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ClOlfa,  .15.  td. 

The  PICAROONS:   a  San  Pranclaco  Night's  Eatortaiamcnt. 

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Noi(  rcbly,  piMt  Ire*,  Hfl. 

THE     BUILDER     NKW     YBAb'S     MUMBBP. 

tUuCntloM  of  Old  Pirli,  Irani  m  Dm  IJimniiK  by  ihc  latp  H  W. 
Brawcr,  Cuundl  Cli*iab«r,  Daai  P»<ur,  Vosicoi  Iwoiwaf  in  a 
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UecoraUve  Hktiue,  ■Cbartit.'  AIM  ek«  Oeatawucnirat  ol  a  Nrw 
86rlci  ot  ArUeio«  (Sladeni-a  Ontamaj  o«  'Arcbn.'  wtch  other 
latereiUnt  »«4  laKrucUTO  Uaiur,  baih  Uttnrj  and  Artlttic. 
Leodon  :  Thi  PuMUher  of  Ibe  PuiUtr,  CMberlao  Str«et,  W.a 

THE     AUTHOR'S     HAIIILBSS     PAPBR-PAD. 
iTIia  LKADRKHALL  l-KUS.  Ltd  ,  Puhll>b«r*aBd  i>rlaUrf, 
m,  I,«adenl»ll  Atrvrc,  toBOoa,  K.C  ) 
COBtalnt   hilrliai    paper,  oTirr  which  tb(    pea    allpc  wllh  parlaat 
(raadom.    Bliptoca  sack     5>  par  doiaa.  roJed  or  plain.    Nik  I'ooltat 
Blrt,  Xi.  per  dmrn   mleU  or  platn 

Authors  ibnuld  noM  tliai  I  he  Laadanball  Tn*t,  Ltd,  eanaat  be 
raapontlbla  lor  ibe  low  ot  KUd.  tij  Sra  or  oibarwlaa.  Uapllcatc  «oylta 
atoald  Iw  retalRed. 


N0TB8  AXD  QUERIB8.-The  SUBBCRIFflON 
taMOtP-A  AKik  guiUIBftrae  by  pnac  KlOi  M  tar  8ii  Maacb* ; 
OtS>t.ld.tot  Twtln  Moattil,  laelBdlSf  tba  Valume  ladal— JOHN  C. 
PkANcit,  A'arMi  —td  wiMrMaOOia*,  UTaau  a  UuUiai>,Caasc«ri  Last. 

BRITISH  and  AMBBICAN  PEDIGREES 
TRACIli.  Fanllr  niatortta  Ooaiplltd  AaibonUM  Car  eicii 
fiet  «Ba«<d -Mr.  OSaALI)  M4IIKKALL,  Urcard  AgrU.  eve  or 
OfMaMTf  *  Co,.  fO,  Chuiotr;  l^at,  V  C 


W^ 


PEDIGREES  TUACBD  and  COMPILED. 
SeaArbet  mada  bjr  Exparlanicd  Aaarchara  Vlaar  jcara'  tap* 
rtaaoa  la  Amartoan  aad  BngltUi  Caaea  Taraa  ncKl«rate  and  bi 
amaRamaat — W.  J.  QAOaulUI,  42,  Blabepacala  S<rcci,  Laadoa,  B.O 


HIBLIOTHECA  80HEK8BTEN8IS :  a  Catalogue 
ol  ll(M>lti,  PanipMcta,  Ao  ,  rttaUsic  to  tbe  (ooatr  ol  Booverwt. 
Wllb    full    Index.       Vj    BMAHCBL    OKBEK,    TS.A.      .'    tola,    tw, 

i«re  pp  3-'.  3<. 

RAKMIOOTT  *  PBAUCE,  Tauntaa. 
HAKUIKO.   Graat   Kaiaell  «irtvt.    VV.C 

BOOKS.— ALL  ODT-OF-PRINT  BOOKS  sup- 
pUad,  n«  siauar  on  wbat  Sabject  Acaaowl#J(«u  tne  world  ov«r 
talk*  iiiMKtnan  HiMkDadart  rmat.  CiMtaKaw  waau.— UAKitit  I 
ttraai  Honkiaap.  U-l(.  Jobs  tirifbt  Btraat.  ltirmlD(ua. 


PBDIGBBBS     and    ABMOBIAL    BEARINGS. 
L.  CUIXKTOH,  OS,  noeadlUr.  Loadoa. 


ATHBNJ£UM  I'ttKSS.  — JOHN  EDWARD 
FKAItOIA  friBler  at  Ui<  AVunmum.  A'atn  atU  Ci«a-M>,  kt  ,  )• 
praparrd  to  si'HUtr  BsriMArbt  tiir  all  kind*  n|  booE,  ^BWB. 
aad  fSKlumcAli  PHIMTlMa.— lA  Hraaai  •  liaildinca.  Ckaaearr 
Laa*  BC 

T' UN  BRIDGE  WBLL8.— Comfortably  FUR. 
NISMIU  SimNOKOOM  ABd  ONB  or  TWO  BBUKUOMB. 
Ualal.  plgaiant,  and  oaatrai.  Threa  mlaatei'  walk  tram  a.B.K  A  C. 
HMUOD.  Mo  albert  Ukea.— K.  K  ,  «,  Orn«e  Hill  Itoad,  Taabrldca 
Walla. 


HERALDIC  ENGRAVING,  Book-Plates,  Be«U, 
liiei.  Note  Paper.  Ac.     (Special  aiteatlQa  (<'<■  '<>  accutsc}'  ot 
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■Birared   Copperplate   aad  K   MH  qoBlUr 


VISITINO    CAH06: 
Cai^.  3<. 

(.X'LLETON'S.  9?.  Ficcadlllf    LoBdon 


STICKPHAST  PASTE  is  miles  better  than  Gam 
tor  itteklBRln  Honpa.  Jotntnr  Paper*.  Ac  Si.  M.,aBd  li.  witb 
atroaCi  oaeral  Hroab  laot  a  Tof).  Mad  two  ataispa  to  oorer  poatafe 
lor  a  aaaipla  HoMe.  laeiodiac  Bmah  Pactorj,  lla«ar  Leal  Coart, 
Ueadeaball  Atraet,  KC.    Of  all  luuoatr*.    ftMckpbaall'BiteaUckt. 


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l.OyD0A%  SATCKDAV,  JAXVARY i,  Xm. 


CONTENTS.-No.  1. 

HOTBS  : — The  Xvutb  SeHt^t— MatIowg  muI  fihmkeapeare,  I 

—Horn  naA  the  '  Inoeadium    DIvlnl  Amorls,'  ;i— Freticb 

Proverlilal  PhnuM  — Kro/en  Word*.  3— Brror  111  'Pollpbili 

HypneroU>m«cbli» '— "  Kigsdoon  "—"A  jolly  good  fellow  " 

In  lUUftn— "Aitillng  ln»ult  to  injury  "—AtUIimh  Clotb, 

I— "Sit  loose  to"— "  Vrk»»"— Dr.  Brigbt't  Hpiiapli -Horn 

Dancing— Mm.  Comey  — Hi»tory  "  mado  in  Germanv,"  .' 

— "Oouu  cle  Jarnac"— Sonieraet  Dinlect — Tncltiiii  ami  the 

•Qeat*  B«iti»noruin'— "liOinlwinl  "—"RlriEing  for  Gofer  " 

— *'Mafiiiuin"— Sbakcapearc    /Uluiion— BAllway  Uellc  — 

Or«en,6. 

OUBRIBS  :-S«dler'«  WelU  Flay  kUade>1  to  by  Wordraotth 

— MIIe«tonea— Fellowi  of  the  Clover  Lra(— 'Aitnen  Vlf- 

trix'— Speech  by  Barl  of  8us*ex— Mayers"  Sone,  T— Right 

Hon.   B.   Southwfll— Fruncii    Mi»we»;    Sir    T.    L«nv»n  — 

"Ample"— Quetuel—"  Virtue  of  nece«5lty  "— " Om-ga " 

— "  Not  all  who  aeem  to  fail  "—Council  o!  Constance.  8— 

Ejeete.1'  Prie«t«  —  "Don't    aboof  —  Banbaw  —  "  Prom 

whence"— "GoioK  the  round  "  —  Marriage  Beglateri— 

lutermeiit  In  other  Proiilea  amrc*— Bi»boi>  JoUu  Hall. 

ft—"  O  come,  all  ye  f»lthiul,"  li>. 

II  HBPL.IBS:— Lord  StafTurd"*  French  Wife,  10- "Tatar"or 

^H      "Tartv."  11— 'Abbey  ot    Kilkbampton.'   13- "Molubdi- 

^B      nous  ilowbelly  "-Bucbre— Wykehiunieal  Wonl  "  Toys  "— 

^H      laUnd  o[    Providence,    13  —  Celtlo  Title*  —  MadaiHf   .(ii 

^H      DefTand't   LeUeri— George  Eliot  and   Blank   Verse,  U— 


•PfiKliee  of  Piety  ■— Jacobin  :  Jaocblle-FUyiug  Allvi 
F»l.|>-»9  toChlM-nmrritr-Oiieeii  Ellml*tb  «n.1  New  Hall 


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-Follt  lorr  of  CbildWrib— t)r.  Pftrkln*,  l."~'My  Old  Oak 
Table'— Or.  Uee'»  Mirror,  IH-Cr^wna  iu  Church  Toner— 
"OfifV-  rltlv  vn-'^nl  "  — Beatlnell,  17  -Epigmm  on  lladnme 
lie  1  "      rih  of  Marriage— "Paper*"— "Boail  " 

-  Ii. 

jjOli.  :  i  -Be4anf«  'London  in   the  Time  of 

tlie  atn.iri?  — '  Tb.-  tilood  Boyal  of  Britain  '— •  A  Patience 
P.icket- Biv.lt.' 

Noticea  to  Currupoii-U-nta. 


"  gotfs. 

THE  TENTH  SERIES. 
In  congratulating  hia  readers  upon  tho 
<lawa  of  anotlier  year  and  the  beginning  of 
s.  fresh  Series  the  EkHtor  takes  the  oppor- 
tuoity  of  pointing  to  the  amount  of  work 
that  has  been  accorapli3hed  during  the  fifty- 
five  years  in  whicli  'ii.  «k  Q.'  has  been  before 
the  public.  It  is  impossible  to  calculate  how 
many  busy  pencils  have  been  occupied  in 
making  the  notes  which,  in  obedience  to 
the  suggestion  of  Capt.  Cuttle,  have  been 
crystallized  in  h'm  pages,  or  how  much 
scholarship  has  been  advantaged  by  the 
habit  of  annotation  which  has  been  begotten. 
It  is  now  a  commonplace  to  say  that  no 
serious  study  can  often  \ie  conducted  with- 
out tho  one  hundred  and  odd  volumes  of 
'N.  i&  Q.'  being  constantly  laid  under  con- 
tribution. Out  of  the  queries  that  have 
appeared  and  been  answered  books  have 
been  extracted,  and  there  are  not  wanting 
works  of  reference  which  would  never  liave 
been  attempted  had  the  information  pro- 
servinl  in  our  pages  beeti  inaccessible-  That 
the  study  of  antiquities,  like  that  of  the  law, 
conducive  to  long  life  is  testified  by  the 


and  the  Erlitor,  himself  a  veteran,  can  point 
to  a  bodyguard  that  has  servetl  under  most 
or  all  of  his  predecessors.  That  he  can  with 
absolute  assurance  indicate  any  signature  as 
appearing  in  the  earliest  and  in  the  latest 
volumes  may  not  be  said.  There  are  those, 
however,  whose  work  is  of  frequent  occur- 
rence in  the  First  and  the  Ninth  Series,  and 
will,  it  is  to  be  hoped  and  expecterl,  be  ex- 
tended to  tliat  this  week  begun.  We  need 
only  mention  Lohd  Aldenham,  Mr.  F,DAV.vitD 
Peai.olk  (under  various  signatureis),  and  Mb. 
EvERARD  Home  Coleman  as  among  those 
who  virtually  bridge  over  the  period  between 
the  inception  of  '  N.  it  Q.'  and  the  point  it 
has  now  reached.  So  far  as  those  at  the 
helm  are  aware,  the  only  cause  for  regret 
is  the  ditliculty  of  stretching  our  pages  so 
as  to  include  all  of  temporary  or  permanent 
value  that  knocks  at  the  <loor.  Meantime 
the  imitators  and  descendants  of  '  X.  Si  Q.' 
constitute  a  numerous  and  stalwart  band, 
and  there  are  few  counties  or  districts  the 
folk-lore  or  speech  of  which  is  not  in  course 
of  being  pi-eserved  and  calendared 

Editor. 

MARLOWE  AND  SHAKESPEAHE. 
A  CAREFUL  perusal  of  the  first  scstiad  of 
'  Hero  and  Leander '  reveals  numerous  turns 
of  expression  out  of  the  ordinary,  many  of 
which  were  subsetiuentlv  used  by  Shake- 
speare, and  by  him  (usually)  but  once.  I  do 
not  own  any  eflition  of  Marlowe  s  poem  with 
numbered  lines,  but  the  interested  reader 
will,  I  think,  find  little  difficulty,  as  I  have 
arranged  the  extracts  consecutively  as  they 
occur. 

Ront-chcckfA  Adonia  kept  a  Bolenm  feast. 

'  Hero  and  Leaoder.' 
Jioms-eJtuk'd  AdoiiU  bied  faini  to  the  chase. 

*  Venus  and  Adonia,'  3, 

Why  art  thou  not  iu  /ore,  and  loved  of  all  ? 
I'hoHgh  thou  bo  fair,  yet  be  not  thine  own  flit-nil. 

'  H.  and  L. 
How  loif.  makes  youne  men  '/i.i.7. 3Jid  old  men 
dole.— 'V.  andA.,'^8TJ. 

And  stole  away  the  aichaultd  'ia:< ,  >  uiiiul. 

'  H.  and  L.' 
Kaoh  ti/f  that  saw  him  did  atthant  the  mind, 

*Lov  C'omp.,    VM. 

Nor  that  night-wandering,  pale  and  iva/c/v  6lar. 

'  H.  and  L.' 
Nine  chaoges  o(  the  imferif  *^»>-. 

•  Wiutet-.  Tale,'  I-  il.  I. 


Incens'd  with  savi 


•  H.  and  I. 


NOtES  AND  QUERIES.         rio""  s  i  us.  2.  iflo#r 


Lo,-- -kindling  firt  to  burn  such  towns  as  Troy.  , 

'  H.  and  L. 

Ana  his  toi(-kiiuUing  firs  did  quickly  ateen. 

SSonnet  clui.  << 

Thence  flew  Loo^s  arroif  with  the  uo/drn  head. 

n.  and  I*. 

Lout\gofdm  arrow  at  him  should  ha\e  (led. 

•\  .  and  A.,   Mi. 

.S7oj«-»/i7nic«?o«i-'H.  ftudL.' 
gtoit'-»i;ri.  qslouish'd  with  liiia  deadly  deed, 
Stoo't  Collatine  -"  Lncrece.'  ITJO. 

With  the>/'  that  from  his  foniitnian^f  bla-,etl. 

'  H.  and  L. 
Two  red//' « in  io/A  thtiy/art*  iJn-.riL 

For  will  in  hs  is  o>vrrvlt<i  by  fait.—  H.  and  I^' 
Fa/<  oVr.r«/««.-*  M.N.D..'  m.  ii.  92. 

What  we  behold  Is  ctixmnd  hy  oirr  fpf. 

*  H.  and  L. 

Whose  e>jaallty  by  our  hr^  tut*  cannot  Iw  ininiuxd. 
'  h-ing  John,'  U.  i.  32S. 

And  Night,  rfcep  drrnrVU  in  misty  Acheron.      ^ 

*  H.  and  L, 

So  «he,  d'-p  ffrcnchtd  in  a  »ea  of  care. 

'  Liicreoe,   I  KlO. 

And  now  begins  Leonder  to  disiday 
Locc*  hoiv  ^r¥  with  wordu,  with  eighs  and  tears. 

'  II.  and  L.' 
Which  borrowed  from  tliii*  holijfirr  of  Loir 
A  dateless  lively  heat.— Sonnel  cliii.  5. 

LetsnoA  thepooC'riWi  man  that  it&rves  himself. 

'U.  and  L.' 
That  Ibey  prove  bankru|>t  in  this  »C'0»-- *•»>/»  cnin. 

'  Lucrece,'  m«. 

And  with  i>\'"fintbroH*  the  world  destroy. 

*  H.  and  L.* 
The  tnortal  and  intn^tTie  Jarx. 

'Comedy  of  terrors."  1.  i.  II. 


Oil'  '■<  !'''•  »'•■ 
Without  thr 
Among  a  nun 


-  -r  nothing  then 

:  niCD.  — 'H.  and  L.' 
'led  mmf. 
Sonnet  cxirm.  9» 


M., 


(/  n.  «(■//(,  which  down  her  face 
^'  H.  diid  L." 
I '  /  the  bladed  gross. 

•M.N.U.'I.  i.21l. 

It  will  1)6  noticed  that  two  of  these  qaota- 
tiona  are  to  be  met  witli  iit  Sonnet  cliii.,  and 
further,  thiit  the  most  familiar  Hue  in  Mar- 
lowe's iraii'tlation. 

Wl»o  ever  loved  that  loved  not  at  finit  sirht  ? 
was  not  only  imnsferrod  in  iu  er ' 
*Aa  S'ou    Lkkp    h,'  hnt    is  nlsn   to    ' 
near  (be  end 
Alexandria'  : 

None  ev«r  iov  li  hut  at  tir%- 

As  Cliapmati'a  play  aod  tin.  ...., ,. 

/««*/?  tmnslation  mtmwt  certoinlj  appeared 


some  little  time  before  'Ae  You  Like  It,'  I 

am  inclined  to  doubt  the  ::"tk--:"v  accepted 
belief  that  Sliakt^spoare  wa  ^z.  to  Mar- 

lowe  rather   than   the  cla.so.. ...   ..jchor.     In 

view  of  the  growing  belief  that  Chapman 
was  the  rival  ix>et,  it  is  possible  that  the 
allusion  was  an  intentional  tItnK  ut  hiiu. 

Chak.  a.  HKRrKfl* 
New  York.      ^___^_^__^ 

ALEXANDER  HORN  AND  THE  '  INCEN- 
DIUM  DIVINI  AMORIS.' 
Fr^cHER  in  his  'Es-sai  sur  les  Monument 
Typographiquea  de  Jean  Gutenberg'  gives  an 
account  of  several  boob.s  which  wei-e  printed 
at  Ment?.,  and  aflirms  tliat  thev  were  from 
the  press  of  Gutenberg  ;  but  this  assertion 
was  completely  disproved  by  Mr.  He.ssels  in 
'Gutenberg:  was  he  the  Inventor  of  Print- 
ing?' in  wTiich  he  shows  that  the  early  MS. 
dates  in  some  of  these  books  were  not  worth:^ 
of  credence.  Here  are  the  titles  of  the  work». : 
'Sifridvs  de  Arena;  Determinntio  Duarum 
Quji?stionunij'  '  Reaponsio  ad  Quattuor  Quws- 
tionefi  Sifridi  Episcopi  Cireneneis,'  'DiaTogu* 
inter  Hugonem,  Catonem,  et  Oliveriuin." 
'KJage  Antwort  und  Urteil,'  'Tractatus  ili« 
(Jelebratioue  Missarum,'  and  Herinanuus  dv> 
Schildis,  'Speculum  Sacerdotura,'  the  lax^ 
bearing  the  imprint  "  maguntiie."  Now  it  is, 
very  curious  to  observe  now  one  error  lead-* 
to  another.  Horn  had  before  him  a  little 
book  called  '  Incendium  Divini  Amoris,' 
printed  in  the  same  types  as  the  aboT» 
mentioned  ;  Horn  accepts  Fischer'.«i  statement 
that  books  in  these  typos  were  printed  by 
Gutenberg,  and  then  proceeds  to  make  an 
aiisertion  of  his  own,  viz.,  that  Outenberjc 
not  only  printed  the  'Incendium  Divini 
Amoris,'  but  was  also  the  author  of  t1 
and  that  the  nun  to  whom  it  is  n 
was  his  own  sister.  This  very  copy.  iij>iiji 
rcntly  the  only  on©  known,  is  now  in  the 
Kings  Library  at  the  British  Museum  with 
Horn's  observations  upon  it,  which  I  \wxa 
transrril>f^  :  — 

0/»*-  'h*  MMoIl  TrmtiiK  in  Cerman  calif  t 

■I    Dirini  Amoi'u.*    SiupjKt^ftl  (o   '» 
mthltd  awl  wrilltn  h/f  John  (iHttrnhefj  to  Ai'*! 
Sitftr,  a  Xt(n  of  St.  CI  ait  at  J/rn:,  1 

By  the  deed  of  -••i     ' 
his  sislcr  (a  mm  of 

Men?  I.       llirl     111."      Mn 


I  [10  »..»!( 1  iiiiiii.'LMiri  Y,  iM>;  (I  li:r  i  i:e  i  jiui  Lii  :<!T\  ir'.'    »;i 

for  their  private  dcrotion. 


p 


10'»8.  J.  .Jaw.2,  1904.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Witl)  respect  to  the  church  servico  lie  could 
re  them  nolhiiiz  but  Mauualfi  and  l*Bivller»  or 
eviari'-s,  and  for  their  juivate  uae  he  coukl 
pply  Iheni  with  (Jernian  works  of  devotion,  as 
ne  of  the  nuns  can  ht:  Biipimaed  to  understand 
'I'he  small  volume  now  before  me  becomes 
acooupt  a  suhjectof  the  highest  imporUDce. 
•jilted  in  the  identical  new-discovered  tjr|>e 
[ra>;tatua  do  Celebralione  Missarum,  of 
Mhi<.li  a  copy  was  given,  according  to  Fischer.  i>.  81, 
to  the  rharlreux  of  Menz  l«y  doanne^  «  tnoulf  bona, 
est  C>utlenl>erg,  in  the  year  1-MJ3.  A  small  book 
the  same  type  called  '  Dialogs  inter  Hugonem, 
JathoneTn,  et  <_>liveriuni  8u^>cr  Libcrtato  Ecele- 
|iastica,'of  which  1  seat  a  copy  to  my  friend  Ooorge 
Kicol,  lame  to  the  library  of  f^luttgard  on  the 
luppresaiun  of  the  (chapter  of  Coniburg,  and  has 
Ihe  datts  14^*2  in  MS.  U{>on  it.  As  this  small  book 
Dtt9  for  objei.'t  to  inflame  the  mind  of  a  nuii,  the 
lister  ot  the  author,  with  the  spirit  of  divine  love, 
_I  do  not  hesitate  to  suppose  t>uttenberg  the  author 
and  printer  of  it,  ana  what  particularly  comes  jn 
to  my  supfkort  is  that  the  language  of  the  aboresaid 
deed  of  settlement  and  that  of  this  small  treatise 
arc  entirely  the  same. 

It  is  initi!  that  in  the  beginning  he  calls  her  sister 
\xk  Christ,  but  we  must  not  forget  that  a  nun  was 
lead  to  the  world  and  had  no  brothers ;  however, 
{n  the  course  of  the  whole  following  address  he 
iitVi]ily  I 'alls  her  by  the  name  of  '"  niin  Suater,"  and 
the  other  evprewion  in  the  beginning  was  probably 
inly  inteuded  as  a  kind  of  conrtesy.  As  to  the 
feouy,  it  upi>car9  to  be  one  of  the  first  proof-sheets, 
|t  being  here  and  there  corrected ;  and  as  it  seems 
have  l^een  only  intended  for  that  monastery,  and 
not  for  sale,  it  is  probable  that  only  a  few  i-opics 
pwere  taken  oil,  ou  which  account,  as  no  other  copy 
has  yet  be«n  discovered,  it  will  probably  reuf^vin 
Lunti|uc.  AiJcvR.  Horn. 

Frankfurl.  tho  ll">of  March,  IS]-.. 

Altliougli  one  cannot  agree  with  Horn  that 

[CJiiteiiberR  was  both  author  and  printer  of 

ithis  little  work,  yet  we  Rre  indebted  to  him 

for  its  discovery  and  for  the  identification  of 

[tlie  types.  S.  J.  Alduk  h. 

New  Southgate. 


KolcK,  en  Veoclisc  de  Dien 
Femnics  ensemble  caquetoycut. 
Le  dittble  y  estoit  en  uok  lieu, 
Kseripvaiit  ce  qu'ollea  dianyent. 
Son  rollet  plein  de  poinct  en  poinct, 
Tireaux  dents  pour  le  faire  croislre: 
iSa  prinse  cschappe  et  ne  tient  poinct ; 
Au  pilier  s'est  beurtc  la  teste. 

Tliis  anecdote  may  be  freely  rendered  tljusr 
One  day  some  women  were  chattering  atui 
gossiping  in  church,  and  the  devil  was  thers- 
also.  He  busied  himself  in  writing  down 
their  conversation,  and  soon  filled  his  roll  of 
parchment.  He  tried  to  stretcli  it,  so  as  Uy 
make  more  space  to  write  on,  by  pulling  at 
it  with  Xna  teeth  ;  but  it  broke  from  hia  hold, 
and  tho  force  he  used  made  him  knock  hi» 
head  against  one  of  tho  pillars. 

//  tM  bon   (Vavoh'  d'H  amis  f>ftr(on(.— The- 
following  epigram  is  ba."je^l  on  this  proverb: — 
Une  devote  un  jour,  dans  une  i-gliac, 
Otfrit  uii  cierge  au  bienheurenx  Michel, 
Kt  I'autre  au  diable.    "  Oh,  oh,  quelle  meprise  L 
Mais  u'»jsl  le  diable.    Y  jieusez-vous?  i'>  ciel  I" 
"  Ljiissez,"  dit-elle,  "  il  ne  m'importe  giu^rei, 
II  faut  toujours  {lonser  a  Tavenir. 
On  ne  salt  pas  cc  qu'on  y>eut  deveuir, 
Et  les  amis  sont  partout  ni^cesaaires." 

jr.  de  la  MesangtTO  does  not  give  any  refer- 
ence to  the  source,  but  in  another  place  it  is. 
attributed  to  Imbert.  £.  L.vtham. 

{To  be  continued.) 


Fl:KNf  H    PROVERBIAL   PHRASES. 
Hkre  i«  the  first  instalment  of  the  curiosi- 
lies  promised  9"'  S.  xi.  462. 

Kh  n-ntr  (i'tijx  Vdiff. — This  does  not,  as 
might  bo  8uppo'<od,  refer  to  being  in  a  similar 
.condition  to  a  bii-ri  which,  wounde<.i  in  the 
Iwing,  cannot  tly,  but  to  being  fifty  years  of 
jogo.  Tho  letter  t.,  as  every  une  knows, 
iMtiinds  for  the  number  5(»,  and  the  expression 
lU  really  a  pun,  according  to  M.  de  la  Mesan- 
K«'-re,  hIioho  '  Dictionnuire  des  Proverbes 
I'Van  ni---'  r  Iiavo  previously  mentioned. 

!  /•)  Ir  fHirchcmin.  —  S.  phrase 

'Um  it»  UDipliticatiou  of  a  story, 

■  4    lines    (from     'Mots    et 
^    lie    Mui^tre   de    Sagesso 
iCuUia:;,'  iui'  I'icrro  Grosnet,  15G3)  illustrate 
it's  uri^tn  :— 


Feozrn  Words. — When  I  was  a  lad,  many 
years  ago,  I  remember  reading  a  nautical 
yarn  —  was  it  in  Capt.  Marryat  ?  —  about 
a  voyage  to  a  region  so  cold  that  the  words 
uttered  in  conversation  all  froze,  but  thawed 
on  reaching  a  warmer  region,  for  the  benefit 
of  the  auditors.  The  joke  often  did  duty  in 
*'  random  readings"  and  jest-books,  but,  like 
so  many  others,  boasUs  a  respectable  antiquity, 
even  if  the  pedigree  be  uebulou.s.  Perhaps 
the  following  version,  from  the  Italian, 
published  1556,  may  not  be  without  interest : 

"And  that  friende  of  ours  that  autt'ereth  vs  not 
to  want,  within  these  (ewe  dayes  rehearsed  one  to 
niee  that  was  very  excellent.  Then  sayde  the 
L.  Julian,  Whateuer  il  were,  more  excellenler  it 
cannot  bo,  nor  more  subtiller,  than  one  that  a 
Tuakanc  of  ours,  whiche  is  a  merchant  roan  of  Luca, 
atlyrnied  vnto  me  tho  last  day  for  most  certaine. 
Tell  il  vs,  i|uoth  the  IJiitchesse.  The  L.  Julian 
Hayde  smyliug:  This  Merchant  man  (as  hec  savth^' 
tieeiug  vjvon  a  time  in  Polonia,  determine*!  to  l)uy 
A  quautitie  of  Sahlos,  minding  to  bring  Ihcni  intr> 
Italie,  and  to  gaine  greatly  by  them.  And  *fl*'' 
much  praclisiiig  in  the  matter,  where  ho  could  not 
himselfo  go  into  Mo5>jouia,  bycause  of  the  w»rro 
betwixt  the  King  of  Polonift  &  the  Duke  of  ^ I 
he  looke  order  by  thomeaocof  some  of  u\' 

tliat  vpon  a  day  apiwynlod.ccrtaino  mor<  1:  ; 

of  Moacouia  ahoulde  come  with  their  babies  mn» 
the  lx>r<lers  of  I'olonia,  and  hee  v^^^^^^^^  ^>^^***  ^'^ 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [io«''S.i.Ja.>.2.i9w. 


bee  there  hiniaeU  to  barnajno  with  them.  This 
merchant  man  of  Luia  ImuailinR  tlien  with  hi« 
oonipoinie  towarde  Moscouiu,  arriucd  nt  the  rvuer 
of  lioristheuea,  which  he  founde  hard  frozen  like  a 
marble  stone,  and  saw  the  Moacouites  which  for 
suBpition  of  ye  war  were  in  doubt  of  the  Polakes, 
were  on  the  other  syde,  and  nearer  came  not  than 
the  breadth  of  the  ryuer.  So  after  they  knew  the 
one  the  other,  making  cerUine  signet,  the  M«m- 
couitos  beganne  to  sueake  aloude,  and  tolde  the 
price  how  they  woulde  sell  theyr  Sables,  but  the 
-colde  was  ao  extreeme,  that  they  wci-e  not  vnder- 
■toode,  bycause  the  wordes  before  thev  came  ou 
the  other  syde  where  this  Merchant  of  Luca  was 
and  his  interpreters,  were  congeled  in  the  ayre.  and 
there  reniayiiod  frozen  and  stopped.  So  that  the 
Polakea  that  knew  the  maner,  made  no  more  adoc, 
but  kyndled  a  great  fyro  in  the  myddest  of  the 
Ryuer  {for  to  theyr  seeming  that  was  the  poynte 
whereto  the  voyee  came  hotc  before  the  frost  tooke 
it)  and  the  riuor  was  so  thicke  frozen,  that  it  did 
well  beare  the  fire.  When  they  had  thus  done,  the 
wordes  that  for  Bi>ace  of  an  houre  had  bone  frozen, 
begun  to  thaw,  and  came  downe,  makinp  a  noyse  as 
doth  the  snow  from  the  Mountaynea  in  May,  and  so 
immediately  they  were  well  vnderstood :  but  the 
men  on  the  other  side  were  first  departed :  and 
bycause  he  thought  that  those  wordes  asked  too 
great  a  price  for  tne  .Sables,  he  woulde  not  barKaine. 
and  so  came  away  without.  Then  they  laughed 
«ll."— Caatiglione's  'Courtyer,' translated  by  Thoa. 
Hoby,  book  ii.  k  viijb. 

Aybahr. 
[The  story  aiipears  iu  Munchaunen.] 

ErEOK   in   'PoUfUILI    HVPNEROTOMACHIA.' 

— I  have  not  seen  mentioned  in  any  biblio- 
gmphical  work  a  typographical  error  which 
was  made  by  the  compositor  in  tho  first 
■edition  of  that  covotable  book  '  Poliphili 
Hypneroboraachia,'  Aldus,  149d,  but  was  dis- 
covered in  time  to  be  clumsily  corrected.  On 
£o.  &a  occurs  the  neconil  title :  '  Poliphili 
Hypaerotoinachia,  vbi  |  liumana  omnia  fion 
nisi  so-  I  inuivm  esse  osteodit.  at  |  qve  obiter 
plurima  |  scitv  saneqvam  |  digna  com-  | 
memo-  I  rat.'  Tlie  word  gvam,  followini;  the 
word  sane,  was  evidently  misprinted  in  the 
first  instance  y't'.  Tho  error  was  discovered 
Ijefore  some,  at  any  rate,  of  the  copies  were 
issued,  and  was  corrected  by  the  erasure  of 
the  e,  and  the  printing  in  by  hand  with 
«eparate  types  of  the  letters  am,  the  altera- 
tion detracting  from  the  beauty  of  tho  pa^e. 
This  is,  at  any  rate,  the  case  in  my  own  copy, 
and  in  some  others  which  I  have  seen.  Some 
of  your  readers  may  have  noticed  the  defect 
in  other  copies.  J.  Eliot  Hodokin. 

"  Rir.AnooN."— The  account  of  this  word  in 
the  French  dictionaries  does  not  take  us  very 
far.  Hatzfeld  ^iven  it  as  rigaudon  or  rigoclon, 
and  derives  it  from  Rignwl,  the  name  of  a 
dancing-master.  Tho  fact  is  that  the  word 
is  Provencal,  and  the  full  historj^  of  it  is 
given  by  Mistral  in  his  'Prov.   Dictionary.' 


He  tells  us  that  Rij^and  was  a  dancing- 
master  of  Marseilles,  and  that  in  the  South 
of  France  tho  dance  became  so  licentious 
that  it  was  prohibited  by  the  Parliament  of 
Provence  in  a  decree  dated  3  April,  1664. 
This  ^ives  as  a  fixed  date,  from  which  we 
may  infer  that  the  dance  came  in  about 
1660-3.  Hatzfeld  merely  tells  us  that  the 
spelling  ri'jrKlon  occurs  in  1696 ;  but  it  is 
oovious  that  tho  dance  was  older.  Mistral 
tells  us  even  mora  ;  for  he  Aays  that  Rigaud 
is  a  family  name  in  the  South  of  France.  I 
think  it  answers  to  a  Germanic  name  of 
which  the  A.-S.  form  would  be  Kicweald, 
latinized  as  Hicoaldus  ;  see  Fbrsteaiann. 

Waltee  W.  Skeat. 

"A    JOLLY    OOOD     fellow'    IN    ITALIAN.— 

The  Trihmvi,  describing  the  recent  visit  of 
Victor  Kmmanuel  III.  to  London,  says  : — 

"  L'  impressiune    prevalenbe  del  popolo  Ingle«e 

?ualo  ti  1     Ve  la  indico  con  ana  f  rase  iK>|>oIare  in 
nghilterre:  '  il  Re  i> un  gran  simpaticocompagno.' " 

This  translation  of  "  a  jolly  good  fellow  "  into 
the  tongue  of  Dante  ought  to  be  recorded  in 
your  columns.  Q.  V. 

"AoDLNii  INSULT  TO  iN.iuRV."  —  This  pro- 
verbial phrase  has  not  yet,  I  think,  had  its 
history  traced  in  'N.  i  Q.'    It  seems  to  have 
its  origin  in  a  line  of  Phietlrus  (v.  iii.  5)  :— 
Iniuriic  qui  addideria  contumeliam. 

Alex.  Leeper. 
Trinity  College,  Melbourne  Uuivereity. 

Atlsham  Cloth. —Aylsham,  in  Norfolk, 
in  the  fourteenth  century  produced  linen 
and  canvas  of  such  superior  make  tiiat  they 
were  known  simply  as  "Aylsham."  Owing 
to  an  old  spelling,  "  Eyllsbam,"  the  place  has 
not  always  been  recognized,  wherefore  these 
few  notes  may  be  presented  together. 

Dr.  Rock,  in  his  little  book  *  Textile 
Fabrics,'  1876,  p.  64,  says  :— 

"  For  tho  finer  sort  of  linen  EyIisLam  or  Ailesham 
in  Lincolnshire  was  famous  during  tho  fourtcCHth 
century.  Kxetor  Cathedral,  in  13*J7,  had  a  hand 
towel  of  '  Ailesham  cloth.'  " 

"Eileshara  canvas*'  is  mentioned  in  Hist. 
MSS.  Com.,  Fourth  Report,  p.  425  (Rye, 
•Norfolk  Topog.,'  1881,  p.  10). 

In  1300  Ecfward  I.  granted  a  tax  on  certain 
things  to  the  men  of  Carlisle,  to  repair  the 
bridge  there;  one  item  is  "de  qualioct  cen- 
tena  lineoe  telaj  de  Aylesham  venali  j  dena- 
rium"  ('Letters  from  Northern  Registers,' 
1873,  Rolls  Serifts,  p.  140). 

The  inventory  of  Thomas  de  Bittoo,  Bishop 
of  Exeter,  1310,  accounts  for  "j  bolt  et  vj 
ulnis  de  Eylisham,"  and  for  "iij  tualliis  do 
Ayliaham"  (Camden  Soc.,  New  Series,  x,  7, 9). 

In  1337  six  ells  of  **  Aylsam  "  were  bought 


lO""  8.  J.  J.iS-.  2,  I9W.) 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


for  the  Prior  of  Durham  ('  Durham  Account 
Rolls,'  Surt.  Soc,  100,  p.  534  ;  10:j,  p.  893, 
where  a  reference  is  given  to  Rr>ger9,  iv.  550). 
Under  'Sanappus  Halliwcll  quotes,  from 
ballad  of  13S7,  towels  of  Eylyssiiam,  white 
the  sea's  foam."  W.  0.  B. 

"  Sit  loo^e  to."— The  '  H.E.D.'  has  appa- 
ntly  no  quotation  for  this.  The  nearest  to 
1 13  from  Churchill,  1763,  "Loose  to  Fame, 
he  muse  more  siraplj'  acts,"  illu8trating  a 
enae  marked  obsolete.  *'  To  sit  loose  to  the 
world"  is,  however,  still  a  ver}'  common 
hrase  in  Methodist  class-nieetinKs. 

C.  C.  B. 

"  Ya\v«!  " :  ITS  ETYMOLOfiY.  — According  to 
Reea'a  'Cyclopaedia,'  181tt,  this  skin  disease 
is  "so  called  from  the  resemblance  of  its 
eruption  to  a  raspberry,  the  word  i/nw  in 
me  African  dialect  Ijeing  the  name  of  that 
"'♦  "  This  etymology  ha«  been  copied  with- 


^^ome 
^proit.' 
■but   i 


to 

^Si 


lighlftods  «igi)ifvinK  »  wild  rRsplierrj-,  in  Gaolic  or 
Srsc  it  la  called  irma-uu,  in  some  |iarta  it  ia  alao 


But  suspicion  by  the  '  Encyclopsedic,'  the 
'Century,  and  other  great  modern  dic- 
tionarie;*.  Nevertheless  it  is  a  blunder.  Rees 
doe^  not  explicitly  state  his  authority,  but 
it  appears  from  the  context  to  be  Dr.  T. 
jWinterbottom,  'Account  of  the  Present  State 
)f  Medicine  among  the  Native  Africans  of 
'Sierra  I^eone,"  1803,  vol.  ii.  p.  154,  where  I 
find  the  following  :— 

"There  is  a  iiioilifictttion  of  the  venereal  disease 
met  with  in  !»ci»tlan<l  which   i.s  tailed  ^ii  r>  nt,  from 

l^^i  word  ill  the  Scoto-Saxon  Iaii(;uaKe  spoken  in  the 

^^ffiighlands  signify' 

^■Ersc  it  in  called 

^^»illed  the  fj<t'i-i." 

^BiRees  evidently  misread  Winterbottom,  who 
^^uowhere  says  that  African  ;/aw  means  rasp- 
berry, but,  on  llie  contrary,  ascribes  that  senso 
to  Gaelic  soHcruH,in  more  correct  orthography 
leul/ichm'jb/t  or  nirjhchrooljh.  What,  tnen,  is 
Jthe  truo  origin  of  j/avs?  The  disease  is 
palled  in  British  Guiana  yan's,  in  Dutch 
[Juiana  ias,  in  French  Guiana  plans  (plural). 
M\y  ojDinion  is  that  these  are  all  one  worci. 
T'he  identity  of  yatc$  and  jns  is  obvious, 
knd  from  pians,  iU  na^al  being  a  negligible 
loantity,  thev  diflfer  only  by  Uie  loss  ot  its 
Initial,  doubtless  to  Ite  accounted  for  by  the 
(act  that  we  took  the  tern\  not  direct  from 
French,  but  through  the  negro  jargon.  As 
to  the  origin  of  this  /n'axs,  it  is  a  Guarani 
I,  one  of  those  which  the  French  borrowed 
from  their  auondam  Brazilian  colonies, 
{ontnya,  in  nis  great  thesaurus  of  the 
luarani  language,  1639,  duly  enters  it  as 
[•'  Fio,  bubas,  grauos."       Jas.  Platt,  Jun. 

Dk.  Brioht's  Epitaph  tx  Oxfohd  Cathe- 

YBAL.— On  the  memorial  brass  to  the  memory 

''ffUg  old  friend  Dr.  Bright,  Regiua  Professor 


of  Ecclesiastical  History,  in  the  south  aisle 
of  the  Cathedral  at  Oxford,  is  inscribed  the 
following:  "State  .super  antiquas  vias,  et 
vidoto  quHjnam  sit  via  recta  et  bona,  et 
ambulate  in  ea." 

This  is  the  Vulgate  version  of  Jeremiah 
vi.  Hi,  and  the  other  day  I  found  the  passage 
cited  in  Bacon's  '  Advancement  of  Leaniing': 

•'  Surely  the  advice  of  the  prophet  is  the  true 
direction  in  this  matter  [then  the  above  citatiou}. 
Anticiuity  desciveth  that  reverence  that  men  shoulcl 
make  a  stand  lhercii|iou,  and  <li&cover  what  ia  the 
best  way  ;  but  when  the  discovery  is  well  taken, 
then  to  wake  proKreasion."— Book  li. 

In  Job  is  a  similar  passage  (viii.  8-10), 
inscribed  on  Hearne's  tomb  in  the  church- 
yard of  St.  Peter-in-the-East,  Oxford. 

John  Pk  KFORt>,  M.A. 

Nowbourne  Rectory,  Woodbridge, 

Horn  DANciNt;.— The  following  paragraph 
may  be  interesting  as  recording  a  survival 
still  with  ua  : — 

"The  annual  cmtom  of  horn  dancing  took  place 
yesterday  at  Abbots  Brondey,  StafTordshire.  The 
day,  being  Wakes  Monday,  was  obaervcd  aa  a 
holiday,  and  the  unique  and  droll  terpiehorean 
event  attracted  nuite  a  number  of  vigitors  from 
London,  Liverpool,  and  the  Potteries.  The  hobby* 
horse  dancers  started  abont  nine  o'clock,  and  after 
a  prclitninarj'  canter  in  the  village  iourneyed  to 
Blyihticld  Hall,  the  seat  of  Lord  and  Lady  Bagot, 
afterwards  visiting  the  houses  of  the  neighbouring 
gentry.  Subsequently  they  returned  to  the  vjllage 
and  danced  up  the  prmcipal  street,  receiving  cakes 
and  ale  and  moupy  gifts.  One  of  the  troupe  has 
performed  for  over  fifty  years.  The  old-worm 
village  presented  quite  a  gay  appeai-aoee,  the  green 
lieing  occupietl  with  swingboats,  shooting  galleries, 
and  other  nhoK a."— Liverpool  Echo,  8  yeptember, 

W.  B.  H. 
Mrs.  Counev  in  'Oliver  Twi.st.'— Mrs. 
Corney,  matron  of  the  workhouse  where 
Oliver  was  born,  first  appears  in  chap,  xxiii. 
(or  book  ii.  chap.  i.  in  Ikutlo/s  Miscellany, 
iii.  105.  February,  1838).  Probably  her  name 
was  taken  by  Dickens  from  Mrs.  Corney,  45, 
Union  Street,  Middlesex  Hospital,  landlady 
of  Mrs.  Hannah  Brown,  who  was  murdered 
by  Jame-s  Greenacre  at  bis  house  in  Car- 
penter's Buildings,  Bowyer  Lano  (now 
VVyndham  Road),  Camberwell,  on  the  night 
of  24  December,  1836.  Mrs.  Corney  gave 
evidence  at  the  trial  on  10  April,  1837. 

Adrian  Wheeler. 

History  •'  made  in  Germany.'— At  a  ban- 
quet in  celebration  of  the  hundredth  a»ni- 
versarv  of  the  Hanover  Regiment,  which 
took  place  at  Hanover  on  U>  December,  1903. 
the  German  Emperor  made  the  following 
record  :  "I  raise  ray  glass  in  contoniplatiou 
of  the  past,  to  the  health  of  the  Gertnaa 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [lo^  s.  i.  Ja>.  2.  low. 


Lefjion,  in  memory  of  it«  incomparable  dtjods, 
•which,  in  conjunction  with  IJhicher  and  the 
IVussians,  rescued  the  Englitth  army  from 
destiuctloQ  at  Waterloo." 

RlCil.ARD  EOGCUIICBE. 
.13,  Tedworth  Square,  Chelsea. 

"Cour  r»R  Jarnac."— This  expression  is 
uaed  by  M.  Jorevin,  a  French  traveller,  in  a 
■description  of  the  "  tiergiardin  "  (BearOardon) 
in  "Sodoark"  (Southwark),  published  in 
1672,  and  reprinted  in  the  Aiitupuirian 
Hejmtori/  (ed.  1806),  vol.  iv.  p.  549. 

John  Hebb, 

SoMKHsET  Dialect.— Here  are  two  choice 
specimens.  "  It  do  vibttite  throueh,"  account- 
ing for  the  oil  dropped  from  tne  lamp.  A 
trail  of  ci-eeper  for  decorating  the  churcli 
would  look  so  nice  **  wrnnfjliiif}  round  the 
Communion."  Frederk  C  (Skey. 

Weare  N'irarnge. 

Taciti-s  and  the  '  Gesta  Romaxorum.'— 
The  eighteenth  tale  in  the  '  (jlesta  Romano- 
rum'  is  very  like  the  story  of  (KdipuK.  In  it 
the  man  who  unwittingly  slew  his  father  is  a 
soldier  named  Julian.  The  resemblance  of 
his  name  to  that  of  the  soldier  in  the  excerpt 
from  Tacitus  given  9'"  S.  xii.  105  is  remark- 
able. JoHX  B.  Waisewright. 

*'  Lombard."— Lof tie,  in  his  '  London,'  vol.  i. 
p.  K')8,  not^s  that  in  the  Hundred  Rolls, 
2  Edward  I.,  several  persons  arc  citetl  as 
Lombards  who  were  unquestionably  of  Eng- 
lish birth  and  parentage.  Among  the  number 
is  Gregory  de  Kokesle,  Mayor  of  London. 
Loftie  mld.s,  "A  Lombai-d  was  probably  by 
this  timo  a  money-lender,  not  a  native  of 
Lombardy."  M.  D.  Davis. 

"IliNtiiNu  FOR  Gofer."— The  Daihi  Mail 
of  6  November,  1903,  is  responsible  "for  the 
following  : — 

"Jin  six  aitccettaive  Sunday  evenings,  L-oniniencipg 
twelve  NuudavH  before  Chnstinaa,  the  church  bolls 
are  rung  at  Nowark-uiJonTrent  for  one  hour  ot  a 
time,  in  compliance  with  the  terms  of  a  bequest  left 
hy  a  merchant  named  Uofer.  Two  centurieB  ago 
(tofer  lost  his  M-ay  in  Sherwood  Forest,  then  in- 
fested by  men  of  the  baser  sort.  Just  as  ho  was 
civing  himself  up  for  dead,  he  heard  the  bells  of 
««*»rk,  and,  Ruided  by  their  sound,  regainwi  his 
road.  In  memory  of  his  deliverance  he  left  a  sum 
of  money  to  bo  exi>cnded  in  *  ringing  for  Gofer.'  " 
I  do  not  find  that  this  ancient  custom  has 
been  recorded  in  'N.  &  Q.,'and  I  therefore 
think  it  should  appear  therein. 

Everaru  Home  Coleman. 

"  Maosman."— Tl)e  following  cutting  from 
the  Datlt/  Expnsi  of  30  November,  1903,  may 
be  worth  pre^rving  in  '  N.  ft,  Q/  :— 


"With  the  close  of  the  raciDg  season  the  eard- 
8hari)er  takes  to  confideDce  tricks.  'Confi<lence 
men  are  called  '  maj^nien '  in  the  vemiicular  of  tlie 
police.  The  derivation  cf  the  term  ia  interesting 
and  instruciivo.  In  thieves'  slang  'to  mag'  is  to 
talk  in  a  specious,  oily  manner.  Hence  the  mags- 
man  is  a  swindler,  who  iiersuades  gullible  persons 
out  of  their  i>ossesaions.  His  happy  hunting-ground 
is  the  vicinity  of  the  large  railway  statioos  where 
passengers  book  for  long  journeys. 

W.  CUIU!0N  Yeo. 
Richmond,  Surrey. 

[*  Klang  and  its  Analogues,'  by  Farmer  and  Henley, 
gives  the  same  derivation] 

Shakespeare  Allusion.  —  In  'A  Mid- 
summer Night's  Dream,'  L  i.  207-S,  is  this 
couplet:— 

What  graces  in  my  love  do  dv>  ell 
That  he  hath  tuni'd  a  heaven  into  a  hell. 

Marston,  in  the  'Malcontent,'  L  li.  43-4,  has 
reversed  the  lines  and  given  a  garbled  quo- 
tation : — 

Your  smiles  have  been  my  heaven,  your  frowns  my 

hell : 
U,  pity  then— grace  sliouhl  with  beauty  dwell. 

Maquercllo  undoubtedly  i*ecogni/ed  the  allu- 
sion at  once,  for  she  iiuine<liately  retorts  ; — 
Reasonable  perfect,  by  'r  Lady. 

Chas.  a.  llliEI'K  a. 

Kaxlwav  Reuc— The  following,  from  the 
Livcritool  Dail)/  font,  13  worth  a  corner  in 
'N.  iQ.:-     • 

*'  Seventy  years  liave  elapsed  since  tlv  ■  '  '  --,k 
place  of  three  locomotives,  conatruuted  .  It 

of  a  competition  iiroinoted  by  the  thci  ;    "1 

and  Mancheatcr  Kail  way  Company.  Tho  Ubt,  of 
these,  the  Novelty,  has  just  been  discovered  at 
Kainhill.  The  three  engines)  which  took  part  in 
the  1S30  trials  were  the  Rocket,  constructed  by 
Stephenson;  the  Sanspareil,  by  Hack  worth  ;  and 
the  Novelty,  by  Brailhwaito  and  Kricson.  The 
Rocket  obtained  the  premium  of  :'>00/.  as  the  most 
suitable  locomotive  to  run  on  the  line,  having 
attained  a  speed  of  twenty-nine  milca  per  hour. 
The  greatest  speed  of  the  Sausiiareil  wa<i  less  than 
twenty-three  miles,  and  the  Novelty  bad  only 
covered  three  miles  when  the  joints  of  the  Iwiler 
gave  way.  At  that  time  the  Rainhill  <ias  and 
Water  Company's  ju'oniisee,  which  adjoin  the  rail- 
way at  Rainhill  SUitioo,  were  occupied  bv  Mr. 
Melling  as  engineering  works,  Kricson  and  Melling 
being  Irionds.  The  former  left  the  Kovclty  there 
after  its  failure  to  gain  the  prize.  The  Rocket  and 
the  Sansuareil  are  both  in  South  Kensington 
Museum,  but  the  whereabouts  of  the  Novelty  could 
not  be  traced  until  recently,  when  it  was  found  still 
working  as  a  stationary  engine,  the  wheels  having 
been  removed.  This  interesting  relic  will  in  all 
probability  be  placed  side  by  side  with  ita  oontem- 
|)oraries  at  South  Kcusiugton.*' 

W.  D.  Pink. 

Green  :  rrs  SicNincAKcs.  (Seo  1^  S.  viiL 
4«.14  ;  X.  141,  258  ;  9"'  S.  viii.  121,  192  ;  ix.  ii34, 
400;  X.  32,  133,  353;  xi.  32,  204.)— Rafaello 


.I0-' s. h  Jan. 2. iflw]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


'•■..-'  '"i,  in  the  second  b(K»k  of  \m  *  Riposo,' 

i  to  I)i»n  niovarini  Medici,  writes  at 

i<  .>u  ..  igtli  as  to  the  signitioance  oi  culuuvis. 

extract  what  relates  to  green  (ed.  1584, 

p.  237-8):— 

"  Vaa  la  C'ltie&a  Santa  i  |iarameutt  neri  nelle  ro^- 
ipDi,  e  ne  Ki'Jrni  di  atHiUione,  e  d'  astiiienKa  per  li 
cali.   ft    in    altri    temrii.    che    hora   noii   dico 
r    veniro    i    traltare   ael    verUe   aesto    colore. 
lo  perchc  non  (lArticipa  molto  del  ncro  non 
ignobile  come  il  color  uero.  ben  che  sia  men 

oegU  altri  colori :  k  alcuni  vogliono,  perche 

ji  iioii  c  annouerato  fra  i  i|iiattro  elenienli,  che 

li  8ia  di  tutti  il  men   pregiaio ;  nondimeuo  e^U 

iresenla  albert,  piaiite,  prali,  verdc  hcrbette,  « 

Uti  colli,  cose  giocoudiwinic,  e  dilloteuoli  alia 

...  :  peril  non  dee  ewser  temito  in  j>ocn  Blima. 

Tgnitica  aliegrezza,   aniore,  gratitudine,   ainicitia, 

OQOrc,    bonta,    bellezza,    e    secoudo    la    comuue 

pinione  aperanza.    Fra  le  pictre  pretioso  a'  asso- 

iglia  alio  stnaraldo,  fra  lo  virtii  dinioBlra  la  for- 

jzxxi,  fra  iiianeti   Venerc,  fra   metalli   il   piorabo, 

eir  eta  dell'  huomo  ]u  giouentii  fino  a  trentacinqiie 

nni,  nei  giorni  il  giouedi,  nelle  sta^ioni  la  Prima 

lere.  His'  meai  il  verdo  oscuru  Aprile,  &  il  vorde 

htaro  MoKgio,  e  ne'  sacrauienti  il  matrimonio.    E' 

I    vprH*>  (11  grandiRsimo  conforto  alia   viata,  e  la 

!  ,  e  oonsoltt  (|uando  c  affaticata:  e  percii'i 

iiKilto  Ri  diluttano,  e  si  conipiacciono  del 

II-     Vna  la  santa  Chiosa  i  paranieuli  uerdi 

nell'  uiUiia  dell'  Epifauia,  nella  Setiuagesiina,  nella 

I'enloo'vete,    nell'   Auento,  o   ne    giomi    foriali,    e 


Q.  V 


Cl^urncs. 


I  „...„,  „._.,..„ 

^H  formation  on  family  matters  of  utdy  private  interest 
^^BtoatKK  Iheii' names  and  addreaaca  to  their  i|neriea, 
^Hin  order  that  the  answers  may  be  addressed  to  tliem 
^Bdirect.  

^H    Baplbr»  Wbll3    Play    ALLUUiiD   to    by 

^BWonDSWuRTU.— 1  shall  be  obliged  if  any  one 

^H  can  tell  iiic  what  wan  the  dat«  of  the  play, 

^^^fountied  on  the  story  of  John  liatfield  and 

Mary  of  liuttermr're.aiid  produced  at  Sadler's 

Welfs  Theatre,  U>  wliich  Wordsworth  alludes 

in  the  '  Prelmie,'  Invok  vii.     It  niu.it  Jmve 

lieen  between  1803  and   180.'j,  for  the  poem 

I  was    finished    during    the   latter  ye^r,  and 

IdariiiK  ^^  management  of  the  Dibdins.    In 

!  the  Biit,   Mus.  collection  of  Sadler's   Wells 

I  fJaybilU  I  came  across  one  in   which  was 

laanounced  for  25  April,  1803,  'William  and 

)8tiHan,'  the  favourilo  burlotta,  in  which  arc 

\ariouH   views  of    the  lake  of    Buttermeio. 

t'osoibly  this  is  the  play  in  question. 

H.  W.  B. 
[No mmition  of  this  work  ocuors  in  the  '  lUofrraphia 
hraniatioa'  of  Baker,  Heed,  and  Jones,  IKI'J.] 

Mn.EaToSEs.  —  When  did  our  forefathers 
begin  to  roco>;ni7.o  the  importance  of  accu- 
rately marking  distanoeti  on  our  high  roads! 


Even  in  these  days  we  are,  as  is  woll  known, 
much  behind  our  continental  neighbours  in 
this  regard,  as  well  as  in  that  of  "finger- 
posts "  and  like  indicators.  From  the  follow- 
ing paragraph,  which  I  have  found  in  the 
LoiHwn  JyventJKj  Poit  for  10  September,  1743, 
it  would  .seem  that  the  setting  up,  or  at  least 
the  providing  of  funds  for  setting  up,  of 
milestones,  even  on  such  an  important  high 
road  as  that  between  Croydon  and  London, 
was  at  that  time  left  to  the  imblic  spirit  of 
piix'ate  individuals  :  — 

"  On  Wodnesday  they  began  to  measure  the 
Croydon  Road  from  the  Standard  in  C.'omhiU  and 
stake  the  jilaces  for  erecting  mileatonv.'',  the  in- 
habitants ot  Croydon  having  subscribed  for  thirteen, 
which  'tis  tbougltt  will  be  carried  on  by  the  tientle- 
men  of  Sussex. 

W.  MoY  Thomas. 

Fellows  of  the  Clover  Le.vf.— Informa- 
tion is  sought  as  to  the  history  of  this  society 
or  oitier.  On  17  May,  18G6,  Capt.  Arthur 
Chilvor  Tupper,  F.S.A.  (when  did  he  die  and 
where  buried  1),  exhibited  to  the  Society  of 
Antiquaries  two  small  pewter  Sagons  about 
8  in.  high.  One  was  inscribed  '*Joclum 
Lvers  1645";  the  other,  "Peter  Fisker  lG4:i 
Dit  is  Der  Kepper  gesellen  er  klever  Blat." 
Each  bore  L.  S.  and  shield  with  castle  as  pew- 
terer's  mark.         T.  Cann  Himjhks,  F.S.A. 

Lancaster. 

'  AsTa.£A  ViCTRix.'— Can  you  inform  me 
where  to  find  a  poem  entitlwl  'Astnea 
Victrix,  or  Love's  Triumph/  by  L.  Willan, 
gent.  {  It  was  probably  published  about 
1750  or  later.  I  was  born  Willan,  ray  grand- 
father being  a  certain  Dr.  llobert  Willan, 
F.It.S.,  F.S.A.,  born  at  Sedbergh,  Yorkshire. 
Ho  practised  in  Bloorasbury  S(juare,  and 
died  in  1812.  ily  ancestors  lived  in  or  about 
Sedbergh  for  several  hundrcrl  years,  and 
Leonard  and  Lancelot  were  two  family 
names.  W'illau  is  quite  a  Yorkshire  name. 
M.VJIY  Augusta  Howell. 

Holy  Trinity  Parsoiiagej  High  Cros<<,  Tottenham 

Speech  uy  the  Earl  of  Sl.st.ex,  l.'>96.— I 
desire  to  know  if  there  is  in  existence  a 
perfect  copy  of  "a  speech  by  the  Earl  of 
Sussex  at  the  tilt,"  1596.  There  is  a  mutilated 
Sis.  of  it  in  the  Duke  of  Northumberland's 
collection.  It  begins :  "  Most  divine,  and 
more  mighty  than  that  queen  to  wtiom  all 
other  queens  are  subject."        Johx  Oatiw. 

Rutland  House,  Saltoun  Road,  .S.W 

Mayers'  So.vn.  (See  3^^'  S.  vii.  373.)— Lsit 
possible  to  ascertain  what  was  tlie  musical 
rendering  of  this  ballad?  I  am  giving  a 
paper  on  the  Hertfordshire  Mayers'  Song 
shortly,  and  am  anxious  to  have  it  sung  by 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [lo^  s.  i.  jan.  LMWi. 


a  quartet  in  cOTtuine.  For  the  benefit  of 
those  who  may  not  be  able  to  consult  the 
above  reference,  I  may  be  permitted  to  give 
the  fir'^t  verse  as  supplied  by  Cuthbert 
Rede  :  — 

Here  comes  ua  poor  Mayers  all. 

And  thus  we  do  he^n 
To  lead  our  lives  in  riKliteousneu, 
For  fear  we  should  die  in  siii. 

This  song  was,  I  believe,  sung  in  some  of  the 
neighbouring  counties— Cainbridge,  Bucks, 
nnd  Bedfordshire.  W.  B.  Gerish. 

Biabop'a  Sbortford. 

Right  Hon.  Edward  SouTinvELi,.— I  shall 
beglad  ttjknow  who  purchased  the  diary  of  the 
above,  1684-1716,  at  the  sale  of  the  Phillipns 
Library,  Cheltenham.  It  mentions  the 
writer's  marriage  witli  Miss  Bla\'thwaite. 
Charles  S.  Kinc;,  Bt. 

St.  Leonards-oD-Sea. 

Francis  Hawes  :  Sir  T.  Leman.— I  shall 
be  glad  of  any  information  concerning : 
1.  Francis  Hawe.s,  of  Berks,  who  died  in  1764. 
He  was  a  director  of  the  South  Sea  Comp>any, 
and  had  an  elder  brother  Thomas.  2.  Sir 
Thomas  Leman,  the  last  holder  of  the  extinct 
baronetcy.  Antiquarv. 

"Amplr"— In  the  review  of  the  December 
ScriOner  ([•"'  S.  .xii.  480)  occurs  the  sentence : 
"  Views  of  Buda  and  Pest  are  not  in  colours, 
bub  are  iX/nfh  and  very  effective."  Is  not  this 
use  uncommon  f  Ample  for  what  ?  The  point 
would  have  escaped  my  notice  but  that  I  am 
acquainted  with  a  family  whoae  members  U80 
this  word  fi-equeiitly  with  a  meaning  peculiar, 
I  imagine^  to  themselves.  The  sensation 
experienced  when  cutting,  or  seeing  some  one 
cut,  asunder  a  thick  roll  of  butter,  when  the 
wheels  of  a  cart  cut  through  mwd  of  the  con- 
sistence of  butter,  or  when  one  touches  or 
presses  velvet  with  the  hand,  is  described 
by  them  as  "ample.'  The  associated  idea 
appears  to  be  that  of  prolunned,  clinging  ' 
reautance.  They  can  afford  me  no  particulars 
of  the  origin  or  descent  of  the  word,  but 
maintain  that  it  has  been  handed  down  in 
the  family  for  some  generations.  | 

Geokoe  C.  Peachev. 

Qi  ESNEL.— Can  any  reader  inform  me  of  the 
existence  of  portraits  in  Scotland  of  about  I 
the  time  of  James  V.  by  Pierre  Quesnel  ? 

J.  J.  Foster.     I 

Shakesieare's  "ViiirtiE  ok  necehpitv."— 
Has  any  pedigree  for  the  phrase  "make  a' 
virtue  of  necessity "  been  discovered  by 
Boconites?  On  p.  72  of  "Oregon  I.  Papie 
Registrum  Epistolarum,  Tomi  I.  Pars  I.  Libor 
I.-IV.,     edidit    Paulus    Kwald"    (Berolini, 


AiixittiAXXviT.),  there  are  the  words  "no; 
hoc  virtutis  opere  fieru'  Here,  however, 
vtrtiifig  iierliapa  means  "of  force,"  and  oiferm 
is  "of,  i.e.  by  necessity,''  that  is  "  willy  nilly." 
A  similar  expres-sion  is  probably  to  big  found 
in  many  books  written  between  the  time  ol 
St.  Gregory  and  Bacon.        E.  S.  Dodoson. 

"Ome<;a,"  an  Old  Costribptor.— Aboul 
fifty  years  ago  a  contributor  to  '  N,  &  Q.' 
signed  with  the  Greek  omega  reversed.  Ii 
there  any  clue  to  his  name  nowadays  ?      L 

"Xor  ALL  WHO  SEEM  TO  FAIL."— Who  WfOtQ 

the  following  lines  ^— 

Xot  all  who  aeero  to  fail  have  failed  indeed ; 
Xot  all  who  fail  have  iherefuro  worked  in  vain. 

There  is  no  failure  for  the  upod  and  Miae  ; 
What  tho'  thy  ^eed  should  fall  by  the  wayside. 
And  the  birds  anatcb  it^    Vet  the  birds  are  fed. 

W.  S-R. 

LE<;tNi>  OK  THE  Council  of  Constance. — 
The  Russian  poet  A.  X.  Maikov— a  cosmo- 
I)olitan  writer,  whose  range  em bracetl  ancienfc 
and  modern  worlds,  anrl  who  rendered  old 
romances  in  charming  classic  verse— relates 
in  song  the  following  legend.  Before  the 
Council  a  grim  doctor  learnedly  expounds 
JoIju  Uus's  guilt  and  the  appropriate  sontence 
at  wearisome  length.  Nea.r  the  Emperor 
stands  a  youthful  page,  who  finds  the  pro- 
cee«lings  dull.  As  evening  approaches  some-' 
thing  in  the  garden  attracts  him ;  he  glances 
through  the  window  and  smiles.  Involuntarily 
tho  Emperor's  eyes  follow  the  page  ;  then  the 
Pope's  austere  features  relax,  and  soon  the 
whole  assembly  of  princes  and  prelates  gaze 
towards  the  windows,  enchanted  by  Philomel's 
song  in  the  garden.  _  Tender  memories  renew 
themselves  in  the  minds  of  those  stern  eccle- 
siastics, and  even  tho  ruthlessdoctor  stamraerj, 
blunders,  and  finally  softens.  Suddenly 
old  monk  coufosses  that  he  was  about  to 

"  Hus  is  innocent"  under  the  influence  of 

sweet  melody,  which  must  proceed  from 
Saliin  himself.  In  horror  the  whole  Council 
rose,  sang  "Let  God  arise,"  then  bowed 
before  the  crucifix  in  prayer,  and  at  la^t 
condemned  Hus  to  the  stake  and  anathema- 
tized the  innocent  nightingale.  Thesupncoed 
fien<l  fled  from  the  garden,  and  dubions 
witnesses  saw  him  pass  over  the  lake  in  the 
form  of  n  fiery  Hying  serpent,  scattering 
sparks  in  his  rage. 

Maikov's  poem  is  entitled  '  Prigovor'  ('Tlie 
Doom  '),  and  I  am  endeavouring  to  render  it 
in  English.  Is  such  a  legend  recorded  elee- 
whorel  Fi:ancx«  P.  Marchant. 

llrixtoQ  Hill. 


10* s- 1.  .Tax.  2, 19W.1  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


9 


E.'Blted  PiUESTs.  —  On  the  accession  of 
Qaeen  Mary  iu  IfjSS  many  of  the  so-called 
"  reforming  "clergy  "  were  ejected  from  their 
livingH.  "Where  can  a  list  of  them  and  par- 
ticalars  ba  found  ?  !• 


'•  Don't  shoot,  hb  is  doing  his  bbst."—  I 
siiould  be  elad  if  some  one  would  inform  me 
whether  the  following  quotation  comes  from 
kJIark  Twain  orArtemusAVard:  "Don't  shoot, 
[lie  is  doinK  his  beiit."  la  the  quotation 
[correct  1  Was  the  notice  put  over  a  new 
inrganist  in  a  church  in  the  Western  States, 
[or  did  it  apply  to  a  pianint  in  a  drinking 
[saloon  !  H.  M.  C. 

Bahshaw.— Uan  any  of  your  readers  give 
rae  information  respecting  Samuel  Bagshaw, 
who  published  at  Sheffield, in  1847,  a  'History, 
Gazetteer,  and  Directory  of  the  Ck)unty  of 
iKent,'  in  two  volumes?  Did  he  produce  any 
'other  works  of  a  like  character?  I  do  not 
find  his  name  in   the  'D.N.B.,'  nor  in  any 

i local  work  with  which  I  am  acquainted. 
Charles  Smith. 
; 
; 


"Fbo-m    ^tiknce."— In    a   review   of    my 
Romantic    Tales    from    the    Pan  jab,'    just 
tpublislied  by  Constable,  exception  was  taken 
^to  my  use,  in  one  place,  of  tne  form  "from 
whence."    It  occurs  on  p.  438,  in  the  story  of 
I^Poran  Bhagat,'  '*  Let  me  return  from  whence 
have  come."    Now,  of  all  Eastern  stories, 
" '  Puran  Bhagat '  is  the  most  Biblical  in  motive 
and  feeling,  and  I  used  the  condemned  form 
deliberately,    nob   inadvertently,   because    I 
bad  in  my  mind  such  passage-s  of  the  Bible 
as  "  The  land  of  Egypt,  from  irhenre  ye  came 
out  "  <Dcut.  xi.  10),  "'  From  whmce.  came  they 
unto  thee?"'  (Is.  xxxix.  3)  and  many  others. 
Shakespeare    also    uses    this    construction 
several   times,  as,   for  example :   "  Let  him 
walk  f'roni  ivkcnre  he  came,  lest  he  catch  cold 
,on  's  feet "  (•  Comedy  of  Errors,'  III.  i.  37). 
With  this  array  of  precedents,  may  I  ask 
rhether  or  not  it  is  open  to  a  modern  writer,  | 
translating  archaic  taias  into  English,  to  make 
discriminating  use  of  the  same  form  ?    I  do  ' 
deny  grammatical  inaccuracy,  but  I  hope 
day  is  far  distant  when  the  old    pic- 1 
■que  irregularities  and  licences    of   our' 
Itiful  English  tongue  shall  all  be  ground  , 
to    the    dead    monotonous    level    of  i 
li-mie    French,   for    instance.     Perhaps  I 
>mo  contributors  will  also  kindly  mention, ' 
[possible,  the  earliest  and  the  latest  accepted 
rork  iu  which  the  locution  firnn  tehence  ib  to  . 
^e  found. 
I    iiiav  add   that  from   thence  also  occurs ! 
•  ible;   for  instance,   twice  over  in' 
<i.  Charles  Swynnerton. 


"OoiNo  THB  RorNn":  "Roundhouse."— Is 
it  not  probable  that  the  phrase  "going  the 
round,  or  "rounds,"  is  much  older  than  it 
looks,  and  that  it  had  its  origin  in  the  watch- 
man's rounds,  that  functionary  soraetimM 
announcing  news  over  and  above  that  which 
related  to  the  weather?  "To  walk  the 
round  "  often  occurs  in  the  plays  of  Mas- 
singer  and  his  contemporaries.  In  'The 
Picture,'  for  instance,  a  tragicomedy,  acted 
in  the  "Black  Fryars"  iu  IGSG,  we  find 
(Act  II.)  :- 

Dreams  and  fantutio  visions  walk  the  round. 

In  '  King  John '  (Act  II.  sc.  ii.)  the  Bastard 
soliloquizes : — 

And  France,  whose  arnionr  conaciencc  buckled  on. 
Whom  zeal  and  charity  brouKhl  to  ihe  field 
As  (iod'a  own  soldier,  rounded  in  the  ear 
With  that  same  purpoae-chanRer,  that  sly  devil, 
Coniiuodity  (i.e.,  intereat). 

Here  "rounding  in  the  ear"  means  to 
whisper.  An  old  phrase  similar  to  our 
modem  "going  the  round"  was  "to  go 
current"  or  to  "go/<vr  current":  "A  great 
while  it  went  for  current  that  it  was  a 
pleasant  region  "(Purchas, '  Pilgrimage,'  p.  18). 
Was  not  a  roundhouse,  by  the  way,  so 
called  from  being  a  prison  in  which  such 
lawbreakers  were  confined  as  were  taken  up 
by  the  constable  or  watchman  on  his  rountlsf 
"Timbs,  however,  says  that  the  watchhouse 
wa«  called  a  roundhouse  "because  it  suc- 
ceeded the  Tonel  or  Roundhouse  ;  the  tonel 
having  been  an  old  butt  or  hogshead,  or 
something  in  the  shape  of  one."  What  au- 
thority had  Timbs  for  saying  this  ?  Is  it  not 
an  assumption  based  merely  on  the  fact  of 
the  "Tun"  in  Comhill  having  been  built 
somewhat  in  the  fashion  of  a  tun  standing 
on  its  bottom?  And  tho  roundhouses  were 
generally  either  hexagonal  or  octagonal,  I 
believe.  J.  Holden  Ma.cMicuael. 

Mabriage  Reoipters.  —  Are  there  any 
registers  or  records  of  the  Fleet  marriages, 
and  especially  of  those  performetl  by  the 
chaplain  of  the  Chapel  Royal,  Savoy,  during 
17.''>4-5,  after  the  pa.ssing  of  Lord  Hardwicke's 
Act?  What  records  exist  of  marriages  in 
Guernsey,  the  Isle  of  Man,  and  Gretna  Green 
from  1754  to  1857  ?  Thornk  Qeoece. 

[For  Gretna  Green  regiatera  sec  General  Indexes] 

Interment  in  Graves  belongino  to  other 
Famti.ies.— This  practice  is  sometimes  per- 
mitted, or  even  desired  by  frieiully  persons. 
Can  any  instances  of  it  in  Queen  Elizabeths 
time  be  given  1  ^■ 

John  Hall,  Bishoi-  of  Bristol. -John 
Hall  was  Bishop  of  Bristol  from  1691  to  hw 


m 


10 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [io"»  s.  i.  Jan.  -  i9o#. 


death  in  1710.  The  '  D  N.B.'  makes  no  meu- 
tiou  of  his  wife.  What  was  her  maiden  name? 
When  did  lie  marry  her  T  and  where  ? 

BBRNAbD  P.  SCATTEROOOD. 
"O  COME,  ALL  YE    FAIT H »T L."  —  Can    Mr. 

buEDLOCK  or  some  of  your  readers  iiifoim  mo 
aH  to  the  origin  of  the  tune  ixjpularly  known 
as  the  *  Portuguese  Hymn '  ?  There  seems  some 
reason  for  believinj^  that  tlie  tune  was  written 
by  John  Readinjr,  a  pupil  of  Dr.  Clow.  In  a 
notice  of  the  Christma.s  service  at  the  Roman 
Catholic  Westminster  CAtlie<lraI  in  the  D'libj 
Telfiiriiph  of  26  December  last,  it  is  stalled  : — 
"  Reccully,  it  may  be  uoi&l,  the  melody  was 
restored  to  its  siini>fe  form  and  key,  and  each  of 
the  eight  verseo  being  harinoni/.e<i  by  a  different 
liritiBh  musician,  the  variety  of  treatmeut  thus 
obtained  proved  cxceedinRly  interesting." 

N.  S.  S. 
[Sec  '  Adeste  FidelM,'  fifth  Series,  (Auieral  Index.] 


HENRY,  EARL  OF  .STAFFORD.  ON  HllS 

FRENCH  WIFE. 

(9'"  S.  xii.  46G.) 

The  eccentric  provisions  of  Lord  Stafford's 
will  are  known   to  students  of  Grammont, 
and  the  jjassage  quoted  by  Dr.  Furnivall 
will   be  found  in  the  introduction,  p.  xxv, 
of   Mr.    Gordon    Goodwin's  edition   of   the 
'Memoirs,'  published   by  Mr.  A.  H.  Bullen 
in  1903.    The  exact  date  of  the  will  is  2  Feb- 
ruary, 1G99/1700,  a  year  later  than  that  given 
by  Dr.  Furnivall     The  earl  subsequently 
added  two  codicil.s  to  his  will,  but  no  mention 
of  hi.s  wife  was  made  in  either  of  them.     He 
die<i    without  issue,  27  April,    1719,   in   his 
seventy -second  year,  and  wa.s  buried  in  Wejjt- 
miuster  Abbey.    He  had   been  an  adherent 
of   Jarae!)   II.,  and  followed   his  master  to 
St.  Germain -en-Lay  e,  where  on  3  April,  1694, 
he  married  Claude  Charlotte,  the  elder  of  the 
two  daughters  of    Philibert    de  Grammont 
and    Elizabetii   Hamilton.    These  two  girls 
were  describee]  by  the  Marquis  de  Datigeau 
('Journal,'  i.    241)  as  great  intriguers,  and 
better  known  in  society  than   many  belles, 
though  very  ugly.  They  seem  to  have  inheritetl 
the  wit  and  vivacity  of  their  father  without 
partaking    of    the  beauty  of  tlieir  mother. 
Claade,  though  not  in  Jier  first  youth,  was 
e)ght.-<m   v.).ir«   VT... ......  than   her  husban<l, 

«''  been  busy  with  her 

Dfti  ;. .J  the  young  Duke  of 

Orleans,  aft^rwania  the  celebrated  ivegent. 
It  is  said  that  his  mother,  the  Duchess 
?fii  ^^''-*"^  whow  maid  of  honour 
AIUc.   de    Grammont    li.id   been.    pcr«uade<l 


Lord  Stafford  to  marry  lier.  However 
this  may  have  been,  the  uniun  between  si 
stolid,  middle  -  aged  Englishman  and  the 
lively  daughter  of  a  French  father  and  a 
Scoto-Itish  mother  could  hardly  Vie  expected 
to  turn  out  happily.  Lady  Stafford,  both  in 
youth  and  age,  was  one  of  those  characters 
that  Thackeray  was  hanpy  in  depicting.  Her 
girlhood  was  that  of  Ifeatrix  Esmond  ;  her 
old  age  that  of  the  Baroness  Bernstein,  with 
a  dash  of  Lady  Kew,  .She  probably  had  her 
husband  in  her  thoughts  when  she  uttered 
the  words  recorded  by  Lord  Hervey  in  refer- 
ence to  Queen  Caroline  and  George  II. :  — 

'*  Pour  nioi,  je  trouve  ((u'on  i!i)?««  tr''«rnal — sicette 
nauvre   I'rincesso  avail  1  'I      'it 

etre  embarraaet^  dans  r- '  <> 

tel  role  i»  joucr,  iiu'ott  liii  '-t 

vivre  avec  un  dt-saRrcabb  animal  tonle  -iu.  yii' 
privtSe,  on  doit  aentir  sea  nialheiirs,  et  je  suia  euro 
qu'elle  e^t  sottc,  et  mt-nie  tria  sotte,  \mf  <|u'ollo 
n'ost  pBLa  ciiibiirraMt'e  et  qu'elle  iic  jLirHit  point 
confonduc  dans  touted  les  nouve*utii  p-tirim  Xw- 
qneUeR  elle  se  trouve." 

As  things  turned  out,  Lady  Stafford,  not- 
withstanding Lord  Hervey's  opiniun  of  her 
judgment,  was  comploteh'  mistaken  in  her 
view  of  the  situation.  The  queen,  iustea<i 
of  vividly  feeling  her  position  in  being  yoked 
to  so  disagreeable  a  husband  as  George  II., 

filayed  her  part  through  life  with  the  cheer 
ul  and  unembarrassed  bearing  that  ha<l 
distinguished  her  when  she  first  made  the 
acquaintance  of  tlie  king,  and  succeeded  iu 
securing  as  mucli  affection  as  it  was  iu  his 
power  to  give  to  any  woman. 

Lady  Stafford,  when  in  England,  used  io 
live  at  TwicUentiam,  where  sne  became  on 
very  intimate  terms  with  Lady  Mary  Wortley 
Montagu.  When,  in  1727,  the  uld  countess 
set  out  for  Franco,  Lady  Mary  wrote  to  her 
sister,  the  Countess  of  Mar,  that  her  friend 
had  carried  half  the  pleasures  of  her  life 
with  her ;  she  was  more  stupid  than  she 
could  describe,  and  could  think  of  nothing 
but  tiio  nothingness  of  the  good  things  of 
this  world.  She  relates  the  scandal  that 
arose  from  the  intimacy  of  the  second  Duchess 
of  Cleveland  with  hor  husband's  young  kins- 
man. Lord  Sidney  Beauclerk,  the  fatlier  of 
Johnson's  friend  Topham,  and  sends  her  a 
copy  of  verses  on  the  same  theme,  winding 
up  with  an  ill-founded  an<l  ill-natured  iunt 
oi  Lady  Stafford's.     WalfK>le  knew   tho  old 

ladv  in   his  childhcxxl,  and  av: !   '^  "•  •  h(> 

had  more  wit  than  either  of  i' 
Lady  Mary  or  tho  Duke  of  \'. ....  !'• 

died  in  1739,  and   her  will,  dated   ;  lu 

tliiiL  vf^.ir.  was  proved  three  davi  __l_!  jv 
VI  irl  of  Arrau,  to  whom  she  left  all 

li"i   ,      ,      ly. 


^^^^^^J 


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11 


^  The  countess's  younger  sister.  Marie 
Iiljsabeth,  was  born  27  Decemlier.  I(i(i7,  and, 
luividg  entere'l  uitu  religion,  became  the 
Abbess  uf  St*.  Miiriede  I'oussaye  in  Lorraine. 
'8ho  fiie<l  before  her  parents  in  17<J6.  and. 
Walpoie  records  that  he  was  told  by  an  oki 
friend  of  hers,  Madame  de  Mirepoix,  the 
French  Amb<u*iadre.ss,  that  she  was  ten  times 
uiore  vain  of  the  bloo<^i  of  Hamilton  than  of 
aD  equal  (.quantity  of  that  of  Orammont.^ 
Lady  Stafford  Keems  to  have  been  equally 
attached  to  the  family  of  her  mother. 

IW.  F.  Prideaux. 
"Tatar"  ob  "Tartar"  (9'''  S.  xii.  18&, 
376).— I  have  read  Dr.  Koelle's  article  in 
vol.  xiv.  of  the  new  series  of  the  Jotu-nal  of 
the  Jioyal  Asiatic  Society,  and  come  to  the 
conclusion  thai  lie  belongs  to  that  cla.ss  of 
Orientalists  of  whom  Voltaire  made  such  fun 
in  the  preface  to  his  '  Charles  XII.'  or  '  Pierre 

»lo  Grand,'  1  now  forget  which. 
The  "perhaps  greatest  European  authority 
on  the  group  of  Central  Asiatic  languages" 
begins  his  disquisition  with  the  ex  ratludrn 
statement  that  every  one  knows  that  formerly 
ali  Europe  was  agreed  in  saying  and  writing 
Tartar,  and  it  is  only  in  modern  times  that 
would-be  clever  fdlks  have  begun  to  substi- 
tute the  incorrect  form  Tatar.t   "All  Kuropo' 
must  be  taken  in  a  somewhat  restricted  sense, 
like   "the    British   nation"  in    the   famous 
^B  manifesto    i8sue<l    by    the    three    tailors    of 
^^P  Tooley   Street,    because    it    never    included 
^^  Itos-sia,     Poland,     Hungary,     Rumania,     or 
Turkey.     It  must  be  a'isumed,  therefore,  that 

•  the  learned  Orientalist  was  not  aware  of  this 
circumstance,  or  he  would  have  made  some 
attempt  to  explain  why  so  many  millions  of 
Europeans,  all  of  whom  have  been  in  close 
contact  with  the  Tartars  off  and  on  for 
centuriea,  use  the  incorrect  form.  Ho  gives 
some  kind  of  explanation  why  the  Tartars 
themselves,  the  Turks,  Arabs,  and  Persians, 

Icio  not  use  the  right  name  ;  but  as  a  matter 
of  fact  he  has  not  pro^iuced  a  tittle  of  evidence 
to  show  that  the  form  Tartar  was  used  by 
any  one  else  than  the  Armenians,  the  Greek 
ajid  Latin  writers,  and  the  Western  nations 
of  KuiX)pe.  France  and  England  are  still 
orthodox  in  this  respect^  but  tlie  Germans  are 
gradually  going  over  to  the  opposite  faction. 
JJveu  (>.  VVoUV.  although  "on  the  light  track 
fit  tlie  etymology  of  the  word  Tartar,"  has 
•  '  I>elter«  of  Udy  M  W.  MonlAfc'n,'  ed.  HO?, 
11  217-'iL'0  :  •  Ixitt^ra  «f  Horace  VS'alpole,'  C'anniug- 
liaiii't  ed.,  ii.  '2ffl ;  Toynlno  s  eil.,  iii.  til. 
t  Rut  Dr  Kocllchiruaolf  "i'"ii  -^ 'rointho  Mxteouth 
^  century  *  Thesaiii-us '  ot  r  u>iu:    "Tartttri 

i«iB  Taltari  (to|ito/>oO,  ; 


used  the  heterodox  form  in  the  title  of  hi« 
book,  and  wrote  '  Goschichte  der  Mongolen 
oder  Tataren '  (Breslau,  1872).  Dr.  Ivoelle 
himself  confesses  that  his  views  on  the 
etymological  nature  of  the  name  Tartar  have 
resulted  "merely"  {iic)  from  his  exhaustive 
study  of  the  Tartar  roots,  and  therefore  rest 
on  purely  pliilological  data,  whilst  e»'ery 
liistorical  consideration  seems  to  be  opposed 
to  thorn.  When  he  aske<.l  Tartars  what  they 
called  themselves,  their  reply  invariably  was 
"  Tatar  "  or  perhaps  "  Tattar. "  On  one  occa- 
sion only,  two  men  who  seemed  to  be  more 
intelligent  than  the  rest  promised  the  Berlin 
doctor  that  they  would  make  inquiries,  and 
came  back  with  the,  to  him,  welcome  nowM 
that  they  had  consulte<l  some  old  men  of 
their  tribe,  who  thought  that  the  form  advo- 
cated by  him  was  the  right  one. 

With  regard  to  the  allegation  that  tho 
('hinese  are  mainly  responsible  fur  the  use 
of  tho  inaccurate  form,  Dr.  Koolle  seriously 
maintains  that  in  the  name  of  the  village 
Ibn  TaltftI,  near  Aleppo  in  Asia  Minor,  the 
second  word,  not  being  Arabic,  must  "evi- 
dently "  be  the  Chinese  pronunciation  of 
Tartar  ;  but  he  does  not  explain  how  other 
geographical  names  like  Tatar  -  Hazardiik, 
Tatar-liunar,  Tatar-Kdi,  Tatar- Mahalk',  ic, 
have  managed  to  escape  the  same  fate- 

Moroover,  the  doctor  does  not  quote  a 
single  instance  of  the  form  Taltal  from  any 

genuine  Chinese  source.  According  to  D'Her- 
elot,  in  the  Chinese  dictionaries  Tata  is  tiie 
general  term  for  all  the  TU  ( =  dogs),  or  bar- 
barians, of  the  North.  Dr.  Koelle  also  quotes 
"Ta-che,"  "Ta-chin  "  (('.<-.,  Ta  people).  "Tache 
Linya  '— the  popular  name  or  a  certain  Tar- 
tar Academician,  "Tatal  au  lieu  de  Tatar"; 
but  the  form  Taltal  is  evidently  not  to  be 
foun<l  in  any  old  Chinese  source. 

Dr.  Koello's  explanation  for  the  pi'esonce 
of  the  final  r  in  Tatar  may  be  ingenious, 
but  is  not  convincing.  Many  Tartars,  he 
states,  undertook  to  write  tneir  language 
with  Chinese  characters.  Now,  if  they  found 
their  name  written  as  Tatal  (not  Taltal,  be  it 
notetl)  by  the  Chinese,  this  was  a  precedent 
which  they  were  tempted  to  imitate,  first  in 
writing,  and  perhaps  soon  also  in  speaking  ; 
but  as  the  Tartars  did  not  share  the  inability 
to  pronounce  tho  letter  r,  they  naturally  said 
Tatar  where  the  Chinese  said  Tatal.  Thus 
the  Tartars  themselves  fell  into  the  habit  of 
pronouncing  their  own  name  as  Tatar, 
partly  from  writing  it  in  Chinese  charactors, 
and  still  more  from  their  daily  intorcours© 
with  the  Chinese.        ,      ,      -        .    . 

This  theory  is  evidently  foundoa  on  an 
anecdote   which  I    hoard   many    years   ago 


12 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        im  a.  t  Ja^-  2. 1904. 


about  a.  worthy  German  merchant  who  had 
bu3ine«9  connexions  in  England,  and  one 
day  came  over  to  make  their  personal 
acquaintance.  His  name  was  Abel,  which 
when  pronounced  in  the  Fatherland  rimes 
very  nearly  with  marble ;  but  in  England  he 
found  every bodjjr  called  him  Mr.  Able,  until  at 
last  he  also  "  fell  into  the  habit  of  pronoun- 
cing his  own  name  as  "  Able,  and  had  fresh 
visiting  cards  printed  with  his  new  name 
spelt  TfHtontct  "Mr.  Ebel."  To  cut  a  long 
story  short,  in  trying  to  spell  his  name  as 
his  English  friends  pronounced  it,  the  poor 
German  changed  the  spelling  next  to  Mr. 
Ibel,  Eibel,  EubeJ,  Jubel,  and  finally  wound 
up  with  Mr.  Djschubel,  after  which  he  gave 
up  all  further  attempts  in  despair. 

To  return  to  our  Tartars.  As  the  pronun- 
ciation of  the  first  >•  presented  to  tnem  no 
greater  ditticulty  than  the  second,  why  did 
they  perpetuate  the  wrong  and  *'un-Tartar  " 
form  Tatar,  and  not  revert  to  the  original, 
the  "  unrautilated  '  form  Tartar  T 

History,  as  we  see  and  as  Dr.  Koelle  him- 
self confesses,  is  against  him ;  but  let  us  look 
into  his  etymological  proof.  Tlje  root  tar 
means  to  draw  (in  German  zlfhen),  to  pull,  to 
move  on,  to  roam  about,  and  tlie  Tartar 
words  derive<l  from  it  are  so  numerous  and 
of  such  miscellaneous  meanings  that  they 
outnumber  those  of  the  corresponding  Gcr- 
loan  Zuff,  for  enumerating  all  of  which  our 
worthy  editor  cannot  spare  the  space,  and 
the  reader  is  therefore  referred  to— ^lark 
Twain's  'Tramp  Abroad.'  Hence  tartar  is 
in  Dr.  K<Telle's  opinion  a  characteristic  name 
for  a  people  who  constantly  move  from  place 
to  place,  and  it  means  move-on-more-on.  Now 
tnt-nv  is  also  a  genuine  Tartar  word  ;  but  it 
means  taster,  and  consequently'  it  is  not  to 
the  doctor's  taste,  because  it  is  not  charac- 
teristic, and  also  because,  when  the  Tartars 
pronounce  their  own  name,  "  they  do  not  say 
Tatar  [nor  Tar-tar]  but  Ta-tar  [or  Tat-tarl." 
We  may  now  add  Tatar  is  correct.  Q.E.D. 
So  much  for  the  etymological  proof. 

With  regard  to  the  use  of  the  form  Tartar, 
as  already  stat«<l,  it  is  used  by  the  Armenians, 
by  me<liiFval  Greek  writers  like  Georgios 
Akropolita  (vi>.  1203  61,  but  the  modern 
C»reeks  have  cone  over  to  the  hetero<lox 
party),  by  raediieval  Latin  writers,  and  by 
the  Western  nations  of  Europe,  except  some 
scholars  like   A.   Schiefner,    Vambcrv,    and 

D ,  the  oM  author  of '  Histoiredes  Taters,' 

who  know  something  about  the  Tartars.  The 
advixsates  of  the  form  Tatar  maintain  that 
the  superriuous  j*  was  introduced  by  St. 
rx)uis  (the  king,  not  the  bishop)  to  enable 
mm  to  make  a  pun.     When  writing  to  hi« 


mother  Blanche,  in  1241,  he  perpetrated  the 
historic  ./>»<  ({/■  mot :  "  We  shall  either  tbrnstl 
back  those  whom  we  call  Tartars  into  their 
own  seats  in  Tartarus,  whence  they  pro- 
ceede<l,  or  else  they  will  transmit  us  all. up 
to  heaven."  Dr.  Koelle  ridicules  this  ex-j 
planalion,  and  he  may  be  rights  I  am'abso- 
lutely  neutral  on  this  point,  and  will  merely 
give  a  few  more  facts- 

The  Dominican  monk  Julian,  who  brought 
the  first  tidings  of  their  approach  to  Hunga 
in  1237,  calls  tliem  Tartari. 

According  to  Matthew  Paris,  "Dicuntur 
autem  Tartari  a  quodam  Humine  per  moittes 
eorum,  vijuos  jam  penetraverant,  decurrente. 
quod  dicitur  Tartar"  ('Chronica  Major,' 
Luard's  edition  in  the  Master  of  the  Rolls 
iSeries,  iv.  78). 

There  is  a  very  suspicious  letter,  da  _.. 
10  April,  1242,  "cujustlem  episcopi  Ungari' 
ensis  [fie]  ad  Episcopura  Pari[3i]ensem,  *  in 
which  the  name  is  Tartareus,  and  they  are 
said  to  use  Hebrew,  not  Chinese,  characters 
(literaa  h'xbent  Judaorum) ;  i/jidem,  vi.  7."». 

Henry  Raspe,  Landf^rave  of  Thuringia, 
also  in  1242,  writes,  "dicti  homines  Tartari 
vocati." 

The  "Abbas  Sanctae  Marise  totiLsque  con- 
yentus  ejusdem  loci,  ordinis  Sancti^  Benedicti 
in  Hungaria  commorantes,"  writes  from 
Vienna  on  4  Jan.,  1242,  "Tartari  qui  vocantur, 
Ysraaelitw."  The  convent  has  not  yet  beea' 
identi6edj  and  Ismaelite  merchants  wei 
trading  m  Hungary  in  1092,  and  whol 
Ismaelite  villages  were  extant  in  that  country 
in  the  reign  of  Coloman  (1095-1116). 

•Tordan,  provincial  vicar  of  the  Fran- 
ciscans in  Poland,  in  his  letter  of  10  April, 
1242,  also  f>erpetrates  the  pun,  "a  gente 
Tartariorum,  a  Tartaro  oriunna." 

The  Warden  of  the  Franciscans  at  Cologne 
writes  about  them  with  .some  familiarity  as 
the  people  "  quos  vulgariter  Tartai-oa  appel- 
amus." 

.Ail  these  pa&sagea  are  to  be  found  in  vol.  vi. 
of  Matthew  Paris's  'Chronicle'  ah-eady  re- 
ferred to. 

^  In  conclusion,  after  having  considered  Dr. 
Koello's  paper  we  see  that  we  cannot  do 
better  than  imitato  the  Tartars'  own  pro- 
nunciation and  call  them  Tatars  henceforth. 

L.  L.  K. 

'The  Abbey  of  Kilkhampton'  (&^  S.  xii. 
381.  411,  488).—!  have  "The  Third  Edition, 
with  Considerable  Additions," of  'The  Abbey  j 
of  KilkbamptOD  ;  or,  Monumental  Recor(» 
for  the  Year  1980,'  Ac,  London,  1780.  It 
contains  1 10  epitaphs. 

I  have  also  "The  Abl>ey  of  Kilkhampton. 
An  Improved  Edition.    London,  Printed  for 


m 
r6^H 


10"'  s.  I.  Jan.  2, 1904.]  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


13 


O.  Kearsley,  at  Johnson's  Head,  No.  46  Fleet 
Street,  mdoclxxxviii.  Price  Half  a  Crown." 
The  preface  Rtates:  "The  same  Truth  and 
the  same  Spirit  which  prevailed  in  the  two 
parts  of  '  Kilkhampton  Abhey '  are  blended 
ID  the  continuation,  and  the  whole  is  offered 
to  the  R^'ader  in  a  single  volume."  It  con- 
tains 200  epitaphs  (the  110  contained  in  the 
edition  of  1780  inclusive).  The  last  epitaph 
ends,  "Ob.  11  Aug.,  1811  "—obviously  a  mis- 
take. 

A  copy  of  'The  Abbey  of  Kilkhampton/ 
described  as  an  improved  edition,  1788,  was 
sold  at  auction  in  New  Vork,  March,  1892. 
In  the  sale  catalogue  the  book  is  ascribed  to 
Wra.  Warine. 

In  a  weekly  publication  entitled  the  Devil's 
Pocket- Book  (London,  1786)  is  a  series  of 
articles  entitled  "Monumental  lleeoitis: 
being  intended  as  a  Supplement  to  *  The 
Abbey  of  Kilkhampton.' " 

John  Townshend. 

Bennelt  Building,  New  York. 
"  MoLUBDTS'OUrf     .SLOWBELLY"     (9'*'     S.    xii. 

487).— Might  one  observe  that  the  first  portion 
of  thi^  elegant  phrase  is  an  erroneously 
anglicized  form  of  "  raolybdenous,"  now  a 
chemical  term  ?  According  to  current  usage, 
therefore.  Mo  should  replace  Pb  in  the  slow- 
belly  formula.  J.  Dormer. 

Euchre  (9^''  S.  .xii.  484)."— Mr.  R.  F.  Foster 
thinks  this  game  is  derived  from  spoil-five. 
Mr.  ('.  H  Meehan  savs  it  was  introduced  by 
German  settlers  into  Pennsylvania.  Both 
are  i^reed  that  it  is  not  derived  from  ccarto. 
Mr.  Foster  points  out  that  some  feMuresof 
the  game  resemble  **  triomphe,"  from  which 
bcarto  is  also  derive<l.  The  earliest  mention 
of  euchre  that  I  have  found  is  in  'An 
Exposure  of  the  Arts  and  Miseries  of  Gamb- 
ling,' by  J.  H.  Green  (Philadelphia,  184:i). 
The  word  is  there  spelt  "eucre.  (See  also 
7"*  S.  vii.  307,  358.)  F.  Jessel. 

The  Wykkhamical  Woed  "Toys"  (9">  S. 
xii.  346,  437,  4H2).— As  I  am  a^ikerl  for  ray 
opinion  on  this  matter,  I  give  it  for  what  it 
ifj  worth. 

It  is  clear  that  the  flerivation  from  toi'se, 
n  fathom,  is  a  mere  bad  shot. 

It  is  also  obvious  that  Mr.  H.  C.  Adams 
does  not  know  Grimm's  law,  or  he  would  not 
equate  the  "Dutch  Uv/chrn"  (i.f ,  the  Mid.  Du. 
tutjnhfti^  Mo<l.  Du.  tuia)  with  the  Gk.  rtv^ta, 
which  Ls,  of  course,  from  a  totally  different 
root. 

It  also  appears  tltat  Mr.  Wrench  has  mis- 
understood  the  entry  in  the  '  Promptoriura,' 
and  mixes  up  Anglo-French  with   Parisian. 


The  entry  "Trytt^ot  a  cofyr,"  does  not  mean 
that  thec'i  or  /ry*  has  the  sense  of  coffer.  It 
means  that  te)/e  has  the  sense  of  the  Lat. 
ihecft^  "an  envelope,  cover,  case,  sheath,"  and 
refers  to  the  cover  of  a  coffer,  not  the  coffer 
itself.  Klse  why  the  word  "of"?  That  this 
is  the  right  sense  of  fheca  is  clear  from  the 
fact  that  the  modern  E.  form  is  tick,  a  case 
for  a  feather-befl  or  a  pillow.  And  tick  »s  nofc 
retnarkably  like  the  Winche-ster  word  either 
in  form  or  sense.  This  Lat.  t/iera  became  trie 
in  Nor  man,  and  <r//e  in  Mid.  English,  and  is 
(jjerhaps)  obsolete,  unless  a  trace  of  it  appears 
in  the  unpublished  part  of  the  '  Eng.  Dial. 
Diet.'  The  foreign  form  was  toj/e  or  toie  ;  for 
example.^  see  taie  in  Littre  j  but  toj/e  was 
altererl  to  ("ie  in  the  eighteenth  century,  as 
in  modem  French.  I  can  find  no  proof  of 
the  introduction  of  this  F.  tof/c  into  England 
at  any  date,  and  I  greatly  doubt  the  deri- 
vation from  this  .source.  To  say  that  toie 
comes  "  regularly  "  from  Lat.  thera  is  to  ignore 
the  most  marked  distinction  between  the 
French  of  England  and  that  of  France. 

I  cannot  at  all  understand  why  the  word 
may  not  be  a  peculiar  use  of  the  common 
E.  tuff,  which  is  at  least  as  old  as  l.")30  (see 
Palsgrave).  And  this  corresponds  to  Du.  MhV/, 
which  becomes  ^eu(/  in  German,  and  is  a  word 
of  very  wide  application. 

The  peculiar  principle  on  which  Godefroy's 
'Old  trench  Dictionary'  is  written  deserves 
reprobation.  I  look  out  toijette,  and  am 
referred  to  Utiefe  in  the  Supplement;  but 
there  is  no  such  word  there.  All  that  I  find 
there  is  taie,  for  which  I  am  referred  to  teie. 
But  of  course  tcie  is  not  there  either. 

W.VLTER  W.  SKEAT. 

Island  ov  PaoviDENtiE  (9"'  S.  xii.  428).— 
There  are  two  Providence  Lslands,  about 
wjiicli  there  has  been  much  confusion.  One. 
(now  called  Old  Providence  Island)  lies  east 
of  the  Mosquito  Coast  l>etween  13"  and  14"  N, 
latitude  and  81"  and  82"  W.  longitude.  This 
is  the  island  referred  to  by  Lobuc.  It  was 
BCranted  4  December,  1630.  to  the  Earl  of 
Warwick,  Sir  Edmund  Mountford,  .lohn  Pyra^ 
and  others  (of  whom  the  Earl  of  Arundel  was . 
not  one) ;  and  John  Pyra  was  the  treasurer 
of  the  company.  Proposals  to  sell  the 
island  to  the  Dutch  were  entertained  between 
1G37  and  1U30  ;  in  1G41  it  was  taken  by  the 
Spanish,  in  ICCfi  it  was  retaken  by  the 
English,  it  again  fell  into  the  hands  of 
the  Spanish,  and  in  1671  was  once  more 
recaptured  by  the  English.  Much  informa- 
tion in  regard  to  tliis  island  will  he  found  m 
the 'Calendar  of  State  Papers.  Colonial  Series, 
1574-1060.'  „    ,    „        r.       ., 

The  other   (now  oalled  New  Providence 


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NOTKS  AND  QUERIES. 


15 


the  incidence  of  the  accent,"  but  by  variety 
in  the  place  of  the  cajsura.    Thus  : — 
Kemote,  unfijpnded,  |  iiielnncholy,  slow, 
•  tr  by  ihe  \ii/.y  SclicliU  |  or  wandering  Po, 
Ur  onward  i  «  hert?  the  rude  C'ariiithian  boor 
^Ag&itisl  the  hoiifetess  stranger  {  ahuta  the  door, 
X)r  where  Cniiip^niii's  |iUiii  {  forsakon  lies, 
A  weary  waste  1  expuading  tu  the  skies. 

The  normal  diviuion  of  the  syllables  may 
be  said  to  be  five-five,  and  the  permissible 
variations  to  be  four-six,  six-four,  three- 
seven,  and  seven-three. 

The  skilful  reader,  by  judicious  pauses 
Aud  suitable  acceleration.*}  and  retardations, 
tuakea  the  two  di virions  of  each  line  occupy 
the  »amo  tiuie;  and  the  skilful  versifier  so 
arranges  his  words  that  the  pauses,  &c.,  may 
seem  to  arise  out  of  the  meaning  to  be  ex- 
pre«.sed,  and  not  to  have  been  merely  dictated 
oy  tliG  exigencies  of  the  metre.         C.  J.  I. 

'Pn\<.Tic.E  OF  Piety'  (9"'  S.  xii.  485).— 
This  was  perhaps  the  most  popular  devotional 
book  of  the  seventeenth  century.  It  was 
trannlated  into  several  languages,  and  was 
carried  almost  by  everybwly  everywhere. 
It  was  written  by  Lewis  Bayly  ;  see '  D.N.B.,' 
in.  44!) ;  'N.  ifc  Q  ,'  6'^  S.  xii.  321. 

W.  C.  B. 
[Mk.  \V.  D.  Gkkish  Bonds  tho  same  iiifomiation.] 

Jacobix  :  Jacobite  (9"'  S.  xii.  4G9,  .j08).— 
There  is  a  work,  doubtfully  attributed  to 
Defoe,  eiititlerl  'Hannibal  at  the  Gates  ;  or, 
tlie  Progress  of  Jacobinism,'  and  published  in 
llli.  But  Defoe  does  not,  .so  far  as  I  j»m 
,  nse  this  spelling.  J.  Dormer. 

ikriyc.  Alive  (9"*  S.  xii.  429.  489).— If 
ita  is  any  truth  in  the  following  story, 
told  by  fleolTrey  of  Monmouth,  flaying  alive 
was  not  peculiarly  Oriental  :— 

"In  his  days  ;  King  Morvid'a]  did  a  certain  king 
of  ihu  Aloranians  land  with  a  irreal  furce  on  tlic 

•hore    of    Norlhtimtierland .Morvid    thereu))on, 

collettiii;;  to;,'ether  all  the  youlli  of  his  doininioaa, 
nmrchcd   forth  apainat   tlieni,   and    did    give    him 

battle and  when  he  had  sv<jn  liiu  victory  not  a 

«oul  was  left  ou  live  that  he  did  not  slay.  Kor  lie 
commanded  thi<ni  to  1k^  hruufrht  unto  him  one  after 
the      "  '    ■    '  'ii   uliit   lii.i  blood-thirst  by 

jmi  iind  when  he  cooseil  for  a 

tiiji-  :i''»«,  he  ordered  thenj  /«  /jc 

tkiimul  rtV*<«,  and  IjatHcd  ojtti'  thty  trtrr.  likinnfd." 

E.  Marston. 
St.  Dunstan'e  Houav 

Fable  as  to  CuiLn-MuiiDEB  by  Jew:^  (9"' 
S.  xii.  44(i,  497).— Aft  Mr.  IIuti  hinson  gives 
no  reference  to  John  Aubrey  (whom  he 
cnlh  John  Aiuiloy),  it  may  be' worth  while 
to  itvjonl  tliat  the  story  to  which  ho  alludes 
I  is  to  l)«  found  in  the '  Letters,"  vol.  iJ.  pp.  492-4. 
Jon>"  B.  VVainbwku;ht. 


Queen  Elizabeth  and  New  Hall,  Essex 
(9'"  S.  xii.  208.  410,  477,  4!X:)  — Mit.  U<xjper 
says,  "Elizabeth  gave  New  Hall  to  the  Earl 
of  Sussex."  I  a.ssume  that  this  New  Hall  la 
not  **  Newhall  Josaelyne,  co.  Essex. '         D. 

Folklore  of  Childbirth  (O"*  S.  xii.  288, 
413,  455,  490).— Swift  alludes  to  the  parsley 
in  the  following  ('Letters,'  vol.  ii.  p.  211, 
London,  1708) '  Receipt  for  stewing  Veal  *  :— 

Take  a  knuckle  of  veal : 
You  may  buy  it  or  steal  it. 

Then  what 's  joined  to  a  filace, 
With  other  herbs  muckle  : 
That  which  killed  King  Will, 
.And  what  never  stands  Blill. 
Some  apripa*  of  that  Lied 
Where  ohiUlrea  are  bred,  &c. 

IbauI'K. 

Dr.  Pakklvs  (9«»  S.  xii.  349).-The  '  D.N.B.' 
knows  him  not,  but  it  has  coigns  for  less 
remarkable  men.  The  only  way  in  which  I 
can  help  your  correspondent  is  by  quoting  a 
communication  of  ^Ir.  J.  Beale  (at  one  time 
a  contributor  to  these  columns)  to  the  Grant' 
h'lia  Journal  of  24  August,  1878  :— 

"The  foUowiuK  titular  iiaradigra  of  a  pamphlet 
now  before  me  may  form  a  suitable  note  for 
remark.'? :— '  Ecca  Homo  !  Critical  remarks  on  the 
infamous  publications  of  John  Parkins,  of   Litlle 


rior.  and  Book  of  Miracles;  in  which  he  protends 
to  ConimaiKl  the  Angels  of  Heaven,  to  Avert  the 
Kvila  of  Huiuftn  Life,  to  Work  Miracles,  to  Last 
out  Devils,  to  Destroy  Witches,  to  loretell  hulure 
Kvents.  &c  ,  Jtc.,  beinfi  an  attempt  to  expose  the 
falsehood  of  his  pretensions,  and  to  prove  that  the 
only  design  of  his  wrilings  is  to  beguile  the  weak 
and  ignorant,  and  to  promote  the  sale  of  (what  he 
c*ll8)ltis  Holy  Consecrated  Lamcns.  founded  on  the 
absurd  priDcinles  of  Astrology.  Iniersijersed  with 
anecdotes.  [Then  a  tireek  quolalion  fron>  Act» 
xiii.  10;  next  a  tiuotatioti  from  ShakKpe&r ;  and 
then  a  quotation  from  Dr.  .\dani  Clarke.]  (.rant- 
ham  :  |)rinted  for,  and  published  by  the  author,  and 
may  be  had  of  all  booksellers.  Storr,  printer, 
tirantham.'  I  undersUnd  that  the  book  waa  printed 
at  the  premises  now  occupied  by  Mr.  liusbby  m 
Vine  .Street ;  aud  that  the  name  of  the  author  waa 
Weaver,  in  some  way  connected  with  the  i>rintiug 
otficc.  The  selUnfr  price  was  b.  ^l.  Its  title-- 
.-Address  'To  the  Great  Ambastsador  of  Heaven! 
dated  '—near  Grantham,  4"' Auuust,  ISlH,"  and  i>re- 

face  take  up  i»a«e«  i-vii,  contents  i-^,^x.  and  '  '•  

Homo    with  •adilenduni '  pages  1-71  The  '  1> 


18  litated  to  have  been  the  author  of  'Tti"("ii 

•  \V  I » , 

oung  Man  j^uest  uoininamoii,     ^  •  rbal 


of    Wealth,'   '  Key    to    the    Wise 

'  Voung  Man's  Best  Comi»nion,'  '\ 

and   Family  Physician.'  'liook   of    •--.,-    ■>"*^ 

several    other    valuable    and    useful    publicalions, 

besides    'The    Celestial    Warrior     (p.    4..).      Hia 

•  "  Parody.     Pirfr  ChaniborUyne." 


16 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [lo"- s,  i.  Jan. 


citaracter,  however,  is  tliuH  aummarized  liy  Weaver 
(in  hi«  '  coaclusioii '  <[»•  <>W)— 'The  first  step  Perkins 
mode  tow&rds  his  iirescnt  height  of  Llasjmeniy  and 
■  imposture,  was  to  dignifj- himself  with  the  title  of 
l)octor,  and  to  comnicnr.e  walerca«ter,  astrologer, 
uud  fortuneteller,  but  he  Mas  then  consulted  only 
by  silly  servant  girls  who  wanted  aweethearts  and 
br&iusii:k  lovers  pining  aft«r  niaidw.  A  temporary 
suj)t>ea8iou  beio^  (;iven  to  his  practice  in  1810  at  the 
tJrantham  Sessions,  he  invented  the  system  of 
Lameuiam,  or  spiritual  A8troIo(ry,  in  the  hojie  of 
evading  further  interruption  from  the  law  ;  and  by 
one  bom  stroke  after  another,  arrived  at  his  jiresent 
pitch  of  worthless  jiopuiarity.'  Mr.  Healey,  hair- 
dresser, tie,  Market-idace,  kindly  lent  me  the 
IMluphlet  for  perusal,  &c.,  and  it  is  now  in  his 
possession  fihould  any  one  wish  to  see  it.— J.  Beai.k." 

St.  Svvituik. 

'  My  Olp  Oak  Table'  (9"' S.  xii.  448, 514).— 
•  The  Oak  Table,'  or  '  My  Oak  Table.'  was  sung 
erroneously  to  the  tune  of  "  My  lodging  is 
on  tlie  cola  ground."  The  true  tuno  is  Charles 
Dii>din's,  belonging  to  the  year  1789.  sung  in 
his  entertainment  named  Tom  Wilkins,'  at 
Leice-iter  Plate,  one  of  the  "Sans  Soucj." 
Tlie  song  for  which  it  was  composed  was  *  The 
Last  Shilling,'  the  words  beginning  thus:— 

As  jiensive  oue  uight  in  my  garret  I  sat. 

My  last  shilling  produoed  on  the  table, 
"That  advcnfrer,"  erie<l  I.  "might  a  history  relate, 

If  to  think  and  to  speak  it  were  able." 
\\hether  fancy  or  magic  'twas  play'd  me  the  freak. 

The  face  seem'd  with  life  to  be  tilling, 
And  cried,  instantly  apeakinf;,  or  seeming  to  speak. 

"  Pay  attention  to  me,  thy  Last  ShillinK," 

Three  stanzas   follow,    worth  giving,  should 
the  Editor  of  '  N 


Their  niyHtcriuiis  rites  they  "d  perform  before  me, — 

riiose  rites  to  unfold  I  am  able : 
r.ut  be  that  now  forgot,— I  was  then  aa  oak  tree, 

And  now  I  atu  but  an  oak  table. 

When  the  axe  hrouRhl  nic  down,  and  eoou  lopjiecl 
was  each  bou^n. 

And  to  form  a  ship  1  wa«  oonvertefl, 
Manned  by  true  hearts  of  oak  the  wide  ocean  to 
plough, 

And  by  Victory  never  tleaart«d.    (IHh.) 
But  woin  out  by  Time,  and  reduced  to  a  wreck. 

Bereft  of  my  anchor  and  cable, 
A  carpenter  Ixiughl  nic,  and  with  part  of  my  deck 

Made  mc  what  you  see  now— an  oak  table. 

Now  thrust  in  a  corner,  put  out  of  the  way,  — 

liul  I  fear  I  your  patience  am  tiring,— 
I  expect  nolhinR  less  than,  some  fortncon>ing  duy, 

To  be  chopped  up,  and  used  for  your  firing.  ' 
"  No,  never ".    cried  I,  as  I  gtart«ci  awoke, 

"  1  11  protect  liiee,  so  long  as  1  'm  able  : 
And  eacn  friend  that  my  humble  cheer  will  partake 

Shall  be  welcome  around  .My  Oak  Table  ! 

Written  by'Tom  Hudson,  bS-^JI, 

They  sang  good  songs  in  those  dayt<  eighty 
years  ago.  J.  Vvoodfall  Ebswouth. 

The  Priory,  Ashford,  Kent, 

Dr.  Dekh  Mai.k.  Mireoh  (0">  S.  xii  467).— 
The  following  quotation  from  tlie  'D.N.B.' 
article  on  the  astrologer  may  perhaps  bo 
useful  in  illustration  of  Mb.  Paoe's  interest- 
ing note  :— 

"  The  magic  niirror,  a  disc  of  highly  polished 
cannel  coal,  was  preserved  in  a  leathern  case,  and 
was  sucoeaaivcly  in  the  hands  of  the  Mordaunta, 
Earls  of  I'eterborough,  Lady  Klizabeth  Hermaine, 
John,   Uuke  of  Arsrvll,  Lord  Frederick  (.'ampbell, 


<k  O.'  permit,  varying  the  I  and  Mr,  Strong  of  Hristol,  who  purelinsed  it  at  the 
theme,  but  adopting  tlio  manner  of  Charles  1  Strawljerry  Hill  sale  in  IM2,  though  anot  hor  account 


Dibdin's  '  Last  Shilling,'  and  keeping  to  tlio 
same  tune  (.see  the  music  of  it  in  vol.  ii. 
pp.  238-40  of  G.  H.  Davidson's  *Song«  of 
Charles  Dibdin,  with  music  arranged  by 
George  Hogarth,'  London,  1848  wiition). 
Genial  Tom  Hudson,  author  of  'Jack  Robin- 
son '  and  many  other  popular  ditties,  wrote 
and  sung  'The  Oak  Table'  in  1822.  He 
printed  it  in  the  'Fourth  Collection  of  his 
Songs,'  p.  23.     Here  are  the  words  :— 

Tut;  Olu  Oak  Tabll. 

(Tune  of  Charles  Dibdin's  '  The  Last  Shilling.') 

1  hud  knock'd  out  the  dust  from  my  pipe  t'other 
mghf, 

•n.'  *'■?  ^'"'^  towards  midnight  was  creeping  : 

riie  last  snioke  from  its  ashes  had  taken  to  flight,— 

I  lelt  neither  waking  nor  sleeping ; 
\\  iien  a  voice  loud   and    hollow,   and  aeeroinxly 
near,— 

Vou  '11  say  'twas  a  dream  or  a  fable. 
Directed  towards  nie,  said,  audibly  clear, 

*'  fJst,  list,  list  to  nie,  thy  oak  table  !" 

"  I  wa«  onpp  of  the  forest  the  monarch  so  bold, 

"^  - 1  nor  storm  made  me  tremble  ; 

■A'^  oft,  the  famed  Druids  of  old 

i!ir  my  branches  Qsaemble  : 


states  that  it  was  then  ao<^uired  by  Mr.  Smythe 
Pigott,  at  the  sale  of  whose  library  in  1S.~kl  it  passed 
into  thoiiossession  of  Lord  Londesborough  {Jnitrno" 
of  Britisli  Architological  As.soc.,  v.  52;  'N.  &  Q-,' 
,S'"'  a,  iv,  l.V»),  Dees  shew  atone,  or  holy  stone,! 
which  he  asserted  was  f;ivou  to  him  by  an  aii;:cl,  i*  | 
in  the  British  Museum.  It  is  a  J)eautif«l  globe  " 
polished  crj-stal,  of  the  variety  known  us  smoii^ 
quartz  (,'l/< /(.'o/fx/cfi'  Jo»ninl,  xiij.  .f7*,J ;  '  N.  Jt  Q., 
7"'  H.  iv,  :»J)." 

I  may  add  that  one  day  at  the  end  of 
October  last  I  was  shown  by  a  lady  (born 
Napier),  who  lives  at  the  extreme  south- 
westoirn  corner  of  Cambridgeshire,  a  crystal 
globe  (pierced  through  the  middle)  whirh 
once  belonged  to  Dr.  Dee.  It  had  been,  I 
understand,  one  of  four  similar  holy  stones, 
and  was  purchased  at  the  Strawberry  Hill 
sale.  A.  R.  Bayley. 

On  22  November,  l.)92,  Mr.  Secretary 
Walsingham  and  Sir  Thomas  Gorges  were 
apfwinted  by  Queen  Elizabeth  commissioners 
"  to  hear  the  grievances  of  Dr.  Dee,  the 
German  conjurer,  and  repaired  to  his  houa© 
at  Mortlake,  Surrey,  for  tliat  purpose,  to 
understand  the  matter,  and  the  cause  for 


io^s.i.Ja-s.2,i9W.]  notes  and  queries. 


17 


which  his  studies  were  scandalized."  Dr. 
Dee's  methods  must  ba\e  been  highly 
approved  of  by  these  two  long-headed  com- 
raissioners,  for  the  queen  afterwards  sent 
Doe  100  marks  by  the  hands  of  Sir  Thomaa 
Gorges.  Thorse  George. 

Cro\v>-s  is  Tower  or  Spire  or  Church 
<9"'  S.  xii.  485).— The  epire  of  St.  Xidiolas's, 
Newcastle  (a  cathedral  Bince  1882),  built  in 
1474,  is  200  ft.  high,  and,  being  Mupported  by 
Hying  buttresses,  is  a  unique  feature  in  Eng- 
ii'sli  cathedral  cliurches.  It  seems  to  have 
inspired  the  similar  spire.s  at  8t.  Ciiles's, 
Eflinburgh  ;  the  Tron  Church,  Glasgow ; 
King's  College,  Aberdeen  ;  and  VVren'd  poor 
copy  at  St.  DunstAn's-in-the-Kost,  London. 
The  still  existing  towers  of  Linlithgow  and 
Haddington  once  possessed  other  etlitions  of 
this  Newcastle  crown.  The  south-western 
tower  of  Rouen  Cathedral,  the  Tour  de 
Beurre,  in  surnaounted  by  an  octagonal  lan- 
tern, which  in  its  turn  is  finished  bj'  a  carved 
parapet,  said  to  represent  the  ducal  coronet 
of  Normandy.  A  beautiful  drawing  of  tliis 
tower  exists,  made  by  I'uskin  in  1835  under 
the  inriaence  of  Prout.  Begun  in  1487 
and  completed  in  1507  by  Jacques  lo 
lloHx.  the  Tour  de  Beurre  contained  the  great 
bell  "Georges  d'Amboise,"  the  largest  out- 
ride Uu8.sia.  which  cracked  with  grief  in  17SG 
at  l>eing  called  upon  to  ring  for  Louiti  XVI. 

A.  R.  Bayley. 

IR.  B— R  meutiona  the  spirea  at  Newcastle  and 
Aberdeen.] 

"God's  billy  vassal"  (9'''  S.  xii.  447).— In 
September,  l.'i93,  when,  after  the  Reforma- 
tion, tilings  were  unsettled,  the  Provincial 
Asaembly  of  the  (Church  of  Scotland  met 
at  St.  Andrews  and  excommunicated  the 
Catholic  lords,  who  a  year  afterwards  Hed 
from  Scotland,  but  wore  recalled  in  l.'i9<3. 
The  General  Assembly,  susiHSctiua;  that 
James  V"!.  favoured  the  lords,  resolved  to 
learn  the  truth  from  himself,  and  in  Sep- 
tember commissioned  Andrew  Melville  (Rec- 
tor of  the  University  of  St.  Andrews)  and 
others  t<}  appear  before  his  Majesty  at  Falk- 
land Palace.  The  king  received  them,  but 
plainly  showed  he  was  in  no  mood  to  brofik 
interference,  and  declared  their  coming;  to  be 
without  warrant  and  seditious.  This  was 
more  than  the  redoubtable  Andrew  could 
submit  to.  James  Melville,  who  wa.s  present, 
says  in  his  '  Autobiography  and  Diarv 
(Edinburgh,  1842)  that  tncraupon  Mr. 
Andrew  "  brak  out  upon  the  king  in  sa 
zealus  and  unresistiblo  a  manor,  that,  how- 
beit  the  king  used  his  authority  in  a  moat 
colerik  matter,  Mr.  Andrew  bore  him  down,'" 


and  declared  hia  warrant  to  bo  from  the 
mighty  Gofl,  calling  the  king  but  Goal's  sUly 
vassal,  and,  taking  him  by  the  sleeve,  told 
him,  in  no  measured  language,  that  there 
were  two  kings  and  two  kingdoms  in  Scot- 
land. There  was  Christ  Jeaua  the  King  and 
his  kingdom  the  Kirk,  whose  subject  rCing 
.lames  was,  and  of  which  kingdom  he  was 
not  a  king,  nor  a  lord,  nor  a  head,  but  a  mere 
member.  He  also  told  the  king  that  when 
he  was  in  his  "  swadling-cloutes  "  the  Kirk 
ever  looked  after  his  welfare,  and  would  not 
permit  him  now  to  be  drawn  to  his  own 
destruction  by  the  "devillisohe  and  rnaist  per- 
nicius  Counsall  "  he  had  about  him  ;  and  much 
more  to  the  like  effect.  In  the  end  the  king 
gave  way,  and  distnissed  them  pleasantly, 
and  protested  that  the  lords  would  get  no 
grace  at  his  hands  till  they  had  sati.sficd  the 
Kirk.  J.  L,  Axdersox. 

See  P.  Hume  Brown's  *  Hist,  of  Scotland,' 
ii.  224,  and  J.  R-  Green's  'Short  History,' 
sec.  V.  chap.  \nii.  C.  S.  Ward.' 

[Replies  alao  from  .Ma.  T.  P.  AbmsTRhxo  acul 
0.  H.\V.) 

Beadnell  i^)^*"  S.  xii.  469).— I  suggest  that 
Mr.  Sandfokd  should  write  to  the  inerabers 
of  the  Beadnell  family  whose  names  he 
already  uosMSses.  Other  references  are : 
William  H.  Beadnell,  picturo-fraine  maker, 
Glasgow ;  James  Beadnell,  tailor,  Leeds  ; 
William  Ernest  Beadnell,  mechanic,  Leeds; 
Charles  Marsh  Beadnell,  M.R.C.S.  Eng., 
L.R.C.P.  Lend.,  L.S.A.  (189.'3),  surgeon  in  the 
Royal  Navy ;  and  George  David  Beadnell, 
M.R.C.S.  Eng.,  L.R.C.P.  filin.  (1872),  in  prac- 
tice at  Denman  Island,  British  Columbia. 
Chas.  F.  FOR.SHAW,  LL.D.,  F.R  Hiat.S. 

This  name  does  not  occur  in  any  directory 
I  have  been  able  to  consult  before  1839. 

In  the  'Royal  Blue  Books'  for  the  years 
1839  to  1842  are  these  entries  :— 

"  lieadnell,  .John,  Ean.  2  Lombard  !>  :  Totten- 
ham, Middx. ;  Caatel-y-Dale,  near  Newtown,  Moul- 
gomeryshire. " 

*' Beadnell,  (ieorge,  Esq.  2  Lombard  S' ;  Myfod, 
Montgomeryshire. 

In  the  'Royal  Blue  Books'  for  1843  and 
1844  George  Beadnell  appears  as  above,  but 
John  BeadneU's  only  aadress  is  Tottenham. 
In  1 845  neither  name  occurs. 

John  B.  Wainewriuht. 

I  remember  a  Mr.  Henry  Beadnell,  a  proofs 
reader  in  the  otHce  of  Messrs.  Cox  i:  Wyman, 
Great  Queen  Street,  printers  to  the  East 
India  Company.  He  was  n  man  of  some 
culture,  and  published  some  works  on  typo- 
graphy, and  a  small  volume  of  original  verse 
and    translations.     There    is    a    Mr.    U,  J. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Llewellyn  Ik-adnell  in 
Public  'Works,  Egypt, 
Department. 


the     Miniatiy    of 
GeoloKJcttl    Stirvfy 
John  Hebb. 


EriuKA^t  ON  Madame  i>e PoMPAiHjin  (9"* S. 
xii.  447).— It  has  beeu  suggested  that  a  line 
of  Frederic  the  Great  against  llic  Abbe  do 
Bernis  cauneti  France  to  go  against  Prussia, 
If  an  epigram  on  Madame  do  Pompadour 
cannot  be  found,  it  may  bo  worth  while  to 
nuotoi  the  following  ;  for  it  is  fjossible  that 
Uarlyle  made  a  mistake,  and  confounded 
Madame  de  Pompadour  with  her  ally,  the 
Abb<'  de  Bernis  :  — 

'"  Frederic,  a  la  fin  d*une  Kpitre  &u  comte  (iotter, 
oil  il  docrit  les  detaila  iiitiniB  du  travail  et  de 
rindustrie  huinaine,  avail  dit:  — 

Je  n'ai  ])aB  tout  di-peint,  la  matii>rc  e&t  intmenae, 

Kt  je  laisse  h  Bernis  sa  sturile  alwndancc. 
On  a  suppo?!.'  quo  Kernis  connaJRBait  cetle  Epitre, 
et  «ue  V  avail  ite  lo  motif  <)ui  !ui  avail  fail  con-  [ 
seiller  .i  Versailles  d'ulwniloniier  le  roi  de  IViiase  et 
<le  s'allier  avec  rinn>^ratrice.   TiirKOt,  dao9  des  vera 
satiriquoa  aiionyme.s  qui  coururent  tout  I'itri.«    et 
qui  I'talaietit  au  vif  les  di^aslres  fli'-trissants  dont  In 
guerre  do  Sept  Aua  aHli<;euit  Iti  France,  secriait : — 
Bernis,  eslce  asse/  de  vii-iimes' 
El  lea  meprii*  dun  roi  pour  vos  petitea  rimes 
Vous  aeniblent-ils  nnsez  vengi'-s  ?"' 

Hainte-Beuve,  'C'aviseriee  du  Luiidi.  I/AbW  de 
Bernis.' 

E.  Vabdley. 

Banns  of  Marriage  (O*""  S.  xii.  107,  2iri, 
375). —  It  is  also  allowable,  though  by  no 
niean><  a  general  custom,  to  publish  the  banns 
of  marriage  after  the  Xiceno  Creed,  and  on 
my  last  visit  to  Oxford  I  heard  the  publica- 
tion in  tliis  place  at  the  church  of  St.  Peter- 
in  the- East.  .Tony  PicKFOED,  M.A. 

Newboumo  Rectory,  Woodbridgc. 

"PAf'ERs"  (9'"  S.  xii.  387).— Here  are 
examples  of  the  use  of  the  word  "papers,' 
the  extracts  being  made  from  '  Newton  For- 
ster,'  by  Marryat,  publi.shed  in  Paris,  Bau- 
drya  European  Library,  1834,  thougli  the 
edition  is  not  given  :— 

" '  I  will  just  s|>eak  a  word  or  two  to  my  falher. 
and  be  on  board  in  lesA  than  half  an  hour.'  '  I 
■  will  meet  you  there,"  said  Uillou,  'and  bring  your 
|iaper«.'  "—Chap.  vii.  p.  iV). 

"Newton  •....made  all  baste  to  obtain  his  clear- 
ance and  other  papers  from  iho  cuBlorn-liousc 

Wilh  his  (lapers  carefully  buttoned  in  hii  coat, 
lie  was  proci>«>dinB  to  the  boat  at  the  jelly."— 
''h»p  if  1'  '5-1. 


push  or  press  one's  own  claims  forward,  it 
seera.s  worth  while  to  cnn.sider,  among  the 
possible  progenitors  of  English  /tooft,  the 
verb  U'stfi;  rccoitled  by  Frt'-drric  Oo<iefroy 
an  a  variant  of  the  media'vat  French  lyuter, 
which  he  translates  a»  meaning  "frapper» 
heurter,  renverser,  presser,  j)ous!«er."  Gode- 
froy  gives  ordy  one  quotation  showing  the 
use  of  this  variant  of  the  verb.  To  continues 
the  lta««ki>>h  vein,  one  may  puiiit  to  ho:— 
glad,  rejoiced,  in  Lei>;arraga  s  New  Testa- 
ment. 1  Cor.  xvi.  17.  It  is  certain  that  Baski<»h 
:  had,  and  still  sometimes  has,  the  sound  of 
(z  an  in  f  Jerman.  Salaberry  in  his  dictionar>- 
notes  ^'^'Z:  as  meaning  *'voi2,  suflfrage."  Cas- 
tilian  ro2= voice  would  be  baskonized  bv 
hoi. 

Prof.  W.  W.  Skeat  connectH  Gothic 
hmtjktn^=^io  boast  willi  English  tvhoop  and 
Dutch  hojt  ('A  Mwso-Gothiu  Glossary,'  Lon- 
don, 186H).  This  strongtherts  the  tendency 
to  take  tfmtt  for  a  derivative  of  I'ox.  The 
word  for  htxtft  in  Uomans  xi.  18,  1  Cor.  iv.  7, 
2  Cor.  V.  12,  which  are  quoted  by  I'noK. 
Skeat  under  /drrci/wrt,  is  uhjrin  in  the  Baskisii 
version  of  l."i7l.  In  1  Cor.  xiii. .'»  Lei«;an-aga 
did  not,  like  Ulfilas,  read  Ka»'Y>5frw/ioi,  but 
Kavd^^tnonai.  E.  S.   Donr.SON. 

BiRcn  8AP  WiXE  (&•''  S.  xi.  4G7  ;  xii.  .«ki. 
29C).— John  Evelyn  in  his  'Sylva' (book  i. 
chap,  xviii.  Jj  8)  gives  a  receipt  for  biroh-fia|> 
wine,  to  which  ho  attributes  valuable  medi- 
cinal properties.  It  is  interesting  to  observe 
that  in  the  same  work  he  recommends  syca- 
more-sap for  brewing  (chan.  xiii.  Ji  2),  anfl, 
writing  of  the  mountain-asli  (chap.  xvi.  g'2), 
remarks:  — 

".Some  highly  commend  the  juice  of  the  berries, 
whiuli,  forntcuting  of  itself,  if  well  preaervetl,  iiiakeH 
an  execllenl  drink  against  the  spleen  or  scurvy: 
Ale  and  beer  brewed  with  ihem,  being  rii>e,  is  wi 
infoni['anible  drink  familiar  in  Wales." 

,ToMN  B.  Wais-KWBK;HT. 


tho 

*  they  appear  to  be  all  corroc? 


inisrrlhnrans. 

NOTKH  ON*  HOOKS.  Ac. 

London  in  the  7V»ir  of  th^  Sf»*trtit,    By  Sir  Walter 

Besant.    (A.  &<'.  Hiack.) 

Tni-<    handsome  volume  is   n    i.-onipanion    to    the 

■  T.inil.m  ill  thf  KiBlitccutb  t'cnlutv'  of  (he  sani»» 

.  which  sec  0'*'  S.  xt.  'M     In  onr  uolice  of 

'i\*  \<Aurt\^  wp  d'^pnribfKl  th»<  n<h*«m»  of  t)i»» 


M 


I.  p.  :;<. 

.^SELL. 


"  Boaxt"  :  1T6  EtV-MOLogy  (0"=  S.  x.  444).— 
Am  to  hoaH  i<i  to  some  extent  to  ^  boss  it,"  to 


jincMim  eiioiign   miiiiLr   r rum. II 


H*     W     WW 


eue,  to  cover  the  rnian  of  the  Tudora,  with  the 
_t'lose  of  the  Wars  of  ilie  Rowjs,  llie  suppie«ioii  of 
'the  moiiAttenoi,  the  Pilgrimage  of  (Truoe,  the  alt«r- 

Butt)  r>«rii<>vtittons  of  Liuheratin  snd  ('aihnlica,  the 
ftiefei'     '  "'      "^'iianiali  Armada,  ntid  t'     i    '   V  ■  tual 

and  -aval  under  the  rei^M  'c'th, 

■  ivetii  : I tmit  and  thankful,     <><  hear 

^Bothiiit,:,  lio\«  uvcr,  at  ure«utit,  our  itiimediutu  duty 
|nnt   extending;   beyond  a  welcome   to  the  volume 

~  rfore  u*-   Sull^ciently  varied  and  stininlatiiig  i«  the 

|>«rio<l  <leolt  with  to  sAtisfy  the  moat  exorbitant 
r^PJietite      Beginning  with    the  < Gunpowder  Plot, 

tnc   record  includes  the  deaths,  among  others,  of 

Walter    Ualeigh,    Buckingham,    Stratfon),     Laud, 

i Monmouth,  Lord  KuswII,  and  Algtinion  Sidney  ; 
the  growth  of  difficnUiea  between  Charles  I. 
K)d  ll>e  civio  authorities;  the  'Icffut,  trial,  and 
death  of  the  kins:   the  (  Uth  :  the  Pro- 

tettorftie.    with    nil    its  troubles;    the 

Reatoratinn;  the  great  m  .; — ::  uf  the  plague; 
the  Fire  of  London;  the  Titus  Oatea  )iloi ;  the 
|ierKecutio!i3  of  .Telfreys  :  the  trial  of  the  hi«ho|'9  ; 
tho  Hipht  of  James  11.;  and  the  acreavion  of 
U'lUiniii  and  Mary,  rndiiiK  with  the  nile,  out- 
^  wanll',  i.l.i  11.  of  Queen  Anne.  Here  alone,  «  ithout- 
^K  dM<  '  '  vents  of  aecondary  inifiorlaiice,   is 

^■"aii.i  and  vern  enntiKh,"    It  would  ob- 

"  viou<<ls    I'v  iiiijjojsible,  but  for  the  limitations  Sir 
Waller  haii  impowd  on  his  Bcheme,  to  comjirehend 

I  within  ft  single  volume  any  Bummary.  even  the 
nittst  condeiiscHf .  of  all  the  matters  oi>ene<i  out  by 
these  thinit"-  The  limitations  in  qtieatiou  include, 
however,  tlie  cr-  •  ^  '  -voidance  of  all  historicui 
treatment  and  '<a  of  all  literarv  record 

huch  mention,  t.  y,  oa  ia  made  of  Milton  is 

in  conneTijon  with  icligiun,  and  not  with  literature, 
while  naniea  such  as  Donne,  Cowley,  Cleveland. 
Vunbruffh,  and  Farquhar  are  not  to  be  found  in  the 
index.  r^ifTering  in  some  respeota  from  those  in  the 
I  volume  on  the  eiyhteenth  ccnturj',  the  divisionx  in 
^L  the  {trcsent  book  begin  with  the  Stuart  sovereiKiis, 
^B  of  each  of  whom— with,  in  the  majority  of  instances, 
^B  their  ■  .v,-.^r-»a  ,,.;.» rr..j,.a  ■  <'^-. ''f < irttn,  f avourl I cs, 
^B  or  <  ied,      A  second 

^f  divi:  "Ut,  Jbc,  an<i  a 

~    thii'  uTii  ju-^V'in^.     ii-iwccu  the  second 

and  'ions  is  interoalafed   n.n   account  of 

ihe  ,^:  7\iean<l  Fire,  whiih  is  liUcly  to  iirove 

the  most  ueunrally  intereating  portion  of  tho  volnnte; 
Rod  at  the  close  comes  a  aenes  of  valuable  appen- 
dixes. In  what  is  virtually  tho  seventeenth  cen- 
tury Sir  W*lter  finds  the  City  of  London  at  the 
height  "f  i'5  iX'litical  im(K>rtancc,  and  he  advances 
the  t  even  "when  London  deposed 

up  Henry  l^^  was  tho  City  so 
I   dl  the  events  of  the  time  as  in 
I'n'iuv"    It  is  also  obvious  that 
"f  tho  century  and  its  close 
h  ar«  included  the  Civil 
h,    the    Itcslomlion,    the 
ion  of  .Tames  II.  and  ahao- 
•ver  lialf  the  '■iilire  jHrrioil. 
■  Ui.nt  the  fii-t  h.ilf  of  the 
:  ,  while,  io 
>ri  for  the 

...,    ..t  what  wc 

iiin  M'lih  1  he  volume  pri:- 
•otiH  "iich  i\.-<  Bn>  ordifiririlv 


iudeiinit*  iHtriwi    hoyond,  to  f*r  am  c«n  he   (iro- 


phesied  —  from   the  personal    interference   of    the 
sovei-einn. 

It  is  not  in  connexion  with  the  zreatest  iioiiticnl 
events  that  the  volume  is  most  edifying.  These  ar© 
dealt  with  at  full  length  in  the  histories  to  which 
one  ordinarily  has  recourse.  Sir  VValtor  id  a  pleasant 
companion,  however,  when  he  is  moved  to  indigna- 
tion over  the  judicial  murder  of  Alderman  Henry 
f'ornish  or  the  burning  aUve  of  Klirjibeth  tiaunt. 
which,  if  iierformed  centuries  earlier,  might  have 
brought  additional  infamy  on  the  executioners  of 
.loan  of  Arc.  A  curious  sitiirical  print  from  the- 
British  Museum,  given  p,  ll.">.  illustrates  the  atrvst, 
of  .JpHreys.  Among  thesubjeote  discussed  is  witch- 
craft, whicii  a])|«ar8,  naturally,  under  the  haati 
'  Superstition.'  In  the  itauie  chapter  may  be  found 
many  strang«  instances  of  creduhty,  some  of  whicli 
our  author  is  disjioped  to  regard  as  ini]>oeture. 
'Sanctuaries  ahould  be  read  in  connexion  witl» 
'The  Sipiire  of  Alsatia'  and  'The  Fortunes  of 
Nigel.'  lu  the  chapters  on  '  The  Plague '  and  *  Tho 
Fire  of  London'  we  naturally  eotne  upon  traces  of 
Pcpys,  Kvolyn,  and  iJefoe.  In  the  case  of  the  former 
ft  straogn  and  little- known  tract,  entitle<i  'The 
Wotiderfnl  \  eare  leOJt,'  it  cited.  A  picture  by 
Mr.  F.  W.  W.  Topham,  showing  'A  Rescue  from 
the  Plague,'  is  reproduce<I  by  the  author's  per- 
miasion.  .As  a  rule  it  is  to  the  tet^kuown  autho- 
rities and  treatises  that  Sir  Walter  tunis,  and 
much  c)f  what  he  says  will  be  new  to  iho  vast 
mnjorily  of  readers.  Once  more  the  illustrations 
add  greatly  to  the  value  of  the  work  and  to  tho 
delight  of  the  reader.  These  are  often  from  the 
Craoe  and  tho  Cardner  collections,  and  from  the 
British  Museum  generally.  Among  the  (Kirtraita  re- 
produced is  one  of  James  I.,  after  Paul  van  .Somtr* 
showing  a  wonderfully  aenisual  and  repulsive  faoe, 
bearing  out,  apparently,  the  scandalous  suggestion 
of  I'aleigh,  which  is  said  to  have  cost  that  great 
man  dear,  .A?  in  the  previous  volume,  the  matter 
it*  of  varied  interest  and  value,  and  the  book 
may  be  read  with  unending  edification  and 
delight.  That  the  third,  ana  j)resumahly  con- 
chKriiig,  portion  will  be  called  for  is  not  to  be 
doubted,  and  the  owner  of  the  perfect  work  will 
be  able  tn  boast  of  an  illustrated  chronicle  such  as 
has  only  bt-'-'om«  poHxible  during  the  last  decade. 
What  we  regarded  a.s  a  wild  dream  of  ^ir  Walter — 
to  show  in  a  connected  form  the  evolution  of  the- 
world  of  Victoria  out  of  that  of  Elizabeth  or  her 
aire— seems  on  the  point  of  realization. 

'J'hr  Bltfyt  Royal  of  Britain.     Being  a  Roll  of  the 
T^iving  Descendant*  of  Edward  IV.  and  Henry 
VII.,  Kings  of  Kngland.  and  Jantes  Hi.  of  Scot- 
land.   By  the  Martinis  of  Ruviguy  and  R&inevaL 
(T.  C.  &  k  C.  .Tack.) 
TfiEitr:  i%   no    subject  on  which  the  oiiinions    of 
men     have    changed     more    than     family    history 
and  pedigree  lore.     lu   the  eighteenth  and  earlier 
jiart    of    the    nineteenth    century    such    studies   • 
were  held   to  form  abont  the   lowest  stratum  of 
useless  knowlertirc.     Sneers  at  them  are  met  with 
lire  of  tlio  '  i"i  are 

tupid.     A  flsh- 

: ,  -. ■  .idinircd  foi  meiit, 

tlittt  "  family  pe<iigree5  were  but  a  m  pb  woven  by 

nfliiire  in  which  ine  s)>ider  of  pride  lurke<l";  and 

id  was  somctin  •      •      f     fun  of ,  and 

■>iince<l,  liwausc  .ind  pro»e 

;riid©ncjr  to  dirf<  '  ^jJcvV* 'si'v.Vx* 


rAND  QUERIES. 


fAJf.  2,  iwr. 


jeott.      In  its  early  days  the  Surteoa  Society  wm 
i'idiciile<i    in    intlueDli&I    (jnartera    fur    pubhahini; 
a^ncienl  wills,  which  were  regarded  as  qaite  UBoleas 
for   those  wiiu   iwdsesiied   even    a    little  c(.>fiimon 
flenw;   uid    the    reverence   shown   for  illualrious 
<lesoent  by  8ir   Francis    Palf^ave  in    more    than 
one  passage   in    his   '  History    of   Xonnanily    and 
England '    wati    said,    at    the    time    of    i)ublica- 
lion,   to   have  injured    the   sale  of  Uif   work,     A 
ha))py  change  has.  however,  taken   place,  -vad  in 
some    degree,  at   leaat,   we    ought    to    thank  our 
American    cousins    for    the    improvement.      The 
educated   classea  of   that   ^reat  democracy  wore 
4ilwayfl  free  from  some  of  those  prejudices  which 
overDhadowed  us,  and  were   therefore  anxious  to 
-connect  themselves,  not  only  in  imagination,  bat  in 
fact,  with  the  families  of  the  old  land ;  so  a  larKe 
number  of  race-hiatorica  have  been  produced — some, 
it  is  true,  executed  on  wrong  lines,  but  others  based 
on  the  soundest  principles  of  modern  research.    We 
may  safely  say  that  no  work  of  tlie  nature  of  the 
one  before  us  could  possibly  have  come  into  exint- 
enoe  half  a  century  ago.    The  times  were  not  ripe 
for  it,  nor  was  there  a  tiltinj;  architect  to  plan  nor 
workmen  to  execute.    It  is  the  first  book  we  have 
ever  encountered  wherein  even  an  endeavour  has 
been  made  lo  carry  out  on  an  extended  and  sys- 
tematic scale    the    royul  descents  of    the  British 
Iicople.    The  Marquis  of  Havi^ny  does  not  ^u  back 
)eyond  Edward  Iv.  and  Henry  V  II.    Ho  thus  eives 
the  familic*  dependent  from  the  Houses  of  York 
and   Latica«ler  in  the  female  line'?,  so   tar  as   un- 
M'caried  research  and  hard  work  have  enabled  him 
to  collect  and  arrange  them.     A  like  course  has 
been  pursued  with   re;;'trd   to  the  descendants  of 
Jatnes  III.  of  ycotland     Many  families  inherit  the 
blood  of    the    Plantageaets    and    (Stuarts  without 
•beiitK  i^ware  of  the  fact ;  but  the  Manjuis's  labours 
•^n^  l)e  of  special  advantage  to  those  who,  while 
aware  of  their  royal  ancestry,   do  not   know  the 
intervening  links    between    themselves   and  their 
'distinguished  progenitors.     We  wish   it   had  lioen 
liossiblo  for  the  author  to  begin  his  work   at  an 
•earlier  period— say  with   Henry   II.     Human   life 
and  energy  have,  however,  their  limitations;  we 
therefore  dare   not   complain.     We  are  too  glad 
that  so  large  an  inst-alnient  has  been  carried  out 
and  done  so  well.   The  author  tells  us  in  the  preface 
some  facts  which  we  are  sure  are  unrecognized  by 
many  who  have  a  siiecial  interest  in  knowing  tliem. 
He  enumerates,  for  example,  some  of  tiie  world- 
renowned  heroes,  with  ail  of  whom  the  descendants 
of  Henry  VII.  count  kinship.    Ho  might  have  added 
others  ;   but  as  it  stands   the  catAlo^ue  is  highly 
instructive.     Among  thcni  occur  Alfred  the  Great, 
Ht.  Louis  of  France,  K^jdcrigo  iJiaz  de  bivar  (com- 
monly known  in   England    as    the  Cid),  the  Em- 
t)erura  of  the  East  (Isaac  II.  and  Alexius  I.),  and, 
f)y  far  the  greatest  of  all,  Charlemagne,  to  whom 
we  owe  the  redemi)tion  of  the  greater  itarl  of  the 
Kuroi)ean  continent  from  barbarism,  and  its  return 
lo  such  civilization  as  has  been  found  altainaViJe. 

It  has  been  commonly  a-ssumed  by  those  who  have 
never  given  attention  to  such  subjects  that  royal 
descent  is  very  uncommon,  and  that  when  it  does 
occur  it  is  found  almost  solely  in  the  families  of  our 
older  aristocracy,  whose  existence  is  well-nigh 
hidden  in  the  crowded  paaetof  the  modern  peerage. 
This  is  a  strange  niisuRe.  «  e  have  i>crsonally 
known  men  and  women  in  a  very  bumble  class  of 
life  wliose  descent  from  Alfred— and,  indeed,  from 
Odin  and  Arthur,  if  these  latter  be  anything  beyond 


dream •  figures —is  as  unimpeachable  a6  that  of 
royalty  itself.  The  Marquis  mentions  a  butcher, 
a  gamekeeper,  a  glass-cutter,  an  e\c.i»emau,  a  toll- 
bar-kee]ier,  a  l>aker,  and  a  tailor  who  are  descend- 
ants, through  the  .Seymours,  of  Mary,  the  younger 
daughter  ofKing  Henry  VII. 

In  almost  every  direction  care  has  been  taken  to 
make  the  work  as  complete  as  poasiblc.    Thus  wei 
have  a  little  shield  put  against  tho°e  persons  wb9| 
have  a  right  to  quarter  the  royal  aim.s  of  the  Plan- 
taeenets.     It  baa  often  been  assumed  that  all  who 
inherit  the  blood  have  a  right  to  the  amis  also ;  but 
this  is  a  mistake,  in  order  to  guard  against  ^^  Inch  we 
wish  the  author  had  explained  what  are  the  prin-J 
ciplea  by  which  this  right  is  protected,    There  i* 
but  one  family— that  of  the  Duke  of  Athol  and  his 
cousin  Miss  Caroline  F.  Murray— who  have  a  right 
to  this  "  unique  distinction  ''  three  times  over. 

This    groat    compilation    is    well  wortliv  of    aa] 
extended    commentary-.      We    hope   it   will  excitaJ 
others  to  imitate  it  m  directions  which  might  bo] 
indicated.     It  must  become  a  necessity  for  every 
one  studying  tlie  history,  and  especiallv  the  local 
history,  of  the  last  four  centuries. 

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BKJtALUIi.'A.rontailBlDa-nie  Padlrree  of  lleldlch  dI  vrndenha*, 
CO  Nortbamplon,  by  Brerartf  Or««a.  E«i  .  Koitfe  Urafoo  ^  Monit- 
raental  laicHpiioai  of  Waadiworth  Hariih  Charch  The  Ckoreh  ot 
8t.  Olle»4n-Uie-Fkelde  ,  and  St  Marf't  Chutvh  Ueadlnf.  la  MenorUm 
<rf  cb«  lt«T.  I''.  J.  Fojntoa,  M  A. .  Geaealoglcil  Note  aod  Qoarln 
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a*  the  raoet  eipart  Huoafiaderaeitaot.  rieaae  ittte  waott.— ilAKBJi'A 
Oraai  Hooaehop,  li-lf,  Joba  Bn(Bi  Siraai.  Btrnuaikan. 


q*HB 

J.     I  The 


PAPER -PAD. 


AUTHOR'S    HAIRLESS 

LBAURNHALL  PUBHR.  Ud  ,  PBbllehei'e  'ttd  Prtniar*. 

SO.  Laadeahall  Mreat.  LoBdea.  K.C  ;  „         .    . 

Oealalae  halrleu  papor.  orer  whieh  tka  pen  tlipe  with  E"'*** 
(r««d«m.    BUp«oe«  each     Ii.  nerdoeea,  raied  er  pUla.    New  roehel 

U**,  9i.  per  dosen,  ruled  or  plaia  ....  .., .  . 

Aatbore  thould  not*  that  m*  L**d*Bh«il  Pi***,  Ud  ,  eanaot  b* 
r«*paa*lbla  tor  tk*  loa*  of  MM.  br  «r»  or  oiherwi*a.  Dnplicai*  ooplM 
*ftoa.ld  ba  retaleed. 


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for  etlcklat  la  ficr»p*.  Jolmnr  Paper*.  *c.  Jrf  .  g.J  .  *ad  U,  with 
•troot,  utalul  hnuh  inot  •  Xoyi  !Sttii  two  •tampt  \o  ci>ver  poftajg 
(or  a  aaaapU  Hattle,  lacludloi  Hrnah.  Fartorr.  Sufar  Loaf  Coojt, 
L^deBkaUSOMt,  AG.    Ol  aU  kiatloneni.    BUckpkaat  Paau  itlek*. 


iiniPii 


ATUEN^UM  PRE88.-JOHN  EDWARDj 
niANCia.  Prlaier  o(  tka  JUhtmmtm^  Ktui  and  Ua*w«,  Ac..  Ia| 
prapared  (o  SUBMIT  B»TIMATB«  tor  all  kladi  o(  BOOK.  MAirBj 
aad  PBUODICAI.  PKll«TUtO,^U,  Bntai't  BUldlBf*.  CaMWffl 
UM,  B.C. 


io'^s.lja-v.mow.]  notes  and  QUERIES. 


I 


LONDOX,  SATl  HDAV,  JAXCAUY  9,  ISOL 


¥ 


CONTENTS. -No.  2. 

OTBS  :-C*pt  O.  W.  Manby,  21  — Cjupeoter'a  '  Geognipby 
Delioeate'l.'  23— St.  Miiri(arel'a  Churchyani,  Wntmlntt«r, 
33 — L(on&h)o  <14  Vinci's  'La»t  Supper '  — Japan eie  Ndw 
Y^'i  0«y.  :U— Berlioz  and  Swe«)rnborg— Leouardo  da 
Vinci  In  Mil&n— Caul  — Carious  Cbrittlan  Namea,  90  — 
"  AowUallve  "— "  Tuaneliat  *' :  "  TuanelliiR,"  27. 

QUBKIBS  :—%t.  BridgH'i  BowM'— '  Memoir*  of  a  Stomach,' 

'  97  — •Work?  fur  Cutler*' -<  Barliest  PlayMII-SIr  Jnhn 
Vanulian— OliHt  Siindaj— Chaucer'iTomMnWL'^trainater 
Abh*y — StAtue  by  Johti  of  Bologna  — "Col tectioner" — 
Mary  Stuarty  28— "  Heardlome  "  ;  "  H«ech '"— Picture  of 
Knigbt  in  Armour— U.  F.aad  W.  Lockhart  Holt— Penian 
PalQtiogi— Penrith— <^ueea  Heleoa— Setting  of  Precious 
Stonei  — JapAnewi  Oardi,  39. 

BBPLIBS ;— Grenadier  Quorda,  :iO— Mundy,  31  —  "  A  gallant 
captain"— Long  Lease— Uobin  a  Bobldn  —  Medical  B&r- 
rliten  —  Klchard  (la»h  —  "Tbe  Conaul  of  Qod,"  33  — 
"Oooitantioc  Peblile"— Marriage  Hooee  — Shakenpenre't 
Betiolanhtp,  33 -Beyle:  Stendhal— "  A  tlea  In  the  ear"— 
Hlitorlcal  Kime  :  Hhyme.  34— "  Mala  on  revlvnt  toujonn  " 
—  The  Oak,  the  Aab,  and  the  Ivy  —  Dorothy  Mutt — 
Riding  the  Black  Baro, ;«.'.— Mary.  Queen  of  Scoti- "Top 
Spit "—"  A*  merry  «■  Grlggi  " — Candlemaa  QIUs  — '  Bdwln 
Dtwxl '  Ootitiuned -Modern  Form*  of  Animal  BnlUng,  -l' 
— Orow-ns  in  Church  Tun-er  —  Latioathire  and  Cheahlre 
WlUa- Booaomy— Weather,  39. 

KOTBS  OV  BOOKS  :-Mr<.  Toynbee'a  B<11Uoa  of  Walpole'a 
liettai*— Burke'*  '  Peerage'— Magaxlne*  aad  Beviewi. 
otieea  to  Curretpondent*. 


I 


lAPT.  GEORCJE  WILLIAM  MANBY,  1765-185L 

The  following  two  letters  have  recently 
come  into  my  posseaaion.  Their  writer. 
Dawson  Turner,  a  luan  of  great  taste  ana 
intense  enthusiasm  aii  a  collector  of  auto- 

raphs,  ia  a  familiar  name  to  most.     Capt. 

'an by,  the  addressee,  deserves  greater 
podthumouH  honnurs  than  have  hitherto  been 
accorded  him.  The  inventor  of  apparatus  for 
saving  life  from  sliipwrock,  and  author  of  a 
1  umbor  of  treatises  on  this  and  allied  sub- 
ejects,  lie  had  printed  at  Yarmouth  in  1839 
an  octavo  volume  of  very  interesting 
reraini'scences.  This  was  not  published. 
The  author  presented  a  copy  to  the  British 
Museum,  and  his  friend  Dawson  Turner,  in 
addition  to  a  unique  copy  on  vellum,  acquired 
the  manuscript.  It  is  tnis  evidently  that  had 
been  inquired  after  when  the  first  letter  was 
written  ;  but  about  the  same  time,  with  a 
view  to  his  biography  being  written,  Capt. 
Hauby  had  lent  Turner  a  number  of  manu- 
«cript«  and  printed  documents,  letters,  copies 
of  correapondence,  *kc.,  collectively  referred  to 
as  *'  ManDeiana."  The  only  use  made  of  this 
material  was  a  memoir  privately  printed 
about  1851.  For  some  reason  this  was 
auppressed.    A  copy  included  in  the  sale  of 


Dawson  Turner's  library  (1853)  was  with- 
drawn, although  printer  in  italics  in  the 
catalogue.  In  1854  Capt.  Manbv  died,  and 
nothing  more  is  heard  of  the  "Manbeiana" 
until  sold  in  18o9  as  lot  292  in  the  sale  of  the 
manuscript  libiur^  of  Dawson  Turner,  fetch- 
ing seventeen  shillings  only.  The  present 
jMjssessor  I  cannot  trace. 

Athenaeum,  15  Nov.,  1851, 
My  i>EAii  CvrTAur  Manbv,— In  giving  up  to 
my  son-in-law,_  Mr.  T.  Brightwen,  the  manage- 
ment of  tlie  Yarmouth  Bank,  I  aleo  reltnquiahed 
to  him  the  house,  from  which  it  wa*  consequently 
nscesaary  to  remove  my  books  and  j^apers. 
These,  therefore,  have  been  carried  to  on  empty 
bouse  in  Chai^el  Street,  where  thev  are  under 
lock  and  key,  and  mast  remain  so  till  I  can  come 
down  and  get  a  new  hoaso  for  myself  and  place 
them  in  it.  This,  I  am  sorry  Co  s.ay,  is  at  present 
out  of  my  power  ;  for  the  severe  illnesB  with  which 
I  was  attacked  at  Edinburgh  bo  hangs  upon  mo 
that  I  am  forced  to  remain  in  London  under  mecUcal 
advice,  and  nobody  can  find  anything  in  my  absence. 
Still,  though  I  cannot  just  now  do  what  you  wish. 
I  feel  that  I  can  serve  you  more  effectively.  Tell 
the  person  who  hoa  l^eeu  applying  to  you  to  call 
upon  me  at  this  home,  and  send  me  the  name  of  the 
eminent  publisher  ho  proposes  to  employ,  and  I  wiJI 
see  them  both,  and  sliallHoon  know  if  tnuy  propose 
what  is  likely  to  be  honourable  and  protitabfo  tu 
you.  If  they  do,  I  will  gladly  co-operate  with  them 
to  the  utmost  extent  of  my  i>ower,  but  I  too  well 
know  the  state  of  the  book-trade  at  the  present 
time  to  have  much  hopes,  and  I  far  more  fear  that 
you  are  likely  to  be  mode  a  du|>e  of  by  «onie  deeign- 
iDg  {lersons,  just  aa  has  been  already  attempted  in 
three  or  four  previous  cases  from  which  I  had  tbe 
satisfaction  of  saving  you. 

I  am,  dear  air,  very  truly  yours, 

Dawjjon  Tubnkh. 

The  second  letter  is  aa  follows  :— 

My  df.ar Captain  Manbv, — Very  glad  indeed  was 
1  to  find  by  your  letter  that  you  are  now  not  only 
in  the  land  of  the  living,  but,  apparently,  in  the 
enjoyment  of  good  health,  with  ifie  exception  of 
your  eyeaiuht,  which  is  always  one  of  a  man's  first 
tailings.  Have  no  fear,  I  pray  you,  for  the  safety 
of  anything  relating  to  yourself  that  may  be  in  oiy 
jiOBsession.  What  I  am  about  to  dispose  of  is  only 
such  of  my  printed  books  aa  I  cannot  store  in  this 
house. 

Whatever  concerns  you,  and  wliatever  is  private, 
is,  aa  I  informed  you,  safe  nailed  down  and  corded 
in  boxes,  but  not  at  present  here  within  my  reach. 
1  hoi)e  it  may  shortly  be  so ;  aa  soon  as  it  is,  the 
volumes  of  Manbeiana  shall  be  taken  to  jiieces,  and 
what  I  have  received  from  you  shall  be  returned  to 
you  if  you  desire  it.  But  you  are  very  wrong  to 
do  so :  for  my  wish  is  to  place  them  intact  in  the 
British  Museum,  where  they  will  be  ready  for  any 
future  biographers,  and  can  never  be  sold  or  turned 
to  any  unworthy  purpoee,  but  will  be  a  lanting 
mouument  to  your  honour,  aa  long  as  KngUnd 
remains  a  nation. 

I  am,  my  dear  sir,  very  truly  yours, 

Dawsox  Tukmlb. 
No.  -je,  Costolnau  Villoa,  Barnes,  Surrey, 
30  March.  I8M. 


22 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         ik."  s.  i.  jak.  9.  i 


The  British  Museum  purchasetl  at  tbe 
Dawson  Turner  sale  tlio  iniinuscript  uf  Capt. 
Manby's  '  Itemiuiacencea.' 

Aleck  Abrahams. 

30,  Hillmartoo  Road,  N. 


NATHAXAEL  CARPENTERS  'GECXiRAPHY 
DELINEATED,    laTi. 
Fou  the  sake  of  bibliographical  accuracy, 
it  may  be  as  well  that  I  should  here  reproduce 
the  exact  wording  of  the  title  paRe  :— 

"fjeoKrajihy  Delioeatod  Forth  in  Two  Bookea. 
Coiitaininsr  'llie  Si)hifricall  And  Topicall  Parts 
Thereof.  l>y  Nathanael  Carpenter  Fellow  of  Kxceter 
Colledge  in  Oxford.  Ecclwiasl.  1.  One  generation 
commetb,  and  another  goelh,  but  ihe  Earth  re- 
niainetli  for  cuer.  IPrinler'a  ornament,]  Oxford, 
Printed  by  lohn  Lichtield  and  William  Tvrner, 
Printers  to  the  Fanioua  Vniveraily.  for  Henry  Cripps. 
An.  Dotn.  Kl'i'i." 

From  this  it  will  be  seen  that  the  work  is 
divided  into  two  books,  and,  I  may  add,  with 
separate  title-pige-s.     The  first  bo<jk  is  dedi- 
cated  "To  the  Kiglit  Uonovrable  William, 
Earle  of  Pembroke,  Lord  Uhamberlaine,"  and 
the  second  book  "To  the  Right  Honovrable 
Philip,  Earle  of  Montgomery,"  the  "Incom- 
parable Paire  of  Brethren,"  to  whom  Shake- 
speare's   Folio    of    1623    is    dedicated.      In 
addition,  the  Bi-st  named  is  supposed  to  have 
been    the    "Mr.    W.    H."   of    Shakespeare's 
'  Sonnets.'    He  died  in  1G30,  when  he  was 
succeeded  in  the  title  by  his  brother  Philip, 
and,  notwithstanding.  Carpenter  retains  the 
dedications  in  the  edition  of  103')  exactly  as 
they  appeared   in   the  edition   of  ten  years 
before.     In  the  edition   of  163.''>  the  author 
ha-s  a  metrical  address  "To  my  Booke";  but 
as  my  copj'  of  tho  first  edition  is  slightly 
imperfect,   1  am    in  consequence  not   in  a 
position  to  .say  whether  the  lines  are  common 
to  both.    I  extract  the  following ;  but.  with 
this  exception,  all  the  quotations  given  below 
are  from  the  edition  of  1625  : — 
(too  forth  thon  haplesae  Embrion  of  my  Braine, 
Vnfaahion'd  as  thou  art;  exprevac  tho  etraine 
And  langiiiiK^  of  thy  discontented  Sire, 
Who  hardly  raiisoni'd  his  poore  Babe  from  tire, 
To  offep  to  the  world  and  earelesAe  men 
The  linielcsRc  fruits  of  his  officious  p!;n. 
Thou  art  no  lonely  Darling,  stampt  to  pic&se 
The  lookes  of  (irealuesse  ;  no  dehRht  to  eiiae 
Their  melancholy  temper,  whoreicct 
As  idle  toyes  but  what  themRehies  alTcot, 
No  lucky  Planet  darted  forth  his  Rayes 
To  promise  louo  vnlo  thy  infantdayes  : 
Thou  rriaist  t^erhapa  be  marchandi/.e  for  slancs. 
Who  sell  their  Authors  wits  and  buy  theirgraues: 
Thou  nii>  of  that  blame, 

Which  1  1  hi!  Parent's  shame: 

Thou  niu;. :  .      .  :  ;.,  .^.-t   v.s'd  for  ii)>ort 

At  Tauerne-meetings,  pastinic  for  the  Court : 
Thou  maiat  he  torne  by  their  nialicioiis  phangs. 
Who  Der9  were  taught  to  know  a  Parents  pangs. 


s 


I  mav  mention  that  tbe  edition  of  lC3r>  is 
Htate()  on  the  title-page  to  be  "The  Second 
Edition  Corrected." 

A  work  of  this  kind  doe«  not  afford  much 
in  the  way  of  quotation  ;  but  there  are  a  few 
pa.ssagea  which  may  fitly  find  a  place  in  these 

Eages.      Here    is    a    pleasant    reference    to 
■olumbus  (book  i.  p.  JJ)  :  — 

'*  Eepecially  of  Columbus  the  I  i  ■>  (as  one 

wittily  alluding   to   hia    naniei  I's   i)oU& 

plucking  an  oliue  branch  from  Ui..  !.....  fe'jvue  tr»- 
tinioLiy  of  a  portion  of  l.And  as  yet  vnitnown,  ami 
left  naked  vnto  disconery  And  no  iinesliun  can  l>e 
made,  but  a  grootiiuit;  led 

by  our  European  A.'  -try 

ol    this  age.     To  win...  _..  :    

verses  (Seneca  in  '  Medea,'  Act  il.)  ;  — 

In  after  yeares  sliall  Ages  come. 

When  ih'  Ocean  shall  vrdoose  th- 

Of  thin;;8,  and  shew  vast  ample  1 1 

New  Worlds  by  Sea -men  shall  Ui  i..mi.i 

Nor  Thal«  be  the  vlniost  bound." 

The  next  reference  is  to  the  distingaiahed 
Sir  llonry  Savile.  and  a  very  pleasant  little 
bit  of  personal  history  it  is  (book  i.  p.  143) : — 

"  Here  I  cannot  but  remember  a  merry  answer  of 
that  great  Atlas  of  Arts,  Sir  Henry  Sauile  in  the 
like  question.  Being  once  invited  vnto  his  Table, 
and  hauingentred  into  some  familiar  diRconraea  con- 
cerning Astronomicall  supirositions :  I  asked  hint 
wlmt  he  thought  of  the  Hypothesis  of  Co|)ernicu», 
who  iield  Ihe  Sunne  to  stand  tixt,  and  tlie  Earth  to 
be  aubiect  to  a  Triple  Motion  :  His  answere  was  ; 
he  cared  not  which  were  true,  so  the  Apparences 
were  solucd,  and  the  accomjit  exact  :  .<iith  each  way 
either  the  old  of  I'tolomy,  or  the  new  of  Copernicus, 
would  indifferently  serue  an  Astronomer  ;  Is  it  not 
alt  one  (aaith  he}  sitting  at  Dinner,  whether  mv 
Table  be  btought  to  me,  or  I  goe  to  my  Table,  so  I 
eat  my  meal  ?  ' 

lb  is  not  much  in  itself;  but  I  cannot  help 
transcribing  the  following  (book  i.  p.  167) ; — 

"It  ia  written  of  that  learned  man  Ki*»«mu» 
t"  ■   ■    '  Mus,  ihiit  h  I  "■■        '■      '  ■'  waa 

imuchwi:  '«8t 

1  uking  to  u  s  of 

tho  ApoflleJ?,  he  bad  alwayt-aiii  hiscyeLliubu  Tttbles, 
where  he  made  no  small  vae  for  the  Kndjng  out  of 
the  site  of  such  places  whereof  he  had  occoiiion  to 
treato." 

And  then  follows  this  rather  bitter  reflec- 
tion by  our  author  : — 

"  And  it  were  to  be  wished  in  these  dajres,  that 
yong  Students  insleed  of  many  apish  and  ridiculous 
pictures,  tending  many  limes  rother  to  ribaldry, 
then  any  learning,  would  store  their  studies  with 
such  furniture." 

I  tnay  quote  here  another  of  our  author'* 
reflections  (book  i.  p.  93)  :  — 

''To  tlicae  haue  associated  thomseluea  another 
sort,  more  to  l>e  regarded,  as  more  learned:  the 
rriti,  1...;  if  moane)  of  our  Age,  who  like  Popes  or 
'  hane  taken   vpon  them  an  Vninersall 

'■■  ici  censure  all  which  they  neuer  vnder- 

81  (>•«>.     Had  these  men  coutained  themselues  io. 


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their  ow-n  bounds,  tliey  might   ..nn-i  ^,..llosso  haue 
fdone  jrood  jseniice  to  the  (Junn  nf  Learn- 

ing.   But  when  tho  scrutiiit  i.i  coulrolle 

the  Mistriwe,  the  liouse  secnte^  mucli  uiil  of  order." 

It  is  interesting  to  note  such  personal  allu- 
isions  as  the  following  (book  i.  p.  247) '. — 

"This  wny  I  first  found  in  Mr.  I'urclia.?  his  rela- 
tion of  Hiill.s  (iiacoucry  of  (Irrwnlund,  written  l*y 
William  llalHn  since  this  Cbaiitcr  came  voder  the 
\  Prcsso  :  the  expression  of  whioh,  beini;  as  I  8U]ii>oae 
(shorter  and  easier  then  in  the  Author,  I  doe  owo 
for  the  most  part  to  my  worthy  Chomberfeliow,  Mr. 
Nath&nael  Xorrington,  to  whose  learncil  conference, 
I  oonfraste  niy  selfe  to  owe  some  fruit.^  of  my  labours 
in  thia  kinde,  and  all  the  otbces  of  friendship." 

Serpents  not  found   in   Ireland   (book   ii. 
,p.  24) :- 

'Some  Ueaata  and  Serpents  are  in  some  places 
seldome  knowue  to  breed  or  Hue,  whcre%nth  not- 
withstanding other  Regions  swarme  in  abundance: 
as  for  example,  Ireland,  wherein  no  Ser|)«ot  or 
venomouB  wornie  bath  beene  knowne  in  line, 
whereby  Africa  and  many  other  Countries  tinde  no 
«maU  molestation." 

I     There  ia  something  droll  in  the  coupling  of 

authorities  in  the  next  extract  (book  ii.  p.  76): 

"That  .Sea   Water  strained    through  day,   will 

turne  fresh  :  as  liLewise  itowdred  fieab  being  l^y^^d 

to  sonkc  in  salt  water,  will  soono  turnu  sweet :  The 

'  former  is  verified  by  Baptista  Porta  :  of  tho  other, 
cuery  kilchin  niaideoTilhe  Sea  side  will  iuforme  vs." 

Carpenter  refers  to  the  possibility  of  a  canal 
between  the  Mediterranean  and  Red  Soaa, 
which,  as  we  all  know,  i.s  now  an  accom- 
pUahod  fact.  The  passage  in  hin  book  need 
uot  tlierefore  be  quoted. 

Edmund  BoUon,  in  hia  '  Nero  Csvsar,' 
1G27  (first  ijublislied  in  1624),  has  a  reference 
to  the  latiiraus  of  Panama.  Carpenter  re- 
cords a  conjectural  reason  why  a  canal  hiul 
not  Ijeen  cut  through  it,  probably  long  before 
bis  day  (book  ii.  p.  112): — 

"  Moreotier  it  if)  otMeraed  that  the  sea  on  the 
trost  |>art  <>f  Anicrica  commonly  called  Maro  Del 
Zur,  i«  much  higher  then  the  Ailantick  Sisa  which 
borderelh  on  the  Kast«rne  part  of  it :  which  gauo 
way  to  the  coniecture  of  Boran,  that  the  lalhniui) 
betwixt  Panama  and  Nombre  Do  Dio8  had  bin  lon^ 
aiocc  out  through  to  haue  made  a  liae-iage  into  the 
Pocifick  Sea,  without  sayling  so  farre  about  by  thu 
Btfaitn  of  Mai(ellane ;  had  not  many  inconvonicnccs 
bin  (oired  out  of  the  iiiie<iuality  in  the  hight  of  the 
Water' ' 

Di^cUdsing  the  po3.sibility  of  a  North-East 
PaMAge,  our  author  interpolates  the  follow- 
ing (book  ii.  p.  1*21):— 

"Lastly,  there  is  i  finhM-hich  hath  a  Home  in  hia 
fore  head,  nail'  •      'nf  Martin 

I'Vobifihorfou:  ■uixiiajid, 

1.,, I  ,.,,,..  It  tu'.,. ,     '.MIS  said  to 

tto  her  \Vardr<>l»o  :   liut  wtiuthur  it  Iks  the 
I'.h  ID  at  thin  day  to  be  wono  at  ^^'irldsor 
I  iLfitK',  L  I]  cannot  toll,  ' 

I  olsg  (iiscus^ieji  al  conaiderablo  length  the 


possibility  of  discovering  a  North-West  Pas- 
aage.  The  opening  words  of  hia  atatenaent 
are  interesting  (book  ii.  p.  122) : — 

"  Hitherto  haue  we  treated  of  other  ))a»saee8, 
either  etieoted  or  attempted  tot'athay  and  the  Ea«t 
Indies,  The  last  and  most  desired  and  sought  iu 
our  time,  ia  that  by  the  North-west.  This  way 
hath  bin  often  attempted,  a-s  by  Cabot,  Dauis,  Fro- 
hisher,  Hudson,  .S'' Thomas  Button  and  others,  but 
OS  yet  not  found  out.  Neither  hath  it  morn  iroublcri 
theinduatry  of  Marrinera,  then  the  wit  of  Sohollei-a." 

Speaking  of  mountainous  countries  and 
their  inhabitants,  he  mentions,  among  other?, 
the  Scottish  Higlilandera  (book  ii.  p.  2j8)  :— 

"  The  like  ouuht  to  be  spoken  of  the  Welch  and 
Cornish  itooplo  anton^^st  vs,  as  of  the  .Scottish 
Highlanders  ;  all  which  liuinp;  in  mountanou» 
coHntrics  haue  withstoml  tiie  violence  of  forraipiers, 
and  for  many  yeares  presorued  their  uwne  liberty." 

A.  8. 

[To  be  continued.) 


THE  CHUftCIlYARD  OF  ST.  MARGARETS,. 
WESTMINSTER,  AND  ITS  IMPROVEMENT. 

For  many  years  this  intere-sting  little 
"Gixi's  acre  "  had  been  in  a  most  deplorable 
condition,  and  wa^s  noted  as  being  a  public 
scandal.  The  gravestones  were  not  level, 
many  were  broken,  and  on  nearly  all  (or  at 
least  a  great  proportion)  of  them  the  inscrip- 
tion.*i  had  become  unreadable,  owing  to  the 
constant  traffic  over  them,  there  being  a 
right  of  way  through  the  churchyard  rrorn 
end  to  end,  and  also  to  a  point  nearly  opnosite 
the  building  now  rebuilt  as  the  Mimilesex 
County  Hall,  but  then  known  as  the  West- 
minster Sessions  House.  The  ground,  where 
there  were  no  .stones,  was  in  great  holes  and 
ruts,  which  held  the  water  in  wet  seasons, 
and  at  all  periods  of  the  year  presented  both 
ditiiculties  and  dangers  to  those  who  had  to 
cross  it.  Many  attempts  were  made  to  put 
it  into  something  like  decent  order,  out 
without  anything  like  permanent  good- 
resulting;  consequently  as  linte  went  on  bad- 
became  worse,  and  the  dangers  and  difficul- 
ties were  intensified. 

Among  tho  many  proposals  for  improve- 
ment, the  most  notaole  was  one  made  by 
Mr,  Austen  H.  Layard,  M.P.,  who  at  the  time 
held  tlie  oflice  of  First  Commissioner  of 
Works,  and  untler  whoso  auKuicos  the  im- 
provement in  the  adjoining  bt.  Margaret's 
Square  was  made.  The  extremely  orna- 
mental railings  by  which  the  .square  is  sur- 
rounded, and  the  very  fine  granite  columns 
upon  which  the  lamps  at  the  angles  are 
mounted,  we  owe  to  tho  fine  taste  of  that 
gentleman,  whodesire<i  that  tho  churchyard 
should  bo  improved  in  ft  like  manner,  as  it 
was  thought  the  coat  could  be  included  in> 


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the  funrla  to  be  vot«d  by  Parliament  for  that 
purpose.  The  rector,  churchwardens,  and 
others  were  called  together,  and  the  pro- 
posals submitted  were  agreed  to,  it  being 
then  thought  that  better  days  were  in  store 
for  this  somewhat  desolate-looking  spot.  But 
a  change  in  the  Government  was  made,  and 
Mr.  Layard  became  Ambassador  at  Madrid, 
and  at  the  Office  of  Works  Mr.  Acton  Sinee 
Ayrton  reigned  in  his  stead.  It  is  common 
knowledge  that  the  ideas  of  the  latter  gentle- 
man upon  the  subject  of  art  and  embellish- 
ments generally  wore,  to  say  the  least  of 
them,  peculiar,  the  ultimate  outcome  of  the 
negotiations  being  that  tlie  plan  as  proposed 
by  nis  predecessor  was  indefinitely  shelved, 
and  the  place  remained,  to  tlio  annoyance  of 
all  interested  iu  the  matter,  just  as  it  was 
before.  No  one  was  more  vexed  at  the  turn 
things  had  taken  than  Dr.  Farrar,  who  in 
one  of  his  best-remembered  sermons  spoke 
in  no  measured  terms  of  the  iniquity  of  the 
offence  of  leaving  in  such  a  neglected  state 
what  might  be  a  beautiful  and  restful  spot, 
and  pointedly  asked  if  it  were  not  time 
that  something  should  be  done,  so  that  the 
"generations  of  Westminster  people  might 
rest  again  under  the  green  turf. '  Tliere  were 
some  people  who,  in  advocating  the  restora- 
tion of  tne  churchyard  to  something  like 
order  and  decency,  wished  the  stone  pyra- 
mids placed  at  intervals  between  the  railings 


minutes  of  this  committee,  and  as  they  have 
passed  into  private  hands,  and  may,  and  not 
improbably  will,  in  the  course  of  time  get 
further  alienated,  I  think  it  advisable  that 
some  portions  of  them  should  be  preserved  in 
the  pages  of  '  N.  &  Q.' 

The  General  Committee  was  as  here  given  : 
Canon  Farrar,  Chairman ;  the  Dukes  of  Buc- 
cleuch  and  Westminster,  the  Lord  Chancellor, 
the  Speaker,  Lord  Eichard  Grosvenor,  M.P., 
Lord  Henry  Scott,  M.P..  the  Right  Hon.  W.  H. 
Smith,  M.P.,  Sir  Rutherford  Alcock,  Sir  Henry 
Hunt,  the  Dean  of  Westminster,  Archdeacon 
Jennings,  and  Canon  Prothero  ;  Messrs.  J.  H. 
Pulesbon,  M.P.,  Herbert  Gladstone.  M.P., 
Edward  Easton,  J.  F.  Bateman,  F.R.S.,  G. 
Brown,  W.  D.  Rarnett,  J.  M.  Hora,  Stewart 
Helder,  Harry  W.  Lee,  J.  L.  Pearson,  I?. A., 
G.  F.  Trollope,  T,  J.  White,  and  J.  Hockridge  ; 
the  Rov.  E.  A.  Browne,  the  senior  curate  of 
St.  Mai-garet's,  Hon.  Secretary.  Tlie  first 
meeting  was  held  on  18  Juno,  18S1,  in  the 
vestry  room  of  the  church,  the  rector  boing 
in  the  chair.  A  proposition  wa«  made  by 
the  Speaker,  and  seconded  by  Sir  Rutherford 
Alcock,  that  "  the  concession  of  ground  (as 
indicated  on  a  plan  laid  before  the  Com- 
mittee) be  made  to  the  Metropolitan  Board 
of  Works."  The  next  proposition  was  moved 
by  Mr.  W.  H.  Smith  and  seconded  by  Mr. 
J.  F.  Bateman,  that  "  Sir  Rutlierford  Alcock 
and  Messrs.  Helder,  Easton,  Barnett,  White, 


to  be  removed.    I  am  pleased  to  be  able  to  I  Trollope,  and  Lee  do  constitute  a  sub  com 


put  upon  record  that  one  powerful  voice 
was  raised  for  their  retention.  Sir  Reginald 
Palgrave  protested  against  any  removal, 
<leclaring  tnat  they  had  remained  landmarks 
through  a  long  series  of  vears,  and  should 
coutinue  to  mark  the  boundary  of  the  church- 
yard, no  matter  what  wati  done  in  the  way 
of  beautifying  or  improvement. 

The  late  Mr.  T.  C.  Noble,  a  well-known 
and  frequent  contributor  to  '  N.  A;  Q.,'  wrote 
in  the  Jinilder  of  27  August,  1881,  as  follows  : 

"  Aft-er  a  long  8«i-ie8of  year*  there  is  some  chauce 
now  of  it«  being  made  a  more  pleasing  pUoe  lo  look 
at  than  it  has  liitherto  been.     Aboat  an  acre  in 


inittee  to  draw  up  a  petition  for  a  faculty  to 
carry  out  improvements  in  the  churchyard, 
and  to  consider  detaiU  to  be  laid  before  the 
next  meeting  of  the  General  Committee." 
Further  propositions  were  msuie  that  sub- 
scriptions be  invited  to  supplement  the  grant 
of  H.M.  Office  of  Works,  and  tliat  a  special 
appeal  be  made  to  members  of  both  Houses 
ot  Parliament  to  contribute  to  the  Improve- 
ment Fund. 

The  report  of  the  .nub-committee  appointed 
at  the  first  meeting  was  duly  presented,  and 
as  it  is  of  much  interest  and  of  some  im- 
portance, it  is  here  given  in  extenso  :— 


«xtent,  iw  dilapidated  appearance  haa  long  been 

an  eyesore  both  to  the  church  and  the  Ablwy  au-  "  That   it  appeared  to  them  that  the  ainipleat 

thontiee;  but  aa  the  only  way  of  remedying  the  plan    for    carrying    out    the    proposed    improve- 

«vil  was  by  obtaining  something  like  3,0WV.,  the  i  tueat  is— 

ainountrequired  to  plant  and  ornament  the  grounds,  "Firstly:  To  sink  the  graveatoneti  tit  •,itu  soffi- 

tbat  step  could  not  be  readily  taken."  ciently  deep  to  admit  of  the  ground   over  them 

TliJa  icoo  »a..fo:»i.,  »u„  ^. „:*;.,„  ,«  ^tt  •  being  covered  with  turf,  the  surface  being  roduocd 

This  was  certainly  the  position  of  affairs  to  the  level  of  the  north  entrance  to  the  Abbey, 

but  in   that  ^vear  Dr.  l-arrar,  the  rector  of  and  to  deiwsit  the  surplus  within  the  boundaries  of 

fot.    Margaret  a,    decided    to   make    a    great  the  churchyard.    For  this  purpose  levels  have  i>eeii 
effort  to  improve  matters,  and  an  influential  ',  JaI^*"!'  ■«  »«  t**  have  an  accurate  'profilo    ^f  Hm 

committee  was  formed  to  take  the  matter  ^''"'"'■''y*''*'' A"'*'"*'!!?.?' '^^fj'.f*'"®*''*^' '  ' 

in   U«...A    ....I  :t-   :.,    ..i»..:.w.   t^  -^„^_j    .i    1  to  ascertain  the  coaditionofthegrouudi:                 ■ 

in  hand,  and  it   t.s   pleasing   to  record    tliat  The  sub-committee  have  the  pleasure  tc 

iwi   Iftbours  m    tho  end    were  crowned   with  the  conditions  wore  found  to  be  moat  fa^ 

0000698.     I    bavo  been  permitted    to  aee  the  the  uoderUking,  both  in  the  chnrchyan 


m  s.  1.  Jax.  9, 1904.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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I 


'  U  small  ytortion  which  the  Oenonil  Com- 

'  ve  already  agreed    to  make  over  to  the 

.      ,     -^    iicaii  Board  of^A'orks.    The  sub-cotumiltee 

Itbeiviore  recommend  (1)  that  an  exact  plan  of  Iho 

Ichurohyarvl  be  made,  ehovciog  the  jireaent  position 

[cf  the  gravcatones,  and  that  such  plan  be  kept  in 

some  part  of  the  church  ;  (2)  that  a  copy  be  made 

ivi  tbc  inscriptiona  on  the  praveatones,   to  bo  re- 

'tained  amoDR  the  records  of  the  church;  and  {'i) 

'  that  the  churchyard  be  laid  down  with  grass  in  the 

maaoer  already  indicated  (without  the  addition  of 

any  tree?  or  shrubs). 

"Secondly:  That,  aware  of  the  importance  of 
obtainint;  the  very  best  professional  advice  in  carry- 
ing out  this  worl  .hey  have  secured  the  services 
of  J.  L.  Pearson,  Esq.,  R.A.,  Architect  to  the 
Abbey,  and  have  entrusted  to  Mr.  Wills,  of  the 
Floricultural  Hall,  Regent  Street,  the  laying  out 
of  the  ground  under  n'm  superintendence.  The 
subcommittee  reconuncnd  for  the  approval  of  the 
General  Committee  the  plans  for  the  laying  out  of 
the  groQud  (and  for  the  railings  with  which  it  is 
proirased  to  surround  itj  as  prepared  by  Mr.  Pear- 
son, which  are  submitted  herewith. 

"Thirdly:  That,  in  accordance  with  the  resolu- 
tion of  thf)  General  Committee,  the  following  letter, 
as  written  by  the  chairman,  and  approved  by  the 
sub-comraittee,  has  been  sent  to  the  members  of 
both  Houses  of  Parliament.     [I  would  note  that  a 
copy  of  the  letter  alluded  to  does  notappear  to  have 
been  attached  to  the  minutes.] 
"Fourthly:   That,  with    a    view    to  immediate 
[action,   arraogiements  havo  been  made  to  hold  a 
I  meeting  of  vestrymen  and  other   parishioners  on 
I  Friday  next.  Nth  of  July,  in  the  vestry  room  of 
tSt.  Marnaref  s  Church,  for  them  to  receive  the  plana 
aa  approved  by  the  General  Committee,  and    to 
sanction  an  application  to  the  Bishop's  Court  for  a 
faculty  authorizing  the  pro^Kwed  improvements  in 
the  burial-ground  and  the  widening  of  the  footway. 
"  Fifthly :   That    the  following   petition  to  the 
Chancellor  of  the  Diocese  has  been  drawn  up  by 
Harry  Lee,  Ee<].,  and   is  now  submitted  for   the 
approval  of  the  tienerul  Committee. 

(Signed)       "  y.  W.  Farbar,  Chairman." 

There  was  no  copy  of  the  petition  attached. 

W.  E.  Hablasd-Oxley. 
02,  The  Almslioiues.  Rochester  Row,  S.W. 
{To  b^  eo7Uimied.) 


Leonardo  pa  Vinci  :  '  The  Last  Supper. 
(See  8"'  S.  vii.  488  :viii.  136.)  —  Frequent 
reference  to  this  suoject  in  the  columns  of 
'N,  »&  (^.'  prompts  me  to  supplement  previous 
contributions  by -some  note-i  made  on  a  recent 
visit  to  Milan.  Since  my  lost  visit  the  fol- 
lowing copies  of  the  '  Conacolo '  have  been 
afHxed  to  the  walls  of  the  refectory. 

1.  Copy  of  Leonardo's  'Last  Sapper'  by 
Andrea  Solari.  Painted  on  canvas.  The  feet 
of  Chri^tt  portrayed.  Drinking  glasses  on 
the  table,  em[)ty.  It  is  alleged  that  Leo- 
,  nardo's  fresco  was  mutilated  by  the  Domini- 
icans  in  1G.'>2,  a  door  having  been  placed  at 
the  centre  of  the  wall.  If  the  lower  portion 
:>{  the  central  figure  was  thus  r«moved,  this 


2.  Smaller  copy,  by  Cesare  Magnis,  also 
showing  the  feet  of  Christ.  Not  a  pleasing 
copy.  It  is  gross,  and  lacks  sublimity.  Drink- 
ing glasses  half  full  of  red  wine. 

3.  Copy  by  Marco  d'  Oggiono.  The  table 
is  bare.  Ko plates,  >jl<isses,  or  tdiblts.  Although 
the  doorway  had  not  been  pierced  in  1510, 
when,  presumably,  this  copy  was  made,  thf 
jfftt  of  Christ  are  not  depicted.  If  we  assume 
that  this  copy  was  made  in  presence  of  the 
original,  ray  italicized  words  are  significant. 
Possibly  important  additions  were  made  to 
the  fresco  after  Leonardo's  departure. 

4.  Photograph  of  the  fresco  at  Ponte 
Capriasca  (Canton  Ticino).  Here  the  feefc  of 
Christ  (as  in  No.  2)  are  seen.  Drinking 
glasses  void  of  wine.  In  the  background  we 
behold  the  sacrifice  of  Jacob :  also  Christ 
praying  in  the  garden.  On  the  lower  portion 
of  the  frame  the  Apo-stles  are  thus  named, 
from  left  to  right  as  they  appear  in  the 
original :  St.  Bartholomew,  St.  James  the 
Less,  St.  Peter,  Judas,  St.  John,  St.  James, 
St.  Thomas,  St,  Philip,  St.  Matthew,  St.  Tad- 
deus,  St.  Simon.  Henry  Beyle  fDe  Stendhal) 
says  in  his  'History  of  Painting  in  Italy,' 
referring  to  the  fresco  at  Ponte  Capriasca  : — 

"  In  spite  of  local  tradition— which  iixea  1S20  aa 
the  dat«  when  '  a  brilliant  youth  from  Milan'  came 
there  to  escape  from  the  turmoils  of  that  great  city, 
and,  in  gratitude  for  the  protection  afforded  to 
him,  painted  iho  "Cenaoolo  —I  am  of  opinion  that 
this  picture  was  executed  by  Pietro  Luini,  son  of 
the  celebrated  Bernardino,  and  was  not  painted 
prior  to  LjOj." 

It  is  especially  noteworthy  that  in  the  pic- 
ture there  is  no  wine  on  the  table.  Possibly 
the  monks,  more  nearly  to  approach  the 
Roman  formula  in  administering  the  Sacra- 
ment, removed  all  traces  of  wine  from  the 
glasses.  Only  the  figures  representing  Christ 
and  the  Apostles  Peter,  Thomas,  Bartholo- 
mew, and  James  the  Less  pretend  to  be  copies 
of  Leonardo's  '  Last  Supper.'  The  others 
are  purely  fanciful.  The  features  of  Judas 
are  remarkable. 

5.  Etching,  by  Rembrandt,  in  fwxtifn  rosau, 
lent  by  George,  the  present  King  of  Saxony. 
It  has  no  pretensions  to  be  a  copy  of  the 
masterpiece.    It  is  merely'  a  fanciful  sketch. 

6.  A  terrible  performance  by  Antonio  do 
Qlaxiate,  now  almost  entirely  cfefaced. 

RiCHABD  EdgCUMBK. 
S3,  Tedworth  Square,  Chelsea. 

JAPANE8E  New  Yeab's  Day.— The  Dail:/ 
Chronicle  of  the  Ist  inst.  had  the  following 
interesting  notice ;  — 

"  To  a  devout  .lapanese  breakfast  on  New  Year's 

Pay  is  a  religious  nto.    No  ordinary  dishes  are  oon- 

sumed.    The  tea  must  l«s  made  with  wat«r  drawn 

1  from  the  well  wheu  the  tir«t  ray  of  aun  strikes  (.t.^^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         no- s.i.jan.  9.1001. 


pot-i)ourri  of  mnteriiila  Hi)ecitie<l  by  law  forma  the 
stiipTe  dish,  at  the  liuish  a  measiiro  of  special  sake 
from  a  red  lacquer  cuji  must  be  drained  by  who- 
Boever  desires  nappineas  during  the  coming  year. 
In  the  room  is  placed  an  '  clysian  etand.'  or  red 
l&cquer  tray,  covered  with  evergreen  leaves,  and 
bearing  a  hce  dumi)liu^,  a  lobaier,  orangps,  per- 
simmons, chestnuts,  dried  sardine?,  nv-*  l.-ni-i' 
ivie.    All  tho«e  dishes  have  u  special  <•!  i. 

Tho  names  of  Homo  are  homonymous  wr  i 

happyoaien  ;  the  others  have  an  alleporicii!  m-MiiMiy. 
The  lobster's  curved  back  and  lung  claws  tyiiify  life 
|.)rol«>n|ied  till  the  frame  is  bent  and  the  board  is 
lonft:  the  sardines,  which  always  swim  in  pairs, 
exfiress  conjuir>il  bliss ;  the  herring  is  synibolical  of  a 
fruitfnl  progenv.  These  tlishes  are  not  intended  for 
consumption,  alllioii>;h  in  nioi^t  caseti  the  ftppelite  ia 
fairly  keen.  The  oithodox  Japanese  not  only  sees 
the  old  year  out ;  he  rises  at  four  to  welcome  the 
newcomer,  and  performs  many  ceremonies  before  he 
l>rflalu  hit  fast.' 

N.  S.  S. 

Berlioz  and  Sweuemiorc— To  tlie  new 
and  revised  edition  of  Hector  Bcr]i()x'8 
"dramatic  legend"  'Faust,'  published  by 
Moasra.  Novello  Jt  Co.,  are  preHxetl  '  Hi.s- 
torical  Notes,'  Bijyned  F.  0.  Ivfwards.  From 
tlieae  one  learnsi  that  the  greater  part  of  the 
libretto  of  'Fau'jt'  was  written  by  the  com- 
poser himself.  Among  tlie  portions  so 
«pecified  is,  apparently,  "Scene  xix.  Pando- 
mooiutn,"  which  opens  with  a  '•  Choru.«  of 
Dovils  (in  snarling  tones)."  In  earlier  efHtion.s, 
bub  not  in  thi.4  of  Messrs.  Xovelln,  the 
"gibberish  '  which  follows  is  ascribed,  pre- 
sumably by  the  librettist,  to  Kruanuel  Sweden- 
bjrg.  He,  however,  hafl  boon  dead  for 
upwards  of  seventy  years  when  the  libretto 
first  appeared,  and  certainly  his  voluminous 
writing.s  will  be  searched  in  vain  for  auch 
stuff  or  for  any  sugnestion  of  it.  The  writer 
of  the  'Argument'  furnished  in  the  pro- 
gratume  of  the  performance  of  'Faust'  by 
the  Dulwich  Philharmonic  Society  at  the 
Crystal  Palace  on  \i  December,  15»0I{— F  nnto 
the  fact  with  pleasure— is  careful  to  inform 
tm  reader)*  that  this  "unearthlv  lanjiuaRe" 
11  "  wronj^ly  ttscribe<l  to  Swwlennorc. 

(hlABLBS   HlonAU. 

Lkonaroo  DA  Vinci  inMtlan*.— Tbrn. ..,!,. en 
biographers  of   Ijeonartlo,  after  I 
ruisiied  a-s  purely  ima(<;inary  his  tm  ,  le 

Eastj  have  nut  yet  been  able  to  till  up  tlic 
|iip  in  his  life-.9tory  between  1482  and  14s(7, 
hey  are,  however,  all  ajcreed  on  the  point 


ijiip  in  his  life-.9tory  between  1482  and  14s(7 
They  are,  iiowever,  all  ajcreed  on  the  r 
that  there  is  no  documentary    proof  forth- 
coming of  his  residence  in  Milan  before  14S7, 
•Itlionjurh  on<^  of  them,  Adolf  llosenbenr  to 
wii  'rai  testiraoniejj  by  oon- 

t^  tualce   it   probAble  that 

L  T.i   iive  Ht    Milan    not   later 

ti  'nardo    da    Vinci.'   lUelefeJd,    _ 

'  ■   .-     .j,,u,.,uijig  to   Eogoiio  Miintz,  doou- 1     AsimiMirl,  .l/bcnm// /*(></,  I  March.  1888. 


ment!)  in  the  archives  of  Milan  show  that 
the  painter  was  established  there  in  14H7, 
1490,  and  1402  ('  Leon,  da  Vinci,'  Euglisli 
edition.  1898,  i.  86). 

Mrs.  Ady  has  recently  suggested  ('  Beatrice 
d'  Este,'  London,  1899,  p.  136)  that  he 
wa«*  the  painter  referred  to,  but  not  named, 
in  the  Duke  of  Milan's  instruction  issued  to 
Matfei  of  Treviplio,  liis  amba.Ksador  going 
to  King  Matthias  Corvinus  of  Hungary,  in 
April,  148.'>.  In  order  not  to  run  any  risk  of 
infringing  any  copyrights  held  by  Signor 
Alcssandro  Luzio  and  Prof,  Itodolfo  Kenier, 
I  will  quote  the  pa.s.sago  in  question  in  its 
original  text  from  a  collection  published  by 
the  Hungarian  Aca<lemy  in  1877.  The  Duke 
of  Milan,  and  not  Lonovico  il  Moro,  states 
therein  that : — 

"pcrche  havemo  inteso,  che  la  Snn  Macftn  [the 
King  of  Hutipary]  so  delecta  nudto  •, 

pre.<!ertim.  one   liabino  in   se   qu  . 
rilroraiidoni.  dt  prtMiitt    ■■""    •'••'■■  .  .d 

i/ua/c  harendo  redtUo  ■  '  uno, 

nnti  cO'jiiOKff.jno pure,  ha\  ■  •  cpso 

piolore,  clie  ne  facia  uiiii  ti<;uia  •  mi 

ijuanto  belli  excelleiite  et  dcvota  1 
8en?ia  sparajjno  de  8peaa  alcnua,  i-i  .  ..  — ,i.  .nl 
lojtera  de  presents,  ue  facia  allro  iavnro  tinchc 
r  abia  lioita  la  ou.ile  ]ioi  mandaremo  ad  dunaro  nlla 
prefuta  Sua  Muesta.  Datum  Mcdiohini  die  13 
.\])rilic.  IIS.')."  —  '  Monninenta  Hung.  Hi.storica, 
Acta  Exl«ra.'  iii.  (on  British  Mu.'jcum  copy  vi.)44. 
Mrs.  Ady  is  probably  right  in  Iter  surmise 
tlint  the  painter  who  In  the  Duke  of  Milan's 
e.stimatiun  had  no  equal  wa;}  no  other  than 
Leonardo  da  Vinci.  The  passage  quoted 
above  has,  however,  hitherto  e-scaped  the 
notice  of  his  biographers.  L.  L.  K. 

C\uu— The  following  adverti.'sement  ap- 
peared in  the  (rloU  of  21  July,  lii03  ;— 

"Caiu,.  — Large  Male  Caul  for  Sale  :  noreasoimble 
offer  refused.— Address  Mrs.  !S.  Harris,  Bruadlautf, 
Urackncll,  Ikrks." 

Surely  the  name  -should  be  Gamp,  not 
Harris.  J-  T.  F. 

Wint«rlon,  Doncaalcr. 

Curious  CiiRisTtAN  Xamks  —No  collectioa 
of  the-se  having  lately  appeared  in  *N.  &  Q./ 
I  venture  to  send  a  few,  noted  at  varioua 
times  : — 

Abdiel,  Tinut,  23  June,  1882(0- 

Abeduego.     Authority  uncortain. 

Abiezer,  >  1 2  June,  1901. 

Adigani,  V,  17  ilurch,   1903,   p.  &, 

col.  7. 

Alm^vra,  Tlmts,  7  January,  1882. 

Aquila,  Tiiaff,  7  Fftbruary,  1h,S!J. 

Asunath,  borne  bv  a  [latient  in  the  (.^it'lton* 
h:'.'      "       ital,  and  ultio  found   iu  Siafulnirtt^ 


io«"  8.  L  jax.  9.  iflOL]  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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IBioD,  25  Jontf,  1804. — Authority  -ancertaiD. 
Oindiniuh.— Ditto. 
Cuckoo,  SUai'lnrd.  0  May,  1898. 
Cyfiibt'line,  Siarul/ird,  25  November,  1903. 
Darius,  Guurdiniu  2  J\i\y,  l^Sl, 
Demoutlierios,  7V/h/.»,  30  January,  1882. 
Dotiatilla,  Statulird,  -2  June,  1903. 
Dorinda  Casmndra,   Times^  12  February, 
805. 
Evacustes.   Siandni-d,  4  September,   1890, 
K  2.  col.  8  (foot). 
Gam,  7VW»,  G  January,  1882. 
Idonea,  J'imes,  l  February,  1882. 
Ju^urtha,  S(and<%rd,  t2  August,  1897,  and 
il  October,  1898. 

Kenaz.  Tim^s  9  August,  1898. 
Koreiiniippucli,  Tinu:s,  28  November,  1884. 
Lois,  ^fun^tv</  I\i»(.  I  March,  1888. 
Lv^an'IiT,  7'iiit<:$,  G  or  7  August,  IfMX). 
^fiirmiun    .<t,,nl,ird,  21  April,  19tXJ. 
Ni  I  as    having   been  born  at 

lea,  '  Kvho.  10  December,  19<33. 

Oriaim.  ,'>tiui'/Hid,  3  Xovernber,  1903. 
Othuiel,  between   ]4  and   19  May,  1894.— 
|Authority  uncertain. 

Pamela,  nfime  of  a  patient  at  the  Chelten- 
rham  Hospital. 

Parmenas,  borne  by  an  artisan  at  Ileabury, 
iristol. 
Phosphor,  Stamlai-'l,  29  June,  1903. 
Pualj.  — Autliority  uncertain. 
Venice,  Momiiuf  Post,  1  March,  1888. 
Zelpa,  Timis,  31  December,  1880, 
There  wa<  once  a  patient  in   the  Chelten- 
firim  1I.,.i..r  .1  with  the  name  of  Omega  ;  also 
i>f  Thennuthias.  I  liave  a. slight 
with  ft  lady,  one  of  whose  Chris- 
tian nanic-4  in  Alpha.   A  man  named  Deborah 
Haris    apf)eared    at    Worship  Street  Police 
Court,   8   November,   1894.     A  female  with 
the  name  of  Peter  is  noted  by  myself.    Also 
^'lialia  AppnarM  in  the  CImUmham  Fire  I'resi, 
lit  October,  1899.     But  Ohc  inm  m(i«  ! 

P.  J.   F.   OANTlI.r,nN. 

"AtntuBATivK."— I  see  this  word  is  not  in 
bhe'N.E.!).'  It  was  used  by  tlie  lato  Lord 
Sali-jbury  some  years  hack  in  a  public  speech 
with  refororico  to  the  hostile  tone  of  some  of 
,>ur  continental  critics.  I  have  not  got  the 
reference  b^-  me,  but  no  doubt  some  reader 
?an  "tupply  it.  A.  T.  K. 

"Tunseust":  "Ti\NNELi8M."— These  words 
>ccur  in  a  rare  tract  entitled  'Observations 
)n  the  Intended  Tuunel  beneath  the  River 
rimmes,'  by  Cliarlos  Clark,  F.S.A.  (Crave-s- 
>n<J,  1799).  Thoy  art5  to  l)0  found  in  the 
tolliiwing  exprcsiiona :  "the  lunnelist  and 
Ids  friends"  and  "a  eompleie  nystom  of 
tuuuflism."  L.  L.  K. 


CQutrirs. 

We  muut  re^inest  corrrspnnrlpnt'!  dc?irin»  in- 
formation on  family  nialt<'!  '■ceBt 
toatlix  titeir  D&iucs  anil  H'  riot, 
ia  order  thai  the  answers  in, ^>  ■  .  v..  lUem 
direct. 

St.  Buidget's  Boweii.— In  Speusur's  'Shop- 
heardH  Calender,  Julye,'  occur  the  lines 
(.17-44)  :— 

In  evill  houre  thou  hmtojit  in  liond 

Thiia  holy  \\\'.' 
For  siioreil  nil!  ikI, 

Anil  of  I  hern  i-, 

St.  Miuhfls  iMouiit  wiui  iJoes  not  know. 

That  waidfs  the  Weeturne  cosiu'' 
And  of  !St.  ISrigets  liowre,  I  trow, 
All  Kent  can  rightly  l>oa!ite. 

Where  is,  or  was,  St.  Briget's  Bowre  ?  From 
tho  context  it  was  evi(iently  a  hill  well 
known  to  all  Kent,  either  from  its  conspicuoua- 
ness  or  from  some  other  distinction.  For  the 
mere  fact  that  it  bore  the  name  of  a  saint 
would  hardly  ju-^itify  tho  statement  here 
made  of  it.  So  far  as  I  see,  no  editor  of 
Spenser  has  commented  on  the  name,  and 
some  distinguished  local  antiquaries  and  his- 
torians have  confessed  their  ignorance  of  the 
locality.  Is  the  name,  then,  quite  lost  ?  And 
if  so,  can  conjecture  adduce  any  hill  to 
which  the  name  St,  Bri^et's  Bowre  would 
be  for  any  reason  applicable  ,'  Bower  is,  of 
course,  not  necessarily  a  place  overarched 
with  shrubs  or  foliape  ;  the  word  has  also 
signiliod  a  cottage,  dwelling,  or  abode,  a 
lxK>th,  and  a  chamber.  But  it  would  seem 
to  follow  that  a  hill  so  named  must  have 
l>een  distinguishe<l  by  a  bower  of  some  kind 
dedicated  to  .St.  Bridget.  Perhaps  it  was  a 
ftacred  spot,  dismantled  or  abandoned  at  the 
Iteformation,  the  very  name  of  which  has 
since  been  forgotten,  although  it  was  evi- 
dently very  well  known  in  irj79.  But  in  this 
case  there  would  surely  be  other  references 
to  it,  in  sixteenth-century  or  earlierliterature 
or  records.  I  venture  to  ask  "all  Kent" to 
aid  in  the  iilentincation  of  the  locality,  but 
shall  be  satisfied  if  even  one  man  or  maid  of 
Kent  furnishes  a  certain  answer. 

J.  A.  H.  Murray. 

'  MEMOins  OK  A  SroMAcn.'  —  Does  any 
reader  know  the  authoi-ship  of  a  humorous 
little  book,  which  was  published  anonymously, 
1  tiunk,  about  forty-five  years  ago,  with  the 
title  "Memoirs  of  a  Stomach.  Edited  by  a 
Minister  of  the  Interior"?  It  is  brought  to 
mind  by  the  fact  that,  in  tho  pantoniijno 
at  Drury  Lane,  tho  king's  cook  is  called 
"Minister  of  the  Interior '^as  well  as  "Little 
Mary,"  a  very  obvious  association. 

W.  It.  G. 


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•WoKKE  FOR  Cdtlees.' — *  Wofke  for  Cut- 
lers -J  or,  a  Merry  Dt&logue  betweene  Sword, 
Bapier,  and  Dagger,'  first  acted  "in  Shew  in 
the  faruoua  Vniuersitie  of  Cambridge,"  and 
reacted  on  23  July,  1903,  at  Trinity  Hall, 
Caaibridge,  is  being  given  once  more  at  the 
Hall  of  Gray's  Inn  on  the  7th  inst.  Is  there 
any  programme  of  the  performance  of  this 
or  any  similar  work  in  Cambridge  or  else- 
where 1  A.    FOKBES  SlKVEKING.   F.S.A. 

Eabliest  Playbill.— Can  any  one  tell  me 
if  there  is  an  earlier  playbill  (or  announce- 
tnont  of  any  form  of  isnow)  in  existence  than 
that  of  1708— the  date  of  the  earliest  play- 
bill at  the  British  Museura  ?  I  want  one  to 
serve  as  a  model  for  the  programme  of  the 
reproduction  of  a  play  of  1015. 

A.    FOEBES  SlEVEKINO,  F.8.A. 

SlE  John  Vaughan,  Knt.,  P.C,  went  to 
Ireland  and  had  lands  granted  to  him  a.v. 
1600.  Was  Governor  oi  Londonderry  a.v. 
KJOl-43.  His  only  daughter  married  the 
Hon.  Sir  Frederick  Hamilton,  son  of  Lord 
I'aisley  by  the  Hon.  Margaret  Seton.  Can 
anybody  tell  me  his  origin  and  the  names  of 
his  father,  mother,  and  wife? 

H.  S.  Vade-Walpole. 

101,  Lesham  Gardens,  KeiuiDgtoD,  \V. 

Obht  Sunday.— I  cull  the  following  from 
the  Dailij  Mail  of  5  October,  1903  :— 

"  The  quaint  end  ancient  ceremony  ordered  to 
be  observed  upon  the  occasion  of  Obiit  Sunday  by 
ITenry  VII..  Edward  VI.,  Quoen  EliKabeth,  and 
Charlea  II.  at  St.  tieor^'s  Chajjel,  Windsor  Castle, 
look  place  at  the  morning  aervice  yesterday.  The 
clergy,  military  knights,  and  choir  w&licocf  in  pro- 
cession through  the  nave,  and  entered  the  choir  by 
the  beautifully  carved  foldinp;  doors  nndoraeatii  the 
organ  gallery,  bishop  Barry  delivered  an  int^resb- 
itiK  statement  as  lo  the  royal  founders  and  other 
belief Actora.  The  Dean  of  V'indsor  also  preached 
u  special  sonnon/' 

Farther  information  respecting  the  origin  of 
this  ceremony,  of  which  I  can  find  no  account 
in  *N.  &  Q.,'  will  »>e  thankfully  received. 
Evekakd  Home  Coleman. 
71,  Brecknock  Rond. 

CHAUCER8  Tomb  ix  WESTMiNatER  Abbey. 
—On  the  authority  of  the  inscription  on  this 
tomb,  and  of  Stow's  'Survey,'  Pjt8,  and  Ant. 
Wood,  we  have  always  given  the  credit  of  its 
erection  or  restoration  to  Nicholas  Brigliam  ; 
but  a  contemporary  of  his,  writing  lato  in 
C^ueen  Elizabeth's  reign,  the  Rev.  Robert 
^'  I     1613),    savs     that    one 

"  •>;"  wrote  the  Latin  epi- 

^•pn  lub,  and  got  the  "tumulus" 

yS^^-'  leptttnted.    See  the  Egerton 

-MS  j?tw^.  tv  L'j3,    C-aij  any  one  tell  mo  who 


this  Hickeraan  was?  None  of  the  Hickmnns 
in  the  series  of  Domestic  State  Papers  and 
Privy  Council  Records  or  in  Hennessy  seems 
to  fit  him.  In  one  point  Coramaunder's  text 
of  the  epitaph  is  better  than  Rrigham's,  as 
given  by  Skeat,  'Chaucer's  Works,'  i.  xlvii, 
for  1400  is  clearly  the  date  viortu  of  the  poet, 
and  not  his  vit(f.  ('ommaun«ler  has  also  the 
two  Latin  lines  by  Surigonius  of  Milan  : — 

"Canmina  Rpitapbica  magistri  Hickenian,  Audi* 
toris,   conii>osila  Anno    doraini    ]5im,  in    Laudem 
GalJridi  Chaucer,  que  dciuio  auper  i|:«iu8  Tuinulum 
renovari  fecit  et  Iiiscribi   in   Mooasterio  weslmo- 
naateriensi,    et    ipsum    Tumulum    suis    Expeoals 
decorari  et  repingi  procuravit. 
Qui  fuit  Antflorum  Vatea  tcr  maximus  olim, 
<  ialfridus  Chaucer  conditur  hoc  Tumulo: 
Annum  in  queras  Domini,  Hi  tempora  mortis, 
Ecce  Note  subsuut,  que  tibi  cuncta  notent. 
2.1  Octobris,  Anno  1400. 
CialfriduB  Chaucer,  Vatea  et  Fania  I'oesis 
Maternn",  hue  sacra  sum  tumulatns  Humo." 

N,  Brigham  was  a  "  teller "  of  the  Ex- 
chequer, which  would  be  an  ''  auditor,"  I 
suppose.  This  helps  us  to  believe  that  he 
did  not  wrongfully  take  the  credit  of  Hick- 
man's verses  and  pious  act. 

F.  J.   FURNIVALL, 

(See  the  articles  iu  the  Alhttutum  of  0  and 
m  August  and  23  October,  1902.] 

Statue  by  Jobs  ok  Bologna.— I  have  a 
pocket-book  of  1704  which  has  notes  in  it 
in  the  handwriting  of  Dr.  Harbin.  Among 
them  is  the  following  : — 

"  The  Cain  k  Abel  on  y''  Btaircase  at  Buckingham 
house  was  made  by  John  de  Bologna,  a  scwlplor  of 
the  2^  clas.s.  It  formerly  belonged  to  the  old  Duke 
of  Buckingham  &  was  bought  by  the  present  Duke 
some  years  ns;o  for  500/.  It  is  worth  l,O0(V.  aa 
Cavahcr  David  has  assured  me." 

Where  is  this  statue  now  ?  E.  M. 

"Collection EH."  —  In  some  of  tlio  old 
parish  registers  in  East  Anglia  one  some- 
times meets  with  the  foregoing  term,  and 
our  best  dictionaries  throw  no  light  on  it. 
It  occurs  generally  in  the  portion  allotted 
to  deaths,  after  some  aged  person's  name. 
Am  I  correct  in  assuming  the  deceased 
derived  benefit  from  the  church  collection  1 
or  doe«  it  refer  to  one  we  should  now  term 
&  sideaman— cue  vho  assists  in  taking  the 
collection?  Wm.  Jaogajso. 

^Iary  Stuakt.  —  I  should  be  greatly 
obliged  if  any  of  your  readers  coaid  give 
mo  information  about  the  bust  of  lilary 
Stuart  which  is  now  in  the  Louvre.  I^  it, 
for  instance,  supposed  to  be  authcntici  and 
by  whom  was  it  executed  ? 

Another  thing  which  hafi  puzzled  a  fwod 
many  ia,  When  was  the  cap  with  wired  laco 


r 
I 


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edgiog  euiopted  &h  part  of  her  costame  ?  and 
did  sTie  wear  it  in  Scotland  I  Ono  more 
cjae^tion.  On  what  authority  is  it  said  that 
she  was  painted  by  Peter  Pourbus  ?  Are 
any  examples  of  her  portrait  by  this  artist 
known  to  exist  in  this  country  ? 

H.  H,  Craavley. 
I    Stowe-nine-Churches  Rectory,  Weedon. 

"Heaedloxie  " :  "  Heech."— A  Court  I?oll 
oFan  Oxfordshire  manor,  dated  in  IG04.  con- 
tains the  following  regulation  or  order  : — 

"Item.  Yt  ys  ordered  in  lyke  niannor  that  no 
man  within  the  Manoor  shall  putt  or  suffer  to  go« 
into  any  parte  of  the  feylde  any  calfea  uiitill 
Lammas,  and  then  there  the  calfes  to  be  kept  with 
the  heard  amonge  the  heardlome  of  beaso  until 
harvest  be  in,  uf)oii  penaliie  to  forfeyt  to  the  lord 
for  ever}'  one  which  shall  herein  offend  for  every 
default,  vjV/.' 

Can  any  reader  of  'N.  it  Q.'  kindly  explain 
the  meaning  of  "heardlome  of  bease"? 
"Bea-se"  signifies,  no  doubt,  "beaats":  but 
can  "  heardlome"  mean  lamb  pens  or  folds  1 

Another  order  in  the  same  Court  Roll 
refers  to  "  land  in  the  new  heech."  What  is 
"heech  "?  EoMcrjn)  T.  Bewlev. 

Picture  op  Kxight  in  Aumouk.— At  the 
I'  Duke's  Head  Hotel,"  Ham  Street,  Kent,  I 
'  ave  found  a  small  panel  on  copper,  very 
iuch  in  the  stylo  of  Antonio  Moro's  '  Tailor ' 
in  the  National  Gallery,  representing  a 
bearded,  middle-aged  man  in  armour  and 
cloak,  with  a  ruff",  somewhat  high,  and  wear- 
ing both  round  hLa  neck— by  a  gold  chain  (i) 
—and  embroidered  on  his  black  cloak  a  red 
Maltese  cross  outlined  with  a  single  gold 
thread  or  fillet.  What  order  of  knighthuod 
■would  thin  be?  and  who  is  the  probable 
artist?  The  picture  was  bought  by  the  land- 
lord some  years  ago  at  a  village  sale  from  an 
old  native  of  Ham  Street,  in  whose  possession 
it  had  been  for  some  time.  H. 

Henry  Frbderick  .ind  Walter  Lockbabt 

Holt. — The  former  gentleman    appears   to 

posses,sed   a  considerable  collection  of 

^lics  of  Gustavus  Adolphus    and    kindred 

Jatters.     He  died  at  King's  Road,  Clapham 

Park,  on  l'>  April,  1071.     He  apparently  had 

brother  Walter  Lockhart  Holt.     Is  any- 

ling  known  of  the  latter  1 

T.  Cann  Hughes,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Persian  Paintings.— I  have  lately  come 
ito  possession  of  two  Persian  paintings,  the 
le  representing  the  portrait  of  a  man,  the 
"ler  of  two  women.  'Thero  is  an  inscription 
I  each  picture,  which  has  been  translated 
as  follows— over  tlio  man,  '*Ali  Adil 
the  Leaser " ;  over  the  two  women, 
»oa  Bonti  Haroun."    Can  any  of  your 


readers  give  me  any  particulars  about  the 

Fersonages  named  1  lliere  was  an  AH  Adil, 
know,  who  succeeded  his  uncle  Nadir  as 
Shah  of  Persia  in  1747;  but  would  he  be 
referred  to  as  "the  Lesser"?  and  if  not,  who 
was  the  man  whose  portrait  I  have  ?  1  should 
greatly  value  any  information  whatever  about 
nim  and  about  the  queens.  R.  M.  L. 

Penrith. — May  I  ask  where  was  Penrith, 
mentioned  as  a  suffragan  see  in  the  Act  or 
Henry  VIII.  (I  think  it  is  spelt  Pen  ret  he)? 
Also  where  is  the  town  of  Pereth  in  the  same 
Act?  John  Bird  was  consecrated  Bishop  of 
Penrith  by  Archbishop  Cranmer. 

W.  S.  Lach-Szyrma. 

Barkingside  Vicarage. 

[Penrith  is  still  prononnced  Perith  in  the  North. 
See  a""  8.  xj.  32».  411,  471 ;  xii.  7aJ 

Queen  Helena. — Has  any  Queen  Helen 
entererl  London  since  the  age  of  the  Empress 
Helena  (mother  of  Constantine  the  Great» 
who  probably  was  here)  until  Helena,  Queen 
of  Italy,  passed  in  state  to  the  Guildhall  in 
1903?  It  is  said  the  Empress  Helena  was 
also  a  Dalmatian  (in  spite  of  the  British 
legend  of  her  being  daughter  of  King  Coel  of 
Colchester).  If  so,  the  coincidence  is  singular, 
for  Queen  Helena  is  a  Montanigrene,  bora 
near  Dalmatia.  W.  S.  Lach-Szyrma. 

Setting  of  Precious  Stones.  — In  Ben 
Jonson's  '  The  Devil  is  an  Ass,' acted  first,  I 
think,  in  1616,  the  goldsmith,  Gilthead, 
speaking  of  a  precious  stone,  says,  '"  He 's  set 
without  a  foil  too."  Jewels  set,  as  it  is  called, 
a  jour  (that  isi,  without  a  back  or  foil)  were 
not,  I  believe,  common  before  the  end  of  the 
eighteenth  century  ;  but  I  should  bo  glad  to 
be  enlightened  on  the  subject  by  any  of  the 
readers  of  'N.  <k  Q.'  who  are  learned  in  the 
matter.  Burohclere. 

Japanese  Cards.- In  which  of  the  in- 
numerable works  on  Japan  can  I  find 
described  the  various  kinds  of  Japanese  play- 
ing cards?  I  have  a  pack  of  forty-eight 
cards,  which,  I  understand,  consists  of  twelve 
suits  (four  cards  each)  representing  the 
months  of  the  year.  Tney  appear  to  bear 
the  following  emblems:  (1) pines  and  a  stork, 
(2)  plum  blossom  and  some  bird,  (3)  cherry- 
blossom  and  a  curtain,  (4)  wistaria  and  a 
cuckoo,  (a)  flags,  (6)  peonies  and  a  butterfly, 
(7)  clover  and  a  boar,  (8)  eularia,  geese,  the 
moon,  (9)  chrysanthemum  and  a  cup,  (lu; 
maple-leaves  and  a  deer.  (11)  rain,  a  8wa"ow, 
a  willow,  a  frog,  a  man  with  an  umbrella, 
(12)  paullownia  and  the  phcenix. 

*  jAMKa  Platt,  Jan. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         im  b.  i,  j^^.  ».  im. 


GRENADIER  GUARDS. 

(Q"*  «.  xii.  4S4.) 

With  the  exception  of  tlie  recently  raiae'l 
regiment  of  Irish  Guartls,  there  is  hardly  a 
regiment  in  the  British  service  which  owes  its 
present  designation  to  thedate  of  its  inception, 
therefore  there  is  nothing  r?xtraorditiAry  in 
the  fact  of  the  Grenadier  Guards  receiving 
such  a  title  from  the  Royunt  on  2S>  July,  lyl5, 
as  a  reward  for  their  defeat  of  tiie  Grenadiers 
of  the  French  Imf)erial  Guards  at  Waterloo. 

The  present  Grenadier  Guards  talfo  pre- 
cedence in  our  army,  as  a  regiment,  since 
1660.  when  a  standing  force  was  originated 
after  the  Restoration,  and  has  remained 
under  the  same  constitution  ever  sinco. 
Cliarlcs  11.,  in  consequence  of  the  "Fifth 
Monarchy  "  outhreak,  issued  an  order  for  a 
new  regiment  to  be  raised  (all  the  Cromwellian 
troops  having  been  disbanded  by  Act  of 
Parliament),  which  consisted  of  twelve  com- 
panies of  100  men  each,  and  was  de'iipnated 
"the  King's  Regiment  of  Foot  Guards,"  the 
king  himself  being  its  first  colonel.  It  was 
subsequently  known  as  the  1st  Foot  Guards 
until  181.5,  when  it  received,  as  already  stated, 
its  title  of  1st  or  Grenadier  Regiment  of  Foot 
Guards,  now  shorteneri  to  Grenadier  Guards. 
As  a  matter  of  fact,  Charles  had  raised  a 
regiment  in  Flanders  in  165G,  known  as 
the  Royal  Regiment  of  Guards,  under  the 
colonelcy  of  Lord  Wentworth.  Althougli 
this  regiment  was  dislianded  through  in- 
ability t<j  maintain  it,  most  of  tiioso  who  had 
served  were  enrolled  in  another  regiment 
rained  and  commande<l  by  C;ol.  John  Russell, 
which  evetituully  became  absorbed  into  the 
King's  Regiment  of  Foca  Guards. 

The  grenade,  a-s  a  weapon  of  war,  was  in- 
vented at  Granada  in  10y4.  and  the  soldiers 
who  carried  and  threw  these  missiles  were 
termed  grenadiers.  They  were  not  intro 
duced  into  our  army;  until  1677.  when  a  num- 
ber of  pickrd  men  in  each  regiment  were  so 
armetl,  and  termed  the  1st  or  Grenadier 
Company.  The  Guards  and  all  oilier  regi 
inents  had  such  companies,  and  later  on,  in 
ICal,  the  Horse  (irenafiier  Guards  were 
ruise<l.  From  Evt'Jyn's  •  Diary,"  under  date 
Sa  June,  1678.  I  extract  the  following  :— 

:-^ ' '■    ■  ..f 

so: 
fill 

Ti,- 

jWli    .wi,,^    ,,.„,.,-    i.-.iimu;;    U..VI1    liCUlIHI,    ,ll     VV  t>   ]  Hi' [  U  (  I" 

loU,  thmr  cloUnug    likewise   pioUija  —  irj    and 


In  Saodford'a  'History  of  tho  Coronation 
of  James  II.'  the  costume  of  a  grenadier  is 
dcscribe<l,  showing  that  ho  wore  the  conical 
cap,  and  that.,  in  addition  to  a  carbine  and 
cnrtouch-box,  he  carried  a  grenade  pouch,  a 
sword,  a  hammer,  and  a  hatchet. 

There  is  a  plate  in  the  Archffologioxl 
Jouifuil  showing  a  grenadier  preparing  to 
tlirow  the  grenade.  The  plate  depicU  a 
soldier  of  174.">,  and  as  the  grenade  is  held 
in  the  hand,  it  would  seem  that,  after  all,  the 
manual  projection  of  tho  missile  was  found 
as  reliable  as  the  mortar,  and  it  wa.s  doubt 
less  more  convenient.  The  soldier  holds  the 
grenade  as  though  he  were  about  to  throw 
an  overhand  ball  at  cricket. 

Although  hand  grenades  were  long  ago 
abolished  from  the  army,  great  use  was  maao 
of  them  during  the  siege  of  Mafeking. 

Whilst  on  the  subject  of  the  Guards,  it  is  i 
as  well  to  note  that  although  the  Cold^treamsl 
come  next  in   seniority  to  the  Grenadiers,! 
their  origin  is  actually  older  than  that  of  th»j 
latter  regiment.,  for  whilst  in  the  act  of  beinf 
disbanded  under  Monk,  they  were  broughtij 
into  the  army  establishment  as   the  Cold- 
stream Regiment  of  Foot  Guards.    The  fol- 
lowing anecdote  shows  why    ihey   retained 
their  name  of  Coldstreau).     Afior  the   Re- 
storation the  three  regiment-s  of  Guards  were 
assembled  on  Tower  Hill  to  take  the  oatli 
of  allfgiauce,  and  .as  a  sigti  of  repudiutioti  of 
the  Comraonweallh  they  were  ordered  to  layj 
down  their  arms.     Having  obeyed  tliis  ordeB 
witli  alacrity,  they  were  tnen  cofrtmaddod  by' 
the  king  to  take  them  up  in  his  scivioe  as 
the  first,  second,  and  third  regiments  of  Foot 
Guards.     The   hrst  and    thinl   did    so.  with 
cheers,   but  the  second   slodd   firm.     ''Why 
does  your  regiment  liesiiale?"  inquired  the 

kilif  iif  fi'ctrciiil   Monk.      *'  W:w  ir   tilraM-  Viiuf 

M  M.'  stern  "' 

"  1 1  <  are  youi  ' 

servants,  but  after  tlie  wrvicts  they  have 
rendered  your  Highness,  they  cannot  consent 
to  bo  frrnml  to  any  regiment."  "They  aro 
right,"»aid  the  king,  "and  tliey  shall  l»e  nccuntl 
U>  none.  Let  them  lake  up  arnix  as  my  Cold- 
stream Ri'uiinent  of  Foot  Guards."  These 
w..i  '     '     '  '      ■•'  rt  :  the  arms  were 

rtn  -if  '"Long  live  the 

kiny  .^iiiLf  111.11  iiiiif  the  motto  of  the 
regiment  lias  iM'en  "NuUi  secundus." 

The  Scots  Guards,  so  n  -        '   *■ "'d 

in  Scotland   under  the  c*'  I 

of  Linlithgow  in  iuti2.  aiii  ..i.^, .^..ly 

five  companies.    In   l"l.'l  they  wen;  known 

as   the  3rd    Rpgintent  of    Fnut  Guards.     In 

1831    the  rrginieni  was  di-tignaled  the  Scot« 

I  Fusilier  Guards ;   and  it   wa^  only  a  short 


1()«* S.  I,  Jis.  9, 19M.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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iimr'  - •  -n  to  the  dei\ih  of  Queen  Victoria 

jllia  'lefl  t<i  them  iheir  original  narnc 

|of  iJc^,T  v.^..»icls.  TuoRNE  Geoeoe. 

Briti(»h  Grenadiers  date  from  1677,  first  as  a 
Ifow  specially  trained  men,  and  immwiiatelv 
fiifterwards    as    a   wliole  company,   in  eacn 
]  regiment.     Evelyn    mentions    having    seen 
«omo  of  thorn  at  the  camp  at  Hounslow  in 
1678.     A  regi?nentftl  drinking  song  of  some 
[•dozen  stanzas,  date<l  IGSl,  commemorates  ihe 
[heroic  deeds  of  the  Grenadier  Company  of 
.the  First  Royals— "the  brave  Granadeeis," 
*' the  brave  Scottish  boys."    Chappell.  in  hi* 
I' National  Airs,'  says  that  the  march  known 
I&8  '  The  Briti.sh  Grenadiers  '  is  two  hundred 
J  years  old.     A  veiy  rare  book  is  'The  Grena- 
dier's Exercise  of  the  Grenado  in  H.M.  First 
[llBgimeutof  Foot  Guards,' 174.">.         W.  S. 

It  would  bo  easy  to  infer  from  Mr.  North's 
remarks  tliat  the  name  of  "grenadier"  as 
applie*]  to  ihone  soldiers  of  the  line  who 
practised  the  use  of  the  hand-grenade  was 
unknown  until  1815.  Before  this,  however,  it 
was  generally  customary  for  ever-j'  battalion 
of  foot  to  possess  a  company  of  Grenadiers, 
who  were  first  known  in  the  Briti.sh  service 
in  1065,  and  first  instituted  in  France  in  16(i7, 
where  four  or  tive  only  were  allotted  to  each 
U'ompanv.  (See  Ch.  James's  'Military  Diet.,' 
1181<>.)  In  the  Fl-VeX/y  Jounud  of  29  January, 
1 1722,  is  the  announcement  that  "  the  Grena- 
fdiers  of  the  Army  in  Hide-Park  are  before 
their  decamping  to  perform  an  Exercise  of 
throwing  llami-Orenadoes,  Ac,  before  hi? 
Majesty."  There  were  two  troops  of  Horse 
Grenadier  Guards  in  England,  the  first  being 
raised  in  H193,  find  the  command  given  to 
Lieut.-GeneralCliolmonileley  ;  and  the  second 
in  1701,  commntkded  by  Lord  Forbes.  Horse 
Grenadiers  were  first  established  in  France 
by  Louis  XIV.  in  1676,  and  formed  inl«) 
squadrons. 

