geographically de>
scribed in a Garden Platform : the Mountains and H:1N
being raided, like small IlilloclES, with turfi of earth; the
Vallies somewhat concave within ; the T«irtia, VillairM.
Ca9tles,and other remarkiible Kdificea, in MiiaU men mnmf
Banki^ or Spring-work, proporikmal to the PiatfMi the
3»* Sw V. Apeil 23, ^UrL]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
349
Foresti mod Woods lepieamtcd according to tbdr Ann
and capacity, vith Herte and Stnta ; tha great Hirera,
Lakes, and Ponds, to dilate themselTes aocoiding to tkeir
coarse from some artificial Fountain, made to pass in the
Garden throngli Channels. &c All w^ may, donbtlass,
be mathematioilly conntcffuted, as well as the Horisontal
IHal and Coat-armoor of the House, in Exeter-College
Garden."— ITMei, 4th edit. London, 1684, 4to, Plil
p. 328.
Addison refers to this as the actual device of
an '^ Eastern King ;** Gregorie speaks of it as the
conception of some inn^enious essayist, who con-
sidered it worthy of" the meditation of a Prince.*'
The question still remains, who is the writer re-
ferred to P Let me ask, has this erased passage
been restored in any edition of Addison's Warkif
If not, where is the MS. of his Euatf on the
LnagimatioH f
In the work of an eccentric American writer,
▼iz. Owen's Key to the Geology of the Globe
(Philadelphia, 1857), at p. 240, occurs an interest-
ing notice of Geographical Gardens actually laid
out. I am sorry I have not the book, that I
might give the passage ; especially as, to the best
of my remembrance, it is about the only intelli-
gible passage in the whole volume.
EniONNACH.
Thomas Gilbert, Esq. (3'"* S. v. 134, 263.)—
In the chancel of the little church of Petersham
is a tablet, having this inscription : —
** Jnxta faunc locum situm est quicqaid mortale fait
TflOMiE Gilbert armigeri, ex gcnerm et perantiquA
famillA oriandi, ab annis teneris Scheie Etonensis alnm*
nus. Poetices sitim ibi primo sentiebat, qoam ex fontibus
ntriusque Academi» posttra feliciter ej^levit. Nee ab
his liberalis animi oblectamentis se unqnam avelli pi-
tiens. Ipse patrio sermone carmine composnit; Qaibns
nee Gnecn nee Romanae Gratite defuemnt. Quid vero
hsc? Vir fuit, si quia alius, Integer, Probus, severe
Justus, Fidns, ad amicos, ad omnes, ad Deum.
** Sine promissis, sire dissimulatione, sine Sitperstitione,
Firmns, Benevolus, Pius — Obiit anno salutis 1766, atatia
su«54.
eNHTOJ nANTA BION A'HN ENAIK02 OTK ETI TOTTO
ONHTON «»H2 APETAI KPEI220NE2 E121 MOPOT." *
On the floor is a stone, inscribed : —
" Beneath this stone is interred v* body of Tno.
Gilbert, Esq., vho departed this life f^ovembcr y 23«-'«,
1766, in v« 64«»» year of his age.
" As also Akk, wife of the above Tho. Gilbert, Esq., who
died June the 15*^ 1801, aged 75 rears. This is inscribed
by a person truly grateful for the many acts of generosity
and benevolence received from both."
I am not able to give from other sources anr
account of Mr. Gilbert, nor to assert that he is
the person inquired after. But from the fact
of his having studied at both Universities, and
the date of the B.A. degree (n. 263), when the
■ubjeet of the epitaph would nave been about
twenty-one years of age, lead to a conclusion whidi
is oonftrmed by his seeking the patronage of the
Earl of Bma^ then a neighbour and all powarfol
at Kew ; and who, no donbt, procured the pcr-
mi.«Bion, referred to in the second letter, for Mr.
I Gilbert to lay his volume before the £arl*i papil,
\ then become Geor^ III.
! I do not find Mr. Gilbert's name among the
; permanent inhabitants at Petersham. From his
early death, wc may presnme his health to havii
I been delicate : and as the letter of May 22, 17o!),
says that the place of his residence that summer
was very uncertain, it is probable that he may, as
many since, have chosen Petersham for the pecu-
liar mildness of its air.
The epitaph mav be seen in Manning and Bray*s
, Surrey, vol. i. p. 442. W. C.
■ Kohl (3-* S. iv. 16G, 239, 402.) — There is no
I doubt that kohl, or rather ihiA/, is antimony, or
I rather sulphuret of antimony, a blackish mineral, re-
duced to powder, and used as a pigment for tincing
: the eyelids by native women in the east, who believe
that It adds to their beauty : it is also considered
to be a preventive of excessive discharge of rheum
from tho eyes. The word is Arabic, J^ « ^^^
the Perf ion name, iJcjjt , is that by which it is
always called in Hindostan : I write from per-
sonal knowledge and observation. A. S. A.
Maeti!! (3^* S. V. 154, 222.) — I am obliged
by the information that your correspondent. Mm.
Baxteb, has been so kind as to give in answer to
my inquiry. From Morant*s History of Euex, to
which he refers me, I learn that Matthew Martin,
of Alresford Hall, was, or was sappoeed to be,
descended from the Martins o^ Soffrom-WMem,
May I hope, cither through Ma. Baxtem^b further
kindness, or that of some other connespondent, to
learn something of this elder branch of the faauly ?
And in particular I should be glad to ascertain
whether any member of it was ever Lord Mavor
of London? P. S. C.
CtmroMB ni Scotlavb : Fig-oke (3** S. v. 1 53.) #
I had the opportunity, a few days ago, of men-
tioning this matter to a near relative of the late
Lord Langdale. The reply I received was,-—
"Fig-one! oh, there must be some blander; it
was fig-sue, well enough kno^n in the north,
where our family came from. I remember" (my
informant went on) " my uncle expressing more
than once his detestation of that abominable fig-
sue ; he used to laugh and say that when he was a
boy he begged that his mother would let him
have the figs by themselves; they were gowi
enough." J. Frrx-R.
Sm JoHif CoxwGSBi (3-^ S. V. 280.)— What is
the authority for the statement contained in the
inquiry of G. J. T., that Sir John Coningsby was
slain m the barons* wars at Chesterfield, 126(>?
Ko such knight is mentioned by Dr. Pegge, in
his account of the battle of Chesterfield. W. Sr^
350
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3^a V. aptosh^
Gabib.\ltji,— Can you find room for the fol-
lowing reply to the query, " Why do the English
»o admire Giiribaldl ? " which is asked abroad^ and
. majr be thoa answered at home f
** When Gnribaljli ceased his high command.
And abealhed hu sword— that aword a bright and
keen one —
Noagbc in bid pocket put ha but bis hand -,
A migbty hand — and, nobler stiH, a clean ont***
Airow.
[Wa are Tery glad that our cofrespondent baa given
m the opportunity of thoa »howtiig our admiration of an
NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC
37i« IForJU of J^tUiam Shakespeart, Edited by Howard
Stannton, With coploui j.Vbte», Ghttarjff Lifi^ Sf^, In
Four VoIvmcM. (Rotitledge.)
In tbe year IBs?, when they determined upon the pub-
lieatjoa of aa niostrated Shakapeare, Meian. Routledge,
instead of contenting tbemselTeii with airaply taking up
some old edition and adapting tbeir illuetrations to it,
had the good fienae to endeavoar to make their edition
as perfect as possible by 9«curtn(; for it tbe serrices of a
competent editor. Mr. Howard i^taunton, tbe gentlenian
selected by them, was understood to have peculiar fitnew
for the task in hia own long study of the Poet, and to
have in addition the advantage of numbering among his
friends some able and ze^ilous Shakspearian scholara.
The result was, that while the Hlustrated Shakapeare
exhibiteil in its pictorial embellishments groat attractions
for tbe many, the labours of Mr. Siaonion attracted to
it the attention of more critical etudent^ of the Poet's
wiitinga. Tbe work now before us is a reprint of that
editiOD, without ihe artistic embellishments. It is com-
prised in four handsomely printe<l volumes, and forma
the most compact edition of Shakspeare, with a large
apparatus of critical and illastrntive notes, which has
yet been given to the public. We regret that, owing to
an tmfbrttinate miaanders tin ding between the publishers,
the preeent impression is necessarily a wrbattta reprint of
Mr. Staunton's first edition, for it contains some sharp
criticisms and passages which, nnder other circumstances,
would, we cannot doubt, have been soUeaed, if not alto-
gether omitted.
ar^i Work* of mHiam Shak*tptare, The Ttxt rtviMtd
bjf th» Rev. Ale.\aoder Dvce. In Eight Valumt*, Second
EfUikn. V0I.JIL (Cbapman & nail.)
This third volume of ^Ir. Dyce*s scholarUke edition of
Shakapeare contains. At Vou lAk* II ; The Taming ofUtt
Sknwi Air$ fTelt that End* WtU ; Tweffth Mgkt { Mid
7%t Winter*M Tak, It exhibits the same thorough know-
ledge of hie ittbject as the preceding, but i* characterised
by a somewhat bolditr introduction of amendments of the
tcxL Tlmi, in Air§ Well th^it Ends JTtll, when the
Steward tells the Coontess — "Madam, the care I have
had to tven yonr cotitent**^ which Johnson had satii-
ikctorlly explained, **to kqI up to your dessircs,*' and
•aaina ao well paralleled by the passage in CynUmlinf -^
". . , . but well wf»
All that good time will give us," —
Mr Dyca wo«ld read, •* tarn your content** *• Win your
content,** is another lu^gvttibn i but both are alike un*
called for. Dnt the edition it a Taloable oae» and does
credit to Mr* pyoe.
ShakMpmrt ; a Biooraphy, Bjf llidfnaf De Qlfacef, dt
Eitgtish Opium-Eater. (A. 8c C» Black.)
At the present moment, when the attcfiSoQ «f il
clii i ned in so rcmnrkabie a mannfflO' tll« )fr
ail of Shakspeare^ Mcsara. Black !»▼• ihevt
eoi4.,.,i.u. ,.. judgment in reprintisttr. h\ d v«rj clMq»«l
popular form, the Biography o« wrttlan by 1^
subtle rea£ouer and profound Kngllili Uyi^
Eater.
Shtikxpere and Jotuo*, Dramaiie ▼ttfMi W*» Omktu
Avj-iliar}/ Forces — BeanmofU anrf T'^ " -. MiirMWi
Deckrr, Chapmati, and fVitltUer, ( nith,)
The ingenuity with which the w,,. . ^ ugi bla b»
timate knowledge of the Old DramatieU to bmar upMlii
views of the literary relations between SbakflMsn «l
Bon Jonson, will interest the reader, thoits^ ™y m^
not succeed in convincing him.
Shakspetiri
ton, Jettf
3Itrrie
Dover.
Carew HazlitL (Willis St Sotheran.)
This second volume of Mr. Haslitt'a carelVaUy
aeries of Elizabetlion J est- Books is a valoAkle
tion to our knowledge of the wit and lidinoiir
time when Shakspeare flourished, and -well
impress us with a higher senae of hia matchleae w&
humour when compared with that which '^ "^
with hia contemporaries.
ijkble tmi^ I
idmoar ti «# ML
I cskMliMi ■
^hleia «fl£_H
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April SO, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
351
.OyDON, SATURDAY, APRIL SO, 1864.
CONTENTS.— No. 122.
- Sir Wilter Baleif^ : New FttrtlcuUra, S51 ~ Don
*Athoqu% O. S. IMOL, BUhop of LlandAff, 3Sa—
re in the BottthoMt of Ireland, 353— James For-
DJ).,SM— UnDubltahed Letter of Oharlos Uunb
3a8tem Ethioplaiis^ Acrostic— An Old Talc with
Htle — Corioiu Paasige in St. Augustine, 354.
3 : — Ahraham^Brook — Mrs. Margaret Br^an —
Coin — Joseph Downes — Dummerer — Heming of
«r ~ Thomas Uopkirk— Langua^ used in the
of the Roman Procurator in Palestine, Ac — ** The
' MKn6t,"18M— Marrow Bones and CleaTers —
>l^Wash-diBh— The Christian Name. Murtha —
. Nicola — Preaching M iniaters suspended — Ques-
Fopulation— Bpiacopal Seal — Story, Norfolk —
in I>evonshire— Zapata: Spain, 355.
WITH AirsWEBB : — The Pitt Diamond — " Tony's
to Maiy " — Fardel of Land — Cribbago — Barley,
I:'— The Tinclarian Doctor, 359— Publication of
301 — Prc-Death Coffins and Monuments, 363—
Committee of Privy Council — Consonants in
•Comet of 1581 — King Cliarles II.'s illegitimate
I — Swallows — Enigma— " Aurea vincenti," Ac —
od— Pont at Chelmorton— Posterity of Charle-
- Hymns by John Hoy — Thomas More Molyncux
Cadency — De Poo and Dr. Livingstone —A Bull of
- Jeremiah llorrocks — Bev. David Lament —
Unpublished Letter of the Father of the Author
Grave " — Seneca's Prophecy — Erroneous Monu-
Inseriptions in Bristol— Archbishop Hamilton —
tiurch of our Fathers," &c., 361.
Books, Ac
LTER RALEIGH. NEW PARTICULARS.*
ehend that the following facts and docn-
re new in connexion wiui the biography
gh : they begin at an early period of his
but before I quote them I wish to ob-
it, from information now lying before me,
not unlikely that George Gascoigne, the
oet, was the person who induced Baleigh,
)n after 1576, to change his profession
3 law, for which he was originally des-
the army, in which he so much distb-
himself. The two were certainly intimate,
1576 Kaleigh prefixed some stanzas, to
istice has scarcely been done, to Gas-
blank verse satire The Steel Glaes^ which
ed, as nearly every body is aware, in the
r words : " Walter Raleigh of the Middle
in commendation of the Steel Glass.** I
lean here to enter into any inquiry upon
ition, but we know that Gascoigne, who
i himself educated for tiio law, and was a
of Gray*s Inn, had become a soldier in
d engaged in the service of the Prince of
so Haleigh, having taken up his resi-
1 the Middle Temple before 1576, became
* under Arthur Lord Grey of Wilton, to
penter was secretary. The first of the
[• Continued from 8'd S. v. 207.]
ensuing papers refers to Raleigh's intended ser-
vice in Ireland ; and according to it, he and Ed-
ward Denny, the cousin of the Lord-Deputy, had
warrants for a then considerable sum, to be applied
to the raising of recruits : —
*<18 July, 1580. To Edward Deny— €» tDd^
unto Walter Rawley— C" having thef^rBn
ehardge of the twoo hnndreth somdim p^
sent from London into Ireland, in presto J
[The date of the next document is donbtAil, bat per-
haps a&tMior to the above ; nor can we sAte for what
porpose Um fine was levied or paid.]
"Here ensneth the names and snmmes of the fines
severalUe charged nppon such as are, by order of the most
honombell Lordes or the Cooncell, appointed to paie the
Walter Baleigh .... iiju hath paid
William Bawdin .... ij" x> hath paide
John Penwarren . . . . iju hath paioe.**
[The following fixes the date, hitherto not settled, of
Raleigfa's return from Ireland, but it was probably only
temporary: it is one item out of a longer enumeration of
payments.]
*'29Dec 1681. Item, paid to Walter Rawley, sent,
upon a Warrant signed by M. Secretorie Walsingbam,
dated att Whitehall xxix<» decembr. 1581, for bringinge
Letters in poste for her Majesties affairs from Corke in
Ireland, the some of xx*^."
[Thus we see in what way Raleigh may have obtained
an introduction to Elizabeth without snppodng, with
Fuller, that he owed it to an act of gallantry in spread-
ing his cloak to receive the footsteps of the queen. J
''These whoee names are here written which adven-
tured with Sir Humfivy Gilbert in his First Yoiadge, in
mony or commodities, not inhabiting within the towne
of Southampton aforesaid, shall in like sort be free of trade
and traffick as aforesaid.
The Lord North.
Mr Edmonds of the privie chamber.
S' Mathew ArrandelL
S' Edward Horsey.
S' William Morgan.
S' John Gilbert.
S*^ George Peckham.
Charles Ammdell, Esq.
Mr Mark WiUiam, Esq.
Mr Walter Rawl^, Esq.
Mr Carrowe Rawley, Esq.
Adrian Gilbert, Esq.
William Weymouth, merchant," &c.
[The list comprises various other names, but none of
them of note; and I omitted to make a memorandum as
to the source of this information.]
Letter addressed " To the right Honorable S'
Francis Walsingbam, Knight, Principall Secre-
tarye to her Ma***." Indorsed " 1582, 7 Feb. S'
H. Gilbert, that he may be sufTred to continue his
voyage : " —
"Right honorable. Whereas it hath pleased your
honor to let mee understande that her ma^, of her espe-
ciall care had of my well doinge and prosperous successc,
hath wished my stay att home from the personall execu-
tion of my intended discovery, as a man noted of noe
good happ by sea : for the which I acknowledge mj selfe
so much bounds unto her ma*^, as I know not now to de-
serve the leaste part thereof, otherwise than with my
r. April 30, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
353
i, iv. 134.) And when Dr. Abell, ber
»r, was removed^ the difficulty was to find
'eeable both to Henry and his divoroed
" The Bukop of Llandaff;' writes the
ifTcnt, ^ will do less harm than any other
and be her ghostly father.** The reason
it the old Spaniard was timid and quiet,
d implored the qneen to yield to expe-
(Strickhind, it. 135.) It is not recorded
r he held any previous ecclesiastiod prefer-
n -England, till raised to the episcopate,
1 the influence of his patroness and coun-
lan. Queen Katharine, on the death of
Salley, Bishop of Llandaff, in Wales, in
ser, 1516. lie was, accordin^^ly, provided
see by Pope Leo X. on February 11,
ind consecrated March 8 following, either
Paul's Church, London {Reg. Warham^
in Godwin, De PrcBsid. edit. Richardson,
and Le Neve's Fatti, edit. Hardy, p. 250),
ft church of the Dominicans or " Black-
there {Reg. Sacr. Angl. by Stubbs, p. 76,
ority of " Rej;. Warham. and Booth ), by
( Boothe, LL.D., Bishop of Hereford, as-
>y John Young, S.T.P., Bishop of Callipolis,
ice (Archdeacon of London, and Suffragan
diocese), and Francis (?), Bishop
Dria, in Prsevalitana (Achrida). The sees
two last prelates were in partibtu infide'
at of ** Fras. Castoriensis ** I can ascertain
je in any list of suffragan bishops. The
shop of LlandalF received restitution of the
all ties of his see, on April 27, 1517 {Pat
VIIL^ p. 1, m. 14), and after an episco-
twentv years, he resigned the bishopric in
ry, 1537 {Pat, 28 Hen, VIIL, p. 2, m. 2),
conge iTelire issued on March 2, 1537,
Bishop George, resigned" {ihid,)^ a suc-
being consecrated to the vacant see on the
'that month. The aged D'Athequa pro-
•eturned to his native land, as the state of
istical afTairs in England must have be-
distasteful to him, and the death of Queen
•ine had severed his last tie in that country,
ery is, what became of him afterwards, and
or when did he die ? Any additional in-
ion on the subject will be acceptable.
A. S. A.
Indies.
)LK LORE IX THE SOUTH-EAST OF
IRELAND.
tng spent some happy juvenile days in the
eastern parts of Ireland, including parts of
ny, Wexford, Wicklow, Carlow, and Water-
had manv opportunities of becoming ac-
ed with the ** manners and customs** of
grade of society, from the squire to the
t, and therefore picked up many of the
" saying and doings " of these districts. One
thing struck me as most remarkable, and that
was, when any popular custom, tradition, or, I
may say superstition existed, there was not the
slightest dinerence of opinion between the edu-
cated and the most humble or illiterate persons —
all held tuft to the same belief, no matter how
abtiifd. I speak of the laity generally, but do not
include the clergy of an^ sect or denomination.
For want of a better designation, I give the fol-
lowing jots under the head of *' folk lore,** although
the title may be queried.
When a cat scratches the legs of a table or
chair, it is a sign of rain ; but if ^ tabby '* trans-
fers her nails to the stump of a tree, it foretells a
storm. If this latter be found correct, we have a
sort of feline Fitzroy before the " Admiral ** was
taught to prophesy the ''coming storm.** The
appearance of a rainbow (the Jrit) at night or
evening, is a sign of fine weather ; in the morn-
ing it IS for storm, and at midday storm and rain;
and if in autumn, thunder and whirlwintls may
be expected to follow. The quacking of ducks in
the morning is a sure sign of rain, as is also the
chattering of a collection of sparrows in the even-
ing. Should a robin redbreast « enter a house,
hard weather, snow, frost, &c., may be expected
to follow soon. The robin is held in great vene-
ration by every one, and it would be considered
a serious offence to kill one willingly. It is almost
a domestic bird in the places I mention, and has
privileges not accorded to other bipinnated
tenants of the grove or hedge.
It foretells a storm to see pigs running about
the farm-yard with straws in their mouths ; and
to hear dogs crying, which they do most horribly
sometimes, ifotilies a death. On this point there
is also some curious folk lore about that fabled
myth, the ''banshee;** but as I have already
written an account of " a hunt aAer a banshee,**
I shall say no more on that subject.
Oi the lower or upright portion of the frame
of almost every house door — the chief en-
trance— maybe found nailed an old horseshoe,
or portion of one, picked up on some neighbouring
road. This is said to be very lucky, and prevents
fires and fairies from visiting the house. It is
considered particularly unfortunate for a farmer
or his wife if they should, on a May morning,
meet a hare, as that animal is said to take away
the milk from the cows, should the master or mis-
tress of the "lowing herd'' cross the path of
pussy on the morning in question.
I shall continue this subject, but for the present
must save your valuable space.
S. Redmond.
Liverpool.
354
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
[8rt a ▼. Afeu
JAMES FORTESCUE, D.D.
Watt's Bihliotheca Britannica contains thh curi-
ous article : —
** FoBTESCUE, J., D.D. -- Essays, Moral and Miscella-
neous ; viz. An Introdactoiy Spe<K:h from Solomon ; with
an Ode. A Vision on a Plan of the Ancients. A Sketch of
Life after the manner of the Modems. The State of Man ;
his Passions, their object and end, their use, abase, rega-
lation, and employment With a Poem, sacred to the
memory of the Princess [Princes] of Wales and of Orange.
Lond. 1752, 8vo. Lond. 1759, 2 toIs. 8vo. lO*."
Amongst the publications enumerated in the
Oent, mag, for January, 1752, 1 find —
''Essays, Moral and Miscellaneons, by J. Fortescne,
DD." 1*. Baldwin.
The Essays are noticed in the MonUdy Review
for January, 1752 (vi. 78). [It was apparently
from this source that Watt deriyed his descrip-
tion, substituting by mistake "princess" for
" princes."] Twelve lines of poetry are cited,
and it is stated that it appeared on the title-page
that the pamphlet was only A^nt part.
The Gent, Mag, for January, 1755, mentions as
a new publication —
** Essajrg, Moral and Miscellaneons, by Dr. Fortescne.'*
4#. Owen.
This is no doubt the work which, in Dr. Blis8*s
Sale Catalogue (amongst the books printed at Ox-
ford), is thus described : —
" 834. Fortescne (J.) Essays, 870. J. Fletcher, 1754."
*'Pomery Hill," a poem humbly addressed to his
Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, appeared in
8vo, 1754. This was by Dr. Fortescue, and was
afterwards included in his collected works (Gough's
British Topography, i. 321 ; Cat. of Gough's Col-
lection in the Bodleian, 106).
Amongst the books printed at Oxford, in Dr.
Bliss*s Sale Catalogue, we have —
** 849. Fortescue (Dr.), Dissertations, Essa^-s, and Dis-
conrses in Prose and Verse, 2 vols, cats, 8to. W. Jack-
son, 1759."
This work is also mentioned in the late Mr.
James Davidson*s Supplement to Bihliotheca De-
voniensis (a mark being appended to denote pri-
vate library). This note is subjoined —
••This work comprises three descriptive poems, — one of
them on Devonia, and two on Castle Ilill."
The Monthly Review (xxi. 291) gave a con-
temptuous article on the work, naming Dodslcy as
the publisher. Extracts are given from a Disser-
tation on Man^ and a poem on " Contemplation \ "
whilst "The Oak and the Shrubs," a fable, and
" To my Taper,'* an ode, are extracted in extenso.
It thus appears that the first part of Dr. Fortes-
cue's Essays appeared in 1752, at a shilling ; that
other Essays by him were published in 1754 at four
shillings ; and that an extended edition (including
" Tomery Hill," which had been first published
anonvmously,) came out in two vols, in 1759 at
ten shillings.
A few particulars of this now-forgotte
whose Christian name was James, are ff
He was a Fellow of Exeter College, Oxf
Oct. 14, 1736; M.A. June 22, 1739; Sen
tor of the University, 1748 ; B.D. April
and D.D. Jan. 20 1749-50. Be held th
of Wotton, in Northamptonshire — a b
the gift of Exeter College, but I do not
what period he was instituted. His <
curred in 1777, and his library was sold
I cannot ascertain to what branch of tli
cue family he belonged, but it would s
bable that he was a Devonian. I may
a search for Dr. Fortescue's works in u
tensive public libraries has been unavail
Unfubushbd Letter of Cha&ij»
To the manv admirers of dear £lia, the
characteristic letter from his pen, hitherl
lished, will be welcome. The AthentBum
*< We are mdebted to a friend for the followii
lished Letter, written many years ago by Ch
to a bookseller, on receipt of two books* of p
being The Maid of Elvar, by Allan Cannii
other Barry Comwairs Songs and Ihramatic Ft
**< Thank you for the books. I am asham
tythe thos of yonr press. I am worse to a pab
the two Universities and the Brit. Mus. — ^A
forthwith read. B. C (I can't get out of the .
have more than read. Taken altogether 'tis
— but what delicacies! I like moat * King
Glorious 'hove all * The Lady with the Ilundr
— *The Owl' — * Epistle to what's his name
may be I'm partial)—* Sit down, sad soul ' — * Tfc
Jubilee ' (but that's old, and yet 'tis never ol(
Falcon ' — * Felon's Wife * — Damn * Mad*"*^- Paa
that is borrowed —
Apple pie is very good.
And so is apple pasty.
But
0 Lard ! 'tis very nasty.
— but chiefly the Dramatic Fragments — scare*
which should have escaped my Specimens, had a
name been prefixed. They exceed hia first. —
for the nonsense of poetry ; now to the serious b
life. Up a court (Blandford Court) in Pall JMal
at the back of Marlbro* House, with iron gate
and containing 2 houses), at No. 2, did lateiy h
man, my taylor. lie is moved somewhere in tl
hood — devil knows where. Pray find him out
him the opposite. I am so much better — tho'
shakes in writing it — that after next Sunday, I
see F. and you. Can you throw B. C. in ? • — \V
the wheels of my HogaJth ? "
The Eastern Etuiopiaks. — I am of
that the Eastern Ethiopians were colonies
dooists planted on both sides of the Paroj
by Osins on his expedition for the cono
India. On this expedition, to which ampl
mony is borne by many ancient writers, he
to have been accompanied by Apollo and
Osiris is the same as JBrama, Apollo as Rao
S^d S. V. Apwl 80, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
365
Pecht is the Hanuman of Hindoo tradition ; thej
^crure conspicaously in the conquest of India, as
related by native historians. The Eastern Ethio-
pians, or Ilindooists, resemble the ancient Egyp-
tians in customs, physiognomy, architecture, reu-
■gion, and names.
When I yisited the tombs of the kings at Thebes,
and the tombs at Beni-Hassan, I saw that the
paintinp^ on the walls thereof were accurate re-
Eresentations of the customs of the Hindoos. ^ I
ave seen many Indians, whose physiognomies
and colour were the same as those found in Egyp-
tian sculptures and painting. As to identity m
architecture and relij;ion, i need only remark
that the sepoys of the British expedition to Egypt
from Bombay, declared that the Egyptian pago-
dahs were their pagodahs, and the images of gods
in them their gods, before whom they^ performed
poogah or the ceremonies of their religion.
Sir Walter Raleigh, in his History of the World,
Bays, *' I see no reason to doubt that Osiris was
Misraim." If we concur with Raleigh, and pursue
this idea still further, we shall find that the per-
Bona^s of the Hindoo trinity — viz. Brama, Rama
£r Vishnu), and Scva, are the remembrances of
israim, Rama, and Seba of Genesis.
I give one example of sinularity in names — Rha-
inasameeno is the well-known name of an Egyp-
tian kioir. Rama.samec is a common Hindoo name.
H.C.
Acrostic. — In looking over an old MS. book
the other day, I found the following acrostic on
^ Christ,*' which you may, perhaps, think not un-
worthy of insertion : —
" C ome unto me all ye that mourn,
H ero is refreshment from the Spring ;
li emember I for you was born —
I am your Sa\*iour, Lord, and King.
S alvation solely is in me.
T e Deum laudaraus, Domine ! "
R. W. II. Nash.
An Old Tale with a New Title. — An old
Irish story has been recently passed upon The
StandarcCs " Own Correspondent" (Manhattan) as
a new American. The other day, he tells us,
a Southerner, being about to accept a bill for some
purchases, inquired the cost of a protest; and,
when answered, a dollar and a half, directed the
clerk to add that sum to the bill, as it was sure
not to be honoured.
The story is not Transatlantic, for it is a Dub-
liner. Neither is it new ; for (as Mb. Redmond
will perhaps vouch), on hearsay at least, it has
passed its grand climacteric. My old acquaint-
ance and brother-chip, Joe L , had, somehow
or other, persuaded a goodnatured tradesman,
who nevertheless had his misgivings on the sub-
ject, into cashing his bill. "Now, Counsellor,"
said he, pushing the gold over the counter, *' you
will settle this little matter ? " " Settle it !" re-
plies'Joe, " to be sure and I will, and the protest
too." E. L. S.
Curious Passage in St. Augustine. — Julian
the Pelagian had put forth the following charge
against St. Augustine : —
*<I>izeras: Non osm sine vol untate delictum. £t re-
Bpondisti : Sed per unius voluntatem ease delictum. Num-
qidd eoncinit superiori defiaitioai, qu» ablativi casus
prapoiitione mnnitur, secuta responsio per prapositionem
accomtivi casus illata.*'
To which the holy Father returned the follow-
ing playful answer : —
** Utinam tu potius istorum Christi piscatoram retibus
tenaciter salubriterquc capiaris : turn accusatiyum casum,
quo ipse a te ipso es accusatus, et ablativum, quo de
Ecclesia CathoUca es ablatus, correctus melius declinabis.
Prropositioncs autem si recte atque integre scqueris, cur
non istos doctores Ecclesizc (Ililarium et Ambrosium)
tibi, deposita dationc, pneponis." — Contra Julianmm,
lib. iv. § 97.
F. C. H.
<3iVLtviti.
Abraham Brook published " Miscellaneous
Experiments and Remarks on Electricity^ the Air^
Pumpy and Barometer, Norwich, 4to, 1789." He
was a bookseller at Norwich (Nichols's Lit. Anec,
iii. 672.) More concerning him is much desired.
S. Y. R.
Mrs. Margaret Brtan, who kept a school at
Margate, published Lectures on Natural Philo-
sophy, 4to, 1806. There are two portraits of her
alter Shelley, one engraved by Ridley, and the
other, in which her children are also represented,
engraved by Nutter. The latter is esteemed a
fine work. I am desirous of ascertaining when
she died. . S. Y. R.
Danish Coin. — Will any correspondent of
" N. & Q." state the designation and value of a
Danish coin which bears the following inscrip-
tion ?-"TolfSkilling Danske, 1711, C.^ W."; and
having on the obverse, " Dei G. Rex Dan. Nor.
V.C. ;" also a crown and a kind of monogram com-
prising two Fs crossing each other, and two Js,
one on each of the Fs. J- H- D.
Joseph Downes. — There was published, in
1823, The Proud Shephertrs Tragedy, a scenic
poem, edited by Josepli Downes. Can any one
mform me who was the autlior ? Iota.
DuMMERER. — Does this mean one who pretends
to be dumb ?
''A great temptation to all mischief, it [Poverty] com-
pels some mitierable wretches to countciteit several dis-
eases . . . Wo have dummerers, Abraham-men," &c. —
Barton, Anat. Mel. 1, 2, 4, C.
J. D. CAMrnELL.
Hemino op Worcester, — Can your corre-
spondent H. S. G. (3"» S. V. 268) kindly inform
356
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[Sf^aV. April 30, "ei
me what crest and motto were borne by John
Heming, Mayor of Worcester in 1677 ? I believe
the former was a lion gules, statant, gardant,
on a cap of maintenance, but the latter I have
not been able to trace. G. G. H.
Thomas Hopkirk, residing at or near Glasgow,
published several botanical works. The last I
nave seen noticed appeared in 1817. I shall be
glad of any information respecting him.
S. Y. R.
Language used in the Courts of the Roman
Procurator in Palestine, at the Time of
Our Lord. — What was the language in which
the trials, in the Court of the Roman Procurator,
were conducted in Palestine at the time of Our
Lord ? Also, was it the custom of the Romans,
when they conq^uered a new country, to use their
own language m their law courts t or did they
adopt that of the conquered people ? I shall be
obliged by any references to works which will
afford information on this subject. A. T. L.
"The Literary Magnet," 1824.— In this
periodical (pp. 200, 407), are two extracts from
a play on the subject of Virginius by G. A. From
a note it would appear that the author had written
his tragedy during a year*s residence in Italy, and
went to Venice to show it to Lord Byron. Who
was the author ? Iota.
Marrow Bones and Cleavers. — Searching
amon<!st some old papers a few days ago, I found
the following, which was written in the year 181G
to a gentleman residing at Pentonville, upon the
marriage of one of his daughters : —
" IIoNouuGD Sir. — With submission, wo the Drums,
Fifes, and Marrow-bone and Cleaver Men present our
respectful Compliments to you on the Happy and Honour-
able ^larriage of your Amiable Daugliter. Wishint;
Health, HappinesiC and I-iong to Live — Hoping for to
receive the usual Gratuity given by Gentlemen uu these
Joyful and Happy occurrences,
** Sir, from your most ob* Ser\''.
" Waiting your pleasure."
Can you inform me whether it was in those !
days usual for marrow-bones and cleavor-nien to
attend at marriages. II. S. j
Lincoln's Inn. |
The Mollt Wash-dish. — I am rather anxious
to introduce a little friend of mine to i)ublic
notice ; and, at the same time, to nscertain whe- ;
ther his somewhat curious habits are peculiar to
himself, or common to his race ?
Early in last spring, my windows were suddenly !
assailed by a series of very rapid and pertinacious
tappings : nor was it long before we discovered — ;
for, indeed, he made no attempt to conceal him- ,
self — that they were the work of a certain pied-
wagtail, called, I believe, by the li'arned, MotaciUa
YarreUii; and by the unlearned, al au'j irA.^ m
these western part*, with utter recklessness a« ::
gender, Molly Wash-dish.
His mode of proceeding was to {uck out a ee-
tain pane, or panes of glass, in some panicnlc
window, and to fly frantically at it frwa i
neighbouring bough ; making a peck at it «
every assault, and leaving a labyriath of link
sticky marks upon the glass, which seemed to U
effected by the protrusion of the tongue.
Grenerally speaking, I fancy I have been
to perceive the cause of these visitatioois in eo^j
tain minute gnats within the window ; but soo-
times, I think, the force of habit has carried b
on without any such inducement.
Beginning at daylight, he maintained tbe r
day by day throughout the summer; and vk
scared away from one window by the detm
influence of a book or newspaper placed »g^
his point tTappuiy he was pretty sure to be kc
in a few mmutes tapping away at another, |r
haps on the opposite side of the house ; andot^
sionally prosecuting his labours upon t&epr
front of a rain-guage on the green.
Winter came, and we heard no more of it
but now, with returning spring, here befi
work again every fine day, '* from mom Isiir
eve** — tap, tap, as persevering, as impodiC^
shall I say ? as tiresome as ever.
I fear it may be considered someiAftO*
demnatory of my powers of observation ;te^
have not yet been able to make sure, whetaff^
visitant is singular or plural ; but, if the («■&
he certainly makes the best of his time, andss*
to niannsre sometimes, like Sir 13oyle Bodi^-
celebrated bird, to be in two places at oneei 1>
it possible that he can be a transmigrated 9^"
rapper .''
C. W\ BlXGBlS.
The Christian Name, Muktha. — AnK«|S
old Irish families the above Christian VAToit^
generally found, but it is fast fading away. I x
derstand it is Englished into "Mortimer'" Iwi*
to know something of its derivation and origins
a baptismal name, as I have met it out of IreUs^
and not amongst tho:iie of Irish oft'^pring.
S. Redmosv.
Liverpool.
IIev. W. Nicols. — Through the kin«]ness of*
friend, there has lallen under my notice a veiy
interesting work, entitled " De Uteris Infentu
Lihri Sex. Auctore Gulielmo Nicols, A.M. Loa-
dini, MDccxi." with a frontispiece engraved hy
Gribelin, representing, as I suppose, the author
sitting in his library. It is a Latin poem in hex-
ameters and pentameters addressed to Hiomas'
Ilerbert, Earl of Pembroke, and extending ovt^r
nearly three hundred pa^es. It is illustrated by
many valuable notes, which display the rarieil
learning and extraordinary research of the writer,
«xvii \^ lMTcCve^<^ V\n3^ c»^v&\ia indices of authors
V. April 30, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
35;
nd subjects treated. From internal evi-
t appears that Mr. Nicols was a native of
T or the neighbourhood, a student of
Dhurch, OxforcU when Fell was Dean, and
rds rector of Stockport, in Cheshire. It
}e interesting to know something more of
very learnt man. I ima^^ine the work
e of rare occurrence, as I have no re-
mce of having seen it in any bookselIer*s
ue.* E. H. A.
kCUING MlRISTEBS SUSPENDED. — Ou the
April, 1605, Norden, rector of Hamsey,
iwes, and nine other '^preaching ministers,'*
liocese of Chichester, were deprived by the
ihop of Canterbury, on his metropolitical
•n at East Grinstesul. What was the offence
ch these clergymen were so deprived ?
bop of the diocese does not possess the re-
nformation. Wtnne E. Baxter.
Tioif OF Population. — Cobbett, in his
lides (p. 352), thus writes of the Vale of
d never been at Nether Avon, a village in this
but I bad often heard this valley described as
le finest pieces of land in all England. I knew
re were about tkiriy parish churches, standing in
of about thirty miks, and in an average width of
mite; and I was resolved to see a little into the
hat could have induced our fathers to build all
irches, especially if, as the Scotch would have us
there were but a mere handful of people in
until of late years."
describing the beauties of the Valley, and
: that the land, from its great riches, is
of maintaining a large population, which
lot now, Mr. Cobbett proceeds : —
nanifest enough, that the population of this vallev
)no time, many times over what it is now ; for,
rst place, what were the twenty-nine churches
f The population of the twenty-nine parishes
823) but little more than one half of that of the
rish of Kensington ; and there are several of the
bigger than the church at Kensington. What,
)uld all these churches have been built forf
ides, where did the hands come from? And
id the money come from? In three instances,
lilston, and Roach-Fen (seventeen, twenty -three,
dty-four,) the church porches will hold all the
Its, even down to the bedridden and babies,
len, will any man believe that these churches
It for such little knots of people ? "
any of the readers of " N. & Q." do me
>ur to answer Mr. Cobbett*s several in-
* And in answering them, I particularly
I causes of the twenty-nine churches being
be stated at length; the date of the erec-
each church ; and desire to be informed
local histories afibrd any information on
J notices of the works of this learned di-
isnlt NicboJj's LUemry An^cdotet, i. 490, and
A4>araim§ ZiOerarms, 1753, iL I03I— 1037.—
the subject? "Where the hands and the money
came from, I am anxious to learn.
Fba. MEWnUBN.
Episcopal Seal. — Figure of a bishop with
crosier uid mitre, under canopy, his right-hand
raised. Below, a smaller figure of the same,
hands joined and upraised. Inscription — " S.
Thom^ . dei . gracia . episcopi . inanuemU^^ To
what see does this belong? C. J.
> Stobt, Norfolk. — Can any one inform the
inquirer what were the arms and pedigree of the
Kev. William Armine Story, who, about 1760,
was rector of Bamham-Broom, vicar of Kimberley,
and chaplain to Lord Wodehouse ? It is supposed
that the family migrated to Norfolk from some
northern county. Oxonieksis.
Tam AR, IN Devonshire. — Can any Devonshire
anti(|uary inform me of the situation and present
condition of the ancient manor house of Tamar,
or Uptamer, in Devon ? That it was a place of
considerable importance in the thirteenth and four-
teenth centuries is evident, from the fact of license
to crenellate it having been granted ; and though
De la Pole, at p. 51 of his Hist, of Devon, says it
was, in the reign of " King £dw. L, the seat of
Sir Wm. Cole, Knt." ^whose family was after-
wards settled at Slade, m Cornwood), he does not
state in what parish it was, nor give any clue as
to its locality. Lysons's Devon, and the other
topographical works on the county which I have
consulted, afford me no assistance in my attempt
to identify Tamer. J. E. C.
Zapata: Spain. — Are there any records or
traditions of any members of this famous family
having settled in this country under a name equi-
valent to the English translation of their Spanish
name? Do any such cases of translation of foreign
names occur among English surnames ?
S. G. R.
Tub Pitt Diamond.— Can any one inform me
what were the circumstances which induced King
Greorge TV. and hb ministers to send to the Shah
of Persia, for his acceptance, the valuable Pitt
Diamond? It was like sending " coals to New-
castle," as, perhaps, there was no other potentate
who possessed, previously, so large and valuable
a collection of diamonds. L arat.
[Our correspondent's aathority for this notice of the
?itt diamond is probably Mr. Edward B. Eastwick, who,
in his recently published work, informs as, that *< Among
the Shah's rings is one in which is set the famous Pitt
diamond, sent by George IV. to Fath All Shah." iJour-
nalofa DiphnuUes Tfcrte r«wif Bundentft V»v Y«T««>k
Governor Pill, a»\^^A\Vxv<i^l^sl,l(^\^5B^A\«^^w»^^^^
to the Duke ot Ot\wv% ^« 'i^Rft.^JR^ «w«^^ ^>^^fiMSl^
and vcbeVicve it BX\\\\jfc\wi^\»^^^^'^ ""
3r^ S. V. April 80, *€4.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
359
THE TINCLARIAN DOCTOK.
(8-- S. V. 74.)
As some little interest attaches to the lucubra-
' tions of this cxceedinglj odd personage, and as
the rarity of his productions is undoubted, the
following additions to the bibliographical inform-
ation on the subject maj not be unacceptable,
especially to your correspondent J. O.
Mitchell, previous to the year 1713, collected
toj^ethcr the tractates originally published sepa-
rately by him in a volume, small 4to, with the
following title : —
** The whole works of that eminent Divine and His-
torian Doctor William Mitchell, Professor of Tinklarian-
ism in the University of the Bowhead. Bcin^ Essays of
I>lvinity, Humanity, History, and Philosophy. Com-
posed at various occasions for his own Satisfaction,
jReader's Edification, and the World's Illumination.
** Together with the Histon' and Misterie of Divil and
l>ivil8. Popes and Pagans, Priests and Preh&ts, with a
Chronology of the most famous Persons in the World,
and a Discription of the Devil's Regiments and his own
Arthodox Religion, &c. Edinburgh: Printed in the
3-ear 1712.**
1. The 6rst of these extraordinarv brochures is
" The third Addition of the Tincklar's Religion,
enlarf;ed, with a Discription of Sixteen of the
DeviPs Regiments.** It commences with a notice,
that those who " desire to have m^ Testament,
let them come and have a part of it at my shop
at the Head of the West Bow in Edinburgh.
Those that buys my whole works shall have them
At an easie rate."
2. Is an Introduction to the first part of the
Tincklar's Testament, dedicated " to the Queen*s
most excellent Majebtie by William Mitchel,
Tine- Plate- Worker, in Edinburgh. Edinburgh,
printed by John Reid, in BelPs Wynd, 1711."
In the dedication to Queen Anne, her l^Iajesty
18 informed that —
** Many of the Ministers of North Britaine call me a
fool ; I confess I have not so much wit as the Reverend
Lord hisliops of Engbuid have. Yet I have as much wit
as some of the ministers can pretend to, and when yoor
Majesty sees these books, ye shall find it so.**
It must be admitted that some of the printed
north country sermons of tlie time warranted the
affronted Tincklar in his censure. This tract con-
sists of title, dedication, and thirty-six pages.
3. Then comes —
** A part of the first part of the Tincklar*8 Testament,
winch 18 dedicated to the Present Presbyterian Ministers
in Scotland. Having dedicated my Introduction to the
Queen*8 most sacred Majesty, on whom I rely, [who] will
protect me, and allow me as much money as wul canry on
iny work."
** 1 Cor. eha{k. L v. 26, * Not many wise men after the
flesh, not many mhrhtv, not roaiir noble, are called.' By
WiJJiaa Mtte&lTTfnklMr, in Edmbargb,"
This is also printed by Reid, and consists of
twenty-eiirht leaves.
4. " The Tinklar*s Speech to the m^st Loyal
Countryman, the Honourable Laird of Carn-
wath." It has no title-page, but is dated Jan-
uary 1, 1712. Fp. 16. This gentleman was
George Lockhart, of Camwath, whose Memoirs
of the affairs of Scotland are well known to
Scotch historical students. The Tincklar tells
Mr. Lockhart that he cannot but commend Dr.
Fitcaim and the Queen*s two Advocates, and
some of the Lords of Session, and Frovost Black-
wood, *' for giving me money for carrying on my
work, because they are men of sense beyond all
others.** Fitcaim was the well-known Jacobite
wit of that day, and author of that very clever
but indelicate comedy The Assembly, in which
the ruling clergy in Scotland are castigated in
the most exemplary manner.
5. Kext comes —
« The great TinckUrian Doctor Mitchel, his speech to
the Commendation of the Scriptures, hcing a part of his
Testament, dedicated to them that confuse themselves
with business, and take not time to read the Bible ; and
to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland,
especially to Sir James Beard of Saughtoun-H:dl, the
worst among us all ; he desires not to be commended,
although I could to an high degree.*' No date or place.
Pp. 16.
We have, 6thly, "The Great Tincklarian Doctor
Mitchel, his fearful Book to the Condemnation
of all Swearers, dedicated to the DeviPs Cap-
tains." This issued from Reid*s press, 1712, and
consbts of thirty-two leaves. The preceding arc
all in small 4to.
7. The Doctor next appears as a civic reformer,
in a Broadside of one leaf, folio, entitled " The
Tincklar*s Proposal for the better Reformation of
the city of Edinburgh, toother with his Serious
Advice to the Magistrates.
8. Is entitled " Great News, Strange Altera-
tion concerning the Tinckler, who wrote his Tes-
tament long before his death, and no man knows
his heir.** In this folio broadside of one leaf, he
proposes to be made —
«« Captain in the Town-Guard. The Captain yc keep has
been a 100 pounds Scots out of my wav, for none shoifld
have that post but them that have sense to give reason
for it; for when the fire was entering my shop, Ihaving
lost my key by confusion at the fire, he onleretl his Soul-
diers not to let me break open my shop door UU my now
dock and most part of my work were burnt."
Undonbtedly a good riddance of mbbish, in the
opinion of the magistracy. This wholesale burn-
ing may explain the i)resent rarity of these strange
emisions. It consists of one leaf, folio.
9. Is dated Oct. 19, 1711, and is the "Petition
of William Mitchel, ^^^\v\ft•\xwl^rtsi.^^\^^'^A^^^
Majesty —
360
NOTES AND QUEKIES.
Cd^a V. AmiLo^.'it
*' I have little time to spare but when I should sleep,
because I have many tender children to provide for, and
1 have but a poor employment, called a VVliite Iron Man,
out of the4r ignorance."
He continues in the following strain : —
** I had a post to give light to some people for twelve
years, but some of the Council of Edinburgh took it from
nic ; because I was not like tbemselres. After that I got
another post by an inward Call fh>m the Spirit, to give
light to the Ministers, and I wrote much to them from
the Scripture and reason, to Reform them, and now I
fmd I have no success ; they will not hear me, so as to
reform either practice or Preachings; and more, they
give me as little Omage as Mordecai gave to Haman ;
they go by me and comes by me, and never lifts their hats,
altl^ough'your Majesty's letter to the Archbishop of
Canterbury and my Books jumps to a straw.
** However, now I am clear of their Blood, and I shall
hold them as obstinate; I am now to let your Majesty
know, that there is two posts vacant in North Britain ;
the one is the Lord Mare Provest of Edinburgh, theotlier
is the Governor of Blackness Castle, ten miles fron^gEdin-
burgh ; where is a hundred men keeps a cairn of stones,
and althoogh there were no man there, no man would
take away one stone, because the stones is wealthie in
that place. Now I believe your Majesty may know that
there will be no need of me as Govemour there."
To remedy existing evils, the Doctor proposes
that her Majesty should make him, or any other
honest tradesman, Provost of Edinburgh, a city
where the need of a respectable ruler was much
needed. There were many tradesmen " worthie of
the honour " he assures the Queen : —
•* The Tradesmen of Edinburgh is mlghtilie oppressed
by the Merchants there. When a Merdiant comes to
have as much wit as to ask ten Shillings for an Ell of
Cloath, that they might sell for a crowii, and when Gen-
tlemen and houc'ttt Tradesmen comes to buy it, they give
it because they mind no evil, and ko the Merchant turns
Rich, and made a Magistrate in the Town, and the Great
Deacon Convener over all the Tradesmen in Scotland,
goes behind them like a Gentleman*s Man, that carries
his Master's Cloke, although he had more wit then
Ahithophel. The Merchants will not suffer a Tradesman
to be a Magistrate ext>cpt they deny their trade. Judge
yc if that be reasonable. And some of them grow so
proud, that they deny their Trade to be made a Boilliu,
80 to get fines, or a share of the Town's revenues, or
common good. But the honest Tradesman, although he
bears a great part of the burdenlby paying stent and
onnuitie, they will not get so much of it as a Drink of a
cup. They will send soldiers to take my goods, if I want
money, but they will not give me so much satisfaction as
to tell me what they do with it. 1 had a small salloric
to light the Town Lamps; they took it from me, because
I lost near all that I bad the year before by a dreadful
lire ; thc3' laid on a load above a burden upon me, and by
this vour Majesty may know what sort of stuff we have
for Magistrates; 'and iV it please your Excellent Majesty
to look upon our ]>oor and opprcst condition, and send
relief according to this Petition."
10. Is a similar Petition to the Queen — a folio
broadside of one page — upon the subject of the
provnstship then vacant. The date is 1711.
J J. Another address of four pa|^es. M \\i^
end the Doctor exclaims : —
" Go tell her Majesty tliat if she wants money to pr
her soldiers, give the Clergy leai wages, and Jky ■■
duty upon Goulf Clubs, and then fewer of them yiIs
to the Goulf; and keep fewer Penaionen. for I km
there are in Edinbuigh gets it, that doea not need ii*
12. **The Tincklarian Doctor Mitdiel*8 Spees
against the Bishops and the Book of Cobbx
Prayer." Four leaves, 4to. In conclodiiu, ik
reader is desired to beware '* of the DefU »
George Lapslie in the Bowhead, for the Tkt.
came roaring out of his mouth ajt^nst me bdin
Mr. Webster.** The last-named individulif
undoubtedly the Presbyterian clergjmtn, sokc
whose productions are as strange as those of c
extruded lamplighter.
13. Commences thus : —
** Frankly and Freely dedicated to her Majesty Qtf
Ann, the Tincklarian Doctor MitcheU hia Sp«L3
James, (me) and all the lioyal Familj', Jaly 2\ VZ' J
What is meant by " me ** is not very inUS^
14. Contains —
'* The Tincklarian Doctor Mitchel's Speech eo«tf
Lawful and unlawful Oaths. Dedicated to all thvs
hath tender Consciences* but not the Wool Mcnhs'
the Bow Head. I reckon some of tbem hath oat i"'
of them said before many witneasea, I coaldtf*
these twelve books without the help of Doctffif'
and they have no more convictions than a ^saf ^
Beast for their lies. And althou|s:h Doctor FSba^^.
wise man in his own trade, I would rather see his^
! before I seek his help to write Books, o
and if they make any more lyca upon
them worse than Doctor Pitcaim did
taking away his Good name. And
Minister's Dutie to Reprove their Paroch for Ljiof.^
to call any Man an Aithest, and cannot prove c; ^
now to the purpose."
This reference ixy the Webster controTe^7 -
especially curious. It arose in this way: Dr.ft*
cairn was present at a book auction in £<&*
burgh, at which Blounfs Translation of P^
stratus and a fine copy of the Scriptures werep<
up for sale. For the former tnere was £n£
competition, and the life of the impostor re^iit^
a considerable sum, whilst for the latter there vcfc
no bidders. Whereupon the Doctor rcmarkeii.
this was quite natural, *^ for is it not said, Verkpi
Dei manet in (etemum f " Webster having hear!
I this witticism, said the Doctor was a profesMd
< Deist. This led to a law-suit, which uiumatdr
I came before the Court of Session, when ihei:
, Lordships held, that as Websttor was willing to
I give reasonable satisfaction, it should be amittbl^
I settled out of court.
' The argument in thi.4 amusing squabble is verr
I graphically given by Lord Fouutainhall in his
! Decisions^ vol ii. p. 756, — a work which, from
I being considered a mere law book, is seldom
■ looked into ; but one which Sir Walter Scott
' used to esteem as one of the most curioof and
\ n^Vql^V^ VJv&Vcstv^'^ \^<:ATd% u\ relation to Sciotiih
I
I
of the Court in Webnter's cose is dated July 16,
1712, He diii wot Jong survive this judicial
award, as he died on October 13, 1713, Pitcjurn
was » staunch EpiscopiJian, and an untiring op-
ponent of Calvinism. There ia a poem of mach
wit and humour by him called " Babel," whieh»
after remaining more than a century in MS.» wiw
privately printed for the Maitland Society by
G. K, Kinloch, Esq., 4to, 1830. It is hiirdly
necessary to observe that the Presbyterian leaders
are very severely hanfllcd in it,
Mr. James Webster w as amrm^t the most popular
preadiicrs of his time. Some of your readers have
perhaps seen thnt sfrangCf-t of all preachment*?,
M&w*9 Pockwmihf Sertnon^ of which many editions
appeared during the earlier period of last cen-
tury, and which was included in the very scarce
Memorioh of the Famihj of Eoiv^ small 4 to, Ste-
venson, Edinbur^'b. It was printed fi^m an
original cotemporary MS* Mr, Webster's Ser-
mons are somewhat similar, and so were those
of many of bis cotem|>oraries which have been
ijuoted iu the Scotiih Presbt/terian Eloqttence Dwr-
ptnyed. One of Webster's sermons is before me,
called ** An Action Sermon preached by him in
the Tolbooth Kirk on Sabbath, March 7, 1714,
in which at the outset he says that Christ made a
Testament, leaving ^* the Father to be Tutor and
Curator to the Puor Orphans." " The Holy Ghost
to be Exequitor. and icives all he has to the
Bairns of the House/* He was one of the ministers
of the Tolbooth Church, Edinburgh, and died on
May 17, 1720.
15. Is called the seventh, eighth, ninth, and
tenth Petition.
"'lli« Great Tincklariim Dortr- xt:. k,^ ^o Her 5Ia-
j<»ty Qa<?en Ann, of ScotUn*!. Fraace, and
JreltiRd, Defuiider of my Failh, < b. Aincn.
•* Sow most might}" PfinccsA, (^uetii Ann, I must
»peako to you : M tor the reat of the world, they ure not
-^OfH. tM^' T,.,iMH ^*ow Kxcdktit and Sackred, Grcjit, aad
Gr ) 11 Ann. Voor Majesty maat know tbst 1
am ! UwishcT of your Majesty, and your Hoyal
Falbijr'b F.itiiilie, altho ye take little notice of me.
** But, Uowtver, I am not oflended, bucauM I live much
upon fiiitli, UN 1 told your Majeaty the ilrst Petition 1
wrote 10 TO or Majesty ; for what ye have not done, I
know ye wiU do* And UiU mukej^ nic cont^ot. AmeQ."
Eight page3^ quarto.
The 16th and last article is, " The TincJclarian
Doct4>r Mitcher» Lainentatiou, dedicated to Jamea
Steuarr, one of the lioyal Family." 4to, four
pa^es.
I am not aware th«t Mitchel ever attempted to
collect his subservient productions into a volume.
Tliese are very numerous, and for the most part
in the shape of broadsides (folio). Of such of
these as are in tny library I proiwsc at a future
penod to ^ve some account. His duodecimo
volumes are not so nunierou*<. One oi" them i.s a
»ort of nutobhgivphf, wriuen a few years before
his death. The only copy of it fl iie under
my notice was in the Librflrv ^pal Ijct^
and was subsequently ac* iUQ from Mr*
Br»idw<.*od^ Bookseller, L. .et, who had
discovered it in a btmdle ot pamplUetf* J. M.
PrBLlCATION OF DIARIES.
(!■* S. xiL 142; ti"" S. V, 107, 215, *26!, 303.)
I refer to the last article of the above by iti
lines : there are sixty lines in a column.
(Lines 45-125, 157-159). The matter now
stands thus. Reuben Burroir, an able mathe*
maticiauY but a moet vulgar and vcurrilous dog,
left a diary t and notes in some of his booka, con-
taining much cursin^:, obMenity, and slander. An
extractor from his diary tones htm down into an
able but ^somewhat exccntric '^ mathematician*
and gives tome of hit little imputations upon
other matheoiatieianSf without giving a sufiicient
DOtlon of the dirt which was lefl behind. This is
exposed, for the take of history. The extractor
declares that he has ^ven a proper notion of the
roan, and prwiuces hi^ own account of what he
bad said. The rcuder is now to compare the lines
above-metitioned with the account in 3'* S. y. 107,
and he is then to jud^re the case for himself.
The extractor does not impeach the correctness of
the additional statements and quotations of his
critic. And I, in my turn, testify that the ex*
tractor has given his account of himself correctly
enough, in the main. 'Iliere is (96) a slitrht
strengtiiening of what he had said. His quota-
tion from Swale is, ** his heart was good, althouj^h
his habits had not been formed by the hand of a
master " ; this is not nearly so strong as " yet his
habits were not justifiable," the rendering sub-
stituted for part of the quotation. And (157*—
159) the final description of Reuben Burrow as a
** somewhat excentric but able mathematician "---
which of it^lf is enough to establish my case — la
not repeated, becauae / had given it: so more
space is given to the announcement that no repe-
tition was wanted than woubl have contained the
repetition itself He has swelled his list by insert-
ing the merest trifles: for instance, one of his
proofs that he gave his readers a sufficient account
of Burrow's defects is, that he added Dr. Hutum*«
name in italics, in explaining a sarcasm of Bur-
row's.
(25—34, 135—140.) The question is not about
Burrow's opinion of naval eiEciency, Sec, but
whether the man who, in a case in which we can
judge, called Lord Howe a cursed rogue, and
either a cowardly scoundrel, or bribed by the
enemy — to say nothing of other cases — ^ is a
man to be trusud ^Vv^xv W ^XVan^*^ ^<i^'*^ tV<iT^^-
fcrs. Tb^ tviaji\<it v«\\\ «j\>ifisr^^>ww« o.^'^^Jvv^^^ "^"^^
tW real issue, vs v«<i\ii^>a^ >i)cL^ t^Vc^*=^*=f^'
362
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S<^S.Y. APKLSO.Ii
(133.) It IS laid down that there is " some ex-
cuse " for the imputations which were deliberately
committed to writing. Let the reader look at
the excuse for the foul ianguaj^e and deliberate
slander which the extractor veils under " harsh
expressions." (125.) Let the reader also judge
this probability.
(189— 194.) That the profits of authors, &c.
would be diminbhed, is no justification of any
omission which is necessary to correct judgment.
And if those whose diaries cannot be published
in a proper way were to prohibit such publica-
tion, all the better. •
(124.) The extractor thinks that dots at the
end of a paragraph sufficiently indicate a suppres-
sion at twelve lines above that end.
This is all I need say about the main point,
from which the extractor frequently wanders, and
I wander after him.
(180—182.) A " maze of special pleading and a
world of verbiage," should have been a world of
special pleading and a maze of verbiage. Wordi*
ness may produce confusion, but special pleading
tends to discrimination. Those wno use specif
pleading as a cant term may need to be told
that it ought to be applied to the mode of intro-
ducing facts or making distinctions, and may be
either sound or unsound. If the extractor will
learn the meaning of a special plea^ and produce
a case in which 1 have used one, I undertake to
defend it. Verbiage is a new accusation, as ap-
plied to me: it means unnecessary number of
words. Kequired an instance. If tlie extractor
only picked up a couple of epithets out of the
dictionary of dyslogisms, I can only say that I
"hold him no philosopher at all" (182.) I in-
vite an explanation of the words in marks of
quotation.
(19 — 21.) A mi.NUse of a simile. When I looked
into the quiver, I found arrows which the ex-
tractor ought to have discharged, but did not.
Out of this neglect I made other arrows, which I
used. The extractor wrote to tell me where the
(juiver was, in the same note in which he ex-
pressed disapprobation (surprise) at my having
sent one arrow his way. What could he have
meant but to invite my criticism ?
(156.) To "cover a position" is a military
phrase: it is done with infantry, artillery, in-
trenchments, &c. ; never with an umbrella. Vol-
taire's traveller quieted the oriental sovereign
who was afraid of an invasion from the Pope by
telling him that the Papal troops mounted guard
with umbrellas. (154.) Logic and common sense
are never at I'ault : a person who tries to use
them may be so ; either the extractor is so, or I
am.
(166.) Something is left to me to explain: I
cannot do it. I know no process of "logic" by
wliieh (quotations arc found. This word is never
used by the extractor without a misconceptioD :
if he would put it into his head, he would not pnt
his foot into it. He has also a oonfusion of tUts
kind. I said I would give all I could, and he
might find more if he could : on this he aika hov
he is to find more, when he has found all be
could ? I am sure I do not know.
(34—38.) Apelles is very well brought in, hot
with an incongruity. Iiow came the Gredk
painter to talk Latin to the Greek cobler? The
extractor should have noted that though Flinf.
telling the whole story in Latin, made ApeQe
say m sutor &c. to the cobler, it is grotesque to
make him still talk Latin when the rest of tbe
storjr is in English. Delambre says that Alibm
satirised the Ptolemaic system with Si Dim
nCavait cotuultSy &c. ; but who would make tJK
Portuguese king talk French when the story i
told in English? The extractor would havebea
fortunate if he had hit upon the other story d
the same kind, also told of Apelles ; namely, tk
he recommended Alexander of Macedon, wk
talked art in his studio like a king, to hM k
tongue, lest the boys who were grinding W
colours should laugh at him. I digress to wif
a note. It flashed across my mind that lai
seen a picture of this scene ; and at last \^
membered that it was in a very^ early nuabfii
the Penny Magazine. There is an old desgt
said to be Roman, I think, representing a pablK
a grand lord, and boys grinding colours. Vl
remember right, the accompanying article did dA
give a hint of the meaning, nor slate that it v>i
known. But the picture has also a pupil lookis!
round in surprise, a pair of amateurs making quirt
remarks to each other, and a goose, or at least i
bird, who is evidently quizzing the whole.
(100 — 105.) Burrow may be excused his ex-
centricities, because another genius makes puo5
with fine points. Poor punsters have often been
abused, but never was anything so hardly said u
that a (]iai'i:jt who deals in cursing, obscenitv,
and slander, may have these exhibitions palliated
by the parallel case of play on words with a
fine point On reading this passage, I came to
the conclusion that, though a genius is spoken of,
/ am the person satirised. I looked through my
article, and not a pun could I find. But as my
points reciuire a microscope, I took a powerful
one, and still nothing could I find except that I
had said Lord Howe knew " how to manage."
But really I meant no pun : had I descended as
low as this, I should not have missed saying that
Ueuben burrowed in filth. At last I found what
may be the thing ; but the i)<)wer I had to put
on was very high. In the same number in which
the extractor read my article, is another about
Cromweirs head. Is it possible the extractor
suspects me of manoeuvring with the Editor to
get the two articles into one number, that 1
3'»»S.V. April 30, '64.]
NOTES AND QUKKIES.
mifrht imply a controversj was in pro;;reM in
*' X. & Q." as to which was most <;renuine, Crom-
weirs head or Burrow*8 tale ; adding, perhaps, that .
the articles are as like as Macedon and Munuiouth,
for there are Wilkinsons in both ? All I can say
is that it was not my doing, but that of the edi-
tor, who, I observe, has put the two things abso-
lutely next to each other in the number now
before me. Is it possible^ that he intended to
make the above pun in private life ? If so, Mb.
T. T. AViLKiNSON and I have spoiled his market ;
that^s one comfort.
Mr. T. T. Wilkinson was presented, but not
even by name, as an instance of a very common
and " innocent" feeling among biographers, un-
due tenderness towards their subjeirts. This was
done that certain imputations which a very foul-
mouthed man had cast might not be quoted by
those who could not know what manner of man
had made them. This he treats as ii " charge "
and an attack, and an offence, and an arraign-
ment : and he replies, over and above his answer
to the matter, by a description of myself, as a
•verbose, special- pleading, pun-with- fine-point-
making, great-gate-to -small-city-builder. All
this I take in good part, especially considering
how great a gate he has opened for me out of
this small controversy. He says I have been
'* attempting to create matter for further discus-
sion " : I reply that he shall not get one woi*d
more out of me, unless he will give me, with
obvious knowledge of what the words mean, one
instance of special pleading, and one instance of
verbiage. But, with the verbiage, I challenge
him to show how the same thing should have been
said in fewer words.
{Aide, p. 215.) I have gone beyond the bounds
of '' legitimate criticism " in inii>uting motive,
namely, tenderness on the part of a biographer
towards his subject. What I imputed was bias,
not motive; and I called it ** innocent." But
even imputation of motive is "legitimate"; it
may be wrong, but the right or wrong must be
settled by the manner in which the imputation is
.supported. The killing of men in open fight is
** legitimate " warfare ; but it is wrong in those
of the wrong side. Mr. Wilkissos's mode of
reply is legitimate; I mean his descriptions of
myself: these description.^* are not supported, but
he has a right to them, if he think them true.
And sucii descriptions are not only legitimate,
but in Mb. Wilki?ison*8 ca.se arc also right :
whatever the wrong side does to put itself in the
wrong is right.
Here I end. I have done the good I intended
to do, and have had most effectual help.
A. Dc MoBOAX.
PRK-PKATIL COFFINS AND MONUMENTS
(3^ S. T. 255.>
Your correspondent A. J. has mentioned ^ome
carious instances of eccentricity nutating to pre-
dealh coffins. I can add a' remarkable case
coming within my own knowle<^. Dr. Fidje,
a physician of the old school, who in early
days had accompanieil the Duke of Clarence
(afterwards William IV.) when a midshipman, as
medical attendant, po^sessetl a favourite boat; and.
upon his retirement from Portsmouth Dock yard,
wnere he held an appointment, had this boat' con-
verted into a coffin, with the stern piece fixed at
its head. This coffin he kept under his bed fur
many years. Though eccentric, the Doctor wis
a most benevolent and sensible man, and lived to
an old age. I could mention many of his quaint
sayings, but they would be out of place here.
Amongst other things, however, he often related
with much pride that his mother was one of the
last descendants of the Pendrill family, the pro-
tectors of Charles II.
The circumstances of the Doctor*s death were
very remarkable. The late Sir Stephen Gaselee
and my father were his executors. Feeling hia
end approaching, and desiring to add a codicil to
his will, he sent for my father. On entering his
chamber, he found him suffering from a paroxysm
of pain, but which soon ceased : availing himself
of the temporary ease to ask him how he felt,
he replied, smiling, '* I feel as easy as an old
shoe ; and looking towards the nurse in attend-
ance, said, " Just pull my legs straight, and place
me as a dead man; it will save you trouble
shortly." Words which he had scarcely uttered,
before he calmly died. Probably there are few
cases on record of such self-possession when in
exiremU.
In regard to pre-dcath epitaphs, inscriptions
are sometimes placed upon tombs in anticipation
of the decease of the person to be. commemorated.
All estimable prekte of the English Church (may
his death be far distant), has the inscription he
desires incised upon his tomb, wanting only the
date of his decease to be filled in !
BuNJ. Feeeet.
The practice of having a mr)nnmont erected to
one's memory before death would HiMMn to be at
least as old as the times of the Stuiirts, if the
following account is to be b^licvcrd. It is copiod
from a New Guide to the City of OloMeJUer, pub-
lished about lhJ«: —
In the cathc'lral, "n'-arthc '^jftii 'iiittr, ni lli«- liolloni
of the }»ot\y of the t:hur*.U, i« a innrUU: in'/niiin^m tm
John Joii«jj», J>j.. 'ir«iv:'J in Um; rtMn hi mi ul'l''»»i<««i,
iwiiitc^i Willi 'iJftWrtiit tihUtuTh. V.UiitirutniU tin 'MiKy,
on a tabl«:t of Ma/ k niarblc:, mh i\w (h\Utwin'4 wni'l'-
"•Johi: Jofi's AM'-riiiwi, iUru*: Mityoi •/' •'"" ' '•(«
JkxTvr^*^ th«! I'acliwuvuViAWi^Vwuv -A Vw \ v^^^*»'*»^^- ^
364
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S^*! S. V. April
Treason ; Begistrar to eight several Bishops of this
Diocese.'
** He died in the sixth year of the reign of King Charles,
June 1, 1680. He gave orders for his monoment to be
erected in his life-time : when the workmen had fixed it
up» he found faolt with it, by remarking that the nose
was too red. While they were altering it, he walked up
and down the body of the church. He then said that he
had himself almost finished : so he paid off the workmen,
and died Uie next morning.**
H.B.
In John Dunkin*8 History ofDaft/ard, p«94,
is an account of the discovery of a Roman stone
cofiln in 1822 in a field, the property of Mr. Lan-
dale. It was the intention of Mr. Landale to be
himself buried in that cofiin, and for that purpose
he sent it to a Mr. Watson, a stonemason, to have
the lid repaired ; but, as the coffin weighed above
two tons, the stonemason, wishing to improve
upon his Roman predecessor's labours, very ela-
borately pared the outside, and excavated the in-
terior, until, to the great annoyance of Mr.
Landale, he had destroyed the whole of the arch-
sBological character of the coffin. I need not add
that Mr. Landale was not buried in this sarco-
phagus. A. J. Dun KIN.
Dartford.
An instance of this is p^Iven in my note on Job
Orton, of the " Bell Inn," Kidderminster, in the
First Series of this work, viii. 59. His tomb-
stone, with an epitaphic couplet, was erected by
him in the parish churchyard (where it may still
be seen), and his coffin was used by him for a
wine-hin until it should be required for another
purpose. CUTHBEBT BeDE.
Judicial Committee op Pbivt Council (3'*
S. V. 267.) — As your correspondent says, the pre-
lates were only assesitors in the Gorham case : it
is clear from the preamble to the judgment that
the judgment was that of the lawyers, which was
sent to the prelates to read. It is equally clear,
that in the recent cases the prelates were mem- |
bers of the Committee, and parties to the judg-
ment. All the cases come under the same acts of
Pariiamentf by which bishops are distinctly added
to the Cbmmittee in cases of heresy. How came
the bishops to be only assessors m the Gorham
case ? A. Db Mobgan.
Consonants in Welsh (!•' S. ix. 271, 472.)—
I beg to state, that having long been convinced
the opinion expressed by Profess<ftr Newman and
Mr. Borrow on the pronunciation of the Welsh U is
erroneous, I have solicited the judgment of a
Welsh friend, which I now propose to subjoin to
extracts from the writers above referred to ; —
"Tbe Rev. Mr. Gsrnett, who has ao pToftiib\y am\
ttuonsblf^ directed attention to the Welsh langoag^ aft ^
threat source—* which had been sneered down, 1
I lie too warm enthusiasm of Welsh etymologis
ages — denies that fl has any known eauivalen
tongues; and says that it is to oar 2, as on
{London Philohg. Soc., vol. ii. p. 258, year
can onlv say that, again and again, when I
nounced Llangollen, and various other Welsh
natives of North Wales, giving to U exactly
ance which the Greeks give to x^ I have h»
that mv pronunciation is perfect, and could o
tjoguished from that of a native. Nor does i
tect the slightest difference between the nat
utterance of ^, and the native Greek of xK Bi
tliere is some variety among the Welsh them
b\ W. Newman, Qasdcal Museum^ vi. 330.
I have not access at present to IVIr.
Walks in Wild Wales, but it will be su
mention that, in illustration- of his utt
the Z/, he instances Machynlleth, " prone
if spelt Machyncleth.^^
"Any theories that make the Welsh i
lent to x^ in Greek, or that make it in
way a compound sound, are I believe e
mistakes. The test of its being corre
Taounced, is, that the sound is not conipc
simple and one : ' Servetur ad imum <
incepto processerit.* In Shakspeare, we
labial aspirate joined to /, as in a recei
we have the guttural sugnjested. In
experience, the dental th is more freciue
t'lxed to / by English strangers. But the
the sound is a compound sound, is its
nation. The etymological relations betwe
and Latin are very curious as rejr.irtls
tUev involve too many features of a
little known to the readers of ' N. & (
properly developed at length in a coniiui
to that most valuable periodical.
" It is a little curious that Mr. Borrow,
done a Welsh book the honour of trans
into English, has entirely misapprehen
meaning of its title. He calls it, I belio'
Sleeping Bard.' The Welsh of which
not *v Bardd Cwsg,' but y Barrd yn
Ellis Wyn took the odd title of an old
whom he refers in the Second Vision, * Tl
Sleep,' or Votes Somnu.f.*^
BlULlOTHECAR. Cuj
r.S. In my last communication, " Th<
ji Living Animal," when referring to '^
Tyrius, Dissert, viii., I should havo at]
i^ome editions Dissert, xxxviii. Pro Theo
TEau lege Hydro theologiae Sciagraphia.
Comet op 1531 (3'«» S. v. 114.)— The f(
i^ the allusion of Luther to this comet, t(
II. B. refers : —
" A pud nos coracta ad occidentem in anguk
(itt mea fert aatronomia) tropici cancri et colt
utkctlorum, cu^us cauda pertingit ad medium us
8'«» S. V. ArBiL 80, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
365
King Ciiables II/s illegitimate Childbek
(3'* S. V. 211, 289.)— Barbara, Duchess of Cleve-
land, is accurately desi^rnated by her maiden sur-
name Villiers (instead of Palmer, that of her
husband). In the patent creating her Baroness
Nonsuch, Countess of Southampton, and Duchess
of Cleveland, for life, she is so called. Neither is
it strictly correct to account (No. 7) Anne, Coun-
tess of Sussex, as one of the king*s children. This
lady, born Feb. 29, 1661, is described as Anne
Palmer in her marriage settlement ; and was a
daughter by adoption only, whom the king ac-
knowledgea in public, but not in private.
Henbt M. Vane.
Swallows (3^* S. v. 259.) — It is generally
believed in many parts of Greece and Turkey, by
the lower class of the people, that a death will un-
doubtedly happen to one or more members of that
family on whose house swallows build their nest,
a few hours before their migration, and that the
spirits of the departed will go away with tliem ;
for which reason they are considered as holy binls.
According to another tradition, the hair of the
person who kills one of them will fall from his
nead. Rhodocanakis.
Enigma (3'* S. v. 309.)— In reply.to your cor-
respondent F. C. H., there can be no doubt that
the lines ore hexameters; perhaps intended for
rude leonines, and should read thus : —
^ Qainque sumus fratres, sub eodem tempore nati,
Lini barbati, bini sine criae creati,
Quintus habet barbam, sed tcmtum dimidiatam,** —
which is an exact description of the rose in ques-
tion. Bini often means two simply, especially in
such loose Latin as this. I never heard of bini
meaning /our^ as F. C. II. wishes to make it. Its
proper meaning is, two each, or, two in each case ;
and not two and two, in the sense of two -f two.
In the line cited by F. C. H. from Terence's
Phormio (v. 3, 6)—" ex his praediis bina talenta" —
does not mean " two talents from each of two
farms," but "two talents every year from that
property." There is nothing about " two farms"
expressed in hina. But I hope F. C. II. will aee
that the second line, as emended, means "two
with hair, two without;" and not that "two and
two, t. e, four have beards, but were born without
hairr
Allow me, in addition to what I have said above,
to bring Virgil as an instance of using Inna^ not
as " two and two," but as two each : —
" . . . Pars spicula gestat
Bina mana.'* — yEw., vii. 687.
F. C. H., I suppose, would say this means that
each man carries four darts, two in each hand ;
but there can be no doubt it means, that each
soldier carried two in his hand.
^, , Alfbeo Tuckbx.
Blackheath.
"AUBEA VINCENTI," ETC. (S'* S. V. 297.)— I
think there can be no doubt that the inscription —
** Aurea Tincenti detur meroede corona ;
Cantat (catOet?) et ffitamo carmina digna Deo,**—
is derived from chap. iii. v. 21 of the Apocalypse
of St John, which stands thus in the Latin Vul-
gate:—
"Qui vicerit, dabo ei scdcrc mecam in throno meo:
aicat et ego vici, et sedi cum Patre meo in throno ejoa.**
F. C. H.
Stum Rod (3"" S. v. 299.) — To stum, is to put
ingredients into wine to revive it, and make it
brisk. Burton, then, probably meant that the old
scholar could show a rod, as liis instrument for
making his scholars brisk at their studies, and re-
viving their slumbering capabilities. F. C. H.
Font at Chelmobton (3''' S. v. 299.)— I am
inclined to interpret the mysterious letters thus : —
^ a t i th i I m.
<i> 0 Trinitas sancta et benedicta semper landatum
mystcrlam, or laudabilis mando.
But, with the Editor of "N. & Q.," I regret
that no rubbing has been given ; and the more as,
in the Ecclesiologist (vol. v. p. 264), the letters
were differently arranged, no initial cross prefixed,
and a letter added ailer the s. To ask a solution
without giving the puzzle correctly, is as trying
as the king of Babylon*s demand, and would re-
quire a second Daniel. F. C. H.
PoSTEBmr OF COABLEMAGNE (3"^ S. V. 270.)—
The paper of Hebmentbude appears to me to
leave the question still involved in some degree of
obscurity. Mezeray is quoted as speaking (in a
somewhat doubtful manner) of two sons of Charl^
Duke of Lorraine, by his second wife — their
names being Hugh and Louis. It is to be col-
lected that this Hugh has sometimes had the name of
Charles attributed to him. And, in KochV^r^n^a-
hgical Tables (1780), I find two sons given to
Charles, Duke of Lorraine — Louis and Charles ;
with a note, however, to the following effect : " On
ne connoit point Ic sort de ces deux Princes.**
Capital names these, one would think, for an ex-
pert genealogist to lay hold of to stick, at the head
of a pedigree. It appears, however, by what
Hebmentbude says, that there has been com-
monly assigned to Charles, Duke; of Lorraine,
another son (not mentioned by Koch), Wigerius
by name ; whose son, Baldwin Teutonicus, is re-
presented as being the common ancestor of the
families of Warrenne, Mortimer, and De C<jurcy.
I should, however, be glad to know what auth^^
rity there is for the existence of such a pery/n av
Wigerius^ son of Charle;), Duke of Lorram^.
Mjoathi.
Htmns bt John U«\ (Jf* Vi."^.*ei^s,'^— '^
reference lo X. Cj ! * x wtok^-a «& v i ^Qhr.
S'd 8. V. April 30, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
367
logic was studied then, as'now — is as an applictnt
for a profeesorsliip of logic at Glasgow. Probably
be gave something a little more technical than his
reporter could easily follow. If for integral we
read component there will be no difficulty. The
word part has always been used in two senses.
First, there are parts which are aggregated into a
whole, as twelve inches into a foot, or several
different species into a genus. In these coses the
schoolmen said there were partes extra partes.
Secondly, there are parts which I affirm are more
correctly said to be compounded into a whole :
thus, a bar of iron has bulk and weight among
the parts of the notion; the notion man has animal
and rational for parts. To this day the logicians
speak of a compound notion as the sum of its com-
ponents ; and thus they foster modes of speaking
which Burke may have adopted, modes of speak-
ing which a reporter may easily misunderstand.
The illustration which Burke utnes is a correct
one according to the law of his day, wliich took
every man to be of the State form of religion, non-
conformity being only tolerated. On this assump-
tion the Church and tlie State are one and the
same, just as the thing which has bulk and the
thing which has weight are one and the same bar
of iron. Call the space occupied by a particle a
portion of the State, and its weight a portion of
the Church, and the parallel is very complete. To
make his meaning visible, he is obliged to remind
his hearers that " Church " and ** Clergy " are not
convertible terms, but that the laity are part r)f
the Church. And here he is very properly made
to say that the laity arc an "essential integral
part" of the Church. The word for is probably
the reporter's doing. The sentence which it be-
gins does not apply to what precedes as a whole ;
but merely corrects a misapprehension which
might obscure a part of it. Even in our day, writers
on the " Church " are obliged to remmd their
readers that the lay body forms a part of the
Church ; a thin^ the laity have nearly forgotten.
When a man takes orders, he is said to " go into
the Church," and " churchman " is, in historical
writing, a synonyme for " priest," or " clergyman."
A. De Mobgak.
Jebemiaii Horbo(;ks (3^^ S. v. 173.) — The
point has receivetl some attention. A few years
ago, an addition wjw made to the church at Hoole
in which Horrocks officiated, with a memorial
window. The Kev. Rob. Brickel, rector of Hoole,
the chief promoter of the subscription, took all
pains to collect facts connected with Ilorrocks,
but did not succeed in fixing the period of his
birth. lie suggests " IfilG or 1G19," and 1616, as
the latest date, has almost unanswerable reason.
It is hardly possible to doubt that Ilorrocks was
an officiating curate in 1639, which he could not
have been at twenty years of age. He describes
himself as obliged to leave his telescope on the
morning of Sunday, Nov. 24, 1639, at the moment
when he was wat<;hin? for the transit of Iklercury
over the Sun, which he had predicted, and which
no human eye had ever seen. The transit might
have occurred — though it did not — ^while he was
at church. He describes himself as " ad majora
avocatus quae utique ob hiec pererga ncgligi non
decuit." A mere parishioner woum have stayed
away: a new astronomical phenomenon, and a
thing of once in scores of years, would have been
sufficient excuse. He must have been the officiat-
ing clergyman at that time, as he certainly was
afterwarSs. He had no particular connexion with
Hoole before he was ordained to its curacy ; and
the mere fact of his residing there at any given
date is a stronjr presumption of his being then in
orders. Mr. Whatton remarks that the bisho
were not so strict about the age of ordination two
centuries a^ as they are now. But Horrocks had
no particuhir interest or influence ; and it is far
easier to believe that a 6 should have been inverted
by a printer than that as much as three years should
have been remitted by a bishop, even in that day.
To this may be added that Horrocks had an
amount of astronomical reading which is wonderful
enough in a youth of twenty-three, but almost in-
credible in a youth of twenty. A. De Morgan.
Rev. David Lamokt (3^* S. iv. 498 ; v. 22.)—
The Rev. David Lamont, D.D., minister of the
parish of Kirkpatrick-Durham, in Dumfriesshire,
died on the 7th of January, 1837, in the eighty-
fifth year of his age, at Durham Hill. With re-
ference to his having been Moderator of the
General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, in
1822, during the year of King George IV.'s visit
to Scotland, and preaching before that monarch,
I recollect a clerical jeu d'esprit current at the
time, and which was told me many years after-
wards by one who had heard it himself. It was a
pun on the Rev. Doctor's name ; and also, T fancy,
on his character in some way : for the expression
used was, that " he was a lamentable Moderator ! "
A. S. A.
Cawnpore, East Indies.
Original Unpublished Letter of the Fatikeb
OP the Author op ** The Gravi: '' (3'* S. iv.
426 — 427,)— In the above Note, the writer has
fallen into a few errors with regard to the dates
of the deaths of both Sir Hugh Campbell of Caw-
dor, and of his son Sir Alexander. The latter
predeceased his father, dying August 27, 1697, at
islay; and the former survived till March 11,
1716, at liis seat of Cawdor Castle, in Nairnshire,
N.B. Sir Alexander married, in 1689, Elizabeth,
only daughter of Sir John Lort, first baronet (so
created Jul^ 15, 1662,) of Stackpoole Court,
Pembrokeshire, by hb wife Lady SosAD' "^^ ^^'^
(who died in 1710), fonrth dwuqj^tat
368
NOTES AND QUERIES.
C8r<iay. ApbilIQ,14
second Earl of Clare ; which lady eventually be-
came heir to Sir Gilbert, second and last baro-
net; who died unmarried Sept. 19, 1698, a^ed
twenty-eight, when the title became extinct ; but
the estates passed to her, and are still in the pos-
session of her descendant, the present Earl Cfaw*
dor. Lady Campbell was alive in the end of the
year 1715, as appears by a letter from old Sir
Hugh. Creorge^ not ** John," fourth and youngest
son, was a Captain in Lord Mark Ker*s regiment ;
married Ruth Pollock; and fell at the battle of
Almanza, in Spain, April 14, 1707. These cor-
rections are made chiefly from " The Book of the
Thanes of Cawdor; a Series of Papers selected
from the Charter Room at Cawdor, 1236t-1742,**
which was edited by Mr. Cosmo Innes, and printed
for the Spalding Club in 1859. To this work,
apparently, J. M. had no opportunity of reference.
A.S. A.
Cawnpore, East Indies.
Seneca*8 Pbophect (3"* S. v. 298.)— Your
correspondent C. P. wishes to know the supposed
prophecy of Seneca about the New World. He
will find it in the Medea, Act II., at the close of
the choral songs ; it runs thus : —
*•. . . Yenientsnnis
Secnla sens, qaibus Ocean os
Yincula rernm laxet, et iugens
Pateat tellos, Tiphysqae novos
Detegat orb«s, nee sit terris
Ultima Thule."
Or, as Wheelwright profusely renders it : —
•* Lo ! as the unborn years arise,
\Vhat triumphs swell the voice of Fame !
What notes of glory rend the skies,
And hymn the fearless Pilot's name !
Taught by his art, what vessels roam
Unnumber'd o'er the yielding foam,
To search in earth anew :
Bounded no more by Thule's coast,
Lo !^ the drear realms of op'ninj? frost
Unfold their worlds to view."
E. C.
Erroneous Monumental Inscriptions in
Bristol (3"» S. v. 289.)— After reading the ac-
count in the GentlematCs Magazine, referred to
by Dunblmensis, I am inclined to believe he is in
error as to the identity of Colonel John Porter
with the individual there mentioned. If, there-
fore, he will kindly furnish corroborative evi-
dence of his statement, he will confer a benefit on
the readers of " N. & Q.'* The person who died
in Castle Kushen was named John B. Porter, and
there is not the slightest allusion to his having
been in the army ; while the name on the Bristol
tablet 15 Colonel John Porter, without any notice
whatever of a second Christian name. From the
remarks of your correspondent, we are to believe
that the Colonel was a merchant in the West
Indies, just previously to Nov. 18, 1811. If so,
how came he to die in Castle Rushen? nYi^t^ it
appears that John B. Porter had beei» confii
an insolvent debtor for ** two yesrs and a quirt
(and) wheti he died (says the Magaxim\\A
not possessed of a single shilling, and his wi<
was obliged to sell her bed to get him a coti
Surely the Porter family, who were in good
cumstances, would not have allowed tbdr bro
to die in such abject poverty in a prison !
In the Baptist Meeting-house, Broadmeti
this city, is a tablet inscribed to the memo
'' The Rev. Hugh Evans, A.M^ Pastor of
church twenty-three years, died March 28th, 1
aged sixty-four.'* This inscription, as far a
gards the age, is evidently incorrect ; as wi
seen by the following translation of his epi
inscribed on a tomb erected to his memory i
Baptist burial ground, Redcross Street : —
*• Sacred to the Memory of
Hugh Evans, M.A.
He was justly esteemed
An excellent and eminent Divine.
In his public Discourses
He was Copious and Eloquent.
In all the Duties of bis Siicred Office
FaithfuU Laborious, and Successful.
An Able and Affectionate Tutor.
To every Office of Piety
Ever Readv and Forward.
A most e.xcellent husband. Father, Frieai
in one word,
A True Christian.
He died much lamented,
March 28th, 1781,
In the tixty-ninth year of hia age."
On the title-puge of a Sermon, pr*^aclied o
occasion of his death, and afterwards publi;^
a copy of which is in my possession — he is
said to have "departed this life in the i
ninth year of his age." George Pi
City Library, Bristol.
Archbishop Hamilton (3'* S. v. 241, 31 (
There is an account of the Swedish Hami
descended from the Archbishon of Cashi
Burke's Peerage for 1864, art. *' Hamilton.**
it is assumed that he was Malcolm Hamilton
died in 1629: whereas it appears, from L
that it wns from Archibald Hamilton, who
ceeded Malcolm in the see, that the Sw
family derive.
Was this Archibald an Irishman, or a Sc
man?
The article in Burke says^he claime<l de
from the first Lord Paisley. But in B«
Extinct Peerage (art. " Glenawly '*), and in L
(art. "Beresford, Earb of Tyrone"), he is i
the second son of Sir Claud Hamilton of C<
nogh, in Scotland, and brother of Sir (
Hamilton of Castle Toome, co. Antrim.
In Lodge (art. *' Hamilton, Lord Limeri
this family, seated at Ballygally, is said tc
scend from Thomas, younger son of Sir .
iSwT. Ar«iL $n, •^54.1
AND QUERIES.
The sfimc aulhor (iirU " Strabane") makes Sir
laud HAsoilton, of Castle Toome» tf) be a son of
je first Lord PttUIcy ; nnd In describing bis de-
lerdaiits ho tjiunei twii brothers, Claud and
rchibald ; but it U cleftr that tiicy are different
om the Archbifihop and his brother, tw their
ither was born in 1604, whiUt the Archbishop
as aged eighty when h«* died in IfvSO. Never-
lelefis, I presume it h from this similarity of
ame3 that the Archbiphop h«a been aaaumed to
esc end from Lord Puisiley. All these genealo-
Uiikl piizzleji must Ini solved l)efore we make the
|teg|ib]:»hnp either Irish or Scotch, In accord-
Hpi with Mh. Dk MonGMHs su^^cstion, I enclose
plj name* S. P, V*
*^The CttCKCH or OUR FATKEas*' (3'" S. v.
)7.) — The son?, commi3ncinfj as abuve, was wrlt-
iti by Robert Story, a Conservative poet; some
^ whose spirited productionis were attributed to
;e late Lord Francis Ej^erton, the authorship of
iiich was disclaimed by that nobleman in com*
'imentary terms. Mr. Story was originally piiriish
erk, nui schoolmaster of Gnrgrave iu Craven,
ork shire ; and afterwards, for many years tilled
1 appointment in the Audit Office, Somerset
'ouse* Ue died recently, havinjj a short time
revionsly issued a collected edition of liis poems,
tot up in a costly style, and dedicated to hi6 kind
itron the Duke of Northumberland.
WUJ^IAM GaSPET.
Keswick*
ZoAB (^"^ S. V, 303.)—" Media?val East," should
5 *^ medial East,'* referring to place, not to time ;
intrastin^ Syria, Arabia, &c^ with the terminxd
lOst — Imiiai &c. Ji L*
DobUo.
Witty Classical Qlotatioks (S;** S* v. 310.)
think that there are two errors in the article
tioted frqm Blackwood for January, 1864, on
Winchester Collefje and Conm\oners," by your
>rTe5pondent, E. H. A. Tom Coriate was not
flucated at Winche&ter College, but at West-
itjster School, and could not have been alive at
le time of Queen Elizabeth's visit to the former
minary in 1570, tor he waa born in 1577, so the
Kiecdifte must be assigned to another. Ue is thus
nen tinned in the seconrl pai*t of the Complete
ingler^ by Walton and Cotton : —
•' Viaiftr. Wulh if ever 1 com« to l^ndoit, of which
i;«jTT JI I. win there, if he wer« iu my j»lur«^ itmtti tu;iJ|c4!!i a
1 will sit clown *«ml wriremy i '. like
/r, print them at mv own ch . wli.ii
' yt^u I .»ll lhi« h\\\ \vt comt' iown? **— -Mujor'H 041^011
' tUc Otm/flete Amjler, 18^4, part u, obnp. ii. p. 2*13.
The fuUowinn[ interesting and amusing expla-
fltory note is appended, p. 283 : —
•»/.-* r r' ,;,^ -■ • ..■;.,, ^ •• ]' .,
Ueor.
il-.. - ■-■ - ' .. ■'- . ..-:-.■ ■^.:_._:. .::... al
lc»uc##i^i/di4 OMt^mis tU't^ which he went into th«
family of Henry Prince of Wtlct. H*
aU ovvf K'.?ro|M? on Putt, An>\ fn that
me'!
and IL- ■- -- ,,- ■-'':
a maaner, as be telU his mutliei, in m. I
fPH tnrtfiihii' trHV»>ls hetvfo^n Alfppo
MjiK inis, ill tUe tldeiit^
time He dierl of the
li-iheil his Travels iu a quarto volume, which be callud
bis Vnidiiirs^** &c— l*p, i03-104.
OXOMTEWSIS-
I beg to inform E. H. A, that the writer of the
article on " Winchester College,** in Blackwood^
January, 1864, h indebted to my William of Wtfke'
ham and hiA Collect** (published in 1852, and
quoted by the Public School Commissioners) for
Uie anecdote cited from that Alafjazine, beside
every other important fact in the article, altboudi
without acknowledgment, I regret to say. The
author, 1 am told, is no Wykehamist ; if so, hlg
many misapprebenaions arc explained, and the
expression ** unjrrateful of the ^yj/kehamisti*^ goes
to prove the belief. '
liiACK£37Xt£ E. C. WaLCOTT.
llEECH-Daoprisos : ErtPUEGUS Vikgintaka
(3*^ S, V. 297), better known to medical men a«
Orobanche Virginiana, broomrape, or cancer-root, is
an extremely nauseous astringent and bitter tonic,
formerly much employed as a remedy for dysen-
tery and as a detergent in chronic ulcerations. It
formed the chief ingredient in the famous powder
known as Martin's Cancer Powder, Its virtues
are mentioned in the Phnmmcopma UnivermliSt
1833, and in Limlley's Vegelalie Kingdom, but
more at larije, doubtless, in American works on
materia medica. Geo. Moobi:.
Toe LATE RoBBRT Dillon Bbowk, M.P, (3'*
S. iii. 369; V. 270.) — W.D. has fallen into
one error at least on the subject ; and^ as I origi*
nuted the question relative to my late lamented
and gifted friend, Mr. Brown, pray give me space
to correct W. D, Error the first is, that W. D.
calls a quotation, with which Mr. Brown often
i finished same of bis really line orations, ** a song.**
if W. P. haul looked at my note, he could not
have fallen into such an ab.'^iird im'stake. I happen
to know something relative to the honour paid to
the Blessed Virgin Mary, both In France and Ire-
land, by Catholics, and can assure W, D» that
theie is no hymn of the sort he alludes to ; so that
his Irish Catholic friend must have con>idered
him verdrmt to credit such a story. The sneer
j conveyed about Mr. Brown beuv^ ^ ^<:i\\>x *\cw
I 0'Coiine\V3 ^^ ^tx\\iW \.i\\;' i?v\^\^^ Vfts\ ^^tsv^
! under i\ie c\imuv\i\^ ^^tc^^\i<&\vva^wt ^'^-^'^
370
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S'dS. V. AfbilSO.'W.
Robert Dillon Brown was a man of superior
natural gifts, and one of the best and most ample
scholars of his day ; but this is not the place for
such points. S. Redmond.
LiyerpooL
Cdbmudoeon (S'* S. v. 319.) — The deriva-
tion I have always heard for this word is caur
mSchant, Ltttelton.
Joseph Aston (2»'* S. xii. 379.) — Me. Gross-
let has given an exceedingly interesting note on
this Manchester poet and "punctuator.*' Like
many greater geniuses of the same period (among
whom might be mentioned Southey, Montgomery,
Cobbett, an4 Burdett) his political life began with
revolutionary principles, and ended in conser-
vatism.
The object of this note is to say that Aston was
a confidential friend of James Alontgomery for
many years after the French Revolution; and
many letters and much information, illustrating
the life of Aston, will be found in the earlier
volumes of the Life of Montgorneri/^ by Holland
and Everett. The interesting anecdote related
by Mb. Cbossley of an eminent author who said,
'SMr. Aston, in consequence of your admirable
punctuation, I now, for the first time, begin to
understand my own book," very probably re-
lates to Montgomery, whom I |had the honour to
know, and who was full of that species of innocent
quiet humour. W. Lee.
NOTES ox BOOKi?. ETC.
Omitted Ch(ifjter9 of ike HUtnry of Enalnnd^from the Death
of ChiirUs I. to the Battle of Dunbar. By Andrew
Biaset. (Murray.)
Some people will liiul fault with the title of Mr.
IMsset's book, and will let him understand that they are
surprised to find that the trial of Lilburne, the defeat and
death of Montrose, and the Battle of Dunbar, are "omit-
ted chanters of the History of England." Many otiiers
will call in question the author's judgments passed upon
the characters of the persons with whom his history
deals. A large proportion of his rea<lers will doubt
whether *' the base cur which then sat on the English
throne'* is a just or gentlemanly description of James I. ;
whether Cromwell was quite the melo-dramatic villain
who is here painted ; or whether Charles 1. lacked " bniins**
fur the performance of the acts of porliily, treachery, and
breach of trust, which arc here stated tt» have bv^en de-
signed by him? It is not for us to enter ui>on these
questions. Mr. Disset has written a book which is built
upon materiaU which have been little, if at ail, used ly
preceding writers ; and his work will, therefore, assure<lly
take it^ pla<i'. among the historical authorities for the
])eriod. lie has written also with a free ])en, and after
great inquiry and consideration. What he has written is
fully entitled to consideration, even if critics should ulti-
mately come to the conclusion that he lacks some of the
many qualities which are essential to tho formation of
true ami mmml hibtorical judgments. UU volume it IUq
//rvt instalment of a History of England, from \\i« <\«aA.\\
o/ Cliailea L to the J^estoration of Char\«s \\.
Shakspeare^s Garden, or the Piantt and Flovera namid h
hi» IVorki degcribed and de/irud, WUk Notu and llw
trathnt from the Workt of other Writers, Bjf Si^
Beisly. (Longman.)
That he who found ** Sermons in itones. and good ii
everything," had a keen appreciation of the bwoijof
dowers, and of the powerful grace that in them lie^ii
were needless to argue. Every one of hit ouOcUk
dramas gives abondant proof of this ; and Mr. Bcislv ku
produced a very pleasing volume bv combining, witktk
instances of Snakspeare's ose of flowen, much canv
matter illustrative of such use, cnlled from the writi^
of his contemporariet.
The Chantlns Portrait sf Shakmeare. f Chapoun at
Hall.) ^ '^
The Trustees of the National Portrait GaUnr btriK
given special permission to their Secretarr, Mr. Gk9
Scharf, to make a tracing of the Chandos portrait fari^
purnose of publication, it has been carefnlly lithogziffaK
so that the admirers of the poet may now^
** With reverence look on his majestic fsee,*
with the full conGdence that they are looking on a pcric
copy of tho only picture which has been banded don*
us, with satisfactory evidence tliat it is a portntr
Shakspeare. The print, which is of course of thsiirf
the original, is of great interest, and certainly fww'
of the most satisfactory' memorials of the great pMiia
bis Tercentenary has called forth.
The Quakterly Review, Xo. CCXXX. —ft*'
Quarterly contains fewer articles than usual, ai><"
perhaps natural just now, a large proportion of d**
pol iticaL These are^ — "Prospects of the ConfedersM'*^'
Foreign Policy," and "The Privy Council Jni^"
The other papers are, a biographical one on ** Sir ViJcfl
Napier ;" an interesting sketch of •* Pompeii i" » ?»■,
vievr of the condition, prospects, and resoorec -'
'* Mexico ;'* and an ingenious and well-timed pop^-^
" Shakspeare and his Si^onnets."
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IfOTES
QUEKIEa
tn
LONDOy, SATUMDJY, MATl, im*
I
— Biihr,
0estA of
French 1
Cntt —
QUERIED
-* - nm - XUi
,hoB,S71— Oartrt-
Black
Liuiat in Hariipshiir — Biu
ft»f the *^
Church, 375.
ueries — BLirTuHt arid
^nUcy of
B»r" at
Sir Th-.Toa^
fLor Fmmilj
irriham
I itic of
I'm was
y — Kd\i Jird
Ml. — "Plfty
,1(1* — Sht^n
ikiv, Sauiuei Siipj^r, CIuLuI&m to tb« Duke of
Jforfolk in 16S1 — Upper and Lcnter Bmpire, 87^*
— Sutton Goldfield:
H oJ boro — Dr. Trap p
CkTP^lnfcent, 379.
lUBPLIES: — Tiie Newton Btone, Si
Wolfe, Gwtlener to Hcury VI I L
Tkbcivnu Shftkspcarc — J u« i
esU — Mather Goo*b — Col
ry .1. oiiamde
drew"*.
. :ia|i;Taiiii
»— Menohuiet. SBi—
- Wxss Ltvi/riDore —
y Couj>
rone —
Ballot:
. — Ma.p tit lLij[D2Lu Britain —
,' — Pa««a«o In " Tom Joti«s **—
-"Here ll« Pr«i;' Ac.^" Cen-
tury of iiiveuti.nis"— John Youime, ULA.*, of Pembroke
Hail, Cambnage-*Amerk!aa Authon, ka,, 383.
K^otoa on Books, Mo,
BmSOP ANDE£\y KNOX OF RAFHOE.
He wa» a younger son of John Knox of Ran-
furlv -'• '-f-jfrCaJ^ile^ in Renfrewshire, an ancient
Sc' y, which had been settled there since
the -„:: . .iLh century^ and from which the cele-
oratod Reformer John Knox was also descended,
Educated at the University of Glasffow, where
Andrew MfclvlUe ^os then Pnncipid, and was
"Uureat^d*' there in 1370 as " Andrseas Knox'
lAjmaleg Fac. Art, OUisgnt!n\\ hb birth may,
Uierefore, be placed about the year 1560, as the
usual age of entering college wag then fifteen, and
the course of academical atodies occupied four
years, 1574-U7iX
Havini; ent^>red the minia^, his first eccledas-
tical preferment was the parish of Lochcvinnoch,
in bis Dative county of Renfrew^ and diocese of
Glasgow, to which he was appointed about 1586.
In A few years afterwards he was trnuslated to the
more important cbarwe of the town and abbey
church of Pai^ilt'y, in the* same county and diocese,
159 — ; but he does not seem ever to have ha^l
Buore than Presbyterian urdinatioti, for the uecea-
aitv i»r rvu«_!vsn_' that rite from the hnn^l^ <S i ilulv
f'^ 'op was not then il
1 or expedient, when
*' t be obtained conveniently, and
I <e of the Scotinb prehtQB, of what
'*i>poitiBwood^ Succession ** (1610-
1639), passed through the intermediate orders of
deacon and priest.
Go the restoration of episcopal govemment by
Eing James VL, in Act of Parliament of JuJy %
1606, the " Parson of Paisley/ was nominated te
I the long vacant see uf *^ The lalea,** having been
already designated bishop in the prcce^iing yaar»
and l>y lettera patent under the Privy Seal of
April 2, 1606, he wa^ alao made Abbot of Icolm-
kill or Hy, on the same day, according to K^tb
[jSccjUijA JBUhopjtt p. 308] ; but this ancient Cla-
niacensiau monaatery was annexed to the blshopno
of Argyll in 1617. In March, 1608, he was ap-
pointed one of the commissionem for settUog
afiairs in the Western lales^ which were compri»ea
in bis remote diocese ; and, on his measures having
been approved of by the Privy Council of Scot-
Ifind, he was sent to London in June to re*
port to tile King ; and he was again summoned
to the English court early in 1609, returning to
Edinburgh in June of that year. In July he held
a court on the island of lona, where the ** Statutes
of Icolmkill " were enacted for the government of
the islea on August 23, 1609, and received the
royal approval June 28, 1610. In July foUowing
the bishop was created ** Steward and Justice of
all the North and West Isles of Scotland" (ex-
cept Orkney and Zetland), and also " Constable
of the Castle of Dunyreg, in lala," in Auguat of
the afime year, 1610.
His cangecratiou appears to have taken place
on February 24, 161 1, in the parish church ot
Leith (together with that of John Campbell,
Bishop elect of Argyll); the ofliciating prelate
having been his metropolitaji, the Abp. of Gli^
gow, assisted by the Bishops of Galloway lad
Breohio.
By patent of June 26, 1611, he was nomiflflied
to the bishopric of Rapboe, in Ireland (then vacant
by the resignation of another Scotiah Bishop,
George Montgomery) ; but he was certainly non-
resident for several years subsequently, and as he
remained in Scotland, must have continued to re-
tain both seci. The reason of his translation 130
an Irish bishopric is said to have been because
" King James considered him to be a very fit
person to undertake the chargr of a diocese in
Ulster at this time."
In Apnl, 1614, the Castle of Dunyveg, which
had been garrisoned by h'mi for the government
fr -^ .^^nla of three years, was surprised by a
f, and the bishop proceeded from Edin-
iMi.^.. *.. iittcmpt its recovery in Septembtr : but
he fell into a trap, and was obliged to leave as
Imnf ;».7o^ Uh you ITiomas and nephew John Kuox^
"ie, on wluch he was allowed to depart.
I rjes were subsequently libet«.te-<^ v^'&^i-
vemb<ir CuWomtv^, wv Q;oTv^\<\^t«» t^k^^ ^f^
and iW caa\Xt %\^>Tm<i^ ^m^'tVTvs,'!>x^ ^-'^^ ^L^nj
161 7t a tiew chapter was cstabliabed for the Sec of
the Iflle^i ns the ancleat writs of the blahoprtc
had been tost, and a new foundatioa was conse-
quently necesaarj. It must htive been shortly
after thia that Bishop Ivnox finally resigned his
connection with his island diocese, as he received
" Letters of denization " in Ireland, on Sept, 22,
1619 [RoL Pat}; and about the same time was
called into the Privy Council of Ireland. He had
a pension of 100/, a year irom King Jaoiea, which
was withdrawn in May, 1620, "on the eve of his
removal to Raphoe." iRym, Fctd. voL viii. part 3,
p. 147.] Keith gtates, that **he was translated
m the year 1622," and ** died the 7th of Novem-
ber, 1632;" but both these dates are incorrect,
a« shown above. His episcopal residence as
Bishop of Raphoe was at Ramullen^ near Lough-
Swilly, which he preferred to Kaphoe, as there was
a garrisoned castle there. When the Royal Viai*
tation of the Province of Armagh was made in
1622, the bishop was resident in his diocese, and
laid many grievances before the commission;
among others, the entire loss of the diocesan re>
cords there, and the want of a cathedral, of which
the waUa only were standing, though a new roof,
which bad been two years in preparation, " was
to be set up this summer at the bishop's and
parishioners' charge." As might be expected
from his antecedents, he was extremely lax in
ordaining clergymen, allowing many irregularities,
and giving ** a free entry into the ministry " to
Presbyterian candidates for benefices in his dio*
oeae. In short, Biahop Knox*s character was more
thai of a politician than a churchman, as exem-
plified by his proceedings in the Western Islea ;
and though he is stated to have been ^* a good
man, who did much within hts diocese by propa-
gating religion," yet we must have regard to the
whole tenor of his career, and, if unwilling to
^ive entire credence to the accusations of into-
lerance and persecution brought against him for
ills treatment of the Romanists in Ubter by the
historians of that body, there is sufhcient evidence
of his having been anything but a mild or tolerant
prelate, or a faithful member of his own church.
Bishop Knox died on March 17, 163(9, when he
had attained the age of about seventy -three, and
in the twenty-third of his episcopute^ dating from
his consecration in 1611, ano, acconjing to Ware's
BiMhofiMj "in the twenty-fecond year after his
traiisUtton." Place of death and interment not
recorded ; but the former was probably at Ramul-
len Castle.
The autlioritios for the above sketch are Ware's
Buhvps, edit. Hjirrls; Cottons Fasti, iii. 351,
wWre the date of the 1 ' ^ ' ' ^ " ^' ',
17, 162 J," a clerical en
but it is not corrected
^Inut'n Ni^ory of (he Church of 7
^^^j&i Bishops^ edit, Rua^idU C^u
f/caJ History ofScottami: l-awKio'*
of ScoUand; Gregory's HisL of the 1 _^
lam}$ ami Inles of Sct>tlanrl ; Mn Cne*»
Atidrew Melville; Booke of the Unicerstili
Scotland ; Bren an , O* Suli i vati) PorttiTi i
DaminiCf Sfc.
CONTKlBtJTIONS FROM FOREIGN
LITERATURE,
nr JAMES uRyjiT i»txQj
The Birth of Mrfltn, on Ancienl 1\^
Loieer Britanny^ I^ra
The original of this curious produ
the Armoric, and may be seen in '
chap-books, also in —
" Barsaz-Breiz, Cbaata pop"
recaeillis et public avec nnc
inLroductioD, Jkc, et les melodic eft.**
Didier & Co,
Also in " Myrdhjno, ou l^iichanteitr Mm
toire, sea oeuvres, et son infiueDce,** Pari^ I
Both works are the erudite tmd
compilations of the Viscount Hersart
lemarque, Member of the InsiitutG
&c. So much has been written about ,
Merlin *, that it is unnecessary to ec
the subject. The ballad is believeti :
ancient, and I see no reason to datil
Viscount says : —
** Lq void danA sa rusticit*^ et la ;
t el que lea nourricea, c«i coDsenrmtrtces i __
latre dc taut«a lea natioiia le r^pbteot poor i
eufiiata.**
His "traduction" is in prose. In mf
lation I have endeavoured to presenra
rusticity and fltmnlicity. I have mdopUst
two-line stanza ol the original, and hf*^
very trifling deviation from the phr
deed, such deviation has only be
idiom of our languatfc rendered
necesaary. The burden is repeated
verse.
*♦ 1 ilept in the forest all alone —
T slept tiU A year and a month had llowa
JfuH rtOf T*i mahik^ va nuthiJk !
i/wM HUf toutoniA talla ! f
and ha*<i,
d ^^H
;atcd a^l
" A fair bird percliM an tin-
And he caroll'd awc«t]y •!
** It waa like ihe hppfi
At even-tido when i
tfC<k.
• TiDemarqu^f indulges
Iba of Merlin, and aft^f
of the name.
MeUftf, Mdii..
(Ifraphos Brct<i3
vcUic'" But I
Celtic word mtf
tobia miracul'
8'*S.V. Mat7,'84.]
NOTES AND QUEEIES.
373
** Sach the spell of the soothing Iat,
It wafted my very soul away I
*^ Aye I and wherever the fair bird went.
Thither, alas I were my footsteps bent.
«« This was the little bird's charm^ lay—
* Thine eyes are pearls on the hawthorn spray I
«< < Th' earliest glow o' the mominc light.
Meets a gleam more pore and bi^ht :
«* * The Sun np-springing from eastern sea,
Saj-s, This royal virgin my bridt diall be ! '
«< Little bird I litUe bird! hosh that strain—
Thy notes of flattery fall in vain.
^ Prate not to me of the earliest streak,
Tinging with splendour the mountain peak ;
" Tell not of pearls on the hawthorn spray,
If I am belovM by the God of Day !
"And sweeter and wilder the notes became.
Till a trance stole over my wearied frame.
''I slept where an oak its branches flang —
It was the tree whence the fair bird sung.
•* I dream'd I was in a lonely grot.
And a little Duz 'twas who own'd the spot*
** The grot was nigh to a fairy spring ;
And the tiny waves aye were murmuring :
•* The walls were diamonds and emeralds green ;
The trellis'd gate was of crystal sheen :
« Softest moss was beneath my tread.
And cowslip and violet odours shed.
•* And the little Duz who ovm'd the grot,—-
Joyons was I, for I saw him not
" And there came the coo of a turtle-dove.
As he flew 'mid the spreading trees above.
" Never was bird more fair withal ;
And he flapped hia wings 'gainst the diamond wall.
. " He tapp'd at the porUl crystalline ;
Alas, my poor heart ! that I let him in :
" Round he flew, as if seeking r«st ;
He perch'd on my shoulder, and kiss'd my breast ;
" Tliree times kiss'd he my cheeks so red ;
Then away and away to the greenwood fled-f
" He merrily coo'd, and he seem'd right glad,—
1 curs'd my fate, for my heart was sad.
**,^nd my tears flow'd fast by night and day.
While my infant's cradle I rock'd alway.
'*• I wish'd his sire In the icy cell,
'Mid chilling snows, where the dark sprites dwelLJ
• The Duz or Duzik {vide ** Barzaz Breiz ") was a
gnome, dwarf, or fairj-, who presided over springs and
grottos. Some archaeologists argue that he a identical
with the frolicsome domestic spirit called by the dif-
ferent names of Lutin, Puck, Hob, Wilfrey, Pam, Ac &c
One thmg, however, is quite cerUm— we modems have
not forgotten him, and occasionally ask him to take
obnoxious individuals! As the Duz had the power to
assume various forms, animate and inanimate, the Bre-
tons argue that he was the turtle dove of the ballad.
t The " greenwootl " is in the original. No terms are
more universal in European ballad literature than •• crreen-
wood " and " greenwood tree."
X The Celtic tribes believed in a species of purgatory,
but the place was amidst ribs of ice, and in caverns of
eternal snow. Thispagan superstition has been eurrafted
on Christianity. The Rev. S. VV. King, in his most in-
»!!!S?* wwi valuable work. The Italian Vaileye of At
^«MWM JLbf (London, Murray), says, in his account of
the Vil di Bonis, «• A singular snperstiUon is currmt
** "hly infknt open'd his eyes and smil'd,
And this was the song of m^ new-bom child,
* Hun eta, va mabikf va mabtk I
Hun eta, toutouik lalla I
«« Dry be thy tears! all joy be thine!
Weep not my mother ! the grief be mine !
** * Thou would'st my sire in the icy cell, —
The chilling snows, where the dark sprites dwelL
" ' Mother ! my fkther dwells afar.
Between the moon and the morning star.
** * And the light of the sun and the moon is dim
To the glorious lustre surrounding him.
** ' Heaven ! preserve him from the cell,—
From chilling snows where the dark sprites dwelL*
** * It is he who succours the heart opprest —
It is he who gives to the weary rest
** * Bless the hour that gave me birth ;
For my country's weal was I sent on earth.
** * All mystic things shall to me be known.
And my fame shall over the world be blown.
<** And the spirits that rule the air and sea
Shall own my power, and my subjects be.*
** Then round her neck were his small arms slung —
f Tale more wond'rona has ne'er been sung.)
And the descant flow'd from the infant's tongue,
' film eta, va mabik, va mabik t
Hunetal toutouik lalla I '"^
Florence, lUly, Dec 31, 1863.
with regard to the wild glaciers which wreathe round
the bases of these icy summits. Strange wails and mourn-
ful cries are often heard issuing from their awful fissures,
which are believed to be the moans of lost souls, con-
demned to expiate their sins in the bowels of ice. So
fixed is the belief, that often manv persons in a year have
been known to make a weaiy and dangerous pilgrimage
on the lonely glacier; where on their bare knees, they
have offered long and earnest prayers for the liberatioa
of the nnhappy souls, and also for their own deliverance
from such a fate ; imagining that either in life, or after
deaUi, they must expiate their sins by viaitiog these
dread r^ons."
The Val di Bours is a portion of Celtic Piedmont, and
the belief has no doubt bran handed dovm traditionally.
But such an idea is not confined to a Roman Catholic
valley— it prevails in the Protestant Canton de Yaud,
Switserlano, and t)ie awful fissures on the sladers of the
Dent de Morcles called the ** glaciers of Pun-neve," are
believed to be inhabited by lost souls. As the Yaudois
peasant does not believe in Purgatoiy, he regards the
icy caverns of his canton as a place of punishment where
sinners are confined without hope of relief. The Canton
de Yaud is a portion of Celtic Switzerland.
As connected with this subject, Wordsworth's
•* Mari>le belt
Of central earth, where tortured spirits pine
For grace and goodness lost ; "
and Moore's —
. . . •* Ere condemn'd we go
To freeze 'mid Hecla's snow,"
wiU ocenr to the poetical reader.
• The expression rendered "dark sprites'* is in the
original ** black sprites."
f For the better understanding of the ballad, we may
observe that it is a nursery song, sung by a Breton nurse
to Aer child. The nurse uses the first person, and as-
anmes the character of Merlin's m<lth«t^'Q2&^^^. >2q^^\v^
374
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[M&T. lUar7,lL
CERTinCATE OF CONFORMITY, 1641.
<* George, by God's pvidence Lorde Boshopp of Here-
ford, To all to whom these pseota shall come greetinge in
onr Lorde God everlaatince : knowc jeo that Roger Letch-
more, of the j)ishe of ffownehope, -w^^in the Dioces of
Hereff, Gent, havynge byn formlye indicted and con-
victed for a Recnsant, appeared jisonally before the
right wor<^* John Ryrle, suronett, and Ambrose Elton,
Esquire, bcinge twoe of his Ma*^ justices of the peace
w**>m the Countye of Hereff., nppon the nyneteenth dave
of June last past, at the pishe of Much Marcle, in the
Countye of Here! ; and then and there did willinglye
submitt h>'m selfe to the state and Church of England,
and in pfession of his Conformitye to the sayd State and
Church, did then and there take the oathe of allegeance
and supremacye to the kinge's most excellent Mfttie, and
faythfuUye pmysed and pt^ted the same daye before the
sayd Barronett Kyrle and Ambrose Elton (as I am credi-
blye informed by certiGcat remaynynge in my custodyo
under the hands of the sayd Barronett Kyrle and Ambroise
Elton), flrom thenceforth accordinge to the lawes and
statuts of this Realme to continue such his Conformitye
in his due obedience to the Kinges Ma*^, his heyres and
successors, to his lyves ends : and I have received as well
a Ccrtificat, under the hande of Robert Gregorie, clarke,
vicar of ffownehope, aforesayd, bearinge date the twen-
tieth day of June last past, testifyinge that the sayd
Roger IJBtchmore, for the space of more than one whole
veare last past, conformed hym selfe ; duringe w«*^ tjrme
nee hath usuallyc frequented his pishe church of ffowne-
hope aforesio^d ; and there did religeouslye demeane him-
aelfiB during the tyme of dyvvne Service reade, and ser-
mon preached, and at the ffeast of Easter last past the
Sacrament of the Lorde's Supper administered, then and
there alsoe the sayd Roger Letchmore Tamongst other
of the CongregacOn there psent) receaved and tookc the
holye Sacrament, administred unto hym by the hands of
the sayd M' Gregory, as in and by the sayd ccrtificatt
remaynynge in my custodye more at lardgo y* doth and
may appeare.
** In wittncsse whereof, I have sett to ray hande and
Episcopall Seule, the thirtith day of June, in the seven-
teenth yeare of the raigne of our sovVigne lorde Charles,
by the Grace of God Kiuge of England, Scotland, tfrance,
and Irelundc, Defender of the iTaythe, etc. Anno que
dni, 1641.
(L.S.) " Geo. Ulrkfokd."
The above is preserved among the muniments
of Sir Edmund Lechmere, Bart., at Severn-End,
in the county of Worcester ; and may be inter-
esting to the readers of " N. & Q." as a certificate
of Conformity, granted by the Hishop of Hereford
(Gcorrre Coke) to a member of the ancient family
of Lechmere, of Fanhope (a younger branch of
the Lechmercs of Ilanley), in the year 1641.
£. P. SUIBLEY.
Lower Eatington Park.
WOUDS AND PLACES IX DEVOXSIIlRliL
1. Anionic other examples of the Celtic root
duny " a hiil fortress," Mr. Taylor (p. 2;J5, aii<l
again p. 402,) gives South Mol/o/i as representing
the ancient Meliifiinum. His authority is Baxter
{Glossnrinm, s. ▼. "Melidunum"). But Baxter
was guided solely by a similarity of sound. There '
is not the slightest reason for fixing a Eomi
station at South ^lolton. No Rofun rcBsiH
have ever been found there. The town ii, d
course, named from the river Mole on wUch it
stands ; and it is unnecessary to look lor tk
Celtic dim here, any more than in North Molta,
or in North and South Tawlon, on the riw Tsv.
Baxter, it in>7 be added, places South liobia
wrongly, "adXkrnm amnem;** meaning, ^pir-
ently, on the Taw, into which the Mole nus.
2. Ur. Taylor asserts (p. 255) that, « in Dma
the ancient Cvnuric apeecn feebl j lingered on (3
the reign of Elizabeth ; while in Cornwall, it is
the general medium of intercoorae in the tiaea
Henry VIU. What authority b there for tfcf
former statement? I know of none whstne
The Saxon border had been driven soma wp
down into Cornwall at an early period; and al-
though there may be little doubt that tlie viDsi
on many ef the Devonshire nianora^ were of Ccb
blood, there is no evidence, so far an I know, ik
the *' Cymric speech *' lingered in Dewauimi
any period after the Conquest.
3. ** On the frontier between the Celts of Oft
wall and the Saxons of Devon stands the vie
of Marham " (p. 279). In the word «« lisba'
Mr. Taylor finds the Saxon Afark^ ^'bossAr*
Marham church is dedicated to St. Ho^
(locally "Morrlner*"), as is that of Mon^B*
on the adjoining coast. ^ The saint*8 nm^
probably been Saxonised into Marham.
4. ** The Stannary Court of the Duchy of Csaif «
an assembly which represents, in continuous me^^
the local courts of the ancient Britons. The eoat ni
formerly held in the open air on the summit of OrokA
Tor, where the traveller may still see concrentric Dcii'^
seats hewn out of the rock. The name of Croto Tff
evidenllv refers to a deliberative assembly; and W'^'
man's \^ood, in the immediate neighbourhood, tofS^
the wisdom traditionally imputed to the grave asd t>
verend seniors who took part in the debates.*' — F. W.
The Cornish Stannary Court was never held «
Crokern (not Crokeu) Tor, which is on Dartmocr.
A general court for the regulation of the tinnen
of Devon and Cornwall was held on HengstoK
Hill (in Cornwall, just across the Tamar), until
in the reign of Edward I., that for Devon w«
removed to Crockern Tor. It is possible — but of
this there is no direct proof— that before thii
division a local court may have been held oa
Crockern Tor ; but that the name, " evidendj
refers to a deliberative assembly," • is, at least,
uncertain. It U pronounced *' Crukcrn,'* and out
"Croken," as Mr. Taylor apparent!/ supposes.
There is a village called "Crokern Well," on the
• " We have the Welsh word ffragam, • to speak loud,'
whence comes the Englinh verb, • to croak,* . . . The
cr«i*ing of a door, and the name of the com-erdk, are
from the Rame root Compare the Sanscrit Ar«r, • to call
out' ; the Greek, Kpi&^w i and the Latin, erocirc**— Tfeylor.
\m^s.y,MAY7,%L}
NOTES AND QUERIES.
375
be^ireen QtMbamptMk uid £xaler; and
(CrdkeC the oiOM ^ OM of the old^t Devoa-
\ • Crrktr, Crttwys, «nd CopAatoM^
Wlien th« Oonqoenic csmt, w«re fowid at homV* —
hnr [terliaps be connected, Pryce (Cof^ish Voca'
Uinnj, I71K}) asserts thaK^-'"^'" .,- j i.r...4:en,
Cornisli and Brezone< ill;'
nd Crockem Is the lowesi ^. .„. ., .. .__. -,^igh-
tjuring Tors.
No trudition has ever connected Wistman's
ro<»d (it is properly Whishtman's or Wtiihinan\s
7ood) with Croi'kern Tor» Mrs. Braj (Legends
^tkii Tamar and Ta^) was the first to find wis-
bm in its name ; and to connect it with the lore
olikr "wise men*' — Druids. I believe the
|"wlai<|jtman/* to whom the wood belongs, to be
I nia»t<-'r of the "whish" bounds,^ — an unearthly
iok with fiery mouths, which hunta over Dart-
loor. Wu«c, or Wfsc, >!eems to have been one
of (he names of Odin (Kemble, Scixon$ in Eiig^
"" * voL I. p, 345); and ** whishtneaa " la the
nmon Devonfihire word for all mipematural
1 and deallngt}« Kichakd John Kifg.
wnci_.
SiHILAB StoBXSS m DIFFEBfillT LoCAXilTIBS. —
Belmont, near Lausanne^ Switzerland, we have
\ old atories of hedging in the cackoo ; of the
mer who built a wall round his turnip-field to
ep the files off; and also of the coats beneath
churcL This last story is the same as the
eat (Coggleshall) version. Some Belmonters
ad an idea that their church would be ali the
fetter if moved three yards to the west ; so they
^ked the distance by leaving their coats. They
en pu&hed against the eastern wall. A thief
Ae the coats, and the peasants found they had
Bhed too far ! A " seedy '* Belmonter is sure to
! told to *♦ have a push at the church!" The
Blioont people also have a moon of their own,
aite ditferent fo the oueat Lausanne I As a proof
' the simplicity of the Belmonters^ they tell a
^rjr that a stranger who came to reiide there
b^ pounced upon for ftw permit de s^Jtmrs^
\Twor' sjiid the Frenchman; "why I am
yan, and by myself! " " No ! " said the tax-
herer ; " you have a Hide %, who must pay."
ft boy was a tame monkey !
[I am not aware that we have any joke re-
"pbiiDg the last. Happily, we have no such
mg as a prrmis de srjour ; that ia an exaction
K;uliar to frei' and republican Switzerland,
here I may observe there is more petty tyranny
iteroieted lowardi* strangers resident, than there
^ ia even Austria and the Roman States,
S* Jacksoh.
FRpcii BoiLB. ^ Wbilst lookia|T over a book^
>ntainin£ sooie curious and quaint old &uM^ 1
hla^f^ry of a ** Fpeoch Bibki*' printed
Mcmere, at Paris, in 1538;
. ihe following lacti: —
** That th« aflhfis of ths golden calf^ which Ifosei cansidd
to [yf. Lurnt. (ini muijed with the wmtcr that wai dnmk
>, Btuck to the beards of ftu^b has hid
re it J by which they appeared with gilt
LKiar:?,;.^ a pieuliar mark to distinguiah tiiui«whtob had
womhipp^d iha catC*
This Idle story is aetuatly tnterwovoa witli the
S^ind chapter of Exodus. And Bonnemere sajrHi
in his preface, this French Bible was printed in
1495, at the request of his most Christian Blajesty
Charles VIII. ; and declares further, that the
French translator "has added nothing but the
genuine truths, according to the express terms of
the Latin Bible ; nor omitted anything but what
was improper to be translated !" So that we are
to look upon this fiction of the gilded beards as
matter oi fact ; and another of the same stamp,
inserted in the chapter above mentioiiedi lix.
that —
" Upon Aaron's refusing to inske gods for the Is-
raelites, they spat »poa hitn with ao mach fury and
vtoleace, that they (^uite anffocated hinx.**
Thomas TaiS£LTOii Dtbb.
^ng^s College
Caftain NATaAJfinL PomxLoCK, whose voyage
round the world with Capt. George Dixon, was
publifthed in 1789, and an abridgement of which
appeared in 1791, died Sept. 12, 1817. As to
him see Lowndes s BihL Manual, ed. Bohn, 1930 ;
Annual Regiaier^ xb\ 307,] 30 ; Gent Mag, Ixjtvi.
1075 ; LxxjKvii. (2) 379; Bromley's CaL of En-
graved Portraits^ 473 ; and James's Nwsed Hi^
ed. Chamier, ii. 344, 345, He is surely better
entitled to a place in our Biographical Dic-
tionaries than many who appear there.
S. Y.R.
An AiiciEUT Ceaft. — The following cutting ts
taken from a New England journal. May not
the old craft have a remembrance in "K. & Q. P ** —
" The vessel recentiv discovpTed huried in the snn«i ♦"!
the eastern cotut of (jh*leant, Oap« Cod» wa« 35 *■■
l«agth, hud a tonnat?^ of 40 to 50 tons, onri vr!i<i
tlic Sparrowhai^ L
port sent with fr
ing. Six year:; .; . ., .!...„„.. - .
237 yeare ago— the attempted to get outot Potooomicut
hartMMiTt aa it was then ealled* but ran upon a sand-bar
and bilged, and ia the constant chanrnJi in the coaat
there she was entirely buried ia ten or ratcen yeais^ and
BO she hia remained until a few weeks ago^ when some
Band woe washed away, and she was discovered.
•* The deck was gone, and the door below the deck wis
strewn with staves and hoads of barrels, and among them
a large qua&titr of buoes— some of beei; some of pork, and
Bonu- of mutton. The hoops of the barrels had mostly
I ; they may have been of iron, and so dissolved
.111 of the Bca water.
' '* and spikes snd iron used fa the con-
'ijsel had* a^?a ^xw^^^^aaeA,^ ^ xiio\^vis^
l;ind-
;.>.k—
376
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3-
hard I wbile the ribs and planks and irunnelf. of eood old
EnglUh o*k, atill remain quite sound. Memento htmters
jiro hacking away at her in sach numbers that soon there
will be nothing left. The early record* of Plymouth
cf^ony contain reference to the loss of the Sparrow -
biiwk." ^^
w.w.
Malts.
Austin Tbxamb* CHtrRCH. — One can hardly
doubt that the able architect, under whose care
tbis venerable relic of Old London is being re-
red, will detect, in the course of hia work, the
0U8 mistake which has been for many years
'mlhmed to remain on its faqade, just over the
great window. The date, in large Koman nume-
rals, SUncid thus, A.D. MCCLItl. J.
e^ufrkitf*
Ballad Qceeibs. — Can any one inform me
where I can procure a ballad commencing thus ?
** It was the Knight Sir Aage,
He to the i^slaud rade ;
He marriud the ladye Else,
Who had been to long a maid.
**He mairied the lady Else,
All with the gold so red —
Ere a month had paas'd and gone,
The lady Else was dead.'*
The ballad is ScandinaTian, Danish, or Korse,
and was inaertpd in a periodical called The Port-
folio ; but whether it was an original translation,
or copied, 1 know not. The Portfolio dues not
appear in the Museum Gatalt^ue, nor can I find
it elsewhere.
I also should like a copy of a ballad called
** Lord MalcotQ," written in the Lewisian stanza,
f. <■♦ in that of " Alonzo the Brave." It wns often
quoted by Horsley Curtcis, Charlotte Dacrc (Rosa
Matilda), and the romance writers of the Minerva
acbool. I remember a part of a verse —
** The chill dew is {ailing—damp, damp ii the aigbt ;
The ruins are lonely— -Ob God ! for a li^hL
J^rd Malcora J and thou art death coJd.^'
Miss Jane Porter wrote a ballad called *' Lord
Malcom,*' but it is not the one inquired after, and
is in a different metre.
I also wish to know who wrote the ballad of
the *' Lists of Kaseby Wold, or the White-armed
Ladye's Oath." It appeared in Friend4hin*M Of-
ftringt and has been inserted in Mr. J. S, Moore*s
interesting work published by Bell & Duldy. I
had heard that Mrs. Howitt was the author, but
that lady assured me that she was not, and h«id
BO idea who was. It is one of thip most beautiful
©fnsii* ■ ll:tds^ and was a particular favourite
with Janicji Telfcr, the author of ** Our
Lail\ ' ' , ., inserted by Mr. Moore in
hia/' BoUad Ptyetry, S* JAcasoK.
Tuts jiiMinyf I vt BkBmiti,
BuBifETT AND oTtima F A MILT Qmna-
Wanted particulars of the family of Bam^tt^ikl
lived in Roiherbithe early or in th« QiUW||
the eighteenth century, Al«> pattknibil il «
George Burnett, who lived in Horsleyd^w*, W
and was a cornfactor, 1738. Can any onat tjefli
who was one Robert Burnett, eecrelafy «^ T
Jersey* America, 1733 ? Who was Richard 1
towe 'Burnett, of Exeter Court, Strstid, vhsd
1795?