*' ^  V  the  scvcrftl  Troops  of  Horse  and 

Hoi-  t  <itiard8,  itifftnifi'd  in  Hyde  Park, 

wen"  iiri^lL'i- li.  ■— If      ''       '  :'    ■-■'     '    ;.-,  17-J. 

"We  hear   tli.it   ■  it    twenty 

licutluiiieii  of  ill''  ^  !  :         !  »t)  Grena- 

r  diets,  have  !•  .I'd  on  Atcuuut  of  their 

IA^a,  or  being  ■,  or  some  such  Reasons, 

■'   -   •    for  di >;ini<  1 1..II    to    the   <'   ■    ^ -,t,  or 

iiors;  and  that  ik  certain  :  mey 

■  id  for  eath  of  them  aa  ii  >  tjon  ; 

iiovvcvcr  onfi  of  t hoses  <!en tie rii en  shot  liiiusfalf  that 
[••vcning."— /fc«/,  22  Oot.,  1723. 

J.    HOLDKN   MacMiCIIAEL. 


Ml'NpT  (a"'  S.  xii.  4S5).-Sir  John  Mundy, 
[|;oldsmitti,  of  London,  was  Lord  Mayor 
iin  the  years  1.V22-3.  Ho  is  statcil^  to 
ilmvn  been  a  son  of  Sir  John  Mundy,  Knt., 


I 


by  his  wife  Isabel,  daughter  of  John  Ripes, 
Alderman ;  but  pedigrees  and  hi^toiianw 
alike  difTer  with  regartl  to  his  parentage.  Ho 
married  firstly  a  wife  ilargaret,  who  wat 
buried  in  St.  Peter's,  Cheapsido,  and  by 
whom  he  ha<J  one  daughter,  ^largaret,  wh 
married  Nicholas  Jenuyngs  in  1026.  and 
afterwards  became  the  wife  of  Lord  Edniand ' 
Howard,  ilarsiial  of  Horse  in  the  battle  of 
Flodden,  a  son  of  Thomas,  second  Duke  of 
Norf  oik,  and  father(by  his  wife  Joy  ce,daugbter 
of  Richard  Oolepeppor)  of  Queen  t'atharino 
Howard.  Sir  John  Mundv  married  sonondly, 
before  1.514,  .lulyan.  daughter  of  Sir  William 
IJrowne,  Lord  Mayor  1513-1 1,  by  his  first 
wife  Katherine.  daughter  of  Sir  Edmund 
Shaw,  Lord  ^layor  11S2-3,  and  by  this 
marriage  he  liad  several  children.  Having 
been  knighted  at  Whitehall  in  i:i29.  Sir  Joha 
Mundy  died  in  l.'»37,  and  his  will  (proved 
P.C.C.  in  the  .same  year)  contains  many 
genealogical  data.  In  it  he  mentions  his 
children  Vincent,  John,  Nicholas,  William, 
Mildred,  Anne,  Elizabeth,  and  "Marceret 
Hawarde"  hi.^  daughter.  Bv  codicil,  dated 
a  month  later  than  the  will,  he  a|)()oint3 
"  ray  lorde  of  Norfl'"  to  be  overseer  to  his 
daughter  "Anne  Darcy  and  her  husband 
Thomas  Darcy,  an<l  to  Anthonye  Darcv, 
father  of  the  said  Thomas,  and  to  the  child 
that  the  said  Anne  is  conceived  w"'."  ■ 

Dame  Julyan  Mundy,  widow  of  the  Lord'fl 
Mayor,  died  in   the  same  year,    1537,  and, 
together  with  her  husband  and  his  first  wife, 
was  buried  at  "St.  Peter's  in  Cliepe."    Her 
will  (proved  1537,  P.C.C.)  is  valuable  genea- 
logical evidence.    Of  Sir  John  Mundy's  sons, 
Vincent  (will  proved  P.C.C.  1573  ;  slain  by 
one  f»f   his  own   children,   according   to  all  _ 
r>edigreos)    wuoceeded     to    the    property    offl 
^larkeaton,  co.  Derby,   which  ha';  remained  ■ 
in  the  family  from  tho  year  151(J  until  the 
present  day.    Thomas  was  Prior  of  Bodmin 
(will   proved  P.C.C.  1554},  and   is   probably 
identical   with   tho  "Thomas  Monndate"  of 
Wriothesley's  Chronicle,  who  was  condemned , 
to  death  for  having  preserved  as  a  relic  and 
conveyed  across  the  water  tho  left  arm  of] 
John    Houghton,    who    suffered    death    forj 
treason,  denying  the  king's  supremacy.     Of] 
the  remaining  sons  of  the  Lord  Mayor  littlaj 
has  been  a.soertained.     Anne   and   Elizabeth 
married  respectively  Thomas  iJarcy  of  ToUea-j 
hunt  (second    wife)  and  Sir  John  (!)  Tyrrell 
of  Heron.     T1)0    Lord   Mayor's  nauio  ^^"  "^ 
several    times    in    the   Calon.lar'*   "f   '"  ;    ' 


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brother  to  Sir  John  Mundy,  was  likewise  a 
Boldsmith,  and  married  a  wife  Elizabeth. 
By  will  dated  1562  (proved  P.U.C.  1562)  he 
left  to  his  son  Nicholas  "  my  gowne  faced 
with  budge  [badger  ?]  and  furred  with  lambe." 
He  refers  to  his  other  son  John,  and  daugh- 
ters Margery  and  Elizabeth. 

No  connexion  is  claimed  in  any  family 
pedigrees  between  Anthony  Munday,  drama- 
tist, and  the  Mundys  of  Derbyshire. 

Peecy  Dhyden  Mundy. 

Hove.  Sauex. 

[Mr.  E.  H.  Colemak.  Dr.  Forsuaw,  and  Mb. 
W.  I).  Pink  are  thauked  for  abort  replies.] 

"  A   GALLANT   CAPTAIN,"  ic.   (O""  S.  XU.  506). 

— The  reference  is  to  the  third  verse  of  the 
'Elegy  on  the  Death  of  Jean  Bon  St.  Andr<5' 
in  the'  well-known  Anti-Jacobin.  The  correct 
quotation  is  as  under  ; — 

Poor  Johu  was  &  gallant  captain, 
In  battles  much  delighting ; 
He  fled  full  soon 
On  the  first  of  June— 
But  he  bade  the  rest  keep  iif;htiug. 

A  note  to  the  edition,  by  Charles  Edmoudu 
n85l)j  of  the  poetry  in  that  work,  states  that, 
'having  been    appointed    [by    the    French 


Government]  to  remodel  the  Republican  navy, 
he  was  present  at  the  action  or  1  June,  1794, 
in  which  he  showed  excessive  cowardice." 

G.  E.  C. 
pklR.  A.  K.  Malden  and  Mr.  A.  F.  Rosbinh  also 
supply  the  reference  to  the  AiUi- Jacobin] 

LONC,  Lease  (9"'  S.  xii.  Sri,  134,  193,  234, 
449,  613). — An  old  liouse  at  the  corner  of 
North  Street  and  Taprell's  Lane  (Lostwithiel, 
Cornwall)  bears  a  granite  tablet  with  this 
inscription  :  "Walter Kendall, of  Lostwithiel, 
was  founder  of  this  house  in  1638,  hath  a 
lease  for  three  thousand  years,  which  hath 
beginning  the  29th  of  September,  Anno  1632." 

R,   BAm'LAY-ALLARDKE. 
Lostwithiel. 

Robin  a  Bobbin  (9""  S.  xii.  503).— I  sent  a 
note  on  this  rime  several  years  .since,  but  it 
never  appeared.  My  maternal  grandmother 
—a  very  old  woman — used  to  sing  it  to  us 
children  sixty  years  ago.  Her  version  differed 
from  Mr.  Ratcliffe's,  but  I  remember  dis- 
tinctly the  first  verse  only.     It  ran  : — 

Let 's  go  a-huntiog.  says  Robin  to  Bobbin  • 

Lot's  Ro  a-hunting,  aays  Richard  to  Robin  ; 

Lot's  KO  a-hunliDg.  says  Little  .John  ; 

Let 's  go  a-hunting,  mya  every  one. 

The  mention  of  Little  John  is  particularly 
interesting.  C,  C.  B. 

Medical  Barristees  (9"'  S.  xii.  486).— Dr. 
George  Eugene  Yarrow  (an  uncle  of  mine). 


who  died  on  S.")  November  last,  in  his  sixty- 
ninth  year,  was  not  only  a  well  -  known 
medical  man,  holding  epv^^r  .1  miblic  appoint- 
ments, but  wa.s  also  a  Im  -law,  being  a 
member  of  the  Honour.  luty  of  Gray's 
Inn.  For  several  years  he  held  the  judicial 
office  of  Deputy  -  Coroner  for  the  Nortb- 
Eastern  Division  of  the  County  of  London. 
G.  Yaruow  Baldock. 
South  Hackney. 

In  Ireland,  at  the  close  of  the  eighteenth 
century,  one  of  the  Ignited  Irish  leaders, 
T.  A.  Emmet,  was  first  a  ph  vsician  and  after- 
wards a  hamster.  See  Mauden's  '  Lives  and 
Times  of  the  United  Irishmen,'  vol.  iii.  pp.28, 
32,  33,  34.  FraNcesca. 

iMB.  Atkiksok  in  his  query  implies  that  Mr. 
ward  Pollock  is  no  longer  living.  8uch  is  not 
the  case,  and  we  regret  that  we  were  unable  to 
correct  our  correspondent.  ] 

RiCHABD  Nash  (9""  S.  xi.  445  ;  xii.  15,  lie, 
13.5,  272,  335, 392,  493).— I  regret  ray  failure  to 
understand  the  drift  of  Mb.  Anthony 
Tuckee'.s  letter.  The  point  at  issue  was 
whether  a  statue  or  a  picture  was  erected  in 
Nash's  honour  in  the  Pump  Room  at  Bath. 
Goldsmith,  in  the  first  edition  of  his  'Life,* 
stated  that  a  statue  was  placed  in  the  Pump 
Iloom  between  the  busts  of  Newton  and 
Pope.  In  the  second  edition,  in  which  the 
errors  of  the  first  were  corrected,  he  stated 
that  a  picture  of  Nash  was  placed  in 
Wiltshire's  Ballroom,  between  the  busts  of 
Newton  and  Pope,  while  the  statue  was 
erected  in  the  Pump  Room.  This  point,  there- 
fore, may  be  considered  settle*!.  Mr.  Tucker 
says  that  six  verses  of  a  poem  by  Jane 
Brereton  were  published  in  1744,  the  last  verse 
being  "similar  to  both  versions  of  the  last 
verse  of  the  epigram  in  Goldsmith's  first  and 
second  editions."  Now  as  Goldsmith's  first 
edition  named  a  statue,  and  the  second  edition 
a  picture,  it  is  difficult  to  see  how  a  third 
versiim  could  be  "similar"  to  both  these 
versions,  which  varj'  in  an  essential  point. 
But  I  shall  be  grateful  if  Mr.  Tucker  can 
throw  more  light  either  on  the  picture  or  the 
epigram.  As  1  am  shortly  leaving  England 
for  some  months,  I  am  unable  to  look  into 
this  question  myself.  W.  F.  Prideaux. 

"  The  Consul  of  God  "  (9'^  S.  xii.  hiW>).— 
Thin  occurs  in  the  last  two  lines  of  the  epitaph 
on  Gregory  the  Great  and  refers  to  him  ;  — 
His(|uc  Dei  Consul  factus  liBtare  trinmi>hia  : 
Nam  mercedeni  operurn  jam  sine  fine  tenea. 

The  epitaph  is  given  by  Bede,  whose  'His- 
tory' ends  with  731.  In  729  Gregory,  who 
had  been  buried  in  the  atrium  of  St^  Peter's, 
was  translated  within  the  church,  and  pes- 


io^s.lja.v.9.i904.)  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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aibJy  the  epitaph  belongs  to  that  time.  But 
Gregoroviu8  ('  IJome  in  the  Middle  Ages,'  ii. 
99  note,  Eng.  trans)  says  :  "A  g(x>d  inscrip- 
tion was  later  place<l  in  his  honour.  This 
waa  composed  by  Petrus  Oldradus,  Arch- 
bishop of  Milan  and  Secretary  of  Adrian  I." 
Adrian  w&s  Pope  772-95,  and  therefore  the 
epitaph  (or  inscription  —  assuoiing  their 
identity),  if  composed  by  Oldradus,  must 
have  been  written  by  him  whilst  quite  a 
youog  ecclesiastic.  Perhaps  some  reader  of 
N.  &  Q.'  can  say  what  Oldradus  was  doing 
about  730.  C.  S.  Ward. 

"CONSTANTKNK   pEBBLE  "  (9"'  S-  xii.  fiOti).— 

This  is  a  name  ironically  applied  to  the 
enormous  dolmen  of  granite,  weighing  750 
tons,  which  existed  in  the  parish  of  St.  Con- 
stantine,  Cornwall,  until  (I  think)  the  late 
seventies,  when  it  was  destroyed  by  opera- 
tions in  an  adjacent  ciuarry.  It  is  minutely 
described  and  hgured  by  Borlase  in  his  quaint 
'  History  of  Cornwall ';  and  a  description  will 
be  found  also,  with  a  woodcut,  in  Cyrus  , 
Bedding's  •  Illustrated  Itinerary  of  the 
County  of  Cornwall,'  1842,  p.  135. 

John  Hobson  Matthews. 
[Dr.  FORSH.tw  sends  a  long  extract  from  vol.  ii. 

f).  453  of  '  The  Beauties  of  England  and  Wales ' 
Longman,  ISOI);  and  Mit  C.  S.  Waki»  refers  to 
the  inscribed  Constantino  Stone  found  at  St.  Hilary, 
Cornwall,  in  lSi"i3.] 

Maruiagk  Uousb  (9"'  S.  xH.  428,  609).  — 
Miss  Pollard  says  that  the  Marriage  House 
at  Braughiiig  has  been  pulled  down.  It  is 
generally  state<I  to  have  been  destroyed  some 
quarter  of  a  century  ago  ;  but  I  do  not  think 
this  was  the  ca,se.  The  very  interesting  old 
half-timbered  house  on  the  south  side  o?  the 
churchyard,  now  divided  into  tonementn,  is, 
I  feel  certain,  the  original  building. 

Another  Wedding  House  was  at  Anstey. 
It  stood  partly  upon   the  lord's  waste  and 
partly  in  the  churchyard.    At  an  inquisition 
held  At  Hertford  in  1G30  it  is  stated  that  it 
was  ancienti  V  ^iven  to  the  town  of  Anstey  to 
keep  the  weddings  of  poor  people  who  should 
be  marrietl  in  the  said  town.   There  had  been 
therefoi-o  divers  goods  belonging  to  the  said 
messuage  and  used  at  the  said  wedflings.  but 
of  all  such  there  remained  only  "  four  great 
Hpytts,"  all  the  rest  having  been  consumed  or  j 
lo*jt.      At   that  date  it  was  apparently  no ' 
longer  u.sed  for  weddings,  but  ha<l  become  a  I 
poorhouse    and    was    both    "  noysome    and  | 
filthee."    It  was  pulled  down  quite  a  century 
ago,  but  the  site  is  pointed  out  by  the  old 
people.  W.  B.  Gbbish. 

[Dr.  F0R8UAW  notaa  that  the  •  Xatioakl  Gazet- 
teer," 1868,  states  under  '  Bratitthin'  that  the  Mur- 
riaKO  House  was  given  by  Mr.  Jenyus.] 


Shakespeare's  ScHOLARsnrp  (9"*  8,  xii. 
427).— It  may  be  that  my  statement  that 
"Mr.  Churton  Collins  has  proved  that 
Shakespeare  was  one  of  the  best  Latin 
scholars  who  ever  lived"  needs  qualification, 
and  that  the  phrase  "an  excellent  Latin 
scholar"  should  be  substituted  for  the 
stronger  expression.  What  Mr.  Churton 
Collins  says  is  :— 

"What  has  been  demonstrated  is  that  Shake- 
speare oould  read  LAlin.  that  in  the  Ijilin  original 
he  most  certainly  read  Plautus,  Ovid,  and  Senoca, 
that  the  Cireek  dramatists,  and  all  those  Dteek 
authors,   besides    Plutarch,    wlio    ajutear   to    havo 

intiuenccd  him,  wore  easily  accessible  to  him in 

Latin  translations." 

And  again  : — 

"With    some   at    least   of  the  i)rinoipal    Latio 

authors  he    was    infimaJtfi/    a^fuainM and    of 

the  (ircek  classics  in  the  Latin  versions  ho  had  a 
rr.inarkaMy  fx(niJficc  hnowlafj/r." 

Me.  Haines  maintains  that  Shakespeare's 
"knowledge  of  Latin  cannot  be  properly 
teste^l  until  we  can  determine  what  part,  if 
any,  of  '  1  Henry  VI.,'  and  what  part  of 
'2  Henry  VI,'  '3  Henry  VI.,'  'Taming  of 
the  Shrew  '  '  Timon  of  Athens,'  and  especially 
of  'Titus  Androuicua,'  were  his."  I  fail  to  se© 
this  reasoning.  Why  not  take  the  accepted 
'•  Shakespeare"  dramas,  as  Mr.  Churton  Collins 
does,  and  prove  theLatinity  therein  displayed? 
In  the  'Comedv  of  Errors'  we  fintl  that  the 
author  of  the  dramas  was  acquainted  with 
the  '  Mostellaria,'  'Trinummus,'  and  'Mile.s 
Gloriosus,'  and,  omitting  the  doubtful 
'Titus  Andronicus'  and  the  three  parts  of 
'Henry  VI.'  (which  are  "saturated  with  the 
tragedies  of  Seneca"),  Mr.  Collins  proves 
that  in  the  undoubted  'Richard  III.,'  'The 
Merchant  of  Venice,'  and  'Much  Ado'  the 
dramatist  shows  a  knowledge  of  Horace  ; 
and  in  '  Hamlet,'  'Lear,'  'Antony  and  Cleo- 
patra,' '  Cyrabeline,'  and  '  1  Henry  IV.,'  a 
remarkable  acquaintance  with  Juvenal.  By 
unmistakable  parallelisms  Mr.  Collins  has 
proved  that  thedramatist  had  read— in  Latin 
translations  —  Plato's  'Alcibiades'  and  'Re- 
public,' and  also  the  principal  tragedies  of 
Sophocles,  ..'Kschylus,  and  Euripides.  Of 
these  parallelisms  it  is  of  interest  to  note 
that  Mr.  Sidney  Lee  maintains  that  "such 
coincidences  as  have  been  detected  between 
expressions  in  Greek  plays  and  in  Shake- 
speare seem  due  to  accident,"  and  that  they 
are  "no  more  than  curious  accidents -proofs 
of  consanguinity  of  spirit."  This  Mr.  Collins 
directly  and  successfully  controverts.  He 
say«i  such  a  contention  "is,  of  course,  quite 
within  the  bounds  of  iHmihility"  but  that 
"it  is  not  with  ftoiuibintiea  but  with  profxi' 
hilUitt  that  investigators  of    this  kind  are 


u 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         [lo"-  s.  i.  .i.y.  9.  \m. 


concerne<I."  A  careful  examination  of  the 
three  articles  in  the  Forlniijhth/  for  April, 
May,  ami  July,  liM;)3,  will  convince  sceptics 
of  llie  dramatist's  classical  knowledge  that 
Ben  Jonson  was  u  bit  "  too  previous  "  when 
he  stated  tliat  Sliakenpoare  (if  he  referred  to 
the  author  of  the  play^)  had  "snialle  Latin." 
Opinions  have  changed,  however,  since  the 
days  of  the  critic  Dennis,  who  wrote  : — 

"  He  who  allows  .S)iakc<ii>eare  had  learning,  aud 
a  learning  with  the  anciunls,  ought  to  be  looked 
ui>on  as  a  detractor  from  the  glory  of  Great 
Britain." 

Very  much  on  the«e  linea  run  the  remarks  of 
a  loader-writer  in  the  Dnily  Ncw»,  who,  in 
resenting  Afr.  Churtou  CoUinsj's  argutuenU, 
stated :  - 

"  It  is  rJKht  to  say  that  in  the  ftrtii::!e  not  a  litlle 
in-idenco  ia  iidrUiced  to  »liow  tliat  .Sliake«peare 
might  conceivalily  liavc  ue'(|<iire(l  iho  neccMiiry 
rlttsiiicnl  kiiowludtjc  in  the  gi-aninii\r  .school  at  Striit- 
i'\rA.  Thei-e  is  Tioihinjf  absolutely  itntM>ssibIe  in  the 
'■  II  that,  heilid  so.  excej>t  tfii'  atrouf;  evi- 
■'  !,  (IS  a.  matter  of  fact,  ho  did  not.     Had 

ii   .  ".it.  i>«  I'xtremely  hard  to  account  for  the 

o(iiin..u  ol  Ilia  friends  and  oonletnponiriea  that  he 
did  not  possess  this  knowledge" 

It  ig  evident  that  the  theory  of  Dennis  and 
Dr.  Farmer— founded  on  the  blunt  a*i«erlion 
made  to  Drummond  by  Ren  Jonson— that 
there  is  not  a  particle  of  classical  know- 
leJ^o  to  be  found  in  the  plays,  will  die  hard, 
if  It  ever  die.s.  Of  course  the  oninion  of 
Aubrey  \n  worth  nothing  that  *'he  under- 
»jtcK>d  Latin  very  well." 

It  seems  ludicrous  that  .Mr.  Haines  should 
condtfraii  lh»'  dramatiH's  Latinity  because  in 
'  Troiiuy  and  t.Vessida '  tho  word  '**  Arinchne  " 
ippears  for  "Arachne."  But  was  tliat  the 
lult  of  the  writer  of  the  plays  ]  The 
]uarLoij  aud  the  Fuliu  are  full  of  typo- 
iraphical  errors,  of  which  this  is  only  an 
)rdinary  example,  just  as  in  'The  Alerry 
'ives'a  clever  compositor  has  puzzled  com 
montators  for  all  tirno  with  what  tho  expres- 
sion *'  an  hcir«s  '  is  suppo'jed  tu  represent. 

ifi:.  M.M.NKs  also  refers  to  "two  or  three 
instance**  of  false  Latin  in  '  Love's  Labour '« 
Lost."  "    i  find  in   thi!*  play— written  a  few 
_jroai;-<  after  Shakenpoare  left  Stratford,  the 
parlipst  of  the  dramati'  and  one  no 

leaiiie<l  and  scholarly  i  j,f.  and  allu- 

sion tl)at  it  is  uiifiL  fi.i  jKijuiJur  rcprcsen- 
tntion— the foilowiny  Latin  wordi:  "tninirne," 
*'veni,  vidi,  vici,"  "videlicet.,"  "baud  credo,' 
"  ill  viii,"  "  faccre,"  "osteutaro, "  "  In'x  coctus," 

"  Icrr.i.       "  iHM"'_'i'."    '■  iii.'i     iiiiii^'r  '    "  1  i I-   "'i>>iL 

*\  ! .', 

I'  .-   .vk 

fujuuMU,'  Hj-   "caroi^"^  "  pauca 

it, "  "oovi  homjiiein 


tauquam  te,"  "no  intelligis  doiuine,'  "  laus 
deo,  bone  inlelligo  "  {correcteii  by  Holofernea 
to  "bene"),  "  vide.<«no  ouis  venit,"  *' Video  et 
Raudeo,"  "  pueritia,"  exit."  All  t\\\n.  dog- 
Latin  is  not  intended  to  be  classical  Latin — 
the  Latin  of  the  writer— but  the  Latin  of  the 
pe<lantic  Holofernes,  of  whom  tho  author 
(uakes  .such  splendid  game,  and  who  speaks 
of  "the  ear  of  coilo "  (for  "o<flunj")  and 
"iraitari"  (for  "  imitare,'  perhapH  another 
print^^rs  error),  but  may  all  thi.>*  not  be 
intentional,  instead  of  accidental,  bad 
Latinity  ?  We  have  in  the  same  play  speci- 
mens of  excellent  Italian  and  French,  all  of 
them  graiiiinatically  accurate,  au  is  also  the 
case  in  the  French  dialogue  of  'Henry  V.' 

In  similar  manner  the  dramatist's  Latin 
has  been  calltHJ  in  question  because  in 'The 
Merchant  of  Venice '  one  line  reaii.s  "  St^'phano 
ia  my  name  "'(why  not,  possibly,  .Stcphilno  f), 
and  another,  "My  friend  Htepliano  signify, 
I  pray  thee  "  ;  but  against  this  we  can  set 
the  ptonunciiiiion  of  "Stepliano"  in  'The 
Terape»tt,'  w  irerc  the  word  occurs  nine  times — 
five  in  pnise  and  four  in  verse— in  every  one 
of  the  latter  the  won!  being  pronounceu  cor- 
rectly, "Stephilno."  To  e.splain  thi^  dia- 
cropancy  between  the  pronunciation  in  'The 
Merchant  of  Venice'  and  that  in  'The 
TemiK'st,'  an  ingenious  critic  has  maintained 
that  Men  Jonson  had  in  the  interval  in- 
formed Shakespeare  how  the  word  should  be 
properly  pronouncetl  I  Very  likely  3  OI)Iiging 
"  rare  old  Ben  !"'  GEOEt;E  i^TRONAfU. 

I>eyi.e:  Stksduai,  (l>"'  S.  xii.  127).  — Henri 
Boy  le'-ifathetvloseph  CJhc'rubin  Beyle,  as>>umed 
the  title  of  nobility  {"dc').  Hnnri  Beyle 
took  the  "de"  abouly  1810,  but  abandoned  it 
later.  See  'Journal  do  Stendhal,  1801-14' 
(Uharpentier),  Appendix,  j).  47u. 

J.  C.   MiCHKLL. 

"A  FLKA  TS  THE  EAU"  (9"*  S.  xii    67,  138, 

19G).— The  following  story.  lhoU|?li  not  quite 
relevant  to  the  query,  may  interest  £ome  of 
your  readers : — 

"  Thp  annvy^ing-hiiR  i«  ftI>lo  to  »nt»»r  tho  htrman 

.-■  '  ...  .  .....    ^^^^ 

elf 

■''■■.  '  „  -iCC, 

Uimiiuu  wiiAliiver  ■••fiongr-ij  lo  liin  t.iiuily.  After 
wvcmf  venrH  hi^  fnrtunwi  wor*  tot4lly  ruiued.  when 


j<  to  tho^  disorder. 
lie."—'  Vuen-kicn- 


rurba,"  ^* 


KuMAUirsU  MiXAlUTA. 
Mauol  X«£hi,  KiS,  Japau. 

HlSTOElCAL  IUME  :  RllVME   (0"' 

330  ;  xii.  3.1,  491).— The  Hiwlling  , 
to  be  tho  more  correct  Tlie 
oociirririi-'    whcro    it  might  !).•    tu 


m  s.  I.  .Tax.  0. 19W.]  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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«ynouym  of  "hoarfrost"  is  as  small  a«  that 
attached  to  rhi/nn'  us  a  gpoken  sound.  In 
the  Tinm  Literary  Supplement  of  Ift  Uecern- 
i)pr,  19<)3,  p.  365,  it  is  pointed  out  that  John 
Milton  favoured  the  spelling  rim-:.  The 
article  on  'The  Manuscript  of  "  ParafJise 
Lo*«t"'  contains  these  words  : — 

"  And  alill  more  charactoriutic  of  the  individual  ia 
tlic  chauge  of  'rhinie'  in(o  •  n(n<«.'  This  is  nni\  of 
lite  (lorreotions  that  the  print.  '  ':       ,[, 

I'earce,  noticiii);  thai  in  tli.'  -: 

tht)  word  '  rime  'six  times  wii  .        id 

that  Milton  had  used  the  uurd  wLme  \i  uci:iti'8 
in  the  jvoctii  (t  Ui)  in  a  special  sense.  A  reference  to 
this  iiianiiscript  would  have  showu  him  that  the 
inconBiateney  was  not  the  poet's." 

Would  not  Milton  bid  us  write  " poets"  ?  Of 
what  use  is  the  apostrophe  before  thogenitival 
or  potsBessive  s\  K.  S.  Dodgsoh.     | 

fMu.  IfoLDEN  MAf'MicnAKL  iiotes  that  '"To 
Wttls' 


Wttlsheniftn  for  makiua  a  ri/tnt.  10,*.,"  occurs  among 
Henry  Vll.'s  I'rivy  Purae  cxitentes  (S.  Bentley  a 
•  Ej:cerplR  Hislorica,'  1831,  p.  101).) 

"  MAIrf   ON   REVIENT  T0U.J01IR.S  "   (0'*'   S.    Xii" 

308).— The  words  "On  revicnt  toujoura  a  ses 
preraicTe«  amours "  are  quoted  by  several 
authorities  as  a  French  proverb,  and  pro- 
bably Etienne,  in  '  Joconde,'  merely  intended 
to  quote  the  proverb.  Tliu  follovving  lines, 
from  ail  ode  by  Lebrun  (died  1807)  entitled 
'Mes  Souvenirs,  ou  les  Deu.x  Jlives  de  la 
Seine,'  are  at  all  events  of  earlier  date  than 
'  Joconde': — 

Ce  iiremier  senliment  de  I'aaio 
Lai^se  un  Jong  suuvuiiir  <\\iii  ricn  no  jwut  uaer; 

Kt  cost  dans  la  pren>i*-re  flammc 

Quest  tmit  le  nectar  dn  h&iser. 

If  the  idea  were  token  literally,  it  might 
be  referred  perhaps  to  Pliny'a  'Hist.  Nat.,* 
X.  C:\,  where  he  say*:  "  Cervi  vicissira  ad 
alias  traiiBeunt,  ct  ad  priores  rodeunt';  but 
the  French  proverb  is  generally  held  to  mean 
that  one  returns  to  ones  firut  love  eu  souvenir 
only.  Another  proverb  has  it  that  "II  ne 
faut  pas  rcvenir  sur  ses  premieres  amours,  ni 
aller  voir  la  ro.so  iju'on  a  admin'e  la  voille." 
Proljably  </</.«  advice  nhould  be  taken  lite- 
rally.^ Of,  "Toujoursi  souvient  a  Hobin  de 
ees  tintes, '  another  French  nroverb. 

The  first  paracraph  of  ch.  xii.  of  Scott's 
*  Peveril  of  the  Peak  '  contains  Boriio  remarks 
that  are  periiaps  pertinent  to  the  question. 
Edwaki*  LATtrVM. 

TiiK  Oak,  the  Asii,  asv  tue  Ivy  (9"'  8. 
xii.  32H,  -13.3,  4!l2).-To  a  Notlliorner  "bonny 
ivy  tree."'  is,  as  I  have  said,  meaningless, 
aimply  because  ho  would  not,  say  that  the 
ivy,  whether  a  tree  or  bush  or  what  not,  wasi 
"  bonny, '  which  the  mountain  ash  i^.  The 
.juotftiion  given  by  U.  0.  P..  from  Wickliff's 
Bible  in  beside  the  question,  as  it  is  not  ao 


"ivy"  tree  that  is  referre<i  to,  but  a  yew 
("yue").  In  the  Authorized  Version  it  is  a 
juniper  tree  that  is  named  ;  in  the  Revised 
Version  the  broom,  much  more  likely  trees, 
or  rather  bushes,  than  the  "ivy"  to  sit 
under.  II.  B— n. 

Mr.  Colema>'  is,  I  think,  mistaken, 
Xothing  has  been  said,  unless  at  other  refer- 
ences than  those  given  by  him  (9'^'  is,  xii.  433), 
concerning  the  lines  in  question.  The  refer- 
ences to  which  he  directs  attention  relate  to 
the  question  of  the  priority  of  the  oak  over 
the  ash,  or  lutv  iw«tl,  in  leafing. 

It  docs  not  seem  to  have  been  noted  by  any 
of  your  correspondents  that  the  lines 

The  oak,  the  ash,  and  the  bonny  ivy  tree 

Flourish  bravely  at  home  in  my  own  country, 

are  the  burden  of  an  old  ballad,  a  black- 
letter  copy  of  which  is  in  the  Koxbuighe 
collection  (see  'lloxburgho  Ballads,'  isy.3, 
ed.  by  J.  Woodfall  Ebsworth,  vol.  vii.  p.  IGy). 
The  proper  title  of  the  ballad  is  'The 
Northern  Lassie's  Lamentation  ;  or,  the 
Unhappy  Maid's  Misfortune.'  Tlie  whole  of 
the  verses  will  also  bo  found  in  William 
Chapijell's  'Popular  Music  of  the  Olden 
Time,  vol.  ii.  p.  4.o7.  Here  also  the  burden 
of  the  ballad  is 

The  oak,  and  tlio  ash,  and  tiie  bonnie  ivy  tree. 

Another  black-letter  ballad,  in  the  Douce 
collection,  p.  135,  is  entitled  'The  Lancashire 
Lovers  ;  or,  the  Merry  Wooing  of  Tliomas 
an(i  Betty.' I'c.  (early  Charles  II.),  .ind  this 
also  has  the  burden  as  first  quoted  above. 
(See  *  Old  English  Music,'  by  William 
Chappell,  new  edition  by  H.  Ellis  Wool- 
dridge,  1893,  vol.  i.  pp.  270-7.) 

J.    HOLDKN   M.\«.'MlCBAEL. 

DonoTUY  NuTT  (0"^  S.  xii.  .387).— Sir  Henry 
Blunt.  Bt.,  married,  March,  172 J,  a  Dorothy 
Nutt,  daughter  of  William  Nuit,  of  Walt- 
hamstow  Essex.  Sir  Henry  wa.s  great-great- 
grandfather of  Major  Edward  Walter  Blunt, 
who  married  the  Countess  of  Cromartie. 

H.  S.  V.-W, 

BiDINu  TIIK  Br,.itK  Bam  (0"'  S.  xii.  483).— 
CoUinson's  '  History  of  Somerset'  quotes  this 
"ancient  custom  "  in  the  manor  of  Kilmers- 
don  ;  and  I  have  an  engraving  of  it 
which  was  given  to  mo  many  years  ago  by 
the  former  steward  of  that  manor.  Tho 
widow  in  ray  print  is  seated  astride  in  the 
orthodox  fashion  :  she  is  attired  in  a  fJre«ij 
which  the  artist  evidently  meant  to  represent 
as  of  tiie  Eli/.al)ethan  era,  but  I  am  pretty 
sure  tho  dale  of  tho  engraving  is  not  earlier 
than  the  end  of  the  seventeenth  centurv. 
The  name  of  tho  publisher  has  unfortunately 


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been  cut  off  the  priut,  below  which  appear 
the  words  "Custom  of  Riding  the  Black 
Ram.'  H-x, 

This  old  manorial  custom  is  probably  of 
far  higher   antiqaity    than    the   illustrated 
broadside  alluded   to   by    L.    L.    K.   would 
appear  to  indicate,  for  there  is  an  account  of 
it  in  Cowel's   'Interpreter;   or,    Law  Dic- 
tionary,' the  first  edition  of  which  appeared 
in  1G07.    Whether  it  is  to  bo  found  in  this 
first  edition,  however,  I  cannot  with  certainty 
say,  but  it  probably  is,  and  it  certainly  is  in 
the  edition  of  1727.    The  passage  referring 
to    the    widow    should     be :     "The    widow 
shall  have  her  Free  bench  in  all  [not  "  hall  "] 
his  Copyhold    Lands"  (i.e.,  in  the  lands  of 
the  customary  tenant  deceased).     *'The  like 
custom,''  continues  Cowel,   "there  is  in  the 
Manor  of  Chaddleworth  in  the  same  County  ; 
in  that  of  Torre,  in  Devonshire,  and  other 
Paris  of  the  West"  {vide  'Free-Bench  ') ;  and 
in  Blount's  '  Law  Diet,'  1717,  in  the  Reading- 
Room  copy  at  the  British  Museum,  is  what 
appears    to  be   a   contemporary  MS.  note, 
which    is   added    to  the  article  on    'Free- 
bench,'    stating    that    "in  effect    the  same 
custom  is  in  the  manor  of  Leichland,"  in  the 
county  of  "  Gloucester  "  (query  the  chapelry 
of  Leighland  in  Somersetshire,  or  Leenlado 
in  Gloucestershire).    See  also  Toralins's  '  Law 
Diet.,'  and   the  Sjiectator,  No.   614.    Lysons 
says  that  "at  every    court    the   jury    still 
present  this  as  one  of  tlie  ancient  customs  of 
the  manor  "  {i.e.,  at  East  and  West  Enbourne) : 
"The  peaalty  ha»  not  been    literally  enforced 
within  the  memory  of  man,  but  it  is  said  that  a 
pecuniary  commutation  has  been  received  in  lieu  of 
it,  which    perhaps  may    have  been   more  readily 
Bcoepted,  from  the  ditiiuully  of  procuiing  a  proper 
asimat  for  the  pur|>08e.'' 

J.  HoLDEN  MacMichael. 

A  copper- plate  engraving  representing  this 
ceremony  will  be  found  in  tho  Witi'  Mttun- 
line  for  April,  1785.  Tlio  letterpress  de- 
acribing  the  picture  is  extracted  fn>m  the 
Sptrtatf/r,  No.  623,  Monday,  22  Nov.,  1711. 
W.  F.  Pbidkaux. 

Places  and  particulars  of  this  custom  np- 

Bear  in  connexion  with  the  word  '  Bench  '  in 
Barclay's  'English  Dictionary,'  1808. 

H.  J.  B. 

Maet,  Queen  of  Scots  (Q""  S.  xiJ.  148, 
196,  23R).— 1  quote  the  following  from  Hill 
Burton's  'The  Scot  AbroatI,'  first  edition, 
1864,  vol.  J.  p.  68  :— 

"  Mo.qt  conrpicuous  and    illuatrioos  amonK  the 

•mr- "   '"  i-'-o.,,...  ...^,..  .1 ...1,,,   i.,.i — :,i  .,, 

lb. 


9X\ 
milannii 


lotMii,  iiirtaucr.     Il  w  Uie  old  iScoU  ainiUiug, 


the  other— namely  Stuart— having  been  gradually 
adopted  in  deference  to  the  infirmity  of  tlio  French 
lanfcuage,  which  is  deficient  in  that  ainewy  letter — 
a  half -breed  between  vowel  and  conaonnnl— which 
we  call  If.  This  innovation  itand»  in  the  pereonal 
nomenclature  of  onr  day,  a  trivial  but  distiitct  relic 
of  the  influence  of  French  manners  and  habits  over 
our  ancestors." 

\v.  s. 

The  following  order  for  the  proclamation 
of  the  marriage  between  Darnley  and  the 
queen  may  be  of  interest  in  reference  to 
above.  It  is  taken  from  the  '  Piuik  of  the 
Kirk  of  the  Canagait.' 

"  The  21  nf  July  anno  domini  1565.  The  quhilk 
day  Johne  Brand,  Mynieter,  presenlit  to  ye  kirk 
ane  writtinc— written  be  ye  Justice  Clerk  hand 
desyring  ye  kirk  of  ye  cannoyait  ande  Minister 
yureof  to  proclame  harie  diik  of  Aibnynye  Krle  ' 
of  Roise  on  ye  one  ])arte.  And  Marie  by  ye  graco  \ 
of  (Jod  nuene  of  Scottis  Soverane  on  ye  uyer  part. 
The  quilk  ye  kirk  ordainis  ye  Mynister  to  do,  wyt 
Invocatione  of  ye  name  of  God." 

TnORKE  GEOUtiB. 

"Top  Spit"  (9"'  S.  xii.  .Xi.')).— This  is  a, 
well-known  gardeners'  term  for  green  swardjl 
taken  up  to  the  depth  of  a  spade,  or  loss* 
depth,  and  piled  up  to  decay  for  liglit  soil 
used  in  potting,  J; c.  See  'Mary's  Meadow/ 
by  Mrs.  Ewing.  J.  T.  F. 

Winterton,  Doncaster. 

This  term  is  hardly  a  provincialism,  for  it 
abounds  in  horticultural  literature.  Thus,, 
"The  top  spit  of  an  old  pasture  mak( 
capital  potting  soil"  (Sutton,  'Cult,  Voget 
and  Flowers,'  1892,  p.  311),  To  save  the 
expense  of  removing  it  themselves,  builders 
sometimes  advertise  "top  spit  given  away." 
Only  a  day  or  two  ago  I  noticed  a  board 
with  this  superscription.  J.  Dobmeb. 

"As  MERRY  AS  GbIGGS"  (0'^'  S,  ri'    '"'*-^  — 
Griofjs  is  a  StafFordslni-e  word  for 
and    Josiah    Wetlgwood,    the   Stui: 
potter,  no  doubt  used  it  in  this  way. 

W.  HoDOEa, 

My  wife  tells  me  that  in  Yorkshire  she  has 
often  heaifl  children  called  (7jiW<— that  is, 
when  they  are  about  four  to  eight  year?  of 
age.  W.  U.  M.  G. 

I  have  always  understood  that  a  grigg  was 
a  tadpole.  Afl  a  youth  I  used  to  fish  for  them 
both  under  this  name  and  that  of  "^ bull- 
heads." Cha8.  F,  Fobsuaw,  LL.D. 

Baltimore  House,  Bradfonl. 

C.VNI.LKMA.H  OH.t>  (9""  S.   xii.  430).— This 
custom  was  doubtless  a  survival  of  the  once 
universal    "church  ale."    Church    ales   wef 
when  the  people  went  from  afternoon  praye 
on  Sundays  to  their  lawful  sports  anc"  ^ 


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times  in  the  churchj'ard,  or  in  the  neighbour- 
hood, or  to  some  neighbouring  inn,  where 
they  drank  ale  and  made  merry.  By  the 
benevolence  of  the  people  at  these  pastimes, 
raany  poor  parishes  iiad  their  bells  ca»t, 
b^utified  their  churches,  and  raised  stock 
for  the  poor.  Warton,  in  hi«  '  History  of 
English  Poetry,'  says  that  the  church-ale  wan 
a  feast  established  for  the  repair  of  the 
church,  or  in  honour  of  the  church  saint,  &c. 
In  Doda worth's  MSS.  there  is  an  old  inden- 
ture, made  before  the  Ileformation,  which 
not  only  shows  the  design  of  the  church-ale, 
but  expfaiuH  this  particular  me  and  applica- 
tion of^  the  word  "ale."  Tlie  parishioners  of 
Elveaton  and  Okebrook,  in  Derbyshire,  agree 
jointly 

"  to  brew  four  Ales,  and  every  Ale  of  one  quarter 
of  malt,  betwixt  this  and  the  feast  of  Saint  John 
]taiitigt  next  comini>.  And  IhnI  ertrn  uihahUaiit  of 
tht  naifi  toii'ti  of  Okrhrook  ahtiU  Ik  «/  the  xtreraJ  AIm. 
And  every  liiisband  and  his  wife  shall  pay  two- 

Jieneo,  every  cottager  one  tienriy,  and  all  the  in- 
iiwbitanta  of  Elveston  shall  have  and  roceivo  all 
the  profits  and  advantages  coming  of  the  said  Ales, 
to  the  use  and  behalf  of  the  said  church  of  Klveston. 
And  the  inhabitants  of  Klveatou  shall  brew  ei^ht 
Ales  betwixt  this  and  the  feast  of  8t.  John  Baptist, 
at  the  which  Alea  the  inhabitants  of  Okebrook  shall 
come  and  par  as  before  rehersed.  And  if  he  be 
away  at  one  Ale,  to  i)»y  at  the  toder  Ale  for  both," 
fcc— MSS.  Bibl.  Bodl..  vol.  oxiviii.  fol.  97. 

See  also  the  Church  Canons  given  in  1603, 
Can.  88  (Warton,  ed.  1870,  p.  709). 

The  ehurchwardena'  accounts  for  the 
expeu-ses  of  Pyrton  village  church,  in  Oxford- 
shire, which  dat«  from  1547,  show  that  the 
various  ales  or  feasts  constituted  its  chief 
source  of  income.  See  also  'Church  Ales,' 
by  E.  Peacock,  in  the  Archoeological  Journal 
of,  I  think,  either  18&3  or  1886;  Stubbs's 
*Anatomieof  Abuses,'  1585,  p,  95  ;  Introduc- 
tion to  Aubrey's  '  Nat.  Hist,  of  Wiltshire,' 
p.  32  ;  and  Brand's  '  Pop.  Antiquities  '  (Bohn, 
1853),  vol.  i.  p.  282 

J.    HOLDEN   MacMICHAEL. 

}0l.  Hammersmith  Road. 

Has  Mr.  Andrews  forgotten  that  a  similar 
question  from  him  appeared  5'"  »S.  i.  608,  and 
that  a  reply,  aLso  from  his  pen,  was  given  at 
j)U>  S.  iii-  274  ?     EvERABD  Home  Coleman. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

'Edwin  Deood*  Continued  (9"*  S.  xii.  389, 
510).— The  small  pictures  on  the  original 
green  covers  of  '  Edwin  Drood '  must  have 
been  inspired  by  Dickens  himself,  and  some 
of  them  clearly  relate  to  unwritten  parts  of 
the  story.  Any  hypothetical  conclusion  must 
^t  in  with  these  drawings.  It  has  always 
seemed  to  me  that  Mr.  Uatchery— thegentle- 
JOOAa  who,  ostentatiously  carrying  bis  uat  in 


B«i 


his  hand,  makes  a  show  of  his  head  of  white 
hair,  and  ciuietly  interviews  the  persons  con- 
nected with  the  *'  mystery  "—is  no  other  than 
Lieut.  Tartar,  the  naval  friend  of  young 
Landlots,  trying,  in  disguise,  to  get  at  the 
bottom  of  it. 

Jasper  probably  used  the  knowledge  of  the 
cathedral  which  he  obtained  from  Durdles  to 
secrete  Edwin  Drood,  alive,  in  one  of  its  ob- 
scure recesses.  W.  C.  B. 

Vidi  '  Watched  by  the  Dea<l  :  a  Loving 
Study  of  Dickens's  Half-told  Tale,'  by  Hichard 
A.  Proctor,  the  well-known  author  of  many 
popular  works  on  astronomy.  It  was  pub- 
lished in  1887  by  W.  H.  Allen  i  Co.,  13, 
Waterloo  Place,  London. 

T.  N.  Brushkield,  M.D. 
Salterton,  Devon. 

MODEHN   F0KM3  OF  AnIMAL  BaITINQ  (9'*  S. 

xii.  127).— 

*'  Yet  we  ore  very  Rravely  assured  by  some  of  the 
reverend  in issionariea,  that '  the  Chinese  are  entirely 
igiioraut  of  all  games  of  chance';  that  'they  can 
enjoy  no  amusenieiits  but  snch  as  are  authorised  by 
the  laws.'  These  gentlemen  surely  could  not  be 
ignorant  that  one  of  their  moat  favourite  sports  is 
cock-fight in<r,  and  that  this  cruel  and  unmanly 
antit^'mtu/,  as  they  are  pleased  to  consider  it,  is  fiill 
as  eagerly  pursued  by  the  upper  cloasea  in  China  as, 
to  their  shame  and  disgrace  bo  it  spoken,  it  con- 
tinues to  bo  by  those  in  a  similar  situation  in  some 
parts  of  Kurotw.  The  training  of  quails  for  the 
same  cruel  purpose  of  butchering  each  other  fur- 
nishes abandanoe  of  employment  for  the  idle  and 
dissipated.  They  have  even  extended  their  en- 
quiries after  fightmg  aaimals  into  the  insect  tribe, 
in  which  they  nave  niscovered  a  species  of  gr(t(ltu, 
or  locust,  that  will  attack  each  other  with  such 
ferocity  as  seldom  to  quit  their  hold  without  bring- 
ing away  at  the  same  t»me  a  limb  of  their  antagonist. 
These  little  creatures  are  fed  and  kept  apart  in 
bamlMo  cages ;  and  the  custom  of  making  them 
devour  each  other  is  so  common  that,  during  the 
summer  months,  scarcely  a  boy  is  seen  without  his 
cage  and  his  grasshoppers."— Barrow's  'Travel*  in 
China,'  1804,  chap.  iv.  p.  Id0. 

"Thifi  insect  [the  praying  mantis  or  soothsayer] 

is  a  very  stupid  and  voracious  creature It  devours 

without  mercy  every  living  insect  it  can  master. 
Their  propensities  are  so  pugnacious  that  they  fre- 
quently attack  one  another.  They  wield  their  fore- 
legs like  sabres,  and  cleave  one  another  down  like 
dragoons;  and  when  one  is  dead,  the  rest  fall  on 
him  like  cannibals  and  devour  him.  This  propensity 
the  Chiucse  avail  themselves  of.  They  have  not 
the  veneration  of  Europeans  for  their  imaginary 
qualities,  so  they  use  them  as  game  cocks,  and 
wagers  are  laid  on  the  best  fighter."— Dr.  \\'»l8h 
[r.  lKiS-30?J. 

"  A  ferocity  not  less  savage  exists  amongxt  the 
Muntfi.  These  insectA  have  their  fore-legs  of  a 
construction  not  unlike  that  of  a  sabre ;  and  they 
can  OB  dexterously  cleave  their  antagonist  in  two, 
or  cut  ofi  his  head  at  a  stroke,  as  the  most  ex[>ert 
hussar.  In  this  wav  they  often  treat  each  other, 
even    the   sexes   fighting   with    the   moet  savage 


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animosity.  Rii'^el  en/lenvonrcd  to  rear  seve'i-nl 
speciinons  of  Mnutix  reli'tiuAn,  hut  always  fitiled, 
tne  atroiit^ei'  oonHtantly  tle\'oiiriiiK  tho  weaker. 
This  ferotioiiB  jiroperjsily  the  Uhineso  children 
bave.  B-'coriiin?  to  Mr  Ilarrow,  emfiloycd  as  a 
80;  '    I'Uia  anivisemunt,  selling    to    tht'jr 

C"  '  <:a(;e8  containing  eiich  n  Mantia, 

wL  .'thcrtofight. '— Kii'byaudyiience. 

'lutroiiutiiiuu  U>  Kiitoiiiolugy,'aevenlh  «ditioa,  1856, 
letter  ix.  r-  100. 

Adrian  Wheeler. 

Ckows8  iw  Towkb  ok  Spire  of  CHUR<;n 
(9'"  S.  xii.  4^5  ;  10"'  .S.  i.  1 7). -I  caunot  find 
any  such  place  a-s  Chauipery  in  ihis  county, 
atifl  Kelly,  usually  to  be  relieJ  on,  fails  to 
help  to  discovery.  Has  your  contributor 
misread  his  notes,  or  has  the  compositor 
misread  the  MS.  of  the  query? 

Fred.  U.  Frost,  F.S.I. 
TeiRDcnouth,  Devon. 

In  a  story  publisheil  in  '  (?o<xJ  Words,' 
1863,  it  is  8tate<l  tlmt  the  Swedish  Senate 
placed  a  large  gilt  copper  crown  upon  the 
spire  of  a  church  in  the  Dalecarlian  Hills,  to 
coininfitniMata  the  fact  that  in  the  church 
there  the  curate  sheltered  and  hid  Oostavus 
Vasa  in  the  hour  of  his  danger  and  distress. 

FfiANCESCA. 
LANC.\SHIIiE   AND    ChE-SDIRE    WiLL>.  (9"'  S. 

xii.  480).— There  are  verv  few  Lancashire  wills 
to  bo  found  of  earlier  date  than  tho  middle 
of  tho  sixteenth  century.  At  the  CliCiter 
Probate  Court  your  correspondent  will  find 
the  wills  for  Cheshire  from  1545  to  the 
present  date.  Those  for  Laiteashire  south  of 
the  Kibble  are  also  there  up  U>  a  quite  receut 
dale.  The  wills  of  people  liviuf;  north  of 
the  nibble  were  provetl  at  Klchinond,  in 
Yorkshire,  and  are  now  preserved  at  Somer- 
set House,  London,  except  those  after  1724, 
which  are  at  Lancaster. 

A  complete  list  of  all  tlie.se  wills  has  been 
printed  by  the  Ilecord  Society  of  Lanca>ihire 
and  Che.shire,  as  al.so  a  list  of  'Wills,  Inven- 
tories, Admini-stration  Bonds,  Jcc  ,  1487-IG"20,' 
which  are  deposited  at  the  Diocesan  Ilogistry, 
Cheshire.  These  documents  have  only 
recently  l>een  discovered.  If  your  corre- 
aponrient.  will  write  to  rae,  I  will  give  him 
farther  detail.^.  Henry  Fbhwick. 

The  Heights,  Kochdale. 

A  complete  index  of  the  wills  proved  at 
Chev<»ter  oetween  1545  and  1800  has  been 
printed  by  tho  Record  Society  of  Lancashire 
and  Cheshire,  and  the  originals  may  be  con- 
sulted at  Chester  in  the  ordinary  way. 
Sotue  few  Ijancashire  wills  prior  to  th' 
fnrr  •' -•■  f.  of  the  Chester  bishrr- —  -  ' 
/>'  !  at  Lichfield,  where  t! 
f/a/  ,,  jr.w.     The  index  to  ti..  ..   - 


to   [f)')2  has   been   printed    by    the    J^rilisli 
Record  Society.  vV.  D.  I'ink, 

Lowton,  Newton-Ie- Willows. 

In  a  very  useful  little  book  which  I  have 
consulted  on  many  occasions,  entitled  *  How 
to  prove  a  Will,'  by  Thomas  Kiua  (fourth 
edition,  1884),  I  find  that  the  jurisciiction  of 
the  District  KeKistry  at  Chester  ejctcnd'* 
throughout  the  county  of  Chester,  including 
the  city.  The  oflice  at  Lancaster  embrace* 
the  county  of  Lancaster,  except  the  hundred 
of  Salfoni  and  West  Derby  and  the  city  of 
Manche*iter.     No  date*  are  piven. 

The  Ijanoaster  anfl  Cheshire  wills  were 
edited  for  theCIhetlmm  Society  by  the  Kev. 
(J.  J.  Piccope,  which  may  answer  your 
correspondent's  purpose. 

EVERAED   HOMX  COLEMAN. 
71.  Brecknock  Road. 

[Mn.  AucuiB.\Lrj  .Si>akke  sends  aimilftr  infornia- 
lioM.] 

Economy  (9'"  S.  xii.  486).— The  thought  is 
from  Juvenal,  Salii"©  xiv,  lOS-13, 

H.  A.  Stkos<j. 
University,  Liverjwol. 

Wrathkr  O'"  a  xii.  H8).-E.  P.  VV.  asks. 
"  Who  was  the  cynic  who  wrote  '  When  tho 
Knglish  summer  set  in  with  its  usual 
severity ' "  }  See  the  postscript  of  Lamb's 
letter  to  Vincent  Novello  (cclxxvi.  in  Canon 
Ainger's  edition) :  "  Suinm<r,  as  my  friend 
Coleridge  waggishly  writes,  has  set  in  with 
its  usual  severity."  The  letter,  or  rather  note, 
dated  9  May,  ItfilO,  begins,  "  You  will  not 
expect  us  to-morrow,  I  am  sure,  while  these 
damn'd  North-Eastera  continue." 

El>\vabi>  Bensly. 

The  University,  Adelaide,  South  Australlji. 


piKcrllatifous. 
NOTK.'<  ON  B(X)KS,  &c. 

'/7»e    Ltllri-A    of    Ilorni-i:     WtJpiilr,    FoHrth    Etti'l    of 

O.rfftnl.     (_"hronoloi;iciillv  urrAUKod  otid  edited  liy 

Mrs.  I'dsel  Toynljee.     Iti  volo.     \*o!«.  I.,  II.,  III., 

1\'.  I173-J-<>S).     (Oxford,  Clarendon  Press.) 

Tu.vT  a  new  edition  of  Waliiole'a  letters  ia  roqiiirttl 

has  long  l>een  known  to  acnolara :  that  ono  was  in 

prepuraiinn  mider  the  care  of  tho  {ireaent  e<liu>r 

tiiM  l>e<?n  evident  to  the  attentive  student,  of  our 

col. I  ■*'  •     .     r         1.  ,  .  ■  J    .^ 

b.-  , 

in  I 

Iki"  tiiuily  at  uur  olluw,  ami                       i 

US'  i  the  rnain,  truatworthv.      i                   F 


1  '*-i  III  til.  LVl  \i }      \tl 


I  nun.'!  I VI.  t    i.vi  I': 


10". 8. 1,  JA.V.  9.  im.]  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


39 


Wnlpolc'B  letters  were  iesued  between  ITOS,  when 
370  of  them  tirtst  saw  the  liuht,  and  IS37i  when 
Cunninj;htim's  ciitioii— proniisi'fi  in  eicht  voliniicn. 
but  eulaiged  to  tiiue  —  was  issued  ay  RiL-hard 
Benlley,  wlio  was  responsible  for  previfmg  t-oltec- 
tious  edited  by  Loril  Dover,  John  Wright,  K. 
Vernon  Jjniitii,  arrl  ihe  Rev.  J.  Milford.  Since 
1857  over  400  new  letters  have  been  recovered, 
raisirii,'  the  cniiro  number  now  published  to 
It.iKil.  SujiirfH-ftci  and  ol)litcraled  pasflu^et*.  the 
history  of  t.ijii]e  of  whlcli  i»  curious,  have  been, 
so  far  as  is  possible,  restored,  the  chronology 
of  the  entire  series  has  been  carefully  checke(f, 
ilUifltratis'e  notes  and  comments  have  been  added, 
.■»ii(l  the  edition  may  bo  accepted  as  virtually  com- 
iilcte  and  6nal.  Access  for  purposes  of  revision 
has  been  in  one  or  two  instances  withheld  with 
what  seems  almost  like  churlishuesa.  In  most 
ca>se3,  however,  constant  efforts  to  facilitate  Mrs. 
('agetToynbee'a  taakhavebeen  made, and  thoedition 
is  iledicated  to  the  Earl  and  Countess  Wuldeijravo, 
wlio  posBefis  ot  Chewton  Priory  the  finest  collection 
of  \ValiK.ile  .MS8. 

HiRhly  us  they  have  always  been  rated,  the  Wal- 
pole  letters  have  not  even  yet  obtained  adequate 
recognition,  Thot  Walpole  ii  the  beat  English 
letter-writer  is  yenerully  admitted,  though  in  this 
instance,  ai  in  others,  fertility  is  one  of  his  chief 
claims  to  distinction,  f'o  have  left  among  so  many 
brilliant  ]>agc8  uot  a  sin&;Ie  dull  page  is,  iu  it.self,  no 
■mall  triumph.  Une  still  higher  is  accomplished  in 
giving  us,  as  he  ditea,  the  very  best  picture  we 
pouesa  of  the  social  aspects  in  England  of  that 
•ighteenth  century  which  we  never  weary  of  con- 
templating,'. In  u  way  Walpole  is  to  be  compared 
with  Pepys.  The  men  were,  of  course,  aa  unlike  as 
they  can  he.  Wli,it  Pepys  did,  however,  for  a  few 
years  of  the  seventecntn  century  Walpole  did  for 
more  than  half  of  the  eighteenth— that  is,  sujiplied 
a  series  of  pictures  so  lifelike  and  exact  that 
from  them  we  obtain  a  view  clearer  and  more 
definite  than  can  be  gained  from  all  other  sources. 
Among  minor  points  of  resemblance  it  may  be 
indicated  that  both  had  to  wait  long  before  their 
Itreat  work  was  set  in  an  adrtpiate  form  before  the 
^World,  and  tliat  in  the  case  of  each  mi  unsavoury 
residuum  was  left  which  defied  the  courage  of  their 
latest  editor.  In  the  case  of  Pepys  we  have  a  fair 
jdea  what  are  the  iiissagea  Mr.  Whentley  with- 
;  in  Ihnt  of  \valpol6  we  are  loft  in  entire 
nee,  though  we  arc  jirejiared  to  find  cynicism 
"  of  indiscretion  tlie  cause  of  the  suppressions. 
We  are  not  comparing  the  works  in  value.  To 
obtain  a  couple  of  years  more  of  a  record  $uch  as  that 
tjf  1'  ^  v\e  would  pay  gladly  the  most  exorbitant 
y  '  ould  easily  l>e  demanded.     No  similar 

ei  1:6  of  joy  Would  attend  the  recovery  of 

illier  Itllcrs  of  Walpole.     Yet  all  such  would  be 
lilioat  valuable    ond    welcome.     From   Mrs.   Paget 

^T 1     -■     ■  •■•'ihiction   we    learn  that  taniftering 

'  f  Waljiole  is  not  unknown.     For 

t  '.'8  under  which  transcripts  of  the 

Lcnginal    lolur^   were  executed    by  Walpole,   and 

(for  tiio  manner  in  which  Walpole's  intentions  were 

thwarted   in   part   by   his  seuretury  Kirgate,  who 

inade  what  seem   to  be  unauthorized  copies,    we 

ftnust  tvft-r  tlip  •■c.\'b"r  to  ihii  editor's  x>reface,  p.  xvi. 

Mr?,    i  wiiys  at    the  same  reference: 

**(>ii  lOo  Waljiolo's  transcripts 

f'>"  .cry   was    made   that  a   very 

1  iKDv  have  been  nuppressed  in 

ii  '  ,  iilthoDKb  no  indication  what- 


mm 


ever  of  any  omission  was  given  by  the  original 
editors."  Many  of  these  passages,  occurring  in  the 
earlier  letters,  are  pronounced  "quite  unfit  for 
publication. '  Whatever  it  has  been  found  possible 
to  restore  lo  the  text  has  been  restored,  and  ontia- 
sions  from  the  text  atid  the  notes  are,  it  is  slated, 
plainly  anil  sutKuiertlly  indicated.  Letters  to  H&nnali 
More,  of  which  there  oro  thirty-four,  have  also  been 
tani]iered  with  and  disfigured  by  the  cancelling  of 
passafie.s  and  the  eriuture  of  proper  names.  Worst 
of  all,  the  chaste  Hannah  inserted  iu  the  text, 
apparently   in    livr  uwn    handwriting,   words    and 

Ciirahes  of  which  Walpole  is  guiltless.  The  beat  has 
eeu  done  to  remedy  these  laches,  but  the  work  of 
destruction  has  been  in  some  coses  only  too  care- 
fully carried  out. 

bnlil  the  work  is  further  advanced,  and  we  aro 
in  possession  of  the  careful  analytical  index  which 
is  to  be  a  sftecial  feature,  it  is  impossible  to  deal 
fully  with  it.  The  scheme,  commendable  in  itself, 
is,  80  far  as  we  can  see,  finely  carried  oat.  We 
know  not  what  conceivable  boon  could  be  more 
welcome  to  the  scholar.  How  zealously  the  editor 
has  worked  is  known  lo  our  readers,  and  the  result 
is  proportional  to  the  labours  bestowed.  Vol.  iv. 
ends  in  17*30  with  the  death  of  (!eorge  II.,  and  the 
most  interesting  jiortiou  of  the  record,  though  not 
perhap!)  the  moat  historically  important,  is  to 
begin.  Each  volume  contains  four  illustrations, 
oonsiBtin;;  ])rincipalfy  of  photogravure  reproduc- 
tions of  Walpole  and  his  circle.  These  are  excellent 
in  themselves  and  of  undying  interest.  Nothing 
can  be  better  than  the  general  execution  of  the- 
work,  which  will  be  a  grace  aa  well  as  a  necessity 
to  most  shelves. 

A  Qmeodogieal  ami  Htraldie  Tilctioiinfy  of  the 
Peerage  ami  Barointaije,  t(-f.  By  Sir  Uernar<l 
Burke.  Erlileil  liy  Ashworth  P.  Burke.  (Har- 
rison i!k  bons.) 
Tmf.  pre-eminence  of  Burkes  '  Peerage,'  never 
seriously  contested,  remains  unassailable.  Efforts 
to  impugn  its  auihnrily  are  not  unknown,  and 
endeavours  lo  establish  some  form  of  rivalry  are 
continuous.  Si>  far  as  they  mean  anything,  the 
former  const ilute  an  attempt  to  undermine  th« 
htHtorical  basis  of  much  genealogy,  while  the  latter 
are  but  familiar  oJiiiccts  of  trade  competition.  What 
our  great  historical  families  have  to  tell  concerning 
their  own  origin  and  annals  is  communicatpd  l<> 
Burke.  The  information  thus  derived  is  subjected 
to  minute  investigation,  in  the  conduct  of  which 
the  best  and  most  trustworthy  heralds  and  genea- 
logists are  engaged,  a  list  of  those  by  whom  the 
labours  of  Mr.  Asnworth  P.  Burke  are  assisieii 
embracing  the  namcj  of  almost  all  in  whom  yiublic 
faith  is  placed.  The  latest  issne  now  np]iear8, 
bringing  up  the  information  to  December,  190.'l. 
It  is,  of  course,  as  complete  and  trustworthy  as  the 
best  of  its  predecessor.'',  and  remains  praisoworlhily 
full  in  regard  to  the  information  it  supplies  as  l<» 
precedence.  So  far  as  regards  the  i>ecragei  the 
year  IWlS  was.  for  reasons  easily  grasped,  less  event- 
ful than  its  predecessor,  the  nuniber  of  jjoers  whose 

t' '■■   ■•:•"  recorded  being  only  fourteen  as  ogainst 

le.  Three  peerages  became  extinct,  those 
'.,,  DeVesoi,  and  Rowton,  all  throe  recent 
•Mid  popular  additions  to  the  lTpi>er  Houfte.  Lord 
Rnwtnn  leaves  unfinished— and,  it  is  to  be  feared, 
j,ii  i.,,f  iiiirvtlempted  —  his  promised  life  of  Lord 
I,  his  former  chief,  but  will  be  long 
(,  od  by  the  industrial  dwellings  that  bear 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.  [m  b.  i.  jak.  ».  iso*. 


hU  name.  Ainontt  the  new  orcatians  the  most  con- 
^pkuous  ia  that  orLord  bumhniM  of  Rait  lUcn,  the 
history  of  whose  funiUy  and  deaceut  is  thiit  l>rac- 
tloally  of  the  great  daily  iiewgnaper  he  owns.  None 
but  too  editor,  wo  are  told,  ana  iiossibly  the  printer, 
can  realize  "  how  innumerable  are  the  frenh  facts 
that  are  anuuallv  chronicled,  and  how  many  the 
changes  constantly  takinK  place  in  family  history." 
One  of  the  most  interestine  articles  in  the  pre- 
Aeut  volume  is  that  on  the  Barony  of  Faucouber;; 
and  Conyers,  the  abeyance  of  the  former  barony 
having  on  "29  September,  19(.l3,  been  settled  by  His 
Majesty  in  favour  of  the  Countess  of  Yarborough, 
already  in  her  own  right  Baroness  of  Conyers.  A 
barony,  accordingly,  which  has  been  in  abeyance 
for  over  four  centuries,  now  rca|<pears.  In  con- 
nexion with  the  Barony  of  Conyers  further  altera- 
tions have  been  made,  tlie  proper  style  of  the  widow 
of  the  late  Lord  Conyers  beine  now  Baroness  Daroy 
He  Knayth  and  Conyers.  The  decision  of  the 
Ponlett  peera((e  in  favour  of  the  younger  claimant, 
son  of  the  late  earl  by  his  late  wife,  which  had  been 
anticipated,  ia  recorded.  Mr.  ]tarko  favours  the 
establishment  of  a  Committee  of  Privileges  to  decide 
on  the  succession  to  baronetcies,  often  an  unsettled 
and  unsatisfactory  matter.  Matter  in  abundance 
of  actual  and  of  enduring  interest  is  discussed  in  a 
work  each  new  issue  of  which  is  sure  of  a  welcome. 

By  beginning  in  the  nunil>cr  for  liNH  a  review  uf 
'Current  Continental  Literature'  the  FortniglUly 
retunu  to  an  earlier  condition  of  alTairs,  the  first 
flumbers  of  the  Rfrun-  including  critical  notices  of 
books.  Mr.  A.  J.  Dawson,  an  authority  on  the  sub- 
ject, writes  concerning  '  Tlie  Situation  in  Morocco.' 
His  ooansel,  we  may  l>o  sure,  will  fall  on  deaf  ears. 
Two  separate  articles  are  devoted  to  Herbert 
Spencer,  and  one,  by  Mr.  G.  S.  Street,  to  *  The 
Creevey  Papers.'  '  Ibsen's  Appronticeahip,"  by  Mr. 
William  Archer,  shows  how  much  the  Norwegian 
dramatist,  in  bis  earlv  work,  owes  to  IScribc,  and 
constitutes  a  virtual  history  of  the  esta1>lishment 
of  the  Norwegian  stage,  the  growth  of  which  is 
modern.—'  Some  Notes  as  to  London  Theatres  Past 
and  Present,"  by  Sir  Algernon  West,  which  appears 
in  the  Nineteenth  Ceninry,  demands  consideration, 
but  ia  not  (juite  trustworthy  in  dealing  with  the 
past.  It  is  not  absolutely  exact,  for  iustatice,  to 
.May  that  up  to  the  time  of  tiie  Restoration  no  woman 
had  ever  appeared  on  the  stage.  Mr.  K.  B.  Marstou 
(editor  of  the  Fii/iitiy  Oa.tlte)  speaks  of  'The  In- 
crea»e  of  Fiah-destro>nng  Birds  and  .Seals,'  and 
aeems  to  think  that  some  modification  of  recent 
legislation  as  to  the  protection  of  birds,  &c.,  is 
oecesaary.  He  brings  forward  much  testimony  in 
favour  of  this  view,  which  we  are  reluctant  to 
accept.  Prof.  Herbert  A.  Titles  writes  on  'Jade,' 
Mr.  Ernest  Rhys  on  'A  Knight  of  the  Sangreal,' 
Mr.  W.  S.Barclay  on  'Life  in  Tierra  del  Fuego,' 
Prinoe«B  Kro|xitkin  on  '  Lending  Libraries  and 
ChAap  Books,'  and  Antonia  Zinmiern  on  '  New 
Dtsooveries  in  Electricity.'  — The  frontispiece  to 
the  Pall  MnJt  consists  of  Maurice  lireifTenhagen's 
drawing  of  'The  Murder  of  Kizzio.'  M.  Santos 
IJutiii  1  ribcs  'The  .Sensations  and  I" 
f>f  .'•  igation.'     In  bis  'Litemi 

phy  Jliam  Sharp  describea  Hau 

the  bleak  "Bronte  Country."  In  'The  Round 
Table '  .Mr.  George  Strunach  falls  upon  Mr.  Sidney 
Lm.  and  expoanaa  his  familiar  views  on  the  Bacon- 
ijhakesi*eare  oontrovoray.  —  The  Atlantic  Motithlu 
<i0at/kiaa»  fartiier  instjilment  of  Sir  Leslie  Stephens 


'Editing,'  which,  w  moat  recognize,  is  virtually  an 
Butobiogroiihy.  It  begins  with  his  oondiioi  of  th'J 
Coiiiliiu  Aiaijaduf,o.nrl  passes  on  to  the  '  I'ictionary 
of  National  Biography,  in  dealing  with  which  Sir 
Leslie  pays  u  haudsoiiic  tribute  to  his  associate  Mr- 
•Sidney  Lee,  .Subseciuenl  portions  descrilje  men 
whom  he  met — Teiiuyaon,  Matthew  Arnold,  Ruskin, 
Browning,  Spcdding,  Darwin,  Huxley,  Tynd&U, 
Herbert  Spencer.  The  contribution  is  important, 
but  the  work  is  disappointing  to  admirers  of  Sir 
Leslie.  '  Books  New  and  Old  '  i^  interesting,  but  the 
articles  are  of  unetjual  value.  Warm  encomium  is 
in  some  instances  rather  recklessly  bestowed. 
Mr.  Kipling  and  Whistler  are  the  stibjects  of 
articles.— Lady  Broome  continues,  in  the  Cornhill, 
her  'Colonial  Memories,'  Dr.  Richard  Carnelt  bin 
'Alms  for  Oblivion,'  and  Mrs.  Richmoud  Ritchie 
her  '  Blackstiok  Papers.'  Viscount  St.  Cyr«s  is 
appreciative,  perhftii.s  unduly  so,  i  '  ""    .. 

dore  Hook.     Sir  Altreruon  NVesl 
about '  No.  10,  Downing  Street.'    I H  i| 

title  of  'Historical  Mysteries'  Mr.  Andiew  Lang 
be^ns,  with  'The  Mystery  of  Caspar  Hauser,  the 
Child  of  Europe,'  what  will  doubtleas  prove  an 
interesting  series.  Mr.  Lang  is  at  present  addicted 
to  the  study  of  mysteries,  but  docs  not  claim  to  gu 
far  in  the  direction  of  their  solution.  '  A  Nineteenth- 
Century  Philosopher'  is  a  piece  of  persiflage. —Mr. 
William  Miller  supplies  to  the  (.ffiitliman'i  an 
account  of  '  Athens  under  the  Franks ' ;  Mr.  Single- 
ton describes  superstitious  surviving  in  County 
Meath,  many  of  which  are,  in  fact,  widespread  ;  and 
the  Rev.  W..T.  Ward  writes  on  'Ciiaracter  in  Birds." 
— In  '  At  the  .Sign  of  the  Ship,'  in  Loii'/maus,  Mr. 
Lang  discusses  the  treatment  accorded  by  M,  <  •.  de 
Mortillet  to  Dr.  Schlieniann's  discoveries,  and  deals 
generally  with  the  jealousies  of  antiquaries.  Other 
subjects  are  humorously  treated,  including  the 
<  Eacycloptedia  Britannica.' 


IFe  muaC  call  sptcial  cUtaUiou  to  the  following 
notices  ,— 

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

We  cannot  undertake  to  answer  queries  privately. 

To  secare   insertion    of   communications   corre- 
spondents must  observe  the  following  rules.     Let 
each  note,  query,  or  reply  be  written  on  a  Bepai-atej 
slip  of  paper,  with  the  signature  of  the  writer  anff' 
such  address  as  he  wishes  to  appear.    When  answer^' 
ing  queries,  or  making  notea  with  regard  to  previoos 
entries  in  the  paper,  contributors  are  requested  to 
put  in   parentheses,   immediately  after  the  exact 
Heading,  the  series,  volume,  and  page  or  pages 
which    they    refer.      Correspondents    who    repeal 
queries   are    re<|ue8ted  to  head  the  secood  com 
Diunication  "  Duplicate." 

B.  H.  <i.— Reciprocated  greetings. 
AOTICM. 

"'"     lial  communications  should  be  addressed"! 
Kditor  of  'Notes  and  Queries'"— Adver*^ 
1.4  ikod    Busineos  Letters   to   "The   Pnb- 
liahei  '— at  the  Office,  Bream'a  Buildings,  OhADCerr 
Lane,  E.C. 

We  beg  leave  to  state  that  we  decline  to  r«tumj 
oonunnnicattODS  wbioh,  for  any  reuoa,  we  do  notj 
pciot;  and  to  this  mle  we  can  make  no  exceptioo. 


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(Tka  LBAUBNUALL  I'HBBft.  UA  .  PaMi.lianud  ]>rlBt«n. 
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Msa.  I*,  per  d«a«a,  rolad  or  plala 

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raapaaalhia  tar iBe laea a(  lUB.  kj  Broar  oiBeraiae.  Uaplleaio eoplaa 
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tmxf,  «a«f«i  Itfaaii  (not  a  ri>T).  Mod  (vo  aiaatpe  le  eatar  poataf* 
lor  a  Muapla  MoiUe.  ib«1uUii>(  lit«»  Fatlarr.  Basar  Leaf  Oean. 
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THE    ATHEN^UM 

JOURNAL  OF  ENGLISH  ANI>  FOREIGN    LITERATURE.  SCIENCE, 
THE  FINE  ARTS,  MUSIC,  AND  THE  DRAMA. 


Last  Week's  ATHEKiEUM  contains  Articles  on 

HORACE  for  ENGLISH  READERS.  The  NOVELS  of  Sir  A.  OONAN  DOYLE. 

The  LIFE  of  LORD  8KAT0N.  The  I'OKMS  of  MaNGAN. 

CONTRIBUTIONS  to  ENGLISH  CHURCH  HISTORY.  AUSTRALIAN  LIFE  and  LBTTERS. 

FRENCH  STUDIES  of  EGYITIAN  RELIGION.  SPORTS  and  PASTIMES. 

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LOlfUOif,  HATLRDAY,  JA.SIAUY  16,  im. 


CONTENTS. -No.  3. 


nOTB8  :— The  Ip«»l<ih  Apprentice  Books,  41  —  Burtnn'i 
'  Atmbniny  o(  tfelAnchoIy,'  4a—'  AdArou  to  Poverty  '— 
Pronunoi'&tlon  of  Seoul,  4U  — 8hakMpt»rUn  Altuilnot— 
Downing  Family  —  Blbllo(lr»phy  of  Bpltapba —  ' Martin 
Ohuzzlewit  '—Fraudulent  Ameruaui  Diploma*,  41—"  New 
facta  re^ardiaK  Sbakespeue,"  45  —  Wut  Haaidon  Fluld- 
namec,  48. 

QUBRIBS  :— Weatem  Rebellion,  1M9,  46  — Qlowworm  or 
Firefly— Tln»el  Charactera— 'Oxford  Uolversity  Oaleodar ' 

—  Fltzhnmon— Veniion  in  Bummer  — Comber  Family— 
"  Synclironlw "' ;  "  Altcrniitt  "  —  '  Aurora  L«l|;b  '—Duke 
of  SuflolWi  Head,  47— '  Willy  Wood  and  Greedy  Qri«le' 

—  Bohert  aile«- We(t-C!ouatry  Fair  — St.  Patrick  at 
Orvieto  —  Tockett  —  Herbert  Sprnoer  on  Billiard*-"  All 
rxMds  lead  to  Rome"— Cspt.  Death,  48— A.  C.  Swinburne 
— Batelgb't  Head—"  ICeynca  "  mud  "  Khinea,"  40. 

BRPLIBS  -— Tbe  Mother  of  Rlnua,  40— Immurement  Alive 
— Cardlnala-Wykehamlcal  Word  "  Toyi."  fiO-"FI«cal" 
—Dr.  Parkin* —SUake«pcare'a  Geotfrapby— Qlaaa  Manu- 
facture, ni  — Morganatic  Marrl^ige— Bmmet  Md  De  Fon- 
teony  Letter* —Carion— Pamela— Tidecwell  and  TIdealow, 
fta —  "  Paper*,"  6:i —" Chaperoned  hy  her  falber"- Flo- 
tltlous  Latin  Pluraii  — "O  com*,  all  ye  faithful,"  54— 
"From  whence"— Ban^n  WainirriKbt  —  Boui  or  Rowie 
Family,  6-S— Obildren'*  Carol*  aod  Lullabie*— Quotation* 
—  KlKut  Hon.  Biiward  Southwell,  5S— 'Memoir*  of  a 
StoniACb  '—Envelope*,  b'. 

HOTKS  ON  BOOKS  :-Inne*'i  '  New  Am*t«rdam  and  tU 
People '-CUrke'*  '  Rlrgia  Oralana'-' Burlington  Maca- 
dne' — 'Scrlbiier'a  Ma((azin«' — Book*eUer«'  Catalogue*. 

RoUoM  to  CorrwiK>n<l<:nt«, 


THE  IPSWICH  APPRENTICE  BOOKS. 

The  ftoding  of  these  books  was  Qoite  acci- 
dental. When  I  first  went  to  the  Town  Hall 
and  a»kc<l  to  be  allowed  to  aeetbeearlv  Appren- 
tice Books,  I  was  told,  as  others  iiad  oeen 
before  me,  that  there  were  none.  A  Hyetematic 
search  among  the  accuuulatious  in  the  muni- 
ment room  inij^ht,  it  was  admitted,  lead  to 
the  diacoverv  of  a  few  scattered  indentures, 
but  the  re«ult«  would  never  repay  one's  time 
and  labour,  while  as  for  any  otticial  register 
of  enrolments,  none  had  ever  been  known  to 
.  exist. 

Reference  to  the  catalogues  so  obligingly 
|)rovi'led  for  tlie  u»e  of  searchers  seemed  to 
put  thi?  view  of  the  case  beyond  question, 
^he^c  catalogues  are  two  in    number— the 

uport  of    the  Royal   Coramijtsion  on   His- 

>rical  Manuscripts,  1883,  Ipswich  section, 
a  manuscript  catalogue  compile<l   bj'  a 

imntn»'.iit  private  hand  in  188i).     Both  are 

the  outcome  of  much  patient  and 

1.  research,  and  in  neither  of  them 

there  any  mention  of  indentures  of  appren- 
iofiMhip  prior  to  1700. 

In  tiiese  circumstances  I  was  quite  pro- 
;»ared    to   accept    the   Ipswich    Apprentice 


Books  as  a  myth,  when  chance  placed  the 
books  themselves— or,  rather,  what  remains 
of  them— in  raj-  hands. 

While  scanning  the  pages  of  the  Report  on 
Historical  MSS.  I  happened  to  observe  that 
a  certain  register  is  described  as  containing 
early  assessment  lists,  and  thinking  that 
these  lists  might  perhaps  include  certain 
names  in  whicii  I  am  interested,  I  asked  for 
the  book. 

It  proved  to  be  a  thick,  small  folio,  bound 
in  ola  parchment.  The  modern  label  on  the 
back  reads:  "Register  of  Deetls  and  Wills, 
45  Elizabeth  to  IC'iI " ;  but  the  moment  I 
opened  the  volume  I  saw  that  the  label  was 
wrong.  The  familiar  ''This  Indenture" 
caught  my  eye,  and  turning  page  after  page, 
to  the  number  of  several  hundreds,  I  louaa 
nearly  the  whole  book  filled  with  articles  of 
apprenticeship.  It  was,  in  fact,  one  of  tbe 
"  lost "  Apprentice  Books. 

One  other  similar  register  appears  on  the 
calendar,  and  this  I  immediately  had  oat. 
But  here  I  was  disappointed,  for  the  rej^ister, 
although  containing  a  score  or  two  of  inden- 
tures, is  chiefly  made  up  of  deeds  and  wills. 
This  volume  is  a  heavy,  large  quarto,  bound 
in  old  leather,  and  the  period  it  covers  is 
29  Henry  VIII.  to  3  Elizabeth. 

Between  this  register  and  the  one  purport- 
ing to  begin  45  Elizabeth  there  is  a  lament- 
able gap,  such  as,  I  fear,  no  lucky  chance  can 
ever  bridge.  Repeated  search  has  been  made 
for  the  missing  volume,  but  without  succeaa. 
The  gap  is  not  quite  so  wide,  however,  as 
the  fallacious  label  of  the  later  volume  would 
lead  one  to  suppose,  since  the  date  of  the 
earliest  indenture  in  this  volume  is  1582. 

The  two  registers  contain  altogether  about 
421  indentures,  of  which  40  are  enrolled  in 
the  earlier  volume,  21)  Henry  VIII.  to  3  Eliza- 
beth, and  381  in  the  later.  It  will  thus  be 
seen  that  the  important  period  1582  to  1651 
is  remarkably  well  represented. 

A  brief  search  among  the  old  court  rolls  of 
the  borough  brought  to  light  two  otiier  Eliza- 
bethan indentures.  These  are  originals, 
neatly  engrossed  on  parchment,  antl  in  both 
cases  they  have  been  utilized  as  covers  for 
rolls. 

To  turn  next  to  the  indentures  themselves, 
a  careful  analysis  of  the  enrolments  di.scloses 
some  highly  interesting  facts.  Of  the  423 
lads  and  lasses  (for  3  are  girls)  who  of  their 
own  free  will  and  accord  bound  themselves 
apprentices  to  various  trades,  I  became  a 
chandler,  5  butchers,  14  tailors.  20  shoe- 
makers, and  50  shipwrights  ;  while  228,  or 
rather  more  than  one-half,  succumbed  to 
"the  art,  craft,  and   mystery  of  the  sea." 


43 


NOTES  AKD  QUERIES. 


[W^SLLJas.!^! 


When  we  remeaber  bow  beAvy  vm  Uw 
eougnUioo  £roai  Ipswidi  aad  nei^boBxiiood 
between  tbe  years  1090  aod  1650,  this  iMi  b 
sorely  ose  of  greet  ajgniftniica 

Tbe  nwiority  of  t£e  kpfneatkcs  w«re,  at 
ooane.  Suffolk  hd%  bat  Dot  alL  WUk  19 
bafled  from  Eaaex.  and  18  fram  Norfolk, 
▼arions  other  coantiet  foond  oiaaten  in  the 
town,  or  oat  of  the  port  of  Ipswich,  for  -II  of 
their  restleas  sons. 

Fifteen  out  of  tbe  423  were  tbe  aocn  of 
gentlemen,  and  nearly  all  of  theae  were 
apprenticed  to  tbeaea. 

I    have   made  comfdete  abstncte  of  tbe 
indentures,  and  flhall  be  PJeaaed  to 
any  inqoiries  concemiiUE  tneai. 

M.  B.  Hmnsmov. 

87,  Lower  Brook  Strwt,  Ipawieh. 


BURTON'S  '  ANATOMY  OF  MELANCHOLY.' 

(See  9*  8.  li.  Wl.  222.  383, 322, 441 ;  xiL  2, «; 
lfl2,  aOl,  362,  442.) 

Ttre  first  six  of  the  following  notee  oogbt 
to  have  been  given  earlier. 

Vol.  i.  p.  13,  1.  23  ;  2,  4e,  "mihi  A  mnsia." 
See  lipeiQii,  '  Eplitolic.  Qusest.,'  lib.  iii.  epi  6 
(to  Joeeph  Scaliger) :  "  Non  est  alia  conaolatio 
qoam  ilia  Antigenidse,  iiihi  ik  Mosis."  For 
the  allusion  see  Cicero,  '  Brutiw,'  30, 167. 

P.  20, 1. 13  ;  6, 39,  "scriptoresntaalatentar."' 
See  Strada,  'Prolaaiones  Acad.,'  lib.  iii. 
pnelect.  i.  (p.  335  in  Lyons  ed.,  1627) : 
*'  Exeditque  maltos  mala  hiec  scabies.  Poets 
ul  vnlgo  walatentar "  ;  and  cf.  Hor.,  'A.  P.,' 
87. 

|»,  20,  n.  10 ;  6,  n.  x,  "  Exercit.  28a"  This 
reforciicxi  t4>  J.  C  Hcaligor  vt  left  uncorrected 
by  BhilleU;.     It  nhould'ho  22H.  3. 

R  St.  n.  H;  H,  n.  d,  "  Fam.  Strada,  Momo." 
H«e  hi*  '  FroluN.  Ac»fl.,'  iii.  1  (p.  33&  of  ed. 
tilled;.  Tl)«)  fthturd  "volitando"  in  left  by 
HhillnUt.  It  should,  of  (Ddrii!  bo  voluitindf). 
Ktra<lii'M     w:ir<U      "  ■  :'-.nt"    are     an 

adaptation  of  i'laut,      i  ';2,  a  line  which 

wa«i  unwi  by  Au^iouiuii  (a(>3.  i). 

P.  22,  Ji.  13  ;  M,  ri.  f,  "In  opitaph.  Nep,," 
tie.   The  pnMn^tt  cif  Jnromo  in  trom  Epint.  W>, 

LIO  ;   vt)f.  xxii.  col.   r>iir>  of  Migne'u  *  Patr. 
it' 

p.  31,  n.  7;  13)  ti.  q,  "Non  hio  colonuH." 
Ac.  To  Ihift  apparontly  bolongn  BartC)ti« 
imm«liat<'ly  r»ri)(-i'dirin  iiotii :  "Put.  Nnnniu.i 
not.  in  Mor. '  S<>g  I'ot.  Nnnriiu<4.  '  MiMc«'l 
ianoa,'  lib.  iv.  c  2«  ;  vol.  i.  p.  l2HJi  of  Oruter'H 
'Tliwiiunn  CriliouM':  "Kko,  i"  iloratijitilH 
non  (nn(]Uiini  colonin  doiiiiciliuin  liaLnjo,  iit»<l 
topinrii  >"  <<>>>iiMit  iril^ir  [»ro«rodiiinduiii  hiiic 
iiidn  lliii  >."     I  won  unablu  to  ciinNull 

tliii  '  'ri>'  ^vh()n  writing  my  lant  pa|H!r. 


P.  JB,  L  17,  and  S.  3  ;  17,  n.  a,  **  A«rip|» 
de  ooc  WSi,.. — Pnt  Lectori"  See  dn.  x  S 
veno  of  GofMBn  Anippa^  *Op^'^>L  LX 
Lyoaa  (per  Dtoiama fciitewi.  •a,\  UShtUeto 
mv  tbe  orisiaK  paaMflB  bis  tmnrfatioo 
•hoald  bftve  beas  impoMblB. 

P.  la,  L  » ;  17,  SS^  »*a  Hiaraa  eat  oC 
•Srang  imaciBaSaoQ,*  Ac     Ep^  32;  Mi 
'  E^tr.  Lat^^ToL  xxd.  ooL  3U. 

P.  aa,  L  31  ;  17.  41,  "carea  ttoltorUB."  CL 
Pdtag.,  *Zod.  ViL,'  isL  44:  '*BWMlae  stal* 

40^  L  14:  18,  38^  "leasbter  itaelf  ia 
aiiiiimiiiigtoSohMDQo.     "--*-"--^ 

P.  41,  L  9 ;  19.  18,  **  Wbicfa  Denocrita? 
well  BignHWH  is  an  Eptatle  of  Im  to  Hippo- 
ctmtea.'^    Hipp^  £pu  la,  L 

P.  43,0.  8;  90^  n,  *  "Ufai  SL  Platoots 
CooTiTia*  Syinp.  231,  c,  a  Tbia  ■^^'tripfft  is 
twenty-fifth  in  the  order  of  tbe  I^yooa  ed. 

of  i5oa 

p.  431  n.  4 ;  90,  n.  a,  **natane  wmenlaaii'' 
[D.  Hernnns,  *Orat.  m  los.  SoaSgeci TtaMro/ 

p.  51  in  his  'Orat,*  ed.  nov.,  16J2J ;  **tp^ 
eroditio''  [Heins.,  op.  ciL,  p.  46,  "qui  abiqoe 
nomen  ScaJigeri  famam^oe^  non  at  erttditi 
hominisj  aed  at  eruditionis  osorpare  aolent^; 
"  sol  scientiaram,  mare "  [ih.^  p.  51,  '^•cien- 

tiarum  mare doctomm  Solem  "I ;  "aotistes 

literarnm  et  sapientise''  [cf.  the  Utle  of 
.\abertus  Mirseus's'Yita  lusti  Lipsi  Sapientise 
et  Litterarum  Antistitis'J ;  "Aqaila  in  nubi- 
bus  "  [Lips.,  Epist.,  CenL  t.  misc.  ep.  6,  to  Jos. 
Seal.,  "  Aqaila  in  nabibu.<),  (^nod  Gneci  dicunt, 
vere  tu  es^;  "columen  literanim  "  [Liptt., 
Ep.,  Cent.  iL  misc.  31]  ;  "  abvssus  eruditionis" 
[deina.,  C7>.  at.,  51]  •  '' ocellus  Euronie,  Scali- 
ger  "  [Lips.,  Epist.,  Quiest.,  i.  8,  to  Joe.  ScaL,. 
'*  ocelle  Europ»  Scaliger  "].  f 

P.  13,  1.  13  ;  20,  28,  "  dictators."    Heins.,  op"! 
cit.,  51,  "  alii  perpetuom  literartim  Dictatorem 
vocAr©-  *' 

K  43,  I.   17:  20,  31,  "Atlas"  [Lips.,   Ep.,j 
tJont.  i,  misc.  C]  :  "portentum  hominis"  [setf' 
Heins.,  op.  cit,  50J ;  "orbis  universi  rausseum" 
[Hcins.,    op.    cit.,    59,    of   Scaliger's   houfe] : 
"ultimus    humanae    naturte    conatua "    [see 
Heins.,  op.  cit.,  51]. 

P.  43,  I.  19  ;  20,  33, 

— merito  oui  doctior  orbia 
HabmisBU  dofert  fasoibua  iroperiuin, 

ia  taken  from  Lipa.,  Ep.,  Cent.  i.  misc.  21, 
where  it  is  appliea  to  J.  J.  Scaliger. 

V.  44, 1.  11  ;  21,  6, "  scurra  Atticua,  aaZeno." 
Cic,  '  N.  I).,'  i.  34,  9.3. 

P.  44,  I.  14;  21,  8,  "Theod[oretu8]  Cyren. 
hIh."  Oricc.  Affect.  Curat-,  serm.  xii.  ;  Migoe'a 
'  Patr.  Oneo.,*  vol.  Ixxxiii.  coL  1140,  1141. 

P.   46,  n,  4:    21,  n.  b,  "Cor  Zenodoti  et 


W^  8.  L  Jan.  16.  19W.1  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


43 


^ 
^ 


jecur  Cratetis."  Last  line  of  an  epigram 
of  ^I.  Furiug  Bibaculus  on  P.  Valerius  Cato, 
given  by  Suetonius,  '  De  Grammaticis,'  xi. 

P.  45,  1.  21;  21,  44,  "Quis  est  sapiens? 
Solus  Deus,  Pythagoras  replies."  Diog. 
Laert,  'Pnxem./s,  12. 

P.  45, 1.  23  ;  21,  45,  "only  good,  as  Auatine 
well  contends."  '  De  Nat.  Bon.  coutr. 
Mauich.,'  39;  vol.  xlii.  col.  563  in  Migne's 
'  Patr.  Lat.'  The  reference  "  Lib.  de  Nat. 
Boni"  is  wrongly  attached  in  Burton,  and 
left  by  Shilleto. 

P.  46. 1.  5  ;  22,  11.  "asini  bipedes."  Paling., 
'Zod.  Vit,'  ix.  58G  and  xii.  3J4. 

P.  40,  1.  19  ;  22.  2.3,  "as  Lactantius  provea 
out  of  Seneca."  Lact,  'Inst.,'  ii.  4,  14  ;  Sen,, 
'Fr.,'121  {Haase). 

P.  48,  29  ;  23,  37,  "  Hippocratea,  in  hia 
Epistle  to  Damagetus."    Ep.  17- 

P.  53,  n.  6  ;  27,  n.  x,  "  E.  Oriec.  epig."  '  Anth. 
P.'ix.  148.  3-4. 

P.  53,  n.  7  ;  27.  n.  y,  "Eras.  Moria."  P.  39, 
ed.  1851 ;  a  quarter  through  the  *  Enc.  Mor.' 

P.  55,  n.  6  ;  28,  n.  *.  The  reference  to 
Josephus  should  be  lib.  v.  c.  9  (69,  70).  The 
Latin  version  is  that  by  RufinuH  of  Aquileia. 
See  vol.  i.  of  Card  well's  ed.  of  the  •  De  Bell. 
Jud."  (Ox.,  1837). 

P.  m,  n.  7  ;  28,  n.  h,  Seneca.  'Fr.,'  34,  ap. 
Augustin.,  '  De  Civ.  Dei,'  vi.  10. 

P.  59, 1.  6  :  30,  12,  "ignoto  cselutn  clangore 
remugit."    Mart.  Capella,  v.  425, 1.  2. 

Edwabd  Bensly, 

The  University.  Adelaide,  South  Australia. 
(To  be  eoHtinued.) 


I 


•ADDRESS  TO  POVERTY': 
BY  CHARLES  LAMB? 
A  LKTTKRof  Mr.  R.  A.  Potta  in  the  AthentFutfi 
of  3  October,  190.3,inducesme  to  hope  that  that 
gentleman  may  be  able  to  afford  a  clue  to  the 
authorship  of  some  lines  which  were  pub- 
lished unaer  tlie  above  title  in  '  The  Poetical 
Register,  and  Repository  of  Fugitive  Poetry, 
for  18136-7,'  London,  1811,  vol.  vi.  p.  264.  The 
lines  wore  ^jigned  with  the  initial  L.,  and  dated 
1  February,  1796.  As  they  were  printed  in 
the  seotioD  of  'Fugitive  Poetry,'  they  had 
prwumably  been  published  earlier  in  some 
other  form.  By  a  letter  from  the  e<litor, 
K.  A-  Davenport,  addressed  to  Miss  ilitford 
under  date  17  Januan*,  1811,  and  printefl  in 
the  Rev.  A.  G.  L'Estranee's  book,  'The 
Friendships  of  Mary  Russell  Mitford,'  i.  56, 
it  would  appear  that  tho  authorship  of  the 
lines  lay  between  Charles  Lamb  and  Charles 
Lloyd.  Though  Coleridge  or  Lamb  might 
reasonably  invoke  the  muse  of  poverty,  there 
seems  no  ground  for  Lloyd,  who  was  tne  son 


of  a  banker  in  easy  circumstances,  to  do  so, 
nor  do  I  think  that  in  the  second  month  of 
1796  he  had  come  sufficiently  under  the 
influence  of  Coleridge  to  write  poetry  of  this 
pessimistic  cast.  At  the  date  at  which  the 
lines  were  written.  Lamb  wa.s  just  emerging 
from  the  asylum  at  Hoxton,  in  which  he  had 
been  confined  during  the  winter  of  1795-6, 
and  hia  mind  was  attuned  to  the  gloomy 
atmosphere  in  which  the  jwem  is  envelopodf. 
I  will  venture  to  subjoin  a  transcript  of  the 
lines  as  a  pendant  to  the  sonnet  under  a 
similar  title  which  is  conjecturally  attributed 
to  Coleridge  by  Mr.  Potts  :— 

ADDRESS  TO    rOVERTT. 

'Tis  not  that  look  of  anguish,  bath'd  in  tesrn, 
0,  Poverty  !  thy  haggard  visage  wears— 
Tis  not  those  famish  d  limbs,  naked,  and  bare 
To  the  bleak  tempest's  rains,  or  the  keen  air 
Of  winter's  piercinij  winds,  nor  that  sad  eye 
Imploring  the  small  boon  of  charity— 
'Tis  not  that  voice,  whose  agoni^.ing  tale 
Might  turn  the  purple  cheek  of  grandeur  pale  ; 
Nor  all  the  host  of  woes  thou  bnngst  with  thee. 
Insult,  contempt,  disdain,  and  contumely, 
That  bid  nie  call  the  fate  of  those  forlorn, 
Who  'neath  thy  rude  oppression  sigh  and  juoum : 
But  chief,  relentless  pow'r  !  thy  hard  control. 
Which  to  the  earth  bends  low  th'  aspiring  soul ; 
Thine  iron  Krasp,  thy  fetters  drear,  which  bind 
Each  gen'rouB  effort  of  the  .strugi^ling  niiud  !— 
Alas !  that  Genius,  melancholy  iHow'r, 
Scarce  op'ning  yet  to  Kven's  nurturing  show'r, 
Shou'd  by  thy  ]iitilo&B  and  cruel  doom. 
Wither,  ere  nature  sntilea  upon  her  bloom ; 
That  Innocence,  touch'd  by  thy  dead'niiig  wand.  '"^ 
Shou'd  pine,  nor  know  one  outstreteh'n  guardian 

hand  ! 
For  this,  O  Poverty  !  for  them  I  sigh, 
Tho  helpless  victims  of  thy  tyranny  ! 
For  this,  I  call  the  lot  of  those  severe. 
Who  wander  'mid  thy  haunts,  and  pine  unheeded 

there !  L. 

Feb.  1,  179(!. 

It  is  hardly  outside  the  range  of  possibility 
that  Coleridge  and  Lamb  may  both  have  set 
themselves,  in  friendly  competition,  to  write 
verses  on  a  subject  which  at  a  certain  period 
of  their  lives  possessefj  in  each  case  some  ele- 
ments of  personal  interest. 

W.  F.  Peideaux. 


Seoul  :  its  PRONUNcuxioy.  —  Standard 
works  on  Corea  leave  us  in  doubt  as  to  the 
spelling  and  pronunciation  of  this  name. 
Dr.  Griffis,  in  fits  'Corea,'  1882.  p.  188,  writes 
as  follows : — 

"The common  term  applied  to  tho  royal  city  i» 

Seoul,  which  means  the  capital Seoul  is  properly 

a  common  noun,  but  by  popular  use  has  become  a 
proper  name,  which,  in  English,  nmy  bo  correctly 
written  with  a  capital  iuiliat.  .•\coording  to  the 
locality  whence  they  come,  the  natives  pronounce 
the  name  Say'-ool,  bnay'-ool,  or  Suy'-oor.' 

Inability  to  distinguish  between  s  and  «A,  or 


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/  and  r,  is  a  feature  of  both  the  Corean  and 
Japanese  languages.  Ou  the  other  hand, 
Capt.  Cavendish  (1894)  always  writes  Soul, 
ana  says  it  is  "pronounced  Sowl  by 
foreigners,  but  Soul  by  the  natives."  It 
ama  admitted  that  the  word  is  of  two 
_/llable8,  stressed  on  the  first,  and  that  the 
second  syllabic  rimes  with  English  "pool." 
The  difference  of  opinion  refers  only  to  the 
first  syllable,  which  some  observers  hear  as 
English  "say,"  others  as  English  "so."  The 
Germans  accordingly  represent  it  by  the 
intermediate  m  (Soul)  or  fjiJ.  It  is  charac- 
teristic of  the  confusion  which  prevails  that 
Oppert,  in  his  book  'A  Forbidden  Land,' 
]880,  gives  Saoul  (iic)  as  the  name  of  the  city, 
but  sjd-ur  in  his  vocabulary  as  the  word  for 
capital.  Jam£8  Platt,  Jun. 

Shake3I'E.vriak  Ajllubiomh.  (See  ante, 
p.  6.)  —  The  following  are  perhaps  worth 
adding  :— 

"  Truly  intendiog  what  the  Trag.  Q.  but  fainedly 

In  second  hiuband  let  mee  bee  accurst ; 
NoDe  weds  the  second  but  who  kils  the  first: 
A  necond  time  I  kill  uiy  husband  dead. 
When  sccoikI  husband  kisses  nice  in  bed." 

'The  Philoaojihers  Itanquet,'  3rd  edit., 
1(33,  p.  17-2. 

Printed  also  in   the  second  edition  of  this 
book,  1614,  p.  150. 

"  And  the  longer  our  life  ia,  the  more  uumeruvis 
are  our  ainnes,  even  whole  miriofU't:  and  at  laat 
comes  death,  and  with  a  little  pin  bores  through 
our  wall  of  health,  so  farewell  main."— J  hid.,  p.  25.1 

"This  goodly  frame  of  the  world"  {ibid., 
p,  321)  is  perhaps  reminiscent  of  Hamlet. 

•'The  frighted  jndgnient  of  his  braio,  that  ihen 
wae  ray'd  with  his  own  hair,  standing  stiifo  an  end, 
like  ported  featJiers  of  some  Porcupine." — '  HerUa 
Parietis,'  Thomas  Bayly,  16.10,  p.  51. 

"/  thoiujht At  hail  Ijctn  alilt.  to  /larc  pluckt 

bright  Honour  from  the  pale-fac'd  Moooe."— /7>i(i., 
1>.  124. 

There  sits  Ben  Jolinson  like  a  Tetrarch, 
With  Chaucer,  Carew.  Shakeapcar,  Petrarch. 
'  Maronidci,  a  New  Paraphrase  upon   the 
Sixth  Uook  of  Virgil's  .Eueids,'  John 
Phillip».  rnili,  J).  108. 
All  in  lac'd  Coats  of  Soarlet  Chamlet ; 
And  with  them.  Prince  of  JJniinnrk  Hamltf, 

Jl>id.,i>.  IW, 
This  Kngine  curst  Sycorax  her  self  could  subdue, 
And  they  did  a  Viceroy  out  of  Trincalo  hew, 
"See  I  he  famous  *  History  of  the  Tempest,  or  the 
Inchanted    Island,'    wh«r»?    thii    is     enplaiued."— 
* MaggotB.' Sii        '  "■  ■      1.116,118. 

When  loft  iim  your  Pen, 

Methinki  ' 
•To  .Ni 


Downing  Family.— The  following  entry  is 
to  be  found  in  one  of  the  registers  of  Spex- 
haU,  Suffolk  :- 

"A.O.  Fullerton,  E«i.,  27,  Chaiwl  Street.  Park 
Lane,  W.,  writes  to  me  December  1,  1370,  thus,  in 
reference  to  the  family  of  Downing,  whose,  name  so 
early  and  fretiuently  occurs  in  this  Regisler  Book  : 
*  I  have  a  pedigree  of  the  family  from  the  Conquest 
downwards.' " 

As  the  author  of  the  '  History  of  Downing 
College,'  r  have  in  vain  tried  to  find  out  any- 
thing about  Mr.  Fullerton. 

H.  W.  P.  Stkvens,  LL.D. 

Tadlow  Vicarage,  Royston,  Herts. 

Epitaphs  :  their  Bibliooraphy.— Notices 
of  works  on  epitaphs  have  apneared  in  3"'  S. 
iii.  287,  356,  and  v.  191,  but  they  do  not  in- 
clude various  books  also  existing  on  the 
subject,  e.g.,  "  A  Collection  of  Epitaphs  and 
Monumental  In.scriptions,  by  Silvester  Tis- 
singtou"  (London,  1857),  517  pp.,  the  most 
comprehensive  I  know.  It  would  be  very 
useful  if  a  list  of  works  were  available  up  to 
date,  as  several  have  been  published  in  recent 
years.  W.  B.  H- 

Dickensiana  :  '  Maetix  Chuzzlewit.'— I 
have  recently  noticed  a  slip  in  '  Martin  Chuz- 
zlewit,'  which — so  far  as  I  am  aware — has 
not  been  pointed  out  by  any  correypondeut 
in'X.A(D.' 

Pecksnili  is  in  the  vestry  of  the  village 
church.  He  had  just  overheanl  a  conversa- 
tion between  Tom  Pinch  and  Mary  Graham 
while  he  was  resting  in  the  churchwardens' 
pew  after  a  long  stroll  on  a  warm  summer 
afternoon  ;  and  he  had  intended  to  slip  out 
by  a  window  in  the  vestry,  because  Tom 
Pinch  had  lock&l  the  door  of  the  church  ou 
leaving  it  with  Mary  :— 

"He  was  in  a  curious  frame  of  mind,  Mt.  Peck- 
sniff: being  in  no  hurr>'  to  go,  but  ratln 
t.o  a  dilatory  trifling  with  the  litiie,  whi'  t 
him  to  open  the  vestry  euuboard,  if-^  ' 
self  in  the  parson's  little  glass  that  < 

door He  also  took  the  liberty  ot 

cupboard;  but  he  sliut  it  up  again  uui 
rather  i^t&rtled  by  the  sight  of  n  b/nrl- 
ourpfii-t  dangling  against  the  wall,  whu  . 
much  the  u^'iicaraiice  of  two  curates  wh^ 
nutted  suicide  by  hanging  themselves.''-  i 
vol.  ii.  p.  W,  Gadshill  F-dition. 

Dickens  evidently  intended  to  say  s  gfrttm 
and  a  guri>lic<:.      An    academical    gown,   of 
course,  is  black  :  a  surplice  is  invariably  white. 
Frederick  B.  Firman,  al.A. 
Castleacre,  SH-aflfham,  Norfolk, 


1 


pii  I 

Kuwicatioua,'  IU»»,  A.  li. 

G.  TiiowfDaottY. 


a'LENT      .V.MEP.ICAN      DiPLoMAS      AND 

■  -.  (See  references  qu<jtcd  at  0'^  S. 
xii.  Itil.)— A  certain  matron  in  repented  in 
the  AOttxI«H  Fttt  Pit»»,  S9  April,   ir«t3,   ta 


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have  hftd  the  honorary  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Laws  conferred  on  her  oy  the  Barrett 
College,  North  Carolina,  but,  shame  to  nay, 
both  college  and  decree  are  fictitious.  This 
is  a  timely  illustration  of  my  article  in  the 
last  volume.  There  is  no  institution  of  this 
name  in  North  Carolina,  but  there  is  one 
suggestively  similar  in  sound,  "  Barrett 
Collegiate  and  Industrial  Institute/'  at  Pee 
Dee,  N.C.,  under  the  charge  of  its  founder, 
the  Rev.  A.  M.  Barrett,  D.D.,  LL.D.  The 
Institute  has  a  useful  place  for  its  purpose  as 
a  school  for  negroes  (Keport  of  the  Commia- 
siouer  of  Education,  1901,  pp.  2318,  2328),  or, 
as  said  in  its  charter  of  12  March,  189.%  "for 
the  education  and  industrial  training  of 
colored  people,''  with  "all  the  corporate 
powers,  nehts,  and  immunities  of  trustees  of 
similar  colleges  in  North  Carolina,"  including 
the  "power  to  confer  all  such  degrees  a.s  are 
usually  conferred  in  colleges  or  universities" 
(see  Curriculum  of  the  Barrett  Collegiate  and 
Industrial  Institute,  Pee  Dee,  North  Caro- 
lina). As  to  the  conferring  of  degree  in 
Europe,  Dr.  Barrett  writes  (19  August,  1903) : 

"  We  have  a  Board  of  Directors  in  that  country, 
and  we  are  governed  by  them.  We  do  not  sell  any 
degree  whatever.  If  a  genllemaii  wUh  to  aid  us, 
we  thank  him,  and  as  thoro  has  been  ao  much  said 
through  the  pajiers  al)out  the  oollege  in  Tenn.,  we 
shall  be  very  careful,  as  we  have  already  been." 

The  source  of  the  lady's  LL.D.  degree  is 
obvious,  and  bo  is  its  value ;  so  is  also  the 
difficulty  of  providing  against  all  abuses  of 
the  degree-confernng  power.  There  appears 
to  be  no  limit  to  the  power  of  this  Institute, 
and  an  M.D.  or  D.D.  is  as  ea-sily  conferred  as 
the  LL.D.  The  coloured  gentleman  at  the 
head  of  the  Institute  is  probably  expressing 
truly  hia  own  feeling  :  "  We  are  struggling 
to  educate  the  race,  and  we  are  compelled  to 

Eush  if  we  are  to  make  it."  If  we  read 
Btween  the  lines  we  can  realize  the  whole 
situation  ;  but  there  is  no  excuse  for  the 
State's  granting  any  such  unlimited  power, 
or  for  the  powers  bein^  exercised  in  Scotland, 
or  for  any  one's  accepting  an  unknown  degree 
from  abroad. 

As  I  write,  the  following  satisfactory'  note 
comes  in  from  the  Commissioner  of  Educa- 
tion, dated  9  September,  1903  :— 

"The  name  of  Barrett  College  in  North  Carolina 

iloei  not  ajiftear  on  any  of  the  lists  of  edacational 

'uatitutionx  i>iiti!i»h»»d  by  this  office,  and  I  have  no 

*  rn  i        i!.     The  Barrett  C'ollo«iate 

■it  Pee  Dee,  North  Caro- 

■  1   tlio  edncation  of  colored 

All   ol   Its   teitchers  are  of  the  colored 

nd  it  (irmn  not  havo  any  students  in  college 

^--.-^■■—-  to  the  oataloffiie,  it  claims  to 

l»av.  lied  in  November   17.  Ii:<91,  by 

the  t  of  North  Carolina.    It  is  pos- 


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siblo  that  the  right  to  grant  degrees  was  conferred 
by  the  charter,  but  the  institution  is  classed  as  a 
secondary  school." 

James  Qammack,  LL.D. 
West  Hartford,  Conn.,  U.S. 

*'  New  facts  reoardino  Shakespkabe."— 
Some  time  ago,  in  an  editorial  note  appended 
to  a  letter  in  '  N.  ii  Q.,'  you  stated  that  you 
wanted  some  "new  facts  regarding  Shake- 
speare," not  "new  theories  about  what  he  may 
or  may  not  have  writteru" 

"New  facts"  about  Shakespeare  are  so 
rare— since  the  appearance  of  Mr.  Sidney 
Lee's  standard  'Life'— that  I  have  had  great 
difficulty  in  landing  a  fish  that  will  be  con- 
aidered  fresh  enough  for  the  taste  of  vour 
readers,  but  I  think  I  have  hooked  a  likely 
one  iu  *  ShakeHoeare's  Life '  as  written  by 
Mr.  A.  H.  Wall,  lor  some  time  "  Librarian  of 
the  Shakespeare  Memorial"  at  Stratford — 
'  A  New  Biography  of  the  Poet,  deduced  from 
Facts  as  Fire  is  from  Smoke  and  Flame  from 
Sparks,'  as  the  title  informs  us. 

Mr.  Wall  took  to  taj»k  Aubrey  for  relating 
"  new  facts "  which  came  within  his  ken, 
although  "  the  old  gossip  "  had  declared  they 
were  "  things  which,  for  want  of  intelligence, 
being  antiquated,  have  become  too  obscure 
and  dark."  Mr.  Wall  was  specially  indignant 
with  Aubrey  for  venturing  to  state  ;— 

"  His  [Shakespeare's]  father  was  a  butcher,  and  I 
have  been  told  heretofore  by  some  of  liis  neiKhboura 
that  when  he  wna  a  boy  he  exercised  his  father's 
trade  ;  but  when  he  killed  a  calf,  he  would  do  it  m 
hi^h  style  and  make  a  sijeech." 
This  was  similar  to  what  Mr.  Gladstone  did 
at  Dalmeny,  when  he  was  cutting  down  a 
tree  in  Lord  Rosebery's  domains,  But  Mr. 
Wall  calls  Aubrey's  statement  a  "fallacy," 
and  for  "true  biography  "  substitutes  the 
following : — 

"  In  fancy  we  can  Bee  him,  while  boms  roaso 
workers  ana  the  cocks  are  crowing,  stripped  to  the 
waist  and  having  a  good  wash  in  the  pump  in  his 
father's  back  yard.  Anon  he  urescnta  himself  to 
his  mother  ready  for  school,  and  when  she  has  seen 
that  her  darling's  hair  is  well  brushed,  his  gown 
clean,  his  flat  cap  free  from  dust,  and  his  white 
collar  neatly  tied,  she  gives  him  a  kiss  and  a  hug, 
which  he  returns  with  greater  heartiness,  and  then 
away  he  runs,  having  a  nod  and  good-night  for  tho 
tired  watchman  as  be  goes  oat,  and  for  the  comine 
workpeople  many  good-mornings.  And  they  all 
had  0  pleasant  smile  for  cheery  little  Will." 

As  1  have  been  unable  to  find  these  "  new 
facta  "  in  the  life  of  Shakespeare  recorded  by 
Mr.  Sidney  Lee,  I  send  them  to  you  in  the 
hope  that  they  may  be  considered  worthy 
of  more  extended  publicity  than  they  havo 
hitherto  received. 

Some  time  ago  Mr.  Asquith  stated  thai.  tb» 
work  of  a  Shakespeare  biographer  "is  not 


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[10^  S.  L  3 AS.  l(i,  1001. 


eo  much  an  eHsay  in  biography  as  in  the 
more  or  Um  scientific  use  of  the  bionraphu' 
itiiitjiiiation"  Mr.  Asquith  has  hit  the  nail 
on  tne  head.  George  Stronach. 

FlELD-NAME-S,  WE-ST  H ADDON,  CO,  NORTH- 
AMPTON.—Having  been  at  work  for  some 
time  past  on  the  field-names  of  thia  village,  I 
venture  to  send  to  '  N.  &  Q.'  a  Hat  of  all  but 
the  more  common  designations.  I  know  there 
are  many  readers  interested  in  this  subject, 
and  possibly  thej'  may  be  able  to  Hucgest 
meanings  for  some  of  the  words-  Where 
local  corruptions  occur  I  have  placed  thera 
in  parentheses  after  the  names. 

Hollow  Lour  ("  AU-aloDB  "). 
RodhiU. 
Catchell. 
Neil  Moor. 
Cuokoo  Thorn. 
Duddemore  Hill. 

Riot  Hill.    (Ii  ia  said  that  a  tight  betwe«a  rivul 
gleauers  once  look  place  in  this  field.) 
Rugby  Gap. 
Hawk's  WoU. 
Lane  Hills. 
Huckaback. 
StODopit. 
Lone  Furlong. 
PeasDorough  Hill. 
Duntpll  (^  soft). 
Lunches. 
California 
Shoe  Acres. 
CUv  PiU. 
Peclt  Meadow. 
Lord's  Piece. 
Tentorleys. 
KinK  William. 
Fly  Thome  Close. 
Buttit. 
Wignel. 
Ooppy  .Moor. 
Nether  (jioand. 
Hollow  Moor  Head. 
Marl  Pits. 
Toot  Hill. 
Hedge  irons. 
Broad  Hill. 
Birch  LeysCBySlays"). 

*'•<  li>ae. 

F 

Ti,,.  »i„.  i.,ji  torn  Moor  Farlanda, 
Brown's  I'ongue. 
Rudtnore. 
Narrow  Well. 
Bretch. 
Cockle  Close. 
Pykee. 
Hballoiu. 

Upwards  ("  Upriards"). 
Rye  HillB. 
StaiuD  borough- 
Near  and  Far  Acre  Dykes, 
Flext^rV. 

'*•       ■■      ■  Poor  Man'i*  Close, 

It  'It'll  Hole.    ■ 


Mixhill. 

Stony  HolniB. 

Lower  and  Upper  Punch  BowL 

Mallow  Field. 

Taverner'a  Close  and  Meadow. 

Black  Hill  Meadow. 

Top  and  Bottom  .Tonathan. 

Sedge  Hollow  (''  Sag  Holler  "). 

BoBworth's  ("  BOiuths  "). 

Presty. 

Wheatbo  rough. 

Wad  Close. 

Oroat  Castles. 

Little  Castles  or  Rush  Hill. 

Crump  or  Crumb  Dykei. 

Bush  HilL 

Oakcutta. 

Hunger  Wells. 

Brakehill. 

Marker's  Homo. 

Old  LevB. 

Slade  Acres. 

Felder  Long  and  Hill. 

Capshill  Pit. 

<ireat  Close. 

Thorn  Tree  Close. 

Lime  Pit  Clo«e. 

Fox  Hill  Close. 

Crogborough. 

John  T.  Page. 

West  Hoddon,  Northamptonshire. 


We  must  request  uorrespoudents  desiring  in- 
formation on  family  mailers  of  only  private  iiiU;t^e«t 
to  affix  their  names  and  addresses  to  their  queries, 
in  order  ihat  the  answers  may  be  addressed  to  themi] 
direct. 

Western  Rebelliok  of  1549.— lam  engaged ' 
in  writing  an  account  of  the  ri-sings  in  Devon 
and  Cornwall  against  the  introduction  of 
King  Edward  Vl.'.-i  Prayer  Book,  commonly 
called  the  Western  Kebellion  of  1549.  In 
the  Camden  Society  publication,  'Troubles 
connected  with  the  Prayer  Book,  <Jrc.,'  are  a 
number  of  letters  from  the  Privy  Council  to 
Lord  Russell.  Lord  Privy  Seal,  afttirwards 
the  first  Earl  of  Bedfonl,  in  which  references 
are  made  to  his  letters  to  the  Privy  Council,.] 
describing  the  course  of  events  in  the  West. 
So  far  I  have  been  able  to  trace  only  one 
of  these,  a  copy  having  been  sent  to  Sir 
Pliilip  Hoby,  then  in  Brussels ;  this  is 
preserved  among  the  Add.  MSS.  in  the 
British  Museum.  So  far  as  can  be  - 
the  missing  letters  of  Lord  Bussell'-  ^ 

the  above)  bear  date  12,  18,  22,  iJ  July. 
7,  11,  10  August,  and  7  Soptomhfir.  Thore 
was  also  one  of  22  Septemoei       '  "  '    o 

the  Duke  of  Somerset,     I  shot  i 

obtain  any  inforn;*'  -  '  |-  i  ,, 

discovery  of  tin 
the  MSS.  at  the  J'nii-Mi  jMuti-uiu  hum  .h.  iuaj 


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Record  Office,  and  have  made  inqairiea  at  the 
Office  of  the  Privy  Council.  Any  references 
to  unpablished  document^  however  brief,  re- 
lating to  this  rebellion  would  be  of  interest 
to  me.  (Mrs.)  F.  RosE-TnoDP. 

Beaumont  House,  Ottery  St.  Mary. 

Glowworm  ok  Firefly.— Can  any  reader 
inform  me  what  modern  poetry  has  b^n 
written  on  the  firefly  or  glowworm  ?  Or  has 
the  subject  been  almost  as  neglected  in  our 
day  as  in  clasuical  times  ?  F.  G. 

[ilre.  0|>>e  wrote  some  eentiniental  lines  in  the 
"Anna  MalildA"  vein  addressed  to  the  Klowwornu 
beginning;,  "  Ueni  of  the  loue  and  silent  vale." 
Moutgoniery  (?  James)  has  a  poem  to  tlie  same, 
begimiiuj;,  ''When  Evening  closes  Nature's  eye." 
A  poem  in  *  Time's  Telescope,'  1830,  opeQB  :— 

Little  being  of  a  day. 
Glowing  in  thy  cell  alone. 
Barry  Cornwall  has  a  poem  to  the  firefly;  and 
Heber,  '  Tour  through  Ceylon,'  writes : — 
Before,  beside  as,  and  above 
The  tireHy  ligliUi  his  lamp  of  love. 
We  do  not  know  if  you  will  consider  "nioderu" 
these  effusions  of  the  early  nineteenth  century.] 

Tinsel  Characters.  —Can  any  reader  put 
me  in  communication  with  collectors  of 
tinsel  characters  ?  I  have  a  very  nice  collec- 
tion of  such  in  folio  volumes,  and  should  be 
pleased  to  exchange  notes  or  show  the  same 
to  any  one  interested.  J.  King. 

dot,  Essex  Road,  lalinKton,  N. 

'Oxford  Universitv  Calendar.'— I  have 
one  dated  1845,  which  I  would  not  part  with 
for  many  rea.sons  ;  one  is  that  it  contains 
lists  of  heads  and  colleges  from  the  founda- 
tions thereof.  M<xJern  calendars  do  not  con- 
tinue these  valuable  lists.  Can  any  old 
Oxford  man  tell  me  when  first  they  ceased  'i 

M.A.OxoN. 

FlTZHAMON.  —  It  is  stated  in  Hoare's 
*  History  of  Wilts '  that  a  Stephen  Fitzhamon 
having  established  himself  at  Burstow,  Surrey, 
in  the  reign  of  John,  changed  his  name  to 
"*  iphen  de  Burstow,  and  it  is  suggested  that 

^ was  n  descendant  of  a  vounger  brother 

'^  Sir  Robert  Fitzljamou,  trie  conqueror  of 
Glamorgan,  who  died  1107.  Can  any  one  tell 
me  what  M'as  the  name  of  this  younger 
brother,  and  where  a  pedigree  of  the  Fitz- 
hamou  family  may  t>e  found  ?  On  the  seal 
of  Stephen  de  Burstow  appear  the  words 
"Sipillum  Stephani  filii  Uamonia."  Does 
"  filii  Haiuonis"  necessarily  Aean  the  sur- 
name Fitzhamon,  or  mav  it  not  mean  only 
the  *'  son  of  Hamon  "  1  Was  Uamo  or  Hamon 
a  common  Norman  Christian  namel  In  the 
Surrey  Fines  there  are  Walter  fil  Hamo  and 
Richard  fil  Hamo  (11&*J),  Norman  fil  Hamo 


(1206),  John  fil  Hamo  (1251).  Was  *' fil  Hamo  " 
and  Fitzhamon  the  family  name,  or  waa 
Hamo  only  the  father's  name  in  these  cases  1 

G.  H.  W. 

Venison  in  Summer.  —  Lemery,  in  his 
'  Treatise  of  Foods.'  of  which  an  English 
translation  was  published  in  1704,  has  the 
following  passage  in  the  chapter  dealing 
with  the  stag  :  — 

'*  However,  some  are  of  opinion  tliey  oaebt  not  to 
l)e  eat  in  Kunimor,  because  this  Animal  then  feeds 
uiKiu  Vipers,  Seriwnts,  and  the  like  Creatures, 
wliiuh  they  look  upon  to  be  very  Vcnemous,  as  if 
the  Ulaji  did  not  eat  of  them  all  the  Year  round." 

Was  this  idea  general  at  the  time  1  Letnery 
apparently  believed  it.         W.  D.  Oliver. 

Comber  Family.- In  1887  (7'"  S.  iii.  516) 
a  reference  was  made  to  some  manuscripts 
relating  to  the  above  family  which  were 
offered  for  sale  by  Mr.  Wm.  Downing,  of 
Birmingham,  and  I  should  be  very  grateful 
if  any  reader  of  'N.  &  Q.'  could  put  me  on 
the  track  of  the  purchaser  or  present  pos- 
sessor. I  applied  a  few  years  ago  to  Mr. 
Downing,  but  most  unfortunately  all  his 
books  relating  to  that  period  had  been  de- 
stroyed by  fire.  I  have  lieen  for  some  time 
engaged  on  a  history  of  the  family,  and  shotild 
be  very  ^lad  to  correspond  with  any  one  in- 
terested in  it.  John  Comber. 

High  Sleep,  Jarvis  Brook,  Timliridgo  Wells. 

"Synchronize"  :  " Aj-ternate.''— Am  I  a 
prig,  or  am  I  an  ignoramus,  that  I  object  to 
the  use  made  of  these  words  in  the  following 
passages  1  According  to  the  A}-t  Journal  of 
September,  1003,  one  reason  why  "  Mr. 
Whistler  was  considered  a  roan  of  absurd 

Eretensions  was  because  no  one  before  him 
a<i  dared  to  synchronize  the  terms  of  music 
to  those  of  painting  "  (p.  267).  The  ^  thejunuii 
of  12  September,  1903,  in  heralding  the  issue 
of  Dr.  Furnivall's  Shakespeare  in  the  old 
spelling,  asserts:  "The  plays  will  each  occupy 
one  volume  of  square  octavo  shape,  and  two 
alternate  qualities  of  paper  will  be  available" 
(p.  351).  St.  S^nTHiN. 

Mes.  Bhownino's  'Acrojsa  Leiuh.' — 

As  he  stood 
In  Florence,  where  he  had  come  to  spend  a  month 
And  note  the  secret  of  Da  Vinci's  drains.— 1.  72. 

Whatdoes  this  mean  ]  Can  the  word  "  drains  " 
be  a  misprint  for  </rfaff(«?  Locis. 

[No  :  Leonardo  was  a  famous  hydraulic  engineer.] 

The  Head  ok  Hknrv  Grey,  Dukk  of 
SurFOLK— A  writer*  in  the  Antiqwiru  for 
December,  1903,  in  alluding  to  the  Duke  of 

*  '  FUmblea  of  an  Antiiioary,'  by  (ieorge  Buley. 


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[lO*  S.  I.  Jajc.  16, 1901.  < 


Suffijlk,  father  of  Lady  Jano  Grey,  says  : 
"A  photo  was  taken  of  his  head  when  the 
alterations  took  place  in  St.  Peter*.i  Church 
in  tho  Tower  of  London.  There  is  a  good 
deal  of  grim  expression  in  the  face."  One 
would  naturally  infer  from  this  paragraph 
that  Uie  duke's  remains  were  found  int&ct 
during  the  alterations  of  1876-  Is  this  sol 
In  Juno,  1893,  when  visiting  the  church  of 
the  Holy  Trinity,  Minories,  I  was  shown  a 
human  head  (preserved  in  a  glass  case)  which 
is  presumed  to  be  that  of  the  said  duke.  It 
was  discovered  in  the  vaults  below  tho  church 
by  the  Earl  of  Dartmouth  in  1852,  in  a  box 
filled  with  oak  sawdust,  which  acted  as  an 
antdseptic  and  preserved  the  skin  in  a  remark- 
able manner.  But  as  the  duke  cannot  have 
possessed  two  heads,  I  shall  be  glad  to  learn 
further  particulars  concerning  the  discovery 
at  St.  Peter  ad  Vincula.  Wore  the  Duke  of 
Suffolk'))  remains  positively  identified  ?  and, 
if  so,  was  the  head  missing  or  not  ? 

John  T.  Page. 
West  Haddon,  Northamptonshire. 
[See  S"-  S.  viii.  286,  383;  x.  ?2,  144;  xil.  114.] 

*  Willy  Wood  akd  Greedy  Grizzle.'— Is 
the  author  known  of  this  eighteenth- century* 
booklet  ?    The  title-page  ran  :— 

"  Willy  U'ood  and  Greedy  Grizzle :  a  Tale  of  the 
Present  Century,  founded  on  Fact.  Evil  be  to  him 
who  evil  thinks.  To  which  are  subjoined  Three 
Now  Son^.  London:  Printed  for  the  Author; 
Sold  by  J.  Forbes,  Tavigtock  Row,  Covcnt  (Jarden  ; 
and  all  the  Booksellers  in  town  and  country.  I'rico 
♦)no  Shillinn." — viii-;i2  jip.  8vo. 

Tho  work  is  dedicated  to  the  Magisterial 
Rooks  of  tho  Corporation  of  ^ur-castle  (New- 
castle upon-Tyne),  and  is  not  written  for 
TOUnK  per.sons.  At  the  end  is  a  song  for  a 
Newcastle  man,  an  exercise  in  the  "burr" 
calculated  to  try  his  articulation  severely. 
It  begins  :— 

Rough  roU'd  the  roaring  river's  stream. 

And  rapid  ran  the  rain, 
When  Robert  Rutter  dreamt  a  dream 

Which  rack'd  hia  heart  with  pain. 

This  is  almost  as  bad  as  the  well-known 
shibboleth  '■  O'er  rugged  rocks  the  ragged 
rascals  ran,"  which,  until  theadventof  Scliool 
Boards,  was  supposetl  to  try  the  anatomy  of 
an  ordinary  Novocastriao. 

RlCHABD  WbLFOBD. 

Robert  Giles.— In  a  recent  article  in  the 
DxiUin  Rnview,  vol.  cxxxii.,  the  Bishop  of 
Salford  has  noted  that  Robert  Gile»i,  "legum 
Anglire  professor  egregiu.s,"  who  had  married 
a  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  Stradling  (as  to 
whom  see  'D.N.B.,'  Iv.  IG),  died  at  Louvain 
in  ir^TR,  aged  forty -four,  and  was  burietl 
ip  the  church   of  *St.  Michael    there.     He 


does  not  app»ear  to  have  been  at  Oxford.  Was 
he  at  Cambridge  ?  On  3  May,  1  ri64,  one  Robert 
Oyell  was  admitted  to  Lincoln's  Inn.  On 
23  July,  1566,  Edward  Randolph  (as  to  whom 
see  '  D.N.B.,'  xlvii.  271)  constituted  Sir  Jame» 
Shelley  and  Robert  Giles  his  true  and  lawful 
attorneys  (*S.P.  Dora.,  Eliz  ,'  xl.  35).  The 
name  of  Robert  Gyles,  gent.,  of  Kent,  occars 
in  a  list  of  fugitives  over  the  sea  dated 
29  Jan.,  1576  (Strype,  'Ann.,'  11.  iL  597). 
Any  further  details  concerning  him  would 
be  welcome.  John  B.  WAiinEwwoHT. 

WssT-ConNTRY  Fair.— I  should  l»e  glad  to 
be  referred  to  any  sources  which  illustrate 
fairs  in  the  West  of  England  at  tho  end  of 
the  seventeenth  or  beginning  of  the  eigh- 
teenth century,  especially  in  Dorset. 

HiPFOCUDES. 

St.  Patrick  at  Orvieto.— The  'Encyclo- 
piedia  Britannica'  mentions,  under  'Orvieto,' 
a  celebrated  "  pozzo  di  S.  Patrizio,"  or  well  of 
St.  Patrick.  I  have  consulted  several  works 
on  Orvieto,  but  none  of  them  do  more  than 
mention  this  well,  some  not  even  so  fully  aa 
the  'Encyclopiedia'  does.  Is  there  any  tra- 
dition that  Ireland's  apostle  ever  passed 
through  Orvieto,  which  might  account  for 
the  name  of  the  well  \  Where  may  some- 
thing on  this  subject  be  found  1 

F.  C.  W. 

Tut  kett.  —  Biographical  information  ia 
desired  for  an  lii.storical  publication  concern- 
ing the  late  Mr.  John  Tuckett,  of  Kentish 
Town,  especially  the  dates  of  birth,  death, 
itc    Any  information  will  be  acceptable. 

Herbert  Sfencee  on  Billiajids.  —  Can 
any  one  give  me  tho  exact  text  and  locate 
the  original  publication  of  a  remark  said 
to  have  been  made  by  Herbert  Spencer  to 
a  young  man  who  defeated  him  at  a  game 
of  billiards  ?  '*  Sir,  a  moderate  measure  of 
skill  at  billiards  may  very  properly  be  ft 
source  of  satisfaction  ;  but  .such  a  degree*  ' 
proficiency  as  you  exhibit  is  conclusive  pre 
of  a  misspent  life."  D.  M. 

Philadelphia. 

"All  roads  lead  to  Rome."— Can  yoxi 
tell  me  the  origin  of  this  saying  I 

Fairrolme. 

Capt.  Death,— Who  was  "the  celebrate*! 
Capt.  Death'  for  whose  widow  a  benefit 
performance  of  'Cato'  was  given  at  Drury 
Lane  on  27  February,  17r)7  f  It  is  note- 
worthy that  Oenest  has  no  record  of  thit 
remarkable  jjerfonnancp,  despite  the  fact 
that  the  principal  members  of  both  theatres 


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united  forces  on  that  occasion  in  honour  of 
the  lugubriously  named  captain.     F.  F.  L. 

A.    C.  ,  SwiJTBURXE.— The  editors   of   the 
"Centenary    Edition''   of    Burna   quote    in 
the  notes,  vol.  i.  p.  368,  the  following  stanza 
by  Mr.  Swinburne  : — 
Men,  bom  of  ihe  land  that  for  ages 

Haa  been  houonred  where  freedom  wu  dear, 
Till  your  labour  was  fat  on  its  w&gea 
You  shall  never  be  peers  of  a  peer. 
Where  might  is,  the  ri^ht  is : 

Long  purses  make  strong  swords. 
Let  weakness  learn  meekDess. 
God  save  the  House  of  Lords. 

In  which  of  the  poet's  publications  can  the 
rest  of  the  poem  be  founa  ? 

J.  J.  Fresman. 

Raleigh's  Head.  —  I  lately,  quite  by 
chance,  came  across  a  copy  of  a  booklet 
entitled  '  History  and  Description  of  the 
Windows  of  the  Parish  Church  of  the  House 
of  Commons'  (1895),  by  Mrs.  J.  E.  Sinclair, 
a  lady  of  antiquarian  tastes.  In  this  I  find 
it  stated,  at  p.  30,  that 

"Ralegh  was  beheaded  in  the  adjacent  Old  Palace 
Vard,  in  1618  ;  his  body  was  interred  beneath  the 
chancel  of  the  church,  bis  head  bein^  placed  on 
Westminster  Hall.  A  tradition,  handed  down  from 
rector  to  rector  of  St.  Margaret's,  says  that  the 
dissevered  head  was  buried  in  the  same  grave  with 
the  body  of  his  son,  Carcw  Ralegh,  a  few  years 
afterwards." 

I   should    be   glad    to    know  how   much 

redence   is    to    ne   attached  to  this  "tra- 

ition,"  and  whether  the  statement  can   be 

y  any  means  traced  to  its  source.    I  believe 

nat  the  accepted,  and  probably  authentic, 

ccount  is  that  the  head  was  buried  in  the 

hurch  at  West  Hprseley,  in  Surrey.    I  ad- 

[dressed  a  communication  on   this  matter  to 

^  he  editor  of  the  ,S7.  Margaret's  I'nrifk  Slurfa- 

'kine,  thinking  it  a  likely  means  by  which  to 

obtain  the  information,  but  it  did  not  secure 

insertion.  DA^^D  Easterbrook. 

■    [See  Dr.  BBrsBFiELD's  article,  O'l*  S.  xil.  289.] 

"  Meynks  "  AXD  "Rhtnrs."— At  Orange  the 

other  day  I  came  across  a  curious  jxjtois  word 

rhich   IS  of  some  interest.    The  waterway 

/hich  iH  led  throngli  the  town,  and  which  is 

Usually  about  one  metre  broad  [?  deep]  and  ten 

^etrcH  wide,  ia  locally  known  as  a  "  meyne." 

VU(sn  one  recollects  that  the  drainage  chan- 

lels  on  Sedgeraoor  are  known  as  "  rhines," 

'pd   that   the  chief  tributary  of   the  river 

Ihine  is  the  Main,  one  is  tempted   to  ask 

khat  the  origin  of  tnese  two  terms  really  is. 

It  is,  of  course,  well  known  that  Orange 

Ks  once  a  principality  under  the  House  of 

lassau,  and  it  is  possible  that  Dutch  engineers 

ly  have  been  brought  tliere  by  them  to 


superintend  the  irrigation  works  with  which 
the  whole  of  this  part  of  the  Rhone  plain  is 
intersected.  Similarly  I  believe  that  many 
of  the  drainage  works  on  Sedgemoor  were 
laid  out  by  Dutchmen.  Are  there  any  tech- 
nical terms  in  Dutch  or  Flemish  from  which 
"  meyne"  and  "  rhine"  could  be  derived  ? 

I  do  not  know  if  the  compilers  of  the 
•  N.E.D.'  have  as  yet  reached  the  word  "  main," 
but  Dr.  Murray  might  well  have  French 
patoit  dictionaries  loosed  up  as  to  "  meyne," 
lu  view  of  our  own  ga.s  and  water  mains.  My 
informant  said  the  word,  which  I  have  not 
seen  written,  is  pure  French  ;  but  I  have  not 
Littre  at  hand  to  verify  his  assertion.      H. 

Avignon. 

fFor  rejie,  a,  small  watercourse,  see  9"*  S.  ix.  329, 


J^tJfUtM. 


THE 


MOTHER  OF  NJNUS. 
O"*  S.  xii.  128.) 
As  Osiris  was  at  once  the  son  and  husband 
of  Isis  hi-s  mother,  and  the  Indian  go<l  Iswara 
is  represented  as  a  babe  at  the  breast  of  hisi 
own  wife  Parvati,  the  Indian  Isis,  so  Ninus 
or  Nimrod,  the  beginning  of  whose  kingdom 
was  Babylon  (Genesis  x.  10),  was  both  hus- 
band and  son  of  Semiramis,  who,  as  the  first 
deified    queen    of     Babylon,    was    probably 
identifiecl  with  Mu-Mu  or  Ma-Ma,  the  great 
mother  of  all  nature,  who  in  her  varying 
forms,    says    Mr.     Boscawen,     was     Mumu 
Tiamut,   the    Chaotic   Sea,  and    Baku,   the 
spouse  of  Hea,  who  presided  over  the  south 
of  Babylonia,  the  region  of  the  marshes,  and 
bore  the  title  also  of  the  "bearing  mother  of 
mankind  "  ('  From  under  the  Dust  of  Ages,' 
1880,  p.  35).     So  that,  in  the  conflicting  rela- 
tiunshipa  of  the  earliest  divinities  with  which 
the  researches  of  Assyriologists  have  made 
US  acquainted,   it  is  perhaps  permissible  to 
recognize  in  Mu-Mu   or   Ma-Ma  attributes 
whicn   were  transferred   to   Semiramis,   the 
great  goddais-mother,  upon  one   of    whose 
temples  in  Egypt,  where  she  was  known  as 
Athor,  was  inscribed  :    "  I  am  all   that  has 
been,  or  that  is,  or  that  shall  be.     No  mortal 
has  removed  my   veil.     The    fruit  which  I 
have  brought  forth  is  the  Sun "  (Bunsen's 
'Egypt,'  1848,  vol.  i.  pp.  386-7).    Similarly 
the  Babylonian  epic  of  tne  creation  begins  by 
describing  the  generation  of  the  world  oat  of 
Ztlumma  or  Chaos,  the  primeval  source  of 


dl 


things  ('The  Religions  of  Ancient  ^^iP^^l^ 
Babvlon,'  by  Prof.  Sayce.  1U02.  P-  130;  IM 
first  tablet  of  the  '  History  of  Creation    «ay«  : 

1.  When  In  the  heiKht  heaven  was  not  nanie<i, 

2.  And  the  ©aflh  boncath  did  not  yet  bear  a  name, 


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3.  And  the  primev*!  Apsu-ma  (T  or  mn)  who  begat 

them. 

4.  And  Chao«,  mu-um-mu  Tiamat,  the  mother  of 

them  both,  ico. 

See  'The  Seven  Tablets  of  Creation,'  by 
L.  W.  King,  1902,  p.  3  e(  aeq„  and  'The 
Religions  of  Babylon  and  Assyria,'  b^  Morris 
Jastrow,  1898,  p.  105.  One  seemH  justified, 
therefore,  in  assuming  that  the  mother  of 
Ninus.  after  the  divinity  of  both  tiio  fonner 
and  tne  latter  had  become  an  established 
belief,  vras  his  own  wife  SemiraraiB,  whose 
attributes,  when  deified  after  death,  gradually 
became  identified  in  the  eyea  of  her  wor- 
shippers with  those  of  Mu-Mu  or  Ma-Ma, 
the  Mother  of  All. 

J.  HoLDEir  MacMichael. 


Immubkment  Alive  of  Religious  (9"^  S. 
xii.  25,  131,  297,  376,  517).— The  interest  of 
historic  truth  must  be  my  excuse  for  taking 
exception  to  Mr.  H.  G.  Hope's  version  of  the 
Bruntisfiold  mystery.  "  The  venerable  man- 
sion" was  not  "demolished  in  1800";  it 
stands  at  this  day,  and  is  still  inhabited,  a 
well-preserved  example  of  Scottish  castellated 
building  of  the  sixteenth  century.  My  father 
rented  it  at  one  time,  and  part  of  my  child- 
hood was  spent  there ;  but  the  story  of  the 
secret  chamber,  as  repeated  by  Mb.  Hoi'E.  has 
deepened  in  gloom  since  my  time.  Miss 
Warrender,  a  daughter  of  the  house,  has  given 
what  may  be  considered  the  auttientic  ver- 
sion in  her 'Walks  near  Edinburgh,'  pp.  13-1  j. 
It  may  serve  as  a  useful  warnitig  against  too 
easy  acceptance  of  fanciful  variants  if  I  quote 
what  she  says  : — 

"After  the  purchase  of  Bruatiafield  by  George 
Warrender  [in  1095],  it  reniaiued  for  nearly  a  hun- 
dred yoan  in  poasession  of  tl»e  younger  branch  of 
the  family,  wliiih  came  to  an  end  in  1X20  by  the 

death  of  HukK  Warrender He  was  succeeded  by 

his  couain,  my  graini-iinclD,  the  Right  Hon.  .Sir 
George  Warrender,  M.R,  who,  on  taking  possession, 
discovered  the  oxistenco  of  a  secret  room.  The 
house  was  then  thickly  covered  with  ivy.  Lee,  the 
Royal  .\cademieian.  and  au  architect  that  Sir 
George  had  brought  down  from  Loudon  with  him, 
were  the  hrst  to  ■iiapect  its  existence,  from  tiuding 
more  windows  outside  than  they  could  account  for. 
The  old  woman  who  had  charge  of  tlie  house  denied 
for  a  long  time  any  knowledge  of  such  a  room  ;  but. 
frightened  by  Sir  George's  threats,  she  at  length 
showed  hnn  the  narrow  entrance,  that  was  con- 
cealed behind  a  piece  of  upcstry,  1  his  was  torn 
down  and  the  door  forced  open,  and  a  room  was 
iouad  just  as  it  had  been  left  by  some  former  occu- 
I>ftut— the  ashea  still  in  the  grato.  Whetlier,  as 
one  Btorv  said,  it  had  been  used  as  a  hiding-piaoe 
in  troubled  times,  or  whether,  aocordinx  lo  another 
"Ittcend,  it  had  been  tlie  room  of  ado^irly  loved  child 
m  the  house,  after  whose  lieatb  it  had  been  hur- 


knowing ;  but  the  bloodatainB  on  the  floor  point  to 
some  darker  tragedy,  and  a  tradition  still  UngerSii 
tlint,  not  loui  after  the  discovery  of  this  room,  a' 
skeleton  was  found  buried  below  tne  windowi." 

It  would  have  been  most  improper  if  that 
skeleton  had  not  turned  up  ;  but  there  is  no 
suggestion  of  immurement,  as  Mr.  Hope 
would  have  us  believe. 

Hebbert  Maxwell. 

Perhaps  M.  N.  G.  will  be  kind  enough,  in 
the  interests  of  historical  accuracy,  to  furnish 
one  or  more  of  the  following  |>articulafs  : 
(1)  the  name  of  the  convent  ;  (2)  tlio  name  of 
the  nun  ;  (3)  the  name  of  the  person  or  per- 
sons who  "captured"  her;  (4)  the  means 
whereby  the  capture  was  effected  ;  (6)  the 
name  ot  the  "  recent  book  on  life  in  America  *'; 
and  at  the  same  time  to  give  a  reference  to 
any  contemporary  account  of  the  events 
alleged  to  have  taken  place  at  Charlestown, 
Mass.,  in  1835.  The  fact  that  the  law  (in 
England  as  elsewhere)  did  in  times  past 
punish  heretics  with  death  by  burning  does 
not  seem  to  me  to  be  one  from  which  the 
prevalence  of  an  illegal  custom  of  burying 
recalcitrant  religious  alive  can  be  by  any 
known  process  of  reasoning  validly  inferred. 

JOH.N    E.   W.\1>EWR1UHT. 


Cajidinals  (9"'  S.  xi.  490;  xii.  19.  174,278, 
334,  497).— Mr.  Marion  Crawford,  writing  of 
Rome  in  1865,  says  of  Cai-dinal  Antouelli  :— 

"  He  had  his  faults,  and  they  were  faults  Little 
becoming  a  cardinal  of  the  Holy  Roman  Church. 
But  few  are  willing  to  consider  that,  though  a 
cardinal,  he  was  not  a  priest— that  he  was  prac- 
tioally  a  layman,  who  by  his  own  unaided  genius 
had  attained  to  great  power — and  tliat  those  laulta 
which  have  been  charged  against  him  with  such 
virulence  would  have  passed,  nay,  actually  pa&a, 
unnoticed  and  unconsured  in  many  a  great  states- 
man of  those  days  and  of  these.' 
This  passage  occurs  in  the  novel  of  'Sara- 
ctnesca,'  but  here  Mr.  Marion  Crawford  is 
evidently  writing  as  an  historian,  and  not  as 
a  novelist,  and  1  think  may  be  considered  an 
authority  on  the  subject,  as  he  has  made 
Italian  life  so  much  bis  own. 

J.  H-  Murray. 

Edinburgh. 

The  Wykehamical  Word  "Toys"  (9'"  S. 
xii.  345,  437,  492  ;  10'"  8.  i.  13).—'  Winchester 
College  Notions,'  by  Three  Beetleites  (Win- 
chester, P.  Jc  G.  Wells,  1901),  is  the  book  from 
which  the  present  goneratioti  of  Wyke- 
hamists acquires  its  essential  modicum  of 
knowledge  of  notions,  and  is  the  immediate 
source  ot  the  "  accepted  derivation  "  cited  at 
the  second  reference.    The  authors  give  due 


ricdly  shut  up,  never  to  be  entered  again  by  the    acknowle<lgment  in  their  preface  to  tlie  work 
broken-hearted  parents,  there  are  now  no  nieaoa  of    of  previous   writers,  and  say  that  "deriva- 


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tions  have  been  uaually  omibtetl  or  com- 
pressed as  far  as  possible,  oecanse  Mr.  Wreoch 
80  extensively  deals  with  that  departmeDt  in 
hia  admirable  work  "  ;  the  word  "  toys  "  is, 
however,  one  of  the  few  exceptions  to  which 
a  derivation  is  attached,  that  given  being 
"Fr.  toise  —  ek  fathom,  the  space  allotted  to 
each  man  in  CoUega"  Right  or  wrong,  the 
Beetleites  clearly  preferred  this  derivation. 

I,  B.  B. 

"  Fiscal  "  (9"<  S.  xii.  444),  —Every  word,  no 
lesfl  than  every  dog,  has  its  day,  and  now  is 
the  chance  otfiral.  It  has  a  close  coini>eti- 
tor  in  dump,  but  it  manages  to  maintain 
pre-eminence.  The  use  of  it  has  increased  a 
thousandfold,  and  tongues  utter  it  glibly, 
under  eyes  that  bat  a  year  ago  hardly  knew 
the  wor^l  by  sight.  Not  long  ago  the  keeper 
(fem.)  of  a  registry  office  informed  a  lady  who 
was  in  searcli  of  a  kitchen-maid  that  tho 
Jiical  conditions  of  domestic  service  had 
entirely  changed  in  recent  times. 

St.  Swithin. 

Dit.  Parkins  (9'»"  S.  xii.  349  :  10'"  S.  i.  15).— 
Besides  the  books  mentioned  in  Mr.  Beale's 
contribution  to  the  Grantham  Jouriuii,  John 
Parkins  was  the  author  of  '  The  Holy  Temple 
of  Wisdom,'  an  edition  of  Uulpeper'a  '  Eng- 
li-sh  Physician,'  1810, 1814,  and  '  The  Universal 
Fortune-Teller,'  1810,  1814,  1822.  He  has 
already  figured  in  4*^  S.  ix.  76,  where  other 
books  are  mentioned.  I  have  seen  none  but 
•The  Universal  Fortune-Teller.'    W.  C.  B. 

In  the  •  History  of  Ufton  Court,'  by  A.  M. 
Sharp  (1892, 4to),  there  is  at  p.  239  a  pedigree 
(Grantham,  co.  Lincoln)  of  this  branch  of  the 
Perkins  or  Parkins  family,  from  the  Visita- 
tion of  Lincoln,  16.")4,  with  additions  from 
parish  registers.  There  is  another  of  Parkins 
of  Ashby,  parish  of  Bottesford ;  but  the 
pedigrees  are  not  carried  down  to  the  dates 
mentioned  of  publication  of  books  by  Dr. 
Parkins.  Vicak. 

[Mr.  E.  H.  Culkmak  also  sends  a  list  of  Parkins's 
works.  ] 

Shakk-spkark's  Oeoohaphy  (9"*  S.  xi.  208, 
333,  41()'  l«y  ;  xii.  90,  191).— Mk.  Stronalh 
selectji  from  my  letters  a  few  sentences,  and 
takes  no  notice  of  the  rest.  I  gave  reasons  for 
what  I  wrote,  and  if  Mr.  Stronach  is  blind 
to  them,  I  may  suppose  that  other  readers  of 
•N.  &  Q.'  will  not  be  so.  I  pointed  out  to 
Mil  SruoNACii  that  Shakspeare  thought  Milan 
to  be  on  the  sea.  It  is  impossible  that  Bacon, 
a  traveller  on  the  Continent^  and  a  man  of 
gooeral  knowledge,  could  have  made  thii 
mistake.  I  have  formed  my  own  opinions 
from  ray  own  reading,  and  it  is  not  necessary 


to  refer  me  to  others,  who  cannot  have  con- 
sidered the  question  under  discussion  more 
thoroughly  than  I  have  done.  There  have 
been,  and  are,  many  competent  critics  who 
dilTer  from  the  views  of  the  gentlemen  whom 
Mr.  Stronacu  names.  Shakspeare  had 
enough  Latin  to  know  the  meaning  of  the 
very  simple  hackneyed  quotations  which  are 
found  in  those  plays  that  are  undoubtedly 
his.  Nobody  ever  said  the  contrary.  Shak- 
speare apparently  must  have  known  some- 
tning  of  Plautus.  But  he  might  have  ^ot 
his  Knowledge  indii-ectly,  without  having 
read  the  Latin.  He  might  have  obtained  the 
plot  of  *  The  Comedy  of  Errors '  in  more 
ways  than  one.  Possibly  ho  rewrote  the 
play  of  somebody  else.    Hitson  has  said  : — 

"Shakspeare  was  not  under  the  slightwt  obliga- 
tion, in  formini;  this  comedy,  to  Warner's  trans- 
lation of  the  '&teiia>chmj.' He  has  not  a  name, 

Hue,  or  word  from  the  old  ]>lay,  nor  any  one  inci- 
dent but  what  must  of  course  be  common  lo  every 

transhition This  comedy,   though  boasting  the 

embellishments  of   our   author's  genius,  was    not 
oriRinally  his,  but  proceeded  from  some  inferior 
playwright,    who    was    c»|)able    of    reading    tha 
Meno-'cumi '  without  the  aid  of  a  translation." 

I  have  noticed  one  difference  between  Bacon 
and  Shakspeare.  In  reading  Bacon's  'Essays' 
I  find  that  he  invariably  has  the  conjunctive 
mood  after  '/.  Shakspeare  in  bis  chief  plays 
uses  the  indicative  or  tho  conjunctive  mood, 
without  distinction,  after  this  conjunction: 
I  must  have  counted  at  least  a  hundred 
instances  of  )/  with  the  indicative  in  his 
plays  ;  and  I  am  sure  that  there  must  be 
very  many  more  instances.  It  may,  howevez*. 
be  said  tnat  Bacon  8uper^^sed  hia  'Essays, 
and  that  the  author  of  tne  plays  did  not  do  so. 

E.  Yardley. 
[This  discussion  must  now  close.] 

Glass  Manuf,vl'ture  (O'**  S.  xii.  428,515). 
—The  inquiry  under  this  heading  was 
whether  country  gentlemen  were  occupied 
in  glass-making.  In  Joseph  Hunter's  '  South 
Yorkshire,  Deanery  of  Doacaster,'  ii.  99,  it 
is  stated  that 

"in  the  time  of  the  first  Earl  of  StraObrd  the 
manufacture  of  glass  was  introduced  at  Wentworth, 
and  a  glasahousc  erected.  The  nieniory  of  it  is  still 
jtreaorved  in  the  name  Glasa-houae  tireen,  now 
enclosed." 

In  the  same  volume,  p.  33,  we  read,  under 
Catcliffe,  in  the  parish  ot  Rotherham,  that 
"a  glaiss-house  was  established  liore  in  1740.  by  « 
Mmi>any  of  j>er8ons  who  had  been  P«'o'^'>"'»*',y  „  , ' 
jiloyed  in  the  nWhouse  near  Bolst«r6ioue.  lUo"  'n 
bixh  reputation."  .  i     »„  „,i  i 

From  original  documents  I  am  able  to  ad.| 
rroinoriBi"  history   of    the  Catchffo 

wSs.    In    nS5r  John    6ay.    glass    manu- 


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facturer,  took  a  lease  of  the  glass-hoaiie  «t 
Catcliffe  for  twenty -one  years.  In  1783 
Hannah,  his  widow,  transferred  it  to  their 
sons  Thomas  May  and  William  May,  who 
carrie<l  on  the  business  for  some  years. 
They  certainly  had  it  in  17B5.  I  iind  these 
persons  described  sometimes  as  "gentlemen." 
There  were  also  two  glass-houses  at  Mas- 
brough,  in  the  parish  of  Hotherham,  which 
were  worked  for  some  time  by  John  Fol- 
jambe,  gentleman  (an  attorney,  I  believe), 
in  partnership  with  Jacob  Boomer,  a  grocer, 
botn  of  liotherham.  In  1783  they  leased 
them  to  the  above-named  Thomas  May  for 
thirteen  years.  Mustard-bottle«,  ink-bottles, 
decanters,  and  Hint  glasses  were  among  the 
articles  they  produced.  The  Mays  are  no- 
ticed in  Mr.  Hunter's  '  Fam.  Min.  Gent.,' 
Harl.  Soc,  iv.  1177.  W.  C.  B. 

In  St.  Stephen's  Church,  Norwich,  is  a 
mural  tablet  to  the  memory  of  Richard 
Matthews,  Sheriff  of  Norwich,  glass-maker, 
who  died  1774.  On  it  are  his  arras  thus : 
Per  pale:  1,  Gules,  three  catherine-wbeeU 
,  jrgont,  on  a  chief  or  a  bull's  head  cabossed 
sable ;  2,  Gules,  a  chevron  between  three 
escallops  argent. 

John  Hobson  Matthews. 

Monmonth. 

M0RG.\N-.\TIC  M.VRUlAriE  (9"^  S.  xii.  486). — 
For  an  answer  to  this  question  refer  to 
'  N.  &  q.;  2'"'  S.  vi.  237  ;  3"i  S.  v.  235, 328, 441, 
516  ;  vi.  38,  .M,  140,  197. 

EvERARD  Home  Colemajt, 

71t  Brecknock  Rob<I. 

Emmet  and  Dk  Fontenav  Letters  (»"'  S. 
xii.  308).  — Fraxcehoa  may  be  pleaaetl  to 
know  that  she  can  learn  all  about  Itobert 
JCmmol's  letters  t<j  Madame  la  Marquise  de 
Fonteiiay  by  reference  to  a  huge  book, 
mivfttely  nrintetl,  by  Dr.  Thomas  Addis 
Km  met,  called  'The  Emmet  Family.'  There 
is  but  une  copy  in  England,  and  that  is  in 
the  British  Museum.  L   I.  Gdinky. 

Carskn  (9"^  S.  xi.  488;  xii.  19, 110,331.  377). 
—With  regard  to  this  subject,  perhaps  it  may 
not  be  out  of  nlace  to  mention  that  in  that 
deliglitful  work  'Adventures  with  the  Con- 
naught  llan^ers,  1809-14,' by  William  Grat- 
t*n,  late  Lieutenant  Connaught  Rangers, 
_  edited  by  Charies  Oman  fEdward  Arnold), 
'  Ihe  name  of  Car>)ons  will  be  found  ;  and  to 
^  Jd  that  Mr.  (-)man  jioints  out  in  the  preface, 
at  p.  vii  :— 

"It  \n  flcarfy  fmm   thn  rtnnipsti.-'  annah  of  tlio 

'^'•^  ■  '                                                       of 

'  .lea 

'  -'-■■,   ■■■  ...«-  .^....-  ^,  ....>,^v.  1  ie« 


seem  to  be  drawn  directly  from  the  doinK*)  of  Oimt- 
tan'a  servant,  Dan  Caraonii.  Comparing  the  *r«itl 
thin^'  with  the  work  nf  fiction,  one  ia  driver)  to 
conclnde  that  much  of  what  wai  regwded  aa  rollick- 
ing invention  on  Lover's  p»rt  wm  only  h  photo- 
Kraphio  reproduction  of  anecdotei  that  he  had 
heard  from  old  soldiers  of  the  Connaught  Rangera." 

Peninsular  hero  though  he  really  was,  yet 
Lieut.  Orattan  complains  at  p.  79  :— 
"  For  six  days  we  hod  not  seen  our  ba«|age,  and 

were  in  consequence  without  a  change  of  linen 

J  had  no  niyhtcap,^' 

Mr.  W.  Grattan  was  a  kinsman  of  Irelasd'a 
greatest  statesman— Henry  Grattan. 

Henry  Geralp  Hope. 
119,  Elma  Road,  CUpham,  S.  W. 

Pamela  (9"'  S.  xii.  141,  3:K)).— Since  writing 
my  former  note  on  the  pronunciation  of  this 
name  I  have  accidentally  come  across  it  in 
French,  in  the  advice  given,  in  '  Les  Oaiett'a 
de  Beranger '  (Amsterdam,  1864,  p.  1<>),  by  the 
"  abbesse  '  of  to-day  to  one  of  her  disciples : 

Voua,  Pami'la, 
C'lcheis  cela. 

The  accent  on  the  second  syllable  of  the 
name  is,  of  course,  to  make  the  name  tri- 
syllabic, and  the  rhyme  with  "cela"8liows  its 
pronunciation  to  be  a  practical  approxima- 
tion to  that  of  a  cretic  (---);  that  is,  to  the 
pronunciation  of  Richardson. 

Richard  Hobtox  Smith. 
Atheofflum  Club. 

My  mother  (born  in  1824,  when  Richard- 
son's novel  was  still  popular)  was  christened 
Pamela — profeasedly  after  the  novel-  I  never 
heard  any  other  pronunciation  of  the  name 
by  relatives  and  friends  than  Pamela.  The 
dmiinutive  of  endearment  was  Pam,  which 
would  not,  I  suppose,  have  been  the  cft«e  with 
Pamela.  "The  Rrv.  C.  S.  Taylor's  instance  of 
Pamclla  is  interesting  on  Pope's  side;  but 
the  spelling  Piimala  (which  I  have  found  in 
letters  fntm  my  niuther'a  early  contempora- 
ries) makes  for  Richardson. 

Samuel  Gregory  Ould. 

In  'Selecta  Poemata  Anglorum,'  177d, 
p.  281,  ia  a  poem  in  Latin  sapphics  (no  name 
appended),  entitled  '  Ode  ad  Pamelam  Caneret 
Ditectissimam ' : — 

L'hara,  q^uu?  semper  studio  fideli 

Me  seqni  gratum  solita  es  msgistmni, 

Qiue  colis  multo  ofiit-io,  vocanli 

Pallida  odesdum  I 

Jon.v  PicKiORD,  M.A, 

Newbonrne  Rectory,  Wo<idbridgo. 

TIDES^V1[LL  AND  Tll>ESLOW  (9"*  B.  XII.  341, 
M7).— The  claim  made  bj'  your  correspondent 
as  to  the  prefix  Tid  being  the  name  of  an 
individual    can  scarcely    dh    deemed    satis* 


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(actorv.  His  contention  is  that  the  place- 
name  firJeswell  should  be  regarded  as  Tnhs 
tvdl,  owing  to  the  suffix  representing  the 
O.N.  vOllr,  an  enclosure  of  some  kintf  To 
this  he  add8,  "  The  present  pronunciation  of 
Tideswell  is  owing  to  a  false  etj'raology 
which  has  been  circulated  in  guide-books." 
The  latter  are  not  always  trujjtworthy,  it  is 
true,  but  in  this  instance  they  appear  to  be 
correct.  When  investigating  the  origin  of  a 
place-name  it  is  advisable  to  trace  it  as  far 
back  a.s  possible  ;  and  in  the  one  under  con- 
sideration, if  the  Domesday  Book  be  con- 
sulted, we  find  "Tidesuuelle"  recorded  as  a 
berewick  of  Hope,  and  almost  identical  in 
spelling  with  its  present-date  appellation. 

Etymology  shows  that  Tideswell  is  a  plain 
A.-S.  place-name.  The  prefix  Tidh  rendered 
by  Bosworth  ('A.-S.  Diet.')  as  "time,"  and 
by  Skeat  ('Etymol.  Diet.')  is  explained  as 
"  season,  time,  hour,  flux  or  reflux  of  the 
ee»."  The  suffix  vdi  forms  a  portion  of 
many  of  the  names  of  places  in  Derbyshire, 
and  it  is  very  probable  tnat  the  term  denoted 
some  spring  or  brook,  which  may  or  may  not 
be  visible  at  the  present  day.     Your  corre- 

rndent  affirms,  "This  word  has  nothing  to 
BTjth  a  brook  or  spring  of  water,  and  it 
occurs  in  many  places  where  there  is  neither 
brook  nor  .spring,"  and  cites  Brad  well 
^"Bradewelle'  in  Domesday  Book)  as  an 
illustrative  example.  In  this  he  is  unfor- 
tunate, as,  according  to  Glover  ('  Hist,  of 
Derbyshire,' ii,  137),  "a  salt  spring  exists  a 
quarter  of  a  mile  from  the  village."    Then 

Bakewell,    ihe    "  Bndequelle "  of   Domesday 
Book,  and  sp<>cially  mentioned  in  the  'A.-S. 

Chronicle,'  has  possessed  a  medicinal  (chaly- 
beate) spring   from  lime  imraemorial  {if^i^L, 

ii.  66-7).     Again,  Tideswell— as  shown  by  its 

etymology  —  was    formerly     celebrated    for 

possessing  what  was  termed  "  an  ebbing  and 

flowing   well,"  and    this    for    centuries  was 

considered  to  be  one  of  the  wonders  of  the 

Peak  district. 
It  is  somewliat  hazardous  to  affirm  that 

the  names  of  any  individuals  are  preserved 

or  indicated    in    that   of    their   prehistoric 

burying- place.    In    Bateman's    'len    Years' 

Diggings'    (1B61)  there    is    a    long    list    of 

barrows    in     the    counties    of    Derby    and 

Stafford,  "distinguished  by  the  word  'low' 

subjoined  to  the  name,  or  otherwise  indicated 

by  the  etymology  of  the  prefix  "  (pp.  289-07). 

It  is  doubtful  whether  this  list  contains  a 

sinfjle  example  of  the  name  of  a  prehistoric 

individual.    Any  possible  one  would  naturally 

be  looked  for  among  barrows  belonging  to 

the  late  A.-S,  period,  such  as  those  explored 

by   Mr.   Hateiuan    at    Benty    Grange,    near 


Moneyash,  and  on  Lapwing  Hill  by  Cresa- 
brook  {i/nd.,  28,  68).  But  of  this  class  the 
numbers  are  few  in  the  Peak  District,  the 
majority  belonging  to  the  Stone  Age. 
Neither  Tideslow  nor  Coplow  was  examined 
by  Mr.  Bateman,  and  if  there  be  any  possi- 
bility of  the  latter  barrow  being  destroyed 
for  providing  road  material,  I  would  suggest 
that  the  attention  of  the  Derbyshire  Archteo- 
logical  Society  bo  drawn  to  the  matter,  with 
the  view  of  the  low  being  systematically 
explored. 

■The  local  pronunciation  "  Tidsa "  appears 
to  be  a  common  example  of  a  word  being 
shortened,  especially  when  it  terminateii  in 
a  hard  consonant,  ho  frequently  heard  all 
over  England,  particularly  in  rural  districts. 
A  few  weeks  ago  I  heard  an  old  woman  in  a 
Peak  village  exclaim,  *'  I  canna  (conna  or 
Conner)  do  t,"  meaning  "  I  cannot  do  it.' 

T.  N.  Bausii FIELD,  M.D. 

Salterton,  Devon. 

Is  not  low  in  Tideslow  the  same  as  law, 
taice,  the  well-known  word  for  a  hill  or 
mound,  ha\nng  nothing  to  do  with  a  burial  t 

R.  B— R. 

"Papkr-s"  (9"'  S.  xii.  387  ;  10""  S.  i.  18).— 
The  military  phrase  "  to  send  in  one's  papers" 
was  quite  common  in  the  army  when  I  joined 
my  regiment  as  an  ensign  in  1855;  but  I  have 
no  recollection  of  having  met  with  it  in 
any  book  of  the  eighteenth  centurv.  In  the 
beginning  of  that  century  a  colonel  who 
wished  to  resign  his  commission  addressed  a 
memorial  to  that  effect  to  the  Commander-in- 
Chief.  An  example  of  this  is  to  be  found  in 
Chrichton's  '  Life  of  Col.  Blackader,'  pp.  429, 
433,  where  the  words  of  Blackader's  petition 
to  the  Duke  of  Marlborough,  asking  to  bo 
allowed  "  to  retire  out  of  the  army,"  are 
given,  and  the  following  entry  in  his  diary, 
on  23  March,  1712,  as  to  the  issue  of  negotia- 
tions with  Lord  Forrester  for  the  purchase 
of  the  colonelcy  :  "  We  have  now  finished 
our  bargain  about  my  post,  according  to  our 
previous  appointment,  and  having  made  my 
demission,  i  now  look  upon  myself  as  out  of 
the  army." 

In  the  beginning  of  the  nineteenth  century 
an  officer  desirous  of  "selling  out  '  wrote  to 
his  immediate  commanding  oflicer,  and  the 
application  was  accompanied  by  declarations 
setting  forth  particularsof  service,  guarantees 
as  to  money  transactions  involved,  itc,  and 
these  documents  came  to  be  commonly  cftliea 
"  papers"  "  the  necessary  papers."  A  siradar 
course  wag  pursued  in  the  case  of  an  ex- 
change from  one  reRirnent  to  another.  For 
example,  Lieut.  Tom kinson,  of  the  16th  Lighb 


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[1UU>  8. 1.  Ja5.  16.  IflM. 


Dragoons,  being  in  Spain  on  active  service, 
tlie  following  letter  was  addresaed  to  his 
f&tlier  by  General  Sir  Gleorge  Anson  (see 
•Diary  of  a  Cavalry  Officer,'  p.  161)  :— 

"  19  M&rch,  1812.  Sir,  I  am  hapiiv  tx>  ioforiu  you 
that  _your  «on  is  gazetted  to  a  Lomi>any  in  the 
eOlh  Foot,  for  which  he  ha«i>aid  l.MH-  The  differ- 
eoce  to  be  paid  for  his  exchange  to  L'avalry  is  l.ti.JO/. 

It  will  l)c  necessary  for  you  to  lodge  tho  IjStiiV. 

which,  added  to  the  2SV.  now  in  CoUyere'  hands, 
will  make  the  recnlated  difference  of  1,(>30/.  I  have 
desired  Messrs.  Lollyurs  to  send  you  the  necessary 
papers  for  the  exchange,  for  your  Bipiature  on  the 

parlof  your  son I  confess  myself  very  anxious 

to  secure  your  aon's  return  to  the  16ih  Light 
Dragoons." 

louder  the  word  •  Honour '  in  James's 
*  Military  Dictionary,'  1816,  mention  is  made 
of  declarations  on  tho  sale  and  exchange  of 
comniis.sions ;  and  under  the  word  '  Docu- 
ment' a  reference  is  given  to  his  *  Regimental 
Companion,'  sixth  edition,  vol.  iv.  p.  263. 
Possibly  tho  phrase  "  to  send  in  one's  papers  " 
may  be  foun«J  there ;  but  I  have  no  copy  of 
the  work,  and  I  believe  the  sixth  edition  is 
now  rare.  W.  S. 

"  ChaPEROKKD  BY  HEB  FATHEB  "  (S"'  S.  Xll. 

24r>,  370,  431).— Far  from  straying  from  the 

roint  or  points  raieecl  by  Mb.  Cecil  Clarkk, 
think  that  he  has  failed  to  see  the  point  of 
my  remark.!^.  I  have  no  wish  to  "  chaperone  " 
the  word  c/iaper'me,  but  I  object  to  its  being 
lal>elled  as  more  un-Englisli  than  escort.  The 
one  word  is  as  foreign  as  the  other,  and  in 
point  of  length  of  domicile  there  is  little  to 
choose  between  them.  If  Mu.  Clakke  objects 
to  the  "French  ring"  about  the  word 
c/ui/Kroiie,  I  declare  tliat  machine  has  ju.st  as 
much  or  even  more  of  a  French  ring  about  it. 
and,  to  be  consistent,  ^Ir.  Clakke  sliould 
object  to  it  on  the  same  score  and  try  to  find 
a  "more  EnglLsh-soundiug  substitute"  for  it. 
(Perhaps  apjtamlusl).  The  '  N.E.D.'  does 
not  say  that  the  verb  cfutfKi'on  is  affected  ;  it 
merely  records  a  quotation  from  the  year 
IHIH,  according  to  whicli  somebody  tlien 
thought  it  affected.  If  Mr.  Clakke  knew  a 
little  more  of  the  history  of  language  he 
would  know  that  many  a  word  which  has 
been  at  one  time  dubbtni  "affectefl"  has 
succeefJe<J  later  in  acquiring  a  very  homely 
reputation,  and  perhaps  what  he  himself 
to-day  considers  affected  will  in  the  next 
generation  be  in  use  by  everybody.  As  soon 
as  ajiy  word  is  used  by  the  majority,  in  any 
suelling  and  in  any  sense  whatever,  it  haa 
the  full  rights  of  citizenship,  however  bravely 
Mr.  Clarke  or  anylx>dy  else  may  stick  to  his 
guns  and  try  to  ostracize  it.  Possibly  there 
ano  no  ]A<iieK  amongst  the  membeis  of  the 
Authors'  Club,  but  (I  mast  beg  to  ask  another 


question)  would  Mr.  Clarke  taboo  the  use 
of  the  word  author  as  applied  to  a  la<ly  ] 
This  was,  perhaps,  once  tnought  "  affected  ' 
or  "  inaccurate.'  but  it  is  often  so  used  :  and 
as  songster  has  been  permanently  transferred 
from  the  feminine  to  the  masculine  gender, 
why  should  not  chnperun  have  a  similar  fate, 
if  the  majority  «o  wills  it? 

My    remarks,  which    Mr,    Clarke  appa- 
rently failed  to  understand,  were  meant  to 
be  a  protest  against  his  unscictitiBc  (I  will  not 
say  "affectedl"  but  certainly  "inaccurate"; 
way  of  looking  at  a  linguistic  question.    VVhfl^^ 
wishes  to  pronounce  judgment  upon  words 
must  know  something  of  their  historj*.     If 
Mr.   Clarke  can   find  followers  enough   to 
help  him  kill  the  word  chufitron  or  rhijxTont, 
well  and  good — perhaps  nobody  will  be  sorry, , 
and  future  historical  dictionaries  will  dulyl 
record  its  life  and  death  ;  but  unless  ho  i«  • 
sure  of    his  success  as   cliaperon-killer,  he 
had  better  wait  to  see  how  much  kcdtK  there 
is  in  the  word,  which  must  be  decided  by 
time,   not  hy  any  personal  opinion  of  the 
present  day.  Beingalready  alivoin  1818,  itha 
passed  the  days  of  childhood,  and  to  ray  mindl 
the  twu  words  chaperone  and  eicort,  as  used/ 
by  supposed  inaccurate  or  affected  _P©o_ " 
are  not  exactlj'  synonymous,  and  it   eicl 
supplies   a    real    want,    oue    mav    perhapi. 
humbly  venture  to  prophesy,  in  the  light  of 
past  word-history,   that  each   will  attain  a 
respectable  and  healthy  old  age.     But  it  all 
depends  whether  the  majority  of  us  are  of 
the  same  mind,  and  even  then  we  can  never 
tell  what  future  fate  may  bring.     We  have 
many  foreigners  among  our  words  as  among 
our  citizens.    Those  that   behave  well   and 
prove  their  healthiness    by    making    them- 
selves really  useful  we  are  happy    to  keop>i 
and  naturalize— at  least  that  has  l.>een  tho* 
custom  hitherto.     If  <h(t/n:roiie  proves  to  be 
useless  or  offensive  to  tho  majority,  kick  it 
out,  it  is  "only  a  pauper  that  nobody  owns." 
Irill  tlion   let  it  try  its  luck  with  the  other 
foreigners,  but  do  not  treat  it  unfairly. 

SiMPUCIKiilllUft. 

Fictitious  Latin  Plurals  (f/''  S.  xii.  345, 
'•18). — Macaulay's  use  of  "candeiabras"  as 
a  plural  is  countenancetl  by  the  *  N.E.D ,' 
which  gives  Quotations  of  tho  same  form 
from  tne  Edinburgh  Heview  and  Soott'a 
'Ivanhoe.'  J.  Dormer. 

"O  COME,  ALL  YK   fAITHKtJL  "  (lu"'  S.  i.  10). 

— John  Julian,  in  his  'Dictionary  of  Ilvuitm 

locy,'  states  that  as  early  us  1707  > 

(' rurtuguese  Hymn')  was  sung  at  tii 

of  the  Portuguese  Embassy,  of  which  Vinceulii 

Novello  was  organist,  and  the  tune  bccamoj 


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popular.    From  *The  Music  of  the  Church 
liymnary    and    the    Psalter    in    Jletre,'  by 
William  Cowan  and  James  Love,  published 
in  1901,  we  learn  that  in  a  collection  of  hymn- 
tUDea    published    by    V.    Novello   in    1843, 
entitled  'Home  Music,   the  Congregational 
and  Choristers'  Psalm  and  Hymn  Bwk,'  the 
tune  is   headed   *Air  by  Reading,'   an    ap- 
pended note  stating  that  John  Reading  was 
a  pupil  of  Dr.  Blow  (the  master  of  Purcell), 
and  that  the  tune  obtained  its  name  of  'The 
Portuguese    Hymn'  from   the  circumstance 
that  the  Duke  of  Leedw,  after  hearing  the 
hymn  performed  at  the  Portuguese  Chapel, 
introduced  the  raelody  at  the  Antient  Con- 
certs, giving  it  the  title  of  'The  Portuguese 
Hymn.'    Cowan    and    Love    state    that    no 
known  music  of  Reading  resembles  that  of 
'Adeste  Fideles,'  and  further,  that  the  date 
IfiflO  18  decidedly  wrong,  since  Reading  was 
only  born  in  1677.     According  to  the  *Dic- 
tionarj'  of  National   Biography'  there  was, 
however,  a  John  Reading  who  was  appointed 
organist  of  Winchester  Cathedral  in   167.'S. 
The  earliest  known  appearance  of  the  tune 
18,  according   to  Cowan  and   Love,   in   'An 
Essay  on  the  Church  Plain  Chant,'  published 
by  J.  P.  Coghlan  in  1782.    The  oldest  manu- 
script in  which  it  is  to  be  found  in  a  volume 
praserved  at  Stonyhurst  College,  the  work 
of   a    priest    named    John    Francis    Warle, 
entitterJ    'Cantua  Diversi  pro  Dominicis  et 
Joetis  per  Annum  ' ;  it  bears  the  tlate  1751. 
J.  S.  Shedlock. 
I' From  whence"  (lO^h  S.  i.  9).— I  sympa- 
thise   with    your  correspondent.     But  why 
does  he  atlrait  that  the  phrase  from  whence 
is  "grammatically   inaccurate"!    It    is  the 
old  confusion   between  grammar  and   logic. 
Orammar  merely  goes    by   custom,  and    ia 
independent  of  stnct  logic,  a  simple  axiom 
of  which  half  the  world  seems  to  be  ignorant. 
From  a  grammatical  point  of  view  the  phrase 
//x>m   ir/ienct:  is  merely  "more  or  les.s  pleo- 
tjastio,"  for  which  see  '  U.E.D.,'  s.v.  'From,' 
S  Ub. 

The  phrase  is  surely  old  enough,  since  it 
curs  several  times  in  Chaucer  : — 
There  Ihou  were  wol./co  lUmur-,  artow  w»>yved. 
'  Cant.  TdIe»,'L.  SOS. 
To  my  ooutr«e/ro  lke>iuf»  that  she  wente.- 

/r/.,  B.  l(>4:j. 
"For  i)<)  wight  as  by  riglit./^-o  thfanfi^foi-ih  tliiit 
*mi  inltkoth  Korxjneits,  ne  shal  bea  clciied  Rnod."— 
Chaucer,  ir.  of  iJoethiiu,  bk.  iv.  proso  3,  1.  13. 

It  seems  high  time  to  protest  against  the 
rroganco  andf  impertinence  of  some  of  oar 
jo«]nrn  roviewers,  who  in  their  own  igno- 
'anco  of  the  history  of  the  English  language 
resume  to  think  tnat  no  one  knows  so  much 


as  themselves,  and  so  proceed  to  lay  down 
the  law,  as  if  there  were  no  fact«  to  go  upon. 
That  journalists  should,  as  a  rule,  know 
nothing  of  Middle  English  or  the  gram- 
matical usages  of  Elizabethan  authoi-s  is  not 
surprising ;  but  this  would  not  matter  if 
they  would  only  recognize  the  fact  them- 
selves, and  refrain  from  the  arrogance  of 
"  correcting  "  others  who  know  more  of  these 
things.  Let  us  rather  preserve  our  freedom 
of  speech,  and  refuse  to  be  dictated  to  after 
this  sort. 

There  is  often  a  great  outcry  about  the 
educational  value  of  Creek,  for  which  reason 
it  "ought  to  be  compulsory  on  all."  It  is 
high  time  to  insist  on  the  educational  value 
of  English  ;  but  it  will  be  long  l»efore  the 
study  of  it  is  compulsory  !  1  verily  believe 
that  many  dare  not  even  to  suggest  such  a 
thing  ,•  yet  why  should  we  not  value  our 
own  language  as  much  as  the  Greeks  valued 
theirs?  Walter  W.  Ske.\t. 

John  Wainwhight,  Baron  of  the  Ex- 
chequer IN  Ireland  (9""  S.  xii.  505).— Baron 
Wainwright  left  no  issue.  For  some  account 
of  the  baron's  life  in  Ireland  I  venture  to 
refer  Mr.  J.  B.  Wainewrksht  t*:*  the  last  part 

Bubli.shed  of  'A  History  of  the  County 
'ublin,'  by  myself,  and  to  the  Jourwd  of 
the  Royal  Socfety  of  Antiquaries  of  Ireland 
for  1898.  If  further  information  would  be 
of  any  use  to  Mj:.  Walnewrioht,  my  manu- 
script notes  are  much  at  his  service. 

F.  Elrington  Ball. 

Rous  OR  RowsE  Family  (9"'  S.  xii.  487).— 
Information  as  to  this  family  will  be  found 
as  follows  :  '  N.  &  Q..'  1"  S.  ix.  222 ;  «"'  S.  xi. 
.328,  429  :  Eatl  Amjlian  N.  A  (j.  (N.S.),  iii. 
229,  247;  Seventh  Rep.  Hist.  Com.,  663; 
Rous  of  Badinghara,  pedigree.  Add.  MSS. 
(Brit.  Mus.)  19,147  ;  arms  and  quarterings. 
Tanner  (MSS.  Bodleian),  cclvii.  239  ;  of  Crat- 
field,  Donnington,  and  Henham.  pedigrees. 
Add.  MSS.  (Brit.  Mus.)  19,147;  with  arms  in 
trick  {\b\i\),  Rawl.  B  (Bodl.)  422;  of  Wood- 
bridge,  Burke's  'Landed  Gentry,'  1370; 
'  Arcliffilogiaj  Atticie,'  by  Francis  Rous, 
Oxford,  1654  ;  Dr.  Rous'*  verses  on  his  death, 
Magd.  Coll.,  Oxford,  ccxxxix.  79 ;  Joan 
llous,  Baker  MSS.,  Cambridge,  xxxv.  end  ; 
letter  discharging  Adam  Rous,  surgeon  to 
Richard  II.,  of  20  marks  for  medicine  for  the 
king's  U80,  Cambridge,  Dd.  iii.  f>3  (H.o) '' 
letter  allowing  him  a  tun  of  fJascony  w>"^. 
iL  ;  letter  of  Lady  Parnell  Rouh  to  5>«'/o''" 
Hobart  relative  to  wardship  ff  '"rViin, J 
12  Dec,  1003.  Tanner,  cclxxxiu.  »o«,  LMa  > 
of  John  Rous  Ineurnbent  of  Santon,  Dov^n- 
ham,  1025  to  1642,'  edited  by  M.  A,  E  Green 


56 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        no^-  s.  i.  Jak.  lo.  im. 


iJCam.  Soc),  Lond.,  I8r>6 ;  letter  of  Sir  John 
rRou9,  of  Heuham,  to  Fmnc.  Gawdy,  3  Mar., 
1627/8,  Tenth  Rep.  Hist  Cora.,  pt.  iii.  128; 
ditto,  Tj  Oct.,  1628,  iff.  131 ;  speech  of  Francis 
lious    in     Parliament    concerning    religion, 
2U  Jan.,  1G28/9  (print©<]),  Tanner,  Ixxii.  305, 
ccxcLx.   .'>3 ;    letter   of   John    Itous,    Bodley 
Librarian,  to  Usaher,  14  Nov.,  1629,  iO.  Ixxi. 
21  ;  letter  of  Charles  Roua,  of  Henham,  to 
Franc.  Gawdy,  10  Jan.,  1629/30,  Tenth  Rep. 
Hist.  Com^  pt.  iii.   132 ;  letter  of  Francis 
Rous    to    Sir   John   Potts,  30  Jan.,  1643/4, 
Tanner,  Ixii.  530  ;  his  declaration  concerning 
the   amount    of    his    income    from    public 
sources,  25  Aug.,  1646,  V6.  lix.  499  ;  letter  to  Sir 
Heni-y  Vane  touching  payment  of  Mr.  Pym'a 
debts,  16  June,    1651   (printed),    /6.  liv.   87;] 
letter  of    Thomas    Rous,  of    Stcrnfield,  to 
Franc.   Gawdy,    17  Aug.,   16.">4,  Tenth  Rep. 
Hist.  Cora.,  pt.  iii.  179  ;  to  Thoma.s  Gawdy, 
3  April,  1668,  ib.  204  ;  copy  of  will  of  Franci.s 
Rous,  Provost  of  Eton,  12  April,  IfijS,  Tanner, 
ccccxlvii.  1 ;  difference  between  Thomas  Rous 
and  his  parishioners,  1668,  Tenth  Rep.  Hist. 
Com.,  pt.  iii.  203 ;  letter  of  Mary  Itous,  of 
Sternfield,  to  William  Gawdy,  8  May,  1656, 
ib.  184  :  ditto,  20  July,  16.')8,  ib.  187  ;  letter  of 
Sir  John  Rous,  second  Baronet  of  Henham, 
to  O.  Le  Neve,  his  cousin,  1699-1704,  Egerton 
MSS.  (Brit.  Mus.)  2719,  2720 ;  letter  of  Sir 
John  to  R.  Wright,  s.a.,  ib.  2720  ;  letter  of 
J.  Rous  to  Marquess  of  Granby,  announcing 
nomination   for  county   and  declaration  of 
sheriff,  and  a<3king  for  concurrence,  6  Mar., 
1787,  Twelfth   Rep.   Hist.  Com.,  pt.  v.  203. 
Further  pedigrees  of  the  Rous  family  will  be 
found  in   the   Brit.    Mus.,   Add.   MSS.  0524, 
Harl.  MSS.  155,  1103,  1177,  1449,  1484.  l.'J20, 


Worcester.  Reginald  Rous  was  the  repre- 
sentative of  the  Dennington  family  in  the 
fifteenth  century ;  and  Sir  Thoraa.s  Rons, 
who  was  knighted  in  1603,  was  his  lineal 
descendant.  They  were  anceRtors  of  the 
Earls  of  Strad  broke.  Full  particulars  of  the 
descent  may  be  found  in  CoUins'a  '  Peerage,' 
or  in  the  various  Visitations  of  Suffmk. 
Francis  Rous,  named  in  1637,  was  the  well- 
known  Speaker  of  the  Barebones  Parliament, 
He  was  fourth  son  of  Sir  Anthony  Rous,  of 
Hal  ton,  Cornwall,  and  died  7  Jan.,  1650. 

W.  D.  Pink. 
[Canon    Ki.lai;o,mbk,   Bittou    Vicarage.    Bristol, 
otters  to  give  Mk.  Umjbkpown  further  information.) 

Children's  Cabols  and  Lullabiks  (g**"  S. 

xii.  .348,  395,  511).— Any  one  interested  in  this 

literature  would  do  well  to  peruse  the  articles 

in  7^''  S.  ii.,  indexed  under  'Nursery  Rhyraea.' 

W.   P.   COCRTNEY. 

Quotations  O""  S.  xii.  468).— Two  of  the 
quotations  cited  appear  on  the  last  leaf  of 
tne  celebrated  Northumberland  MS.  edited 
by  Mr.  Spetlding  in  1870.  In  place  of  the 
quotation 

Laden  with  grief  and  oppression  of  the  heart 
the  Northumberland  MS.  has 

Revealing  day  through  every  cranie  ijeei»««, 

which  is  a  variation  of '  Lucrece'  (1086). 
Then  follow,  as  already  noted, 
Asmund  and  CdrncUn, 
and,  slightly  varied, 

Multia  annis  jam  tranaaotis 
Nulla  tides  est  in  y»acti«, 
Mell  in  ore.  verba  laetis : 
Fell  in  corde,  fraus  in  factis. 

Mr.  Spedding  said:   "I  think  I  am   in  a 


IfiCU,  ilOO  ;  arms,  Harl.  MSS.  1449;  extracts   condition  to  assert  that  there  is  no  trace  of 


from  fine  rolls  relating  to  family.  Add.  5937  ; 
Ambrose  Rouse's  evidenc&s,  Queen's  Coll., 
Oxford,  clii.  1.38  ;  Francis  Rouse's  speeches 
in  Parliament.  1628.  Queen's,  cxxi.  406  ; 
Christ  Ch.  Coll.,  Oxf.,  ccccxvii.  2.37  ;  Stowe 
MSS.  (Brit.  Mus.)  156,  f.  210'';  in  1640, 
(Queen's,  clxxiv.  71.  A  pedigree  of  the  family 
is  given  by  Suckling  in  his  'Hist,  of  Suffolk,' 
vol.  ii.  n.  366. 

The  Reginald  Rous  secondly  mentioned  by 
your  correspondent  was  the  grandfather  of 
the  Edmund  Rous  he  also  refers  to.  As  to 
the  death  of  this  Reginald,  or  Raynold,  or 
Reynold  Rous  in  1464,  it  will  be  seen  that 
Suckling  gives  this  as  the  date  of  his  wife's 
death,  and  Weaver,  '  F.  M..'  p.  512,  gives  the 
date  as  1463.  W.  A.  Copinger. 

Kersal  Coll,  Manchester. 

There  were  several  important  families  of  this 
name,  seated  respectively  at  Dennington, 
JMjfTolk,  Halton,  Cornwall,  and  Rouse  Lench, 


Bacon's  penmanship  in  any  part  of  the 
volume."  On  the  other  hand,  a  New  York 
lady  told  me  some  years  ago  that,  in  reply 
to  an  inquiry,  she  had  received  a  letter  front 
the  librarian  of  Northumberland  House  in 
which  the  opinion  was  expressed  that  the 
handwritine  was  Bacon's.  Spcdding'sopinior 
surely  should  have  groat  weight.  It  is  to  b<  ^ 
hoped  that  we  shall  learn  more  of  the  MS. 
mentioned  by  Mit.  Bikoovne. 

Chas.  a.  Heritch. 
New  York. 

Right  Hon.  Edward  SotTHWEi.L  (in"-  S. 
i.  a).--The  Southwell  MSS.  were  sold  by  the 
late  Mr.  Thorpe,  of  Bedford  Street,  in  1834-.'>, 
when  many  or  the  papers  were  purchajjod  by 
the  British  Museum.  Others  are  in  tJ 
possession  of  the  Royal  Irish  Aoademv.  Sor 
tell  into  the  hands  of  Sir  Thomas  Phillipp^ 
of  Broadway,  Worcester,  whose  library  came 
under  the  hammer  of  Messrs.  Sotheby  in  the 


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^_  niueties,  and  was  acquired  by  the  Card  iff  Free 
I^B  Li  bran*  for,  I  believe,  3,36<;/. ;  but  whether 
JK  the  McS.  were  included  orotherwiHe  I  cannot 

say.  EVEEABD  HOUB  COLKMAN. 

'Memoirs  OF  A  Stomai'u'  (10"'  S.  i.  27).— 
Halkett  and  Laing  state  that  Sydney  Whit- 
ing was  the  author  of  this  book  (1853) ;  also 
that  he  wrote  'Affection,  its  Flowers  and 
Fruit'  (1848),  and  'Helioude  ;  or,  Adventures 
in  the  Sun'  (1855).  R.  A.  PoTT.s. 

[Mk.  RaM-m  Tiioma.s  refer?  to  Uoaae's  'Modern 
EnRliah  liiography,'  «.i'.  WhiliDit.] 

Envelopes  (9"*  S.  xii.  245,307,  434,400).— 

With  all  respect  toCAPT.THORNEGEORr.E,  I  fear 

that  his  statement  as  to  the  "  envelopes  dated 

1856  which  liad  betn   franked   through   the 

^  post  by    Lord  Fortescue  "  and  others  needs 

^1  some  modification.      Private    franking    was 

^f  aboli«hetl  in  1840,  when  the  reformed  jx)stal 

system    came    in,    though    the    practice   of 

writing  a    name  outside   a  letter— the   act 

■  which  constituted  the  frank— still  survives, 
as  do  other  habits  whose  original  meaning  is 
lost.  Nowadays  the  outside  signature  de- 
notes tlie  writer,  not  the  franker  of  the  mis- 
sive. t'APT.  Thorne  Geori.k's  later  state- 
nient  that  "stamped  covers"  were  used  in 
Australia  to  prepay  postage  "previous  to 
Rowland  Hill's  scheme"  must,  I  think,  have 
been  culled  from  one  of  those  works  of  fiction 
which  profess  to  tell  the  story  of  postal 
reform. 

That  letters  before  1840  sometimes  con- 
tained enclosures  is  true.  To  enclose  was 
easy.  The  letters  were  written  on  large 
square  sheets  of  paper,  which  were  folded 
and  raa<le  secure  by  .sealing-wax  or  wafers. 
At  every  post-oftice  was  a  ''candling  room," 
in  which  any  letter  that  seemed  thicker  than 
usual  was  hold  up  against  a  strong  li^ht  to 
ascertain  of  liow  many  separate  pieces  it  con- 
sisted- It  was  to  defeat  temptation  to  dis- 
honesty caused  by  this  scrutiny  that  the 
practice  was  adopted  of  cutting  a  bank-note 
in  two  before  posting  it,  and  keeping  back 
the  second  hair  till  receipt  of  the  first  had 
been  acknowledged.  A  bank-note  or  other 
enclosure  in  a  letter  would  have  counted  as 
two  letters,  and,  if  both  were  put  into  one 
«inveIop<',  as  three.  Tlius,  if  this  missive  with 
its  two  enclosures  were  sent,  say  from 
London  to  Edinburgh,  the  charge  would 
have  been  1j<  id.  X  3  =  4,'(.  plus  a  halfpenny,  in 
those  IVoteutioiiist  days,  for  the  privilege  of 
<:rosHing  the  Scottish  b<:irder. 

Unless  the  envelopes  mentioned  by  Swift 
ia  1720,  by  Lamb  iu  \bt\  and  by  Creevey's 
biographer  prior  to  1838,  were  employed  to 
■cover  "smuggled"  letters  or  those  conveyed 


» 


b^  hand,  it  ie  hard  to  understand  their  rauon 
dtUre.  It  is  this  ditliculty  which  bewildcia 
one  when  reading  the  striking  and  seemingly 
exact  evidence  adduced  bv  Sir  Hkrbert 
Maxwell,  Capt.  Thorne  George,  and  Mr. 
W.  H.  Peet  as  to  the  use  of  these  covers 
before  1840.  Can  it  be  tliat  the  "little  bags 
called  envelopes,"  as  my  father  described 
them,  were,  as  Capt.  Tjioune  George  says, 
"  nothing  but  a  revival  "  t  Or  must  the 
mysterv  remain  as  insoluble  as  the  identity 
of  the  Man  in  the  Iron  Mask  ? 

An  interesting  account  may  be  found  of 
the  local  penny  posts  inventetl  by  poor  l3ock- 
wra  (whose  plan  in  many  ways  resembled  my 
father's)  in  that  standard  work  on  prepostaf- 
reformation  times-  Joyce's  '  History  of  the 
Post  Office.'  Eleanob  C.  Smyth. 

Harborne. 

At  the  last  reference  it  is  stated  that 
Edward  IV.  originated  a  practical  post  in 
1481.  1  should  like  to  know  whether  this 
stAtement,  which  I  have  met  with  before, 
rests  upon  any  sufficient  evidence.  The  same 
correspondent,  following  a  well-known  work 
of  reference,  .says  that  Randolph  was  ap- 
pointed "Postmaster  of  England"  in  lj8h 
Randolph  was  appointed  Ma,ster  of  the  Posts 
in  156C,  in  succession  to  Sir  John  Mason,  who 
was  appointed  in  November,  1545,  by  letters 
patent.  Mason's  prwlecessor,  Brian  Tuke, 
was  Master  of  the  Posts  in  1512,  and  perhaps 
earlier,  and  he  seems  to  have  been  the  first 
person  who  held  the  office  in  this  country. 

From  about  the  beginning  of  the  reign  of 
Henry  VIII.  there  were  posts  from  London 
to  Dover  and  to  Berwick,  and  lat^r  in  the 
century  there  was  a  post  to  Holyhead,  and 
to  other  places.  But  these  were  tho  king'u 
post  for  tlie  conveyance  of  letters  on  his 
affairs,  or  of  persons  travelling  with  his 
commission,  or  the  commission  of  certain 
officers  of  the  State.  When  ordinary  private 
letters  were  first  sent  by  post  is  a  question 
more  easily  asked  than  answered.  The 
Privy  (Council  as  late  as  January.  l."iS3,  laid 
down,  inter  alia,  in  a  proclamation,  "  that 
no  packets  or  letters  shall  be  sufficient 
warrant  or  authority  to  constrain  the  posts 
to  run  with  thom  in  post,  except  they  be 
directed  on  her  Majesty's  affaii-s."  The 
letters  of  private  persons  were,  no  doubt, 
sent  by  post,  but  had  to  take  their  chance  of 
being  forwarded.  Private  letters  were,  as  a 
rule,  entrustetl  to  the  common  carriers, 

J.  A.  J.    HOUSUEN. 

The  following  citations  would  seem  to 
indicate  the  use  of  tlie  envelope,  or  its 
practical  equivalent  the  "  cover,"  for  a  peritxl 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [lo^  «•  i.  Jax.  ia.  im. 


of  over  a  century  prior  to  the  postal  reform 
of  Sir  Rowland  Hill  in  1840  :— 

I8'J9.— "  I  bave  just  discovered  that  my  blotting 
)>aper  blots,  and  blots  with  great  offtMt,  which 
must  excuse  the  state  of  this  epistle.  I  now  con- 
clude it.  I  do  not  overlook  what  you  said  in  your 
envelojie,  but  we  will  talk  over  Rrievances  when  we 
meet.  I  am  truly  sorry  for  them.  Adieu." — 
'  Letters  of  Lady  Louisa  Stuart,'  iSecond  Series, 
1>.  150  (KdinburKh.  ly03). 

1S'*2.  — "I  did  grudge  the  other  day  eighteen- 
pence  for  one  iiage  of  a  sheet  of  note  i>aper  enclosed 
m  a  cover,  but  Rive  me  the  money's  worth  and  lake 
it  freely."—'  Letters  of  Lady  Louisa  .Stuart,'  First 
Series,  pp.  2fv>-lj  (Edinburgh,  1901). 

1H21.— ^'  If  he  should  have  left  yon,  never  wind  a 
frank ;  but  if  he  doe«  frank  your  letter,  let  it  be  in 
a  cover.  You  will  wonder  at  this,  but  I  promised 
a  collector  of  franks  whom  1  met  at  Dnnc«tield  to 
Rather  together  as  many  franks  as  1  could  for  him, 
and  I  want  Sir  Wm.s  to  add  to  Ihc  uunjber."— 
J  hill.,  p.  UK. 

1782.— "Mr.  Napier  bega  his  beat  compts. to  you 
both.  I  won't  make  you  pay  more  for  my  stupid 
letter  by  putting  it  in  a  cover,  so  adieu." — '  Letters 
of  I.Ady  Sarah  fjenuox,'  ii.  17  (London,  IflOl). 

1730,  Dean  Swift  to  Mrs.  Howard.—'*  if  you  were 
a  lord  or  uominoiier,  I  would  have  sent  you  this  iu 
an  envelope."—'  Letters  of  the  Countess  of  SutTolk,' 
i.  4<;>3  (London.  1824). 

1726,  Dean  Swift  to  Mrs.  Howard.— "This  ia 
without  a  cover,  to  save  money  :  and  plain  paper, 
because  the  gilt  is  so  thin  it  will  discover  secrets 
betwixt  \xa."—Ibid.,  p.  '221. 

The  'N.E.D.'  cites  for  early  e.xamplea  of 
envelope,  1726,  Dean  Swift,  and  1714,  Bishop 
Burnet ;  and  for  cover,  1798,  Jane  Austen, 
and  1748,  Samuel  ilichardson. 

E.  P.  Merritt. 

Bo«ton,  U.S. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &c. 

Xfir  Avt'itenlarn  and  iV«  Ptoplt.    By  J.  H.  lanes. 

(.Soribner's  Sons.) 
This  survey  of  New  Amsterdam,  now  known  as 
New  York,  ia  coni]iilud  from  documents  in  Ame- 
rican archive:),  most  of  which,  so  far  as  the  general 
T>ublic  is  concerned,  are  now  for  the  first  time  made 
acceanible.  It  has  iiispired  much  interest  iu  Ame- 
rica, hut  )ias  as  yet  obt.aiDed  comparatively  little 
notice  in  this  country,  wherein  it  should  count  on 
a  welcome  no  less  assured.  It  is  virtually  the  first 
Attem])t  to  deal  fully  with  the  growth  of  the 
Netherlands  colony,  the  settlement  of  Manhattan 
island,  and  the  fortunes  of  the  colonists  in  their 
BuHerin^s  from  tyrannical  governors  and  their  con- 
tests with  enemies,  savage  or  civiliited,  until,  in 
1664,  the  State  was  grasped  by  Pwigland,  who  had 
long  cast  covetous  eyes  upon  it.  A  new  edition  is 
meditated  bv  tlie  author,  and  it  is  greatly  desired 
to  interest  Eiij?lish  research  in  the  matter.  Many 
I>oints  on  which  further  information  is  sought 
may  be  mentioned.  Mr.  Innes  is  of  o])inion 
that  the  William  I'ator^on  who  in  IOCh  aciiuired 
property  in  New  Anmlerdtuu  wum  the  fonnuer  of 
the  Bank  of  England.    This  can  hardly  have  been 


the  case  if  the  datea  in  the  '  D.N.B.'  can  be  accepted, 
since,  according  to  these,  Paterson  was  born  Id  I658k 
Further  information  on  the  subject  is  desirable. 
The  evidence  of  signatures  favours  the  theory  of 
Mr.  lanes.  Edinburgh  records  should  be  consulted. 
Fresh  information  is  imiiarted  concerning  Ca]>t. 
W'illiaai  Kidd,  and  the  view  is  expounded  that  he 
was  sacrificed  in  order  to  save  the  reputation  of 
men  higher  in  station  than  himself.  When  thii 
i>eriod  is  reached  in  calendaring  the  English  State 
Papers,  much  information  on  tins  j>oint  is  to  be 
anticipated.  Concerning  .Jacob  Sleendam,  a  Dutch 
poet  in  the  service  of  the  West  India  Comiiany, 
new  information  has  been  obtained.  As  no  is 
virtually  the  first  American  poet,  interest  in 
him  is  certain  to  be  before  long  inspired.  How 
far  his  work.^,  which  we  are  unable  to  read,  are 
accessible  we  fail  to  grasp.  Comelis  Melyn,  of 
Antwerp,  the  leader  of  the  opposition  to  the  West 
India  (Jompany,  transferred  his  services  to  Eng- 
land. Sjieculation  is  rife  in  New  York  as  to 
what  was  his  .^hare  in  bringing  about  the  English 
seizure  of  New  York.  Il  is  probable  that  informa- 
tion on  this  subject  is  lurking  among  English 
reoords.  Auguatyn  Heermana  or  Herrman,  the 
surveyor  of  Maryland  and  the  maker  of  the  map 
of  that  province  now  in  the  British  Museum,  a 
man  interesting  iu  other  respects,  invites  atten- 
tion. Little  intelli^';ent  regard  has  hitherto  bei 
]>aid  to  the  early  views  of  New  York.  Mr.  Iniv 
claims  to  have  been  the  first  to  discover  that  th» 
view  by  Justus  Danckers  of  Now  Amsterdam,  nomi- 
nally in  Itiol,  but  really  representing  the  ].ieriod 
about  1IJ30,  which  serves  as  a  frontispiece,  is  ia  the 
original  reversed.  In  these  and  manv  other  regards 
we  challenge  the  judgment  of  English  ex pert^B.  We 
are  glad  to  give  Mr.  Innes  all  the  assistance  in  our 
power.  Little,  however,  will,  we  fear,  be  done 
until  Mr.  Innes  associates  some  English  scholar  in 
labours  lliat  should  ultimately  prove  remuneratiyc, 
or  himself  visits  Britain  for  the  unr{)oae  of  making 
personal  researches.  His  book  appeals  to  all 
students  of  New  York,  and  is  profusely  illustrated 
with  niaj>s,  drawings,  Ac.  The  designs  extend 
beyond  Now  Amsterdam  to  the  present  city,  which 
the  Dutch  colonists  of  three  centuries  ago  might 
justly  have  regarded  as  a  metropolis,  a  term  con- 
stantly abused  in  its  application  to  Lomlon,  which 
is  no  more  the  metropolis  of  York  than  it  is  of 
Edinburgh  or  Dublin. 

TuE  few  sheets  of  paper  which  contain  the  title- 
page,  K('i/i(i  firoiaua  in  Coiimtttriti  Uurnti  wriptci, 
Lalint  vtihlidit  \V.  A.  Clarkt  (Oxford,  B.  H.  Black- 
well),  are  iif  interest  to  us  as  a  reminder  tliat  the 
elegant  gift  of  I^tin  verse  has  not  yet  passed  into 
the  limbo  of  forgotten  things.    For  Iiiom  us 

and  the  instinct  for  language  Latin  cai 
inslruniont,  can  make  privacy  on  a  po~'  .  :  ..  ;.  J. 
ness  out  of  prolixity,  liiinjfs  awkward  to  aay  toler- 
able, and  compliments  ejiigrammatic.  The  Latin 
muse  is  not,  our  own  experience  protests,  such  a  «ox 
claniauiit  ill  iliMfto  as  the  man  in  the  street  (that 
wonderful  tiction  of  modern  journalists  to  conceal 
faults  of  sense  and  ignorance)  thinks,  if,  indeed, 
ho  can  l>e  said  ever  to  think  at  all.  We  have 
received,  for  instance,  in  a  Latin  verse  or  two  an 
invitation  from  a  friend  to  dine  and  play  billiards:, 
as  exact  as  English  could  be  concerning  time  and 
place,  graceful,  yet  brief  as  the  telegram  which  the 
national  thrift  in  copper  generally  reduces  to  nn- 
intelligibility. 


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59 


n 


It  18  curious  to  note  how  great  men  of  Iett«n 
who  have  any  Latin  at  all  are  almost  invariably  ao 
fond  of  it  that  they  write  more  of  it  than  ihey 
know — witnesa  Shakespeare,  Scott,  Lamb.  These 
were  in  touch  with  life,  no  mere  doD8  or  ocacleriiic 
tninda,  hard-working  men,  goo<l  citizens  of  the 
world,  and  their  feeTiu;;  and  usage  ouKht  to  weigh 
with  educators  of  today. 

So  far  we  have  8}ioken  of  Latin  as  a  IhinK  desired 
in  itself  by  our  great  writers.  Classical  transla- 
tion ia  a  more  restricted  field,  and  at  its  best  an 
excellent  mental  discipline.  Mr.  Clarke,  who  has 
been  assisted,  his  tit!e-x>aKc  adds,  by  friends  in  the 
revision  of  his  work,  tells  us  in  a  letter  that  the 
•  Elegy'  haa  been  done  into  T^atiu  by  W.  Hildyard, 
1838;  J.  H.  Macaulay,  1841,  in  *  Arundines  Cami'; 
fjord  Ravensworth ;  H.  Sewell,  187.'i ;  H.  J.  Dod- 
well,  l!«t ;  Uev.  R.  I{.  Konnard,  189-2 ;  and  Canon 
Sheringhanf.  Httl.  He  does  not,  however,  mention 
the  version  in  I^tin  hexameters  by  B.  H.  Kennedy 
CSabrinffi  Corolla,'  fourth  ed.,  pp.  IVJ-'AK).  Mr. 
Clarke,  it  is  clear,  belones  to  the  older  school, 
which  is  not  ao  careful  of  iU  Latinity  as  modern 
composers  are.  He  has,  t/i  rtvancht,  a.  naturalness, 
a  free  flow  of  line,  which  their  elaborateness  is  apt 
to  miss.  We  readily  acknowledge  that  his  version 
has  Riven  us  a  pleasure  which  outweighs  the  pointa 
in  which  we  think  it  aniiss,  or  capable  of  better 
effect  and  idiom.  One  line  we  entreat  him  to  re- 
model which  has  Jflfr  in  it,  since  we  are  bound  to 
shorten  the  first  syllable  of  that  useful  verb.  In 
the  line 

For  them  no  more  the  blazing  hearth  shall  burn 
there  is  a  subjunctive  instead  of  the  future;  and 
can  one  forgot  the  "  lisping "  of  the  children   on 
"  their  siro'a  return  "  '*    One  might  put 

Heu  !  feaao  sabolea  oocumt  nulla  parents 
for  the  line 

Neo  fesso  suboles  occurret  balba  parenli. 
We  see  that  Mr.  Clarke  uses  "  nevo"  for  nor.  which 
wo  should  not  allow  onrsel  vea ;  and  does  not "  cursus 
Honoris"  suggest  a  limited  oitd  technical  path  to 
glory  in  Roman  life?  We  notice,  too,  a  good  many 
collocations  of  noun  and  adjective  M-ith  the  same 
case  ending,  which  we  fancy  one  would  have  avoided 
— e.ff.,ia  aline  like 

In  ailvii  solitia  snnt  patefacta  locis 
would  not  "•li"'  sound  better  and  be  as  good?  In 
this  same  stanza  "  juvenum"i8  an  evident  misprint 
for  Jui'r.nem.  In  some  cases  it  would  be  feasible, 
we  think,  to  represent  the  English  more  fully;  but 
these  are  matters  of  taste  and  vocabulary  on  which 
it  is  imi>oBsible  to  dwell  briefly.  Suffice  it  to  say 
that  the  present  reviewer  owes  to  Mr.  Clarke  a 
pi,..,....,..  »<'..Tnoon  of  reflection  on  a  secluded  path 
of  1 1  which  he  has  followed  with  unabated 

iiii  delight  for  many  years,  and  which  he 

hopi^  Mill  never  cease  to  be  a  special  means  of 
intercourse  among  the  few  and  fit,  iiowever  the 

I  mutable  many  ra^e  of  this  and  tliat  as  a  panacea 
(or  gelling  on  in  this  money-making  era. 
If r',  X-  of  the  Burlhtyfoii  Maf/n-.ine  is  issned  under 
new  ntana^emcnl,  though  time  has  not  yet  been 
found  to  introduce  contemplated  improvements. 
Ita  most  important  itlostrations  are  from  the  Nor- 
Dianlon  Collection  (article  .S),  and  include  Vandyke's 
'Lady  Mary,  Daunhter  of  f.'harles  I.,'  which  does 
duty  as  frontispiece;  a  'Venus  and  Adonis'  of 
Titian  ;  a  portrait  of  .Sophie  A  mauld(.qy.  Amould?) 


I 
I 


byOreuze,  and  two  other  works  of  the  same  painter; 
and  Murillo's  '  Moorish  Slave.'  A  Chinese  painting 
of  the  fourth  century  and  many  other  contnbutiona 
of  mnch  interest  and  value  appear,  it  seems  as  if 
the  alterations  to  be  anticipated  consist  in  giving 
increased  attention  to  modem  oa  well  as  ancient 
art. 

Ay  admirable  number  of  Scnhn^r's  Magaunt 
reached  us  ttM  late  to  be  inserted  in  lost  week's 
notice.  Capt.  Mahan  liegins  in  it  an  account,  to  be 
continued,  of  'The  War  of  1812.'  Mr.  Siiielmann 
writes  on  Frank  Brangwyn,  and  Mr.  l)ellenl>augh 
describes  '  A  New  Valley  of  Wonders.' 

BOOKSKLLIKS'  CATALOOt:K.S. 

Mk.  Bkrtkam  Dobrli.'s  list  is,  as  usual,  full  of 
interest.  It  opens  with  a  collection  of  mannscripts. 
'Die  first  is  '  A  Booke  of  the  Accouiptea  of  Barton, 
made  at  our  Ladio  Daie,  Anno  Dmi.  Itill.'  Another 
MS.  is  'A  Relation  made  by  an  Kngliah  Anibos- 
sador  in  France  to  James  I.'  There  are  also  '  L^n- 
printed  and  Unpublished  Manuscripts  of  Rowleie 
Plays.'  These  were  re/erred  to  in  the  Athemntm, 
21  May,  1S92 ;  also  in  '  N.  &  Q.,'  2"''  S.  vii.  277. 
Among  the  books  are  a  Folio  Shakoapeore,  excep- 
tionally fine  copy  of  unusual  size  (I."},',  by  9  in.), 
1.1V. ;  Byron'a  *  Hours  of  idleness,'  largo-iMiiwr  copy 
of  the  genuine  firet  edition,  uncut,  '35/-  (a  copy  of 
this  sold  at  .Sotheby's  in  May  lost  for 4.1/.):  Folk- 
lore Society's  Publications,  31  vols.;  Keats,  first 
edition,  12mo  ;  and  '  Dramatic  Portraits  in  the  Days 
of  (iarrick' (this  collection  contains  nine  )iortrait8 
of  <^)arrick).  Under  Dickens  we  find  a  colleclioo 
of  pamphlets,  evidently  bound  up  by  direction  of 
the  novelist. 

Mr.  William  Downing,  of  Temple  Row,  Bir- 
mingham, in  his  new  list  includes  the  rare  first 
edition  of  '  Paradise  Regoin'd,'  a  tine  copy  l>ound 
by  Zaehnsdorf,  .'W. ;  also  'The  Nuremberg  Chro- 
nicle,' 1493  :  '  The  Orchid  Album,'  1 1  vols. ;  "  Tudor 
Translations,"  26  vol*.,  I8a3-I90:i.  40/. ;  '  Armorial 
Families,'  by  Fox-Davies,  showing  which  arms  in 
tise  are  borne  by  legal  authority;  'The  Roman 
Wall,'  by  the  Rev.  J.  Colliniswood  Bruce,  IS.*)! ; 
Brough's  '  Life  of  Falstoir,'  illustrated  by  Cruik- 
shank,  18.'38;  Maxwoll's  'Irish  Rebellion,'  first 
edition,  Cruikshank's  illustrations  ;  Poole's  '  Eng- 
lish Parnassus,'  1657;  Prayer  Book  of  King 
Kdward  VII.,  folio,  1903;  Rogers's  '  Italy  '  2  vols. 
4to,  1838,  bound  by  Hayday,  HI.  S^. ;  and  thaw's 
'  Dresses  of  the  Middle  Ages,'  1843. 

Mr.  Francis  Edwards  has  a  ooUeotioii  of  first 
editions  of  modem  authors ;  and  under  Africa  w© 
find  many  interesting  pamphlets  and  books  on  the 
Boer  war,  helpful  to  tne  future  historian.  He  has 
also  a  series  of  papers  from  the  ijociety  of  Anki- 
nuaries.  In  the  general  portion  of  the  catalogue  is 
Sir  F.  B.  Eden's  '  History  of  the  I^abouring  Classes 
from  the  Conquest,'  3  vols,  4to,  very  scarce,  17fl7» 
ItV. ;  Froissart,  6  vols.,  1901-2.  scarce,  .V. ;  Plcroo- 
Egau,  1825,  6/.  1ft*.;  firbt  editions  of  Coleridge? 
Rymer  et  Robertas  Sanderson.  Fcedera,  20  vols., 
l?27-»*,  15/.  ;  Punch,  a  complete  set,  1*11  to  !««, 
26/.  M  r.  Edwards  also  makes  a  special  offer  of  puli- 
lications  of  the  Roval  (Jeographiool  hocioty.  Me 
has  a  complete  set,  XL 

Messrs,  Fawn,  of  Bristol,  have  many  works 
relating  to  Bristol,  including  '  A  Histonr  of  Bank- 
ing in  Bristol  from  1750  to  1898' AOd  the  Bristol 


i^b^b&i 


60 


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Archii!oIo(.'i'  '"  'ioKJi.  *IJcH»k-IVice« 

Curreni,'   I  i'n  Hall  Library," 

IftFK"  i>tt|*i  ;  '  l\j... .■..-.       I....   i^f  I'ictures,'  l!<40: 

l'.:iiei-»on,  the  "  KiverBide  Edition,"  lo/.  I.m.  ;  and 
K..\i  Undeon'i    'Dance     of     ]>eath,'    Ackermaon. 
isl.'i-lli,  are  other  iteraa.     Under  America  we  tind 
the  fipHi  edition  of  '  Uncle  Tom>  Cabin."     There  is 
also  a  small  coUeclion  of  books  on  the  drama. 

Mr.  Charlea  Hicham  has  a  New  Year's  Catalogue 
of  Tbeological  Books  in   three  eectioDS,  one  being 
devoted  to  Roman  Catholic  and  Patristic  litera- 
ture.   There  are  alao  a  number  of  new  books  offered 
At  Becoud-hond  prices.     These  include  Frothero's 
'Life  of  Dean   Stanley';    'An   Inventory  of    the 
Church  Plate  of  Leicestershire,  with  some  Account 
of    the    Donors':    rriiicipal    Tulloch's    'Life,'   by 
^lr8.  (JHiihant ;  \Vilkin8on'8  '  Manners  and  Customs 
of  the  Ancient  Egyptians';  and   Wright's  '  Karly 
Bibles  of  America,  New  York,  189'2. 

Mr.  Jame0    Irvine,    of    Fulhani,    has   books    of 
interest    under    Alpine,     Americji,     Bibliography, 
liot&nical,  Fungi,  Lichens,   and   Military.     There 
are  al.io  a  tot  of  Hohii's  e:«ira  volumes  and  books  on 
lyoudon.    Under  Costumes  ia  a  copy  of  *  Vestiarium 
Scoticuni,'  11. 1». 

Mr.  David  Johnstone,  of  Edinburgh,  has  a  good 
catalojiixie  of   aaiiquarian    and    general   literature, 
including  prints  by  Cruiksbank   and    some    first 
editions  of  Scott. 

^lessrs.  Moegs    Brothers'   list   includes    a   rare 
collection  of  the  works^of  the  Bohemian  engraver 
Wonceslaus  Hollar,  l<JOT-77,  34/.  ;  Kcaue's  '  'lowers 
of  Ancient  Ireland';  a  complete  set  of  Lady  Joc^k- 
son'e  Court  Menioir.*],  14  vols.,  Iwautifullj''  bound  by 
Riviere,  3G/.  ;    Richard  Jeireries's  works,  a  hand- 
some set,  in  'J7  vols.,  '^. ;   Jerrold'a  works,  with 
four  autograph  notes  of  the  author,  8  vols.     Under 
^Samuel  .Johnson  wefind  Jugges  edition  (l.'yiGJof  the 
New  'festanient,  containing  six  full  pages  of  writing 
in  the  autograph  of  Dr.  Johnson,  the  price  of  the 
volnnie  being  lOt)/.  :  the  scarce  edition  of  Koswell, 
1703,  also  Husbands's  '  Miacellaoy  of  Pocni.^,'  Liuli- 
field,  1731  (this  contains  the  first  printe<l  production 
of  Johnson).    Ben  .Jonson's  works.  IftWJ,  tall  copy, 
iapriced  19/.  10».  ;  Keate.  Taylor  &  Hessey,  1821).  '25/. ; 
a  collection,  probably  the  largest,  of  fortraits  of 
Edmund  Kean.  270  pieceB,  iVl/. ;  Hasted's  'Kent,' 
'IM.  ;    Kip's  'Nouvcan  'J'ht-Alre  de  la  (Jrande  Bre- 
tagne,'  4  vols,  large  folio,  38/, ;  a  set  of  Lacroix, 
first   issue:    a  handsome  set  of  I^ecky,   18  vols.  ; 
•Punch's  Pockel-Books,'   1844-«0;   Lover's   works, 
A3   vols..  lH39-?2,   Iftt/.  ;   a  set  of  Lytton's  works, 
including    Life,    105    vols.,    77/.    HV. ;    Tennyson, 
'Poems    by  Two    Brothers,'   1827.  30/.;    Shelley's 
'tjuecn  Mab,'  a  complete  copy  of  the  suppressed 
first  edition,   post   8vo,    in    the    original    boards, 
"Printed    by  P.    B.    Shelley,    23,   Chapel    Street! 
Orosvcnor  Sq.,  1813,"  135/.  (the  lost  copy  sold  by 
auction  realued    16(V.).      Under    Ruskin   we    find 
"Poenjs,  J.  Rs,  collected   \Vi*),"  78/.  (this  r.opy  is 
described   in   Mr.   Wise's  bibliography  of  Ruskin). 
The  catalogue  includes  many  curious  MS^. 

Messrs.  A.  Maurice  &  Co.  have  a  new  catalogue 
of  ongra\ing<«  and   portrai(j>  at   moderate  pricect, 
very    intercepting ;    ult'O    a    general    caialofnie    of 
jj)n.i«r-  1....L-      ^i|......  comprise  some  first  editions 

oi  iluniphrcy'.'j  Clock'   in    the 

t*  I»*t0-l,    beina    offeied    at 

'^  *liy'8  worlta.  including 

ilao  MacaaUy  in  tlie 


Messrs.  Sotheran  hav«  a  k- 
c4italogue8,  which  we  shoul'i 
to  follow.     The    one    for   i.. 
reached   ua,  and  contains  a 
literature,  science,  and  art. 


'ing  their 
I  or  firms 

'"-^■.    iias    just 

variety  of  books  in 
Among  special  items 


of  interest  are  a  set  of  the  'Annual  Register,'  I75S 
to  lfl(>2.  31/.  l(M. ;  •  Library  of  AngloCatholic  Theo- 
logy,' S8  vols.,  1841 -tf7,  at  the  low  price  of  4/.  10<». ; 
Duval's  'Caricatures,'  a  very  curious  collection, 
1M3, 12/.  1'2». ;  'British  Dramatists,  standard  edi- 
tions, 108  vols.,  1813-75,  9!'  '  illniy's  'Can- 
oatures,' including  the  45iii;  imes  ;  Charles 
Lamb's  '  The  Poetical  Recre  :  l  ha  Champion,' 
very  rare,  printed  at  the  Champiuu  Press,  ■271, 
Strand,  1822,  22/.  10*. ;  Lodge's  '  Portraits,'  IK21-:«, 
.10/. ;  Lysons's  '  Historical  Account  of  the  Etivirous 
of  London,'  179^5,  42iJ/. ;  Jean  Mariette's  'French 
Ornament,' 1(189-1740,  7<>/,;  and  Pijw  Roll  publica- 
tions, 1884-97.  There  are  also  a  number  of  valuable 
books  relating  to  Yorkshire. 

Mr.  Thorp,  of  Reading,  has  many  recent  |>ur- 
chases :  Ackermann's  '  History  of  tne  University 
of  Catnbridge,'  1815, 12/.  10<.  :  some  books  on  Africa  ; 
Australia,  a  long  list;  also  many  l)ooks  on  local 
topography  and  antiquities,  inoludin?  a  choice 
copy  of  Ashmole;   a  set  of  Borrow-  hist 

and  second  editions,  13  vols..  7^  I0<.  ;  .ns 

of  Mis*  Burney's  works;  Burton's  ■..:._:  a,,  of 
Melancholy,'  fourth  edition  ;  a  set  of  l>n.ken»,  tirst 
and  early  editions :  Hogarth,  Leicester  Field?. 
1735-W  :  Home's '  Orion,'  1.S4.3  ;  Bodeslrfde'H  •  Kent," 
thirty-six  views  of  noblemen's  seats  ;  hcgnin,  '  L« 
Dentelle.'  Paris.  1875,  12/.  10<. ;  'Mcw.otint  Por- 
traits,' Henry  ^^II.  to  end  of  Janiea  II.,  by  Earlom 
and  Turner,  1811;  Nichols's  '  Lilerarv  Anncdotes/ 
17  vols,  8/.  Hx.  ;  Blomefield's  'Norfii:  ':  U., 
royalSvo;  Woods's 'Norfolke Furies';  i  (y. 

31   vols.;    .Sowerby's    'Thesaurus    (.<  nu,' 

22/.;  *A  Breath  from  the  Vehlt '  (this  couLains 
'The  Lost  Trek'  !Sir  John  Millais's  lost  pencil 
drawing);  Thackeray,  the  Britamiia,  a  weekly 
k»urnal  of  news,  politics,  and  literature,  from 
.January,  1*10,  to  December,  lJi49,  9  voIh.  folio, 
extremely  rare.  The  catalogue  also  cootaina  a  list 
of  curious  topographical  views. 


^otitti  io  €oirrr.spcnbnit)i. 

M.  H.  E.  W.  ("Raining  cats  and  dogs"), —  Iti 
2""' S.  iii.  440  "cat*  and  dogs"  t«i  «nid  <o  be  a  cor- 
ruption of '"■  '  IVencli  foi  ";  mid  in 
519  of  Kara  ntrarytol.  .  is  said 
to  be  a  "naiL....  ; — laic  exprea^,.  ..  ,i.  _  !s.  xii. 
'298.  See  further  S"-"  .S.  xii. ;««)  for  a  longer  veniou 
of  the  phrase. 

C.  L.  y.  ("Shii>8  that  pass  in  Iho  night"),— 
I.^ngfellow.  'Talea  of  a  \\  aysjde  Inn*  (part  lii,, 
'  The  Theologian's  Tale,'  '  Elizalielh."  canto  iv,). 
This  inquiry,  often  answered  in  our  oojunitiH,  recura 
with  irritating  persistencj-. 

ii.  &. — Already  noted. 

NOTICB. 

Editorial  comtnuni<-»rion8  should  be  addressed 
to  "The  Editor  of  'Notes  and  Queries '" — Adver- 
tiseraeou  and  Baaiueoa  Letters  to  "  The  Pab- 
liaher  "—at  the  Oi&oe,  Breuu'a  Baildinga,  Choucery 
Lane,  E.C. 

We  beg  leave  to  state  that  we  decline  to  retnm 
commuaicatioDs  which,  (or  any  reason,  we  ilo  not 
print ;  ojid  to  this  rule  we  can  make  no  oxoeptioo. 


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THE    PICKERING    CLUB    CLASSICS. 


The  PICKERING  CLUB  is  the  outcome  of  n  fmiuently  expix-ss,.  i  »  ;J.  .., ...  ,r  ijook 
Lovers  to  possess  in  a  woi-tliy  form  abgoluldy  comjJfU;  editions  of  cev  'Aoi'ks, 

which,  by  reason  either  of  their  bulk  or  their  luck  of  delicncj*,  ai-w  fiMijiuiij  i.->ijod  in 
emasculated  editions — and  also  of  reproductions  of  superb  e»litions  of  the  piist  which  have 
become  scarce  nnd  aj-e  priicticuUy  inaoceeeible. 

The  PICKERING  CLUB  Classics  will  contain  only  complet*  iUMibridge<l  T;\-ork», 
edited  by  the  foremost  critics  of  the  duy,  and  illusti'ated  with  bnperb  pbites  in  photo- 
gra\'ure. 

The  Membership  of  the  PICKERING  CLUB  is  to  be  .strictly  limited  to  375  Membens 
and  there  will  be  only  375  numbered  sets  of  the  PICKERING  CLUB  Olik^cs 
piinted,  the  type  being  distributetl  iniiuediately  after  coiupietiou  of  e«c}i  ^voik.  Of  the 
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a  monument  tliat  the  real  iiurmiment  which  FiehUng'a  memoi'if  uiosl  needed  iras  u  complcta 
edition  of  his  rcrHiiige, 

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which  really  embnvced  almost  every  phase  of  London  life  of  the  mid -eighteenth 
century. 

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the  Series.  All  communications  should  be  addressed  to  him  at  the  Office  of  the  Club, 
21,  Uetlford  Street,  W.C. 

A  PROSPECTUS  OF  THE  FIRST  SET  OF  THE  SERIES  ON  APPLICATION. 


TJj0  PlUKEliUiG  CLUB,  care  of  WM.  HEINE  MANN,  21,  Bedford  Sti-eet,  Loudon,  W.j 


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LOtft>OX,  SATCIWA}'.  JAXIARYSS,  1901,. 


CONTENTS. -No.  4. 

SOUSS  :— Lunh,  Colerii1f;e,  and  Mr.  Ms;, 31— St.  Hargart't'i 
Churehnnl.  Westininsler.  (i2— "  Squaw  "  :  ••  M«.halm,"  W 
—  Wealiier  on  25  Jiumiu-y  —  8iniab«r<n|i  Hviiropboblc 
FktIcnU— Cborld  I.:  HUlorical  Letter,  46— Mistletoe  la 
Ohurcb.  W. 

QUEKIBS  i-Tbomai  HtradllnK— Sir  Henry  Cbauncy,  66— 
St.  Akqm,  Uail'liDKUia  —  Picture  by  Frith— "  Lost  In  ■ 
O0Dv«ot'i  wlitary  gltom  "— Be?.  C.  B.  Manning— Wenleoi 
AblM^y  —  Oarltgaa  Snmame  — Rev.  OlMwIiab  Deniuan  — 
Samuel  Wildcnpiii- loscripllon  on  Stntiie  of  Jamei  II.— 
WiUi&m  Wil lib -Forest  Kiuiiilv— Frost  and  It*  Tormt,  (57  — 
Bhelley'i  Mother  —  Britlsb  Kmbasay  In  Pari*— Robert 
Morria-Flesh  and  Shamble  Ueats  — J.  W.  Dornfonl— 
Mime*  or  Ueranda*— PepTi'a  '  Diary ' :  a  Bererenoe,  «9. 