Who was Benj* Burnett, ItviBg In AaiOft 1
1789 ? WTio was Noel Burnett, who dW*'
Spanish merchant, living io Graccdturc^ (
\V ho was Thos. Burnett, stockbroker, dii
Who was John Burnett, who died 17
John Burnett, ob. at Fulhiuni 168»;
Bumettf bom 1685, died 1760 at Crof'
Alexander Burnett, born at Croydoow IT
ninety-nine ? Who were the Burnett* I
Cbigwell* Esgejt ? What became of
netts, descended from Burnett of Leyt:
Robert, Thomas (a doctor at ^orwi^X ^
der, and Gilbert — all brothers ? Ativ |
of any one of these persona, wo^j4
fully received. ^ . ,
Particulars wanted of the ramilj of Gta^
Kirby Lonsdale, Weatmorelantl. One 1"^^^
married JEdward Bainbridgc, 1740. i^
was the wife of one Henry Bainbridfbli
Barton, near Kirby Lonsdale, about (
1600— say 1680, and upwards?
Particulars also wante<l of a
Barons, living at Watford early in lMk\
and afterwards; also, particulars of
called Church ? also, of a familj called ^
relations of the celebrated Sir Johu Wc'^
in Glamorganshire ; and also, of a
name of Swano, living in Berks soxue ejg
ago, H, A, Bai
EustOQ Square.
TnoMAS Bentlkt or Cht-
GftEEN. — I am anxious, for ^
to ascertain whether Thorn ri5 JicntJcj, w
at Turnhara Green and died in 17S0C
family, and if so, their i t ^h
Ben tie J was in early life o: ^tcr]
Liverpi-jol, kc. Can any rcun'-!: yi
frive me this, or any other information
hira or his family ? L,
Derby.
"Tub Black Br.Att** at C
ago, paniing through Cumn* irpr
only to find an irm en'' ' iM.urk
the village, but that tb' nc of I
characters in ScottV A. «. .--'i waa
the bottom of the j^ipi-board ; it was ellht
Q<,.1 :,,.., r.r* Mi,. 1 1 1 r.Tnhtnirnr, T fiW
bui ^^'^
ixul '^^ -u-.^v^ ■•_: - - - , ■ -^t ,
V
J. May 7, ••4.]
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377
s Tisi&ed Cumnor, or were the sign and the
1*8 name humoroiulj borrowed from tbe
Ytsitiog CuEonoT CQurch I found from m
iT\% tbat the celebrated Tonj Forster was
HUrlj domestic prewnted hy Scott, but a
an of high repute, I afterwArds learnt
tablet in Aldermafltoii church in the ad-
coanty of Berks^ that the Forsteri bad
f restded there. In this chmeh is a rery
ir tomb of white marble, to the inemorj of
£ asd hii lady of this family^ Was Anthony
^ of Cumnort of tho same famUy as the
B of Aldermaston ? H. C
iBiHH or BEA<3AitZA,— >In Carte's Life of
le it 15 stated that the retinue of thfa
, on arriviog at Englandi was composed
persons* Are there any documents e^-
:ch give either their name^ or their sub"
history f O^toniEitaia.
. — Does tbe 20 th epigram of Martial
iT,) describe the game of chess P —
Enddioaoram si ladis bfilla Utronam,
Gemmvus lst« tibi miles et hoetis eriL"
it mean that the kuights on either side
n made of gems ?
each commentator translates the epigram
I joues Att Jea d*<5checS| qui repr^ntd lea em-
B la guenffit voil^ des soldala et dds eunetnis
chesa^ what game was this ? D.
?HOMAS D£LAi.40Ni>£, — Information re-
the above person, who forfeited his life
insurrection instigated bj Sir Itobert
is requested. Are any of his descendants
e P JoBN Bo WEN BOWLANDS.
!)owH8 Lands in Hamfsuiee. — Cobbett^
ural Bides (p, SS8), informs his readers^ a
ftom does not suffer the surface to hum^
shallow the top soil may be* And, he
itns t« me to abiorb and to retain th« water, and
. ready to b« drawn up by the beat of the aim—
te, tbfl fact ia, tbat the siirface aboYS it doe* not
■ there never yet waa a summer, not even this laat
hen the Dowiu did not rttain Uteir p^nnes$ to
degree; while the rich pastures, and even the
(ejcrapt aetoally wf^ttrtd) were burnt bo as to
Ta as tbe bare earth.,*-
my of your readers do me the great favour
n me the ojmxe why a chalk bottom does
IT the surface of the soil above to burn P
le can refer me to uxrj work in which the
s discussed at length, I shall feel greatly
ttld| Darlington,
ATpia BT Bartolozzi* — I bare before me
aTing of Bariolozzi's, from a picture by
br 4
1801« The treatment is admirable. The subject
is ft stnrring man, on a wrecched bedstead. Two
rats are on the door^ and an empty A\^h. and spoon.
The feet, handSi and face, are painfully true ; and
the Ught is streaming through the broken portioa
of an otherwise dull window. The print puts me
so much in mind of Wallis's "Death of Ghattertoa,'*
that I am anjtious to know if any history or anec-
dote ap|»erU]ns to it^ and whether B, L, West
was ft paiul^ of any note. P, F*
EsauiBB,— In Clark's Heraidry are mentioned,
as having a right to the title *^ Esquire,'* " Bache^
lors of DiTinity, Law, and Physic. Are the two
degrees in Arts excluded; and also, those of
Doctor of Law and of Physic ? K, K. C.
" Familt BnETmo Geound," — The following
are in my note book as the words of EdmunS
Burke ; —
" I would rather steep In the ioatbcm comer of a UttJe
coantTT churehyard than in th« tomb of all the Capuleta,
1 iifaonid lik^ howeTeTf that my dust Aboald mingle with
Idndrel dnti, The good old expreasion, /amihfbHrybi^
ffiwndt haa i>otnething pleasing iu it, at leaat t& me."'
Wanting these words for a particular purpose,
may I ask you in which of Burke's writings they
ore to be found ? Abbba.
Sib Edwaed Go&oes, Eht, — Can any of your
readers inform me who were the father and mother
of Sir Edward Gorges, Knight, of Wraxail, Somer-
set, whose will, a copy of which is in the Wells
Registry , is dated February 6» 1565, pro?ed 1566,
and who bequeathes " the residue of my goodea **
unto Edward Gorges, ** my cousin and heire ap-
parentf" whom he makes his sole executor t4> see
his body " brought unto the earth," His signa-
ture is witnessed by Ann Gorgti^ widow, and
Franks Gorges. Apparently from this he died
unmarried and xins prole* His said cousin seems
to have died the following year, as in Doctors'
Commons there is a copy of a will of Edward
Gorges of Wrsxall, dated 1 0th of Elizabeth^ 1567,
proTed 1568, in which he mentions his mothcTf
Ann Gorges^ and his brother FrnticiSf and his
two young sons, Edward and Ferdinando ; the
latter being, I suspect, the celebrated Sir Ferdi-
nando Gorges^ who was concerned in the Essex
rebellion in the reign of Ehziabeth. F. Bbown.
Xsilsta M/eetiorj, Somerset.
ImramL Bocieties and SwEDBnjwaoiAifa. — In
Nicholses Likrarif Anecdotis^ vol, ix. p. 5 18, a book
or pamphlet, entitled The Hise and dissolution of
the Itmkl SocieHes^ is deacribed iw containing " a
genuine account of the origin of the Sweden bor-
gians in this country/' Can any one give me the
date of this pubHcatton, the name of its author, or
aoj other particulars concerning it ?
«rd8,V. Mat7,"64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
379
Sheen Pbiort. — In the latest edition of the
Monaaiicon^ under this head it is stated (vol. vi.
p. 30), that a representation of it, in its ancient
state, is comprised in one of the views of Rich-
mond Palace, drawn in the time of Philip and
Mury, by Anthony van Wyngaarde, the publication
of which is speedily intended by Messrs. Harding
and Lepard. Yof. ti. is dated 1830. I wish to
know if this intended publication ever took place ;
if not, where Van Wyngraade*s drawings now are.
I have reason to think they are in the Bodleian
Library, but am not certain. W. C.
Kichmond.
Rev. SABfUEL Suppeb, Cuaplaik to the
Duke of Nobfolk in 1681. — A friend has in-
formed me that he has found stated in some
journals that the above was the descendant of a
Spanish family who came over to this country
about the time of Charles II., and translated their
name into its English equivalent. Can any one
inform mc where this statement is to be found,
and what is its authority ? Zapata.
UppEa AND LowEE Emfibe. — Authors seem to
dificr respecting the application of the terms
Upper and Lower Empire to the two divisions of
the Roman world after the death of Theodosius ;
for instance, Sir Walter Scott, in the last chapter
of Count Robert of Paris^ speaking of the Eastern
Empire, remarks, —
^'and at length was terminated tho reign and life of
Alexius Comneniu, a prince who, with all the fiiults
which may bo reputed to him, still pMCMsesses a real right,
from tlie parity of his general intentions, to be accoanted
one of the best sovereigns of the Lower Empire ; "
while Mr. Humphreys, in the Coin Collector's
Mamud, chap, xxv., says, —
''Bat as the Byzantine coins are of a distinct class firom
those of the kingdoms of modem Europe, and closelj
allied to those of the Lower Roman Empire of the West,"
&C.
When and by what historian were the terms
XJpner and Lower Empire first used^ and does the
application of such expressions to two provinces
def>end upon geographical position, or upon terri-
torial extent and preponderance of population ?
H.C.
tSiutxiti iDttb ^vattotri.
Mas. Mart Deverell, who resided in or near
Bristol, published Sermons, Bristol, 8vo, 1774;
London, 8vo, 1777 (third edition) ; Miscdlanies
in Prose and Verse, London, 2 vols. 8vo» 1781 ;
Theodore and Didymus, an heroic poem, 8vo,
1786; and Mary Queen of Scots, an historical
tragedy, 8vo, 1792. Was she the Mrs. Deverell,
relict of John Deverell, Esq., who died at Cliftoo,
Au^t 26, 1806 ; or Mrs. Deverell, wife of
Kicbard Blake Deverell, Esq., who died there
June 2^1810? TheBws^phiaDrQmaikuXKKam
her a lady of Gloucestershire, as does the Biogra-
vh ical Dictionary of Living Authors, 1816. I need
nardly say that I cannot consider the insertion of
her name in the latter work as proof that she was
living at that period. S. Y. R.
[Mn. Mary Deverell was the daughter of a clothier,
redding near Minchin Hampton, in Glouceitershire. It
is stated in the European Magazine (iL 199) that *'thia
lady (in 1782) is unmarried, and la between forty and
fifty yean of age."]
Charade. — ^I should feel obliged to any of your
readers if they could communicate the answer of
the following Charade, which has been published
in Verses and Translations by C. S. C. [Calver-
ley]: —
** Evening threw soberer hue
Over the blue sky, and the few
Poplars that grew just in the view
Of the hall of Sir Hneo de Wjnkle :
' Answer me true,' pleaded Sir Hngli,
(Striving to woo no matter who,)
• What shall I do^ Lady, for you? '
Twill be done, ere vour eve may twinkle.
Shall 1 borrow the wand of a Moorish enchanter,
And bid a decanter contun the Levant, or
The brass from the face of a Mormonite ranter?
Shall I go for the mule of the Spanish In&nUr—
(That r, for the sake of the line, we must grant her>—
And race with the foul fiend, and beat in a canUr,
Like that first of equestrians Tam O'Shanter?
I talk not mere banter — say not that 1 can't, or
By this my>Jr»*— (a Virginian Planter
Sold it me to kill ratoV- I will die instanter.'
The lady bended her ivoiy neck, and
Whispered moumfhily, • Go fi)P— my seeotuL*
She said, and the redVrom Sir Hugh's cheek fied.
And ' Nav,' did ho say as he stalked away,
The fiercest of iniuied men :
' Twice have I humbled my haughty sonl,
And on bended knee I have pressed my jthoU^
Bat I never will press it again.' "
W. F. S.
Christ Choich, Oxford.
[We are indebted to a friend for the following response
inverse: —
"From • Sir Hugo de Wynkle '
1*11 borrow a wrinkle : —
When, for courtship inclined.
My dearest I find.
Perhaps reading Tuppcr
Half an hour before supper,
la an eiiy arm-chair by the fireside reclined.
My bandana, so brilliant with blu^ sreen, and red.
On the DRUGGET in due preparation I'll spread.
Then on both my knees drop,
Squeeze her fingers, and —pop I " j
SuTToii C!oLDriEZJ> : " Hzsit I V^ ?akt LT
Act IV. Sc. 2. — In sereral cditiooa of .SLak-
speare I find this town called ''Svtloo-Crjf^UIu.'
Will any reader inform me on wbat tmLssTctr
In the cbaxUn^ \graLU\w\ ^ Vm^'vii -uN*^.'iirV^
our county oiNNix^i^^^i^BVMt •jSS»^>w«**«^
380
NOTES AND QUERIES.
e.
[8^&y. Mat7,^
Colvyle, otherwiBe Sutton Coldefyld, othermae
Suttbn.*" J* Wethebell»
Middlesbro'-on-Tees.
[The town is called Sotton-Cop-hill on the anthoritj
of all early copies of Shakspeare. The more recent edi^
tors (Mr. Knight and Mr. Dyce excepted) alter the namii
to Sotton-Colfield.]
St. Andb£W*8, Holbohn. — ^Is there any account
of the monuments in the old church, many of
which were probably destroyed when it was pulled
down ? A monument was erected in it, about
1720, to a relative of mine. I can now find no
traces of it R. G. H. H.
[Some notices of the monuments in the old chorch of
St Andrew, Holbom, may be found in Strype*s Stow,
book iu. p. 248 ; Malcolm's LonOadyan, Redivhum, iL 226 ;
and the New VUw of London, 1708, L 115. The new
church was erected by Wren in the year 1686.]
De. Tkapp*s Translation of Milton. — I hav<^
lust received a translation of the Paradise Lost^
by Trapp, published mdcczli. I wish to know
whether there are any other translations by the
same author. I tiiink he published a version of
the Regained^ and Samson Agonistes also. Any
information will greatly oblige £. C.
[A chronological list of Dr. Joseph Trapp*s numerous
works, drawn up with great care, is given in Chalmers's
Biographical Dictionary, xxx. 18, where the only poem
by Milton translated by him is the ParadisuM Amissust
2 vols. 4to, 1740-4.1
Monograms or Paimtbbs. — Can any of your
readers inform me what painters used the two
following marks? The first is ^^^, which ap-
pears to be the initials of some name, composed
of L. P. and R. The second is formed thus, g .
The painter who uses this mark is supposed to
have lived in the reign of Henry VIII.
J. Dalton.
[The first monogram is that of Lucca Penni, bora at
Florence about 1600. After painting some pictures for
the churches at Lucca and Genoa, he visited England in
the reign of Henry VII L, and painted several pieces for
the king and others. The second is that of Lucas Corne-
lisz, called « the Cook,** an old Dutch painter, born at
Lcydeu in 1493. He visited England in the reign of
Henry VIII., and was made his majesty's painter. His
chief performances extant in England are at Penahurst.
For other notices of these artists, consult Walpole's
Anecdote of Painting, and Bryui's Dictionary of Painter*
and Engravers,']
\
THE NEWTON 8T0NE.
(S'^S.V. 110,245.)
As the Newton atone is of importaBoe in m
ethnological point of view, allow me to deftoi
myself from the Rev. B. H. Cowfbb*8 sevoe
attack.
He strangely states that I sappoae m medley of
five languages on the Newton atone. No sack
thing ; I distinctly say that the character is Aria,
and the language Hebraic, with Chaldaic adnii*
ture : one word being iu the ancient Sanseni
character, which also appears with Arian oo ow
and inscriptions foundt in Afghanistan —the »•
dent Ariana. As well say an Engiiah insof*
tion in Roman letters, with one wora in GenM
text, represented English, Latin, Greekt ^^bc"*
cian, and German, l^cause the letters maj k
traced into such connections. His remains m
unfair.
It is absurdly trifling to assert that I dtf
the order of the letters on the stone, slmplf b*
cause I write their equivalents from right tih(
as modem Hebrews do. Surelj Mr. Gokv
can scarcely mean to say that Hebraic as^
always were, and must be, written from if^^
iefl.
Mr. Cowpes should have ascertained theii^
ber of letters actually in the inscription be%R
he objected to my exceeding that number in tier
Hebrew equivalents. He does not know tha:. d
the forty- three letters .in the more correct copt
of the inscription, six are double ; thus accoontiflf
for the forty-nine in modern Hebrew letters.
Had Mr. Cowper been disposed to think wit^
out prejudice, he would have seen that ihton
could not have influenced me in a plain matter k
fact as to the character and value of the letten
on this stone. In giving their equivalents io
Hebrew letters, I did what scholars generallj
do. And I could not do better, since I sav
the inscription was in an oriental and a Semitic
character.
In giving the English letters, as any Hebraii^
would see, I did not mean to represent the pro-
nunciation of the Hebrew words, but only what
Hjppeared to me the value of the vowel marks la
the inscription. Had I desired to make good
Bible Hebrew of my transliteration, it could easily
have been done ; and that it was not done ooght
to weigh as evidence in my favour. Hebrew was
spoken in many dialects before the Bible was
written ; but those who from education and habit
interpret all Hebrew words in a theological and
conventional manner, are apt not to see without
their own coloured spectacles.
Vila. Oo-^Y^ii^ iV^tika my first word is not He*
-■ipi
S«S.V-Mat7,')B4.]
NOTES AND QUERIED
381
I
i
I
of similar consonants does mean n hill, mounds or
tumulus i and that anotbeff irom the satne root,
me&na a vaulL He ought, therefore, to bare
;iven me credit for an equal amount of know-
edge when 1 suggested turaulua, mound, or vault,
as the meaning of the word. There is a doubt
about the a at the end. The Arabic root h gahd
(H^l), gather together. H22^ is Chaldee for hill
of any kind; and this, with the 2i reads hegabeha,
aa^ 19 mound, in Job xiiL 12, though translated
bodj. The reference ia to the memorial of the
persons mentioned.
Mk. Cowper knows that "to liken," or "to
destroj," are secondary meanings of no"!, and that
*'to be silent and at rest'* ia the primary mean-
ing. Vaxto translates *n^DT, no doubt, justbe-
eause it means '* I produce silence and cessation
of activity." I do not warrant the grammar of the
Newton stone.
Every one who has heard of Beth-el, U aware
the heth meiifiH ** a house, a bome/^ Hebraists
also know that the yod^ in ri^3) i^ ^^^ sounded in
the construct state; and that the word, in the
plural at least, is written without the yod.
Zuik is the contraction of a word which I did
not inyent — I discovered it, I give Mr, Cowpeb
the benefit of my discovery.
I tranaUted Djra8<, and it reads very well ; but
proper names of this class are so common, that
there is no absurdity in supposing this may be
one- ** Father of a people " is not more awkward
than Ab-ram^ ** father of height"; or AbraAafn,
** father of a prreat multitude." Father as ho-
norary appellation of priest or prophet, is nothing
new,
Mb. Cowpee is perverse on the word npiy.
The n does not appear in my transliteration, be-
cause I did not see it in Dr. Wilson's engraving
of the stone ; but I knew the word was incom-
plete without it, and, therefore, I looked for it in n
more perfect copy of the inscription, and found it.
Ma. CowpEK will find the word as I render it
(Is. XIX. 14). JD and "D, fully written, make rniu ;
I and I may inform JSIa. Cowpeb that tbe n is only
[ indicated on the inscription by a mark on the i ;
( but I was bound to present the word in full,
I though I knew, as indeed the Arian letters showed,
^ that the n was silent.
Ma. Cow PER is right to read pi, as he was
taught ; but it does not follow that sculptors,
more than two thousand years ago, were equally
well taught. In Arian writing, the p and /A are
often intert^hanged in like case.
Pi certainly sigoifies, mouth of; but thst would
mean little^ if it clid not abo signify tliat which
proceeded from the mouth — us word, command,
doctrine, ^c,^- according to the occtti*ion implied.
^f " * : that Neathcr U Hebrew, Well,
this ! U unmistakably found in an-
r .-..u.^vx/i jcMx^r!? on the Xe^ytoQ sCone; and
my critic bad better account for that, before lie
cavils at the idea that it may be a proper name
fit for a Buddhist priest.
In the inscription the word imm (t^) >t so
written as to distinguish it from any other word
having the same letters. Ma. Cowpbe should not
trust to Gesenius alone. He ought to know tlie
word means a sacred vessel that could be deae*
crated by Bclshazzar as a wine-cup, (Ban. v. 2,
ill, 23.) Then the word S?DEJ% signifying abundance,
may agree with it. 1 complain tbat be has separated
the words, gratuitously, to make nonsense for me.
He finds ya;;*, in Deut. xxxiii. 9, where it meana
abundance. Let him read VCB'"]NO, "vessel of
abundance," if he pleases : what is tbat in plain
English but what I render the words — *' over-
flowing vessel" ?
Mb. Cowpeb complains that he gets, in the last
line, eleven Hebrew letters for nine in the inscrip-
tton< How does he know ? I can tell him that
there are two double letters, and so we get the
eleven. He my^joati means ** counsellors." Not
in this form, which expresses the infinite or ab-
stract idea of being apt to counsel ; properly in-
dicated by the word I employ in brief to represent
it — wisdom.
He also says, that nin» ** glory," applies only to
personal appearance. How then does it apply to
God Himself! The word is in Daniel x. 8; and
there is most untoward I y translated ** comeliness,"
though standing in contract with moral defilement.
My critic seems puzzled b^ my use of k to re-
present a^in — a letter not m our alphabet, I
have done what more learned men have done in
this cose.
He thinks all the words except one are Chal-
dalc or Hebraic, but not exactly as he would have
written them. The words graven on the Newton
stone were not intended for him, and all scholar-
ship does not lie in his line; but I value his
evidence.
He asserts that the inscription is Celtic, If so,
it is surprising that Celtic scholars cannot read it.
I am charged with having a theory. Why not?
But what has theory to do with reading this in-
scription ? The (luestion is, W^hat are the cha-
racters and what their powers ?
Three copies of the inscription lie before me,
but in the forms of four letters they do not quite
agree, J, therefore, wait for a photograph of the
stone ; on the receipt of which, 1 expect to he
able to demonstrate to any unprejudiced inquirer
the value of every letter and every word, And to
prove that the stone i.^ a Buddhist memorial.
I was not aware, when I hastily sent my re-
marks to *VN, & Q.," that there were tumuli in
the neighbourhood of the stone ; but the fact that
thcrtJ are so fjir sustains my wcilvara. xKiraX ^^ '*''^"
scriplion Vft au ci^vltn^V, ^ ^^vWX- vna.^ \i^^i^i^ '^
more so i^an au^iU ti\\v^% vsi %^xtfst^.
382
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[ap«s.v. iiAT7,ii
It is a recorded fact, that many thousands of
Buddhists were in the west, cir» 500 b.g. ; and,
therefoie, it is not impossible that many were in
Scotland at an early period. Buddhistic super-
stitions and symbols have prevailed there from
pre-historio times.
The Newton stone must have been erected
amidst people who could read the inscription on
it ; and I enga^ to prove, in due time, that the
diameters on it were familiar in north-western
India 500 b.c.
Alas ! Mb. Gowpxb was not able to appreciate
my poor book as some scholars have done: so
with perturbed spirit he flines it in my face, and
warns the readers of *' N. & Q." that 1 am not an
(Eklipus.
I am thankful to be respected, but sorry to be
distrusted by M&. Cowpbb. Not being personally
known to him, it is especially kind in him to
repeat that I am amiable. Does he mean thereby
to confirm his decision, that I am also a fool?
Such a mode of argument would be ihinatural in
a clergyman, and unbecoming in a scholar and a
eentleman. It may console him to know that on
first reading his remarks, however foolish, a strong
sense of indignation at the wanton subtilty of
their spirit made me feel anythinff but amiable.
If, as he suggests, I wished to glorify myself, I
oertainlv have adopted very unwise means to ac-
complish that end. As to my experience, it has
been long and large enough to teach me that some
ripe scholars are very crude rcasoncrs ; and that
many pass for learned, as poor rogues sometimes
pass for rich — by showing a handful of flash notes.
Though I think Me. Cowpee has been too hasty
in inflicting correction on me, I yet really thank
him for the useful lesson he has so cheaply given
me ; and I hope, ere long, to offer more work for
his kindly crah. G. Moore.
Hastings.
MESCHIXES.
(a** S. V. 310.)
Mr. Caret has come upon a place in English
g:cnealogy, which, having now been mentioned
m "N. & Q.," may, I hope, have some more
light thrown upon it. This is the pedigree of
Todeni. By the statement in Banks {Dormant
and Extinct Baronage^ vol. i. p. 182), it appears
that Robert de Todeni received the lordship of
Jiclvoir from William the Contiueror. " For what
reason,** says Banks, "William his successor as-
sumed a surname different from his father, does
not appear." He mentions, however, the conjec-
ture, that the new surname arose from William
de Todeni's greot devotion to St. Alban; and
says that —
•* This seems mopD probable, because he is often written
William deAiiany as well as WUliam de Albiai^ w\Uk VY\a
addition of Srtto^ as a contradiatinelioii to another gnSl
baron William de Albini, called Pmcama."
He then mentions that this William bad issaes
son and successor, who, besides Brito, was ala
called Meschines. Mr. Cakbt has pobited oit
that this surname of Meschines ^ do« not implj
any relationship with the £arl of Chester.** J^
inqniry is, what are the amw of the fanuly kusin
as De Todeni, De Belvoir, Df Albini ?
Dr. Wright, in his editi^of Heylyn, sajs (p.
548), that he had inspected'^ a fine copy of Do^
dale*s Baronage which is in the library of Cti»
College, Cambridge, in which the arms are aon-
rately delineated m their proper colours;** and ^
this he corrects his list of the arms of tibe E^^lia
barons. In his corrected list (p. 549), he gin
to Todeni, gu. an eagle displayed within a bar
dure argent. Albini, or, two chewronels witUs a
bordure gu., and other Albini coats whiclia
not to my purpose. Banks givea to Todev ^
anl eagle oisplayed within a bordure arpst
Gruillim (ed. 1660, first issue), in the sU^^'
Villiers, Duke of Buckingham (p. 435), p^.
topaz, two chevrons, and a border ruby to Tx^
but ; having given the quarter immediately f^
ceding, ^'saphire, a Catheme wheele topa^'n^
out assigning any name. My copy of Gniiir^
in an old mind, the name Behxrir addei * ^
^' Gath^rne wheele*' coat; and Gibbon, in hai*^
duetio ad Latinam Bkuoniam (1682) alit P^
this coat to Belvoir, (p. 135). Nati£m ilj^^.
(1724), among the quarterings of the Dike «'
Rutland, gives the Catherine wheel cost, vi
assigns it to Belvoir. It also assigns the two ckv^
rons and a bordure to Trusbut.
All the authorities which I have cited, era
Guillim, are at best second-hand, and merely f^
an opinion. It might be hoped that at Uadika.
for instance, all might be cleared up. Bobert ^
Boos, great-grandson of Everard de Rocs v^
Kose Trusbut^ died in 1285. He had married
Isabel de Albini de Belvoir, heiress of her hou»
In the reign of Edward IV., Sir Robert 3rftt-
ners married Eleanor de Roos : and Sir Johi
Manners, second son of Thomas, first Earl of
Rutland, married Dorothy Vernon of Haddoa,
who died in 1584. They, Sir John Manners isd
Dorothy Vernon, were grandfather and graod-
mother to John, the eighth Earl, in whose line tbf
peerage continued. She was heiress of HadJoo,
and brought it into the family of Rutland.
In the great gallery at Iladdon, the first winJov
on the right as you enter from the staircase shovs^
in glass, a large shield surrounded by renaissance
scrolling. Below the shield is the date 1589. It
is per pale, baron and fcnmie. The baron side
has sixteen coats, 4, 4, 4, 4: 1. Manners; 3.De
Roos ; 3. Espec, gu. three Catherine wheels sr-
gent; 4. Axure, a Catherine wheel or. Then
\ ioVlow >^T^\i \j^^« ^ima to— 15. Gn^ •■ esgle
8««aT. Mat 7, •640
NOTES AND QUERIES.
383
displayed within a bordure argeot, which is the
coat given to Todeni ; 16. Argent, two chevrons,
and a bordure gu., which is given to Albini and to
Trusbut. The femme is Vernon, with quartainffs.
The same Manners* quarterings are repeated in Uie
centre window of the gallery. They do not seem to
me to answer my inquiry. Duplicate coats can
scarcely be called uncommon. Husse^ had two,
piven quarter! jY 18 an example, by Guillim ; Mo-
lyns had two ; Wtreaux had two. None of them
being, as far as I know, what are now called coats
of augmentation. It is possible and probable that
the family which was De Todeni originally, De
Albini by devotion, De Belvoir by territorial title,
used two. But whence comes the confusion, if it
is a confusion, between De Albini and Trusbut ?
According to the modern theory of marshalling,
Trusbut certainly ought to stand where the single
Catherine wheel does stand in the windows at
Haddon. But why do the coats assigned to De
Todeni and De Albini stand 15 and 16 afler other
coats which came in before them P I have long
thought that the exact arrangement of quarter-
ings, which has been practbed for more than two
hundred years, is not always to be found in quar-
tered shields of an earlier date.
Guillim indeed gives examples of coats mar-
shalled quarterly. But it will be seen by anyone
who consults him for rules of marshalling coats of
successive matches by the heirs, that he gives very
little guidance, and leaves the manner of arrange-
ment almost untouched. Having given his own
paternal coat, impaling as femme Hatheway, he
says, " the heir of these two inheritors shall bear
these two hereditary coats of his father and
mother to himself and his heirs quarterly ; " and
gives a second shield with Guillim first and fourth,
Ilatheway second and third. But he says nothing
against any arbitrary arrangement of quarterings.
I hope that some of the able geneiuogists and
heralds who read " N. & Q." will not think it lost
time to give their attention to the inquiry which I
have brought to their notice. D. P.
Stuarts Lodge, Malvern Wells.
Wolfe, Gardener to IIewrt VIII. (3'** S. v.
194.) — I regret that I cannot afford S. Y. R. any
information respecting Wolfe, gardener to Henry
VIII., beyond what is contained in the following
passage of Hackluyt (Collection of Voyages, ^,f,
vol. ii. p. 165, ed. 1599, which, however, answers
one of his queries : —
** Anil in time cf memory things hane bene broaght In
that were not here beibre,* as the Damaske rose by Doc-
toar Liuaker, King Henrv the Seuenth and King Henrie
the Eight's Physician ; the Turky cocks and hennes about
fifty yeres past ; the Artichowe in time of King Henry the
Eight ; and of later time was procured out of Italy the
Mu8k« rote plant; the plamme called the Perdigwoia,
and two kindas more by the Lord Ciomwell aftor his
trauell ; and the Abricot by a Frsoch Priest, one Wolfe*
Gardener to ELing Heiuy the Eight"
Aixnr iBTnn.
Fivemlletown, co. Tyrone,
Miss Livbbmobe (8^S. t.35.) — I met Miss
Livermore in July, 1862, when on her way from
Jerusalem to the United States, where she la still
residing, or was a few months ago.
This aged lady certainly went to Jerusalem on
four dififerent occasions ; and remained, indading
all her visits, for several years. Whether Miss
Livermore was successful in convertine the Jews,
the only object of her mission, I am^ inaeed unable
to say ; but Ljelius could very pc«siblv obtun thu
information by communicating with tne bishop of
the Protestant church in Jerusalem, who always
assisted this venerable lady in the hours of her
trial when living in that city — a kindness she has
firequentljr mentioned.
Miss Livermore is descended from an old and
hkhlv respectable family in Massachusetts ; but
whether her grandfather held the high position,
or obtained the distinguished honours mentioned
by your correspondent^ I cannot certainly answer,
though I think it is true. A Bostoniak.
TuoMAs Shakspeabe (3^ S. v. 339.) — The
Shakspeare Bond here given is certainly curious
and interesting as connected with one who was,
in all probability, a relative of the poet ; but Tonr
contrioutor is not correct in believmg, as he does,
this Thomas Shakspeare, of Lutterworth, to be
" a Shakspeare who has hitherto escaped the in-
dustry of Shakspearian investigators. As fkr
back as the year 1851 I discovered, amongst the
MSS. of this borough, a letter addressed, in the
summer of 1611, by certain leadin^r inhabitants of
Lutterworth, to the mayor of Leicester, respect-
ing the plaeue, which was then very prevalent
here. The letter (which, amongst other things,
records the fact of a Leicester man having been
turned out of his lod^ngs to die in the fields of
the plague,) bears tli^ signatures of five of the
leading inhabitants of Lutterworth, ** Thomas
Shakespeare '* standing at the head, and it is coun-
termarked by the two constables of the town.
The discovery was mentioned in the same year
in a paper on the " Ancient Records of Leicester,"
which 1 read before our local Literarpr and Philo-
sophical Society ; and which was printed in the
volume of the Society's Transactions in 1855.
The fact was also communicated to Mr. Halliwell
at the time.
This Thomas Shakspeare is noticed in a volume
ot Shakspeariana which I have in the press, and
which was announced in your advertising columns
of last week. William Kellt.
Leicester.
Judicial CoMuvrtv^v. ^t ^"kw^ ^q.\s^c\.\* V^
384
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8^&y. Mat 7,1m.
somewhat incorrectlj stated the law and the facts,
when he sajrs, ** all the cases come under the same
Acts of Parliament, by which bishops are dis-
tinctly added to the Committee in cases of heresj,**
and that the rectification of this error will an-
swer hb query.
The fint Act of Parliament, in recent years,
entrusting the Judicial Committee with jurisdic-
tion in ecclesiastical cases, was the Act consti-
tuting that Committee in 1833.
Ecclesiastical cases were not specifically men-
tioned, and only passed under that jurisdiction
along with others; and it has been stated by
Lord Brougham, the author of the Act, Uiat it
was, per incuriam, that cases of doctrine were
allowed to come before that new tribunal.
In 1840, Parliament seems to haye felt that it
was rather too great a change from the ancient
law, which lefl the decision of doctrinal matters
wholly to spiritual persons, to one which wholly
excluded them ; and, in tinker-like fashion, pro-
ccKeded to cobble the Act by adding to the Com-
mittee certain prelates ; but only to the members
of the said body when the cases arose under the
same Act which so added them — commonly called
the Church Discipline Act of 1840.
The Grorham case did not arise under that Act,
but was prosecuted by the Bishop of Exeter from
his own Diocesan Court through the Court of
Arches. The prelates, therefore, could not sit as
members of the tribunal; but of course, being
Priyy Councillors, they might be allowed to sit
extra-legally as assessors " by direction of Iler
Majesty."
The other cases arose under the Act of 1840.
For all the above, see Joyce's Ecclesia Vindi^
caia, pp. 23—27, 59, 74—80, 81—85.
Ltttelton.
MoniBR Goose (3'* S. v. 331.) — The Oxford
" Mother Groose " was an old woman, who sat by
the " Star Inn " in the Corn Market, and sold
nosegays from a basket in her lap. Her lineaments
haye been abundantly preserved for posterity in
at least three engravings— 1. Folio, coloured by
Dighton; 2. Folio, three qrs. bv Cardon, with the
inscription " Ob. set. 81 ; ^' 3. FuU-lenjjth, small
8vo, engraved by " T. W., Oxon," published in
The Young Travellers ; or, a Visit to Oxford^ by a
Lady, 1818, in which a very brief account of
Mother Croose is also given. In the " Advertise-
ment" to the work, it sjveaksof **a little work
which it is in contemplation shortly to publish,"
which was to "contain correct likenesses of the
curious characters here referred to, with some
biographical or other accounts of them." The
plate of Mother Goose is given as a specimen of
those that would accompany the forthcoming
yolumc. Querv, Was it ever published ?
Concerning the " Mother Goose " of pantomime,
an'anecdote will be found in the Illustrated News
of this day (April 16, 1864), at p. 867, under the
heading of " The late Mr. T. P. Cooke.** But a
full account of its production at Covent Garden
Theatre, Dec. 26, 1806, and its iaunediAte popula-
rity and run of ninety-two nights will be found in
chap. xii. of the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi,
edited by Boz. Cuthbbkt Bide.
CouBBBTi (3'* S. y. 300.)— Thomas Q. Couch
will find a very interesting accoont of the Cofii-
berts in Histoire des Races MMSles de la France
etde VEspagne^ tome ii.p. 1, by Franciaque Michel,
1847. A very clear abstract from M. MicheVs
work is given by A. Cheruel in his I>ictMmMiire
Historique des Institutions, Mceurs et Ctmbates de
la France. Paris, 1855, vol. i. p. 1 73 : —
*' CoUiberts, — The word collibert has heen undentooii
in several ways : in the Middle Ages it denoted a class of
serft also called cuvert$. At present the appeUatioii of
eoUibert is given to certain inhabitants of Atmis and Bis-
Poitou. *The Colliberts,' says M. Gudrard (^FroUffomeus
du Carlulaire de Saint Fere de ChartrtSf § 82), * may be
classed either in the lowest rank of freemen, or at the
head of those bound by serfdom. Whether their nsiat
signifies free from, the yoke, free-nccAeei — according to IX
Muley's definition— or to denote the freed men of a patroe.
as Du Gangs has it, it is not the less certain that tk
CoUiberts were deprived in some measure of liberty. Tbe
son of a Ck>Ilibert remained a Collibert whatever duii^f
might happen to the person, tenure, goods, or positiot^
his family. CoUiberts were also sold, given, or 0*
changed like serfs. Thibaut, Comte de Chartres, nuk k
donation in 1080 to the Abbey of St. P^re de Chartrei ^
several colliberts, with the condition that the mnb
should sing a psalm for him every day of the year, exce^
feast days. CoUiberts were, therefore, bound by serfUoni-
Their position appears to have borne a great analogy to
that of the ancient coloni.
** A council of Boarges, held in 1031, excluded thex
from the priesthood. Some writers think that ther were
strangers or the descendants of foreigners, and in this see
the reason of their inferior condition. Hence the taxes
laid on them, and the right of mortmain which affected
their inheritance. Probably the colliberts of our days
are the successors of these oppressed classes. The fact U
that in the part of Poitou known as * Le Marais,' there
are still miserable districts, whose inhabitants are fisher-
men, and known as CoUiberts or Ca^t*."*
The colliberts seem to have fraternised with the
Protestant party, especially at the time of the
battle of Jarnac. Persons called Colliberts in-
habit the arrondissemcnt of St. Jean d*AngeIy, St.
Eutrope (arrondissement de Barbezieux, canton
de Montmorcau), and many other places.
W. H. P.
CuAPERON, Ceiapebone (3"* S. V. 280, 312.) —
One of your correspondents wishes the " British
public" to be authoritatively informed that the
word chaperon *^ does not assume a feminine form
when applied to a matron protecting an unmarried
girl ; " and also complains that ** almost all our
authors, especially our novelists, write the word
*chaperonc' when used metaphorically.** This
newer form, chaperone, is termed by another of
your correspondents, " an ignorant barharism.**
8^ S. V. Mat 7, "Si.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
»»
The French word is unqnestionablj aftsuming
amongst us the form ehaperone ; and chapenmt^ as
applied to a matron, has of necessity become femi-
nine ; but I reallj can see nothing in this to make
any man bilious. The case stands thus : — French
words ending in om, when, with or without change
of meaning, they find a place in our language, ex-
perience various treatment. JMany retain thdr
French spelling unaltered, as cordon. Many
change the termmal an into oon^ as in the case of
pontojL, pontoon. Some, however, change on into
one. Such are bttryton, semiton, pompon^ chaperon.
Exactly as baryton and semiton have in English
long been barytone and semitone^ exactly as pom-
pon has more recently become pompone^ so chape-
ron is gradually becoming ehaperone. And wnat
harm? The word is merely passing into our
language, as other words have passed before it,
and is undergoing, in the transit, just the same
process of naturalisation.
Words which we find it convenient to adopt
from the French often retain for a time what is
meant to be their French pronunciation, but ulti-
mately become Anglicised. When this occurs,
the spelling frequenUj changes with the pronun-
ciation. In our English pronouncing Dictionaries
chaperon^ viewed as French, stands in all its
beauty, "shap'-er-ong" I Now " shap'-er-ong,"
in the lips of an Englishman who knows he cannot
speak French, either is mumbled, or produces
horrible contortions ; while in the lips of an Eng-
lishman who fancies he can speak Trench, it is
often that kind of French which makes a French-
man say, "Pla!t-il?'' What is the practical in-
ference ? French for the French, English for the
English. No bad riddance, surely, to get quit of
"shap'-er-ong." So let us give the yvord ehaperone
a civil welcome, and not call it " an ignorant bar-
barism." Moreover, when (** metaphorically," as
your correspondent says, but in plain English, as
I should say) we apply the term in its ordinary
acceptation to a matron who is kind enough to
take under her wing an unprotected spinster, the
ehaperone must still be " she," not " he," or the
penalty of doing gooseberry would be too great.
SCHIN.
Witches in Lancaster Castle (3"* S. v.
259.)— According to Mr. Crossley's Introduction
to Pott's Discovery of Witchet (Chetham Society),
seventeen convicted witches were pardoned by
Charles I. in 1633.
At the autumn assizes, in 1C36, we learn from
the Farington Papers (Chetham Society), that
the following witches were prisoners in Lancaster
Castle. Those to whom an asterisk is prefixed
were amongst the convicts of 1633 : Robert Wil-
kinson ; Jennett, his wife ; Marie Shuttleworth ;
*Jennett Device; ♦ Alice Priestley ; Jennett
Cronkffhawe; Marie Spencer; * Jennett Har-
greaves; •Frances
Sterne.
Can what Mr. Cronlcy caiHt % ;ar&n &««*»
been a commutation in boom; chu to a ^m la^
prisonment ? p. K
WHiruLTSE (2"^ S. T. 24, 23S: vL u, 5T.> —
li F. C. H. in right suggesting, ** Aii bmc z^ 'ih^t
hollv,the only English tree not previovsly a«aK<i * ?
" Hirilm** is thus intenpreted in HaUi««t7i i>»C'
thnary^ — " the holly. Some apply the Verm v> t&«
evergreen oak, but this is an error.** H. F. X,
observes, that the hornbeam, and A. Holt Wwrrx
that the crab, is not named by the poet. So Ur
each is correct. But Ms. White asserts tbat
^ the ash is the only indigenous poplar." Is Hkt
ash a poplar at all ? Ybtax Rhkgsd.
The Ballot: "^ Thxee Blue Beans/' rc.
(S^ S. ▼. 297.)— Whether the uncouth expression
** Putting three blue beans into a blue bag will
not purify the constitution,** be Burke's or any
other writer's, they are evidently an adaptation of
a nursery puzzle of difficult articulation, —
** Three blue beans in a bine bladder ;
Rattle blue beans in a bine bladder;
Rattle, bUdder, rattle.*'
T.C.
Dnrham.
Map or Roman Bbitain (y* S. y. 196.) — ^The
astronomer royal, Mr. Airy, has given a map of
part of Sussex, in the ArcheaologiaXlSSi) to illus-
trate his view of Csesar's invasions of Bntain ; so,
also, has Mr. Dunkin of the whole of Kent, in
part XLi. of the Archaolagieal Mine. The latter
map attempts to show, for the first time, Ciesar's
marches in Britain, and also the alteration the
coast line has imdergone in eighteen hundred
years. A.
George Augustus Adderlet (3'' S. v. 297.) —
The only Greorge Adderley in the Amnf List of
1792 is Ensign Greorge Adderley; appointed to
the 63rd (or Uie West Suffolk) Regiment of Foot
the 30th Sept. 1790. I know nothing further
about him. O. H. P.
Passage in "Tom Jokes •* (S'* S. v. 193.) —
The following extract, from Hatcher's Salisbury
(p. 602), will answer the query of your corre-
spondent J. S. as to the meaning of the passage
alluded to: —
« It is well known that Fielding, the novelist, married
a lady of Salisbury named Craddock, and was for a time
a resident in oar city. From tradition we learn, that he
fint occupied the house in the close, on the south side of
St. Ann's Gate. He afterwards removed to that in St.
Ann's Street, next to the Friary; knd finally established
himself in the mansion at the foot of Milford Hill, where
he wrote a considerable part of Tom Jones. We need not
obseirve that the scene is laid in the neighbourhood, and
that a few of the incidents are related as happening at '
Salisbury'. Some of the characters are idenUfied with
persons 'living here at the time : — Thwackum is said
386
NOTES AND QUERIES.
CS^&Y. ]UT7.<li
to htcvt been drawn for Mr. Hele, master of the Close
School; Square the philosopher, for Chubb the Deist;
And Dowling the lawyer, for a person named Stillingflect,
who exercised that profession. The ' Golden Lion/ where
the ghost scene was acted, was a well-known inn at the
comer of the Market Place and Winchester Street, where
many a merry prank waa pla}*ed; and the peraon who
sustained this put was Donghty, one of the Serjeants at
Mace."
A. B. IMlDDLETON.
The Close, Salisbury.
SoSfG : " Is IT TO TRT ME ? " (3'*» S. V. 241.) —
** When we have lost the power to do f^ntt services to
<me*s fellow creatures, one may at least do good-natured
trifles."— Walter Scott.
The annexed song is copied from a lady^s MS.
music book. She once heard Edmund Kean sing
it with great taste. If the music also be re<|uired
by F. F. C, the writer of this will forward it: —
" Is it to try me
That you thus fly me ?
Will you deny me
Day after da^ ?
Have you no feeling
While'l'in thus kneeling,
With looks revealing
All I can say ?
Or do yon believe I'd lead you astray?
^ Is it to try me
That you thus fly me?
Will jvou deny me
6ay after day ?
" Should I believe thee.
You might deceive me,
And that would grieve mo
Kver and aye.
Men are beguiling
Oft while they're smiling,
Tast reconciling.
Day after doy.
Maids should beware what lovers say.
Should I belic-ve thee
You might deceive me,
And that would grieve mo
Kver and aye."
A.L.
" Here lies Fred," etc. (3'* S. r. 254.) —
Professor Smyth road his lectures from separate
sheets of paper. This allowed alterations ; and I
often saw him take a scrap (always neatly folded)
from his pocket, and return it when read. It is
likely that many such have been Ioi>t. I do not
remember his readin^^ the French epigram, but it
probably was the following : —
** Colas est mort de inaladie :
T^i veux que j'wi |»laignc le sort
Qun diable veux-tu qu*.* jVu dii»?
CoIa*t vivoit, Colas cbt niort."
Lta KiiiQrammea dt Jtrtw Oijier Gomhavldy
i:p. I. VI. p. ;V2, I'aris, 12», 1008.
n. B. c.
U. V. Cluk
"Century of Inventions" (3"» S. v. 155.)—
In the Free Library, at the Patent Office, are the
following editions:—!. London, T. Payne, 1746;
2. Glasgow, R. and A. Foulia, 1767; 3. London,
J. Adlvd, 1813; 4. Buddie's edit., KewcasUe,
S. Hodgson, 1813 ; 5. Partington*! edit^ LoodoBi
J. Morraj, 1825. A. G. W.
JOHR YOUNQB, ^LA., OT PsMBmOKX HaU,
CAMnniDGE (2*^ S. xii. 191.) — Query, if rdated to
R. Tounge, of Roxwell, in Essex f 1 shall be elsd
to obtain any particulars of the family or lire of
this author. Between 1638 and 1666 he wrote
and published several Yolnminous and valuabU
works, besides many tracts, all on religioas and
moral subjects. I have nearly ybrfy of these ia
my possession, and may indicate Sinne SHgwm'
tized; or the Dnmkard^s Character^ &c. ; A Cantir-
poyton^ or Soverain Antidote against all Orii/e,
&c. ; The Cure of Mispr'ution^ &c. &c. On loae
of the title-pages he calls himself R. Younge. The
e is sometimes omitted. At other times R. Jvf
nius. Frequently after the name is added *'oc
Roxwell, in Fssex ; " and occasionally the wods
are said to be " by Rich. Young, of Roxwd^e
Essex, Florilegus.** A few of hi^ tracts are in u
Bodleian, and some were sold in Blisses collects
I have failed to trace them elsewhere. Ifjw
space admitted, I could give, from his now iSr
gotten works, some statements of hlstoriciffl^
dence as to London, before and at the tioK i
the Plague and the Fire.
Thomas Young, of Staple Inne, author ofEtf
lan^n Bane; or, the Description of J[>runkenaaK,
4to, London, 1617. Was he related to the aborc
R. Young? W. Lei.
American Authors (3'' S. v. 96.) — Jonas E
Phillips, the author of CamiUus, is a native of the
city of Philadelphia, where he was bom in Oe*
tober, 1805. At :i very early age, he exhibited
his talents as a dramatic author. A drama, writp
ten by him at the age ot* fourteen, entitled the
Heiress of SidtmiOf or, the Rose of the AfoKOSttnf^
having been very successfully pro<luced at one of
the Philadelphia theatres. In 18*26, Mr. Phillips
was admitted to the bar of that city, and removed
to New York in 1830. Here he commenced the
practice of law, and here he wrote his maiden
tragedy of Camillns for Mr. Harris G. Pearson, s
rising young American actor; who produced it
at the Arch Street theatre, in Philadelphia. It
was triumphantly successful, and was subsenuently
performed in all the leading theatres in the United
States.
Mr. Phillips is probably one of the most suc-
cessful and popular dramatic authors of America.
Among other pro<luction.<4 of his, we may notice
Oranaska, an Indian trajredy; The Evil Eye;
The Pirate Boy, an opera founded on one of Mar*
ryat*s novels; Paul Clifford: Ten Years of a
Seaman s Life ; Guy liivers ; and, if space were
allowed, I could name many more.
SfAaY. Vat7,*84.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
387
Mr. Phillips is also the adapter of the libretto of
the Poxtilion of LongjumeaiL, successfuUj produced
at the Park Theatre by Miss Sheriff, Mr. Wilson,
and Mr. Seguin ; and recently revived by Miss
JEtiching*s at Niblo's, in this city. He has also con-
tributed liberally to tlie literature of his country
in various other departments of hetles iettret^ and
lias filled with ability for many ^ears the office of
assistant-district attorney. I^ is now one of the
most popular and esteemed practitioners at the
bar of this city, ranking among the ablest criminal
lawyers of the country. G. C.
New York.
Miscellanea Cttuosa (3'* S. v. 282.) — The
original work of this name is a celebrated collec-
tion of papers extracted from the Philosophical
Transactions, containing writings of Newton, Hal-
ley, Hooke, De Moivre, &c. It is common enough,
and easily picked up. My set, which, as so often
happens with books of that period, is made up
from diiferent editions, has vol. i. 3rd ed. 1726 ;
vol. ii. 1723; vol. iiL 2nd ed. 1727. I have a
note of the Misc, Cur, of York, 1734-35, which
must be that of Turner, mentioned by your cor-
respondent, but I think his name is not given. It
is in six numbers ; and six numbers of Turner^s
^Mathematical Exercises, London, 1750, is no doubt
the same work with a new title-page. The Misc.
ScieiUif, Cur. has been alluded to in speaking of
Reuben Burrow. There remains the Misc. Cur.
Mathem., commenced in 1749, under the editor-
ship of Francis HoUiday, the translator of Stir-
ling's work on Series. This translation was in-
tended for the MisceUany, in which Holliday
had commenced a translation of Brook Taylor's
Methodus Incrententorum, which was never fimshed.
This Miscellany got as far as page 186 of a
second volume; about thirty more pages were
printed, but not issued; they are bound up in
what I suppose to have been Holliday's copy, with
an explanatory note by Hutton, into whose hands
the copy came. This repetition of titles was a
very bad practice. Many persons who would
perhaps have bought these Miscellanies out of
catalogues, must have passed them over with a
glance, thinking they were copies of the collection
which heads this article. A. De Morgan.
Horses frightktveb at the Sight of a Cabiel
(2»* S. viil. 354, 406 ; 3'*» S. i. 459, 496.)— Mention
is made of horses being frightened at the sight of
strange animals — as camels. I know not whether
the fact is worthy of insertion in " N. & Q.," but
on two occasions this antipathy has been forced
on my observation. A few years ago, with my
wife, I was driving, down a steep hiU in Derby-
shire, a horse belonging to her father, when we
met a lone train of WombwelPs menagerie. The
third or Surth caravan was being tugged up the
hill by a huge dromedary ; which put our steed
j into so great trepidation that I became fearful of
: a serious accident. Happily I got down to his
■ assbtance ; for the eighth carriage was drawn by
j the great elephant, who so completed ** Jack's^
I consternation, that every limb auivered ; and I
j believe he would have fallen, if I had not stood in
i front and clasped his head in my arms. When
i the cavalcade (if the word be admissible) had
passed, my poor horse was steaming with ^fearful
perspiration. About a fortnight aflerwud, we
again met the same ** collection of wild beasts,**
on another road in the same neighbourhood. It
was " spring time,'' and I had observed '* Jack,**
the day before, nibbling the young buds of the
hedge-row in his pasture : so now, before he had
time to discover the approaching horror, I quietly
turned him with his nose and month to the road
side hedge; upon which he regaled himself, to
the absorption of all other faculties, until we could
again proceed without fear. W. Lee.
Carter Lane Chapel, or ^ Meeting-house,"
LoHDOH (3^* S. iv. 231.) — This building ntuned
in reply to " Lines on London Dissenting Minis-
ters,*' no longer exists. The congregation having
removed to Islington, Middlesex, where they
occupy the magnificent new Unitarian church,
called " The Church of the Divine Unity," or
** Unity Church," in the Upper Street. All the
records of old Carter Lane, as well as the founda-
tion stone of that puritan edifice, are now pre-
served at Islington. S. Jackson.
Welsh Burial Offerings (3"* S. y. 296.) —
Are these ofierings for the clergyman ? I have
been told that in cases of poverty, they go to the
deceased's family; that attendance at a Welsh
funeral is voluntary, and not by invitation only;
that every one puts something in the plate, and
that thus a nice little sum is sometimes handed
to the survivors. Tliis is a far prettier story than
its going to the clergyman. Query, Which is the
true one P ^» P-
London Smoke and London Light (3^ S. v.
259.) — I have a note amongst my collections that
sailors coming from distant voyages can distin-
j guish waves of London smoke in the sky thirty
miles from the mouth of the Thames.
Alfred John Dunkin.
Authors of Hymns (3^- S. v. 280, 312.)-" The
Sheltering Vine " was compiled by the Countess
of Northesk, Georgiana- Maria, daughter of Rear-
Admiral the Hon. George Elliot. W. H. P.
I have not been able to find the lines "Thou
God of love " in my copy of" The Sheltering Vine."
Moreover, it is compiled by Lady Northesk not
Southesk. P. P.
"Vert Peacock:" "Hamlet," Act IIL (3^*
S. y. 232.) — A. A. is perhaps right in surmisin«T
that the passage is corru^V CWasst ^Mnsas«siNa^»^'«'
388
NOTES AND QUJJRIES.
19^S.Y.Uat',%L
have been of the same opinion. The reading of
the old copies is paiock or paiocke. Peacock was
first introduced by Pope. Paddock, which A. A.
would now suggest as likely, was put forward
early in the last century by Theobald ; but this
conjecture of his has not found favour with com-
mentators in general, and I think that there are
valid reasons fbr preferring Pope's peacock.
Hamlet, elated with the success of his play,
wherein he has caught the conscience of the King,
bursts out into a random rhyme : —
" Why let the stricken deer go weep.
The hart ungalled nUy :
For some must walk, wiiile some must sleeps
Thus nins the world away."
And presently afterwards he rattles on with ano-
ther strain of the same kind : —
** For thoa dost know, 0 Damon dear,
This realm dismantled was
Of Jove himself, and now reigns here
A very, very— ass."
When he comes to the last word, the unseemli-
ness of it strikes him at once, and he substitutes
for it another, which, while it breaks the metre,
expresses in a less offensive manner his disgust at
the hollow grandeur of the new king —
^ "A very, rery—peaeock ! *'
Horatio intimates to Hamlet that he would have
been warranted in retaining the rhyming word,
but, instead of following up the train of thought,
Hamlet, in a more serious tone, adverts to the
confirmation of his suspicions ; but all nt once,
while touching upon the talk of poisoning, he checks
himiself, and abruptly calls for music, turning off
in his former tone of levity —
" For if the kinp like not the comedy,
Why, then, belike— he likes it not, perdy."
If T have correctly caught what was passing in
Hara1et\s mind, it will be seen that the word pad-
dock, aq intended to convey a charge of poisoning,
would have been out of place. Meletes.
The Passing Bell of St. Sepulchre's (3^* S.
V. 170, 331.)— In the last part (23rd) of Mr. Col-
lier's privately-printed lUmtrations of Early Eng-
Ush Popular Literature, Kichard Johnson's " The
Pleasant Walks of Moore- fields," occurs the follow-
ing passage : —
"Citizen lotptitur. (Afker enumerating many of the
charitable actions of the worthy citizens, he proceeds,
p. 3U.) There is now living one Master Dove, a Mar-
chnnt-tavlor, having many years, considering this olde
proverb,* hath therefore established in his life time to
twelve ftgpd men, Marchant-taylors, C poundrt 2 {.hillings
to each yearly for ever ; he hath also given them gownes
of good brude cloth, lined throughout with bayes ; and
' "Women be forgetfull, children be unkinde.
Executors covetous, and take what thev find ;
If anyone aske where the legacies became?
They anawer^ So God heipe me, he died a poore man.*»
are to receive at everie three yms* end the lin
gownes for ever. He likewise, in ebaritie, at Saint Seni-
chre*8 Charch without Newgate, allowes y great bdl •
every execution day to be tolled^ till the condemnriya.
soners have suffered death ; and also a amall hand-wl a
be rung at midnight under Newgate, the night after tMc
condemnation, and the next morning at the dioRh vilL
with a prayer to be sayd teaching their aalvatioo; ni
for the maintaining thereof, he hath given to Saint Se-
palchre*B a certaine summe of money for evec"
In the extract from the City PrtMM^ at n. ITa
the worthy citizen's name is ^ Dowe ;** in the ex-
tract from Stow*s London *^ Done ; ** whikt Joh>
son calls him '*Dove.** Which is right? Tk
donor was living when Johnson wrote, IfiX.
Could he have made an error in the name. orb
Munday ? It must not be charged on Stov, vi'
died in 1605, thirteen years before the pabli»
tion, and in the year of the bequest. What iitk
authority for " Dowe " in the City Press notiee*
JaMSS BllBtt
Albion House, Pont-y-Poo1.
TiMOTHT Plais (3"* S, ▼. 298.) — The realm
of this author was Stewart Threipland, an iJ^
cate at the Scottish bar. T. G.i
Edinburgh.
Salmaguitoi (S^ S. v. 822.) — Loo X»^
TELTON quotes Johi^n, that SidTnagwtS's^
rupted from sehm man gout, or sale a masfJL I
fancy a more plausible derivation, considen^ >f
things — especially culinary — misht be «i£nCW
or a la Conde, You may leave the why andwte^
fore to anybody who has seen many Frencktfj
of fare. H. Gms-
Arundel Club.
Ensign W. A. Sutderland (3'** S. ▼. 322.)-
William Alexander Sutherland wns appoiov^
Ensign by purchase, in the 78th Ili^rhlanoenLA
^larch 22, 1833, and joined the depot in 0
weeks from that date. The depot was then qBl^
tered in Scotland, and Ensign Sutherland new
joined the service companies which were tb(t
stationed at Ceylon.
On August 29, 1834, Ensign Gillei^pie, on hiU^
pay of the 89tk Regiment, was appointed eo^
m the 78th Highlanders, "Vice Sutherland ;** bit
no statement was made as to what had becooc
of Ensign Sutherland, nor did the name of thit
officer appear in the Army List for October or
November, 1834, in the lists of officers who bad
retired, resigned, died, or been dismis8e<]. Hov*
ever, at p. 6G0 of the Annual Army List for 1835,
the name of Ensign Sutherland of the 78th Regi-
ment appears in the list of deceased officers. I
am certam that if your correspondent. Ma. Mac*
KAT, will apply to Captain J. W. Collins, I'nios
Club, Trafalgar Square, London, he will obcaia
full information respecting the fate of Ensign
Sutherland, as Captain Collins served as sn eniign
^r* S. V. May 7, '64.]
NOTES AJTD QUERI
the 78th Highlanders^ and was attached to ihst
pot companies at lh« «iuiie time that Ensign
tttlierland belonged to the corps, and uerved with
J de[»ot. Zeites Altebt,
"Taor ABT jAiui mrro li^e, as the Dcvii.
_tiD TO THE Colubr'* (S'^S* V* 282.)— Rttj, in his
^u^/tf cf ion of Provtrbi^ has :
' Like wUi 10 like (<ii ifae Duvil Mid to the ColHer).
tt te the 8eai»b*d Siiuirc laid to th*? inaiipty Knight,
hen they both met la a Ji«h of buttered Dab."
W. I. S. HORTOH.
COBSSCX : A»BOJfIll88J6MBHT OF DrNAJC. — In the
otke upim "Dlnan" (3"* S. v. 273. 275), the name
' A place-, once celebrated amongst the ancient
^aula and their Koman corir]ueror?, waB given
**CorsenC inttead of Corscii/. An untoward
► ,. ,> t.. its real tlesignation, seems to attach to
I ** Herculaneum." The Romans did
J to cull it ufterita original occupants
pe **CunosiUta»t" and they, therefore, described
y as ** Fanum Martis/* So it continued until the
ItU century : when the valiant Curiosilites, hav-
j shaken off the Roman jokc^ restored the town
Its original Celtic appellation. Since then^ it
I been described, with various changes of ortho-
raphj, viz. aa ** Corseul, Corse u It, Corsold, Cour-
buit, Cursoul, Courseult. Courseu, Corseu, and
r^rseulte/* It was not until the eighteenth century
"Fanum Mantis" was identified, by the dis-
in an obscure hamlet of the remains of a
nan temple. The more the soil of the same
"ty has since that time been explored, the
convincing are the proofs that, during the
m occupation, Corseul must huvc been a
ation of very great importance. It has too,
ace then, been a subject of constant contention
aongst Breton antiquaries. They have been
ttJtxled in determining by whom it was first
bunded, and by what race of barbarians it was
niidly not merely destroyed, hut almost com-
ktely obliterated. Loblneau, Deric, ^klanet, De
, Poi te, Merimes, are in doubt as regards both
An accurate description of its most in-
esting antiquities has been given by M. Odirici,
a work upon Dtnan ; and a further reference
them is to be found in a work, published last
r, by M. Jehan de Saint Clavier, upon •* Bri-
any/* As to the derivation of the name of " Cor-
' one of the Breton antiquaries, fil. JolUvet,
the following remark — the last sentence of
I is worth quoting in the original : —
• It has bttn Bafert«d that Corseul is derivod from
.....I ,i.„. .1.,.:,, lyf^^ worda signify, ia the Cdlk
w' #«n, ih€ wooil of the fffMl rtf war,
part quu cur ait la &i;^nirtcalion
l"yu lui iiuuinj, ao luvojo que co mot i-oii hreton."
W. B, Mac Cabs.
I DJoatit Ofitii da Kord, Fnmce.
^t^crHjatimU.
NOTES ON* 600£& CTC
77i# Hutory of Our Lord om ejrtan!ti%ed U Wm4» ^ Sl^l
miih thtit 0f Hit Tyf)**t > r, ^umI ofAcr
iVwoflf n/tM OUi and A
tiie Uttm Mrs. Jftmf«on.
Laily EttiUaktf. In Tico
y^'\,^i 1-.V'- --f Art .1.....
liai I .
and J^MTd
At the tiut^
(Longii
LfgL-nd* oj' the Saiitis
r' the AfonoMtit Ordtn f
. , „ K., ... , . .J, she ir«i preparing the
work before ua; which she cooudeied at tb« more fin*
{M>rtaul tecti^^n* a* w*l! s* the natural compl«tioii of h«r
series of tir rature of CbfiitiJiQ Art.
But thotJp A the programme, and
indeed wnu-^ ^. ... ... .:, .i^ Lady Eutlake — who,
to do homage to the memory of her friend, undertook to
contio«<» and oflmplet* it— Las had to do the work in hur
' ! :Jccd has she done it After duo
ived on departiag in sotoe measare
, , used by Mrs. Jameson; aod det«r-
intned« m wo think rightly, to treat the subjects chrono-
Jogicelly. The work commences, thetTefonp, with the
Fall of' Lucifer, and Crcttion of the World, f "
the Typtw und Prophets of the Old Teatan
cornea' the History of ihc Innoc<'nt5 and '
Bapti&t, leading to the Life and Pa^alon of Our Lord.
Lady £attlake*s reputation a* an Art critie, and her in-
timate acquaint- - '' The Art treasures both of thii
country and th< , ar« sufficient to satiafy the
reader as to the - i jgment with which she ■would
work out such a progTAUiiu^ } and when we a i
has been aiiiAtcd by many of the men mo!<t
their knowledge of Art in all jte various fojii.:., ,l ...U
readily be conceived what a valaable contribution to our
History of Early Art i^ the work before us. Like tbs
volumes to n^hich they form a handsome and appropriate
completion, the two now before us are as profusely iij<t
they are beautifully illustrated — for upwards of 280
woodcutt, and upwards of 30 etchings, from the great
works of the Great Musters, give interest to these two
volumes; which, as Lady Easllake says, may "servt to
indicate those aecumulated results of the piety and in-
dustry of «ges — snd the laws* moral, historicaC and pic-
torial, connected with them— which have created a renhn
of Art almost kiuditxl in amount to a Kiogdoni of
Nature.*'
The Ui^tny of StxAkmd^ fiwn ihi AecH9km of Alexan-
der III. to the Union, Stf Patrick Fraser Tytlar, &c*
Ih. Four Vohimn, Vol. X (Nimmo.)
The many years which have elapsed since the pu! '" "i-
tion of the' last edition of Air. 'fyller's History, hn
no mesHB dlminiahed its reputation. The pains v,
the flutUor bestowed on the ncctiraulation of his materitti*,
and the pleiising styly in which ho exhibited the result
of hji researches, won for Uie book a ready and well-
dtserved recogmtioii of iu merits. Under these dr-
ciim«^iari, ^^. -..i nt ' rhf hucccHS which has nttended the
Pet: : ly and Ab*oD, we think Mr.
Kstv. ^'ijient in determining to issue
! ' 1.: how nejitly, \vt
tl« doubt t*hat It
NoUm on IVUd FmxTi, B\| a^LailS^j. ^^vr«v^^^^, ^
The fair uat\lQv\^*ift ot \\vv% v^'i**^'^^^'^^^^'^^*-'^**'^'*^'^^*^^-
for It only the mmt \A a ^'wA^ «dJ5^ ^leaswX**^^
390
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
C8»iaY. MxtT.'U.
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jstoricnl Fragmeiit: Jammll. at Tsrcrsham,
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<n — to man— Chanve of Fashion in Ladies'
oicpb, Archbiiih<q>of Macedoiiiak 1011, 387.
- Gary Family Id Holland, 39A — Battles in
Bezoor Stones — CroKluin — Davisnn's Case —
s — Frcko — Greatorex, or Greatrakes Family
M8S. - Heraldic - Hindoo God - The La-sso —
« on Life and Death — LaiMMilla — Luke Pope —
ulo, frreat Shakapeare *' — Sir William Strick-
Rnm Symes — Window Glassi, 99^.
•FT ANSWERS : — Sir ThomsA Browne — Al-Ga«el.
-iamid — John Watson— Odo t/) Captain Cook
stater Family, 4U(i.
-Cardinal Beton and Archbishop Gawin Dun-
• Robin Adair." 4M — Old BiiidiuKM. lb. — I/;wi.H
• Family Burying Ground " — Sheen Priory
.^lish Topography in Dutch — " In
of Life we aro in Death " ^Thc Robin— Foreign
f Land — English Topi
- Burlcsquo Painters — Robert Robinson of
— "Kevciiona k nos Montons"- Sepn— Ety-
the Name Moses — D*Alnichcoart — Hymn
Illegitimate Children of Charles II.— Lawn and
4U0.
oka, Ic.
RICAL FRAGMENT: JAMES IL AT
FAVERSHAM.
loscd last two leaves of a Diary which
details to the account of the capture of
it Faversham, which we have in Clarke's
t ^in?, and the oilier commonly quoted
I, wilt, I am sure, be felt by you to po6-
»nt interest for preservation inthepa^es
i." Although there are no indications as
i writer was, it is evident that he was in
J upon the king. Wm. Dsnton.
Dec. 11th, 1688.* The mobile were
:opT)ed several considerable passenjrers,
D. Jenner*, Mr. Burton, Graham', &c.;
"ffs irrowing more in a ferment, and all tending
a Prince, the King went the 10«*» at night to
oase,and stayed with the (jueen Dowager some
at 2 in the morning on the 1 1**^ he took water
ind went over the river, in order to going
"— Luttreirs Brief lieltititm.
;ht between the iO«»» and 11* of December, in
t and bob- wig, he took water at Whitehall,
d only by Sir Edward Hales, and Abbadie, a
, paf^e of the back stairs, without acquainting
his mtention."
'Baron of the Exchequer, and henc6 frequently
a Baron Jemaer.
^^OH^pf Chester'' [CMTtwright] "iamfd to
V Dover, and Bmtod Jenner, Burton,
Ob. Walker, Ja. Gifford, Jo. Laybourw**, Ch.
Pulton, W" Kinjcsley, — Lockyer, and 2 priwti?,
with several R. Cathol. mereh*", y' L'. A^uBdel's
son and grandson, and others.
•• These were stopp't in or near O^pring Street,
Slid most of y" plundered : the success of these
men wis one of the ^eatest reasons y* pusVt y*
seamen of Fever^hfl f(»rw*, who ab* 7 V* njcbt,
under y* conduct of W" Ames and Jo. I^nt
mann'a out 3 boats, w** ab' 50 men in y* whole,
who taking notice of an uncertain rumour y* went
abroad, y^ several were flying by sea into France,
in great zeal and in quest of a prize, went off
towards Sheppcy, and aM 1 1 at night ^ near the
Nnze pomt thej found a Custom-house boat,
who was taking m ballast, w*in was SF Ed. Hales,
Ralph Sheldon, and one more, y' prov'd to be
K« J. \V" Ames leapt into the hold alone, and
seized y™ in y" P. of O.'s name. S' E. Hales
w* have fir'd, but was forbid by y' unknown gent.
T** were 5 or 6 cases of pistols loaden, w** might
have done great execucon, if made u^e of, but
no hopes c* have been of y' lives, if they had
proceeded to opposicon in y n
very well satisfy 'd, if y* K» hi
manner. Yet I am
.^.j J-,- J — md discovered him-
selfe privately to W. Ames, who was some time
in y* hold alone, he had never been carry'd asbore,
but been dismiss*t before morning.
" The seamen kept off to sea all night, where
they rifled y* parties w** rudeness enough. They
found in the whole near 200*^ in gold, and about
half w* K.J. w** w^ swords, and watches, &c. were
great plunder to y". I know not how it hsppen^d,
but y' greatest rudeness still tell on y* K», whose
very breeches were undone and examin*d for
secret weapones so undecently, as even to the
discoveries of^ his nudities. This y« K« aftcrw*
much resented, as not fit to be offered to a gen-
tleman or any other person.
" Whilst y* K. continu*d unknown and in so
odd a disguise, unsufferable affronts were put
upon him. He was generally concluded to be a
Jesuite, if not F. Peter, and treated with such
harsh ezpessions as old rogue, ugly, Ican-jaw'd,
hatchet-rac't Jesuite, popish dog, &c.
" Thus ?• night was pass't unpleasantly enough,
y* mob being extreme^ abusive, ev'n beyond w*
y* leaders desir'd. Only one Jeffreys, a pipe-
maker, was very civil to y* K« unknown, tfs sup-
posing him to be a gentleman, w*^ humanity I
and Gfih«n,~ar the town of Fereham." — .Kfii CW-
rcnmdbioe, vol. iL p. 356.
(^) Not in London, as Lord Macaulay seems to have
supposed.
(*) Macaulay says, " James had travefled with relays
•f ceaeh-borses along the southern shore of the Thames,
and on the morning of the tw*(flk bad reacVvvl Va£^k:<s
Ferxy, near the isle of SU^&v^n :' \\. \% «s\^««v. S.^«vsv vpqs.
diarist, that ibft V\tv^<iovi\^ tm^ Vu.'s^ ^xrw't^ ^^^^^^^^
early on the eveniiitL ot Wi^^ ^^txAXi. ^"^^^^^cJJatfc^B!^
travelled by riAavB, \Y<i Tn«it\MWt» iafi's«^\««^^^**''^
morning of lUc tN«<M\.Yi.
992
■BiT.iiftfam
*•* a strange jealousy
gentlemen lo some
aaw y* K* recent very gentUely, and give him
fluch A reward oa his coodio«5n w"* be&r.
**Dec, 12'K Ab' noon, y K* S' E. Hales,
and R. Sheldon, were brought up m a coacb to
Feversha, fro y" place of y*^ landing, when ti»
remarkable y^ fresh rudcnefts attended him, for
tho' S' E. Hales wm carry'dover the ou«e, or dirt>
by y* seamen, yet it was a long dispute wheth'
y* civility ah* be pay*d to y* unknown person,
" Ho was carry 'd to the Q's Arms in Feveraha,
where he was soon distJo?er*d and guards set upon
tis room w*** g* strictness and severity.
** He askH several to be instrumental to pro-
cure him a boat to carry him off, but y* seamen
generally deoy'd him, upon '
aeia'd them y' tn the night j
odd disgniae w* carry him off, w*"** made y™ more
ruddy dilig' in y*^ guarda* and unwiUiiig he ah*
remove to a private house.
" The E, of Winchelaea waa sent for by y* K*,
who came before night, and y" it waa thought
ecmvenient y' K* sh** remove to private lodgings :
but a* opposic^n was made by y* seamen, and as
y* K* pass't down y" stairii, swords were drawn
and threatening expressions UB*d by the guards,
and w**^ much adoe Ihey were contented to let y*
K* remove, upon promise, y' y* seamen only might
ffuard him, whilst he stayed in town, who confined
him very strictly by reason of y' jealousie yv""^
made him melancholy at times.
" That night, however, he seemed to sup
heartily, and was pleased to corn and y* gentle-
men to sit down w'** hi rap w*** condescension was
very grate full lo several.
** Dec, 18***. The Eiist Kent gentlemen came
in a great body, and before his face (for he was
in the window) read the P. of 0/s declaracon,
w** made y* mobb break out into fresh inso-
lencies, and tow'** night a messenger eame from
the fort of Sheerness, w*"** told y* K« y*y* govern''
intended to surrender y* fort, and the fleet in the
Swale (the road ncai* for ships to ride in) to y"
F. of O. w'** seemed to afflict hun, but he *>* he was
willing to consent to anything to avoid bloodshed.
" After w*^ y* seamen guarded y* K* so nar-
rowly, y* tis b^ they foUow^d him to his devocons,
nay, and were so indecent as to press near him in
his retirem* for nature.
** Dec. 14. By this time news came y* y* P. of
O. did not approve of y' Kg*B being 8t«p*t^ w'"*
madu several of y*** y* were concerned very bUmk,
and wish they had never medled. But w* news
came y^ y* Lda at Guildhall did not much dislike
y* thioff, they «oon revived and fancy*d y* iLey
•ib* all be rewarded for y^^ expedicion.
** Ab^ noon newn came y' y* K.'s guards were
upon y* road, to wait on him to Lon^ and y" y*
strangeht Term' and passion »ic«'d y' mobb, y* v^
be thought ot\ bee. y' L^ Feveriha (a mvu\ V\V
reaenied by y*^) wa* §** to be w^ y"*, iSttft^ a«i«im "
resolv'd not to part with hinL, talking of I
preparacons to fight, mul i ulc-n-r v* pain
y* off, &c., w^"^ pii 4 '
consternacon, for f - tiwyl
nor where it w** end.
" The gentlemen endeaTo«r*d dl tliT <*•!
all in vain, for y* seamen mud tile nobh i
all, and y^' passions flew out to y* cxc
gentlemen were foro*t to send cxpr
guards, to stop short 6 mil*?*. ff»r doub
had ent^r'd Fevershu y* i ' '• ^cbtcf I
" Dec. 15*^ As soon w"coo
y* K« moved out of town, w*" hia guartll
men, and y* gentlemen, and abour a mileaf
met by his guards, who t ' '
hands of y* mobb, w"* his s|i
and he became m it were ai^ >i
glad to be lid of yuch guards,
none c** justify, and w* w* be y' v..
last none c* guess.
NoUm h$ the jyiarist.
*« (1.) The K' was In an old iramletM^
ill pair of boots, a e»hort blaek wigg, i f^'
his upper lips on the lei^ side, and oikd^*^
tremely plain, in habit.
" (*2^) The K* would not receive Hia#^
of w*^^ he was plundered, but ordcKdi*.Kj
divided among y^ y* took him. fiat \
swords, and pistols were taken bj him i
** (3.) When it wiw obsenr'd jr* K* ooSi
rosity refused his gold, but wa^ de^la
one M'' Lees, a clergyman, 1**, w*
humbly otTer'cl him^ i
Lo Serve his p'seiit i
he toi-^k very kindly, but took care to \
ere he left y* town.
'* <4>) The K. lost a crucifix he mudi \
say*d to have some of the true nmteriAl <
and offerVl largely lo r^itin it, but y* ^
had it broke it in pieces, m greedtncse of ]
^h ^eh ^ ^,^, jjfjjy iip'i^ ^*fc jw ^^ wocuCk
concerned for,
'' (5.) The K« borrowed a biblc, w» in \
and waa seen to read much in it» oiid »' lacl
gr^ pleasure in renditig S8, and tiiad4! i( p^^
his private rettrem* before devocoti^
'* (<>,) The K« Wrt« very tt -
or rarely drank betwi:cn ni
known elsewhere, yet was nmti oi ju -;i«ie_^
prise to many here, who had other noootia of |
men nnd etmrts.
** (7,) The women were very tender aad i
passionate to V* K' -.»!.:- ""Piftnenlt
to afipruve w*
•* (aO Th*- K ..unt w«*
y*" y' tsiez'd him, and forgave y**, ani] "
gentrv and clergy, L
(in all about 100*^) i
V \ y \wwtv \W^ ^^njcae in a body, a {tarty, to i
8^S.V. 1IAT14»'M.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
393
forjpve y* all, even Moon too, w*** Moon, after
y* K' was discov'd, curst bim to his face, — y* K<
Mk*t him his name, w'^" it^ he had told, j* K' »^
it ooght to be Shimei, for Shimei curs't y* L^*
anointed, and so 7* man is coiuonlj call*d.
** (9.) His discoorses were very grntTe and
pious, and showed a gr* sense of religio, and t*
comfort he had in his troubles, among many oth*
w^ follows is. remarkable. He s' he was certain
T* P. of O. on his coming designed his life, and y*
he thought y' was but one step between his priso
and his grave, and y'fore tho* he might fall a sacri-
fice, as Abel did by t* hand of Cain, yet he
doubted not but he and his cause w*' be accepted
of God.
^ " W» he look*d out of his window and saw y*
violece of y* rabble, he s*, I can't help nor hinder
this, God alone can do it, who stills y' raging of
the seas, y* noise, &c.
" He was not willing to send away his son till
he had a call to doe so, tho it was not so extra-
ordinary .and express, yet it was as sufficient as
w* y» angel s* to Jos. Ma. ii. 13, ' Ai-ise, &c.' He
often repeated * Herod doth seek y* life of y*
younpr child to destroy him.*
*• The K«, persuading some clergymen y* waited
R. to persons of understanding, or any who c**
make good use of it, and few iM^ides clergymen
and divines read it so much as he did.
** He s** y* he as well as oth' Xtiana ought to
expect thro many tribnlaeSna to enter into y*
KgdS of Heaven, and if he lost bis temporal
erown, he doubted not, but y* loss w' bring him
to an eternal and incorruptible crown.**
FOLK LOBE.
ance, w' trouble it might give y" to reflect y'on.
He told y" how David*8 heart smote him for cut-
ting off y« skirt of SauPs garmS and this must
be more troublesome, if tliey consid' y* mischief
y* may y'by fall upon him. W» they made y*'
excuse fro y* difficulty and danger of y« attempt,
he replied to y» in y' words of y* Saviour, ' lie
that 18 not for me is against me.'
" He repeated y* greatest part of Job's 5^ ch.
ab* affiictio and y« benefit of it. V. 1, 5, 6, 7, 10,
11 to y* end.
" lie made use of y* 1 Mace. xi. 10, * For I
repent that I gave my daughter to him, for he
■ought to slay me.* He s** 'y« fears of ye Ch. of
Enfi^.men had occasioned y*' troubles, but he never
design'd any hurt or disturbance to y*' interest,
but as they are afraid of idolatry and superstitio,
they ought to have a care to avoir], and not be
engaged in rebellio and oth' sins, and he quoted
Bom. ii. 22, * Thou that abhorrt'st,' &c.
" He applied Job xlii. 10—12 to himself, ' And
y« L* turned apain,' &c.
"They plunder d all things but a psalter or
psalm booii:, w'** he s* he valu d more y" all he
nad lost.
" He b** he w** forsake sceptre, and crowns, and
nil this world's glory for Xt's sake, and he had y*
inward peace and cofort w'** he w** not exchange
for all y« interest of y* earth.
*' He own'd much comfort he had rec* in read-
ing of SS, w* he 8* was not deny*d by ye Ch. of
Fbagiixnts of Scotch Rhtmkb suno bt
Chudben at TBBim Gamxs : —
L
*' Here come two ladies down from Spain,
A len( ?) French garland ;
Pre come to coart yoor daughter Jaoe,
And adieu to you, my darling."
** London Bridge has fallen down.
Has fallen down, has fallen down, has fallen down,
London Bridge has fallen down.
My ikir Udy."
** A dues, a dan of green grass,
A doM, a dufls, a duss ;
Ccme all you pretty maidens
And dance along with us :
Tou shall have a duck, my dear.
And yon shall have a dragon,
And yon shall have a young gndeman
To dance ere yOuVe forsaken.
The bells shall ring.
The birds shall sing.
And we'll all clap bands together."
rv.
" Rainy, rainy, rattle stones,
Don't vou rain on me ;
Rain on iTohnny Groat's boose,
Far across the sea."
Ahok.
YoRKSHisB Folk Lobe : Bebs. — Last week,
passing the Hambleton Station on the railway be-
tween Milford and Selby, I observed three bee-
hives having pieces of crape attached to them.
On inquiring of a fellow-passenger, he informed
me that some members or the station-master*s family
had lately died, and that the custonoi of putting
the hives in mourning under such circumstances
was not uncommon in that district.
Edward Hailstone.
W1LT8HIBE Method or PREVEWTniG Tooth-
ache.— If you take one of the forelegs of a want
(t. e. a mole), and one of its hind legs, and put
them into a bag, and wear the whole hung about
your neck, vou will never have the tooth-ache.
This valuable specimen of Wiltshire wisdom is ap-
parently one of the ** things not ^enfit^kV^ ^LTv^^'^V
394
NOTES AND QUEEIE8.
[8r«&T.MATl4.U
Cuckoo. — On the principle of your motto —
" When found make a note of " — I transcribe
from a work published at Upsal in 1750, D€ Super*
MtUionibuM HodifmU^ by Jonas Moman, a specimen
of Swedish folk lore relating to the cuckoo, which,
from the translation I append, you will find to
resemble a custom still prevalent in some parts
of England when tlie cuckoo is first heard in the
spring. The Swedish peasant girl says : —
'<Gdkegra,6uckD!
Seg mig (U, Gucku !
Uppa quist, Gackn I
Saat och vis^, Gucku I
Tlur manga ar, Gucku !
Jag leva far,
Jag ogift gar, Gucku I "
That is: —
" Cuckoo (Scotice Gouk) grey, tell to me, up in the tree
true and free, how many years I must live and go un-
married."
Of course the number of the calls of " Gucku "
indicate the number of years she has to remain
single ; but the memory has sinprular artifices to
defraud itself. In the above instance the cuckoo
calls seven times, but the girl counts six only.
J. K.
Ornithological and Agricultural. — The
other day I heard a fanner use this folk-lore
couplet : —
** Cuckoo oats and woodcock hay
Moke a fanner run away."
I am not aware if this specimen of ornitholo-
gical agricultural folk lore has ever found ita way
into print. If not, its publication at " the cuckoo
season " will be well-timed. Cuthbert Bede.
The Sun dancing ow £astbr-Day. — I called
last week upon an old parishioner, who had been
absent from church on Kaster-day. Sickness in her
family had kept her at home, but, she said, she
had lookcil out at her win«low, and seen the sun
dancing beautifulipr. I looked inquiringly, and
she added, "Dancing for joy, to be sure, at Our
Saviour's resurrection on Easter morning. Three
or four year.s ago, Thomas Corncy and Mary
Wilkey, and a party of us went to the end of
Kennicot Lane to sec it; but ^lary couldn't see
anytiiing. There was the sun whirling round and
rouFid, and every now and then jumping up (and
sh»i indicated with her hand an upright leap of
nearly a yard) ; and Thomas would say, * There,
Mary, didn't ye see that?' Xo, fai', she saw
nothing. At last Thomas said, ^I think, Mary, the
old devil mujt have shut your eyes if you can't see
that.' And so we came home again. Our little
Johnny gets up every year to seo it"
It is a curious instance of the power of imagina-
tion : lor the old wjuiiun could hardly have had
any object in telling nie a falsehood knowingly.
A DfvoNsuiRB Clerqyma^.
Eastern Origin of Fuck. — In a collectioDi
Fairy Stories and Folk Lore I made in India fna
verbal relation, there is mention of a ftixy calU
G&rii-PiiGk, said to have the head of a bird, wA
wings springing from his shoulders, indieatiTea
hii rapidity of movement. He is unqnesiioMhy
the onginal of the Puck of Sbakapeare, whose cktf
attributes, as manifested ia the fbUowing Iidh,
was celerity of locomotion : —
FticA. ** I'll pat a girdle ronod about the eaith
In forty minutes."
Shakspeans*8 Puck, like the Indian £ury, n»
times wears the head of an aniuiaL : —
FmeL ** Sometimes a hone III be ; sometime* a hmi
A hog, a headless bear ; sometimes a tirb"
Giirii-Piick is the messenger of the higher pote".
his eyes are li^fatningy and rays of fire issue bm
his body, in which respects Puck, the English &i*
also resembles him. EC
A Cuildren's Game. — A. few evenings ip'
returning from a walk, my attention was ann»
by a group of children at play. Their gav^
played by marching two and two in a mts^A
step to a given distance, turning, and mirJail
back again. As they did so, they chantd utf
lines : —
•< Tun'ey, turvey, clothed in black.
With iulver buttons upon your back ;
One by one, and two by two.
Turn about, and that will do ! "
On asking the children the meaning of ^
play, and of the lines thev sang, thev conU ti
me nothing, but that they fiad learned them f:.i
others. Joun Pavin Pmtii^
Haverfordwest.
The Lutin. — In the Canton du Vallais, S»>
zerland, the belief in the Lutin is very geaen^
I should rather say Lutint^ for there is more tbi
one member of the family ! They tell of a Luci
wl>o fur many years guarded the flocks ofi^
Commuue of Contez. The inhabitants odln^
him a cloak, which was Icfl in a particular spol;
the gift was taken, but the Lutiu dc|>arted ftuif*
ing —
** Non, uon, jamais seignear de men panage
Nu conduira les bosufs au f/Aturagc."
Since then the cattle have given less milk ! IW
lejrend resembles that of the *• Hob " of Close
I House, near Skifiton, in Craven {vule IXaiati
Tabic Book)t where the gift was a red coat or
hood. In the parish of Linton, in Craven, wt*
have the story of a boitle of brandy being Irfl
for Pam [j|ucry Pan ?] (such is the name of the
domestic sf)irit there), and of his having p^l
drunk, and being buried alive by the school*
master! — a useless elfort, for Pam was as activf
and mischievous as ever, after he had slept hia-
self sober ! In the Vallais, at Contez, the village
. fountain was filled with wine, and the Lulin th««
Mat 14, "64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
395
z Mtd WM cipfeimd ! He promised if he
ised to ffire tome moet vftluable adFioe.
to kit honour, the Lutin's ooids wen
on which he le^wd awaj, saying —
le weather is lUr tske an nmbrelU —
i rains take wbiMvar will keep yoa drieet"
S. Jacksoh.
tt8.Torkshimi
SHun DoflniTBfi Thn children in the
England* when they wish to play hide
and similar games, chooge the one who
(as they say) ^^<t£ it," in the following
— Tber gather around one of their num-
ri^idly repeats the following doggrel
itiog in turn to each of his companions,
at whom he points on reaching the last
Jie one chosen. The doggrel, with the
spelt as nearly as possible according to
18 follows : —
oe diroedttcoa medo*
'here ehall Ihie poor Frenchman go ?
To the east, to the west.
To the tipper crow's nest ;
Kg^t batter, cheese, bread ;
Stick, stock, stone, dead."
St fine has such a smack of Latinity about
am induced to ask if any of your readers
me to its origin. Is it the first line of a
ran? C. S.
lis AT Christmas p^ S. i. 482.) — Your
ident T. B. mentions that, in the West
f Yorkshire at Christmas Day, and also
rear*s Day, a male person with black or
* must first enter the house, and that the
s seek a person to enter. Also, that
; must be allowed to pass (ml of the house
'hristmos : that is, from Christmas Day
ifear's Day inclusive.**
he object of my note is, not to call in
the statement of T. B., but to suggest to
respondents, generally, that the value
mtributions relating to local manners,
and dialects, will be greatly increased
ecific distinction as possible of the dis-
which such peculiarities exist. The
)ulous the county or district concerned,
greater its general altitude above the
more diverse and specifically localised
uliarities become.
istoms alluded to by T. B. are strictly cor-
> Leeds and its neighbourhood, probably
r miles round ; but he knows, quite as
, that the dialects, and many of the man*
customs of the ** people** in Shefiield,
, Wakefield, Leeds, Bradford, and other
ive all separate and distinct characters.
i villages, *^ up in the hills,** within a few
ttance from any of these towns respec-
ill have Uieir individual local ▼emaeialir.
Yet they are all in the West Biding of York-
shire.
I confine myself strictly to what hu come under
my own observation, when I affirm that the above
remarks apply with equal foroa — so far as density
or fMurseneas of populatioB, aad phyaical geo*
grapoy admit — to the North and &ast Ridings;
•ad to the counties of Derby, Nottingham, Cms*
ter, Lancaster, Devon, Somerset, Northumber-
land, Durham, and to many parts of Scotland.
To return to the custom referred to by your
correspondent, and to the West Riding. In
Sheffield, a male must be the first to enter a house
on the morning of both Christmas Day and New
Year*s Day; out there is no distinction as to
complexion or colour of hair. In the houses of
the more c^ulent manufacturers, these first ad-
missions are often accorded to choirs of work-
people ; who, as " waits,** proceed at an early hour,
and sing, before the houses of their employers and
friends, Christmas carols and hymns ; always com-
mencing with that beautiful composition : —
** Christians awake I salnte the happy morn.
Whereon the Saviour of meokind was horn.**
On expressing their good wishes to the inmates,
they are generally rewarded with ^something
warm,*' and occssionally with a pecuniarv present.
Among the class called " respecUble, * but not
manufWeturers, a previous arrangement is often
made ; that a boy, the son of a friend, shall come
and be first admitted, receiving for his good wishes
a Christmas-box of sixpence or a shilling. The
houses of the artizans and poor are successively
besiesed by a host of gamins ; who, soon afl«*
midnight, spread themselves over the town, shout-
ing at the doors and through key-holes, as fbl-
lowi: —
« Au wish ya a murry Chrismas^-
Aappy new year,—
A'pockit fall of manny,
An^acellerfnUa'beer.
*• God bless the mester of this ouse—
The mistriss all -so,
An* all the little childmn
That round the table go.
** A apple, a pare, a plom, an* a cherry ;
A sup a' good ale d mak* a man murry.**
And BO on. The same house will not admit a
second boy. One is sufficient to protect it from
any ill-luck that might otherwise happen. A
penny is the usual gratuity for this service. In
the forenoon of Christmas Day and New Year's
Day these boys may be seen in knots at street
comers, and in tlie suburbs, counting their re-
spectively acf^uired "coppers,** and recounting
their respective adventures during the mfi\\t
and early morning ; after which, they generally
resolve themselves into sub-committees for the
purpose of *' pitch and toss.** LaXK^ vc^^ '^^.^'^^J^
many o£ l\iem xb^j \» iftftn. «. \v\i\^ ^^ ^^^xV'^^n
396
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[st^ay. matuil
while others are depressed by manly, but unsuc-
cessful efibrts, to consume " penny cheroots.*'
Fifty years ago, the refusal to give lights at
Christmas was common among the poorest classes.
Among the middle classes it was considered un-
lucky to do so, only on Christmas Eve, Christmas
Day, New Year's Eve, and New Year's Day.
Lucifer matches have put a practical end to this
superstition. W. Lee.
THE DOLPHIN AS A CREST.
The crest of the Kennedies of Dunure — a dol-
phin, and the motto, ** Avise la fine " — long ap-
peared to me very unmeaning. During a recent
visit to Rome my attention was drawn to the use
of the dolphin, in contradistinction to other
species of fisn, as a religious svmbol ; and I am now
induced to think that the dolphin was assumed on
account of its emblematic allusion to Our Blessed
Lord,* and the motto is intended to refer to it — a
constant 'keeping in view the great end of faith.
Irrespective of its bearing on this subject, the de-
scription of a remarkable christening vessel I met
with in the Kercherian Museum at the Collegio
Romano, may prove of interest to your readers.
I asked permission to have a rubbing taken of it,
but was refused, on the ground that the Society
of Jesus were about to published an illustrated
catalogue of the objects in that museum.
It appears the old Earls of Carrick bore for
arms, arg. a chevron gu. ; thnt in 1285 Gilbert de
Carrick had diflerenced these arms with three
cross-crosslets ; that John de Kennedy, who in-
herited by descent the honours and liabilities of
the male branch of the house used, in 1371, the
same arms, with the addition of two lions sejant
as supporters, and a lion rampant as crest ; that
the double tressure was added on tlie alliance of
the family with the royal Stewarts. Bishop Ken-
nedy on his seal in 1450 has two coats ; one with
and one without the tressure ; but, as far as I can
learn, without any crest. The dolphin and swans
as supporters are first observed about 1516, about
which period the Earldom of Cassillis was con-
ferred on the Lords Kennedy. The Kennedies
could not be ignorant of the symbol, as several
members of the house visited Rome. David Ken-
nedy, uncle to the first lord, had letters to go
thither from Henry VI. in 1439. The catacombs
where the aslies of tlie martyrs lay were shrines
to which pilgrims resorted, and from which, with
the approbation of true believers, they committed
the pious fraud of stealing bones and other relics.
• The fish was adopted as the emblem of Our Saviour
because of the letters in 1x1^6$ forming the initials of the
Greek wunls —
'ivaovt Xpurrhs ecoG 'Tiht ^eori)p.
./esu,< Chrint Son of God the SaviouT.
Here, a constantly recurring emblem on the vilk
is a dolphin-shaped fish bearing on its back i '
glass bowl, with a drop of red wine in it, and it
orifice covered with small biscuit-like Umvci d
bread; and also in many of the tombs are fooai
small fish modelled in wood or ivory.
To return to the baptismal ▼easel. It i» of
bronze and flat, oircular-sbaped, with a rim aA
handle, evidently a ladle to be naed in the rise <
of baptism by immersion. On the sorftoe is eo-
graveo, on an inner circle, two dolphm-shaped&L
probably emblematic of the divine and hnm
natures of our Lord ; and on the outer circle ma
fishing from boats for round flat fish, withevideit
reference to the appouitment of the apoitks tobr
fishers of men.
Seton, in his Heraldry^ p- * 1 2, in one of hii c-
planations of the meaning of the arms of Ghfii
city, suggests a somewhat ainiilar derivatia fr
the fish borne in them. I should be glad to Iv
from some of your correspondents at whit tf
the fish first appears in the bearings of that tee
and also the earliest date at which the cre^ft
supporters of the Kennedies have been obs£>^-
In the seals appended to the acts of the Seos^
parliament as published by the Record Coa*-
sioncrs, the Earls of Cassillis use neither, tsi*'
motto. Qofioa
DR. JOHNSON AND BABY-TALK.
I remember to have read somewhere an UBts-
ing anecdote of the immortal Sam ; but neglect-
ing at the time to '* make a note of,** the sooiee i
the story is forgotten. Johnson and Boiiw^
were journeying to Oxford, when their csniszc
overtook a decently-attired woman toiling slose
the dusty road with an infant in her arms. Boe-
well proposed that they should give her a lift to
which the doctor objected on the plea that f^
would interrupt their rational conversation br
talking nonsense to the baby. This was overroH
the carriage was stopped, and the poor womin
taken up. ** But remember, madam, roared t^
doctor, '^ that if you talk any baby talk, jou will
have to leave the carriage."
Thankfully promising to be cautious, the nune
sat and watched the sleeping infant, and listened
to the conversation. Presently the baby stretched
itself, yawned, and looked up mto the nurse's face.
*^ Bless his little heart," she said ; '^ see if be
has n't opened his eyzy pizy already." ** Stop
the vehicle ! " exclaimed Johnson ; " she has vio-
lated our compact, and must realise the penalty."
A precisely similar story is related oy Dean
Alford, in one of his charming papers in Good
Words, entitled " A Plea for the Queen's fin^bh."
The dean says : —
''AH perhaps do not know the story of th« kind oM
fSQAlUman. and his carriage. He was riding at hte mm
8^ & V. Mat 14, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES-
397
>De rwy hot dmj, when he. mw a tirad nunemaid toOing
ilong the footpath, carrying a great heavy boy. His
Mart softened; he stopped Ids carriage, and offered her a
«at ; adding, however, this — ' Mind,' said he, * the rao«
nent yon ^^n to talk any nonsense to that boy, yon
eave ray carriage.
** All went well for some minutes. The good woman
iras watdbAil, and bit her lipa. Bat, alas I we are all
:aaght tripping some times. After a few handred yards,
ind a little jogging of the boy on her knee, burst forth,
Georgy porg^ I ride in coachr poachy ! ' It was fiiuL
rhe check-stnng was palled, t^e steps let down, and the
none and boy consigiied to the dusty footpath as be-
fore.
"This story is true. The person mainly concerned in
it was a well-known philanthropic baronet of the last ge-
leration, and my informant was personally acquainted
with him."
I bave searched in vain through Bo8well*s Life
tf Johnson for the anecdote I have related ; but if
t 18 a true story, and was generally known, the
conduct of Dean Alford^s baronet may have been
"egulated by a remembrance of how Johnson had
ycted upon a similar occasion.
John Fayin Phillips.
Haverfordwest.
Ancient Tombstone. — As I have never met
vith a tombstone or gravestone in any church-
ward so old as one of the former class at Whit-
ington, near Cheltenham, by its inscription and
general appearance purports to be, I send a note
>f it to " N. & Q." It is of stone, of an oblong
Jiape, and narrower than is customary with those
»f the last and present century ; and is placed
f ithin a short distance of the north-east comer of
he chancel. The words on it are : —
•* Here lyes interd Thomas Yonnge, who departed this
ife the 27 of July, 1648; and Jemima, his wife, who was
•uried the 18 May, 1642."
J. E. C.
Bajion Munchausen. — I have just come across
in old story in the Facetim BeheHana^ which may
M regarded as the original of that adventure in
Jie modern romance, which tells how the Baron*s
lorse was cut in two by the descending portcullis
»f a besieged town, and yet the horseman rode on
ritbout detecting the loss ; till he reached a foun-
ain in the midst of the city, where the insatiate
hirst of the animal betrayed the want of his hind
[oarters. The adventure may be worth record-
Dgin a note: —
**^ He huiffHi mendaeio. — Faber clavicularius, quem su-
•erios fabrum mendaciorum dixi, narravit se tempore
•elli, credens snos se subsecnturos, equitando ad cujusdam
ppidi portas penetrasse : et cum ad portas venisset, cata-
actam torre demissam, eauum sunm poet ephippium
liscidisse, dimidiatumque reliquisse, atque se medi& parte
>9Q1 adforam nsqne oppidi equitasse, et ciedem non mo*
licam P<i]^K|«e. Sed cum retroccdere vellet, multitodine
loetium e^tns, turn demum eqnum cecidisse, seoiw
aptum *■*— » '
The drinking at the fountain was a bappy em-
bellishment on the part of the modem Baron.
In the same collection of seventeenth century
jokes (the volume dates 1661), I think the ori-
ginal of the deer, with the cherry-tree growing
out of its head, is found ; but I cannot say, as it
is along time since I read the book through.
The story of Paddy the Piper, which all of us
must have laughed at, is here as large as life —
De quodam Histrione, O. J. D.
To MAN. — Are not our dictionaries at fault
with regard to this word in the phrases to man the
gunsj to man the wtndloMSy and the like ? In some
cases, no doubt, it does mean to supply with men,
as to man the yards, to man the walls, &c. But in
the former instances, as also in Othello^ Act V.
Sc.2 —
" Man but a rush against Othello's breast.
And he retires.**
And in^ Taming the Shrew, where " manning a
hawk ** is spoken of, the meaning seems to be that
of the French manier, to lay the hand on, or to
manage. B. L.
Change of Fashion in Ladies' Names. — In
the published account of the celebration of ** the
Guild Merchant of Preston" in the year 1762, 1
find in ** a list of the nobility, gentry,** &c., present
at the festival, and in '* a List of the Subscribers
to the Ladies* Assembly** printed therein, some
Christian names then borne by ladies of high
rank and good family, disuse of which shows how
fashion afiects names as well as dress. In the
humblest walks of life how few would now give
their children these names ! Like their betters, Uiey
prefer Victoria, Florence, Edith, Julia, Emily,
Alexandra, and other such euphonious nomencla-
ture. Among the names were Lady Nelly Bertie,
Lady Bell Stanley, Miss Molly Bold, Miss Betty
Bolton, Miss Peg^ Case, Miss Matty Crook, Miss
Jenny AsshetonVMiss Susy Langton, Miss Sally
Rigby, Miss Nanny Whalley, MissDulcyAtherton,
Miss Ally Walmsley, &c. ; and each of the above
Christian names was borne by several others of the
company, including some of the best Lancashire
families. Wm. Dobson.
Preston.
Joseph, Abchbishop of Macedonia, 1611. —
The following document, transcribed from the
MSS. of the borough of Leicester for the year
1611, may be deemed sufficiently curious to be
worth pr^rving in the pages of " N. k Q.*' —
«* Whereas this grave man, the bearer hereof, Josephe,
beinge seated in the Auncyent Cittie of Phillippos, now
call^ Soris, as Arche Bisshoppe for the wholl Kingdom
and province of Macedonia, was by reason of the perse-
cntion of the Turks and Jewes (who ven'e esgerly per-
secuted him for the payement of atw koxv^^Rs^^N. \x^>qn^^
Thinie tbowsasi^ CT^v(ii«^ Vw -^^"^ >wt^ ^%:^ ^'^^^^^'SSm
Matb\a8\al^ VaXi\ax^\i^^^TrtXwk>astf^^ «i»sari%
308
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Cai«8.Y.iUTU%i
Certificates bv him shewed to the King's Mtiestio ap-
peyreth), and is nowe Lycensed bv Charles Earle of
Nottingham, Lord Highe Admyrall of Englande, to tra-
veil through the King^ domynyons to aske the charitable
derotion of all Christians to redeeme himselft fh>m the
Tarkishe slaTerye. As by the same Lycense moro att
l.rd6a.ppey«tb. „ ..Noxn-OHAM."
In the Chamberlains* Account for the year
1611-12, we meet with the following entry : —
"Itm, the xxxth daye of Januarie [1612]_given to
t woe Grecian Marchaunts -w^^ had the Kmg's Lros patents
togayther towards their losses - - v."
William Kellt.
Leicester.
CARY FAMILY IN HOLLAND.
As I beliere you number both readers and cor-
respondents in Holland, I desire, with your per-
mission, to request their aid in tracing the con-
nection of the Cary family with that country.
Sir Robert Gary, grandson of Henry, first Lord
Hunsdon, is said to have been " a captain of horse
under Sir Horatio Vere, Baron of Tilbury. He
lived and died beyond the seas." (When and
where ?) His wife was Alice, daughter of
Hojrenoke, Secretary to the States General of
Holland, and by her he had four sons ; viz. Sir
Horatio Gary, Colonel Ernestus Gary of Shelford,
CO. Gamb. (died Oct. 1680) ; Rowland Gary, Esq.
of Evcrton, co. Beds ; and Ferdinand Gary, who
served in the Netherlands army,* and died at
Macstricbt, where possibly may exist a monument
to his memory.
Gol. Ferdinand Gary married Isabella, daughter
of Daniel Oenis Van Wingarden of Dort, in Hol-
land ; and had issue by her three daughters, and
an only son William Gary, who was also an officer
in the same service with Lis father, and died of his
wounds at Maesfricht, Nov. 1683. His wife was
Gertrude Van Outshoorn, daughter of the Lord
Cornelius Van Outshoorn, Knt., Lord Mayor,
Burgomaster, and senator of the city of Amster-
dam, &c. She died at Amsterdam July 21, 1688,
and was buried at Outshoorn.
Her only son, William Ferdinand Gary, baptized !
at Maestricht^ 1G84, succeeded his cousin as baron i
Hunsdon in 1702 ; and it is from the papers sup- ;
porting his claim to that peerage that the above I
particulars have been derived. '
I am desirous of ascertaining further informa- '
tion, especially us to exact dates, and monumen- \
tal inscriptions relating to this branch of the great
Cary family. i
I should also mention that a sister of Sir Robert '
• Si-e Calendar of Sute I'anors, Sept 1C22, nccoont of '
the services and soffcringe of Capt Killiiicrow and Capt
Jerdinando Cnrev at Bergen op Zoon, the pnaervation 1^
of which is mMiofj due to them.— Dutch.
Gary, AUtha Gary, is laid to haira narmd St
WiUitm Quhrinaon, Baronet; but I ean Ind m
name at all like thii in Kmbei^a Ziiai fjf IkumA,
The Hunsdon peerage became extinct on tke
death of the above William Ferdinand, oM
baron, but possiblj deacendaats of tlie fintlird
may still exist. C. J. Bobobos.
Battles xh Enqlaiid. — I aboold be dl
obliged if I could obtain any information on tic '
following questions relating to battles fought t
England.
In " N. & Q." S** S. V. 280. G. J. T. speibc
" llie Barons* Wars at Chesterfield, Um^ im
1266»* The Barons* War, however, was c^i
by the Battle of Eresham in 1265, and the $^
at Chesterfield occurred fifty years after Jdc's
death, temp. Henry III. Where can I Mi
gdod and particular account of this enoouK
and also of the following battles, and their W-
graphy ? —
Fight at Radcot Bridge in 1387.
Battle of Uomildon in 1402.
Fight at Sevenoaks (Jack Cade) in 1450.
Battle of Hcdgecote-ficld in 1469.
„ Hexham in 1464.
„ Lose-coat- field in 1470.
„ Blackheath in 1497.
The Chroniclers* accounts of these, as foel
have read, are very meagre. J. J), X*L
Bezoar Stoxbs. — Where can I find a 2**
account of Bezoar Stones, more especially of uoi*
that come from Africa ? I have read.the dictMS*
ary and chemical accounts, but want a r«fereiR
to the works of some traveller who fully dascri's^
them and their supposed value in medicine. Ir
John Davidson's African Journal (1836), I find*
short account of those I have. He says, —
" Had three of the famed serpent stonca brought metr
purchase; they fetch verj' high prices, as they are t ?^
medy for the hite of the reptile, and are used as a oh^
costly medicine. ... 1 boucht the thrM (at Mop
(lor). . . . They are d^nerally hroug^ht from S^iaa:
these, however, ^-ere taken from the M'hor, and are caIM
Sdai in the Mandingo language."
In the Penny Ct/clopadia they are mentioned ai
cominnr from tiic Antelope Mhorr, and bein^ higUj
valued in Eastern medicine under the name at
Baid'el-mhorr^ but no word ia said that woaM
give me the idea that they were used aa anliddCei
to the poison of a serpent's bite. Webster uses
the word antidote, but does not particularise ths
poison of serpents. I should tliink that it ia Te^
unlikely that these Bezoars (Ella^io or Lithofellic
acid) are of any use against snake bites, and shall
be obliged if any correspondent of " N. k Q." can
^ve me a reference to their being called ^m^fU
Mtones elsewhere than in my uncle's Jam-maL What
"^n^ WitA. v:,^OcyraX»^ ««r^\i\. «.\j(^^<q, thai wat ia Sbt
s'*s.y. jfATii.'M.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
390
possession of some Italian family two or three
nundred years ago? That, I thinic, possessed, or
was said to possess, the power of meking the
poison out of the wound ; it was no antidote.
John DAvn>soH.
Croghan. — It is stated by Mr. Lewis, in his
Topographical Dictionary of Ireland^ thnt the hill
of Cro{i;han, in the King*s County, is mentioned by
Spenser in his Fairy QuBen. Can any of your
r^ers giro the exact reference ?
TnOS. L^ESTBAKGE.
Davi80n*8 Case. — The last number of the
JSdinburgk Remew has a stranfrc ttile of hatred
and reyenf^e, in an extract from the Memoirs of a
Latfy of Quality. The whole would occupy, in
^ N. & Q.," more room perhaps than it is worth,
and it is not caMly abridged.
A Mr. Davison, somewhere in Devonshire,
beint; laid up with gout and unable to move, was
▼isite^l by an old schoolfellow, just returned from
India, to whom he bore ill-will f(»r offence given
when at school. They had not met since. Mr.
Davison seemed much pleased, and entreated his
iniest to Ktay the night. He consented, and was
found dead in the morning with his throat cut.
The servants, except one moid, were on a holiday ;
and as she was the only person in the house ex-
cept Mr. Davison, who was helpless, she was com-
mitted, and tried for the murder — her master being
the prosecutor. While the case was proceeding,
Mr. Davison sent a note to his counsel, Mr. Wed-
derburn (aflerwjirds Lord Rosslyn), desiring him
to ask the girl whether she had heard any noise in
tt« night. Mr. Wedderbum objected, but Mr.
Davison insisted. The question was put, and the
answers given nrouscd suspicion against Mr.
Davison ; who, ultimately, avowed himself the
murderer.
The "Lady of Quality," on the authority of
Mrs. Kcmblc (?), in 18-28, states that Lord lioss-
lyn told the story at a dinner party at his own
house. The reviewer quotes it as " on good au-
thority." Tiiose who rea«l it at length will see
that it is stagey, and that the proper conclusion
would be the ju(lgc discharging the prisoner With
his blessing ; and Davison, putting out his wrists
for the manacles, and saying — "Lead me to my
doom.** Of course, no " authority" can establisn
the fact that, in Devonshire in the last century.
the counsel for the prosecution cross-examined
the prisoner. I am inclined to think the story a
pure fiction ; but as I do not suHpect the ^* Lady
of Quality" of inventing it, I beg to ask whether
it had appeared in print before 1828 ? And
whether there were any facts on which it might
have been founded ? An Imubb TEHvukU.
JoHV Datts, rector of Castle Ashb/, in North-
amptoiiifair«^ wm oatAor of a Treatise on the Art
of Decyphering^ 1737, and an historical tract,
1739. The date of his decease will oblige
S. Y. R.
Fbeke. — Was Thomai Freke, merchant, of
Bristol, about 1730, of the Dorsetshire family 'r
Was his wife Frances a Miss Turnell ?
R. C. H. H.
GlEATOBEX, OB GbEATBAKES FaMILT. — I
should be much obliged if any of your geneal-
ogical readers could give me any information
respecting this ancient Derbyshire family, ori-
ginally possessed of Callow, with a moiety of
Biggin, and, during the reicrn of Elizabeth, of
estates in Hoptontown, near W irksworth, through
marriage with the heiress of Sir William Knive-
ton, Bart, who had married the daughter of
Nicholas de Rowsley, who had married the
daughter and heir of William de Hopton, of
Hopton, Wirks worth. They were also anciently
connected with the Barmaster*s Court of the
Court of Peverel, in the honour of Tutbury.
James Finlatson.
Hebbbw MSS.--Dr. W. Wall, Preface to
Critical NoteSy p. vii. says : —
** There is great reason to think that there were, about
A.D. I'id, several MS. copies of the Hebrew Bible, with
Mveral varioufl lections ; and that the Rabbis then met
together (at Tiberias, as the tradition is), pitched upon
one of them, which they would have to be taken for the
authentic copy, to be owned and used in all synagogues,
and destroyol all the rest.'*
What authority is there for this P
NEWHrGTOHENSIS.
Hebaldic. — A fess wavr between 3 escallop
shells. Crest, a beaver. By what family, con-
nected, I believe, with Leicestershire, were these
arms borne about a hundred jrears ogo ? Were
they borne by the Corrance family ?
R. C. IL H.
Hindoo God. -* I am much obliged for the
answers I received to my last query on •* Hindoo
Gods." I have been able to name almost all my
little idols from the references kindly given by
your correspondents. One of my images, how-
ever, still perplexes me ; it is this : a two-armed
man with a heard, sitting crossed-legged on a tor-
toise. He has an ornamented cap with two pen-
dants or flaps falling from it behind his ears ; bis
hands are ruise<I, with the palms turned forwards.
I don*t think that the tortoise has an vthing to do
with Knrmtt, the second avatar of Viibni| ; nor
can I find the tortoise mentioned as the Tehiele of
any particular divinity. Johh Datidson.
The Lasso.— What is the earliest known re-
ference to the use of the husQ f ^^ -^Vwsi \^>^.
first mentioned? \% \\. T«^«M!iiX»i w^ ^'w? ^^^ T«
Kulplnred mowiTb&iiU^ KwyruK^ ^^ow^ ^^
otherwine?
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S^&Y. IUtK^
MEDITATIONS ON LiFis AND Death. — There
have been two works lately published by Trubner
& Co. entitled, the one, Meditations on Death, the
other. Meditations on Life^ both professing to be
translated from the German. Has the original
Grerman ever been publbhed? Is it known who
was the author ? Mklbtes.
Lascblls. — Of what family was John Las-
cells, Attomey-at-Law, who was resident at Horn-
castle in 1720 ? Was l&e of the Nottinghamshire
family? His widow Susannah, whose maiden
name I am desirous of learning, gave a very
handsome brass chandelier and two silver flagons
to the church at Horncastle. R. C. H. H.
Luke Pope. — One volume of a History of the
County of MiddUsex^ by Luke Pope, apoeared in
1795. Was Luke Pope a real name ? If so, in-
formation about him is solicited. S. Y. R.
Raid. — Americans do not claim this word, but
give its origin, so far as is known, to Sir Walter
Scott—
** Widow and Saxon maid
Long shall lament our raid."
Lady of the Lake,
WiH any of your correspondents kindly favour
me with an earlier mention of this word, which
so briefly and correctly describes a daring ex-
ploit in an enemy*s country, and very frequently
a severe and unexpected loss to its inhabitants ?
W. W.
Malta.
" Rule, great Shaksprabe.*' — In the pro-
gramme of the Stratford Jubilee in 1830, is the
above name of a song. Can any of your readers
give me the name of the author, or supply the
words? At this time it would especially be in-
teresting to know its author, and to be able to get
a correct version of its words. L. J.
Sir William Steickijind. — I am anxious to
ascertdn the date of a marriage, which was cele-
brated in the East Riding of Yorkshire in the
sixteenth or seventeenth century, "before Sir
William Strickland." There were two Sir Wil-
liams who might be the person indicated ; tlic first
died 1598, and the second was Cromweirs Lord
Strickland. I presume, therefore, that the mar-
riage was celebrated before the latter as Justice of
the Peace^ neither of the Sir Williams having been
clergymen. Between what dates was the custom
of marrying before magistrates or justices allowed
or practised? Could the marriage have been
celebrated before the first Sir William, acting in
any official capacity ? Sigma-Theta.
William Stmes, of Queen*s College, Cam-
bridge, went out B.A. 1G81 — 2. He pubse-
quently became a member of Balliol College,
Oxford, being incorporated B.A.' \n that uui-
vergitjr 21 Nor. 1683^ and proceeding MA. tVv^t^
17 Dec. 1684. He was master of Saint Ssviou^
school, Southwark, and published —
** Nolumos Liliam defamari ; or a Vindkatkn of tte
Ck>mmon Grammar, so far as it is miarepretcatad in tb
flnt thirty animadversioDS contain'd in Mr. Johuoo's
* Grammatical Commentaries,' with remarks upoo the
same. Load. 8vo. 1709.'*
We shall be glad to be informed when lie wn
appointed master of Saint Savioui'a school, and
when and how he vacated the office.
C. H. & Tbomfsok Coom.
Window Glass. — ^Bede is commonly quoted •
assigning the introduction of window-gUuH to Ik
year 674. Will some one or more of your retdo
carefully con over his Life of Benedict^ and Of
whether it was not £gfrid*s grant of Und thatwa
made in that year, and the glasinj^ of the ehanl
must not be carried about two years later don*
Benedict*s friend Witfrid, restored to Yock If
Theodorus in or about 669, waa deposed in ^
having in tlie interval filled the windows ofiir
minster with glass. Can any contributtrs
" N. & Q." supply the date ? Bourne, ii »
History of Newcastle (1736), states, that "saw-
time in the reign of Queen Elizabeth caaesA
to England from Lorrain the Henzels, Tjadi
and Tytorys," moved thereto by *' the peni^
of the Protestants in their own country." ft*
immigrants, ** by occupation glass-makers," itthBi
first coming to l^ewcastle, " wroujrht in thdrtnAi
at tJbe Close Gate,** and afterwards removed i^
Staffordshire. Thence, however, they retansii
and settled upon the Tyne. Brand (1789), wc
cesser of Bourne as historian of Newcastle, thiab
** we may venture to fix the beginning of theglsv*
works upon the river Tyne about 1619, whentfacf
were established by Sir Kobert Maunsell, KnisfaA,
Vice- Admiral of England.** Had the glass-nuken
of Lorrain ibundcd no works on the Tyne before
those of Maunsell ? C
Sir Thomas Browne. — Will any of your
readers tell nie where to find ** An Account oftbe
Tryal and Condemnation of Amy Duny and Rose
Cullender for witchcraft at Bury Assizes, beftn
Jud|):e Hale?** — an account *^ printed in his Lord*
8hip*8 lifetime for an appeal to the world," ssTi
the Rev. Francis Hutchinson, who comments on
it in his Historical Essay concerning Witchcraft: —
" The two poor old women/' lie havs, ** i%-er» cbargtd
and convicted under thirteen indictments, for aooh thin^
as bewitching John Soam*8 vraf^^on to overturn or
stick in gateways; bowiUrhin^ the harvest men. m
that at the last load nt m^\\X. the men were weary, and
<-ould not unload that carl, ^c. But they wen alfo
(^iiar^cd with hewitchiu;; Mr. Pacv*8 child into fits. To
, vto\^ \.Vv\^ 3\v\^ U&Iq had the child brought hoodwiDlRd
\ wwo CQVLtV, \<iVk,Q va« conoi!^ ^ ^w Vosu^ ^ ^a^ at tka
Mat H» *64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES*
401
I ' of tbe aoffpoeed witch. Bat when mj Lord Chief
D deaired tlie Lord Coniwalli!!^ Sir Edmimd Bacon,
Mr. Seijuot Keeling lo try t^t axperimcnt in
ADOtber place* tbo girl fletr into the same mge lit tbo
, tooch of anoUier person ; and therefore those ^ntlemra
oe in and declared that th«j beliered it a meer ImpoA*
Here the scale was turning altogether in the
priaonera* favoyr, but tinluckilj —
** Sir Thorn ae Browns of Norwifh* th« famoas phy«i-
sinn of his time, was in court, and was de»ir«d by my
Lord Chier linnm to pre his judgment in the cam'; and
lie di*clArei5 * that b« waa dearly of opinion that the fiti
wore HAturaJf but heightened by the devil, co-opcrating
rith tbti malice of the witchea, at whose indtance he did
liUiiniea.' And, headded,that in Denmark there had
[ laialy a great discorery of witches, who used the
name way of gflUcting perAoni by coaveyitig pini
Thb declaration of Sir ThomAfl» Hutchinson
iiinkSf " turned back the scale that waa otherwise
oclining to the favour of the accused persons/*
Lndf " if the witnesses spoke truth, there was a
jabolical interposition in some of the facts;** but
rith all this. Judge Uale " was in such fears, and
oceeded with such caution, that he would not
' much as sum up the evidence, but left it to the
ury, with prayers * that the jrreat God of heaven
rould direct their hearts in ihat weighty matter."
Jut country people are wonderfully bent to make
■he ino?t of all stories of witchcrau ; and, having
lir Tbomas BrowDe*8 declaration about Den*
lark for their encourogetnent, in half an hour
hey brought them in guilty upon all the thirteen
iveral indictments. After this my Lord Chief
iaron gave the law Us course, and they were
Dndemned, and died declaring their innocence."
'heir punishment beings however, comtnuteil from
urning to hanging, ** because some of the afflicted
ersouii recovered."
So, if this account be true, here is the really
earned and humane expounder of vulgar erront^
main instrument in condemning to death two
por old women for a charge which even two
»antry gentlemen of the^time thought imposture.
ir Thomas could even admit the fits to be na-
mX ; but then he must have over a devil from
knmark to irritate them.
I see no reason to doubt Hutchinson^s accuracy,
lit I would fain see the original document from
hich be quotes. Qui vis.
[Hiitchitfson's notice of this remarkable occurretice ib
ken from the following work, " A Tryal of Witches,
bid at Bury 8l Edmonds, 8u0blk, on March 10, 1664t
Ifore Sir Mittihew Hale, kt. Lond. livo* 1682." A le-
rtnt of this work was published by John RusscU Smith
1^3^. Buth cditionn are in the IlritiAb MuMiunt. It.
not a little wu^ular that Sir Thomas Browni^'a princi-
ll btographer*, Whiiifoot, Johnson, and Kippt«,hjivc all
isaed ovof in »iU«rice thia want of diioern meat and feeliiirj
thi< mcraorablfl trial, and Mrhich has gone far in the
on of hia adoiirsr^ to detmcl frvm Itia character oa
as actttc and philoeopbical investigator of deep-rooted and
vulgar errors. This incident in the life of the author of
the RtHgio Medici waa .first noticed by Dr. Aikin in hia
BiojfraphUat DiciioHary. Since then Str Tbomaa has found
en apologist in his latest biographer^ Simon Wilkin,
F.I^S. Listen to what be aays in his ** Supplementary
MfFTOoir.*' (Browne's ITorH voL u p. IxxjtiiL ed. 1836.)
" But let tts be cautiouB and alow to pronounce jmlgment
on 8tich a man. In the first place, it must aurt'ly be ad-
mitted that he had nothing whatever to do with the
juatic« or tojnatico of the law which made witchcraft a
capital ofieoce. Hatch inson, therefore, haa C4?mmitted a
flagrant injoetice tn attempting to make him accountable
for the blood of these women. Can I with a safe c<m*
science acquit a man whom I believe tc be proved guiltv,
solely because I deem the law to bo unjuat which makes
hia offence eapital? Can my conjcientioos verdict make
me a party to the inJQ*Uce of that law ? Moat certainly
not. So must not Browne be condemned for giving bis
opinion, on the lole ground * that it was a case of blood.'
It roust be shown» either that ho was wrong in believing
that witchcxaa had ever existed ; or, if this cannot, in
the very teeth of Scripture, be ahovrn, then, secondly, it
must be proved that he waa wrong in hie ©pinion that
caaea of witchcraft still existed j or, thirdly^ that he er-
roneoualy deemed the preset to be a genuine ioataftco
of it."]
Aj^-Gazkl, alias Abu*Hamid. — Sir W. Hamil-
ton« in his Lecttires^ ii. p. 389, puts AJgazel down
as living " towards the commencement of the
twelfth century at Bagdad." G. H. Lewes, in his
Biaffraph. HisL of PhiloMophj/t says he was bom
at Tous, in 1508. Averroes wrote DestrucJio Dc
Mtruciionis^ &c., in answer to AlgazeVs Destructio
Philosophorum* Wotild you kir^dlv explain this,
and give me the proper dates of these two great
men? Fauu.
[Lewea's date of the birth of Al-Gazel ia clearly a rnia*
p^int; for 1508 read 105^. According to the best aaiho*
rities, thia celebrated Mohammedan doctor wax born at
Tiis, a large town of KhonUsan, in A.H. 460 (others say
451). A.i>. 1058*9, and died A.H, 505, (a.d. I HI). A
list of Al-Gazd^s numerona works on metapbyj^icf, morals,
and religian U given in Castries BiU. Arah. Uiap. Escur,
— The ^uict year of Averro«s' birth ia unknown. It
has sometimes been plai:ed in ad. 1149 Ca.h. 543-4), but
ihii ii certainly much too late, for he is aaid to have been
very old when he died, a.h- 695 (Aa>. 1198). The moat
celebrated of the worka of Avcrroiis, after his Oommenta*
rift on Arisiotltt is his reply to Al'Gazera Destruction &f
Uie Philotopharst and which be antillod Destruction of
the ZhMtmctiim, the earliest edition of which mentioned by
Panaer is that of Venice, 1495, ful.]
Joiiif Watson, Rector of Kirby Cane, in Nor-
folk, wa-s author of —
" Menioim of the FauiiU o( v\\ft %^^^tw^A,1!ls:w^'^^i^x«w^a^♦^
ahk Vrovidtti\c\« ot *i^*X Va^wA^ l^'%TO.^vtv *sv Vs:\'^rfiW«i^
402
NOTES AND QUERIES.
C8r<&Y«lfATU
of that Name that wert Kings of Scotland. Lond. Syo,
1688."
The author ii said to hare been a Scotchman.
He was presented by Charles I. to the yicarage of
Wroxham-cum-Salthouse, Norfolk, Nov. 8, 1639
(Rymer, xx. 383). From this benefice he was, it
seems, soon afterwards ejected. However, in 1647
he obtained the rectory of Kirby Cane, on the
presentation of Richard Catelyn, and was ordered
to be- inducted on condition that he took the
Covenant (^Lords' Journals, ix. 150.) He died in
1661, »t. forty-eight (Walker's St{fferings, ii.
401).
Abp. Nicolson (Scottish Historical Library^ 4tO|
edit *43) confounds him with Richard Watson,
D.D., author of Historical Collection ofEcclesiaS'
tical Affairs in Scotland^ yet the archbbhop's im-
pertinent remark on the Memoirs of the Stuarts
has been cited by Lowndes.
The preface to the Memoirs of the Stuarts may
contain some account of the auUior, but unfortu-
nately I have not been able to meet with a copy
of the work.
I hope through your columns to obtain further
information about this author, and also respecting
John Watson Rector of Wroxham, 1665-1692.
(Blomefield's Norfolk, x. 478.) The latter was
probably son of the author of the above work.
S.Y.R.
[We learn from the Preface to the Memoirt of the
8tuart» that John Wateon was a native of Scotland, and
that his early merits advanced him at the age of twenty-
three to be preacher at the Canongate in Edinbargh*
about the year 1G86, through the Interest of the learned
Spot5Trood. He came to England to escape the tary of
the Presbyterians, and was preferred to a vicarage in
Norfolk by Charles I. After his ejection from this place
he obtained, by the favourable recommendation of Lieut. -
Col. Bendish, the rectory of Kirby Cane in the same
coanty, then in the gift of Richard Cateline, Esq., where
he resided for more than twelve years in a retired and
pious solitude. It is also stated by his Editor, that at
the Restoration ** he resorteil to London to congratulate
the joyful change in national affair*, when he had the
honour to kiss His Majesty's hand, and receive some fur-
ther assurance of his bounty; but returning in a pleonasm
of joy, he expired in the ecstasy without any more marks
of royal favour upon hinL"]
Odb to Captaiw Cook. — I have in my posses-
sion an ode in MS. to the memory of Captain
James Cook, R.N., by Sir Alexander Scuom-
burgh. Can you tell me anythitig of the writer ?
Can you tell mc whethet the ode has ever been
published ? P. S. Caret.
[Sir Alexander Schomberg, knt, was an experienced
and gallant officer, who displayed great bravery at tho
relief of Quebec, and had a thorough knowledge of navnl
iMCikt, At the time of his death, which took p\«c« at
1804, he was the aldest captain in tha nyil m
commission being dated in 1767. His reasfaav
terred in St. Peter's Churchyard* Dablia. For ^
phical notices of him consalt Chamockli Bia
NavaliM, vi. 27S ; and the Annual JUgigtmr^ zlvL 4'
cannot find his ** Ode to Captain Cook ** in priaL]
DERWEKtWATEB Familt. — Can you gi
any information about the family of £
since the execution of the Lord Derwent^
Is there any pedigree of the family <
is brought down to the present time ?
[Consalt any of the following works : Au JH
ik9 Pariah of WhaUty, by Thomas Dunham W,
LI^D. ; Ellis's fkuufy of Badefyffe far iht Homi
Hon, 1800 ; Howitt*9 ViHta to RemarkiMe Ptaen,
Series ; and Dil$ton Hall, and Bamburgh Castk b;
Gibson, 8ro, 1850. I^rd Petre ia the represent
the last Earl of Derwentwater, and a reference ti
or Dod's Peerage will show that there are nnner
scendants of the first Earl. See titles " Petre,"
burgh." &c Consult also "N. & Q." 2n'« S. vt:
847,405,481.]
CARDINAL BETON AND ARCHBISHOP «i1
DUNBAR.
(3">S. V. 112.)
In the article above referred to, »jiving »
extracts from the " Protocols of Cuthbert Si
(where are they to be found P), there arc
errors.
** Jacobus secundus Archiepiscopiis Glas
sis,*' was not the celebrated Cardinal David B
but his uncle, and the second Archbishop of
fjow ; thoufrh, as J. M. refers to Keitn s &
Bishops (Edin. 1824, 8vo, p. 253), liis mist
rather unaccountable.
Glasgow was raised to the rank of a met
litan archbishopric by bull of Pope IniifKrent ^
dated Jan. 9, 1492, and its first archbisho
Robert Blacader, who died July 28, 1308.
successor, as second archbishop, was James
ton or Bcthunc, then Dishon elect of Gall
who was **post»ilated" to Glasgow Not. 9,
and consecrated as archbishop of that see,
Ifi, 1309, at Stirlinjr (Chartularif of Ola^ow,
The <latc * M. quinqungesimo ntmo ** must I
tended for ** M. qningentesimo nono,^ 1309.
translation to St. Andrew's and the prima*
Scotland, is probably correctly given as hi
been on June 3, 13*23, though it has been j
rally placed under the year 1522 ; for in a c
ment (jjiven in the Chartulary of ArhromA
states, in 1330, that he was then in the ap
year of his primacy. Also (in tb« CkaHidm
tacuca. At uio utno oi nia aeain, wnica \ooa pMc« a^ v j'^***^ '"•• ""» v* ••""*■ j» *•«»*' v" •"• ^^^^mwwmm^
8^&y.lCArl4p'M.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
403
fifth of hii ooniecrftticm, and tiie twelfth of hk
tnmsUtion to 8t. Andrew's.
Archbishop James Beaton died in September,
1539, and was sacceeded there by his nephew and
coadjutor, Cardinal DaTid Beaton, who had been
consecrated Bishop of Mirepoix in France, Deo.
5, 1537. There was certainly a second James
Beaton, who was subsequently also Archbishop of
Glasgow, but he was consecrated at Rome, Aug.
28, 1552, and died at Paris April 24, 1603, ap^ed
eighty-siz, the last survivor of the Catholic hier-
archy of Scotland. He was nephew to the oar-
dinaL
There never was an Archbishop of Glasgow of
the name of "James Bruce, a son of Bruce of
Clackmannan.** A prelnto of that name, who was
coBseerated Bishop of Dunkold on Feb. 4, 1442,
at Dunfermline, is said to have been elected to
the see of Glasgow in the year 1447, but ho was
never formally translated to that bishopric (as
already shown, it had not then been erected into
ftn archbishopric), and he died in the course of
the same year at Edinburgh, the see being still
▼ncant in Oct. 1447, since the death of Bishop
John Cameron on Dec. 24, 1446.
" Gawinus Archiepiscopus Glasguensis " was
consecrated to that see on Feb. 5, 152^ at Edin-
burgh, having been nominated third archbishop
on Sept. 27, 1524, on the translation of James
Beaton to St. Andrew*s. Therefore, the year given
in the " notorial instrument before the Reforma-
tion," now under review, must be erroneous in
more than one respect : for " M. quiiupiagesimo
xxxiiij.,** representing perhaps M. qvingentesimo
xziiij. (or 1524), would appear the correct read-
ing ; that given by J. M. is simply nonsense, as it
actually is " 1050 and 34,** or a.d. 1084, a mani-
fest absurdity. The year was 152 J.
Gavin, or rather Gawain Dunbar, was nephew
of the Bishop of Aberdeen of the same name, and
tutor to King Jnmes V., as well as a learned and
Accomplished ecclesiastic. For though grossly mis-
represented by Knox, his greatest admirer could
not desire for him a more elegant panegyric than
that of Buchanan. He was Prior of the Fremon-
fltratensian Monastery of Whitehorn, or "Candida
Casa** in Galloway (founded circa 1260), from
ftbout 1504 till his elevation to the episcopate;
but he certainly never was " Prior of W hitehaven
In Galloway,** as no such religious house ever
existed in Scotland, although a town of the latter
name is still to be found in Cumberland.
With regard to the mention of the coronations
of Kings James IV. and V. ; the first of these two
events certainly took place in the Abbey of Scone,
•8 proved by the Lord High Treasurer's books,
unaer date of July 14, 1488, and has been gene-
rally assigned to June 2G ; so that July 22, or
<* St VLuy Magdalen's Day," is not likely to be
correct
The second coronation, or that of the infant
King James V., was solemnised as soon as possible
after the disastrous battle of Flodden, but the
dates of its occurrence unaccountably vary in dif-
ferent historians of the period, though there seems
every reason to believe that it was al^o at Scone,
and in the month of Oct. 151*3. Still, however,
the actual day may have been Sept. 22, and the
place the castle of " Striviling,** or Stirling. The
officiating prelate was also doubtless James Beaton,
Archbishop of Glasgow, as the primate had fallen,
together with his royal father, at Flodden, and
Beaton was the only metropolitan in the kingdom.
Even in this entry, the year is again erroneously
printed miinque^esimo instead of quinffenteaimo^
though wnether the error is merely a clerical one,
and attributable to Cuthbert Simon, or to J. M.,
it is not for me to say ; but the recurrence, no
less than than three times, of the same mist4Lke of
tiagesimo (or fiftieth) for qningentesimo (or
five hundreth) is suspicious, and not creditable to
Cuthbert ^Simon's accuracy, or his commentator's
acumen.
I fear this note has extended to too great a
length, but as correctness in historical dates of
events is of much importance, I have been obliged
to enter rather minutely into the subject. With
reference to J. M.*s remarks on the character of
Queen Mary, and what might have happened if
she ** had received a virtuous education in Eng-
and," &c., &o., comment is useless ; and whether the
French court was more immoral than any other of
the time, or Queen Catherine de Medicis *' a worse
woman than even her namesake of Russia," are
topics which it is unnecessary to discuss in your
pages. But every impartial reader of history
knows that the objections to the alliance of the in-
fant Queen of Scots with Prince Edward were
too deeply rooted in the heart of every patriotic
Scot of that day, as well as in that of Cardinal
Beaton — one of the ablest statesmen his country
ever produced — to be overcome, even by the
"rough wooing'* of "Bluff King Hall" when he
ravaged with fire and sword the whole of the south
of Scotland, and destroyed several of its noblest
religious edifices during the miitsion of 1544 under
Hertford. The French alliance was, therefore,
absolutely necea^ary for the preservation of Scot-
land's independence as a nation ; and was only
opposed by those venal Scotish nobles who were
in the pay of England. A, S. A.
India.
The mistakes so obligingly pointed out by N. C.
(p. 201) originated in the loss of the proof, which
accidentnlly fell aside, nnd thus escluded correc-
tion. For* the reference to Mr. Grub's work^
the writer has to return hia iVvwvV^^
The a8Boc\at\OTV ol V\» Tv%asA ^^ ^^^^^T^S^.^
404
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8r<S.Y. ]lATl4,%i
Scotland, was the necessary consequence of the
intimate connection which, during the tender
years of the latter, existed between uiem. Letters
of the French Queen and the rojal mistress still
exist amonsst the Balcarres Papers in the library
of the Faculty of Advocates, adaressed to Mary of
Guise, showing the familiar terms and great inti-
macy which subsisted between them and Mary.
What chance could a susceptible and originally
amiable girl hare with two such instructors? One
of them would teach her revenge, murder, and dis-
simulation ; and the other — but better woman —
we fear, not the practice of virtue. Was not the
court of Henry 11. the hot-bed of idmost every vice
under the sim ? Yet there the poor girl was sent
by an ambitious mother and unscrupmous church-
man, to be brought up. The seeds then sown
would never be entirely eradicated.
Lax as notions assuredly were in 1560, we
cannot but feel surprise that a mother and a high
churchman could have selected such a place for
the education of the young Queen of Scotland ;
but the Primate of Scotland did not himself
scruple to indulge in those vices which were
deemed venial by ecclesiastics; and the regent
was too anxious to further the ambitious views of
her own relatives to regard the welfare of her child.
Had the custody and education of Mary been
transferred to England, her fate would have been
otherwise than it was. Even had she remained in
her own barbarous realms, she would have been
preserved from the pestilential advice and prac-
tices of one of the most infamous women that ever
disgraced the pages of history. J. M.
"ROBIN ADAIR."
(3'«» S. iv. 130.)
I have some old notes upon this song, made by
the son of one "who knew well" Robin Adair,
to whom it was addressed ; and who was also
himself an intimate acquaintance of Kobin*s second
son, Foster Adair, Esq., his successor, in posses- j
sion of his residence of Hollybrook, co. Wicklow.
According to these notes, the words of this song, ■
as also of another called the " Kilruddery Hunt" — I
a familiarly told and spirited account of a fox '
hunt of the year 1744 — "were the production
of Mr. St. Leger, a gentleman of fortune and
family," whose residence, called Puckstown, in
the county of Dublin, was but a few miles dis-
tant from both Hollybrook, and, nearly adjoining
thereto, Kilruddery — the seat of the Earls of
Meatli, whence the mime of the "Kilruddery '
Hunt." ^ I
Kobcrt Aduir, Esq., who.se memory is handed i
ilown under the name of " Kobiu Adair," was a
descendant of Archibald Adair, BwViop o^ L\»-
more and Waterford ; who spning hvm. wt oU
family, long previously resident in Scotlattd.*
Robin's elder son, ** Johnnj Adur,** of SI-
teman, appears among those named as praoi
at the run in the " Kilruddery Hunt " wtmg. Bobic
is described in my notes as ^a plain, ibsbIt,
jolly fellow — the delight of the numeroos tad
respectable friends with whom he associated, ot
account of his extraordinary conviTial qualitiei-
of generous hospitality, friendship, and goorf
humour:" and the song is noticed as ihoviif
the " warmth of that friendship which wM^i
between that gentleman and his friends,** oMBf
the number of whom was the composer of ttt
words of the song; which, adds the sflia
" have been most whimsically adapted to ^
sweet plaintive old Irish air of * Aileen am*
The familiarly expressed words of this dnikiv
song were possibly intended, ori^iiially, fir A
inner circle alone of intimate friendship.
Robin*s almost unparalleled powers of end^
at the festive board enabled him, in a fff
which has become the subject of family tztf*
and recorded anecdote, to join, or rathe i^
with seeming impunity in the observance of ik*
old-fashioned habits of hospitality of his day,itt
allowed such unlimited sway to the Bacchaad>
god. Two gigantic claret-glasses of his, of of^
capacity, are to this day preserved in the n^
of the descendant of one of Robin*s daughteitiV
present owner of the picturesaue demesse rf
Hollybrook, Sir George F. J. Hodson, Bart^ vH
and Lord Moleswortn, descended from anotbtf
daughter, are the present representatives of Robit
An old wire- strung Irish harp of Kobin*::, il^^
preserved in Sir George*s family, would tend b
prove that the old fashions alluded to did vA
prevent liobin cultivating a taste for more refiaei
pursuits. Kobin flourished iu the earlier portioc
of the eighteenth century. £. K. J.
OLD BINDINGS.
(2»« S. xii. 432.)
James IIeid relates an interesting discovery it
the binding of a worm-eaten copy of CalTin'i
Sertnons on the Oalatians ; and urges other readen
of *' N. & Q.** to look to the outside as well as tkc
inside of their old books. About two years since
I purchased at Puttick and Simpson's a thi^
quarto volume of old plays. It was much wuno-
eaten ; but I bought it for one play I wanted. Ofl
breaking up the volume I found the sides to con-
sist entirely of leaves of old black-letter books,
pasted together. On account of their wormed I
condition, it required much care to dissect them.
* iMMiifd GtMtr^y edit 1846 ; nam«b •'Adair sf Bifle-
w
S'- & V, May IK 'O*-]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
405
The rollowing it the result : 1. Sixteen folio leavea
I of li work on ihe Discipline ofihc Catholic Churchy
* rtcttted» 2. Four folio leaves of ^Leoturos or
Homilies of the Church, b^ Betle^ Gregory*
_entiu5, &c* Thcte are also rubricated, and
contain four woodcut initials, each about two
inches high by an inch nnd n half wide. The first
Icif such woodcuts ■ t »>arin^ of Angek to
I the Shepherds at ti y. The second is n
I bishop and conncil in cQiidiive. The third seems
I to be the preaching of St. John the Baptist in the
\Vllderne«5; Jerusalem Is In the distancei and
I many of the auditors arc shaven monks. The
' irth y a monk carrying a large clasped book
tbitf left arm. 3» Sixtr^en leaves and fragments
^ a nmtiW quarto, Mrntflrnim aut pQtiwi tni-
ts^atortu cdruhiario35C" rfaluhrrrtmu, &c, &c. On
, thr>title-pa«fi' fHio bcginning^ of which is as above),
a woodiMil 3 1 in nil OS high by 2 J inches wid<*,
present! ii|,' the art of printing. On the right
band I.« the compositor seated at work, with his
"ck" in his hand, and his "copy" su.<«pended
him. On a shelf over his head lie three
. bookp, a folio and two quartos. In the
'"centre of the picture is the press, on the cross-
-beam of which are the words ^rcttt 'BitiiiKniL
>n the lefl is the pressman, " pin " in hand,
crcwing down; and behind him an assistant
rith an inking ** pad ^* in each hand. This last
ork has several woodcut Initials, and the only
late I can find in the whole, 1513.
I should be glad of the assistance of any one
J learned in early typography than myself, in
naking out these fragmentji. W, Lee.
LEWIS MORRIS.
(3«*S.v.3250
I have within the last week had an opportunity
Sbrded me of looking through a letter-book of
^ewis Morris's, and lome other papers belonging
|o hirn, which are now in the possession of a dis-
"anguiiihed Welsh scholar ; and an they would seem
explain the chargeB made by LjElius, I shall
~! greatly obliged if you will insert this notice of
The letters, which are autograph, are addressed
by L, Morris to "The Honourable Thomas Walker,
-Ills Majc9ty*s Surveyor of Mines, and Mr. Sharpe
if the Treasury." They are all written between
years 1744*47, and all refer to the mainten-
I of the crown rights in the Welsh silver and
mines in Cardiganshire, and in particular
the manor of Perveth, on which encroachments
long been made by the companies of mining
nitorers, and by the great county families. He
^Uaini of the ilifliculty of doing his duty to
llie crown, of the strong opposition which he had
meet with ; of threats to prosecute him for
tresp9«ii; of itt being impotsible to execute a ntr-
vey I of the ditlicuUy of obtaining information, the
mouths of the poor people being closed by me-
naces ; of an attempt, by one of the families dis*
puting the crown rights, to eject him forcibly from
a house which he had taken near the centre of the
mining district ; of hi.s being appointed to com-
pulsory offices in the county, so as to prevent him
from doing his duty under the warrant from the
crown. He is constantly reminding the crown
officers, and Mr. Sharp in particular, of the abso-
lute imposaibUtty of his carrying on the battle
unless properly supported with funds, and unless
indemnified against the actions which he foresees
would be brought against him, and, considering
the power of the local magistrates at that time,
with every prospect of succ^s. He seeks to con-
vince the crown of the necessity of taking certain
steps — ^snch as the appointment of a crown solici-
tor from another and a distant county, and the
displacement of the steward of the manor ; and
not unfrequently aiisumes^ an indignant strain
towirds his correspondent, Mr. Sharpe, for his
slackness in carrying out his suggestions — "For
God's sake let me hear from you on this matter 1
*TiB impossible for me to fight the klng^s battles
single-handed." A Jtealous officer,^ — evidently not
likely to conciliate opposition, or to make things
pleasant.
What all this came to^ and how this zeal was
rewarded, appears from copies of certain deposit*
tions sworn in a cause of Williams against »
respecting the rich mine of Esgair Mwyn in the
year 1754, and bound up with the letters above
quoted. WlUIoras would appear to have been a
common person, induced by certain of the great
landowners to assert a title to the mine, he having
nothing to lose, and having sold his interest to
them. Evan Williams (not the plaintiff) says that
he was a partner with others in working the mine
under Mr. Lewis Morris, who, as he understood,
let it under the crown. That at that time there
were reports of mobs being raised by one George
Jones, Mr. Powell, and others^ to take possession
of the mine. That the defendant saw the said
George Jones, John Ball, and others, to the num-
ber of some hundreds, on Feb. 23, 1753, come
with arms to the said mine, and saw them take
away the said Lewis Morris by force to prison ;
and heard the plaintiff curse the said John Ball
and Mr. Powell ibr the mischief they had done, and
hope to God that wicked people would not gain
their ends against him, but that he would be again
in passesBion of the said mine,
1 have recently been told that this was an
astonishing instance of violence, both the assailants
and defenders of the work having brought up
cannon to their assistance, and life having been
lost on both sides.
There is (itv\^ i>ii«i c»\Jw» \^\.XKt \tv^Caft->aR*3«^^^'^
406
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[•■^aV. lUrlilC
that is l)j Levis Morrtg to a correspon<leiit, whom
he uddre:»seii as *^ My Lord.'* It is dated Penbryn
House, July, 1763, some ten years later than the
above. He says : —
** I am very f:;Iad that my poor endeavours pleased yoa ;
but, to underbtand um the bettf'r, it mar not be amiVs to
let you know^ my situation. I am neither in want nor
great riches, but enjoy ronteiitment of mind. I have no
eonncction with nny people in power, and am not solicit-
ous of obtoininf^ any favour, except it were a sinecure,
my luinds and feet boin^ scarcelv fit for any buftiness of
activity at present. I lio<l myseif by the decay in my
materials to be drawin;; towards a dissolution. I have
hit on ungraterul maners in the Treasury, and T look on
all the pains I have taken to come at knowled<ce as
thrown away by a mistaken application. All that I have
at present any care for arc a wife and seven small rhildreD,
the welfare of whom it is my duty to stiuiy. My other
children and j^randchildren are provided for pretty wall."
He then jajoes <»n to give his correnpondcnt ad-
vice about his mines in Cardiganshire, and en-
larges on the clifliculty of setting a mine into
proii table working : —
" Tiiis I did for the crown at Ksgair Mwjti with-
out any assistance, but having; against me a' trit>e of
villains, and the world vees how they rewanled me. Kven
my letters to Mr. Sharpc in the course of the lawsuit
were handed about, and showu to Mr. Powell to exas-
perate him apraiiist me. Tijoao that had bocn friends to
the crown were no more friends unless they joined with
Mr. 8haq)e in endeavouring to ruin me."
He then ^oes on to warn hia correspondent
against having anything to do with a mining agent
of the name of 15all, and encloses paiK-ra to prove
his case : —
J^ I'apiT A. w;is i«xluijiti\l ai;ain«t J. Hall in the year
17;">;i. .-ilMHit tlu- tiini- llio trial w:is lii-tween th«' Cniwn
ami Mr. I'l.wcll ab..ut Ks^jair Mwyn, .H«»on ttlicr my im-
prisonment Uy Mr. Towi'irM robeUat Cardiijan.*'
Thosu [janors show that Lewis Morris was not,
as LA:Lirs snuirrsts, ** ruined.'* They show what
the nature of his ''imprisonment" was; not, as
some of your reador.s may liavii thought, impri-
tsonnicnt on a criininal charge, but a lawle.<fs act
of violoni't* not nnusual a centnry ago in Wales,
to whicli lift doL's not scruple to alhuie in a letter.
Whatever his grii^vaiu?e against the Treasury, or
whatever the cause of quarrel, thi-y show that
L.*;Mrs'» "embezzlement" is a pure product of
imagination.
If these extracts convince your rca<lcrs, a«< I
think tlicy must, that L.r.i.it s has made a tbolish
attack upon a great reputation, I shall be satisticd.
I suppose it is vain to .'*ugiie>t caution to a gentle-
man, who, as In* says, " for thirty-throe y»'ars has
written fur tlio niagazini's." Hut it is a matter of
duly ncvLTth-.k'-'. C'a.uubian.
*• rAJMlJ.V HiRYINii (iRolXl)" (3'-* S. V. :177.) —
Aunnv will find tb»i pa*sa,re of which he i* in
search in iVior's Li/t* of Jhuh. {'lm\ cilit. 18*26,
YoL i p. 40), ijurke visited WcalvmusUix M^V^'j
soon after his arrival in Loadon, about 17M.
" The moment I entered,** he taja, ^' Iftlt a kind
of awe *' which was indescribable. Mn. Ki^tis-
gale's monument he first noticea, and ooesidcnl
that it ** had not been praised beyond iu meriif
but he objected to tbe dart, and auogested si i
substitute, what would moat certaiiSj not ksn
been an improvement, viz. *^an exiingiiiihedtordk
inverted " I
The passage ([uoted bj Abhba. u tkns iBli»
duced : —
" I have not the least doubt that the Gnest pseais ft'
EafCli^li laoffuafxe, Milton*s It Pemaenmo, was eonpMi
in the long -resounding aisle of a moaldering cloiMu^ »
ivy'd abbey. Vet, after all, do you know that I wr Ji
rather sleep in the southern comer of a little aartr
chnrvh^-ard, thnn in the Tomb of the Gapaleta. I ih(±
like, however, that my dust should mini^ with kiaM
dosL The {;ood old expression, ' family burying gnsU
has something pleasing in it, at least to me.^
I gladly inserted this passage in a work of sr
own On the Reference doe to^ Holy Placet^ \^
both from its beauty, and feeling autisfied thii'
general intrrxluction of cemeteries, needful KJf
unquestionably arc, must rapidly diminish tbes»
ber of** family burying places" in our churchji^
J- II. J^Iabuaa
SuEEir PaioKY (3^ S. v. 379.) — Yoar o^
respondent, W. C, is correct in hia inlbrmiMSi^
some spirited drawings in the Bodleian (/Sbse
Monastery, by Wyngiirde, taken from thiNttrf
Lord Bacon, on the opposite side of the rbtna
in the parish of Twickenham. They were *!•
covered at Antwerp, and their date ia about t^
end of Mary, or beginning of Klizabcth. Cf
nccted with these drawings, but I cannot sayb*.
is tlie name of Mr. Whittofk, an engraver. i»f **
Ivichard Street, Liverpool Road, Islington. X.*
An OccasioxaL Corr£spom>em.
Fardkl or Land (.'i'* S. v. 35S.) — Fizrdti i?
used in Scotland for "a fourth." ITius ^
favourite Scotch cake called "short bread** ii*
large, circular, flat cake cut into f«*ur pieces, e^^
of which is <rallcd \i fardel, \ fardel of land mil
be the Iburtli part of a hidci plough, acre, orioxj
local measure. W. &
Knglisii Topography ix Dutch (.T* S. v. 551
Ah the book is said to be " written in High Dalcb-
and printed at Nuremberg,'* I presume il is ii
■ (lerman. I do not know it, but have a Dutfh
I work which is probably irun>lated or ubriJ!:t!d
' from it : —
! ** ilistorisrhe LnndbeM-hryvinfre van <rmot KrittaB.iM
' ofto Kn^viaiidt, Sohotlant,' eii Vrlandt, inila«caiJen'«ti
; runtzom^cK'^iMi Kylaiulen. N ii eeri>t door eeu Lieilictbtf
in*t Lii-ht j;(!liriU'ht. Mi>ldcllmr}£. h>()f;. ]-Jnia. pp.oJl'
[* Theliir^c fohieil view of l<ondon. by Wyndrde, hu
beiMi engraved, hy jH*rinis<iiin of the tru8t<'C< of the IM-
I luiaii Library, bv N. Whiitmk, and was publishrd s f«*
I vrars since bv Messrs*. Whittiick and Ilvde. of liliDct*^
\ *VwW« ^. & ^" -M S. viii. 831.— Ed.] "
r*&y. MATa^ei]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
407
The matter of the work, so far as I have ex-
amined it, is taken from Camden, but instead of
maps of the counties, bird*8-eve views nf the towns
are given. That of Stafford has ten hills, a wall
going round about two-thirds of tlie town, a for-
tified gate towards Eccleshall, and what is pro-
bably a drawbridge towards Lichfield. As to the
fortifications,
** De Stadt is van Edoard den ouden getiramert, en ran
de coningh Jan iagenomcn. Nact Ooeten en auyden is ty
van haer Baronneo met eea mucr omtrocken. Aan de
andere xijden wordt sy door staende poelen beschermt.
Den Omnngh der U'allen 240 Schrcden zijnde." (P. 194.)
The description of Rutland is very short, and
there is no plan or map to it. An outline of
British faistoiy to the Restoration is prefixed. I
shall be happy to lend the book to T. P. K. if,
after this notice, he wishes to see it. H. B. C.
U. IT. dob.
** Iv TBE Midst of Life we are in Death,**
»TC. (S'* S. v. 177.) — Some years ago I made
considerable researches regarding the origin of the
sentence " In the midst of life we arc in death,**
having been told It was to be found in the Bible.
The best answer I could then meet with was, that
it was a free translation of 1 Sam. xx. .?, ^* There
is but a step between me and death.** Notwith-
standing the able remarks in " N. & Q.** tracing
it to a German origin, I am still loath, with Robert
Hall, to give up the idea that it is to be found in
Scripture. It occurs to me, therefore, that any
one having access to a good collection of curly
Englbh or Latin translations of the Bible, may,
peraaps, find the above verse so rendered.
Fentomia.
The Rouin (3'* S. v. 347.) —The charge of
parricide against robin-redbreast is not altogether
without foundation ; though, when ex])lained, all
guilt is tiiken away from the unfortunate bird.
If he killed bis father, it was under the same cir-
cumstances as the Greek tragedians represent the
death of Laius by his son CEJipus — entirely an
accident, without any malice aforethought. In-
deed, the pugnacity of the robin is rather from
noble feelin;:, and is mentioned, to his credit, by
Bewick in his accurate history of British Birds: —
" Daring the time of incubatiou, the male sits at no
great distance, and makes the vroods resound with his
delightful warble; ho keenly chases all the birds of /us
own fpecies, and drives them from his little settlement:
for it has never been known that two puirsi of these birds,
who are ax faithful as they are uiiioruus, were lodged at
the same time in the same* bu&h."
The pugnacity of the robin, then, is simply that
of the Red Crois Knights, when they returned
from the Holy Wars. They were ever ready to
break a lance in guarding the murria;;o 1)0<1, and
for Ihe defence of their lady-love. In this honour-
able employment — this faithful duty — it is pro*
bable that parricide occasionally happens unwit-
tingly; for the fight, as I know from having
watched them, usually takes place between a
young and an old bird, to the death of the latter.
Hence tlie common observation in rural districts :
" You never see a robin two years* old.** But thia
is from the uxorious accident, not from any san«
guinary tuiimus. The disposition of the robin is
peculiarly mild and benevolent It was he that
covered with a leafy tomb the babes in the wood,
esmoeed to starvation by their cruel uncle. And,
I* Who killed cock-robin ?"— not his son, but that
impudent hishwayman the sparrow ; while the
other birds all volunteered to take each a part in
the funeral service over their favourite, slam bv a
poacher*8 arrow — " Occidit ; exsequias ite fre-
quenter aves.** Further: "Odimus accipitrem,
quia semper vivit in armis.'* The daring hawk,
with eagle eyes, will dash through the casement
upon the pet dove hanging in a cage within a lady*s
boudoir: for war and plunder arc his daily ** occu«
pation." The timid robin, on the contrary, with
a languishing, beseeching eye, liops into Uie room,
and gently pecks the ci*umbs from the breakfast
table. Robm-redbreast is the most sacred of our
household birds. For pity's sake, don't implicate
** N. & Q.** in spreading slanderous stones, in
these awful days of murder, against the innocent
robin, of killing his own father.
QnBEN*8 Gabdsks.
FoBEjGN HoKOUBS (3^ S. Y. 296.) — Samuel
Egcrton Brydges, born at Wootton in 1762
(younger brother of Edward Tymewcll Brydges,
whose claim to the barony of Chandos was re-
jected in 1803), was made knight of the Order of
St. Joachim, in 1808, and was afterwards known
as Sir Egerton Brydges, K. J. JdBLBTBa.
Bdblesque Paintbbs (3"* S. v. 345.) — I can
give no information where the two pictures are,
which are inquired for by J. R. But with
reference to the first by Coypel, I suspect that hy
^^ Sanatol" is meant Sanadon-^si celebrated Jesuit
and poet, who published a collection of Latin poems
and a French translation of Horace. The second
query, about holding the candle to St. Dominic,
will be answered by the following account, which
I translate from a scarce, early,, and curious work
in old German, Der Ileyligen Lthen, printed at
Augspurg in 1477 : —
** One night St. Dominic was writing by candle-light
what he was to preach to the people. Then came tbt
evil spirit to him in the shape of an ape, and kept jump*
ing before him and all about him, and tried all he could
to distnrb him. Now Saint Dominic well knew in his
mind that he was the evil spirit, and that he wanted to
disturb him; and he spoke thus to the tiend: *I com-
mand thee in the name of God to hold the candle till I
have finisho<l writing.' The evil spirit was oblif;ed to
obey him, and hold the candle for him. And when the
light was nearly burnt out, he found it very hot. '^^^-'^r
the fiend said : • Let ma tta, Xiaa \i^\.\wa:\» xs^ '^''Si
woxse than VifML &ia: ^^f^^ isawwwl 'e«ax ^ysa&s*..
408
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[S^S-V.Ha
•Yott inuft k*»pp Holding it, tUl 1 hart dcwie writing.*
Ami when he had BiiUhcd, the candle went out : and thou
the tvH sptrit departed in a grciii rage."
It may am use the German student to see a
specimen of tbe origmaL Here is the concluding
sentence : —
'* Und do er attMig«8thT«ib dowu dea liechcz ufrntr. do
f&f der b&a gefM bin mit groioe zofeQ."
P. C. H.
Robbut Robinson of Cambhidgb (3"* S. iv»
481, 529).— See The Univerml Theological Maga-
zine, edited by W. Vidler (vol, yi. 1802), for an
interestini; account of Robinson. The yolume
alfio contains one of his letters). Jitxta Turbim.
** Revenows a wos MouToift" (S^ S. V. 346.) —
*rhe plinise '* Revenons a vox moutonfi " occurs in
the comedy of VAvocai Patdin (Act in* Scene 2)»
by De Brueys, first performed June 4, 1706, the
nubject of which was taken, he says, from Les
Trmnperies, Fineue^ et Subtilites de Maitre Pierre
PateliTi, anocai d Paris. Printed at Rouen by
Jacques Cailloue in 1656, from a copy of the year
1660. In the Oargantua of Rabelais (i. 1), the
phrase is, *^ Retournant k noz moutons," which, in
a note by Jacob, is said to be a proverb in allu-
sion to the fable of Patelin. This proverb and
Patelin are therefore of some antiquity, Rabelais
being born in 1483, and dying in 1553. Pasquier,
who was fourteen years of age at the death of
Rabelais^ in his Rechcrches sur la France (book vii.
chap. 66), says, ** Revener k voa moutons," and
other proverbs, had been taken from the fountain
of Patelin, which be conjectures whs pUyed on the
scaffold. See the Preface to De Bruey's VAitoaai
Patelin, in Petitot's RSp. du Thmtre Francois,
xvi. 371. T. J. Bdckton*
Skfia (3'* S. v. 322.)— The statement that the
tepia eheds its ink when alarmed, is not incon-
listent with its retaining a consideriiblo quantity
after such dischar^je. The chief object of this
natural provision is t^ obscure the water, ond thus
facilitate the escape of the sepia from its pursuers,
which mif^ht not be effected if one discharge ex-
hausted the supply, Aristotle {HisL An., iv. 2)
aays the discharge is JTrov <i>oBr)0ij "when it is
afraid," and (HUC An., ix. 37), itpJ^ttaf x<^t^^ **f«r
the sake of hiding itself," and (Part. An., iv. 5)
ir\f c'tt> -yeip f^** ^** '^^ XP^*'"^'*' ^w^Aor, ** has it co-
piously, being in constant use/* Professor Owen
{Lect, xxiv, "Cephalopodin,*' p, 355) »»ys the ink-
big *• is a very active or^raii, and its inky secretion
C«n be reproduced wirh jxreat activity.'* It is
Situate between the liver and the muscles which
surround the arms, close to which the duct enters
the intestine. In the Zoological Trtmnftctiamf
(i. 86) will be found a drawinsy of the ink-ba^r of
t!t' ' ■ 1, which doifs not differ much from tltat
or 1 have *eoii a sepia alVr death, and
M/tti *UL ;,r-f .•»/rirm at being caug\it,^\uc\i ^u»
smeared over with ink, of which a Tirrf cdlii-
tity covered the dish. It is cimo i hil
whilst some of the cephalopods nbscu :*dt.
others enlighten it by "emitting m lufnimry* soore*
tion '* (Owen, Lect. xxiv. p. 355 >* FrofcMfflf Owa
conjectures that the ink-bag is ft eonipetiaitioti fcr
the protecting eh ell (Led, xxuL p^ ^^5). IW
stones called thunderstones, or urr^frheMti ni
known in geologjy jw belemnites, ftre oo^ wc'f'
nieed as fossil sepia, some of whir* ' -4 ttj
contain ink. See Penni/ CffcJaptpdir
vi, 425 ; xxi. 250. T. *f i
Ettmoixkjt or the Namb Mosbs (3*^ '
This etymology is given in an ortide
SchoUz in the Repertiyrium pf Eiclitioni (p
p» 10) entitled **ExpoStio vocabuioruiaCofi
in Scrtptoribua Hebraicis ac Gnceu cMoim'
(pp. 1—31), where such words aa Bdisii^
Ibis, Canopua, Labyrinth, Memphis, A minna, Oi I
Syene, Hrksos, Ob, Papyrus, Pyramk, Vkik '
nan = art, 1K^ = river, &c., are expLaioed If ^
Egyptian roots, T. J. Be
D*AiifticHcouBT (S** S. v* 320.) — H»<
find some few particulars respecting tbk :
in the new edition of Hutchins*s Hisitfrf < ^'
now publishing' l;y Messrs. Shipp of E
The reader must search for the inform*
^' Bridport" division of the work ; tor tli«fl
yet, no Index, and the book is only A|>ptfl^^
intervals in sections.
In Bridport church, some ten yemm i
were the remains of an ancient altar I
member of this family. It once ret;te«l i
against the wall of the north aisle of ilie <
but when I saw it^ about 1854, it hmd
into the pavement, and was buried
staircase of a gallery for the school
erected in the chancel. The church hit*
recently restored, the chancel rel
tomb destroyed; at least, 1 could ii
recent visit. The in<icriotion is j*r*j
Hutchins; who also, I think, recortis
shield of arms of this family h, or was, i*4xtb
in stained-glass on one of the chancel wind
JcxT4 Tra
Htmh QuERitts (f^S. r.345)— Tbc hjte^
the translation of which T — —
*' My God I lovf! > •cauaa
1 1n>j>e for hftuvcu thcittj\,**—
is the celebrated hymn compose*! by St. Frsoo*
Xavier t •* O Deus, ego amo t*-*," etc.
It is true that, in the Vi^t which I aent loUly ♦■
"N. & Q,," ftevcrnl Lali
I gave tliOiii! only of v^
known, or which wt're at
one or more luithor*. i
rrinning with *' Jchu K^dt ju
luivc nothing in common
\ \,*^v\vvt\\. \fc\\ v*V\\«.Vv is the
liOii
br.'
sni-j....
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
[Der
[eoqiitrj, bat I presume it is the one most known,
|tbat for the Vc*[iers of Christmns Day : —
** Jesu Hodemptor omDlum,
Quern ludi ante origincm/' etc
[The aulbnr of this hjmn is not known ; but there
fUE an old hymn, in the Breviury of St. Plus V^
rhich began — ^^Chrute Redemptor omniuuL'* — and
fas composed by St. Ambrose.
Am to the lively and ingenioiia hymn — " 0 filil
\ ei filiie " — It never had a place in the Komati
Breviary^ or MissaL Ita use was confined to
^yroDCtf; and it is probably the compositioo of
I French author, and of no ^reat antiquity,
perfect collection of Faber's hymns was
blishi^ two years ago by Richardson & Son,
)erby, and 26» Paternoster How, Londun^ in one
ue volume, price six BbillLngs. F. C. H«
GrriMATE Ceuldreit or Coables 1L (3'"'^
V. 289.) — It is asked what authority there ia
or the existence of Jamea Stewart, a Catholic
iriest, enumerated by Oxonlb!ish (3'^ S, v. 211)
mongst the children of Charles 11, ? In the first
lumber of the Home and Foreign Review there is
interesting article on this subject, entitled
Secret History of Charles IL,** in which the
writer enumerates nineteen documents existjnjr in
the Archives of the Jesuits at Rome, A. £. L.
Lawn and Crape (3^^ S, i. 188 ; ii. 359.) —
X)ixoN asks the meaning of Pope's line : —
^ A Miint }Q crape ia twice a aamt in Iawil"
After the Act of Uniformity, and the ejection
from the Church of such usurping ministers as
refused to conform, it became diflicuh to fill up
the vacancies. It will be obvious, however, to
those acquainted with the history of the time, that
■^uch dimculty would not extend to the higher
irders of the clergy ; because there was a large
body of learned men still livings who had been
Kppiscopally ordaineil before the suppression of the
Prelacy and the Common Prayer. As a matter of
necej^ity, therefore, a very much lower cImss of
meOf both tisi to learning and position in society,
were admitted into the Church as curates. These,
lavin^ no academic gowns, and unable from their
pecuniary circumstances to purchase silk, adopted
a thin and cheap material called ** crape." The
word "crape" became the adjective designation
or a clergyman of the lowest position in the
I'hurch. I need not say that *' lawn" it still used
o distinguish the epis<*opate. For full informa-
ion aa to the crape-gown men, I would refer Mk.
')txoii briefly to Dr. J. Eachard's Grotmds and
OccuMwnn of the Cvntetnpt of the Clergy and Re-
iigion inquired itito^ 1 8 mo, London, 1670. Also,
Sftendtim Crape- G oumorum : or^ a L<mking GlaJta
for the Yt/ung Academicn^ New Foytd^ 4tc>, Parts
L and U., London, 1682 (this has been errone-^
Oiily ttltribut*d to Defoe) ; Hijiections upon Two
Scurrilout Liheh called tSpectdum Crmit'GQWi^
orvm« 4to, London, 1682; Concmimm Capp&'Clo*
aeorum, in Rt^flecti^fm on the Second Part of a hie
I^amphlet itUittded Sjtectdum Crape* Oownor amy
itOi London, 1682.
W. Lkb.
"I »i«T« Sauo" (3'^ S. V. 98.)— Several wecki
having eUpsed without any answer to inquiries
about this Italian manuscript, perhaps the fol-
lowing remarks may be acceptable. The seven
penitential psalms were paraphrased in teria rima
by Dante m bis old age ; but, like rest of hia
works, did not see the light till after his deaths
when his son Jacopo Dante made them known to
the world. Jacopo Dante might have been hig
father's amanuensis, hence his name on the title-
page. What the first word "Can" means^ is not
so clear. It is, however, just possible that Jacopo
might also have been christened Cane after Dante*A
intimate friend and patron, Cane of Verona.
MafTei^ in his Storia delta Letteratura Italiana
(p. 55), speaks of Dante Alighieri having written
a metrical paraphrase of the seven penitential
psalnia shortly before hia deatli ; and Beolchi, in
the short Life of Dante, prefixed to his Fiori
Foetid^ has the following passage : —
** Sentivii i suoi giorai decllnare verso il itirmioe, oade
li diede ad eserciUre il suo -genio poetico in sog^etti
Mtcri. l£ molto probaihile che in queato l«mpo schvesoa
la Parafrasi ai Setto ^^almi Penitenziali."
Fentonia*
Irish Heraldic Booxs and MSS. (3*** S, v^
321.) — I beg to inform Sap. Dom. As. that he
will find an Ordinary of Arms with Geneaiogical
Notes, by James Terry, Athlone Herald, in the
British Museum, HarL MS. 4036. C. J.
^tj^ccTIimcausC.
NOTES OX BOOKS, ETC
Iharieaofa Lady of Quaiiiy^from 1797 ta 1B44. £ktitmi,
with Notes, bjf A Haywoid, Esq., Q.C. (Lotigman.)
The lastaamber of The Edinburgh Revietv preparcil the
reading public to expect a very nmusing volume in the
forthcoming feleclion from tlic Diaries of Miss Frances
Williams Wrnn. T)iis lady, the deughter of Sir Wfttkins
WiUianu Wynn (the fourth baronet), siit«r of Mr. Charles
Wjnn and of Sir Hcnrj', who waa so long English mini-
flter at Copenhageo, wae also niece of the tirat Marquii
«f Backingham, Lord Grenville^ and Mr. Thoma« Gren-
vUle. An educated and accompliabod woman, moving in
a €4Trle as distinguifihed for ability as for position, in
dail ' irjiewitli iQOst accomplished people, and a
niu Niouj books BDd MSS., Mi^ Wyon has
am' itie ten Diaries, which she filled between
17B7 fttul 1844, an amount of curious infoniiation, traita
of pf rtonal oharaeter, and out*of-the-way hi^toricai inci-
dontA, wH' ^ }■■-■■ rnabled the editor to select a book
which V, ylacc avwwv^lWXiisA.'oV orox'^Sk'^^a'
Ana. \\ : ^vw Vtt\^\\« tJuorwa t^rjCi xiot* ^T|^ —
^Qwfc^
410
NOTES AND QUERIES.
CS^&V. lllTli,TH.
fate of Vewm, whom the Paririsns are said to hare been
in the habit of knocking tip at night, with the err,
** Monsieur Deaon, yoa who know io many good storicfl»
pray teil ua one."
Her Majetty^i Mails : an Historical amd Deseripthe Ae^
coiM/ of the British Post Office. Together with an
Appendix. By William Lewiiis. (Sampson Low.)
How did London ever get on without omnibnsae? was
the recent inquiry of an obseryant pedeetrian as he
traversed tho Strand. How did England ever get on
without the Post OfBce? is tho inquiry suggcstetl by
Mr. Ixswins's amn^in^ volume — and very amusing it is —
ia which, under the title of Her Majestfs Ma'ds^ he gives
iia the history of tho rise, progresa, and present state of
that vast and well -organised establishment; which, with
equal cfKciency, wafts a sigh from India to tho Pole, or a
sampio from Manchester to Pernambuco. The work
abounds with useful information, compiled with great
care, and set off with much amusing illustration.
The Autograph Souvenir : a Collection of Antograph Let-
Uts^ Interesting Documents, 8fc., executed in Facsimile,
by F. G. Netherclift With Letter-press Transcriptions,
and occasional Tranakuhua, by Kichard Sims. Paris J,
to V. (Netherclift)
Encouraged, we presume, by the success of their useful
Handbook of Autographs, Mr. Netherclift and Mr. Sims
have commenced a work of higher pretensions, and are
issuing in Monthly Parts a series of fac- similes of original
letters and documents from the British Museum, and other
collections, which bids fair to be a volume of equal interest
and utility. The Parts already issued contain copies,
executed with all Mr. Xetherciifi s skill, of Letters of Kli-
zabeth — Cromwell — Frederick the Great — of Ariosto—
Salvator Kosa — Michael Angelo— Nelson and Wellington
— and in short, as far as possible, of the representative
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ifeetlTe on the lOQO-siard ranice."— Captain Sendey. Royal bnufl lir
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to be had direct ftom 8ALUM * Ca, M, PriMM 8in««. EArt*
■ Noacenta.
J' JOND'S PERMANENT MAR ICING Iltt-
J ThcftrtrHrdt hAvvntl^ti, ctfEahiMiM igHt, ftir mmrkhiff CHBA
AMES, INTTIAL^H UD»o ttriukL^NoLtl linen, nvcsrina app*ir!.<&
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ontAitctia, ac tnTcHoT ^m^itaciuiM aj« o'tcn ikj'E4 tur^ tha iniMLk. vftta*
nr>i. poiH^ any at Et# rei<?bral4fd quKlklcji^ Pitfidkajera thodl tSf
{an bv i^«fvf»l lo otucf n the wfWmi* on th« l«^i. id. BlsfUOfWiTV
STKEGT VVJTIIIN, E.<:.. wkhuut whu^h \h^ fnk la ■« !«<■■»
80I1I by all fr«p«ctBti1« i?h«fnt«ii, rtiailwm^ ae.. la the VaiBriUv-
don^i. itriL:;(,^ Ij. per InitUi; ! n**^t. »lir is^tr ln«aa.
NOTtCi;.^ RFMin^EI) froTD », LoB« J^g^ (where itteikn
eitiLbliah$dii?aFlj half II (."cntnj^T 1, la
10, B18HOP80ATE STREET AVITHIN. X.C
as, Wclliiiirt:.ii Slrctt.Struncl. W.C.
q^HE PATENT NEW FILTER. — Dr. Gmt ^3:■5
X " Aaimre watrr ia offucli areat impnriaiirc, it iri deairabiei-li' ■
that Mr. I.ip-ruiiibo i^ by lor tlir mo»t cxpt-riciir«d and bi>t c^ *-'■ '■-
Alter raakert." Cun only be had at Mr. 1 Jp«ui>iBbe'a Filiar OC'J». 9.
btraud. rro«r>cctU!< tree.
fizXittt to Cnxxtij^nrCtitwii.
IKnnr Ct.anr r. Emj. A i'tt-r afhf ruffed to /Am >rentlrmnn i* vpititnj
fut kisit a* tmr Ojfirx.
A. F. (i. irn Ifnv/itrwttnlt 4 tk^ jiiv pkilUmg^' fyirlh o/itnmin tn tiv
Injiriunrv /or ChiUKH, SI, Ifutfi-h— j:>ii'l.
J. LcKTi.KT. Jt MrniU havf li^tH" w«ro 'Mitfif d."
Ui'ANitT. Thr Manw of AIaa»tlaiul Ari< I- en tran^lat-J f-v Mr. I
Knohtfrif, niitl pufJhhnt t*^ 3tc.'^r<. I^U titnl t>nhfu,ofii inUtt- rrnji
ail K-iHiitt» am ntif in itn /*roiV.
J. DAf.TiiM. Thf h'lir* afrr^iu't tA tht. /'hirmiriaini the iin'mli'm nf
kilt^t .K .•!•,• in £m' UN. Pliaraaliu, lib. iii. iiii.
n*«iAHiN Wamd iriV/ A'jm/ jiome ititfrt*ti»q parlifHlari nj the nrftfiu
"fth. Ilnr,, in i on;., ji'i/i, uilh th-' iPViiJ tif /n lohd iii "N.x U." Int S ,
Zii. 33N, s.vt. ' '
II. r. o„ ik- (,ri;jn (tf thr f^rtt Quart* r, om i-parimt lift, nt "wr Ist
• •■ Cnm *rArii*a7 th" r»>ftimcM q<"N. * <i." mny b% kmi qf the
PaMi*A. r, <iiMi ttf till /;o.4* //,.»> and .\ cuvMctt.
"Ntrra^ awD QraaiFi" m ynhii^htd at ntxm om Friday, mml w tilao I
itn^d IN M >!«TnL* Parti. I'hr SiJuvriutitm for grAMPao Oonn for ,
atx Mtmth* rnrwftrfM Hir^i from thu; VmNinher Kiut^wHrnf tkf IMf'
yaorly iHiiffB) u Iia. I«*.. mkirh mav bt jHivi Ay i^t Otfcr /Mlrr, ,
payaOicat thf StntmH Pf»t tj^f, in /iimmr uf ^'ivuam G.Vmitu.SI, I,
watttvoTtm fhmunr, Htha^b, WF.C, to tehom aU C«ui«winca<nttm ««»
nor JSsfnm ^^mMie oMrssstd,
**IfvTMs k QuMMiM* " if miftcitd fin InnnniMitoik tibimA.
THE PRETTIEST GIFT for a LADT is oce «
JONES'S OOl.D LEVERS, at )W. Iia. For a OETtTLEnsX.
one at liiL icu. Kewank-U at the luieruatlunal £xhlbitioa for "Chnr
ne«8 of Prodactinii."
Manufactory, 33M, Strand, oppoaite Someract Hone.
CHUBBS LOCKS aud FIREPROOF SAFES,
with all tlie ncwot ini|tn)V<,>nH-ii1i>. Strv«t -diXir Latcbca. Caih at
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CIll'BB V SON. 57. St. L'Hul'ri Churr.hyard, I.ondoni S7, Lofd RiMt.
Liverimul : !>•. ^larkct Sin.ft, Munchnter; and HurveZey firl^
■Wclveihampton.
SAUCE. — LEA AND PEKUIXS*
woxc^BTBABBzaa Biktfen,
Thii delidoua condiment, pronounced by Oonnolaaenn
"THE OKLY GOOD SAUCE,"
U pnpareil aolrly by LEA ft PERKTN9.
The PnMic aTereapectfUlIy cautioned aeaiiiat worthleaaimftetkmf.M'
ahould aee that LEA a PE1UUN6' Naawa arv oa Wrapper, Laftci.
Bottle, and SUtppcr.
ASK FOB liSA AND FSRRINS' BAUCE.
•e« Bold Wholeaale and fur Export, by the PkoprlHof* Wumtlir;
ME8SKki. CRi)S»E and BLACK WELL, HE«81iii. ||ARC1«AY tat-
80N8. Ixmdnn. ac, Ac 1 and by Urooera and Oilmen mlWraanr.
BROAVN ANDPOLSUN'S
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GUARASTTEKD PERFECTLY PURE,
la a liaTkinrite
%aA xaiada wMNNtAL
LOHD0N, SATURDAY, MAY 81, ISM-
CO^ TKNTS. —N". 126.
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tc runs WITH AitfswiBSfl :— ApoeaV ■
— Fortrait of KiiiK John — Grei
I*yramt*l — Hc'n^hjiir^ " Gotbi'i an
^pli:es:
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Coffins a VI
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lock— Ai
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Itiivni s — Wig — NetJf — "A Sboful" — I>uiniijen;r —
I - The Newton Stone — Chess — Robert Dove —
)K-Br'll of St Sepulchre's, 4c.. 424.
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— Cobham
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" Truiiu^. aiid tJrua-
A NEW CHAMPION OF MART QUEEN OF
SCOTS.
Several important volumes have very recently
leen published in France on the Hii^tofy ofEDg-
ind 1 they luiubt appropriately be reviewed here,
tut OS tbe abandanee of material prevents the
nsertion in *' N. & Q," of professed comptes^
VRcfiM of foreijjn works, I shall take the liberty
calling the attention of tbe reMdcrs, under
ape of ti brief note, to one of these protluc*
M* Louie Wiesener, lecturer on btalory at the
_uycce Louis le Grand, is the author of the octftvo
I hftve in view, and his Marie Stuart et U Comtede
.Moihweil * contains ftn eloquent refutation of tbe
IccuBttiionrt directed against the unfortunate Queen
Df Scotji b_v Messrs. Mignet, Froude, and nth* r Wvi-
rtans. M. VViesener stxirts from the f
It Mary was the victim of a plot «ii y
1 carefully made by the nobility of Scuiiunii, in
' to assume the management of public afliiir^,
i plot in which the qnesstion of religion was more
, pretext than a real subject (d' complaint on the
of the ringleaders. Both well bad been at
j^time of Mary's return to Scotland admitted a4
, crii ilie privy council ; Murray managed,
I In t bee, to bring about his disgrace.
* 1 Tcd, 9Tpf Fans and London, HacheiU & Co.
The marriage with Damley, however, momen*
tarily defeated the Regent** plan by irurodut^ing
in the person of the Queen*s consort a rival, who,
if he had possessed any strength of character and
tome honour, would have utterly put down the
rising of the ambitious nobles. In this emergency,
by a stroke of consummate policy, Murray began
by desdfoying Darnley through the instrumenta-
lity of Both well ; he then ruined Both well for
having helped to murder Darnley ; and, Hnally,
he contrived to make Mary share the condemna-
tion with which he visited hU own accomplice.
M. Wiesener has consulted with the most scru-
pulous care all the documents, both written and
MS. that e&ist^ concerning Mary Stuart. His
critiques of other historians, particularly of M.
Mignet, are often thoroughly sound, and at tbe
same time always characterised by fainicss and
good temper. He is, on the other hand, very
severe in his appreciation of Buchanan, whom he
finds guilty of the grossest hypocrisy, and wliom
he denounces as an infamous calumniator. The
welUkuown Detection the Actio contra 3/ar/am, were
pamphlets written at the instigation of Murray ;
the pretended letters from Mary to Both well, the
journal of the Regent himself, were, M.Wiesener,
supposes, fabrications unblushingly made by Bu-
chanan; and the real nature of which appears
palpable enough to those who, only anxious for
a knowledge of the truth, consult the authentic
documents preserved on this difficult subject,
Whatever may be the opini<m entertiiined re-
specting tbe guilt of Mary Queen of Scots, we
should hail with satisfaction every fresh attempt to
solve this the long-disputed problem ; and I think
that the volume just described amply deserves,
from this point of view, to be made a itoU of.
GosTAvc Mabsozi.
Harro w^on- the- Hill*
BISHOP THOMAS KSOX OF THE I5LE&
On the resignation of the see of the Isles by
Bishop Andrew Knox, and hia final removal to
thnt of Rflphoe, which occurred about tbe com-
mencement of the year 1619, he was succeeded in
the Scotish bishopric by his eldest son Thomas,
who was nominated to the see by^ King Charles I.
in February ; and b mentioned in a letter, dated
March 18, 1619, from Edlnburi-h, addredacd to
Sir John Campbell of Calder, by his factor there,
in the following terms : —
•* Mr, Thomas Knox is comet heir from court, h« ts
h{9chom nf the Ilia, and his gift past throw the ^^Me
alrwJdie; he told me that \ns Majestic apak weill of
you*" — Book of the Thantx of Oawdtrr.
His consecration may, therefore, be placed in
or abijut that monih; bvit W\i» Tjjt^tVvaxia. 'tfc^'^'tf^^ft*^
ileal pre{etmcTi\»\W^^T».^\.«^^^«=ft^^J^'^^
taming, mi\4 l\i<i wiX^ ^^^^'=^ ^'^ ^"^ ''^''^
412
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[SM&T. HATtl,^
BI8HOP8 OF THB ISLES: *< SODORBHSIB." * ST. XART'S OHUROH, BOTHBBJlT* OASXBDIAL.
AJX
D«toor
FlMeof
1606
1619
1628
1638
1662
1677
1680
Andrew Knox, D.D.
Thomas Knox, 6.D.
John Leslie, D.D....
Neil Campbell
Robert Wallace
Andrew Wood
Archibald Graham
April 2,
Jaa.yi.
Feb.— ^
Ja».VI.
Ang.l7.
Chas.!.
Oct 17,
Chas.!.
Jan. — ,
Chas. II.
Chas.U.
Chas. II.
1611.
Feb. 24.
iMar.— ?
Sept.—?
1634.
May 7.
1678.
Leith
Jokn. (Spottiswoode^ Abp. of) GlseB**^
Gamn (Hamilton, Bp. of) Gdbwy, ai \
Andrao (Lamb, Bp. of) Sreckim,
Edinburgh,
Abbey church
of Holyrood.
Janui (Sharp, Abp. of ) 5. Andrfm\ iti-l
drew (Pairford, Abp. of) Gi
JaiM9 (Hamilton, Bp. of) Gi
that period, consists in his having been one of the
hostages for his father in September, 1614, when
he was surprised by the island chiefs at Islay, and
only released on certain conditions, afterwards
violated through an act of gross treachery, io
November following. (Gregory's Western hies,)
He had ecclesiastical preferment in the king-
dom of Ireland, for we find : "Thomas Knox, B.D.,
Incumbent of the parish of Clondevadocke, or
* Dioce9e, — Isles of Bute and Arran, with most of the
Hebrides, or Western Archipebgo of Isles, f •* Sudoreyar,**
from mdr, south, and <y, island, in Islandic.)
Cathedral Chapter (re-established by Act of Scotish Par-
liament, in July, 1617).— 1. Dean, the Parson of Sorbie,
or Sorabie, in Tyree, who was also Vicar of lona, with
panshofCrossabill annexed; 2. Smb-DeoHf the Parson
of Rothesay, in Bute; 3, 4, 5, 6. Parsons of four other
parish churches in the diocese; at the same time the
Frinry of ArdehaUem and Abbey of Icolmkitt, or lona
C*By,") were annexed to the Bishopric, and an Arel^
obvra sppun io liava been Iq^tuted on a<^t. %^ V(J^^
Fanvet" — a rectory in his father's diocese of
Kaphoe — in the year 1622 ; and as he was neecf
sarily nonresident, he employed a curate, Robert
Whyte, M.A. ; and paid him \0L annually, Ibr
serving that benefice during his own abaenoi.
{Ulster Visitation Book.)
Bishop Knox's death b placed by Keith (5M-
tish Bishops) in the year 1626 ; but it may be
more probably referred to 1628, as his auccesor
in the see of the Isles, Dr. John Leslie, was
nominated on August 17 in the latter year. Aai
it is unlikely that the bishopric would hare' beta
allowed to remain so long vacant. These dates
are, however, merely conjectural ; and, whoi Mr.
Cosmo Innes remarks, that ** the succeision of tka
bishops of that see {The Isles) is confused mi
uncertain throughout, but about the Refonsa*
tion, it becomes inexplicable ; ** and aa abo^ ie
the seventeenth century, even the poai*BcibnBi-
\ vVffL «^)kfi)^Je8«vv^ ^<Ck>osraft!^ dK£«Q^x«^ it can hu^
.V. Mat 81, 'ft*.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
FOO^DSD A.D. 320, ASD tJVTtEtt TO KAX TILL cirm 1409.
mtc And Place cf
Dtath.
^ 1633. Mtr. 17
Hamall«n
CAttle?
1G28,
j ISri. Sept. — ,
IfiMUglian.
16—. ?
1C76. Mav 16,
Kk>Lhaav.
1605, ^^?
Duo bar.
170^ ?
73
100
tpteeo-
n
10
44
H
16
PnfvUnu EtelMlMtie*! BUti«a%lN^
A.M. of GUigow Univ«r8ityt 1579 j Ptnon of Loch-
win nocb and Paisle^r, dioc of Glugow, and co. Ren-
frew. Ti'AXitlfttod to §06 of Baphoe in Ireland, June
26, 161I« and Sept. 2% 1619. Pr. Coun. of iTeUnd.
Hector of Clondevaddock, dloc of Raphoe, a aon of pre-
yioiu Biahop, and Bachelor of Dirinity.
A.1L of Aberdeen, and D.D. of Oxford, 1628, Was
Rector of St Marti n-Je-Vintry^ London, 162- to
Sept 1628. Tranilated to sec of Raphoe, in Ireland,
April 8, and June 1, 1633, and to that of Clogher
June 17 and 27, 1661. Pr. Councillor of Ireland and
Dean of Raphoe in com. June 9 to autiunnt 1661.
Parson of KJlmichael^ in deanery of Glaasory, diocnad
ca of Argyll ; son of Bishop NieU C. of Argyll De-
posed by Gen. Ass. at Glasgow Dec. 11, 1688, Period
of deain uoknowo.
Parson of BamwelU in dioc. of Glasgow, and co. of Ayr,
Interred in St Mary's Chnrch, Rothesay, his Cathe-
dral (Bv Home authorities his death is placed in
1609 and '1671. J
Parson succeAsireiy of Spott, in East Lothian, and of
Dunbar, in co. of Hjiddington, both in dioc of Edin-
burgh, which lost he held in common with the see
by royal diapensation of June 2, 1677, Transl/itcd
to see of Caithness in 16fiO. Deprived Julv 19, 1€89.
("And.Soderen.'*)
Parson of Kotbesay, in island and co. of Bnte^ and
dioc. of The laleji, and e^-ojicio Sub-Dean of The
Isles. Deprived July 19, 1689. Living in April,
1702 ; btU exact date of death oDrecorded.
AnllioHli«*,ae.
Keith, Ware, Cottoo,
Gregofy, Reeve.
Keith, Cotton, Liwioti,
&c.
Ware, Cotton, Keith,
Lawtfoo, Reeve.
Keith, Grabf Lawsont
3cc.
Keith, Grub, Lawion,
&c.
Keith, Grub, Lawsun,
Keithf GnU), Lawson,
&c.
le expected that a tyro like myself can succeed
n the almost hopeless tiLsk of attempting to re-
mcile the chronological difficulties, nnd nearly
supcrable obstacles, which oppose the compila-
on of a correct Catalogue of the Biabops of the
lies. However, I append (from my Mb. ** Fasti
iccl. Seotic ") a brief tabular view of the last
even prelates who occupied this ancient see,
letvreen the years 1606 and 1702, which may
perhaps be deemed worthy of insertion. Wit.li
,ee to this bishop*s connection with the
of hia diocese — politically, for of his ce-
real government unfortunately nothing is
irded^ — it may be mentioned that, in 1622^ the
thiefs having made their usual annual appearance
efore the Privy Council of Scotland at Edin-
urgh, several acts of importance relatitig to the
were passed. By the first of the&e, they were
d to build and repair their parish churches
>e saltsfaclion of the Bishop o£ the Jslea ^ and
they promised to meet the bishop at Icolmklll,
whenever he should appoint, to make the tieces-
sary arrangements in this matter. The bishop at
thia time promised to appoint a qualified Com-
missary for the IsIeSt compbiints having been
made on that head. {Rcc, Pnctj CoimcU^ July,
1622.)
I'he above ia from Gregory*s valuable Hiitory
of the We*lem Highlands and Zffc* of Scotland,
and he appears to have considered the bishop to
have been Andrew Knox; but it must have oc-
curred during the episcopate of his son and suc-
cessor, as the former was undoubtedly then in
Ireland. The family of Knox of Prehen, near
Derry, was descended from these bishops; and,
probably also, that of Kappa Caatle, in the county
of Mayo, which still exists.
Arms. Gil., a falcon volant^ or^ vi\iVvcv -wsvKstV.^
I I7a.)
K.%-fe^
i
414
NOTES AND QTJERIES.
[r^&v. iiat9i«u
RALPH FITZ-HUBERT.
Dugdale, at p. ^10 of the drst voL of hb Ba*
ronage^ nUtes: —
** This Rspbe FJtz-Habert adtiericg to Kin|E St^pb^o
in bf» wan aguiiut Muude the Empress, witft « fierct man.
And a gr«Al plunderer (MiitU. West an. U40) ; and baT-
xn^ surprised the Castle of Devizes ^ . . * . was at
ItDL'th lakea prisontsr^ and because he refused to deliver
op Devices to the Empress, baog«d as a thidf,"
Banks, at p. 83 of vol. i, of hia Extinct and
Dormant Baronages j copies tbla statement Sir
F, Madden^ in his Frochcvilk* pedij^ree (pp. 1 et
uq, of vol. iv. of the Collect, Topogr, et Oeneaiy^
aUo adopts it.
A HttJe examination of this point will, I think,
clear the stain of the crLmes attributed to him from
his name.
In the first place, it seems tolerably certain that
the malefactor's nnme was not Kalph, but Robert
Fitz- Hubert. Wiiliam of Malmesbury so styles
him in the two places where he mentions him ;
and the auihor of the Oetta Stephuni also in several
"nlaccM calls him Robert.
Secondly, that whilst Ralph Fitz-Hubert if as
of nndnubt^Hl Norman ancestry, at p. 66 of the
GeJtla Stfphani (published by the En£j. Hist. So-
ciety), it is stated that Robert Fitg.Rsdph was of
Flemish extraction, and a atipendhiry of Count
Hobert : —
** Prop© hoc tempus Robertas fiUtts Huberti, vir mtrt
FlandrmMu^ atiimo et acta friuduleolus, qaf, utile £vsn-
gelico judice dicitnr, nee Deum nee bominea rererebatur*
ex Robert! comiLt« militia furtiv^ proficlsceos, erat enim
iiliuM ttipendiariut,** Sf'c.
As Ralph Fitz- Hubert, temp. Domesday, held
thirty-nine manors in Derbyshire, as well as lands
III capile in Leicester, Stafford, Notts, and Lin-
coln, and was at the same time Governor of Not-
tingham, it is hardly probable he ever served oa
" atipendiarius*' to any one but William the Con-
queror.
Thirdly, Ralnh Fitz*Hubert was the eldest son
of Hubert de Rye, who, in 1044, saved the life of
Wilbam Duke of Normandy, as he was %ing
from Bayeux to Falaise pursued by conspirators.
As three of Hubert de Rye*i sons were then old
enough to escort William across country from
Rye to Falaise (Ro5Ci>e*s Life of William the Con-
owror^ p» 51 ; Chron. de Nnrmandi^^ Notto, Hist.^
M, de Bros, Walsin^ham, kc.), Ralph, the eldest,
must have been aged at least Iwenty-four^ which
would give the date of his birth as 1020— « hun-
dr§d and twenty years before the time when he la
pretmned to have committed the atrooi ties justly
dcnsured by Matthew of Westminster.
If any further proof of his innoc«iiee were
ll«oestary, it would be that his son Ralph auc*
oeeded to his estntea in ib« reijfu of Heury I., and
that lh« events above referred to did iiot lake
phcB till thjtt of Stepiieii. WiiAU Rim.
DOCTOR SLOP.
In Mr. Fitxgerald's re^^ently publtihod JJtt
Sterne it is iitated, that Dr. Burton of Yorfci
generally supposed to be the original of Dr.
and certain paliticol reasons are ' ' ' «h'r
caused Dr. Burton to become «^» 'o ik
witty 3.itire of the author of Trtv^rn Siumfy,
In auch a case, one would not expect a ntirift n
be very discriminating; in his attacks; botfoOjv
poor Dr. Burton seems to have been treatsd M
sintrular unfairness : for, so far from befOj^ a Slid
advocate for the use of instramenta in midm^m,
one of the charges he brin^ agsunst Dr« Sn^*
the most celebrated accouobeur of tbil •!
his too great fondness for using- iiistrtiiiiefiti
the eflbrls of Nature were adequate to
livery; and, at p. xi. of Dr. Burton'f
Contents, prefixed to his Letter to William
M,D.., eight references are given to paasagctj
ing **that Smellie uses instruments, when dd
may be safely performed without," It »•
that, in Dr, Burton's own work (An £um^
1751, Postijcript), figures are given of the i*rt
forceps; but it was no newly*invent
ment, merely a modification invented
Ihor as being safer and better than tii^ it^
then in use by all practitioners ofmidwififfy.
The Letter to Dr. SfneUie (1753) is afitfOH
of 250 pages, and consists of a thoroagk 4k»
tion of Dr. Smellie's celebrated work* JMii
was evidently a good Greek and Latin fdWfl
and had retid the original works of the mi
brated obstetric writers ; whereas, he pi
Smellie, while making a great parade of k
had really got all his knowledge of tbese
at second hand. Among other criticiataa,
nnmcrcifiiUv ridicules Smellie for what w
tainly an absurd blunder. He bad foumdi Ift^
compendium published by Spachjua In t
cngravinir with this title^ ** Lithopiedij
Icon.'' It is the fi^re of a so-called
child," taken from its mother ; and So
underatanding the inscription, forthwitli
*^ Lithopsedus Senoncntii*' among lit»
authoritiea !
Sterne must have read iht^ work of Si
("Adriaous 8melvogt.** 1i- --i* *"'-^ •--
copied into the teat of Tr
cTous mistake. I have ic
TriMtram published in th<- uc ;
therefore, do not know ^^ . -t-noU
chap, xlW* (vol. i.) was added by £;>ieni# luoipeil
If it were, it is evident that he lirtd sl^o hr^s-
reading Burton's Letter, SiX, ; for s
take is corrtfCted iu the ©rry fmrdg l- .
with fcomo mis-spelling, aad a wrongly co{^Mz«i
\ vuV V vl TrbitJOWi EWit4||.
S>«&T. lfAr91,<«4.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
5mnfiIo'a 7V*/7^ .^ ^n ^^ neoftf and Practice of
I in 1752; Burton's Lei'
:„ „ : _. _ir»D„ in 1753; and tha
ft volume of Trutram Shandy in 1 75 D.
Ab un ** iLlastration of Sterne,** I may here
lote nn inatuncc in which, bavinrr got bold of a
J fact, he has giyen it a ludicrous turn by means
a new simile. Smellie had said CTrtaiite^ &'€.,
90) : —
" And in Jill luborioaa cmm, the r«rtf^x comes (towni
A is Unethetiwi in form of a lugar-lotiG nine-aml'/ort^
My father.** »*y« TH^tnim fro!, i. chap, xliv.), "who
Ipped iruo aM kimin -f ^n looking into IMho'
StmomntU tie P'l , published by Adria-
t, haJ fom,., ..,., ,..*{, ... it so happened
\tancfi (*ut of 60^ th€ «aid beati waa com-
moulded into the sh.npe of an obtong conical
fh, socb Bf a pastrycook generaUy roll« up in
mtk« a pya of,"
K Fttzjrerdd says, that Dr. Burton ** wont to
f n-d, but took a dep^rec at a forei^rn university.**
this the case ? On the title*pan:e of bis Trea*
f nn the Non-NoiitraU, he %ure3 ftf " M, B«
ntab. and M.D. Hhem;' And in the preface
the same work, he says : —
I hfivo not wholly miseraployed the time apoat by
tt LeyJen and at Camhridge."
[Tho f*)I lowing works, by Burton, arts now bc«
i me : *—
1. '* A Treatise on the Non-Naturola, in which th<j
at Influence they have on Ha man Hod'ufn i» jot forth.
I mectmnically account«pd for, &c. By John Burton,
LB. Caniab, and MD. Bheuu York, 1738. Svo."
I This la not, »s Mr, Fitagerahl caUs It (p, 273)^
m singular luolMpbysical work/' but Is wholly
bj»iologi<jal in iiM dmracter — deaciibing the ef-
&ta on the human body of whnt in tboio day»
--I called the *' Non-Katurals,"
*An Eway towJl^la a complete Ne«* 8y«t«m of
Itdwifry [«ie], Tbooretical and Prtelical, Ac, Ac, Uy
^n Bnrton. M D. London, 1751, avo.'*
J Mr, Fitzgendd states that thii Yolum<! is
llishered in by complimentary letters from variouji
Vrned societies/* This is a mistake; there ii not
^e nuch letter. The volume begins with a dedi*
'ition— " To the President and Alemheri of thi*
Dy al Society at London, and of the Medical
eiety of Edinburgh:" and the writer «tatej(,
hi ♦•sotne of the improvements and new di^*
bveries in the practice of midwifery, therein men*
^nedt have already been laid before your respec*
ire Societies," The paiiage next miotM by Mr.
fitzjrerald (p, 2(59), beginning — *'But ff^r 1i
nple'* — ifl from ihe preface to the K/iga^ ; ,
t' ^ ' ^ 'i*t work (p. 231), Mr Fit/.-
J is taken : " Aa 1 have always
ate " &c.
[ a " Utu. !!,>, M.D, J c<mtalalag Oft-
and Ptkcti^i ucnuiiiLa apoo hjf Treadif on Che
Theory and Ppietlce of Midwiferr. By John Burtoo,
M.D. London, 1763. 8vo,"
It is at page 21 of this letter, that Burton ex*
poses Smellie s ludicrous inUtake about L\tho^
Tms Seraglio LinaAar. — It is to be re|;retted
that no learned European has been able to oVuain
admission to the librtiry of the seraglio fit ('on-
Btantinople, By the aid of a firm an and buck*
ehish^ I found no difficulty, with other Knylrsh
traveller*, in i-nterrnir the prcoinctj* of the pubce,
through the gxtewny calle«l tluj Subliint» Porte,
and visiting therein the convent of Stn Irene, now
the Sultairs arm- '' uiiiJL*sty*s bnth, the
room containing !i , from the purtrrtits
on which Prince iiMUMinr *' - ^ ♦ •? d
the illustrations for hi* fjr^ «
Empire. I am certain that u *. v „ ^., . ; j
oppo8<?il to the exploration* uf any lair Mftvuntf
possessed ff "ulTirirot coUra;r«? lo lf> I • • r>il r ffi-
aj^e to 8< I ibo ifiirpo9« <>
literary Ir u tlu* library. ! ri
contain, amonp other prcrinui worki, one hiindriHl
and twenty of Constant ifH**! MSH. in frdin, the
ori^final ujospel of %U > % the
lost dccauK of Livy, and, Mtina
Las<!aris, the. miwsjnjj hooka ul Ui' Ins.
** Abh.iln r«w|«rln! pft>f(tr#d a ci>py <m '♦*<"» *if
tho ^' . svhich wiii tiiik»n id i" •
pa^*^ It linn ulrtiUAt mnritny. i
with hli treatiw IMh l^U
tkncnt t. li. pv if '6,
** Da la Vttlla, who vlfflt^d nofiifandaopta two centifHai
aijo, rfnifirk^ that eh** ' ' ' ttm ihsii laid Ce
Uf in the librurv. '1 ' ^ Flortnoa r>ff«rti|
Lmt* tiUitrvt (it} Ihn M rtf V«alx'» dtNihkit
the omri but ii could not im itrmtiL'-^ Vtaffffi, p. 241 r\ 4to.
Aactruiaiior Joita aatd Biauor Jaitaa Hftn*
Tiswoot*. — TIh' f*M'<w\ii'/ «^t»r«j'^T fr^Mi tl,.. i,.t*Mf
tiaernenf i
Metnonu
SpnitfJIUUiad, Jit^huft iij ' ;.
(4 to, K^Hn burgh, \H\\), . ('
•ervation x —
nf who«« I I 1
*»on of >!• '
th« r
tunas. At th'
dlfftLfiguljh«<d fi >
both aflefwufd^ ij'/ .
faiieit to \x\^\\ mVvt.
416
NOTES AKD QUERIES.
i;s»-a v,mais
dote of life, the one from Scotland and the otber from
Irelandf to seek refage in London, and were boiied lide
by sidu in Westmintter Abb«jJ'
Abeiba..
Epitaphs oti Does. — I wish to preserve the
memory of three of my dogg in a more endtiring^
taanner tbim by the marble ^Ubs on which their
epitaphs are engra?ed : —
MOCO.
Hoc in Joco
Jttcot Moco ;
Fruatra voco
MocOf Moco!
UMA.
*E plariboi Una.
apcT.
Tachfl sans tache-
Q D.
Doa. — In bis jermon^ Myitical Bedlain^ Tbomaa
Adam9 speaks of " a practical frenzy ? a roving,
wandering, vagraot, extravagant course, which
knows not which way to fly nor where to liglit,
except like a dor in dungbilL" Of dor^ the editor
of Nichora edition of the works of Puritan divines,
says that he supposes it is a dormome. Had he
coQStilted Bailey, he would not have further con-
fused the preacber^s imagery by tiirninp: a.n insect
into quadruped, as we are told that Dor Is a drone
bee* St, Swituin.
ExTBAOHDiwAiiT EpiTAPH. — The following^ epi-
taph is still to be seen in the graveyard of the
Covenanting Meeting House at Bailie's Mill| in
the pariiib of Drumbe^, county of Down. It may
tend to show the feeling rcspectinj^ the Solemn
League and Covenant which still lingers in some
parts of the north of Ireland : —
** Uad«meath lies the body of William Graham, of
Creevy, who died in Febr, 1828, in tbe ^S'"^ year of hid
aga.
** The foIlowiDg^ senteDces, written by bimseirt are In-
scribed at his own reqaett: —
" First. I leave my testimony sgainat all tbc errors of
Popery which cousiitute the Man of Sin and Son of Per-
dition. Whom my Lord sboll destroy by the bright&esa
of his coming.
♦* Secondly. Againit Prelacy now set on the throne of
Briitain, which aball shortly full like Dagon by the sword
of mm who sits on the white horse. For this end, Oh
thou Mighty God, gird thv sword upon thy thigh, and
thy right-hand shall tench Thee terrible things.
" Thirdly. I testify against all who deal fulsely in the
eaase of Christ; all who own the Covenant Naiiooal and
Solemn League, and yet eware altegiaacs to the support
of Prelacy^ Ob Lord* take to Thee and rule the Nations,
and destroy these two grest Idols, Popery and Prelacy,
with that rod of Iron Thoa hast received from Tliy
Father.
** Lastly* I tcstifj^ against all opposers of Ihe Coven*
anted cause, atl whu huve departed from HefLtrmation,
and I die giving my full approhation of that i-«u»i', for
which the Al«rtyrt sutfcrad, and which tbcy scalvd with
their blood.
" Arise, Oh Lord, and plead thy own causa.**
Banoirr of MonDAtutT. — I bave laM«
different times with more than one pnsil
in high life — that clnimed to be eolitUsd
ancient Barony of Mordaunt. Xh< lail
that bore the title was tbe late Duke cifG«a
whom the rirrht descended from the dta|
Charles, third Earl of Peter boroii|ib. Anyc
that now appears must evidentlj lniT« I
his descent from some more remote i^
John, the first Earl of Peterboro<ugh^ wW
1642, had two sons— 1. Henry, seooQii.l
John, created Viscount Morda
whose eldest son Charles became i
his uncle) third Earl of Feterfc
dautrhter, Elizabeth, who married
Lord Howard of Escrick.
John, Viscount Mordaunt, bad,
eldest son Charles, three sons and foti
The male line is extinct, but If tbe
descendants through females^ I conceifc i
barony must now be vested in tbem.
In default of descendants from John ^
Mordaunt, we must turn next to bis
married the second Lord Uofr«rd
Here^ toOf the male line has becon
the person of Charles, fourth Lord
died in 1714.
It thus appears that any claimant]
from John^ first Earl of Peterborough
their descent through females* Suf
to be none such, we must carry ou
feneration bi^her up, and^ ascend fru
Earl of Peterborough to his father Ha
Lord Mordaunt, who died in 1608.
or daughters he may have bad I knon
ts clear that any claimants of tbe naq
daunt must trace their descent either f
from one of his three predecessors in
I believe tbat the ancestor of tbe pr
Sir Charles Mordaunt, was onlj
lated to the first baron.
's tn uieT
SHAHSPEAaE's PoBTBAlTf. It is C«f4
With most critics and good judges to r^
portraits of Shak^peare which do not repc
as bald, and as he appears in DroeshotuT'
tbe plea that if he were bald when ooi^
a young man, it is not likely be woi^
thick head of ba*r in later hfc. A '
Granger*s Hist, of Eft^land^ quoted j
ner (a cotemporary writer), seeni
smooth the difficulty. It slates ** tfe
in the reign of Elizabeth, cut the bair <
middle of the head^ but KulTej'ed it
either side," Might not Shakspear^
lowed the Elisabethan fashion as loQCJI
and afterwards, as he lived during i
of the reign tf Jiiuu^n 1 , htrc 5\«infiii
hair subse i
V. Mat
NOTES AKD QUERIES.
417
rftits of Shakspenre bATing n full bead of hcdr,
►present a mucli older nimn than those which* for
le sake of distinction, may l>e denoroinated the
bald portrnits;'* thus bolh tnny be genuiae
lotigb not alikew Fektomia.
^uniti.
LETTER TO THE KNIGHT OF KERRY.
The Knight of Kerrjr presents Lis <*ompnments
the Editor of " N. «r Q,," and would feel much
ibliged if he or any of his correspondents would
elp him to discover the writer of the letter, of
^bich he begs to enclose a copy. This letter was
addressed to his father, the late *' Riofht Hon, M.
Fitzgerald, Knight of Kerry/' Feb. 20, 1812, and
ras endorsed by him " A- T.** or *' A. I.*' It im-
lediately fullowed one of the previous day from
ord Moira (afterwards Marquis of Hastings) on
e same subjecL The points established as to
B person whose name I seeJc, are these. His
;tial3 are either ** A. T/* or " A. V* (more like
; former). He must have been an intimate of
e Prince Rejjent, or of those immediately about
in, a personal friend of Lord Motra h, a strong
Thig, and a strenuous advocate of the R. C.
lestion. These indications, imperfect as they
c, may possibly enable some of the survivors of
At period to identify the writer.
Bt Lwostcr Street, Dubtio.
"London, 20 Feb, 1812.
"My dear Sir,--
** Before this reaches you, you will have beard
at the game is up ! I saw a copy of the letter
Idressed to you yesterday.* I like erery part of
but that which includes the word * sincere ; *
Tn any other person it would convey an insult —
m him, much as he is mortified, disappointed,
d his feelings lacerated by such conduct as
has witnessed, yet he Mievrs the expreuion.
ou will have difficulty in making others think
ith him on that point* The noble part the
Hter of the letter to you has taken — the honest,
\ friendly, the disinterested part he has acted —
the theme of everybody's conversation ; it has
I, however, failed in making any impression in
e quarter f where so much was expected. The
1st gloomy prospect opens itself in every point
view. God send you may continue quiet on
mr side of the water. Everything here is dis-
Bting, and nothing arising from weak heads and
rse hearts is likely to be wantinor to fill up the
lasure. The conduct of the real friends of the
tistitution is firm^ united^ and hitherto without a
igle instance of desertion ; and we may still be
II owed to hoj^ic that such a union of talents and
lue will bucceed in their well-meant endeavours
save the oountry from utter destruction. I had
a long conversation with the writer of the letter
this morning ; I wi«h the substance of it could be
safely conveyed. You were spoken of flatter-
ingly. I suppose you will soon be called on to
attend your Farllamentary duty,
*' Believe me, Dear Sir^
" Yours sincerely
** TtnTR§I>4T,
" Rt, Hon. Maurice Fitz Gerald,
"* Knight of Kerry/'
By Lard Moira,
f The Prince RegMU
AjronTMOvs, — ^Can you inform me who is the
author of —
"The Revelation of Ji John c<in*W«rtd as iUadi»g la
certain acrvicwofthe Jewiah Tempte ; aecArdinf? to which
the viaiooa are stated, as well in rcsMct to tb« ohiocts
r^preacnted, ss to the order io which itiey appeared ** ?
The Dedication is " To the Right Hon. Lady
/' and is signed ♦* J**" M D/* London,
1787, NawuvoTONaifsts.
Bassets or Nobth Moaroir. — I ahouid fed
obliged if anyone can inform me whether th«
monuments in North Morton church, in Berk*
shire, of the Stapilton family arc in existence.
The Bassets were formerly lonla of the aoiL
Jordan Basset^ living lat of Rich. L, had threo
sons — L Miles, 2. Jordan, 3. Henry. Mileif, the
eldest son, living 36th of Henry IIL, the 4Hih cif
Henry lU,, was Lord of North Morton, Berks,
and Hathalsey, co. York. His dau^hr^r anrl heir
married Nicholas Stapleton, living in the J2nd of
Henry HL died between the l8Lli and 21st of
Edw. L
Miles Stapleton, his son and heir, ob. 8t]i of
Edw. II. He mnrried Sibel, daughter snd coheir
of JohndeBellew, and had two sons, Nicholas nod
Gilbert. Nicholases son and heir, ob, 1 7tli of Edw.
III. Issue now extinct in the male line. Gilbert,
second son, Lord of North Morton, married Agnct ,
daughter and coheir of Brian Fitzalaii^ Lord of
Bed ale, and had issue.
What are the arms of Basset of North Morton?
If any of the readers of *• N. k Q*** would send mo
the inscriptions, arras, &c. of the Sin pie ton and
Basset families in the Stapleton chantry* i" North
Morton church, I shall feel much indebted,
JUUA R. BoCltBTT.
Bradaey, Borghfield, B«tding.
Heitbt Bu»d, the king's receiver of Guernsey,
and more than thirty years a resident in that
island, made col I eel ion a from which was compiled
The Hintory of the hland of Ga/TfWfy, by Wil-
liam Berry, Lond, 4to, 1815, The date of Mr.
Budd's death will oblige S, Y, R,
Calton. — Everyone acquaint-ed with Glasgow
knows the district of it that bears the vtasoa. ^C
Cation, Thei^ \% \tx ^^\\v\\>>«^ w. ^Lwjk'^i ^'^
418
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[tiiRT.IUTmul
its name. What is the etymology of this word ?
We find many MiltonM^ that is, Milt-townt ; but
wliat is the origin of Calton #^ BizA,
Tbb Life and Virtue* or Dof a Luisa die
Carvajai. t MfiNDOZA, — I am very anxious to
obtain the loon of the fallowing valuable work
in Spanish ; if you or anj of your readers could
inform me ivhere this volume could be borrowed
for a few weeks, I should bo extremely obliged.
This 13 the title : —
** Vidfl y Virtadea do la Venerable Virgen, Dona LaisA
de Cftfvajal y McndozA; sn JomadA £ Inp;laterra y Sue-
lAos eti aquet Rcyno." For el Licendado Luia liuSoz.
adrid, IGXir
_ Sou they, in his Letters written during a Journey
in Spaifiy and a Short Residence in Portugal (vol.
i. p. 259, ed» London, 1808), gives a very interest-
ing epit<)mc of the work. It is now exceedingly
»cnrce ev<?n in Spain. A gentleman wishes to
translate it into English. J. Daxton.
St. JoUn**, Kofwtch.
The Cuckoo Sokq. — Are the two notes of the
cuckoo always of the «ame pitch ? I heard them,
for the first time this year, on the I at instant, and
ascertained them by my pianoforte to be E natural
aod C sharp. R. W* B.
HctBs WAKTBB. — Has there ever been an in-
itancc in Scotland, within the last iafty years, of
a large estate falling to the Crown for want of
heirs to inberita I remember, when in the High-
lands ten or twelve years a^o, bearing of some
e»tut«a, tumewherst for which no heir could be
found. Sigma-Thcta.
FottKiow Postage Stamps, — Being a collector
of foreign and old stamps for a literary purpose,
may I, throunh your mediam, ask some of the
readers of ** N, & Q." if any of thero fee! inclined
to do any exchange with me, as I am anxioua to
make a rare collection, and thereby have many
duplicates to dispose of? If I could find any one
to ejtchange with me, or if they would collect
stamps for me, I would give any information,
heraldic or hJ^^toric, or aught else they may re-
quire in return for it at the British Museum,
_ anybody, wi,shinfl[ to enter into my offer will
knnweV me in ** N. k Q/* firstly, I will give them
my ^ddre«s and name afterwards^ Stempi^
Hogabtb. — The origin of this name is a puxzle
worthy of solution by "N. & Q." I find no
le*t than lour diflertnt ornnr.^ n<«>,rnr>,i to it.
Thus Vrt. Nicholson and i md An-
tiquities of Westmoreland a-' I ) in their
account of the poriMh of Kirkby-lliore, stat^a that
the nanve originated in the nan«h, and was merely
the Saxon Hog herd, Agam, Mr. C. Inncs (Co/*-
cerning time Seotth Surnatves, p. 47), makes it
equivalent to Ha^tirt; and says it is a name de-
rived from a Scotch place. Arihews, an American
writer on fAsmly names, gays it ocvmti from lii^
Dutch ^ and I think Mr* Trover maiip wilk ki&
And, laady, " N. & Q." itself (2^ S, x- iU) um
that there are many names where tsH or «tl n
from the O. G., harty /oriiM^ as Hofvik — f^j
thoughtful, careful, or prudent ! ! Is llit obi
Saxon or Scotch, Gothic or Dutch, orrAiff !i
not Hngard a common, or at leMst tolerahtj £■>-
mon, French surname ?
I find the name in Bootland la eirij m I
(see Acta. Dom, Concilii et Audiiarmm)
gert: and lu the parishes of Huliao ftad
Berwickshire (see " N. Sc Q." 2** 8. ^,
is spelt Hogard invariablj at ilio '
eighteenth century.
I am anxious to conneefc Jolm Hog^vtl
Greenknowe, parish of (Jordon, Berwielii
(born 1648), with the Hutlon family,
his descendants appear in tf
hood about the middle of the ah
Mb. Jambso!!. — Wanteil some bli
particulars regarding Mr. Jameson of i
profession, who was author of two or
dies, A Touch at the Times; StudenU of i
&c. The latter was acted at Covenl I
Jan. 1813; the epilogue being' writtett
Smith, one of the authors of tiio R^
dresses,
SiB James Jat, Knt., M.D., waa i
1. *' A Letter to the GoTamors of the CollMttf 2
York, respecting the collcctioa that was ovadal
kingdi:^!!), in 1762 and 3, for ttie Collcf^es of Pkll
and New York. To which are added* "
Notes and an Appendix, containin;; th«
paased between Mr, Alderman TretiioLhlcka
lond,8vo. 1771."
2. ** ReHectloQs and ObaervatloDa on Ui« GmL
8vo, 1772/'
8. "AT' ': ' Untversitiea of OxAwd ^d i
hruige« &r. to th« C^tlaclioo tbat w« t
tbrtheC+l! , ^v York jiad I'LiLiarlr.h.* . t^-rfl
Yindication ui Hid Autbur,
insinuatJODK and very illibi
man Trecothick: witn authraui: eYui4?D> e*, hM^L <
177S»'»
^Hiere was Sir James Jot knftdiled f
did he nrocurc bis degree oi hLD, f Whea i
where did he die f S, T»
T* J* OusELiY. — Thif gentleman^ who
Ushed several volumea of poetry, wsa
editor of a newspaper in LivcrpooK €^ §mj\
your readers give nie bin present addreis f
♦* Like PArruKicB on a Mo!fUMBsrr/*^-W«t, vk
are acquainted with the VirtueA and Graooiwli
figure on tlie monuments of the later Stuart ea^
Gi^rgian periods, have many timet ••» Paticpci*
or at all events, Hr«tgnation on a monumtiit. B«t
V where did Shakspt-arc sec it P Mf ojrj
8ti SL V.Mat 91. '«4]
I sculptured piOfi&ions on the moDumetiU to be seen
in Shakijpeiire's time* Ciui nny of your readers
help me to Borael' The little figiares round an
•Itar tomb are Bnmeilme^ called ** weepers," bat
they are dressed in the costume of the day^ and
do not look as if intended to represent an abstruct
quality like Patience. P» P.
Edward Folhill, £sq», of Burwasb, Sussex,
Ian able theological writer (who is noticed in
** K. k Qr V S, vl 460, 563), died in or shortly
before 1694* Suiiex can boost of several dili^jent
and able oniiq^ariei who communicate with this
jrturnni ; I hope, therefore, the precise date of
Mr. Polhiir§ death mny be supplied, S, Y. R»
Mrs. Maria Eliza Rukdell. — I have some
rather interesting documents in the handwriting
vithts Indy, drawn np, as I imajjine, about eighty
. or ninety years ago, and containiog sundry parti-
I etilars of Dr. Leach of Edinburgh, Mr. Abernethy,
h3Mr (afterwards Dr.) Hfirrls Dunsford, and others.
ICan you tell me who she was ? A deep sense of
Bllgion appears to have influenced her doings;
ad I am anxious to know more about her,
I may add, that amou'i'st Mrs. Run dell's papers
I which lately came into my possession, I have
I found a lon^j and very interesting letter to a medical
Ifriend (whuse name does not appear) from Char-
lotte^ Elixabeth Tonna, in which she gives many
ietaiht of her own history; a curious note, appa-
Pyently to the same physician, from the Rev, Henry
I Blunt : and the draft of a prospectus issued in the
ryear 1821 by "Mr- John fet. John Lon^, Histori*
leal and Portrait Painter, the only pupif of Daniel
rHiihnrdson, Esq^ late of Dublin,** then seeking
I employment in Limerick, and subsequently well-
Klinown elsewhere in a different capacity. A
[former owner has endorsed the document with
[these words : *' Mr. John St. John Long, Portrait
I Painter and Quack Doctor.** Abhba.
Sealitig-wax removed, ktc, — Can any of your
^ readers give me a recipe for removing seflllnj^-wax
from old letters preparatory to their being bound,
when the seal Is of no value F And can any of
tbera tell me what is the best material for forming
ft matrix, and taking a cast of some valuable old
Ktdi attached to ancient legal documents ?
A. E. L.
SeNTKSCEB COKTAIATNG BUT OKE VoWKI..
[Where can I find a paragraph containing several
sen ten res, in each of which only one vowel, ** I,**
[ h used ? The paragraph commences nearly as
follows : —
" Thtfa Dick i$ high in htt mtad. It tlini tnttmct ? "
■ Are any instances known of similar paragraphs ui
■ cmr or in any other latiguiMfe Y I saw thisparo-
^■nph in the Naval and Military Oasetttt m, or
^^^htiouB to, the year 1840, but no reference was
■ given 11 (o ita author. £jir FaaofiJi.
NOTES AND QUEEEEa
419
ii
SEPTUAGniT. — Dr. Henry Owen (J^nymVy, j-c,
1769), sayst ** When the Jews began to censure
and condemn the Septuagint Version, nnd in con-
se-quence thereof, to correct and model it to their
Hebrew copies, there is reason io suspect that
where ft word^ by similarity of letters, was ciipable
of being rend <iifferently, (hey changed the Gr^ek
to the worse reading** (p. 29), And ** . , , owing
to the iniquity of the Jews, who had no other way
but by such an interpolation,*' &c. (p. 31) ; and
** . . . they confidently tran5po«ed some passages
aod expunged others " (p. 83).
Is there any proof of this ? How could all this
be poasibly done in the face of all the Christians,
watchful and jealous of the integrity of the text ?
and how could it be accomplished in all the MSS.?
NBWLNGTOWEJIflt.
Sbaesfcartan Charactrr8* — Among the
dramatis persona of the Second Pari of King
Henry IV., appenrs *' Travels and Morton, re-
tainers of Northuniberland." Turn to a Visitation
of Yorkshire by Flower, 1584 (Uarl. MS. 1415,
fol. 34), and it will be seen that one Willi»m B»r-
bour of Doncaster had three daughters, of whom
CatJierine married " Travers,*^ and Alice
*' Morton of Bawtrey." Of the Mortons I
know nothing ; but ** Travers ** was a Chris-
topher Travers of Doncaster, whodifd about Nov.
1466, and wiis buried in St. Paurs Cathedral.
His great-grandson, Thomas Boseville, was born
previi»us to Ida decease. Therefore, supposing
him to have been (as there is some probability
that he was) nearly ninety years old in 1466, is it
not possible that he may have occupied the posi-
tion chosen by our greatest dramatist for bii
hitherto unknown namesake f His will (dated
Nov. 17, 1466), contains a gpecial bequest to John
Wolding, his servant, of a grey horse, and all his
** bows and arrows.**
Can the readers of " N. k Q/* tell me «ny thing
relating to the Mortons of Bawtrey f H. J. S.
Peter Stephens, Esq, — I find the following
article in John Russell Smithes Catalogue, No.
71: —
"6^1. STBPHKHa (Fetor, Armig. Com. Salop. )» 150
Viewf in Italy, etcbod bv various Artitta, oblong 4to^ im.
Stau, 1767.**
It is described as **a curious and scarce yo-
lume," The work is mentioned by Lowndes (ed,
Bohn, 2^08), but he gives only the initial letter of
the author*s Christian name.
Information about this Mr. Stephens, and any
other works of his will be acceptable. S. Y. R.
TnoMAB TowKSEKD, EsQ., baiTi8ter>at<law, of
Gray's Inn, was author of I'oems^ 8vo, 1796,
1797, and of several political ^am^UWi^^ Vl^^*^ —
Diciionari^ of Lmng AvXlw^A^^^^^'^'^^
420
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[•^SLTIU^JUIL
find him m the Law List for that prear (the
earlieat to which I have access). Piirtrculars re-
specting him will oblige S. Y. R»
Nathakasl Whitiwg, of Northamptonshire,
admitted a pensioner of Queen's College, Ctira*
bridge, I July, 1628; B.A. 163l;2; M.A. 1634;
became rector of Aldwincle, in his native county,
in or about 16^7. He was also master of the
free Bchool there. He lost these preferments hy
the Act of Uniformity, and subsequentlj formed
A congregation at Crauford. He died without
children, and was a benefactor to Aldwtncle
school. We are desirous of knowing when hia
death occurred* He was author of —
*' Lk Hore di Hecreatioce; or» the pleaaant Historieof
Albino and B«{lnma, discovering tlje severAll ebanges
in CupiJ^a Jouroey ta Hrmen's joyes: to which i* an-
nexud, n InsoQio lasonodado; or^ a Sleeping- Waking
Dreurtie, vindicating the divine Breattk of Foesie from the
Ton^e Lasbes of some Cymcal Poet Quippors and Sloicall
Pbilopro»er«. Lond. 12mo, 1637,
" The 5aint''s Triangle of Dattet, Deliverances, and
Dangen . , . 4to, 1669*'*
Lowndes miscalls hmNicholas^ and Sir Egertan
Brydgea (himself a Queen*8 College man) erro-
neously makes him to have been of King*s Col-
lege, C. H. & THOittPSoN CoorsR.
WoETLET ScHOLABsaiP. — I hnve heard on
good author ity« but such as I am now unable to
avail myself of, that the name of Woriley would
alone instire a scholarahip or some similar benefit
at one of our Universities. May I ask for the aid
of your valuable periodical in elucidating the
matter, &c. ? S. E. WoaxLBT.
Seitrat, CLauDE Ambroise. — Hone*8 Every
JJaif Book, vol i. pp, 1017, 1034. Will any
reader oblige by giving a reference to some fur-
ther account of Seurat, and the time of his de-
cease ? GLWTsia*
JoHv YaoMANSt schoolmaster in Five-Fields
Row, Chelsea, was author of —
** The Abecedarian, or Philoaopbic Comment upon the
Englifh Alphabet. Setting forth the Absurdities in the
preMnt Custom of Spelling, the Superfluity of Letters in
Words, and the great ConfuAion that their ill NameH, and
double Meanings ore of to all Learners. With modest Pro-
peaalt for a Reformation of the Alphabet, adapting special
Uharacters for that Purpose, as being (ho only means
practicable whereby to render the juLme diatinct, uniform,
and unirereat. Also, a Word to the Resiler, showing the
Indignity of iU Habits in Lectures, pointing out to ihcin
the ueaiitiea and Excellency of ijraccful and fine Reading.
Likewba a SvUableiuni,or' Univenal Reading Table for
Begtimera, calcuJatcwl after tliepr«aent Use, for the Wat
of all Scboolt throii|[hout the Kingdom, Together with
a DlaccNiraeoii the M^rd, orA^Tau. lelragramraatlcal, pna-
ccdiug those Tablet. Lond, 8vo, 1769."
I can 0nd no mention of this person in Faulk*
ner*i HUtory of Chatsea. Any particulars respect-
hg blm wiU be acceptable, H. '^ * ii,.
Apocaxtpse* — Can anjr of jtitir
form me if there is in eattsrt^oce a bocfc ealidai
DiscowriE Hudorical and OriHad em tk§ BttA^
fion, arguing that the whole book rdatai t» tk
destruction of Judiea and Jeroa^em ? It is Mi
to be an unacknowledged transbtdoa of i wovkb^
Firrain Abauzit. Is it so ? NBWinsTOVnaa
[This work is entitled A Di9C&w^ Bittorkaim^ IW
tktU on tht Rewtationt lucribffi to St, JbAn. hmd. 11%
8vo. It Wflis published anon yrnously, and it a tr^Dl^
of Firmin Abauzlt** work, D«ro«r» ffittariqm mtt4i^
ca/j/T^ie, written to show that tho canQoicml a«tkff^<
the Apo<^AlypsQ was doubtfuL The le«nt«d Dr. Im^
Twella replied to it, and his aiiawier wiia apprvnltf
translated into Latin by Wolf, and insertod in kit
FhUolopca ^ Critirtt m Novum Te^fajnefttiMi, 5
BiLsle, 174L On mading Dr. Twells'a reply
satisfied, and honourably wttite (though ia vaiaV
the reprinting of his work in Hollaad* Th«
other translation of Abfluxit's Dt^eoune In hil
tanktt by Dr. E. Harwood, Lond^ fivo, 1774
OrmeV Biblioihrca Bihttca, 1834, p. 1, aod £t2loCl1i<
Apocal^ca^ ediL iSal, iv. fi02.]
Stuart Auherents. — Where cAn I
of noblemen and gentlemen, in the rergii of i
L, upon whose estates fines were levied,
were brought to trial for participating ia ^
to restore the Stuarts ?
[The following work may be consuHod, " Xi
Romao Catholics, Nonjurors, and others who
take the Oaths to his tate Majestj King G^otgc^
with their Titles, Additions, and Plu^'^s of AboJc^^^
other curioas Information, from an origiuftt
[By James Cosin.] Load. Svo* 1745.**]
Portrait or Kiwo Johk (of Englxiid)^— Ii
there any authentic ptvrtrait of this monarch ? H
»o, where is it to be seen ? Any engraving ? f*
[Vertue*s engraving is oommon, taken from the taal
of King John at VV^orcester, and which very ocadyi^
semblcs the broad seal of bim. In the first voL f£
CaialogMe of PortraiiM, it is priced at Is. fol. In tlit mM
Catalogue is advertised a great variety at Gd ^^ch,^
Greek Testament. — What is the htftoiy
the Greek Testament —
" Poet priores Steph. Cafeellad , . , tahorvav
. . . variantcs lectfooea . . • eabibvntttr . . . «
VindnbciDensi . . . Amateljedami, ax odkioa Wi
1711"?
It is a small 8vo, with a fronti^iece, ami tit
Prolegomena and notes are written by " G, 0, X
M, D.,*' whose name is sought,
Hrrcs Faartt.
[Tbera aw two aditiont of thie Greek Taata^ r ■ *"
1735, small Svo; bot Iha fKood l« said t^ V
VafiCflSid^ T^tASSwatA ^3Mk^r«>t (1711) was Crcrani
a
fi»*5. V.May 21/81]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
421
itricbt (Gerardtt* Be Trajeeto Moke Doctor)^ a syn-
I of the tnpubUc of Bremen; tbe Mcuod (1735) waa
by tbe celebrated critic J. J. WeUUin. H«riiig
; been pabliihed by Ub relative Heary Wetstein, a book*
fteller of Amt terdam, tbeae editions of tbe New TestHment
are aomettiDes improperly called Wetstein's; and from
I tbe came of Curccllioai beiag printed in tbe title, tbcy
Ate in fome catalo^acs erroneously stjled j>W, Tcit,
Grae. CurcelhgL The text is formed on tbe secotid £U
Kevir edition of 1633, and Carcelbetts'a editions, — Hornets
IntrodwciioH, ed, J 856, ix, 689,]
CoaiiiM Ftramid. — I have seen an old en-
^a^ing^ of a oariCf witb a large quaint-look innr
no use in the distance ; anri, in the foreground, a
bigb and rather narrow pyramid of stone, witb an
inscription in tbe middle: "To tbe Memory of
*^ Viscount Cobham/*
^^ 1 think rhis is at Stowe, or at Hanworth. Can
** any of your readers say which? Ltttblton;
^, [Tbe plate of this Pyramid mny be found in the fol-
. lowing work : " A General Plan of tbe Woods, Park, and
^ Gardens of Stowe, the Seat of the Rt Hon. the Lord
TlAconnt Cobbara, with ieveral Perspective Viewa in tbe
I irdcns. Dedicated to bia Lordship by S. Bridgeraan,
r^ixteen large Plates, foL 1739/' The plate is entitled,
** A View from the foot of the Pyramid," witb an inscrip-
^ tion in tbe middle, *'Memori« Sacram esse VoluiL Cob-
li \m,'* This Pyramid does not appear to have been
^ri'cted, and will only now be found among the plana and
— ^ drawings of Bridgeman, the first professional artist em-
ployed by Lord Cobham to lay out tbe grounds. It was
•.__- to William Kent, who was consulted In the double cjipa-
^ dty of architect and gardener, that Stowe is indebted for
; many of its distinguished ornaments.]
Hbnshall*8 " Gothic and Englisk Gospels."
Was this work ever completed ? And how many
numbers were pubiished ? I have only Deal. L»
A Fragment of St. Matthew. S. S.
[This incomplete work is a thin volume in 8vo, dated
1807, The Prefatory articles make sixty-four pagex.
Then follows a " Literal Rendering of tbe Gothic Gospel
through Matthew/' consisting of seventy-nine pages.]
SIR CHARLES WOGAK.
(a-^s. V. 11.)
_ J* W# S. gives an account of Sir Charles
ITojjan beint; engaged in tbe flight of the daughter
of Prince James Sobieski, and mentions that the
adventures are told with minuteness and interest
in his Female Fortitude, 1720. Jesse gives some
particulars* but not sufficient. Wogan corrects
rficboU and Scott in saying that the Princess
Clementina was married by proxy in Poland, but
aays it was at Bologna after her escape; but
neither Smollett, Walter Scott, or Lord Mabon
mentions by whom she was afterwards married. I
was fortunate enough to find this circumstance
noticed in the Strawberry Hill Catalogue of
Pnota, where it is thus mentioned : '*47D. Jacques
IIL Roy de la Grande Bretagne, by Chereau, &c.
the Princess Clementina^ his Consort, by Jio
Frey, sheet extra fine. — A representation of
their Marriage bj Pope Clement XL 171 J>, in
the Palace of the Vatican. Ant. Friz, sc., Aujfust
Masueci, inv, et del., oblonsr sheet extra rare/'
And in the Illuitrated Catalogue of the Bemal
Collection published by Bobn, and entitled A
Guide to the Knowledge of Pottery, Porcelain, cmd
other Objects of Vertit, mention is made of a pic-
ture which delineates the dress which the princess
wore when she made her escape : -^
« Hugtenbarg. . . , gai [dated 1733.]— The Priocesa
Maria Olementtna Sobieski, of Poland, on horseback, in
tbe aingiilar dress she wore in her romantic journey to
raarrv the Pretender, Prince James Stuart. 19 iil by
2G in. 31/. 10*. Duke of Hamilton."
A large silver medal (by-the-bye» are there anj
of this medal struck in gold?) No. 32, of the
Series of the Stuart Medals described in tbe
Catalogue of Antiquities, Works of Art, and
Historical Scottish Relics exhibited in the Museum
of tbe ArcliEcological Institute held at Edinburgb,
1&56, gives this account : —
" Bust of Clementina Sobieski, 1. hair decorated witli
beads and tlarit p«vl necklace, robe trimmed with
jewelry, ermine mantle. Leg. Clementina. M. Britan. Fr.
Et. Hib. Regina. Otto Hamerani. F. — Rev. : Clementina
seated in a car drawn by two horaes at speed ; distant
city and setting sun. Leg.': FortmaraCavsamqueSeqvor
— * I follow his fortune and cause.* Ex. t Deceptis Ovs-
todibvB. 3II.D.CCXIX. — * Having de<:dved my guards.
1719.' 2. Ar/»
Struck in commemoration of the escape of
Clementina Sobieski from the guards who had
been placed over her at Innspruck by the Em-
peror of Germany, to prevent her marriage with
the Prince James, The legend is in conformity
with the reply of her father respecting her escape^
— that, as she had been engaged to the Prince, she
was bound to follow his fortune. This medal is
engraved in the Gentlemajis Magazine,
Among the valuables which formed part of the
dowry of the Princess Maria Clementina were the
rubies of tbe Poliah crown, now in the treasury
of St. Peter's ; the golden shield, presented by the
Emperor Leopold to the deliverer of Vienna ; and
the cover of gold brocade adorned with verses of
the Koran in turauoise, in which tbe standard of
the prophet was \ept during the siege. In an
article m the Edinburgh Bemew for Jan. 1864,
on the Scottish Religious Houses abroad, it is
stated that tbe Scottish colleges at Douai and Paris
were united by the law 24 Yendemiaire* an XI,
and a joint establif^hment with the Irish sou^Ut la
be founded. D\ivm^ l\\ii ^t%\. ^ci\^^^^^J^ ^VvTv
poleop, the \iteftv4<i\vc^ 'w%*\y2ifcUi^^^^^^^'^'^
r
I
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NOTES AKD QUEBIES.
423
k
of wboin, including tb« uamea p'lTen* sought by
constitutional meant to obutn the reformti tbejr
advocated. Taking it, however, in ita more Uberil
iense, it could nut apply to Cobbett — who bc^^aa
hU cfiregr m vl poIiticiU writer of the most ultra*
CoQservflUve atatnf*. He first beccuue known to
the public ai ** Peter Porcupine/' under which
name he fiercely attacked the deniocratio writers
and speakers of France and America^ He was
then rcsidi'nt in America, and underwent much
persecutron ; and encouotered one or two triab
at law for alleged liheU, in his defence of monar-
chical and ariftncratical in^titutionfl. The series,
known as the " Porcupine Papers," attracted much
notice in ihia country. Thej were quoted and
lauded bjr the ffOTemment organs — quoted in both
Houses of Parliament, and eulorri&ed in the puipiL
The writer wai considered one of the most power-
ful supports of the principles of the BritiMi con*
•ticution. This series of papers was republished
in England in twelve volumes octavo, under the
patronaize of the Prince Regent, afterwards
George IV. — to whom, I believe, it was dedicated.
On referring to thi* work, the style and vigour of
Cobbett^ as strongly displayed as in his later
work — the Political RegUter — will be recognised
at once.
On his return from America, he began a daily
paper called the Porcupine, This was discon-
tinued after a short existence, and soon after he
began the ReguUr. Both these papers were
gly in favour of the government, both as to
ures and men ; and the Register ran through
al volumes before a change took place in the
illiical opinions of the editor. It is said that his
change of sentiment was hastened, if not caused,
by an affront offered him by William Pitt. Wind-
ham WHS a great admirer of Cobbett, and after
one of his more telling articles in the Porcupine^
had declared that the author was ** worthy of a
statue of gold/* Pitt had refused to meet the
auth<vr of the Register at Windham's table ; and
this Cobbett resented, and never forgave* Very
aoon after this, a marked change took place in hh
politics; but notwithstanding m»ny alterations
during the thirty years he stood before the country
as a writer, and many alienations from bis early
political friendships, he was consistent in his ad-
vocacy of the "reform cause,*' and the enemy of
what he termed the unreformed abuses of Church
«nd State ; and the last Register which came from
hii pen, very shortly before his deaths breathed
the szune spirit which he had shown years before
Hi one of the leaders of the democratic party. The
Beform Bill, which his powerful pen had done
much to promote, had of course moderated the
views of all cniigbtened public men ; but in no
sense coulJ the term Conservative apply to him,
more than it would apply &t any period of hb
political life « after his &rst de9erUoa from tbe
nuiks of the men who had applaaded iW Uh#iB
of " F^/cr Potxjttpine." T. E*
f-.^-^-^ ' " Cl4ssical LsAsamiG fS** S. iiL
3^ affected to de«pise all acquire*
n;t4 ,.._. „,,,,.. J u'. '^^ not. In his Mngtuk (jrammmr^
letter xxi , be seleets examples of bad JSiitlidh
from the writings of Dr. Johnson and Dr, Watta,
and is verv contemptuous on ^'wbat aie ealled
the learned langusges:** but I agree with E. HL
that he would not have entered upon Latin or
Greek critieitiiL I do not know the epitaph i ob»
jected to by Mr. Brennen, but it is not unlikely
that he mistook Wakefield fur the author of one
quoted by him ia derision.
" The Baptista have a bnryiag ftbr p ai \\\\\ CUl^ to
the neighbourhood of Warrin^toa. vi ti «n
epitaph on ooe of their miaisteri, « 5, v© to ex-
pose thd contemptible aflectatioo of KTiowicdg? in Httlu
minds, and the artifiee that ia tomeliiaet pfBclTsed to pro-
curt authority wiili the pecMtJi^ and a rapuUtioti for
ulents which ore not poHessea in tha least d«gr«e by tha
boaiter: —
* Sabter hoc aaznni
Thomjf. WAinwniaimi etn.
Amicuii iile n osier •temere te i
factum est lUe aotem
prfltdictoria fui»-se in
con "-Tiitiffluji per
Memt^tofihtLii .n fTftkefetd, B.A, Writtea
by Himself, p.2i4. tivo, London, 1792.
Did Parr or Bur ney write an epitaph on Fo«
or Johnson? FiTzHOPiuai.
Garrick Club,
PBE-DEATH COFFINS A2ID MOKUMENTS.
(3'* S. V. 255, 368.)
Thoae of your readers who are interested in
this subject may be reminded, (hat ihe Emperor
Charles v . made trial of his cofHn at least some
days before ihe *' animula blandula, voguta,'* &c.,
took its flight
Dr. John Donne, too, interested himself about
bis monumental effitry, and gave himself extraor*
dinary and almost ludicrous pains in order that
tbe labours of the sculptor might be effective.
Having ordered an urn to be cut in wood, and
having caused charcoal fires to be lighted in his
study, he indued the winding-sheet, and stood bj
the urn, simulating death. In which position, a
portrait waa taken, which stood by Donne's bed-
side until hi^ death; and, no doubt, was aAcr-
wardjj of much service to the executor of the
statue which marked his resting-place in St.
Pours.
In Wyliea Old and Neto JVoeeifigKam<.^.avA^
mention w ma.dft <A nn ea^sftaxtvi ^^^^^x^v^VlxO^"^^^
424
NOTES AND QUEBIE&
Cr*av.iLTti
coffin painted "true blue ;" and in a spirit of re-
markaole utilitarianism, used it as a cupboard for
no less than twenty years : —
** On hit birthday he would try on his best snit. and
extend himself in the coffin to see if it still fitted. Erscn-
ating his qasrters, the coffin, well lined with sabttantial
viands, would then be carried in state on the ehonlders of
bis associates. Ned following as chief mourner, with an
enormous pitcher of ale in his hand : ^
< The blue-lined coffin holds his dust now dead.
In which the living Dawson kept his bread.' "
The same book also records the doings of one
John Wheatlej ; who bought a coffin, stored it
with choice wines, and for some time kept it in
his bed-room :
" Thence," says Mr. Wylie, ** he removed it to an en-
closed place in the General Cemetery, in which he bad a
vault oug. He there, however, imbibed such copious
draught! of wine, that he wan drivAn from the place; and
thus made to cease fVom his revolting diisipation."
St. SwrrBiR.
A remarkable instance of a monumental brass,
prepared before death, is that of the Abbot De-
lamere at St. Albans, considered to be the finest
ecclesiastical brass remaining. The inscription, in
very bold Lombardic letters, runs thus : — " Hie
jacet Dominus Thomas, quondam abbas hujus
monasterii ." A space is left for the age and
date of death ; but what is most extraordinary is,
that these have never been filled in. The brass
was fixed, but the inscription never completed,
even after the abbot's death. I may here note
that Boutell is mistaken in calling one of the
figures on the side of the abbot's head Offa, king
of Mercia: it is St. Oswin, king and martyr,
whose relics were translated to the monastery of
Tinmouth, subject to the abbey of St. Albans,
and at which translation Richard, abbot of St.
Albans, attended in 1103. F. C. H.
The Rev. Joseph Pomeroy, who was bom in
1749, instituted to the vicarage of St. Kew, in
Cornwall, in 1777, and died, the oldest dersyman
in that county, on Feb. 7, 1837, had prepared, some
few years before his death, a granite coffin, which
be caused to be placed in the churchyard of his
parish ready for his interment. I well remember
seeing it in a newly finished state and stretching
myself in it. The practice of erecting monuments
prior to death has, as is well known, been very
common. We very fireauently find that the date
of death has not been filled in by the executors or
representatives of the deceased. In the church of
Bfislund, in the above mentioned county, is a brass
commemorating John Balsam, sometime rector of
that parish, who died in May, 1410. This monu-
ment is singular in that the date of the dt^ of the
month is not filled in, a blank space remaining in
the brass plate, although the remainder of the in-
senption is complete. Johh Macliak.
BaouMfimlth.
Shaum (2-« S. xii. 866.) — T. J. E wi
full historical account of thia sect, and Ibi
seen that any answer has been jet giren.
following is the title of a book in my posse
"An Aocoont of the People cmlled Shakers: tba
Doctrines, and Practice, exemplified in the lii
versations, and Experience of the Author daring t
he belonged to the Society. To which ii affixed
lory of their Rise and Progress to the Present Da
Thomas Brown, of Cornwall, Orange County, S
New-York.
** * Prove all things, hold fast that which ii g
Apottit Pavi,
- * An historian shoald not dare to tell a falul
leave a truth untold.*— Cicen>.
« Trot : Printed bv Parker and Bliss, Sold
Troy Bookstore, bv Wiebsters and Skinners, Albii
by S. Wood. New- York, 1812."
The work is in octavo, and contains 372
concluding with some hvmns used hy th
The book was published by subscription,
list of the subscribers is given. About 350
appear to have been subscribed for; and |
few of Uiose have found a way across t
lantic. W.
Lbadiko Apes uc Hell (3^* S. v. 193, 3
Under the heading " Ape,** I find the fo
remarks in Toone*s Olossarial and Etym
Dictionary : —
** The common expression, to lead apa in ht
women dying old maids, aeems to have pu£sle(
ceding writers as to iU origin ; but all agree th«
its rise to the Refurmation, no mention being in
prior to 1600 in any old author. Mr. Boucher
that it may hare bieen invented by the refonn<
inducement to women to marry. In the diuo
the monasteries, a diainclination to marriage m
itself; and many women, of a contemplative
minil, sighed for the eeclosion of the cloister to
act this propensity. Some pious reformer hit
device in question ; but whether true in fact, oi
it had the desired effect, it is diflkult to determi
still in use in a jocular sense : —
* But 'tis an old proverb, and you know it f
That women dying maids lead apea in hell
O. P., The London R
* Fear not, in hell you'll never lead apes,
A mortifV'd maiden of five escapes.'
B.J
< Well, if I quit him not, I here pray God
I may lead ape$ in hell and die a maid.'
O. P., EngHtkmenfor my J
St. Sf
The Mollt Wash-dish (S'* S. v. 356.)
this to be a provincial name for the 1
It is commonly called the water- wagta
having its habitat near running streams ; s
the peculiar shake of its tail, noticed in
guages when speaking of this bird. T
and pertinacious tappings at his windof
Me. BiRaHAM speaks of; are nothing unos
the MotaeiUa tribe. Many years ago, I
tending the tick bed of a woman wIm Ih
r
8^ a V.Max 21. "M.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
425
I
the back of the town of Dorchester ; and dttring
taj visit, heard repeated tappings at the window
of the cottage ; and, on intmirv^ found the/ were
made by a water- wagtail, who c^otinued the prac-
tice for several dajs^ — much to the alarm of the
poor woman and her familj: for they were all
convinced that it waa the warning of her ap-
proaching death* It was in vain to persuade
Ihem to a contrary belief; so I let the supersti-
tion cure itself by the bird, after two or three
days disappearing altogether. But waa it "a
tranamigrated spirit^rapper ? " Of this, Mb.
BiKGaAM seems to suggest the possibility: no
doubt, from his classical studies at Winchester.
The ^37( of Theocritus clearly indicates that
country people, in his day, had strangely super-
stitious notions fibout this bird, as being able to
create Jove, and bring the lover back to his for-
saken mistress : "^Iu7C» ^^* '^v*" &c. This Virgil
imitates, in the line —
** Dncite ab urbe domum, mea carmlna, Daphnim/*
The bird was said to be tied to a magic wheel,
which^ being turned rapidly, exhibited the ap-
pearance of the lost lover. But a phrase, in
Aenophon's Memorabilia, fKK*of toyya^ ^* turii the
xDugic wheel," brings the truth more closely home,
that the ancients used " table-turning " much the
same as ^^ foolish women" do in the nineteenth
century, for the purpose of knowing mysterious
circumstances about lovers, or other hidden se-
crets. The belief in spirit-rapping* in our en-
lightened age, is sometning worse than a rustic
superstition, Prohpudor! QiT£E?f*8 Gardens.
Captaiw Nathasiei. Pobtlock (3'* S. v. 375.)
In connection with this distinguished naval officer,
to whose memory, as your correspondent rightly
observes, justice has not been done, it may be weEl
to mention that his son^ Major -General Joseph
Ellison Fortlock, R.E,, F.R,S., M.R.I.A., &c.,
died at his residence. Lota, Booterstown, co. Dub-
lin, February 14, 1864, and was buried at Mount
Jerome. General Portlock's character as a man
of science stood particularly high ; and one of his
publications, entitled Report on the Oeohgy of the
Cmifity of Londonderry^ and of Parts of Tyrone
and Ferrtianagh (8vo, Dublin, 1843, pp. xxxi.
784, with maps and plates), is a standard autho-
rttj. I have lately seen a large sized oil-painting
of Cftptain Fortlock, in full uniform. Abhqa,
Ajtoeos, Siti Ei>MU?tD (S'* S. V. 345.) — Sir
Edmund Andros, of Guernsey, bore for arms:
6u. a sal tire or, surmounted of another vert ; on
a chief arg. three mullets sa. Crest. A blacka-
moor s head in profile, couped at the shoulders,
and wreathed about the temples all ppr. Motto,
'^ Crux et presidium et decus/^
In 16S6, he made application to the Earl Mar*
shal to have his arms *^ registered in the College
of Armes la such a manner, as he may lawfully
bear them with respect to his descent from the
antient family of Sausroarez, in the said Isle"
(Guernsey). ' In this petition it is set out that —
** His Great Grandfather*! Father» John Andrea, ds
Aadrewei, an Enghah Gentleman, borne in Korthamptoa-
shire, cotniDg into the Island of Gaernsey, as Lieateiiant
to S' Peter flewtii, K°*, the Govern', did there marr^ A»
1643, with Judith do Sausmarea, onely Dtaghtsr of
Thomai Saaamarea« aoa and heir of Thomas Saiumare^.
Lords of the Setgnorie of Sausmarsx in the said lale,**
&C., &JC.
The warrant, granting the petition, is dated
Sept 23, 1686 ; and from this time Sir Edmund
Andros and his descendants, as Seigneurs de Saus-
naarezj quartered the arms of De Sausmarez with
their own, and used the crest and supporters be-
longing thereto, as depicted on the margin of the
warrant. These arms are thus blazoned : — ^Ai^.
on a chev. gu, between three leopards' faces sa*
as many castles triple- towered or. Crest. A fal-
con affrotitant, wings expanded ppr. belled or.
Supporters. Dexter, an unicorn arg. tail cowarded ;
sinister, a greyhound arg. collared gu. garnished
or, EoGAB Mac Cuij-och.
Guernsfiy.
CuKix's Vorrcax's Lettbrs (3^* S. ii. 162.)^ —
D. says, " two trajislations of Voiture's Letters
had been published : one in 1657, and tlie other
in 1715."
1 have no copy of the latter ; but I presume it
is the translation published by Curll. I have the
former, which I may 8tat« was translated by John
Davies of Kidwellv.
The object of tliis note is, to mention another
collection of Letters : " Printed for Sam. Briscoe,
in Russel-street, Covent Garden, and sold by
J. Nutt, near StationerB*-hall, 1700.'* It is inti-
tuled : —
" Familiar and Courtly Letters, written by Monsieur
VoiTUiiE to Persons of the greatest Honour, Wit, and
Quality of both Sexes in the Court of France, Made
Englinh by Mr. Drvdenj Tho. Cheek» E»q. j Mr. Dermis;
Henry Crorowel, Esq. ; Joi* Haphson, Esq. j Dr. ;
&c To these are added translations from Aristjenetus,
Fliny, Jun% and Fotitanetle, by Tho. Brown ; and Original
Letters by the same. Never before Published. And a
CoUectioa of Letters written by Dryden, Wyeherl>', Con-
greve, Dennis," &c.
On a cursory examination of Yoiture's Letters
io this volume, I find them, with one exception,
different letters from those in the edition of 1657,
W, Leb,
Charade: " Sir Geoftbey" (3'^ S. ii. 188,219,)
When this clever and ingenious composition ap-
peared in **N, Sc Q.," 1 considered that the solu-
tion was probably the word ** to*well.** I thtnk
no solution, perfectly answerable in all points,
possible. Mine is open to the objection, that **tbe
old knight" hud a ** gouty knee ;" but it was when
his red toe twinfred him worst, that he would *}^*
lingly haAift 'jkW^i Vi ^(Xwi 'Ww^'sX vVoX rnXLvSo.
426
NOTES AND QXJERIE&
cr*av»JiAfii,u
formg the firit part of the charado- The solution
given bj Lord Monaon^" foot-Btool'* — ia linble to
the same objecliun ; while it must be admitted
that "leg-rest," given by C. S*, i« not. A« to ibe
second part, mine has the recommendation of an-
lithesb to the word " ill," which immediately suc-
ceeds it in the poem. The word "stool'* fteems
inapplicable ; but the word " rest" is admissible,
tliou^h not quite satisfactory. The o^ or complete
solution^ is something that might be ** smootted**
by a *' single touch," — which could scarcely be
said of a leg-reat, or a foot*stool; but might of a
" to-well."
I do not presume to affirm that my solution li
the correct one; nor dare I recommend a wet
towel to any of your readers afflicted with gout;
but I applied one in a paroxyim (like that which
made Sir Gei)tfrey think of the hatchet), and I
must say, in the words of the charade, '^like a
fairy*9 wandi it banljihed the pain away.^ I am
bound to add that my medical adviser, on being
informed, said I bad Incurred a riiik that might
haye proved fatal. W. Lee.
SsiTTH or Bbaco, and Stewabt of Obkwet
(3^ S. Iii« 5K) — I should be much indebted to
W. IL F., who wrote from Kirkwall on the sub-
ject of some Orkney families, if he would permit
me to correspond privately with him touching
certain OrcaJian relatives on whose history he
' may be enabled to throw a light. I <lo not think
the investigation would have any interest for
jjcnend rea Ilts of "N. & Q"; and, moreover,
details of genealogy can be best communicated
direct.
I may add, that I am specially interested in an
inquiry concerning the Margaret Stewart who is
mentioned bv W. II. t\, a* wife of Hew Ilalcro
of Halcro. Is he acquainted with any other mar*
riaste of heri f
I am alio desirous of obtaining some further
particulars than I have hitherto been able to
glean r«f3pcctiMn the family of James Ail ken.
Bishop of Giiiloway \ whose father, Henry Ail ken,
Wfls shtTiffand commissnry of Orkney* and who was
himself paraon of Btrsa at the time of Montrose's
descent.
I# there any trace of a Marparpt Stewart amonf^
the Burray family, descending! from Ochiltree, or
Eventlttle, as mentioned in your correspondent's
long ftnd elaborate paper ?
1 think I am acquainted with the principal
posseiiions of the Smytha of Brtco, in Orkney ;
but of this I will ipeok later, should W. H. F.
feel disposed t4» accede to mv request. I shall
hope 10 bear from him at the uddreas I have
giv<in* C. H. E. Cawiiciiabl.
Trui* Cotl. 0%m.
HntMtJia or Woictfrnt (S** 9. ?. 17S, 26S,
3tf5.>-«A T^oml kirtttfgttioQ of ^^ t«ootd« of
Woreeater enmblea me to gi?e the ftillBviaf p^
ticulara i —
Thomas Hemlngo, a Chimberlaln of the Qty Wll
Richard Hemfng* Mayor . . . IHT
Henry Heminge, a Chamberlaia . * Ull
Kicbard Uemytige, a Cbamb^rlAin (t]i« j«r
of tho lAst battle) . . . . . IQI
Richard Heming. Mayor. , , IS?
John Hemyng, a Chambertain . liM
Edward Hemyaff. a Chamber l«iii . IVS
John Heming, Miyor , . ... 1117
At the aie^e of 1646, Alderman Htininf «
one of the citizens nominated to conaider thefffr
priety of a treaty with the besiegers. Tke c^m
wu dbapproveJ, and Lieut.-CuL Soie^MffM
the aldermiin'g place.
Hemming h still a local name ; and U ii; a^
has been, to be fimnd in many parta of the eoof^
I have not met with any cKampte of tW m
borne by mayors of this name, nar do«t it ifpi
that they registered at the VistUition^.
The crest sujr^ested at p. 355, aocordi^t
Burke, does not belong to the same fainilyi
arms at p. 268. Perhaps the pedij^ree i>f ~
of London (p* 268) may throw some lighf
subjeL't,
A Robert Hemming waa buried at
Sent. 13, 1G9L
Jniiies Hemming died at Inkberroiv,
1727, aged aeventy-three*
"TROii.t9 km> Crbssioa" (3"« S. «▼. t«
There can, I think, be no doubt about tb« i
ing with which Shakspeare wrote the Uiie J
** One toach of naturt maket the wbot* irorld I
He is simply pointing out, that ibem ill
dency natural to all^aU are akin to eacit i *
thii--thut they all pniiie what is ne%r« btvii
is new. But by frerjuent quotation^ the li*
lost its connection with the contujct^ and hx
quired a much more emphatic applicAiion;
made to signify an allusion to that electric i
pathy bv which " the heart of rnan nuswtri Hi
man/' It is hardly necessary to point OQt ^ "
many texts of Scripture have ptiased llir
a similar process, even those whicii havi»
pri'ssed into the service of the most sol fin n
troversy. A im ' ' " ' and in l^ I
of the harkney* > f It i
in everybudy a unMim, w nvt ts ibe ^ood nf J
and-sof " Whereas it grew into provirrtical i
from ita frequency as a question umlt" ^f
law of evidence, raeaniug, *^ Who v^
by 80*and-io?" C. <
Garrick Club.
**Hamlwt"(3^S. Y,'i32.) — a. a
recollected Horatio's comment on
<i ''You miffht bare '
1 rhvmc;, Hamlizt m
L %\A.\io.\\i<L'it53tJL^asa"iiittaiii<?t ;
'SM&T. lUTtt.f4]
NOTES AND QUERlEa
4i7
to mask the «itgge»t»oii under « leu on-
ly term of reproach: umi having just re-
l to **Jove bimieir/' the bird of Jiuio
ttimUy supplies kim wttli ihe worti be wuiU.
C. G. Pbowett,
Gftrrick Clob.
Monks amd Fmabj (S^ S. v, 346 ) — It is to
regretted that njiiny, besides Mr. Fmude, are
the habit of confounding monks and frinrt,
iterne speaks looaelj, not to say ignomntij, of
a poor monk of the Order of St. Frnncis/* — be
ibould have said friar. We meet, indeed, with
cU mistakes io so maoj ^e^pectabIe writers,
it would be onJj waste of time to select
V<, Every one, again, talks of the monkM
ount St. Bernard ; when in renlity they are
leither monki nor friars^ but canons regular of
It. Augustine. But to answer the queries of
"- H. M, : —
1. What was the distinction between monks and
«rjf The very names might suffice to show
b. Monks, or monnchiy were so «*iilled from
►H aJone^ because they orii^inally lived alone,
I be deserts^ and far from all intercourse with
le world ; whereos the friars were so csilled from
w^M, or brethren, because they lived together
community. The monks were later on assera*
ed in monaateries, or communities, containing.
tch about thirty or forty monks ; and these were
ylecl cenobitest from living in community, to dis-
riffutiih them from those who still lived alone,
la were called hermita, or anchoret^?. Two cen-
iries aiY^r monks had been formed into com-
anities in the East, they were established in the
est by St. Benedict in 595, and bis rule was
nerully adopted ; so that by monki are usuaUy
iderstood Benedictines^ though there are monks
* various other Orders, who in great measure
Ibw his rule — ^uch as Cistercians, Cartbu*i»ns,
Imttldulenses, Cluniacs, &c. The /r*or« are» the
ranciscans, Dominican^ and Carmelites. St.
hancis, of Assisium founded the Friars Minora
1209.
S* W^as the clifferencc an great as the reviewer
^Froude implies ? Certairdy not. There have
been, it is true, too many jealousies, and too many
instances of opposition between moftks and friars;
^■t it is quite false to represent them as syatema*
illy ** bitter enemies," Nor is there any parity
ween the opposition of the^e religious Orders
■ that of the Pharisees and Sadducees : for these
on essential points of doctrine* whereas
md friars neter differed on any doctrinal
F.aa
le monks (m«»'oxoO *^ v^ry ancient^ existing
ore the tmie of Christ, and were so called from
lir secluijon from the world: at first in caves
d d' ' !^ in buiMing^. This seclu-
V ' lU in contemplation of Eng-
law, II. was considered defttb* Tiiai LitUeton
say» C*- 200)—'* When a man entreih into reU.
?ion and is profened, he is dead in the law, and
nts son or next cousin (consanguioeuri) inconti-
nent shall inherit luxn, ai weU as though be weftt
dead indeed/*
Goizot (Hist Mod, cb, xit. p. 382), says that
** as late as the elecentk ag^ the monks were for
the most part laymen ;'* which opinion is thought
by Waddingt>on to be too hastily asserted (Hi^
Ckureh, ck xxviii. p. 698) : yet the latter admits
Cch, xix. p. 370, 384), " the order of monks wmi
origirmUy ao Widely distinct from that of clerks,
that there were seldom found more than one Of
two ecclesiastics in any ancient convent.**
The Mars (fr^res), on the contrarv, known as
the mendteaot and preachings orders, had no fixed
residence, did not appear till the twelfth century,
and wcr« missionaries. The Augustines were
canomd^ and in some respects conformed to the
monastic system (Waddington, BisL Church, ch.
xix. p. 384). Some of the friars, however* domi-
ciled themselves in monasteries, as at Oxford and
Cambridge i but the Franciscan, Dominican, Car-
melites, and Augustines, did not thereby become
monks — that is, persons secluded from the world.
The monks (laymen), it may be said, had regard
each to bis personal religion as his main object ;
the friars (clergy), on the other hand, had regard
especially to the conversion and religious advance^
menfc of the general public* The Pbariaeea and
Sadducees were at variance chiefly <fn the doc-
trines of tradition, and of the resurrection of the
body ; both held by the former, and denied by the
latter ; their differences had regard to matters of
opinion* The distinction of clergy and laity had
not then arisen. The differences of monks and
friars were evinced in acts, selBsh as regarded the
monks, philanthropic as rc^ard^d the friars*
T. J. BoomToH.
Majoft Jomr HarKsa (3^^ S. ▼. 320.) ~ I feel
convinced that the above-named officer is the
same Major John Haynes, about whom inquiries
were made in "N, & Q." (1** S. xi. 324.) Any
authentic information reliitive to Major ilaynea
will be thankfully received by
Zritbii Altxk.
Wig (3'*» S. iii. 113.) — In a letter of Bishop
Mackenzie*^, which is published in the Dean of
£lj*s Memoir of that devoted man, I find the
following remarks on the etymology of wig : —
" I wu out at dinner this evening, and took as moch
iotereflt m a ditcuMloa about derivations of words as mny
ooe else. They aald that *wig* came from • p&riw^%*
and that from ' perraque,' and tbut from a Gothic Luim
word, pe/^trcuj, and that from //iVh«, Latiti, a hair." — 1\ 73.
St. SwiTHtK.
Nebf (3'^ S. V. 346.)— This word, in the form of
"neif,** "neive," or **neax^^*' \k\i^ xvq \ss&*»cos. -^^^
fined Id liottUT^tWsat^- UVa^ terv^^ Vc^^'^^
428
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[;3»^S.T*llAf»/U
Islondtc nsfi. See Hunter's HaQamshire GhS'
Bury^ and Toone's Etymolof^ical Dictionary ^ where
quotations are given from Gawin Douglsis's Virgil,
dums's Haggis^ and tlie Midsummer Nights
Dream* It occurs, also, in Tim Bobbin's Lanca*
shire DialecL J. F, M*
'* A SaoFUL" (3'^ S. V. 145.) —Mb. Phiixips
Eas recalled attention to this subject, and has
attempted tu bring within the region of true ety-
mology a term which inaj perhaps have no cluim
to legitimacy. The difficulty experienced in ac-
counting for skng terms (such as I consider
thofid to be) Tery generally nrises from want of
Acquaintance with the classes among whom they
take their rise. I beg leave to assist Ma. Puil-
iitrs by throwing out a suggestion. I am inclined
to regard shoful as a piece of Jewish slang. Thus
in Friedrich*9 Unterricht in der Judensprache^
8vo, 1784| we find *' schofei*, schlecht^ gering;"
and if we may suppose that on the introduction of
the Hansom cabs the drivers of the old four^
wheelers wished to display their contempt for the
innovation^ those among them who were JewH
(and several such might be met with) would pro-
bably express their feeling by the use of this
Hebrew word. This explanation may perhaps
admit of question ; but at all events it appears to
me to carry with it some semblance of philological
truth, while Mr. Phillips's solution of the diffi-
culty, I may be pardoned for saving, is unsup-
ported either by the principles of language, or the
character of the vehicle in question. R. S. Q.