BBPUSS  :— Madame  du  Detraod'a  Letters.  68  —  Bxooin- 
RUBlektlon  of  Louis  XIV.— Kpitaph— Ileber's  '  Palestioe,' 
•9  — Sadler '■  Wells  Play —  Ohiut^h  wardens'  Aooount*  — 
Vopograpby  of  Ancitfiil  London—"  Jeer  "— "  Little  Mary  " 
— •'  Welikh  ratibit "  —  St.  Bridget's  Bower,  70  -  Cardinals 
and  Crltn»on  Robes  — Bar  1 1  est  FUvblll— "OwMlght"— 
Castle  Society  ot  Mnsick,  71 -St.  Dlals-Blsbop  Hall,  of 
Bristol  —  Ash  :  Plaoe-name  —  BrffchtUnKtea :  Its  Deputy 
Mayor — Knglish  Aooeotuation— Cromwell  buried  in  Red 
Lion  Squarr.  i3  —  Capsicum-  BisU<>p  White  Kenuctt's 
Father— Flaying  Alive,  7.3  —  VlclssUu<l«4  of  Language— 
"  Qoil  "  :  Its  Btymnlojo',  '4— Marlowe  and  Shakespeare- 
Candlemas  Qllls— "Cfoiip  de  Jarnsc"— "  8lt  loose  to" — 
Marrtuge  Beglstcrs- "  Ueardlome":  "He«cb  "— Japanese 
Cards,  75— Lorenzii  da  Favia— Shalteapeare's  "  Virtue  of 
oecetslty "— King  Bdgar's  Blazon— " Qoing  the  round"  : 
"  Uoundboute."  T6— Sleeping  King  Arthur— Little  Wild 
Street  Cliapel-"  Red  nig  toabull    — Buchre,  77. 

HOTBS  ON  BOOKS  :-BIanUIu9's  'History  of  Tbpatrical 
Art'— 'New  Bngllsh  Dictionary '  — Feiin'a  'Memoir  of 
B.  F.  Stevens'— Oxford  Miniature  Shakespeare— Minia- 
ture Series  of  Musicians  —  Clergy  Directory— ^Chart  of 
Oxford  Printing. 


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LAMB,  COLERItKSE,  AND  MR.  MAY. 
I.  The  earliest  of  Charles  Lamb's  extant 
letters— it  is  dated  27  May,  179(J,  and  is 
addressed  to  Coleridge  at  Bristol— opens 
'with  an  allusion  that  has  puzzled  the  editors. 
*'  Dear  Coleridge,"  writes  Lamb,  "  make  your- 
self perfectly  ea-sy  about  May.    I  paid   his 

bill  when  I  sent  your  clothes Give  your- 

self  no  further  concern  about  it.  The  money 
would  be  Huperfluous  to  me  if  1  had  it." 
Who  w&H  ilay  ?  Canon  Ainger's  note  ignores 
Iho  question,  while  his  index  confounds  the 
Iday  of  Letter  i.  with  Southev's  friend  and 
corr&jpondeot  John  May,  witn  whom,  how- 
[ever,  wo  know  that  Ijamb  did  not  become 
acquainteci  until,  in  the  summer  of  1797,  the 
two  mot  under  Southe\''s  roof  at  Burton, 
near  Christ  Church,  Hampshire.  Mr.  W. 
Carew  Ha/litt,  in  his  pleasant  offhand 
fashion,  tells  us  that  the  bill  Lamb  refers  to 
was  *'a  tailor's  account  for  Ifii."  "It  will," 
fae  adds,  "  be  mentioned  again."  Lamb  does, 
deed,  revert  to  the  transaction  more  than 
nce^oulyiit  need  hardly  bo  said,  to  make  light 
?  it,  and  to  reputliato  the  notion  of  repay- 
ent.  The  amount  of  the  bill  Mr.  Hazlitt 
pparently  arrives  at  through  the  assuni^- 
(probably  correct)  that  it  is   to   this 


rather  than  to  some  subsequent  transaction 
that  Lamb  refers  in  the  letter  to  Coleridge 
dated  11  October,  1802,  when  he  writes:— 
"As  to  the  fantastic  debt  of  15/.,  I'll  think 
you  were  dreaming,  and  not  trouble  myself 
seriously  to  attend  to  you."  Lastly,  Mr. 
William  Macdonald,  the  latest  editor  of  the 
'  Letters,'  merely  observes  here  that  '♦  Mr.  May 
seems  to  have  been  a  tailor."  Such  is  the 
modest  total  of  editorial  illumination  vouch- 
safed to  us  on  this  obscure  point.  Let  us 
collect  the  several  references  in  the  letters 
to  May  and  his  bill,  and  see  if  we  cannot  in 
this  way  obtain  a  clue  to  his  identity. 

2.  In  Letter  ii.— undated,  but  probably 
written  on  31  May,  1796— Lamb  wnte4? :  "I 
have  one  more  favour  to  beg  of  you,  that  you 
never  mention  3Ir.  May's  affair  in  any  sort, 
much  less  think  of  repaying.  Are  we  not 
flocci  nauci-what-d'  ye-  call-'em-ists  ?  "*  (For 
another  instance  of  this  curious  word,  which 
is  adapted  from  Shenstoneu  and  signifies 
"  men  indifferent  to  money,  see  Letter  xx. 
p.  62,  vol.  L,  ed.  Ainger,  1888.) 

3.  In  the  same  letter  later  on  Lamb  writes  : 
*'  1  conjure  you,  dream  not  that  I  will  ever 
think  of  being  repaid  ;  the  very  word  is  gall- 
ing to  the  ears," 

4.  Letter  ix.,  3  October,  1796  :  "Do  not  for 
ever  offend  me  by  talking  of  sending  me  cash. 
Sincerely,  and  on  ray  soul,  we  do  not  want 
it"<.iii/.,  p.  37). 

5.  Letter  xciii.,  11  October,  1802:  "As  to 
the  fantastic  debt  of  151.,  I'll  think,"  <fee.  I 
have  quoted  this  reference  in  full  already 
{ibid.,  p.  188), 

So  far  we  seem  to  be  as  much  eis  ever  in 
the  dark  concerning  May.  But  a  passage 
in  Lettw  xxviii.  (24  June,  1797)  furnishes 
a  glimmer  of  light.  Lamb  writes  :  "I  was  a 
very  patient  hearer  and  docile  scholar  in  our 
winter  evening  meetings  at  Mr.  May's ;  was 
I  not,  Col.  1  What  I  have  owed  to  thee,  my 
heart  can  ne'er  forget."  This  passage,  the 
closing  sentence  of  which  is  taken  from 
a  sonnet  by  Bowles  entitled  'Oxford  Re- 
visited'  (line  14),  reminds  us  at  once  of  "the 
little  smoky  room  at  the  'Salutation  and 
Cat,'  where  we  [to  wit,  Lamb  and  Coleridge] 
have  .sat  together  through  the  winter  nights, 
beguiling  the  cares  of  life  with  Poesy" 
(Letter  iii.,  i/nd.,\i.  1.5)— of  "those old  .suppers 

at  our  old ["Salutation"]  Inn,  when 

life  was  fresh  and  topics  oxhaustless,  and  you 


[•  "Flooci  n»ucl  nihili"  is  derived,  of  oourae, 
from  the  '  Eton  Syntax,'] 


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[10^  S.  L  Ja>-.  23,  19M. 


Let  as  see,  then,  whether  any  connexion 
can  be  established  between  the  Maij  of 
Letters  i.,  ii.,  and  xxviii.,  and  the  New- 
gate Street  tavern  known  aa  the  "Salu- 
tation and  Cat,"'  where,  in  the  winter  nights 
of  1794-5,  the  two  old  scboolruates  Lamb  and 
Coleridge  were  wont  to  foregather  in  the 
little  smoke-stained  bar-parlour.  Here,  it 
will  be  remembered,  after  his  second  and 
final  disappearance  from  Cambridge,  when 
his  pockets  were  empty  and  his  outlook  of 
the  gloomiest,  Coleridge  sojourned  during 
parts  of  December  and  January,  1794-5, 
oblivious  of  SoBthey,  Sarah  Fricker,  and 
"Freedom's  undivided  dell";  till  at  length 
Southey,  losing  patience  and  hurrying  up 
to  town,  ran  down  and  apprehencte<l  the 
truant— not,  indeed  at  the  "Salutation  and 
Cat,"  but  at  another  tavern  hard  by,  tlio 
"Angel,"  in  Butcher  Hall  Street  The  quos 
tion  liere  arises.  Why  had  Coleridge  shifted 
his  quarters?  And  the  answer  I  take  to  be 
this,  that  mine  host  of  the  "Salutation." 
having  waited  a  week  or  two  for  the  settle- 
ment of  his  account,  at  length  grew  crusty, 
and  hinted  that  it  was  high  time  for  the 
young  gentleman  in  the  parlour  either  to 
square  up  or  to  seek  accommodation  else- 
wTiere,  Whereupon  Coleridge  moved  over 
to  the  "Angel,"  leaving  perforce  his  clothes 
in  pawn  beliitul  ijim.     In   making  this  sug- 

festion  I  am  not  unmindful  of  the  story  told 
y  Cottle  ('Keminiscences/  1847,  p.  405  note) 
to  the  effect  that  "when  Coleridge  dwelt  at 
the  '  Cat  and  Salutation'  in  Newgate  Street, 
and  talked  of  leaving  it,  his  conversation 
had  brought  so  many  customers  to  the  house 
that  the  landlord  oflere<l  hxoi  free  rjunrters  if 
he  would  only  stay  and  continue  to  talk." 
But  of  such  a  propoHition  we  hear  nothing 
either  from  Cuieridge  himself  (who,  had  it 
actually  Ijeen  made,  would  indubitably  have 
confided  it  later  on  to  one  or  other  of  his 
Wont  Country  friends— to  Poole,  for  instance, 
or  Charles  tloyd,  or  Wordsworth)  or  from 
anybody  else  save  only  Joseph  Cottle,  whose 
unsupported  authority  in  respect  of  Cole- 
ridge's "doings  and  done-untos"  may  be 
safely  disregarded.  Who,  then,  was  mine 
host  of  the  "Salutation"  in  the  years  1794- 
1795,  and  how  was  ho  named?  I  have  not 
been  able  to  see  a  '  I^)ndon  Ulroctorv '  for 
1795,  but  in  a  directory  fnr  I  HOB  I  find  Wil- 
liam May  descrilxMJ  aa  the  landlord  of  the 
"  Salutation  Coffee  •  House,"  17,  Newgate 
Street.  Again,  in  the  'Post  Office  London 
Directory'  for  1819,  I  find  the  following 
entry  :  "  W.  May,  King's  Head  Tavern,  New- 
gate Street";  arid  yet  again,  in  tlie  same 
authority  for  the   year  1823,   "Wra.  May, 


Tavern-Keeper,  40,  Newgate  Street."'  From 
all  this  the  inference,  1  cannot  but  think,  is 
highly  probable  that  the  Mny  of  Letter  i.  in 
none  other  than  William  May.  landlord  of 
the  "Salutation  and  Cat";  and  that,  at  some 
date  subsequent  to  Coleridge's  departure  for 
Bristol  in  Southey 's  custodj' {January,  1795), 
Lamb,  having  pronded  himself  with  the 
wherewithal,  called  upon  the  said  William 
May,  discharged  the  reckoning  against  Cole- 
ridge's name,  thereby  releasing  his  clothes 
from  pawn,  and,  lastly,  forwarded  the  clothes 
thus  redeemed  by  waggon  to  Coleridge  at 
Bristol.  Finally,  if  we  connect  the  letter  of 
11  October,  1802,  with  the  transaction  referred 
to  at  the  opening  of  Letter  i.j  we  may  infer 
that  the  amount  standing  against  Coleridge'^ 
name,  for  board  and  lodging  at  the  "Saluta- 
tion "  Inn  during  a  period  of  (probably)  four 
weeks  in  December,  1794,  and  January,  179r), 
was  fifteen  pounds  sterling  of  the  king'.s 
money.  Thomas  Hutch ikson. 


THE  CHURCHYARD  OF  ST.  MARGARET'S, 

AVE8TM1XSTER.  AND  ITS  IMPROVEMENT. 

(See  anU,  p.  23.) 

On  r>  July,  1881,  the  General  Committee 
met  again,  and  the  first  business  was  the  con- 
sideration of  the  report  of  the  sub- committee 
given  in  full  in  the  former  article,  it  being 
decided  to  take  each  clause  seriatim.  It  was 
proposed  by  Mr.  Helder  that  Clause  I.  be 
approved,  the  words  "  with  or  without  the 
addition  of  any  trees  or  shrubs"  being  sub- 
stituted for  "without  the  addition  of  any 
trees  or  shrubs."  The  appointment  of  Mr. 
Pearson  and  the  employment  of  Mr.  Wills 
were  confirmed,  the  estimate  of  the  latter 
being  considered  satisfactory.  The  plans  for 
laying  out  the  ground  were  accepted,  and  Mr. 
Lee  was  a.sked  to  send  to  the  Chancellor  the 
petition  for  the  faculty  as  prepared  by  him. 

Up  to  this  p>oint  tliere  had  l>een  no 
treasurer,  this  office  being  now  conferre*! 
upon  Mr.  Helder,  the  rector's  churchwarden. 
Next  a  very  important  proposition  was  made 
by  Mr.  O.  F.  Trollope,  and  seconded  by  Mr. 
J.  L.  Pearson,  to  the  effect 

"that,  tho  Committee  being  strongly  of  opbioa 
that  the  Roneral  effect  of  the  Abljey  and  thecnurch- 
yard  would  be  greatly  improx-ed  by  th©  removal  ol 
the  present  heavy  railini;  fleparating  the  churchyard 
and  tlie  Abbey  ground,  the  Dean  and  tUiapter  be 
invited  to  take  the  matter  into  'X)nBidoration  aa 
early  as  possible.** 

The  next  meeting  was  held  on  25  July,  when 
it  was  reportetl  that  the  Dean  and  Chapter 
had  desired  Mr.  Pearson  to  submit  his  plana 
for  their  consideration,  and  Mr.  Leo  stated 


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that  the  petition  for  a  faculty  had  been 
lodged  in  the  Registry,  that  the  Chancellor 
hatT  issued  his  fiat  for  the  citation  to  issue, 
and  that  the  necessary  notice  had  been 
,ed  to  the  church  door.  Mr.  Herbert 
tone  proposed,  and  Mr.  TroUope 
ded,  that 

as  soon  as  a  faculty  is  granted  the  Committee 
iithorize  Mr.  Pearson  to  place  n  hoarding  round 
;he  churchyard,  and  to  take  such  atepa  as  may  be 
icces&ar)'  to  tlie  carrying  out-  of  auch  portiou  of  the 

orka  as  may  be  within  the  funds  at  the  disposal  of 

le  Treasurer." 

There  appearH  to  have  been  no  further 
meeting  of  the  Committee  until  14  October. 
lo  that  it  may  be  well  to  take  some  note  of 
ibe  proceedings  relative  to  the  issue  of  the 
ulty.  The  Chancellor  of  the  Diocese  of 
ndon  (Dr.  Tri.strara,  Q-C)  held  a  court 
_n  Tuesday,  23  August,  at  the  Dean  and 
Chapter  House,  St.  l^aura  Churchyard,  when 
the  application  made  by  Canon  Farrar  and 
the  churchwardens  for  the  faculty  came 
before  him,  and  it  is  noteworthy  that  there 
was  no  opposition  to  the  application.  The 
rector  was  unfortunately  prevented  from 
being  present,  therefore  tlie  duty  of  8up|X)rt- 
ing  the  prayer  of  the  petition  devolvea  upon 
Mr-  Stewart  Helder,  who  very  ably  per- 
formed it.  It  was  clearly  shown  that  the 
improvements  wished  for  were  much  needed, 
and  that  only  the  want  of  funds  had  pre- 
vented steps  neing  taken  at  an  earlier  date. 
It  was  found  that  some  human  remains 
would  be  di.-iturbed,  but  they  would  be 
deposite<l  in  another  part  of  the  churchyard. 
Although  efforts  had  been  made  to  discover 
representatives  of  the  persons  whose  remains 
were  to  be  removed,  none  had  been  found, 
and  information  was  supplied  as  to  the  means 
that  were  to  be  taken  to  keep  a  record  of 
the  inscriptions.  Altogether  it  was  thought 
that  the  improvements  would  be  worthy  of 
the  '"  glorious  old  Abbey."  Mr.  Pearson 
informed  t])e  Chancellor  that  it  was  proposed 
to  place  the  tombstones  with  their  face 
downwards,  "ancient  inscriptions  being  best 
preserved  in  that  way."'  The  Chancellor 
said  he  had  no  hesitation  in  granting  the 
faculty.  There  was  one  feature  which  was 
novel,  and  that  was  that  "his  authority  was 
asked  to  allow  the  tombstones  to  be  covered 
over  with  soil."  He  further  said  it  was  the 
i  first  time  he  had  been  asked  for  such  an 
irder  ;  but  after  the  evidence  given  he  had  no 
doubt  that  the  inscriptions  would  bo  best 
prcAcrved  in  that  manner.  He  should  there- 
fore allow  the  faculty  to  issue,  but  should 
inMert  a  provision  that  the  earth  should  be 
lOv^  if  it  becaiuo  necessary  to  examine 


the  actual  inscription  on  a  particular  tomb- 
stone, as  a  copy,  on  the  tablet  might  not  be 
adduced  in  a  court  of  law. 

On  14  October  the  General  Committee  met 
again  under  the  presidency  of  Canon  Farrar, 
the  matter  under  discussion  being  the 
estimates  submitted  to  them,  when  Sir 
Rutherford  Alcock  made  a  proposition, 
finding  a  seconder  in  Mr.  Helder,  to  the  effect 
that 

"  this  Committee  meet  again  this  day  fortnight,  lo 
have  before  tlieni  the  phin  and  cetiniate  submitted 
to  tho  Metrojiolitaii  Board  of  Works,  toj^fellier  with 
the  terras  o(  the  application  and  of  the  reply 
received,  and  that  Mr.  Pearson  be  re<]ueated  to 
inform  the  Committee  the  coat  for  hoardinit, 
layinp  out  the  ground,  putting  down  cravel  paths, 
putting  back  the  AWjcy  railings,  ana  altering  llie 
present  churchyard  railings  to  the  line  set  out  oa 
the  plan." 

On  tho  28th  of  the  same  month  the  Com- 
mittee  accordingly  mot  again  to  consider  the 
matters  alluded  to  at  the  previous  meeting, 
with  the  "curtailed"  estimates,  The  same 
proposer  and  seconder  moved  that  the 
following  estimates  be  accepted,  viz. : — 

Earthworks  and  hoarding  not  to  exceed     ...  £912 

Removing  Abbey  railings,  with  work,  kc.  ...  457 

Masons' work ...  361 

"  Eureka"  pavement      478 

Turf-gaards,  painting  railings,  &c.     ..        ...  && 

£2.277 
Mr.  Pearson  was  authorized  to  proceed 
with  the  work  on  the  foregoing  estimates  as 
early  as  possible,  and  the  Chairman  desired 
to  bring  these  resolutions  to  the  notice  of  the 
absent  members  of  the  Committee  (of  whom 
there  were  a  goodly  number),  in«ting  their 
subscriptions  before  making  a  further  appeal 
to  the  public  for  the  necessary  funds. 

No  further  meeting  is  recorded  until 
24  February,  1882,  when  it  was  proposed  by 
Mr.  W.  H.  Smith,  and  seconded  uy  !Mr.  J.  K. 
Aston  (who  hat!  joined  the  Committee  since 
its  formation^,  that  "a  record  of  the  names 
and  dates  legible  on  the  stones  buried  in  the 
churchyard  be  preserved  on  vellum,  and  that 
a  tablet  recording  the  preservation  of  such, 
record  be  erected  in  some  part  of  St.  Mar- 
j  garet's  Church."'  It  was  rurtlier  proposed 
'  that  "  tho  Ecclesiastical  Commissioners  for 
England  be  applied  to,  as  owners  of  property 
in  the  district,  for  a  contribution  towards 
the  expenses."  Messrs.  Coutts  ik  Co.  were 
also  requested  to  place,  as  occasion  might 
require,  sums  not  exceeding  in  the  aggregate 
l.OOO;.  to  the  credit  of  the  St.  Margaret's 
Churchyard  Improvement  Fund  Account. 

The  General  Cx)mmittoe  were  called  together 
on  22  April,  when  an  approximate  statement 
of  expenses  incurred  to  date  was  submitted  :, 


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[W  S.  L  Jan.  2»,  1901. 


ExpeiUM 

Printing,  Aa ... 
Cost  of  uculty 


£ 

If. 

d. 

3,021 

11' 

0 

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0 

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0 

0 

£3,051  12  0 
Pi'opoaitiona  were  made  and  seconded  that 
the  hoarding  round  the  churchyard  be 
removed  with  as  little  delay  aa  possible,  and 
that  the  churchwardens  "be  requested  to 
arrange  with  the  pohce,  or  otherwise,  for  the 
auitable  opening  and  closing  of  the  church- 
yard. It  was  afterwards  pro]xised  that  anj' 
oalance  which  might  remain  should  be 
applied  to  the  commencement  of  new 
i-aiiinga,  to  be  approved  of  by  the  Com- 
mittee. 

The  last  meeting  of  the  General  Committee 
ap|)ears  to  have  been  held  on  27  February, 
I«83,  when  the  hon.  secretary  was  desired 
to  convey  the  thanks  of  the  Committee  to 
Messrs.  Lee  and  Bolton  for  their  kindness  in 
procuring  the  necessarj'  faculties  without 
ijxpense  (for  their  services)  to  the  Committee; 
and  further  resolutions  were  carried  that  the 
rector,  treasurer,  and  secretary  should  be 
«mpowered  to  dispose  of  the  surplus  of  the 
Churchyard  Improvement  Fund  "in  such  a 
manner  as  roav  seem  to  them  best  in  order 
to  complete  the  work."  Finally,  tlie  cus- 
tomary votes  of  thanks  to  the  chairman, 
ti-easurer,  and  secretary  brought  the  meeting 
and  the  business  of  the  Committee  to  a  close, 
the  object  for  which  they  had  been  called 
together  being  accomplished. 

The  improvement  iias  been  much  appre- 
<jiated  on  every  side;  but  in  no  carping  spirit 
I  think  it  may  be  safely  added  that,  had 
public  taste  a  quarter  of  a  century  ago  been 
■of  as  high  a  character  as  it  has  since  become^ 
Mvhat  was  done  would  have  been  of  greater 
artistic  excellence,  and  some  llower  -  beds 
might  have  adorned  the  unbroken  stretch  of 

f;rn89,  restful  though  the  latter  may  be  to  the 
requently  jaded  eye  of  tlie  Londoner.  Some 
few  seats,  whicli  were  much  needed,  have  of 
late  years  been  placed  in  the  enclosure, 
■thereby  increasing  the  usefulness  of  tlie 
•place.  Owing,  most  likely,  to  the  nature  of 
the  ground,  the  pavement,  in  places,  has 
xiven  w*y<  and  shows  many  cracks  and 
fissures.  JBefore  long  a  complete  renovation 
will  have  to  take  place,  or  some  of  the  dangers 
of  a  bygone  day  may  repeat  themselves. 
Some  of  the  old  trees  were  considered  very 
fine,  bu^  in  order  that  the  view  of  the  occu- 

Eants  or  the  stands  erected  at  the  time  of 
ing  Edward's  Coronation  might  not  be 
obstructed,  they  were  very  badly  lopped  and 
&1]  but  completely  spoilt,  and  some  years 
must  pass  before  tneir  old  beauty  will  return, 


raore's  the  pity.  It  does  not  seem  ouite 
clear  who  was  guilty  of  the  grievous  folly  of 
ordering  this  to  be  done.  Such  matters  are 
always  hard  to  trace  to  their  source. 

At  y-  S.  vi.  342, 1  alluded  to  some  interest- 
ing interments  in  this  churchyard,  and  before 
leaving  the  subject  it  may  be  well  to  speak 
of  a  gruesome  spectacle  enacted  hero  in  the 
first  quarter  of  the  eighteenth  century.    On 
1  March,  172.5,  a  Mr.  Hayes  was  murdered  at 
his  residence  in  the  Tyburn  Road  (which  is 
the  i^resent  Oxford  Street)  by  two  men,  at 
the    instigation,    and    with    the   assistance, 
of  his  wife.    The  body  was  afterwards  dis- 
membered, the  head  being  brought  to  West- 
minster by  the  murderers,  and  flung  into  the 
Thames  from  one  of  the  adjacent  wharves, 
close  to  the  horse  ferrj' ;  but,  as  the  tide  haa 
turned,  it  was  not  carried  down  the  river,  as 
anticipated,  but  seen  by  a  night  watchman 
at   a    neighbouring  lime-wharf.    Ho   called 
assistance,  and  it  was  drawn  ashore  by  a 
boat-hook.    By  a  magistrate's  orders  it  was 
carefully  washed  and  placed  on  a  pole  in  this 
churchyard,  hard  by  the  west  door  of  the 
church,  so  that  it   could    be   seen    by  the 
numerous   imssers  -  by,   with   a  view  to  its 
identification.    It  was    identified,  and    the 
crime    brought    home    to   its    perpetrators. 
The    two    men    were    conderanea    to    be 
hanged,  and    the  woman   to    be    burnt   at 
the  stake,  as  her  crime  was  known  as  f^etit 
treason.    One  of  tiie  men  died  in  Netvgato 
before  the  date  fixed  for  the  execution,  the 
other  being  hanged  at  Marylebone  Fields,  on 
the  spot  whore  the  body  bad  been  found. 
The  sentence  on  the  woman  was  carried  out 
at  Tyburn  on  9  May,  172C.     In  the  vestry  of 
St.  Margaret's  Church  is  a  small  engraving 
showing  the  exposure  of  the  head  upon  the 
pole.  W.  E.  Harlaxd  OxLEV. 

C2,  The  Alinsbouses,  Rochester  Row,  S.W. 


"SyUAW":  "Mahala."— I  bracket  these 
because  they  are  synonyms.  About  "  squaw  " 
I  can  say  nothing  fresh.  Every  one  knows 
that  we  borrowed  it  from  the  Algonkin 
family  of  languages.  It  occurs  in  the  eastern 
branch  of  that  family  as  Delaware  •>rhqunt, 
Ma.ssachusett8  »//«<!,  Narragansett  f/ji' 
in  the  western  bmnch  as  Arapaho  i»i,  i:. 
foot  oke  ,•  in  the  northern  as  Cree  iskicLir, 
Odjibwa  ikkiee,  Ottawa  aktoe  ;  in  the  southern 
as  Shawnee  equiwa.  **  Mahala"  differs  from 
it  only  in  being  a  newer  word.  It  is  given 
in  Bartlett's  '  Dictionary  of  Americanisms,' 
in  the  'Century,' and  in  tlie  supplement  to 

Wo''»«f.«"''%     ami    !«    .iftjMi     t,,    !.,■>    ,f.,.f    y;\{\\    \n 
•Mil  vol.  XXV. 

P- ■''  :,.:,    its  history 


lou.  s  I.  Jax.  23. 1904.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


65 


is  curiou-s.  Originally  a  corraption  of  the 
Spanish  wityV/-  (woman),  adopted  by  the 
Cuahnas  and  other  Californian  Indians,  it 
WM  taken  back  by  the  whites,  and  is  now 
universal  along  the  Pacific  coast.  "Hack" 
and  "mahala"  are  the  technical  terms  for 
the  Indian  man  and  woman,  while  in  the 
canning  trade  '*  mahala  "  denotes  the  female 
salmon.  James  Platt,  Jun. 


P 


Weatiicr  on  25  January.— I  have  taken 
the  following  bit  of  weather  -  lore  from 
"  Natures  Secreta.  Or,  The  Admirable  and 
wonderfull  History  Of  the  generation  of 
Meteors,  6:c.  By  the  industry  and  observa- 
tions of  Thomas  Willaford,  Gent.  London, 
Printe<]  for  Nath.  Brook  at  the  Angel  in 
Cornhill.  l(J38."  It  may  interest  some  curious 
in  such  matters  (p.  145) : — 

"Some  »«ain  observe  the  25:  d»y  of  January, 
celebrated  for  the  coiiveraion  of  St.  Paul ;  if  fair 
aad  clear,  plenty  ;  if  cloudy  or  misty,  mnch  cattle 
will  die  ;  if  rain  or  snow  fall  that  day,  it  prcsagea  a 
dearth  ;  lujd  if  windy,  wars,  aa  old  U'ivea  do  droani; 
and  since  I  can  find  no  better  authority  for  these, 
jior  any  days  pnsagea,  ait  a  thing  indifferent,  I  will 
.vc  them,  and  persist  here  no  longer,  but  sub- 
ibe  the  \'er3e8  ur>on  the  sanjc  account. 


was  customary  for  a  magiatrate  to  i»sue  an 
order  authorizing  the  suiiocation  of  a  hydro- 
phobic patient  considered  incurable. 

John  B.  Wajne>vrigiit. 
[It  is  not  unknown  in  these  days,  even,  to  speak 
of   the    expediency   of   smothering  between    two 
mattresses  one  sunerinR  from  disease  apparently 
incurable.] 


leav 

scribe  the  \'er3e8  iifton  the  sanjc  account 
If  Saint  Paul's  day  lie  fAir  and  clear, 


It  does  betide  a  happy  year : 
But  if  it  chance  to  snow  or  rain 
Then  will  be  dear  all  kintl  of  grain : 
If  clouds  or  mists  do  dark  the  .Skie. 
Great  store  of  birds  and  beasts  shall  die : 
And  if  the  winds  do  By  aloft, 
Then  wars  shall  vex  that  Kingdome  oft." 

A.  S. 


Pli">  S.  iv.  107.  358,  491;  v.  237.  298.)— The 
following  paragraph  appeared  in  the  Globe  of 
10  February,  1807  :— 

"  There  is  a  vulgar  prejudice  that  n  iiersou  bitten 
toy  n  mad  dog,  and  ]ironouoced  irrecoverable,  may, 
'o  tlie  laws  of  the  land,  bo  bled  to  death, 
x'd.     To  correct  this  prejudice,  we  quote 
.1.  ...in.i.n  of  Sir  Vicary  fJibbs,  on  this  point. 
"  '  1  am  cieurly  of  opinion,  that  it  is  not  lawful,  by 
jy  means,  wilfully  to  put  to  ileath  a  i>erson  who 
u   been  bitten  by  a  mad  dog;    and  those  who 
fitfully  comniit  such  an  act  are  guilty  of  innrder, 
tid  liable  to  be  tried  and  convicted  accordingly, 
'"ll  probably  will  bo  found,  upon  inquiry,  that 
!ia  bleeding  was  applied  as  a  remedy  to  the  dis- 
rdcr,  and  nut  for  the  pur|)OSO  of  putting  an  end  to 
He  patient's  life,— V.  Gimw.'" 

As  a  matter  of  fact  all  early  authoritie.<)  do 

rocomn^efid  copious  blee^Jing  for  tliia  disorder. 

")r.  K.  Janes  in  hia  'Medicinal  Dictionary,' 

p45,  narrates  at  some  length  the  case  of  a 

»er  of   Monchenstein,  in    the  canton   of 

who  was  suffocated  on  10  March,  1G87, 

)Own    remedies    having   been   tried   in 

v«in.  The  same  doctt>r  also  quote<<  Boerhaave 

to  1739)  a»  asserting  that  in  lioUand  it 


ChARLRS      I.  :       ISTERE.STIN<;       HlSTOniCAL 

Letter. — In  my  possession  is  (or  was)  the 
original  autograph  letter  of  Sir  James  Hay 
to  Alexander  HaV,  date<l  21  Feb..  1G4I,2,  and 
13  May,  1642,  of  which  the  following  is  a 
copy  :  — 

21"'  Feb  [1641/2]. 
Allex'  I  haao  resaued  ^our  last  and  yo''  warrant 
but  whidder  I  shall  get  it  done  or  not  It  is  dout- 
full    I  haue  writtan  to  him  [Mr-  Hayllc?]  by  m' 
marray  [Factor  at  Paris]  desyreing  him  to  speik 
the  king  at  his  retume  to  get  it  done    I  pray  send 
me  answeir  of  my  ]a.^t  and  u  thair  be  any  hoipis  to 
get  niony  payd  upon  his  roaiesties  letter  to  the 
lorde  eommsHionera    it  was  sent  to  duncano  keith 
to  delyuer  by  him  I  wrot  to  you  remember  my 
weusthe  ['.'  Worcester]  bissines    I  haue  sent  a  peti- 
tionn  I  haue  writtin  to  thqmas  burrad  a  sonant  of 
111'  nowj^te  to  solicit  the  bissines    I  ghal  intreit  yon 
to  rei)air  to  this  man  and  Inquyrc  how  the  bisaiDes 
gois    ni'  doctor  masson  ni'  of  requoisti.s  hath  my 
|>etiliou    I  haue  wriliin  to  this  man  what  is  to  be 
done  to  whoni  I  refer  yon    thair  is  lytel  hoipis  of 
agremont  with  the  parlament  his  maieatie  is  taken 
up  a  garde  for  his  owen  persone    I  rest 
Your  affectiouel  f  rend 

.James  Hay. 

Commend  me  to  m'' moysej' and  proq' [--procure] 
nie  word  how  our  bissines  goia    I  haue  send  a  letter 
to  m'  Clayton  ffriuehouud  [?=from  home]. 
[PoMftiCiipt.] 
send  this  letter  to  m'  murray  factor  at  pans. 
Let  m'  baylle  kno  frome  me  that  your  hand  for 
the  resait  ot  my  nionye  out  of  the  exchequer  shall 
he  a  sufiicient  dischairgc    be  digilanl  [^diligent]  in 
the  persuite  of  it  for  delay  ar  dangerous  bysydes 
kno  of  my  grit  nessesties. 

Your  affectionet 

Jam»>  H.vy. 
York  this  13  mav  [I&12]. 
rindorse<l]  for  .Alex'  Hay. 
flndorsenient  (subsequently  made) :] 
S'  James  Hayes  ass*  [-assignment]  1&42, 

The  original,  being  wholly'  on  one  sheet  of 

f)aper,  appears  to  have  been  written  on  the 
orraer,  out  not  forwarded  until  the  latter, 
date,  when  the  addition  was  made.  As  re- 
ferring to  Charles  I.  and  the  state  of  things 
existing  at  the  commencement  of  the  great 
Civil  War,  it  is  worthy  of  publication.  Eng- 
lish historians  inform'  us  that  tlie  king,  who 
was  then  at  York  acting  in  defiance  of  the 
Parliament,  thought  fit,  12  May.  1642,  to  raise 
a  guard  for  the  defence  of  his  person,  con- 
sisting of  a  troop  of  horse  under  the  Prince 
of  Wales  and  one  regiment  of  the  Trained 
Bands.  W.  1.  R.  V, 


yon 


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tlO*8.I.  Jan.  23.  IflM. 


MusTL£TO£i>'  CBtTECH.— The  only  vegetable 
decoration  visible  on  11  January  in  the 
tlnrteeoth-ceotury  cathedral  of  Ch&lons-sur- 
Marne,  the  ancient  capital  of  tlic  Catalauni 
(wliose  name  may  perhaps  have  some  con- 
nexion with  that  ot  the  Catalans  of  South- 
Eastern  Spain,  and  whose  bishop  is  still  called 
"  EpiscopuH  Cathalaunensis  "),  was  a  fine  plant 
of  mistletoe,  on  a  section  of  the  branch  whicli 
had  fostered  it.  This  was  laid  upon  the  two 
nails  in  the  feet  of  the  large  white  ima«e  of 
tbe  crucifix  attached  to  the  east  wall  of  the 
northern  tranaept  of  that  beautiful  church. 
It  is  not  without  interest  to  note  this  offering 
of  the  emblem  of  the  Druids  at  the  feet  of 
the  Founder  of  the  Church. 

E.  S.  DoiKJSON. 


(gurrixa. 

AVk  must  rcnue«t  correspoudeiite  desiriug  in- 
formation on  family  matters  of  only  iirivate  interest 
to  attix  their  uanies  and  addresses  to  their  queries, 
in  order  that  the  answers  maybe  addressed  to  them 
direct. 

Thomas  Stbadung,— So  far  aa  I  am  aware 
everything  that  has  been  printed  about  the 
man  who  bore  this  name  ia  to  be  found  iu  the 
accounts  of  William  Dampier'a  unsuccessful 
expedition  to  the  South  Seas  in  1703.  In  the 
works  of  William  Funnell  and  Woodes  Rogers 
"we  are  informed  that  he  was  first  a  mate  and 
afterwards  ma.ster  of  the  sliip  Cinque  Ports 
Gallej'j  that  ho  wag  obliged  to  abandon  this 
ship  off  the  island  of  Gorgona  ;  and  that  lie 
was  subsequently  detained  in  prison  for 
many  years  by  the  Spaniards  in  Peru, 
whence  he  escaped  in  a  French  ship.  He 
won  a  little  renown  because  it  was  after  a 
quarrel  with  him  that  the  well-known 
Alexander  Selkirk,  the  prototype  of  Robin- 
son Crusoe,  w&g  set  on  shore  on  the  unin- 
habited island  of  J  uan  Fernandez. 

From  French  MS.  documents  I  have  ascer- 
tained that  ho  wa.s  taken  to  Europe  on 
28  August,  1710,  in  the  ship  Notre  Dame  de 
PAssoraption,  captain  Alain  Pon-e ;  that  he 
was  kept  in  nnson,  first  at  the  castle  of 
Saint-Malo,  subsequently  in  that  of  Dinan, 
till  8  October,  1711,  when,  with  seventeen 
Other  Englishmen,  he  escaped,  l>eing  seen 
some  time  afterwards  at  Jersey.  He  is  stated 
to  have  been  twenty-nine  years  old  at  that 
time,  and  the  son  of  a  merchant  in  London 
who  wa3  then  still  living.  Can  any  one  tell 
me  further  incidents  of  his  life  and  the  date 
of  his  death  I  E.  W.  D.\hu;ren, 

Director  of  the  Royal  Library. 
Sloukholtu. 


Sib  Henuy  Chauncy.  —  I  am  engaged 
upon  a  biography  of  Sir  Henry  Chaunc 
with  especial  reference  to  his  labours  as 
county  historian.  His  great  work  was  fir 
published  in  folio  in  the  year  17iX),  and  was 
reprinted  in  two  volumes  octavo  in  1.826.  I 
liave  occupied  ray  leisure  for  the  past  twelve 
months  in  collecting  material  for  this  pur- 
|K>se,  and  I  am  now  desirous  of  ascertaining 
whether  any  letters  or  other  documents  in 
the  handwriting  of  Sir  Henry  are  in  exist- 
ence in  Hertfordshire  or  elsewhere.  Anything 
that  may  serve  to  illustrate  his  method  of 
research  would  be  valuable.  I  have  had  the 
good  fortune  to  examine  tlie  original  draft 
of  the  preface  to  his  '  History  of  Hertford- 
shire,' which  differs  extensively  from  the 
printed  copy.  It  throws  light  upon  the 
general  system  he  pursued  in  compiling  his 
description  of  the  county,  and  indicates  that 
he  must  have  had  a  very  considerable  corre- 
spondence with  the  owners  of  manors,  the 
clergy,  and  others,  some  of  which,  perchance, 
may  have  been  preserved.  A  copiously  anno- 
tated and  corrected  copy  of  his  '  History,'  in 
the  possession  of  the  late  Mr.  Hale  Wortltam, 
is  stated  by  Cussans  ('  Hundred  of  Odsey,' 
p.  88}  to  have  been  owned  by  a  contemporary 
of  Sir  Henry's,  the  Rev.  Thomas  Tipping  of 
Ardeley.  1  should  be  glad  to  know  who  is 
the  possessor  of  this  nistorically  valuable 
copy.  Another  coetaneous  copy  owned  by 
Mr-  Pulter  Forester,  which  descended  to  his 
son  William,  has  been  lost  sight  of  since  1768, 
but  may  still  be  in  existence.  I  understand 
that  at  a  sale  by  Mr.  Greenwood,  which  took 
place  in  1790,  certain  of  Sir  Henry's  books  and 
other  property  were  sold.  There  is  a  catalogue 
of  this  sale  extant,  and  the  loan  of  a  copy 
would  be  greatly  appreciated.  Salmon  seemu 
to  have  obtained  possession  of  a  considerable 
portion  of  the  Chauncy  paj^rs  ;  these  after- 
ward.s  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  Rev.  Paul 
Wright,  B.D.,  who  in  1773  purpo!?ed  pub- 
lishing a  corrected  edition  of  the  '  History ' 
(in  177bhe8tyled  himself  "editorof  Chauncy  "), 
but  I  believe  it  never  pro<»eded  beyond  the 
prospectus  stage.  It  is  suggested  tliat  Clut- 
terbuck  acquired  many  of  these  papers,  but 
direct  evidence  is  wanting,  and  even  so,  I 
have  no  definite  knowledge  into  whose  hands 
they  fell  at  his  decease,  and  who  now  owns 
them. 

I  am  especiallv  concerned  to  discover  the 
circumstances  relating  to  the  painful  episode 
alluded  to  in  the  fifth  paragrapli  of  the 
preface.  The  individual  referred  to  was,  I 
Believe,  Sir  Henry's  grandson,  and  the 
reasons  for  the  estrangement,  and  consequent 
attempt  of  the  misguided  youth  to  wreck  hin 


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frandftire's  work,  are  difficult  to  comprehend, 
'ho  lawsuits  which  Sir  Henry  was  either 
eugaeed  in  or  threatened  with  (referred  to  in 
the  draft  preface)  are  matters  upon  which 
we  are  almost  entirely  uninforraecf.  although 
the  details  of  any  trials,  if  such  there  were, 
luuut  bo  recorded. 

Other  questions  of  interest  arise,  but  thia 
_^5tter  is  already  lengthy,  and  1  think  I  have 
^ndicated   the  purport  of  my  requirements. 
I  shall  be  most  grateful  for  anv  asai^tancc, 
■which   will  of  course  receive  due  acknow- 
ledgment. W.  B.  Oerish. 
£ishop's  Storlford. 

St.  AtJNEft.  Haddington.— I  shall  be  glad 
to  be  a]lowe<l  to  repeat  a  query  I  asked  at 
0»*  S.  xi.  50l>.    A  place  named  St.  Agnes  is 

given  in  Black'-i  'General  Atla-s,'  1857,  plate  10; 
artholomew's  'Atlas  oi  Scotland,'  Edinburgh, 
1890,  plate  21  ;  and  on  the  Ordnance  Survey 
of  Scotland,  uheet  33.  It  is  in  Uaddineton, 
2'  33"  N.j  o5'  52"  E.  Can  any  one  tell  me 
whether  it  is  a  village  containing  a  church  of 
St,  Agues,  from  which  it  gets  its  name,  or  say 
whore  some  account  of  the  place  may  be 
.iound  T  F.  C.  W. 

PiCTDRE  BV  W.  P.  Frith. —  Can   any  of 
^our  readers  tell  me  where  the  orisinal^or  a 
eprodoction— of  the  picture  by  W.  P.  Frith, 
LA  ,  representing  Swift  throwing  down  the 
Stter  before  \'anessa,  can  be  found  2 

A.  O'D.  Baktholeyns. 
11,  Spring  Gardeoj,  S.W. 

"  LoaT   IN  A  CONVENTrt  SOUTARY  ULOOM." — 

I  shall  be  pleased  to  know  the  source  of  the 
following  quotation,  which  is  given  in  Bos- 
weli's  '  Life  of  Johnson': — 

Loet  io  a  coaveat's  soliury  gloom. 

E.  51.  L. 

Rev.  ClIAKLE^i  Robertson  Mannini;.— This 

f;entlcman,  who  was  rector  of  Diss,  Norfolk, 
rora  1857  till  his  death  on  8  February, 
18yt>.  had  a  fine  collection  of  Norfolk 
antiquities.  Can  any  one  say  what  became  of 
them  at  his  decease  ?  Especially,  where  is  a 
fine  bronze  ewer,  inscribed  "  veuez  laver," 
vrhich  is  figured  in  the  Norwich  volume  of 
the  Royal  Archieological  In.stituteatp.  xxxv, 
and  in  Aiv/ueolcH/ia.U  Journal,  vol.  xiii.  p.  74  ? 
T.  Cann  Huuues,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 
I.AnoMt«r. 

Wkrdens  Auhey.— I  wish  to  obtain  some 

information  as   to  the  history  of   Wei-dens 

[Abbey,  near  I )iissel<lorf,  especially  during  the 

I  fourteenth  and  fifteenth  centuries.    Can  any 

reader  kindly  infurm  me  where  I  may  find  an 

I  account  of  the  abbey  1         Oeorue  Smith. 


Cabdigah  a8  a  Surnamb.— Can  any  ooe 
tell  me  at  about  what  period  Cardigan  made 
its  appearance  as  a  surname,  and  whether 
there  is  a  pedigree  of  the  family  published  T 
It  is  presumably  derived  from  the  town  in 
Soutb-West  Wales,  and  is  therefore  a  place- 
name.  G.  H.  W. 

Rev.  Obadi.ui  Denman.  —  Can  any  one 
say  what  living  (in  the  Midlands,  and  most 
likely  in  the  neighbourhood  of  Retford)  was 
held  by  the  liev.  Obadiah  Denman— probably 
about  the  commencement  of  the  eighteenth 
century]  Artuuk  Denman,  F.S.A. 

Wilderspin. — Is  there  a  portrait  of  Samuel 
Wilderspin,  the  promoter  of  infant  schools? 
David  Salmon. 
Swaneea. 

Inscription  on  Statue  of  James  II. — 
The  statue  of  King  James  II.  has  been  most 
appropriately  transferred  to  the  park  front 
of  the  Admiralty  buildings  ;  but  why,  on  the 
pedestal,  is  he  .said  to  be  "Jacobus  Rex  Dei 
gratiui"?  Can  such  a  form  have  been  at 
any  time  in  use  ?  or  simply,  has  the  mason  s 
mistake  been  allowed  to  continue  7      R.  S. 

[A  mere  Kpecimen  of  the  usual  British  blanderiug 
ia  foreign  languiiges,  we  should  iiiiagiae.] 

WiLUAM  Willie.— These  are  two  of  the 
Christian  names  of  a  youth  lately  deceased 
at  Shipley.  I  Iiave,  of  course,  read  in 
'  N.  &  O.'  of  children  in  one  family  witli  the 
same  Cnristian  name,  but  my  attention  has 
never  before  been  drawn  to  a  person  pos- 
sessing both  a  full  name  and  a  diminutive 
thereof.  Can  any  reader  give  other  instances, 
such  as  Charles  Charlie,  tkc.  2 

CiiAS.  F.  FottsuAW,  LL.D. 

Baltimore  House,  Bradford. 

FoKE-sT  Family.— I  should  be  glad  of  any 
information  regarding  the  family,  arms,  Jcc., 
of  -Miles  Forest,  who  was  father  of  (1)  Sir 
.'\nthonj'  Forest,  of  Morborn,  Hunts,  knighted 
l(i04  ;  (2)  Elizabeth,  married  first  Sir  Arthur 
Denny,  of  Tralee  Castle,  and  secondly,  in 
1639,  Sir  Thomas  Harris,  of  Corwortheu, 
Devon  ;  (3)  Isabella,  married  George  Lynne, 
of  Southwick  Hall,  Northants. 

(Rev.)  H.  L.  L.  Denny. 

9,  QueeA  Street,  Loudouderry. 

Fr08T  and  its  Forms.— Is  anything  known 
of  the  reason  why  the  moisture  in  the  atmo- 
sphere, when  conaeused  on  the  window  pane^ 
assumes  the  appearance  of  fern  fronds  ?  I 
have  never  heard  any  explanation  given  of 
this  fact,  and  have  in  vain  searched  through 
all  the  books  of  reference  that  I  possess. 

M.  L.  B. 


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Shelley's  Motiiee.  —  I  am  anxious  to 
know  the  exact  date  of  the  death  of  Shelley's 
iQother.  The  peerages  and  lives  of  the  poet 
are  silent  on  tni-j  point.  W.  Robkets. 

British  EirBASSv  House  ix  Paris.— Can 
any  of  your  readers  help  me  to  the  names  of 
books,  such  as  Lady  G^an^^lle's  '  Memoini,' 
which  would  be  of  use  in  the  compilation  of 
a  history  of  the  present  British  Embassy  in 
Paris  and  its  occupants  1         Diplomatist. 

Robert  Morris. — I  am  making  an  efi'ort 
to  locate  the  early  life  and  history  of  the 
Ilobert  Morris  family  who  came  to  America 
about  173-1.  Can  you  give  me  any  light  on 
t^iia  subject?  or  can  you  direct  me  to  some 
eenealogist  who  can  look  it  up  for  meT 

R,  H.  Sears. 

428,  Neil  Street,  Ck>lBnibu8,  Ohio. 

Flesh  aud  Shamble  Meats.  —  In  an 
authentic  copy  of  a  licence  to  eat  meat  on 
fish  days  (wnich  were  formerly  153  «Iays  in 
the  year),  dated  13  February,  1618,  per- 
mission is  given  to  eat  flesh,  whilst  never- 
theless the  eating  of  shamble  meats  is 
prohibited.  In  the  English  dictionaries  to 
hand  I  am  unable  to  find  any  reference 
to  the  term  "shamble  meats."  I  shall  be 
grateful  for  early  information,  as  I  do  not 
understand  the  difference  between  desh  and 
shamble  meats  in  reference  to  fish  days. 

J.  Lawrence- Hamilton,  M.R.C.S. 

30,  Susseic  Square,  Brighton. 

Jame.s  WiLUAM  DoESFORD,  SOU  of  James 
Domford,  of  London,  was  admitted  on  the 
foundation  at  Westminster  School  in  1799, 
aged  fourteen.  I  should  bo  glad  to  learn 
any  particulars  of  his  career.      G.  F.  II.  B. 

The  Misies  of  Herojtdas.  —  Would  some 
classical  reader  of  '  X.  ik  Q  ,'  who  knows  the 
subject,  kindly  furnish  the  full  evidence — I 
am  sure  it  can  be  put  into  a  few  lines — that 
there  ever  was  a  pre-Christian  poet  called 
Herondas  or  Herodas?  If  the  evidence  is 
absolutely  clear,  and  not  due  to  roisrearlinj^s, 
radii  ./lufitio.  But  if  it  is  not  absolutely 
clear,  I  should  like  to  adduce  some  special 
reasons  to  show  that  Herodes  Atticus  is  the 
author  of  the  mimes  found  in  Egypt. 

R.  J.  Walker. 

St.  Paula  School,  Wcht  Kousington,  W. 

Pepys's  'Diary':  a  REFKRExnE.— I  find  in 
Samuel  Pepys's  'Diary'  the  following  entry 
under  the  date  of  19  May,  ICGCi  :— 

"  By  WAggon  to  Lansdune,  where  the  30i)t'hildren 
were  bom.  Wo  aaw  tht-  hill  where  they  any  the 
house  stood  wherein  the  ehililreii  were  born.  The 
baaina  wherein  the  male  sikI  female  ciiildr«n  were 
b&ptizef]  do  atonti  over  a  large  t*blo  that  haogs 


'    le  «tory  of  the  thinR  iu 

IK   'Margarita  Hcrnmn 

..i.y  was    done    abont  20O 


upon  a  wall,  widi 
Dutch  and   Lati^! 
(Joniitisaa.'  kc.     i 
ye&ra  ago. 

^Vhat  are  the  Incidents  to  which  Pepys 
refers?  Miranda. 

[Fnll  explanatioD  is  inven  in  a  lonK  editorial  note 
alff'-'S.  v»i.  280.] 


MADAME  DU  DEFFAND'S  LETTER.S. 
(0"'  S.  xii.  3C6,  4.38  ;  10">  S.  i.  14.) 

The  Begum  of  Bhopal  who  wa.s  seen  by 
Mr.  George  Axgus  in  1862,  perche<i  in  a 
howdah  on  the  top  of  an  elephant  at  Delhi, 
was  the  colebrateci  Nawab  Sikandar  Begum> 
whose  conspicuous  loyalty  during  the  con- 
vulsions of  IS^u  was  rewarded  by  Govern- 
ment in  various  ways,  amongst  others  by  her 
appointment  to  a  Grand  Commandership  of 
the  Star  of  India  on  the  institution  of  that 
Order.  It  was  probably  on  the  occasion  of 
her  investiture  that  she  was  seen  by  Mb. 
Axocs.  I  had  the  pleasure  of  making  her 
acquaintance  two  or  three  years  later,  when 
she  passetl  through  Aden  on  her  way  to 
Mecca  on  pilgrimage.  She  was  succeeded  by 
her  daugnter,  the  Nawab  Shah  Jehaa 
Begunj,  who  emulated  her  mother  in  hflc 
devotion  to  the  British  Government,  and 
wa-s  also  rewarded  by  the  Grand  Cotn- 
mandership  of  the  Star  of  India.  This 
lady  I  knew  intimately,  as  I  had  the 
honour  of  serving  as  Political  Agent  at  her 
Court  for  nearly  two  years  in  1879-80.  She 
died  a  few  years  ago,  and  was  succeeded  by 
her  daughter,  the  Nawab  Saltan  Jehan 
Begum,  who  is  tlie  present  ruler  of  BhopaL 
and  with  wliom  I  was  also  well  acquaintetl 
in  her  earlj'  womanhood. 

"To  persons  unacquainted  with  India  one 
Begum  i*  probably  the  same  as  another 
Bepum,  but  there  really  does  seem  a  small 
spice  of  profanity  to  those  behind  the  scenes 
in  confusing  these  loyal  and  noble  ladies 
with  the  ex-dancing  girl  who  for  a  time 
shared  the  destiny  or  the  scoundrelly  Walter 
Reinhard.  Even  from  a  social  point  of  viev. 
the  position  of  a  jaginlar  like  the  Begum  oi 
Sirdliana  is  as  different  from  that  of  a  ruling 
chief  of  India  as  the  position  of  Lady  A,  the 
wife  of  a  long-descended  marquis,  is  ffom 
that  of  Lady  B,  the  wife  of  a  provincial 
mayor. 

That  the  Begum  Suraroo,  after  she  became 
a  Catholic,  onueavoured  to  atone  foi-  the  sins 
of  an  ornrjeuM-  youth,  cannot  be  disputed,  and 
her  chatitablo"  benefactions,  if  not  always 
well  considered,  were  very  numeroua ;   but 


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this  hardly  affects  the  point  at  issue.  A  very 
readable  account  of  Walter  Reinhard  and  his 
wife  is  given  in  that  excellent  book  '  A  Parti- 
cular Account  of  the  Military  Adventurere  of 
Hindostan,'  by  Mr.  Herbert  Compton  (Fisher 
B  Uowin,  1893),  Appendix,  pp.  400-410.  to  which 
V  is  added  a  portrait  of  the  Begum.  It  may  be 
added  that  by  a  slip  of  the  pen  the  Governor- 
Qeneral,  whose  letter  to  the  Begum  is  quoted 
bj  Mr.  Hedb,  is  called  ''Sir  William  Ben- 
tinck."'  His  name  was  Lord  William  Caven- 
dish Bentinck.  Reinhard'a  origin  was  uncer- 
tain, but  he  was  generally  supposed  to  have 
been  a  Swiss. 

Aa  regards  Madame  du  Deff&nd's  letters  to 
Horace  Walpole,  it  may  be  as  well  to  quote 
the  passage  from  Mrs.  Paget  Toynbee's  letter 
in  the  Atkeno'Hiii  of  13  July,  1901— previously 
referred  to  by  the  Elditor — which  specifically 
relates  to  them  :— 

*'  After  Dyce  Sombre's  death  in  IK31  the  letters 

jMiMed  with  the  reat  of  the  Uu   Deffond  papers 

into  the  po9.<K!a.sioD  of  hie  widow,  who  afturwarda 

married    the    Hon.   George   Cecil    Foreater   (sub- 

'^-  sequeutly  third  Lord  Farest«r).    By  Lady  Forester, 

^B  who  WAS  a  daughter  of  the  second  Visconnt  St.  Vin- 

^B  cent,  they  were  bequeathed  to  her  nephew,  Mr. 

^■^N'.  R.  Paricer-JerviB,  of  Meaford,  near  Stone,  in 

^■Btaffordahirc,  in  whose  possession  they  now  are." 

■  W.  F.  Pridbaux. 

B^   Presuming  that  "Sir  William  Beutinck " 
"  is  a  mistake  for  Lord  William  Bentinck,  one 
can  only  conclude  that  that  benevolent  noble- 
man— himself  one  of  India's  greatest  bene- 
factors, inasmuch  as  he  suppre-ssed  the  Thugs 
^aand  put  an  end  to  the  cruel  rite  of  suttee — 
H'^ould   never    have  written   to    the    Begum 
^■Sotnroo  the  complimentary  letter  quoted  at 
the  last  i-eference  unless  he  had  been  ignorant 
of  the  woman's  history  in  its  entirety.     His 
lordship    cannot    have    known     that     this 
estimable  lady  ha<i  been  the  wife  and,  until 
his  death  in  1778,  the  close  associate  of  the 
execrable   German  ruffian    Reinhard,    alias 
)mers,  ^Ims  Sombre,  the  monster  who  super- 
Intended,  and  with  his  own  hands  assisted 
In  perpetrating,   the  appalling  massacre  at 
"Patna,  when   some   2CiO  unarmed   European 
)i'i«oiier3  were  barbarously  done  to  death  in 
Bold  blood.    Nor  can  the  Governor-General 
lave  l>eon  aware  of  the  fact  that  his  esteemed 
tly  friend  hod  herself  on  one  occasion,  as  a 
punishment  for  an  ofTence  far  short  of  murder, 
iuse<i  two  of  her  slave  girls  to  be  flogged 
ind  then  buried  alive  immediately  in  front 
)f  her  tent,     Tlie  fact  that  the  Begum  was  a 
niiuiii  .if  no  ordinary  parts  only  aggravates 
1  li'cds,   and    renders  them   the  more 

^ii  ■  i  :ijle.  liy  all  means  let  tbis  unhappy 
lii  li»iv<j  full  credit  for  the  good  works  of 
Iter  life.     Her  charities  were  immense, 


and  she  died  in  the  odour  of  sanctity.  But 
in  estimating  her  character  and  career  we 
are  bound  to  take  into  consideration  what 
she  had  been  ;  and  I  for  one  cannot  agree 
that  it  is  a  "trifling  mistake"  to  invest  the 
wicked  adventuress  Somroo  with  the  style 
and  title  of  a  great  feudatorv  princess  who, 
by  reason  of  the  staunch  loyalty  of  her  bouse 
to  the  British  Government,  is  entitled  to  the 
hearty  esteem  of  every  Briton. 

ChUTTER  MUNZIL. 

Mr.  HEBBspeaksof  "Zeibool-Nissa, "  instead 
of  Zebul-Nissa,  the  correct  name  of  the  lady 
in  question.  The  latter  words  mean  orna* 
ment  of  the  female  sex,  just  as  Aurungzeb 
means  ornament  of  the  throne ;  whereas 
"Zeib"  has  no  meaning,  and  no  such  word 
or  verbal  factor  exists  in  the  Arabic  or 
Persian  languages.         P.vtrick  Maxwell. 

Bath.  

Excommunication  of  Louis  XIV.  (9""  S. 
xii.  468,  .'i08). — I,  too,  have^  been  unable  to 
find  any  mention  of  Louis  XIV.  having  been 
excommunicated,  but  extract  the  following 
from  M.  -  N.  Bouillet's  '  Diet.  L^niversel 
d'Histoire  et  de  Geographie'  :— 

"  lAvardin  (Ch. -Henri  de  Beaumanoir,  marqais 
de),  1(M3-170I,  lieutenant  general  au  Ronvcraement 
de  Bretaftn^i  ^ut  envoye  par  Louin  .\lV.  en  anibaa- 
aade  A  Rome  (I(iK7)  au  nionientou  le  roi avail avecle 
nape  Innocent  XL  do  vifa  dcm^lda  au  aujet  dca 
franchises  et  des  articles  gallicans  de  16K2.  II  entra 
dans  Rome  aveo  un©  trouii*  arrofe,  mal(ir<5  les 
dtifensea  du  Saint  •  I'vre.  L'elui  •  ci  refuaa  de  lo 
recevoir  et  rcxcomniunia.  Louis  XIV.  ae  pr^araib 
ii  venger  aon  aniboasadeur  quand  Innocent  mourut." 

Edward  Latham. 

See  Louis  Pierre  Annuetil's  *  Histoire  de 
France'  (published  by  Furne  &,  Cie.,  Paris, 
18.^2),  vol  IV.  pp.  224-6,         Grenovicensis. 

Epitaph  (9"'  S.  xii.  504).— In  'Curious 
Epitaphs'  (1609),  collected  and  edited  with 
notes  by  William  Andrews,  this  epitaph 
duly  appears.  John  Scott  is  there  said  to 
have  been  "a  Liverpool  brewer." 

John  T.  Pace. 

West  Haddon,  Northamptonshire. 

'Epitaphs,  Quaint,  Curiou.s,  and  Elegant,' 

fublishea   by   fegg,  locatas  this  epitaph  at 
Tpton  on-Severn,  and  adds  that  "  poor  John 
Scott"  was  a  Liverpool  brewer. 

RicnARD  Lawson. 

LTrtnston. 

Heber's  «Pale8TINb'  O"*  S.  xii.  246,614). 
— Tliere  is   woraothing   more   than  a   resera- 
blauce  of  words  in  the  parallel  that  1  pointed 
out     There  is  a  resemblance  of  ideas.    TVv«<s. 
is  not    the  sftmo  ve%<iwXs\\w\<iia  \«!X>h«kvn.  >iwek 


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Engli8h  poetry  anH  the  verse  in  the  Bible. 
The  word  fabric  is  in  the  lines  of  Milton, 
Cott'per.  and  Heber  ;  and  the  chief  idea  in 
them  of  the  fabric  being  raised  or  constructed 
marvellously  is  not  in  the  verse  of  Kings  to 
which  reference  has  been  made-  For  in  that 
verse  it  is  only  said  that  the  materials  were 
prepared  before  they  were  used,  so  that  the 
sound  of  tools  was  not  heard  whilst  the 
Temple  was  built.  I  admit,  however,  that 
Cowper,  and  perhaps  Heber,  may  have  had 
the  verse  in  mind.  Milton  appears  to  be 
indebted  to  the  line  in  the  Iliad  '  which 
describes  Thetis  rising  like  a  mist  from  the 
sea.  E.  Yardley. 

Sadlee'8  Wells  Plav  alluded  to  by 
WoBDSWOUTU  (lO"*  S.  i.  7).— I  liave  consulted 
the  following  authorities,  but  have  not  been 
able  to  find  any  reference  to  the  play  said  to 
have  been  founded  on  the  story  of  John 
Hatfield  and  Mary  of  Butterraere  : — 

1.  Oxberry's  'Dramatic  Biog.' 

2.  Bernard's  '  Retrospections  of  the  Stage.' 

3.  Oilliland's  '  Dramatic  Synopsis.' 

4.  Lowe's  '  Biographical  Account  of  Dra- 
matic Literature.' 

5.  J.  T.  Dibdin'fl  'llerainiscences.' 

6.  John  Britton's  '  Autobiography.' 

7.  Decaatro's 'Meraoires.' 

8.  Dicken-s's  '  Life  of  Qnmaldi.' 

9.  '  The  I^jnelon  Stage,'  G.  Balme  C182«). 

10.  *  The  London  Theatre,' T.Dibdin  (1810). 

11.  Cumberland's  'Minor  Theatre.' 

12.  Dicks's  Catalogue. 

13.  Sadler's  Wells  playbills,  in  the  British 
Museum. 

14.  Doran's  '  Annals  of  the  Stage.' 
I  shall  be  glad  if  one  of  your  readers  can 

supply  me  with  further  references. 

H.  W.  B. 
Churchwardens'  Accounts  (9'"  S.  xii.  2C9, 
394,  .510).— Miss  Lega-Weekb.s  should  also 
consult  a  second  and  later  list  of  these  printed 
accounts.  It  was  compiled  by  a  lady  called 
Elabeth  Philipps,  and  published  in  the 
Anylish  JJittot'icitl  Jieview,  xv.  335-41  (1900). 

W.  P.  Courtney. 
TopooRAi'HY  OF  Ancient  London  (9«»'  S. 
xii.  429).— Under  the  heading  *  Jewin  Street, 
City,'  Wheatley's '  London,  Past  and  Present,' 
vol.  ii.  p.  308,  gives  a  quotation  from  Strype, 
book  iii.  p.  88  :— 

"  Being  a  pifcce,  as  is  expressed  in  a  record,  with- 
out CnpelKatc  and  the  suburbs  of  London  called 
Leyrestowe,  and  which  was  the  buryingplaco  of 
tho  Jews  of  London." 

"The  plot  of  ground  appropriated  as  the 
Jews'  burial-ground  is  now,"  says  Stow  (1603), 
turned  into  fair  garden  plots  and  summer 


houses   for    pleasure."    I   cannot   find    any 
trace  in  any  work  of  the  "  L&zar  House. '^ 
ANDREW  Oliver. 

"  Jeer  "  (9'''  S.  xi.  487;  xii,  357).— When  we 
say  sckraubcn  in  the  sense  of  "  to  jeer  at "  we 
always  mean  "rfn«t  sclirauben,"  whether  this 
object  is  expressed  or  understood.  The 
phrase  has  nothing  to  do  with  the  face  of  the 
mocker,  but  the  writhingsof  his  victim  whose 
thumb  he  has  clamped  in  the  vice.  It  is  a 
game  they  like  much  in  this  country  at  the 
beer-table,  not  pleasant  when  one  poor  fellow 
is  made  the  laughing-stock  of  the  company, 
but  amusing  when  the  attacked  party  is  abld 
to  hit  back  ;  the  "corona  "  then  spending  a 
nice  time  in  witnessing  this  mutual  "  screw- 
ing "  process.  G.  Kkueger. 

Berhn. 

"Little  Mary"  (U^""  S.  xii.  fA)\).—l  gather 
from  the  notice  of  the  Westminster  play  in 
the  Athenmua  of  19  December,  1903,  that 
the  epilogue  to  the  'Trinummus,'  which  was 
"extremely  happy,"  introduced  "  Parva 
Maria,"  "  Dumpophobista,"  Ac. 

William  Obobge  Black. 

"Welsh  rabbit"  (9*'^  S.  xii.  469). -In 
addition  to  the  note  by  the  Kev.  A.  Smythe 
Palmer  at  7'^'  S.  x.  9,  I  would  refer  your 
correspondent  to  the  reverend  gentleman's 
'Folk-Ktyraology '  (1882)  for  a  long  article, 
and  illustrations  of  the  use  of  the  terra. 
Annandale  in  his  'Imperial Dictionary'  gives 
the  following  :— 

" '  irt/t'i  Rabfjit  is  a  genuine  slang  term,  belong. 
itiK  to  a  large  group  which  deecriSe  in  the  same 
humorous  way  the  special  di«h  or  product  or  peoa<j 
liarity  of  a  particnlar  diBtrict.  For  example,  »~ 
Enjttx  lion  is  a  calf ;  a  Fitld-laii:  duel-  is  a  bake 
sheep's  head  ;  GlaMffOifmagvili'cUeJiOT Norfolk  (at 
are  red  herrings;  /rwA  apricoli  or  Muu^ter pli...., ^ 
are  potatoffl  ;  Grarcwnd  moeetmiat*  are  shrimps.' — 
Afacirnllan'i  Matjazint" 

Everard  Home  Coleman. 

71.  Brecknock  Road. 

Was  it  not  Samuel  Johnson  who  transpoa 
"Welch- rare- bit"  into  "  Welsh  rabbit"? 

Thornb  Oeoeoe. 

We  call  a  sort  of  hash  "  falscher  Haae." 

G.  Krueoer. 
Berlin. 

[Mr.  Holokn  M.ioMicHAEL  refers  also  to  the 
euphemistic  names  of  dishes  from  localities.] 

St.  Bridoet's  Bower  (10"'  S.  i.  27).— Is  it 
not  probable  that  Spenser  alludes  to  Brent, 
and  not  to  Kent?  and  that  tho  "Br"  in  his 
MS,  was  mistaken  for  "  K  "  ?  The  jmrish 
church  of  Breane,  in  the  hundred  of  Brent, 
Somerset,  i«  dedicated  to  St.  Bridget,  and 


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vaa  restored  in  1884,  the  chancel  being 
rebuilt.  Tiie  "bowre"  alluded  to  might  be 
the  hill,  or  down,  or  elevated  peninsula, 
which  extends  a  mile  into  the  sea,  and  is 
strikingly  conspicuous  from  various  parte  of 
the  surrounding  country.  It  is  called  Brean 
Down,  is  the  mo-st  western  extremity  of  the 
Mendip  Hills,  and  the  only  ground  in  the 
parish  of  IJrean  which  is  appreciably  raised 
above  the  level  of  the  sea.  On  the  highest 
point  of  the  hill,  321  ft.  above  the  sea,  are 
some  loose  stones,  usually  regarded  a^  the 
remains  of  a  beacon  or  fire-signalling  station. 
Brean  Down  is,  in  fact,  the  longest  and  by 
far  the  most  picturesque  and  interesting  of 
the  three  promontories  that  break  the  coast- 
line of  the  Mendip  (see  Francis  A-  Knight's 
most  interesting  work,  'The  Seaboard  of 
"endip,'  1902,  pp.  297-9).  "Bridgets  Bowre" 
not,  however,  marked  on  a  map  printed  in 
the  seventeenth  year  of  Queen  Elizabeth's 
reign  (ir>75) ;  but  the  expression  is,  no  doubt, 
merely  poetic  licence,  although  the  associa- 
tion with  the  spot,  and  that  a  picturesque 
promontory,  of  a  church  dedicated  to  St. 
Bridget  would  afford  some  grounci  for 
supposing  that  Brean  Down  was  intended. 
Indications  of  a  beacon  light,  too,  are  very 
suggestive  of  the  possibility  that  "  Kent "  iis 
a  press  error  for  '  Brent." 

J.  HoLDES  MacMuhael. 

Cakdinals  and  Crimson  Roues  (9"*  S.  xii. 
186).— Misseji  Tuker  and  Malleson,  'Hand- 
90ok  to  Christian  and  Ecclesiastical  Rome,' 
I'artlV.  p.  447,  say:— 

"It  wm  enacted  in  a  cxinatitution  of  Boni- 
Uce  \  III.  ia  I'JffJ  that  cardinals  shonld  wear  the 

royal   purple The    red   rnbeg    hav«s    l>een   worn 

•inco  1464 ;   the  parple  is  now  only  worn  in  Lent 
jand  Advent,  when  cardinals  can  be  dtatinKuinhed 
from  bishoiw  by   the  red  skull-cap,  stocking,  and 
berretta  which  ihey  reUin." 

John  B.  Wainewkioht. 

Mackenzie  Walcott,  in  his  'Sacred  Archaeo- 
logy,' under  the  heading  'Cardinal,'  says  :— 
"In   1291)  Pope    Boniface    gave  the  cardinals  a 
>ur]ile  dress  in  imitation  of  the  Roman  Consuls." 

Andrew  Ouvbb. 

Earliest  Pl.^ybill  (10"'  S.  i.  28),— The 
earliest  announcement  of  the  nature  of  a  play- 
bill of  which  I  have  any  record  is  in  my  own 
<>olloction,  and  is  fully  described  in  'Rariora' 
iii.  .^3).  It  relates  to  a  public  contest 
nnouneed  to  take  place  at  the  Red  Bull 
rriieatre),  at  the  upner  end  of  St.  John's 
Itreet,  on  "  Whitson  Mundav,"  .30  May,  10C4. 
?hi«  theatre  was  .spoken  or  by  Prynne  in 
{1633  as  one  that  had  been  "  lately  re-e<^lified 
id  enlarged.'    The  next  in  order  of  date 


was  printed  about  the  year  1688,  and  gives 
notice  of  the  formation  of  a  company  of  what 
we  should  now  call  acrobats,  including  the 
celebrated  Jacob  Hall,  but  no  particulars  are 
supplied  about  the  theatre  or  other  public 
place  at  which  the  performances  were  to  be 
given.  Tho  text  of  each  of  these  nieces  is 
surmounted  by  a  large  woodcut  of  tlie  royal 
arms,  but  there  is  nothing  else  to  distinguish 
either  from  an  ordinary  handbill.  A  more 
important  sheet,  distinctly  entitled  to  the 
designation  of  a  playbill,  has  also  received 
notice  (ut  siipra,  p.  120).  Although  a  century 
later  than  the  date  mentioned  by  your  corre- 
spondent, it  might  possibly  serve  as  a  model. 
It  is  an  announcement  in  folio  form  of  an 
entertainment  (entitled  'The  English  Diver- 
sion ')  which  very  clo-sely  corresponds  to  that 
offered  at  a  music-hall  of  the  present  day.  It 
is  headed  by  the  royal  arms  with  the  legend 
"Semper  Kadem,"  and  concludes  with  the 
words  "  Vivat  Regina,"  so  that  its  date  must 
be  between  1702  and  1714.  If  I  can  be  of  any 
assistance  to  Mr.  Sieveking  in  this  matter, 
I  shall  be  very  happy  to  correspond  with 
him.  J.  Eliot  Hodckin. 

"Owl-light" (9"'  S.  xi.  349.  4ii,  452;  xii. 
511).  —  Anent  the  origin  of  the  French 
expression  "entrc  chien  et  loup."  may  I  say 
that,  although  some  authorities  give  the 
two  explanations  mentioned,  only  the  first 
is  assigned  by  earlier  works,  sucii  as,  for 
instance,  the  Abbe  Tuet's  '  Matinees 
Senonoises'  (1789),  P. -J.  Le  Roux's  'Diet. 
C!oraique,'  »fec.  (1752),  and  the  'Diet,  de 
Trevoux'  (1771)?  All  the.se  agree  in  only 
giving  the  first  explanation,  and  the  follow- 
ing lines  seem  to  corroborate  the  idea,  ^-iz.  :— 
Lor«qu'il  n'est  jour  ni  nuit,  quan  \  le  vaillant  berger 
Si  c'e«t  un  chien  ou  loiip,  no  peul  au  vrav  juger. 

.I.-A.  de  Baif  (l.VJ-i  MSt),  Li  v.  I.  do  "  La  Franciae.' 

G.  Bautru  (lo88-lG65),  alluding  to  this  pro- 
verbial phrase,  used  to  say,  ".rai  rencontre' 
unefemmeentrechienneet  louve."  Although 
M.  Quitard,  in  his  'Diet,  ^tvmologique,  &c., 
des  Proverbes,'  throws  doubt  on  tne  first 
explanation,  to  my  mind— I  may  be  wrong — 
it  18  the  correct  one.        Edward  Latham. 

Castle  Society  op  MirsicK  (9"^  S.  xii.  486). 
— This  was  a  society  for  the  cultivation 
of  harmonj',  of  considerable  repute  in  the 
middle  of  the  eighteenth  century.  It  woa 
so  designated  because  its  "concerts  of  rouaio, 
vocal  and  instrumental."  were  for  some  time 
held  at  the  "  Castle "  Tavern  in  Patornoster 
Row.  In  1768,  however,  tho  iierformayces 
were  conducted  at  the  HaborJH.>.hor,  Ull. 
and  then  business  meotinj««  were  liehl  at  tho 
"Half   Moon"   Tavern    in    CheapsuJu  (see 


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Bom'a  '  Beaufoy  Tokens,'  1855,  Ko.  882}.  The 
"  Caatle"  was  burnt  down  in  the  Great  Fire, 
and  what  became  a  usual  feature  in  the  more 
popular  r&sorts  of  this  kind— a  Ix>Dg  Room- 
was  added.  Here  many  of  the  most  eminent 
muHiciana  and  vocal ista  of  the  day  performed. 
The  following  is  from  the  Daily  Advo-fUer  of 
■22  February,  1742  :— 

"  For  the  Benefit  of  Mr.  Brown,  at  the  Ca.stle 
Tavern  in  Paternoster  Row,  this  Day.  beine  tlje 
2^  instant,  will  be  nerformM  a  Concert  of  Vocal 
and  Instrumental  Nlusick,  Particularly  an  Organ- 
Concerto  hy  an  Eminent  Master,  a  Concerto  on  the 
Bassoon  by  Mr.  Miller,  a  Solo  on  the  German  Flute 
by  Mr.  Bulicourt,  and  a  Solo  and  several  Concertos 
oil  the  Violin  by  Mr,  Brown.  The  vocal  jiarts  by 
Mr.  Beard  and  Mr.  Lowe.  Note,  Ticket*  to  be 
had  at  Mr.  Browij's.  in  .Margaret  Street,  Cavendish 
Square;  at  the  ywan  Tavern,  in  Exchange- Alley, 
Cornhill ;  and  at  the  place  of  Performance."— iiee 
also  ihid.,  5  March,  l"4"i. 

In  1770  the  "  Castle"  had  become  the  Oxford 
Bible  Warehouse,  where  the  productions  of 
the  Oxford  University  Press  were  deposited. 

J.   UOLDEX  MacMicHAEL. 
IGl,  Hammersmith  Road. 

St.  Dials  O^"  S.  xii.  40,  014).— In  the 
seventeenth-century  overseers'  accounts  of 
Monmouth  frequent  mention  occurs  of  the 
hamlet  callwl  bt.  Dials',  just  south-west  of 
this  town.  Twice  the  name  la  spelt 
"St.  Dvnalls."  If  this  n  (which  is  clearly 
written)  is  not  meant  for  a  u  (and  I  do  not 
think  it  is),  I  consider  this  strong  evidence 
that  the  place  was  originally  St.  Deinioel's. 
Several  parishes  in  Wales  boar  the  latter 
designation,  un<ier  its  Welsh  form  Llan- 
fldeinioel,  anrl  "  Dynall  "  would  represent  the 
nrotiunciation  to  Enplish  eyes.  But  Teilo  in 
Monmouthshire  dialect  is  "  Tillio,"  as  in 
Llantilio  Grosenny. 

John  Hobson  Matthems. 

Monmouth. 

JoHS  Hall,  Bishop  of  Brihtol  (10"'  S.  i.  0). 
— I  think  ho  must  have  died  in  1710  a 
bachelor,  a-s  I  cannot  firifl  any  mention  of  a 
wife  in  the  Rev.  Douglas  Mucleane's  admirable 
and  exhaustive  history  of  Pembroke,  Oxon 
(18D7),  of  which  College  the  bishop  was 
Master  from  10G4  until  his  death.  His  heir 
was  his  nephew  John  Spilsbury,  a  Dissenting 
minister  at  Kidderminster.  His  portrait- 
half-length,  full-face,  clean  shaven,  in  wig 
and  episcopal  robes  —  may  be  seen  in  the 
College  Hall.  A.  R.  Bavlf.y. 

Ash  :  Pl.ICE-NAME  (9"'  S.  xii.  106,  211.  291, 
3T3).— May  1  ask  Pkof.  .Skkat  to  reconsider 
his  decision  as  to  the  absurdity  of  the  deriva- 
tion of  As/in/n  from  «?«r,  an  ash  1  He  says 
trees  do  not  live  in  homes.      Just  so,  but 


homes  may  live  in  the  midst  of  trees.  Why 
should  a  homestead  surrounded  by  ashes  not 
be  named  .Efr  ham  ?  ^"ou  have  al>fo  Reecham 
and  Oakham,  and  we  have  Buchheim  and 
Buchenheim,  Eichheim,  Berkheim,  Elsheim 
and  Elsonheini,  and  Tannheim.  An  Eschheim 
or  Eschenheim,  it  is  true,  I  have  not  been 
able  to  trace  in  our  gazetteers. 

G.   KRl'EGEfi. 
Berlin. 

BiiK;nTLisfisr.A ;  its  Deputy  Ma  von  (9""  S. 
xii.  506).— I  find  in  my  collection  of  cuttings 
illustrative  of  the  county  of  Essex  one  or  two 
referring  to  the  quaint  custom  brought  to 
the  notice  of  readers  of  '  N.  &  Q.'  by 
Me.  Colemax.  From  a  descriptive  account 
of  the  ceremony  which  appeared  in  the 
Southtndon-Sea  Olstrrer  of  4  Dec.,  1902,  I 
gather  that  the  oath  administered  to  thone 
elected  to  the  freedom  of  Brightlingsea  is  as 
follows :  "  I  swear  to  be  profitable  as  I  ought 
to  his  Majesty  the  King,  his  heirs  and 
successors,  and  the  State  of  the  liberty  of  the 
town  of  Brightlingsea."        John  T.  Paob. 

West  Hadaon,  Nortliamptonshire. 

Engusu  Act  entuatiox  (9"'  S.  xi.  408,  ."ilS; 
xii.  94,  l.'iS,  316, 47.'j).— Perhaps  a  slip  of  the 
pen  or  printer's  error,  but,  certainly,  Antio- 
(^uia  is  wrongly  accented  by  Mr.  ri-ATT.  I 
livetl  some  years  in  the  next  .State  to 
Antioquia  (Republic  of  Colombia),  and  can 
assure  him  no  one  ever  heard  the  accent 
placed  anywhere  but  on  the  n,  and  no 
Colombian  woold  know  what  was  meant  by 
Antioquia.  Ibaui'^. 

Cromwell  buhiek  in  Red  Liox  S^juabe 
(9"'  S.  xii.  486).— Enough,  and  more  than 
enough,  has  appeai*ed  in  the  columns  of 
'N.  kfc  O. '  on  tne  subject  of  the  place  of 
burial  or  Oliver  Cromwell.  Westminster 
Abljoy,  Naseby,  Narborougb,  Newburgh, 
Tyburn,  Huntingdon,  Nortnborough,  and 
Ked  Lion  Square,  all  claim  to  be  his  place 
of  burial.  See  1"  S.  v. ;  2'"'  S.  viii.,  xii.  ; 
.3"'  S.  iii.,  iv. ;  &'•'  S.  ii.,  for  many  articles  ou 
the  resting-place  of  this  extmonlinary  man. 
Everari)  Home  Colemas. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

The  remains  of  Cromwell,  Ireton,  and 
Bradshaw  may,  of  course,  have  been  ro^. 
exhumed  and  reinterrerl  in  Red  Lion  Square^' 
but  in  '  Mercurius  Politicus  Redivivus,  a 
Collection  of  the  most  Material!  Occurrences 
and  Transactions  in  Publick  AfVairs,'  vol.  i. 
fol.  2."j7,  we  are  expressly  told  that  "  their 
bodies  were  buried  in  a  grave  made  under  the 
[Tyburn]  gallows.  The  coffin  that  Oliver 
Cromwell  was  in  was  a  very  rich  thing,  very 


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full  of  guildefl  hinges  and  nayles."  And 
Anthony  Wool  in  h\n  '  Athenai  Oxonienses,' 
1817,  vol.  iii.  coi.  3U1,  says  :— 

"After  the  Reatoratton  of  Kinp  Charles  H. 
Ireton's  body  with  that  of  Oliver  Cromwell  waa 
taken  up  [«.♦:.,  from  their  tombs  in  Hcory  VII.'s 
Chapel  in  Weatrainstor  Abbey],  on  Saturday, 
26  Jan.,  ItiOO.  and  on  Monday  night  following  were 
dr&wn  in  two  several  carU)  from  Westminster  to 
the  Red  Lyon  in  Holbourn,  whore  they  continued 
that  evening.  The  next  morning  the  carcass  of 
Joh.  Brndshaw,  president  of  the  high  court  of 
joslice  (which  had  been  ^vith groat  •olemnity  bnried 
in  St.  I'eter's  Cliurcii  at  Westminster,  •i2  Nov.. 
l6-i9),  woa  carried  in  a  cart  to  UoIlKiurn  also  ;  and 
the  next  day  following  that  (which  waa  the 
30lh  January,  on  which  day  Ring  Cliarlea  I.  waa 
beheaded  in  ItH-S)  they  were  drawn  to  Tyburn  on 
three  several  sledges,  followed  by  the  universal 
outcry  of  the  people.  Afterwards  they  being  pulled 
out  from  their  cotiin^,  wero  hanged  at  the  several 
angles  of  that  triple  tree,  where  tney  hung  till  the 
aun  waa  set.  After  which  they  were  taken  down, 
their  heads  cut  off  (to  bo  set  on  Westminster  Hall) 
and  their  loathsome  trunks  thrown  into  a  tkfp  hole 
[italics  are  mine]  under  the  gallows,  where  they 
now  remain." 

Thedfejt  hole  is  suggestiveof  an  improbabiltty 
that  the  remains  were  disinterred  by  relative-s 
or  partisans,  for  some  time,  at  all  cvonta, 
afterwards.  J.  Holdex  MacMichael, 

Dr.  Furnivall  will  find  two  or  three 
columns  devoteti  to  this  subject  in  'Old  and 
New  London,'  iv.  546-8.  I  would  also  refer 
him  to  an  intereKting  article  wiiich  appeared 
in  C'fi'iiufHTf'f<  Journal  of  23  February,  1H5«, 
lieariug  the  title  '  A  Hi»torical  Mysterj'.'  It 
is  devoted  to  a  consideration  of  the  claims  of 
the  various  places  wiiere  Cromwell's  body  is 
said  to  have  been  hurie<^l.  Naseby  Field, 
Red  Lion  Square,  Westminster  Abbey,  Hunt- 
ingdon, and  the  river  Thames,  all  pass  tinder 
review,  but  the  writer  opinen  :  *'  Where  he 
v&s  really  buried  is  a  question  that  ha.s  never 
yet  [»«VJ,  and  probably  never  will  be  satis- 
nictorily  answered."  John  T.  Page. 

West  HaddoD,  Northamptonshire. 

CAriSKUM  (0"'  S.  xii.  449).-I  .should  have 
thought  the  C'tpxirum  annunm  came  into 
Kurol>e  from  the  P3ast  via  the  Ijevant,  some 
time  boforo  the  Spaniards  discovered  it  also 
urowing   in   the   West   Indies.      But  surely 

chilUea"  and  the  powder  produced  by 
crushing  the  dried  pods  were  known  to  Rome 
in  the  time  of  the  Ciesara.  The  Hindoos 
knew  it  a«  wn  mum'd'je,  the  Javane.se  as 
If/nibok,  and  tlio  Malays  as  chaUii. 

Thorn  K  Gkorce. 

Bt.sirop  White  Ketnneitm  Father  (9"'  S. 
ix.  .'i«1.'i,  45.'>  ;  X.  13). — Hosted'a  'History  of 
Kent,'  folio  p<lition,  vol.  lii.  p.  404.  states 
that  Iksil  Kounett  waw  A.M.  of  the  University 


of  Dublin.  Inquiring  of  the  Registrar,  I  an> 
assured  that  Btt.-iil  Kennett's  name  cannot  b» 
traced  in  any  of  the  lists. 

The  name  Basil  is  prol)ably  derived  from 
the  lord  of  the  manor  of  Folkestone,  Basil 
Dixwell,  1622,  created  a  baronet  1627,  died 
lfi41.  A  Richard  Kennett  was  mayor  of 
Folkestone  the  year  that  Basil  Dixwell 
succeeded  to  the  lordship,  namely,  1622,  and 
again  in  1627.  May  he  not  have  been  Bishop 
White  Kennett's  grandfather? 

It.  J.   FVNMORB. 

Kandgate,  Kent. 

Flaying  /Uive  (9«"  S.  xii.  429.  489 ;  lO*" 
S.  i.  15).— There  is  an  interesting  story  about 
the  skiu  of  a  robber  in  "  My  Sayings  and 
Doings,  with  Rerainiscence.s  of  my  Life.  An 
Autobiography  of  the  Rev.  William  Quekett^ 
M.A.,  Rector  of  Warrington  '  (Kegan  Paul  Jk 
Co.,  1SS8),  p.  117.  Mr.  Quekett  was  one  day 
(presumably  before  IftM,  when  he  was  ap- 
pointed rector  of  Warrington)  with  hi9 
brother,  Prof.  Quekett,  at  the  College  of 
Surgeons.  Whilst  they  were  together  the 
latter  received  a  letter  which  contained  an 
enclosure  "  which  looked  like  part  of  the 
bottom  of  an  old  shoe,  of  the  thickness  of 
half-acrown,  of  a  dark  colour,  elastic,  and 
with  the  markings  of  wood  upon  it."  Tho 
letter  was  from  a  churchwarden  of  the  parish 
of  East  Thurrock,  in  Essex,  who  wanted  the 
professor  to  tell  him,  if  possible,  whit  tho 
substance  was,  without  having  any  par- 
ticulars of  its  history.  Having  washed  it 
and  cut  a  thin  slice,  he  discovered  under  the 
microscope  that  it  had  all  the  structure  of 
human  skin, and  on  more  minute  cxaminatioti 
that  it  was  the  "  skin  of  a  light-haired  man, 
having  the  hair  of  a  sandy  colour."  He  wrote 
J  t<j  the  churchwarden,  telling  him  of  the  result 
of  his  examinations.  The  latter  replied  that 
he  (tho  professor)  had  "proved  the  truth 
of  a  great  tradition  which  had  existed  for 
years  in  East  Thurrock." 

'■  On  tho  west  door  of  the  oharch  there  had  been 
for  ages  an  iron  plate  of  a  font  square,  under 
which  they  said  was  the  skin  of  a  man  who  had 
come  on  the  river  and  robbed  the.  church.  The 
[)eopIe  had  Hayed  him  alive,  and  bolted  his  skin 
under  an  iron  plate  on  the  church  door  as  a  terror 
to  all  other  marauders.  At  the  restoration  of  the 
church,  which  was  then  going  on,  this  door  had 
been  removed,  and  hence  he  had  been  able  to  send 
the  specimen." 

It  appears  to  have  been  assumed  that  tho 
marauder  who  had  l>ten  «\'9"%\JI'7ui„ 
Dane  Mr.  W.  Quekett  biwl  a  hit  of  the  aKin 
Kas  a  specimen  for  the  mioroHcope.  and 
wrote  on  the  slide,  -This  is  the  nku.  of  a 
Dane  who,  with  .o-ny  oth^r*,  came  up  the 
river  Thames  and  pillaged  churches.   Caught 


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in  the  act  at  East  Tliurrock,  Essex,  aud  flayed 
alive," 

The  fate  uf  the  specimen  h  iuterestiog. 
Mr.  Quekett  lost  it,  aud  kuew  nothing  for 
many  years  of  what  had  become  of  it.  In 
or  aoout  1884,  apparently,  he  was  reading 
aloud  to  some  gentlemen  iii  the  hall  of  the 
"  Palace  Hotel,"  liuxton,  an  account  of  a  meet- 
ing of  the  British  Association  at  Penzance.  In 
tliis  account  ho  came  across  the  fact  that 
at  tlio  meeting  a  microscopic  object,  among 
others  of  special  interest,  had  been  exhibited 
by  a  gentleman  in  the  neighbourhood,  viz., 
a  "Dane'a  skin,"  and  that  the  specimen  at 
Penzance  had  on  it,  word  for  word,  what  he 
had  written  on  his  lost  trcasura. 

He  exclaimed,  "Why,  this  is  my  Dane's 
skin  1  I  lost  it  twenty  years  ago."  After 
telling  those  present  how  he  had  obtained 
the  specimen,  he  said  aloud,  "  I  wonder  who 
that  man  is."  Immediately  afterwards  the 
porter,  who  had  heard  the  conversation,  said, 
•'  Please,  Mr.  Quekett,  I  can  tell  you  who 
tliat  gentleman  is.     I  was  his  footman  and 

valet  for  four  years ;  it  i.s  Mr. ,  who  lives 

at Castle,  near  Penzance."    Mr.  Quekett 

wrote  at  once  to  the  gentleman,  whose  name 
he  does  not  give,  claiming  the  specimen,  and 
asking  him  now  he  had  come  into  possession 
of  it.  The  gentleman  replied  that  the  de- 
scription of  the  specimen  and  the  account  of 
the  inscription  were  perfectly  correct ;  that 
it  had  been  given  to  him  bjr  a  lady  in 
London  ;  that  he  greatly  valued  it;  and  that 
should  Mr.  Quekett  ever  be  in  his  part  of 
the  country  and  should  wish  to  see  it,  he 
would  have  great  pleasure  in  showing  it  to 
liim.    lieati  jKjsaidentes. 

Mr.  Quekett  died  at  the  rectory,  War- 
rington, on  Good  Friday,  1888.  The  preface 
of  his  autobiography  is  dated  12  January 
of  the  same  year.  Robekt  Piekpoint. 

St.  Austin's,  Warrington, 

Vici.ssiTUDEs  or  Lanouagk(9"'  S.  x.   tui; 
XJ.  314,  356).— The  following  notes  from  the 
Far  East  may   be  added    as    corroboj-aling 
Mk.  H.  Lawebnce  FoiiD's  reply  at  the  second 
reference. 

A  striking  instance  of  the  languages  of  the 

cpnquerefl    people    becoming    the   study  of 

their   conquerors  is  furnished   by  Chinese. 

I  As  often  as  China  had  been  conquered  by  her 

neighbours,  so  many  times  has  she  supplanted 

or  decomixised  their  languages ;  thus,  since 

the  establi  '  v  '  n(  the  present  Mauchurian 

Ipovernm  ).  the  Manchurians  have 

Iteeu  so  «.,,.,.......,  lu  receiving  the  culture  of  I 

the  Celestials  that   at    present    their   own 
'  /a  bcoomiag  almost  ex  ti  rpa  ted .  | 


A  few  years  after  Kublai  Khan's  unparal- 
leled failure  in  his  attempts  upon  the 
Japanese  in  1281,  the  latter  first  appeared  as 
buccaneers  on  the  Chinese  coast  1  rom  that 
time  down  to  the  seventeenth  century  the 
Japanese  played  largely  in  the  Eastern 
world  the  part  of  the  Normans.  Their 
depredations  formetl  a  constant  source  of 
consternation  among  the  Chinese,  Coreans, 
Indo-Chinese,  and  the  peoples  of  Indonesia, 
several  principalities  having  been  subdued 
by  them.  Still,  at  present  but  a  few  words, 
if  any,  aud  these  limited  to  nouns  only, 
linger  in  those  nations'  languages  as  the 
fossil  fragments  that  mark  faintly  the  former 

Sower  once  possessed  by  the  ever-invading 
apanese,  whereas  the  Japanese  descendants 
in  Indo-China  and  the  Philippines  liave 
entirely  lost  their  own  language. 

Lately  the  Chinese  are  being  extensively 
taught  oy  the  Japanese  in  the  various  lessons 
of  modern  civilization,  in  acquiring  which 
the  latter  were  sagacious  enough  to  precede 
their  old  masters  ;  and  the  Chinese  ought  to 
acknowledge  as  an  historical  fact,  sm  long  as 
their  memory  shall  last,  the  §reat  assistance 
the  Japanese  are  now  rendering  them.  But 
it  is  very  doubtful  whether  the  Japanese 
language  will  much  circulate  and  fix  itself 
among  the  Chinese,  as  some  enthusiasts 
hope.  In  fact,  all  the  words  necessary  to 
these  instructions  are  to  be  in  Chinese,  either 
original  or  japanized  ;  aud  in  the  latter  case, 
owing  to  tiie  identity  of  their  writings,  the 
Celestials,  of  course,  would  discover  nothing 
Japanese,  but  solely  their  own  vulgarism — 
the  tedious  agglutinant  syntax,  tne  com- 
paratively scanty  diction,  as  well  as  the 
simple  insular  traditions  of  the  Japanese* 
being  of  no  actual  service  or  tempting  charm 
to  the  Ciiinese,  whose  convenient  mom)- 
syllabic,  very  copious  etymology,  and 
variegated  and  compreheni^ive  nittoricAl 
legends,  are  being  more  studied  and  avaiteil 
of  than  ever  by  literary  people  in  the  Japan 
of  to  day. ^  Kumagl'^u  Mlkakata. 

Mount  Nachi,  Kii,  .Japan. 

"God":  its  Etymology  (a""  S.  xii.  400).— 
The  'N.E  D.,'  s.r.  'GofJ,'  has  the  f..ii..«;n^  ; 

".Some  scholars,  acccptiujj  the  <i.  rom 

the  root   'gheu-.    'to    i>our,'    have  .    the 

etymulogical  sense  to  ue  'nioltou  iiiti^{e'  (-^Or. 
\('Tr>i'),  but  the  assumed  development  of  Dicaaiiig 
Bcenis  very  unlikely." 

Now  Hesychius  expressly  states  as  follows : 
;^vTo»',  \cDo-ror,  Kat  to  ,\*i*/*«»  Koi  o  ^€<rT?>s 
XtOoi;  i.e.,  "what  is  heaped  up,  a  tumulus, 
a  smooth  stone"- nothing  \^ '  ^  .  '  i,t  a 
"molten  image."     In  fact,  loal 

treatment  of  the  word  in  tlic    .\.r,. i.>.  i<,  not 


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exhaustive.  Tho  origin  of  Theism  in  ancestor- 
worship  with  its  correlative  tflinh  -  worship 
need  not  bo  referred  to,  it  being  already 
frulliciently  established  (cf.  Pho^n.  "  Betyl," 
name  of  a  god,  and  Ueb.  "  Beth-el ").  The 
connexion,  moreover,  between  smooth  stones 
and  the  tumulus  is  obvious  when  we  consider 
that  the  mostaucieut  tumuli  were  constructed 
of  furface  or  river  bouIderH,  which  tliua 
Acquired  a  certain  degree  of  sanctity. 

E.   SiBREE. 

Marlowe  .and  Shakespe.are  (10"»  S.  i.  1). 
—  Mb.  Hekpich  has  done  pood  work  in 
publishing  hia  collection  of  parallel  piiraues 
and  expressions  from  Marlowe  and  Shake- 
speare, and  every  Shakespearian  student 
snould  be  thankful  for  thero.  But  why, 
after  showing  how  much  Shakespeare  was 
inHaenced  by  Marlowe,  does  he  try  to  spoil 
the  effect  of  his  labour  by  supposing  tliat  the 
well-known  lines  in  '  Aa  You  Like  It' refer 
rather  to  Chapman  than  to  Marlowe,  and 
were  "an  intentional  fling  "at  a  rival  poet  I 
The  words  in  the  play  (First  Folio), 

Dead  Shepheard,  now  I  find  thy  saw  o(  might. 
Who  ever  lov'd,  thai  lov'd  not  at  first  sight? 
certainly  contain  nothing  in  the  nature  of  a 
flinff.  On  the  contrary,  the  quotation  is 
ma^ie  reverently,  and  almost,  as  one  might 
say,  as  an  apostrophe  to  a  dead  friend.  The 
fact  that  Marlowe  was  dead  when  this  w'as 
■written,  whereas  Chapman  was  alive,  makes 
the  inference  that  Marlowe  was  intended, 
and  that  he  was  the  "  Dead  Shepheard," 
simply  irresistible  and  unmistakable.  As  far 
as  I  know,  Shakespeare  never  has  a  fling  at 
any  other  poet.  He  loft  such  thingi  to 
meaner  minds.  E.  F.  Bates. 

C.UfDLKMAs  Gills  (9»»»  S-  xii.  430 ;  lO"*  S. 
i.  .30). — Cliurch  ales  and  observances  form  the 
subject  of  chap,  iv.  of  the  late  Mr.  W,  T. 
Marchant's  erudite  volume  'In  Praise  of 
Ale."  The  author  was  a  diligent  student  of 
'N.  &  Q.,'  and  acknowledges  the  assistance 
derived  from  its  columns.  It  has  been  more 
than  once  referred  to  .since  his  deAth.  Those 
who  know  this  amiable  and  painstaking 
scholar  will  remember  him  as  a  mine  of 
oorious  lore  of  marriage  customs,  proverbs, 
ancient  London,  and  antiquarian  topics. 

Francw  p.  M^vbchant. 

Brixtou  Uill. 

"  Coup  de  Jarnac  "  (10*  S.  i.  6).— A  q  ueation 
on  this  was  asked  at  the  London  University 
D.l.it.  examination  in  1880.  "  Un  coup  de 
.Tarnttc  "  mean»i  "a  treacherous  blow."  See 
Belcher  and  Dupuis's  'Manuel,'  1885 
(Uachotte).  B.  Whitehead,  B.A. 


"  Sit  loose  to  "  (10'"  S,  i.  5).— The  following 
quotation  is  from  Thomson's  'Alfred;  a 
Masque,'  1740:— 

.\tlttoli  thee  firmly  to  the  virtuotu  deeds 

And  offices  of  life ;  to  life  itself. 

With  all  ita  vain  and  transient  joys,  sit  loose. 

This  was  a  favourite  quotation  of  Bums  ; 
see  letter  to  Mrs.  Dunlop,  (J  December,  1792. 

H.  E.  Powell. 

Twickenbkm. 

Marriac.e  R&iisTERS  (lo"*  S.  i.  9).— The 
registers  and  records  of  the  marriages  per- 
formed at  the  Fleet  and  King's  Bench  Priaous. 
at  May  Fair,  at  the  Mint  in  Southwark,  ana 
elsewhere  between  the  years  1674  and  1754, 
were  transferred  from  the  Registry  of  the 
Bishop  of  London  to  tho  custody  of  tho 
Registrar-General  of  Births,  Marriages,  and 
Deaths  at  Somerset  House,  under  the  pro- 
visions of  3  «k  4  Vict.,  cap.  92,  sec.  20. 
Some  of  the  registers  of  May  Fair  are  at 
St.  George's,  Hanover  Square,  and  some  of 
those  of  the  Fleet  (for  there  were  many)  are 
in  private  hands.  If  Major  Thorne  George 
requires  any  further  information  he  sliould 
consult  'The  Fleet  Registers,'  1837,  and  'The 
History  of  the  Parish  Registers  in  England,' 
1842,  both  by  J.  S.  Burn  ;  also  'Parish 
Registers  in  England,'  1883,  by  R.  E.  C- 
Waters.  The  history  of  'The  Mint,  Savoy, 
and  Mav  Fair  Marriages'  is  given  in  Cham- 
bers's '  fiook  of  Day.s,'  ii.  12U. 

EvERARD  Home  Coleman. 
71,  Brecknock  Road,  N.W. 

"Heardlome":  "Heech"  (10^''  S.  i.  29).— 
A  heard-lome  must  be  a  herd-loom.  Loom  was 
used  in  a  most  varied  manner  for  any  kind 
of  instrument  or  implement,  so  that  fierd- 
Iffttn  merely  means  "a  contrivance  for 
herding."    See  '  Loom '  in  '  H.E.D.' 

Jlea-h  I  take  to  be  a  variant  of  hilrfi,  with 
the  sense  of /<«rcAm.7,  explained  in  the  'Eng. 
Dial.  Diet.'  (which  see)  as  an  Oxfordshire 
word  meaniu;u;  "a  part  of  a  field  ploughed 
and  sown  during  the  year  in  which  the  rest 
of  the  field  lies  fallow." 

Walter  W.  Skeat, 
[Mu.  Koi.UK>  MacMicjuaei.  gives  cattle-pen  as 
the  meanini;  of  hcnnllomr,  and  refers  to  Jamiesoas 
•Diet.,'  «.i\  'Werklonie."    W.  C.  B.  suKneflta  that 


lome  may  be  /urn,  a  woody  valley,  and  ijuoles  from 
•E.U.D.,'*f.  'Loom   and  'Lum.'] 


the' 


Japane.se  Cards  (10^"  S.  i.  2»)  -^•'*'.°"ij 
work  on  Japan  with  which  I  am  ,*^,^"'""r; 
that  contains  an  account  of  Japanese  gumeH 
is  'The  Mikado's  Kmpiro,'  »)y  \^^->„  "."'^ 
but  the  account  is  meagre  ami  contu^oU  A 
set  of  facsimiles  of  the  pack  described  by 
Mr-  Platt  is  printed  in  tho  Tninmctiom  of 


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the  Asiatic  Society  of  Japan,  vol.  xix.  partiii.. 
October,  1801,  to  illostrate  a  paper  by  Majoi- 
General  H.  S.  Palmer  on  the  game  of  Uana 
Awase,  for  which  the  cards  are  made.  Another 
paper  on  the  (;auae  was  printed  at  Vokohaina 
in  1892  by  Mr.  C.  M.  Belshaw,  under  the  title 
of  '  Uana  Fuda,  the  Japanese  Flower  Game 

or  Eighty-Eight.'    The  rules  of  this  and 

other  Japaneiie  card  -  games  are  also  to  be 
found  in  '  Korean  Games,  with  Notes  on  the 
Corresponding  Games  of  China  and  Japan/ 
by  Stewart  Culin  (IMiiladelphia,  1895). 

F.  Jessei,. 

In  'ThingH  Japanese,'  by  Basil  Hall  Cham- 
berlain, 1890,  p.  21,  is  the  following  :  — 

"'  Ever  since  the  early  daj-a  of  foreign  intercourse 
they  have  likewise  had  certain  kinds  of  cards,  of 
which  the  hann-Qarula,  or  the  ' llower-cards,'  are 
Ihf  moat  iwpnlar  kind— so  jjopolar,  indeed,  and 
seductive  ttiat  tiiere  in  an  otticial  veto  on  playing 
the  game  for  money.  The  curds  are  forty-eight  in 
nunioer,  four  for  each  month  of  the  year,  the  month? 
being  distinguislied  by  the  (lowera  projH>r  to  them, 
and  an  extra  vakie  attached  to  one  out  of  each  set 
of  four  whicli  is  further  distinguished  by  a  bird  or 
butterfly,  and  to  a  second  which  is  inscribed  with  a 
line  of  i^ioolry.  Three  people  take  part  in  the  game, 
and  there  is  a  pool.  The  sj-stem  of  counting  is 
rather  complicated,  but  the  ideas  involved  are 
graceful." 

Prof.  Chamberlain,  at  the  end  of  his  article 
on  *  AmuHementa,' from  which  the  quotation 
is  taken,  refers  to  '  The  Games  and  Sports  of 
Japanese  Children,'  by  W.  E.  Grifii!?,  vol.  ii. 
of  the  Asiatic  Transactions.  L'nder  the  game 
*Go'  he  refers  to  the  6'tTwirtn  Astaiir  lianH' 
actions.  As  these  are  (or  I  should  suy  were 
in  1890.  and  I  pie-sume  are  still)  the  publica- 
tions of  two  scientific  .societi&s  in  Toky'),  I 
should  think  Mr,  Platt  will  find  full  in- 
formation in  them.  H,  J.  GiFKOKa 

Lor.KNzo  D.\  Pa  VIA  (9'"  S,  xii.  349.  .39S).— 
I  am  much  obliged  to  Mrs.  Adv  for  her  kind 
help,  but  as  she  has  not  given  rae  the  title  of 
the  book  I  have  not  yet  Ijeen  able  to  discover 
tlie  paasnge  I  am  in  search  of.  Tlie  entries 
under  San.-iovino  fill  seven  printed  columns 
m  tlie  British  Museum  Catalogue. 

L.  L.  K, 

SnAKESHBARE'.S     "  ViRTCE     OP     NECESSITY" 

(TO'"  S.  i.  8).^The  drift  of  Mn.  DodosoxV 
query  is  not  apparent  to  me,  but  tlie 
cn<leavour  to  twist  out  of  St.  Gregory's 
words  any  connexion  with  the  proverb  is  as 
needless  ns  it  is  fruitless.  For  the  phrase 
"faccre  do  necessitate  virtutem,"  letter  for 
letter,  was  current  about  a  century  and  a 
lialf  before  the  saint  was  born,  as  I  informed 
your  reatiers  twelve  years  ago  (8"'  S.  i.  94). 
To  the  examples  which  I  then  a<iduced  of  its 
employment  by  St.  Jerome  and  later  writers 


I  now  add  the  following  from  the  'Cent 
Xouvelles  Nouvellea'  (No.  36,  aitfi  .fin.): 
"  Force  est  quo  tu  faces  de  necessit«^  vertua.' 
The  phrase  appears  in  French  and  Italian 
collections  of  proverbs  published  in  the  six- 
teenth centur3',and  must  have  been  as  familiar 
to  Britons  of  the  period  as  to  their  continental 
neighbours,  F.  Ad.vms. 

Chaucer  may  be  cited  as  a  witness  to  the 
truth  of  Mk.  h.  S.  Dodgsox's  remark  that  "a 
similar  expression  is  probably  to  be  found  in 
many  books  written  between  the  time  of 
St.  Gregory  and  Bacon."  The  saying  occurs 
twice  in  the  famou.s  'Canterbury  Tales,'  In 
that  of  the  Knight  we  read,  "  Then  is  it  wis- 
dom, as  thenketh  me,  to  makcn  vertu  of 
necessitt' " ;  and  in  the  Squire's  talo  tho 
phrase  runs  "Than  I  umde  vertu  of  neces- 
site."  Shakespeare's  works  abound  in 
Chaucerian  quotations.  They  were  _  pro- 
)>ab] y  .sayings  in  common  use,  and,  to  judge 
by  St.  Gregory's  Epistle.s,  were  much  older 
than  tlie  time  of  eitiierpoet. 

EfLBAXOE  C.  Smyth. 

Harborne. 

Kino  EnnAR.s  Blazon  (O'*"  S.  xii.  247).— 
What  purports  to  be  the  coat  of  arms  of  King 
Edgar  appears  on  p.  1-47  of  '  Divi  Britannici : 
being  A  Ilemark  upon  the  Lives  of  all  the 
Kings  of  this  Isle  from  the  year  of  the  world 
28o:i  unto  the  year  of  grace  IGGO.'by  Sir  Win- 
ston Churchill,  Kt.  (London,  1675).  It  con- 
sists of  a  shieltl,  having  on  it  a  cross  and  a 
bird  in  each  angle  of  the  crass.  The  cross  is 
what  I  believe  is  called  a  "cross  fleury."  The 
shield  has  a  crown  above  it.  The  bird* 
look  to  the  left  ;  they  have  their  upper 
beaks  slightly  liooked,  and  tiieir  legs  have 
the  thighs  only.  I  regret  tliat  mv  ignorance 
of  heraldic  terms  obliges  rae  to  describe  the 
arms  as  I  have  done. 

The  same  coat  of  arms  is  attributed  to 
Edward  the  Elder  and  to  Ethelred  ;  also, 
with  the  addition  of  a  fifth  bird  under  the 
cros.s,  to  Edward  the  Confessor.  Eadred  has 
the  four  birds,  but  the  cross  is  a  cross  pattee. 

I  suppose  that  many  of  the  coats  oi  arras 
and  devices  given  by  Churchill  are  imugi- 
nary  :  rf/.,  lie  give'*  de^nces  to  Brute  (grand- 
son of  -Eneas),  Malmude,  Belin,  Ludbelinj 
Cassibejin,  Tubelin,  a.m.  2HJj-3y21,  ana 
other  kings  of  fabulous  history. 

UOBEKT   PlEKPOtST. 
Kt.  Austin's,  Warriugtou. 

"GOINO     THE     BOtXD":     "RoUKDHOUSE' 

(lO'*'  S.   i.  9).— Surely   the  most  reasonabl 
explanation  of  the   terra    irjumihnunf  for  » 
prison  is  that  round  towers  were  very  com- 
mon, anil  were  well  adapted  for  prisons.  The 


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I 


Hebrew  word  rendered  "prison"  in  Genesis 
xxxix.  20-23  and  xl.  3,  5,  is  literally  "  round- 
house." It  does  not  matter  in  the  least 
whether  the  writer  intended  to  imply  that 
the  buildinc;  was  circular  in  plan,  and  it  is 
impossible  for  us  to  know.  J.  T.  F. 

Winterlon,  Doncaater. 

Slekpiso  King  Akthu  b  (9"*  S.  xii.  602). — 
Scott,  in  his  appendix  to  the  general  preface 
to  the  Waverley  Novels,  tells  mucli  the 
same  story.  But  in  his  story  the  feat  is 
performed,  though  not  auccessfuUy,  and  the 
words  uttered  are  these  :  — 
Woe  to  the  coward  that  ever  bo  woa  born, 
Who  did  not  draw  the  Bword  before  he  blew  the 
horn. 

In  Scott's  narrative  the  Eildon  Hills  on 
the  Borders  are  the  scene  of  Arthur's 
enchanted  slumber ;  but  numerous  are  the 
places  in  which  he  is  supjjosed  to  lie.  Avilion 
18  generally  thought  to  be  his  resting  place. 
In  a  legend  mentioned  by  Gervase  of  Tubury 
it  is  said  that  King  Artliur  has  resided  in  a 
delicious  valley  near  Mount  Etna  ever  since 
his  supposed  death,  and  that  his  wounds 
break  out  afresh  every  year. 

E.  Yardley. 

Little  Wild  Street  Chapel,  Deury 
Laxe  (9*  S.  xi.  246).— Accoixling  to  the  vicar 
of  St.  Peter's.  Upper  HoUowaVj  the  Sterm 
Sermon  which  was  preached  m  this  old 
chapel  for  nearly  two  hundred  years  "  is  still 
annually  nrcacned,  and  was  nreached  on 
28  November  last  oy  the  llev.  H.  Bright  in 
the  Olympic  Theatre,  which  is  now  being 
aned  by  the  St.  Giles  Prison  Mission  during 
the  rebuilding  of  tlie  chapel  by  the  L,C.C." 
Frkokuiok  T.  Uibgame. 

"RKDBAa  TO  A  bull"  (9"*  S.  xii.  309).— 
People  in  this  part  Iwtlievo  that  tiie  red  flag 
faacinates,  they  do  not  say  enrages,  the  kamo- 
tkika,  the  only  antelope  indigenous  to  Japan. 
Hunters  curry  it  with  them,  and  spread  it 
before  the  animal,  so  as  to  6x  it«  attention 
«nd  steps  that  it  may  bo  shot. 

KlTMAiiUSU   MlNAKATA. 
Mount  Nachi,  Kii,  Japan. 

r  •'  '^.  xii.  4&4;  10«*  8.  i.  13).— At 

t)  ace  I  proposed  an  imaginary 

«ii^:iii  iM[  mis  word,  founded  (as  it  appears) 
on  lilsc  information.  I  am  thoreforo  glad  to 
find  that  it  was  promptly  knocked  on  tho 
head.  But  I  have  now  another  suggestion  to 
mak&  founded  on  the  fact  that  the  can:! 
callea  the y/^y/-  is  often  used  in  the  game,  for 
vrbicli  see  '  l^uchro*  and  Mukcc '  in  '  H  K  D,' 
I  think  it  likely  thiv 
A  joker.     Hexham  IX  _      a 


jester,  a  jeerer,  a  mocker,  a  floater" ;  so  that 
It  is  a  fairly  old  word  in  Duteh, 

The  probability  that  the  Du.  jo-  should 
have  be«n  rendered  by  E.  eu-  appears  from 
the  fact  that  the  Du.  jnfi'irmw  is  spelt  eujt/iroe 
in  English  ;  see  '  H.E.D.'  It  is  the  result  of 
our  "scholarship,"  which  teaches  us  Greek, 
but  not  Teutonic  The  Du.  jw-  is  turned  into 
Qk.  eti;  and  the  Du../f  and  kk  into  Gk.  pfi 
and  c/i.  It  is  a  triumph  of  **  learning  "  over 
practice  and  fact.  Waltee  VV.  Skeat, 


^isrcHaneous. 

NOTE.S  ON  BOOKS.  Ac. 
A  Jfitforj/  of  Thcafrical  Aft  in  Atitiettt  ami  Moflan 

Tiiiifi.    By  Karl  Manlzios.    Authorised  Trans- 

latiou  by  Louise  von  CoaseU.    Vols.  L  and  II. 

(Duckworth  ft  Co.) 
CsutRED  ill  by  au  introduction  by  ilr.  AA'LlIiaiii 
.■Vrcher.  this  history  of  theatrical  art  by  Dr. 
Mantziua  Ia  odu  of  llie  most  interesting  and  valu- 
able contributions  that  have  been  nkado  in  recent 
years  to  our  knowledge  of  an  important  and  a 
Btimulating  subject.  Unlike  almost  all  previous 
works,  it  is  a  history  neither  of  the  drama  nor  tho 
8ta(;e,  but  of  theatnc&l  representations.  The  Eng- 
lish work  most  closely  reseinbliiiK  it  is  '  The  Attic 
Theatre'  of  Mr.  A.  E.  MaiKh.  istjue^l  at  the  Claren- 
don Press  in  1889,  in  which  trie  use  of  some  of  the 
illustrations  now  employed  is  anticiriated.  .\s  is 
indicated  by  the  title,  the  book  of  >Ir.  Ilaiich  is 
confined  to  tho  Athenian  stage,  while  that  of  Dr. 
Mantxius  extends  beyond  the  limits  hitherto  recog- 
nized as  theatrical. 

That  the  origin  of  all  drama  is  religious  is 
conceded.  Not  contented  with  tracing  back 
to  the  Dionyaiac  cult— to  tho  sacrifice  of  the  he- 
goat  {troffos)  the  origin  of  tragedy-  and  to  the  rout 
(livm<}jt)  of  satyrs  and  iihypkaUoi  that  of  comedy— 
Dr.  Mant7.iuB  shows  the  development  of  tho  rfra- 
matic  idea  in  most  forms  of  iirimitive  culture.  It 
is  natural  that  he  should  have  been  to  some  extent 
anticii^tcvi  in  his  task  bYtierman  scholars.  He  is 
careful,  however,  to  acknowledge  the  extent  as 
well  as  the  nature  of  his  indebtedneas.  Nowhere, 
in  anything  approaching  to  tho  same  space,  can 
we  find  a  work  giving  in  a  form  bo  trnstwortliyi 
so  scientific,  and  at  the  same  time  so  popular,  au 
equal  amount  of  available  and  interesting  informa- 
tion. We  say  this  with  a  fall  knowledge  of  the 
encyclopaxlio  'Getchichte  des  Dramas'  of  J.  L. 
Klein,  a  work,  however,  as  widely  different  in  -  ••  ■  " 
as  it  is  more  elaborate  in  scheme  and  exc: 
Dr.  MantMus,  it  must  1m  premised,  is  a  I 
actor  ou  the  Co)>enba^n  stage,  and  is  one 
few  men  of  his  occui>ation  who  have  made  a  I 

contribution  to  the  history  of  his  profeasion      . 

of  our  best  dramatists,  from  .KschyluA  down- 
wards, have  been  actors.  Those  who.  like  Dr. 
Mantziua,  Devrient,  Colley  Cibljer.  and  Louis 
Hiccolioni,  have  added  to  serious  knowledge  may 
be  counted  on  the  fingers.  In  tho  two  volume* 
before  us  our  author  deals  with  tho  earliest  limes 
and  with  the  Middle  Ages  and  the  Renaisaance. 
A  third  volume— for  which,  it  i-  '  '  -  '  •  mI.  we 
shall  not  have  lonj;  t/i  wait- is  i '  i  li  llie 

()rama  of  ICngland  in  the  time  of  S-  \*- 


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tlO'k  S.  I.  Jas.  a.  19W- 


Arter  a  few  oi>eniD|;  paaaages  on  the  relation  of 
dramatic  art  to  other  arts,  Dr.  Mant/ius  jirocoeda 
to  find  in  the  artistic  iihenomeQa  of  primitive  tribes 
the  origin  of  theatrical  reprcRentatJona,  and  pointa 
out  analogiee  between  the  (•  reek  drama,  iioeticalaad 
perfect  in  form,  and  the  religioixs  festivals  of  the 
Indians  of  the  North-Wost  or  the  Melanesian  peo- 
ples. In  the  proceedings  of  the  secret  societies  of 
the  Polynesiaus,  aotably  in  the  Areoi,  he  finds  the 
oriRinal  ty  |)e  of  a  touring  con^iany  of  actors.  Thence 
he  passes  to  the  Chinese,  Jai^anese.  and  Indian 
theatres,  pointing  out  in  his  progress  that  in  Japan- 
ese art  the  ideal  representation  of  men  consists  in 
**  a  sharply  drawn  exaggeration."  When  we  come  to 
the  I  i  reek  stage  the  most  interesting  ])ortion  of  the 
author's  labours  is  reached,  albeit  it  is  that  in 
which  he  encounters  the  keenest  competition.  By 
the  air!  of  numerous  illustrations,  many  of  them  of 
great  beauty  and  value,  he  supplies  the  most  com- 
j)endious  and  illurainatory  account  of  his  subject  lo 
which  the  student  can  turn.  Keceat  discoveries 
concerning  the  acting  of  plays  in  the  orchestra 
instead  of  on  a  raised  stage  are  briefly  and  lucidly 
explained.  I'he  general  conatruction  of  the  stage  is 
shown,  and  Buggestive  conjecture  is  supplied  as  to 
the  suspension  of  thedftiM  tx  jnarhiija,  1  he  phallic 
nature  of  an  exhibition  is  depicted  in  the  illustra- 
tions. The  situation  of  the  8t>ectator8  and  many 
iuteresting  facts  cuncerning  points  such  ba  the 
renuiucratioD  of  the  actors  are  brought  forward. 
Neither  less  comprehensive  nor  leas  trustworthy 
is  the  account  of  the  liturgical  drama  and  the 
mediiL'val  stage  generally.  Kather  elaborate  de- 
scriptions of  the  scenic  phenomena  of  representa- 
tions of  the  ecctesiastical  drama  are  given.  We 
had  hiarkeci  fur  approving  comment  scores  of 
jjaesa^es,  but  our  limited  space  prohibits  our  deal- 
ing with  them.  NVe  can  but  add  that,  so  far  a?  it 
has  gone,  the  work  may  be  recommended  to  the 
student  as  the  handsomest,  most  trustworthy,  and 
moat  readable  to  which  he  can  turn. 

A  Xi'i-  Eiifflvh  Dliiiorian/  o>i  HiHfon>(U  Prhirij^en. 

Edited  by  Ur.  James  A.  H.  Murray.  — Outjet— 

Chi/at.  (Oxford,  Clarendon  I'ress.) 
Tjik  new  year's  instalment  of  the  preat  ilictiotiai-y 
consists  of  the  letter  0  from  Oiifj't  to  the  close. 
In  order  to  complete  the  letter  the  part  has  been 
enlarged  to  one  hundred  pages,  the  rectification  of 
the  excess  being  charged  to  forthcoming  issues. 
When  the  three  volumes  now  in  jjrogress  under  the 
resiHjctivc  charge  of  Dr.  Murray,  Dr.  15radIoy,  and 
Mr.  Craigie  are  complete  the  alphabet  from  its 
beKitniing  to  the  end  of  S  will  be  in  the  hands  of 
snoacribers.  Already,  in  the  species  of  folk-]ihrase 
it  is  our  wont  to  chronicle,  "the  back  is  broken'' 
of  the  task  undertaken.  The  old  rate  of  superiority 
over  previous  works  is,  naturally,  maintained,  and 
11, mi  illustrative  ijuotiitioiis  are  opposed  to  l.-MSi 
in  the  'Century  Dictionary,'  which  furnishes  the 
nearest  approach  to  rivalry. 

Very  nearly  the  first  quarter  of  the  instalment  is 
occnpied  with  the  completion  of  the  tompoimtl 
words  in  onJ,  many  of  which  have  high  interest, 
while  of  some,  as  is  stated,  the  history  la  now 
told  for  the  first  time.  Onfi'li/(/t.r  it  is  thus  shown 
was  anticipated  in  the  lQUKiia)»e  by  f^i'^V/'i',  of 
which  it  may  ho  in  part  an  alt'  i 

being,  in  the  'Howard  Houm 

associated  with  "  a  riompC'.'     J        ,- t 

with  goime  stones.'     OiUrii/i/ti,  nieanwliile,  is  not 
encountered  until   the  eighteenth  century.     Out- 


lanrltr,  probably  suggested  by  Dutch  uitlatidfv, 
ai)|:»ears  as  an  eouivalent  to  aiitti  in  Verstegan, 
IWJ5.  Very  vahmole  historical  information  is  sup- 
plied under  oullair  jinrl  oiiilairri/.  A  column  of 
si)ecial  interest  aud  imyiortanco  is  furnished  under 
the  latter  word.  L'nder  the  former  we  recall  dimly 
in  a  glee,  we  believe  by  liishop,  the  lines — 

The  farmer,  the  farmer,  may  sow, 

The  bold  outlaw  must  reap. 
We  are  not  assigning  any  philological  importance 
to  tills  iiuotation,  w  i".  i>  ■-  ..t|ly  of  the  last  centnrr. 
What  is  Kttid  under  ■  ouffrm-rU-i  is  spcciullv 

to  be  consulted.      '  . |>enditure  is  of  )7'.IH, 

while  ov'Ift     an  exit  iluti-s  back  to  \'2U\  and  oiit/int 
=line8  forming  a  contour   to    lfi62.    Kvelyn    bein£ 
rcsiionsible  for  ita  use.     OiUltnik  as  a  verb  is  earliec 
than  as  a  substantive.     Uoder  ohI numbrr  Keats'a 
"Post    kisses  to  outnumber"  ('Ode  to  P»«yche')i 
should  be  quoted  for  its  literary  value.    Out  of  is 
interesting  in  connexion  with  ij<  fo,  as  well  as  in 
such  forma  as  "  out  of  date,  '  "out  of  doors,"  "out 
of  the  way,"  &c.     Beaumont's  '  Psyche,'  1648,  iSj 
responsible  for  oiifpfay  in  its  customary  moderal 
sense.    OtUraijf  has  an  important  history.    Underi 
ouhviii-':    Dr.   Murray   naturally    brands  as  erro»j 
neouB  the  phrase  »f /'o»M-fi»c<.    <>»//»•/ -oxtravBgant 
has  the  authority  of  Fielding.     Ontrooper  was  at 
one  time  the  sftecific  name  of  the  common  crier  of 
the  City  of    London.      O'ltopaii    reaches   us  from_ 
South  Africa  in  \if2A.    OitiKpnttn  is  of  the  last  ceO'* 
tury.    The  combinations  of  ov<r  are  scarcely  lesSi 
numerous.     In  o<vW«r(i«' and  oi'trtakt  the  sense  of 
the  Oftr  is  said  lo  lie  difficult.     Words  with  this 
prefix  arc  not,  as  a  rule,  of  great  antiquitv.     Ovn-- 
fiotr  is  an  illustrious  exception,     Xot  before  have 
the  meaning  and  history  of  otrrilnuffli  been  given, 
though  the  word  has  been  in  the  language  for  one 
hundred  aud  thirty  years.     Much  that  ia  new  and 
valuable  will  be  found  under  overlutr.     Hem  espe- 
cially  under    the    verb,   sense  2.    relating    to    the 
supremo  Presbyterian  court.     Few  parts   of    the 
work   repay  study  better  than    the  various   uses 
of  oire  and'  own.     In  connexion  with  onf  nntl  o'ffct] 
the  reader  should  see  also  Onffflcuf,  the  Englisli 
etiuivalent  of  the  Cerman  EntentpieffeL    Among  th€_ 
various  scientific  and  other  words  in  ox  the  readorl 
will  do  well  to  note  the  word  oxlip,  of  which  thfti 
definition  and  history  are  alike  excellent.     On'V,! 
oj/ez,    and    oud^r    merit   cloee   attention.     Under . 
o:oktrit  we  would  fain  see,  though  wo  could  scarcely 
exjiect  to  find,  the  lines,  parodying  Tennyson,— 
When  bright  through  breadth  of  public  print6 
Flamed  that  great  word  ozokerit. 
O-.niif,  IHIO,  and  its  compounds,  all,  with  a  single 
oxcoi'tion,  later,  close  the  iinrt,  except  for  o:i/nf, 
an  illiterate  sinjlling  of  orfjcai. 

Memoir  of  Ttciijmnin    FravUin   Stfixiit.     lly  <^I. 

Mauville  Fenn.    (Printed  at  the  Chiswick  Press 

for  private  distribution  ) 
To  many  readers  of  *  N.&  Q.'  the  name  of  Benjamin 
Franklin  IStevens,  as  also  of  his  brother  Heory, 
may  be  familiar.    This  memoir  is  due,  a»  Mr.  Fet 
tosiities,  to  "much  long  and  psttent  autstance  il 
the  selection  of  jMipers"  by  the  executors,  CharU 
J.  Whittinghani  and  Henry  J.  Brown.    The  result 
must   be   to  them  an  ample  reward,    for  in  tiie 

{lages  we  have  a  perfect  record  of  .a  good  and  useful 
\in.     Mr.  Stevens,  born  on  the  iSHli  of  Febriiatyj 
1833,  was  the  tenth  of  eleven  children  of  Hour 
Stevens,  of  B&rnet,  Vermont,  who  was  "  one 


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thMe  Bttmly    linrH-^v^tUi".^    '^■rnctical,  self-tAUght 
menwho, III  '  those wliogathered 

ruutj<1  his  'i.  iiie  to  a  L-ertain  ex- 

tent the  niaj;i-ior hil  li-iutot  ot  liia  township."  Ho 
loved  bouki),  oollcctcil  and  read  them,  and  became 
well  known  as  the  founder  of  tho  Vormoitt  Historical 
Society.  Young  Stevens,  when  only  fourteeo,  left 
home  for  Albany,  where,  in  the  ottices  of  the  Secre- 
tary of  State,  he  copied  hintorical  maiiuacripta  for 
hia  father,  and  in  ]H5'2  obtained  an  official  appoint- 
ment there.  In  the  nieuntimc  his  brother  Henry, 
who  waa  fourteen  years  his  senior,  had  come  to 
London  in  184.1,  anil  had  become  a  purchoMr  of 
American  books  for  the  British  Museum,  with  the 
result  that  it  now  containa  a  more  extensive 
librai-y  of  Anicrioan  books  than  any  single  library 
in  the  United  States.  Franklin  nul]ied  him  in 
JiiB  ptirohasex,  and  in  1S'>H  became  ids  a^ent,  and  on 
the  yth  of  July.  l.StKJ,  joined  iiis  brother  in  Kn(;land, 
where  lie  shared  rooma  with  Mr.  Somerby  ;  and 
<;eorgo  I'eabody,  who  liked  their  society,  dined 
with  them  once  a  week,  making  a  point  of  adding 
to  his  contributions  to  the  dinner  a  duck,  which 
he  would  bring  hinisolf  ready  for  the  housekeeper 
to  prepare.  Upon  one  occasion  Peabody  quietly  put 
out  one  of  the  two  caiidlej*,  reniarkinK  that  one  was 
enough  with  which  to  set  to  talk.  It  was  during 
their  conimunion  that  the  rough  plan  of  the  famous 
Peabody  Trust  was  put  to  paper.  In  IWiO  .Stevens 
was  appointed  Disjiatch  .\Kent  of  the  Uniteil  States 
4'rovernment  at  London ;  and  in  1S67  "  the  tyranny 
of  business  was  sufficiently  relaxed"  to  allow  of 
hi.s  taking  his  wife— he  fad  married  Charlotte 
Whillinghani,  a  daughtor  of  Charles  Whittingham 
of  the  Chiswick  Press— to  visit  the  home  so  dear  to 
him  at  Vermont.  During  his  absence  not  a  week  had 
been  allow-ed  to  elapac  withont  a  letter  to  his  father 
or  mother.  Stevens  would  often  recall  <jnaint  inci- 
dents in  the  oUl  \'erniont  days  :  among  others  that 
*' inlhe  Scotch  church  at  Barnet  there  had  grown 
up  a  custom  for  the  whole  congregation  to  stand 
during  the  minister's  prayer,  and  as  such  extempore 
appeals  were  long  and  their  periods  well  known, 
a  tucit  arrangement  had  been  arrived  at  by  the 
hearers,  who  from  old  experience  provided  for  a 
time  of  rest.  No  signal  was  given,  but  at  one 
(tarticular  point  which  all  present  recognized,  it 
was  felt  that  the  moment  had  come  to  '  change  to 
the  other  foot,'  and  the  men  of  the  congregation— 
hearers  who  had  driven  in  from  a  distance  in  the 
country  — raised  ami  brought  down  the  butt  ends  of 
their  whips  upon  the  floor  M-ith  a  precision  and 
resonance  that  was  electrifying." 
lu  1S71  Stevens  had  to  take  dispatches  toMf.Wash- 
«rne.  the  United  States  minister  in  Paris,  then  in 
be  hands  of  the  Commune  and  being  besieged  by 
lacMahon.  When  near  the  Arc  de  Triompne  "a 
shell  came  whistling  towards  us,  and  exploded  in 
the  air  over  our  heads."  In  making  reference  to 
the  famous  Iwok  collections  of  the  Ur»ited  States, 
Ixilh  tiublic  and  private,  the  memoir  justly  states 
that  noumall  portion  of  ihe^o  have  reached  their 
present  and  abiding  destination  tlirough  tlie  agency 
in  Trafalgar  .Scjuare.    Prior  to  lS87  the  oidy  records 

of    ''-■     ■•■'■' '"X    of   such    works    were    the 

'^s In   1SH7,   however,   was 

il-knowQ  and  useful  work   of 
I  ■  liuuU-I'nces    Current/    and    a    careful 

'  a  of  the  volumes  will  reveal  how  large  a 

]  .,t  1 1,,,  -"Hlly  important  works  sohf  by 

..t   years  have  been  purchaaed 
I  un  Stevens."    He  died  on  the 


othof  Alarch,  1902,  after  a  long  illness  borno  with  the 
greatest  fortitude.  He  was  a  man  of  mo«ie<«t  nature 
and  simple  living,  and  it  has  been  well  said  of  him  : 
"Everybody  knew  him  as  a  sturdy  New  Knglander, 
one  of  the  most  lovable  men  that  ever  grip|»ed  the 
hand  and  said  '  God  spoed.' " 

At  the  end  of  the  volume  is  the  "  Introduction  to- 
the  Catalogue  Index  of  Mant»cripts  in  the  Archives 
of  England,  France.  Holland,  and  Siiain  relating  to 
America,  176.'$  to  \~><i.  compiled  in  1  hree  Divisions, 
in  each  of  which  all  of  the  lUl.OOtt  Documents 
enumerated  are  cited.  Compiled  by  Benjamin 
Franklin  Stevens  (of  Vermont)."  During  his  last 
few  months  ho  was  engaged  in  planning  the  final 
details  of  this  great  catalogue,  "and  in  giving  in- 
htruclions  as  to  arrangement,  title-pages,  bindinif, 
kc.  of  these  beaiitiful  manuscript  volumes,  moolly 
on  nond-inade  paper  bearing  his  own  watermark. 

"  As  to  arrangement,  it  is  in  three  divisions  :— 

"(1)  A  Catalogue  of  the  papers  in  the  order  in 
which  they  exist  in  the  various  archives  or  collec- 
tions.   This  forms  fifty  volumes. 

"('-2)  A  Chronological  arrangement  of  the  same, 
which  by  giving  to  each  document  a  jtti'rii  of 
contents  and  otnor  details,  is  extended  into  one 
hundred  volumes. 

"(.))  An  Alphabetical  index  to  the  same  by 
writers  and  receivers,  or  where  no  author  is  known, 
then  by  subject  matter,  in  thirty  volumes. 

"  The  binding,  according  to  his  express  M'ish,  is 
in  ftill  morocco,  a  ditTcront  colour  marking  tl>e 
three  sets. 

"  It  is  the  hope  of  hi.s  relatives  and  friends  at  tl>e 
time  this  memoir  is  written,  that  this  great  and 
uniiiue  work  will  eventually  find  its  place  in  one  of 
the  National  Institutions  of  the  United  -States." 

The  memoir  contains  excellent  i>orlraila  of  Mr. 
B.  V.  Stevens,  his  father,  his  mother  Candace,  and 
his  wife  Charlotte. 

Or.fofl  Miniatin-e  tklidon  of  Sl\(ikr>>ptarf.  Edited, 
with  a  <:io8sary,  by  VV.  J.  Craig,  M.A.  —  TA'? 
CottHilitu ;  Traatdtci ;  Jlixtovie*,  Poevi*,  and 
Sonihlt.  iFrowde.) 
Ix  throe  ravishing  little  volumes,  each  with  a 
different  {.vortrait  and  glossary,  and  each  on  Oxford 
India  paper,  we  have  the  "fJxford  Miniature 
Edition  of  .Shakespeare.''  It  is  a  delightful  antl 
moat  convenient  form  in  M'hicb  to  possess  the  com- 
plete works  of  the  greatest  of  writers.  The  Oxfortl 
Shakeepeare  on  India  paper  has  long  been  with  us 
a  chenshed  and  constantly  used  edition.  Tho 
present  is  even  more  attractive,  and  has  the  added 
value  of  portability.  It  is  equally  to  be  prized  as  a 
gift-book  and  a  ^wssession.  email  as  it  is,  the  text 
is  ]>erfoctly  legible.  The  get-up  is  specially  at- 
tractive. 

MiiiicUurr  Srrin  of  MiiMiciariH. — Mouirt.    By  Ebeo* 

ezer  Proul,  B.A.— Wot<mw/.    By  Henry  Tolburst. 

—BtHhorai.     By  J.  S.  Shodlock,   KA.-ArDnw 

Snllirnn.     By  H.  8axe  Wyndham.    (Bell  t  .Sons.) 

Messrs.  Bklx.  k  Sons  have  begun  a  "Miniature 

Series  of  Musicians,"  to  rank  with  u  similar  scries 

of  painters.     Like  the  old,  the   new  volumes  are 

trusted  to  writers  of  proclaimed  author! ly,  and» 

like  them,  they  are  graced  by  portrait*  and  other 

illustrations.     Opiwriuuities   for  illustration   are. 

naturally,  not  so  abundant  in  the  cose  of  musicians 

as  in  that  of  painters,  but  rare  prints  and  the  like 

are  abun<lantly  reproduced,  and  the  idea  on  whicli 

the   publication   is  based    and  tiv«  ftVss^iiiAlvfcso.  ••.x«» 


^p 


80 


NOTKS  AND  QUERIES. 


[W  S.  I.  Jav.  23. 1901. 


«qttftUy  tti  be  commended.    In  the  csae  of  Ciounod 
there  »re  wine  inlerestin^  facsiniiles. 

Thr    Clej(fu   Dinctoi'!/    and    Pariah    Onide,    IWi. 

iPhillipB.) 
Ik  duo  course  this  best  of  guides  to  the  cterKy  of 
the  Katabliahed  Church  m&Kes  its  afipearance.  It 
aupplieB,  as  before,  an  alpljabetical  list  of  the 
clergy,  with  their  iiualifications,  order,  apnoint- 
ineat,  &c. :  a  list  of  parisheB  and  parochial  dis- 
tricts; the  diocesan  and  cathedral  cstablLshmeats ; 
aud  other  kiadred  matter.  One  or  two  improve- 
ments in  an  indispenaable  volume  may  be  dia- 
oovored  by  the  careful  reader.  In  a  profoiiRed  use 
of  ti»e  work  we  have  not  come  upon  an  inaccuracy. 

\Vk  are  indebted  to  Mr.  Henry  Frowde,  of  the 
Oxford  Press,  for  one  of  the  hundred  copies  of  the 
presentation  edition  of  A  Chart  of  OxfoM  PruiJini/, 
1^JS-19U0,  with  notes  and  illustrations  by  Falconer 
ModaD.  Mr.  Madau  states  in  the  nrefucc  that  "  an 
attempt  has  been  made  in  this  book  to  exhibit  the 
fluctuations  iu  the  output  of  the  PriotinK  Press  at 
-Oxford,  and  to  illustrate  them  by  some  annals, 
notes,  and  lists.  A  pai)er  on  tins  sul)ject  was 
read  before  the  Oxford  Arciiitectural  and  Histori- 
cal Society  on  February  7,  188X,  aud  a  lecture  from 
notes  was  given  before  the  Bibliographical  Society 
on  October  2t),  1!*02  (see  the  newsRncet  of  the  latter 
Society  for  November,  IWG)."  Mr.  Frowde  invited 
him  to  reproduce  the  notes  and  a  manuscript  chart 
exhibited  at  the  lecture  in  the  Puiotlital  of 
December,  1902,  aud  the  Council  kindly  allowed 
this  to  be  done.  "At  Mr.  Frowde's  sugKCstion 
this  larger  chart  has  been  prepared.  The  whole  of 
the  statistics  have  been  com]>uted  afresh  for  the 
purpose,  and  almost  eveiything  in  the  book  now 
issued  is  new.'' 

The  first  book  printed  at  Oxford  is  given  as 
December  17,  14438,  but  at  the  foot  of  the  beautiful 
facsimile  of  its  first  |>Age  Mr.  Madan  |>uta  a  note 
of  interrogation  (1478?).  The  press  appears  to  have 
had  no  coniioxion  with  the  works  of  Caxton.  The 
first  book  printed  at  the  second  jiross  was  on 
December  4,  1517-  In  lo8j,  with  lOlV.  lent  by  the 
University,  Joseph  Barnes  commenced  priuting ; 
and  the  Oxford  Press  has  Ijeoa  in  cotitinuoua 
activity  ever  since.  In  16.10-7  the  University 
handed  over  to  the  Stationers'  Company  all  its  rights 
of  printing  Bibles,  Lily's  '(Jrammar,"  "&c.,  for  three 
years,  in  consideration  of  receiving  2(XV.  a  year. 
The  hrst  tyi»e-founding  at  Oxford  waa  about  1667. 
The  actual  founder  seems  to  have  been  Peter  Wal- 
pergen,  a  Dutchman  from  Batavia.  It  is  curious 
to  note  that  in  1673  many  of  the  compositors  wore 
Frenchmen,  of  whom  Gallot  was  one;  and  those 
seeking  to  know  "  Who  was  Junius?"  will  tind  that 
in  WTii  Francis  Junius  presented  (iothic.  Runic, 
"Icelandic,"  and  Anelo-oaxon  punches.  In  1003 
the  first  snecimens  of  type  published  in  England 
were  issued  from  the  Sheldoniun  Press.  In  1714-i.'> 
Thomas  Heame,  the  antiquary,  was  elected  Archi- 
typographus.  In  ISSO  the  present  Clarendon 
Press  was  opened,  and  in  1S36  the  first  cylinder 
printing  machine  introduced  and  the  first  steam 
engine  used.  In  184'2  tho  <»xford  India  pa]>er  was 
first  used  for  a  diamond  '.Mmo  Ujble.  In  iSJfOwas 
the  first  steteotyping  by  the  P^per  process,  electro- 
typing  following  in  1863  ltl8l  is  notable  as  the 
year  in  which  the  Revised  New  TestanienL  was  pub- 
lished. This  was  on  the  17lh  of  May,  imd  on  that 
day  t^iwards  of  a  million  Oxford  copies  wore  sold. 


It  is  related  in  '  Johti  Francis  and  the  Atbentoam  ' 
that  the  publication  took  place  in  New  York  three 
days  afterwards,  and  the  proprietors  of  the  Chicaijo 
Thw)  had  the  whole  telegraplicd  to  Chicago.  Aftier 
the  four  (iospels  had  been  telegraphed  a  copy  of 
the  work  was  received,  and  from  this  the  rest  was 
printed,  and  the  entire  Testament  appeared  in  the 
(Jhirago  Time^  of  the  22nd  of  Alay.  In  I.SSL'  the 
'New  English  Dictionary,'  estimated  to  make 
13,000  pages  in  ten  volumes,  was  beguu ;  nn  the 
H»th  of  May,  188j.  the  Revised  Version  of  the  Old 
Testament  was  published  ;  aud  in  1<K)0  the  seri< 
of  Oxford  Classical  Texts  was  commenced.  Th»' 
illustrations  include,  in  addition  to  the  Cliart,  the' 
first  Oxford  Sheet  Almanack.  M074.  facsimiles  of 
first  pages,  and  views. 


The  Deletgntes  of  the  Clarendon  Press  have  long 

contemplated  a  standard  edition  of  t)ie  completttj 
works  of  Ben  Jouson.     They  have  secured  the  co*T 
o()eration  of  Prof.  C.  H.  Hcrford  and  of  Mr.  Percy 
Simpson,  who  has  been  engaged  for  ten  years  or 
more  on  a  critical  examination  of  Jonson  n  text. 
The  forthcoming  edition  will  be  printed  uniformly 
with  the  editions  of  Kyd  aud  Lyly  recently  issueal 
from  Oxford,  and  will  probably  occupy  nine  8vo 
volumes.    We  wish  the  Delegates  could  see  their 
way  to  issue  an  edition  of  Beaumont  and  Fletcher, 
the  Tudor  dramatists  who  call  most  conspicuously 
for  republication. 


^otijcfs  lot  Corrtspoiibfuti. 

We   must  call  aptcM  attention  to  th«  foUowin 
nolicct  :— 

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

We  cannot  undertake  to  answer  queries  privately. 

To  secure    insertion    of   communications    corre- 
spondents must  observe  the  following  rules.     Let 
each  note,  query,  or  reply  be  written  ou  a  separate 
slip  of  paper,  with  the  signature  of  the  writer  anf 
such  address  as  he  wishes  to  appear.    When  answea 
ing  queries,  or  making  notes  with  regard  to  previ^n 
entries  in  the  |iaper,  contributors  are  requested  ta] 
put  in  parentheses,  immediately  after  the  exaoti 
heading,  the  series,  volume,  and  page  or  pages  to 
which    they    refer.      Correspondents    who   repeat 
queries   are    requested  to  head  the  second  com- 
munication "  Duplicate." 

R.  P.  H.  ("  Historical  and  Mnemonic  Rime").— 

"The  Romans  in  England  long  held  sway  "  is  given 

in  full  S'^  S.  V.  18.    It  is  by  John  Collins,  and  called 

The   Chapter   of   Kings.'     fcce  also    '  liislorical 

Rime,'  y  S.  xi.  209. 

S.  Smith  ("  Pathology  "). —Any  bookseller  will 
get  you  a  cheap  medical  dictionary. 
CxRVKULrH.— "  Difler  from  "  is  preferable. 

JVOT/CM. 

.  Editorial  communioations  should  be  addresaed 
to  I  he  fcditor  of  'Notes  and  Queries'"— Ad  ver- 
tjseraenis  and  Business  Letters  to  "The  Pub- 
LLn"  e'c''  *'^'^  ^^^^'  •'*"*'"'■  Bui'^iing*.  Chancery 
We  beg  leave  to  sUt«  that  we  decline  to  return 
communications  which,  for  any  reason,  we  do  not 
pnnt ;  and  to  this  rule  we  oaa  make  no  exccptioo 


10*  8. 1.  Jan.  23. 19W.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


» 


NOTES  AKD  QUKKIES.— The  SUBSCRIPTION 
m  riOTBB  >.«n  ULBUIiMlref  t>j  poit  Ji  lu>  ttf.  taratx  K«alkai 
oraCa.M.  rorTwelTo  Monlbi,  lnclaOInf  tba  Volnmc  (•4«s — lOKK  0. 
rEAJ<CU..V*«r<«i>rf(iMcrMiUili(*.  BrMiu  •  ti«ilaia(t,CMaMi7L*at. 

"  Bu«nliM  well  r<Mr  blooil.    He 

From  Jolia  of  0«iinc  aoch  briac  hu  |i«4Jrre«."— Siiuturr  lu. 

ANCESTRY,  English, Scotch,  Irish,  and  American, 
TUACBU  frnm  KTATB  BBOOaB*.  SpwiUltn :  Wert  of  BsKlend 
uul  Bniiirmic  iBiuilin  -Mr.  UETMXU^CPIIAM.  »,  Haldon  lioe^, 
Eieter,  ani)  J,  Vpham  Pu-k.  lUMd,  CbUwIek,  Loadaa.  W. 

PEDIGREES      And    ARMORIAL     BEARINGS. 
L.  Cl'LLBl'UN,  «,  riccadlUr,  Loadoa. 


[ERALDIC  ENGRAVING,  Book-Plates,  Seals, 
IHn,  Mote  Itptt.Ae.    Sptclml  uieatiaa  (iTta  lo  aecuncr  of 
ildlcdriatl. 
YUITING   CAJUD8:    Kngnrcd    Capper-plal*   tad  10   beil  qUlU} 

CULL£rruN'8.  K.  riKadUlr.  LOBdoB. 

AQBNCYPOK  AMBItlCAM  bOOIU. 

C''      P.    PUTNAM'S  SONS,    PUBLISHERS  and 
7m  HQUKSBLLSllS, 

at  !T  Md  5»,  Weit  S»rd  »)rMI,  M»«  Vork,  aail  «.  BBDPOUD  iSTBHrr, 
LONUUM,  W.C..  dMite  lo  ull  ue  atteatisa  of  the  UEAUINO 
fUBLIO  la  ta>  «««llcBt  Uclllilas  prewBKd  t>7  Ih«lr  Bntai'k  Hovh  la 
LeMoa  for  DlliBC,  aa  ttia  mm  liTOuribIc  ccrme.  order*  far  tkeir 
•VB  nANUAtlU  rUULICATIONa,  and  lor  AU.  AtLBKlCAK 
BOOKA 

Cauiofcaee  Mat  «a  applleaUaa. 

a^H  E         EDINBURGH        REVIEW. 
!4a«i7.  JANVABY.  6i. 

XK.  MOULBrA  LIFE  of  OLAOSTUNB. 
rOLK-LOHB  of  Hl'UA.N  LIFB. 
TBLEfHUMES  la  GUBAT  BBirAIN. 
T1i«  UUBE  la  WAH  aad  fKACB. 
BOUKBT  HKaSICK. 
FRANCISCAN  LITBRATVRE. 
The  TAUIIT  OOirraOVBRSY. 

SBW     mSCOVBItlBS    la     tb«    fORl'M    aad    tbe    ARCB.t:0 
LOGICAL  MOVBMBMr  at  BuMK. 

FABIBB  UFX  of  GAULEO- 

BOMB  ABPB0T8  Of  MUDBBH  OEOLOGT. 

JACOBITS  BOMOa. 

FlUa  TBAUB  aad  lb*  VNlO.NtST  PARTY. 


BOOKS.— ALL  OUT-OF-PRINT  BOOKS  sap- 
pUad,  aa  matter  oB  what  8eb|«eL  Ackaosledftd  ibr  world  arar 
aath*  Boctfiotrt  BoakSBderericuii.  Pl»ucii*ta  waai*.— t 
Sraat Booktbop, 14-11,  JokaBrlghtSlnet.  Blrailackam. 


q*HE    AUTHOR'S    HAIRLESS    PAPER -FAD. 

X     (Tk«  LBAUBMHALL  fBBSS.  Ltd..  rahUikanaad  malen. 

SO,  Laadaaball  Stroct.  Landoo,  M-il  > 
CoatalDi  halrleM  paptr,  orer  itlileh  the   pea  ellpe  with  |«rfeal 
freedom.    Slzpcooa  each.    5i.  per  doua,  rated  or  pUia.    New  Pookat 
Rite.  Ii  per  doira.  ralad  or  plala 

ABtbon  eboBld  sou  that  Tbe  Leaaaataall  free*,  Ltd..  caaaat  M 
rcapoaelble  tor  Uie  loe*  of  IU8.  t>  Ira  or  ockerwlta.  I>apU«ai«  coplti 
ahoald  Im  relalead. 


STICK PH AST  PASTE  la  miles  better  than  Gam 
tar  atkelOat  ia  Heiapa,  lainlaiE  fapere,  Ae.     id  .Cd.,  aad  li.  with 
atroac. uaafal  HraabiaotaTor).     ij>ena  ;<•(>  •uinpe  vo  cover  poeiafe 
iClBdlai  liraeii       Factor;,  hoor  Loaf  Coin, 
Uf  all  SlaUaaeri.    Ukckpbaat  raateeUcki. 


tor  a 


i.BTTKas  of  TOBY  and 
Lilklaer.— Tka  •  UlflCOVltfl 
JdJlAL.    Br  0. 0.  Wbceler. 


ample  Bottle,  laeladlai  nraaii 
kallBlnaV.  ac.       ~ 


qniE       ENGLISH       HISTORICAL      REVIEW. 

A.  Bdllad  bf  KBOINALO  I,    rOOt.B.  SI. A.   Vtk.Xt, 

rellew  «t  Mafdalaa  Ooll«ire  and  l,«cturer  la  Ulptomatlo  Ui  tiM 
Calvenlt}  ot  titlard. 
Xdrhr.  JAKLAKV.    rrlce  Gi. 

Tte    m  IX:H   on  tha  AMAXON   and  MBUKU    In    the   SBVBM- 
TKIMTtl    CBNtURY.      8t    Ibe    IUt.    Geone   Bdnmadaoa 
fart  111. 
CLAHENDON'H    ■  HISTOBY    el    tbe   BEBBLUOM,'      Br   C.    U. 

rirtk.  Uul).    Pan  I. 
Tba  NORTHBKX  (iUBSTION  IB  KIA,    Bi  J.  T   Cbaaoe.    Pan  It. 
TUaOUURB  MOMM8BN.    Uj  T.  Uafarflel4. 

Tbe  OFPICKKS  af  BUWAKI)  the  (.'iiNFasSOR.    Br  J.  I|.  Kouad. 
— BtitnOP  HOOPBH'S   >  ,       'V    of   OLOUCBBTBB.  lj.'.l. 

Br   Jamea  Oalrdaer. 
jiMK8  HONNBLL     !• 

POLITIUlH-  ATTEIUL  l: 

—Aad  olAera^ 
tt  tj  Beoti.  XUictt  tfP*ria4ttal  AtMuMiMem, 

LUNOMANH.  GKBKM  *  CO. 
London,   New    York,  and  Beabajr. 

TENTH  KUtTlOD.  prtea  Mipeaea.  eiatb. 

•  EMARKABLK  COMETS  :  a  Brief  Burvey  of  the 

\>    meet  lalareeuac  PaeU  la  Ibe  Hietory  ot  Cosaurr  Aatroaoaaf 
f»J  W.  T.  LYNN,  B.A.  P.li.A8. 

SAMPeoM  LO  V  a  CO.  St.  Daaetaa'*  Uaua.  Wtter  Lane,  B  C. 

NOW  K1U1>Y,  TUIB1>  BUtTtON,  KISVItiBU  aad   RMLaUOBU. 

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OBUHOB  OKBGOUy,  Itooknl.ar.  Hath, 

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CONTENTS.-No.  5. 

NOIBS  :  -BlbltoKrapby  nf  Publishing  Kticl  fioolueUlnf.  M 
-The  Trei«iri.y  B»li«d,  M-IrUb-prioted  PUys,  W-»The 
Fotiut)»  ThMtre  In  1<V4&— Curioui  Inscription— Purlieu : 
Bon -rake  :  Biick-lesp,  b6— Hnllcv'i  Comet,  8«. 

QUBItlKS: -French  Miniature  I'alntcr  -  Crahbe  Biblio- 
graphy —  Robert  Cattiby  —  Romui  Lsnx  —  Roman  and 
Cbrl«iian  Cbronolojjy,  M— "  Firte.  itA  cul  vide" — llowanl 
Anil  Dr;<len  Famillei— Bpltaph  on  Sir  John  Svymour— 
But  BaMlu— William  Hartley  —  "  Down,  little  flutturei !  " 
-Thompton  of  Boui^btoii— John  Lewis,  Portrait  Pafnt«r 
-Henrietta  M.  U.  SmytblcA— Dutcb  Fiihermen  in  BiHtnb 
iTatcn,  8* — Batrtmie— Addlsoti'a  Daugliter— Mc«iaU  "  au 
aled  do  isangller"— "  Commliiion  "— "  P.  P.,  Clerk  of  tbc 
Parish."  8». 
.JPLJBj:— Ooml.<>r  K<Tn(ly  -St.  Mary  Axe:  S».  Michael 
.le  yueruB,  B(*-Pronun<tliillnn  of  K«rHljcb— Mary.  Queen 
of  bc-its.  Bv— Tiiieswell  and  Tirieslnw,  Ol— •  0.\ffr.l  Uolver- 
•Ity  Calendar '— "'  Meynes  "  aihI  "  Rbioi'i  •"— ■•  Chaperoned 
by  h>w  father."  yS—Wi'ikt- Country  Fair— Capl.  Death— 
Hol'KoMUi's  Claws  — "Ci'llectioner,"  91  — "Ai  merry  at 
Orlitcs"  —  Grammar;    Nine  Purls  of  Speech  — Veto  at 

iJPapal  Blectlont    ~  Field-name*,   West  Haddon,  M— The 

F"Wykehttmical  Wor<l  "Toys"  —  Sadler*  Wells  PUy — 
Ktchanl  Hash,  S14  —  Pecirtib-Kous  or  Bowse  Family  — 
••C>>"«tBnlwie  Pthbte" — Krror  iu  'Pollphili  FlypDeroto- 
macbia'— Cardlgau  a*  a  Sarnanie— Salep  or  SaIo(S  97 — 
"  Ln»t.  In  n  cnnvBiit's  solitary  ({Uioni  "—Blrcb-sap  Wine.  93. 

NOTKS  ON  BOOKS  -Sctitt'i-AdmUsions  to  tijr  College 
of  St..  John  the  KiangrlUl,  Cambriilge'— lliitohlnson's 
'Songs  of  the  Vine '—Stroud 'a  'Judicial  Dictionary  of 
Wonts  and  Pbr«i«i'— 'Poems  of  Ixird  de  Tabley' — ^Ber- 
nard'o  '  Cathedral  Cboreh  of  St.  Patrick '— Tboyts's  ■  How 
to  Deolpber  Old  D  «uinenti '  —  '  RecorJ  uf  the  I'pper 
ITorwnod  AtbeniFUro.' 

Notices  to  Correspondents, 


I 
I 


BIBLIOGRAPHY   OF   PUBLISHING  AND 
BOO  K«  FILLING. 

*'/»  llitut  dayt,  till  onliiiari/  huloriex  of  kiugx 
<ind  couri-iffM  were  tct/t  exchauytil  auainxt  ihr.  if  nth 
pari  of  one  gooil  Hii^ory  of  Book's*:Uern."'-i2tix\'^\t, 
Review  of  BobwoU'b  'Johnwjn,'  Frant.rn  Mnun.-,m(, 
No.  'is  ('  Essays,'  Poojilo's  Edition,  voL  iv.  p.  H4). 

In  the  following  contrlbutioti  towards  the 
Bibliography  of  Publishing  and  Bookselling, 
mainly  referring  to  Great  Britain  and  the 
Uaiteid  States  of  America,  it  ha-s  been  my 
intention  to  enumerate  those  books,  <fec.,  that 
deal  solely  or  mainly  with  the  subjects  of  pub- 
lishing and  bookselling,  and  not  to  include 
works  on  literary  history  or  memoirs.  The 
three  principal  exceptions  are  also  the  three 
greatest  works  of  their  kln<i  in  the  language 
— Boswell's  '  Johnson,'  Lockhart's  '  Scott,'  and 
Trevelyan's  '  Macaulay.' 
■  In  each  of  these  such  a  considerable  space 
is  occupied  by  the  transactions  with,  or  rela- 
tions between,  authors  and  publishers,  that 
thev  n>ay  fairly  claim  a  place  in  any  list  of 
booKH  dealing  with  the  history  of  what  Tal- 
fourd  calls  "the  Great  Trade."*  There  is, 
however,  hardly  any  work  of  literary  bio- 
graphy, from  Gibbon's  '  Autobiography '  to 

*  '  Finftl  Memoriala  of  Charles  Lamb '  (new  edit., 
1850),  p.  179. 


*  The  Life  of  Mra.  Oliphant,'  that  will  not 

f[ield  material  bearing  on  the  subject  of  pub- 
ishers  and  publishing. 

The  largest  collection  of  books  devoted  to 
the  subjects  of  book-producing  and  book- 
selling in  all  its  fnany  branches  will  be 
found  in  the  library  of  the  Borsenverein  der 
Deut^chen  Buchhiindler  at  Leipzig.  The 
catalogue  of  this  library  is  in  2  vols.  (Vol.  I., 
1885 ;  Vol  IL,  19*32),  and  contains  several 
thousands  of  titl&s  ot  works  in  all  languages. 
I  am  considerably  indebted  to  this  catalogue, 
although  I  had  nearly  finished  my  list  before 
I  had  the  opportunity  of  consulting  it. 

Works  on  printing  and  the  production  of 
books  are  only  noted  when  they  contain 
matter  bearing  incidentally  on  publishing 
or  Ixwkselling.  Works  on  copyright,  book- 
collecting,  and  the  sport  of  bocuc-huQliDg 
are  not  included  systematically. 

Works  dealing  with  the  freedom  of  thepress, 
actions  for  libel,  or  prosecutions  for  pub- 
lishing blasphemous  or  seditious  books  are 
not  systematical Ij^  included.  They  form  a 
very  large  section  in  the  Leipzig  catalogue. 

A  'Bibliography  of  Journalism  and  its 
History,'  by  Mr.  IJ.  Williams,  will  be  found 
in  Mitchell's  'Press  Directory'  for  1903. 

The  'D.N.B.'  is  cited,  as  it  contains  much 
material,  with  references  to  authorities, 
under  the  names  of  booksellers  and  pub- 
lishers who  are  not  the  subject  of  separate 
volutnes.  A  list  of  these  names  may  perhaps 
one  day  be  compiled.  With  three  exceptions, 
other  biographical  dictionaries  are  not  noted. 
Ackermann,  Edward.— A  Bookseller  by  Choice. 
(The  Bookaeller  and  Newamau.)  Seiitember, 
1S99,  New  York. 
Aldine  Magazine,  The.  1838. 

Wllllnin  West  (j.r.)  coutTitiute<l  a  series  ot  artk-li-s  ui\  old 
I  Kx  ik»<l  lom. 

Allen,  C.   E.  —  Publishers'  AocounU,   including  a 
ConaideratioD  of  Copyright.   8va,  LuiidoH,  1897. 
Almon,  John,  1737-1H05.— Metnoirsof  John  Almon, 
BookBeller,  of  Piccadilly.    8vo,  Louduii,  1700 
Famous  ns  John  '\S'ilkes's  publUlier. 

Ames,  Joseph,  1689-1758.— TvpKjgraphJcal  Araiqui- 
tics,  being  an  Historical  Account  of  Printing  in 
England,  Memoirs  of  the  Ancieul  Printers,  and 
a  Rejriftter  of  Ro'jka  printed  by  them  from  1471 
to  1600.  4to,  London,  1749. 
See  Lo«rnd«». 

Atnory,  Thomas.  1601  ?- 1788.— Life  of  John  Buncle, 
Esq.,  1756  6U. 
Aniori,'  WB,?  a  U-w.kMiller  In  Lnndnn  anil  Dublin.     '  John 
Bunclo'^  contains  fmguicuts  uf  autobiogrnpby,  n  cliaractor 
of  Bdtuiind  Curl  I.  Ac. 

Andrews,  W.  L.— The  Old  Book-wllers  of  >fpw 
York  (.lolm  Brudburn,  Joaepb  tSabin,  William 
GowAns).  .„«... 

8c«  the  J'nttiuUrt'  W<fMu  (Now  York),  vol.  alia.  No.  10; 
vol.  xlvlll.  No.  20i  vol.  xlv'il.  No.  16. 

Annuals.  „  _      ....»,    i   ,. 

8m>  -The  Annuals  of  Former  Day*    III  tbc  ItovkHtlir, 
20  Novcmlicr  aikd  IH  IXvcinlH-*-,  IftoS, 


9 

82 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[lO"  S.  I.  Jan.  30, 1904. 


Appleton's  Cyclopiedia  of  American  Biography. 
6  vols..  Now  York,  1887-9. 

Arber,  Edwani.  — List  of  London  Publiahera,  1533- 
1G40.    8vo,  London,  1889. 
Anfl  »co  '  C»t»lojfuc-4 '  ami  '  SI »tioner»' Company.' 

Arohieologia,  vol.  xxix.  p.  101.— Copies  of  OriRiual 
Pa|:cra  illustrative  of  tho  Manai^ement  of  Lit«ra- 
ture  by  l'rint«rs  anil  Stationers  in  the  Middle 
of  tho"  Reign  of  Queen  Elizabeth.  CVunmuni. 
cated  by  (Sir)  Hoory  Ellis.    4to,  London,  ISai. 

Athpnseuir),  The,  publishe<l  weekly,  1829 — 
S<w  tlin.iiiK!i':"-it  fcr  oMtaar>'  notices,  ie. 

Author,  The,  published  monthly,  1890— 

Authors  and  Publishers a  Degcription  of  Pub- 
lishing Methods  and  Arrangonienta.  Fourth 
Edition.     New  York,  1855. 

Bagster.— A  Century  of  Publiahing:  a  Chat  with 
Mr.  Robert  Bagster.  With  lUustrationa  and 
3  Portraits.— St.  James's  Budget,  27  April,  1891. 
Bagster,  The,  Publishing  House  :  Centenary 
of  the  Ba^ator  Publishing  Mouse,  established 
19  April,  1794.    Crown  8vo,  London,  ISM. 

Ballantync,  House  of. 

Sco  LocUhart'.s  ■  .Scott,"  pmiJtur. 

A  Refutation  of  the  Miastatcmenta  and 
Calumnies  contained  in  Mr.  Lockharl's  Life  of 
8ir  Walter  Scott  respecting  the  Messrs.  (James 
and  John)  Balliintyno.  By  the  Trustees  and 
Son  of  the  late  James  Ballantyne.  8vo,  Loudon, 
1838. 

The  Ballantyne  Humbug  Handled.  By  John 
Gibson  Locklmrt.    8vo,  Edinburgh,  1S,39. 

Reply  to  Mr.  Lockhart's  Pamphlet  entitled 
'The  Ballantyne   Humbug  Handled.'    By  the 
Authors  of  'A  Refutation  of  the  Misstatementa 
and  Calumnies,'  &c     8vo.  London,  1838. 
"Mr.  J.  H.  KutherfoH,  iKXikftcllcr  of  Kolso,  who  rtlwt  In 
No%'cinbor,  ISKW,  axrol  ciglity-four.   mudo  a  upofl*]  stuijy 
Of   the    Loektiart-BuUnntvm^   pontrovt-rBV.     I    have  often 
wishorl  tliat  lit"  linri  iiuMUli^il  his  i^oneluiions." — '  Rnuibling 
Boranrks,'  hy  W.  Robertson  Nicoll,  i?riU»A  WtMy,  ft  Nov., 
1P03. 
And  BOO  t.n.  Foannan  (W.). 

History  of  the  Ballantyne  Press.  4to,  Edia- 
burgh,  1871. 
Beotley,  House  of.— Some  Leaves  from  the  Past. 
Swept  together  by  R.  B.  With  11  Portraits 
and  other  Illustrations.  8vo>  privately  printed, 
1896. 
With  references  to  oriRiiiBl  authoritlPii. 

Richard  Bentley  and  Son.  By  Ernest  Ches- 
neau.  Reprinted  from  'LuLivre'of  October, 
1885.  With  some  additional  Notes.  With  3 
Illustrations.  Privately  ikrinted.  royal  8vo. 
1880. 

Richard  Bcutley.  179*  1871.— The  BooksoUer 
(p.  811).  Ib7l. 
Bent's  Literary  Advertiser.  1802-60. 
Sc«  lliroii(fhout  for  obituary  notici-f,  4c. 

Berjeau.  Jean  Philil>ert.— The  Book-worm :  a  Lite- 
rary   anfl    llibliosraphical    Review.     5    vols 
London.  ]8(J«-71.  * 

Besaut,  Sir  Waller  —The  Pen  and  the  Book.    8vo 
London.  181K).  ' 

Literary    Hsndmaid    of     tho    Church    (ilie 
S.P.C.K.).    Crown  8vo,  London,  1890. 
And  aeo  Iho  volumes  ol  tdo  .'Jti<A.:ir,  18(0— 

Bibliogrnpher.  The,  a  Journal  of  Book-Ioro.  Edited 
by    Ilonry    B.    \V  hcatley,      5    vobi.,    London, 

8cc  luiituMtUroughoiit. 


Bingley,    William,    1738-1799. 
Bingley,  Bookseller. 


Bibliographica.    3  vols.  4to,  London,  l.y95-7. 

An  Elizabethan  Bookseller  (Ldwanj  Blount, 
15W-?).     By  Sidney  Ue.     Vol.  i,  p.  474. 

Two  References  to  the  English  Book-lrado, 
cirra  1.525.     Vol.  i.  p.  'iffl 

Tho  Booksellers  at  tho  Sign  of  the  Trinity. 
By  E.  Gordon  Duff.     Vol.  i.  p.  93,  p.  175. 

English  Book-salos,  1670-llJSO.  By  A-  W. 
Pollard.    Vol.  i.  p.  373. 

The  Long  Shop  in  the  Poaltry,  By  H.  J. 
Plomer.     vol.  ii.  p,  (Jl. 

The  Early  lulian  Book-trade.  By  K. 
Gamett.    Vol.  iii.  p.  29. 

Bibliophobia :  Remarks  on  the  Present  Languid 
and  Depressed  State  of  Literature  aitd  the 
Book-trade.  In  a  letter  addressed  to  the  author 
of  the  '  Bibliumauia.'  By  Mercurios  Rusticus. 
With  Notes  by  Cato  Parvus.    London,  1S3'.'. 

(Uigg,  James.)— The  Bookselling  System,  a  letter  to 
Lord  Campbell  respecting  the  late  inquiry  into 
the  regulations  of  the  Booksellers'  Association 
in   reference  to  the   causes  which   led    to  ita 

dissolution and  the  conset^uences  to  author* 

likely  to  result  from  unrestnoted  competition 
in  the  sale  of  new  works.  By  a  Retired  Book- 
seller.   Westminster,  ISo'i 

-A  Sketch   of  W. 
With  Portrait  and  a  Pro- 
spectus of  his  Proposed  Renrint  of  Nos.  l-4ft 
of  the  'North  Briton.'    London.  1793. 

The  New  Plain  Dealer;  or,  \Vill  Freeman's 
Budget,  1791-94. 
Contain!)  autoliioKinphicAl  (1ctNll«> 

Black.  Adam,  1784-1874.— Memoirs  of  Adam  Black. 
Edited  by  Alexander  Nieolson,  LL.D.  With 
Portrait.  Second  Edition.  Crown  Svo,  Edin- 
burgh, 1885. 

Blackie,  W.  G.— Origin  and  Progress  of  the  Firm  of 
Blaokie  &  Son,  I8tl9  1874.    Svo,  London,  1S97. 

Blackwood,  House  of.— Annals  of  a  Publishinjf 
House :  William  Blackwood  and  his  Sous, 
their  Magazine  and  Friends,  By  Mrs.  Olijihant. 
With  4  Poitraila.  Vols.  I.  and  IL  8vo,  Edin- 
.  1897. 

Vol.  III.  John  Blackwoo<L  By  his  Daughter, 
Mrs.  Gerald  Porter.  With  2  Portraits.  Svo, 
Edinburgh,  1S9S. 

The  Bookseller,  2G  June,  27  August^  26  Sep* 
tembcr,  18G0. 

The  Critic.  7  July,  I860,  an  1    '  ressivo 

weeks— a  series  of  articles  by  1  -l-. 

Tho  Bookman,  special  artich  riraits, 

Ac.     November,  1901. 

Blackwood's  Magazine. —  A  Letter  to  Mr. 
John  Murray,  occasioned  by  his  having  under- 
taken the  publication  in  London  of  'Black- 
wood 9  Magazine.'     1818. 

Correspondence  on    the  Subject  of 
wo<id'«  Magazine.'    ?  1818. 
Bohn,  Henry  George,  1796-1881.-  T 
1884  :  Athcnaum,  30  AwgiiBt,  i 
S'-'ftcmbcr,  1SS4  ;  Bibliographi  i 

^^^  **  April,  l»a:  «u(1  Lawl«r'»  •Bo<ik 

Book  The,  of  EoKliHh  Tmdea :  the  Bookbinder. 
L?i"^''A''""'.  ^^e  Printer,  4c.  New  Edition, 
W2A        Q^^^'-'o"'  ^or  Stttdouta.  12mo,  London^ 


bur^h, 


>Bltu:k. 


-t. 


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83 


Bookkeeping.  A  Manaal  of,  for  Booksellers,  Pub- 
liehers,  and  Stationers,  on  the  priuciule  of 
Single,  converted  periodically  into  Double 
Entry.     By  a  Bookseller.    8vo,  London,  ISoO. 

Book-lore ;  a  MngaxiDc  devoted  to  Old-Tjine  Litera- 
ture.   4  vole.,  London,  1884-6. 
Be*  Imlf^es  Jhromjlunit. 

'Bookman,'  The,  Directory  of  Rookaeliora,  Pub- 
lishers, and  Authors.    4to,  London,  1893. 

Book-Prices  Current.  Being  a  Record  of  the  Prices 
at  which  Books  have  been  sold  at  Auction,  the 
Titles  and  Descriptions  in  Full,  the  Names  of 
the  Purcha.«era,  kc.  Vols.  L  to  XVIL  8vo, 
London,  1887-190.3. 

Index  to  the  First  Ten  Volames  of  Book- 
Prices  Current  (1887-1896).  Constituting  a 
Reference  List  of  Subjects  and,  incidentally,  a 
Key  to  Auonyn)ou3  and  Pseudonymous  Litera- 
ture.   Svo,  London,  1897. 

Bksoller,  The,  1S5S-  ,       „    .„ ,    , 

'if.    Mr.  Wiltaker, 
'•■iihivo  eolItictUm  of 

Ufa.  Ac,  relalluft  to 

ilio  irii'!'.-  "l  111'    Mviiiii  ciitii,  t'ij;iiicriilh,  aiid  uini'tcoiitli 

centuries. 

Booksellers'  Association.     1SS2. 

See  l^htiihert'  Circular,  15  April  and  1  Juno,  lSo2 ;  also 
Ji.ii.  3.  W.  Piirker  au<l  Jolui  Cbapinjui, 
BookBelling.— The  (Jovemnient  Bookselling  Ques- 
tion.     Memorial    to    the    Chancellor    of    the 

Exchcouer    on with    Corresjioudence    and 

Remarks.    Svo,  London,  1853. 

On    the    Pablication    of    School  -  books   by 
Government  at  the  Public  Expense :  a  Corre- 
spondence   with    Lord    John    Russell.     Svo, 
London,  ISoI. 
Bookselling   Question,    The    [i.e..    Underselling]  : 

Additional  Letters.    Svo,  London,  1852, 
Book-trade    Association  (Baltimore,   U.S).     Con- 
stitution and  By-Laws.    lUmo,  Baltimore,  U.S. 

{im.) 

Boston.— Early  Boston  (U.S.)  Bookaellera,  l(M2-171l 
(ClubofOddVolumea).  Svo,  Boston  (U.S.).  1U'.)0. 
Boawell,  James,  1740-95.— The  Life  of  Samuel  John- 
son, LL.D. 
Seo  IhruURbout. 

Bonchot,  Henry.— The  Book:  its  Printers,  Illus- 
trators, and  Binders,  from  Uoienberg  to  the 
Present  Time.  With  a  Treatise  on  the  Art  of 
collecting  and  describing  Early  Printed  Bfxjke, 
and  a  T^Atin- English  and   Rngliah-Latin  Topo 


Brotherhead,  W.— Forty  Years  among  the  Book> 
sellers  of  Philadelphia,    Svo,  Philadelphia,  1,S91. 

Brown,   Horatio  R.   F.,  I8.^1903.-The  Venetian 
Printing  Press ;     an    Historical    Study.     4to, 
London,  1891. 
CodIaIds  covcrU  chapters  on  the  iKwk-tnulc  of  Venice,  tlto 

Ums  o(  cnpyrlgUi,  Ac., during  the  ilxtcoutli  nuct  scvt'iilccndi 

ocnturiM. 

Wm.  H.  Peet. 
{To  be  continued.) 


The 


THE  TRELAWNY    BALLAD, 
origin   of    this    ballad   h&a    recently 


numerous  Borders,  Initials,  Head  and  Tail 
Pieces,  and  a  Frontispiece.  Royal  Svo,  London, 
1890. 

Bowos,  Rol)ert— Biographical  Notes  on  the  Printers 
......in  Cunibridiie.  A  lieprint  from  the  Cam- 
bridge Anli(iu(\rian  .Society's  Communicatiou?, 
Vol.  V.  No.  4.  (Privatelyprinted.)  Cambridge, 
1886. 

Britton.Joli  '"'  '  '7.— The  Rights  of  Literature; 
or.  an    I  »  the  Poli<^y  and  Juatico  of 

the  Clin  iiiii  Public  Librttrios  on  all  the 

PnblishcMMiii  Authors  of  the  United  Kingdom, 
for  Eleven  Copies,  nn  the  Best  Paj)cr,  of  every 
V       "      '      •  ^        London.  1814. 

:  •!  Uj  t)ii«  nsluction  of  Uic 
u  (' DJi.n.'). 


formefl  a  subject  of  discussion  in  the  Time«. 
The  point  at  issue  wag  whether  the  ballad 
was  altogether  Hawker'B,  or  whether  he 
worked  on  sotne  traditional  verses.  Several 
years  ago  I  gave  a  summary  in  the.se  columns 
of  the  question  as  it  stootl  at  the  date  of 
writing  (7""  S.  X.  264),  but  as  the  corre- 
spondents of  the  Time*  had  evidently  not 
consulted  *  N".  «fe  Q.,'  and  some  information  of 
considerable  value  has  since  been  brought  to 
notice,  I  will,  at  the  risk  of  repetition,  ask 
the  Editor's  permission  to  place  on  record 
the  indisputable  facts  of  the  case,  so  far  as 
the\'  are  known  at  present. 

The  poem  made  its  first  appearance  in  the 
Hot/a  I  Devonjiort  Tdegixtph  and  Pbjmouth 
Cfironicle  for  2  September,  1826.  and  was 
beaded,  "Ballad  written  at  the  time  one  of 
the  Trelawny  family  was  committed  to  the 
Tower,  in  the  time  of  James  IL  The  circum- 
stances described  in  it  are  historically  true." 
Althoughthe  ballad  was  printed anonymouslj", 
the  name  of  the  writer  was  ascertaiue<]  by 
the  distinguished  Cornish  antiquary  Mr. 
Davies  Gilbert,  P.R.S-,  and  being  greatly 
struck  with  the  verses,  ho  printed  off  some 
fifty  copies,  in  broadside  form,  at  his  private 

Sress  at  Eastbourne.  Very  few  of  these 
roadsides  seem  tc)  have  survived,  but  from 
one  in  my  possession  I  transcribe  the  follow- 
ing heading,  with  all  its  eccentricities  of 
punctuation,  Jtc. : — 

"Ajtd  Shall  Trelawnt  Dik! 
"The Strong  Sensation  excited  throughout  Eng> 
land,  by  that  decisive  act  of  Bigotry  Tyranny  and 
Impruaence  on  the  part  of  King  James  the  second, 
by  which  he  committed  the  Seven  Bishops  to  tho 
Tower  was  in  no  district  more  manifestly  displayed 
than  in  Cornwall;  notwithstanding  the  part  taken 
by  that  county  in  the  iireccding  Civil  War.  This  was 
probably,  in  a  great  degree  occnsioncd  by  sympathy 
with  a  most  respected  Cornish  GentlcroBn.  then 
Bishop  of  Bristol;  as  apriears  from  the  following 

s. —  •■■ md  irodernixea  and  improved  by  Rohorti 

S  .  ]  Hawker  Esq.  of  n'hilstone.      This 

S  I  to  have  resounded  in  every  House,  in 

every  Hv^h  Way,  and  in  every  Street." 

Mr.  Gilbert  also  communicated  the  ballad 
to  the  Gmtleiitana  Miig<^i:inf  for  November. 
1827,  vol,  xcvii.  p.  409,  where  it  waa  ^^^fe^^.'sJwiRk. 


i 


nO*S.  LJa.s.30,  1901.' 


84 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


anonymously  and  attracted  the  notice  of  Sir 
Walter  Scott.  In  1838  Mr.  Gilbert  reprinted 
it  in  his  'Parochial  History  of  Cornwall,' 
from  which  an  extract  containing  the  verses 
VM  given  in  Chambers's  'Book  of  Days,' 
18G4,  vol.  i.  p.  747. 

In  1832  Mr.  Hawker,  who  had  been  ordained 
in  1829,  published  a  small  volume  of  poems 
called  '  Records  of  the  Western  Shore,'  in 
which  he  inserted  the  ballad  under  the  title 
of  '  The  Song  of  the  Western  Men,'  and  pub- 
licly avowed  himself  to  be  the  author.  Mr. 
Hawker'8  explanation  was  as  follows: — 

"  Wiih  the  exception  of  the  chorus  contained  in 
the  last  two  line*,  this  sonp  waa  written  by  me  in 

the  year  1825 1  |iubli«h  it  here  merely  to  state 

that  it  WM  an  early  composition  of  my  own.  The 
two  lines  above  mentioned  formed,  I  believe,  the 
burtlien  of  the  old  6oag,  and  are  all  that  I  can 
recover." 

The  song  was  subsequently  published  in 
^Eccleaia,'  and  other  collections  of  Mr. 
Hawker's  poems.  In  'Cornish  Ballads,'  1869, 
the  explanation  was  considerably  amplified, 
•and  ran  aa  follows  : — 

"  Note.— With  the  exception  of  the  choral  lines : 
And  ahall  Trelawny  die? 
Iferc  'b  twenty  thousand  Cornishmen 
Will  know  Ihe  reason  why  ! 
which  have  been,  ever  since  the  imprisonment  by 
James  the  Second  of  the  seven  Bibhops  (one  of  them 
Sir  Jonathan  Trelawny),  anoiiular  proverb  through- 
out Cornwall,  the  whole  of  tnis  son^  was  composed 
by  me  in  the  year  182:1.  I  wrote  it  under  a  atas- 
homed  oak  in  bir  Bevile's  walk  in  Stowo  Wood. 
It  was  sent  by  mo  anonymously  to  a  Plymouth 
paper,  and  there  i  t  attracted  tlic  notice  of  Mr.  Davies 
Gilbert,  who  reprinted  it  at  his  private  press  at 
Eaat  Bourne,  under  the  avowed  impression  that 
it  was  the  original  ballad.  It  had  the  good  fortune 
to  win  the  eulogy  of  Sir  Waller  Scott,  who  also 
deemed  it  to  be  the  ancient  souk-  It  was  praised 
under  the  same  perBuasion  by  Lord  Macaulay  and  by 
Mr.  Dickens,  wno  inserted  it  at  firetas  of  genuine 
antiiiuily  in  his  Ilotisehold  Wonh,  but  who  after- 
Waraa  acknowledgied  its  actual  paternity  in  the 
same  publication." 

It  will  be  seen  that  Mr.  Hawker's  memory 
£ailed  hitn  in  one  or  two  unimportant  par- 
ticulars, but  the  main  fact,  namely,  that 
the  ballad  was  his  own  composition,  with 
the  exception  of  the  refrain,  was,  one 
would  have  thought,  established  beyond 
further  dispute.  There  were,  however, 
"doubting  Thomases"  who  still  called  for 
the  production  of  the  ancient  refrain.  But 
the  lionesty  and  veracity  of  Hawker  were 
conclusively  proved  by  jVir.  John  Latimer,* 
who,  in  a  tetter  to  tlie  Aihenctwii  of  21  Novem- 
ber, 1891,  quoted  a  contribution  to  the  Jirittol 


*  Sinee  thia  uoto  was  written  literature  has  hod 
to  lament  the  loss  of  Mr.  Latimer,  who  died  un 
4  January. 


Journal  ol  21  July,  1772,  entitled  "Extract 
of  a  Letter  from  a  Gentleman  at  Savanna  la 
Mar  to  his  friend  at  Kingston,  Monday, 
April  27,"  describing  the  reception  of  the 
Governor,  Sir  William  Trelawny,  when  on 
tour  through  Jamaica.  The  relevant  passage 
is  as  follows  ; — 

"About  a  century  and  a  half  a£o,  uiion  some 
particular  State  commotions,  one  of  Sir  William's 
ancestors  was,  on  wrong  suspicious  of  the  liovem- 
ment,  sent  to  the  Tower  ol  I.rf>ndon,  and  it  was 
declared  in  Ckirnwall  that  be  was  to  autTer  death. 
The  great  attachment  of  the  peofilo  in  general  of 
that  county  was  then,  as  now,  »o  affcctionntely 
strong  to  the  ancient  family  of  Trcl:i  '.> 

[near  Weat  Looe]  that  the  trnpuiaiion  c! 
got  the  following  lines  puulisLed  in  &«■■         ,   ^..s 
at  London:  viz.  :  — 

And  must  Trelawny  die? 

And  shall  Trelawny  die? 

We've  thirty  thoasand  Cornish  Boys 

Will  know  the  reason  why ! 

West  Looe,  &c. 
This  and  some  other  circumstances  so  intimidated 
at  that  time  some  of  the  greatest  personag<>8  then 
at  the  helm  of  our  national  affairs  that  SirAVilliam 
Trelawny's  ancestor  was  soon  set  at  liberty,  and  aooa 
after  arrived  at  Trelawnv  Castle  amidst  the  joyooal 
aoclamatiuna  of  thousanda." 

Mr.  Latimer  gave  good  reasons  for  think-| 
ing  that  the  lines  referred  to  John  Trelawny, 
who  was  ordered  by  the  House  of  Commons 
to  be  imprisoned  in  the  Tower  on  13  May, 
1627,  and  was  released  about  six  weeks  later. 
Granting  this  to  be  the  case,  we  may  siipi 
the  lines  lingered  in  the  memorr  of  the 
peasantry,  and  were  revived  when  tfie  Bishop 
of  Bristol  was  sent  to  the  Tower  sixty  years 
afterwards.  John  Trelawny,  who  was  created 
a  baronet  in  1U28,  was  the  grandfather  of  tlie 
bishop,  Sir  Jonathan  Trelawny,  who  iti  his 
turn  was  the  great-uncle  of  Sir  \Viiliam 
Trelawny.  the  Governor  of  Jamaica.  The 
lines  probably  survived  as  a  family  tradi- 
tion, and  in  this  manner  came  to  the  ears 
of  the  writer  in  the  BrUtol  Jourtial.  The 
main  point,  of  course,  is  that  the  existence 
of  a  traditional  refrain,  which  was  still 
popular  in  1772,  is  fully  established,  and 
that  no  reason  whatever  remains  for  casting 
any  doubt  upon  the  truth  of  the  statements 
prefixed  by  Hawker  to  the  current  versions 
of  the  ballad.  W.  F.  Pbidk-^ux. 


Irish-pbinted  Plays.— In  the  Joly  collec- 
tion in  the  National  Library  here  I  fiml  a 
copy  of  a  ballad  opera  called  '  Calista,'  by 
"Mr.  Gay,"  printea  in  Dublin  in  1731,  as 
intended  for  the  theatres  in  London,  but 
seemingly  not  acted.  According  to  tho 
'  Dictionary  of  National  Biography,'  Gay, 
towards  the  close  of  1731,  had  "a  sort  of 


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» 


scheme  to  raise  his  finances  by  doing  some- 
thing for  the  stage,"  a  possible  allusion  to 
'Calista';  but  as  nothing  is  known  reganJ- 
ing  the  piece  tlie  ascription  is  probably 
erroneous.  The  Dublin  booksellers  of  the 
first  half  of  the  eighteenth  century  frequently 
resorted  to  mean  de\nces  to  further  sales,  and 
occasionally  tacked  on  the  name  of  a  popular 
author  to  a  play  about  whose  ownership 
there  was  any  doubt. 

In  the  library  of  Trinity  College  I  find  a 
Dublin  cop3'  (printed  in  1734)  of  James 
Miller's  comedy  '  The  Mother-in-Law  ;  or,  tlie 
Doctor  the  Diaea-se,*  which  is  ascribed  on 
the  title-page  to  "H.  Fielding,  Gent." 

In  Trinity  College  there  Is  also  a  copy  of 
an  anon^'mous  comedy  in  two  acts,  printed 
in  Dubhn  for  Thomas  Wilkinson,  as  acted 
at  Smock  Alley,  without  date,  called  'The 
She  Gallant ;  or.  Square  Toes  Outwitted.' 
The  ca-st  says  "Delamour  by  the  author," 
showing  that  the  play  was  written  bj'  an 
actor.  The  '  New  Theatrical  Dictionary  ' 
(London,  17!)2)  given  the  Dublin  printed  date 
as  1767.  In  the  Trinity  College  Catalogue 
'The  She  Gallant'  is  entered  as  the  work  of 
O'Keeffe,  and  it  is  probably  identical  with 
the  play  spoken  of  in  the  record  of  O'Keeffe 
in  the  'Diet.  Xafc.  Biog.'  as  the  five-act  (?) 
comedy  of  '  The  Gallant'  But  if,  according 
to  the  account,  the  play  was  produced  in 
Dublin  when  the  author  was  fifteen,  the 
year  of  performance  would  bo  1762. 

As  I  cannot  find  that  Garrick's  entertain- 
ment of  'The  Jubilee,'  originally  performed 
at  Drury  Lane  in  176D,  was  ever  printed  in 
England,  it  may  possibly  be  worthy  of  note 
that  under  the  title  'The  Jubilee  in  Honour 
of  Shakespeare'  the  piece  was  acted  at 
Waterford  m  1773,  and  printed  there  in  that 
year.  A  copy  of  this  is  m  the  Joly  collection 
m  tlio  National  Library.  At  Waterford  the 
Dart  of  the  Irishman,  originally  played  by 
Moody,  was  taken  by  Brownlow  Forde,  an 
ex-clergyman,  and  a  scion  of  the  Fordes  of 
county  Down.  W.  J.  La  whence. 

Dublin. 

Thb  Fortune  Theatre  in  1049.  —  In 
vol.  A  21  of  the  Informations  to  the  Com- 
mittee for  the  Advance  of  Money,  on  p.  281, 
is  the  information  of  Theodore  Allen,  "  that 
Thomas  Allein  and  Raph  Allein,  Master  and 
Warden  uf  Godsguift  Colledge  in  Dulwich, 
in  (Uo  County  of  Surrey,  are  Delinqufwts," 
and  that  they  did  certain  improjjer  things ; 
also 

"4.  thftt  wherts'Ae  Fortune  Playhouse,  being  a 
.ciemeane  of  the  gaid  Colledne,  Sc  lu  lease  to  one 
1  Lille  for  the  }>iiyu\ettl  of  litV  ixrr  annum  to  tho  said 
ICoUedge,  he,  the  taid  Mr.  Uale,  deaired  (in  regard 


(he  St«te  hath  prohibited  stage  playing)  that  he 
might  conuert  the  eaiil  jilayhouBo  to  some  other 
V30,  whereby  he  might  raise  iha  Rent  dne  for  (ho 
same  '  but  thoy  refused  to  suffer  him  so  to  doe,  but 
will  naue  Iheir  Rent  ixiid  atill  in  the  nature  of 
a  Playhowse;  w/uVh  strange  aversions  to  Ordi- 
nances* of  Parlianofnt,  ic  equity,  hathf  caused 
tedious  ic  costly  suites,  to  tho  mucht  smpovoriahiriK 
of  (ho  said  Colledg,  &  (wtthout  some  present 
remedy)  to  itts  vtter  vndoing." 

F.  J.  FUBNIVALL. 

CtTRiou8  Inscription.— My  venerable  father 
has  recently  called  my  attention  to  a  Hat 
stone  lying  close  to  Bowdou  Parish  (Jhurch  in 
Cheshire,  which  is  curious  because  it  contains 
an  inscription  in  which  the  carver  has  con- 
stantly mistaken  A  for  k  and  e  for  a.  This 
is  the  more  remarkable  as  the  error  is  only 
to  be  found  in  the  part  of  the  inscription 
that  relates  to  one  of  the  people  interred 
beneath  the  atone :  in  the  case  of  the  other 
two  names  the  spelling  is  correct.  The  part 
of  the  inscription  referred  to  is  as  follows  : — 

HAfiA  RA8TATH 
THA   BODY  OK  IKNA 
H0V1,T  THA  ^VTFA  OF 
DEVID  HOVLT  OF 
rrMPARLAY   MESON 
>\T10  DAPERTAD  THIS 
LTFA   THA    17'"    DEY  OP 
FAB  ANNO   1703. 

No  mention  is  made  of  this  inscription  in 
Ormerod's  great  work  on  Cheshire. 

T.  P.  Armstrong. 

Purlieu  : 
1882  (G"*  S. 

whether  the  manorial  custom  which  allowed 
the  lord  certain  rights  for  a  prescribed  dis- 
tance beyond  his  boundary  was  still  generally 
recognized.  As  no  reply  appeared,  the  fol- 
lowing particulars  may  find  a  place. 

In  the  parish  of  Duftield,  Derbyshire,  is 
an  estate  called  Shottle  Park,  which  was 
formerly  part  of  the  great  forest  or  chase 
called  Duftield  Frith.  It  was  disparked^ 
however,  and  convertetl  into  farms  before 
IWO.  Adjoining  to  Shottle  Park  is  an  estate 
called  Wallstone  (within  the  manor  of  Aldor- 
wasley  and  Ashleyhay),  which  had  belonged 
to  a  family  named  Cockeraro  from  the  time 
of  Charles  I.  In  some  of  the  fields  which 
adjoin  the  fence  —  Watt  Carr,  Bakehouse 
Close,  and  the  Three-Nooked  Close— stood 
many  very  large  and  ancient  timber  tree*. 
The  Duke  of  Devonshire  claimed  that  he  waa 
entitled  to  a  purlieu  or  border  of  seven  yanla 


Bow  -  BAKE  :   Buck  -  leap.  —  In 
v.   200)  an  inquiry   was    made 


•  Printed  "proceedings,  contrary  to  the"  in  the 
Rolls  Calendar,  i>t,  ii.  P-  1H3- 
+  Printed  "  have." 
t  Lett  ou\.  Vu  XiWft  v^KiA. 


from  the  park-pale,  and  in  May,  1791,  bis 
aguQta  entered  into  Mr.  Wm.  Cockeram'e 
land  and  marked  eight  troea,  within  that 
space,  for  falling.  Thereupon  Cockerano 
employed  six  men  to  cut  down  and  remove 
the  trees.  The  Duke  then  entered  an  action 
for  trespass,  which  was  tried  at  the  Derby- 
shire summer  assizer  in  August,  1792.  I  have 
seen  the  brief  for  the  defendants,  but  not  the 
report  of  the  trial.  There  is  a  note,  how- 
ever, bv  one  of  the  legal  gentlemen  that  5Ir. 
Wm.  Cockeram  lost  his  case  through  his  own 
ftdroisnioMs  on  the  trial. 

In  Thomas  Gill's  '  Vallis  Eboracensis,'  1852, 
p.  358,  we  read,  under  the  head  of  'Scssay':  — 

"  Formerly,  some  five  or  six  hundred  acres  of  tho 
r&rish,  lying  towards  Bratfertuii,  conalitut«d  an 
ancient  park  :  but,  about  120  years  ago,  the  deer 
were  reniovea  to  Oowick,  and  the  park  converted 
into  farms.  The  i>ark-f&rni,  however,  rctaini^  to 
this  day  one  niemento  of  the  purposes  to  which  it 
was  originally  devotwl,  in  the  continuance  of  jta 
encircling  belt,  the  bow-rake.  This  bow-rake,  or 
bow-range,  sceina  to  have  conferred  on  the  owner 
of  the  park,  by  an  old  feudal  law,  a  right  of  soil,  to 
the  extent  of  a  bow-shot,  beyond  the  limits  of  his 
own  manor." 

In  18G6,  when  there  wos^a  commission  for 
the  enclosure  of  Selatone  Common  (co.  Notts). 
the  agents  of  the  Duke  of  Portland,  lord  of 
the  manor  of  Kirk  by,  proposed  to  claim  a 
similar  "buck-leap"  in  respect  of  the  park, 
but  I  do  not  know  the  result. 

It  seems  most  unreasonable  that  a  privi- 
lege which  only  existed  for  the  sake  of  game 
should  extend  to  the  cutting  down  of  trees 
where  there  is  not,  and  has  not  been  for 
centuries,  any  game.  See  tho  article  'Pur- 
lieu' in  the  Law  Dictionaries  of  Cowel  and 
Jacob. 

I  cannot  find  "bow-rako"  and  "buck-leap" 
in  the  'N.E.D.'  There  are  a  few  notes  on 
this  privileKP,  under  the  head  '  Deer-leaT>,'  in 
£»'»  S.  ill  47,  99,  137,  195 ;  S"^"  S.  xiL  186. 

W.  C.  B. 

Hallev'8  Comkt.— a  picture  of  a  jyortion 
of  the  Bayeux  Tajjestry  showing  the  comet 
of  Halloy  in  1066  is  given  in  *  A  Handbook  of 
Descriptive  and  Practical  Astronomy,'  by 
George  F.  Chambers,  i.  438  (Oxford,  188U). 

''La  reine  Victoria  {w>rt«?  dang  pa  cfiir'mnp  an 

fifi: '•-■     ••    '  ■         ,  ,, 

la  I 


eODilViw,  i.^yu).  '        ■    "      

Jn  9'^''  S.  xii.  125  I  rcpoulfd  an  annouuce- 
ment  that  the  Rusaii  imical  .Society 

bad  undertaken  a  ca  i  "  witli  a  view 

to  prtKlicting   the  exact  date  of    tho  next 
'^jrn    of  Ualloy's  coraet.    A  private  advice 
'vitaeyoeotljr  reacbiog  mo  roicea  the  opltiiou 


that  "  tnalheureusemeut  la  t&che  ontreprise 
ne  puisse  pas  6tre  accomplie"  by  that  iiody. 

Will  your  astronomical  readers  kindly 
make  additions  to  the  list  of  authorities 
following,  bearing  upon  the  1910  return 
Halley'a  comet  1 

ComjtIfJi  ftmdwi  HifuloTnatlairtA  <lt.* 
rAecuMtuH:  dm   Sciences,  pp.  7(W.  7W,  . 

1861). 

2%^ature,  x\.  286-7,  11  Febniarv.  1875. 

Tht  Journal  of  the  Britiah  A*tr\»i(mtic(U  Amocia" 
Hon,  xii.  IM.  175,  288  (London,  IWl). 

Eugene  F.  McPikb. 

ChioaKOi  U& 


We  must  request  correspondents  desiring  in- 
fornaation  on  family  matters  of  only  private  interest 
to  affix  their  names  and  addresses  to  their  queries, 
in  order  that  tho  answers  may  be  addreased  to  them 
direct. 

FiiENcn  Miniature  Paixteb.  —  Will  aoj 
reader  kindly  tell  me  if  there  was  a  FroncB 
miniature  painter  at  tho  end  of  the  eighteen  th. , 
century  whose  Christian  name  or  surname 
commenced  with  Vig  ? 

Evelyn  Welukotos. 

WooBtoD,  Micheldever. 

CiiABBE  BiBLiOGRAi'HY.— If  any  reader  CAU 
help  me  to  a  collation  of  the  first  edition  of 
Crabbe's  'The  Candidate,'  1780,  or  aid  mo  in 
the  search  for  the  juvenile  |x>ems  mentioned 
at  the  foot  of  p.  22,  vol.  i.  of  the  *  Life  and 
Poems,'  1834,  1  should  be  very  glad  if  he 
would  write  to  me  at  the  University  Press, 
Cambridge,  A-  It.  VV.vllek. 

Robert  Catesbv.— Uad  Robert  Catesby 
(of  Gunpowder  Plot  fame)  any  descendants  t 
Was  all  his  proi>erty,  including  that  of  hifl 
family,  confiscated  by  order  of  the  Crown? 
Of  what  did  the  property  consist  ?  How  i  an 
I  best  find  out  the  above?  I  shall  be  glni 
if  correspondents  will  send  their  replies  to 
mo  addressed  care  of  l»eardraore«t  Co.,  fi8  and 
81,  Cleveland  Street,  Fitzroy  Square,  W. 

James  Catesby. 

Roman  Lanx.— Where  is  the  Roman  lanx 
found  in  1864  at  Welney,  in  Norfolk,  and 
exhibited   by   Mr.  Albert  Goodman  to  the 
Society  of  Antiquaries  on  13  .Tanuarv,  lfi70 1 
T.  Cxas  HuooEs,  M.A.,  F.S.A- 

Lonoaater. 

Roman  and  CfiRiRTi.\j<  Cubonolouy— In 
chap.  ix.  of  the  third  lx>ok  of  bis  e««ay« 
Monlaiguo  gave  a  copy  of  the  docutoeot 
making  him  a  Roman  citizen,  and  it  bfiara 
the  following  date ;    "  Anno  Ab  urbe  cundita 


w  a.  L  Jan.  30.  iflOi.)         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


87 


^^331,  post  Chriatuiu  natuin  1581,"  This 
^Buakes  the  first  year  of  our  era  to  correspond 
^^^ith  tho  750th  of  the  Roman  ;  but  accordiug 
^Bto  what  appears  to  be  the  received  view, 
^KA.D.  l=A.u.c.  764.  How  is  the  discrepancy 
^Bccounted  for  1  C  J.  I. 

f^f  [Discussed  at  great  length  O***  S.  ix.,  x.,  xi..  xii., 
'      vuder  birth  of  Josus  Christ.] 

"FiDK,  PED  cm  VIDE."— In  tho  early  part 
of  the  seventeenth  century  this  was  one  of 
the  favourite  mottoes  engraved  upon  swords 
and  rapiers.  It  occurs,  for  instance,  upon 
four  specimens  in  the  Wallace  collection, 
Nos.  ICO,  344,  500,  and  1,046  in  tho  'Cata- 
logue* by  Mr.  G.  F.  Laking,  F.S.A.,  1901.  I 
have  seen  a  deed,  dated  in  1055,  bearing  the 
heraldic  seal  of  Thomas  lieaumont,  of  Whitley 
JIall,  CO.  York,  who  afterwards  became  Sir 
Thomas  Beaumont.  Under  the  shield  appears 
this  same  motto,  fide  sed  cvi  vide.  Did  tho 
fieaumont  family  adopt  it  ?  and  if  so,  when  t 

W.  C.  B. 

HowABD  jlSD  Dryden  Familles.— Cliaries 
Drj'dcn,  son  of  the  poet  John  Drydon  by 
his  wife  Lady  Elizabeth  (Howard),  daughter 
of  Henry,  Earl  of  Berkshire,  was  Chamber- 
lain of  the  Household  in  1694  to  Pope  Inno- 
cent XII.  Ho  is  said  to  have  taken  with 
him  to  Rome  a  history  of  the  families  of 
Howard  and  Dryden,  written  in  Latin  by 
hia  father.  Glorious  John,  which  van  lodged 
at  the  Vatican.     Is  there  any  record  of  tiiis 

•  document,  and  is  it  still  in  existence?  In 
1790  Lady  Dryden.  the  great-great-niece  of 
the  poet,  wrote,  "  If  Rome  were  not  now 
in  tho  hands  of  French  robbers,  who,  it  is 
feared,  have  destroyed  or  carried  away  all 
the  manuscripts  in  tlio  Vatican,  I  should 
have  endeavoured  to  procure  thence  a  copy 
of  this  paper."  P.  D.  M. 

»Epitaj'h  on  Sir  Jorx  SKVMona.— There  is 
A  monument  in  Bitton  Church  to  Sir  John 
Seymour,  1GG3.     The  inscription,  being  only 

»t)ainted,  is  almost  obliterated.  It  is  priutcd 
ty  Rudder,  not  very  correctly.  After  four- 
teen lines  of  Latin  poetry  it  concludes  thus  : 
••  Age    peripatetito    Dum    intuearia    cinerea 

defuncti  mort.....,en  Sacel brevi  fortaasis 

tuss."  I  should  feel  much  obliged  to  any 
}ue  who  can  suggest  the  missing  words. 

Heney  N.  Ellacombs. 
Silton. 

R.vTA  R.xsALU.— A  recent  writer  in  the 
itanJ'tnl,  referring  to  the  adventures  of 
the  Pan  jab  hero  Raja  RastLlu,  remarks  that 
the  *'  tale  of  Rasalu  is  believtvj  to  have  been 
)rought  to  England  by  pilgrims  returning 
[rom  tho  Holy  Land,  and  [that]  it  was  the 
ihject  of  a  popular  chapbook  well  thumbed 


by  rustics  in  tlie  reign  of  Queen  Anne."  Can 
any  one  say  what  njedi;eval  version  of  this 
legend  and  what  chayjbook  this  writer  refers 
to?  Charles  Swynnerton. 

William  Hautlev.  —  Can  any  of  your 
readers  inform  me  whether  the  William 
Hartley  of  Hartley,  Oreens  i  Co.,  known  as 
the  Leeds  Pottery  Company,  is  the  same 
William  Hartley  who  was  High  Sheriff  of 
York  in  1810,  or  whether  they  were  related 
to  one  another  1  A.  H.  Arkle. 

"Down,  uttle  rLUTTERER  ! "— Can  any 
reader  inform  me  in  what  work  (I  think  of 
Dickens)  any  character,  speaking  of  his  heart, 
says,  "Down,  little  flutterer!"  or  words  to 
that  effect  ?  or  is  the  saying  merely  a  music- 
hall  catch  phrase  ?  C.  A.  Newman. 

Thompson  of  Boughton,  co.  Kent.  —  I 
shall  feel  greatly  obliged  for  any  information 
relating  to  the  family  of  Thompson,  resident 
at  Boughton,  in  Kent,  early  in  the  eighteenth 
century.  Thev  bore  for  arms  Per  pale  or  and 
argent,  an  eagle  displayed  gules. 

Florence  N.  ('ockbukst. 

John  Lewis,  Portrait  Painter  and 
Scenic  Artist. — No  account  of  this  man  i.s 
to  be  found  in  any  of  the  dictionaries  of  art 
or  of  general  biography.  About  the  middle 
of  the  eighteenth  century  he  was  for  a  time 
scenic  artist  at  Smock  Alley  Theatre  in 
Dublin,  and,  according  to  Alicia  Lefanu, 
decorated  the  coved  ceiling  of  the  salon  in 
Sheridan's  country  seat  at  Quiica,  co.  C^avan, 
with  classical  figures.  This  must  have  been 
done  after  Sheridan's  marriage  in  1747. 
Millor  scraped  two  portraits  in  mezzotint 
after  Lewis :  one  in  17.'>4  of  John  Sowdon, 
the  Smock  Alley  player,  and  another  in  1756 
of  Henrj'  Brooke,  the  dramatist.  Are  the 
original  paintings  extant?  When  did  Lewis 
first  go  to  Ireland,  and  where  was  he  pre- 
vio^slJ^•?  W.  J,  Lawrencb. 

lo,  KilJare  Street,  Dublin. 

Henrietta  Maria  Gordon  Smvthies. — 
Where  can  I  find  an  account  of  this  lady, 
wiio  produced  over  a  score  of  novels  between 
1835  and  1880]  AUibone  says  she  was  the 
daughter  of  Edward  Lesmoin  (Lesmoir  ?) 
Gordon,  and  wife  of  the  Rev.  William  Yorick 
Smythie«.  J.  M.  B. 

[She  died  15  Aufciut,  1883.] 

Dutch  Fishermen  in  British  Waters.— 
Lorenzo  Sabine,  in  his  1853  classical  mono- 
graph on  'The  Principal  Fisiiones  of  the 
American  Sea«,'  states  that  James  I.  oom- 
nelle<l  the  Dutch  to  pay  an  annual  tributo 
I  tor  permission  or  liberty  to  fish  for  herrings 


88 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        tio"«  s.  i.  Jak.  ao.  i9w. 


on  hia  coasts.  I  shall  be  grateful  for  in- 
formation OS  to  the  amount  thus  obtained,  and 
also  for  further  references  as  to  the  history 
of  the  Dutch  fisheries  generally,  as  I  ara 
collecting  materials  for  a  work  on  this  sub- 
ject. In  my  notes  I  find  that  in  IfilO,  as 
upwards  of  60,000  Dutchmen  depended  on 
the  herring  fisheries  along  the  coasts  of 
Great  Britain,  James  I.  appears  then  to  have 
restored  fishing  privileges  to  the  Dutcli.  If 
this  be  true,  what  amount,  if  any,  was 
exacted  from  the  Dutch  ? 

According  to  a  Dutch  account,  in  1636 
Charles  I.  compelled  the  Dutch  fishermen  to 

6 ay  20,000  florins  as  licence  money  to  fish  in 
iritish  waters.  On  the  other  hand,  Charles  L 
is  stated  by  Sabine  to  have  increased  his 
military  navy  solely  to  drive  the  Dutch 
fishermen  from  Britain's  "four-narrow-soAs" 
— as  our  coastal  waters  were  then  termed — 
and  to  have  compelled  the  Dutch  to  pay 
150,000  "dollars."  How  much  did  these 
sums  repre.sent  in  our  present  Enj^lish 
money  1  As  Lorenzo  Sabine's  work  is  a 
series  of  historical  reports  printed  for  the 
United  States  Treasury  of  the  j>eriod  (18.53), 
I  am  anxious  to  learn  if  this  interesting  in- 
structive book  is  historically  trustworthy. 
Generally,  these  rich  and  rare  data  are  much 
esteemed  in  official  United  States  circles. 
However,  I  have  detected  several  slight 
errors,  which  may  be  only  printers'  mistakes 
overlooked  in  tfie  correction  of  proofs  before 
publishing. 

J.  LawbenceHamilton,  M.R.C.S. 

90,  Sussex  Square,  Brightou. 

Batrome.— In  the  South  Tawton  Church- 
wardens' Accounts  for  15SC  7  is  the  item, 
"P'd  John  Batrome  for  the  pulpitt  xvi«."  ; 
and  again,  "  Fd  Willy  Bourne  for  Batrome's 
breakfast  and  his  mens  wlien  he  came  to  view 
the  place  for  the  pulpett,  ij«."  There  is,  I  am 
told,  a  local  tradition  that  this  pulpit,  which 
is  still  »M  situ,  and  the  panels  of  which  are  in- 
laid in  wood  of  ornamental  grain  with  figures 
of  the  four  Evangelists,  was  the  work  of  some 
destitute  foreigners  who  had  been  ship- 
wrecked on  the  shores  of  Devon.  The  date 
forbids  the  suggestion  that  they  were  sur- 
vivors of  the  Armada,  though  there  may  be 
some  confusion  of  reminiscence.  Can  any  of 
your  readers  tell  me  of  what  nationality  is 
the  name  Batrome.  and  whether  it  is  known 
in  connexion  with  any  other  examples  of 
carved  or  inlaid  woodwork  in  England  or 
abroad  ?  Etuel  Lera-Weekeh. 

Audison's  Daoohter.  —  In  the  memoirs 
that  1  have  read  of  Addison,  beyond  the 
bare  mention  that  he  left  a  daughter  by  the 


Countess  Dowager  of  Warwick,  nothing  is 
said  of  her,  which  I  thought  strange  for  a 
lady  born  in  so  high  a  position  :  but  I  find 
this  in  the  obituary  of  the  Monthly  ifagazine, 
March,  1797  :— 

"At  her  house  at  Bilton,  near  Rngbf ,  Miss  Char- 
lotte Addison,  only  daughter  of  the  celebrated 
Mr.  Addison  by  IheCountesJj  Dowager  of  Warwick. 
She  had  in  her  poflseaaloii  several  riortrait&  of  her 
father  sod  hia  friends,  and  his  library  and  manu- 
scripts." 

And  in  the  next  number : — 

"  The  late  Miss  Addison,  whose  death  we  noticed 
in  our  last,  inherited  her  father's  roemorv,  but  none 
of  the  discriminating  powers  of  his  intellect.  With 
forest  rotenlivo  faculties  of  memory,  she  was  in 
other  res]>ect8  a  perfect  imbecile  ;  she  could  repeat 
the  whole  of  her  father's  works,  bitt  was  ineapable 
of  speaking  or  writing  an  intelliKiblc  sentence. ' 

Is  this  true?  and  are  there  now  any  repre- 
sentatives of  the  Addison  family  ] 

G.  T.  Shebboen. 
Twickenham. 

Medals  "ait  pied  de  hanglieh."— These 
curiosities  have  been  lately  mentioned  in 
L'lnterm^duiire.  They  are,  if  I  may  so  put 
it,  ham-shaped  medals,  and  the  projecting 
limb  is  saici  to  represent  the  foot  of  a  wild 
boar.  The  heads  of  Augustus  and  Agrippa 
are  on  the  obverse,  while  the  reverse  is 
occupied  by  a  palm-tree  and  a  crocodile. 
But  twelve  genuine  examples  are  known,  and 
the  British  Museum  is  the  fortunate  possesaor 
of  one  of  them.  M.  Goudard  of  Ntmes  has 
written  of  these  medals,  but  his  pamphlets 
are  now  out  of  print-,  and  as  the  source  of 
information  in  L IntcrmMiaire  would  seem  to 
be  staunched,  I  hope  the  correspondents  of 
'  N.  »k  Q.'  will,  of  their  charity,  communicate 
any  knowledge  they  may  possess  concerning 
the  history  and  object  of  these  strange  pro- 
ductions. I  believe  there  is  a  folk -tale  at 
Nimes  to  account  for  the  crocodile  and  the 

Ealratreo.    Can  anybody  repeat  it  for  our 
eueflt?  St.  8  with  in. 

"  Commission."— Is  there  any  precedent 
for  a  member  of  Parliament  convening  a 
"  commission  "  to  take  evidence  upon  a  public 
question?  I  have  always  understood  that 
tlie  word  "  commission  "  was  only  used  when 
appointment  was  made  by  the  Crown. 
Perhaps  some  reader  of  'N.  A  Q.'  may  be 
able  to  inform  me  if  it  has  been  used  previous 
to  the  congress  of  gentlemen  now  convened 
by  Mr.  Chamberlain.  N.  S.  S. 

"P.  P.,  Clerk  of  the  Parish."— What  is 
alluded  to  in  'Sartor  llesartus'  by  "P.  P., 
Clerk  of  the  Parish  "  (chap.  ii.  bk.  i.)  ?  Thf^ro 
18  the  same  allusion,  I  fancy,  in  'Mid.iic- 
•"arch.-  c   A.  Nbavma.\. 


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lUpIui. 


F 

^^H  COMBER     FAMILY. 

^^"  (lO'"  S.  i.  47.) 

^H     I  AM  in  possession  of  two  MS,  volumes 

^^  relating  to  tiiis  family.     They  aro  entitled 

"  A  Sketch  of  the  Life  and  a  Selection  from 

the  Poetry  of  Thomas  Comber,  LL.D.,  Rector 

of  Buckworth  and  Morbourne,  in  the  County 

^^of  Huntingdon,  collected  by  hia  Son  Thomas 

^k  Comber.  A.B.,  late  Vicar  of  Creech  St.  Michael, 

^Bin  the  County  of  Somerset,  and  now  Rector 

^■of  Oswaldkirk,  in  the  North  Riding  of  the 

tK  County  of  York."    The  sketch  is  very  com- 

ploto,  and  practically  gives  a  history  of  the 

family  for  tnree  or  four  generations. 

Thomas  Comber,  the  object  of  the  sketch, 
was  the  son  of  Thoraeia  Comber,  D.D.,  .some- 
time Dean  of   Durham,  by  Alice  his   wife, 
pWest  daughter  of  Robert  Thornton,  of  East 
Newton,  and  was  born  16  June,  1722;  educated 
at  Jesus  College,  Cambridge,  where  he  was 
entered  31   July,    1741  ;    and  died  9  April, 
1778.    In  1747  be  published  hia  work  entitled 
'An    Attempt    to    .shew    the    Evidence    of 
Christianity  equal  to  a  Strict  Metaphysical 
Demonstration,'  a  third    edition    or    which 
appeared  tho  following  vear  •  in  which  year 
also  appeared  his  work  entitled  'The  Heathen 
Rejection  of  Christianity  in  the  First  Ages 
Considered '  (London,  8vo).    Six  other  works 
of  this  Thomas  Comber  are  enumerated  by 
Watt.    The  author  had  a  critical  knowledge 
of  Hebrew,  Greek,  Latin,  French,  Spanish, 
and    Italian,   and    his    unpublished    works, 
which  are  numerous,  bespeak  a  man  of  learn- 
ing and  judgment.   He  was  intimate  with  and 
corresponded  much  with  both  the  celebrated 
Bishop  Warburton   and    the    historian   Dr. 
Robertson.    I  see  no  account  of  this  Dr.  Cam- 
ber in  the  'D.N.B.'    Possibly  the  volumes 
mentioned  above  are  tho.se  inquired  for  in 
|687  (7'"  S.  iii.  515),  but,  though  I  cannot 
^member    when     they    were    acquired,    I 
fcther  think  it  muat  have  been  before  that 
ate. 

It  may  bo  mentioned  that  in  1799  Thomas 

jmber,  the  son  of  the  above-named  Thomas 

jraber,  and  great-grandson  of  the  Dean  of 

rarham,  published   the  'Memories    of   the 

jife  and  Writings  of  Thoma-s  Cumber,  D.D., 

>metimo    Doan    of    Durham,    in   which    is 

itroduced  a  Candid  View  of   the  Several 

Works  of  Dr.   Comber,  as  well   printed  as 

MS.  :    also  a  Fair  Account  of  his   Literary 

(.' >tn;npondence'  (T/jndon,  8vo).    This   may 

jW  contain  some  account  of  the  family 

Wly.  W.   A.  COPINGEE. 

1  (yell,  Manoheiton 


89 


St. 
(9"'  S. 
507). 


Mary  Axe  :  St.  Michael  le  Quernb 
X.  425  ;  xi.  110,  2.31  :  xii.  170,  253,  351, 
With    regard    to  the   question    upon 


which  I  find  myself  at  variance  with  Col. 
Prideaux,  the  position,  I  think,  is  this— 
that,  as  he  does  not  deny  my  hypotheses  ioto 
cixlo,  he  may  be  .said  to  admit  tacitly  their 
potentiality  ,-  while  my  standpoint  is  that  of 
probability  based  upon  certain  circumstantial 
evidence,  which  cannot  be  ignored,  and 
which  I  have  set  forth  at  9""  S.  xii.  170. 
Col.  Peideaux  savs,  however,  that  I  have 
up  to  the  present  '^failed  to  prove  that  any 
London  church  has  derived  its  deftignation 
from  a  house-sign."  As  regard.s  reducing  the 
matter  to  demonstration,  that  is  so,  I  admit ; 
but,  on  the  other  hand,  ray  notes  were  so  far 
from  "  not  advancing  facta  in  support  of  the 
probability,"  that  they  really  were  full  of 
such  facts— facts  which,  in  so  far  as  they 
afford  presitrnptive  proof,  must  be  reckoned 
with. 

But  I  will  now  endeavour  to  show  that  the 
church  uf  St.  Mary  Axe  did,  after  all,  derive 
its  designation  from  an   inn  with  the  sign 
of  an  axe,  and  not,  as  COL,  Pkideaux  has 
ingeniously  suggested,  from  a  small  stream 
known  by  that  name.    And  if  I  can  do  so 
it  is  not.  I  think,  overleaping  tho  bounds 
of   probability  to   suppose  that  the   other 
churches    to    which    I    have    alluded    were 
similarly  distinguished.     If  Col.   Prideaitx 
could   refer  one  to  a  document  relating   to 
St.  Michael  le  Querne— an  early  document 
preferably— in  which  that  church  is  styled 
"St.  Michael-in-the-Corn-nwr^e<,"  one  would 
of  course  have  to  relinquish  the  belief  that 
"  Quern  "  can  have  but  one  meaning— that  of 
a  hand-mill — and    that  it  can  no  more  be 
deemed  equivalent  to  "corn-market"  (nialgr^ 
Stow^  than  "St.  Nicholas-in-the- Flesh"  could 
pass  tor  "St.Nicholaa-in-the-Flesh-Shambles," 
And  also  one  would   have  to  abandon  the 
belief  that  "  Querne  "  alludes  to  the  sign  of 
either  a  miller  or  a  baker  to  which  tho  whole 
of    the  immediate  neighbourhood    resorted 
with  grist,  as  was  customary  when  querns 
were  by  no  means  common. 

It  may  also  be  noted,  perhaps,  that  many 
well-known  landmarks— like  the  Maypole: 
the  "  Man  on  Horseback,"  as  the  statue  of 
Charles  L  at  Charing  Cross  was  called ; 
Cheapside  Cross,  Ac- served  the  purposes 
of  a  signboard.  Hence  we  have  St.  Andrew 
Undershaf t,  from  the  shaft  or  maypole  under 
whose  shadow  the  church  stowl.  But  as  to 
St.  Mary  Axe.  in  Ogilby's  great  map,  tho 
index  to  which  in  the  British  Museum  ia 
the  onlv  copy  e.xtant,  Axo  Vard  is  distinctly 
marked  in  the  parish  of  St,  M^fj  ksJeJV^-W^- 


00^  S.  L  Ja,v.  30,  190*. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Now  tho  existence  of  an  "Axe  Yard"  cer- 
tainly indicates  a  yard  to  which  had  formerly 
been  attached  an  inn  with  the  sign  of  an 
axe.  Tho  incongruity  could  never  have 
occurred  to  Cunningham  of  associating  what 
•was  presumably  the  symbol  of  one  saint— to 
wit,  ot.  Ursula— with  the  name  of  another ; 
more  appropriate,  rather,  would  be  some 
emblem  of  St.  Helen,  to  the  prioress  and 
convent  of  whom,  in  Bishopsgate,  the  church 
of  St.  Mary  Axo  belonged  until  the  priory's 
dis-solution.  There  waa  also  an  Ax  Alley 
in  Leadeuhall  Street  in  1732  (see  a  scarce 
volume,  'New  Remarks  of  Loudon,  collected 
by  the  Company  of  Parish  Clerks,'  of  that 
year.  p.  77) ;  and  liughson  in  his  '  History  of 
London'  (vol.  ii.  p.  1(J3)  says  tliat  "St.  Mary 
Axe  was  so  called  from  its  situation  opposite 
tho  Axe  lun."  Whether  tho  site  of  St.  Mary 
Axe  Church  can  be  identified  by  comparing 
it  with  that  of  Axe  Yai"d  in  Osilby's  map 
I  cannot  at  present  say,  but  St.  Mary's, 
says  Huehson,  "stood  on  tho  West  side  of 
St.  Mary  s  Street,  now  St.  Mary  Axe." 

There  is  also  a  description,  in  Taylor's 
*  Carriers'  Cosmogranhie,'  1()37,  of  the  "Axe," 
in  St.  Mary  Axe.  Tins  description,  however, 
I  do  not  quite  understand,  and  perhaps  Col 
P&IDEAUX  could  kindly  explain  the  difFiculty, 
for  the  Water-poet  has  two  allusions  to  the 
inn  as  follows  : — 

"The  Citrrieng  of  Coventry  doe  lodfre  at  the  aigno 
of  the  Axe  in  St-  Mary  Axe,  in  Aidermanburi/ " 
Citalics  mine). 

Again  :  — 

"  The  Carriers  of  Derby  and  other  narte  of  Derby- 
shire doe  lodge  at  the  Axo  in  St.  Mary  Axe,  uetrt 
Aldermanbury," 

^  I  confess  I  do  not  understand  this  descrip- 
tion by  Taylor ;  for,  as  City  distances  go, 
Aldermanbury  is  far  distant  from  .St.  Mary 
Axe,  The  "Axe"  Inn  in  Aldcrnuit(/)iin/  is 
given  in  both  Ogilby's  and  Itocque's  maps, 
the  latter  dated  174ti 

Finally,  in  the  Exhibition  Catalogue  de- 
scribing tho  Gardner  coUectiuu  of  views, 
£rintN,  itc,  rolating  to  tlio  topography  of 
ondon.  Westminster,  and  Southwark,  which 
were  oxliibit«d  at  the  Guildhall  in,  1  think, 
1B72.  are  items  rolating  to  two  exterior  views 
by  lUchardson,  in  water  colour,  of  the  "Golden 
Axe''  in  St.  Mary  Axe,  as  it  apjjeared  in  1855. 

The  question,  of  course,  is  then,  Did  the 
churcli  derive  its  designation  from  tho  inn, 
or  did   the  inn    acquire    its  sign    from  its 

froximity  to  the  church  I    Tho  probabilities, 
will  be  so  bold  as  to  aver,  are  all  in  favour 
of  hypothesis  the  first. 

J.    HOLDEN  MacMiCHABU 
161,  Hammemmith  Road. 


Raleigh  :  its  Peoxduciatios  (&"•  S.  xii. 
366,  497)  —It  may  servo  to  throw  somo  light 
upon  this  point  to  know  that  in  the  entries 
oi  admissions  into  this  Inn,  where  the  name 
appears  under  date  27  February,  1574/6,  it  is 
written  "Walter  Rawley  "  ;  and  as  there  is 
abundant  o\'idence  to  show  that  these  entries 
were  in  most  cases,  if  not  all,  taken  down 
from  word  of  mouth,  and  written  by  the 
entering  scribe  phonetically,  it  may,  I  think, 
be  taken  as  certain  that  that  spelling 
represents  the  name  as  the  owner  pronounced 
it,  and  there  seems  no  good  reason  for 
supposing  that  the  sounds  uf  those  syllables 
were  not  the  same  then  as  now.  Just  below 
Sir  Walter's  entry  in  the  register  comes  the 
name  of  one  Thomas  Cockes,  who  is  described 
as  of  "Beamondes,"  Herts  (meaning  "Beau- 
monts"  in  that  county),  a  clear  indication 
that  tho  clerk  was  writing  from  sound,  a3 
above  stated.  John  HrxcHiJfsoN. 

Middle  Ten\p1e  Library. 

'The  Diary  of  .John  Manningharo,*  1602-3, 

rjublished  by  the  Camden  Society  in  1858, 
las  on  p.  109  the  following  entry,  which  I 
think  ought  to  be  hold  conclusive  as  to  the 
contemporary  pronunciation  : — 

"  30  Dec.  1602.    Sir  Wa.  Rawley  made  this  rime 
upon  the  name  of  a  gallant,  one  ^lr.  Noel : 
The  word  of  doniall.  and  the  letter  of  fiftv. 
Makes  the  geut.  name  that  will  never  uc  thrifty. 

(.Voe.  L.) 
and  Noel's  answere. 

The  foe  to  the  Btommacke.and  tho  word  of  diBgraoe, 
Shewes    the    ((eat.    name    with    the    bold    face. 
{Rate.  Ly.y 

AVBKN  PaK1>0E. 
Ontario  Legislative  Library. 

Mary,  Qiteen  of  Scots  (D"^  S.  xii.  148,  190, 
238  ;  10^"  S.  i.  36).— Perhaps  it  may  not  bo 
uninteresting  to  mention  that  "tho  queen's 
letter  to  the  Scottish  Estates  announcing  her 
marriage  with  the  Dolphin,  June  26,  1658,"' 
commouces,  "  Marie,  be  the  grace  of  God 
Queno  of  iScottis  and  Dolphines  of  Viennois, 
to  the  nobillitie  and  rest  of  the  eslaites  of 
our  rcAlme";  and  the  queen's  proclamation 
of  5  May,  1568.  with  "Mary,  be  the  Grace  of 
God  Quene  of  ,Scotti«."  Vi'U  pp.  493,  512 
of  'Mary,  Queen  of  Scots.'  by  David  Hay 
i'ieming  (Hodder  *fe  Stoughton,  1897). 

In  tho  '  Family  Records  of  the  Braces  and 
Lumvns.'by  M.  E.  Cumraing  Bruce  (Black- 
w.x)d  &.  .Sons,  1870).  it  is  recorded  at 
p.  5b6  : — 

" Nine  commissioneni  wore  sent  from  Scotland 

: toj>*»«ii>toll.erwlmoof  France  ai  rei.rGVent- 

ing  the  three  I.:^tates.  and  theru  to  conlr anf  th« 
n.arn««e  o  the  n,o«t  excellent  Prineew  Mario 
Queen  of  Scotlarui,  our  •overei«a. ';Th   FriS 


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Dolphin  and  eldest  sod  nud  ai>i>arent  heir  to 
Henry,  King  of  France." 

"On  the  twentieth  day  of  April,  1558,  the 
Jinn^aitlta  of  the  young  Prince  Francis  and  M&rie, 
Queen-Heritrix  ot  Scotland,  took  place." 

With   I'egard   to  Mr.  Pkachkys  qaestion, 
I  may  inform  him   that  only  the  spelling 
"Stevrarti"  and  not  "Stuart,     is  mentionea 
in  M.  E.  Camming  Bruce's  learned  work. 
Henky  Gerald  Kopk. 

119,  Elms  Road,  Claphani,  S.W. 