DuMMEBER (S'^ S. v. 355.) — Harman in his
Caveat for Common Cursiiors, 4to, 1567, has a
chapter descriptive of" a dommerar," which com-
mences thus, —
** These dommerars are Icud and moat aubtyU people,
the most nart of these are Wotch incn» and w} II neuer
•peake, umesse they haue extresme puoishmeot, hut wyll
gape, and with a mametloas force wyll hold downe their
lQaog9 doubled « groniag for your churyty" &,c.
To the same effect Dekker, in bis English Fi/-
lanits^ 4to, 1 638, writes of dommerars, —
** The bel-man looke his marke amiase in saying that a
dommtrar is equal to a cranktt^ for of the«e dommerars I
never met hut one, and that was at the hou^e of one Af. L.
of L, This dommerar^s name vras W. Hee made a
strange noise, shewing by fingers acrotte that his toogue
was cut oat at Chalke HilV &c.
Grose, on the foregoing authorities, gives, in his
Classical Dictionary of the Vnlgar IhngTte^ the fol-
lowing definition of a dommerar : —
•* A beggar pretending that his tongue has be«Q ent out
bv the Algrrine*. or cruel and blood-thirsty Turka; or
Bli« that be was bom deaf and dumb.'*
R. S. Q.
pABtiETiTffti {^^ S. V. 28L) — I imagine this
word to mean ruins ^ or ruined walU^ the same as
the Latin parietin*t, m used by Cioero. Robert
ButUm wu BO pedAfitic in bis style, m4 «o ^(^t^
of interlarding his sentenf"" "i^^^ qoatitiait fiiK
classic authors, that it is • .^idbkhtw«dl
Anglicise words not ackno,^ -^^^--^ by «j BiJjfii
lexicographer. Fsnow^
The Newtok Stone (3^ S, ▼. 1I0,24S,5W}
I must decline to occupy your space with a rtt»
tation of Da. Moobe's last letter; but ixaajif
desirable to inform such of your reaidot m ms
interested in the matter, that the eopf of fkii^|
scription, with which 1 compared Da.
renderings, is that of Dr. WiiaoQ tn his J
Scotland* I am also anxious to say that I
assert the inscription to be Celtie. ThM
Celtic is possible, that it is Hebrew or CklW
impossible. B* H^ CwfP
CttBss (S'* S. r. 377.) — Oa looking i^ i
cpi^am quoted by your correspondent Ti La»
useful Dulphin edition of Martial, I Jl
ence made to tlie 72nd of the 7th
Paullum," where an authority oa this
cited. The extract is too long for iil
I may briefly sketch what is there
"calculi" were called either "canes*' or
and the game was played oa a board (i
tersected by lines farmia<; spaces, wliiii
termed citadels (urbes). The ** men,*' wl
much like our draughtsmen, I suppose,
ousty coloured, and the object was to
man from the rest^ surround it with
men, and so capture it. Luxtiry, aj
thing else, would greatly modify the _^^
of so popular a game, and the draughtsmdi
be made of the most beautiful and preciioal^
rials. Undoubtedly ^' gemmeua '* naeaiw
or inlaid, or even cut out of precious
agate, jasper, cornelian, are used aomel
for such purposes, and ivory chesatnen ti
gems are occasionally made* The **
hostis" arc merely the names of the two
the " miles " being the ** grassator," the •* "
the ** insidiator," the attacking and
sides alternately. The Delphln ediUoQ
Ofid,—
** Sive latrocinii tub imagfaie cakulcii tliil*
Fac pereat vitreo miles ab hmtm laas.**
And says expressly that his author crmmdtiT* m
game ** diversum esse a scapi.'?, ' *
am of his opinion. The qut'v
and I oould wish a better explanauun iiidn l&k
have given. K« C
Chess was not known to the Greeks or
(Penny Cyclo, vii. /53). It wan invimtM) ^
Indians, and was introduced into F^ . '> f
reign of Nushivran (a.i>. 531^
ch. xlii. p. 30t*). The paasa^fe i^ ^ ' kmt.
•* Insidioaonim m ludit hall •
GeromcuB iite tibi mil** ^< • *
refer* probably to the Duodsna set: ?
\ kind «ft Vnda*lx«ic}^ «e bai&kiGpmiQon ; n w^l- pii
»>
[a^a V. MAt^ii,'&k]
NOTES AND QUERIE&
429
ritli fifteen counters or atones (culcuH) of different
ilours, upon a table marked with twelve linea
Escbenburg, by Fiske, p. 295), Schrevelius sjijs
(ke calculi and latroDes are the same game*
■* Slvfi lutrocinii sab imagine calcula» ibit"
Orid, Art Amandu ii. 205,
nd tbat tbe modern Greeks call it ^arpiKiov. This
\ not trictrac, the name of which is rh tcuJa*, a cor-
ruption of the Italian tanoliere. See Simon, ** Jeux
de Hazard cbcz lea Romaliis^ {Mem. Acad. Inacr.
130), and ** Historia Shahi ludii ' of Dr. Hjde
tSyntogm. DUtcrtaL ii. 61—69),
T. J. BuCKTOJf.
BoBSBT Dove (3^" S. v. 170, 331, 3880 — The
Dame of the worthy citizen i$ correctly given
■^Dowe^" in the 1618 edition of Stow'a Survey.
u used in the old edition for r, has caused
be name to he printed "Dowe" in the extract
Iven in ** N* & Q/' The reference to the passajye,
1 ^6 1616 edition, should be p. 195, not *' p. 25.^'
^*iave now before me a rare tract by Ant
D, entitled r —
P *' London's Dotc^ or the Miroiir of Merchant Taylort :
I Metnorinll of the Lifo and Death of Maieter Hobert
Dve» Citizen And Merchant Tnvlor af London; and of
Severall ATmes-deedes and' Large Boantie to the
^» in hi4i Li!'etime. 1012. 4to,**
( We learn, from this interesting brochure, how
Dbert Dove bequeathed to thirteen aged men
Itwenty nobles ye;ir]y a-peace, and every three
tarei* to CHch man a gown ;" to sixty poor widows
the jiarish of St. Botolph'a- Without, AhJgate,
hd to six men, four nobles a- year for ever ; also,
charities to Bedlam and Bridewell, the hos-
ItJils of St, Bartholomew and St, Thomases. His
Wieving: the prisoners in Newgate and Ludgate ;
1 charitiea ** to the poor young beginners of the
^ftny of Merchant Taylours;" his provision
^ he tolling the bell at St, Sepulchre*?, for
ndemned persons, ** every day of execution
Qtil they have suffered death,'* which gift is to
{continue for ever/' And also, for a small hand-
ell to be rung at midnight, under Newgate, the
■ght afier the execution ; and the next morning
1 the church wall, to remind them of their mor-
ality; and a prayer to be said for their salvation ;
dd this to ** continue for ever."
After recording numerous other liberal bene*
tions of this old English worthy, Nixon men-
Dn« ^^ sixteen pounds a-yeor for ever to Christ's
lospital, to train up and Instruct ten young
ihollers in the knowledge and learning of musick
ttd prick-song."
The name of good old Robert Dove surely de-
rves to bo remembered at the present day.
Edward F. Rimbault.
[ The FA»fiKa*BELt or St. SEPCLcnaB's. — The
I indiciUng the ancient distrust of executorvy
and quoted in a note at the last above-mentioned
page, were, in a somewhat different form, written
upon a widl in St, Edmund's church in Lombard
Street (Jeremy Tavlor's BoL Dy. ed. 1682, p.
178) : —
**Maii, thee behovetb oft to have this in mind.
That them givetb with thtne hand, that shalt thoo Had,
For widows beth slothful, and children beth nnkind,
Exec«itors beth covetous, and keep all that they find.
If any body aak where the dead*i goods became,
Tbev answer.
So Q«d me help, and Ifalidam,* he died a poor man.
Think on this."
This was the epitaph of Richard KordelL (Wec-
ver*s Fun, Afon. pp. 19, 413,)
Edward J. Wood.
Totrr (3^ S. v. 211,) — Is not this word de-
rived from " to out," that is to go out hunting for
emplovment, instead of sitting m the usual place
of business watting for clients to come in, as pro-
fessional men mostly do. A. A.
Poeti' Comer.
NOTES ON BOOKS. ETC,
Tfut WorkM of William Shaki^sp^nre. Eflited h^ William
George Clnrk, M.A-, and William Aldis Wright, M.A,
Voiume /v. (Mac rail Ian.)
This new volanie*of The Cambridf^e 5AaAejtpeare^which
contains Kint/ John; Richard IL i The Firti and Setand
Farts of Henry IV.fand Hvnry K, — exhibits the as me
patient indastry in collecting and arranging the varioai
readings to be found in the different editions of the plays
hero reprinted, and the varioas amendments and correc-
tions in ihoee plays suggested by their nomeroaa editors
and commentators, which characterise<i the preceding
volumes. This accamulatton of critical mAterials gives a
special value to this edition, and points it out as one pe-
culiarly suited to those who desire to study for them-
seivea the text of our great dramatist. How great this
labour must have been, the reader will easily perceive
when he is told that, of the Jiiehard IL^ no less than
fotif quarto editions wi»re printed before it appeared in
the first foiio; while^ uf the Fitxi Part of Htnry IV., no
less than six qunrtoa were printed; and, although
Henry V. appeared in its present form first in the Folio
of 16;i3, it was printed surreptitiously in quarto, in 160U,
under the title of The Chronicle liitUtry of Htnry the
Fifth ; which Chronicle Hittory, with Ihi- various rcadiags
of the two reprints of it, printed in 1602 and 1608, is
given in the Appendix, The editors hope to issue their
next volume in August; and announce as in preparation,
and to be published uniformly with ITte Cambridg* SM»'
Mpeare, a Commentary, Explanatory snd Illustrativa^
C^titdn^M ttf the Dookt of the Mancketter Free Library.
Rtftrtnct Department. Prepared by A, Cre,*»tadoro,
Ph D, tyfthe C/niversity of Turin, Author of ** Tfie Art
ofMahing Catal*i^ue» of Librariet.** (9. Low.)
We may wrll congratulate the good people of Man-
<:he«ter on'the Literary Treasure* ^\\Jek\w N^vt TttMao.'"^*
* "aoV^ dnfinsu
480
NOTES AND QUERIES.
baVA itcentlr bad occaaion to notice the admirable Foartb
Tolome of the Gttatogue of ike Chetham Library^ to wbich
Ibe inbabitanU of the gv^At inajiufjictaring^ metro|)ulis
have free .icceAs; nnd now our attention is callud Ui a
very valuable Catalogue of that moat useful portion of a
Library* The Refertnce Dfpartmeni of the Manchester
Free Library. This Catalogue secm» to iu extremely
wetl adapted for the purpose of enabling the frequeaters
of that Libraiy tc turn it to good occ^antn, for it includes
the two great detiderata in aU Catalogues, the alphabetic
eal and the daaaided arran^aient ; oiul we can scancely
doubt, from the examination which we have been able to
make of the book before us^ that Mr. Creatadoro l« ju9ti-
fied in cong^ratulating thoae who use the Library in its
being ** for practical utility arul adaptation in its pur*
po9«», and for just distributioa amon^ all the Departments
of Science and the Arts, a Library that may chalienge
c50mpari*on with any of its size in the world." The
Library, we may add» is no le^s rich in pamphlets than in
larg'T works { and tho«e who ftiuodnl it and maintata it
well deserve all ibe praise which Mr. Crestadoro bcitows
upon thero^ and the additional praise of having turned a
fine library to the beat account by printing an extremoiy
useful Catalogue of it
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
431
LOSDOK, SATURDAY^ MAY Si, 1864.
COSTENT&— No. 126.
KOTE8: — The Englifih Church iu Some, 431 — GcncnU
Plagiarisms: "thu Groves of Blaniej-," 43£ — Kilkenny
CaU.«3-- Moaning of the Word "Selah." 76.- Funeral
rniMl Tomb of Queen Eliiabeth— The Ivle of Axliolmc—
Reouants, tetup. James I. — Guadalquivir — Early InTen-
tion of Biflbit; — Wliittled down. 4:34.
QTTSILIE8: — J.P. Ardesoif — Rabbi Abmhani .tliou HhaUm
— Beason the Booksi-llcr - Oalcthos — T. 1'. Christian -
Three Charles Clarkes — Curious Si^n Mnnual — Dcuniark
and Holstein Treaty of l«6fl — Games of Swans. Ac., what V
-' Glofea ctaimed for a Kiss — Golrlamitli's Work- Hum
and Bm — Justice- Lines on Madrid — Mount Atli0!» —
Petrarch— "Esssy on Politeness " — Quotations — Rich-
mond Court Bolls— ''Tlic Rueful Qiuiker"— Savoy Kent
— Talbot ftpen — William Thomson — 8ir Thomas Wal-
■inghjun — John Wood. 435.
QvvBixs WITH AaiirsRS : — Brandt's " Ship of Fooles '* —
Atfliamentaij Sittinfrs — Sir Tiiouias Lynch — Esquires'
Basts— Mn. Ann Moiell. Ki7.
SEPLIE8:— '^Tho BUu-k Bear," at Cumnor, 438 — Ivan
J, Toimth, 4»>— Seneca's Prophecy of the Discovery of Anie-
liea^ Jb&. 440— Mediieral Churches in Roman Camps, 4il —
JdofKauatic and Horgengabe, /&.— Cobl)ott— LiUm). and
similar Weapons — Robin Anair — Quotations — " 31isccl-
■, laoea Curiosa " — Surnames — Sir Edward Gor^rcs, K nt. —
' Language used in Roman Courts, Ac. — :ivapn)if «Aav«c,
, ff. T. A. — The Ballot: •*Thfro Blue Ik-ans." Ac — John
K Braham tho Vocalist- Anglo-Saxon and other Mediaeval
» Seals — A Bull of Burke's — Engraving by Bartolozzi —
; Sir John Jacob of Bromli^ — Chni>erone — Upper and
Lower Emiilre — A I^asion for Witnessing Executions —
Polk Lore in the South-east of Ireland. Ac. ^i.
Kotoa on Booka, Ac.
fifltnf.
TIIE ENGLISH CHURCH IN ROME.
The PaUjf Telegraph (Feb. 19, 1864,) remarks,
hj way of contrast with an act of the Sultan for
promoting grreater religious freedom within his
dominions, Uiat —
•• The twelre or fourteen thousand wealthy, or well-to-do
Protestants, who flock to Rome for the winter, are obliged
to worship in a bam-like building outside the gates of
the town. . . ."
Why "obliged"? Does the writer mean to
pretend that the building, iis(.>d as their church,
WM not deliberately chosen by the English them-
aelvet ? Does he affect to believe that the selec-
tion was in any way enforced or suggested by the
Somish authorities ? At .ill events, this I can
say : It was the Rev. Mr. Woo<iward himself, who
related to me the circumbtances connected with
the establishment of the church. I had been
■skcd to write a short notice of it ; and, accord-
inglyi I called (April -20, 1858,) on the chaplain,
M the person most qualified to furnish correct
particulars. In giving me these, Mr. Woodward
aaid, that he hoped I would make a point of
stating how unfair were the remarks which often
appeared in the English newspapers on this sub-
ject. He wished it to be publicly known that the
greatest courtesy and forbearance had been uni-
formly practised towMrdM him by the authorities.
When it was determined, on account of increased
demand for space, and by reason of inconvenience
caused b^ the private occupation of the house in
an upstairs room of which the service was held,
to make considerable alterations for the purpose
of uniting this private dwelling with the adjoin-
ing house. Cardinal Antonelli sent unofficiaUy to
him, and requested, while entire freedom was
allowed within, that nothing should appear on the
exterior of the building, so altered, which could
offend the religious feeling of the inhabitants of
Home. The church is outside the Porto del
Popolo, solely because at that spot was to be had
a suitable house at a moderate rent — most posi-
tively, fur no other reason.
" And," said Mr. Woodward, "von know, as a visitor
of Rome, that a more convenient pface could not be found,
being zto exactly in the tlnglish quarter of the town,
unles.s indeed, we could get the Piazza di Spsgna ; but
that is out of the question, on account, not only of the
enormous rents, but because the houses let so well for
apartments."
Those who have not visited Kome, may per-
haps picture the English furtively slinking out of
the gates to their weekly service. But what is
i the actual state of things ? I venture to say that,
in the mutter of dress and equipages, there is
(or WHS in 1858) more display than can be seen
at any church in Kome. Eight or ten carriages
in waiting outside, is quite an ordinary sight.
Nay, the Roman youths (mass beincr concluded
some half hour or so before the English service)
are drawn up in the Piazza del Popolo to see the
English ladies pass on their way home.
No worthy object can be gained by continually
suggesting, that the English have been thrust
beyond the wnlls of Rome, when they went there,
as I have said, of their own accord. If such a
topic is suited to this publication, I hope that
these remarks may be allowed to appear: the
rather, as nothing came of the proposition before
mentioned.
When I had written the above, it occurred to
me that my note would derive additional force
from the itanction of Mr. Woodward. On the
receipt of a copy, that gentleman favoured me
with the following reply : —
" Sir,— I am glad you wrote to me, as I am thus
enabled to correct some circumstantial inaccuracies in
the pap(-r which you sent mo.
•* The hifttorv of the Engli^ih Sor>'icc being performed
in its present loi'ality is (ixattly this. In tho year 1824,
a notion having got about that the government of the
dsy looked with jealousy at the performance of the
English Service, tho proprietor of the room then used for
the purpose refused to renew the Lease, which hsd just
expired. For the same reason the Committee of Mana(;e-
ment failed in several at tempts to procure a Lease else-
where, till at length they succeeded in finding a room
just outside the Porta del I'upolo, which thev at ouca
took on Lease, aivA'«Vi\tVL \uW«iT \o:\wq\s% ^&^X.'»Oa.n3^2
432
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[a»*av. iiATtt.*
purpose.' tJp to this dat« the Service had been always
within the walla. But in all the transactions referred to,
which were spread over many months, it does not ap-
pear from the records that the difficulty encountered by
the CJomraittee was in any way connected with that cir-
cumstance. There is no trace whatever of the question
between inside and ouUide the walls having been raised.
So that the jealousy of the Government (if it existed, of
which there is no kind of proof,) had regard, not to the
Service being performed inside the walls, but to its being
performed a^ou/
*• In this room, chosen by the English themselves, and
considered * eligible in all' respects for their purpose,'
close to the English Quarter, and within two or three
minutes* walk of the principal Hotels, the English Ser-
vice continued to be neld for upwards of thirtpr years ;
when, fh>m circumstances too intricate to detail, it was
transferred to the building next donr, of which the Pro-
prietor offered to build a chapel within its walls. It was
with reference to this chapel that Cardinal Antonelli,
most considerately, sent a private warning, not to mc,
but to Lord Lyons, that it could not be permitted to
have extemalltf the appearance of a church or public
institution of any kind.
** It is hardly accurate to say that ■ the utmost cour-
tesy and forbearance have been uniformly practised by
the authorities towards me;* for T have never directly
been brought into contact with them : but they certainly
have been practised towards the English generally. In
fact, in regard of this matter of public worship, the
English are treated as the most highly favoured nation,
being the only non-Roman Catholic nation thiit is
allowed to have public worship without an embassy.
Moreover the Authorities always have Gensdarmes in
attendance both to keep order among the Carriages which
are in waiting in great numbers, and to prevent the
great annoyance which I am told used to exist, of people
crowding round the doors to see the congregation com-
ing out.
" The Daili/ Telegraph^ estimate of the number of
Protestants who come to Rome for the winter is prepos-
terous. I do not suppose the Prut&ttanta of all nations
and denominations amount to near haff the number
specified. And of these, all are not * obliged,' as the
writer says, to worship in the English Chapel, seeing
that there are two Protestant Chapels within the walls,
one in the American Embassy,* the other in that of
Prussia. To represent our Cba'pel as a * barn-like build-
ing,* is simply ridiculous. But if it were, it is strange
that, in making such a statement, the writer does not
see that he is casting reproach on the English them-
selves; for I am sure they have money enough to make
their Chapel internally what they please.
" I am, your obedient Servt.
" F. B. Woodward.
" Rome, March 11, 1864.
" P.S. You may use this letter as you please.**
* This account scarcely tallies with further statements
in the same article of the Telegraph to the effect, that
" not more than a year ago, half-a-dozen American
families, who used to assemble every Sunday in the
drawing-room of a fellow-countrj-man residing'in Rome,
for the purpose of worship according to the Presbyterian
form, were visited by the police, and told that any repeti-
tion of this * offence'* would cause all persons joining in
the act to be at once sent away." Formerly, as I can say
from personal experience, there was afternoon service at
the Palazzo Braschi according to the Church of England^
Mad it would «ppetr that, at least, there is no truth in
the MSiertioD, tOMt the morning tenice in lYkt 'PnA>fty<
terlMtt form hu bwn Abolithed.
I had intended to incorporate any eoDne
which Mr. Woodward miprht be pleased to mal
but, on reading his letter, I judged that by ?\\
it entire and verbatim, I should not onW
serve mr purpose, hut also follow the us
^' N. & Q." and the natural order in which
subjects as the present arc entertained.
John A. C. Visci
GENERAL PLAGIARISMS: "THE GROTES
BLARNEY.-
It is said there is nothing new under tb
Possibly. If this be so, there must be {davia
diurnallj to an extent not to be mentioned.
fiathors may hit on one idea, but to work i
identically, if not in the same words, looks a
thing more than a coincidence, particularlji
one may have written a lon^; time in adnti
the other. I have met with literary m^
have no faith whatever in originality; aiii
whose opinion I value, goes far to convert!
bis notion. Some time ago, I confess, I wm!
ticularly struck by his arguments, and since
lime I have made many notes of what look
commonly like plagiarisms; but I only bb
one or two at present, trusting that will he a
to evoke further opinion on this, to literarj
«11 important que>tion. Up to a recent per
was under the impre>sion that the world-
known song of '* The Groves of Blarney," wtj
tainly original. I presume the readers and c
spondents of " N. & Q." are well aware o
history of that famous piece of dopgrel ; but it
no doubt, surprise many to hear tliat it is not
itot original, but stolen from another very fa
tloggrel song called ** Castle Hide." Can ai
furnish a copy of the latter ? I believe it is k;
in Cork who was the author. It commences
** As I roved out on a summer's morning
Down hy the banks of Blackwater aide.
To view the groves and meadowa charming
And lovely gardens of Castle Hide."
So much for that There is something
than a coincidence in a possnge in the Dm
ViUage by Goldsmith, and Highland Mar
Bums : —
" When smiling spring," &c. — Goldsmith,
** When summer first," Scc—Burms,
Goldsmith wrote before *' Rob the Ranter
born. It may be said one is descriptive, an
other an invocation; be it so. How will that
the great fact ?
In the ballad of "Lochinvar" in Marmio
be found the following lines : —
** She looked down to blnah.
And she looked up to aigb«
\
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NOTES AND QUERIES.
433
In Samuel Lover*! song of " Borj O More,** we
find the following : —
•'Oh I Rory be etiiy, sweet
Kathleen wonld crv,
With repR>of ooher lipp
Bat a smile in her eye,**
Kather more than coinoidence this, and Scott
wrote before Lover.
^ In reference to Mr. Lover I may observe, that
his last collection of Irish songs, ballads, &&, is a
very faulty one; but it is not worse than the
many that preceded it, from the time that the
Hon. Charles 6. Dufff, late M.P. for New Ross,
and now a member of*^ the Australian legislature,
when editor of the Dublin Nation^ maile a very
worthless collection, which he dignified with the
title of the Bailad Poetry of Ireland I But it bore
no more likeness to the ballad poetry of Ireland,
than a nigger does to Hercules.
On the subject of Irish songs I may add, that
Hr. Lover, in his last collection, does not exhibit
■ay great research, for in reference to the famous
■onff of '• Molly Brallaghan,'* he says the author is
not known, but supposed to be a lady. Now, the
RUthor of " Molly Brallaghan " was a person named
Murray, a very comical genus, who kept a public-
bouse and singing-room in Temple Bar, Dublin,
Bome thirty-four years ago. He also wrote several
others. A good, and well-selected volume of
Iriah songs, ballads, &c., is much wanted; those in
iMTint at the present are, for the most part, the
wariest trash, badly selected, and worse noted.
^ Can anyone inform me where I can get a collec-
tion of Irish songs, ballads, &c., made before the
opening of the present century P S. Rbomohd.
Lfverpool.
KILKENNY CATS.
I have often wondered why none of your cor-
ferespondents who are natives of, or residents in,
Kilkenny have piven you the real version of
Ue talc of the Kilkenny cats. I have seen the
■a^ect fiequently noticed in the columns of
•• H. & Q.," but I have never seen the following
securate version of the occurrence, which led to
;|Ae generally-received and erroneous story of the
Kilkenny cjits. That story has been so long cur-
rent that it has become a proverb, " as quarrel-
vooae as the Kilkenny cats," — two of the cats in
-which city are asserted to have fought so long
«iid so furiously that nought was found of them
Imt two tails ! This is manifestly an Irish exag-
ll^eration; and when your readers shall have
learned the true anecdote connected with the two
cats, they will understand why only two tails were
found, the unfortunate owners having fled in
terror from the scene of their mutilation.
I am happ7 in beiii^ able to state that neither
Ireland nor Kilkenny is at all disgraced by the
occurrence, which did take place in Kilkenny, but
which might have occurrea in any other place in
the known world. During the rebellion which
occurred in Ireland in 1798 (or it may be in
1803^, Kilkenny was garrisoned by a regiment of
He8fl|ian soldiers, whose custom it was to tie toge-
ther in one of their barrack rooms two cats by their
respective tails, and then to throw them face to
face across a line generally used for drying clothes.
The cats naturally became infuriated, and scratched
each other in the abdomen until death ensued to
one or both of them, and terminated their suffer-
The officers of the corps were ultimately made
acauainted with these barbarous acts of cruelty,
and they resolved to put an end to them, and to
punish the offenders. In order to efi*ect this pur-
pose, an officer was ordered to inspect each bar-
rack room daily, and to report to the commanding
officer in what state he found Uie room. The
cruel soldiers, determined not to lose their daily
torture of the wretched cats, generally employed
one of their comrades to^watch the approach of
the officer, in order that the cats might be liberated,
and take refuge in flight before the visit of the
officer to the scene of their torture. On one occa-
sion the *' look-out-man ** neglected his duty, and
the officer of the day was heard ascending the
barrack-stairs while the cats were undergoing their
customary^ torture. One of the troopers imme-
diately seized a sword from the arm-rack, and
with a single blow divided the taib of the two
cats. The cats of course escaped through the
open windows of the room, which was entered
almost immediately afterwards by the officer, who
inquired what was the cause of two bleeding cats*
tails being suspended on the clothes line, and was
t()ld in reply tnat *^ two cats had been fighting in
the room ; that it was found impossible to separate
them ; and that they fought so desperately that
they had devoured each other up, with the exception
of their two tails" which may have satisfied Captain
Schummelkettel, but would not have deluded any
person but a beery Prussian.
I heard this version of the story of the Kilkenny
cats in Kilkenny, forty years a;ro, JTrom a gentleman
of unquestioned veracity, and I feel happy in sub-
mitting it to your numerous readers.
JUVERNA.
MEANING OF THE WORD H^g (SELAH).
Amongst the various meanings given to this
word by Rabbinical and Christian writers, such
as Aben Ezra, Kimchi, Gesenius, Ewald, Her-
der, De Wette, Tholuck, Hengstenberg, and Ro-
senmiiller, there are two ^Vi\Oki vmcwv \» ^sw^^'^^
include ti^atV^ ^\\ xJti^ vx^xDfttiX^ ^\i>s2a ^\^^asSw^«
and grammax «l\i^%x \a t^o^f^x^-
434
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8^ & V. Mat
The first meaning is that given by Bamchi, in
his Commentary on Fsalmm. These are his
words: —
"This word, njD, has not any meaning corresponding
with that of the context It is, indeed, a note in music,
so that the musicians might be reminded when th^ came
to certJiin parts of the tune. It seems this word is not
Ibund in Scripture, except in the poetical parts: and of
tfaofs, only in the Psalms and the prayer of Habbakuk.*
In my opinion the root of the word is 7?9, and n is pa-
lagogic ; for the accent is always on the penultimate. Its
meaning is, a UfHng up, or efeootfon, as applied to the
Taica ; 1. 1. it denotes a elevation of the voice?' (See Tie
Ptalm in Hebnw; with a Critical, Exegetieal, and PhUo-
ioguml Qmmmtaiy, by the Bev. G. PhilUpi. BJ)., vol. L
Introdaction, Ix. London, 1846.)
The second meaning is that given by Mendeb-
aohn, who maintains —
" that as a choms Is often met with in the Psalms, TrPO
was written by the chief musician as a sign by which the
eongregation might know when they were to Join in the
masic of this term."
It is also probable that the word, in process of
time, obtained a more extensive use than is im-
plied in its strict and literal meaning. It appears,
therefore, from some of the places where it is
Ibund, that it serves to mark a change in the sub-
ject of the Psalm ; and we may infer as a conse-
quence, that it serves also to mark a change in the
imfring or music. (See the Work of Rev. G.
Phillips, ut supra.)
These meanings appear to include all that is
necessarv, to complete the sense of the Psalms
where the word occurs. Professor Lee says it
naeans praise, and is derived from an Arabic root
signifying »* he blessed," and corresponds with the
word amen^ or the Doxohgy, (See his Hebrew
Orammar^ p. 383 (note). But hb opinion is not
generally followed.
The LXX. translate the word by Atdi^aXfia;
while Aquila renders it by &cf ; Symmachus by
cff rhv ai£va ; and Theodotion by tU r4\os. But it
would be endless to enter into all the details con-
nected with this hopeless subject. The two prin-
cipal meanings which I have given, will, perhaps,
be satisfactory to those who take an interest in
such matters. Further particulars will be found
in Noldius (Concord, Part Annotationes et Vin-
dicia. Num. 1877). J- Dalton.
Norwich.
PUKERAL AWD ToMB OP QdEEN ElTZABETH. —
The foUowin;; items, from certain original Ex-
chequer documents which I have lately examined,
give the names of the artists employed on the
tomb of Queen Elizabeth ; probably not others
' It occurs feveoty-ena timtt in tha PM\mi| indL^Xitw
iimea in HabbMkuk.
wise preserved, and which may, thcrrfw
terestmg to some readers of ** N. & Q."
« 28 Aug., 1607.
Dets dae at her late Ma*« death,
and payed sinse.
** To S' John fortescae for the fhnerall
charges of the late Queen,
xvij" oca
(l7,80iZ
Charges of the tomb for the Ute Queena :
Maximilian Powtran . . Qlxx")
Patrick the blacksmith iiij" xv" % vii«
John de Crites y« painter . . c"J bei
stone, w«^ amounted to 200 ib.
(in) all 961
E. P.S
118, Eaton Square.
The Isle or Axholmb. — My attentic
centlybeen drawn through objects not c
quarian nature, to the singrular river ish
Axholme, in the county of Lincoln. Th
of its soil, subdivision of land amon^ s
prietors, cultivation of potatoes and flai
poverty of its inhabitants, cause it to re
some respects a province of Ireland. At
of Mr. Stonehouse, its historian, 1839, frc
its twelve thousand population, no fewer
thousand were freeholders, a proportion
unique in the kingdom. Three emin*
quaries — Sir John Feme, author of the i
Gentry; James Torre, who died 1619, a
collector of Yorkshire antiquities ; anc
Stovin, who died in the last century, wei
of the district; nor can we forget ^^\
born at Epworth, the principal town of tl
A colony of French and Dutch refu«ree e
once flourished in the neighbourhood, ai
traces, I believe, exist of them to the pre
Drainnge has chanjjed the course of the
Idle rivers, and altered the ancient cha
the country ; but churches of considerab
tectural pretension, relics of crosses, a h
at Lindholme, &c., give much antiquarlac
to this peculiar district.
Thomas E. Wn«K:
Recusants, temp. Jambs I. — During
of James I. the bishops received order
sujrgestion of the chaticellor, to issue a sei
formal excommunication against recusan
of the results of this excommunioatio:
be, I presume, denial of burial in cor
ground. At Alleninoor,near Hereford, tl
to have led to a riot, which, but for the
Worcester, might have proved a forniii
surrection. In other places probably t
prohibition would be carried mto eflTect.
while, by another law, any person burying
than consecrated ground, was liable to
\ \Q^(« What were the Nonconformists U
V ^VaS^i ^'i ^«^ ^^'t '^J^l >Jk^ Ukw> afc
8»*&V. Mat2«,'64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
436
pefiod^ Imve led to the formation of ** Quaker**
Tarda ** referped to by your correipoiid«Qt Li.wtd
{S'^S. T- lU)f A. EL.
GuAi>*MHJTViB. — The critic in The Timefn^i-
paper of March 26, derives the name of this river
from tte Arabic Wadtf^^ihai is, tte TuUey of
BO' and -00, But iiiFdy tbis 11 botb incorrect and
unmeaiiiog I la tbe word noer, or water^ as he
liiingelf abondantlj ahowa, entefB almost alwaya
into the atitual name of a river, Oua ii evidently
agmi^ for the Latin ii^ua, a» In ihe word used for
brandy — gu/trdifnie^ or agtta ardterUe. Guadal-
quivir moat probably meao^ ^*tbe river of tbe
green meiidow."
The iame Cfitie findi tbe word hod^ m bouie^ to
be the firat element of Boscombe ; wbereaa, to ua,
it ifl pvidently box or hu^L " The buahy dell/
being the traiiBlation of Bo^eombe.
To talk of soroethino: else : Is not the proper
pronunciarion of tea — ti'd f The Chineae call it
ttht^ , und those who adopted our way of spell iug
It, probably intended tbe word to be pronounced
oa I have aufrgeated, with the diffiresia. How
rnueh wanted in our prinfLng are a few dioieritical
»i^9, especially in all those words in which f and
a do not coal^ce in sound 1 What a pity our
printers do not adopt, in all these cases, tbe diie^
refiis ! Suppoae idea^ Crimea, and preattitle^
sounded like xro, pea^ and dremn (as we have
heard theRi)^ how tan one blame tbe penon who
fdUows tbe obvious analogy of spelling f For the
flsme reaaon* North Americans call New Orleans,
For our three different sounds of fA, we also
want distinct characters : ihat (sofl), thick (hard),
&nd Ant'hony (divisive), like the German f-Aiwa,
should surely be di^tlTiguigbed to the eye as well
aj} tbe ear. The Phonngraphie Newt was built
iipoti a real want. Who will invent a simple type
(will the Saxon do?) for these different aounds,
mnd secure their funeral adoption ? O. T. D.
FAaLT Invention of Rifling. — 'In Sir Hugh
Plat's Jewel-Bowse of Ari and Nature, 1653 (1st
edition 1594), the 17th article runs thus: —
** Horn to mt^e a Pistai, who^ Mmrrtl it 2 Faot in Liitgthf
ta deliver a Bnllei point blank at Eiffhiteare,
** A piitol of the arors#Aid len^^tfa, aDd bfsing of (he
pttroG^et bore, or 11 boro higher, hATing eight gutters
■Om€what deep^ in th* inside of the bftrreT, tnd the bulkt
m thought bigger than tbe borv, and so rammed in at the
first thhfB or four incht-a at the hmU »nd nfl&r driven
down with tbu j^courin^ $tjck, will deHvijr his htilM at
such distance. Thia I had of an En|^1i»h gentletaan of
good Qota for aa approved eKperimeat.''
JoHn Addib«
Whittlbd down* — This expression is generally
conaidered to be purely an American ism, but it is
io bo found in Horace Wal pole's letter to Modh
of Oct. 14, 1746< He Is speaking of our loviei ul
tbe battb of Eocoux, and sm/m —
xWomake Hghtoflti do not allow it to be a battle,
hnt call it 'the acUon near Uege.* Then we have wkktkd
dofitm our loss extremely, and will not allow a man more
tbau three himdj-ed and fifty English slain oat of four
thoaaand/*
A. A.
Boeta^ C^fnar.
tStntxM.
J.P, Absesoit, a lieutenant in the Royal Navy,
published An Introduction to Marine ForHfieaHon
and Ounnertf^ in two parts. Gosport, 8vo, 1772.
More about him will be acceptable. S. Y. R.
Rabsi ABiaBAM ABBif HhaUm, a Spanish Jew
in the twelfth tentury, left two works ; one on
the preps ration of colours and gilding for the
illuiutnatbn of MSS. ; and the other on the initial
ornamental letters of MSS. of the law. Where
are these MSS. now? Sigma-Theta.
Bs&iON THE Bookseller. — In the Cottonian
MS, Titus B., Tii. fol. 96, there is a letter from
Thomas Besson to the Earl of Leicester for license
to prmt certain books (1587). He was an English
bookseller at Ley den. Can any of your readers
give me any further information relating to him ?
E.
Calcebos, — The ancient charters of the Abbey
of Mont St. Michel are now preserved among the
archives of the D^partement de la Manche at St.
Lo^ Among the names of the numerous witnesses
aubacribed to them, 1 have observed GuillelmuB
Calcebue^ Eualenth Calcebos, Rivallo Calcebos.
The lam two I suppose to have been one and the
lame person, and this supposition is confirmed by
finding subscribed to another charter RueUen
Canonicus. Besides which, in a memorandum of
the year 1155, mention is made of Rualendw^
Prcepoiiitus de Gener. (Guernsey), where the
abbey had potftessions.
There can, I think, be little doubt that Rualenth^
Eimlii)^ RueUen, Bualendtu, are only diflTerent
forms of the same name. And if so, Calcebos is
probably the name of some office held in the
abbey*
Can you give me any information on this pomt ?
P. S. C*
T. P. Christian.— This gentleman wrote a play
called Thfi Remltition^ and one or two other works.
Mr, Christian was a lieutenant in the navy. Was
he a native of tbe Isle of Man ? Iota.
Thbeu Chabi^es Clabkes. — ^Watt ascribes to
Charles Clarke, F.S.A. of Balliol College, Oxford,
the works of l^ee persons of the same name,
via.: —
L Charles Clarke, F.S.A. ao«i«lvasJ«i ^<l^i^^^
College, OxfoT4,^Vaa<^ ^tv\^ y=^\^^5^ W^^^«^
436
NOTES AND QUERIES.
:[8^ay. xuraiu
him, see Nicbol8*8 Lit Anecdotes^ iii. 530, v. 447-
454, 701, 702; ix. 615; MonOily Review, vi. 69 ;
JBibL Cantiana, 194.
2. Charles Clarke, Capt. R.N., the circum-
nayigator, who died at sea, 22 Aug. 1779, set. 38.
As to him, see Philoa. Trans, Ivii. 75 ; Annual
Register, xi. 68, xiv. 159], xxii. 203],xxiii. 194],
218] xxvii. 149; Biog. Brit ed. Kippis, iv. 193-
236; Eippis's Life of Cook, 480. He is often
erroneously calle<l Clerke.
3. Charles Clarke, F.S.A. sometime of the Ord-
nance Office, whose woi*k8 appear to range from
1787 to 1820, and who died in or about 1841 at
Camden or Kentish Town. As to him, see
Nichols's niustr. Lit y'l, 610-757; Biag. Diet
Living Authors; Bihl. Cantiana, 153, 210, 211;
Cruden's Gravesend, 459 ; Oent, Mag. N. S. xvii.
342.
I am desirous of ascertaining —
(i.) When the first-mentioned Charles Clarke
died?
(ii.) Whether Nichols is correct in calling him
the Rev. Charles Clarke ?
(iii.) The exact date of the death of the third
mentioned Charles Clarke ?
(iv.) Whether the first and third Charles Clarke
(each of whom seems to have been connected with
Kent) were father and son, or how otherwise
related ?
The compilers of the Bodleian Catalogue, and
the Catalogue of the Society of Antiquaries (mis-
led no doubt by Watt) have also confounded the
first and third of these persons. S. Y. R.
Curious Sign Manual.— At the time Iconium
was the capital of the Turkish world, and a Sultan
or Khan unable to write had to put his sign ma-
nual to a document, he was wont to dip his hand
in ink, and leave the print of it upon the paper.
Have any of your readers ever seen such signa-
tures, or is any antiquary able to state whether
such a custom obtained in Christendom in remote
times? H. C.
Denmark and Holstein Treatt of 16G6. —
In the Catalogue of the Collection of MSS. in the
Library of All Souls College, Oxford, printed in
1842, under the care of the Rev. H. O. Coxe, now
principal librarian of the Bodleian, in the notice of
vol. ccxviii. fol. 54 b, is an entry of " Letters and
Papers having reference to the Treaty of the King
of Denmark with the Duke of Holstein, 1666."
Where can I find any further notice of the Treaty
80 alluded to, and what were its particulars f E.
Games op Swans, etc., what ? — In the survey
of the temporalities of the Abbot of Glastonbury
(Monast,, vol. i. p. 11), there are enumerated
" Games of Swannes,** of '* Heronsewes,** and of
**FeMuntes" It may be surmised lVi\ft inft«xi% \ v\ix«« \tv o^«
preserves for the purpose of spbtt. lft\\iftiiwd\ ^Qr«\^\\.
used any where else in this sense, or in asyMAor
on Venerie? Dame Juliana Bemers (Bale i^
St Albans), tells us we should say ** an herde of
swannys,** " a nye of fesauntjs," and *' a sege of
herons." A. A
Poeta' Corner.
Gu>yE8 CLAIMBD VOB A Eliss. — ^Perbaps scHae of
your readers could inform me how the^ casloa
arose of claiming a pair of gloves bj a lost wba
asleep? \Vm.F.E
(xoldsmith's Work. — la there any small w«k
in existence which treats of the manipulatory pio>
cessea of the goldsmith^s art ? Sioma-Tbsza.
Hum AND Buz. — Heraclitus Ridens, oonccna^
whom I sometime since made inquiry, says,—
" Preserved or reserved, *tis all one to na»
Sing yoa Te Denm, we'll sin£^ Hum amd Ba*
Vol. xL p.*
These lines are put into the mouth of %nm^
nent. "Hum and Buz," look like ** Hudk*
writ large. Was such a phrase in ordinary ai^
B. &«•
Justice. — When was the designation Ma
first applied to county and town magistrates? «i
when did it fall into general disuse ? When diiiii
cease to be usually given to police magistntes?
I believe it is now confined to the judges of ker
Majesty's courts of law, or of assize» as **Mr.
Justice Talfourd,*" &c. Magistrates are called, a
a body, " the justices of the peace, '* but the tide
is no longer colloquially applied to individoaiii
unless it is retained in any part of the coimtrr, oi
which I nm not aware. The initials J. P. are stul
frequently attached to a magistrate's name is
printing or writing. In the reign of Queen Mtrj
we read of a Middlesex magistrate ** called justice
Tawe, a popish justice, dwelling in the town oi
Stretford on the Bowe/' whom the editor of Nar»
ratives of the Reformation (Camden Society, 1859),
p. 160, has identified with John Tawe, a'bench^
of the Inner Temple, and treasurer of that houae
6 £dw. VI. and 1 Mary. In the plays and novels
of the last century the designation appears in com-
mon use ; and Fielding himself was best known as
Justice Fielding. J. G. N.
Limes on Madrid. — Mr. Ford, in his Hand*
Book for Spain (Part ii. p. 60«, ed. 1856), quotes
the following lines in Spanish, as applicable to the
capital of Spain : —
** Quien te quiere— no te sabe ;
Quien te sabe— no te quiere."
These may be translated thus : —
** He who likes thee— does not know thee ;
He who knows thee— does not like thee."
I should like to know who is the writer of the
l\tA% \TV S^MiUh. J. Dax.to9.
ariav. MArMt-ei.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
437
MouHT Athos.— -Where can I find an aoeoant
of the misaion of Minoides Mynai, who waa aent
bj the Frendi goyernment to Mount Athoa? Aa
I wish to be *'poated up** in accounts of the
monastic libraries there, I shall be obliged by re-
ference to worka on the subject since Mr. Cur-
lon's. I have seen Bowen and Tozer a in the
Vacatum Touristi. What is the present state of
the holy mountain ? Sigma-Theta.
Fbtxabch. — What is the date of publication
and yalue of a copy of Petrarch which I can only
deacribe as dedicated to Marco Antonio da Bo-
logna br Giovanni Lanzo Gabbiano ? In the pre-
face, which remains, although the title-page is
gone, an allusion to Pope Leo (qy. X.?), coupled
with the year 1523 in pencil on the cover, seems
to fix the date about 1520-3. As this and the
above may be sufficient data, I will extract it.
Gabbiano says to ^I. A. da Bologna —
^ Ne voi nc penona alcana si ammiri che io di eik cosi
tenera, tanto arUentemente ami e diligentemente desideri
di servire colui, il qunle da geniilhuomini general mente e
da signori ed al fine da Fapa Leone h stato sommamente
venerato ed amato."
Geo. Mitchell.
Walbrook House, 37, Walbrook.
"Essay on Politeness." — Who was the author
tifAn Essay on Politeness^ Dublin, 1776?
Abhba.
Quotations. — About the years 1836 or 1837, a
ririodical was published for a short time, of which
forget the name. I am -anxious to dbcoyer it,
and also for special reasons desire to ascertain the
name of the author of a poem which appeared in
it, bcginnin;* —
'* I had no friend to care for me.
No father and no mother ;
And early death had snatched away
My sister and my brother,
And'fiowers had covered all their graves
Ere I could lisp their names,'* &c.
I have no clue but my recollection of some
fragments of the poem, of which I have given
the commencement; but I think it was some-
where about the size of Chambers^ JounuiL, First
Series. T. B.
BiCBMOND CouBT RoLLs. — Mr. Knapp will be
much oblifred fur any information as to the Court
Bolls of the Manor of Richmond, Surrey, and in
particular where tliey can be inspected.
Llanfoist House, Clifton.
" The RuEruL Quakeb.'* — The late Maurice
0*Connell, M.P., wrote something with the above
title. Where can I get a copy ? S. Redmoni).
Savot Rent. — Several pieces of freehold land
in the parish of Shabbington, Bucks, pay what is
called a Savoy rent. Can any of your readers in-
form m« the origin of this ? No work is done or
protection given in return for this rent. The
land ia liable to be flooded : is it PomMt tiMt
originally it was a payment for the cttsrins oat of
the river? Jobs Si
Talbot Papebs. — In an article printed in tl>e
Records of Buckinghamshire^ voL i., on Sir JoliB
Forteacue, of Salden, mention is made of ^ £ike «-
edited Talbot Papers'* Can any of yonr readers
say where these papers are deposited? or where
they are likely to be heard of? They are not in
the Brituh Museum. Kappa.
William Thomson. — Can any Scottish corre-
spondent give me any information regarding thia
author, who was a blind man, and published at
Perih, in 1818, Caledonia ; or, the Clans of Yare^
a Tragedy in five acta, dedicated to Sir Murray
McGregor of Lanrick. Bart. ? In a l^IS. list of
Perthshire dramatists, it is stated that the tragedy
was acted at Perth. In Watt's Biblioth, Briian.
the authorship of Caledonia is erroneously attri-
buted to W. Thomson, LL.D. (a native of Perth-
shire), who died in 1817. Iota.
Sib Thomas Walsingham. -- Can any of your
readers give me any information as to the de-
scendants (if any) of Sir Thomas Walsingham, of
Scadbury in Kent, who married Lady Anne
Howard, daughter of Theophilus, Earl of bufiblk 1*
If they had no descendants, did the property go
to the Honourables Henry and Robert Boyle,
second and third sons of Henry, first Earl of Shian-
non ? Their great grandmother was a sister of
Lady Anne Walsingham's, and they successively
took the name of Walsinglinm. £. M. B.
John Wood, sometime Fellow of Sidney Col-
lege, Cambridge (B.A. 1737-8; M.A.1742; BJ).
1749), was Rector of Cadleigh, Devonshire; and
?ublisbed Institutes of Ecclesiastical and Cioil
^oUty, London, 8vo, 1773, and An Essay on the
Fundamental or most Important Doctrines of Na»
tural and Revealed Rel^n, London, 8vo, 1775.
The date of his death will oblige
C. H. & Thompson Coopeb.
Cambridge.
Bbahdt's "Ship op Fooles.'*— Would you in-
form me whether a copy of A. Barclay's *' Ship
of Fooles," date 1509, was printed by W. de
Worde; and, if so, what is now the value of that
edition? I have a copy, destitute of the title-
page, and one or two leaves of dedicatory verses,
&c., and one or two other faults ; but not wanting
altogether more than six verses CHanzas). The
fragment also contains ^^The Mirror of good
Manners *' of the same date, and has once con-
tained Barclay's Eclogues, but these are nearly
gone. The " Ship " contains Loches'a Latva^etwoo.
from Seb.BTWv*V\,wA^^^^^wA:>^^««gJ^
■ ingi, one o^ ^V\^\i\j«tt%\\i^^^V^^*^^^» ^i^^-5^
438
NOTES AND QUEKIE&
t««iTiLm
ipye me the contents of the title-»paj^, or inform
me where I could ^ec a copy, from which I could
reptir my own. Thitkkoicd.
[Richtrd PjiiBon was the printer of this rare book, as
will appear from the followioff copy of the title-page :
*' This present Uoke named the &$hyp of folys of the worldo
was translated in the College of saynt mary Otery in the
counte of Dcuonshyre : unt of Laten» Frenche, and Doche
into EnKlys-*he tonp^e by Alexander Barclayo Presto,
and at that tyme chnplen in the sayde College : trans-
lated the yere of our I^nlo god Mrrrccriii. Im-
prentyd in the Cyto of I^ndon in Flcti'dtre at the signe
of Saynt George. By Kychanlo Pynwm to hys Costo and
charge : ended the yerc of our Sauinur m. d u. The
zmi. day of Deoomber/' Folio, pp. 5r>6. For a collation
of this scarce work mc Rohn*a edition of Lowndnf p. 255 ;
and for a copious description of it, with specimens of the
carioofl engravings on wood, Dibdin*s edition of AnuM,
U. 431. A beautiful copy in morocco in liibi. Anglo-
Foetiea, lO.V; Inglis*s sale (two leaven MS.). C/. IGt. Gd. ;
Sir Peter Thompson's W.; Sotheby's in 1821, 28/. A
copy is in the Grenvillo Library, British Museum.]
PABLIAMBNTAltT SlTTINOS. — I nlworVC ffOm
Earl Stanhonc*s (Lord Muhon) HUtory that, in
the reign or George II., the ordinary hour of
meeting of the Houses of Parliament was twelve
o'clock, noon. At what time subsequently did
the pre.<ient practice begin of their assembling,
generally, in the eveninj* ? J, R. B,
[** The Lords usually meet, for despatch of legislative
business ** (nays Mr. May, in hi* Parliamentary Practice^
p. 212, fifth c<lic), at llvo o'clock in th« afternoon, and
the Commons at a quarter before four, oxrcpt on Wed-
nesday, and on other days specialty appointo<l for morn-
ing sittings. The sittings wore forn»erly held at an early
hour in the morning, gcnenilly at eight o'clock, but often
even at six or seven o'clock, and continued till eleven,
the committees being appointed to sit in the afternoon.
In the time of Charles II. nine o'clock was the usual hour
for commencing public business, and four o'clock for dis-
posing of it At a later period, ten oVlock was the ordi-
nary time of meeting ; and the practice of nominally ad-
journing the house until that hour continued until 1806,
though so early a meeting had long been discontinued.
According to the present practice, no hour is named by
the House for its next meeting, but it is announced in
the Vottt at what hour Mr. Speaker will take the chair.
Occasionally the House has ac^journed to a later hour
than four, as on the opening of the Great Exhibition, 1st
May, 1851, to six o'clock, and on the Naval Review at
Spithead, 11th Aug. 1858, to ten o'clock at night"]
Sir Thomas Ltrch. — Can you tell me in what
year Sir Thomas Lynch was Governor of Ja-
maica, and whether he had any sons or daughters,
■nd who they married ? A« K. F.
[Sir Thomu Lynoh, knt of Eaher in Snrrajt was pre-
iid«t aad thiioe govmor of Jamaica. la 16H 8^
Charles Lyttleton left the crovenacat c( tU
under the earo and direction of theCnuici},vb
Col. Thomas Lynch aa president He wui;
Governor in 1670; again in 1G81; and plac^i
third time at the head of tlio govenuosnt in 11
Thomas's first wife was Vere, daagbtcr of Sii
llerliert, by whom he had Philadelphia, who
Sir Thomas Cotton, Bart., of Cnmliermere, and:
nine sons and six daughters.
Sir Thomas L^Tich married, secondly, Msir,
of Thomas Temple, of Frankton, co. Win
This lady subsequently married Sir Hendcr Mt
governor of Jamaica. Vtdk CoUins's Juttyluk h
vol. iii. pt II. 613 ; iv. 29.]
£.<<QnTRE8* Basts. — I have never yet
an explanation of the above in the coat &
Mortimer, Earl of March. Could you (
your contributors give me the dcrivaiif
word, or tell me where one is to be foum;
ILH.
[Robson (British ITerald^ Appendix) gires \
ing explanation of thia term: "Base, or Ban
nU) terme<l nqnire, enquire, and equire^ reMrobles I
but contrary to that bearing, which cannot extc
than tho middle feitso point runs taporing to tl
extremity, from which it isiaea, formeil like 1
by a straight line on one side^ and a beviled <
other."]
Mrs. Aim ATorell. — Wanted the pat
Mrs. Ann Morell, wife of Dr. Thoma
who, in the year 1780, held the vicarajrc
wick, CO. Middlesex. Also if the said A
bn)ih«»r William ? M
[Dr. Thomas Morell married in 173A, Anne, i
Himry Darker, of Grove House, near Sutton O
wick.]
Xtrpltrf.
"TIIK BLACK BEAR." AT CUMX(
(S*^ S. v. 376.)
One of the querit^s nf your corresponc
IS answered by the following extract fr<
Usher Tighe's Historical AecmuU of Cm
edit. Oxford, 1821: —
** In allusion to one circumstance, whicb ma
mincnt figure in Kenihcorth, there is no reason
that an inn, deitignuted * the Black Bear,' flo
Cum nor in the reign of Queen Klizabeth ; bat
of romance has penetrated that retired spot; tt
reputed ancestral renown, and the solicitatioo
romantic Members of thiit University have t
and the sign of * the Black Bear' has been reesn
to the public-house in the village, with ths
' Giles Cfosllng ' inscribed beneath it"
Sir Walter Scott*i romance of jKi
charming u it it, hu no pretence Iq ]
8MS.y. Mat2S,'64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
439
' accuracy of any kind. It is a tissue of false
^ statements from beginning: to end. He took no
pains to collect authentic information upon any
one point, nor did he ever visit Cumnor^ as your
"^ correspondent naturally supposes.
In 1850, Mr. A. D. Bartlett, of Abin;rdon, pub-
- lishcd An Historical amd Descriptive Account of
"= Cumnor Place, in which very interesting book, at
p. 129, 1 find the following passage confirmatory
of what has been advanced : —
** There is no reason to beliere that an inn, like the one
described by Scott, existed at Cumnor in the reign of
lif Elizabeth, and both that and the landlord of the inn
were purely his inventions; but it certainly is singular
that he should have chanced to hit upon tho name of a
.^ penon, who no doubt at the time of Lady Dudley's death
\ was living in the village, as the name of*^ Frances Gosling
' anMars in the parish register of burials in 1562 : but no
oCoer mention of the name has been discovered in tho
-rj sobseqaent registers, and there is no tradition in the vil-
.V iBge of the family having lived in the place; it is quite
• '; clear that this wan the surmise of Scott, -who never had
"' aooeiis to the register, nor was he ever at Cumnor."
'^ As for Anthony Forstcr, far from being the
. " Burly domestic represented by Scott," he was
^ a prentleman both by birth and education, and a
J^ respectable one to boot. Until he came to Cum-
nor Place nothing whatever is known of where he
^^ lived. Wood, Aubrey, and Ashmole describe him
^* as a tenant to Lord Dudley; but Mr. Burtlett
has shown that when poor Amy*B death happened,
^ the mansion and estate belonged to William Owen,
J of whom Forater in the following year bought it,
^ and subsequently the lordship of the hundred of
^ Hormer.
^j Mr. Pettigrcw, in his Inquiry concerning: the
1 Death of Amy Robsart (an able paper read at the
!" Congress of the British Archseological Associa-
tion, held at Newbury in 1859), thus concludes
his defence of the supposed murderers of this un-
fortunate lady : —
"Great cruelty has been exercised towards Anthonv
Forster. The narratives regarding him abound with
falsehood, and the reports of his condition snbnequont to
the death of Lady Dudley are most calumnious. His
excess of misery, his melancholy, nay bis madness, do not
appear by any particulars that can be traced in connexion
with his bistort'. The period during which he is stated
to have so miserably lanf^oished seems to have been one
<if long duration, for we find that he survived from 1560,
the date of Lady Dudley's decease, to the year 1572, bcinf^
twelve years. Neither were his usual pursuits abandoned,
nor his habits changed. His love of music appears to
have been sustained to the last, as in his will he makes a
bequest of his music books to an old aconaintance. His
favourite horses are also left to other friends, and in his last
testament their (qualities are distinf^uished. The build-
ing of his mansion proceeds, he makes great alterations
and additions. His initials appear on several portions,
showing that he carried out his purpose to the last, and,
to crown alU upon the death of his friend Oliver Hyde,
two years only preceding his own decease, he enters mto
publio life, becomes the representative of the borough of
Abingdon, and dies holding that position. Snrely these
drcvmstaMM miut nUeve Forster from the wicked re*
ports which have been circulated against him, and ezcita
the regret of all lovers of truth and justici^, that hit
name should have been thus defamed, and his memory
blasted by the foulest of accusations and most ic famous
of charges made current by tho pen of any eminent wri«
ter, whether it bo of fiction or of history.*'
Edward F. Rimbault.
I am not prepnred to say what is the sign
or inscription below it now ; but in 1834, it was
the **Bear and ragged Staff,'* and the landlord's
name appeared on the signboard, followed by the
words, " late Giles Gosling." F. C. H.
IVAN YORATH.
(3"» S. iv. 370.)
Many years since, my attention was directed to
the extract from the parish register of Llanmaes,
Glamorgan, in which the name of Ivan Yorath
occurs. In order to make my letter intelligible,
it is necesssry that I should transcribe the extract^
which is as follows : —
<* Ivan Yorath, buried a* Saturdaye, the xiiii day of
July, Anno dOni 1G21, et anno refcni refps vioesimo primo
annoque statis sun circa 180. He was a sowdier m tha
fight e of Bosworthe, and lived at Lantwitt Major, and
bee lived much by fishing.*'
There are several statements in this short para-
graph which prevent me from believing it to be
founded in fact The year 1621 was not ^the
twenty-first year of tho reign " of any King of
England. James I. (of England) ascended the
throne on the 24th of March, 1603, and reigned
until the 27th of March, 1625 ; and, therefore,
the year 1621 would have been the " 19th and
20th year** of the reign of that monarch.
The battle of Bosworth Field was fought on the
22nd of August, 1485 — one hundred and thirty-
six years previous to the year 1621. Yorath may
have been fourteen years old when he was pre-
sent at the battle of Bosworth Field ; and we may,
therefore, conclude that he was bom in the year
1472, or in the following year. If this supposi-
tion be correct, his age m 1621 would have been
149 years. A very great sgc I admit, if there bo
any truth in the extract from the parish register
of Llanmaes, which I am not prepared to admit.
I first saw this statement, relative to Ivan Yorath
in tiie North Wales Chronicle about seventeen
years since, the paragraph being thus headed—
^' The Real Old Soldier r and as I know that a
great regard for antiquity has long existed in tho
Frincipality of Wales, 1 receive*! the history of
Yoratns longevity cum grano salts, for which I
see now no occasion to apologise. My belief is,
that the whole statement arose in error ; and that
the paragraph in the parish register was ms/l<: in
the reign of King Charl«a \»y '^Viaj '^vi ^l^»rv^ wv
1600, and iVie twewVj-tofc i«w «X ^Vki*. tiv ^;^^*:
of biareign^ hovXAiln^^^^w^ViW^^-- ,»x.^w^
440
NOTES AND QUERIES:
i;3«*S.ViMATll
time Yoratb died, beinj; probably 108 (and not
180) years old. What then becomes of Yorath*8
presence at Bosworth Field in August, 1485?
My reply is —
** Si quid mihi ostendis simile, incredulus odi.**
Years before Yorath was born, the highest au-
tbority stated, that ^' the days of man*s years are
threescore years and ten ;'* and I am inclined to
think that lorath did not treble the average time
which has been allotted to man for the last three
thousand years. A long letter on this subject
appeared m The Naval and Military Gazette for
September 6, 1851, which is worthy of perusal.
ZeITSM AfsTEV.
SENECA'S PROPHECY OF THE DISCOVERY OF
AMERICA: THE GREAT ITALIAN POET.
(l«»S.i.l07; iii.464; iv.300; S'* S. ▼. 298, 368.)
Your correspondents will find two forms of this
supposed prophecy in the numbers here referred
to. The following remarks ha^e not, I think,
been anticipated in the preceding volumes.
Among the MSS. of Dr. Dee is ** Atlantidis,
vulgariter IndisB Occidentalis nominatsB, emenda-
tior Descriptio quam adhuc est Tulgata.** We
here learn what Dee*s opinion was with regard to
the situation of Atlantis. Some think the Platonic
Atlantis may be no more than a moral romance,
or allegory : see Strabo, lib. ii. c. 3, 56 ; Ficinus
in Platonis Critiam ; Acosta's East and West
IntHes^ p. 72 ; Pancirolli Rerum Deperditarvm, SfC^
Liber, 1631, t. ii. 15—19; Purcbas's Pilgrimage,
p. 799. That, on the other hand, it had a geo-
graphical situs is maintained by Hf»rnius, De
Oriiiinihus Americanis, lib. ii. c. 6 ; Catcott, On
the Dehige, pp. 142-45, 152-64; Jones of Nay-
land, Physiological Disquisitions, 516 sqq.\ darkens
Maritime Discovery, Introduction, 51—57, where
also will be found the opinions of Bryant, Bailly,
Eudbeck, Buffon, Whitehurst, and Maurice. The
passages confirming this relation, which have been
adduced from Greek and Roman writers for the
pur|>ose of showing that the ancients had some
Knowledge of the situation of America, are col-
lected by Jackson in his Chronological Antiqui'
ties, vol. iii. Cf. Schmidii, De America Oratiun^
cula ad calc. Pindari, 1616, 4to ; ClassicalJottmal,
Tiii. 1—4. The principles of navigation, and of
its sister, astronomy, are universally ascribed to
the Plioenicians ; see Purchas, Part i. chap. i.
§ 12. But Varrerius, a Portuguese writer, in a
Commentary, De Ophyra Regione (Critici Sacri,
Londini, vol. viii., Amsteleedami, vol. ii.), discusses
the various theories, that it was located in India,
in Ethiopia, in America ; and maintains the im-
prohaWitf that the Phoenicians ever 8%\l^ to
liispanioh* This subject — the OpVitianf crfi^s^ —
\
I reserve for another article. " All that ha
said, or perhaps that can be said upon
summed up in the Appendix of Cellarius
great work on ancient geography, De Nou
an cngnitus fuerit veteribus, vol. ii. pp. 2^
and in Alexander von HumboIdt*8 Kridsc
tersuchungen uber die historiche Enbokkdn
geographischen Kenntnisse der neuen Welt,
1826.** Smithes Diet, of Greek and Roma
graphy, s. v. Atlantis. In the edition of C
before me, Amstelsedami, 1 706» this Additam
De Novo Orbe, is in pp. 164 — 166.
•* The Great Italian Poet " (3"* S. t. 2»
other than Dante ; see Purgatory^ canto xi
The following remarkable pas^^age is in t
traduction to the Encyclopeedia MetropoUiOM
It is to be regretted that the eloquent autl
not himself furnish a metrical translation
accompany ins: extract ; but, by being: inse
** N. & Q.," I hope it will be supplied : —
" We can recall no incident of Human HiJlf
impresses the imagination more deeply than thei
when Columbus on an unknown ocean, first pe
that startling fact — the change of the maprnetici
How many such instances occur in History, vki
Ideas of Nature (presented to choRen minds' bys
Power than Nature herself) suddenly unrold, ai it
in prophetic succession, systematic Tiews dcstii
Sroduce the most important revolations in then
Ian I The clear spirit of Columbus was <^
eminently Methodical He saw distinctly that
leading Idea, which authorised the poor pilot to k
' a promiser of Kingdoms ;' and be pursued the pr
sivo developement of the mighty truth with an un>i
firmness, which taught him to * rejoice in lofty Ul
Our readers will perhaps excuse us for quoting a*
trative of ><1iat we have here observe*! some hne
an Ode of Chiabrera, which, in strength of though
lofty majesty of Poetry, has but * few peers in and
in modern Song * : —
" * COLUMBUS.
** * Certo. dal cor, ch' alto Destin non scclse.
Son rimprese magnanime neglette;
Ma le bell' alme alle bell' opre elette,
Sanno gioir nelle fatiche eccelse :
Ne biasmo popolar, frale catena,
Spirto d' onore il suo cammin raflrena.
Cosi lunga stagion per modi indegni
Europa disprezzb 1* inclita ppeme :
Schemendo il vulgo (e seco i Regi ir^ieme]
Nudo nocchier promcttitor di Regni ;
Ma per le sconosciute onde marine
L' invitta prora ei pur suspin^e al tine.
Qual uom, che tomi al gentil consorte,
Tal ei da sua mag^on spiegb Tantenne,
L'ocean corse, e i turbini soetenne
Vinsc le crude imagini di morte ;
Poscia, dell' ampio mar sp^nta la guerrs,
Scorse la dianzi favolosa Terra.
Allor dal cavo Pin scende veloce,
E di grand Orma il nuoro mondo iroprime
N^ men ratto per 1' Aria erge sublime.
Segno <lel Ciel, insuperabit Croce ;
£ porse umile esempio, onde adorarla
Debba sua Qentc'-^CKio^rera, vol. i.**
'^v«UL<QrrttCJ&Wk« Can
t&Y. MATM^tl]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
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£DI£YAL GHUHCB£S IN ROICAN CAMP&
(y* S, V, 329.)
liotigb, doubtless, many ancient ChrifUan
rches have been boilt opon tbe sites of tem|to
:he Roman stations of Britain, I think yoor
respondent R. K. is mistaken with respect to
church at Chester-Ie-Street, in the county of
rbam. Eight jean ago, Mr. Thomas Murray,
iloughing a field called the High Mains, situated
ut 120 jards south of the church, came upon
ypocaust, and yarions other remains of a Ro-
n station, extending over a considerable area,
examining the place, and conversing with per-
8 long acquainted with it, I formed the opinion
t the nortli boundary of the station ran about
It jards within the iDeanery garden ; and ex-
led from the Roman Road (our great North
d), a distance of 350 jards, to a continuous
md with a ditch outside 230 yards long ; which
ink, marks the eastern boundary of the sta-
I presume that the road above-mentioned
ne west boundary. Part of the modern town
ds upon that portion of the camp-area which
uns the ^rcat North Road. The remainder,
ch is under the plough, presents the appear-
3s peculiar to Roman soil ; being darker in
»ur, and more friable than the adjoining field,
s also higher than the circumjacent lands of
plateau, and, therefore, dominates them. I
ik it very probable, that the Deanery garden,
old churchyard, and the new burial ground also,
Ktending, altogether, about 300 yards northward
lie station — may have been occupied by sub-
ftn houses, gardens, &c. ; as I to-day observed
ments of Samian and coarse Roman earthen-
e scattered over them, as well as over the
ion itself. It would seem that the Roman
te of burial was on the west side of the roa<),
re an altar-shaped monument was found,
ring the following inscription : —
*DM-
ANNTS
DIGNI8S-
-8I2IM-
-VIXIT-
-XXV-
— MS.'
'he dashes indicate where the inscription is
cen into lines. Before the **dm,** and the
cv,** a heart-shaped leaf, pendant from a short
k, is introduced. Does tnis occur elsewhere?
I what does it mean ? G. H. or S.
MORGANATIC AND MORGENGABE.
(3'* S. y. 235, 328)
.8 somewhat advanced in years, I can assure
LSTss I am not addicted to " a play of fancy **
m I cannot support assertion by authority, or
iblisk argument by fact,
[eineceius was undoubtedly an excellent jurist,
excdlcnM in one tcience does not preclude
failure in another. Dr. Johnson was an excellent
moralist and writer, but a very bad etymologist.
In this belief, I look upon this long exploded idem
of deriving morganatic from wtorgengabe aa a
Aulure for the following reasons : —
I. A term, the more distinctive it is of what it
defines, is so much the more perfect : if a sup-
posed derivative have no relation to its root, the
deriyation must be worthless. A morgenjrabe ia
not exdusively a concomitant to morganatic mar-
riages: it is a legal accessory to erery marriage,
ebeubSrtig or tmebewhuriig ; and, consequently,
if morgengabe were a distinctive and governing
word, evenf marriage would be a morganatic one.
The n|orgengabe (the mom*s gift) was originally
a present, which the husband made to his spouse
the morning after marria^^. Formerly it waa the
custom to give such a gifl, or present, at every
marriage (I translate from a German work);
later on, only at those of the nobility. In the
laws of Saxony it was a fixed sum, to which every
wife was entitled in lieu of dower ; and the very
fact of its being thus dealt with l^jrally is proof
that it need not be made a matter of agreement,
which a morganatic marriage, where no lesal rule
prevailed, necessarily implies, and Heincccius
nimself, by the words " acceptis ccrtis pnediis vel
promissa certa pecuniss summa,** admits. The
mor^ngabe seems to have been brou^t, as an
institution, by the Germans, from their Hercynian
forests ; and shadowed out already in Tacitus
(JDe Germ., cap. xviii.) ; —
•^DoCem non uxor marito, aed axon maritas offert
lotersunt parentes et propinani, ac munera probant:
munera non ad delicias mnliebres qniesita. oec qnibus
nova nopta comatar; scd boves et frenatom eqoam et
scutom com fnmea, gladioqoe. In hsc maneni uxor
accipitar atqoe invicem ipsa armorum aliqnid viro offert.
Hoc maximom vinculum, hcc arcana sacra, hoa con-
jogales Deos arbitrantor."
In explanation of these useful giAs I may re-
mark, that the compounding in the morgengabe
for a sum of money the real dotation of a farm
and its appendages, or any other substantial ma-
terial chattel, was a later mnovation.
It is in furtherance, and confirming this primsB-
val practice, that Luther, in his translation of the
Bible, uses morgengabe as the sum which the
father of the bridegroom had to pay at every
marriage to the family of the bride. It will not,
I suppose, be insisted on, that morgonatic mar-
riages were then known. The legal reouirement
of a morsengabe at marriages was abolished for
the kingdom of Saxony by edict, dated January
31, 1839. But I have also a second objection,
upon an etymological ground. In morgen^ sound-
ing to an English ear moryen, the final syllable is
short— nnd then what becomes of the essential
part of the word gahe f In m<w^Tv^\Vi.\N.\^^^'^%^
gona to /oiwtic wA J«miI\w>i> ^^^ 5«««^
442
NOTES AND QUERIES-
[»«8.Y. llAili^tL
ihrough the French /urtiieafi. Deducting the sffix
mor, which is merely intensitive, like our more —
an undefined, because an undefinable idea of ex-
tension, like also moor^ meer^ mare^ Grerm. Meer
(ihc ocean) — we have remaining gatui ; which for
all lime, and in every country, signi6e8 various
modes and de^zrecs of cheating and deception.
In Germany, as we learn from the following
passage in Suidas^ this was the name of an an-
cient spae-wife, one of those fatidical women, who,
like Alrinia, who received the captive Varus to
be immolated by her because she had predicted
his defeat, ruled the destinies of tho nation. This
OanOy or Ganna^ was received by the Kmperor
Domitian with the greatest honour and resj^ct at
Rome : —
8«((oiNra H\$w irphs rhv Aoumdywy
It seems to have been taken by the Celtic no-
bility as a favourite designation, no doubt from
the respect in which these old ladies, as the inter-
preters of the gods, were held: for one of the
most successful Celtic risings against the Roman
arms was under the leadership of Gannascus ,* and
the favourite of Heliogabalus, named GanySy was
most probably a Celt. At all events, in gauner^
a cheat, the Germans keep the idea of delusion
chained to the word to the present day.
The spread of the word through all the Indo-
Gennanic tongues may be traced in the following
examples. Sometimes much cunning is necessary
to deceit, and then we form ingenium ; or, as in
Sweden, gan^ still denotes a species of conjuror.
As Himple deceit, we have the mediaeval Latin
words, engannum, eiigaunnium; the Portuguese
and Spanish, enganno ; the French, engan.
Since, as with us, these old witches were frequently
bawds and coupleresses at Rome, the term, there-
fore, as ganea^ soon descended to the stews and
brothels of that dissolute city. Thus Suetonius, in
Caligula, who, like Ilaroun al Raschid, — ^^ganeas
atqne adulteriacapillamento celutus et veste longo
noctibus obiret" (cap. xi.). And again, in Nero
(cap. xxvii.) : " depositip per littora et ripas di-
versoris tabemae pnrabantur, insigncs guneoi et
matronnrum institorias operas imitantium.*^
The expression of Juvenal {Sat. vi. 64) —
" . . Appula ninnit
Sicut in amplcxu " —
though usually tiiken in a lewd scnFc, may per-
haps only mean whispering or speaking low, since
it will be confirmed in this sense by a passage in
Apuleius {Aureus Asinus, lib. i.) : ** Hie ilia ver-
bosa et satis curiosa avis in aurihus Veneris, filium
lacerans, existimationerfi ganniebaC *
* That Juvcniil here only meant the whispering, or
low tones, used where people are half ashamed of their
actions, may also be proved from another pauafe :—
** Gamirt ad aurem nunqoam diulki.**
With this diffiuod use of gma, for lU On par-
poses of deception and delusion, shall it not be
also applicablo to an institution based nvNi \
willing delusion; and, as to the children oi lad
marriage, a palpable deceit as a morganatic one?
^ *^ WuLLiAM B«J. Ph. Dr.
6, Crescent Place, Barton Crescent,
April 13, 1861.
CoBBBTT (3^* S. V. 370, 422.)— T. B. i«II
should differ greatly, I fear, as to the scope of 4e
term" revolutionary." In the sense inten<WIJ
me — in H merely parentbctical remark — -I ihsu
find no difficulty in proving its applicability. A
same of " conservatism." I must, howewr. *•
cUne to make your publication the vehirlirf
political controversy. , W. Lb
Lasso, akd similab Weapons (3^^ S. v.*/
I think there is no such thing as a lasso*
tloned in any ancient author, or figured!^
bas relief or other representation. The *•
approach is the net used by the retiarius, »5*
(hator, who fought with the secutor, ufiflj i«
net to entangle his adversary, and a small trii*
to disable him. When abroad, I was toUii
Croat cavalry, and some tribes of the CoimA
use a curious and, in their hands, a Tery eftaw
weapon. It is a whip with a very long liAi*
the end of which (before going into action) tkq
fix a perforated bullet. This they arc said tote
able to project with such force and certiiaW
against a man's forehead, as to fracture bis skJ
and kill him, like a stone from a sling. Of coune,
the bullet is instantly withdrawn, and can be u«4
again as often as tbey pleasi*. Is there any •^
count of this practice prmted ? K so, I shoul'i bi
;;lad to be referred to it? A. 1.
Robin Adair (3'* S. v. 404.) — The interert-
ing note of K. K. J. on this song will no doubt lu^
prise some of our Scotch friends. The discipla
of Blackstone and Coke maintain that evidence
must be taken as a whole, and admitted a^ tree
or rejected altogether ; but since legal lojziciani
sirgue that when a part of the evidence is «•»•
tained by strong additional proofs to the direct
testimony, then the evidence must be taken in
its entirety as correct. Without entering on the
mysteries of »* Black-letter,*' I may bo permitt«i
to add a Muall srrap of collateral evidi.»ncc, a< toi
portion of the proofs of K. K. J., which may be
taken for what it is worth. It proves, however,
beyond nucstion, that the name of Adair wa5 in
the locality pointed out. • An ancestor of mine,
whose mental and physical faculties were s|>aied
to his ninety-fourth year, and who in his eiriy
days was a most unmitigated fox -hunter, I bavt
often heard sny^ not «rr^, the ballad of the Kil*
ruddery Hunt, which u a really spirited de*
\ mv^>AH« 'naxi«>A'«« ^ V ^MiELV&%S5A.«^aul^ that took
8^ & v. MAT 28, *eL]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
44S
place in the locality^ of Bray, ten miles from
Dublin ; and, in naming those who were present
HI that occasion, the following; lines occur : —
•* We had the Longhlinitown * landlord, and bold Owen
from Brav,
And brave John Adair he was with us that day ;
Joe Devlin, Hall, Preston, and a hunUman m stout,
Dick Holmes, a few others, and so we set out.**
The song was venr popular amongst the squire-
archy, farmers, and peasantry in Wicklow and
Wexford counties when I was a "little wee thing**
some thirtj-five summers ago. S. Redmond.
Liverpool.
E. K. J. mentions a Mr. St. Leger, of Pucks-
town, CO. Dublin, as the author of ^^ Robin Adair.**
Will £. K. J. send any genealogical particulars
about this Mr. St. Leger to the Rev. £. F. St.
J^XOBB, Scotton Rectory, Kirton-in-Lindsey?
QvoTATioTcs (3'* S. V. 378.) — The lines in-
luired for, beginning —
"Green wave the oak for ever o*er thy rest,"
ve the commencement of an exquisite poem by
drs. Hemans, on the grave of Korner, the Ger-
-^an soldier-poet, who fell in a skirmish with
I^rench troops on the 26th of August, 1813, only
wk hour after he had finished his famous Sword
(ong. The poem of Mrs. Hemans consists of
line stanzas, of which the first two are quoted at
be above reference in *' N. & Q.** It appeared
r» The Mirror in 1824, just forty years ago. The
pirit, vigour, and pathos of the first two stanzas
ve perfectly sustained throughout, and it will
.vnply reward an attentive perusal. F. C. H.
Miscellanea Cuhiosa (3'* S. v. 282, 387.)— I
hink Professor De Morgan is in error with
"aspect to the identity of Turner's Miscellanea
'Dmiosa with Turner's Mathematical Exercises,
Dhere were two persons named John Turner living
ti 1749; and both were correspondents to the
nathematical department of the Ladies^ Diary at
liat period. The " Mr. John Turner, of Heath,
iTorkshire,'* was most probably the editor of the
tiisceUanea Cnriosa ; and the " Mr. Turner, of
drompton, near Rochester," was the editor of the
iiaikematical Exerci-nes. The latter work is in
dx numbers, ^ve of which were "printed for
Tames Morgan at the Three Cranes, m Thames*
itreet'* during 1750-1752; and the sixth was
•printed and sold by R. Marsh ** of Wrexham, in
Wales. That it was an original work is evident
from the preface and the contents.
In the former, correspondents are requested to
contribute " Problems or Solutions ** under the
assurance that *^ nothing shall appear to their dis-
advantage;** and in the latter may be found
some cnrions correspondence relating to the " ma-
thematics and mathematicians ** of Uie day. The
* The nana of a village on the road fimn Doblln^
Bray. Whowatthahmdioni?
editorship of the Ladies'' Diary was the " bone of
contention,*' and the work contains some smart
exposures of the doings of Captain Heath and his
friends.
On Simpsons being appointed editor in 1753,
the Exercises appear to have been discontinued ;
the last number l)cing added in order to complete
the work. I have jjiven a pretty full account of
the Mathematical Exercises, in vol. 1. pp. 266-273,
of the Mechanics* Magazine for 1 849.
T. T. Wilkinson.
SuBNAafsa (3'' S. iv. 122, &c.)— Would not the
passage in St. Luke*s gospel, chap. xxii. 3, go far
to prove that surnames were in existence long
before we suppose ? for he there expres>ljr states,
that Judas was ^sumamed Iscariot,** proving that
the Jews had double names at least. There are
other instances in the gospels of double, or sur-
names ; and when Christianity sfirearl, and intro-
duced baptism, is it not likely that the baptised
received the name of some saint to the already
existing surname, so that here is a clue to an
earlier orisin of surnames than is at present al-
lowed ? Or do we only copy from the Jews in
this, as in many other respects ? S. Redmond.
Liverpool.
Sir Edward Gorges, Knt. (3'* S. v. 377.) —
The following rough notes may be useful.
James I. 1606. To Sir Thomas Gor;;;es, Knt,
Keeper of his highness* park at Richmond, 125/.
to tne owners of certain lands taken into said
park.
James I. 1609. Paid 232/. lOf. to John Killi-
grew in full satisfaction of certain damages sus-
tained by him about the building of Pendennis
Fort, Cornwall, and for his losses in the pmfits of
lands and woods thought fit to be reserved tu main-
tain said fort, so certified by Sir Ferdinando Gor-
ges, Knt., and other commissioners appointed to
survey the same.
James I. 1611, July. To Sir Edward Gorges,
Knt, Capt of his majesty*s castle of IIur^t, the
sum of 79/. 13i. Ad., to be by him employed about
the repairing of certain breaches in the beach
extendmg from the mainland to his majesty's said
castle.
At Hampton Court Palace there ore two por-
traiU described by Mr. Jamewm as No. 252, a
young man with long hair culled here Sir Theo-
bald Grorges. No. 648, portrait of a young man
inscribed with the name, ** Gorges.**
At Kensingtcm Palace there was a portrait in-
scribed *♦ Mr. Gorge,** in white, with a red scarf
(poiribly one of these).
In 1716 the Beaufort family possessed a large
messuage in Chelsea, formerly the property of
Sir Arthur Gorge.
Sir Thoma» GoT^«a,\rj ^>a«Wi'^\Mic^'!J^^^^^^
444
NOTES AND QUERIES.
|;»«S.T.liT
conspiracy, and the execation of her confederates,
1587.
Sir Walter Raleigh, sending a message te Sir
Ferdinando Grorges, this officer had a conference
with him in a boat on the Thames, and there dis-
covered all their proceedings — the plot for which
Essex lost his life. 1601. A. F. B.
Language usbd iv Roman Coubts, stc. (S*^ S.
T. 856.) — With reference to the language used
in the judicial courts of their provinces, it is well-
known that the Romans 'Mnflexibly maintained
in the administration of civil as well as mili-
tary government** the use of the Latin tongue.
The words are Gibbon*s (vol. i. p. 42, Milman).
This was true of all the Roman provinces, but of
the east in a fur less degree than of the west ; and,
according to Donaldson, the Jews and Greeks
were the most unwilling to give up the ** flowing
rhythms ** of their native tongue for the terse and
business-like language of their conquerors. But
the Romans knew too well the powerful influence
of language over national manners to neglect to
enforce the constant use of Latin in all the coun-
tries which they subdued, at least in all matters of
law and government. Cf. Donaldson, Varr. c. xiv.
§ 6 ; Cic. Orat, pro Fonteio, i. § 1 ; Juv. Sat, i.44 ;
vii. 147-8; xv. 111. A. G. S.
2«{pTTjK lAax«r, k, t. X. (3^* S. v. 260, 307.)— There
certainly seems to be every reason to think that
the conjectures of Wagner, and before him of
Erasmus, as to this passage are correct, that it is
part of a speech of Agamemnon to Menelaus.
These two brothers were, as is well known, sons
of Atreus ; and the first had succeeded to the
throne of his father at Mycenaj, by the death or
expulsion of Thyestes ; the second having become
King of Lacedspmon, and presiding at Sparta.
The legend of Telephus is that be had been
wounded by Achilles ; and having been told that
only the man who hud inflicted the wound could
heal it, he went to Agamemnon, then ruling at
Mycenss, to entreat his intercession with the hero
for thatpurpose. Agamemnon seems to have re-
ceived Telephus coolly, for we find the latter seized
his young son Orestes, and threatened to slay him
unless the father complied with his request, which,
after some delay, was done, and Achilles healed
the wound with some of the rust from the spear
which had caused the injury.
We know from Aristophanes (who quizzes the
play of Euripides in every possible fashion), and
also from Horace, that Telephus is represented as
seeking this a:<sistance in the state of the deepest
poverty, and as an exile. Agamemnon was at
Afyceno;. What could be more probable than
that the scene was laid at the entrance of the
citadel of that city, the famous gate of lions, which
Btill exists to the present day, and before which
WMS hid the scene of the Agamemnon of 2!^V\^<
lus, and of the Electra of Sophodei?
could be more probable than that the tvo'
might have been introduced oonversiii*
there, and what could be more fitting tbs
elder, A^memnon, to say to the younger,
has fdlen to your lot, rule orderly ovi
we for our own part do MycensB*'? Tl
the word roV/&ci seems to point to Hood
both in the Iliad and OdyMsey^ calls the
Atridse 8vw KwrfttiTop9 Xowi^.
Some curious matter might turn on t
the word l\axfs, which si^i^nifies in its ;
sense, to obtain by ;lot. I cannot lay i
on any account of die failure of the d;
Lacedsemon, and the succession of Mend]
the passage in question would lead us to
that the latter was the result of the
of the people.
Poets' Comer*
The Bau^t : " Three Bi.ue Be as
(a** S. V. 297, 385.) — The expression is
standing : it occurs in Tom Brown's versifl
"Timon," in Dryden's Lucian (1711).
quoted by Tytler as an example of 1m
translation : —
**GnathoHide9, Tlrovro; ira/ciy, 2 Tlfimt; fmf
M 'HpdhcAcif, iohy ioh, wpoKokovfAol (r§ rpavfuensd
-rdyoy.
- TimoH, Kal fi^v lU 7c fwcphif 4irt€f>aiip^s^ ^
TrpoKtKKTiaifi fit, — Timon, c xlvi. ed. Bipoot. i. 11
** Gnathonidet, Confound him ! What a blow
given me I What's this for, old Touchwood? B
iiess, Hercules, that he has struck me. I warrai
^hall make you repent of this blow. 1*11 indite yi
action on the calse, and bring you coram noli.
assault and buttery.
** Timon. Do, thou confounded law pimp, do
thou stay'st one minute longer, I'll bent thee to
make thy bones rattie in thee like three Ottie beans
bag. Go, stinkard, or else I shall make you al
action, and ^et me indicted for manslaughter.'* 1
Tytler, Ettay on the PrincipUt of Tn
8vo, London, 1797.
H
U. U. Club.
The words of one of the " merry roui
Catch that Catch CaUy or a Choice CoUe
Catches^ Rounds, and Canons. London,
for John Benson, &c., 1652, are as follows
«* As there be three blew beans in a blew blad
And thrice three rounds in a long ladder ;
As there be three nooks in a comer cap,
And three corners and one in a map }
Kv*n so like unto these
There be three UniversJti«»8,
Oxford, Cambridge, and James.**
The last word, I suppose, refers to King
College at Chelsea. Edwabd F. Bin
John Dbaham thi Vocalist (S** S. t.
Braham*s first appearance on the stage
\, C:»w^ii\. Ck%x^^TL \.W*X.T^^ A.^cil 21, 1787,
^nei
S. V. May 28» 'W.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
440
cnefit of Mr, Lt«ni, tti Ttalhti singer of cele-
britj, who liatl instructed I he youn^ vocfilist. The
was the Du§nnn^ en4, ttccordin^ to the ad-
Wment, "At tho end of Act U * The Sohiier
, of VVar*s AUnns/ by Master Brakam^ being
I fir at appearance on »ny stage." And agam^
|fcer the first act of the farce, he &ang the fa-
iiritc flonji of ** Ma chire Araie," At the open-
' of the R.<»yaliy Theatre, \\'ellclose Square, on
! 20 in the same year, ** Between the nets of
play, * The Sohlier tired of War a Alarms* waa
ing with great »ucce*s by a little boy* Muater
l^ram, the pupil of Leoni/* according to The
\ronkU; and another paper said, "Yesterday
L-nmjr we were surpri^d by a Master Abrahaift^
ipil of Mr, Leoni. He promiites fair to
' irtton, posae&sing every requisite neces-
rv m ^ij m a capital ainger/' I quote from some
Ilections formed by the late Mr. Fillinham* I
not seen the newypapers themselves, but
no reason to doubt the correctness of the
rmation. Mr. Peter Cunningham then may be
It in his assertion concerning' the bill in which
mm U called " Majster Abrahams ; " but is he
t in placinrt^ bis notice of the event under
adman's Fields Tlieatre? The theatre in which
rick made his first appearance was in Ayliffe
eet; and John Palmer's theatre, called the Roy-
Theatre, waa erected in Well Street, in the
ae locality, but on an entirely different site,
K0WARD F. RlMBAULT,
PfGlO-SAXON AN1> OTHER MeDIJSVAI* SeALS
3, xii- 9, O-*.)— Another proof that the Anjjlo-
I used seals as well as the Normans, may be
and at the end of the rhyming charter, the
int of sanctuary, &c^ at KIpon, by Athelstan
\ Si, Wilfrid. The king says,—
"And tax weAq have I sett yerto,
For I wilt nt na man it undo."
See Dugdale, MonasL, toL ii, p. 133.
short time back, while examining some of the
^hment writ^, &c., discovered tn the old trea-
ut Westminster Abbey, we found several
^ Jl round llatti^h ladles, about as bij» as a two-
ilUrig piece. They seem to have been used for
Iting the wax fur afBxtn^ seals to the various
cumcnts. In this c^ist^i whde it was soft the strip
rmrchraent or other ligature by which they were
ached could have been conveniently dipped into
wax, and when coolcii enough the seal would
i easily impressed, as we see them. Have such
BUBils been seen elsewhere?
[While on thl« subject permit rae also to note a
fcrTouB pafsoge from a charter quoted in Selden*»
kleM of Honour, part II, chap. iii. It is from the
rd of Dol, in Brittany^ to the Abbey of Vieu-
Jle, and about the year 1170; he says, —
And hccauHo I was not as yet a knight, and had not
,1 of ujy own (quia Mika non eram et propriuni Si-
gillum noD habebam) we havt wlad tlii tbifttr l|f A*
atitiiority of the teal of Sir Joba ««r hihrn^
Selden also quotes from Da Ttllel WM oU ded*
aiDn of 1376 (more than two hundred jmxm lAtcr)^
where it ifi ftaid, '^an e«qulre when be reeeiiei thm
order of knighthoo<J ta to change hi» teal* (tij^«
I urn mutarej^ From this it would Msemt in earliest
times^ tione below the digtiity of a knighi were
entitled to use ieals at all. A. A*
Poct»' Comer.
A BtiLL or BuRKK*s (S'^ S. v. 212, 267* 306.)—
Aa the original querist in this matter, I must con-
fess that ray difliculty is not removed by Mr. Dk
Moro^h's tuggesfron, that Burke's word mmf
have been component instead of integral. There
is still the extremely paradojLical character of a
proposition, which states that A. and D. are the
same thing, betng different parts — whether in-
tegral or component. If we suppose that Burke
meant to say^ — **The Church and the State are
one and the same thing, though they are also dif-
ferent integral parts of the same whole" — the ex-
pression is still an awkward one: but the intentioa
IS evident, as Loed Lyttsltobi understands it :
" Church and State are the same while looked at
in two different aspects." In any case, 1 cannot
see the inconsequence which Loao Ltttkltoji
attributes to the sentence which follows : ** For
the Church has been always," &c. These words
refer to that part of the preceding sentence which
affirms the identity of the Church and the Slate :
for (adds Burke) the Church comprehends the
cleriry and laity, as the State does also.
C. G. Pbowbit.
Carlton Club.
ENQRaVING BT Ba»TOI^3£2I (3«* S- T. 377.) —
The engraving forms the frontispiece of Leigh
Hunt*s first work: Juvenilia; or a Ctiltection of
Poems written hetioeen the Ages of Twelve and
Sixteen. The printer was probably Raphael Wcst»
whose name appears in the List of hubscribers^
together with that of Beniamin West, P.R A. The
reference, judging from the motto, seems to be to
Poverty in the abstract : —
• And ah I let Pity turn her (Jewy eyes,
Where gasping penury unfriended lies !
J. w.
S™ JottH Jacob or Bromlbt (S** B. v. 213.)—
Sir John was the son of Abrahpn Jacob (of Brom-
ley, Middlesex, and of Garolingay), and of Mary,
daughter of Francis Rogers of Dartford, Kent.
Abraham died May 6, 1629; and bis monument
is, or was, at Bromley, near Bow, John was one
of seven sons, and six daughters. Charles I,
knighted him in 1633* He was a farmer of the
customs ; su6'ered in the king's cause, and was
made baronet in 1665. He bunt a house at Brom-
ley; had three wives — LEli2ahetkR<ill\*isc^^<vic
HolUday, \)y ^\Kiia V V^^ v^a^ -s^^^ ^^^ ^'^
446
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[>*aTMir
daughter ; 2. Alice, dnu;;hter of TIios. Clowes^ by
whom he had tliroc sons nnd three dau^^htcrs;
3. Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Ashbumham,
Knt., by whom he had one diiutrhter. He was
Gommis'jiioner and Farmer of Customs attain in
Charlt'A II.*a rei;j:n ; and died l(S(>5-6. His eldest
son, Sir John, succeeded him ; married Catherine,
dauirhfer of William, Lord Allinrrton ; and died
1675, nnd was buried in the Savoy Church, Strand.
His son Sir John served in (he army, and died
1740. His mn Hihlebrand succeeded to the title.
Armt. Ar;;ent, a chevron, gules, between three
tigers* heads erased, proper. Crest. On a wreath
a ti<;er passant, proper, marred and turned.
Motto, "Tarta tueri.'' 13. H. C.
CnAPF.BONK f.^'* S. V. 280.) — The wonl chnpc
roness is used in Webstor's DeviVs Law Case^ Act
I. So. 2. Komidlo is <;harping the lady's com-
panion to be very vigilant over her misitreds, and
says : — .
"... but, my precious chapertmeu,
I trust theo the hpttcr for thnt ; f^r I have he.ird
There is no wnrier keeper of a park.
To prevent stalkers, or your nifrht- walkers,
Than such a m an as in his voutli has been
A most notoriuus doer-stuifvr.'*
From its allusion (Act IV. Sc. 2) to the massacre
of the English by the Dutxih at Amboyna, this
play is supposed to have been written in 1G22.
A. A.
Poets' Comer.
UrPKB AND LowRR Empirk (3'** S. v. 379.) —
The term Upper Empire is not, I believe, in usi*.
The term Lower Einpin? is usetl by Gilibun
(ch. Ixviii. p. 250, note) for the remains of tlu^
Roman Empire at Constantinople, and was adopted
by him from the French, Unn Empire, In 3G4 the
Roman Empire was divided into East and West.,
Constantinople and Home beini; the respective
chief cities, and in 476 the Empire of Rome ter-
minated, whilst the Empire at Ctmstantinople (ron-
tinue<l till 1453. The expression " Lower Roman
Empire of the ^^(P«/," means "the Lower Empire,"
or " the Greek Empire of the East,"" It is called
••rEinpire Grec OrientaP' by Koch (iii. l!)). I
think the term ban, a«« applied to this Empire, re-
fers to its inferiority in historical importance as
compared with the ancient Roman grandeur. It
is probable that Du Cange (= Du Fresne) m:iy
have first used this term in his Byzantine His-
tories, for in the titles to his Greek and Roman
Glossaries he uses the words " mcdia» et infimtB
Gnccitatis et Latiuitatis,** where inJuMB conveys
the sense of bos, T. J. Ruckton.
A Passion por WmfEssiwo Executions (3**
S. T. 33). — It mav be worth a short note to cor-
roborate BO singular a morbid tendency as that
fumiahed through jour correspondent, RoBsnT
Kucrr.
In Wolioken, adjoining \riibedi,iB^
apparently of the middle dia, was prot
me about fourteen years azo; ami Hi
that, for a considerable portion of Vu
had not been a public ezecuiion wltbii
miles (indading Liondon) without Wu
expressly to witness it. In early life I
in business; but bad long retired, at
sessed of considerable cottage propert;
Folk Lore in the South-fast «
(3'* S. T. 353.) — Every one of the
superstitions mentioned by Mr. Red
the above title, were commonly pi
fully believed in by all c]a!>ses in Ci
thirty or forty years ago ; an<l are i
not, by the lower classes in the mon
tricts. This is not a little singulis
seem to be derived from the commr
the people from the same Celtic stf»c1
Job:
Hammersmith.
A[r8. Mart Devebeix (3"^ S. v. 3
are former notices of Mrs. Mary
Nailswortb, Gloucestershire, in " N.
xii. 312; ttnd2»* S. L 16, 130. Her 5
dedicated to the Princess R(*yal, Ma
published, 1777. In the title-|)agc |
shire '* is printed in italics, as if to d!
from some other person. Her abi]
havi» bi»en much overrated, if the rcn
about her when I was a boy, were co
(^OLIHERTI (3*^ S. T. 300, 884.) — Ii
valuable work, De Sttttu Strvnrum,
ma<le to the '* Coliberti." ^ I quote
p:issage and note from lib. iv. c. 14, ]
** Deniquii notes relim, liberton aliqiLind
nuiniiK' s'titinri* Neqiie tsmon l(1cin'» ne<
protinufl novam wpociem efliiif^re, cum rcn
crimen intirr utrovque adftit. Mil genus &i
et iiif;onuoA fluctunns. Notissimum cnim •
qua!|iiiiin divcrsas appellationes sortiatur,
vos idcu ijus coDstitui species."
W. B.
Dinnn, Cotes da Nord, France.
Your correspondent will find a f
satisfactory account of coliberti in 5
wood's Ranks of the People^ well indc
• The not« attscheii to the word ngnar
on aci'ount of the variety of autboriti«H cit<
** iVpad MKicuKLiiiick, torn. i. p. 11, llisL
M(?cxu traditur pra?dium, qucnl Si(;awold
dot. Collibcrti vero dicuntur, penc* Bali
Tutel. adpend. art. col. 445, tibi anno Ma d
com scrviN et ancilUa ct coHibertis. Idai
Gall ife Christ. Sanmaktranorum. Eon
tio in appendice od Origin. Palat. Frebei
servante viro erwditlsMmo Enoas OsM
|S09."
»■* S. V. Mat 28, •64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
447
ics
li
Chess (3^* S. v. 377.) — ^The game described b/
ICirtia], lib. xit. ep. 20, ii also referred to by the
guhe author, lib. vii. ep. 71 : and the Delphin
tommentator has supplied n reply to the (juery
of TOur correspondent, bj quoting the authority of
Cafcagnini, who wrote a treatise, DeTtdorttm,
2*e9»erarum^ et Calcubrum Ludi$, and positively de-
cided that the game mentioned in Martial is no/
chess. Abundant information upon this subject
will be found in Smith's Dictionary of Greek and
Bomam Aniiquities^ in verb. *' Latrunculi " p. 670
(Snd edit.) ; and Alexandri ah Alexandro^ lib. iii.
c. SI, vol. L pp. 788, 789 (Leyden, 1673.)
W. B. Mac Cabe.
^^ DinaB, Gotas dn Nord, France.
-T ; Fovm Asms (S'* S. i. 289.) — The following
., ^ : answer to Mb. Hutcuinsons inquiry may be
■ ,,-attlBcient In 1711, Thomas and Edward Hutch-
\ :^nson frave to the Second Church in Boston two
.' ^nlver dishes, on which the Hutchinson arms are
" j-^Mjfraved. A third dish, uniform with them, and
pwen no doubt at the same time, bears the foUow-
^ AHg coat: a chevron between three bugle-horns.
TLJ^a both brothers married daughters of Col. John
'^ZFoster, it can hardly be doubted that this was the
S 3'oiitcr coat of arms, and that the plates were in-
3ierited from him.
~ There were two other families here of the name,
-^ho used arms ; viz. that of Hopestill Foster of
. 3)orcheBtcr, who bore a chevron between three
Tmgle*horn8, on a chief, as many leopards* faces ;
«nd that of Richard Foster of Cliarlestown, who
%ore a chevron between three bugle-horns : crest,
an arm embowed, holding a broken spear.
W. H. WHrmoRE.
-"The Dublin Ukivkbsitt Review '* (3"* S. v. I
843.) — Your correspondent is, I think, slightly I
in error, inasmuch as a friend, who has given a '
large share of his attention to Irish periodical
literature, with a view to publication, informs me \
in a letter relative to the Dublin University lie- '
9fev, "that four numbers were all that nppeared '
of this best of Irish periodicals of its class ; the '
first having made its appearance in January, and |
the last in October, 1833." If wrong, we (lor I !
can answer for him as well as for myself) shall be |
glad to be corrected. Abhba.
Greatorbx ob Gbeatbakbs Family (3^ S. v. •
399.) — If your correspondent, Mb. Jambs Fin- j
liATSON, will refer to the Eeliquary Qtiarterly
Archaological Journal^ vol. iv., he will find at pp. '
81 to 96, and 220 to 236, an elaborate genealo-
gical and historical article on this family, from
the pen of the Rev. Samuel Hay man, the histo-
rian of Youghal. lliis history of the Greatrakes
family contains all the information on the various
branches which at present it has been possible to
obtoin, and includes notices of ''the Stroker,**
and otlur eminent members of the family, with
innumerable extracts iVom pariah registers of Car-
flington. Callow, &c. &c. L. Jbwitt.
I>erby.
Fabadih's '^ Devises IIeboiques** (3'' S. v.
339.) — In a note to Mb. Pinbebton*s intei-esting
letter on ^'Shakspeare and Mary Queen of Scots,"
it is stated that the first edition of Paradin s Devisei
Heroiquea et EmbUmes was published at Parie^
1657. I much wonder where that information
was obtained, for Dibdin, in The Decameron^ L
264, gives us to understand that, in the Marquis
of Blandford*s library there was an edition, pub-
lished at Lyome in 1551, and does not vouch fur itf
being tbe/rsT. G. S. C.
Sutton Familt (3"* S. i. 131.) — Absence from
England has prevented my noticing earlier the
memoranda in ** N. & Q.** on this head. It ap*
Sears to me doubtful whether the Buttons are of
Forman origin at all, and still more doubtful
whether the families now existing are descended
from one stock. There are several places in Eng-
land named Sutton : one in particular in the
parish of Prestbury, in 'the county of Chester,
where a family of Suttons were located at a very
early period. There Htill remains a fine old black
and white mansion called Sutton Hall, about two
miles to the south of Macclesfield, shorn of half
its original dimensions, with a double moat, and
some fine old timber still standing. I do not now
remember the date of -the house, but it is of very
great antiquity ; many hundred years old, much
older even thiin Moreton Hall in the same county.
It appears to have been built before glass came into
common use, as the windows of the chapel behind
the house arc of talc, instead of glass. The walls
are of vast thickness ; so muph so, that when a
door of communication was cut through, between
two adjoining rooms on the ground-floor, a pas-
sage of^ some length had to be opened through the
solid wall. The ancient stone staircase still re-
mains in the open courtyard, by which access was
formerly gained to the open corridor on to which
the upper rooms all open. The hall was in good
repair a few years ago ; and is, I believe, the pro-
perty of the Binshams, Earls of Lucan, by de-
scent from theRelasyse family, Earls and Viscounts
Faucimberg— of whom several interesiins monu-
ments remain in the old church of St. Michael, at
Macclesfield. The arms of this family of Sutton,
from a copy in my possession, are : — Quarterly
Ist and 4tb, argent, a chevron sa. between tliree
bugles or, strung sa. 2nd and 3rd, argent, a
chevron sa. between three cross crosslets or^.
Crent. Issuing out of a ducal coronet or, a demi-
lion rampant, queue furchce, vert.
The first ancestor of this family in the pedigree
I have, is " Onyt" whose son "Adam " was grantee
of Sutton aforesaid from Hu%K C^^^\^^'^'*^^' ^
Chester, anU \UY^ «BA\w3».^fiBft ^^>>ivs^^^^^
*1L T. If ATfit '
NOTES AND QUERIES.
M
rithii
a minute. Wc gazed on her in mufe ostonisli-
t. The supernaturAl light grttdualljr futled
she turned her head from one to ll»e other
us, and, with a surpneinfr effort, exclaimed:
id jovL not hear iir the shouts — the shouts
tictory ! ** and appeared great I j? disappointed
silence. She thea grew rapidly weaker,
within an hour or bo breathed her last.
n a few hours after her death, we related
exlTaordinary scene to the doctor and the
gjman, who hiul been her kind and 'Constant
danta; as alio, to several relatives and
ends.
^or obvioQs reasonSi I omit further particulars,
I shall be very happy to supply them in de-
lil to your correspondent. I enclose an envelope
^ih my address, Y, S. M*
{Battier m Emglakd fS** S. y. 398.)— The
on*' n or, by W. II. Bluauw, Esq., for many
honorary secretory to the Sussex Archffl-
Society, contains a chapter (cL xv.)
I to the Battle of Evesham. The chapter
1 of twenty -three pages, and the references
numerous. I shall have great pleasure in
ling my copy to J. D, M^K.
WtNltE E. BjLXTBB.
Jroydoo.
IlitBoo Gods (3^ S. v. 399.) — In arranging
"^indoo Pajitheon^ Mb. Davicson might ii&^\
sted in a set of coarse pictures, in all about
^, by a native artist, which I procured some
ago» in Calcutta* They represent most of
■ popular deities, with incident* in their le-
ad*, but unfortunately I have loiit the Key 1
with them. This, however, no doubt will be
iind in some of the books brought to Mr. D.*s
lice ; and if he would like to see mine, I shall
i happy to send it to him. A. 6.
LItliough Vishnu IS usually represented carried
" her Hanuman (Pan) or Guruden (Mercury),
moving from one place to another, your
respondent Jobn Davidsox ni.iy rest assured
toe image he possesses of a Hindoo god
ated on a tortoise is Vishnu in that incarnation,
commanrl of Bramha, or ns he is otherwise
Pru-Japutee (Jupiter), the lord of all
aturcs, Vishnu, after having delivered the
th from a deluge, supported it upon his back
ier the form of a tortoise, in which position
Hindoos believe it stilt continues, Tlie Greek
Roman mythology was derived from that of
India, the Indian from'the Egyptian. The Indian
[^ible of Vishnu as the tortoise supporting the
~ rth on his hack, suggested to the Greeka the
fth of the broad -backed Atlas in a stooping
sjtui ting the mountains of the earth.
ae t' [odian superstition is analogous to
ecarJiD«3UH of aucient Egypt, and bola hare
I aame embJematicBl gigniScMtion^ The above
storjr of Vishnu delivering the world or its in-
habitants from a deluge when in the form of a
tortoise, which may be compared to that of an
ark, when added to the facts that in Vish*Nu is
preserved the oriental natue of Nouh, and that
Vishnu is called the Preserver, may be regarded
OS a Hindoo record of the preservation of the
survivors of the human race by Noah at the
Deluge. 11. C3L
TtfOMAS,BaBTl.EY% OF C HIS WICK 0& TuRNHAlt
Gbeem (a*"* S. V.376.) — This gentleman, who waa
the partner of the celebrated Wedgwood, was
buried at Chiswick. On the east wall of the
chancel of Chiswick church is a monument to hia
memory. His epitaph tells us that ^' he waa
blessed with an elevated and comprehensive un-
derstanding ; ho possessed a warm and brilliitnt
imagination, a pure and elegant taste. His ex«
tensive nbilities were guided by the most ex-
panded philanthropy in forming and executing
plans for the public good.*' Over the monument
IS his bust in white marble.
I should be glad to know somethtng more of
Ui is Thomas Behtley, as Wedgwood*8 biographers,
as far as I have seen, are entirely ignorant m the
matter, and confound him with Richard Beritlcy,
the only son of the ctdebrated Greek scholar.
In a notice of Wedgwood in Chamber/ & Book
of Days (i. 44), I find the following passage: —
« He r Wedi^ood] took into partneralup Mr* Beaitey,
fon of llio celebrated Dr. Benth-y, and opened a ware-
house in London, where the goiids were extribited and
sold. Mr* Befitley, who was a man oflearaing and taste,
and had a larf;e'tin-le of acquaintance among men of
rank and science, superintended the businegs in the me
Iropolia."
All this is mere error and assumption. Dr.
Bentley had only one son* Richard, who died
October 23, 1782 ; whereas Thomas Bentley, the
partner of Josiah Wedgwood, died at Turnham
Green m 1780.
In December, 1781, a twelve days' eale oc-
curred at Christie*?, being ** the stock of Messrs.
Wedgwood and Bentley," This was for the divi-
sion of the property, the btter, as we have seen,
having died in the previous year,
Ed'wabd F. R1MBACI.T-
WoLrE, GARDENF.m TO HEKBr Vnr (3'* S. V.
195.) —-in Loudon's Encydopoidia of Gardemv^,
p. 719, it is stated that : —
•• It appears from Tomer's Iferbal that the apricot wai
caltivated here in r5G*i; and in Hakltiy V 9 Semembrtmco',
\hS2, it ii affirmed ihiit th« apricot was procured out of
Italv by Wolfe, a French priest, gardener to Heniy
VlfL" ^
H* LofTUa TOTTEKBAM.
marginal tvoU ^V^tv ^wVw?* W«> ciXswer^^ ^
450
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[r-a.v.iuYj
** Sohonlina»(cid are cnmmonly punitten. My old
inavtrr, the Kev. .Tamc.t IJnwycr, 'the Iltrcukn furtn* of
tho phlo^i'tir *M't, I'lit :in iniompnniblc teacher, useil to
trtiR'^liiti*, XiliU i'm intrflrvttt qumi wm priua m ^mw, — flr!it
re^'itini: thn Latin w<inK aiul obMirviii}; that they wcru
the fuiHtainc-iital urli'U of th<» IVripatclio School,— * Yuu
niuRl i\*ii* a Ihiv. iHM'ori! you can niiikc him iiiidiTsitanit ? '
^-or, * You mu^t hiy it in ul the tail lioforc vou can f;i-t
it into the head.' " '
KlRIONNACII.
Casts of Si:\i.s (:?"» S. v. 41!).)— Onliiiary
wliito wax is «!i i'.\rt'lU»nl iii:iterial, by ivason of
tlie farilitiL's it nHfrs tor* luanipiibition. Giiiii-
nraliir, vitv i-onciiitrutiMl, will aii>wtM-; hut it nf
cour.'«e tiikvs soiiu' tiniu to ilry, and -tliul is uii
incoiivrnicncc. (jeoruk F. Chamiikrs.
Koyal ]n/«titutio:i. '
(iiitta IVrcliu, for inainiuilatloii. Si^c full in-
blruciioiis in Jtmrttn! of t/ii: Inntihtlr^ vol. v. i). ;»;J2. j
H. T. K. ;
*'CrcKoo Oats," !:t<'. (.T' S. v. M94.) — Tiur
nicnniii;; of this {dirasi* is Kiniply \\\\*. If liio
hnrint; is so backward, that tluMmlH cannot bo sown
tiU tliu curkoo is hoard, or, thu uiitumii so wot.
that the lattcr-inath crop of hay cuniiot bo ;;ot in
till tlio woodcocks ooiuc over, the fanner is tiiiro
to HulU.T f'rcttt h>iist'H. A. A.
PiH'ts' Corner.
Attfrfllimroutf.
XOTKS ON HOOKS, IVrC.
Gironica Monaattrii S. Alhnni. Thomir U'ahinqhtim
?MnHf/iim MoHurhi S, AUhihi^ JltsUoria Aniilimna.
C*hhtl by llcnrv Tlionias IJdcv, M.A. Vol. ih AJ).
18HI~14J3.
Ijettfr» and Pttpert Uluittratirr cfihr Iin(fn$ of Hichnnl I/f.
unit llrnry I'll. /.V/i/rr/ Ay J amws (J airdnrr. Vt*l. II.
Annnh» Mnmiistici. Vttl I. Anuale* df Man/nn {A. It.
10r,i»— 1-J32); Annul,* df Thrtiktsfjrrin (A.I). IOJM;—
VHu\) ; AnHolet dr. HurUm (A.D. Umi— I'JI'.S). Editrd
by Henry Kichardii J.uanl, M.A.
Throe more volunir.-t (»r the poixlly and uKfuI StTiCA of
Chninioles, iMuin^ under tlu; ilinTliou of the Master of
tho Koils, have been put forlU to the t;rfut profit of tho
students of our rarlier history. '1 hi* flr>l of these is the
ite<*ond and conrludii:^ voluinu of Mr. Kdey'A eilition of
Walsinphain's CAmniVAr* of St. AlhitH*a. Xir. Riley has
not only hestowctl ritnsiderahle pnina upon this work,
but hus'addetl j;rerttly to its valn« hy a wiies of intcredt-
in^ Appendices, and a full and carefully compiled Indrx.
Like Mr. I(iley*s volume, Mr. C>.iirdncr*4 in thu .second
and linal volume of The U'lter* and Pa^M'rs illtutratire of
ihr. Kfiqn* of Hhhard III. and JLurtf \ II. It is similar
in arrunf;f>mi>nt lu th«^ ]ir«tedin{;, and contains numerous
additional letters and papers; nut merolv le^aland formal
document.s hut contemiiorary papers or general historical
intereMt, many of which have been derived from foreica
archiven. Like Mr. Uilcy's volume, too, this of Mr.
Gairdner hu> its value increased by its Appendix and
Index.
Mr. Luanl's volume is the fiist of a collection of tho
various Amwales preserved in the dilTercnt mooaaleries
and bearing their nanas, which contain the chief sources
for (ha hiatoiy of tha thlctwatli cMaory. lUasj <A^hMA
have been already printed* bnt so iTperfenlrtft
a new etlition desirable, while oUits u^ ji
.sran-"ly to be obtainable at nny price. Kcr \hx
Miirgnti AnnaU were priiiteil hr ta'ie fr>ir.
known MS.— that iu Trinity Cvilit^^-, Can,U
with &tu-h important omiasiniis and i^uch g'.ai
ari-in;.; from ignorance or careh-ss readir.^,
nontciuTi are nhsolut'j nnnsep'^, an I w-jolii m
tifv Mr. Luanl's opinion that (J.ile ••rnfJoTi
pcrilier. ami never collated the tranuTipL j
fury Annidt in like manner, arc pre.-eneA i
M."^. (in tlic Cuttonlan Collin-tiun). and cvtry
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tlie editii);; of th<>iii. The third < hronii'Io, (hr
A»nnh of liurton^ which Fiilman hsii print-*
lc->ly III his limtm Awjiic*irum Sirijit-rrt,
I inn led with ;;reat accuracy and lidviity fru
Sl.^., the only one known to cxi.«t, snd wh:
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taincil in hi* CoUeciion, hutrh Inde.x bf>:n;;fd
vcniint, and far more valualdc than if I'.v li
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ri^ht: a ^ood index is an admirabi*' thiii
multiplicity of indexes there is vexaiioa a
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NOTES AND QUEBIES.
451
, BATUnit^T JUNE 4, 1904.
STESTSL— N*. 127.
irt md CtidU^cti^ of Janiea I,, 451 —
royiDols, iSS — HLsquotAlioDii b^ iP^t
Jmn Bunjmn, 4K — An oUl Jwlie ruvlvi^l
PcMH|5rte — Lmpipium — Lufe Cannon
caltfld Bkelc«B^Butt«nr fumiLr — Oo-
— Craned in J Armi of Prince Albert —
■mia TJomlnicaim" — The fjoldon Calf—
m*a TiTt? " J. O, Uratit -^ Oeorri^ IlBitill-
rdn — M»n Ufurid — The lAxs* fiur>
rk of Tlior's. liMnmor — Komination of
■inW — PtcUgr&B — KcAforth md Ee^ —
Ji4ref«c]<in through the Mother — Kntlio^
'amen Thomson — Tftlendeanei ** Tho
;iii!«oii — TVyal 6,457.
S!^v«1ii:— "The Srliool for Seminial" —
iiroiis of llririiry J 1 1.: nt'ntr>' of EiiM*%
Sauces— Xndi&n Aroij^ — CljiarlecQii|nic*M
Cloth Ka^ — Eiudon Stooo. LdJUtUeilu
:*rotfltjr«" of ColHna*i " TtyMorrow," 4m
4iH^ — " Now, Bttivv Boyif, w e*ro on for
ojip Grnw, Jfi>. — The Cuekf jo Sonir, 4flS —
tinK »t Ktofcer Fowlis — Jeromiah Ilor-
of " Abwl " — Dor — Tq Mnri — I lajrdn
Tiddi — SliLrrow llono* »nd Cleavers —
a — fiaroikj nf M ordaunt — Cjiry FftniUy
IS and Monummits— Quotations want^
fl[ — Breftkinp the Lelt Arm — MarHago
of the Peafo-- Dolphtii am a CiT»t —
a — Sir Edwmni Jlny — *' Kilruddenr
tND CHARACTEK OF JAMES 1.
ler's recently pubUfthed, and gents
History of Jamew J., I am sur-
e following statement ; which, as
f mislead the historical studi^nt
real hialorj of the timej I reqitest
to correct ; —
(0 pronoonee with cerUinty npoti Iho
lie court im morality wetit. It lb cvi-
uinAtancei whk'h ar& known to ufl, that
^h; but 1 bclmt! that Mr. Hall am '«
court of Jam€S wilh Charles I J /a h
gyrated, 1 bav« oinitt«d the well-
e ilrunken v^txtoi at ThtHtbiilfrd during
ark's Titii, not hoeanie J doubt its ac-
se it would leave an iniprcBuion that
of constant occurrence. VVhereaSt it
rflrfi occiuiiona that anything of the
din€F ihould ha\re found anj diffi-
the amount of vice and unclean^
time, and that be ihould have
lasl assertion, ii eKtriordiiiarir^
lis kinf^r'* aajs Mi»< Dutch inson, wbo«
DA were iu immediate conaoction wUh
*y of lust and int^uiperanee ; he had
him a company of poor 3cot$, whoj
plentiful kingdom, wtre itirfdtod with
^m, and got all the rich^a of tho land
The bonour and wealth and ^lory of
fa Qnma MUabsth Mt Hf worv soon
prodigally wasted by tliii thriftleas heir ; and the nobility
of the land wai ottcHy dsbsaed by nttiof honoart to
pqblio aa]«^ and conferring them on peraona that had
ndtber blood nor merit flt U> w«ar, nor titatei to bear vp
thtttr titles I but were fain to invent prtijecta to pillage
the people, and pifk thHr punia^ for the maintenanoa of
yi^ and lewdnef*B. I'he generality of the gentry of the
land soon learned the court fashiont^ and every mat
boste in tb« oonntry became a sty of undeannen. Then
bflgaa murder, incestt adultery , drunkrnncss, swearings
fomicatlop, and all eorti of ribaldryT to be roncealed but
countenanoed viijee, becausu they held sueh conformity
with the eooTt example^**— Mrs, Hutchinson's Memoirt,
liohn'e BtanA^ LUtrary^ pp. 7B— 79,
The extent to which James's indiTidual drnn-
kennesfl and depravky proceeded, is circum-
stantially related in Jease's Ctmrt of the SivartSy
and by Lingard (Hutor^ of England, vol. Tii.
pp. 99^100), from the contemporary accounts
contained in Win wood's MemorittU^ Lodge's lUut^
tradona of BhiiMk Histarjf, and the despatches of
De Boderie, the yronch ambassador ; and to these
A few year^ since were added, the curious and
j^lnM^ lavitraiiarui of the Huiory of the 1 6th and*
llih Ceuiurie»i trnnMlatcd from the German of
Proferaor Von Raumer by Lord Francis Egerton.
These papers, compiled from the manuacript col-
lection in the Bibliotheque Koyale, in Faris, con-
taine the secret deepatchea of ihrec di^ercnt am-
bassoilors to James a court — i^UVf. Dc Beaumont,
Dc Ttlliera, and De Boderie ; and, in their several
accounts of James's utter abondottment to every
apccLes of vice and gensuaUtv, tbcjr agree to the
letter. Since the Cities of the Plain called down
the wrath of heaven^ it may reasonably be doubted
if any amount of human wickedness has trans-
cended the pollutions of this — so i^**]Z called by
Mr, Forater, in his Life af Sir John miot^*^ the
baacT^t court in Christendom."
" Consider^ for pity*s sake," writes De Beanmont in
June, Ifitii, '^what rnoet be the atate and voodition of a
prince whom the preachers publicly from the pulpit as-
aaiWwliom tbt comedians of Iho metropolJA bring npon
thti stage — whose wife attends ihe^ representdtion^ to
enjoy the laugh agatnat her husband-^whom the Parlia-
ment braves and despiaeAt end who is universally bated
by the whole peopk."— Vm Raumtr^ voL ii. p. 206.
Again in October^ 1604, he reports to Henry
IV., that Anne of Denmark had sajd to him : —
" It Ja time that I should havo possession of the Prince
of Wales, and gain hts affection ; for «he king drinks so
ranch, and conducts himself so ill in every respect, that I
expect an early and e^il reftult." **I know that she
grounds herself in this," continues the ambassndor, "not
only on the kin^^s bail way of life, bui also on this, that,
according to bcr expresaions, the men of the hooiS of
t died in tlieir fcrtielh year, or become quite imbe-
Lenntx Eavo ^enemlly, in conaequence of exces<!v« drink-
ing, died in tlieir fcrtielh year,
clfe."— /twf.t ToL ii. pp. 209-10,
On August 23, I6'i 1 , De Telliera leports : — •
** Thfty hare no thought here of * -^ms^ ^ishta, Nk.
Fi»nce or in GMmvn^ \ wk dt ascf i»e.^%^^*>asKt'^a*«JJ*
other thati tlitt ^ e*l\n%, &Ai^^,«eA ^«^™2Su?^
452
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[»^&T.Jni
for these puniiiU : but I hare too much modest;^- to de-
scribe, in the tennn of strict truth, things which one
woubl rather suppress than commit in writing to am-
basiiadorial (lespatchej^ destined for the peruaal of exalted
persons. They are such as even ft-iends touch apon only
with reiurtanee in con Aden tial letters. I have, neverthe-
less sought out for the most decent expressions which I
can mslcu use of to convey to you some of the particulars,
but I have not succeeded ; whether because I am deficient
in adroitneiis, or that it is actually impossible to lay
those histories before chaste ears."
It seems, however, that from Paris they pressed
for further particulars ; and De Tellicrs, there-
fore, returns in a subsequent despatch, undated,
to the sumo subject. He writes : —
" In order to confer an honour on the house of the
I)uk« of liurkinghnm, the king determined to drink to
exo^sA nt a banriunt there. When ho was a good way
ndvanco^l, and full of sweet wine, he took the Prince of
\ViiWn by the hand, led him to the lords and ladles; and
Mild there was a great contention, between the prince and
liimMcIf, AA to which of the two Innt loved the Marchioness
of liurkinghain. Alter having rea>unte<l all sorts of
n'.-i-sons for and n;;iiinst, he drew some verses from his
))4M'ki't which the pf^ct Jonson had made in praise of tlin
Miirrhioncss; then rend some others of his own composi-
tion, and Hwore he would stick them on all the doors of
his housu to nhow his good will.'*
I lore follows, savH Lord F. E^orton, a pnflsa«;e
in the original which he hiis hcun compelled to
Hupprcss in tlie transhition. It amply justifies,
nnvH hiii Lordship, the anil)assador*s previous
scruples as to dealing with the subject It adds
a luiiiontnhlc proof to the many before extant of
James's disgusting indecencies ; and it is difUcult
to read it, without deriving the worst opinion of
his habits and those of his favourites.
** Had I not received thiH account,'* coiitinucM Du Tvl<
licr^, "from trustworthy |)erMons, I shouM have coii>
sid«'rnil it inipuMsible ; but this king is as good for
iiolliiiig as ]><issil>lc, — sulfors himself to be wulki'd in
leading-Ktrings like a child, is lost in plennures, nud
burit'd lor the greater part of his time in wine." — Ifml.,
vol. ii. p. 2G().
Continuing the same course of unbridU'd pro-
fligacy, Jauics*s infamous career with Buckuig-
liam in the sucx'eeding year is repeatedly alluded
to by De Telliers in language of the deepest
reprobation. In January, 162!2, he writes : —
** .Vffuirs here may in truth be dimgerou% unless con-
dnctcil with prudence— a quality totnlly wanting in the
conduct of affairs, as the king' and Huckingham insi.it
upon doing ever}*thing, but do nothing. Buckingham
folluwH wildly the plan of dissolving the Parliament, which
iiiUMt bring on hia destruction; and it is to be feared
that, if the Parliament once sink, all will crumble into
ruin together. His own feeling teaches this to every
Knglishman, and all complain of the matter. The king
alone seems fVee fVom anxiety, and has made a journey to
Newmarket (as a certain other sovereign once did to
Capri) ; and here be leads a life to which past nor pre-
sent times afford no parallel. He takes bis beloved i
Buokinghom with him i wishes rather to be colled his !
friend than Ung, and to associate his name to the heroet
of fjieodsbip of tntiqaity. \3ikdeT «ac\i v^moiona ^3^^^nh
he endeavours to conceal scandalow doia^<-, u
his strength deserts him for these, he fe«>ii^n(
he can no longer content his other ien%i. Tn^
is ever the bottle.**— /MdL, vol. il p. 26G.
To the some effect is the despatch of
mont on October 18, 1622 ; —
«* The weightiest and most urgent affunc
this king to devote to them even a day, na;
to int(>rmpt his gratifications. The^e conn
taking himself to a remote spot ; wber?. out
of men, he leads a flllhy and scandalous k
himself up to drinking and other vi'-ct— the
brance of which is sufficient to give horrihl
{deplait horriblementy. It appears as if t
strength wastes, the more those infamoos
create ; and passing from the boily over the i
double power." — Ibid., vol. ii. p. l.*74.
The purpose of Buckino^bam, in tlrj
the vices of the king, is shrewdly div
Beaumont in his despatch of the foil
ruary : —
** The king troubles himself nothing a*
think of him, or what is to bet^ome of tho i
his death. I believe that a broken flask t
similar nothing, is nearer Iiis heart than th
son-in-law and the misery of hia posterity,
ingham confirms him in everything; ami I;
more he abandons himself to all pleaxures i
cnness, the weaker will W his under9tAniliii
and so much the ejinier he will be able to
fear, when other tics of connection are disse!
vol. ii. p. 27 C.
Though, OS Macaulay says, Eugla
place, the seventeenth century no time
and Locusta — in Jameses court botl
oeptance and protection. Osborne
Somerset and Buckingham laln^ured
women in the efTeminacy of their dn
(•ceded even the worst and most sham
'irossness of their gestures. And Si
Wehlon assures us that, during Some
the Knglish lords coveting nn Knglii
(o supplant him in the king*s favou:
t'ud the Countess of Suffolk did look
young men, whom she daily curled on
their breath.** Revolting as the^ pt
pear to modern times, the authontici
don*H statement is singularly confirm
Forstcr in his recent work, the Life c
Eliot: —
" Few things in this profligate time are b
(qu. disgusting?) than the attempt madi;
partv of lords to set np young Monaon agi
set* — ••They made account to riae and i
fortunes by setting up this new idd, and tosi
in tricking and pranking him up, besides wai
every dnv with poaaet curd" (Lttten m
Ojfiee, Feb. *J8, IGIT-IS.) — ** Young Um
faint not for all the first foil, bat set him oa I
To such a height did these abomhi
ceed, and to notorious were thej, thil
.abhorrence found utterance ctmi hjl
JuSiK < ^U,-}
Peyton's) having written ttnd d^positea
|>wMi|? ItDes in Jumes'a chamber : —
y* Atila pfofaiio, reUgJooe vuul^
S.fl!preta uzore OanymedlA amoit^
' S"IP f,'***^'*» prerogativa inflata,
Tolle hbertatoio, incedc civitiitem,
Ducftt i|MidoQeni
tt
Supeniiti Neronem/'
C. R. H.
NOTES AND QUERIES.
453
LONGETITT OF CLERGYMEN.
add a few more instAnoea, which, though
^ancient ilat€, are sufficiently authen-
Sear worthy of record,
„ :ev. John Leslie, D.D,. successivelv
lojji of the Uks in Scotlnnd, and of Rapboe
in Ireland, bom Oct. 14, 1571, in
■ '; eldest son of George Leslie of
largjery, daughter of Patrick Leslie
und a cadet of the ancient baronial
i^, w. xJulr|ubain in that county; A.M. of
rileeo ftnd thence uubsequently incorporated
% of the University of Oxford. Aft<^r a lonn.
leticc on the continent, in Spain, Italy, Ger^
jt and France, be was on bis return home,
f an absence of twenty^two yeai% prcsiented
leKectory of St. Martin-le- Vlotry in London^
n preferment he resigned in Sept. 1628 ; no-
Ited to the bishopric of the Isles in Scotland
lug, 17, 1628, by King Charles L, and pro-
f consecrated to that see in the month of
ember followintr. !„ 1633 he was translated
m biahopnc of Raphoe pursuant to the king's
'Of April 8, confirmed on June 1, and ob-
S a wnt of restitution of the temporalities of
ee on the 5th of that month. He also re-
d letters of denization on June 1, 1633, and
fitted a member of the Privy Cooncil in
pd m the same year. After enduring much
hng during the great Rebellion, includin<r
le^e of his castle at Raphoe, be was rewarded
is loyalty at the Restoration, being presented
|b deanery of Raphoe on Feb. 9, 1661. with
te to hold it in commendam with the bishopric,
% be did till autumn following. Trans-
^o the see of Clogher by patents of June 17
17, 1661, and died in Sept. 1671, in the hun-
lb year of his age, and forty-fourtb of bis
frpatLs at his seat of Glasslough, Castle Leslie,
^ |*<:«n^y of Monaghan. His remains were
1 m St. Salvator's church there, which had
^erected by himself, and made the parish
h of Glasslough by Act of Parliament. The
of this centenarian bishop * is still possessed
bneal male descendant, and bts great-great-
bo " w«* probably the ancienitBt blghnp ia the
though he liaj certainly not been •« aLove ii/tv
%tmi high order." \
irrandaon, John Leslie, was successively Bishop of
Dromore and Etphin in tlie present century.
2. Right Rev. Munlo McKeozie, D.D., suc-
cesBxvely Bishop o( iloray and of Orkney and Zet-
land, died at his episcopal palace at Kirkwall in
Feb. 1688, " being near a hundred years old, and
yet enjoyed the perfect use of all bis faculties
untd the very last." (Keith's SroitM BUhopi, p.
228.) This, however, is evidently a mistake, aa it
IS sUted at p. 162 of the same work, that he was '
bom in the year 1600; descended from a younger
branch of the house of Gairloch in Roashire, liis i
direct ancestor, Alexander (apparently grand-
father), having been third son of John, second
Baron of Gairloch. who died in 1550, by Agues,
only daughter of James Fraser of Foyers in the
same county.
The following data cf this venerable prelate's
ecclesiastical career, taken from my SIS. Fasti
EcclesiiF^ SeoticaniB^ may prove interesting:— A.M.
of King's College and University of Aberdeen,
1616; received episcopal ordination, it is aaid,
from Bishop Maxwell ol Ross. But I would place
it at an earlier date, probably about 1624, as that
bishop was not consecrated till 1633, and Mr.
McEenzie is recorded to have been chaplain to a
Scotish regiment under Gustavus Adolphus, King
of Sweden, during the war in Germany, which
must have been between June 1630, and'Nov. 16,
1632 (the period of his death in the battle of
Lutzen in Saxony).
On bis return to his native land, he was made
Parson of Contin, a parbh in Ro^sshire, the exact
year I have not ascertained, but it must have
been between 1633 and 1638, as be was a member
of the famous Glasgow Assembly (which met on
Nov. 21, 1638, and abolished the Established
Church of Scotland), ap|*earing on the roll mm one
of the clerical representatives of the Presbytery
of Dinywall. Translated from Contin to Inver-
ness, in 1640. as first minister of the collegiate
charge of that (own and parish. Admitted to the
first charge of the town and parish of Elgin
April 17, 1645, and retained that Jiving after his
eleviUion to the episcopate, having bis residence
there at the seat of the cathedral and chapter of
the diocese of Moray, his successor fi» Parson of
Elgin .not having been appointed till July, 1682.
For nearly twenty-four years it is, therefore, evi-
dent that be conformed to Presb^terianism; and
even at Christmas, 1659, be is said to have been «o
jsealous a Covenanter and "precisian," ns to have
opposed the keeping of all holy days at Etgio, and
to have searched the houses in that town for any
** Yule gecie," as being superstitious !
On the re-establishment of episcopacy by King
Charles II., the Parson of Elgin, however, reatlily
complied with the new order of things in Church
and State ; although, after all, it was only a return
to thcsume formQt*chikVc\i^^?y^«ix\OTWi\i\\\\'«^^
454
NOTES AND QUEBIBS.