TiDESWELL  AND  TiDESLOW   (9*''  S.   xii.   341, 

617  ;  10*^  S.  i.  62),— Is  it  not  a  mistake  to 
attempt  to  explain  these  names  without 
having  any  re^tu'd  to  Anglo-Sa.xon  grammar  1 

The  A.-S.  for  "intermittent  well "  might 
have  been  rid-well,  i.e.,  tide-well ;  but  it  could 
not  possibly  have  been  tuUs-well !  We  never 
say  Udct  tcaiter,  but  only  tide  waiter.  Oon- 
sequeutly,  Ttd<s  is  the  genitive  case  of  a 
roan's  name.  We  are  told  that  it  is  the 
genitive  "  of  Tid,  or  whatever  the  right  form 
of  the  personal  name  may  iiave  been. '  Well, 
the  right  form  was  Tidi  in  early  speUing. 
and  2'tlif  in  later  spelling.  The  gen.  of  Tidi 
or  Tide  was  Tide«,  iust  as  the  gen,  of  Ini  or 
/««  (in  Latin  spelling  /?<a)  was  Jnes.  For 
the  gen.  form  Ines,  see  '  A.-S.  Chron.,'  an.  718. 
Mr,  Searlo's  ' Onomasticon  Anglo-Saxonicum ' 
gives  two  examples  of  Tidi,  Besides  this, 
Tld-  was  very  common  as  a  first  element  in 
names,  a.s  in  Tid-beald,  Tid-beorht,  Tid-burh, 
Tid-cume,  Tid-fritb,  ttc.  And  Tida  (occurring 
8i.x  times)  was  the  form  of  a  pet-name  ;  only 
the  gen.  case  was  Tidan.  It  is  surely  obvious 
that  Tide-s- welle  can  only  mean  *'  Tidi's  well "  ; 
and  Tides-low.  A.-S.  Tides  hldio,  can  only 
mean  "Tidi's  burial-mound."  It  is  worth 
■while  to  add  that  A.-S.  tld,  time,  is  feminine, 
with  the  genitive  tide ! 

At  the  last  reference  we  are  told  that  low 
is  "  the  well-known  word  for  a  hill  or  mound, 
having  nothing  to  do  with  a  burial."  ITA// 
has  it  "nothing  to  do  with"  it]  If  your 
correspondent  will  only  take  the  troublo  to 
look  it  out  in  an  A.-S.  dictionary  or  in 
•H.RD,'  ho  will  find  that  low  is  applied 
both  tu  a  natural  hill  and  to  an  artificial 
tumulus.  Why  are  these  hardy  statements 
madol  Low,  &s  a  funeral  mound,  occurs  in 
*  Beowulf.'  The  name  Tidi  occurs  in  the '  Liber 
Vitaj '  of  Durham,  and  again  in  Beda,  but  not 
later.  So  the  mound  may  be  a.s  old  as  the 
eighth  century,  or  even  earlier.  The  O.N. 
imI?-  is  not  represented  in  English  by  -well, 
but  by  -wall.  Walter  W.  Skeat. 

There  is  one  difliculty  alxiut  Db,  Bruso- 
field's  ituggestion  that  Tideswell  mean,s  the 
Well  of  the  Tide,  namely,  that  it  does  not 
account  for  the  s.    Hia  etymology  might  have 


passed  if  the  name  had  come  down  to  us  in 
the  form  Tidetvell.     Dr.  Brushfleld  forget 
tliat  the  old    English    word    for   tide    wa 
feminine.  Comestor  OxoNiBNaia. 

It  is  certain  that  Tideswell  has  nothing  to 
do  with  "an  ebbing  and  flowing  well,"  and 
the  sooner  Du.  Brush  field  abandons  this 
popular  fancy  the  better.  If  the  word  meant 
what  he  says  it  means,  it  would  have  been 
written  Tidmttlle,  not  Tidesuutlle,  in  Domes- 
day Book,  and  Tidowell  at  the  present  time. 
The  prefix  both  in  Tideswell  and  Tideslow  in 
the  genitive  case  of  a  personal  name. 

Finding  himself  in  a  difliculty  about  Tides- 
low,  whicli,  as  he  sees,  has  no  connexion  with 
"an  ebbing  and  flowing  well,"  Dr.  Brush- 
field  invusea  a  list  of  tombs  in  Bateman's 
'Ten  Years' Diggings.'  "It  is  doubtful,"  he 
saya,  '*  wliether  this  list  contains  a  single 
example  of  the  name  of  a  prehistoric  indi- 
vidual." The  list,  however,  includes,  among 
otliers,  the  following  laws  .— 

Bottes-low  Ravons-low 

BroWDB-lovv  Rains-low 

Culvoida-low  8waiiis-low 

U&rslow  Swans-low 

Hawkes-low  Taylors-low 

Hems-low  Thirkell-low 

Kens-low  Tids-low 

Ladniau8-low  TolmauB-low 

LarUs-low  Wars-low 

Para-low  » arna-low. 

It  is  possible  that  every  one  of  the  twenty 
tomb-names  which  I  have  cited  from  the  list 
in  question  contains  a  personal  name ;  it  ia 
certain  that  some  of  them  do  so.  For  instance, 
Totmans  -  low  contains  the  A.S.  personal 
name  Tatmonn  or  Tatmon,  which  occurs 
three  times  in  the  Durham  '  Liber  ViUe." 
Laidmana-low  also  contains  a  personal  name, 
and  it  is  just  possible  that  it  is  identical  in 
meaning  with  A.-S.  ladiwum,  guide,  leader. 
The  modern  form,  however,  of  that  word 
should  be  lodevuin.  Nevertheless,  we  have 
Stan-low,  for  Stone  low,  in  the  district.  The 
prefix  in  Hawkes-low  is  the  personal  name 
which  is  familiar  to  us  in  Old  Norse  as 
llauk-r ;  and  Ravens-low  contains  the  A.-S. 
name  Rafan,  O.N.  Hrafn,  which  also  occurs 
in  the  'Liber  Vitie.'  Swains-low,  and  pos- 
sibly also  Swans-low,  is  the  tomb  of  Swegn, 
O.N.  Sveinn— a  very  frequent  name  of  a 
man.  In  Culvenls-low  it  is  probable  that 
we  have  to  do  with  a  name  which  endert  m 
-heard,  as  did  many  A.-S.  po"""^,  ?'''^^][ 
In  ThirkeMow  w.  '-y  lu.vo    he  - l^te^o" 

^,"?^t"^.r i!iS  Y^S',.^"f  it  may 


found  Tid  in  the    'Liber 
occur  elsewhere.    Tid»    ai'^J 


fidi, 


however. 


are  tWrind  also  the  following  names  ia 
w^ich  Tid-  occurs  as  a  compound  :  Tvk^^'cs^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        tio»  s.  i.  .us.  so.  i9ol 


Tidhild,  Tidbursr,  Tidreda,  Tidhere,  Tiduald. 
Tidbald,  Tiduulf,  Tidberct,  Tidhelm. 

Many  other  EngHsh  hion  have  preserved 
the  names  of  persons  buried  in  them,  a«,  for 
instance,  Hounalow.  At  the  second  reference 
W.  C.  R  pointed  to  Tinsley,  near  Sheffield, 
which,  he  aavs,  was  Tanalaw  in  1633.  I  find 
that  it  was  Tynnesiow  in  1451.  I  believe  it 
is  in  Domesday  Book,  but  I  have  not  been 
able  to  refer.  The  Bosworth-Toller  '  A.-S.  Dic- 
tionary' mentions  local  names  compounded 
with  fdccH',  hlau\  as  "Cwicchelmes  hlaew " 
("Cwicchelm's  low").  In  Thorpe's  '  Diplo- 
raatarium'  we  have  Oswaldeslaw,  Oswald's 
tomb,  and  Wulforeslaw,  Wulfhere's  tomb. 
These  two  last-named  loies  seem  to  have 
been  used  as  moot-hills.  There  is  a  barrow 
at  Bolsterstone,  near  Sheffield,  called  Walders- 
low,  meaning  Waldhere's  tomb.  Wo  know 
much  about  the  urns,  weapons,  jewels,  and 
other  contents  of  our  English  prehistoric 
sepulchres.  But  due  attention  has  not  been 
given  to  the  personal  names  which,  in  so 
many  cases,  yet  cling  to  these  ancient 
memorials.  It  is  something  to  know  that  a 
man  of  note  called  Tid  gave  his  name  to 
Tideswell,  and  that  he  received  the  lasting 
honour  of  mound-burial  on  a  hill  which  over- 
looks that  town. 

The  suffix  -well,  or  -wally  seems  in  many 
cases,  as  here,  to  bo  the  O.N.  viill-r,  dat.  vdL-i, 
a  field  or  paddock.  I  have  already  referred 
to  New  Wall  Nook,  and  I  might  have  men- 
tioned  Swiuden  Walls,  l>etween  Sheffield  and 
Penistono.  Tideswell  is  written  Tiddeswall 
and  Tidswale  in  a  Derbyshire  Poll- Book  of 
1734,  and  the  neighbouring  Bradwell  occurs 
in  that  book  as  Brad  wall  and  Bradall.  On 
Speed's  map.  IfilO.  I  find  Tiddeswall  and 
Brad  wall.  In  IT.iS  some  fields  at  Heeley, 
near  Sheffield,  are  described  as  "  Seraary 
{alin$  St.  Mary)  Walla,"  and  they  also  seera 
to  have  been  known  as  Malkin  Crofts.  Here, 
then,  K'<ifJ  =  O.N.  viiUr.  I  often  go  to  Tides- 
well  and  Bradwell,  but  I  have  not  yet  seen, 
or  heard  of,  either  the  "  ebbing  and  Howing 
well  'or  the  salt  well.  Davies,  in  his  '  Histori- 
cal, itc.  View  of  Derbyshire,'  1811,  p.  053,  says 
that  Tidoswell  "is  supposed  to  have  received 
its  name  from  an  ebbing  and  flowing  well, 
situated  in  a  field  near  the  town,  but  which 
has  now  ceased  to  flow  for  more  than  a 
century."  What  proof  is  there  that  it  ever 
did  flow  }  Davies  say  that  "  the  ebbing  and 
flowing  well,  the  last  of  the  Wonders  of  the 
Peak,  is  about  a  mile  and  fa]  half  from 
Chapel-en-le-Frith,  on  the  road  to  Tideswell. 
It  is  situated  in  Barmoor  Clough  "  (p.  712). 
IJarmoor  Clough  is  six  miles  from  Tineswell. 
The  story  about  the  tUka  of  an  ebbing  well 


appears  to  have  been  invented   by  Charles 

f -otton,  for  he,  in  his  *  Wonders  of  the  Peake  ' 

1681,  mentions  "  Weediag-wall  orTydes-well, 

the  third  Wonder,"  and  asks  this  question  : — 

For  me,  who  worst  can  speculate,  what  hope 

To  tiud  the  secret  cauao  of  these  strange  (\-ifA, 

Which  an  impenetrable  mountain  hides  '*' 

S.  O.  Addv. 

'O.XFORD  UjnVERSITY   CaLKNDAE'    (10^''  S. 

i.  47). — The  list  of  heads  of  colleges  and  halls 
appears  for  the  last  time  in  the  'Calendar' 
for  1862.  To  the  'Calendar'  for  1863  is 
prefixed  the  following  note  :— 

'^Tbe  Class  Liat«  and  other  historical  matter 
which  purchasers  of  the  'Oxford  University 
Calendar'  will  miss  in  the  'Calendar'  for  IHfiSaro 
now  printed  in  a  sepiirate  volume  called  '  The 
Oxford  Year  Book,'  together  with  a  full  ludex  of 
Names." 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

In  the  'Oxford  Historical  Register,  1220- 
19<X),'  the  lists  of  colleges  with  their  heads 
from  the  foundations  are  duly  given.  I 
understand  that  from  the  latter  date  the 
'Historical  Register'  as  a  separate  publica- 
tion has  been  discontinued,  and  that  the 
record  of  distinctions  for  the  future  is  con- 
tained, year  by  year,  in  the  annual '  Calendar.' 
It  is  to  be  hoped  that  all  heads  of  houses 
after  1900  are,  with  their  dates  of  ofBoe* 
included.  A.  R.  Baylet. 

(Old  Oxonian  alio  thanked  for  reply.] 

"  MEYIfE3  "  AND  "  RmNES  "  (lO'""  S.  1.  49).— 
River-names  are  old,  and  the  origins  of  them 
are  mostly  unknown.  In  my  opinion,  it  is 
quite  unsafe  to  mix  them  up  with  modem 
words. 

As  to  mej/iif,  I  know  nothing  at  present. 
As  to  the  Somersetshire  rhine,  I  am  quite 
clear  that  the  less  we  muddle  it  up  with  the 
river  lihine,  the  better.  Neither  is  it  Dutch.. 
It  is  just  provincial  English,  and  duly 
explained  in  tne  'English  Dialect  Dictionary,' 
under  the  correct  spelling  r^xn.  The  extract 
given  says:  "The  wide  oiien  drains  are  all 
written  rhint  arid  pronounced  irfn."  Rhine 
id  an  absurd  misspelling  inventi-d  by  some 
very  learned  man  to  whom  English  wa« 
"  all  Greek  "  ;  and  he  misspelt  it  accordingly. 
If  English  were  really  studied  for  its  own' 
sake,  it  would  not  be  "mixed  up  with  Greek 
and  Dutch.  Walter  W.  Skbat. 

"  Chapeeoked  by  hke  father"  (9""  S.  xiL 
245,  370,  431  j  10^''  S.  i.  54).— There  can  surel/ 
be  no  objection  to  the  use  of  c/i/i.}>fTon  if 
it  be  remembered  that  the  French  seldom, 
if  ever,  use  the  word  in  the  English  aenae. 

•  Ed.  1699,  pp.  SI,  27.  ' 


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They  do  indeed  ao  use  the  word  chapetftntur, 
but  Littre  gives  no  such  raeaDtng  to  the 
vord  chapa'on. 

I  have  often  wondered  why  nu/rale,  in  the 
phrase  "  the  vioralc  of  the  army,"  is  written 
in  italics,  as  if  it  were  French.  As  a  matter 
of  foict,  there  is  no  such  word  in  BVench  ; 
but  there  is  a  word  le  viornl,  which  means 
mornlitt/.  Again,  we  often  see  in  English 
books  "  une  guerre  k  I'outrance,"  which  is 
not  Freucli  at  all.  We  write  ij^yfne  as  if  it 
were  a  French  word,  which  it  is  not :  and 
others  might  be  added.  We  have  surely  the 
right  to  annex  any  words  we  choose  from 
any  language,  and  to  attach  any  sense  to 
such  words  as  we  may  find  convenient ;  but 
why  should  we  not  recognize  the  words  as 
frankly  English  ]  H.  A.  Stbong. 

University,  Liverpool. 

I  have  to  thank  SiupuclssiMtJs  for  his 
further  instructive  comments  under  this 
head.  The  rivulet  of  Judgment  meanders 
pleasantlj'  from  its  original  fount.  This  was 
merely  an  inquiry  on  my  part  as  to  the 
correctness,  or  otherwise,  of  a  phrase  con* 
necting  the  male  with  duties  hitherto  only 
associated  with  the  fair  sex.  After  careful 
search  amongst  recognized  authorities  1  was 
glad  to  discover  that  my  notion  as  to  the 
inaccuracy  of  the  expression  was  generally 
confirmed.  Lest  I  should  stumble  more 
seriously,  I  will  not  again  venture  into  the 
perilous  paths  of  a  discussion  anent  c/fi]>€ro)ie, 
cliaperon,  or  escort.  1  have  said  ray  say  ; 
abler  pens  than  mine  must  finally  settle  that 
question— if  they  can. 

SiMPUcissiMUs  asks  if  I  would  "taboo  the 
use  of  the  word  autJior  as  applied  to  a  la<Jy. " 
To  this  I  am  bold  enough  to  reply  that 
assuredly  I  would.  Authoress  is,  in  my  humble 
view,  so  welcome  and  certain  a  guide  to 
identification  that  it  should  by  no  means  be 
allowed  to  drop  out  of  service. 

Cecil  Clarke. 

West- Country  Fair  (10""  S.  i.  48).— Among 
the  records  of  the  Exeter  Corporation  are 
letters  patent  concerning  Exeter  Fair  in  the 
fourteenth  year  of  Henry  IV.  (1412)  and  in 
1610  (>jee  Xntet  and  (iUnnimjt  in  Devon  and 
Cornwall,  ed.  by  W.  Cotton,  F.S.A.,  and 
James  Dallas,  F.L.S.,  Ifi  Jan.  and  15  Aug., 
1889,  pp.  10  and  124)  ;  also  Arckffolo'jui, 
vol.  i.  pp.  190-203  ;  the  Westeni  Antiquiiiy, 
vol.  i.  March.  1H.S1,  to  March,  1882,  pp.  102-3, 
129,  MO;  Doidgo's  'Western  Counties 
Annual ' ;  Cooke's  '  Topographical  Survey  ' ; 
Hugh  Carew's  'Survey  of  Cornwall,'  1811: 
'An  Account  of  all  the  Fairs  in  Englancl 
dDd  Wales,'  by   Wm.   Owen,  London,   1756, 


I2mo;  *A  Manuell  of  the  Chronicles  of 
Englande,  from  the  Creacion  of  the  Worlde 
to  the  Yere  of  our  Lorde  11565,'  abridged  and 
coUecteti  by  Richard  Grafton,  London,  15(55, 
with  index  and  a  list  of  the  principal  fairs  ; 
and  Walforfl's  'Fairs  Fast  and  Present.'  1883, 
pp.  24,  35,  f.6,  &c.  In  the  Kvenimg  Po$i  of 
8  Feb.  {1  1721),  No.  1956,  is  the  following 
announcement : — 

"  Whereas  K.  James  I.  by  his  Letters  Patent,  did 
er»nt  to  Sir  Francis  Lacon,  Knt.,  nnd  his  lleira 
for  ever,  the  Privilege  of  holding  Three  Fairs 
Yearly  in  the  Town  of  Cleobury  aliax  Cloobury 
Mortimer  in  the  Connty  of  Sadop  :  These  are  to 
give  Notice,  that  William  Lacon  Childo,  Esq., 
designs  to  hold  Thieo  Fairs  in  the  «uiid  Town 
Yearly,  for  the  Sole  of  all  Manner  of  Cattle,  Goods, 
and  Merchandize,  on  tho  Days  folIoMriog,  viz..  on 
the2l8t  of  ApriL  on  Trinity-Eve,  and  on  tne  lytli  of 
October.  The  First  Fair  to  be  held  on  tho  21  st  of 
April  next,  and  that  Care  will  be  taken  to  provide 
proper  Acconimodations  for  auch  as  ahalf  resort 
thereto." 

A  long  account  of  fairs  will  also  be  found 
in  Brand's  '  Popular  Antiquities,'  revised  by 
Sir  Henry  Ellis  {Bohn,  vol.  ii.). 

J.  HOLDEN  MacMiCHAEL. 

Capt.  Death  (10"'  S.  i.  48).— He  commanded 
the  Terrible,  a  London  privateer,  and  was 
killed  in  action  with  the  Vengeance,  a 
privateer  of  St.  Malo,  on  or  about  23  Dec, 
17.'^6.  F.  F.  L.  will  find  an  account  of  the 
action,  which  seems  to  have  been  a  gnllant 
affair,  in  Beatson's  'Naval  and  Military 
Memoirs,'  vol.  i.  pp.  524-5.  J.  K.  L. 

[The  Rev.  J.  Pickpokd  refers  aUo  to  the  edition 
of  Hume  and  Smollett  by  the  liev.  T,  .S.  Hughes: 
Mr.  ({.  T.  SuEKBDKN  to  Tindal  »  conlinuatinn  of 
Rfipin;  and  Mr.  J.  B.  Wainkwriuht  to  iSinoUott, 
book  ill.  ch.  viii.  §  28.  and  Oen(hman'»  Moffaxine, 
vol.  xxvii.  p.  90.] 

Hobgoblin's  Claws  (9^"  S.  xii.  189.  333).— 
Kinouchi  Shigeakira's  '  Unkonshi,'  written 
in  tho  eighteenth  century,  describes  and 
figures  what  is  called  by  the  Japanese 
"Tengu-no-Tsurae,"or  Tengu's  claw,  which  is 
the  fossilized  tooth  of  extinct  sharks.  It  is 
reputed  to  have  the  power  of  repulsing  evil 
spirits  and  curing  demoniacal  pos.session. 
The  Tengu  is  a  wood-goblin  of  Japanese 
pxipular  mythology,  and  is  represented  nowr 
with  prominent  nose,  now  with  bird's  bill, 
as  well  as  bird's  wings,  strongly  recalling  the 
classical  Harpy.       Kumaousu  Mikakaxa. 

Mount  Nachi,  Kii,  Japan. 

"Collectioner"(10"'S.  L  28).-This  word 
cannot  be  attributed  only  to  East  AnRlu*, 
A  contributor  long  ago  (2'"'  S-  x.  28)  re- 
quired  similar  information,  and  gave  two 
instanoesof  its  use  from  the  church  register 
of  Great  Hampden,  Bucks,  m  which  "tV»& 


H 


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word  is  often  used,"  more  particularlj'  in  the 
case  of  burials  : — 

"  1741-42.  .Un*  iTi"'-  Sarah  Elherop,  a  CoUectioner. 

"1762.  July  20"'.  Jno.  Apsalou  of  y'  psh  of 
Hitobendcu,  CoUectioner." 

In  the  replj-  gis'en  at  p.  98  it  li  explained 
that  it  applies  to  a  person  permanently  in 
receipt  ot  parochial  relief.  Many  legacies 
have  been  left  to  the  poor  not  tating  col- 
lection. 

I  cannot  find  the  word  in  any  of  the  many 
dictionaries  to  which  I  have  referred. 

EvERARU  Home  Coleman. 

71 1  Brecknock  Road. 

See  under  '  Collection'  in  'N.E.D.' 

W.  C.  B. 

"As  MEEEY  AS  Griogs"  (9*  S.  xii.  506; 
li^*"  S.  i.  36).— The  following  quotation  from 
a  poet  and  accurate  observer  of  nature  may 
bo  of  interest: — 

All  about  the  fields  you  osneht 
His  weary  daylong  chirping,  like  the  dry 
High.«lbowoa  Krigs  that  leap  in  summer  Kraas. 
Tennyson,  'The  Brook.' 
RlPrOCLIDES. 

If  it  is  rememhered  that  "  grifrs  "  are  grasji- 
hoppers  the  explanation  U  siuipte  enough. 

E.  VV. 

Dr.  Brewer  ('Phrase  and  Fable*)  explain.s 
this  proverb : — 

"A  grig  is  the  sand-oel,  and  a  cricket.  There 
was  aUo  h  class  of  vagabond  dancers  and  tumblers 

who  viaited  ale-houeea  so  called Many  think  the 

expression  should  be  '  Merry  as  a  Greek.'  " 

Halliwell  ('  Diet,  of  Archaic  Words ')  is  very 
decided  in  stating  that  rfri'j  ia  a  corruption 
of  Greek.  itlcttARD  LaWsoN. 

Urmslon. 

Dickens  uses  this  expression  in  'The  Old 
Curiosity  Shop,'  eh.  1.  In  alluding  to  the 
company  of  rats  Quilp  says ;  "  I  shall  be  as 
merry  as  a  grig  anions  these  gentry." 

In  Ttmpte  liar  fur  .Tauuary  is  an  articlo  on 
Thomait  Hearne,  the  antiquary.  The  writer, 
the  Uav.  W.  E,  Crothens,  says  that  Hcarno 
in  his  'Diary'  states  "that  the  piirase  *a.s 
merry  as  a  grig'  should  perhaps  bo  'as  merry 
as  a  Greek.''  John  T.  Paue. 

West  liaddon,  Northamptonahirc. 

The  saving  was  in  constant  use  when  I 
was  a  lad  in  Derby.'<hire,  but  hero  I  have  not 
known  it  used  except  by  myself.  It  is 
indicative  of  merry  dispositions  and  lively 
antics.  "We  were  all  as  merry  as  griggs." 
Gnats  dancing  iu  the  sun  were  "as  merry  as 
griffgs,"  and  so  were  "  cheeae-jumpors  "  said 
to  be  as  they  moved  and  jumped  on  the 
cbeeseboards  in  provision  shops.    Anything 


having  lively  motion  was  "a  grigg,"  and 
tadpoles  were  included  in  tho  liat.  Alone  ] 
the  roads  after  a  shower  of  rain  appeared 
lively  insects,  which  were  known  as  "fish- 
flies,  '  and  these  "danced  like  griggs  "  in  the 
sun  OS  long  a^  the  lanes  remaiued  wet. 

TflO.S.   Il.lTCLIFFE. 
Workaoii. 

Grammar  :  Nine  Parts  of  Speech  (9"'  S. 
xii.  &04).— Between  fifty  and  sixty  years  a^o 
these  lines  were  current  at  a  school  in 
Nottingham,  and  that  they  wore  of  Trans- 
atlantic origin  was  never  iio  much  a.-j  hinted. 
Is  there  a  Board-School  child  in  these  daya 
that  would  venture  to  call  a,  an,  and  <A«1 
"  articles  "  I  St.  Swithin. 

The  rimes   sent   you   by   Mb.    Coleman 
I    learned    when    I    was    eight    years    old, 
and    attending    Mrs.    Attwood's    school    at. 
Fairfield,  Croydon,  in  186.0.     I   think  thej 
were  printed  iu  our  grammar,  but  I  forge^l 
what  particular  book  this  was. 

JOHX   HoBdON   MArrHEWS. 
Munniouth. 

Veto  at  Papal  Elections  (&">  S.  .xii.  89, 
174,  396).— The  Roman  correspondent  of  the 
Tablet,  in  the  issue  of  that  paper  dated 
9  January,  says  that,  out  of  the  twenty -one 
cardinals  in  Curia,  eighteen  recently  met  as 
the  official  councillors  of  the  Pope,  and 
decided  (1)  that  the  veto  ia  abusive  in  ita 
origin,  and  (2)  that  it  has  never  become  a 
''consuetudinary  right,"  In  connexion  with 
the  second  point  tliey  referre<l  to  the  election 
of  1555,  when  Cardinal  Caraffa  was  elected  in 
spite  of  the  veto  of  Charles  V.  They  con- 
cluded by  recommending  the  Pope  to  render 
the  veto  impossible  in  future  by  inflicting 
excommunication  on  any  one  bearing  a  veto 
to  a  Conclave  from  any  civil  authority. 

JoUN  B.  Wainewpjght. 

Fieldnames,  West  Hai>don,  co.  North- 
ampton (10'''  S.  i.  46) —The  field-names  of 
West  Haddon  which  Mr.  Joon  T.  Page  has 
contributed   are  of  much  interest.     I  send 
notes   on    a   few  of    them ;    they   must    be , 
regarded  as  suggestions  only,  not  as  positive  i 
statements  of  opinion.    Many  names  depend] 
on  local  circumstances  which  a  stranger  to] 
the  neighimurhood  can  by  no  means  grapple 
with.    It  should  be  borne  in  mind  t]iat  when 
similar  names  occur  in  far  separated  places 
it  by  no  means  follows  they  have  been  alike 
iu  origin. 

Several  of  the  names  iu  Me.  Page'^  list  seem 
to  be  derived  from  those  of  former  owners  or 
tenants,  but  this  does  nut  always  follow  as  a 
matter  of  course.    Priestlonds  at  Uedburn, 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


1^1 

^_  or 


Lincolnshire,  may  Imve  been,  and  pvobabl}' 
was,  so  called  from  appertaining  to  some  eccle- 
siastical endowment ;  on  the  other  hand,  it 
may  have  been  the  private  property  of  a  prieat, 
r  of  some  layman  who  had  rrieat  for  a  sar- 
name.     SmilhfieUI,  at  Lough  ton,   in   E^aex 
8"'  S.  i.  84),  may  signify  land  appropi-iated 
nder  the  old  manorial  system  to  the  village 
lacksmith,  or  it  may  have  arisen  in  recent 
luya  from  having  been  held  by  some  one  who 
bore  that  common  patronymic.     Bellfield,  a 
name  I  have  met  with,  but  failed  to  make  a 
note  of,  was  probably  land  appropriated  to 
the  maintenance   of    the  church's  bell- gear 
and   payment  of  the  ringers,  or  perhaps  a 
place  where  the  church  bells  had  been  cast, 
or  it  may   at  one  tirao  have  belonged  to  a 
an  called   Bell.      Without  research  among 
old  document**,  which  have  often  been  lost  or 
are  unattainable,  it  is  impossible  to  come  to 
any  dofiuita  conclusion.    At  West  Haddoa, 
as  in  most  other  places,  the  names  are  of 
various  dates  ;   some   apparently  very  old, 
thers  dating  from  the  nineteenth  century. 
California.  —  Probably   one  of  a  class  of 
arae^  given  in  recent  days,  adopted  from 
breign  places  which  at  the  time  of  the  name- 
ividg    were   attracting    popular  attention. 
.  'here  is  a  cottage  in  the  parish  of  Messing- 
liara  cajletl  St.  Helena  j  I  was  told  by  my 
father    it  wa^   built  during    the  time  that 
apoleon  I.  was  a  captive  in  the  Atlantic 
land  80  named.    Some  houses  in  the  Frod- 
ham   iron  district    go    hy   the    name    of 
merica  ;    and    I  have  seen  a   house    near 
•ncaster,  in  what  parish   I  do  not  know, 
Iktd  Now  Zealand.   There  ia  a  New  Zealand 
Id  in  the  parish  of  Aldeuham,  Herts  (8'"  S. 
83). 

Castles,  d'caf.— Possibly  an  encampment 
entrenchments  have  existed  here.  Castle 
not  uncommonly  employed  in  speaking 
an  entrenchment  or  earthwork  where  no 
tie,  in  the  popular  sense  of  the  word,  has 
ver  stood. 

Cockle  Close. — Probably  so  called    from  a 

andsome    plant,     bearing    reddish  -  purple 

owpfM,    which    grows   among    corn.      See 

III  ED.' 

Copf/  Mfitji: — This    may  have    been    land 

»ld   by  copyhold    tenure.     In   Lincolnshire 

id    neighbouring    counties    copyhold    pro- 

?rty  is  frequently  spoken  of  as   Copy  or 

jpy-lnnds. 

lluck'ifxick.  —  The  word  means  a  coarse 
lien  fabric  used  for  sheets  and  towels.  The 
irliest  exajnplo  given  in  the  'H.E.D.'is  of 
JO  year  1(J9<>.  Huckaback  napkins  were  in 
at  St,  John's  Coll  ,  Cambridge,  in  1698 
(ogera's    'Hist.     Agriculture    and    Pncos,' 


vol.  vi.  p.  548).  It  may  be  that  the  place 
took  its  name  from  ponds  or  a  stream  in 
which  the  flax  was  steeped  before  being 
woven  into  huckaback. 

Ilell  Hole.— la  place-names  Hell  does  not 
necessarily  refer  to  the  place  of  punishmenti 
though  in  some  cases,  which  I  believe  are 
but  few,  it  may  do  so.  It  often  means  a  deep 
hollow  or  a  darksome  place.  There  was  a 
Helle  Bothe  at  Spalding  ('Mon.  Angl.,'  iii. 
230).  There  are  a  Hell  Hill  and  a  Hell  Wood 
in  Yorkshire,  and  a  Hell  Hole  in  Notting- 
hamshire, but  I  cannot  identify  the  parLshea 
to  which  they  belong.  There  were  a  Hell 
Mill  in  Gloucestershire  (Smith's  'Hundred 
of  Berkeley,'  307)  and  a  Hell  Mouth  at  Cam- 
bridge (Gerardo's  'Herbal,'  ed.  1636,  1390). 
It  may  be  worth  noting  that  there  is  a  barrow 
named  Hell's  Hill  in  Wexio,  whore  Odin  ia 
said  to  have  been  buried  (Marryat's  '  Year  in 
Sweden,'  ii.  37C).  Other  places  with  hell  for 
an  affix  have  been  mentioned  to  me  by  frienda 
who  were  not  a  little  indignant  at  the  names 
having  been  changed  by  imbecile  persons 
who  were  without  reverence  for  the  free 
speech  of  their  forefathers. 

I/unrfer  Wells.— To  speculate  regarding  the 
meaning  or  origin  of  Hunger  in  place-names 
would  be  rash.  Several  solutions  occur  to 
mo,  none  of  which  ia  wildly  improbable,  but 
all  very  far  from  convincing.  The  word  is 
widely  distributed.  Hunger  Downs  occurs 
at  Ivoughton  in  Essex  (8^''  S.  i.  84),  Hunger 
Hill  at  or  near  Nottingham  ('Records  of 
Nottingham,'  vol.  iv.  p.  114),  and  Hunger- 
lands  at  Aldenham,  Herts  (7^"  S.  xii.  383). 

Lords  P/irc*.— Probably  lands  belonging  to 
the  lord  of  the  manor. 

Lnnfhes.  —  Query,  is  not  this  a  form  of 
Linch  or  Lynch  ^  "  Hlinc,  ridge,  slope, 
hill"  (Skeut, ''A.-S.  Diet.').  In  Lincolnshire 
linch  moans  a  balk  in  a  field  dividing  one 
man's  land  from  another.  It  is  |>erhap3 
obsolete  now,  but  was  not  so  in  1787,  for 
in  the  'Survey  of  the  Slanor  of  Kiiton-in- 
Liudsey '  of  that  date  it  is  stated  that  "  the 
lands  in  tho  field  are  called  dales,  and  the 
finches  or  green  strips  on  each  side  are  called 
raarfurs  or  meerf urrows." 

Old  Leys.  —  Ley  or  Lay,  unenclosed  gross 
land,  which  at  some  time  or  other  had  been 
ploughed,  but  had  been  laid  down  to  grass. 
There  is  a  farm  at  Ilibaldstow,  Lincolnshire, 
yet  spoken  of  as  the  Old  Leva.  ,    ,    ,. 

Voir  Afan'i  CVose. —Probably  land  dedi- 
cated in  some  way  or  other  to  the  reliot  ot 
the  poor.  Perhaps  settled  bv  dec<l  of  gift  or 
will  before  tho  passing  of  the  Act  known  M 
the  Poor  Law  of  Elizalwth. 


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Wad  C7o«.— A  dialectic  form  of  wrxtd,  a 
plaut  used  for  dying.  This  spot  has  perhaps 
Decn  a  place  wnero  woad  has  been  grown. 
It  wa8  a  crop  very  exhauatinf;  to  tho  land, 
and  tenant  larmera  were  often  prohibitecl 
from  growinz  it.  In  many  oldf  leases  a 
covenant  is  round  making  the  growth  of 
"  woad,  otherwise  called  wad,"  penal. 

Edwaed  Pkacock. 

Wickentree  Hooae.  Kirton-in-Liiirl««y. 


TuK  Wykkhamical  Word  "Toys"  O'"  S. 
xii.  34;-),  437,  492  ;  lO'"  S.  i.  13,  50).— I  should 
like  to  thank  Prof.  Skeat  for  the  opinion 
which  my  solicitation  (at  the  third  reference) 
induced  him  to  express  (at  the  fourth)  upon 
the  various  derivations  assigned  to  this  word. 
The  que-stion,  Wlien  did  the  word  come  into 
use  at  Winchester  f  may  perhaps  be  material 
to  the  question,  What  is  its  true  origin  ?  and 
for  this  reason  I  oflfer  tho  following  evidence 
that  the  word  was  already  current  among  the 
bo};s  in  1771.  I  have  a  manuscript  copy  of  a 
series  of  letters  written  during  1770  ana  1771 
by  a  "  commoner  "  to  his  brother  who  was 
aosent  from  the  school  on  account  of  ill- 
health,  and  the  following  passage  occurs  iu 
one  of  these  letters,  which  is  dated  Winton, 
30  June,  1771  : — 

"  Tho  mice  have  found  means  to  get  into  the  well 
of  your  under  Toys ;  and  to  make  a  little  liavock 
with  some  of  your  Papers  :  your  upper  Toys  I  found 
open,  iiolhiriK  is  niisain^  as  I  can  tind  except  the 
Bixth  Volume  of  Pope's  W'^orka." 

I  imagine  that  the  writer  meant  by  "upper 
Toys"  the  cupboard  which  formed  the  upper 

Eart  of  his  brother'*  bureau,  and  that  this 
ureau  was  similar  to  the  bureaux  which  are 
sketched  in  the  illustration  at  p.  20  of  Worda- 
woith's  'The College  of  St.  Mary  Wint^yn  near 
Winchester '  (1848),  and  at  p.  226  of  Walcott's 
*  William  of  Wykehara  and  his  Colleges ' 
(18.')2).  (See  also  the  picture  of  'Seventh 
Chamljcr '  in  Radclvflfe's  '  Memorials  of  Win- 
chester College.')  Mr.  R.  B.  Mansfield,  no 
doubt,  had  bureaux  of  this  kind  in  liis  mind's 
eye  when  he  penned  his  definition  of  "  toys" 
which  I  cited  at  the  third  reference.  "These 
simple  movable  bureaux  have  now  been 
superseded  at  Winchester  generally,  if  not 
entirely,  by  fixed  furniture  of  a  aoraewhat 
more  complex  character.  The  word  "toys" 
has  been  transferred  to  this  furniture,  and 
accordingly  a  boy's  "toys"  now  mean,  as  a 
rule,  certain  fixed  furniture  which  has  been 
allotted  to  him  for  his  own  use.  Sijecimens 
of  tho  old  bureaux,  however,  still  exist,  and 
one  of  them  is  preserved  in  the  college 
museum. 

The  mere  fact  that  space  is  occupied  by  the 
furniture  allotted  to  each  boy  does  not  justify 


acceptance  of  the  derivation  of  "  toys  "  from 
"Fr.  <cnjtc  =  a  fathom,"  which  U  offered  by 
the  authors  of  the  useful  book  mentioneil  at 
tlie  last  reference.  They  give  no  historical 
evidence  pointing  to  a  connexion  lietween 
"  toys"  and  foiw,  and  until  some  evidence  of 
the  supposed  connexion  has  been  gi\en,  it 
seems  prudent  to  abstain  from  regarding  this 
derivation  as  satisfactory. 

In  view  of  Prof.  Skeat's  suggestion  that 
the  word  may  bo  only  ''a  peculiar  use  of  the 
common  K  '^.'A"  I  venture  to  quote  tho  follow- 
ing passage  from  Addison's  '  Remarks  on 
Italy '(Hurd's  edition  of  Addison's  'Works,' 
vol.  ii.,  1811,  p.  167):— 

"Uue  cannot  but  be  amazed  to  see  such  a  pro- 
funion  of  wealth  laid  out  in  coaches,  irappio^S, 
tables,  cabinets,  and  the  like  precious  toy?,  in 
which  there  are  few  princes  in  Kurojie  who  ci\ual 
them." 

This  passage  is  cited  in  the  '  Century  Dic- 
tionary,' vol.  vi.,  under  "  toy,"  with  a  reference 
to  Bohn'a  edition  of  Addison,  i.  504.     II.  C 


Sadler's  Well-s  Play  allpded  to  by 
Wordsworth  (10«"  vS.  i.  7,  70;.— It  may  in- 
terest H.  W.  B.  to  know  that  in  an  unpub- 
lished letter  from  Mary  Lamb  to  Dorothy 
Wordsworth,  postmarked  11  July,  1803,  is 
this  passage : — 

"  We  went  last  week  with  Foutliey  and  Rickmao 
and  his  sister  to  Sadlerg  Wella,  the  lowest  and  moat 
London-like  of  all  (of]  any  London  amusements — 
the  entertainments  were  '  <  loody  Two  Shoes,' '  Jack 
the  (iiatit  Killer,'  and  '  Mary  o!  Bultermere'!  poor 
Mary  was  very  hap)>ily  married  at  the  end  of  the 
piece,  to  a  sailor  her  formnr  sweetheart— we  had  a 
pi-odigious  fine  view  of  her  father's  house  in  the  vale 
of  Bultermere — mountains  very  like  large  hayooeks, 
and  a  lake  like  nothing  at  all— if  you  had  been 
with  us,  would  you  have  laughed  the  whole  time 
like  Charles  and  Miss  Rickman  or  gone  to  sleep  a« 
Southey  and  Kickman  did." 

E.  V.  Ldcas. 

Richard  Nash  {Q^  S.  xi.  445 ;  xii.  U>,  116, 
135,  272,  335, 392,  493  ;  10^''  S.  i.  32).— The  con- 
fusion over  thoso-cAlled  Chosterfield  epigram 
has  arisen  mainly  from  tho  fact  that  there 
was  always  (at  least  for  more  than  one  hun- 
dred ana  fifty  years)  a  statue,  as  now,  of 
Beau  Nash  in  the  Bath  Pump  Room,  but  no 
picture  of  him.  It  was  natural  that  some 
should  conclude  that  the  correct  reading  was 
"the  ftatue  (not  jncture)  placed  the  busts 
between."  Tne  lines  were,  however,  written 
before  the  Ptatue  was  carved.  When  a  second 
assembly  room  was  opened  on  the  Terrace 
Walk  (called,  after  the  leasee,  ''Wiltshire's") 
in  1729  30,  it  was  adorned,  it  is  believeil,  with 
a  full  lenRth  portrait  of  Nash  (thou  in  the 
height  of  his  popularity),  which  was  sup- 
ported by  the  busts  of  Newton  and  Pope* 


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b 


,  the  latter  being  at  the  time  a  frequent  visitor. 
Taiie  Brereton,  who  died  in  1740,  ntruck  by 

[the  incongruous  combination,  wrote  the  sub- 
joined poem,  which  is  entitled  *  On  Mr. 
lash'e  picture,  full  lengtli,  between  the  busts 
of  Sir  Isaac  Newton  and  Mr.  Pope,' and,  as 

I  'Will  be  seen,  it  must  have  formed  the  basis  of 

I  the  later  epigram  : — 

The  olti  Egvptians  hid  their  wit 

In  hieroglyithic  dress 
To  give  men  pains  to  search  for  it 

Aud  please  themselves  with  guess. 

Modems  to  tread  the  selfsKmo  path 

And  exercise  our  parts 
Place  figures  iu  a  room  at.  Bath ; 

Forgive  them,  God  of  Arts  J 

Newton,  if  I  may  judge  aright. 

All  wisdom  doth  express ; 
Hia  knowledge  gives  matikiad  new  light, 

Adds  to  their  happiness. 

Pojie  is  the  emblem  of  true  wit, 

The  t=uu8liiiie  of  the  mind  ; 
Read  o'er  h\s  works  fur  proof  of  it. 

You  'li  endless  pleasure  find. 

Nash  represents  man  in  the  mass. 

Made  up  of  wrong  and  right, 
Sotneiinies  a  knave,  sometimes  an  ass. 

Now  blunt  and  now  polite. 

The  picture  jilaced  the  basts  between 
.\(lil8  to  the  thought  much  strength  : 

Wisdom  and  Wit  arc  little  seen. 
But  Folly 'sat  full  length. 

W.  T. 

Bath. 

Pe.vbith  do*''  S.  i.  29).— The  editorial  note 
eay8,  "  Penrith  ia  still  pronounced  Ferith  in 
the  North."  As  a  Isorth-Countryraan,  I 
8houUl  like  to  point  out  that  tiiose  letters 
do  not  in  these  days,  and  especially  in  the 
Bjuth,  sutUciently  represent  the  pronun- 
ciation. Ptei-i(h  would  be  better.  Hy-tbe- 
by,  i«  Perth  (pronounced  very  similarly  in 
Scotland)  a  name  of  the  same  origin  and 
meaning  I 

In  the  same  direction  it  might  be  noted 
that  "Peercy"  is  the  spelling  in  many 
&ijcient  Northern  documents  of  the  old  sur- 
name Percy  {e.g.,  "  the  Peercy  Fee,"  iSrc.) ; 
presumably  "Peercv"  would  not  be 
lounced  as  we  usually   now  pronounce 

»rcy.  Balbus. 

Rof  8  OR  RowsB  Family  (9*''  S.  xii.  487 ; 
JO""  S.  i.  W).— For  Speaker  Francis  Rous  see 
also  '  D.N. B.' aud  the  Rev.  Douglas  Macleane'a 
'  Hittorv  of  Pembroke  College  '  (Oxford  His- 
torical Society,  1897,  pp.  291-6),  wiieroat  he 
founded  the  existing  Kton  Scholarship.  The 
College  possesses  a  half-length  portrait  of 
him,  in  which  he  is  represented  wearing  a 
tail  wido-briiumcd   hat.     There  is    another 


gortrait  at  Eton  of  Rous  in  his  robes  as 
l)eaker.  His  father  Sir  Anthony  married, 
as  his  second  wife,  the  mother  of  John  Pym, 
the  statesman.  A.  R.  B.vyley. 

'•  CoNsTANTiNE  Pebble"  (Q"'  S.  xii.  606; 
10"'  S.  i.  33).— A  really  excellent  illustration 
and  description  of  the  above  are  to  be  found 
under  the  heading  of  '  On  Cromlechs '  on 
p.  C4,  vol,  vi.  of  the  Saturdai/  Magazine  for 
14  February,  1835.    It  commences  :— 

"The  accompanying  engravinu  exhibits  a  view  of 
an  insulated  rock,  popularly  termed  a  Vroinltrh, 
standibK  on  a  nioor  in  the  parish  of  Const&nliue,  ia 
Cornwall,  and  called  by  the  people  of  the  oountrv 
•TheTolmea."'  ' 

The  article  concludes  :— 

"The  Tolmen  points  due  north  and  south,  u 
33  feet  iu  length,  18  feet  in  width  in  the  widest 
I>art,  and  14  feet  6  inches  in  depth.  Ml  feet  in  cir- 
cumference, and  is  calculated  by  admeasurenieat 
to  contain  7iK)  tons  of  stone." 

Chas.  F.  Foeshaw,  LL.D. 

Bradford. 

Error  i.v  'Pouphiu  Hyi'nerotomachia  ' 
(10"-  S.  i.  4).— The  error  which  Mr.  Eliot 
HoDGKiN  has  noticed  in  some  copies  of  this 
work  appears  also  in  the  Grenville  copy  in 
the  British  Museum  (G.  105G4),  in  wliich  the 
clumsy  alteration  obtrudes  itself  very  un- 
pleasantly upon  the  eye.  I  do  not  know 
whether  SIr.  Hodokin  has  seen  this  copy. 

S.  J.  Aldrich. 

New  Southgate. 

Caedigan  as  a  Surname  (10""  S.  i.  67).— 
Is  it  a  surname  ?  On  the  contrary,  it  seems 
to  exist  only  as  a  territorial  title.  If  G.  H.  W. 
lefers  to  the  earldom,  the  pedigree  is,  of 
course,  in  Burke.  But  it  only  goes  back  to 
the  wedding,  early  in  the  eighteenth  century, 
of  a  Bruce  with  a  Lord  Cardigan  of  another 
family.  D. 

Salep  or  Salop  (O""  S.  xii.  448).  —  The 
vending  of  "saioop,"  as  it  was  more  gene* 
rally  called,  among  the  street- barrow  men  of 
London,  is  now,  I  think,  quite  an  extinct 
calling.  Its  use  began  to  be  superseded  by 
toa  and  coffee  about  the  year  1831,  up  to 
which  time  it  had  supplied  the  humble  needs 
of  the  early  wayfarers  in  tlie  ftame  way  that 
coffee  does  now.  It  was  when  coffee  biecame 
cheaper,  with  all  its  accessory  adulterations, 
that  it  began  entirely  to  displace  .saioop.  See 
Henry  Mayhew'a  'London  Labour  and  the 
London  Poor,'  1851,  vol.  i.  p.  101  itq.  The 
beverage  was  originally  made  from  salep, 
the  root*  of  Orchis  mascula,  a  common  plant 
of  our  meadows,  the  tubers  of  which,  being 
cleaned  and  peeled,  are  lightly  bc<i'*i>osA  vo^ 


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an  oven.  It  was  ranch  recommended  in  the 
last  century  by  Dr.  Percival,  partly  as  con- 
taining the  largest  portion  of  nutritious 
matter  in  the  smallest  space.  John  Timbs, 
F.S.A.,  the  author  of  'Something  for  Every- 
body '  (q.v.  p.  200),  remembered  many  saloop- 
stalls  in  our  streets.  The  date  of  that  work 
J9  1861.  J-  Hold  EN  MacMichael. 

Mi;.  Clabk  will  find  a  good  deal  about  this 
concoction  in  the  new  edition  of  Yule's 
'Anglo-Indian  Glossary,'  s.v.  'Saleb,'  where 
references  are  given  to  articles  in  '  N.  «t  Q^,' 
on  its  modern  use.  W.  Crooke, 

"Lost  in  a  convent's  soutary  oloom" 
(10»*  S.  i.  67)  is  to  be  found  in  Pope's  '  Eloisa 
to  Abelard,'  1.  38.  R.  Engush. 

[Mil.  Vardlkv  also  refers  to  Pope.] 

BiBCH  SAP  WrNB  <9"'  S.  xi.  467 ;  xH.  50, 

296;  10'*'  B.  1.  18).— William  Simpson,  of 
Wakefield,  in  his  *  Hydrologia  Cliymica,' 
1669,  p.  328,  writes  :— 

"  If  you  wound  a  branch  of  the  birch  troo,  or  lop 
the  bole  thereof,  iu  March,  if  it  be  done  below, 
near  the  groun«l,  thu  lalex  tbunce  iasuiu^  is  a  mere 
insipid  water:  but  if  n  branch  of  about  3  (inKera 
thicKnesfl  be  wounded  to  the  Bemidiameter  thereof, 
and  Bird  with  wool),  it  weeps  forth  a  subacid 
liquor  in  great  abondance,  insomuch  that  in  one 
day  Buch  a  wounded  branch  may  give  8  or  10  pound 
of  that  liquor:  concerning  the  vertuo  whereof 
Helniont  eaith,  Qui  in  ipso  lithiasis  torniento 
Bolatur  adlictos,  tribus  quatuorve  cochlearibus 
ossumptia,  vi^  that  it  gives  help,  in  the  torments 
of  the  stone,  being  taken  to  the  quantity  of  three 
or  four  spooufuUa :  which  he  saiih  ia  balsamua 
lithiasis  racroa." 

W.  C.  B. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  4o.       . 
A'hn!'<'<{nii<i  fo  ihf  Cofh'Of  of  St.  John  (he  Krangtli*t, 

Cnmhriilfit.      Part    III.'  1715-67.      Kdited,    with 

Notoa,  bv  Robert  F.  beott.  (Cambridge,  beighton, 

Bell  &  C'o.) 
The  .Senior  Bursar  of  St.  John's  has  here  continued 
the  work  which  Prof.  .T.  E.  B.  Mayor  began  in  a 
niunnoi-  worthy  of  his  predecessor,  aud  of  a  splendid 
foundation.  Wc  cannot  8i>eak,  in  fact,  too  highly 
of  the  great  care  and  research  which  have  gone  to 
the  elucidation  of  details  in  the  careers  of  Jonnians. 
The  Register  is  one  of  bare  names,  but  by  the  aid 
of  various  aourcea,  including  our  own  columns, 
parish  regiHlers,  the  Otuth:man'^  Maga:iiif,  and 
other  collections  known  to  spec-ialiatR,  a  larjie  m&s"* 
of  illuminating  detail  has  been  aecurod-  Wieu  we 
add  that  the  inik'xes  are  wonderfully  complete,  in- 
clu'liPR  "uc  of  cotinties,  another  of  bciiooIs,  and  two 
of  trades,  in  Ktifilisliand  Latin  respectively,  it  will 
1)0  seen  Ihnt  the  volume  is  a  oiodel  of  what  such  a 
tliiii«  (dinuld  be. 

This  was  afi  infrucluou?  time  In  (Cambridge  bis. 
tory,  ami  these  admisttions  include  no  names  of 
the  highoat  mark :  still  they  do  not  fail  to  interest 


ns  a  good  deal.  Looking  for  men  associated  with 
Johnson,  we  come  across  '  —nen"  Taylor, 

the  most  silent  man  that  i  ^»ver  saw"  yet 

one  who  could  change,  in  IJ.^  ..^.i.  •  umpany,  from 
the  laborious  8tu<lent  to  the  festive  eomjianion  v  ith 
wonderful  rapidity,  left  fortv  volumes  of  common- 
place books,  played  cards  well,  and  was  an  ele>?ant 
carver.  Soame  Jonyns,  a  review  of  whose  book  on 
'  The  Nature  and  Origin  of  Evil '  brou(jht  Johnsoti 
repute,  also  wrote  an  '  Essay  on  Dancing,'  fanmus 
in  its  day,  and  was  by  no  means  such  a  fool  as  the 
Doctor  and  Boewoll  made  out.     Johnson's  **  moat 

!  exquisite  critical  essay  "  anywhere,  as  Boswell  calls 
it.  Its  victim  and  subject  never  forgave,  writing  a 

(  scurrilous  epita])h  on  his  reviewer  many  years  later. 
Johnians  of  this  time  also  were  Dr.  Heberden,  who 

I  attended  Johnson  on  his  deathbed,  and  the  satirist 

i  Churchill,  whom    Boswoll    defende<i   against   the 
charge  of  Ijcing  a  blockhead. 

^lany  singular  chiu^ctera  appear  in  these  paRes, 
and  no  one  can  fail  to  be  struck  with  the  cheerful* 
nesB  and  hilarity  which  is  so  frequently  noted  as 
a  characteriHtie  of  tliese  university  men.  From 
oar  own  columns  is  iiuoLe<l  a  curious  account 
of  the  marriage  of  Robert  Ijinib.  who  wrote  booka 
on  chess  snd  the  battle  of  Flodden,  and  selected  a 
carrier's  daughter  be  had  not  teen  for  many  years 
as  his  spouse.  .S ho  was  to  make  herself  known  to 
him  by  walking  down  the  street  with  a  tea-caddy 
under  her  arm.  She  did  so,  but  he  was  too  absent- 
minded  to  bo  there,  though  he  met  and  married 
her  in  due  course  through  the  intervention  of  an 
old  Castoros- House  officer. 

An  odd  forgotten  worthy  is  Dr.  John  Brown, 
the  author  of '  BarbaroHsa,' a  play  for  which  (iarrick 
wrote  Prologue  anil  E)iilnj;ue,  and  a  book  on  the 
manners  of  the  time.i  which  in  17J7  went  through 
seven  editions.  His  reputation  for  organixiiig  edu- 
cation was  such  that  he  was  engaged  to  go  to 
Russia  by  the  Empress,  and  given  1,000/.  for  the 
journey,  which  his  ill-health  prevented-  There 
were  very  serious  people  about  in  these  days,  too, 
such  as  the  Hulse  of  various  theological  benefac- 
tions to  the  University,  who  left  a  will  of  nearly 
four  hundred  pages  of  closely  written  n  t  ! 

Next  to  Hornc  Tooke,  on  whom  tli  K.-e 

pages  of  excellent  notes,  comes  .Stetih'  .,iie, 

who  in  1770  horsewhipjied  and  kicked  a  "Jip,"  as 
Cole  spells  it.  The  jip  died,  and  Fovargue  ab- 
sconded to  France,  ana  played  the  violin  in  the 
streets  of  Paris  as  a  l)eg!pr.  Finally,  in  l(/4  ho 
returned  "  to  Cambridge  in  long  dirty  rutiliM,  his 
hair  lied  up  with  a  piece  of  pack-thread,  and  In  a 
sailor's  jacket,  and  yellow  trousers,"  and  was  ac- 
quitted on  the  deposition  of  various  doctors,  as  the 
college  servant  had  been  in  ill-health  for  some  timo 
before  being  maltreated.  What  romance  and 
adventure  such  careers,  illuminated  by  the  ad- 
mirable collections  of  Cole,  Nichols,  and  others, 
and  the  exemplary  research  of  the  pi^'  -■  •■*  'his 
Kegister,  afford  may  l>e  guessed  from  tn  us. 

Wo  wish  that  olner  great  foundatu  id 

and  Cambridge  would  indtate  that  of  St.  John  the 
Evangelist  in  the  zealous  collection  of  material* 
growing  every  day  harder  to  find. 

Sont/x  of  the  Vhie.  ffith  a  Mnltey  for  ^falhnMtiu. 

Selected  and  eciitcd  by  William  G.  Hutchinsan, 

(Hullen.) 
Tm:  parentage  of  this  volume  conBtitntee  .%  voucher 
for  its  menis.    SttUicloii  by  Mr.   Hutchinson,  and 
l^bliahcd  by  Mr.  BuUen,  tantc  and  jutlgmeut  hav» 


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presided  over  its  birth,  and  it  ia  llie  ntoat  enjoyable 
work  of  il«  class  to  which  the  enlightened  and 
sympathetic  student  may  turn.  Alo  and  beer  songs 
we  have  in  iileuty  :  but  we  know  not  where  else  to 
point  to  so  htirniilating  a  collection  of  bacchanalian 
mics.  Not  only  Mr.  P.uUcD,  but  the  late  W.  E, 
Henley  h»B  assisted  in  the  task  of  selection.  The 
opening  poem  consiHtfi  of  the  immortal  drinkini;- 
800K  aaaiKned  soniewhatdubiously  to  Walter  MapeH. 
From  thi«.  however,  one  or  two  Btan2a»i,  especially 
that  beginuinn 

Magis  quani  ecclesiam  diligo  tabemani, 
disappear,  a  matter  of  which  wo  do  not  complain, 
but  for  which  we  are  sorry.  Lei^h  Hunt's  familiar 
translation  is  piven.  Much  of  this  is  good.  Would 
not  the  following  be  a  better  reuderinu  of  the  tirat 
■tanza?— 

In  a  tavern  I  propose  to  end  my  days  a-drinkinjf, 
With  the  wine-atoup  near  my  hand  to  seize  when  I 

amsinkine; 
That  celestial  choirs  may  sii)?,  sweet  angel  voices 

linking, 
Ood  be  merciful  to  one  who  drank  well  without 

shrinking. 
The  credit  of  writing  the  famoas  "  Back  and  side 
Ro  bare"  is  withdrawn  from  Bishop  Still;  but  the 
Rev.  John  Home,  of  '  Douglas '  fame,  is  responsible 
for  the  praise  of  claret,  and  the  Kev.  Joim  lilack- 
lock,  D.D..  for  that  of  j)unch,  while  Dean  Aldrich 
is  credited  with  the  five  excellent  'Reasons  for 
Drinking.'  Those  who  supply  the  remaining  lyrics 
include  Lyiy,  Shakespeare,  Jonaon,  Herrick,  Heury 
Vauehan,  Congreve,  Dr.  Johnson,  Sheridan,  (iold- 
sniitb.  Burns,  Blake,  Thackeray,  and  innumerable 
others,  besides  some  few  writers  of  later  date.  It 
is  s  fine  collection,  truly,  almost  the  only  really 
immortal  lyric  we  fail  to  see  beinn  that  concerning 
"All  our  men  were  very  merry,"  which  probably 
does  not  come  into  the  scheme.  A  poem  assigned 
to  Thackeray,  called '  Commanders  of  the  Faithful,' 
we  knew  very  many  years  ago  in  a  different  form. 
Pernibsion  has  been  obtained  to  insert  Sir  Theo- 
dore Martin's  (or  Aytoun's)  '  Direo  of  the  Drinker.' 
Wo  repeat  that  for  those  to  whom  bacchanalian 
chants  appeal  the  volume  will  bring  unending 
delight. 

The  Jmlieia!  Dictionary  of  Words  and  Phituttn 
Judicialty  IiUtrprtiid.  By  F.  btroud.  Second 
Edition.  3  vols.  (Sweet  &  Maxwell.) 
SiNCK  the  apiwaranco  in  1800,  from  the  same  pub- 
lishers, of  tiio  tirst  edition.  Stroud's  'Judicial 
Dictionary  '  has  Ijeen  enlarged  to  thrice  ita  original 
Bt/.e.  'i'his  is  ilue  in  |iart  to  the  amplificatiun  of 
materials.  The  augmentation  of  size  may,  how- 
ever, be  taken  as  a  proof  of  the  utility  of  a  work 
wl\ich  is,  in  its  way,  uniijne,  and  has,  as  its  author 
justly  observes,  neither  predecessor  nor  rival.  Its 
first  and  most  obvious  a])peal  is  to  lawyers,  to 
the  more  intellectual  and  philosophical  among 
whom  it  ia  iridijpensable.  Its  aims  extend,  how- 
ever, far  beyiin<i  this  limited  circle,  since  it  is 
sought  to  make  it  "  the  authorit-itivo  Interiireter 
f,f  tlw.  i>'i,  -iislj  of  .\irair«  for  the  British  Emiiire." 
I  its    ntility   does    not    end,   anu   the 

1  uill    do   well    to   have    it    at    hi«    hanrl 


whicli  have  rettiveii  iiiii:<r^>rel<iiiun  by  the  judKcv. 
Not  easy  is  it  to  convoy  to  those  who  are  imfumiliar 


with  the  work  an  idea  of  its  nature  and  methods. 
A  basis  is  to  be  found  in  works  such  as  Cowel's 
'Interpreter'  and  the  like,  but  the  general  moss 
of  information  is  derived  from  decisions  in  the 
various  courts.  A  rjreliniinary  *  Table  of  Cases' 
occupies  over  one  hundred  and  twenty  closely 
printed  pages  in  double  columns,  to  which  a  '  Table 
of  Statutes'  adds  some  fifty  pages  more,  other 
lists  of  abbreviations  bringing  the  preliminary 
matter  up  to  two  hundred  and  twenty  fiagefl. 
Sometimes  the  information  given  is  purely  legal, 
ae  when,  under  'Cheese,*  we  are  told,  with  a  cross- 
reference  to  '  Margarine,'  that  what  is  known  aa 
cheese  contains  "no  fat  derived  otherwise  than 
from  milk  " ;  sometimes  it  seems  arbitrary,  iis  whea 
we  find,  under  'Crew,'  that  "the  crew  does  not 
always  mean  the  whole  crew."  Sometimes,  again^ 
it  is  of  widespread  influence,  as  when  we  meet  the 
many  definitions  of  'Crime.'  Often  ii  is  technical, 
as  under  headings  such  as  'Negative  Pregnant '^ 
sometimes,  again,  the  information  au|)plied  is  vir- 
tually negative,  as  when  we  hear  that  "the  word 
'indecently'  has  no  definite  legal  meaning,"  or 
learn  that  "'negligence'  is  not  an  affirmative 
word,"  but  is  "  the  absence  of  such  care,  skill,  and 
diligence  as  it  was  the  duty  of  the  person  to  bring 
to  the  performance  of  the  work  which  he  is  said 
not  to  have  performed."  Any  work  that,  facilitates 
reference,  and  in  so  doing  saves  time,  is  of  extreme 
importance,  and  in  this  re8|)ect,  aa  in  others,  the 
present  book  should  be  fouud  in  every  library  of 
reference,  private  as  well  as  public. 

27ie  CofJtcled  Potnxs  of  Lord  i/e  TaUey.    (Chapman 

ft  Hall.) 
Tbess  oollect«d  poems  of  John  Bvrne  Leicester 
Warren,  third  ana  last  Lord  de  Tabley,  are  issued 
without  any  form  of  preface  or  introduction  beyond 
an  inserted  slip  to  the  effect  that  a  single  poem, 
entitled  '  Orpheus  in  Hades.'  is  reprinted  from  the 
Xiiietieiilh  Cnutiiri/hy  permission  of  .Mr.  [.Sir) James 
T.  Knowloa-  They  include,  preanmably,  all  that  is 
fouud  worthy  of  prescr\'ation  in  the  volumes  issued 
respectively  in  1850  and  1862  under  the  pseudonym 
of  (jeoree  F.  Preston,  and  in  18<J3  and  18(58  under 
that  of  William  Lancaster,  the  anonymously  pnb» 
lishtd  tragedies  of  '  Philoctetes'  and  '  Orestes,'  and 
the  verses  subsequently  given  (1873,  1876)  under  the 
writer's  own  name,    'fheir  reappearance  has  been 

E  receded  by  that  of  selections,  which  wonld,  itmighb 
avo  been  supposed,  have  sutficed  for  the  require- 
ments of  the  average  reader.  There  is,  however,  a 
class— with  which  we  aympathize— which,  if  it  ia  to 
have  a  poet  at  all,  asks  for  him  in  his  entirety, 
and  to  this  the  present  volume  appeals.  Lord  ae 
Tabley's  poems  are  the  i)roduct8  of  a  thoughtful, 
highly  cultivated,  and  richly  endowed  mind,  which 
at  its  best  rises  near  inspiration.  They  have  been 
sadly  over])raised  by  writers  who  should  know 
better,  but  who  may  be  pardoned,  i>erhaps,  the 
dosiro  to  find  in  the  dead  level  of  mediocrity  of 
modern  verse  some  promise  of  better  things,  and 
they  owe  something  to  unconscious  imitation  of  the 
best  models.  The  subjects  arc  largely  classical,  but 
are  not  treated  in  the  conventional  manner.  It  is 
curious,  indee<l,  to  encounter  a  tragedy  with  the 
title  of  '  Orctps'  rnntaiiiin;;  !<•■>  nifntiin  of  I'yUdes, 

:"  '  \iit 

'ir. 

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at.  ins  beat,    bonioliiue*,  na  i"   '  llie   Nyiiiuli   aad. 
the  Hunter,'  the  subject  of  wVi.viV\S»y(a.Mix-vJv'&&5S>Aa^, 


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he  shows  a  fervid  imagitiation.  Hia  style  w  fre- 
ouently  too  el*bor»le,  bub  his  book  deserve*,  anrl 
will  i-ew^ive.  a.  welooine.  'On  a  Portrait  of  hir 
John  Suckline'  (p.  277)  i«  an  interesting  poem.  To 
it  is  appended  a  foot-note  making  a  promise  which 
13  nowhere  fulfilled. 
The  Caihf.drcd  Church  of  St.   Patrick    By  J.  H- 

Bernard,  D.D.  (Bell  k  Sons.) 
To  "  Bell's  Cathedral  Series"  has  been  added  a 
volume  on  the  cathedral  church  of  Su  Patrick, 
Dublin,  compiled  by  the  Dean.  In  addition  to 
the  iiitscellaneouB  documents  contained  in  the 
■'Dignitaa  Decani'  which  were  used  by  Monck 
Mason  in  his  '  History  of  St.  Patrick's  falhedral, 
the  Patent  Rolls  ami  Papal  Registers  jjublisJied 
under  the  direction  of  the  Master  of  tlie  Rolls  have 
l)een  laid  under  contribution,  so  that  the  volume 
is  complete  as  regards  historical  information.  In 
addition  to  illustrations  from  Monck  Maaon's 
inonuniental  work,  from  Ware's  '  Antiquities,  from 
Walton's  'Dublin,'  and  from  Whilolaw's  'History 
of  Dublin,'  the  work  is  enriched  by  photographic 
views,  reisBuea  of  ancient  print*!,  and  reproductions 
of  braases,  4c.  A  list  of  the  Deans  of  St  Patrick's, 
from  William  FitzGuido  in  1*219  to  the  writer  of 
the  present  volume,  is  appended.  These,  of  course, 
comprise  Philip  Norris.  14.'>7,  excommunicated  by 
Pope  EuKenius  IV. ;  William  King,  subseipietilly 
Archbishop ;  and  Jonathan  Swift.  The  bust  of 
the  last  named  in  Carrara  marble,  nresenlod  in 
1775  by  a  nephew  of  Alderman  Faulkner,  is  alao 

iven.  Swift  a  remains  are  buried  in  the  nave. 
^f  Stella,  who  is  buried  near  .Swift,  the  Dean  sava, 
"  Her  sad  and  sbraneo  history  has  never  been  fully 
revealed  to  the  world,  and  her  relations  with  the 
Dean  [Swift]  will,  probably,  always  bo  a  mystery." 

How  to  Decipher  mid  Study  Old  Docnmciifi.  By 
E.  E.  Thoyts  (Mra.  John  Hautcnville  Cope), 
(Slock.) 
^KS  years  have  elapsed  since  the  api)earance  of 
Mn>.  Cope's  useful  and  well-arranged  volume  (see 
8""  S.  iv.  100),  and  a  second  edition  is  now  forlh- 
coming.  For  the  young  student  it  is  probably  the 
most  serviceable  work  in  existence  Ihe  old  intro- 
duction of  Jir.  Trice  Martin  is  reproduced.  In 
her  preface  tho  author  answers  the  obieotiou  we 
advanced  in  our  previous  notice  against  ner  second 
chapter  on  handwriting,  and  insists  that  a  careful 
atudy  of  every  line  and  letter  is  useful,  a  statement 
we  are  prepared  to  accept.  Wo  had,  indeed,  no 
notion  then,  nor  have  we  now,  of  censure,  tho  book 
for  its  purpose  being  entitled  to  high  nraise.  We 
hope  Mrs.  Uopo  will  lonu  continuo  her  labours,  and 
sometimes,  as  she  has  done  previously,  favour  ua 
with  the  resulls. 

TUK  Jlixonl  of  the  Summer  ExcvrMonx  of  the 
ffpper  jVor»coot/.  Athciunnn  for  rjM  ia  full  of 
interest.  The  places  visited  include  Clandoa  uid 
Merrow,  when  Mr.  Charles  Wheeler,  the  chairman 
for  the  year,  conducted.  Tho  manor  of  West 
Clandon  datea  back  to  Kdward  U.  The  house 
was  imparked  in  1521,  and  in  the  days  of 
■Charles  I.  enlarged  and  improved  by  Sir  Richard 
Onslow.  "The  present  mansion  was  built  by 
Thomas,  the  second  Earl,  in  1731.  from  designs  by 
iiiacomo  Leoni.  a  Venetian.  Iho  next  ramble 
was  to  Wamham  Court,  Mr.  Henry  V.rgoo  b«ing 
the  leader.  The  manor  was  held  by  W  ilham  de 
iuve  in  127'2.  Ita  present  poaseasor  is  Mr.  Charles 
T  'lu^    Tbe  paVly  aftefwards  visited  the  new 


Christ's  Hospital  Schools  at  Horsham,  erected  «tj 
A  cost  of  1100,000/.      The  buildiugs   contain  "  fortj 
miles  of  hot-water  pipes  and   ninety-eight  miled 
of   electric    wires."     Another    iilace'  visited   waif 

Holmbury  Camp,  when  Mr.  T.  H.  .\lexander 

a  paper.  Mr.  William  Frederick  Potter  took  the 
ramblers  to  Bex  ley  Heath  and  Crayfonl.  Crayford 
Church  is  remarkable  for  its  nave,  which  "has  the 
very  singular  plan  of  a  row  of  columns  and  arches, 
down  the  centre,  abutting  against  the  chancel  arch.'*] 
Mr.  \V.  T.  Vincent,  the  antiquary,  of  Woolwich, 
informed  Mr.  Potter  "  that  he  l>elieve8  the  only 
other  example  of  this  kind  in  P]ogland  is  in  the 
church  at  Grasmere,  We.stntiorelaud."  At  Bexley 
the  Red  House,  erected  by  William  Morris  in  liCiT  ^ 
was  visited.  It  was  of  this  house  that  RossettS" 
wrote  in  186"2,  "  Above  all,  I  wish  yon  could  see  the 
house  Morris  has  built  for  himself  in  Kent.  It  is 
a  most  uoble  work  in  every  way.  and  more  a  i>oem 
than  a  house,  such  as  anything  else  could  lead  vuu 
to  conceive,  but  an  admirable  place  to  live  in,  too." 
In  another  trip  Mr.  Frank  E.  Spiers  conducted  the 
laat  of  his  series  of  visita  to  Oxford.     Mr.  G.  H. 

Suartermain's  excursion  was  to  Roydon  and  Nether j 
all.     Selsdon   Park,  as  well  aa  Redboume  anif 
Hemol  Hempstead,  by  the  editors,  form  interestii, 
papers,  as  also  does    Horton  and  \^'raysb^^y,'  bj 
Mr.  'Theophilns  Pitt,  who  has  been  chosen  as  tk 
future  editor  of  the  annual  transactious,  to  succee 
Mr,  J.  Stanley  and  Mr.  W.   F.    Harradence,  wh 
have   ably  edited   the   *  Record '  during   tho  pal 
eleven  years.     We  cordially  wish  the  new  editor 
like  Buocesa.         

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H.  Cecil  Bill.— "Kismet"  equals  fate.  For 
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0 JW*  t  Xsraorikl  Hall  MiUMiBfi,  tt.  F^rritHrdoa  Btiw*,  LoMea,  K.C. 

Pnom: 

■na  airhc  Bob.  th*  KABl,  of  liOSBBB&T.  X.O. 

Piciiilest ; 

Tha  RIf  kt  Hoik.  iHt  LOKl>  OLBMBSK. 

TpcAiarer • 

TbI  LONDUN  Kai  WK.-<  TM IN81  KU  BANK.  LUflTXD. 

3K.  l«U«o*.  W.C. 

TnutMt  fRx  oidcta  McnbenotGomiBlMMj: 

CHAIltiBs  HBNKT  WALTBK,  E«| 

HOKACB  HH.OOK8  IfAJUHALL,  B«q.,  M.A.  J.P.  T>  L. 

Ai.i'imu  BBMUV  H&NCB,  B«)  (CtelrBUd  Of  ConiainM, 

CHAULE8  .VWJIKY,  B«<|.,  II  ik. 

OBilKTa  — Tlilt  InttlrntioB  mi  eilabllUieil  In  1B«  In  the  Clt]'  of 

LoBitOB,  BBder  Ihm  Vntldtaef  o[   lb*    l&M    ;U<lcniun    Uarmcr.    tor 

fimaUDr    f«iiilaa<    Bud    TcmpoTBrf    AaaMtanee    M     prlselpBlt    sad 

ftulBOUict  B&OIC0^  BA  Tondor*  of  aewapBpftn. 

A.  DoBBttoB  at  Tan  UulBi«t  contututM  k  %'i«a-Prr«l4«Bt  bbJ  (1t»i 
thTM  votfa  l<ir  Ufa  at  all  el««tion>  Uneh  doBBtlon  of  I'hrca  Ouini»« 
«tac«  a  Tnic  at  all  •Icciloni  lor  Ufa  Brar^  ABBoal  Raharnher  It 
«BUUa<ltoonaToMBtaU«l»«ttontlB  napect  of  BBOh  PtT»  8bllilB|«  aa 
paid. 

MXMUBUAHtr  -KTBfT  man  asd  woman  thmfhoat  Iba  l^DlMd 
KIb||4ob>,  whrMier  puMiabcr,  wholMBler.  retailer.  emnlor«r  or  em- 

IilOTBd.  I*  antiUcil  to  bocome  a  mniuber  at  thii  InaUtquon.  tai  «n]0) 
taMBBlUa  apnn  parmriit  ot  rire  MbilllBfi  aanoallr  or  llire*  Oalnaaa 
tsrlAla,  rroTlded  tbai  he  nr  aha  la  eooretl  In  tbr  aalg  of  namnapera. 

The  pnaelpal  leatnrea  ot  tha  Balaa  troraroiar  electiaa  to  all  Panaioat 
■ra.  chBi  tmta  csndldAW  ahBll  hB*t  iwrn  ilia  member  of  the  iBaUlutlon 
lor  not  leaa  Ihah  ua  yaua  preoedliif  applleauan-.  (*i  an  laaa  Ibaa 
aitr-Ht*  T«an  s(  B<B  1  (Si  •acacBd  la  the  aale  of  Be«ipa|i«n  torat  leaat 
tea  7aara. 

MBUBr.— Tempoiarr  relief  la  »lTen  In  eaaai  of  dlalr«M,  not  OBlr 
to  Kembera  of  (ha  laetllaUoB,  but  u>  n«w»T<iadora  or  Uxlr  MrTaaia 
who  mar  be  reeomaiBBdBd  lor  aaalataoce  br  Hrmhera  of  the  Inatiration. 
lB4«<rr  !•  mad*  la  aneh  caa«a  ttj  TUlllna  Commlttara.  anil  relial  la 
awaidad  to  aeeardaBO*  with  the  meriu  and  r«iiiireni«qt«  of  raon  «*«. 
W.  WILKJB  JUNBH.  KecrvUry. 


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NOTES  AND  QUEKIK.'^ 
to  l«OTB6  LPv  urilKIBf<  r 
or  xli.M  forTirelra  MoBtiii.lii 
r)tA.MCl»,  HtUt  mJ  uiafU40»ii 


Thp    RT-R.Sf^IUPTION 


Mod  thai 
.'iiti  C. 


"Bsaaala*  veil  ^oar  blood.    H* 

Vrom  Joha  of  Gaont  doch  brlBx  tale  pe^tiTTve  *^~i 

ANCESTRY.  Engluh,  S 
TIIACBD  Iriioi  8TAT8  tU.' 
Bad  BmiRraot  ramlllea  — Mr  H) 
Baeier.  mai  I,  fpham  Fark  Kaad.  c  hiioi.k.,  l.unaoo   w 


■ncatJ, 

i:a(laii<l 
<a  licwd. 


^EDIGBEES     and    AKMOKIAL     BSAJilNUS. 

L.  OtILLKTUN,  03,  I'lKatftllj,  LondoB. 


II 


BUALDIC  ENG HAVING,   Book- Plate;,  Beala. 

8|>rctal  attaoUoa  tlTcn  to  accniaref  of 


tUaa.  Mom  Paav,  *e. 

beraiate  dalaU. 


Bafrared    Copper-plata   Bad  SO   l««t  quality 


V18IT1MO   OA&IM: 

Ckr«a,«a. 

CVUJrroM'S.  n,  PleeadlUj-,  Utadoa. 


AGBKCV  FOB  AMBHICAX  BOOKB. 

/:;     P,    PUTNAM'S   SONS,    POBLIBHERS   and 

af  n  and  ».  Wait  ttrd  Btraet.  Kew  Yort.  and  :«.  BBUruKU  ^TUBXT, 
LONUuK,  W.C,  iiaaita  to  rail  tha  aiiaailon  at  the  KKADINO 
PVBI.IC  10  lh«  aaeellaBt  laciuuaa  praaaolcd  by  their  RraacB  lloute  la 
Uoadoo  (or  IIIUbk,  oa  tlka  moat  laTaurabli  larma.  ordere  tor  chair 
»n  STAADA.II.I>  rtlULlCATIONB.  Bad  for  ikIX  AUKaitlUt 
UOUKA. 

OatalocBBi  aant  ana  ppiieauoa . 


BOOKS.— ALL  ODT-OF-PBINT  BOOKB  Bap- 
yUad,  BO  BACter  oa  what  8ab)aet  Arkaowitdfaa  ih>  world  o«cr 
»«the  Bteeieacart  RnunflanarioxaDt.  rir«««  tcaM  waata.— KAJ^'II'B 
OraatBookahop,  li-lB.  Joha  Drlfht  Mraat.  BlmUathaai. 


TBMTH  BUITIOM,  price  Slapenee.  eiath 

I>£MARKABLB  COMETS  :  a  Krief  Survey  of  the 

M.\i    nrtat  iBlereaUnc  PacU  In  tha  UUtorr  Ot  CaaiatarT  AnroaOBT 

ut  w.  t.  l\hs.  ha.  r.KA.s. 

BAKItsuN  U)W  B  CD.  St  l>iiBitan'i HoBM.  Peiur  Laac,  BO. 


NOW  KBAIIT,  THIRD  EDITION.  UBVIIiKt)  and    BNLAKOBt). 

'l^HE     PENNY     CHRONOLOGY:     a    Series    of 

X  Importaac  l)«l«i  la  tha  HIatorjr  of  the  World  from  the  Rain  al 
Paai'd  to  the  PrvaaBtTuaa.  Third  BdlUoa.  Kjr  W  r  L\NM,  lia. 
F  Ic.,A.h 

BAMFSUH  LOW  A  CO   «t.  imBitan  a  Honae,  Feiur  Laaa,  BC. 


T'HE     AUTHOR'S     HAIRLESS     PAPER- PAD. 
(The  LBACBMHALL  I'KBBe.  Ltd     Pabluhenand  rrlaCen, 
to.  Leadenhall  Hcreec.  tooaoB.  B.C  ) 
C«8lalBa  hajrlaM    paper.  »>ar  which  the    pen   allpa  witli  pcrlBit 
freadom.    Mflpebce  each.    ft.,  per  doaaa.  rnlvd  ot  plain     New  POM M 
41aa,  Sr.  per  doxen,  nilad  or  plala. 

Aalhon  ahnuld  note  that  The  I«adaohall  l'f«ai,  ltd  .  raaBOt  tia 
rMpaatlble  tor  the  lo<*  of  KB8.  by  Bra  or  otherwiic,  UuplloBM  eopterf 
•boBid  be  retalaad. 

STICKPHAST  PASTE  is  miles  bett..r  ilian  Gutn 
loT  aWehlBftB  Herapa,  joinlnir  Papan.  *c  ■  ih 

•troncaaaliU  ttrsih  (not  a  lof  I.     Aesa  twu  •!-  .<9 

lor  a  tamnla   BolUe.  loeladiB(  Hmah      PBcti>> !  '  i. 

Ueadcahallaireat.  ac.    Of  all  StaUoBara.    Bttetpnut  r-ajK  »ic«a. 


ATHEN^DM      PRESS.— JOHN  KDWAKD 

■*-*-     FRANCIS.  Prlnier  of  i«i  Alhm^tim.  Xft  rt»J  -                           . 

prapared  lo  (UltMlT  B»TIMATBS   /nr  aU  ainda  ijt 

Bad    I'BKIODICAL    raiSTUHO.— 1».    Hraaai'i    Hall.  t 


'r UN  BRIDGE    WELLS.-ComfortAbly    FUR. 

i^TV. '"•??»"'•  •'"'  «»B«iBi.     rarea  mibuub   walk  from  a  B  K  It  C. 
«~i'oB.    >.«  «j.,r,  uaea.-a.  H  .  «,  Or«»a  Hill  Itoaa,  nattMf* 


10*  8. 1,  fkb.  6. 19M.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


101 


LONDON,  HATVRDAT,  FSBBIAH}' C,  toor,. 


CONTENTS.-N0.  6. 


nOTBS :— The  PlouahunDK  and  other  MeMurec,  101— The 
Fint  Billtloa  or  Horiw«,  103  — Carpenler'f  'Qeognvby 
Delineated,'  101— Pigr  ai><l  KlII-plK— Bo«b«in'a  Inn,  Ald- 
wych,  10&— 0.  Bernard  Gib»on— Belles  of  St.  Gregory  the 
Qreat.  lOS. 

^OEKIBS:  — J.  Turin,  French  Clookinaker —"  Twenty 
thousand  niffiaiiR  "—John  Oor<lon  and  Znffany— Hu'liler»- 
field  HUtory— Court  I'mt*  under  Staart  Kings  -CompoBer 
and  Origin  ot  Air  —  Dolores,  Musical  Oompoaer— Son  u( 
Kapoteou  I  — "  Glnierro,"  107— Nicholas  Fermr't  'Hai^ 
monlei '— " The  elernnl  feminlne"—Wolfe— Children  on 
the  Statte— Buckingham  Hall,  Camliridga,  106— Mortimer 
— Cbrlstalwllik  Tyrri-ll-Klpples— Psalter  anfl  Latin  MS.— 
* Beoommendeil  to  Mercy' — Carved  Stone— Col.  T.  Cixiper 
—Torch  and  Taper,  100. 

SBPLIB6  :-Liimb.  Colrridee,  and  Mr.  Mav.  109-"0h«pe- 
roned  by  her  father  "—Sh«ke«p«»r«'«  "Virtue  of  neoea- 
ilty,"  110  — Bmmot  and  Du  Kontenay  Letters— Ipswich 
Apprentice  Books  — '  Memoirs  of  a  Stomach  '  —  Werden 
Abliey— ■•Clyse'— "Papers "—The  "Ship"  Hot«I.  Green- 
wich," 111— John  Denmau —  Glowworm  or  Fin'fly— "  All 
roads  lead  to  Rome."  lia-Venisoii  in  Summer— HerVrrt 
Spencer  on  BIIMRrd*  —  Downing  Family  — Ash:  Place- 
name,  UU-Barllest  Playbill —NlKbtc&pa  —  QUMl  Manu- 
roi-iure  ~"  Prior  to"— Before,  lU-JFro«t  and  Its  Forms— 
C«|'"''cum— Buchre,  118. 

2IOTBS  ON  BOOKS:— 'The  Works  of  Thomas  Na«he'- 
Dllcbfield's  'Memorials  of  Old  Oxfordshire '—' KinKs' 
L«llera  ■  —  '  The  Biitish  Journal  of  Psycholo((y '  —  The 
*  Burlington '  and  other  Magnziues  —  Boukiellert*  Cata- 
logue*. 

NotlCM  to  Corrwipondents, 


I 


THE  PLOUGHGANG  AND  OTHER 
MEASURES. 
The  typical  holding  of  Eni;Ii*th  land  in  the 
Jftventh  and  twelfth  centuries  was  the  yard- 
land  or  virgate.  It  contained  thirty  acres, 
and  wai  tho  fourth  part  of  a  hide,  hov  the 
word.s  "  yardland  "  and  "  virgate  "  mean  pri- 
marily a  rood  or  Quarter  of  an  acre.*  But 
why  should  a  holding  of  thirty  acres  have 
been  called  a  rood  1  Tho  answer  ia  that  a 
rood  of  land  was  the  area  of  tho  "  nae-isuage" 
which  bolonged  to  a  hoIdioK  of  thirty  acres, 
and  was  the  tneasure  thereof.  When  men 
said  that  X  was  tho  holder  of  a  "  yard  "  or 
'*  rood  "  of  land  they  usually  meant  that  ho 
was  the  possessor  of  an  arable  holding  which 


•  This  was  proved  by  Prof.  Maitland  in  '  Domes- 
<lay  Hook  and  Bcyona,'  pp.  381-5.  See  also  *Cui- 
tnmal*  of  lUttlo  Abbey'  (Camden  Soc),  p.  124, 
where  we  have  "  viij  acraa  et  dicuidi&m  ot  una 
virRatft."  and  Bimib^r  entries.  Mr.  NilmiolsoV,  in 
ai  '     ■  '  '  Verge  and  Yard '  (9»*  y.  vii. 

'J^  l>lo  tbat  viTijiff  [=virgate]aa 

rt    .  H.'ijuired  the  seuae  uf  Aquar- 

tor,  till*  U-rm  IjHuji/.m!  wonid  ivUo  be  applied  to  tho 

?uartoroftb»'hiib'-"    Mr,  Round (' Fondnl  England,' 
'^''  '■'■     '  '  .1.1.  ^,^   may 

h  1  if  thai 

V  I'liiiired 

lltu  rtuii/.uu(  Mi  t;le;lil  li.  uiiii  I  Ijo  l.itiiti^oi  iduughgan^ 
must  have  acquired  the  nensic  of  a  half. 


was  measured  by  a  rood  of  "  messuage,"  the 
area  of  the  messuage  being  to  the  arable 
holding  as  I  to  120.  Of  course  a  man  might 
hold  an  actual  rood  and  no  more,  but  tlie 
context  of  surveys  usually  enables  us  to  dis- 
tinguish between  the  rood  which  was  the 
measure  of  a  larger  holding  and  the  rood 
which  was  an  actual  quarter  of  an  acre.  I 
have  taken  the  virgate  first  because  it  was 
the  typical  holding,  and  because  the  equiva- 
lent word  "  rood  "  can  be  more  easily  under- 
8to<:)d  than  "  bovate"  or  "oxgang." 

I  have  already,  in  the  form  of  a  table,* 
summarized  my  theory  that  every  bovate  of 
fift«en  acres  was  measured  by  half  a  rood  of 
messuage  ;  that  every  virgate  of  thirty  acres 
was  measured  by  a  rood  of  messuage;  that 
every  half -hide,  or  carucate,t  was  measured 
by  two  rwjds  or  half  an  acre  of  messuage  ; 
and  that  every  hide  or  casate^  of  a  liundrca 
and  twenty  acres  was  measured  by  an  acre 
of  messuage.  If,  then,  virgate  moans  pri- 
marily a  rood  of  land,  bovate  should  mean 
half  a  rood,  carncate  should  mean  two  roods, 
and  casrtte  should  mean  an  acre.  Let  hs  take 
these  words  in  numerical  order,  and  inquire 
whether  this  supposition  is  well  founded. 

1.  Seeing  that  the  holder  of  a  virgate  was 
called  a  yardliuK.  and  the  holder  of  a  bovate 
a  half-yard ling,.^  it  is  probable  that  if  virgate 
originally  meant  rood,  bovate  meant  half- 
rood.  There  are  indications  that  it  did  so. 
The  English  term  for  the  late  Latin  homta 
or  boviga  was  oxgang,||  oxegan(g)dale,  or 
oskin.  and  this  quantity  of  land  was  loosely 
reganled  in  the  seventeenth  century  as  a 
holding  not  of  fifteen  acres,  but  as  a  piece  of 

•  9"'  S.  vi.  ,304. 

-f  Relying  on  wnll-known  authorities,  I  have 
hitherto  regarded  the  hide  and  the  caracate  as 
equivalent  terms.  The  fact  that  the  carucate  wu 
really  only  half  a  hide  in  no  way  a  (Tec  la  my  tables. 
It  is  often  described  as  cootaiDirig  sixty  acres. 

%  "  Men  are  beginning  to  epeak  of  manent«(, 
raialfs,  tributaries  'of  land  '  much  as  they  would 
apeak  of  acren  or  perches  of  land"  (Maitland, 
lU  mtpra,  p.  359). 

§  "Isti  subscripti  dicuntur  half-crdlinges " 
('Customals  of  Battle   Abbey,'    p.    77),    "  Vherd- 

lingea cualomaiii"  (iV-iW.,  p.  42).     The  yardling 

i»  sometimes  called  virgariMi  or  riryalariiiJ'.  Uall- 
tofts,  as  whU  as  tofts,  are  often  mentioned  in  old 
BUtA-eys:  "in  uno  tofto  et  dimidio"  (' Couchor 
Book  of  Selby.'  i.  3"22).  We  have  also  "  nn-dietatem 
capit&lis  niansi,"  half  a  capital  measure  (iV»W.,  ii. 
274).  When  a  nieesuage,  or  a  tolt,  bud  not  boon 
partitioned,  but  remained  in  ita  original  condition, 
il  was  described  as  a  whole  messuage  or  (oft,  and 
it  ig  from  tlii  (bat  we  get  the  word  "all" 

which   ntu .  ihe    "parcels"   of    modem 

deeds.     Th-  id  was  fo/ti»»i, 

I      II  "  Doratn,   ft    lioxKangyn    lond "  ;     "fcowojrjo.,    «. 
ooxgaug"  (Wrisbi-Wdl<iW<it'  \Qft.\i»i^V 


I 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


^ 


102 


im  S.  L  Fra.  6,  igW. 


land  containing  half  an  acre,  or  aa  much 
land  as  two  oxen  could  plough  in  a  day.*  It 
was  also  regarded  as  so  much  land  as  a  team 
of  oxen  could  plough  in  a  day.t  If  we  look 
at  the  word  oxgang  closely  we  shall  find  that 
gan//  translates  the  Latin  ac/wjj,  and  that  the 
oxgang  (ox-path)  was  the  patli  which  a  pair 
of  oxen  traversed  as  they  walked  from  one 
end  of  a  piece  of  land  to  the  other.  It  is  a 
mistake  to  associate  the  oxgang  with  a  single 
ox,  for  the  ox  never  ploughed  singly,  and 
Hexham  in  his  'Nether-Dutch  Dictionary' 
was  right  in  associating  it  with  a  pair  of 
oxen,  but  wrong  in  associating  it  with  half 
an  acre.  He  ought  to  have  said  "half  a 
rood."  Sir  Henry  Spelman  (1562-1643) 
defines  the  oxgang  as  ''so    much  land    as 

suffices  for  the  path  or  actus  of  an  ox But 

we  understand  it  to  refer  to  yoked  oxen.  "J 
These  authorities,  late  and  imperfect  as  their 
statements  are,  are  very  useful  in  showing  us 
that  the  bovate  or  oxgang  was  primarily  not 
a  piece  of  land  containing  fifteen  acres,  but 
a  small  fraction  of  that  (quantity.  Hence  a 
strong  jpresumption  in  raised  that  originally 
it  was  half  a  rood. 

2.  The  carucate  was  originally  a  piece  of 
land  which  contained  two  roods,  being  the 
double  of  the  virgate.  Its  English  name 
was  ploughland,  ploughgang,  or  ploiclnde 
(plough  journey),  and  it  was  also  known 
Himply  as  "plough"  (A.-S.  jtlf'ff),  or  a 
"plough  of  land."^  It  appears  in  an 
'  Inquisitio'  from  which  a  portion  of  Domes- 
day Book  was  compiled  tnat  the  carucate 
was  originally  a  piece  of  land  containing  two 
roods.  In  at  least  four  places  we  read  in 
this  '  Inquisitio '  of  churcbes  which  held  so 

*  "  An  Oxgang  of  land,  Soo  vtet  landts  alt  ttctx 
OMtn  ai-n't  jock  ffchmidtn,  op  eenen  dagh  kottnen 
ploegen,  ofte  een  biirnJer  landtn."  "  Bunder  landtg, 
tikir  an  acre  of  land,  ao  tnucli  as  two  oxen  can 
plough  in  a  day"  (Hcxhntn's  Nether-Dutch  l>ic- 
tionary,'  1875).  In  I'JT.'J  wp  havn  '*  prorelevio  uniue 
bovato  (luaruni  acrarunt"  ('Wakefield  Court  Rolls,' 
i.  62). 

t  Note  in  Best's  '  Farming  Book,'  1641  (Burteos 
Soe.,  p.  128). 

t  MUoMariuni,'  1G87,  p.  440.  Cf.  "  Adiu,  ane« 
wwnes  MnKweR.  Uia,  twegrm  Wfeoa  Kangweg" 
(Wright-Wiilcker  '  Vocab.').  In  Lancashire  the 
oxgang  was  known  ae  oxegan(g)dale,  i.e.  oxgnn^ 
portion.  By  an  undated  charter  John  de  Croynton 
granted  to  Richard  dc  Edesford  "  totain  ineani 
oxegandale  in  Sydalith  cum  Buia  pertinenciis,  ot 
totani  terrarn  tne«tn  ad  sepeni  piaciuni,  et  toiatn 
menni  oxegandaJo  in  Swayncroft  cum  suiii  perti- 
DOUtiia,  et  totam  aieam  oxegandnlo  in  le  Westwong 
cam  pertinontiia  auis.''  The  rent  reserved  was  one 
obolua,  payable  at  Chriatmaa  ('Coucher  Book  of 
WhttUey."  Chetham  See,  p.  1128). 

S*'A  ploghe  of  land,  caruca/a"  ('Catholicon 
Aoglicnm'). 


many  acres  and  a  cAnte&t«,  or  bo  many  acres 
and  half  a  carucate.*  Here  the  carucate  is 
a  measure  which  contains  less  than  an  acre, 
and,  seeing  that  the  rood  in  described  in 
Domesday  Book  as  rirffntfi,^^  the  carucate 
niujjt  have  contained  two  roods.  The  author 
of  the  'Promptorium  Parvulorum,'  dated 
1440,  is  careful  to  show  ua  the  two  meanings 
which  the  eouivalenb  word  ploughland  had 
in  his  time.  It  means),  he  says,  (a)  a  carucate, 
and  (b)  a  jugcr,  or  as  much  lana  as  a  plough 
may  till  in  a  day.^  Instead  of  juger  Be 
might  have  said  two  roods,  but  }U(Hnim  was 
the  best  Latin  word  he  could  think  of. 
Obviously  the  lesser  ploughland  was  a  mea- 
sure of  the  greater. 

These  three  units  of  measurements  the 
carucate,  the  virgate,  and  the  bovate,  exnaust 
the  plough  team.  Theoan^oi  was  the  plough, 
and  these  units  obtained  their  names  from 
the  space  or  breadth  which  groups  of  oxen, 
when  yoked  to  a  plough,  occupied  in  the 
6eld.  To  get  the  breadth  of  the  several 
strips  or  portions  of  the  acre  forming  the 
bovate,  virgate,  and  carucate  respectivelj', 
we  have  to  ascertain  the  space  in  which  a 
pair  of  oxon  can  stand  abreast.  Roughly,  it 
18  7i  or  8  feet.  Doubling  the  lesser  number; 
we  get  a  rod  of  fifteen  feet  as  the  length  of 
the  yoke  to  which  two  pairs  of  oxen,  stand- 
ing abreast,  could  be  attached.  This  rod§  or 
viroa  is  the  breadth  of  the  virgate  or  rood. 
Half  the  rod  is  the  "gangway"  or  achia  in 
which  a  pair  of  oxen,  standing  abreast,  could 
plough.  The  carucate  takes  its  name  from 
the  full  team  of  eight  oxen.||  If  the  eight 
oxen  ploughed  abreast  they  would,  taking  the 
rod  as  fifteen  feet  in  length,  occupy  a  breadth 
of  thirty  feet,  and  this  would  be  the  theo- 
retical breadth  of  the  carucate.  In  practice 
they  ploughed  four  abreast,  but  the  breadth 

•  *' RIooIesIa  de  Berkin^,  de  ixxxiii  acrii  libern? 
feme  et  j  carucata  el  lij  ocris  prati.  *'  Eccleaia 
de  Dereham,  de  xxx  arris  libera;  (terrre]  et  j 
carKCttta."  "  Ecclesia  dc  Torp,  de  xij  acria  liberiK 
terra?  et  dimidia  carucuta."  "  Eccleaia  de  Wtiiinr- 
gesele,  do  svj  acris  et  dimidia  carncata"  (Hainil- 
ton's  '  Inquisitio  Coraitatus  Cantabrig.,'  p.  iV', 
index).  Domesday  Book  (ii.  2ft4b)  has,  under 
Weringheaetu,  "  Kcclesia  xvj  acrarum  ot  dimidi« 
CAr[ucatie'." 

t  "  In  Staintono  habuit  Jalf  5  bovatas  terra;  et 
14  acras  terr:u  ot  nnani  virgatam  ad  geldum" 
(Domesday  Book,  1.  364,  cited  by  Maitland,  nt 
nuut-a,  t).  .184), 

*  "I'lowlond.  rniTiwft/CT."  "Plowlond,  Miplow 
may  tylle  on  a  nay,  j«oe(«»>.'' 

§  In  the  Wright-Wiilcker  'Vocftb.,'  737,21,  we 
have  "  rifffotOj  a  rodlande." 

II  Mr.  Round  ('Feudal  England,' p.  35)  has  proved 
by  a  comparison  between  the  Inquisitio '  and 
Domesday  Book  that  the  carucate  wu  related  to 
eight  oxen. 


10^  s.  I,  Feb.  6. 190L]  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


103 


o(  the  c&racate  reats  oo  the  assumption  that 
they  ploughed  eight  abreast. 

S.  O.  Addy. 
ITo  he  continued.) 


I 


THE  FIRST  EDITION  OF  HORACE. 
The  Brst  edition  of  the  works  of  Horace 
has  neither  imprint  nor  date,  but  it  is  be- 
lieved to  have  oeen  printed  in  Venice ;  an 
approximate  date  can,  however,  be  assigned 
to  it,  because  an  edition  of  the  '  De  Vita 
Solitnria'  of  St.  Basil,  printed  iu  the  same 
type,  bears  the  date  1471.  The  types  may 
be  recognized  by  the  e  of  the  lower  case  ;  in 
this  letter  the  horizontal  stroke  is  extended 
considerably  beyond  the  loop.  There  are 
several  books  in  the  same  types,  viz.,  Basi- 
Hu9.  *  De  Vita  Solitaria,'  1471  ;  Donatus,  '  De 
Barbarismo'j  Plutarchua,  '  Apophthegmata'; 
Flofus,  'Epitome';  a  Lucan;  Lodovico Bruni, 
'  La  Prima  Guerra  Punica';  and  there  may 
be  others. 

The  printer  of    this  eJitio   princepB   had 

another  peculiarity  :   he  was  not  contented 

^with  placing  the  word  "  Finis  "  at  the  end  of 

khe  book  ;  he  also  puts  it  at  the  end  of  each 

jpart,  and  tite  re&son  is  supposed  to  be  that 

^e^  might  be  sold  separately  ;  but  be  this 

"    it  may,  the  binders,  having  no  signatures 

guide  them,  have  bound  the  four  parts  in 

all   kinds  of  different  ways.      This  printer 

makes  the  same  u.se  of  the  word  "  Finis  "  in 

the  edition  of   Plutarch's  '  ApophtbeKmata.' 

In  the  Grenville  copy  in  the  British  Museum 

the  arrangement  of  the  four  parts,  each  of 

which  ends   with  the   word    "Finis,"  is  as 

follows : — 

Part  I.  fol.  la,  "Quinti  Oratii  Flacci 
Car  |,  minum  Liber  Primus." 

Fol .  16b, "  Quinti  Oracii  Flacci  Car  |  minam 
Liber  Secundus." 

Fol.  3Ua, "  Quinti  Oracii  Flacci  Car  1  minum 
Liber  Tertius." 

Fol.  50a,  "Quinti  Oracii  Flacci  Ser  I  monum 
[misprint  for  Carniinum]  Lil>er  Quartus." 
Fol.  61b,  "(Quinti  Oracii  Flacci  Epotlos." 
Fol.   74a,   "  Quinti  Oracii  Flacci  Carmen 
Seculare." 
Fol.  "."ib, "  finis  ":  then  four  lines  as  follows  : 
H'  "'  111  carmen  Hormtii : 

Va  iinxit  in  istia 

Viu.*.  ,»  ..  ,.  .  ..^  .,,.    :.-    . -cultt  uiiicat 

Omnift:  ecu  niin(|Ui»ni  iiumeria  abolebilurauctor. 

Part  11.  fol.  TGa,  "Quinti  Oratii  Flacci 
Sermonum  |  Liber  Primus." 

Fol.  D6a,"  Quinti  Oracii  Flacci  Ser  |  monum 
Liber  Seeundus."' 

Fol.  117a,  ''finis/' 

Part  IIL  fol.  n8a,  "Quinti  Oracii  Flacci 
Poetria  [ji'c]." 


Fol.  127a,"  Bnis." 

Part  IV.  fol.  128a,  "Quinti  Oratii  Flacci 
Epi  I  stolarura  Liber  Primus." 

Fol.  147b,  "Quinti  Oratii  Flacci  Episto  | 
larum  Libor  Seeundus," 

Fol.  157a,  "Finis." 

In  the  copy  in  the  King's  Library,  British 
Museum,  the  arrangement  is  in  this  manner  : 

Part  I.  fol.  la,  "Quinti  Oratii  Flacci  Ser- 
monum I  Liber  Primus," 

Fol.  21a,  "Quinti  Oracii  Flacci  Ser  |  mouan> 
Liber  SecuncTus." 

FoL  42a,  "  finis," 

Part  II,    fol.  43a,    "Quinti  Oratii  Flacci 
Epi  I  stolarum  Liber  Primus. ' 

Fol.  62b,  "Quinti  Oratii  Flacci  Episto  | 
larum  Liber  Seeundus." 

Fol,  72ft,  "finis." 

Part  III.  fol.  73a,  "Quinti  Oratii  Flacci 
Car  I  minum  Liber  Primus." 

Fol. 90b,  "Quinti Oracii  Flacci  Car  |  minum 
Liber  Seeundus." 

Fol,   102a,    "Quinti   Oracii    Flacci    Car  | 
minum  Liber  Tertius." 

Fol,   122a,    "Quinti   Oracii    Flacci    Ser  | 
monum  [for  Carminum]  Liber  Quartus." 

Fol.  1.^3b.  "Quinti  Oracii  Flacci  Epodos." 

Part  IV.  fol.  142,  ISl,  first  and  last  leaves 
of  the  'Ars  Poetica,'  wanting. 

Fol-  150a,  "Quinti  Oracii  Flacci  |  Carmen 
Seculare." 

Fol.  157b,  "Finis." 

Signor  Posquale  Castorina,  in  a  pamphlet 
entitled  'Intornoad  una  Prima  Enizione  di 
Q.  Orazio  Flacco  Cenni  Bibliografici,'  pub- 
lished at  Catania  in  1887,  describes  a  copy  in 
the  Biblioteca  Univeraitaria  di  Catania,  in 
which  the  four  parts  are  arranged  thus: 
PartL,  'Epistolaj';  PartlL,  'Ars  Poetica 'j 
Part  III..  '  Sermones ';  Part  IV.,  '  Carraina, 
•  Epodes,  '  Carmen,' '  Carmen  Saeculare.'  This 
edition  is  supposed  to  have  been  printed  at 
Venice,  because  some  copies  contain  a  border 
which  is  found  nowhere  else,  Vindelinus  de 
Spira  being  one  of  the  printers  who  used  it. 
The  watermarks,  the  cardinal's  hat,  pair  of 
shears,  and  the  column  (the  anna  of  tho 
Colonna  family),  occur  also  in  St.  Augustine's 
'  De  Civitate  Dei,'  printed  by  Joannes  and 
Vindelinus  de  Spira  in  1470. 

This  edition  is  interesting  from  a  literary 
as  well  as  from  a  typographical  point  of  view. 
In  the  Epistles,  bk.  ii.  ep.  ii.  1.  140,  there  is 
an  extraordinary  reading  :  the  words  per  vim 
nienli*  road  "  pretium  mentis."  I  give  the 
complete  sentence ; — 

"I\»l  in«  oci.'i<li»t«»,  ainici, 
Non  servMtis,"  ait,  "ooi  eio  cxlorto  voluptas, 
Kt  <l«inptu«  |>er  vim  rnet)tUgrRti*aiRiu«  «rrur," 

The  first  edition  roads ; — 


^m 


104 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         no-  ts.  i.  fi:b.  g.  i9M. 


'*  Fol  me  ooctdistis,  aniici, 
2fon  acrvMtU,"  ait,  "  cui  aic  extorta  voluptas, 
Et  demptus  pretiiim  mrntii  gnitisairauB  error." 
This  edition  is  also  remarkable  a«  contain- 
ioR  the  eieht  spurioua  lines  at  the  commence- 
ment of  ttie  tenth  satire  of  the  first  book  ; 
they  are  said  not  to  appear  again  till  1691, 
■when  they  occur  in  the  edition  printed  at 
Paris,  "in  usum   Delphini,"  with   notes  by 
L.  Deaprez.    They  read  thus : — 
<L)Voi1i  quam  sis  mendosus  teste  C&tono 
Defensoro  tuo  pcruicani  i|ui  male  factoa 
fmendare  parat  iicraus  hoc  lenitiR  ille 
£st  quo  uir  molioi- ;  lobge  subtilior  illo 
Oui  mullum  puer  tc  loris  et  funibua  udis 
liixhortatus  ut  esset  ojk.'tii  i^uia  forre  poctia 
Antiquis  posset  contra  fastidia  nostra 
'Cr&niaticorum  equilu  doctiaaimus  [ut]  redeatn  illuo. 

S.  J.  Aldricii. 
New  Soutbgate. 


liATHA^'AKL  CARPENTER'S  'GEOGRAPHY 

DELINEATED,"  1625. 

(See  ante,  p.  22.) 

Carpenter  informs  us  he  waa   born   in 

Devonshire,     Hb  pride  in  his  native  county 

was    not  only   pardonable,    but   justifiable. 

When  he  recalla  her  worthies  he  rises  to  a 

degree  of  entliusiasticaud  dignified  eloquence 

•quite  inspiring.   The  following  is  well  worthy 

of  being  remembered  (book  ii.  p.  2C1)  :  — 

"  Neither  can  it  be  etiled  our  re|>roach,  but  ii}ory, 
to  draw  our  olf-Bpring  frotn  such  an  Aire  which 
produceth  wita  as  eminent  aa  the  Moantainea, 
approauhiag  farre  uearcr  to  Heaueu  in  Excellency, 
then  the  other  in  hight  transcend  the  Valleyea. 
Wherein  can  any  Province  of  Great  Brittaine 
ciiallenge  precedency  before  v8  7  Should  any  deny 
-vs  the  reputation  of  Arts  and  Leamlne ;  the 
.piona  Ghoats  of  lewell,  lUyaolds,  and  Hooker, 
would  riae  vp  in  opposition;  whom  the  World 
knowca  ao  valiantly  to  hauediaployed  their  Banners 
in  defence  of  our  Church  ana  Religion.  Should 
'they  exclude  vs  from  the  re()utatioD  of  knowledge 
lin  State  and  politick  aiTaires?  who  hath  not 
acquainted  hinvaelfe  with  the  name  of  S'  William 
Potre  our  famous  Benefactor,  whoso  desert  chose 
tiim  chief  Secretarie  to  three  Princes  of  fanioua 
memorie?  Who  hath  not  known  or  read  of  that 
prodiKio  of  wit  and  fortune  S'  Waller  Rawloigh,  a 
man  vnfortunato  in  nothing  els  but  the  greatnes  of 
•his  wit  &.  advancement?  whoae  eminent  worth 
<wai  auch,  Ijoth  in  Domcatick  Policie,  Forrelgue 
'Expeditiona,  and  Discoveries,  Art4  and  Literature, 
botn  Pratick  and  ContctnplBtiue,  which  might 
seeme  at  once  to  conquere  ixitJi  Example  and 
Imitation.  For  valour  and  chivalrous  ])eeignea  by 
-Bea,  who  readca  not  without  admiration  of  the 
Act*  of  .S' Francis  Drake,  who  thought  the  circuit 
of  tliis  Earthly  Globe  too  title  for  his  generous  and 
magnanimous  Ambition?  Of  S'  Kichanl  Gren^-ill, 
who  vndertaking  with  ao  great  a  disadvantage,  ao 
ktrong  an  Enemy;  yet  with  an  vndaunted  Spirit 
ido  his  Honour  legible  in  the  wound.q  of  the 
cud  SpAniard  :  and  at  last  triiirii|ilieii  more  in  his 
iwoe  honourable  Death,  then  the  other  in  hia  baec 


conquest?  Of  S'  Harofrey  Gilbert,  8'  Richard 
iHawkins,  Davies,  Frobisher,  and  CajiL  Parker, 
with  many  others  of  worth,  aot«  ft  estimation, 
whose  names  line  with  the  Ocean  ?  " 

Then  there  is  another  type  of  character  not 
less  worthy  of  honourable  remembrance.  I 
may  mention  that  Hakewill  in  his  '  Apologie,' 
1635,  refers  to  Sir  Thomaa  Bodley  as  '*ajy 
honoured  Kinsman  "  (book  ii.  p.  262) ; — 

"Sliould  1  ai>eakeof  C'l  "'  und 

Favour  of  Learning,  shew •  s  in 

the  general  Muniticeace  i  .  ^  .  ,  hole 
Vriiversity  ;  what  Age  or  Place  can  giuu  a  Parallel 
to  renowned  Bodley,  whose  name  carries  more  per- 
ewasion  then  the  tongue  of  the  wisest  Oralour? 
Hia  magniticent  Bounty,  which  shewed  it  nclfe  eo 
extraordinarily  transcendent,  aawell  in  erection  of 
lua  Famous  Liurary,  which  he  (as  another  Piolomy) 
so  richly  fumisht,  as  other  munificent  Lari^esses, 
exhibited  to  our  English  Athens,  was  yet  farther 
crowned  by  his  wise  cnoice,  aa  proceeding  from  one, 
who  being  both  a  great  Bcholier,  and  a  prudent 
Statist,  knew  aawell  how  to  direct  aa  bestow  hia 
liberality." 

The  next  extract  includes  tlie  name  of  Dr. 
George  Hakewill.  Here  we  have  coutem- 
poi-ary  testimony  to  tho  personal  worth  of 
the  man.  The  "  Pious  Monument  "  referred 
to  by  Carjienter  was,  no  doubt,  the  cbapel 
whicu  Hakewill  built  and  gave  tc  Exeter 
College.  Hia  '  Apologie '  was  first  published 
in  1627  ;  but  as  1  have  already  expressed  my 
opinion  of  it  in  the^e  pages,  I  shall  say  nothing 
further  on  that  point.  I  may,  however,  take 
this  opportunity  of  recording  a  curious  ex- 
pression used  by  Hakewill,  which  I  should 
not  have  expected  him  to  employ,  and 
which,  I  believe,  was  a  colloquialism  cir- 
culating more  among  the  common  people. 
Speaking  in  his  '  Apologie '  of  the  testimony 
in  favour  of  John  Fust  aa  the  inventor  of 
printing,  Hakewill  goes  on  to  say  that  the 
author  cited  "in  truth  shewos  good  cards  for 
it  "(p.  317),  in  plain  English,  that  he  assigns 
good  reasons  for  what  lie  stAtes.  I  remem- 
ber only  one  other  example  of  the  phrase, 
and  that  in  the  fine  old  comedy  of  '  Nobody 
and  Somebody,'  1606,  where  one  of  the 
characters,  a  clownish  fellow,  employs  it  La 
the  same  sense  as  Hakewill  does:  "My 
M[aster]  hath  good  cards  on  hi.^  side,  He 
warrant  him  "  (sig.  H  4  verso).  Here  is  the 
passage  from  Carpenter  (book  ii.  p.  26iJ) : — 

"If  Founders  and  Bencfactoura  of  priuate  Col- 
leges may  find  place  in  this  Catalogue  of  Worthies, 
the  sweet  hiue  and  receptacle  of  our  Wosteme 
wits  can  produce  in  honour  of  our  Com  '  '  -oua 
Stniiledon  UisliDp  of  Exceslt-r,  and  v  'ler 

of  Exont^iillcdge:  whose  lftri:"I'"util\  ■■  ird 

seconded  (next  to  Edm.  .V'  .i.  ut  ^liiiini, 

a  Westemc  Man)  by  the  p  :*ud  liberality 

of  Mr.  lohu  Peryam,  S'  mm,  .,<  hmd.  Ac  very 
lately  by  Mr.  Dr.  Hakewill,  wlioiie  worthy  Eu- 
comiam,  I  (though  vuwillingly)  leaue  out,  lest  1 


^^iffWflff^BR.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I 


Bhonlrl  seetne  rather  to  flatter  then  ootninend  his 
Worth.  But  what  oeedea  ho  iny  poore  mention  T 
His  learnod  works  published  to  the  World,  tc  his 
Pious  Monument  bestowed  on  our  House,  speuke  in 
Biience  mure  then  I  can  vtter  out  of  the  highest 
pitch  of  Invealion.  " 

Nor  does  our  author  forget  to  includo  in 
Ilia  list  of  Devonshire  worthies  the  name  of 
WUh'aui  Browne,  author  of  '  Britannia's 
Pastorals,'  the  first  part  of  which  belongs  to 
1613.  Carpenter  was  evidently  a  personal 
friend  of  his  (book  ii.  p.  264)  :— 

" the  bla7x>ningof  whom  to  the  life,  especially 

the  last  [Poets],  I  had  rather  leauc  to  my  worthy 
friend  Mr.  W.  Browne;  wiio  an  he  hath  already 
honoured  his  countrie  in  his  ele^nt  and  itweete 
'  PastorallSj'  so  rjuestionlos  will  easily  beo  intreated 
a  litle  farther  to  grace  it,  by  drawing  out  the  line 
of  his  Poelicke  Aunceatera,  oeginuiug  iti  losephus 
Isc«nu8,  and  ending  in  him»elfo." 

Our  author  falls  very  ^ab  indeed  when  lie 
passes  from  prose  to  verse.  In  a  metrical 
eflFort  of  8odio  104  lines,  "  My  Mother  O.xford  " 
is  suppose<^l  to  be  the  speaker,  reproaching 
him  for  being  so  devoted  to  the  interests  of 
his  native  county,  and  anything  more  wooden 
or  colourIe.ss  could  scarcely  be  imagined,  lie 
concludes  the  piece  thus  (book  ii.  p.  269)  :  — 

Or  if  thy  nature  with  constraint,  descends 
Below  her  owne  delight,  to  prociick  eodes: 
Rise  with  my  morning  Phivbua,  slight  the  West, 
Till  furrowed  Age  inuite  thee  to  thy  rest. 
And  then  perchance,  thy  Eirth  which  seldome  gaae 
Thee  Aire  to  breath,  will  lend  thy  Corps  a  graue. 
Scone  the  last  tn.uni>et  will  be  heard  to  sound, 
And  of  thy  load  Eeise  the  Deuonian  ground. 
Meanc  time  if  any  gentle  swaine  come  by. 
To  view  the  tnarble  where  thy  ashes  ly. 
Ho  may  vpon  that  stone  in  fewer  yeares, 
Engraue  an  Kpitajib  with  fretting  teares. 
Then  make  mean  frozen  hearts  with  all  hi«  cries 
Drink  in  a  drop  from  bis  dialilliug  eyes : 
Yel  will  1  promise  ihv  neglected  bones 
A  firmer  monument  then  spcachle^  stones. 
And  MJien  1  ]iiiic>  with  iigo,  and  wit«  with  rust, 
Keraphiuk  Aiigclls  s,lmll  prcBcnie  thy  dust. 
And  nil  good  men  acknowledge  shall  tvith  me 
Thou  lou  «t  thy  Country,  when  shee  hatoth  thee. 

To  thiij  fanciful  complaint  of    his  Alma 

ter  Carpenter  replies  in  tho  same  form, 

the  116  line^  ho  devotes  to  hi.s  address 

are  almost   worse  than    those   which  have 

gone  before. 

On  the  famous  line  in  Hamlet's  soliloquy 
(there  are  analogous  expressions  in  '  Richard 
UI.')- 

Thua  coDBoieDco  does  make  cowards  of  as  all— 
ft  curiouH  comment  may  be  found  in  this 
work  of  <  'arpenter's  (book  ii.  p.  284)  :  — 

*'  '  .:row    the    vsnall    Proverbo    anioiipsl 

Vti''  \na;   that  ron-tcicnre  wwXfi  fowarfit. 

But  Li.i.'  i.i>  1  said)  is  meeroly  accidentall:  For 
aiimiK'h  us  nothing  epurres  out  a  true  resolution 
tnore  then  a  i/oo<i  cau^cicnct,  and  a  true  touch  of 
ralixioD  ;  witoeasc  ibe  buly  Martyrs  uf  the  Church 


of  all  age-s,  whose  valour  and  constancie  hath  out- 
gone  ull  heathen  presidonle." 

I  should   note  that    the  italics  are  Car- 

f)enter'8  own.  Whether  he  had  Hamlet's 
ine  in  view  when  he  wrote  the  above  can 
only  be  a  matter  of  conjecture.  I  give  thd 
extract  for  what  it  is  worth. 

Since  the  foregoing  was  written  a  perfect 
copy  of  the  edition  of  1625  has  come  into  my 
hands.  I  find  on  collation  that  tiio  poem  '  To- 
toy  Booke'is  common  to  both  the  first  and 
second  editions.  A.  S. 


Pin  AND  Kill- PIG :  the  American  Colonies 
AND    England.  —  If    tho    following    verses, 
written  in  a  contemporary  hand  on  a  sheet 
of  foolscap,  which  I  have  found  among  some 
old  papers  in  my  pcssession,  have  not  been 
published,  they  may  be  thought  worthy,  in 
spite  of  their  crudity,  of  preservation  in  your 
columns : — 
"  When  on  a  trestle  pig  was  laid, 
And  a  sad  squealing  sure  it  made; 
Kill-pig  stood  by,  with  knife  and  steel: 
'  Die  quiet,  can't  you  ?   Why  d'  you  squeal  J 
Have  I  not  fed  j'ou  with  my  neaao, 
And  now  for  tn'fles  such  aa  these 
Will  you  rebel?    Brimful  of  victual. 
Won't  you  be  cut  and  kill'd  a  little?' 

To  whom  thus  piggy  in  reply  :— 
"  How  can  you  think  I'll  (juiet  lie. 
And  that  for  ;>easo  my  life  I  '11  barter  1' 
'  Then,  piggy,  you  must  shew  vour  oharfor. 
How  you  re  exempted  more  than  others, 
VAm  go  to  pot,  like  all  your  brothers.* 
"  Pig  struggles. 
'  Help,  neighbours,  help  1   This  pig  'a  bo  strong 
1  tind  I  cannot  hold  him  long. 
Help,  neighbours  !  I  can't  keep  him  under. 
Where  are  yo  all !    See,  by  yonr  blunder 
He's  gone  and  broke  the  cords  asunder.' 
■'  Exit  pig,  and  KiUpig  after  him  with  a  knife." 
Endorsed  :    "  Verses  on  tho    Situation  of 
England  and  America  in  the  year  1779,  in 
which  England  is  describ'd  by  Kill-pig,  and 
America  by  Pig."  J.  Eliot  Hodoktn. 

BosHAM'a  Inn,  Aldwycu.  —  The  ancient 
name  of  Aldwych  having  been  judiciously 
revived  by  the  London  County  Council  as 
the  official  designation  of  the  crescent  which 
finishes  off  the  southern  end  of  the  new 
thoroughfare  connecting  Holborn  an<l  the 
Stran<l,  it  becomes  of  interest  to  trace  the 
early  history  of  the  locality.  In  the  davs  of 
King  Richard  II.  one  of  the  principal  inhabi- 
tants of  the  district  was  John  Boshara, 
citizen  and  mercer,  who  in  1378  served  aa 
one  of  the  .Sherirts  of  the  City  of  London.  la 
-.  Richard  II.  (1381)  John  Walssh,  of  London. 
goldsmith,  and  Margaret  his  wife,  cowM;<wi«k  V 
on  two  aepa.va.Vjei  c»t«A.««tA\olk«^\i:'$i»5«o»s».^^X 


r 


106 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[10«»  S.  I,  Fkh. 


London,  raercer,  and  Felicia  his  wife,  promises 
in  "  Kentissheton,"  and  in  the  parish  of 
St.  Clement  Danes,  without  the  Bar  of  the 
New  Temple,  and  St.  Giles  of  the  Lepers, 
without  the  Bar  of  the  Old  Temple.  In  the 
following  year  John  Spirst<:>ke  and  Margaret 
his  wife  conveyed  to  John  Bosham  ana  his 
•wife  premises  in  the  same  parishes  ('  Uftlendar 
of  Feet  of  Fines  for  London  and  Middlesex,' 
ed.  Hardy  and  Page,  i.  157).  On  these  broad 
lands  John  Bosham  built  himself  a  lordly 
idence,  which  was  known  as  Bosham 's  Inn, 
«.nd  was  probably  situated  on  or  near  the 
spot  on  which  Drury  House  was  afterwards 
built.  He  died  in  1393,  his  wife  Felicia 
havine  predeceased  him.  By  his  will,  which 
was  dated  London,  8  October,  1393,  and 
proved  25  March  following,  ho  directed  his 
rents  and  tenements  in  the  parishes  of 
St.  Michael  "de  Bassyngeshaugh "  and 
St.  Pancras.  and  in  "  Sevennodlane "  in  the 
parisli  of  St.  Laurence  in  Old  Jewry,  to  be 
sold  by  his  executors,  and  the  proceeds 
devoted  to  pious  and  charitable  uses  for  the 
good  of  his  soul,  the  soul  of  Felicia  his  late 
wife,  and  other.s  ('  Calendar  of  Wills,  Court 
of  Husting,  London,'  ed.  Sharpo,  i.  308).  The 
records  of  St.  Paul's  Cathe<iral  give  some 
further  information  with  regard  to  this 
property. 

In  3  Hen.  IV.  (1401)  there  was  recorded 
an  acquittance  from  William  Caustoa  and 
John  Purchas,  vicars  of  St.  Paul's,  and 
guardians  of  the  light  of  the  chapel  of 
St.  Mary  in  the  New  Work  in  that  church, 
to  the  executors  of  the  will  of  John  Bosham, 
citizen  and  mercer  of  London,  for  one  year's 
rent  for  a  new  garden  by  the  great  inn  of 
the  said  John  Bosham  in  Aldewich  without 
the  Bar  of  the  Old  Temple,  in  the  street  that 
leads  to  the  Hospital  of  St.  Giles  (Hist. 
MSS.  Com.  App,  Ninth  Report,  p.  52a).  Three 
years  later  another  acquittance  of  the  Dean 
and  Chapter  of  St.  Paul's  is  recorded,  for 
rent  issuing  from  a  new  garden  lately  belong- 
ing to  Joluj  Bosham,  adjoining  his  great  inn 
"in  Aldewych  extra  la  Temple  Barre,"  on 
which  three  liousea  formerly  8t«o<l  (ibid., 
p.  7a).  The  name  of  the  place  did  not  die 
with  its  owner.  Mr.  H.  R.  Plomer,  in  a  paper 
entitled  'Some  Notes  about  the  Cantlowe 
Family '  in  the  Nome  Count ia,  Mayatine  for 
January,  1904,  p.  43.  cites  a  deed  in  the 
Public  Record  Office  (Ancient  Deeds,  C.  31,^4), 
bv  which  in  20  Henry  IV.  (1441)  Sir  Robert 
Hungerford  and  others  demised  to  Sir  William 
Estefekl,  Henry  Frowyk,  William  Melreth. 
John  OIney,  and  William  Cantelowe,  all  of 
em  mercers,  their  meadow  adjoining  their 
essoage  called    "Bosammosynne"   on  the 


west,  and  their  land  called  "  Cleraenbesynne 
mede "  on  the  north  ;  reserving  a  sufficient 
footpath  for  their  servants  to  go  by  the  said 
meadow  from  the  gate  of  the  said  messuage 
towards  London.  It  is  possible  the  records 
of  the  Mercers'  Company  might  throw  some 
further  light  upon  this  property  and  its  later 
owners.  W.  F.  Pjudeaux. 

Charles  Bekxaud  GrasoK.  —  On  looking 
in  the  *  Dictionary  of  National  Biography  '  I 
was  surprised  not  to  find  the  name  of  the 
Rev.  Charles  Bernard  Gibson.  The  following 
ia  some  account  of  him.  He  was  minister  at 
Mallow,  CO.  Cork,  under  the  Irish  Evangelical 
Society,  1834-66 ;  chaplain  to  Presbyterian 
convicts  of  Spike  Island,  Cork  Harbour ; 
lecturer  of  St.  John's,  Hoxton  ;  chaplain  to 
Shoreditch  Workhouse  ;  and  author  of  the 
following  publications : — 

The  Liut  Karl  of  Desmond.    18M-    2  vole. 

Life  among  Convicts.     1863. 

Historical  PortraiU  of  Irish  Chief  tains  and  Anglo- 
Norm&n  Knighta.     1871. 

PhiloBophy,  Science,  and  Revelation.     I'i74. 

Beyond  the  Orange  River.     IhW. 

Dearforgil,  an  Historical  Novel. 

History  of  the  County  and  City  of  Cork.  1(163. 
2  vol«. 

The  last  is  sufficient  to  per|jetuate  his  fame 
and  to  establish  his  worth.  He  died  12  August, 
18tt5,  aged  seventy- seven,  in  London. 

The  above  facts  are  to  bo  found  in  the 
Jfjunial  of  the  Cork  Historical  and  Archaao- 
logical  Society  of  July  to  September,  1903. 

W.  Devereux. 

Relics  of  St.  Greuoky  the  Gueat.— As 
the  thirteen-hundredth  anniversary  of  this 
great  apostle  of  the  English  is  rapidly  ap- 
proaching, a  note  on  this  subject  will  not  Be 
deemed  out  of  place. 

Me.  Wakd.  under  the  heading  "The  Consul 
of  God  "  (ante,  p.  32),  saya  :  *'  In  720  Gregory, 
who  had  been  buriea  in  the  atrium  of 
St.  Peter's,  was  translated  within  tlio  church." 
By  the  "atrium,"  in  this  connexion,  is  meant, 
I  suppose,  the  portico,  i.e.,  that  portion  of 
the  arcade  running  round  the  atrium  which 
immediately  adjoined  the  church.  This 
portico  was  a  favourite  burying-placo  of  the 
Popes  from  the  time  of  St.  Leo  the  Great. 
Is  Mb.  Waed  right  as  to  the  date  ?  Neither 
Hare  ('  Walks  in  Rome,'  ii.  187)  nor  Fr.  Barnes 
(' St.  Peter  in  Rome,'  second  edition,  p.  267) 
knows  of  any  translation  before  Uiat  effocteu 
by  Gregory  IV.  about  840.  Hare  says  that 
the  remains  of  the  saint  were  then  removcJ 
"to  a  magnificent  tomb  in  the  church,  with 
panels  of  silver  and  golden  mosaics";  but  aa 
a  matter  of  fact,  as  Fr.  Barnes  says,  the 
translation  was  to  a  position  under  the  high 


V 


ID"' S.I.Feb.  6.  19W.]  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


107 


,  filbar  of  the  neighbouring  basilica  of  St.  An- 
drew, built  by  St.  Symmachua  in  498,  which 
basilica  afterwards  became  known  as  St.  Gre- 
gory's. There  the  relics  remained  till  Piaa  11. 
(Pope  1468-64)  transferred  them  to  the  altar 
of  ot.  Andrew  at  the  eastern  end  of  the 
northernmost  aisle  of  St.  Peter's.  This  altar 
remained  till  the  reign  of  Paul  V.  (1604-21), 
when  it  was  destroyed,  and  the  relicsi  were 
removed  to  the  Capella  Clementina,  lately 
complete*!,  where  they  now  rest  under  the 
altar  on  the  right,  Mrs.  Oliphant  ('Makers 
of  Modern  Kome,'  second  eflition,  p.  180) 
ignores  all  these  translations. 

John  B.  Wainewbioht. 


Qutms. 

[We   must   request  correspondents  desirin?  in- 
nnation  on  family  mattera  of  only  private  interest 
.  Affix  Lhetr  naniea  and  ftddresses  to  their  queries, 
B  order  that  the  answers  may  be  addressed  to  them 
diraot. 

J.  Turin,  Fkench  Clockmakeii.— Will  any 
reader  kindly  tell  me  when  a  French  clock- 
maker  named  J.  Turin  lived,  and  whether 
the  firm  still  exists  1 

■  Evelyn  Wellington. 

Wonston,  Mioheldever. 

"Twenty  thousand  ruffians."  —  What 
historian  was  it  who  described  the  Normans 
"who  came  over  with  the  Conqueror  as 
"twenty  0)  thousand  ruffians'?  Was  it 
Freeman,  and  was  it  "  twenty  *'  ?  I  should 
be  grateful  if  any  one  would  give  me  the 
&ctual  words  or  a  reference  to  where  I  can 
find  them.  R.  A.  H. 

■  John  Qohdox  and  Zokfany.  —  In  Cham- 
bers's '  History  of  Norfolk '  it  is  stated  that 
the  Rev.  William  Gordon  possessed  several 

gictures  collected  by  John  Gordon,  who 
cured  in  Zoffauy's  picture  of  the  Gallery  of 
Florence.  Mr.  Gordon,  Imwever,  does  not 
figure  in  the  key-plate  of  the  picture  as 
exhibited  iu  the  British  Institution  of  1814. 
Who  was  John  Gordon?       J.  M.  Bulloch. 

HuDDEESKiELU  HisTOBY.-I  am  engaged  in 
compiling  a  family  history,  but  have  met 
with  an  obstacle  which  stops  further  pro- 
^res«.  About  17C8  two  persons  were  married 
ID  Huddersfleld  parish  church.  At  their 
death  they  were  interred  in  Buxton  lioad 
Old  Methodist  Chapelyard,  Hudrioisfiold. 
This  chapel  was  taken  down  about  1837,  the 
gravestones  were  destroyed,  and,  to  make 
matters  still  worse,  the  registers  are  missing, 
not  bring  in  the  possession  of  the  chapel 
authuritivs  or  at  Somerset  House.    I  desire 


* 
» 


to  ascertain  the  date  of  the  death  of  these 
two  persons  and  their  age.  Is  there  any 
means  that  can  be  taken  to  accomplish  this  f 

C.  X.  V. 

CouKT  Posts  undee  Stuart  Kings.— Can 
any  reatler  inform  me  what  were  the  duties 
of  persons  holding  the  following  posts:  also 
in  what  rank  of  life  the  holders  would  oe? — 
Marshal  of  the  Hall  to  James  I.  Yeoman  of 
the  Privy  Chamber  to  James  I.  Yeoman  de 
le  lesh  to  James  I,  Page  and  Yeoman  of  the 
Bedchamber  to  Charles  L  Is  there  any 
equivalent  to  these  posts  in  the  Court  to-day  ^ 

Sussex. 

CoMPOfsER  AND  Onir.iN  01"  AiR.— I  am 
desirous  of  ascertaining  the  name,  composer, 
and  origin  of  an  air,  the  first  portion  of  which 
is  as  follows  : — 


W.   MOOBE. 

Doix>RE8,  Musical  Composee.— I  should 
like  to  know  whether  the  musical  composer 
who  wrote  under  the  name  of  "  Dolores  was 
her  late  Majesty  Queen  Victoria. 

W.   MOOKE, 

Son  of  Napoleon  I.  —  Had  Napoleon  an 
illegitimate  son  at  St.  Helena  i  The  Tivies 
of  27  Mav,  1886,  quoting  the  •S'an  Francisco 
World,  tells  an  extraordinary  story  about  the 
death  in  San  Francisco,  in  the  previous  April, 
of  a  person  calling  himself  "Gordon  Bona- 
parte," who  was  alleged  to  be  the  natural  son 
of  Napoleon  by  an  English  housekeeper  who 
had  been  sent  out  to  St.  Helena.  She  after- 
wards returned  to  London,  and  married  a 
watchmaker  named  Gordon,  who  adopted 
the  child.  What  truth  is  there  in  this  storv  ? 
A  Theodore  Gordon,  a  watchmaker,  wno 
edited  the  Ilurolof/ical  Miigazine,  and  was 
associated  with  VuUiamy,  had,  I  believe,  a 
natural  son.  I  wonder  if  this  is  the  watch- 
maker referred  to.  Gordon  Bonaparte  is 
said  to  have  had  a  remarkable  likeness  to  his 
putative  father.  J.  M.  B 

"GiMKRKO." — What  animal  is  indicated  in 
the  following  extract  from  Jo.seph  Ba.c«,t<>\!% 
'Account  of  the  ^Luuckft^^  mA  v::.^aaiy5ra»  ^ 


[Ul»  6.  L  Feb.  6, 190t 


103 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Italy,'  1768?  Baretti  seom*  to  have  lieen  a 
trutliful  person.  He  no  doubt  believed  what 
ho  told  his  readers  :— 

"  It  will  not  be  improper  to  «ay  aoraethinx  of  the 
giincrrui,  aa  I  find  that  no  travel-writer,  of  tlie 
many  1  have  rea'l.  has  ever  mentioned  them,  and 
that  they  are  bat  little  known  even  to  thoiie  of  my 
Eoijliah  friends  who  delight  in  various  and  cx(«d- 
aive  readint;.  A  gimerro  i?  an  animal  bom  of  a 
horac  and  a  cow  :  or  of  a  bull  and  a  mare  ;  or  of  au 
au  and  a  cow  The  two  first  sort«  are  eenerally  us 
large  aa  the  largest  mulen,  and  the  third  Homewhat 

■mailer Of    the    two    fimt    Borta    I    have    seen 

hnndrede,  especially  at  Demont,  a  fortreaa  in  the 
Alps  (about  ten  miles  above  the  town  of  (Juneo) 
that  waa  much  talked  of  during  the  last  war 
between  the  French  and  the  Piedmonteae,  There 
many  of  these  cimerros  were  used,  chiefly  in 
carryin^r  stones  and  sand  up  to  the  fortrest  tliat 
was  then  a-buildin(c  on  a  hi^h  rocky  hill.  Uf  the 
third  afieoiea  I  rone  upon  one  from  iiavona  to 
Acuui  8o  late  as  the  year  1765."— Vol.  ii.  p.  282. 

K.  P.  D.  E. 

Nicholas  Febrar:  nis  'Harmonies.'— 
Oapt  Acland-Troyte  read,  on  26  January, 
1888,  to  tlio  Society  of  Antiquaries  a  most 
interesting  paper  on  these  '  Harmonies,'  and 
at  its  cloRe  expressed  a  hope  that  the  result 
of  his  paper  would  be  the  discovery  of  the 
original  MS.  of  the  first '  Harmony,'  prepared 
by  the  community  at  Little  Gidding  for  their 
own  use  in  1G30.  Waa  his  wish  fulfilled  ?  If 
80,  where  is  the  volume  now  ]  As  the  paper 
was  written  nearly  twenty  years  ago,  .«iomo 
of  the  '  Harmonies '  then  in  private  hands 
may  now  have  passed  into  public  collections. 

Where  are  tno  '  Hariuonies '  then  owned 
by  C'lipt.  Acland-Troyte;  Miss  Heming,  of 
llillingdou  Hill,  Uxbridge ;  Lord  Arthur 
Hervev,  formerly  Bishop  of  Bath  and  Wells  ; 
Capt.  Gaussen,  of  Broolcman'a  Park,  Hatfield  ? 

I  assume  those  then  belonging  to  Lords 
Salisbury  and  Normanton  are  still  at  Hatfield 
and  Somerley  respectively.  If  not,  where 
are  they  T  Have  the  '  Harmonies  '  made  for 
George  Herbert,  Lord  Wharton,  and  Dr. 
Jackson  been  discovered ) 

T.  Cann  Huoheb,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Lauoaetcr. 

•'The  eternal  FEMiNtNE.'  —  When  did 
this  phr».s0  become  current  among  English 
writers?  Dr.  Murray  lines  not  c^uote  it 
under  "eternal,"  but  undtjr  "feminine"  ho 
gives  a  reference  to  the  Pall  Mall  (rnzetie  of 
16  Juno,  1892.  I  fancy  it  wus  iu  vogue  before 
that  dale.  It  is,  of  course,  borrowed  from 
the  Fi'ench,  but  whether  it  was  invenU*d  or 
not  by  Thi'nphile  (lautier  I  cannot  sav. 
That  writer  iniike.s  u^e  of  it  in  tlie  mii>ilerly 
essay  on  Bnudplaire  which  wjis  profixc<l  to 
the  doliriitive  edition  of  '  Les  Fleurs  du  Mai,' 
ieC8,  p.  30.    He  itttlicizee  the  phra«e  :— 


"  Diverges  fignres  de  ferome  paniMent  ao  food 
des  iKi^tes   de  Baudelaire,  lea    naea  voildes,   les  ' 

autrea  demi-nuea,  nidii  Bane  <iu'on  duImc  lea* 
attribucr  un  aom.  ^  qu» ' 

dea  person nes.    Ell-  r/m, 

ot  1  amour  que  le  i-o- 1>  t 

l amour  et  non  i>»a  uii  «  s 

que  dans  sa  theorie  il  n  :> 

individuelle,  la  trouvaut  trup  cruc,  Uup  iiUiiilikTO, 
et  trop  violentc." 

Perhaps  some  correspondent  may  be  able 
to  say  if  Gautier  was  the  author  of  the 
phrase.  W.  F.  Pripeacx. 

[Surely  the  orii(in  of  the  phrase  is  found  in  the 
last  words  of  '  Faust,'  Part  II. ;  an  invocation  to 
the  Virgin  Mary  ;— 

Dob  Ewig-Weibliche 

Ziehl  una  hinan. 
It  may  well  have  l>een    conveyed  atraight  froni 
Goethe  to  fiuclish  without  coming  through    the 
French.] 

WoLrE.— I  should  like  to  know  what  regi- 
ments General  J.  Wolfe,  the  conqueror  of 
Canada,  was  in.  The  'Annual  Register,'  1759, 
p.  281,  refers  to  Kingsley's,  but  very  vaguely. 

1{.  B.  B> 
second  lieu* 
tenant,  3  Novemlwr,  17*1,  in  hia  father's  regiment 
of  marines,  then  known  as  the  44th  Foot.  On 
27  March,  H^'-i  he  became  ensign  in  the  Itith  Foot 
(Duroure'e).  lie  was  with  his  regiment  at  Det- 
tingen;  adjutant.  -'  .July,  and  lieutenant,  14  July, 
1743.  On  .1  June,  1744,  caj.tain  4th  Foot  (Bdrrel's) ; 
12  June,  174i),  brigade-major.  On  the  atalT  at  Cul- 
lodcn.  In  January,  1746/7,  bricade-major  in  Mor* 
daunt's  brigade ;  wounded  at  LaetTelt.  On  3  January, 
1748/9,  major  in  20lh  Foot  (Lord  Ceorge  vSackville'sl ; 
on '20  March,  174050,  lieutenant-colonel.  On  7  Feb- 
ruary, 1757,  Quarterniastcr-flenoral  in  Ireland.  In 
1758  commanded  a  brigade  in  America,  and  during 
hia  abaence  there  was  made  colonel  of  the  iind  Bat- 
talion of  the  30th.  then  converted  into  a  separata 
regiment,  the  ffllh.  For  further  particulars  conault 
'l>.N.Ii.'J 

Children  on  the  Stage.  —  When  did 
children  first  act  publicly  for  the  entertain- 
ment of  children  1  Was  the  fashion  of  so 
doing  set  in  Gilbert  and  Sullivan  opera,  or 
by  a  French  company  of  children  which,  1 
believe,  came  to  England  a  little  before? 

Nigel  Playtaib. 
Oarrick  Club. 

[Children,  of  cotiree,  acted  in  Shakespeare's  time- 
See  the  references  iu  'Hamlet*  to  "an  aery  of 
ohildron,  little  eyaaos,"'  II.  ii.  353,  supposea  to 
Indiontn  (he  fhildren  of  Paul's  or  of  the  Chapel. 
In  'Jftck  IVuni'a  Entertainment;  or,  PasQuil  and 
Katlicrinc,'  ItiOl,  one  reads  :— 

I  saw  the  ••hUdrat  of  Powks  hist  night, 
And  troth  they  pleosed  me  pretty,  pretty  well ; 
The  apes,  in  time,  will  do  it  handsomely.] 

BnoKiNOHAM  Halt^  or  Colt-kob,  Cam- 
BRiuoK.— Can  you  kindly  help  mo  *o  find 
any  contemporary,  or  early,  accounts  of  tha 


[Wolfe's  first  commission  was  as   sec< 
3nant,  ,1  Noveml)er,  1741,  in  hia  father's 


: 


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109 


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I 


baildings  of  this  liouso  other  than  those 
referred  to  in  Willin  and  Clark's  'Architectural 
History  of  the  University  '  ? 

E.   K.   PuRXEtL. 
Wellington  College,  Borks. 

Mortimer.  —  Hugh  de  Mortimer,  son  of 
Robert  Mortimer,  of  Burford,  by  liis  wife 
Margaret  de  Say,  is  said  to  have  had  a  son 
named  Elias.  Whore  can  I  find  information 
about  tiiis  £lia.s  Mortimer,  his  parentage  and 
his  progeny  }  H.  .M.  Batson. 

Hoe  Beaham,  Newbury. 

Christabella  Tyrrell.— Can  any  reader 
of  'N.  tfe  Q.'  kindly  tell  me  the  years  in 
which  Christabella,  daughter  of  Sir  John 
Tyrrell,  Bart.,  married  her  first  two  husbands, 
Jolin  Knap  and  John  Pigott,  of  Doddershall, 
Bucks!  She  married  thirdly,  28  January, 
1754,  RicharrI,  sixth  Viscount  Say e  and  Sele, 
and  died  t.p.  1781),  aged  ninety-four  years. 
^M.  Jackson  Pkk)tt. 

KiPPLBS.— What  is  known  of  this  family, 
prominent  in  and  about  Glasgow  during  the 
sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries?  and 
where  can  allusions  to  and  records  of  its  past 
and  present  members  (if  any)  be  found  ? 
If  the  surname  is  early  or  middle  Scots,  what 
may  have  been  its  meaning?  J,  G-  C. 

PSALTEE  AND  Latin  MS.— Oliver  ("  Monas- 
ticon,'  Dio.  Exou.^  mentions  a  Fsalter  existing 
at  IJgbrooke  which  formerly  belonged  to 
St.  Androw'n  Priory  at  Tywardreath,  in  Corn- 
wall. Has  any  facsimile  of  this  MS.  or  of 
any  part  of  it  been  published  ?  and,  if  so,  by 
whom  ?  Also  has  iho  fifteenth- century  Latin 
MS.  preserve<l  at  Wardour,  containing  the 
obits  of  the  brethren,  homilio>4,  Usuard's 
'Martyrologium,'  Ac,  Ijeen  published  in 
facsimile  or  otherwise,  and  by  whom  ? 

YOREC. 

'Rkcosoiendeo  to  Mercy.'— Some  years 
ago  I  read  &  novel  with,  I  think,  the  title     ,  -  ,       ,    ,.  ,o  , 

'  Recommended  to  Mercy.'    Could  any  reader   t»a<^  "^  ^  a"«""y  beaded  ♦ " Salutation "  lavem, 
of  'N.  ifc  Q.'  kindly  help  me   to   trace  the  I  Newgate  Street,  —•-'-  i-~-J  "'  a—' 


incised  pattern  resembling  those  of  very 
early  crosses,  .so-called  Runic,  such  as  those 
at  Raiusbury  or  Cirencester,  or  it  may  per- 
haps be  a  pattern  of  a  thirteenth-century 
comn-lid  with  incised  floreated  croas,  but 
seems  roughly  done  for  this. 

Mrs.  Huntley. 

Col.  Thomas  Cooper.— Can  any  one  give 
the  pedigree  of  tbe  Cooper  family  of  Hasetey, 
in  Oxfordshire,  and  any  information  that 
would  connect  Col.  Thomas  Cooper,  M.P.  for 
Oxford,  with  this  family,  and  also  with  the 
Coopers  of  Bengeworth  ] 

Arthur  L.  Cooper. 

Torch  and  Taper.— What  was  the  actual 
difference  between  the  torches  and  tapers 
mentioned  in  ancient  wills?  Robert  Balser, 
of  Whitstable  (1511),  requests  that 
"  two  torches  be  bought,  price  lO.".,  to  bum  about  me 
on  the  day  of  my  burying  aud  afterwards  to  remain 
to  tbe  obtircfa.  Also  four  tapera  of  wax  of  2  lbs. 
each  to  burn  about  my  hearse,  at  burial,  month'a 
mind,"  &c. 

Robert  Withiott,  of  Faversham  (1512).  left 
a  bequest  "to  the  maintenance  of  the  torches 
and  tapers  belonging  to  the  Bachelors  of 
Faversham."  Was  a  torch  made  of  different 
substance  from  a  taper,  or  was  it  only  a  large 
candle?  Arthur  Hussey. 

Tankorton-on-Sea,  Kent. 


LAMB,  COLERIDGE,  AND  MR.  MAY. 
(10'"S.  i.  01.) 
When  I  wrote  the  note  headed  as  above  I 
little  thought  that  the  theory  I  wa-sadvancing 
(viz.,  that  May,  whoso  name  occurs  in  Lamb's 
earliest  extant  letter  to  Coleridge,  was  none 
other  than  the  Boniface  of  tiie  "  Salutation  " 
Tavern)  had  over  wcurred  before  to  anybodj^ 
— still  less  that  it  had  been  previously  venti- 
lated in  this  journal.    Now,  however,  I  find 
'       ■  ~  •        •    i"Ta 


or,  with  a  view  of  renewing  myacquaint- 
with  the  book  ?  I  have  not  now  the 
htest  idea  of  the  name  of  the  author  (the 
story  may  have  been  anonymous),  but  fancy 
the  heroine  was  a  village  maiden  named 
Rosaline  or  Rosalind.      Ednvard  Latham. 

[It  is  by  Mrs.  Houston.] 

CAR^'ED  Stone.— Can  you  tell  me  what  is 
vbably  the  origin  of  an  old  carved  st-one  in 
aanor  house  built  in  1G()'2  on  the  site  of  a 
irious  house]     Over   the  front  d(X)r  is  a 
atone  about  ten   inches  square,  whirh  may 
rOD  back  into  the  hall ;  at  the  angle  is  an 


>t,- published  21  April.  1900(9"" 
8.  v.  315),  Mr.  J.  A.  Rotter  had  already 
broached  the  question  of  identity.  Great 
wits  jump.  For  years  past  I  have  held  the 
opinion  expre-ssed  in  my  note  published  on 
23  Januarv.  The  fact— only  now  brought  to 
my  knowledge — that  it  is  approved  by  so 
profound  and  accomplished  a  student  of 
Lamb  as  Mr.  Rutter  is  universally  acknow- 
ledged to  be  will,  1  feel  confident,  servo  to 
commend  it  to  the  readers  of  'N.  it  Q-  far 
raoro  powerfully  than  any  words  of  mme 
could  clo. 

lo    one    particular    I    find    my     note     of 
23  January  is  inaccurate.     I  aa^  tlvixs^  ^^^a^• 


: 


no 


NOTES  AKD  QUERIES.        po"- s.  l  feb.  e. 


the  curious  story  of  the  offer  of  entertain- 
meat  made  to  Coleridge  by  mine  host  of  tlie 
"Saiutalioa"  rests  on  the  sole  authority  of 
Josepli  Cottla  This  is  not  so.  In  Allsop'a 
'Letters,  Conversations,  itc,  of  S.  T.  Cole- 
ridge'  we  find  the  following  confirmation  of 
Cottle's  tale:— 

"  *  You  ihould  have  eeen  hira  twenty  yeara  *gn,' 
said  he  [Lamb],  with  ooq  of  hiB  sweet  eniiloa,  *  when 
he  was  with  nie  al  the  "Cat  and  Salutation"  in 

'Newgale   Market Such  were  his  extraordinary 

powers,  that  when  it  wae  lime  for  him  to  go  and  be 
married,  the  landlord  entreated  his  stay,  and  offered 
him  free  quarters  if  he  would  only  talk.  " 

AJlsop's  accuraci'.  of  course,  is  by  no  means 
unimpeachable.  Thus  he  tells  ua  (p.  1 16) 
that  "Coleridge  accused  Lamb  of  naving 
caused  tlie  Sonnet  to  Lord  Stanhope  to  be 
reinserted  in  the  joint  volume  ['  Poems,'  by 
Coleridge,  Lamb,  and  Lloyd,  1797]  published 
at  Bristol."  This  is  simply  impossible;  Lamb 
had  absolutely  nothing  to  do  with  the  print- 
ing of  the  'Poems'  of  1797;  and  we  know 
from  another  source  that  it  was  Cottle  (that 
"fool  of  a  publisher"),  and  not  Lamb,  that 
Coleridge  blamed  in  this  matter.  Again,  the 
story  which  Allsop  tells  of  the  circumstances 
under  which  Lamb  wrote  the  '  Old  Familiar 
Faces'  is  absurd.  Allsop  here  clearly  con- 
founds the  writing  of  the  'Old  Familiar 
Faces'  with  tlio  inditing  of  the  letter  to  Cole- 
ridge containing  the  famous  *  Theses  qufedara 
Theologicse.'  six  months  later  (June,  1798). 
Still  there  must,  1  think,  be  some  foundation 
in  fact  for  the  story  of  Lamb's  conversation 
about  Coleridge,  which  Allsop  here  (p.  110) 
reports  in  terms  so  distinct.  Mk.  J.  A. 
RuTTER,  to  whom  I  am  indebted  for  pointing 
out  the  error  in  ray  note  of  23  January, 
suggests  that  an  offer  of  free  bed  and  board 
was  actually  matJe  to  Coleridge,  but 
made  by  the  landlord  of  the  "Angel"  in 
Butcher  Hall  Street  (whither  Colerirfge  bad 
migrated  from  the  "Salutation"),  not  by 
William  May,  of  the  Newgate  Street  tavern  : 
and  this  is,  most  likely,  what  actually  occurred! 
At  all  events,  by  adopting  M.&.  Rutters  sug- 
gestion, we,  in  a  mea-sure,  save  the  credit  of 
the  two  witnesses— Jose^Jh  Cottle  and  Thomas 
Allsop— without  any  disparagement  to  the 
theory  which  identifies  May  of  Letter  I  with 
mine  host  of  the  *'  Salutation  and  Cat." 

Thomas  Hutcdinson. 

"Chapekonkd  By  her  father  "  ^9't>  s  »ii 
246,  370.  431 ;  IQt^  S.  i.  54,  92).-I  am  no?  con^ 
cerned  as  to  whether  "chaperon  "or "escort" 
IS  the  better  word,  but  I  think  that  all  of  us 
who  contribute  what  we  can  to  'N  Jt  Q ' 
aro  concerned  about  that  courtesy  without 
which  the  journal  caunot  work  smoothly.    If 


I  remember  rightly,  it  was  stated  in  the 
editorial  article  on  tne  Jubilee  of  *N.  .k  Q.' 
that  iu  the  early  days  of  the  paper  there 
was  much  doubt  as  to  whether  it  would  be 
possible  to  allow  communications  to  apiiear 
anonymously,  lest  correspondents,  sheltered 
by  concealment  of  their  name.s,  should  be 
discourteous.  Vou,  Mr.  Editor,  I  think,  de- 
clared that  that  presentation  of  anonymous 
signatures  had  given  rise  to  no  difficulties. 

At  the  penultimate  reference  appears  a  reply 
signed  SiMPUCiftsiMDs.  In  it  the  writer  rerers 
to  his  earlier  replj'  at  9"^  S.  xii.  370.  The 
matter  of  the  question  and  replies  is  inter- 
esting and  worth  discussion— discussion  in 
the  ordinary,  the  courteous,  manner  of 
*  N.  &  Q.'  Both  replies  appear  to  me  to 
be  lacking  in  that  respect.  In  order  that 
I  may  show  that  I  am  not  writing  down  a 
suddenly  formed  opinion,  I  may  mention 
that  I  made  a  note  at  the  time  that  the  reply 
at  9''''  S.  xii.  370  was  discourteous. 

I  find  in  my  notes  a  similar  memorandum 
concerning  a  reply  (9""  S.  xii.  194)  ».v.  '  The 
English  Dialect  Dictionary,'  to  which  you, 
Mr.  Editor,  appended  a  mild  remonstrance. 
This  reply  was  signed  F.  J.  C. 

Some  other  fairly  recent  examples  could  be 
quoted,  even  some  signed  with  real  names, 
but  I  have  given  enough  for  my  purpose.  I 
believe  that  most  of  the  objectionably  worded 
replies  are  anonymous. 

I  have  been  a  humble  contributor  to  our 
paper  for  nearly  twenty  years.  Perhaps  I 
may  be  allowed  to  suggest  that  discourtesy 
is  out  of  place  amongst  those  who  write  for 
'  N.  it  Q.,'  and  contrary  to  your  and  j'our 
correspondents'  desires.  Many  of  us  who 
give  our  little  contributions  to  the  paper 
have  found  that  it  forma  for  us  an  introduc- 
tion to  each  other,  almost  a  bond  of  friend- 
ship. This  is  very  pleasant,  and  I,  for  one, 
am  very  unwilling  that  any  discourteey 
shoulil  tend  to  weaken  this  bond.  Surely, 
if  a  correspondent  knows,  or  thinks  that  ho 
knows,  more  than  another,  ho  should  be 
aatisfied  by  giving  his  knowledge  without 
trying  to  hurt  the  feelings  of  hira  to  whose 
suggestions  or  beliefs  he  does  not  consent. 

I  write  to  deprecate  a  growing  tendency  to 
acrimonious  disputation  in  '  N.  &  Q.' 

Robert  Pierpoint. 
[We  hope  that  the  tendency  is  not  arrowing.] 

Shakespeare's  "Virtue  of  necessity" 
(10"'  S.  i.  8,  70).— This  phrase  Shakeapeore 
adapted,  I  think,  from  Sidney's  'Arcadia.' 
On  p.  138,  recto,  ea.  1590,  it  occurs  as  foUowa: 
"learning  vertue  of  necessity." 

On  tint  same  page  may  also  bo  found  two 
other  passages  arterwards  made  famous  by 


> 


the  dramatiat.  Sulnpy  says,  "O  thecowardiso 
of  a  guiltie  conscience,"  rendered  by  Shake- 
speare "  Thus  conscience  does  make  cowards 
of  U3  air'CHamlet,'  III.  i.  83);  while  Sidney's 
"  a  popular  licence  is  indeed  the  many-headed 
tvranny  "  ia  changed  to  "  Stuck  not  to  call  us 
the  many-headed  multitude"  ('Uor.,'  II.  iii. 
18).  Chas,  a.  Herpich. 

New  York. 

Emmet  and  De  Fohtbnay  Lbttebs  (9""  S. 
xii.  308  ;  10"'  S.  i.  52).— I  wish  to  thank  Mr-is 
L.  I.  GuisEY  for  her  reply  to  my  query  ;  but 
the  letters  I  denire  to  trace  are  not  the  throe 
printed  in  Dr.  Emmet's  book,  but  the  rest  of 
this  correspondence.  The  letters  were  to- 
gether until  thirty  years  ago,  when  their  last 
known  owner  died.  It  is  possible  that  some 
reader  of  'N.  ife  Q.'  in  France  may  be  able  to 
furnish  a  clue.  Letters  of  R.  Emmet  are 
rare.  Only  nine  have  been  traced,  and  until 
lately  but  five  were  known.  The  late  Sir 
Bernard  Burke  showed  Dr.  Emmet  in 
Dublin  Castle  a  box  of  documents  relating  to 
the  Emmet  family  which  were  seized  in  1798 
and  1803.  Dr.  Emraet  was  not  allowed  to 
see  the  contents.  In  1886  he  got  permission 
to  examine  them,  but  the  box  could  not  thco 
be  found.  Feancbsca. 

Ipswich  Apphentice  Books  (10""  S.  i.  41). 
— In  reply  to  numerous  inquiries,  I  may  state 
that  the  apprentices  whose  name^  appear  in 
these  books  fall  under  the  following  counties  : 
Suffolk,  34.')  ;  Essex,  19  ;  Noi-folk,  18  ;  North- 
umberland, IG  ;  Yorkshire,  5  ;  Cambri<lge- 
shire,  3 ;  Durham,  Sussex,  and  Middleaex, 
2  each  ;  Beds,  Wilts,  Leicester,  Derby,  Devon, 
Lines,  Rutland,  Shropshire,  Surrey,  West- 
morland, and  Kent,  1  each  ;  making  a  total 
of  423.  M.  B.  Hutchinson. 

37,  Lower  Brook  Street,  Ipswich. 

•  Memoirs  op  a  Stomach  '  (10"'  S.  i.  27,  67), 
by  a  Minister  of  the  Interior,  was  written  by 
Sir  James  Eyre,  at  one  time  Mayor  of  Here- 
ford, and  a  medical  practitioner  in  that  city 
The  object  of  the  book  was,  I  believe,  mainly 
to  vaunt  the  properties  of  oxide  of  silver  in 
the  troatmont  of  stomach  disorders.  He 
eventually  went  to  London,  and,  I  think, 
died  there.  When  the  Duke  of  Clarence  be- 
came King  William  IV.,  he  refused  to  carry 
out  the  plan  which  had  been  adopted  by 
hi«  predecessors,  viz.^  to  knight  the  mayors 
of  the  chief  cities  of  England,  but  would  only 
knight  two.  The  two  selected  were  George 
Dririkwat^r,  Mayor  of  Liverpool,  and  Dr. 
E  "  irof  Hereford.  This  incident  gave 
oi  Aberuethy  to  suggest  to  a  corpu- 

Icui   ])itiifut,  who  consulted  him  as  to  bis 


internal  minister,  that  he  should  constantly 
keep  in  mind  the  names  of  the  two  mayors 
the  Icing  had  just  knighted— Eyre  and  Drink- 
water.  CHAILLE.S  WiLUAMS. 
Norwich- 

Weuden  Abbey  (10**"  S.  i.  67).— The  Bene- 
dictine Abbey  at  Werden  (not  Werdens),  on 
the  river  Ruhr,  was  founded  a.d.  802  by 
St.  Ludcer,  a  Frisian  priest,  who  lies  buried 
in  the  old  church.  The  monastery  buildings 
are  now  used  ais  a  State  prison.  When  I 
visited  the  abbey  about  ten  years  ago,  I  tried 
to  procure  a  hijjtory  of  it,  but  failed.  An 
account  of  the  antiquities  found  in  the 
neighbourhood  was  then  in  prejiai-ation,  I 
was  told.  Your  correspondent  might  apply 
to  Mr.  G.  D.  Baedeker,  bookseller,  II,  Burg- 
strasse,  Essen,  Rhenish  Westphalia. 

L.  L.  K. 

*'  Clyse  "  (9"'  S.  xii.  480).— In  *  Observations 
on  some  of  the  Dialects  in  the  West  of  Eng- 
land, particularly  in  Somersetshire,'  by  James 
Jennings,  I  find,  p.  30:  "  CUze,  s.  A  place  or 
drain  for  the  discharge  of  water,  regulated 
by  a  valve  or  door,  which  permits  a  free 
egress,  but  no  ingress  to  water."  This  work 
was  published  in  1825,  and  carries  the  use  of 
the  word  back  more  than  half  a  century 
further  than  Mr.  Dodoson's  letter  in  the 
S/iectator,  1882.  The  word  is  in  general  use 
in  the  moors  of  Somerset,  in  tlio  drainage  of 
which  the  clyse  plays  an  important  part. 

C.  T. 

"  Papers  "  (Q*^  S.  xii.  387  ;  I0'»'  S.  I  18,  53). 
— The  following  passage  comes  from  'De 
Jure  Maritimo  et  Navali,'  bv  Charles  MoUoy 
('D.N.B.,'  xxxviii.  130),  I^ndon,  1670,  bk.  ii. 
chap.  ii.  sect.  9,  and  relates  to  the  duties  of  a 
master  of  a  ship  : — 

"He  must  not  carry  any  counterfeit  Cocqucta  or 
other  fictitious  and  colourable  Shin  Papers  to  in' 
volve  the  Goods  of  the  Innocent  with  the  Nocent." 

H.  C. 

The  "  Ship''  Hotel  at  Greenwich  (9""  S. 
xii.  300,  375,  415,  431)  —As  one  of  the  oldest 
natives  of  Greenwich,  I  mav  perhaps  be 
regarfled  as  an  authority  for  local  informa- 
tion. The  original  "  Ship  "  Tavern  stood  at 
the  eastern  end  of  the  spot  now  occupied  by 
the  pier,  and  in  proximity  to  the  Drawdock 
at  tlie  river  end  of  Friar's  Road,  ranniog 
southward  out  of  Romney  Road,  between 
the  Hospital  and  the  Infirmary.  This  roftd 
led  into  a  little  square  in  which  were  tliree 
or  four  public-housea,  one  of  them  "The 
Che.3t  of  Chatham,"  another  "  The  Red  Lion  " 
and  another  "  The  Crown  and  Anchor."  All 
this  has  been  changed— Fm.v'%^^saA^"^x«*- 


112 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         uo^  ».  i-  f^b.  e.  iw*. 


house  Lane,  and  the  east  end  of  Fitiher'a 
Lane  have  been  taken  in  by  the  Hoapttal 
and  Infirmary  grounds.     Hobeut  Parker. 

JoH.v  Denman  (0"'  S.  xii.  447),— The  Rev. 
John  Deuman,  M.A.  Line.  Coll.  Oxon.,  was 
vicar  of  Knottiugley.  Yorks,  in  1852. 

Chas.  F.  i  OKSHA w,  LLD. 

Baltiiuore  Uouse.  Bradford. 

Glowworm  oa  Fieefly  (10"»  S.  i.  47).— 
See  Mrs.  Hemana's  poem  '  The  Better  Land  ': 
la  it  where  the  flow'r  of  the  orange  blows, 
And  the  tirelliea  dance  thro'  the  myrtle  boughs  ? 

Alao  Southey's  'Madoc,'  ed.  1853,  part  ii. 
p.  219  (with  long  note,  p.  353)  :— 

She  beckon'd  and  descended,  and  drew  oat 
From  uuderuoath  her  vest  n  eage,  or  net 
It  rather  niiKht  be  cali'd,  fco  tine  the  twigs 
VVliieh  knit  it,  whore,  confined,  two  firetfies  gavo 
Their  lustre.     Ily  that  light  <Ud  Mudoc  first 
Behold  the  features  of  his  lovely  guide. 

In  Kirby  and  Sponce's  'Introduction  to 
Entomology,'  185G,  p.  fiOG,  it  is  remarked  that 
the  brilliant  nocturnal  spectacle  pres»ented 
by  these  insects  to  the  inhabitants  of  the 
countries  where  they  abound  cannot  be  better 
described  than  in  the  language  of  Southey, 
who  has  thus  related  its  first  effect  upon  the 
British  visitors  of  the  New  World  :— 

Sorrowiojf  we  beheld 
The  night  come  on  ;  but  soon  dni  night  display 
More  wonders  than  it  veild  :  innumeroua  trilJeg 
From  tlio  wood-coyer  swarm'd,  and  darkness  made 
Their  beiiuticH  visible  :  one  while  they  strcnm'd 
A  bright  blue  radiance  upon  Uowera  that  closed 
Their  gorgeous  colours  from  the  eye  of  day  ; 
Now,  motionless  and  dark,  eluded  search, 
8elf-shrouded  ;  and  noon,  starring  the  sky. 
Rose  like  a  shower  of  fire. 

But  Southey  "confounds  the  firefly  of 
St.  Doraingo  {Elater  noctilucus)  with  a  quite 
different  insect,  the  lantern  fly  (Fti/ffom 
lantenuiria)  of  Madame  Merian "  (p.  '507, 
Kirby  and  Spence),  Madame  Merian  painte(i 
one  of  these  insects  by  its  own  light. 
And  for   night-tapera  crop  their  [i.e.,   the  glow- 

worms"!  waxen  thif^hs, 
And  light  them  at  the  hery  glowworm's  eyes. 
m     I   f  1    It       •  lhid.,\t.  51.T. 

losteful  dlumination  nf  the  nieht. 
Bright  scaltored,  twinkling  star  of  spancte.1  earth  ; 
Hail  to  the  nnnuilosa  coloured  dark-and-Iight, 
The  witching  nurae  of  thy  illumined  birth, 

John  Clare's  sonnet '  To  the  Glowworm.' 

Shelley  somewhere  [*  To  a  Skylark ']  has  :— 
Like  a  glowworm  golden,  in  a  dell  of  dew, 

Scatterinp  utiboholdon  its  ncrial  biuo  [line] 
Among  the  flowers  and  grass  that  [which]  screen  it 
from  the  ri»w. 

J.  HOLDEN   MacMICHAEL, 

There  is  in  All  the  Tear  Ronndot  24  October, 
1863,  a  poem  entitled  'The  Olovrvrorm,'  whic  h 


well  deserves  being  reprinted.  I  do  not  at 
present  call  to  mind  any  English  verses  on 
the  firefly,  except  those  referred  to  by  the 
liditor.  This  must  be  due  to  ray  own 
ignorance.  It  is  highly  improbable  that 
these  bcMiUtiful  creatures  should  not  have 
attracted  the  attention  of  other  poets  than 
those  named. 

It  may  bo  well  to  draw  attention  to  the 
fact  that  Italian  peasants  think  "  tho  fire- 
flies dancing  above  the  ripening  wheat  are  so 
many  tiny  living  lamps  of  the  sanctuary,  lit 
in  honour  of  its  future  consecration,  and 
thus  offering  their  anticipatory  service  of 
adoration"  {Dublin  Review,  October,  1897, 
p.  490). 

The  Malays  have  a  belief  that  the  blood 
of  murdered  men  turns  into  fireflies.  See 
'  Malay  Magic,'  329,  quoted  in  FolkUre,  Juno, 
1902,  p.  150u.  Edwakd  Peacock. 

There  is  a  poem  entitled  'The  Glowworm,' 
translated  from  Vincent  Bourne's  Latin,  by  a 
IK>et  named  Cowper.      Walter  W.  Skeat. 

The  following  was  in  a  small  collection  of 

children's  school-songs  in  daily  use  in   the 

practising  school   of    the  Chester   Diocesan 

Training  O^Uege  about  sixty  years  ago  :— 

Once  a  little  boy  M'aa  straying 

Throash  the  woody  lanes  at  night, 
And  he  there  its  light  displaying 
Saw  a  pretty  glowworm  bright. 

He  a  moment  stood  to  wonder 
What  could  shed  such  dazzling  light. 

Then  some  green  leaves  hid  it  under. 
And  took  home  thia  glowworm  bright. 

Thus  through  life  wo  see  with  sorrow 

Hijlie-s  which  Eceni  so  brinht  to-night 
Fade  and  die  upon  the  morrow. 
Like  this  pretty  glowworm  bright. 

E.  Clakk. 
4,  Lome  Street,  Chester. 

A  poem  by  Lowell  called  'The  Tjfts-son' 
draws  a  grand  moral  from  tho  firefly  iD 
rebuke  of  human  self-suflicieney, 

C.    B.   HOLINS WORTH. 

"All  ro.ads  lead  to  Romb"(10">S.  i.  48). 
— So  far  as  I  know,  this  is  not  strictly  an 
English  proverb,  but  merely  a  translatioa , 
of  the  French  one  "Tout  chemin  mune 
Rome,'*  or  the  Italian  "Tutte  le  strad* 
conducono  a  Roraa";f  and  it  seems  to  mo 
only  natural  that  we  should  go  to  Italy  for 
the  origin  of  the  phrase. 

•  Some  anthoriticB  derive  the  word  chfinin  from 
the  Italtiin. 

}  The  e>|uivalont  Knglish  proverb  seems  to  be 
"  Therp  are  more  ways  to  ino  wood  than  one " ; 
Scottish,  "There  are  mae  ways  to  the  wooil  nor 
ane." 


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The  figurative  sense  in  which  it  is  generally 
nsed,  if  not  in  Italy  (I  cannot  sav),  at  ail 
events  in  England  and  France,  is  tliab  there 
are  many  ways  of  reaching  the  aame  end  or 
of  attaining  the  same  object.  La  Fontaine 
applies  the  proverb  in  the  fable  (bk.  xii.) 
of  '  Le  Juge  Arbitre,'  ic,  of  which  I  give 
the  opening  line^j : — 

Trois  Mints,  '.  ilonx  He  leur  s«lut, 

Porl^  d'un  i-  ,  tc-iulaicnt  \  nit-me  but. 

Ila  a'y  \tr\reu\ .    par  ilea  routes  iliveraes  : 

Toos  cliemins  vont  n  lijiiiie  ;  ftinsi  noe  concurrents 
Crurent  i>ouviiir  choiair  des  eeuiiers  dilTereuts. 

Edward  Latham. 
[Mr.  Holder  MacMiciiagl  sends  a  similar  re])ly.] 

Venison  in  Summer  (10"*  S.  i.  47).— Thomas 
Cogan,  in  'The  Haven  of  Health,'  1588, 
chap,  cxxxvi.,  writing  of  venison,  mentions 
that,  whether  it  be  or  red  deer  or  fallow,  it 
maketh  ill  juice,  and  is  hard  of  digestion, 
and  that  the  best  way  is  to  drown  it  in 
wine : — 

"And  concerning  rcdde  Deere,  Simeon  Sethi 
writetb,  I'hat  SuKgcs  iu  the  summer  se&son  eat 
vipers  and  sori>cnt«,  whereby  their  Qesh  is  made 
veninioua  and  noyaonio,  and  therefore  it  ia  no  wise 
to  be  eaten.  Vet  M.  Kliot  thinketh  the  llesh  of 
fallowe  Deere  ia  more  unwholesome  and  uupleaaaut 
than  of  red  Deere." 

Robert  Lovell.  in  the  *  History  of  Animals 
and  Minerals,'  1661,  writes  of  the  buck, 
Dama : — 

*'  When  young  and  in  serwon  they  are  a  whole- 
tome  Meftt,  Having  no  bad  juyce  of  themselves; 
when  old  ii^  dry.  too  cold  and  full  of  grosse 
humours.  Hut  ii  may  bo  corrected  by  Butter, 
Popper,  and  Suit." 

There  is  a  very  full  account  of  the  various 
uses  to  which  parts  of  the  bwly  of  the  hart, 
Cervus,  can  be  applied,  and  witn  some  extra- 
ordinary results.     He  mentions  : — 

"  The  bezar  stone,  or  la<-hryina  eeri'i  'fffrk. 
reaiateth  ]>oy«on  :  They  are  produced  by  [the  itartj 
Btnndin;;  in  the  water  up  to  the  neck,  after  their 
devoiiiing  of  .Serpents,  which  they  doe  to  coole 
tbum.'clve!*,  not  darinx  to  drink  ;  these  tears  falling 
into  tiie  water,  conf;eate,  and  are  theooe  taken  by 
those,  that  doe  observe  them,  the  quantity  is  as 
that  of  d  walnut." 

After  nearly  two  pages  of  further  informa- 
tion on  tlie  qualities  of  the  intestines,  Ac, 
the  chapter  finishes  in  the  following  manner, 
in  whicn  it  will  bo  seen  there  is  a  reason  for 
the  flwftllowing  of  serpents  :— 

".Siirne  say  ihev  live  38(X)  yearns.  There  noiae 
is  unploMttnt.  They  linvo  frietidshin  witfi  the 
heath  i-ocl: ;  hut  i-nm<i/  to  the  Ea!;lo,  Vulture, 
Sc  ,  and  iioiflo  of  Foxes: 

t<"j  mil  red  Feathors,  &o. 

Tlivj  ..... ., K  ••"■'  .-luaio." 

I  pre<iUuiL%  on  the  Uisuoiption  that  like  cures 
liKe,    the    bozar    stone,    which    ia    said    by 


Lovell  to  be  made  **of  poyson  and  a  certains 
herb :  of  a  crass  terren  matter,"  is  used  by 
advice  of  Garzias  for  helping   the    bites  of 
vipers  and  serpents.      Herbbkt  SouTHJkM. 
Shrewsbarv. 

Herbert  Spencer  on  Billiabd.s  (10'"  8.  i. 
48). — I  met  Mr.  Herbert  Spencer  some  three 
or  four  years  ago  in  a  country  house  where 
he  was  staying  ;  and  on  our  hostess  inviting 
him  to  join  her  in  a  game  of  billiards,  he 
answered  that  he  should  be  delighted,  but 
that  he  was  too  old.  He  adde<l,  "You  know 
I  used  to  be  very  fond  of  billianls,  and, 
apropos  of  that,  they  tell  a  malicious  story 
of  me."  He  then  repeated  the  story  in  mucn 
the  same  words  as  quoted  by  your  corre- 
spondent, adding,  witn  some  warmth,  that 
there  was  no  foundation  for  it  whatever,  and 
that  his  personal  friends  knew  that  it  was 
not  like  him  to  make  any  auuh  remarks.  He 
went  on  to  say  that,  though  he  had  contra- 
dicted it  often,  he  knew  it  was  still  repeated, 
and  he  feared  that  it  would  be  circulated 
after  his  death.  C  R. 

Downing  Family  (10^''  S.  i.  44).— It  ia 
curious  that  Dr.  Stevens  should  not  have 
been  able  to  find  any  record  of  ao  well  known 
a  person  a-s  Mr.  A.  O.  Fullerton.  Ho  had 
property  in  the  north  of  Ireland,  was  for  a 
time  in  the  Guards,  and  resided  for  much  of 
his  life  in  France.  His  wife  (a  daughter  of 
the  first  Earl  Granville),  Lady  Georgiana 
Fullerton,  was  well  known  both  as  a  writer 
and  for  her  works  of  benevolence.  Both  Mr. 
Fullorton  and  his  wife  were  Catholics,  and 
resided  towards  the  close  of  their  lives  at 
Bourtiemouth.  R.  B. 

Upton. 

Ash  :  Place  name  (Q""  S.  xii.  106,  211,  291, 
373  ;  10"'  S.  i.  72).— I  am  willing  to  admit 
that  Asham  may  be  explained  as  "  a  home- 
stead among  ashes";  but  I  would  still  say 
that  tliis  cannot  always  be  inferred.  The 
original  may  have  been  ^scan-bam,  "  the 
home  of  .-Esca":  and  it  ia  ditticult  to  decide 
unless  you  find  a  spelling  you  can  depend 
upon.  The  parallels  suggostotJ  are  to  the 
point.  The  name  /Esca  occurs  in  Kemble. 
^Cod.  Dipl.,' ii.  74, 1.  12. 

Walteu  W.  Skbat. 

Prof.  Skeat  possibly  misread  my  note  i-« 
Lashnm  village.  I  did  not  say  trees  lived  in 
homes,  but  that  the  village  was  a  homestead 
iu  or  araong«t  ash  trees— and  why  not  (  as 
Or.  O.  KRt;KfiER  (Berlin)  says.  Tliere  la 
ample  evidence  of  the  Saxons  having  aettle- 
ments  in  the  distiict.  The  next  hamlet  to 
Lasham   is   Bontworlh  (Sax.<.iw\,  t^sA  '^visssss. 


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easy  distance  are  the  well-known  villacea  of 
the  MeoHH  (Jutes).  Certainly  the  Xorraans 
called  LaHham  Esseham.  Es.se  is  Norman 
for  a-sh,  and  why  the  Normans  should  so 
call  the  place,  unless  ash  trees  were  there,  it 
is  diAicult  to  imagine.  There  wa?,  until  of 
lata  years,  standing  at  the  parting  of  the 
ways  at  Lashani  a  fine  ash  tree,  the  po<isiblo 
descendant  of  another  tree.  The  latter  may 
•well  have  been  a  Saxon  sacred  tiee  {vide 
Green's  'Short  Hist.').  There  are  other 
features  of  this  \'illage  which  point  to  its 
Saxon  origin. 

A  suggested  origin  of  the  village  name  has 
been  lei/,  A.-S.  meadow,  but  this  is  hardly 
feasible,  as  at  the  Domesday  survey  one  acre 
only  is  mentioned  as  meadow. 

Fbank  Lasham. 

Guildford. 

Ea^uest  Playbill  (10""  S.  i.  28,  71).— At 
1»^  8.  X.  90  is  a  contribution  '  Supposed  Jiarly 
Playbill,'  which  carefully  examines  a  copy  of 
one  with  a  full  cast  of  Drury  Lane,  dateci 
8  April,  li;(J3,  and  given  in  J.  Payne  Collier's 
'Hidtory  of  Dramatic  Poetry' (vol.  iii.  p.  384), 
and  pronounces  it  to  be  spurious,  while 
incidentally  it  notes  that  it  was  not  usual 
for  playbills  to  bear  the  date  of  the  year 
until  as  late  as  1767.  Dutton  Cook,  in  hi.i 
collection  of  essays  'A  Book  of  the  Play,' 
under  the  heading  'A  Bill  of  the  Play,'  gives 
Payne  Collier's  authority  likewise  for  assert- 
ing that  printed  announcements  of  the  piece 
to  be  performed  were  "certainly  common 
prior  to  the  year  1563.'  But  were  they  ? 
Alpkbd  F.  Robbins. 

NK-JHTCafs  (9"*  S.  xi,  480  ;  xii.  65.  17G').— 
In  Simes'a  'Military  Medley,'  1768,  and  in 
his  'Military  Guide,'  1772,  a  list  is  given  of 
'Things  necessary  for  a  Gentleman  to  be 
furnished  with  upon  obtaining  his  first  Com- 
mission.' The  list  includes  "  three  pillow 
cases  ;  six  linen  night  caps,  and  two  yarn." 
A  '  Scliome  for  an  Ensign's  Constant  Ex- 
pence'  is    also    given,  and   it   provides    for 

'two   Night  Caps  a  week Hair  Fowder, 

Pomatum Soldier  to  drejss  Hair." 

An  interesting  instance  of  a  temporary 
discontinuance  of  powdering  the  hair  occurred 
at  the  beginning  of  the  siege  of  Gibraltar  :— 

"Orders  were  isBued  for  tho  troops  to  mount 
guard  with  their  hair  unpowdercil  ;  a  oircumatimce 
trifling  in  appearanoc,  but  which  our  silu»tion 
afterwaniB  proved  lobe  of  great  iniportanco;  and 
which  evinced  onr  Governor'n  Kt-eat  attoniiou,  and 
prudent  forcsifjht,  in  the  arrangement  of  the 
etorca."— '  Drinkwater,'  first  edition,  p.  5S, 

Fine  flour  had  been  used  for  the  purpose, 
and  now  it  was  reserved  for  food  for  the 
gftrrison. 


In  the  '  Life  of  Lord  Hill,*  p.  36,  we  read  : 

"In  those  days  of  all-prevailinir  ]K>wder  and 
pomatum,  Sir  John  Moore  h«d  a.     :  "  l:e 

inuovatioM  of  a  crop,  nnd  apjwar''  i 

un floured  upon  parade It  wu  u  ■.  ', al 

of  .Sir  John  Moore  from  .Stockholm  lu  itiUS  that  &a 
order  reached  his  if.wipH  to  out  off  their  'pi'VrM,    It 

was  dated  24  Juh         '   ,  '  ^ht 

The  tails  were  kt'i  ''U,  by 

a  signal,  the  wbo]<  li  three 

cheers.' 

W.  S. 

Glass  Maxckactdre  (J)"'  S.  xii.  428,  r>15  : 
Ky  S.  i.  51).— About  1881  my  late  father  sold 
a  small  piece  of  property,  including  a  house, 
situated  near  Cleoburj'  Mortimer,  in  the 
county  of  Salop,  and  this  was  called  Glass- 
house Green.  There  is  another  piece  of  pro- 
perty adjoining,  which  in  a  deed  dated 
22  May,  1810,  is  described  as  being  at  the 
Glass-house  Green,  which  seems  to  imply 
that  the  name  was  used  not  only  for  the  one 

f)iece  of  property,  but  for  some  adjoining 
and.  £  cannot  ascertain,  though  I  have 
made  inquiries  from  one  of  the  oldest  in- 
iiabitauta  of  Cteobury,  that  any  one  ever 
knew  of  glass  manufactured  in  the  neigh- 
bourhood. H.  Soi;tbam. 

.Shrewsbury. 

"Prior  to"=B»orb  (9*  S.  xii.  66,  154, 
312).— Dr.  Kbvec.er  is  too  modest,  for,  in 
addition  to  his  other  qualifications,  he  is — 
foreigner  though  he  be— English  in  his  know- 
ledge of  the  English  language^  and  therefore 
entitled  to  utter  his  opinions  on  matters 
affecting  it.  However,  though  he  refrains 
from  passing  formal  judgment  on  '*  prior  to" 
and  previous  to,''  I  infer  that  when  ho 
draws  attention  to  the  equally  anomalous 
expressions  "  preparatory  to  "  and  "  owing 
to,"  he  holds  them  all  to  bo  grammatically 
indefensible  and  to  be  avoided  both  in  speak- 
ing and  writing.  To  call  these  phrases,  to 
which  might  be  added  "antecedent  to," 
"anticipatory  to,"  and  "preliminarv  to," 
with  others  of  the  same  kidney,  ail  verbs, 
shows  amazing  ignorance  of  the  nature  of 
that  part  of  speech,  and  affords  ample  excuse 
for  Home  Tooke'a  sarcastic  page,  where  he 
writes:  — 

"AndServiumto  whom  learning  has  great  obliga- 
tions! advance*  Bomelhing  which  almost  justifies 
you  for  callinR  this  class,  what  you  lately  terniod 
It,  the  common  sink  and  repository  of  all  hot«ro- 
pencoiii,  unknown  coi-rupliniis.  Fur.  he  says,— 
Ununa  para  orationis.  ijuando  desinit  c•ssL^  (juoif  cat, 
migral  in  Adverbium.  I  think  1  cuh  iranslato 
borvius  mtelhgibly.  Every  word,  ,/natudo  UtMuU 
r*»«f  ijuod  .:V,  when  a  Gruninianan  knows  not  what 
*j"  ,*.."'  'J^'  "^^vrat  ill  Afhrrbium.  lie  calls  an 
Adverb,  --'Diverriona  of  Purloy.'  vol.  i.  p,  430 
(Loudon,  1829). 


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But  the  writer  is  hero  dealing  with  sinf^le 
words,  and  not  with  double  monstrosities 
such  as  those  we  are  consideriiiK-  If  he  had 
been  told  that  a  comparative  adjective,  used 
absolutely,  like  jmor,  followed  by  the  pre- 
position to,  was  an  adverb,  immense  would 
nave  been  his  astonishment,  and  very  violent 
the  language  of  his  condemnation.  And  yet 
that  is  what  we  are  told  by  the  compilers  of 
the  *  Century  Dictionary,'  whose  laooura  I 
do  not  wisii  to  undervalue.  Perhaps  they, 
seeing  it  was  a  prepositional  phrase,  based 
their  assertion  on  what  Ben  Jonson  says  in 
chap.  xxi.  of  his  'Engliiih  Grammar*:  "Pre- 
positions are  also  a  peculiar  kind  of  adverbs, 
and  ought  to  be  referred  hither."  But  that 
masculine  genius,  in  this  case,  would  have 
called  the  one  word  an  adjective  and  the 
other  a  preposition,  but  never  the  two 
together  either  preposition  or  adverb. 

Du.  Krueler  singles  out  one  of  the  ugliest 
and  absurdest  of  these  neologisms,  which  he 
justly  declares  to  be  "  a  disgustingly  lengthy 
thing."  Here  is  an  example,  taken  from  one 
of  tiie  best  magiuiaes  oi  the  day,  and  the 
oldest: — 

"The  king,  piujiavatoni  to  causing  theiu  to  be 
trampled  to  death  by  eleritiaiits  in  the  hippodrome, 
ordered  Hernio,  their  keeper,  to  dose  them  the 
day  before  with  frankincense  and  undiluted  wine." 
—Oeulleman'H  Mava.inc,  July,  1903,  p.  1.3. 

Whoworedo.sed— the  victims  or  the  elephants? 
Such  a  monstrous  way  of  saying  htfort  makes 
one  think  that  the  ancient  proverb,  which 
Horace  had  in  mind,  should  bo  reversed,  and 
that  it  was  not  the  parturient  mountain  which 
gave  birth  to  a  mouse,  but  that  the  "wee, 
sleekit,  cowrin',  tim'rous  beastie,"  in  her 
portentous  and  unparalleled  travail,  did  the 
other  thing:  Parturiunt  murti ;  nascetur 
ridiculus  ww«» .'  I  do  not  credit  the  writer 
of  the  interesting  article  from  which  I  quote 
with  orifiinating  this  lumbering  phrase  ;  it 
was  used  before  his  time,  though  this  is  the 
only  instance  1  have  at  liaud. 

All  these  inkhorn  expressions,  which  one 
cannot  call  "vulgarisms."  because  they  never 
came  from  the  mouth  of  the  people,  seem  to 
have  crawled  into  being  after  "prior  to" 
matle  its  appearance,  which  happened  some- 
where between  the  vears  1630  and  1840.  as  I 
think  I  can  show.  Of  course,  a  few  instances 
of  its  employment  may  be  produced  before 
that  date,  but  the  writers  doubtless  fancied 
they  were  using  a  comparative  adjective  in  a 
perfectly  legitimate  manner,  as  in  tne  example 
from  Sir  John  Hawkins  (Si"^  S.  xii.  06). 

In  my  search  for  the  phrase  in  its  present 
absolute  sense,  I  have  looked  through  Haz- 
litt's  'Table  Talk'  (1821),  Lamb's  'Es-saya  of 


t  [they]   were   thought    to   have   antednted 
oca  men's  titles,  by  certain  liberties  they  had 


EliA'(1823).  Coleridge's 'Table  Talk'  (1«35}, 
Dickens's  '  Pickwick  '  (1836),  Carlyle's  '  French 
Revolution '  (1837),  Thackeray's '  Paris  Sketch- 
Book '  (1840),  and  have  onlv  found  one 
example,  which  is  contained  in  Lamb's 
'  Vision  of  Horns,'  where  he  writes  :— 

"But 
their  goc 
indulged  theuiselvea  in,  prior  to  the  ceremony." 

But  it  was  not  until  after  John  Poole's  clever 
and  most  amusing  book  'Little  Pe<iliugton 
and  the  Pedlingtonians '  was  published  in 
1839  that  the  phrase  began  to  push  its  way 
into  notice.  There  are  three  examples  of  its 
use  in  this  volume,  the  first  of  which  shows 
it  to  be  of  theatrical  origin.  It  will  be  re- 
membered that  Poole  was  the  author  of  the 
comedy  *  Paul  Pry '  and  other  pieces,  and 
there  can  be  no  doubt  that  he  is  ridiculing 
the  inflated  language  of  playbills  in  that  of 
'The  Hatchet  of  Horror;  or,  the  Massacred 
Milkmaid,'  of  which  this  is  a  sample  :— 

"  To  be  preceded  by  an  oecasional  Address,  to 
bespoken  oy  Mias  Julia  WriKxles.  Prior  to  which, 
the  favourite  llroad-Sword  Hornpipe,  by  Mi»a 
Julia  W'rigKles.'  — P.  15(3,  ed.  1800. 

I  may  observe  that  on  the  foregoing  page 
we  have  "previous  to,"  the  whole  gamut  of 
before  and  afier  being  exhausted  in  this  piece 
iti  a  most  ludicrous  fashion.  At  the  foot  of 
p.  186  there  is  the  following  note  :  — 

"The  five  chapters  in  this  volume,  ujxm  the 
Little  Pedlington  theatricals,  were  written  ijrior 
to  the  month  of  April,  1837.  " 

An  extract  from  the  "  Life  of  Captain 
Pomponius  Nix,  by  Felix  Hoppy,  Esq., 
M.C.,"  contains  the  last  example  :  — 

"Toiling  with  unwearied  step  throuRh  the 
mouldering  archivea  of  Little  Pedlington,  1  find 
mention  of  the  name  of  Nix  (sometimes  written 
Nyx,  sometimes  Nicks)  a«  far  back  as  the  early 
part  of  the  reign  of  our  third  Ooorp,  or,  iu  other 
words,  about  thirty  years  prior  to  the  close  of  the 
eighteenth  century."— P.  '^A. 

Not  long  after  the  publication  of  this  book, 
we  find  the  expression  in  Edgar  Allan  Poe'a 
'Adventure  of  one  Hans  Pfaall,'  where  it  is 
written  : — 

"  At  twenty  minutes  before  nine  o'clock— that  is 
to  say,  a  short  time  prior  to  my  closing  up  the 
mouth  of  the  chamber— the  mercury  attained  its 
limit,  or  ran  down  in  the  barometer,  which,  as  I 
mentioned  before,  was  one  of  an  extended  con- 
struction." 

^[r.  Augustine  Birrell  is  a  great  admirer  of 
Cardinal  Newman's  style,  and  ha-s  perhaps 
been  led  to  adopt  the  phrase  after  reading 
the  'Apologia  pro  Vita  Suii.'  which  appoared 
in  1864.  But  1  hope  I  shall  be  excused  if  I 
say  that  that  famo^  njo-c^  ^Qv\"5i.\\V4*.\wisvv 


[lO*"  S.  L  Feb.  6, 19M. 


116 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


two 


better    than  it  is,  did  it  not  contain 
examples  of  this  faulty  locution  :— 

"In  my  Univer»ity  Sermons  there  is  a  serie*  o! 
dUcUBsioDS  upon  the  subjecl  of  Faith  and  Reaaon  ; 
these  again  were  the  tentalivo  comnicncement  of  a 
crave  and  necesoary  work,  vi/„.  an  inquiry  into  the 
ultimate  Vjaais  of  religiouB  failh,  prior  to  the  dis- 
tinction into  Creeds."— P.  73  ( Longmans,  1890). 

"It  seemed  to  rao  as  if  he  [Keble]  ever  felt 
happier,  when  he  could  speak  or  act  under  some 
■uch  primary  or  external  sanction ;  and  could  use 
argument  mainly  as  a  means  of  reconimendinR  or 
explaininK  whatnad  claims  on  hia  reception  prior 
to  proof. "-P.  290. 

I  doubt  whether  this  expression  occurs  iii 
Newman's  earlier  writings,  and  excuse  it 
here  on  the  score  of  haste  and  age,  for  he  was 
over  sixty  when  the  'Apologia'  was  com- 
posed iu  a  few  weeks,  and  dotibtless  was  more 
absorbed  in  his  matter  than  in  his  language. 
Since  the  publication  of  this  book,  "prior  to" 
has  V>ecoiue  the  darling  of  the  minor  writers 
of  the  press,  who  scorn  the  homely  word 
before,    bequeathed    to    us    by  our   fathers. 

Hence  we  are  told  that  "Mr.  Chamberlain  i-s    .„„.„, ^   ^.,^ ,,    , 

spending  his  vacation,  prior  to  entering  upon    j^xg  assumed  to  account  for  their  method  of 


falling  into  the  stream  of  our  speech,  have 
been  polished  and  rounded  and  made  a  part 
of  its  l)ed  ;  but  these  ugly  neologisras  float 
on  the  surface  like  "snags  on  the  Mississijipi, 
to  which  the  wary  l>oatman  given  n  wide 
berth,  for  he  knows  they  are  dangerous, 

JOHX  T.  Cl'ERY. 

Fkobt  and  its  Fohms  (lO""  S.  i-  67).— As 
M.  L.  B.  has  fruitlessly  searched  many 
volumes,  one  is  tempted  to  suggest  a  i-efer- 
ence  being  made  to  the  remarks  on  frost 
forms  by  the  late  James  Glaishcr,  F.K.S,. 
also  those  by  M.  Guillemin  in  his  (two) 
works  on  the  forces  of  nature,  and  to  the 
Proctcdimjs  of  the  Royal  Meteorological 
Society  (of  which  an  index  volume  exists). 

11.  B. 

Upton. 

The  beauty  of  the  frosted  pane  is  due  to 
the  predominant  form  of  the  ice-crystals 
deposited.  Why  that  should  be  hexagonal 
is  naturally  beyond  human  ken  ;  but,  given 
minute   crystals,    their  electrical   properties 


his  promised  campaign  in  the  autumn,  at  his 
residence,  Highbury. ' 

I  quote  from  a  provincial  newspaper  in 
which  I  have  read  the  quotidian  liistory  of 
the  world  during  the  last  twenty-five  years. 
But  I  have  seen  the  phrase  in  the  Athenamvi, 
and  more  than  once,  horrefco  referent !  in 
•N.  &  Qi'  but  not  used  editorially,  so  to 
Bpeak,  in  either  case.  It  is  rampant^  saltant, 
visible,  audible  everywhere.  Over  the  sliop- 
front  is  the  epigraph,  "Great  Sale  prior  to 
Removal, "  or,  perhaps,  "  Genuine  Sale  pre- 
vious to  retiring  from  Business."  Edwin  says 
to  Angelina,  "  Dearest,  prior  to  our  being 
married  we  must  have  our  house  in  apple- 

Eie  order,"  and  the  fond  creature,  whose 
nowledgo  of  grammar  is  scanty,  smiles 
approval,  and  is  proud  of  her  lover,  who  is 
going  to  bear  all  the  expon.so  without  trou- 
bling her  old  father,  who  tios  other  daughters 
besides  herself.  Therefore  she  accepts  and 
adopts  "  prior  to  "  as  the  equivalent  of  before, 
and  in  due  courseT  after  (po.sterior  to)  the 
ceremony,  wlien  her  pretty  babe  is  cooing  on 
her  knee,  she  will  try  to  make  it  utter,  "semi- 
hiaute  labello,"  what  cannot  t)o  called  awear- 
ing,  but  is  certainly  "bad  language."  And 
80  it  comes  to  pass  that  violations  of  gram- 
mar, which  a  servile  spirit  of  imitation 
adopts,  at  last  supersede  proper  and  idiomatic 
forms  of  expression  (Marsh's '  Lectures  on  the 
English  Language,'  London,  1863,  p.  4tI0), 

Mr.  James  F'latt  in  his  admirable  notes 
in  these  pages  shows  how  we  have  borrowed 
vrords  from  every  tribe  and  people,  wliich, 


growth.  The  frond-like  appearance  is.  of 
course,  not  unique.  It  may  bo  imitated  by 
evaporating  some  solutions,  and  this  opera- 
tion, when  watched  under  the  microscope,  is 
full  of  interest,  for  the  curious  deliberation 
and  method  evinced,  and  the  plant-like  forms 
which  frequently  result,  lend  the  process,  m 
many  cases,  a  moat  deceptive  air  of  being 


organic. 


J.  Dormer. 


Capsicum  (S"-  S.  xii.  449 ;  10'"  S.  i.  73). 
—  Major  Thorne  Gkorue  says:  "Surely 
'chillies  '  and  the  powder  produced  by  crush- 
ing the  dried  pods  were  known  to  Rome  in 
the  time  of  the  C«?sars,"  but  unfortunaiolv 
he  does  not  state  under  what  name.  Accord- 
ing to  all  botanists  the  L-ajnirniri  nnmnim 
was  unknown  in  Europe  before  the  discovery 
of  America  ;  but  I  am  open  to  conviction. 

L.  L.  K. 

EccHEE  (9^»'  S.  xii.  484  ;  10^"  S.  i- 13,  77).— 
I  must  knock  another  imaginary  derivation 
on  the  head.  The  joker  is  not  used  in  the 
game  of  euchre  (which  is  correctly  deKcribeu 
in  the  *H.E.D.').  but  only  in  a  particular 
variation,  which  was  certainly  not  invented 
till  after  ISTO,  or  perhaps  even  187ri.  Tha 
employment  oi  an  extra  card  as  a  inastetf 
card  appears  to  have  been  intrtxluce<l  about 
the  same  time  into  the  game  of  poker,  bub 
in  neither  game  was  it  first  known  as  thr 
joker.  In  euchre  it  was  called  "  the  imperial 
trump"  or  "the  best  bower";  in  poker, 
"  miatigris."    The  card  used  vras  the  blank 


iv"  8.  L  pkb.  0. 1901.]  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


1l7 


ird  which  accompftnieil  a  pack  of  cards, 
id  I   have  alway^i  understood  that  a  firm 

'  i  an  card  makers,  finding  that  their 
mu.de  use  of  the  blank  card  instead 

,Mi..i,  iiiitely  throwinK  it  away,  imprinted 
jereon  their  device  ot  a  jester,  and  from 
lis  circurastanco  the  card  came  to  be  known 

the  joker.     I  cannot  find  any  reference 

the  vrorti  joker  before  1880.  I  remember 
Bing  shown  >5uch  carda  as  a  novelty  about 

[879.  F.  JES8EL. 


"^iutilnntmi. 


public  or  private  libraries.  Nothing  that  can  con« 
Lribute  to  tho  advantage  or  delight  of  the  reader  is 
waatirig,  and  the  edition  seems  m  every  way  prefer- 
able to  that  of  (irosart.  Where  we  hove  compared 
the  texts  we  fiud  them  word  for  word  and  letter  for 
letter  the  same,  except  that  in  the  editiou  uow 
iijijued  the  short  is  substituted  for  the  loog  .«  of  early 
printing,  bo  apt  to  be  confounded  with  the/.  What 
will  be  thecontents  of  subsecjuent  volumes  we  know 
not  as  yet.  '  Martin's  Moiitii'a  Miudo '  is  rejected 
as  presamably  not  by  Nashe,  We  may  also  assume 
that  the  h-uf/fwlia,  still  in  manuscript,  which  Nashe 
wrote  for  the  delidht  of  the  young  rutllers  of  the 
Court  and  for  the  tilling  of  his  own  very  ill-jjarnished 
pockets,  will  not  be  printed.  Mr.  McKerrow's 
task,  so  far  as  it  is  accomplished,  is  admirably  dia- 
charKed.  Tho  most  important  portion  of  it  has  yet 
to  be  awaited. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  Ac. 

rht  Wortu  of  ThonuM  N(v<he.    Edited  by  Ronald 
B.  MoKerrow.    Vol.  I.     (Bullen.) 
Boris  to  the  student  of  Tudor  literature  ereater 
lan  a  reissue  of  iho  works  of  Thomas  Noahe  i.s 
^•srcely  to  be  hoped  until  Mr.  Bullen  gives  us  his 
long- meditated  and  lonjfpostponed  edition  of  Beau- 
mont and  Fletcher.      ThoUi^h   not   to   be   counted 
jiniong  the  most  potent  spirits  of  tho  Elizabethan 
[epoch,  Nashe  is  aa  interesting  and,  considering  his 
"brief  life,  a  fairly  voluminous  writer,  aud  is  closely 
Iconnectcd  with   the  literary  development    of    his 
[period.      Best  known  as  a  controversialist  and  a 
'•alirist,  he  is  entitled  to  a  place  among  jioets  and 
^dramatists,  and  is  one  of  tho  most  vivacious  chro- 
liolers  of  the  follies  and  fantasies  of  his  day.     In 
their  original  shape    his  works  are  all   rare  and 
'costly.    Some  of  tnem  have  been  reprinted  in  more 
or  leas  expensive  forms.     Others  are  included  in 
the   publications  of   the  first  Shakespeare  Society 
maii  in  the  eminently  valuable  and  scholarly  col- 
lections of  I'rof.  Arber.     In  the  "  Huth  Library," 
_aeantinio,  Dr.  (Irosart  gave  the  wiiole  of  Nashe's 
[works  that  could,  in  his  judgment,  be  set  before  a 
I  modern    public.     Like  iilmoat   all  Grosart's  pub- 
lications, the  issue  of  Nashe  was  in  a  very  limited 
[edition,  and  is  seldom   to  bu  found  except  in  iin- 
[fwrtant  libraries.     It  occupies  six  volumes,  and  is, 
we  cau  abundantly  testify,  a  work  of    much 
'interest. 

Tiie  present  handsome  ami  attractive  repnnt  will 
|l)e  111  four  volumes,  of  which  three  will  be  occupied 
by  text,  with  the  addition  of  prefatory  notes  chiefly 
biblioRraphical,  while  the  fourth  will  be  occupie«i 
with  a  memoir,  notes,  and  a  clossary,  the  last  named 
indispensable  iu  the  case  of  Nashe.  Beginning  with 
'  'The  Auatomie   of    Alisurditie,'  the  first   volume 


MctnorUult  of  Old  Oxforhhire.    Edited  by  P.  H. 

Ditchfieid.'  (Bomrose  &  Sons.) 
The  editor  is  fortunate  in  his  connty  and,  on  the 
whole,  iu  his  coadjutors  in  this  volume.  Apart 
from  tho  glories  of  Oxford  itself,  the  theme  is 
spacious,  and  the  more  remote  regions  described 
may  be  said  to  have  been  but  recently  discovered 
aa  far  as  modern  literature  is  concerned,  or,  at  any 
rate,  to  have  been  revived  witii  the  enthusiasm 
which  they  merit.  Mr.  THtchtield  ojHins  his  volume 
with  a  summary  of  'Historic  Oxfordshire,'  which, 
thouj;h  brief,  shows  cousidenible  aocomplishment. 
The  next  paper,  however,  by  Mr.  A.  J.  Evans,  on 
'  The  Rollriglit  Stones  and  their  Folk-lore,"  is  tho 
niostetrikiui;  in  the  volume,  and  well  worth  perusal. 
Mr.  Evans  has  made  careful  research  in  the  neigh- 
bouring villages,  for  the  stones  thomsclves  stand 
in  solitude  ou  a  hill,  and  gathered  from  Lone 
Compton,  aud  Great  aud  Little  Rollright,  a  body  of 
remarkable  tradition,  which  is  fast  dying  out  in 
con8e<|uence  of  increased  facilities  for  Roing  to 
London  and  other  populous,  but  less  romantic 
spots.  Outside  the  main  circle  of  stones,  which 
has  been  of  recent  years  encumbered  with  an  iron 
railing,  there  stands,  on  the  other  side  of  an  ancient 
road,  a  single  atone  called  "  the  KiuK."  This 
monarch  was  nearly  in  view  of  Look  Compton, 
according:  to  tradition  and  ^fr.  Evans,  when  a  witch 
(it  was  always  Mother  Shipton  in  the  vei-sion  we 
heard)  said  to  him  :  — 

If  Long  Compton  thou  canst  see, 
King  of  England  thou  slialt  be. 

But  he  failed  to  reach  the  necessary  point  on  tho 
hill,  aud  with  all  his  men  and  the  Queen— which  is. 
we  may  add,  the  local  title  of  the  biggest  stone  of 
the  circle  nearest  the  road — was  turned  to  stone. 


Xiijht.'    >lany  of  these  belong  to  tho  |  as  a  witch.    The  writer  of  these  lines  has  himself 


Slarprelatc    controversy.     '  Pieroe  j  been  introfluced  to  a  reputed  witch  (male,  as  in  old 
lb,  perhaps,  the  l)est  known  of  Nasho's  |  English)  in  a  neighbouring  parish,  but  the  chief 


TCI  : 

'faiii' 

Peuiltj  --        •  V  ■  ■  1     .         I -— o /        -        " =  'T 

■works,  iiud  is  full  of  autobingraphical  revelations.  I  reputotion  of  this  man  was  apparently  duo  to  tho 

Tliurc'  ure,  indeed,  few  works  of  tho  writer  that  do  1  f^ct  that  ho  had  made  a  little  money,  »nd.  oddly 

not  reveal  tho  nbjccL  state  in  which  ho  lived,  bowed  \  enough,  kei>t  it.     A  minor  poet  put  I  hi''  distrlot 

I  down  by  poverty  and  disease,  and  unable  to  pre-    into  fashion  for  a  M-hile,  as  if  it  wos  all  tr>iii  was 

l«ervc  the  «'ste«m  or  patronage  of  those  whom  his  |  ^lost   oharmioK.     So   it    is,   in  a  way;    v  • 


wit  attracted. 

T! 

Tl«:i 


'.%  critical,  the  various 

fiMjl  uf  the  poRe,  and 

^iven  from   copies   in 


most   oharuung. 

disadvantages.     Wo  recall  tlio  Parsot.  x\ 

his  dump  vicarage,  rather  ruefully  :      Ul>,  - 

a  nif-e  place,  except  that  moss  will   gruw  ou   Ujo 

front  stairs,*'    It  is  a  bleak  dlUrict,  but  offat*  ^ 


NOTES  AND  QrHRlES. 


CM»&LPkx.flw 


i.>a  .lii.r  H(trM4i4M  i«  lU  mixtmr*  of  grcf 

•'I  Uf  tmm  mkfU  t^eanythtm 

i.|m  tiiM  of  tlw  oldtr  piatuw  of  Umb, 

MfMM,    Tffla  ii 

Iff    K'nn*  -U^' 


i>i«M  «l  lolk'lora»  wfcieh 


on, 


$t(>     in    (4     (>' 


anjr  e(»  wIm 

itimbwof  tka 
wiali  )m  bM 


'  I  but  Mr.  KvHtii  hiM  fflovstfd 

UK  lli»>  riilf!  of  Ilolftno,  thuA 

■  I  iiiuiitAl 

:l»<l,      No 

I  by  the 

vvii  urtiiiiriuit 

'    in  thinking 

i>  •'.      1 1"  <ii«<i  not  tiioution 

<l  urul   Iraiiltloii  •{ivak*  of 

III  many  nther  r«atiiroi«  of 
I  Niliih  im   Kivi'ltni),  lUirfiini, 


Mr 


A.  I'uils  ii 


M.M        11..-       ..,'J 

1    in    Tiiiioo 
xiitttiiL-o  vif  tho 

littli.  .tiviki.].. 

in(ih«  on  'Tho 

'    wo  tliiiik  a 

I  Ml  her  than 

I.v  U 

.1   • 

'  Ii  n   I.Alill    ti  n  II 

>  lit  I  ho  viiluinn,  whioh  «r«  wt^ll 

lil.liiliia     •<(       itiiiilL'lil.ii.     I'll. till 


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Ki:--'    '"•'•',    /V'"i/4    fk*   jMi/M    of  At/red  to    thr 

ih<  TuilovH.    Nowly  edited  by  Robert 

f  lorinif.) 

T"  tliu  "  Kiii«'>  rluiiim,"  iiiued  from  the  Da  Lai 

Mure   Pro«i,    huB    liiM:ti    nddud   it  carefully  edited 

viil   ■         ,....,..-...,.. i„,  I  ,„„  ,.f  I  i,n  private  lottcrs 

o(   :  luring  tho  tlireo 

hun  I    nKin&rcha.     It 

WHS  at  iJiul.  iiiliuiiiLd  to  r'niriiii  ll.illiwell'e  'Letters 
o(  tli«  Kirigi  of  England.'    These  wore  found  to  be 


I«<»  III 


I'l     Mill      lill 

if  siittUt'- 

111  lit)  lino, 

M     it       (III) 

led  ns 
llivy  of 


I  awTwfinKly  been  altered 

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TU  Brkmk   Jmrmi  mf  f^jiirfijj. 

FkrtL  (OHBfcnlit^OamnitTPreM.) 
fKWammn  n  mammtimmm  aseiaeil  with  reason  of 
haiac  out  of  toadi  vitb  filit:  r«rcbology  io  its 
noMm  ifawlnywH  »  a  Uiif  cd  panwiount 
ioiwrtaDoe  mwh  is  jMidn«  iateratiDK  reaalta 
every  day  eonceRUBK  imctiaal  life.  Dr.  Ward, 
wboce  (uaaterly  book  on  \gHtmirmio  vill  be  known 
to  moat  readers,  baa  lewuwl  an  able  band  of 
coadjutors,  and  we  are  t,\md  thai  this  country  can 
at  last  boaat  of  a  jonniaJ  wkicli  ia  the  eighth  of  its 
kind  in  the  last  mteen  yean,  bat  the  drst  to  aiijienr 
in  England.  In  the  nrcacat  n«rt  Dr.  Ward  writes 
on  '  The  Definition  of  P^hoioey,'  and  two  papers 
Hre  concerned  with  sensationa  of  the  eye. 

The  Febmary  number  of  the  Unrlinf/ton  Magazinrt 
isaned  from  17, "Beriiera  Street,  under  the  editorship 
of  Measra.  C.  J.  HolmeA  and  Robert  Dell,  onnlnina 
Roiiio  now  featnr<        ""'    ■   seems  to  1       '  .st 

otrikinK  ia   the  of    a  tin-  >l 

r<>production  of  n  i:  by  Drouai>  -lo 

three  of  the  name  ;    llin   i.3  presumably  Hubert), 
civint;  ixirtraits  of  the  .Vlarqnia  and  Alaniuise  de 
M  ■vifuirnais,  with  -  'i-.-!:  vouth  who  hulda  up  the 
,  and  a  Ui  •  ibly  (he  ])ainter,  who 

■IX  it.     A  *>•-  .-  liy  the  same  paiuter  ia 

liio  picture  of  (he  :>uu  of  the  Marquia  at  the  a^ 
of  toil,  lioth  picture*  are  marveta.  A  desire  i« 
at  length  granted,  on  which  we  expressed  from 
the  tirat,  and  liie  huge  wedges  of  text  of 
which  we  complained  are  broken  op.  The  frontia- 
iitiH^e  coiisi.itij  of  a  portrait  bv  T:  i   .Tane, 

Duchess  of  I iordoit.    Mr.  Claude  !  i tea  on 

'A   Rrou/.e  Relief   in  the  Wallai x    - ..uu/and 

Mr.  (J.  H.  Wyldc  on  the  '.Terningham  Collection  of 
Kn|:liiih  Citass.'  The  itlufitrations  to  these  and  other 
arttoloa  arc  of  ainifular  beauty. 

.\    I'Koi'oKTioS   much  larger  than  usual  of  the 

^  devoted  this  month  to  literary  and 

i-Im.     The  first  article,  whicli  liear*  a 

iniii;  iiMi  III  >         ■        .  i,<5  occupied  with  an  uppenl 

ill  favour  t'l  I  British  stage.    Thia  ia  wpII 

iiir.int.   but   I  .'>rt  of  a  rtMolnriori  in  our 

ill  sjniow  will  work  any  Mr. 

I  aII  give*  extracts  on  End  -i  from 

I, „,.-•, ...i»"s  note-lKKjks.    Mr.  Artiii..   .. -i..^,.  writes 

on   iivoTao  (iissin);,  und    Mr.   Franois  tinbble  on 

IsuRcnc  Sue.     In  its  oh  sing  poKcs  the  last-named 

article  dcaU  with  Ihc  .lesvulJ*.     Le  Comte  de  S^gur 

■clcrtu  for  <'oiiinient  three  French  novels  of  recent 

birth.      Mr.  William  Wutaoii  bewails  'The  State 

DisormrttKcinciit  of  Litoratuns,'  a  thing  for  which. 

writers   nro    themselves    ]>artlv    to    blame.     Mr. 

Alfred     H.    Wnllncc    ivrinis    '  Lcouaiue,'    a    poem 

hitherto   unpublished    of    l»oe,   and    Mr.    Stei>hen 

<Jwynn  writes  on  '  The  Life  of  a  Song.'  — In  the 

>\  iiii'/f .  K/A    Cfulin-ij    Mr.    Herbert    Paul,     Iri     his 

•  RcllKtim  of  the  iiiccks,'  takes  for  lent  the  recently 

publishtfd  '  I'roleKumrno  to  the  Stt   >      '  •'-  '   -     ' 

Religion 'of  Mius  Harrison  (Caml' 

l^^M).     What  he  nays  is  both  irii| 

said,  thouBh  the  arttole  as  a  wholu  id  disuursiM.'. 

'A  I'orgotten   Volume    in  Shaksiieare's  Lihr 


ihraty,' 


lo-"  8. 1.  Fkb.  fl,  19M.J  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I 


I 


Sir  PMward  Sitllivau,  points  out  the  reaetn- 
ancc  l>etwecn  thoughlft  in  Shakespeare  and 
eorge  Pettio's  tranalatioti  from  the  Ilalian, 
;h  tho  French,  of  what  is  called  iu  English 
Civile  Conversation  of  M.  8teuen  Gubzzo.' 
resemblance  between  ijosaagus  in  this  book, 
bich  appeared  in  I08I,  and  others  in  '  Hamlet '  ia 
..riking,  and  Sir  Edward  may  claim  to  have 
directed  tho  attention  of  Hhakeapearian  acholars  to 
■ngKeat«d  coincidences  of  thought.  In  'Sermons 
•nd  iiiamuel  Pefiys'  the  esaayial  maintains  that 
Pepys  was  at  heart  a  Puritan.— In  the  Pall  Mall 
Mr.  Riiubault  Dibdin  writes  'Pictures  and  the 
Public,'  accompany inK  hia  contribution  with  repro- 
ductions of  photoKtaphs.  Mr.  Begbie  otudies  Mr. 
CJ.  F.  Watts  under  '  Master  Workers.'  A  portrait 
and  an  autograph  accompany  tlic  paper.  '  How 
and  Why  Animals  are  Coloured '  is  ou  a  jiopular 
subject  and  is  well  illuatrated.  'Literary  Geo- 
graphy' ia  concerned  with  Thackeray.  'The 
Taming  of  Garden  Dirds '  is  pleasant  and  sym- 
pathetic—'Some  Gardens  in  Spain.'  by  Helena 
Kutherfurd  Ely.  which  appears  in  Sa-ihncr,  has  a 
pleasing  atniospnero  both  as  regards  letten)ress 
and  lUustratious.  A  portrait  of  Tomraaso  Salvini, 
accouipanying  a  sketch  of  hia  life,  shows  the  artist 
naturally  as  something  of  a  veteran.  Mrs.  Iteorge 
Bancroft's  letters  from  EoKland  are  continued, 
as  ia  Capt.  Slaban's  *  War  of  1812.'  Mr.  Bpiehiiann 
writes  on  'Charles  Keene  as  an  Etcher,  and  Mr. 
T.  R.  Sullivan  on  'The  Centenary  of  Allieri.'— 
'Some  Empty  Chairs,'  contributed  by  Mr.  H.  W. 
Lucy  to  the  Cornhill,  ia  at  the  outset  not  political, 
bat  literary,  and  is  occupied  with  William  lUack, 
Creorgo  Aagastus  }>ala,  Jumca  Payn,  and  8ir  J.  R. 
KobinsoD.  In  later  iiassagea  he  deplores,  in  common 
with  others,  the  death  of  genial  John  Penn  and  of 
Sir  Bhindell  Maple,  both  of  the  House  of  Commons, 
and  Lord  Rowton,  whose  jilace  is  not  yet  tilled, 
and  whose  task,  from  which  he  shrank,  is  not 
acconnlished.  In  No.  II.  of  'Historical  Mys- 
teries Mr.  Lang  deals  with  'The  Campdon  Mys- 
tery.' concerning  which  little  is  generally  known. 
Mr.  Faimian  Ordish  writes  on  "Tno  Improvement 
of  Wostminbler,'  Mr.  Foxwell  on  '  Among  Japanese 
Hills.'  and  Prof.  Tout  on  Theodor  Momnison.— 
Mr.  Holden  MacMichael  sends  to  the  Oe)ifl>)nan''i 
*  On  tho  Reign  of  the  Gin  Terror,'  and  Mr.  A.  L. 
Salmon  'Some  Folk-lore  .Jottings,'  in  which  the 
writer  dilates  on  water-sjiirits  and  mouse  myths. 
'Gossip  in  the  Sussex  Ol-wrland  '  is  likely  also  to 
interest  our  readers.  — 'The  Swimming  Power  of 
Animals,'  which  appears  in  LouginanK,  is  a  fresh 
subject  fresiily  treated.  In  "Ai  tho  Sign  of  tho 
Ship' Mr.  Lang  writes  with  customary  orightncss 
on  many  subiect.s,  including  the  discomforts  he 
aaffers  from  the  doubles,  trebles,  &c.,  with  whom 
he  Beema  to  be  afflicted. 


BOOK.«1ELLKKJ«"  CaTALOOOKS. 

Thb  catalogues  received  since  our  last  notice 
include  two  from  Mr.  Pluckwell,  of  Oxford,  who 
has  a  large  assortment  of  books  under  ToiK>graph^. 
Music  is  also  a  protniuent  feature.  Clemcntr» 
*  Selection  for  the  Organ  and  Pianoforte,'  4  vols,  in 
8,  is  ofl'ored  for  30«, ;  Hawkins's  '  History,' 5  vols. 
iUy,  1776.  ^  ~x.  Gil.-  Pureell's  'Selection  for  the 
Hari*ii.'hord,'  S/.  S».  Theie  are  many  volumes  of 
inatruinenlal  music  of  the  eiehteenlh  century,  In 
the  general  list  are  Palgraves  'English  Comnmn- 
WMltb,'  5/.  10$. ;  the  Library  Edition  of  Motley,  in 


9  vols. ;  V^isconti's  '  Iconographiu  Ancienne,'  7  vols, 
atlas  folio.  1808-'26;  Wiclif  Society  Publications: 
Library  of  the  Fathers,  Oxford,  1H43.  40  vols.  ;  and 
Scottish  History  Society  issues.  Under  America  we 
tiud  Morton's  '  Crania  Americana,'  with  ten  extra 
plates,  Philadelphia,  1839. 

Mr.  Dobell's  February  catalogue  consists  wholly 
of  MS.  Works,  documents,  and  autograpii  letters, 
and  ourold  friend  says :  "  I  trust  that  I  shall  receive 
sulHcient  encouragement  from  this  experiment  to 
induce  mo  to  issue  similar  catalogues  from  time  to 
time."  Wo  cordinliy  join  with  him  in  this  wish^ 
especially  if  future  catalogues  are  to  be  so  full  ot 
interest  as  the  present  one.  It  opens  with  the 
original  autograph  manuscript  of  Dr.  Josepb 
Beaumont's  poems,  unpublished.  This  is  priced  at 
(i5/.  There  is  also  an  original  autograph  signature 
of  William  Herbert,  Karl  of  Pembroke,  "by  some 
commentators  believed  to  bo  the  W.  H.  of  Shake- 
speare's Sonnets,"  The  catalogue  includes  MSS. 
from  the  Sneyd  collection  just  dispersed  at> 
Sotheby's. 

Mr.  G.  Gregory,  of  Bath,  sends  Catalogue  1^. 
a  collection  of  books  in  new  condition,  and  Cata- 
logue laS,  coloured  prints  and  engravings.  The  books 
include  Cunsick's  '  Epitaphs ' ;  '  English  Coronation 
Records,'  by  Lcgg,  only  500  copies  printed  ;  Elvin's 
'  War  Medals,' valuable  for  medal  collectors;  Elli- 
son's *  Etchings  of  iiath,'  Chiswick  Press  ;  Foster** 
'  Oxford  Men  and  their  Colleges ' ;  Charles  Gould's 
'Mythical  Monsters';  Dr.  Guest's  'Originea 
Celiicw';  Richards's  '  Her  Majesty's  Army,'  3  vols., 
4lo ;  '  Ancient  Topography  of  London,'  royal  4to, 
1810-15;  Mayo's  '  Medals  of  the  Army  and  \avy '  ; 
'  Paget  Papers ' ;  and  Spenser's  '  Faerie  Queeno, 
1^.  The  last  contains  '  Bibliography '  by  'J'homas 
J.  Wise. 

Mr.  Iredale,  of  Torquay,  has  the  first  edition  of 
'  The  Newoomes,'  the  ~i  numbers  in  original  covers ; 
Scott's  'Border  Anticjuities,'  1814,  2  vols,  folio; 
"  Breeches"  Bible,  or  Genevan  version,  lo99,  a 
perfect  copy,  51.  5«. ;  'Speaker's  Commentary,' 
h  vols.,  "/.  10*.;  Marshall's  'Naval  Biography,' 
12 vol?.,  1700-1830;  w\.oillhi^riUf.d X(w^,  1»42-M)02, 
18/.  lax.  There  are  a  number  of  books  under 
Devon,  including  Prince's  '  VVorthies  of  Devon,' 
1701,  "  wherein  the  lives  and  fortunes  of  the  most 
fatuous  natives  of  that  most  noble  Province  are 
memoriz'd."  To  those  interested  in  C^uaker  litera- 
ture Mr.  Iredale  ofTers  to  send  a  wiiiten  list  of 
books  he  has,  some  of  the  seventeenth  century. 

Messrs,  Parsons  &  Sons,  of  Broinplon  Road,  have 
a  most  interesting  catalogue  of  engraved  portraits 
of  actors,  actresses,  and  musical  celebrities. 

Mr.  Russell  Smith's  list  is  strong  in  bibliography, 
astrology,  and  witchcraft:  be  has  also  a  number 
of  Speed's  early  maps  of  the  English  counties  at 
aa.  each.  Among  hia  Shakespeare  reference  books 
are  West's  'Symboleography,'  thick  4to,  black- 
letter,  old  calf,  1005,  4/.  4^.,  and  the  '  Lawes  Reso- 
lutions of  Woaiens  Rights,'  163'2,  Under  Biblio- 
graphy are  some  valuable  sale  catalogues,  including 
that  of  Isaac  Reed,  thirty-nine  days'  sale,  18(/7  ; 
in  this  the  prices  are  given.  The  copy  of  the 
facsimile  reprint  of  Inigr>  Jones's  'Sketch-Book,* 
ItJU.  presented  by  the  Duke  of  Devonshire  to 
Archbishop  WranglMim,  is  ofTered  at  0/.  10-<.  Only 
l(J(J  copies  of  this  were  printed  for  presents,  date 
about  lS.1t).  .Vugustinos  'The  Glasae  of  V^aino* 
Glorie,'    translated    by    W.    P,   (Wm.    Pridetux). 


120 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


il 


(10»h  8.  1.  Feb.  6,  1901. 


|2n\o,  firat  edition,  new  morocco  extra.  John 
Windet,  1585,  !■  priced  41.  4«.  Mr.  Smith  at^ites  tli»t 
only  three  copiei  are  known,  one  of  which  is  iu  the 
Britiah  Museum. 

Mr.  Sutton,  of  Manchester,  eends  us  »n  advance 
copy  of  his  new  cataloRUO,  which  ho  devotes  to 
JSbakcspearo  aod  the  dratna.  Among  the  contents 
»ro  the  collodion  of  twenty-seven  tino  engraved 
portraits  of  Sliake«]ieare  brought  together  by  the 
late  T.  Birchall,  the  price  beine  7/.  10*.;  '.Shake- 
a|K:are,  Life  and  Works,'  edited  by  Cliarlea  Knight, 
2  vols,  extended  to  2.5  by  the  insertion  of  3,0(.>0  extra 
illuatrationB,  price  150/.  (the  coat  of  the  prinU  and 
binding  amounted  to  320/.J ;  Shakespeare  Quarto 
Fucsiniile'»,  isHsuod  under  ihe  direction  of  Dr.  F.  J. 
Furnivall,  1881-91 ;  '  Shakespeareana,' a  collection  of 
20  vols,  brought  toKether  about  184r>  by  Robert 
Balmaiino,  o?  the  Temple,  8/. ;  '  Memoirs  of 
Charles  Mathews,' 4  thick  vols..  1838  9;  '  Moliire," 
Van  Lauu's  translation ;  New  Shakspore  Society's 
Publications  ;  and  Spenser  Society's  Publications. 
The  whole  catalogue  naa  many  itema  of  interest. 

Mr.  Thorp  iaaues  a  catalogue  from  St.  Martin's 
I^no,  a  lii-t  of  books  of  Keneml  litorature.  Among 
thorn  wo  notice  the  Spalding  Club  Publications, 
^  vols.,  13/.  1(M. ;  Bruno  Ryvea'a  '  Mercurius  Ruati- 
cna,'  r2nio, original  vellum,  2/.  '2-t.,  1647;  Cruikshank'a 
'  "rho  Loving  Ballad  of  Lord  Uateman  '  the  tirat 
edition.  Tilt,  IS30,  7/.  !*■ ;  Cruiksiiank  s  German 
storiei),  first  edition,  |H/.  18^.  ;  a  collection  of  illua- 
trated  books  of  the  sixties,  19  vols.;  Boydell's  prints, 
to  be  had  separately ;  '  Memoirs  of  the  Dutch 
Trade,'  showing  ita  nrat  riae  and  prodiKioua  pro- 
gresa,  \~if2.  price  30.5. ;  early  Quaker  tracts ;  and  a 
number  of  works  on  Jilmblems.  There  are  gdso 
jiumeroua  portraits. 

Mr.  Voynich'a  short  catalogue  No.  6  has  just 
reached  us.  Moat  of  the  booka  are  very  rare,  some 
of  them  not  in  the  British  Museum,  and  many  not 
mentioned  by  Lowudea.  Under  America  M'e  find 
Palafnx'a  *  V^irtudea  del  Indio,'  being  an  appeal  to 
the  King  in  defence  of  the  Indians,  1G50,  price  21/., 
*nd  Brerewood'a  '  En(j[uirica  touching  the  Diversity 
oif  Languages  and  Religions  through  the  Chief  Parts 
of  the  World,"  1655.  in  this  "  the  author  (levotes  a 
portion  of  the  work  tothefirat  peopling  of  America." 
Hia  aocounta  of  the  idolatries  in  America  are  very 
curious.  Under  Biblea  we  find  Eaglish,  Italian, 
and  Ruseian.  This  last  incluJca  the  third  edition 
of  the  Now  Testament,  published  by  the  Russian 
Bible  Society,  St.  Petersburg,  1822,  permission  having 
been  granted  to  tratuUte  the  Now  Toalament  into 
Ruaaian  in  1818.  Shortly  after  this  third  edition 
the  Booiety  was  sappreased.  There  are  some  beau- 
tiful bindioes  ofTered,  one  a  work  of  ^''enotian  art — 
Venice,  ona  of  aixteenth  century,  Siil.  'There  are 
also  French,  German,  Italian,  Flemish,  and,  what 
.fere  seldom  obtainable,  Mexican  epecimons.  Another 
item  IS  a  block  book,  'Bdilia  Paaporum,'20  guineaa. 
Until  lately  this  blixik  book  was  supposed  to  be  the 
only  one  produced  iu  Italy,  but  it  ia  now  ktiown 
there  is  another  in  a  private  library.  A  cojjy  of 
Mrs.  Aphra  Bohn's  *  Abdoiaxor '  is  oU'ered  for  LS*., 
flrat  edition,  Ifi/r  Thi"  ...■.I'lw  the  woll-knoun 
iyric, 'Love  in  Phanlan:  ph  S.ai."    Th««rt< 

ia  also  a  cony  of  the  lii       '  Irt.M    nf  \Vntton 

and  Wnlloii>  'Rcliiiuiii    w 
editjiin,  edited    by   \Valloii, 

Mr  llcnry   Wollon.    The  lii „:. 

J/avater,  1572,  is  priood  1<W.  la*.  Tlicro  arc 
treasures   tu   M   found   aad«r   various   hvadiaiK*, 


including  Dante,  Shakespeare,  Clasaica,  Italian 
Literature,  Incunabula,  Greek  Presses,  English 
History,  &c. 

Meeara.  Henry  Y'oan^  A  Sons,  of  Liverp"K)l.  have 
many  valuable  booka  in  their  Fel>ronr*"  catntojiue. 
Those  include  a  unique  r  .  .     .   ..-  '  '■■ng 

28   plates   by    Monnet.  r.s 

original  drawings  by  u  ^|j. 

tccnth  century,  none  of  wbioii  Loe  bceu  engraved, 
and  24  additional  plates,  4  vola,,  in  full  crimson 
morocco  by  Cape,  Paris,  1796-1'""  '  '  ;  King 
Edward    VL'a     Prayer    Book,    ^  ,   l.^j49, 

7;V.  ;  Book  of  Common  Prayer  fci  ■     16^, 

50/.;  the  Salisbury  Missal.  15k>7,  M. ;  liough's 
'Sepulchral  Monuments,'  178ft-96,  .'<  vols.,  35/.; 
Charles  Lamb's  'Album  Versea,"  first  edition; 
Brayley'a  '  London."  4  vols.,  1829  ;  a  complete  set  of 
Turner  and  Stolhard'tt  illustratinn'^  to  Rogcra't 
'  Poems ' ;  Turner's  '  N'iews  i'^  ind  Wales ' ; 


eriee  of  71 


the  'Liber  Studiorum,'  the 

plates ;  and  Tcmminck  et  Lat 

de  Planches  Colonc-ead'Oisea  n, 

32/.    Some  'Bargains  for  B'".  .r- 

traits  and  engravings  bring  this  luteieitiat;  ciita- 

loguB  to  a  close. 


We  miut  caU  tptcM  aUtniian  to  Iht  /oliomn^ 
notices : — 

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

Wk  cannot  undertake  to  answer  queries  jirivately. 

To  secure  insertion  of  communications  corre* 
spondenta  must  observe  the  following  rules,  Let 
each  note,  query,  or  reply  be  writt«n  on  a  sei^iarate 
slip  of  paper,  with  the  signature  of  the  writer  and 
such  address  as  he  wishes  to  appear.  When  answer- 
ing quenes,  or  making  notes  with  regard  to  previous 
entries  in  the  paper,  contributors  are  requested  to 
uut  in  parentheaoa,  immediatelv  after  the  exact 
heading,  the  aeriea,  volume,  and  page  or  pages  to 
which  they  refer.  Correspondents  who  repeat 
qucriea  are  roqueated  to  bead  the  second  coiii< 
munication  "  Duplicate." 

K.  (Newton  College). —  *' An  Austrian  army 
awfully  arrayed  "  appeared  anonymously  in  Btnt- 
lev*  MucrUany  for  ilarch,  IKW.  vol.  iii.  p.  312.  It 
is  copied  in  full  in  '  N.  &  Q. ,'  3"*  S.  iv.  88  (1  Aug.. 
1863).  It  also  appears  in  'The  AVild  Garland'  of 
Isaac  J.  Reeve  (F.  Putnam,  no  date),  vol.  i.  p.  8, 
whore  it  ia  said  that  the  linea  are  attributed  to 
the  Rev.  B.  Poulter,  Prebendary  of  Winchester 
about  1828.— "Pop  gooa  the  weaseL"  \\'e  do  not 
know  the  origin  of  thia. 

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CONTENTS. -No.  7. 

KOTBS  — "•Oockshu*.  lime  •—Ob«ucieri«tii,  IJl— Peg  Wof- 
fiDgt«n't  Lrtltr—  "  t)ii«>^iilii(h  Cburcb,"  IM— " B»ck  mm! 
aide  go  l)«re"— "H>.iolli(»n"— "  Chlfvrick  nUbtla|(«lM" 
—Moon  Polk-tore— Orlgtuitl  o(  B-itber  ia  *  Blenk  lluuie,' 
I  as. 

QURHIBS  .  -  "  Olnbrcad  •  -  "Qaloe  "  —  •'  P«nn»gp  niiJ 
toll«K«  "  — "  Mv  Liiril  the  Sua  "— Nkpolron  at  St.  Helena 
— R<l«r«r<l  Younn.  "  tbo  iwinUir  of  Ill-luck"— W.  H.  H. 
Brovra— P.  K'>m|ili»t>i1  —  K^iitapU  by  6b«kMpe«re,  IIM  — 
Geaifral  SU^wnrl't  P.irlriit— DBiith-»eciueno<>  in  Suss«n  — 
PoBcnrlnui  -Puolball  on  Sbruve  Tuc*Uy  -  VV.  Hawkins, 
D.D  — Hunclrt'l  Courlii -' Tbc  Ohildrt-ti  of  thf  Abbey '— 
Hotioiir  of  Tutbiirs' —  Trlnl  of  Qij«en  Ciirollno  —  Hfy»l 
Kirrnli'  — Kr  ini  , .f  T.  rr.ir— Murjborougb  atuJ  Sli»ke«p««ro 
'  wdall's  Traditionary  An»odol«( 
1J8. 

lii.. --....  .-  iVirrinKton  Church,  14'^  —  Il*leljjli'» 

UiMrd,  l.)j— I'rivv  *J"Ui.c'il  undor  J&rno  I.— St.  Patrick  at 
Orvlel'i.  131— Kitih.-inion  — Mlle^u.Moi,  13-J-Rarelope«, 
\x:  M.jii.u-  I'.ii.i.i,  Ksinlly,  I'U— "Kissed  bands"— 
1'  ir*'«  '  "  VIrtuB    if     neces»Uy  "— 

i.Ied  to  by  Wnnliworth.  13«- 
I'arlah"— Snowball— St.  Bridget'* 
BiiWfi  — jjii  Jiiliii  icvniour'i  'BpitJijib— Inscription  on 
Jamri  ll.'s  St*tue-yr<>nah  Miniature  P*lnt«r— A«h : 
Plaec-nanne.  137— "  m»k  '— Anatonil*  Vivante-Saipp,  138. 

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•Story  pf    ibo  Token '  — 'Ship*   and    Shipping ' —  Oon- 

fi^eK«t(l.lnnl    UUlorlaal    Sociely't    '  Traojactiuua  '  —  '  The 
•llquary.' 
Ilev.  Canon  Ainger. 
KoUoM  to  Oorretpondenl). 


"COCKSHUT  TIME." 
It  U  remarkable  that  this  phrase,  which  is 
well  known  to  mean  "  twilight,"  and  occurs 
in  Shakespeare,   has    never    been    properly 
explained 


are  both  more  shortenings  of  cochhool ;  in- 
deed, the  latter  is  the  nearer  of  the  two!  It 
is  not  in  the  lea-«jt  degree  likely  that  two 
8uch  remarkable  words  a»  cocfc  thoot  and  cock- 
shuf  sliould  both  have  ariaon  independently 
from  difleront  verbs.  The  verb  to  thul  haa 
no  place  here  ;  nor  is  there  anything,  in  any 
example,  to  support  the  idea  of  coch  (why 
fiot  hnis  rather  f)  going  to  roost. 

Tliis  i»  as  gocxl  a-s  proved  by  the  fact  that 
Middleton,  in  his  '  Widow,'  Act  111.  sc,  L 
has  "a  line  cuchhwt  evening  "  with  reference 
to  the  time  uf  day,  where  he  ought,  by  the 
false  theory^  to  have  said  cocksliut.  And 
again,  H.  Kingnley  calls  the  dusk  by  the 
name  of  cocksho't  tiiiui.  Hence  all  three  forma 
denote  but  one  word. 

Surely  it  is  clear  that  mckshoot  ti/ne  was 
simply  the  time  when  the  cockshoots  were 
utilized  ;  and  that  is  the  whole  of  it.  The 
cockfhooia  wore  not  nets,  but  glades.  The 
glades  wore  left  to  sot  nets  in.  And,  when 
It  grew  dusk,  the  neta  (called  cockfh*K>(nett) 
were  set.  Not  even  a  woodcock  would  have 
been  caught  in  a  net  at  midday,  when  the 
danger  was  visible. 

See  some  most  intere.sting  remarks  in 
Newton's  '  Dictionary  of  Birds,' where  men- 
tion is  also  made  of  a  cock-road,  an  equiva- 
lent term  to  cock-shoot,  meaning,  of  course,  a 
road  or  direction  which  the  woodcock  often 
takes,  and  derived  (as  in  '  H.E.D.')  from 
roficf,  as  is  suggested  also  in  Newton's  note, 
where  he  rejects  two  bad  shots  at  its  origin 
which  he  Quotes.  Prof.  Newton  also  quotes, 
from  a  book  written  in  1602,  a  passage  which 


The  account  in  '  H.E.D.' says :  "  From  rtx-Ar ,       .       .,        i    ,      .  •,  ■       ,"  ,  ,, 

and  thut;  perhaps  the  time  when  poultry  go    pak^  the  whole  clear  enough,  to  the  follow- 
to  roost  and  are  shut  up  ;  though  some  think  j  f"8  f  noc^-    Woodcocks  are  described  as  being 


I 


it  is  the  same  as  cxka/toot,  and  refers  to  the 
time  when  woodcocks  '  shoot '  or  fly." 

The  account  in  Schmidt's  'Hliake.spearo- 
Lexicon  '  is;  "The  time  when  the  cock  shut, 
that  is,  a  Urge  net  employed  to  catch  wood- 
cocks, used  to  \ie  spread  ;  or  tlie  time  when 
cocks  and  hens  go  to  roost ;  the  evening 
twilight." 

These  must  be  con9idere<l  together  with 
thnot,  well  detined  in  'H.E.D.'  as  "a 
iful   way  or    glade    in    a   wood,    through 

hich  woodcocks,  ic,  might  dart  or  'shoot,' 
so  as  to  be  caught  by  nets  stretcho*!  across 
tho  opening."  To  which  is  well  and  justly 
jwldwi  (for  it  is  material)  that  *'  the  stato- 
(ueiitii  that  the  net  itself  was  the  cockgfuHtt, 
and  that  the  proper  auelling  is  cock  thut, 
appear  to  be  dictionary  oluodors."  (No  quo- 
tAtionq  support  thorn.)  It  is  further  noted 
ill.'  "    n  shortened  io  rockuhnt. 

•n  of  all  the  c^uotations 
wUi,  1  (itHiK,  nhow  that  cock4hot  and  cock$fi.ut 


taken  in  cock-shoote  (yine,  as  yt  is  tearmed, 
which  is  the  twylight,  when  yt  ys  no  strange 
thinge  to  take  a  hundred  or  sixe  score  in  one 
woodd  in  twenty-four  liourcs."  It  h  a(ided 
that  '*  another  MS.  speaks  of  one  wood  ha\-ing 
13  cock  shots,"    See  '  Diet,  of  Birds.'  p.  1044. 

I  cannot  help  thinking  that  if  gucssors 
had  refrained  from  mixing  up  the  matter 
with  the  verb  to  shut,  absurdlv  explained  as 
"going  to  roost,"  there  would  never  have 
arisen  any  difficulty  as  to  the  true  sense  of 
the  terra.  Much  more  might  be  said  bv  way 
<>f  further  proof ;  but  perhaps  it  is  nbe(]leas. 
Waltir  W.  Skeat. 


CHAUCERIAN  A. 
1.       For  pitc  rcnneth  Fone  in  Kcntil  hertc. 
This  appears  to  have  been  Chaucer's  favourite 
line— and  well  it   might  be.     It  recurs    in 
three  passages  in  the  •Tales,'  A  17G1,  E  1986. 
F  470,  and  in  the  I'colQ^^'Ck  Vft  »0c«,  ^  Vft-iMsoss. 


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of  Good  Women,'  1.  503.  It  is  intereating  to 
note  that  it  was  probably  one  of  his  Ovidjan 
i-eminiscencea  ;  for  the  original,  or  something 
very  like  it,  i8  to  be  found  in  '  Trist.,'  III.  5, 
31-2  :— 

Qno  nuis  eiiitn  major,  mftgis  est  pUcabilia  irt« ; 
Etjaciks  motut  menu  f/tnerota  rapit. 
2.  Eek  PUto  seith,  wbo-so  that  can  him  rede, 

The  wordea  mote  be  cosio  to  the  ded«. 

•Prol.,' 11.  741-2. 

It  has  been  pointed  out  by  Morris  that  this 
saying  of  Plato  is  taken  from  Boethius,  '  De 
Consolatione,'  lib.  iii.  pr.  12,  where  Chaucer 
translates,  "Thou  hast  lenied  by  tlie sentence 
of  Plato,  that  nedea  the  wordea  raoten  ben 
cosynes  to  tho  thinges  of  which  thei  speken." 
I  do  not  know  whether  the  "sentence"  has 
yet  been  traced  back  to  its  original  source  1 
m   Plato.      Tlie  reference  is    to   '  Cratylus,'  ' 
435  c,  where  Socrates  thus  concludes  a  curious 
and  fanciful  discussion  on  the  origin  of  lan- 
guage— </^oi    fiiv   ovv    Kal    awTgl    apiiTKti    /liv 
Kara   to  Si'vaTov  oftoia  (tvai  ra  ovouara  rots 
■n-p'lyfJitta-Lv — but  proceeds  to  add  tliat  there 
are  difficulties  in  the  way  of  a  perfect  affinity 
between  words  and    things,   and    that  the 
"  vulgar  method  of  convention ''  must  also 
bo  called  in.    Needless  to  say  that  the  appli- 
cation given  to  this  theory  by  Chaucer,  to 
justify  his  "  calling  a  spade  a  spade,"  is  quite 
foreign  to  Plato's  argument. 
3.   And  Frenah  she  spak  ful  fairo  and  fetisly. 
After  the  scolo  of  Stratford  atte  Bowe, 
For  Frensh  of  Paris  was  to  hir  unknowe. 

'Prol..' 11.  1-24-6. 
As  is  well  known.  Prof.  Skeat  has  contended 
that  this  passage  implies  no  unfavourable 
comparison  between  the  French  of  Stratford 
aJid  that  of  Paris,  and  that  Chaucer 

"merely  states  ufaff.  viz.,  that  the  Prioress  spoke 
the  TiBuikl  Anglo-French  of  the  English  Court,  of 
the  English  law  courts,  and  of  the  English  eccle- 

aiastica  of  the  higher  rank There  is   no  proof 

that  he  Lhought  more  highly  of  the  Parisian  than  of 
Wie  Anglo- French,"  Ac.  (note  in  Morris's  edition). 
The  same  contention  is  maintained  at  greater 
length  and  with  all  Prof.  Skeat's  learning 
in  his  'Principles  of  English  Etymology." 
Is  it  too  late  to  enter  the  lista  in  defence 
of  Chaucer's  "  jape  "  against  his  most  accom- 
plished editor,  and  to  attempt  to  vimiicate 
tor  the  poet  a  bit  of  sly  humour  that  would 
be  entirely  in  harmony  with  tho  tone  of 
delicate  irony  running  through  the  whole 
pansage  (11.  118-62)1 

Prof.  Skeat  fully  establishes  the  fact  that 
Anglo-French  was  "important"  (to  use  his 
own  word).  But  the  question  is  whether  it 
was,  from  the  literary  and  social  p«iiut  of  view, 
regardetl  by  contemporarios  of  the  better 
olasa  M  on  &  par  with  continental  French. 


NoroJAn-French  underwent  in  England  an 
independent  and  isolated  development,  which 
could  hardly  fail  to  be  one  of  steady  dete- 
rioration.   It  became  partially  popularized  ; 
as  is  known  from  an  often-quoted  passage 
from  Hi gd en's  'Polychronicon  '  as  translated 
by  Trevisa,  French  wa.s  u.sed  in  the  schools 
in  Chaucer's  youth  :  Higden  complains  of  the 
"impairing  of  the  birth-tongue"  owing  to 
school  children  having  to    "construe  tneir 
lessons  and  things  in  ¥  rejich,"  and  not  only 
"  gentlemen's  sons  be  taught  to  speak  French 
from  the  time  that  they  be  rocked  in  their 
cradle,"  but  "  uplandish  men  will  liken  them- 
selves to  gentlemen  for  to  be  spoken  of."    We 
are  reminded  of    Langland's    "  dykers  and 
delvers  that  do  their  deeds  ill  and  drive  forth 
the  long  day  with  'Dieu  vous  save,  Dame 
Emme!'"    'frevisa   adds  that   in   the  year 
1385,  when  he  was  writing,  the  chanfje  from 
French  to  English  in  the  schools,  winch  had 
begun  about  tlie  middle  of  the  century,  was 
everywhere  completed.    As  was  inevitable  in 
a  population  thus  perforce,  but  imperfectly, 
bilingual,  hybrid  forms  found  their  way  into 
the   less    familiar    dialect.      There    is    also 
external  evidence  of  the  low  esteem  in  which 
Anglo  -  French    came    to   be    held.     Under 
Henry  II.  an  English  knight  sent  oyer  to 
Normandy  for  some  one  to  teach  his  son 
French  ~  showing  that  A.-F.   had  lost   its 
purity.     Walter    Map,    in    his    'De   Nugia 
Curialiura,'    also    says  that    the  French  in 
England  was  regarded  as  old-fashioned  and 
dialectic.    These  references,  which  are  taken 
from    Emerson's    '  History   of   tlie   Engliah 
Language,'  might  no  doubt  be  added  to  from 
the  literature  and  records  of  the  period.    It 
is    true    that  there    existed  a  considerable 
A.-F.  literature,  but  of  a  somewhat  crude 
character,    as    ia    observable    in    Chaucer's 
adaptation   of  the  tale  of  Const«nce  from 
Nicolas  Trivet,  in  spite  of  its  quaint  medireval 
charm.     Meanwhile  in  France  itself,  though 
there  wore  still  different  dialects,  tho  "French 
of    Paris,"   or    "Central   Frencli,"  as  Skeat 
terms    it,   had    acquired    an    overmastering 
literary  predominance.     Both  with  tho  other 
dialects,  by  the  acquisition  of  the  Angevin 
provinces  in  the  twelfth  century,  and  with 
Central    French,    by    constant    intercourse, 
and  owing   to  the   French  wars  from    1337 
onwards,  the  Englifth  Court   and   many  of 
its  subjects  had   become  acquainted.    Thia 
now    French    intlueuce    culminated    at    the 
t^'ourt  of  Edward  III.,  who  as  tho  son   of 
Isabella  of   France  may   well  have  8]x>ken 
Pariman  French  him.self.  though  Ids  officials 
would  still  use  the  Anglo-French  jargon  in 
public   documenta.     His  wife,  Phiiippa   o£ 


lO""  s.  I.  Fra.  13,  I9M.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


123 


Hainault,  inu«t  surely  have  spoken  and 
written  in  continental  French,  not,  aa  Skeat 
says,  in  A.-F.  She  "formed  the  centre  of  a 
society  cultivatinc  the  French  language  and 
poetry  "(Ten  Brink),  prominent  among  whom 
was  Jean  Froisaart,  wie  privileged  exponent 
of  polite  literature  and  Jove  poetry  ("  beaux 
dicties  et  traitoa  amoureux")  at  her  Court. 
Now  Chaucer,  in  view  of  his  prolonged  con- 
nexion with  the  Court  and  hia  repeated 
vi-jita  to  Franco  in  peace  and  war,  had  every 
opportunity  of  hearing  "  French  of  Paris,'' 
and  this,  together  with  his  constant  readings 
and  translations  of  the  best  French  authors, 
can  hardly  have  failed  to  impress  upon  him 
the  superiority  of  their  idiom  as  compared 
with  the  obsolescent  Anglo-French  of  his  day. 
To  return  from  this  digression  to  "  Strat- 
ford atte  Bo  we":  if  the  foregoing  discussion 
may  be  held  to  furni.sh  proof  that  Anglo- 
Frencli  was  in  Chaucer's  day  regarded  as 
inferior,  and  if  a  sufficiently  solid  foundation 
has  thus  been  established  on  which  to  base 
a  joke,  if  joke  there  be,  may  we  not  now 
venture  to  detect  a  flavour  of  irony,  or  good- 
natured  ridicule,  in  the  very  wording  oi  the 
passage  itself?  For  oven  though  the  ex- 
prea.sion  "after  the  scole,"  &c.,  refers  to  an 
actual  school— \nz.,  the  Benedictine  nunnery 
at  Stratford-le-Bow,  where  we  may  suppose 
the  Prioress  to  have  been  educateid,  and  of 
which  .she  wa.s  now,  perhaps,  the  Lady 
Superior— still  the  phrase  has  a  ring  about  it 
which  suggests  something  more  than  a  state- 
ment of  plain  matter  or  fact.  Wo  think  of 
the  parisn  clerk  Absalom,  in  the  '  Miller's 
Tale,'  who  dances  '*  after  the  scole  of  Oxen- 
forde"  (A  3329).  In  fine,  if  Qower  had 
written  our  passage  we  might  have  suspected 
a  jest ;  with  Chaucer  we  may  be  pretty  sure 
that  one  is  intended. 

.  4.  Are  there  any  autobiographical  touches 
to  be  found  in  the  description  of  Chaucer's 
Pilgrims  ?  It  has  been  thought  that  the 
"Clerk  of  Oxenford  "  i.s  partly  intended  as  a 
portrait  of  the  poet  himself,  and  we  notice 
traits  of  resemblance  in  the  Clerk's  studious 
iiabits,  hh  modesty  and  taciturn  reserve. 
Yet  the  iK)ints  of  di Terence  are  more  striking  : 
the  speech  "sowningo  in  moral  vertu,"  tne 
severely  academical  library  of  "twenty  bokes 
of  Aristotle  and  his  philosophye  "  (com- 
pare Chaucer's  own  '*  sixty  bokes,  oldo  and 

newe alle  ful  of  storyes  grote,"  Prologue 

t<5  'Legend  of  Good  Women,'  1.  273),  lastly 
the  Clerk's  leanness.  But  tlie  sketch  of  the 
young  S<iuiro  oflfors  nmny  points  that  exactly 
lit  in  with  what  is  known  or  surmised  of 
Chaucer's  youth.  The  S<iuire  is  "twenty 
n  of  age,"  and  this,  according  to  the  most 


probable  computation  of  Chaucer's  birth-date, 
was  about  his  age  when  he  joined  the  expedi- 
tion to  France  in  1359,  in  the  coarse  of  which 
he  must  have  passed  through  the  very  pro- 
vinces of  Flanders,  Artois,  and  Picardy 
where  the  Squire  had  been  "in  chivachye." 
The  latter  hoped  by  his  youthful  exploits  to 
"  stand  in  hjs  lady's  grace,"  and  Chaucer's 
first  unfortunate  love-affair  began,  according 
to  his  own  account,  immediately  after  his 
return  from  this  expedition  ("'a  siknesse 
that  I  have  suffred  this  eight  yere,"  'Book  of 
the  Duchease,'  1369).  The  Squire's  stature  is 
"of  evene  lengthe,"  and  he  is  '*  wonderly 
delivere,  and  greet  of  strengthe."  In  a 
description  taken  from  a  portrait  of  Chaucei* 
in  early  life,  he  is  said  to  have  been  "of  a 
fair  and  beautiful  complexion,  his  lips  full 
and  red.  his  size  of  a  just  medium,  and  his 
port  and  air  graceful  and  majestic."  With 
the  first  part  of  this  description  w^e  have  a 
further  parallel  if  the  lines 

Erabrouded  was  he,  as  it  were  a  mede 
Al  ful  of  fresshe  ilonrea,  whyte  aDd  rede, 
are  taken  to  refer  not,  according  to  the  usual 
interpretation,  to  the  embroidery  on  his  coat, 
but  to  his  "pink  and  white  "complexion.  In 
favour  of  this  view  it  may  be  said  (a)  that 
the  description  of  his  clothes  begins  several 
lines  lower  down,  "Short©  was  his  gounej" 
ike.  ;  (b)  that  the  line  "  He  was  as  fresh  as  is 
the  month  of  May,"  which  intervenes,  rather 
favours  the  allusion  to  complexion  ;  (c)  that 
"  embrouded  "  is  used  elsewhere  of  a  meadow 
"  that  wa-s  with  tioares  awote  embrouded  al," 
Prologue  to  'L,,'  II.  118-9,  from  which  the 
transition  is  easy  tothecomparison  suggested  ; 
(d)  that  such  comparison  is  further  lK)rne  out 
by  the  following  Chaucerian  passages  : — 
For  right  as  she  [NalurcJ  can  pcyute  a  lilie  wiiyt 


And  retid  a  rose,  right  with  swich  pcynture 
She  peyated  hath  tliia  noble  creature. 


C3l. 


Emelye,  that  fairer  was  to  aeno 

Than  ia  the  lilie  upon  his  stalke  greene. 

And  fressher  than  the  May  with  tloures  newe, 

For  with  the  rose  colour  strof  hir  bewp,  Sic, 

A  1037. 
The  Squire's  accomplishments  seem  to 
point  in  the  same  direction.  Singing  and 
"fluting,"  jousting  and  dancing— this  much 
might  be  expected  of  any  young  squire  ;  but 
when  we  are  told  of  this  squire  that  he  could 
"aonges  make  and  well  endyte,"  wa  seem  to 
trace  a  reference  to  Chaucer's  own  "com- 
plaints "  and  his  early  love-poetry,  much  of 
which  is  probably  now  lost,  tne 

Many  an  ymime  for  your  hulydayea 
That  hightcn  baladoa,  roundels,  virelayei, 

which  he  tells  us  in  the  'Legendo'he  Uwi 
once  composed,  and  thft  "  <i.-^\jejaek  *sA  ^ksvv^ja 


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glade"  made  for  Venus's  sake  "in  tho  floures 
of  hi«  youth,"  with  wliich  songs,  as  Gower 
has  it,  "the  land  fulfilled  is  overal."  No  less 
appropriate  a  trait  is  it  that,  besides  hia  other 
graces  and  accomplish  men  ts,  the  Squire  is 
"courteous,  lowly,  and  serviceable'';  so  that 
it  is  altogether  a  tempting  assumption  that 
we  have  here  a  portrait,  sufficiently  dinguised 
to  preserve  artistic  illusion,  of  Chaucer  when 
Le  was  a  "  lusty  bachelor  "  "  as  fresh  as  is  the 
month  of  May."  W.  J.  GooDKicn. 

(For  tho  Prioress's  French  gee  the  discussion  Id 
T""  S.  ix.  3(6,  414,  497 :  x.  57.  98,  298,  392.] 


Peg  Woffington's  Letteb.  (See  3"^  S.  xii. 
430  j — As  Woftington  autographs  are  among 
tho  rarest  known,  one  hesitates  before  pro- 
nouncing the  mysterious  letter  given  at  the 
above  reference  a  forgery,  but  it  needs  to  be 
pointed  out  that  sundry  statements  made 
therein  by  the  vivacious  Peg  fail  to  square 
with  facts  as  wo  know  them. 

Remark  the  charming  inconsistency  of  this 
epistle.  Although  the  tone  throughout  is 
that  of  the  ea.'^y  familiarity  subsisting  be- 
tween equals  and  friends,  it  is  address^  to 
"  ily  Pretty  Little  Oroonoko,"  and  the 
writer  concludes  bv  informing  her  "Dr  Black 
boy  "  that  she  is  nis  "admirer  and  humble 
Serv^."  One  would  be  inclined  from  this  to 
ontertain  the  painful  suspicion  that  the  easy- 
going actress  had  become  enamoured  of  a 
negro  lackey  ;  but  the  opening  paragraph 
gives  one  pause,  for  Peg  begins  by  telling  her 
mysterious  acquaintance  that  "Sir  Thomas 
Robinson  writes  me  word  y''  you  are  very 
pretty»  which  has  ixiised  mi/ curioiiti/  toagreit 
pitchy  and  it  ttiakes  nie  long  to  see  you." 

If  the  Robinson  referred  to  was  "long  Sir 

Thomas,"  ho  must  have  communicated  from 

abroad,  as  he  was  appointed  Governor  of 

Barbados  in  August,  1742,  and  not  recalled 

until  1747.    This  "pretty  little  Oroonoko" 

might  have  been  a  black  page  sent  by  him  as 

a  present  to  the  Duke  of  Kichmond  ;  but  why 

Mistress  Woffington    should    have  troubled 

herself  to  discuss  her  personal  affairs  with 

"Master  Thomas  Robinson"  passeth  under- 

f  standing.    The  whole  reads  like  one  of  those 

[laughter-provoking    epistles   which  used    to 

[addle  the  brains  of  poor  Lord  Dundreary. 

One  thing  is  certain.     If  Peg  WofEngton 

,j-eally  wrote  this  letter,  Genests  account  of 

Itho  Drury   Lane    season   of   1^^3-4  is   both 

linaccunito  and    incomplete.     The    letter    is 

dated  "Saturday,  Xbr  18th,  1743.    a  slip,  as 

18  December  in  that  year  fell  on  a  bunday. 

Assuming  that  tho  I7th  was  meant,  one  notes 

the  intimation,  "  I  play  the  part  of  W  Harry 


Wildair  to  night,"  but  Oenest  has  no  note  of 
her  in  that  r6le  save  on  the  I4tli  and  19th  of 
the  month.  Nor  does  he  give  us  any  clue 
whereby  we  can  identify  "  the  acting  poet- 
aster" who  was  then  at  Goodwood,  but  who, 
a  little  time  previously,  had  made  his  first 
appearance  on  the  stage  in  a.ssocialion  with 
Peg,  and  who,  not  long  after,  played  Carlos 
in  *Love  makes  a  Man.'  Who  was  this 
mysterious  ddhutant,  whose  "gracefull  luotion 
of  his  hands  and  arms "  was  due  to  his 
early  experience  in  ''  spreading  plaistcrs  when 
he  was  aprentice"?  Delano  played  Carlos 
at  Drury  Lane  on  15  November,  1743,  but  he 
was  far  from  a  novice.  Can  the  allusion  have 
been  to  Foot«,  who  appeared  at  Drury  Lane 
early  that  season,  quick  on  the  heeN  of  hia 
ddbut  at  the  Haymarket  ?  Beyond  Delane 
and  Theoptiilus  Cibber  there  were  no  other 
male  accessions  to  the  company  that  season,  if 
Qenest  is  to  be  believed. 

Swiny  was  of  course  Owen  MacSwiney, 
erstwhilenianagerof  the  Italian  Ojiera-Uouse, 
and  for  some  years  Mrs.  Wollingttjn's  guide, 
philosopher,  and  friend.  He  was  old  enough 
to  have  been  her  father,  and  rewarded  her 
complacency  by  leaving  her  all  the  worldly 
gooos  he  died  possessed  of.  The  a]lu>iion  to 
MacSwiney  militates  against  the  supposition 
tliat  tho  letter  is  a  forgery,  for  none  save 
those  who  had  made  a  profound  study  of 
Mrs.  Woffington's  life  could  have  been  aware 
of  the  great  influence  exercised  over  her  by 
the  witty  old  Irishman.  And  your  average 
literary  forger's  knowledge  is  at  best  but 
superficial. 

If  this  letter  is  still  extant  it  would  be 
interesting  to  compare  it  with  any  other 
Woffington  autograph  that  may  exist,  par- 
ticularly with  the  signature  to  her  will ;  but 
as  that  seems  to  have  been  made  when  she 
was  paralyzed,  it  might  not  prove  very 
trustworthy.  F.  F.  L. 

"Onk-nikth  Chttrch."— The  discovery  of 
the  solitary  "  centralone  "  of  Cistercian  priories 
was  a  novel  development  in  monkish  archi- 
tecture. There  has  crept  into  the  literature 
of  Anglo-Judaism  an  equally  amusing,  if  less 
picturesque,  freak  in  ecclesiastical  edifices. 
Add.  MS.  29,808  contains  two  lisU  of  Jews 
resident  in  London  about  1G60,  and  these 
were  for  the  first  time  published  in  ettmao 
by  Mr.  Lucien  Wolf  in  'The  Jewry  of  the 
Restoration  •  a  valuable  paper  reAd  before 
the  Jewish  Historical  Society  of  England  in 
1902.  Several  of  the  Jews  resided  in  "  Chre- 
church"  Lane,  and  in  the  first  list  the  address 
of  five  is  given  as  being  "at  Mr.  Linger  a 
plumers  in  i  Church."    That  Jew«  should,  or 


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indeed  would,  be  li^'in^  in  the  whole  or  any 
fraction  of  a  church  is  inherently  improbalile, 
and  it  really  is  not  suggested  by  the  MS. 
The  scribe's  hand  is  crabbed,  his  orthography 
free ;  and  iu  this  place  he  so  contrived  to 
write  "as;'"  (=against)  that  to  the  eyen  of 
the  learned  centuries  later  it  took  on  an 
arithiueticul  gui.se..  Before  Mr.  Wolfs  paper 
assume^  it.'i  final  form  it  would  be  an  arl  van- 
tage if  a  further  attempt  were  made  to  secure 
literal  accuracy  in  these  lists.  Were  this 
done,  "Wvalt  the  broker"  would  probably 
become  "Whitt,^  numerous  small  omissions 
and  misrcadings  would  be  corrected,  and  the 
rotundity  of  "  Bilennan  the  round  cooper" 
would  liave  to  be  sacrificed  to  fidelity  :  he 
was  only  Belermau  the  wine  cooper. 

A.  T.  Wright. 
22,  ChftDcery  Lane. 

"B.vcK  AND  SIDE  GO  BARE."  —  I  observe 
from  the  notice  of  Mr.  Hutchison's  'Songs 
of  the  Vine'  {utile,  p.  09)  that  the  credit  of 
writing  this  famous  song  "is  withdrawn  from 
Bishop  Still."  I  know  not  to  whom  it  is  now 
attributed,  but  it  has  been  absurdly  given  to 
one  Tom  Twisleton,  of  Rurnsall,  in  Mr.  J. 
Horsfall  Turner's  '  Yorkshire  Anthology ' 
(Binulcy,  1901).  Some  lines  entitled  '  Hua- 
band  and  Wife,'  pp.  31C,  317,  open  thus  :— 

Wife.  Wharivver  hev  ye  been  to,  yo  luaapln  owd 
tyke. 

Drinking  Soscj. 
Air.  "  YorkBhire  ale  ia  my  deliKht." 
I  cau  not  «at  but  little  meat, 
My  »loinach  ia  not  good  ; 
But  snro  1  thjnis  that  I  con  drink 
»v  iih  him  that  wears  a  hood— 
and  so  forth.    As  Tom  Twisleton  published 
a  book  in  1867  he  must  have  been  a  nine- 
teenth-century delight,  and  if  author  of  these 
lines,  certainly  sent  them  on  before  him. 

St.  Swithin. 

[It  18  as8i|;ned  to  Wiliiom  StevenBon,  n  native  of 
Parham,  and  Fellow  of  Christ's  College,  Cani- 
bridtfc,  wl»o  died  ISTil.  We  roKret  that  Mr.  Htituhi- 
Bon's  name  wua  jmnted  *'  Hiituhinau»."J 

"  11  ooLK JAN."— This  has  already  been  ox- 

plaitied  in  the«o  columns  (»"'  S.  ii.  227,  3IG  ; 

vii.  48,  114).     My  object  now  is  merely  to 

point  out  how  aptly  it  illustrates  the  way 

two  distinct  classes  of  Irish   surnames  get 

CDiifinod  ill  English.     One  largo  class  ends 

in  Gaelic   in   .vt/n,  in  Englisi)  in  win,  and 

.offers    no  liidicuUy   of    pronunciation —  ox- 

Umples,     IbuMriiirftfi,     Flnnnitrrin,    Mulligan, 

[Egan,  rir.  •:  :io.  OZ/mna- 

jain,0/  .  MacAoJM- 

jain,  Jfiirr.or/iijtint,  I / /i,.<,f,u,i.     Tjie  other 

sla.18  ends  in  Gaelic  in  chain,  in  Engliuli  in 

'■either  ghan  or  -han.    We  have,  for  iustonce, 


(1)  Callaehan,  Monaghan  ;  (2)  Kemahan, 
Lenehan,  Hoolihan  ;  in  G&fMc^O'CeaUnckaiTi, 
O'Mannachain,  0  Cenrnac/iain,  O'Lcunachain^ 
O'hU'illiicftitin.  Whichever  orthography  is 
preferred,  the  sound  in  correct  English  a.sage 
shoulil  always  be-/4rtn— e.j^.,  Callagnan  should 
bo  called  Callahan  ;  but  unfortunately  thoro 
is  an  iucrea.sing  tendency  among  English 
spejvkers  to  pronounce  this  termination  -fjan, 
thus  levelling  Huallaghan  or  Hoolihun  under 
tlie  same  cla.ss  its  Brauuigau,  Flannigan» 
Mulligan,  with  which  it  bad  originally  no 
connexion. 

Hoolifjarif  by  the  way,  has  become  part 
and  parcel  of  the  Russian  language.  In  a 
recent  numl>er  of  a  Russian  comic  journal, 
the  Shut  (i.e.,  Jester),  I  notice  a  reference  to 
the  dangers  of  a  certain  quarter  of  Sl.  Peters- 
burg, owing  to  its  gangs  of  /I'^K^i'yrtTjj"  (plural). 
Ja.s.  Flatt,  Jun. 

*'Chi8W1ck  nightingalbs."  —  In  a  letter 
writt«n  by  Josiah  Wedgwood  to  his  friend 
Bentley,  on  10  Sept.,  1778,  the  following 
passage  occurs:  "As  blith  and  gay  as  so 
many  Chiswick  nightingales."  I  believe  I 
have  heard  of  the  species  before,  and  con- 
sidering the  low  position  of  Chiswick  ("geo- 
graphically," as  Jeames  Yellowplush  would 
.say),  I  may  as.sunie  that  the  nightingales  ia 
question  had  yellow  bellies  and  croaked  like 
uie  "fen  nightingales"  in  Lincolnshire. 

L.  L.  K, 

Moon  Folk-lore. — The  following  invoca- 
tion, to  be  addressed  to  the  first  new  mooa 
of  the  year,  is  known  in  North  Lincolnshire  ; 

New  moon,  new  moon,  1  pray  to  thee 

This  night  my  true  love  for  to  see, 

Neither  iu  his  richea  nor  array, 

iliit  iu  his  clothea  that  he  wears  every  day. 

Another  version  of  the  third  lino  ia 
Neither  in  bis  rich  nor  in  his  ray, 
which,  if  correct,  may  refer  to  *'  ray  "  in  tho 
sense  of  striped  cloth,  J.  T.  F. 

Winterton,  Doncaster. 

DicKBNs :  Original  op  Esther  in  *  Bleak 
House.'— Under  "Tea-Table  Talk.  By  tha 
Hnstes.s,"  in  the  South  Loiulon  Ohscrvev  and 
Camber  well  and  Pcckhtim  Tinxf*  of  Saturday, 
25  April,  100.3,  is  the  following,  which  may 
be  worth  enshrining  in  *N.  &  Q.' : — 

"The  other  day  there  poesod  quietly  away  in  a 
sniniy  corner  of  Nice  a  lady  of  eiKhiy-four,  »ay» 
M..\.l'.  Hor  name  was  Mrs.  Nash.  She  was  & 
dauBhtor  «.'f  Mr.  Elton,  one  of  Cliarles  Dickens* 
moat  intimate  friend!! ;  but  the  fiict  alwiil  her  that 
\«ill  most  iiitercBt  readers  of  DickptiSH  works  is 
that  »he  wan  iho  originiil  I'f  Ksthcr  iu  'Bleak 
House.'  That  niosr,  unselfish  and  ihnrniintf  cha- 
racter was  named  after  Mrs.  Nash,  then  F*<.b,.<iflt 
EUon,  and  those  who  \»«.V.  Vt.-W6i>«  "Ocv^  ?i.^>rf!vX*fc^i 


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more  than  cndoreod  DiokeuB's  opinion  of  her.  He 
pronouDccd  her  to  be  the  moat  aOectionulo  uud 
feU-sacriticing  girl  he  bsd  ever  known." 

W.  I.  R.  V. 


We  must  request  correapondenta  desiring  in- 
formation on  family  matters  of  only  private  iutereat 
to  affix  their  names  and  addrewea  to  their  queriea, 
in  order  that  the  answers  may  be  addressed  to  them 
direct.  

"  DiABEEAD."— lo  Katharine  M,  Abbott's 
'Old  Paths  and  Leeends  of  New  England,' 
published  in  New  York  in  1903,  occurs  this 
sentence:  "May  Day  [in  Newport]  ia  even 
now  celebrated,  according  to  tlie  Devonshire 
custom,  with  blue  eggs  and  diabread.' 

What  are  "  blue  eggs,"  and  especially  what 
is  "  diabread  "  i  Can  any  of  your  readers  tell 
me  about  tiic  Devonshiro  custom  above  men- 
tioned 1  No  one  of  whom  I  have  inquired 
here  seems  to  know  about  it.  R.  B— s. 

Newport,  R.L 

"OtjrcE." — In  Shropshire  and  Cheshire  a 
wood-pigeon  is  thus  known.  The  word  is 
used  both  in  the  singular  and  the  plural. 
Ad  estate  belonging  to  my  mother's  family  is 
known  as  Quoisley,  which— allowing  for  the 
broad  local  pronunciation,  which  turns  i  into 
oi — presumably  means  the  meadow  or  place 
of  tne  wood-pigeons.  Can  any  one  suggest 
from  what  the  word  is  derived  ]  So  far  as  I 
can  gather,  it  is  only  known  about  here. 

Heloa. 

[Qnice  \a  a  form  of  quUf,  a  name  for  the  wood- 
pigeon  [Colnmba  jxUumbiix},  wliich,  again,  eeema 
connected  with  ciuhat.  See  Wright/s  '  Dialect 
Dictionary.'] 

"  Pannage  and  tollage."— Wliat  precisely 
was  "  pannage  and  tollage  "  1         II,  K.  H. 

[*'  Rjjfht  of  pannage"  is  a  right  granted  to  owuora 
of  pigs  ordiDnrilv  to  go  into  the  woods  of  the 
grantor  to  oat  tne  acorns  or  beeclt  mast  which 
tall  to  the  ground.  "Toll"  (a  more  usual  form 
than  ••  tollage  '")  is  a  sum  of  inonoy  paid  for  the 
temporary  u«o  of  land.  See  Ktroud's  '.Fudioial 
Dictionary'  (Swcot  &  Maxwell).] 

"  Mv  LoBD  THE  Sun."— I  should  be  glad 
of  the  reference  in  the  passage  quotea  on 
p.  227  of  Henry  Harland's  '  My  Friend  Pros- 
pero':— "In  the  spirited  phrase  of  Corvo, 
*here  came  my  Lord  the  Sun.'" 

Nicholas  Cbabbe. 

Napoleon   at   St.    Helena.— In  an   an- 

E)n<lix  to  '  Les  ExcommuniL's,'  by  M.  C.  de 
ussy  (Paris,  Duquosne,  I8(J0),  I  find  :— 
"  A  Saint*  H<!<ltJne,  Napol6ou,  qui  avail  ri!|iou9s<S 
avec  indignation  lea  agcuta  du  Cabincl  Anglais  lui 


la  paux  <!  la  coiultlion  iraStoliy  h  ratko- 
Frruirr,  rnanifestait  le  ddsir  de  voir  uu 
t      -    .,  ao  sa  religion," 

Can  any  one  refer  me  to  authorities  for  the 
corroboration  or  refutation  of  this  remark- 
able utAtement  1  C,  Poyntz  Hte^vajit. 

Edward  Yoi'no,  "the  painter  of  ill- 
luck."— At  the  end  of  the  '  PrZ-cis  de  la  Vie 
d'Young.'  on  p.  12  of  a  booklet  known  as  the 
"Abrt'gd  des  tEuvres  d'Voung,  Traduction 
de  le  Tourneur,  a  Basle  de  I'lroprimerie  de 
Guillaume  Haas  fiis,  1796  "  (lil  pages,  followed 
by  one  containing  a  'Table  des  ilatieres,' 
whicli  is  not  nuniberefl),  one  readx,  "  On  Ta 
suriJommt' ;  le  jxinttc  du  nia/heur.'  Is  it 
known  who  first  applied  this  description  to 
the  author  of  '  Night  Thoughts '  ?  The  little 
lx)ok  in  question  is  not  to  be  found  in  the 
Cibliotheque  Nationale  at  Paris ;  but  there 
is  a  copy  in  the  Taylorian  Library  in  Oxford. 
No  specific  mention  of  it  is  made  in  the 
account  of  the  author  in  Michaud's  'Bio- 
graphie  LTniverselle,'  vol.  xlii.  pp.  51-2, 
out  it  is  there  stated  that "  Les  *  Nuits'ont  ett? 
reimpriraees  souvent  dans  de  petits  formats." 
The  author  t^ok  part  in  a  translation  of 
Shakespore  which  offended  Voltaire;  and 
added  to  French  literature  some  versions  of 
other  well-known  English  books. 

E.  S.  DoDosoK. 

William  R.  H.  Brown.— I  should  be  glad 
if  any  reader  could  give  me  information  a«i 
to  the  birthplace  and  ancestry  of  the  late 
William  Robert  Henry  Brown,  who  was  at 
one  time  Oovernor  of  Newgate,  and  for 
over  twenty  years  Warden  or  Governor  of 
the  old  Fleet  Prison.  He  is  buried  in 
St.  Giles's  Church,  Cripplegate. 

ESQUIREK. 

Fredetiick  Kempland  was  admitted  to 
Westminster  School  on  Kj  September,  1785. 
Can  any  correspondent  of  *N.  vt  Q.'  oblige 
me  witn  particulars  of  his  parentage  and 
career?  G.  F.  R.  B. 

Epitaph  bv  SnAKEsPEARE.— In  alittle  book 
of  epigrams  and  epitaphs  that  was  lent  me 
by  a  friend,  I  noticed  that  one  of  the  latter 
was  attributed  to  Siiakespeare.  I  had  in- 
tended to  make  a  particular  note  of  it,  but  I 
retarnod  the  book  without  doing  so.  S[)eak- 
ing  from  memory,  I  believe  the  two  staitzas 
composing  the  epitaph  are  taken  from  a 
tablet  in  West  Drayton  Church.  I'orliftps 
some  readers  will  kindly  confirm  tiii?.  and 
say  something  as  to  the  history  of  tho  lines, 
and  whether  there  is  any  external  evidence 
in  support  of  the  alleged  authorship.  Cor- 
taiuly  the  internal  evidencf— j  r..  iho  style — 


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appears  to  me  almost  of  itsolf  to  warrant  the 
conclusion  drawn  by  the  cditof. 

U(jux>iiu£  Inoledy. 
Heacbam,  Norfolk. 

General  Cqajcles  Stewart's  Portrait.— 
I  want  to  identify  tho  original  of  a  portrait 
by  Iloraney  of  the  Hon.  Major  -  General 
Charlea  Stewart.  Is  lie  the  man  who  com- 
manded the  1st  Battalion  .50th  Regiment  at 
Waicheren  antl  in  the  Peninsula?  If  so, 
v/AH  he  in  command  at  MaidaT 

E.   K.   PURNELL, 
Wellington  College. 

Dbatb-sequence  in  Sussex.— Aq  unusual 
cumber  of  deatlis  occurred  in  a  small 
Sussex  village  last  year,  the  last  of  which 
happened  on  a  recent  .Saturday  night,  A 
villager  thereupon  presaged  another  death 
•within  the  month,  hecause  the  corpse  would 
of  necessity  lie  unburied  "over  a  Sunday," 
and  slio  justifie*!  her  prediction  by  referring 
to  the  laHt  two  deaths,  the  later  of  which 
followed  the  earlier  within  the  month, 
the  earlier  one  also  having  "lain  over  the 
Sunday."  Is  this  idea  recorded  from  other 
counties  ?  Red  Cross. 

FoscA RINDS.  —  Can  any  one  give  me  the 
origin,  or  probable  origin,  of  this  extra- 
Oroinary  Christian  name?  It  was  borne  by 
one  Foscarinus  Turtliffe,  wlio  died  at  or  near 
Plymouth  in  the  year  1764-5.  The  family  of 
jTurtliflb  appears  to  have  been  settled  in 
rfioutii  Devon  for  two  or  three  liundred  years, 
but  the  name  would  seem  to  be  quite  extinct 
in  Devon  or  oven  England. 

Arthur  Stephens  Dyer, 
28,  Leamington  Road  Villas,  W. 

Football  on  Sqrove  Tuesday.  —  Will 
some  North-Country  folk-lori^t  supply  me 
with  a  description  of  the  Slirove  Tuesday 
football  played  at  Workington,  in  Cumber- 
land {  Tnere  is  a  brief  account  of  it  (but 
from  what  source  is  not  mentioned)  in  an 
article  on  'Quaint  Survivals  of  Ancient 
Custom^,'  published  in  the  W^imlmr  Mmjiuine, 
Decetnber,  1W3,  As,  howex'er,  I  have  reanon 
to  think  that  one  of  these  "  survivals  *'  has 
been  obiolete  for  some  time,  I  am  not  .sure 
|i»rhether  the  report  of  the  Workington  game 
can  be  accepted  as  quite  correct.        G.  W. 

William  Hawkins,  D.D,  dikd  17  July, 
1691. — I  should  be  gral-efiil  f<ir  particulars  or 
the  parentage  of  this  prebendary  of  Win- 
chester (}athe<lral,  who  married  Izaak  Wal- 
ton'---  diuivctiter  Anne  ;  and  also  for  precise 
i'  loujia  to  the  date  and  ])laee  of  the 

fij ,   which,  according    to    Anderdon's 


'  Life  of  Ken,"  occurred  in  1676.  There  are 
references  to  this  Dr.  Hawkins  at  9"'  S.  vi. 
371  :  vii.  477.  Was  he  identical  with  the 
William  Hawkins,  gent.,  of  Christ  Church, 
Oxford,  matric.  Nov.,  1660,  M.A.  June,  1656. 
D.D.  (Lambeth)  May,  1664,  who  is  mentionea 
in  Foster's  |  Alumni  Oxon.' 1  If  not,  where 
and  when  did  he  obtain  his  doctor's  degree  1 

lTu>T)RKD  CouRT-s.  —  Have  the  Hundred 
Courts  any  legal  existence  at  the  present 
time]  If  they  have,  what  are  their  duties? 
If  they  have  not,  when  were  they  suppressed  i 

Benj.  Waxker. 

Gravelly  Hill,  Erdington. 

'TuE  Children  of  the  Abbey.'— Who  was 
the  author  of  thivS  novel?  and  when  and  where 
was  it  first  printed  ?  J.  M.  C. 

IThe  author  was  Mr«.  Regina  Maria  Rocbe.  *  The 
Children  of  the  Abbey' waa  published  iu  1708,  the 
year  after  Mrs.  Radclifie's  '  Mysteries  of  Udohilio.' 
feee'D.N.B.'J 

Honour  of  Tutbury.  —  What  was  the 
Honour  of  Tutbury,  and  how  came  it  to  have 
any  jurisdiction  over  the  Hundred  of  Hem- 
lingiord  in  North  Warwickshire  ? 

Benj.  Walker. 

Gravelly  Hill,  Erdington. 

Trial  of  Queen  Caroline.— Can  any  one 
tell  me  where  a  full  account  of  the  trial  of 
Queen  Caroline  can  be  found  ?  Helqa. 

['  Tho  Trial  at  large  of  Her  Majesty  Caroline '  wm 
issued  in  1820.] 

Royal  Family. — Wliat  is  the  .surname  of 
the  reigning  dynasty  of  England  now  ?  la 
it  still  Guelph,  or  "  Wottiu,"  which  is,  I  am 
told,  the  family  name  of  the  Saxo  Coburg 
house  ?  Hkloa. 

[See  S<^  S.  ii.  108,  217 ;  iv.  351 ;  v.  215,  257.] 

Reion  of  Terror.— On  8  Maj;,  1794,  the 
scientist  Lavoisier  was  executed  with  twenty- 
seven  of  the  Farmers-General.  Where  may 
their  names  be  found?  Xylogk.vpher. 

Marlborough  and  Shakespeare.  —  To 
what  source  h  due  the  statement  that  Marl- 
borough avowetl  knowing  no  other  history 
than  wliat  he  had  learnt  from  Shakesjware? 
And  on  what  occasion  did  the  duke  make  this 
statement?  ARTHUR  Limdenstead. 

Berlin. 

Potts  Fajjily.— Can  any  of  your  readers 
Kive  mo  information  as  to  the  family  of 
Mary  Potts,  of  London,  who  in  1774  married 
Robert  Day,  judge  of  the  King's  Bench. 
Irelantl,  Ornttan'H  lifelong  friend  ?  Their 
only  child    Elizabeth  married    Sir  Edward 


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Denny,  third  baronet  of  Tralee  Castle,  Judge 
Day,  in  his  will,  leaves  several  crayon  por- 
traits of  the  Pott?i  family  to  the  Ven.  Dr. 
Pott  («/(•),  Archdeacon  of  London,  "  to  be 
disposed  of  by  him  amongst  the  descendants 
of  our  late  brother-in-law,  Sarooel  Potts, 
Esq."  (llev.)  H.  L.  L.  Dennv. 

8,  Queen  Street,  Londonderry. 

D0WDAL1/3  *  Traditiosaby  A>'bcik)tes  of 
Bhakespeark.' — These  were  collected  in  War- 
wickshire in  1693,  were  edited  bv  J.  P.  Collier, 
and  published  by  Thomas  Ro<Jd  in  1838.  In 
the  advertisement  it  is  stated  that  the  letter 
in  which  the  anecdotes  were  coramunieated 
to  a  Mr.  Edward  Southwell  "came  into  the 
bands  of  the  publisher  on  the  dispersion  of 
the  papers  of  the  family  of  Lord  De  Cliflbrd, 
which  were  sold  by  auction  in  the  year  1834." 
Is  the  original  MS.  now  in  existence  1 

J.  W.  G. 

Sicily. — I  am  anxious  to  work  up  the 
history  of  the  two  Sicilies ;  I  am  far  in  the 
country,  and  unable  to  consult  library  cata- 
logues, which  must  be  the  excuse  for  my 
ignorance.  I  have  Freeman's  works,  the  big 
and  the  little ;  Amari's  two  books ;  Mrs. 
St,  John's  'Court  of  Anna  Carafa ' ;  Do 
Reumont's  'Carafas  of  Maddaloni ' ;  'The 
Normans  in  Sicily'  (author's  name  has 
escaped  roe) ;  Warburton's  '  Rollo  and  his 
Bace '  J  and  the  two  recent  books  by  Messrs. 
Marion  Crawford  and  Douglas  Sladen. 
These  hardly  cover  all  the  ground,  and  are 
certainly,  except  the  Freeman  books,  not 
exhaustive.  Can  any  reader  of  '  N.  Js  Q.' 
expand  my  list  for  me  1 

Rowland  Thuknam. 

Nordrach-upon-MeDdip,  BriBtol. 


CHASUBLE  AT  WARRINGTON  CHURCH. 
(9'"  S.  xii.  507.) 
TnK  facts  concerning  the  cha.suhle,  or  two 
chasubles,  founr]  in  the  Warrington  Parish 
Church  are  far  from  clear.  The  late  William 
Bearaont,  iTi  his  book  called  'Warrington 
Church  N'ole^.  The  Parish  Churcli  of 
St.  Elfin,  Warrington,  and  the  other  Churches 
of  the  Parish'  (Warrington,  1878),  gives 
either  two  accounts  of  one  event,  or  else 
accounts  of  two  events  without  clearly 
differentiating  the  one  from  the  other.  He 
says  (p.  120)  that  in  182  4  Mr.  Rickraan,  the 
architect,  sunpectin^  that  one  of  the  but 
tresses  on  the  north  iido  of  the  chancel,  whicli 
was  wider  than  the  others,  coutAined  a  stair- 
case, opened  it,  and  found  in  it 


"a  winding  stair,  which  had  1'  '  '  —  -  "TPt  below, 
to  A  doorway  opening  high  '  Aall  of  tho 

cbaucel  above,  and  iirobably  i-.j  .i>d  loft." 

On  the  steps 

"wtts  found  a  richly  embroidered  chn?-'' '•■    — -t 
which   were  embroidcted   the  fiffurea  <  1 

with  the  sword,  .St.  Jamee  the  Leeawi  1  >, 

and  .St.  KI}>hoj(c  with  his  lun^-hftndled  axe." 

"  The  vestment  wa.s  ultimately  piven  to  the 
R<<vercnd  Dr.  Molyncux,  the  Roman  Catliolic  prioat 
at  Wnrrington,  and  is  now  pnrt  of  the  furniture  of 
the  Roman  Catholic  ehfttiel  there." 

Be&mont  says,  however,  earlier  in  his  book 
(p.  61),  that  in  tho  year  1830 

"  a  blocked-up  doorway  near  the  place  of  the  rood 
screen  was  reopened,  an<l  a  Btairca.se  waa  exposed 
leading  uji  to  the  rood  loft,  and  another  staircue 
leading  down  into  the  crypt.  Upon  one  of  the  steps 
of  the  latter,  there  lay  a  parcel  carefully  made  up, 
which  on  being  opened  v/ns  found  to  contain  a 
chaauble,  the  work  of  the  latter  end  of  the  fifteenth 
or  tho  beginning  of  the  sixteenth  century.  It  waa 
eurioualy  enibmidored  on  the  back  and  front,  but 
excej>t  for  the  diapering  or  grounding,  which  wa» 
excellent,  the  work  was  poor.  Il  had  two  orjihreyi 
witii  niches,  in  whitili  were  figures  wrought  in 
coloured  silks  after  the  mode  of  the  'opus  1  ' 
rinni,'  or  feather  stitch,  of  which  the  Kol<fen  t  i 

of  the  diaperiDR,  owing  to  their  having  been  v. 

round  with  the  pure  metal,  looked  as  bright  «s  on 

the  day  when  they  were  first  put  in.    (In  fhe  )>ark 

woa  the  cross  in  the  shape  of  a  Y  with  II1  '-i, 

each  with  a  golden  chahce  standing  by  1  » 

the   Saviour's   blood,   two    lily  plants    .  .     ItJ 

flowers  shooting  up,  one  00  each  aide  fmm  the.  l"otH 

of  the  cross.    The  figures  of  A Iwl,  Abraham ,  Mel-^ 

chisedeck,    and   two  of   the 

nibble  uprm  tho  chasuble  ;  I-  p| 

figure  of  a  man  in  annour  l>eBti i  _    1 

his  shoulder,  not  fto  easy  to  be  recogn^ 

ver>'  fancifully,  as  I  think,  has  been  suiii 

meant  for  Thomas  of  Lancaster,  who  wits  ucjuauedJ 

in  1.-G2." 

A  foot-note  refers  to  Archer ological  JomtuU^ 
1870,  No.  100,  p.  135.  (Robert  Atherton  Raw- 
storne  was  rector  1807-32.) 

These  two  accounts  do  not  agree  together. 
At  first  sight  they  would  appear  to  point  to 
two  discovories  of  stairways,  and  the  fiiuling 
of  a  chasuble  on  each  occasion.  But  in  a 
communication  made  by  the  late  Dr.  James 
Ken'irick  (another  local  antiquary)  to  the 
Wan'tngton  Ex<im.imr  (date  uncertain,  but 
.subsequent  to  1870),  he  gives  1824  as  the  dat© 
of  the  finding  of  "a  parcel  containing  a  rich 
sacerdotal  vestment,  whicli,  for  the  payment 
of  a  few  shillings,  was  handed  over  to  tho 
Rev.  Mr.  Molyneux,  of  Warrington"' (Mr.  or 
Dr.  Molyneux— pronounced  Mullinix— waa 
tho  prioHt  of  St.  Alban's  Roman  Catholic 
Church,  or  chapel,  which  was  until  some 
thirty  years  ago  the  niily  Romiiu  Catholic 
church  in  Warrington).  Ivendrick  goes  on  to, 
speak  of  the  chasuble,  after  having  boei  _ 
repttire<ij  being  eventually  exhibited  in  l-'^7(i' 


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^ 


to  the  merabers  of  the  Royal  Archieological 
Institute,  "  under  the  auspices  of  the  Verv 
Revereud  Canon  Rock,  tne  great  Englisn 
authority  on  textile  fabrics  ana  enibroifiery." 
Canon  Rock's  remarks  are  given  ;  he  speaks 
o£  *'  this  eueharistic  garment,"  not  of  "  tnese." 
He  refers  to  the  finding  of  a  carefully  wrapt- 
up  parcel  containing  a  chasuble  as  having 
occurred  about  forty  years  ago  (that  would  be 
about  1830),  and  of  its  having  been  given  by 
the  incumbent  to  the  Catholic  prieat.  Thus 
Kendrick  speaks  of  a  sale  for  a  few  shillings, 
but  gives  Canon  Rock's  statement  of  a  gift. 
Canon  Rock's  description  of  the  chasuble  ia 
80  similar  to  Beamont's  (p.  61),  even  to  the 
extent  of  saying  that  there  were  tiirce  angela 
with  chalices  to  receive  the  Saviour's  blood, 
whereas  there  are  two  only,  that  it  i^  pretty 
evident  that  one  copied  his  description  from 
the  other. 

Excepting  for  the  two  dates,  1824  and  1830, 
given  by  Beamont,  everything  points  to  his 
Baving  intended  to  describe  one  chasuble 
only.  There  is,  however,  in  the  Aui}>leforth 
Jourtud  (St.  William's  Press,  &[arket  Weigh- 
tou^,  vol.  i.  part  ii.,  December,  1895,  p.  185,  an 
article  by  the  Rev.  J.  S.  Codv,  O.S.B.,  mainly 
about  two  chasubles,  "found  a  few  years  ago 

in   the    ^yarrington    Parish   Churcli, and 

now  in  the  possession  of  the  Ampleforth 

Bene<Jictine  Fathers  in  that  town."  The 
writer  gives  1824  as  the  date  of  the  dincovery 
of  the  "double  flight  of  stairs  within  the 
buttress  on  the  north  aide."  Ho  says  that  on 
the  steps  leading  to  the  crypt  "the  vest- 
ments were  found  carefully  wrapped  up." 
He  speaks  of  Rawstorne  as  being  the  rector 
at  that  time,  and  says  that  he  made  no 
difficulty  in  handing  the  vestments  over  to 
Dr.  Molyneux,  O.S.B.,  the  priestof  St.  Alban's. 
"for  a  certain  sum  of  money."  A  good  deal 
of  the  article  i.s  taken  up  with  interesting 
extracts  from  ancient  inventories  which  may 
possibly  include  amongst  the  possessions  of 
tho  Warrington  Churcli  the  very  chasubles 
of  which  he  writes.     Further,  he  says  that 

"local  trttiliticm  tells  ua  how  the  Rector,  on  dia- 
covering  thoni,  seoiug  that  he  haii  nu  uw)  tor  them, 
offered  iheiu  to  his  frioixl  Dr.  Molyneux.  lie, 
shrewd  miiti.  would  not  accept  them  aa  a  ijift,  le«t 
thoy  might  be  iif|erward«  reclaiai«(l,  but  bought 
them  for  a  few  shilling*." 

He  then  proce<»ds,  after  he  has  previously  i 
said  that  tho  CMnbroidery  on  both  chasubles  I 
is  very  similar,  and  is  of  like  workmanship, 
to  describe  apparently  one  only,  of  which  as 
to  tho  crowi  on  the  oack  an  illustration  is 
given. 
I  do  not  give   his  description,   which   is 
unly    (F    think)    quutc<I    from    tho    other! 


writers  whom  I  have  mentionefl,  nor  do  I 
give  his  identification  of  saints,  for  the  same 
reason,  and  also  for  tlie  reason  that  in  most 
of  the  cases  it  appears  in  all  the  writers  to  be 
more  or  less  guesswork.  Mr.  Cody  speaks  of 
two  chasubles,  but  descriljes  one,  and  that 
the  one  which  Beamont  describes  in  hia  two 
accounts,  for  in  each  of  the  two  he  ends  with 
the  figure  with  the  axe.  Mr.  Cody,  however, 
ia  exact  in  noticing  the  mistake  as  to  the 
three  angels  inateatf  of  the  actual  two.  On 
the  other  baud,  he  speaks  of  some  sixty-five 
years  past  a.s  "a  few  years  ago." 

I  should  still  be  inclined  to  think  it  certain 
that  only  one  chasuble  had  been  found  on 
the  stairs  in  1824,  which  is  tho  date  given  by 
Dr.  Kendrick  as  that  of  the  discovery  of  the 
old  .staircase  (see  a  communication  made  by 
him  to  the  Manchester  CouHer,  1839-40),  but 
for  the  fact  that  by  the  courtesy  of  Father 
Whittle,  O.S.B.,  the  present  priest  of  St.  Al- 
ban's, I  have  been  shown  two  chasubles.    He 
knew  Dr.   Molyneux   well,  and  insists  that 
both  chasubles  came  from  the  parish  church. 
According  to  him,  they  wore  oflfered  to  Dr. 
Molyneux  by  the  Hon.  and  Rev.  Horace  Powya 
(rector  1832-54,  afterwards  Bishop  of  Sodor 
and  Man)  as  a  gift.      Dr.  Molyneux,   how- 
ever, insisted  on  making  a  payment;jro/o;T7ja, 
viz.,  half-a-crown.    It  has  oeen  assorted  that 
the  chasubles  were  found  by  Rector  Powys 
in  an  oak    chest.    That    may    be   so,    but 
it    in    no    way    upsets    the    account    given 
by    Beamont    that    they,    or   it,    had   been 
found  on   the  old  staircase  in  Rawstorne'a 
time,   when    Beamont  was   a    young   man. 
It    is    very    likely    that   it.   or   they,   were 
put  into  an  oak  chest  in  Rawstorne's  time, 
and   found   again  in  Powys's  time.     It  has 
been  asserted   that  it  is    cert^jin   that    the 
transfer  to  Molyneux  was  a  gift,  and  not  a 
sale,   the  proof  of  which  is  that  a  sou  of 
Rector    Powys     remembers    not    only    the 
oak  che^t  in  which  they  were  found,  but  also 
that  his  father  gave  the  chasubles  to  Father 
Molyneux.      The     date     a,ssigned     by     the 
present  rector  (1835)  for  the  finding  of  the 
chasubles  would    make  that  evidence  very 

Poor  hearsay  evidence,  seing  that  Rector 
bwysdid  not  marry  till  1833.  If  the  story 
that  Molyneux  paid  half-a-crown  for  thorn 
^tfo  forma  vt  the  true  story,  it  is  not  at  all 
improbable  that  the  vendor  would  afterwards 
speak  of  the  transfer  as  a  gift.  As  sliowing 
what  confusion  there  is  in  the  matter,  I 
may  mention  that  I  have  a  recollection  or 
being  t^ld  by  some  one  (by  whom  I  do  not 
remember)  thivt  liector  Powys,  having  found 
a  vestment  in  tlie  vestry,  and  being  short  of 
money  for  some  building  schema  cokvbrslVrA. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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130 


with  tite  church  or  schools,  sold  it  to  the 
Bxjman  Catholics.  Such  memories  are  worth 
next  to  nothing. 

Let  me  describe  the  chasublea  very  shortly 
indeed.  In  doin^  so  I  am  not  going  to 
attempt  to  identify  all,  or  nearly  all,  of  the 
saints,  tfee.  I  take  first  the  chasuble  which 
is  probably  that  which  was  found  in  or  about 
1824,  if  there  was  only  one.  On  the  back 
is  a  large  cross.  The  crimson  velvet  on 
which  it  now  lies  is  modern.  At  the 
top  of  the  cross  is  a  dove,  below  that  the 
letters  INRI,  and  below  that  Christ  on 
the  cross.  In  the  right  arm  of  the  framing 
cross  (the  actual  right)  is  an  angel  with 
two  chalices,  catching  the  blood  spurting 
from  the  right  hand  and  the  side.  In  the 
other  arm  la  an  angel  with  one  chalice,  catch- 
ing the  blood  from  the  hand.  At  the  right 
Blue  of  the  foot  of  the  crucifix  is,  I  suppose, 
the  Virgin  Mary,  on  the  other  presumably 
St.  John.  Below  the  foot  is  a  saint  (1),  and 
below  the  saint  a  man  in  armour  with  a  long 
axe.  On  the  pillar  on  the  front  of  this 
chasuble  are,  at  the  top,  a  saint  (?).  then  a 
saint,  and  thirdly  a  man,  perhaps  a  bishop. 

Now  as  to  the  other  chasuble,  about  which 
I  may  say  in  passing  that  it  is  so  similar  in 
design  to  No.  1  that  it  appears  to  me  to  be 
possible  that  it  was  not  found  in  the  parish 
church,  but  was  acquired  later  from  some- 
where else  because  of  its  likeness  to  No.  1, 
and  then  came  to  be  believed  to  have  been 
its  companion  in  the  parcel.  On  its  back 
(modern  damask  or  brocade)  is  the  framing 
cros.s.  The  dove,  the  initial  letters,  the 
crucihx,  the  two  angels  with  chalices,  are  in 
like  positions.  Tliere  are  no  figures  by  the 
foot  of  the  crucifix.  Below  is  a  figure  with  a 
chalice  disconnected  from  the  crucifix.  Below 
that  is  the  upper  part  of  a  saint  with  a  book. 
On  the  pillar  on  the  front  are  tlu-eo  figures  : 
at  the  top  a  saint,  then  a  figure  holding  the 
tables  of  the  Law  {therefore  I  suppose  Moses), 
and  at  the  bottom  a  saint. 

Id  collecting  the  materials  for  what  I  have 
wntten  I  have  referred  to  Beamont's  own 
cop-y  of  his  book,  in  whicli  are  entries  made 
by  him  after  itM  publication,  and  to  a  small 
commonplace  book  concerning  the  historv  of 
Warrington  made  up  by  Kendrick.  lUxey 
are  both  in  the  Warrington  Library. 

I  havQomittftfl  to  say  that,  in  his  communi- 
cation on  \yarrington  printed  in  the  Jfnn- 
Chester  C'niner  much  earlier  than  that  which 
appeared  in  the  Warn'n'jton  Ejcaviiner,  Ken- 
drick gives  an  account  of  the  discovery  of  the 
staircase,  but  says  nothing  of  any  chasuble. 
1  regret  that  I  cannot  give  an  absolutely 
(jertain   hiijtory.     I  need  scarcely  say   that 


there  was  no  local  newspaper  during  the 
time  included  in  the  various  dates  assigned 
to  the  discovery  and  transfer  of  the  chasuble 
or  chasubles.  Robebt  PiEaPOiNT. 

St.  Austin's,  Warrington. 


Raleigh's  Head  (10">  S.  L  49).— It  would 
be  interesting  to  know  from  what  source 
Mrs.  Sinclair  derived  her  information  lliat 
after  the  execution  of  Sir  W.  Ralegh  in  Old 
Palace  Yard  his  head  was  "  placed  on  Weat- 
rainster  Hall."  Had  this  been  carried  into 
effect  it  would  scarcely  have  escaped  the 
notice  of  contemporary  historians  and  bio- 
graphers. The  earliest  account  of  the  pro- 
ceedings that  took  place  after  the  beheadal 
is  thus  narrated  by  W.  Oldys  in  his  'Life  of 
Ralegh,'  published  in  1736  :— 

"  His  head  was  atruck  off  at  two  blows,  his  bodv 
never  shrinking  or  ntovtng.  His  head  was  shewea 
on  ea^h  side  of  the  scafibid,  and  then  put  into  a  rod 
leather  baft,  and,  with  his  velvet  night-gown  thrown 
over  it,  was  afterwards  conveyed  away  in  a  mourn- 
ing coaoli  of  his  lady's His  head  was  Iodk  pre- 
served in  a  cose  by  his  widow,  for  abe  survived  oini 

twenty-nine  yeara and  after  her  death,  it  wu 

kept  also  by  nor  son  Carew.  with  whom  it  is  wid 
to  nave  been  buried"  (ccxxs). 

^Ve  have  the  testimony  of  Bp.  G.  Goodman 
as  to  the  head  having  been  preserved  for 
many  years,  as  in  his  'Court  of  James  I.'  (ed. 
Brewer,  1839)  he  notes,  "  I  know  whei^  his 
skull  is  kept  to  this  day  and  I  have  kissed 
it"(i.  69). 

Owing  to  the  circumstance  that  Uarew 
Ralegh  at  one  time  poaseased  an  estate  in  the 
parish  of  West  Horsley,  Surrey,  which  he 
sold  a  few  years  before  his  death,  many 
writers  have  been  led  to  believe  that  his 
remains  were  interred  in  the  church  there, 
his  father's  head  being  deposite<l  in  the  same 
grave.  That  this  is  incorrect  is  proved  partly 
by  the  absence  of  any  entry  in  the  ourial 
register  of  West  Horsley  Church,  but  prin- 
cipally by  the  fact  of  his  burial  being  thus 
recorded  in  the  register  of  St.  Margaret's 
Church,  Westminster:  "  16(j0-7,  Jan,  1,  Carey 
Rawlegh,  Esq.,  kild.  m.  chancel." 

Tliis  seems  to  indicate  that  his  remains 
were  placed  in  or  alongside  the  grave  of  liia 
father.  According  to  tradition  the  head  of 
the  latter  was  deposited  with  them,  and 
probably  in  this  case  tradition  is  correct; 
certain  is  it  that  we  possess  no  definite  in- 
formation respecting  it. 

T.  N.  BEUSHTreLD,  M.D, 

Salterton,  Devon. 

John  TimUs,  in  'The  Romance  of  London, 
Historical  Sketches^  itc.,'  p.  68,  in  a  chapter 
devoted  to  the  'Execution  of  Sir  Walter 
Raleigh,'  says  :— 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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"C*yley  adds The  he»d.  after  being  shown  on 

either  side  of  tho  scaiTold.  was  put  iulo  a  leather 
bag,  over  which  Sir  Walters  gown  waa  thrown,  and 
the  whole  couveyed  away  in  a  mourning  coach  by 
Xiftdy  Raleigh.  It  was  iireserveil  by  her  in  a  case 
'during  the  twenty-nine  years  which  she  survived 
her  husband,  ana  afterwards  with  no  lea-s  piety 
by  their  aifectiunate  (tun  Carew,  wilh  whom  it  is 
supposed  to  have  been  buried  at  West  Horalcy,  in 
Surrey." 

TlitH  latter  statement  we  know  to  be  wrong, 
for  the  regi.ster  of  St.  Margai-et'a  Church, 
Westminster,  records  the  burial  of  Carew 
ileigh  on  1  January,  1CC6  ;  and  as  it  would 
)pear  that  he  had  charge  of  the  precious  relic 
(ter  hi$  mother's  dcatn,  it  is  not,  after  all, 
inlikel)'  that  the  head  was,  by  his  desire, 
interred  with  his  own  remains  in  his  father's 
grave  in  that  church  forty-eight  years  after  his 
father's  execution.  If  this  be  so,  I  think  that 
Mu.  E.1STKRBROOK  will  866  that  the  paragraph 
about  which  he  writes  is  substantially  correct, 
although  it  is  not  very  clear  as  to  the  way  in 
■which  the  tratHtion  is  "handed  down  from 
[rector  to  rector,"  and  it  is  certainly  a  stretch 
of  imagination  to  speak  of  a  period  of  close 
on  half  a  century  as  "a  few  years  after- 
wards," 

I  have  .seen  the  editor  of  tho  St.  MarrKireC a 
Parish  Mafjazine,  by  whom  I  am  informed 
that  his  reason  for  not  inserting  the  letter 
which  he  received  was  that  ho  did  not  con- 
sider the  matter  one  that  could  be  dealt  with 
in  its  pages.  W.  E.  Harland-Oxley. 

C2,  The  Almshouses.  Rochester  Row,  SAV. 

pRivy  Council  undkr  James  I.  (9"'  S.  xii* 
367,  4ir»).— James,  writing  from  ilolyrood, 
27  March,  1603,  continued  the  Council  in 
'•  their  olHces  and  charges,"  and  in  a  second 
letter,  dated  28  March,  reappointed  the  Privy 
Councillors  (Nichols's ' Progresses  of  James  I.,' 
vol.  i.  p.  121). 

On  28  March  the  Privy  Council  in  London 
wrote  to  Lord  Eure  and  the  other  Commis- 
sioners at  Brearae,  announcing  the  death  of 
Elizabeth,  and  stating  that  in  thorn  "  there 
is  or  remaineth  no  further  authority  than  by 
provisional  care  to  apply  our  best  endt^ivours 
for  the  keeping  of  toe  realm  in  tranquilh'ty 
and  peace."  The  letter  bears  tiie  signatures 
of  tfn^  following  councillors :  John  Cant., 
Tho.  Egertoii,  C.S, T.  Buckhurst,  Notingham, 
Northumberland,  Oilb.  Shrewaburj'.  Will. 
Derby,  E.  Worcestoi-,  Ro.  Sussex,  J.  Lincoloe, 
Qa.  Kildare,  Ckuricard,  T.  Howard,  Ric. 
London,  Tho  La  Warre,  Gray,  T.  Darcy,  Ed. 
Cromwell,  Ito.  Kiohe,  G.  Chaudoia,  William 
Compton,  W.  Knowle«,  Jo.  Stanhope,  Jo. 
Fortoscue,  Ro.  Cecill.  See  Nichols,  vol.  i, 
pp.  41-43,  and  Rymer'u  'Fivdero,'  vol.  xvi. 
p.  493. 


On  3  May,  when  James  arrived  at  Theo- 
balds on  his  way  to  London,  he  made  the 
following  Scotchmen  members  of  the  Council ; 
Duke  of  Lennox,  Earl  of  Mar,  Lord  Home, 
Sir  George  Hume,  Sir  James  Elijhingaton, 
and  liord  Kiuloss ;  and  of  tho  English 
nobility.  Lord  Henry  Howard,  Thomas,  Lord 
Howard,  and  Loixi  Montioy  (Nichols,  vol.  i. 
pp.  108-13).  Nichols  and  llymer  will  furnish 
other  information.  J.  A.  J.  HouaoEN- 

St.  Patrick  at  Orvieto  (10»^  S.  i.  48). — 
St.  Patrick  was  at  Rome  in  431,  but  I  do  not 
know  that  he  was  ever  in  contact  with 
Orvieto.  The  well  to  which  F.  C.  W.  refers 
was  sunk  in  152H  bj*  Pope  Clement  VIL,  and 
Benvenuto  Cellini  designed  a  medal  with  a 
reverse  referring  to  the  event.  It  represented 
Moses  striking  the  rock,  and  was  inscribed 
*'  Ut  bibat  populus."  On  tickets  of  admission 
to  view  St.  Patrick's  Well  it  is  stated : 
"  Questo  pozzo  ^  detto  di  S,  Patrizio  par 
analogia  alia  caverua  dello  atesso  nome  che 
trovasi  in  Irlanda." 

A  note  (p.  160)  in  Roscoe's  translation  of 
Cellini's  *  Memoirs '  gives  a  better  descrip- 
tion of  the  work  ttian  I  could  otherwise 
furnish  : — 

"It  was  cut  throuch  tho  solid  rock  to  the  depth 
of  l?ti.'i  feet,  and  25  ells  wide.  It  ha«  two  flights  of 
hangine  steps,  one  above  the  other,  to  a.^oend  aod 
descona,  executed  in  eucli  a  nmuner  that  even 
boasts  of  bnrden  may  enter  ;  and  by  248  convenient 
steps  they  arrive  at  a  bridge,  placed  over  a  spring, 
where  the  water  is  laden.  And  thus,  without 
retuminp  back,  they  arrive  at  the  other  stairs, 
which  rise  above  the  tirst,  and  by  these  return 
from  the  well  by  a  passage  different  to  the  one  they 
entered." 

St.  Swithut. 

Tho  well  of  St.  Patrick  at  Orvieto  is,  I 
imagine,  not  called  after  St.  Patrick  the 
Apostle  of  the  Irish,  but  takes  its  name  from 
one  of  the  other  St.  Patricks.  August  Pott- 
hast's  catalogue  of  saints  in  his  *  Riljliotheca 
Uistorica  Medii  .Evi '  is  tho  best  list  of  the 
kind  with  which  I  am  acquainted.  It  con- 
tains four  St.  Patricks. 

Ebwabd  Peacock. 

F.  C.  W.  may  find  Wright's  'St.  Patrick's 
Purgatory'  (1844)  of  some  service  in  deter- 
mining whether  the  well  at  Orvieto  had 
more  than  a  merely  nominal  connexion  with 
the  saint.  Its  celebrity  would  be  sufficiently 
accounted  for  by  tho  peculiarities  of  its  con- 
struction and  by  its  magnitude ;  for  spiral 
staircases  and  a  width  of  46  feet  (or  43 
according  Uy  Bae<ieker)are  somewhat  unusual 
features  of  a  well.  The  alternative  assump- 
tion, that  it  is  directly  connected  with 
St.  Patrick,  seems  to  imply  that  some  well 


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at  Orvieto  was  reputed  to  be  tho  portal  of 

Purgatory.      In    that    case    a    reference    or 

allusion   to  the  fact   might   be  confi'lently 

expected   in    Dante,   who,  in  all  likelihcxx], 

was  acquainted  with  an  early  form  of  the 

^t  Patrick  legend.    The  absence  of  euch  an 

lusion,  which  would  have  been  penned  a 

>uple    of    centuries     l:)efore    the   youtiger 

lAntonio     di     Sangallo     l»eKan     operations, 

[favoura    another    view,      Alexander  VI.    ia 

^stated  to  have  abolished  tho  revenuea  arising 

from   tho  pilgrimages    to  the    islet   in   the 

Donegal    Lough    Dorg  in    1497.     Taken  in 

conjunction  with  this,  and  with  the  widely 

received   account  of   St.   Patrick's    journey 

through  Purgatory,  the   Orvieto  dedication 

certainly  looks  like  an  attempt  to  give  the 

Iri^h    legend   a  new   local    habitation,    and 

incidentally,   I  suppose,  to  orvietanize  the 

pagan  king  whom  St.  Patrick  *o  adroitly 

conveyed  to  warmer  regions  than  he  himself 

cared  to  visit,  J.  DoRMKit. 

FiTZJiAMON  (lO***  S.  L  47).— Q.  H.  W.  asks 
whether  Hamo  or  Hamon  was  a  common 
Norman  Christian  name.  It  was  not  among 
the  most  popular,  but  cannot  be  said  to  have 
been  uncommon.  I  have  met  with  it  pretty 
often.  The  following  three  examples  occur 
in  Mr.  I.  H.  Jeayes's  'Catalogue  of  the 
Berkeley  Charters.'  There  are  probably 
others  in  the  same  volume:  Charter  executed 
at  Bristol  in  1153,  witnessed  by  ''Willelmus 
filius  Ilamonis"  (2) ;  quitclaim  of  the  time  of 
Richard  I.,  witnessed  by  Hamo  de  Valounes 
(21) ;  grant  of  the  time  of  Henry  III.,  wit- 
nessea  by  Hamo  Peverel  (111). 

Edward  Peacock. 

The  following  extract  from  a  pedigree  of 
Alen  by  Sir  William  Hawkins,  Ulster,  1785. 
quoted  in  a  paper  of  mine  on  tho  Alen»  of 
St.  Wolstan's  in  the  Kildaro  Archruological 
Society's  Jnnriinl,  July,  1903,  may  be  of  use 
to  G.  II.  W.  :- 

"  The  (IfneakifO'  of  the  Alens  of  Saiot  WoNtnnV, 
of  tho  l^iiiivil  l>e»cpiit  of  3ir  .John  Alen 
who  canic  into    Kii>;lan(l    with    Williii-i 
tjueror,   DuUe  of   Nornianily,  oricinully 
and  doriviiiK  hiu  Pedigree  from  llio  Duku^  ot  Xor 


niandy.  As  pr.  account  of  Sir  Thonma  Hawley. 
principal  Herald  and  King  of  Arm*  of  England  in 
the  eighth  year  of  liio  reign  of  Kidr  Henry  the 
Eighth,  in  tiie  Annale  of  Kiifjland.  Sir  .John  Aleu 
Wfti  nejihew  to  Robert  P'itzliammon  and  Kichard 
de  (irunville.and  was  witli  ihcm  at  thc<.ircikt  Battle 

of  Hastinj^  ill  Sussex The'"'  "■"'•■>■"■  ''"-"wards 

bestowed  riu  Rldiard  do  (.^^^  lipfif 

Beddifoid,  with  other  largo  p  '  von- 

shire lie  did  also  inherit  )i is  la  n 

Normandy.     His  broilier  Filzham  1 

in  France,  where  ho  was  sent  l>y  K...  -  .■  .  .  -^ 
hi«  Chief  (ieiiend,  >V  jilsn  njion  Sir  John  Alen,  thf 
Conqueror  bestow 'd    for  his  great   »ervicea   large 


pouMwionfl  in  the  counties  of  Norfolk,  Ckjriiwall, 
and  Westmoreland  in  fee."      ,    _     ,     „ 

H.  L.  L.  Dbnky. 

MlLKMTONES  (10"'  S.  i.  7).— Oar  milestone 
has  undoubteilly  descended  to  us  from  the 
milliarium  which  the  Romans  placed  along 
the   lidos    of   their    princi[>al   road<i,  in  tlie 
manner  still  customary  in  thw  country,  and 
with  the  rospectivo  distances  from  the  city 
inscribed  upon  them,  reckoned  at  intervals 
of  a  thousand  paces  (our  mile)  apart,    Tho 
custom,  says  Rich,  was  first  introduced  by 
C.  Gracchus— I.e.,  the  Roman  custom.    Rich, 
in  his  'Greek  and  Roman  Antiquities,'  gives 
an     illustration     representing    an    ori^ginal 
Roman  milestone,  which  stood  in   1873  on 
the  Capitol,  but  originally  marked  the  first 
mile     from     Rome,    as     indicatefl     hy     the 
numeral  I.  on   tho   lop  of  it.    It  is  in  the 
form  of  a  column.    PImy  says  the  miles  ou 
the  Roman  roads  were  distinguished  by  a 
pillar,  or  a  nt-one.  set  up  at  the  end  of  each 
of  them,  and  marked  with  one  or  more  figures 
denoting   how  far  it  was  from   the  golden 
milestone,  the  millvjirium  aurcum,  which  was 
erected  by  Augustus  at  the  top  of  the  Roman 
Forum  (see  Tacitus, '  Hist .'  bk.  i.  ch.  xxvii.) 
to  mark   the  point  at  wliich  all  the  gre»t 
military    roads   ultimately   couvergetl.    For 
accounts  of  Roman  milestones  see  vol.  viii- 
of  Arch<Tolrjgia  (178.'*),  p.  Sh  :   Montfaucon's 
'Antiquit*-  Expliquee;  /Ij-cAcfw^'f/fa, vol.  xxvii, 
p.  404  ;  and  the  Anti(/uari/,  Sept.,  1883,  p.  13a 
About   fifty-six  Anglo-Roman    milestouea 
have  been  recorded— some  withlegibleinscrip- 
tions.    One  of  the  latest  was  at  Lincoln  in 
the  year  1879.  which  is  of  tho  time  of  Vic- 
toririus.    None  has,  as  yet,  been  found  earlier 
than  Hadrian,  or  later  than  Constantine  the 
Younger  (ad.  33G}.   See  the  Rev.  PreV>en(lftry 
Scarth  on  tho  'Roman  Milliaria'  found  in 
Britain,  Arch.  Joum.,  vol.  xxxiv,  pp.  30&-4O5, 
and  his  'Roman  Britain,'  pp.  ll»-23. 

Something  similar,  in  tho  way  of  a  lana- 
.    mark,  to  the  gilded  pillar  in  Rome  seems  to 
1  have  formerly  exint^d  in  the  City  of  London. 
Although   there  does   not  seem   to  be  any 
direct  evidence  that  tho  Standard  in  Cornhiil 
occupied  the  site  of  a  Roiniin   landmark  of 
this    nature,   yet  diHtancos   were    measured 
from  the  Standard,  which  served  the  samQ 
purpose  as  the  milliarium  aureum,  and  severa 
of  our  suburban   milestones   were   Mill    iu- 
scril>ed     in    Cunningham's    t.imp    with    tho 
numbers  of    miles  "from   the  Standard   in 
Cornhiil."    There  was  a  Standard  in  Cornhiil 
as  early  as  2  Henry  V,  ('  Lomlon  Cliii>nicle,' 
e<l.  by  Sir  N.  H.  Nicolas,  p.  HD).     Th^'  Ifoman 
mili'stoiies  did  not,  however,  invavl 
the  (iistances  from  the  Pillar,  for  s  W 


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been  found  in  situ,  which  prove  that  such 
distances  were  sometimes  computed  from  the 
gates  of  tho  city  ;  and  by  a  law  of  Tiberius, 
'Rei  Agruria*  Auctorea  Legcsquo  VariK' 
(Amst.,  1674,  4t<i),  pp.  340-8,  the  Roiuau 
8arveyoi"s  were  also  authorized  to  use  sepul- 
chres for  purposes  of  boundary  arui  for 
points  and  intersections  of  geometric  lines 
(see  Tiyinf.  Lond.  and  Midd.  Arch.  An., 
vol.  iv.  part  i.  p.  01). 

Pennant  considered  that  the  stone  in  Pan- 
nier Alley,  which  lately  hafl  a  narrow  escape 
from  the  olutchea  of  an  Araericao,  had  the 
appearance  in  his  time  of  being  an  original 
Roman  sepulchral  stone,  an  opinion  which  is 
of  much  interest  when  it  is  associated  with 
the  fact  that  there  is— or  was,  a.s  it  is  said  to 
have  been  buried  in  situ  at  the  tirae  the 
Marble  Arch  was  ro-erectetl  from  Buckingham 
Palace  at  Tyburnia— a  similar  one  at  Cum- 
berland Gale,  Hyde  Park,  where  soldiers 
were  shot  for  desertion  in  time  of  war.  Now 
this  stone  and  that  in  Pannier  Alley  are 
stated  to  be  exactly  equidistant  from  the 
Roman  sarcophagu!*  of  late  years  unearthed 
in  Westminster  Abbey  precincts,  the  three 
thus  forming  a  triangle,  and  I  believe  there 
was  a  similar  significance  attached  to  thedi.s- 
covery  of  the  Roman  sarcophagus  at  Lower 
Clapton  (see  pamphlet  by  Mr.  B.  Clarke). 
The  tablet  recordinc:  the  site  of  Uicka  Hall 
states  that  that  Sessions  House  .sto<xl  1  mile 
1  furlong  an'.l  l."i  yards  from  the  Standard  in 
CornhiU.  "  Mile-huts,"  to  supersede  the  mile- 
stone, were  sugcestftl  by  tne  compilers  of 
Rees's  'Cyclopaxria,'  v,  '  ililcstone.' 

J.  HoLDEN  Mac  Michael. 

161,  Uacnmersmith  Rund. 

The  inference  that  few  English  highways 
ire  provided  with  milestones  in  1743  finds 
)me  support  in  Macaulay's  graphic  descrip- 
tion of  the  deplorable  state  oi  the  roads  hiilf 
a  century  or  -so  earlier.  Milestones,  in  fact, 
imply  thorouglifares  kept  in  serviceable  con- 
dition ;  to  a  succession  of  quagmires  they  are 
but  ironical  acces-sories  r  and  a  succession  of 
quagmires  is  what  our  immediate  forefathers 
too  frequently  dignified  by  the  name  of  a 
rood.  Vet  for  fifteen  centuries  there  had 
existo<l  monuments  sllowill^  how  the  grejitest 
road-builders  of  antiquity  anprecialed  the 
OK-'iviii.  ,1  way— Iladrian'n  Wall,  studded  with 
pi  .  for  example.     That  the  Roman 

pi;  Is  were  accuiately  divided  by  mile- 

stones is  carffully  reconled  by  the  vuluininous 
Gibbon  ;  nt»d  indeed,  the  inHcriptionsou  these 
miliari'X  have  proved  of  great  value  to  the 
classical  topographer.  As  to  who  first  erected 
them,  Uuruy,  referring  to  Plutarch  and 
figuring   two   restorations,   says :    '^  L'usago 


de  ce^  bornes  doit  otre  beaucoup  plus  ancien 
que  Gracchus,  qui  pas.se  pour  lavoir  t'tabli" 
('  Hist.  de3  Romaina,'  i.  l.^I  ;  iv.  16).  Rut  it  is 
a  far  cry  from  the  milestones  on  the  Croydon 
road  to  their  predecessors  on  the  stately 
Appian  Way.  J.  Dokbcer. 

Milestones  in  England  appear  to  have 
come  into  modern  use  with  tho  Turnpike 
Acta  in  the  early  part  of  the  eighteenth 
century.  In  an  Act  relating  to  the  Great 
Post  Road  from  London  to  Che,ster  (1744) 
the  trustees  aro  empowered  to  measure  tho 
roads  and  erect  "  milestones."  So  says  a 
correspondent  at  9''''  S.  v.  499  ;  while  another 
stated  that  the  first  milestones  erected  in 
England  wei'e  set  up  between  Cambridge 
and  Loudon  in  1729. 

EvGRARD  Home  Coleman. 

71.  Brecknock  RoaH. 

If  Mr  W.  Moy  TnoM.\3  looks  up  'The 
Beauties  of  England  and  Wale-s,'  he  will  find 
several  allusions  to  Roman  milestones.  Two 
occur  in  the  volume  dealing  with  Northum- 
berland, published  in  1813.  Writing  on  Little 
Cheaters,  or  the  Bowers,  the  author  says  ou 
p.  122,  vol.  xii.  part  i.  : — 

"  At  Coldloy-galc.  where  the  Via  VinciaJis  crossea 
Barilon  Burn,  is  a  rnile  pillar  about  seven  feot  hiKh, 
ril»<.'cd  at  the  fi'Kit  of  a  large  tunnihi^  ;  and  a  mile 
further  up  ihu  Causeway,  another  broken  in  two." 
On  p.  141  he  states,  under  the  heading  of 
Redesdalo  and  Risinghara  :— 

"This  is  tho  modern  name  of  a  Roman  station. 

......Oppt^ite  this  station  lie  nmny  large  atones 

Forty  years  ago,  a  mile  iiillar  w&s  staiuIinK,  a  mile 
south  of  the  station,  and  at  the  present  time  there 
is  one  uned  as  a  itate-itoat,  opposite  the  door  of 
tho  inn  at  U'oodbridne.' 

Chas.  F.  FoR8fi.\w,  LL.D.,  F.R.Hi8t.S. 

Bradford. 

Envelopes  {U^  S,  xii.  245,  397.  434,  490  ; 
10"*  S.  i.  .''.7).— With  the  data  .supplied  by  SiR 
Uerbeet  Maxwell,  Mr.  Peet,  Mr.  Merkitt, 
and  others,  it  is  hardly  necessary  to  produce 
further  evidence  to  prove  that  envelopes,  as 
we  know  them,  wore  in  use  for  postal  pur- 
poses long  previous  to  1840.^  With  regard  to 
"franking.  I  never  mentioned  its  use  by 
private  persons.  My  statement  was  that  I 
nad  seftn<'niv/c</j<'»so  endorsed  for  the  purpose 

j  of  free  po,stage  since  1840.  Lord  Forte-scue's 
were  so  transmittetl  through  the  Post  Office 

I  when  he  was  Lord  Lieutenant  of  the  county. 

1  The  Duke  of  Cambridge's  private  envelope, 
franked  "  Cambridge,"  was  rec*'ivo<l  by  nie  in 
1H90.  free  of  postawe.    I  am  well  aware  of  the 

!  modern  habit  of  placing  signatures  upon  the 
face  of  an  envelope,  but  thi*  of  course  does 

'  not  constitute  a  "free  delivery."    My  state- 


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no*  a.  I.  Fra.  13,  I$0<. 


uent  that  "stamped  covers"  were  used  in 
Australia  previous  to  Rowland  Hill's  scheme 
— to  be  precise,  in  1838— was  culled  from  an 
interesting  article  on  'Stamp  CollectiuBf/ 
written  in  October  last  by  Mr.  C.  H.  Bulli- 
vanU  lu  giving  the  name  of  Randolph  as  a 
Post-Master  I  merely  quoted  from  Haydn's 
•  Dictionary  of  Dates,'  as  could  easily  be  seen 
by  the  context.  A  great  amount  of  inforraa- 
tiao  regarding  '  Postage  and  Post  Office ' 
may  be  found  in  the  'Dictionary  of  Cora- 
merce,' a  copy  of  which  I  have,  dat«d  1835, 
which  quotes  from  Herodotus,  lib.  viii.  c.  98  ; 
Bergier,  '  Histoire  des  Grands  Chemins,' 
lib.  iv.  c.  4  ;  *  Bouchand  sur  la  Police  des 
Romains,'  pp.  136-61  ;  Black,  '  Commerce,' 
book  i.  c.  viii,  J  Macpherson'a  'History  of 
Commerce,'  1784,  «be,         TuouNE  Georg£. 

My  memory  takes  me  back  to  1830-40,  and 
I  saw  a  good  deal  of  correspondence,  private, 
official,  and  of  M.P.s,  My  impression  is  that 
small  envelopes  were  in  use  for  invitations 
delivered  by  hand,  and  occasionally  for  official 
correspondence  and  for  franks  by  .M.P.s., 
which  were  given  to  friends,  anrl  occasionally 
sold  by  impecunious  members  of  Parliament. 
Their  use  for  ordinary  fxist-letter  purposes 
was  impossible,  owing  to  the  vigilance  of  the 
Post -Office  authorities.  Anything  which 
appeared  to  contain  a  second  piece  of  paper 
was  char|;ed  double  postage.  I  rcmeraoer 
once  folding  up  a  letter  in  an  unosuul  way, 
which  I  thought  clever,  but  the  receiver  was 
charged  double  postage  for  it  in  consequence. 

As  regards  the  extra  halfpenny  upon  Scotch 
letters,  my  impression  is  that  this  charge  was 
to  cover  the  tolls  which  had  to  be  paid  in 
Scotland,  while  in  England  mails  passed  all 
toll-bars  free.  Envelojjes  only  came  into 
general  use  in  1840,  when  the  penny  post  was 
introduced.  O.  0.  W. 

Mr.  Housden  is  probably  right  in  saying' 
"When  ordinary  private  letters  were  first 
sent  by  post  is  a  auestiou  more  easily  asked 
than  answere<l.''  ^«o  doubt  tlie  practice  of 
including  private  letters  among  those  from 
and  to  tlie  king  or  State,  for  which  the  post 
was  originally  instituted,  was  of  slow  growth  ; 
hut  Mr.  Joyce,  in  his  'History  of  Uig  Post 
Office^'  conclusively  siiows  that  the  earliest 
postal  reformer  of  real  eminence,  VVitherings, 
was  the  man  who,  in  Charles  I.'s  reign,  made 
of  an  irregular  practice  an  organized  system. 
After  Witherings's  three  years' able  manage- 
ment of  the  foreign  posts,  the  king  com- 
missioned him,  in  \G^C>,  to  put  the  inlan<i 
posts  into  better  order.  It  was  surely  time, 
since  the  keepers  of  the  post  houses,  as 
appears  from  tue  petition  of  the  unfortunate 


"99  poore  men,"  had,  so  far  Ijack  as  1628, 
received  no  wages  for  nearly  seven  years,  and 
some  were  in  prison  for  debt.  A  detailed 
account  of  Witheriugs's  plan  will  be  found  in 
Mr.  Joyce's  interesting  pages.  "  Tlie  t-crm 
'post,"  as  he  reminds  us,  "meant  nothing 
more  than  the  carrier  or  bearer  of  the  letter. 
And  again  ; — 

"  The  term  '  itosltmie,'  in  llm  iiense  of  a  charge 
upon  a  letter,  is  comiiiirnlivoly  nuxicni.  The  torm 
i-i,  itide<3ii,  used  in  the  .-Vtt  uf  llVIO,  liul  there  it 
BiKniHea  the  hire  of  a  horsu  for  Iravclliug;  '  Kaeh 
horse  8  hire  or  po8t«K«.' " 

Mr.  Hocsden  may  be  interested  to  learn 
from  the  same  authority  that  "  tho  Act  of 
1764  is  the  first  to  use  it"— i.e.,  the  term 
"  postage "  as  applied  to  letters— although  I 
fear  this  information  cannot  do  much  to 
lessen  the  difficulty  of  answering  the  question 
as  to  when  private  letters  first  travelled  in 
company  with  those  of  the  State. 

Eleanor  C.  Smyth. 
Hurbornc. 

MuNDY  (9""  S.  xii.  485  ;  ID""  S.  L31).— Ma. 
Percy  Dkyden  Mundy  is  surely  in  error 
when  he  asserts  that  Lord  Edmund  Howard, 
son  of  the  second  Duke  of  Norfolk,  married 
Marcaret,  daughter  of  Sir  John  .Mundy. 
Lord  Mayor  of  Lomlon  (1522-3).  Lord 
Edmund  Howard  was,  so  far  as  I  can  dis- 
cover, only  twice  married  ;  firstly  to  Joyce 
Culpepper,  by  whom  he  was  father  of  Queen 
Katharine  Howard,  and  secondly  to  one 
Dorothy  Troyes.  Perhaps,  however,  Mb. 
MoNDY  can  advance  some  proof  to  the  offec 
that  the  "Margaret  Hawarde''  of  Sir  Job 
Mundy's  will  was  Lord  Edmund's  wife. 

Gerald  Brekan. 

Willesden. 

PmDAK  Family  (f)""  S.  xii.  44fi).  —  Your 
correspondent  may  perhaps  find  in  Wesley's 
•Journal,'  20  July,  1774,  fi  July,  178H.  aomo- 
thing  to  his  purpose.  "  Mr.  Pinner  '  is  almost 
certaitdj'  Rooert,  rather  than  John,  of  the 
two  brothers  set  forth  in  the  'Alumni 
Oxonienses.'  Tho  volume  of  'Lincolnshire 
Pedigrees '  (Harleian  Soc.,  No.  ."JO)  containing 
letter  P  has  not  come  to  my  hand.  Sir  Wm. 
Dugdale  disallowed  the  baronetcy  of  the 
Pindars  of  []  J  at  his  vihiiation  of  1603 

(Wotton),     But  are  these  connected  Pindars? 

F. 

Sir  Paul  Pindar,  to  whom  Mi:.  LE\n5  Lam- 
bert refers,    was  born    at   Wellingborough,! 
Northamplonshiro,  in    1560    or    1566.      HiaJ 
arms  are  given  in  N<irthiWi.p(onsltir<  X'Ati  and\ 
Qucfiei,  vol.  i.  p.  160,  as  a  chevron  argent 
between   three  lions'  heads   erased  ermine, 
crowned  or.    They  are  engraved,  I  believe, 


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i 


<-.r  "  -  " --      n  plate  presented  to  Wei-    6"*  S, 

li  Churcu  by  Sir  Paul  iu 

lij.ji.  1  .j^-i.ji>  w.iy>rraation  mi^ht  therefore 
be  elicited  concerning  the  Pindar  family 
from  Wellingborough ;  from  Puterborough, 
where  the  cathedral  authorities  possess  Com- 


9""  S.  iii.  203  ;  and  instances 
in  the  singular  were  given  in  the  Ttm-e-i  of 
31  October,  1903.  Two  questions  need  to  be 
decided  :  (1)  how  many  handa  does  the  person 
kiss  ?  (2)  has  the  official  form  of  the  fkhrase 


ever  been  current  in  the  plural  }    A  stray 


munion  plate  presented  by  Sir  Paul  in  1639  ;  '  quotation  proves  nothing.   1  limit  the  inquiry 
or  from  the  Bodleian  Library,  to  which  he    to  the  official  kissing  of  the  sovereign':;  hana. 


eent  Arabic,    Persian,    and    other    \'aluable 
manuscripts  in  1611.  JoHX  T.  Pack. 

West  Haddoa,  Northamptonshire. 

Your  correspondent  will  do  well  to  look  at 
the  jjodigree  of  Pinder  in  Joseph  Hunter's 
*Familia;  ^linorum  Gentium,'  ii.  485  (Harl. 
8oc.).  One  of  this  family  became  the  direct 
ancestor  of  the  present  Earl  Beauchamp  by 
marrying  tlie  heiress  of  the  Lygons.  The 
name  Pinder  was  subsequently  clianged  for 
that  of  Lygou  by  Act  of  Parliament. 

W.  C.  B. 


Dr.  Murray  (vol.  v.  p.  714,  col.  3,  under 
*  Kiss,'  6)  says  ^'  to  kiss  the  hand  (bands)  of  a 
sovereign"— where  by  placing  "hands  "within 
brackets  he  seems  to  show  uncertainty 
about  the  plural — and  gives  nine  quotations, 
from  l57o  to  1854.  Four  of  these  are  in  the 
plural ;  those  of  1654  and  lf;80  seem  to  be 
merely  rhetorical,  but  thase  of  lT68and  1809 
are  in  the  form  used  in  the  newspapers  of 
to-day.  W.  C,  B. 

There  seems  to  me  no  difference  between 


I  the  expression  "kissed  hands"  and  "kissed 

There  are,  I  am  told,  no  members  of  this  '  liand,"  except  that  one  is  singular,  the  other 

family  now  surviving  at  Owston,  but  there  I  plurai,  both  being  identical. 

are  several  Pinder?  or  Pindars  (I  have  seen  |     J"  *  '^^^  Mortality,    when  the  promise  of  a 

the  name  spelt  both  ways  by  people  bearing    commission  is  given  to  Sergeant  Both  well  by 

it)  in  the  neighbouring  parishes  of  Ilaxey,    Claverhouse,  Scott  obeervea  :— 

£pworth,  and  Belton,  C.  C.  B.      I     "Bothwell  went  throagh  the  salatatioD  in  the 

— ,,  .  11,  manner  prescribed,  but  nut  withuut  evi>leiit  marka 

1  Ijere  is  an  extended  description,   in   the    of  hauRhty  reluctance,  and  when  he  had  done  mo, 

DmUj   Advert wr  of   26    April,    1742,   of    the    said  aloud,  'To  kiM  a  lady's  hand  can  nerer  di«- 

-*-      ■  >  ■.  -  ({race  a  |rentl«inan ;  but  I  would  not  kiss  a  nuui'ii, 

save  the  King's,  lo  bo  made  a  generaL'" — Chap.  xit. 
The  probable  date  of  this  is  1679,  when 
Charles  II.  was  king. 

But,  as    a  work  of   fiction    may   not  be 
ontin_  the  Front  next  the    regarded  as  of  primary  authority,   let  me 
*  handsome    QU(,t^  another  instance.    It  is  from  a  poem  in 
Latin  sapphics  called  'Villa  Bromhamensis,' 
by  Robert,  Lord  Trevor,  afterwards  created 
Viscount  Ilamprlen,  in  1776,  by  George  III. ; 
Hoc  nt  excudi  mde  carmen  ct  jani 
Rusticofi  factns  roermt,  eo  ad  aulam 
Dcvolo  mendax,  aabito  vooantc 
Keg0  benigno. 

Ulitcti  'rTJosanprecatiu 

More  !.  im  aoiilo  MioictruiD) 

Ille  Dii   ^  lodit  otculandam 

bpoute  Duapt^. 

In  *•  Explanations."  note«  at  the  side  of  the 
poem,  it  IS  obwrved,   ''Sent  for  to  (>»urt. 
N'ever  canviwt  Lord  North,  nor  even  nt.r-rivfd 
my  son-in-lttw  Lord  Suffolk,  then 
of  State.— Kist  the  Kiri^''  i  hanri,  Jim 

.'  :;Koltu,  ALA. 

Novboame  Rectory,  v 


mansion  house  and  it«  appurtenances  of 
"  Thomas  Pindar,  Esq.,  deceas'd,  8ituat«  at  Totten- 
ham   Hiirh-Oosii.    l,eing    a   beautiful    four-square 
^'''        '  ■        '    "     '  '■      ,  saahM;  a  Front  every  way, 
»"  •  r8,  with  an  F'ntablalure  all 

roi  Tiont  in  the  Fi 

Road,  naiiiitii  Willi  the  Four  !j«astoni 
Citurt-Vard,   with  Iron   Rails  and  Gates,   with  a 
Walk  of  Free  Stone  up  to  a  Flight  of  seven  Steps 
wi»h  Iron  Rails,  which  lead  into  the  HaH,"  4c. 

The  mansion  house,  to  judge  from  this  para- 
graph, and  a  continuation  of  tho  account  in 
the  news-sheet  mentioned,  must  have  been 
one  of  considerable  importance  in  its  time, 
and  would  afford  a  clue,  possibly,  to  that 
branch  of  the  Pindars  whose  representative 
appears  to  have  occupied  the  houne.  John  le 
Rnder  is  mentioned  in  the '  Hotuli  Litterarum 
Ulaumrum  in  Turri  Londtoensi ' ;  Henry  lo 
Pynderin  the  Writs  of  Parliament ;  and  John 
le  I'indere  in  '  Excorjita  o  Uotuiis  f  iniurn  in 
Turri  Londinensi*  (%ee  Bardsley's  'English 
Buniames,' 1881,  p.  235). 

J.    DoLDEN   MacMicHAKL, 

For    ♦  Notes   on    the    Pindar   Family '    of 
London  between  1592  and  1781.  nee  7'"  S.  xii. 
26 ;    anil    of    Chester,    BarbaiJos,   and    else- 
where p.  ib7.     EvERAiiu  Home  Coleman. 
71.  nrocknock  Road. 

"KjNXEn    irA.VD.H"    (9««  a.   xii.    us).— This 
phruMi  has  alrcjidy  been  discussed  iu  'N.  J:  Q.,' 


m 


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near  the  Oxford-Arms  iu  Warwick  Lane. 
MDCCxuv,  (Price  One  Sliilling  and  Six- 
pence.)" In  it  are  plenty  of  examples  of 
Pamela,  e  (/.  : — 

This  secret  soon  the  fair  Pamela  found, 
Whose  BeautT  spreads  annuniber'd  Congneata  rnoiii). 

C.  i.  I.  31. 
Here  first  Pamela  drew  tho  vernal  Air, 
The  beauteous  daughter  of  this  bapjiy  pair. 

C.  i.  1.  7'y. 
No  Maida  attend,  no  ahining  Toilet's  Rrac'd, 
Pamela 's  only  by  Pamela  lac'd.  C.  iii.  I.  IT. 

It  need  scarcely  be  said  that  the  Pamela  of 
tho  above-mentioned  skit  ia  a  verv  different 
person  from  the  Pamela  of  Samuel  Richard- 
son's novel.    Who  was  J W ,  Esq.  1 

Robert  Pierpoint. 

Shakespeasb's  "Vibtub  of  necessity" 
(10""  S.  i.  8,  76,  110).— A  few  years  ago  a 
writer  in  the Emjlish  Utnlorical  JieineiOHt&ted* 
that  the  phrase  "faoiens  virtuteni  de  neceissi- 
tatem "  wail  used  in  the  twelfth  century  by 
William  of  Tyre.  I  should  have  included 
this  information  in  my  observations  at  the 
second  reference*  but  for  the  fact  that  the 
Review  writer  did  not  cite  "chapter  and 
verso."  Perhaps  one  of  your  readers  can 
supply  this  omission.  Grimm's  'Deutsche* 
Worterbuch '  quotes  {s.v.  'Noth')  some  old 
examples,  one  of  which  (not  the  earliest), 
dated  1545,  is  thus  expressed  in  rime  : — 

Wir  miisacn  doch  ina  ansern  Sachea 
Usz  dcr  Nodt  ein  Tuget  macben. 

With  regard  to  Shakespeare's  use  of  tlie 
proverb,  the  writer  of  an  article  in  the 
liincfeenth  Centvrv  for  Fobinjarv,  entitled 
'A  Forgotten  Volume  in  Snakspeare's 
Library,'  discourses  of  a  rare  book  pul)li8he<l 
in  1681, t  with  a  view  to  "showing  that  the 
great  poet  was  in  no  small  measure  indebted' 
thereto.  The  N^uieteenth  Centttrjj  writer  is  of 
opinion  that  if  8liakespearo  used  the  proverb 
at  second  hand  he  borrowed  it  from  Pettie 
rather  than  from  any  other  author,  and 
quotes  tho  following  from  the  'Civile  Con- 
versation '  (i.  fi) :  "  Whereof  foUowcth  a 
vertue  of  iiecessite."  Whatever  the  value  of 
this  opinion,  it  strengthens  my  Wlief  that 
the  proverb  was  as  familiar  to  Shakespeare's 
English  as  to  his  foreign  contemporaries, 

F.  Adams. 

Sadler's  Welt-s  Play  allpded  to  by 
WoRUswoiiTH  (10'"  S.  i.  7,  70.  oey— The  '  New 
Burletta  Spectacle,  Edwanl  and  Susan,'  was 
produced  at  Sadler's  Wells  Theatre  on  tho 


•  Vol.  ix.  p.  7,  note  l.^ 

t  "The Civile'' 
written  first  in  1 
French  by  Georg> 


in  of  M.  Sl«euon  Guazzo, 
uowo  traoalated  out  of 


opening  night  of  tho  aeasoHj  Easter  Monday,. 
11  April,  1S03.  It  was  wntleu  by  Charles 
DiUlm  the  younger  (manager  and  part- 
proprielor  of  the  house),  and  composed  by  W. 
Keeve,  the  scenery  being  painted  by  R.  C 
Andrews.  The  principal  characters  were  by 
"Mr.    KinK  (liia  first  .i  here  these  fiv« 

years),    Mr.    Smith,    .M  ml,   Irtte   of  the 

"Theatre  Koyal.  Covenl<  ■  tirnt  »|ii)eara«ce 

at  this  Theatre),  and  Siia.  C-  DiMin." 
The  lyrics,  \*  ith  descriptions  of  the  scenerv, 
in  many  of  my  grandfather's  Sadler's  Wells 
pieces  were  printed,  but  I  have  not  seen  a 
copy  of  this  one  Some  idea  of  tho  maimer 
in  which  the  Cumbrian  Araidia  was  nroMcnted 
in  it  may  be  evolved  from  the  further  infor- 
mation advertised  : — 

"  In  the  coarse  of  the  Piece  nn  inriiient«l  Ballet 
(conqwsed  by  Mr.  Kioi;)  in  which  .Mr.  King  and 
Mad.  St.  Anmud,  will  dance  a  !'*»  Deux,  oe- 
conipanied  on  the  Harp.  Mr.  L-  Bolognii  and  .Mr. 
Banks  will  dance  a  Ooniio  Pns  fViiT.  aoronipumed 
on  the  Union  Pipes,  by  Mr.  '"  '       '    ?t 

at)pcarau(;e  in  London)  ;au<i  '' 

Mr.  Jackiion,  lute  of  CovenV  ly 

nine  years  of  ajie,  will  dunce  a  iimnpHKj  .«»th  a 
Skipping  Rope  (her  first  appcttfance  in  Fublio)." 

It  was  also  announced  that, 
"  shortly  after  the  oi>ening,  the  Proprietor*  mean 
to  give  a  benefit,  ine  profits  of  which  wdl  be 
appropriated  towards  the  f<ii)iscriplion  for  the 
Beauty  of  Battermcre,  particulars  advertised  in 
a  few  days." 

Of  the  result  of  this  benefit  (if  it  took  place) 
I  have  no  record.  The  two  pi  iiicipal  part* 
were  played  by  Townsond  and  Mrs.  Dibdin, 
the  former  introducing  a  new  song  (by 
Dibdin  and  Reeve)  called  'Tho  Mammota 
and  Bonaparte.' 
In  his  '  Memoirs '  the  author  said  :— 
"The  pieces  which  1  wrote  for  our  opening  con* 
sistcd  of  'New  Brooms;  or,  the  Firm  Chonaed'; 
'Kdward  luid  Snwin  ;   or,   f       ''  '    "    '•^r* 

mere,'  an  oiterutic  piece  in  '  » 

fact  which  bad  but  rccentlv  "« 

the  seduction,  by  frauduleuU  nianii'tte.  *.'f  the 
dauKhter  of  the  keeper  of  tho  Char  Inn,  near  the 
Lake  of  Buttermcre  ;  and  for  which  tho  |»erpetrator 
forfeited  his  life— in  each  of  these  tvTo  pieies Towns- 
end  played  the  principal  character ;  '  -Jack  tho 
liiant  Killer,'  a  seriouii  pantomime,  in  which  yovmg 
Menage  performed  Jack,  and  Sijtnor  Belzom,  who 
was  remarkably  tall,  and  an  uncommonly  line  pro- 
portioned man,  jilyycd  the  Giant,  whose  dwarf 
was  most  whimsically  sustained  by  Mr  rirunaldi, 
who  performeil  in  every  lino:  'Fire  nr  ir, 

a  Hohdiiy  Harleijuin  ■  in  which  King  ;  le- 

quin  :    .Mr.   ITnrtland,    Pani'-l- •»>  ■    M:         Uli, 

Clown;  nnd  Mile.  Su  Picri  mbine;  with 

«^  B.illct,  (.omponed  by  Air.  unr.  •  and  an 

Kxtraordiuary    (Jymnasilii:     j.vnihn  um    by    Sicnr. 
Bclaoni,  aunouneeil  as  '  the  Palajtnni.in  Saniaon.   ' 
Of    the    scLMiery   it    is    reoordeil    that    "  wo 
exhibited  as   beautiful   displays  of  Scenery 
as  niiif   T/tcatre   in  London"     'Etiwar-f   n^l 


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I 


Susau '  remained  in  the  bills  until  tho  l«vtt«r 
part  of  May,  and,  after  being  withdrawn,  was 
restored.  The  bill  for  27  June  contained  the 
pieves  witnessed  by  Mary  Lamb  a  week  or 
two  later,  including  that  which  she  inaccu- 
rately stylet!  '  Mary  of  Buttcrmere.'  As  the 
pei'formers  during  the  evening  included  the 
incomparable  Qrimaldi  and  that  remark 
able  man  Belzoni,  afterwards  famous  an  a 
traveller,  it  is  more  comprehensible  that 
Charles  Lamb  and  Miss  Kick  man  laughed 
than  that  Southey  and  Rickman  slept. 
Perliaps  they  had  paid  too  much  attention 
to  the  "  white  or  red  foreign  unadulterated 
wine,"  which  was  supplied  at  1«.  a  pint  to 
patrous  of  the  house. 

E.   IllMBACLT  DiBDEN. 

*'  P.  P.,  Cleuk  of  the  Parish  "  (10^"  S.  i. 
€8).— There  is  a  full  account  of  him,  with 
many  extracts,  including  one  from  Carlyle, 
in  a  bo<jk  of  roferenco  which  i<j  not  sufficiently 
uyicd,  Wheeler's  '  Noted  Names  of  Fiction ' 
(Bohn,  IbTO),  p.  299.     Pope  introduces   him 

Pin  '  Martinus  Scriblerua.'  W.  C.  B. 

The  work  to  which  Carlyle  refers  is 
•Memoirs  of  P.  P.,  Clerk  of  this  Parish.'  It 
is  given  at  length  in  El  win  and  Courthopo's 
edition  of  Pope  (x.  435-44).  It  h  one  of 
the  '  Martinus  Scriblerus '  publications,  and 
there  is  little  doubt  that  it  was  written  by 
Pope,  with  some  small  assistance  from  Gay. 
That  its  purpose  was  to  ridicule  Burnet's 
'History  of  my  Own  Times 'is  confirmed  by 
Pope's  denial  of  the  fact  in  the  Prolegomena 
to  the  '  Danciad  '  {op.  cit.,  iv.  64). 

Da-vid  Salmon. 
[Reiiliea  also  from  Mr.  Hulden  MacMiouael, 
Hr.  1).  B.  MosKLEV,  and  W.  T.] 

Snowball  (9**»  S.  x.  307,  4."j3).— Mn.  Snow- 
!all  will  tiud  much  information  by  perusing 
the  rogisten-i  of  By  ton  and  Whickham.    These 
Arc  printed  and  published. 

H.   C.   SOBTEES. 

Sr.  BRnxjET'fl  Bower  (10'»'  S.  i.  27,  70).— 
Samuel  Pegge,  writing  about  1735,  states  :  — 

"  But  ttfl  to  St.  Bridget's  Bower,  I  havo  enquired 
■oi  the  aged  iJr.  Brett  and  Mr.  Bull,  and  cannot 
lenrn  thut  fh«r»  ia  niiy  one  remarkable  hill  in  this 
civ  "    '  1  [  incline  to  believe  that  the 

l.\  I   liiila   that  passes  east  and 

y\>  i)[  the  county  above  Boxley, 

HuUiugbuuruti,  iHc.,  u  lue&nt  by  this  expreasion." 

K.  J.  Fynmohe. 

EmxPB  ON  Sir  John  Seymour  (10"'  S.  i. 
67).  — Probably  *' iici-iti:itetito"  is  meant  for 
jferipiitetiri  ;  th'  cription  is  probably 

this:     "Ago     [■  ici,    dum     intuearis 

ciu«rcs    dctaocti,  tuortis    en  iiacellu!*    brcvi 
fortassis  tuie."  F.  P. 


Inscription  on  Statue  of  James  IL  (lO'-'> 
S.  i.  07).— I  am  glad  to  learn  from  tho  query 
contributed  by  R.  S.  that  this  statue  has 
at  last  been  set  up  a^aiu  in  London.  Its 
original  position  in  Whitehall  Gardens  was  a 
little  out  of  the  way,  and  it  was  carried 
thence  in  189t>  to  a  site  in  the  garden 
fronting  Qwydyr  House,  Whitehall.  In  the 
Coronation  year  it  was  apparently  displaced 
in  order  to  make  room  for  a  stand  from 
which  to  view  the  procession.  The  question 
of  its  ultimate  fate  has  since  been  discussed 
several  times  in  the  press. 

The  following  copy  of  the  inscription  on 
the  pedestal  was  taken  by  me  in  October, 
1888  :— 

JACOBVS  8ECVXDV8 

DEI  OBATIA 

ANGLI.E  St!OTI,E 

FUAKCI.E   ET 

HIBERNIJ; 

RRX 

FIDEl  DEFENSOR 

anno  mdclxxxvi. 

John  T.  Page. 
The  inscription  has  evidently  been  shoru 
of  its  greater  part,  and  the  last  word  altered. 
It  is  given  in  full  in  '  Maguie  Britanniie 
Notitia :  or,  the  Present  State  of  Great 
Britain,  by  John  Charaberlaync,  1723,  p.  258. 
The  statue  then  had  a  jjedestal  of  raarble. 

J.    HOLDEN   MacMicHAEL. 

French  Miniature  Painter  (lO''''  S.  i.  86). 
—Madame  Vigt^o  Le  Brun,  the  celebrat^a 
French  portrait  painter,  whose  exquisite  por- 
trait of  Madame  Rdcamier  is  well  known, 
was  born  in  Paris  in  1756.  Her  great 
speciality  being  portrait^],  she  is  doubtless 
the  painter  required.      Matilda  Pollard. 

Bello  Vue,  Ben^o. 

I  fancy  that  the  reference  is  to  Madame 
Lobrun,  previously  Mile.  Vig^e,  of  whom  an 
account  will  be  found  in  Bouillet's  'Diet. 
d'Histoire  et  de  G«5ographie,' 

Edward  L.\tham, 

A  reference  to  Bryan's  '  Dictionaij  of 
Painters  and  Engravers'  (G.  Bell  »fc  Sons, 
1899)  yields  the  following  French  painters  of 
the  eighteenth  or  the  first  half  of  tho  nine- 
teenth century  whose  names  begin  with 
Vig  :  E.  L.  Viget»,  known  as  Vigi?o  Le  Brun ; 
Louis  Vigee,  her  father ;  J.  L.  H.  Vigcr ; 
Jean  Vignaud  ;  E.  de  Vigne  ;  F.  do  Vigne ; 
P.  R.  Vigneron  ;  and  IT.  I.  J.  do  Vignon. 

E.  Rlmbault  Dibdin. 

Ash  :  Place-name  (0^'' S.-xii,  lOd,  211,  291, 
373  ;  10"'  S.  i.  72,  113).— I  may  point  out  that 
in  Devonsliire  alone  at  tho  time  of  Doavcs*k«^ 


138 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        iw  a.  i.  flb.  i3,  19o*. 


there  were  no  fewer  than  aeven  places  bear- 
ing the  name  of  Ash,  viz..  Ash  Walter,  now 
known  aa  Ash  water ;  Asnreigny:  Ralph's 
Ash,  now  Roseash  (these  are  parishes) ;  and 
Ash  in  Petrockstow,  Brad  worthy,  South 
Taw  ton,  and  Braunton.  And  besides  the 
simple  Ash,  the  name  appears  in  combination 
in  Ashcombo,  Ashford,  and  Ashleigh. 

Oswald  J.  Reichbl. 
Lympstotie,  Devon. 

"Bisk"  (9">  S.  xii.  180,  375).  — In  'The 
Book  of  the  Table'  is  this  derivation  : — 

"Bisque— bisct,  old  French  for  wood  -  pigeon  ; 
derived  from  l>oiM,  whose  root  is  the  Low  LAlin 
ho-ictu,  whence  the  English  bosk,  bxifik,  busli,  &iid 
the  French  bisque,  bois,  buis,  and  buissou." 

As  the  stock  of  crayfish  soup  appe-ars  origin- 
ally— whatever  ma^  be  the  case  now  in  the 
exquisite  *'  Potage  a  la  Bisque  "  served  at  the 
Caie  de  la  Paix,  Paris — to  have  been  made  of 

Sigeon  stowed  down,  the  soup  seems  to  have 
erived  its  name  therefrom.  Hbi/^a. 

Anatomie  Vivante  (9'"  S.  xii.  49,  157).— 
Mr.  Holden  MacMichael  says  tliat  "a 
writer  in  the  Daili/  Teler/rap/i  of  31  December, 

1902, seems  to  be  in  error  in  sayinR  that 

the  'Anatomic  Vivante'  was  exhibited  at  the 
Egyptian  Hall ";  but  in  '  Old  and  New  Lou- 
don '  (Cosseli  <fe  Co.,  1890,  vol.  iv,  p,  257)  it  is 
stated  :  "Here  [Egyptian  Hall],  in  1825,  was 
exhibited  a  curious  phenomenon  known  as 
'the  Living  Skeleton,'  or  'the  Anatomio 
Vivante,'  of  whom  a  short  account  will  be 
found  in  Hone's  '  Every-Day  Book.' " 

Edwabd  Latham. 
_fSALEr  OK  Salop  (9"'  S.  xii.  448;  10">  S.  i. 
9"). — A  similar  question,  with  replies,  will  be 
found  in  7"'  S.  vi.  468  and  vii.  34.  To  what 
has  been  already  said  let  me  add  that  salep 
is  not  always  obtained  from  the  orchid- tuber. 
Tho  late  Dr.  Aitchison,  who  accompanied 
the  Afghan  Delimitation  Commission  during 
1884,  showed — see  'Annals  of  Botany,'  iii. 
(1889),  p.  154— that  the  source  of  badslia,  or 
royal  salep,  is  a  species  of  Allium— probably 
A.  maclmnii.  I.  B.  B. 

SftisjCfllnucaus. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  fco. 
Ihirlu  Ihi{/i>*h  J'rinltd  fiooki  in  the  Univrrmtt/ 
lAfmxry,  Cambfidffe  ( 1475  to  1640).  3  vols.  (Cam- 
bridge, University  Press.) 
This  important  contribution  to  bibliographical 
knowledge  grew,  as  the  compiler  tells  uc,  out  of  an 
earlier  ami  a  diflerent  Bcheinv.  It  was  accotiitiliahed 
in  epiteof  innumerable  dithcultiea,  not  the  least  of 
which  were  the  limitations  of  the  lil  »' and 

the  gaps  inevitable  iti   tlie    UniviT  (ion, 

whion  are  frankly  stated  to  be  enun ..    A»  the 


labour  progressed  its  scope  enlarged,  and  new 
matter  was  constantly  introduced  into  the  text. 
There  are  few  con^'"'-'""*'""'  workers  who  will  not 
gre«t  with  a  8ym]> .  ii  the  statement  that 

only  at  the  conoluM  *ork  "did  it  b«girt  to 

be  apparent  on  what  luieo  rejearch  was  desirable." 
Part  1.  conaiste  of  incunabula,  which  are  divided 
into  books  printed  at  Westminster,  Oxford,   St, , 
Albans,  and  London,  with  others  printed  abroad  a| 
Bruges,  Cologne,  Veni<?««,  Antwerp.  Tjouvain,  Pari^l 
Rouen,  Baslv,  '  "  aown.l 

But  Hmall  in  ;i,  th< 

catalogue ocouj        ,.       .       ,., . !  ..     idodd^ 

of  the  entire  wurk.  Muni  of  the  early  buokti  are,  more- 
over, imjicrfcct,  and  some  of  them  are  mere  frag- 
mentf).  Of  the'  Curial '  of  Alain  Chartior,  translated, 
by  William  Caxlon,  there  ia  thus  but  a  single  leaf, 
and  of  'The  Four  Sons  of  Ayniou'  there  are  bub' 
four  leaves.  Some  of  the  works  are  unique  :  and  we 
are  not  dreaming  of  disi>aragiug  the  im|K>rtancc  of 
tho  collection  or  its  interest,  tnough  many  curious 
lessons  might  be  drawn  from  its  shortcomingvf 
The  incunabula  printed  abroad  consist  largely  of 
Breviaries  and  Mii^sale.  Much  labour  has  necessarily 
been  expended  upon  the  volumes.  We  wonder  tf  it 
is  ungracious  \.q  wish  that  a  little  more  hail  beeti 
bestowed,  and  that  an  index  of  authors  had  been 
su)>plied  at  the  end,  so  that  we  might  discover  in 
an  mstant  what  works  are  or  arc  not  included  iaj 
the  collection.  We  might  then^\ithout  dillicultyl 
find  out  what  books,  if  any,  of  distinguiiihed  writers  • 
—or,  indood,  of  nlunini  of  the  University— it  may 
lM)98esa.  In  a  glance  through,  which  docs  not  pro- 
tend to  be  more  than  cursory,  we  have  come  upon 
no  mention  of  Shakosj>eare  or  Milton.  Chaucer, 
Lydgate,  and  Gower  often  occur ;  but  it  would  be 
a  task  of  diiliculty  to  ascertain  what  editions  of 
Chancers  works  are  to  be  found.  Gower's  'Con- 
fessio  Amantis'is  traced  by  turning  to  Bcrthelet,  by 
whom  tho  only  accessible  cditicni  is  issued,  and 
Barclay  aiipears  under  Cawood,  '  Stultifora  Navis.' 
On  the  other  hand,  much  information  not  elsewhere 
easily  accessible  is  given  in  the  shape  of  printers' 
niarkB,exactsituatioD  of  their  premine,  and  the  like. 
All  bibliographers  will  desire  to  posseaa  the  threo 
volumes.  To  those,  if  there  are  any  such,  who 
nroposc  to  continue  the  invaluable  labours  of  the 
lirunets,  Qu6rardp,  Barbiers,  Lowndeses,  Ac,  they 
will  be  of  immense  value.    It  is,  how'  '  ■ 

thatbibliographicallaboursoo  anox; 
unreniunerative,  and  though  the  v 
which  wc  refer  are  out  of  date  lu  iuxard*  lliu 
information  they  supply,  vre  see  no  jirobabiltty  of 
their  being  brought  up  to  the  present  lime.  We  are 
not  sure,  even,  that  some  great  works  of  tho  past  are 
suitable  to  modem  requircmentB.  Works  such  as 
the  ))rc8ont  nmst,  however,  always  have  value,  and 
cannot  easily  be  out  of  date.  They  constitute  to  tho 
worker  a  species  of  im^moirts  pour  ttn'ir,  in  whioh 
respect  their  value  cannot  easily  be  overestimated.     •• 

Ohl  Time  Alclu'iK'h,  Kiur>nira\i,  and.  y^rif/hhourhooil. 

By  Charles  Gordon.     ( P'ielier  Unwin. )  ^ 

It  is  natural  that  advantage  should  be  taken  nf  tfie  ^ 
great  alterations  in  progress  lictween  the  Strand 
and  Holborn  to  write  a  volume  concerning  the  dis-  i 
tricta  now  in  course  of  being  swept  away,  Mr. 
Charles  (Jordon.  to  whom  is  due  a  '  History  of  tho 
Old  Bailey  and  Now-a',e,'  i.=  lii,4  ii>  <lio  field, 
and  htts  issued  tb  m  an 
account  of  tho  movi  "d  a 

record  of  the  histori".,..  ..i  i...-.  .-„•- ided. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


139 


As  the  work  is  liberally  illustrated,  it  forms  an  menb  of  ecclesiastical  atitinuities  which  was  still 

interesting    souvcuir    of    spots    which     all    living  waiting  for  its  Inatorian.     For  the  tokeu  to  which 

Londoners  recall,  nod  an  indispensable  portion  of  Mr.  Khiella  has  devoted  his  reseachos  is  not  the 

every  librory  dealinji  largely  with  what  arc  called  private  coinage  of  small  denomination  with  which 


Londiniaoa.  Concerned  as  it  is  with  lenislation 
regarding  the  new  streets  to  be  erected,  with 
condiiious  of  competition,  and  with  the  comjienea- 
tinn  to  l>c  accorded  to  the  owners  of  property,  such 
as  the  <  iaiety  Theatre  and  the  Morniiifj  PoM,  the 
early  part,  though  importwit,  is  of  limited  iutereat. 
Much  of  the  text  is  made  up  of  reports  of  pro- 
ceedings of  the  County  Council  and  of  the  in- 
effectual ottempt  to  induce  that  body  to  recon- 
sider a  portion  of  its  scheme. 

Not  until  tlie  fiflii  chapter  is  reached  do  we  come 
upon  the  philological  and  historical  portion  of  tlie 
work,  upon  the  reasons  for  the  selection  of  the 
nameAldwycb  and  the  desciiplion  of  Danish  and 


81,  oonceniing  the  village      ,,,,.,.,,  . 

known  later  as  Aldewych,  and  of  V  m  de  Aldewych, 
connccliutr  it  with  the  Hostiital  of  St.  Gile.s,  is 
QVioled.  We  hoar  much  of  the  practice  of  nailing 
the  skins  of  Danes  upou  the  doors  of  churches,  'i'he 
roayiwlcs  of  later  times,  around  which  Nell  fjwyn 
may  have  danced,  are  depicted ;  and  there  is  an 
account  of  the  procession  of  the  ".Scald  Miserable 
Masons"  on  27  August,  1742,  or,  preferably,  on 
7  April  of  the  same  year.  Very  many  antiquarian 
subjects  are  discussed  in  a  gossiping  fa-shion. 
Fiotion  is  also  employed,  and  a  curious  proof  uf 
the  influence  of  Diukena  is  furnished  in  the  inser- 
Uoa  of  long  descriptive  i)assage8  from  his  jwn. 

On  Saying  Gtacc.    By  H.  L.  Dixon,  M.A.    (Parker 

&Co.) 
Mb.  Dixon  baa  put  together  a  very  complete  and 
scholarly  little  treatise  on  the  origin  and  growth  of 
the  pionn  custom  in  which  acknowledgment  is  made 
of  a  HiHliT  I'ower  who  provides  man  with  his 
daily  sustunanue,  and  to  whom,  consequently,  a 
meed  of  grntitade  is  due.  In  a  catena  of  passages 
from  claisitai  writersand  the  Fathom  of  the  Church 
be  traces  the  historical  development  of  the  institu- 
tion from  remote  antiquity,  quotinf;  a  remark  of 
Atheniens  that  "  none  but  K[iicurean8  began  their 

eftls  without  some  act  of  religion."  Even  that 
kward  people  the  Ainfia,  accordinij  to  Mr. 
tchelor  (whose  name,  by  the  way,  is  missjjelt  by 
Mr.  Dixon),  have  a  rude  form  of  gr»ce,  in  which 
they  thnnk  the  Divine  Nourisher  for  the  food  of 
ni  '  :  ire  about  to  (Mirtake.  The  formula  of 
tk  I  >er  of  college  graces  are  given,  which  a 

lilL  I ouble  on  the  part  of  the  author  would 

have  m*de  conii>lete.     We  miss,  for  example,  the 
ancient  form  in   uso  at  Trinity  College,   Dublin, 

wli^  T   t  -    '  rhlance  to  that  used  at 

CI  rhere  seems  to  be  a 

let  _    liise  "libare  paternam 

Jovi  "  ikn  utt«d  by  ^Ir.  Dix^n  (p.  73). 

ff>.     <i...„    nf   thf    Tohv.     By    Robert   Shiells, 

1  (Oliphaat  &  Co.) 

It  '  'V  day  Itecome  more  ditficiilt  to  fiud  a 

BubJttt  for  II  bfHjk  whirh  is  not  •    ite  and 

haoKneyed.    The  time  is  eomvng  w  ■  cialist 

in  cntomob","    '    ■    "ill  h»v«  i.i  .n-i  cotn- 

pr«hensive  i  not  to  tin    i..i!.  .  but  to 

tfaa  log  or  I'l '  rof  Ihfttiivi   ,.l|..i.     Mr. 

li«Ua  hu  di^covcteil  tor  htmaett  a  minute  depart- 


tho  enterprising  tradesman  formerly  used  to  adver- 
tise his  firm,  but  the  little  leaden  tablet  or  medal 
which  Hcottish  ndnisters  Uived  to  issue  to  their 
parishioners  as  a  paFisport  authoriKing  their  admis- 
sion to  the  Holy  Table.  This  old-lime  observance, 
once  distinctive  of  the  Preabytcrian  Sabbath,  is 
now  rapidly  becoming  extinct,  and  it  has  been  the 
author^  laudable  ambition  to  make  a  collection  of 
these  Ki/mhoia  or  Communion  vouchers,  and  then, 
as  a  natural  sequence,  to  write  their  "  story.' 
Sooth  to  say,  these  leaden  dumps  have  little  to 
recommend  them  as  works  of  art.  They  are  rnde 
and  inartistic,  and  .South  Kensington  would  not  be 
the  poorer  if  none  of  them  survived.  The  prevail- 
ing design  consists  merely  of  a  date  and  the  initials 
of  the  minister.  They  have  not  even  the  charru  of 
antiquity  to  ret^ommend  them,  as  they  date  chiefly 
from  the  eighteenth  century,  and  the  very  earliest 
only  go  back  to  the  first  quarter  nf  tiie  seventeenth. 
There  is  mention,  however,  of  their  being  struck  at 
St.  Andrews  in  1-590.  and  the  Huguenots  made  use 
of  these  Communion  checks  in  1559.  Mr.  Sbiells 
coniectnres  that  they  may  have  come  down  by 
Catholic  tradition  from  the  le.i-ftra  of  the  Romans, 
something  similar  being  used  for  admission  of  the 
faithful  to  \he  A}/ap^.  But  the  difficulty  remains 
that  no  trace  of  such  material  symbols  can  bo 
fontul  iluriii;;  the  lifleen  intervening  centuricH,  It 
must  be  added  that  the  writer  pads  out  his  small 
lK)ok  V>y  much  digressive  and  irrelevant  matter. 
He  is  (luite  mistaken  in  his  derivation  of  Fr.  vtrreau 
from  Lftt.  mertri,  as  if  it  denoted  a  token  given  to 
the  deserving!  There  is  a  careless  mispritit  of 
XpKTTOv  on  p.  144. 

Sliifli  ami  Shipping.    Edited  by  Francis  Milloun, 

(Moring.) 
We  have  here,  with  coloured  illustrations  of  flags, 
signals,  &c.,  and  with  abundant  other  illustrations, 
a  useful  and  pretty  little  volume,  supplyinfj  lands- 
men with  all  the  information  they  are  likely  to 
require  concerning  ships  and  shipx>ing  at  home  and 
abroad.  This  is,  in  phrase  now  classic,  "ex- 
tensive and  peculiar."  Much  of  it  is  derived  from 
Lloyds. 

Thk  Congregational  Historical  .Society  has  sent 
us  its  TmiutaciioiiM  for  January ;  also  a  hitherto 
lost  treatise  by  Robert  Browne,  "the  father  of 
Congregationalism,"  '  A  New  Years  Guift,'  "  in  the 
form  of  a  letter  to  his  uncle  Mr.  Flower."  To  this 
Mr.  Champlin  Burrage  has  written  an  introduction, 
in  which  he  states  that  in  1874  the  manu.script 
was  AC(]uirod  by  the  British  Museum.  Mr.  Crippen 
considers  it  to  Lio  the  most  important  contribution 
to  early  Nonconformist  history  that  has  come  to 
light  f.mce  Dr.  Dexter'a  reenviTy  (about  Itf/o)  of 
the  'True  ond  Short  Declaration.'  The  contenta 
of  the  Ti-aitHoction^  show  some  good  work  dune. 
There  i~  '•  •  'i  of  CongregniionnliBin  in  K*mp- 
Bhire  b  rownon,  with  a  map  showing  Ibo 

plac;c8  \'.  Msters  were  ejoctrd   ltW!()-"2.     Mr. 

Edward    Unulcatt    coniribulcs    ''  d 

the  IndulKcnceof  1(17'-'.'    Mr  W.  1 '  < 

extracts  nom  the  diary  of  Dr.    I  i  \ 

1749  to  l'S.\  This  contnins  reluiemes  l<j  tho 
Cromwell  familv.  Wbiteliold,  and  the  AUicv«i^. 
On  Thumday,  tho  Stli  ol  lf«sfeTXkwrj,  Vv^^Vj-^^wsoflk 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[10^  &  L  Feb.  13.  lOM. 


Mrilea,  "This  day,  aa  I  was  sitting  in  my  study 
with  a  volhime  of  >Ir.  BiiJiter's  before  me,  I  folt  a 
violent  concusaion  of  the  house,  aa  if  it  would  have 
tuiiil'it'd  iiisUuilly  about  my  head.   The  motion  wm 

hciivy  uitd  uiiiveiiMil 1  find  the  shock  waa  felt 

throu|!;li')Ut  the  cities  of  London  and  Westminster, 
And  many  proufa  1  huvc  siiicu  learnt  of  its  violence 
and  tenor.  '  On  the  8th  of  Marcli  ho  was  awakened 
by  "  a  shnck  uf  an  Ciii  thquake  "  "  severer  than  that 
A  month  eince."  "How  awful,"  he  writes,  "are 
these  llnnitions  of  the  Divine  Anger."  ilr.  J. 
Kuthcrford  sniiplios  a  history  of  Congregation- 
&liam  ill  lUrniiughaiii  from  1042,  when  its  earliest 
ir»cee  began  to  appear,  the  first  permanent  con- 
sregation  being  organized  in  1687.  The  mectin^- 
Iionse  was  much  injured  hj  the  Jacobite  riots  in 
ITl.").  and  lotaliy  destroyed  in  the  Priestley  riots  of 
1701.  This  is  now  represented  by  the  Old  Meeting- 
House  Church  in  lirialol  Street,  built  in  1885.  The 
hibtory  of  Carr's  Litne  Church  ia  alto  uiveu.  "  Carr's 
Lune  is  said  to  be  a  corruption  of  "God's  Cart 
liivue,"  derived  from  the  shed  in  which  before 
the  Kefornialion  a  car  was  kept  that  was  u»ed 
ia  Corpus  Chrinti  proccssioue.  This  churt;h  ia 
noted  for  the  two  eminent  men  who  have 
been  ita  miiiiaters— John  Angell  James,  author 
of  'The  Anxious  Enquirer'  and  some  fifty  other 
books;  and  Robert  William  Dale,  well  remembered 
for  hJ9  work  on  'The  Aiouomcnt.'  This  gained  for 
Liii)  the  honorary  dog rto  of  D.D.  from  Yale  College, 
which,  like  his  prcdocessor.  he  declined  to  use, 
while  he  accepted  a  diploma  of  LL.D.  from 
Glasgow  in  lS8:i,  although  on  the  litle-paj[$e  of  the 
memoir  by  his  son  he  is  plain  Robert  William  Dale. 
In  Birmingham  "  his  leadership  was  universally 
recognized,  not  only  in  religious  efTort,  but  in 
education,  politics,  and  social  enterprises. 

TiiK  litliipUDT/  for  Jajinary,  editedby  J.  Roniilly 
Allen  (Bemrose  k  Sons),  contains  an  article  *  About 
Almanacs,'  by  W.  Ileneage  Leifgo.  lUuatratioiie  of 
btaffordshire  clog  almanacs  are  given.  "  A  favourite 
almanac  in  the  times  of  the  Stuarts  and  the 
Georges  was  Rider's.  Among  other  precepts  it 
gives 

In  gardening  never  this  rule  forget. 
To  sowe  dry  and  set  wot." 
'Poor  Robin,'  1710,  receives  a  full  doscriiition. 
Among  other  maxims  we  tind  "  In  January,  though 
the  nights  be  long  and  candles  be  chargeable,  yet 
long  lying  in  Bed  is  an  evil  auality,  becau4e  they 
roust  rise  by  times  who  would  cozen  the  Devil. 
Mr.  I^ege  concludes  his  article  in  the  words  of 
"  Poor  Kobin  " :  "1  bid  my  oourteoun  Reader  heartily 
farewell ;  and  to  my  Currish  Critical  Reader, 
farewell  and  be  hanged,  that's  twice  fiod  b'w'y. 
The  origin  of  the  '  Pen-annular  Brooch'  is  treated  of 
by  Edward  Lovett.  The  editor  in  a  note  sayn, 
"The  testimony  of  archeology  shows  conclusively 
that  the  '  safety  pin  '  is  the  earliest  typo  of  brooch. 
At  all  events,  it  was  in  use  in  the  Mvcen%an  period 
eay  1500  to  2()(X)  b.c.  The  pen-annular  broocn  only 
makes  its  appearance  about  700  to  800  a.d."  Mr. 
Richard  Qnsck  gives  'A  Chat  about  SpOfius,'  and 
refers  to  "  some  spoons  made  in  Russia  of  a  ;ieculiar 
kind  of  cloisonnil'  on&niel,  the  effect  of  which  is  very 
beautiful."  In  this  article  the  objects  selected  for 
illustration  are  all  in  the  Horuiman  Museum. 
Some  crosses  at  Hornby  and  Melling  in  Lons- 
dale axe  descril>ed  by  Mr.  W.  G.  Collingwood,  who 
made  a  tour  with  Mr.  W.  0.  Roper,  and  he  says  he 
'"has  made  few  more  delightiul  excursions  both  for 


scenery  and  remains."     This  district  is  compan 
tively  little  known,  for  it  is  out  of  the  range  o£ 
the    county    ftr'i' ■"■^■"■"  "I     "■■  i'>M<»».       Oiarlotte 
Mason  writes  •  i  ',':van,  Cornwall, 

famed  for  its   i  uid  old  bench- 

ends.    Ill  the  '  >ioi>_-3  uii  ,  '   Mr.  Romilly 

Allen  contributes  one  on  on  Pins  founa 

at  Lincoln,'      There  is  .i w  of  old  Kew 

Bridge,  whii^h  was  opened  in  IT^^O,  being  pulled 
down  in  1SD9  to  make  way  fur  the  King  Ed- 
ward \'Il.  bridge. 

With  much  regret  we  hear  of  the  death,  at 
Darley  Abbey,  Derby,  of  the  Rev.  Cdnoii  Ainger,  a 
valued  friend  and  correspondent.  Bom  in  London, 
9  February,  1837,  the  son  of  Alfred  Ainger,  orchi- 
tect,  Alfred  Ainger,  M.A.,  LL.D.,  Cinou  Resi- 
dentiary of  Bristol,  Master  of  the  Temple,  and 
Chaplain  in  Ordinary  to  the  King,  was  educated  at 
King's  College,  l^oridon,  and  Trinity  Hnll,  Cn'n- 
bridgo,   of    will   '     '  '  . 

18()0-4.  curaU" 

ant  master  Shi:     _  , „  :■ 

at  the  Temple  Church  iri>fti  ItitJO  in  IH93.  ili-  u«ve  lo 
the  press  '  Sermons  preoclted  iti  I  he  Temple  Cliurch,* 
and  was  editor  of  ti  '        '  '  iinb.  of  whom  he 

wrote  o  memoir.    II  form  and  white 

hair  made  him  a  >        .  ^uro    in    London. 

society,  in  which  he  wii«  gientJy  and  justly  prizeoL^ 
Canon  Ainger's  gentleness,  urbanity,  and  oourteajrl 
were  pleasantly  oonapiouous  features  in  a  delight- 
ful personality. 


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noiiceis : — 

Om  all  communications  must  be  wriltt<n  the  name 
and  address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  pub- 
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To  secure  insertion  of  communications  aorre- 
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slip  of  paper,  with  the  sigimture  of  the  writer  and 
such  address  aa  he  wishes  to  appear.  When  answer- 
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put  in  parentheses,  iimmediatcly  after  the  exact 
neading,  the  series,  volume,  and  page  or  pages  to 
which  they  refer.  Correspondenta  who  rciwat 
queries  are  requested  to  head  the  second  com 
ninnication  "  Duplicate." 

H.  G.  HopK  ("Immurement  Alive').— Your  reply 
shall  a]ipcar  next  week, 

E.  J.— See  the  General  Indexes  to  '  N.  ti  Q.' 

CoRRiOEXDA.— Index  lo  O""  S,  xii,,  p.  5'23,  col.  2. 
omit  "Barnes,  his  sonnets,  274":  p.  «>45,  top  oi 
col.  2,  for  "  R.  (A.  P.)"  read  /f.  {A.  /',). 

IVOT/CK. 

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communicatiouB  which,  for  any  roaaon,  we  do  not 
print;  and  to  this  rule  we  can  make  no  exeeptioir. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.— The  SUBSCRIPTION 
to  NOTBS  hUD  wcSHIBHCm  b;  pB.t  I.  10i.  M  (nr  All  Month! ; 

•rx>*  M.  t<>rT««lT.  MoDliit.Uclaillnc  th*  Valiui.  lodiii ;uMK  C 

rjiAJ4CI8.JirMo.iid  <|Mrw>t>iDc«.  Braam  a  Hsil<lii(>,uiiaiie«rT  LAar. 

"  Kxamlac  »«ll  renr  blood.    H* 

Pruiii  Joba  ot  OkOBi  doCb  brlDc  hi*  p«i31rre«  "— ^MLEtePBAKa 

ANCK8TRY,  EngUtdi,  .^  h,  and  American, 

TJtACBO  tram  8TATB  El,-.  ,..lct  :  Wni  ol  Enclaad 

—A  lalcmat  lAmUlM  — Mr.  bi...^.....^^.  uaM,  JB.  UUdo*  KOM. 
Snt«r,Md  1,  CplMua  Pifk  B<Md,  CkitKtoA,  ;mb4«a,  W. 

PEDIGBBKS     find    ARMORIAL     BEARINGS. 
L.  Cl'LLKTOK,  «!.  FIctadUlf,  Loadoa. 

HERALDIC  ENGRAVING.  BookPlates.  Seals, 
IHai,  Note  Papar.  A«.     Sprclat  atMalloB  (ireB  to  icotuaet  at 

TIStTIMO  OAIiUA:    llii(TaTt«  Ooppoi-plata   aad  !0  beat  analUf 
Oarii,  9j. 

CCLLBTON'S.  i(  ncaadlllf,  Lesdsn. 

BOOKS.— ALL  OUTOF-PRLNT  BOOKS  tup- 
pU«d.  ooaatur  Aa  what  Bab|..i,  Ackau«itd(»ii  lh«  norld  o^ar 
tath.  moai  .apart  il.otnadara*tlaat.  ricaM  iiai.  waata.— BAKKlft 
ar«s(Ro4tikop,14-l«,  JoBD  Brl«bt«ircat,IUrnkBfbam. 


Cj. 


AOBNCT  FOU  AMIHICAM  BUUKi'. 

PUTNAM'S   SONS.    PUBLISHERS  and 

HOOKSHLI.BIU 

«r;;>adn.  Vatt  ard  HirretMo  York  aad  Zt,  RKOI'UUU  i^THKUT, 
L0NI>OK,  W.C.,  4Mira  10  call  tat  aivtaoon  ot  iba  )(EA1>1>'0 
PUBLIC  to  th«  .xc.il.Bt  laallliln  prra.BC.4  «;  th«tr  Braecb  Uoiu*  la 
Lob4ob  tor  Qlllnc.  oa  kba  moat  fa.ourabt.  t.rnii.  ord.ra  lor  Ib.ir 
.«B  HTANUAULI  l'Ulli.lCATIU^«,  kOd  for  ALL  AMSKICAM 
BOUKA. 

QatalofBCB  ««Bl  OB  applloatioB. 

1'HE     AUTHOR'S     HAIRLESS     PAPER- PAD. 
<rb«  LBAUBKHALL  PHHC.  I.id     Puhluh.rt  and  Printer*, 
AO,  LcadaBball  Street.  Londoa.  B.C  1 
i;ontjiln<    )ialr1«i.    pBpef.  oi«r  wntch  tb«    p«a   Kip*  witli   pcrltct 
treci-'"'      "-"1 — "'  e»<n     6/  par  doian,  ruled  or  piaia.    Nrw  rookat 
«»e  rulpd  nr  plalO- 

Al'  : '>t«  thai    llic   LMdreball    Fraat,  Ltd,  cannot  bo 

t«r luuol  u.d4S.  t>]r  lira  oro«bcr«it«-    DaplKaia  copio 


STICKPHAST  PASTE  is  miles  better  than  Gura 
(or  itlekiaulB  .Scrap..  joinioK  l^Bara,  Ae.     U  ,  M  .  and  1 '    ^     :■ 
itroBi,  naafal  Hraih  (uoiaTot  |      t*tA  iwe  ataaipa  to  cotpr  1 
lor  a  .arapit    Bottle,  laalDdinr  J-iroab      Factor?.  Xurkr  Lml 
Laadaakall  Htreat.  A.C.    o(  all  Btatioaara.    Btlikpbaat  fait*  ttuvn. 


ATUSNJSUM     PRESS— JOHN     EDWARD 

^r.parea  ui  fcl'IIMIT  BaTlMAtBS  for  all  kiana  01  HOOK,  SHWS, 
aad  I'tkloOlCAJ,  riU«TJKO.-IJ,  Braa-  »  BaUdiao.  oaaae«rT 
Laao.AC, 


10""  s.  L  Feb.  20. 19W.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


141 


LONDOA',  SATLIWAY,  FKBRUAlli' tO,  190.'.. 


CONTENTS.-No.  8. 

VOTKS  :-' Merry  Thoughtc  In  t.  8wt  Plaoe,'  Ul— Dlbllo- 
grkpby  of  PublliblDR  >iict  Booliielllng,  14V— The  Plough- 
nag  knd  other  MeMure*,  U:i— W.  St«pbent,  President  of 
Georgia,  114— CbAplikin  to  tb«  RHInburgb  OiirrUon— Foe  : 
a  Siippp««<i  Poem— '  Chamljers't  CycU>niFdi«  of  Bngliah 
Lit«r»tare,'  115  — Bpigrikiu  on  Rvynulat  —  ■■  Siuaaby  " — 
AJtMram*  on  Plus  X.— Klolianl  Kirxpai.rick  and  O.  J.  Fox 
—'The  Oxford  Bnglltb  Dictiouary,'  U«. 

QUBBIBS  :— Bibur's  Memolrt— W«tsrof  Jwilouity— St»nf(ih 
Ooggerel,  147— Book  Oullrctork— Sundial  Motlo— Enrl  of 
Bgremont- Ferdliianilo  OoT^e*  of  Eye — "An  Austrisn 
army"— Audyn  Kamlty-W.  M.  Kfdd— Kelanoboly— Rue 
and  Tugcan  Pnwiibrokerf,  148— "  Drug  iii  tbe  market  "— 
OUverlng:  Oe  Mninleville  —  "King  of  Patterdale"  — 
Knte^t  Tt^mpUr— Mouaatery  of  Mo<iat  Oraoe  le  Bbor'— 
Bt.  DunaUii,  14^. 

BBPLIBS  ;— Addison'*  Daughter,  149  -'  Ad.lrM*  to  Poverty," 
161— Werdi'ii  Aldiey  -  Oomber  Kamily— Selon  — Bagibaw  — 
Halley'it  0 -met  — laimureincnt  Alive,  loJ  — John  Lewis, 
Fortrmlt  Painter— "  Miow,"  IM -Tickling  Trout— "  Fide, 
a«d  cut  v!dr."  li'il— Aylmor  Armi- Ftajlng  AUve-Arnii 
WaDte<,  i.Vi-F.ell-n»me»,  Weit  Hartdon  — Rev.  S.  Flaber 
— Penrith— William  Hartley -"Gimerro"— Glowworm  or 
Firefly,  Ijfl-Crownc  In  Tower  of  Church— Cardlnali  and 
CrliUKiu  Kf>l>ci— St.  Mnry  Axe:  St.  Michael  Ir  tjuprne, 
157— "Going  tlin  r.nind"  :  "  ttdundbouse  "— Curved  Stone 
— Hetic.1  of  St.  (iregory  the  Orent-SIr  Henry  Chauncy — 
Frost  and  itt  Pormi  —  UIgbl  Hon.  B.  Souliuwell,  1S8  — 
Imaginary  SaUitf,  IA9. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS  :-Bell'i  '  LWrei  and  Legendi  of  the 
Bnglltb  Ilt>li'>|>«  and  Kings '— .Siiiol^iiury'a  '  John  DrydrU ' 
— 'BoglUh  JiUlorieal  Review  "—•  Kdlni'urgh  Bevlew.' 

BoUoat  to  Corretpondenlt. 


'MERRY  TH0U(iHT8  IN  A  SAD  PLACE.' 
An  expansion,  by  Col.  Le  Strange,  of  Love- 
lace's *To  Altliji-'-i  rroui  Prison,'  copied  into  a 
note-book,  in  1049,  by  Thomas  Plume,  under- 
graduate of  Christ's  College,  Cambridge, 
may  be  worth  preserving  in  the  pages  of 

^JuBKV  Tiioi'iiiiTS  IN-  A  Sad  Pi.ace. 
Be*t  on.  jiroud  billows !  Boreas,  blow  I 
•Swell,  curled  Mavoa,  lugh  mi  Jove's  roof! 
Your  indrililieB  will  show 
That'  innocence  is  t«nipe«t-i>roof ; 

Though  Biiriy  Nereus  trowD,  my  ihoughta  are 

calm. 
Then  strike,  aOlicllons !  for  your  wonnds  are 
lialni. 

That  which  the  world  miscalls  a  jail, 

A  »Por«t  closel  !^  to  Hie*  ; 

Wliilslagi""'  my  bail; 

And  )ni>ocei. 

Lockif,  «  '  lie,  togethenuelt, 

Make  tne  u<>  |>ii<!.(iuei',  but  au  anohoret. 

1,  whiUl  1  wish'd  to  b«  njtir'd, 

Ii(lo  this  privatu  room  am  turn'd, 

As  if  thf>ir  \vi>rft  niPi  had  o<>Hf!))ir»>d 

The  S.I  ■     'irud: 

Ai.  iio  wonld  drown  a  dsb, 

1  uiij  -. - 1  what  I  wish. 


The  Cynick  hngs  his  poverty  ; 

The  iielicttii,  iier  vrilderness  ; 

.\nd  lis  the  Indian's  pride  to  be 

Naked  on  frozen  Caucasus.* 

Contetitment  cannot  smart.    fStoioks  (we  see) 
Make  torments  easy  to  their  Apathy. 

The  manacles  upon  my  arme 

1,  as  my  sweetheart's  bracelets,  wear : 

And  then,  to  keep  my  ancles  warme, 

I  ha^e  some  iron  shackles  there. 

The  walls  are  but  my  garrison.     This  cell. 
Which  men  call  jayll,  doth  prove  my  CitladelL 

So  he  that  slrooko  at  Jason's  life, 

ThinkiDC  t'  have  made  his  purpose  sure. 

By  a  malicious-friendly  kuife 

Did  only  wouud  him  to  a  cure. 

Malice  wants  witt,  I  see  ;  for,  what  is  meant 
Mischief,  oft-times  proves  favour  by  eveul. 

I  'm  in  this  Cabinet  lock'd  up. 

Like  some  rich  priyxVd  margarito ; 

Or,  like  some  irreat  Mogul,  or  Pojie, 

I  'me  cloysterd  from  I  he  publique  sight. 
Retirdncss  is  a  peece  of  majesty, 
And  (proud  SultAn)  [I]  seem  as  great  as  Ihee. 

Here  »in  for  want  of  food  must  sterve 
Where  tempting  objects  are  not  seen ; 
And  these  strong  walls  doe  onely  serve 
To  keep  sin  out,  and  keep  niee  in. 

Malice  of  late  's  j;rowne  charitable,  sure. 

I  'm  not  committed,  but  am  kept  secure. 

When  oDce  my  Prince  oilliction  hath, 
Proa|>erity  doth  treason  seem  : 
And  then,  to  smooth  so  rough  a  path. 
I  can  learn  patience  from  him. 

N<iw  not-to-snifcr  shcwes  no  loyall  heart. 

When  kings  want  ease,  subjects  must  learn  to 
smart. 

Wliat  though  I  cannot  see  my  Ki:ig, 

Hither  in 's  person  or  his  coyn  : 

Vet  contemplation  is  a  thing 

Which  renders  that  (which  is  not)  mine. 

My  king  from  mee  what  adamant  can  part, 
Whom  I  doe  wear  engraved  on  my  heart? 

My  soul  is  free  as  th'  ambient  aire. 

Although  my  baser  part's  inimur'd. 

While  royall  thoughts  doe  yet  re[fair 

My  company  is  solitude. 

And,  though  reWUion  doe  my  body  bind. 
My  king  can  only  captii'ate  my  mind. 

Have  you  not  aeen  the  nightingale, 

A  pilgrim  coopd  up  in  a  cage. 

How  she  doth  sing  her  wonted  tale 

In  that,  her  narrow  hermitage  t 

Even  such  her  chanting  melody  doth  prove, 
That  all  hor  barrs  are  trees,  her  cage  a  grovo. 

I  am  that  bird,  whom  they  combine 
Thus  to  deprive  of  liberty. 
So,  though  they  doe  my  cor|»s  confine, 
Vet  (niaugre  hate)  my  soul  is  free ; 

And,  though  immurdd,  I  can  chirp  and  sing 
Disgrace  to  rebels,  glory  to  my  king. 
Made  by  Colonell  le  Strange,  imprisoned  by  tho 
Parliaracnt*. 

Andebw  Clakk, 
*  The  Scythiaoa  were  all  face^ 


142 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        cio'"  s.  l  fct.  20.  i9m. 


BIBLIOGRAPHY  OF  PUBLISHING  AND 

BOOKSELLING. 

(See  antt,  p.  81.) 

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The  l<^rst  Part  of  the  Catalogue  of  English 
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The  History  of  the  Catnach  Press,  at  Berwick- 
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Johnson's  'Works. 

Cuvo'ji  Llfo  will  lio  found  In  Ji»Iiii»orr»    '  {.IvM  of   the 

fiugUeli  Poets'  and  '  Llvw  ot  Sundry  Btaltu<nt  Ptnoiu,' 


Sr" 


TIllV  CNllllnii,  crown  bvo,  Londnn,  1631.  See  bIbo  KieholVa 
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Dfwnpll  mivs;    "  Ca^■l•  wa*  rcrlnliity  n  niftn  of  r-iH>n.il>to 

qiialltloi,  «U'l  wa»  I'lulneiif      '•'  ■                           M, 

owu   bt«ini'>iw,  wlijph,  don  !. 

But   he  was   ptv'iiIlBrlT    •  '-f 

Johimoii,  wlio     '  oio  i.iM.iiMicr, 

wliliout  iiuy  'i-  '^iiMiUicoi,  Ufts 
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Nil  in<<nt ion  Ifi  niiulp  tn  this  liook  of  tbi.>  fact  Ihmt  Itnlicrt 
ChnmlM^r-i  »n«  the  iiutlior  of  '  Tixi  Vraltges  ol  thi"  Nfitnrnj 
HI  ■  "•  rition'  <1M«),  Mid  IVllllain  Clm     ■  ■  ,.,| 

llv  <•' with  btia.     An  occtmnt  of  i  n> 

nil  .    u  (if  tliif  oner  fnniiiiii  liook  i>  ^  m 

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have  been  published  in  Latin,  Gwck,  Coptic, 
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Wm.  H.  Pekt. 
{To  be  cmUinutd.) 


THE  PLOUGHGANG  AND  OTHER 

MEASURF^. 

(Seeo»»<f,  p.  101.) 

3.  Among  the  words  by  which  the  Englisb 
hide,  h'lgid,  hlinsc,  or  hlwacipe,  was  translated 
into  LatiD  waa  famta.  Now  just  as  cniiccafa- 
is  derived  from  canica,  a  ploush,  and  is  the 
ploughland,  so  casata  is  derivea  from  c««a,  a 
houHe,  and  is  the  houseland.*  It  is  plain 
that  our  four  me&surea  come  from  a  pair  of 
oxen,  a  rod,  a  plough,  and  a  house.  And  i£ 
the  first  three  are  measures  of  much  larger 
areas,  ao  the  fourth  may  have  been.  There- 
may  have  been  a  lesser,  as  well  as  a  greater,, 
casate,  the  lesser  casate  being  an  acre  and 
the  measure  of  a  hide.  In  Domesday  Book 
a  biahop  is  descrilxnl  as  holding  at  Latesberid 
in  Buckiughamshifo  "  one  hide  less  five  feet."t 
This  cannot  be  square  feet,  and  it  must  refer 
to  the  breadth  of  the  acre  or  messuage 
which  measured  the  hide.  It  will  be  aeea 
in  the  note  below  that  a  placia  of  land 
is  said  to  have  a  length  ot  half  an  acre 
and  4  feet.  If  the  carucate  refers  to  the 
breadth  of  a  full-sized  team,  the  casate  may 
very  well  have  referred  to  the  breadth  of  a. 
fuU-sized  homestead,  the  breadth  of  such  a 
homestead  being  regarded  as  the  breadth  oS 
an  acre.j: 

We  can  rear  an  acre  of  4,S00  square  yards 
(  =  a  juger  and  a  half)  from  a  rod  of  lii  feet, 


*  One  of  the  words  by  which  hlwi«e  is  represented 
in  Latin  is  familia,  family,  household.  See  on  this 
point  the  'Crawford  Charters,' ed.  by  Napier  and 
Stevenson,  p.  127- 

t  "Tenet  episcopus  Lisiacensis  de  episcopo 
Baincensii  j  hidam  v  pedes  minus."  If  the  messnaee 
of  the  hide  is  taken  as  60  feet  in  breadth,  the  hide 
van  diminiahcd  by  one-twelfth,  or  ten  acres,  and 
the  messuage  w-as  also  dimiuished  by  one-twelfth. 
The  Word  hUcisc  _  is  found  in  place-names,  as  in 
Huish  Eniscopi,  bishop's  hide. 

^  We  nave  evidence  that  tofts  or  messuages  wer& 
half  an  acre,  &c.,  in  breatith.  In  a  charter  dat«d 
circa  1206  we  have ;  '*  Unnm  toftum  in  Ledeston*' 
latitudinis  dimidie  acre  cum  crofto  ejusdem  latitu- 
dinis  f|ui  jacet  juxta  toftum  mouni  versus  aolem,  et 
unnm  placiam  juvta  cundcm  toftum  versus  north, 
Utiui(lii)iH  dnaruiTi  rcduruni  et  dimidie.  et  lonKi-  _. 
ludinis  dimidie  acre  et  ipiatuor  pedum."— 'Ponte-  ^ 
tract  Chartular>','  p.  28.").  The  perlictUa  Uirn- 
(rood)  was  also  used  as  a  linear  measure.— /{>i(/.« 


Hi 


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by  taking  the  base  or  width  of  the  acre  as 
^  feet,  and  its  length  as  720  feet,  in  which 
case  the  length  would  be  12  times  the  breadth. 
This  would  give  us  a  bovateor  half- rood  of 
-COO  square  yards,  a  virgate  or  rood  of  1,200 
square  yards,  a  carucate  or  half-acre  of  2,400 
square  yards,  and  a  casate  of  4,800  square 
yards.    An  acre  of  4,800  square  yards  would 
-conform  to  Roman  land  measures,  and  to 
the  areas   of    niediteval    buildings  which   I 
have  described.*    And,  as  I  have  8hown,+ 
an    acre    of    4,840    square    yards   can    be 
obtained    by  adding  the  area  of  the  mes- 
suage   to    that    of    the   arable    land    held 
therewith.      A    virgate    of    30   acres,    for 
instance,  consisting  of  4,800  square  yards  to 
the  acre,  would  contain  144.000  square  yards, 
and  its  messuage  would  be  a  rood  of  1,200 
square  yards.     Bat  if  we  add  the  1,200  yards 
to  the  144,000  yards,  and  divide  the  sum  by 
JO,  we  get  an  acre  of  4,840  square  yards.     In 
doing  so  we  have  merely  added  the  area  of 
tlie  lesser  virgate  to  that  of  the  greater.    In 
other  words,  we  have_  added  the  area  of  the 
messuage  to  that  of  its  appurtenant  arable 
holding.    When   tlie  messuage  was  at   last 
added  to  the  arable  land  of  which  it  was  the 
measure,  it  was  no  longer  possible  to  raise 
the  acre  frona  a  rod  of  15  feet.    But  when 
tlie  acre  was  increased  by  that  addition  from 
4,800  to  4,840  square  yards,  it  could  be  raised 
•from  a  rod  of  IGi  feet.    The  present  statute 
acre  is  raised  from  such  a  rod,  and  is  40  rods 
in  length  and  4  in  breadth. 

I  am  not  asking  the  reader  to  conclude  that 
a  messuage  at  any  time  took  the  shape  of  a 
strip  of  land  720  feet  in  length  and  7^  feet 
in  breadth  (600  square  yai-ds).  Such  a  strip 
would  have  been  of  no  use  as  a  homestead. 
But  a  plot  of  land  of  600  square  yards  can 
take  otner  shapes,  as  GO  feet  by  90  feet.  And 
so  the  lesser  bovate,  «fcc.,  could  be  thrown, 
when  intended  for  homesteads,  into  other 
shapes  than  long  strips.  These  units  of  the 
acre  would  then  cease  to  be  known  as 
bovates,  virgates,  carucates,  and  casates  in 
the  orif^inal  senses  of  those  words.  They 
would  simply  be  messuages  or  "  measures," 
each  with  its  duo  proportion  of  arable  lands 
in  the  open  fields. 

I  have  lately  met  with  a  piece  of  evidenoo 
■which  finally  establishes  my  theory  that  the 
rmessuago  was  a  measure  of  the  arable  laud 
held  therewith.  It  seems  that  in  1297  a 
■certain  Adam  de  Neut<jn  had  two  bovates 
•<=a  virgate).  He  sold  one  of  them  to 
William  Attebarre,  and  the  other  to  Hobert 
Daneys.    Daneys  complained    that    he  had 


not  got  his  proper  share,  and  the  dispute 
referred  to  the  arbitration  of  neighbo 
who  ordered  the  messuage  originally  bolc^ 
ing  to  the  virgate  to  be  divided  l>et"ween  tiio 
two  purchasers  "  according  to  the  quantity  of 
their  land."  The  words  of  the  award  are  aa 
follows : — 

"  Robert  Daneys  comptniui  of  Williatn  At  t«barre, 
and  sayk  that  when  he  buu^ht  a  bovateof  land  from 
Adam  de  Ncuton,  William  Attebarre,  who  had 
previously  bought  another  bovate,  gave  him  the 
worse  part  of  the  said  two  bovatee  and  t.xik  the 
be«t  part.  The  defendant  says  that  when  he  bought 
his  land  Adam  certified  him  where  the  pnid  bovate 
lav  in  thefieliia,  and  he  took  uo      °  l.    They 

refer  to  an  inquisition  of  theneiu;  ,  Henry 

del  Bothem,  Adaiu  (Jerbot,  Ph   ., .Id,  ana 

others,  who  find  for  the  plaintid.  The  said  mea- 
BuaM  [»k]  ia  to  be  divided  between  them  accordin(( 
to  tne  quantity  of  their  land,  and  the  land  likewise 
according  to  what  belongs  to  their  bovatee."* 
The  two  men  got  equal  messuage?  and 
equal  bovates,  and  therefore  the  lesser  was  a 
measure  of  the  greater  quantity. 

This  rule  of  proportion  was  extended  to 
other  territorial  interests.  The  quantity  of 
wood  which  the  servile  tenant  neede<J  for 
building  his  house,  and  for  maintaining  the 
fire  on  his  hearth,+  and  also  the  extent  of 
his  right  to  use  the  common  paaturea,t 
depended  on  the  size  of  the  mesi^uage  whicn 
measured  his  holding.  S.  0.  Addy. 

3.  Westboume  ftoad,  Sheffield. 


William  Stephens,  Pkesiden'tokGeoroia, 
— In  the  account  given  in  the  'D.  N.B.,'  liv. 
182,  of  William  Stephens,  M.P.  for  Newport, 
Isle  of  Wight,  1702-22,  who,  after  suffering 
vicissitudes  of  fortune,  became  President  of 
the  colony  of  Georgia  in  America,  1743-50, 
it  is  stated  that  he  graduated  B.A.  at  (Jara> 
bridge  in  1C84,  and  M.A.  in  168a  If  this 
statement  were  correct,  he  would  have 
obtained  university  degrees  at  a  remarkably 
early  age,  seeing  that  he  was  born  on 
27  January,  1671,  0,S,    It  is,  however,  in- 


•  Q**  S.  xi.  121. 


t  0"'  S.  vL  3W. 


•  'Wake6cld  Court  Rolls,'  i,  261.  One  ooold 
wish  that  the  on{;inal  Latin,  instead  of  a  tran*- 
liition,  hod  been  ijiven.  In  the  'Coucher  Book  of 
Whalley,*  p.  32.'>,  we  have,  "Duas  partes  unia« 
messuagii  ot  unius  bovato  terre."  Taking  th© 
bovate  aa  lu  acres,  this  means  400  square  yards  of 
messua^  and  10  acres  of  arable  land,  tlie  proportion 
of  messuage  to  arable  land  bcin^  as  1  to  VH).  8nch 
apjiortionments  are  fre<4uent. 

f  By  an  undated  charter  William,  constable  of 
Flamborough,  confirmed  to  Richard  Fitz-.Vfain 
"  necessaria  ana  ad  wdificandura  et  cotiiburendum 
quantum  pertinet  ad  unam  bov&tain  terra.'  quam 
tenet  de  me  in  Holme."—'  Coucher  Huok  of  8clby/ 
ii.  3fi.  In  one  place  iiasturaKe  for  12  sheep  is  said 
to  bclonK  to  half  a  bovate.— /<>«/.,  L  188. 

J  Jlid.^  i.  23a 


^^^lO'*- 


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correct.  Stephens  (whose  father  was  Sir  ITriO/l  ('The  Castle-Builders,' and  the  Cenf/e- 
William  Stephens,  Kt.,  Lieutenant-Governor  matis  Marjazine,  xxi.  91).  In  his  will,  dated 
of  the  Isle  of  Wight)  was  a  commoner  at  24  Aug.,  1748,  he  mentions  four  of  his 
Winchester  College,  and  his  name  appears  brothers,  viz.,  Thomas,  Newdigate,  Edward^ 
on  the  school  rolls  of  1GB4-8  (Holgate's  I  and  Richard  (wlio  was  perhaps  tlien  dead), 
'Winchester  Long  Rolls,  1653-1721 ').    1  am    and  his  two  sisters,  Mary  Stephens  and  Mrs. 


indebted  to  the  frovost  of  King's  College, 
Cambridge,  for  the  information,  derived  from 
the  records  of  that  college,  that  Stephens 
matriculated  as  a  fellow-commoner  there 
on  14  December,  1G89,  and  was  in  residence 
in  1600  and  1691,  but  never  proceeded  to  any 
degree.  He  was  admitted  to  the  Middle 
Temple  on  25  November,  1601  (Hutchinson's 


Ball,  the  widow  of  Benedict  Ball.  The  will 
was  proved  on  21  June.  \lf>\  (P.C.C,  lOO 
Busby),  by  his  brother  Thomas,  who  was,  I 
suppose,  the  author  of  '  The  Castle- Builders.' 
Tnis  family  of  Stephens  was  for  several 
generations  counectca  with  Winchester  by 
tenancy  of  college  property  at  Barton,  in 
the  Isle  of  Wight.    Tliomas  Stephens,  elected 


'Notable  Middle  Templars')-     According  to  i  scholar  in  1667,  and  Edward  Stephens,  elected 


'The  Castle-Builders;  or,  the  History  of 
William  Stephens,  of  the  Isle  of  Wight,  Esc[.' 
(second  e<]itinn,  1759),  a  copy  of  which  is  in 
tho  British  Museum,  he  was  sent  to  Cam- 
bridge, 

"not  from  any  Dislike  to  Oxford,  bat  that  he 
might  not  be  too  near  William,  the  Son  of  Dr. 
Pittis,  his  (Joasin  and  ijuhool-fellow,  who  waa  of 
New  College,  end  of  more  Wit  and  Learning  than 
Diacretion." 

Accounts  of  this  Dr.  Thomas  Pittis  and  his 
son  William,  who  waa  elected  a  Winchester 
scholar  in  1687  (Kirby),  will  be  found  in  the 
'D.N.B.,'xlv.  386. 

William  Stephens  had  ayounger  brother, 
Richard,  a  commoner  at  Winchester  1604-7 
(Holgate),  who  went  to  Queen's  College. 
Oxford,  in  1608,  and  became  Fellow  of  All 
Souls;,  M.A,  1705,  M.D.  1714  (Foster).  He 
practised  as  a  physician  at  Winchester, 
"grew  unwieldy,  being  so  corpulent  as  to 
load  the  chariot  he  rod©  in,"  and  died  in  or 
about  17.'J5,  while  staying  in  Ireland  with 
his  friend  Dr.  Charles  Cobb,  then  Bishop 
of  Kildare  ('D.NB,'  xi.  142;  'The  Castle- 
Builders  ').  He  left  two  daughters,  Susannah 
and  Ann  Stephens,  who  lived  at  Milton, 
Hants. 

If  'The  Castle-Builders'  may  be  trusted, 
its  author,  Thomas  Stephens,  was  not  the 
eldest  of  the  seven  sons  of  the  President  of 
Georgia,  as  stated  in  the  '  Dictionary.'  The 
eldest  son  waa  William  Stephens,  who  was 
also  a  coraftaoner  at  Winchester  (Long  Rolls, 
1712, 1714).  He  too  wont  to  Queen's  College, 
Oxfi»il  "iitTiculating  in  March,  1715/16,  and 
w;i  udi  follow  of  All  Souls',  D.C.L. 

17:,  .r;.     Ho  practi-sed  at  the  Bar,  to 

whiclj  he  was  called  by  the  Middle  Temple 
in  1723  ;  but  becoming  a  clergyman  in  1736, 
he  was  curate  successively  at  Cleve,  Somerset; 
Locking,  Berks ;  and  Hasely,  Oxfordshire. 
On  7_  Nov.,  1746.  he  was  instituted  vicar  of 
Barking;   Essex,  and   held   the  living  until 


in  1672,  were  sons  of  William  Stephens, 
D.C.L.,  judge  of  the  Court  of  Admiralty  in 
Commonwealth  times,  who  was  grandfather 
of  the  President  of  Georgia.  Tliomas,  the 
elder  of  these  two  scholars,  became  Fellow 
of  New  College,  Oxford,  and  died  there  on 
17  March,  1681/2  (Wood's  'Colleges  and 
Halls,'  by  Gutch,  217,  2.33).  I  should  be 
grateful  for  further  information  about  his 
younger  brother  Edward,  who  matriculated 
at  Hart  Hall,  Oxford,  on  23  November,  1677 
(Foster's 'AlumoiOxon.').  H.  C. 

Chaplain  to  the  Edinbubgh  Gakrison.— 
This  ancient  othce  has  been  revived  by  the 
King,  who  has  appointed  thereto  the  Rev. 
Thewlore  Marshall,  D.D.  The  Daily  Tele- 
graph  of  tho  13th  inst.  contains  the  following 
interesting  particulars : — 

"The  first  chaplain  to  the  Castle  was  one  TurRot, 
the  biographer  of  Margaret,  Qnecn  of  Malcolm 
Canmore,  who  died  in  lf)9"i.  The  ollice  seems  to 
have  been  maintained  till  the  Rovolutioo  in  l(3SS-9, 
after  which  there  does  not  apjyear  to  bo  anjj  men- 
tion made  of  it.  Since  the  Revolution  the  minister 
of  tho  High  Kirk  has  been  regarded  as  hon.  chaplain 
to  the  C^tle,  and  hence  it  is  that  the  military 
service  contiDues  to  be  held  in  St.  Giles's  Cathe- 
dral." 

N.  S.  S. 

Poe:  a  Sitpposkd  Pokm.— In  a  review  on 
p.  lis  j'ou  refer  to  the  publication  of  "a 
poem  hitherto  unpublished  of  Poe"  in  this 
month's  Foriniyhthi.  My  letter  in  the  Duili/ 
Chronicle  of  the  4th  inst.  proves  it  is  not 
an  unknown  or  new  poem,  and  that  it  is 
not  by  E.  A.  Poe.  John  H.  Ingram. 

[Mr.  Ingram  is  a  first-rate  authority  on  Poo's 
works,  and  his  repudiation  may  be  taken  as  final 
and  decisive.] 

'Chambkes's  Cyclopedia  ok  English 
LiTERATURK.'— In  Connexion  with  occasional 
notes  on  the  *  Canadian  Hoat  Song  '  which 
have  appeared  in  'N.  &  Q'  during  tho  last 
eighteen  months,  the  following  extract  from 


bin  death,  in  bis  father's  Ufetiioe,  on  87  Jan.,  |  the  article  on  John  Qalt  lu  twek  \.\axx<iwNOca5CR 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        t">^  s.  l  fes.  ao.  isoi. 


of  '  Chambers's  Cycloptedia  of  English  Litera- 
ture' poasesgea  some  interest.  The  writer 
thus  coacludes : — 

"fiftlt's  poema  are  of  no  imporUnce,  unless, 
indeod,  he  prove  to  b©  the  nutnor  of  a  fantous 
'Canadian  Boat  Song'  imbued  with  the  'Celtic 
spirit '  which  woe  printed  in  the  'Nodes  Am- 
broaianee'  in  /ilarkwcocl  for  1829  as  'received  from 
ft  friend  in  Canada.'  Ab  the  Mesnrs,  Blackwood 
have  recently  (1902)  suggested,  (ialt  was  at  that 
time  writing  tliem  from  Canada.  But  this  par- 
iicalar  poem  (lonK  absurdlv  attributed  to  Hugh, 
twelfth  Earl  of  Egiiiiton.  1739-1819)  is  so  unlike 
Gait's  other  verso  that  direct  evidence  would  bo 
required  to  prove  it  his.  The  poem  has  often  been 
quoted,  almost  always  inaccurately,  and  was  re- 
written (not  for  the  better)  by  Sir  John  Skellon  in 
Black-wood  in  1889.    Tho  original  first  verse  ran  :— 

From  the  lone  sheiling  on  the  distant  island,'"  Jtc. 
The  writer  in  the '  Cyclopasdia '  is  unfortunate 
in  his  quotation.  Tiie  stanza  he  cites  is  the 
second  in  the  original  version;  "shieling^' 
appears  in  the  original,  and  the  impressive, 
poetic  epithet  "  misty,"  nob  "  distant." 

John  Geigor. 
[See  y  S.  ix.  483 ;  X.  61 ;  xi.  57.  134,  198 ;  xii.  364.] 

Epiobam  on  Reynolds.  —  The   following 
epigram    upon    Sir    Joahua    Reynolds    was 
quoted  in  a  letter  in  tho  Times  of  30  January  : 
Laudat  Romanns  Rapliaelem,  (Jrtccus  Apellem, 
Plympton  Keynolden  jacldt,  utriquo  parem. 

Plympton  was  Reynolds's  birthplace,  The 
epigram  is  a  paraphrase  of  one  on  Milton  by 
Selvaggi  :  — 

Orfl?cia  Mfflonidem  jactet  sibi  Roma  Maronem 
Anglia  MiEtonnm  jactat  utriipie  parem. 

Perhaps  the  formula  is  older  than  Milton's 
time.  Dryden's  line.<?  on  Milton  are  an  am- 
plification of  it.  James  K.  Fergosson. 

"  S.'^ss.^BY."— This  zoological  term,  the  name 
of  an  antelope,  is  one  of  the  beat  examples  I 
know  of  the  readiness  with  which  English 
assimilates  foreign  elements.  Its  original 
form,  in  the  Sechiiana  language  (spoken  by 
the  Bechuanas),  was  tsess^be,  accented  on  the 
middle  syllable.  Old  travellers  wrote  it 
safsny/^-,  which  w^as  still  only  a  denizen  in 
our  tongue,  preserving  the  correct  stress. 
fiaxMliif,  which  looks  as  if  it  must  have  been 
moulded  upon  wallaby,  is  fully  naturalized, 
and  transfers  the  stress  to  the  first  syllable. 
It  is  the  standard  orthography  of  our  dic- 
tionaries, but  not  one  of  them  shows  any 
knowledge  of  its  history.  The  'Century 
Dictionary'  merely  describes  it  as  "South 
African"— the  *  Eacyclopjedic '  still  more 
vaguely,  as  "  native  name."  It  has  often 
struck  me  as  curious  that,  although  the 
Bechuanas  are  British  subjects,  our  lexico- 
graphers   treat   not  only  this,  but  all  the 


rather  numerous  Sechaana  loan-words  in 
English,  in  the  same  loose  way.  The  *  N.E.D.' 
is  the  only  one  which  give^  a  proper  explana- 
tion of,  for  ifistance,  such  heads  as  htaiiui^ 
heitloa,  and  kokoon,  and  may  be  trusted  to 
deal  in  a  similar  scientific  spirit  with  the  rest, 
such  as  the  UHie  fly,  and  tne  species  of  ante- 
lopes, nakong,  palLih,  takheitse,  tola,  tvmog<x, 
Ac.  J-  Platt,  Jun. 

An.\geam»  on  Piu.s  X.— My  four  anagram* 
on  the  name  of  Cardinal  Sarto,  now  Bishop 
of  Rome  and  Sovereign  Pontiff,  are  perhaps 
not  the  best  to  bo  discovered  ;  but  no  one 
else,  so  far  as  1  know,  has  extracted  or  pub- 
lished them  hitherto. 

1.  Giuseppe  Sarto  =  Pa8tor  Pius,  ege !  f.*., 
O  Pius,  suffer  want  as  Shepherd  (of  the 
Church) ! 

2.  Giuseppe  Cardinalis  Sarto  =  Supercare! 
ni  das  iMigos  liti,  i.*.,  Excessively  beloved  ! 
unless  tiiou  comroittest  the  world  to  strife. 

3.  Pius  Decimus  Sarto  =  Edic  Pastor 
iusaum  !  i.e..  Pastor,  speak  out  that  which  is 
commanded !  , 

4.  losephe  Cardinalis  Sarto  !=CaeIi  Pas- 
toris  es :  hordina !  Thou  belougest  to  the 
Shepherd  of  Heaven!  maintain  order! 
Ancient  authority  can,  1  believe,  be  found 
for  hordina  instead  of  ordina. 

A  variant  of  the  fourth  is  Caeli  Pastor  es : 
his  ordina  !  if.,  Thou  art  Heaven's  Shepherd. 
Give  orders  for  these  (people) ! 

e.  s.  dodo.son. 

Richard  Fitzpatbick  and  Charlbls  James 
Fox. — The  erroneous  statement  that  Fitz 
patrick  and  Fox  were  at  school  together  at 
Westminster    is  again    repeated,   « «.    Fitz- 

Eatrick,  in  the  'Index  and   Epitome  of  the 
lict.  of  Nat.  Biog..'  p.  441.     Fitzpatrick  was 
a  Westminster  boy,  but  Fox  was  an  Etonian. 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

*  The  Oxford  Enoush  Dictionary.'  —  I 
should  like  to  be  allowed  to  put  in  a  plea 
for  the  official  recognition  of  this  title.  The 
bound  volumes  officially  issued  are  not  only 
denuded  of  all  the  interesting  notes  that, 
have  been  issued  from  time  to  time,  but  also 
of  the  covers  to  the  parts.  The  result  is  that 
'O.E.D.'  nowhere  appears,  either  inside  or 
on  the  outside.  If  one  asks  at  a  public  library 
for  the  'O.E.D.'  the  assistant  librarian  looks 
at  you  with  a  doubtful  air,  and  savs.  "Is 
that  Dr.  Murray's  dictionary?"  There  is 
plenty  of  room  for  the  addition  of  this  title 
on  the  back  of  the  volume,  even  supposing 
the  word  "New"  is  desired  to  be  kept.  I 
am  aware  that  the  utmost  oonsideration  was 
given  to  the  selection  of  the  title  at  the  time 
the  first  fascicule  was  issued  ;  but  then  the 


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Oxford  University  had  only  just  token  up 
the  splendid  part  it  now  performs.  '*New" 
htka  long  since  become  an  auacbrouism. 

In  niakingthis  suggestion  I  am  not  desiring 
to  deprive  Dr.  Murray  of  one  iota  of  the 
credit  he  is  entitled  to  for  the  great  work 
lie  has  piloted  with  such  signal  success.  It 
cannot  be  doubted  that  the  '  Oxford  English 
Dictionary'  has    contributed    more    to    the 

fjeneral  enucation  of  the  world  in  the  Eng- 
ish  language  than  anything  that  has  ever 
been  done  before.  For  the  slaughter  of  hun- 
dreds of  errors  I  think  Dr.  Murray  is  much 
more  entitled  to  distinguishing  honours  than 
a  general  who  (in  the  course  of  his  duty) 
slaughters  thousands  of  human  beings.  It 
18  not  only  his  own  contribution,  but  Be  has 
so  composed  the  machinery  that  we  have 
every  confidence  that  it  will  never  be  put 
out  of  gear  until  the  great  and  vast  work 
is  ended.  Kalph  Thomas. 


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We  must  reijuest  oorresjMjndenta  dcBiring  in- 
fomutioD  on  family  matters  of  only  private  interest 
to  affix  their  names  and  addrcaaea  to  their  queries, 
in  order  that  the  uiswers  may  be  addressed  to  them 
direct. 

Babak's  Memoirs.— Can  your  readers  help 
in  the  search  for  a  missing  MS.  T  It  is  that 
copy  of  the  Turki  text  of  the  Emperor 
Babar's  memoirs  which  the  Hon.  Mount- 
stuarl  Klphinstone  lent  to  Dr.  Leyden  and 
to  Mr.  W.  Erskine  for  their  translations. 
There  can  bo  no  doubt  that  it  was  in  the 
Advocates'  Library  of  E/liuburgh  in  1848. 
No  trace  of  it  can  now  be  found  there. 

If  any  of  your  reeulers  have  knowledge  of 
the  existence  of  a  copy  of  the  '  Babar-nama' 
^whii-h  {■*  variously  entitled  also  the  'Turuk- 
1-babari '  and  the  *  Waqiat-i  babari '),  they 
would  confer  a  real  service  by  giving  news 
of  it  to  ni8.  Annette  S.  Bevbridoe. 

Pitfold,  Shottenuill,  Hoslemere,  R.S.O. 

Water  of  Jealou.sy.— Will  any  of  your 
correspondents  kindly  tell  me  if  there  is  any 
fltory  recorded  in  the  West  resembling  the 
following  t— 

"DurinK  the  period  of  Ta-Chi  [TaiChi  ?  2&V74 
A.D.].  Lin  Peh-Yuh  hud  his  wife  from  TwHn  family 

characleriatically  jealonn.   One  day  he  hajppened 

to  iccito  before  her  the  celebrated  poom  on  the 
"^  tddesB  of  Lo  river,  and  to  remark  thereon.  '  I 
}uld  be  snlifltied  could  I  iiossoss  such  a  beauty  ua 
_  J  wife.'  To  this  she  retorted,  'Why  do  you 
pniic  the  riv-er-f^oddesa  so  high  in  contradistinction 
lomyaeU?  It  will  be  very  easy  for  me  to  turn  to 
such  by  my  death.'  The  same  night  she  droM-ned 
hersrU  ill  the  water  now  called  Tufutsin  (.Jwvlous 
Woman's  Ford).    A  week  of  ter  she  appeared  in  her 


husband's  dream  and  spoke  to  him,  'I  am  now 
turned  to  a  water-goddess,  with  whom  you  were  bo 
eaniest  in  your  wish  to  aaeociate  yourself,'  which 
made  him  ever  afteravoid  fording  tnat  water.  And 
after  her  drowning,  every  woman  of  any  ])ereon»l 
excellence  has  to  neglect  nor  dre^a  and  appearance 
in  order  to  pajBS  the  tord  in  safety ;  otherwise  storms 
and  waves  would  disturb  it.  But  in  case  a  woman 
is  really  ugly,  she  could  ford  it  without  causing  the 
fury's  jealousy;  so  even  every  ugly  one  now  endea- 
vours to  make  a  special  display  of  her  personal 
negligence  to  avoid  being  laughed  at  by  the  by- 
standers. Thence  the  local  maxim,  'If  you  seek  a 
beautiful  woman  in  marriage,  you  should  stand  by 
the  ford  ;  at  the  same  instant  any  woman  comes  and 
stands  near  it,  her  beauty  or  ughness  pronounces  its 
own  sentence  truly.'" —Twan  Ching-Shih,  .'Yfl- 
yangtsah-tsu,'  ninth  century,  Japanese  edition, 
1097.  torn.  liv.  (ol.  8. 

Terashima'a  'Wakan  Sansai  Ibzue,'  1713, 
torn.  Ivii.,  quoting  two  Chinese  works,  says  : 

"  In  Ping-Chau  exists  the  so-called  Spring  of  the 
Jealous  \\  onmn,  from  which  cloud  and  rain  issue 
whenever  any  gaily  dressed  woman  approaches  it. 
Similarly  to  tnis,  a  Suring  of  Scoldmg  is  in  the 
northern  side  of  a  church  in  Ngan-Faog-KiuD. 
Should  a  man  utter  clamours  beside  it,  its  w*ter 
would  rise  up  to  heights  varying  pro|K)rtionally  to 

the  degrees  of  his  loudness [Turning  to  Japan] 

there  stands  close  to  the  hot  spring  at  Artma  what 
;ieople  call  *Tho  Second  Wife's  f>pring,'  which, 
when  upbraided  with  abusive  words,  suddenly  be- 
comes enervescent  as  if  in  a  violent  passion :  whence 
the  name  [because  its  fury  resemules  that  of  the 
first  wife  occasioned  by  her  jealousy  of  the  second 
wife].  Further,  the  province  Saruga  ban  the  so- 
called  Old  Woman's  Pond.  Legend  speaks  of  a 
woman  iiarlicularly  iieevish  and  jealous  ending  her 
life  in  it,  8  August,  1593.  Should  one  loudly  exclaim 
io  it,  '  You  are  an  ugly  hag,'  the  water  would  sud- 
denly rise  with  bubbles— the  louder  the  cry,  the 
stronger  the  agitation  ;  which  is  popularly  ascribed 
to  the  self-drowned  woman's  jealousy.'' 

KUHAGVSU  MIXAKATA. 

Mount  Nacbi,  Kii,  Japan. 

Sp-vnisii  DoiJGEEEL.— Can  I  appeal  to  Mil. 
J.  Platt,  Jun.,  or  any  other  reader  of 
'  N.  ifc  Q-,'  as  to  tno  meaning  of  the  following 
lines?  In  the  t^emanarw  Fimoresm  h'xpariol 
for  18rj7,  p.  130,  it  is  stated  that  there  is  a 
menhir,  or  stone  pillar,  about  12  ft.  high,  con- 
cerning which  these  lines  are  current  in  the 
neighbourhood  : — 

Galica  gilando, 

puso  aqui  eale  tango, 

y  Menga  Menj^al 

le  volvio  a  qui  tar. 

Roughly  or  literally  translated,  it  maj 
read :  "  Galica  gilando  placed  hero  this 
'tango,'  and  Menga  Mental  returned  to  take 
it  away."  "Tango  "  is  a  gipsy  or  rustic  dance. 
With  regard  to  Menga,  tlie  same  jjeriodical 
(pp.  156, 172)  describes  a  tumuluM  accidentally 
discovered  in  1832  during  a  quest  for  stones 
for  road-mending  on  tlie  ulain  of  Alava. 
I  Near  this  is   a  kistvaen  called  the  Cuft'^^. 


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de  Menga  or  fie  Mental.  In  Caballero'a 
'  Diccionario  de  la  Lengua  Castellana '  Men- 
gala  is  given  as  the  name  of  an  In^iian  deity. 

Ateahr. 

Book  Collectoes.— Can  any  reader  supjjly 
me  with  briefest  biographical  details  relat- 
ing to  two  book  collectors,  (1)  E.  Kroencke, 
(2)  F.  O.  Beggi  ]  C.  8. 

ScJin)iAL  Motto. — Having  had  a  copy  made 
of  an  early  fourteenth-century  sundial^  I  am 
anxious  to  put  a  n^otto  oa  it  to  suit  the 
period.  Will  any  one  oblige  me  by  letting 
me  know  if  the  following  is  correct  in  con- 
struction and  spelling  to  suit  the  time  of 
Barbour,  the  author  of  '  The  Bnis '  t 

A  .  COVTII  .  I  .  SPEK  .  TUI8  .  WAI.D  .  I  .  SAT 

BID  .  Nocirr .  QvntLL  .  rncHT .  wkrk  .  gvftTU.ES  . 

TO  .  DAY . 

The  Northern  Anglo-Saxon  of  Barbour's  work 
I  understand  is  very  perfect. 

L.  J.  Platt. 
The  Birches,  Stirling,  N.B. 

Eakl  of  Egremoxt.— An  article  in  the 
Hoi-ning  Leader  of  1  February  on  the  Albany 
mentions  incidentally  that  the  Earl  of  Egre- 
mont  (/.f,,  George  O  Brien,  third  earl)  never 
married.  Can  you  or  any  of  your  readers  I 
refer  me  to  the  flates  of  three  or  four  issues 
of  the  Daily  Western  Times  of  Exeter,  of ' 
about  twenty  years  ago,  which  stated  that ' 
he  was  twice  married,  or  to  any  other  sources  ' 
of  a  simitar  purport,  or  to  the  name  of  the 
lady  by  whom  he  is  said  to  have  been  jilted, 
or  to  tno  titles  of  works  bearing  on  his  public 
or  private  history  ?  This  earlwas  certainly 
followed  in  the  titles  by  a  fourth  earl,  whilst 
at  the  same  time  his  three  illegitimate  sons 
unaccountably  took  the  entailed  estates. 
Though  he  was  a  prominent  personality  for 
the  long  period  of  his  life  of  eighty -six  years, 
and  a  munificent  patron  of  the  artists  of  his 
day,  very  scant  records  would  appear  to 
exist  as  to  his  life,  to  prove  or  disprove  his 
relations  with  Lady  Melbourne  and  the 
parentage  of  Inn  children.  Is  it  suggested 
that  the  Premier  Lord  Melbourne  was  his 

son  t  AKCH.^OLOGiaT. 

FERniNANDo  Gorges  or  Eye— Can  any 
one  inform  me  of  the  relationship  (if  any)  of 
Sir  F.  Gorges,  **Lord  Proprietor  of  Maine" 
^">  S.  xii.  347),  to  Ferdinando  Gorges  of 
Barbadoes,  but  afterwards  of  Eye,  co.  Here- 
ford, who  died  in  1701,  and  is  said  to  have 
descended  from  Sir  Edward  Gorges  and 
Lady  Anne,  bis  wife,  daughter  of  first  Duke 
of  Norfolk  ?  Robertson's  '  Mansions  of  Hore- 
fordshii-o'  states  that  Ferdinando  Gorges  was 
son  of  Henry  Gorges,  of  Buttercoml)e,  co. 


Somerset.  His  daughter  Barbara  married 
Thomas,  Earl  of  Coningsby.     I  should   be 

flad    of  any   information  re  the  family  of 
'erdinando  Gorges.  H.  L  L.  D. 

"An  Austrian  ABsnr."— You  refer,  nute^ 
p.  120,  to  "An  Austrian  army  awfully  ar- 
rayed "  as  being  first  printea  in  Hendry's 
Miffetlany  of  March,  1 838.  I  very  well  remem- 
ber its  appearance  there— indeed,  learned  it 
there ;  but  among  my  memoranda  I  have  : — 

"  An  Austrian  army.  ic. —Th is  original ly  appeared 
in  the  Trifltr  (1807  or  J817),  »  paper  printed  io 
College  St.,  Weatminster,  anrt  was  written  by  the 
Westrainsler School  boys.— 'The  Week.'" 

I  presume  this  could  be  verified  without 
much  difficulty,  and  it  would  be  matter  of 
interest  to  me,  and  probably  to  others. 

G.  C.  W. 

AuDTS  OR  AcorN  FAMn.v.— In  Gaillim'a 
'Displaye  of  Heraldry,'  1633,  and  subsequent 
editions,  it  is  stated  that  the  arms  "Argent, 
on  a  cross  gules  five  lioncels  salient,  are  borne 
by  the  family  of  Audyn  (or  Audin)  of  Dor- 
chester, in  the  county  of  Dorset."  I  should 
be  glad  to  learn  where  further  information 
concerning  this  family  can  be  obtained. 

Qeohge  A.  AuDKX. 

William  Holland  Kipd  was  admitted  to 
Westminster  School  on  2  July,  1781.  I  should 
be  much  obliged  for  any  information  con- 
cerning him.  Q.  F.  R.  B, 

Melancholy.  —  Mr.  W.  S.  Lilly,   in   hia 
article  in  the  Frtrtnightly  Review,  June,  If 
p.  1002,  quotes  as  an  old  saying  :  *'  NuUui 
magnum  ingenium  sine  melancliolia."    Can'' 
any  one  tell  me  where  it  is  known  to  occur 
for  the  first  time  ?  Astartb. 

Roe  and  Tuscan  Pawnbrokers,  «8:r!.— Th« 
author  of  'In  a  Tuscan  Garden,*  who  kept 
a  hardly  won  paradise  in  the  ueighbourhc 
of  FlorcnceT  wrote  : — 

"  I  have  been  quite  unable  to  discover  the  reasc 
of  the  ijawobrokers'  shops  in  this  part  of  Tuscany 
bcine  garnished,  so  to  say,  with  little  pots  of  rue. 
All  through  Tubcaov  rue  is  considered  very  unlucky, 
and  B  ecarlet  thread  is  always  tied  rounrl  the  planf 
in  order  to  keep  off  the  'evil  eye';  scarlet,  mor 
than  any  other  colour,  beinc  stniposed  to  be  cffie 
cious  for  this  purpose.  Indeed,  I  liavo  heard 
lambs'  tails  being  decorated  with  a  red  ribbon  I 
Imagine  the  face  of  an  Eskdale  ehei>herd  if  he  sar 


the  tails  of  his  yearlini;B  t^'*''  "P  with  red  ribbons 
the  connexion  of  rue,  the  '  Herb  o'  Urace,'  will 


But; 


pawnbrokers'  shops,  rotuaios  as  great  a  mystery  i 
the  eating  of  figs  on  San  I'ietro.  now  bo  close  at' 
hand.     \V  hat  the  apostle  had  to  do  with  green  Gga 
nooneseenis  toknow;  only  that  so  t(^  fonimemorato 
him  is  the  bounden  duty  T*'® 

invariable  answer  to  an  i^ointa 

is,  that  it  La  of  two  an/Jf/ji'-K-..'.      »  ,-  i-  ■  -'^- 


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I  am  aware  that  the  cima  di  i-utu,  modelleH 
in  silver,  was  used  as  an  amulet  against  the 
evil  eye,  aod  that  rue  itself  has  long  been 
held  in  high  estimation  as  a  remedy  tor  ilia 
wthin  the  body  and  without ;  but  1  do  not 
know  why  it  should  be  in  such  eminent 
favour  among  the  pawnbrokers  of  Tuscany. 
Can  any  correspondent  of  *N.  «J:  Q.'  declare 
the  reason  ?  Mr.  El  worthy  says  nothing, 
I  think,  about  the  efficacy  of  scarlet  in 
counteracting  fascination,  but  he  points  out 
instances  in  which  varicoloured  ribbons  are 
used  as  a  defence.  One  day  as  I  was  toiling 
in  the  sunshine  up  the  hill  to  (Jortona  I  saw 
beautiful  white  calves  ornamented  with  red 
ribbons  being  brought  out  of  the  city  as  if 
for  some  pa^an  sacrifice.  The  trimmings 
were  certainly  picturesque,  and  probably  they 
were  also  regarded  as  being  prophylactic.  I 
dare  say  the  connexion  between  green  figs 
and  St.  Peter's  Day  is  nothing  more  esoteric 
than  coincident  ripeness.         St.  Swithin. 

*'Dkuo  IX  THE  MARKET."— Regarding  the 
word  "drug"  in  this  phrase,  the  'H!e.D.' 
says  it  is  questionable  if  it  is  the  same  word 
as  the  ordinary  word  "drug."  In  A.  Boyer's 
'  Royal  Dictionary  Abridged'  (French-English 
and  English-French),  seventh  edition,  1747, 
under  'Garde-boutique '  may  be  found  :  •'  A 
slug,  or  a  commodity  that  grows  a  slug,  a 
coramodit.y  that  sticks  by  one";  and  under 
*Slug,'  "This  commodity  grows  a  slug  (or 
Drug),  cett^  jnarchandise  n'e$t  qu'utie  drogue, 
e'est  un  gardtboutique."  May  it  be  that  the 
two  expressions  were  independent,  and  that 
some  one  with  an  imperfect  ear  or  memory 
said  "it  is  a  drug  in  the  market"  instead  of 
♦♦slug"?  Both  expressions  are  apfiropriate, 
but  the  two  ideas  are  diflTerent.  Sir  Walter 
Scott  in  his  'Diary,' 8  December,  1825,  says, 
"  Poetry  is  a  drug,"  but  he  does  not  say  "  in 
the  market."  U.  V.  W. 

CtAVBRnso:  De  Maxdevillk.— Were  these 
families  originally  identical?  The  arras  of 
Clavoring  and  De  Mandeville  are  similar, 
Quarterly,  or  and  eules.  Was  the  village  of 
Clavering  in  Essex  held  bv  a  De  Mandeville  ? 
And  was  the  Moat  Farm  House  the  original 
manor]  T.  W.  Carey. 

Uaenuey. 

**  Kino  ok  Patterdalk."— Says  the  Penrith 
guide-book  :  "  Stybarmw  Crag  and  Pass, 
where  the  *  King  of  Patterdale '  successfully 
repelled  a  band  of  Scottish  mosstroopers  in 
the  troublous  times  of  Border  warfare."  Who 
was  the  "  King  of  Patterdale  "  ?  Having  last 
summer  visited  the  Crag,  I  am  interested  in 
this  personage,  if  i^rsonage  thoro  be,  since 


Canon  Rawnsley  thinks  that  he  is  purely 
mythical.  1  am,  however,  of  opinion  that 
he  was  some  Penrith  warrior  enjoying  a 
courtesy  title  equivalent  to  that  of  the  L<)rd 
of  Haddon  Hall—"  King  of  the  Peak." 

J.  B.  McGo\'KElT. 
St.  Stephen's  Rectory,  C.-on-M.,  Manchester. 

KniGHT  Templar.  —  Would  some  reader 
kindly  give  the  origin  or  meaning  of  the 
eight  pminta  in  the  cross  of  this  order  7 

Readbb. 

DnbliD. 

Records  op  Monastery  of  Mount  Grace 
LE  Ebor'.— Can  any  of  your  readers  give  me 
infbrmation  as  to  where  the  records,  if  any, 
of  the  Carthusian  (?)  monastery  of  Mount 
Grace  le  Ebor'  are  to  be  seen  ? 

H.  C.  Surtees,  Lieut. -Col. 

St.  Dunstan.— Was  it  at  Glsistonburv  or 
at  Mayfield  that  this  saint  "pulled  the  Jevil 
by  the  nose  "  1  M.  A.OxoN. 


ADDISON'S  DAUGHTER. 
(lO'^  S.  i.  88.) 

Bilton  House  was  bought  by  Addison 
before  his  marriage  for  lO.'XX)/.,  the  greater 
part  of  which  was  lent  to  him  by  his  brother, 
Gulston  Addison.  It  had  been  built  in  1623, 
and  belonged  to  the  Boughton  family,  whose 
shield  is  carved  on  one  of  the  wings.  Addi- 
son bequeathed  it  to  his  wife,  the  Countess 
of  Warwick,  and  after  their  daughter's  death 
it  passed  to  a  relation,  whose  descendants, 
by  name  Bridgeman  Simpson,  still,  I  believe, 
possess  it.  The  daughter,  Charlotte  Addison, 
was  deficient  in  intellect.  ^Many  stories  of 
hor  oddity  are  traditional  in  the  village.  She 
was  always  fancying  herself  in  love,  and 
wished  to  leave  the  property  to  a  Mr.  Cave, 
whom  she  imagined  to  be  enamoured  of  her. 
That  she  "could  repeat  the  whole  of  her 
fatlier's  works"  no  one  probably  will  be  found 
to  Iwlieve. 

The  house  is  Elizabethan,  approached 
through  a  winding  avenue  of  stately  limes, 
earlier  than  Addison,  who,  however,  planted 
in  the  grounds  many  Spanish  oaks,  which 
still  remain.  The  interior  abounds  with  in- 
teresting portiaits,  chiefly  by  Vandyke,  who 
was  a  kinsman  of  the  Gulston  family.  They 
include  one  of  the  four  equestrian  pictures  01 
Charles  I. ;  a  Countess  of  Warwick  with  sweet 
countenance  and  expression  ;  an  Addison, 
older  and  coarser  than  the  Magdalen  GqU«;^ 


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portrait;  a  Prince  Rupert  and  Prince  Maurice, 
the  first  rakish  and  dissipated,  the  other 
faultlessly  beautiful.  lo  the  garden  are 
ancient  yew  and  holly  hedges  ;  through  the 
holly  opens  an  iron  gate,  surmounted  with  a 
cipher  of  the  initiaU  J.A.,  CW.  The  re- 
ceipted bill  for  this  gate,  which  cost  50/.,  is 
E reserved.  In  a  corner  is  a  covered  seat, 
nown  as  Addison's  scat.  There  is  also  a 
noble  Philodelphus,  and  the  finest  deciduous 
cypress  1  have  ever  seen.  A  cabinet  in  the 
drawing-room  holds  a  brass  dog-collar,  with 
the  name  Joseph  Addison  in  scrollwork,  a 
toy  silver  teapot  belonging  to  Miss  Addison, 
and  a  piece  oi  rich  brocade,  part  of  her  dress. 
Sotnewhcre  in  the  mansion  is  said  to  be  a 
concealed    closet,    filled    with     Addisonian 


treasures  and  relics ;  but  no  one  has  been  able 
to  discover  it.  W.  T. 

There  is  a  tradition  in  roy  family  that  wej 
are  descended  from  a  brother,  or  perhai_ 
cousin,  of  the  Spectator  Addison.  There  is 
also  an  idea  that  many  years  ago,  alx>ut  the 
time  ray  great  grandfather  livecl,  there  was  a 
split  in  tne  Addition  family,  and  that  the 
branch  to  which  I  belong  went  to  the  south, 
and  thereafter  cut  off  all  connexii)n  with 
their  relations  in  the  north.  Thia  I  cannot 
vouch  for,  as  I  have  found  it  difficult  to 
obtain  trustworthy  information  as  to  the 
descent  of  my  grandfather.  I  enclose  pcxii- 
gree,  and  shall  oe  glad  to  receive  further  and 
earlier  details : — 


Rev.  John  Addiaon^F'FraDces  Lawson. 

Bev.  Joseph  Addison^pMaiy  Aone  Da{>rd. 


Bev.  JohnA.    Bev.  Berkeley  A.    Rev.  George  A    Gen.  Thomas  A.^EUcnGilleFpie,    Gen.  Edward  A. 

C.B.  I 


Lieut.  Thomas  E.  K.  Addison,     Major  Alexander  Dnprv  A. 
of  the  Buffs  (died  1875).  (Bojal  Artillery). 

Pau. 

I  find  the  following  reference  to  Addison's 
daughter  in  'Holland  House,'  by  Princess 
Mane  Lieclitenstein  (1876)  :— 

"Addison  left  bohind  bim  a  danRhtor,  who  died 

unniarried  in  his  house  at  Bilton  in  1797 Like 

many  aoother  poor  gentlewoman,  she  died  a 
aninster,  and,  like  many  another  poor  spinster, 
ene  was  one  against  her  will ;  at  least,  we  infer  as 
much  from  a  letter  we  found  at  the  British  Museum, 
■ifCned  by  (Mrs.)  J.  Corbet,  and  dated  '  Burlington 
Street,  May  ye  hrst,  17.'J9.'  Mr.  Kyet,  a  gentleman 
of  embarrassed  n)eau9,  was  an  aspirant  to  Miss  Addi- 
son's bond;    and  Mrs.  Corbet  says;  ' I  doubt 

Miss  A— 'a  temper  will  either  give  herself,  or  the 
trustees,  or  both,  some  further  uneaaine«s,  for  I 
take    her   earncsluess    for    this  match  to  proceed 
chiefly  from  her  desire  of  marrying,  she  every  day 
telling  me  thot  Mr.  K— 'a  person  is  disagreeable  to 
her,  and   ahe   cannot   be  happy  but  M'lth  a  Man 
whom  she  thinks  handsome  and  is  in  Love  with. 
......She  Bays    her   full   determination  is  to  lot  ye 

Match  go  on,  and  if  upon  Mr.  Kyet's  visiting  her  at 
Bilton  she  cannot  get  rid  of  her  aversion  to  his 
nerson,  she  will  then  give  him  her  final  denyal' 
(Egerton  MS.  No.  1974,1  135)." 

The  writer  of  an  article  entitled  'Addi- 
Boniana'  in  the  Minor,  23  July,  1836,  has 
the  following  reference  to  Miss  Addison  :— 

"In  'An  Historical  Essay  on  Mr.  Addison,' 
printed  in  1783,  but  not  published,  the  writer 
(Thomoa  Tyors,  Esq.,  son  of  Jonathan  Tyore,  the 
celebrated  proprietor  of  Vauxhall  Gardens)  eays : 
'Addison's  daughter  by  Lady  Warwick  is  still  olive 
and  unmarried.    She  lives  at  Bilton,  near  Rugby, 


Ellen  A.    Aonie  C.    Capt  Arthnr  .Joseph 
Addison.  Berkeley  A. 

(Royal  Irish  Rifles;. 

J.  A. 

and  is  almost  old  enough  to  be  superannuated.  Mr. 
Symonda  (the  Cambridge  Professor  of  Modem  Hf 
tory)  saw  her  two  summers  ago,  and  aays  si 
enjoys  an  income  of  more  than  1,20(V.  a_  yei 
Indeed,  by  all  accounts  she  was  uot  a  Minerva 
from  the  braiu  of  Jupiter: 

But  careless  now  of  fortune,  fame,  or  fate, 
Perhaps  forgets  that  Addison  was  great." 

The  late  Matthew  Holbeche  Bluxam,  of 
Rugby,  in  a  paper  read  before  the  Warwick- 
shire Naturalists  and  Archseologiste"  Field 
Club  in  1887,  stated  that  his  father  had  been 
acquainted  with  Miss  Addison,  and  that 

"  a  Mrs.  Cox,  an  old  lady  of  Billon  of  the  biboaring 
class,  who  died  within  tl»e  last  few  years  at  Bilton, 
aged  upwards  of  one  hundred  years,  remembered 
her." 

Miss  Charlotte  Addison  was  buried  in  the 
chancel  of   Bilton  parish   church.    8he  be- 

Sueathed  her  Bilton  estate  to  the  Hon.  John 
■ridgeman  -  Simpson.  Addison's  library, 
which  had  remained  intact  from  his  death 
to  that  of  his  daughter,  was  brought  under 
the  hammer  in  1799.  On  27  May  and  three 
following  days  it  was  sold  at  Sotheby's,  it 
consiflted  of  1,856  lots,  and  realized  456/.  2*.  QJ. 
The  pictures  were  not  dispersed  until  June, 
ISJ)8.  They  were  sold  at  Christie's  in  thirty- 
five  lots,  and  realized  4,OG7/,  Qf.  A  picture 
of  Miss  Addison  as  a  little  girl  was  retained. 

John  T.  Page. 


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See  the  '  Diet,  Nat.  Biog.,'  L  130  (where  it 
is  said  slie  was  "  of  rather  defective  in- 
tellect"),  aud  the  references  there  supplied. 
See  also  the  '  Parish  Recisters  of  St.  Ed- 
mund'si,  Lombard  Street,'  by  W.  Brigg,  B.A., 
1892,  preface  and  p.  54.  Addison's  marriage 
t<x)k  place  on  9  Aagust,  1716,  not  on  the  3rd, 
as  in  •  D.N.B.,'  i.  129,  W.  C.  B. 

A  great  deal  of  interesting  information 
concerning  thi.s  lady  and  her  residence,  Bilton 
Grange,  near  Bugby,  may  be  found  in 
Howitt's  'Homes  and  Uaunt-s  of  tlie  British 
Poets'  (fourth  edition,  1858),  published  by 
Boutledge  it  Co.  She  died  in  1797,  at  the 
age  of  eighty,  was  buried  in  the  chancel  of 
Bilton  Church,  and  according  to  this  autho- 
rity left  all  her  property  away  from  the 
Acfdison  family,  and  to  the  Bridgemans. 

Mention  is  made  of  a  p<irtrait  existing  in 
the  house  at  that  time  of  Addison  by  Kneller 
in  light  blue,  as  represented  in   the  hall  of 

8ueea's  College,  Oxford  ;  of  her  mother,  the 
sunless  of  Warwick;  of  herself  when  a 
child,  and  many  other  fine  portraits.  As 
is  well  known,  the  house  was  once  in  the 
occopation  of  C.  J.  Apperley,  the  Nimrod  of 
sporting  literature. 

John  Pickford,  M.A. 
Newboume  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

The  accounts  we  have  of  this  lady  differ 
somewhat.  See  'Annual  Register,'  xxxix. 
12,  and  '  N.  &.  Q..'  7^""  S.  x.  434,  513. 

EvERARD  Home  Colkman. 

71,  Breokuock  Road. 


'Adurksh  to  Poverty':  by  Charlb.s 
LlxbI  (K)'"  S.  i.  43)  — I  have  been  long 
familiar  with  the  'Address  to  Poverty,'  tran- 
scribed by  CoL.  Prjdkadx  from  the  '  Poetical 
Register'  for  1806-7  (London,  1811,  vol.  vi. 
p.  264).  The  lines  first  appear  in  the  opening 
number  of  the  Alonthly  Mayazine  (February, 
1796),  vol.  i.  p.  5'),  where  they  are  uigued  L. 
and  datetl  1  February,  1796,  Their  melan- 
choly cast  is  not  unlike  the  tone  of  despond- 
ency which  occasionally,  though  rarely, 
strikes  us  in  Iamb's  earliest  letters  to  Cole- 
ridge (see,  for  instance,  the  letter  dated 
10  Deoeraber,  179C  — '  Letters,"  ed.  Ainger, 
1888,  vol.  i.  p.  55).  Yet  I  do  not  believe 
them  to  be  Lamb's.  Certain  other  pieces, 
written  in  rhymed  deeasyllables  and  signed 
L.,  but  differuig  from  Lamb's  known  early 
verse  in  style  and  sentiment,  are  to  be  found 
in  the  poeta'  page  of  this  magazine  in  the 
years  1796-8.  In  the  second  number  of  the 
magazine  there  is  a  poem  in  this  metre  and 
witTi  this  signature,  entitled  'The Prostitute' 


(dated  3  March,  1796),  which  might  also  con- 
ceivably be  Lamb's  :— 

The  Prostitpte. 
As  travlera  through  life'ii  varv'd  putha  we  go, 
VS''h&t  sighta  we  pasa  of  wret-cbedness  and  woe 
Ah  !  deep  and  many  in  the  good  mau's  aigb 
O'er  thy  hard  auflPringg,  poor  Humanity  I 

What  form  is  that  which  wanders  up  aud  down? 
Some  j)oor  uufriended  orphan  of  the  town  ! 
Heavy,  indeedj  bath  rulhlesa  sorrow  prest 
Her  cold  baud  ut  her  miserable  breast ; 
Worn  with  diseaae,  with  not  a  friend  to  save, 
Or  abed  a  tear  of  uity  o'er  ber  prave  ; 
Tlie  sickly  lustre  leaves  her  faded  eye  ; 
Sbo  sinks  in  need,  in  pain,  and  infamy  ! 

Ah  !  happier  innocent !  on  whoae  chute  cheek 
The  spotless  rose  of  virtue  blushes  meek  ; 
Come  shed,  in  mercy  shed,  a  silent  tear. 
O'er  a  lost  sister's  solitary  bier  ! 
She  might  have  blooni'd  like  thee  in  vernal  life  ; 
She  might  have  blooni'd.  the  fond  endearing  wife  ; 
I'he  tender  daughter  ;— out  want's  chilling  dew 
Blasted  each  scene  hope's  faithless  pencil  drew  ; 
No  anxious  friend  sat  weeping  o'er  her  bed, 
Or  oak'd  a  bloiaing  on  her  wretched  head. 

She  never  knew,  tho'  beauty  mark'd  her  face, 
What  beggars  woman-kind  of  ev'ry  grace ! 
Ne'er  closp'd  a  mother's  knees  with  fond  delight. 
Or  lisp'd  to  Heav'n  her  nray'r  of  peace  at  eight ! 
Alas  !  her  helpless  childbood  was  couaign'd 
To  the  unfeeling  mercy  of  mankind  ! 

This  second  poem,  which  contains  one  line 
(1.  25)  borrowed  from  Bowles  ('Verses  to  the 
Philanthropic  Society,'  1.  116),  i.s  repruited 
in  a  little  volume  entitled  *  Beauties  of 
British  Poetry,'  edited  by  Sidney  Melmoth, 
and  published  at  Huddersfield  in  1801.  It 
also  contains  a  phrase—"  want's  chilling  dew  " 
—which  seems  to  bo  suggested  by  Coleridge's 
•  Lines  on  a  Friend  who  died  of  a  Frenzy 
Fever,'  1794 : — 

such  cbill  dew 
Wan  Indolence  on  each  young  blossom  sbe(L 

Had  the  'Address  to  Poverty'  and  'The 
Prostitute '  been  Lloyd's,  they  would  most 
likely  have  been  collectea  in  one  of  his  sub- 
sequent volume*!.  On  the  whole,  I  incline 
to  think  they  were  written  by  Robert  Lovell, 
Southey's  brother-in-law  and  collaborator  in 
the  little  volume  entitled  'Poems  by  Robert 
Lovell  and  Robert  Southey,'  published  at 
Bath  in  1795.  In  this  volume  the  poems 
contributed  by  Southey  were  signed  "  Biou," 
while  those  of  Lovell  were  distinguished  by 
the  signature  "  Moschus."  Lovell  die<l,  after 
a  brief  illness,  in  April,  1790,  but  he  may 
have  sent  a  number  of  verses  to  the  magazine 
shortly  before. 

Amongst  the  crowd  of  contemporary  poet- 
asters were  two  other  "La" — Capcl  Lofft 
and   the  Rev.  William  Lipscomb.    But   tho 

Seoeral  resemblance  to  Bowles  of  the  'Ad- 
resa'  and   'The    Prostitute'  on   the   oae 


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hand,  and,  on  the  other,  of  the  poeioii  by 
**Mo«chua"  (Lovell)  in  the  volame  above 
mentioDed,  aeetna  to  lend  some  plaaqibility 
to  the  %uj?gcstion  1  have  already  made,  riz., 
that  they  were  written  by  one  and  the  same 
per»on,  to  wit,  llobert  Lovetl. 

R  A.  Potts. 

Webde!?  Abbey  (lO"-  8.  i.  C7,  111).— The 
charch  of  WerHen,  restored  in  1849,  is  on  the 
site  of  a  previuux  one  partly  burned  down 
in  875,  anrj  re-erocted  in  the  tranHition  style 
of  the  twelfth  and  thirteenth  centuries;  it 
ha«i  a  fine  side  porch  on  the  north,  and  an 
alturpiece  at  one  of  the  side  altars,  painted 
bv  Mifitroj),  a  native  of  a  farm  near  Werden. 
The  picture  represents  the  Madonna  and 
Child,  and  St.  Ludgerua,  founder  of  the 
abbey,  a  relic  of  whom,  in  a  silver  shrine,  is 
on  the  high  altar.  The  abbey  possessed  the 
superb  Codex  Argenteus,  which  was  already 
renowned  in  the  fourth  century,  and  was 
written  by  the  Goth  Bishop  Ulfilas.  It  was 
a  translation  of  the  Gospels,  in  silver  charac- 
ters on  violet -tinted  parchment.  In  the 
Thirty  Year.*'  War  it  came  to  Prague,  and 
fell  into  iSwediijh  liaud:].  It  is  now  in  Upsala 
University. 

Perhaps  further  inforroation  can  be  got 
from  book»  published  at  Diisseldorf  by  L. 
Schwann.  John  A.  lUNDOLrn. 

Comber  Family  (10"*  S.  i.  47,  89).— Those 
who  are  interested  in  the  Comber  family 
should  l)e  acquainted  with  the 'Autobiography 
of  Mrs.  Alice  Thornton,'  vol.  Ixii.  of  the  Sur- 
tces  Society's  publications.  W.  C.  B. 

Seion  :  AN  Ancient  Tradition  ok  Llan- 
PUMBAINT  (O"*  S.  xii.  421).— The  story  of  the 
five  saints  who,  misinterpreting  the  divine 
wish,  wont  to  the  wrong  place,  where  they 
wore  stricken  with  sickness  and  other  trou- 
bles, and  afterwards  went  to  the  right  place, 
where  all  succcorled  with  thorn,  may  bo  com- 
pared witii  an  incident  in  the  third  hook  of 
Ihe  '/Kiieid.'  Through  misunderstancling 
the  oraclo  of  Api)lKn  /Kiioos,  with  hia  fol- 
lowers, cstablisheri  himself  in  Ci-ete,  but  wai 
attacked  there  by  plague  and  other  evils. 
lie  then  discovore<l  hi.s  mistake,  and,  leaving 
Crete,  (lopartod  f(jr  Italy,  tlio  land  to  which 
Ajiollo  hod  intendtxi  to  direct  him. 

E.  Yart>i.ey. 

Baohhaw  (10"'  vS.  i.  9).— Tn  the  Reference 
Department  at  the  Rhellleld  Free  Public 
Library  there  is  a  "  Ilii^tory,  Gazetteer,  and 
Directory  of  Dorby.shirc.  By  Samuel  Bug- 
abaw.  Printed  for  the  author,  by  William 
Baxtnn,  High  Street,  Shofht'ld,  and  sold  by 
Samuul    Bagshaw,    Philadnlphio,    Shertiold, 


1846  ";  also  a  "  HUtory,  Gazetteer,  and  Direc- 
tory of  Shropshire.  By  Samuel  Bag?ihaw, 
Author  of  >similar  Works  for  Derbyshire, 
Kent,  Cheshire,  ic.  Printe<I  for  the  author 
by  Samuel  Harrison,  5,  High  Street, Sheffield, 
and  sold  by  Samuel  Bagshaw,  Wentworth 
Terrace,  Sheffield,  IS.-Jl."  H.  J.  B. 

Neither    the    book    mentioned     by    Me. 
Charles  Smith  nor  the  name  of  it«  author 
occurs  in  the  Catalogue  of  the  Library  of  thajj 
British  Museum.    The  name  of  Samuel  Bag»j 
shaw  will,  however,  be  found  in  the  following] 
directories    of   Sheffield  :   Edward    Baines's, 
1822,  as  resident  at  72,  Shales  Moor,  earthen- 
ware dealer;  William  White's,  18.37,  as  resi- 
dent at  41,  Westbar,  draper  ;  and  J.  Pigot'a, 
1841,  as  resident  at  64,  Westbar,  draper. 

Chas.  F.  Fobshaw,  LL.D. 

Baltimore  House,  Br&dford. 

^>Ir.  Sodthah  also  mentions  Bagsbaw'a  '  Shrop- 
shire Hiitory.*] 

Hallev's  Comet  (10*''  S,  i.  86).— The  late 
M.  G.  de  Pontc'coulant  exhaustively  investi- 
$;ated  the  motions  of  Halley's  comet  from 
its  last  appearance  in  1835,  and  concluded 
that  the  next  return  to  perihelion  would 
take  place  on  17  May,  1910.  His  investiga- 
tions are  published  in  vol.  Iviii.  of  tlia 
Comptes  Hendus  of  the  French  Academj',  tho 
place  referred  to  by  Me.  McPikb.  Pont«- 
coulant,  who  die«l  in  1874,  had  previously 
calculated  the  position  of  the  comet  at  the 
preceding  return.  His  first  determination 
was  that  the  date  of  return  to  pcrihelioa 
would  be  14  November,  1835.  Rosenber^eri 
came  to  a  similar  conclusion.  The  perihehoo 
passage  actually  occurred  about  noon  on  the 
17th  of  that  month  :  and  the  comet  was  first 
seen  at  Rome  on  the  evening  of  5  August 
about  three  and  a  half  months  before  beinf 
at  perihelion.  W.  T.  Lnw. 

Blaokheath. 