[a»*aT./i
had been originally educated and ordained. He was
nominated to the bishopric of Moray by royal letters
patent January 18, 1662, and consecrated to that
see on May 7, following in the abbey church of
Holyrood Palace, at Edinburgh (toeether with five
other bishops elect), by the Archbishop of St
Andrews, primate and metropolitan, assisted by
the Archbishop of Glasgow, and the Bishop of
Galloway. The form used was that in the £ag-
lish Ordinal, and the consecration sermon was
? reached by the Rey. James Gordon, Parson of
>rumblade in Aberdeenshire. Bishop McKen-
zie*8 signature to documents, still in existence,
was, a9°Bi«hop of Moray, "Murdo. Morauien.,*'
and also "Murdo, B. of Morray." And after an
episcopate tlicrc of nearly fifteen years, he was
translated to the more wealthy bishopric of Ork-
ney and Zetland on Feb. 14, 1677, which he held
for about eleven years, dying in the eighty-ninth
year of his age, and twenty-sixth of mn episco-
pate.
3. Rey. Colin McKenxie, minister of the parish
of Fodderty, in Rosshire, Scotland, was ordained,
and admitted there on August 28, 1735 ; and died
on March 8, 1801, in the ninety-fifth year of his
a^e, and sixtyisixth of his ministry there. Ills
widow, Mary, married to him on Feb. 23, 1764,
survived till 1828 ; and their grandson is the pre-
sent proprietor of the estate of Glaok, in Aberdeen-
shire. A. S. A.
The foUowinn^ instance of longevity in a clergy-
man, and of lengthened tenure of a living, deserves
a permanent record in your columns : —
" At the Diocesan Registry, on Tuesday, the Bishop of
Manchester dulv admitted and instituted the Venerable
Robert Mosley Master, M.A., Archdeacon of Manrliester,
to the rectory and vicaraj^e of the parish church of Cros-
ton, vacant by the death of the archdeacon's fatlicr, the
Rev. Streyiiaham Master, M.A., who died .January 19th,
1861, aged 99 years, havin;; held the living sixty-six
years.** — From'the Manchester Guardian^ Thursday, Feb.
11, 18C4.
The Rev. Streynsham Master, M.A., was Rec-
tor of Croston, Tarleton, and Ileskcth with Bcc-
consall. He was instituted to the rcctorv of
Croston in 1798, to Tarleton in 1834, and to
Ilesketh with Bucconsall in 1814. The annual
value of these rectories, each of which has a house
of residence, is, according to the Clcrei/ List —
Croston, 1050/.; Tarleton, 800/.; flcsketli with
Ii*'C('onsall, 275/. Three clergymen have been in-
stituted tt) these rectories ; and it is deserving of
note that the benefices are severally styled the
rectory and vicarage of the parish church of
Croston, the rectory and vicarage of the parish
church t)f Tarleton, and the rectory and vic:ira*fe
of Ileaketh with Becconsall. The three rectories
arc in the neighbourhood of Preston.
GULISLMUS.
I
KXBQUOTATIOiro BY GBEAT AI1TH(
It is not a hundred yean since LonL
in your columns, saw just oocasion to
the lamentable want of knowledge, nc
stantly displayed, of those masterpiece
lish literature which forty years ago, v
rule, were thoroughly faminar to ever}
gentleman; and £arl Russell, in all p
struck by the same fact, has within the
been haranguing in the presence of the
Wales on Uie propriety of compelUng
of our public schools to make their pup
mate with the masterpieces of Shaksp
ton, and Dryden, ad they are presumed
the writings of Homer, Virgil, and li
am delighted to find that these two dul
noblemen have spoken out on the subjei
ignorance which has been observed
among the younger ranks of our gentlii
live at home at ease, is now beginning:
ceptible in our rising generation of puiu
instructors. A very remarkable instaas
curred quite recently in the pages of d
most respected contemporaries, and i
enough with regard to the same Hue o!
In the Edinburgh Review (p. 333, Apr
and in The Atheuasum (May 21, lS(i4).
quoted —
'<From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dob
the former calling it "Pope's well-kno^
and the latter " Pope's line ! " Did either
gentlemen reflect on the other half of t
let —
"And Swift expires a driveller and a *l:ow
and think it possible that, even if Pope
vived Swift, which he did not, he coi
made such an allusion to the sulVcringa c
his gh)riou3 group of friencis ? Perha|is t
mistook the word "swift" for an adjei:ti\
To make amends, however, to Samuel
for robbing him of this striking couiflct
viewer gives him credit for a precocity in
such 03 Boswell would have glorii.d t*
After relating the anecdote of DryJe
liolingbroke to protect him from the ru
Jacob Tonson, he adds : —
** Ji)linson must have had a ]>eculiar pli*a«ur«
the story, for this was the sohkune Toiieo:i
beat, or (us some said) knorked down with a Co
iwrtinencc." — AWi/i. Rrtietc, Oot, 18G3, p. I'jT.
Now, considering that both the Jacnli
whom Dryden knew were dead in 17i
Johnson was still a schoolboy at St^ur
is clear that this ch:istiscment must h:
bestowed (m the occasion of his uiothc
him up to London to be "touched" for
so that the celebrated treading on the <
not his first act of violence. We luay
that the quarrel must have arisen out
8»*S.V. JDinB4,'64w]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
trade transaction between old Michael Johnson
and the TonsonS) who must haTe been his London
agents I We are told that Johnson had a con-
fused, but solemn, recollection of Queen Anne as
a lady in diamonds, and a lon^ black hood ; but
I am afraid he had forgotten all about the appear-
ance of the great bookseller I It would be curious
indeed if it could be proved that Jacob owed the
aad blemish of a second leil leg to this rencontre
with the Infant Samuel !
In another periodical I read some time ago that
Cbtw was the bookseller whom he knocked down,
and that the feat was performed with a ** volume
of his own folio dictionary.** This is peculiarly
hard to swallow, not only because Cave was dead
before the dictionary was published, and there-
fore before the weapon was forged which felled
liin, bat also because Cave must have been par-
tienlarlv difficult to knock down, as Johnson him-
M9if tells us he was a " man of large stature, not
^mlv tall but bulky, and of remarkable strength
miad activity.**
But, after all, it is Osborne, the real Simon
Fure, the genuine knock-down-ee^ who has most
sause to complain of these mis-statements. Ton-
■on and Cave have other claims which secure them
Rpom being forgotten, but Osborne*s sole chance
3f remembrance is the solitary fact of his having
been felled by the lexicographer ! '
I must also take this opportunity of defending
kVohnson against a recent leader in The Times, in
Mrhich^ he was stated to have called Goldsmith an
** inspired idiot.** The expression is particularly
On- Johnson Ian, and would have come with pecu-
liar bad grace from the author of ** nullum quod
ftetigit non of navit.** It is unnecessary to say that
Khe phrase, or something identical with it, occurs
Knore than once in the correspondence of Horace
^Valpole. CuiTTELDBOOG.
JOHN BUNYAN.
Chancing to read again Macaulay*s bio'^'aphy,
J thought I would turn to Neal's History of the
JHurikms, tp see what I should see. Neal himself
«m next to nothing about the Baptists ; but his
«aitor, Dr. Toulmin, gave a supplement of 110 oc-
tavo pages, entirely on the history of the Baptists,
in which Bunyan*s name is not mentioned. AVe
learn that Mr. Knollys wns, at the Restoration,
imprisoned for eighteen weeks : but not a word of
Bunyan, nicknamed " Bishop** of his church,
who was shut up for twelve years. When it is
mentioned that it ^^ seems ** some Baptists were
in the parliamentary army, the instance is not
given which makes certain of one. And when,
in the last paragraph, wc are told that Mr. Gos-
nold was buried in Bunhill Fields, he may, for
aught we learn, have been the last Baptist who
4q5
This omission is of course in-
was carried there,
tentional.
I suspect that Granger was the first, or among
the first, who dared give Bunyan some of his due
in print ; which Cowper could not do, for, when he
gave the due, he dared not give the name. Gran-
ger speaks of iYi^'PilgrinCs Progress as " one of
uie most popular, and, I may add, one of the most
ingenious books in the English language.** ** As
this opinion may be deemed paradoxical,** he will
venture to name two persons of enunence: one,
the late Mr. Merrick, of Reading, who was heard
to sa^ in conversation that Bunyan*s invention
was like that of Homer ; the other. Dr. Roberts,
Fellow of Eton College. Honour to Merrick and
Roberts, I say; and to Granger also and like-
wise.
In the Biographia Britannica (1748), in the
page leas three lines which is given to Bunyan, he
is called the *' celebrated author of the PilgrinCs
Progress (a).** And (a) tells us to see the remark
(F) : but there is no remark (F) ; the last is (E).
Thb I take to mean that the contributor chose to
say what the editor dared not admit ; and that
the side-reference was forgotten. There is no
other mention of the PilgrinCs Progress, nor of
any works of Bunyan, except as collected in two
folios, the contents of which are wholly unspe-
cified.
In Kippis*s edition, two pages less two lines are
added; Granger is quoted, the works are enu-
merated, and praise is given, t. e. Granger's praise.
Nay, more : " he was certainlv a man of genius,
and might have made a great figure in the literary
world, if he had received the advantajges^ of a
liberal education.** The writer, not Kippis himself,
reversed a fable : a dying ass threw up his heela
at a growing lion. Kippis thinks it necessary to
qualify a little: he does not think, as Granger
did, that Bunyati could have risen to a production
worthy of Spenser. He agrees with Lord Kaimes
that the secret of PilgrinCs Progress and Bobiti'
son Crusoe, great favourites of the vulgar, is the
proper mixture of the dramatic and narrative.
This, he says, is " extremely suitable to men who
have not learned to abstract and generalize their
ideas.'* How he would stare if he saw the present
state of things, in which a very moderate power
of dramatic narrative — far below that of Scott,
or Dickens, or Thackeray — will set four-fifths of
the abstracters and gcneralizers reading a second-
rate novel.
A collection of mentions of Bunyan in the
time preceding his establishment as an English
classic — the time when, as Granger says, his
works were printed on tobacco paper — would
be an excellent contribution. Neither •* Bun-
yan'* nor ''PilgrinCs Progress"* occurs in the
index to the work of Iflaaft Iivsw*3«Lk -^f^siv^'^^'^
as Wa Bon ltu\i Q\««n«^\«» "^aa^ ^^^^^ "^ ^^
456
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8»*8.T.Jot
with filling the reading-roooi of the British Mu-
seum. The omission just mentioned is precisely
the consequence and the proof of the paucity of
materials. It was not Disraeli^s affair to manufac-
ture curiosities out of what he found in original
writers, but to use the materials which had col-
lected about them. The curiosities of literature,
as he turn^ them out, are the highest forms of^
the Ajkt; and we may safely conclude that in
1790*1810 no Bunyaniana were extant in the
possible sources of literary history.
A. D£ MOBOAN.
Ah old Jokb biviybd. — A few years back a
tourist contributed a paper on the ** Goldsmith
Country" to the EdecHc Review. That paper
ends with the indignant remonstrance of a drunken
horseman who, in mounting, fell off on the oppo-
site side, addressed to the Virgin that she had
helped him only halfway. It is an old joke given
in the WalpoUttnOj m these terms : —
"A Tenetian trying to monnt a horse, prayed to Oar
Lady to assist him. He then made a vigorous springy,
and fell on t'other side. Grettin^ up, and wiping; his
clothes, he said, * Our Lady hoi oiButed me too much.* *' —
Vol, ii. p. 70,
This is probably from some much older book of
jests. O. T. D.
* EiKos! — In the neiprhbourhood of Notting-
ham, and elsewhere for what I know, the exclama-
tion •* Kings ! " is used by children at play when
a sudden cessation is wanted apart from the regu-
lar intervals. Unusual confidence and honesty
are shown by both sides on such an occasion. (See
" Barley,- S'^ S. v. 358.) S. F. Crbswell.
Durham School.
DiGBT Pedigree. — A mistake occurs in Ni-
chols's History of Leicestershire which ought to be
corrected in your pages. In the Digby Pedigree
(voLiii. p. 473) it is stated that Katharine, daughter
of Sir Everard Digby, the great-grandfather of the
gunpowder conspirator, married "Anthony Meers,
of Kinton, co. Line." The lady really married
Anthony Meeres, of Kirton in Holland, co. Lincoln.
This is, of course, a mere misprint, but such errors
oden lead to much inconvenience. The Digby
Pedigree in Lipscomb*s Hist, of Buckinghamshire,
vol. iv. p. 145, has the name of the place spelt
correctly, but it is merely called Kirton, co. Lin-
coln, leaving it a matter of doubt whether Kirton
in Lindsey or Kirton in Holland be the place
meant. There is another singular misprint in
Nichols's Digby Pedigree, but f am unable to set
it right. We are there told that Everard Digby,
of Drystoke, father of the conspirator, married
" Mary d. of Francis Nele, of Keythorpe, b. 1513,
/iV. 1634.** It cannot really be a ^act tibat lb\s
Jadjr lived to be 121 yean of age. Qrvn».
LiBiPipiuM.— The word tippet in th
Canons is translated Uripipittm^ ezplainec
mis" byDu Cange, and by Grindal **eol]
ducta stola quss&m ab utroqae humero ]
ad tales fere dimissa." [Remains, p. 335.] 1
occurs in Sparrow's CoUectum, 1675, p.
Peck's Desia, Curiascu, lib. xv. p. 570: f
ton's Lives of tiie F<nmders, p. 327. TI
tutions of Bourchier, a.d. 1463, forbids
graduate to wear **caputium cum oo
liripipto brevi, more pnelatomm et grac
nee utatur liripipiis aut typpets a aerico
circa collum," § 2. Abp. Stratford, in IS
bates '*caputia cum tippeUa mirse longitu<
The anonymous writer of the JEtdogim
by Camden almost uses a^ain Grind^a d
** liripipes, or tippets, which pass round
and, hanging down before, reach to the hee
appears to designate a stole, whilst the :
primates connect it with a hood; and
no doubt is the true meaning of the wc
appears in the Statutes ofRatisbon, 1506.
learned Mayer explains it to be ** cap%
cleripeplum vulg5 Poff," worn by rural di
canons of collegiate churches [iii. 46.]
Mackenzib E. C. Walcott, M.A,
Labob Cannon. — This is no new si
interest; for Walpole, writing to Sir
Mann, Oct. 14, 1746, says: —
"They tell you that the French had foar-anc
pounders, and that they must beat us by the supt
their cannon ; so that to me it is grown a pa
war with a nation who have a mathematical cei
beating you ; or else it is a still stranger parac
you cannot have as large cannon as the Fr^ch.'
Poets' Comer.
A Relic of Shakspeare. — In the year
gentleman residing in this town found ir
cellaret, the key of which bad been lost ft
years, twenty-nine bits of wood, curiously
On beinp carefully united, the pieces f<
small writing case. The lid is carved wi
berry leaves and fruit ; a central circular m
has on it the Shakspeare crest, and the sic
the Shakspeare arms. On the edge of the lie
the finger would be applied to lift it, is
boss, carved into a rude resemblance of th
ford bust. Can this be one of the boxes m
tured by the ingenious Stratford watcbmalt
purchased the greater portion of the m
tree after it had l)een cut down by th
Francis Gastrell ? The owner of this bt
sesses also a tobacco- stopper, which has <
rude carving of the bust of Shakspeare.
John Pavin Phi
Haverfordwest
\
. 5««fl,V. Ji}NE4,'64.}
NOTES AUD QUKBIES.
457
LLe CAJXSD S&JsucTS, — ^In tbe account of
Bdinj; the monastery of Croyland after the
1091, Ingulf tells us (p. 101) that a smjiU
eB-tower was built m the place of the old tower
t church, in which two skelUU were placed v —
vetere turri EccteBiffi humile campanile,
XtktUUag^ quas Fergus scrariua de Sancto Bot.
0>bi8 contulerat, imponentea,"
What sort of bells couid these be ? Du CatJge»
fnicc ** flkclla," aayi this was a small bell, the
uitla of the Italians* Is there any affinity be-
reen this word and ekillet, the name of a small
r»»« pot ? • Was Fergus the ttruHua the trea-
ti or simply a worker in brass ? In the former
St* Bot. would refer probably to a church
pf St. Boiolph ; in the latter, to the town of Boa-
n, m Liupolnshire, the Latinised name of which
'Oppidum Sancii Botolphi/' Perhaps aome
al aniir|viary can aasist wi, A. A*
[ Poets' Cortior,
BoTTBRT Familt. — Information concerning the
rly history of this family is dcBired. The name
ccura in Speed, p, 1093 : '*The rebels in Cora-
ruH» in favour of the revival of monasteries, were
jugbt by Sir John KusselU Lord Privy Seal, ap-
oinied General of the King's army.'* (Edward VL)
* Lord KusacI] fell back on Iloniton, wbere be was
Dined by the Lord Grey de Wilton, having in
ny S[tinola« an Italian captain » with three bun-
|red shot" (Speed, p. 10970 *' Wright, Peacocke,
Teatherell* and But try were worthily executed at
Tork^ 21st Sept. following (1549). Holinshed's
I possePB a copy of ** Atdi Perxii Flacei Safyra
5px, cum fiosthumiis commentariis Joannif« Bond.
IriOrtdini, excudebat Felix Kiiigstonius : impenjis
luliebiii Aapley et Nathanielis Buttery, 1614."
)oe» the name of Buttery occur in this form in
ny other book ?
In the House of Lordi* Journals IndeXy p. 329tt,
luttery defendant in a Writ of Error, wherein
^lencowe is plaint)^, 23rd Charles L, 1647. Mr.
justice Bacon brought into the House Writs of
"Srror, videlicet, No. 10, Blenco we r. Buttery, Can
nj of your readers give me a reference to the
icord of this suit ?
There is a slab in tlie chancel of St. Ann*s
burch, Sutton-Bonitiglon, Leicestei'shire, under
be east window, immediately beneath the com-
nunion table, with this inscription: "Gulielmus
iuttery (natus, 1G96), obit 22 die Septembris,
|782, letatiii 86.** A monument, also in the chan^
df of ft knight in chain armour refers to the
lattery family. Where can I find a description
[* " SMttta, in old Latin ri^cordB. a little bell for a
hurch Steepler whence our ves8«la called Ski/leu^ usoally
d4 of b«U metftU" — Phillipa*s New World of Worm,
■fol. nOG.^EoO
of this monument ? References to works In the
British Maaeum Ubrarv, or the Public Record
Office, communicated through your columns or
personally, will oblige AiiBERT Butteby.
Court of Chancer)'.
Colossus of Ahoi>B8, — Can any of your anti-
quarian reatler« refer me to any published copy of
that "seventh wonder" of the old world, ». e, the
Colossus of Rhodes ? I have some llaint impres*
sion that in my boyhood I saw a print represent-
ing it| but cannot call to mind in what work it
was. C* T* CoKMSK.
CiULifCBiJN : Ahms of Frihcb Axbest. — Boil-
ton {Nouvean Traite de Blason^ p. 191) blazons the
coat thus : — ** Les dues de Saxe portent ; fased
d'or et de sable de huit pi^es, au cranceUn de
ffinople mia en bande surtout." Berry calls it a
bend embowcd treflee. The general account of
the bearing is that it is a crown of me. Can any
reader refer me to a correct definition of the word
cranceiiTi, and alao to the legend or tradition of the
crown of rue? A. A*
Db Burgh's " HisFSKii. DoiiiTficAWA.'* — '* A
most interesting i*oj>y [of the very rare Supple-
ment to this workj» interleaved with numerous
manuscript additions by [the author] the [Roman
Catholic] Bisbop of Oasory/* was sold a short time
since by Messrs. Sotheby, Wilkinson^ and Hodge.
Can you tell me by whom it waa purchased, and at
what price? I have heard, on goo<i authority,
thut a copy was lately sold by auction in an Irish
provincial town to one who knew its worth, for the
sum of one penny t Abbba.
Thb Golbepc Calf. — Any information as to the
author, or other particulars, of the following book
will be very acceptable : >—
'*The Golden Ciilf, t!ie Idol of Worship. Being an
Euquiiy Phtfsico-Critien-Patheolopco- Moral into the Na*
tnre and Effiracy of Gold : Sbeiring tbo wonderful power
it hAs over, aiid thti prudiji^iouM chanfrea it cHuseSi in the
Minds of Men, With an Account of the Wonders of the
Psvchoplic Laokinf-Gla*9^ Lately Invented by the Au-
thor, Joiiktin Philander, M,A Gmtubdi mdint qui prm-
e'tpit Mt facia* rtm ; Si ponii recti^ vsrum qmocunqne (Modb
rent. Hor. London: Printed for M. Coop«r, st the Gib&e
in Fatemoater Itnu}> mdccxljv*" 8vo, pp* viL and 243.
The running title is **VituJQ8 Aureus: or, the
Golden Calf"
It is undoubtedly a very uncommon book, as I
find no reference to it in the catalogues of twenty*
two of the largest private collections, nor in any
of the large bookat'ller*s catalogues, nor in any
bibiiocrraphical work with which I am acquainted,
nor in lUe British Museum, or Bodleian, or other
public library.
A copr was purchased by Mr, II. G. Bohn in
1847 at ^Ir. Walter Wilson*8 sale, and one waa
sold in Jolly*s collection in May, 1853. It is not
improbable that mine la tW ^vbbr; ^ya^^* XVic^v-.
been unaAA^ lo \s^k& w^^ qKScw^ . "^ . v;*^^^
*
468
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[a>«&Y.JoniU
GrODFRET OF BoUILLOH's ThEE. — WhciX I WM
at Constantinople, I visited the pictureBquc village
and environs of Buvukderc, on the north shore
of the Bosphorus. In a meadow west of the
village my dragoman pointed out an enormous
plane tree, under which he stated Godfrey of
bouillon pitched his pavilion when the army of
the Crusaaers was encamped in that neighbour-
hood on their way to Palestine, in 1097. How
much trutli is there in this tradition ? H. C.
J. G. Grant, author of Madonna Pia, and
other poems, 1848. Can any of your readers give
me Uie address of tliis author ? Iota.
Geoboe Hamilton : Capt. Edwards. — George
Hamilton, surgeon of the ** Pandora," published —
.« A Voyage round the World, performed by Capt
Edwards in 1790, 1, and 2, with the Discoveries made in
the South 5iea, and the many distresses experienced by
the Crew, from Shipwreck and Famine in a Voyage of
eleven hundred Miles in op«n Boats, between Endeavour
Straits and the Island of Timor." Berwick, 8vo, 1793.
With portrait."
Lowndes (ed. Bohn, 987) mentions the work,
but erroneously stiites that the voyage was 1790-9.
I cannot find the portrait noticed cither in
Bromley*s or Evans's Catalogue. I am not sure
whether the portrait was that of George Hamilton
or Capt. Kdwards. Information about either of
them is desired. S. T. R.
Mobe8*Habri8, engraver, and author of The
Aurelian and other works on natural history, is
briefly mentioned in Bryan's Dictionary of Painters
and Enfrravers^ but tlie date of his death is not
there given. I hope it miiy be sup])lied by some
of your correspondents. He was probably living
in 1782. See as to him, AVutt's Bihl Brit.;
Lowndes's BihL Man. cd. l^)hn, 1003 ; lietro- \
spective Jteviruu i^nd Ser. i. 230; Bromley's Cat.
of Eiif^raned Portraits, 388 ; and Nichols's Lit.
Anecd. viii. 4G2. S. Y. R.
Tiijj Miss^HoRNECKs. — Those ladies were pa-
trons of Goldsmith. One of them became, I
believe, Mrs. Bunbury. There is this year a very
pretty painting in the Exhibition at Edinburgh,
of Oliver reading, in his plum-coloure<l coat, to
these ladies. Can you give me, in the first place, any
information as to the ancestry of these beauties ?
And secondly, whether the fine mezzotint of " Miss
Horneck " is the unmarried or married lady ?
J. M.
Loo. — Who was the inventor of that cosmopo-
litan game at cards, Loo? When was it first in-
troduced into England? Arc there any older
authorities than Tojje and Addison who make
mention of it ? W. B. MacCawe.
Dinan, Cotes du Xord, France.
Mark of Tiiob's Hammer.— In that excellent
work, the History of^ Christian Names^ vol. ii. p. .
203, a monogrmi h given exactly Vikc iVie cMnoua
heraldic bearing called the ** fylfot** or ^nnuni-
dion," and it is called "the mark of Tbors htt-
mer.** What is the authority for this tssertic^
and what is the derivation of the word *" fylfot ?'
The other appellation is no doubt derived in
the circumstance that the bearing ii exactly af
composed of four capital Greek letters, gimm
conjoined by the foot in form of a citMB.
Poets* Corner.
Nomination of Bishops. — In some of the pips
of the day wc are informed of Lord PalnuKa
having nominated thirteen bishops, naxnelr, G»
terbury, York, London, Durham, Carlidfe, ^
Gloucester, and Bristol, Norwich, Peterbarcoi
Ripon, Rochester, and Worcester. Such i i- I
cumstance, or anything like it, wc arc told, of »
minister nominatrnji: nearly half the £n^ ^
scopate, was never before known in the Cbtdff
Entrland. I have referred to Coxe*s Zi/e /W
pole, and to Tomline's and Gifford*s liveit
Pitt ; but in none of them do I find any a-jst
the nomination of bishops. Both Walnc^OL
Pitt were each, I think, longer in office tbinUt
Palmerston. May I ask any of jour readosik
have access to books and official documents, v^
give Information of episcopal nominations, fet »
form me which of the above-named ministers t>
minatcd the greatest number of English bi^hc^*
Fba. Mewkd.
Larchfield, Darlington.
Old Prists. — Some years since, at thestkc
the curious and valuable prints which ha^l V*
longed to the late Charles Kirkj>atrick Shirpt
Ksij., various lots fell into my bands ; and amoR:*
these the following^, as to which I should bt
oblijjed by obtaininjj information.
1. "The Plymouth Bcautpr.*' A fine mem-
tin to of a beautiful female, m a .«iirtin«^ poslirf.
leanintr on her hand ; her elbow resting on a boot
There is no engraver's name.
2. *• :Mr3. Sarah Porter, Queen of tJic Tontw
at Tunbridge Wells." A very fine inozzotimc
No engraver's name ; but it has the name ei
" Vander Smisson " as the painter. What is i
" toutcr," and what is known of the Lidy ?
3. An unknown portrait. Mczzotinto, smiD
oval kit-kat, with these lines : —
" Tlluc yEtatis qui sit, non invenlos altenim
Jjcpidiorcm nd omncs res, nee qai Amicus
Amico flit maJuA." — Plamtus,
There is neither punter nor engraTcr*8 name
mentioned.
4. Mczzotinto of a man sitting in a chair, with
Ills hands clasped together, resting on hia knee*.
A table, with two folio volumes on it, beside him.
A. three-quarter face : —
" n. Itviftsiiwr, Pinrit. .T. Faber, Fedt. Sold \rr Fabtf.
3"> S. V. JuiiK 4, 'W.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
459
" When philosophic thoughts engage the mind,
A serioas hrow and looks intent we find :
Not that these looks the least of doabt declare,
Whilflt certain truths have banished all that care ;
Thus Plato, Socrates, serenely sate.
And Cato, calm, defy'd injarions fate.'*
5. " James Sbeppard, that was cxecated March
V 17*^ 174i, at Tyburn, in y« 18 year of his age."
This is a mezzotinto. Sheppard has his hand on
a letter, thus addressed : " For Mr. Leak, these.**
Was there any special reason for the execution
of this lad, beyond his attachment to the exiled
fiuaoilj ? Is there any other print of this unfor-
tunate boy? J. M.
Fbdiqree. — Would anyone t«ll me what evi-
denee b accepted as proof in a pediinree ?
' ' ^ K.B.C.
SjkAFotiTH andReat. — I Came across an old MS.
Bond of Friendship between the Lords Seaforth
•nd Reny, dated, as I far as I can recollect, 1672,
and witnessed by a number of the Frasers. Is
this bond, or the circumstances under which it
originated, mentioned in print anywhere ?
Siqma-Theta.
Sir AKSPEARIAH A. —
••InOl. PToph Saunders, or Shakspcere, was Principal
ofSt.Alban'«Hall.
IGGG. John Shakespeare, of St. Mary's Ilall, took the
ofB-A."
Has the relationship of either of the above to
the immortal bard been ascertained? They occur
m the Catalogue of Oxford Graduates (Clarendon
VresB, 1851). H. M. L.
Succession thbotjgh the Motheb. — Why is
•accession through the mother, even in personalty,
denied by the Scotch law ? The greatest stickler
for feudalism or salicism surely cannot seriously
advocate the exclusion of relatives by the mother
from participating in books, household, or other
personal property. I have heard of two cases
where, through mtestacy, they have been shut
out. One was a particularly hard case, for the
deceased had made a will through a lawyer, but
its execution was incomplete, and some of the
iDOther*s relatives, who were to have benefited,
were excluded, the nearest relative by the father's
side beinff declared the heir, though a nearer by
the mother existed. Another hardship, and one
that casts a slur upon the mother's connections, is,
that when no relatives by the father are living,
the property goes to the Crown ; no doubt a very
ffooa administrator, and certainly a very just one,
for a gift of it, minus a fee, is, I believe, generally
f ranted to the nearest relative, though shut out
y law. Fiat JusTitiA.
Kathbeihb SwnrroN, daughter of Sir. Alex.
Swinton, married before 1680, James Stnithe,
merchant in Edinburgh; and (2ndly), Francis
Hepburn of Brinston. Was there aoj issue of
Hbe&nanuanagef SiaMA'TBmk^
Jambs Thomson. — Can you ^ye me any ac-
count of this dramatist P Ue was author of A
Squeeze to the Coronation, a Farce, acted July,
18*21, at the English Opera House; An Uncle too
Many ; and, I believe, one or two other pieces.
Iota.
Yalbnciebnes. — I am anxious to know in
whose possession is the painting of the Siege of
Valenciennes, from which was taken the large
engraving by Bromley.
Uabbt CoivGBEVE, Lieut.-Col.
The Rev. Thomas Wilkihson, rector of
Great Iloushton, in Northamptonshire, is said to
have publisned —
1. " Harmonica Apostolica ; or, the Mutual Agreement
of St. Paul and St. James. Translated from the Latin
of Bishop Bull Lond. 8vo, 1801.
3. '* Milner*8 Ecclesiastical History reviewed, and the
Origin of Calvinism considered. A Discourse preached
at the Visitation of the Archdeacon of Northampton.
30 May, 1805. 8vo, 1805.
8. ** Observations on the Form of Hot-Houses, in
Trans. Hort Soc. i. 161 (1815)."
Information respecting him will oblige
S. Y. R.
Wtatt. — Can any of the readers of " N. & Q.**
give me any information as to the family or arms
of Wyatt of Macclesfield, of whom Esther Wyatt,
born 1712, married Samuel Clowes of Langley,
near Macclesfield ; and her sbter Elizabeth Wyatt
married a Mr. Thorley ? C. H.
" The Scuool tob Scandal." — The paternity
of this comedy with Sheridan has from various
circumstances been considered very doubtful, as
none but what were regarded as surreptitious
copies of it, chiefly printed in Dublin, could be
procured. Egcrtoli, in the Theatrical Remem'
brancer, Lond. 1788, p. 239, attributes it to
Sheridan, and states it to have been acted at
Drury Lane, 1777 : and yet classes it with anony-
mous plays in 1778, not acted at p. 253 : and
again at p. 266 it is stigmatiKed as ipurioH$,
though stated to have been " acted by his ma-
jesty's servants in 1784." Mr. Rogers, in his
RecoUectioM, 1859, p. 30, speaks of Mrs. Sherldiit,
mother of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, as author of
Sidney Biddulph, the best novel of our age, and
adds, Sheridan " denied having read it, thottgh
the plot of his School for Scandal was borrowed
from it." I beg to know where I may find an
authentic history of this comedy, as there are so
many irreconcilable accounts of it. X 2«
[Moon, in his fJfe of R. B. SheHdim, edit 1825^ 4to.
has satisfactorily «tU^\Sa^QJMJift3«Wl^Sl^^ '^'^''^
—192. Hft«a^«l[v«.\iXA^<»ftL,^«Kfe«taw^'^
460
NOTES AND QUERIE&
[8»*aLT. Jcjwi'U.
exprcflsed as to his being really the author of The School
for Scandal^ to which, except for the purpose of exposing
absurdity, I should not have thought it worth while to
Allude, It is an old trick of Detraction — and one of
which it never tires — to father the works of eminent
writers upon others ; or, at least, while it kindly leaves
an author the credit of his worst performancea, to find
some one in the background to ease him of the fame of
his best When this sort of charge is brought against a
cotcmporary, the motive is intelligible; but, such an
Abstract pleasure have some persons in merely unsettling
the crowns of Fame, that a worthy German has written
an elaborate book to prove that the Iliad was written,
not by that particular Homer the world supposes, but by
some other Uomerl Indeed, if mankind were to be in-
fluenced by those Qui tam critics, who have, from time
to time, in the course of the history of literature, ex-
hibited informations of plagiarism against great authors,
the property of fame would pass from its present holders
into the hands of persons with whom the world is but
little acquainted. Aristotle must refund to one Ocellus
Lucanus — Virgil must make a eessto bonorum in favour
of Pisander — the Mletamorphoies of Ovid must be credited
to the account of Parthenius of Nicaa, and (to come to a
modem instance) Mr. Sheridan must, according to his
biographer. Dr. Watkins, surrender the glory of having
written TTut School for Scandal to a certain anonymous
young lady, who died of a consumption in Thames
Street ! " Moore has flllod nearly thirty pages with
extracts from Sheridan's papers, consisting of rough
skctchi'..^ of th<i plot and dialogue, from which it appears
that the play " was the slo\v result of many and doubtful
cxpcrinicnts, and that it arrived at length step by step
at perfection."]
John, OB Jn**. — I should feel much obliged if
any of your readers could inform me of the origin
of the name John being abbreviated thus,«/n'*, and
not */«", as would be expected. A. E. Murray.
[The question is, how comes it that the o should fol-
low the n, and not precede it? The following explana-
tion has been offered. In medieval times the name John
Johannes) received various modifications ; one was Jan,
which prevailed to a certain extent in the south of Eu-
rope, as well as in the north. Moreover, Jan became
occasionally Jano (Bluteau, Supplement to his Vocabulary,
ii. 33.) Dropping the a, and making the o superior, Jano
becomes Jno. A similar suspension of the final o occurs
in old manuscripts perpetually ; as In i** for illo, ppo for
populo, &c.
Perhaps, however, we may find a better explanation,
without passing beyond the seas. Our forefathers wrote
Jhon oftener than John ; and the h in former days fre-
quently assumed the form of n. Jhon, contracted into
Jho. or Jh*, and writing the A as n, becomes Jno, or
Jno ; and this is considered the more correct explanation.]
IIabovs or Henbt III.: Gbktbt or Essbx.
Can you ^re me information on tbe foWoVvnjj
heads?—!. Is there finj and what record of the
Barons of Henry III.*8 reign, ftnd their descend-
ants?
2. Is there any record or historj of the gentr
of Essex of the seventeenth century ? A. B. C
1. A list of the Barons of the reign of Henrr III. «
be found in Beation's Poiiiieai Jmder, For partiealo
of each family our correspondent will hare to eonsah Ih
different works on Heraldic and Genealogical HistoiT,tv
Banks, Edmondson, Collins, Lodge, Playfair, Bvika, kt
2. For notices of the gentry of Essex daring the iRa>
teenth century, consult the following hiatoriaaseftla
county: Salmon, Morant, Mailman, Tindal, O^tok
Wright, and Suckling. Also, Blaeaw'a fine old JK?/
Euex, with the coats of arms of the principal mi^
emblazoned in colours, about 1610 ; and a curioBi Estf
Essex Royalists in A True Relation^ or Catabfm ifh
Gentrtf that art Malignanti, with the exact valoitfat
man's Estate, both Kcall and Peraooall. 4tOk 1641.'
SiBBKR : Sibber Sauces. — ^Wbat is the a0>¥
of the word xibberf What were sibber m^
Lord Chief Justice Coke, in summinir ^^
evidence given on the trial of Weston, one cM
parties concerned with the notorious Mrs. Tone,
of starchmaking celebrity, in the murder of 3r
Thomas Overbury, thus instructed the jury :*
** Albeit the poisoning in the indictment is said Bte
with rosalger, white arsenick, and mercury sablimati, iB
the jury were not to expect precise proof in that pesa
showing how impossible it were to convict a poisoaK
who uscth not to take any witnesses to the compuiJijei
, his tibber eauee* ; wherefore he declared the law ia iki
I like case as if a man be indicted for inunlering a nua
, and it fall out upon evidence to be done with a sword, gc
with a rapier, or with neither, but with a staflT, in Uul
case the instrument skillet h not, so that the jar}- find tk
murder."— Cobb€tt*8 State Trials, vol. ii. p. y24*
I have looked for the word sibber in Johnwa,
Walker, Crabbe, Ainsworth, and other dicti^iQ-
aries for the explanation, but to no purpose.
Was aibber the name of some fashionable luxurT^
or sibber sauce the compound prepared bj a Sojcr
of the seventeenth century, whoso fatnc has passed
away ? T. G.
[In Scottish and in old English, m6, tibb, or sibbe, ng-
nifies related, or near of kin. We fmd also the coonpan-
tive tibber. It would seem, however, that in spcakiBg
ironically of certain poisons as ** tibber aauces^** the leaned
lord meant ** quietimj eauccM^** i. e, sauces that quiet tbf
partaker, or arttle him. Sax. eibnam, pacific, qaictii^;
tibbiant to pacifc]
IvDiAif Abmy.— I have an Alphab^tictU Li$i of
th€ Officers of the Madras Army from 1760 to
1834, by Messrs. Dodwell and Miles of CornhilL
Have any siniilar lists been published of the offi-
cers of the Bengal and Bombay Presidencies?
H. Ix>FTU8 Tot iebhah.
[.LisU of the Officers of the Bengal and Boaib^ Av-
y. JuNB 4, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
461
nsually bound tofi^er with that of Madras, with
te title-page. Alphabetical Li$t of Ihe Oficer$ of
m Army, 1838. In the following year also ap-
in Alpkahedeal Lift of the Hon. East India Com"
fadras Civil SerwuUtfrom 1780 to 1839, also one
Benffol Civil Servante, from 1780 to 1838, and
of the Medical Officere of the Indian Army, ft'om
1838.]
tLBMAOiv£*8 Toif B. — Where can I find a
ccount of the opening of Charles the
tomb, and the relic found on his neck (a
' the true cross in an emerald) given by
'ghers of Aix to Napoleon, and by him to
3hess de Saint Leu ? John Davidson.
lave not been able to find any good account of
ng of the tomb of Charles the Great by Otto III.
jut some carious particulars of the tomb itself
1 in the Life of Charlemagne printed by Petrus
in his Annalium et Hiatona Franeorum, ah carno
90, duodecim ecriptoree eoatanei; inserta $unt alia
o, Francofurti, 1594, pp. 281, 282, &c, and in
*nicon Novaliciensef by G. H. Pertz, Ilannov,
>, p. 55. Consult also the Archaxflogia^ iii. 389 ;
I." 1"» S. i. 140, 187. In the laustrated London
Itf arch 8, 1845, is an engraving of Charlemagne's
talisman of fine gold set with gems, in the centre
are two rough sapphires, and a portion of the
MS.]
OT Cloth Nag. — In Sir Simonds Dcwes'
of the Parliament of 23 Elizabeth, a.d.
find the following : —
Souse being moved, did grant that the Serjeant'
to go before the Speaker, being weak and some-
ned in his limbs, might ride upon a foot cloth
meant by this expression ? M. (1.)
i-cloth nag is an animal ornamented with a
)tecting the feet, L e. housings of cloth hung
each side of the horse, and frequently exhibited
xxuuions. These animals were probably trained
se fbr this service, for a spirited horse would not
I an encumbrance.
** Nor shall I need to try,
ler my well-grass*d, tumbling foot-chih nag,
e to outrun a welUbreath'd catchpole.**
Bam AOey, Old Pkys, v. 478.
!^ares*s Gheeary.'}
>N Stonk, Llandsijx) Fawb. — Can any
on be Ji^iven of the following, from a
lly sculptured stone at Grolden Grove,
uideilo, S. Wales? I have copied it M
1/ as I can : —
•• BIVDOSr."
G. H.
loe of this stone will be fonnd h. the Areheeoh^
m. Third Series, iiL 818. Tha writer condiulM
it«f it byazpcMsinf aeoqi«etasi **
mmm wnnnm maj pt9n tolmm
form of two words, soi and ydom ; but we wait fbr Mr.
Westwood's long expected account of this monument
This was written in 1857 ; but we have not met with that
gentleman's notice of it]
THE PROTOTYPE OF COLLINS'S « TO-MORROW."
(a^* S. iv. 445 ; v. 17, 204.)
The established success of *' N. & Q.** may be
considered a practical protest agunst an over-
cpnfidence in memory — the noblest quality, but
not less the most treacherous deceiver of the
human mind. When penning a short notice of
Collins for this Journal a few months ago, I had
a strong recollection of having somewhere seen
an earlier and ruder song, the original, as I con-
sidered it, of To-morrow; but, as I could not
then lay my hands upon it, and as I dared not
trust even to a strong recollection, I felt com-
pelled to pass the subject over, without further
notice. Little thinking, or rather not remem-
bering, that on a shelf, almost within reach of my
hand, there was a poem entitled the Wish, not
only in the original English of its author, Dr.
Walter Pope, but also in the choice Latin of the
amiable scholar Viucent Bourne. The first part
of this poem, which was originally published as a
song of five verses, entitled The Ola Man* s Wish^
is what I take to be the original of To-morrow;
and as it may interest many to see the rude and
now rather rare outline that the mind of genius
moulded into so graceful and pleasing a form, I
here transcribe it for the benefit of the reader : —
THE OLD man's WISH.
" If I live to grow old, as I find I go down,
Let this be my fate in a country town ;
May I have a warm house, with a stone at my gate,
And a cleanly young girl to rub my bald pate.
May I g[overn my passions with an absolute sway,
Grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.
Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay.
" In a country town b^ a murmuring brook,
With the ocean at distance, on which I mav look.
With a spacious plain, without hedge or stue.
And an easy pad nag to ride out a mile.
May I govern, &c . ^
" With Horace and Plutarcfl/knd one or two more
Of the best wits that lived in the ages before ;
With a dish of roast mutton, not ven*son nor teal.
And clean though coarse linen at every meal
May I govern, &c.
** With a pudding on Sunday, and stout humming Uooor,
And remnants of Latin to puzzle the vicar; J^viftZi>»-^^
%guhdy wine, *^^«^«rM€
't?With iifciiiii ^ .
To drink the king's health as oft as I dine.
May I govern, Ac
** When the days they gprow short, and it freezes and
snows,
I«t me have a coal fire as high as my nose ;
A fire when once stirred u^ wUh. %\ft«&%«
Hay 1 fvrwa^ l«^
462
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
l8^^Y.HKEi,%
« With a courage undaiinted, may I face mj last day.
And when I am dead, may the better sort sajr,
In the morning when gober, in the evening when
mellow,
He*8 gone — and h'ant left behind him his fellow ;
For he governed his passions with an absolute sway,
And grew wiser and better as his strength wore away,
Without gout or stone, by a gentle decay."
Though the above is, In erery respect, inferior
to To-Morrow, there is a general similarity of
idea common to both songs, while the details re-
semble each other too closelr to be mere coin-
cidences. Thus the original, '^ as I find 1 go
down," is represented by ** the downhill of life ;
" a murmurmg brook," by " a murmuring rill " ;
" the ocean at distance on which I may look,"
by " a cot that overlooks the wide sea " ; '* an
easy pad nag," by " an ambling pad pony." The
bleak northern blast, the peace and plenty at the
board, the heart free from sickness and sorrow,
are all el^ant adaptations by Collins of ideas
expressed in the Oii MatCs Wish, which in my
hamble opinion must be con«idered the original
of To'Morrow. But, without entering into a
critical examination of the merits of the two songs,
there is one grand feature in To*Morrow^ which
renders it, even as a literary composition, im-
mensely superior to its prototype ; need I say that
that superiority consists in its- Christian character,
its author believing —
** This old ^worn-oat stuff, which is threadbare to*day,
May become everlasting to-morrow."
While the character of the Old MarCs Wish is as
completely pagan as Horatius Flaccus, whom its
author eviaently adopted as his model when
writing the song.
In the Gentleman's Magazine^ vol. xcii. p. 15,
there are some nbticea of Dr. Pope and the Old
Man's Wish^ signed £u. Hood, which signature I
need scarcely observe here, signifies Joseph Hasle-
wood. Here we are informed that the Old Man's
Wish first appeared in A Collection of Thirty
One Songs, sold by F. Leach, 1685. Pope after-
wards enlarged the song from five to twenty
verses, thus destroying the brief simplicity of the
original, to which he added notes in various lan-
guages, which was published in folio, anno 1693,
with the words " the only correct and finished
copy. Never before printed."
The Old Man's Wish, in its original fbrm of a
song in six verses, was very popular when first
puMished, and, as a consequence, was freely paro-
died. There are two different parodies upon it,
both entitled the Old Woman's Wish; on© run-
ning as follows : —
** THE OLD WOMAH'S ^^^sw.
** When my hairs they grow hoary, and my checks they
look pale,
}Vbsa myfynhMd bathwrlnMet, ind Xkj «y%^t\vt
doth Ail,
Let my words both and aetiofw h% free froa iQhtx
And have an old hasband to keep my hsLtk vbivl
The pleasmnes of yoath are flowera bat of May,
Our life's but a vapour, oar body's bat dar.
Oh ! let me live well, thongh I five bat a dar.
" With a sermon on Sunday, «nd a bible of good pri
With a pot o'er the fire andjgood victual in*t;
With ale, beer, and brandy both Winter and Sow
To drink to my gossip and be pledged by my cuai
The pleasures of youth, &c
** With pigs and with poultry, with some money in i
To lend to my neighbour and give to the poor;
With a bottle of Canary to drink without sin.
And to comfort my daughter when that she lies ii.
The pleasures of youth, &c.
** With a bed soft and easy to rest on at night.
With a maid in the morning to rise when 'tis H^
To do her work neatly, to obey my desire,
To make the house clean and to blow ap the flie.
The pleasures of youth, &c.
** With coals and with bavins, and a good warmM
With a thick hood and mantle, when I ridiai
mare;
Let me dwell near my cupboard, and £ar from up
With a pair of glass eyes to clap on my nose.
The pleasures of youth, &c.
" And when I am dead, with a sigh let them say,
Our honest old gammer is laid in the clay ;
When young she was cheerful, no scold nor no —
She helped her neighbours and gave to the poor.
Tho' the flower of her youth in her age did dc
Tho' her life was a vapour that vanish'd awai
She lived well and happy until the last day.*
The other Old Woman's Wish, commencing
" If I live to be old, which I never will own,"
is scarcely presentable here, as may be ima£
from the last verse, —
«* Without palsy or gout may I die in my chair.
And when dead may my great-great-grandchild dc
She's gone, who so long has cheated the Dca^I,
And the world is well rid of a troublesome eviL
That gave to her passion an absolute sway.
Till with mumbling and grunting, her breath
away,
Without ache or congh, by a tedious decay."
Another parody on it, entitled The Pope's 1
was published in The Muse's Farewell to Pt
and Slavery, anno 1689. A sample verse oi
last may be excused : —
** If I wear out of date, as 1 find I fall down.
For my chair it is rotten, and shakes like my c]
Though I be an impostor, may thia be my dooo
Let mv spiritual market contmue at Rome :
May the words of my mouth the nationa h
Till monarcbs and princes mv aceptre obe]^
To feed on the fat, and the leJA ones to shr
This probably may have been written by
Pope himself, ns he was opposed to the ptf
James II. When Pope added fifteen verses
notes to his original song, Sir Koser L'Estn
then censor of the press, refused to liccni
Upon which the witty Doctor wrote the Iblkr
Uiifi^ which were y^nted^ and handed abottt m
V}bAN¥>Ba% «a^«a ^ ^duA ^1 \^
m
aV,Jinr«4,'B4]
NOTES AND QUERIEa
403
** Osf Lit 8riut!iae.
7\» the Tftnt ofihe Old Man'i IFtiA.
[ •• May I Uvr ftir from Toriw and \Vkiga of ill Rat are,
Aiul fart!i*"8i? of nil fW^m i Ay r>h«;en'ritr>r • ;
Mriy it ' . .. - . ^^
Norwr; r'lid.
May I i:- - ,^- :- . ^ :lllbet«w»,
Anil prostrate my soui lor a Pup? and him cttttM :
Fori^'Ptioy (Tf^f^rcowntrv* my yrmth, And my plAG«i
Hi ' ' fallie face.
T' IcHAVf,
Aj:- ^.- ■-.. :- ■■ i;mYfl,
Let it out be my fiit« to part with my ^vniei
Kof yet with my <*oin*eiPtice for lucre of nencC-»
Etii " ^ likh ia sober nnJ bruvc,
^1 il not bo A alave,
U... .^ , II lierloMTU in my gr^^***-.
^ny 1 go vera tay pen with abaolulu aw Ay,
And writ© less and le« as my wits wear away."
Df. Walter Pope, the writer of the Old Mans
WUh^ was also the author of a very eccentric
[ biography. The Life of Scth^ LonI Biihop of Sal-
tisbury, published in Ui97*
A notice of the Old Man^s Wiih occurs in
l^oaweWit Johnson m the followin'* words : —
}
as Olid wLio
le dflv. at »
ilia iiuc^t uj^uuier,
•* A clorgymAU, whom ho tli
I loi'od to sav Httk oddities, war
I blah<>{)'i tAble, a sort of slyness
I rAij^ter* arnl repeated, aA if part oi
la fting by Hn Walter Pope, a v.
I tiouAUu.%5. Johnson rebnked him
I hy Siml thowing him that he did ngt know the passage
[he w '^ .;..:...* r^t^ 4nd thus humbling him; * Sir, that is
] fiot is thuB : ' And he gave it right. Then,
llool il ;]y on him : * Sir, there is a part of thiit
[iotig which I ahould wish to exemplify in my own life:—
• Miiy I govefii my paaalotts wiilt ;ibsolaie fWfty.* **
WllXIASi PlH&£RTO!l.
EDWABD ABDEN,
(3^* S. V* 352.)
Mb* Paykb CoLLEEii's note, in reference to &
[letter of Secretary Walsln^ham to Burghley,
[states that *^ Edward Arden, distantly related to
I Shak$|>eare*s mother, was executed for Ui^j^h trea-
son, Dec, 20, 1583/* I wish to ascertain, if poa-
Istblef what was th ' l^^gree of relationship
[between theni. -showf that Edward
en WJ13 Uie sou m m iiiiam Arden; that he
ried Mary, daughter of Sir Robert ITirock-
ton, by whom he had a son Robert (who died
Peb. 27, 16S5) ; and that, at the time of hi* exo-
ilttoo, Edward Arden was about forty-one years
ftf ltfe» But he does not show the relationship
to tSe Mary Arden, who married Shakspeares
[ father.
While on this subject, let mc recommend the
whole affair of John Somerville and Edward
I Arden to the careful investigation of such of your
[natders ua are disposed and able, to mnke the
* fb« UMttn of eno of the many periodicals |iabliah»d
by L'Estrangt.
noceisary search after documentary evidence.
From the testimony of most of our histnriaiii,
it would seem that John Somerville, a Roman
Catholic, and a madman^ ran a muck with a drawn
sword and threatened to kill the queen. He had
married the daughter of Edward Arden, a gentle-
man of ^ood estate and ancient (Saxon) family in
Warwickshire, who had made himself very ob*
noBious to Leicester, Lingard says, at fir^t by
refbtinpf Uy sell a portion of his estate for the ac-
commodation of that powerful favourite ; and that
in the course of tlie quarrel, he rejected the EarPs
livery, opposed him in all his pursuits in the
county, and was accustomed to speak of him
with contempt as an upstart, an adulterer, and a
tyrant. This outrage of Sotnerville (who is said
to have been subject to 6ts uf insanity) seems to
have afPorded Leicester an opportunity for that
revenge which su iI^hdIv stained his character.
Arden, and a pt 1 Hall, were put to the
torture, Arden ^ m maintaining his inno-
cence; but the priest stated that Arden had^ in
his hearing, " wished the queen were in henven/*
On this slender proof, and the conduct of Somer-
ville, he, with Arden and Hall, and Arden's wifo,
were convicted of a conspiracy to kill the queen.
Somerville (Lingard says, on pretence of m«
sanity,) was removed to Newcate, and found
within two hours strangled in bis cell. Arden
was executed the next day. The others were
pardoned ; thus strengtheninjj a general belief,
that Arden's death was to V i - ^ d to the ven-
geance of Leicester, wbn lands of his
victim to one of his own J.f.. *.:,4. It may be
said that Lingard's creed binned his viewf, anil
tinged his statements with prejudice. Rut see
Camden ; who compiled his Life of EUtnhdh at
tbe desire of Lord Burtililey, and had both that
statesman's papers, and the Stale Papers and Re-
cords of the queen and the Privy Council, placed
at his disposal for the purpose. See also, Stowe*s
Chmnick ; Dugdale's Warwichhire (pp. 6^1,
9ao) ; and the recent historians. In Dr. Narf>s*8
Memoir$ vf Burghley, one of the subjects in the
Table of Contents prefixed to voh iii. cap, x.
C, 181 (yeans 1582-83), is, "Case of Arden and
is Family ;" but, stranp:ely enough, the text has
not one word on the subject. 1 have seen the
Records of the Trial (Faurth Report of the DtftUy
Keeper of (he Public Recordt^ Appendix u. p. 27 2\
and also references to the subject in Peeks
Desiderata Curiom^ &c. ; Sir J. Mackintosh's
Cofitiwiator ' P"^f'>>-'^'f //';v^,^'J/ ,i/' England^ &c.
Proude^s // only to 1567.
ApHrt iV t which thi^
foul nn'.L I. I h , It is sup^gestive of some
natural ImiiMii - ■ 'm tfliios and iititir'alhles m the
heart of ou i :^^ -^^ja
enacted, aiv ^^^^ajj
464
NOTES AND QUERIES.
C8^&Y. JOBBi
the public ignominy of her relative*8 head bising
exhibited on London Bridge, and his bowels, &c.,
on the walls of the city — Shakspeare was in his
twentieth year, a husband, and a father ; and he
inust have seen these sad sights, and witnessed his
mother's grief. Can we wonder at his life-long
avoidance of Leicester, or at his friendship for
Southampton and the unfortunate and misled
Essex ? I hope some competent person will take
up this subject. Cbux.
"NOW, BRAVE BOYS, WE'RE ON FOR
MARCHIN*."
(3'* S. iii. 386, 459.)
I have long wondered why the words of this
well-known Irish military comic song have not
been supplied to your valuable journal. I got
them in 1840 from Lieutenant Gordon Skelly
Tidy, lieutenant (and subsequently captain) in
the 48th Regiment, who received them from En-
sign John ueorge Minchin of the same corps.
Both these officers being now deceased, I act as
their literary executor. If we had — as I have
frequently wished — a portion of **N. & Q." de-
TOted to music, the name of which might, from
time to time, be sought afler, I could send here-
with the music as well as the words of this droll
conceit ; but, as no such opportunity exists, I can
only transmit the " immortal verse " of the ballad
sought after by your correspondents. I have never
seen the version published in the Bentley BaUads
to which Mr. Kelly alludes. The version which
I now send appeared at p. 567 of the Naval and
Military Gazette for September 4, 1841, and were
furnished by me to the editor of that news-
paper : —
*• The farewell of the Irish Grenadier to km
Ladye Love."
[Our readers will at once detect the plagiarism
from the subjoined ballad which has been com-
mitted by the author of " Partant pour la Syrie ; "
indeed it is so evident that it must attract the
attention of every person who is not blind to con-
viction. When " Vivi Tu " and " Di Piacer " shall
be forgotten, and when the world shall have become
sceptical as to the existence of " Semiramide " or
*' La Sonnambula," " Love, farewell ! " will be
remembered with a feeling of gratitude to the in-
dividual who first introduced it to public no-
tice] : —
•* Now, brave boys, we're on for inarch in',
First for France, and dhin for Holland,
Where cannons roar, and min is dyin',
March, brave boys, there's no denyin' ;—
Love, farewell I
•' I think I hear the Cumel cryin'
• March, brave boys, there's colours flyin' ;
Colours fiyin', drunu a baytin',
Mgrcb, bnve boys, there's no Tethraytin'.'
LoT«,f«i«wfSV\
"The Mayjor cries,* Bojrs, are yees ready?
Stand t' yeer arms both firm an* sCaady ;
Wid ev*ry man his flask of powdber.
An' his firelock on his showldher.'
LovSy fiureird]
" The mother cries, * Boys, do not wrong me.
Do not take mee dawuiers from me ;
Av yeee do, I will tormint yeea.
An' afther death, mee ghost '11 hant yeet.*
JLovc^ £uvveu
** • Now Molly, dear, do not grieve for me,
I am goin' to fight for Ireland's glory;
Av we lives, we lives victorious.
An', av we dies, our sowls is glorious.'
Love,£ueveU!*
Jum
LONG GRASS.
(3'* S. iv. 288.)
P&OFESSOB De MoBOAif, quotes from 'Stt
Survey orn^ Dialogue^ a statement that in a'l
dow " near Salisbury there was a yearly gro«i
grass ** above ten foote long;** and that ^*ita
f parent that the grasse is commonly sixteeoel
onff.** The Professor says, " This grass ma
made shorter before I can swallow it. Win
your readers say ? What is now the tallest |
in England?"
"This note and query are very interesting,
former shows that the irrigated meadows
were in full operation, at a maximum fert
nearly two hundred and fifty years ago ; the 1
that 80 learned a man, as all the world knoa
Professor to be, is unaware of so old a hi
will endeavour, as gently as I can, to mak(
swallow it by cutting it into four, five, o
lengths, each of a month's growth.
In 1851, 1 was directed by the General 1
of Health to investigate and report up<>i
" Practical Application of Sewer Water and
Manures to Agricultural Production." ]VI
quiries included the most notable irrigated
dows. The results will be found in a Bine
presented to Parliament in 1852. I shall fc
** quoting" from so large a collection of
but will, as briefly as possibly, *^ extract**
figures bearing on the points raised by Proi
De Morgan.
The great fertility of the old meadows
Salisbury has caused the extension of simila
gation slong the river Wiley to Warmiost
as to comprise between 2000 and 3000 acr
do not appear to have ascertained the a
growth of grass in feet and inches, but state
heavy crops can be cut in the course of t
months.**
At Myer Mill Farm, near Maybole, in
shire, I found Italian rye-grass growiDg two
in twenty-four hours ; and in seven mootbi
a»^ & T. JcKK 4, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES,
At]
•VV€
Mr, Hobt. Hftrvey'8 Dairy Fami, Dear Glas-
, the evidence of the manager was : —
6 have cut on Pinkiston-hill ten ft»ot of —■ •^- *' ■<!!
The finit tut wtts 4 feet high ; the
and 3 inches; aiid the third was nbovt i
measured it myself."
At Hale wood Form, near Liverpool, the pro-
rty of the Earl of Derby, occupied by Robert
^Uson, Esq., I found 8 feet 6 inches of Italian
cut within seven months, and a sixth
growing.
Liacard Farm, in Cheshire, the property of
arold Littledale, Esq., I found 80 acres of Italian
e-grafl,**, from which there had been cut four
1, each 2} to 3 feet thicic during the summer
jULitumn of the same year.
Port Kerry Farm, Glamorganshire, on the
'y estate. The first crop of the same kind
graas was 30 inches ; the second and third 33
ichea each ; the fourth, 14 inches. Total, 9 feet
inches. In the autumn sheep were turned
ito it.
Canning Park, near Ayr. The same kind of
raas grown and cut the same summer and au-
imn^ First crop, 18 inches; second, 1^ to 24
ches; third and fourth, each 3 f^n^t to 4 J feet;
fth, 2 feet; and aixtb, 18 inches. Total, mean
regate cut in seven months, 14 feet 3 inches.
have made this note ai* brief as possible ; and,
conclusion, benr courteously to present to Peo-
MBsoR Du MoBOAN, through the editor, a small
arcel of the actual grass last mentioned; and
wo others, of nearly equal length, from the ccle-
raled Cniigtntinny Meadows, near Edinburgh.
They were gathered by my own hands in Itiil,
,d I regret to say they have lost their firagrance.
THE CUCKOO SONG.
(3'* S. V. 418.)
T think I may venture to affirm, touching the
Ong of the cuckoo, thut the pitch of the notes is
ertuinly not always the same (speaking of the
ribe generiiHy), even if it do not vary with the
on in individual birds. In White*s Natural
of Selhirnnf (edited by the Rev. Leonard
_ Us, 1843), page 194, after mentioning that
rbwls in that neighbtmrhood " hoot in three
lifierent keys, — ^in G tl.'it or F sharp, in B flat,
nd A tlnt^ and querying whether " these diflerent
ol^s proceed from dilferent species, or only from
' lUs indivtiluttis," the writer goes on to state
[ll htts been found upon trial that the note of
tickoo (of which we have but one species)
ries in different individuals. About Selbonie
jrood he (Mir. White's informant) found they
tere mostly in D. He heard two wing together*
oe one m D and the other in D sharpi which (aa
the writer naively remarks) made a disagreeable
concert (!) He afterwards heard one in D sharp,
and about Wolmer Forest some in C,
In Houe'e Year Book (p. 516) is the following
Ctirious account of the song of this bird : —
*• Earlv in the flcannn, tliP cuckoo heg{t)§ with the in-
terval of a minor ihinl: the bird then proceeds to a
major third, next to « fourth, then a fifth, nfler which
his voicti breaks out without attAiaing a minor nijtth/'
The writer then quotes " an old Norfolk pro-
verb ** as follows : —
" In April the cuckoo Aows his hill.
In May he sings night and day^
In June he chanffes hU fvwe,
In Joly away h« fly.
In August away be mutt."
From Hone's description of the song of the
cuckoo it would seem clear that, whether or not
he changes his key^ he certainly (as the proverb
says) ** changes his tune** J. B. 8*
The two notes given in Gungl's Cuckoo Galop
are B natural and G sharp, the same interval as
E natural and C sharp mentioneil by your cor*
respondent. But I have just heard the tuckoo
give F natural and C sharp, where the interval is
not 3.15, as in the above, but 4.27 ; and in a
popular song the interval given is F natural and
C natural^ or equal to 4.98 ; these figures being
the proportion of 12 into which our. musical scale
is divided, llie author of Jlabitg of Birds fi\ves
F natural and D natural, or an interval of 2.^4,
less than any of the above ; and Kircher says
{Musyrgia^ i.) it is from D natural to B flat, an
interval of 3.86. See Penny CtjcL xx. 507, where
the exact division of the octave is given. Ac-
cording to Mitford (Linn. Trans, vol, vii.^, "the
cuckoo begins early in the season with the interval
of a minor third; the bird then proceeds to a
major third, next to a fourth, then to a fifth,
after which his voice breaks without attaining a
minor sixth,*' a circum.«itanee long ago remarked
by John Heywood (Epigrams^ black letter, 1587),
A friend of White of Selborne (Lett. 45) fouml
upon trial, that the note varies in different iudi-
viduals ; for, about Selborne wood he found they
were mo.«itly in D ; he heard two sing together,
the one in D, and the other in D shiirp, which
made a disagreeable concert ; he afterwards heard
one in D sharp, and about ^Volmer Forest, some
ill C. (" Habits of Birds," Z-, A\ JL 305,)
T. J.BUCKTON.
Lichfield,
I have carefully noticed the cry of the bird as
it haa been uttered in Somerset and Devon during
the last vfijek or two ; and my e^r, no unpractised
or iincuUivatcd one, assures me that, so far it has
been invariably a precise intervrtl a^ a ftiui:Oi%
aad Tiot, MA R. Vf . l> . 'i^^ct'CGeaW -a. rnvtvoi^ ^vc^
466
NOTES AND QUEBIE&
[•*8.T.tai
The notei arc ** do, lol/* that is to lay (if I adopt
the key named by U. W. I).)* ^>ot E and C aharp,
but K and 1$ natural. That thin is probably the
general long of the binl, musical conipofera tes-
tify ; as for example, in the old catch, ^* Sweel[s
the pleasure in the Spring/* in which tlie cry is
imitated by the notes it, D; and in the well-
known Bottin<! (r think by Arnc) of the long in
Love's Labour's Lost
"Cuckoo! Tuckool
Oil, wortl of fear," &c.
Whore I think the notes cmi>Ioycd ore C natural
and CJ.
May *JNt]|. I have this evening heard a cuckuo
»in;rin^ ninjor thirds.
^lay :iOth. And tliis morning another, singing
an imperfect interval between a mi^or third and
a fourth.
\Vci;lks\s fine old t]irec*part madrigal, '* The
ni^liiin«;aK', the or;^an of deli^^lit," gives the
" Cuckoo " in minor tliirds, in :it least four dif-
ferent keys (K, C sharp, A, V shar]), IJ, G sharp,
I), B natural).
Wliitf, in his Natural History o/Selbonie, vol. i.
Letter X. says, on the authority of a neighbour,
that —
**TliL«nuti> of thi; ruckoo varicM in iliflfcn'nl iiidiviiliuilsi
for about St;lboniu Wood he found they wur^ mostly in
D: ho lu'urd two sing to^i'tlur, the one in 1>, the other
in I) nhnrp, who mad* a dlMn^n'cahle foncert: he after-
wanlH heanl one in i) rtliar]>i and about Wohncr Forest,
iH>niu in C'
AVhito docs not explain which note he or his
nei;:hbour considers to be the key-note — the first
or the last.
I have above treated the first or upper note as
the key-note, calling it " do." Perhaps it would
have been more cornn't to consider the closing
note as indicating the key ; in which case the two
notes (at a fourth interval) would bo "fa, do."
w. r. p.
L\sKO (3^ 8. V. 44*2.) — I think your corro-
s]Kmdtint A. A. is niiMtaken when he says " there
is no such thing as a la»w mentioned in any
ancient author." Surely, Sir Francis Head him-
self could hnrdly have given a more graphic de-
s<!ription of the lasso than the two following.
Her(Mh)tiis, speaking of the eight thousand Sagar-
tiau cavalry, says (lil>. vii. 85), —
rnvrtuiy tQv OLv^fWV ijS* * tirfdv (rvufLiiiryuffi To7tri iroAc-
HiouTi^ fiaWovai ra% (Tftpas, «V &Kp(f> fipoxovs ix"*^^^'
Srew 8' hv rvx\1 ^*^ t* tmrav ^w rt avOfH^ou iv iwvrhy
cAkci' ui 8f iv tpKttri i^iFaXaffc6y.tvoi ^la/pOtlpomat.
Pausanias (i. 21, 5) mentions the Sarmatlans at
uaing the same weapon, fur the same cauae pro-
babljv Bcorcity of metal : —
iiftrxtOimas rtus CMpatu
Suidaa f s. y. ^ttpni) mentions tke Ptrth
as using the lasso ; and Mr. Rawliiuon
! Assyrian sculptures, now in the British ;
i represent the use of it Lnm
Sandbach.
[We beg to acknowledge a dmilar commnii
OXOICIKXHIS.]
Can any of your readers tell me wha
lazos were first used for catching cattle
to the plan now followed in Mexico i
America ?
Were they known in Spain before tb
of Mexico, or by the English and Fi
cancer hunters of Tortuga and lli^pani
sixteenth century P
Old Paintisu at Eastbb Fowlis
19-2.)— In No. 1 14 of '* N. & Q." whid
been received here, there is the d<WLT
curious old painting at Easter Fowli*>,
dee, by G. G. M. of Edinburgh. In tJ
tion occurs the following sentence : ^
has evidently not been aware of the i
tions of Satan's apf>earance ; or if so,
parted widely from it."
Now, I rather think that the artist
fectly well what he was about, albeit
to have made a devil of a mistake,
majesty is rather notorious for his ccec
in dress, and astonishing transtbrniatio
but up to this moment, if I am prop
tened on this rather dark subject^ be
eondcHccnded to honour the crustocea
by assuming the slia]K' and livery of :
even a craw-fish — ** Veruui cancri mil
tas cum Diabolo."
The ]»ieture at Easter Fowlis does
represent the parting of the soul froi
but cpdte on the contrary, the emb
the soul, which, coming from the mn<
bodied on the earth under the intluem
(icdtpKiFov), the Eneloser or Confiner.
serves Nork {Realworterhuch^ ii. p. 38
fold meaning of /utla, which signiilcs
and also the deity that favours births
wife deess M aia. The craw - fish was sac
who preside<l over marriage, and was
tress of married women. No doubt tl
be found somewhere in the picture
Fowlis if lookctl for. I Iioihj 1 have i
I giving the devil his due, and in doh
both to him and the lobsters, by tl
they have nothing in commtm. L.
Kingston, Jamaica, May 0, 18ti1.
Jeremiau IIorrocks (3'' S. v. 1
PBOFBasoB De Morqah and othiSr
orerlook the object of my inquiry. I
g.¥. li7im4^'6C]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
467
of Homfcks^i birtli be 1610, then h» mimt
re been entered u Slziu' at CwDbridge wben
ily thirteen yeitr^ nf a<»»', Tlii? stiiiui very im^
proboble ; and 1: / hiM birth
which i d^aire (i w oil about
Wbttttou s Lift of IJorroch, and what the Rev.
R Brikell bus done at Hoolc. T. T, W.
Oratorto or » Abbl'* (8'< 8. v. 297.)— I ^^^^
iirn word-books of thb OraU}rio, tbo tUlen of
which sure as followfl : — ■
- '■, ■' '■ ' -T '^ AjU
, .. . Printed
, Coveat Gard«ii.
lO^l , :.. ..„.
iorrr.v (Pri>« on-
' ": itii i>t Abel An Or&torio, or
Si. Aa it » PerfortuM at th«
TLi^ ... 1 Lhm, 8«t to Miatic by Doctor
Arac Loncioa : i^riDUd for R. Franckiin, &c. MDOi^i&ii.
(Prict! Ouc Shilling.)" 4to.
On the latter U written^ in a contemporary
hand, " By John Lockmim "
Kpwa&d F* Rimbaci:.t,
Dob (3'** S. v. 416.) — Though Bailey give«
** the drotie bee ** as the raeanjng ot' the word
Dor^ tbiB cannot be the ia«ect alluded to by Thoa.
Adam$, in ihe passage nuoted, where he speaks
of ** dor iu duiiHjbilL" 1 have all my life heard
the name applied to % beetle^ one of thai tort
which one so often sees alightJnf^ on ordure, with
K deep dronini^ noise, nnd which ia described Jn
the well-known line in Gray^s Ele^ : — •
** Save where the beetle wbeela hii droning flight"
In fact Bailey gives thU meaning to the word
Dorr^ ** a kind of beetle livinj? on treu«/* and
Dyehe ^ives as the meaning of Dorr^ ** the com-
niuQ black beetle ; al^o the chafer, or dusty
tie," which latter, no doubt, wu the one in>
^nil by Bailey, being tho oockcluifer. The
tinion block beetle h^ however, lo commonly
called the Dor beetle^ that notwithitandisg the
diiference of ^pelUn^, I cannot doubt that it WMfl
, thfi inseet meant by T. Adams. Bees do not often
light upon duni:^; but every one knows thiit beetle
do Ao habitually.. F. C H.
A drone bee has imthm-j to do with dunghillg.
The drone fly has^ indeeaj to a certain extent ;
J but the insect here meant must surely be the
I well-known beetle — the dor^ or clock, as he i$
I smnetimes called — Geotrupei MtercorariuSy the
ahard borne beetle, whose ironing flight on sum-
mer evenrTUj-j^ i«i mo rr>ristnntly seen*
W. J, BiCBFllABD SMrrH,
Tfuiulc.
To Mam (3^ S. v. 397.)— Several tdocidationa
^ " Man but > ■• ' V " 't^tvc lately apfieared. Two,
thinks art! curloue to bear traai*
**Th6 ri>aJinir i« % bloadisr of the firat folio, and ptr-
Ijapa V ' to remain jind bo repeated bec«u»o the
right -> l*wt • fujin" in so otirinu*. It i*
notict . ' '1
Tayltu
fruin aoiite book, n-* ^^^1 '^^^
Ihit the received r . ."—fimUie
Ojnnian, April !}, l&'ri.
Another correipondent iays : —
** Blay I be permitted to sappo«e thjit there Uava*
onfinally, booa two printer^ errors, vix. gf puuclujitioa
and of f polllog* Bead Oihello'a address to Grati^i^n^ oa
foUowa : —
" Do you go bof^k dijuiayed? 'tli a lost fe«r» man t
Put a rash agaitut Othalio^ btaott and he retires.*'
Id,, April 16.
I merely transcribe the aboyc. I have nlways
avoided giving on opinion on readings in Shak«
apere, lefit^ Uke my betteri, I ihould lose my
temper, FiTZJiopKina.
Gorrick Chib.
Hatdx QinsEiBS (S'* S* v. 212, &c.)— May I be
nermitted to add another to Uie former queries f
Which it) the composition called, in Germany,
"The Razor Quartette''? The tradition is, that
the great composer one morning was shaving, and
I in a pet with his instrument, which, like moi^t of
j the loreiffn cutlery at that time, was very bod.
In tlie middle of the operation his publij^her came
in ; and Haydn said, ** I would give a first-rate
I quartette if I could but get a good Enrfish rator,"
The publisher, who had not long before been In
, England, took him at his word ; tfkn home directly,
ana fetched one he had brought over with liim.
Haydn kept his promise, and presented him with
the score of what be told him at the time was the
beat quartette he had ever written. A. A.
Poetf' Comer,
Salmaouhdi (3^* S. v. 38«.) — The jitory told
in France relative to this dish, which in made of
Baited fish, is, that one of their queens wa« very
fond of salt, and her chief lady vfaa of the Italian
family the Gondi. During dinner^ the former was
ill the habit of continually asking for her fa-
voi/i-ite condiment: ** Le ael, ma Gondi — le sel^ ma
Gondi.** And it is said, that when tbi* dish was
invented, the courtiers gave it this name ; whichg
by a slight corruption, became kolmagundi, Th«
story is perhaps neither vera nor exactly hen
trotato; however, it is the tradition across the
Channel. A, A.
Potita* Comer.
]^£a»sow Botte^ and Cut a vises (3*^ S. v. 350,)
H, S. will find in Chumbera't Booh o/Da^u^ voK ••
p. 860s the ou&tom of marrow bonea and cleaver-
iiv Itng often at murrioges. The writer
Bit WSt —
n at tha MarriojTi? o^ the
468
NOTES AND QUEEIES,
[r^T^JwKU
with Ttiwrow bonei und cleareri, and roughly puihing
aside thoie who doubtlpss crtntidered them*elvc« as the
kgitiraate mu&iciana. We arc ihus fiivoured wjth a nip-
jnonal of what might l^ c-ftlled one erf the old s
of ihe LtmdoTi vulgar ^ — one JQst about to i
"which hua, in renlity, becorao obsolete in tht ^ , ail
of the metropolis. The custom iti question was cue esaon-
tiftllv connected with marriage. The perform*irg were
tho fjutchera* men, — the * bonny boys that wear the fileevc«
of blue/ A set of these ladtt haring duly aceompliBhud
theroftolvcs for the purpoM^ made a point of attending in
firont of & house containing^ a marriage party, with tbeir
cJeaveri, and each provided with a inaiTow bone, where-
with to perform a iort of ntdc serenade, of conrae with
the expectation of a fee in requital of tbeir miuic. Some-
times the group would consist of four* the dearer of each
ground to the production of a certain note; but a full
hand — one entitlGHJ to the highest grade of reward —
would be not less than dght, productng a complete
octave; and, where there wa« a fair iikill, this eeriea of
notes would have at! the fine efTect of a pe&l of bellSf
When thia eerenarle happened in the evening, the men
would be dressed neatly in clean blue aprons, eaj^h with a
portentous wedding favour of xvhite paper in ! ' ' "i'
hat. It was wonderful with what (quickness ji ;
under the enticing presentment of beer, th
got wind of a coming marriage* and with wu l li m i i y
of purpose they would go on with their [ ri ii i 5 'e
until the expected crown or half crown was forthcumiog.
The men of Clare Market were reputed to be the beat
performers, and their guerdon wis always on the highest
•cole accordingly. A merry rough affair it was; 1 rouble*
aome somewhat to the police, and not always relished by
the portv for whose honour it woa desigDed j and some*
timeOt when a musical band c^une upon w ground at tlic
tame time, or a set of boys would please to interfere with
pebbles rattling in (in cantsters, tiias throwing a sort of
burlesque on the performance, a few blows would be inter*
changed. Yet the marrow bone and cleaver epithalamium
•oldom foiled to diffufw a good humouf throughout the
neighbourhood; and one cannot but regret that it is
rapidly poaoing among the thingii that were.*'
Thomas T. Dtsb.
EiDg*s College.
Baron MrKcuACSBif (3'* S. v. 397.)— O.T.D.
write*: —
** I have just eome across nn old atory in the Facttia
B^Mktna^ which may t»e regarded as the original of that
adventure in the tiimlcm romance, which telle how the
Baron'd horso was cut in two by the descending portcuilU
of a besieged tow 11/' &c ,
The original, however, inay be Ixx^kcd for nl a
much earlier date. The following pjiasagc is tik«n
from The Lady cftke Fountain, p, 54, in the Ma*
binogiott of (he lAyfr Cock o IJergrst^ as trnnskted
from tbo ancient Welsh MS. by Ladv Charlotte
Guest, 1838. After deacribing a fight between
the two knights, it says : —
** lliea the Block Knight felt that he had received a
mortal wound, upon which he turned his horse's head,
and II I'd. Owojn pursued him, and followed close upon
htm,alf hough h« was not noor enough to strike him with
hi* u.ni Iherrupon Owuin descried a vaat and ro-
•pl^ And they came to the castle gate. Aod
th* hi Will nlloiv.-t tu rntrr, uTlil thr fiortculUs
*" ' Ijehiml
thi' vay the
TOW , ..., :„... „..^ „i .i„^,.. B ,xvvi*. And
the portcuUij d«ic«ided to the flAnr. AnA tl.- rwwtelC
the spurs and part of th*- I **A{)m^»,
with the other piirt of ti -••pg tw
two gate% atiJ ' - -■ -*J6»>^*«*
could not go -» »
situation/' [A «^*-J
At p. 367 of the same collectioB. rdil£a;t cb
adventures of Peredur, the son of Evrtvt, ll*ft
is mention of a remarkable sta|^. Tbonc^i nai t^
cherry tree, ** he has one horn in hit f^fAtm •
long as the shiiffe of a spear, imil as sbarp u wi»-
ever h sharpest ; and he de^trojrs the branch d
the best trees in the forest, and he kvlls rmj
animal that he meets with therein ; and thorn tte
he does not slay perish with hunuer.**
It is said that if the tail of a leech he cot 4
after the animal hm fixed itself to the skin, k w§
diink blood as Boron Munchausen's bnTW**^
water. F. Hot*
Barokt of Mori>au?it (3'* S. v. -
P. S. C. does not seem to he 11 wore that
Duke of Gordon bad several sisters,
whom the barony of Morduunt of course 1
abeyance^ to the exclusion of all other <
They all married, and all I believe had tf»aa.J
CBAai.Es F. S. Wa
Cart Famii^y (3"^ S. v. 398.)— I am sunyii
I cannot aid Mb. Robinson in tracing tWCa?
family in Holland; but with refif-r^-n^** I* It
suprgestion that possibly some ^
first Lord Hunsdon may still eN
not be amiss to inquire what prut'aijititjr
of such being the case.
I prcHume that Ma. RonrifsoN V - - -
descendants only, and to such 1
attention.
The first Lord Hunsdon hnd four sons,—
John, Edmund, and Kobcrt* Robert, thr .
son, was created Earl of Monmouth, nii
title became extinct t^o Ii^ht n-^o im i^
clear that there can have 1
in this line fur the la*>t tw-
therefore, confine our inquiries to the three
sons.
George, the eldest son, who rn
became the second Lord Hun^
male iasue, and the title desG«nd^d ou his Uv;hcr
Jubn, the second son*
On the death of his jn^andson^ the fiAh lord,
the line of John, the »eciin<l son^ became extsnO,
and the title passed bo the descendants oiKdammL
the third son.
This Edimuid, the third §'>
Rf»bcrf, who, accordmfi to Mm. I'
sofis — 'Horatio, K; '"' *v — '
The line of lloi .
on the death of L
The line of Erm 1
extinct on thedcaliiu: .v ... -.,
iiad four
IMID,
fith U
»rt8wV. Ji;9b4,'64]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[in 1702; and the Ime of Ferdinand became ex-
ftct on the deuth of Willkm Ferdinand, the
tith baron, in 1765. If, as Mb, Robiwsoit a|>-
ra to suppose, Rowland waa the third «on, it is
iclear that uih line must have become extinct
[before the line of Ferdinand could have succeeded
the title. If, however, Rowland was the
foungest son, it h certainly possible that some
[descendants of his may stili exist.
But however this may be, the question still
Iremaind — was Sir Robert the only son of Edmund?
l3ld«. Robinson speaks of Edmund's having a
|dau;2;hter Atitba. If he had also a jounj^er .«^on,
1 any mule descendant of this younger son would
I probably be entitled to tlie barony of Hunsdon,
PBE-DEATU COTTtSS AND MoNtlM£?«T3 (3'^ S. V,
J423.)—The Earl of Buchan, brother of Henry
terskine and Lord Chancellor Erskine had hi»
I tombstone put up during his life at Dryburgh
I Abbey. There wiis inscribed on it the date of his
f birth, and by anticipation, that of his death thus :
," Died the day of ,18 ," leaving these
oks to be filled up at the proper time by his
cessors, which it is presumed has been duly
' attended to. G.
QUOTATIOW WANTED (3'* S. iv. 499 J V. 62.) —
I ** God and Uic doctor we alike adore."
I remember an epigram, but not whether I read
or heard it. Perhaps it may be admissible with-
I out verification : —
" Tres medicQA fAciea h&bet $ unam, quando rogatur,
Angelicu^ ; rnox est, cum juv«t, ipse Dcus:
Post ubi curato poscit sua pnemia morbo,
Horridui apparct, terribili&que Satan.*'
FIT2HOP1LIXS.
GarrJck Clnb.
Epitaph o« a Dog (3'" S. v. 416.)— **N. & Q. '
goes in for everythini^ ; so here is another. It
was in lithograph, or the predecessor of lithograph,
fifty years «go : —
♦♦ Ebcu I hie jacct Crony»
A dog of much rtiDowa ;
JS'ec fnr, nee macaront»
Thougb bora a^d brud in town.
** In war he was airerritnuSf
In dog'like arts perite;
lu love, iilas I mberrimat,
For he died of a rivar* bite.
'* Uis mistress atnixil cenotupli.
And as the verse comes pat in,
*go qui scribo epitaph,
lite it in dog-latin,"
M.
iiAJtiKG THE Left Arm (S""* S. vii. 106.)—
The following is from S. Beatley's Excerpta His*
forica^ London, 1831, p. 43 ; —
** For womnn that us«fj Bordell, that lodge in tha Ofttt;.
•♦ Abo that no maner of mat* huve. nor hold, any
ot^jiuu woman within hid lodgiugt upon psyoo v( loaitig
a month's w&g^ ; and if any man findc. or may finde,
any comon woman lodgtngCf my aside lonle gevetb bim
leve t^ take from her or thdm all the mony that may
be founde upon her or thdm, iind to lake a atafe and
drj've her out of the oste, and break her armsL*' — Orders
by the liarl of Shrewsbury and the Lord of Montbeimer»
At Ihoir sieges in Maine,'* &c,
W. D.
MARBiaaE fiBJt>Bs A JusTics OP TUB Peacb
(3'* S. V. 400) : —
" Daring the usurpation of Cromwell, marriage wsa
declared to be a merely civil contnict."^-Deaii Hookas
Ohurch Diet, artf " Matrimony/*
" Oae of the laws of the Barebones Parliament (1653)
made marriage merely a civil contract. The parties wcra
forced to have their banns published three times in the
church or in the market place, and they were to profesa
their mutual d^isireof being married in the presence of a
ma^tratc!. In 1656 the parties were allowed to a^iopt
the Accustomed litea of religion, if they preferred them."
— Bbhop Short's HiaL of tM Church of England, Section
ti22.
K.
Doi*PHtK AS A Crbot (a-* S. V. 396.)— The
arms of the city of Glasgow are derived from
those of the see. See Moule*s Heraldry of Fish^
p. 124. Mr. Moule seems to have exhausted the
eubjeet of Dolphins as henddic bearinii;3 ; I bej;,
therefore, to refer your correspondent CuEvaoit
to his excellent work» pp. 15 — 45.
Gkorge W. Mabsuajll.
Heeaclitus RiDENS (3"^ S. v. 73.) — My query
miffht as well have been headed ** Fly-leat Scrib-
blings/* as I can throw no light on the authorship
of this witty serial. I have a copy, however, of
the edition published in 1713, the first volume of
which contains ten pages of very closely- written
ntanuscript poetry, in a hand about the same date
as the book. The greater part is in heroic verse,
and is copied from the poems of John Phillips
(thoucfh without allusion to the author) ; but there
are two umorous and epigrammatic songs for
which I eannot find a parent, I infer that they
(as well as the other) are copies \ and therefore
ask the assistance of your contributors, 1 pive
only the firijt two lines of each, but will send th^
whole should they be unknown : —
•♦ Whalt, putt off with one Denj^U,
And not make a second trj-aU ? "
** Bright Cythia** p<»wer, divinely great.
What heart ia not obeying? "
W.Lbb.
Sir Edward May (3'* S. v. fio, U2,)— I have
to thank R. W. for his kindness in replying to my
query on this subject. Can R. W., or any other
correspondt'nl, inform me as to the crest and n»otto
borne by Sir Edward ? Did any member of the
May family settle in London? CABii.roai>.
Cipe Town.
" KtLaimtJt.iiT Hwt^ V^ ^. ^* abitft^— "^SN^
Ulc owi\ut (>\: \^QU^\vVvtv^^OT^.^wJ««'*»*^^^^ "^
470
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[8»*&V. Jnni,^
Dublin, wftB Sir Coropton Domvile, Bart., of Saw-
try. I am not aware whether it wan one of that
name who is alludc<l to in tlie ballad of the Kii-
ruddery Hunt, but as it was not the usual resi-
dence of the family, it may more probably be some
tenant^ who held thu estate on the long leases so
common in Ireland, especially as no sporting tra-
ditions of the Domvile family hare reached the
present time. T. E. WmifiiiGTON.
Skptuagint (3"* S. V. 419.) — Dr. Ilonry Owen,
tht'ro is restson to believe, did not know the facts.
The Septuagint version was first made for the use
of tlic Jews ; and botli Talmuds speak of " thir-
teen texts only as departed from in the version of
Ptolemy (the 8eptuas;int). After this version
fell into the hands of Christians, corruptions began,
and the labours of Origcn were directed to their
elimination; but. notwithstanding his compilation
of the llexapla, the corruptions were greatly mul-
tiplied, so that the thirteen dilFercnoes were in-
creased to hundreds. See Eichhorn's EinL A, T,
8. 173; Hody, Eusebius, Eccl Hist. v. 28; Ka-
phairs Jewn^ i. 131 ; Clemens Alex. Strojn, v. p.
595 J).
NEwiNGT0TiE3fsis IS wrong in attributing to the
Christians a jealous care for the integrity of the
text; their object has been unfortunately to alter
the text to suit their dogmas, not to correct their ■
dogmas by the text, a disposition which is by no I
means extinct. T. J. Bucktok. I
fntdrcllaitcauif.
NOTES ON BOOKS, IITC.
A Dictioftttrj/ of the Bi/ffe ; cmnpriMwf Anfi(/nit'fs, Jiiiyfini-
phiff GefHfrafthv^ and Nntnrnl Hintory. liy rnriniin iVri-
ter$, Ejiiteil htf William Sinitli, LL.U.,itc. Furtt XIII. \
to A'A' r. ( AI 11 r ray. )
We rongratiiUte the Kditor, the Contributors, nnd the
Pabliiilier.f ol" 7'/if Dictionary of the liihle on the sni.'coss- |
I'ul complotiou of this valuable conipondiuni of biblical '
knowleil^e. Varied and nuni<*roas as have been the i
endeavours to iUustnite the Antii|iiitii"i, IJioj^raphy, Geo- :
graphy. and Natural History 'if the Holy Seripturen, it !
may safely be averred that ^o Iart;e an amount of learned |
and trust worth V illuRtration of those several ilepartments |
of knowledije has never bet'ore bi'en eolli-eted to;rether, i
an<l certainly never before been ])resented to the world in |
MO compact an«l sO convenient a form. Whih* it is a cha- !
ractcrihtic of the most important articles in this Diction- |
ary that, allhouKh, to a certain extent, they exhaust j
the subjfct, the reader who may winh to examine it more .
thontii^hlv fur himself, will find in the. authorities (juotcd I
by the writers, refen-nee^ to the bi'st sources of informa-
tion for the solution of his doubts, or the strengthening I
of his convictions. The as>ot;iiit.ed lalmurs of a numer- |
oU!i biKJy of divines eminent for their piety, and of wholars j
distinjcuinhed for thnr h-arning (and soine of the conlri- !
butorrt combine in their own persons both these quulifica- '
tions) have suc<-<.-«ded in collecting into those three {roodly '
tKtiii'tPM a jiuticiouH combination of the l\\eo\og,\eflA ft\.>x-
tlle^i of past MiffCB with the theologicaV inquincs of out own
days; and h«\'e tbtreby produced an £iicytlcp«fis u
Biblical Leamingf to which students of all duia. irin
the skilled theologian to the hambleet reader d th»
Bible, may refer with the certainty' of finding ia it infor-
mation of which they are in search.
A Neglecied Fact in Endink UiMtorg. By Ueniy Clurls
Coote, F.S.A. (Bell & Daldy.)
The "neglected fact,*' to which Mr. Coote direrti l^
tention in Xi^is able little volume, is, that the Genua
influence recognisable in the elements of English n>tz«-
alityis not derived from the Grerman immigTantsof tti
tifth and sixth centuries, bat owes its orii^in to a tmxft
of a great Cin-rhenan people, whidi, in' ita coniinanl
seat, strained tho nerve of the great dictator t>ef<ic 3
submitted to the genius of the empire ; and that of &ii
people, as the true continental branches have bsea Ij^
since lost or merged, Kngland is now the sole rfcpm»
tatire. Mr. Coote supports this view witli sound ur*'
meiit and groat learning.
Syntax ant! Synnnymt of the Greek legtament. Br Va
Webster, M.A., late 'Fellow of Qaecn'a CoIle^'«,fi»-
bridge. (Uiviugtons.) j
A scholarly and careful work, in explanation 49
peculiarities of Hellenistic Greek ; compiled from V^m-
Donaldson, Hose, and our recent Knglidli comnieatis^
as Ellicott, Alford, Wordsworth, and Vaughan: i^^
forming a most serviceable volame for the theolo$B
student.
ilatitti ta Covveipanlstiiti,
CAiiu.r«i{i>(Ca|ir Town). Th^ KhqJM trai\$1ntvH i-^ /","* . " "
/•cri'* vt/rk in rNfi//o/ Curioui Ut>Kr\-«tiunt on the Miinncr^. iii<<"
L'titfci. difForrnt l^aneiiaen. Uovtrnment. Myiholo«>. Ck>te ■«.
Ancient ami Modern Ucucraphy, Cvnrmonie*. IteiiKion, U.*m:-^
Antruiiiiiny, Mciliciiio, l*liyBlc», Jfftlurol Tli»tnry. (.timmiin Ait- f"
S«;lvncc» lit thoacvvrul NatiiMUut Asia. Aft m;h. mid Anicrk-*. i-^-
\7'-i\,i >ols. nvo.
Old MoRrAMTT. 7^ AVir'* Monumrnta Anclii^na tm* i'**.-.'.
I'lilluwin'i nrdcr: —
IiiM-/ iftliuH4j'n>M I7i»'>— I'lSi/'^'./iVAt''' in 1717
Hiyi_!rt7y ., I7m
„ |»f»_imr< ,. 17H
., tr,i-i_if;t<.» „ 171'.'
HV'yi_i7lK iSnii.t.' 17iy
Tht thii-.l rnlatm vith tti^ tint. 171;*, ir/.i>A ftur i"vr/v.»p',<W'»l* ■-•**»'
hn-' III tti* ii'f'rui y, i^^ wn/'ncii u tti 'i|/»(it>pi-ii/»A«Ti(.
AnHiiA. T/n-laif of th^ I.itHrqii'itl Titt-U iiHUi</,t.l ,*.| Thf ■»i";i"' "
irtv .Vu. 23, " J'hf Cini'fH:i uf tht Jfalff A/M-ftl-'M ih f,t-tL. inJ.ii. •■«
IlFHMF%-:i(r-iiF tri// .ft/.i/ t-.'/fnurt < to f-.ur linfjnifittH-nf ■• ir' ■■»
Alhcii I 'I Jii'lof n Nouvillc Uio.-rjpliK' (i>n.r»ie.
i'/|7lU,i, Vfin »/*«M /.■|«Ai»/J ^|f' 'J'a/'JiH*, lA J fri-fl, *!*", *■ ■■*■'*■
rn'i'ii. "fir t 'I'rn.'t "iult nt u iH ri^ui nil thr i-ir ■■-.-.i."- ■■ •
r//i;i(/'A i'ritii-al IlintnO iil Ih* Atlianu<'.^n Lrx-^'.
/'/.- ••ii'.jin I'f tt,' i-iit.fi.-, !■/■ tiirtuii irhit. ji.'nr.* fi. i-.'.'v. •■' i--i'.'^
<^■!•/;.^ ,.* .11.;... W .1, ..i.rintS. I. 7*. f'"f-(l If" "tf.'r ti:t>.;.- ... .
>n..t:.iu t,/, ,r..l t» III IfK U-wnl Imtct fo lAc f'trtt .V.rii ■ .■• " N. HJ ■ '
fl»7." Cr... ,....■ •
Mmi».. Vi
ohlii irr.it.
A. A. "-in ji'-.d . '■;//(' iir'il. . i.n thr ori'-tin nil'! mrly itt^ -i^ fA- ?- '
Iluinliu;: in .'.«» t'ir*f S,r,r*. .<«■ (vvn. Index. /« 'Hik Iaivo l» H-."
auil Lcaiitli r, vUit. Iii77. 'ir' ihnf litu-ji:^
" F.iiMii-jh, <iiinrli llcnk. nay no mnrct
//;<i/.-'''.-/. -iiintli lie. 'twitkiii^wn of joTC."
J. H. If if! :i;d . !..(.■■ luvttuiii ..; Th-nof Itnrthxhmt** ni*tl .t,>hu /V t~-
III' I lit fit. II, iiii.t l-if/rajthv iti •li'ti'-Hiiirv. t'"r n mft.-. -.-f V«"'.'*i
«i rw uuil hi-' ■'■(K A-ji, n. Noiiivl.v Hii>-,;ia|>iiiu U- »i« rule, ««vn. il,*.
A. K. T.. i./"N.&U."./.l/r.v
I'-i Klin ./i.-i'Vif ./ .( /. 'ti rue /nttf r
J. p. IIJll. I* H.'fH.t>U,i J. ■.!>
l\-hliifHr^ HH ti't'nlt IUi-fk*'-lh r-. ami St u--inrH.
i.iV i- l"tf . ■ V*
"Natvsaivo QrpRivft" li pii'./M*"/ a; mi-in itn Vritlay. <■»/ u aimf
%.m.,l ,u Mf.MiiLr Parm. Jhr .*ii^-i-ri/ifi«n fur Sraiiprp Opir* *&r
Hi I. ViiH'U* furwnr'Ud dirt it jr.»m tfti i'uttlii^tr \iiflmih»g tkt ilmif-
V'lrtf 1ni»»!Ii m II«. 4f/.. irAii;A iwijf /.^ /HtiU *it$ Piml O/kw (iV^rfrr,
wyriUr nt tke Strami I'ort l/j/kv.m /(Tivmu- of Wicliah G.tefia.U.
A'aLtiAO-niH SiHRRT, Strand. W.C.« '<> ichum nil Cmmmimkatmim foa
^VOTW IL ^tia^lRA^ \A\»|M>IBWJ^totVw
Wmm:
K II, '«4.)
KOTES AND QUEEIES.
471
LONDOKt SATUKDJT, JtVE It IBGI.
CONTENXa— N", 128.
J ftom the tVnrn CoimcU Aooords of tr-
n — "Let the diY»dfbl Eo^nw," 472 — Joacph
iiei,*y3 — Bttny«i*«T "' ' i. . i- ►« ■'1,1^9,474 —
BaoBs Far|jT«ftn «K' iIji — Date
DmiOi of uotd Jeffrey iiic«— The
Pool — Orifrin of Priors im^i jinu Lonlclkdr" —
1 Mwriage Fortioa of 100^. -- UomM oot nn old
ES: — Colonel John Morice, or Morm. 47« — The
hedral of Eouloi^e, ifr.—Aneodote— Borrow Sue ken
Earl of ClonnieU's "IH1U7*' — Ducliayla — Bxpo
•^Oftptain Thomu Forrest — Greek or SyriMiPrjiiCQi
ildic Query— High Gutnmiftsiou Court — The Boot-
iiwof Mickleton Wood — ** Jack of NL^bury**—
iriM Tutor" — '* Kimbolton Park ; lt loti-
luery *-" Loyalty ModaK"" Ac- i at
BSter— The Bq$eat and Lords Gre^v ille—
it Jn the Thamea — 8taMreiy prohibit f a m iv r,nayl-
^UoptiiiiliglBed ghaknerian MSS. of tbe late Mr.
BH — fior. Geotve WaUer ^ The Kev% Thomaa
1011,477.
I wmt Atts^thsb: — GeOTiiQ Meriton — lAmbeth
• Id Medici ue — Hedniealuua Club — Nathaniel
r, aUaa Dirty Dick — Lady Eli^heth Spelnuui —
ry,480.
»: — Pariah RogiaKa^ 483 — Mrs. Dugild Stewart's
484— Hikan BaaiUke, lb. — Justice — Paradin**
cs KenUxam ** — Hebrow MSS, — B««OKr Stooes —
B In Arutophanea — PlafiarisiDfi — Sumamos — Sir
d. May — Hotitit Athoa — Qoad&lqiUTtr— Ballad
i-Balilea in BoidaDd— Saok-Tbe Bnclish Church
ae ^Tbe Eed &ioaa Eni^ht 1^, ** Queen s Gardona/'
Books, Ac.
TRACTS FROM THE TOWN CO0KCIL
RECORDS OF IRVINE.
rbUomng interesting noticeSf from tm Ajr-
swipuper^ are well entitled to be preterred
pages of ** N, & Q/* They are from the
Sir. James Taterson, author of a hifftory of
iliea in that county*
the defeat of General Bollie, hj Hontroae, at
on the 25th Auguati 1645, the west of Scotland
i maimerr entirely at the mercy of the Eoyiilkts.
tnae tbt flower of the Scottish army was in
i md only a. few regimenta of illHliadpUned
n could be brought together, rather to hang on
and disturb the movemonta of Montroae, tliaa to
a battle. There were many of the landed pro-
aqwcially of the smaller class, in Ayrshire,
it to the royal cause ; and partly with the riew
lag fines, and partly to encourage those &iendly
indertakiDgi Montrose despatched his lieu ten-
Jter MOoU or M'Donald, to Kilmarnock, there
contribntions ^m the surrounding district,
te the presence of the Kovalist gentr;}% while he
took post at London HilL In the History <•/
I, pp. 116 — 117, there is a curious letter— pilnteil
I ohglnal-^by the Laird of Lainshaw to his chiei',
of kglintonT then absent with the army, we pre«
Kigland, narrattng the loss sostained npon the
I flitate, Rowallant and other properties in Cun-
L Alastasv howeyer, seems to have conducteil
with oniiaidenble moderation. No doubt there
Icj^ In thii^ and appareutlj it had ih^ ilesired
^ not a fow paid court to him at Kilmarnock,
were on their way to the "Leagner"
when intelHmce of Montroee*a defeat at Fhilliphangh,
by General Leslie* on the Uth September, pat a stop to
til fir progreaa.
The lowing extract fVoai the Records of li-vine refers
to this penod; also to what followed the '* break/' or
defeat ofthh Remonstrators at Uamilton, by the troops of
Cromweil under Lambert, in 1650. John Uuaiop, the
complainer, was Chief Magistrate, or Provost, ot Irvine.
The gentleman to whom we are indebted for the copy,
stales that the old orthography has not in all cases been
adhered to : —
** A tme accompt of ye disbursementa and looes nja-
t&fned by John Dunlop quhiU he was Magistrate of Iryjo*
1, In tyme of Allaster Mackdoimld. 2, In time of ye
Sectaries * prevailing after re defeat ut Hamilton.
1. /« ye tyme of AUatter MackdanaM.
lb, B, </,
/n^rijuir. For my charges 87 dayes in Kil-
marnock, qnhiil I was summoned before ye
Comittie, 005 00 00
Item, my fyne which I payed by order of
Comittie, after much tntercesaioa of miti-
gation 053 06 06
Item, for redemption of my goods taken by
Captain Molr and his sogur^ qiihill I was
marched to Glasgow 016 OO 00
Item, my charges quhlll I was summoned
before ye Comittie in Glasgow . . .006 00 00
Item, Ibr ana hone and man to come to me
to Kirkudbright, quhill I waasummoneid to
ye Comittie st Eilinburgh . . . . OOG 00 00
Item* for an horse which I was nacessitat fo^
to buy, not finding any to byr, in a storm^
for my carrying to Eainburgh* and which
died by ye way in my retume * « . 055 00 OO
Itcmrbefng fyned in Edinburgh by ye Comit-
tie there in 500/&., which, by the interces-
sioQ of friends, was past, I was parUy in
charges, partly to the Clerk, b«ing in £ldin-
burgh twenty'-three days, above , . 038 00 00
Item, after my" horse diet, or a hoiae to carry
me home, and charges .... 003 00 00
Snnuna . 184 06 08
% In yt tymt of ye ^eeloHei^ afUr the break ^md dtfeai
of ffmniitoH,
W. a. d.
In^rimig. Ane fedderbed and tts ftunitonr to
ye gadaouoe in EgUntonnf which I never
got back OSO 00 00
Item, wared out on two sogurs under the
blouilie flax, and brought from the gar-
riaonne in EgUntoun and laid on my wyfu
in my abftence, and on Carlan Wilton, that
with others came every day to them and
caused bring Miak and sngar, molasses^ and
other necessaries 040 00 00
Item, aeren doaen of Ireland borda, also brod
as dealls, wiiick twentie-f^fo, the night
thcv were qnaftered upon me, tookc out of
my' cellar 042 00 00
Item, n}-ne dealls which they wailed firom
amongst the nat . - . . . 006 OU 00
Item, three pair of new plaids, at Wh. the pair
wV.T ' *' "- *nnke as their owne . . 048 00 ^<>
Item ' water bolis of salt, loet by
th ut in the cellar, where it was,
• The Cromwelliaa PatttDAs -it^st* tii^^A. ^t!t\aTV-- \s.
dooUand.
472
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[«^S.V.JnEl
and thev had tlio kea with them eight lb, i. d.
dayes w&ile they went to the garieoune of
Eglintoun 100 00 00
Item, nyn bolls meaU in three hogaheadi,
taken away by them and eaten in ye
qoarten 090 00 00
Item, foar great barrels of buiter despoeed on
by them in the lyk manner . . 100 00 00
Item, two carcashes of beef newHe salted . 024 00 00
Item, threttie stone of iron, taken by them
out of my cellar 060 00 00
Item, the iron standers oat of my house on the
hilU value to 012 00 00
Item, twal aiken loafls qulk they tooke and
made fvrewood to ye gaard . . . 086 00 00
Item, four tries, which cost . . . . 009 06 08
Summa . . 627 06 08
Summa toUlis . 811 18 04
" The particular disbursements and losses abore written,
I, the above-named John Dunlop, sustained, over and
above other losses and chairges, in my crop and other-
wavs, common and incedentto me with other inhabitants,
and which, though promesed long ago to be rdbundid,
according to the abillUes of the place in a fair way, were
never as yet taken in serious consideration, and which
I should not now trouble the counsel de novo with, not-
withstanding of all my losses or other straits, war it not,
I humbly expect they will, without fkrder delay, consider
of the samen, and give my former supplication a ikvour-
able answer."
iV.B. — The poor Baillie appears to have been out of
the frying-pan into the fire, between the Highlanders and
the Sectaries— plundered by both parties. Of the two,
the HighUnders appear to have been more moderate
than the Saints. Indeed, they seem at least to have had
some appearance of regularity in their proceedings.
The following interesting documents have been dis-
covered to be among the Irvine papers : —
'* IsL Discharge by the Earl of Rothes, the Abbots of
Whithorn, Arbroath, &&, as Lords Compositors, to the
Bailies of Irving for composition of £88 6«. 8dL, for the
Raid of Solway. Dated at Air, 12 Feb., 1629.
" 2nd. Licence and warrant by Queen Maxy, under the
hand of the Regent, Earl of Arran, as her tutor, narrating
that 'for the composition of said scoir pundis of our
realm, has grantit, given licence to our lovittea, the pro-
vist, bailyies, and hale communitieof our burgh of Irvine,
to remane and byed at hame (torn our oist and army de-
visit to convene at Roslene Muire, the XX day of October
instant, for resisting of our auld inemeas of IngUnd, and
recovering of the forts of our realme, presentlie in their
handis.'— It fitrther narrates that the provist and bailyies
had paid the composition, and that tne inhabitants had
delayed to repay tne same. I1ie Regent therefore grants
to * command and charge all and sundrie, the burgesses,
inhabitantes, wedies, abweell women as men, * to relief
and mak thankfull payment to the saides provost and
bailyies of the foresaid compositions, within thre days
next after thev be chargit, under the pane of rebellione
and putting of thame to our home.'— IHted at Hamilton,
9 Oct., 7 year of the Queen's reign, 1649.
*'8rd. Discharge by Alexander, Earl of Glencaim,
commonly called the Good Ear), to the burgh of Irvine,
for £62 6<. Bd. for Aunishing men for recovering the
Castle of Dumbarton.— Dated at Finlayston, 27th Dec.,
1669.
** 4th. Letters fh>m the Earls of Mar and Cowrie the
Abbota of Drybnrff b, Cambotkennetb, &g., to the Proroet
and BaiUet of Irvme, that they bavt declared thdr nUnd
to the Lord Boyd, to be ahown unto thai ia n
ters ot oonseqoence, tending to the suTtk «( Q
religion and profeesors thereof, the wdto «( t
Majesty, and commonweal the of the haill mln
anent we desire yon afTectioasly to give him ton
From Sarihig, XXI Sept., 1584.
** 6th. Letter tnm James VL, from Caitle <
6 Sept.. 1686, intimating alteration of dav of
Convention of Estates.
•• 6th. Letter fh>m James VI. • To oor tn
the Provost, Bailyies, and Connael of our \ns^
Tmist fHendis, we greet yon heartlie wed
Kleasit God to our contentment, and we sr i
iss to the common lyking of all our affeol
to bleas with appearance of sncceasiottn, our d
fallow, the Queene, being with child and na
of her dely verie. Qnhilk and other weettie sf
occasion of a mair necesaar deliberation ui
oure nobilitie and etUttis nor at ony tvme hi
have thocht meet to desyre yoa maist esi
you faill not, all excuses set apairt, to addrea
niissioners towards heir at our Holyruid H
day of Janoar next to cum,' ftc, flcc—Fna
Hoos, the XVII day of Dec., 1593.
**7th. Letters fh)m Lords Blantyre, New
others, alM>ut imposts on wyn.— 3 January, 1{
^ 8th. Letter from the Blarquis of Argyll, S
r 2000 weight of powder for the aervicc o
mittee of EsUtes, with receipt bv John Camp'
of the Marquis for the same, in 20 barrels.
*' 9th. Paper signed by Lord Cochrane, Cea
allane, &c, bearing that Mr. Robert Barclay
Irving, craved payment of a bed, &c. — Dat«i
nock, 80 May, 1656.**
- LET THE DREADFUL ENGINl
It 18 certainly one of the duties of £
to take thoueht for the memory of tl
Worthy, and I wish therefore to throw i
towards so good an end, by calline foi
mory of the admirable composer Hem
in connection with one of bis most r
sonjcs (** Let the dreadful Engines <
Will **) ; a song which yet, so far at Ic
public performance is concerned, has, i
gone quite out of hearing and of mind
Several years ago, conversing with
ward Taylor, the late Gresham Pn
Music, concerning the celebrated ba;
Mr. Bartleman, the worthy professoi
with great gusto, some interesting parti
lative to that singer, and also to Uie son
tion. Subsequently, I met with a ]
Fraser's Magazine for August, 1853),
Bartleman, which paper I take for c
have been written oy Mr. Taylor. Ai
nions and particulars concerning the
the singer are there reproduced, and in
with which they were given to mc. 1 1
fore ^ extract from that paper in prefi
offerinff mv own sketch of a distant oon*
It should be premised that the writer k
of the Ancient ConcertSi and of Mr. Bi
activity in bringing forward at thoM CQ|
, JmtK 11, '
NOTES AND QUERIES-
|jear 1796), some of tbe most strtkiog base
I of Purcelt: —
^t the ninth concert he fevivcd— or rather caused to
ftrd for the first time — * Let the drendful enginoi
tial wUL* Thia &on^, written for the character of
nio, in Purceirs opera of Dan Qnbrote^ demands m
^nation of powers on the part of tho singer^ which
f any songs, require in a like degree. Kag6» hatred,
^ pity^ love« and contempt, Oiid Uteir most virid and
expreeaion in thin extruordinary composition,
tiimt which the dng^er has the accompaniment of
Anoforte or violoncello only. The whole effect
he produced^ if it be produced, by his tmaided
and it waa a te^t to which ft)W had cared, and
care, to subject themselves. The result must
I be complete success, or entire failure. Uartleman
he was equal to his self-imposed istuk. 11^ had
"us auditors for his grandest exhibition of Pur-
, and he wa^ himself prepared t^j display it,
)e of his career many critics sat in md^nent
(but he was the severest of them ail. He studied
an actor would study one of Shakespearo*s
!rs; he became the person that he represented :
lered into every feeling, thought, and emotion of
indt finding for each the most emphatic expression
rceira music \ and the result was, that the song was
and his alone: with Bartleman it waa trarn^-witb
it died."
will now proceed to atate a curious circum-
ce (not at all touched upon by Professor
lor), regarding* this fine song, winch will tend
how the necessity of occasional!/ considering
proceedings of editors and others as to the
fthies of England »
IS certainly much to be regretted that objec-
table words are so of\en to be found with old
* compositions, and there is no doubt that
presence of several coarse thoutjhts and words
le lost movement but one of *' Let the dread*
enjiirics/* has been the cause of that move-
beini? omitted in modern editions, and with
if a necessity, the very last movement also,
whose knowledge of Purceirs secular mustc
llv derived from the Selections of Mr. Corfe
Dr. Clarke, will End, upon coming to the
** Since nothing can prevail,"
lib close a certain movement of ** Let the
idful Engines," a direction to the singer to
linate tlie song by repeating an inner move-
beginning —
" Can nothing warm tne,**
movement docs indeed close the composi-
%cry well, and simply appears to be Bome^
of the Da Capo^ used so much in ancient
r, and which is one of the sources of a cer-
de^ee of stiffiiess and formality, as well as
latelincss. Now, if we look into the early
loos of this " mad song/' that, for instance, of
4, or the reprint in the Orpkeux Britanniau^
lished for Purceirs widow» we shall find
ing: of the Da Capo^ bat, after tbe words
ice nothing can prevail,** tico new movemeotd
follow, quite different to any of the preceding
ones, and tbe last, upon the words —
" Ajid so I fairly bid them, and the World, Good Night,**
closing the whole in a very impressive and tin-
expected manner.
It will be easily perceived how great an injofl-
tice maj have been done to Purcell by theae
peculiar proceedings of the editors, and it might
occur to us that it would have been a verj ob-
vious course to have had the objectionable words
and thoughts super^^^eded by others, writteo in a
better tuste, and thus preserve the music intact.
Instead of that, Purcell's two last movements
(still carrying out t!ie idea of constant variation
in Cardenio's mind, and thus carrying out to the
very end of the song its dramatic propriety), are
ruthlessly cut away, and the comparative stiffnesa
and formality of the Da Capo silently substituted.
Having been very lately led to reconsider all
these things in their bearing upon the just fame
of Purcell, I have resorted t^PMs. W. H. Husk
for some of the information which that gentleman
is always so kindly ready to impart in connexion
with muiiic and musicians. In this case, I par-
ticularly wished to ascertain how ** Let the dread-
ful Engines " had been given by Mr, Bartleman,
at the Ancient Concerts- It appeared, and upon
ihe authority of the Ancient Concert Word-hoohtt
that Mr* Bartleman had sung the song at least
half a dozen times (between 1796 and 1802), at
the Ancient Concerts ; aud, strange to say, it also
appeared that, in erer^ instanc€f the composition
had been treated Da Capo fashion.
Mb. Husk also put me in possesion of ihe
interesting fact, that the song, after having long
slumbered at the Ancient Concerts, was revived
by Mr, Braham at one of those concprts (Wed-
nesday, May 6th, 1835), when it was given by
him in hs completeness os to the music, the most
objectionable words and phrases having been ex-
punged fi^r a new version. Whether the music
nas over been printed as thus given by Mr, Bra-
ham, I am not at present aware, but I trust, in a
subsequent paper, to revert to the subject of this
particular song, and of sundry points connected
with it. AutUED BOFFB.
Somers Town.
JOSEPH LESUBQUE8.
The case of this unfortunate man has once
more been before the French Chambers; and
although it is sixty years old, it has excited much
public attention. It is the most remarkable caae
of mistaken identity upon record, and some notice
of it may be worthy of a place in your columns*
He was executed in 1 794 for the alleged crimes
of robbing the Lyons ^lail^ wA ^svact^^vw^ ^^^^
courier, but \mviit ^\t«iMm%\KB5i^ ^*^ ^^sx^x. wA.
474
NOTES AND QUEBIE8.
[•^av.jun:
difficulty which would have rendered hu cooTic-
tion at the present time impossible. The case
has been made Hubscrvicnt to the purposes of the
novelist and the dramatist both m France and
Encland; but even their invention could add
noting to the horrible interest of the naked facts.
The story was elaborated in Blackwood under the
title of " Lcsurques ; a Judicial Error ; " but the
details are faithfully given in one of Chambers*s
TractSy — " Circumstantial Evidence ; the Lyons
CJourier." The tragical history is in substance
soon told. In 1794, the Lvons mail was robbed
of above 54,000 francs and the courier brutally
murdered, and it appears that four persons were
concerned in the crime. Lesurqucs fell a yictim
to his close resemblance to one of the murderers,
not only in stature, in features, and in complexion,
but even in certain marks on the face, on the
hand, and on the body. lie was executed, pro-
testing his innocence, and his innocence was also
a0serted by some d* the actual perpetrators of the
crime who sufTereu with him. His property was
confiscated to repay the Treasury for the sum
lost, and his family reduced to beggary. His
wife shortly after committed suicide; his son
joined the grand army and perished in the snows
of Russia. One of his daughters made a desperate
eflbrt to obtain restitution, after the innocence of
the father had been established by the discovery
of the actual murderer, a man of the name of
Dubos(i, to whom Lesurqucs had borne so fatal a
resemblance, but she failed, and drowned herself
in the Seine on the morning after the rejection
of her claims by the Chambers, and the second
daughter died in a madhouse.
The claim of restitution has not been permitted
to sleep. Something had been done by previous
ffovcrnments, by paying small portions or the in-
demnity ; but the present motion, made by the
Baron de Janze, was for restoration of the 54,585
francs, togeUier with interest since the year 1794.
The motion opened up a discussion on the whole
case, and both M. de Janze, M. Clary, and M.
Jules Favre ably supported the claim, and re-
capitulated the evidence of the Courts, and it was
eventually assented to by 113 against 112. For
more than sixty years the law has refused to do a
full measure of lustice, and the doing it now will
be an act exceedingly popular.
The whole of the proceedings in this case are
very instructive, showmg how fiUlible in judgment
are human tribunals, but particularly in showing
the contrast between the jurisprudence of France
at that time and at this, aind in fact indicating the
general improvement in the administration of the
criminal law within this century. I believe, that
with the evidence adduced upon which Lesurques
was condemned and executed, no court of Uw in
Europe would now pan a sentence of death, and
oertainly such senteoce would not be carried
into effect. It is by recurrence to ivkfi
we are able to measure the steps of pnj
the advance of true civilization.
BUNYAH'S TOBfB IN BUNHILL FI]
I have just discoTcred, in thehandwrit
Richard Rawlinson, LL.D., a copy of ili
tion which formerly existed on tne toml
was interred the author of the PUgrim't
and as it appears to me highly important-
in the day of his death and the yean <
from every printed biography — I bef; 1
it literatim to the pages of "^ N. & Q.":
** BUXUILL FIRLD&
On a Tomb.
«* Hera li«s the body of M'. John Stnd^
ag«d 48 y«an, who dved the 15 dv
of Jan. 1697. Also the body of M" Phcebc
who died the 15 July, 1718.
Here also lies the body of the
Rev. Rob. Braooe,
MiDUter of the Gospel* who departi
this life Fcbniary the 12th, 1737, atiti
Hera lyes the body
of M<^ Joiiar Bcxyax,
author of the PiUpim*$
Frogreut aged 5^
who dyed Aag.
17,1688.-
Most biographers state that Bunyi
the house of his friend Mr. Strudwicl
Ilill, London, on Aug. 31, 1688, in his
year, and was buried in that friend*:
Bunhill Fields. Rawlinson (ob. 172
this inscription when it must have 1
parativel^ new, and incorporated it
MS. additions to the List of Itucripik
the Dissenters^ Burial Place near Bum
published by Curll in 1717; his copy c
now preserved in the Bodleian Librarf.
Ascot Races Fobtt Years ago. —
** Nobllia, en, sonipes vlridls lesit iBqaora o
Carplt iter rapidis oc}*or ilie Notis ;
Sed quis vitalem tpiravlt naribus aoram,
Et fecit pectus loxnriara toris ? "
These lines came out at Eton during
week some time in the rei^ of George !
races alwajrs inspire great interest at £t
to its vicinity to the heath ; but the san
come less exciting since the institutii
new pNollcc, and the suppression of jn
blinff in Windsor and on the course. !
the king used to make a point of atteoc
dajr, and the sports usuallV concluded «i
listic contest or two, for love or for moi
the commmr was more select thmn U k
'* roughs, who come from ^ qiuurter
wayt^ Goold not then affiufd (m tn
» ladles used to deacend from their carriages
L'H the rsMT^s, and promeaade on the eourae
111 of the Grand Stand* If Gibbon o.ould
been at Ascot in those dajs^ he would have
iBven more struck than he aajs he wai« at
beater, with ** the splendour of the carriages,
pKiitj of the horses, and the gay tumult of the
Bpectatora/* (Meimoim of his Life and
rO w. D.
fAFHS on Cats*^ — As on aceotnpaniment to
r>itaphfl on Dogs, inserted in " K. k Q." 3^ S.
, I send you the following one, placed over
rite French-Persian cat, named Mouton,
en tie disposition : —
Di repose pauvr© Moutou,
^ai jamais ne fiit glotiton ;
Tespfere bicn que le roi Pluton,
Lui dotmera bcm gite ct crouUm."
M. M.
or TUB Dbath of Lord Jsftret. — In
aitb*a edition of Shaw's Hishry of EnglUh
|ft«r*, p. 487, it is stated that Jeffrey died in
I This is, of course, only a clerical error,
I may save «omc searching if the true date,
tMJ^O, be givea in «' N. k Q/*
^B F. J, F. GaNTtixoN.
lEi'TOTLB^a Pouncs. — Mr. Lewes, in his re-
work on Aristotle, t ays (p. 1 8), —
of two Au«-
treatiM on
i > -, ^ - .-....., .^ ,..i.^^..„ to be one of
^ry beat works yet writtcD, and Dr. Arnold, »^
\bif hmrU declared that ha foond it of daily sarvlee
HipUcation to oor timew"
It is totally wrong to say that Aristotle gives
■tliaes of 255 constitutions, I desire to know
pir, LewcB means. Does he mean 255 pages
istitutions? He is t t. either in dc-
pg the PfditicH as ;» ti«e, for it con-
kf eight book^, auu iTtun.rd's translation
ies 286 pa^es in Bohn's edition. Notwith*
bg Arnold*;^ j^reat attachment to Aristotle, I
we must limit the portion he committed to
|ry to the ei Oith Tvnnk. n frfls^ment on the
(tion of y< Doctor based
tofthesptr I I at Rugby. It
^t in the Bugby course of study.
T. J. BUCKTON.
wiTTT Fool. — Some numbers back
: Q." contained the amusing answer of a
Ifool to a person wishing to find a ford,
ginal of this is at lenst two hundred years
tSee Facetue Bcbelianep, 1660, p. 238 : —
km enm juxta S^la,m, mfymambUe aptid hlstoricos
u\m lliuiien, obcquitaret, tuit intcrrogatua ab eo qai
fuulii tlutuiniB equiubat, ubi flumen vadarl
i^yaiivit iadiguajatitr cur ^ di^c^pia^t 'i Ad
hoc 5ituti«. 0 fatue et homo nihili, anates illcc hac ad
mc natarunt iUic^9« tarn iafirmum BcHicet ammai, et tu
cum tanto caballo noa potei ! **
O. T. D.
OaioiN OF Prior's " Tbief aud Cord^uer."
— This famous song is evidently borrowed from a
Latin epigram given in Scott's Enigranis of Mar^
tial, ^c. (1773, p. 67-) It runs thus : —
**In BardeUam Latrotun ManiMOHum,
''Banlellam nKvnacbtig solans m morte latronem,
* Eugo! tibi in oAo trjpiirK {wrotur* ait:
Eespondit Bardella ♦Hodit* jejuni* lervo;
Comabitt DOfltro» $i libet, ips« loco.* **
Can any of the readers of " N. & Q.,*' refer me
to the author of the above ? A. A.
Foela' Comer.
KaxiiB's Marrta<3£ Portion of £100. — On
Monday the 2nd of May last, l^iay-day falling or
the Sunday, the proceeiiings in connection with
this charity were carried out. • As I do not re-
member any notice of this remarkable bequest in
the pages of " N. & Q " I beg to hand the fallow-
ing statement for your acceptance. It will, I
thmk, be considered worthy or preservation. Mr*
Henry Raine was a brewer in the parish of St.
George- in-the-East^ Middlesex. In the year 1719
he erected some schools in a place now known as
Charles Street, Old Gravel Lane, and whiih are
called the " Lower Schools." These schools were
intended for fifty boys and fifty girls. In 1736 he
extended the charity by the endowment of a new
school called "The Asylum," and in this school
forty of the girls chosen from the Lower School,
and who have been in it for a period of not leas
than two years, are maintained, clothed, and edu-
cated. Ten are elected into it every year, and
after having been there four years, during the last
of which they are instructed in the duties of do-
mestic servants, they go out to service. At the
age of twenty 'two, those who have been out to
service, after being the proper time in school, are
eligible to become candidates for the marriage
portion of one hundred pounils. This marriage
portion constitutes the peculiarity of the bequest.
It is given to those young women who having re-
ceived the requii'ed education in the schools, and
having attained the age of twenty*two years shall,
by the masters and mistresses whom they have
served be best recommended for their piety and
industry. This ceremony takes place evexy year,
and the celebration creates much interest in the
neighbourhood. Amongst the nobk* act^ of bene-
volence of which we have in this country so many
substantial records, I do not remember to have
heard of anotiier of this character. T. B.
^ cE KOT AW Old Womaw. — The Z>fli7^
ph of last we^k lie^vm ^ock «t\:\A«t <^axav--
I " :iUke moivcy, m^ wrci^ V^^iSflXXi V^ 1^^ w^>s^
make money- The icorihy old woman who gave
this ftdvice to an aspiring boy," &c»
Our daily contemporary forgot tk.it thb passage
is ascribubie to Horace — by no meann " an old
woman.*'
It h to be found in tbe first epistle of the first
Book of EpLitle;s (vt. 65, G6), as itiost men know.
*' . . . Rem racios ; rem.
Si poBSis recte, si oon* quocunque modo, rem/*
M. C. C.
CQurriftf.
COLONEL JOHN MORICE. OK MORRIS.
Wanted^ any particulars respecting the family
of Colonel John Morice, or Morris, Governor of
Pontefract Castle, tn 164S. I have tbe following
very imperfect pedigree^ In wbich* perhaps, some
correspondent of ** N. & Q," will kiodly enable
me to fill up tbe blanks : —
Edward Morieoi or Morris, of Elmsall, Com,
Ebon, born , married — -, died , His
son, Robert Moricc, or Morris, of Elmsall, born
, married ^ died .
His aon Nicholas Moriee or Morris, of Elmsall,
born 1 died , havinjy married , Lucy,
daughter and heiress of John Latham, of Carleton
HalJ, near Pontefroct, by whom he had four sons,
I Thomas, Edward, Riebard, nnd John, Thomas
' Moriee or Morris of Elmsall, born , d ,
having married , Barbara •, daughter of John
Went worth, of North Elmsall, Esq., by whom he
had issue —
Matthias Moriee, or Morris, of Elmaall, bom
— — , died , having married, 1st, ,
daughter of John Brighouse, of Newark, com,
NotL, Esq., by whom he had issue John, Nicholas^
Edward, Elita, and Ann. 2, Jane, daughter
of George Holgate, of Grimthorp, (torn. Ebor.,
by whom he bad issue Matthias, Wentworth,
Richard, and John.
Hist eldest son John was born in 1620 or 1621 ;
Governor of Pontefract Castle 1648; executed
at York, August 23, 1649, and buried at Went-
worth. He married — Margery, daughter of
Dr. Robt. Dawson, Bishop of Clonfert and Kil-
mackdnugh, in Ireland, by whom (who remarried
— Jonas Buckley) he had issue Robert, born
, died 1676 (s. p.); John, born , died in
in infancy; Mary, l>oni , died («.pOt
having been twice married ; and Castilian Mor-
ris t. Town Clerk of Leeds, born , died De-
Wu DarbArit Weatwortb oftho samef^milr uThos.
?^cnt worth, Karl of Strafford, m whose bouseholtl her
nnrtiton, Ci>I. »Tolin Moms, wns bmug^ht wp?
t ^^^ ' It«v. ^ Morrit, Vicar of Aldboroagb,
to. w tj . , Af onis i«at a tnoicript of his father's
tri*h 'i' i'umagm reUtiag to his death oad auf-
lerii}g«« Uiii hltM occompaayiog tiiem being dated Leedj,
June 18, ITOi, tad ai|ped '"'Your atf^UooaU Cqi^u, vid
kamUif SetvMntf Castillajx MokeisJ**
cember 18, 170*2, baving^ mnriad.
daughter of WiUiam Aslienden, of
who died 1677, leaving one aoo, Jo
Mary, daughter of George Ja
mer chanty by whom he had in
and CastUian, born and huru
tiUan, born 1692 ; Robert, '
, married Willm. Sykes <
chant ; Ellcaor ♦♦ born
Richard Sharp, of Leeds^ died 174$ j
abeth, and Margaret.
John Morris, of Leeds, only
Morris by his first wife ^ bom-
having married Martha,
Chaloner of Bail don, Aud by I
daughters, Arabella and Martha.
I have a memorandum that — ^
"Tn Au^st, 1754, Dan<. WOUaxnioiv ^i
copied for Mr. Thomas Wilson of Leckiiv I*
pcct of Pontefract Casttc, and the parish d
ori§^ina1 paiating, painted aT the expcnM I
Gorenior of that Ca«tlc in lii4^ before llu^
were dcrooliahfid. Mrs. Fraaklaad ofLid^
daughter to tbe Colonel, has the origiBal|
aUo the Colancra lady's picture. Dr. FhJ
York, baa the Oilonel^a pictare, which MfJ
son purchiified for him of Mrs. Sharp, of J
neVs graaddangbtcj-t for four guineaa."*
Are thete pictures still in exialeitflel
where? Whose daughter was Mn^f
nnd was Mr. Thomas Wilson in ajiyj
to or connected with the family of '
ris ? Answers to these queries^ of I
information respecting Col. Morrk 1
of his family, wdl greatly oblige
THE OLD CATHEDR.1L OF BOt
It is well known that among the I
dents in France during this and
century, several, possessed of tbe I
ing. have at Tnrious times take
of the scenery, but abo of tbe
country. This circumstance may"
the portfolio of an English nmateci^fl
valuable to French antiquaries
be nreserved in them views of tht^
to be properly appreciated by a 1
a native.
An exempIiBcation of this exk
Boulogne- 8 ur-Mer. Manr of ^ "
ings of that town huve disntinca
troubles of lli
dalism of the i ^ i atn
tury ; but sketches of them^ tiior« (
♦ U Mr
haro beeri
Col, ^
\ to*
itin natttir tiglttly
>/ so, who«t daof
•boat
JQVR II
NOTES AND QUERIES.
1 foand in the collections of English
liave been shown to the authorities of
Qe, and have been highly appreciated by
illustrating the history of tnelr town, of
hey are justly proud. Several views of
! Viile of this kind are in lii^h estima-
■mong French, and especially Botilonnese
^ttaries. One of the most interesting edi-
I of old Boulogne wus the Cathedral, which of
I years has totally disappeftredt and been re-
by the modem one — a sumptuous pile
aly, but of course devoid as yet of bistoricat
. No view of the old Cathedral of Bou-
known to exist in France ; but it is con-
osstblc that among accompli&hed English
, of the times just anterior to the Great
Q, some one may have made a sketch of
! preserved some trace of its form,
been requested by the learned Keeper
Archives of Boulogne — M. L'Abbe Haig-
— — -to propose to your readers and correspon-
"^ a sear en for drawings of this or any other
ancient buildings of Buulo^e ; and I am
sd to state that the communication of them
municipality of the town will be duly and
^iully appreciated.
take this opportunity of informing your
srs, if thev are not previously aware of the
\ that the Public Library of Boulogne, under
jrumrdiansbip of M, Gerard, a gentleman of
Xilar learning and urbanity, is very rich and
*risivuj and that its J^ISS, of the eleventh,
l:f\h, and thirteenth centuries, have an Euro-
reputation for their great beauty and rarity,
library is open to 3l students, and every
Ity is given ior the consulting and copying of
Treaiures it contains;, to an extent and in a
Her totally unknown, but which may well be
Ited, in England. The same observation may
be extended to the libraries of Amiens,
^»tien, and other large cities in the north of — I
Igbt rather say all over France,
H. LONGUEVIIXE JoKEi.
BWfly.
BcnoTE, --' I have somewhere read an anec-
I of an eminent man who excused himself for
ering a peach from a friend's garden wall by
romptu rhyme, which his companion deemed
t justification of the act of petty larceny »
one refresh my memory as to the words
Ich (I think it was) and the name of the
St* SwiTHiN.
itaow StJCKEN. — In a document of the earlier
of (^u<;eu Elixabeth's reign, a person is de-
k*d as residing at "Borrow Sucken in the
ie of NortharoptOD,** I am anxious to identify
liace. iC. P. D. E.
The Eael or Clonmeix's "DiA^ar." — Can you
furnish me with any particulars of a volume en-
titledf I believe, The Diary of Jahn Scott, Earl
of ClonmeU, and said to have been ** privately
printed,** near the end of the last, or the beginning
of the present, century ? I have never met with a
copy of the book, which, as I presume, is ** very
rare.*' Has any description of it appeared in
print? and in what collection may a copy be
found ? Lord Clonmell was a distinguished cha*
racten Ahiiba.
Dvcuaxul, — Will Mr. Db MoftGAfr, who has
bestowed so much attention on the literature of
mathematics and its practical applications, or some
other well-informed mathematician, have the kind^
ness to inform me who is M. Duchayla, author of
the celebrated Proof of the Parallelogram of
Forces^ mentioned tn p. 7 of J. H. Pratt's Mather
matical Principles of Sfechanical Philosophy t Cam-
bridge, 1836; and also in p. 19 of Isaac Tod-
hunter's Treatise oji Analytical StiUies^ Cambridge,
1 858, 2nd ed. ? I should also be glad to know when
and where this celebrated " proof" was first pub-
lished. The name of Duchayla is not to be found
in the principal biographical dictionaries.
Mathematicds, T. C, D.