ISfMUBEMENT    AlIVE    OF   RELIGIOUS   (0'"  S. 
xii.  20,  1.31,  297,  37fi,  517  ;   lO**-  S.  i.  50).—! 
desire  to  point  out,   with  all  due  courtesy, 
that  Sir  Herbert  Maxwell  is  not   quito 
correct  in  his  assumption  that  I  referred  to 
Bruntisfield    or    Warrender     House    as    the 
principal  locality  of  James  Grant's  historical 
romance    'The     Scottish     Cavalier.'       The 
building  in  which  the  heroine  of  the  story*^ 
Lilian  Napier,  Lady  Clermistonlef.  so  my*' 
terionsly  (tisappearo<l  was  Bruntisfield  Castl* 
or  "  Wrychtis-nousia,"  which  stoofl  near  th 
Burghrauir  of  Edinburgh.     How  the  edific 
obtained  the  name  of  "  Wrychtis-housis " 
now  unknown  ;   but  the  Napiera  appear 
have  possessed  the  same  from  a  very  earl] 
period.     The  antique  pile  wa«  one  of  th€ 


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oldest  baronial  d  wellings  near  the  city,  and 
by  far  the  most  picturesque,  and  was 
encrusted  with  armorial  bearings,  heraldic 
devices,  inscriptions,  (fee.  One  of  the  dates 
upon  it  was  1339 ;  and  an  inscription  ran 
"In  Domino  confido  1400."  In  the  Herald. 
C  April,  1793,  anoticoof  its  purchase  appeared 
for  a  site  tor  Gillespie's  Hospital  ;  and  in 
1800  its  dcnaolitiou  was  achieved,  but  not,  by 
the  way,  witliout  a  spirited  remonstrance 
from  the  A'dinhutyh  Magazine.  The  mansion 
in  which  the  historian  of  'The  Douglas 
Family '  spent  part  of  his  childhood  was 
erected  later  than  the  year  1645,  and.  as  he 
has  stated,  "stands  to  this  day."  For  an 
illustration  of  "  Wrychtis-housis,"  and  for 
one  of  Warrender  House,  see  '  Old  and  New 
Edinburgh,'  vol.  iii.  pp.  36  and  48. 

Hkney  Gerald  Hope. 
119,  Elms  Road.  Ctapham.  S.W. 

M.  N.  G.  is  unfortunate  in  referring  to  the 
Charlestown  "event"  in  illustration  of  the 
opinion  that  "  it  does  not  seem  impi-obable 
that  escaped  nuns  w^ere  buried  alive."  The 
facts  of  tne  case  afford  a  monitory  lesson  to 
swift  witnesses  in  cases  of  immurement. 
''She  was  captured,  taken  back  to  the 
nunnery,  and  uemancis  for  her  release  were 
refused."  "The  nun  was  never  afterwards 
hoard  of." 

An  Urauline  nun.  Sister  Mary  St.  John, 
overwrought  and  nervous,  mentally  un- 
balanced, strayed  away  from  the  convent 
to  a  neighlMuring  farmhouse :  this  was  the 
escape.  Iler  brotlier,  living  in  Iktston,  was 
«ent  for,  and,  in  company  with  Bishop 
Fen  wick,  he  brought  her  back  to  the 
convent :  this  was  the  capture.  As  to  the 
demands  for  her  release,  the  reply  of  Cardinal 
Wiseman,  in  the  Connolly  case  in  England, 
coald  be  made  hero  ;  "  The  door  is  open,  she 
can  walk  out  if  she  wishers." 

"The  nun  was  never  afterwards  heanl  of." 
In  this  she  differed  from  the  "  Escaped  Nun  " 
of  our  «3ay,  who  is  often  heard  of.  The 
Charlestown  nun  was  heard  of:  1.  When  the 
Selectmen  of  the  town  viyited  the  convent 
in  a  body,  and  were  shown  over  the  house 
and  grounds  by  Sister  Mary  St.  John.  2.  On 
the  night  of  the  burning,  when  she  accom- 
panied the  girls  in  their  llight  from  the  mob. 
3.  When  the  committee  of  twenty  repre- 
sentative citizens  of  Boston  investigated  the 
"event,"  and  declai'od  in  their  report  that  as 
to  the 

**s'-  !  or  necralion  of  Mins  Harrison, 

it  '  V  for  tho  o<iTnmill#6  Uj  rooApitu- 

lati  ...,-.k<ly  )>.••■■■■■■■  <i:--  ■,■•!,!: '•  ''ip 

furtii'i    >      iniice  ihiC   • ; 

tUiv  "•'I'll  "ii(  liy  hr.r  1.0  ^n 


acquainted  with  htr  ht/o}f  the  deMnution  of  the 
ronvmt,  and  hare  rejteatedii/  wen  and  eanitfitiil 
with  her  nincc."    (Itnlica  thoirs.) 

4.  At  tho  ancient  Ursuline  Convent  of 
Quebec,  where  she  lived  after  the  catastrophe 
at  Charlestown.  Finallj',  when  she  appeared 
as  a  witness  at  the  trial  of  the  rioters. 

This  is  a  good  illustration  of  the  opinion 
that  "nuns  were  immured  alive."  Authori- 
ties for  1,  3,  5,  Bishop  England's  *  Works,' 
vol.  V.  pp.  232-347,  'Documents  relating  to 
the  Charlestown  Convent';  for  2,  'The 
Burning  of  the  Convent,  as  remembered  by 
one  of  the  Pupils,'  Boston,  Osgood  &  Co., 
1877  ;  for  4,  '  Records  Am.  Cath.  'Hist.  Soc.,* 
vol.  V.  pp.  476-9.  Edavard  I.  Devitt. 

Georgetown  Ck)llege,  Washington,  D.C. 

John  Lewis,  Pokteait  Painter  (10'^''  S.  i. 
87).— The  portrait  of  Henry  Brooke  by  Lewis 
is  in  my  possession.  It  is  unsigne<l,  and  was 
touched  up  by  another  hand  about  forty 
years  ago.  I  ako  have  portraits  of  his  father, 
Hev.  William  Brooke  (paint«r  unknown),  and 
his  brother  Robert,  painted  by  Robert  him- 
self. Lewis  probably  painted  the  portrait 
when  on  a  visit  to  Sheridan  at  Quilca,  be- 
tween whom  and  the  Brookes  of  Rantavan 
there  was  a  cousinhood.  The  name  'The 
Farmer,'  under  Millers  mezzotint,  is  derived 
from  the  *  Farmer's  Letters,'  by  Henry  Brooke, 
who  was  better  known  as  the  author  of  tho 
novel  '  The  Fool  of  Quality.'  According  to 
an  article  in  the  Dublin  Univei'sity  Magazine, 
November,  1852,  'A  Pilgrimage  to  Quilca,' 
Lewis  was  a  London  man.  Can  any  genealo- 
axat  give  me  any  particulars  of  the  Brooke- 
Sheridan  relationship  ]       Henry  Brooke. 

5,  Falknor  S^juure,  Liverpool. 

"Moose"  {•d^'^  8.  xii.  604).— The  present 
writer  has  no  knowledge  of  Indian  languages, 
but  he  offers  the  following  extracts  in  the 
hope  that  they  will  enable  Mr.  Pl\tt  to 
reach  a  definite  conclusion  as  to  the  deri- 
vation of  "moose."  It  will  be  seen  that 
Smith  mentioned  the  moose  earlier  than  1624. 

"  Moos,  a  beast  bigj^er  then  a  .Statcge."— 1616, 
Capt.  J.  Smith,  *  Description  of  N.  England,'  p.  29. 
(Smith  reached  the  coaat  of  what  ia  now  Maine  in 
1614.) 

"  There  is  also  a  certaine  Beast,  that  the  Nutiuea 
call  a  Mosse,  ho  is  as  big  l>o<lied  as  an  Oxe."— 1622, 
*A  Briefe  Relation  of  tite  Discovery  and  Plan- 
tation of  N.  England,' ji.  26.  {This  pamphlet  was 
reprinted  in  162o  bv  Porchas  in  his  '  Pil«rime«,' 
iv.  I«.11,  and  in  18«)  by  J.  P.  B«ucter_in  his  '.Sir 
F.  Ciorgos  and  his  Province  of  Maine,"  i.  230,  and 
roconnts  events  from  as  early  as  10(17.) 

"Also  here  are  aeuerall  sorts  of   Deere, k  a 

great  Ueast  called  a  Molke  as  bigKO  as  an  Oxe."— 
1631).  F.  HiRginftoo,  '  New  •  Englm')"  ii,...i..i  i,,„  ♦ 
it4b.     ("  Molke"  has  always  b<.'.  i, 

printer's  error  for  "  MooM  "  or  iom  ,  ) 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


"  The  beast  called  a  Mooae,  is  Dot  much  unlike 
red  Deare,  this  beast  is  u  bi^^e  as  an  Oxe." — 1634, 
W.  Wood,  'New  KnKlands  ProsiKjct,'  |i.  23. 

"They  have  likewise  another  sort  of  manteU, 
made  of  Mose  Rktnnes,  which  beaat  ia  a  large  Deere 

BO  bigge  as  a  horse Firat,  therefore,  I  will  ei^cak 

of  tno  Elke,  which  the  SalvagCB  call  a  Mose :  it  is 
a  very  larpe  Deare."— 1837,  T.  Morton,  'New 
EukUbm  Cuhaan,'  pp.  lJ9,  74. 

"  There  are  Beare«,  Wolves,  and  Foxes,  and 
many  other  wilde  beuRts,  as  the  Moose,  a  kiud  of 
Deere,  as  bi|t  as  some  Oxen,  aiid  Lvoni,  as  I  have 
heard."— 1W2.  T.  Lechford,  '  Plain  Dealing,'  j..  111. 

These  extracts  sliow  that  the  word  "moose" 
was  knowu  as  early  as  161G,  ami  that  it  soon 
became  establisiiheu  ;  but  they  throw  do  liKlit 
on  its  derivation  further  than  the  fact  that 
it  is  Indian.  Perhaps  the  following  extracts 
will  be  of  assistance  to  Mk.  Platt  : — 

"Mo^s-soo)f.   Tht  ffrtat  Ort,or  rather  a  red  Decrc 

MoOao.     The  Hi-Hi  of  a  j/nal  Beaxt  aa  big  aa  an 

Ox,  Bome  call  it  a  red  Deere."— IW3,  R.  Wtllianu, 
•Key,'i»p.  m,  112. 

"Orisnat,     Elan,    Mens. Orignal,    jeuue    & 

petit,  JuaniVAiVA."— 1703,  La  HonUn,  'Petit  Dic- 
lionaire  de  la  Laoirue  dea  tSauvages'  in  'Nouveaux 
Voyagea,'  ii.  '-W.  210. 

"  The  Mooie  is  a  Creature,  not  only  proper,  but 
it  is  thought  peculiar,  to  North  America,  ana  one 
of  the  noQcst  Creatures  of  the  Forest ;  the  Ahori- 
fjinei*  have  givett  hirn  the  Name  of  Moose,  Moosuh 
in  the  Plural."— 1721,  P.  Dudley,  in  Philo-iophical 
Transactions  (1723},  xxxi.  lOo. 

"By  way  of  amiiaenient,  I  wrote  down  a  few 
AlQQiikin  words,  which  1  learnt  from  a  Jesuit  who 
has  been  a  long  time  among  the  Algoithinx.    They 

call the  elk,  moo>i\i  (but  so  that  tlie  final  »  is 

barely  jironounced)."- 17W,  P.  Kalm,  'Travels' 
(1770),  iii.  204.  J.  R.  Forstcr,  the  translator,  adds 
in  a  note,  "  The  famous  mooie-'leer  is  accordingly 
nothing  but  an  elk  ;  for  no  one  can  deny  the  deriva- 
tion of  moo^'^-ftptr  from  mooitu." 

*'  This  town  [Now  Comer's  Towi]  is  situated  on 
the  west  side  of  the  river  Muskingum,  which  is  a 

fretly  large  stream.     The  protter  pronunciation  in 
ndion  is  Moottkinynng,  i.e.,    Elk   Kyo    River.     In 

their  language   an   elk    being   called  moo* The 

wild  beasts  met  with  heic  lOhio  River],  are  bears, 

wolves,  panthers,  wildcats,  foxes deer  and  elks, 

called  by  the  Dclawarcs  wioo*."— 1774,  D.  Jones. 
•Journal,' pp.  90,  111. 

"Mooae  —  Mouswah  rKiiiBleneauxl  —  Mouse 
[Algonquin]."- 1801,  A.  Mackenzie,  '  Examples  of 
the  Kniateiieaux  and  Algonquin  Tongues,'  in 
•  Voyages,'  p.  cviii. 

,  "Monse— The  moose  deer."— 1807,  O.  Herict. 
vocabulary  of  the  Algonquin  Tongue,'  in  'Travela 
through  the  Canadas,'  p.  587. 

"MooaB-Mooso-wa. '— 1820,  D.  W.  Harmon, 
'  iSt^cimens  of  the  Cree  or  Knisteneux  Tongue,'  in 
'Journal  of  Voyages,'  p.  3SS. 

"  In  America,  where  it  is  named  Momoll  by  the 
Algonqnins,  Mooie  or  MooKf:  <Utr  by  the  English, 
anil  OWpiHo/ by  the  French,  it  is  met  with  in  the 
more  northern  parts  of  the  United  .States,  and 
beyond  the  (Jreal  I^okos."— ISi"),  R.  Harlan,  'Fauna 
Americana,'  p.  232 

"The  Moose This  appellation  is  derived  from 

Mwiv,  the  name  giveu  to  the  animal  by  the  Algon- 


nuins."— I82G,  J.  D.  Godouui,  'American  Natural 
History.'  i.  274. 

"  The  Moose  Deer  ia  said  to  derive  its  present 
name  from  its  Algonquin  and  Cree  appellation  of 
niongsna  or  moosoa."  — 1829,  J.  Richaroaoo, '  Fauna 
boreali-Americana,'  i.  2IC 

"  Moote  is  an  Algonkin  word,  found  also  oa 
»ioa<ru,  niusu,  miLura,  moniicak,  &c.,  said  to  mean 
'wood-eater.'"— 1803,  E.  Coues,  'Expeditions  of 
Lewis  and  Clark,'  iii.  1032  note. 

liy  way  of  curiosity,  the  following  raay  be 
added.    In  1712  an   attempt  was    made    toj 
send  three  moose  to  England  as  a  present 
to  Queen  Anno,  but  the  united  efforts  of  the 
Governors    of    Massachusetts,    Connecticut, 
and  New  York  failed  to  accomplisli  the  feat, 
though    two   of   the    raooso  were   seen    by 
Franklin,  then  a  boy  of  six.     Under  date  of 
2  February,  1708,  we  learn  from  the  Gentle- 
vian's  Magazine  that  "a  male  Elk  was  carried 
to  Richmond  as  a  present  to  his  majesty " 
(xxxviii.  91).   Could  this  have  been  the  moose 
which  S,  Hearno   stated   (in   his  'Journey,' 
17D5,  p,   2<')7)  was  sent   from   Canada  as  a . 
present  to  George  III.?    In  October  of  thoj 
same  year  a  moose  was  exhibited  and  offered , 
for  sale  in  Boston.         Albekt  M.vttuews. 

Boston,  U.S. 

TiCKUNO  TaooT  (9"'  S.  xii.  505).— Not 
always  does  the  adept  wait  to  see  "a  tail 
sticking  out  from  the  roots."  lie  will  oftea 
kneel  on  one  of  the  large  stones  which  inter- 
fere with  the  calm  How  of  a  trout  beck,  pass 
his  hands  gently  round  the  submerged  ed^e 
of  it,  and  gently  secure  the  fish  which  la 
harbouring  underneath.  Synonyms  for  such 
"  tickling    are  "  grappling ''  or  "  groping  "  for 


trout. 


St.  SwiTiim. 


Archer,  in  Farquliar's  '  Beaux'  IStratagem,' 
Act  III.  scene  ii.,  says  : — 

'*  I  can  play  with  a  girl  as  an  angler  does  with  hia 
fish  :  he  keeps  it  at  the  end  of  his  line,  runs  it  up 
the  stream  and  down  the  stream,  till  at  last  he 
brings  it  to  hand,  tickles  the  trout,  and  so  whips 
it  into  hie  basket- 

HkRBEUT  SoL'TH.iM. 

I  hope  Mr.  Ratcuffe  will  pardon  me  if 
I  say  tiiftt  his  description  of  the  "tickling" 
of  trout  is  unlike  my  experiences  of  it.  Fity 
years  ago  I  "  tickled  "  many  hundreds  ;  and, 
on  your  own  property,  it  was  in  those  days 
not  thought  sucn  a  sin  as  Ma.  Ratcuffe 
asserts  it  now  to  be.  There  h  no  need  to 
wade  up  stream,  there  is  no  need  to  look  out 
for  the  fishes'  "  tails "' ;  and  if  yoti  "  grabbed 
with  both  hands"  you  would  be  in  imminent 
danger  of  losing  your  prey. 

Exi'EKIEKTlA   DOCET. 

"Fide,  sed  cui  vide"  (lo""  S.  i.  8").— 
Jacob  Astley,  Royalist  general,  was  created 


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to 


^baron  in  1045  (Vincent's  '  Diet,  of  Biog.').  It 
'  leeoia  to  have  been  the  custom  in  the  early 
'history  of  the  army  to  enj^rave  the  motto 
of  the  commander  nf  a  regiment  upon  the 
swords,  so  that  perhaps  this  general  was  a 
descendant  of  the  ancient  Astleys  of  Ever- 
leii^h,  Wilts,  whose  motto  is  "Fide,  sed  cui 
vide."  See  Burke's  'General  Armory '  and 
his 'Peerage.'       J.  Holdkn  MacMich.\el. 

Aylmer  Arms  O'^  S.  xii.  448).— The  late 
Rev.  C.  H.  M.\nning  stated  at  2""  S.  x.  394  : 

*'  Bishop  Avlnier  was  born  at  Aylnier  or  Elmer 
Tiall,  now  a  larnthouae  at  a  short  distance  to  the 
east  of  I  he  cinirch,  in  the  jiariah  of  Tilney  St.  Lau- 
rence, Narfolk,  between  King's  Lynn  and  Wig- 
beach." 

In  Blomefield's  '  Norfolk '  (vol.  i.  p.  139)  it 
is  said  :  — 

"On  a  K^aveatone  [in  the  oharch  of  Tivetshall 

Bt.    Mftry,   tl»e  adjoining    pariah]    were    Aylmer*!! 

^  Arms,  vi£.,  Ar.,  on  a  cross  iuKrailedsab.  fiveboztknUs 

between  f«>ur  magpiies  pro|)er;  it  lies  in  the  chancel, 

but  the  efligies,  anna,  and  inscription  are  Kone." 

EvEK.VRD  Home  Coleman. 
71,  Brecknock  Road. 

Flayino  Alivk  (9^''  S.  xii.  429,  480  ;  lO"'  S. 
i.  13,  73). — The  following  paragraph  relates 
an  incident  very  similar  to  that  mentioned 
by  Ma  Pierpoint.  It  is  taken  from 
D.  W.  Coller's  'People's  History  of  Es.sex' 
(MDCccLXi.),  p.  555,  but  the  church  referred 
to  is  that  of  Copford  :— 

"The  church,  with  its  tnaaslve  walls,  which 
formerly  BU[);x>rted  an  arch  over  the  whole  of  the 
building.  it«  circular  east  end,  and  ita  old  entrance 
door,  will  tempt  the  traveller  lo  turn  towards  the 
antiqae  fabric.  This  door  is  ornamented  with 
rude  uourishea  of  rusty  ironwork,  which  formerly 
fastened  securbly  to  the  wood  beneath  a  thick 
BubstancQ  outwardly  resembling  parchment— similar 
to  that  at  the  church  at  Hadstock.  Tradition, 
which  takes  maternal  charge  of  many  a  marvellooa 
taJe,  connoctB  the  leatlier-likeand  shn veiled  coating 
with  the  system  of  savage  retribution  found  in  the 
code  of  justice  in  the  olden  time,  but  happily 
blotted  from  its  pages  in  the  present  century. 
Some  Dauea,  aaith  this  authority,  robbed  the 
church— considered  one  of  the  moat  heinous  of 
crimes  in  the  mediteval  ases— and  were  subjected 

the  fearful  process  of  flaying  alive,  their  skins, 

"fully  j«r«served,  being  thus  aflixed  to  the  door 
t«mble  memento  of  the  wretches  who  had 

^ to  niise  their  sacrilegioui  hands  against  the 

DOOM  of  <iod.  The  peculiar  character  of  the  door 
■ftpeara  to  have  first  attracted  notice  on  the  restora- 
tion of  the  church  in  1000 ;  and  'an  old  man  at 

Colchester  Miid  that  in  his  young  time  he  heard  his 
master  n  ''  ■  '  '  ,]  read  in  an  old  history  that 
the  chill  was  robbed  by  Danes,  and 

thviraki  doors.'    This  js  I  ho  founda- 

tion of  Llui  irailili.iu.  Annious  to  test  it.  «-e  pro- 
cured a  pieoB  of  the  skin,  of  which  timeaud  curious 
-i-isilcirn  have  now  left  scarcely  a  «hred.  This  we 
submitted  to  u  scientific  friend,  skilled  in  anatomy, 
—'—     -*ter  softening  and  subjecting   it    l<i   rigid 


examination,  pronounced  it  to  be  'port  of  the 
skin  of  a  fair- haired  human  being'— thus  coa- 
Hrming  to  a  considerable  extent  the  tale  of  torture 
which  garrulous  tradition  has  told  to  her  wondering 
auditors." 

On  reference  to  the  account  of  Hadstock 
Church  in  the  same  book  (p.  .543)  I  find  the 
following  sentence : — 

"  The  north  door  of  the  church  is  ornamented 
with  ancient  ironwork,  beneath  which  was  a  akin 
of  enormous  thickness,  which  appeared  to  have 
been  tanned  ;  and  this  tradition  representa  as  the 
skin  of  a  Dane  who  was  flayed  alive  for  sacrilege  id 
this  church." 

John  T.  Page. 

West  Haddon,  Northamptonshire. 

My  sons  saw  the  Dane's  skin  on  the  church 

door  of  Copford  a  few  years  ago ;  some  of 

it    is    now    preserved    in     the    Colchester 

Museum.     It  is  mentioned  in  '  The  Family 

'Topographer,'  by  S.  Tymma,  vol.  i.  p.  22. 

R.  J.  Fynmore. 

Sandgate. 

There  is  a  notable  picture  in  the  collection 
of  the  Bruges  Academy  (removed  to  another 
building  near  the  Porte  Sto.  Catherine?), 
showing  the  Haying  alivo  of  an  unju.st  iudge. 
Mr.  Weale's  guide  to  the  Academy  of  Bruges 
or  his  •  Bruges  et  ses  Environs '  would  give 
detailed  particulars.     JoHN  A.  Randolph. 

Arms  Wanted  (yJ'  S.  xii.  329).— The  arraa 
of  Edward,  second  Earl  of  Derwentwater, 
were  :  Quarterly  of  twenty-four,  1,  Argent,  a 
bend  engrailed  sable  (Radcliffe) :  2.  Argent, 
two  bars  gules,  on  a  canton  of  the  last  a 
cinquefoil  op  (Derwentwater);  3,  Gules,  a 
fesse  between  three  Catherine  wheels  or 
(Cartington) ;  4,  Gules,  a  fesse  between  three 
hedgehogs  argent  (Claxton) ;  5,  Argent,  a 
fes.so  gules  between  three  garbs  or  (Tyndale) ; 
6,  Ermine,  on  a  fesse  gules  three  annulets  or 
(Barton) ;  7,  Gules,  three  lions  passant  in 
bend  argent  between  two  bendlets  gobony 
or  and  azure  (Moryn,  alias  Morgan) ;  8,  Per 
fesse  gules  and  argent,  six  martlets  counter- 
changed  (Fenwick);  9,  Or,  a  fesse  vaire 
argent  ana  azure  between  three  falcons  vert 
(Horden) ;   10,  Gules,  on  a  cross  argent  five 

cross-crosslets  of  the  field  (Essendon) ;  11, 

on   a    bend   three    roses (Carnhow) ;    12, 

Argent,  a  fesse  between  three  mullets  sable 
(Barret) ;  13,  Vert,  a  lion  rampant  or  within 
a  hordure  engrailed  (Heaton);  14,  Argent, 
a  bat,  wings  expanded,  vert  (Baxter)  ;  16, 
Argent,  a  chevron  between  three  martlets 
gules  (Wallington)  ;  16,  Gules,  on  a  bond 
argent  three  eagles  displayed  vert  (Strother)  j 
17,  Azure,  six  annulets,  3,  2,  and  1,  or 
(MuBgrave) ;  18.  Barry  of  eight  or  and  gules, 
a    quarter   ermine    (Kyal) ;    19,    Argent,    a 


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paunch  gulea  bezantee  (Flamville)  ;  20, 
'Quarterly,  argent  and  gules,  over  all  a  stag's 
heaJ  of  the  second,  attired  and  pierced 
through  the  nose  with  an  arrow  or  (Trewick) ; 
21,  Sable,  a  maunch  argent  (Wharton);  22, 
Argent,   three   hair   bottlea  or  (Harbottle) ; 

23,  Argent,  three  ewers  gulea  (Montboucher) ; 

24,  Gulos,  a  chevron  between  three  escallops 
arg.  (Charron).  H.  R,  Leioutok. 

£&Bt  Bolilon,  CO.  Durtiara. 

FIELD-NAMK3,  WE8T  HaDDON,  CO.  NORTH- 
AMPTON (10"'  S.  i.  40,  94).— For  his  exceedingly 
kind  and  helpful  reply  I  desire  to  offer  to 
Mr.  Edward  I'eacock  my  hearty  thanks. 
Although  at  present  unable  to  teat  all  the 
points  raisefl,  1  may  refer  to  some  of  them. 

California. — This  field  was  purchased  in 
1851  by  the  trustees  of  the  Benefit  Society, 
and  laid  out  in  allotments  for  the  use  of  their 
members.  The  Californian  gold  fever  was 
then  at  its  height,  and  so  the  field  received 
the  name  uppermost  in  men's  tuinda  at  that 
period.  But  it  happens  to  lie  rather  a  long 
word,  and  «o  it  has  got  reduced  to  the  more 
diminutive  and  easy  form  of  "  Cally."  Tlie 
field  is  now  in  my  possession. 

Huckaback.— \  find  a  good  many  people 
call  this  "Ho-back,"  but  it  appears  in  certain 
•writings  as  "  Huckaback,"  ana  1  believe  this 
is  quite  correct.  The  field  forms  part  of  one 
of  our  local  watersheds,  but  thero  are  no 
ponds  or  streams  actually  on  the  Kround. 

IIunrfenveth.—The  ground  gently  slopes  on 
all  sides  to  some  farm  buildings  m  a  corner 
of  this  field. 

Lord's  Piece.— 1  cannot  make  out  that  this 
ever  belonged  to  the  Lord  of  the  Manor,  but 
it  is  close  to  West  Haddon  Hall.  More  pro- 
bably it  refers  to  the  surname  Lord,  which 
frequently  occurs  in  our  registers. 

Torjt  //i7/.— This  is  one  of  the  highest 
points  in  the  parish.  John  T.  Page. 

Weat  Hadiloii,  Northanifrtonshire. 

As  a  small  rider  to  Mr.  Peacoik's  interest- 
ing article  on  place-names  with  the  ghastly 
prefix  or  suffix  "hell,"  I  venture  to  give  two 
instances  of  its  use  aa  the  sole  name.  Among 
the  documents  belonging  to  the  Mayor  and 
Corporation  of  Dorchester  Is  a  fine  old  oak- 
covered,  brass-bossed  and  clasped  parchment 
book  of  records,  *kc.  Its  title  is  '  Dorchester 
Domesday.'  In  it,  at  f.  xx,  is  enrolled  a 
deed  about  a  but^a^e  in  IHuenlane,  now 
Colliton  Street.  This  burgage  is  described 
as  being  between  a  certain  tenement  and 
"olaceam  Rob'i  Gutton  voc'  hello"  (date 
2  Hen.  IV.).  Again,  at  Weymouth  there  was 
an  instance.  In  the  '  Descriptive  Catalogue 
of  the  Charters,  Minute  Books,  ic,  of  the 


Borough  of  Weymouth  and  Melcombe  Begin ' 
(Weymouth,  Sherren,  1883),  p.  04,  wo  Bud 
as  follows.  Among  other  presentments  on 
12  Sept.  and  2  Oct.,  1620j  there  is  one  that 
a  boat  had  been  placed  "  m  vice  sive  venella 
vocat:  the  E^st  Lane  ante  domum  vocat: 
Hell."    Part  of  this  house  is  still  standing. 

H.  J.  MoULE. 
Dorchester. 

Rev.  Samuel  Fisher  (9*''  S.  xi.  8).- On 
10  March,  1650,  Dr.  John  Beading  publicly 
disputed  with  Samuel  Fisher,  an  Anabaptist, 
in  Folkestone  Church.  It  was  this  Dr. 
Beading  who  presented  a  large  Bible,  with 
gold  clasps,  to  Charles  11.,  when  he  landed 
at  Dover,  26  May,  1060.  See  '  The  Illustrated 
Guide  to  Sandgate,  Folkestone,  Hythe,  >kc~,' 
r.  1862,  p.  19.  R.  J.  Fynmorb. 

f^andgate. 

Penrith  (10^''  S.  i.  29,  97).— I  have  seen 
the  surname  "  Piercy."  Not  only  do  Alnwick 
people  also  pronounce  Percy  *'  Pecrcy,"  but 
It  is  so  pronounced  throughout  Northumber- 
land. R.  B-  r. 

{South  Shields. 

William  Hartley  (10^  S.  I  87).  — The 
late  J.  Hartley,  LL.D.,  barrister-at-law,  of 
2,  Temple  Gardens,  who  ha<l  a  residence  ia 
or  near  Leeds,  wa.s,  I  believe,  the  son  of  a. 
Leeds  manufacturer  or  merchant.  Perhaps 
some  member  of  his  family  might  answer 
Mr.  Arkle's  question.  I  believe  that  the 
Rev.  S.  St.  G.  J.  Hartley,  vicar  of  Exton  with 
Horn,  killed  in  the  Alps  last  year,  was  a  soa 
of  Dr.  Hartley.  Mistletoe. 

"Oimbrro"  (10*^  S.  i.  107).— I  remember 
reading  about  this  hybrid,  the  ofispring  of  a 
bull  and  a  mare,  some  time  ago,  where  I 
cannot  now  remember.  It  occurs  in  th& 
mountains  of  Savoy  and  Piedmout>  and  can 
only  feed  on  rich  grass  land,  as  the  front 
teeth  do  not  meet,  and  this  prevents  it 
nibbling  short  Alpine  grass.      Sberroknb. 

A  hybrid  of  the  kind  described  by  Baretti 
is  a  mere  figment  of  the  brain— a  chimera 
(with  softened  ch)  in  fact.  The  gimerro  or 
jumart  is,  in  reality,  a  hinny,  the  correlative 
of  a  mule.  Probably  one  of  the  antelopes, 
the  gnu,  the  bubaline,  or  the  nylgliau,  gavo 
rise  to  the  idea  that  a  cow  could  be  crossed 
with  a  horse.  J.  Dormer. 

Glowworm  ob  Firefly  (10'''  8.  L  47, 112). 
—  The  explanatory  addition  of  "i.e.,  the 
glowworms',"  at  the  latter  reference  is  a 
curiou.s  slip.  It  was  the  waxen  thighs  of 
humble-bees  which  ShakeBf>eare'a  elves  were 
commanded  by  Titania  to  crop. 


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To  the  poems  already  enumerated  may 
be  added  Wordsworth's  '  Pilgrim's  Dream  ; 
or,  the  Star  and  the  Glowworm,'  also  the 
closing  lines  of  Gilbert  White's  '  Naturalist's 
Suramer-evemng  Walk-'     Chas.  Gilluan. 

Church  Fields,  Salisbury. 

Prhiul  facie  I  should  say  that  the  glow- 
worm and  the  Rrefly  are  two  totally  distinct 
species  of  insect,  though  perhaps  the  latter 
term  may  be  applied  to  the  former.     Let  nie 

I  quote  tlie  glee  oy  Bishop  in  the  opera  of 
'Guy  Haiinering,'  which  all  your  readers 
must  have  heard  : — 
The  chougli  and  the  crow  to  roost  have  gone. 
And  the  owl  Bits  on  the  tree  ; 
The  west-wind  bowls  with  feeble  moan 
Lik<i  infant  charity ; 
The  tirelly  ^'lances  from  the  fen, 
The  iciJ  citar  shods  its  ray, 
Uii  rouse  ye  liieu,  my  uieriy.  merry  men, 
t         It  is  our  opening  day. 
i  John  Pickfoed,  M.A. 

Newbourne  Kectorj',  Woodbridge. 
Moore   has  written  a  poem  'To  the  Fire- 
fly ';  and  his  ballad  'The  Luke  of  the  Dismal 
3wainp '  ends  with  those  lines  : — 
^^L  But  oft  from  the  Indian  hunters  camp 

^^1  Thi:}  lover  and  maid  so  true 

^H  Are  seen,  at  the  hour  of  midnight  damp, 

^H  To  cross  the  lake  by  a  firefly  lamp, 

^f  And  i>addle  their  white  canoe. 

Longfellow  in  'Hiawatha'  has  written  as 

I      follows  :  — 
All  the  air  was  white  with  moonlight, 
All  the  waler  black  with  shadow. 
And  around  him  the  Sug^ema, 
The  mosquitoes  saog  their  war-song. 
And  the  fireflies,  Wah-wah-taysce, 
Waved  their  toruhes  to  mislead  him. 
Tennyson's  comparison  of  stars  with  fire- 
I  flies   in  'Locksley  Hall'  will  be  familiar  to 

most  readers.  Coleridge  in  'The  Nighlingalo ' 
has  these  lines  : — 

Their  bright,  bright  eyes,  their  eyes  both  bright 

and  full, 
<<!:lifitening.  while  many  a  glowworm  in  the  shade 
Lights  up  ner  love-torcli. 

Byron  in  'Manfred'  has  the  following:— 

When  the  moon  is  on  the  wave, 
And  the  glowworm  iu  the  grass. 

Johnson  in  his  dictionary,  under  the  word 
"glowworm,"  quotes  both  from  Shakspearo 
and  from  Waller,  E.  Yardley. 

[Hoflides  the  translation  from  Vincent  Bourne 
mentioned  by  I'kof.  Skkat,  ante.  p.  112,  Cowjier 
wrote  '  TJie  Nighlingalo  and  the  CJ  low  worm.'] 

CnowKs  IN  TowKR  OR  Spire  ok  (Jhur<:7i 
(0"'   S.  xji.  48r,  ;    10"'  S.  i.  17,  38). -A  note- 
worthy example  of  a  spire  with  a  crown  is 
Xhat  of  the  steeple  of  Notre  Dame,  Bruges. 
JouM  A.  IIakdoltu. 


CiRDlNAUS  AND  Crimson  Robes  (9'"  S.  xii. 
48(i;  lO'i-S.  i.  71).— Mr.  Wainkwrkjht  says, 
"The  red  robes  have  been  worn  since  1464  : 
the  purple  is  now  only  worn  in  Lent  and 
Advent."  Mr.  Oliver,  quoting  from  Mac- 
kenzie Walcott,  says,  "  In  1290  Pope  Boniface 
gave  the  cardinals  a  purple  dress  in  imita- 
tion of  the  Roman  Consuls." 

There  appears  to  be  confusion  in  the  use 
of  the  wora  "purple."  It  is  used  for  dark 
blue,  ranging  from  "gart«r  blue"  to  the 
darkest  indigo  blue,  or  for  reds,  from  crimson 
to  dark  blood-red,  or  again  for  a  blending  of 
blue  and  red,  resulting  in  various  tints,  from 
a  red  plum  colour  to  dark  violet.  Tlie  old 
Roman  or  royal  purple  was,  I  think,  a  dark 
crimson,  such  as  one  may  see  in  the  robes  of 
Venetian  nobles  depicted  by  Paul  Veronese. 
Is  not  this  the  cardinal's  purple?  Violet 
would  be  worn  by  cardinals  in  Advent  and 
Lent,  but  it  should  not  be  called  purple. 

S.  P.  E.  S. 

St.  Mary  Axs:  St.  Michael  le  Qiternb 
(9"'  S.  X.  425 ;  xi.  110,  231  ;  xii.  170,  253,  351, 
f)07;  lO"'  S.  i.  89).  — Mr.  J.  Holden  Mac- 
Michael  asks  me  to  refer  to  a  document 
relating  to  St.  Michael  le  Querne— an  early 
document  preferably— in  which  that  church 
is  styled  "St.  Michael-inthe-C'orn-«irtrA«." 
I  thought  I  had  already  done  so  when,  in  a 
former  paper,  I  tiuoted  from  the  archives  of 
St.  Paul's  Cathedral  an  early  document  in 
which  the  church  is  described  as  "S.  Michael 
ubi  bladum  venditur"  Exactly  the  same 
description  will  be  found  in  a  very  early  will 
which  is  recoi-fled  in  Dr.  Sharpe's  'Calendar 
of  Rusting  Wills. '"^  A  place  where  corn  is 
sold  is  a  corn-market,  and  there  is  evidence 
to  show  that  the  corn-market  was  held  in  that 
part  of  the  West  Cheap  in  which  St.  Michael'*) 
Cluirch  was  situated.  Some  time  later  the 
cumbrous  phrase  "ubi  bladum  venditur"  was 
shortened  into  "ad  bladum,"  or,  iu  English, 
"atto  Corn" — not  "at  corn,"  be  it  noten,  but 
"at  the  Corn,"  t.f.,  the  Corn-market.  There 
is  nothing  unusual  in  thi.s  abbreviation.  The 
hill  whicfi  led  up  to  the  market  was  known 
as  Corn  Hill,  not  Corn-market  Hill.  Another 
thoroughfare  further  east  is  still  known  as 
The  Poultry,  that  is,  the  place  where  poultry 
was  sold,  or  the  poultry  -  market.  Orace- 
clmrch,  one  of  the  few  London  cliurches 
nientioaed  in  a  pre-Conquest  charter,  is 
therein  styled  Qerscherche,  or  Grass-church, 
because  it  adjoined   the  grass-market.     No 

•  Being  far  away  from  my  books  just  now.  I  am 
unable  to  give  the  exact  reference,  bat  the  will  may 
bo  found  near  the  Iwgiuuing  of  the  first  volume  of 
Ur.  Thorpe's  valuable  work,    [Vol.  i.  p.  3.1 


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amoant  of  ingenuity  will  turn  Itladum,  which 
means  "corn,"  into  a  queme  or  hand-mill, 
and  Mk.  MacMicrakl  may  therefore  abandon 
the  belief  that  "Querno  (a  very  late  form, 
by-tbe-by)  alludes  to  the  sign  of  a  miller  or 
baker. 

As  regards  St.  Mary  Axe,  no  one  disputes 
the  fact  that  in  the  seventeenth  and  eigh- 
teenth centuries  the  sign  of  the  "Axe"  was 
a  comparatively  common  one,  and  Axe  Yard 
and  Axe  Alley  were  very  possibly  named 
after  it.  But  this  fact  is  very  ."^lightly 
relevant  to  the  point  at  issue.  In  order  to 
bring  conviction  to  my  mind,  Mr.  Mac- 
MlCHAEL  must  show  that  this  sign  existed 
at  the  date  of  the  compilation  of  the  Ilotuli 
Hundredorum,  and  must  also  give  some 
explanation  of  the  anomalous  form  "apud 
Axe."  It  \fi  rash  to  argue  about  thirteenth- 
century  facts  from  seventeenth-century  data. 
This  being  the  case,  I  ara  afraid  I  can  hardly 
admit  the  potentialitv  of  Mb.  MacMichael's 
hypotlieses,  while  I  tnink  there  is  some  pre- 
mmptivc  proof  of  mine.  My  suggestion,  at 
all  events,  fits  in  with  the  Latin  descriptions 
of  the  church,  while  analogies  may  be  found 
in  the  case  of  St.  John's  and  St.  Stephen's, 
Walbrook.  W.  F.  Pkideai'X. 

Ajaccio. 

"Going  the  round":  *'RouNpnousE"(10*'' 
S.  i.  9,  76).— The  conjecture  that  gotng  the 
rowid  (u.sually  plural)  had  iti  origin  in  the 
watchman's  rovjuJU  is  correct.  It  is  interest- 
ing to  note  that  there  is  in  German  a  similar 
expression,  die  Jinnde  qeken  {fkun).  This  was 
borrowed  from  the  f'rench  fm're  la  ronde 
about  the  time  of  the  Thirty  Years'  War,  and 
first  had  reference  to  the  watchman's  going 
his  rounds.  In  the  United  States  a  rounds- 
man is  a  policeman  who  inspects  other  police- 
men on  their  beats. 

Charles  Bundy  Wiuson. 

State  University  of  Iowa,  Iowa  City. 

Uaiivsd  Stone  (10">  S.  i.  10&).— It  is  im- 
possible to  know  what  the  stone  may  bo  from 
the  description  given.  If  Mrs.  Hustley 
will  send  me  a  photograph,  good  rubbing, 
or  accurate  drawing,  I  may  be  able  to  express 
some  opinion  about  it. 

(Dr.)  J.  T.  FowLEE,  F.S.A. 

Durham. 

Reucs  of  St,  Gkecobt  the  Great  (lO**  S. 
i.  106).— The  sentence  Me.  Wainewuight 
quotes  from  my  reply  to  Mrs.  Clintox's 
query  is  almost  verbatim  from  Gregorovius 
('Tombs  of  the  Popes,'  p.  17,  Eng.  trans., 
11K)3),  wlio  says:  "In  the  year  729  his  re- 
mains were  transferred  to  the  interior  of  the 
basilica,  where  Gregory  lY.  erected  an  altar 


in  his  honour.  His  tomb  has  perished,  and 
his  marble  effigy  in  the  Vatican  crypt  was 
never  a  part  of  the  original  monument,  but 
served  merely  as  a  decoration  of  the  Cilwriuui 
of  Innocent  VlII."  Mr.  Wainewrigut  may 
be  glad  to  know  of  the  '  Tombs '  volume, 
whicli  costs  only  a  few  shillings. 

C.  8.  Wabd. 

Sir  Henry  CnAONcv  (10'''  S.  i.  66).— A 
catalogue  of  the  sale  by  auction  of  the  effects 
of  Charles  Chauncy,  M.D.,  F.R.S.,  and 
Nathaniel  Chauncy,  issued  in  1790,  is  in  the 
Corporation  Library,  Guildhall.  It  is  divided 
into  four  parts,  and  contains :  1.  A  list  of 
antique  marble  figures,  busts,  and  bronzei ; 
2.  A  catalogue  of  their  libraries ;  3.  Their 
collection  of  natural  history  ;  4.  An  account 
of  their  prints,  drawings,  and  miniatures. 
Prices  and  purchasers'  names  are  appended 
in  MS.  Articles  respecting  this  family  have 
also  appeared  in  1"  B.  ix.  ;  5'^  S.  viii.,  ix. ; 
&^  S.  iil.,  xi.         EVERARD  UOMB  COLKMAN. 

71,  BrtKknock  Road. 

Frost  and  its  Forms  (10"'  S.  i.  67,  IIC).— 
It  may  be  well  to  note  under  the  above 
heading  that  lightning  sometimes,  though  I 
understand  but  rarely,  produces  fronulike 
patterns,  such  as  are  frequently  seen  on 
window-panes  after  a  hard  frost. 

On  Sunday,  22  August,  1897,  a  severe 
thunderstorm  occurred  over  this  town.  A 
house  was  struck,  and  among  other  damage, 
done  therein,  a  chimney-piece  was  brokei 
and  a  mirror  standing  thereon  shivered  into 
many  fragments.  On  the  board  behind  the 
glass,  at  three  of  the  corners  femlike  patterns 
were  imprinted.  The  force  which  producerl 
these  pictures  did  not  act  in  the  same  way  in 
the  fourth  corner,  where  nothing  definite 
was  to  be  seen.  The  likeness  to  the  fronds 
of  the  common  bracken  was  so  exact  that 
several  persons  drew  my  attention  to  it, 
asking  for  an  explanation,  which  it  was  not 
in  my  power  to  give.  I  was  at  the  time 
anxious  that  photographs  should  be  taken, 
but  this,  I  think,  was  not  done. 

Edward  Peacock. 

Kirton-in-Lindsey. 

Ri'inT  Hon.  E.  Southwell  (10"'  S.  i.  8,  50). 
— I  have  before  me  Thorpe's  catalogues  for 
1827-8,  1829-30,  1831,  and  1836,  but  cannot 
identify  the  cliary  inquired  for.  In  the  latest 
catalogue  an  addition  of  some  forty  pages 
consists  almost  entirely  of  letters  and  Stato 
Papers  from  the  Southwell  collection,  a  mo-st 
important  supplement  to  the  1834-D  cata- 
logue mentioned  by  Mk.  Coleman. 

Aleck  Abrahams. 

39,  Hillmarton  Road,  N. 


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iMAniKARY  OB  IjJVKNTED  SaINT3  (9"'  S.  xii. 

127,  215,  369,  515).  —  May  I  add  to  the  list 
San  Remo,  the  homonym  of  the  town  from 
which  I  write?  The  name  is  a  corruption 
of  San  Romolo,  the  original  raisaionary  of 
Western  Liguria,  whose  name  is  still  pre- 
served intact  at  San  Romolo,  a  villaf^e  at  the 
foot  of  Monte  Bignone,  an  hour  from  this. 

^m  H. 

^H        8an  Remo.  

H     Li, 

H. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &a 
£iPM  and  Acj/o«/ji  of  the  Ewjlinh  liiiihopM  and  Kiiw, 

Meditrial  .VonAvt,  and    olhtr  Later  Saintii.     By 

Mrs.  Arthur  Bell.     (Bell  &  Soiia.) 
With  tlii«  handsome,  finely  illustrated,  and  intor- 

ing  volume  Mrs.  Arthur  Bell  completes  what 
may  perhaps  be  called  hor  trilogy  on  "  The  h>ainta 
in  Christian  Art."  Previous  volumes  of  the  same 
series  were  duly  noted  in  'N.  &  Q.'— 'Lives  and 
Legends  of  the  Evangelists,  Apostles,  and  other 
Early  Saints,"  O'"  ts.  ix.  339,  and  '  Lives  and  LoKetids 
of  the  Great  Hermits  and  Fathers  of  the  Church.' 
O'*"  iS.  xi.  99.  .Special  intere.«t  is  ofTerwl  to  English 
readers  by  this  third  and  concluding  i>ortian,  seeing 
that  the  number  of  Anglo-Saxons  who,  during  the 
period  dealt  with,  have  been  admitted  to  the 
celestial  hierarchy  is  exceptionally  large.  It  is  to 
be  regretted,  as  Mrs.  Boll  points  out,  that  there  are 
but  few  works  of  art  in  which  they  are  introduced, 
the  blame  for  this  stale  of  things  being  due,  not 
only  to  the  iguoranco  prevailing,  among  the  great 
European  i^inters,  concerning  llie  heroea  and  mar- 
tyrs of  Britain,  "divided  from  all  the  world,"' but  also 
"  to  a  gre-at  extent  to  the  rulhlesa  destruction  after 
the  Reformation  of  all  that  could  recall  the  memory 
of  the  men  who  had  upheld  the  rights  of  the 
Church."  The  volume  opens  with  an  account  of 
the  early  Binhojis  of  Canterbury,  first  of  all  coming, 
naturally,  ^>t.  Augustine,  of  whom  a  long  account 
ia  given.  Lives  follow  of  JSt.  Paulinus,  the  first 
Bisiiop  of  York ;  St.  Edwin,  the  tirat  ChriEtian 
King  of  Northurobria;  St.  Oswald;  and  St.  Aidan. 
Forrt  Madox  Brown's  picture  of'  The  Baptism  of 
St.  Edwin  by  St.  Oswald"  ia  the  tirst  illustration  in 
the  volume  after  the  frontispiece,  which  presents 
'  The  Coronation  of  the  Virgin,'  with  Sainta Francis, 
Dominic,  Antony  of  Padua,  BonaveiUure,  Peter 
Martyr,  and  Thomas  A<]uina8,  by  Fra  Angelico. 
Another  Engli.oh  picture  which  follows  is  that 
from  a  window  in  Christchurch,  Oxford,  presenting 
*  St.  Frideswidf"  in  the  Swineherd's  Hut."  'St.  Editli 
of  Polcsworth  reproving  Two  of  her  Nuns'  is  also 
by  Ford  Madox  Brown.  Vet  other  English  designs 
are  from  a  window  in  St.  Neot's  pariiih  church, 
Cornwall,  and  from  a  MS.  in  the  Bodleian  Library, 
Oxford.  The  last -mentioned,  which  ia  striking, 
■howa  a  very  small  St.  Dunst.'vn  at  the  feet  of  a 
ooloual  Christ.  When  we  conio  to  the  later  por- 
tions of  the  book,  the  designs  are  from  Andrea  del 
Sarto,  Oioito.  Donatello,  Sodoma,  Fra  Angelico,  ' 
Filippo  Lippi,  Pacchiarollo,  Pinturiochio,  Murillo,  ' 
and  others  whose  works  adorn  the  previous  ; 
volumes.  We  may  not  enter  further  into  the  con- 
tents of  the  book,  (lut  mutt  congratulate  Mrs.  Bell 
n[>on  her  successful  and  earnestly  accomplished  i 
task.    To  have  produced  within  little  more  than  a 


couple  of  years  three  volumes  ench  aa  those  she  baa 
given  to  the  world  is  no  aniall  accomplishment,  and 
proves  the  whole  to  be  a  labour  of  love.  As  in  moat 
modern  work,  the  criticism  remains  enlightened, 
and  sight  is  not  lost  of  the  fact  that  some  sainta 
are  obscure  and  aome  legends  apocryphal.  In  addi- 
tion to  the  learning  displayed,  however,  the  text 
is  informed  by  a  spirit  of  faith  and  devotion. 

John  Drydrn.   Edited  by  George  Saintsbury.  2  vols. 

(Fisher  Unwin.) 
To  the  "Mermaid  Series"  of  Mr.  Fisher  Unwin 
lias  been  added  a  selection  of  the  best  plays  of 
Dryden.  If  there  is  a  dramatist  whom  we  are  con- 
tent to  accept  in  such  a  form  it  is  surely  Dryden, 
who  at  his  beat,  as  in  '  All  for  Love'— which,  as  he 
Bays, "  he  wrote  for  himself  "—approximates  Shake- 
speare, and  at  his  worst,  aa  in  '  Limbethani, 'comes 
in  indecency  not  far  short  of  Wycherley.  Of  'The 
Conquest  of  (^Jranada,'  in  two  ywirts,  .Tohnson  says : 
"The  scenes  are  for  the  most  part  delightful ;  they 
exhibit  a  kind  of  illuatriouH  depravity  and  majestio 
madness."  '  Aurengzebc,'  in  the  prologue  to  which 
Dryden  owns  that  he  begina  to  grow  aick  of  his 
long-loved  mistress  Rhyme,  is  perhaps  the  best  of 
hta  so-called  hcroic^I  tragediea.  '  Marriage  h.  la 
Mode'  haa  some  excellent  comic  scenes  and  a  love 
song  of  extreme  indelicacy.  'The  .Spanish  Friar' 
was  conotantly  acted  till  near  the  close  of  the 
eighteenth  century.  In  'Don  Sebastian'  .Johnson 
rather  quaintly  praises  "  sallies  of  frantic  dignity." 
These  plays,  with  'All  for  Love'  and  the  opera  of 
'  Albion  and  Albanius,'  constitute  a  judicious  selec- 
tion. Mr.  Saintabnry's  introduction  and  notes  are 
excellent.  l>ryden'a  plays,  apart  from  collected 
editions  of  his  works,  are  not  easily  accessible. 
We  remember  more  than  half  a  century  ago  pur- 
chasing them  in  two  folio  volumes,  now  scarce. 
A  more  convenient  edition,  in  G  vols.  l'2mo,  with 
plates  by  Gravelot,  was  issued  by  J.  A.  R.  Tonaon 
in  17C2.  This,  though  not  high  priced,  ia  also  un- 
common. The  reprint  is,  accordingly,  iudicioua. 
Many  of  the  other  plays  are  curious,  the  altera- 
tions from  Shakespeare  doing  Dryden  little  credit. 
Portraits  of  Dryden  and  Noll  Gwyn  accompany  the 
present  work. 

TirE  Engli*h  Jlintorical  Rt.vitio  contains  an  inter- 
esting article  on  Clarendon's  'History'  by  Mr. 
C.  H.  Firth.  The  net  result  is  very  much  to 
Clarendon's  credit,  for  it  testitiea  to  his  extreme 
desire  to  find  out  the  facta,  and,  though  so  one 
ever  denied  the  bias  with  which  he  write*,  tbia 
investigation  shows  how  far  removed  he  was  iron 
being  a  mere  liar,  as  Prof.  Thorold  Rogers  thought 
bim.  On  the  eternal  question  of  hides  and  virgates 
we  have  a  note  from  Mr.  Salzman  controverting 
the  views  of  Prof.  Tait.  Dr.  James  Gairdner  prints 
an  abstract  of  Bishop  Hooper's  'Visitation  of 
Gloucester.'  The  reviews  are  dull  and  unimi>orlant, 
the  notice  of  the  American  volume  of  the  '  Cam- 
bridge History '  being  meagre. 

TflOSK  given  to  exaggeration  hove  been  known  to 
liken  folk-lore  to  the  contents  of  an  eighteenth- 
century  museum,  ma<le  up  of  a  collection  of  curio- 
sities—here  a  stuffed  tiger,  there  a  few  isToaxu 
celts.  M  ilh  a  charter  of  Htury  II.  in  close  proximity 
to  a  Whitby  "snako  stone"  and  an  African  war- 
club.  Tlierc  is  wihl  exaggeration  in  this,  but  some 
truth  lies  at  the  Vjottom.  It  is  yet  tix)  early  to 
classify  the  facta  of  this  new  sciencA  va.^^vi>*>i«i^ 


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likolory  to  tho«e  who  are  apt  to  become  con! ased 
whcij  they  cannot  fiad  all  the  fraernentB  of  the 
knowledge  they  seek  arranged  in  orderly  sequence, 
a«,  for  example,  in  a  treatise  on  astronomy, 
ijuoh  people  must  wait  patiently.  Oar  first  duty 
is  to  garner  facts.  The  time  for  olassification  ie  not 
yeU  Some  valuable  attempts  have,  however,  been 
made,  which,  though  they  may  call  for  revision  as 
time  goes  on,  have  laid  a  sound  foundation  for  the 
ontworka.  '  The  Folk-lore  of  Human  Life,'  in  the 
Edinhurgh  Rtckw  for  January,  is  one  of  these. 
We  cannot  apeak  of  it  too  hignly  if  we  bear  in 
inind  that  the  facts  at  present  amassed  are  not 
exhaustive  iu  any  one  airection.  It  is  possible 
—many  scholars,  indeed,  think  highly  probable — 
that  some  of  the  folk-lore  that  has  cf>me  down  to 
us  is  the  earliest  rolic  of  the  human  race  we  possess, 
-older  by  untold  generations  than  auy  palwoUthic 
implement  or  bone-scratched  picture  to  be  found  in 
the  richest  of  our  collections.  However  this  mav 
be,  it  is  certain  that  there  are  ideas  which  still 
remain  imbedded  as  fossils  in  human  thought  which 
-are  so  remote  in  their  origin  as  to  have  become 
dispersed,  in  sliffhlly  varying  forms,  throunhout 
almost  the  whole  of  the  families  of  mankind. 
When,  for  example,  <iid  I  ho  s]iriog  and  autumn 
festivals  originate?  Were  lliey  established  in 
^honour  of  gods  now  unworahipped,  or  did  they 
originate  ages  Iwforo  savsire  man  had  pvolved  a 
<x>herent  thciatio  belief?  l)id  they  indeed  furnish 
in  some  way  or  other  uno  of  the  factors  that  safe- 
guarded the  dawnings  of  primeval  faith  ?  The  May- 
pole yet  exists  in  some  few  of  our  parishes,  and 
May-games  are  happily  not  forxotton  ;  they  indicate, 
.as  the  writer  fioints  out,  "that  the  road  beneath 
our  feet  was  trodden  by  otiier  May-keepers  who«e 
symbols  are  now  but  relics,  their  sense  forgotten 
and  out  of  mind.  Heathendom  is  with  ua  still;  it 
walks  incognito,  but  the  domino  w  threadbare 
which  niaaka  its  features."  The  reviewer  does  not 
point  out  that  the  M ay  Day  or  M artinmas  house 
cleanings  which  oocur  with  riKid  uniformity  are 
also  survivals  of  the  spriug  and  autumn  festivals 
which,  however  old  they  may  be,  assuredly  come 
down  to  us  from  remote  antiquity.  Housewives 
now  explain  them  on  strictly  "common-sense" 
principles,  which  would  have  done  honour  to  the 
most  ardent  of  the  utilitarians  regardint?  whom 
iiir  Leslie  Stephen  has  discoursed  to  us ;  but  it  is 
evident  that  those  who  search  for  origins  will  have 
to  go  back  to  a  state  of  mind  parallel  with  that 
which  impels  the  bird  to  build  its  nest.  'Some 
Aspects  of  Modern  Geolog)''  contains  little  that 
will  be  new  to  the  serious  student  of  the  science, 
but  even  the  writer  must  have  been  compelled  to 
glean  good  part  of  what  he  knows  from  the  trans- 
autiuns  of  learned  societies  or  from  books  which  are 
avoided  with  equal  care  by  the  many  who  have  an 
antipathy  for  all  reading  whicli  compels  thought. 
The  essayist  writes  with  becomiuK  caution.  He  is 
never  contemptuous  of  opinions  which  differ  from 
liiH  own.  Tlie  idea  that  vast  catastro])he8  were  not 
infreiiuent  in  remote  Kcological  timo  has  revived  of 
late.  Wo  are  glad  to  nnd,  however,  that  this  writer 
sees  no  reason  for  accepting  it.  Whatever  may 
liave  been  the  state  of  our  planet  when  life  did  not 
«xi3t  thereon,  he  believes  that  from  the  |)eriod  when 
orRanized  creatures,  even  in  their  lowest  forms, 
<jame  into  being  there  is  "no  suggestion  of  cata- 
clysms or  abnormal  tides,  or.  in  fact,  of  conditions 
materially  dilTerent  from  those  which  now  obtain." 
The  pajwr  on  Galileo  is  well  worth  reading.    So 


much  nonaeoBo  has  been  written  on  the  subject 
that  it  is  cheering  to  have  his  life  discussed  by  a 
competent  person  who  does  not  hold  a  brief  either 
for  the  old  or  the  new  theology.  Cialileo  was  a, 
mathematician  and  scientist  as  well  as  a  hard 
worker,  and  is  therefore  worthy  of  admiration. 
Had  he  been  more  circumspect  and  Ics^i  given  to 
irritating  those  in  power  it  would  have  been  far 
better.  The  luper  on  'Jacobite  Songs'  is  inter- 
esting, but  we  wish  that  the  writer  had  noted  the 
earliest  appearance  of  each  one  of  tliem.  We  do 
not  call  IQ  question  the  genuineness  of  any.  but 
there  are  others,  more  sceptical  than  ourselves,  who. 
we  feel  sure,  will  cherish  doubts.  It  is  not  easy  to 
understand  how  so  much  good  verso  could  be  pro- 
duced by  the  adherents  of  the  fallen  dynasty  at 
a  time  when  most  other  song- writers  were  turning 
out  such  arrant  rubbish.  There  are  articles  on 
'Franciscan  Literature '  and  on  'Kobert  Herrick' 
which  will  interest  our  readers. 


M.  Lotns  TnoMA.^  is  brijiging  out  an  edition  of 
Chateaubriand's  corresiiondence  and  would  be  much 
obliged  if  any  one  would  give  him  information  on 
this  subject.  As  Chateaubriand  stayed  iu  England 
on  several  occasions,  M.  Thomas  nresumea  that 
some  at  least  of  his  letters  must  be  iu  the  po<- 
session  of  Koelish  amateurs.  Copies  of  any  of  these 
will  be  glaalv  received  by  M.  Louis  Thomas, 
26,  Rue  Vital,  "Paris  (XVI,). 

Wb  hear  with  much  pleasure  that  a  fourth 
volume  of  the '  Catalogue  of  Early  Eoglisli  Printed 
Books  in  the  University  Library,  Cambridge,'  re- 
viewed aiiii,  p.  13H,  is  in  the  press,  and  will  supply 
the  index  for  which  we  askeu. 


%oiitti  ia  €axxt%TginiSst\\ii. 

We  mtut  eeUl  tp«eicU  tUterUion  to  the  /oHotoivfi 
nodcea : — 

On  all  conmiuntcattons  must  be  written  the  name 
and  address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  pab- 
lication,  but  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

We  cannot  undertake  to  answer  queries  privately. 

To  secure  insertion  of  communications  corre- 
s^wndents  must  observe  the  following  rules.  Let 
each  note,  query,  or  reply  be  written  on  a  separate 
slip  of  paper,  with  the  signature  of  the  writer  and 
such  address  as  he  wishes  to  appear.  When  anawer- 
ing  queries,  or  making  notes  with  regard  to  previoua 
entries  in  the  paper,  contributors  are  requested  to 
put  in  parentheses,  immediately  after  the  exact 
neadiuKi  the  series,  volume^  and  page  or  pages  to 
which  they  refer.  Correspondents  who  repeat 
queries  are  requested  to  head  the  second  coin- 
munication  "  Duplicate." 

E.  Lkoa-Wkekj^s.— Your  reply  on  Fellows  of  tbo 
Clover  Leaf  cannot  be  traced.    Please  repeat. 

Bi^zos.— Apply  to  the  Heralds'  Ofliee. 

CoRttiGKxriA.— P.  119,  col.  2,  1.  4  froin  foot,  for 
"Archbishop  Wrangham  "  read  ./I  i'cA</f  aeon  Wrang- 
ham.  P.  136,  coL  1,  L  21,  for  "  neceasitatcm  "  read 
nvccattiftUe. 

NOTICE. 

Editorial  communications  should  be  addressed 
to  "  The  Editor  of  '  Notes  and  Queries'"— Adver- 
tisements and  Business  Letter*  to  "The  Pub- 
Usher"— at  the  Office,  Bream's  Buildings,  Chancery 
Lane.  E.C. 


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NOTES:— 'Hew  Am«l<rdam '— Stinkeipeftriaaa,  161— Bor- 
ton'i  'Aoatomr  of  Melaocbolj,'  1)53— Tb«  BoKllsfa  In 
Pmnoe— Sir  T.  Wvatfs  Kiddle,  l^l  —  CruolUx  »t  Old 
St.  P»ur«— Cbic««o  In  1853-A  Rello  of  Ch*te«ubriikm1, 
165  —  TeiinjBOn  on  Britain  —  Februa/^  .■*>—' KichoUa 
JJUsklebr':  Capt.  Cuttle  — SkelUl  B«ll :  Hurt  Bell  — Our 
OldMl  Pabllc  School,  ltS6— '  The  Trua  lletbodlst,'  167. 

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Quotaliooi- Arini  of  Obeut.  168 — *  Lord  Baleman  and  bit 
Sophia' — Dorietabire  Snake-lore— Heai  Oreaa:  Serseanta' 
Saabea- Armiof  LIuootn— Ii  OolfScandlnarlao  'f—'Cunitr: 
OanaJetto,  168— "  Cbevlnier "— Quide  to  Manor  BoIU— 
Begicidea  of  Gbarle*  I.  —  Bgwton-Warburton  —  Ancient 
Britoni— "  fiellamv'a  "— "  Drab  "  Bubble*  —  Immortality 
of  Animal*- Januifca  Newipaper,  16ii. 

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Bobin  s  Bobbin- Uobert  Cate«by-Cfariiitmaatlde  Folk- 
lore, 17a  — Court  Fo«t«  under  Stuart  Kingi- Namelcfti 
Graveatone  —  Bntromc  —  **  DIatirea*! "  —  BiblloKrapby  of 
Bpitapbs.  173 -at.  PntrlcV  at  Orvieio-Keixn  nf  Terror— 
"Acprt-atlve"  — Trial  of  Queen  CiiroJine  —  The  Cope — 
Cliauoerlana- General  St«wart'*  Portrait,  174— Anatumle 
Viva'ite— Peculiars— **  FInt  cat«b  your  bMv  "— Bnvclopei 
—"Prior  to"— Moon  Folk-lore,  lIS-Halelgh  :  lU  Pronun- 
ciation-SmotberinK  Hydrophobio  PaUentd- Tea  oa  a 
Mnal- Chlneae  Qboata,  170— Dolores,  Mu»loal  Compoaer— 
Marlborough  aiii)  8bakc«p«are.  177. 

N0TB8  on  BOOKS  :-' Or«at  HMtera'-'HlemrglaADgU- 
cana'— 'Quarterl,v  Review.' 

Death  of  Oapt,  Thorue  George. 

Bopkaellen'  Qataloguet, 

NoUoea  to  Oorreapoo'leuU. 


Sot«a, 


New 
have 


^^K  'NEW    AMSTERDAM.' 

^^^P  (8ee  a)Ue,  p.  58.) 

^     Is   your   notice  of   my    work    on 

^B  Amsterdam,'  «S:c.,  I  observe  that  you 

^V  inadvertently  confounded  the  so-called  Jastu.^ 

^   Daackcrs  view  of  I0&(),  at  the  frontispiece  of 

the  book,  with  tlie  "  Hartgere  view^"  of  about 

1630,  at  p.  '2  of  the  work,  in  stating  that  I 

claim  to  have  discovered  that>  it  was  originally 

printed  in  a  reversed   form.    As  it  stands 

that  would  be  an  entirely  untenable  claim, 

and  if  not  corrected  it  will  be  quite  likely  to 

draw  out  adverse  comment  from  this  side  of 

the  water. 

Both  the  Dauckers  view  and  the  earlier 
Hartgers  view  wore  undoubtedly  taken  by 
means  of  a  camera  obscura,  which  instrunient 
had  been  recently  introduced  into  draughting 
operations  at  that  period.  This  instrument, 
wlien  unprovided  with  supplementary  lenses, 
or  with  a  reflecting  mirror,  takes  in  a  reversed 
form,  as  is  well  known. 

Now  as  to  the  Dauckers  view,  I  have  the 
etching  in  its  reversed  or  original  form  (the 
only  print  of  the  kind  that  I  nave  ever  seen, 
although  I  have  paid  considerable  attention 
to  the  subject),  but  I  know  that  this  view 
had  been  printed  in  proper  form  almost  a 


century  ago.  The  explanation  of  this  is  that 
the  view  of  1650  contains  well-known  land- 
marks, and  a  person  with  the  least  know- 
ledge of  the  tojwgraphy  of  the  town  could 
see  at  a  glance  that  something  was  wronj; 
with  the  view,  and  a  little  examination  would 
sufKce  to  .show  what  the  difiiculty  was. 

With  the  Hartgers  view,  however,  the  case 
was  different,  and  this  was  the  view  which 
I  claim  to  have  first  placed  in  proper  form. 
There  can  be  little  doubt  that  this  was  a 
mere  engineer's  sketch,  to  show  the  plan  of 
the  fort,  and  must  have  been  made  about 
1628-30.  At  this  time  there  were  no  land- 
marks which  could  be  recognized  without 
very  intimate  ac<}uaintance  with  the  localities. 
The  peculiar  position  of  the  fort,  upon  a  point 
of  land  with  a  river  on  each  side  of  it,  was 
the  cause  that  the  reversed  view  did  not 
present  an  intrinsically  abijurd  appearance ; 
and  consequently,  though  every  one  saw  that 
there  was  sometning  strange  about  the  view, 
this  was  usually  ascribed  l)y  writers  to  the 
unskilfulness  in  drawing  of  our  ancestors. 
Hartgers,  in  publishing  his  'Beschrijvingh 
van  Virginia'  in  1651,  had  found  the  view 
somewhere  and  inserted  it  just  as  it  was. 

Writers  on  the  subject  of  the  views  of 
New  Amsterdam,  of  whom  there  have  been 
several,  have  taken  the  date  of  Hartgers' 
work  as  the  period  of  the  view,  although  the 
least  knowledge  of  the  conditions  existing 
at  that  time  would  appear  to  have  been  suffi- 
cient to  have  prevented  them  from  doing  so. 
In  their  comments  upon  this  view  none  of 
them  appears  to  have  had  any  suspicion  that 
the  view  was  not  in  proper  form.  People 
who  did  not  claim  to  be  original  investigators 
made  still  worse  work  of  it.  As  the  nuild- 
ingrn,  which  were  mostly  upon  the  east  or 
right  hand  looking  towards  the  fort,  appear 
in  the  original  to  bo  upon  the  left  hand 
or  west,  one  or  two  popular  writers  have 
announced  that  there  stood  the  first  bouses 
in  New  Amsterdam,  and  there  has  actually 
been  a  tablet  put  up  upon  a  building  in  that 
vicinity  to  the  above  69*601,  without  appa- 
rently a  scintilla  of  other  evidence— a  disgrace 
to  the  city.  J.  H.  Imubs. 
New  York. 

SHAK  ESPEA  RIA  N  A . 
"  Pkbnzie  "  LN  *  Measobe  for  Measdre.'— 
For  more  than  fifty  years  the  mystery  of  the 
presence  of  this  apparently  meaningless 
word  in  a  famous  passage  in  '  Measure  for 
Measure'  (Act  III.  sc.  i.)  has  been  from  time 
to  time  a  subject  of  debate  in  the  columns 
of  'N.  &Q.,'  but  with  no  absolutely  decisive 
result.    (See  1"  S.  iii.  401,  454,  489^52a  •,  v*  ,W^ 


162 


NOTES  ANI)  QUERIES.        iw*  ^5.  l  feil*?.  \»l 


63, 135,  «{^iMam.)  On  the  sappcwition-  »  mip- 
p<Mition  which  I  think  m«.y  be  taken  m  estao- 
liiihed,  in  opite  of  an  able  attempt  to  coinbat 
it  (8'^''  S.  ii.  a03j— that  the  word,  as  it  ai>pears 
in  tho  Firj«t  Folio  vemjon  of  the  play,  in  the 
printer's  incorrect  reiuiering  of  Home  iiiegible 
r)r'"'«"i  MtrioUH  words  have  been  suggested 
i  to  lime  as  that  pomible  onginal, 

ua...  .-..ported  by  much  force  and  ingenuity 
oi  argument  by  itn  particular  sugji^ter. 
Of  the«o  those  which  have  obtaine<i  the 
grcatent  roeature  of  support  are  (see 
references  given  above)  princely" — the 
one  adopted  in  the  Second  Folio,  and,  I 
believe,  in  most,  if  not  all,  copies  of  the  text 
Bince  that  time — "priojstlyi"  "preciae," 
"prirozie,"  and  "saintly."  As  no  one  of 
thc^e  has  succeeded  in  obtaining  general 
acceptance,  it  may  seem  presumptaoas  at 
this  time  of  day  to  propose  another  :  but,  at 
the  ri^k  of  adding  to  the  Hot  of  failures,  I 
will  venture  to  do  so.  The  word  I  would 
HUggent  U  "seemly,"  or,  as  it  would  at  the 
date  of  tho  play  probably  be  written, 
"•eeraelie."  and,  substituting  thia  word  for 
"  prenzie  in  the  text  of  the  First  Folio 
instead  of  "princely,"  I  would  have  tho 
passage  where  that  word  occurs  run  thus: — 
Clawl.  The  «<'tffiiHi7  Aoaelo* 

Inah,  0,  'tis  the  cunning  livery  of  hell, 

'J'he  dftnined'Ht  body  lo  invest  and  cover 

In  acemly  guards  ! 

and  leave  the  propriety  of  the  alteration  to 
tho  judgment  of  your  readers.  It  seems  to 
Mio  (thoiiKh  that  is  nothing)  that  the  passage 
thuH  roan  conveys  the  exact  meaning  of  the 
dramatist.  The  introtluction  of  trie  word 
"precise"  had  also  this  merit,  according  to 
the  almost  common  consent  of  your  quondam 
corroHpondents  (see  references  above)  ^  but  it 
wn.s  oi)on  to  the  fatal  objection  of  vitiating 
th(«  metre.  Tlie  word  I  have  chosen  avoids 
thi«t,  whilst  being,  in  my  opinion,  equally 
iiTHirtipiiate  tu  the  sense,  it  not  more  so ;  and, 
if  it  Wlv  ubjeot/od  to  it  that  it  presents  little 
slmiliirity  in  form  to  the  imitative  printer's 
word  "  preny.io,"  I  would  urge  that  this  is 
only  so  at  tin-  first  glutice,  for.  written  as  it 
would  ho  in  the  chiiractorH  of  trie  period,  with 
the  elongated  initiHl  g  (easilv  mistaken  for  n 
;>),  it  would  be  found,  f  think,  t-o  come  nearer 
to  it  in  appearance  than  any  other  of  the 
words  suggested.  John  IIutcuinson. 

Middlu  I'lMnitlt'  Libmry. 

"MiCHINO    MALUCHO"  (0^''    9.    Xl.    604).— 

Mr.  Hichard  W.  Hill.  Stocklinch,  llminster, 
has  put  Iwforo  me  a  conjecture  which 
occurred  tohimuixm  reading  'Westwanl  Ho,' 
chap,  xviii.,  in  which  Kingsley,  apparently 
making  a  transcript  from  Uakluyt,  writes: 


"We  caagbt a  9e«-cow  full  seven  feet 

long the  Indiana  call  her  manati ;  who 

carries  her  young  noder  her  arm  and  gives 

it    sock    like   a    woman,"  iec    Mr.  Hul  M 

inclined    to   regard    "uauaii"   as   another 

I  form  of  "  manito,"  the  name  of  the  Indian 

'  spirit,  which  was  conferred  upon   the  sea.- 

monster  in  question  by  reason  of  its  evil 

propensities,  nnd   he  thinks  that,  if  this  be 

I  so,    "miching"   might    be    founa    to   bo    a 

.  corruption  of  "  milcTuDg,"  the  meaning  of  Uie 

'  doubtful  expreiision  thus  becoming  "milching 

j  manati,"    it.,    performing    a    very    ticklisu 

operation.  V.  St.  Claq  Maokbszik. 

Draosconibe,  Dorkioft- 

♦  The  WnfTER'a  Tale,'  III.  ii.  80-5.— 

My  life  stands  in  the  level  of  your  dreams, 
\\  nich  I  'W  lay  down. 

Rolfe :  "  ily  life  is  at  the  mercy  of  your 
suspicions,  which  are  like  the  'baseless 
fabric '  of  a  dream." 

Furneas  :  *' Whencesoever  the  metaphor, 
I  think  that  *  in  '  is  here  equivalent  simply 
to  on.  '  You  speak,'  says  Hermione,  *  a  lan- 
guage I  understand  not :  my  life.— the  action* 
you  impute  to  me, — and  your  dreams  are  ou 
a  level.'  That  this  is  the  meaning  is  con- 
firmed, I  think,  by  the  intense  scorn  witU 
which  Leontos  repeats  almost  her  very  words: 
'  Your  actions  are  my  draxiM !  I  dreain'd 
you  had  a  bastard  ! ' " 

I  cannot  think  that  Furnesa  is  happy  in 
this  conjecture,  llermione's  (mode  of)  life, 
the  actions  Leontes  imputes  to  her,  and  his 
dreams  can  hardly  be  spoken  of  as  standing 
on  the  same  level,  for,  under  this  explanation, 
they  are  one  and  tho  same  thing ;  her  sup- 
posed actions  have  no  existence  except  in  his 
dreams,  of  which  they  form  the  sunstancc. 
If  there  could  be  any  doubt  that "  My  life 
stands  in  the  level  of  your  dreams"  means 
"My  life  is  at  the  mercy  of  your  suspicious," 
I  should  think  it  would  be  dtspellea  by  thfr 
next  clause,  "  Which  I  '11  lay  down,''  confirm- 
ing, as  it  does,  the  thought  of  something 
endangering  her  life,  ^^'lthout  such  ante- 
cedent thought  the  statement  would  be  un- 
called for ;  but  in  this  connexion  it  naturally 
follow.?—"  which  I'll  (therefore)  lay  down." 
This  clause  also  shows  that  "life,*^  as  here 
used,  means  not  mode,  manner,  or  course  of 
living,  but  existence  a.s  a  living  being.  A» 
for  Leon tes's  reply,  he  naturally  fi>'^<  "d  at 
tho  word  "  dream.s, '  and  emphati<  :  (.<* 

that  his  opinion  is  not  a  baseless  ;     ,    ,  mt 
is  founfledf  OQ  fact — on  the  queen's  actions. 
E.  Meeton  Dev. 

'The  Winter's  Tale,'  III.  ii.  87-02.— Hud- 
son says  of  the  phrase  "like  to  itaelf,"  "I 


m 


10^"  8. 1.  Fkii.  27,  loot] 


NOTES  AKD  QUERIES. 


163 


can  make  nothing  of  it;  whereas  'fe/t  to 
itself  expresses  tlie  actual  fact  rightly.  TJie 
correction  i*>  Keightley's."  The  meaning 
seeras  to  be  that  the  babe  has  been  physicallj- 
cast  out^  as  corresponding  to  the  position 
which  a  natural  child  occupies  in  the  world — 
socially  an  outcast,  no  father  owning  it. 

E.  Mkuton  Dey. 
8t.  Louis. 

••A  VERY,  VEitY  p.uocK."  '  Hamlet,' III.  ii. 
278.— I  think  the  following  passage  gives  us 
the  word  "pajock  '  with  a  different  spelling. 
It  ia  probably  an  onomatopeic  representation 
of  the  cry  of  the  peacock.  The  passage  is 
from  Sir  ,Tohn  Harington's  '  Ulysses  upon 
Ajax,'  1596  (Chiswick  reprint,  p.  41)  :— 

*•  NVho  livelh,  of  any  reading  (were  he  content  to 
snrfeit  in  hLs  folly),  that  witTi  Aretine  could  not 
talk  of  Xanna,  with  auother  [Elderton?]  of  a  red 
nose,  with  Periere^  of  »  pye  and  Piaux?  I  have 
Been  an  oration  made  in  praUe  of  a  college  custard, 

and commending  a  goose." 

"  Perieros  "  is,  I  Huppose,  Pereira,  a  Spanish 
physician,  who  wrote  (in  the  middle  of  the 
sixteenth  century)  a  great  deal  about  the 
souls  uf  beasts  and  their  transmigration,  in 
which  he  did  not  believe.  Of  course  "  Piaux  " 
may  have  some  other  meaning  altogether, 
may  even  1»  a  proper  name,  then  I  am  wholly 
wrong.  But  it  seem.s  to  me  to  stand  for 
H    peacock.  H.  Uhicbestec  Hart. 

I 

■    "s 
^       Pa 


* 


FiURTON'S  'ANATOMY  OF  MELANCHOLY, 

(See  g*"  8,  xi.  m,  ^2,  263.  322.  441  ;  xii.  2,  62, 
102.  301,  362,  «2 ;  10"'  8.  i.  42.) 

Vol.  i.  (Shilleto).  p.  30, 1.  21 ;  18, 1.  I3{ed.  G), 
"secundum  magis  &  mijius."    Cf.  Bac, '  Nov. 

Tg,,"  ii,  13,  init. 

P.  43,  u.  4  ;  20,  u.q, "  Uegula  natune.''    See 


_jps.,  'Man.  ad  Stoic.  Phil.,'  i.  4,  where 
" Aristoteles  est  Regula  et  exemplar,  quod 
Natura  invenit  ad  demonstrandam  Ultimam 
Perfectionem  humanam "  is  quoted  from 
Averroes,  in  iii.  'De  Anima  '—Ihid.y  "dtemo- 
nium  hominis."  See  Lips., '  Ep.  Qurest.,'  iii.  aci. 
P.  43,  1.  19  ;  2<),  33,  "  raerito  cui  doctior 
orbis,"  «ke.  ;  in  my  last  paper  1  should  ,have 
added  that  Lip.sins's  anonymous  quotation  is 
from  Florens  Christianus.  II.  3."^,  36,  of  verses 
on  Scaliger's  edition  of  Catullus,  Tibullus. 
and  Propertius  ('  Del.  Poot.  Gall.,'  i.  802,  and 
at  beginning  of   Scaliger's  'Cat.,  Tib,  and 

Prop.,'  1600).     That  Barton  took   it   from 

Lipsius  in  shown  by  imrito,  which  is  Lipsius'g 

addition. 

P.  59,  n.  I ;  30,  ii.  ft»  "Diet.  Cretens."    No  ; 

Pares  Phrygian,  44. 
P.  60.  n.  8  ;  31,  n.  p, "  Lucan."   Lucan,  x.  407, 

has  Hulla^  not  ram,  wmX  pkuif^  not  jyrobitas. 


P.  63,  n.  r>;  32,  n.  b,  "Eobanus  Hessus.^ 
'  De  "\''ictoria  Wirterabergensi,'  451-3,  p.  71(> 
in  1564  (Frankfort)  ed.  of  his  'Op.  Farra- 
gines  Duie.' 

P.  64,  1.  12 ;  3.3,  12,  "as  wise  Seneca  cen- 
sures him"  ['Benef.,'  II.  xvi.  i:  the  ref.  to 
II.  i.  (n.  2  ,-  n.  d)  is  wrong].  N.  2  :  n.  d.  "Idem 
Lactftntius"  ['  Inst.,'  I.  xviii.  \2\—Ibid.^  km- 
mianus,  lib.  23  [XXIII.  vi.  44]. 

P.  65, 1.  4  ;  33,  33, "  So  Africanus  is  extolled 
bv-  Ennius. "  See  Lact.,  I.  xviii.  11  :  Sen.. 
Ep.  108,  34. 

P.  65,  n.  2 ;  33,  n.  k,  "  Herculi  eadem  porta 
adcalum  patuit,qui  magnam  generis  humanv 
partem  perdidit.'  Lact.,  I.  xviii.  13,  where 
"nam  et  Herculi  eadem  ista  porta  patuit" 
ia  quoted  from  Cicero  (Librorura  de  II,  P 
incertor.  Frag.  6,  iu  C.  F.  W.  Miiller) ;  and 
I.  xviii.  11. 

P.  65,  J.  9;  33,  37,  "as  Lactautius  truly 
proves."  I.  ix.  as  regards  Hercules,  and  I.  x.  4 
as  regards  Mars. 

P.  65,  1.  22 ;  34,  3,  "  as  Cyprian  notes." 
'  Ad  Donat.,'  vi. 

P.  67,  n.  2 ;  34,  n.  1,  "  ut  reus  innocons 
{lereat,  fit  nocens.  Judex  damnat  foras,  quod 
mtus  operatur."  The  punctuation  is  wrong- 
"  Ut  reus  innocens  pereat,  fit  nocens  iudex," 
is  from  ch.  x.,  and  "damnant  foris  quod> 
intus  oi)erontur"  from  ch.  ix.  of  the  epistle. 

P.  67,  I.  6  :  34,  46,  "eundcra  furtum  facere 
«t  puuire."  The  passage  in  Sidoniua  is  Ep.  II, 
i.  2,  "  noD  cessat  simul  furta  vel  puniro  ve) 
facere." 

P.  70,  1.  2;  36,  25,  "virtue  (that's  bonum 
theatmle)."  Bacon,  '  Col.  of  Good  and  Evil,'  3, 
"  and  therefore  they  call  vertuo  Bonum 
theatmle.*' 

P.  71,  n.  3  ;  37,  n.  e,  "Arridere  homines  ut 
steviant,  blandiri  ut  fallant,  Cyp.  arl  Dona- 
tum."  C.  xiii.,  "arridet  ut  sieviat,  blauditur 
ut  fallat." 

P.  72,  n.  9;  38.  n.  *,  "acres indulgent." 

•See  the  passage  from  Aurelius  Victor,  Epit.  i. 
(c.  24),  referred  to  just  below. 

P.  74,  I.  1 ;  38,  40,  "If  every  man  had  a 
window  in  his  breast,  which  Momus  would 
have  had  in  Vulcan's  man."  Lucian,  'Hermo- 
timus,'  20. 
P.  74,  1.3;  38,  41,  "Tally."  'In  Cat.,'  i.  32, 
P.  74,  n.  3 ;  39,  n.  y.  The  chapter  of  the 
epistle  is  ix. 

P.  74,  n.  6 :  39,  n.  z.  The  §  of  lib.  i.  of 
Martianus  Capella  is  68  (Kopp) ;  p.  18, 
Grotius. 

P.  76.  n,  i;  40;  Q-  k,  "Prosper."  Epigr. 
100  (97),  1,  2 ;  vol.  Ii.  col.  529,  in  Migne's 
'Patrolog.  Lat.' 

P.  76,  1.  14;  40,  12,  "Hippocrates,  in  hia 
Epistle  to  Dionysius."    Epist.  xiii.  3. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [lO"-  s.  l  fkb.  27,  iqol 


.  82,  n.  3  ;  43,  n.  p,  "  iniuria  in  sapient«m 
cadit."    Sen.,  'Dial '  ii.  7,  2,  "iniuria  in 


P.  76,  1.  30 ;  40,  26,  "  which  one  calU  nuixi' 
mutn  itultitioe  ijiecivten."  Apuleius,  'Florida,' 
i.  3.  The  reference  i.  2,  which  Shilleto  adds 
to  Florid.  (77.  n,  2 ;  40,  n.  *),  should  be  L  3 
(p.  13,  Oud. ;  p.  4,  G.  KriigerV 

P.  78,  1.  22  ;  41,  24,  "bray  him  in  a  mortar, 

"he  will  be  the  same."    See  Proverbs  xxviL  22. 

P.  80,  n.  4;  42,  n .*,  "Plutarchus  Solone":  4, 

P.  80.  1.  25 ;  44,  33,  "  by  Plato's  good  leave," 

•  Phil.,'  36,  r)9E-60A. 

P.  80,  1.  34  ;  42,  41,  "  nemo  nuttus  qui  non 
shiltut,  'tis  Fabius'  aphorism  to  the  same 
end."    Quintil.,  '  Inst.,'  xii.  1,  4. 

P.  82,  I.  5  ;  43.  23,  "out  of  au  old  Poem." 
The  'Hypsipyle'  of  Euripides;  Frag.  757 
Dind. 

P.  82 
noa 
sapientem  virum  non  cadit." 

P.  83,  n.  3  ;  44,  u.  b,  "  Ep.  Damageto " 
tHippocr.  Ep.  xiv.  3] ;  n.  4  ;  n.  c  [Ep.  xiv.  4]. 
P.  83,  n.  5;  44,  n.  d,  "per  multum  risum 
poteris  cognoscere  stultum."  Rimm  and 
mvltuvi  should  be  transposed.  "This  leonine 
hexameter,  with  debet  for  jx/teris,  is  quoted 
in  Binder's  'Nov.  Thes.  Adag.  Latin,'  from 
Gartner's  'Proverbialia  Dicteria'  (1574). 

P.  84,  1.  19;  44,  48,  "to  keep  Homer's 
works."  Pliny,  'N.H.,'  vii.  29,  108  ;  Plutarch, 
'  Alexand.,'  44. 

P.  84,  1.  20;  45,  1,  "Scaliger  upbraids 
Homer's  Muse,  nutnctm  insanae  supientics." 
J.  C.  Scaliger's  remark  :  see  his  son's  Confut.  ' 
Fab.  Burd.,'  p.  201,  •Opusc.,'  Pt.  II.  (1012). 
Burton's  marginal  note  is  "  Hypocrit."  Was 
he  thinking  of  bk.  vi.,  '  Hypercriticus,'  of 
fJcaliger's  'Poettce,'  cap.  vii.,  where,  in  criti- 
cizing Hor.,  'Epist.,'  i.  2,  Scaliger  says,  "quia 
enim  dicat  Horaeri  nugas  ease  potiores  prte- 
•ceptis  philosophorum"! 

P.  84,  n.  0 ;  45  n.  6,  "  ut  mulier  auHca 
nullius  pudons."  For  this  remark  of  J.  C 
•Scaliger  see  '  Confut.,'  loc.  cit. 

p.  84,  1.  24;  45,  4.  "Scaliger  rejects  him 

[Lucian] and  calls  him   the  Cerberus  of 

the  Muses."    J.  C.  Scaliger  again  ;  see  '  Con- 
fut,' ad  fin.  (p.  202),    "  Qalonura  fimbriam 
Hippocrates"  (see  Burton,  85,  1.  4;  45,  15) 
occurs  immediately  after  this  in  the  '  Confut.' 
p.  84,  1.  30;   45,  9,  "Cardan,  in  his  16th 
"Book  of '  Subtleties,'  reckons  up  twelve  super- 
eminent,  acute  Philosophers."    See  pp.  802-4 
of  the  1582  (Basel)  edition  of  '  De  Subtil." 
Edwabd  Bensly, 
Tho  University.  Adelaide,  South  Australia. 
(Toht  continued.) 

Tbe  Enoush  is  France,— I  may  note  a 
curious  trace  of  the  English  rule  in  France, 
which  I  have  just  come  across  in  the  Vienna 


Nnti  FreU  Presse  of  10  January.  M.  Combee, 
the  present  Prime  Minister  of  France,  in  tbe 
course  of  an  interview,  mentions  that  he  first 
met  his  wife  on  the  "  Boulingrin  "  (the  prin- 
cipal promenade)  of  Pons,  a  small  town  in  the 
Cnarente.  The  "  Boulingrin  "  at  Rouen,  near 
Joan  of  Arc's  prison,  is  well  known.  It  would 
be  interesting  to  note  similar  relics  of  the 
English  rule  to  be  found  elsewhere  in  France. 
I  can  only  recollect  the  bosses  in  the  roof  of 
the  cathedral  at  Bayonne  with  the  arms  of 
Henry  VL  H.  2. 

Sir  Thomas  Wvatt's  Kiddle.— In  Robert 
Bell's  edition  of  this  poet's  works  there  is  a 
piece  infelicitously  entitled  'Description  of 
a  Gun,'  which  runs  as  follows  :— 

Vulcan  begat  nte ;  Minervk  me  taught : 

Nature  my  njother;  oraft  nouriahod  ine  year  by 

year; 
Three  bodiea  are  my  food  ;  my  strcnstli  is  in  noueht ; 
Anger,  wrath,  waste,  tud  noiae  are  my  children 

dear, 
ti  uess,  friend,  what  I  am.  and  how  I  am  wtt>ught. 
Monster  of  sea,  or  of  land,  or  of  eUewhere  : 

Know  mo,  and  use  rae,  and  I  may  thee  defend  : 

And,  if  I  be  thine  enemy,  1  may  thy  life  end. 

We  are  informed  in  a  note  that  "In  the 
Harrington  MS.  these  lines  are  entitled,  'A 
Riddle  ex  Paudulpho ' " ;  but  who  Pandulpbus 
was  we  are  not  told,  nor  have  I  been  able  to 
discover,  but  the  original  of  Wyatt's  first 
four  lines  is  quoted  in  Camden's  *  llemainee' 
in  his  chapter  on  'Artillarie,'  where  he 
writes :  — 

"The  best  approved  Authors  agree  that  they 
[Kunsl  were  invented  in  Germanie  by  Berthold 
Swarte,  a  Monke  skillful  in  Gebers  Cookery  or 
Aluhiniy,  who,  temperini;  Brimstone  and  Saltpeter 
in  a  raorter,  perceived  the  force  by  castinc  up  the 
stone  which  covered  it,  when  a  sparke  fell  into  it. 
Butoneeaith  he  consulted  with  the  divell  for  an 
offensive  weapon,  who  gave  him  answer  in  this 
obscure  Oracle  :— 
ValcanuB  gi((nat,  pariat  Natura,  Minerva 

Edoceat,  nutrix  arc  erit  atque  dies. 
Vis  mea  de  nibilo,  tria  dent  mihi  corpora  paatuni : 

Sunt  Bobolea  atrages,  vis,  furor,  atque  fr&gor. 
By  this  instruction  he    made   a    trunek  of  yron 
with  learned  advice,  crammed  it  with  sulphore, 
bullet,  and,  putting  thereto  fire,  found  the  effoof 
to  bee    destruction,    violence,    fury,    and   roari: 
cracke. 

Tho  old  writer,  who  penned  these  words  three 
centuries  ago  this  very  year,  furnishes  tbe 
vaguest  authority  for  his  remarkable  state- 
mentaboutSchwarz'sdealings  with  his  Satanic 
m^sty,  whose  tetrastich  is  certainly  superior 
to  Wyatt's  octave  in  point  of  finish.  Polydore 
Virgil,  in  his  book  'De  Rerum  Inventor'ibus,' 
lib.  ii.  cap.  xi.,  relates  pretty  much  tho 
same  story,  but  he  gives  no  name,  and  merely 
declares  the  discoverer  to  have  been  "  a  Ger- 


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-.   -..   -      ----     a  .       , 

vKxlum  tQitofjilan),  nor  does  he  in  this  place 
su^^&st  any  diabolic  prompting.  In  Ho.  iii. 
xnii.  it  is  true  he  saj's  that  he  scarcely  can 
believe  it  to  be  a  human  invention,  but  that 
some  demon  must  have  revealed  it  to  man- 
kind, BO  that  they  might  fight  each  other 
not  only  with  arms,  but  with  thunderbolts. 
Still,  though  some  of  Camden's  language  is 
traceable  to  this  volume,  I  am  inclined  to 
think  he  borrowed  much  of  hia  chapter  from 
a  later  writer.  "  One  writeth,"  he  says, 
"  I  know  not  upon  whose  credit,  that  Roger  Bacon, 
commonly  called  Frier  Bacon,  knew  to  make  an 
engine,  which  with  Saltpeter  and  Briuutone  should 
prove  notAble  for  batterie,  but  he  tendring  the 
safety  of  niaukind  would  not  discover  it." 

In  the  margin  the  name  of  "  Sir  I.  Harrington" 
is  given  as  authority,  and  I  take  it  that  the 
other  quotation,  in  which  the  oracle  is  found, 
is  also  from  his  pen.  Can  an}'  one  furnish  us 
with  an  account  of  "  the  Harrington  MS."  ? 
JOHU  T.  CuRRV. 

Crucifix  at  the  North  Door  of  Old 
St.  Paul's.— In  Old  St.  Paul's  one  of  the 
objects  most  reverenced  was  the  crucifix 
near  to  the  Great  North  Door.  Canon 
Sparrow  Simpson  gave  some  notes  about  it 
in  'Documents  illustrating  the  History  of 
St.  Paul's  Cathedral,'  Camden  Soc,  N.S., 
xxvi.  p.  Ixvii.  The  following  proofs  of  its 
widespread  fame  would  have  delighted  him. 

In  l.'lT'i  Robert  de  Auathorpe,  clerk,  rector 
of  St.  John's,  "  Staneford,"  in  the  diocese  of 
Lincoln,  desired  "  to  be  buried  in  St.  Paul's 
Church,  London,  before  the  cross  and  image 
of  the  crucifix  at  the  North  Door"  (Gibbons, 
'Early  Lincoln  Wills,'  1888,  p.  26). 

In  1472  William  Ecopp,  rector  of  Heslerton, 
East  Yorkshire,  desired  that  immediately 
after  his  burial  a  pilgrim  should  go  for  him 
"  Crucifixo  apud  hostium  boriale  Sancti  Pauli 
London."  ('  Test.  Ebor.,'  iii  200). 

In  1498  La<iy  Scrope  left  "  to  the  roode  of 
Northdor  my  herte  or  goolde  w-'  a  dyaraaunt 
in  the  midds"  ('Test.  Ebor.'  iv.  153).  It 
«eems  to  have  been  so  well  known  that  it 
VM  unDocessarr  to  add  the  place. 

W.  C.  B. 

Chicaqo  in  1853.  — "Truly,  history  often 
repeats  itself,  if  occasionally  it  does  not 
present  "a  continuous  performance."  Those 
familiar  with  the  Chicago  of  to-day  will  be 
amused  by  the  following  quotation  from  a 
little  b<K)k  entitled  *  Sketcnes  of  the  Country,' 
«kc.,  by  John  llcynolds,  144,  Belleville,  Illinois, 
1864:— 

"Ortftt  ezdtemeat  and  enlhusiasni  prevail  in 
this  oity  to  acquire  fortunes  and  fame,  induce  the 
ottizens  to  exert  all  their  pbyaical  and  mental 


enertdes  and  abilities  in  such  a  manner  that  every 
latent  spark  of  mind  and  activity  is  brought  into 
active  operation.  Under  these  considerations,  every 
citij«n  has  an  institution  of  learning  l)eforo  hira, 
and  if  he  do  not  become  a  soholar  in  it,  he  must 
take  a  bock  seat,  at  least  in  the  forum  of  wealth 
and  business.  ,       •  ■  r 

"  By  these  exciting  (.ircumstadoes,  the  citizens  of 
Cbicano  have  acquired  talents  and  energy  in  business 
that  cannot  be  surpassed.  They  scarcely  take  time 
to  eat  or  sleep,  ana  their  gait  in  the  street  is  gene- 
rally much  taster  than  a  common  walk.  Almost 
every  citizen  of  Chicago  has  the  acquisition  of  a 
fortune  atrongly  governing  his  uiind,  and  ho  has 
either  obtained  it,  or  is  in  not  porsuit  of  it. 

One  is  almost  persuaded  to  believe  that 
nothing  is  impossible,  for,  given  a  sufficient 
expenditure  of  energy  well  guided,  results 
can  be  accomplished ;  nevertheless,  haste 
sometimes  is  transformed  into  hurry. 

ECOKSE  F.  McPlBLB. 
Chicago,  U.S. 

A  Reuc  of  Chateaubriand.  —  Le  Petit 
Temps  of  2  February  containe(i  some  interest- 
ing particulars  of  a  curious  donation  made 
the  other  day  to  the  ilusdeCarna valet,  Pans, 
by  an  octogenarian  hairdresser,  M.  Paques, 
who  was  in  some  sort  a  celebrity  for  having 
had  amongst  his  clientele  severalprominent 
personages  of  the  Restoration.  The  gift  in 
question  is  a  kind  of  picture  representing 
the  room  at  Saint-Malo  in  which  was  born 
the  author  of  *Atala'  and  'The  Martyrs. 
The  aged  artist  in  hair  wished  to  have  ttie 
satisfaction  before  his  death  of  giving  to 
the  Parisians  what  would,  under  the  old 
r/'jinie,  have  been  called  his  masterpiece. 
Not  less  interesting  than  the  picture  itself 
are  the  authenticating  documents  which 
accompany  it.  Amongst  them  is  a  letter 
fron»  the  famous  caricaturist  Cham  (Vicomto 
de  Noi.'),  running  thus : — 

"Will  yott  call  and  cut  my  hair  on  Monday 
evening,  at  eight  o'clock?  I  have  examined  your 
pictures  [«>]  made  with  the  hair  of  M.  de  Chateau- 
briand. It  is  very  curious  and  especially  ingenjous ; 
for  &  curiosity  lover  it  has  its  value.  Receive  my 
salutations.    Cham." 

There  are  also  a  certificate  of  Louiset,  I'alet 
de  chambre  of  the  celebrated  writer,  and  a 
letter  from  the  popular  poet  B^ranger, 
delicately  worded,  but  very  explicit,  bearing 
date  15  October.  1848:— 

"Mr   DBAR  MONBIKPR  PAQUKS,— It   iS    not  OUitB 

fitting  that  I  give  you  the  attesUtion  you  ask  of  me. 
That  which  I  can  do  is  to  attest  that  you  had  such 
a  sincere  admiration  for  the  great  man  we  nave 
lost  that  it  would  be  contrary  to  your  probity  to 
present  aa  coming  from  him  objecU  that  had  not 
belonged  to  his  esublishment.  Besides,  the  certi- 
fic&te  which  good  and  honest  Louiset,  so  devoted  to 
his  master,  hos  given  to  you,  is  the  best  guarantee 
yott  can  offer.    1  am  still  very  grateful  to  if  on.  tat 


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the  hair  of  tho  illiwtrious  dei>arted  which  you  gave 
me.  Receive  anew  my  thaoka.  Entirely  »t  your 
»ervice,  BjtKiNOEB." 

Lastly.  M.  Paques  has  added  an  tmpublished 
letter  wnich  he  heA  in  his  possession,  and 
which,  although  it  does  not  bear  tho  name  of 
the  person  to  whom  it  wras  written,  appears 
to  have  been  addressed  by  Chateaubriand  to 
some  ofHcial  personage  in  a  poaition  to  grant 
his  request.  It  is  riated  3  September,  1828, 
and  shows  how  anxious  was  tlie  writer  to 
rest  after  death  at  Saint-Malo  : — 

"Yo\x  cannot  doubt.  Monsieur,  of  the  very  lively 
interest  I  t«ke  in  my  native  town  :  I  liavo  only  one 
fear,  that  is  of  not  seeing  it  ag&in  before  I  die.  I 
have  long  thought  of  asking  the  town  to  grant  tue, 
at  the  wealeni  point  of  Grand -Bey,  the  i>oiut 
jutting  out  farthest  into  the  onen  sea,  a  little  corner 
of  earth,  just  sufficient  to  hold  my  coffin.  I  shall 
have  it  consecrated  and  surrounded  by  an  iron 
railing.  There,  when  it  may  please  God,  I  shall 
repose  under  the  protection  of  my  fellow-citizens. 
Aooept  once  more,  I  beg  you,  the  ascurance  of 
the  very  distinguished  consideration  with  which  I 
have  the  honour  to  be  your  very  humble  and  very 
ubedient  servant,  Cuateacbriand." 

J.  L.  Heelis. 

Tennyson  on  Britain.  —  Tennyson's  fine 
stanzas  'To  the  Marquis  of  DuflFerin  and 
Ava'  open  thus: — 

At  times  our  Britain  cannot  rest, 
At  time.s  her  steps  are  iiuick  and  rash  ; 
yhe  moving,  at  hor  girdle  clash 

The  t'oUleii  keys  of  East  and  West. 

I  observe  tliat  Mr.  B.  B.  Hogers^  in  his  i-ecent 
etlition  of  the  '  Thesmopnonazusie,"  says 
(note  on  1.  970)  tliat  the  third  and  fourth 
lines,  though  first  printed  by  Tennyson  in 
1889,  had  long  been  familiar  to  him,  inusoiuch 
as  they  first  appeared— witliout  the  author's 
name  —  so  far  back  as  1844,  in  the  intro- 
ductory chapter  of  H.  Lushington's  '  A  Groat 
Country's  Little  Wars.'  I  do  not  recollect 
having  seen  this  fact  previously  noted. 

E.  H.  Blakeney. 
Marlow,  Bucks. 

February  30.— In  the  '  Parish  Registers  of 
ICirkburton,  co.  York,"  edite<l  by  Frances 
Anne  Collins,  1887,  i.  11,  there  is  an  entry  of 
a  burial  on  "  xxx."  die  mensis  February, 
1545/6,"  to  which  the  editor  adds  a  note, 
taken  from  the  LeedU  iJcrcunj  Sunjilemenf, 
2(5  June,  1880,  that  "Monday,  30  Februarj-,  is 
duly  recognized  in  the  'Nautical  Almanac' 
for  1880."  W.  C.  B. 

'Nicholas  Nickleby*:  Capt.  Cuttle,— 
A  correspondent  points  out  (ante,  p.  44)  in 
I  Martin  Chuzzlewit'  a  slip  of  the  author's 
in  doscribing  clerical  costume.  A  still  nioro 
««?"'ir  slip  occurs  in  '  Nicholas  Niokleby,' 
winch  I  have  never  seen  noticed  anywhere. 


Nicholas  journeys  down  to  Yorkshire  in  the 
dead  of  winter.  Snow  is  deep  on  the  ground . 
Yet  on  the  day  after  hi**  arrival  one  of  tho 
pupils  is  absent  from  "the  first  class  in 
English  spoiling  and  pliilosophy."  and  it  i^; 
explained  that  he  is  ivieding  trie  garden. 
This  in  deep  snow  ! 

1  wonder  if  any  of  yoor  readers  know 
where  Dickens  got  tho  name  Capt.  Cuiile 
from.  This  matter  shouM  be  of  intei-ost  to 
every  reader  of  'N.  &,  O.'  It  is  taken  from 
Pepys's  '  Diary  '  (see  under  8  Feb.,  IG60, 1,  and 
also  10  and  14  Sept..  1C65).  Pepys's  phrase 
"  |x>or  Capt.  Cuttle '  probably  suggested  to 
Dickens  some  odd  or  grotesque  oliaracter. 
In  a  speech  at  tho  Theatre  Royal,  Drury 
Lane,  on  27  June,  1835,  he  speaks  of  Pepys's 
'Diary*  being  "rather  a  favourite  of  his." 
Perhaps  he  had  read  it  carefully  to  nrovido 
picturesque  details  for  bis  '  Child's  tlistory 
of  England '(1853).  J.  WiLLCOtE, 

Lerwick,  N.B. 

Skellat  Bell  :  Moht  Bell.  (See  9"'  S.  vi. 
30G.)— In  the  Rdi<ju<inj  for  October,  1003,  it 
is  mentione<l  that  Dougal  Oraham,  the  fore- 
most among  the  chapmen  of  the  end  of  the 
eighteenth  century,  was  given  the  appoint- 
ment of  skellat  -  bdl  -  rinuef  to  the  city  of 
Glasgow ;  and  the  exnlaualion  is  borrowed 
from  Prof  Fraser's  'Humorous  Chapbooks 
of  .Scotland  ■  that  the  "  skellat  bell  "  was  used 
for  ordinary  announcements  by  the  town 
crier,  and  the  "  mort  bell  "  for  intimation  of 
deaths.  Tlie  latter,  by  the  way,  is  repre- 
sented in  the  South  Taw  ton  parish  account-s 
by  the  "  leche  beU." 

Ethel  Lboa-Wbekes. 

Our   Oldest    Pdbmc   School.  —  In    tho 
Suri-e)/  Coiiut  of  13  February  is  reported  a 
speech  by  Mr.  A.  F.  Leach,  Assistant  Secre- 
tary of  the  Board  of  Education,  delivered 
in  support  of  the  appeal  which  is  being  made 
for  funds  for  Queen  Elizabeth's  Scho<jl  at 
Kingston  -  on  -  "Thames.    Therein   ho  read  a, 
document  which  he  had  found  in  the  book  i 
of    tho    Prior    of    Canterbury,    ami    which 
was  written  at  Esher  by  Bishop  Edyngdon 
of   Winchester    (who    preceded    William    of 
Wykeliam)  to  tlie  Prior  of  Canterburv,  on 
7    April,    1364.    Bishop    Edyngdon's    letter 
mentions  that  at  that  early  date  ''a  school] 
had  been  accustomed  to  be  kept  "at  KiQgti-| 
ton,  and  he  refers  to  it  as  "a  public  school,/'! 
the  first  use  of  that  term  of  which  Mr.  ' 
was  aware.    The  usual   title  was  grammar 
school,  or   school  of  a  cathedral  or    town. 
Winchester  College,  generally   regarded    an 
the  oldest  of  our    public  scnools,   was  not 
founded  until  twenty  years  after  the  d«tej 


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of  this  letter.    Advertiseoieuts  of  the  King's  | 
School,  Canterbury,  assort  that  it  is  "tnei 
oldest  Public  Scliw>l  in  England,  dating  from 
the  7th  Century;  refounded  by  Henry  VII  [. 
in  1641."  G.  T. 

Edenholm,  Thames  Dittou. 

•Thb  True  Metuowst;  on,  Christian  in 
Eaxxest.'  (See  S""  S,  iii.  148.)— It  is  now 
about  eleven  years  since  my  query  wa« , 
inserted  at  the  above  reference  without ' 
eliciting  any  reply,  lieing,  however,  at ' 
length  enabled  to  mj'self  supply  the  re<^uired 
iDfonnation  as  to  the  authorship,  I  think  it 
well  to  conamunicate  the  same  to  '  N.  i  Q.' 
'  The  True  Methodist '  appeai-s  to  be  one  of  the 
"lost"  works  of  the  Rev.  William  Warburton 
(afterwards  Bisiiop  of  Gloucester,  and  friend 
of  the  poet  Pope).  It  wa-s  written  from  the 
Established  Church  point  of  view  as  to  the 
character  and  belief  of  a  (me  Methodist,  in 
opposition  to  the  Methodism  of  the  Wesley 
and  Whitefield  type;  and  the  MS.  in  question 
was  apparently  revised  for  the  press.  0  July, 
1765,  "after,"  as  the  author  states  therein, 
"reading  of  [the  Rev.]  Mr.  Hervey's  'Dia- 
logues on  Theron  anrl  Aspasio,'  w"^^  savours 
strongly  of  .Methodism,"  but  was  never 
printed.  The  MS.  memorandum  which  is 
inserted  in  the  volume,  and  was,  I  believe, 
made  (possibly  c.  1829)  by  the  late  Rev.  W. 
Valentine,  M  A.,  incumbent  of  St.  Stephen's. 
Stept»ey,  Chaplain  and  House-Governor  of 
the  London  Hospital,  but  possibly  copied 
from  Hurd,  is  as  follows  :— 

*'  Other  Tracln  in  MS. 
on  the  Prophet  l««ub,  kc 
on  the  New  Te«tam^— Epistle  to  the 
not  tiniahed. 

10.  On  llio  Creed,  or  Credenda  of  Religion. 

11.  l*roof«  of  X"  Divinity  from  the  four  Kvan- 
goliata. 

12.  TbB  True  Methodistw 

l.'i.  Lutt«r3  on  various  Qaestions  in  Divinity. 

14.  Kefieoiioos  and  Collectious  on  the  Sabject  of 
tukihiC  Oaths  to  Government. 

"Of  'The  True  Methodist'  we  may  form  some 
opinioo,  both  of  the  style  and  matter,  by  some 
letters  addreaacd  to  Mr.  Broushton  [probably  the 
Rev.  Mr.  Bron^thton.  of  Oreat  St.  Helen's.  Hiatiom- 
i:»t*,  I.nndon.  Afternoon  Lecturer,  wlio  befrienoied 
the  ''  '•  .  Whitefield  in  January,  I7:i9].  a 
trtt.i  .vhich  1  have  already  committed  to 

the   1  1   of    ihu 

nlladcHl  Uj  in  \  \v      ':'••■ 
(i>.,  'The  Trii.    M     ii 
oxist«ticc.      N'  ■ 
fallvu  into  w\ 
caled  to  nic  w:  i 

pOMCBlion    thev    liuvv    i 

great«r  iMirt  of  them  are  cither  inadvert«utl7  lost 
or  caroloMly  dcsiroye«l." 

A  Ms.  letter  in  a  similar  hand,  of  about 
ii9)  small  quarto  pages,  dated  6  Uecember, 


iiublic.      The  coTnpositioD 

I.;  of  tracts  in  M.S.  No.  12 

list 'I  i«  not,  I  believe,  in 

'         .''o  {wpera  have 

iMcn  commuui- 

1 4ioly  £n  whose 

In  aI\  probability  the 


1737,  from  "  W.  W."  (W.  Warburton)  to  "  Mr 
Whitfield  "  (the  celebrated  Geo.  Whitefield), 
dissenting  from  the  latter'a  sermons  and 
notions  concerning  Regeneration  and  the 
New  Birth,  is  also  in  my  possession. 

Whether  Mr.  Valentine  (as  above)  possessed 
these  two  MSS.  I  am  not  certain  ;  but  I 
believe  they  came  to  me,  with  others 
certainly  his,  from  a  London  book-auction  in 
or  about  1878.  His  library  was,  huwever 
sold  by  auction  by  Evans  in  April,  1842. 
Possibly  that  of  1878  was  of  his  son's  books 
and  MSS.  W,  I.  R.  V. 


We  mast  request  correspondents  desiring  in- 
formation on  family  ntattera  of  only  private  interest 
to  allix  their  names  and  addresses  to  their  queries, 
in  order  that  the  answers  may  b«  addressed  to  tnem 
direct. 

"The  Cbown  and  Three  Sut;.iJi  Loavr*." 
— From  America  I  have  been  asked  for  some 
information  which  I  have  failed  to  obtain 
hitherto,  and  seek  the  aid  of  your  valuable 
paper. 

My  correspondent  inquires  as  to  the 
position  of  a  tea  house  with  the  sign  of  **The 
Crown  and  Three  Sugar  Loaves,"  and  speaks 
of  it  as  "the  oldest  lea  house  in  Great 
Britain,  and  the  one  that  exported  the  tea 
that  made  so  much  commotion  in  Boston 
Harbour"— presumably  in  1773.  My  interro- 
gator speaks  of  "across  the  Thames  from 
Xewcomen  Street "  as  the  nearest  indication 
of  locality  known. 

1.  Are  the  above  statements  accurate  as 
far  as  they  go  ] 

2.  If  so,  what  is,  or  wa.s,  the  site  occupied 
by  the  tea  house  in  question  1 

3.  Is  the  old  sign  of  "The  Crown  and 
Three  Sugar  Loaves"  still  to  be  seen,  and 
where  ] 

4.  If  the  house  has  been  destroyed,  when 
did  such  destruction  take  place  1  Hio. 

"He  who  KX0W8  SOT,"  Ac  — In  a  letter 
to  the   J\>/i($  of   5   January   appeared   the 
following   lines.     Can  any   reader    give  mo 
the  author's  name  ? — 
He  who  knows  not,  and  knows  not  that  he  knotra 

not,  ia  a  fool ;  shun  him. 
He  who  knows  not,  and  knows  that  he  knows  not, 

is  asleep  ;  wake  him,  teach  hint. 
He  who  knows,  and  knows  that  ho  knows,  is  a  wim 

man :  seek  him.  ^    . 

C.  E.  Lkkd«. 

Elc^noic  Mai'letokt.  —  Can  any  reader 
give  iufurmation  as  to  the  aucextora  of 
Eleanor  Mapletoft,  married  about  1780  tA 


168 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


rW"  8.  TTFiW^ej,  \9(^ 


William  Laxon,  who  was  agent  to  Lord 
Brownlow,  and  lived  in  or  near  (Jrantham  7 
Wa«  thia  Eleanor  Mapletoft  descended  from 
either  Joshua  or  Solomon  Mapletoft,  nephews 
of  Nicholas  Ferrar,  of  Little  Oiddingi 

E.   E.   PSBKIIfS. 
Hitchin. 

Authors  of  Ocotatiokb.— Who  are  the 
authors  of  the  following  lin©«  ?— 

1.  A  face  to  lose  youth  for,  to  occupy  mffe 
With  the  dream  of,  meet  death  with. 

2.  True  earnest  Borrows,  rooted  miseries, 
ADguish  in  grain,  vexations  ripo  and  blown. 

3.  A  glut  of  pleasure. 

4.  Tot  conjcestoa  nocteaqne  dieeque  labores  tran- 

serit  una  dica. 

5.  Mine  eyei  are  made  the  foola  o'  the  other sensea, 
Or  else  worth  all  the  rest. 

6.  Dumb  jewels  often  in  their  silent  kind, 

More  anick  than  words,  do  move  a  woman'a 
mind. 

7.  In  some  old  nlKht  of  time. 

8.  The  ineommunicable  ardour  of  things. 

0.  Nothing  ia  here  for  tears,  nothinK  to  wait,  kc, 

10.  Live  and  take  comfort.    Thou  hast  left  behind 
Powers  that  will  work  for  thee :  air,  earth,  and 

skies. 

11.  There  all  in  spaoea  rosy-bright 
Large  Hesper  gtitter'd  on  her  tears. 

12.  Yet,  Freedom  !  Yet  thybaoQer,  torn,  bnt  flying, 
Streams  like  the  thunderstorm  against  the  winn. 

13.  Aohille«  ponders  in  his  tent ; 

The  kinea  of  modern  thought  are  dumb. 
Silent  tney  are,  though  not  content, 
And  wait  to  see  the  future  come. 
They  have  the  grief  men  had  of  yore, 
But  they  contend  and  cry  no  more. 
1-4.  To  set  as  sets  the  morning  star,  which  goes 
Not  down  behind  the  darkenea  west,  nor  hides, 
4c. 

W.  L-  POOLK. 
[5.  'Macbeth,'  II.  i.  44.    6.  'Two  Gentlemen  of 
Verona,'  III.  i.     9.  Milton,   'Samson    Agonistos,' 
1727-     11-  Tennyson.  '  Mariana  in    the  South,'  90. 

12.  '  Ciiildo  Harold's  Pilgrimage,' canto  iv.  stanza  08. 

13.  Matthew  Arnold,  'Stanzas  from  the  Grande 
Chartreuse.'] 

Arms  of  Ghent.— What  was  the  coat  of 
arms  of  this  famous  city  in  the  fifteenth 
century?  A.  R.  Bayley. 

'Lord  Batbman  akd  hib  Sophia.'— Who 
was  "J.  H.  S.,  late  J.  H.  P.,"  author  of 
"The  Grand  Serio-Comic  Opera  of  'Lord 
Bateman  and  his  Sophia""!  It  was  origin- 
ally printed  for  Sir  Thos.  Pliillipp.s  (fatner- 
in-law  of  J.  O.  Halliwell-Pliillipps)  by  James 
Rogers  at  the  Middle  Hill  Pres-s,  and  re- 
printed by  O.  Norman  in  18C5.  At  the  end 
18  "Batmannica  quae  supersunt  e  variis 
Unguis  fragmenta  non  ante  hoc  in  lucem 
edita,"  a  delightful  collection  (with  a  Latin 


preface)  of  translations  of  the  '  Loving 
Ballad'  into  Greek  and  Latin  elegiacs,  and 
into  French,  and  into  Italian  verse. 

Edward  Heron -Ai.len. 

Doesbtmhirb  Snakk-lore.— a  snake,  3  ft. 
long,  was  killed  at  noon  by  a  schoolboy  in 
a  Dorsetshire  village  and  brought  to  me  at 
once.  On  my  ofifering  to  handle  it,  I  was 
warned  by  one  of  the  children  that  it  was 
not  dead,  and  when  I  pointed  out  that  its 
battered  condition  was  incompatible  witJi 
its  being  alive,  I  was  at  once  told  that  "this 
wAH  not  real  death,  as  neither  snakes  nor  slow- 
worms  can  ever  really  die  till  after  sunset." 
I  quote  the  exact  words.  Is  this  a  general 
article  of  popular  belief  ?  Rkd  Cross. 

Mess  DREb.s :  Sergeants'  Sashes.— Would 
any  authority  on  military  matters  kindly 
say  at  what  period  the  mess  costume  for 
officers,  of  what  is  termed  the  shell  jacket 
open  and  a  waistcoat,  became  the  rule  T 

What  is  the  earliest  authenticated  date  at 
which  sergeants  of  the  line  wore  a  sash  t 

R.  S.  C. 

Arms  of  Lincoln,  City  and  See.—  What 
is  the  date  of  the  grant  of  arms  to  tho  city 
of  Lincoln  and  to  the  see  of  Lincoln  ?  Any 
information  concerning  the  armorial  bear- 
ings of  Lincoln  will  be  cordially  welcomed. 

J.  W.  G. 

"Golf':  is  it  ScANPlNAVTANl-Ithasbeen 
said  that  the  name  of  the  game  of  cjolf  came 
from  Holland,  and  means  club,  as  designatiiag 
the  instrument  used  for  driving  the  ball  in 
that  ground -game.  But  golf  means  Jloor 
in  Swedish,  and  giilv  has  the  same  sense  in 
Danish  and  Norwegian  ;  and  these  words 
are  applied,  as  I  am  told,  to  a  piece  of  turfy 
or  grassy  laud  prepared  for  playing  games  of 
ball,  and  not  merely  to  a  floor  of  planks  or 
any  other  artificial  arrangement.  If  the 
word  had  passed  into  English  from  Dutch, 
would  it  not  have  been  kol/7  One  thing  is 
certain,  i.e.,  that  the  dropping  of  the  I  in  the 
pronunciation  of  the  word  in  Scotland  is 
incorrect,  as  it  obliterates  the  etymon. 

E.   S.   DODGSON. 
[SeeO'i'S.  ix.349,431.] 

Turner:  Canalrtto.— I  have  taken  up 
Raskin's  'Modern  Painters.'  In  vol.  i.  he 
refers  to  so  many  of  Turner's  works,  as  well 
as  to  many  of  Claude's,  Poussin's,  and  Cuyp's, 
that  I  shall  be  grateful  if  any  correspondent 
learned  in  these  matters  will  tell  me  privately 
whether  most  of  Turner's  and  of  the  other 
painters'  works  are  to  be  seen  in  our  public 
galleries  or  not  Any  information  that  may 
help  me  to  view  them  without  waste  of  timo 


I 


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169 


N 


or  excessive  fatigue  will  be  extremely  grateful. 
There  are  several  (Janalebtos  in  the  Hertford 
Collection.  I  formed  a  very  poor  opinion  of 
them  when  I  viewed  them  soon  after  the 
exhibition  was  thrown  open  to  the  public. 
I  was  not  then  aware  that  Kuskin  had  pro- 
nounced against  them.  M.  L.  R.  6rk.slar. 
Percy  House,  South  Hackney. 


h. 


"Chevinizr."— A  lady  whose  father,  uncle, 
and  husband  were  clergymen,  making  her 
will  in  1848,  bequeathH  "a  pair  of  salt-spoons, 
the  japanned  chevinier,  and  a  pair  of  silver 
Bugar-tongs  "  to  one  person,  ana  "  a  painted 
chevinier  "  to  another.    What  was  the  thing  7 

W.  C.  B. 
[A  chiffoDier?] 

Guide  to  Makoe  Rolls.— I  have  recently 
copied  a  series  of  Manor  Rolls  from  Henry  Vl. 
to  Elizabeth.  Many  of  the  formulas  relating 
to  such  common  matters  as  damage  by  cattle, 
strays,  Jbc,  puzzle  me  sadly.  These  rolls  are 
more  abbreviated  than  any  documents  I  have 
ever  seen,  and  manv  of  the  gaps— sometimes 
indicated  by  "<fcc.,  and  more  often  not— I 
am  unable  to  fill.  In  .several  instances  the 
fjelden  Society's  'Select  Pleas '  has  helped  me. 
Will  any  reacier  of  '  N.  A  O.'  refer  mo  to  any 
work  on  the  subject  ?  I  have  been  hoping 
for  aid  from  Prof.Vinogradoff's  'The  English 
Manor,'  in  the  "Social  England  "  Series,  but 
that  seems  long  in  coming.  Ygrec. 

[Try  Mias  Tlioyte's  '  How  to  Decipher  Old  Docn- 
roents.'] 

REarciDE8  OF  Ch.keles  I.— A  letter  written 
by  Miss  Sidney  Lyon,  of  JeflFersonville, 
Indiana,  20  March,  1902,  mentions  a  tradi- 
tion, as  coming  from  two  sources  unknown 
to  each  other,  of 

"  three  Lyon  brothers  who  were  on  guard  at  the 
scaffold  before  the  Banqueting  House  at  Whitehall 
the  day  Charlea  I.  was  executed,  Jao.  31,  1649. 
After  the  reKioide,  they  tied  from  Eogland  and 
settled  in  Connecticut.  Richard  and  Tbomas.  of 
Fairfield,  and  John,  of  Bryan  Point,  were  doubtless 
those  three  brothers." 

Are  there  any  records  tending  to  substantiate 
the  above  1  Euqbnb  F.  McPike. 

Chicago.  U.S. 

EoEBTON  •  Wabbdrton.— I  have  a  letter 
'rom  the  late  Mr.  J.  E.  Bailey,  editor  of  the 
''nl.itine  NoUbook^  dated  Stretford,  1  Feb- 
ruary, 1886,  in  which  is  the  following  :— 

"Mr.  Egerton - Warburton  has  written  at  my 

nU^astion  a  good  epigram  on  the  Chetbam  Society 

which  will  come  nnder  your  notice  soon.    He  also 

ent  me  one  which  vou  ^lerhaiis  know  on  the  name 

Primnme'  for  the  Loai^o,  and  the  bait  which  has 

'aded  Hodge's  grip— the  Coio-slip," 

be  that  Mr.  Bailey  meant  that  the 
epigram    had  been  written  by  Mr. 


Egerton- Warburton.  That  on  the  Chetham 
Society  was  probably  intended  to  appear  in 
the  next  number  or  the  Palatine  rfotebook^ 
seeing  that  Mr.  Bailey's  letter  was  written  to 
inform  me  inter  alui  that  the  last  number  of 
the  Palatine  Notebook  — viz.,  No.  49,  vol.  v., 
May,  188.5  — was  the  last  which  had  been 
published,  but  that  he  was  "hoping  to  resume 
it  in  March."  I  believe  that  no  number  ever 
followed  the  one  number  of  vol.  v.  Have 
the  epigrams  alluded  to  appeared  in  print? 

The  Mr.  Warburton  referred  to  was  no 
doubt  the  late  Mr.  R  E.  Egerton -Warburton, 
author  of  'Hunting  Songs  and  Balle^Js,'  iic. 

ROBEET  PlERPOINT. 

Ancient  Bbitons.— Can  you  inform  me 
where  to  find  a  short  article  or  work 
describing  the  British  tribes,  their  habita- 
tions, religion,  customs,  agriculture,  tools, 
and  weapons  ?  K  Blaker. 

Wallauus,  Lewes,  Snsaex. 

[Grant  Allen's  'Anglo-Saxon  Brit*»n'  (8.P.CK., 
•2«.  W.)  or  Prof.  A.  J.  Church's  'Early  Brit*in' 
(Fisher  Unwio,  .'m.)  will  probably  supply  the 
mformatioD  you  desire.  ] 

"Bellamy's."— In  the  Houses  of  Legis- 
lature in  New  Zealand  and  some  of  the 
Australian  States  the  parliamentary  refresh- 
ment department  is  called  "  Bellamv's," 
after  the  historic  Bellamy  who  in  old  days 
supplied  food  to  members  of  the  House  of 
Commons.  Various  references  to  that 
arrangement  appear  both  in  our  literature 
and  political  memoirs  :  bub  has  any  attempt 
ever  Deen  made  to  collect  them  and  write  a 
history  of  this  once  famous  establishment? 

Politician. 

"Ovah"  Bobbles.— In  an  obituary  notice 
of  Eugene  Vivier,  a  noted  hom-playor— a 
special  favourite  of  Napoleon  In.,  after- 
wards popular  in  London  society  (he  settled 
in  London  in  1848)  as  a  confirmed,  though 
good-natured  practical  joker — mention  is 
made  of  his  penchant  for  blowing  "  Ovah " 
bubbles.  Can  any  reader  give  information 
as  to  what  this  **  Ovah  "  is  f 

O.   W.   LANOLEt. 

Immortauty  op  Animals.— I  have  heard 
it  affirmed  that  Martin  Luther  said  he 
believed  the  souls  of  the  lower  animals  to 
be  immortal.  Is  there  any  contemporary 
authority  for  this  statement?        Astabtb. 

Jamaica  Newspaper. —Can  any  one  give 
me  information  as  to  a  weekly  newspaper 
started  in  the  early  years  of  the  last  oenttiry 
in  Jamaica  or  one  of  the  West  Indian 
islands  by  a  certain  William  Dalel 

(Rev.)  T.  C.  Dale. 

115,  London  Road,  Croydon. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        flP- b.  i.  Fnf^. 


NELSON'S  SISTER  ANNE. 
(Q'h  S.  xii.  428,) 

AVNK  Nelbon  was  naoaed  after  hor  grand- 
mother  (who  waw  also  her  godmother)  Anne, 
daughter  of  Sir  Charles  Tarner,  Bart.,  of 
Lvnn,  whoso  wife  was  Mary,  the  daughter  of 
Mr.  llobert  VValpole,  of  Houghton,  and  sister 
of  the  famous  Prime  Minister.  She  eloped, 
when  a  schoolgirl,  with  a  Mr.  William 
Robinson  (born  1737,  died  1811),  who  raised 
and  organized  the  Tower  Hamlets  Volun 
teers,  in  which  corps  he  held  the  commission 
of  Captain-Commandant  until  the  establish- 
ment of  the  Tower  Hamlets  Militia.  No 
marriage  appears  to  have  taken  place,  but 
there  was  one  child,  a  son,  who  was  born  on 
18  January,  1777.  Anne  Nelson,  who  sub- 
sequently returned  to  her  family,  died  some 
MX  years  afterwards,  and  was  buried  at 
B&thford,  in  Somersetshire.  Her  tomb  bears 
the  following  inscription  : — 

"  Underneath  aro  interred  the  remains  of  MIbs 
Anno  NoUon,  daughter  of  the  Reverend  Edmund 
Nelson  and  Bi8t«r  of  Viscount  Nelson,  who  died 
November  lo,  1783,  aged  23  years." 

The  .son  was  baptized  on  10  November 
1789.  at  the  church  of  St.  Luke,  Old  Street! 
m  the  City  of  London.  He  received  the 
baptismal  name  of  William,  after  his  father, 
who  left  to  him  the  whole  of  his  considerable 
estate. 

William  Ilobinson  the  younger  was  edu- 
cated at  St  Paul's  School ;  he  received  the 
degree  of  LL.D.  from  the  Univei-sity  of 
Aberdeen  ui  1822,  was  appointed  a  Deputy 
Lieutenant  for  the  county  of  Middle.sex  in 
1825,  and  was  called  to  the  Bar  at  the  Middle 
Temple  in  1827.  He  was  well  known  in  the 
^gal  world  as  the  author  of  'The  Magistrate's 
Pocket- Book,'  a  treatise  on  the  Jaws  relating 
to  the  poor,  and  a  work  on  quarter  sessions  : 
and  he  has  left  historical  accounts  of  Totten- 
baua,  Edmonton,  Hackney,  and  the  adjacent 
dwtncts. 

i.JmI\  'f.Sii'  ^'"^  '*^-  •'i-  '^2>  ^hore  is  a  note 
by  Mb.  T  C.  Noble  to  the  effect  that  in  his 
library  of  MSb,  he  has  a  thick  volume  in  the 
handwriting  of  this  tonograpliical  writer 
entitled,,.' Site  of  the  Glastonbury  Thorn" 
rl'io^^'A"*'",^'^"."***"  ''he  younger  died  in 
ir^  m.  "^"^  ^U?^^  daughters  married  the  late 
Dr.  Ihomas  Fitz-Patrick,  in  whose  memory 
the  Lectureship  on  the  History  of  Medicine 
^fs  lately  been  founded  at  the  Royal  College 
of  Physicians  in  London ;  and  this  lady 
^-^T^.?  portrait,  painted  by  Opie,  of  her 
grandmother  Anne  Nelson.  J    iv   B 


CuRioua  CiiRiBTiAN  Names  (lO"*  S,  i.  26). 
— So  far  as  regards  Oriana,  I  can  soy  with 
confidence  thai  it  has  been  "estabfisbed 
as  a  Christian  name  in  England  for  moi 
than  twenty  years.  It  was  borne  by  a  grand 
daughter  or  Sir  Mitford  Crowe,  Governor  oJ 
Barbadocs.     Her  mother  married  a  Bui  finch 
and  she  herself  the  artist  Ramsay  Richar 
Reinagle  (1775-1862).     From  their  daughter,! 
called  after  her  motlier,  it  was  that  Tennyso 
took  the  name  for  his  ballad  '  Oriana,'  liein 

E leased  by  its  musical  sound,  as  well  as  struc 
y  the  appearance  of  its  owner.    Oriana  ha_ 
been  a  family  name  for  four  generations  at 
least. 

It  may  be  of  interest  to  mention  that 
Mitford  Crowe  was  appointed  Governor  by 
William  ILL,  but  that  Queen  Anne  refusetl 
at  first  to  ratify  the  appointment.  She  did 
so  after  a  while,  and  ho  accommodated  her 
with  a  loan  of  10,000^.,  never  repaid  I  The 
two  large  seals,  like  plates,  hanging  fro 
the  bond,  were  found  on  one  occ^on  to  \ 
in  the  way  for  packing,  and  were  ruthlessi. 
cutoff  and  burnt  by  two  young  girls  ignoran' 
of  their  importance,  and  subsequently  th( 
bond  itself  vauishe<J,  stolen,  it  was  supposed^ 
for  the  sake  of  the  autograph.  Such  is  the 
family  tradition. 

Mitford  Crowe  lived  at  Burlington  House 
when  in  town,  his  country  house  being  at 
Isleworth.  Returning  to  the  latter  on  one 
occasion,  he  was  attacked  bj'  highwaymeo, 
who  so  ill-used  him  that  he  died  of  his 
injuries  two  years  lat«r,  1727,  at  Isleworth, 
as  is  supposed,  though  no  entry  of  his  death 
is  to  be  found.  S.  G. 

In  Lancashire  a    fondness   for  S'-"'"t'i»'\l, 
Christian  names,  even  for  those  ■■  oj 

not  of  frequent  use  in  the  Bible,  was  i  .  _  ..i,  Jib' 
until  lately.  The  parochial  clergy  and  the 
local  newspapers  could  supply  long  lists. 
At  the  church  which  I  served  1877-9,  Kereu- 
happuch  came  to  be  married,  Levi  was  a 
sidesman,  and  Aaron  a  Sunday-school  teacher. 
In  Worcestershire,  18<J4-1902,  I  prepared  for 
confirmation  three  boys  bearing  the  names 
Elam,  Shadrach,  and  Jubal.  None  of  these 
persons  had  the  slightest  Jewish  connexion. 

W.  C.  B. 

May  I  add  the  following  curious  '  ti^ 

names  selected   from    my  large  co..  ?; 

They  are  mostly  names  of  persons  of  my 
acquaintance,  neairly  all  of  whom  are 
Americans,  but  many  are  of  foreign  ancestiyJ 
Adelma,  origin  uncertain  ;  Arad,  HungajiaUj 
Bohumil,  Bohemian  ;  Centennial,  Centennial 
Exhibition  of  1876;  Euphemia,  Greek; 
Evahn.origin  uncertain;  Fagundes, Brazilian ; 


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Folder,  Norwegian  ;  Ilouka,  Italiau  (?) ;  Iowa, 
American  Indian  ;  JaimCi  Forto  Kicao  ;  Lito, 
origin  uncertain  j  Luman,  origin  uncertain  ; 
Lumir,  Bohemian  ;  Manasseh,  Hebrew  ; 
Modie,  origin  uncertain  ;  Neata,  origin  un- 
certain ;  Sik,  Korean  ;  Soa,  Chinese ;  Tayo- 
hiko,  Japanese;  Vilhialinr,  Icelandic  ;  Wata, 
origin  uncertain  ;  Welmer,  origin  uncertain  ; 
Yetta,  Norwegian  ;  Zenas,  origin  uncertain  ; 
Zenhici,  Japanene  ;  Zillab,  origin  uncertain  ; 
Zulema,  Boncmian. 

Charles  Bundy  Wilson. 
State  Univeraily  of  Iowa,  Iowa  City. 
[Zillah,  Gen.  iv.  19.] 

In  Lincoln  Cathedral  before  the  spoliation 
wiijj  a  raonumental  brass  to  Anne  Armyn 
(oi.  1616),  in  the  inscription  of  which  occurred 
the  (female)  name  Prothasey.  I  have  never 
seen  this  name  before  or  since  ;  but  I  take  it 
to  be  a  familiar  corruption  of  Prophtha^ia, 
an  obviously  appropriate  name  for  a  daughter 
born  before  her  time.  In  a  serial  novel  now 
running  in  the  f/iieen  one  of  the  characters  is 
called  Ad  vena.  In  Marian  Crawford's  novel 
'  Paul  Patoff '  one  of  the  characters  is  called 
Chrysophrasia.  Has  Ma.  Gaktillon  ever 
come  across  the^c  names  ? 

H.  K.  St.  J.  S. 

Some  eight  or  ten  years  ago  I  saw  the 
name  Palacia  in  a  list  of  shareholders  of  a 
public  company.  I  have  heard  of  Venetia 
and  Roma  as  the  names  of  two  daughters  of 
an  Italian  gentleman  settled  in  London. 
About  two  hundred  years  ago  one  of  my 
ancestors  marrie<l  a  Dutch  la<Iy,  and  her 
Christian  name  Oilliana  is  still  a  favourite 
ODO  amongst  her  descendants. 

Alfred  Molosy. 

The  most  curious  Christian  name  I  ever 
came  across  was  Ad  nil,  given  to  a  girl  born 
in  Aberdeen.  Her  mother's  name  was  Linda. 
At  the  time  of  her  birth  the  child's  parents 
were  not  on  very  good  terras,  and  the  father, 
in  a  moment  of  freaki.shness,  inverted  the 
mother's  name  with  the  above  result.  The 
child  died  in  early  girlhood.  J. 

About  thirty  years  ago  the  wife  of  a  green- 
grocer named  Wriaht,  living  in  York  Street, 
\Vo«ttminster,  nearly  opposite  to  the  Niagara 
Hall,  gave  birth  to  twins.  My  brother-in- 
law,  the  lato  Mr.  William  Enoe  Needham, 
tlie  Begistrar  of  Births  for  the  District  of 
St.  Margaret,  Westminster,  including  the 
Hamlet  of  Knighu»bridge,  was  callod  upon 
to  register  them.  The  father  gave  them  the 
names  of  William  the  Conqueror  and  Pot«r 
thtt  Groat,  and,  notwithstanding  the  regis- 
trar's protest  against  this  absurdity,   tney 


were  entered  in  tbe^  books  as  above,  the 
protest  being  unavailing.  I  also  see  in  the 
Sun  of  Thursday,  7  January,  a  paragraph 
recording  that  "at  Lambeth  to-day  an 
inquest  was  held  respecting  the  death  of  a 
child  named  Ireni  Jacobi  Fanny  Jessop 
Cavendish  de  Ilienzi  Selina  Anna  Susannan 
Skelton  Peter.  What  a  dreadful  encum- 
brance !  No  wonder  an  inauest  wa.s  necessary. 
W.  E.  Hahland-Oxlev. 

Among  curious  Christian  names  Acts  of 
the  Apoatlet)  ought  to  take  precedence.  I 
remember  in  my  schooldays,  near  Canter- 
bury, a  woodman,  of  Blean  Woods,  known 
as  Ax-o-poatles  Pegden.  Scholarship  was 
not  of  a  liigh  order  there,  at  the  time  when 
the  notorious  madman  Thom  was  so  easily 
imposing  upon  the  simple-minded  people, 
and  a  Bible  was  the  only  generally  known 
household  book.  A  worthy  churchgoing 
father  had  named  his  four  sons  respectively 
Matthew,  Mark,  Luke,  and  John,  but  being 
blessed  with  a  fifth,  and  unable  to  think  of 
anything  better,  decided  upon  the  next  in 
oraer  under  his  Christian  authority,  viz., 
the  Acts  of  the  Apostles,  and  the  rector,  we 
were  told,  could,  upon  the  emergency,  think 
of  no  other  course  than  so  to  chri-sten  this 
fifth  sprig  of  an  old  block.  I  have  onco  seen 
this  name  referred  to  in  a  magazine  article 
upon  'Curiosities  of  the  Registry,'  but  cannot 
remember  where.  Charles  Cobha.m. 

Shrubbery.  Oravesend. 

[For  Acta  of  the  Apottlefl  see  9"'  S.  iii.  '*i5,  312.] 

French  Miniature  Paixter  (lO^''  S.  i.  86, 
137).— I  am  much  obliged  for  the  replies  to 
my  query,  but  I  was  not  aware  that  Madame 
Vigoe  Ijebrun  ever  i)aiiited  miniaturejf.  Do 
any  miniature.s  by  her  exist? 

Evelyn  Wklunoton. 

'Memoirs  of  a  Stom.\ch'  (lO'*"  S.  i.  27, 
57,  111).— I  possess  a  copy  of  the  eleventh 
edition  of  this  little  book,  published  by 
Chapman  &  Hall.  The  title-page,  which  has 
no  date,  bears  "  Memoirs  of  a  Stomach. 
Written  by  Himself,  that  all  who  Eat  may 
Read.     K(lite«l  by  a  Minister  of  the  Interior." 

Among  the  advertisements  on  tlie  boards 
of  the  hook  is  the  following  :  "  Helionde  ;  or, 
Adventure*  in  the  Sun.  By  Sydney  Whiting. 
Esq.,  Autlior  of '  The  Memoirs  of  a  Stomach, 
'  A  Literary  M<jlange,'  ic.    Cliapman  &  HalL 

Sir  James  Eyre,  physician,  is  montion«l 
occa-sionaily  in  the  'Memoirs,'  and  at  p.  61 
he  is  said  to  have  written  "an  acreeable  little 
book,  'Tiic  Stomach  and  its  DiflicuUies. 

The  Columbine  May  Day  song  at  p.  87  was 
set  to  mu»ic,  and  published  by  P.  B.  Shee, 
Paddington  Street,  Maryloboae.  W.  8. 


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•'  Papees  "  (9"'  S.  xii.  387  ;  IC"  S.  i.  18,  63, 
in)._In  a  deposition  Uken  15  June.  1768, 
at  Naaaau,  Bahama  Islands,  occara  the  fol- 
lowing :  — 

"  Ho  ordered  the  sloop's  coloars  to  be  stniok, 
■aying  to  ihU  deponent,  that  they  must  bo  taken, 
and  it  she  is  a  Uuarda  Coata,  she  would  carry  them 
into  port,  where,  upon  producing  their  patwrs,  they 

should  certainly  be  cleared That  thereupon  the 

Spanish  Captain  asked  Capt.  Nott,  whether  the 
papers  of  tne  snow  would  not  answer  for  their 
purpose ;  to  which  Capt.  Nott  replied  that  a  snow's 
papers  would  not  do  for  a  brigantine."— Bo«/<m« 
Chronicle,  8-15  August,  1768,  i.  322,  323. 

In  a  letter  written  from  Halifax,  Nova 
Scotia,  occurs  the  following  :— 

"Capt.  Andrew  Bryson,  of  the  Ship  Betsy,  ar- 
rive*! in  this  Place  last  Week  from  Bristol,  which 
Place  he  left  the  18Lh  of  July,  us  appears  by  the 
Papers  lodged  in  the  Custom  House."— Bo«^<wi 
Oaztm,  16  October,  1769,  p.  2,  col.  2. 

Albebt  Matthkwb. 

Boston,  U.S. 

Pannell  (9*  S.  xii.  248,  475).— For  several 

months  in  1R99  the  Rev.  A.  Pidgeon  Pannell 

rwas  one  of  the  ruratea  of  the  parish  church 

%ere.    He  was  subsequently  appointed  to  the 

living  of  Bulmer,  Suffolk,  which  be»till  holds. 

In  1869  Mr.  U.  Pannell,  of  Walton  Lodge, 

.Torquay,  was  elected  a  life  raeniber  of  the 

'Devonsniro  Asijociatioa.     His  name  appears 

in    the    list   of    members    at    the    address 

named  until  1883,  and  without  address  until 

1902,  when  it  disappears,  though  there  is 

no  reference  to  hira  in  the  obituary  for  the 

year.     Is  he  living?  and  if  so,  where? 

In  Mr.  R.  C.  Hope's  'List  of  English  Bell- 
founders  '  (Arch.  Journal,  1.  150-75)  are  to  be 
found  the  following  names  :  Pannell,  Charles 
&  Co..  1820-6  j  Pannell,  Wiliiam,  1820-6  |  Pan- 
nell, William  &  Charles  ;  Pannell,  William  ic 
Son.  1820-44. 

There  is  evidence  that  a  family  of  this 
name  existed  years  ago  in  the  parish  of 
Coombe-in-Teignhead,  Devon. 

T.  Oan.v  Huohm,  M.A.,  F.8.A. 
Lancaster. 

Atlsham  Cloth  (10''''  S.  i.  4). — I  was  pleased 
to  see  W.  C  B.'s  note  on  the  above.  During 
the  reigns  of  Edward  II.  and  Edward  III., 
Aylsham  was  the  chief  town  in  that  part  of 
the  kingdom  for  linen  manufacture,  whence 
it  was  denominated  in  records  "Aylsham 
webs,"  "  cloth  of  Aylsham."  «kc. :  but  in  suc- 
ceeding reigns  this  branch  of  business  was 
superseded  bv  the  woollen  manufacture,  and 
in  the  time  of  James  I.  the  inhabitants  were 
principally  employed  in  knitting  worsted 
^Btockinga,  breeches,  and  waistcoat  pieces. 
Chas,  F.  Forshaw,  LL,D. 
Baltimore  House.  Bradford. 


Robin  a  Bobbin  (9*  S.  xii.  503 ;  10^"  S.  i. 
32).— It  may  be  worth  while  to  put  on  record 
a  complete  version  of  this  "  nomony,"  as  it 
was  current  in  tbe  West  Riding  of  Yorkshire 
some  twenty  years  ago  (and  may  be  still). 
I  have  heard  it  in  the  same  form  from  many 
singers,  and  the  "verses"  given  below  were 
considered  complete.  I  do  not  remember 
any  case  in  which  it  was  continued  by  im- 
promotu  additions.  Each  verse  consisted  of 
the  first  line  repeated  with  four  different 
endings,  as  in  the  first  verse.  It  will  be  seen 
that  tne  second  character  is  slightly  different, 
and  the  third  entirely  different,  from  those 
given  by  Mb.  Ratcliffe  as  known  in  Derby- 
shire. 

1.  Let 's  go  to  the  greenwood,  said  Robin  a  Bobbjn ; 
Let '«  go  to  the  greenwood,  said  Richard  a  Robin ; 
Let's  go  to  the  greenwood,  aaid  Hullyb&loo ; 
And  let 's  go  to  the  greenwood,  said  every  one. 

2.  What  to  do  there  ?  said  Robin  a  Bobbin. 

3.  To  catch  a  green  linnet,  said  Robin  a  Bobbin. 

4.  What  to  do  with  it?  said  Robin  a  Bobbin, 

5.  To  sell  to  the  queen,  said  Robin  a  Bobbin. 

6.  How  much  for  it?  said  Robin  a  Bobbin. 

7.  Sixpence  for  it,  said  Robin  a  Bobbin 

a  What  t'  do  wi'  the    sixpence?   said   Robin   a 

Bobbin. 
9.  Buy  some  terbaoker,  said  Robin  a  Bobbin. 
At  this  practical  suggestion  the  singing 
ended,  and  tobacco  usually  received  atten- 
tion- I  think  it  would  be  intei-esting  if 
variants  of  this  version  (traditional,  not 
impromptu)  could  !»  gathered  into  *  N.  J:  Q. 
H.  Snowden  Ward. 

Hadlow,  Kent. 

The  words  and  music  of  this  song  are  given 
in  full  in  both  Mr.  A.  W.  Moore's  'Manx 
Ballads '  and  the  late  Deemster  Gill's  work 
on  Manx  melodies.  f  -  G- 

Robert?  Catesby  (10'»'  S.  i.  Sb).  — The 
baptism  of  a  son  of  his  is  thus  recorded  in 
the  old  register  of  Cbastleton :  '  Robert 
Catesbie,  son  of  Cateabie,  was  baptised  tbe 
llth  day  of  November,  1595." 

"Of  the  fate  of  this  boy  nothing  is  known  with 
certainty,  except  that  he  was  in  London  with  his 
father  at  the  lime  of  the  discovery  of  the  Plot  in 
1005."— •  N.  &,  Q.,'  e*"^  S.  xii.  »M. 

The  *  Dictionary  of  National  Biography* 
says  that  Robert  Catesby'a  son  Robert 
married  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Percy,  and 
that  of  his  subsequent  history  nothing  is 
known.  Evkeabd  Home  Colemak. 

71.  Brecknock  Road. 

ChristMASTIDB  FotK-LOBE  (9'*  S.  xii.  505X 
—William  Sandys,  F.S.A.,  in  his  '  Christmas; 
tide :    its  History,  Festivities,  and  Carols, 


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says  there  is  a  superstition  that  in  as  many 
dinereot  bouses  as  you  eat  tninced  pies 
during  Christmas  so  many  happy  months 
will  you  have  in  the  ensuing  year.  You 
have  only  therefore  to  go  to  a  different  house 
each  day  in  the  Christmas  to  ensure  a  happy 
twelvemonth— a  simple  receipt,  if  effectual. 

J.    HoLDEN  MacMicHAEL. 

There  is  a  variant  of  the  mince-pie  legend 
in  the  West  of  England,  where  many  young 
people  try  to  taste  twelve  of  their  friends' 
ana  neighbours'  plum-puddings,  on  the  plea 
of  a  similar  belief.  C.  T. 

Court  Posts  cxder  Stuart  Kisos  (10'"  S- 
i.  107).— The  Marshal  of  the  King's  Hall  was 
an  omccr  whose  business  it  was,  when  the 
tables  were  prepared,  *•  to  call  out  both  those 
of  the  Household  and  Strangers,  according 
to  their  Worth,  and  decently  to  place  thera 
according  to  their  Quality "  (see  Cowel's 
'Interpreter,'  1727,  and  N.  Bailev's  'Diet.,' 
1740).  He,  of  course,  had  many  other  duties, 
and  8ub<)errient  to  him  were  what,  in  the 
'Privy  Purse  Expenses  of  Princess  Mary,' 
were  called  "  Hussners,"  i.e.,  doorkeepers  and 
ushers  to,  of,  and  from  "the  PreBence."  An 
item  among  the  '  Privy  Purse  Expenses  of 
King  Henry  VIII.'  is  "  paied  to  dawson,  one 
of  the  roarshalls  of  the  King's  halJ,  for  xxviij 
dozen  Cases  of  trenchers  delivered  to  tho 
pantry,  xlvj«.  viijrf."  (N.  H.  Nicolas). 

With  regard  to  a  "Yeoman  of  tho  Privy 
Chamber,"  a  "  Yeoman"  was  an  officer  in  the 
King's  House  in  the  middle  place  between 
the  Sergeant  and  the  Groom  (see  Blount's 
•  Law  Diet.,'  1717).  The  "Yeoman  de  le  lesh  " 
was  an  officer  who  had  the  keeping  of  the 
falcons.  A  leash  was  a  light  line  used  to  give 
the  falcon  a  short  flight  without  releasing  her 
altogether.  It  was  secured  to  the  varvels  on 
the  bird's  ankle : — 

But  her  too  faithiul  leash  doth  soon  retam 
Her  broken  flight,  attempted  oft  in  vain. 

Quarlea's  *  Kmbleros,'  v.  9. 

An  item  in  the  '  Privy  Purse  Expenses  of 
Henry  VIII.'  (ed.  bv  Nicolas,  1827),  p.  224,  is. 
"in   Rewarde  for  bringing  of  a  lesshe  of 

Iftneretts  to  the  King's  grace "  and  (p.  76) 

"  to  Roltp.  yoman  of  the  leshe,  for  his  fee," 
dec.  Uichard  Bolton,  Y'eoman  of  the  Leash 
to  Henry  VIII.,  received  10».  a  quarter  ('Ex- 
penses of  Princess  Mary,'  ibid.). 

The  Pages  of  the  Bedchamber  and  Back- 
stairs of  George  II.  were  six  in  number, 
bat  their  salary  is  not  stated.  For  other 
officials  of  the  King's  Household  an<i  their 
salaries,  4o.,  see  *  A  General  List  or  Catalogue 
of  all  the  Offices  and  OlHcers  of  liis  Majesty's 
OoverDment,'  at  the  end  of  .folm  Chamber- 


layne's    '  Magnie    Britannite    Notitia,'    1723, 

p.  457.  J.    HOLDEN   MacMICHAEL. 

A  Namklk&s  Gravestone  (9^''  S.  xii.  604). 
—Another  interesting  example  is  the  stone 
in  Hertingfordbury  (^lurch,  Herts,  inscribed 
"Here  lies  poor  (Jorydon.  Ob'  Sep'  24"* 
1758."  The  parochial  registers,  according  to 
Cussans  ('  Hist.  Herts,'  ii.  115),  contain  no 
entry  relating  to  it. 

John  B.  Wainewrioht. 

Batrome  (10"'  S.  i.  88).— In  the  Inq.  p.m.  of 
William  Wadham,  of  co.  Dorset  (3  Hen.  VII. 
vol.  iii.  No.  85),  one  of  the  jurors  is  Nich. 
Batrain' -  and  in  that  of  Sir  Thos.  Mil- 
bourne,  Knt.  (8  Hen.  VII.),  there  is  mention 
of  land  in  Batramsley  held  of  the  manor  of 
Lydahurst.  Ethel  Leoa-Weekes. 

"Diabread  "  (10""  S.  i.  126).— As  a  guess,  I 
should  suppose  di^ibrend  to  be  compounded 
of  din-  and  hrmd.  Din-  could  be  prefixed  to 
almost  anything  used  medicinally ;  see  the 
*  H.E.D.'  under  dia-,  and  note  dia-vrum,  dia- 
rhubarb,  and  the  like.    Walter  W.  Skeat. 

Probably  diet-bread,  or  diet  loaf  ',  on  which 
see  'N.E.D.'and  'E.D.D.' 

The  blue  eggs  referred  to  were  probably 
eggs  dyed  blue,  like  pace-eggs.        J.  T.  F. 

Epitaphs  :  their  Bibliography  (lO""  S.  i. 
44). — The  following  may  prove  of  some  use 
towards  a  complete  bibliography  of  epitaphs  : 

Bancroft,  Thomas.— Two  Books  of  Epigrams  and 
Kpitaph».  1630. 

Booth,  The  Rev.  J.— Epitaphs. 

Brown,  William  Norman.  —  Curious  Epitaphs 
{Countni  Life,  17  June,  1«9»). 

Canaick,  F.  T.— Epitanhs  (St.  Pancras). 

Commercial  in  Si>are  Moments,  Gathered  hy  a. — 
An  OriKinal  Collection  of  Extanl  Kpitaiiha,  18^0. 

Croft,  Sir  H.-Epitophs  {'The  Abbey  of  Kilk- 
hamptoD '),  1780- 

Diproae'e  Book  of  Epitaphs,  Humorous,  Eccentric, 
Ancient,  anil  Remarkable. 

'Eirtrd^tn,  or  a  Collection  of  Memorials  of  Good 
and  Faithful  tjcrvants,  1826. 

Fairley,  W.— Epitaphiana,  1875. 

Hackett,  John.— Epitaphs,  1757. 

Harris,  J.— A  Series  of  Epitaphs  collected  from 
f.'hurches,  Churchyards,  and  Bunal-placea  in  Kings- 
brid^e  and  NeiKhbourbood.  Read  at  a  meeting  of 
the  Devonahire  Association  for  the  Advancement 
of  Science.  Literature,  and  Art,  27.  28,  and  *29  July, 
1807.     (Published,  1  think,  in  the  Piweflin^") 

ffountho/d  WordJi.  —  Tombstone  Curuwitiea, 
20  Jan.,  190O  ;  Geme  from  the  Churchyard.  October, 
IflOO. 

Loarine,  H.  J  —Epitaphs. 

Old  Mfirtalify  Juniors  Epitophs,  1900  (Simpkin 
k  Marshall).  ,     _,   . 

I'alraer,  Samuel.  —  Epitaiths  and  Epigrams, 
Curious,  Quaint,  and  AmusinK.  I860. 

PuUeyn,  William— Churchyard  Gleanings  and 
Epigrammatic  Scraps,  1890, 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        no^  s.  l  Feb.  27.  luw- 


Omen,  'H  Nov^  1866. 

Kavenshaw,    T honioa    F.  —  Aucicnte    EpitAphs, 

Rcligioua  Tract  Society.  See  the  first  series  of 
tr&cts  of  this  Bocioty,  vol.  xiv.  No.  .'i^Q. 

Scotland.— A  Collection  of  Ejjitaphs  and  Motm- 
niental  Inscriptions,  chietly  in  Scotland,  \^Si 
<(jla9gow,  printed  for  I).  MacVcan). 

Wall,  Robert.— In  his  'Bibliotheca  BrilAnnica,' 
1K24,  there  is  a  lone  Hut  of  early  books  on  epitapha. 

Weevor's  Funeral  Mouuniouts,  IttSl. 

J.   HOLDEN   MacMiCHAEL. 

It  may  interest  VV.  B.  H.  to  knosv  that  in 
1887  I  puhlislied  "For  Private  Distribution 
only.  Not  for  Sale,"  '  A  Catalogue  [78  pages 
8vo]  of  sorne  Books  relating  to  the  Disposal 
of  the  Borlje«  and  (>erpetuating  the  Memories 
of  the  Dead.'  This  included  tvooks  on  epi- 
taphs. The  British  Museum  has  a  copy. 
Since  1887  I  liave  in  MS.  a  large  addition 
<8ay  five  hundred  items)  to  the  published 
cataloeue-  Johx  Town.shend. 

New  York. 

St.  Patbiok  kv  Obvieto  (lO""  S.  i.  48, 
131). — At  the  latter  reference,  instead  of 
at,  Patrick's  "journey  through  Purgatory," 
I  should  have  said  Guerino  Sleschino'a  jour- 
ney thiough  St.  Patrick's  Purgatory.  It  is 
interesting  to  note  that  several  editions  of 
the  adventures  of  this  hero  appearetl  in  Italy 
a  few  years  previously  to  the  making  of  the 
well.  J.  DOBMER. 

liEir.N  ni-  Tkruok  (Hj"'  S.  i.  127).— A  list  of 
I.avoisier's  ft-liow-victims  will  ho  found  in 
Wallon's  'Histoiro  du  Tribunal  Ketvoluliou- 
"ttire-'  J.  G.  Al.;ee. 

Holland  J'ark  Court. 

"AcERiuTivE"  do"'  S,  i.  27).— Although  I 
have  not  at  hand  any  specific  references,  I 
can  positively  slate  that  arcrbdlive  is  more  or 
less  used  in  this  country. 

Cjiaeucs  Bundy  Wilson, 

Stale  LJuivcrsity  of  Iowa,  Iowa  City. 

Trial  of  Queen  Caholine  (10'"  S.  i.  127). 
—If  your  correspondent  is  interested  in  this 
case,  I  should  recommeiid  an  application  at 
the  Corporation  Library,  Guildhall,  for  the 
following  works: — 

The  Proceedings  and  C'orreenondetice  u|>on  the 
.Subject  of  the  Inquiry  into  the  Conduct  of  Her 
Royal  Highness  the  Princess  of  Wales.  Svo.  Lon- 
don, 1807.  ^  .      " 

A  Collection  of  Newsjiaper  CuttinKS  concerning 
Iter  Trial,  Dealh,  and  Funeral.     (London,  18(J7-21.) 

The  Queen's  Claim  toCoronalion  Examined.  Svo. 
(London,  ISl'l.) 

I  have  on  my  shelves  a  copy  of  'A  Full 
Keport  of  the  Trial  of  Her  Majesty  Camline 
Amelia  EUxabeth,  Queen  of  England,'  Lon- 
«ou  (13  Sept.,  1820),  2  vols.,  which  is  open  to 


Hel»;a's  inspection  ;  also  'The  Book   of  1&IJ7,, 
a  copy  of  which  the  late  Mil.  Wm.  J.  Thom-S' 
editor  of  '  N.  i  Q.,'  could  not  obtain  "of  an 
earlier  dat«  than  1813."    See  5"'  S.  ii.  321, 
EvERAED  Hume  Culemax. 
71,  Brecknock  Road. 

The  Cope  (&«'•  S,  x.  285,  374,  4y.j ;  xi.  03, 
172,  33.'>).— With  reference  to  the  time  tlie 
cope  has  been  in  use  as  a  vestment  in  the 
Church  of  England,  a  letter  is  extant  from 
the  late  Rev.  L.  Darwall,  perpetual  curato 
of  Crigt^ion,  Alberbury.  near  Shrewsbury, 
written  m  1867,  in  which  he  says  that  he 
himself  made  a  cope  and  wore  it  in  18.'i3.  I 
have  been  unable  to  find  the  name  of  any 
clergyman  wearing  this  ve^jtment  previous  to 
this  date,  though  the  Rev.^  T.  A.  Bolton, 
incumbent  of  Uld  Ilasforti,  Notts,  used  lioth 
lights  and  incense  in  184y,  but  <loes  not  refer 
to  vestments  till  180U,  by  which  time  a  few 
clergymen  had  commenced  wearing  the  cope 
as  well  as  other  pre- Reformation  vestments. 

FUEDEKILK   T.    HlRfiAME. 

Chauceriana  (10"'  S.  i.  121).— I.  As  to  the 
line  "  For  pile  renneth  sone  in  gentil  horte," 
I  have  little  doubt  that  Chaucer  liad  it  from 
Dante,  '  Inferno,'  v.  100,  ''  Amor,  die  al  cor 
gentil  rattos'  apprende."  I  give  this  reference 
at  p.  101  of  my  modernized  version  of  'The 
Knight's  Tale,  just  publifihed.  I  forgot  the 
source  whence  I  obtained  this  reference. 

2.  As  to  the  lines  "  Eek  Plato  seitli,"  »fcc.,  it 
seems  to  me  a  hard  case  that  your  corre- 
spondent never  took  the  trouble  to  consult 
my  edition  of  Chaucer.  In  my  note  to  the 
Hue,  vol.  V.  p,  57, 1  give  the  reference  to  vol,  ii. 
p.  90,  I.  151.  The  note  to  this  line,  in  vol.  ii, 
p.  444,  gives  the  correct  reference  to  Plato, 
as  shown  by  the  occurrence  of  the  word 
o-i-yyci'tis.  Walter  W.  Ske.vt. 

General  Charles  Stewart's  Portrait 
(10^''  S.  i.  127).— iJomney  died  in  1802;  he 
cannot,  therefore,  have  painted  as  a  major- 
general  Charles  Stewart  wlio  commanded 
1st  Battalion  50t!i  Foot  at  Walcherei»  in 
1800,  who  was  not  an  "  honourable,"  and  died 
in  1812,  with  the  rank  only  of  lieutet»ant- 
colouel.  Major-General  the  Hon.  Charles 
Stewart,  afterwards  thiwl  ^Marquess  of 
I^ndonderry.  was  not  promoted  major-general 
till  1810.  and  was  never,  so  far  as  I  know, 
i)ainted  by  Romney  ;  but  in  the  catalogue  of 
Romney's  works  appunded  to  my  life  of 
that  painter  Mr.  Purnell  may  note  No.  379, 
"Stewart,  General  Charles  (engraved  by  T. 
Grozer  in  1794),"  at  which  date  the  future 
Lord  Londonderry  was  only  Mixt-een,  The 
subject  of  this  portrait  was  probably  Goooral 


QUERrES. 


I 


the  Hoa.  Sir  Charles  Staart,  foartli  «oa  of 
John,  third  Earl  of  Bate.  He  eaptared 
Minorca  from  the  Spaniards  in  1798,  and  died 
in  1801.  The  victor  of  .Maida  wa»  lieat.- 
General  Sir  John  StuarL,  who  died  in  1815. 
H£aBK£T  Maxwxll. 
This  I  tbiok  mast  be  a  portrait  of  General 
the  Hoa.  Charles  William  Stewart  (after- 
wards Marquis  of  LondouderryX  *  celebrated 
character  in  hiit  time.  John  Staart  oom- 
raanded  the  English  force  at  Maida.  Charles 
Stewart,  "iOth  Regiment,  never  attained  tbe 
rank  of  a  general  officer. 

W.  PlCTON  MOKTI31ZK. 

AXATOMIB    ViVAXTE    (9'*    S.    xiL    49,    157  ,- 
lO**  S.  i.  138).—!  can  find  nothiof;  whatever 
to  warrant  the  statement  that  this  ItuHs  wa« 
ever  exhibited  at  the  Egyptian  Hall.  Neither 
Hone  nor  Timbs  mentions  it,  and  I  atill  think 
that  the  writer  in  the  Daiit/  Tdejftvjth  baa 
been  led  into  error  by  the  ansnbstaatiabed 
yer>4ion  in  'Old  and  New  London.'    Senrat, 
in  fact,  prospered  so  happily  at  the  ChiaeM 
•Saloon,  according  to  hia  own  confBarioii,  timt 
it  woo  Id    have    been  very  foolish  of   him, 
unless  compelled  to  do  so.  to  covet  two  Inrda 
in  the  Piccadilly  bosh  when  be  alieadj  bad 
one  in  the  hand  in  Pall  MalL    If  the  aatfaors 
of  '  Old  and    New   London '  allude   to  the 
account  in   Hone's  'Every-Day  Book'  •■  a 
*^t'jr(  one,   they  are  certa.inly  wide  of   the 
mark,  for  Hone  devotett  no  fewer  than /our- 
tirn  oolamns  to  this  wonderful  prodigy.    In 
all  thc%e  fourteen  colurunn  thera  ta  no  tseotion 
of  the  Egyptian   Hall,  neither  doe*  Timbs 
'Something    fo 


dan  a  ei'(«f  lacaaa  I  fariiBveb  "jogged  btre^" 
and  hare  onhr;  bat  m  late  a*  1734  (*Le 
Xoareaa    Caunriflr  Rojal    et    BoigBoia*) 

i  directMos  are  nven  for  wmItim  eimU  not 
otil  J  of  Uaane,  DBt  of  cetf,  MdK  /tm,  and 

'  Mj^vET.  Tbe  reeeipt  for  oookim^  f«Biaaa  in 
tbe  aforesaid  'Xovveaa  Cnnuner'  be^at 
thtts  :  "Tbe  atag  >•  a  wHd  animal,  aa  evenr 
ooe  knows."  I  stiU  fail  to  see  wfaero  M. 
Alesandre's  joke  comes  in,    F&a5<.i>»  KasQ. 

E.xx'KiAPES  (9^  B.  xiL  S4&,  387,  4S4,  4S0 ; 
IQF^  8.  L  57,  133).— Poonblj  the  n«e  of  eove- 
lopes  originated  on  the  Gontiaent.  There 
h  in  the  Bodleian  Libranr  a  letter  to  tbe 
librarian,  Joeeph  Bowles,  nrom  J.  O.  Eocard 
(von  Eckhartl  tbe  historian,  dated  at 
Hanover,  1 1  Jolj,  1721,  wiueb  is  eoclosed  in 
an  eoTeiojpe  with  four  folds  xnrttjnfi  in  tbe 
middle,  vbero  it  is  sealed  with  bis  armorial 
seal  W.  D.  iUczAY. 

In  '  Qntxbf,' ^  ooi^  of  fashieoable  life  hj 
J.  H.  Ltstar,  pafaiidied  in  MM,  Isdy  Harriet 
Danosa  obaervaa  in  rexanl  to  bcr  lattcn: 
**Xo»  no;  take  Umu  [i^tbe  )eUeri]ottt  oi 
the  envdop—tiMre— thanks -and  gire  tbea 
to  me."    {(%mp.  ix.) 

Jams  Pkktouv  ILA. 
JCcwboarm  Beetarr.  Woo4bri4ce. 

"PRlOBTo'CS^&xiLeo,  1M.3I2;  lO'^ai. 
114)  —TIm.  nxpressaoo  it  familiar  to  many,  aa 
occu  ralfj's  definition  of  inHtinett  in 
the  '  ""* 


in    'bouiething    for    Everybody*  allude    to  I  to  experience 
Beurat's  beiop    exhibiu-d    there.     It  is,  of !  tion." 
coarse,  possible  that  he  was,  but  at  present 
some  reliable  evidence  is  desirable. 

J.  HoLDEX  MacMichael. 

PBcULfAJia  (9'*'  S.  xii.  69,  137).-Ilmin9tor, 
Somerset,  was  a  royal  peculiar— the  only  one 
in  the  diocese  of  i3ath  and  Wells.  Until  a 
few  years  ago  the  vicar  held  his  own  visita- 
tionK,and  was  not  under  tbe  jurii»diction  of  i 

"^he  bishop.    Tiieaeal  bears  the  effigy  of  the   version  fomutbed    by  J.    I     f 
)«ke  of  Somerset.  C  T.       "  «*)'  '  be  "  array  "  contracted  it 

we  say  **  rack  "  for '•arrack "  I 
lu>r  LATCH  Yovtt  UAiiK  "  (0""  8.  xii- 125, 
IR).— There  is  little  doubt  that  the  "Poor 
lire  uo  civet,"  JL-c,  as  ijuote*!  by  It.  Alex 


li  chapter  of  hi*  '  Xataral  Theo- 
logy.'the  fifth  e^JiUon  of  wbkb  was  pablisbed 
in  1803 :  **  An  instinct  is  a  propensity  prior 
and  indmeodent  of  instme- 
J.  T.  K. 

Moon  Fou-LOftE  (10»  S.  i.  12&)— In  Berk- 
shire also  one  has  merely  to  look  at  the  new 
moon  and  say : — 

New  m'»""   "••«'  "•""••   I  hiul  tJiM  I 

Oraot  I.  ■'•y  «• 

He  wbo  my  '.ru';  i-  "    ■■ '. 

In  the  third  line  of  th 


Lincolnshire 

wooid   not 

into  "  'ray,'  as 

Is  it  not  also 

possiliite  that  tbe  Unas  have  beoooM  v>  raoob 


from    the   original    as    to    hare 
':»>ntain«d    some    alluvion    to    tbe 

ti,,.  r„,.^„  /    T"   .  Ruthman  legend 
Account  of  Buah- 
;  :    is    a   man   who 

lUi   oi   the  8un.   and   is    con- 
'hI  by  a  knife  (tl>e  rays)  of  the 
•  re  is  only  a  niece  of  him  left. 
.  for  mercy  lor  his  children's 
which  Alexaudtu  tiuou)*.    Nowa> ,  mke^  Aud  u  allowed  to  grow  again,  until  qqaa 


idre.  is  the  eoaivalent  jest  in  Vrench  for 
ir  "  First  catch  your  hare,"  but  with  this 
ifTereuce— that  the  humour  of  the  one  is 
.nti»g  in  the  other.  Whatever  may  be 
je  Hjodern  fand  limitc<0  -« i,,,?  of  /  "/.  it 
"d  not  by  any  means  • 
of  a  hare  in  the  '(. 


cjaol- 

man 

iucui 


^AND  QUERIES.        [io«-8.i. 


more  he  offends  his  aonship,  the  whole  proceBs  '  a  cautious,  sound,   and  successful  surj^eon 
being  repeated  monthly.    In  parts  of  Ireland  I  Hammond  was  for  many  years  a  surgeon  of 


t)ie  people  are  said  to  point  to  the  new  moon 

with  a  knife  and  say  ;— 

New  moon,  true  morrow,  be  true  now  to  me, 
That  I  to-morrow  my  true  love  may  see  ! 

J.  HOLDEN   MacMicHAEL- 

Raleigh  :  its  Pbonitnciation  (9""  S.  xii. 
366,  497  :  10">  S-  i.  90).— With  all  due  defer- 
ence to  those  gentlemen,  it  seems  to  me  that 
the  comments  of  Mr.  Johk  Hutchinson  and 
Mb.  Avern  Pardoe  simply  beg  the  point  at 
issue.  How  can  one  possibly  now  know  with 
any  sort  of  certainty  now  some  problematical 
speech  sounds  of  more  than  three  centuries 
ago  would  be  spelt  by  writers  of  the  same 
period  ?  Since  we  know  how  vowel-sounds 
nave  changed  and  are  changing,  there  is 
surely  very  "good  reason  for  supposing  that 
the  sountfs  of  those  syllables  Mr.  Hut- 
chinson refers  to  were  not  the  "same  oa 
now,"  One  cannot  very  readily  see  how  the 
word  lamp,  so  far  as  its  origin  and  derivation 
are  concerned,  could  at  any  time  in  our 
history  be  pronounced  lormp ;  yet  we  may 
find  the  spelling  lawmp  (in  1523),  and  the 
latter  conjunction  of  letters  would  nowadays 

{>resuraably  find  the  former  pronunciation 
cf,  tiiw,  law,  7'ani,  ic).  For  lawmp  I  refer 
to  Blomefield's  'Norfolk,'  vol.  xi.  p.  143:  "a 
lawmp  to  bren  before  the  Rode."  As  to 
ancient  letter-sounds,  and  phonetic  spelling 
of  those  sounds,  one  might  suppose  that  rode, 
when  written,  would  clearly  rime  with  mfide 
as  now  pronounced  ;  yet  I  suppose  there  can 
be  little  doubt  that  in  1523  the  sound  of  the 
conjoined  letters  rode  would  bo  the  same 
sound  as  we  now  give  to  the  conjoined  letters 
'i'ood,  and  that  the  meaning  of  rode  in  1523 
would  be  the  same  as  the  meaning  of  rood  in 
1904.  a  yohkshirkman. 

Smothering  Hydrophobic  Patiknts  (10**' 
S.  i.  Ci).— The  following  ia  from  the  MS. 
diary  of  Thomas  CoUinson,  of  Southgate,  a 
nephew  of  the  well-knowa  botanist  Peter 
CoUinson  :— 

"  February  1, 1790.  Mr.  Hammond  observed  that 
25  lb.  of  blood  passed  through  the  heart  every 
minute.  This  ilr.  Cline,  iSurgeon  to  St.  Thomas  s 
Hospital,  had  an  opportunity  of  obwrving  by  the 
section  of  the  carotid  artery  in  two  unhappy 
aubjecta  under  hydrophobia.  There  were  teu 
patients  in  all,  eight  of  whom  were  curt-d ;  the 
other  two.  instead  of  being  smothered,  were 
released  from  their  misery  by  tne  above-mentioned 
method.' 

Cline  became  Master  of  the  College  of 
Surgeons  in  1815,  and  subsequently  its  presi- 
*u"^'/i  ^^'  Astley  Cooper  was  his  pupil,  and 
the  Gfntlartan'a  Magazine  refers  to  him  as 


repute  at  Edmonton.  Hia  name  is  well 
known  now  as  the  doctor  whose  service 
Keats  entered  as  a  youth. 

The  extract,  I  tiiink,  proves  unquestion- 
ably that  both  smothering  and  bleeding  to 
death  were  accepted  monies  of  treatment  in 
dealing  with  incurable  hydrophobists. 

John  W.  Foud. 

Enfield  Old  Park. 

Charlotte  Bronte,  in  'Shirley'  (published 
1849),  the  scene  of  which  is  laid  in  the  We«l 
Riding  of  Yorkshire,  evidently  describes  tb 
treatment  awarded  to  these  unfortunates  ia] 
her  day.  The  heroine,  who  has  been  bitteaj 
by  a  dog  supposed  to  be  mad,  says  to  bei 
lover : — 

"  In  case  the  worst  I  have  feared  should  happen» 
they  will  smother  me.  Vou  need  not  smile :  they 
will— they  always  do.  My  nnclo  will  be  full  of 
horror,  woaknesA,  |>recipiLation :  and  that  is  the 
only  expedient  which  will  sujtgeat  itself  to  him." 

C.  M.  H. 

There  was  a  belief  fifty  years  ago  that 

Eeople  suffering  with  hyarophobia  after  a 
ite  from  a  mad  dog  were  smothered  in  bed 
BA  a  protective  measure,  and  that  to  do 
was  right  and  proper.  There  was  then 
good  deal  of  talk  about  persons  who  had  been' 
treated  in  this  way.  Such  things  were  said 
to  be  done,  but  none  was  positive  about 
them.  "So-and-so  is  dead."  "Yea.  they  had 
to  smother  hiro,"  was  now  and  then  to  be 
heard  in  conversations.  Tuoa.  Ratcliffk. 
Worksop. 

Tea  as  a  Meal  (S""  S.  ix.  387 ;  x.  244 ; 
G**"  S.  xii.  351). —  I  have  found  an  earlier 
reference  than  any  yet  quoted  in  an  anony- 
mous manual  of  matrimonial  manners,  en- 
titled '  The  Husband,  in  Answer  to  the  Wife  * 
(London,  T.  Gardner,  1756), p.  31  :  "......cavils 

with  her  on  the  article  of  afternoons  tea,  and 
going  out  every  other  Sunday,"  Ac. 

Edward  Heron-Ali.en. 

The  jwint  can  be  pushed  back  a  little 
further  than  1763,  the  earliest  definite  date 
previously  given.  In  a  note  to  Sir  Denis  lo- 
Marchant'.s  'Memoir  of  Viscount  Althorp' 
(p.  3),  describing  the  romantic  marriage  ou 
27  December,  1755,  of  Mr.  ijafterwards  Lord) 
Spencer  to  Miss  Poyntz,  it  is  qaote<l  from  "  a 
letter  written  at  tne  time"  that  "  after  tea 
the  parties  necessary  for  the  wedding  stole 
by  aegrees  from  the  company." 

POUTTCIAN. 

Chinese  Ghosts  (9"' S.  xii. 305).— Mr.  Platt 
sa^s  that  he  has  learnt  from  hia  Chinese 
fnend  of  those  people's  belief  in  their  ghosts 


io«  s.  L  F«.  27. 1904.1         KOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


177 


n 


* 


* 


» 


never  appearing  ouUitle  Chinese  territory, 
at  the  same  time  thoir  settlements  in  other 
countries  being  understood  as  their  own 
territories.  That,  however,  some  Chinese  of 
old  believed  in  their  ghosts  being  able  to 
appear  in  quite  foreign  lands  would  seem 
to  be  implied  in  the  words  of  a  servant 
of  a  certain  Kwoh  family.  When  he  was 
compelled  to  change  his  master,  he  oflfered 
a  sword,  to  be  beheaded  therewith,  say- 
ing. "  I  would  rather  be  a  ghost  amongst 
barbarians  than  obev  an  ignorant  vulgar 
master"  (Sie  Chung-Chi,  *  Wu-tsah-tsu,'  1610, 
Japanese  edition,  1601,  t^m.  viii.  fol.  28b). 
Nevertheless,  the  following  passage  (ibtd., 
torn.  XV.  fol.  29a)  points  to  tneir  general  view 
tbat  under  ordinary  circumstances  spiritual 
or  Quasi-spiritual  beings  have  certain  regions 
nnaer  their  influence  : — 

"  The  diBtricta  lying  north  of  the  river  Yaog-tsze 
abound    with    enchantiug    foxe«,    but    those    to 

its    south    with    elves    and    tlryada VVlkile    a 

niaudaria  of  the  Ma  fa?nilv.  whoe«  bod  woa  my 
cla^inate,  was  auj>ervi8ing  Cheh-Chuh,  a  province, 
be  became  enchant«d  by  a  fox.  Findiag  all  meaos 
of  exorcism  uselewi.  ana  hi«i  health  daily  impairing, 
he  renoanced  his  office  and  weut  home.  The  spirit 
accompanied  him  ao  far  as  the  river  Hwui,  but  did 
aot  pass  it  to  its  northern  side." 

The  'Annals  of  Japan,'  completed  720  a.d., 
records  General  Tamichi,  who  had  been  killed 
in  a  battle  with  the  Ainos,  367  A..D.,  to  have 
appeared  as  a  huge  serpent  and  made  havoc 
among  the  savages  who  tried  to  disturb  his 
grave.  So  the  ancient  Japanese  appear  to 
have  admitted  their  ghosts  to  be  able  to 
appear  singly  among  very  heterogeneous 
peoples.  But  that  they  held  them  to  be 
influential  only  in  limited  portions  of 
space  we  find  in  the  '  Kodan  Shu,'  written 
in  the  twelfth  century  (in  Hanawa's  '  Collec- 
tion,' ed.  1902,  Tokyo,  torn,  cdlxxxvi.  p.  579). 
It  is  narrated  there  how  the  Japanese  saiunt 
Kibi  Daijin  (G93-775  A.D)  outwitted  all  the 
artful  Chinese  who  tried  to  kill  him  from  their 
jealousy  of  his  wide  learning,  through  the 
timely  advice  and  help  of  the  ghost  of 
Abe  no  Nakamaro,  whom  this  story  holds  to 
have  been  starved  to  death  precedingly  by 
the  jealous  Chinese. 

"Thoae  Chiaeae,  who  were  greatly  ashamed  of 
their  own  intellectual  inferiority  to  Kibi,  held  a 
secret  coaocil,  and  resolved  to  imprison  and  starve 
him  oa  a  high  story  where  most  prisoners  could  not 

live  long At  midnight  it  began  to  atonn  and 

rajn,  and  aghast  approached  Kibi  B  room.  Magically 
hiding  himaelf  whollv  from  the  ghost'a  sight,  Kibi 
Mkea  the  spirit,  'What  are  you  who  come  near 
ine,  the  minister  sent  by  the  august  emperor  of 
Japan!'  The  ghost  replied,  *1  am  Japanese 
minister  too,  anaahall  be  exceedingly  glad  to  talk 

with  you.' A<i  soon  as  he  was  let  in  the  ghost 

aaid,  'I  was  a  minister  sent  to  China,  and  have  oeeo 


anxious  but  unable  to  learn  if  my  descendants  of 
the  Abe  clan  are  atill  Aourishing  in  Japan.  Every 
time  I  appear  in  this    room  to  obtain    news  of 

Ja)kan  there    is  nobody  but  dies  frightened.' 

Then  Kibi  narrated  to  him  seven  or  eight  names  of 
hia  descendants,  together  with  their  ranks,  offices, 
and  present  oonditions.  The  spirit  waa  very 
pleased,  and  offered  to  tell  Kibi  all  the  secrets  of 
China  in  retom." 

KCTMAOUSU   MiNAKATA. 
Mount  Nacbi,  Kii,  Japan. 

DoLOKEs,  Musical  Composer  (10"^  S.  i.  107). 
— Sir  Walter  Parratt  informs  me,  "  on  the 
best  authority,"  that  the  name  Dolores  is 
in  no  way  connected  with  her  late  Majesty 
Queen  Victoria.  J.  S.  Sheolock. 

Speaking  from  personal  acquaintance,  I 
can  aay  no  to  Mr.  Moobk's  querj'. 

Haeold  Malet,  Colonel. 

Miss  Dickson — the  sister  of  Major,  after- 
wards General  Sir  CoUingwood  Dickson, 
V.C. — composed  and  published  several  songs, 
"the  poetry  by  Longfellow,  the  music  hy 
Dolores,"  and  I  believe  she  composed  other 
pieces  under  the  same  name,  I  often  heard 
ner  play  and  sing  the  songs  in  the  early 
fifties,  before  the  Crimean  War.      J.  S.  D. 

I  believe  the  larly  who  wrote  songs  under 
this  name  to  have  been  Miss  Dickson,  the 
invalid  sister  of  General  Sir  CoUingwood 
Dickson.  I  had  my  information  from  her 
late  sister-in-law  about  1887.         A.  M.  M. 

This  was  the  pen-name  of  Ellen  Dickson, 
daughter  of  Sir  Alexander  Dickson,  born  at 
Woolwich  in  1819.  See  Brown  and  Stratton's 
'British  Musical  Biography,'  1897,  s.v.  'Dick- 
son.' J.   HOLDEN   MacMicHAEL. 

MLiKLBOEOUOH  AND  ShaKESPEAKE  (10"'  S.  i. 

127).— I  have  always  imagine<l  that  Marl- 
borough's avowal  concerning  his  indebted- 
ness to  Shakespeare  for  all  the  hiatorv  he 
knew  was  a  common  saying  with  the  cfuke, 
and  not  one  peculiar  to  any  special  occasion. 
The  apophthegm  occurs,  1  suppose,  in  the 
'  Memoirs,'  written  by  the  indefatigable 
Archdeacon  Coxe.  Proi.  George  Saintsbury, 
in  his  'Marlborough'  ("English  Worthies," 
1888,  p.  4),  remarks  that  this 

"is  another  of  the  anecdotes  which  only  dnlnesa 
takes  literally.  The  son  of  the  author  of  '  Divi 
Britannici'  is  nearly  certain  to  have  received 
historical  instruction  from  the  author  of  that  work, 
though  if  Shakespeare's  teaching  stuck  in  his 
n]emo(7  better,  it  is  not  to  his  discrodit.  The 
story,  however,  is  of  some  value  as  illustrating  the 
baselessness,  easily  proved  from  other  sources,  of 
a  notion— often  put  forward  in  vulgar  histories  of 
literature  and  the  stage— that  Shakespeare  was 
forgotten  in  England  during  the  last  half  of  the 
seventeenth  century." 


178 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        [lo'"  s.  i.  f«,  87.  \m. 


In  either  case  Corporal  John,  who  made 
bO  much  history  ou  nis  own  account,  must 
have  learnt  more  of  hia^  country "h  past 
achievements  than  many  English  ooya  do 
to-day.  (Sir  Winston  Churchill's  book, 
referred  to  above,  which  waa  puhlishe'J  in 
1G75,  and  dedicated  to  tlie  kini^,  purported  to 
give  some  account  of  "  the  Lives  of  all  the 
Kings  of  this  Isle,  from  the  year  of  the 
World  2855  until  the  year  of  Grace  1060." 
It  moreover  contained  the  arms  of  all  tli© 
kings  of  England,  which,  Wood  somewhat 
unkindly  says,  "made  it  sell  nraonii  novices." 

A.  II.  Ba\xev. 


lOlfiffllinwoufi. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &c. 

Ortat  Maifltra.    With  Introduction  and  Notes  by 

Sir  Martin  Conway.    Part*  V'.,  VI.,  VII.,  Vlll., 

IX.  (Ueinemann.) 
BiJfCE  our  last  notice  of  this  most  brilliant  and 
artistic  series  of  rejiroductions  of  the  miwteriiiecea 
in  the  ^real  ]tiil>lic  and  private  collections  (see 
0*"  S.  xii.  479)  live  further  parts,  uiaintuintng  ihe 
sania  standard  of  artistic  eminence,  have  be«n 
iasned.  It  haa  already  been  said  that  each  filalc 
IB  in  itself  a  gem,  anu  worthy  of  the  i>lace  to  be 
assigned  it  in  a  |>ortfolio  or  a  frame,  while  the 
set  wil!  form,  when  complete,  a  noteworthy  feature 
in  any  collection  of  works  of  art.  So  marvellous 
it  the  advance  in  art  that  process  reproductions, 
at  which  the  connoisseur  was  wont  to  look 
askance,  are  now  gratefully  accepted.  By  no 
other  agency  would  it  be  possible  for  the  man  of 
moderate  means  to  possess  a  collection  of  illustra- 
lion?  that  enables  him  at  hiy  leisure  virtually  to 
saunler  throu(;h  a  great  and  pricole>88  callery. 

Part  V.  opens  with  Reynolds's  often-engraved 
portrait  of  Lady  Ann  Bingham,  from  Lord  Spencer's 
collection,  exhibited  in  1786,  a  half-length  com- 
panion to  that  of  her  fister  Lady  Spencer.  In  the 
name  number  are  Koiiibrandt's'ShetiberdR  Reposing,' 
from  the  National  tJallery,  Dublin ;  Van  Dyck  s 
Lords  George  Digby  and  William  Russell,  also 
r'roni  tli<>  Spencer  GalleiT  ;  and  Raphael's '  Madonna 
in  the  Mendosv,' from  \'ietiDa.  Of  these  the  moat 
interesting,  though  not  the  greatest,  is  the  "i«arade 
picture"  by  Van  Dyck,  a  triumph  of  aristocratic 
awoKger  and  artistic  beauty.  Another  ^'an  Dyck 
of  exquinil-o  beauty  is  the  portrait  of  Maria  Lviigia 
de  Tossig,  froni  Prince  Liechteuslein'e  gallery, 
Vienna,  which  Sir  Martin  calls  "  one  of  the  loveliest 
AS  well  OS  the  most  convincingly  human"  of  the 
master's  pcf  traits,  Like  other  works  of  tlieFlenn'sh 
period,  it  is  painted  wholly  by  himself  without  the 
aid  of  assistants.  From  the  same  gallery,  and  also 
in  Part  VI.,  appear  'The  Man  with  the  Sword  of 
Frans  Hals ;  tiainsborough'e '  Miss  Havertield,'  from 
the  Wallace  Collection;  and  a  *  Fite  Chnnipctre' 
of  Walleau,  from  the  National  Gallery  of  Scotland, 
Eflinburgh,  the  last  a  eujierb  specinten  of  the  great 
©ighteenlhcentury  master. 

From  the  Prado,  Madrid,  coniea  Titian's  criuc?.lri!\n 
portraitofChurlesV.jOnoof  theworld  agreat  niaster- 

pieces,  which,  however,  has  had  to  \nn\c .^•-     ri- 

liyn    Included  with  it  in  Part  VII.  arc  ii 

cbot '  of  Willein  van  de  Velde  the  vo.i  .3 


Museum,  Amatcrdnm),  ^labuse's  '  Adoration  of 
the  Magi '  (I^ord  Carlisle's  collection),  and  Kubens'a 
'Albert  and  Nicholas  Rubens'  (Prince  Liechteu- 
Btein).  The  Hermitage  Gallery,  St.  »•"•""' -trg 
supplies  Rembrandt's  '  Portrait  of  a  1'  lo 
(Part  VIlL),  and  the  Berlin  Museum  -t' 
of  (lerard  Terborch  and  '  The  Vision  of  .St.  Anthony 
of  Padua 'of  Murillo.  Morland's'At  the  Door  of 
the  Dolphin  is  from  a  picture  in  tho  ptWBension  of 
Mr-  Artnur  Sandemon.  '  The  Artist  in  his  Studio,' 
by  \'ermeer,  in  Pari  IX.,  comes  from  a  private  collec- 
tion in  Vienna, and Carpaocio's  ' St.  Ursula's  Dream ' 
from  the  Accadomia,  Venice.  TheHnarlem  Muaeuni 
supplies  a  remarkable  specimen  of  Jan  de  Bray, 
and  the  Prado,  Madrid,  the  e<iueatrian  portrait  by 
Velasquez  of  the  Infante  T>on  Balthazar  Carlos, 
originally  in  the  !■  '"  "  .  These 
vnrioua  works,  t^  i  them- 
selves, are  all  pru'. i  ... ., .-  ........  ..-i.3  never 

l>een  surpassed— never,  indeed,  iu  its  line  equalled. 
It  will  be  satisfactory  to  many  subscri'oers  to  leom 
that  a  specially  design    '   '  "    ^     "  ■   Great 

Masters'  frame,  whid  inuous 

change  of  pictures,  is  i;  ,  .r,  with 

hinged  and  dust-proof  buck.  This  nieots  the  only 
difhculty  that  confronts  the  possessor,  that  of  ex- 
hibiting thcni  in  aconvenicnt  form  without  runtnng 
the  risk  of  daningu,  With  ihu  titnuist  care  there 
is  always  some  danger  of  dcf^igns  of  the  dimensions 
of  those  supplied  undergoing  injiuy.  A  strong 
binding;  even,  aoarculy  meets  the  ditBculty,  aa 
several  volumes  would  necessarily  be  recptired. 

Hitritn/ia  AnijUcatia.    Kdited  by  Vernon  SiaJey. 

Part  11.  (De  I^  More  Press.) 
TuK  second  part  of  tho  new  cditioti  of  this  litur- 
gical work,  now  issue*!  with  revisions  and  con- 
siderable enlargements  by  Provost  Stoley,  will  have 
more  interest  than  tho  first  for  the  antiquarian 
and  general  reader,  inasmuch  as  it  treats  of  sundry 
church  customs,  which  border  on  the  region  of 
popular  antiquities  and  folk-lore.  Processioup, 
postures  of  worship,  funeral  customs,  and  church 
decorations  are  among  the  aubiecta  which  are 
illustrated  by  a  multifftrious  gathering  of  iiuota- 
tions  from  old  authors,  whether  friendly  or  (more 
generally)  hostile  to  tho  observances  diacusaed. 
Slore  than  half  the  extracts  are  additional  matter 
now  provided  by  the  editor,  and  even  tliese  might 
be  indefinitely  increased  by  further  research. 

It  appears  from  the  churchwardens'  account* 
here  cited  that  incense,  when  used  in  churches  in 
post-Reformation  limes,  was  almost  always  for  the 
purpose  of  fumigation  and  disinfectinjr,  or,  aa  the 
phrase  went,  "to  air  the  chai)el."    It  i  '"  ~nl 

that  it  was  frequently  employed  at  fun  m 

times  of  jiestifeiice.     "The  materials  i  -o 

purpose  of  censing  were  curiously  ni  ^, 

jumper,  jwick-thread  (!),  and  tobacco  ■<» 

number,  Thus  at  Houghton  le  Spring-,  i"-i<>,  iii» 
oliurchwardens  jiaid  "  For  picke  and  tare  [pitcb 
and  tar]  to  smoke  the  church,  !■<."  (p  \''^) :  uid  at 
Lougliborough,  1(>44,  "for  dressing  the  •  >" 

tilt  xouliliir-i  and  for  frankincense  to  :t, 

'2<.  4//."  (p.  IJ(0),    A  little  later  Dr.  Sherl...  ,v     nJ 

such  an  insufl'erable  stench  in  the  church  from  tho 
dogs  and  swine  that  had  frequented  it  that  he  was 
obliged  to  order  frankincense  to  be  bui  \f 

before  the  solemnity  that  his  congrcgati  't 

bo  discomposed  by  auch  an  unexpected  .....„.,..o  " 
(p.  181) ;  but  his  sanitary  zeal  only  won  lor  him  the 
title  of  Papist.    The  editor  points  out  that  even 


JO*'  8.  I.  Fed.  27, 19M.]  NOTES  AND    QUERIEvS. 


in  the  Roman  Church  "  the  aocallod  '  hturf;ical 
use' of  incense  was  unknown  until  the  tenth  cen- 
tiinr." 

The  1x>ok  ia  very  carefally  and  handsoniely 
printed  ;  but  we  wonder  what  meaninK  Mr.  St^ley 
attaches  to  the  words  "riuging^/Ae  bells'  milcr,  aa 
though  there  had  been  &  scare-fire  "  (p.  267),  which 
he  quotes  from  Gurton'a  •  History  of  the  Church  of 
Peterborough.'  Whoever  is  resytonaiblo  for  it,  this 
is  an  obvious  misprint  for  "  rinf;ing  the  belk  auit-e," 
or  avkfii  (awkward),  the  old  phrase  for  ringing 
theni  backwards,  or  m  the  wrong  direction,  which 
is  Blill  used  in  Kast  Anglin  when  an  alarm  of  fire  is 
given. 

'The  Hi^torv  ok  tiii;  British  Ahmv,'  by  Col. 
K.  M.  Lloyd,  in  the  (Juarttrly  lUrkir  for  January, 
ia  an  important  t^per  written  on  modern  lines,  but 
perhaps  not  sufboiently  detailed  as  to  the  earlier 
centuries,  for  when  all  is  allowed  for  the  develop- 
ments of  modern  days  it  will  be  admitted,  we 
imagiue,  by  any  one  conversant  \vith  the  facta  that 
the  army  of  this  country  differs  in  origin  and  his- 
tory from  that  of  continental  states  in  being  a  far 
more  direct  (growth  from  the  levies  of  the  Middle 
Ages.  The  standing  army  is  an  institution  of  rela- 
tively modern  date  ;  but  wo  cannot  r>o>Qt  to  any 
feriod  when  our  military  force  was  a  new  thing, 
t  is  statml  on  very  high  authority  that  during  the 
Caroline  civil  war  the  number  of  men  on  each  side 
was  from  sixty  to  seventy  tlioiiaand,  and  this  is 
thought  to  have  been  about  three  per  cent,  of  the 
po[iuIation.  It  is  difficult  to  accc]>t  so  high  an 
estimate.  There  are  no  trustworthy  duta  on  which 
to  base  a  calculation  of  the  population  of  Kn^land 
between  the  years  16i*2  and  16C0.  Our  own  opinion 
IS  that  it  has  been  usually  greatly  underrated.  We 
admit,  of  course,  that  ine  cities  and  large  towns 
were  much  smaller  than  they  are  now,  though  they 
were  for  the  most  part  densely  crowded,  but  the 
villages,  so  far  as  we  can  aacertaiu,  had  in  many 
cases  a  larKer  population  than  thoy  have  at  present- 
Mr.  W.  C.  D.  Whelham'a  article  on  '  Matter  and 
Electricity'  is  striking.  It  would  have  perturbed 
not  a  little  the  minds  of  the  few  who  were  wont  to 
ai>ecw]ato  on  the  ultimate  nature  of  things  but  a 
few  years  ago.  What,  for  example,  would  our  grand- 
fatbet's  liBve  thought  of  a  passage  like  this?  "  Mass, 
ov  is  the  most  constont  and  ncnnanent 

<:  cproiicrty  of  matter;  and  having  ex- 

j.i  .^1  as  due  to  electricity  in  motion,  the 


I 


pliyfeicist  may  well  ask  the  metapnysical  question, 
Has  matter  any  objective  reality?  may  not  its  very 

r'-' '  ■    tiut  a  fonn  of  disemltodied  energy?^* 

J  who    blundered   so   strenuouslv  over 

1'.'  teaching  regarding  "substance,'    going 

so  tar  us  to  call  in  question  his  honesty,  or  even 
hiMHiiuity,  would  have  been  not  a  little  furious  at 
suggest  ion  ij  such  ns  this.  They  would  have  said 
that  wordri  were  used  in  senses  which  conveyed  no 
nieuikiug  wliatcvpr  to  the  normal  understanding,  if, 
indeed,  they  had  been  content  to  restrain  thom- 
•elvos  from  lAUiicliing  forth  into  mere  ignorant  vitu- 
|ieraliun.  The  Rev.  M.  Kaufmann's  'Que  scaig-jo' 
18  nn  admirable  account  of  the  influence  which 
Montaigue  has  exercised  over  the  centuries  which 
■uvcecded  liini.  It  has,  we  are  sure,  been  far 
_  ,t«r  than  is  generally  understood  Many  men 
who  have  never  read  a  word  of  his  writings,  either 
in  the  original  or  our  own  vernacular,  have  had 
their  minds  imvreased  by  idea<!  which  lie  waa  the 
first  to  make  tv>pular.     In  the  turbulent  days  in 


which  Montaigne  flourished— and,  so  far  as  we  cao 
see,  lived  a  peaceful  and  contented  life — it  is  not 
a  little  surprising  that  he  did  not  suffer  in  iierson 
or  estate  for  the  latitude  of  his  opinions,  we  do- 
not  believe  ho  was  consciously  a  timeserver,  and 
he  assuredly  had  no  pympathy  whatever  with  the 
violent  thoughts  and  actions  of  the  Calvinista  t 
but,  on  the  other  hand,  even  without  reading 
between  the  lines,  we  may  conclude  that  he  had 
but  little  sympathy  with  the  established  forms  of 
belief,  though  it  is  probable  that  he  preferred  the 
old  methods  of  worship  to  anything  which  the  men 
of  refonning  zeal  were  likely  to  introduce  as  a 
substitute  for  them.  He  was  a  child  of  the  Renais- 
sance ;  indeed,  one  of  the  most  distinguished  orna- 
ments of  its  later  period  ;  but  that  great  revival 
of  knowledge  did  not  prwiuce  in  him  violence  of 
speech  or  action.  At  a  time  when  most  men, 
whether  of  the  old  way  of  thinking  or  the  new, 
cwuld  see  nothing  beyonci  the  smoke  of  the  pit  over- 
clouding the  camp  of  their  oncraies,  he  had  realized 
the  virtue  of  tolerance  ;  not,  indeed,  worked  out 
on  logical  principles,  but  the  result  of  much  the 
same  processes  of  thought  aa  delight  us  in  More'a 
'  Utopia.'  We  have  in  '  The  Latest  Lights  on  the 
Homeric  Question '  a  well-considered  study  of  a 
very  old  subject.  We  cannot  occept  ail  the  w  ritcr's 
criticisms.  We  think,  however,  that  the  portion 
devoted  to  the  'Odyssey'  is  just,  and  nearly  always 
accurate.  We  cannot  say  so  much  for  the  earlier 
pagea,  in  which  the  genesis— or  ijerhaps  we  should 
say  the  growth— of  the  'Iliad  is  treated.  The 
notion  that  Homer  may  have  "  composed  variations 
ou  his  own  theme"  ia,  we  believe,  contrary  to  the 
manner  in  which  iioetry,  alike  early  and  niediii-val, 
has  been  produced.  '  Tne  Metric  System  of  Weighta- 
and  Nleasures,' '  .Some  Tendencies  of  Modem  Siwrt,' 
and  '  Mr.  Creevey  and  his  Contemporaries'  are  well' 
worth  reading.  

We  regret  to  hear  of  the  death  of  Capt.  Thorxe 
Geoboe,  whose  contributions  have  been  pleaaautljr 
conspicuous  during  recent  volumes.  SVc  are  with- 
out biographical  particulars. 

Mr.  •Toh>'  8.  Farmer  issues  a  first  list  of  plays 
intended  to  fill  up  the  gaps  in  our  collected  editions 
of  Tudor  dramatists,  which  ho  iirojioscs  to  print  by 
Bubscri]>tion  should  adequate  sujiiiort  be  accorded. 
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been  advocated  by  us.  Twelve  volumes  in  all,  the 
first  of  which  will  deal  with  John  Hoywood,  are 
projected.  SShould  these  be  successful,  a  second 
series  will  follow.  Particulars  may  be  obtained 
through  booksellers  or  from  the  Early  English 
Drama  Society,  18,  Bury  Street,  W.C. 

Usher  the  direction  of  the  Royal  Society  of 
Literature  Mr.  Henry  Frowde  is  about  to  publish 
two  interesting  works.  One  is  the  'Chronicles  of 
Adam  of  Usk,'  e<lited,with  a  translation  and  notes, 
by  Sir  E.  Maundo  Thomiwon.  This  contains  the 
complete  chronicle  from  1,'J77  to  U'Jl.  The  uni<juo 
British  Museum  MH ,  from  which  the  same  editor 
prepared  an  edition  in  lS7ti,  was  imncrfect,  ending 
with  the  year  1104  and  lacking  the  concluding 
quire;  and  this  was  recently  found  among  the 
Duke  of  Rutland's  papers  at  Belvoir  Castle.  I  ho 
other  book  is  *  (^ueen  F'",lizabei  h  and  the  Levant 
Company,'  the  history  of  a  diplomatic  and  Jilcrarjr 
episode  of  the  establishment  of  our  trade  with 
'l\irkey,  edited  by  the  Rev.  H.  G.  Rosedale,  P.U,, 
with  many  facsimile  illustrations. 


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0OOKSEX.LEBS'  CATALOOmtB. 

PLEASAKT  it  19  to  leave  the  daily  preas  for  awhile, 
^jtb  ita  acoounU  of  wars  and  rumours  of  wars, 
»nd  quietly  to  turn  over  the  i>a|^  of  theae  new 
catalogues- 
Mr.  Cleaver,  of  Bath,  haa  the  original  iasue  of 
J*unch,  1841-1902,  25^.  ;  'The  Royal  Military  Chro- 
nicle.' 18ll-ir>,  with  portraiu,  2/.  I(k«.  ;  'The  Battle 
Abbey  Roll.'  1889 ;  '  Goaturoea,'  1802-18,  6  vols. ; 
Shelley 'a  '  Essjiys,'  Moxon,  liWO ;  aeveral  seta  of  the 
'  Antiquarian  Itinerary ' ;  and  a  Dumber  of  works 
on  Somerset,  Haint>8hire,  BorkNhire.  and  Scotland. 
From  Mr.  Dobell's  eood  general  list  wc  pick  out 
the  following:— A  folio  Shakespeare,  135t.,  Thos. 
<:otes  for  Robert  Allot,  1632:  Fleaya  'London 
Stage';  'Omar  Kliayyam,'  Kdward  FitzGerald's 
fourth  (and  final)  versiou,  «.  4».,  1879 ;  FitzGerald's 

*  Poems,'  3i.  3».,  presentation  copy ;  FitzGerald's 

*  Literary  Remains,"  Edition  de  luxe,  4/.  4*. :  Colo- 
ridge's  paiMsr  the  Friend,  Nos.  I  to  27  (all  pub- 
lished), and*  The  Plot  I)uoovore<l.'ori(;inal  edition. 
very  rare  ;  '  Dr.  Syntax  in  I'aris,'  1820  :  und  '  Life  of 
Blake,'  first  edition. 

We  have  from  Mr.  Francis  Kd wards  one  of  his 
"short  lista,"  ia  which  we  find  Adam's  work  on 
'Architecture'  (1778  1822),  price  IW.  lOs. ;  'New 
Franco,'  by  Charlevoix,  translated  by  Dr.  Shea ; 
Dumaaa  'Celebrated  Crimea,'  H  vols.,  181)5:  Flet- 
cher's '  English  and  Foreign  Bookbindiu|n ';  Foster's 
'  Miniature  Painters' ;  Garnior's  'Soft  Porcelain  of 
Stivres  ' ;  Perrot  and  Chipiez's  '  History  of  Ancient 
Art  ■;  Roberta's '  Memorials  of  Christie's ';  Racinet'a 
'Le  C!o8bunae  Hiatorique,'20/. ;  and  'Fauna  Japo- 
aica'  (Leyden.  1833  50),  37^  lOs. 

Messrs.  George's  Sons,  of  Bristol,  have  a  list  in 
eluding  Dr.  Orosart's  private  issues,  works  on 
ceraniica,  architecture,  and  drama. 

Mr.  Charles  lligham's  catalogue  dated  Iho  20th 
iost-  contains  a  large  collection  of  theological  works, 
those  specially  Roman  Catholio  occupying  eighteen 
pa«es. 

Mr.  Macphail,  of  Edinburgh,  has  a  first  edition 
of  Kay's  '  Uriftiital  Portraits,  1837.  This  is  a  good 
sound  copy  and  contains  upwards  of  400  portraits, 
price  4/.  I7i<.  W.  There  is  also  Nisbet'a  '  Heraldry, 
iQ  perfeot  condition.  It.  i5«. ;  this  has  the  full 
complement  of  the  rare  53  I&rge  full-page  idates. 
Sleaer's  'Theatrum  Hcotiaj,'  1814,  a  very  choice 
copv,  is  6  guineas.  A  complete  set  of  the  Pro- 
i'ttainf4  of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries  of  Scotland, 
from  its  commenuement  in  18itl  to  1000,  34  vob. ,  is 
IW.  10/(. ;  and  JrcftfTO^ojfia.from  1800  to  1844,  'il.  15v. 
There  arc  alno  many  interesling  items  classed  as 
•Jacobite,  Edinburgh,  Highland,  Occult,  &c. 

Messrs.  Maggs,  of  the  Strand,  have  a  list  of 
engraved  portraits  and  decorative  engravings  in 
mezzotint,  stipple,  and  lino. 

Masirs.  James  Rimell  &  Son  have  an  interest!  Dg 
catalogue  of  engravings  after  manv  well-known 
artists,  including  Lawrence,  Reynolds,  Morland, 
and  Stothard,  also  chromolithographs  by  the 
Arundel  Society,  at  low  prices. 

Messrs.  Sotherau's  list  ia  dated  the  10th.  In  this 
the  7V»i<'«  reprint  of  the  'EucvcIopiediaBritannioa' 
is  oflered  for  21A,  3.?  vols.,  including  index,  as  new. 
A  note  inf orn^a  u«  that  the  Timet  cash  price  is  57/- 
uet.  Another  copy  ia  to  bo  had  for  2(1/.  This  is 
half-morooco  extra.  The  Timt^  price  for  this  is 
given  at  W.  net.    We  notice  a  copy  of  Pickering's 


exquisite  Diamond  Edition  of  ShakestMare,  9  vol 
48mo,  calf  extra,  1825.  3/.  3<. ,  ecaroe.  The  catalogu 
also  includes  a  choice  set,  trj  1897,  of  the  Shronahir«- 
Arctueological  Society's  jTmiitac/io/w,  20/.  ;  Alesius, 
*  Rasponaio  ad  Cochfuji  Calnmnias,'  W.  l(Js.  (tliia 
is  excessively  rare,  and  there  is  no  copy  in  the 
British  Museum) :  and  TramnctioiM  of  the  Biblical 
Archieological  Society,  21  vols.  A  large  jtortif"'  "f 
the  catalogue  is  devoted  to  works  on  tlieolo^'. 
nhilosophy,  some  of  thcin  very  rare.  ( 
Political  and  Social  Economy  wo  nod  J^l 
Canning,  Cobden,  Grattan  ;  the  E'onon 
13  vols. ;  Mayhew's  '  London  Labour  an. 1  ...  La- 
don  Poor ' ;  au  extensive  collection  of  '  Remarkable 
Trials.'  68  vols.,  1757-1857.  55/.  General  Literature 
includes  Milton's  '  Paraniae  Lost,'  the  rare  first 
edition,  S.  Simmons,  1668,  30/. ;  Stow'a  '  London.' 
17*.i0,  and  another  copy,  17-54-5;  George  Siuith's 
'Household  Furniture,'  1808,  very  acarce;  Eon  Toti 
Magatint,  (!  vols.,  1818-21 ;  the  first  English  trans- 
lation of  Seneca,  l'>8),  very  rare,  7/.  10<. ;  a  cliuice 
copy  of  StirliiigMaxwell's  'Annals  of  the  .Vrtists 
of  bpaio,'  first  edition,  1843 ;  '  Life  of  Stothard,' 
with  personal  reminiscences,  by  Mrs  Bray,  200 
engravings,  1851 ;  Thackeray's  'Vanity  Fair,'  first 
edition,  1848,  scarce,  6/.  15*. ;  Tuer's  '  History  of  the 
Hornbook';  and' The  Turner  Gallery,' 18.VJ-61.  Not 
the  least  interesting  item  is  Charles  .VIolJoy  Weat- 
macott's  'The  English  Spy,'  l825-€,  2  vols.,  bound 
in  crushed  crimson  Levant  morocco  extra  by 
Riviere,  30/. 

Mr.  ^Viutor,  Charins  Cross  Road,  has  a  collection 
of  Latin,  French,  and  Italian  M88.  among  his  recent 

fiurchaaea.  Hia  catalogue  contains  a  good  general 
ist— among  other  items,  first  editiou  ol  Ingoldsby  ; 
'  The  Social  Day,'  by  Peter  Cox,  with  water-colour 
painting  on  the  lore  edges;  'Martin  Chuzzlewit,' 
first  edition,  &c. 


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181 


LO:ft)ON,  SATVRDAY,  MARCH  6,  1901.. 


CONTENTS.-No.  10. 

HOTKS  :— Dant«lui&,  181  -"Silly  Billy."  IBa-Bibliognphy 
of  PubllBbtoK  KUd  Buuk««lUiie.  181— Robert  Boyl«  on  tb« 
fijhie,  184— JapaiKxe  Nkmet— GeneatoKy  :  New  SouroM— 
"  AuDCcU  "-  H(>cliday :  FotUge  calltsd  Hole— Mn.  Owkell'i 
'  8jlvU"«  Loreri,'  IS". 

QVBBIES: -LbUd  QiioUtinns— Paolo  Avltabile,  188  — 
OtwlA*  ttip  Bold  — Admtriil  Byiig— Mtu  l>ewfln  aad  Wealejr 

—  8choolma»ters  —  TLom»«  Ooodivlii,  D.U.— Verfet  on 
Women  —  "  IlrMgc  " ;  U>  D#rit'ntlun  —  CuplxtilllR  —  "  Old 
Bu£>Hn<l  ''—Thackeray  Quotatiun,  ISU— Wvljsler's  'Basque 
I>£Uodi '  —  HarvpaUi  —  (juoLatiooa  —  PeuQ'»  '  Fruits  o( 
Solitadr.'  190. 

BBPLiaS  :-Tlde«wellnndTl(lestow.I9u-Karlol  Bgremont, 
193  —  G Ion  worm  or  Ftri-lly— '  Mvrry  Tbciuulitj  in  a  Sad 
Place'-"  My  I^jrd  tbe  Sun"— FellowH  of  t,h*  Clover  I>e*( 
— 'Th«  Uxlord  KriKll*!'  Dirtiunary  '  —  FicMtloiu  Latio 
FlufAU— "  KItiK  i>f  PaU'tdttlf  "  — Football  on  Shrove 
Tue»d«y— 81e<Ppl"II  '^'"K  Arthur--"  Quloo,"  194 -Honour 
of  Tulbury  — MIU>«tones  -  UrenkiDg  Olau  at  Jewish  Wed- 
ding*—"Travail  ler  pour  le  Kill  de  Prtisse"— "Cock»hut 
time,"  I9.'i— TuTCh  and  Taper -Bpitapb at  Doncuter,  190— 
8oa  of  Nap»>leon  I.  — Ualeigh't  Hea«i— "Coup  de  Jarnao" 
— IiuD<1red  Courts,  tU7  —  Obauflerlana  —  Oulde  to  Hatior 
Rolli—A.  •'.  tSwinburue — Court  FosU  under  Stuart  Klogi 

—  Book  CotlecUira  —  Records  o(  Mount  Grace -WlUIani 
Hartley— Koccarluui,  19tl. 

NOTKS  ON  HOOKS: -Httkloyfs  '  Navigation! '- Solon'. 
•Old  BiigiUb  PurcelAin '— Trea»aro'»  '  lirelon  Rmoimar' 
— Wbeaili-y'fc  'Gerraril  Strent  and  Ibt  Neighbourhood '— 
'  William  Ha\-or>-  of  BrightwaJtoo.' 

Nuticoji  to  Carres pondenti. 


0Ot«. 

DANTEIANA. 
I.  *lSF.,'  xiv.  96:— 

Sotlo  il  cui  rege  fu  giJi  il  tnondo  casto. 
Why   Mr.  Tozei'  ('  English  Commentary,' 
p.   78)  hofi   rendered  cmto  as  "innocent"  is 
not  easy  to  say.     I  note  the  rendering  in  no 
suporcilious  spirit,  but  because  it  appears  to 
luo  to  be  as  tarfetche<l  as  it  is  inaccurate. 
To  ho  "cha-ste"  is  of  course  to  be  "inno- 
cent" of  its  opposite  vice,  but  it  by  no  means 
implies    innocency    in    every    other    form. 
Dante's  thought  was  less  restricted,  and  evi- 
dently followed  Juvenal's  piirase  (Satire  vi.)  : 
("redo  pudicitiam  Saturao  rege  moratain 
In  torns, 

which  Dryden  correctly  englisbed 

In  Baturn'R  reigp,  at  Nature's  early  birth. 
There  was  a  thiug  call'd  chastity  on  earth. 

And  Gary  translates  Dante's  line  fairly  cor- 
rectly as 

Under  whose  monarch,  in  old  tiinoa,  tbe  world 

Lived  pure  and  chaste. 

Sc&rtazzini  also  has  "  Refjt: :  Saturno.  Cutto  : 
jiuro,  senza  vizj,"  and  refers  to  the  '..'Eneid,' 
viiL  319  srtj.,  where  we  read  that  Saturn 

Genua  indocile,  oc  dixMrsum  ruoctibus  oltio, 
Coniposuit,  legeaque  dedit, 


and 

•Sic  plaoida  populos  in  pace  regebat. 
I  am  aware  that,  as  Bianchi  says,  ^*C<uto 
puu  prendersi  auche  nel  senso  3i  intajro, 
imiocente,  come  talvolta  presso  i  Latiui"- 
but,  as  Lorabai'di  remarks,  "Saturno,  fu  il 
mondo  pudico."  Precisely.  Saturn  was  the 
symbol,  not  of  an  innocent  worM  generally, 
but  of  a  pure  one  in  particular.  Ilis  age  was 
the  age  of  gold. 

2.  Ilnd.,  126  :— 

Pur  a  FJaiatra  giii  calando  al  fondo. 

This  lino  is  animadverted  upon  simply 
because,  as  Mr.  Tnzer  well  observes,  "  the 
pasjjage  is  an  important  one  as  bearing  ou 
the  leftward  course  of  the  poets  through 
Hell,"  since,  as  he  remarks  on  'Inf,,'  ix.  132, 
"  its  allegorical  significance  is  that  the  forms 
of  sin  which  present  themselves  to  ono  who 
descends  through  the  Circles  of  Hell  proceed 
from  worse  to  worse." 

For  manuscript  variants  of  tlie  line  the 
student  should  read  Dr.  Moore's  exhaustive 
examination  of  the  rival  claims  of  Pnv  and 
Piii.  ('Textual  Ciiticism,'  p.  307).  Phi  has  lUO 
supports,  while  Pur  reckons  only  59.  But 
there  can  be  no  hesitation  as  to  the  correct 
reading,  despite  Witte's  curious  advocacy  of 
Pill.  The  latter,  as  Dr.  Moore  rightly  says, 
"  haa  little  or  no  point  at  all,  when  looke<i  into, 
though  the  exprcsaioa  seemi  bo  plain  in  itself.  It 
would  aI«o  nnso  the  undoubted  symbolical  sigui- 
ficauue  of  the  fact  here  mentioned,  which  ia  tiiat 
assigoed  to  it  b^  Buti,  'non  ai  pu6  scendere  nell' 
inferno  ae  non  si  va  a  ainiatra,  oio^  per  la  via  dei 
vizi  aignificata  |)er  la  ainistra.'  " 

Other  variants  worth  noting  are :  Pnv  dn 
ainisttxt  in  MS.  85  (Ratines,  318),  in  Turin 
University  Library,  of  the  fiiteentli  century, 
of  which  *'  the  text  generally  is  a  very  poor 
one";  a  man  sinittixi  in  F  MS.,  Bodleian, 
fifteenth  century  (Batines,  495),  "full  of  bold 
and  original,  not  to  say  audacious,  changes," 
and  in  a  MS.  British  Museum  (Batines,  482), 
"a  beautifully  executed  MS.  on  vellum,'' 
probably  of  the  second  half  of  the  fifteenth 
century.  "Alia  man  destra"  occurs  'Inf.,' 
ix.  132,  which  may  possibly  have  misled  the 
copyist.  MS.  25  (Batines,  139)  has  Per  via 
sinisliu,  in  the  Biblioteca  Riccardiana  at 
Florence,  "a  folio  MS.  on  vellum,  the  earlier 
part  of  which  is  veri' clearly  and  well  written, 
and  looks  like  late  fourteenth  century."  Tu 
a  siutstni  is  given  by  MS.  54  (Batines,  329), 
a  Vatican  MS.  of  "latiah  fourteenth  cen- 
tury," and  MS.  106  (Batines,  439)  in  the 
Bibliotheque  Nationale  at  Paris,  "a  very 
inferior  text,  full  of  ^uliar  readings  and 
blunders,  about  the  middle  of  the  fiiteentb 
oentory. ' 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES,      [lo^  s.  i.  makcu  s.  ifi04. 


3.  Ibid.,  XV.  4  :— 
Quale  i  Fiamminghi  tra  Ciuizz&nte  e  BruKgiii. 

An  unusually  attractive  discussion  owes  itH 
birth  to  this  line  ;  and,  as  with  the  Irisli 
Round  Towers,  finality  is  not  yet  reached. 
GuiTjftnte  is  still  in  search  of  its  (Edipus, 
though  Mr.  J.  G.  AuJER  posed  as  such  in 
tbeae  columns  (a***  S.  ii.  101),  somewhat  over- 
confideully,  thus  :— 

"  Ituzzanle.  aay"  Mr.  GUdstonc  IXinftfeiith  Ctn- 
tun/,  June,  18^1,  accordinR  to  the  commentators. 

is  VVissant,  near  Calais But  is  OuKzante  VVissant  ? 

An  om1>anknient  from  Bruges  to  VVissant  wouKl 
have  been  at  Icofll  a  hundred  and  twenty  miles  in 
length,  a  t'^'^ntic  work,  utterly  inconceivable  in 
iho  fourteenm  century,  and  Danto  would  ha%'e  been 
guilty  of  an  anticlimax  in  adding  ae  a  second 
simile  the  embankment  of  the  Brenta  at  Padua. 
No ;  riu7j'.anto  is  Cadzand.  a  port  a  little  to  the 
north-cofll  of  Bruges ;  ana  wo  may  fancy  Dante 
there  comparing  the  (Jernian  Ocean  with  the 
tideleaa  Mediterranean.  The  Italian  form  was 
Cazaanle,  and  (iuzzante  is  probably  a  copyist's 
error.  The  commentators  who  misled  Mr.  Glad- 
atone  cannot  have  looked  at  the  map." 

In  the  first  place,  so  self-confident  a  critic 
should  be  sure  of  his  ground.  Mr.  Gladstone 
does  not  write  of  Gutzante,  but  of  Guizmnte— 
a  distinction  with  no  difference,  perhaps,  but 
one  that  makes  for  precision.  In  the  second, 
is  it  quite  certain  that  Guizzante  is  Cadzand  7 
Is  it  also  equally  certain  that  Cazzante  is  the 
Italian  form  for  Cadzand  ]  Mr.  Alger  thinks 
so.  and  iiis  sureness  has  received  undue 
prominence  (as  I  think)  in  a  reference  1j3' 
Scarta^^iui  in  his  '  Dantologia.'  But  the 
absence  of  proof  for  the  statement  is  as 
siguificant  as  is  the  ignoring  of  it  by  later 
writers.    Thus  Mr.  Tozer  (1901)  has  in  loco  :— 

"tiuizzante:  Wissant,  a  town  lietweon  Calais 
and  Cape  Oris  Nez ;  it  was  known  in  the  Miiidle 
Age3  an  the  startine-point  for  the  crossinx  to  Enp;- 
land.  This  place  and  Bruges  mark  the  western  and 
eastern  limits  of  the  coast  of  Flanders,  as  known  to 
Dante  ;  so  the  general  meaning  is  "  on  the  Flemish 
coaft.'  Bruges  is  used  roughly  bore  for  the  coast  in 
its  neighbourhood,  since  it  lies  inland  fromOatend." 

This  is  clear  and  definite  without  dogma- 
tism, though  possibly  beneath  Mr.  Ai/iER'a^ 
notice.  Not  so,  however,  a  singularly  clear 
and  persua^iive  article  by  Mr.  Paget  ToynbeOj 
in  the  Academy  of  10  December,  1892,  wherein 
he  marshals  a  goodly  array  of  authorities 
in  favour  of  the  identification  of  Guizzante 
with  Wissant.  "Guizzante,"  he  claims,  as 
fearlessly  as  Mr.  Alger  contends  for  Cadzand, 
"  is  the  undoubted  Italian  form  of  Wissant, 
proved  by  a  reference  to  Villani,  *Poi  ne 
venne  [Edw.  III.]  a  Guizzante'";  and, 
further,  the  identification  of  the  Italian 
Guizzante  with  Wi.s3ant  is  confirmed  by  the 
ProvenijAl  form  Guissan,  by  the  O  F.  Guit- 
sand  in  (he  'Chanson  do  Roland,'  the  striking 


variants  of  several  Anglo-Norman  poemsL 
such  as  Wittsant,  Huitsand,  Wizant,  Jrc.  ana 
the  testimony  of  i^any  monastic  chronicle*, 
early  and  mediaival.  The  article  is  as  near 
an  approach  to  finality  as  it  is  possible  to 
achieve,  and  inferentially  vindicates  'Mr. 
Gladstone  from  tlie  charge  of  being  "misled 
by  the  commcntntors." 

But  here  Mr.  Alger  again  steps  into  the 
arena  with  discomfiting  result  (Acadctnu 
14  January,  1893).  There  was  a  joint  iii  his 
harness  which  Mr.  Toynbee  was  not  slow  to 
perceive,  the  former  bein^  "  misled ''  by  a 
misquotation  from  or  a  mistrauslaiion  of  a 

f»assage  in  Benvenuto  da  Iraola.  One  line 
rom  Mr.  Toynbee's  rejoinder  (Ariulcmt/,  21 
January,  1893)  will  explain  the  nature  of  tho 
misleacling  : — 

"  Benvenuto  says  absolutely  nothing  about  tho 
length  of  the  dyke  by  '  xv  milliaria  ' ;  lie  simply 
says  that  the  tide  was  receding  15  ruilca." 

Tho  defeat  was  signal,  a.s  it  cut  t.lic  heart  out 
of  Mr.  Alger's  contention,  and  w;ls  gallantly 
acknowledged  by  him  in  tho  next  it-sue  of 
the  journal. 

Curiously  enough,  however,  .Mr.  Toynbee » 
own  armour  was  not  flawless,  for  his  asMertion 
in  his  first  article  that  "Cadjsand  never  was 
within  tho  boundaries  of  Flanders— called 
Oaggaiite  in  Italian,"  was  rebutted  by  M. 
Paul  Fredericq : — 

"  This  was  an  error  in  roediUival  geo^phy.  As 
a  matter  of  fact  Cadsand  icoj  situated  in  an  island 
belonging  to  the  county  of  Flanders  in  the  niontfl 
of  the  river  Scheldt,  at  the  verv  time  Dante  was 
writing.  This  sitnation  remained  the  same  till  the 
beginning  of  the  seventeenth  century." 

This  may  be,  but  it  in  no  wise  identifies 
Cadzand  with  Guizzante.  Nor  is  it  material 
whether  Cadzand  was  of  Flemish  or  any  other 
nationality.  Nor,  again,  whether  the  Italian 
for  it  be  C-azzante  or  Gaggante,  does  it  follow 
etymologically  that  Guizzante  is  signified. 
And,  further,  I  see  nothing  either  "aosurd  "" 
or  "  inconceivable "  in  an  embankment  from 
a  coast  point  opposite  Bruges  to  Wissant  in 
the  fourteenth  century,  even  though  the  lin& 
was  120  miles  in  length.  Dyke-building  wa» 
no  more  difficult  than  church-building,  and 
we  tolerably  well  know  what  the  latter  was 
in  the  Middle  Ages.  Besides,  if  it  was 
possible  to  construct  an  embankment  from 
Bruges  (or  "  the  coast  in  its  neighbourhood  ") 
to  tlie  Scheldt,  it  would  be  equally  so  to 
continue  it  thence  to  Wissant.  As  a  matter 
of  fact,  as  Dean  Plumptre  observes  (uoto- 
»'» loco), 

"  Wissant,  tho  harbour  of  which  \»  now  chnkeil 
up  and  disused,  was  in  tho  twelfth  and  •, 'i  i  ..      ;h 
ceotaries  thei»ual  p^ortof  i^mbarcatiun  f' 
[and]  its  neishboorhood  abounds   in   i....^.„.  ^i 


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fortitiuationa  and  enibanknienta  raised  on  natural 

dvinos." 

Finally,   whore   the    anti-climax  exists  "  in 

adding  a^  a  second  simile  the  embankment 

of  the  Brentaat  Padua"  I  fail  to  recognize. 

QaaJity  rather  than  quantity  was  in  Dante's 

thought  in  connexion  with   the  "duri  mar- 

Sini,     and   his   travels  furnished   him   with 
lustrations  of  it.     Either  reference  would 
have  served   his    purpose ;    both  are  given 
with,    presumably,     the     very    pardonable 
vanity  of  the  travelled  author.     The  claims 
of  CJhent  to  identity  with  Ouizzante  are  too 
nebulous    for    serious    consideration.    Simi- 
larly, tl>e  variants  Guzzante  =  Ouizzante  are 
inconsiderable.     As    G  rattan    8<iid    of    the 
"  curositv  "  of  an  Irish  witness,  "The  word  is 
not  murrlered  ;  only  its  eye  is  knocked  out." 
4.  Let  me— appropriately,  as  I  judge,  in 
this  column  —  lodge  an  indignant    protest 
against  the  slanderous  treatment  meted  out 
to   Dante  by  Sardou  and   Moreau  in  their 
joint  drama  bearing  his  name  and  staged 
last  year  in  London  and  Manchester.    I  have 
alrcaily  done  so  in  the  local  pr&ss,  and  have 
reaixiu    the   thanks   of    Bishop    Casartelli, 
Prof.  Valgiraigli,  and  others.     The  play  itself 
I  have  not  seen,  but  I  gleaned  its  merits  (or 
rather  demerits)  from  various  critiques  and 
from  tiie  bo<jklot  "presented  by  Sir  Henry 
Irving"  to   those   who  saw   it.    The    latter 
purports  to  be  "some  explanatory  notes  by 
an  Italian  Student."  and  is  divided  into* A 
Note  on  the  Story,'  a  'Synopsis  of  Dante's 
Life,' '  The  Symbolical  Conception  of  Sardou 
and  Moreau's  "  Danto," ' '  The  Central  Episode 
of  the  Drama,"  and  a  '  Prologue,'  containing 
'The  Episo<lo  of  Count  Ugolino' and  a  detailed 
.synopsis  of  the  four  acts  of  the  play.     It  is 
in  the  first  and  fourth  of  these  chapters  that 
He  the  venom  and  trave>«ty  to  which  I  take 
indignant  exception.    Here  is  a  sample  of 
both  :— 


the  21 

dei  Toloniiai,  who  has  been  forced  into  a  lovelcw 

marriage  with  Nello  della  Pietra,  a  iki»raved  and 

llerocioua  Florentine  ma^ate.    The  unhappy  young 

Vwife  has,  tlirouch  her  intimacy  with  Beatrice,  he- 

Icoine  acquainted  with  Uante,  and  at  the  death  of 

1  Beatrice  the  mutual  bereavement  of  the  two  has 

I  Braduallv  developed  into  an  ardent  mutual  love. 

During  Nellu's  absence  on  atTairs  of  state,  a  child, 

(iemtna,  haa  been  bom  t»  Piu  and  Dante." 

The  Pia  is,  of  course,  the  Pia  of  'Purg.,' 
V.  133  :— 

Rioorditi  di  nic,  cbc  son  la  Pia ; 
ijiena  mi  fe',  disfecemi  Maromma  ; 

and  there  h  in  the  passage  quoted  a  sufficiency 
of  truth  to  give  it  a  semblance  of  fact.  But 
the  calumny  and  perversion  of  history  are 
doubly  monstrous  j  and  it  ia  no  juatification 


of  either,  but  the  rather  a  deepening  of  their 
guilt,  to  admit  that  "  the  events  are  partly 
invented     by    the    dramatists,    partly    his- 
torical";   that  "our  Dante  is  not  the  his- 
torical   Dante";   and    that    "Gemma   is   a 
character  entirely  created  by  the  imagination 
of  the  dramatists,  who,  nevertheless,  are  not 
alone  in  fjiving  an  illegitimate  child  to  Dante, 
for  certain  critics,  rightly  or  wrongly,  have 
caat  doubts  on   the    legitimacy  of    Dante's 
daughter    Beatrice."     And   it    is    from    the 
"doubts"  of  these  " certain  critics "  that  an 
unwarrantable  .slander  is  made  "the  central 
episode  of  the  drama."      Verily   these  dra- 
matists have  out-Boccaccioed  Boccaccio  !    It 
is  sheer  triHing  with  common  honesty,  in  the 
face  of  such  allegations,  to  assert  boldly,  as 
"Sardou  explained  in  an  interview,  'There 
is  more  of  the  soul  than  of  the  body  of  Dante 
in  our  drama.'"    There  is  vastly  too  much  of 
the  latter,  and  vastly  too  little  of  the  former* 
in  it.     As  for  the  facts  of  the  case,  the  only 
one  in  the  above  passage  which  approaches 
truth  ia  the  relationship  between    Pia  and 
Nello.    But  of  the  friendship  between  Pia 
and  Beatrice,  and  still  less  of  the  guilty  inti- 
macy between  Pia  and  Dante,  no  shred  of 
historic  evidence  exists,  so  far  a.«   I  know. 
The  poet  was  ignorant,  as  Scartazxiiii  says — 
"  Dante  non  ne  sapeva  nulla  "—of  IMa'a  mys- 
terious death  ;  that  he  was  equally  ignorant 
of  any  personal  acquaintance  with  her  in  life 
may  be  inferred  with  similar  certitude  from 
the  silence  of  history.     Further,  the  identiti 
cation  of  her  with  tlie  "Donna  Qentile"  of 
the  'Convito'  and  'VitaNuova'  is  as  arbi* 
trary  as  it  is  baseless,  and  founded  only,  as 
the    playwrights    admit,    upon    a  wretched 
"play  on  words,"  the  "  bell  a  pietra"  of  the 
'  Canzoniere.'    I  hope  to  deal  with  thia  Pia 
when   these  notes  reach    her  place    in    the 
'  D.  C;  meanwhile  let  this  much  be  said  here 
as  a  permanent  protest  against  this  recent 
attempt  to  besmirch   the  memories  of   the 
great  Florentine  and  the  hapless  Siennese. 
Such   pieces  as  Sardou's  '  Dante '  not  only 
grossly  distort  history  anri  sully  the  grandest 
of  characters,  but  they  are  not  calciilated  to 
purify  the  stage— a  triple  indictment  which 
should  discredit  them  in  the  eyes  of  all  lovers 
of  historic  truth  and  moral  beauty. 

J.  B.  McGovEBK. 
St.  Stephen's  Rectory,  C.-on-M.,  Manchester, 


"BILLY  BILLY." 

(See  7"^  S.  vi,  486.) 

AnsHBEfis  of  the  'D.N.B.'and  of  tho  late 

Sir    Leslie   Stephen   will    enjoy   an    article 

in  the  Atlantic  Monthly  for  December,  1B03, 


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in  which  he  has  some  interesting  things  to 
say  about  the  former.  Among  others  is  thia 
(p.  755)  :- 

"The  correction  was  of  necessity  inadetiuate:  1 
am  uot  omniscient,  «.nd  the  vast  «phere  of  my 
ignorance  includes  inuumerable  matters  discussed 
ia  the  dictionary.  A  book  of  which  it  is  the 
essence  that  every  pajje  should  bristle  with  facta 
and  dates  ia  certain  to  have  errors  by  the  thousand, 
unless  it  should  be  suiicrvised  by  a  8ta,ff  of  in- 
epectora  beyond  all  iiossibilities." 
Those  accustomed  to  similar  investigations 
fally  realize  the  difficulties!  in  the  way  of 
absolute  exactness,  and  no  doubt  the  uni- 
versal feeling  is  one. of  amazement  that  so 
vast  an  undertaking  should  yet  be  so  accu- 
rate. From  time  to  time  writera  have  pointed 
out  in  'N.  Ji  Q.'slipi*  that  have  crept  into 
the  '  D.N.B.'  May  I  ask  whether  a  slip  has 
not  been  made  as  to  the  person  to  whom  the 
Bobriquet  of  "Silly  Billy  "  was  piven  ? 

In  hi«  sketch  of  William  lY.  Prof.  J.  K. 
Laughton  wrote  (Ixi.  328)  :— 

"  The  total  disregard  of  times  iind  seasons  and 
the  feelings  or  ^)rejudice8  of  his  hearers  excited  an 
antaconiam  which  took  it«  revenge  iu  uicknaming 
him  •  Silly  Billy.' " 

In  support  of  his  contention  that  Wil- 
liam IV.  was  Silly  Billy,  Prof.  Laughton 
would  be  able  to  cite  E.  C.  Brewer's  '  Reader's 
Handbook '  (1880  and  1899),  where  we  read  : 
"Silly  Billy,  William  IV.  (1765,  1830-1837)." 
On  the  other  hand,  in  H.  F.  lleddall's  '  Fact, 
Fancy,  and  Fable  '  (1889)  we  read  :  — 

"  Silly  Billy.— A  nickname  conferred  on  the  Duke 
of  (.iluucenter,  one  of  llie  sons  of  George  III.,  oa 
accuuul  of  the  weakness  of  hie  intellect.' 

At  7''*  S.  vi.  48G  Dr.  Bkbwer  pointed  out 
that  William  Frederick,  second  Duke  of 
<31oucester,  was  a  son,  not  of  Ueorge  III., 
but  of  William  Henry,  first  Duke  of  Glou- 
cester, who  wa^  a  brother  of  George  lil. 
Yet  Dr.  Brewer  raised  no  objection  to  the 
application  of  the  epithet  "Silly  Billy"  to 
the  second  Duke  of  Gloucester.  On  the 
contrary,  in  1891  he  inserted  in  his  '  Historic 
Note- Book'  the  following  :  — 

"Silly  liilly.-I,  The  nickname  of  William  IV. 
of  Ureat  Britain,  sometimes  called  'The  Sailor 
King,'  because  he  was  Lord  High  Admiral  of  the 
Navy  il7fi5.  1h:}01S37). 

"  11.  William  Frederick,  Duke  of  Gloucester, 
•Chancellor  of  the  University  of  Cambridge.  He 
wu  the  son  of  William  Henry,  a  younger  brother 
of  George  III.,  and  died  18.34.  He  married  bis 
cotuin  Mary,  a  daugbtfr  of  (George  III.' 

There  is,  then,  uncertainty  as  to  whom  the 
sobriquet  of  "  Silly  Billy  "  properly  belongs. 
Other  authorities  may  therefore  be  cited. 
Writing  2  August,  1834,  the  Marquis  of 
Londonderry  said  :  "  Billy  of  Gloucester  was 
oi^ther  for  Committee  "  (in  Duke  of  Bucking- 


ham's'Memoirs  of  the  Courts  and  Cabinets 
of  William  IV.  and  Victoria,'  lH(il.  ii.  116). 
On  3  December,  1834,  Thomas  lUikes  madiatj 
this  entry  in  his  *  Journal ' : — 

"  On  the  20th  [an  error  for  the  30th]  ultimo  died  l, 
Bagshot  His  Royal  HiKhneeatlie  Dukeof  (iloucesterii| 

He  was  not  a    man  of    talent,   ah    may 

inferred  from  his  nickname  of  «»////  BiHi/.'— fit" 
edition,  llijti,  i.  'JilS. 

In  1861  or  1862  Capt.  Gronow  related  the 
following  anecdote :  — 

"The  Duke  of  Uloucester.— His  Royal  niKhuess^l 
vi'ho  was  in    the  habit    of  saying   very  Itidicroos] 
things,  asked  one  of  his  friends  in  the  House  ofl 
I.<ords,  on  the  occasion  when  William  IV.  asRented] 
to  Lord  Grey's  proposition  to  pass  the  Reform  BUI* 
coiUe  'jif  roiUe,  'Who  is  Silly  Billy  nr>w?'    This 
was  in  allusion  to  the  gciiCTal   oiiinion    tlisU   was 
iirevaleut  of  the  Royal  Duke's  weaknese,  and  which 
had  obtained  for  him  the  sol>ri<juetof  'Silly  Billy."  " 
— '  Rcminlsoences,'  second  edition,  1862,  ]>.  '229. 

This  story  has  been  repeated  iu  'Collec- 
tions and  Recollections'  (1898),  p.  237;  in 
'  An  Onlooker's  Note-Book '  (1902),  p.  85  ;  andj 
doubtless  elsewhere. 

In  1888  Mr,  ^V.  P.  Frith  introduced  an 
amusing,  but  possibly  apocryphal,  story  thus : 

"The  Duke  of  Cilouoester,  one  of  the  sons  of 
George  111.,  was  a  most  amiable  priniX',  but  his 
iDteliectual  powers  did  not  keep  pace  with  hia 
amiability  :  so  inferior  were  they,  indeeii,  that  be 
earned  for  hiujself  the  sobriquet  of  '.Silly  Billy.'"— 
'  Further  Reminiscences,'  p.  99. 

In  1902  Mr.  L,  G,  Robinson  wrote:— 

"The  son,  William  Frederick,  who  became  Duke 
of  Gloucester,  born  in  1775,  was  not  distin^ished  i 
by  talent,  and  early  in  life  earned  the  sobriquet  oL 
'Silly  Billv.'"  — 'Letter*   of   Dorothea,  Princeaj 
Lieven,'  p.  384. 

It  is  thus  seen  that  from  1834  to  1902 
various  writers,  of  whom  at  least  two  were 
conbemporariea,  applied  the  sobriquet  of 
"Silly  Billy  "  to  the  Duke  of  Gloucester.  laj 
favour  of  William  lY.  we  have  the  bare  state-  ' 
raents  of  Dr.  Brewer  in  1880  and  1891,  and 
of  Prof.  Laughton  in  I9(Xl.  Dr.  Bre\ver  ia 
dead.  Cannot  Prof.  Laughton  tell  us  his 
authority  for  applying  the  epithet  to  Wil- 
liam rv.  t  Albert  Matthews, 

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1H17-81.  —  Biographical  Nolea  and  Personal 
yi\,,.,  1...^  „itn  Uupublished  Fragmenta  and 
T  in    Men  and    Women   wf    Letter*. 

/.'•',        U'l'iiiif,  \o\.\tV\  p.  at  J. 

■^i;   i'..        ■.  ith    Autliors.      By   James    T. 

FjuJJ.,.    t.:ii,v.  ■.  -...    P.o«to„.  U..S.,  1*[71. 
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Collector.  IHIN  >     i  }  .1    1  ii/^erald.    Fcap.evo, 

Liverpool,  1003. 
Forsyth,  Isaac  (Bookseller  at  Elgin),  1768-1830.-A 

Memoir  of  Isaac  Forsyth-    By  his  (Jraudson, 

Major-General   J.  Forsyth  Mc.Andrew.    Wiih 

Portrait.    «vo,  London,  1»<9. 

Francis,  John,  1811-82. —  John  Francis  and  the 
Atheiiifutii :  a  Literary  Chronicle  of  Half  a 
Century.  With  2  Portraits.  2  vols. crown  Svo, 
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Franklin,  Benjamin,  1706-90.— The  Autobiography 
of  Benjamin  Franklin.  Published  verbatim 
from  the  Original  Manuscript  by  hia  Grandson, 
William  Temple  Franklin.  Edited  (with  a  con- 
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Crown  Svo,  London,  1850-4. 
Mnny  (jtlicr  olltioiii. 

Fraeer,  James,   liSU.—Liitrary  (la-.vliv,  9  Octo< 
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Balei.     Xt'W  Eflitlon.     Crown  Svn,  Lointon,  l«M, 

Fraser's     Magazine.  —  Publishers    and    Authors. 
October,  184a 
The  Makers,  Sellers,  and  Buyers  of  Booka. 

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Fry,  John,  Hfli- 1822.— Bibliographical  Memoranda 
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Cuiitainii  iirlii-lcs  on  i  Mmiric'r  OntKluHUOft. 

Gent,  Thomas,  1001-1778. 

The  Life  of  Mr.  Thomas  Gent,  Printer  of 
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8vo,  T.ondoti,  \^'^2. 

(  Molirr.  IwMjhM'IIPr.    I^^r  miiiiO 

,  l.,y,ur,iu,  .Vprtl.  »«W,  'Thou. 

(..  i.ii. 

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Oentl'  vzine,  The,  17;U— 

tJo«  Ui- :t-'0«,  Av, 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.      no^  a.  i.  march  5,  i9m. 


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8vo,  London.  1900. 
f.eyer.  A.— Reference  Directory  of  Bookaellera  and 

•Stationers  in  the  United  states  and  Canada. 

8vu,  Xew  York,  1804. 

<iodwin,  William,  175(5- 1836.  —  William  Godwin; 
his  Friends  and  Conteinporarien.  By  C.  Kegau 
I'aal.    2  volii.  8vo,  London,  1878. 

Goschen,  Ocorg  Joocbini,  1752- 1820.— The  Life  and 
Times  of.  Publisher  and  Trinter  of  Leipzie.  By 
his  Grandson,  Viscount  Ooschen.  2  vols. 8vo, 
I,i>ndou.  1902. 

^irievances  between  Authors  and  PublisherE. 
(Society  of  Authors.)  Crown  Svo,  Luudou, 
1887. 

Ciriffiths.  Ralph,  1720- 1803. -The  Eurot>ean  Maga- 
xine,  January,  1801. 
'I'lio  "iiiomiili  "  f-y  Dr.  Oilintltt'*  non,  iueiit(<iii6<l  In  llio 
niUcIo  an  tioiax  in  i>rV|Mir>l iun,  1  ciiitnut  Iruv,  and  il  wiu 
prutMbly  never  piibllilWKl. 

Orowoll,  A. 

The  Profession  of  Bookselling:  a  Handbook 
f>f  Praelieal  Hiul«t,  2  Parts.  Royal  Svo,  New 
York,  1893-5. 

A  bookseller'a  Library.  12nio,  New  York, 
1891. 

Book-trade  Bibliography  in  the  United  States 
in  the  Nineteenth  Century.  12mo,  New  York, 
1893. 
GroHoll,  A.,  and  Kanies,  Wilberforce.— Three  Cen- 
turies of  English  Book-trade  Bibliography  :  an 
Essay  on  the  BeginniuKs  of  Book-trade  Biblio- 

ahy  since  the  introduction  of  Printing,  and 
ngland  since  1595.  By  A.  Crowoll.  Also  a 
List  of  the  Catalogues,  &o.,  published  for  the 
English  Book-trade  from  1,195-1902,  by  Wilber- 
force EamcB,  of  the  Lenox  Library,  New  York. 
New  York,  publii-hed  for  tlie  Dilxliu  Club  by 
iM.  L.  Greenhalgh,  and  London,  190.3. 

Till*  lHK>k  trr>«tn  of  Iho  lilUkigraphv  <i(  ciitnlouuc*.  mul 
OUl.v  vor>-  iucirteiitiill.v  (;tvc*  a  fow  1.ioKi"iip)ilcJil  .li-tnlla. 

Gny,  Thomas,  1W4-1724. 

A  True  Copy  of  the  Last  Will  and  Testanieot 
of  Thomas  <^uy,  Esu.,  Iat«  of  Lombard  Street, 
Buokaeller.     3rd  Edition.     London,  1725. 

AnEssavon  Doalh-Bed  Cliarity,  exemplified 
in  Mr.  Thoiuaa  Guy,  Bookseller.  By  John 
Dunton,  1?28. 

A  Biographical  History  of   fJuy's  Hospital 

(Life  of   Thomas  Guy.    pp.  1-73).    By  Saniuol 

T.  Bettany,  M.A.,  B.Kc 

Thomas  Guy.    Svo,  London, 


Wilks,  M.D..  and  G.  T 
With  Portrait  of  Thorn 
ISOi 


ThU  Is  pml.»lih- tlie  (ulli'>l  account  of  Thumn*  (Jtiv  llial 
U  iniB-lljIe. 

Hamilton,  Gavin.— Short  Memoir  of  Gavin  Hamil- 
lou.  Bookseller  in  Edinburgh  in  the  Eighteenth 
Centurjf.  (Privately  j.rinted.)  1S4U. 
Harper,  House  of.- Harper's  .Story  Hooks.— The 
Hiiritcr  E-Jtttblishnienl ;  or,  iiow  the  .Storj' 
Books  are  MatJe.  By  Jacob  Abbott.  Jllua- 
triited.     New  York,  l8i5o 

James  Hari>er.  With  Portrait.  {Ithutnrtc 
Zaluiiij,  No.  1.170.)    Folio,  Leipzig.  1869. 

Sketch  and  Portraits  of  tho  Harper  Brothers. 
('Iho  Publishers'  Trade  List  Annual,'  187?.) 
r  New  i  ork. 

Klfstcher  Harpr.  ( PitW^AerV  H'««y,  Na 
&Jr-)    Now  York.  1890. 


Philip  J.  A.  Haqwr.  With  Portrait,  {Puh- 
fiMlurn'  Wtrkii/,  vol.  xlix.  No.  11.)  New  York, 
1896. 

.Joseph  Wealey  Harper.  With  Portrait. 
linhen    Wrfkhj,  vol.  I.  No.  4.)    New  York,  i  -.v 

Hatchards. — Tho  Hatchard  Bookselling  Buainesa. 
(Piccadilly  Bookmen.)    London,  1S93 

Piihluiheri'  Cin-iiiar,  21  Nov.,  1JMJ3,  Mr.  Edwin 
Shepherd,  with  portrait. 
Harlitt,  William  Carew.  1834— 

Collections  and  Note*  (towardft  Knglish 
Bibliography).  With  index.  0  voU.  8vo, 
London,  187l)-92. 

The  Confessions  of  a  Collector.    Crowa  Svo, 
London,  18i^. 
Tiiii   liMj)    iiolM   ami   reiiiftiikceucr*   of   It.  (}.  Solui,  B. 
Qiiuitcb,  V.  S.  BlILi.  Joiepli  Ully,  Ac. 

Hvinemann,  W. 

Bookselling:  the  System  adoined  in  Ger- 
many for  the  Prevention  of  UnucnicUing  and 
for  Promoting  the  Sale  of  Books.  (A  Paper  read 
before  a  meeting  of  the  Aasociate<l  Bof>k«elleni 
of  Great  Britain  and  Ireland,  April.  1^95) 
8vo,  Taunton,  1805. 

The    Hardships    of    Publishing.     (Privately 
printed.)    London,  1893. 
Houc,   William.   1780  1SI2.- Early  Life    and   Con- 
version.    Written  by  Himself.     London.  1841. 

Some  Account  of  the  t.'onvcj-aioo  of  tbe  late 

AY.  Hone,  with  further  Particular*  of  hia  Life 

and  Extrncta  from  his  {^orreapcndemce.    Svo, 

London,  185:}. 

Hone  Beatii'  Mariie  Virginii;  or,  1'^  --irum 

and    York    Use.      With    an    1  i    by 

Edgar  Hovkins,  M.A.    8vo,  L 

Tlii»  toiitiuiis  '  A  JJxl  i>r  rriiilur*  mill  .  a  lib  a 

I.l*^t  r.f  Plftoe",'  Irom  tli«  fifleH'iiTh  to  tlie  .  .  iitury. 

Houghton.  H«nrj-  Oscar. 

fin*   I'uliliAeit'    WttKhj,  with  |Hir4i-»U,  vol.  altiil.  No.  lU 
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chester, isno. 

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Hutton,  F.A.S.S.,  including  a  Particular 
Account  of  the  Riota  at  Birniingliani  in  1791. 
To  which  is  suiijoined  the  History  of  bis 
Family,  written  by  himself,  and  published  by 
his  Daughter  Catherine  Hutton.  With  Portrait. 
S<vo,  Jjondon  and  Birmijighani,  1816. 

Wm.  H.  Peet. 
{To  be  conliuHtd.) 


Robert  Boyle  on  the  Bible.— The  curious 
fact  ftlluded  to  in  Keble's  'Christian  Year,' 
tinder  St.  Bartholomew's  Day,  with  regard  to 
the  ej'e  of  a  jmrlrait  following  a  spectator 
(see  8"'  S.  ix.  408 ;  x.  35),  is  noticed  In'  the 
eminent  natural  philo.sopher  Robert  Boyle, 
who  by  his  effort,s  to  circulate  the  Scriptures 
anticipated  the  work  of  tho  British  and 
Poreifin  Bible  Society.  The  following  passage 
occurs  in  a  discourse  printed  in  IGGl,  and 
written,  as  ho  reinincLs  jiiij  brother  the  Earl 
of  Orrery,  "seven  or  eight  yeara"  before  : — 
"The  several  Books  of  the  Bible  were  written 
uhiefly  and  primarily  to  those  to  whom  they  were 
6nt  addressed,  and  to  their  oontem]>orarie8,  and 


f I.  iiABCH  5, 190L]       NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


187 


I 


that  yet  the  Bible  not  being  wiittco  for  "tie  Age  or 
I'eople  only,  Imt  for  the  wholu  I'eople  of  <jod, 
consisting  of  jicrsons  of  ull  Ages,  Nalionu,  Sexes, 
Coniiilexiona  and  C<indition8,  it  was  fit  it  should  be 
written  in  8uclt  a  way,  as  that  none  of  all  these 
niii^ht  be  tiuito  excluded  from  the  advantages 
desiKned  them  in  it.  Therefore  were  titenc  Sacred 
Books  bo  wisely  &a  well  aa  eo  gracioualy  letn).K:r'd. 
that  ihcir  Variety  bo  comnrclieuds  the  several 
abilities  uud  disposiiioas  of  men,  that  (as  some 
Picturea  seem  to  have  their  eyes  directly  lix'd  on 
every  one  that  looks  on  them,  from  what  part 
soever  of  the  room  he  eyes  them),  ibere  is  scarce 
any  frame  of  spirit  a  man  can  be  of,  or  any  Condition 
he  can  be  in,  to  which  some  |)aa9age  of  8L-riplure  is 
not  a6  patly  ipiilicablo  as  if  it  were  meant  for  hitu, 
or  said  to  him,  as  Xul/tnii  once  said  to  jMriH,  Thov 
art  Iht  man."— From  "8ome  Considerations  touch- 
inu  the  Style  of  the  U.  Scriptures,  by  the  Hooorable 
Robert  Boyle,  Esq.,"  MDtxxi.,  pp.  21,  '£i. 

J.  H.  Ward. 
Silverton  Rectory,  Exeter. 

Japanese  Xamks-— It  has  been  suugested 
to  mo  that  many  readers  of  *  N.  ii  Q.'^  might 
bo  glad  of  a  few  hints  as  to  the  pronunciation 
of  uiose  Japanese  place  and  ijersonal  names 
now  so  prominently  figuring  in  our  magazines 
and  papers.  There  ia  little  difficulty  in  pro- 
nouncing Japanese  correctly,  since  tne  vowels 
are  all  sounded  as  in  Italian,  and  the  cun- 
eonaots  as  in  English.  It  is  worthy  of 
remark,  however,  th&talthouRh  theoretically 


the  name  of  the  reigning  emperor,  Mutsuhito. 
lu  its  termination  hito  the  h  ia  oxceasively 
palatalized,  so  that,  the  /•  disappearing,  it 
suunds  like  shto,  and  the  name  Is  heard  as 
a  trisyllable,  Mutsush'to.  A'n  I'cvitnrfic,  the 
English  reader  is  often  in  danger  of  taking 
for  three  syllables  a  name  which  really  has 
four,  e.p.,  Inouye,  Niigata,  Terauchi.  The 
secret  is  that  each  vowel  must  lie  sepa- 
rately enunciated,  I-no-ii-ye,  Ni-i-gu-ta, 
Te-ra  li  chi.  Jas.  Platt,  Jun. 

Genbalogy  :  New  Sources.— The  cla«»1ista 
(catalogues)  of  the  contents  of  the  Public 
Record  OlHce  are  constantly  yielding  fresh 
materials  of  importance  in  pedigree  research. 
The  books  of  apprentices  of  merchant  seamen 
give  the  parish  of  the  sailor,  and  so  enable 
his  birth  and  family  to  be  traced.  These 
records  commence  in  1740. 

Gerald  Marshall. 

80,  Chancery  Lane,  W.C. 

"Aonckll."— In  1458  the  Dean  and  Chap- 
ter of  St.  i'aul's  made  a  visitation  of  some  of 
the  parishes  belonging  to  that  cathedral. 
Two  women  were  found  to  be  ofi'enders 
because  each  of  them  had  "  vnum  auncellum" 
(Carad.  Soc,  N.S.,  Iv.  pp.  (j'j,  80).  Canon 
Sparrow  Simpson  guesses  it  to  bo  "aumu- 
cella,"  ft  little  alniuce.     But  the  auncell  was 


sli  should  V»e  sounded  as  in  English,  some  of  i  ^  weight  tlie  use  of  which  had  been  forbidden 
.L.u...  T 1 !..„:.  ..,„• — y^\^^    Archbishop    Chicheley  (.1414-43)    under 


pain  of  excommunication. 
'  Law  Dictionary.' 


See  it  in  Cowel's 
W.  C.  B. 


the  best  Japanese  speakers  reduce  it  t«i  simple 
a.  Hence  we  get  Sik6ku  for  the  island  of 
Shikuku,  and  Tsiissima  for  the  island  of 
Tsushima-  The  reduction  o(  ti  to  3  is,  on  the 
other  hand,  merely  a  blunder  of  our  jour-  Hockday  :  PottagE  CALLED  HoK.— Having 
naliats,  some  of  whom  the  other  day  degraded  been  investigating  the  subject  of  Hockday 
Tsushima  into  Susima,  pst  as  some  maps  i  lately,  I  have  wondered  whether  any  con- 
degrade  the  Tsugaru  Strait  into  Sugaru.  '  nexion,  however  remote,  could  be  traced 
The  stress  generalise  falls  upon  the  penulti- 1  l:>etween  that  feast  and  the  name  "hok" 
mate :  Himeji,  Osaka,  Hakodate,  Nagasaki,  for  a  certain  pottage  of  mallow  referred  to 
Yokohama,  Shimonose'ki,  Utsunomi'^a.  Theremin  tlio  chartulary  of  Crich  Parish  Church, 
are  exceptions,  such  as  O'gawa,  Kanagawa,  i  Derbyshire  (see  Anceitoi;  July,  1903).  The 
O'shiraa,  Hiroshima,  Matstishima,  Katsura,  |  calendar  ia  interspersed  with  notes  as  to 
Komura,  Satsuma.    Most  of  these  exceptions  [  lucky  or  unlucky  days  for  use  of  or  absti- 


lm^e  in  their  penultimate  the  vowels  t  or  n, 
,Avliich  are  always  short  in  Japanese,  and  in 
iny  words  and  names  are  omitted  altogether 
>lloquiully.  The  suinurai,  or  Japanese  army 
otHcer,  is  popularly  nronounced  sdin'rai. 
There  are  two  Japanese  loan- words  in  English 
which  have  been  naturalized  in  their  shorter 
form,  minus  the  silent  u,  viz.,  the  familiar 
mmitmc  (Jap.  vuisitutf),  and  the  botanical 
terra  mora  (Jap.  tin'i/uM).  lu  Japanesie 
orthography  the  full  forms  alone  are 
^mpli'iyeu.  Prom  this  it  hapncns  that  several 
names  written  with  four  syllables— f., 7.,  Shi- 


nenca  from  specific  articles  of  diet,  among 
which  occurs:  "  Peb.  Potagium  dc  malua 
vocatum  hok'  non  comedatur."  On  my  calling 
the  attention  of  Sir  John  Phear  to  this  item 
he  remarked  :  "  The  survival  of  the  word  in 
'hollyhock,'  taken  in  connexion  with  your 
'potagium  de  malva,'  ought  to  have  soD»e 
evidential  value."      Etuel  Lei;aWekkks. 

Mrs.  Gaskell's  'Sylvias  I^vees.'— In 
connexion  with  such  a  charming  story;;  as 
•Sylvia's    Lovers'  small 


_.  matters  are  often 

w'ortb  recording.  The  '  Dictionary  of  National 


rooUuk.'.  Vokosukft-are  spoken  with  three,  |  Biography '  Htates  that  when   Mrs.  Gaakell 
liraiitakc,   Vokos'ko.    A  good    example  is    was  engaged  m  coUectuig  information  for 


188 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.      uo**  s.  i.  Mawh  5.  igw. 


that  work  she  remained  some  time  in  Whitby 
"  to  study  the  character  of  the  place,"  and 
in  relation  to  this  an  incident  has  lately 
come  to  my  knowledge  that  may  interest 
those  readers  who  remember  this  old  town 
forty  yeara  ago,  with  its  confectioner's  shop 
in  the  principal  street  on  the  cliff  which  was 
so  popular  with  visitors.  I  find  that  one  of 
the  chief  sources  of  the  author's  information 
on  Whitby  life  and  manners  was  Mr.  Corney, 
the  proprietor  of  this  shop— a  lifelong  resi- 
dent. In  a  manuscript  note  on  the  flyleaf 
of  a  copy  of  the  boolt  which,  on  its  publi- 
cation, Mrs.  Qaitkell  presented  to  him  she 
gratefully  acknowledged  "  the  very  valuable 
assistance"  Mr.  Corney  had  rendered  to  her. 
Joseph  Hodoees. 
12,  St.  Hilda's,  Whitby. 


We  must  request  correspondents  desiring  in- 
formation on  family  mutters  of  only  private  intcreat 
to  affix  their  names  and  addrosses  to  their  queries, 
in  order  that  the  anawors  may  be  addresseid  to  them 
direct. 

Latin  Quotations.  —  Can  any  of  your 
readers  supply  the  source  of  any  of  the 
following  )Dhrases  ?  They  occur  in  a  I^atin 
comedy  written  at  Cambridge  about  ir)80. 

1.  Exomplis  erudimur  omnes  aptiua. 

'2.  Nescit  servire  virtus. 

3.  Aristoleles  non  vidit  veruni  in  spiritnalibus. 

4.  Sentis  ut  sapiens,  loqueria  ut  vulgua  (Ariatotte). 
fi,  De  omni  acibili. 

6.  Ovea  et  bovea  et  cetera  pecora  campi. 

7.  Contra    negaittem    prinoipia    non    est    diapu- 

tanduin. 

8.  Frigent  nunc-dierutn  pnccepta. 
0.  In  minimum  naturale  dabile. 

UK  Defectum    naturiv.    error   natura.-   (applied    to 
woman).    Cp.  Milton,  '  Paradise  Lost,'  x.  891. 

11.  (Midas)  fnii  fdnio  peribat  (jaod  anro  veaci  ne- 

quilint. 

12.  Anioriii  te  via*  omnes  doceo. 
1.3.  Cibus  hi  niihi  et  potua  sunt. 

14.  I^uoratio  causArum  niat«r  crroris. 

15.  Natura    semper    intendit    ijuod     eat    optimum 

(before  Ki}ger  Bacon). 
10-  Signa  minora  cape. 

17.  Natura  vult  omno  grave  forri  deoraum. 

18.  Invitat  ultro  te  domua  ipsa. 

19.  Me  tenet  ut  viscus  et  interflcit  ut  baailiscna. 
'20.  O  flexanima  flosque  femiiiarum. 

'21.  L&ua  8e<]uitar  fugientem. 

'22.  Splundidnc  anut  veates  aobilitatis  toatea. 

2n.  Potua  gluten  amioorum. 

24.  Coraptus  et  calamistratui. 

25.  Stndiia  digniaatma  noatriJ. 


2li.  Ad  rem  et  rhombum  (  — lo  oonie  Ui  the  point}. 

■27.  Sunt  tilii  tortorea  seriientilnis  horridioree. 

'28.  Scientia  non  habet  iuiniioum  propter  ignomntem. 

29.  Fa  vet  e,  Muaa)  pra-sidea, 

.SO.  PriuB  erit  glacies  flunimiKcr  igni.s,  et  tenebrie 
ilenste  vai^a  sydera  puli,  iirina  ponderoaum 
ftrave  volabit  in  altimi  ut  aliger,  et  quaasabit 
vanoa  ventos  Icvia  pluma. 

31.  Doorum  aunt  omnia. 

32.  Quia  nisi  mentis  inopa  oblatani  respuat  annxm? 

(in  Lily's  '  Grammar '). 

'Xi.  Tua  vicit  comtedia  (^^you  have  won  the  day). 

'M,  Ibi  incipit  fiden,  ubi  deeinit  ratio. 

35.  Quod  elKcit  tale,  illud  ipaum  est  magia  tale^ 

.%.  Litera  acripta  manet. 

37.  Unam  semper  amo,  cujua  non  solvor  ab  bamo. 

3S.  Partus  aureus. 

39.  Rostra  disertus  anjut  (fmni  grammar  rules?). 

40.  I>e  mea  fide  tota  patria    loquitur,    loqnuntur 

oiunea  boni. 

41.  Si^lam  uaturoL'  iu  qua  ineat  et  occultum  occalti 

et  non  occultum  non  oocnUi. 

42.  Vitie  non  pigeat  cum  fnnua  amator? 

43.  Scripsit  Aristotelea  .VIexuudro  de  Phyiiicorttm 

libro  edilum  esse  quasi  non  editnm. 

44.  Amor  est  punctum  i|uodiLani  stultitiip. 

4.'),  Nil  est  in  intellectu  quod  nou  fuerit  in  seusii. 
4t».  Vivit  post  funora  virtus  (bo/ore  1557). 
iStrangulatorium  argumentum. 
Nee  in  ceteris  eat  conlrarium  rcperire. 
Per  modum  illuminalionis,  fernntwr  i)er  radios 
rectos,  primo  archi])odialit«r,  deitide  viciaeim 
reflexive. 
Any  earlier  case  of  the  readins  "accede   ad 
igneni  lianc"  (Ter.,  'Euu.,'  i.  2.  5).    Quoted 
also  in  Burton's  '  Anatomy '  in  tliis  form. 
Q.  C.  MooRE  Smith. 
Uoiveraity  College,  Sheffield. 

[5.  "  De  onini  re  acibili  et  quibusdam  aliis"  referaj 
to  Giovanni   Pico,   Count  of  Mirandola  (li(>3&4)( 
who,  at  Rome  iu  MS(},  oiFered  to  defeud  WX>  these 
The  eleventh  of  these  referred  to  "ad  omnia  acibil 
invcisligalioneni  ot  intellectionem  "  (see  BiichmauoJ 
•(Jefliigolto  Wortc').] 

Paolo  Avitabile.— I  shall  be  grateful  for 
information  as  to  anv  English  print,  carica- 
ture, or  account  of  I^unjeet  Singh's  famous 
general  Paolo  Avitabile  (li91-18.50>.  He  was 
a  native  of  Agerola,  near  Amalfi,  where  he 
died  on  28  .March,  ISfiO,  in  the  Ca«tello 
Avitabile.  Over  the  porter's  lodge  is  tho 
inscription  put  by  him,  ''O  beata  solitudo, 
0  sola  beatitudo,"  the  source  of  which  quota- 
tion I  am  also  anxious  to  identify.  It  has  l 
certain  similarity  with  Giordano  Bruno's  "I« 
tristitiu  hilaris,  in  hilaritate  triatis."  Avitabile"' 
was  in  London  in  June,  1844,  and  visited  the 
Duko  of  Wellington  at  Apsley  House  on  tho 
20th  of  that  month.  If  any  of  your  readers 
can  help  me  to  trace  any  notice  of  him  in  tho 


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London  papers  I  shall  be  very  tlmnkfal. 
Major  Hueli  Pearee.  ia  hia  'Memoirs  of 
Alexander  Gardner' (Blackwood,  1898),  refers 
to  a  not  wholly  accurate  life  of  the  general 
in  the  '  Livre  des  C^k^brittls  Contemporaine-s,' 
published  in  1846,  but  gives  no  details  as  to 
the  authorship  and  place  of  publication  of 
this  book,  which  I  am  anxious  to  trace.  The 
Italian  aourc&s  of  information  I  have,  as  far 
as  possible,  verified  :  but  tiiey  are  all  of  them 
more  or  less  incomplete.  It  ia  hardly  likely 
that  his  death  or  his  visit  to  London  passed 
unnoticefl  in  the  English  press,  and  his 
portrait  may  well  have  appeared  in  the  illus- 
trated papers  of  the  time,  which  I  have  no 
opportunity  of  consulting  here.  There  is  a 
picture  of  hira,  in  full  uniform  with  decora- 
tions, in  the  possession  of  a  relative  at  Ca.stel- 
lamare.  Any  information  and  further  clues 
will  be  greatly  appreciated. 

Julian  Cotton, 
P&l&uo  Arlotta,  Chiatanionc,  Naples. 

CuAnLES  THE  BoLD.— On  the  beautiful 
tomb  of  Charles  the  Bold,  Duke  of  Burgundy, 
and  Mary  his  daughter,  in  the  church  of 
Notre  Dame  at  Bruges,  amongst  a  great 
number  of  armorial  bearings  of  possessions 
and  alliances  are  tho.se  of  Henry,  (>ount  of 
Lancaster.  What  was  the  exact  connexion 
of  Charles  with  the  House  of  Lancaster  1  He 
waa,  of  course,  connected  with  the  House  of 
York  through  his  wife  Margaret,  but  the  one 
mentioned  is  the  only  English  shield. 

J.  l\.  Ndttall. 
Lancaster. 


of  the  greater  public  schools  have  their 
memorial  in  the  respective  school  histories. 
But  there  have  been  hundreds  of  others 
quite  as  deserving  of  remembrance.  Cannot 
some  beginning  be  made  towards  a  *  Brief 
Biographical  Dictionary  of  School m&iters  '  ? 

ScHOLAiiTrcirs. 

Thomas  Goodwin,  D.D.  —  Musgrave's 
•Obituary,'  citing  Bunhiil  Fields  inscrip- 
tions, describes  Mary,  n^e  Hamond,  widow 
of  Thomas  Goodwin,  sometime  President  of 
Magdalen  and  Chaplain  to  the  Council  of 
State,  as  his  "third  "  wife.  Can  any  reader 
explain  this  description?  Halloy'a  '  Life  of 
Goodwin'  gives  only  two  marriages  —  the 
first  with  Elizabetii  Prescott,  the  second  with 
the  above-men tionetl  Mary.  Te-MPLAr. 

Vkbses  on  Women.— The  following  verses 
contain  much  that  is  true  of  the  fair  sex. 
Perhaps  some  of  your  readers  may  be  able  to 
identify  the  author. 

To  thoBO  they  know  do  love  them  best 

Women  do  graat  leaat  favors,  lest 

For  their  dear  selves  they  cease  to  burn 

Ab  of  aforetime,  or  should  apurn  j 

So  wintry  faces  ihey  asaume 

'Gainst  those  who  for  their  love  consame, 

And  fan  the  ilamo  at  leisure: 

For  should  thuir  palpitating  hearts 

Fail  to  escape  the  peril  aigli, 

The  scqaenco  of  the  chase  departs. 

And  men— like  Actseon— turn  to  fly. 

T  C.  Button. 
Steuth  Ooaforth,  Neweastle-on-Tyne. 


Admiral  Byno.— Can  any  of  your  readers 
inform  me  why,  in  1721,  Admiral  George 
Byng,  on  his  elevation  to  the  peerage, 
aJoptdd  the  title  of  Torrington,  co.  Devon  ? 
In  what  way,  if  any,  was  his  ifamily  connected 
with  Torrington  ?  Charles  Byno. 

Miss  Lewen  and  Wesley.— Where  can  I 
find  any  information  about  the  Miss  Lewen 
who  left   John   Wesley   1,000^.  ?     She   died 
20  October,  1760.     I   have  lo«>ked   through 
"esley's  'Journal,' edition  of  1829. 

(Rev.)  T.  C.  Dale. 

115,  London  Road,  Croydon. 

ScHooLMAisTETi.'?.— Annual  lists  of  the  army, 
;  clor^y,  lawyers,  and  medical  men  have 
_^^  in  existence  for  a  long  period,  but  1903 
saw  the  first  Schoolmasters'  nogi.iter.  When 
we  call  to  mind  the  vast  though  silent 
influence  exercised  by  pe<lagogues,  now 
u II recognised  and  forgotten,  in  moulding  the 
inds  of  successive  generations,  it  seems 
ly  just  that  a  record  should  be  made  of 
eir  names.    Those  who  were  on  the  staffj 


"Bridge"  :  its  Derivation.— There  appears 
to  be  something  recondite  about  the  name 
of  this  popular  game.  It  is  stated  to  have 
originated  among  the  European  residents 
at  Constantinople,  and  to  be  properly  pro- 
nounced brick.  As  a  player,  I  can  see  no 
relevancy  to  our  equivalent  to  Lat.rxmi,  and 
seek  information.  H.  P.  L. 

CuPLAHiLLS.— What  is  the  derivation  of 
this  Fifeshire  place-name  ?  Sellpdc. 

"Old  England."— Is  this  term  of  endear- 
ment of  early  date  ?  I  notice  it  is  used  in 
Meirurius  Busdcus,  xviii.,  in  a  sermon  of 
Dr.  Featly,  at  Lambeth,  in  1G42. 

Reginald  Haineh. 
Uppingbam. 

Thackeray  Qctotation.— The  last  words 
of  '  Celebrities  and  I,'  by  H.  Corkran,  are : 
"  I  do  not  entirely  agree  with  Becky  Sharp, 
that  it  is  easy  to  be  good  with  10,000?.  a  year, 
but  it  must  l)e  a  help."  Christianity  rather 
than  gootlness,  and  a  much  lesser  sum,  figure, 
I  fancy,  in  the  original  version  in  '  Vanity 
Fair,'  but  I  have  looked   for  it  in  vain  in 


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several  likely  parts  of  the  book.  Will  some 
reader  kindly  refer  me  to  the  right  chapter  to 
find  it  ?  Perhaps  Edward  FitzOerald  is  more 
correct  in  his  reference  to  tho  quotation, 
which  runs  tlius  ('Letters  of  Edward  Kitjs- 
Gerald  to  Fanny  Kemble,'  189.')  edition, 
p.  125):— 

"  Vou  wrote  me  that  Portia  was  your  beoH-ideal 
of  Womanhood— Query,  of  La/tyhood,  For  she  had 
more  than  500/.  a  year,  which  Uecky  Hhaqj  thinks 
enough  to  be  very  virtuous  on,  and  had  not  Ixsen 
tried.  \Von1d  she  have  done  Jeanie  Deans 'a  work  7 
She  might,  I  believe,  but  was  not  triad." 

Hirroc-LiDEs. 

Wbbster's  '  B.iBQUK  Leoksdh.'— Carj  tho 
n&mos  of  the  Banqaes  who  recited  the  '  Basque 
Legends '  published  by  Mr.  Wentworth 
Webster  be  ascertained  ?  Has  the  original 
Basque  ever  been  published,  or  does  it  exist 
in  manuscript  1  1  can  find  no  answer  to  these 
questions  in  Vinson's  '  Bibliograpliie  de  la 
Langue  Basque.'  Raxouc  Nedov. 

Harepath.— Al>out  five  miles  south  of 
TorrinKton  are  two  hamlets,  North  and 
South  Harepath,  and  twelve  and  a  half  west 
of  Exeter  is  another  Harepath.  Do  these 
denote  the  former  existence  of  a  West  Saxon 
frontier  road  running  through  these  points! 

E.  L.  Hkeapath. 

Bade. 

Quotations.— Can  any  rearJer  kindly  tell 
me  where  the  following  quotations  are  to  be 
found  ?— 
God  give  us  j)eace  !  not  Huch  as  lulls  to  sleep, 
JJut  sword  on  thigh,  and  brow  with  purpose  bent. 
Enough  if  something  from  our  hands  have  power 
To  live,  and  act,  and  serve  the  future  liour. 
And  better  death  than  we  from  high  to  low 
l^hould  dwindle  and  decline  from  strong  to  weak. 

Thomas  A.  C'crtis, 
Pknn's  'Fruits  ok  Soutudb.'— In  'Some 
Fruits  of  Solitude,'  by  William  Penn,  with  an 
introduction  by  Edmund  Gosse  (1903),  p.  162, 
one  reads;  "When  the  poor  Indians  hear 
us  call  any  of  our  Family  by  the  Name  of 
hervant«^  thev  cry  out,  What,  mil  lirethren 
.Senmitsf  We  call  our  DfMjx  Servant*,  but 
never  Men."  What  authority  was  there  for 
penning  these  words  ? 

P.  115.  Js  not  "betrays"  a  misprint  of 
bttrai/ 1 

Ibidem  Penn  wrote,  "Excellent  Qualitie.'j 
for  Lnpland,  wher^  they  say,  Wiu-hes, 
though  not  many  Conjurors,  dwell"  Who 
had  said  this  of  Lapland  1 

p.  &0.  "To  shoot  well  Flying  is  well  :  but 
to  cfum  it.  has  more  of  Vanity  than  Judg- 
ment.     What  does  ehoae  meaa  here  I    I  have 


sought  it  in  vain  in  Wright  and  Marraji 
and  in  doing  so  remarkeil  that  the^  wor 
dimiit  or  cAciwc^=deception,  fraud,  is  not 
recorded  by  the  former  as  u.ted  in  any 
English  dialect.  It  is,  however,  to  be  fount' 
in  some  slang  dictionaries,  and  was  in  a4 
at  Temple  Grove  School,  Kast  Sheen,  whc 
I  was  a  l)oy  there  in  the  years  ISCT-Tl.undt 
Mr.  Waterfield.  Edwaeu  S.  Dodosok. 

[Does  not  Penn  mean  that  it  *how8  vanity  to 
prefer  (choose)  to  shoot  at  a  bird  when  it  is  flying 
instead  of  when  it  is  still ?] 


TIDK8WELL  AND  TIDEHLOW. 
(9'*'  S.  xii.  341,  517  ;  lO"'  fe.  i.  fi2,  ftl.) 

WnETDEE  my  view  of  the  i»rcfix  in  Tide 
well  be  correct  or  not,  it  has  elicited  some 
valuable  remarks  on  its  derivation  by  Pkof. 
Skeat,  in  whoso  opinion  it  represents  the 
name  of  an  individual,  as  shown  by  its 
genitive  termination  in  «.  Hut  while  I  fully 
acknowledge  his  great  autliorit.v,  thero 
appears   to  l>e    something   wa,ntifj(.:    in    our 

f)re.sent  amount  of  information  on  the  fo?- 
owing  points  before  it  can  be  wholly  con- 
fir  mcJ. 

Our  knowledge  of  the  place-name  is  con- 
fined to  tho  entry  in  the  Domesday  record, 
and  prolMiblj'  in  the  Saxon  period  it  would 
exhibit  as  much  variation  as  in  the  iuHtance  of 
Bakewell.    Thirkell  low  in  Mr.  Bateman's  list 
apparently  registers  a  family  or  tribal  name, 
and  yet  it  is  not  shown  in   the    genitive. 
Again,   none  of    the   Derbyshire    names    of 
places  ending  in    xcell  or  in   -low  noted  in 
Domesday  Book    contains  the  genitive  a — 
among  the  latter  Baslow  cannot  bo  cited  as 
an  exception,  as  it  is  simply  a  contraction  of 
Basse-lau  —  nevertheless    family  names    are 
probably  contained   in   some  of   them.     On 
the  other  hand,  Browns  low,  regarded    by      . 
Mr.  Addy  as  an  evidence  of  a  personal  natn^, 
is  recorded  by  Mr.  Bateman.  in  the  examina- 
tion of  that  tumuluH,  as  Brown  low  ('Ton 
Years'  Diggings,'  24rt),  and  the  latter  form 
seems  to  be  corroborated  by  anoUier  example 
at  HarLington.    In  one  case  the  gtMiilivo  sign 
is  omitted,   in   the  other  it  is  addwi.     An 
objection  may  bo  made  to  the  latter  owing 
to  its  recent  date;  but  the  principle  of  tho 
accidental,  Ac,  addition  or  the  elimination  of 
a  letter  is  applicable  to  all  perio<ls.    Heuce 
the  possibility  of  Tide-well  having  been  tho 
original  designation  —  ^r't/f  as   the   gonitivo 
of  tid^  an  intermitting  spring.    It  may  be 
observed   tliat   A.-S.  surnames    are    usually 
composed  of  two  syllables.     It  is  singular 


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that  of  253  "Iowa"  noted  in  Mr.  Bateman's 
list  only  2S  contain  the  genitive  sign. 

Not  unfrequently  in  the  Peak  it  was 
costomarj  to  add  to  -low  the  full  name  of  the 
adjoining  place  or  village,  as  for  example 
Chelmortcn  iow.  There  may  be  cases  whore 
a  long  prefix  was  contracted,  but  I  know  of 
none  at  the  present  date.  This  is  one  iea,son 
for  believing  Tidslow  to  be  a  contraction  of 
Tideawell  low ;  and  the  fact  of  the  latter  term 
being  employed  by  Rhodes  serves  to  cori-o- 
borate  it  ('Peak  Scenery,'  1824.  72).  In 
connexion  with  this  view  1  have  been 
informed  by  an  old  Derbyshire  literary 
anticfuary,  who  was  well  acquainted  with  the 
locality  fifty  years  since,  that  the  low  was 
customarily  termed  "Tidaor  topping"  by 
the  natives.  In  P.  P.  Burdebt's  map  of  the 
county,  "  made  from  an  actual  survey,"  and 
published  by  Pilkington  in  1789,  it  ia  called 
"  Tidslow  top." 

The  doubt  I  expressed  as  to  any  "pre- 
historic" individual  being  recorded' in  Mr. 
Bateman's  list  of  barrowij  itt  regarded  by  AIr. 
Addv  as  incorrect,  and  ho  cites  twenty 
examples  from  it,  oacli  (or  nearly  all)  of 
which  "contains  a  personal  name."  The 
derivations  of  nine  of  these,  as  well  as  of 
several  others,  are  given  by  him  in  detail, 
and  are  demonstrated  by  hini  to  belong  to 
the  A.-S.  period.  But  the  whole  tenor  of 
his  remarks  is  besi«le  tlie  que.stion  at  issue,  as 
alibis  example>j  are  of  the  historic,  as  dis- 
tinguished from  the  "  prehistoric,"  period, 
to  which  latter  alone,  as  I  distinctly  stated, 
my  remarks  applied.  This  lie  must  have 
overlooked,  unless  (which  I  can  hardly 
suppose)  ho  included  the  latter  in  the  historic 
one. 

That  some  occupants  of  the  barrows 
enumeiatefl  by  him  bore  the  family  or  tribal 
name  is  likely  enough,  and  future  examina- 
tion of  the  grave-mounds  may  corroborate  it. 
This  wassatisfiictorily  proved  in  one  instance, 
not  mentioned  by  him.  The  "  Brush  field 
barrow"  opened  by  Mr.  Bateman  in  1850 
contained  a  Saxon  sword  and  other  relics  of 
the  same  age.  As  the  place-name  Brush- 
field  is  simply  a  contraction  of  Brihtricfeld, 
the  interment  was,  in  his  opinion,  that  of  a 
Brihtric,  the  owuer  of  tiie  local  manor. 
Another  example  of  the  same  family 
|mtronymic  occurs  in  the  case  of  Brixton. 
in  Dovunshiro,  the  original  one  as  noted  in 
llomesday  being  Hnotrichestone. 

The  following  l)arrowa  examined  by  Mr. 
Baternaii  are  comprised  in  Mr.  Addv's  list — 
Browns  (should  Ixs  Brown)  low,  Ladmans  low, 
I^arksJow,  Taylors  low,  and  probably  Hawkcs 
low— and  were  found  to  bo  of  the  Neolithic 


age  ;  while  the  contents  of  three  at  Kenslow 
belonged  respectively  to  the  stone,  bronze, 
and  iron  i)eriods.  Is  it  possible  or  probable 
tliat  any  of  these  emlxKlics  the  name  of  an 
individual  ? 

That  the  suffix  -weW  denotes  a  spring  of 
water,  and  does  not  represent,  in  ifn.  Addy's 
opinion,  "a  held  oi-  iwddock,"  h  clearly  shown 
by  Prof.  Skeat  to  t>e  erroneous. 

The  earliest  notice  of  Tides  well  yet  found 
is  recordefl  in  the  'Survey  of  Devon'  by 
Tristram  Risdon  (158U-lti40),  who  collected 
materials  for  his  work  between  the  years 
100r>  and  1630  (not  published  till  1714).  It  is 
described  in  his  account  of  a  sub-manor  in 
the  parish  of  East  Budleigh  in  that  county 
in  these  words  : — 

"Tidwell Here  is  a  Pond  or  Pool  maintuined 

by  SprinM.  which  continually  welm  and  boil  uji, 
not  unlike  that  wondorful  Well  iti  l)url>v»liire 
whicli  ebbeth  and  floweth  by  just  Tides,  ana  hath 
given  Name  to  Tideawell,  a  Market  Town  of  no 
mean  Account."— 11.  83-4- 

Defoe's  'Tour  through  Great  Britain,' 
3  vols.,  was  issued  in  tlie  years  1724-0,  the 
later  editions  being  edited  by  S.  Richardson, 
a  Derbyshire  man,  and  the  well-known  author 
of  '  Pamela,'  &c.  The  following  quotation  is 
taken  from  the  1748  edition  :— 

"  .\t  Tidwell,  aliai  Tideswpll  [Dovonshire],  i»  a 
pond  or  pool,  which  boils  up  like  that  of  the  same 
name  at  Wceden  in  Derbyshire."— I.  3G6. 

It  is  to  be  regrettetl  that  Mr.  Annv  did  not 
examine  other  authorities  than  Davies,  other- 
wise iio  would  scarcely  have  committed  the 
grievous  error  of  asserting,  "The  story  about 
the  tides  of  an  ebbiiig  well  appears  to  have 
been  invented  by  Charles  (Jotton."  The 
extract  from  Risdon's  work  shows  "  the 
story  "  to  have  been  well  known  long  before 
Cotton  was  born.  Again,  Tiionnvs  Hobbes 
(Ki88-1079),  who  published  his  *  De  Mira- 
bilibus  Pecci,'  in  Latin,  in  1C36,  of  which 
an  English  translation  was  issued  in  1678, 
employ.s  the  term  "the  ebbing  and  flowing 
well  "  (p.  56)  three  vears  prior  to  the  appear- 
ance of  Cotton's  volume. 

'The  Wonders  of  the  Peakc,'  by  Charles 
Cotton  (1030-87),  issue<l  in  1G81,  contains  a 
similar  account  of  the  well  of  the  "tides'" 
to  that  of  Hobbes. 

It  is  here  necessary  to  mention  that  writers 
allude  to  two  intermitting  springs  separated 
some  miles  from  each  other,  one  at  Barmoor 
Clough  and  the  other  at  Tideswell.  Notices 
of  each  are  quoted  by  Mn.  Annv  from  the 
work  of  Davies,  and  he  then  atld«.  "  l-armoor 
Clough  is  six  mil68  from  Tideswell,  implying 
(tt-s  far  as  I  can  understand  him)  that  the  same 
well  is  referred  to  under  the  two  titles.     But 


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he  in  evidently  unaware  that  both  Uobbea 
and  Cotton  refer  to  the  one  at  Bariiioor 
Clough  alone,  as  the  context  in  each  work 
shows.  Now  the  latter  terras  the  spring 
"Weeding- wall  or  Tydea-well,"  i.e.,  the  well 
of  the  ttde«.  Does  not  this  point  out  the 
probability  of  Tideswell  having  a  similar 
origin  ? 

The  following  lines  are  taken  from  '  A 
Ballad  of  Darbyshire,'  by  Sir  Aston  Cokain, 
printed  in  1058  :  — 

Here  also  is  a  Well 
Whose  Waters  do  excel! 
All  waters  thereabout ; 
Both  being  in  and  out 

Ebbing  and  flowing  ('J81-'J), 

and  accepted  by  Leyland  in  his  '  Peak  of 
Derbyshire  (1891),  246,  as  relating  to  Tides- 
well. 

It  ia  singular  that  in  Cox's  'Magna  Bri- 
tonnia'  (1720).  i.  439,  and  also  in  *  A  Journey 
through  England,'  by  John  Macky  (1724), 
ii.  102,  the  account  of  the  spring  ia  a  tran- 
*icript  from  Cotton's  work,  in  which  "Near 
Tide'8-WaU"  replaces  the  worda  in  the 
original. 

The  Pkiloiophiml  Transactiom  of  1729 
contains  a  paper  by  J.  Martyn,  relating  'An 
Account.. .a  Journey  to  the  Peak  of  Derby- 
shire,' in  whicli,  when  describing  the  wonders, 
he  says  (p.  25)  ;— 

"  An  ebbing  and  flowing  well  ifl  far  from  being 
regular  as  some  have  pretended.  Il  ia  very  scldoin 
aeen  by  the  Neighbours  themselves ;  and,  for  niy 
part,  I  waited  gooil  while  to  no  purpose." 

B.  Martin,  in  '  The  Natural  History  of  Eng. 
land   (1 759),  remarks  :— 

"What  renders  this  place  (Tideswell]  most  re- 
markable, and  frotii  whence  it  takes  its  name,  is  a 
bpnng  or  \\  ell  that  ebbs  and  flows,"  Jtc— II.  ITU. 

The  following  paragraph  is  transcribed 
from  Defoe's  *  Tour':— 

"This  Spring  lies  near  the  little  Market- town  of 
riddeswall,  wherein  are  a  very  good  church,  and  a 
Jreo  School."— Ji^fl.  174t»,  iii.  SO. 

Pilkington's  'View  of  Derbyshire.'  pub- 
lished in  1789  in  2  vols.,  contains  the  most 
trustworthy  report  of  both  wolls,  which  weto 
vtsito<]  by  the  author.  Of  the  one  at  Bar- 
moor  Cluugh  he  records  that  in  dry  weather 
'it  has  ftometunes  ccasecj  to  flow  ''  for  three 
weeks  or  a  month.  "At  the  time  I  saw  it, 
which  was  in  a  wet  season,  the  interval 
betwixt  ebbing  and  flowing  was  about  five 
minutes."  Of  the  one  at  Tideswell  he  states  : 
.  "  Upon  inquiry  I  found  that  it  is  now  very 
imperfectly  remembere<l  by  any  uenon  :  but  1  was 
•ntormed  that  the  well,  which  is  now  closed  up. 
J"'^  o8  ewily  restored  to  its  aucient  state."— 


He  quotes  the  remarks  made  by  J.  Martyn  inj 

1729  aa  applicable  to  the  latter,  and  not 
that  at  Barmoor  Clough.  In  all  these  I'espect 
he  is  followed  in  Lysons's  '  Derbyshire'  (1817) 
cxcii.  Davies  ('Derbyshire,'  1811  j  probablj 
never  visited  either  place,  and  his  record* 
dimen.<riona  of  the  pool  at  the  latter  di^e 
much  from  those  of  other  writers.  One 
the  latest  authors  (E.  Bhcdes)  who  viaitc 
the  locality  affirms : — 

"The  spot   where   the   well  once  was   is  still 

pointed  out but  it  is  now  choked  up,  and  its 

ebbiags  and  flowing?  have  long  since  tenninuled.*'— 
•Peak  Scenery'  (1824),  p.  71 

I  have  examined  and  quoted  from  every 
authority  on  the  subject  to  which  I  have  hadj 
access,  and  am  led  to  the  conclusion  ths 
there  are  records  of  intermitting  springs  at 
two  places  in  Derbyshire — one  at  Barmooi 
Clough,  still  in  existence,  but  in  a  state  of 
decadence  (similar  to  St.  Keyne's  Well  in 
Cornwall) ;  the  other  at  Tideswell,  which  for 
more  than  a  century  has  ceased  to  How. 

T.  N.  Brushfield.  M.D. 

Salterton,  Devon. 


Earl  of  EfJKEMOXx  (10">  S.  i.  148).— Any 
old  peerage  would  have  proved  to  Abch.EOLO- 
(JisT  the  relationship  between  the  third  and^ 
fourth  Earls  of  Egreraont.  It  would  indeed 
have  been  '* unaccountable"  if  the  third 
earl's  "entailed  estates"  had  devolved  on  his 
illegitimate  sons  ;  but  nothing  of  the  kind 
occurred.  Like  many  others  before  and  since, 
the  thin!  Earl  of  Egremont  disposed  by  will 
of  whatever  property  he  had  tne  power  of 
disposition  over.  Such  estates  a.s  were 
entailed  followed  the  entail— a  not  unusual 
occurrence. 

As  practically  every  memoir- writer  from 
about  1770  to  1837  refers  to  the  Lord  Egre- 
mont in  question,  from  Horace  Walpole  down 
to  Creevey,  and  Petworth  during  hii  reign 
was  one  of  the  beat  known  great  houses  in 
England,  ARCH.coLOOisTcan  hardly  be  termed 
correct  in  assuming  that  very  little  is  known 
about  hira.  I  think  (Jharle-s  Oreville  men- 
tions the  story  of  the  alleged  paternity  of  j 
Lord  Melbourne.  The  latter  called  the  story  ' 
in  question  "a  lie,"  but  the  old  proverb  of  a 
"wise  child,"  ic,  gives  later  generations,  if 
thej*  choose  to  think  otherwise,  an  outioD. 

"rnc  descent  of  the  present  noble  owner 
of  Petworth  from  Lord  Egremont  makes  the 
whole  subject  not  altogether  suitable  for 
discussion  in  the  press.  H. 

Has  Aech.v.ologist  consulted  the  *  D.N.B.'  I 
There  is  a  long  and  intere.sting  article  upon 
Sir  George  O'Brien  Wyndham,  third  Earl  of 


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gremont,  with  various  references  appended 
thereto,  in  vol.  Ixiii.  pp.  244-6.  ' 

A.  R.  Baylby.      I 
I  [Reply  also  from  Dr.  FoRsiXAW,] 

Glowworm  or  Fieeflt  (10"'  S.  i,  47, 1 12. 156). 
— In  the  song  quoted  from  the  opera  of    Guy  ' 
Manneriug '  it  is  not  the  **  firefly,"  but  the 
vildfire  —  i.e.,    Will-o'-the-wisp    or   Jack-o'- 
antern— that  dances  on  (not" glances  from")  I 
the  fen.     Indeed,  the  line3  as  given  are  full 
of  misquotations.     In  every  copy  I  have  seen 
of  this  glee  the  words  are  as  follows  : — 
The  choiizh  and  crow  to  roost  at-f  gone, 

The  owl  sits  on  the  Iret* ; 
The  htiihfil  winrf  waili  with  feeble  moan, 

Like  infant  Charily. 
The  irildfire  ilancex  on  the  fen, 

The  red  star  flheds  its  ray : 
Ubrou.^e  ye  then,  my  merry,  merry  men, 
it  is  our  opening  day. 

I  shall  be  much  obliged  to  any  correspondent 

I  who  will  tell  me  what  is  meant  by  theallusion 
po  "infant  Charity"  in  the  fourth  line. 
f  C  S.  Jkrram. 

Oxford. 
In  'The  Garden,'  by  Darwin  (quoted  in 
Hiss  Edgewortli's  'Frank'),  ia  an  address  to 
various  insects,  ending, 

Dascwnd,  ye  fvpiders,  on  your  lenKthenin^  threads ; 
<  JJitter,  ye  glowworms,  on  your  mossy  lieds. 

A  friend  well  acquainted  with  Browning's 
poems  gave  me  at  once  several  quotations  : — 
But  the  firefly  and  botlKc-Bhrew  and  lob-worm,  I 
pray. 
How  fare  they  ?  '  Pijipa  Pafwes.' 

The  fireilies  from  the  roof  above. 
Bright  croepioji  throuich  the  moss  they  love. 
'The  Italiun  in  England.' 
(i  low  worm  I  prove  thee. 
Star  that  now  ajiarkleat ! 

•Piagah  Sights,'  ii. 
Not  a  twinkle  from  the  fly. 
Not  n  glimmer  from  the  wonn. 

When  the  firefly  hides  its  spot. 

'  A  Serenade  at  the  Villa.' 
My  etar.  Rod's  glowworm. 

*  Popularity.' 
M.  E.  F. 
To  the  list  already  given   mav  bo  added 
Ode  to  the  Glowworm,'  by  Dr.  Wolcot,  and 
'The  Mower  to  the  Glowworm,'  by  Andrew 
Uarvell.  Adrian  Wueelkr. 

[Tho  version  sent  by  Mr.  Jerram  corresponds 
rith  that  we  have  always  known.  The  lines  given 
by  our  earlior  eontribiilur  brislle  with  errors.) 

•Mkbrv  Tuouuhts  in  a  Sad  Plaie'  (W^ 

i.  141).— It  may  be  noted  that  tho  stanzas 

j?iven  at  the  alwve  reference  are  to  bo  found 

m   that   well-known   anthology  tho    'Lyra 


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Elegantiarum.'  They  are  there  assigned  to 
Arthur,  Lord  Capel,  out  a  note  at  the  end  of 
tho  volume  states  that  they  have  also  been 
attributed  to  Sir  Roger  Wstrange  The 
version  printed  in  '  N.  <k  Q.'  has  one  .stanza 
more  (the  ninth)  than  the  version  in  the 
'Lyra  Elegantiarum 'and  there  are  a  number 
of  verbal  differences  between  the  two  versions. 

J.  U.  F.  G. 

"Mv  Lord  the  Sun"  (10"'  S.  i.  126).— I 
think  the  reference  for  which  Mr.  Ceabbe 
inquires  is  to  one  of  ray  stories  of  the  Abruzzi 
which  appeared  in  the  BuKerfl;/  for  August, 
1809.  Frederick  Baron  Corvo. 

Feli.ow.s  of  the  Clover  Leaf  (10"'  S.  i.  7). 
— In  the  .January  number  of  the  Antufitmy 
Mr.  R.  Coltman  Clephan,  F.S.A.,  describing 
'Two  Suits  of  Armour  in  the  Historical 
Museum  at  Berne,'  observes  :  — 

"One  harness,  made  probably  about  1460-70,  is 
severely  ulnin,  without  any  ridginfrs,  flutitif^,  or 
esc&llopeu  edgings,  excepting  on  the  tuiles.  The 
helm  bears  the  markof  theTreytz  fomily  of  armour- 
amitha  of  M<Uilau,  near  Innsbriiek,  n  ilov.r  haf, 
while  on  the  brottst|ilate  is  inscribed  the  mono- 
gram attributed  to  the  Mil.'in  armour-aniith  Tomaso 
cia  Mesaaglia." 

E.  L.  W. 
'The  Oxford  English  Dictionary'  (10"* 
S.  i.  146).— It  is  unscientific  and  unmeihodical 
to  give  to  a  book  any  other  name  than  that 
which  appears  on  its  title-page.  Therefore, 
in  spite  of  various  suggestions,  Dr.  .Murray's 

freat  work  remains,  what  it  calls  itself,  tne 
N.E.D.'  "New,"  says  Mr.  Thomas,  "has 
long  since  become  an  anachronism. "  I  hope 
not.  I  venture  to  believe  tliat  the  *  N.E.D.' 
is  not  only  novus,  but  will  be  novifsimus. 

W.  C.  B. 

FiCTiTioiis  Latik  Plurals  (O""  S.  xii.  345, 
filft  ;  10"'  S.  i,  64).  — Can  any  of  your  readers 
say  whether  ac/Za/t  —  sevei-al  times  seen  in 
the  S/>ectator  of  recent  years  as  plural  of  a. 
supposed  (KilitUts—ia  not  fictitious  ?  Ad  Intus, 
as  two  words,  is  quite  possible  ;  but  I  do  not 
believe  that  there  is,  either  in  classical  or 
mediieval  Latin,  such  a  word  as  atUatus,  in 
the  sense  of  "intimate  counsellor  "or  "  second 
in  command,"  in  which  sense  I  have  seen 
ndkiti  printed  as  alwve.  I  believe  that  ad 
httts  is  or  was  a  military  title  in  Austria ;  hut 
has  it  ever  been  used  as  one  word,  ndhiUm  f 

An  amu-sing  fictitious  plural  is  itcfopi  aa 
plural  of  octopus,  seen  in  the  Daily  Tdef/ivp/i. 
^  '^  ^  Coll. 

"KlNt:  OF  FATTERnALE"(lO"'  S.  i.  149).— In 
A.  O.  Bradley's  'Highways  and  Byways  in 
the  Lake  District,'  p.  dX  there  is  given  a 
quotation  from  the  obituary  column  of  tho 


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<,'entUninus  Magazine  for  Oct<jber,  1793,  by 
which  it  appears  that  John  Mouusey,  Esq., 
wiio  had  then  just  died,  was  commonly  called 
King  of  Patterdale,  the  owners  of  Patterdale 
Hall,  in  the  parish  of  Barton,  co.  Westmore- 
land, having  neen  honouretJ  with  this  appella- 
tion froru  time  immemorial.  C.  E.  Lkeds. 
<5*2,  Clyde  Road.  Addiaconibe. 

This  appears  to  have  been  u  local  lieredilary 
title,  two  bearer«  of  which  are  mentioned — 
one  in  Newte's  'Tour  of  England  and  Scot- 
land performed  in  178.5,'  and  the  other  in 
Rett's  'Tour  of  the  Lakes  of  Uumberlund  and 
Westmoreland  in  August,  1T98.' 

J.  HoLOEN  MacMichael. 

In  an.swer  to  the  query  of  my  friend  the 
IIkv.  J.  B.  McQoVERN,  I  will  quote  an  extract 
from  vol.  XV.  part  ii.  of  the  'Beauties  of 
England  and  Wales,'  1814,  p.  114  :— 

"Patterdale  Hall  has  fur  niauy  general iuns  been 
Dig  residence  of  the  auceatora  of  John  Mounaey, 
Ks*!-,  ita  jireseril  owner,  'whose  forefatherB,  from 
time  iiiwrioiiiorial,  have  been  called  Kitnix  of  Palter- 
tiale,  living,  as  it  were,  in  another  world,  and 
iiaviDK  no  one  near  them  greAler  than  Iheiiiselvea.'" 
The  lines  in  inverted  commas  are  evidently  a 
quotation,  but  the  authority  is  not  named. 
Tlie  mannion,  says  the  e<litor,  lia's  lately  been 
rebuilt. 

C'hab.  F.  Forshaw,  LL.D.,  F.R.Hist.S. 

Baltimore  House.  Bradford. 

[M.  N.  flays  that  a  Mounsey  (rained  the  title  by 
defeating  Scotch  raiders  at  Stybarrow  Crag.] 

Football  on  Shrove  Tuesday  (10""  S.  i. 
127).— The  glories  of  Easter  football  play  at 
Workington  have  passed  away,  partly  in 
consequence  of  the  occupation  of  a  r>ortion 
of  the  playing  ground  by  railways  and  works, 
and  not  less  because  of  a  change  of  feeling. 
See  further  '  Bvgone  Cumberland  and  West- 
moreland,' by  Daniel  Scott,  185)9,  p.  200. 

"As  U)  the  manner  and  circumntancea  of  the 
gameatt  it  was  |ilnyed  in  ita  heyday,  Kaster  Tuesday 
was  the  Krual  day  arnoiiK^t  the  saiiurs  and  colliers 
of  Workington,  who  met  in  an  oxtra-iMirochial 
l>Iaco  comiirisiup  about  a  hundred  aciea,  tallod  the 
ClolTookfl,  at  4  o  clock  on  (he  tifterii.xm  of  that  day, 
for  the  jiuriioae  of  keeping  up  the  old  custom  |icciiliar 
to  the  place,  which  had  existed  time  out  of  mind, 
inducing  huiidreda  to  come  from  a  distance  l« 
witness  it.  The  mode  of  procedure  was  liS  followa  : 
The  centre  of  the  ClofTocka  being  determined  as 
wear  as  could  be  done,  the  sailors  look  the  lower 
part  to  the  end  of  the  Mcrehanta'  ijuay  ;  whilst  the 
colliers  took  the  hiahor  part  of  the  said  ClofTocks 
to  Workington  Hall  Park.  The  ball  wa*  theu 
thrown  off,  when  the  sailors  endeavoured  to  force 
it  down  by  kickint;  and  bearing  and  throwinK  it 
towards  the  Merchants'  Quay  ;  whilst  the  colliers 
strove  to  prevent  them  and  endeavoured  to  force 
it  up  bank  towards  Workington  IJall.  Kvery  ex- 
ertion was  made  on  both  sides  ;  Ihcy  hsuled  Hnd 
|)ulled  one  another  about  like  deinenled  men,  in 


many  ioaLances  tearing  each  other  s  clothes  to  piecca, 
each  |>arty  cheering  as  the  ball  went  up  or  down. 

After  playint;  for  two  or  three  hours, ,,,,,tbc 

BiicccBsful  jiarty  woR  tteated  wuV  '  m  y, 

which   was   sjn-nt   io   drink,   ani  '  ■■■y 

tinished  up  with  a  tiKht  or  two.  a  '  nta 

during  the  itaal  year  were  put  olf  until  ibia  night 
to  settle,  and  the  town  was  almost  in  a  «tate  of 
siege,  as  tlie  lower  i-lass  thought  wh.i"  n^ 

they  did  on  X\\!\\.  day  the  law  could  n^  r,f 

them."— \N'm.  VVhcllans  '  History  ami  j  liy 

of  Cumberland  and  Westmoreland,'  H«>i,  p.  47y. 
•T.  HoLDEN  MacMichael. 

Full  reports  of  the  scene  at  Workington 
on  Shrove  Tuesday  appear  in  the  Motitldy 
Chi-onide  of  NorthConntrii  Lftrr  mtd  Ltyenii 
for  1889  and  1890,  copiejj  of  which  I  posseu. 
I  shall  be  pleased  to  furnish  your  corre- 
spondent with  any  details. 

Many  articles  on  football  in  general,  and  in 
various  quarters,  have  appeared  in  '  N.  Jk  Q.,' 
but  none  with  reference  to  the  proceediuga 
at  Workington. 

EvKBABD  Home  Colehas 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

Sleeping   Kino  Arthlk  (9'"  S.  xii.  502; 

'  10"'  S.  i.  77).— This  legend,  or  one  similar  to 

it  in  the  main  features,  has  often  done  dufcr. 

Let  me  mention  one  version  of  it.  at  Kicfi- 

raond  Castle,  Vorkshire,  quoted  from  Mtir- 

ray'8  ' Handbook  for  Yorkshire' ; — 

"A  piece  of  'folk-lore' which  i       '  "    td 

'in  various  iilaccs — amoug  other  ,ile 

I  lieighl  of  Lildon  aiid  at   Frf^cbu;^..  .....        ■■  .^ve- 

I  land,  see  Route  15— has  found'n  home  at  Hiohmond 

'  Castle.     Arthur  ami  bis  knii^lits  .ire  sai<l    to  lie 

under  the  'roots'  of  the  greut   towi-r.  Piiellbound 

!  in  mysterious  sleep.    A  cettuin   I'olter  ThoinpMjn 

'  was  once  led  into  the  vault,  where  he  saw  the  king 

and  ins  knights,  and  on  a  great  table  a  honi  and 

,  sword.    He  l>cgan  to  draw  the  sword,  but  as  the 

sleepers  stirred  be  was  frightened  ind  drottped  it, 

when  a  voice  exclaimed— 

I'ottcr,  Potter  Thomrtson, 
If  thoii  budst  either  aruwa 
The  sword,  or  blown  the  horn, 
Thou'd  been  the  luckiest  man 
That  ever  yet  was  bom." 

John  Pukvobp,  M.A. 
Xewbouruc  Rectory,  Woodbridue. 

This  story  and  the  verses  quoted  reicmblo 
the  Border  legend  of  Canobie  I>ick  the  horse- 
couper  and  Thomas  the  llb.\nier,  laird  of 
P>cjldoune,  in  Berwickshiin?,  as  narrated  by 
Sc<jtt  in  Appendix  1.  to  the  general  preface 
to  the  Waverley  Novels : — 
Woe  to  the  coward,  that  ever  he  was  born. 
Who  did  not  draw  the  sword  before  lie  blew  tli« 
horu  ! 

AoKUK  Whkkleb. 

"Quick"  {lO"*  8.  i.  12C).--In  Hampshire 
this,  the  local  name  for  the  wood  pigeon  or 
ring<Jove,  ia  pronouikced  "queeah,"  presum- 


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ablv  representing  an  Anglo-Saxon  raono- 
Byllable,  as  "cushat  '  does  A.-S.  cusceotf. 
Are  tUo^namea  onomutrtpa-au,  like  the  voib 
"to  coo"!  Herbert  Maxm'ell. 

This  name  for  wood -pigeon  was  twenty  or 
thirty  years  ago  \cry  well  known  in  Wor- 
cestershire and  Herefordshire.  I  have  heard 
it  pronounced  "queece*'  by  a  Staffordshire 
Diaii.  The  accepted  Hpelliug  was  "quest," 
and  I  believe  tiie  Ouest  Hill,  at  Malvern, 
takes  itu  name  from  tliis  word.  I  have  made 
inquirieii  in  Sussex,  Kent,  and  Leicestershire, 
but  the  term  seemed  unknown  there, 

W.   H.   QUAEEELL, 
3,  Easl  India  Aveuue,  E.C. 


^m  reason  for  the  superior  jurisdiction  of  the 

V  Honour  of    Tutbury  over  the  Hundred  of 

Henilingford    is    rendered     obvious    by    a 

I  consideration  of  the  meaning  in    this  con- 
nexion of  the  word  '  *  honour."    It  is  from  the 
fountain  of  honour,  i.e.,  the  Crown,  that  flow 
dignities  or  privileges  and  degrees  of  nobility, 
knighthood,    ic,    and    an    "honour"    is    a 
sc'ignory  of  several  manors  held  under  one  |  quoted  at  9'^S.'xii.  405 
buron    or    lord    paramount,    liimself    owing 
allegiance  to  the  Crown.     Tlie  King's  steward 
of  the  honour  of  Tutbury  formerly  held  an 
[Annual  court  for  the  royal  furest  or  chase  of 
pee<iwoo«l,  called   tlie   VVoodmole  Court,  at 
diich  all  the  forest  orticers  attended,  and  a 
jury  of  twenty-four  men,   who  lived  within 
the  jurisdiction  (i"e.  of  the  honour,  and  not 
>f  the  huiKlred),  "presented  and  amerced  all 
inoroachmeuts  and  offences  in  the  forest  and 
wood,  and  in  vert  and  venison." 

J.    HOLDEN   M.icMlCH.KEL. 


in  wliich  an  indispensable  food  substance 
called  miso,  prepare*)  from  bean^,  is  softened 
with  a  peculiarly  shaped  pestle  (suri  logi).* 
Its  breaking  in  the  ceremony  is  accompanied 
with  loud  outbursts  of  joy,  "  Broken,  broken  !" 
(mmta,  waretn  !)  "in  segno  di  averle  levata 
la  vergiuitA."  Kumauusu  Mixakata. 

MouiU  Nachi,  Kii,  Japan. 

"Trwaillke  pour  le  Roi  de  Piu'.^.se" 
(9*''  S.  xi.  289,  392,  .137,  496  ;  xii.  31,  111,  :270. 
370,  455).— I  think  that  Mr.  John  IUtcuin- 
soN  should  iiave  quoted  a  little  more  from 
Larousae,  as  otherwise,  without  referring  to 
that  useful  work,  any  one  might  suppose 
that  the  origin  put  forwaixl  definitely  settled 
the  question,  whereas,  although  Larousse 
gives  it  the  preference,  yet  he  begins  by 
saying  :— 

"  L'origioe  deceproveibet  est  fort  incertaiue,  bien 
(|ue  cioux  versions  rljHV'reintes  la  fiissent  cgrnlenient 
reraonter  a  Fredeiic  II.  (."t<  qui  cat  lertftin,  c'eat 
qivon  n'en  trouve  pan  de  traces  avaat  la  aeconde 
nioiti<^  du  xviii*  siiiele." 

He  then  gives  a  version   similar  to  that  I 
have  already  quoted,  and  adds   the  version 
Edward  L.\THAM. 


MiLR.sro5Es  do"'  S.  i.  7,  132).  —  What 
jvidence  is  there  for  the  existence  of  Itomau 
lile^tones  before  the  time  of  Civius  Grac- 
fhus,  to  whom  Plutarch  attributes  tJiem? 
fommsen  (iv.  chap,  ix.)  so  far  agreas  with 
Plutarch  aq  to  state  that  to  C.  Gracclius,  "or 
>t  any  rate  to  the  allotnjont  commission,  the 
lustom  of  erecting  milestones  appears  to  be 
raoeablf"  (Dickson's  trans.,  1887,  iii.  404). 
rortho.Miliarium  Fopilianum,  which  belongs 

this  epoch,  see  'Corp.  Inscr.  Lilt..'  i.  oiJl. 
JouN  B.  Wajnewrickt. 

BrE.VKI.VO     GtA.Sii     AT     JeWI-SR     WEDDIStiS 

*'•  S.  xii.  40, 115,  214,  337. 43:)).-I  may  V>e  per- 
littod  to  ulttte,  under  tliis  heading,  that  in 
vincBof  Kii  and  the  adjoining  Idzumi 
Iirenk  a  AMCii((rA/  at  their 
r  the  bride  and  bridegroom 
triuif'i  uj  iiicu-  chawtx^r  from  the  hall 
the  banquet  is  hold  after  that  breaking. 
tuvtOtc/ii  is  an  earthenware  of  daily  use, 


"CocKSHUT  time"  (10"'  S.  i.  121).— Ynrrell, 
over  sixty  years  ago,  in  liis  '  British  Birds,' 
gave  what  appears  a  satisfactory  explanation 
of  this  word.  Describing  the  habits  of  the 
woodcock,  ho  says ; — 

"Towards  iiiRl't  it  salliea  forth  on  silent  wing, 
iJiirsuitiK  a  well-known  track  ihrouKh  the  cover  lo 
lis  focding-Kroiind.  These  tracks  or  open  glades  in 
wooda  are  soiiieliniea  called  cockshoots  and  cock- 
roads,  and  it  is  in  these  places  thnt  nets  called  road- 
nota  were  formerly  suspended  for  their  capture, 
but  the  gun  is  now  the  more  common  means  of 
obtaining  them." 

Yarrell  was  not  only  eminent  aa  a  naturalist, 
but  wa-s  well  known  as  a  keen  sportsman, 
hence  I  shoukl  say  his  account  is  valuable, 
and  it  agrees  with  Prof.  Skbat's. 

G.  T.  Shebboen. 

Twiokeidtam. 

Amongst  the  many  suggestions  as  to  the 
origin  or  the  word  "cockslio<^t,"  there  is  one 
that  has  not  been  mentioned,  and  with  much 
hesitation  I  ventaro  to  enter  into  the  field  of 
diTivalions.  Miinv  years  ago,  perhaps  sixty, 
a  field  (iCAr  the  old  grammar  school  of  Con- 
gioton,  in  Cheshire,  went  by  the  name  of  the 
"Cockshoots,"    and    was    always    popularly 


•  This  |)e«tle  is  oft«n  vulirarly   i  ... 

phallic  meaning  in  Japan  ;  cf.  "  le  liaton  qui  a  agito 
dans  la  iMirattc  pr<jduit  le  beurre"  under  *  uU ton 
in  A.  d«Gul>ernalia'B'Mytliolonicdca  IManles,  1878, 
torn.  i.  p.  4H.  .  , 

\  I)n.  KuCECKR  will  please  note  that  it  is  not  I, 
but  l.,arouai»e,  who  calls  it  a  proverb. 


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«upix)setl  to  have  been  llio  place  where  in 
former  years  the  boys  used  to  throw  at  cock« 
tied  to  a  stick.  Certainly  we  retain  the  term 
"  cockshy  "  at  the  present  clay. 

John  Pickford,  M.A. 
Xewboume  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

It  may  be  noted  that  ihut  is  dialectal 
(e.g.  N.  Line.)  for  Hhoot.  Again,  the  samame 
Cockshott  seems  more  likely  to  be  derived 
from  a  place-name  than  from  anything  eLse. 
There  is  a  chapelry  to  Kllesmero  named 
Uocksliute,  Cockuhut,  or  Cockshott,  probably 
from  one  of  many  cocks/ioots.  J.  T.  F- 

ToRLU  AND  Taper  (10"'  S.  i.  109).— In  the 
excerpt  given  it  will  be  observed  that  the 
torches  were  used  in  the  funeral  procession 
generally,  "to  burn  about  roe  on  the  day  of 
my  burying,"  while  the  wax  tapers  wei*e 
burnt  stationarily  at  the  "month'.s  mind." 
IJefore  the  Reformation  the  churchwardens 
provide<i  wax  torches— in  fact,  let  them  out, 
iind  charged  according  to  consumption  ;  but 
in  the  instance  cited  l^y  Mr.  HrssEY  fresh 
torches  were  evidently  found,  in  accordance 
with  the  provisions  of  the  will,  "afterwards 
to  remain  to  the  church.'  Torch,  taper,  and 
candle  appear  to  have  differed  chiefly  in 
i>oint  of  size  and  in  the  amount  of  wax  used  ; 
but  the  foundation  of  a  torch  wa-j,  of  course, 
iif  a  different  mateiial  from  that  of  a  taper. 
With  Shakespeare  *'  torch  "  is  synonymous 
for  "candle,"  for  he  make.s  Romeo  say,  I.  iv.: 
A  torch  for  me  :  let  wantons,  light  of  heart, 
Tickle  the  tennelesa  rushes  with  their  heels ; 
For  I  am  proverb'd  with  a  grandsire  phruae, 
1  '11  be  a  cojid/c-holder,  and  look  ou. 

Quariars  or  quarions,  occasionally  called 
"  morters  "or  "  mortises,"  were  also  employed 
soiuetime.s  to  serve  the  purpose  of  a  taper. 
A  i|uarion,  say.s  Bishop  Percy,  was  a  square 
lump  of  wax  with  u  wick  in  the  centre. 
Round  lumps  of  thesame  are  still  used  in  the 
royal  nursery  under  the  namo  of  '*  mortises  " 
(see  the  '  Northumberland  Household  Book' 
and  Ayr/tctoloffia,  vol.  iii.  p.  1.00).  By  nindela, 
says  Fosbroko,  was  originally  meant  a  torch, 
made  by  besmearinc  rope  with  pitch,  wax, 
or  tallow.  At  funerals  the  number  of  torches 
with  which  the  deceased  was  honoured  varied 
according  to  his  rank  or  riches,  and  the 
torches  wore  extinguished  in  the  earth  with 
which  the  body  was  covered.  Bv  the  will  of 
William  de  Montacute,  Earl  o!  Salisbury, 
twenty-four  torches,  each  of  eight  pounds 
in  weight,  were  carried  (Strutt's  'Manners 
and  Customs,'  vol.  ii.  p.  108).  On  the  other 
hand,  the  tapers  which  were  sometimes  called 
hearse- lights  were  of  smaller  dimenjiiona, 
and  were  not  inteqded  for  the  hand,  but 


were  fixed  on  pricket«.  (See  further  '  Illus- 
trations of  the  Manners  and  Expences  of 
Antient  Times,'  by  John  Nichols,  1797,  p.  219, 
note.)  At  the  *'  garnysshinge  of  the  hersso  " 
of  the  Lady  Anne  of  Cleves  the  extraordinary- 
display  was  made  of  640  stationary  light*, 
ana  in  the  procession  "  went  poore  men  iu 
blacke  gownes  with  torches,"  and  fifty  "  yeo- 
men with  theyre  torchis  on  eche  side"  u  of 
the    corpse).  —  '  Excerpta    Historic^,'    IS31, 

p.  30G.  J.    UOLDEN   Mai  Mien AEL. 

I  believe  the  torch  is  a  light  carried  in 
the  hand,  formed  of  a  combustible  .substance;, 
Ruch  as  hemp  or  flax,  soaked  iu  tar,  tallow, 
or  other  fat,  and  is  of  necessity  used  in  the 
open  air.  Shakespeare  speaks  of  "a  waxed 
torch." 

A  taper  is  a  small  wax  candle,  a  long  wicic 
coated  with  waxy  matter,  and  is  generally 
used  within  doors.  Even  Shakespeare  admits 
of  a  difference,  for  he  says,  "Ciot  nje  a  taper 
in  my  study,  Lucius." 

EvERABD  Home  Coleman. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

Epitaph  at  Domcaster  (9**"S.  xii.  288,  413, 
470).— I  am  grateful  for  the  replies  given  by 
several  correspondents,  especially  for  the  very 
full  one  by  E.  0.  B.  May  I  point  out,  how- 
ever, that  none  of  the  replies  answers  my 
query  as  to  what  is  the  meaning  of  "  who  ia 
this  world  did  reign  three  score  years  and 
seven,  and  yet  lived  not  one  "  7 

llOBERT  PlERPOINT. 

The  Doncaster  epitaph  is  an  adaptation  of 
an  earlier  one,  discussed  (7'''  S,  xii.  506 ; 
8^''  S.  i.  155,  503  ;  ii.  74  ;  v.  75,  under  the  head- 
ing "Quod  expendi  babui." 

Ookayne  ('Complete  Peerage,*  iii.  104n.)» 
speaking  of  Edward  Courtonay,  the  twelfth 
or  third  Earl  of  Devot>  (oA.  1419),  says  :— 

"  Hie  is  Raid  to  have  been  the  majniificeiit  raoaa* 
ment  at  Tiverton  destroyed  towards  the  close  of 
the  sixteenth  centurj'  (mentioned  by  Risdon  in  hii 
'Snrvey,'  160.V1(>;K)).  on  whiuh  was  the  well-knowa 
curious  inBcrijttion  of 

Hoe,  hoe,  who  lies  here? 
'Tia  1,  the  Erie  of  DevonBhecr, 
\Vith  Kate  my  wife,  to  me  ftill  dere; 
W'e  ly\"ed  togealher  m  yores,  4c. 
The  wife  Knte  is,  however,  a  mystery,  and  ha  cer- 
tainly directs  his  bni  iul  to  be  al  Ford  Abbey,  not  at 
Tiverton." 

Cokayno  does  not  quote  Risdon's  inscription 
with  absolute  accuracy ;  but  that  is  not  of 
much  consequence,  for,  as  llisdon  himself 
says,  it  ha*!  been  destroyed  about  forty  years 
before  he  wrote.  Luckily,  however,  we  are 
not  flependenton  him  for  our  knowledge  of 
it.  Spenser's  "Shepheardoi  Calendar,*  with 
notes  oy  E.  K.  (probably  Edward  Kirke),  first 


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ftppearei^l  in  1570.    Corninentint;  on  lines  69 
and  70  ut '  May,'  E.  K.  says  that  they 

imitate  the  Kpitaph  of  tlic  ryotous  Kina  Sai<lana- 
>alus,  which  he  caused  to  be  written  on  his  toinh  in 

ifMke:  which  verses  be  thus  translated  by  Tullio : 
habui  mife  edi,  fjureque  exaturaUi  libido 
it.  at  ilia  mancnt  multa  ac  pra-clara  relicta." 

Fausinj^  there,  I  would  remark  that  accord- 
ing to  the  authorities  the  inscription  written 
by  SardanapaUis  wa.-j  in  Clialdaic  Tlie  Greek 
vei'siun  wa«,  according  to  Atlieuit'us,  xii.  39, 
written  by  Cha>rilua,  who  llourished  four 
hundred  years  after  the  date  attributed  to 
Sardanapalus.  According  to  Diodorua  Siculus, 
ii.  23,  the  Greek  version  ran  : — 
Tttvr'  e^u  o<rtr'  t<f)ayov  kuI  (f}>vj3puTa  Kal  /ut 

TipTTv^   fvadoi',  Ttt  St   roXAa  Kui  okfiuik  Kflva 
KiXdiTTai. 

R  K.  also  misquotes  Cicero,  who  ('  Tuscul/ 

V.  c.  35)  wrote  : — 
Hjvo  habeo  nuas  edi,  qna-ime  Bx«atnrata.  libido 
Hausit,  at  ilia  jocent  inulta  et  pri^clara  relic tu. 

After  civing  a  bad  translation  of  Cicero's 
lines,  K  K.  goes  on  ;— 

"iMiich  like  the  Kititaph  of  a  j;ood  old  ICarlo  of 
Devoushire,  which  tnuuKh  much  mur^  wiscdome 
bcwray^th  then  Sardatiapalus,  yet  hath  a  Bmacke 
of  his  acnauall  delights  and  beaatlinease:  the  rimea 
be  theae:— 

Uo,  ho,  who  lies  here? 
I.  the  Eood  Karle  of  Dcvon&hire, 
And  Muuld  my  wife  that  waa  full  deare. 
We  lived  togethir  LV  yeare. 
That  we  spent,  we  had  : 
That  we  eave,  we  have : 
That  we  left,  we  lost." 

Wo  thus  have  a  more  authentic  version  of 
this  epitaph  tlian  that  given  by  Risdon.  Kate 
disappears.  Mauhl  is  Maud,  who  is  said  to 
have  been  the  daughter  of  Thomas,  Lord 
Camoys.  John  B.  Wainewriout. 

Son  oy  Napoleon  I.  (lO^h  S-  i.  107).— The 
following  extract  from  'P'ormer  Clock  and 
Watch  Makers  and  their  Work,'  by  F.  J. 
Britten  (London,  1694),  bears  somewhat  on 
this  subject  :— 

"Th^ofIore  fJordon,  Oreat  James  Street,  Bedford 
Row  ;  boru  at  Uarbkdoea,  apfirenticed  in  Aberdeen ; 
horiwinlal  and  duplex  eacapcment  maker,  oUo 
aMistant  of  IS.  L.  ^''allia^ly,  sometime  editor  of  the 
/fiiroiogiral  Journal  ;  died  1870,  aged  81." 

Probably  this  may  have  been  the  individual 
referred  to  by  your  correspondent. 

EvBBA^n  Home  Colem.vn, 
71,  Brecknock  Road. 

IUleio«'.s  Hbad  (lO""  S.  i.  49,  130).— The 
following  statement  on  this  subject  is  culled 
from     'Sir    Walter    lUlegh :     the    British 


Dominion  of    the  West,'  by  Major   Martin 
A.  S.  Hume  (Fisher  Unwin,  1897),  pp.  417-18  : 

"1'lie  day  after  his  death  Lady  Ralegh  wrote  a 
sad  little  letter  to  her  brother,  asking  him  to  allow 
her  '  to  Ijorri  the  worthi  boddi  of  my  uobell  hoaban, 
ijnr  Walter  Ralegh,  in  your  cherche  at  Boddington. 

<:od  hold  me  in  my  wi(e8,'  bub  for  some  reason. 

now  unknown,  tlic  iieadless  coriise  was  buriea 
within  the  chancel  of  St.  Margarfi  a,  Westminster. 
What  ultimately  became  of  the  head  is  uncertain  ; 
but  »l  wao  long  preserved  by  Lady  Ralegh,  and  on 
her  death  by  herson  Carew.  in  whoeo  grave  at  West 
Horeley,  in  Surrey,  it  is  believed  it  was  interred."' 
Heshy  Gerald  Hope. 

119,  Elms  Road,  t'lav.hani,  S.  W. 

(It  was  pointed  oiit^  aitU,  p.  i;iO,  that  Carew 
Riiloigh  was  bviried  in  vVestminster  Abbey,  not  at 
West  Horaloy.J 

"Coui-  DE  Jabnac"  (10""  S.  i.  6,  76),— 
Anqueti),  in  his  '  Hi.'jtoirc  de  France,'  has  the 
following  :  — 

"A  la  mort  de  Fran^^ois  I",  la  Ch&taigueraie 
renouvela  son  accusation.  Jarnac  y  n'pondit  en 
demandant  lo  due!  judiciaire-  Ucnn  I'accorda,  et 
vouliit  en  etre  t^imoin  avec  une  partie  de  la  cour. 
11  incliuait  pour  la  Cbataigueraio,  son  favori,  qui 
etait  fort  robuste.et qui  passait  pour  un  dcshommea 
lea  plua  habilea  en  escrime :  niais  Jarnac  fut  plus 
adroit.  Couvrant  sa  Icte  de  son  bouclicr,  et  se 
glisaant  sous  le  braa  do  son  adversaire,  il  lui 
dechargea  deux  coups  d'estrama^-on  sur  le  jarret 
gauche,  qui  <itait  tendu  eb  di'-couvert  pour  la 
facilito  des  mouvements.  La  C'hataigncraie  tomba 
au  grand  etonnemont  de  tout  le  ntonde.  La  sur- 
prise flit  telle  que  le  sonvenir  de  ce  fait  d'armes 
a'est  conserve  et  qu'on  nomme  encore  coup  dc  Jarnac 
toute  attaijuo  sourdc  eL  imprevuo."' 

E.  Yardley. 

1  may  refer  any  readers  who  are  interested 
in  the  famous  combat  giving  rise  to  this 
proverbial  phrase  to  an  article  entitled 
'  Wager  of  Battle,'  by  M.  S.  Gilnatric.  which 
appeared  in  the  Laio  Times  of  16  August, 
1902  (pp.  3(10-3),  and  contains  a  very  full 
account  of  the  circumstances. 

Edward  Latham. 

HcNDRED  CoDBTS  (10'*' S.  1. 127).— Hundred 
Courtu  have  not  been  abolished  in  so  man}' 
words,  except  that  form  of  them  known  as 
the  SheriflTs  Tourn,  which  wa.s  abolished  by 
50  &  51  Vict.,  c.  65,  sect.  18(4).  Such  Hundred 
Courts  as  are  Courts  of  Record  still  oxist. 
An  example  is  the  Salford  Hundred  Court. 
Other  Hundred  Courts  wore  virtually 
abolished  by  30  Jic  31  Vict.,  c.  142,  sect.  2S, 
which  provid&s  that  no  action  which  can  be 
brought  in  a  County  Court  shall  be  brought 
in  a  Hundred  Court  not  being  a  Court  of 
Record.  John  B.  WAiNEwnniUT. 

Whether  it  is  still  the  case  I  cannot  say, 
but  until  as  late  as  1638  the  only  Hundred 
Court  of  which  the  coustitatioD  was  still  [>re- 


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served  was  that  of  Middlesex,  for  the  County 
ConrU  of  that  county  are,  by  tlie  Act  which 
exteud-j  the  jumdiction  of  the  Middlesex 
County  Court  to  e*xecution  against  the  per- 
son, distributed  according  to  hundreds,  the 
deputies  sitting  in  courts  appointed  for  such 
hundred.  As  to  the  duties  of  a  hundred,  it 
was  liable  for  daiuaKO  occasioned  to  property 
by  riotous  or  tumultuous  assemblies  of  the 
people  by  action,  the  process  in  which  is 
served  upon  the  high  constable;  if  the 
plaintiff  recovers  damage«,  the  sheriff,  on 
receipt  of  the  writ  of  execution,  makes  out  a 
warrant  to  the  treasurer  of  the  county,  direct- 
ing liirn  to  pay  the  amount ;  and  he  also 
reimburses  the  high  constable  for  his  ex- 
penses. See  Tomlins's  'Law  Diet.,'  1838, 
V.  'Hundred.'      .1.  Holden  MacMichael. • 

Cii-vui-EniANA  (10'''  S.  5.  121,  174).— Please 
let  me  add  that  the  reference  to  Dante. 
'Inf,,'  V.  120.  M  being  a  pos-siblo  source  for 
Ciiaucer's  line  aa  to  how  "  Pito  renneth  sone 
in  KPntil  horte,"  wa«  kindly  communicated  to 
me  by  Mr.  W.  F.  Smith,  Fellow  of  St.  John's 
College,  Cambridge,  who  is  well  known  as  an 
authority  on  Rabelais. 

Walter  W.  Skeat. 

GtiDE  TO  Manor  Rolls  (10"'  S.  i.  109).— 
Having  obtained  transcripts  of  Elizabethan 
Manor  Rolls  of  Ottery  St.  Mary,  I  found 
myself  in  the  same  difficulty  &h  that  men- 
tioned by  YfiREC.  Vinogradoff's  '  Villainage 
in  England '  throws  some  light  on  the  subject. 
A  comparison  of  other  rolls  is  a  great  help. 
Perhaps!  Yr.UE<;  would  like  to  arrange  to  .see 
my  transcripts.  I  should  be  glad  to  hear 
from  liim  on  the  subject. 

(Mrs.)  Kose-Tkoup. 

Ott«ry  St.  Mary. 

A.  C.  SwiNBtrusB  (lO'i"  S.  i.  49).— The 
quotation  is  the  first  stanza  of  the  poem 
'  A  Word  for  the  Country  '  in  '  A  Midsummer 
Holiday,'  published  by  Chatto  it  Wiudus, 
1884.  H.  K.  St.  J.  S. 

Court  Po.sts  ukdkr  Stuaet  Kixu.s  (10''' 
S.  i.  107,  173).— I  am  much  obliged  to  Ma. 
MacMiciiael  for  information  respecting 
above.  Can  he  or  any  other  readier  inform 
me  what  rank  of  life  the  holders  of  these 
posts  would  occupy  ?  Sussex. 

Book  Collectors  (10"'  S.  i.  148).— F.  O. 
Beggi  had  a  non-armorial  book-plate  contain- 
ing nis  monogram,  but  otherwise  anonymous. 
Upon  the  back  of  one  copy  I  have  seen  was 
written  "Dr.  Beggi."  1  imagine  that  he 
flourished  in  the  first  half  of  last  century, 
and  it  may  afford  your  oorrespoadent  a  clue 


to  note  that  the  'Medical  Directory'  for 
1848  states  that  Francesco  Crazio  Beggi,  M.D., 
Modona,  1830,  Assist.Surg.  Apoth.  "at  the 
late  St.  John's  Hcsp.,''  was  then  residing  at 
2,  Marylebone  Street,  Piccadilly.  Before  the 
next  iswue  of  the  '  Directory '  iie  had  "gone 
away  and  left  no  address." 

Geo.  C.  Pea  cub y, 
BriKhtwaltOD,  Watilaf;«. 

Record*  op  Monastery  ok  Mouitt  Qrack 
le  Ebor'  (W'  S.  i.  149).— See  8'"  S.  ix.  22, 
133,  and  Lawton's  'Ht-'ligious  Houses  of  York- 
shire,' 1853,  pp.  (JB,  ey,  and  references  there. 

W.  C.  B. 

May  I  refer  Co L.  Subtees  to  Spcc<J  anH 
Dugdale  and  similar  works,  also  to  Graves's 
'  History  of  Cleveland  '  ?  Col.  Surtbe^  soems 
to  doubt  that  these  ruins  were  formerly  a 
Carthuiiiaii  priory,  but  history  tells  us  that 
the  site  was  cl)0.-<un  as  having  "been  par- 
ticularly adapted  to  the  rigiil  order  of  th© 
Carthusians."  'fhe  yearly  revenue  of  the 
priory  at  the  time  of  the  Dissolution  waa 
382/.  Tm.  Ill/,  according  to  Sneed,  and 
323/.  2a\  10(/.  as  reported  by  Dugtlalo.  It  was 
founded  by  Thomas  do  Holland,  Duke  of 
Surrey,  in  the  time  of  Richard  II. 

Chas.  F.  Fon.sHAW,  LL.D.,  F.RHiat.iS, 
Baltimore  House.  Bra<lford. 

William  Hartlky  (10"'  S,  i.  87,  156).— 
Mistletoe  is  mistaken  in  his  Ijolief  (ontf^ 
p.  156)  that  the  late  vicar  of  Exton-cura- 
Horn  was  the  son  of  Dr.  Hartley.  The  Rev. 
Salter  St.  George  John  Hartley  was,  accord- 
ing to  the  Harrow  School  Register,  son  of 
Lieut.-Col.  J.  Hartley,  the  Old  Downs,  Hart- 
ley, Dartford,  Kent.  We  were  contemporarie* 
at  the  school  and  ac  Oxford,  where  he  was  a 
Scholar  of  St.  John's  College. 

A.  R.  Baylev. 

Foscabinus  (lO**  S.  i.  127).— I fc  is  possible 
Foscarinus  Turtliffe  was  named  after  either 
Michelo  Foscarini,  Venetian  historian,  b.  1632, 
d.  1692,  or  Marco  Foscarini.  b.  1696,  Doge 
1762,  d.  1763.  .JoilN  B.  WAnfE\VRif;HT. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  ftc. 

J';  '^  y^ari(/nt{ou!i,  Vofjagft,  Tinffijiia,  pii't 

0^  ihf  Eiti/tiih  Xnti(ni.     By  Riclikrd 

llivhiiiyt.     VoIb.  III.  an<l  IV.     (niaRgow,  Mac- 

Lehose  &  Sons.) 
Two  further  volutnes  have  appeared  from  the 
Ulafigow  University  Press  of  the  beautifwl  «nil 
profoundly  iuterfisting  reprint  of  Htiklnyt.  "This 
spirited  aud.  in  a  scnfir.  national  nndortakiog  ia 
fairly  lauucliod,  and  tlie  aucccMful  completion 
of  its  voyage  will !)«  a  imittcr  of  inlereat  to  othtr* 


10*  s.  I.  March  5. 1904.]       NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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ide  literary  men  aiici  antiqitaries.  The  contents 
of  the  two  volumes  now  issue<)  aro  renuirkahly 
^diversified.     Vol.   iii.   deals  largely   with   our  em- 

lies  to  Muscovy,  the  reception  accorded  to  our 
lambaaaadors,  and  the  conoesaions  made  to  our  mer- 
chants. In  an  apitendix  is  furniHlied  'The  Ainhns- 
Uge  of  Sir  HiMrome  Bowes  to  the  Emperor  of 
Moscovic.'  oontaining  a  full  account  of  tlie  "stout" 
and  heroical  dischar^  of  his  duties  in  a  Court 
wberv,  as  representative  of  his  queen,  Bowes  wore 
his  hat  in  the  royal  preaonoe,  even  though  the  hat 
of  the  Freiu'ii  atiiliaasador  had  been  naileil  to  liis 
)tead  lor  d  like  otlence.  Bowes  asserted  that  he 
repreaeuted  no  cowardly  King  of  Franco,  but  the 
invincible  Queen  of  England,  who  did  not  veil  her 
lionnct  uor  bare  her  heod  to  any  ijrince  liviniR. 
Hi«  iilucUy  beliaviour  reeoinmcnued  him  to  his 
barbarouR  host,  and  his  name,  celebrated  in 
Englaad  by  Milton  and  by  Pepys,  was  also  long 
held  in  honour  in  Russia.  Ambassadors  at  that 
had  something  to  do  beaidoB"lie  abroad  for 
coinmouweallh,"  as  says  Sir  Henry  Wolton. 

ly  lesji  interesting  are  the  e&rly  ambacsages  of 
Thomas  Randolph  and  otbcrfi.  Concerning  the 
Muscovites  generally  many  quaint  utterances  ana 
given.  "Their  diet  is  rather  much  then  curious," 
an  utterance  which  somehow  reminds  us  of  Dickens's 
often-i|noted  iihroso  "  extensive  and  peculiar."  Au 
account  of  the  Turkish  or  Rassian  bath  is  given 
when,  unilcr  date  1588,  we  read  liow  the  Russians 
''sometimes  (to  season  their  Ixtdies)  como  out  of 
their  batbstoves  all  on  a  froth,  and  fuming  as  hoat 
almost  as  a  pigge  at  a  6i>it,  and  presently  to  leape 
into  the  river  starkc  nalccd  or  to  powro  cold  water 
all  over  their  iKxlie?:,  and  that  in  the  coldest  of  all 
the  winter  lime."  In  tho  midst  of  these  ]irosaic 
descriptions  and  State  documents,  English  and 
foreign,  it  is  curious  to  conte  upon  the  rimed 
nieisages  of  tJeorge  Turbervillo,  the  jiout,  also  an 
ambassador  to  Russia,  describing  to  his  "  Dancic 
dear"  (his  special  friend  Master  Edward  Dancie) 
how  the  Hnssca  are 

A  neopio  passing  rnde.  to  vices  vile  inclinde, 
I'mkv  tit  to  be  of  Bacclius*  traine  so  quaffing  is 

their  kinde. 
Drinko  is  their  whole  desire,  the  ix>t  is  all  their 

pride, 
The  sobrest  head  doth  once  a  day  stand  neodfull  of 

a  guide. 

In  the  account  of  the  earliest  travel?  into  Persia 
are  many  edifying  passages  describing  "the  tree 
which  bejireth  Bomoasin  cotton,  or  uossampine," 
bow  "Chiisliaus  become  Busonnen"  or  Moham- 
medan converts,  4c. 
'  The  most  notable  portion  of  vol.  iv.  consists  of 
the  immortal  description  of  *  Tho  Yanquishing 
of  the  Spjitii'ah  Armada,  Anno  1588,*  and  that  of 
•The  Honourable  Voyage  to  Cadiz,  Anno  1596.' 
After  these  things— at  the  outset  of  the  second 
volume  of  the  folio  edition,  vol.  iv.  p.  2G0  of  the 
present  r~;  •  '  onies  a  aeries  of  early  vovages, 
some  of  or  less  apocryphal,  beginning 

l>efor«  til  I' ion  of  Christ,    Many  of  these 

aro  briff  rccirda  <ierived  from  Matthew  Paris, 
Holinshcd,  Camden,  kc,  the  L^tin  text  and  a 
translatinti  beiuc  both  given.  The  voyage  of  King 
Richard  I.  into  Asia  is  taken  from  Fuxe^s  book  of 
•Acts  and  Monuments.'  Very  briefly  troate<l  are 
tho  victories  of  Sir  John  Hawkwood  and  the 
travels  to  Jerusalem,  1399,  of  Thomas,  Lord  Mow- 
brey,  Puke  of  Norfolke,  banished  by  Richard  II. 


Admirably  executed  illustrations  constitute  stiU 
a  delightful  feature.  The  frontispiece  to  vol.  iii.  is 
a  portrait  of  Sir  Jerome  Bowes,  looking  very  gallant 
in  his  ambassadorial  dress,  from  the  iiicture  at 
Charlton  Park.  A  portrait  of  Abd'  Ullah  Khau 
is  from  a  MS.  in  tho  British  Museum.  Others 
follow  of  Abraham  Orteliu*,  from  his  '  Theatrum 
Orbia  Terrarum,'  and  of  (ierardus  .Mercator  anil 
Jodocua  Hondius,  from  the  first  KuKiish  edition 
of  Mcrcator's  'Atlas.'  Bnrroiigh'a  'Chart  of  the 
Northern  Ocean '  is  of  singular  interest.  A  curious 
f)ictiire  of  a  Russian  Lodia,  or  sniall  coaster,  a  plan 
of  Moscow,  1371,  and  a  map  of  Russia,  1.171,  aro 
also  provided,  William  Cecil,  Lord  Burghiev,  is 
the  frontispiece  to  vol.  iv.,  and  is  gucceedeii  by 
Charles  Howard,  Earl  of  Nottingham,  Sir  Horatio 
Pallavieini,  tho  Karl  of  Flaseit,  and  .Sir  Robert 
Southwell.  There  are  also  designs  of  the  Ark 
Royal,  and  many  admirably  helpful  designs  of  sea 
tights. 


A  Brie/  IlUtory  of  Old  Enal'mh  Porctluin  and  itg 
Sons.) 


Maiiii/acforien.     By   M. 


Solou.    (Bemruse  & 


This  splendid  and  admirably  illustratod  volume 
is  a  boon  to  the  collector  and  the  connoisseur. 
With  praiseworthy  modesty,  the  author,  to  whom 
is  already  owing  *Tho  Art  of  the  Old  English 
Potter,' aHirnis  that  he  claims  to  have  contributed 
no  fresh  materials  to  wliat  has  been  gathered  by 
his  predecessors.  All  that  he  prides  himself  ou 
having  done  is  to  have  banished  from  his  work  all 
that  18  inaccurate  and  most  that  is  superfluous. 
That  a  fair  number  of  works  on  the  subject  are  in 
existence  is  proven  by  the  bibliography  of  British 
books  which  ho  adds  at  the  close  of  his  volume. 
He  may,  however,  at  least  be  credited  with  supply- 
ing in  a  comiiact  and  convenient  form  a  history 
of  the  great  manufactories  of  English  jwrcoloin, 
together  with  marvellously  executed  reproductions 
in  olack  or  in  colour  of  some  of  their  most  character- 
istic products.  Before  all  things  Mr.  Solon  is  ai> 
enthusiast.  In  his  opening  page  he  speaks  of 
Oriental  porcelain,  with  its  substance  "as  white 
and  pure  as  the  petals  of  alily  ";  its  texture  "aa 
dense  and  translucent  as  that  of  the  onyx,  and  as 
soft  [qy,  smooth  T]  to  the  touch  as  the  nacreous- 
lining  of  a  sliell "  ;  and  the  colours  with  which  it  is 
enamelled  rivalling  "  in  brilliam-y  those  that  glitter 
on  the  wing  of  a  gorgeous  butterfly."  With  th© 
attempts  in  England  to  produce  a  translucent  ware 
his  book  is  concerned.  The  first  recorded  efl'urt  of 
the  kind  dates  from  1671,  when  John  Dwight  ntadc 
experiments  in  that  direction  in  Fulham.  It  is 
not,  however,  till  174o  that  the  author  tinds  tho 
china  works  at  Bow  and  Chelsea  in  working  order, 
to  be  followed,  a  few  years  later,  by  those  at  Derby 
and  Worcester.  The  first  attempts  to  obtain  soft 
china  by  a  mixture  of  chemical  substances  fused 
into  what  is  called  a  "  frit "  were  speedily  successful. 
For  the  account  of  these  processes,  and  of  tho 
porcelaine  ttndrt  of  Vincenncs  and  Saint  Cloud,  the 
reader  mnst  Gonault  the  book.  Between  1745  and 
ISQQ  a  score  different  ntanufaotories  are  described. 
That  slight  recognition— or,  rather,  entire  neglect 
—is  accorded  English  pottery  by  foreign  historians 
and  connoisseurs  is  attributed  in  i)art  to  the- 
fact  that  writers  on  the  subject  l>orrow,  mis- 
understand, and  misquote  from  the  somewhat 
antiquated  '  Collection  towards  a  History  of 
Pottery  and  Porcelain '  of  Marryat.  To  Thomaa 
Frye,  one  of  the  managers  of  the  works  at  Bow, 


200 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES,      uo*  8.  i.  Mabch  5. 190L 


was  grranl-t!'^'  tbe  tint  patent  rolatini;  lo  the 
invenLioii  of  Knglish  porcelutD.  Oa  his  tomb  Frye 
is  desct-il>e«l  as  the  inventor  uid  firat  manafiicturar 
of  porcelain  in  EnglaDd.  la  1758  the  tnanufiioture 
seeMia  to  have  been  at  it«  height,  and  by  1763  to 
have  Kcievouily  declined.  No  other  porcelain 
manufactory  hua  been  ao  productive  as  iraa  Chelsea 
l)etvireen  17-30  and  1761.  In  the  recent  saJe  of  Lord 
II.  Thynnc  S/ioiTi/.  waa  paid  for  one  pair  of  Chelsea 
vasca,  and  5,40(V.  for  a  set  of  four  representing  the 
seaaons.  We  may  not  be  tempted,  however,  by 
Mr.  Solon's  faicinatiiig  book  to  enter  upon  what 
might  easily  become  a  long  history.  Longton  Hall, 
Derby,  Swansea,  Worcester,  Coalport,  Plymouth, 
Bristol,  Liverpool,  Lowestoft,  are  a  few  among  the 
seata  of  the  craft  which  are  desoribod,  and  these 
are  places  in  which  ail  niga  of  the  industry  is  now 
loat.  Spode,  Minton,  Davenport,  ami  Wedgwood 
are  all  duly  noticed.  The  Kookiugham  works  at 
Swinton,  at  which  vaaes  of  excepliaDal  size  and 
tcorgeous  decoration  were  produced,  come  la-'jt. 
They  were  opened  in  1820,  and  closed  as  a  failure 
in  1^12.  Much  that  is  narrated  concerning  designers, 
^Mtinters,  &c.,  ia  intinitely  saxi,  and  the  nook,  with 
all  its  splendid  apcoimens  of  ware,  inspires  an 
occasional  sigh.  It  is  none  the  lees  a  deliehtful 
possoaaion  and  a  work  tie  luxe,  to  which  it  ia  diihcult 
to  accord  full  iostice.  It  ia,  moreover,  issued  in  a 
limited  edition. 

All  Indcxluction  (o  BreJoit  Orammar.    By  J.  Percy 

Treasure.  (Carmarthen,  Spurrel!  &  Son.) 
TUK  author  of  this  little  volume  reminds  us  that 
it  is  not  yet  <juite  a  year  n^o  that  the  French 
Minister  of  Spiritual  Affairs  issued  an  arbitrary 
Bud  autocratic  edict,  which  virtually  deprived  over 
one  million  Breton  people  of  all  efTective  religious 
iiiatrucUoii  by  insisting  that  ii  should  only  be  given 
throuKh  iho  medium  of  French.  To  arrest  this 
threatened  extinotioiv  of  an  ancient  tongue,  near 
akin  to  the  Cornish  and  ^V'olBh,  and  to  bespeak 
attention  to  it  among  Bretons  generally,  Mr.  Trea- 
sure has  compiled  this  grammar.  Ho  holds  that 
the  Breton  speech  boars  almost  as  close  a  resem- 
j>ianoe  to  the  old  Cornish  as  Portuguese  does  to 
Siianish,  though  it  may  be  doubted  whether  a 
Cornishman  conid  over  nave  held  intelligible  con 
verse  with  a  Breton.  His  work  is  conoise,  but 
iirobably  Buflirrieut  for  tliuse  who  essay  a  K<ii>Bral 
literary  awjuaintance  with  the  lan^age  of  "their 
Armorican  relatives  in  Little  Britain. " 

ilrrrard  Siftet  and  itt  Xciijhltonrhood.  By  H.  B. 
Wheatley,  F.K.A.  Illustrated.  (Kegan  Paul  & 
Co.) 
Tuiii  interesting  little  pamphlet  has  been  issued  to 
■nnmmemorato  the  removal  of  its  publishers  to 
(Jerrard  Street,  lo  the  house  whore  Drydeu  lived 
after  his  leaving  Loiig  Acre,  and  where  he  died  on  the 
1st  of  May.  1700.  The  parish  books  of  St.  Anne's, 
Solio,  show,  under  the  heading  of  "Gorrard  Street 
.South,"  the  amount  paid  by  him  for  the  poll  tax 
in  1(>0U  to  be  aa  follows  :— 

Mr.  Draydou:  his  lady £1    2 

Jatie  Mason,  servant  maid         1 

Mary  Mason,  servant  maid        1 

Dryden's  house  was  No.  43,  and  Macclesfield  House 

iNos.  34  and  35)  was  imnieciiattdy  opposite  Maccles- 
ietd  Street.  Lord  Macclesfield  died  there  on  Novem- 
ber 4th,  1701,  when  his  son  Lord  Mobun  went  to 
reside  there.  The  "  wicked  "  Lord  Lyttelton  was 
one  of  its  inhabitants,  and,  much   later,  Charles 


Kemble.  Mrs.  Fanny  Kemblc  refers  to  it  in  her 
'Old  Woman's  Goasi|i'  in  the  AUaiUic  Month/!/. 
lH7o.  The  house  was  destroyed  by  dre  in  i8Si. 
No.  0,  the  "Turk's  Head."  "gained  famo  as  the 
home  of  the  Lit«rary  Club  founded  by  Johnson  and 
Reynolds  in  1764."  Gibbon  also  staved  there,  and 
one  of  the  foremost  of  its  members,  Edmund 
Burke,  lived  at  No.  37  during  the  time  of  the  trial 
of  Warren  Hastings.  It  was  on  the  table  here  that 
Burke's  old  friend  Dr.  Brooklesby  left  the  letter  of 
2. July,  171SS,  requesting  him  lo  accciit  "an  instant 
present  of  one  thousand  pounds  which  for  years 
past  by  will  I  had  destined,  as  a  testimony  of  my 
regard,  on  my  decease."  At  No.  IVi  "David 
VV  illiams,  tlie  founder  of  the  Rovil  Ijitrrary  Club, 
died.     This  was  originally  the  of  '  Fund. 

Tho    ]iamiihlct    coulaina    a   |ioi  ,ie    i>oet 

Drydon's  liouec  as  it  was,  also  i  u\  build- 

ing, and  a  view  of  tho  district  ftuiu  laithome'a 
plan  of  London.  16o8,  Gerrard  Street  and  neigh- 
imurhood  from  Stow,  and  a  ]ilan  of  the  district  at 
the  present  time. 

\\  e  cannot  close  this  notice  without  congratulat- 
ing Mr.  Br>encer  C-  Blackett,  the  managing  director 
of  Messrs.  Keean  Paul,  Trench,  Triibner  &  Co.,  on 
having  induced  Mr.  \\'heatlcy  to  write  I  his  valuable 
contribution  to  the  history  of  Soho.  We  heartily 
wish  the  tirin  many  yean  of  prosperity  in  its  new 
home. 

Mh.  GcoROS  C.  PKAcnEY  has  issued  through 
Messrs.  K«liher  &  Co.  a  Life  of  William  Sat'crff  of 
Bi-iffhi Italian,  with  historical  notes.  It  contains 
extracts  from  his  comuonplace  books  in  1778-0, 
and  will  be  of  high  value  to  hi\  interested  iu  surgical 
and  medical  biography. 


^oWtn  lor  Cornspoubfuts. 

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Said  at  G")  S.  xi.  309  to  be  on  u.  gravestone  iu  Lutter- 
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C    K: 


JLIT  rtUUAKRO.    fricc  if.  pott  trot 

n^HK  UNION  JA 

A,  IM  HUMrr  m4  I>iT«lspauia(. 

J^J    IIILAM'ISI.    OtUIKN.    F.S.A 

Wlih  3  Coioarcd  Ptoir*.  mnpritLnc  13  IHicnnii  s{  Itaa  FU(. 
■illuan.  wlUi  ■ddiuost.  tro.  wmp|>«.  I9ua. 

OBUIiOB  OaBOUBY,  llookMlltr,  Balh. 


OWNERS  of  GKNUINB  KPECIMKNS  of  OLD 
BNOLIftn  Fi:BNI7tBF..  OLD  I'lCH-RB*.  OLD  CHINA.  OLI> 
HILrSil,  Ac,  who  <leilrt  to  IXril-Ortll  nl  ujiia  I'KIVATBLY  kr« 
liirtM  WMSd  p>ni<ru  IK  to  H^MHToN  4  MUN9.  r>IJ  Mall  Ea«t,  wko 
■n  klwart  prtptrwl  to  (ire  rail  rtiu*  lor  LntcrciUiiK  Kxuuplea. 

THE     AUTHOR'S     HAIRLESS     PAPER -PAD. 
(Tb*  LKAUBNH&LL  PHB8K.  Ud  .  Piil.|l>b<n ■«il  Printcn, 
ifl.  Lttdanhall  «itr««c.  LoDdoii.  H.C  ) 
Coitklna    btlrlMi    p*p«r.  Ofcr  whieh  ihi    p«D   illp*  witk  Mrlcct 
(rMdam.    Rlip*iii;«  Meh     i,  f>«r  4di«b,  raied  or  plal«.    Km»  I'o«k«l 
Sift,  ia.  pit  doxrn.  rulrd  or  plain 

AaUion  •hnnld  ooct  that  The  L«a<l«ohklt  Praaa,  I  t<l  .  cannot  b« 
raaponsltio  for  Uie  Ium  or  UHe.  by  Arc  or  otbcrwitc.  UapUcmio  eopiei 
•hoald  bo  r«(ai>e4 

STICKPHAST  PASTE  is  miles  better  than  Uum 
tor  nieklair  la  mrrapo,  Joininc  Pamr*.  Ac  SJ  ,M  .  and  It.  vllk 
itroBf ,  Baatal  liraib  toot  a 'roy^  »toi  two  lunipft  to  ca*rr  poaia^o 
tor  a  Mjupla  BotUc,  lB«lniIlD(  Krnih  Fartorr,  Hufsr  Loaf  Coon, 
L«a40Bba<l  ewaat.  K.C.    01  all  »uueaort,    burkchaat  rktto  iUaka. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.— The  SUBSCRIPTION 
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orXM  M.IorTwoiTt  Moaiai, laciadtat  «»e  tolamt  Inoai  —ivHM  C, 
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•utotlT  mndaimic  Mrma,  be  kts4  oaoafli  Co  C'JPinaalimta  wUh  Mr. 
C.  OoLdWUKTH  KUHUALB,  at  lit,  ai«aa«|t«  ILuta,  «tr«»iltaai.  S-ir.  T 


MESSRS.  THOMAS  &  WILLIAMS,  Record 
Acanti.  :7.  Chaooerr  Lwi«,  London.  WC  ,  niaSOKAIXT 
LMlJRUfAKE  BVBRY  UBecailTIOH  ol  a&.NBAIX>alCAL  aB4atb<r 
MI&Iu;HILmii  ibe  rublle  Bascon)  ufflco,  I'rtaolpal  Probate  B^Ktatrr 
HrltiiJi  MuKBm,  abd  ail  other  Itcpoattarto*  ol  keeanla  la  BwImA 
aart  nalc<  Ftxid  kto<ter>be  Charfet.  6p«eUUtj.aU  maitacanMlBC 
to  WaJrt 


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ANCESTRY, Bnglisli,  Scotch,  Imh,  and  Amerioati. 
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aa<l  Rni.grani  ramlllM  -Mr.  HiCI'NBU^Cl'UAII,  X.  liAMOB  AaM. 
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•l«BV«tf  to  SVnMIT  BBTIUATB6  for  aU  klada  of  HUUK,  NIW*. 
aad^aalOUICAl.  raiMTUia.-U,  Braua  a  BaUaiBca,  OBBBMrr 
I.an«.  ac 


HERALDIC  SNGBAVING,  Book-PIates.  Seala. 
Maa,  Kola  Paper,  Aa.     «poekal  auonUoa  gi  tea  l«  accBmr  of 
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TIBITIMU   CAB08:    Konatcd    Copperplate    and  (0  bMt  aaltlV 
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BOOKS.— ALL  OCT-OK-PRINT  BOOKS  anp- 
plied.  eo  matter  ea  «b«(Bal>Iae>  Actauviriitta  tat  world  orat 
aa  tb#  aiMi  at  pert  Hunkflaoara  aicaa;.  ptpaa*  ttaio  vaau.— HAJLaat 
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tanoa.     No  oibera  tabaa a.  U..M,  Orora  Hill  Bo»l.  Tuibndcw 

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CONTENTS. -No.  11. 

nOTBS:— Th«  Wreak  of  the  Wager,  SOI— Clement  Smytb 
— Ta«M  »ad  Milton, 30J—JJ»rtou't '  AnHt«niy,'  30<)— Sbake- 
tpoua'a  Sonnet  cxlvl.  — "  As  the  crow  fllea  "— LiDoolatbire 
Uddle — Speosrr— Jacobite  WJn^lBitei— "Homla,"  ^'l  — 
Oatherlae  Hii>et  —  Aldwych  —  Cobwelj  Pllli  —  Tburwkld- 
ten'B  Butt  of  Byron— UlipHiit*  In  Slow,  30o— SpanUh 
Proverb  on  tb«  Unnge  —  Nfgroei  aikd  Law  —  Qboala* 
lUrkeU,  a06. 

QDBBIB8 :— Irlili  HUtoric&l  nod  ArUitIo  Belies- lOnltob*. 
306— Kiddle— Tbackeray— Temple  Collofe,  Fbllndelpbta— 
Leche — BUx«  Soudder't  Pueini— Colt— Irenob  Ololtter  In 
HqglMid- A.B.I.— Ptaio  aiiii  Sidney-Sir  Hugh  fUtt,  VtJ 
— Browulng't  Text— "  Sorpcnl  "  :  "  Huggovele"- SiiudlftI 
— MlttorlciJ  Geography  of  Liondou—Yeoinan  of  tbe  Crown 
— Lomlou  Kubblib  at  Moacow-Otrvalie  HolUt— Travert, 
308 — Duobeai  of  Uiouocatcr— Pope  and  Oerman  Literature 
-Hanged  and  Drawn- SaliiUury  Cade-Soulac  Abbey.  aWJ. 

|{l5PLlK3i-T«i,  209— NeUon't  SUter  Anne-Hydropbobid 
PstienCa,  210  — "Chaperon  "  —  "  An  Auttrian  army"  — 
French  MJolatuto  PalnUw— Knight  Templar,  211— Slelan- 
dioly  —  Mangoateen  —  Comber,  ul'i  —  Ijuolatlona — White- 
bait Dinner  — Otavering,  213  — Crimion  Ilot>ei— Curious 
Chrlitian  Name*—"  Crown  an<l  Three  Sufjar  Loavea."  2U 
— Uldett  Public  School,  215-Tbaolien»y  Qii'itatloQ— Glow- 
worm—St.  Danttau— W.  Stephen*,  President  of  Ge^irgit 
— Uerondai,  310 — Autbora  of  Quotationi— Wettem  Uetwl- 
Jlon— Turner:  Oanaletto  —  "•  Meynca "  and  "Bhlnet"— 
Oapt.  Outlle—BplLapba— Immurement  Alive.  317— Kobin 
A  Bobbin  —  Ulgbt  Hun.  B.  Southwell  —  llita  I,ewea — 
Genealogy,  218. 

HOTBS  on  BOOKS :  —  ' Bngllib  Dialect  Dictionary'  — 
'  Bagllah  Llt«ralur«  '—The  '  Burlington '— Hiigazlnea  aud 
Ilevhwi. 

Death  of  Mr.  Thompaon  Cooper. 


THE   WRECK  OF  THE  WAGER. 

Is  this  month's  number  of  the  Comhill 
ittvjfuiiu  ia  a  paper  on  the  'Wreck  of  the 
Wager."  Byron's  'Narrative'  has  pa8.seci 
through  raany  editions,  and  it  is  still  one  of 
tiie  most  popular  of  naval  stories.  The  first 
«dition  was  puhlLshed  in  1768.  Probably 
Hamilton  was  then  the  only  other  surviving 
ofticer.  Several  editions  give  a  memoir  of 
Byron,  butas  no  edition,  so  far  as  I  am  aware, 
f^ves  a  memoir  of  Cheap  or  Hamilton  the 
following  notes,  which  I  made  a  few  years 
Ago,  may  be  of  interest  to  some  readers  of 
•N.  &Q.' 

Although  news  from  Patagonia  travellod 
tslowly  in  those  days,  it  was  not  very  long 
before  the  fate  of  the  Wager  was  known  in 
England.  I  found  in  the  Gentleman's  Maga- 
zine, under  date  September,  1742,  mention  of 
a  letter  from  the  lieutenant  of  the  Wa^er, 
And.  under  date  June,  174i,  the  following 
ootico:— 

*•  .  Oflieo,  Juno  I'J.     Hib  Majoaty's  Con- 

gul  >  Lie\>on  hoa  roo.<>ivoti  n  letter,  Hated 

the    .n..   i-i'.,  I74'«    ''■•"•   '  ""''ill  D.ivid  Cheap, 
late  Cwmmikndcr  of  liip  I  ho  Wager, 

OMi  away  ill  llio  S...  >   ,  1741.  a(l«'i«ing 

lot  bU  being  la  good  ht-^itit  «i  i';>iuitiago  in  Chili, 


tORetber  with  Lieut.  Thomaa  Hamiltou  of  Colonel 
Lowther'a  regiment  of  meirines,  and  two  nudship- 
men,  one  of  whom  is  Mr.  Biron,  brother  to  Lord 
Biron  ;  and  that  they  met  with  verv  honourablo 
treatment  from  the  President  of  Chili. " 

In  the  same  jperiodical,  under  date  April, 
1745,  a  letter  from  Don  Manuel,  Spanish 
officer  in  Pizarro's  squadron,  is  given,  in 
which  he  names  Cheap,  Hamilton,  J3yron, 
and  Campbell,  and  tells  of  his  offer  of  a  gift 
of  a  large  sura  of  money  to  them,  and  that 
they  would  only  take  COO  dollars,  giving  him 
a  cheque  for  that  amount.  He  hacl  not  wished 
any  of  it  repaid.  Under  date  March,  1746, 
1  found  the  following  announcemeat : — 

"  Monday,  24U>.— Arrived  at  London  Capt.  Cheap, 
Commander  of  the  Wager  storesbip  lost  in  the 
Sonth  fSea.  The  captain  with  the  Hon.  Mr.  Biroo, 
and  Mr.  Hamilton,  Lieutenant  of  Marines,  ware 
brought  in  a  cartel  ship  from  Brest,"  Ac. 

In  the  Scots  Magazine  is  the  following 
entry,  under  date  14  September,  1748:  — 

"At  York,  Capt.  David  Cheap,  late  Commander 
of  the  Wager  storeship,  which  was  lost  in  the  .South 
seaa  in  the  year  1741,  to  Mr«.  Ann  Clark,  daughter 
to  Mr.  Hugh  Clark,  of  Edinburgh,  merchant,  and 
widow  of  Major  Robert  Brown,  of  Fleming's  foot, 
who  died  in  January,  1746." 

Cheap  belonged  to  aFifeahire  family,  the 
Cheaps  of  Rossie,  and  a  brotiter  of  his  was 
collector  of  customs  at  Prestonpans. 

Lieut.  Thomas  Hamilton  was  son  of  James 
Hamilton,  Esq.,  of  Olivestob,  an  estate  in 
Haddingtonshire.  It  was  bought  in  1733  by 
the  celeorated  Col.  Gardiner,  who  changed 
its  name  to  Bankton.  Doddridge,  in  lits 
'Life  of  Gardiner,'  writes  of  having  received 
from  him,  before  the  end  of  1743.  "many 
letters  dated  from  Bankton."  Tne  lands 
adjoined  the  field  which  became  the  battle- 
field of  Prestonpans,  where  Gardiner  was 
slain.  Immediately  on  Hamilton's  rettirn  to 
England  he  was  promoted  to  the  rank  of 
captain  in  the  army  (8  May,  174G),  and  on 
31  August,  1747,  he  was  appointed  to  the 
8th  Dragoons.  I  have  an  'Armj?  List'  of 
17S6.  in  which  he  is  shown  a.*?  senior  captain 
in  the  regiment,  and  stationed  at  Gort  in 
Ireland.  He  was  promoted  to  major  in 
the  same  regiment  in  1760,  and  he  retired 
in  1762.  An  old  miniature  of  him,  in 
his  regimental  uniform,  is  in  the  pos.session 
of  J.  G.  Hamilton-Starke,  Esq  ,  of  Troqueer 
Holm.  N.B.  The  uniform  of  the  8th  Dragoons 
was  altered  from  scarlet  to  blue  in  1777,  when 
the  regiment  received  the  title  of  *'The 
King's  Roj'al  Irish  llegimont  of  Light 
Dragoons."  Hamilton  married  his  cousin 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Col.  Urquhart,  of 
Newhall.  AfitT  his  i-etircment  ho  built  a 
house   near  Musselburgh,   wliich  he   oalL^ 


202 


NOTES  AKD  QUERIES. 


Oliv«b&nlr,  and  there  he  died  on  3<)  Jnlr, 
1773  [HcotD  Mtujmine).  The  •ite  of  the 
maiuton  i«  oow  occupied  by  s  rai]w«y 
ntation.  Curlylo  meatioDH  having  met 
Hamilton,  wh<i,  in  the  cotme  of  cooverta- 
tlou,  defen(J4.*<]  (.'heap  auainNt  some  pauages 
in  Byron'))  *  Narrati  I'e,  which,  he  said,  was 
in  many  things  falne  or  exaggerftted  (' Aato- 
biography,'  p.  iy3).  W.  S. 


CLEMENT  SMYTH. 

Mr.  a.  R.  Baylkt'8  useful  list  of  earl^ 
roembern  of  Oriel  (-k)llege,  Oxford,  at  K"'  S.  xi. 
2H3,  includes  a  Clement  Smyth  who  became 
M.A.  in  XA'i'A.  Thix  graduate  ff&n  not  impro 
bably  i<iuntical  with  tiie  Winchetter  scholar 
eleisted  or  a<linittcd  in  18  lien,  YI.,  who  is 
mentioned  in  the  College  ilcgiater  thus  : — 

"  Cleinona  Smyth  do  Suthwork  in  com.  Surr.  re. 
{i.f:,  recCMiitJ  a<l Collcifiuni  Ocon  (i.e..  New  CoUege] 
linno  dnniini  nicovcilitij.  rMargiruil  note  :]  Inform. 
Wynlon.  12  [ic,  12th  Hoad  Maiter]." 

Afl«r  the  usual  two  years  of  probation  he 
wtts  F«ll()w  (»f  New  College,  1440  S3  (Boase, 
'Oxf.  L'uiv.  IJegiHter,'  p.  19);  recossit  1453, 
trantforuns  ««  ad  ob*M!4uium  (New  College 
itecords).  He  was  head  master  at  Kton  from 
about  1403  to  1457  or  1458,  when  he  became  a 
Fellow  there  (, M a. < well  Lytti'a  *Kton  College,' 
n.  60  ;  CuHt's  '  Eton  College,"  pp.  20,  51).  He 
hold  the  head-mautorship  at  vVinchester  for 
about  two  years,  14C2-4*  (Kirby's  '  Win- 
oliUNter  Scholars,'  pp.  GO,  7G),  and  then  was 
hca<l  muHtor  of  ICton  again  until  about  1409 
(Maxwell  Lyto  and  Cust,  loc.  cit.).  He  was 
canon  and  prel>ondary  at  Windsor  1467-9, 
as  llui  dfttos  are  givetj  in  Le  Neve's  'Fasti,' 
by  Hardy,  iii.  388  ;  but  it  appears  from  the 
'Calc'tjdar  of  I'atont  llolls,  1467-77,'  p.  230, 
that  in  Februarv,  1470/1,  he  exchanged 
ImnoficoH  with  .lotm_  Crecy,  canon  and  pre- 
liomlarv  oi  St.  John  in  the  Collegiate  Church 
of  St.  Alary,  Warwick.  Sco  also  I^ugdalo'.s 
'  Warwicksliiro,'  i.    437,    edition    1730.      He 

f>robably  tlitul  bi-foro  22  February,  l'>02 
?  Ift02/3X  when  Willittiu  Clorlc  was  admitted 
to  the  Warwick  probcnd,  vacant  through  the 
last  incumbent's  death  (L)ugdale). 

SMv  rOMon  for  thinking  that  the  Oxford 
rwfutttc  was  the  Wykohumist  is  that  in 
faroh,  14ft.'{/4,  the  graduate  received  a  dis- 
iHJUHntion.  Mr.  Chyld  being  allowed  to  read 
for  him  (lioase,  p.  I»>,  and  this  Chyld  was 
probably    WiUiam    Chyld,   Follow   of    New 

*  l*orh«nii  iheae  dstw  should  b«  146^7.  Seii 
'A  ii  r.iriu  llistoryof  fUnU.'ii..'WS:KndO'hri8tophor 


.1.... 
W 
J)"  . 


■<  oil  *  L'leinsiis  Smiihus '  in  Richard 
k  a(  t)or[M»,  wbii-h  was  ref«rr«U  lu  at 


College,  M.A.  Janoarr.  1452  3  (BoaM.D.lB; 
Kirby,j>.56)L  In  Leach  s  '  Winchester  CoIlegB,' 
p.  200,'  the  scholar  and  subaeqveot  bead 
master  at  Winchester  is  identi&ed  with 
a  Clenaent  Smyth  who  was  master  of 
the  scholars  at  Higham  Ferrers  College^ 
Northants,  in  December,  1443  ;  but  the  dafces 
render  it  scarcely  possible  that  the  Higham 
Ferrers  master  was  identical  with  the  Win- 
cheater  scholar.  According  to  Bridges  and 
Whalley's  *  NortJjaroptonshire.'  i.  213,  iL  44, 
a  '*  Mag.  Clem.  Smyth.  A.M.,  Presbyter," 
institute^]  rector  of  Wapenham  on  16 
14.^3,  and  vacated  the  living  in  or  I 
I4G7 ;  and  a  person  of  the  same  names 
degree  was  instituted  rector  of  Lodington 
on  20  May,  1480,  and  vacated  the  living  in 
1489.  On  the  question  whether  this  person 
was  identical  with  the  Higham  Ferrers 
master  or  with  the  Eton  and  Winchester 
master,  I  should  prefer  nob  to  hazard  any 
gruess.  Can  Mb.  Bayley,  or  any  other  reader, 
throw  light  on  that  question,  or  give  informa- 
tion as  to  the  career  of  the  Clement  Smyth 
who  is  said  (Boa'»e,  19)  to  have  been  Fellow 
of  Oriel  College  in  1446  ?  H.  U 


TASSO  AND  MILTON. 
KsADiNu  through  a  translation  of  part  of 
Tasso's  '  La  Gerusalemme  Liberata '  oy  my 
brother-in-law,  Mr.  C.  W.  Neville  Ilolfe,  I 
find  attached  to  it  a  comparison  of  some  of 
the  stanzas  of  the  fourth  canto  with  some 
passages  in  '  Paradise  Lost '  which  may 
possibly  interest  readers  of  '  N.  &  Q." : — 

"It  would  at  onco  occur  to  any  reader  of  the 
fourth  canto  of  Tasao  that  in  the  deBcription  of  the 
Council  of  Demons  some  parallels  might  be  found 
in  '  Paradise  Lost.'  Without  iu  the  least  anegestiog 
pla^ariBm  in  such  a  master  as  Milton,  it  is  not 
saying  too  much  to  conclude  that  such  a  srudent  of 
Ituliau  as  he  vah  had  at  least  read  Ta^^o,  and  per- 
\m\M  unounsciously  here  and  there  Ijorrowed  froiu 
him  au  idea.  However  that  may  be,  these  coui- 
parisona  are  always  intercaling,  ana  each  may 
judge  for  hininelf  whether  such  likeness  as  exists 
sprung  from  the  treatment  of  the  subjeot  by  two 
master  inindH  arguinj<  from  similar  ])remi«8ea,  or 
whether  it  waa  due  to  one  borrowing  the  idea  from 
the  other. 

"  1  think  few  would  deny  that  Milton's  Satan  is 
an  (irchficnd  more  subtle  and  more  finoi>;  conceived 
than  the  Pluto  of  Tasso.  In  common  witli  Dante, 
TusHo  portrayed  the  Author  of  Evil  after  the 
niediwval  model  of  his  day,  and  painted  him  in 
colours  so  revolting  that  every  trace  of  bis  pre- 
vious condition  is  lost." 

•  Where  for  "  f Ijichelev's  Register  fll,  6)  on 
18  Dec«!inbt<r,  I44.'J,"  read  "Statford's  Register 
III.  (110  on  l.'i  December.  144.%"  a  corroctiou  whicb 
Ml'  in   Mr,  L*aoh'«  account  of   Higbani 

I'l  r^  in  a  forthcoming  volume  of  the 

'  Viciorm  iiiatory  of  Northamptonshire.' 


Jo*jj^URCH  12, 19W.]      NOTES^'IND  QUERIES. 


205 


R 


The  translations  of  Taaso  that  follow  are 
quite  literal.     I  give  thera  in  preference  to 
tne  original,  am  some  of  your  readera  may 
not  be  masters  of  the  Italian  language  ; — 
What  though  the  tield  be  lost? 
All  \n  Dot  lost :  the  uncomjiierable  will. 
And  study  of  revenge,  immortal  hate. 
And  courage  never  to  submit  or  yield. 
And  what  is  else  not  to  bo  overcome ; 
That  glory  nerer  shall  His  wrath  or  might 
Extort  from  mo.  '  Paradise  Lost,'  Book  I. 

'Twere  idle  to  deny— worsted  we  failed  ; 
Yet  the  grand  thought  lacked  none  of   V^irtue'a 

oim. 
Whftt«'er  it  was  gave  victory  to  His  will, 
Unconquered  daring  is  our  glory  still. 

'^Ger.  Lib..'  Canto  IV. 

"  Is  this  the  region,  this  the  soil,  the  clime," 
Uaid  then  the  lost  Archangel,  '*  this  the  seat 
That  we  most  changu  for  heaven  ?   this  nnonraful 

gloom 
For  that  celestial  light! " 

'  Paradise  Loet,'  Book  L 
And  we  in  lieu  of  day  serene  and  pure, 
Uf  golden  sun,  of  treading  starry  ways, 
Are  here  immured  in  this  abyss  obscure. 

•Oer.  Lib.,' Canto  IV. 

On  the  other  side,  Satau,  alarm'd, 
Collecting  all  his  might,  dilated  stood, 
Like  Teneriff  or  Atlas,  unremov'd  : 
His  .•*tatore  reached  the  sky. 

'  Paradise  Ivost,'  Book  IV. 
His  rough  and  weighty  sceptre  doth  he  swing ; 
The  seas  contain  no  loftier  rock  nor  cliff, 
Calx)^  nor  Atlas  higher  raise  their  peaks. 

MJer.  Lib.,' Canto  IV. 
To    conclude    with    one     or     two     minor 
instances,  Milton  put's  these  words  into  the 
mouth  of  the  Almighty  :  — 

Necessity  and  chance 
Approach  not  me,  and  what  I  will  is  Fate. 

•  Paradise  Lost,'  Book  VII. 
Let  what  I  will  be  Fate !   (Sia  destin  ci '.  ch'  io 
voglio).  'Ger.  Lib ,'  Canto  IV, 

To  spite  us  more, 
l>etcrmined  to  advanoc  into  our  room 
A  croature  formed  of  earth,  and  him  endow, 
Kxalted  from  so  base  original. 
With  heavenly  spoiln,  our  spoils. 

'  Paradise  Lost,'  Book  IX. 
Mankind  he  calls  into  Eternal  Day, 
Vile  earth-born  man  made  of  still  viler  clay. 
•  •  •  »  ' 

Con<iueror  triumphant,  and  in  our  despite 
Displayed  the  spoils  of  Hell  in  Heaven's  sight. 
'  Ger.  Lib.,'  Canto  iV. 
The   above  will  appear  to   most  readers 
fairly  numerous  inst&Dces  of  similarity  when 
it  is  remembered  that  Tasso's  description  of 
Hell  and  his    report  of  I'iuto's  speech    are 
lituited   to   some    eighteen   stanzas    in   the 
whole  epic.  Holcombk  Iicglbbt. 

Hcacham,  Norfolk. 


BURTON'S  •  ANATOMY  OF  MELANCHOLY.' 

(Sec  9"<  S.  xi.  181,  '222,  -363,  322,  441  ;  xii.  2,  62, 

l«2,  301,  36-2,  442  ;  10'"  S.  i.  42. 163.) 

The  Brst  four  of  the  following  notes  should 
strictly  have  been  given  before  : — 

Vol.  i.  p.  14,  1.  5  and  n.  1  ;  3, 1.  10  and  n.  b, 
"  turbine  raptus  ingenii  —  Scaliger."  '  Do 
Subtil.,'  Exercit.  324,  "  videria  turbiao 
raptus,  atque  tempestate  ingenii  tui." 

P.  43,  n.  3  ;  20,  n.  p,  "Anaxagoras  oliuj 
mens  dictus  ab  antiquis."  See  the  lines  uf 
Timon  ap.  Diog.  Laert.,  ii.3, 1.  Traversarius's 
rendering  as  given  by  (Jobet  begins 

Fertur  Anaxagoras  quondam,  fortissimus  heros, 

Mens  dictus. 

P.  44,  1.  II  ;  21, 1.  6,  "an  enemy  to  all  art* 
and  sciences,  as  Athenreus."  See  xiii.  5B8a, 
where  Epicurusj  not  Socrates,  is  described  aa 
iyKxixXiov  iraiStia';  o/a«'»tos  wv,  the  "omnium 
disciplinarum  ignarus '  of  Burton's  marginal 
note. 

P.  58,  1.  .30;  30,  1.  4,  "Flos  hominum."  Cf. 
J.  t.'.  Scaliger,  '  Lacrymie,'  ix,  1,  in  '  Poemata*^ 
(1574),  Pt.  I.  &40  :— 

Flos  hominum,   flos  idem   hominam,   sobolesque 
Deorum. 

P.  85,  1.  1 ;  45,  1.  13,  "his  [Cardan's]  Iriiun- 

viri    Irnuruvi are    Ptoleraieus,    Plotinus, 

Hippocrates."    '  De   Subtil.,'    xvi.    804,    ed. 
I  Bas.,  1582. 

P.  85,  1.  2:  45,  1.  14,  "Scaliger,  exercitat. 
224."  Should  be  324.  For  "  Galen  fimbriara 
Hippocratis  "  see  *  Conf.  Fab.  Burd./  p.  202, 
ed.  1612. 

P.  85,  1.  8  ;  45, 1.  19,  "Scaliger  and  Cardaa 
admire  Suisset  the  Calculator,  qui  pFen& 
modum  exceasit  humani  ingenii."  Seal., '  D© 
Subtil.,'  Exercit.  324,  *'qui  piene  modura 
excessit  ingenii  humani,"  and  Cardan,  '  Do 
Subt.,'  xvi.  802. 

P.  85,  n.  6  ;  45,  n.  f,  "  Actione  ad  Sobtil.  in 
Seal.  fol.  1226."  Cardan's  "In  Calumnia- 
torem  librorura  <ie  Subtilitate  actio  prima," 
p.  1015  ndjin.  in  1582  ed.  of  his  *  De  Subt.' 

P.  e.^  n.  13;  45,  n.  m,  "  Ps."  Add 
xxxvi.  8. 

P.  87, 1.  1 ;  46,  1.  25,  "as  you  may  read  at 
large  in  Constantino's  husbandry."  See 
' Geoponica,'  x.  4,  4y. 

P.  87,  1.  2;  40,  1.  26,  "That  antipathy 
betwixt  the  vine  and  the  cabbage,  wine  and 
oil."  See  *neopon.,'  v.  II,  3;  and  xiJ.  17, 
17-21. 

P.  87,  n.  1  ;  46,  n.  b,  "See  Lipsius,  epist. 
Cent.  I.  ad  Belga.",  44. 

P.  87, 1.  20  and  n.  4  ;  43,  n.  e,  "Cato— Lib. 
do  re  rust."  See  Cato,  '  De  Agri  Cultura,' 
i.  2,  "vicini  quo  animo  niteant.  id  auimum 
advertito:  in  bona  regione  oene  nitere 
oportebit." 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[10*S,LMahc>iM.  MM. 


504 


n.  2 


. .  __. ,  47,  n.  f,  "Non  vipet  respublica 

-cujas  caput  infirmatur.  Sarisburieosis,  c.22." 
•€h.  xxii.  of  Book  VI.  of  the  *  PoUcraticus'; 
the  heading  of  the  chapter  is  "Quwl  sine 
prudentia  &  aolicitudine  nuUus  magifitratus 
sabsistit  incolumis,  nee  vigot  respublica  cuius 
caput  infirmatur." 

r.  91,  I.  10  and  n.  6  ;  49,  1.  0  and  n.  b, 
"  Antigonus  —  Epist.  ad  Zen."  See  Diog. 
La<>rt.,  vii.  1,  8,  and  Hercher'a  'Epistolog. 
Gnec.,'  p.  107  (Paris,  1873). 

P.  92, 1.  24  ;  49,  1.  47,  "  Rabulas  forensea." 
Sidonius,  Epiat.  iv.  3,  adfn. 

The  title  of  Owen's  epigram  referred  to  at 
•O"'  S.  xii.  303,  col.  1.  I.  9  from  foot,  sliould  be 
'  In  (^uiutum  [not  Quintam]  et  Quintinam.' 
Edward  Bekslv. 
The  University,  Adel&ide,  hloutb  Austrolia. 
( To  be  eotUimted.  > 


Shakkspeaee'8  Son.net  CXLVI.— The  fol- 
lowing translation  in  Latin  elegiacs,  by  a 
■well-known  expert  in  that  form,  has  been 
sent  to  us  : — 

•V  anima,  inccsti  ciui  pulveria  iiicola  lances, 

cur  habituni  inai};no  auniia  ab  hoote  tuuni  ? 
'Cur  intiis  constricta  fame,  tainen  cxtei'a  pioftia 

assidne,  et  lauta  apleudida  vcetc  nitee? 
cur  im]>endia  opes  tectis,  iiiiit  iinibuit,  usn,— 

iioepea  eras  tantum— sors  haoUauda  brevi. 
<prodiga  tn  niniiuni !  lauti  nioliminiH  herca 

verniii :— an  absunijito  cor|)orc  finis  erLt? 
'tiiouL'ipiuin  Blue  labeseat :  eic  vila  redundet 

amplior  ot  reruin  co[iia  major  ene. 
•divinii'  racrces,  dum  frivola  voiidis,  eniaatur  ; 

divino,  pauper  visa,  fruare  cibo. 
mors,  cui  pnida  lioiniacs,  liet  tibi  pneda  viciaaim, 

et  Vila,  exBiincta  luorte,  perenais  erit. 

E.  D.  S. 

**  As  THE  CEOW  FUEs."— Wiietlier  the  crow 
always  Bies  straight,  or  only  does  this  when 
on  the  homeward  wa^-,  I  am  not  prepared  to 
alHrm  ;  but  it  is  of  interest  to  note  a  clause 
iti  the  will  of  the  late  Baron  Stanley  of 
Ahlerley  (died  10  December,  1903).  dated 
4  AuEU8t,  1890,  which  appears  as  follows  in 
tlie  Illustrated  London  News  of  23  January, 
1904 :  "  He  devises  all  the  hereditaments 
■within  six  miles  as  the  crow  flies  of  Alderley 
iPark,"  &c.  If  the  members  of  the  family  do 
not  agree,  there  seems  to  be  great  probability 
of  much  work  and  legal  argument  as  to 
whether  the  lino  is  to  be  measured  from  the 
centre  of  the  house,  a  chimney-top,  or  some 
other  starting-point.     Hkuukrt  South aji. 

Lincolnshire  Riddle.  —  I  have  just  re- 
ceived the  following  riddle.  Miss  Mabel 
Peacock  suggests  that  an  incident  in  the 
Civil  War  may  have  ^iven  rise  to  it.  Robert 
J'ortiugton,  a  connexion  of  the  Portingtons, 


then  of  Sawcliffe,  and  a  Royalist  of  note, 
was  bitten  by  a  monkey  when  crossing  a 
ferry  on  the  Ouse,  and  died  from  the  wound. 
The  riddle  may  have  been  localized  at  other 
ferries  near  Sawcliffe,  where  the  Portington<t 
resided,  and  in  the  neighbourhood  of  which 
the  monkey  story  would  be  well  known.  The 
riddle  is  this  :— 

Ab  I  waa  goin'  ovver  Butirrw«ek*  Fcrr\', 
I  heard  a  thing  cry  "Chickamachorrj-,'' 
\Vi'  dorijy  'an  at  an'  dorny  face, 


White  cockade,  an'  silver  lace. 


Durham. 


J.  T.  F. 


Spenber  and  Shakespeare.  —  Rosalind, 
Corin  (  =  Colin),and  William  are  personage-s 
in  *  As  You  Like  It,'  Corin  and  William 
being  shepherds.  In  Spenser's  'Shepherd's 
Calendar'  I  meet  with  llosalindLColin,  and 
Willy  ;  the  men  are  shepherds.  Here  is  tha 
passage  :— 

But  t«U  me,  ahepherda,  should  it  not  yaheud 
Your  roundels  fresli,  to  hc&r  a  doleful  verse 

Of  KoBalind  (who  knows  not  Rosalind?} 
That  Colin  made  ?    Vlke  can  I  you  rehearse. 

T.  C.  Button. 
Houth  Govforth. 

Jacobite  WiNE«iL.tssEs,  (See  7""  S.  xi.  8.)— 
At  Chaatleton  House,  Oxfordshire,  is  pre- 
served a  set  of  Jac(»bite  glass,  consisting  of 
two  decanters  and  eleven  wineglas.ses  (the 
twelfth  presumably  having  been  broken). 
This  was  manufactured  at  Derby  for  a  Jaco- 
bite club  in  Gloucestershire,  of  which  Henry 
Jones  of  Chastloton  {o6.  17G1)  was  a  leading 
member.  On  the  decanters  are  a  compass 
pointing  to  a  star,  a  spray  of  roses,  and  the 
word  "Fiat":  the  glasses  have  only  roses. 
But  two  or  three  sets  of  this  glass  remain, 
the  Chaatleton  set  being  the  most  perfect- 
See  *  History  and  Dusci-iptiou  of  Chastleton 
House,'  by  lM.ary  Whitmore  Jones  (London, 
1893).  H.  A.  Evans. 

Osford. 

*'  Morale."  (Seean/e,  p.  93.)— Pbof.  Stkono 
cannot,  I  imagine,  be  serious  when  he 
says,  "As  a  matter  of  fact,  there  is  no 
such  word  [as  inor/tle]  in  French  ;  but  there 
is  a  word  h  moral,  which  means  mor'jilily." 
As  a  fact,  both  nouns,  mot'al  (masc.)  and 
inoraU  (fem.),  exiHt  in  French,  as  a  reference 
to  any  ordinary  French  dictionary  will  show, 
What^  I  think,  Peof.  Strong  should  have 
said  is  that  la  morale  means  morality  (or 
morals),  whereas  in  the  sense  requit^ 
(namely,  the  moral /(irid^/M,  as  distinguished 

*  Sometimes  '^  Burrin^bam." 
t  Dowuy  bands. 


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I 


I 


from  the  physical)  the  French  nujml  should 
be  used,  if  a  French  word  must  be  used. 
Mornl  someliraes  includes  firmness  or  courage 
under  trying  circumstances,  and  it  is  in  this 
sense  that  it  would  be  used.  I  have  very 
little  doubt,  however,  that  the  Professor  and 
I  are  at  one  in  thinking  that  French  words 
should  not  be  pitchforked  into  English  com- 
position without  very  good  reason. 

Edwabd  Latitam. 

Iai  iiwi-ale  (morality)  not  only  exists,  but 
is  io  French,  as  in  English,  one  of  the  most 
important  of  words.  Le  niond  exists  also, 
and  this  is  how  it  is  defined  by  Littre  :— 

"  JfortiJ,  eubs.  niasc.  No.  5,  le  moral :  I'enseniblo 
de  nos  facultti  morales.  Le  phystuue  Influc  snr  le 
moral,  et  le  moral  influe  sur  le  physique.  No.  6, 
fcrriieu-  i\  supporter  lea  perils,  les  fatigues,  1m  diffi- 
culti'a.  Exeniples  :  son  moral  b'est  relev^  ;  rtmonter 
U  moral  <r aw.  aniitf.^'  (italics  mine). 

We  see  from  the  last  example  that  to  speak 
of  the  monxl  (not  ruonile)  of  an  army  is 
perfectly  good  French  ;  and  the  expression 
18  in  fact  frequently  used  by  Frenchmen.  It 
therefore  seems  to  me  that  to  write  it  in 
italics  in  English  books  Is  absolutely  correct. 
M.  Haultmont. 

Thackekav  and  Cvtherixe  Hayes.  (See 
ante,  p.  64  )— *  Catherine'  was  one  of  Thacke- 
ray's earlie.st  productions,  and  originally  pub- 
lislieil  in  FniM-r's  .Uiuja :i7ie  more  than  fifty 
yeara  ago.  It  was  accompanied  by  whole-page 
illustrations  from  the  pencil  of  the  author. 
John  Pickford,  M.A. 

Ncwbonrn«  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Aldwycii.  (Seea«^e,  p.l38.)— Much  written 
hereon  is  mere  gossip  and  guesswork,  against 
which  are  these  facts. 

1.  Mr.  Parton  shows  that  Aldewych  Cross 
stood  at  the  Holborn  end  of  Drury  Lane, 
formerly  the  Via  Regia  or  King's  Highway. 

2.  The  "campo  de  Aldwych,"  part  of 
St.  Giles's  Fields,  helonced  to  Holborn  Manor. 

3.  At  Domesday  the  king  held  twocottages 
in  Ho]l«)rn.  So  Holborn  appears  to  be  all  we 
have  on  record  as  to  the  earliest  known  status 
of  the  Aldwych,  and  that  is  far  away  from 
■Bt.  Clement  Danes 

4.  We  have  no  valid  record  of  any  grant  of 
land  therein  to  Guthorm  of  East  Anglia.  At 
that  lirae  the  SStrand  was  an  open  shore, 
floojled  at  every  tide,  aufi  fed  by  streams 
draining  the  higher  ground  of  St.  Giles'n 
Fields;  one  such  wa«  tlie  Mill  bourne,  whore 
Vikingfi  might  beach  their  galleys  and  live  as 
Lithsmeu  or  Lid  wickers,  rovers  all.  No 
doubt  St.  Cloment  was  so  named  from  Danes, 
bat  the  higher  ground  wati  cultivated,  and 
we  have  no  record   of  any  earlier  village 


there  than  the  Holborn  "cottages "of  Domes- 
day, with  note«  of  a  "  vineyard."  Here  would 
be  the  "  village." 

5.  In  1101  Queen  Matilda  founded  the 
hospital  of  St.  Giles  without  the  bars  of  the 
old  Temple,  in  the  west  suburb  of  London. 
The  Temple  was  soon  moved  to  Fleet  Street, 
but  conveyancers  still  kept  up  the  old  style  of 
definition  ;  so  Bosham's  Inn  and  garden  have 
been  described  as  without  the  bar  of  the  old 
Temple,  in  the  street  that  leads  to  the  hospital' 
of  St.  Giles.  There  is  an  Aldwick,  hundred, 
and  tything,  Pagham,  Sussex  ;  and  an  Old- 
wick  in  Bucks  ;  and  it  is  plain  that  the 
"cottiers"  of  Domesday  were  not  Danish 
rovers;  and  if  they  had  any  "village"  of 
their  own,  it  would  not  be  "old"  to  the  Saxon, 
residents  of  London  city.  A.  Hall. 

Cobweb  Piluj.— The  following  is  an  extract 
from  'Lives  of  Early  Methodist  Preachers' 
(Horace  Marshall  &.  Son,  VJOZ).  It  occurs  on 
p.  270  in  a  brief  summary  of  the  life  of  Joha 
Prit<;liard,  who  was  born  in  1746  at  Arthbuy, 
CO.  Meath  :— 

"  lu  August,  1781,  I  went  to  Taunton,  and  had 
for  my  fellow-traveller  Mr.  Boone.  But  we  were 
both  very  ill  of  the  ague.  I  used  the  cold  bath,  and 
took  bark  in  abundance  ;  I  walked  and  rode  :  I  tried 
electricity  ;  but  the  most  effectual  remedy  I  could 
find  wag  cobweb  pilU." 

C.  T. 

THORWALDftEN'.S  BCST  OP  BmoN.  (Se©  6"* 
S.  vi.  342.)— On  a  recent  visit  to  the  Ambro- 
sian  Library  at  Milan  I  copied  the  inscrip- 
tion on  the  pedestal  of  Byron's  bust.  It  is 
strange  that  I  omitted  to  quote  it  when  I 
gave  an  account  of  Thorwaldseu's  work  at  the 
above  reference : — 

Byron  EtSgies 

Quani 

Thorwaldsen  inventor  Ronchettio 

ijutori  sui  tern^ioria  ]>rin]o 

ClarioribuB  viria  ac  Prooenbus  jucundo 

HiijuB  F  Antonins  sonantia  eburia  magistAr 

Bibliothecse  Donavit. 

Richard  Edocuubk. 
E<Igbarrow,  Crowthome,  Berks. 

DiCKBNs  ANn  tScRiPTUKE.— As  an  addition 
to  the  list  of  adventitious  phrases  doing 
duty  for  Bible  texts  ('*  Cleanliness  is  next 
to  godliness,"  ic),  suffer  me,  in  obedience  to 
Capt.  Cuttle's  precept,  to  call  attention  to  the 
"Scriptural  admonition,"  in  "the  letter"  (of 
Scripture),  of  "  Kjiow  thyself,"  in  '  Nicholas 
Nickl«iby,'  chap.  xliv.  I^rrn*  NoRTir. 

MiaPRiNT.s  IS  Taosia's  'Stow.'—  In  1&42 
the  lato  Mr.  Thomn  published  an  edition  of 
John  Stow's  'Survey  of  London.'  It  con- 
tains two  rather  droll  misprints.    The  king 


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gr&nted  certain  premises  to  be  held  of  the 
manor  of  East  Greenwich,  "  by  fealty  in  free 
forage  "  (p.  15Ga).  Doubtless  that  is  clue  to 
the  fftint  printing  of  the  original  black-letter  ; 
the  ri^llt  word  is  iocnge.  On  p.  157b  we 
t&sA  l)Ow  the  wives  of  the  pariah  treated  a 
murderer  by  casting  "upon  him  so  much 
filth  and  odour  of  the  street"— where  ordure 
is  clearly  intended.  W.  C.  B. 

Spanish  Provtjbb  ok  the  Ohanob.— A 
iormer  owner  of  a  volume  now  in  my  pos- 
eewion  wrote  on  a  blank  leaf  so  far  back 
as  27  March,  18.J0,  the  following  lines,  which 
deserve  to  be  borne  in  mind  by  all  who  are 
fond  of  this  delicious  fruit  :— 

Naranja  en  la  oiaflaua  ee  oro. 

En  el  medio  dia  es  plata. 

En  la  tarde  ea  plomo, 

Y  en  la  noche  te  mala. 

I  subjoin  a  translation,  which  gives  at 
least  the  sense  :~ 

Gold  is  oraoge  sucked  at  raoru  ; 
Silver  'lis  at  iioon  of  day ; 
Lead,  when  oveniug  hourg  return  ; 
Aud  at  night  it  doth  thee  slay. 

J.   T.    CURBV. 

Neukok-s  and  the  Law. —In  bis  racy 
Autobiographical  sketch  'From  Journalist 
to  Judge '  (p.  158),  Judge  Condc  Williams 
remarks  tliis  peculiarity  of  negroes  : — 

"It  is  certain  that  the  ne^ro,  here  [Jamaica]  as 
claewhere,  ia  greatly  addicted  to  law  ;  and  the  hold 
which  Baptist  ministera  have  obtained  ut^Kiu  the 
country  population  is  said  to  be  largely  owing  to 
the  fact    that    they    explain    regularly    froiii    the 

Jtolpit,  and  ooniiiient  uiioii,  every  fresh  insular 
^al  enactment.  Oue  ota  negro,  asked  to  explain 
his  disapproval  of  a  certain  local  minister,  answered, 
'  Marsa,  him  preach  only  gar.ijtttl,  him  no  gib  us  dc 
iar.'  Uyuical  |)ersona  assured  me  that  the  district 
couilswere  really  instituted  after  the  Gordon  riots 
of  18<J5  to  amnw  the  black  population,  aud  give 
them  something  to  occupy  their  minds." 

These  are  not  the  characters  of  'Uncle 
Tom's  Cabin.'  What  would  a  Spurgeon  say 
to  such  ministerial  tactics  or  make  of  sucn 
hearers  ?  I  do  not  remember  hearing  of  this 
peculiarity  of  negroes  before. 

^  Fbanlis  p.  Maecoakt. 

Brixton  Hill. 

Ghosts'  Markets.— The  so  calle*!  Ghosts' 
Market  (Kwai-Shi)  recorded  iu  the  following 
extract  would  seem  to  p<nnt  to  the  ancient 
practice  of  the  silent  trade  (see  9"'  S.  xii. 
280)  in  various  jxarts  of  China : — 

"The  'Record  of  Annual  Seaaons'  (written  in 
the  hlth  century  1)  mentions  a  ghoats'  market  taking 
jilaoe  at  the  westeni  gate  of  Mu-l'an  Aveuuts, 
where  iu  winter  nights  there  used  to  be  heard  a 
^'host's  cries  profleriug  dried  fajjgots  for  sale.  Thia 
U  aa  insUnce  of  a  ghost  making  a  sale.    The  'Mis- 


cellany from  Pan-Yu '  (about  the  thirteenth  cen- 
tury ?)  speaks  of  the  frequent  uccurreace  of  ghosts' 
markets  on  the  coast  nf  that  district,  where  the 
parties  meet    at    mii!  '"Ck- 

crowing,  and  where  ;  nero 

procurable    by    meu.     -..-      .;.-    „  Tuli 

Temple    formerly    did     busiiies;*     »*  -.nd. 

Should  one  throw  o  deed  in  n.  v"n<i  the 

amount  desired  to  '      '  '  ' 

up  instantly.     Not  ' 

and  everything  else\v  ,  ,      .      .■,  i 

in  this  way.  Further,  at  the  nopukhre  ot  the 
reputed  general  Lien  I'a  (fl  Ihirtl  renttirv  n.f.)  in 
Tiau-Chau  the  same  thij  '       '"     .    ure 

instances  of  reciprocal  Ir  Acen 

man  and  ghost.     Aud  tli-     '  ny  of 

the  Tsin  dynasty  (reigned  IIJI-I'IU  n.>.)  instituted 
an  underground  market,  in  which  living  men  were 
forbidden  to  impose  on  the  dead  ;  thi«  is  an  in8ta.nce 
of  man  selling  to  ghost."'— Sie  CliuiiK-Chi,  '  Wa- 
taah-tsu,'  1610,  Japanese  edition.  li'4>l,  torn.  iii. 
fol.  4ft.7- 

Owing  to  the  scarcity  of  books  now  about 
me,  I  am  hindered  from  giving  any  details 
of  this  underground  market  for  the  present. 
If  I  remember  aright,  I  read  iu  the  Ftlsokv. 
Gteaho,  about  1893,  that  there  still  survives 
somewhere  in  the  province  of  Hizen,  Japan, 
a  usage  of  wayfarers  nutting  coins  in,  and 
taking  fruits  out  of,  a  b&.sket  exposed  on  the 
roadside,  .seemingly  ownerless.  About  t«u 
minutes'  walk  from  my  present  residence 
there  exists  the  grave  of  a  false  saint  where 
such  a  practice  is  daily  followed  in  buying 

jOsa-SticKB.  KUMAOUSD   MlNAKATA. 

Mount  Nacbi,  Kii,  Japan. 


Wi.  must  request  coirespondei r 
formation  on  fmnily  uiatters  of  only  ; 
to  aifix  their  names  and  addresses  '  . 

in  order  that  the  answers  may  be  addt«Med  tu  tbeia 
direst.  

Irish  Hi.storical  and  Artistic  Hklics.— I 
should  bo  obliged  if  any  of  your  readers  could 
give  me  information  as  to  tne  whereabouts  of 
relics  of  distiuguislied  Irishmen,  as  a  collec- 
tion of  such  relics  is  being  formed  for  tho 
Louisiana  Purchase  Exposition. 

T.  VV.  Rollestos. 
Department  of  Agriculture  for  Ireland, 
18,  Naoan  Htreet,  Dublin. 

M^NITOUA. — How  is  this  pronounced  in 
Canada'!  Some  uf  our  gazetteers  give  it  as 
Manitoba,  others  as  Manitobu.     Knglishmen 

f;enerally  call  it  Manitoba,  but  the  correct 
ocal    pronunciation    may   be   Marii*'l'M    «» 
that  would  agree  very  well  with  it 
tion  from   the  two  Udjibwa  word:^^ 
spirit,  and  ba,  shortened  from  waba,  a  strait. 
Lake    Manitoba  is  so  called,  according    to 


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* 


Biflbop  Baraga,  '*on  account  of  the  strango 
thing*)  seen  and  lieard  in  the  strait  which 
joins  this  lake  with  another  one,  in  the  old 
times,"  Jamks  Platt,  Jun. 


Riddle.  —  Some  years  ago  appeared  the 

(following  lines : — 
Men  cannot  live  without  my  first. 
By  day  and  night  'tis  used  : 
^  Mv  becoiid  ia  by  all  accursed, 

I  iiy  dav  and  night  ftbofted  : 

H  My  whole  is  never  seen  by  day, 

H  And  never  used  at  night ; 

^  '  Tis  dear  to  friends  when  for  away. 

And  hated  when  in  siRiit. 
I  have  written  them  as  repeated  to  rae  by 
a  blind  lady,  and  shall  be  glad  to  know  the 
answer.  A.  A.  L. 

[This   riddle   has    been   variously  attributed   to 
Archbi«ho|i  Whately,  Praed,  and  .Samuel  Willjcr- 
foroe,  and  iynit  falumi,  heartaehe,  and  income-tax 
suggested  aa  the  answer.    See  3^  S.  viit.  316 ;  O"*  b. 
I  i.  11,  157.] 

H  Thackkkay  QuEKies.  (See  O^**  S.  xii.  446.) 
^"  — I  should  like  to  know  aho  who  wrote  'Lines 
on  the  Death  of  t'atherine  (Hayes)  Buslinell,' 
^_  They  were  signed  T.  H.,  and  appeared  in  the 
^H  at.  Jarne»'s  J/a{fa:im\  September,  1861. 
^m  Who  wrote  the  poem  (twentv-three  verses) 
*  William  Makei>eaceThackerav,"*  thatappearea 
in  Good  Word^,  February-,  1864  ?  Clio. 

Bolton. 

Temple  College,  Philadelphia.— Several 
Baptist  ministers  in  England  have  received 
the  honorary  degree  of  D.D.  from  this  college. 
Can  any  reader  supply  me  with  information 
as  to  its  status  and  degreeconferring  powers  ? 
Bajtist  Minister. 

Leche  Family.— I  should  be  glad  of  any 
references  to  the  Leche  family,  who  at  one 
time  owneti  the  estate  of  Squerries,  in  the 
parieih  of  Westerham,  Kent.  Is  there  any 
record  of  a  marriage  between  a  Loche  and 
Nicholas  Miller,  of  Wrothara,  brother  !<■)  Sir 
Humphrey  Miller.  Bart.  ?  P.  M. 

Eliza  Scctddbr's  Poems.  —  Ha«  Eliza 
Scadder  ever  published  her  poems  in  book 
form  I  and,  if  so,  where  can  I  procure  a  copy  f 
I  have  met  several  exquisite  poems  of  hers  in 
various  books.  L.  R.  F. 

Heirloom  CoTd.— It  was  general  in  the 
«ixteenth  century  and  later  for  testators 
apecially  to  bequeath  lht?ir  "joined"  bed- 
steatJ,  and  even  their  Vjodding,  the  legatee 
being  generally  thoir  elilest  son.  We  know 
of  at  least  one  early  seventeenth-century  will 
"'~i  which  the  family   bedstead  ia  shown    to 

we  pa4sed  through  five  geueratioos.    Can 


* 


readers  tell  me  of  existing  wooden  cots  or 
cradles  which  have  l;een  ans*  considerable 
time  in  a  family  1  So  far  as  I  can  recollect, 
the  cots  exhibited  at  the  South  Kensington 
Museum  are  not  historical  ones  ;  but  many 
examples  of  sixteenth  and  seventeenth  cen- 
tury cots  exist  bearing  the  date,  initials,  and 
arms  of  their  first  possessors.  I  shall  be 
very  grateful  for  particulars,  illustrations,  or 
notes  of  such  cots.  Fred.  Hitchin-Keup. 
6,  Beechfield  Road,  Uatford,  8.E. 

A  FiiENcu  Cloisteu  in  Enulaj^d.  —  The 
cloister  of  the  Abbey  of  Jumicges  (Seine- 
Inferieure),  which  is  shown  in  the  view  of 
the  abbey  in  the  'Monswticon  Gallicanum,' 
was  constructed  in  1530.  After  the  French 
Revolution  the  abbey  was  sold  to  M.  Lefort, 
a  timber  merchant  of  Cauteleu,  and  he  is 
sjiid  to  have  sold  the  cloister  in  1802  to  an 
English  lord,  who  had  it  conveyed  to  Eng- 
land, and  put  together  again  with  groat  caro 
in  his  park.  The  tradition  of  this  sale  seems 
to  have  been  preserved  locallj',  and  it  ia 
related  by  Savaile  in  *Les  Derniors  Moines 
deJumieges'  (1867),  p.  37.  and  repeated  by 
Perkins  in  the  Aiiicricnn  Journal  of  Archveo- 
/(9(7f/ (1885),  i.  137.  Is  anything  now  known 
of  the  existence  of  the  remains  of  this  cloister 
in  any  English  park  ?  John  Bilson. 

A.K.I. — For  what  phrase  do  these  letters 
stand  1  They  are  familiar  to  most  people. 
I  ha^■e  askeil,  but  no  one  can  translate  them, 
so  to  speak.  I  have  exhausted  the  ordinary 
"lists    of  abbreviations  without  success. 

W.  R. 

fla  this  not  the  Greek  word  dti,  "  for  ever"  !] 

Plato  and  Sidkey.— 

0  heaven 

Hath  all  thy  whirling  course  so  email  effect  ? 
Serve  all  thy  starry  eyes  this  shame  to  see. 

bidney,  'Arcadia,'  xviii. 

In  Grosart's  three-volume  edition,  1877,  is 
appended  to  the  abovo  this  note  :— 

"'All  thy  starry  eyes':  a  reuiinisceuce  perhaps 
of  Plato's  epiKrunimatic  saying  in  a  »torm,  that 
the  ship  could  not  perish  with  so  many  eyes  upon 
it  (pointinK  to  the  stars)." 

Will  any  reader  kindly  direct  rae  to  the 
reference  for  this  saying  of  Plato?  (Of 
cour.se  I  know  the  "  Aster  "  epigram ;  but  that 
is  obviously  not  what  is  meant.) 

H.  K.  St.  J.  S. 

SiH  Hugh  Platt's  Arms.— What  were  the 
arms  Ixtrne  by  Sir  Hugh  Platt,  of  Lincoln's 
Inn,  "  the  most  scientific  horticulturist  of 
his  age"  (he  died  circn  1611)?  He  had  a 
garden  io  St.  Martin's  Lane. 

Jambs  FLarr,  Jan. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.     [io«'  s.  i.  Mabtu  is.  im. 


BBO^v'NI^■^i'.s  Text.— It  is  well  known  that 
BrowninK  frequently  made  alterations  in  hia 
poomti  when  reissuing  them.  I  should,  there- 
fore, be  grateful  if  any  posae^sora  of  first 
editions    could    tell    rue    whether    there    is 

fjround  for  tl^e  autheuticity  of  the  following 
me  ('Christmas  Eve,'  viii.), 

He  himself  with  hia  humati  hair, 
as  it  reads  in  the  Tauclinitz  edition  of  the 
poems.  I  first  learnt  to  know  and  delight  in 
the  poem  iu  this  series,  and  am  unwilling  to 
relinquish  the  line,  which,  moreover,  appears 
to  me  far  more  Browningesque  in  character 
(besides  its  indefinable  suggestion  of  St. 
John's  vision  in  Patmos)  than  the  "human 
air"  which  is  certainly  the  reading  in  every 
other  edition  I  have  seen. 

C.  M.  Hudson. 

"  SoRPENl '' :  "  Haggovele."  —  Can  any 
students  of  Old  English  explain  the  origin 
of  the  two  following  words  1 — 

1.  Sorpcni. — This  word  seems  to  have  been 
in  use  at  the  end  of  the  twelfth  century  to 
express  a  certain  customary  payment  tnen 
made  to  an  abbey  for  grass  for  a  cow. 

2.  llagffovch. — This  word  seems  to  have 
been  in  use  at  the  same  period  to  express 
a  certain  customary  payment  in  respect  of 
burgage  land.  It  has  been  said  that  this 
was  probably  a  head-tax  or  hearth-tax,  but 
I  am  unable  to  gather  any  clear  idea  of  the 
origin  of  the  word  from  this  suggestion. 

R.  W. 

PARlsn  SuNDtAL.— We  have  at  present  the 
gun-metul  top  of  a  sundial  which  formerly 
Htood  in  our  churchyard.  Before  having  it 
set  up  again,  I  aliould  like  very  much  to 
discover  its  date.  It  weighs  3  lb.  2  oz.,  is 
9  inches  in  ciiameter,  and  is  marked  in  front 
"J  Bennett  T»ndon."  I  shall  be  very  glad  of 
any  information  on  the  subjoct.  and  should 
like  also  to  know  the  names  of  any  books 
which  give  information  on  sundials  in  general. 
L.  O-  Mitchell. 

Chobharu  Yit-arage,  Woking. 

I  Consult  Mrs.  Gatty's  'Jiook  of  Sundials'  (Bell 
&  iSons).] 

Historical  GEocJRAPny  of  Loxpon.  —  Is 
there— ami,  if  not,  why  should  there  not  be— 
a  small  book  dealing  with  this  subject  ?  What 
is  really  known  of  the  Thames,  the  rise  of 
the  City  proper,  the  evolution  of  Middle.sex 
and  Surrey,  the  first  great  lords  of  the  sioil,  the 
extent  of  the  original  manors  and  parishes, 
their  subsequent  subdivisions,  down  to  the 
present  time,  embracing  the  whole  area  known 
as  London  to  day,  illustrated  with  outline 
maps  at  every  stage,  showing  enough  of  the 


principal  landmarks  to  guide  an  inquirer — 
such  should  be  the  scope  of  the  book,  which 
need  not  be  more  than  a  shilling  primer.  It 
would  be  more  conducive  to  sober  topo- 
graphical study  than  many  of  the  "hand- 
boots  "  and  "  histories,"  full  of  heterogeneous 
and  confusing  details,  often  as  untrustworthy 
as  picturesque.  Newcomer. 

Yeoman  of  the  CnowN. — What  were  the 

duties  of  this  office?  Henry  Sayer, of  Favers- 

haro,  in  his  will   proved   m    l.')02,  describes 

himself  as  "  mayor  and  yeoman  of  the  crown." 

Arthuk  Ul-SSEY, 

Taakerton-on-Seo,  Kent. 

London  RuBBisn  at  Moscow. — This  oft- 
repeated  tale  has  again  appeared  ;  this  time 
in  the  St.  Janus's  Gnzette,  and  copied  into  the 
City  Press  of  14  January  :— 

"  It  fleem»  .scarcely  credible  thnt  Moscow  is  built 
upon  Loudon  rubbiah.  .Such,  however,  ia  iho  caso 
(says  the  Sf.  Jama's  OaMU).  An  enormous  he«p 
of  refuse  at  the  Battle  Bridge  end  of  what  is  now 
Caledoniao  Road,  which  was  '  the  grand  centre 
of  dustmen,  fic&venfrers,  horso  aud  doe  dealers, 
koockernien,  l>ripkmnkcr8,  and  other  low  but  neces- 
sary profeHsionalist?,'  had  lain  in  that  position 
since  the  Great  Fire.  After  the  defltrnction  of 
Moscow  npon  the  visit  of  Napoleon,  tlie  Ru.^siaris, 
by  some  means,  camo  to  hear  of  this  dust  henji. 
They  bought  it— bricks,  bones,  rubbish,  and  all- 
shipped  it  off  to  Moscow,  and  ujwn  it  founded  the 
resurrected  city  which  travellers  know  to-day." 

Is  there  any  contemporary  account  in 
corroboration  of  this  statement  1  One  would 
imagine  there  had  been  sufficient  difhni  after 
the  fire  at  Moscow,  without  importing  nn 
accumulation  in  England  from  1660  to  1812. 
EvERABD  Home  Coleman. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

Gera  A18E  Houses,  the  Grimsby  antiquary, 
left  church  notes  and  other  coUectioiia 
relating  to  Lincolnshire,  which  are  now  in 
the  British  Museum.  These  volumes  contain 
a  few  folklore  memoranda.  Have  they  ever 
been  printed  ?  There  is  a  volume  of  Holles'a 
collections  in  the  Hunterian  Library  in  the 
I'uiversity  of  Gla.sgow.  Is  it  a  duplicato 
copy  of  one  of  those  in  the  British  Museum, 
or  an  independent  work  1  Com.  Linc. 

Traverh  Family.— Can  any  reader  tell  me 
the  origin  of  the  surname  Travors,  or  where 
I  can  obtain  information  1  Where  can  a  copy 
of  the  late  Duchess  of  Cleveland's  '  Roll  of 
Battle  Abbey'  be  seen  1  I  understand  that 
there  is  a  Jescription  of  the  name  therein. 
Years  ago  a  gentleman  descended  from  a 
Lancashire  brancli  claimed  that  the  name  is 
derived  from  a  place  in  Normandy,  between 
Bayeux  and  Valognes,  now  known  as  Tro- 


ICK^  8.  L  Mabch  12, 19M.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


209 


I 


vieres.  What  was  the  original  spelling  of 
the  name^  The  narae  of  Travera  in  found  in 
X>orae«Hay  Book.  In  P'ngland,  in  the  Midrile 
Ages,  there  were  the  names  of  Maltravers 
Rod  De  Travcrs  ;  and  in  the  Pipe  Rolls,  in  a 
list  of  Norman  knights  in  Ireland,  is  the 
came  of  Be  Trivers.  In  France  there  are 
two  places  known  as  St.  Trivier.  The  names 
of  Travers,  Trivers,  and  Trevers  are  doubt- 
less of  the  same  origin.  There  is  a  family 
named  Trivess,  and  another  named  Trevia, 
in  this  country,  closely  related,  and  each 
tracinf;  descent  from  a  Travera.  The  name 
of  Travera  flourished  in  the  North  of  Eng- 
land, and  the  r  in  the  second  .syllable  was 
omitted,  or  was  altered  to  $,  in  the  case  of 
one  or  more  members  who  wended  their  way 
southwards.  ]!tlEDi.cVAL. 

Duchess  of  Gloucbstbb  a5d  Duke  of 
Suffolk.  —  Can  any  reader  give  me  some 
further  information  about  a  minstrel's  song, 
c.  1441  or  1450,  concerning  the  Duchess  of 
Gloucester,  iu  which,  I  believe,  the  Duke  of 
Suffolk  is  described  as  a  fox  1 

WiNiFUED  Lee. 

The  University,  ItirniiiiKhara. 

Pope  and  German  LiTERATtrnE.— Can  any 
reader  give  me  evidence  of  German  poets 
in  the  eighteenth  and  nineteenth  centuries 
being  influenced  by  Pope  ?  There  is  a  striking 
coincidence  between  a  poem  of  Ruckert,  trans- 
lated by  Archbishop  Trench,  ii.  49  (188o 
edition),  and  Pope's  ■  Essay  on  Man,'iii.  27.<w77. 
Has  this  been  remarked  before  ?  Please  reply 
direct.  (Rev.)  Cakleton  Greene. 

Great  Barford.  St.  Neota. 

"HaNOET>,      drawn,      ANI>      QirARTERED."— 

I      What  is  the  exact  meaning,  and  what  is  the 

> history,  of  tliis  form  of  punishment  i 
Kappa. 
[See  '  Drawing,  Hanging,  and  QuarterinK,'  7"'  S- 
xi.  002,  an(i  the  many  references  in  the  Sixth  Series 
there  mioted  ;   xii.   I'JS);  iilso  utHJer  '  I>ociipit(ilion 
for  High  Treason,'  S'*'  S.  vii.  H,  07.  170.  and  '  Kxecu- 
^_  tions  at  Tyburn  and  Klscwherc,"  II""  .S.  li.  1G4,  301  ; 
l^rii.  121,  210,  L>42,  282.  310] 

™  Salishurv  Cade,  son  of  Philip  Cade,  of 
Greenwich,  Kent,  was  admitted  to  West- 
minster School,  27  January,  1777,  and  became 
a  King's  Scholar  in  1779.  I  should  be  glad 
to  know  the  exact  dates  of  his  birth  and 
death.     He  is  said  to  have  died  in  Jamaica. 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

SouLAC  Abbey.— A  friend  wishes  to  know 

hether  any  printed  history  of  the  former 
rbbey  of  Soulac  in  Franco,  somewhere  near 

orfleaux,  exists.  The  abbey,  I  am  told,  was 
oniplrtoly  washe<l  away  by  the  sea  many 

nturie>;  ago.  L.  L.  K. 


TEA  AS  A  MEAL. 

(8'h  S.  ix.  387  ;  x  244  ;  9"'  S.  xii.  351  ; 

lO^'-  S.  i.  170  ) 

In  a  letter  from  Barbara,  wife  of  Samuel 

Kerrich,    D.D.,    vicar    of    Deraingham,    and 

rector  of  Wolferton  and  of  West  Newton, 

Norfolk,    to    her    sister,    Elizabeth     Postle- 

thwayt,   at  Denton    Rectory,    in    the    same 

county,  I  find  a  reference  to  afternoon  te* 

as  a  meal.    I  ^ive  the  letter  in  full  on  account 

of  the  interesting  allusions  to  smallpox,  which 

so  long  and  so  direfuUy  ravaged  that  part  of 

East  Anglia  :— 

April  24,  1744. 

Dkar  iSisTKB,— I  am  going  to  write  a  letter  to 
you,  w*"  i  believe  will  be  all  confusion,  between  the 
desire  I  have  of  seeing  you,  k  of  ghowina  you  my 
dear  little  girl,  &  y'  fear  I  have  of  her  Health.^  Mrs. 
<  Jrigson  is  jujBt  come  home  from  seeing  her  FriendB 
at  Norwich,  &  Attleborongh,&  brought  such  dismal 
Accounts  of  Sicknosa  every  where,  y*  have  discop- 
cort'd  all  our  Schemes.  She  says  at  Norwich  in 
particular  there  is  a  very  bad  fever  Sc  nieaslea 
besides  y»  Small-pox  &  y'  so  bad  y«  she  left  Mn 
Grigson  at  Attleborough  &  only  went  to  Norwich 
herself,  he  having  never  had  y*  small  pox,  St  in  y' 
country  Towns  she  j^as'd  through,  people  Airing 
themselves  y'  look'd  very  fresh  cot  up  of  y'  small 
pox,  k  in  one  Place  no  less  thau  three  Feather- Kcds 
lay'd  in  a  yard  close  by  y*  Road  side,  where  it  was 
known  y"  sniall  pox  had  very  lately  been,  that  she 
says  she  has  been  in  continual  fear,  we  observ  d  y 
Bill  of  Mortality,  either  last  week  or  y*  week  before 
was  increased  20  in  one  week  at  Norwich,  it  is  very 
sickly  hereabouts  too,  at  Lynn  there  is  an  exceeding 
bad  fever  &  very  Mortal. 

When  you  see  my  Cosine  Johnson  you  will  be 
able  to  give  us  a  t  rue  &  I  hope  a  better  account 
from  Norwich,  every  body  here  discourage  ua  very 
much,  we  have  been  at  Mr.  Grigsons  this aftenioou, 
Sc.  there  was  more  Company,  and  wc  were  talking 
of  our  joumey,  k.  one  ol  y*  Ladies  said  if  we  had 
half  a  do/en  Children  she  thought  we  might  venture 
to  carry  one  abroad  this  sickly  Season,  but  as  it 
was,  she  thought  it  wou'd  not  bear  any  dispute. 
Tilly  was  with  us  &  as  merry  as  a  Cricket  crowing 
&  laughing  &  looking  of  every  body  k  every 
Thing,  you  wou'd  be  surpri/'d  to  see  how  she  rejoice 
at  Tea  thing?,  not  y'  she  '1  drink  much,  but  she  love 
to  pnt  her  hands  among  them.  &  See  y*  Tea 
Pour'd  out.  but  if  she  hears  any  body  turn  over  y' 
leaves  of  a  Book  she  is  ready  to  Uy  oft  ones  Lap, 
there's  nothing  please  her,  nor  tiuiet  her  if  she  be 
crying  so  soon  as  giving  her  a  Book  to  turn  over  y* 
leaves  W*  she  will  do  herself  very  prettily.  1 
thank  God  she  has  fine  Health,  ft  I  wish  you  cou  d 
see  her,  I  have  got  all  her  short  coals  made  ft  six 
new  white  Frocks,  thinking  we  shau'd  have  set  out 
this  week,  but  wc  must  stay  till  we  hear  y"  country 
is  more  healthful!.  I  caut  say  1  am  right  well 
myself,  but  shall  be  clad  to  hear  that  yott  are,  « 
am  Dear  Sister  very  affectionately  yours 

Barbara  Kerrich. 

"Tilly"  was  Matilda,  then  only  child  of 
Samuel  and  Ikrbara  Kerrich.  She  was  born 
31  October,  1742,  and  died  22  October,  1823. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[10'*'  8, 1.  March  12, 1904. 


"  'I  think  no«','  said  be,  '  thero  remains  bat  one 
thing  more  to  complete  a  total  regulation  of  oar 

oeoonom}',  which  is  tea 1  look  uiton  nftpmr-on's 

tea  lu  one  of  the  greatest  saperduitics  ■  ui 

hM  introduced  tmoni;  U9.    1  have  cm:  im 

expence,  and  dare  venture  to  affirm  ;,....  ,.  .^ry 
moderate  tea  table,  with  all  its  equipage,  cannot  be 
supported  under  forty  or  fifty  pound*  per  annum.*" 

To  which  the  lady  replies (»'«Yer  alui),  "  Woulii 
any  gentleman,  or  man  of  boaour,  deny  his 
wile  ner  tea-table '." 

Edwakd  Heron-AllEx. 


210 

The  above  letter  forms  an  item  in  a  large 
collection  of  correspondence,  from  I6I13  to 
1828,  between  the  families  of  Rogerson, 
Poatlethwayt,  Gooch,  and  Kerrich,  which 
ha«  deacenaed  to  me. 

I  should  not  be  at  all  surprised  if  it  is 
shown  that  afternoon  tea  was  a  recognized 
institution  at  a  much  earlier  date  than  1744  — 
coeval,  in  fact,  with  the  introduction  of  the 
handsome  silver  tea-kettles,  the  precursors  of 
the  urns  and  their  special  tablea,  of  early 
Georgian  times.  Afternoon  "China"  tea 
must  have  been  hailed,  together  with  choco- 
late, as  a  welcome  change  from  the  sago  tea, 
the  pennyroyal  water,  and  other  infusions 
whicn  were  then  taking  the  place  of  ale  at 
breakfast  and  at  other  times  of  the  day. 

At  the  period  of  the  above  letter  people  ,  ,  -•     •       j  ^   i  •  i  r. 

dined  at  midday  and  had  supper  about '  3?".  »""'»  8'g"ed  in  her  maiden  name.  From 
0  P.M.,  this  being  rather  a  movable  feast,  tlie  account  of  his  children  given  by  her 
Afternoon  tea,  whicli  replaced  the  refresh- '  father,  the  Rev.  Edmund  Nelson,  it  appear*, 
ment  still  known  among  the  labouring  classes  I  that  from  the  time  she  loft  school  till  she  was 
as  "the  4  o'clock,"  came,  therefore,  as  an  n>°eteen  she  was  apprenticed  to  a  lace  ware- 
acceptable  r&storalion  between  dinner  and  bouae  in  Ludgate  btreet,  L/judon.  Her  father 
supper.    As  the  dinner  hour  was  advanced  '  records  that  he  paid  100/.  for  the  apprentice- 


Nelson's  SrsTEK  Anne  (D"*  S.  xii.  428  ;  W^ 
S.  i.  170). — I  have  been  naturally  interested 
in  J.  W.  B.'8  account  of  the  elor>emeut  of  my 
great-aunt,  Anne  Nelson.  I  nave  her  will, 
which  says  nothing  of  the  Robinsons  or  of  a 


tea  became  gradually  pushed  off,  neglected, 
and  finally  abandoned,  reappearing  with  its 
sobering  influence  after  the  long,  tedious 
dinners,    with    their  "toasts"   and    "senti- 


ship.  "She  is,"  he  writes  in  1781,  '*a  free 
woman  of  the  City  of  London,  as  her  inden- 
tures are  enrolled  in  the  Chamberlain's  office." 
Her  uncle,  Capt.  Maurice  Suckling,  R.N.,  left 


raents,"  lasting  from  3  or  4  o'clock  until  it ,  j>er  a  legacy,  and  2.000/.,  a  part  of  this,  she 
was  almost  time  for  the  carriages  to  be '  had  in  the  3  per  Cents,  when  slie  came  of 
ordered  I  age-    From  this  legacy  a  premium  was  paid 

In  the  meantime   breakfast  had    become    f?r  her  relea.se  from  her  apprentico«hin.  when 
later,  a  condition  brought  about  by  the  heavy    she  returned  to  Burnham  Thorpe.    This  does 

]    -     r- .  •     i   .         ^1   »  I  "  ".I  nn¥  Innlr  lib-a   <-iinnin<i>    a  u-a  L'  ffrtiYi    «r>nru^1.  And 

froio 

place,  twoliour3"anV  a  7iaif  latorrof  the    kH  ^  know  wha1;  proof  J.  W.  B.  has  of  this 


ancient  midday  feast.  Dinner  correspond 
ingly  advanced,  aii<l  supplanted  the  time- 
honoured  supper,  leaving  so  long  a  gap  in 
the  afternoon  that  tea  again  became  a 
necessity  about  forty  years  ago,  and  in  its 
turn  has  also  gradually  increased  in  refine- 
ment and  luxury. 

Thus  has  come  about  a  slow  transposition 
of  the  names  and  movement  in  the  hours  of 
meals,  a  noticeable  feature  of  the  present  state 
Ijeing  that  the  world  which  is  fashionable 
gets  up  and  goes  to  bed  very  mucli  later, 
save  under  the  pressure  of  amusement  or  tlio 
business  of  sport,  than  it  did  a  hundred  and 
fifty  years  ago.  Afternoon  tea,  which  has 
gone  through  the  most  vicissitudes,  stands 
alone  of  all  the  meals  at  the  present  day  at 
the  same  time  as  it  did  under  the  auspices  of 
the  early  Georges.     Albert  Harthhorne. 

At  another  place  in  the  book  previously 
quoted, 'The  Husband '(p.  109),  the  condition 
of  tea  is  clearly  established  : — 


elopement  and  the  birth  of  her  son. 

Nelsos. 
Trafalgar,  Salisbury. 

Smothering  Hydrophobic  Patients  (lO*** 
S.  i.  65,  17G).— In  the  middle  of  the  great 
waste  of  moorland  which  lies  between  Ayr- 
shire and  Wigtownshire,  and  is  traversed  1by 
that  ancient  eartlivvork  known  as  the  De'ifs 
Dyke,  probably  marking  the  boundary  of  the 
primitive  Pict«  of  Galloway,  there  exists  an 
excedingly  interesting  groupof  early  Christian 
remains.  On  the  fell  of  Kilgallioch,  just 
within  the  parish  of  Kirkcowan,  rise  the 
Wells  of  the  Rees,  three  in  number,  within  a 
few  yards  of  eacli  other,  each  covered  with 
a  carefulljr  built  dome  of  stones  without 
mortar,  with  a  square-headed  opening  for 
access  to  the  fountain,  and  above  each  of 
these  openings  a  recess,  intended  either  for  a 
pitcher  or  for  the  image  of  a  saint.  Tho 
grey,  beehivedike  domes  stand  on  a  little 
verdaat  oasis  on  the  broad  fellside  of  browa 


8. 1.  Marcu  t2 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


heather.  Beneath  the  hill,  on  the  far  side  of 
the  Cross  Water  of  Luce,  and  within  the 
parish  of  Old  Luce,  is  the  deserted  farmstead 
of  Laggangarn.  A  stone  pillar,  about  seven 
feet  nigh,  stands  near  the  ruined  dwelling- 
house,  graven  with  an  incised  cross.  When 
I  first  visited  this  solitude,  raanv  years  ago, 
I  had  come  to  see  the  Wells  o'  tno  Rees  and 
the  Standing  Stanes  o'  Laggangarn.  But,  lo  ! 
there  was  only  one  stone  standing.  I  asked 
the  shepherd  who  guided  mo  to  the  place 
whether  there  were  not  more  standing  stxines. 
"There  was  three  o'  them  ance,"  said  he, 
"  but  the  t-enant  o'  Laggangarn  [he  raentione<l 
the  man's  name,  but  I  forget  it]  had  gotten 
tlie  promise  o'  a  new  barn  irao  the  laird  ;  but 
he  was  to  cart  the  stanes  for  the  biggin'  o't, 
ye  understand.  So  he  just  took  twa  o'  the 
iitaudin'  stanes  for  lintels  like  ;  an'  fowk  said 
at  the  time  that  nae  guid  wsuJ  come  to  him 
for  moving  thae  auncient  landmarks.  Wceh 
an'  sae  it  fell  oot ;  for  syne  [at  length]  his 
dowgs  went  mad  and  bit  him,  an'  the  puir 
fallow  went  mad  tae.  There  was  nae  person 
in  the  hoose  wi'  hira  but  his  wife  an'  twa 
dochters  ;  an'  they  huid  [were  obliged]  to  pit 
haunds  till  him  [lay  hands  on  TiimJ.  and 
they  smoored  iiim  between  twa  caun  beds 
[smothered  him  between  two  chaff  mat- 
tressesj." 

1  wnte  without  being  able  to  refer  to  my 
notes  made  at  the  time  ;  but  my  impression 
is  that  the  date  of  this  tragedy  was  near  the 
iiiiddle  of  last  century. 

Hekbert  Maxwell. 

"Chaperoked  by  iter  father"  (9"^  S.  xii. 
245,  370,  431  ;  10"'  S.  i.  .-14.  92,  110).— Peok. 
8tron<!  states  that  Littre  gives  no  meaning 
to  c/uipa-on  corresponding  to  the  English  tise 
of  the  word.  This  is,  however,  incorrect,  for 
under  *  Chaperon,'  No.  4,  Littre  aays  : — 

"  Pcrsonne  ugue  ou  er*"'©  <ltti  accotnpague  une 
Iij6uitc     femruo    ]ar    biensiiancc    et    conime    pour 
,  x6]iOD(lr«3  do  ail  condulte;  locution  priso  de  ce  que 
cette  porsonne  {irot^ge  coinme  un  chaperoti." 

M.  Haultmokt. 

"An  Austrian  armv"  (10""  S.  i.  148).— 
The  author,  date,  and  source  of  issue  have 
yet  to  bo  ascertained.  A  correspondent 
stated  at  7"'  S.  xi.  213  that  the  Unes  have 
ibeen  attributed  to  many  authors,  but  that 
'their  real  authorship  was  due  to  Alaric  A. 
Watt«,  for  whom  they  were  claimed  by  his 
Bun  in  a  biography  published  in  1844.  They 
appeared  anonymously  in  the  Lilenirjf 
Gazttle.  for  1R20,  p.  fi2C.  A  contributor  at 
4"'  S.  X.  503,  as  aho  Timnerley  in  his  'Dic- 
tionary of  Printers  and  Printing,'  asserted 
they   were  written    by   the  bjys    of  West- 


minster School,  and  published  by  W.  Ginger, 
of  College  Street,  Westminster,  in  a  periodical 

fiaper  called  the  TriJUr  of  7  May,  1817.  The 
ate  Dr.  Brewer  attributed  them  to  the 
Rev.  P.  Poulter,  Prebendary  of  Winchester, 
anfl  thought  them  to  have  been  written  about 
1828.  They  are  also  said  to  have  been 
written  by  Hood.  They  will  be  found  in  the 
Saturday  Magazine,  1832,  p.  138,  and  Betitley's 
Maynzine,  1838,  p.  313. 

EvEEABD  Home  Coleman. 
71,  Brecknock  Road. 

G.  C.  W.'s  memorandum  is  correct.  This 
alliterative  poem  appeared  in  the  Tn,tier  for 
Wednesday,  7  May,  1817  (No.  xx.  p.  233). 
It  consists  of  twenty-seven  lines,  each  line 
deaUog  consecutively  with  the  letters  of  the 
alphabet,  and  the  last  line  returning  to  the 
letter  "A."  It  is  headed  thus:— "The 
following  curiou.s  specimen  of  i'oetry,  pre- 
sented to  us  by  a  friend,  is  dedicated  to  lovers 
of  Alliteration."  LTrllad. 

FRENfR  MlNIATDEB  PaIKTEB  (10'^'  S.  i.  96, 

137,  171) —The  Duchess  of  Wellin<5ton  is, 
of  course,  right  in  suggesting  doubt  as  to 
whether  Madame  Lebrun  painted  in  minia- 
ture. I  have  a  miniature  of  Madame  Lebrun 
which  was  thought  by  Lady  Morgan,  the 
Iri.sh  author,  to  whom  it  belonged,  to  be  by 
Madame  Lebrun  herself,  but  which  has  never 
been  so  catalogued  by  me.  I  do  not  re- 
member to  whom  it  was  attributed  when 
exhibited  in  the  First  I^oan  Collection  of 
Miniatures  at  South  Kensington.  When 
it  appeared  in  the  first  exhibition  of  the 
Society  of  Miniaturists  in  1896  (No.  134)  I  do 
not  think  it  was  attributed  to  any  i>articular 
hand.  Mv  miniature  appears  to  me  to  be 
ba.sed  on  the  oil  portrait  of  which  Brauu  has 
a  reproduction,  and,  although  originally  a 
good  miniature,  to  have  been  spoilt  at  some 
time  by  retouching.  D. 

Kmgbt  Templar  (10"' S.  i.  149).— Readku 
should  refer  to  Kenning's  '  C^'clopwdia  of 
Freemasonry  '  for  full  information  as  to  tha 
Knights  Templar,  «kc.,  or  even  to  any  ency- 
clopjedia.  Eighty  according  to  the  Pytha- 
gorean lore  of  numbers,  as  explained  by  that 
great&st  of  all  authorities  on  Freemasonry 
the  Rev.  Dr.  Oliver,  especially  in  his  post- 
humous work  publishea  by  Hocg  in  1870, 
was  esteemed  as  the  first  cul)e  by  the  con- 
tinued multiplication  of  two,  and  was  held  to 
signify  mystically  friendship,  advice,  pru- 
dence, and  justice.  The  figure  8  has  always 
been  a  mystical  figure  in  consequence  o" 
it>*  connexion  with  the  Arkito  teacfiing,  anc 
haa  been   dwelt  upon  by   writers  alike  ial 


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^ES  AND  QUERIES. 


[10'»  S.  I.  Masch  12, 1901. 


Christian  and  non-Christian  arithmetoloRv. 
Thory  points  out  that  a  Knight  of  the  Temple 
belongs  generally  to  all  rites  o£  the  Tem- 
plar series.  It  is  the  eighth  grade  of  the 
Philaletes;  butif  Header  cares  to  conimnnicate 
with  me  direct  I  will  refer  liim  to  a  Masonic 
friend  in  Dublin  from  whom  he  may  glean 
fuller  particulars. 

Chas.  F.  Forshaw,  LL.D.,  F.R.S.A.I. 
Baltimore  House,  Bradford. 

The  eight  points  of  the  "Maltese"  cross 
are  in  token  of  the  eight  beatitudes.  Tlie 
badge  proper,  however,  of  the  Knights  Tem- 
plar was  a  patriarchal  cross,  probably  adopted 
on  account  of  their  immediate  responsibility 
to  the  Patriarch  of  Jerusalem  rather  than  to 
the  Pope.  (See  both  Favine'a  'Theatre  of 
Honour.'  1623,  lx)ok  ix.  ch.  v.  p.  388,  and 
Edmonason's  '(Complete  Body  of  Heraldry,' 
1780,  vol,  i.,  '  The  Several  Orders  of  Knight- 
hood.') The  patriarchal  cross  wa.9  enamelled 
red,  and  edged  with  gold  (Plate  I.  fig.  10,  ibid.). 
But  the  Knights  'Templar  also  wore,  em- 
broidereri  on  their  upper  habit,  a  "  Maltese" 
cross,  like  the  Knights  of  Ht.  John  of 
Jerusalora  ;  it  was,  however,  red,  while  that 
of  the  Hospitallers  of  St.  John  was  white, 
but  in  botl)  cases  it  was  the  cross  of  Malta,  of 
eight  points.         J.  Holdes  MacMtchael. 

Melanciioly  (lO"*  S.  i.  148).— If  there  were 
any  such  saying  as  "Nullum  magnum  in- 
genium  sine  melancholia,"  it  would  have  been 
quoted  by  Robert  Eurton  in  his  'Anatomy.' 
The  phrase,  however,  is  evidently  fountled 
on  another  twice  given  in  that  famous  book. 
Speaking  of  "  those  superintendents  of  wit 
and  learning,  men  above  men,  those  refined 
men,  minions  of  the  Muses,"  Burton  s&ys,  "You 
shall  find  that  of  Aristotle  true,  '  nullum 
magnum  iugenium  sine  raixtura  demon ti:e'" 
(sixteenth  ed,,  1836,  p.  67).  We  have  the  say- 
ing repeated  on  p.  279  in  the  following  words, 
which  may  have  led  Jlr.  W.  S.  Lilly  to 
change  it  as  he  has  done  : — 

"Why  melanciioly  men  ore  witty  (which  Arvii- 
totle  hftth  long  sinno  maintained  in  hii  problems  ; 
and  th.1t  all  learned  men,  fumuuR  philosophera  and 
law-given),  'ad  unum  fero  omnea  molaueholict,' 
have  «till  been  melancholy)  is  a  ytroblem  niuoi* 
controverted.  Jason  Pratcnais  will  have  it  under- 
■tood  of  natural  melancholy ;  which  opinion  Mo- 
l&nchthon  inclines  to  in  hia  book  '  Uo  Anim;\,'  and 
Marcilius  Ficinus  ('  Do  ijan.  Tiion.,*  lib.  i.  cap.  fl), 
bar  not  simple  ;  for  that  makes  men  stupid,  heavy, 
dull,  beiiiR  cold  and  dry,  fearful,  foola,  and  solitary, 
but  iiiixl  with  th»  other  humours,  llegm  only  ex- 
cepte<l ;  and  they  not  adunt,  but  so  mixt,  as  that 
blood  be  half,  with  little  or  no  adustion,  that  thoy 
"neither  too  hot  nor  too  cold.     Aponensiii  (cited 

'  Molanchthon)  thinks  it  proceeds  from  melancholy 
lu»t|  excluding  all   natural    melancholy,  as  too 


cold.  Laurentiua  condemns  his  tenant,  becauia 
adustion  of  humours  makes  men  mad,  as  linie 
buma  when  water  is  cast  on  it.  It  must  be  mixt 
with  blood,  and  somowhat  adust ;  and  so  that  old 
aphorism  of  Aristotle  may  be  verified:  'nullum 
magnum  ingenium  sine  mixlnra  dementia?,'  no 
excellent  wit  without  a  mixture  of  madness." 
Hence  we  might  conclude  that  the  difference 
between  dmxentia  and  melancholia  is  little 
more  than  that  "'twixt  Tweedledum  and 
"Tweedledee."  Jomr  T.  Curby. 

Dryden  qualifies  it  thus  : — 
<  iroat  wits  are  sure  to  madness  near  allied. 
And  thin  partitions  do  their  bounds  divide. 
'  Absalom  and  Achitophel.'  i- 163-4. 

W.  F.  H.  King,  in  his  '  Classical  Quotations,' 
says  that  Seneca  quotes  Aristotle  (Problem 
30),  as  aJso  does  Cicero  ('  Tusc.,'  i.  33,  80),  to 
the  effect  that  "Omnes  ingeniosos  melan- 
cholicos,"  All  clever  men  (or  great  wita)  are 
more  or  less  tinctured  with  melancholy. 

J.   HOLDEN  MacMicIIAEL. 

The  quotation  resembles  a  passage  in 
Seneca's  'De  'Tranquillitate  Animi '  (x>ii.  10): 
"Nullum  magnum  ingenium  sine  mixtura 
dementias  fuit."  Burton  somewhere  whim- 
sically paraphrases  this:  "They  have  a 
wortn  as  well  as  others."  J.  Dormkii. 

Manoosteen  Makkinos  (D'*"  S.  xii.330,  417). 
—It  will  be  a  jrropos  of  this  subject  to  stftto 
that  the  Japanese  date  plum  (Diotifljras 
htki,  L.)  is  marked  outside  with  rather 
inconspicuous  longitudinal  depressions,  appa- 
rently corresponding  to  the  divisions  of  its 
inside  in  the  nascent  stage,  but  not  always 
igreeing  in  number  with  its  kernels.  There- 
fore people  in  this  part  amuse  themselves 
when  it  is  in  season  by  guessing  how  many 
kernels  a  particular  kaki  fruit  contains,  and 
often  it  is  made  a  substitute  for  dice. 

Kumauusu  Minakata. 

Mount  Nftcbj,  Kil,  Japan. 

Comber  Family  (10"'  S.  i.  47,  89,  152),— 
The  following  items  may  be  of  use  to 
Mr.  Comber. 

Henry  Gordon  Comber,  of  Pembroke  Col- 
lege, Cambridge,  graduated  in  1893  in  Second- 
class  Honours  in  the  Mediicval  and  Modern 
Language.s  Tripos,  and  is  now  a  Fellow  and 
Lecturer  of  the  College. 

When  I  was  a  boy  a  Mr.  W.  M.  Comber 
resided  at  Brook  Lodge,  Chester,  near  the 
L.  ik  N.VV.R,  station.  He  held  some  railway 
appointment,  and  was  (like  myself)  one  of 
the  original  meralwrs  of  the  Chester  Si>ciety 
of  Natural  Science,  founded  by  Charles 
Kingaley  when  Canon  of  Chester  in  1871, 
and  now  a  very  flourishing  body  of  l,OCK> 
members.     Mr.  Comber's  sons  went  to  the 


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213 


i 


local  gfamraar  scliool.  The  father  lectured 
before  the  Natural  Philosophy  Section  of  the 
{Society  oti  "Cosmic  Ether'  on  18  Marcli,  1875; 
on  '  The  Raindrop  and  aorae  of  its  Uses  *  on 
8  Match,  1677  ;  and  again  on  'The  Sunbeam' 
on  19  Dec,  1878.  His  name  does  not  appear 
in  the  list  of  members  for  1882-3. 

Mrs.  £.  Comber  was  a  member  from 
1889-90  to  1892-3. 

T.  Cann  HPGHE8,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

LkDcostcr. 

Quotations  (9'"  S.  xi.  148).— (I)  Apparently 
Saurin  merely  proposed  the  plirase  "  Rien 
ne  manque  h  sa  gloire ;  il  manquait  a  la 
nfltre,"  aa  the  inscription  on  Molii'i-e's  statue, 
so  that  it  would  scarcely,  I  should  think,  be 
found  in  the  poet's  works ;  but,  quite  bv 
chance,  I  some  time  a(^o  met  with  the  fol- 
lowing lines  iu  Racine's  'Andromaque' 
(III.  iii.  21-2)  ;— 

Intr^pide,  et  partout  suivi  do  la  viotoire, 
Charin&Dl,  ti<lele  :  eiifin  Hen  ne  niaiKjiie  a  sa  gloire, 

which  would  seem  to  be  the  original  of  the 
idea,  whether  Saurin  had  seen  or  heard  of 
them  or  not. 

(2)  Learning  that  De  Caux  had  written  a 
poem  cal!e<l  '  L'Horloge  de  Sable,' I  thought 
the  lines  quoted  might  probably  bia  contained 
therein,  which  I  found  to  be  the  caso.  The 
poem  is  well  worth  quoting  in  extenso  (it 
contains  ninety-six  lines),  but  I  will  now 
give  only  the  first  twelve  lines  : — 

ABaen)l>lai{e  confiis  d'ane  artne  mobile, 
(Jue  I'art  k<,h'<-  euferiner  dans  ce  va»e  fragile; 
Imape  de  ma  vio,  Horlogc  dont  lo  cours 
R<^lo  tou9  mes  devoir.i  en  meaurant  mes  jours  : 
Puinqo'A  le  ciiluhrer  ma  MnM  e«t  destin^, 
Faia  cooler  pour  mes  Vora  «n»  heuro  forturee. 
Et  vouB.  jioiir  ijui  Ic  inondo  a  do  si  doux  appaa. 
Qui  BOuilVe/.  .n  reKfet  ceux  qui  ne  I'aiineiil  pas, 
Mortels,  vetuv  ici.    Jp  veux  dana  cet  ouvrajje. 
Mil  monde  t<^l  ijn  il  est  vous  tracer  nne  image. 
ioel  est-il  ea  ell'«t7    Cosl  un  verre  qui  luit, 
an    Boutllo  peut  dutruire,  it,   qu'un   souflle  a 
produit. 

I  have  preserved  the  original  spelling,  and 
it  will  be  seen  that  your  correspondent  has 
not  quote*!  the  lines  «/Mi>e  correctly- 

III  the  same  volume  (published  1746)  are 
tlio  following  remarks  : — 

"11  donna  uno  Tra|;«jdie  au  Th^tre  Fran^ais, 
intituKlo  '  Mariua,'  qui  fut  as«cz  bicn  re^ut^.  On 
a  •neore  de  Ini  «iue1quea  Pieces  de  Vera  e«linitf«s, 
&  eurtout '  L'HorloRi'  de  Sable,'  qui  iK>urroit  faire 
bonneur  h  uti  I'octe  du  premier  orJre. 

Having  read  the  poem,  T  agree  with  thi^ 
opinion,  und  if  iiuy  rffi<lers  should  ask  for 
the  rc>it,  I  shall  Ims  pleased  to  transcribe  it 
if  80  requested  by  the  Editor. 

Edward  Latham. 


MtNisTERiAT,  Whitebait  Dinner  (O'*"  S, 
xii.  189,  272,  337).— Among  "the  gay  con- 
sequences" which  Benjamin  Disraeli  in 
one  of  the  'Runnyraede  Letters,'  dated 
12  March,  1^(36,  thought  possible  from  "a 
Reform  Ministry  and  a  Reform  Parliament," 
was  that  "  His  Majesty's  Ministers  may 
hold  Cabinet  Councils  to  arrange  a  whitebait 
dinner  at  Blackwall,  or  prick  for  an  excursion 
to  Richmond  or  Beulah  Spa."'  That  minister* 
were  at  one  time  accustomed  to  hold  their 
whitebait  dinner  at  Blackwall  may  further  be 
gathered  from  an  incidental  reference,  under 
the  heading  '  Sandlins,'in  2"''  S.  iv.  250,  to 

"  the  dcacriplioD  of  fish  sauce  served  up  at  the 
Cabinet  dinner  given  at  the  'Plough'  at  Black- 
wall,  or  Iho  quality  of  the  whitebait  which  that 
renowned  rt-Htornltnr,  I^ovegrove,  sends  to  table 
on  that  occaaion." 

Alfred  F.  Robbins. 

Clavering  :  De  Mandeville  (10"*  S.  i. 
149). — De  Mandeville  does  not  appear  to 
have  held  any  manor  in  Clavering,  though 
possesses!  of  a  holding  in  Uttlesford  Hundred 
assessed  in  Clavering  Hundred.  The  chief 
manor  of  Clavering  was  held  by  Suain,  or 
Suene,  of  Essex  in  William  L's  reign,  and 
continued  in  that  house  till  forfeited  in  11(J3. 
The  FitzRoger  family  of  Warkworth,  whose 
later  members  were  known  as  De  Clavering, 
came  into  possession  of  the  lordship  late  in 
tlie  twelfth  century. 

Nothing  is  left  of  Suain's  castle  but  tlie 
great  earthworks,  of  which  I  gave  a  plan  in 
the  'Victoria  History  of  Kssex  '  (i.  292).  These 
works  are  of  exceptional  interest  from  tho 
enormous  labour  expended  in  diverting  the 
river  Stort  to  form  a  high-banked  reservoir 
on  tho  north  of  the  castle.  The  place  has 
long  been  known  as  Clavering  Bury,  and  is 
close  to  the  parish  church. 

In  this  neighbourhood  are  many  un<late<l 
farmhouses ;  why  the  outlying  one  whicli 
recently  became  so  notorious  should  have 
been  styled  Tfie  Moat  Farm  it  is  not  eos^  to 
say.  It  certainly  was  not  the  "original 
manor  "  of  Clavering. 

I.  Cralkley  Oovld. 

These  families  were  not  originally  iden- 
tical. Geoffrey  do  Mandeville,  first  Earl  of 
Essex,  was  a  grandson  of  a  follower  of  the 
Conqueror.  He  married  Roheso  de  Vere, 
ilaug liter  of  Aubrey  de  Vere  by  his  wife 
Alice,  daughter  of  Gilbert  de  Clare.  Alice 
de  Vero,  the  second  daughter  of  Aubrey  de 
Vere,  married,  as  her  second  husbmid.  Roger 
fitz  Ricliard,  and  was  moth«r  of  Robert  fitz 
Roger,  of  Clavering,  the  ancestor  of  the 
Claverings. 

The  arms  of  the  two  families  are  not  quite 


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NOTES  AND 


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tlie  same.  Whereas  tlie  arms  of  MandevUle 
are  Quarterly,  or  and  gules,  the  arms  of 
Cl&vering  are  Quarterly,  or  anil  gules,  a 
bend  same.  Perliaps  it  may  not  be  out  of 
place  to  remark  that  Geoffrey,  the  great  Earl 
of  Essex,  a  man  who  rivalled  the  king  him- 
self in  power,  was  destined  to  die  the  death 
of  Richard  Ca»ur  de  Lion.  But  more  tragic 
was  the  fate  which  awaited  his  corpse  :  — 

"  Unflhriven,  he  had  passed  away  ladon  with  the 
cunea  of  the  Church.  Mis  soul  waji  loat  for  ever; 
and  his  body  do  man  Tiiight  bury.  As  the  e&rl  was 
drawine  his  lost  breatli  there  came  upoa  the  acene 
some  Kaights  Temiilar,  who  Hung  over  him  tho 
garb  of  their  order  so  that  he  uji^^ht  at  least  die 
with  the  red  cross  upon  his  breast.  Then,  proud 
iu  the  priviiegea  of  their  order,  they  carried  the 
roinaina  to  Loudon,  to  their  *  Old  Temple '  in 
Holborn.  There  the  earl's  corpse  was  enclosed 
in  a  leaden  coffiti,  which  was  hung,  say  eorae,  on 
a  gnarled  fruit  tree,  that  it  might  not  contaminate 
the  eartli,  ur  was  hurled,  according  to  others,  into 
a  pit  without  the  churchyard.  So  it  remaiued.  for 
nearly  twenty  years,  exixHied  to  the  gibes  of  the 
Londonera,  the  earl's  deadly  foe?.  Ultioiately  the 
Templars  buried  tho  coftin  m  their  new  graveyard, 
where,  around  tho  nameless  resting-place  of  tho 
great  ohanipion  of  anarchy,  there  was  destined  to 
rise,  iu  later  days,  the  home  of  English  law." 

For  much  atlditional  information  about 
the  great  earl  and  tho  doom  of  the  Mande- 
ville.s  I  may  refer  Ma.  C.\rey  to  '  Geoffrey 
<lo  Maudeville  :  a  Study  of  the  Anarchy,'  by 
J,  H.  Round  (Longmans  it  Co.,  1893). 

Henky  Gerald  Hope. 

119.  Elms  Road,  CIniiham,  S.W, 

Has  Mk  Carey  overlooked  two  replies  to 
his  previoua  question  at  8'*'  SS.  xii.  289,  437  t 
KvEKARU  Home  Colkman. 
71,  Brecknock  Road. 

Cahdinal-s  and  Crim-son  Robes  (9"'  S.  xii. 
486;  10'"  S.  i.  71,  I57).-I  agree  that  the 
authors  whom  I  quoted  at  the  second  refer- 
ence mean  by  "purple"  what  S.  P.  E.  S. 
means  by  *' violet,'  but  the  confusion  in  the 
use  of  the  former  word  which  he  notes  is 
paralleled  by  a  similar  confusion  in  tlie  use 
of  many  other  terms  denoting  colour.  For 
example,  he  calls  the  red  robes  of  a  cardinal 
"dark  crimson,"  while  I  should  call  them 
"deep  scarlet,'  but  this  is  by  the  way. 

Two  questions  arise  on  his  communication. 
First,  Did  Boniface  VIH.  in  1297  or  12D9  (not 
1290)  in  granting  "purple"  to  the  cardinals 
give  them  their  red  robes  or  their  "  violet" 
robes  ?  My  authors  say  the  latter,  nor  does 
Mackenzie  Walcott  apijear  to  contradict  them. 
Secondly,  What  is  the  moaning  of  "violet," 
as  applied  to  the  soutanes  of  bishops,  which 
it  it  admitte<l  the  "  violet "  rob&s  of  cardinals 
resemble,  or  to  the  '*  violacea,  paramenta " 
prescribed    by   the   general  rubrics  of   tho 


Roman  ^[issal  for  penitential  seasons  1 
Durandas  ('Rationale,'  cap.  \^)  says,  "Ad 
rubeum  colorem  coccineus  frefertur],  ad 
nigrum  violaceus,  qui  alitor  coccus  vocatur." 
In  this  passage  I  undorstaml  "coccineus" 
to  mean  scarlet,  and  "coccus,"  crimson. 
At  any  rate,  the  bishops  I  have  seen  have  all 
worn  robes  not  the  colour  of  the  violet,  but 
rather  of  the  cyclamen,  I.e.  a  dull  crimson, 
and  this  is  most  usually-  the  colour  of 
"  violacea  paramenta."  In  this  connexion  it 
is  interesting  to  find  in  tho  Orphica  the 
KVKXafxii  called  to<io>js.  If,  then,  ecclesiastic- 
ally "  xiolet "  means  usually  (or  even  merely 
includes)  dull  crimson,  it  may  surely  be  called 
"  purple."  I  should  contend  further  that,  ia 
its  narrowest  meaning,  as  the  colour  of  the 
flower,  "violet"  is  not  incorrectly  called 
"purple."  The  flower  itself  is  called  "pur- 
purea" by  Pliny  ('Nat.  Hist.,'  lib.  xxi.  capp. 
xi.,  xix.),  and  "  purpurans"by  Arnobius(lib.  v. 

C.  IGO).  Further,  Cornelius  Xepos  is  quoted 
y  Pliny  ('  N.  H.,'  lib.  ix.  cap.  xxxix.)  as 
saying,  "  Me  iuvene  violacea  purpura  vigebat, 
cujus  libra  Jenariis  centum  veuibnt"  ;  and 
the  'Century  Dictionary  '  gives  as  one  mean- 
ing of  "violaceous,"  "  purple,"  "  purplisli-'' 
John  13.  \V.u>'E^rRir,ur. 

Curious  Christian  Namb-s  (lO"*  S,  i.  26, 
170). — In  the  pedigree  of  Bulntrode  of  Tpton, 
Bucks,  quoted    in    Dr.    LipscomVs    hisi  ii\ 
of  that    county,   vol.    iv.   p.  572,   the  isole)        - 
Christian  name  of   CoMjcrnt  twice  occurs        I 
(in  the  case  of  daughters)  in  different  gc^nera-       J 
tions.  R.  B. 

Upton. 

"The  Crown  and  Turbe  Sugar  Loaves  " 
(IQi"  S.  i.  167).— No.  44,  Fenchurch  Street, 
which  is  distinguished  by  a  gilt  sign  of  the 
"Three  Sugar  Loaves  and  Crown,"  is  re- 
markable in  being  one  of  the  few  remaining 
of  the  genuinely  old  commercial  houses  within 
the  precincts  of  the  City  proper.  The  house 
itself,  as  it  stands  to-oay,  is  the  identical 
structure  erected  after  the  Great  Fire,  and 
is  consequently  close  upon  240  years  old. 
The  firm  is,  indeed,  still  older  than  that, 
having  been  established  in  1650,  on  the 
present  site,  by  Daniel  llawlin.son,  friend  of 
Pepys,  in  that  year.  Even  at  this  early 
periixj  the  resj^ectahility  of  the  firm  is  in- 
dicated by  the  friendship  of  its  head  with  a 
man  of  such  high  8i>cial  status  as  the  frank- 
hearted   voluptuary  wlio  filled  the  oflico  of 

Secretary  for  the  Navy.  Pepya  was  "  • ^  ••' v 

troubled  "  on   being  told    by  one   i 
that  "after  all  his  sickness  and  him->i-.i  \.<«..  ■ 
linson)  spending  all  the  la^t  year    in    the 
coantry,  one  of  his  men  ib  now  dead  of  the 


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pl&guc,  and  Ins   wife  and  one  of  his  niaids    Mie  sign  of  the  'Three  Sugar  Loaves.'    The  house 


sick,  and  himself  shut  up."  This  was  ou 
€  August,  1066.  On  the  9th  the  diamt 
records  the  death  of  Rawlinson's  wife,  the 
c«intinu»l  iUness  of  the  maid,  and  that  Ivaw- 
linaon  himself  wan  compelled  to  quit  the 
house.  Pepys  does  not,  however,  appear  to 
be  quite  correct  in  his  statements  with  regard 
to  the  mortality  of  the  Kawlinsions.  See  on 
this  point  Burn's  '  Beaufoy  Tokens,'  No.  444, 
note.  If  his  relatives  succumbed,  Kawlinson'M 
efforts  with  respect  to  the  preservation  of  his 
own  health  seera  to  have  been  crowned  with 
succesa,  for  ou  8  September,  1GG7,  Pepys  met 
Jiiin  in  Fenchurch  Street,  where  he  had  been 
iu>jpecting  the  ruins  of  his  house  and  .shop, 
U|x>n  the  site  of  which,  aa  it  has  been  re- 
marked, the  present  premises  were  erected. 