Expedient, — When did this word first come
into use ? The text, vtLna. fioi Jf^t^rrw, oXA' ov irdrra
ev^lft^i (1 Con vi. 12), is translated by Wyclif
**AlIe thingis ben nedeful to me, but not alle
thingis ben spedefuL" By Tyndale, "All thinge«
are lawfull vnto me ; but all thinges ire not pro-
fit table/* Cranmcr*f4 version is, "I maye do all
thynges, but ijl thynges are not profitable " The
same words are in the Genevan vci'sion. It is not
till that of Rheims {a.d. 1582) that we get ** Al
things are lawful for me, but all thingd are not
expedient." A, A*
Poets' Corner.
Captain Thomas Fobrbst published —
"A Voyage to New Gaiaea and the Moluccas from
BaUnibaiiga (1776-8), including an Account of Magin-
daao Sooloo and other Islands, To which i^ addetl a
Vocabulary of the Magindono Ton^c Loud. 4 to, 1779,
** A Treatiso on the Monsoons in tlie East ludlei*
Load. rJmo, 1785;" and
♦♦ A Voyage from Calcutta, to the Mergui Archipelago,**
&c* &c, London, 4to, 1792»
A translation into French of his Voifoge t9
New Guinea and the Moluccas appeared at Paris,
4to, 1730.
It appears that he was born in or about 1729;
became a midshipman in the navy 1745, and was
senior captain of the East India Company's marine
at Fort Marlborough in 1770.
His portrait, engraved in 1779 by William
Sharp from a drawing of J« K. Sherwint is ^ce^
fixed to botb k\a Voyages* Xi-Ckj^src <>cvis». \«^'3t«k
bii second vo;y«L^e \% \Sivi vt«iaTv^v««i *- —
478
NOTES AND QUERIE&
[l»* 8.^.30
" Cnpt Thomfts Forrest, Orcanyo of tlio Golden Swonl.
ThiR ('happ was conrerred as a mark of honor in the City
of Atcheen Inslonf^ing to the Faithful! by the hands of
the Shabaniler (Oflicer of State) of Atcheen, on Captain
Thomas Forrest, Gower Street, 5th Feb. i7lK). Trans-
late<l by WillUm Marsden."
I shall be glad to be informed when he died.
Perhaps he was father of Thomas Forrest, Gapt.
B.N., who died Sept. 6, 1844, aged sixty-five.
S. Y. R.
Grkrk or Syrian Princes. — In examining
the records of the borough of Leicester for the
purpose of local history lately, I met with the
following entry: —
" At a Common Hall, held the loth day of August,
Anno Dni. nri. Geor^ii 2di, nanc Keg. Magn. Brittan.
Ac. quarto, A« Dni, 1/30.
** Ordered that Joseph Abaisir and John Ilommer,
Priuces of Mount Lybanus, in S^Tia, bo presented with
Ten Guineas by the CorjKjration, and l>c Treated and
Guarded 1o Coventry in such manner as thoy were con-
ducted from Nottinf^ham hither, pursuant to his Ma-
jesty's Koyul Injunction. The ten Guineas and all other
charges to be paid by the Chamberlhis, and allowed them
in their accounts.
** Healed with the Common Bonlc for the said Princes
tlic like imss fVom I^icester to Coventry, as they had fWmi
other places one to another."
A friend, writing from Newcastle-uj)on-Tyne,
informs me that the same i>ersonages (known in
our Chamberlains' accounts as the " Grecian **
Princes) were in that town on July 30, 1730, and
were there presented with twenty guineas by
Mr. Mayor.
At a Common Hall meeting held on November
27, 1732, it was onlored —
" That the Chamlmrlins give the Ilon^^ George Tomi-
son, Priucit of the Muscovites in Syria, three Guineas, to
be allowed in their Accounts.'*
In the Chamberlains' accounts, this personage
is designated differently, the entry being —
" Paid the Black Prince, by Order X ». d.
of Hall 03 03 00"
If any of your correspondents would furnish me
with any information snowing who any or all of
these persons were, I should i'ecl oblif^d.*
James Thompson.
Heraldic Query. — Parted per pale, 1. Gules,
two bars ermine, in chief a lion possant, guardant ;
2. Or, on a chief sable, three esciUlops. The name
or names of any person bearing the above coats
will much oblige W. J. Bernhard Smitii.
Temple.
lIiGu Commission Court. — ^What was the seal
used by this Court ? Does any drawing or impres-
sion of it exist ? Is there no history or the Court
or of its proceedinj^ ? or arc they to be collected
only from the various historical writers and law
reporters between the reigns of Henrj VIII. and
James IL ? S. £. 6.
* These prinosi were inqnind after in our t^^ 8« xC
m.'
The IIootino Thing or Micnnoi
Some thirty years ago, I ©aen beard t
deceased, speak of a strange tod i
noi!»e for which a wood near Midli
county of Gloucester, had long bea
My friend in his boyhood had gftesl
in the house of a wealthy yeomtn m
by whom the soand in question hac
been heard, and who, bciii)^ a keen ip
well acquainted with the cry of «fi
beast in the forest, was not likeW to
by any ordinary woodland sound. ]
it as being unlike any other noise h(
' and most uncouth and awful in ch
' used abo to tell the story of a relado
I a wild young officer in the armr, h\
I who came into the neighbourhooa
before on a visity and was as fond i
his contempt for "the hooting tlun|
desirous of hearing it At last his
gratified. One day while alone oat
actually heard the mysterious sound,
home silent and thoughtful ; ooukl
duced to talk about what he hac
ifhortly after resigned his commissi
afterwards a fervent preacher amoB
ley*s Methodists.
A trifling circumstance has recallc
iar story to my remembrance, and I
any tradition of ^the hooting thins
in the neighbourhood of Mickleton r
" Jack or Nbwbuet." — Who or i
by Mojzunce, mentioned in the folio
from The History trf Mr, John Win
Jack of Newhury^ the famow amd m
of England f~^
** May it please yonr Majesty, said Jack
that it was my chance to moot with a mc
the proportion of a man but headed like a
of whose teeth was like the poisoned teetl
his breath like the hasiliak/s, killing afk
his name was Envy ; who assailed me in?
wicked spirit of Mogunce, who flung stoa
could not be seen."
In this book there arc many cm
one example of which I subjoin : —
** A mai<Ien fair I dare not wed,
For fear to have Acteon*s head :
A maiden black ia often prond ;
A maiden little will be loud ;
A maiden that ia high of growth.
They sav ia subject onto alotfa :
llius fair or foul, yea, little or tal
Some Ikults remain among them i
In the course of the history, the vir
tain George a Green are extolled, wh
must be the subject of a scarce bi
titled,—
«Tha Hiatonr of G9mg9 a Gnen, Plalfl
, or WakaAaldAu BteUu GaUinc Valsaa
$»*aV. JujrKll,*^]
NOTES AJiD QtJEKIES,
479
'Ta
Panog^B in the Comae of his Life and Fortune.
H. CoSGHEVl.
B Imisu ToTom*"— Who redJy wrote The
Tutor f I know to whom the creilit u given,
^ WJM not the author* S* RjtDMo?tD,
►KiafBOLTOH PaBKT** a ninrriKQDONfHlRE
iMT. — Who was «thc Revd. Mr. H ," the
or of tba poetD of " KimboJton Park,*' which
pies nine pages in vol iv. of Pearch^s Calkc
Y Poetm, 1783? Was he "the Reverend
Jutchinflon of Holywell, Hunts;^ referred to
fc foot-note to p, 569, vol ii, of FriUt's Glean^
"— England, 1801, fts the ** very respe<:table
genioug gentleman." who u mentioned in
ly of the work as having
1 long and laboriooaly etnptoyin^ him»olf in a his-
r the cotinty (HuntiiigdoiMhim), with the iaadable
, 1 of doing juitice to some part* which have fuffered
inisrepryweutotion, and of giving a fiur and candid
nption of the wholeu"
f Of Mr; Hutchinson's History, Pratt says,—
•* Variouj pnblic and priyate causes have protracted,
I ar« rtiU fikdy to ddiiy, the publication of tbL™^-
. ftom a genettnu outlina which I uq pennitted t(J
r>ri?^rV°%^ Judge what copious sheaves
T be expected, when I can aend yoa his whole har-
: am desiroua to know if the History, or any
•tion of It (other than the "generous outline^*
-i indicated) was ever published? and, if not,
Ir. Hutchinaon's collection has been used by
r other author, or if it is still in existence, and
"' ^^er® ? CUTHBEBT BbdE.
• LoTAtTT MxDAiS,** ETC. — I saw described in
-in dealer a London catalogue, medala with the
I of tbarles I., thas described. They were of
T. Is there any work which gives a descrip-
i of the medals of the Royalists of the time of
larles I.? A memorial, which I take to be
^^^»»g of tbis sort, is described in a note to
e Diary of Sir Henry Slingshy afScrioen, Bart,
r of Red Borne, near York, edited by Daniel
-sons, M. A. 1836, p. 137: —
•• A very interesting memorial of this march ftowarda
^iry duriDg the Civil Wur] ia itJll in <ud»toaca- it is
Iver mediif of an oval ahapc, made to be worn. 'On it
> half^ength of Mr Henry in his militarv dreaa, but
•■-^, and with long flowing hair, aod ronnd thrw
I i^end ; » lux . ResidvB , Nvraiai . Svb . Haata
• Jr^* • Frrednti , JvxU . Daventriiim
. Penny . For . My , Children.* Tho. U. B.
^is lightly engraved Scriven and Sling*hy impal-
laayiw, and the erert a lion paaMiiL And it is re^
■ ^ that the baron coat i« dimidiated so that Scri-
I once at top, and once below, barwtae. Below
\ eogravetl, ' Bchi-adeil Jonf r' 8 . by O C
hicb should be 1G58. The . ' rion
lek mtkf be presumed from 1 1 1 j i^»
— I added about the dose ol .... ., .„ ..^iuiv/'
In a meeting of the Society of Antiquaries of
May 5, \\ D. Haggard, Esq.,. presented to tlie
focietys Jibrary, among other bequests, **4. A
List and DencnpHon of MtdaU rdatiug ia the Pre-
tender. Would some member of the Antiquarian
fc>ociety of London be so good us to note such
medala of the Stuarts, with their rl " , r^otti
u»8 list as are not in the '' Series < •(' the
Stuart Family in the Collection oi .\ir. i-.tiward
Hawkjnu, F.R,S., F.S.A., mentioned in the Cola-
io^ue of Anitquitie^, Wirriu of Aj% mid Hiutoricai
ScoUuk Beiici, exhibited in ike Muaewn of the
Archaeological ItiAtihtte at Edinburgh in IS6H, and
Bend them to «N. & Q^' so as to render the
list oi btuart medals aa complete as possible.
Ajiosi.
I»scRiPTiow AT PoKTCHssTBB.— Can any of your
readers mlorm me if the following inscription on
a monument in the ancient church of Portchester,
Hampshire, is a quotation or an original compo-
sition?— '^ *^
" Early, bright, tramdent, chaste as rooming dew,
She sparkled, was exhaled, aod went to heaven.**
TnOM^ E» WofTlIllGTOIf.
The Rbgbnt Ajm Lords Grbv anp Gkek-
YUSJi.^ln 1812, on the expiration of the "re-
itrictions*' on the Regency, the Prince Regent
addressed a letter, dated Feb. 13, to the Duke of
York, which was intended as an overture to Lords
Grey and Grenvdle.
This letter was answered by them on the 1 5 th
of the same month. Of these two documents I
have copies. Can anj one tell me whether they
have as yet appeared m print, and if so, where ?
D.
Sauion ts the Thames. — In the famous Led-
ger Book of Rochester, or Text us Roffensis, cap.
179, is the following curious entry, which I trans-
late thus, subject, of course, to correction : —
•♦This is the alms-giving [demosina] which Lord
Emttlf, the Bishop* with the coaAcnt and at the request
of the monks, appointed to be made every year ftir the
80ul of our father Gundnlf, the Bishop, in his anniver'
sary.
•*The Secretary should give 40 pence [ouadriginta
deaarios], the Chamberlain 40 pence, the Collurer 40
pence, and a thousand of herriuga [unum millenarium
alkciura], Hedreham [probably tfedenhara, of which the
monks held the manor] 4 shtlliogs [solidos], and two
salmon [dnoa aalmonesl. Frcndesberi, Deviatuna, Ftietea,
Wldeham [probably Frmdabuiy. Davingion, South Fleet,
and Woul^am] ti shillings and two salmons. Lambetha
one, and Soutbwercji one [Lambt*th, the manor of which
they had, except the curia or palace of the Archbishop,
ami South warkj. These 2C> shillings the CeBarer shall
receive, aiid having thenco bought bread and herrings
[et empio inde pane et allecc], he with the almoners
shall distribute them on that duj to the poor. That the
monks shall have the salmon in the refectory/*
We are told that at one time salm<^ti m«t<s. s*^
480
NOTES AND QUERIES.
ime.r.itmitK^
give this focHl to their cbildren ivlien apprenticed
more than twice- a week ; that they hnve been
taken above brid^^e in the Thames by hundred-
weights in a day* and so on. Now Gunduirs anni-
versary was on the 7th of March (our IStb^ New
Style), when this fish are no longer rarities.
Could it have been worth while then, if sslmon
[ abounded, to receive them, one from such a place
as Lambeth, and one from Southwark; and to
carry them thirty mik*a to Rochester, or to make
four towns club together to find two salmon — half
a fish a piece — when we should have supposed
they might have been caught not far from Roches-
ter in scores ? Forty pence (three shillings and
fourpence) and a IDOO herrings also seem an odd
proportion to four shillings and two salmon. It
seems curious too that none of the eight salmon
were given away, but entirely consumed by the
monks thems^elvcs. The passage would seem to
infer that in Ernulf *s time, a,d. 1 1 15, salmon were
not so common in the Thames. A. A*
Po«ts* Comer.
SLaVSBT PROHinrrBB is PEPIIfSYLVAmA* — I
am yer}^ desirous of obtaining a copy of an Act
passed in the year 171 1 by the Assembly of Penn-
sylvania, prohibiting,' under any condition, the
importation of slaves into that colony. **^ As soon
aa the law reached England to receive the usuiil
confirmation of the Crown, it was peremptorily
cancelled/'— Zi/<r of Wm, Penn, by Dixon, Phila-
delphia edit* p. 331. Dixon refers to Proprietartf
VaperSt voL ix* Q, 29, State Paper Office. In
Settle's Negro Slaver^^ ** Memoirs, Hist. Soc. of
FPenna^" vol. i. part n. p. 370, the title of the Act
is given : " An Act to Prevent the Importation
of Negroes and Indians into the Province." The
writer says, ** it is doubtful whether a copy of it
IS in existence.** If this be a proper question for
** N. ic Q." I venture to hope tnat some corre-
spondent will be able to refer me to the right
quarter for Information. I learn from a friend of
Mr. Granville John Penn, that that gentleman
ifl now enga^d in examining hitherto unexplored
papers of his distinfrui«hed ancestors. Perhaps
thjs and other more interesting questions may be
solved by this search. St. T.
Ukpubushed Suaksperian MSS. or thb
ULTB Me. CjtLDKCOTT. — Thesc MSS, would no
doubt be of considerable Umportance, Mr* Calde-
cott being an able critic, and having access to so
many rare books of the Elizabethan period. His
notes were chiefly unpublished, those on two
plays only having been printed. I have ascer*
tained that diej were bequeathed to Mr. George
Crowe, son of the late public orator at Oxford.
If Mr. Crowe is still living, perhaps he would
excuse an nr t tt, .^^ i\yQ papers be deposited in
the Shaks^i um at Stratford-on-Avofi, a
co^lBctioQ iil' ^ J -.ri great importance^ \^reterT«d
in spacious rooms at the birtli-|iii« » atm
Street, and for the benefit of whici IAoqM piB
fuUy receive any Shakjiperian pruoiftt I m
take great care of any that maj bt
to my charge at No, 6, St. MarjV I***",
Brompton, near London. The naiMs dm
donors will be regiatered at the HnsnAC
also published. J- O. ILiiAiwa
Rbv. GBoaGJi WAUtE»»-^«i any of j
respondents give me any informatioa r
the ancestors and desc^adants of " "
Walker, who defended Loni
James II. ? His sister Anne mam-cii m
well of Falkland, co. Monagban;
formerly belonging to him, ta in the i
one of her descendants. E M I
Tub Rev. Thou ab ^yILK^^50B^ publtilit-
1. *^ A Dwcourso on the Doctrine of OrJptilfjt
eaiioned by aa Appendix, to StackbO'ttM's Ai^
ou that Sobjectf dedicat«d with Permisdoti l>M
the Archbishop of Cunterbuo^ bv th# Ber. Oti^
Bishop of the Scotch Episcopal CnurchX pi^^
Paul's CathedTttl on Sondav, the 9th of Mank 1
Bvo. 1817.*'
2, ** The Inspiration of the Holy ScriptarM
the evident Completion of mimy very h
phecies* London, 8vo. 1823."
In the first work he is designated M
of Bui van, Essex, and Curate of St.
Holborn; and in ttie second^ B,D*^
Bulvan.
We presume that he was of T^inkj
Cambridge; B.A. 1793; M.A. 17D$;
Information respecUnrr him, and
date of his death, will oblige
C. H. & Tbompsox Cmo^
Cambridge.
isu
«9u(rirtf hiii^ ^niUmL
Geobgb Mbriton, autbor of Amgk^rwm Q^
LtjudtortTs Law^ Nomenciittura CUrictdu^ In^*^
Thoresby says, ** removed into Ir«biDd« wMft
was said to be made a judge." InfoilBaUM !
specting him is requeated*
C. J. D. Im^MJom.
TyddyT-y-Sai«, Ctmirvon.
[It 11 somewhat romarkable thai nothing k
the 5>ersQDftl history of G«ofg« Meritcm, attonwyift
Allertoo, sod aathor of several legal and ttiher
He was the elder brother of Thocnas Meritoo, lb* til
tiBt, vrho dedicated ("with notable nonieiiaiv** i^
Oldyt) hii tragedy Lore and U'^ar, 4ta, lidS,
traly noble» judicious gcMtleniaii, Mfid hit m
brother, Mr. George Meriron,*^ Laogbeioe ^yi^i
apt to believe these two brothers a4;t«iS the
those Genijfto brethren tlrat dwelt al Eoi
and Uie rbctoricitn iticjitiatiMl by Hofioa (,
t^. %\, 'wkodft buftioau it wa» —
»«» S. V. JuxB 11, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIE&
481
* Ut niter
Altmiijs sermone meros audi ret Imnorei :
Gracchus at hie illi foret, hie ut Maciua iUL'**
George Alert toa must be the person of that name who
appeared at Dagdale^s Yialtation of Yorkahtrer A.n* 16(^6,
when be described him^lf of Castle Leavington, ion of
Thomas of the same place (ob. 1C52), who was son of
George Meriion, D.D., chaplain to Anne of DeDmark, and
Dean of Peterborough and afterwards cf York.
The George Mezilon living in 1C6G bad married Mary,
daughter of T Pallwer of Kirkby Wick, by whom be had
Thomas, aged eight in 1665. He bad also two sisters
married to two Palllsers, and one of the family being an
archbishop in Ireland, may possibly account for bis re-
moral to that coQntr^', as related by Thoresby.
George ^[eriton sent his s(»;ond son Georg« to Gam-
bridge, where he died on August H, 1680, and was burled
la All Saints' Church. An inscription to bis memory is
printed in Le Xcve^s Mowanenta An^icana^ \y* 4. Colev
in bis MS. Parochial Hiatory of Oambtidgethiret iiL 65|
states that this mooiiment baa since been removed, ** and
no signs of any such monament being there, nor the upper
stone preserved, that I could see in any part of the
church ; but luckily the inscriptioni though the stoue is
loatf is preserved, through the care of that most learned
and industrious antiquary, Mr. Baker* who sent it to
Mr. Le Kere/* A few such industrious antiquariea as
Browne Willis, Iliomas Baker, and John Le Xeve, are
much required tn our day for the preservation of monu-
mental inscriptions.
One of the most popular productions of George Menton,
the attorney, is that curious poem, Tht Prttiaa of Fork'
thire Ale^ 1683, 1685, and 1697, which, by-tbe-bye, la
attributed to Giles Morrington by our correspondent in
bsa History of North Atlerton, pp. 348, 387. That lite-
rary detective, William Oldys, in bb notes on Langboino
in the British Museum, informs us tbat this humorous
piece was **by George Menton, a Yorkshire attorney,
who wrote several books on the law," — the same George
Men ton, as be thinks, with the person of that name men-
tioned by Langbaine (p. &6d} in the account of bis brother,
Thomas Menton. Hence, too, when Thoresby says that
'* George Meriton had written somewhat of the Northern
dialect," he was no doubt thinking of the ** Alpbabetical
Ciavis unfolding the meaning of all the Y'orksbire words "
nsed by bim in this delectable poem, and printed as an Ap-
pendix to it. Again, in Immoraiity^ Dtbandur^^ and Pro'
/anena» Expottd, by George Meriton, Gent., the author
tn several places spi^iks of the atioag ale of North Aller-
ton, as well as of his small estate at Cleaveland, which
seems to conJirm the identity. 77** Praise of Yorhthire
AU is attributed to him by Goagb {Bnt(»h Topog. 1780,
ii. 467), in Bohn*s LowncUst and in the Catalogues of the
Bodleian, GrenvilJe, Malone, and Douce collections^
A lilt of George Meriton's productions will be found in
Wait*i Bddiotheca Brit.^ and in Marvin*s£«^a/i7iV>9rapAy.
The foUowing work is omitted, which we are inclined to
attribute to him : MtMciSafua^ tir a QfUtction of Wm and
In^eniout Sayin^t &fc. uf PrtnteM, Phihutphertf StaUtimHf
H -t^P^
CburtierMf Potit, LadUtt Pawtetii ^., alto Epiiapht, By
G. M. ISmo, 16&4. In Thorpe's Catalogue, 1832. No»
G409, it is stated to t>e by G* Mereton« There ia also an
anpubliabed MS^ by bim in the Britisb Museum (Addit,
MS. 10,401), entitled "A Briefe History or Account,
sbewing howe People did Traffieke in tbe World before
tbe invention of Money, witb an Account of tbe several I
aoffts of Metallet; likewise to wbome tbe prerogative of
Coynlng Money belongs, also an Account of our Silver
and Gold Coyos ; lastly, an Abstract of all our Laws re-
lating to Money. Dedicated to Lord Chief Justice Holt*
By George Meriton, 4to." This MS. waa purchased at
Heber^s sale, lot 7G2.]
La^setu Degrees in M^Dtct^tE. — In tbe
Houae of Commons, on the 1 3th of May* Colonel
French wked the Secretary of State for the Home
Department if it were the fact, that the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury bad the power to confer tbe
title of Doctor of Medicine on persons who had
not undergone an examination before the College
of Physicians. Sir G, Grey said, in reply, that he
bad been unable to ascertain what were tbe facts
of this subject, and could only state that under
an old statute the Archbishop of Canterbury bad
the power of conferring the degree of Doctor of
Me<Jicme. That, however, was hardly recognised
under the last Medical Act He could not state
whether tbe present Archbishop had ever exer-
cised the power. Colonel Frencb said that it was
exercised in 1858. Probably some of the corre-
spondents of " N. & Q" will bo able to state some
of the latest instances of this degree having been
conferred* N*
[A careful inspection of The London and Provincial
Mvdtad Directory for 1804. would doubtless give tbe
latest instAncc* In glancing through it we noticed that
the Lambeth degree of Doctor of Medicine had been re-
cently conferred on tbe following gentlemen : W, S. Oke»
Southampton, 1828 f William liayca, Cambridge, 1850;
F. G. Julius, Eichmond, iSurrey, 1851; R. B. Grindrod,
Great Malvern, 1865; J. H, Ramsbotbam, Leeds, 1855.
An honourable member of the House has moved for a re-
turn of all medical degrees conferred by the Archbishops
of Canterbury; which return, we presume, will be made
ID due course. A correspondent of The Times of May 17,
1864, has fUmished the following interesting particular*
of medical legislation : —
" As a Lam both graduate »n medictne, I may not onlv
be able to answer the question asked by Colonel French
in the Uouse of Commons la*t night, but also to give to
vour readers some insight into Henry VllL*a medical
legislation.
" I may premise that, at the commencement of bla
reign, medicine— or, as it was then called, physic — was in
a most deplorable condition throughout thu whole of
England ; the practice of the art was in tbe hands of
monka, alchymists, and empirics, and all that was known
of the science was confined lo those (chiefly priests) who
bad atudtctl at Rome, Padua, Bologna, Florence, &e.,
where physic bad long befoie beev^ \.wl^\V— i^^^*^^v
482
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[««lT.Jnm,H
^\
teochinfc it in this countn-. Hcnrv VIII/s firnt attempt :
at a Medical Hill wm iiy the :)nl of Ilenrv VIII. cip. 11, '
whereby he confcra on the Bishop of London, and, in his .
absence, on the I>ean of St. rauKs, thu exclusive iwwer or
privilcgt^ of lict'njiinfc phyiuriuns in the City of London I
and within seven mili's in coinpasA. In 15 18* two priests,
.lohn Chambre and Thomas Linncre — the latter or whom I
had been tutor to the Prince Arthur, and \toih, of whom had
studied ph}'8ic at Florence, &c., obtained (torn llonry, .
through the influoni'e of Canlinal Wolsey, letters patent I
const itutinj; a corp«irate bo<ly of re{(ular phy8ician.<i in
I^ndon. 'Hie 14 Ih ami 15th i»f Henry VIIl. cap. fl, i-on-
Arms this charter. The '25th of Henry VIII. cap. 21,
fClves power to the An'hhishop of Cantarbnry to confer
all manner uf licenses, di!«|Mnsntion8, faculties, &c^ ai
heretofore hath been used, and ai-t-ustomed to be had at
the See of liomc, and this |>owor was held by our courts
of law, about the end of the eighteenth century, to be a
power to confer dcmes.
** The 32nd of Henry VIII. cap. 42, incorporates the
(until that tiino^ unincorporated Sur^oons with the Cor-
iwration of Harbors; and the 34-3.'>ih of Henry VIII.
*'^P' ^1 ffivos power to permns, l>einp no common sur-
geons, to administer medicine in some diseases^ via. ague,
Ike. The 18th of (ieorgc II. cap. 1.^, forms the iureeona
into a separate coqioration. The 55th of George IlL cap.
VM, incorporates a body of medical practitioners to bo
calle<l Apothecaries.
■* The late Mc<licnl Act gives to all registered practitioners
in medicine and surgery an unf|ualitied right to practise
merlicioe and surgorv throughout the whole of Her Ma-
jesty's dominions at home and abroad, thereby sweeping
away nt one blow the whole of the petty restrictions of
the dilTercnt liceniilng boards ; it requires, however, every
practitioner in medicine or surgery to Im! registered, and
exempts all future graduates of Lambeth fVom the right
to be reglsU>red."]
Mei>mf.!(iiam CiiUn. — Is there uny truth in the
accounts in that xtrangc book Chrysul^ of orgies
more than Bacchanalian, carne<l on at Mcdmen-
hnm Abbey by a party of noblemen and gentle-
men from the metropolis, about the end of the
lost century or the bc<nnning of this ? Has any-
thing been written on the subject more than
appears in this b<K)k ? H. C.
[Johnston, in his novel Chryml; or^ the Adnntures of
a GuiHea, has probably fumisheil the longest, but some-
what flctitious account of the Mcdmenham Club — a so-
ciety of wits and humorists, who, under the assumed
title of Monks of St Francis, converted the ruins of the
Abbey into a convivial retreat. Some other particulars
of this mysterious fraternity may be found in Capt
I-Mward Thompson's Life of Paul IFhiteheaH, edit. 1777,
pp. xxxiii. to xxxix. ; The Ttntn and Coumtry Magazine,
i. 122; and Churrhill's PocmM, edit. Tooke, 1854, iiL 1C8,
186, 276. It is not surprising that a dub, which had ex-
cited 80 much notoriety, and provokcil so much satire,
should have rendered itself on object of literary curiosity,
compoMd as it was of such men as Charles Churchill,
John Wilkes, Robert Lloyd, Francis Lord le Despencer,
Bubb Doddington, Lord Melcombe Uegis, Sir John Dash-
wood King, Dart, Paul Whitehead, Henry Lovebond
Collins, Esq., Dr. Benjamin Bates, Sir William SUnhope,
K.B^ and some other congenial spirits. Langley, who
wrote his Hittoiy of Dttboromgh, Suckt, in 1797, w«a
un.iMe to collect any authentic particnUrioi'thaa'.a_^ . .^
nblo sodality. He aaji : ** Some few inean sinoe ih« ^^'^^Jfi.
house was tenanted by a society of men of wit ud fnT'""^ini
imder the title of Monks of St. Francis. iAok h:^ U
they assumed. During the season of their cwrt^r^^m
residence, they are supposed not to hire sdhcnl .^=i-
rigidly to the rules of life which St. Francii hide^9^:=-- W
Over the door is inscribed the motto of iu last
<:)rdcr : ' Fay cc que voodros.' Some anecdotes
a publication of that day were said to Rftr to
ciety; but from the little information I have
there appears to bo no strong foundation for that
The woman, who was their only female dooistfie, ii ^
Jiving [1797]; and after many enqmriet, I bcHewy^
their transactions may as well be buried in obUvioo.*^^
Nathahibl Bbntlet alias Diktt Dkk.-
There if an engraTed portrait of this omb » I
torious character, who waa living in LesdoUl
Street at the beginning of this century. ThcRi 1
alio a Life of him, without date, ^\hen ^kl
dieP lie is noticed in the Annual fiantoj
xlvii.521. S.f.X.
[The more venerable of the readers of « N . & <^** il
loubtless nmembcr a celebrated emporium torvsMi
nil sorts in Leadenhall Straet, called ** Dirtj Diek^Tm.
house." The uumber of the house was 46, which iiM
divided into two tenements. In his early daya» Ksckasl
llentley was eslleil the Besa of Leadenhall StntC, ai
might be seen at all public places of resort, dnasd ai
man of fkahion. He not only spoke French and ItsSa
fluently, but his demeanour was that of a polished |»
tlcman. As the story goes, onr young tndesaiaB Id
made prsposala to the daughter of a wealthy dtiaa,ai
had been accepted ; bat as " the coarse of true Ion
never did run smooth,** by some untoward evsot Ik
match was broken otL Time passes on, and our CykiM*
able beau beeomes better known as •« Dirty Dick,'* *i
inveterate enemy of soap and towels.
It was in Februsiy, 1804, that Bentley flnslly qdari
his warehouse in Lesdouhsll Street, in which for fofft^jw
he had conducted business among cobwebe and dosL It
then took a house in Jewry Street* Aldgste^ what h
lived for three yean ; but his landlord refosiog to nm
the lease, he removed to Leonsrd Street, SImuM
taking with him a stock of spoiled goods to the sbmI
of 10,000/. Hen he was robbed of s considerable ssaky
a woman with whom he was imprudent enough to ha
a connexion in his old sge. To divert his mind fron Ih
contemplation of his miafortane^ he trareUed tnm m
place to another until he reached Haddington, is 8nl?
lamL Almost pennyless, snd suflering eererelr fhm 1^
disposition, he t(K>k up his sbode at the Crown Jnn, whai
he died about the close of the yssr 1809^ and was hidd
in the churohjrard of that town.]
Ladt Euzabeth Spblmav. — ^Tluf ladTi ml*
will dated Not. 3, 1745, describei tunetf ^
parish of St James's, Weitmiiisfeor, vidi
wta \rasvtti al 8t. JtnMTa <m Jan. IV
3'^SwV- jrmi«U/C4.]
K0TE8 ANB QTTEKIES.
483
There is nothing in her frill to indicate whoie
widow she was. If any of your ^nealogical
renders can tell who her husband was^ he wiU
oblige by an answer to this qtiery. Lady SpeU
Ei«n bequeathed many valuable portraits to dif-
ferent poi'sona; -fv" "■*-♦ '^'♦hers, to her two consins
Mrs. Ann and M th Brierly» the picture
of ihe learned .^.- .:, .y Sp^lman, and one of
Philip Lord Wharton.
She beqneaths also a picture of the Ladj Mary
Carey, Countess of Denbigh, and the Lady Eliza-
beth Spelman, daughter to John Earl of Middle-
ton, and Martha his Counteso^ quarter-longth.
The last picture was no doubt that of herself
From the ocqueat of the picture of the learned
Sir Henry Spelman, one is led to infer that her
husband was of the learned antiquarj's family ;
and who her husband waf, it is the object of this
inquiry to ascertiiln, F. L,
[We Are inctined to think the lady ioquired after is
noticc>d iu Blome66hrs Norfolk^ fivo, edit, 1807, vol. ▼!. p,
459, where we read that *• William l^elman, Esq^ lord
and patron of the manor of Wickmorc, married Elizabeth,
daughter of Martha Counters of Middlelon, second wife of
John Earl of Mtddleton in Scotland, and daughter and
heiress of Henry Car}*, Earl of Monnjoath." In the
Gent, Mag. atviil. 43, her death is thus nolieed: "Died
Jan. 11, 174S, Lady Elizabeth Spelman, daughter of
late John Earl of Middleton, Governor of Tangier."]
Savatort. — Will some of your learned corre-
spondents fix the orthography of this word ? The
greut United States Commission spells it *^ sani-
tary," which may go far towards making this the
accepted spelling. Would not analogy make it
follow the spelling of sanatia, rather than of
sanittu? St. T.
ISttnare in to cure^ and a curing- place b properly
called ntmatorivm. But Uie Lntio for bedth ia ganUtUt
and the laws which relate to health should he culled
sanitary. Iu French, we have ganatoirt (a word of rare
oectirrence), curative, tliat wUioh leudi to nvtore health.
Sanitatre^ that which leads to pruerw health i ts ** loia
sanitdires," "pohce Baaitatre," ** cordon sanrtains " (Bm-
wehtrdit). So in Euglisbr "Sanatory, hcatiagt curing
often erroneously udtd for sanitary" {Ogilvk.} ♦'Sani-
iiry, pntffwaive of health ; aa, taiitary la W8,*'— /ticl. ]
Hrpltetf*
PARISH REGISTERS.
(3^" S, V. 243.)
In ft similar careful and restoring spirit as that
dttcribed by W. \\\ S. have the old registers of
ih** i>^r-^ of Boston Maudit, in the county of
!*• n, been preserved. This is easily
at^" Y - - ''^^ from its having had the same rector
OS Wilb/, one whose aame can never be forgotten.
Thomas Pei*cy, the editor of The ReUauea of Eng-
U$h Poetry^ afterwards Dean of Carlisle, and
finally Bishop of Dromore, An inspection of the •
book ahow9 at once that the same careful hand
which waa often emphiyed in the restoration of
the text of an old ballad, did not disdain to bestow
an equal amount of care in rescuing from the
ravages of time the entries in aa old register.
Theliandwnting is beautifully clear, and the ink
apparently as fresh aid when it flowed fh>m Percy's
pen.
At this quiet country rectory it'' was that he
wea Tisitedf in 1764, by his friend Dr. Johnsoiii
who was iu his happiest mood. Mrs. Percy told
Cradock —
" That her hoafoand looked out all sorts of hooka to be
ready for hii atnoseroent after bre&kikst, and that John*
son was ao attentive and polite to her, that, when her
buabADd mentioned the literature prepared in the stady*
he said : ^ No^ Sir, I ahull iirst wait upon Mrs. Percy to
fe«d the dncks/"
To her was addressed by her husband the
charming ballad :
*' O Nanny, wilt thon gang with me ? "
which will always be freshly remembered.
Close to the rect^^ry is the church where
Thomas Percy ministered from 1746 to 1778,
which ha.s been restored in a loving sptrit by the
present Marquis of Northampton; and happily,
though the floor is entirely paved with encaustic
tiles, yet the old ixiscriptions have been preserved
upon them. One in particular marks the spot
where thre<i of Percy's six children repose in
front of the chancel ; and upon the tiles, the lion,
the ancient crest of the ducal house of Northum-
berland, is delineated.
Within the altar rails lie theremaiDs of Morton,
Bishop of Durham, who was ejected from his see
in 1646, and died at Eaaton Maudit in 1659, at
the advancetl age of ninety -two, in poverty aiid
comparative obscurity, where he h^d filled the
office of tutor to Sir Henry Yelverton. Ilis
property, after paying a few legacies, amounted
but to 100/., which paid his funeral expences, and
provided a monument to hia memory in the
church.
The sepulchral stone which originally covered
the remiiins of the good old man, has been re-
moved to the ITelverton chapel on the north side
of the chancel, and bears a long Latin inscription,
feebly attempting to describe his many virtues.
The church consists of nave, aide aisles, and
chancel, on the north side of whidi is the Yelver-
ton chapel, containing several monuments of that
ancient family ; and here was buried, about sixty-
two years ago, the last Earl of Sussex, in the
vault of his ancestors, to whom^ for many years,
the manor belonged.
484
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[3'4& V./ciwlU^
marking the manners and customB of ancient
timeSf which no doubt would prove of in teres t^
like those from Wilby,
The place is most retired, but well adapted to
a man like Percy, who fully appreciated the
saying ** Vita sine literiii mora est.'* Again,
though Bishop Morton does not repose in his own
magnificent cathedral of Durham, but in the
little viUage church, his simple and unostentatious
character can never be forgotten, nor hi*4 patient
endurance of diiHculties in troublous times. In
thb sense the place of his interment is not ill-
chosen, for it accords with the disposition of that
venerable pastor of the church. I said with the
Chorus in Sophocles : —
' tltpdnyra jca5f|«4. Ajax, 1 167-8.
OxONIENSia*
MRS. DUGALD STEWARPS VERSES.
(3^ S, V, 147.)
We hope that the foregoing explanations as to
some of the individual mentioned in that lady*s
verses will be satisfactory to your correspondent,
!• Gascoignc was undoubtedly Anne, the eldest
daughter of Sir Charles Gaseoigue, Knight, who
became the second wife of Thomas, seventh Earl
of Haddington, March 6th^ 1786. She was re-
puted to be exceedingly wealthy, but erroneously
it is believed, as after her husband's death* May 19,
1794, various alledged debts of her father were
brought against her, which gave ri«e to judicial
proceedings, affording pretty pickings both here
and in England, where law is especially an ex-
pensive luxury which few persona of moderate
means can afford to enjoy.
2, Pukeney was the enormously rich lady who
was created Countess of Bnth. Her grandfather
was the cousin of the celebrated earl of that name,
who died on July 7, 1764, and whose vast tbrtune
devolved on his relative, who had a daughter and
heiress, Frances, the wife of William Johnstone,
Esq^, the heir male, it is generally supposed, to
the Marquisate of Annan dale. There was only
one child of the marriage, Henrietta Laura, who
married Sir James Murray, Baronet, who took
the name of Pulteriey. His lady was created
Baroness Pulteney July 2S, 1792, and Counters
of Bath, October !26th,'lS03. She died without
issue in July, 1808, when both titles became ex-
tinct. There x^as a report that this lady, whose
wealth was boundless, was a victim of that most
MOiCcoun table disease, Morhm pvdicuhswt,
|>g^* Torphichen was the nintl» Lord of that tiUe» ,
TW marrjcif, April 6, 171)5, Anne, only surviving
child of Sir John In<rlis of Craraond. By thi^
/dtl/, who iuvvhed hm^ he hatl no fftmW^, wA
^e pccrnge went to a coanitji the f&lber oC Oi^
present lord. The iSandiland^ ai« iftein oC ]im
of the noble race of Douglas. This is « fact thai
can be established by positive evideace; bat
really we wish to be enligntened as to the atsfi*
tion that " This familv, driven from England by
the 6:mqueror, settled in Scotland in the reign oi
Malcolm II L'* Why were tbc SaJodiUads ex-
pelled, and what ancient authentic record ••yi
they were ? The founder of the family wm
a man of high position ; he was the last Ptt-
ceptor of Torphichen, and when the Hospitill«r\
succeeded to the lands and privileges of the
Templars, he obtained a territorial grant of that
joint possessions from Queen Mary by a chancn
in virtue of which, without any specific crettiov
he sat in Parliament as Lord Torphichen* llsrisf
no issue, his nephew, the ancestor of the pe«tf
Baron, became hb successor.
4. Maxwell was probablv Sir William of I
reith, in the county of Wigton. One of
aunts was the celebrated Duchess of Gordon,
another, called Eglantine, became the sp<
of Sir Thomas W'allace of Craigic, ajid creitti
considerable sensation in the fashir^ / ' M
by her behaviour* She and her bus ^i
in the Court of Session and House oi Lorns ui
auit5 reflecting disgrace on them both* Lsif
Wallace was the authoreits of three p' * - ^ ■ -^ <5
which was pcrfurmed both in Londv ; a»
bur^h, without much success. Sir V* .*♦..... iici
in February, 1812, J. M.
EIKON BASIUKE.
(3*^ S> iii. 1*28, 179, 220, 254)
I have read the nbove notes, and many oi
in " N". k Q./* and urn of opinion that a h
portion of your pages might be occupied witl*
interminable discussion, as to various readii^
and emblematical differences, without bringing cBl
nearer any decision as to the author of lb© bool:«
or which was the first edition. My only exous«t
therefore, for making one or two verbal remarks*
is, that I shall afWward oonclude with a practical
suggestion.
X do not find the word "feral** L* ' /d*
tered into " f iital,** in many of the n Ji
editions that have come under my n' to
the edition of 1685, in which it ^ "J-
Nor can I understand that the occ,.*.,,, of
'* feral " and ** cydopick " tend to *how that Dr.
Uauden was the author. ^^'^^ 1
the year 1648 for the tint
tion posseesed by Mk Sn
in K, M.," is, iLS }
year professing 1'
ba« been gi'iierully .
to CO arch in
10 d th*? etli-
, '* r« ^rlnl^
•i
it
ihtj ilii ' ii
f verbal r.^. »ir. .
their r'-oP^'^ ^' , ,„ ^^ cdiwr. or at.y
I wouW gl'^'J-.u^ior who wouio " ^jng the
351) j
,ore at large wUb W .^^ „,pht
throw >'?^t on t^^.^^„^e that we
.!>- X?i A Wr.n2^;- rc^„\ ?:pres«on, i ties i-t ^e.^^^ ,
ber of «»'" S cbaracter.tt.« ot J^^^y,e
they can wno^r grror.bw
(P, written p^^mtM
r of 's'^^'-^u-inff cbarftCteriM't -oaipiiratiTe r „o.;ecturttl- ^ „•„ ^J^.■Co>i^»**
486
NOTES AND QUERIES.
CS^<«&T. J«mll«li
I
the copies in u»e now in the Jewish synagogues
contain admitted and recognised errors. The
original MS* of the present copi "- its to have
liad errata; and ^ome errors y t^ted even
IT ^V ''- t auto^rnpbs, andwouiict-n uuly swisein
it apo^jjraphft^ notwithstanding every care,
'i ..^ .».u;ijis say *''Be admanished in thy work,
since it is a heavenly one, Icit thou shouhlat take
away or add a letter, and devattate the whole
world/*
The present Jewish MSS« and printed He*
brew Biblet, therefore, contain the text with ac-
knowledged errata, such errata, formerly noted in
a book called the Masorah, have been added par-
tially, in recent times, in the margin or foot
of each page. When we now publish a mis-
printed work, errata are appended ; but, on a
second edition beinp: renuirea, the errors in the
text are corrected, and the errata are eliminated^
Not »o with the Hebrew Bible and MSS.; the text
in still written and printed with the same errors,
and the same list of errata ; the intention being to
show what the actual state of the text was at its
first recension. AitbouKh the Masorah, or list of
errata^ may have been extended in more recent
times, a Maaorah did exiz^t prior to the Talmud,
or between the third and sixth century after
Chrbt; for it is not likely, as the Jews believe,
that our present Masornh contains anything so
remote as Ezra (b,c, 515). Besides errata, the
Masora contains other matter, such as the enu-
meration of letters, &c., all however bearing on
one object — ^the preservation of the existing text.
The first Jewish cf>lUtion we read of was that
of the schools of Tiberias and Babylon in the
eighth century, when the Five Books of Moses
were found to agree, but in other parts of the
Bible the difierencea (various readingO were 218
or 220 in number.
The works to be consulted arc BuxtorfTs Tibe^
rms^ Van der Iluoght's Preface, Kennicutt's X)i>.
Oen., Eichhorn'j Eini As T, s. 131, 140-158; and
the authorities quoted by Eichhorn.
T, J. BUCKTOK.
B£zoAR Stones (3** S. v. 398.) — Some notice
of this once valued aubetance^ its origin and sup-
posed occult properties, will be font id in moat old
treatises, De Secretis, &c., and in the various his-
tories of precious and other stones by Boece de
Boot, Leonardus, Baccius, and others. These,
however, are too numerous for citation, and would
moreover hardly repay for the trouble of refer-
ence. The following is more specially devoted to
the subject : —
•*Exp*if»mf_'nf*f «nr! OH'wrTntioOi upon Oriental and
Oihtr hrt 0 tbeni to b« of no us« in
?lijr«eli. Loiidon. 8v«. 1715."
Tlw ociL'uiuLc^i ^V - - Hauhin, liaa
^■0 ]^ ft fDcmegr De Lapidi
may also be made to tbe cursoiM aixl hr '
by Monaides: —
"Jovtu'^ ^' t ^^ H^^fdonil WqcIA^ 1
ar« dec! xuUr vtrtuic* of dinn
Uerbes, 1 lierr^Liutj an^ ftMid tJ^Tw
other Books t.reAua)4 ol tli
ca€iTOnor«, the Properties
and the L)«(iefit of fc»now. i.u^Li'^tii.'u i^t jij«+* t ^m^^f^w^
Meruhtnt. ito^ 1577."
Bezoar stone, as a curative agent, wwm btfal li
some estimation till the end of the sevmicdH
century. Dr. Gtiybert '" r>- ,tice Imd dfliif mI
to destroy belief in it> n his tresaSiM Xa
Tromperies dn Bezoar . te^. He wis i|J»
lowed by others, Pauli, Dimmerbrook, k^ ml ii
England, K. Pitt devotes three or four {Mgo «i
the subject, with some valuable references iats-
** Craft and Frauds of Physick Expoa'iL Th? '•I*?
Prices of tb€ be$t Medicines dbcoverod ; thm OMily 11^
cines, now in grejiteat Eiteem, vuk «a B«3oar, FvtftK
Ceofiur'd, &u., i2a]o, London* 1703.**
There is also a chapter **!>« Lepore
et Bezoar occidentali *' in the £piMoi4t
na/es of Thomas Bartholinus(12mo, HafnUB^tiPV
see epist. Ixxix. cent, ii, p. 650.
William Bsna
Birmingham.
Passaos in Aristophakes (3'* S. iv. l^^**
The passage is not in Aristophanes : It is n (w
ment of The Aphrodisiau of Antiphaoes^ preMffiL
by Athen»us.
"H Tpoxo^ ^vfAanTi Ttinrr^ tcmko^^arov ie^«f|
'ApTi ju\ cf jtt^ yv^^^^Ms tun w^ ^pdff94S i
*H vmpmt mXutohvra ffd^^ 0*91 ; 0*
A. AtidBa puft/ptdm^ ^poe^hi ; IB. do^aKiswr tttmp pit^
A, Kaaviirwow S^ vUiftay 4t* altBfnMi & ^HfdpK&r tM|4i
M?jdi TtnovT* iAAo ^n^lir^ ^)1^^» ipiwd»Mt Ar)n>«
The Jt'wtdh Spi/ U the absurd ' tfct
English translation of the Xf A' ht
Marquis d' A - ^ ' - ^ '
1778, cite«i
find in Ukt ijiLvtJiu ^•4u«viaj 19 i'ot
a** 8, T. Jon m *64.]
NOTES AND QUEBIE&
487
I
t
ISmo^ and luis no tmiiBlator's notes. Lowndi^s
does not mention any edition. I have no doubt
that the note is to Leiire 174, torn, vi« p. 277.
La Haye, 1777* H. B. C.
U. U. Clab.
FLAGiA£tsM8 (S** S, J, 432, 433.) — Mb, Red-
mond is inaccurate in his quotation from Sir Wal-
ter Scotfs ballad of '^ Locb Invar/' The words,
which I takQ from a copj of Marmion now before
m% are —
* She looked down to bluah, and she tookM op to sigh.
With a smile on her Hpa, and d tear in h«r liyeJ*
There is here no such word as reproof; and
while ^Ir. Lover writes "a smile in her eye,'* Sir
Walter puts a tear in that or^an, and places the
smile on her lips, while Mr. Lover puts reproof
there. Neither is there the least resejnblance
between Mr* Lover's first two Hoes, and the first
line of Sir Walter, ai? I have quoted it. Surely
It Is too much to hint at plagiarism from what can
hardly be called even coincidence of expreasion.
G.
Edinburgh,
SusNA^Bs (3'* S. V, 443.)— S, Redmokd seema
to confound the two meanings of the word " sur-
name:" the hereditary name descending from
father to son, to which we give the name "sur-
name ; *' and the simple second name, applied in
cases of liiely confusion between two*
Now in the case mentioned by S. Uedmond of
the name Iscariot given to Judas the traitor, this
appears to me in no way whatever to prove ** that
the Jews had doable names at least ; ** Iscariot
being, as is well known, a mere to-name, as the
Scotch call it^ given to distinguish him from the
other Judas, whom we call St. Jude. The other
instances of double names in the j^ospels may all
be shown to belong to those whose identity might
probably, or at least possibly, have been mistaken.
We have James Boanerges, when there were
two named James among the disciples ; we have
Simon Peter, and Simon the Canaanite, in a simi-
lar case ; and, at a later time, we have Joses Bar-
nabas, and Joses the Lord's broths.
CUABLAS F. S. WaRBSR.
Sir Edwahd May (3^^ S. v. 35, 65, &c.) — Sir
Thomas May, of Mavficld, Sussex, Knt, had a
second ^n Edwiird, wno died in Dublin, March 8,
1640, Fourth in descent from hiin was Sir James
of Mayfield, co. Waterford, created a baronet in
1763< He left surviving issue (with two daugh-
ters) three sons: L Sir James - Ed w ard ; 2, Sir
Humphrey; 3. Sir George Stephen. All of whom
successively inherited the title, which became ex*
tinct on the death of Sir George, on January 2,
18*3-1 H'^ - les the Marchioness of Donegal, Sir
JaJ« d (commonly called Sir Edwcutl)
Maj ,-.--- ^ . ,rid other children — all supposed to be
illegitimate The May arms arei *' Gu. a Teas be-
tween eight billets or.'
H, Lorrcs Tottshham.
A crest, " out of a ducal coronet or, a lion'a
head gu.," was granted in 1^73 to the Mays of
Ka^mere, Sussex^ with the arms mentioned at
p. 65. The Mays of London and of Pasbley,
Sussex, bore for a crest, with the same arms,
*' out of ducal coronet or, a leopard*B head gu.
bezantee/* I cjinnot identify the crest used hy
Sir Edward May, nor can I give his motto. I am
disposed to think that om? of the Mays above men-
tioned was the settler in Ireland mther than that
one of the Irish family settled in London. There
was a dbtinct Iriih family of the naqje bearing
different arms. From your recent intimation us
to faniiljf queries (p. 430), I am induced to say
that I will reply to any direct inquiry CARii.FOft]>
may wish to make If I can be of further use.
K Woor.
Golldhall, Woroeat^.
Mocirr Atbos (3'* S. v. 437.) — Sigma- Theta
Will find, in the Nouvelle Biograpkie Qeniraie^
tome XXXV, col. 600, an account of Minoi'de MinBS}
or Mynas, in which it is stated that —
" M. Minoide Minas trouva dans les nionailbrcfl dtt
moot Athos quclques mannscritSt panni lescjupls deox
sont itnportanU: Tun contient unc Befutation dt touted
les Mcritiu et parait <Hre Ta-uvre de saint llippolyte;
Tautre r^a ferine dcs fables en ven chonaiubiques par
Babrius, dout le manaKiit original fut vcndu par lai
&ubr«pticonieut au liritish-Musouni, taiidi».ju'il avoit
affirm^ ii M. A. Firmib Didot ct k M. Yillenmiu qu'il ne
possddait que U copie qu'il en avait faito au moat Alhos,
ob ce manufcrit <?tait reat^"
The following authorities are given at the end
, of the article : —
** RappoH odrtiwi a M. k Mtni*trc de V Inxf ruction jm&-
^ lique par M, Minoide Myoas, Pari*, 1846, io iPj—Reru de
\ BibHographie de MM, MUkr tt ^nknoj, t T. p. SO.'*
I Dublin.
I
I QuAi>ii.aiTiviB (3*^8. V. 435») — Your corre-
spondent O. T. D. may not be aware, that another
derivation of the river Quadalquivir is given by
Mr. Ford ; and I think the etymology is the more
correct, and more probable one. These are hia
words ; ^
" The Quadnfqmrirt ' the Great Biver/ is the • WI4«-
l*Kehir/ or • WMa-l-Adliern * of tbo Moom, and traverses
Aodiducid from £. to \V\ The Ziucall, or SpoDtsh gip-
sies, aIso c(i)t it l^H Baro, %h^ * Great River.* '' — Handttiok
for Spam, Part I. p. loo, cdiL Loodou, 185^,
Another writer — the anonymouj* author of an
interesting work entitled A Summer in Aiidalutia
(vol. L, London, 1839, p, 149), gives die same
derivation of Quadalquivir. He quotes the Ara-
bic name, ** Wad-ul-Kibeer,'* meaning *' the Great
River/* and remarks ^Uhat. though the ArtLbw.
word Wod ^tcklVj iv^^% w)ii*u% ^"^ "^"^^ ~^"'^'
tiaed by the Spanish Moors in the Fense of rivtr*^ i
If this etymology be corrcot* then the river Gua- !
dalete will mean " the river Lethe," — the original |
name A^^ Laving been preserved by the Moors.
Mr. Ford, however, informs us, that the ancient
name of the Guadalete was Chnjxos^ *' the golden ;*'
btit the Moors changed it into Wwl-al-led/^dy " the
river of delight" — **el no de deleite." (Fart i. ut
supra, p, 159), J. Da^tok.
Korwich,
I presume there can be little, if any doubt, that
Guadalquivir is simply a corruption of TFaiiy-^Z-
Kebir^ ** the preat water-course," by which the
Arabic -speak mg Moors naturaUy designated the
majestic river which they found liowing pa«t
Seville on their conquest of southern Spain. This
etymology is confirmed by the mode of speOint^^
BB well as by the accent, which b on the last
syllable. The word is pronounced aa If written
Gwa4alkev€^r,
On the same principle, the modero Arabs cull
the Jordan Skeri'ai'el'Kehir^ " the great water-
ing-place.*' In both cases, the epithet el-Kebir is
intended to express the striking contrast in the
eye of a dweller in the desert, between a large
and perennial river and the leas important streamjj,
generally mere winter^torrents, with which they
are more familiar. E. W.
Baixad QuKRisa (S"^ S, v. 376.) — There is a
version of the ballad, ** Sir Aage and Else/' to be
found near the end of a volume, entitled Goethe^
a New Pantomime, by Edward KeneaU% London,
MDcccL. No publisher. Printed by Levey, Rob-
son, & Franklyn, Great New-street, Fetter Lane.
W. J. BbBNBAIID SMlTft.
Temple.
BATT1.&8 IK EiiGUkKD (3** S. T. S98.) — The
affray at Hadcot Bridge. Your correspondent will,
I thmk, find that Thos. AV^alsinghara, in his Ilu-
ioria Anglicana, gives a tolerably graphic account
of Richard's favourite, the "Dux Hibernia?," ga-
tbering a force together in Cheshire and Waleai
jLod hia defeat and Htght at Radcot. Lingard has
given us a fair account of it, and fuller than moat
historians. He referi to Rot, Pari. 236, and
Ruvffht, 2701-2073.
^ W alsingham says, when speaking of the posi-
tion of the place —
** E^'proMis DotntDis a poDflktQi qut fiiit juxta Barfont,
pTope Babbelake, ubi miUtihiiB qui oonveiicrunt cum Duce
Uihtanim.** — HiMt. Anp., ThoroiB WxAb,, ed. IL T. Kilcy,
MA. London: LoogmAn, 18G4.
Turner spells the word "Redecot;'* on what
tuthoriiy 1 know not,
JoUlf BOWCN ROWLAMDS.
The Unloti Club, Oxford.
Sack (3'* S, v. 328.) — Your correspondent,
JnxTA TuRiirM, ir a little hasty in hi* conclusions
on behalf of his feductive favourite, canaric sack.
Let mc refer him to an older aulhoritr ik
his old friend the wine merchant — the Wftf !»•
tbority to which he refers bis rva^cn^ tmi rnhkl
he appears to have only cursorily consttJiedt tit.
The Life of Marmad^ike Jlawdon. From ^ m^
troduction to that work, he will find thai tk
original suck %vas sherry- Mr. Davies, the ediSix;
quotes from Gervase Markbam's EnglUK Uamii'
wi/e, as follows : **• Your best sack is of Xcres ta
Spain : your smaller of Gallicla and Porto^
Your strong sacks are of the Isles of the Ctmntf
and Malligo "
This agrees with all the articles lo cyefe*
pacdias on this subject which I have coofoltiL
They all describe the original sack as from Xcfm
As an appellation of sherry wine, however, il hi
been long dropped ; the fact that caaarie wt» ill
stronger liquor was doubtless the reason /' ^
eventually monopolised the name of *0'
clearly seems to have done in modern tiiu
quite concur with your correspondent resf ^ .'
its derivation from acumens; taccharuin has l^^fT » :
gested by some. In Yvso VtiEiTi
The English CimjCH is Rome (3^*^ S. v.^iiU
The letter by Ms. Vinckht is very cleu" in «
statements, and will no doubt remove mtsapprehw*
sions. But it is worth while to make a nat< li to
its beading, which might lead to mistakes^ Tlat
heading, which I place at the beginning of «J
note, is incorrect Except to the small nuraW
of persons interested in the building, the dcii«ni*
tion would point to a very different plooe^ uatfli
amplified by the word "Protestant" Th« mi
designation is " The English Protestant church or
chapel in Rome,"
I or many ages an English church has exliied n
Rome, Murray^ m his Hand-Book (etL 184l)i
says : —
•* S. Totntnaso dcgli Tnglesi in the Tr*fltcv«rf , , . . *
Thi.9 church caunot fail to interott the Eugliili travAr*
It was founded in 775 bv OfTa, K Ne ¥juI h^tm
(it should be tho Men:ian»). a 3 t4> On IMf
Trinity. A hospital was aaerv r by « waah^y
Englifihinan for Enf^lish pi1grim4. Tii« chtirch wm 4^
utroyad by Jire in 817, and rebuilt bv Kgb«it (ElM-
wutpfa.) Thomas h Becket, during hti vi4il lo Roo^
lodged in the liospitil ; und on hii caiiOOiMlioa by A1«S*
under II [. . . , * the cboxch was dodkaied to litai as 8L
Thomas of Cunlfrbiiry,"
The English Hospitium has long oeised to exiil
in the Traatevere ; and so far tht* accourU tn t£M
Hand-Book is inexaet But it ha« exi^t^ttl i^ tiia
English college, on the other fi<lc of the Tib«»r, for
about 300 year». The church wm dcstroyod
during the French republican occupatiotu Xkt
small church within the college, metttitioed !d
Murray's Hand*Book^ preserver the dedtcalicm bT
St. Thomaa of Canterbury* or, aa it is knovm in
Italy, S. Ton } 'x\\ Itigleii. At the iwvcBt
mouvent gr ns are Iwiuff made ti> ohiiifi
r
B'*S.V. JcsRll,"G4]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
489
by tbe side of the college, and it \b to be replaced
by a Dew one on the same spot The tomb of
Bainbrid|fe, Cardinal Archbishop of York, was
savedf and is now in the cloister of the English
college, with others of great intereat. These may
nil be replaced within new walb, before the foun-
dation of Ina and Offa has ouite completed iiA
IweUth centurVf in The EnglLsu C Lurch tn Home.
D. P.
SCaarta Loilgc, Malvern Wells.
Tub Red Ceoss Kxights u. "Queer's Gab-
UEK9 ** (3^"* S. V. 407.)— It is nil very well to defend
Cock Robin^ but we must not scandalise the Red
Cross Knights. They, i. e. tbe Templars, were a
religious order, bound like monks to celibacy, and
forbidden ** to ki^s mother or sister, aunt, or any
other woman/* • **" Guarding marriage beds/* and
** defending lady lovea " was therefore out of the
question with tbem* P. P.
G&EATOHEX (2~* S. ill. 510 ; 3'^ S. v. 399, 447.)
The following occurs in the accounts of the city
of Worcester, for the jcar 1666 : —
*• The Charge «f Eutwrtuynmeta of Mr. Gratrix.
£ ». ri
Spent the day he ramB hither * - > 0 7 0
To William tompkiiu ibr cyder * < - 0 3 10
To James Arden Ibr cadeing of cyder for him - 0 6 (J
To Air. Nichobs Baker for his ex peaces ia
aeveruU journey es to pcare Mr. Gratricks
hither - - - - - - -0 15 0
To a messeoger for^gooing to the Lord Windsor's
and other charges - - • • *050
To Mr Grairfck's man - - - - -OatI
To Mr. Wythie for his entertaynment at Ids
house • • • • - • -50 0
To Mr. Richard Smyth for the charge at Ins
house - -224
To Mr, Read and Mr. SoUcy for ^-yne at that
enterta^iiment - - - - - -110 10
£10 14 0
(Sidt HoU.) " Note, this was an Irishman, fjimous for
helping and corcing maiiy lame and diseused people, only
by stroaking of their maladies witli his band, and Lhere-
foni sent for to this and many other places."
R.W.
Guildhall, Worcester.
Major^Genkbal Pohtlock (3'* S- v. 425,) —
It may be well to add to what has been mentioned
of the late General Portlock, that (as stated in a
letter from Mr- J. Beete Jokes, Loeol Director
for Ireland, to the editor of Say7iders*g New$*Let*
ier, dated March 7th, 1864) : —
"Mrs. Portlock bos presented to the existing Geologi*
cal i^urv'cy of Ircbnd all the geological part of tbe late
Cental 'ft Hbrar\% coosUtin^ of many valuable works in
English, Frenih, and German, mapifi» dm^vings, periodi-
cals, &e., amounting altogether to upw&rds of a Ibousaud,
This donatioti was made on condlUoD of the books being
kept vcpsrate as the * Portlock Library,* and pr&aerred aa
belonging to the * Geological Survey of Ireland/ whicb,
as the letter of presentation expressed it, ' is a national
^ • See Addison*s Knight t Ttmpiof^, p. IB.
work, in which the general had always i^lt a deep in-
terest.'" ^
I need scarcely remark that the books, &c.,
have been gratefully accepted, and their safe cus-
tody guaranteed, and Mrs. Portlock's generosity
suitably acknowledged by the Director- General of
tbe Geological Survey of the United Kingdom,
Sir R, J. Murchison. AnunA,
Sir Ebward Gorges, Kkt. (3"* S. v. 377^
443.) — There is an account of Helen, wife of Sir
Thomas Gorgets Knt. (which may identify some
of the persons named in Sir Edward Gorges' will)
in the Topographer and Gtnieahgui, 1853, vol. iii.
p. 355 : —
** William Parr, Marqois of Northampton, married
third HeleOt daughter of Wolfgangna Saachenburg, died
1636, Kone of our genealogists appear to know much of
this lady. 8be is tbua Doiiced hy a contemporary, 13ij»hop
Pflrkburat, in a letter to Bullinger dated August 10,
1571: — *Thc Marquis of Nortbnmpton diwl about the
beginning of August, when I was in London. He mar-
ried a rery beautiful German girl, who remained in the
Queeu'a court after the departure of the Margrave of
Bflden aud Cecilia his wife from England.* The same
foci h confirmed by the statemenu of ber epitaph in
Saliidjury Cathedral, which adds that abe became a lady
of the bedchamber to Queen EUtabetb, and having mar-
ried» aecund, Sir Thomas Gorges of J»ngford, Wilts, had
isAue by bim four sons and three daugbtcra. She rut^
vivc<l hir Thomas for twenty- five years, and died on the
Ist of ApriU 1635, aged eighty-six. In Sir K. C. Uosro's
Sauth iVitlMJiirt are three beautiful folio plates of her
monumentf which inclndes whole-length recumbent elE-
gies of the CounteBs and Sir Thomas Gorges."
A. F. B.
Tout (3'* S. v. 211, 311, 459.) — In Scotland
it IS common to speak of a tout on a horn, and of
touting on a horn. A touter is roerelyt as 1 take
itj one who blows a horn or trumpet in favour of
fiometliin(r or somebody* E. C.
Edinburgh.
Jon« Hemikg, 1677 (3'^' S. v. 355.) — The
arms as on his monument were — A. otk a ehev,,
S. 3 pheons of the llrst between 3 lions' heads
erased of the second, impaling per paly indented
arg. end guIe!»T which may perhaps be for Pen-
rice, a family formerly connected with Worces-
tershire. I do not know his crest and motto,
H. S. G.
Taxbot Faperb (3'** S. v* 437*) — This name is
given to fifteen volnnaes in the library of the Col-
lege of Arms, to which they were given by Henry,
sixth Duke of Norfolk, of the Hownrds. They
contain upwards of GOOO original letters to and
from the fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh Earls of
Shrewsbury, besides many valuable public papers,
such as ro)'iLl sui^veys, muster rolls of several of
the midland counties, abbey leases;, and other to-
pogru[)hicul matters of importance.
Many of the most interesting papers are com-
prised in the late Mr. Edmuna Lod^& & IUm^\x^-
490
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[«r«av. Jcwti.^
To the second edition of that work (Lond. 3 vols*
8vOt 1838) IVIr. Lodge appended a Catjdogue or
Calendar of the unpublished Talbot Papers.
C. H. & Thompson Cooper.
Las»o (3^ S. V. 442, 466.)--
" The vsQ of tbfl la^to wm cmamoa in andent timea to
many of tt of Wettera Aiin. It ia to b« wen
(usc^ U> i^ I imaU) in tlie AMTrian dculpturet^
now in tl)> iaseainJ' — Kim\imo>a*B H*moiu*i
It. 75, note.
See also, Rawlinson^s Five Great Motmrchie*^
p, 7«.
The lasBo is also represeattd n» used in hunting
in Egyptmn sculptures. (Wilkinson's Ancieni
Sgyptiana^ Popular Account^ vol. i* p. 220.)
It b used in the pre:$ent day in hunting bj
Siberian tribes, (Erman*s Siberia, vol, ii.)
Eden Warwick.
Birmingham.
NOTES ON BOOKS, ETC.
The Anmtal HtftfhUr ; a Itevitw nf Public EvmU at Home
and Abroad, for the fear 1863. iVeio Seriu. (Riying-
toui.)
For upwards of a century baa the Annual Rtgvtttr fal-
filled its useful and speoJid vocation of presarving a re-
cord of the chief public incidents of the year ; and a most
valuable record it has become. Eut erim tho Annwd
Jlwuier was susceptible of improvement, and the pab-
lisners hav -^--^ly commenced a New Senas, with
an improv angement, an improvement in the
selection * i . and an improvement in the mode
of printings ^a ud to give i' 'no and convenient
form an account of all the ; < nL^ at bomo and
abroad during the ve&r; a •. u.v'.....it: ..; the mo^t remark-
able oocurrencea likely to possess a permanent interest ;
lawca^es and trials of importance; biographies of oele-
bntiei wlm have died within the year, and a seloction of
important State Papers. Having brongbt the lata Seiies
to a clo^ let ns hope tiiey wiU give it completeness by
an Index to the volumes from 1819 to 18C1
Tht Z/tiUztition of Mtnute Life; being Practical Studitt
on InHCtMi CrAfiac&it Molbuca^ WormM^ PciyptM, Infu*
mrria, and Sponpn, By Dr. T, L. Phipeon, F.CS., &c.
(Qroombridge & Sons.)
Few of OB are aware hofw wide is the range of animals
mcful to man, and no one can say bow much wider it
may yet become. Acclimatiaatl<m Societies iu this, and
wrerat other countries, are oorw engaged in tlie endeavour
to nataralbe the dumb denizens of other lands; and
pultUc attention has been much directed of late to the
imp'-'fi^i'if T'-.^ulta attainable by the nmix r rM/^iivj/io** of
aniE 1 1 erally regarded •.'- , tbv utiUsa-
Lioi^ ■ icf, end Lbe creau . bwctU. The
oki^ect of Ur, i'hipao&^s excellent iitii.' uork ia to give
•oflie idea of the exttnt to which these practical jttndies
an actnallv pttirsu}f»d ^ and \^hni nmmals, a short time
■Inrr [»rove themse^es a
notii n4 to man. Aa he
has rverte*
brai only a
pas"^- . : ^ .u.*count
of \h*t cuitivativu ui veiU a« the pearl fishery.
The chapiter on iti^i ^ and colour* produdng
iimctB Mr* vc to the adeo^Skc «&^t\L«
practical rfMder; va^ *' — " * ^ t^mpiMrliSlmimmtM
contain niunstous ta > ^^**3t *"* ^^^^ ***
tunes bare b««o an<i i^ Tli« ^esk-tb^s-
for8« commends itself to tho iidU«^ of fiomoCBt «l JmI |
Stock Compaoiea,
The Jmt Bvok Tim Ckaimgl Amnrdnk
Swleeted ani arrwumd bff Mark Ue/m
&Co.)
Though it be true, that *'a jest's ^
ear of him that hears it," vet, as «
good things that are said, ou'- tc d«r l» \
who collcfct them wisely, aud ^em w«fi.
Mark Lemon has a keen nV' - .i «iti
and this addition to Hes,^ :aD's popiitr <
TVecuniry Seriei has been ^y ma4a by bin
*• of th« seventeen hundred jc*tB here colJcoCad^ m
need be exdiide<l from family utterimce.*' Tkia Isl
much in its favour, more even than tbaft tt e*
muny capital jesU which, we suspect, a|»p«iAr ia ftl
first time in print.
A Hiaiory of the Ancient Pari^ of Leekf im ,
By John Sleigh, of the Inner Tempie. JTidkli i
on lh€ Geoloay of th* Nemkbmtrkood, Bm 1
Wardleo/JDwI^rooA. (NaU, Leek; and J. B.J
Carefully compiled, handsomely iUuatrxted irlih^
traits. facUimilea, &c^ and wall indexed, tlifii mA
yet comprehensive hiatory of tha ** MatrapoUa m\
Moorlandi ^ ought to earn for Mr. Sle%h the 1
the inhabitants of that busy manafimteiiag l««^l
will assuredly gain for him from stndeiili
pograpby recognition as a judidooa and able I
BOOKS AND ODD YOXUMES
WAHTED TO FCRCHASB.
FariiooUTB of Prioe, ac. of the foUovliut Iimm— w h
ilie feeilcineii br vbAm uur •" i«qairM,Bad w^am i
SooLuvMAjt^ Al«»lriBTkcBilHOi«v«a Woa.
L«ir'« Stfiiiaiu and TrAiiil«lloM of «or af iMOtt Bo«liflim*i WM
Any of Gt'nan'i Wiitiixea tn flOifia OT BltfliA
DtUoofCMA'*.
Wanted hj Mr, R. B. gope^ftaaliii Bt^tm^kmAa^mttm
BknciLars'* Botobt or rmn UwniB 9t«fai» Hm lam fim flM
Wtatad far tbe O&f CVy Uhrmr* W<irfiiMii.
FoitiTiTM P»fl4«t StAMM.— a«uirai. ^ mfwmimt tm
iri'^ utiia4ilrMf,tBahMr*K4JV»H,J^ari»mm
ill
CW 4MM|MWSBVV WMP ItM # ahilMMaMf 4f VSC #VHaiV*S ^f M^^^ M
/imtafW*ki maam i^Yam^m Wma^tSlftmk laT I MJW^—
0«<».W,MAaMUti» niaa|t«rM«rMlte.affB«mMie#ims^
Mal^lMSvo, IMS, to ^tiaShm M^^^Wwmm%iU mi^^Vm
Kim4T4«-ft4 8» f. p« OV w». IK liM «t.^ *lf»«aa* ^
iir!t7%mabllrw«r7/«ci d(ir«-f iv«» tl*
tM«rltt I<iBnt) 0 11*. 4<t, irA^-*- — '-
waa.ifiiia'ittM' amaitt aniAii*. '^'
Isai^^tki
[
S^aT. JtriTB 18, '64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
491
LONDON* AMTORIkAT^ JCNB 18. 1864.
OC»«TKNTS,— N'. in.
JfOTB8 ;— VerffldtSon of % J«t«l — Princo Eupccne. B»
■ ^OUi SooltatL FeenN^B. 409— IHio Ardena of Wiurwick-
■hire. /J.— The Wroeite% 4»— Coffee— An Electioneer-
lug: Bill of former D»h ^ Amertc^a Phraseology : to
Barbist^ Shftve— Judge JefllPQrs— Fables of La Fontaine
— FrLnch-leave— Croquet, 409.
' QtTB RI ES : — Qaotafcionii irantf d» 495 — " Arundi na Bevro "
— Bastlde anifliis Ode on LouU XIV. — Bnuu Knockef —
••The Brides of Bnderby " — Chri-^tcniTrgs at Court— R. V.
Clart^ntirm, E^q^ — Colnsftt^on — Crests — Cumberiand and
^«» Co T jrDawick — JotiaJiDarc — Fentoii—
F ihoraf'*Ja©oh*» Ladder " — Heraldic
Q' Tt'sCompnnTof PTsTfTi — ThfJU^nt-
■Lv- "' ■' ; - - Samud
J at the
M -St.
^ T Sir R<^b«rt
8! y ^ Spaoiah
Vr. -Sir John
^H f«ni>rijgii— UriivorMty or LUiijlm— wui^^ Hata at Oi-
BCknaiEB WITH Axswrni:^ Stone and Wooden AliarB in
~ Englaud — Bacdng House, Hampidure — Athenry, or
Atbunry, 4»9.
-APPLIES:— -Bobln Adair"/ " r - ' -(n
&0* — Alhini Brito. 606 A
^ Et*^rr-irv*' r>iMi — Theold t_ . .:«
v^ ^r|.i - ', ^ "ne — Cjwm or f^eaja — i. naigriL'au — A
B N' «ary, Qiiaenof Soote-^HumandBus
■ - -Chiiti«e of Faehioa in Ladies' Namw
r — 1 nomas li* nii*-y — JoroBiiali Horrook* — Chapercwi^
K^
VERIFICATION OF Jl JEST.
^^ _ j1 C Jifery Tdfyf, as printed by KA^tdl
^rijetween the years 1517 and 1533 (I quote from
"%Jie late Mr, Sbgcr*s edition of 1815) occurs tht;
^"^oUowin^ jest uDtler the heading ** Of the woman
t sayd her wooer came to[o] late " : —
** Another woomii tliere waa that knelyd at the iiui& of
uiem, whyle the corse of her hiubande Uye oa the
in the chyrche. To whome a yonge man com and
wyth ber in her ere^ as thooffhe it bad ben for som
ooDcemyng the lanerallys; boire be it be spake of
ill matter* but onely wowyd her that he myght be
_ husbande : to whom ibe miBvrered and laycle thai :
Byr, by my troothe I am soiy tliAt ye come fo lalCi for
1 mm sped all redy -, for I waa m^de sure yesterday to
jUIOiher man.' "
The original editor of this very curious book
appends the following remark : ** By this tale ye
nuiye perceyve that women ofle tymes be wyae,
and lothe to lose any tynie." Reading, not l^og
mnee, The Life of Sir Tliomm Orenham^ by the
late Mr. John William B argon, vol. ii. p. 214, I
met with an anecdote of Katherine of Berain, who
was married to Richard Clough, the a_ V '
and servant of Gresham, in 1507, whi
;bt to my recollection the quotaiMni i iuivt;
from A C. Mery Tahjs. Mr. Burgon'a
^n ill-natured c^noogh to preserve aa
-y» of Beraln, which. If iniet however
^
creditable to bar ehannt, rtfleeti oo hoBiMir oa her heart.
Hot fini biubind was John Sttliubtuy, tadr of Llowioi;
At whoee fttneral. it is said, ihe ww lad to ohaiTds by
Eicbard Clongh, oad afterwarda condueted home by tne
yonthfiil Morris Wynn, who avaiJcd himaelf of that op[X»r-
taaity to whisper aia wi«h to become her eeeood huaband.
She ia said to haw eiriUy reAued hii oflbr, stating that
oa her way to ehurch she had accopted a aimilar pro-
pniil 6nim Richard Olough ; but she conioled Wytm with
tlia aaarauce that if she sorrired ber second hoabaod,
he might depend on becoming her third ; aod ihe waa
not anmiodfiu of her proinii&"
The fkct seems to be that she married Wynn
very soon after the death of Clough ; but we may
doubt whether the ** tradition '* gjvcu by Mr*
Burgon wai! not founded on the jest in A C,
Mtry Talys ; at all events they accord singularly ;
and while upon this subjects^ I tnay note diat
Mr. Singer, m enumerating the old references to
the jest-book which Shakespeare has rendered
famous {Much Ado, Act U. Sc, IJ, has omitted
an interesting point connected jrith the history
of the small volume, viz, that it was the last book
that Elizabeth^ just before her deaths was gratified
by hearing read. A priest^ writing an account to
V enioe of the last illness of the Queen, in a letter
of March 9, 1602-3, observes, " She cannot attend
to any discourses of government and state, but
delight eth to hear some of the Hundred Merry
Tales, and such like, and to such is very atten-
tive/' How fai' this assertion is to be taken as
true we know not; but the narrator obviously
intended to disparage the memory of a woman
who for more than forty years had been, not so
much the enemy of the Roman Catholics, bb the
friend of the Protestants. J, Paywm CoLUsm.
Maidenhead.
PRINCE EnOENE. ,
This great military eommauder was born in
1663, and died on April 20, 1736. In the ^w-
tory of his Life^ " printed for Jamea Hodges, at
the Looking-Glass on London Bridge,'* 1741, it is
stated th.it he was a collector of rarities and books,
and that ** he practised daily all the duties of the
religion he professed. He spoke very little, but
what he said was just, and weighed in the balance
of good sense/*
I have a volume of old tracts, mostly of a re-
ligious tendency, and all dated between the years
1707 and 17 U, inclusive. On a liy-leaf of the
volume is written " Samuel Midgley, his book,"
1714. Four leaves of writing-paper are bound in
the original binding. One contains merely the
The other three contain the
[ful prayer, clearly in Samuel
l%iingu;!y a ULiuuwriting t —
** A Prnyer swetf Inf the ttttly Na^le and VaHumt Prmce
**0 myGod! 1 believe iu thee; do tWi. s^Kw«^fa»
nu. I ho^ m tVv^v 4o\KTji^v*3oS«wi'av^'^«V^ ^^^
"Wj^I
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[s^a.T.Jc9v
ihM; do thou Tonchaafe to r«doable my love. I Am
iorry for my sinaj 0\ do thou encreue my repentance.
I Adore tbee as my lirst priociple i I deiire thee as my
XaAl end. I thnnk thee aa ony perpetu&U benef&ctor ; and
I call upon tbee ta my sapreftm Defender.
" My God I be pleiu*d to gnide me by thy Wiadom,
Rule me by thy JuBtir«| comfort me by thy mercy* and
keep me by thy power. To thee I dedicate ail my
thonghts and wonts, my actions and ■afferings, that
hencefortli I may think oV thec» speak of thee, and act,
accord) n|^ to thy will, and sufTer for thy sake.
*' Lord 1 my will is subject to thine in whatsoever thou
wiltest, becaase it is thy will; 1 beaeech thee to en-
lighten my understanding, to f^ivfi bounds to my wilt|» to
purify my body, and to sanctify my aouL
** Enable me, O my God! to expiate my past offences,
to conquer my future temptations, to reduce the pa&sions
that are too strong for me, and to practice the virtues that
become me. 0 ! tfil my heart with a tender remembrance
of thy favours,— an avert ion of my infirmity, o loTe for
my nei^hbonr, and contempt of the worlrl' Let me al*
ways remetnlicr to be submi&aiva to my sttperiors, cha-
ritable to my enemies, faithful to niy'fdends and in-
dulgent to my inferiors.
" Gome, 0 God I and help me to overcome pleasure by
mortification, covetouanesa by alms, anger by meekness,
and lukewarmnesB by devotioo.
** O my God I make me prudent in tiDderstandingt
conra^oua in danger, patient under dittppointm en ts, and
bumble in sacccM. llet roe never forget to be fervent in
prayer* temperate in food, exact in my employs, and con-
stant in my resolutions.
^* Inspire me, O Lord, with a desire always to have a
quiet conscience, an outward modesty, au edifying con*
▼ersatioo, and regular conduct. Lot me always apply
myself to resist Nature, to assist Grace, to keep the Com-
mandments, and deserve to be saved.
*' O my God I do thou convince roe of the meanness of
earth, the greatness of heaven, the shortness of time, and
the length of eternity. Grant that I may bo prepared
for Death ; that I may fear thy Judgments, avoid Hell,
and obtain Paratlise, through the merits of Jesus Christ."
The date of my manTiacript would be ^/It/'One
years after the birth of Prince Eugene ; and twenty-
two years before hJH death. I do not find any
reference to the prayer in his Memoirs^ but aa
far as I know, it is quite consistent witb his cha-
racter.' . W. Lbe.
OLD SCOTISH PEERAGES.
In England an idea seems prevalent that In
Scotland a great laxity prevailed as to p^emge
claims ; and this the more especially after the
mcceasion of James to the English diadem had
removed blm from the seat of government in his
native dominion. We have oAen heard very
strange law ventilated in high quartern about
Scotisb titles of honour, which were far from
warranted by the usages of that country. Never*
tbeles3, in no country whatever was more care
taken to prevent intrusion into the peerage, and
the Scotiih Privy Counsel was ever on the alert
to eh«ck toy attempt on the part of Any one,
[* Aaothef translstion of this prayer is printed in the
QmUkmamU Mmjonne^ \\\ 67 J
ZIZ^'
Hm\
however wealthy or well defceaded, to
dignities not directly flowing iramtWcn
fountain of honour. Of ihe ac
aertion, we propose to give ^
able instance from the " '^
Council fbr the Year 1612 and
** Secondo 1
» Ad. Lib. A. 2. 41. Sir Johoe R«r vai I
veaned befor the Coonsall for aaanmiag
Style and tytle of Lord, and for very fi
him, his maiesties advocat produce
bctwix him and ane other Mrtye,
wes styled ana noble lord, Jonne td
this be an5wer«d, that aitfaoght at i
Lettcrea, and wrytes presented unto '
writar by his allowance and kaowledgv I
and thAt he not beine coiioua to rwada^
simple to understande the substance i
scrwe the same with his ordinare for
Je<iburghe» that could nawayse infer <
him, nor bring him under the coTnp«» i
censure, Ac — Wh^reunto it was replyed \
advocate, that seeing Scbir Joboe knew 1
his mat est v wes naway pleased to ha
tytle and dygnvtie of a barrone, and i
his infefimei^t that parte thereof beari$»4f
him a Lard, be should more restiectuefye \
himself, and nowyse presumed to Iiava a
style, whilk nether be kit tdrA^ nor t
favour, he could itistlye acctame ; and f
that Scbir Johne his snUacryring of I
bearing Lord of Jedburgh, did infer a^ia«
tiu^, willing, and wHUTiiil assuming of the!
and that ht andd nawmt pnkmd wugknmM^i
of the writes mbtcryvea he Aim, seeing he i
be of that humour and dispontione, ,as
narrowly to examine and try evefje i
of all lettres and writtes subscryred be hinL*
Sir John Ker was a man of ancie
and at one time of large territortiil '
was designated of Home, but thij esi^
county of Berwick be sold to the Earl c
the possession of whoee descendaaU 1
remains. He was twice married, h«
descendants by his first espousal are eatioe
by his second wife he had male issae, wk
tinued the representation, and the liie €
Ker of Littledean, who contesl'ed tbe D«
of Roxburgh with James Innes Ker, Btf
iiis direct heir male. The General wm
tionably heir male of the Roxburgh
whilst Sir James, by virtue of ft
the deed of entail, and a crown rs
descended of a daugbter ** of Hary
took both cMates and booours.
THE ARDEN8 OF WARWICK
In a former ntimber of tbc
(p. 352), Mb. Pat nb C-tyu.inu bad
*' Edward Arden, //ia/ /^ i^ S.
mother, wtis execute u tr«ft«m^ li
15^3;^* and a crorrc^purtacni aigviSi^ Ca
p. 463t expre^sei) his wish to aaccftma
i
K Jen 18, '6*.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
49S
gree of relationship between them : iu his sub-
fuent remarks attributing to this event the
^in of vfljioiw influential ** sympathies and an-
iihies in the heart of our great Bard/' in con-
nence of ** the fair fame of his mother's ancient
I honmirahle line having been stained with
ider, and by the public ignominy of her re-
*« bead being exixtbiced on London Bridge,**
;c.
writer signing Caox has probably not seen
ks on the family of Shakespeare's mother
poblished in the SiJcth Part of The
mid Oetieakigut (August, 1863,) nor the
:t6 from the same article which are appended
Dice, to his recent Life of Shakespeare^
aammarv of the results of that article
AS given in the last Yolume of ^* K. & Q./*
(SepM2, 1863).
Way not, therefore, be altogether unneceBsary,
* e informatiOQ of that genlleman and others,
leat that it has been ascertained — K That
entitication of Shakespeare's maternal grand-
with a groom of the chamber to Henry VII*
ancestor of the Ardens of Yoxall« co. Staf-
i),^ and the consectuent atEliatlon of the Ardens
l^ilmcote upon tne Ardens of Park-hall, ori-
lied only with Malone, and is proved to be
[at mistake; 2. That the Poet's grandfather
in deeds dated 1530 " as Robertus Arden
ilmecote in parochia de Aston Cantelowe in
iatu Warwici, hushandman (CoUier^s Life of
WMpeare^ 1844, p. Ixxiii.) ; 3. That when the
^ds exemplified arms for Arden to John Shake-
re in 1599, they did not venture to give for
rife the coat of the Warwickshire family, but
;ned her (with a martlet for difference) the
Ij different one borne by Arden of Alvanley
sshire (since Lord Alvanley).
im ail which it is most probable that the
tcd relationship of Shakespeare^s mother to
ard Arden, the traitor of 1583, or to any
of the family of Warwickshire gentry no-
by Dugdale, was exceedingly "distant**
1, and certainly past discovery, if not alto-
' imaginary. JoEUf Gough NicaoLS.
THE WKOElTEa
[lie death of the founder of this extraor-
sect deserves a record in ** N. h Q/'
Wroe died at CoUingwood, Melbourne,
Plralia, on the 5th February, 1863. He waa
ij-one years of age, and bad followed the
of prophet for more than forty years. He
ided a sect which numbered adherenta in all
of the world ; and which held, as its car^
|1 article of faith, the divine inspiration and
{>lute authority of its founder. His fuU owers
ID Melbourne looked confidently for his rc-
rectioD, but they have probably abandoaed
that hope now* The sect called themselves
'* Christian Israelitest" but were popularly known
(from wearing the hair uncut and unshaven) as
** Beardica." They were zealous and incessant
street' preachers of an incoherent and uninteUi*
gible doctrine; apparently compounded of Judaism^
Christianity, and the principles of the Adamites
of Munster. From inoiiiries made here, I am led
to infer that John Wroe was unmistakeably a
lunatic of a common and harmless type ; but,
nevertheless, he was constantly attended by a
secretary, who took down everything that fell
from his lips; and these notes were sacredly pre-
served as divine communications. The hymns,
and the more private books of the sect, abound in
flagrantly indecent images and references* Their
historical manual is —
•* Tha Life and Jonnial of John Wroe, with Diviii«
GbmamnicatioDS to him; being the Visitation of the
Spirit of God, to warn Mankind thiit tho Day of the Lord
ia at hand, &c. 3 Tola Gravcaead : Printed for the
Tmatces of the Society by W. Deaoe. 1869."
A more extraordinary book there is not to be
found ; even in that very peculiar department of
literature, the records of religious imposture and
delusion. It has always seemed to me strange
that no mention of these " Wroeites," so far as I
have noticed, has emerged in contemporary jour-
nalism ; although the sect was strong enough to
have its own prophet, its own liturgy, code of
laws, church cotistitution, and special literature*
It has survived the death of its founder; but
seems, from all I can learn, to be now dying out.
This is an additional reason for leaving some
mention of it oo the pages of contemporary
history. D. Blaib.
Melboiuna.
CoFFBB* — The following extract from A New
View of London^ publbhed m 1708, voL i. p* 30, is
curious : - —
" I find it recorded, that one James Fair, n barber, who
kept the coffeehouse which is now the * Rjiinbow/ by tke
Inner Teraplo gate (one of the first in £ni;Und), wftB» in
the yenr 1657, presented by tbe inquest of Bu Dunatan'a
in the W., for making and selling a sort of liquor called
coffttt US a great aoisaiice and prejudice of the DeighbouT'
hood,** &c.
s, p. V.
Ah £i.BCTiottfi£aT?ca Bbll of fobmeb Dats. —
The following cutting from Sauriderma News-Let-
tcTt May 9, 1864, may be deemed worthy, as a
curiosity, of insertion in " N. k Q." : —
** Daring the time of a contested election in Meath, some
forty years ago. Sir Mark Somerville [father of the pre-
sent l^ord Athluraneyl tent orders to the proprietor of the
hotel in Trim to board and lo<ige all that should vote for
him, for which he received the following bill, which he
got framed, and it itill hanga in SomatvvVW \Vawa*,
county Meath. T\i* tao^ temi^\»s2sx ^XaaN* vaii.^'*^
NOTES AND QUERIES,
H:v*aLX.
Ibani! amongst the papoti of th« lat« Very Rev. Arch-
dettcoa O'ConnBll [Hom(m C«thoUe]i Vicur^Gensral of
the diocew gf MqaUl : —
•lGthApril»182a,
'MrBnx — To eating 16 frcehdders above stjiira for
Sir Marki at 3f . GdL a bead is to me 2^ 12i. To eating
16 more bftlow aUlm &nd 2 priesti After supper ia to me
2L 16ju 9dL To 6 bed* in one room and 4 in another at 2
guinciu every bed, and not more than four in anv bed at
any tiniti cheap enoagh God knows is to me 22L Idt. To
1^' horses and 5 mules about my yard all njgbt at 13i.
ti¥«rv one of them and for a man which was lost on the
head of watoblng them all night is to me bL 6a. Qd. For
broakfaat on toy in the morning? for eve!f:y one of tbom
and at manv more oa they brought aa oaar ai I can guuas
is to me AL 12f. Od, To raw ^'hi«key and poncU with-
out talking of pJpes tobacco ai well aa for j)orter and aa
well aa for breaking a 4ot above atairs and other glasses
and delf for the first day and night f am not veiy sunt
but for tbe three days and a half of the elactlaa at little
as I can cnll it and to be yery exact it is in all or tbore-
aboot OS near &« 1 can gnesa and not to he too particular
is ti} mc nt kaat 711/. 15«. dtL For sharing and i-n)|ipiLi^
off tbe heads of the 49 freeholdem for sir marks ut iSdC
for every head of them by my brother has a Woie ia to
me 2/. \Sm, id. For a womit and nurse for poor Tom Kor-
nan in the middle of the night when he was not expected
js to me ten ho^. I don*t talk of the pfper or for
keeping him sober as long as he was somt* ia to mo
40L 10*.
8i^ed
in the place JemmT Cars wife
hit '
Bryan X Garraty
Mark
110/. 18 T von may aav 111 0 0 aoroorHonoar Sir Marks
acnd me this eleven hundred by Bryan himself who and
t prays for your succcm always in Trim and no more at
present* *'
ASKBA.
AstEttlCAIT PlOUStOLOGT : TO Ba»B = TO
Shave. — ** Barbed** teemji to be couaIdere<l by
the ** Special Commissioner** of the Dail^ Tde*
graph as a word newly coined in the United
Stat^i ; it itt bowcireTf good English, and as old
aj Pepys at least (Diarif, Nov. 27, 1665) —
** To Sir G, Smlth^a. it h«iw now night, and thara up
io his chamber and aat taikuig^ and I borbinf agajnat
See also tbe quotations In Boucher's Oh^mry.
J, EjLIOT nODGKlTT.
Jin>Gs jErrtBTs. — The following extract from
the City Press (May 13, 1864) is, I think, worth j
of preaervation in ** N. & Q.**—
« Du"-'"-^ ♦'■* r^ent improvements In the church of
St. Jkl.i 4 ill, Aldarmsnburr, it was oonaidered
•dvi«al' 1 1 ary raaaooa^ thai the vaults should he
filtod in* and iu dotting the vault of the antorii^ua Judge
JeAf^s, th« workmen dAacovtfcd a imall brass plats
alRjE^ to the wall^ inscribed as follows:—' Thft Kunottr-
Mf*. Haty Diva, fldfi»t daughtar of tlw Bighl
The Total.
2
12
0
0
S
Ifl
0
0
22
15
0
0
5
5
0
0
4
12
0
0
79
16
0
9
2
13
0
I
10
10
0
0
M^aoamtk Orngt Lord ^sOmj^
^oghtar
<£. W«B« aaA
Lord High ChaQoaUor of Engl^ML Uf km^ 1
daughter of Sir Thom«« BAiulirorth* wmmt
Mayor of tbe City of Loudois. dM OcL I^S HI
81st year of her ag«.' **
The brass h^a been reuaoved ai»d mom
an honourable poiitioa on tbe waU of tli
aisle. J* ^
Fabi.es or La Poktajmk. — ^Tbora wat p
in 8vo. by Murray, Albemarle Street,
paraphrased transbttion of La Foailasii«'^
into Engliflb vene with ttie otigmal ten^
to each article. The Tcraification ^ ^'
good, and altogether tbe wtxrk
tention than it seems to h«ve i»ei «Rtk
It k in two parts, tbe first dedseafcifl I
Yisconnt Sidmoiitb, s-^d tba 3C<ioa4 *~
Hataell, Esq., on his birtbdaj, J«ii» % ]
** HatsclU who full of honoora aa of
Tbe N«stor of this modem time •]
Who, throQfrh one half an a^ge
Has smoothed the lahoura of SU
VV^iiere future Speaker^ like thoae nsiiHI
Shall own bis worth, and profit br oia km*
On him long years no hai&efiil inflscflesM
So licht Timers wings hjiT« flatt«fM
But Judgment, fhUy ripened not
Distributes treaaares indiutiy hmm mmtti,
For wisdom, from a mind so nchl^ ilfll^
Still blends with playful hiuuour a£ his ImI
While pure religion's warm hot s«iBlla aft
Serfl]3«ly gilds ue eveaiagof hj« d^.*
We fear that the writer, wbo Eid
upon tbe subsequent pai*liaiD en terr n
has nut too higb an estimate oo lIi:.
lucuorationa, which were pubUabe4 ift f«i
4to, and whicih were at one time
and deservedly to.
Fhkfch-ixave, — In Fraser*§
May, 1864 (p^, 580), I fiod tbe fallow
count of the informal receptions i "
in vogue in Pam : ** The visitors
any formal farewell ; whence, I
pressioo, * French-leave.' " C.
CsoQUET, tays Capt. Mayn« Itei4, ia i
froai tb« operatioti of " croque*tcig** ore
the bolls. This is a mistake. Cnx^iaiii it
hcrd*8 staC In Tong*s Vinialion c/ Tm
1530, published by the Sisrteea SotM
^' Prior i staf}'** in tbe b^ingi of tbe
of Newbi!-'^' Ar..u..n V r^^hnm^ *c, is d
exactly il l The
ejctracts 11 ... ^ i.^^:,^^ L..^ iUuslrmte
and ita use : —
•• Loqtial hefglar
laa bcebia.*'
** Guiilaume tkri ted it lUoul d'tio
sAe&orj en la Joe> ' '» petllfl
*■ Davy duao« uma d*Bft gtmai platt
CrmtpoiM par U v».r.-.,
*• LVx|M»aat m diUndl d*an bsatm ^1
fl«i'»L}
NOTES AOT) QTJBRIE&
IDrtTto lay thjit] *^ Qnehiimr ia Firr, Litres qui
\etunt. catuBr fibula.^*
\hei, n iiiie. Eln joue du crt»icll€t tdX
artyi.v ..i...i.-,wqaesouvent I'ciichietn terre."
MiTVp to liah for crawflib with a licM»k«d ttiok ! **
^
iSkuttitMm
QUOTATIONS W.VNTED.
i ftek some of jour learned correspond CBts
apply the refereiices for the following
f^7 teal <nroi^ vpoaipitrfofj as Jobo,
' of Coiutiuitmople, said or Domasca.^
I gmvf] God ilmoks tbat he was not bt«d atnoai^
bikrbaiious peoplei, bat MDODg wise And louocd
mdlton woald ackoowledj^ St Chry'^'stoni hnd
f b«ai fettling upon his lipi."
m laid be enTied the lAarnitig of thrtso mea :
Utian, and Mkaodola."— C^nuc.
'giik LnMkmime ad Scotiacn missa.** — Seldm,
nan thought all churchyaTds were givtti freelj
le of the dead.**
^torian aaid of Mariiif. He led the army and
tkdbinu''
' said of a Tillam, Mortem qxmm non potnlt optare
Cato, he had rather future times shoatd oak
lad not than wbj be bad/'
«tm ftiiaae ccmstilem aot futnmm cradftret? *"—
\raf* Dr. Fell, m tfka Nvmneif
votorum locus cam nallns est sfpri."— .Jmeoa,
Aobila Phcebus."
RUB aaid, A picture was oulj the imago of an
AxianeOf in hh fuaend sermon for St. BaaO, r»-
At be died ^t-rd ^t)^Miraf €^r?«Iai/*
hiatoriaa oUiierTed in the d^a of Karo, AUma
dium liorti irucidartuiL*'
t nugBB in ore Socentotum aunt bloaphemue."^
I to troth, not to affVcticn— to the glory of
to bmnaa adSscllon***— J&id. laiL S. MahuJt,
fcrnns in t«iTia quorum wHentiA nobis perfeyeiabit
tmiis in t«mfl quorum acteo
'—S, Jlieron. Ap. ad FauL
Itere vi& ncnram ■amitam qiuBrentv.'*^ S*^ XTteroH.
barea bifnaelf to an angiy homed beasU'*--^|N>fl
Mi 10 tmooo qaod in £ruefca non taneaa.**— &
I
tony caret as Antigonoa in hia royal purple.*'
D Grotitts aara, Notblnt? odcorred in tbo civil
\ what King Jamee bad rorett^d."
Inl £p. ad Protcetorem ? **
I adao ««t iaviaa diaoardia at wmiima diaplioHIt
** Af Florin. Ridmond, 1. i^ aaTB of CbariftS*V, : Hane
fi^uentior cum Deo qnam cum hominibna aarmo."
" The baptized were presented in white gormenta/*— ^
AnUrroB.de JmHiand.
'^ Ancient writens tell ui: Ttartar pudit*^ et univirn."
» Rin^tTed^ like Gaio^ to be gone till the company be^
came lorry."
** Pfofecto de pretk>«4 vcate crubeaco.*^ — 5. Auttin,
*^ Fnar Giles; the Pope marred a painful clerk by
making hjm a powerful Cardlna)/'
« SeljTnuB threatened to stable hia horse* in St. Peltrt,
and feed them at the high altar.**
Who was Jeffreys, a London elergyiimn, <?.
1640? And who John St. Aniiind, n friend of
Camden ? Caktob C.
Where do the folio wing lines come from, quoted
in the Quorrtef^^ Hemew for April, 166*2, m an ar»
tide on the *' Training of the Clergy,*' b^lnuing —
*» All life, that Uvea to thrivi.
Most sever from its birth-place aud tta reat/' 1^,
E, P. C.
Where is this to be found ? —
•* What from Heav^ is, to neavi?n tends ;
That which desccivded, the same again aacendf ^
\VTiAt from the Earth i.s tu Earth retoruB again ;
lliat which froni Heaven is, the Earth cannot eontaia."
St. T.
Who are the Greek authors referred to in the
following passage? —
♦» I finde little errour in that Grecian^s coun«ell, who
aaiea. If thou aak anything of God, offer no satrifite, nor
ask elegantly, nor vehemently, but remember that thou
wouldcst not (five to nich an aaker: nor in his other
Gountriniaa^ who afliniiB gacrilice of blood to be so unpro-
p^rtionahle to God, that perfume^ though mmh more
spirituall, are too grosac*'
U **See Mizraim's kingcraft, of ita crown bereft.
Sank to nocturnal deed 5 of petty theft."
2. "He aet aa seta the morninn; star, which gtifj
Not down behiad the darkened west, nor hides
Obacared amoogat the tempesta of the nky.
Bat melti away into the light of heaves."
D. Burnt.
Melbourne^
Whence the following ? —
1. •* The viaioii and the ftcnlty dt\nne."
{Indmn Civil Service Exauu Fapers, 18^9.
2. ** For me let hoary Fielding t'ite the fc^ouud.
So nobler Pickle stands superbly bonud ;
WTio ever rend «the Rrgidde* bnt awore.
The author wrote aa man ne*er wrote bdbre."
Lkm.
3. ** And that nnleaa above faimaelf be can '
Erect hiniielf, — how poor a thing ia tnan I "
Idem. 180 L
4. ** Mv miad*s mv kingdom ; and 1 will permit
K6 oCbcr'i will to bav« ib^til'bci^ %u^
5. " M«f still this Ulftnd be called fortuoAte,
And turtle- footed peace daace fairy rlogs."
6. "For it is heavenly borne and cannot die
Being a parcell of the pareat akie-'^^/dcm.
7. ** Westward the course of empii^ takes ita way.**
Idem, 1863.
F. J. F. GANTILLOir*
Courtrai Hooae, Cheltenham.
P.S* Will any correspondent of "N. & Q/'
oblige me with the loan, for a short time, of the
Indian Civil Sertfice Exutmifiation Papers for
1857?
" Abundikeb Dev^." — Can any of your cor-
respondents inform me as to when a small Tolume
of traQslations, named Arundines Devec^ was pub-
liflbedf The author was, I believe, a Scotch
physician. His name and an/ particnlars what-
ever* especially aa to whether the book is procur-
able and where, will greatly oblige Ittquuikb.
BAfiTIDf! AND UlS OdE 03f LoUlS XIV.—
** When Louis XIV. was sickt Bastide wrote an ode, in
which he said that the chateau of Venailles, though ihe
largest in the world, waj too small for its owner, for
whose company at the high table of heaven the saints
and angels were impatient. He urged them not to grudge
to mortak for time the presence which themselves would
enfoy through eternity."-^^utory of LouU XI V^ Land.
1751, 8\*o> Preface xL
The book is a poor compilation &om Voltaire,
but has some interesting notes. I cannot find anj
account of Baatide, and shall be glad to learn
who be was, and where I may find the ode,
C. E. R
BfiAse KiTOCKBB. — What is the origin of thia
terin, used to express the setting before a guest
on the second daj the remains of a feast ? It is
much in vof^e with Indians, apparently in the
sense of a rechauffe, G. A. C.
"The Beipes of Endbebt.'* — Wanted, some
information as to the origin of a tone called " The
Brides of Enderby,** which is mentioned in one of
Jean Ingelow*s poems, *^ The High Tide on the
Coast of Lincolnshire, 1571,** thus,—
"Play oppe, play uppe, 0 Boeton hells!
Plv all your rhaii>;ea, all vour swells,
? Play up * the Brides ^ tCnderby ! *
•*Tbey styde, 'And why should this tiling be?
What danger lowers by tend or s«a !
They ring the tunc of''* Endorby I " '
■* And awBome be]ls they were ta me.
That in the dark rang ' Enderby I ' ^ Ibo,
Manchoiter.
CHBisrsniWOi at Couit^— John Chamberlain
wriiot to Sir Dudlcj Carletou froml^QH^QU^^i]^!
26, 1607, "On Friday the ISmI vi krws4d%m
was christened; in the Cbapel _»l Cow-L**
and Time$ of James /., toL L p, 69^ In i
registers are these cbristefiin^ eateredi Mail
can acceffi to them be obtadnied?
R. V. CLABE!n>ON, Esq. — He i
L "Political Geography, in a k( af BtM
of the principal Empires, Kiagd»iBa» acad S
rope ; exhibiting at one view jgrand Divi
countrv; the Population, tlie Rate tbetiaf ^
Mile; 'the Population of CapiUl Ta«as;
Force, Naval and Military ; the Financial I
reoue, Military Charges, General Expi
Public Debt; the Political Conotitiatiofi,
Form of Government and Adminiatmioo 4 1_
state of ReUgion, Literature^ Agriculttarc, OflBaMi
Cotooiee, with Obeervatioaa re^pectie^ At piiv
EvenU in the History of each Coanliy. till
disposed as iroroediatcly to strike tbe Kyi i
lUc Attention. To which i% prefijted r" *"
containing, besides otber Articles of
Account of such Coins, both r«Al and in
carrent in Europe, with short rule^i for 1
sterling; also the Ratea of lateresc. Vat
of Grace customary in each StAte, h^* i
178&.
2. ** A Sketch of the Revenue and
land and of the appropriated Fun da, I^oans* I
the Nation from their Commencemeat i
of the principal Heads of Receipt and E
60 Tears; and the various Supplies oincc '
Lion. The whole illustrated with Cbarla*
179L Preface dated London, Jan. 5, 17yk
The latter work is mentioned in tba J
Dictionary of Living Authors^ and in ]
loch's LitcrtOure of PolUical £^
Watt and Lowndes, who caJla il •* %'i
elaborate view of the financea of tilt i
land;-
None of the fore-named poblic
the Political Oeogranhy^ wnieb
noticed in the Monthfy Anatgiicat
Reviews for nB9,
I desire to ascertain what nanie^ uie i
by the initials R. V., and ihnll be |lBi i
other information respecting ilila iogcair
laborious author, E. '
CoLASTEEioit. — I should be glad of ssj i
ation on the subject of the CoUat^rloiii.
Lewis 1
Saodbaob.
CmssTS. — Under what etrcmnatancfa di»s 1 1
bear two or more areata P Whetber bftnafj
tained the name and amia of anotber Tor\
bear the crest of mj and erery coat of arm i
he quarters ? ** CAfTL
CuMBERr.iiin> AMD CoxommrK,—
•^When Cnmberlaad hitiliiatcd that be
treated, not &■ a wrttet ofplmyK but sm a
world nf bis day did not know what be
thoud^ht he gave himself tin i bttt«Tiwy
j'AS^v. jujijsiSp'ei]
MOTES AND QUEBIEa
497
gWBted."— 5afii«fay Bevieu, Nor* 29, 1862; Art
S being UDderetood/'
A similar story is told of Congreve. As Cum -
Jerland wna a man of affectatloQ and imitation,
mj blUo be true ; but I fihall be glad to
f- on what authority it rests. £. Morukt.
dl Heath.
>ALwicK OR Da WICK WAS at one time a parish
Feeble* hi re, but was dirided between other
Ahe% circa 1742. Are there any remains of
\ parish church or churchyard stitl existing?
Sigma-Thbta.
I^OfiiAB Dahe. — ^I have before me a work with
I fbliowing title: —
lOcKmsetlor MannerBt bis last Legacy to hia Son:
'; and emb«Hifhed with Grave Advisos, P«t Hi«-
Ingenious Proverba, Apologues, and Apo*
DS. By Joaiah Dare. London. 12mQ» 1673."
it the end is this imprimatur : —
" Licenaed,
October 20. R, L.**
1672.
^ " There h no appearance of its being a second
dition ; and, at p. 88, occurs a sneer at the Bar*
n iiolomew martyrs.
-■ Lowndes (edit.Bohn, 59 1 ^ notices the work, and
ates a copy sold at Sothebys, May 21, 1857» to
t unique. He gives the date 1653, which I doubt
. is an error.
jCounsellor Manners is obviously a supposititious
on ; but who was Josiah Dare ? S. Y. R.
J'KStToK. — Where is a pedigree of the Scotch
nil? of Fenton, more particularly of the branch
tMllneame, in Perthshire, to be found?
Sigma-Theta.
[FooTB, — ** Antipater made feastes everj/oote
thy brother Pheroras and bimselfe; and as
' eate and dranke,*' &c. (History of the Jewes
nuM weaUf fol. Ivi. 1561.) What does this
St. T.
Haix, Author of "Jacob's Ladder.** —
^waa Jo. Hall, B.D., author of a book of
the ninth edition appeared in 1G98, and of
I the title is —
' Jacol>V Lndder; or, the Devoat Sonri A«censton to
iven, in Prajera, Thankagivings, and Praises. In four
y viz.,
A. Privute D<!VOtionA> f^^ «„«^ t\-„ :- •i.** tc^w
2, Family Devotions j ^^"^ ^^^ ^"^ **> ^*»® ^"^^
B. Oecsflionfll DevoUon«.
1 4- Sacred Poem a npon select SBbjecta. With Graces
' Tlianksfjivmp?. Illustrated with Sculptures. Lon-
priuted by F. C-oUina for Tho. Guy at the Oxford-
i in Lumbiird IStreet/*
[^Tbe book contains accounts of the Gunpowder
&t» the plague, and fire of London, &c.
B, a a
f Hbbai^dic Qobrtcs. —Quarterly, Az, and or,
the first quarter a mullet of the last. What
family bore these arms? They differ from tho*c
of Vere only in the tincture of the first and fourth
quarters. G. A. C.
Ermine, a bend sable, charged with B martlets
aR. Can any reader of " N. & Q/' say by what
family (probably a Herefordshire family), the
above arms were borne previous to or about the
year 1700? R. B.
Mr. Hbrbert*8 CosrPAirr of Fi.ATBit8i — In
the town of Leicester, from a date at least »r
early as the commencement of Elizabeth's reign
to that of George IL, the companies of nlayers
customarily per&rmed every year in the old
Guildhall, now standing. At a Common Hail
held on January 9» 1736 (N.S.), it was ordered —
"That Mr. Herbert's Company of Players have tb*
nae of the Town Hall, making good all damsges, aad
Paying five pounds to Mr, Mayor for the vm of tlw
Poor.^'
I would ask any of your corresjpondcnta familiar
with dramatic afiairs, was Mr. Herbert " known
to fame *' ? Jailbb THOMfsoit .
Leicester.
Thb HunTDfcDOK shire Feast.— I hBV© A copy
of Trimneirs Sermon *' Preached upon Occasion
of the Huntingdonshire Feast at St. Swithin*s
Church, London, the 24tb of June,'* 1697. In
the dedication, to the ''Stewards of the Hunting-
donshire Feast," the preacher says, that, to them
** our country owes so much for the Revivin^T of
an useful Society out of a Charitable design." I
am desirous to learn some particulars concerning
this Feast, which is not mentioned in Bray ley and
those other topographical accounts and directories
which, up to the present, ore the only " County
Histories " of which Huntingdonahb^ can boast,
Nor is the Feast referred to in the very excellent
History of HuTitingdoTh published in 1824, by a
now well-known author, who modestly shrouded
himself under the initials "R. C.*' appended to
the Preface — the initials of ^Ir. Robert Carru-
thers, who was at that time a junior master in the
Huntingdon Grammar School*
Ct^THBERT BeDR.
Thowas Hcrtlet of Malhflui, in Craven, pub-
lished Natural Curiosities in the Btwirons of Mai*
ham^ 8vo, 1786. When did he die ? S. Y. R.
" Life or Samuel Johnson," &c*, printed for
G. Kearsley, &c., 1785.' Who wrote this memoir,
which is prefaced by the portrait, " drawn from
the life, and etched by T. Trotter," in 1782 ? — of
which Johnson said, when be looked at the draw-
ing : "Well, thou art an wj^iy fellow; but still 1
believe thou art like.*' Quivis.
[• There was another Lift t^f Br. Johnton publiahed
anonymously by Walker, in 1785. This was by ihe Rev.
Wra.' Shaw.* Sec " N. & Q.," 2^^ S. v. :>77. The one pnb-
h^hed bv G. Kearsley was inquired after isi<iist 't^ "*i^TA.
227.— Ei>.l
NOTES AKD QUBRIE&
lP^iLW.immlKi
EuAS JuxoN.^ — Can any reader inform me wiio
Ellas Juxon waa ? He died in London 1632.
Ladt Markhaic— Wbo was tbla lady on whom
DMine wrote aa dc^gy ? (Ptfenw, p. 66, ed. 1633,)
Cpi«
Cldb at tue MEitfttAiD Taveen.— An account
of thb celebrated Club is given \a Gifford*a Life
f»f Ben Jonson^ p. (^5 ; but wliat u the origraal
mjurce from which he derived Lis information F I
ha^e an opinion that the *-^ Mitre '' was the mora
frequent rendezvoua according to the lloes: —
" Quilibet, si sit ooDlentiu,
Vt statucus 6t«t otMirentiLSr
Sicut no» proraidmua,
Si^um Micrs «nt locus,
Brit cibus^ erit iocus
Optimot AUssi mas.^*
Cm.
'*The Petwb CoiAKcnoN/KTc — The first
vohime of Tfi£ Peirie Collection of the Ancieni
Mutic of Ireland was published in Dublin in the
year 185 J, *^ under the superintendence of the
Saciety for the Preservation and Publication of
tk« Melodies of Ireland/' Can you or any of your
Iftsh readers inform me whether the Society ia
esttnti and whether we ma^ hope to have any
niire volumes ? The materiala would appear to
be most abundant. Funds, however, are often-
times found wanting to carry out a good purpose,
tmA this, 1 suppose, is the ca«e with the Society in
rfueation. Abbba.
St. Thomas's Hospital. — I should l>e ex-
tremely glad of any information relative to Capt.
John Smith, who died at Clapham, March 7, 1698,
M* aixty-nine, having been for many yeara trca*
:»urer of SL Thomas's Hospital. I partictilariy
want hLi wife*s maiden name^ the date of her
death, and the names of their children.
H. J. S.
HacKwiTn Spencek, of Yoricsliirej admitted af
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, 1698 ; U.A.
1701 ; M.A, 1704 ; waa Vicar of Southwell, Not-
tiariiamshire. lie ba^ vcfseis in the Univerjiity
Cofiectiou on the death of William, Duke of
Gloucester, 1700; and publbhed —
** The Br-''- - - ^-rjn \ occasionMbvtheDutebesi
*if Newca hundred poun^ towardi the
Icpairing ; i urch of Southwell. London.
F©L 1713.'*
We shall bo glad to receive addltiomd partlcu-
lan reipecting him.
C. H. k Tnowrms Coopse.
* Qambriclge.
fiift RoasRT Si>orEft, — Where can I find the
petligree of Sir Robert Slopcr, who was mnde a
Anigbt of the Bath in 1788? Mxi-vna.
SsfTTH.— The Rev, Williaaa Snflk cf Urn
tar, in Caithness, and tstnlaier oC B«««r {
Watten, was impriaoned li Tkann ' *"
in IBSO. He married a danf^tirr of \
clair of Ratter, nephew of Gcoiqge, Mk 1
Caitbnesa. Was he a broihor orowiaiA </1
Smyth of Braoo, and wbnt iasse bad
George SmytJi f Prob^lj Mn. Ca
answer tliia.
South Apbicah Discotkht- — Botcyvl
dot, in his remarks on the second of the i
Accouats of India cmd China by 7\ev /
Travellers^ who rwitf to ' ""
Century ^ writes : —
'< Sea charts hav« hatf the Caam ^Qmi 1
name of FrontQira de Africa bdtrm that «#
ftg^ of Ya&qiieg de G«ma was vndtttAtm, i
Vim relates froro Fnuictsoo de Soiisa IVraiw t
year 162S, tUo liiliint Dom Femajad ahovcAi^l
TAvareZy such a chart, which was in the
AicobacA, and had been drawn 120 years.**
Is it known whether this curious
copy of it, is in existence^ and is n
served of the adventures of thie
mariners, who surveyed the South Coail
80 far back as the year 140^ ? Perfaapi
who answered my ^ffsty oa De Foe
Lavan^atone, sigoefl H. C,, wmj be able
me this information* H. T
Spanish Peater-Book- — I bare
across a small book, bound in toKo
gilt cla^^ps of ornameotai dengu, and in |
servation. The tillt of Iba book f
" Ordeo dc Oracionaa de mca, ccm los ay
Congregadon y Paacuns nueraui^nt« etioia
didov An ' - ' - por iaduairLa de Jctuni
detpesa I ^avid Usiul Cafidoso i
sterdam, n ti.**
Can any of your correspondenta giri m'i
formation as to the rarity or hiatorir of tbSill'
There is on old tradition that it befmctiiVli
Boleyn. ^^ W.Xl
CirnToua Suboical AjfBCDOTm. <— Io iIm
gomery MSS.^ ptibli^bed at Btlfaat In liH
account, at p. 18J^^ of the third VtacouM
gomery, who, at Ojifo«%i, aba wed Iba
of his heart to Ring Charles 1. tbmninb
sion in his side, wkidi bad been oanda&i Hi <
by Dr. Maxwell, who was altorwnfda ibt
Fhyaician. Are there an/ (briber d«laili
of this singular atory ?
Sin Joio VANBCAaii. — Art tbtsra any dr
existing known to bavn bc(« mado \
architect, who designed Blanbdn Palvne, *
llo ward, and many smaller h ■ * ' * * t - ^ Tbcrt {
plenty by his oontcmporarit iml ]
«i«aLT. J9swlt»'640
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
489
fJmrmmrTT of DuBtm.—
" A grmci? proposed on FriiUy last, for returning tbftnlci
to the king* ior his present of the PorlhiineiiUry History,
m an £ruftuh l^tttr^ with ft seal of the University, ©n-
dOfted in oou/c/ ixKt, wha rejected in full senate."— From
4llt Bath Ckronicit, under •• Imh News" April 2^ 1772.
Whj and wherefore rejected ? E. W. F.
Whitb Hats at Oxjtohjj. — A writer in The
9te«« of June 9th, describing the Commemoration,
Mi^t stating Ihat the nnd erg rad nates assailed with
«Kracial violenoe the iodivtdiuil who ventured la-
aide the doors wcuring m white hat, proceeda : —
*» The white hiit seems to act on the undergradoate hs
lfc« «d ray upon tho Spanish ball ; it absomtel/ infu-
**-•" him, and, till it is removed from sights ho jalla and
at it be were downright mad."
Cmn any reader of *• N. k Q/* explain the
''^- of this feeling ? W. H,
Stohib and Woodkk A1.TAB8 IX Ejiglawd. — In
lYilliara of Malmesbury'a Life of S, WuUtan
(Ang, Sac, vol ii. p. 264), he telb us, that " in
his [Wubtan's] time (area 1090) there were
wooden alt ara in England from the primitive days-
He having demolished them throughout his dio-
cese [Worcester] made Dew ones ofitone/* What
was the reason of the change, and why did the
bbhop preach (so to fpeak> such a crusade against
what is confessed to have been an established cus-
«»«> ' A. A.
Poets' Comer,
[Our corre8poQdent*9 query has been anticipated in a
p»p9T read before tho Caiobridge Camden Society, on
KoT. 28» 1844, On th* Bttttry of ChrisHam Altar* [by
Mr. ColHson]. and stnoe pnhlisbod as a tract, 12mo, 1846.
We there read, that " la 1076 the council of Wincbestar,
muter LanlVaoc and the papal legatas, orders the alUrs to
b» made of stone 1 unfortonately nothing but the h<^ds
^the canons is preservud. (Spalman, Cbac, u. 12.) But
h^re I thall give you a passage from the life of S. Wulstan,
Inihop of Worcester, in which William of Malmeabury
(who lived in the reign of Stephen, a^. 1141,) saya, * at
tihat time the altars had been of wood (or, there bad been
rwoodan altart), even from ancient times in England.
^^leie he demolisbed thronghoot his diocese, and con-
«tnicted others of atone. So that sometimes in one day
li« would consecrate two altars in one towa, and as many
more on the second and third day, in other places that bo
bad gone to/ ( ViL S, WuhL, pL ii. c 14, in Angl, Sac^
\§L 264.) This pattage seeoifl of aomo importance, for
WtOalan was a sturdy Saxon pralat^ almost the only
one who kept his ground under the Conqueror, and indeed
waa very near being deprived on a charge bttmght against
Mm by Lanfranc bimaelf : and though he was afterwards
nrach respected and consulted by the archbishop, it Is to
t>e reraembered that l,.anfranc» though himself an ItalJan
hf birth, ami a great and good man. is said to have kept
atndlonsJy aloof trom tlie paHy of & Qrsgof^ Ttt. 8a
that 1 eoaceive this caooa of the Winchester oottucil, and
tho consequent activity of S. WuleUn,mast have b««o re-
garded by Churchmen tbea, and should bt ngardad by
us now, as the re-enactment of the old law of the Councjl
of Epanna, and the Excerpt of Abp. £gbert, called for by
their reajMCt tar antiquity, and their regard for order and
decency.** This valuable tract oaght to be ta the Ubiary
of every ecclesiaatical antiquary.]
Basing House, Ham ps hike. — I am desirous of
Bnding as full an account as possible of the sieges
which this strongly fortified reaidence of the Mar-
quis of Winchester underwent during the great
rebellroD. In particular that m 1644, at which
the witty Dr. Fuller ia said to have so vigorousiy
incited the garrison against the parliamentarj
leader, Sir W, Waller. The references I have
hithei'to ?een ore too scanty for my purpose — that
of compiling a biography of Dr. Thos. Fuller.
J. E. B,
[Farticulara of this memorabla aiege were pablisbed at
the tine In what arc now called " TheCivO War Tracts/*
Among others the foUowing may be oonatilted: 1. **A
DcacHption of the Stiga of Baaiiig Cattle ksfA by the
Lord Marqaiae of Wincbegter fcr the service of Hia Ma-
juty against the Forces of the Rebels under command of
Col Norton, Load. 4tOv 1044." 2. ** The Journal of the
Siege of Ba^g Hooae by the Marquisse of Winchester,
Oxford, 4to, 1644-** 8. Hugh Petards "Full and Lost
Rektfon ooncemJng Baaing Houses London, 4tO) l$4fi."
The name of Dr. Fuller, however, does not occur in either
of these tracts. Burke, in The Fatrician^ v. 473-479, ba*
given an intereating account of Basing House ; hot has
neglected to give his authority for the following notice of
our witty historian : « Dr. Thomas Fuller, author of The
Church Hifipry of Britain^ and other works, being a
chaplain in the royal army under Lord Hopton, was fbr
some time shut up in Baaing House while ft was besieged.
Even here, as if sitting in the study of a quiet parsonage
fisr removed from the din of war, he prosecuted his
flivoorite work, entitled Th« fFortkiea of England; dis-
covering no signs of fear, but only complaimng that the
noise of the canuou, which was continually thundering
fhim the lines of the besiegers, interrupted hira in digest-
ing his notes. Dr. Fuller, however, ajiimated the gar-
rison to so vigorous a d«(fence, that Sir William Waller
was obliged to raise the siege with conndcrable loss, by
which the fate of Basing House wss for a considerable
time suspended. When it was f^sieged a second time
and fell. Lord Hoptoads army took shetter in the city of
Exeter, whither Fuller accompauied it.'*]
ATeaNftT, oa Athdnat. — Among a number of
old " franks," I have some directed by Thomis
Birmingham, nineteenth Lonl Athenry (the pre-
mier barony of Ireland), who, in 1730, was created
Earl of Louth. One of these is now before oie ;
it is a letter from Denis Daly, Esf^^, of RaLiVitcU<!5i>
NOTES AND QUERIES.
enough it IS franked by the Earl, not ^* Louth **
but ** Alhunry/* and indeed tdl bis slgnarureB are
similnr, even in tbe spelling. Observe, the title is
spelt with an instead of an e. Query, ^bich is
correct? H. Lorrus Tottemuam.
^The word Is tpelt in Jive different ways in Lodge^a
Peeroge; via., Athnery, Aghnary (as anciently written )»
Atbnnree, Athnnry, and Athenry.]
•♦ROBIK ADAIR:" -JOHNNY ADAIB:'^ "THE
KILRUDDERY HUNT.*'
(3^* S, iv. 130; v. 404, 442)
£. K. J* is most decidedly in error, both as re-
gards the hero, nature, and date of ** Robin
Adair,** which in no flense of the phrase can be
called **a drinking song-," or one showing the
" warmth of that triendship which aubaiited be-
tween that gentleman (what gentleman ?) and bia
friends;" but is merely a sentimental sorrowful
lament of a lady far the absence of her lover,
Eobert Adair, the hero of the tong, was well
known in the London fashionable circles of the
last centnry by the iobriquet of the " Fortunate
Irishomn ;" but Ms parentage, and the exact place
of his birth are unknown. He was brought up as
ft surgeon, but his '* detection jn an early amour
drove him precipitately from Dublin," to push his
fortunes in England. Scarcely had he crossed
the Channel when the chain of lucky events, that
ultimately led him to fame and fortune, com-
menced. Near Holyhead, perceiving a carriage
overturned, he ran to render assistance* The
iole occupant of this vehicle was '* a lady of fashion
well known in polite circles," who received Adair's
attentions with thanks; and, being slightly hurt,
and hearing that he was a surgeon, requested him
to travel with her in her carriage to London.
On ibeir arrival in the metropolis, she presented
him with a fee of one hundred guineas, and gave
him a general invitation to her house. In after
life, Adair used to say that it was not so much
the amount of this fee, but the time it was given
that was of service to him, as he was then almost
destitute. But the invitation to her house was a
still greater service, fur there he met the person
who decided his f^te in life. This was Lady
Caroline Keppel, daughter of the second Earl of
Albemarle, and of Lady Anne Lenox, dau^-hter of
the first Duke of Richmond. Forgetting her
high lineage. Lady Caroline, At the first sight of
the Irish surgeon, fell desperately in love with
him; and her emotions were so sudden and so
violent as to attract the cr-nernl attention of the
company. Adair, perceiving his advanta;:*?, tost
no time in pursuing it ; while the AH \
Jiicbmond fsumlm were dismayed at • \ :\
Ct^aT
of such a terrible mctaUianct, KToyi
tried to induce the youa^ lady to illcr W
but without effect. Adair a faogmpligtin
that^
f wIfeiMMl
^^Amoscments, a long journey, an adv
and other common modes of obakin^ off i
dered by the family *a an improper XBM
nately tried, but in vain \ the heAltb of LidyOsfdl
evidently impaired, and the fatnllj at UstcoaABi
a good senm that reflecUi honour on tb«iT ondMSi^
as well as their heart j, that it was pOMible to |l
but never to dissolve an attachment; ftnd tkat ■
wa« tbe honourable, and indeed tbo ooly alltlBill
oould secnro her bappinesa and W^**
When Lady Caroline wm» taken bf j
from London to Bath, th&t she mij^ht ^
from her lover, she wrote, it is
" Robin Adair,'* and set it to \
tune that she had heard him sinw. ^_
ten by Lady Caroline or not, the s<mf ¥1
expressive of her feelings at the ume»0ll
completely corroborates the circumstaaij
related, which were the town-talk ot thifN
though now little more than family tradiiw
can be no doubt that they were the or^ii
song, the words of which as origiomllf '
the following : —
** Robot Anjua,
<< What's thli dall town to m«?
Hobin^s not i
He whom I wUh to see.
Wish for to h«
Wbere^s alt the joy and mifth«
Mode lifts a Heaven on oorth ?
Oh ! they*re all fled with the«w
Robin Adair
** What made the assembly ahina^
Robin Adair !
What made the bait «o fine?
Robin woa there I
What when the play wo* o*«r,
What made my heart so lora?
Oh I it was parting with
Kobtn Adair 1
*« But BOW thoQ art far Crom tam^
Robin Adair i
Bat now I never i«a
RobiQ Adair!
Yet he I love so well
Still In my heart shall dwell;
Oh I con 1 ne*«r forget*
Robin Adair P
I
ftf iht Lift of HoUri AdHir^
Lot ■ •* " '
.ondon: Krarnb^y, liiicvxc. TIIotJ
u III notieo of A 'i\ir i«ii ifjjit intioOM <
of vduttUlo and interr'^' Ttt i^m
€*>mm&n Ptatc-BtMh. 1 ' *<k '
Newman, a aurgmm, ajs - '
strongly Btiipect^ from n
\ >4«h \^ w&VWh ^ %)bMt ab*j
S'*&Y.JujiKl8,*64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
501
Immediatetj after his marriage* with Lady
Caroline, Ad&ir was appointed Inapector-GeneraJ
of Militarjr Uospitalu, and subsequentlv, becoming
a favourite of George IIL, he was made Surgeon •
General, Ring^s Sergeant- Surgeon, and Surgeon of
Cheliea Hospital. Very fortunate men have sel-
dom many friends, but Adair, by decrming a
baronetcy that was offered to liim by the king for
surgical attendance on the Duke of Glouce«ter,
actually acquired considerable popuhLrity before
his death, which took place when he was nearly
fourscore years of age in 1790, In the Gentie-
marts Magazine of that year there are verses ** On
the Death of Robert Adair, Esq., late Surgeon-
General, by J. Crane, M,D.,** who it is to be hoped
was a much better physician than a poet.
I Lady Caroline Adair*s married life was short
] but happy ; she died of consumption after giving
birth to three children, one of them a son. On
her deathbed, she requested Adair to wear monm*
ing for her as long as he lived ; which he scrupu-
lously did, save on the king's and queen's birthdayB,
when his duty to his sovereign required him to
appear at court in full dress. If this injunction
respecting mourning were to prevent Adair mar-
^y^tig again, it had the desired effect ; ho did not
marry a second time, though he had many offers. But
I am trenching on the scandalous chronicles of tbe
last century, and must stop. Suffice it to say , Adair
leema to have been a universal favourite among
both women and men ; even Pope Ganganelli con-
ceived a strong friendship for him when he visited
Rome. Adair's only son, by Lady Keppel, served
his country with distinction as a diplomatist, and
died in 18^5, aged ninety-two years, then being the
Right Honourable Sir Robert Adair, GX.B., the
hut surviving political and private friend of his
dIstinguLfhed relative Charles James Fox. His
memory, though not generally known, has been
also enshrined in a popular piece of poetry, for,
being expressly educated for the diplomatic ser-
vice at the University of Gottin^en, Canning
satirised him in The Rovers as Rogero, the unfor-
tunate stiident'lover of '* Sweet Matilda Fot-
tingen"
The reader will be surprised to find that any
one could term *' Robin Adair " a drinking song ;
but tbe manner of the mistake is pretty clear to
me, who, from my knowledge of Irish lyrtc.nl litera-
ture, may be said to be behind the scenes in this
matter. E. K. J. evidently confounds the ori-
ginal^ plaintive song of " Robin Adair," with a
wretched parody on it, probably never yet printed,
called "Johnny Adair," He also confounds a
John Adair of Kilternan, the subject of "Johnny
Adair," who lived in the present century, with
• In 7^e Grand Magasim of Umiverml Inteltigtnct for
1758, the marrittge is thiui announced : — " February 22nd,
Robert Adair, E^q., to tbe Bight Honooruble the Lady
Caroline Keppel."
Squire John Adair of the same place, one of the
Kilruddery hunters in 1744. Beginning thus,
E, K. J. further complicates the simple question by
other glaring errors ; and then Ma. Redmond puts
his foot into the imbroglio by adding what he terras
*' collateral evidence,* namely* that a John Adair
is mentioned in the ** Kilruddery Hunt,*^ which is
just as germane to the song of " Robin Adair " aa
tbe river at Monmouth is to tbe river at Macedon.
In the first place, then, let us turn our aiten*
tion to *' Johnny Adair "
Among the MS. collections of tbe late Thomas
Crofton Croker, in the British Museum, X ind the
following memorandum : —
" la 0. quizsical paper publbhed in tbe Stntimmtai and
Masonic Magazine for Jan. 1794, mention is made of a
vhitnsical ceremoaj called Banny brock. Apropos of this
singular ceremony of the BoQDybro4?k. It was in great
request among a* dub of wilaand jovial fellows, who
■pmng up in Dubtin, and flourished in the succeeding
geaeration. At tbe head of this briUiani and sportive
association of all that waa tben gay and fipiritorl in this
capital, yre find the memorable names of Alderman Ma-
carroll, Will. Aid ridge, Johnny Adair of KilteraaiL
Some of these worthies are commemorated in a lyric
pieca, which, for pathos or sentiment, and harmony of
venificatioD, hat few equab : —
** jQHUirr ADAia or kii^teksa:*: ma vrntcoun to
pucjtrrowir.
•* You're welcome to Puckstown,
.loUnny Adatr.
O, you're welcome to Pockstowa,
Johnny Adair.
How does Will Aidrid«fe do?
Johnny Maccaroll too?
O, why came they not along with you ?
Johnny Adair.
" 1 could drink wine with yott,
Johnny Ad«ir.
O, I could drink wine with you,
Johnny Adair.
1 could drink beer with you»
Aye, ntm and brandy too,
O, I could get drunk with yon,
Johnny Adair.'*
This wretched doggrel is certainly unworthy of
a place here ; still it has to be put in as evidence,
for it is, doubtless, the "drinking song** alluded to
by E. K. J. Now, what is the date of it? The
memorandum introducing it state?, that Johnny
Adair " flourished in the Buccecding generation *
to 1794. So we may place Ibis parody about, say
1814, for these reasons. The original song of
" Robin Adair *' had been many yeai-s almost for-
gotten, when it was revived by Braham singing
it about 1811, Braham sang it for his benefit, at
the Lyceum, on the 17th of December in that
year. The song had then created a perfect /wrortf.
Its simplicity of words and air led to many ver-
sions and imitations of lt.\ ^ti4 vsi TVvtTxw^fc* ^
602
NOTES AND QUEEIES.
[r«av.
Dec. 19, 181 U tltere it vn »d^«rtiseinexit iisixed
by one WiUiam Reeve, stating tbat he had ar»
rnoged the words and music of ^^ Robin Adttir **
■8 sang bj Brohiun, and that his was the only
oorrect and copyright edition. There were many
parodies written upon rt for several years after,
■IS I well recollect; having received a severe
caning for one on **Tttfiy" Telfair, an eccentric
leacher of writing in Belfast, who, thuugh he bad
but one £nger and a thumb, and these but on his
left-hand, could^ as he used to boast, write and
flog as well as any man in Ireland. We may then
conclade that "Johnny Adair" — the "drinking
song** — was written in the present century, and
ia iDusrely a parody on ** Robin Adair,*"
I mns t apologise to the readers of *' N. & Ci."
for occupying so much space with this subject,
but it is not altogether an uninteresting one; and
as it ba^ been most absurdly complicated, less
space than I now propose to occupy will not suffice
to unravel the tangled likein.
With respect to Scjuire Adair of Kilternan, in
the county of Dubhn, and the song generally
known as **Tbe Kilruddery Hunti*' I am for-
tunately able to give £. IL J. and Mb. Rei>-
MOHD some information also. In an obituary
notice of Anthony Brabazon, eighth Earl of Meath,
in the Gentleman s Magazine (vol Ix. p. 88), it is
observed that^
" Kilruddery was his L<»rdshtp*s favotuite aeat, a place
celebrated by Johnny Adair, in the best himtiog song
axtant: —
' . . . Kilniddery*8 pletttiAil board,
1(^'her« dwells hospitality, tnitb, and mj^ Lord^*—
Tirere Joban3^s words oo a former possessor <rf the title."
But this assertion is corrected at p. 368 of the
same volume, where we are told that —
** The song was not a prodoctioD of the cooviTial Johony
Adair (who is himself celebrated in H)^ bat of the no less
jovial John Sl Ledger, the son of Sir John Si. Ledger,
lormerly one of the Barooa of th« Court of Exchequer,
aadwho sported many other jf'iicj:^ tifi^^ri^ nowr loostly lo5t.
Jofanny Adair drank no watet^ not even of Aganjppe or
Hippocrene.*'
Neither of these assertions are correct. The
rattlinff rollicking Irish song, **The Kilruddery
Hunt,' was really written by an Englishman;
one Thomas Mozeen, a popular comedian and
singer, — ** a fellow of infinite je^t," whose amusing
powers made him a welcome guest at the too
bospi table bouses of the Irish $auires and squi-
reens in his day. This was clearly shown by two
eminent Irifh antiquaries, Joseph dooper Walker/
Esq. (see Raton's Letters, edited by Sir Uarrid
Kkohis, vol i. p. 179, noU:), and the Rev* James
• Member of tlie Roytl Iriih Academy, aathor of ffU*
ktfied Htmoirt qf th^ Irish Bardt, UiMorusai T
^ MA 5ii|^ sod 0lliir wdl-kaown w<»ikf or
Whitclaw,* in iV« *'"'Vj»eillli eeiitiiry^ «» tks ,
great huntsman ^J bad ran la «nkte j
bst of the Kilru^.ij _ ilotmIs. Mr.
was peculiarly fitted to giire i« opmi«m ^c tUi
mibject : for, having reaided at KHnitiilfry F
as tutor to an Earl of Meatli, he knew rvsrf |
of the ground celebrated in the song ; ami mpi
constructed a map of the deriiotia Tuxtt from wiet^
tbe fox first broke cover, ml Killfwer, t3 a
was kdled on Dalke^-hilL The tradtgon tftft |
country in Mr. Whitelaw's time was, 1^
song was the joint productiom of Mr« If e^ee
one Owen Bray — of whom more ber^aftrr. Aid
as Moaeen was not a ffportamaii, and Bray «■ i
keen one — and as ^* the soul of the if rnlM,
indeed, seems transferred into the ^oog** — itiB
the general opinion that the son^ wma ike m^
position of Bray, and that the sole elsHi d
Mozeen consisted in having set it to tmaria H
this, however, it must be answered, tkat Ifatfi
was a song writeri while Bray was not ; «rf ii
song nevier was set to music, as it was wriofti
a wdl-known ancient Irish air, terxned **SU^
na Guiragb." Moreover, in 1762. Moxeesfii^
lialied ihe song as his own in A MimtSmm
CoUeetkon of Essayt in Verse, This w^tk «i
published by f^ubtJcrlption^ the najme^ af \
Irish gentleman appear in the list of aubs
and it was dedicated to ^Hhe Honourable 1
Mountney, Esq., one of His Majesty** Baroaff I
the Exchequer in the Kingdom of InelandL*
All tbid Moz€>cn — then a respectable adnrM I
Drury Lane and the Dublin theatres, patriiM
particularly by the Irish gentry, and de
tor his bread on public favour — would
have dared to do, if the work contained a i
not only not written by hlinself, byt wHitea If
John St. Ledger, the son of another Barton aim
Irish Exchequer. TWo years later, ta llfi
Mozeen again published the .<ong aa his oiiV^ bl j
work entitled 2^ Ljfrich Pacquet.
The part of a rcrse, quoted by Mm. ]
is incorrectly given, the whole ver
follows : -^
" In seventeen hoodred aad forty aad foor.
The fifth of Docembvt^^ think twsj no m
At fiv« ia the moning, by mom. ot tlte rUirka.
We rode firom Kilramnr to tr\- ^ - - ' — :
The Loughlinstowo laadlotd, Ui
With S<)aire Adair^ ears* wtre v
Joo Debil!, Hall Preston, that bunuOMa m *U»«t&,
Dick Holmes, a few oihvrSy aad so w wiat vat*
Ma. KfiDMoiii> aaks—'* Who was tba Utidlaair I
I reply that he was no other than the bold Ovw I
Bray himself, who kept a tavam at Longhfisi^ I
town, where Mosoen, the scaiJior of iba a
lodged during 9e?eral aeasat)% and wlMia
neighbourbg squires held Uiair
* MaiBbv of tbe Koyal Iriah AcaiAiiiay, Mlhor ^fl!^1
Asry afDmbHn^ and otber wi^rkc
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HOX£$ AKD QUERIES.
503
*
CArried on the grosser debMiclHriet, tbat even they
wve ashamed to peqietrmto ia their own dwel-
lings. For, as the Mgm Prolmor of Modern
Histor J at Oxford, well and tnil^ obeerres of the
period: * —
■^ The hmbUM of the Imh getitrj grtw bejond measure
bntal and reckleii, and thi cmrmoitm of their debuiche-
riei w^ald hsre dUgUftted Um cnw of ComiUbt Their
dronkanneas, thejr blwbsmj* their ftrodou^ duelling,
left even the aqoiree of Eo^aiid hr behiad. Fortunately
their recklessaeaa was litre, m the end* to work its ova. cure';
and io the backgroimd of their swiaieh and aproarioiu
drinking boots, the Eocombered Eitatei Act nam to our
viaw."
Owen Braj^s name occors in another yerae of
the song, which» as a specimen of what waa» at the
least supposed to be, the afier-dioner conversa-
tion at the Earl of Meath'a table, may be quoted
Iiere : —
'* We retamed to KQriiddtrT't plentiful board,
Where dwtUs hospitality, truth, and my Lord ;
We talked o'er the chase, and we toasted the heattb
Of tbe man who ne*er varied for places or wealth*
*Owea Bray baulked a leap,' said HaU Preston, **twai
odd.*
*Twa« shameful ! ' cried Jack, ♦ by the giaat living — .*
Said Preston, ' I hallooed. Get on, though you foil.
Or ril leap over you, your blind gelding and all ! * "
Owen must have been a great favourite of Mo-
zecn, for he wrote another Irish song in comme-
moration of the facetious Loughlinstown ttindlord
and his house, of which I give a few sample verses.
It is entitled : — -
"AW UrvrrATIOX to OWKH DBAT*S at LOUGHLtltS^
TOWSt,
** Art ye landed fhmi England, and tick of the seai^
Where ye tolled and y« tumbled, all iiiann<r of ways?
To Loi^hlinitown then without aaj delays*
For you'D Dover be right till you see Owen Bray'a.
With his Ballen a Mona] Oia,
Ballftn a Mona, Qra,
Ballen a Mona, Ora,
A glaaa of bis claret for me.
" Fling leg over garron, yc lovers of sport ;
Miteb joy is at Owen's though little at court }
'TIs tbUher tbe lads of brisk mettle resort.
For there they are sure that theyMt never fall abort
Of good claret and Ballen a Mona,
Ballen a Mona, Ora,
Ballen a Mona, Ora,
Tbe eighty-fourth bumper for me.
" Tbe days in December are dirty and raw^
But when we're at Owen's we caw not a straw ;
* Prcrfbs0Or Goldwin Smith's Irish Uuttrf and Iriih
t * Sao espaciaUr the opening ehanlets of fiarriBgtoB*a
We bury the trades of religion and law,
And tbe Ice in oar hearts we preseotly iliaw»
With good daret and Ballen a Mooa.
Ballen a Mesa, Ors,
Ballen a Mona^ Ora,
The <|itick- moving bottle for me/'
Mozeen wrote yet anoth^ Irish song in honour
of Squire Adair of Kiiternan. No where could
there be a better illiiitration of a man's ohuBcter
and houaehold than in its lines, a few of whkh I
transeribe. It is entitled —
"TTMS TOOK BT TH« FORELOCK AT KILTBRjrAH,
TOU SKAT OK JOHS Al>ALR, ESQ^ » THE COUWIT OF
DQBLIKT.
•* Tknte— Derry down.
** With Bain fatigued, and grown quite metanehoGc,
PU sing you how old daddy Time took a frolk.
By the help of good claret to dissipsts carss.
The spot was Kil toman, the hoose was Adaii^.
**Not used to the light of tbe soberer race,
With tho door in tier hand, the maid laughad in his
face;
Tot aho thought by his figure he might be at bast
Some plodding mechamc, or prig of a priest.
** But soon as he said that he came for a glass,
Without further reaerve, she rvplied he might paM|
Yet mocked his bald pate as he tottered ahmg^
And despised hun aa modems despise an old song.
" Jack Adair was at table with six of his friends.
Who, for making him drunk, he was making amends;
Time hoped at his prejenoe none liiere were afllmiitad :
'Sit down, boy,' says Jaidk«*aod prepare to be]
** They drank hand to fist for sis. bottles and morcw
Till down tumbled Time and began Ibr to snoit ;
Five gallons of darot they poarad oo hk head.
And were going to take tbe old soaker to bed.
** But Jack, who^s poeaaaasd of a pretty estate —
And would to the Lord it was ten times as great! —
Thought, aptly enough, that if Time did not wake.
He might lose all he had by tbe world's turning bsck^-
" So twitching his foralock. Time opened his eya^
And, staggering, stared with a deal of surprise i
Qnoth he, *I mnst mow down tea mitiiom of men;
Bat, «Vr yoQ drink thnce, I'll be with you again I * "
The first two lines of the last verse are unpre-
0entabl<% but the song concludes with Time ih*k-
log his host by the band, and saying : —
•* • Go on with your bampen , your bc«f, and good chetr.
And the darling of Thne shall be Johnny Adair! **
The three songs from which I have given 1
extracts ure all in Moeeeu s CoUection of MimnA"
lafteous EnsayiLt and ther« are other poetna in the
sump I'riU.^f'tioii gb owing that the author was well
u with the neighbourhood, and could
504
NOTES AND QUERIEa
[9^S,y.JvnU.'%t
I Ttcter of the pcraoot for whom they were com-
* posed. These are : —
«A Description of Altidorc, a Seat in Uic County of
Wicklow/^ ^ ^
** Verses wrote in th« Gardeos of Brackenstowo^ a S«ftt
of Lord Moleswortb'*, near Dublia.**
** An lovitAtioo to Dr. Le Hont'fl Branenstown, a Seat
in the Coanty of D obi in."
Besides the above-mentioned works^ Mozeen
wrote an unsancessful farce entitled The Heiress^
or, the AntigalUcan ,• a collection of Fables in Verse
(2 vols. 1765) ; and Yuung Scarron (1752). The
last is an araufllntj account of the adventures of a
company of strolling actora, e violently founded on
Le Romant Comique of the celebrated French wit
Paul ScMTon,
Some confusion has arisen through Moseen, In
one of the earlit?r editions of the Biographia Dra*
matica^ having been erroneously styled William,
but there can be no doubt whatever that his
Christian name was Thomas* He died on March
28, 1768; and one i$ tempted to exclaim with
Hamlet, not exultingly, but in a moralising mood,
conaidering the favour to which we al.«^o must
come : —
"Whero be your gibes now? Yoar gambols? jour
sonfis? your fliihw of merriment, that were wont to set
the table on a roar? '*
WtlXiAH FfMKSBTOlV,
4 Feb^
11.
15th.
2nd March.
2Apdl
5 •*
80 May.
30 ,,
16 Jane.
17 ,.
22 «
25 July
2'' AugusL
Your correapondent In " N. k Q:' 3'* S. r.
348, m referring to the ballad of '* The Kilrud-
dery Hunt,** quotes as follows : —
*• Wc had the LougUiinstown landlord, and bold Owen
from Brav,
And brave John Adair he wa* with nt that day j "
and appended is a note, " Who was the land-
lord?'*
The text is more correctly given in an old and
well-authenticated copy now before me, thus —
•* Our Lough Unstown landlord, the filmed Owen Bray,
And Johnny Adair, too, was with ui that day," Stc,
This Owen Bray, who, it appears, had acquired
the reputation of being a bold rider to hounds,
waa well known in the locality as inn^ter of the
hotel or tavern, now an improved nnd pic-
turesquely situated villa residence, occupied by a
niece of the late authoress Lady Morgan, adjoining
the village of Lough linstown. Here it vias that
Johnny Adair was wont to entertain his friends
and companions in the chase ; and subjoined is a
copy of a tavern bill from the original in ray pos-
MBsion, showing the prices of certain commodities
■nd luxuries in the middle of the last century,
and bearing evidence that ** the famed Owen
Bray ** was occasionally called upon by his guests
for temporary advancee of a pecuniary nfliture : —
« 1759. John Adatr» Eaq^ hdL
Six boUlaa of Claret
Two do. of Mallaga
Six oranges, - - *
Bottles - - - -
Six bottles of CUret
Bottles - - - -
13 bottles of Claret
Neck of mutton
12 bottle* of Claret -
Neck and breast of Lamb
Botdes . - - -
Mootifitsco . - -
Rum p. Jack - - -
Should' of Matt" -
Hind qaarf of Lamb
Drams . - - -
Dram . - - -
Rum, &c with H^ Robiosoti
Loino of mutt"
Rasberry sametlme -
Montifiasco
Four bottles of Liaboa
Mutton ...
Bottles - - *
Should' of Veaison -
Brsndy -
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Bee' the contents of the
above in full thie tO^"
dayofAagS175a
For M'. a. B&ar*
Tboa. CwcmT
John Adair appears to have been veij
as a thorough -going sportsman and oovpil
entertainer. The following is an extract
his will bearing date December IG, 1760, ahowfl^
the *' ruling passion ** strong even in the per-
formance of a solemn act : —
*' 1 leave and bequeath my old Biy Gelding to Af
bmther-tn-Law William Hodaon, upon condition that ha
Bheli hunt him no mora than once ta eaeh week vIsHiC
the hoQtiog season, and that he ^sedj him eooitM^jr
three times anlay with oats."
John was eldest son of Robert Adair of GUl^
cormuck, now Hollybrooke (the Robin Adair rf
the song, who died in 1737.) He resided W
Kilter nan, and possessed some landeit propofty
in the county of Longford* Gfoboh llQiiw»fr*
THE STORM OF 17M.
(3** S. iii. 168, 197, ^3, 319.)
J. H, G. appears not to havf* ^""«" *ha4
book in hit posaefsion was wriu "<
says the volume contains a manu. . , . . tc al _
amusement and motkcry of the event iw a Ua^strt
at that time. Perhaps I can lind him a hty tw
jrd S. V. J0HB 18, '64]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
505
tbb manuBcript. I have a work, not yerj
commoQ : —
"The City Rembraoceri being Hiitoric&l Narrathres
of Uie Great Plagtte at Loadoo* 1666; Great Fire, 1666 1
and Great Storm, 1703,** &c, && 2 Tola. 8vo. London,
174a
A very considerable part of what is related of
the Plague, and nearly all about the Btorm, h
taken from Defoe^'s two works on those subjects.
The "Account of the Storm in 1703'* is in
Tol. ii., and extendi from p. 43 to p. 187. The
last two paragraphs are as follow : —
** It is asgrntefiil to relate, and horrible to read, that
there were wretches abandoned enough to pass over this
dreddral storm with banter, scoffing, and contempt
" A few daya after the Great Storm, the players were
imprudtiot enough to entertain their audioncea with
ridiculoas representations of what had filled the whole
nation with such horror, in the plays of Mael>€th and Tfu
On the margin of the latter of these paragraphs
is a printed note : " Immorality of the stage, p. 5."
Your subsequent correspondents on this sub-
ject, especially X, A, X., furnish some literary
references to the catastrophe, I beg to contribute
towards the same object the title of a moat singu-
lar and Itmg'wijided sermon ; which, with its
copious notes — in Hebrew^ Greek* Latin, and
English — occupies no less than 123 closely -printed
qntirto pages : —
** A Warning from the Winda. A Sermon preach 'd
upon Wednesday, January xix, 170J> Being the Day of
Public Humiliation, for tlie late Terrible, and Awak'ning
Storm of Wind, Sent in Great Rebuke upon this King-
dom. November xxvj, xxviJ, 1703, And now set forth
in some Ground of it, to have been inflicted as a Paniah-
inent of that General Contempt, in England ooder Gospel-
Light, cast upon the Work of the Holv Ghost, the Third
Person in the Blessed Trinity, as to Hia Divine Breath-
inK» upon the Soals of Men: Opened and Argued from
John TIL viii. To which is Subaectod a Laborioua Exer-
citation upoo Eph. ii. 2. about the Airy Oracles, Sibyl'
Prophetesses, Idolatry, and Sacrifices of the Elder Pagan
Timeg, under the Influence of the God of tliis World* ac-
cording to the Conrse of it, and as now differently working
in the Children of Disobedience; to Defend this Text
against the common Mistake, that the Winds are raised
by Satan, under the Divine Permiasion. By Joseph
HoMey, Pastor of the Congregational Church at Cam-
bridge j yet Publisher of the Truth of God's Word, as he
hath an Opportunity to do Good to All, And commanded
80 to do, Gal, ri. 10, Hos vi. 5 : * Therefore have I bewed
them by the Prophets; 1 have slain them by the words
of my mouth.* Loudon : Printed for William and Joseph
Marshall, and sold by them at the Bible in Newgate
Street, mx>ociv.''
I have copied this in full, because it is so briefly
mentioned m Lowndes as to give no idea of the
object and peculiarities of the work. W. Ls£«
ALBINI BRIXa
(3'*S. v,382.)
If D. P. will lend his assistance, I am in hopes
that something may be done for the pedigree of
Albini Brito.
I was at one time under th^ impression that
Eobert de Todeni, on wham the Conqueror be-
stowed the Lordship of Belvoir, was probably a
son of Roger de Toeni, the standard-bearer of
Normandy, In point of fact^ Roger de Toeni had
a son Robert ; but he was the progenitor of the
house of Stafford (see Dugdale's Baronage^ vol. L
p. 156), and altogether a different person from
the Lord of Belvoir, — probably of a diflerent
family. And the question is thus raised : Who
were the ancestors of Robert de Todeni, Lord of
Belvoir f
The next question that presents itself^ is : How
came the son of Robert de Todeni to assume the
name of Albini f
The explanation hazarded by Banks appears to
me to be altogether inadmiBsible, I thinl I may
take upon myself to state, that neither William de
Albini I., nor any of his descendants, are ever
styled de Albany in any contemporaneous record.
The name was sometimes so written by careless
scribes of a later age ; but the same thing hap-
pened also to the descendants of William de
Albini Pincema, who certainly had nothing to do
With the Abbey of St, Alban's,
Upon this point I beg leave to refer to a sug-
gestion of minci thrown out in a former contribu-
tion (2** S, xiL 1 1 1—113), that William de Albini
Brito was the coUateral representative of some
Breton family. This supposition appears to de-
rive weight from the circumstance — mentioned
by Dugdale (Baronage^ vol, i. p, 113,) on the
authority of Matthew Paris — that, in the battle
of Tinchebray, this William do Albini Brito com-
manded the horse of Brittany.
Who was Robert de Todeni*s wife ? All that
we learn of her from Dugdale, is, that her name was
Adela. Was she the heiress of a Breton family,
bearing the title of Aubigny ? If this could be
made out, the difficulty would be cleared up,
I now come to the point that D, P. has more
particularly in view r What were the arms borne
by Robert de Todeni and his descendants f
In the first place it is worthy of remark that,
brides William de Albini^ who succeeded him in
the Lordihip of Belvoir, Robert de Todeni had
three younger sons — Beringar, Geffrey, and Ro-
bert; and it would be interesting to ascertain
what was the surname of these younger members
of the family, and what were their arms.
But to revert to the main line : — D, P. repre-
sents the arma oj' Albini to have been : Argent,
two chevrons, and a bordure gules. I coimatTa^*.
thmk. tWC l3^^t% isiMs^\]^ v»s^
•fs^saivA^iA ^»- **^Kaa.v '
NOTES AND QUERIES.
[i»«B.v,
for» on tbe tomb of Robert, de Roo3» wbo married
Isikbclla de Alb'mi, the ai'ma of Albini arc (accord-
ing to ColHns's Peerage^ 1812, vol. vL p. 487):
I Anient, tiro chevronda osure.
I The numerous iumiiy of Daubeny, clsumin^
descent from Williaiu dc Albini Brito through his
f second aon liidpli de Albioi, bear a coat alto-
gether different from tkia, viz. Gules^ four fusils
conjoined in fess argent. These were, I believe,
the arras borne by Daubenejr, Earl of Bridge-
water^ who belonged to tblfl branch of the family ;
and they were certainly borne as early as 1219 by
Philip de Albini, Bon of the Ralph above men-
lioiied. If the two branches of the Albini family,
hdk descended from William de Albini Brlto,
really bore arms so essentially dissimilar, it would
be a matter of some interest to inquire how thi«
happened ?
I may here observe, en paaami, that the arms
^bove Attributed to the younger branch of the
Albtni family are the same as those of De Carteret,
aftd blil little difierent from those of Cheney de
B^e— -a fiunily now represented by Lord iV'il-
kmi^by de Broke.
With respect to the shield in the window at
Haddon Hall, from the order in which the three
£rst quarterings follow one another^ I think there
eaa be little doubt that tbe several coatj were
iDsrsliaUed aooordiog to the system now in use.
I shou^ certainly expect that the arms that come
next — unless perhaps Valoines were interposed —
would be Trusbut, followed probably by Peverel
and Horoourt ; and I am surprised not to find in
the Ust quartering tlie anus of St. Le^r, viz.
Aaore, a fret ariar*:?nt, a chief or. It ia, however,
not «i8y to submit the shield to any very satisfac
tin acontiny, without fuller information than is
before ua; and I therefore be;^ to express the
hope that D. P. will have the kindness to furnish
the readers of ^N. & Q.*^ with an enumeration of
all the quarterin^s : adding, wher« known^ the
names of the famdies that they belonged to*
P* S. Casvt.
"MEDITATIONS ON DEATH AND ETERNriT.'*
(3^ S, V. 400.)
Of the real oatitre of tbe Simden dtr AadaM,
and of Zacbokke'a avowed pnrpoae in writing it|
your correspondent (Hn. MAcaax) cannot^ I am
sure, be cognizant, or he would not have misled
ymtr readers by representing it ua a religiotia
work, a delnston which mmi^ of the pfsrobasera of
tbe above timiialaticm have diaoover ^ *^ Jr cost
Oomelly deaoribod k the laal ed En-
cvc'^"^'"^ ^rUmmm at *'«•© ol' iuc m.jr^t com-
|Me t u ina of modern Bationalkai," 90 noto-
xiou^ ^ . uiGdel ebaraeter throngbont Germany
ttd Baritxerbndf that for thirty yeai% in confic-
of Lbe ienDcnt it excited, Zsebokke did
not dare avow himieff the author ; ami k «u nM
till witbifi a few weeks of his death that be al
length ventured to disclose the aecret- Ajid ti»
is the account which he has kimJtff/ giemm ^f Urn
another deistioal work equally wiul kaowm m
in Germany — his SelhitsckatL, or antobtopifibyt
a tranalation of which was publiabed iooiA jWf
since by Messn. Ch^man and Hall ia tbtfr
Foreign Library,
Avowedly a ^^ phUosaphe, an indilfercntist,** tia
" devotional ** charaicter of 2:ichokke*a woitk, which
he candidly confesses has *Hoo mxicli ooaunoa
sense in it for those Christinns who cannot be
contented with a rationalistic view of tkeGoepA*'
will be at once apparent to your readers ttxtm thi
following quotation, one of many similar paaMO*
and bjf no means the worsi or nut^t un^criptufaCii
they will find by reference to tbe woi^t itself: —
^'Milliona of men have dwelt on the mystertei «C tli
future life before thee, O mortal I without saccce^iaefe
Aolring than. For th« Toil whiich th« hand of Qqi H
drawn before that future is impenetfabU, and oa petite
inga of thine will enable thee to ua it until Gvdoib
thee. DesiBt, therefore, from feiu^leis attempta Co Uow
light on the niture of the soul in eternity, «r il« Iwd
babftation alter leaving the body, or ita oco^ialiapii
the other world. Heed not either tbo vpttlees er Hi
written worda of those who have woven tsar tbemiiini i
w^ of viiionary delusioni regaitling these majttffta wilA
are hidden from buman ken, and who^ in their teM
presumption, have sometimes even gone so ftr aa fa^
tompt to prove the correctncas of their viawa flnan tfp
Holy Scripture*. Alas I how can they hone to peotfrMl
the mj-steries of eternal life, whnw weak mental ii^
does not even suffice to commrlh '* ndatiai tlnp
of thia world ? In vain hoa bu ; • r andoavaOli
to force open the gates of etcn , lt to diaamr
that wbicn lies beyond. It has iicvor 6ucce«49d. tbi
darkness in which' God has >vnipp<vi the land of 1^
future remaina impenetrable, and of the dead, not one kii
vot como back to unveil to inoaiaitive man the VMntt if
the world of sphrit&.''~ Jfcdtid^i (m Dtaik amd FYli'^fc^
■■
More than one member of the ef^sev^Ml bai^B
having remoastrated against the publicatioa of
this work under the immediate naironage of
royalty, it appears to have been silently with*
dtawn Grom public notke, no adv«rKi«ens6ii& ra*
speolkig h having appeared for aome BM»albA.
A.B.C
Tita ou» CarnxnaAii or BociAoini (3^ 8* w*
476.) — The old cathedral, it ia true, baa dinp>
pcared wHh the exception of some small remait
tn the crypt. But its disap{>carance datea a Qtlla
before what we should call ^' of laie yem.** In
the Htstoire fig BouUffcm * mr* Met^ pm^ A^
iTHauUcfeuiUe et L* B«rmf%k I860, la thia
(tome ii, p. 128) t —
** La religloQ, une bi Wcaatr
lacrvr de nouftaa l^EgltSi dJt ^
\ d« tea Ta^i^ta, xa»x% bka d**uu _ j
J
r
■ &V. JomlS.'M.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
507
I
r
k
All libw C3i«d«i da oaltek et com rant ^ rf*tU le-
«tHur»lioti prtttiDdiMW knqu^aa moir^ Ic ftiii&-
taairc l« plu v^ti&<^ de hob P^re*, In < *'A:rott-
Uit AOttA le mirteaa det d^oltAMum I V^jUum k ToocaB
le 8 ttacnDidor an. vi, (fl Jaillet I796)i h Arru pour k
•oonne de 610,590 francs 4 qnetqaes membres dt la bande
ooire^ oa 110^0 inoiiiiinaitt na presenU ploa bientOt qa'nn
tnate amaa de dicamhrmT
But I am glad to be able to saj tbat Mb.
LoHGHETiULB JoMBS IB tiot Tight in his belief tbat
" DO view of the old cathedral of Boulogne ia known
to exist in I'rance." 1 spent February, 1863^ in
Boulogne. In an old book shop I saw frequently
an engraving of the cathedral — only one. It was,
M far as I recollect, of small folio size, the en^av-
ing "Mmg placed lengthways on the paper. It
waa an old en^aving, po«sibly a huntlred years
old ; not very good^ but giving ^lie detail of the
form of the cathedral with precision. I was very
near buyinji it, but thinking the* price asked too
high, I left Boulogne without it. I now regret that
I «iid not take it lo the accotnpliahed ArchiTiste
the Abbe Haignere. But I am not without hope
ofgetting it /till D. P.
jsLaarta Lodge, Malvem Wells.
HooARTH (3^^ 8. T. 418.) — Siojca-Thbta h
la hardly correct in stating that this name is
"spelt Uogard invariably at the b^inning of the
eighteenth century/' The old poet of Troutbeck
(uncle to the painter), who died in 1709, always
spelt his name Hoggari, as it is still pronounced
in his locality. The painter** father softened it
down to Hogarth, after be settled in London as a
teacher* In a AIS. collection of his own and
Otlier poetry left by Thomas Hoggart, from which
I maoe msDy extracy published in the Kendal
Mer^emy^ ftnd subsequently by the editor of that
fiaper io a small volume^ I round the following
aw^Tammaitcal reference to his patronymic : —
- A Hog, a Heard, a Hair«, a Hart*» deUght,
Smile la liis namo that did tbese laDcies write,
* Tbos. HoooAnx."
The more modem orthography of Hogarth is,
probably, more in accordance with its etymology ;
whicb^ as I think, may be found in two north-
country words : hogy a year- old sheep ; and garth,
a yard, or other stnall enclosure. The latter oc-
curs in hemp-garth, stack -garth, calf-garth, &c. ;
and the former in hog-gartJi, which is simply the
hog-^arM roofed in, — ^and may be seen commonly
enough in the outlying pastures of the Fell*farm«:
the garth without a roof having now the common
name of aheep-fold.
Bailey*s Dictionary has two derivations of Ho-
garth, neither good*
The little volume alluded to, contains a brief
account of the Troutbeck Hoggarts ; and if Sigma -
Thfta will favour me with an address, I shall be
glad to send him a copy bj post*
A. CrUG GiBSOTI.
I suggest Augaard, a*comiiion Norwegian name,
of which there is an example over a tradesman*a
door in Oxford Street. H* C.
In the glossary appended to a collection of
poem*!, by George Metivier, Esq., in the dialect of
Norman-French used in Guernsey, entitled Rime^
Gueme^iaiges par un Cateiain^ and published by
Simpkin, Marahall, & Go.» and E. Bar bet, Guern-
sey, I ^d the following word and definition : ^
** Hogardf oa Hauoard^ a. m. Enctos pr^ de \sl luaifloo,
oil sont lea t^ do ble. Sued, hott^ard, renfloa do la
motsion.**
I do not remember to have met with Hogard aa
a French surname; but Hocquart^ or Hocart^ is
not uncommon in Normandy and in the Channel
Islands. E. M^C .
Tub Iai.1 of Axholmx (3^^ S, v. 434,) —
James Torre, the Yorkshire antiquary (who was
of Magdalen College, Cambridge) died 1699, not
1619.
It is a singular circumstance that Alexander
Kilham, the founder of the Methodist New Con-
nexion, was born in the same town as Wesley
(Epwortli). We believe he is not noticed in the
late Arclideacon Stonehouae*6 History. A Life
of Kilham was published a few years since, but
we have never been able to meet with a copy.
C. H. & Thompson CoorER.
James Torre, the Yorkshire antiquary, died in
1699, not 1619, as stated above. His first wife^
Elizabeth Lincoln e, was a native of this county,
though not of the Isle of Axholme. She was the
youngest of the four daughters and coheiresses
of Willinra LincolnCt D J>., of Bottesford. Her
father and mother are both burled here.
£dwabi> Pbacogk.
Boitcaford Maiior» Btigg, Lincolnahire.
Casts op Seals (3^* S. v. 450.)— I have used
botli white wax and pitta perch a with great
supces!) in taking moulds from medals, &c. : but
as both require a certain amount of heat to work
tbem properly, I think it will require much rare
to take impressions of seals from the actual sealing
wax. I should recommend plaster of Paris in
such a case, as with that there is no risk of
damaging the originul in taking the impression,
and nothing can be more pert'ect than a plaster
mould if carefully taken. What I have dooe in
this way has been for the purpose of electrotyping,
and Q£ they have been tuk«:'n from metal origin aUf
I have employed generally white wax. Gum
Arabic requires some practise to manipulate pro-
perly, and is liable to an indeHnlte amount of
contraction in hiirdeuing to the required consist-
eacy, which is productive of much inconvenience,
besides the slowneis of the process. T. B.
CHAiGTrEAO (3'* S. V, 1 1 » 66,)— WdliMCL C\aaS5t-
508
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
:
served for some jears m the iirinj m Flimders,
und was generally known as " Colonel Chiii^neau.'*
He wft3 tbe eldest surviving aon of John Chaig-
neau, by liis wife Margaretta, daagbter and co-
heir of* Clement Martyn und his wife Margaret
Sanderson* He was born Jan* 24, 1709; and
died Oct. 1, 1781. He married twice, but bia
only child died in childhood. There are many
notices of him to be found in the Memoir a of Tate
Wiikinson^ and a Ion;; letter full of family afilic*
tions is printed at p. 289.
Mr, Chaigneau was author of a farce taken
from the French, called Harlequin Soldier. His
niece (the daughter of his brother John, who was
Treasurer of the Ordnance in Ireland), whose de-
licendants alooe now represent that branch of the
family, was married to William Colvil!, Esq.,
M.P^ a Director of tbe Bank of Ireland — an
office afterwards filled by their son, and at present
by their grandson. John Chaigneau, the father
of William, was son by a aecond marriage of
Joslas Chaiffueau, a Huguenot, who settled in
Ireland, Sir Erasmus Borrower kindly «ent me,
gome years 8ine«, the following extract from the
Irbh Chancery Rolls, which he copied from the
papers of the late Mr. J. F. Ferguson : —
** La famiUe de Cbagnauria de S* Savinien. Le ^ Oblg-
naud de la LiraaQchert; M^ Ferron, son fffere, orpbevra;
de Sceor (bmme da 8"^ Guvon cat en Hollandc, — 1j& S'
Josiac Chagnaud a aept cnfuis. 11 est vouf en premiere
noce do Jeannfl Jfloned^ et Toarie en seconde avec uno
Caetio. — Pierre Chagnaud dit LaqiiiQille, Thoodore dlt
Doron, tous deux garsons.
•* Fait h 8* Jean Dangely Ic 15 Novembre, 1710."
I hope to send to " N, & Q.," one of these days,
the copy of a very curious advertisement of tbe
intended sale by the govemmeot of France of
some landed property near St. Jean D*Angely,
belonging to " Daniel and Paul Cbaigneau, fieL-
gioQS fugitives/* The original is in the possession
of Captain Arthur Dunn Chaigneaa, the dole
living representative, in the male line, of the ori-
ginal refugee. I am wholly unable to identify
the laceman in Dame Street, of whom the anec-
dote at p. 66 is related, although I have a prettj
extensive pedigree of the family.
H. LOFTDS TOTTSNHAM.
A Nbw Champion op Maet, Quben op Scots
{3'** S. V. 41 1.) — M, Wiesener's work in defence
of Mary, to which M. Gqstatb Masson has
called the attention of your readers, was noticed
ftt tome length a few months since in the Paris
Momieur and tbe IndepemUmce Belge^n both in-
atftoees with almost unmixed approval. Its im-
portance also, as opentog up a new phase of the
loDg-agitated controversv, has been pointed out,
BS might be expected, m the Scottish Gvardian
for May. Hitherto I believe, in this country, no
review of the work has appeared adequate to its
impartmce; luod this aUeiice n^«rdinK li isiBieft
probablj from an Impr^sion that the
nas been set at rest, and that no Cteali d
are likely to be brought to light to alter tlit
vailing opinion* It is to be hoped that M, '
son's notice will attract tbe attention of
competent critic to the task of sobmittinff IL
Wiesener s elaborate defence to a thorough ex-
amination* In the mean time, it may interest
some of your readers to know the judgment pro-
nounced on the work by the writer in the iM-
teur, who concludes thus ; —
** KouB ravons dlt, nous nous s^parons de fsalMrli
est excellent ouvrage en quelqaefl-niies de sa s^^fidi*
tioaa. Mala ce ramarquable travail Claire d*im jsof latf
nouvaau une grande portie de ce d^at hiatodqv^ II
apporte tant dn preuvea et tant de documental 11 t^alll
tant de faita que, loalgr^ les conclosioaa prisH P^**
illu8tr« juge (M. Mignet), le proc^ do Haflt Btosl
restc encore k levisor."
J. MAcmtti
Oxford.
HoM AND Bite (3^* S. r. 436.) — These wwk
(reversed) are found in i^ following lln^^ wlil
I have seen attributed tifeen Jonson ; but htm
not how truly, as I haye not the meaiiB of njf'
ence at hand : -^J% htrAUUiltU i^ Ou&imr
" Buz, quoth the blbe fly ;
Uum, Quoth the heei
Baz and Uani they cxy.
And so do we.
In hifl ear, his noae ;
Thus do 3rou tee.
He eat tbe dormooae,
£lao it was he.**
Be the author who he may, the llnet st«
They were set to music (as a catch for four
by Dr. Arne, about the middle of the laat
tury ; and I have no doubt the phrase was b
ordinary use, and much in the seoae indicatad \if
B. H. C. W. H. HtriS-
Thb CrcKoo Song (3^* S. v. 418,)— There la. I
believe, in the Philosophical TramacHons — Inttl
have not the work to refer to — a pap^ir by Mr,
Daines Barrington on the songs of birds ; in which
he states that the song of the cuckoo becoinei
more dat, after incubation, than in the eariy
spring. Srvurai.
Ckanqb op Faibioii dv Labibs* Nambs (S'^ S.
V. 397*)— Your correspondent, Wm. Donioir, ap
pears to iaibour under a misapprehension. Thteiv
has not been soapreat a change in the foahioB ii
he imagines. The names he quotes were mil
baptismal, but the famUiar appellations of tbe
ladies in question ; it having been the faahion of
the last century to use the latt - '- * tid of the
former in writing and print, as ommoQ
parlance. Just as it is now th< r yi
ladies, who have received tbe 1
Anne, Eliza, Elizabeth, Caroline, l1.„.:^,u,
Margaret, Harriet, Eleanor, Martha, &c^ to
, and tabtcribe themselves Annie, Llauie. Bi
8H B. V. Jcira 18, •«.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
509
t
I
Carry, Lottj» PoUic, Ma^;yie, Hattie, Nell/t Hat-
tie, kc. : ffome of such sobriqueh bein^ identical
with the names quoted by Wx. Dobson. The
most curiouB instance of this particular fancy
which ever came under my notice^ was that of a
yoang lady who signed her Christian name ** Cor-
ric"; which, upon inquiry, I discovered to be
intended as a diminutive of ** Corbetta*"
W. H* HC8K.
Thomas Beittlet (a*^ S. v. 376, 449.) — My
attention has been directed to an inquiry by Ds.
KiMBAULT relative to Thomas Bentley, the part-
ner of Josiah Wedgwood. The fornjer is quite
correct in saying, that all Wedgwood*s biogra-
phers have hitherto set down mere fables in re-
apect to his distinguished partner, and^ I may add,
even of himself. The story as to Thomas Bentley
being the son of Richard Bentley, the distin-
guished critic, was first set a-going in Ward's
Histofff of the Borough of Stoke-upon-'Trfnt ; and
since ihen every writer, too lazy to consult the
proper authorities, and icrnorant of the true his-
tory of the men who did so much in the last
century to inspire a taste for classical literature,
and to purify its masterpieces of the ignorant
emendations and errors of Byzantine scholiasts
and monkish scribes* has repeated the hackneyed
Btorv. The more I live the more I am struck by
the little pains ordinary writers take to verify their
statements. To get work done seems the only
question.
Richard Bentley, the critic, was bom in 1661.
He was therefore sixty-nine years of age when
Thomas Bentley, the Manchester warehouseman,
first saw the light in 1730. Richard Bentley,
librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge, Dean of
Ely, and one of the finest scholars of his age, had,
as Dr. Eimbacilt truly says, hut one son, named
Richard also, and whose children were, I believe,
all daughters. The critic came of a Yorkshire
familjr. Wedgwood's partner was a native of Der-
byshire, and his ancestors had been settled in
Tarious villages on the banks of the Dove for
generations. But it is not for me to pursue this
subject further. In mj forthcoming "Life of
Wedgwood" all this will be shown and much
more, and this derived from original letters and
papers. Epitaphs do not always lie. That of
Thomas Bentley does not overdraw the character
of this admirable and distinguished man; and I
trust I shall do justice to the narrative of one of
the purest and most exalted friendships that ever
adorned our industrial arts and social history.
Eliza MsTfiTARD.
Wildwoo*!, North End, Hamp^tead.
The following facta may be interesting both to
Da, RiMBAULT and Ma. Jewktt, the iormer of
whom seeks to know something more of Bentley ;
the latter states that he purposes noticing him
in the next Number of the Art JoumaL I possess
three epitaphs on this tccomplished man, tran*
scribed many years ago by the late Dr. Thoraaa
Percival of Manchester.
The one in Chiswick church was communicated
to Dr. P. by Mrs. Bentley, and has the following
additions, which, though not given by Lysons
(^Environs of London^ ii. p. 201, 202), or by Da.
KiMBAULT, may possibly be inscribed on the
marble. His bust, Lysons states, surmounts the
tablet : —
■* Thomas Bentley was bom at Scrapton, in Derbvshjn,
Jad. 1» 17S0p 0. *, He mairiiHl nannah Oateit, of C&cster-
field, in the year 1754; Mary Stamford, of Dorbv, in the
year 1772, wb* iarvived to moum his loiw. He died Nov.
26, 1780.** Mt9. B/s copy thus concludes; —
" He tboaKht with the freedom of a philosopher, he
acted with the intCCTity of a virtuous citizen. Friend
and portQer of Josiah V\^cdgood, he contributed largely to
the embellish ID ent and perfection of the manufacture of
which this monument is composed."
The second epitaph was written by Mr, Doming
Rasbotham, a country gentleman and magistrate
of talent and high respectability of Lancashire*
The third, from the pen of Dr. Percival himself,
19 written with alt the elegance which marked the
literary works of that accomplished physician. It
may have appeared in print, but I have not met
with it, in any notice of Bentley or elsewhere, ex-
cept upon a pedestal in a gentleman** Study*
J. H» Marki^ahd,
Jeremiah Hokrogjls (3^* S. v, 466.) — The
circumstance of his entering the University at
thirteen years of age, does not appear to us im-
probable. There are many instances of persona
entering the University at that a^e in the seven-
teenth century. We may mention the cose of
Jeremy Taylor, who was just turned thirteen
when admitted at Caius College.
C. H. & Thomfbon Coofaa.
Cambridge,
Chapebon (3*^ S, V. 280, 312, 384, 446.)— Re-
ceiving " K. 8c Q," in monthly parts, I have only
just seen the remarks of your correspondent
ScHiiv. He puts the question on a new ground^
and I am not prepared to say that it is not tenable.
According to him, chuperone, as now used, does
not pretend to be a French word or a metaphor.
It is a mere English word^ borrowed indeed from
the French, but spelt according to English prac-
tice, and signifyiag in plain language '* a female
escort."
A similar instance of change of pronunciation
and spelling may be found in the word disHahillK^
which Dr. Johnson includes in bis Dictionurtf as
an English word, derived from the French de«'
hahillL
All I intended to point out (unnecessarily per-
haps) was» that there was no Ei:<i'w^ ^<st^
cftaperonc \ \iu\. \!bka\. ^^ "^^wv^ «^ff2^ ''i^c*^ '^''"^
510
NOTES AKD QUERIES*
** eliaper<wi,*' whether they use it aimply ibr «
mAteritil ooYering or for a moral protection.
The use of the word chaperanewe in our lan-
guage, and At so early a date aft 1622, ua indicated
by A. A., ii quite new to me. STiriarss.
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NOTES AND QUEBTEa
511
LONnoK, SATURDAY, JUNM ^ 1864.
CONTENTS.— N*. ISO.
nnSS : — Colloqulaiiimi not alwuTi VulgarismSf 611 —
•Kl B«»c*pi6.*' Ac, fll2~Tl»i>w1, /A. -Book Hawkers
India, 313 — Poteut EffecU uf Nunrich Ale — Broken
etrti — *' The Fithirhood of God " — Out-ael<rr Ou»-oqyt
-GI<MiW7 or Sooleti Wordi^ 6U.
_. : — Aooi^iiiotu — Geofse Buchmiwa — Berkholx
|md Bu)ty«ch-K&iDeDsM — *' Caged Skjlark " — Canine
fSuidde —Drying Flonron *- Dunkirk — English Guuniv
rlCewHpikpif?rs — Pnnoo Bupresie of 8*vot— Ivan the Fourth
— Lord HoptoQ — Middle»|iaMing — Morganatio — MottO'
■croll — Oldl^rinU — Gi«ikt Upportunity — Ordination of
Eiu-ly Methodiat MiniMt«re by a Greek Bilfaop — OrieDtA*
I tion : St. FcUt's at Rome — Songs — Sir Micbwl Stanhope
I — ^"ThrowiniB: the Hatiihet "— Dujiid Vosfcer and John
I GoUKh — University Hoods — William Watflon, LL.D. ftod
s Authorahip of " The UlergjTnau's Law/' 514.
Biss WITH Amswbmm i — Hho Lord's Prayer— Jmq«s
ftbam — Caniaca — Mi kias — Wardrobe Book of Queen
lIsabcUe^AnoDymoaa Worka — Tag, Eaf, and Bobtail —
[ Arabella Wgttoot, 517.
SPLIESr — P iff tut Ein« fofine^ attrlbciled to ilary,
'^uctn of Scots. 519 —Pedigree, Bao— Moaning of tbo
\Vord " St tikh." 521 — The Miss Homecku, lb. — CranccUn :
Anna or Prinoo Albert. £23 — Model of Edinburgh — Lady
Markbam ^ Ladv Elizabeth Spelman— Quotations wanted
— Lcivaltv M^^dab — LiltTarA' Pljiifinrisuit. Ar. — LiL^milU —
Btb>< iiit —
— JVS rk Of
Th<' „ :. ^ .,.:... ri Fa-
mil;- -.ity Ik^vtew " — Can' Family
— A '^on through the MnClier —
LMkqu ..Li _ V ^-— -1- tiOiitie^Aa,Mi
iotei oa Booka, &c
ADDRESS.
We cannot bring to a clo^e tbo first volumo igsued from
office ivithout thanking oar old Friend*, Corre-
Dts, and Readen for their cootimi^d support ; nor
' IbaokA ]eaa dtie to thoM new Frienda and Corre-
uta irbo have Socked around ns in aaeh numbera
I our new home. Among these are many from the moet
iatant parte of Her Majesty's poeaeemoiu, so that we
hiok we in»y fidrly boa^t that there is now no apot
•re—
** they apeak tbo toogoe
That Shokapear^ apake,"
iti whkb ^oTxs ajtd QcicaiEs boa not ita readen^ It
Cbe onr endeavour therefore io to keep tip ite in-<
OS to lUAke it week by week the more welcome.
3LL0QUULISMS Ts'OT ALWAYS VULGARISMS.
Within the last week 1 haye been reading
Korth's Livet of the Nortfui^ and Wraxall's Me-
moir§t together with the contempomneons abuae
of the latter which appeared in the ^dinlmrgh
io^ Quarts ' ^- ,ws — then all potent in the
realms ot i
In the oiw y>.n 1^ I, what a deli«^htftii work it is !)
1 was particularly struck with the number of
gOoUoquial expressions which the multitude con*
fider to be slang and vdgs^iBma of the preeeat
day ; while, from the modern work, I find a great
cTitie (Btill happily alive) extracting phrases for
6carification in 1S15, which the greatest jurist of
18S4 would hardly hesitate to employ in writing.
I was thus led to reflect on the light m which our
sons may possibly view the comments which have
been passed on the unhappy (lui it apnears to us)
title of Mr. Dickens' latest work ; and I took up
the subject the more natural ly, as some three
years ago I myself sent " N. & Q/' a paper on
ihia very phraae, which perhaps never reached
Fleet Street* as it waa not published, and no men-
tion of it appeared in the "Notices to Correspond-
ents/*
From Koger Korth's Zinet : —
•» This waa nuia to the old lord.**- L 89.
** The judge bcld them to it, and they watt dk&mtd of
the treble voIuil"— i, 90,
*' I never saw bim in a ooodition they call overtakaL**
'* Mr. Koy, and all the codk-tawyen of the west/* — ^l
235.
"It was well fbr ns that wa were known tberei or te
jpoi: we had jfim*."'-!. 341.
*^ They must haw known bia Lordship better, and not
have ventured such Jfami at bim/* — i. 3f)6.
** lie took a tarn or two in his dining room, and said
notbiDg, by which I perceived that bis «piriu were veij
much roUed," — i, il6»
The above speak for themselves* It will be
seen that they are all selected from the £rst of
Roger North*8 three volumes ; but the other two
would atford equally numerous specimens* I now
proceed to cull a few of the Wraatallian expres-
sions, which the Edinhttrgh Reviewer of June^
1815^ characterises as examples of " GalHctsmSf
Scotticisms, Hibernictsms, barbarisms, vulgarisJnSt
and bad English.'^
From Wraxairs Memoiri, The italice are the
Reviewer 8 : —
*' Cntharioe propdled the other powers.*'
*■ Futurity will show."
" Vast abililieo."
** Baited, haraaaedf and worried^ as Lord North waa.'*
" Gntiptit With Nccker.*
** Irord North alone could coa^eU with Barke>'*
<* Elevated in the trammels.**
''The voMi entrgieM Ihoa collected on the Opposilioa
" To commemorate an anecdote*"
" To meet their wishes.^
*' CboUeogee respect."
" Slark of devotion,**
" Functionariu."
" tmpcriuThable t$mptr,**
" A vUal defecL*'
Surely Sir Kathantel receives hard measure
here on the score of his iangua^e^ ajwi Wax^^Kc >»Ma
still were de«X\. ow\. \si Nivni ^vjn. T<t« wiw \a>siA Vft«»»r
1 \ia\e my tjmi ^lauXiU ta X*i >Sns.*Y^^^ '^^^
512
NOTES AND QUERIES,
[i
of tbifl. M&n/ of his most obnoxious Btateraents
htve wnoe received confirmation from unexpected
Quarters; and those, who have been loudest in
abuse of himt have bad no hesitation in bor-
rowing from his pages* I onlj wish that some
one of the many qualified writers of " N. k Q/'
would take the matter in hand, and tell us whether
he really deserved the epitaph : —
" Men, measores, seasons^ bcqiws and facts all,
MisquotlDg, mia-flUtiog;,
Misplacing, mlsdatingf
H«re ties Sir Nathaniel WraxalL**
Chittkldeockj.
" EL BUSCAPIE,"
A PAUFttUet SUFFO&KD TO UAVB BEEK WBlTTEH BT
CESYANTEB.
Many readers of " K & Q." will, no doubt, be
somewhat surprised on being informed, that a good
deal of controversy arose some years ago (1847-
49) respecting the origin and authenticity of the
book with the curious title of El BuscapiL
Without intending, in any way, to revive this
controversy in *^ N. & Q,,'* I shall content myself
with giving a short history of the pamphlet ; and
first, as to the meaning of the title — Buscapie.
It is a compound-wordf from bu^coy seek, and pie,
foot ; signifying in Spanish a squib or cracker,
which, when thrown down in the streets by boys,
polls amonsst the feet of the passers-by, and ex-
plodes. Cervantes is supposed to explain his
reasoo8 for selecting this title, at the close of the
work itsell^ in these words : —
•* I call this little book Butcapii, in ojder to show to
those who tetk the foot with which the Ingenioiu Knight
of La Maocha liinps, that he does not limp with either;
but that btt goes ftrmly and iteidily on both, and is ready
to challenge the gmmhiing critics who hoax about like
wasp*,**
In the Life of Cervaniesy by Vicente de los
Rios, prefixed to the splendid edition of Don
Quixote, published by the Spanish Academy in
1780, it is stated that when the first Part of the
romance appeared in 1605, the public received it
with coldness and indifference* This circumstance
gave such pain to Cervantes, that he wrote the
anonymous pamphlet, called the Sqmb, in which
he gave a curious critique on his Don Qtdxote ;
intimating that it was a covert satire ou various
well-known personages, but at the same time not
Saving his readers the slightest information who
08C persons really were. Tn consequence of this,
public cuiiosity was so excited, that Don Qittxate
§oon obtained nich attention as was necessary to
ensure its c ;:cess.
Such is n ir tradition connected with
HuMcapiL hluti: pnrticulars miiy be seen in Tick*
nor^ History of Spanish Literature ^vol. Vu. ^^»
^ Lendoa, !$49. Appendix D* y, B71, 8ic>
For two centuries, Spaniali adiolan soo^t
vain for the work, either printed or in masy ^
It was not to be found in the BiUufiem '
Madrid, nor amidst the literary tresittrvs
mancas; until at length, in 1847, tbe fOf,
MS. waa discx>vered by Don Adolfo de Cutro, i
Cadix, with the following title-page : —
" El muy doQoso Librillo lUmado —
BnacAPiK;
Dondc, demas de sn macho y cewHsIc
Dotrina, van declaradai
Todas Aquellas Coaas eaoondidaar
X no Declaradaa en el Ingieokte
Uidalgo — Don Qnijote de la Maacka ;
Qne Coinpusow
Un tal de Cemnles Saavedra.** •
This book was published the next year (l^ j
at Cadiz, in a duodecimo volume, wilii mmd '
learned notes, by Don Adolfo. He also tMdi
very intcrestinff Preface, giving an «ce«ai ^
the way in which he discovered the MS. fe tk
was also translated into £nglisb in 184p, b^Ht
Tbomtsina Ross (London, Bentler)* witi 1 1^
able Preface, containing a Life of Cervaiitsi. Sk
believes the BuscapU to be genuine; butXidac
and several other Spinish scholars coosd^i^
evidence for its authenticity, to rest on "w&j i^
picious and unsatisfactory grounds. J* Dauia
Norwich.
TEE OWL*
As you have been investigating tf - -----^^4
Robin-Redbreast, and the spirit-raj
Wagtail,, may I request* througli ^ -«. .^^^
correspondents, some information about a i
bird which has lately made ite appearance i
us. It is supposed to be of the owl speeiei^ I
certainly no common owl, from the pngniiaiy i
shows against the celebrities in the literary •«'
grossly msulting the whole press-gang of the i
tropolis. The Thunderer himself^ the 7m(HJ,I
baa his eyes almost pecked out ; Pirnrh hat p$ I
bloody nose ; in a word, the whole i'
hooted at through Fleet Street and .j^-^
that respectable elderly lady, the Herald off
morn, as Mother Gamp ; and the Et&n&mitL til ,
very picture of prudence, as a miserable J
Screw. Such conduct is a disgrace lo
whe has assumed for his badge and
tlie bird that adorns the a^gis of Ptdlaa
It is no feather in his cap. As a brother i
blush for his audacity. Where could (
have come from ? The only owlcrv X kaoir^.
in the keep of Arundel Caftk*. From tiose
memorial the noble owner* of thi* bariin^iil
• The very plfri^mt Httli? bool
wbicb, befii'l'* ■■ -. . i;. 1,1 I. ri
ttlfiaed all J>«iki]
9^ 8. V. Jtrjim 25, *M.]
NOTES AND QUERIES*
5ia
kept up the bre«d of Eagle Owh in the
td lower, as in days of chivalry* The
J9 are arranged in a trellised aviary, with a
^obte name attached to each cage. Under one
1 Lord Eldon; then came Sir Wm. Grants the
aed Master of the Bolls, and so on in succe^*
The most famous lawyers of the day were
apposed to be sitting there with all the gravity
nd wisdom characteristic of the high chancel-
, in England; yet in this case tbey were only
bwls. But the most curious thing I learnt from
pisiting the owlery was, that, one morning, when
he late duke and hii duchess were at breakfast,
be Keeper of the Tower craved an audience, as
had most important news to communicate.
J admitted to the ducal presence^ he said in
emn tone suited to the occasion, ** Please your
Lord Eldon has laid an egg ! '* What
lid have been the wisdom of the owl from
Legg, had it ever been hatched, it would be
I useless to surmise ; probably tlie issue would
been much the same as is confidently ex-
pected from the golden e^g which Goosey Glad-
stone has lately dropped in the rookery of St»
'Stephen^s —
" Big with the fate of empire and of Rome."
Could your learned correspondents resolve for
ne two queries? L Is there any other owlery
^land, except at Arundel? or did the
ons in mediieval times keep their owls with
be hawks in a mews, as Charles II. did at Cha-
ring Cross, under a grand falconer, like the Duke
df ^>t. Alhans ? 2nd* Is this strange bird about
irhich I inquire allied to the owls of chivalry ; or
J he merely ** a screech " — the ill-omened bird
bat foreboaes the fall of cabinets? Alas, poor
"Who'll dig his grave?
I, said the Owl ; with my spMde mad should
111 dig his grave.*'
Qusbk's Gardens .
they had been educated. If they find a book is
of moderti date^ and the above words at its con-
clusion, they purchase it, The book auctions,
which BO constantly take place at Madras, being
the source of their supply. With a collection of
two or three hundred volume^^ tied up in bundles
and carried by coolies (native porters) on their
beads, they ply their trade : calling at the bunga*
lows of the civil and military officers, and sell or
exchange books for others, folio for folio, ouarto
for quarto ; and so on, without any knowleuge of
their real value, but always require some money
in addition. I have bought very rare ancient
books from these people at inconceivably low
prices, although they generally do not care to
possess old books. A black-letter copy of Stowe's
CkrtmidevrtL^ once purchased from a book-hawker
at MaauUpatam for a few annas. I became ac-
quainted with a native bookseller at Secunder-
abad, who told me in his dealings he bought and
sold his books by weight, which was his only
method of estimating their value. A mast lamen-
table proof of the little value set upon books by
Europeans in the East. The native bookseller
last alluded to kept a shop in the cantonment
bazaar, — a shed twenty feet long, and seven feet
broad, in which was an assemblage of broken
muatcal instruments, cracked crockery, beer bot-
tles, old hookahs, rusty swords, fowling pieces,
and racket bata : all mingled, in the utmost con-
fusion, amongst books, plans, and pictures. I
ransacked the shop; and, to luy joy, discovered
the fine edition of Giralduji of Wales^ by Sir R. C.
Hoare ; Bryant's Ancient Aftjthohtgy ; and the
Prophecies of NoMradamvs* I bought Giraldus
for a rupee and a halil H. C.
1
BOOK HAWKERS IN INDIA.
During occasional sojourns at St. Thomas's 1
Mount with my old regiment, the Madras Ar-
tillery, I frequently received visits frtjm native
I book hawkers ; who were one of the sources of
■Amusement in the cantonment<i in and not far dis-
^Bant from Madras, and were assistants to the
^bhief of the tribe Ramasawmy of Vepery^ who
Hbade a considerable sum of money in the trade,
nod possessed a large library of miscellaneous
books. Having no idea of the merits or value of
book«, and generally unable to read English, these
book-hawkers buy at random ; merely examining
the foot of the title-page for the date, and the
last leaf in the book for the words " The End "' or
Bist** — to read which, and the numbers only,
PoTEKT Effects of Norwich Aue, — The fol-
lowing speech was made by Master Johnny Mar*
tyn of Norwich, a wealthy, honest fellow, after a
dinner given by William Mingay, the Mayor,
anno 1561. It was found in the coUectioii of Mr.
Turner of Lynn Regis : —
** Maister Mayor of Norwych, and it please your
Worship, you have feasted us like a King, God
bless the Queen's grace I We have fed plentl*
fully, and now whilom I can speak plain English,
I heartily thunk you Maister Mayor, and so do
we all. Answer, boys, answer j Your beer is
pleasant and potent, and will soon catch us by
the Caput, and stop our manners, And so Huzza
for the Queen*s Majeety's Grace, and all her bonny
browe'd Dames of Honour ! Huzza for Maister
Mayor, and our good Dame Mayore&s ! His
nobJe Grace, there he is, God save him and all
this jolty company. To all our friends round
country, who have a penny in their purse, and an
English heart in their bodys, to kee^ out S^amsXv
Dons, aud ra\>v«»U W\\k VN^siit Iv^if^v^ Vft \past\x ^^w.
SM
^OTES AND QUESIES.
C»^&f./f3KSI^1
wbiskers. Sliovc it about, twirl your cap eases,
my boys^ handle your jugs, and bii^iza for Mftister
Major, aad bia bretbrcn tbeir worsbips ! '*
JoHw Binx.
Brokbh Hbarts. — A fttory — a canard^ I hope —
has trayelled the newspapers, of an Irish settler
in California, who bad left bis wife and children
at home until be could provide for their voyage to
San Francisco, when a letter arrived with the
intelligence of their cottage bavingf been burned
down, and tbemselvee — ;ill — having perished.
He turned pale, crumbed the letter to his bosom,
and dropped dead* The pott'mortem examination
showed that bis heart was ruptured.
Nil novum ! In the Irish '98 — that disastrous
ptudaaU of the Scottiah *45— an Anti-Anglican
pAtiiot (or, as Baron Smith, the father of the
'iireseat Master of the Rolls, was wont to ayl-
'ubue the word — Pat Riot), was put upon his
trial for high treason in Dublin. Ue was the son
of a welUto-do shopkeeper in Trim, vendor of
omni-mongery to an extensive clientele, and
bearing the truly national name of Buigenan.
The trial-day was to htm and bis parents a series
of restless minutes, each whereof was a lingering
boar ; to them, perhaps, more afflicting than to
him, who knew the coarse of its latest inatant.
In those times, the telegraph was not* Late in
the evening a miscbievoui; — let us hope, not a
malicious — fool, rushed into the shop, exclaiming,
"He is found guilty I" The mother was at the
door — heard the terrible announcement —* and
dropped dead, I know not whether an autopsy
took place, but I suppose the physical as well as
the moral result was the same as in the Califomkn
story.
Will it pain, or will it please, the reader, to
learn that the tidings so fatal to the maternal
heart were a mere invention ? The trial bad not
been closed when its cruel joke was perpetrated ;
it lasted till deep midnight, when the son was
m^ilted, and immediately posted home to find
bis mother a corpse. E. t.. S.
" TitB FaTRMKBOOD OF Gou/*— This pbrsse,
which, nsed by Edward Irving, subdued Mackin-
tosh, and f truck Canning as singularly new and
beautiful* is Racine^s, Athalie^ Act II. Sc. 5.
Joas replies to the inquiry of Atbalie : *' Votnj
** Je siua, dit oil, mm ^vpheHm
Jhlra Um t,ra» de I^wu jeti dk ma mai§mmti,**
OiTTHirr cm Oirr-c»rT,— -In reading the "Briefe
Directions to leame the French Tongue" ap*
pcndod toCotiiriive*« Dictionaries 1611,1 stumbli^d
upon a curious illustrntion of a word used by Ben
JoDSon (an illustration which, I feel sure, will be -
thou;^t worth recording m ** 1?, It Q^J* \£, aa l\
believe, it bas not yet been cited.) *^ h Gh
ierahire they likewise say* cmi*Bri ikM, far* i
that," J. O. Ha
Glossast of Scotch Wobjj*. — 1 1
join an extract from one of Lord
notes to his beautiful installation
he delivered on the ISth of May, 18
Lordship's a|)pointment of Cbanedkr %
versitr of Edinburgh, and may I bofieir
Scotchman will accept, if be baf not i
Lordship*5 Inritation, and give at a '
of approved Scotch wordd and
successfully used by the best writer I
and verse, with distinct explanaiioiii
ences to authorities;" and what Ud
engaging than that of contributing to <
improve the English language ?
" Woctld it not ajford means of enricbis^ tal I
log the English laogu&ffc. if full und mccfxnigft
of Approved Scotch words and phmseay Ihii —
U9«d by the best wriun, both in prose miA^B
given, with distinct expUnatidn and i
ntits? This tuis b«ea dooe in France and <
wbera some dictionaries accompany the Ea
cases with Scotch synoaymea, in. others ^
expression. **
Fxaju]
Lafchfield, Darliogtoo,
tBLurtitt,
AiroNTiiotis. —
" The Castle Builders ; or« ibe TTlatof^ i
Stephens, of the Isle of Wight, Kna.^ Laialy 4
Pohttcal Nov<d, Dtfver before ptibUab««1 la «a
London : Prtaied for the Awtbar, 1750. fiW*
I believe this work (o be a true
events* Who was the author ?
Gjeo. W.
Who 18 the author of " The City of Ti
a dramatic poem of very great tnerit, |iisl
Frasert Ma^azine^ voL xviii^ I B38 ?
Godolphiny a play, 1845 ; and Mdric tkt
play in three oetSp publtjibcd In or ikboitt l
Where was the but-aaiaed drama prml«id f
Iflia
Who were tlie authors of —
.fiBTr VIS*
and •
Qut'i
London, j«-:m,
2. " The Land of Pn>mlse i or. My
traliA.'' Lofidiio, 1854.
S. ^'TIic Friend o^ Aiiflr«rta; or, a VUm Ibr
the Interior/* London, 1890?
D. Bi
MelboTUtie.
GaoaoE Bur -
*♦ TsTannical f AaatomtaU, ac; « I
«»Mffn:nk^«72iV^3vnB»i\v9nv ^Minu^'lte LUb and \
an S. V, Jum 25, '64,]
NOTES
EBIES.
515
> John the Baptiit, and preMnted to thd EiJi^^a Mo»t «x-
^ ceJlent Majeaty, by the Author/* 4to, 1*541.
This piece which is a translation of G. Bu-
^oliaiuui's Latin tragedy, was printed by order of
, the Hoiwe of Commons, It was republished^ by
the Rev. P. Peck, in 1740^ as a production of
. Milton. Is it known who waa really the author ?
Iota.
FioLZ AitD Bahttach-Kakehsxi. — I am
dons to know the exact title, place, date, Sec,
^ef Berkhoh's MemoirM. They are, X believe, in
* German. Abo, the same particubrs of a work by
k^BantyBch-Kamenski, Memoirs of the MinUten of
Peter ihe First* 1 have in vain sought for these
L titles in Kayser's Lexikon^ (EiiingeT's Bihliographie
tSioffraphiofie^ the Conversations Lexikon^ and the
llfauvdle Biographie Universelle, Jatdsjl
'^ Caoso Sktlaasl/^ — Some years ago a poem
of great strength nnd beauty was published in
■• Blat'kwootfM Magazine, entitled **To a Caged Sky-
? lark. Regent Circus, Piccadilly," It ends thust —
I ••And thy wild liquid warbling,
Sweot thing, after all,
Lsares thee thus, Bchiog-hreastedf
A captive and thrall ;
For the thymy dell's freshness and &ee dewy cleiid,
A barred ooolc in this furnace heat and suffocating
crowd.*'
Who is the author ; and has he pabltshed any
other poetical production ? Wtthib E. Baxteb.
Canb^b SiriciDE. — ^ We are told that consider-
able astonishment was occasioned one day during
^ past week on board the floating-bridge, whilst
on the Gosport side, by the singular conduct of a
welUtrained and valuable Newfoundland dog, the
property of Mr. Hurst, the railway carrier. It
appears the animal had followed a man on to the
bridge, and that it was driven olf, as the driver
did not want the dog to accompany hiou It then
^^deliberately walked round to the adjoining Grid>
■.iron, placed its head under the water, and died
^Labortly afterwards without a struggle !
H Is this suicidal act by a quadruped worthy a
V place in **N. & Q,?*' Has any reader ever read of
aimilar conduct — suicide by a quadruped caused
I' by disappointment ? J. W« Batceuoxui*
-Odiham.
UK
is,
*
D&TtKo FiiOWBBfl. — I shall be greatly obliged
> iny reader of ** N, k Q." who can tell me any
[means of preserving the colours of dowers in dry-
[ log them. H. S.
DcwKiHK. — Do any monumental inscriptions
atill exist at Dunkirk to the numerous English
who lived there from 1688 to 1793? M. P.
English Coutttt NEWsPArBTBs, — Can any
reader of ** N. & Q." inform me where I can
f* Thire U an Eogllsh tranaUtton of this work, «q-
titled Kaitienaki'a A^t of Ptttr the Grtai, with notes and
a pMfrot^ br Irm Goiovia, Loud, I'imo, l^L— Eot]
J. R. D.
NB OF Savot. — A volume entitled
Uittrtf Actiom of Prince Eugene of
inspect complete sets of the English county
newspapers from their commencement to the pre-
sent time^ more particularly tho^e for the coun-
ties of Kent and Surrey? I find in 77^^ Universal
British Directory for 1790, mention of a public
office for newspapers, kept by a *• Mr. William
Tayler, at No. 5, Warwick Square, Warwick
Lane, London, where files of all Scotch, Irish,
London^ and English county newspapers are kept
complete, and reference could be made to them.
Mr, J. Poyntell was file^crk."* I should £Qel
greatly obliged if any reader can inform me who
now possesses the above collection, as I find that
the collection of county newspapers in the British
Museum is very imp^ect, particularly for Kent
and Surrey.
Prin ~
TheLr
S tint of his Death and /jiiw?r«/,
T^ ilin, in 1737, by subscription,
ana wim a deaiojitjon to Lieut.-General Wade*
It is a highly creditable specimen of Irish typo*
graphy. May I ask you to give me the author^s
name r Abhba.
[The first edition was published in London, 8vo, 17B5.]
Ivan thb Fourth.— What became of the bro-
tbers and sisters of the unfortunate Ivan lY^,
Emperor of Russia, murdered in 1764? When,
and where did they die ? And did any of them
tnarry and leare taaue ?
Chablbs F. S. Wabjles.
Lord Hopton. — Will you kindly inform me
where I can find a life oC Sir Ralph Hopton, who
was one of the best of King Charles's Generals
during the civil war? I want particularly an
account of his military career from 164S to 164^.
I have already consulted Clarendon and Lloyd's
Memoirs^ Sfc^ but they do not fiimi^h what I re-
quire. " J. E. B.
^^ Mn>DLE-FASSIKO.
" With that came the eleven kings; and there wai Sir
Gritlet put to Ibe cftrlh, horse and man. and Lucas the
Butler, bor»B and man, by King' Grandegors and King
Idres, and King Agusaace. Then waxed the middk-
pamitff hard on both parties," 1634 ed. of 1485.— Mal0ty*s
Arthur^ part ii, chap. 3cii. p. 24
Does this mean the criUcal main-tug and tussle
of a battle? Can any correspondent fornish
another example of the word f
J. D. Camfvblx..
MoRGAHATTC. — According to the statement of
A. S. A. (3"» S. T. 348), Sophia Dorothea, of
S^lle, was not a princess by birth ; being merely
the issue of a morganatic marriage. If so, how
could she be married to Priooe George of Hano-
ver, otherwise thati morganattcally ? Was it in
her right, or in his own^ that vvt \'l^> Wx ^^''Jr j
band — al iVikt \:\TiwJi ^<ftSact — ^eojt^j^jaft^^^ ^^ "^^
dukedom o^ %^^**
Vas lb Ul ^m
NOTES AND QUERIES.
Motto -a c ROLL. — la there any rule for the
tincturing of the moito-scroU in an aohtevement
of arraa ? Camilto^bld,
C»i>e Town.
Olb Prlnts, — The following should have ap-
peared in the list of those concerning which I
Biked for information on p* 458 of this volume: —
6. A mezKotjnto full length of a lady in a riding
babitf with a whip in her hand, Loes Yanhaeken
{»tfiz/,, Alex. Yaahaeken sc,^ with these lines be*
ow: —
" In her lovo-dartitig cjres awake the fires,
TmmorUl giAs! to kindle aofl dcfirets;
From limb to lirab an air mftjestic sheds.
And the pure ivory o^er her botsom apreada.
Sach YeouB thioes, when with a meaaured bound
8he smoothly gliding swims the hannonioas roondt
Whou with the Graces in the daoce she mores,
And fires the gazing god^ with ardent loves."
** Sold by T. JefTery t in the Strand, and W* Herbert on
London Bridge."
7. ** The Studious Fair/* Misa Ben well ^i*mf,
C. SpooneryVnV. A beautiful mezzotint of a lady
reading. J.*ondon, printed for Henry Parker and
Robert Sayer. There is written in pencil "Mas
Blisa," Who was this lady ? J, M.
Great OrroRTUKiTT. — The TimeSj in ita
number of May 30, gives some account of the
aermon preached at the Chapel Royal, Wbttehall,
by the Dean of Westminster on the previous
Sunday; and remarks that the Dean ^ made a
beautiful allusion in his sermon to the i^reat op-
portunity oOered by the Restoration of 1660 to
the Crown, the English nobility, and the Church
of £n^land, but, alas! lost by them."
It iB to be regretted that the correspondent of
the Timea did not communicate, in the Dean*8
own choice language, the beautiful allusion in hia
aermon. Perhaps some of the readers of " N. & Q.*'
who heard the sermon may be willing to gratify
myielf and many others, by supplying the blank
in the Times. Cuaiotis Reabeb.
ORDnffATXOII OF EaRLT McTHODIST MlNISTERa
»r A Gbsbk Bishop, — Erasmus, ** Bishop of Ar-
cadia in Crete,^ visited London in 1763, accord-
ing to Myles' Chronology of the We^let/an Metho'
disii. Wesley procured his ordination for several
of the local and travelling preachers of the society.
Where can I find an account of this Bt$hop Eras-
mus ? Abtaxebxhs bUJTtf.
OlTERTATtON : Sx. PcTEB'S AT RoME. —
** The buni^Ung of Carlo Mademo nt St. Peter's," says
Mr* Gvrilt in his Enc^ct&p^lki, \y, 142, *• is much to be
ngrvttid* Tlie arches hf ' i He nave are 8mal]<;r
io diaBtniiofu than thor' l b«eu brought up
lnnnediately ad; nniiiv tl r.inuU; antUiyLmt
if itill more • he added to ,
eft# war* /i T\v\ ,ui <A\v« Yiuxk,
botlnclioM abuvc Ihrw feci lo l\\vi iK*nU; iu oV\i«[ w^jt^, ^
ih§ church is not slrai>tht, and tlut to lasi^ «a anAwiX
SB to Strike every edocatad eyitw
exceedingly bad.^
I would inquire whether Gwilt ii joslifiei^
attributing this inclination to any **baBgliof*-
the part of Maderno, or whether it b not os
the same circumstances which ar« aaid io J
held good with the masons or architeda oft
own churches— that of inclining their work i
ward, according to the time of year ai whkA i
building was begun to be erected f Umh i
of your readers obferved tbia ** inclinatim'*
St. Peters? I have not aeeo it stated f
but as we know Gwilt viaitcil Rome, he maylm^
therefore seen it himself. Wr att PArwoim
Songs. — I should be glad to learn wfatrc mM
Devonshire song can be prooured which bq
with the line —
** When I were bom in Plymouth old t«wi*'
Also a song called *^ Robin Ro^head^* kiii
these lines occur : — '
** The more Bob bowed to tlier.
The more thev bowed to Bob»** ^
TIC
Sib MtcHARL SxAjrHora. — Can Mm. SMi* |
Mb. H. W. King, or any other of tbe
nnd-onc contributors to ** N. & Q.** g^rt m^f I
information relative to the rcaideiiet tf vl
Michael Stanhope at Hford? Stanbopem^l
pointed Lieutenant-Governor of Hull 33 fli«!
VlU. At that ncriod he lived at Ilfoni; ^« i
his removal to Hull, be granted a le^se «C *^
house with the garden in which he tben ilivl^ j
the town of Ilford/* * to Sir Richard So«tkiA|
Knt Master of the Rolls. There ia
the lease for Stanbope*s resumption of j
should bo return to London wicbio fcMir fMi:
and I wish to ascertain whether he did rwlon ^ 1
Ilford, and there resided, «r whcr« else lit ffj
sided between the period of his Icavinji^ IU1| i
his death fn 1^^1-2. Stanhope held (be
ship of the manor of Guilford, ttod, aAar ^
attainder of Sir Kichola* Carew^ be hiad ibiC
tod^r of Beddington.
I have searched in vain for the report of I
hope's trial in lo5L2. Is there any reeof^ tik^
Stanhope was tried with Sir Ralph Vane, 9a
Miles Partriilge, and Sir Thomaa AruDciall, «a»_
unjuit charge of high treason ; and after mi
trial was found guiky, and beheaded.
BoiuarCoa.]
54, CUrcndon Koad, NotUng BtU.
** TiiBowi}(Q TUB Hatchkt/' — Tfao
this phrase, which, in gener;tl ;ri»pllcatiaii, l^i
valcnt to *' Drawing th^ hu
puxzled me and m.iny i>' i I bate
asked an n. Uui^ \ms ^
RicKmotMf < of the 4th * Had |ka
«N&T. JctkM.'M.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
517
P
I
Allowing record of a curious old custom that
rows some light on the expression : —
** Tub Manor of Arukk- — On the 2CtIi ult. Chtrlca
credf E«q« Ihe lord of this manor* revired the Andeot
torn of pernmhuUtinf^ the boandarieM. FJa^ and
nerf were carried^ and the bugle was soanded ai eMch
mark. At one poioti ArkdiJe He&dr iccording to the
ecordi and usage, a threepenny hatchet was thrown
le of the teiianta, and the boundarj^ there was fixed
it fell. This c<*remony had not been before ob-
served for twenty-elgbt ycarg,**
Does tbJB curioua free-and-eaej custom exiet
(«ljewhcre P . G. H. or 8.
Damikl Voster ATfD JoHW GotJGH. — Some in-
formation regarding the biography of these two
authors of works on arithmetic, used during the end
of the last, and the first quarter of the present cen-
tury, AS school class-books, will be acceptable. Was
Gough an Irij*hmnn ? The works of both authors,
I believe, have been superseded by what is termed
shorter and better methods ; but if so, those men
certainly laid the foundation-stone upon which
the building has been erected. And ray want is
for an historical purpose— an appeal of this sort is
never made in vain in ** N. & Q/* S. REOMonp.
liverpooU
UwiVBR&iTY HcK>DS. — Will any of your corre-
ipondentd inform me at what period the scarlet
and white boods^ now worn by Masters of Arts
of Oxford and Cambridge respectively, came into
use, and whether any reason can be assigned for
the choice of those particular and distinctive
colours? E. H, A.
WiixiAM Watson, LL.D., A^m thb Autboe-
■Bip or "The Clbrotman's Law.**— William
Watson, of Pidlington, Oxfordshire, son of the
IV. Joab Watson, aflter being educated for five
■ars at Oakham school, under Mr. Fryer, was
admitted a sizar of St. John*s College, Cambridge,
June 7. 1(555, set. 18, proceeded B.A, 1658*9, and
commenced M, A. 1662. He became rector of Old
Romney, Kent, April 6, 1670, was created LL.D,
1673, and died 1689-90. set. 51. He was also
ean of BatteU but we know not when he was
siipointed. In 1701 there appeared a folio volume
with this title : —
The Clergy -M/in's Law: or the Complete Incumbent,
lollected from ihe 33 Articles, Caooos, Proclauiationj,
crces in Chancery and Kxcbequer, as also from all Acta
Parliament, ami Common- Law Cases, relating to Ibe
urch and Clnr^y of England; digested under proper
Heads* for the Heiielit of Putrone of Churches and the
Parochial Clergv. And will be useful to all Students and
Practitioners o/ the Law. By William Watsoa, LL.D.,
late Dean of Battel.''
Worrall (Bibl. Leg, Aftglia, 65) states that the
Clergyman's Law waa not written by Dr. Watnon,
but by Mr. Place of York, and this is repeated by
Watt, and Lowndes. Worrall cites an observa-
tion of Mr. Justice Denison, in Burrow's Reports^
I 307 (it should be 315), also Wilson's Reports,
11- 195, where the real author is said to have been
Mr. Place of Gray's Inn. We cannot doubt that
the work was substantially written by Dr. Wat-
son, although probably Mr, Place revised, cor-
rected, and arranged it for publication. We take
it that the object of Mr. Justice Dennison was not
to depreciate Dr. Watson, but to show that the
work had had the sanction of a practising lawjer.
We are desirous of obtaining information re-
specting* Mr, Place. There were other editions
of The Clergyman* s Lata revised and amplified
from time to time. Our remarksi of course, ap-
ply only to the first edition*
C* H. & Tbomp»on Cooper,
Cambridge.
The Lord's Prayer. — The trimestral reading
of the sixth chapter of Saint Matthew's GoB(>el,
as the second Morning Lesson happening on
Sunday last, brought to my mind a cujstom which
1 have sometimes in my long life — eighty -seven
years — noted, once^ I think, in Worcester* When
the reader came to the Saviour s liturgic precept,
" After this manner, therefore, pray ye :^Our
Father/' the congregation arose from their seats,
and kneeled during its repetition. Solemn as is
the Oratio Dominica on all occasions and in all
places, for the combined sake of its language and
of its authorship, the seldomuess of this especial
occasion gave it a solemnity whi^^h none who have
not witnessed it can imagine.
Will any correspondents of ** N. & Q*'' mention
the churches in which they have seen it?
E, L. S,
[We do not find that the rubric of the B<>ok of Common
Prayer says a word about sitting; standing and kneeUng
being the only poetures exprcaaly recognised. The clergy
still stand to receive the charge of their Bishop or other
eccleiiaatical superior. However, as sitting daring D1-'
vine aervice baa been claimed in recent times as an indul-
gence (not only by invalided and aged persons), but by
the greater part of the congregation* it is customary in
many churches to rise when the Lord's Prayer comes in tbe
course of the Lessons, though, of course, it is only read,
as it were, historieallyf as a part of a narrative. On our
Lord^s graciously saying to his disciples, "When ye
pray, say Our Father," &c^, he was using a bidding
prayer, and the disciples listened ; but neither Jesus nor
his followers could be said to pray during the repetition
of the words of the prnyer at that time. Hence the cus-
tom noticed by our correspondent of kneeling when this
prayer is read in the Lesaons, ia, we conceivei not a f^T-
rect one. ]
James GRAnAM. — About eighty years ago,
there was a soi-disant ^h^alavaxv^ ^tvc ^lassve^^ort^-
518
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
[V^&IF. J^n«,M
whose practice and writtogs i^erc distin{ruis1ied
by the grossest immorality and obscenity. He
bad what be termed ft " coelestial bed ; " gave lec-
tured ** on the improvement of the human spe-
ciei,'* and alao " private advice to mttiried ladies
and gmtlemen," &c* He bad besides baths in
which persona were immersed to the cbin in
earth i and after practisbg these and various
eiiormtties for some time, the public ceased to
Oentribute to his imposture, by withholding the
rapacious fees he demanded ; upon which he de-
termined to turn a regular M,D., and repaired to
Glasgow, where I observe, in the wintei* of 1784,
as mentioned in Sir James Mackintosh's MemoirSt
that Graham was a fellow -student with him at
that University, The bubble, however, had burst,
and he sank into Insignificance and contempt I
urn anxious to know what became of him, and
particularly when and where he died. X 1.
[Some pArticuIars of this notorious empiric and hii
earCh-bath, aa well of hi« Veatlna, the rosy Goddeit of
Health, Einma Hamiltoo, have akeady been given in
" N. & Q." 2«* a ii. 233, 278, 316, and 358, Wh€B the
popularity of Graham Iwgan to wane, he was compelled
to give up his famed Tempto of Health and Hymen,
8chombcrg House, Fait Mallf and to difipensa with the
fatare servic^j of his two gigantio porters in gold laoe.
He left London for Scotland, where his boasted pretea-
sionf of a ^ovtCT of indefinitely extending the length of
hniDAn life were Boon exploded by the fbllowing an-
nouncement in the Scott M^aBtHtf Ivi. 375 : ■* Died on
Jaae 2^, 1794, at Kdinbnrgb, Dr. Grabam, the famoiis
physician, well known for bis ctlobrat'?<t Temple of
Health and curioua lecCureft/'] /^ i
Camaca. — What is the origin and meaning of
the word Camaca / It often occurs in the inven-^
tories of churches, as copes were frequently made
of it. B«ds also seem to have been made of the
same material. It is sometimes spelt camak^
camoke^ camoka^ and ckamiirt. Has the word
any coniiection with camel ? J. Daltoji.
[Camaca is a kind of silk, or rich cloth : curtainA were
laade of thii niatoriaL See Th* Si^uyr of Lowt D^gr^^
835 1 Tut. VetHU, p. 14; Odventrf MjfMteria^ p. 163.
{Haiiiw€iL) Akiildst the various forms of this word cited
by our kamud currespondent, OxmokM and QuioAa seam
to he the ruoat correct; am they come the ncareit to tite
madheval (J reek, KofLoux^tt^ XoMe^^us, which signify
the same thing, M^oage suggeals^ as a derivAtii>ii, the
Pentan Kmikha (a silk stuff), wbSch look* ae if ha felt
rather at a loss. See Du Cange, <7Am«. LaL on Camoca;
Giatf, Gf. on K4^t0vxar, i^nd Aybage Die. £iym. I'n, on
CatDocas,]
MfKias. — This is the " Niloracter." Tn the
0§xdjttnumM hSvgazin€ (1 755, p,2t)5 ), Dr. Fococke s I
Tt' ' i to for a description* Will any
Cmi whom the Wok i& ttA^cc^nXAt^
^Yvurmc irjtii iht reference or eUraet, if not loo
wellf to any other accnraaft of
J. D. Ci
^{of hAb
longf or,
matter ?
[PoQOcke says I '* At the south end of the nlsa«Hii»
of Roida» or Raondah^ is the Mikiai» or houM ia wtids
the femoos pillar A>r raessuria^ the Nil^ It t* ac
in a deep basin, the bottom of which b on a 1
the bed of the Kile i the water entenng at ooti ^i4*^ t
passing out on the other. The pillar is dtiri«Ui '•
measures, by which th<?y eee the rise of Uw KBe^ lil
a fine old Corinthian capital at top. which hasi
been omitted in the draughty, and on that rciUal
which goes across to the gallery. From the coeKl
leads to this home, is a dejcent to the Nile by tf^e
which, the common people will have iU that i
found, after he had been oxposod oa the banks li tkl
river/* There is also an eof raving of ** A Flaa aaiSs^ I
tion of the Mikias." — Dtacripiun% ^f Ihc £aMt^ t
foLL2d,S£S,&c]
WasDROBB Book of Qosbx Isasi
the second volume of the Book of J^ojft^ i
is made of the Wardrobe Book of Is^bdill^l
of Edward IL, which is described fls**iiM|it|
Cottontan MSS/' I have a particulsr wi« • I
consult this volume* but I cannot find an ir ma
of it in the catalogue of the Cottoniau Mb& Cb |
any one kindly supply the reference ?
Hsmautjmoa-
[The document is the Cottoaiaa Manusfipt, Q^ |
K xrv.f injured by the fire in 1731, and aiaee
It contains an account of tbe expeas«a of the 1
of Queen Isabella from the beginning of OciobeTp ia ll
jtiM 1357, to the 4th of Decern bar in ISdl, %. ||«ip|
afler her burial^ and more than three moai
dMth, which it fixes at the 22nd of Aogua^ &, i
En{ , Eg«rtoa Libtfarian, read a paper t^gc^tlsi J
of Antiqaariea ou March 1% 18o4v on tha oottaaota fi. ^
manuscript, and which haa been sioee fmhliih«l sails
Artkmdo^iot xxxv, 463-^469, tu titled, » Notkea af U^
Lsat Days of Isabella, Queen of Edwmrd
drawn from an Account of the Expeoaea of hm 1
held."]
AitoHTMocs Wou». — Who were the mmUbimf
" " ^' Confeet of the Twelve Nations ; or, a View I
I !: Ba«es of iiumiiu Cbaracter
i Oliver &Botd. 1826."
[By WilUam Qewlaon.]
2. '' Le Chef d*tEavra d*im Inconnai INtea mt 1
le Dooieur Chrisostoma MathamMlut. Pacis^ 1803%^
[Far Van Kibn.]
3« ** Esaal Bxtr lt>rjgiae et TAjiaquiti^ dm
London. 1767/*
[ParJ,B,PerrlR.]
4. •< Relation dea Campagnei de ftocrel el (l# WHbma^
enrAnn^ 1043 ot 1644. Imprim^ei Paria. 187«."
[Per Henri B«a4]
Melbouma. O^ Bt.asi. i
t k«^ ^ii^ kA^ Bawr4tu — Wm aooic
SNi 8, T, JintK 25, ♦M.]
JTOTES AKD QUERIES,
519
[ eimlun the me&mng tnd derivation of ibeie
I words? A, B. X, Z»
[In the Etpmoms of Engliik Word*, hy John Thonwon,
Edinb. 4to. 1826, it b suted lb At '^ Tag, Eag, and Bob-
tatlt were three JeDommatJona of ignoble dogs." The
phrase, aa applied colloquially to the common people, is
notieed iu Todd*d Johiiaoa and in Najret's Glogmry. In
Oteira RabclaU, ir. 221, it h "Shag, rag, and bobUilJ']
Arabella FjsaMOB — Wbo were the poretita of
Mra. Arabella Feriuor, thj& heroine of Fope^s
Hope of the Lock f M. P.
[Mr. Carmtbera (Pop«*a WorJa^ ed. 18dS» I 2'24) states
that Arabelia Fennor, Pope'a BeLinda^ waa the daughter
of James Fermar, Esq*, of Tunnora^ ca Ojd'ord, who mar-
I ri©d Mary^ daughter of Sir Eob«rt Throckmortoa, of
Weston Dnderwood, Bucks. This, however, does not
a^ree with the pedigree of the Fermor family, drawn up
by p, deaeendant, and printed in the Gent*s Mag,^ vol,
accvU. pi. 1. p. 680, wfaere we read that Arabella waa the
daughter of llenry Fermor, Esq., of Toamore, who mar-
riod Ellcn^ daughter and co-heir of Sir George Browne^
E.B.]*
SIGKET RING FORMERLY ATTRIBUTED TO
MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS.
(3^* S* iv. 3D6, 418.)
When, on the 14th of November last, I sub-
mitted a query Concerning the obove, I was not
BWftre that it had been noticed before in this
ffork, (for I find tbat the aliudon to it to which
I referred bad appeared in The Times,) or that
it had foriiied a topic of discussion at meetinga
of the British Arcbfieological Association* Nor,
I consequently, waa I aware that its true origin
\hMd been ascertained. Of this I was lirst ap-
prised by the reply of M, D. herein on Nov. 21,
Since tbat time, I have sought and obtained the
, advantage of private communicationa from the
correspondent under that signature, from H.
Syer Cuming, Esq., to whose discovery of the in-
dica^ve monogram (**M.-H/*) be refers, and from
G» Vere Irving^ Esq., who also had engaged in
the previous investigations ; with the perusal of
I reports of which, in the Joumak of Ae BriHsh
■ Archmological AMsociation for March 185 J, and
■ Sept 1861, 1 have been favoured.
^ Thus furubhed with additional intelligence on
the subject, and having, moreover, made fresh
K inquiry among membem of the Buchan family,
H I beg leave to offer a few remarks in rejoinder to
" the various obliginjj answers which my quettion
in '* N. & Q.*' has elicited.
I \V;*i- - : u'L't to that which is generally acknow-
B led '..1 been the original of all the lozengt'
^ ahaj^c.^ oj^...jts of this character, (said to be now
in the possesmoo of Oardiaul >f iseman,) I have
been confirmed in my statement that it was care-
fully preserved by David Stewart, Earl of Buchani
m having belonged to the Scottish queen, and aft
having been presented by her majesty to some
ancestor of his. Indeed, his lord^jhip showed tbe
trinket to myself a& such; together with an old
tortoise-shell comb, and other reputed Marian re-
licii, at Dryburgb Abbey, in 1827, about a year
bt fore his death. My own ring, too, had been
given as li^ fac'simile, and under that description,
by the earl to a lady who gave it to me; but
whether it was a modern imitation, (its ieal ts
somewhat larger,) or a supposed oo-orlginalf I
have never exactly learnt.
I waa correct likewise, I am assured, in mj
assertion that Lord Buchan^s signet bad been lost
to his representatives for many years, (though not
Air so ninny as I intimated^) without having been
accounted for by any known gift, bequest^ or
^^sale,^' anthorifled by his lordship, or by hh im-
mediate successor to the title, into whose hands it
never came.
It is singular, indeed, that the founder of the
Society of Antiqaaries in Scotland should have
been mistaken in this instance. Nevertheless,
there seems no room for doubt that Mr. Cunnng
has demonstrated the insi^ia and lettering of this
seal to have been those of Queen Henrietta-Maria^
consort of King Charles I. ; and in this conclu-
sion Mr. Irving, who had previously ascribed it to
Mary of Modena^ consort of James II,, fully coin-
cidea. The hypothesis, which bos somp times been
aucf^zested, that ** II.-M," may stand for Henry
(Darnley) and Mary (Stuart,) even if the adop-
tion of the Irish harp into the royal arras were
synchronical, cannot nold good; as, in that cas%
there would have been two Rs C* E. K.") on tJie
sinister.
The question then arises, as rejrards its origi-
nality, whether there is any likelihood of such a
token of her royal favour having been conferred
by tkU queen (who, it is known, had many such
"pledges" made, to different set patterns,) upon an
ancestor of Lord Buchan« And a not improbable
solution of it is to be found in the circumstance
that Sir James Erskine, second son of the Lord
Treasurer Mar, who became sixth Earl of Buchan
through marriage with the heiress of that dignity,
was, says Douglas, ** highly esteemed by James VX
and Charles I., who appointed him one of the
lords of his bedchamber; and, being a great
favourite at court, lived most of his time in
England.'* This earl besides had, in bis youth,
been despatched by King James, with the Duke
of Buckingham, in attendance upon Prince Charles
on the occasion of his journey into Spain for the
purpose of wooing the Infanta ; when, Paris hav-
ing been taken in their way, tba <<\\i»'iswvv^^ q^^&ss^
France ^as \^^. \x. ^^^^5«*> ^i^x^'^x^^'^
520
NOTES AND QUEEIEa
Zt^%r. Jm».^
mean* improbuble that an early acquaintance of
the queen with the earl (whose ^audni other, the
Duchess iif Lennox, was of a noble French family)
resulted from ihia incident ; that her mrtjeaty, in
consequence, may have afterwards thus person ally
distinguished him in England ; and that her signet
ring was transmitted from hitn, as an heir-loom^
down to his collateral descendant David Stewart,
eleventh earL
There have been, I find, various Imitations in
glass^ of different sizes, of the seal of the ring in
question ; all of which have, I believe, been traced
to an impresfiion from Lord Buchan*s, which many
years a^o fell into the hands of an eminent
seal cngriiver in Edinburgh. These, of which I
have obtained a sample, are still sold there in
boxes, labelled — " The Signet of Mary, Queen of
Scots, from a Ring in the possession of the late
Earl of Buchan f which renders it the more de-
sirable that tlie history of their prototype should
be cleared up as far as is now practicable. Pos-
sibly some persons of an older generation than
those now treating of this subject may yet sur-
vive in Scot hind who migUt be able to throw
additional light upon it
Of other, always undoubted and owi?- faced seals
of Queen Henrietta- Maria, (of which I have re-
ceived beautiful impressions by the courtesy of
my recent correspondents,) it is not my province
to make mention farther than to intimate that I
am aware of their existence. Of one of these,
however, in sapphire and pold, belonsting to Miss
Hartshorne of Holdenby Rectory, the matrix is
about the same diminutive size, and as exquisitely
engraved as that of the Buchan signet; and has
tEe same monogram, though but faintly defined,
and the ** R." on their respective sides.
T, A. H-
PEDIQSEE.
(3"> S. V, 459.)
A full answer to the query of K. R. C. would
fill many page* of ** N. & Q." I will, however,
endeavour to answer it as shortly as I can. Lord
St. Leonards, in his Vendors and Purchasers (1 0th
edit. vol. ii. p. 76), observesi, that every link in
the chain of the pedigree should be proved : as the
marriage of the parents, and the oaptism of the
aoo, and the certificate of the burial of the father,
or the probate of hia will, or letters of administra-
tion to him, in order to prove the son's right to
an estate by descent from his father; and when
fhe was dowable, proof of the mother's burial and
the discharge of her arrears of dower, if rerently
dead, should be required ; and inquiry should be
made dftcr anjr sertlemcnt exccul*!d by eithisr
father or 9on, The proof of failure oC mu^ «( ta\
elder hrmncb, as of a first son, it ofieti bVI^V\\ wnti
depending upon alBdavita; btit w^tgltl ntj
given to such evidence, where the poMcasinn i
the estate has gone with the pedigree pr« '
The fact of a birth, marriage, or dfatii,
took place in and since the ve&r 16S7«
S roved by a certified extract from tlie
Register at Somerset House, estabtislied byi
tute 6 and 7 William IV. c. 86 ; and by BtAM
declarations (which have superseded afiidavili)l
to the identity of the narties.
I may add, that if toe before* Daeotiofie^ wm
of evidence should fail, entries in famtl j hwkM fc
members of the family, monumental Inm
coffin plates, old statements of pedigree* i
a pedigree preserved in the family lib
hung up in the mansion, and also staiuti
clarations by membara of the family^ are aii
as evidence to prove a pedigree^ thoiu^]
evidence is inadmissible, if it be not made ^
litem motam,^' — that ja, if it be made during 4
ing, or with a view to anticipated Utigalka « |
controversy, involving the point in queatioa. T*
more minute information on tbc proof of p^
grees, I refer K. R. C. to that section of LoHSt j
Leonard^ work, which relates to penisiaf <
Htract^s of title; and also to chapter yUL «ldi I
second edition of Dart's VendorM and Pvrol^gf*.
Groydoo*
Tour correspondent's query — " What t
is accepted as proof in a pedigree f ** — cannot fdl I
be answered without a particular staiefiient c<i
ease in point. However, a general aofwtr «iJ
Eerhaps be found in the following notes GnofBliV '
ooks : — I
The oral, or written declarations of tht ^J
ceased members of the family, are adcnia
prove a pedigree. Old statements of
are held admissible on account of ■'
exposure to, and recognition by, tlie
although they cannot be distinctly imnnuts
any particular member of it. Pedigrees bttfl
in a family mansion, or preserved in the i
library, are admissible. A pedigree presents
a third person to a memh*^r of thi? faniily, '
recognised by him, is adni' proof <iif tSfl
relationship of persons ther bed la Itftof,
and who might be presumed to be p^tTmmwj '
known to him ; even althoti^ the general " '
gree is inadmi^ible by reason of its purporlJ
be collecte*! from registers, Wills, tnoaujs
inscriptions, family records, and hUtory. TSI
declarations in a pcdi<Tree, so far as th^y relate ts (
peraorts presumobly known to the party taakiaf i
them, are admitted as evidence; upon t^« pris- |
ciple, that t! ' " '^ ng of §
^artywhoi, rtciinil
3*»S.V. Jfn««5,»S4,l
NOTES AND QUERIE&
lOT fall Bliort of the truth. Pedigree evidence
I genemlly inadmissible if made during existing,
or with a view to anticiputed litigalion or con-
Itroveraj, involvin<^ the point in queetton.
I A pedigree, deduced from the Heralda' Viaita-
Ition books, and drawn up bj a herald, is not
|€vidence : bo a written pedigree, purporting to be
made by one of the famiij, and entered In the
heralds^ books, is not evidence.
Ed w AMD J. Wood.
MEANING OF THE WORD «*SELAH/*
(3^" S. V. 433.)
This If well called by Canon Daltost a ** hope-
tss Bubject." St, Jerome, with all hia knowledge
lund e»pport unities, is uncertain and unsatisfactory.
IHe adopts, in the Paalms, the tls r4\os of the Sep-
Ituagint, and renders it ^^ in finem ;" but when he
comes to the same word, in Habaccuc iii. 3, he
follows the k(i of Aquila, and translates it by
L *' semper." He refers it, in the Psalms, to Christ :
B**In finem, id est, in Christo, Finis enim legis
W ChristuJtJ" Tn Habaccuc, he merely says that the
Septungint translate it by " iid^oKnoy et nos posui*
mus, semper J"* Sl John Chrysostom and St* Gre-
gory of Nyssa suppose the word to indicate some
extraordinary emotion of the Psalmist, or inspired
writer, at certain passages. Eugubinus under-
stands it to be used something like Amen, mean-
ing certainly, truly, or alwayx, Lorinus thinks
it directs repetition by a second choir. £ujiebius
iBupposes it to direct cessation on the part of
Jone^ and commencement by another. Genebrar-
ius and others regard it as a note of exclamation
nd attention, exciting to more careful considera-
tion of what is sung : and Corneliu,4 2l Lapide
thus paraphrases the word " Selah ** in Habaccuc :
L*' Attendite, expendite, stuijete, celebrate jugiler
Hianc Dei excels! in nos dignationem et benefit
Bcentiam.'^
Perhaps the occurrence of this word ** Selah,"
in the canticle of Habaccuc, has hardly received
due consideration, in attempts to determine its
n meaning. Yet its introduction there would seem
^too throw great light upon its appearance in the
^^salms. If it were an admonition to increased
^pttcntion, and elevation of the mind and heart, it
Hrould be difficult to account for its never appear-
IRng in so many sublime passages tn other books
6f Holy Scripture. The prayer, or canticle of
Habaccuc, being intended to be sung like a psalm,
the word "Selah" is introduced there likewise;
and the legitimate inference will be, that it is
tome musical direction, the meaning of which is
^ow hopelessly lost.
H This solution has been already pointe*! out in
■•K, & Q." (I" S. ix. 423, and x, 3G), and, as I
ihmkt verf BMtisfnctorily. The irriter at the
second reference mentions that Jackson of Exeter,
when composing an anthem for the opening verses
of the prayer of Habaccuc, considered the word
as an exclamation of praise, and set it to music
accordingly ; but he ussigr^s etronsr reasons for
the opinion generally adopted, that it was a mere
direction to the musicians, having no immediate
reference to the sacred text. F. C. H.
THE MISS HOHNECKS.
(3«» S. V. 458.)
The J. M. of this query \%, I presume, the aame
who asks other questions in the second column of
the same page. He will find one of these tnct-
dentally answered below. As far as my know-
ledge of his works extend?^ Sir Joshua painted
six portraits of the Horncck f^imtly:
1. Captain W. Kane Horneck, Royal Engineers,
the father. This is a small picture, and was
painted before Sir Joshua went to Italy. It is
engraved in little by S. W. Reynolds.
2. Mrs. Hannah Horneck, tbe mother, sitting;
her lefl hand to her face, leaning on a book ; veil
from the head over the shoulders; hair to the
waist. It was engraved by M*Ardell, without
name of subject, and immediately afterwards
pirated by Purcell. The spurious plate shows
the whole of the right hand, the genuine, only a
small portion of it. Under one of these plates (I
am not sure which), the lettering ** Plymouth
Beauty " was afterwards insertcil. The test of
the hand will tell J. M. whether his print is en-
graved by APArdell or Purcell.
3. Miss Katherlne Horneck. the elder daughter.
She is the ** Little Comedy '^ of Goldsmith, and
married Henry Bunbiiry^ the caricaturist. The
present Sir CHarles Bunbury, Bart., is her grand-
son. It IS beautifully engraved on a large scale
by James Watson. 1778. The prints arc lettered
" Mrs. Bunbury."
4. Miss Mary Horneck, the younger daughter.
She is the ** Jessamy Bride " of Goldsmith, and
married Colonel Gwyn. She died so recently as
1840, at the great age of ninety-two. Sir Joshua
painted her, seated in oriental fashion, and re-
tained the painting in hia own studio till bis death,
bequeathing " to Mrs, Gwyn her own picture
with a turban.** It is most beautifully engraved
on a large scale by Dunkarton. The face, in a
fine proof, is exquisittily refined and pretty, and
sweet in expre4»sion; and no fnult can be found,
except with the right hand, which is ill-drawn
nnd doughy. Tlie prints are lettered '* Miss
Horneck."
5. The two sisters, in profile^ ^^ *^^*^, daalk.
lua wrieB. It U not included in the 300 sold hj
Mr* Bohn.
6* 1\ faster Charlee Banbury, eldest son of
Katbatme Horn^k. This picture, like No. 4,
was retained by Sir Joshua, and left in his will U>
the mother. " To Mrs. Bunbury, her son's pic»
turcw" It is» ensraved in Iftrge, by Howard, m a
style of unri vailed brightness and richncsB of
colour* Tlie possessor of fine proofs of numbers
2, 3, 4, and 6» is a man to be envied. The whole
of the &}x paintings are still in the bands of the
Bunbury family, and long may they remain un-
seat te red.
I can find no mention of a portrait of their
brother, ** the Captain in Lace," who, howerer,
seems to have been in every respect wortbjr of
his sisters — those two lovely Devonshire girls,
who had the sin^lar fortune to be loved by
Burke, painted by Heynolda, and sung by Gold<*
amt^* ChittbiiDBoog*
CRANCELIK: ARMS OP PRINCE ALBERT,
{y^ S. V* 457.)
The Nouveau TrailS de Bhtson sa^ enough,
but reckons on his readers understandm^ a woihI
which is not to be seen everywhere. I cannot
find crancelin in Iklenesti-ier, for instance^ Methode
du Bloion, 1688. Berry gives un entirely wrong
blazon* I gave a short account of the Saxony
arms on pp. 364* 3^5 of the third volume of the
present »eries of *' N. & Q.," which I think will
answer the larger part of A. A.'s query. The
word crancelin h explained by Hiehelet to be —
" Terme de blason, on apelle.*' In Ricbelet's time
they aflected to leave out the second of two cod-
sonftDta: ^^ainsi une portion de couronne, pos^e
en bande k travers d*un ecu, et qui se termine a
sea deux extremitez/' He gives no derivation of
the word. But Ginanni says : —
"CraaeelUno. Fran. Cmneelmi Lat. MUxIIa Hulacm.
EjpU ^ UQA mez£« corona posta in bands. La paroia
Fraaeese Crancelin deriv& cUir AJ«maniia Krenalin, che
tigOifica una piccoU coroni, o Ghirlonda di florL"
D.P.
8iii&rts Lodge, Malvern Wells.
** Crown of rue. T
Saicmiv wore \mnv
•ddfd hy iht Emncrj
kedom
i armi of th© Dukedom of
1 nd sabla The bead wis
-J BArbarasM, wh«Q he ooo-
tbe dukedom to bcmard of Anhult, who, destriog
ffKirk In dt^tin'*tt!Bh liirn from the tlakes of the
for II' I ' ■ ■ ' rrmc whieh he
bA hi eld. The^
arc , '_:_,[_, 1... . Alt>ert. The
bejifiii^ i» soRislioiea caiied « dmcal coronet in hend^ and
soRUktinuMi, more property* a htnd archt§ conrntttj/. It*
iiflcliin In the arms ebovu- named » vert."— - Psflier**
** Hfl beu-eth Or, a Bend ^rff)^^
top Bide Gutee. Some lay iUv«tii|| thm yghsy m \
Co ton rtt'tnayei* Marfan ht ^ ^ fi% uvm^tx ttiti
Carotin in HerOi, hut he ^i t>«« mM (ti
trilHetl in Mtatf) becaose it nam sUUtod^
of tbe altiielde.
♦* Barry of 10 © I or]* snd ^ [■«•]. mdkm Bead ij fvalj |
bora b^' Fttfr of Satfif, Dnho «f SUmtM, '
** A A Feue S the hke 0 bora by Vkm WmftlAm^^
Handle Holiness Acadea^ o/jinmaf^ l,4^4M,p.S$^
DATiDGaK
Crancelin is, of course, from the Gem&an Kfim^ I
lein. ( Vide Spener, ** Prolegomena ImtQ. Jkm^ I
Saxon.," in bis Par$ Specialis OperU HenditL f
The origin of the bearinj? i?^ bneOr this i— Wtai
tbe Emperor Barbarossa • ^ the DdW*
of Saxony upon Bernhar<1, mT Ambu^ I
ncwiy-ereated duke desured tli« emperor to ^j
bim also an addition to bis arma, oy wIb^ I> [
might be distinguished from the otker wmkm
of his family who bore : Barr^ of ten nr mi a
Whereupon the emperor, taking of^ tlie Ltdtti
of rue whicb he wore upon has beadt tanvi
obliquely across the shield of the duke.
The fiiliest and best accounts of the '
atmmiy iffTtrmM vascf la BritUh Hrraldry^ p. lOSg ariide
** Crown/*^
The word crancelin docs not occur in P4rk«r>
nr /i it to be /bund to N* Bailey^ ♦tXoXinrtt^-
with whicb I am acquainted, are iImm^ iq Sjmm
to which I referred above; and in Trters, JU^
(un^ zu tier Wapeftknmt (p. 271), under gkah^
of " Wapen des Kooigs in Pohlctu'*
J. Woomrav
Ntw^Shof^iam*
Model of Ei>n«Bnaott (S** S* v. Ilfi.\— h
reply to the inquiries of X R. B., of wuds
professor in Edinburgh informed me onlyait
days since^ I beg to intimate that the toodd d
Edinburgh which J. R. B. saw some yean ««
has been exhibited with great succeas itt BJir
burgh, Glasgow, and Manchester, not fewer ito
100,000 persons having viewed it at each'|ilaeei
It has been considerably enlarged, mad Is QO*
tainly the largest and most accurate tkai «tf
ever made. It now covers a aorface of 600 tq^ ~
feet, thereby including the citv vnililn
liamentary limits, and has all in
improvements made to the year
by a member of my family. ^
It is in my possession ; if J. K. B* wtiliai
have any further commuQiGalton« be will -'^
address " Nisi Dominus frustra," Kaye*»
Rooms, Brown Street, Manchester.
Laot Mauxkam (S'^ S. r. 4960— "^
wsis the third dau<>hter of Sir Jobfi ffarittslM^ i
Extoii. KnU bv T.iji V 111* w<f»', itnuebtflr of T
Willi: Marintto*^
was ri , in IMi*
He wft» tutor li ■=^i*« dm
y tit ^«m«» \\. V
J
I 25, '64.]
NOTES AND QUEBEES-
523
Hsrington, who died t. p, in 1G13. Dotine wro4©
, an elegy on thi^ joung m&n. Bridget Haringtoa
WAA born in 1579 ; married Sir Anthony MArkbam,
of Sedgebrook, Bart*, and wtt» Lady of the Bed-
chamber to Queen Anne of Denmark. Sir An*
thony Markhatn died in 1604, and Lady Markham
Miy 10, 1609. The parish register of Twicken-
ham shows that she was on a Tiait to her fiister,
** Lucie, Countees of Bedford.*'
**^ Tho Ladle Bridget MarkhAm, who dyed in the Ladie
<d Bedfotd's llouae ia the Park, waa iaterred May X^%
1609*
A very long epitaph is on her tomb, which I
suppose mny stiil be seen on the south wall of
Twickenham church, under the gallery.
ThiiB Lady Mark ham was the mother of Sir
Bobert Markham of Sedgebrook*; who was a
zealous Royalist, although his younger brother
Henry did good service to the Parliamentarians.
M. F.
P.S. Lucie, Countess of Bedford, was a great
benefactress of Donne; who seems to have re-
ceived much pecuniary assbtauce from her in bis
trcrablei.
Lady Exjzabeth Spelmait (S** S. v. 4B2.) —
The following pedigree show* tlie descent from
the learned antiquary : —
SirHmi^flttlai&o. Kct. llie fbr> = £It«sior« dso. mnd cnh. of John
moMkiitaMvy,UkrulMIt. DiKll J I^ l^trmnr, ot iSedffciora. fa
in WciUniMicr Al>t>cr, OcU M, f fard, AfiU I«* lOMi Bw. J«ly
IMI^ I lA, iiio, At tbe«titrftM« of St.
DnedlctXWi '
Clenant SpdmMi. TmrncMt wa, » Ifulkm, dsn. Bbicoli. of Frnek
Bmo* iif the £s<^Bqtt»r« ti«p, I Majoa, Etq.
det.4. 1508, diM l«7» Bur. iJL '
81* J>mut«u*». > leet Stnek
Stery Bpelmui. of WWk- Jame* Bpelauua
OK*. Ob. Hw. Itt, 16H,
Mt. «9, f . p. «.
SpelmMD.
' bli Had
of Wl&kiuert, » Elinlieth. dkoT UMl^uIr M«rtin
tiBiDl» Otn^. lU Cwvr, Snd nMt of /ohu £ul of
4M1 1711. Mt4dletoii« uid d*. snd h. of
Hax7 Sjul of Mooaotttk.
G. ELD.
Quotations Wakted (3'^ S. v. 495, 496,)— Mb.
GAJrriixost*5 last passage is the first line of the
last stanza of Bishop Berkeley's celebrated and
beautiful verses oo the "Prospect of Planting
Arts and Learning in America." They have often
been called almost prophetic; though, just now,
the vision is rather clouded over. See his Works^
ed. 1820, Hi. 233. Ltttbltoiv.
•• For roe let hoaiy Fielding bite the ground.
So nobler Pickle Jtandfl superbly bound.
Who erer read ' the Regicide * bat swore.
The niithor wnotc as man De*er wrote before,**
■0 Chwribiirs ** Apology addressed to the CH-
rs." Any life of Smollett or Churchill
1 why the lines were written.
P. W\ TiiKroM^jr.
** He Bet AA sets the roonuofr utar* which gnet
Not down behind the dftrkcoed west, nor hides,*' &c.
This is from PoQok*s Cottrae of Time. Not
having the book at hsud^ I cannot give nearer
particulars. S. Shaw.
LoTALTT Mbdaxa (S*^ S* V. 479.) — ^Thc quota-
tion from the note to the Diary of Sir Heitry
Slingxby is given bo incorrectly that it seems de-
sirable to mention the mistakes. The words
"Residvs," "Primmiana," "Belasyze" appear in
the query of Anon, instead of Btnidmsy Pimmiana^
and 3ela0vte^ which are the word^a printed io the
Diary, Ihe following part of Asox's quotation
roust have surprised heraldic readers : " And it is
remarkable that the baron coat is dimidiated, bo
that Scriven appears once at top, and once below
barwise " Of course this would not be the result
of ditnidiatiog a coat of four quarters. But the
statement of the note in the Diary is : ** And it is
remarkable th&t the baron coat is dimidiated, so
that Scriven appears once at top, and Slingaby
once below, barwise/*
It is painful to reflect that Sir Henry Slingsbj,
one of the bravest and most incorruptible ser*
vanta of the two kings Charles, should have been
brought into peril of hii> life so late in CromweU's
life. That person survived Sir Henry's murder
only three months. After his death such a sen-
tence could scarcely have taken eOect. D. P.
Stuarts Lodge, Malrom Wells.
LiTEBABT Plagiarisms, etc. (3"* S. v- 4S*J
Allow me to refer Ma. Rebmond to a pamptiTet
entitled Literary Piracies, Ploffiarisms^ andAitotc'
g'iest Dublin, 1863. It contains the substance of
two lectures delivered about twelve months since,
by Stephen N. Elrington, Esq. (known to many
as **S. N. E"), before the Booterstown Young
Men's Christian Association ; and it well deserves
an attentive rending* Within the moderate com-
pass of fifty>six pages, a litrge amount of useful and .
mteresting information may be founds AnitBA.
Lascblls (3"* S. V. 400.) — In the pedigree of
Ryther given in Whitaker's edition of Thoresby's
Leef/sy it ia stated that Susanna, seventh daughter
of Robert Ryther, Es^j. of Belton, baptised in
1 66s, and sofe executrix of her father's will in
1693, married Lascells of Crowle, co. Lin-
coln. Perhaps this may be the lady, whose de-
scent R» C. IF. IL wishes to ascertain. Did John
LasccUs of Horncastle leave any descendants ?
Cl^BBICUS.
SfBBEB : SiBBEB SatJCES (3** S. V. 460,)— The
meaning of sibber sauces us " quietio^'^ sauces**
would seem to arise from a mistake in the ternu
In the North Riding of Yorkshire, we have
" sipper sauces " as applied to the condiments of
the table, and vrhwh we understand to be those
extra in^redv^tvU w <i^t\\^w3flx\% ^\<\rSx sg.x^'a^-t^^
to l\i« fo^, wi^ w^ «5n %\vg«.^^. v^^^'^^- ^ ^^
524
NOTES AND QUEBIES.
[3^a.T« Jontl^Ut
essences to fisli and such like. Further, we often
hear it &aid in the case of nn Invitation to dinner^
** we can give you a plain meal^ but no sJpper
aauces," none of those luxurlea found at a " re-
gular spread." AIbo, in the wav of taking physic,
the patient here is told to swallow the potion
without '* sipperinj; " or sippinj; at it, that is,
without tasting it slightly, as people are apt to do
while mokmg the effort to bolt it. G.
Whitby.
Heraldic Qubft (3'* S* ▼. 478.) — The coaU
about which Ma. W. J. Bkrnhard Smith in-
quires, are — L Hill of Hales, Norfolk. This is
figured on p. 410 of Guillim, ed. 1724. 2. The
lady's coat is Graham, as borne by the Duke of
Montrose, the Gnihams of Norton Conyers, and
Netherby, Should this reply enable Mr. Smith
to identify the date of the match and the persons,
A note in ** N. & Q/' from him would much oblige
me. D. P.
Stoarta Lotjge, Mai rem WelU.
SEPTtTAGrKT (3^ S. V. 419, 470.) — Mr. Buck-
T03I will much oblige if he will read An Enquiry
info (he Prenrnt State of the Septuagint Verti&n of
the Old Testament^ by the Rev. Dr. Henry Owen,
F.R.S.. Rector of St. Olave, Hart Street, 1769.
It is a duodecimo, 180 pp. Its perusal will prove
that he was well qualified to pronounce an opinion.
The book is a remarkable one ; and I desire to
know if his charges of wilful corruption by the
Jews were ever attempted to be disproved,
Nbwlnotonensis.
Marrow-Bokbs aw© Ci^eavers (a^** S, v. 356.)
The custom mentioned by your correspondent
H. S. was of frequent, if not constant occurrence,
in the early part of this century. I was married
in London in the year 1815 ; and, on our return
from church, a card was sent in, to the best of
my recollection, nearly identical with that quoted
by H. S,, but this postscript was added : " Having
our BooiLs of Prcsidenta to Show," There was
also an intimation that the marrow-bones and
cleavers were in readiness, and would play if
reduired.
Few oersons refused the gratuity (about five
shillings) in order to escape what would have
been an annoyance to themselves and neighbours.
My wife remembers the rough music, as it was
called, playing occasionally for two days in a
street in her neighbourhood, and causing a great
diHurbance : this must have been between fiily
and sixty years ago*
The marrow bones and cleavers were played, a
few years since, in the town where I reside ; but
I have not heard of another instance, and» as th^
bridefrroom was a butcher, perhaps it was only a
professional welcome. H. E. R.
Diwrou Six>p (3'* S. r, 414, 416.) Your cor-
respondent J ATBEM will 6ad, in AtkinsoTk&Mtdicnl
Bibliography (p. 304, London, 18S4),
marks upon Dr. Burton ; amang whii;lv hv a
commended for **his intimate acquainiAnee
ail the esteemed writers of his day** upon
subjects of which he wrote; and his .hs$e^ m
Midwifery^ spoken of as *^ a most Itsamcii
masterly worlL'* The plates which iltustriK
work were, it is thought, taken from drawja|^
made by Stubbs, the famous horse* painter.
Mark or Thorns Hkun^u (a^ S. ▼. 451)—
Permit a descendant of Thor or Thorn (Biiif*
son's Medii JEvi Kalendarimn^ vol. ii. p. 37$) It
say that the fylfot or ** Son word" will be '
figured as an heraldic emblem in Boatdl,
fig. 143. It will also be found in Sabbue
Gould*s Iceland^ p, 299, where be wrilrs,
were shown the stone in the tu'n of Tborfa'
tathr. The only marks on it were two : the fat
is certainly (says Mr. Gould) Thor*s hammer, Ui
second a magical character.** I saj it is th« Di*
gamma, hence your correspondent calls it tk
" Gammodion/' This Digamma, in the claw
has, as it well known, three rorina^ and tk^
stand each for the figure six in Greek numei
power. But if we ^ura to Godfrt?/ Higgiaa, fi
find that acute philotogue referring the saiii£ H
its analogous letter in Hebrew, the great cuujer'
tion or letter vau. I will not occupy Jctut fsJr
able space further, but if A. A. feeU aaj flkii^
for further information, I shall only be loo hsff^
to show him the power of the Digantiaa, ^
Thor's hammer, in more than one way.
Lb Chevaj^ikr Atr CtOii-
37, Harrow Road, W.
SOTTOK-COUIFIELD (3"* S. V. 37D.) — 71*1
words (of Henry VIIL*s charter) have b«tn tfi*
immemorial the name of the place. They tf^
taken from the ** Coldfield,'* which, wilh jkt
** Chase,** were royal hunting groundi* in tbe fd^
of King John, and probably earlier also,
D'AmucHcouRT Famu-y (3^* S* ▼. 4M,y —A
family of this name (ipcllcd Dabrifi^ecamrt) •«•
famous in Warwickshire (Solihull and Kii(iwk)iR
the sixteenth oentur/. See Dugdak« jmcii]^
" The DtTULnt UaivBRsiTr Review ** (.!'* S.fi
343, 447.) — For the informatin>i •'' v..jircuiW»
sponclent, and in reply to hl» beg io
state that the ncond vol. of thi- i In my
possession, and is entitled, ** Thft fJ<' -f*
xity Remeie, New Scries, Vol. t,, Jti N"o*
venibcr, 1834. Dublin: K,y' im
Street," pp. 514. After i .»•
** Contents of No, W* and tU«f« '* CouuuUu^ ^o,
IL.^ New Seci^is." As there arc only tbete Iwii
\
. Juxb25,'64.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
525
I
I
eac'hf the Review Is styled a " Quarterly Maga-
xioeV* I at first tbou^fht thej bad been respectivelj
I published in January and in April, 1S34| but on
examination I found that thia was not the case.
No date is attached to these numbefs (though the
first four were dated in the Table of Contents),
but, from dates aiforded by the " University and
Literary Intelligencer** appended to each^ I find
that No. y. roust have been published on the
1st of May or June, and the last number in
November ; 8o that these two numbers really
corered the year 1834, as the title-pa^e declared.
Mr. Caesar Otway was the editor of this magazine
In its quarterly form, and the Rev. Charles S.
Stamford was the first editor of the monthly ferial
which followed. This periodical is interesting, not
only from the valuable matter contained in its
earlier numbers, but from its being the only ma-
gazine which has ever succeeded in Ireland.
ElRIO!fKACa.
Caby Familt (3'* S. V. 398, 468.)— If Meletes
will refer to my query upon this subject he will
observe that the particulars given were derived
from a single source, viz. the papers supporting
the claim of William Ferdinand Cary to tne peer-
age of Hunsdon. What the precise value oi this
source may be I cannot at preaent pretend to say,
but the little experience which I have had m
genealogical investigations has rendered me very
reluctant lo accept any statement unsupported by
evidence*
Perhaps I ought to have mentioned that the
above W. F. Gary succeeded his cousin, Robert
Gary (seventh Lord Hunsdon), who, till his ele-
vation to the peerage, had followed the trade of a
weaver in Holland. He died unmarried in 1702;
and I see that Banks (Baronia Anglica Coiwen-
trata^ lu 197), after mentioning this fact, adds : -^
"The heir, who may be now •xtant, not improbably
may be in a litaation of life not superior, and eqaally
unaware of the rank lo which be bas a right*'
Your correspondent rightly says, the " question
still remains — was Sir Robert the only son of
(Sir) Edmund Y " If the following extract from
Ly sons' s Cambridgeshire be true, it would appear
that he was not: —
•* In 1632 it was the property of Valentine Gary, Biahop
of Exeter^ whote ntphewt E meatus Carv, sold it in 1640 to
the femily of Ventrls.*'— Page 250, "Great Sbelford."
This Bishop Gary seems to have puzzled Prince,
who claims him as a " worthy of Devon,** though
he admits that he is said to have been born m
Korthumbcrland, C. J. Robiwsoii.
AaiSTOTtK's Politics (3'* S. ▼. 475.) — Mr*
Lewei* needs no defender : but I suspect Ma.
BtfCRTOK i^ in some confusion. I am not indeed
Aware from what source Mr. Lewes has derived
his statement that Ari^stotle described 255 consti-
tutions ; and I a^ree that it h inaccurate to
describe the extant Treatise on Politics as a little
one.
But on the other banii^ I do not suppose Mr.
Lewes meant literally that Arnold had **com*
mittcd to memory *' that treatise, or any part of
it, but only that he was quite familiar with it.
I wish, however, to refer Mr. Bcckton and
your readers to the end of the preface to the third
volume of Amold'ei Thucydides (pp. xx. xxi»),
which will show what Mr. Lewes seems to refer to*
Aristotle certainly does not give 255 " outlines,"
The words which Mr. Buckton quotes show tbat
those outlines were in works now lost. What
Arnold says is this : —
^ Even in Europe and America it would not be easy to
collect such a treasure of exp«rience as the constitutiotia
of * 153 ^ commonwenlths aloog the various coasts of Ihe
ModiterrnDean offered to Aristotle So rich
was the experience which Aristotle enjoyed, bot which to
OS it only attainable mediately and imperfectly through
hti other'writings : hi* own record of «U theae comm^in-
wealths having oobappily perished.^'
' Lttteltoh*
Sl7CC£9SIOif THaot;OH TBS MOTHES (3^* S. T.
459.) — Fiat Justitia seems ignorant of the pro-
visions of the statute 18 Victoria, chap, xxiii. ;
for which improvement in the law of Scotl«md,
and others of a valuable kind, the country i» in-
debted to Mr, Duulop, M,P, for Greencidt. I
quote the words of sections 4 and 5 : —
*♦ 4. Wbcn an intestate, dying without leaving issue
whose flit her has predec«a*ed hira» shall be aorvived by
his mother, she Bhall have right to one^third of his move-
able ( i. fl. pertoHaf) eitate in preference to hia brothers
and Sisters, or their deacendants, or other next of kin of
itich intestate."
" 5. Where an intestate, dying without leaving issue,
wboa« father and mother have both predeceased him,
shall not leave t^ay brother or sister, german or coniaa-
gninean, nor any descendants of a brother or sister, ger-
man or consangaineAQ, but shall leave brotbem and
tiatera utcriue, ot a brother or sister uterine, or any de-
scendants of A brother or sister uterine, such brothers and
sisters uterine, and such descendanta in place of their
predeceasing parent ahall have right to one half of his
moveable eatate,"
G.
Edinburgh*
MisquoTATiona bv gbxat AuTBOBmES (3'* S.
V. 454.)— I am afraid that no efforts of **K. &Q."
can prevent occasional misquotations by great
aulhorities^ — occasional uoddinf^s of Homers; but
cannot something be said to open the eyes of the
world to the cruel wrong done, in invariably at-
tributing the parentage of one saying to a lady in
this respect at least perfectly innocent ?
Why in the name of fortune is it, that the sen-
timent — " Comparisons are odorous " ^is always
given to Mrs. Malaprop, as it is by newspaper
writers (who are the people fondest of this useful
and hardworked Quotation) of every degree* and
without exception f I met with an amuainq;^ la-
526
NOTES AND QUEEIEa
a paper of %fbicb the writers nre of Tery unequnl
merit cerUiniy, but none of them usually ignorant
of oommon English literature. TLe eontrihutor
of a column of gossip wrote, aF it is the hiibit of
guch contributors to write: ** But * comparisons
are odorous/ as Mrs. Malaprop says." Some cor-
reepondeut^ chivalrous enough to attempt the
[ thofieless enterprise, wrote to call attention to the
misquotation ; whereupon the writer, in a next
week's erratum, attributes the saying to its true
author — the sapient Dogberry ; and asserted that|
what Mrs. Malaprop does say, is — " Ko compari-
flonSf Miss ; comparisons don't become a young
woman." In the course of the following week,
he apparently discovered that he had not yet
done full justice, and had totally missed the point
of what Sheridan wrote ; and in a still farther
erratum he gets right at last, by quoting Mrs.
Malaprop correctly, as saying: *VNo caparisons,
Miss ; caparisons don*t become a young woman."
So that, to set the x>oor latly completely right,
even with an author willing to make handsome
reparation, was as dit£cult as driving a joke into
a Scotch head is said to be. And after all my
mind miagives me, that the next time I see the
quotation made use of in a smart article, in what
newspaper soever, it will atand as it always has
stood : ** * Compariscms are odorous,* as Mrs. ila-
laprop say 8.^* C. A. L,
IIashijigf n^Tonis a Justice or the Peace (3^*
B. T. 400, 469.)— The following notice of such mar-
sbgea ifl extracted from a HUtory of the Parochial
Ckurek ofBymley, by T. T. Wilkinson, F.R.A.S.,
Member of the Literary and Philosophical So-
ciety of Manchester, &c., &c., 1856. The Rev.
Henry Morris, an " able and orthodox divine,*'
was incumbent of Burnley from a,\>* 1040 to aj>.
1653. On September 20,' 1653, he was *' chosen
by the inhabitants and householders of the pariah
to be their Registrar;" and their selection was
approved by "Richard Shuttlewortb [of fJaw-
thorpe], and John Starkie [of Iluntroyde],'' two
of the resident magistrates for the district. In
the capacity of registrar, Mr* Morris —
** Bppew as neitfkut to Mrvcnil muniagoi iMfore the
' JiMticBs of the Pwcej' and, at the close of the iecoDd
€Otry i»r marriage, it i« added in the* register that pub-
lication erf" banns * was first made in Burnley Charch, on
the Lord's Dav, accordioff to Act of Parliameat* Ainoog
the iMriiost of iho*c who availed tbemaetvea of thase
opportoDtticf, we find the names of ' Richard Pollaid,
«f Hatwgbttui Eavev Linen Weaver, and AUc« Sa^ar,
daughter of Onte^ Sagar, of Wahhaw, Httsbondmaa/
whii were *rnArri^'1 ' '* V ' >^i- »^i -v i -, ^f
of the Mrrices of ihe Justice*; H
* George HaiBl«Ail« of Hank Hoiisei
of Ext wist !«,* at**'. ' l^eter Orfn«f«4a, Of i
man, and fejuMu Barcrofl, daiiglit^ of T1*«iJiaa 1
Gentleman/ were united by ilie •anw mma^i *ia%
presence of me, Henry Morri«» lllai*i«fJ TW<
the whole of tbeae extracla, it la t«rio«a t* fi*^
careful diitinctton which ie piuatiittd 1i^w«<q ikm i
men and the E$qHirei. The UtUr titl* if •»««■
applied to members of the higheai fiuBHia ia lM« i
bourhood, whiUt the former U th« QOtnfa«»Q da
thow bdonging to the inferior gcBtfy,"*— Pyi. \
SfiHTBWcua coiTTAnraiG BUT Oiim Yom (?*
S. V. 419.)— I have heard octogenmrkai ftty te
in the good old day*, when «ip|ier waa a Ml
and a jovial meal, it waa custoiiMU^ '^^
young people, in addition ta ootnpoatqg
and rebuses, to try to invent acnteiMsei o
only one vowel ; and then to pux^le €Aeb
decipher them by writinur down the vowel CM^i
certain distances, iilUng un the required HOW
of consonants by so many dots.
I quot« from memory a lentencc from a «^
script book of charades and puzzles, da(«d ifc*
1799 ; and could I at this moment lay crv W
on the book, might perhaps find other* of ifc
nature : —
•• Pwirvere ye pwftct iiien,
£Vir keep tlusa pwcrpta t<iu"
Doubtless, at the time the thing was fe fCg*
ther<5 were hundreds of sentences kisow«,_^
taining only one vowel in each ; and it
now be difficult for any one of ordinArj
to string a whole paranjfliph together (m
For instance, the following improaipttt 1 1^
jnat made during the List ten minutes : —
lamar Anxi. Mognall wof at a gwr bdU «t Jd^i^t*
bst iltiy Day, aad hiid a hand at ctmla.
An example of the curioaity ioquired for Wilt
Fraqer, is furnished by the old t»aszle. ^AM^m
vowel to
Gawthnrp*!, on"
County of Lort
y$ar of otir !
•applv thif n (
thome»
Bloekbii
lei
of
«P,a.B.V.B.T.l».ll»F.C.T*lt.Jf,
v - a . K . p - T . H . a . P . » » c, P. t. a . T#ii*'
and you will hftve a senttoee, t.tf. —
" Pffrscrere ye perfect men,
JSver k«*p th«i« pwcepti tjet/*
As a specimen of comrHJsitirm tnlhoni
nanis^ T copy a Wcl«h \-
*^St. David^B Day,** in I
1864: —
" 0*1 wiw ^y I w«o 4 & a1 wfiaa,
()*l WTTtn e wcu«
E' «t*mi *i\ ** ftia*
A*i weaa yw l«ufu ia.**
St* Swims.]
shuU have (»oni
W(
& Y, JinrE 25, ^M.]
NOTES AND QUERIES.
527
C, inquires, but of the other public librariej
of Constantinople : for the cataloirues are in pro-
gress, and I saw the proof in the bands of Munif
BiFendi. Although, as H. C. intimates, the Porto
18 liberally dis^posLil, as was shown in the late
iearch for the Huntrarian ]\ISS.^ yet there is no
particular reawon to be aaiFguine of finding Euro-
pean MSS. of value, my more thnn in the Hun*
gartan ease. Htde Clab&&,
196, Piccadilly,
CoOTK^ EabL Of BSIXAMOKT (S*** S. V. 346.)
The Ifarony of CoUoony was conferred in 166D,
the earldom of Bellaraont In 1689, and the titles
became extinct in 1800, The arms were: Arg* a
chev. between three coots sa^ beaked and memb.
eu*, in chief a mullet or, CresL A coot, as in
2ie arms ; supporters, two wolves erm.
J. WOODWABD.
NewSborebim.
QutJTATiow Wasttki (S"* 8. iv. 499; t. 62,
4e9.)—
•* God and the Boctor wo aliko adore."
The true version of this epi;zT[im is to be found
in the Works of John Owen of Oxford, My edi-
tion is Elzevir, 1647, The book \s rather rare.
*^ JntranUs medici fades tres este vid^ntur
^^rotnntt j bominia^ Dsmonis, a (que Dei.
Cum priraam accwtit medicus dixitque salatem,
•Ell Dcus,* aat, ^castoa •ng^la?.' »g«r aiL
Cum morbum medician fugarerit, * ecco homOi'
damat.
Cum posclt medicos prKoiia, * Vade Satan ! * '*
QcOTAtTON TOimD (3*^ S. V. 378.) —
" This booke.
When Braftso and Marble fmle, shall make thee lo<>ke
Fre«!i to nil Agea/*
These lines are from the "ComtnendatoryYerses"
to the " Memorie of the deceased Author, Maister
W. Shakespeare," prefixed to the folio of 1623.
ESTE.
Whittled Dowif (3** S, v. 435,) — I question
whether this expression was in common use.
X rather think Watpole uses it merely mel&pbor-
icallj. Whittle, both in its substantive and verbal
forms, has always been used in Scotland and in
the North of England. To white is very coomiou
in Scotland (I can only speak, however, of the
West).
In readinfj the note, it struck me that whit^
** not a whit*' might mean literally '* not a whit-
tling/* ** not a chip." The family is a very nu-
merous one in our language, and baa many
branches. While, Withe, Wither, &c. &c. — the
cant word too, witcher = silver, white metal. Is
there any possibility of connectinpr wii^ and kin,
with the family under notice, Whii=^^ point,
that which is whittled to a point; tvighl—quick^
sharp ; a wit, is a quick, sharp, person ; so needs
a witch to be sharp and cumuog, Aetwiiig. But I
forbear, lest I draw down the withering wite of
professional word- twisters. By tlie way, there is
frreat confusion in the early uses of }ri/<?=^ blame,
Quite^to requite, and Quil^ m its various mean-
ings and campomada. J. D. CAJipnaiiL.
Hebaldic Queet (5^ S. v. 478.) — The names
of the arms inoaired after by Ma, W. J. Bebi^ b abd
Smitu of the Temple will be found, upon consul-
tation with Burke^s Armoury^ to correspond with
the respective surnames of Hill and Qraham,
H. GwTif.
RiCHABBSOX (3^ S. V. 72, 123, 165,)— I am
greatly gbliged to Sm Tromas Winhisgton aad
C. J, R. for their information. I stated tliAt
Conon Richardson was Abbot of Pejrshore on tihe
uttthority of a MS. in the College of Arms, of
the date 1633-4, marked C* 24, 2. It is there
stated that ^* Conon Richardson, sometime Abbot
of Pffpshore in Com, Worcester, and married
after the demltdion the d.iughter of Mr- Pates of
Bredon, co. Vigorn, &c," 1 find at p. 72 there
are three erroneous statements: 1. Henry Ridi-
ardson was limng^ not buried^ a.d. 1634; 2, his
wife was daughter of Anthony Nicholles, not
!Nicholls ; and 3. the wife of William Richardson
was daughter of Robert Kerrison, not Harrison,
The above-named Henry Richardson's signature
is on the document I have referred to. Probably
a further light could be thrown on the pedigree
by a search amongst the wills in the Probata
Court and in the District Courts of Worcester,
Gloucester, and perhaps Bristol, and very pro-
bably additional information could be obtained
from the invaluable collection of Sir Thomas
Phillipps, but for the present 1 am unable to avail
myself of any of those sources of information.
Capt., after wards Major Edward Richardson, died
about A.i>. 1698. He was the ancestor of the
Richardsons of Richhill, co. Armagh.
I find on reference to Foss's Judges and to
Manning's Lives of the Spmkers^ that Sir Thomas
Richardson, Ch. J. C. P., and afterwards of K. B.,
was son of the Rev, Dr. Thos, Richardson of
Mulbarton, Norfolk ; was born at Hard wick,
July 3, 1559, and died 4 Feb. 1635. His second
wife was created Baroness Cramond, with re-
mainder to his children by his first wife. The
title became extinct in 1735.
U. LOTTUS ToTTBIfBLAM.
DncHATLA (8^ S, V. 477.)— Charles Dnminique
Marie Blanquet Du Chayla wus an early pupil of
the Polytechnic School, which he entered in 1795,
three years before Poisson. He was aftt^rwarda a
naval engineer — ojficier de g^nie maritime^iaMd
finally became Inspector* General of the Univer-
sity. I doubt if his name would appear In a
biographical dictionary : and, unless there be
something of his in the Ctrrrespandance sitr CE'caU
S28
NOTES AND QUERIES-
matbemftdcQl works^ it is likel]r that Iiifl cele-
brated proof of tbe composition of forces ia his
only roemoricJ. This proof wa» published, so fur
as I know for tbe first time, by Poissoiii in the
first edition of Lis work on mechanics. Tbb, ftnd
it£ ovtn ingenuity, has given it European circula-
tion. Poisson has preserved, in the same way,
the name of M. Defers, Professor in the College
Bourbon, attached to a verification of Fourier's
celebrated definite integral* Of M. Deflers I
know nothing more. A. De Mosgak.
Tombstones ahu Memoriai^s. — The note (3*^*
S. T. 408) is another iostance of the frightful wny
in which the memoriala of our forefathers are
being obliterated by the so-called ** restorers ** of
our old edifices. Some stand should be made
vgainst this wholesale destruction. I heard an
architect state that he always first swept away
the ** Pagan" works, before be took any pains
About the restoration of the building. Could not
the architect be indited under some ecclesiastical
law? Or, does the bishop's faculty (when ob-
tained) cover all such abujes? W. P.
FcirSBAL AND ToMU OF QtJfSX EurAnKTu
(3^S. V- 434.)— Fart of this statement has already
appeared in W^alpole's Anecdotes of Painten, ^x\,
Wornum*s edition, 1B62, p. 195. Maximilian
Fowtran, Foutraine, also called Colt, or Colte, was
master sculptor to the monarchs James I. and
Charles I. No doubt, he was the designer of this
work ; but Walpole adds that John de Critz, *'• I
suppose, gave the design of the tomb.^ De Critz
was a painter and decorator attached to the house-
hold of both the above-named monarchs. There
is plenty of painting and gilding about the tomb
to cost the 100/. mentioned.
Wtatt Fapworth,
Havkt Budd (3"^ S. V. 417.) — From the Re-
cords of the Royal Court of GuernseTi I find that
this gentleman was living in the island in May.
1755, at wb'ch time he boucht two fields; and
that for many years after this date, he was en-
gaged in commerce, and made other purchases of
reid property. On the 1 1th of June, 1766, be
was sworn Hecetrer of the Revenues of the Crown
in the islands and held this o65ce until the 29th of
October, 1768 ; shortly after which time he fell
into pecuniary difficulties. He was alive in Feb-
ruary, 1782 ; was absent from the island on tbe
13th of May following, when proceedings were
taken against him by his creditors; and must
have died before the 9th of December, for on this
day proceedings were commenced against his real
property in the island, of which his brother Wil-
liam Budd hrtd declared himself heir "sous
b^n^fice d*iiivcntaipe/'
It seems to have been his intention to publish a
hhtorjr of GuetaBeff fur iu the list o( ixM oX^rn^
to be fcmnd the iciJQowiii|
of his ereditoTS it
item : —
*' Uaac Dobr^e, Ec% a d^Lar^ lid Hn d4 mm Oota
qQ'll avan^ poor la soubscription do l*biiCatra ia Hi
Gueniesey."
Can S. T. R. inform me whttl becttoe ef %
eollectioas made by Henry Budd for baa
history? Berry has mixed up 80 latt
neous matter with his work, Urst it it
but a history of the island; i 1t!«,'lfc<
are indications in it of his ha\ ^ < . .-^qm
able materials before him, if be had kiKiwii
to use them. Edgas Mac Chuacb.
Gu«ms«y.
There was a Henry Budd, Esq., of S5, RiMMi
Square, and Maine Parade, Brighton (1931),
subsequently of Pepper Park, Reading, JBetka,
died Jan. 10, 1862; Charlotte, bia wife^ havinj;!
Jan. 30, 1848. Their eldest son, Hichmrd, ditdlm,
26, 1 890 ; Kmmcline, youngest dau^bter^ Apf^ 11
1851 ; and Charlotte^ tbe eldest aftugbter, SifL
28, 1854. These datei^ I take fram a haodM
mausoleum^ about twenty feet high, at the fi^
treme north end of the churchyard of Sl Nitlk^
Brixton Road. Inscribed on it^ nortli £aoe iL*
" Richard Budd, Esq., born in this pansii Kfi^
26, 1748, and late of Russell Square, Lobte*
died July S, 1824. This Mausoleum was rstmi
as a memorial of afiectton to a respected pSEOl
by his youngest son, Henry Budd, £00.^
T.CX
Oaionr or Faioa's **Thief awd Comt>KUB*
(S'^ S. V. 475.) — A. A. will find tbe eptgrmo. h^
ginning *'*' Bardellam monachus/' in the firtt bool
of Owen*s Enigranu^ 123. A trajislation UgivS
in Booth's JEpigrams^ Ancient and Alodum^ p» Si\
but without the author's name. But it is not i»*
probable that Prior got some of hia Ideas froB
another epi^am by Georgius Sabinas^ mtamA^
Luther, which runs as follows : —
*' Ih SuetrdoU Fmrtm cansoiAmU.
** Qaidam lacrtBcua far«Tn comltatus eon tern,
Hue tibi dat sonti'ii eamiflciiui acvci^
* Ne fiis iDoestuA,* ait* * ■ummi convivm Tcmami
Jam cum cn^Hfihu^ ^*i tiu^ln cr«dt«) «fiai*
I Ho gemeiift» ' ria pr»bea»
S«crilicu8 conlru: ' Mibi iK>n rtmririm Cut est
Ducerejejunaai hie edo lac« nihil."
J, R a
pA&Antn*a ^' Devises HaaoiQUKs "* (9*^ & t<
485.) — It may possibly be *' ^ nse to tncailioi
that I posseas a copy of 1 , pubUahcd
Lyons in 1557 ; and that, i.mm. ^i.v U^te
to the deilication, it would appear to kaVn
the first edition. A cony was sold to a *
bookseller by Messrs. ootheby St WilkinMia tot
IL 10#., June2I, 1860.
Umwitt FkHu.r (2*** 8. vl 826, 831. 421. 4W»
tio&king^ extracts from wilb in Doctors' Commons,
ikindly furnisli me with genealogical extracts from
the wills below mentSoned, t43 enable me to un-
ravel the tangled threads of the descent of the
» tiouses named in 2"* S* vi. 465 ; with the view of
assisting in the compilation of my history of the
L honsest the pedigree of families, and biographical
notes of individuals ? I shall be happy to reim-
p burse any expenditure involved in the search*
kAnd as this is a matter of private, and not
public interest, and the information if inserted In
** N. k Q-" would only needlessly occupy valuable
fpaoe, I append my address.
Wm. Hewett, ctoth worker, ohiit Jime 1599 ; buried at
Si. PAurs.
' John, obiit 1602.
Sillomon^ or Solomon, obiit lo03.
^. Frauds, obiit 15^7«
II J. F. N, H.
^1 Yellndor House, Trevine, HsTerfordweBL
t CtJEioDs Sign Manual ^3'* S. y, 436) — In
rcpl^ to H, C. I may state that, as a Land Com-
I missioner in Turkey, I have seen the thumb
dipped in ink, and applied as a signature to n
[©onveyance or land-receipt by low-class Mus-
sulmans, and by the ray ah Greek landowners.
This is a usual way ; but there are few Mussul-
miuia without a signet, such as are sold cheap
in the market ready made (Mahomed, Ahmed,
Mustafot &c.) ; and the Greeks very often sign
with a cross. It is only of late that any rayah
Greek can write his name in Greek.
Htds Claak^.
196 a, Piccadilly.
BcETOit Family (3^ S, v. 140.) — May I be
allowed to thank Ma. Stkss for his information
respecting the Burtons of Weston-under-Wood,
which was particularly interesting to me, as it
tended to confirm and throw light on some points
in the genealogy which I was anxious to have
cleared up. I should be glad to know whether
any mention of the family occurs in the heraldic
Visitations for Derbyshire. E. H, A.
Glass (3'* S. v. 400.)— The following extract
is taken from Strype's edition of Stow's Survey of
London^ foL^ 1720, p. 8 ; —
" These Saxons were likewiac (as the Britons were)
ifnorant of the Architect ure or Btiildingwilh Stone, until
the yesr of CbrUt ik:lxxx. For there it U affirmed that
Benet, Abbot of Wirral, master to the Rtsverend Bede,
first brought Masoas and Workmen in ^Stone into thia
lahmd among the Saxons."
This appears to give the date wanted, but the
original authority is not stated, a.u, 674 is the
date usually given, W* P.
Loim CLojvMtLLL's ^* DiAJir " (3'* S. v* 477.) —
In answer to your correspondent Abhba^ relative
to Lord C}oDmd"s I>tary^ I beg to say that I have
I in ai
H to L
seen at least four, if not five copies of such a pub*
lication. I believe that it never was regularly
sold as a publication; but was printed by Lord
Clonmcl for distribution solely amongst his own
Erivate friends. As an Irish judge and politician,
is Lordship occupied a foremost, if not a very
distinguished place. He was not a man of genius,
and hardly of talent ; but he acted in stormy and
perilous times, and his antagonistic feeling to his
great rival Lord Clare (the Irish Chancellor), in-
duced him to put forth all his powers. From a
perusal of his Diary ^ I should say that he was a
selfish man, whose maxim wa.^ *^ Apres moi 1e
deluge." He was a wine -bibber and a gourmand
to an extravagant extent; and a great deal of
his Diary is occupied with abuse oi Lord Clare,
and in praise or dispraise of the dinner he ate the
day before.
Some years ago (1857), Sotheby sold three
copies of this unique but not very respectable
production. I believe that Cambridge posseases
a copy, that the Duke of Devonshire possesses
another, and that^ more recently, the Dublin
University Library (or Dublin Society, I know-
not which,) has purchased another — at the enor-
mous price of 56*. Ephraim W. M*Miwimie.
Sadholt Cottage, Clondalkin.
E&ROTTEOUS MOKUMSNTAI. IltSCStrTlONS IK
Bristol (3'* S» v. 289, 36«*) — Ma. PaiCE seems
to doubt the identity of CoL John Porter, the
eldest brother of the Misses Porter, with the ** un-
fortunate officer," J. B. Porter, whose death in
Castle Kushen prison is mentioned in the volume
of the Oen&emarCs Magazine to which I before
referred. I was always under the impression that
John Porter, origindly an officer in the army,
having afterwards gone out as a merchant to An-
tigua, there fell a victim to its dangerous climate.
The Bristol inscription, however, asserts that he
died in the Isle of Man, though, as I have shown
by an extract from one of Miss Porter's letters,
the date is given incorrectly. I cannot help
coming to the conclusion, that the ** merchant in
the West In(Het," having probably been unfortu*
nate in business, must have returned borne, and
was the " J. B. Porter" noticed in Mr. Urban*s
pages. The second initiAl probably stood for
Blenkinsop, which was his mother's maiden name.
Dr. Porter of Bristol is described on his first wife's
tombstone at Durham, as simply William Porter,
M,D., though it appears he also had a second
name, viz., Ogilvie. Both John and William were
early in life withdrawn from their mother*s charge,
which may account for the younger portion of the
family not being aware perhaps of the embarrassed
state of John's affairs. In reibrring to his decease
in the above named letter, Miss Porter goes on to
say, '^He was not brought up with us like Robert,
neverihckaft m^ Vw^ \i\wi ^ ^Nst^N^s^x ,^>^?!». \a.w«r^
NOTES AND QUEBIEa
[8»«av, Ji
John Hali*, B,D. (3** S. v. 496.) — JoHti Hall,
BA., tras elected o Fellow of Trinity College,
Cambridge, 1658, commenced M;A- in due course,
jind proceeded B.D, 1G66. On July 11, 1664, he
was collated to the prebend of Ijledon, in the
oburch of St. Taal, as he waa, Feb. 20, 1665-6, to
the rectory of S. Christopher le StockSt London.
On Oct. 5, 1666, be was collated to the rectory of
Finchley, Middlesex. On March 31, 1666-7, he
exchanged the prebend of Isledon for that of
Holywell, alias Finsbury. He was president of
Sion College, 1694, and died towards the close of
1707. Watt thus describes his work t — " Jacob's
Ladder^ or a Booh of Sahations (1), 8vo, London,
1676." Mr. Hall contributed to the rebuildinpf of
St. Faara, and was also, to a small extent, a bene*
factor to Sion College, but we do not find hia
Jacob's Ladder 'm Reading's Catalogue of the
library of that institution.
0. H. & Thomfsoit Coopbk.
Ounbrid|^
Raihe'b Mabbiage PottTiox of rfilOO (3"* S. V.
475.) — ^Tliis account reminds me of a similar por-
tion which is gtveiL by the Quarterly Meeting of
the Society of Friends in the south of Ireland, to
oung women, members of the Society, who have
Ived for three years either as family servants, or
assistants in bnsines^ to members of the Society,
on their marriai^e with members of said Society.
The portion given is also lOOl, L. J. F,
BiCHjUiD Bbsttlet, D.D. (S'* S. v. SOOO-'Yovir
correspondent, who is struck by the little pains
ordinary readers take to verify their statements,
will not, we hope, be offended at our pointing out
thatHicburdBontley the critic never wds librarieat
of Trinity College, Cambridge. He was master of
that dijitinguished society for above forty years.
Although for a long period Archdeacon of Ely, he
was never Dean of Ely.
C. H. & Tbompsok Cooper.
Cambridge.
IsraCTEIPTlOTJ AT PoRCnEBTER (3'* S. V. 479.) —
l^e line* copied from n mrmument in thi» church
are taken from Dr. Young's Nighi Thovgkix^
Night Y. line 600. Zsta*
S'
NOTES ON BOOKa ETC.
v/ State Papert. Dom^jiic Strk* of the Jiei^
ttiew I., 1(^34 — 163S, prtmmd in Her Majettw'9
B^eord Offi^ Edkmi ^ John Bivoi, F.&A.
(Loiigmiui.)
**Tli« ,,,»
ws*,**ai ,t
cban|;c% i,,
her* eftlftnilAf' ,^
^hieM it eaaUifij iW the gai«i4i h^iiucy ^i iku^ tvm^ (ui VI \
is acaresly of 1cm impert&noa for th9 U|ibl It thsawi mm
the cbaractert of nuoy remarluibW men. FciaPt m**
graphera of Sir R..h. it XAiintoi»— -Sir Robert H*Mh-rf
the facetious [ > e of the Kln|r*s Ba^9^
Thomas Bic). xurd Coke (wbme i
wiih his aecoDd wire La'iy ilAtton, i
of fiiih Kith her, as here detuJedyiinf
pUtc) — Selilfia and Attorney- Geoej'ftl N« _
the Qdendar references to jn h 'will b« U i
grestetc service to tbenL
io^ oar social progrees, wiU fiod abuoaant son
instmctlon am^Ag the various records now
made available by this utcfal gnida^ Like all
ing Cafendar9t for ATbich xre have
BrucCf the present Is set oif by a ple«sant, iastxvc(tffm«
well-writtea Preface; and completed bj a faXl tmi
cumto Index.
The Playi of WtUiam Shaktspeare, CarrfiMf i_
Thomas Keightley, VoU. I. and IL (B«U & i
We have here the first two volumes of « P«okia Ai^|
speare (to be completed in aixX which will fc« i
to all who love to make a voluooe of the poefi ««iil
their companion ia a quiet country atroU^ ur whaiiUf f
their ease at their inn. Beautifully printed KyWIi*
tiagham, this compact ^'et handsome edition ] ' * '
the additiooal temptation of being edited by a|
who bos made our older poets the stndj of i
Mr. Keigiitlcy*a text may not perhapa commaad i
acceptance, but it will lie raoogslaed bjr aUI as dai^fl
accomplished scholar.
BOOKS AND ODD
WASTSn TO
FtoUcului DrPrfoc.at.,artlMfal1o«few
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ftolicci la Cftrct^imlmtt.
0*. loBKHiv, 6y Mr, Marktaml^
MUu.
WtULUJr 6Dit]»A<4>.
Omirrni FnarCftMb
Ai* AtftmtTum, nr Oaom bb Ml
Tm LBAHlKa TnvKA o¥ Ptak.
Tnji If j«a CoMituinrN OoSAf, #«.
Tmm Ijimx m 0n Tclvn* i
Jtiljif lttlA« (Mtd coitiitM ct/ t^
409 t$A.
to 1*8 him- ^fgMicntiom.
Q. Q. AlB«c«r or Aulo«c«r. a pwAH* <■<■» «ib>v- ^ ««
agG«Mftrli«lillaf UwvMJilr Km of
i nmptntA^^ ISoikMUMMia >r«i
paiA»SnAtramSbMW^SSiutttr l«.arf.
INDEX.
THIED SERIES.— VOL. V.
Wot cUiflUcd AHklef, •«« AHOMYMDUI Wokks, Books xEOiJtTtv FcBUxitSD, EriuJiAati, Et itaphi, Folk Loit,
rnOVUDf AKD PUIUBef, QlJOTAT10I«»« Sll«Kft|rfeBlA?«A, AKD SoMOl AND B4LLADS.]
A. on Sir Charl<»8 Wogao, 421
A, (A-) ou bells called akelets, 457
Beech trees never struck ^^y iightniDg, 97
Cannou of France, 456
ChuptTone, 446
ChurchwjLPdc'n query, 34
CraneeliD, in heraldrj', 467
Cuckoo oata, &c», 450
Essex Baying, 97
ExptHlient, its earlieat us*, 477
Fritb, a woo<l,*43
Games of swans, &c,, 436
Greok custom as to horses, 1 53
Gnimbold Hold, lid
Haydn qnericit, 467
lasaOf and sindkr weapons, 442
Lant^ma of the dead, 116
Mark of Thor*8 hammer, 458
Modem Folk balladi*, 209
J Pews before the Keformation, 43
noi's " Thief and Cordelier/* 475
^ ndi,467
non in the Thames, 479
leuls, Anglo-Saxon and mfdia^val, 445
buksp^rian criticisms, 231, 232
f" Spartam, quam nactus es, orna/* 444
JTedded grass, 43
llTout, its dcriTatioD, 429
fVerifying qnotutions, &c,, 290
"^ jttled down, a pronncialiBm, 43a
ITooden and stone altars in England, 499
XA. S.) on Card. Beton and Abp. Ga^in Dun-
bar, 402
Bishop George de Athequa, 352
Gimpbell (Sir Alexander und Sir Hugh), 367
, D'Ollreuse (Eleanor), 348
■Guernsey, governors of, 328
nox( Andre vr), Bishop of Rnphoe, 371
BOX (Thomas)^ Bishop of the Isles, 411
i»hl, antimony, 349
at (Rev. DaWd), 367
vity of chiTgymen^ 463
^Miii
rfitaB^MIte
A. (A 8.) on Montalembept (Count de\ 328
Abauiit (Firoib), " Disconrse on the Apoealyp8^*'
420
♦* Abel,'* an oratorio, author of the words, 297,
467
Abhba on Earl of Clonm ell's Diary, 477
De Bttrgo's '* Hibernia Bominicana," 467
Bobhe (Arthur), biogniphy. 82
" Dublin Univewity Magazine," 447
Downea's Tour tlirough Cork and Ross^ 82
" Essay on Politeness," 437
Family burying ground, 377
Fellowships in Trinity College, Bublia, 345
Kennt-dv (Rev. Janiea), 241
Life of J^rince Engent^ of Savoy, 616
Literary plagiarisms, t523
Meath electioneering bill, 493
Fani din's " Devises Heroiques,*' 628
Petrie Collection of ancient mni*ic, 498
ForUock (>L\jor-GeneKd), 489
Portlock (Capt. Nrahumel), 425
Frorerb wanted, 117
Bnndell (Mrs. Maria Eliza), 419
Spottlfiwoode (Abp. John and Bp. Jamea), 416
Ulick, a Christian name, 136
Abraham abcn Hhaiim, his MSS,, 4S6
Ache on a quotation, 142
Acbnd (lier. John), noticed, 320
Acj^tic : Christ, 355
Adair (John) of Kilteman, 404, 442, 501—504
AdEir (Robin), Esq., subject of the sung, 404, 442,
500
Adam (Thomai)), alias Welhowse, epitaph, 239
Adams (Richard), minor poet, 42, 64
Adderley (Geo* Augusttis), rank in the army, 297i
386
Addis (John) on Fingers of Hindoo gods, 123
'* HermippusRedii-iinis,*' 100
Pamplilet, its derivation, 290
Urbigerus (Baro), alchemical writer, 73
Vixen : Fixeo, 62
Addison (Joseph), barri*>t<T, 6
Addison (Joseph), definition of wit^ 1<^
^ifiB
Adci, 0 BP^. 240
** Adej*t4^ Fideles," coinposei* of the tune, 312
AdmLraltj Domesday Bojk, 146
Adolphim (Gustavua), letter to Charles L, 2H
Adolpbiia (John Lvyoo^tcv), *' The CircuiU'erg/' 6
A. (E.H.) on Samuel Burton, 73, ♦'i29
Hoods of Oxford and Ctimbridge, 517
Nicols (Rev, William), 366
Pholi^B of Oambia, 12
Trevor (Sir MarcTis), Vise, BunganiiQiDi 55
Witty cla?!sical quotatioIU^ 310
^nigmflta, Latin, 93, 25T
JEvum, words dorivt?d from, 100
African, South, chart of the discoveiy, 498
Agg (John), satiricftl writer, 346
Aginconrt battle, picture at GuildhnU, 171
Ainger (A.) on " Choogh imd Crow," a glee, ^3
Natter, German for add^r, 126
Psalm xc, 9, 83
Quotation, 261
Swallows and the spring. 83
Alabarches, or Arabarchei*, 294
Albert, Prince Consort, his arms^ 467, 622; motto^
12, 64, 81
Albini Brito (Wm. de), 382, 606
Aldeburgh barony, 224
Alexander the Great's gfUii to th0 SekTOXLianfl^
34£
Al-GaiseX Mohammr^an doctor, his birth, 401
'Ahitvt on Collins, author of To-morrow, 20
CumminfT (James), F.S.A., 308
Dobbs* Trade and Improvement of Lrdniid, 64
Mount Athos, 487
Almaek (Eicharti) on Mary, Queon of Scots^ 321
Alters, early wootlen and stone, 499
Altham (Ursula, Lady), death. 284
26,64
of the worcl« 33
ill, 222; Seneca's pro-
"* '«8, 440
jorationJB, 133
" Amateur's M!i{ja?rin**,
Amen, a curioti-
America, it* l
phecy of its u
Americaniams . r ^
Anagram: And r us r
Ancestor worship, 212
Anderson*^ "Scottish Nation," li7
Androwi-a (Bp. Lancelot), his will, 137
AndroB (Sir Blraund), hid anus, 346| iZ''i
Aneroids, 297
Angi lie vision of the dying, 448
Animals, the triak of, 166, 218
Anonjmom^ Worki : —
Art of Politicks, 164,206
Anmdinps Devrp, 490
' " lie, 119
I 23
taiiuiS ~i^' .-iiiiua r-UCTa, 611
Cftstlo Builders, or Jlistoi^' of Wm* Stftphens,
614
i Clironicle of tJie Kings of EnghuiJ, 300
IClaraChe<:t'r. 2f>1
rContiiJt ol f Nalionii, 618
LCrambe ll
■T" : « R<»vclaUoaR, 420
1 11
Anonymooa Wcrki: —
Essay on Poliienees, 437
Er ^'— ^^ ^ roT, his Iift% 51S
1 < olli'gr, Dublin ili
1-: .. . -^ I
Godolphin, i
Grand Impv-
Hermippus Rtiliviv^.H, Klil
Honour of Chribt Vindicat^^ 1$3
*• Irish Tutor,^' 479
Land of Pntmise, or ImjireasiotiB of
oli
Lett^T m%, by Oliver Oldstoffp, $21
Leprosy of Naaman. 66
Living and the Dead, 106
Meditations on Lif^ and D^th. 4flO, 44^
Post Boy Robbed of }v- ^
Proud Shepher<rb Tm-
Resurrection, not Death, lue iiM^M ,,^ *r ^
lievcr, 33, 203
Revelation of St. John and the J
pie, 417
Royal StripoB, or a Kick ftom ^
Wale«. 346
Salmagundi, a MiaoeUany of Poiilij^ ifS
Solomon's Soog^ poatioHi rierHM^ 1? i|^ W
Turkish Spy, 260
AntiphanoB, pasj^age in the AphrQ<)ifla4iiv 461
Ape leading in hell, 193. 289, 124
Apothecnriea' Companv' ^ l"*.
Appleton (W. S.) on > i .ley's tMmOft
Archer (Master John), ,....., jJ
Arden (Edward), related to Shakapearf, 3^ «9^
492
Atsicsoif (J. P,J inquired afW, 435
Arhind (Beuf*dictX mintatiur** piiuur^ S30
Aristotle, ii. " " U
Ariat-otle*F 1 1.625
Arm, breaking n,' i< iL, a punisbiiicfiti 409
Anus, mottoes and coats of,*t7
Arms of Englif§h royaltv. 100
Arnold (Rev. Thomafe ' , tlMiK 450
Aniulphua (Bishop), L > r«jit Miiiid« 114
Arundel Castle, it* owler». ul2
-firundel Society *« publications, 105
•• Arundinea Di-vh?,' ' it - \ ' ^6
Ascot races forty yoa^^
Mi on (Joseph ) of Maj j _ . . . . < '
** At henian Gaaette,*' its con r r ^ ^ ^ 7 J
*' Athenian Mercury,*' iUcoitsiji ui r- 77
Athenr^^, or Athunry^ iLa ortho^iph v. 409
4
Athe<iua(Georff»* d<*>, Bip^hot* of Llauiiafl^ 3ai
>s, 437. 48?
^ -. 212
Athofi, Mou
Aubeiy(M'
Audley (P,A.j .
l>ti*by mott:
Epitaph on _____
239
♦^tJ-itin Frinr*?' cburrh, 376
A'i^n:.
w*;v^^.^
irov«]ii» 222. 3^
^^^^^^~^~^^ 533 ^^1
L ^
Bedi- (Cuthbert) on CoUini, antiwr of '* To-mor* ^^|
Bjpm the redtwtion of BAthlin in ld75, 89
row/' ^^H
^^^Kud wonlup, works on, 196
Huuttngdonshire feast, 497 ^^H
■ Bacon (Frajicis), Bcuwn Vci-nlam, Qb»mb«fB ni -
' KimlK>llon Park,*' a poem, 479 ^^|
■ Gray's Ion, 100 -, '' Psalms," ih.
MoOier Goosey 384 ^H
■ B. (A. R) on Sir Edw. Oorg«i, Knt^ 443, 4fi9
Ornithological and agricolLiuiil folk-lore, 384 ^^M
■ Lnni-el water. C3
Pte^eatiinoffinfl,364 ^M
■ Bftilej (the Unfortunate ]Hi«)» song in Ltt*in, 76
1 BailJpy (Ohnrlfis), m^csteitaij to Mary Queen of
Whitraore family, 220 ^H
Bt^dford (Arthur) on the ** Impifitiea in the £&g- ^^H
■ Se^ta. 284
lii)h PWhouses,'' 39 ^^1
Bedford (Lucy, Countaes of). 523 ^H
■ Biimtc (Jouia). ^'GboigSiaxrd Cwwr 243
^^ (Loid) of Bagiluyt, 151
Beech-droppbgs, its nmdicinjd projverti**, 297t 369 ^^^
^^^Bftd literAtnro, foreign, 372
Beech-trees nt vtr struek with lightning, 97, 201 ^^M
^■pads. See &m^«.
Btte-lkiyea in mourniDg, 393 ^^H
Balkrd (CdL), In* Christian name, 320
Beisly (Sidney ) on Eobin Goodfellow and Puclc» 340 ^H
Balloons, their diIue&l*ion^ 96, 2U0
Ballot, *' three bine beiuu/' 297, 384 i44
Tempest, passage in, 328 ^^H
BankoA (G«i.)» Vicar of Cherryhinton, 43
BqitiBnial njUDOfs objectioziabk, 22, 105, 184
BeU, the paasing, of St. Sepulclire^s, 170, 331, 338, ^H
^H
Biirb=-:t<»ijhiiTe,494
Bell-founders, ancient, 172 ^^H
Bosbttnld (Anna LetLtia), Prose HymnB, 33
Bells called skelets, 457 ^^M
Bftrberini \&sf, 22
Jkli (W, E.) on tlie longevity of Bicbaifd Parpen ^H
Barcroft (John). Esq., 11
^H
Burlium (Franda), works, 36, 120
Bell (Dr. Wm. ) on Morganatic marriageo, 235, 441 ^H
Bftrky, <m exclamation, ita deiiration, 356
BeUiimy (John), Tmnslation of th« Bibla, 14 ^H
^uiies (RichardX Bishop of Nottinghftm, 196
Bellomont (Coote. Lord), his arms, 345, ^7 ^H
^^Kons fiimily of Watlbrd, 376
■■fetolozzi (Prane«aco), engraving, 377, 446
Bent : ** Top of his b«nt " oaqikiiied, 137 ^H
Bentinck family, 284 ^^1
V Barton (Bcmapd), Lord Jeffrey's letter to, 70
Bentley (Nathaniel), «Zmw Dirty Dick, 482 ^H
B Basing House, notices of its sieges, 499
Bentley (Richard), D.D. 509, 530 ^H
HSttBBelin (Olivier), " Vaux dfi Vire," 2$
Bentley (Thomas) of Cliiswick, 376, 449, 509 ^H
H&06et family of North Murton, Berks, 417
Beresford (Sir WilUam), portioit^ 239 ^H
^^KBttird (Julin Pollexfen), M.K fnrBeToo. 198
Eerkhok'a Memoirs, 515 ^^|
^Hbtidc's Ode to Louis XIY., 49iti
Berlin litemtJ, 116 ^^M
^fohelor (J. W) on cuAine atuGido, Bla
Bermuda, its climate, 104, 122 ^^H
Berwick (James Fit^amoa, Dnko of), hia deaoen* ^^1
Blair's GmTe, its frtmti^eoe, 196
danta, 134, 202, 309 ^H
Chaldee MS, and Blackwood's Magastnc^, 314
Beason (Thomaf^), 1)ookseller, 436 ^H
Baton (Caiwlinal), noticed, 112, 200, 402 ^M
CoUier (Jeremy) on the Stage, &c., 38
CoUins (JohnX »nthap of " to-morrow," 17
Beverley, library at St. Mary's, 51 ; linoa on the ^^H
Piimphlet, ttii etyinology and moaning, 167
minster, 52 ^^H
Battles in England, 398, 440, 488
Bezoar stones, 398, 466 ^H
Baxter (Thomas), " Circle Squared,'^ 268, 348
B. (F. C.) on Ebna, a proper name, 308 ^^M
BaatCT (W. E.) on anonymous eomtributara, 238
Woimm's will. 300 ^^H
Battles in England, 449
B. (F. a.) on a snmDOied pictitr« of A^ PoiMt, 137 ^H
B. (JL) on Alfred Buon. 182 ^H
Cidlis (Bobert), 204
GapeU s Notes on Shakfpear^ 77
Comet of 1581, 114 ^H
Digby motto, 220
Midcrgeuattun, a new Yankee word, ^78 ^^H
Martm family, 222
Prf'-doath monument, 363 ^^^|
Preaching miniBtt^rs suspended, 3fi7
B. (H. T. DO on Cambridge* BibJe, 1837, 36 ^H
^ Quotation. 200
Walker (Obudiuh). " Of Education,'' 38 ^^M
^^H Bmosft fiuoily. 291
Bible, Cambridge, of 1837, 36 : French, 1638, 375 ^H
Bible, the translator's Preface, 283 ^H
** To a Caged Skvkrk," a Poem, 515
Blbliothecar. Chetham. on eoneonanta in WeUh, ^^H
Bavley (C, H.) on fiiit book printed in Binning-
ham, 14fi
^H
Earth a living crmture, 286 ^^H
Bnyley (Nicholas), family, 330
General Literary Index, 131 ^^H
Bayly (T. H. ), Latin version of his song, " I'd he a
Greek and Kfjman gam«. 65, 104, 244 ^^H
feuttcrfly," 106
Seneca's prophecy of titc discovery of Ame- ^^H
Bavnlir!J'>»' <'TL A/l f»Ti Rnrn.-^t famllicfif 376
^^M
B^ len, 215
Tall 216 ^H
B- ,134
BiD(;:haiii Urn% Don. Ottmpbcil, 114 ^^1
Beckiiigtoii {By, ), J-.twi-M, 2&
,..-.. ,U:d, Z2d ^H
31 ill V ;;..;(> ^^H
Boutb family of Geldresome. 172
BorlAse (Rev. Henry), one of the Plymouth
brethren, 203
Borrow Sncken, co. Northampton, 477
BoBcobel (J. C.) on longevity of Mr, Hutchesson, 33
Bothwdl (Francis Stuart', Earl of) and Mury
Qnoen of Scots, 411; his parentag**, 300
Boulogne, prints of the old cathedral, iie, 606 ;
public lihraiy, 477
BoUTcliifr (Rev, Edward), noticrHl, 280
Bow cemetery, epitaph^J 317
Bowej (Piiul), noticed, 2i7, 330
Bowyer House, Camberwt'll, lol
Boyd (Zaohary), noticed, »'i4
Bnihiim (John), the vocaliBt. 31ft. 444
Br&hma, the Hindoo god, 197, 262
BramstoD (Rev. Jami^s), bioj^raphy, 205
Brandt (Sebastian), *'Ship of Fooles," tnuiahited
by Barclay, 1509, 437
Brsnluim (Hugh), noticed, 212, 27K 308
Bnifs knocker, or remains of a fe«st, 496
Bray (Owen) of Loughlinstown, 443, 602—504
Brent (Algernon) on institution of the Roanry,
154
Brett] Dgham (^latthew), architect, 63
Bridgeman (S. ), plana and drawings, 421
Bridger (Charle j<) on bibliography of henildry and
genealogy, 190
Descenta of the infant Prince of Wid«'a, 129
Eleanor d'Olbreusc, 144
*' Brighton Chronide/' noticed, 75
Brifttol, erroneous monunientid inscriptions, 87. 289
Bristow (John), noticed, 97, 248
Britannia on pence and halfpence, 37
British GtiUery and British Institution, 97
British Inytittition of Living ^Vrtists, 106
Broad arrow, \i» origin, 165
Brook (Abraham), noticed, 355
Brooke (Dr R. S.) on tliererb " To Ltqimr,** 221
Brookthorpe on Cr ' v alng, 622
Brown family of ( \ 311
Brown (F.) on Sir L , .,.ix . .orges, Knt., 377
Browne (Robert Dillon), noticed, 270, 309
Browne (Sir Thomrui), belief in vitchcmft, 400
Bruce (Rev, Arch,), his works, 320
Bruce (John) on Dunbar earldom, 97
Laud (Abp.), tinpublished eatiricnl papers, I
Ruthven, Earl of Forth and Brentford, 270,
294
Bmgea hospital, picture of the " Massacre of the
Innocents,'* 74
Bxnisselp, patrician families at^ 174, 331
Bryan (Mr«. Margaret), her death, 355
Bryana (J, W.) on Victoria and Albert Order, 322
B, (T.) tm an antiquarian discover}*, 319
CaM " .507
Cri ,m). 422
Ci-o.-.a .ioullSO, 264
Drage fVVm.), author of *' The Practice of
Physic;* 135
Lamballe(thc Princes do), 113
Lestirqiies (Joseph), his unfurtunat-e Cftae« 473
Marringfvi. earlv 23
Miniaterifd wotxhu spoon, 214
Pa«iing.bidl of *St. Sepulchre*s, 170
B. (T.) on Raine's marriage portion of 100/., 475
Scottish customs, 153
Shepherd (Mrs. Catherine), a heroine, 132
Voltaire a remains, 277
Buchanan (Geo.), ** Tyrannicul Governmenl Anato-
mised," itfl transJator, 614
Buckingham (Geo. VilHera, Ist Bttke of), letter to
Jame^ L, 5 ; hi/i influence over James L, 452
Buckton (T, J.) on AlabarcH' s, 294
Aristotle's Politics, 475
Capnobata?, 23
ChesH, ita antiquity, 428
Cuckoo song, 465
Danish right of succession, IBl
Denmark, absolute monarchy of, 189
Erasmufi and Sir Thomas More, 62
Denmark iffrsus the Germanic Confedcfationf
318
Hebrew JflSS. destroyed by the Jews, 485
Hindoo gods, 198
Judiciid Committee of the Privy Conned, 267
Justice applied to magistrates, 486
Kusttrs de^th, 116
Monks and friars, 427
Moses, etymology of the name, 408
Mottoes wanted, 116
Mozarabic Liturgy, 267
Psalm xc, 9, its trannlation, 102
QucHtmen and sidesraen, (i&
*' Hevenons i no8 moui-ons," 408
Sehlcswig-Hoktein, 212
Sepia Bhedding ink, 408
Septuagint version, 470
Trade windi*, 311
Upper and liower Empire, 446
Budd (Henrj-), his death, 417, 528
Buddhista in Britain, 344
Bull-bull, a joke on the nightingale, 38, 81
Bullfinch, its mischievous propensities, 124
Bnnn (Alfred), comedian, 65, 105, 182
Banyan (Johii), neglected biography. 465 ; in-
scription on (lis tomb, 474
Burgo (Thomas de), " Hibemia Domiuicana/* 457
Bitrinbplace of stilUlKim children, 34
Burial offerings, 35, 63. 296, 357
Burial Sen*ice, origin of the passage, "In the
midst of life," &c.^ 177. 407
Burke(Edmund) and ** the family bur)*ing ground,"
377, 406; on the Ballot, 297, 385, 444; (ftipposed
bull, 212,267, 3G6, 445
Burn (J. H. ) on stamp duties on painters* canvajss.
141
Venables (Col, Robert), 163
Burn (J. S.)on oath cjt-officio, 136
Burnett fiimthes, 376
Buruiuton (Joseph), noticed, 320
Btims (Robert), jun., noticed, 62
Burns (W. H.) on Bi-^hop Richiird Barnes, 196
Burrow (Reuben), Diary, 107, 215, 261, 803, 361
Burton Annala, 460
Burton family of Weiiton-nnderWootl, 140 •
Burton (John), D.D. of Maple-Durham, 13
Burton (John), M>D., alias Dr, Slop, 414. 621
Burton (Samu*d), high sheriff for co, Derby, 73,
140, 629
636
INDEX.
'' Bnscapi^/' a punphlet attributed to Cervantei^
512
Batler (Aidier), Essay on Shakspean^ 848
Butteraeld (Robert), " Maschil," 448
Bottory (Albeit) on Butteiy fiEunilj, 4fi7
Bntteiy femily, 467
C.
C. on Northumbrian money, 56
Shakspeare and Plato, 63
Window gloss, ita introduction, 400
Caen stone, how seasoned, 68, 138
" Caged Skylaric," author of the poem, 516
Calcebos, its meaning, 435
Caldecott (Thomas), unpublished Shakiperian
KSS., 480
Calf (Sir John), singular epitaph, 215
Caliztns (Geo.), Life and Correspondence^ 44
Callis (Eobert), legal writer, 184, 204
Galton, its etymology, 417
Calverley (C. S.), charade, 379
Calverley (Mr.), dancinff-master, 101
Camaca, a silk, origin of the word, 518
Camberwell, Bowyer House, 151
Cambridge Bible of 1837, 36
Cambridge tradesmen in 1635, 10
Camden (Wm.), poem '* Thames and Isia," 844
Camel bom in England, 132
Campbell (Sir Alexander), noticed, 867
Campbell (Key. Daniel) inquired after, 114
Campbell (Sir Hogh), noticed, 867
Campbell (J. D.) on Cambridge tzadenaflniii 1635,
10
Compete, its early use as a verb, 97
Dummerer, its meaning, 355
Eastern king's device, 173
Horace, Ode xiii., translator, 173
Jeffrey (Lord), letter to Bernard Burton, 70
" Keepsake," 1828, 268
Marine risks in the 17th centuiy, 319
Mikias, or Nilometer, 518
Parietines, its meaning, 281
Parson Chaflf, 281
Scottish games, 84
Stum rod, its meaning, 299
Whittled down, 527
Campbell (Dr. John), author of " Het'jiu|i|jUB Be*
divivus," 100
Campolongo (Emmanuel), " Litholexicon,'* 240
Canine suicide, 515
Cannon used by the French, 1746, 456
Capell (Edward), " Notes on Shakspeare," 77
Capnobata, notice of this people, 23
Carey (P. S.) on Albini Brito, 605
Lambert (General), 34
Hesehines, 310
Poulet (George), 213
Schomberg's Ode to Capt. Cook, 402
Witches in Lancaster Cfastle, 259
CariHbrd on Sir Richard Ford, 242
Ford rebus, or punning motto, 241
Leighton fiunily, 135
May (Sir EdwardX Bart, 35, 469
Rule for tincturing a motto bcxoIV, tS\A
Carilford on Shakspeare's arms, 2S2
Yorke (Captam), 12 ; famify aiBfl, 125
Carmichael (C. H. £.) on Smyth «f Bemx» ai
Stewart of Orkney, 426
Caroline (Qaeen), consort of George XL, lasufn
on, 242
Carter Lsae meeting-house, 387
Cary family in Holland, 398, 468, 5S5
Castlemaine (Lord) on two or more cnsta; 4M
Catharine of Bnganza, her retimie, 877
Cats, epitaphs on, 475
Cats, great battle of; 133, 247
Cats (Dr. Jacob), Dutch poet, 259
C. (B. H.) on anagram: Andreas Bintaa, 53
Cromwell's head, 265
GrumbaldHoM, 223
Gainsborough Prayer-Book, 97
Hall (JaX author of » Jacob's Laddar," 497
" Heradilus Kidens,'' its editor, 78
Hum and Buz, meaning of the pfansc^ 436
Jacob (Sir John) of Brraaley, 446
Loretto holy house, 73
Haps of Roman Britain, 196
Private Prayers for the Laity, 193
Psalms : " Li Sette Sabni," 98
St Mary Matfelon, 223
Taify, Paddy, and Sandy, 194
Toothache, folk-lore cure, 898
C. (£.) on ancient seals, 118
Chess, its antiquity, 428
Cervantes, and the pamphlet ** Bnseopi^,'* $11
C. (G. A.) on brass knocker, 496
Frumentum: Siligo, 18
Heraldic queries, 497
Wegh, a certain weight or quantity, 38
C. (H.) on Black Bear Inn at Cumnor, 376
Book hawkers in India, 513
Buddhists in Britain, 344
Congreve's parentage, 132
D'Abrichcourt family, 320
De Foe and Dr. Livingstone, 281
Druidical remains in India, 58
Eastern Ethiopians, 364
Fingers of Hindoo gods, 73
Fowls with human remains, 182
Godfrey of Bouillon's tree, 458
Hindoo gods, 449
Invention of iron defences, 178
Iron mask at Woolwich, 135
Ivanhoe : Waverley, origin of the titles, 17(
Jack of Newbury, 478
Maiden Castle in Dorsetshire, 101
Massachusetts stone, 298
Mounds of human remains, 191
Medmenham Club, 482
Puck : his eastern origin, 394
Seraglio library, 415
Sign manual at Iconium, 436
Upper and Lower Empire, 379
Vishnu the prototype of the menadd, 238
Chaffers (A.) on picture of Agincooxt bsttl^ 171
Chaiffneau (Wm.), Irish novehst, 11, M, M7
Chaldee manuscript^ 314
Chaloner (JohnX his works, 204
Cbambeta(a.F.'^ on eaoU of seals, 440
INDEX.
5^7
Chane^on, their Lotndon resdenoes, 8, 92, 200
Chandler (Richard), compiler of Barliamentaiy
Debates, 151
Chandos portrait of Shakspeare, 336
Chaperon, its meaning, 280, 312, 384, 446, 609
Charades: The drugget, 379 ; "Sir Qeaffttij lay,"
425
Charlemagne (Emperor), his posterity, 134, 270,
365; his tomb, 461
Charlemont earldom and Tiscount, 33
Charles L, Gnstayns Adolphus letter to, 294 ; an
epitaph on, by J. H., 13 ; place of his execu-
tion, 204
Charles II., his illegitimate children, 211, 289, 865,
409
Chamock (R. S.) on Towt, towter, 311
Chaworth or Cadurcis, 114
C. (H. B.) on passage in Antiphanee, 486
Ballot : three blue beans, 444
Cruel King Philip, 103
English topography in Dutch, 406
Evander* s order, 309
" Here Hes Fred," &c., 386
Mseyius of ancient times, 182
" Eoyal Stripes, or a Kick from Yarmouth to
Wales," 346
Satirical Sonnet, Cobbo and Pasquin, 81
Tydides, 23
C. (H. C) on Freemasons noticed hy Gesner, 97
Horace not an old woman, 475
Portraits of Our Loid, 290
Chelmorton, inscription on the font, 299, 365
Cheque, Clerk of the, 62
Cherington (Viscount), "Memoirs," 347
Chess, its antiquity, 377, 428, 447 ; warks on, 114
Chetham Library Catalogue, 105
Cheyne (Capt. Alex.), his death, 84
Children, burial-phice of still-bom, 34
Children's games, 394, 395
Chitteldroog on misquotations by great authiffitiee,
454
Colloquialisms not always vulgarisms, 511
Homecks (the Miss), 521
Christenings at court in 1607, 406
Christian names from the Pagans, 24
Christian (T. P.), author of " The Revolution," 435
Christmas customs, 395
Chronicle, English, in manuscript, 54
** Church," a poem, its author, 297
" Church of our Fathers," poem, its author, 297,
369
Churches within Roman camps, 173, 829, 441
Churchman (Richard), Unes on his death, 209
C. (J. E.) on fardel of land, 858
Tamar manor-house, 357
C. (J. L.) on RicAard Adams, 42.
Peckard (Pet^-), D.D., his MSa, ^
Washington (Joseph), 23
C. (K.R)on Esquire and academical degrees, 377
Throgmorton (Sir Nicholas), 48
Clarence (Lionel of Antwcip^ Duke of X ^^^
azmonr, 880
dareoion (B. VA inraired t£^.4»
Olszke (Charles), F.SjL oiB^f^^nt
Clarke (Charles), F.8.A. of the Ozdnanee Office,
435
Clarice (H.) on Infidel societies and Swedenbor-
gians, 377
Clarke (Hyde) on curious sign manual, 529
Seraglio library, 526
Clarges (Francis), a cavalier, his letter, 238, dll
Clergymen, cases of longevity, 22, 44, 82, 123, 182,
257
aerk of the Cheque, 62
Clifton, cenotaph to the 79th regiment, 11, 84
Climachus (St. John), his " Climax," 241
Climate of England, testimony to it^ 95
Clonmen (John Scott, Earl of). Diary, 477, 529
Clotworthy (John), 1st Viscount Massareene, 344
Cloyne parochial records, 272
Club at the Mermaid Tavern, 498
Cobbett (Wm.), his learning and political princi-
ples, 370, 422, 423, 442
Cobham pyramid designed by S. Bridgeman, 421
Cock Robin's death in a church window, 98, 182
Cockle, an Order in Prance, 117, 184, 221
Coffee-houses considered a nuisance, 493
Cofl&ns and monuments made before death, 255,
363, 423, 469
Coin, Danish, 355
Coins, Dictionary of, 172
Cokayne (Mrs.) of Ashbourne, 20
Cokayne (Thomas), barrister, 21
Coke (Bp. George), certificate of Conformity, 374
Colasterion, information required, 496
Colbome families, 171
Cold in the month of June, 164
Cole (Robert) <m Sir Michael Stanhope, 516
Coleridge (Herbert), his death, 450
Coliberti, a species of rillenage, 300, 384, 446
Colkitto, an Irish officer, 118, 183, 287
Collier (Jeremy), " Short View of the Stage," 88
Collier (J. P.) on verification of a jest> 491
Raleigh (Sir Walter), particulars of, 7 ; docu-
ments, 108, 207, 351
Collins (John), "To-monow," 17, 204; its proto-
type, 461
iolioquialis
Colloquialisms not always vulgarisms, 511
Colossus of Rhodes, 457
Colvill (Alex.), D.D., noticed, 51
ColviU (Samuel), noticed, 51
Comberbach (Mr.) and Milton's third wife, 95
Comet of 1581, 114, 364
Comic songs translated, 76, 172, 223
" Common Law," its original signification, 152, 222
Common Prayer-Book printed at Qainsboiough,
97, 144, 164
" Compete," its early use as a verb, 97
Conformity, Bp. Coke's certificate, 1641, 374
Congreve (Lieut.-Col. Harry) on painting of the
Siege of Valenciennes, 459
South African discovery, 498
Congreve (Wm.), his parentage, 132
Conffreve (Sir Wm.X inventor of iron defences, 173
Conuigsby (Sir John dB\ lineage, 280, 849
-^ • Welsh, 864
■ In the Tower^ 7
538
INDEX.
Cook (Thomas), alderman of Youghal, 55
Cooke (T. F^on Lord ThurloVs residence, 200
Cooper (C. H. and Thompson) on Kichard Adams,
64
Bankes (George), Vicar of Chenyhinton, 43
Bentley (Richard), D.D., 530
Bowes (Paul), 247, 330
Bramston (Hey. James), 205
Branham (Hugh), 271, 308
Cambrid^ villages, 271
Clotworthj (John), Ist Viscount Massareene,
344
Coo (Thomas) of Petorhouse, Cambridge, 43
Forster (Joseph) of Queen's College, 258
Gilbert (ThomasX Esq., 263
Hall (John), B.D., 530
Hawkins (John), 20
Hennebert (Charles), 164
Horrocks (Jeremiah), 509
Lloyd (Charles), the poet, 10
Molesworth (John), Esq., 378
Richardson (Rev. Christopher^, 271
Rowley (Rev. Joshua), longevity, 82
Spencer (Beckwith) of Yorkshire, 498
Symes (Wm.), master of St, Saviour's school,
400
Talbot Papers, 489
Torre (James), Yorkshire antiquaiy, 507
Venables (Col. Robert), 120
Watson (Wm.), LL.D., 517
Whiting (Nathanael), 420
Wilkinson (Rev. Thomas), 480
Wood (John), rector of Cadleigh, 437
Cooper (G. J.), on Bellamy's transhition of the
Bible, 14
Horsley (Bishop), portraits, 38
Longevity of clergymen, 22
Owen Glyndwr'a parliament-house, 247
Preface to the Bible, 283
Copan, stereoscopic views of its ruins, 106
Copley (Christopher), biography, 201
Coriate (Thomas), the traveller, 310, 369
" Cork Magazine," author of an article, 73
Cork parochial records, 272
Comelisz (Lucas), monogram, 380
Comer (C. T.) on Colossus of Rhodes, 457
Comey (Bolton) on Francis Wise, B.D., 121
Shakspeare's birth-day, 226
State-Paper rectified, 6
Cornish proverbs, 208, 276
Cornish stannary court, 374
Coronets used by the French noblesse, 80
Corpse, meaning a living person, 296
Corseul, arrondissement of Dinan, 389
Cotterell (Lieut.-CoL), noticed, 297
Couch (T. Q.) on Cohberti, &c., 300
" County Families," claims and descents, 71
Coventry (Sir John), K.B., 191
Cowper (B. H.) on the Newton stone, 246, 428
Cowper (Mary. Countess), " Diary," 272
Cox (James), his museum, 306
Cpl. on christenings at court, 496
Club at the Mermaid tavern, 498
Coksjme (Mrs,), 20
DoDDB (John), jun., 21
Cpl. on MfryVh^m (Lady), Donne's friend, 498
Swinburne (Mr.), Sec. to Sir H. Fansbaw, 12
C. (P. a) on Aubeiy and Du Val, 138
Calcebos, its meaning, 435
Danish right of succession, 331
Martin family, 349
Mordaunt beiony, 416
Witch trials in the 17th century, 324
Crabtree (Henry), biography, 192
Cradock (Sir Richard Newton), his tomb, 87
Craggs (Thomas), on enigma of fire brothers, 199
" He di^ed a pit," 198
Craig (Rev. Thomas) of Whitby, 22
Crancelin in heraldry, 457, 522
Cranidge (John\ M.A , of Bristol, 280
Cranstoun (Helen D'Arcy), unpublished poems,
147, 484
Crapaud ring, 142
Crests, on bearing two, 496
Creswell (S. F.) on Judicial Committee of th^
Privy Council, 193
Kings! an exclamation in children*s play, 466
Cribbage, the ancient Noddy, 358
Croghan, Kin^s County, noticed by Spenser, 399
Cromwell (Ohver), his supposed skuU, 119, 17S,
264, 305
Croquet, its derivation, 494
Crossley (James) on Dobbs' Trade and Improve-
ment of Ireland, 63
Crowe field in St. MartinVin-the-Fields, 153
Crowne (John), " Andromache," 323
C. (T.) on the Ballot : three blue beans, 386
Rye-House plot cards, 9
Cuckoo, notes on the, 394, 450
Cuckoo song, its notes, 418, 466, 508
" Cui bono, proper use of the phnise, 192
Cullum (Sir Thomas), bart, relative, 65
Cumberland (Richard) and Congreve, 496
Cumming (James), F.SA., 212, 308
Cumnor, Black Bear inn, 376, 438
Cunningham (Peter) on wit defined, 30
Curll (Edmund) and Voiture's Letters, 425
Curmudgeon, its etymology, 319, 370
Cuttle (Capt.) his note on notes not original, 64
C. (W.) on Thomas Gilbert, 349
Sheen priory drawings, 379.
D.
A on Sir Edward May, 84
Wilson (Beau), 284
D'Abrichcourt family, 320, 408, 524
" Daily Advertiser," 1741, its value, 211
Dalhousie (Earl of), a nyected M.P., 34
Dalton (J.) on " El Buscapi^," 5ia
Camaca, a kind of silk, 518
Doiia Luisa de Carvi\jal y Mendoza, 418
Library of the Escorial, Spain, 276
Madrid, Spanish lines on, 436
Maria de Padilla, 149
Moore (Sir John), monument, 329
Moses, its etymology and meaning, 344
INDEX
539
Dalton (J.) on Qnadalquivir, the Great Biver, 487
St Patrick and the shamrock, 60, 104
Selah, its meaning, 433
Dalwick parish in Peebleshire, 497
Daniel (George), " Rojal Stripes, or a Kick from
Yarmouth to Wales," 346
Daniel (John) and other players, 240
Daniel (Samuel), " Hymen's Triumph," 347
Danish coin, 355
Danish right of succession, 134, 181, 331
Danish warrior to his kindred, 313
Dannaan of Irish tradition, llj
Danne-Werke at Schleswick, 127
D. (A. P.) onEhret, flower-painter, &c^ 22
Dare (Joseph), inquired after, 497
D'Arfue (F. B.) on Perkins family, 75
Darling (James), bookseller, his death, 450
Davidson (James) of Axminster, his death, 206
Davidson (John) on Bezoar stones, 398
Charlemagne's tomb, 461
Crapaudine, 142
Hindoo gods, 135, 399
Saxony arms, 81
Davies (J. B.) on Wm. liUington Lewis, 308
'' Spartum, quam nactus es, oma," 307
Davis (Wm.) on an old Latin Aristotle, 1 1
Petrarcha, edit. 1574, 74
" Pomponius Mela and Solinus," ed. 1518, 96
Davison's case, 399, 448
Davys (John), rector of Castle Ashby, death, 399
Dawson (Ned), his coflin, 423
Death, a Divine Meditation on, 189
Dees (R. R) on laurel water, 63
Defend == forbid, 296
De Foe (Daniel) and Dr. Livingstone, 281, 366 ;
" The Storm of 1703," 604
De la Barca family arms, 73, 143
Delalaunde (Sir Thomas), noticed, 377
Delamere (Abbot), brass at St. Alban's, 424
De Leth on arms of Saxony, 64
Dell (William), D.D., biography, 75, 221
De Loges family, 321
Denmark, absolute monarchy of, 189
Denmark and Holstein treaty of 1666, 436
Denmark versus the Crermanic Confederation, 318
Dennis (Heniy), monumental inscription, 295
Denton (Wm.) on James II. at Faversham, 391
Derwentwater family, descendants, 402
Deverell (Mrs. Mary), noticed, 379
Devil, a proper name, 82
Devonshire doggrol, 395
Devonshire lo^ names, 374
D. (G. H.) on Spelman pedigree, 523
D. (H.) on the life of Edward, Marquis of Wor-
cester, 136
Dialects of the suburbs, 112
Diaries, publication of, 107, 215, 261, 303, 361
Digby motto, " Nul que unt," 153, 220
Digby pedigree, 240 ; corrected, 456
Dinan, its legends and traditions, 273
Dirty Dick, alias Nathaniel Bentley, 482
Dixon (James) on Psalm xc. 9, 57
Dixon (James Henry) on foreign ballad literature,
372
DLioa (R, W.) <m poetenty of Charlemagne, 270
D. (J.) on Dowdeswell family, 73
Herbert's Temple, obscure passages, 69
Pit and gallows, 298
D. (J.), Edinburgh, on Helen D'Arcy Cranstoun's
Poems, 147
Palindromical verses, 93
D. (J. S.) on fiimily of De Scarth, 134
D. (M.) on Nath. Eaton, of Manchester, 73
Dobbs (Arthur), " An Essay on the Trade and
Improvement of Ireland," 35, 63, 82, 104
Dobson (Wul) on change of fashion in ladies'
names, 397
Dodsley (Robert), anonymous works, 301
Dogget (Thomas), rowing match, 324
Dogs, epitaphs on, 416, 469
D'Olbreuse (Eleanor) of Zelle, 11, 144, 165, 348
Doles of bread at funerals, 35, 63, 296
Dolphin as a crest, 396, 469
Donne (Dr. John), monumental eflSgy, 423
Donne (John), jun., his will, 21
Dor, a beetle, 416, 467
Doran (Dr. J.) on the Austrian motto, 309
Female fools, 220
Inquisitions ver. Visitations, 224
Pamphlet, origin of the word, 169
Swift and Hughes, 278
Trials of animals, 218
Dor6 (Gustave\ books illustrated by him, 281
Dorset on Lora Glenbervie, 176
Longevity of clergymen, 182
Dorset House, Fleet Street, 9
D. (0. T.^ on Baron Munchausen, 397
Ghiadalquiver, its derivation, 435
Old joke revived, 456
Witty fool, 475
DoTe (Robert), his bequests, 170, 331, 388, 429
Dowdall (Dr.), Abp. of Armagh, 32
Dowdeswell (Richard), inquiml after, 73
Drage (Wm.), author of " The Practice of Physic,"
135
Drake (Sir Francis), at Rathlin, 89
Droeshout (Martin), engraving of Shakspeare, 333
—337, 340
** Dreams on the Border-land of Poetiy," its
author, 258
Drought in Spain, 56
Drui£cal remains in India, 53
Drumming out of the regiment, 148
Drummond (Capt. David), epitaph, 422
Dryden ( Jonn), definition of wit, 30
Dublin University out of temper with Geoige HI.,
499
"Dublin University Review." 343, 447, 524
Dnchayla (M.), mathematician, 477, 527
Dn eigne (Le Chevalier) on Mark of Thor's ham-
mer, 524
Socrates' dog, 85
Dudgeon (Wm.) of Berwickshire, 172, 271
Dummerer, its meaning, 355, 428
Dunbar earldom, 97
Dunbar (Abp. Gawin), noticed, 112, 200, 402
Dunbar (Wm.), Scottish poet, 156
Dunkin (A. J.) on Reginald Fitsnxae's cha^U 156
540
INDEX.
Dunkin (A. J.) on Rye-Hufose pbt eatdsy 141
TnniRpit duf^s, 164
Durdcn (Oliver dv), his foanilj, 115
Dnrocobrivis, a Roman stiitioo, ita loealitj, 119,
165
Duz, or Dtizik, a f^iome, or fairy, 378
D. (W.) on R. 1). IJmwne, M.P., 270
Ascot races forty years ago, 474
De Vew, Earl of Oxford, &c., 344
GHants and dwarfn, 34
Hill (Dr.), jMtition of I, 115
Mother Ooosf, 331
Nic»an barks, 268
Potato anil point, 65
I^imula : the primroHe, 132
Pnnishm<-nt, bn'aking the left arm, 460
Rolliad, characters in the, 198
D. (W. J.) on the derivation of Amen, 33
More (8ir Thomas ) and flrasmuM, 64
Si>n of glu8M, 221
Dyer (T. T.) on u Frenrli Bible, 375
MaxTow bones and clearens 467
K
Earlo (John), Bishop of HaUsbiiry, 101
Earth a living creaturts 286
£artbenwar«' V(>HHeIs found in churehtw, 25
Eassie (W.) on (Ireek and Turkisli nuraes, 68
Easter, nih> for tindin^. 112
Easter FowliH. old minting at, 192. 406
Eastern Kinj^'s devie*'. 173, 248, 348
Eastwood (J.) on " SfMirt^im, quam noefus es,
oma,*' 307
Eaton (Ntttlianiol), his rclativt^M, 73
Ebomcum on fulk Ion*, 14. >
Frith silvrr, 65
Private soldier. 145
Tedding hay in Soothind, Hit
Edinburgh, model in wood. 116, 522
Eels, aversion of the .Scotch to, 171
Ehrfit (Georj^e D.), flower-painti-r, 22
E. (H^T.)on Require, oUiimeil by vinogsir makers, 94
Names, their origin, 71
" Eikon Hasilike," various eflitiona, 48^
Eirionnach on Archer Butlers Easay on Shak-
spearc, 343
"Dublin University Review," 524
Qeographicul garden, 348
Milton's " A. H. and Rutherford," 242
"Witty classical quotatioiin, 450
Eiudon stone, Llandvilio KawT, 461
R (K. P. D.) on Borrow Sucken, co. Northampton,
477
Epita])h on the Earl of I-icicester, 185
Funeral of a suicide at Scone, 170
Gaelic manuscript, 153
Electioneering bill at Meath in 1826, 493
Elephant, the Onler o^ 323
Elisabeth (Qaeen), the << Hundred Merry Tales '*
read to her before death, 491 ; items of her
flmaial and tomb, 484, 528
Ellacombf (H. T.) on decay in stone in hnfldings,
189
Elms, a ienale Christian name, 97, 124. SOB
Elton (Cspt Geoige), 319
Elton (Lieut.-CoL Richard), 319
Ely House, Holbom, 8
Empizft, the Up^ and Lower, 379, 446
English church in Rome, 431, 488
English Text Society, 260
Enigma, monkish, 163, 199, 3(»9. 365
Engraving on gold and silvt-r, 1 34
Epigrams t —
Infancy, 196, 269
New-bom Imbe, 19.'», 269, 328
Pope (Alex.) on Lord Cbetfterfitrld, 156
Epitaphs t —
Adam (Thomas), alias Wclhowj*, 2"9
Bow cemetery, 317
Caroline (Queen), consort of Gtoi^g*- II., I
Calf(Sir John), 216
Cats, 475
Charies I., by J. H., 13
Dogs, three, 416
Evans (Rev. Hugh) of Brwrfol, 36S
Dennis (Henry) at Pucklechuivh, 295
Hart (John), dnscendant of Shukspesr\ 3
Haney (Sir James), Knt^ 327
QUbort (Thomas) at PetiTsluim, 319
Oraliam (Wm.) at DrunilMrg, co. Down, 41
Leicester (Eari of), 109, 146, 185
Pliilipps (Sir Erasmus), 264
Philhiw rCUudy), 254
Porter (William) at Bristol 289
Wain Wright (Thomas) of Warrington, 423
Younge (Thomas) and his wife, 397
Epitaphs, records of, 191
Erasmus and Sir Thomas More, 61, 84
KruHmus, Bishop of Arcadia in Crete, 516
Es<H)rial, Spain, its library, 276
Estjuire, and academical degreefi, 377 ; titlr duii
by vinegar makers, 94, 201
l!ls<juires* basts, explained, 438
Essrx gentrj', notiees of, 460
Esticx HouM*, Strand, 9
Essex (Widter, Earl of) in Irehind, 90
Estates, forfeited, in Scotland, 192
Este on D'Abrichcourt family, 524
Sutton Coldfleld, 524
Quotations, 527
Ethiopians, the Eastern, 354
E. (T. P.) on Englihh topography in Dntch, Si
Massacre of the Innocents at Bruges, 74
Eugene (Prince), his prayer, 491
Evaudt'r 8 order, 174, 309
Evans (R<»v. Hugli), tablet at Bristol, 368
E\iins (E%-an), M.I>., on tlie Turkish Spy, 260
Evans (Lewis) on Ck>lasterion, 496
LaNso, 466
Executions, a passion for witnessing; 33, 446
Exeter House, Strand, 9
F. on burial offerings, 296
Fairchild and Flower Lectures, 332
M»aii{ «aD%,«iaQaRR^^K\.
INDEX.
Fantoccini, lultwi pnppot-shnw, 52
Fardul of liind eJtptoed, UH, 406
Farnham (Lord) oa Klcanor d'Olbrtasc, 166
Bolationship of the Priuce and I'rmeeiB of
Wales, 188
Farr family of Great Plum^tead, 2^8
Farr (P, S.) cm Harrison and Fair, *I6H
** Fatherhood of God,"* author of the phrase, 514
"Featt of the Beapot*/' 298
Female fools and j enters, 2:^0^ 249
Fender, a pocket one, »56
F«iDt4Mi fiimUy pedigree, 497
F^Qtonia on Collins, actor and poet, 204
" I sett* Salmi" 409
Parietincis, 428
Portrait of Our ftiTionr, K^
SenteneeB oontaining b»t one intwel, 526
Shakttpeai^ portraits, 416
Sydnc<j po«tagp ttamp, 184
Fennor (Aiabeilii), her parents, 519
F^rrerB family of Chartley, 331
Ferrey (B.) on architects of Ftnihint^ and Salis-
bur>', 182
MutLlution of sepolckral mcnmaieDtei XOI
Pie-deatb ooffiAs, 363
j Fidgp {Dt.\ hia boat cottT«rted into a coffin, M^
LFieldiog (Henry), passage in " Tom Jones/' 193, 38'j
l^ig-oikfi, a mixed liqtror, 153
tejg-sne, a Scotch diish, 163, 221, 349
" i Idands notic*Hl, 186
layson (James) on Ghwatorex family, 399
Firmingf>^ (Thomas) on eiiecutlon of Anne Boleyn,
211
Fiflhwick (H,) on anceBtor woPBlii|v 290
Horrocks (Jerpmiab), astrononiii!, 24M
Lijngrvity of c]«^gymen, 182, 332
Ltincftshitv willn for 1 6 th cpnttinr, 578
Fifih^ck (Ri*v. .TwmrsX lonjrf^itw 182
Fita-Haftlir V - ■ ' ismptioo,87
Fitaherber'
Fitshopkin^ . , . .. ...Liuiiig, 423
Gaapai- d" Navarre: sJptwigwp, 125
iRnBUfi quoted, 200
Ifan : '- To Man," 467
ShakBpeare^ Kt^^mething nmr on bimt 342
Fitjfi-Hubert < Ralph), noticed. 414
Fitijamed (James), Duke of Jiorwick, hie deBcetid-
aut*., 134, 202 ; motto, 268
John on Hrnddic qat»riep, 213
Pit^urije (Hir Reginald J, his chapol, 1.S6
■* ' i-^Nath.), **llieTwd«aiuiii'fl Arithsnoti^"
Flcur^de-lys on t
F, (L. J.) on mai
Flowrre, colour pr-
ipftft!, 41, 61
I *og QnakefH, 630
Ting, ^lA
Fly-leaf Acribblings, &c, 110, 201
Folk Lore: —
Bce-htTfi5 in TOOtiminfc 393
If ■ 446
I 'P4), 10
J^inr, 1 11 Ml- on EftsUr-day, 394, 448
To-crij^ii-iit: <*ur*^ 393
WimtAine (JobM d^ h), **FaW<«,*' 494
Fool, th* witty, 475
Foot-clotb nag explain«i 461
Foote, ao obsolete woni, 497
Forbes (Charles), Count dc Montalwmbat, tSt
Ftj/Bd, irbttB. .'' '^ motto, 241
Ford (Sir I:i <>'or of Ixjndon, 243
Forfeited e:?Uit ~ ju .notknd, 321
Forrest (C) on WaLson of Loftijouse, Yorfcahire, 82
FoiTJ^st (Capt. Thoma»\ his dcMh, 477
Forstor (Anthony) of ( c, 439
Foriter (Joseph) of Q t. ^-*!, Camb,, 269
Forti'BCue (James), D.D., bi.>grupliy, 3f>4
Fosa (Edward) ou fd!^hioiiable quart«xs of htmiimL
8,92
Foster familv ann«, 447
Foster (S. C' ^ -utii. .. . r v .,>.,> .^^^ ^§3
Fowls with I 'i
Fox(Chiirli 1 74
Fox (Maf]gaz«l,), armc of her hrnt hiii^biind^ ^
F. (P. H.) on Mrs, Mary D«Tei> 11, UG
Fninlein addressed as bcronese, 54^ 80
Frt.derick, Prince of Wales, satirical epilifli, 2^,
386
FrotmasotLs noticed by (iesmer, 97
Freke (Thomas) of Bristol, 399
Freke (Wm.), ** Lingua Tentanctii," 76
Frt'Uch-leaTO explain^nl, 494
Friars and mouk«» 34<J, 42?
Friaie ljterattu*e, 123
Frith, a wood,^ 43
Frith silver, 66
Froude (A/) and the leading pitrtlce iit Uliter, 47
F. (R. S.) on Adni. John Beynokfc, 37
Fnuuentum, f\ e, wheat, 13
F. (R. W.)onDr, Slop. 624 ^
FtilflB. or Pholeys, of fJambia, 12, 44, 63
Fuller (Dt Tb^mas), ftuonymoatf liiie, 281 ; tffc the
siege of Basing 11 ousts 499
FuBosml c»0eriiigpi, 8d, 6i, ^^, 387
FjUbt) iti- dfflSWiliOB, 4iM
a. on barow^ a foreign titi^ BO
Bloody band of Ubter, 80
Q, Kdinburgk, on Brown of Ooalsf^in, 311
Qaidenstone ^T>^»^? i lli^^-s gn, 96
laehgRW, in • s
Longevity of 44
" Officinu Gentium, 111
Pre-dcutii coflBns and minjunpHi' , ]'i^^
Plftgiari^iras, 487
Succession through the ni. ilh r. ,'>':'>
Winton (Lord), escap? fr^jui Lhf Vowur, 176
a (A.) on Rev. Arch, Bruce, 320
Hindoo godfl, 449
Hume (tloaeph), a poet, 29 1
Hymn a by tne Duke of Roxboigb, 238
" Letter Box," its editor, 321
Plain (Timothy )» /wcW,, 298
'* Solomon's Song," 1703, itF author, 822
" The Grand In^KMtor," ita aiftiiot\ 30
Harrit^a Ikmily of Great Plutnstead, 258
Harrii«on (Jolin), chrono meter-maker, anagram, 2o
Hurt (John), desceniknt of Shakspeare, epiteph,
342
Harvey &mily of Wacgey Houfle, E^ex, 42, 247,
326
** HmtiTigii ChroDide/* its contributors, 75
Hatchet, the old custom of throwing it, olG
Hat«| fashion of wearing white, 136
Hats, white ones unpopular at Oxford, 439
H&tfiell (John), Esq., noticed, 494
Hawise of Keveoloc, her seal, 254
Hawkins (John), author of" life of Prince Henry,"
20
Hay (O. J.) on tJie grave of Pocahontas, 123
Haydn (J. F*), liis camsoncts, 212, 288, 467 ; »jm-
ll phonies, 2o8
! Haynos ( Major John), 320, 42?
^^ Hnynes {Rev, John), longevity, 182
^H Ms (C) on Charltfl Lii?ftlej% minor po^t, 57
■ Mohun (4th Lord), his death. 136
^B Smyth (Rev, Wm.), family, 49$
■ Wyatt family, 469
f H. (C. K.) on the court and character of James L,
451
H. (E.) on the situation of Zoar, 181
Hearts, stories of broken, 514
Heath (B. C.) on the advent of the swallow, 53
Heather burning, 281
fi<^brew MSS, destroyed by Rabbis, 399, 485
Heineken (E. Y.) on "Author of good," &C., 123
Heirs, €8tat*'4J falling to the Grown for want ofi418
Heming family of Worcester, 173, 268, 365, 426,
489
•Hennebert (Charles), Prof of Modern Histor>' at
Cambridge, 117, 164
Henry III., his bamns, 115, 460
Henry VH., letters and ptir^rs of his reign, 460
Henry VIII, and Queen Katharine, pleadings be*
fore theBomnn consi§tory, 144
Henshall (S.), '* Gothic and English Gospels,
" Heraditii-- t/< ' -- ^ editor's name, 73, 469
Heraldr)'. 1 v of, 190
Heralds' V) printed, 62
►Heralds' Viuitutions, an Index suggested, 238
Herbert (George), different meanings of the word
Wit, 163; obscure passages in "The Temple^'
69
^^Herbert (Mr.), bis company of players, 497
^^permentrude on Charlemagne's posterity, 270
^H Female fools, 249
^H Harold's posterity, 246
^V IsabeUa (Queen), wiirdrobe-book, 618
Royal cjidency, 13 10
Herodotustj original title of Ills History, 163
**eruB Frater on Greek Testament, 1711, 420
Sheridan*s Greek, 103
esdene family, co. Gloucester, 114
ewitt family, 628
(F. C.) on Black Bear at Cumnor, 439
Baptiijmal names, 24
Burlesque painters, 407
Chulmorton font inscription, 365
Dor, or beetle, 466
EarlhcQwur© vessels found in cburchcH. 25
'421
H. (R C.) on Enigma by tb« Earl of SurPay» 103
Enigma, monkish, 309
Episcopal seal of St. David's, 448
Fiteherbert (Mrs,), no children. 83
Fitz- James, his descendants, 202
Ham Castle, inscription, 365
Hymns of the church, 263, 408
Iron Mauk, 202
Latin quotation, 271
Lines attributed to Kemble, 184
Magicians of Eg^t of modem timeF, 151
Monks and ^ars, 427
Motto for BurtoO'Upon-Tren t water company,
269
Hurtha, a Christian name, 448
Natter, or adder, 184
Oliver (Dr. George), 202
Paper-makers' trade rnark^, 24
Penny loaves at funerals, 63
Pen-tooth, or Pin-tooth, 43
Pholeys, or Foulalis, 63
Quotation Irom Mrs. Hemans, 443
Q notations wanted, 247
Psalm xe. 9, its tTanslation, 160
Revalenta, itis introduction, 24
Eosary, its institution, 247
Saints' names wanted, 249
Selah, meaning of the word, 621
Simon and the Dauphin, 246
Sortes Virgiliame, 246
St4^-pmothers' blessings, 25
St. Angnstinc, curious passage in, 355
St, Patrick and the shamrock^ Gl
Stum rod, 365
Swallow and the returning Npring, 83
Trial of aninrnk, 218 '^
Twelfth Day: Song of the Wren, 184
H. (F. D.) on French coronets, 80
fklden mansion, Bucka, 81
H. (G.) on the Eiudon stone. Llandeilo Fawr, 461
H. (H.) on Lewis Morris, 12
Quotation wanted, 627
High Commission Court, 478
Hill family of Middlesex and co. Worcester, 345
Hill of Huleii, arms, 478, 524
Hill (Auron). lines on a nettle, 43
Hill (Dr.), and the petition of I, 115
Hill (Geo ) on Colkitto and Galasp, 287
Mr. Froude in lister, 47
Hilton of Hilton Hall family crest, 130
Hindoo gods, 135, 197, 262, 399, 449; position of
their fingers, 73, 123
Hiome (Mr.), architect, 07
Hippseus on Charlemagne's ^josterity, 134
Harold (King)^ his posterity, 135
Inquisitions t% Vimtations, 154
Writs of sunimoiis, 117
H. (J. C.) on cenotaph at Clifton, 84
Heatlier burning, 281
Hodgkin (J. E) on " To B:irb" =to shave, 494
Hodson (George) on tlie " Kilruddery Hunt>" 504
Hofl&nan (D,) on ptiinting at Easter ITowlis, 466
Hogarth, origin of the name, 418. 507
Holborn viaduct, its construction, 319
.,\sai
INDEX.
545
J. on Anonyinoafl contributioni,. 307
Austin Friars' church, 376
Earl of Dalhousie, 34
Heraldic queij, 241
John Bristow, 248
NewhaTen in France, 116
J. (A.) on Inchgaw, co. Fife, 288
" Jack of Newbury," quoted, 478
JackiSon (S.) on ballad queries, 376
Carter Lane chapel^ 387
Lutin in Switzerland, 39 i
Similar stories in diiSarent locftHties, 375
Jacob (Sir John), Knt, his ^milj, 213, 445
Jago (Kev. Bichard), "The Blackbirds/* 133, 198
James I., court and character o^ 451 ; reousaats in
his reign, 434
James IL, capture at Feversham, 391 ; at St
Gennains, 13
James V. of Scotland, his natural son, 300
James (Rev. Edw.), vicar of Abergavenn j, 74
Jameson (Mr.), lawyer and dramatist, 418
Jane the fool, 25
Jay (Sir James), Knt, M J)., 418
Jaydee on the bullfinch, 124
Berkholz and Bantysch-Kamenaki, 515
Johnson (Michael), of Lichfield, 38
Slop (Dr.), aliaa Dr. John Burton, 414
Jefi&ey (Lord), letter to Bernacd Barton, 70; date
of his death, 475
Jeffreys (Geoige Lord), moirameiital brass of his
daughter Mary, 494
Jenny (Thomas), rebel and poet, 132
"Jewish Spy" noticed, 486
Jowitt (L.) on Thomas Bentley of Chiswick, 376
Greatorex, or Greatrakes family, 447
J. (J. C.) on a camel bom in England, 132
Fly-leaf scribblings, &c., 110
Old London rubbish heap, 129
Reliable, its use defended, 58
Tnwty : Trust, as used by Shakspeare, 231
John abbrpviated to Jno., 460
John (King), portraits, 420
Jdinson (Gerard), effigy of Shakspeace, 227, 334
Johnson (Michael), of Lichfield, bookseller, 33
Johnson (Dr. Samuel) and baby-talk, 396 ; chas-
tises Osborne, 455; «*Life," 1785, 497
Jones (H. G.) on first paper-mill in America, 222
Jones (H. L.) on the old cathedral of Boulogne, 476
Jones (John), of Gloucester, monument, 363
Jones (M. C.) on posterity of Harold IL, 217
Jonson (Ben\ lines on Shakspeare's portrait, 333,
340
Joseph, Archbishop of Macedonia, 397
Juel (Niels), noticed, 257
Junius' claimant^ Rev. Philip Boeenhagen, 16
Justice, when the name was first given to county
magistrates, 436, 485
Juyema on Kilkenny cats, 433
Soiur, "Farewell of the Irish Qxenadior/' 464
Jiiacm (£lia8), inquired after, 4^
Jnxta Turrim on Bp. AndwwreeV wSl, 187
Burial Scrrice, pasMge in, 177
JDfAkrMMiHiit Lnify, 409
Juzta Turrim on Haydn's Byxafhomm, 258
Haydn's canzonets, 212
Hood, Ad eundem, 239
Lampe (John Frederick), 185
Holbom viaduct, 319
Robinson (Robert), of Cambridge, 408
Sack, a wine, 328
K.
Kamenskfg « Ace of Peter the Great," 515
Kappa on Sir Wm. Pole's charters, 98
Talbot papers, 437
Keightley (Thomas) on Shakspeare criticisms, 340
Kelly (Wm.) on John Daniel and other players,
240
Joseph, archbishop of Macedonia, 397
Proverb : The devil and the collier, 282
Shakspeare (Thomas), 383
Kempt (Robert), on Charles Lamb and Alice "W — ,
346
Passion for witnessing executions, 33
Penny loaves at funerals, 35
Kemys ^Lawrence), confined in the Tower, 7
Kerry, the Knights of, letter to, 417
Ken (Bishop), his three Hymns, 44
Kennedy (Kev. James), biography, 241
Ker (Sir John) styling himself Lord, 492
Kessektadt (Count), mask of Shakspeare, 228, 342
Kiles, or Keils, a Scottish game, 84
Kilkenny cats battle, 433
Kilruddeiy, the seat of the Eari of Meath, 404,
442, 500
« Kilruddery Hunt," a ballad, 404, 442, 469
" Kimbolton Park," a poem, 479
KindUe Tenant right, 105
King (Richard John) on words and places in De-
vonshire, 374
Kings ! an exclamation in children's play, 456
Kirby (Rev. Wm.) his longevity, 22
Kirkwood (James), minister of Astwick, Beds, 29
Kirkwood (James), Scottish grammarian, 29
K (J. M.) on pocket fender, 56
Spanish drought, 56
Knight (Rev. Sam. Johnes), longevity, 880
Knowles (E. H.), on Wm. Dimbar, poet, 156
Knox (Andrew), Bishop of Raphoe, 371, 460
Knox (Thomas), Bishop of the Isles, 411
Kohol, Arabic word, 349
Kuster (Ludolph), DJ)., his death, 115
Ladies* names, change of ffishion in, 397, 508
Lady, its derivation, 211
Lady-day and Good Friday, 224, 291
L. (A. E.) on Charles ll.'s illegitimate childrwi,
409
Recusants, temp, James L, 434
Sealing-wax removed, &c., 419
Zoar, its situation, 117
Leelius on t^e Rev. Heniy Boriase, 203
Grotius, translation of " Adamus Exul," 36
livermore (Harriet), pilgrim ftmngor^ 85
:filoTn^QUnnftY V4a, ^^
INDEX.
647
Ljttelton (Lord) on Aristotle's politieSi 525
BiillofBurke\267
Chaperon, 312
6obnam pyramid, 421
Curmudgeon, its derivation, 370
Hjmn writers, 312
Italics, their proper use, 200
Judicial Committee of Privy Council, 383
Proverbial sayings, 136
Quotations, 523
" Salmagundi,*' its author, 322
Witty and wise, 202
M.
M. on epitaph on a dog, 469
Kosenhagen (Rev. Philip), 16
Mac Cabe (W. B.) on Dinan, its legends and tra-
ditions, 273
Chess, its antiquity, 447
Coliberti, 446
Corseul, arrondissement of Dinan, 389
Lapwing: witchcraft, 10
Loo, inventor of the game, 458
Mac Culloch (Edgar) on Sir Edmund Andros, 425
Budd (Henry), 528
Macdonnell (James), of Donegal, family, 47
McDonald (Wm. Russell), editor of " The Literary
Humourist," 98
Macduff (Sholto) on Kindlie Tenant right, 105
Machabeu ^Jehudah), '< Orden de Oraciones," 498
Machynlletn, parliament house at, 174, 247
McK. (T.) on Dr. Robert Wauchop, 31
Mackay (A.) on Ensign Sutherland, 322
McKenzie (Rev. Colin), his longevity, 454
Mackenzie (Capts J. D.) on fowls with human re-
mains, 55
McKenzie (Dr. Murdo), Bishop of Orkney and
Zetland, 453
Maclean (John) on folk lore in south-east of Ire-
land, 446
Pre-death coffins and monuments, 424
M'Minimie (E. W.) on Lord Clonmell's Diary, 529
Macray (J.) on Mary, Queen of Scots, 508
Zschokke's " Meditations on Life and Death,"
448
Madman'sfoodtastingof oatmeal porridge, 35, 64,81
Madrid, Spanish lines on, 436
Msevius, early notice of, 182
Mapidans, the modem ones of Egypt, 151
Maiden Castle, in Dorsetshire, 101, 141
M. (A. J.) on St. Mary's, Beverley, 51
Epitaphs from the Bow cemeteiy, 317
Man : " To man," its conventional use, 397, 467
Manchester Free Libraiy CatiJogue, 429
Maps of Roman Britain, 196, 385
Marana (Jean Paul), author of "The Turkish
Spy," 260
Ma^^ Annals, 450
Mazsaret (Queen) of Anjou, letters, 26
Marnam in Devonshire, 374
Maria de PadiUa, 149
Marine zisks in the seventeenth centuiy, 319
MftTkham (Ladri Dr. Donne's friend, 498, 622
Mkddaad (J. A) on Tbomaa Bentley, 609
Markland (J. H.) on Family burying ground, 406
Mutilation of sepulchral monuments, 158
Marriage before a justice of the peace, 400, 469, 526
Marriages, early, 23
Marrow bones and cleavers, 356, 467, 524
Marsh ^J. F.) on Paget and Milton's widow, 325
Marshall (G. W.) on books of monumental in-
scriptions, 54
" Castle Builders," its author, 514
Dolphin, as a crest, 469
Leigh family of Slaidbum, co. York, 116
Milton's wife and Robert Comberbach, 96
Martin family of Ahresford HaU, Essex, 154, 222,
349
Maiy Queen of Scots and Shakspeare, 338 ; de-
fended by M. Louis Wiesener, 411, 508; her
misfortunes, 112, 403; offered to be rescued
from prison by Both well, 321 ; signet ring, 619
Massachusetts stone, 298
" Massacre of the Innocents," picture at Bruges,
74, 163
Massareene (John Clotworthy, 1st Viscount), 344
Massie (Joseph), political writer, 241
Masson (Gustave) on Mar^ Queen of Scots, 411
Master (Robert Mosley), his longevity, 454
Master (Rev. Streynsham), his longevity, 123
Masters (Mary), poetess, 154
Matfelon, (St. MaiyX ^'(^ Whitechapel, 83, 161,
223
Matilda (Empress), Amulphus' Life of, 116
Iklatthews (Henry), on horses first shod with iron,
101
Maurice (Rey. F.), *' Family Worship," 321
May: Tn-Milchi, 44
May (Sir Edward), bart., of Mayfield, 36, 65, 66,
84, 142, 201, 469, 487
Meacham (John), a minor poet, 259
Meath, electioneering biU in 1826, 493
Meccah, visitors to, 213
Medals, loyalty, 479, 523
Medical degrees conferred by the Abp. of Canter-
bury, 481
Medical legislation, 481
Medmenham Qub, 482
Meletes on Cary femily, 468
Charlemagne's posterity, 366
Foreign honours, 407
" Memtations on Life and Death," 400
Morganatic marriages, 328, 515
Neology wittingly defined, 132
Potiphar, an officer of the court, 347
Sloper (Sir Robert), pedigree, 498
Wagstaffe (Dr. JonaUian), 299
Memlinc (Hans), artist, 163
Mendelssohn's oratorio, " St Paul," 112
Meriton (George), a legal writer, 480
Merlin, the Birth of, a ballad, 372
*' Mermaid," a caricature of Mary Queen of Scots,
338
Mermaid Tavern dub, 498
Merrvweather (F. 6.) on Crowe field, 168
Stone bridge in St. Martin's-in-the-Fields,
136
506
INDEX.
M9
Kewington Batts, its old bridge, Ul
ygyjagtonemds on the Apoci^^pfe, 417, 420
Hebrew manuscripts, 399
Septuagint interpolated by Jews, 429, 624
Newlin (J. W. M.) on Nicholas Ne^oHin, 66
Newlin (Nicholas), iamilj and aims, 65
Newspapers, sets of English conntj, 616
Newton stone, 110, 246, 380, 428
New Yearns Day customs in Scotibad, 163, 221,
350
Nicsean barks, 268
Niehflis (John Gongh) oa thm Ardeas of Warwick-
rii2re,492
Divine Meditation on Death, 189
Nicholson (B.) on passage in " Ofmbeh'ne," 234
Prospero, Duke of Milan, his hvlk, 226
Shakspeariaaa, 49, 60
Tom or John Dram's entertainment, 148
Twelfth Night, passage in, 229
Nuiols (Bey. WUliam^, noticed, 366
Nile, its source deseribed in 1668,113 ; discorered
bv Capt Speke, 118
H» (J. G.) on Elma, a female Christian name, 97
Epitaph upon Charles I., 13
Justice, as applied to county magistrates, 436
Norfolk folk lore, 236
Norman (E. J.) " Somid of the grass growing,'*
194
Normandy, expulsion of the English from, 44
Norreys ( Capt. John) at Carricldergus, 90
North (T.) on ring mottoes, 33
Northamptonshire inhabitants of Celtic eoLtxmction,
298
Northumbrian money, 56
Norwich ale, its potent effects, 613
Notes and Queries, hints to anonymous contiibn-
tors, 238, 307, 330
Notker, a monk of St. Gall, his'antiphon, 177
N. (T. C.) on Bowyer House, Camberwell, 161
Budd (Henry), 628
Harrey family, 247
Newington Bntts, its old bridge, 141
Nugent (ChcTalier LavalX foreign titics, 296
Nugent<Thomas), foreign titles, 296
N.TW. L.) on the hooting thing of Mickleton
Wood, 478
O.
Oath administered to sheriffs, 157
Oath as taken in India, 277
Oath " ex officio," 136, 221
O'B. (J.), Dublin, on swallows harbingers of sum-
mer, 122
O'Connell (Maurice), " The Rueful Quaker," 437
" Offidna gentium," used byBp. Jomandea,167, 177
Og^am characters. 111, 246
0. ( Jy on Robert Bums, jun., 62
Kirkwood (James), two authon of these
names, 29
Mitchel (Wm.), the Tinchiiian doctor, 74
OKtw (Drs. George), two antiquaries, 137, 202
dTeOl (Shane), expedition against the Scots, 48
Otiiip*'- "» tm
Order of the Elephant, 323
Order of Victoria and Albert, 281, 322
Orientation of St. Peter^s at Rome, 616
Onseley (T. J.), inquired after, 418
Out-set, or out-cept, 514
Owl, a proscribed bird, 71, 143
" Owl," a satirical periodioal, 612
Oxford (De Vere, Earl of) and the batde of Rad-
cot Bridge, 344
Oxoniensis on Baptismal names, 22
Bererley minster, lines on, 62
Burton (John), D.D., 13
CSiaxles II., his illegitimate childrefn, 211
Church music, 257
Colkitto, 183
Easton Maudit parish registers, 483
Epimm on Inikncy, 269
Madman's food tasting of oatmeal, 64
Owl, a proscribed bin^ 71
Rob Ro7, aUnsions in, 281
Sea of glass, 166
Wigan f JohnX M.D., 87
Witty classical qnotSbtions, 869
Pack (Mjgor Richardson), biography, 118
Paget (Dr. Nathan), relationship to Milton, 193,
326
Painter to his Majesty, 66
Painters, burlesque, 345, 407
Painter's canvass, stamp duty on, 99, 141, 182
Palindromical verses, 93
Paminger (Leonaid), musical composer, 76
Pamphlet, its etymology and signification, IBTy 290
Paper-makers' trade marios, 24, 65
Paper-mill first erected in America, 222
Papworth St. Agnes, co. Cambridge, 212, 271
Papworth St. Everard, co. Cambridge, 212, 271
Papworth (Wyatt) on Matthew Brettingham, 63
Funeral and tomb of Queen Elizabeth, 528
Hamlet*s grave, 60
Orientation : St Peter's at Rome, 616
Vanbui^h (Sir John), drawings, 498
Paradin's " Devises Heroiques," 339, 447, «B5, 528
Paragram, ancient Greek, 267
Parietines, its meaning, 281, 428
Park (Justice Allan), revenrence for tiie Lord's Day,
28
Parker (Mary Ann), the circumnavigator, 76
Parliaments^ sittings, time of assembling, 438
Parochial registers, i^t to copy, 68
Parochial registers : W ilby, co. Northampton, 248 ;
Easton Maudit, 483
Parson Chaff, its meaning, 281
Pasticcio Operas, 169
"Patience on a monument," where to be seen, 418
Patrick (St) and the shamrock, 40, 60, 79, 104
P. (D.) on the English Protestant chnxdi in Rome,
488
CranceHn benuv, 622
Fleur-de-lys on tbe marimc^s <uui|iii, 61
Heraldic queries, 801, 624
Lo7ii3!t?7 mtdaXEv^at^
550
INDEX.
p. (D.) on oil oathrdral of Boulogne, 606
"\ViM'(Fpsincw), B.D., 121
Peacock (tMwanl) on iirmH wiintoil, 311
Biixtor (Thomns). "The Circle Squared," 348
CiiUis (llolM?rt), 134
CUri;i'8 ( KranciM), M.P^ 311
Coph«y (ChriMtoiiber), 201
Eastoni kinp'H ilcvico, 248
GaiiiHY)orou^h Pmyor-Book. 1G4
Torn' (Jjinui*), York«hirt' untiquan'. 507
Pookard 0<«*v. IVtrrX D.D.. his MSS., 3;')
PrdigpiM-. t'vidt'ncc in proof of ono, 4i'i9, •')20
•* p4'ine fort ft dur»*," punishment for not pleading,
2o5, 32 {
Prlhani family, 321
Penni ^Luoi-u). munopjam, 380
P«*nnnylvani:i, NlaviTy pn>hil>itc<I in. 480
Penny loiivis at fnnrr.ilH, 35. «3. 20G
Pon-tooth, DF pi u -tooth, provinoialiMni, 43
Pi'Utycnjss (Hw. ThomiiH) of Wallinglfonl, 272
Pcpoy (Up. Thomas). tutrioH in the Wilhy agister,
244 ; in that of Kii>ton Maudit, 483
Porkins family, oo. LrieeutiT, 7A
Prrehoro Abbt-y, its architect, 182
Petran'h. value of tin- I'dition, 1.V20-3, 437 ; i-dit.
1574, 74
Pctrio collection of ancient music, 498
JVws ht-fnpe tlie Hefonnation, 43
P. {O.lXfr VurA; on the Empn'ss Maud, UG
Philander (.I.iakiiii\ •• The (loMen Calf," 457
Philip (Kin;;). lin«-M on, 103
Philipps (.Sir KiMNnms^ epitaph, 251
Phillips (Claudy), nniHieian, epitaph, 251
Phillip (Jonas H.), American dramatist, t)G, 386
Phillips (.1. V.) on ehildren's j^amo, 304
Holland (J.), optician, 157
.lolniHon (Dr. SamueU and haby-talk, 396
Morris* (liewin). 85, 210
Pack (Major Kiehanlson), 118
Hhakspenn' relic, 450
Shofnl, n slan^ word, 145
WilliamH (Mrs.). Miscellanies, 254
Philh>tt (F.) on lionl. I^dy, their derivation, 211
Owl, an ill-omened bird, 143
Wit, itH vuriuUH usi-s, 82
Phob'ys. or Fulas. of (lamlaa, 12, 44, 63
Picton (J. A,) on Maiden Castle, 141
Team, its proper definition, 187
Wit, ori^n of the wonl, 161
Pjoj«8e (Cliarles) on Vichy, 105
PiesBo f Soptimus) on Laurel water, 63
Nile. Its sources discovered in 1668, 113
Pig and AViiistle, a sipn, 122
Pigott (Henry), longex-ity, 332
Pinkerton (Wm.) on Cromwell's heail, 178, 305
"Est Kosa iios veneris,"? 15
Mitchcl (Wm.), the Tinclarian Doctor, 124
Paradin 8 '• Devises Heroiqucs," 485
Prototype of CoUins's " To-morrow," 461
Bobin Adiiir : Kilruddcry Hunt, &c, 500
St Patrick and the shamrock, 40, 79
Shakvpeare and Mary Queen of Scota, 338
Venablea (Col. Robert), 99
Pit and gallowa, whpn last inflicted, 298
Pitt diamond, ita histoiy, 8A7
Pitt (Wm.) and Charles Fox, their owtorj."\
Place (Mr.) and " The ClcTjorman's Law. h\\
PhigiariBma, g<>npral. "The Grovei of BUmr:
&c, 432, 487, 623
Pbin (Timothv), noni il«» plump, 298. 3M
Pbito*B foresight of Shak«ii>earp. 63
" Play uppp Tho Bri Jos of Endi ri»y,*' 378
" Plymouth Beauty." a print. 458
Plymouth Sound, draught of. 320
P.\M.) on Arabella Femior. 519
Markham (Lady), 522
Monumental inacriptiunn at Dnokirk.olS
Pocahontas, an Indian princes*, hergnt', 123
P^ets Laupcat li'*t» of, 312
Pole (Sip William), hiH chartora, US
Polhiil (Edw.) of Burwash, his death, 419
Pomepoy(Rev. Joseph), hi» coflBn. 434
*' Pompomua Mela andSolinuM," e*lit 1518. «IM
Poi>e (Alex.), epigrHm on Gh«»»terfielil IM. 241;
portrait noticed by Stome, 135; papp«d^
eoreiy of his port mi t> 72, 137
Pope (Rev. F. S.) of AVhitbv, 20
Pop« (Luke), author of " lliKtoi^- of MiAUew,^
400
Pope (Dp. Walter), poem " The Old Mans FuL'
461
Porchester church, inscription, 479, 530
Porter (Endymion), his fiiinily, 117
Porter family monumental inacriptionf, 2N, M
520
Porter (Mp«. Sarah), Queen of the T'«tm ti
Tunbridge Wi'lb», a ]irint, 458
Port look (Capt. Nathaniel), noticed. 373, Hi
489
PoHtuf^ stampfi, exchange of foreign, 419
Post-office, hiiitorical account, 410
Potato and point, 65
Potiphar, an officer of the ronrt, 347
Pott4T (Bamaby), Bitthop of Carlisle, 214
Puulet (George), noticed, 213
Powi'll (Rev. James), hiH longevity, 123
P. (P.) on engraving by BartoJozzi, 377
Mutilation of aepulchral monument^ 22
** Patience on a monument,** 418
Red Croaa Knighta, of ToniplarB, 489
Weluh burial offeringH, 387
Witches in Lancaster Castle, 385
Pratt family of Coletthill, Berkm 174, 249
Pratt (Geo.) on Pratt, baronets of ColeshUl, 174
Pniyen*, I*rivate, for the laity, 193, 270
lVf8top(John)in the apms of the ace of Chidiester,
279
PpeBtoniensis on longpvity of clcf^gymen, 65, 12S
Pridcaux (Juhn), Rp. of Worcester, portrait, 243
Primrose, the primula, 132, 202
Primula : tho primrose, 132, 202
Prior (MatthewX origin of the " Thief and Cord^
lier, • 476, 528
Private soldier, meaning of the phrase, 144, 186
Privy Council, meeting of ths Judicial Committee
o^ 193, 267, 364, 383
ProTarbt and Phrases : —
Cornish prorerba^ 208, 276
Q<Qa.\aBA>\9(a "^gRf^MK -«
INDEX.
551
ProTerbf and Phrases : —
Every dog has his day, and a cat has two
Sundays, 97, 185
Fatherhood of God, 514
Hatter : As mad as a hatter, 24, 64, 125
I got my kail through the reek for that, 77
Lajiguage given to man to conceal his thoughts,
34, 216
Needs must when the Dcyil drives, 136, 203
One half of the world knows not how the other
lives, 136
One swallow does not make a summer, 53, 83
*' Bevenons k nos moutons," 346, 408
Rose : " Est Rosa flos veneris," 15, 64
Tag, rag, and bobtail, 518
Thou art like unto like, as the Devil said to
the Collier, 282, 389
We praise the food as we find it, 117
We praise the fool as we find him, 117
Prowett (C. G.) on JEnigmata, 267
Bull of Burke's, 445
** Hamlet," passage in, 426
" Troilus and Cressida," passage in, 426
Pryce (CKio.) on monumental inscnptions in Bris-
tol, 87, 368
Southey's birth-place, 249
Psalm zc. 9, its translation, 57, 83, 102, 160
Psalms— "I Sette Salmi," its author, 98, 409
Pack, his eastern origin, 394
Pumice stone, its domestic uses, 56
Punishment for not pleading, 255, 324
Puppet-show exhibitions of the last century, 62
Purcell (Heniy), song " Let the dreadful engines,"
472
Purgatory, a pagan superstition, 373
Pumell (T.) on Lewis Morris, 142
Purser (Richard), a centenarian, 170
P. (W.) on the broad arrows, 165
Cold in June, 164
Epitaphs, records of, 191
Glass, its early use in England, 629
Homilies read in churches, 173
Monasteries, manuscripts on, 57
Painter to His Majesty, 66
St Swithin's Day, 164
Tombstones and memorials, 528
P. (W. P.) on manuscript English Chronicle, 54
Cock Robin's death in a church window, 98
Cuckoo song, 466
Pumice stone, its uses, 66
P. (Y.) on burial-place of still-bom children, 34
Madman's fooid tasting of oatmeal porridge, 36
Quadalquivir, "the Great River," 436, 487
Quakers' Yards in Wales, 194
Quakers' marriage portion to servants, 530
Queasy B ticklish, qualmish, 171
(lUieftman, parochial officer, 34, 66, 81, 188
Quotations: —
A human heart should beat for two, 271
"Ant ta es Moras aut nollns," 61, 84
Aatbarofgoodl to Tbee I turn, 128, 271.
Quotations : —
Death hath a thousand ways to let out life,
142
For me let hoaiy Fielding bite the ground,
496, 623
God and the doctor we alike adore, 62, 469,
527
God from a beautiful necessity is love, 271
Green wave the oak for ever o er thy rest, 378,
443
He digged a pit, 193
He set as sets the morning star, 495, 523
I had no friend to care for me, 437
Knowledge that leaves no trace of acts be-
hind, 322
No spot on earth but has supplied a grave,
378
Nullum quod tetigit non omavit, 197
O God of glory ! Thou hast treasured up, 75
Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
119, 184
Qui Christum noscit, &c, 83, 106, 126, 247
Spartam, quam nactus es, orna, 260, 307, 444
This book, when brass and marble fail, 378,
627
This world's a good world to live in, 114
Westward the course of empire takes its way,
496, 523
Woman's will, 300
Quotations, on verifying, 290
R.
Radcot Bridge battle, 398, 488
Raffles (Rev. Dr.), autographs, 269
Raid, early use of the word, 400
Raine (Henry), marriage portion to females, 476
Raleigh (Sir Walter), documents regarding, 108,
184, 200, 207, 351 ; unpublished particulars, 7
Randell (Mrs. Maria Eliza), her MSS., 419
Rapier f&mily pedigree, 213
Rathlin, its reduction in 1675, 89
R. (C. J.) on Heming family of Worcester, 173^
Leigh &mily of Yorkshire, 166
Quotations wanted, 62
Richardson family, 165
Rowe (Cheyne), an author, 298
Rowe (John), seijeant-at-law, 10
Seal found in Yorkshire, 166
Sevenoke (Sir William), arms, 37
Torrington family, 56
Reardon (J.) on Sir Edward May, 66
Red Cross Knights, or Temfhirs, 407, 489
Redmond (S.) on great battle of cats, 133
Brown (Robert Dillon), M.P., 369
Folk lore in Ireland, 353
" Irish Tutor," its author, 479
Murtha, a Christian name, 356
Oath taken in India, 277
Plagiarisms : " The Groves of Bhimey," 432
"Rueful Quaker," by Maurice O'Connell, 437
''Robin Adair," 442
Sun-dancing on Easter Sunday monung, 448
Sumamfia, 4\^
392
INDEX.
Reliable, the use of the word defended, 68, 86, 266,
329
Resurrection Gate, St. Giles' -in-the-Fields, 67, 165
Retreat applied to a muster of troops, 119, 202, 248
Revalenta, its origin, 24, 200
Reynolds (James) on St. Mary Matfelon, 83, 161
Reynolds (Adm. John), biography, 37
R. (H. E^ on marrow-bones and deavere, 624
Rhaged ( Vryan) on whipoltre, or holly, 386
Rhodes (W. B.), dramatic pieces, 36
Richard III., letters and papers of his reign, 460
Richardson family, 72, 123, 166, 627
Richardson (Charles), LL.I)., his early work, 71
Richardson (Rev. Christopher), parentage, 213, 271
Richardson (Sir Thomas), noticed, 124
Richmond court rolls, 437
Richmond (Frances Stuart, Duchess of), engraved
as Britannia on coins, 37
Rifling, its early invention, 435
Rimbault (Dr. E. F.) on the Black Bear at Cum-
nor, 438
Bentley (Thomas) of Chiswick, 449
Braham (John), the vocalist, 444
Dove (Robert), his bequests, 429
Exhibition of sign-boards, 14
Oratorio of " Abel," 467
Resurrection-gate, St. Giles' s-in-the-Fields, 67
Shurley (John), voluminous writer, 80
" Three blue beans " and the ballot, 444
Ring mottoes, 33
Rivetus (Andreas), anagram, 63
Rix (Joseph), M.D., on James Prendeville, 269
Rix (S. W.) on Mrs. Barbauld's Prose Hymns, 33
R. (M. S.) on cenotaph to 79th regiment at CHf-
toii, 11
Choyno (Capt. Alexander), 34
R. (N. H.) on book hawking, 70
Jamen IL at 8t. Germain's, 13
Robespierre's remains, 1 1
Robin, a parricide, 347, 407
Robin Hood, his birfh-place, 293
Robinson (C. J.) on Gary family in Holland, 398,
525
French leave, origin of the term, 494
"Rob Roy," allusions in, 281
Robsart (Amy), her death, 439
Rod used in ladies' schools, 203
Roffe (Alfred) on John Frederick Lampe, 184
Pasticcio Operas, 169
Purcell's song, "Let the dreadful engines," 472
Rogation days, works on, 131
" Rolliad,'' characters in it, 198
Romaine (Rev. Wm.), Christian name of his >Tife,
298
Roman camps, churches within, 173, 329, 441
Roman games, 39, 65, 139, 244
Romano-liritish money, 298
Rome, the English church in, 431, 488
Rosary, its original institution, 154, 247
Jo»e : •' Est Rosa flos veneris," 15, 64
Rose (Edward Hampden), works, 259, 327
Rosenhagen (Rev. Philip), a Junius chiimant, 16
Row parochial records, 272
Rotation Office, 213
Bound towen of Ireland, 115
Rows (Cheyne), an author, 298
Rowe (John), setjeant-at-law, 10
Rowlands (W. K) on battles in England, tf8
Delalaunde (Sir Thomas), 377
Virsil's testimony to our Isold's advent, 4i
Rowley (Rev. Joshua \ longevity, 63, 82
Roxburgh (Duke of), his hymns, 238, 366
Royal arms explained, 100
Royal cadency, 213, 310, 366
R. (S. Y.) on Ursuhi, Lady Altham, 284
Acland (Rev. John), 320
Ardesoif (J. P.), RN., 435
Bailley (Sir Charles), 284
Ballard (Colonel), 320
Bentley (Nathaniel), "Dirty Dick,** 482
Bolton (James), botanical artist, 345
Bristow (John), 97
Brook (Abraham), 355
Bryan (Mrs. Mai^garet), 355
Budd (Henry) of Guernsey, 417
Chaigneau (William), 11
Chandler (Richard), 151
Cherington (Viscount), 347
Clarendon (R. V.), 496
Clarkes (three Charles), 485
Cotterell (Lieut-Colonel), 297
Cook (Thomas), alderman of Yongjia], 53
Coventry (Sir John), KB., 191
Cranidge (John), M.A., 280
Cumming (James), 212
Dare (Josiah), 497
Davys (John), rector of Caatlo Ashby, 889
Deverell (Mrs. Mary), 379
Dudgeon (William), 172
Elton (Lieut.-Col. and Capt. George), 319
Forrest (Capt. Thomas), 477
Forlcscue (James), D.D., 354
Goody er (John) of Mapledurham, 173
Hamilton (Geo.): Capt. Edwards, 458
Harris (Moses), engraver, 458
Holder (Thomas and Capt. Tobie), 152
Hopkirk (Thomas), 356
Hurt ley (Thomas) of Malham. 497
Jay (Sir James), Knt., M.D., 418
Jenny (Thomas), i-ebel and poet, 132
Lewis (Wm. Lillington), 241
Lund (Jolm) of Pontefract, 282
Massie (Joseph), political \»Titer, 241
Molyneux (Thomas More), 298
Parker (!Mary Ann), circumnavigator, 75
Pope (Luke), author of " History of Midd
sex," 400
Portlock (Capt. Nathaniel^), 375
PolhiU (Edward), Esq., of Burwash, 4iy
Spence (William), entomologist, 214
Stephens (Peter), Esq., 419
Sutton (John) M.D., 175
Townsend (Thomas), Esq., barrister, 419
Verral (William) of Lewes, 322
Watson (John), rector of Kirby Cane^ 401
Wilkinson (R<^v. Thomas), 459
Williams (John) aJias Anthony Panquin, 13
Wolfe, gardener to Henry YIU,, 194, 269
\ N^QsAC^\s0^yw>3iJas»^" 4LSurTf*TofTmd<
i
R. (8. Y,) on Yeomans (John), of CbelBem 4^0 i
Soagg (K HO on Esouires' basUs 438
Pi,ff: J,., . a eristle of the Brocci, 154
V' ire, 194
Bti irlof Ford aJQilBrentferd, 188
Kuiiiveu (Lord), noticed, 210
Buthren (Patrick), notic^, 270. 294
Eye (Wiiltur) on Erasmus and Sir Tho».More, 61
Ralph Fitz-Hflbert, 414
Bje-HoiUJt^ plot cardfl, 9, 141
a
R on Gxecntion for witohecnft« 21
Lamont (Dn Darid), 22
Buck, a wine, 328. 488
8addleB mtu-k, 110
8. (A, G.) on UngQiLge used m Botouui amrtSf 444
** Spartam, qmun nactiis e% omo." 307
Sflgp (K. J.) on Hanrey of Wangtjy Houae, 42, 326
AlbiMi's. Chromde* of, 4oO
Andrew^B. Holbom, its ratajmnont*, 380
Augtu^e and the myattrr of the Xriniiy, 40^
61, 79; curious pti^sage in, 3do
St. BacchUi!, noticed. 249
Bt. Dominie and th -' - - - >'^ ^'^7
Sl Germain" k, it;- ,13
St. GiWs-in-the-i i - » , i- 1. . . .uun gate, 67,
165
St. Uhm/ieU a Welsh bishop, 1^
St. Leonud'? (Lord), his ^'iirly work, 71
Bt. 1^ Matfelon, aims Whitechapel, 83, 161,
223
St. Patrick and the Bhamrock, 40. 60, 79, 104 ; hia
wife and wife's mother, 104; Mcmoits of Kifl
Life, 25
St Peter's at Rome, its orientivtion, 616
,Bl Kemigius, or Kemi, uoticed, 249
5^6t, Romulus, noticed, 249
St. Sepulchre's paeiring-btai, 170, 331, 368, 429
St^ Swithin on an ancedote^ 477
Auatmn motto, 3U9
Gorpee: Defend, 296
Dor, a drono bee, 416
Leading apes in htll, 424
Pre-death coffins, 423
Senteueca containing but one voweli 526
Wig, its etymology, 427
St. SwitMn's Day in 1623, 1628, 164
St, T, on the climate of Bfrmnda, 122
Beckct (Captain), 134
Blind ftlehouse, 137
Foute, an obsolete word, 497
Fosters Npgro Songs, 163
Giants and dwarfs, 222
Hoore (Dr, Mordecfli), fcunily, 154
Ni^leon, the First, 135
Rapier family, Yorkshirp, 213
Sancroft (Abp.), his »tatet9, 213
Sanatory and siin3t«r>% 4^3
Slavf^ry, prohibited in PeniHiylranifl, 480
Smith *( Richard), 241
Top of his b«nt, 137
St, Umik and 11,000 Tirgins, 274
St (W,) on Sir John Countgaby, ^0
Sail n, Bucks, 81
*' *S I Misodiftny of Boetjy," its author,
Salmon in the Thames, 479
Salter (Sir John), ceremony ot bis tomb, 15fi
Salvtyne (EuduirdX inBmptlou in Chiswidt dundt,
12
Sanatory and Snnit^iy explained, 463
San Ckmente, diewvery of a puiuting in the Btsi-
tica, 319
Sancroft (Abp.), liis »ist<»ra, 213, 290
Saody, i, e. Alexander, who was he? 19 i
**SfinB CulotideB,'* by Cincinnatns Rigshaw, 74
Sorgcmt (John), author of "ThtJuSIirie," 214
Saunders, or Shakspeare (Hugh), Principal of St.
Alban's Hall, 459
Saxirin (Jamea), English tranalfttion of hi* Ser-
monH, 77
Saviour, painting of Our, 74, 157, 290
Savoy rent, 437
Saxony, the anna of, 12, 64, 81
Scnrth fiimily, 134. 204, 270
Scharf (George) on portraits of Shakspem^ 333
Scbin on " As mad as a hatter," 24
Chaperon^ Chape ront^ 384
Dinlecta of the suburbs, 112
Reliabk, 329
Schleswick : the Danne-Wcrke, 127
Schieswig^Hobitein, hij^torical noticpfi, 212
Schomberg (Sir AJex), Knt,, noticed, 4^^l2
Scotch customs on New Year « Day. 153, 221
Scotch rhymes sung by eUuldr<?n, 393
Scotch words, glossary of, 514
Scotland, forfeited eatates in, 321
Scott (ReginaM > "-•■-* li.-;
Scott (Sir Tlu itall. Kent, 195
Soott (Sir WuJ: c o^ 147; omin of
the names of '' Wayt-rlt^y "' and '* Ivaahoe, 176
Scottish, and Scoteh, 21
Scottish formula of the General Asflembly. 35
Soottiflb peengea^ old, 492
^' Sea of Glass.** 156, 221
Saaibrth (Lord), bond betwMS lam lad Lord
BA!Ay, 459
Seal, episcopal, of St Darid's 7 357, 448
Sealing- wax remoTied, 419
SeaU, Anglo-Saxon and other mwliieTal, 445
Seala, costs for, 419, 450, 507; caste of ancient,
113, 185
Secret Society for swearing, 155
Sedgwick (D.) on authon of hymnjs, 280
S. (k, h.)en broken hcajta, 514
Chaignean, 66
Danish right of snccesKion, 181
Grt^t >mttle of oats, 247
Lopd'ti Prayer rea*! in the Lessons, 617
Old tiUe with a n*^ title, 355
Selalj, ibsme:. • - "'^' f,21
Seneca' f5 pri.*i ! 368, 440
Seatenceft couU ^ i one ToweL 419, 526
Septa, the ink ot the cuttle 6ali, 322, 408
Sa^eoiigint dtf^red by the Jcwa, 419, 470, 524
Sepulchral mon omenta, their mutilation, 21, 101,
158
I K D E X.
Smtth (W. S, B.) 00 the Iron maiik at Woolwich, 202
Owl, an ill-omened bird, 143
**SirAAg^and EbV 488
Smith (Wm,) oti the Britifih Institution, 165
Lttmpe (J. ¥.), his death, 18ri
Smith (Z. C.) OQ Buck Whnllej, 16rj
Smyth (Rev, Wm.) of Dtinottur, 498
Sobieski (Princess Maria Ch-meutiuii), hep flight,
421
Socrates' oath by the dog, a5, 138, 203
Soldier, origin and menning of ii private, 144, 186
**Solomon*B Song," poetical r^raton, 1703, 322
Songi and Ballads: —
Bftiley (the Unfortunate Misij), in I*i*tin, 76
Billy Taylor, 172, 223
Brides of Enderby 496
Chough and Crow, 243
Chapter of Kings, by Collin?, IS
Comic, tmnslat^d, 76, 172, 223
Chtirchraan (Richard) on hia death, 200
Fairiea* song, 321
Farewell of the Irish Grenadier to his Ladye
Love, 464
Folk ballade, modem, 209
GroTea of Bkraey, 432
How to be Happy, by Collinn, 20
InritutioD to Owen Bray's at Loughliustown,
" Is it to try me ? ** 241, 386
" It vaa the Knight Sir Aag*/' 376
Johnny Adair, 404, 442. 500
Jolly Nose, by Olivier Basselin, 25
Kib^ddery Hnnt, 404, 442, 469, 602
Let tlip dreadful engines, 472
Lii^ts of Naseby Wold, 376
Lord Maleom, 376
Merlin, his birth, 372
MohuB (Lord) and Duke Hamilton, 312
*' Now, brtiTe boys, we*re on for marchiu'," 464
Praifie of Yorkshire ale, 481
Eat<!ttteher*B daughter, Latin and Greek, 224
Robin Adair, notes on the tfong, 404, 442, 500
Robin Rough head, 616
Rule, great ShakspfMLre, 400
Sir Aag^ and Els6, 376, 488
Time took by the forelock at Kilteman, 603
When I were bom in Plymouth old town, 516
Wilikina and hia Dinah, Latin and Greek,
224
Wi^n aong, 109, 184
Young Lo veil's Bride, 243
Sophia Dorothea of Zelle, her mtLrriitge, 616
Sortes yir|»iliaiiie, origin, 196, 246
Southey (Robert), inficription on his tomb, 88 .;
birih-pliice, 249
Spal on Hindoo gods, 262
Spaoiflh Jews' Book nf Pmyert^, 498
Sparrowhawk vt-i.^ ' ' -d, 376
Spelinan fjimily | '■'»
Spolman (Lady Lit,....^. ... ,, uev husband, 482, 623
Bpence (Thomas), founder of the Spencean Schemci
214
Spence (WiUiam), entomologii^t, 214
Spencer (Beckviith) of Yorkshire, 498
tSpenser (Edmund), Latin tran«ktion of hia ** Ca-
lendar," 118
Spoon, the ministerial wooden, 214
Spottiswoode (Abp. John and Bp, James ), 415 *
Spring = a tune on a musicid iuBtnunent, U9, 164
8. (S.) on William DeU, VXK 76
S. (T.) on Boispreaux'a *' Riemti," 320
Mrs. Fitzherbert. 69
Stage, Collier- Congrere controversy, 38
Stamford, prijjected college at, 1
Stamford seal, an rarly one, 113, 186
Stankfordienni^ on church ea in Roman camps, 173
Stamford 6oaJ, 185
Stanhope (Sir Michael), reeidence ut Ilford, 616
Stanley (Dr, Artliur PenrJiyn), allusion in his ser-
mon, 616
Stephens (Prof. Goorge), '* The Daniah Warrior to
his Kindred," 313
Steproothera* bleftsingu, or back friends, 26
Sterne (Lattrenc«\ hia Life, 332 ; ** Tristram
Shandy, ' 414, 624
Stcuart (Dr. Adam}, a Scotch roinibter, 118, 242
Sfcewart family of Orkney, 426
Stewart (MriJBngald), poem, 147, 484
Stirpe (R) on the bloody hand, 64
S. (T. G.) on William Dudgeon, 271
Timothy Plain, pseiuL Stewart Threipknd, 388
Stone, its decay in buildinge, 68, 138
I Stone bridge in St. Marb'n'8-m-the-Fiold.s, 136
Stories, similar ones in different localities, 375
Storm of 1703, 504
Story (Robert), consen-ative poet, 369
Story (Rev. Wgl Armine), pedi^free, 3*^7
Strickland (Sir Wm.) of E. R. Yorkshire, 400
Stuart adherents, work on, 420
Stum rod, 299, 365
Stylites on Chaperon, 280, 609
Cuckoo song, 508
Suidde, funeral of one at Scone, 170
Suicide of a Newf^jundland dog, 516
Summer Islands, works ou, 122
Sun dancing on Easter-day, 394, 448
Superville (Daniel de), Sermoua translated, 77
Surnames, early, 448, 487
Surrey (Henry Howard, Earl of), enigma, 65, 103,
145, 249, 311
" Sussex Advertiser,*' early numberst, 75
Sutlierland (Ensign), noticed, 322, 38 8
Sutton family, 447
Sutton (John), M.D. of Leicester, 176
Sutton Coldfield, its old orthogni^hy, 379. 624
Swallows a sign of returning spring, 63, 83, 122 ;
precunsors of dejitli, 269, 365
Sw^&ns, the gami^ of, 436
Swedenborgians, account of, 377
Swift (Dean) and Huehea, 278
Swifte (E. L.) on Sliakirpeare'a profeeeion, 232
T^'ellth night and punning, 142
Swinburne (Mr), secretary to Sir H. Fanshaw, 12
Swinton (Katherine), her issue, 469
Sword-bliidc inscriptions, 113
8. (W. W.) ou the lapwing (ptfptt), 77
Wilby parii^h registers, 243
Sydney (Lord), noticed in the •• Rolliad,** 108
Sydney pcw^Uigc tttam^^ \%V
INDEX.
657
w.
W. on Decay of stone in bnildingi, 68
Hairiaee hefoace a juBtioe of the peaee, (M
Wadham Isknds, origin of tihe name, IM
W. (A. K) on birth-place of Bofaitt Hood, &93
Barley, an exclamation, 358
WagstafTe (Dr. Jonathan), 2d9
Wamwright (Thomaa) of Wanngton, epitopb, 428
"WAloott (M. R G.) on the Linpipiinn, or tippet,
456
St. Maiy Matfelon« 161
Winchester CoUe^, 369
Wales (the Infant Prince of), paternal and mater-
nal descents, 129
Wales (Prince and Princess of), their fourfold re-
lationship, 188
Walker (Rev. George) of Londwideny, femilv, 480
Walker (Obadiah), " Of Ednestion, efpeeiaily of
Young Gentlemen," 38
Wall (Wm.), D.D., his longerity, 22
Walsingham (Sir Francis), not a KG., 132 ; letter,
352
Walsingham (Sir Thomas), descendants, 437
Warren (C. F. S.) on Charles lUs iUegitbwite
children, 289
Fitzjames (James), his descendasts, 184
Harold II., his posterity, 217
Iran IV., his relatiTes, 616
Leieester (Earl of), hit epitaph, 146
Mordaunt barony, 468
Newhaven in F»nee, 141
OUTer de Dorden, 146
Raleigh (Sir Walter), 200
Surnames among the Jews, 487
Warwick (Eden) on Lasso, 490
Washington (Joseph) of the Middle Temple, 23
Waters family, co. Glamorgan, 376
Watson of Lofthouse, YorkiBhire» 82
Watson (John), rector of Kirby Cane, 401
Watson (Wm.), LL.D., •'The Clergyman's Lav,"
617
Wauchop (Dr. Robert), blind from infancy, 31
WaTerley, the name of Sir W. Scott's novel, 176
W. (E.) on Quadalquivir, the Great River, 487
Weale (W. H. J.) on Hans Memlinc, 163
Wedgwood (Josiah), noticed, 449
Wegh, a certain weight or quantity, 38
Welsh, consonants in, 364
Weston (Richard Lord), anagram of his name, 62
Wetherell (J.) on Sutton Coldfield, 379
W. (G.) on mottoes and coats of arma^ 77
W. (H.) on Cromweirs head, 119
Whalley (Thomas), date of his birth, 165
Whately (Abp.), his witticisms, 128
Wheatley (John), his coffin, 424
Whipultre, the holly, 385
Whitechapel, alias St. Mary Matfelon, 83, 161, 223
Whiting (Natlianicl), rector of Aldwincle, 420
Whitmore family of Shropshire, 159, 220, 285,
289
Whitmore (W. H.) on arms of Sir E. Andros, 845
Coote, Lord Bellomont, arms, 345
Foiter anns, 447
Pelham fiimily, 321
Whittled down, a movuMialitvi, 48/^ 527
Wiesener (M. LonisX <' Marie Stnazt et le Oomte
de BothweU," 411
Wig, its etymology, 427
Wlgan (John), MJ)., biography, 87, 223
Wilby parish registers, 243
Wild men, a Scottish sect, 36
Wilde (Jean), travels to Heceah, 213
Wilde (Richard Henry), poem, 284
Wildmoor and Whitmore, ca 8HCaCR>rd, 220, 2$9
Wilkinson (Rev. Thomaa), rectov of Great Hough-
ton, 459
Wilkinson (Rev. Theaias), ismured after, 480
Wilkinson (T. T.) on Henry Ctabtawe, 182
Fletcher^s Arithmetie, 178
Horrodm (Jeremiah), aatxonomaE; 178
Pablieation of Diaries, 216, 303
Tumer^s '* Miscellanea Curiosa," 448
Wme (J. G.), his engravingB, 76
Williams family of Gaemarvon, 176, 269
Williams ^Mrs. Anm), ** Mimellamffl," 254
Williams (C.) on paadiamenl hojtm at Madgrafluth,
174
Williams (John), alias Anthony Faiquin, 176
WiUibrord (St.), noticed, 128
Willis, the mad doctor, 198
Wills, on pnbUshing -those of pasanaseoBKUj de-
ceased, 257
Wills at liandaff, 342; T^weaahtiy, wheae kept,
877
Wills (W. H.) on Britannia on copper coinn 37
Wilson (Beau), n<ytified, 160, 284
Wilson (Professor), his father, 282
Wilson (T.) on Halifax law, 66
Winchelsea (LordX aotieed, 198
Window-glass, its eariy use, 400, 5StB
Winnington (Sir Thomaa £.) cm AhHne Tabone,
144
" Century of IntentiiMis,'' 880
GainsboBoug^ Pvayer-Bbok, 144
Heraldic, 88d
Inscription at Ham Castle, 297
Isle of Axholme, 434
Kilruddery Hunt, 469
London smoke, 329
Porchester church, inscription, 479
Richardson family, 123
Salveyne (Richard), 12
Wit, its old meaning, 162
Winton (Lord), escape from the Tower, 176
Wise (Rev. Francis), librarian, 100, 121
Wish; "The Old Woman's Wish, a Poem," 462
Wistman's Wood, Devonshire, 376
Wit defined, 30, 82, 161, 202, 308
Witch trials in the seventeenth century, 324
Witchcraft^ recent execution for, 21
Witches in Lancaster Castle, 259, 385
Witches tried at Bury St. Edmund's, 401
Witty classical quotations, 310, 369, 449
Wogan (Sir Charles) and Clementina Sobieski,
421
Wolfe, gardener to Henry VIII., 194, 269, 383, 419
Wolfe (Gen. James), portrait by GainslxHoagh, 86
Woman's wiil« lines on, 800
Wonderful charaAleca^^oTVA csa^\^
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