Daniel  Rawlinson,  senior,  kept  the  "Mitre 
Tavern,"  which  at  the  death  of  Charles  I. 
was  changed  by  him  to  the  "Mourning  Mitre," 
the  site  being  now  occupied  by  Jfitre  Cham- 
bers, at  No.  157,  Fenchurch  Street,  and  on 
the  opposite  side  to  the  "Three  Sugar  Loaves 
and  Crown."  Here  he  "strove  amain  and 
got  a  good  estate."  A  man  of  philanthropic 
disposition,  ho  rebuilt  Hawkahead  Schools  in 
1675,  and  a  portrait  of  him  was  formerly  to 
be  seen  there.  A  monument  was  erecte<l  to 
his  memory  in  St.  Dionis  Backchurch,  where 
ho  was  buried.  Sir  Tliomos  Kawljnson  was 
Lord  Mayor  in  1706.  In  1763  the  "Three 
Sugar  Loaves  and  Crown"  was  known  by 
the  style  of  Rawlinaon,  Davison  it  Newman, 
and  it  must  have  been  the  firm  as  it  was 
then  constituted  that  shipped  the  fatal  con- 
signment of  tea,  destined  wlion  received  at 
lk>ston  to  bo  seized  and  turned  into  the  sea, 
in  token  of  American  disapproval  of  Lord 
North's  nominal  tax.  From  1777  to  the 
int  tijue  the  "Three  Sugar  Loaves  and 

»wu  "has  been  known  as  Davison,  Newman 
Co. 

The  sugar-loaf  as  a  sign  was  originally  con- 
[firied  to  grocers  and  confectioners,  and  was 
)robably  adopted  for  the  jsimplo  reason  that 

the  period  in  which  the  sign  is  first  cri- 
'  itorod  sugar  was  the  article  on  which  the 

it    profit   was  made,   a  sugar-loaf  being 

libited  as  an  inducement  to  custom. 

J.   HOLDE.N   MacMjcHAEL. 

^Doubtleas  this  query  has  reference  to 
iO.  44,  Fenchurch  Street,  a  very  old  grocery 
rm,  wliieh,  until  four  or  fivo  years  ago, 
Jresentwi  the  same  appearance  as  it  did 
luritig  Iho  eighteonth  century.  .lohn  Cam- 
len  Hotteu,  iii  his  '  History  of  Signboards,' 
.omlon,  1866,  thus  describes  it  :  — 
"At  No.  44,  Foticburch  Btreot.  a  very  old-eeUb- 
ihaJ  grocery  Arm  atUl  carries  on  busidoas  under 


t)reseijU  much  the  fMime  n|i]>e&r&nce  it  liiul  in  the 
ast  century,  with  the  cilt  sugar  loaves  above  the 
doorway,  and  is  one  of  the  few  iilaces  of  huainess  in 
Loudon  conducted  in  the  ancient  style.  The  small 
old-fushioned  window  panes,  the  complete  abscnfie 
of  all  show  and  decoration,  the  cleanliness  of  the 
interior,  and  the  quiet  order  of  the  assistanta  iu 
their  long  white  aprons  hetoken  the  rcstiectuble  old 
tea  waroliouae,  and  impreaa  the  passer-by  with  a 
complete  conviction  as  to  the  genuineness  of  its 
articles." 

Another  old-fashioned  custom  1  observed 
during  the  many  years  I  dealt  there  was  the 
serving  of  customers  direct  from  the  cases 
or  tubs  in  which  the  te-a  and  sugar  were 
imported,  and  without  the  paper. 

EvEBAiiD  Home  Coleman. 
71,  lirecknock  Road. 

OtR  OLPE.ST  PCBLIC  ScHOOL  (10*''  S.  i.  166). 

— G.  T.  mentions  King's  School,  Cant«r- 
bury,  aa  the  oldest  public  school,  I  am 
aware  that  it  is  so  stated  in  the  'Public 
School  llegister,'  but  on  what  documentary 
evidence  is  not  apparent.  I  suspect  that  the 
"fact"  is  .speculative,  and  merely  based  on 
the  connexion  of  Church  ancl  education . 

Warwick  claims  to  b?  one  of  the  oldest 
schools.  Founded  in  remote  times,  it  received 
five  royal  charters,  viz.,  from  Edward  the 
Confessor,  William  L,  William  II.,  Henry  L, 
and  Henry  Vlll.  In  the  royal  charter  of 
1042  the  school  is  spoken  of  as  "ancient" 
then,  but  as  to  its  real  founder,  whether 
/Ethelfleda  or  Gutheline,  iu  the  ninth  or  first 
century,  it  is  futile  now  to  speculate.  This 
gives  Warwick  (only  counting  from  1042) 
niore  than  300  years  start  or  Winchester, 
which  cannot  lav  claim  with  justice  to  he 
the  oldest  "public''  school.  No  doubt  can 
be  thrown  on  the  character  of  the  school  , 
at  Warwick  ;  it  was  the  forerunner  of  the 
Elizaljethau  "  grammar"  schools,  not  a  choir 
sciiool  or  a  mere  appanage  of  the  Collegiate 
Church.  R.  F.-J.  S. 

Although  Winchester  College  is  the  oldest 
of  the  greater  public  schools,  recent  investi- 
gation, especially  that  of  the  distinguished 
Wykehamist  Mr.  A.  F.  Leach,  has  revealed 
the  fact  that  many  smaller  schools  are  of  far 
greater  antiquity  than  was  formerly  Rus- 
jiected.  For  instance,  St.  Peter's  School  in 
the  motropolitical  city  of  York  claims  to  be 
identical  with  the  Royal  School  which 
existed  there  in  the  eighth  century.  The 
first  head  master  whose  name  is  known  waa 
Albert,  who  afterwards  became  Archbishop 
in  734,  and  was  succeeded  in  the  mastership 
by  Alcuin,  his  pupil.  The  school  received 
further  endowment  in  tho  reign  of  Philip 
and  Mary,  who  were,  qntU  regently^  re^a.cd»4. 


as  the  founders.    See  *Our  Oldest    Public 
School'  in  the  Forhiirjhtly,  November,  1892. 

A.  R.  Bay  LEY. 

Thackeray  (^dotation  (10""  S.  i.  189).— 
Probably  the  printer  has  cut  oflf  a  cipher  of 
the  sum  mentioned  by  FitzGerald  in  the 
letter  cited  by  Hippoclides,  '"It  isn't 
diiHcult  to  be  a  country  gentleman's  wife,' 
Hebecca  thoueht.  'I  ttiink  I  could  be  a 
goo«l  woman  it  I  had  five  thousand  a  year ' " 
(•Vanity  P'air,' chap.  xli.).  R.  K  B. 

i Several  corresimndenta   are    thanked   for   llie 
erence.] 

Glowworm  or  Firbfly  (10"'  S.  i.  47,  112, 
156,  193).— J/ea  timilma  nUpa.  Owinp;  to  ray 
quoting  from  memory  tlie  stanza  from  tlie 
opera  of  *  Guy  Mannering,'  the  errors 
occurred  on  p.  ir>c.  It  is  given  just  as  cited 
by  Mr.  Jerram  in  the  'Waverlov  Dramas,' 
published  in  a  collected  form  (eignt  in  num- 
ber) by  Aliaon  Jc  Rosa,  Glasgow,  1872.  '  Guy 
Mannering'  is  styled  "an  Operatic  Drama 
in  Three  Acts,"  and  wan  first  performed  at 
Covent  Garden  Theatre  in  18IG.  The  acting 
copy,  however,  differs  widely  from  the  novel, 

Soor  Godfrey  Bertrora  being  mentioned  as 
ir  Godfrey  Bertram.  Of  the  "Gipsy  Glee 
and  Chorus  "  it  is  said  :  "  Words  by  Joanna 
Baillie.    Music  by  Bishop." 

John  Pickfobd,  M.A. 
Newbonrnc  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

St.  Dunstau  (10^''  S.  i.  U9).-\VaIter  Gale, 
the  Su.ssex  »choolma.ster,  records  that  in  1740 
"there  was  at  Mayfield  a  pair  of  tonga,  which 
the  inhabitants  affirmed,  and  many  believed,  to  be 
that  with  whicli  St.  Dunstan,  Archbishop  of  CHnter- 
burv,  who  had  hie  reaidence  at  a  tine  ancient  dome 
in  this  town,  pinched  the  devil  by  tlie  nose  when, 
in  the  form  of  a  handsome  maid,  he  tempted  him." 
See  Chambers's  '  Book  of  Days  '  (18G4),  vol.  i. 
P-  331.  A.  R.  Baylky. 

It  was  at  Mayfield  that  the  devil  is  supposed 
to  ha vo  had  his  nose  pulled  by  .St.  Dunstan. 
Eadmer,  in  his  'Life  of  St.  Dunstan,'  who 
die«i  in  888,  seems  to  imply  tliat  the  palace  of 
the  Archbishops  of  Canterbury  at  Alayfield 
was  built  by  that  prelate,  who,  ho  says, 
erected  a  wooden  cliurch.  The  life  of  this 
saint,  as  related  by  Osbern,  Eadmer,  aii<i 
other  monkish  writers,  is  fdled  with  accounts 
of  miracles  wrought  by  hira,  and  also  of 
bickerings  and  cotaflicts  with  the  devil,  in  all 
which  Satan  met  with  more  than  his  match. 
We  are  told  that  the  arcfi bishop,  performing 
in  person  the  ceremony  of  detlicating  May- 
field  Church,  and,  according  to  the  accus- 
tomed form,  going  in  procession  round  the 
building,  obsened  that  it  was  out  of  tlie  line 
Of  sanctity,  or,  in  other  words,  that  it  did  not 


stand  due  east  or  west ;  on  which  he  gently 
touched  the  edifice  with  his  shoulder,  and 
movwi  it  into  ita  proper  bearings,  to  the 
great  amazement  and  edification  of  ail  tho 
spectators. 

In  connexion  with  Glastonbury  there  wag 
a  hundred  years  ago  at  the  west  end  of  tho 
Tor,  or  tho  Tower  of  St.  Michael,  a  carved 
tigure  of  the  archangel,  holding  in  tiis  IimmMs 
a  pair  of  scales,  in  one  of  which  v,  f, 

and  in  the  other  a  devil,  who  was  n  !  ly 

another  bearing  upon  the  scales  ;  both  were 
represented,  however,  as  much  too  light  to 
poise  against  the  holy  volume. 

CiiAS,  F.  FoRSHAW,  LL.D.,  F.R.Hist.S. 

Baltimore  House,  ISr&dfurd. 

The  story  of  St.  Dunstan  seizing  the  devil 
bv  the  nose  occurs  for  the  first  tirae  in 
O'sbern's  '  Life '  of  the  '^  father  of  mouk.««," 
where  it  is,  I  think,  mentioned  in  connexioa 
with  his  life  in  his  cell  at  Glastonbury.  Tho 
story  is  not  quite  so  ridiculous  as  it  apjiears 
at  first  sight.  Dunstan's  dreams  and  *'  fairy 
tales "  were  generally  turned  to  proJituhfe 
account  for  the  edification  of  children,  rather 
than  of  "grown-up8,"  and  it  is  thought 
possible  that  the  saint  actually  did  t^ke 
some  ribald  intruder  into  his  coll  03'  the  nose 
with  some  implement  like  the  tongs,  See  the 
Rev.  Wra.  Stubljs's  'Memorials  of  Saint  Dun- 
stan,' Inlrod.,  p.  Ixv  and  note. 

J.  HoLKRji  MacMichakl. 

The  tongs  are  at  Mayfield,  and  that  should 
suffice,  C.  S.  Waud. 

St.  Augustine's  at  Canterbury,  I  ha%e 
always  iieard,  claims  the  site  of  the  tug. 

HAttOLO  Malkt,  Colonel. 

William  Stephens,  President  ok  Georgia 
(10">  S.  i.  144).— The  Rev.  E.  B.  Jara©«,  Ute 
of  Carisbrook,  Isle  of  Wight,  in  '  Letlei-8 
Archteolo|5ical  and  Historical  relating  to  the 
Isle  of  Wight,'  2  vols.  8vo,  London,  has  roan/ 
references  to  the  St<'phens  family.  There  is 
a  good  index.  Tiie  took  was  published  in 
1896  by  Mr.  Frowde,  but  is  not  often  to  bo 
met  with  in  bo4-)k  catalogues.  Kirby's  '  Win- 
chester Scholars'  has  one  entry  of  Edwin 
Stephens,  of  Whippingharo,  scholar^  1^72, 
aged  thirteen,  but  no  other  note  of  him.  A 
second  Edward,  also  of  Whippingliam,  bap- 
tized 10  January,  1711/2,  entered  Winchester 
172.%  left  1730.  If  H.  C.  is  not  able  to  con- 
sult James's  'Letters,'  I  might  be  able  to 
give  him  some  information  from  it. 

Vicar. 

TnK  Mimes  op  Herondas  (10""  S.  i.  68).— 
Heronda-j  must  hn  a  pro  ■  Christian  poet. 
Athena-us,  who  was  Uvtng  not   long  after 


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I 


lerofles  Atticus,  names  Herondas  ('  Deipno- 
.r»ph.,'  iii.  8<j)  together   with   Sopater,   Epi- 
bharmus,  Suphron,  Archilochus,  Ibycua,  who 
ire  bII  pre-Criristian  poets.     I  say  nothing  of 
the  reasons  which  tlie  Mimianibi  themselves 
ifforded  for  the  third  century  before  Christ, 
md  which  can  Ije  found  in  the  editions  or 
Kenyon  and  Crasius,  and  piesumably  in  that 
'of  tile  Rev.  J.  A.  Nairn  (Ulareudon  Press). 
(Dr.)  Max  Maas. 
Muuich,  Bavaria. 

Authors  or  Quotations  (lO"'  S.  i.  168).— 
.  "A  face  to  lose  youth  for,"  &c.— Ivobert 
lirowning,     'A     Likeness,'    'Poet.    Works' 
(Smith  <k  Elder.  1899),  i.  601. 

10.  "Live  and  take  comfort,"  Ac— Words- 
worth, Sonnet  'To  Toussaint  L'Ouverture,' 
*  Poet.  Works*  (Macmillan.  1893),  p.  180. 

C  LA^vaE^CE  Ford. 

111. 

Ho  seta 
Aa  sets  the  morning  star,  which  noes  not  down 
Behind  the  (Urkened  west.  Dor  hide*  obscured 
Amoiiu  tho  tempest*  of  the  sky,  but  mclla  away 
lino  the  light  ot  Heaven. 

I  ihink  this  is  the  passage  No.  14  Mr.  W.  L. 
Pooi.E  asks  for,  and  if  niv  memory  serves  me 
truly,  it  is  in  the  fiftii  book  of  Pollok's  'Course 
of  1'ime.'  I  have  not  the  work  at  hand,  or 
would  reply  definitely.  Luci3. 

[C.  M.  Hudson  and  H.  K.  St.  J.  S.  thanked  for 
repliflB.] 

Wrsterx  Rebellion'  of  1549  (10*'"  S.  i. 
4(!)' — My  recent  query  on  Uii.s  subject  brought 
lue  a  few  replies  which  were  full  of  interest. 
Perhaps  some  one  else  may  bo  able  to  give 
tne  leterences  in  local  histories  or  out-of-the- 
way  publications.  Even  casual  references 
may  afford  a  clue  of  value. 

(Mrs.)  Ro8E-TKOur. 

Ottery  8t.  Mary. 

Turner:  Canalbtto  (10"'  S.  i.  168).— See 
the  articles  on  'Canaletto  in  England'  in 
^"'  S.  viii.  407  ;  ix.  15,  133,  2oC  ;  xii.  324,  411 ; 
fi^"  S.  i.  373  ;  ii.  11,  471.  W.  C.  B. 

•'  Meynes  "  AXD  "  Rhines  "  (10^''  S.  i.  49,  92). 
— I  read  Prok.  Skeat's  reply  with  great 
interest,  and  quite  agree  with  liim  as  to  the 
danger  of  mixing  up  river  -  names  with 
ordinary  words.  Is  he  quite  sure  that 
*'  Rhine"  is  always  pronounced  AVi«  or  Jlee7i 
on  Sedgemoor?  I  nave  heard  it  pronounced 
Jihint,  like  the  river,  and  it  is  so  spelt  in 
contemporary  accounts  of  Monmouth's  battle 
in  Kifi.^i.  Has  the  word  any  connexion  with 
the  Higli  Cerman  Rinne?  I  am,  of  course, 
aware  that  "  Rhine,"  the  river-name,  is  pre- 
Gernian.  After  writing  ray  first  note,  I  saw 
A  '  History  of  Orange'  in  which  "  .Meyne"  is 


used  as  a  river-name,  bub  it  certainly  is  the 
usual  expression  for  an  irrigation  channel  in 
that  part  of  Vaucluse.  H. 

'Nicholas  Nh.klebv':  Capt.  Cuttle (IC*' 
S.  i.  lt>C).— The  surname  Cuttle  occurs  in  the 
North  of  England.  Some  forty  vear^  ago  I 
knew  a  Mr.  Cuttle,  who  residetl  at  Hems- 
worth,  near  Pontefract.  He  was,  1  tliink.  an 
auctioneer  and  valuer.  1  have  seen  Cuttlo 
more  than  once  over  the  doors  of  village 
shops  in  the  West  Riding,  but  I  do  nob  remem- 
ber where.  Lower,  in  his  '  Patronymica 
Britannica,'  gives  tlie  name,  and  adds  : — 

"  Ciithill,  or  Cuttle,  is  a  suburb  of  Prestoiitians, 
CO.  UaddiuKton.  In  several  auruames  tho  final  te 
represents  hill  in  a  shortened  pronunciation." 

Cottle  is  perhaps  the  same  name  under  a 
different  spelling  ;  there  were  two  poets  who 
bore  it,  Amos  ana  Joseph,  both  of  whom  Bguro 
in  Byron's  *  English  Bards  and  Scotch 
Reviewers.'  Lower  8Uggeste<l  that  Cottle 
might  have  been  acquired  from  a  district 
called  Cottles  in  Wiltshire.        Com.  Ebou. 

Epitaphs:  their  BiBLiouRAPny  (IC^  S.  i. 
44,  173).— A  bibliography  of  epitaphs,  com- 
piled by  Jlr.  W.  G.  B.  Page,  is  appended  to 
'Curious  Epitaphs,'  by  VV.  Andrews,  1883, 
and  additions  to  it  appeared  in  6"'  S.  ix.  403. 

W.  C,  B. 

Immurement  Alive  op  Religious (9'*'  S.  xii. 
2.5,  131,  297.  376,  r.l7;  10"'  S.  i.  50.  152).— I 
quote  the  following  from  Lord  Cockburn's 
'Afomorials'  (Edinburgh,  la^O),  p.  173:— 

"GillMpio's  Uospttftl,  for  the  slirouding  of  aged 
indifience,  was  commenced  about  this  time,   and 
completea  in    1805... ...The   founder  was   a   snuff- 

seller  who  brought  up  an  excellent  young  man  as 
his  heir,  and  then  left  death  to  disclose  that,  for 
the  vanitj' of  being  remembered  by  a  thinjf  CAlled 
after  himself,  he  had  all  the  while  had  a  deed 
executed  bv,  which  this,  his  nearest,  relation  was 
disinherited.  Another  fact  distinguished  the  rise 
of  this  institution.  A  very  curious  edifice  stood  on 
the  very  8^K)t  where  the  modern  huildinK  is  erected. 
It  was  called  Wryttes  -  Houses,  and  belonged 
anciently  to  a  braocn  of  the  family  of  Napier.  It 
was  a  Keep,  presiding  over  a  group  of  inferior 
buildings,  most  of  it  u  old  as  tne  middle  of  the 
fourteenth  century,  all  covered  with  heraldic  and 
other  devices,  ana  oil  delightfully  pioturestjue. 
Nothing  could  be  more  striking  when  seen  oKiiinat 
the  evening  aky  Mony  a  feudal  gathering  did  that 
tower  see  on  tho  Borough  Mour  ;  and  many  a  time 
did  the  inventor  of  logarithmK,  M-hose  ca«tlc  of 
Merchiston  was  near,  enter  it.  Vet  it  was  bruti«hly 
obliterated,  without  one  public  murmur.  A  single 
individual,  whose  name,  were  it  known,  ought  to 
be  honorea,  but  who  chose  to  conceal  himself  under 
the  signature  of  Cadmon,  ]iroclaiiiicdanddenounce<l 
the  outrage,  in  a  communicJition  in  July,  W*).  to 
tho  Kilinhni-oh   M<uja;iui: :    but    the    idiot    publi<: 

looked  on  in  silence There  is  a  good  view  of  its 

IKMiitiou  in  one  of  Clerk  of  Eldiu's  sketches  printed 


218 


noteS'Ind  queries. 


[Ilfl 


'•S.  I.  MAnrti  I 


for  the  Rannatyne  Club;  and  an  excellent  reprc 
F»ritalion  of  its  njiitearance,  from  a  drawioff  bji 
Chtttles  Kirkptttrick  Sharp,  published  in  vol.  ii, 
u.  -208  of  Wilson's  '  Memorial*  of  Edinburgh  iu  the 
Olden  Time." 


W.  S. 

Robin  a  Bobbin  O"*  S.  xii.  503 ;  10^  S.  i. 
32.  172).— I  send  you  j'et  another  version  of 
this  "iioruony,"  cvidenth'  from  the  nursery, 
and   coming    from    St&fionlshire.    The    last 
verse    was    ft    great    excitement,  when    the 
double- barrelled  guns  killed  the  cock  sparrow. 
The  word  "  pounce  "  is  peculiar. 
Lot 'a  go  to  the  woo<ls,  said  Richard  to  Robin  ; 
Let'aKO  to  the  woods,  8»ifl  Robin  to  Bohin; 
Let's  go  to  the  woods,  said  John  all  alone  ; 
Let  'a  go  to  Ihe  woods,  said  every  one. 
What  shall  we  do  there?  said  Richard  to  Robin,  kc. 
We'll    shoot  a   cock   sparrow,   said    Richard   to 

Robin,  kc. 
Pounce  !  Pounce !  said  Rtcl>ard  to  Robin  ; 
Pounce  !  Pounce  !  said  Robin  to  Bnbin  ; 
Pounce  !  Pounce  !  said  John  all  alone ; 
Pounce  !  Pounce  !  said  every  one. 

J.  ASTLEY. 

I  can  remember  in  the  days  of  my  child 
hood  (say  in  1838)  a  Aariant  of  this  rime  in 
the  nursery.  It  was  popularly  supposed  to 
have  reference  to  the  rapacious  nature  of 
Henry  VIII.  in  seizing  on  Church  estates, 
and  a  rude  engraving  in  the  book  depicted 
a  man  witl)  an  enormous  paunch,  seated  at 
a  well-spread  table,  holding  in  bis  hand  a 
huge  carving  knife  : — 

Robin  a  Bobbin,  a  big-bellied  Ben, 

He  eat  more  meat  than  four  score  men ; 

He  eat  a  cow,  he  eat  a  calf. 

He  oat  a  butcher  and  a  half, 

He  eat  the  church,  he  eat  the  steeple, 

He  eat  the  priest  and  all  the  people. 

JOHIf   PiCKFORD,   M.A. 

Newbourne  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Right  Hon.  E.  Soutfovkll  (lO"'  S.  i.  8, 
56,  1.5B).— My  note  on  the  question  is  that 
the  diary  referred  to  is  mentioned  in  Thorpe's 
*  Catalogue  Supplement  for  1836,"  p.  86, "  pi  ice 
2/.  2.1.";  that  it  was  purchased  by  Sir  Thoma-s 
Phillipps,  Bt.,  and  recently  sold  with  the 
rest  of  the  Thirlestane  Hou.se  Library.  Mr. 
Bertram  Dobell,  the  publisher,  was  the  pur- 
chaser, and  ho  informed  me  he  did  uot 
remember  to  whom  he  sold  it. 

Charles  S.  King,  Bt. 

St.  Leonard'a-onSos. 

Missi  Lew  EN  and  We.slev  (10"'  S.  i.  189). 
—References  will    be  found   in  Tyerman's 


ITCG ;  in  Stamp's  'Orphan  House,'  p.  Ill  • 
in  Stevens's  '  Women  of  Methodism,'  p.  f)3  ; 
and  the  \\'eslet/an  Mithodiit  Mauozine  for 
1845,  p.  1166.  Francis  M.  Jackson. 

Geneauh;v:  New  Sources  (10"'  S.  L  \S~,). 
— Tlie  collection  of  wills  of  seamen  amon>;st 
the  Admiralty  records  is  worth  attentioa 
in  investigating  naval  pedigree.s. 

Gerald  Mahsoall. 
80,  Chancery  Lane,  W.C. 


glisfcnaiwouis. 
NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &c. 


I 


SO  March  and  18  April,  17G5,  and  31  October, 


Thf  EiUflifh  Dialrrt  Dirtioiiari/.  F^ditcd  by  Joseph 
Wright,  M.A.-Parifl  XL\.  and  XX.  B-Sharp. 
— XXL-XXllI.  S}iarpt:n—Sij--.ie,  (Frowde.) 
WiTK  the  completion  of  the  tifih  volume  and  that, 
synchronizing  with  it,  uf  the  letter  S,  the  ^reat  «nd 
(filigenlly  wrought,  task  of  I'rof.  Wriijht  is  within 
night  of  speedy  accomplishnieiit.  Ne^t  year  will, 
according  to  present  cah/idations,  see  the  entire 
work  in  the  hands  of  the  subscribers,  IoroI her  with, 
as  we  understand,  the  '(Grammar  of  Dialect 'and 
other  works  included  in  or  supjdcnieutary  to 
the  schemes.  If,  as  there  seems  no  re.nson  to 
doubt,  the  plcdgoa  are  redeemed,  the  rate  of  )»ro- 
gress  will,  we  fancy,  be  more  rapid  than  has  [wen 
witnessed  in  the  case  of  any  ])revious  work  uf  erjiml 
magnitude.  Nominally  seven  letters  have  yet  to 
bo  issued.  Half  of  these  are,  however,  the  shortest 
and  least  important  in  tlie  alphabet,  ai»d  not  more 
than  two,  at  the  most,  anj  of  average  dimensions. 
We  have  previously  stated  that  no  country  in  tlic 
world  possesses  the  equivalent  to  Prof.  Wright's 
marvellous  dictionary,  and  we  own  to  donbta 
whether  any  country  has  collections  that  brine 
within  range  of  conception  as  a  possible  task  a  work 
of  the  kind.  Thoproduction  of  the  dictionary  affords 
exemplary  nroof  of  what  may  be  hoped  when  the 
cultivated  leisure  of  academic  life  is  backed  up  by 
imblic  spirit  and  suthcinK  means.  That  the  energy 
and  outlay  exi>endcd  upon  the  task  M-ill  prove 
remunerative  is  devoutly  to  l>e  ho|)ed,  since  it  is 
little  less  than  atrocious  that  a  work  national  in 
significance  and  importance  should  remain  a  tax 
upon  private  means.  Wo  sec,  however,  few  si^ns 
or  general  recognition  of  the  work,  since  nneriea 
which  a  reference  to  its  pages  would  immediately 
answer  are  constantly  sent  to  us,  and  appear  in  loss 
carefully  guarded  columns. 

Succeeding  parts  of  'The  Dialect  Dictionary' 
balHe  the  reviewer,  since  every  page  and  almost 
every  column  of  the  well-nigh  two  thousand  con- 
stituting  the  latest  instalment  contains  matter  of 
interest  to  our  readers.  We  cannot  but  hold  that 
the  collection  of  dialect  words  ia  more  important 
than  that  uf  slan^  eTpressions.  It  is  in  the  nature 
of  things  that,  with  the  e.xodua  from  tl  ■  .  v, 

forms  of  rural  spoeoh  will  disappear  ;  v,  \n 

case  of  .slang  fonns,  each  popularization  '.  i       lie 

appliances  will  bring  a  further  crop  of  words.  \V  Iid, 
for  instance,  phall  say  what  additions  tn  slnng  arc 
not  likely  to  follow  the  introduction  of  the  motor- 
car! It  ia  a  matter  of  congratulation  that  thero 
are  those  well  able  to    jadgv  of    the  distinction 


"NOTES  AND  Ottl^RlES. 


I 


between  dialect  and  tlkne.  To  wliich  category  is 
rAixo^coin  to  be  a8¥ignea,_  or  ruuitio  aa  a  satis- 
factory answer  to  an  inquiry  after  lienllh  or  an 
expreaeion  of  the  sense  of  comforting  surroundings  ? 
Rtulitfil,  aa  applied  to  a  woman's  face,  has  the 
same  siguiiication  a»  when  used  of  a  sheep.  Under 
rack  we  may  notice  the  existence  fifty  years  ago— 
it  may  still  be  there— at  Headingley  of  a  tavern 
called  "The  ^5ky-rack."  Jia)nnf>acklt=rickety  has 
the  authority  of  Thackeray.  The  meaning  (3) 
aaaigned  ra-ih  seems  the  same  aa  in  'Hamlet,' 
'■■splenitive  and  rash."  Scmnrnl,  Milton's  "scrannel 
pipes,"  extends  in  use  from  VN'arwickshiro  up  to 
Yorkshire.  Si-nldurlri/,  which  haa  the  sanctiou  of 
Scott,  seems  confined  in  use  to  Scotland.  Shatdc' 
mart  aa  equivalent  to  "  on  foot "  is  familiar.  Less 
ao  are  such  phrases  as  ihank'i  nag  and  nhankiC 
mJloii-ny.  Among  words  kept  back  for  want  of 
further  information  is  ramhnnkshxiM  or  miuhnnffioux. 
With  this  word  we  are  unfamiliur,  but  nimbunclioiiH, 
equalling  impudent,  forward,  and  wanton,  we  recall 
in  the  West  Riding  a  couple  of  generations  ago. 
fiia/oprioni  =  delicious,  might  be  a  mistake  for 
galoprioHi.  Spoon  seems  to  have  nieaninga  in 
addition  to  those  given,  and  fpoony  has  the  sense 
of  silly.  Socht-hi-a^i  might  be  better  described 
"a  tine  demanded  of  a  young  man"  than  "a  fine 
paid."  It  MSB  seldom  paid  exceyit  in  case  of  fvrct. 
vinjetirf.  We  have  glanced  at  a  few  words  that 
recall  distant  recollections,  but  the  subjects  sug- 
gested are  iuexhaustible. 

EnaliAh  LitertUur€ :  an  lUtiMralcd  Ifecord.  By 
Richard  (iarnett,  CB.,  and  Edmund  Ciosse,  M.A. 
Vols.  U.  and  IV'.  (Ueiuemaun.) 
With  the  a]>pearance  of  the  second  and  fourth 
volumes  the  great  task  of  producing  an  illustrated 
record  of  EuglLsh  literature  from  the  earliest  times 
until  to-day,  undertaken  by  Messrs.  Gnrnett  and 
Oosse,  reaches  a  successful  conclusion,  and  what 
is  practically  an  encyclopitdia  of  English  literature 
is  brought  within  tlie  grasp  of  the  general  reader, 
for  whom  it  is  ijiuicipalty  intended.  The  division, 
ao  far  as  regards  the  share  of  the  re.spective  writers, 
ia  unequal,  the  contribution  of  Dr.  (jarnett  em- 
bracing all  to  the  death  of  8hakes]>earc— that  is,  to 
the  close  of  vol.  ii.  chap,  vi.— while  the  following 
period,  occunying  the  remainder  of  vol.  ii.  and  the 
whole  of  vols,  in-  and  iv.,  is  asisigned  to  his  col- 
league. The  fact  that  the  task  is  well  executed  ia 
involved  in  the  mere  mention  of  the  names  of  its 
executants,  and  the  owner  of  these  large  and  com- 
prehenaive  volumes  may  boast  the  possessioD  of  an 
uluatrated  guide  to  our  literature  such  aa  haa  not 
previously  been  accessible.  Compared  to  the  pre- 
sent work  others  sink  into  insignificance.  The 
method  of  execution  is  acceptable ;  and  though 
soiite  cavilling  may  be  made,  it  is  only  against  the 
last  volume.  In  this  it  waa  necessary  to  use  com- 
pression, and  omissions  of  name*  judged  important 
oy  many  were  to  be  expected.  We  are  scarcely  pre- 
pared to  accept  in  sucti  a  case  Mr.  (iosse  or  any  one 
else  as  our  caterer.  No  fault  is  to  be  found  with 
the  liinita  prescribed.  It  is  inevitable  that  living 
poets  should  b«  '  i   '  .  Iiat  such  referencca  aa 

ai>l>ear  to  the  gre-n  ■  .;  bards,  M  r.  ^iwinbnrne. 

should  1)«  merely  u.   ii  :  and  that  the  name  of 

Mr.  William  Watson  should  not  appear.  ()n  the 
Bonsd  I'rinciple  in  criticism  that  a  man  of  taste 
may  have  preferences,  but  no  exclusions,  we  regret 
the  abaenco  of  entire  claasea  of  writers  on  whom  it 
is,  of  course,  too  early  to  pasa  a  definite  and  tinal 


opinion,  but  whose  place  «n  our  literary  history  is 
already  secure.  In  tnia  cote  tho  onii«sionq  of  which 
we  are  disclosed  to  conndain  will  in  time  Ihi  sup- 
plied, since  Mr.  Uosse  hmiself  concedes  that  there 
IB  no  part  of  the  work  in  which  alterations  and 
additions  are  so  likely  to  be  made  as  in  the  last 
chapter.  Meanwhile  we  recede  nowise  from  the 
high  praise  wo  bestowed  uyiou  the  two  earlier 
volume*  when  we  said  (9*''  .S.  xi.47!l)  that  the  owner 
of  the  work  will  have  within  reach  a  mass  of  litera- 
ture such  as  the  greatest  clerks  of  past  times  might 
have  envied. 

It  is  a  portion  of  the  scheme  so  ably  carried  out 
that  the  dlustrations  shall  Ijo  no  less  helpful  than 
the  letterpress.  The  frontispiece  of  vol.  ii,  supplies, 
accordingly,  an  admirable  coloured  reproduction  of 
the  Droeshout  portrait  of  Shakespeare  ;  a  delight- 
ful coloured  miniature  of  8ir  Philip  mdney, 
after  Isaac  Oliver,  from  the  original  at  Windsor 
Castle,  follows ;  and  is  succeeded  by  portraits  of 
Queen  Elizabctli,  8ir  Nicholas  Bacon,  Lord  Burgh- 
ley.  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  (by  Zucchero),  William 
Camden,  Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  Richard  Burbage, 
the  Earia  of  Southampton  and  Pembroke,  and 
scores  of  others,  and  reproductions  innumerable 
of  spots  of  interest,  facsimiles  of  title-pages,  and 
other  inexhaustible  attractions.  In  this  single 
volume  there  are  between  three  and  four  hundred 
designs,  all  of  incalculable  interest  to  the  student 
of  literature  and  the  drama.  Among  portraits  that 
wo  have  not  previously  seen  reproduced  is  the- 
ma^ificent  likeness  of  George  Wither  by  Hole, 
which  forms  a  conspicuous  ornament  of  '  The  Booke 
nf  Emblems.'  Not  less  full  than  the  second  volume 
is  tho  fourth, and  though  Mr.  Oosso  repines  because 
in  artistic  value  the  designs  are  in  this  case  inferior, 
the  fault  ia  nowiae  hia,  nut  is  principally  attribut- 
a'ole  to  the  neceesarr  substitution,  in  many  in- 
stances, of  photography  for  picture  or  engraving. 
In  this  volume  also  are  many  interesting  portruits- 
of  Burns,  Carlyle,  R.  L.  Stevenson,  Matthew 
Arnold,  Rossetti,  Newman,  Keats,  Tennyson,  the- 
Brownings,  Thackeray,  Dickens,  &c.,  together  with 
reproduced  MS>S.  of  great  importance  and  value. 
Tlie  completion  of  this  monumental  work  ia  a 
matter  on  which  producers  and  public  are  alike  to 
be  congratulated. 

The  opening  paner  in  the  JJurlinr/ton  ia  on  'The 
London  County  Council  and  Art,  a  combination 
which  suggests  a  smiling  compaiiaon  >vith  "  Shake- 
speare and  the  M usical  Ulaaaea  "  or  perhaps  the  old 
trade  advertisement  of  "  Godly  Books  and  Mouse- 
traits."  An  announcement  is  made  of  the  formation 
of  a  new  institution  to  be  named  after  a  recently 
defunct  society  the  Arundel  Club.  The  aim  of 
this  is  to  supply  photographs  of  Morks  of  art  not 
easy  of  access.  Three  pictures  in  temt>cra  of 
William  Blake,  presenting  Scripture  subjects,  are 
reproduced.  Further  designs  from  the  Bronro 
Relief  in  the  Wallace  Collection  are  given,  and 
there  ia  a  good  Watteau  from  the  French  Exhibi- 
tion at  Brussels.  Some  illustrations  have  tpeoial 
interest  for  bibliophiles. 

One  of  the  earliest  papers  in  the  Foiiuiuhttn  i» 
a  wail  by  the  Laureate  over  'The  Growing  Distaste 
for  the  Higher  Kinds  of  Poetry."  We  see  no  signs 
of  such,  and  think  that  a  fitter  theme  would  bo 
the  cessation  of  production  of  the  higher  kind  of 
poetry.  The  best  poetry  will  always  bo  caviare 
to  tho  general,  but  the  works  of  the  great  poela 
of   the   last  century  are  still  loved  and  quoted. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES,     [lo^  b.  i.  mabok  12.  ikm. 


vhile  modern  so-«lyled  |)oet«  hava  to  be  taken 
oil  Inist.  Mr.  Ford  Madox  Huoffer  write* 
uupreciativcly  of  Christina  Rouetti.  ^  Mrs.  John 
Ijine  has  *ome  pleasaut  goaaip  on  *  Entertaining.' 
A  second  list  of  eignaturoa  anpeara  to  Mr.  Hiire's 
recent  proposal  for  a  'Britisn  Urania,'  and  L.  J. 
j,how8  how  acJinji;  is  taught  at  the  Paris  Conser- 
vatoire. Mr.  Cloudesley  Brereton  aprees  with  us 
•on  theuueation  of '  <.ire«k  and  the  Public  8cl>oola.'— 
"fhe  Franciscan  Legends  in  Italian  Art'  ia  the 
subject  of  a  thoughtful  and  scholarly  article  in 
the  Xiiielecnth  Cculnru  by  Emma  Oumey  Salter. 
■(Jiottese  frescoes  of  the  Franciscan  leeends  have 
"been  discovered  at  Pistoja  overlaid  with  a  coating 
of  green  paint.  Devout  aReotion,  wc  are  told,  still 
liaUows  the  name  of  the  saint  in  Italy.  Mr.  Henry 
Arthur  Jones  writes  on  "fhe  Recognition  of  the 
J^rama  by  the  State,'  and  is  far  from  optimistic  as 
to  the  results  of  modern  movements.  Should  a 
national  theatre  be  established,  Mr.  Jones  offers  to 
present  it  with  a  i>lay  of  his  own  composition. 
The  value  of  such  a  gift  the  general  reader  will 
be  far  from  aurniising.  R.  B.  Townsbend 
jescribea  '  The  Snake-Dancers  of  Mishongnovi.' 
His  article  needs  illustrations.  'The  Flight  of 
the  Furls'  opens  out  an  interesting  subject.— 
The  frontispiece  to  the  Pail  Mail  consists  of  a  ro- 
Tiroduclion  in  tint  of  '  A  Cavalier,'  by  Meissonier. 
Following  this  comes  'The  Life  of  a  Carthusian 
Monk  in  England,'  accompanied  by  photographs. 
Under  the  title  of  '  An  Artist  of  the  People  '  a 
4tudy  ia  given  of  Eugene  van  Meighcm.  It  supplies 
[uamy  characteristic  reproductions.  Whollier  Mr. 
•lieorge  Moore  intends  to  be  taken  seriously  in  his 
'  Avowals '  we  know  not.  Intentionally  or  unin- 
tenlioually,  he  is  very  diverting,  '  The  Victoria 
Falls  on  the  Zambesi  River'  (lives  many  interesting 
Jtnd  some  startling  views.  Mr.  Sharp  deals  with 
•The  Thames  from  Oxford  to  the  Nore,'  and 
his  article  is  caiiitally  illiiatrated.  'The  Land 
of  the  Morning  Calm'  aepicls  Korea. — Miss  Agues 
•<^.  Lant  in  "The  Search  for  the  Western  Sea' 
supplies  to  Scrihncr  an  interesting  and  admirably 
illustrated  picture  of  early  exploration.  Mrs. 
4jeorge  B^uicroft's  very  interesting  correspondence 
is  accompanied  by  excellent  jwrtraits  of  literary 
and  political  celebrities  of  the  early  part  of  last 
■century  — IJunaeti,  Lord  Stratford  de  Redcliffe, 
<Jarlyle  and  his  wife,  Wellington,  Peel,  Kingsley, 
&.C.  Oapt.  Mahau's  admirable  '  History  of  the 
War  of  1812'  is  continued,  and  there  is  a  life, 
accompanied  by  a  portrait,  of  Richard  Strauss.— 
A  thinl  instalment  of  '  Colonial  Memories,'  by 
Lady  firoome,  in  the  Coruhilt,  keeps  up  the  high 
level  of  previous  numbers.  JuHkb  Parry  gives 
a  humorous  account  of  a  day  ot  his  life  in  a 
county  court.  No.  iii.  of  *  Historic  Mysteries,'  by 
Mr.  Andrew  Lang,  diffei-s  from  its  predecessors 
lin  the  fact  that  the  writer  seems  able  to  solve 
'The  Case  of  Alan  Brcck,'  and  a])t>cars  loaih  to 
•do  so.  Prof.  Bouncy  dt>"cribe.s  '  'I'lio  Structure 
iif  a  Coral  Reef,'  and  Miss  Betham-Edwards  writes 
instructively  couceming  'French  Housekeeping.'- 
The  Atlantic  Monthly  supplies  a  '  Southern  View  of 
Lynching.'  Mr.  Henry  Villard  gives  some  interest- 
ing recollections  of  Lincoln.  '  Cicero  in  Maine' 
is  curious  '  George  Borrow  '  is  a  sensible  article 
on  the  author  of  '  The  Bible  in  S{)ain.'  A  second 
part  of  •  Fra  Paolo  Sarpi'  follows.— In  the  GaUlt- 
iiimi'x.  Mr.  Attenborougn  describe*  as  'A  Remark- 
able Literary  Deception  '  the  letters  of  Popo  Cle- 
ment XIV.    Rossini  scarcely  shines  as  a  humourist, 


though  he  was,  indeed,  a  pleasant  companion,  and 
said  many  clever  things  ver^ng  upon  ill  nature. 
'Doctor  Slagiun'  is  the  subject  of  an  interesting 
]iaper.^Caj)t.  Vanghan  begins  in  Lomjmau't  a  very 
sinking  account,  to  be  continued,  nf  the  great 
tight  on  the  '  Modder  River.'  Mr  W.  E.  Uick«, 
defends  play-reading,  which  stands  surely  in  littlt 
need  of  defence.  Among  mnn^' subject s  on  whici 
Mr.  Lang  converses  brilliantly  is  the  need  of  really 
good  rimes  to  certain  words. 


I     Me.  TiiOMfsox  Cooper,  of  whose  death  we  hear 
I  with  much   regret,  was  a  tolerably  frequent  con- 
I  tributor  to  our  columns.     Be«t  known  as  a  jour- 
nalist, he  also  did  good  service  as  a  biogiapber,  and 
,  published,   through  Messrs.  Bell  &  Sons,  a  'Bio- 
graphical  Dictionary,'  which   during    many  years 
neld  a  position  of  authority.     From  the  beginning 
J  of  the  'Dictionary  of  National  Biography' lie  was 
'  engaged  ufion  it,  and  it  has  been  asserted  that  he 
I  was  responsible  for  a  larger  number  of  minor  bio- 
I  graphies  than  any  other  contributor  to  its  pagec 
I  A  reply  on  the  subject  of  Robert  Koot,  or  Scott 
(0">  S.  xi.  334),  is  his  latest  traceable  oommunica- 
i  tion,  and  is  worth  attention  as  a  proof  of    tho 
I  amount  of  out-of-the-way  information  he  possessed. 
Mr.  Cooper  had  been  since  I860  a  Fellow  of  the 
Society  of  Antiquaries. 


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Col..  M  iLDMAV.— A  search  through  all  the  Cieneral 
Indexes  has  faile<l  to  give  a  clue  to  any  article  on 
the  meaning  of  the  name  Mildmay.  \ou  may  be 
interested  in  the  account  at  2"'  S.  iii.  497  of  the 
Diary  of  Sir  Humphrey  Mildmay,  as  his  life  ia  not 
inthe'D.N.B.' 

Ethkl  Lkma-Wkkkks.  — Neither  'Fur  Dealea' 
nor  *  Stanbury  Family '  can  be  traced. 

H.  R.  LEiGUT«s("King  of  Patterdale").— AnU- 
ciiiated,  ante,  p.  193. 

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Guiiton'».     P.  Wi,  col.  2,  I.  17,  for  "  Westminster 
Abbey"  read  St.  Mnrffartt's,  fr'ttfrnintttr.    P.  198, 
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■Bit  lai(rBBl  Faiuliirt  -Mr  HBINBLL-C'PHaM,  M,  HaMob  EUMtf, 
ni««»r.  aa4  1.  I  pHam  l^rli  (Wad,  Uklawlak.  LooiiaB.  W. 

PKDIOUKBS     and     ARUOKIAL     UBARINOS. 
U  CCLLBTUM,  n.  riaadUlj,  LoBdM. 

HBKALniC  BNGRAyiNG,   Itook-Hlntea,  yeals, 
V\m.  NoM  FkpBf,  Ac     SpaelAl  BltaalloB  ilras  to  aeeor«r  o' 
kanUdic  aault 
TUITIHQ    UAXUR:    anfratad    Copeer-nlat*    aail  W  baat  aaaUO 

Cl'LLrrON'*.  m,  nawUllr.  Loadaa. 

BOOKS— ALL  OUT-OK-PRINT  BOOKS  eup- 
pUod.  ■•  nanar  bb  wkat  •afelati  Xckairwicdf  >a  ta*  world  orar 
■a  Mr  miNi  aaaari  Hn«tsaaar>«iiBBC.  KKair  tiaia  waaia.  — HAXaa'B 
9r«a«BaoAikc>p.l*-1(.  Joaa  Briikt  Slraai.  HlrmlnckaK. 

AOBNCT  KUU  AMBItlCAN   HUU&K. 

(1.     P.    PUTNAM'S   SONS,    PUBLISHERS   and 

\J,  kOOKHBIlKIU 

•maad}*,  wa<t  am  Hin>«i  n»m  Turk  and  :«,  niioroKU  »TKxrr, 

LONDON,  W  (1  .  uMira  in  rail  ta«  •itaaiiou  al  tka  KBAHINO 
rilBI.IO  to  tk'  rirallKak  larillllai  prraaalaJ  if  Ihrlr  HraacK  Udnw  Ik 
Laadoe  <or  11IIIB(,  n  kk«  wmi  laiouraM*  ■•rn*.  ordtrt  lor  (kair 
awB  »rANI>AHII  ru ULIOATIONM  aad  for  AU.  AHBAICAN 
HOuAit 

UaMie«B*f  leal  on  kp»liMt)o« 

STICKPHAHT  PAKTK  Is  miles  better  than  Oum 
—  for  •liokiai  in  airai^a.  JniBiac  l*apara.  Ac.  M.M.aadli  wlik 
•croBg,  uaafal  Krath  <  boi  ■  lor  i  lilcDd  Iwo  itAmp*  lo  eovar  f^nauifa 
far  a  aAiapla  Kutu<  larJaiiiai  l<rq*B  Paetnrr,  4a<«r  Loai  Cabtv, 
L«B4aBkAll«<raat.  mj.    or  all  autianara     BUrkphut  Paataatloaa 

I^ONBKIDGR  WKl.LS  — CorDfortably  KUR- 
KIBKAO  grrriNS  IUH>M  aad  ONB  or  TWO  BBOKUUMB! 
Oalat  plaa^aai,  aad  eaatrai  Thraa  minuiaa'  walk  rrom  I.IIR  n  C. 
kaaaoa  f»  athara  lAkaA  -K.  H  ,  M,  Orot*  Hill  XaA4,  TBBbr«d(« 
WtlU 


YORKSHIRE     NOTES     and     QUKBIBB. 
A  KontblT  JoBraaJ  for  Anttqakrin,  Arobvola|rl*U,  Slofrvphcr*. 
lualortaaa,  and  Han  of  LoHan  cbimibUj. 
Pp  40,  crowB  4(0.  kad  Corer. 
DvTOled  aolaly  to  Mattcra  partalBLaif  lo  tha  Coantr  ol  York, 
Kdltad  by  CHAR.  F.  roilSKA  W,  I.L  I)    Fall.  Koy.  Hot.  Ll«  , 
r.U.HUt  H,  Fellow  or  tke  Uojal  H>«lny  ol  Antli|HArlaa  or  Irclaaa. 
Aanoal  hnbicriptloB.  3j  <jd  p.r  annum,  fvnat  rr«« 
PAHTI    i«OpplM>W   ItRAIfV.    0  lllnklrailoni 
Addrca*  all  oonkEnuniratiima  to  BiJl  I'OU,  Yuik^Mif  St>it*  ^u4  QfMvi«*, 
Hrartrnrd.       I'nntnbstlon.    <;iirdlAll*    •oLlcllad    na    all    Mattcra  of  BD 
APttqnkrlaa  or  HUtonoal  Natara  raiatlTr  to  Vnrltkhlrv 

Hu.lnf.k  Manarer,  Mr.  H.  C.  DHRW8NT.  XinkMii  Xtttt  end  Qvtritf 
OBIn.  Hn>4lor4. 


of     GLASGOW 


'^rHE     DOUBLE     CHOIR 

A  CATHRDRAL. 

By    T.    L     WATWJH,    FKt.RjL. 

opnuoHs  Or  nta  pkkisii. 

BimIiUt.—-  a  moat  T»]a«ble  eaatriboilon  m  arckitMCantl  lllcxklan." 
hiUldiif  Xcwt.— "No  botlara&ldv  cimld  br  aamcd," 
Xa<M«r>'^aMniai.— "Adialrablr  pnulurrd  ' 

viatfott   UrnU.—"K   moat  iBtcratiiBir  Tolomc.  Bad  B   nodal  el 
krctaBolo(lc«J  iBTtaUiatloB  " 
I)umid4  AdMTtii*f  -•'  A  Bioit  rankBrkaWa  book  " 

JAMB8  HBOIIBKWICK  A  KONa.  Otaafow,  PnUlkben. 


TaMTH  KDITION,  pnca  rwodkUtlBiB 

/CELESTIAL     MOTIONS:     a    Handy    Book    of 

vy    AilroBowr.    Taolk  BdlUOB,    WiU  |  ritMa.    Ky  W.  T.  LYNN. 
BA.  r  K.AA 

"  Wall  kaowa  a*  ob*  ol  oar  baal  lourodneuoat  to  aavoaomy." 

Ottarrfum. 
■AtUtOM  LU W  A  CO.  Bt.  Uaaataa'a  Hoaia.  PatMr  Laoa,  B  C. 


MOW  KBAUT.  THIKO  ROITIOM.  BHTIHBU  aad  BKLAROBU. 

'I'HE     PENNY     CHRONOLOQY:    a    Seriea    of 

X  Importaai  Dataa  la  tka  Hlalory  of  tfca  World  tron  Iba  KalfB  al 
DkTid  lo  tka  rr«MaiTtm«.  TWrd  Bdltloa.  By  W.  T.  LYNN,  B,A. 
riL.AA 

BAMIVON  LOW  A  CO   Bt.  OaaataB't  Hoaaa,  FaUar  Laao,  BO. 


T'HS     AUTHOR'S     HAIRLESS     PAPER -PAD. 
(Tka  LBADBNUALL  PUB«K  Ltd  .  PshlKharaand  PrlBI*ra, 
40,  Laadaaball  »tre«t,  Loiidna.  1S.C  I 
CoBWtaa    balrlaw    papar    «<rr   which  Iba    pan   allpa  wllh   parlaat 
rraaAom.    Blipaaea  aach     B«  par  dotan.  nilad  or  plala.    Na»  roakat 
Uia.  8>.  par  dona,  ralad  or  plain 

ABikora  akoBld  kola  U>B(  Ttia  Laadankatl  I'raii,  t,id  ,  aaanat  k« 
raipoaalM*  lor  iht  loaa  el  MBS.  by  8ra  or  oibarwu*.  Daptlnu  eofltk 
•kOBid  b*  ratalaaA 


4THKNJCUM      PRBS8.— JOHN     EDWARD 

A.  rajkNCIB.  rrlatar  af  «M  AMm*wK.  fPaart  »>td  Uw<n«.  Ac  .  I* 
praparwa  u>  ttlBMIT  BBTIMATm  lor  ail  klada  or  HUUK.  NBWB, 
BBd  FBIUOIMCAL  raiNTlNe-ll.  Braaata  Huildiata,  Okaaaarr 
lAaa.ac 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [lo^  b.  i.  makch  w.  km. 


MK.  and  MRS.  TUNSTALL. 

I 
John  Tnnstall.  1782-1860. 

Married  Frances  Paruidge,  1807. 

I 
John  Partridge  TnnBtall,  1816-1882. 

dan  anj  of  the  Tunstall  Family  identify  the 
Portraits  and  give  any  information  regarding  the 
Family  to 

MRS.     BEHRENS, 

WmWVTSU)  HOUSE,  FOBE8T  HILL,  KENT. 


T 


N' 


KW8VKND0KS'   BKNEVOLBNT   and 

fKUVIUkNT  mSTlTVTlOK 
roDOdad  IHIi. 
yaiM <•««•«»  0001. 
0«M  t  lUiaarUI  Halt  IhilldiBt*.  M.  nuTtB(4«a  sttwt  Las«M,  ao. 


TtM  BUbl  Boa.  lb*  BAKL  of  HOSaBBBX.X.O 

Tb*  Mlfbl  Hnn  Ui«  l/)Kt>  OLKMnK 

Traa*«rcr : 

ni»  LOMiM>!t  uki  warrMtNiTTKH  hilMk.  uhitbd 

117.  Btnatf.WC 

TninaM  I  Bx  Otlei*  Mraibart  or  OaainMM**  1 1 

UHAKLM  USNKY   WALTaK.  iMq. 

HORACB  HHUOKI  MAIMHALI..  Bm..  UA.J.P   D  L. 

ALrRBIi  BSNKT  H4N0B.  Bm|  'Otaurvu  of  CamaUOM, 

CHAULBU  ilWDKY,  «•.),,  M  4. 

OWaCTS  -TKi*  iBUiiailoa  vu  caiahlltbtM  In  lltW  la  Ik*  Qtr  »f 

liOadoa.  aadar  th«   Praimener  ol   th«    law    Aldfmiaa    Uaracr,    far 

(taadac    Paaaloet    u>4    Tampotar;    AMiitanec    u     pnaaipaia   aad 

•nMnni  ancMied  aa  raaaor*  ol  B«<ri|ia|i«n. 

4  IMuaiM  of  Tib  Oalaaaa  eoaniutai  a  Vi«*-rmk4ral  and  alvca 
ikna  *oMa  lor  Itia  at  all  alactlooj  lua  doaaiioa  o(  rofM  Ooiawa 
riTM  a  rata  at  all  ala«tloB«  tar  Ilia  Bvcrr  ABooal  Rabacritaar  U 
asUltod  10  oa«  rote  at  aJI  alMtloa*  in  ra*T>««t  of  «aca  Five  tkllUaci  ut 
paid. 

MatfBaaAHIP  -r.^nrj  maa  aod  vomaa  Uirnashnvi  cb«  Unttad 
Klacdoa,  whrtkar  pabkiikar.  waolnaMr.  retailer,  rmplo^er  or  ea>- 
plorad.  Ii  anllilvd  to  bacoisa  a  mcmtor  of  (KU  [aitliBlloa,  tad  aajor 
lU  baaaflu  apnn  oaf  ni*ai  ol  Fire  ShLlliOf*  aaaaall^  or  Thrc*  OuiaMa 
lar  Ula.  proTidad  thai  ha  or  aha  i»  aafaced  la  tba  aala  ol  aawanaaeia. 

Tbc  pnaalBal  laaiarat  ol  tka  Halaa  fOTaraiac  claclto*  to  aU  I'tnriMa 
art,  that  wea  oaadl'laia  diall  bare  becailianMmbarol  tba  IbatttaUoa 
lor  B«it  taaa  than  taa  raara  praaadiag  appUcmtioai  (i>  aoc  laaa  tbaa 
StIr-S*aTaaraalaca.  iBiaaiacadla  itaa  ala  ot  acwapapara  forat  lea<t 
un  raari 

U8UBP  — Tamporarr  rallel  !■  ■!«■«  la  a*««  or  diitroa.  not  obIt 
CO  Hambata  ol  tba  laatttDtlna,  bat  to  aamvandora  or  lliiiii  i»i  mia 
who  mar  tx  raeoaiaaadad  for  aaatatanea  br  ttamorr*  or  tha  laaUntMa. 
Inqa'rr  l*  Ba4a  la  lacb  rnaaa  bj  Tlaluax  nnminlct«rt.  and  rallal  la 
*«ar«ad  m  aeaor^aaee  »lt«  tba  mariu  and  raealreneau  of  anrk  eaat. 
W.  wiLXtB  JONBH,  Aaareiarr 


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I 


SHADWELLS    '  BURV  FAIR.' 
In   this    play,   pro<Juce<l    in    1689,    Act  I. 
scene  i.,  Oldwit  is  made  to  say  : — 

"  I  myftelf.  einiple  as  1  stand  here,  was  a  wit  in 
the  l*al  age :  I  wa3  created  Ben  Jonaon's  son,  iti  the 
ApoUo.  1  knew  Fletcher,  my  friend  Fletcher,  *nd 
bia  maid  Joan.  Well,  I  shall  never  forget  him  ;  I 
have  Bu|med  with  him  at  hia  houso  on  the  Bank- 
■ido:  he  loved  a  fat  loin  of  pork  of  all  things  in 
tbe  world.  And  Joau  hia  oiaid  had  her  beer-glasa 
of  sack  :  and  we  all  kiaaed  her,  i'  faith,  and  were 
aa  merry  aa  passed." 

As  Thomas  Shad  well  was  born  about  1640 
he  cuay  well  have  heard  much  concerning 
Jonson,  who  died  three,  and  John  Fletcher, 
fifteen,  years  before  his  birth  ;  and  in  the 
above  quotation  we  get,  perhaps,  the  Christian 
name  of  the  "wench  "  who,  according  to  John 
Aubrey  (i-  96.  ed.  Clark),  was  associated  with 
the  great  Twin  Brethren,  Beaumont  and 
Fletcher,  in  that  wonderful  liousehold  "on 
the  Banke  Side."  Surely  the  Banksido  "not 
far  from  the  Play-house  "  was  the  Bohemia 
with  a  sea-coast  we  wot  of,  and  Father 
Thames  did  duty  as  understudy  for  Neptune  ! 
Francia  Beaumont  is,  indee«J.  not  mentioned 
in  the  above  extract,  but  ho  had  died  in  1616 
—the  year  of  Shakespeare's  death— where- 
upon Joan  may  have  remained  with  the 
surviving  partner. 


Wildish  rejoins,  "This  was  enough  to  make 
any  man  a  wit,"  and  the  elder  man  continaea, 
"Pooh!  this  was  nothing.  I  was  a  critic 
at  Blackfriars  :  but  at  Cambridge,  none  so 
great  as  I  with  Jack  Cleveland.  But  Tom 
Ilandol(ph)  and  I  were  hand  and  glove :  Tom 
was  a  brave  fellow ;  the  most  natural  poet !" 

John  Cleveland,  the  Cavalier  poet,  had 
entered  Christ's  College  in  1627,  and  was 
Fellow  of  St.  John's  1634-45 ;  Thomas  Ran- 
dolph, poet  and  dramatist,  went  up  from 
Westminster  to  Trinity  1623,  and  in  1632  left 
Cambridge  for  London.  Kandolph,  who  was 
classed  by  his  contemporaries  among  "the 
most  pregnant  wits  of  the  age,"  died  within 
three  months  of  his  thirtieth  birthday  : 
"his  haire,  aooording  to  Aubrey,  waa  of  a  very 
light  flaxen,  almost  white.  It  waa  flaffs?,  as  by  hia 
picture  before  his  booke  appearea.  He  was  of  a 
IHile,  ill  complexion  and  pock-pittcn." 

Again,  in  Act  II.  scene  i.,  in  an  altercation 
wath  his  wife,  Lady  Fantast,  Oldwit  says  : — 
"Shall  I,  who  Waa  Jack  Fletcher's  friend,  Ben 
JoDBon's  sou,  and  afterwards  an  intimate  crony  of 
Jack  Cleaveland  and  Tom  Randolph,  have  kept 
company  with  wita,  aud  been  accounted  a  wit  theie 
fifty  years,  live  to  be  deposed  by  you?" 

And  again  : — 

"  I,  that  was  a  Judge  at  Blackfriars,  writ  before 
Fletcher's  Works  and  Cartwri^iht's,  taught  even 
Taylor  and  the  best  of  them  to  8|>eak  ?  " 

The  first  collected  edition  of  Beaumont  and 
Fletclier's  plays  appeared  iu  1647  ;  the  plays 
and  poems  or  William  Cartwright  in  1651. 
Tlie  latter  died  in  1643,  aged  thirty-two, 
student  of  Christ  Church,  where  he  is  buried. 
The  Taylor  mentioned  above  is,  no  doubt, 
the  actor  Joseph  Taylor,  of  the  Globe  and 
Blackfriars  Theatres.  He  is  mentione<l  in 
the  list  prefixed  to  the  First  Folio  Shake- 
spearoasoneof  thetwenty-six  principal  actons, 
playing  possibly,  among  otlier  parts,  Hamlet 
and  lago.  He  acted  aho  in  the  plays  of 
ShadwoU's  favourite  dramatist  Ben  Jonson, 
ami  in  those  of  Beaumont  and  Fletcher. 

Dryden,  in  his  defence  of  the  Epilogue  to 
his  great  ten  -  act  play  '  The  Conquest  of 
Granada.'  derides,  in  his  majestic  way,  the 
species  of  would-be  wita  of  which  Oldwit  is 
a  notable  specimen.  The  comedies  of  the 
Restoration  excel  those  of  the  last  age  ; 

"  and  thiB  will  be  denied  by  none,  bat  some  few  old 
fellows  who  value  Ihemaelvea  on  their  acqaainlanoe 
with  the  Black  Frtara;  who,  beoauae  they  saw  their 
plays,  would  pretend  a  right  to  judge  oun.  The 
memory  of  theae  grave  geutlemen  is  tneir  only  plea 
for  being  wita.  They  can  tell  a  story  of  Ben  Junson, 
and,  perhapa,  have  had  fancy  enough  to  give  a 
supper  io  the  Apollo,  that  thev  might  be  called  his 
sous ;  and,  becauae  they  were  arawo  in  to  be  laughed 
at  in  those  times,  they  think  tbemselvec  now 
I  aufficieDtly  entitled  to  laugh  at  ours.    LQ&rb.vbS|.V 


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iMver  SAW  ID  any  of  them ;  Aod  mil  do  more  thAn 
ther  oould  remember.  In  thort,  thev  wer«  unlucky 
to  Bftve  been  bred  in  an  nnpoliahed  age,  and  more 
unluokT  to  live  l<i  a  rclined  one.  They  have  lasted 
beyooa  their  own.  and  are  caat  behind  ours ;  and 
not  contented  to  have  known  little  at  the  age  of 
twenty,  they  boaat  of  their  ignorance  at  toree 
teon. 

It  is  in  this  essay — while  condeacendingly 
contrasting  the  Elizabethan  drama  with  that 
of  his  own  day,  to  the  disadvantage  of  the 
former— that  he  says 

"Bhakeapeare  thowed  the  beat  of  hit  ikiil  in  hia 
Merctttio;  and  he  said  himaclf,  that  he  waa  forced 
to  kill  him  in  the  third  act,  to  prevent  being  killed 
by  him.  But^  for  my  i>art,  I  cannot  And  be  waa  so 
dangerous  a  person  ;  I  see  nothing  in  him  but  what 
waa  so  exceeding  harmleeo,  that  be  might  have 
lived  to  the  end  of  the  I'laVi  and  died  in  hia  bed, 
without  offence  to  any  man. 

But  elsewhere  his  praise  of  Shakespeare  is 
noble  and  discrimiuatiiig ;  and  the  modern 
reader  of  Dryden's  heroic  plays  may  echo 
"  without  ofTonce  "  the  author's  own  lines  in 
the  Prologue  to  *  Auieng-Zobe,'  where  he  says 
ho  himself  "grow.s  weary  of  hi.i  long-loved 
mistress,  Rhyme."  Whence  it  appears  that 
Glorious  John  had  seen  fit  to  revise  the 
opinion  given  by  Neander,  his  counterpart, 
in  'An  Essay  of  Dramatic  Po&sy,'  that, 
blank  verse  being  too  low  for  tragedy,  riming 
couplets  are  the  only  wear  suitable  for  heroic 
plays.  And,  indeed,  the  blank  verse  of  'All 
for  Love'  is  a  groat  relief  after  the  perpetual 
jingle  of  'Aureng-Zeljo'  or  'The  Conquest 
of  Granada,'  fine  though  the  lines  generally 
are.  The  mental  ear  ach&i  with  the  "damned 
iteration  ":  the  fatal  facility  of  the  poet  gives 
no  rest  to  his  readers. 

In  the  same  es.4ay  he  makes  his  Eugenius 
(Lord  Buckhurst)  contrast  "  our  satirist 
Cleveland"  with  Donne.  The  former  gives 
us  "common  thoughts  in  abstruse  words  ;  to 
express  a  thing  hard  and  unnaturally  is  his 
new  way  of  elocution."         A.  11.  Bayley. 


WILLIAM    OF    WYKEHAM. 

Who  were  the  parents  of  William  of 
Wykeham,  Bishop  of  Winchester  1367-1404, 
founder  of  Winchester  College  and  of  New 
Collepo,  Oxford  T  The  account  of  the  Bishop 
of  WinohcHtor  in  the  '  Dictionary  of  National 
Biograpliy '  is  doubtless  the  latest  we  have  of 
him,  and  there  it  is  stated  that  his  parents 
were  John  Longe  and  Sibilla  Bowado  his 
wife,  the  same  as  recorded  by  Bishops  Lowth 
and  Moberly. 

Bishoj)  Lowth  is  doubtful  as  to  the  exact- 
ness of  the  account  he  gives  of  Bishop 
WykehanVB  family,  for  iu  the  chart  pedigree 
contained  in  his  life  of  Wykeham  he  names 


Henry  Aas  as  a  brother  of  John  Longe,  and 
is  not  certain  if  the  name  of  Longe  is  a 
patronymic  or  only  an  appellation  of  the 
individual's  stature,  nor  does  he  give  the 
Christian  name  of  the  man  who  married 
Agnes,  the  supposed  sister  of  Bishop  Wyke- 
ham. Moreover,  there  seems  to  be  no  record 
that  William  of  Wykeham  was  ever  known 
by  the  name  of  William  Longe.  This  account, 
therefore,  of  Binhop  Wykeham's  parentage 
is  by  no  means  conclusive. 

It  is  shown  in  the  account  of  Bishop  Wyke- 
ham in  the  *  D.N.B.'  that 

"  he  was  not  the  great  architect  he  had  been  almost 
universally  coosidored,  that  he  made  no  mark  aa  a 
statesman,  and  the  list  of  his  books  does  not  point 
to  any  superfluity  of  learning." 

Bishop  Lowth  states  that  be  does  not  appear 
to  have  studied  at  any  university,  and  there- 
fore had  no  academical  degree. 

What  could  have  been  the  cause,  then,  of 
such  a  man  as  this  (apparently  the  son  of 
quite  humble  parents,  and  not  endowed 
by  nature  with  extraordinary  talent  nor  by 
education  with  great  learning)  rising  to  so 
high  a  position  in  the  State  as  he  did,  amass- 
ing sufhcient  wealth  to  build  and  endow  the 
great  school  at  Winchester  and  a  college  at 
Oxford  during  his  lifetime,  and  to  leave  at 
his  death  ample  estate  to  establish  the  family 
who  adopted  the  name  of  Wykeh&ra  in  place 
of  their  own  I 

I  venture  to  suggest  that  the  true  parentage 
of  Bishop  Wykeham  has  not  yet  been  dis- 
close<i,  and  that  John  Longe  and  Sibilla  hia 
wife  were  the  foster-parents  of  the  bishop, 
and  not  hia  actual  father  and  mother — that 
Wykeham  was  not  his  family  name. 

There  are  several  Wykehams  mentioned  in 
the  bishop's  will,  but  except  those  who  were 
born  Perots  and  adopted  the  name  of  Wyke- 
ham, he  calls  none  of  them  cousins,  as  he 
does  the  descendants  of  Henry  Aas  and  John 
and  Alice  Archemore,  nor  does  he  go  beyond 
the  generic  term  "  cousin  "  or  "  kinsman  "  in 
speaking  of  any  of  his  supposed  relations. 

Bishop  Lowtn  says : — 

"  We  must  allow  Wykeham  to  have  been  what 
the  Boraaiia  call  Nomu  homo,  so  with  regard  to  his 
surname  he  might  bo  strictly  and  literally  the  tint 
of  his  family," 

A  nothus  would  be  the  first  of  his  family, 
and  there  appear  to  be  so  many  iHlTiriilfioJi 
in  deciding  to  what  family  Bishoji  '  w 

belonged,  that  it  is  doing  him  no  u  if 

we  suppose  him  to  have  been  a  nothus.  No 
fault  of  his  if  he  was  such.  Bishop  Lowth 
also  says  :— 

"Conscious  to  himself  tliat  his  clum  to  honour 
was  unexceptionable,  as  founded  opoa  truth  and 


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reason,  he  in  &  manner  makes  his  appeal  to  the 
world,  alletnoK  thai  neither  high  birth,  to  which  he 
makes  oo  pretensiona,  nor  high  itation,  upon  which 
he  does  not  value  hinuelf,  bat  virtue  alone,  is  true 
nobility." 

He  aHopt^  a  motto  quite  appropriate  for  one 
born  as  described,  ''Manners  no akyth  Man," 
and  round  his  coat  of  arms  is  the  motto  of 
the  Garter,  "  Honi  soit  qai  mal  y  penae." 

In  the  Patent  Rolls  6  Edward  II.,  noticed 
by  Dr.  Barnes  in  his  history  of  King  Eki- 
ward  III.  and  by  other  writers,  we  read: — 

"  For  80  pleasinR  to  his  father  King  Edward  IL 
was  tlie  birth  of  this  hopeful  prince  on  1.1  Nov., 
1312,  that  on  16  December  following  he  gave  to  John 
LauoKe,  ftHit  to  the  i/fieoi,  and  to  Isabel  his  wife, 
and  »o  the  longest  liver  of  them,  twenty -four 
pounds  per  annum  to  be  paid  out  of  the  farm  of 
London. 

As  valet  to  Queen  Isabella  John  Launge  was 
doubtlt'Hs  u  Frenchman. 

Miss  Strickland,  in  her '  Lives  of  the  Queens 
of  England,'  states 

"  that  King  Edward  II.  gives  to  John  Lounges. 
vaitt  to  th'  ifwtu,  and  to  Isabel  his  wife  an  annual 
pension  of  20/.  for  life." 

"In  IS22  Queen  Isaltella  obtains  a  reprieve  from 
deaih  of  her  lover  Roger  Mortimer.  In  IStJS 
Mortimer  was  again  condemned  to  suffer  death. 
and  once  ntore  a  mysterious  influence  interposen 
between  him  and  the  royal  veogeance,  and  on  the 
first  of  August  of  the  same  year  Mortimer  escaped 
from  the  Tower  and  got  aafely  to  France.  During 
the  year  13-4  there  was  a  fi«rce  struggle  between 
the  (|ue«n  and  the  Despencers,  which  ended  in  the 
dincharifr.  of  all  hnr  French  imrvantii," 

William  of  Wykeham  ia  said  to  have  been 

^l)om  at  Wykeham,  in  Hampshire,  between 

1  July  and  27  September,  1324. 

I  Uiink   that   John   Launee  or  Lounges, 

(Talet  to  the  queen,  and  Isabel  his  wife  are 
~ie  same  persons  as  the  John  Longe  and 
Bibilla  given  in  the  chart  pedigree  by  Bishop 

IliOwth  as  the  jwrents  of  Bishop  Wykeham  ; 
and  from  the  various  incidents  recorded  of 
Wykeharn's  early  career  and  rapid  advance- 
ment, the  fact  that  his  actual  parents  were 

[Something  more  than  of  humble  station,  the 
position  of  John  Launge  and  his  wife  alx)ut 
the  queen,  and  granting  his  identification 
with  John  Longe,  the  reputed  father  of  Wyke- 
ham, it  does  not  appear  to  he  a  vcrv  desperate 
speculation  to  conclude  that  Wykeham  was 
tne  base  half-brother  of  Edward  III.,  and  the 
Hon  of  Isabella  and  Koger  Mortimer,  given 
into  the  care  of  John  Launge  when  the  French 
servaiiUj  Ipft  the  Court. 

"'I  Uvsrd  II I. "s  meeting  with 

Wyl  ■  -ler  in  detititule  of  jmiof 

Arrl.  .,..  iio  was  made  known  to  the 

kin;-  ifh  i«  cqunlly  uncertain.     The 

mo'ii  -■  only  «ay  that  hr  unn  hrouyhi  in 

Court  and  lakcti  into  the  king's  servjoo."— Lowth. 


King  Edward  III.  visited  his  mother  at 
stated  periods  during  her  long  imprisonment, 
and  it  may  have  been  during  one  of  these 
visits  that  Queen  Isabella  informed  her  sot* 
the  king  that  his  Imse-born  half-brother  had 
been  brought  up  by  her  faithful  valet  John 
Launge  and  his  wife  a«  their  child,  and  that 
he  was  living  at  Winchester.  This  would 
account  for  the  kin^  sending  for  the  young^ 
man  and  placing  him  at  Court.  His  be- 
coming a  cleric  would  remove  the  ill  feeling 
the  king  might  entertain  towards  hira,  ana- 
would  give  the  king  an  onportunity  of  fur- 
thering his  interests  in  tne  Church,  where 
Wykeham  might  assist  the  king  in  return. 
This  could  be  done  without  any  relationship 
bein^  revealed  between  the  parties,  or  the 
relationship  could  be  kept  secret  between 
them.  This  would  also  explain  the  cause  of 
the  rapid  promotion  and  the  many  clerical 

Rrefermeuta  conferred  upon  William  of  Wyke- 
am,  culminating  in  his  appointment  to  the 
rich  see  of  Winchester,  ana  afterwards  to  the 
Chancellorship. 

At  the  end  of  the  reign  of  King  Edward  III. 
a  quarrel  took  place  between  John  of  Oaunt 
and  Bishop  Wylceham,  which  is  said  to  have 
originated  in  a  report  supposed  to  have  been 
circulated  by  the  bishop  concerning  the 
illegitimacy  of  John  of  Gaunt.  The  accounts 
are  very  conflicting,  and  the  truth  might 
have  been  the  reverse  of  what  was  reported, 
and  John  of  Oaunt  may  have  taunted  the 
bi:ihop  on  his  illegitimate  birth.  However 
that  may  be,  there  is  nothing  in  the  idea 
I  have  here  .set  forth  to  diminish  the  fame 
attached  to  the  name  of  Bishop  Wykeham  : 
but  if  the  suggestions  I  have  made  could 
be  more  fully  substantiated  from  the  public 
records  or  other  sources,  a  little  mite  of 
truth  would  be  added  to  our  histories. 

R-  C.  BOSTOCK. 


Jonson's  'Alchemist.'— I  have  just  beei> 
reading  the  sumptuous  edition  of  this  comedy 
published  by  the  De  La  More  Press.  It  has- 
oeen  eloquently  reviewed  and  its  many  merits 
pointed  out  in  these  columns  (B"*  S.  xii.  478). 
Mine  is  the  le.Hs  pleasant  duty  of  drawing 
attention  to  a  defect.  My  complaint  is  that, 
although  several  of  the  alchemical  terms  with- 
which  this  play  abounds  have  been  cleared 
up  in  '  N.  &  Q.,  Mr.  Hart  has  not  discovered 
this,  and  consequently  gives  a  wrong  accounb 
of  them  in  his  glossarial  notes.  The  follow- 
ing are  his  remarks  on  keautarit : — 

"  Perhaps  the  same  as  '  Hirarith.a.  word  used  by 
Home  of  the  affected  chemical  writers  for  silver.'— 
Roes's  Chanilj«n)'B  *  Cyclop.'  Another  auggestion  is 
'  HetalibitestTerebinthina.'— *  Lexicon (JntfniA^va^.r 


Hi 


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And  Howell  hu  '  AlLarii.  A/Mril,  Aloxet,  Quiuk- 
ailver.'  Tbe  word  is  not  in  the  least  likely  to  be  of 
-Greek  oriRiD." 

The  word  was  explained  by  me  as  far  back  as 
18S6  (8^  S.  X.  234),  aa  miglit  have  been  dis- 
xsovered  trom  the  General  index,  and  students 
would  then  have  been  spared  the  totally 
irrelevant  quotations  from  lleen  and  the 
'Lexicon  Cnyraicom.'  The  quotation  from 
Howell  happens  to  be  correct.  Altiirix,  alUirit, 
antarit.antaric,  heautarit,  are  all  more  or  less 
corrupt  spellings  of  the  Arabic  name  for 
Mercury  (both  planet  and  metal),  utarid. 

Another  word  I  have  explained  here  O'*"  S. 
itL  386)  is  tidrop.  Mr.  Hart  appears  to 
identify  it  with  umv  or  aztine,  which  is  quite 
another  word.  Adrop  is  the  Persian  utrup, 
Arabic  usrvfj  or  iwjt//,  lead.  Auir  is  corrupted 
from  Arabic  hajar,  which  mean^  the  pnilo- 
sopher's  stone. 

My  excuse  for  referring  to  ray  own  articles 
must  be  that  the  Clarendon  Pres-s  announces 
an  in  preparation  a  standard  edition  of  Jonson, 
with  the  co-operation  of  Prof.  C.  H.  Herforn 
and  P.  Simpson,  which  makes  it  needful  to 
criticize  somewhat  minutely  the  existing 
atandard  works.  Jamks  Platt,  Juq. 

Foreign  English.  —  From  time  to  time 
«xaniple9  of  foreign  English  have  appeared 
in  '  N.  &  Q.'  The  following  is  an  interesting 
example.  It  comes  from  a  bottle  label  of  a 
certain  liqueur  called  ''Liqueur  du  Pere 
Kerman,"  made,  I  think,  in  or  near  Bor- 
deaux. 

Import-vj^t  Kemarks. 

Please  observe  lh«  as  ot  this  f&moiu  and  wel- 
knoM'u  liquor  Three  sorts  to  the  Had :  N"  1.  Of 
yellow  calom  is  very  stoniachicand  principally  for 
the  use  of  oonvaleeeeuts  or  such  persons  who  are 
note  accustomed  the  fakiug  spirits.  N"  2.  Of 
colour  Rreen  btis  a  well  doingt  but  more  po  werfull 
inftuence  on  the  digestion  and  intobe  chosen  by 
persons  of  strong;  coiistitutiou.  N"  3.  Of  p;reeD 
colour  (oohits  land  more  aromatic  soradacm^  a 
sreat«r  effection  the  dig'cslion  than  N"  1  et  2,  in 
CMtined  only  forsuoh  piiBrsons  who  alreody  accus- 
tomed to  spirits  desire  a  strong  stimulating  liquor. 
Gdakantek.— All  botles  have  on  the  corks  as  veil 
as  ou  the  labels  the  signature  of  A.  K<>rniann  et 
O.  Sieuzac.  The  capsule  is  iixed  to  tlie  buttle  by  a 
striuft  wase  aud  are  attached  to  a  stampe  of  lead 
bearing  the  mark  of  the  manufactory. 

The  word  following  "  cohits,"  or  joined  to  it, 
is  indistinct,  being  partly  spoilt  by  the 
endorsed  signature.  "  Soraducing  "  is  perhaps 
"spraducing."  The  "Important  Observa- 
tions" in  French  and  Spanixh  which  are  side 
by  side  with  the  English  are  of  little  help 
towards  an  interpretation  of  the  above, 
which  it  is  evident  was  not  written  aa  a 
literal  translation  of  either. 


foreign  English.   It  was  printed  some  twenty 
yeans  ago  on  a  little  cigarette  roller,  which 
was  called  **  Le  (Jigarog«ne,"  and  came  from 
Paris,  Boulevard  de  Strasbourg.  24. 
Instructions. 

I"*  Movement.  To  lay  the  sheet  of  pa{)eron  the 
inside  of  the  mold  cover. 

2*  To  put  the  tobacco  on  the  lowest  |>art  of  the 
palter  (never  in  the  middle.) 

3"'  Heap  up  the  tobacco  with  the  two  '       '       i .... 

4.  To  fold  the  cizaroj^ne  who  grov 

tobacoo  Making  it  and©  on  itself  the  citj.. .  ^Ai. 

5.  And  come  out  ready  and  perfeoliy  made 
between  the  fingers  of  the  smoker. 

The  strenKhiof  the  mold  cover  is  wart-auded  for 
the  use  of  the  yia|>er  therein  contained  if  the  smoker 
does  not  force  it. 

In  case  of  breaking  the  half  of  it  ia  tiuthi.ietit  to 
roll  it  but  the  two  pieces  cau  be  put  togbetcr  with 
a  small  band  of  gunied  itaper. 

If  there  was  some  sheet  detached  the  smoker  will 
pass  the  iudia  rubber  band  on  the  quire  l>efryro 
rolling  the  cigarette, 

ROBEBT  PlKRPOINT. 

Henry  Cole.— The  '  D.N.B.,'  xi.  -MS,  ssaya : 
"It  is  said  that  he  regained  bia  libfrty  on 
4  April,  1574,  but  his  name  occurs  in  a  list  of 
prisoners  in  1579."  The  facts  are:  (1)  ije 
was  ordered  to  be  released  on  bail  .3  April, 
1574  C  P.C.A.'  [N.S.],  viii.  218).  (2)  For  some 
reason  he  was  not  released,  and  we  have  the 
order  repeated  17  April,  1575  {ibid.,  viii.  367). 
(3)  In  November,  1677,  he  was  living  at 
Ealing.  In  'S.  P.  Dom.,  Eliz..'  cxviii,  73, 
occurs  the  following  entry:  "Henry  Cole, 
Doctor  of  law  at  Yeling.  Littell  or  nothing 
worth."  (4)  In  1579  he  was  back  again  in  tlie 
Fleet  (see  Strype,  'Ann.,'  IL  iL  660). 

JoaN  B.  Waineweiqht. 

Nicholas  Harpsfikld.  —  The  'D.N.B.,' 
xxiv.    431,    says:     ''He    was    committed    a 

ftrisoner  to  the  Tower,  where  he  remained 
rom  1559  till  his  death  in  1575."    The  facts 
are:     (1)    He  v*ah  committed   to   the  Fleet 

20  August  (Uarl.  MS.  Pluto  L.E., 300-7)  or 

21  August  CS.  P.  Dora.,  Eliz.,'  xviii,  5),  l.'>59, 
for  trying  to  fly  the  country.  (2)  He  was 
liberated  from  the  Fleet  on  "bail  19  August, 
1574,  with  his  brother  John,  and  allowed  with 
him  to  go  to  Bath  for  his  health  ('P.C.A.' 
fN.S  ],  viii.  283,  4).  On  27  November,  1575, 
he  was  to<:i  ill  to  appear  personally  before  the 
Star  Chamber  (ihtd.,  ix.  54) ;  and  he  died 
18  December,  1575,  probably  in  some  private 
house  in  London. 

John  B.  Wainewriobt. 

John    Harpsfikld. —The 'D  N.B.,'  xxiv. 
430,  says  that  he  was  imprisoned  in  the  Fie. 
for  about  a  year,  and  thereafter  lived  with 
relative  in  St.  Sepulchre's  parish.    In  fact, 
was  committed   to  the  Fleet  either  7  Jant 


Perhaps  I  may  give  aootlier  example  of   ('  8.  P.  Dom.,  Eliz.,'  xviii  b)  or  9  July  (Hart 


10^"  .s.  1.  Mahch  19.  itiotj      NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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Alts.  I'luto  L.E.,  360-7),  1561,  and  was  ordered 
to  be  kept  jti  close  confinenient  there  28  July, 
1662  (*  P.G.A.'  [N.S.],  vii.  1 19).  Thence  he  was 
released  on  bail  19  August,  1574  {ibid.,  viii. 
283).  On  18  July,  1577.  he  was  committed  to 
the  custody  of  the  Bisiiop  of  Lincoln  {il>i<l., 
ix.  388,  X.  4),  whence  he  was  transferred  on 
the  ground  of  serious  illness  to  the  custody 
of  the  Bishop  of  London,  5  November,  1577 
{ibid.,  X.  54).  JoHN  B.  Wainewbioht. 

The  Last  of  the  War  Bow,  (See  »'*•  S. 
iv.  424.)— The  folio winfs  quotation  ia  taken 
from  J.  T.  Wheeler's  'A  Short  History  of 
India,'  Jsc,  1880  :  "  It  is  not  always  re- 
membered that  bows  and  arrows  have  bc«n 
used  in  European  warfare  during  this  cen- 
tury. Marbot  says  the  Cossacks  at  Leipzic 
were  so  armed."  The  battle  of  Leipzic 
(1&-18  October,  1813),  one  of  the  most  dis- 
astrous defeats  inflicted  on  Napoleon,  has 
been  called  "  the  battle  of  the  nations  "  on 
account  of  the  numbers  and  different  nation- 
alities of  the  forces  engaged . 

M.  J.  D,  Cockle. 

tJoUn,  Punjab. 

Na.\iec>  of  our  Enough  Kingsi.— It  is  some- 
what remarkable  that,  amongst  all  the  names 
of  our  kings  since  the  Norman  Conquest, 
only  one  is  native  English,  viz.,  Edward. 
Inaeed,  only  five  are  of  Uerraanic  origin,  viz. 
(in  addition  to  Edward),  William,  Henry. 
Richard,  and  Charles,  all  French  forms  ot 
Old  German  origin.  The  rest  are  all  foreign. 
Stephen  and  George  are  Greek  ;  John,  Mary, 
EHizaboth,  James,  and  Anne  are  Hebrew  ; 
and  only  one  is  Latin,  that  name  of  happy 
omen,  Victoria.  Walter  W.  Skeat. 

J.  R  Green  on  Freeman.— In  the  'His- 
torical Studies'  of  the  late  Mr.  J.  R.  Green, 
lately  published,  the  following  sentence 
occurs,  p.  103.  The  reference  is  to  Freeman's 
*  Norman  Conquest' 

"  We  muBt  say,  in  iuilice  to  the  Count,  that  when 
he  d«i)icaled  liia  abbey  '  in  honnre  ac  niemoria 
illaruni  co-lestium  virtutum  quas  Cherubio  et 
Seraphim  sublimiores  saora  teetatur  auotorit&a.'  it 
ia  odd  const rui OK  to  tranalate  thia  'in  hononr  of 
the  Clicrubin  una  Seraphim.'  Above  them  in  the 
celestial  bierarthy  came  the  three  Pcmods  of  the 
TrinitT,  and  it  was  la  the  Trinity  that  Fulk  dedi- 
cate<l  his  house  at  Loches." 

Surely  the  dedication  as  given  in  the  original 
is  to  'the  Heavenly  Hoat,  among  whom  the 
Cherubin  and  Seraphim  are  highest."  The 
word  quai  may  present  a  difTicuTtv  in  either 
rendering,  but  the  sentence  is  perfectly  clear 
otherwise,  and  it  certainly  seems  I'ery  "odd  " 
to  class  the  three  Persons  of  the  Trinity 
among  the  "  celestial  hierarchy."  M. 


*'Go  FOR "= Attack.— "It  is  exactly  self- 
evident  theories  of  this  kind,"  says  Prof. 
Baldwin  Brown,  in  his  volume  on  'The  Life 
of  Saxon  England  in  its  Relation  to  the  Arts,' 
1903,  p.  70, 

"/or  ttrhirh  the  mienti/ie  critic  of  the  day  w  inclined 
to  I/O.  For  the  aake  of  clearneps  it  mav  be  aaid  here 
tiial  the  orthodox  theory  just  outlined  seems  to  the 
present  MTiler  more  than  dubinuti,"&c. 

For  the  sake  of  clearnes.4  it  may  be  said  in 
'  N.  dj  Q.'  that  Prof.  Brown's  English  is  not 
orthodox  EngU-sh  at  all,  but  slang,  though, 
that,  no  doubt,  is  English  in  the  making. 
So — without  claiming  to  be  a  scientific  critic — 
1  "  go  for"  Mr.  Brown  !  For  his  work  I  have- 
the  nigheat  respect. 

William  Oeorgb  Black. 

Gl&sj^w. 

The  Last  Peer  of  France.— The  enclosed 
paragraph  from  the  Iritli,  Tinua  of  27  Feb- 
ruary strikes  me  as  being  of  sufficient 
historical  importance  to  interest  readers  of 
'  N.  k  Q.'  :- 

"  The  last  peer  of  France  has  just  passed  away 
by  the  death  of  M.  le  Marquis  ae  (lonvion  Saiot 
CVr.  There  are  many  dukee,  and  counta,  and 
barona  in  France  lo-day,  but  they  only  hold  thair 
titiea  by  courtesy,  and  under  the  Republic  hava 
no  legal  riKht  to  them.  But  lo  Marquia  de  Oouvion 
8aiut  C'yr  had  really  aat  in  Parliament  as  an  here- 
ditary peer,  for  ho  waa  born  in  1815,  and  succeeded 
hia  father,  the  Marshal,  in  1811." 

Herbert  B.  Clatton. 
39.  Rei»frew  Road,  Lower  Kennington  Lane. 

"Fulture."—  In  the  lease  of  a  farm  at 
Hansworth  Woodhouse,  co.  York,  in  1721, 
the  tenant  is  bound  to  "leave  all  compost, 
fulture,  and  manure"  of  the  last  year  of  his 
tenancy,  on  the  premise-"*.  In  another  lease, 
of  a  farm  at  Eckingum,  co.  Derby,  1739,  the 
tenant  covenants  to  "lay  or  sett  all  the 
mannure,  fulture,  and  compost"  on  80in& 
part  of  the  land,  I  do  not  find  this  word  in 
any  dictionary,  but  it  is  doubtless  a  form  of 
fvUjie  or  j'vXzie,  which  the  '  N.E.D.'  says  ia 
(l)'the  sweepings  or  refuse  of  the  streets, 
(2)  manure.  W-  C  B. 

First  Steam  Railway  Train.  — The  fol- 
lowing occurred  in  the  Western  Echo  (Exetor> 
for  12  February:— 

"To-day  is  the  oeotenary  of  the  railway  looc 
motive  On  1*2  Feb..  1804,  Richard  Trevithick.  tha 
Cornish  inventor,  then  employed  at  MerthyrTydviL 
ran  the  trial  trip  of  hia  steam  carriage  over  the  old 
horse  tramway  from  Fenydarren  Ironworks  (now 
di9apt»e»re<l)  to  Navigation'Uatial  Wharf,  nine  nmea 
lower  down  in  the  Taff  Valley.  Ihe  aeoompliah- 
ment  of  the  feat  wa«  the  means  of  Mr.  ^Minuel 
Honift^y,  the  I'onydarren  ironmaster,  winning  a 
l)et  of  1,000/.  which  he  had  made  with  Mr.  Richard 
Crawihay,  Cyfarthfa,  that  be  would  convey  a  load 


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L  March  T9.  IWrt. 


ot  iroa  by  steAin  power  over  the  tr&mway  to  the 
point  nanie<l.  The  journey,  uot  unnaturally,  waa 
aooonipanied  by  circumstances  of  diiSculty.  The 
train  conveved  70  pasaen^^rs,  besides  lU  tons  of 
iron,  and  tne  stack  of  the  atrange  •  looltine  loco- 
motive, being  of  brioka,  waa  overlhrown  upon 
collidinK  with  a  bridge.  Trevithiok  Bucceedea  in 
repairing  the  damage,  and  aocompliahed  the  run  at 
the  rate  of  five  miies  an  hour.  The  train  failed, 
however,  to  get  back  again,  for  tho  reason  that  the 
gradients  were  too  steep  and  the  curves  in  the 
4j:amUne  too  sharp." 

Haaey  Hems. 
Fair  Park,  Exeter. 


Qutrus. 

Wit  must  re<iuest  correspondents  desinng  in- 
iortnat/ion  on  family  matters  of  only  private  interest 
to  affix  their  names  and  addresses  to  their  queries, 
<in  order  that  the  answers  may  be  addressed  to  them 
direct. 

TowNSHEND  Pedigreed. —1  am  endeavour- 
ing to  make  a  complete  coUectioa  of  the 
pedigree.s  of  the  Townshend  or  Townsend 
tamily  in  England.  I  ahotild  be  greatly 
obliged  by  any  iuformation  concerning  the 
familie.s  settled  in  Walea  and  Salop,  other 
than  those  descended  from  Sir  11.  Agborough, 
who  ansnmed  the  name  of  his  stepfather 
Aureiian  Townsend.  There  are  also  said  to 
have  been  descendatits  of  Thomas  of  Tester- 
ton,  Norfolk,  settled  at  Cramworth  and 
Wrotiiam.  I  should  be  grateful  for  any 
account  of  them.    Dorothea  Townshend. 

117,  Banbury  Road,  Oxford. 

Luke  Kino,  Deputy  Mustek  Master, 
Ibeland,  1689.— This  gentleman  was  attainted 
by  King  James's  Irish  Parliament,  1089.  On 
6  August,  same  year,  he  was  examined  before 
the  English  Pfouse  of  Lords  on  the  mis- 
carriages in  Ireland,  when  he  stated  he  had 
come  over  in  January,  and  knew  nothing. 
Was  he  the  same  Luke  King  who  was  ap- 
pointed, with  Henry,  first  Viscount  Palmer- 
ston,  21  Sept.,  1680.  to  the  office  of  Chief 
Remembrancer  of  H.M.'s  Court  of  Exchequer 
in  Ireland,  during  their  respective  lives,  and 
on  whose  death  the  patent  wa-s  renewed  to 
Lord  Palmeraton  and  his  son  Henry  Temple 
for  life,  6  June,  1716  ?  I  shall  be  glad  of  any 
information  on  the  suljject,  and  any  par- 
ticulars as  to  the  family  of  these  ot^cials,  or 
.of  the  one.  Cmarle.s  S.  Kino,  Bt. 

St.  Leonards-on-Sea. 

Mu8.  L.VNE  AND  Peteb  Pindak.  —  I  was 
informed  by  a  relative  that  my  grandmother 
Mrs.  Lane,  n^e  Chandler,  copied  out  for  the 

Eress  Peter  Pindar's  satires.     I  believe  that 
Qth  my  grandparents  belonged  to  families 
liAving    strong    Jacobite    sympathies,    and 


had  many  literary  and  artistic  friends.  I 
should  be  glad  of  any  opinion  or  criticism 
l>earing  on  the  probability  or  otherwise  of 
this  tradition.  A.  WxLLACK. 

Pennthorpe,  Mead  Road,  Chislebarst. 

Catskin  Earls. — I  should  be  very  glad 
indeed  of  any  information  on  this  subject. 
(Rev.)  H.  H.  Coubtenat. 
Kenton,  Exeter. 

[See  7^  8.  ix.  314,  393.  435, 512.] 

Boer  War  of  1881.— Can  you  tell  nie  of  a 
good  book  on  the  Boer  war  of  1S81 7  I  .seek 
a  book  that  gives  the  regiments  in  garrison 
at  the  different  placen,  along  with  accounts 
of  the  fighting,  <tc  I  want  especially  to 
study  the  sieges  of  Pretoria,  Potchefstroom, 
Pietersbarg,  ifec       A.  J.  Mitchell,  Major, 

Lancaster  Fusiliers. 

Game  of  State,— I  am  a  member  of  a  club 
where  intellectual  diversions  are  always  in 
requisition.  I  shall  be  glad  if  a  readier  can 
give  any  particulars  of  the  "  Game  of  State," 
which  is,  I  believe  (as  is  chess),  of  Eastern 
origin,  and  needs  much  "  subtlety  of  thought 
and  purpose ''  for  its  successful  practice — so 
I  am  told.  A.sTRAi'ATH. 

Powell  of  Birkenhead.  —  Can  any  on|j 
give  rae  the  date  of  marriage  of  Eliza  Powel 
to  Mr.  .lohn  Shaw,  the  waggon  proprietor  of 
LiverpooU     (Mrs.)  J.  Hautenville  OiPE. 

13c,  Hyde  Park  Mansions,  W. 

Noethall,  Shropshire.— Any  early  or  late 
information  about  Northall  will  be  gladly 
received.  In  the  Visitations  it  is  said  to  be 
"in  Kinnersley,"  and  was  tho  birthplace  of 
Edward  Hall,  the  historian.  But  Eyton  does 
not  mention  the  place,  nor  is  it  marked  in 
the  '  Stafford  Estate  Maps.'  C. 

RoDNEv'.s  Second  Wife.— I  should  Ije  glwl 
to  know  details  of  the  family  of  Henrietta 
Clies,  of  Lisbon,  who  was  the  second  wife  of 
Admiral  Lord  Rodney.  Miss  Clies  is  ^jtuteii 
to  have  been  the  daughter  of  John  Clies,  of 
Lisbon,  merchant,  but  no  further  details  are 
given  in  printed  pedigrees.  Any  information 
on  the  subject  of  tnis  marriage  would  be 
welcomed.  P.  M. 

Franco-German  War.— Can  any  one  tell 
me  what  became  of  the  landed  proporti*  of 
the  Frenchmen  of  Alsace  and  Lorraine  who 
refused  to  accept  German  ruleT  \Vh.s  it.  sold 
to  land  spoculat<jr8 1  Was  it  confiscated? 
Or  was  some  arrangement  made  by  which 
residents  in  France  could  still  reciMvo  the 
rents  of  estates  which  were  uo  longer  French  ] 

E.  O.  E.  A. 


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Spbaekbs   o¥  Irish   House  of  Commons, 

AKP    ftfEUBERS   FOR    UOUNTY     AND     BOEOUGHS 

•OP  KiNu's  Cou>'TV.— Information  is  desired 
as  to  name)*  and  dates  of  .Speakers  of  the  Irish 
House  of  (Jominons  from  1660  to  1780;  also 
as  to  names  of  members  for  the  King's  County 
4iod  the  boroughs  in  it  during  the  same 
period.  FaANCESf^A. 

Lkper  Hymx-Writbr.— Is  there  anythina; 
more  to  be  learnt  about  the  leper  and  his 
hymns  mentioned  below  ?— 

*'  In  the  foarteenth  century,  it  ia  said,  all  Europe 
«u  carolling  the  songa  of  an  uuknown  singer,  and 
when  he  was  found,  he  was  a  let>er  who  had  carried 
«  little  bell  to  warn  people  of  his  approach,  aud 
went  mulUed,  from  very  lualhsonienesa,  about  the 
public  streetB."— Duffield's  *  English  Hymns,'  p.  466. 

C.  B. 

Providence,  R.I. 

"A     FROO     HE     WO0LD     A-WOOINO     OO."— I 

should  be  greatly  obliged  if  you  could  refer 
<De  to  a  book  which  would  tell  me  the  earner 
of  the  people  represented  in  the  old  rime 

A  frog  he  would  a-wooing  go,  Ac. 
None  of  the  books  of  reference  which  I  have 
gives  me  any  clue.  J.  £.  Denison, 

{We  do  not  believe  in  any  allusion  to  individuals.] 

"There  was  a  man."— Can  any  of  your 
readers  inform  me  if  they  have  heard  the  fol- 
lowing nursery  rime  ? 

There  w&a  a  man,  a  man  indeed. 
Who  sowed  hia  garden  full  of  need,  &c. 
It  used  to  be  repeated  to  my  mother  by  her 
nurse,  who  was,  I  believe,  a  North-Country 
woman.  Is  there  any  meaning  to  be  attached 

toitf  L.  A.   LUXMOORE. 

[See  ?"  8.  u.  507 ;  iii.  35 ;  v,  53,  91.] 

Chelsea  Physic  Garden.  —  Mr.  W.  C. 
Hazlitt,  in  the  Antupuirtf  of  July,  1885,  p.  II, 
writing  on  tenures  and  manorial  customs, 
mentions  in  regard  to  Chelsea  that 
"Sir  Hans  Sloane,  who  beoame  lord  of  the  manor 
in  1712,  granted  the  freehold  of  four  acres,  occupied 
as  a  physic  garden  on  the  riverside,  to  the  Apothe- 
caries' Company  for  ever,  on  condition  that  they 
•houKl  pay  a  ipiit  rent  of  .V-,  use  the  garden  for 
that  «pf<'ilic  purpose,  and  present  yearly  to  the 
Royal  iSifuieiy  fifty  ^[leciinetta  ^rown  tn  ntu,  till  the 
■collection  amounted  to  2,000." 

Was  this  latter  condition  ever  fulfilled  ? 

S.  L.  Prrrv. 

"KloK  THE  DUCKET."  —  Can  any  reader 
tell  me  the  origin  and  meaning  of  this  phrase  ? 
I  have  Huarched  the  usual  books  of  reference, 
but  do  not  Bnd  it.  I  mind  me  of  an  old 
«tory  told  of  some  famous  "  wit "  (was  it 
Thoixion*  Hook  or  Dean  .Swift?)  who,  walking 
with    another    equally    fuuious    ''  wit,"    en- 


countered a  bucket  on  the  pavement.  "Ah, 
sir,"  said  the  one,  '*  you  've  kicked  the 
bucket."  To  which  the  other  promptly  re- 
plied, "  No,  sir,  I  only  turned  a  little  pale " 
(pail !).  E.  P.  W. 

[Fanner  and  Henley's  '  Slang  and  its  Analofnios,' 
I.e.  '  Kick  the  bucket,'  states  that  bucket  is  a  Nor- 
folk term  for  a  pulley  used  when  pigs  are  killed. 
An  alt«riiative  theory  ia  oiFered  that  the  bucket 
was  a  pail  kicked  away  by  a  suicide.] 

Robina  Cromwell.  —  Are   any   portraits 
extant  of  Oliver  Cromwell's  youngest  sister, 
who  married  Bi.shop  Wilkins  of  (yhester  1 
(Mrs.)  J.  Uautenvillr  Cope. 

13o,  Hyde  Park  Mansions,  W. 

Dr.  Samuel  Hinds,  formerly  Bi.shop  of 
NoE"yvicH. — Has  any  one  an  account  of  the 
funeral  of  Dr.  Hinds,  which  took  place  at 
Ken.sal  Green  Cemetery  in  1872  ?  He  was 
Dean  of  Carlisle  previous  to  1849,  when  he 
was  consecrated  Bishop  of  Norwich,  which 
see  he  resigned  from  conscientious  scruples 
in  1857.  I  should  like  to  know  who  officiated 
at  his  funeral.       Frederick  T.  Hiboaue. 

Charles  V.  on  Languages.— I  have  often 
tried  to  ascertain  the  correct  version  of  the 
Emperor  Charles  V.'s  saying  about  languages. 
He  classified  five  somethinglike  this :  Spanish, 
to  pray  in  ;  German,  to  swear  at  his  horse  in  ; 
French,  to  talk  to  his  friends  in  (?) ;  Italian, 
to  make  love  in  (h  ;  English  (I).  The  Spanish 
and  German  I  feel  pretty  sure  about,  but  the 
re-st  are  all  doubtful.  Heloa. 

[See  9"'  S.  viii.  'i23 ;  ix.  152,  2.54,  particularly  Mb. 
Lawkenck  Ford's  reply  at  the  second  reference.] 

Robert  Sanderson,  Bishop  of  Lincoln 
1060-3,  is  reported  to  have  left  beiiiitd  him 
several  volumes  of  notes  atid  memoranda 
relating  to  Lincolnshire.  Have  they  come 
down  to  our  time?  and  if  so,  where  are  they] 

CJoM.  Lino. 

Oprowbr.— Can  any  of  your  readers  throw 
light  upon  the  origin  of  this  uncommon  and 
somewhat  curious  family  name  I  A  family 
bearing  it  lived  in  Glasgow  between  1850 
and  1870,  and  I  have  never  heard  of  it  else- 
where. So  far  as  I  know  the  name  was 
never  spelt  with  an  apostrophe  after  the  (J, 
so  it  is  unlikely  that  it  ha<i  its  origin  in 
Ireland.  May  it  not  be  a  Polisfi  or  other 
continental  name,  perhaps  .somewhat  cor- 
rupted? W.  SaNDFORD, 

Samuel  Shelley.— Is  there  any  evidence 

available  that  .Samuel  Shelley,  the  miniature 

painter  (latter  half  of  eighteenth  centuryX 

j  was  related  to  the  poet  I  1?  ao,  who  was  their 

I  nearest  common  ancestor  ?  A.  B.  8. 


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Leap  Yeak.— Will  some  reader  refer  me  to 
some  ix>ok  iti  which  the  astronomical  reaaon 
for  thiH,  connected  with  the  revolation  of  the 
earth  round  the  sao,  is  clearly  explained? 
I  Bnd  this  hardly  (or  at  least  not  intelligibly 
to  the  ordinary  reader)  explained  either  in 
Dr.  Brewer's  excellent '  Dictionary  of  Phrase 
and  Fable  '  or  in  *  Words,  Facts,  and  Phrasee,' 
by  Eliezer  Edwards.  E.  P.  W. 

{S«e  'Astronomical  Notes'  in  the  Lfvfinf  Hour 
for  January,  from  the  pen  of  our  valued  contributor 
Mr.  W.  T.  Lvnn.] 

Field-names,  Brightwalton,  Beeks.— 
Will  Mr.  PEACOtrK  or  some  other  corre- 
spondent kindly  elucidate  the  following  field 
anti  street  names  found  in  this  parish  ? 

Snarrowbitl.  {There  is  a  .Sparrabills  in  or  aear 
Wolverlon,  Manta.) 

Pilowih. 

IVed's  Hill,  Dut«  Hill,  or  Dutsil. 

Wedding  Cioae. 

Pudding  Lane. 

Halistreet  Lan«,  1738.  (We  now  have  Hully 
Street  Lane  here.) 

In  neighbouring  parishes  are  to  be  found 
Californift  and  Egypt. 

George  C.  Peachby. 

Brightwalton,  Wantage. 

[California  is  explained  ante,  p.  126.] 

"  Flowers  ark  the  alphabet  of  angels." 
— Who  wrote,  and  in  what  book, 
Flowers  arc  the  alphabet  of  angels,  whereby 
They  write  on  hills  and  fields  myaterioua  truths  7 

John  A.  Randolph. 

Dickens  Qderibs.— 

1,  " '  Beg   yonr  pardon,    sir,'   said    Mr.  Jingle, 
'bottle  atanaa— p*M  it  round— way  of  the  auo— ' 
through  the   button-hole— no  heel-taps.'"— '  Pick, 
wick,  chap.  ii. 

Will  some  one  explain,  or  direct  me  to  an 
explanation  of,  the  phrase  "through  the 
button-hole"! 

" an  old  woman  whose  name  was  re^iorted  to 

be  Taniaroti.  The  boarders  had  appropriated  the 
word  from  an  English  ballad,  in  whion  it  is  sup- 
po«ed  to  ex])reB8  the  bold  and  fiery  nature  of  a 
certain  haclrney-coachnian."— '  Martin  Chunlewit,' 
chap,  xxxii. 

Is  this  ballad  authentic,  or  pure  invention 
on  Dickens's  part]  If  authentic,  where  could 
I  see  it? 
''Mr.  Donibey  had  little  t&8t«  for  music,  and  nu 

knowledge  of  tne  strain  she  played but  perhaps 

be  heard  among  the  sounding  strings  some  distant 
music  of  his  own,  that  tarued  the  monster  of  the 
Iran  road,  and  made  it  less  inexorable."— 'Dom bey 
and  Son,'  obap.  xxi.  (near  the  end). 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  last  portion  ? 
**  Monster  of  the  iron  road  "  suggests  a  loco- 
motive ;  but  what  is  it  doing  in  this  galley  7 

H.  K.  St.  J.  S. 


Periodicals  for  Women.— I  should  be 
very  grateful  for  any  information  concerning 
penodical  publications  intended  especially 
tor  feminine  readers,  which  were  brought 
out  prior  to  the  nineteenth  century.  The 
Ladys  Magazine,  I  believe,  first  appeared  in 
1770.  Had  it  an  earlier  prototypte?  During 
the  firnt  year  of  its  long  career  it  did  not 
contain  the  pUtes  illustrating  the  fashions  of 
the  day  which  are  found  in  later  volumes. 
The  Foiliionable  Magaziiie ;  or,  Lndy't  and 
GentUnmn's  Monthly  Recorder  of  New 
Ftuhions,  claims  in  the  preface  to  its  first 
number  (June,  1786)  to  be  the  first  magazine 
to  publish  such  costume  plates — "to  catcb 
the  evanescent  modes  of  dress,  and  portray 
them  with  fidelity  and  exactitude,"  are  its 
own  words.     Is  this  a-viertion  correct? 

TORFRIDA. 

"Mustlak":  '*  Muskyll."— What  is  the 
meaning  of  these  words,  which  occur  in  the 
wills  of  former  parishioners  of  Whitsbable 
(Kent)?- 

*'To  the  light  Mnstlar,  4fi." — Richard  Aleyn 
(1473). 

"To  a  light  in  the  church  of  Whitst«pl«  called 
the  Mnskyll  Up«ra."— Alice  Gentill  (1497). 

The  'Century  Dictionary'  gives  "muskylle" 
as  an  obsolete  form  of  mtunet. 

Abthub  Hdbsbt. 
Tankerton-OD-Sea,  Kent. 


f^tgl'ut. 


I 


TIDE.SWELL  AND  TIDESLOW. 
(9""  S.  xil  341,  517;  10"'  S.  i.  52,  91,  190.) 
There  are  several  puints  in  which  I  believe 
the  remarks  at  the  last  reference  to  be  wholly 
misleading.      I   seem    to   gather    that    the 
presence  of  -«-  is  regarded  as  being  the  solo 
evidence  of  the  use  of  a  name  in  the  genitive 
case  !     But  the  fact  is,  of  course,  that  a  very 
large  number  of  names  ended  in  -a,  and  were 
consequently  of  the  weak  declension,  with  a 
genitive  in  -an,  and  it  is  well  known  thst  thi» 
suffix  -an  more  often   disappears   than   noU^ 
There  was  also  a  feminine  genitive  in  -«,  ftoc" 
a  genitive  plural  in  -a  ;  both  of  these  sur 
almost  invariably  disappear.    Thus,  to  take' 
some    examples    from    my   '  Place-names   of 
Cambridge-jfiire,'  Haddennam  is     the  A.-S. 
Ijiedanham,  i.e.,  Ha^la's  home,  where  the  -r7* 
(representing  the   genitive)  Happens  to  be, 
kept  before  the  h ;  but  Papwortn,  formerl] 
Pappenworth,    representing  Pappa's   worth, 
has  lost  the  genitive  suffix  entirely.  Wilburli 
was  a  feminine  name,  with  a  genitive  in  -e; 
hence  in  Wilburton,  i.e..  "  Wilburh's  town." 
there   ia   no   sign   of   tne   genitive  at  all,. 


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I 


» 


DultinKhaiu  ia  for  Dyllinga  ham,  *'  the  home 
of  the  Dyllinss  "  ;  and  here  again  the  genitive 
BufRx  (I  has  uisappeared.  Not  only  so,  but 
even  the  -«  ia  not  unfrequently  dropped  j  the 
A.-S.  form  Lulles  worth,  i.«.,  Lull's  farm,"  is 
now  Lolworth.  Thurkell-low  can  hardly  be 
said  to  regist'er  '*  a  family  or  tribal  name "  ; 
it  registers  merely  the  name  of  an  individual. 
ThnrKell,  better  Thurkill,  is  so  common  a 
name  that  nearly  a  score  of  them  are  on 
record.  It  clearly  means  "Thurkill's  low," 
and  the  reason  why  the  s  has  disappeared  is 
simply  that  the  second  syllable  is  entirely 
unaccented.  Indeed,  there  can  be  no  doubt 
that  Thurkill  is  merely  short  for  Thurcytel. 

When  we  are  told  that  "  the  principle  of 
the  accidental  addition  or  elimination  of  a 
letter  is  applicable  to  all  periods,"  I  think  we 
may  fairly  demur  to  a  statement  so  astonish- 
ing. The  elimination  of  a  letter  is  easy 
enough  and  regular  enough,  but  the  addition 
of  one  (excepting,  of  course,  d  after  u  and 
similar  well-known  insertions  due  to  phonetic 
causes)  is  quite  another  matter.  Ia  it  possible 
to  produce  half  a  dozen  examples  of  modern 
place-names  containing  unoriginal  letters 
that  represent  real  a^JditionsI  I  doubt  it 
very  much,  and  I  think  that  a  search  for 
them  would  soon  demonstrate  the  enormous 
diflUculty  of  the  task  of  finding  tbem. 

Another  point  is  that  we  must  not  trust 
the  spellings  of  Domesday  Book  over  much. 
After  all,  the  scribes  were  Normans,  and  thoy 
often  made  a  sad  hash  of  Anglo-Saxon.  The 
modern  sound  of  a  name  may  sometimes  be  a 
better  guide.  It  is  notorious  that  they  often 
wrote  otde  under  the  impression  that  they 
were  expressing  the  English  suffix  worth; 
an<l  they  wrote  (orp  for  thorp,  and  ul/  for 
vnU/;  and  they  dropped  or  wrongly  inserted 
the  initial  k.  I  do  not  know  what  is  meant 
by  saying  that  "A.-S.  surnames  are  com- 
monly composed  of    two  syllablei^."     It   is 


form  of  the  name  in  every  case,  or  can  safely 
infer  it.  One  would  like  to  know  how  many 
cases  are  safe.  Are  there  no  examples  of 
genitives  in  an  amongst  all  this  vast 
number? 

There  are  three  "lows"  in  Cambridgeshire. 
None  of  them  exhibits  an  »»yet  two  of  them 
represent  personal  names.  Tadlow  is  "Tada's 
low";  Triplow  is  (probably)  "Trippa's  low." 
though  Domesday  nook  has  Trepeslau,  with 
an  <,  which  is  almost  certainly  wrong ;  and 
Bartlow,  formerly  Berklow,  simply  means 
"  barrow-barrow,"  the  low  explaining  the  berk, 
Walter  W.  Seeat. 

In  the  'Rotuli  Hundredorum,'  anno  1274, 
Tideswell  is  written  Tidiswelle,  Tudiswelle, 
and  Tyddeswelle.  These  forms  being  con- 
sistent with  the  Domesday  Tidesuuellej  it 
is  useless  to  suggest  "  the  possibility  of  Tide- 
well  having  been  the  original  designation." 
The  first  element,  both  in  Tideswell  and 
Tideslow,  is  the  A-S.  man's  name  Tidi,  and 
this  occurs,  in  the  fourteenth  century,  in  the 
compound  Tiddeman  or  Tydeman  (Bardsley'i 
'English Surnames,' 1876.  p.  23).  SoAddyman, 
in  'The  Returns  of  the  Poll  Tax  for  the  West 
Riding  of  Yorkshire '  in  1379.  contains  the 
A.-S.  man's  name  Addi  or  vEddi. 

We  are  told  :  "  Thatthe  suffix  -well  denotes 
a  spring  of  water,  and  does  not  represent,  in 
Mb.  Addy's  opinion,  '  a  field  or  paddock,'  ia 
clearly  shown  bv  Prof.  Skeat  to  be  erro- 
neous." Prof,  ^keat  did  not  discuss  thit 
point  at  all,  but  contented  himself  with 
saying  that  the  O.N.  viillr  would  be  loall  in 
English.  Now  one  of  the  things  which  I 
tri«l  to  prove  was  that  it  is  so  represented. 
I  showed  that  Tideswell  was  Tiddswall  in 
1610,  and  I  referre<l  to  New  Wall  Nook, 
Swinden  Walls,  Semary  Walls,  Ac.  And,  aa 
regards  the  earlier  suffix  -welle,  I  said  that 
the  dat.  sing,  of  vollr  is  velli.  Place-names 
are  often  in  the  dative,  the  preposition  at 


robftbly  me^nt  that  they  are  of  the  type  I  being  either  prefixed  or  understood.    In  the 
'uth-mund,  and   that  such    names    take    a    parcels  of  a  modem  deed  relating  to  land  in 


genitive  in  -ts.  But  there  are  thousands  of 
names  in  -a,  such  as  Winta,  with  a  genitive 
in  -an,  and  such  names  usually  give  out  one 
syllable  in  modern  English,  witn  no  visible 
genitive  .sign.  It  is  quite  absurd  to  found 
any  argument  upon  such  a  fact  as  this  ;  for 
"  Winta's  worth     has  become  Wentworth. 

Then  the  inference  is  drawn  that  of  253 
•'  lows  ■'  noteti  in  a  certain  list  only  26  contain 
the  genitive  sign.  No  one  can  be  expected 
to  accept  tltis ;  the  chances  are  that  there 
was  a  genitive  sign  once  in  at  least  200  of 
them,  though  some  may  be  descriptive  of 
their  position.    But,  of  courau,  no  one  can 

Jl  the  true  results  until  we  have  the  A.-S.  i 


]3rinsworth,  near  Rotherham,  1  find  sotae 
fields  called  Blind  Wells.  Both  in  A.-S.  and 
O.N.  blind  has  the  meaning  of  *'  dark,"  so 
that  the  name  may  sUnd  for  O.N.  *hUnd- 
vellir,  i.e.,  dark,  or  sunless,  fields.  Our 
ancestors  were  clever  enough  to  appreciate 
the  difierence  in  value  between  the  sunnv 
and  the  dark  side  of  a  hill.  Again,  Uke  such 
a  local  name  ss  Cromwell  or  Uruiubwell. 
Here  the  first  element  is  the  A.-S.  crumA, 
crooked.  There  was  a  Crooked  -  Croft  in 
Sheffield  in  1817  (Brownell's  '  Directory  of 
Sheffield  '  for  that  year,  p.  26),  and  Cromwell 
means  the  same  thing.  Perhaps  somebody 
will  t«ll  us  what  are  the  old  forms  of  Corn- 


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wall,  for,  vrimd  faeit,  the  word  seems  to  mean 
horn  fiela,  or  cape  field. 

I  inii^ht  have  referred  to  other  personal 
namea  in  Mr.  Bateraan's  list  of  Derbyshire 
lotos.  For  instance,  Yarns  low  is  Earnes-hlaw, 
the  burial-mound  of  Earn.  These  are  not 
"family  names,"  aa  Dr.  Bkushfikld  supposes, 
bat  personal  names.  In  the  '  Crawford 
Charters,'  p.  70,  Prof.  Napier  and  Mr. 
Stevenson  say  thatA/du'  "is  almost  invariably 
joined  with  a  personal  name,  no  doubt 
recording  the  person  buried  therein."  The 
Derbyshire  Baslow,  Domesday  Basse-lau, 
mentioned  by  Dr.  Bbcshfield,  contains  the 
A.-S.  man's  name  Bassa,  ^n.  Bassan, 
occurring  once  in  Mr.  Searle's  '  Onomasticon,' 
and  once  latinized  as  Bassus.  According  to 
Sievers-Cook,  'Grammar  of  Old  English,' 
?76n.,  "final  -n  is  discarded  in  Northumbrian," 
so  that  Basse  may  here  stand  for  Bassen, 
I.e.,  Baaaan,  the  meaning  of  the  wliolo  word 
being  Bassa's  burial-mound.  Mr.  Searle 
(p.  531)  gives  Tunna  ctestir  for  Tunnan 
cssstir.  S.  O.  Addy. 


The  Wrick  of  thk  Waoek  (lO""  S.  i.  201). 
—In  my  note  on  this  subject  I  omitted  to 
say  that  Capt.  Cheap  died  in  1762,  aged 
fifty-five. 

One  would  like  to  know  more  about  that 
interesting  character  Dr.  Patrick  Gedd  (or 
Geddesi),  the  Scotch  physician  at  Santiago, 
who,  in  his  own  house  there,  entertained  for 
a  long  time,  and  with  great  hospitality,  Cheap, 
Hamilton,  Byron,  and  Carapbeli  ('  Narrative.' 
pp.  215,  235).  He  is  said  to  have  been  much 
esteemed  by  the  Spaniards  for  his  professional 
abilities  and  humane  disposition.  "  Don 
Patricio  Gedd,"  a  worthv  "  Scot  abroad,"  was 
perhaps  related  to  the  Edinburgh  goldsmith 
of  stereotyping  fame.  W.  S. 

Football  on  Shrove  Tuesday  (lO**"  S.  i 
127,  194).  —  G.  W.  need  not  be  under  any 
apprehension  that  the  "  Worki'ton  fuitba' 
(•lay  "  has  ceased.  With  each  recurring  Easter 
Tuesday  there  go  from  all  parts  of  Cumber- 
land excursion  trains  carrying  thousands  of 
hpeotators  to  the  CJofTocks,  whore  the  game 
is  played,  but  on  Good  Friday  there  is  a  kind 
of  trial  game,  in  whicli  the  youngsters  are 
the  contestants.  How  or  when  this  ancient 
custom  originated  no  one  can  say,  there 
l)eing  no  local  records  to  throw  light  upon  it. 
The  earliest  reference  I  have  been  able  to 
find  is  in  the  Cumberland  Pacqwt  of  Tuesday, 
25  April,  1797  ;— 


"The  Workington  annual  football  match,  on 
E«8ter  Tawday,  wu  won  by  the  aeanieo.  AfU;r 
that  was  decided,  &  bell  was  i>ro<i«o«(1.  to  bo  wrestled 


for,  when  no  lew  than  forty  competitors  appeand. , 
After  a  hard  etnigi{l<»  the  prise  wm  won  by  ' 
Brisoo,  a  roan  abont  fifty  yeara  of  ««e." 

Noting  from  the  communication  by  Mb. 
EvEEAiiD  Home  Colkmak  that  no  reference 
to    Workington    football    is    contained    iQ] 
'N.  «fe  Q.,'   I  may  perhaps  be  permitted 
supplement    the    necessarily    brief   account 
given  in  my  '  Bygone  Cumberland  and  West- 
morland,' and   partly  quotefl    by   Mr.  Mal' 
Michael.    The  goals  are  about  a  ndle  apart, 
one  being  the  inner  side  of  Workington  Hall 
Park  wall,  and  the  other  a  capstan  at  the 
bottom    of    the   harbour.      Between    those 
points  are  the  quays,  the  parish  church,  two 
fines  of  railway  (each   cutting   right  across 
the  field  of  play),  and   numerous  foundries 
and  other  places  of  business.    On  the  south 
lies  the  town,  gradually  rising  to  the  park, 
and   on   the  north   the  swift -flowing   river 
Derwent.      The    teams    are    de-iignated    re- 
spectively  "  Uppies  "  and   "  Dowuies,"    and 
ai-e  supposed  to  consist,  the  first  of  colliers, 
ironworkers,     and     countrymen,     and     the 
"Downies"  of  sailors,   dock   labourers,  and 
workmen  from  the  quaysides.     As  a  matter 
of  fact,  any  one  can  join  in  the  play —the  more 
the  merrier— and  it  is  no  unusual  thing  to  see 
a  couple  of  hundred  men  and  youths  engaged 
in  the  fray,  but  on  which  side  they  were 
fighting  comparatively  few  could  say.    There 
is  only  one  rule  — to  get  it  by  any  possible 
means,  fair  or  unfair,  either  over  the  park 
wall  or  on  to  the  capstan  on  the  quay.    The 
players  may  go  on  to  the  streets  (all  business 
13  suspended  for  the  afternoon)  in  order  to 
circumvent  their  opponents.    On  the  other 
hand,  the  chances  are  that  if  a  man  is  found 
with  the  ball  in  his  possession  when  near  the 
river  he  will  bo  tossed  into  the  sti-eam  and 
held   there  until  he    relinquishes    his  hold. 
i  Such  a  game  is,  of  course,   dangerous,  and 
within  the  last  forty  years  more  than  one 
life  has  been  lost  in  this  way.    The  ball,  it 
should  be  remarked,  is  not  of  the  kind  ordin- 
arily used  in  football,  but  is  harder  and  much 
smaller  ;  it  is  made  specially  for  each  match. 
For  verjy'   many   years  an   old    man    named 
Dalgleisn  threw  off  the  ball  from  a  footbridge 
crossing  a  dirty  sewer-like  beck  which  runs 
through  the  ClofiFocks,  and  on  his  death  ho 
was  succeeded  by  his  son.    The  struggle  is 
always  fierce,  as  may  bo  suppose^!  under  the 
circumstances,  and  the  players,  after  a  few 
tumbles  in   the  beck,   are  almost    unrecog- 
nizable, while  their  shirts  are  torn  to  riblwns. 
There  is  nothing  edifying  in  the  t^xhibitjon, 
though  plenty  of  rough  humour  may  be  found. 
Sometimes  the  game  lasts  from  3  or  4  o'clock 
in  the  afternoon  till  late  at  night.    Should 


10*8.  I.  MjLSCHig,  19(M.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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the  ball  be  '•hailed"  over  the  park  wall, 
Fihe  winners  go  to  the  Hall  and  receive  a 
sovereign.  The  event  h  the  occasion  of 
KDUch  drunkenness,  hence  the  growing  dis- 
pfax'oar  with  which  the  annual  gathenng  ia 
regarded  by  orderly  people  ;  but,  judging  bv 
the  experience  of  tne  past,  the  "  f uitba' "  will 
be  continued  so  long  as  there  is  any  of  the 


Cloflfocka  left  on  which  to  play 


6,  Yiotoria  Road,  Penrith. 


ANiEL  Scott. 


Rite  AND  Tuscan  Pawnbrokers  (10"*  S.  i. 
148).  — Rue,  as  well  as  scarlet  thread,  is 
Btill  in  Italy  a  protective  from  the  evil  eye, 
but  an   additional    reason  why  the   Tuscan 

E awn  brokers  use  it  is  that,  like  the  use  of 
ivender  by  the  old  English  pawnbrokers  to 
protect  their  pledges  from  the  moth,  it  was 
employed,  on  account  of  its  stroni^  and  dia- 
agreeable  odour,  as  a  prophylactic  against 
such  infectious  diseases  as  were  likely  to  be 
associated  with  pledges  received  at  the  Italian 
numti  dipieta.  Tusser,  in  his  *  Five  Hundred 
Points  of  Husbandrie,'  says : — 

What  savour  is  better,  if  physicke  be  true. 
For  places  infected,  than  Wormwood  and  Kue? 

And  Robert  Turner,  in  his  'British  Physician,' 
1687,  p.  280,  says  :  *'  It  in  an  excellent  anti- 
dote against  pui^ons,  and  infections.  The 
very  smell  thereof  is  a  preservation  against 
the  Plague,  in  the  time  of  infection  (see 
also  his  Enchiridion  Medicum,'  1657,  p.  63). 
There  is  an  admirable  "turnover"  on  rue, 
entitled  '  Herby-graaa,'  in  the  Gto(/e  of  some 
date  in  the  latter  half  of  last  year,  where  it 
is  observed  that  in  the  old  days  before  prison 
reform  had  been  heard  of,  when  strong- 
amelling  herbs  were  always  placed  profurtely 
>  before  prisoners  brought  into  the  dock  at 
'the  Old  Bailey  and  elsewhere,  bunches  of  rue 
nsually  figured  prominently  among  these 
herbal  defences. 

Rue  entere^i  into  the  composition  of  the 
once  noted  "  vinegar  of  the  four  thieves."  It 
U  said  that  four  thieves,  during  the  plague  of 
Marseilles,  invented  this  anti  -  pestilential 
vinegar,  by  means  of  which  they  entered 
[infecten  houses  without  danger,  and  stole  all 

froperty  worth  removiijg.  In  Venice  rue  is 
,  eptasacharm  in  a  house  to  maintain  its 
good  fortune  (see  Folkard's  '  Plant -lore,' 
1884,  p.  531). 

Ah  to  theamuletic  virtues  of  scarlet  thread, 
[the  author  of  'In  a  Tuscan  Garden'  was 
[•vidently  unaware,  when  he  wrote  derisively 
Uof  the  possibility  of  the  Eskdale  shepherd 
[t^'ing  up  the  tails  of  his  yearlings  with  a  red 
[nfalKJii,  that  the  ficotcli  farmer  does  still,  in 
iiuQ  parts,   fasten  a  small    twig    cross  of 


rowan-wood,  wound  about  with  red  thread, 
to  the  tails  of  his  cattle,  as  a  defence  from 
the  evil  eye.  This  it  in  accordance  with  the 
old  adage  :— 

Rowan-tree  and  red  tbreed 
Put  the  witches  to  their  speed. 

Having  given  the  subject  some  little 
attention,  I  am  convinced  that  the  universal 
belief  in  the  sanguine  colour's  protective 
qualities  is  a  survival  of  aolar  worship, 
and  that  it  is  consanguinity— the  consan- 
guinity of  colour  —  to  the  sun  that  has 
obtained  for  red  objects  the  world  over  such 
superstitious  regard.  When,  in  the  Isle  of 
Man,  coughs  were  believed  to  be  cured  by 
the  use  of  red  flannel,  the  virtue  lay  in  the 
colour,  not  in  the  flannel  ('Notes  on  Manx 
FiilkAore,'  Anti^rtary,  November,  1875,  p.  346). 
The  red  gelatine  exuded  from  a  prickly 
shrub  {Spina  egyptia)  was  worn  as  an  amulet 
to  prevent  blindno.ss  or  other  malignant 
influence  of  female  demons  (And.  Crichton's 
'Arabia,' 1862,  p.  152;  see  also  p.  73  ibid.). 
In  the  sculptured  reliefs  of  the  great  rock- 
hewn  temple  of  Ipsam-bul  is  a  battle  scene 
similar  to  those  on  the  temple  of  Thebes,  in 
which  the  hero  and  his  attendants  are 
painted  red,  while  the  vanquished  are  yellow 
(Qau's  'Antiquit«Ss  de  la  Nubie,'  I  think, 
plate  61).  The  ancient  British  antiquities  in 
the  British  Museum  have  been  since  re- 
arrange<l,  I  believe ;  but  I  remember  seeing 
amonK  them  a  beautifully  ornamented  shield 
(po.ssibly  Romano-British)  in  the  centre  of 
which  was  some  design  in  red  enamel.  A 
red  pencil  is  usetl  for  dots  over  the  mystic 
worls  on  ancestral  tablets  of  wood  set 
up  in  the  houses  of  the  Chinese  (see  the 
Fortnightly  Review,  February,  1895, '  Ancestor 
Worship  in  China,'  by  U.  S.  Gundry).  Other 
instances,  too  numerous  for  '  N.  &  Q.,'  might 
be  given  from  every  corner  of  the  world. 
See  also  Comhill  M(uj(uine,  January,  1876, 
p.  50,  'Comparative  Mythology,'  by  J.  A. 
Farrer.  J.  HoLDEN  MacMichael. 

Is  it  not  probable  that  the  alleged  popu- 
larity of  rue  witli  Tuscan  pawnbrokers  is  a 
survival  of  the  .superstition  which  imputed 
to  that  herb  the  power  of  warding  oft 
pestilence  or  neutralizing  poison,  for  both  of 
which  Italy  once  had  an  unenviable  notoriety, 
and  to  the  former  of  which  such  repositories 
would  be  at  all  times  particularly  exposed  I 
And  on  the  other  hand,  among  the  people  its 
common  use  against  epidemic  disease  might 
reasonably  gain  for  it  a  sinister  reputation, 
from  its  presence  being  indicative  of  danger. 

As  for  the  connexion  between  St.  Petor'a 
Day  and  green  figs,  if  the  coincident  ripeness 


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of  the  latter  is  the  explanation,  then  what 
about  "Lent"  figs— still  so  called  in  this  part 
of  the  country— and  Mid-Lent  Sunday? 

Gkobgk  C.  Pbachey. 
BriKhtwaltoD. 

Charlks  the  Bold  (10^  S.  i.  189).— If  for 
*'  Henry,  Count  of  Lancaster,"  we  read  Henry, 
Earl  of  Lancaster,  his  connexion  with  Charles 
the  Bold  is  easily  shown.    Charles's  maternal 

I  grandmother  waaPhilippa  Plan  tageuet,  Queen 
of  Portugal,  daughter  of  John  of  Gaunt, 
Duke  of  Lancaster,  by  Blanche  Plantagenet, 
his  first  wife,  who  was  granddaughter  of 
Henry,  Earl  of  Lancaster,  grandson  of  King 
Henry  -III.  Can  Mr.  Nuttall  give  ua  the 
blazon  of  this  "  the  only  English  shield  "  on 

,  Charles's  tomb?    If  so,  tnat  would  decide  the 

aueation.     Henry,   Earl   of   Lancaster,    bore 
fules,   three  lions   passant  guardant  or,   a 
bendlet  azure.  H.  Muhray  Lane. 

The  exact  connexion  of  the  Duke  of 
Burgundy  with  the  House  of  Lancaster  is  as 
follows  :  his  mother,  Isabel  of  Portugal,  was 
daughter  of  John  1.  of  that  kingdom  and 
Philippa  of  Lancaster,  full  sister  to  King 
Henry  IV.  of  England.  A.  R.  Bayley. 

Charles  the  Bold  was  descended  from  the 
House  of  Lancaster  thus  : — 
Henry,  Duke  of  Lancaster,  surnamed  the  Good, 
greftt-Krandson  of  Henry  III 


jok 


Blanche,  m.  John  of  Gaunt. 

Philippa,  ni.  Joool.  of  Portugal. 

laabel,  m.  Philip  of  Burgundy. 

I 

Charlea  the  Bold. 

Hkloa. 
[Reply  aim  from  Mb.  0.  E.  Lkrdb.] 

"  Pannage  and  tollaoe  "  (10*  S.  i.  126).— 
The  rights  of  pannage  are  perhaps  described 
with  more  regard  to  detail  in  a  statute  of 
William  III.,  cap.  36  (Shipping):- 

"  All  personB  having  any  Right  of  Common  of 
Paature,  or  any  Privilf^a  within  the  New  Forest, 
ahall  enjoy  their  Right  of  Pannage  between 
14  Sept.  and  11  Nov.  after  Michaelmas,  1716, 
and  not  before,  on  forfeiture  of  any  Hogg. 
Pieg>  or  Swine,  that  after  Micha«lnia.H  next,  and 
before  the  time  aforesaid,  shall  be  found  in  the 
Waatea  of  the  said  Forest :  And  their  Common  of 
Pastare  is  continued  to  them  in  the  said  Wast 
Ground  of  the  Forest,  when  not  Inclosed,  except  in 
the  Fence  month,  viz.,  IS  days  before  and  after 
Midaummer,  and  in  the  Winter  Heyning,  viz.,  from 
11  Nov,  to  '^  Apr.  subject  to  the  Forest  Laws,  as 
thev  might  have  enjoyed  the  same  before  the  making 
of  tnis  Act :  Saving  also  to  the»diacent  InhabiUots 
their  ancient  right  of  Fuel,  provided  they  do  not  sell 
or  dispose  of  any  part  thereof,  nor  take  the  same 
in  other  nuumer  than  they  ought,  nor  by  reaaon  of    closing   years 


any  Claim  not  allowed  eecording  to  the  Forest  Uwa 
l>efore  27  Eliz." 

The  reason  that  this  comes  under  the  head- 
ing of  •* Ships  and  Shipping"  is  that  it  had 
lately  been  enacted  "  that  2000  Acres,  part  of 
the  Wast  Lands  of  the  New  Forest. .....shall  to 

enoloeed  and  kept  in  severalty,  for  the  Growth 
and  Preservation  of  Timber  for  supply  of  his 
Maiestv's  Navy." 

"  Tollage  "  may,  I  think,  be  more  generally 
described  as  the  right  conferred,  by  Paymg 
tribute  or  custom,  to  buy  and  sell  withm  tne 
precincts  of  a  manor,  such  tolls  going  towards 
the  repair  of  any  damage  the  part  used  may 
have  sustained.  (See  *  A  ^"*»°"»^»°°  ^^^l*"^ 
Abridgment  of  all  the  Statutes  of  K-  WiJ^»*™ 
and  Q  Mary  and  of  William  the  Third  '  begun 
by  J>ashington,  of  the  Middle  Temple,  Esq., 

1699.)  J-   HOLDEN   MacMiCHAEL. 

"COCKSHUT  TIME"    (lO"*   S.   i.    121,    195).- 

Cockshute  as  a  place-name,  ^hatever  ito 
original  derivation,  is  of  ancient  use.  In  tfte 
grant  to  Roger  Williams  of  t^e  coufi8<*ted 
fands  of  the  Priory  of  St.  Mary,  Usk, 
35  Henry  VHI.,  the  following  parcel  w 
spociBed :  "Certaruro  terrarum  vo<»t  Lock- 
ahute-"  It  retains  the  name  to  this  aay, 
and  so  appears  on  the  Ordna^  rickabdb. 

The  Priory.  Usk. 

'Recommended  to  Mercy'  (IO^S.1  lOW- 
-=I  find  on  reference  to  Mrs.  M.  C  Houstouns 
novel  having  this  title  that  it  is  not  the  ato^ 
Tarn  in  search  of.  No  doubt  it  is  anojer 
novel  bearing  the  s*"^^ ^itle.  The  hermne 
(instead  of  Helen,  as  in  the  above)  is  named 
either  Rosalind  or  Rosaline.  Can  any  oM 
kindly  help  me  in  my  q^gj^^^  Latbam. 

Epitaph  ok  Sir  John  Seymour  (\^^:^ 
87ri37).-Ought  we  not  to  re^  g^S^^ 
the  vocative  singular  t         b.  »•  uowison. 

"Son  cosfort  et  uessk"  (9'"  S- xii.  «4»).-- 

This,  which  is  the  present  form  of  the  motto 

^"^^v..\u.>  v-..->ugh  of  Doncaster,  is  due  to 

It  anoears  on    the   charter 


u^ed^by'the  borough  of  Doncaster  is  due  to 
a  misreading.  It  appears  on  th 
granted  to  tlie  town  by  Edward  IV- tnl^JT 
as  «  Don-Confort  et  Liesse"  (see  B®«*™.» 
of  the  Borough  of  Doncaster,'  1899,  vol.  u 
p.  iv  n.).  The  arms  are  a  lion  seated  on  a 
cushion  powdered  ermine,  holding  a  banner 
whereon  is  drawn  a  castle.  VY.  L-.  o. 


"Silly  Billy"    (10^"    S.   i- .  ^83>:  tJ*»5 

expression    was   applied    to    the    Duke    of 

Gloucester  tbrougfiout  '^e  greater  part  of 

his  life,  but  was  given  to  William  iV.  lu  the 

of    his  career  by  those  who 


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condemned  hia  persoDal  demeanour  and  his 
political  action.  One  anecdote  of  the  Duke 
of  Gloucester  occurs  to  rae.  He  was  being 
shown  over  a  lunatic  asylum,  and  was 
inspecting  the  inmates  through  the  windows 
of  their  cells.  One  of  them,  when  he  saw  the 
face  of  the  inspecting  visitor,  cried  out, 
"  Hallo  !  there 's  Silly  Billy."  "  Ah,"  said  the 
Dnke,  withdrawing  from  the  window,  "I  see 
that  he  hati  his  lucid  moments." 

W.   P.  COOBTNKY. 

That  nephew  of  King  Oeor^e  III.  who 
wa.%  known  in  his  youth  as  Pnnce  William 
of  Gloucester,  and  subsequently  became  the 
second  Duke  of  Gloucester,  was  nicknamed 
"  Silly  Billy,"  as  I  have  hoard  from  the  lips 
of  a  still  surviving  godson  of  H.K.H.        H. 

William  IV.  was  a  popular  king  during 
h\n  short  reign.  John  Mitford  (a  man  of 
birth  and  abilities,  who  had  served  under 
Hood  and  Nelson,  and  was  the  author  of 
'Johnny  Newcome  in  the  Navy')  wrote  a 
once  very  popular  song,  '  The  King  is  a  True 
British  Sailor.'  See  Howitt's  'Visifca  to 
Remarkable  Places,'  vol.  ii.  p.  394. 

John  Pickford,  M.A. 

Saiap  or  Salop  (9""  S.  xii.  448 ;  lO"*  S.  i. 
07,  138).— I.  B.  B.  is  right  when  he  says  that 
salep  Is  not  always  obtained  from  the  orchid- 
tuber.  Indeed,  if  my  last  note  on  the  subject 
gave  this  impression  it  nhould  not  go  un- 
corrected, for  the  preparation  of  salep  from 
the  common  meadow  and  male  orchis,  and 
some  other  species  of  Britinh  orchifl;*,  made 
it  only  an  imitation  of  the  genuine  Oriental 
article,  which  consists  almunt  entirely  of  a 
peculiar  gummy  substance  called  ba«sorin 
and  starcTi,  and  waM  considered  to  be  more 
nutritious  than  either  sago  or  arrowroot. 
The  method  of  concocting  the  English  saloop 
is  descril)ed  by  Mr.  Moult  in  the  FhilosoftAical 
Tranaactiom : — 

"The  best  time  to  ^ther  the  tnbera  is  when  the 
seed  is  formed,  ajid  the  s tftik  ia  koid^  to  fall,  for 
then  the  new  bulb  of  which  KaJep  is  made,  is 
arrived  at  its  full  size.  The  new  roots  are  washed 
ill  water,  the  outer  fkin  removed,  and  then  set  on 
a  tin  plate,  in  an  oven  heated  sufficiently  to  bake 
bread.  In  six,  eight,  or  ten  minutes  they  will  have 
bevonie  semi -transparent,  like  horn,  without  any 
diminution  of  size.  Then  remove  them  from  the 
oven  nnd  place  them  in  a  room  to  dry  and  harden, 
which  they  will  do  in  a  few  da^s ;  or  this  prooeas 
may  be  effected  by  t  he  application  of  a  alow  heat 
in  a  few  hours.  The  roots  should  then  be  (towdered 
or  ground  in  a  mill,  and  put  into  canisters,  and  so 
kept  dry." 

J.  HoLPBi*  MacMichasl. 

FbbrI'ARY  30  (10^  8.  J.  166).— Cards  at  a 
ooet  of  one  penny  each  are  to  be  bought  at 


Otiey  and  some  of  the  adjacent  villages  con- 
taining the  following : — 

A  CnRIOUB  URAVE-STONE. 

The  following  appears  on  a  grave-stone  in  the 
church-yard  of  the  picturesque  village  of  Fewston, 
in  the  Washburn  Valley,  near  Otlcy,  Yorkshire  : — 
To  the  memory  of  Joseph  Ridsdale  of  Bluberhouse, 

who  died  Febuary  the  29th.  1823,  aged  79  years. 

Also  £lirAbeth  his  wife,  March  the  I8th,  I813» 
aged  .lO  years. 

And  William  their  son,  aied  Febuary  the  30th, 
1802,  aged  23  years. 

It  will  be  seen  that  the  letter  "  r  "  is  omitted  f  rorer 
"  February  "  in  each  case ;  that  it  La  impoesible  to 
have  "  February  the  29lh,  1823,"  or  "February  the 
.SOth,  1802,"  a.1  the  former  is  not  a  leap-year,  and  tho 
latter  is  (^uite  out  of  the  question ;  and  that  the 
order  of  the  dates  when  death  occurred  is  reversed. 

Of  course,  every  oiM  knows  that  Juliu» 
Csesar  reformed  the  calendar  by  establishing 
the  system  of  I  hree  years  of  365  days,  followea 
by  the  leap  year  or  366  dava,  and  that  thia 
division  gave  February  30  days,  the  general 
idea  of  Ctesar  being  that  the  months  should 
alternate  31  and  30  days  respectively. 

The  month  of  Quintilis,atterwarns  altered 
to  Julius  in  honour  of  Cassar,  contained  31 
days,  and  his  uuccessor  the  Emperor  Augustus 
changed  the  name  of  the  month  Sextilis  to 
August,  and  took  one  day  from  February  to 
make  it  of  equal  length  to  the  month  named 
after  his  predecessor,  thus  breaking  up  the 
regularity  of  Csesar's  arrangement  altogether. 
Charles  F.  Forshaw,  LL.D  , 
Editor  Yorkihire  Nota  and  Qur>-ie$, 

Bradford. 

In  Addorbnry  Church,  Oxfordshire,  there 
is,  just  within  the  chancel,  a  small  brans  on 
the  floor  inscribed  : — 

"  Here  lyeth  Jane  8myth  sometime  the  wyfe  of  | 
(ieorge  Smyth  of  Adderoury  the  whiche  dyed  I  th* 
XXX  day  of  tfebruary  in  the  yere  of  our    Lord  | 
M\'n-iii  on  whose  soule  Ihfi  have  mercy  ame." 

J.  ASTLEY. 
Coventry. 

Earl  of  Eoremont  (lO"*  S.  i.  148,  192). 
—I  remember  seeing  the  issues  of  the  Daily 
Wegirrn  Times,  but  cannot  give  their  date. 

In  Petwortn  House  there  is  a  picture 
bearing  on  the  frame  the  endorsement 
"Elizabeth,  Countess  of  Egremout."  I  believe 
it  is  by  Romiiey.  She  is  represented  in  a 
reclining  attituae  on  a  sofa-cushion  placed 
on  the  ground,  and  about  her  stand  her  twO' 
sons  and  two  dauahterj  (all  bom  before  the 
following  recorded  ceremony);  the  eldest  aon 
holds  a  bow  and  arrow.  These  sons  were  the 
proaenitors  of  the  present  important  families 
of  Leoonfield  and  the  Wyndhams  of  Sussex. 
In  a  register  belonging  to  Petworth  Church 
is  the  following  entry  :— 


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"  Th«  ye»r  1801,  page  37.  No.  146.  -George  OUrien, 
Earl  of  Egreinont,  of  this  pariah,  bachelor,  and 
Elisabeth  Ilive,  of  the  same  parish,  spinster,  were 
married  in  this  Church  by  Licence,  this  16th  riay  of 
July,  ill  the  year  one  thousand  eight  hundred  and 
one,  by  me  1  homos  Vernon,  Uurale. 

"  This  marriage  was  soiemnis^  between  ua, 
O'Brien  EKrenioni,  Eli/Abeth  Hive,  in  the  presence 
of  William  Tayler,  John  Upton." 

It  is  puzzling  to  note  that,  from  the  time  of 
the  ceremony  in  1601  up  to  the  death  of  thi.s 
unfortuuate  lady  iu  1822,  a  period  of  twenty- 
one  years,  the  Elarl  appears  not  to  have 
-admitted  the  validity  of  this  marriage,  a8 
4ihe  various  peerages  of  hi*)  time  (which  must 
. iiave  l^eeo  duly  .submitted  to  him  for  his 
cevision),  as  well  as  sundry  works  of  family 
ihistory,  state  that  he  died  unmarried — also 
■the  lady  was  known  in  Petworth  simply  as 
•'  Mrs.  Wyndham."  Nevertheless,  she  was 
buried  at  Bt.  Decuman's,  a  lonely  church  on 
the  cliffs  of  Somersetshire,  in  the  old  burial- 

Jlace  of  the  Dukes  of  Somerset,  and  her 
urial  (conducted  by  a  cousin  of  the  late 
Dean  Alfortl)  is  tliere  entere<l  as  that  of 
*'  CouotosH  of  Egremont,"  without  any  dis- 
tinguishing Christian  name.  This  is  a  some- 
what strange  coincidence,  as  it  suggests  a 
p08.sible  explanation  of  the  doubt  —  were 
there  two  countesses  existing  at  the  same 
time,  and  was  there  a  reason  for  leaving  the 
identity  of  the  one  ambiguous?  There  is  a 
tradition  that  this  lady  at  the  time  of  her 
death  (at  Hiirlingham)  had  long  been  living 
there  apart  froui  the  Earl,  and  that  her 
burial  was  arranged  solely  by  her  brother,  a 
Devonshire  farmer,  and  that  none  of  the 
Earl's  family  appeared  at  it.  This  might 
account  for  her  title  only  being  given  in  this 
indefinite  and  informal  manner,  which  could 
hardly  have  occurred  had  the  Earl  revised 
the  entry.      Former  Pktworth  Hesidknt. 

H.  refers  to  the  entailed  e-states  of  this 
nobleman.  The  entail  was  made  by  the  will 
of  his  father,  Charles,  the  second  earl,  dated 
31  July,  17(jl,  and  proved  in  1763.  (See  Folio 
•Csesar,'  No-  379,  Probate  Division,  Somerset 
House.)  This  will  entailed  Petworth,  Cocker- 
mouth  Castle,  and  the  Loudcm  property  in 
Piccadilly,  on  tfie  male  line  legitimately  born  ; 
failing  which  the  entail  passed  to  the  male 
descendants  of  Earl  Charles's  two  daughters, 
the  Countesses  of  Carnarvon  and  Komney. 
When  was  the  entail  broken  ?  Certainly  not 
by  the  fourth  earl.  Arcu^olooist. 

8lK    CUKISTOPHEE     PAJlKljrs     OR    PERKINB, 

D.C.L.  (O"*  S.  xL  J24).  —  He  was  perhaps 
identical  with  the  "Christopher  Parkines " 
who  was  baptized  on  5  February,  l.'»43/4,  at 
iit.  Mary,  Heading  (Register,  by  Uev.  G.  P. 


Crawfurd).  I  have  now  found  the  cause, 
sought  at  the  above  reference,  of  the  two 
compositions  for  the  first-fruits  of  Eastou 
Rectory,  Hants,  in  December,  1559.  The  See 
of  Winchester  being  vacant  by  the  depriva- 
tion of  Dr.  John  White,  the  Crown,  by  letters 
patent  of  28  November,  1559  (Rot.  Pat.  2  Eliz., 
pt.  i.),  presented  John  Devereji  to  the  rectory, 
which  was  in  the  gift  of  the  Bishops  of  Win- 
cheater,  and  which  bad  lately  been  vacant  by 
the  death  of  Dr.  E<lmuna  Stuard.*  But 
Deveres  failed  to  obtain  institution,  because 
one  Christopher  Parkins,  clerk,  had  been 
already  institutetJ,  23  November,  1559,  ap- 
parently as  nominee  of  Dr.  Matthew  Parker, 
Archbishop  of  Canterbury,  who  seems  to 
have  made  good  his  claim,  as  against  the 
Crown,  to  appoint  to  the  living.  Deveres 
and  his  sureties  were  consequently  released 
from  liability  under  their  composition  bond 
(First-fruits.  Plea  Roll,  3  Eliz.),  and  he 
appears  to  have  been  consoled  in  1560  with 
the  rectory  of  St.  Michael,  Queenbithe 
(Foster's  'Alumni  Oxon.,  1500-1714,'  p.  399, 
No.  7).  It  seems  very  unlikely  that  his  suc- 
cessful rival  was  the  future  Sir  Christopher. 
Possibly  the  rival  could  be  identified  with 
Christopher  Perkins,  of  Ufton,  Berks,  who 
became  scholar  at  Winchester  in  1519. 

H.  C. 

Arms  of  Lincoln,  Citv  and  See  (lO**"  S, 
i.  168).— The  arms  of  the  City  of  Lincoln  are 
recorded  in  the  CJoUege  of  Arms  as  Argent, 
on  a  cross  gules  a  fleur-de-lis  or  (Davies  and 
Crooke's  '  Book  of  Public  Arms  ').  The  Cor- 
poration seal  is  a  triple-towered  castle.  The 
arras  of  the  See  of  Lincoln  are  Gules,  two 
lions  passant  gardant  or  :  on  a  chief  azure 
Our  Lady  sitting  with  her  Babe,  crowned  and 
sceptred  or.  These  arras  are  a  composition 
from  the  supposed  arms  of  the  first  Norman 
bishop,  Remigius  de  Fescamp  (1067-92),  and 
the  dedication  of  the  cathed  ral.  On  a  portrait 
of  Bishop  Williams,  1621,  at  Bi.shoptliorpe, 
York,  the  sitting  figure  is  in  j)rofile,  and  no 
Babe  is  discernible  ('The  Blazon  of  Epis- 
copacy,' by  the  Rev.  W.  K.  Riland  Bedford, 
1897,  p.  70).  J.  HoLDEN  MacMicuiel. 

"  The  eternal  femfnine  "  (lo""  S.  i.  108).— 
In  my  French  dictionary,  as  an  illustration 
of  the  phrase  "  I'eternel  f^minin,"  the  follow- 
ing is  quoted  from  H.  Blaze  de  Bury  :  — 

"  Cest  iin  visage  extiuis,  tr^  rd^uUer,  du  plus  par 
ovale,  avec  des  youx  d'un  brun  fonc6  et  reapirant 
toutes  les  auavit^  de  I'^ternel  femiuin." 

Although   I  have  failed  to  trace  the  exact 

*  Dean  of  Winchester,  March,  15534;  deprii'sd 
irtSf)  (Cniiijer's  '  Athenw  Cantab.,'  i.  205). 


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reference,  having  no  better  clue  tliaa  the 
mere  name  of  the  author,  yet  1  have  met 
with  some  succestj,  enabhng  me,  at  all  eventa, 
U>  advance  the  inquiry  a  stage  without 
definitely  settlinK  it.  H.  Blaze  de  Bury 
translated  Goethe 8  'Faust'  into  French,  and 
his  version  of  the  \eL»t  two  lines  of  the  second 
part  runs  thus: — 

Le  F^minin  Etemel 

Noas  eittire  au  ciel. 

The  volume  I  referred  to  is  dated  1847,  so 
that,  unleM.'^  an  earlier  inntance  can  be  foutid 
of  the  use  of  liie  English  form  of  the  phrai^e, 
it  is  possible  —  nay,  likely  —  that  Lnglish 
writers  took  it  from  the  French.  Be  tliat, 
however,  as  it  may,  it  has  yet  to  be  shown 
that  the  French  form  is  not  earlier  than  the 
English.  Edward  Latham. 

"DbU«J  IJf  THE  M.VEKET"  (10"'  S.  I  149).— 
Dr.  Brewer,  in  his  '  Diet,  of  Phrase  and 
Fable,'  says  that  this  means  anything  so 
«ommon  as  to  be  unsaleable  ;  that  dmrf  is 
the  French  flfrof/i«  =  rubbish,  as  "Ce  n'est 
<jue  de  la  drogue  "  ;  hence  droguet  (drugget), 
inferior  carpet -cloth  made  of  rubbish  or 
inferior  wool.  «tc.  Thus  also  Prof.  Skeat  in 
his  '  Concise  Dictionary  '  with  regard  to  the 
words  drufj  and  drugget ;  but  he  does  not 
allude  to  the  phrase. 

J.   HOLDEN  ilAOMlCnAKL. 

"  Hk  who  knows  not."  A'l;.  (10"'  S.  i.  167).— 
The  origin  of  these  linej)  is  to  be  found  in 
Heaiod,  '  Works  and  Days,'  293-7.  The  pas- 
sage wa-s  very  celebrated  in  antiquity,  and  is 
Quoted  by  Aristotle,  '  Nic.  Eth.,'  i.  4.  Both 
ivy  (xxii.  29)  and  Uicero  ('  Pro  Cluent.,'  31) 
refer  to  it.  H.  A.  Stkong. 

The  University,  Liverpool. 

The  full  quotation  is  :— 

Men  are  four: 
He  who  knows  not,  and  know*  not  he  knows  not,  he 

is  a  fool— ahun  him  ; 
He  who  knowB  not,  and  knows  he  knows  not,  he  is 

simjile— t«i&ch  him  ; 
He   who  knows,  and  knows  not  he  knows,  he   is 

asleep— wake  him  ; 
He  who  knows,  and  knows  he  knows,  he  is  wise— 

follow  him. 

Thia  is  given  in  Lady  Burton's  'Life  of  Sir 
Richarrl  Burton,'  and  is  therein  stated  to  be 
on  Arab  proverb.  J.  H.  K. 

Curious  Uuklstian  Names  (lo""  S.  i.  2(J, 
170,  214).  —  M«.  Wilsons  interesting  list 
invites  a  few  comments.  1.  Buhomian 
Bohumil  is  a  literal  translation  of  Thoopliilus. 
2.  Evahn  is  a  phonetic  version  of  Ixussian 
Ivan  ;  the  Bulgarians  shift  the  stress  to  the 
first  syllableT  I'van.  3.  Fagiin<les  is  not  a 
Christian  name,  but  a  pationymic,  the  sur- 


name of  a  Brazilian  poet.    4.  Folger  is  the 
Norwegian  form  of  a  heroic  name  which  in 
the  German  'Nibelungen  Lied'  appears  as 
Folker.    5.  Ilonka  is  not  Italian,  but  is  the 
Hungarian  for  Helena.    6.  Jaime,  described 
as  Porto  Ilican,  is  Aragonese  for  James  ;  the 
Catalans  write  Jaume.    7.  Vilhjdlmr  is  Ice- 
landic for  William.    8.  Norwegian  Yetta  is 
short  for  Henrietta.    9.  Zenaa  is  good  Greek. 
Novelties  in  Christian  names  are  coming 
more  and  more  to  the  front,  particularly  for 
women.     Draga  is  the  Servian  equivalent  for 
Caroline,    fitrenne  is  now  given  to  girls  lx>m 
on   New  Year's  Day.    Feo,  shortened   from 
Feodorowna,  .should  be  restricted,  but  is  not, 
to  cases  where  the  father's  name  is  Theodore. 
Nalica  is  American,  from  the  Natick  tribe 
of  Indians.     One  hears  of  ladies  christened 
Ismailia  and  Rhodesia,  and  one  wonders  why 
somebody  does  not  revive  the  quaint   old 
name  Africa.     To    me,  Ilibtrnis   llibemior, 
Irish  names  seem  the  most  effective  of  all ; 
e.r/.,  Barba  (Barbara),  Clodagh,  Dervorgilja 
(anglicized  as  Dorothy),  Lassai-tia  (i.e.,  las/tir- 
jf/iTonn,  blush  of  wine),  Oonagh  (Una,  some- 
times  anglicized    as  Juno),  Sabia,  Sheelah 
(in  Gaelic  SiU,  anglicized  Celia),  &c.    Among 
Highland   female  names  is  the  odd-looking 
Uere,  pronouncerl  like  our  word  ewer,  and  in 
Gaelic  written  Eavihair. 

Jamks  Platt,  Jun. 
The    late    Sir    Walter  Besant    noted    the 
following  odd   and  old  Christian  names  in 
the  Queen.    I  think  it  was  *Tho  Voice  of  the 
Flying  Day  '  that  gave  utterance  to  them  : 
Atlieiena,  Alditha,  Aveliua,  Alfreda,  Auable, 
Aonice,    Amicia.   Avice,    Clarice,  Clemence, 
Elicia,   Idouia,  Earilda,  Basilia.  Etheldreda, 
Erneburga,  Denys,  Olive,  Nichola,  Eustachiti^ 
Roesia.   Petronilla  or   Pernella,  Sabine,  ana 
Theophania    (otherwise     Tiffany).      Others 
quaint,  but  not  very  pretty,  were ;  Alianora, 
Alle-Hia,  Annullia,    Albrica,    Bonejoya,    Cas- 
sandra, Emota,  Evota,  Bouet,  Imaiica,  Eeidia, 
Isonde,   I^eusta,   Diamanda,   Oena,   MeTivia, 
Lucekyna,  Rayna,  Juetta.  Caatania,  Scolas- 
tica,  Swanilda,  Salerna,  Willolma.    But  fancy 
calling  your  lovely  daughter  Gunnora,  Gun- 
nilila,    Magota,   Mazfira,  Orabilia,    Kicholda, 
Massitia,  Heliwysa,  Hawisia,  Dionysia,  Lecia, 
Wyleholta,  or  Irechesaunchia.     Riley,  in  his 
*  Afeniorials     of     London,'    notes     that    St. 
Petronilla    the    Virgin     produced     Pernella, 
fiimiliarly   in    Old    English    "Purnel."      He 
also  notes  Aleson  (now  Alice,  which  we  meet 
with  in  Chaucer),  Idonia,  and  Ayice.    As  to 
names  of  Hebrew  origin,  '  A  Dictionary  of 
Scripture    Proper    Names,'  with   their   pro- 
nunciations and  explanations,  was  published 
by  the  Sunday  School  Union.   Many  of  these 


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'Once  proper  names  now  serve  as  CbriHti&n 
nameii,    as    Salome,    Miriam,    Kezia,    Jesse, 

;  Bath,  Adah,  &c.  Greek  names  occur,  such 
Bs  Anastasia  (resurrection),   Eunice  (happy 

'  victory ),  Irene  (peace),  llh(»da  (a  raqe),  Zoe 
(life),  Agatha  (good).  Celtic:  Gvneth  (blessed), 
Gwendoline  (white-browed), "  Others  that 
occur  are  Eulalie,  Ellice,  Juanita,  Mima,  Una, 
Ina,  Bona,  Joyce,  Vida  (the  feminine,  I  think, 
of  David),  Eva,  Edna,  Leotine,  Gozida, 
lantbe,  Eudoia,  Eda,  Lolo,  Azeoa,  Anstice 
(T  Anastasia),  Amanda,  Aline,  Averil,  Coca, 
Clio,  Enda,  Etta,  Guinevere,  Hildegarde, 
lone,  lona,  Justine,  Leila,  Mysie,  Mora, 
Medea,  Nvdia,  Oona,  Olga,  Ora,  (Enone, 
Ondine,  Ouetta.  Thisbe,  Verena.  Zuleika, 
Zaidee,  Alma,  Wanda,  Zera,  Xora,  Xera, 
rrida,  Ebba,  Isa,  Use,  Else  (TEhie).  Irma, 
Mira,  Hulda,  Selraa,  Thecla,  Corali.  Anwela, 
Isidora,  GuHtava,  Iva,  Est^lle,  Inez,  Nona 
^ioth  child),  Elma.  Otha,  Ernestine,  yElia, 
Carina,  Cleta,  Cora,  Dia,  Gina,  Iiera,  Ltelia, 
Myra,  Rena,  Titia,  Unca,  Joyce  (joyous), 
Monica  (adviser). 

J.  HOLDEN   MacMicHAEL. 

Some  carious  Christian  names  have  come 
under  my  notice  in  a  Shropshire  village. 
Several  girls  are  christened  Arena,  which  is 
always  pronounced  Itayna.  It  seems  that 
the  grandmother  of  the  original  Arena  had 
been  maid  at  a  great  house  in  the  neighbour- 
hood where  one  of  the  daughters  was  Irene, 
and  Arena  was  apparently  a  shot  at  this. 
The  child  of  a  travelling  hawker  was 
christened  in  our  church  Sybaretta,  and 
there  is  also  a  Bolina.  Scripture  name«  are 
opmmon.  Wo  have  Jonathan,  Deborah, 
Enoch,  Levi,  Manoali,  Art,  and  Birslia.  At 
Brst  I  conclude*^!  Art  to  be  a  diminutive  of 
Arthur,  but  found  the  name  was  taken  from 
one  of  the  gonealogiea  in  the  Old  Testament ; 
and  Birsha,  I  was  told  by  his  grandmother, 
was  called  after  a  King  of  Sodom  !  Quilla 
(masculine),  so  christened,  must,  I  fancy, 
have  been  intended  for  Aquila.  I  am  one  of 
the  minority  who  have  known  Imogen  in  the 
flesh.  She  was  a  stout,  many-childed  matron. 
I  also  kn.iw  Gundred,  Ermengarde,  and 
Ingaret,  which  last  I  at  first  took  to  be  a 
corruption  of  Ankaret,  an  old  name  in  the 
Le  Strange  and  Talbot  families ;  but  it 
appears  to  have  some  connexion  with  the 
ancestor  of  the  Swedish  kings,  or  the  nauio- 
father  of  the  Angles— Ing,  who  is  the  parent 
of  so  many  Norse  names.  A  housemaid  in  a 
friend's  house  was  Thyrza  Heaven,  and  a 
Cheshire  carpenter  was  Julius  Ccesar.  Mor- 
wenna  the^  Cornish,  and  Modwenna  the 
Warwickshire  saint,  have  living  representa- 
tives.   Myfanwy,  the  pretty  old  Welsh  name. 


now  oo  nearly  extinct,  is  Birsha's  sister.    Ua 
a  Devon  tomostono  I  have  seen  Philadelpliia,. 
and  I  know  Fortune  and  Yvonne  (a  BretOf> 
name).     Beata— a  beautiful  old  name,  now 
nearly  extinct — is  on  a  brass  of  1726  in  & 
neighbouring  church  ;  and  a  woman  I  know 
is  Medora,  oi  which  no  explanation  appears 
in    Miss    Yonge'a   *  History    of     Chnstian 
Names,'    I  should  be  very  glad  to  know  if  it 
is  an    invention    of    Byron's  or   a  genuine 
Eastern  name,  and  if  the  latter,  what  is  its 
signification.     Two  girls  born   at  sea  were 
christened  respectively  Oceana  and  Indiana 
(the  name  of  the  ship).    One  of  my  hu.sband's 
ancestors  under  Queen  Elizabeth  was  Her* 
oules.     At  that  date  Parnel,  a  variation  of 
Ternel  or  Perronel,  a  feminine  of  Peter,  was 
common  in  a  North  Shropshire  town  ;  and 
Petronel,  another  form,  is  borne  by  a  Devon- 
shire maiden  to  day.  The  growing  popularity 
of    Hower-names    is    noticeable :    Marigoldt 
Rosemary,      Iris,      Ivy,     Primrose,      Hazel, 
Heather,  and  Gloxinia  (given  to  a  girl  baby 
very  recently^.     The  giving  of  surnames  in 
baptism  to  girls  is  curious,  and  is  at  least 
two  centuries  old.    Two  ladies  of  the  seven- 
teenth   century    were    called     respectively 
Essex    and    Dodington,    the    former    being 
Countess  of  Leicester ;  and  we  have  to-day 
Montagu,    Countess   of  Glasgow.      In    the 
'  Coronation  Book'  the  name  of  one  peeress— 
I  forget  which— is  given  as  Adora.     If  this  is 
not  a  misprint  for  Annora  or  Aurora,  it  is  ft 
name,  I  believe,  not  hitherto  known.     I  have 
seen    somewhere  — "  si   non    e    vero    ^    beo 
trovato"— that  a  harassed  parent  insisted  oo 
number  thirteen  being  named  Enough. 

The  meaning  of  viome  of  the  curious  names 
given  bv  Mk.  C.  B.  Wilson  may  be  interest- 
ing: Bohuinil,  God's  love  (Theopnilus  literally 
translated  into  Czech) ;  Folger,  almost 
certainly  a  Scandinavian  variation  of  tho 
German  Folker^people's  guard  ;  Honka, 
probably  a  diminutive  of  Ilona,  Magyar  for 
Helena  ;  Jaime,  a  Spanish  or  Portuguese 
form  of  James,  commonly  spelt  Jayme ; 
Vilhjalmr,  the  Icelandic  form  of  William  ; 
Zillah,  Hebrewr^shadow. 

The  meaning  of  names  is  unfortunately 
not  much  attended  to  in  these  days.  If 
people  understood  that  Cicely  meant  blind* 
Gladvs  lame,  Portia  pig,  ancf  Julia  downy- 
bearded,  would  they  be  anxious  Ui  liestow 
the  appellations  on  their  children  1 

Helga> 
Prothasey  wttli  tta  variants  is  a  name  that 
occurs  in  Devon.  Sir  Thomas  Botlley,  of 
Bodleian  Library  fame,  had  a  sister  Pruthesia, 
There  waw  a  Pert«sia  Jlidwinler  of  St. 
Petrock's,  Exeter,  if    I   mistake  not,   <«»>»fk 


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Elizabeth.  A  Partesa  Backland  figures  in  An 
Elizabethan  depoaition  relative  to  Uttery 
St.  Mary.  In  fact,  I  am  not  aure  all  three 
•of  the  above  may  not  have  obtained  their 
name  from  some  early  Ottregian,  a«  both 
the  Bodloya  and  Midwintern  came  of  Ottery 
stock.  It  should  be  noticed  that  the  inver- 
sion of  the  ro  or  re  follows  the  common  West- 
<3ountry  fashion,  Richard  being  changed  to 
Urchard  in  local  parlance ;  so  there  can  be 
little  doubt  that  the  names  are  the  same. 

F.  R-T. 

In  a  Backinghamshire  village,  a  few  miles 
from  Aylesbury,  there  were  living  in  the 
year  185U  three  sisters  named  Faith,  Hope, 
and  Charity  Montague,  Kerenhappuch  Wilson 
<called  Kay  run  fur  short),  Seth  Plater,  Tray- 
ton  Weston,  Israel  Clarke,  Patience  Winter, 
"Tracey  Betts,  Meshach  Johnson,  Prudence 
Spiers,  Eldreid  Itose,  Avice  Hatt.  Zilpah 
■Chapman,  Agrippa  Small,  and  Comfort 
Dormer.  Tray  ton  Weeton  had  a  brother 
tlu-oe  miles  distant  name<l  Purton  Weaton. 
In  the  same  year  Hephzibah  Makepeace,  a 
yenr  earlier  Love  Briant  Pitwell,  and  in  1873 
Miitierjny  Fletcher,  were  married  there. 
AniDtig  the  burials  in  1844  was  that  of 
Brillianna  Arietta  llo«e,  and  in  1847  that  of 
Naomi  Siiepherd.  The  clergyman  of  the 
parbh  (afturwarrls  a  Suffolk  vicar,  murdered 
by  his  curaie  on  Sunday  morning,  2  October, 
1887),  not  to  be  outdone  by  his  parishioners, 
named  one  of  his  children  Henricus  Astyanax 
Tertius,  as  may  be  seen  on  the  tombstone  in 
the  churchyard,  for  the  boy  lived  but  eight 
r<Donths  afterwards.        llicu\aD  Welfohd. 

Newcaalle-upon-Tyne. 

In  the  Eiist  Sussex  News  of  20  Februarj^ 

amongst  the  deaths  is  recorded  that  of  Abi 

^Kenward,  a  name  I  have  never  before  met 

with.    There  is  a  brother  Amram,  who  is 

well  known  to  me. 

In  Bishopstone  Church,  not  far  from  Lewes, 
is  a  stained-glass  window,  not  more  than 
fifty  yeara  old,  to  the  memory  of  Phila- 
delphia Farncorabe.     Caboline  Stkooall. 

The  following  list  of  women's  names  in  use 
in  a  littlo  community  of  no  more  than 
twenty-five  families  may  interest  the  curious: 
AloLlifta,Ali(ia,Alvira,Aralena,Arvilla,  Electa, 
Huldah,  Keturah,  Leucretia,  Myra,  Ophelia, 
rttmr«la,  Phileua.  Submit,  Theodosia,  Valeria, 
Visa,  Wealthy,  Zillah.  M.  C.  B. 

New  York  State. 

In  carrying  out  the  self-imposed  ta»<k  of 
indexing  the  old  registers  of  this  parish  prior 
to  1812,  I  have  come  across,  amongst  others, 
the  following  curious  Christian  narae.s  : — 
Avantio,     Bartin,    Albina,     Lucia,     Ursula, 


Wightman,  Obedience,  Emmett,  Allethea, 
Tubal-Cain.  Oswall  (?  Oswald),  Jifford,  Good- 
riflj  South,  Cressense,  Gooriitb,  Beata,  Avice, 
Ann  (a  boy),  Ursley,  Nun,  Kerenliapuch, 
Russel-Shakspear,  Jeremiah- Wardell.Ginney. 
Ene.  Catherinah,  EUon,  Tilley,  Easter,  Sill 
(a  woman).  Damask  (surname  Rose). 

John  T.  Pack. 

West  Haddon,  Northatuptonahire. 

French  Miniature  Painter  (lO'*"  S.  i.  8G, 
137,  171.  211).— No.  917  in  the  Exhibition  of 
Portrait  Miniatures,  South  Kensington,  1865, 
was  lent  by  Miss  Talbot,  and  is  thus  described 
in  the  official  Catalogue,  doubtless  on  the 
owner's  authority  :  "Madame  le  Brun.  By 
herself.  Madanie  le  Brun."  Probably  this 
is  the  work  referred  to  by  D.  at  the  last 
reference.  O. 

Browning's  Text  (10^  S.  i.  208).— The  first 
edition  (1650)  of  'Christmas  Eve  '  gives  : — 

He  Himself  with  His  liumai)  air. 
Mr.   C.    M.   HapsoN  might  satisfy  himself 
were  he  to  examine  the  original  manuscript, 
which  is  preserved  in  the  Forster  Library  at 
South  Kensington.  R.  A.  Potts. 

"Morale"  (10""  S.  i.  204).-I  quite  under- 
stand that  morale  exists  in  French,  and 
means  what  we  term  "morality"  as  well  as 
"moral  philosophy  ";  but  ruural,  which  means 
"the  mental  faculties,"  and  is  also  used 
for  the  spirits  or  disposition  of  troops,  is 
supplantefl  in  Anglo-French  by  the  word 
morale  {sic\  generally  italicized  as  if  it  were 
a  French  word.  My  point  is  that  we  have  a 
perfect  right  to  adopt  any  words  at  our  will 
and  to  attix  any  meaning  to  them — it  may 
be  unwi.se  to  adopt  now  words  when  old  ones 
hold  the  field  ;  but  we  have  no  riglit  to  write 
as  French  a  word  which  is  not  French  in  the 
sense  in  which  wo  mean  to  use  it. 

Uerbbbt  a.  STROKa. 

The  University,  Liverpool. 

"  Auncell"  (10*  a  i.  187X— My  old  Bailey 
has  :— 

"  Awtcel  lVti{/fU  (q.d.  Handsale  Weight),  a  kind 
of  ancient  luBtruinent  with  Hooks  fastened  to  eaoli 
End  of  a  Beam,  which  beini;  raiaed  U{]on  the  Foro- 
finfEer,  shewed  the  Difference  between  the  VVeight 
and  the  Thing  weighed." 

I  dare  say  it  was  susceptible  of  a  little 
fraudulent  manipulation,  hence  its  excom- 
munication. O.  C.  W. 

J  The  'N,E.D.'  say*  the  derivation  from  hnml- 
e  ia  absurd,  and  suggeats  that  auncd  la  from 
"tauncdle  {I-  having  b«en  miataken  for  the  article), 
ad.  ll.  lancelUx,  a  little  balance,"  in  contrMt  to 
the  "  BaUuoia  domini  regit,"  or  Great  Beam  of  the 
king.] 


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Mess  Dnxss  :  Skegkants'  Sashes  (10"'  S. 
i.  168).— About  1857  a  mess  jacket  and  waist- 
coat of  regimental  pattern  were  generally 
adopted;  it  was  not,  however,  until  1872  that 
a  regulation  pattern  of  cneM  jacket  and 
waistcoat  was  authorized.  The  above  only 
refers  to  regiments  serving  at  home  or  in 
temperate  chraates.  In  the  Eiast  and  West 
Indies  infantry  officers  had  worn  a  variety  of 
dinner  costumes  siiitable  to  the  climate, 
never  being  mucii  troubled  by  inspecting 
officers.  At  home,  previous  to  the  Crimean 
War,  officers  sat  down  to  dinner  in  their  red 
long-tailetl  coatees,  with  epaulettes  or  wings, 
and  the  sash  round  the  waist,  but  without 
shoulder-belt  or  sword. 

From  the  evidence  of  original  drawings 
sergeants  wore  sashes  round  the  waist  quite 
as  far  back  as  1720,  and  possibly  may  have 
worn  them  for  many  years  previously. 

S.  M.  Milne. 

Japanese  Names  (10"'  S.  i.  187).— Is  Mk. 
Platt  quite  correct  in  quoting  "  Osaka  "  as 
an  example  of  the  stress  generally  falling  on 
the  penultimate?  When  1  was  there  it  would 
certainly  have  been  classified  among  the 
exceptions,  at  least  by  its  inhabitants,  and 
was  pronounced  Oafik&  (the  o  long). 

MoBRis  Bent. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  Ac. 
Leviathan ;  or,  (he  Matter,  Forme,  and  Pwrerof  a 
Commontrealtk,  EccltmatiticaJl  arid  CinlL  By 
Thomas  Hobbea  of  Malmesbury.  The  Text  edited 
by  A.  R.  Waller.  (Cambridge,  University  Press.) 
With  au  edition  of  Hobbes'a  '  I^eviathan'  the  Cam- 
bridge University  Press  ouens  out  a  new  and 
attractive  aeries  of  "  EiiElisn  Classics."  The  cha- 
racter of  a  series  intendea  for  the  lovers  of  EnRHsh 
literature  in  its  best  days  must  not  be  arbitrarily 
indued  by  the  selection  of  an  opening  volume, 
•eeitig  that  the  list  of  works  ready  for  a|>eedy  pub- 
lication includes  'The  English  Works  of  Koger 
Avoham,'  edited  by  Mr.  Aldia  Wright;  'The 
Puvnis  of  Richard  Crashaw,'  edited  by  Mr.  Waller ; 
and  *  The  Kurly  Poeroa  of  George  Crabbe,'  edited 
by  the  Mrtater  of  Pet«rhou8e.  All  will  be  published 
in  a  handsume  and  attractive  form,  reproducing 
with  BcrupulouB  fidelity  the  original  Hjielling  and 
punctuation,  and  supplying  a  text  (i])on  which  the 
Btudent  can  de|iend  aa  uimu  the  original  editions. 
The  '  Leviathan '  is  far  from  a  common  work.  Of 
the  genuine  1651  folio  copies  are  scarce,  though 
later  editions  bearing  the  same  dat«  are  encoun- 
tered. In  the«e  later  impressions  the  crowned 
figure  on  the  tille-x>age  bears,  says  Mr,  Waller,  a 
manifest  resemblance  to  Cromwell.  A  full  history 
of  the  ciroanistances  under  which  the  later  portrait 
was  aabslituted  for  the  earlier,  or  Carolinian 
eikon,  would  be  curious.  So  timid  waa,  however, 
Uobbes  oa  regards  facing  persecution  that  the 
change  was  probably  dictated  by  what  was  held  to 
be  expediency.  In  the  voluminous  edition  of  Hobbes 


bv  Molesworth  the  '  Leviathan'  has,  of  course,  ita 

{UBce,  and  it  ia  in  that  shape  that  the  work  haa  of 
ate  been  most  closely  studied.  1  be  present  edition 
will  do  much  to  revive  interest  in  a  philosopher 
who  connects,  in  a  sense,  the  teaching  of  Oaaaendt 
with  that  of  Looke,  and  has  the  merit,  rare  among 
his  tribe,  of  lucidity.  Regarded  in  hiaown  country  oa 
an  atheiat,  Hobbea  hod  to  facestrenuoua  opi>o8itioa. 
On  the  Continent  his  influence  was  more  felt  It 
ia  but  a  fragmentary  scheme  that  he  expounds,  and 
he  carrier  )>aradox  to  its  utmost  limits;  but  hi» 
work  has  hod  a  decided  and  i>ermanent  etfect  upon 
European  thought,  and  the  jirusent  publication  is 
likely  to  lead  to  a  renewed  and  closer  study  of  it. 
A  few  alternative  readinga  are  supplied  at  the  end, 
together  with  an  index  of  jwrKons  and  (ilaoea  other 
than  Scriptural.  One  of  the  most  iutetvsting 
chapters  is  that  on  '  Darkness'  and  its  denizens. 

Great  ifanters.  Part  X.  (HeineTnsnn.| 
Part  X.  of  '  Great  Master*! '  opens  with  *  An  Old 
Woman  saying  Grace,'  by  Nioolaea  Maes,  from  the 
Rijka  MuHeum,  Amsterdam,  one  of  the  few  works 
of  a  little-known  and  not  too  highly  esteemed  pnpil 
of  Rembrandt,  jiainted  in  hi«  lu-st  iveriod.  It  ho* 
all  the  minute  realiHiii  und  ■  '  ious  sincerity 

of  the  I)ulch  School.     'I'hv  ■•  ia  superbly 

producejl.    In  a  totallytliiiei  >  i  '  The  Rape  of 

liauyniede,'  from  theVienna  Viallury,  attributed  to 
Correggio.  This  ia  a  striking  and  remarkable  work 
in  Allegri'a  moat  aenKuoua  style;  the  fureshortening 
is  marvellous,  and  the  black  plumule  of  the  eagle 
stands  in  strange  contrast  with  tlie  colour  and 
tissue  of  the  flesh.  The  figure  of  Ganymede  is 
chubby  and  almost  feminine,  while  the  face  ahuwa 
strangely  little  feeling  for  cue  embarked  on  bo  dan> 
gerouH  a  flight.  From  the  Hacue  Gallery  come» 
the  au|>erl)  portrait  by  Hann  Hollwin  of  Robert 
Clieseman,  oi  Dormauswell,  painted  in  \SX3,  wheik 
the  subject  woa  forty-eight  years  of  age.  Some- 
thing bos  recently  )>een  discovered  about  Cheae- 
man,  who  woa  a  iuatice  of  the  peace  and  a  man  of 
position  in  Middlesex.  Nothing  is  known,  how- 
ever, to  account  for  his  aingulariy  aristocratic  and 
refined  appearance.  On  account  of  the  hawk  which 
he  bears  he  was  once  credited  with  being  falconer 
to  Henry  Vni.  Whatever  he  may  have  been,  the 
portrait  ia  beyond  praise.  LAst  comes  Gatns- 
borough'a  'Girl  feeding  Pigs,'  from  Lord  Carlisle's 
collection,  a  picture  which,  on  iUi  first  exhibition 
in  178:3,  was  purchased  by  .Sir  Joshua,  and  was 
afterwarda  in  the  famous  Colonna  Collection.  It  is 
declared  tn  have  few  equals  among  his  works  for 
colour  and  tone.  In  every  inatance  the  repro- 
ductions are  brilliant. 

Tht  Worl-Ji  of  Charles  avrl  Afari/ Lantli.  Edited  by 
K.  V.  Lucaa.— Vol.  IV.  Drumalrr,  S]nrimm%  and 
tht  G'arrick-  Plaijs.  (Methuen  &  Co.) 
TuE  appearance  of  this  volume  of  Mr.  Lucoa'a 
exhaustive  and  monumental  edition  of  the  works  of 
Charles  and  Mary  Lamb  brings  the  colkclion  once 
more  into  consecutive  order,  the  volumes  inevioiuily 
issued  consjslinK  of  i.,  ii  ,  iii.,  and  v.  All  we  have 
now  to  await  before  the  doHnitive  edition  is  in  our 
hands  nonsista  of  the  letters  and  of  the  promised 
life  by  the  e^litor.  For  rertmvuH  which  he  ndv  i  , 
and  which  seem  to  us  thoroughly  j\iBtific.i 
Lucas  chooses  as  the  bu»i»  of  liis  lent  noi  i..., 
original  edition  of  Longmans  of  IMiSof  the  text  of 
the  'Snecimens' and  the  addition*  from  the  'Gar- 
rick  Plays'  contributed  to  Hone's  '  Table- Rook  '  in. 


V 


1837,  but  the  edition  of  1835.  It  in  true  that  when 
the  latter  ap^ioared  Lamb  wa^  no  longer  alive. 
Mr.  Lucas,  however,  who  knows  that  Lamb  medi- 
tated a  reprint^  is  under  the  impreasioD  that  he 
not  only  authorized  Moxon'a  edition,  but  eaw  the 
proof-sheets,  and  was  renponaible  for  the  armni;e- 
ment.  We  are  willing  to  accept  Mr.  Lucaa'a  ron- 
cluRions.  That  Lamb  let  '^a  high  value  upon  thia 
piece  of  pioneerinu"  is  highly  probable.  It  is. 
indeed,  difficult  for  the  mao  of  lo-day  to  appreciate 
the  influence  of  the  work  in  bringing  about  the 
close  study  of  the  Tudor  and  ijtuart  draniatiata 
that  subsequent  times  have  seen.  Apart,  too,  from 
the  tiue  flair  displayed  by  Lamb— almost  the  only 
man  that  we  should  be  content  to  accept  as  taster, 
a  Coleridge  for  insight  and  a  8cott  for  sanity— the 
few  comments  that  accompany  his  selections  are, 
like  what  he  says  about  actors,  perfect.  It 
brings  the  blood  even  now  into  one's  cheeks  to 
read  of  the  atrocities  uttered  in  the  Quarttrty,  and 
duly  noted  by  Mr.  Dykes  Campbell  in  the  Athe- 
naum.  We  may  not  cfwell  on  all  the  clainis  of  this 
edition,  over  thu  birth  of  which  what  is  beat  in 
modern  scholarship  has  presided.  It  ^ivea  more 
than  any  previous  edition.  This  might  not  neces* 
sarily  b«  a  recommendation.  In  the  case  of  such 
matter  and  such  a  selector  it  must  be  accepted  as 
such.  The  few  notes  are  satisfactory  and  pre^rnant, 
and  the  work  contains,  in  addiiion,  much  reiniMted 
poetry  of  Mr.  Swinburne  of  hit;he8t  interest.  Haz- 
fitt's  portra  t  of  Lamb  at  the  age  of  twenty-nine  as 
a  Venetian  Senator  constitutes  the  frontispiece. 
Other  illnstral  ions  consist  of  the  title-page  of  the 
first  edition  of  the  'Specimens'  and  a  view  of  tho 
British  Museum  in  Lamb's  day.  A  separate  index 
accompanies  a  volume  which,  so  far  as  the  lover  of 
Lamb  is  concerned,  is  adequate,  delightful,  final. 


Tht    Worka  of  Lord  Byron.     Edited    bj 


Ernest 

vn. 


by  J 
Hartley  Coleridge,  SI.A.  —  Poeiry.  Vol. 
(Murray.) 
WtTn  the  ajipearance  of  the  present  volume,  the 
chief  interest  in  which  is  biblioEraphical,  the  new 
revised  and  enlarKcd  edition  of  Hyroii,  issued  under 
the  competent  ami  loving  care  of  Mr.  Ernest  Hart- 
ley Coleridge,  is  concluded.  Eighty-eight  pa^es 
out  of  close  upon  five  hundred  are  occupied  with 
Byron's  own  writings,  and  comprise  i\\e  jrxix d'tjqrrit 
and  the  minor  poems  issued  between  1798  and  I8:M. 
Familiar  cnouKn  are  nianv  of  these,  which  include 
the  famous  'Lines  to  Mr.  Hodgson  written  on 
board  tho  Lisbon  Packet,'  one  of  the  most  spirited 
aa  well  IIS  the  sauciest  of  his  com^vositions ;  'The 
Devil's  Drive,'  now  printed  for  the  first  time  in  its 
entirety  (248  linee):  well-remembered  verses  re- 
farring  to  Mr.  Murray  or  Tom  Moore:  and  the 
venomous  utieranifs  concerning  Uaatlereagh.  A 
few  are  given  for  the  first  time.  The  character  of 
these  is  not  such  as  to  inspire  a  keen  appetite  for 
more,  and   though   we  are  told   that  a  tew  lines 

rt-t  !■ rintcil,  we  arc  content  to  think  that  the 

ti:  '    has  takeu  ]i|ace,  and  that  no  further 

k'  ■  "luy  b*>  dt»-cnlon>bed.  A  full  bikiliography 

of  I5)iun,  uiciJ|>yiMK,  with  notes,  ap|i«^n(lix,  sum- 
mary, &c.,  iinnir^  two  hundred  and  thirty  VMiges, 
constitiitei  an  invnluable  feature  in  the  enitlon, 
whii^h  aUu  i:uiii{>ri'jcs  an  index  and  a  table  of 
first  lino-  Aiiiiii:;  i  lie  eminently  interesting  illus- 
trations to  I  '  vnlume  are  the  Counteax  of 
Lovelace,  >  Car|>eiiter'8  jwrtrait  j  Sir 
George  Sinci.^.. . :.  .-  Jloeburn's  picture  ;  and  views 
in  Southwell,  of  Anneley  Hall,  of  Diadom  Hill,  the 


Brig  of  Balgownie,  Tasso's  Cell,  and  the  Armeniaoi 
Convent  at  Venice.  A  worthy  laak  ia  well  and 
definitely  fulfilled. 

BOOESELLEBS'  CATALOOtJKS. 

Amoka  the  catalogues  we  have  received  we  find 
the  following  .■ — 

Mr.  B.  H.  Blaokwell,  of  Oxford,  has  sent  us  proof- 
sheets  of  his  April  catalogue.  It  is  devoted  to 
foreign  theological  works,  the  items  of  special  in- 
terest including  Hugh  de  St.  Cher's  'Commentariea 
on  the  Bible,"  with  his  Concordance,  the  firat  one 
compiled,  1609,  8  vols,  folio,  3/.  3j».  ;  '  Ambrosii 
Opera  Omnia,"  Paris.  1845,2/.  ;  'Augustiiii  0|)era,' 
Paris,  1836-8;  '  Basilii  Ot*ra  Omnia,'  3  vols., 
Paris,  1?J1 ;  *  Bernardi  Opera  Omnia,"  Paris,  1839; 
'  Bibliotheca  Fratrum  Polonorum,'  Irenapoli,  16S6: 
'Chrysostomi  Opera,'  26  vols,  in  13,  royal  8vo, 
newly  bound  in  half-vellum,  18^,  IW.  IQa.  ;  >  Brentil 
Opera,'  8  vols.,  Tubingje,  J576-90 ;  '  Erasmi  Opera.' 
1540 ;  and  '  Horie  Beatce  Mari.-c  Virginia,  cuni' 
Calendario  Gallico,'  written  in  bold  Oothic  letter 
on  vellum  leaves,  illuminated  in  gold  and  colours, 
with  miniatures,  14/.  ]4<«.  The  catalogue  contains 
a  large  number  of  Bibles  and  commentaries  of 
various  dates. 

William  (ieorge's  8ons,  Bristol,  have  a  valuable 
collection  of  books  on  Topography,  Genealogy, 
Heraldry,  and  Antiquities  of  the  Britisji  Isiea. 
These  include  Britton's  '  Beauties  of  England  and. 
Wales,'  original  set,  4/.  10^. ;  George  Bradshaw's 
(the  founder  of  '  Bradshaw')  'Map  of  the  Canals, 
Kavieable  Rivers,  Railroads,  &c.,  of  Enelaod, 
Mancliester,  1830;  Barrett's  'Antiquities  of  Bris- 
tol ' :  an  account  of  'The  Bristol  Riots,'  I8;tj ;  'The 
Little  Red  Book  of  Bristol,'  edited  by  Francis  B. 
Bickley  ;  and  MuUer's  '  Bits  of  Old  Bristol.'  There 
are  many  books  iclutiiig  to  C'ambridge,  among  theae- 
bein;;  'The  Cambridge  I'ori folio,'  1840.  This  is  a 
special  copy,  enlarged  by  the  addition  of  manf 
steel  plates.  The  price  is  6/.  &k.  Other  works 
are  Fowler's  'Coloured  Engravings  of  Ancient 
Stained  (>lass  and  Roman  lavements';  the  first 
edition  of  Atkyns's  'Ancient  and  Present  State  of 
Glostershire,"  1712, '2^.  ;  Bigland's  'Historical  Col- 
lections  relative  to  the  County  of  Gloucester';  and 
'  Rental  of  all  the  Houses  in  Gloucester,'  1455. 
Under  Ireland  we  find  Borlaae's  'The  Dolmens 
of  Ireland ' ;  Street's  account  of  '  The  Restoration 
of  Christ  Church  Cathedral';  and  'Parliamentary 
Representative  Government,'  \K>rl.  Stothard'a 
'  Mnnumental  ECBgiea,'  large  i>aper,  1876.  is  10/.  lOd. ; 
and  James  Savage's  'Original  Manuscript  Collec- 
tions for  the  History  of  Somerset,'  16  vols.,  56/. 

Messrs.  James  Rimell  &  Son  have  a  new  cata- 
logue of  engravings.  The  collection  is  very  varied, 
and  includes  CinrianL  Cosway,  Kauffman,  Rul)en8, 
Lawrence,  Morland,  ^othard,  Smirke,  Reynolds, 
Wheailey,  and  many  others,  at  moderate  prices. 

Mr.  James  Roche  issues  an  interesting  general 
catalogue,  whicVi  includes  Sowerby's  '  Botany.'  an 
original  set,  1790-1H34,  34/.  10*.;  Didot's  •t;reck 
and  Latin  Classic?,'  49  vols.,  royal  8vo.,  12/.  12j.  : 
tercentenary  edition  of  'The  Complete  Angler, 
*i  vole.  4lo,  12/.  12*.;  'Bio(rraphie  Universelle.' 
1811-57  ;  a  large  collection  of  works  with  Cruik- 
shank's  illustrations;  'Portraits  of  the  Members 
of  the  Grillion's  Club,'  2  vols,  imperial  folio  :  '  Har- 
'  leian  Miscellany';  complete  edition  of  Hobbes, 
I  edited  by  Molesworth,  10  vols. ;  Wilkiowvo.'^'  V^- 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.     [lo*  s.  i.  Makc«  19. 


dina  Illaatr&ta ';  '  Old  En(?lish  DramatisU,'  60  voU., 
in  red  levant  morocco,  i-t/.;  Harding's  *  Biographical 
Mirroar,"  1795.  There  are  a  number  of  interesting 
items  under  India,  China  and  JaiMin,  and  Court 
memoirs,  many  of  them  at  low  price*:  coloured 
views,  including  'Parks  and  Gardens,'  by  Manns- 
kirach ;  views  of  Brighton ;  and  many  works  on 
costume.  Mr.  Roche  has  also  a  laree  lioUection  of 
the  chromoa  published  by  the  Arundel  Society. 

The  March  catalogue  of  W.  H.  Smith  &  Son 
<wntainB  list  of  books  new  as  published,  as  well 
as  second-hand  surplus  copies  withdrawn  from 
their  library. 

The  oataloKue  for  the  12th  iuat.  of  Messrs. 
Sotheran  &.  (Jo.  contains  the  announcement  that 
the  first  volume  of  Tissut's  Bible  will  l>e  ready 
shortly.  It  is  to  be  published  in  2  vols,  folio ;  each 
copy  is  to  be  numbered  and  stamped  by  the  Cerclo 
de  la  Librairie,  and  will  bear  the  name  of  the 
aufaacriber     The  books  in   the  cuitalogue  include 

*  Arabian  Nights.'  translated  by  Forster,  14/.  10*.; 
Ashbee's  reprints  of  rare  tracts,  61.  6i. ;  '  The  Del- 
phin  Classics,"  W-  Ift'.,  complete  in  160  vola,  half- 
niorooQO  gilt  (this  was  published  in  boards  at 
128?.  18«.) ;  Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  Moxon's  edi- 
tion, 12/.  12«.  ;  '  Bacon's  Essjiysi,'  John  Haviland, 
19S2,  61.  6*.  The  bibUographical  works  include 
Allibone,  Brunet,  Dibdtn ;  Todd's  '  Catalogue  of 
the  Archiepiscopal  M8S.  ai  Lambeth;  and  an 
illustrated  catalogue  of  the  library  of  Henry  Perkins 
(brewer),  with  the  prices  realized  at  the  sale  in 
June.  1973.  This  contains  250  line  plates.  The 
library  consisted  of  885  lots,  and  included  two 
oopies  of  the  Mazarin  Bible.  The  total  result  of 
the  sale  was  39,00W.  Among  extra -illustrated 
books  are  Burnet's  '  History  of  hia  Own  Time,"  381. ; 
Bryan's  '  Dictionary  of  Painters,'  17A  IOji.  ;  a  choice 
set  of  Coleridge,  very  scarce,  Pickering,  1836-53 ; 
Payne  Collier  s  '  Ola  English  Literature ' ;  '  Le 
Costume  Historiuue,'  by  Racinet :  the  Gadshill 
Dickens;  the  Ex-Libris  Series,  13  vols. ;  Goldsmith's 

*  Works,'  edited  by  Peter  Cunningham ;  Ritson's 
Literary  and  Antiquarian  Publications,  33  vols., 
28/.  10«. ;  the  Satiriit,  edited  by  Jerdan ;  Shake- 
speare, Boydell  &  Nicol,  18U2 ;  and  Shakespeare 
Society's  Publications,  complete  from  iu  beginning 
in  1S41  to  its  dissolution  in  1853.  There  is  a  very 
oboice  complete  set  of  Swinburne's  works  and 
a  first  edition  of  Thackeray's  '  HuraouriHts.'  with 
autograph  letter,  1853  ;  also  a  fine  copy  of  Walpole's 
'  Works  and  Letters,'  23  vols.,  morocco,  47/-  10#. 

Mr.  Albert  Sutton,  of  Manchester,  has  a  col- 
lection from  the  library  of  the  late  T.  R.  Wilkinson. 
This  includes  a  nuniljer  of  works  on  Africa  and 
Aronrica;  'A  Collection  of  Tracts  relating  to  the 
Settlement  of  the  Colonies  in  North  America"; 
Bihtioffraphka,  1895-7;  a  complete  set  of  6*Artm6er<('^ 
Journal,  1832-1900,  halfcAlf,  8/.  8«. ;  Egypt  Ex- 
ploration Fund  Publication!:  and  Jesse's  Literary 
and  Historical  Memorials  uf  London,' 4  vols.,  first 
editions,  1847-50.  Under  Lancashire  are  many 
works  of  interest,  including  a  special  copy  of 
Gregson's  'Antiquities  of  the  County  of  Lancaster,' 
with  the  shields  of  arms  emblazoned  by  hand  in 

S)ld,  silver,  and  colours ;  Shaw's  '  Manchester, 
Id  and  New';  Roby's  'Traditions';  Manchester 
Geographical  Society,  Vols.  L  to  XVI.  1S85-100I ; 
•Oldham  Local  Notes';  Pipe  Rolls,  Ac  Worku 
on  London  include  Ackermaun's  '  Microcosm,' 
1815.  Ihe  plates  excellently  coloured.  3  vols.  4to. 
tnorocoo,  2u.    There  is  a  set  of  the  IVaHtaetiotu  oi  | 


the  North  of  England  Mining  Engineers,  from  ita 
commencement  in  1852  to  its  termination,  42  vols. 
Hipkins's  'Historic  and  Unique  Musical  Instru- 
mcnta'  is  priced  at  3/.  lOf.  j  it  conuins  50  platea 
tn  colour,  and  is  sumptuously  bound  in  half, 
morocco.  The  original  cost  of  this  was  9/.  9h, 
and  the  Jkfiufkal  Standard  expressed  surprise  at 
the  time  it  was  published  (1888)  that  it  could  have 
been  produced  at  the  price.  A  complete  set  of 
Punch  IS  27/. 

Mr.  Thomas  Thon>,  of  Reading,  has  a  good  general 
catalogue  of  recent  purchases,  including  works  on 
America,  India,  Japan,  and  Ireland  ;  Aokermann'a 
•  History  of  the  University  of  Cambridge.'  12/  10*  • 
lietitUy'H  MfJtctUaiiu,  I837-<S1 ;  Bewick's  'British 
Land  and  Water  Birds ' ;  a  number  of  works  illus- 
trated by  Cruikshank,  including  'Comir  Alma- 
nacks,' 18;»-46,  rare,  4/.  4».,  'The  Loving  Ballad  of 
Lord  Batenian,'  rare  first  edition,  7/.  7*.,  and  '  My 
Sketch  Book,'  1824;  Dickens's  'A  New  Spirit  of 
the  Age,'  edited  by  R.  H.  Home.  18« ;  LatJiam's 
'I'alconry,*  10/.  10*.  ;  Gerarde's  'The  Herball ' 
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CONTENTS. -No.  13. 
NOTES;— Book*  fmni  Jnbn    D««'*  IJbrary,  311— Aurt^n 

BDrrn  li  In  I.lnc(>lii«li[rr— nibliOKnphy  of  Fiit>IUhlng,  ^^i:^! 

— TliiUDAs   Utk  n.ii<l   Unlpli    KIk'Ivd — Hvll,   Hpaven,  liml 

Para.lln.?  u   PlBociuimes  —  "  birl,"  i'45  —  "  Anou  "— The 

Ute  Mr.  Tbompion  Cooper,  244. 
QnER18S:-"()iir  Udy  of  Snow^"  344-W.  Miller,  Bn- 

Srnvcr  — CosAi  dr  K(pftnA — "  1  rxpect  lopma  throuf;b" — 
f  pr"iii;niiiet'l  r4j— SbuU'redo,  X*;  -Cniniipuon  Surnani«iii 
lAusMiIirhlte  -  C>>pper  Coins — G«frm-«'i  y notation— Feinlal 
Syttem  —  Wilton  Nunnery  —  Orooch  the  Muiicul  Com- 
potvr— L*tJn  Lines  —  "Scole  Inn,"  Norfolk  —  Diihnrlii- 
••Olwe  Pkti"— Mlnlntiire  of  Isiuic  Newlon,  24S— Grrclt 
Pktritrcbi— Iriib  BjnoiilBtory  Pruyers,  'H'j. 

HBFLIBS  !  -T*s«a  and  Miltoii,  mS— '  Meirv  TlioufchU  In  n 
8*4  PImc'— Derlv.tlon  of  "  Dridg*,"  :«M)-Daniel*nii- 
(Hrvolte  Holies —"  Mfyne»"  »iid  "  Rblii«»"— KIpple*— 
Spnniib  FrovrrN  on  lli"  OrnriKf,  3•^l  — Siampleis  (iiaw- 
•tono*  —  Mn"'!  Folk  lore  —  Dll>iln|;rapby  of  Bpltii;>iia — 
BHtnime— Tiaveri  Famllv,  25:1  — Anafn^m*  on  Piu>  X.— 
St.  Mary  Axe:  St.  Mlcbael  le  Qurme  —  W.  Hartley— 
BuglUb  lu  Krantse— Diiratt-ahire  Siiake-lor«,  a.Vt—"  First 
oateb  ymif  bar*,"  S54  — "Fide,  vf\  cu)  vide"  —  Mount 
OracB  le  Kbor*— Manning*  and  Tawcll  -"  OM  UngUnd  "- 
*Tbe  O.iliird  Bn4(liah  Dictionary,"  W-i—Marlljorough  and 
Sbak«iipear,9— Admiral  BynK— Immonality  of  Anlmala— 
"Sorponl":  ••  H«u(£«velo"  — Punnell,  ^M)  —  Williani  of 
Wykfliani  —  y  i  tuiloiH  —  Loiirtim  HuMiltb  at  M 'kow— 
Our  (JlJeit  Pui.llc  Si'hool  -  William  Willie,  267 -"An 
Auilrlan  army'  -MUtirical  Geonraphy  of  Londou  — 
aeiii-nlu|;y  ;   New  Smirctj.  aiS. 

trOTBS  f>«  BOOKS  :-ColvlU».» 'DuohMi  Sarmb '-' Great 
Ma«t«ri'— '  HandbiKfk  for  Yorkublre '— Douie'i  *  Bxaml- 
oatioa  of  an  Old  ManiiscHpt '— Jnbiwlnn'i  'Place-oamM 
of  Scotland'—  Mixire'a  'M«nx  Name*'— Flunket'a  'An- 
cient Ca'enilan  and  Cunatellntloos '  —  '  Conway  Parlab 
Be|ElaIor«.' 

Notice*  \u  C.irreapondeiiu. 


BOOKS  FROM  JOHN   DKliS  LIBRARY. 
(beo  O""  S.  vjii.  137.) 

Some  further  works  may  now  be  addetl  to 
the  list  of  JohiJ  Dee's  books  in  the  Library  of 
the  Koyai  Collage  of  I'liyHicians  given  at  the 
above  reference. 

10.  C.'ot»«rnicufi  (Nicolau»)  De  LAteri-  |  bua  et 
Aagulia  Tri-  [  aiiRnlorum. — Ito,  V^itiemberga;,  154'2. 

On  the  title-page  is  the  signature  "  Joannes 
Deou«i  1553,  9  Februar.  I.,on<Jini." 

17.  OUrennus,  AwCciraYopdoi'.— Folio,  Buileie, 
1M7. 

The  book  is  a  good  example  of  the  printed 
rauHio  of  khe  time.  There  is  a  .specially  tine 
and  l>old  nignature  on  the  title-page : 
*■  Joanneu  Dee  1550,  4  deoeb.  Londini." 

18.  Thcvet  (F.  Aiulri)  Cosmogra-  |  phic  de  I 
LcvBnl.— 4to,  Lyon,  Ifl&t. 

"Joannes  Dee,  1557,  20  Januarii."  The  book 
was  rebound,  probably  in  the  early  eighteenth 
century,  and  much  cut  down,  xo  tliat  Uie  top 
of  the  signature  is  cut  off. 

Itt  L«ovitiu«  (Cypiiaiius)  Kcliif«iiim  Omni-  |  uni 
abaiiim  domini  |  loi>4  luqiio  in  «nuiini  <liMiiini  1(J(J(3 : 

Viu(i«l)coruin,  IS^ 


It  does  not  contain  a  complete  signature, 
but  several  notes,  most  of  which  were  ruth- 
lessly cut  in  lialf  when  the  book  was  rebound. 

Under  an  account  of  an  eclipse  of  the  moon 
as  seen  from  Augsburg  in  1556  is  the  follow- 
ing :— 

"  H.-ec  nobis  londini  incepit  post  hora  12  m'  20, 
et  (iniebat  in  cariis   tnaaore   niediabat  fere   cich'i, 

eub  [?J  hor.  2  in'  30.     Aliqoo   tor nieou  co'ien- 

deule  in.'epifwo'  Tn'6  post  I'J^'et  tiuivi8»e':!3  niinuiis 
post  '_•'"'." 

A  marginal  note  haa  been  written  beiiiide 
the  account  of  another  eclipse  of  the  moon  : 
"fine'  ego  obsfervavij  Mortlaci " 

Bedside  a  '  rnedictio  Astrologica  ad  annum 
domini  1564,  1565,  &  l.'jGO'  appear  the 
remains  of  a  Scriptural  toxt^  mo;it  of  wliich 

has  been  cutaway:  " qui  iu  domino 

tur.  J.  D." 

20.  Our  philosopher  seems  not  to  have 
been  wholly  ab^ioroefl  by  abstruse  specula- 
tions in  astrology  or  in  the  cotitemplation  of 
a  crystal  sphere,  for  1  was  surpri-sed  to  come 
across  the  signature  "  Jehan  Dee,  1557,"  in  a 
work  entitled 

Cinquanto  |  Joua  Divers  '  d'honnete  entrelieti,  | 

industrieu»cnient  in-  |  vcnti-s  par  Mcfser  Innocent 

I  Khin|{hier,  ({eutil-  |  honimo   Boloi-  i  Knoy^.   |  Eb 

Kais   Francoys  |  par  Hubert  Philippe  de  Villiera. 

ISvo,  Lyon,  1555. 

With  the  French  form  of  hi.s  name  lie  must 
have  as.suraed  .something  of  the  French  gaiety, 
though  the  stately  and  ceremonious  games 
described  would  hardly  derogate  from  the 
dignity  of  the  most  grave  and  reverend 
signor.  It  may  be  of  interest  to  describe 
them  briefly.  They  are  all  on  one  principle. 
A  governor  is  chosen,  who  allots  names 
according  to  the  subject  in  hand.  Then  the 
rest  are  in  turn  asked  questions  to  which 
certain  replies  must  be  made,  accompanied 
with  more  or  less  action.  Mistakes  are  paid 
for  by  forfeits,  which  are  redeemed  by 
answering  further  questions  appropriate  to 
the  subject  of  the  game.  Tiie  Game  of  Cere- 
monies—it does  not  belie  its  name— is  a 
mimic  sacrifice  to  Venus.  At  the  end  the 
author  write.s  complacently:  — 

"  Such  is  the  delectable  Kamo  of  the  Sacrifice  of 
Venus,  which,  however  loug  in  nature,  and  full  of 
coronioniea,  will  not  cause  by  that  lets  joy  and 
novfliy  :  iirovided  that  it  l>u  governed  and  ruled 
by  gciilwl  and  pleasant  persons," 

Ue  thinks  some  apology  necessary  for  '  Le 
Jeu  d'Eufer,"  but  justifies  himself  by  tlu« 
example  of  Lucian  in  his  'Dialogues'  and 
Boccaccio,  who  in  his  stories  sometimes  turns 
sucli  terrifying  things  as  this  "into  a  gaiue 
and  solace:  so  that  very  often  laughter  and 
consolation  proceed  from  what  should  bring 
u«  only  tears  and  sad  lamentations." 


242 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES,     no*  s.  i.  Makch  28,  iom. 


In  the  tranalator'a  preface  to  the  reader  he 
hopes  he  will  be  pardoned 
"si  i'ay  use  d'uno  ortograpbe  ijuelquB  peu  dinerse 
ct  difercte  a  la  vulgaire :  car  xe  ne  I'ay  fait  sinon 


pouuoir  coinporl«r:  lai»9*nt  encor  quelqueabriiurea 
a  racier,  non  pour  lea  approuuer,  maia  pour  n«  roe 
faire  voir  de  plain  aaub  trop  aigr©  reformateur." 

A  tentative  reform  occurs  in  the  dedication 
to  Marguerite  de  Bourbon,  Duchess  of  Nevers. 
Throughout  it  a  special  type,  an  c  with  a  Ijne 
througn  it,  is  used  for  final  e  mute  coming 
before  a  vowel  or  A.       W.  R.  B.  Peideaux. 


AURORA  BOREALIS  IN  LINCOLNSHIRE. 
Gkrvaise  Holles,  the  Grimsby  antiquary, 
wboee  Lincolnshire  collections  are  in  the 
British  Museum,  has  described  a  magnificent 
display  of  the  Aurora  Borealis,  witnewed  by 
himself  and  others  near  Grimsby  on  17  Janu- 
ary, 1G39— that  is,  I  presume,  1640  of  our 
modern  reckoning.  So  far  as  I  am  aware, 
these  notes  have  not  hitherto  been  printed. 
I  send  them  to  '  N.  «&  Q.'  because  it  has  been 
assumed  that  no  display  of  the  kind  was 
observed  iu  England  during  the  seventeenth 
century  (see  Miss  Agnes  M.  Gierke's  'Pro- 
blems in  Astrophysics,"  p.  156)  :— 
An  exact  aud  true  diacription  of  what  was  scene  in 
y"  ayre  17°  die  .Jan.  1039  by  M'  Edmund  Lynold 
at  Uealine  ;  and  by  M'  Geruas  Holies,  Captaine 
Guy  Molesworth  and  diueni  others  at  G' 
Gnmesby  iu  Linoolush. 
Vpon  Friday  the  IT"'  of  January  1639  we  obserned 
the  Birange  and  extraordinary  Coruscations  woh 
began  to  arise  in  the  East  and  North,  but  especially 
EMtward  about  a  quarter  of  an  bower  after  nine  at 
night,  wherof  some  of  them  (by  reason  of  the  more 
Qonitiocted  matter  and  substance)  were  not  p'sently 
disolued  as  vsually  they  are  wout,  but  holde  on  still 
and  so  incorporated  ttiomselues  one  into  another, 
passing  along  5  signes  of  the  Zodiamie,  and  nom- 
possed  the  Hcauens  like  a  bow  to  the  West,  a  thing 
seldome  or  ueuer  seene,  w'ch  gaue  a  true  ground  of 
wonder,  for  I't  in  their  progreeac  there  was  not  per- 
ceaued  any  abntemcnt  therof  in  their  strength  or 
splendour. 

As  for  the  body  or  Systeme  of  it.  It  was  not  io 
itselfe  Ex  onini  parte  oequibile,  but  in  some  partes 
broader  then  iu  the  rest  (necniing  as  ragueled  or 
indented  here  and  there,  tor  the  moat  part  moat 
like  to  a  Battalia  of  pikes  counterniarchiug)  but  the 
whole  circular. 

It  arose  up  firet  amidst  the  other  rayea  about  sixe 
d^rees  North  from  Cor  Leonia,  and  so  stroke  up  to 
the  midd  heauens  leaning  Castor  aud  Pollux  about 
tenne  dcgreeji  South,  and  so  much  also  remote  from 
our  Zenith  or  verticall  point,  and  so  went  on  to 
Auriga  close  by  Hircus,  and  from  thence  stroke 
douneward  betvreene  the  seauen  starres  and  Caput 
Algol,  and  «o  fell  v|^)on  the  head  of  Ariee  in  the 
West.  And  thus  it  continued  for  the  space  of  halfe 
n  quarter  of  an  bower.  And  then  by  degreea 
■odainly  broke  and  grow  to  a  diaparition.     But 


still  the  Rayea  mnllipHed,  and  darte*!  np  fron> 
the  Horizon  cast  and  north,  hut  Eastward  more 
frequent,  though  in  tli<  'ley  streamed  up 

higher,  and  witn  a  stroii  aion. 

Not  long  after   the   Xvr.  i..i,i.^    nart    "   Fj 

more  troubled,    the  streamea  arising  i: .  > 

blacke,   thicke  Cloud   eleuated   from   ti.  it 

about  eight  degrees  in  the  height  of  it,  and  iu  lall- 
iog  by  a  decliuity  proiwrlionably  on  cither  side,  it 
described  a  perfect  Arch  of  a  circle  in  the  Convexity 
of  it.  It  was  of  a  solid  consistency  all  the  while, 
not  breaking  or  opening  of  a  long  time  ;  The  dif- 
ference betwene  the  gleames  arising  out  of  the  North 
and  East  being  this,  \-iz^  Those  in  the  Nortii  spninfc 
up  more  sharp  and  slender  imjielling  each  ottier 
Westward  like  the  Motion  of  the  Stringes  of  an 
instrument  strucke  through,  each  one  arising  )>aati 
another,  and  sometimes  crossing  one  anether  like 
so  many  Spearea  in  Transuerse ;  The  colours  of  them 
were  diuers,  some  palish,  others  red  and  fiery  here 
and  there  intermixed  with  greene. 

But  that  which  aeemed  to  be  most  fearfall  was 
about  10  a  clocke,  and  continued  till  neare  Mid- 
night in  our  sight,  and  perchance  long  aft«r  that; 
And  that  was  in  the  inflammation  aud  consumption 
of  these  Exhalations  by  contioaall  dashiuges  and 
vibrations  of  the  Ayre  (like  Bre  and  smoke  mingled 
continually  ascending  viiward  with  a  rapid  nioliun) 
which  were  geuerall  all  the  Heauens  oner  in  tlja 
Northeme  i)art  of  the  Hemisphere  according  to  tlio 
boundes  first  set  by  the  Semicircle,  within  yecom- 
pas  of  w'ch  it  plaved  all  the  while ;  for  .Southward, 
and  in  via  Uolia  all  was  serene. 

From  aboue  the  Weaterne  part  of  ye  clowd  before- 
named,  there  seemed  to  be  a  great  oi^ning  with 
broad  gleamea  arising  w'ch  iniighteucd  that  part 
in  an  Extraordinary  manner ;  The  like  also  aiitle 
after  that  in  the  Eaateme  part  of  it,  Inil  ihcy  arose 
nothing  so  high  as  the  other  w'ch  pierced  up  like 
si:ieares  to  the  very  Pole  itselfe.  About  baife  an 
huwre  after  eleucn  of  the  clocke  there  seemed  to 
bo  aome  abatement  of  the  Qashinges:  but  the 
Streames  in  the  North,  and  the  kast  ospccially 
continued  still,  though  not  so  abundantly  springiox 
vp  as  before.  As  for  the  Naturall  cause  of  this^  and 
the  happening  of  it  at  this  time;  I  conceaue  it  to 
be  those  Fluid  and  incoudensated  exhalations 
drawne  up,  and  so  carried  about  by  a  long  continued 
serenity;  growing  to  some  degree  of  clammynesss 
and  the  ayre  being  then  disposed  to  Frost,  the 
Fripus  nmbiens  below,  with  the  cold  of  y*  midle 
region  aboue  workinj,'  by  an  Antiperiataais  cawsed 
an  intention  of  heat  in  those  Exhalations  w'ch 
(being  of  a  tenuous  Nature)  came  so  to  be  intiumed 
and  consumed  by  a  thiune  spirit  of  fire  licking  them 
up ;  w'ch  had  they  beono  more  incrassated,  would 
either  haue  ended  in  perfect  lightning,  or  hauo 
turned  into  some  other  Meteor.  De  CVeteris  judi- 
cent  alii.-Lansd.  MS.  207,  C,  pp.  192b-193b. 

Edward  Peacock. 

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Sw  alio  the  nrticlos  at  Bth  S.  v.  •n\  ;  vl.  Ut,  46:.,  .V»  ;  vil. 
103,  i^i ;  X.  l«t.  S.t;,  .117  ;  vl.  W.T;  7th  S.  iv.  IM. 

Longman,  Hoiue  of. 

A  series  of  articles  appeared  in  the  Critic, 
24  March,  7,  21  April,  1860,  by  F.  Espinaase. 
Tlvl*  Is  the  moat  autlioiitativo  aiul  loliiulo  account  wliU-h 
biisi  vcl  appoart>l. 

Bookseller,  August,  1H59,  and  30  June,  1865. 
British  and  Cc>Ionial  Pnnter  and  Stationer, 
24  December,  1884. 
Publishers"  Circular,  13  August,  1892. 
Sketch,  .10  May,  18(M. 

Bookman,  special  article,  with  |iortraita,  kc, 
March.  1901. 
Public  Opinion.  2G  February.  1001. 
Mr.  John  (•    '  W.  Ollko 

no.iacaM:!i  a  p  Charles 

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uv,  173?:  ' 


113.  Ii3,  i;4:  IU.4«,  87,  04; 

See  «.ii.  Thomson,  R. 


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to  a  pt'rioill 


Longman,  Thomas.  1804-79.— At henwum,  tt  Sept.. 
1879  ;  Standard,  2  Sept.,  1879 ;  Daily  Telegraph, 
I  Sept,  1879;  Publishers'  Circular,  16  SepU, 
1*79. 

Longman,  William,  I8i;»-77.-An  article  by  Henry 
Keeve  in  Fi-a'tr*  JMj/aiinr,  Octoi>er,  iKu ; 
Athenwum,  18  August,  1877;  I'libliahers'  Cir- 
cular, 1  Sept.,  1877;  liiKikseller,  4  Sei.t.,  1877. 

Lowndes,  Thomas.  1719-84.— A  bookseller  in  Fleet 
Street.  "  He  ie  supposed  to  have  lieen  delineated 
by  Miss  Burney,  in  her  celebrated  novel 
*  Cecilia,'  under  the  name  of  '  Briggs.'  "  {Tim- 
iverle/a  '  Dictiooary  o(  Pcwk,V*!Ck'V 


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Lucas,  E.  v.— Charlea  lAinb  and  the  Lloyds.  With 
portrait.     Crown  8vo,  Loadon,  18£>8. 
ItMlfrt  LU'.yil  (lir^-1811)  wilt  n  boolucllcr  in  BimilimliMiii. 

^laciniUan,  Daniel,  1813-o7;  MacmillaD,  Alexander, 
181S-9(J.  —  Memoir  of  Daniel  Macmillao.  By 
Thomas  Hughes.  With  portrait.  Crown  8vo, 
LondoQ,  I88-J 

A  Biblioirraphiual  Catalogue  uf  MacniilUn  & 
Co.'fi  Pubheationa  from  ).S43  to  1889.  With 
|)ortrait  of  Uanicl  Macmillan  from  an  oil  paint- 
ing by  Lowea  Dickinson,  and  of  Alexander 
Macmillan  from  an  oil  painiiriK  by  Hubert  Her- 
komur,  R.A.     Nvo,  London,  itfttj. 

Le  Livr<»,  Xejdcinbre,  IHHfi,  article  by  Kruoat 
Cliesneau.  '  lAta  tirands  Editeurs  Anglais.' 

Publishers' Circular,  14  January,  180.3,  article 
with  portrait,  '  Publishera  of  Today.' 

liookmau,  special  article  with  portraits,  fte., 
May,  19UI. 

Caxton  Mncmxine,  November,  1901,  u-ticle 
with  illuetrationH. 

Public  OpinioD,  19  February,  1004. 
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graphy of  Printing  and  Publishing  at  Oxford. 
•*  146K  "-1(140.     Willi    Notca,    Appendices,    and 
IDustraliona.     8vo,  Oxford,  190U. 

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«  list  or  Oxforil  Priiitcri  itml  PuMlalicn,  ilOl-IWU. 

Mancheater  BookBcUers.— Article  in  the  BookntUtr 
-  (by  Joscjih  Johnson),  '26  February,  1861. 

Marston,  E<l>vttrd,  11*J4— .  Sketches  of  BookselUrs 
of  otlier  IJAys.  With  9  illustrations.  Fcap.  8vo, 
London,  IfiOl. 

Sketcliea  of  some  Booksellers  of  the  Time  of 

Dr.    bainuel    Johnson.     With    0  illuHtrations. 

Fcap  8vo,  London,  1902 

In  cliip.  vii.  will  lie  fi>uiy<l  n  very  intorositiiiR  ai'couiil,  by 

Mr.   Uoliort    Howc»,  ol  CamliriitKC,  of   n  U<x)k«ollcra'  Uluh, 

ISo.'i-ll,  •*  The  KriojidBOf  Lituratiire."  tnki'u  froiu  t)u>  luluuto- 

4i|H>k  aud   u  colli'ctlun   of    lottors  and    rocaiptoil   aivouiiti 

loiight  St  tho  Mil<>  of  tlio  PlilIlijipN  MSS. 

The  Book-  Monthly  for  Decenil)€r,  lOflS.  con-  ' 
tains  an  article  on  Mr,  Marston,  with  porlriiit.  I 

3Iathia.s,  Thomas  James,  1754  M,'U.3.— The  rur.iiiils  ' 
of  Literature,  a  h'alirical  Poem  in  Four  l^ia- 
logiies,  with   Notop.     To  which  are  added  an 
Appendix;    tho  Citations  translated;    and    a 
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don. 1812. 
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following  iUM-niAion  on  tho  tltltsimee  :  "  I'rescntcl  liy  llir 
ttiitlinr  Gcorjic  \_nc]  M&thtas  to  liU  friciiil  K.  D.  Clcrkf. 

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W  ard.     Crown  8vo,  London,  18*>. 

Men  of  the  Time.— First  edition,  London,  1853; 
fifteenth  edition,  crown  8vo,  London,  1899. 

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llsners' Circular,  15  January,  1887. 

Of  the  Law.— Publishers  Circular,  1  March. 
2887. 

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Journey  of  Life  ;  or.  the  Afternoon  of  my  Days  ; 
illustrating  and  inculcating,  as  the  nar- 
rative proceeds,  some  of  the  most  important 

I  lesions  and  sublime  maxims  of  our  Christian 
pli  ...from   the  incidents    and  every- 

'I  noes  of  the  latter  and  most  uofor- 

tu...i...  j.,..i :,  of  the  real  life  of  a  Country  Book- 


gellrr    •'     r-    -^-,  '•'    ■  '>-  '.--■■,■     •      ■■    -, 

Pr.. 

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a  century Svo,  VAiiAtui^U,  iJi^i, 

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liiogniphy.'   l^;  ^.-ivnU'   (Jali..i^  imubIi   AiiimiaI 

JMW,  article  liy  i 

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Friends :   Memoir  and   (.■■orre»iK>ndence  o!  th« 
late  John  Murray,    with   an   .Xccuunt    of    it 
Origin  and   Progress  of  the  ILjukc,   176S-l^ 
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London.  8vo,  1891. 
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uf  '  limiiloni  llc<cnll<<otion!i  of  thp  I.<>iil«    mid  C<<iuiii»u*,' 

2  voU.  rTOwn  Svc.  L>iii'lou,  184]. 

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.■Esthetic  Edition  of  the  Works  of  ahokespeure. 
8vo,  London,  1811. 

Murray.  John    (Houfo   of).— A   bcriei    of    articleai 
by  F.  EitpinaBse  appeared  in  tlie  Crilir,  7,   14,1 
21,  tiS  Jan.,  I860.     Alao  an  article  by  the  &aino  i 
writer,  with  T'^irtraits  and  other  illuitratioui, 
in  Harpf.ro  Motfa-ittt.  (Sfiilcndjer,  ISSo. 

Bookman,  sjiecial  article  with  portiaits  and 
other  illustnuions,  February,  VJH)\. 
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Murray's  Mogaiine,  November,  WO— The  Origin 

and    History    of    'Murray's   Uundbouks.'    IJy 

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Century':   being  some  Ac'.  fie  Life  "f 

I         John  Newbery,  and  of  tht-  rablished, 

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.\tl(»ii.    Korntor,  In  'Tl'  '  >ih'or  UrtUI- 

sinllir    {Protnco     to  rcfi'rt     (i> 

Ncwticry    MSS.    In    il  atirl    glscn 

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Ihelsmilv. 

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Fnr  alphaljoticjil  lint  ot  Hmikifllc'rt,  A<\.  Mllli  lilc>gre(ihic«l 
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Nicoll,  Henry  .h—('^K^l  Movements  nad  those  who 
Achieveil  Them.  1H81.  '  C'la'ap  Literature: 
Constable,  Chambers,  Kniclit,  t^assi'll.'  pj>.  I.M- 
188.  *  The  Repeal  of  the  Fiscal  RestrictionH  on 
Literature:  T.  .Milner  <;i>>son.  Casscll,  Chnm- 
bera,  Jolin  FrancU,'  jjp-  •Jli5-:j39. 
risbet,  Jaiiie=.  1785-1854.— Lesnons  from  the  Life  of 
the  late  James  Nisbet,  Publisher,  London :  a 
Study  for  Young  Men.  By  the  Rev.  J.  A. 
Wallace     Croun  3vo,  London,  1807. 

North,   Roger,  16riO-1733.-Life  of  the  RiRht  Hon. 
Francis  North,  Sir  Dudley  North,  and  the  Hon. 
and  Rev.  Dr.  John  North,  voL  iii.  p.  293.    8vo, 
London,  ISitJ. 
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Notes  and  (Jaeries,  IS49— 
S?<  tiiilexc\  iiiixiuBliotit. 

O'Brien,  M.  B.— A  Manual  for  Authors,  Printers, 
and  Publishers.     London,  1S90. 

OUlys,  William,  lGOr.1781.— A  Literary  Antiquary : 
Memoir  of  Wjlliam  Oldya,  Es<i.,  Norroy  Kiug- 
Kt-ArniB.  Together  with  his  Diary,  Choi-.-e 
Notes  from  his  Adversaria,  and  an  Account  of 
the  liondoii  Libraries  (with  Anecdotes  of  Col- 
lectors of  Books,  Remarks  on  Booksellers,  and 
of  the  first  publishers  of  Catalogues),  f  By  Janiea 
Veowell.]  Reprinted  from  Notes  buu  Queries. 
12mo.  rx>ndon,  1862. 

\Vm.  H.  Peet. 

{ To  be  continvid.) 


Thomas  U^r  xsd  Ralph  Higden.  — It  in 
>\  great  gniii  to  know  that  the  'Testament  of 
Love '  wo-s  written  by  Thomas  Uak  and  not 
by  Chaucer.  A'l  is  now  well  known,  TTsfc 
himself  has  plaeeiJ  this  on  record  by  the  fact 
that  the  initial  letters  of  hio  chapters  form 
the  Hentence :  "  Margarete  of  virtw,  have 
merci  on  thin  Vsk." 

But  thi^  was  surely  rather  a  queer  thing 
to  rio,  anrl  naturally  suggests  the  que.stion, 
What  put  this  idea  into  his  head?  The 
nhviou8  answer  -in,  I  think,  that  the  .same 
thing  had  ju8t  been  done  by  Ralph  Higden, 
the  author  of  the  '  Polychronicon,'  whose 
great  book  of  lii.story  was  in  vogue  just 
exactly  in  his  time  ;  it  was  a  celebrated  book 
of  that  age.  and  he  must  have  known  some- 
tliing  about  it.  Uok  wrote  about  1387,  and 
HiK«)en  died  in  13(5.3. 

The  initial  lettoru  of  the  chapters  in 
fligden'a  first  book  form  the  sentence : 
"  IV'Hentem  ctonicam  compilavit  frater 
Uanuir)hu«i  Cestrensis  monachus."  It  is  re- 
markable that  the  editor  of  the  first  volume 
of  Iiig<lon,  at  p.  xvii  of  his  preface,  quotes 
the  following  from  Bishop  Mcholson:  "If 
you  spell  ihf*  first  letters  of  the  several 
chapters  that  begin  it.  you  read,  '  Pnpsentem 
c^ronicam  cow[)ilavit  Fraier  HanuJphus  mona- 
chus  Cestrensis.' "  Apparently  neither  the 
editor  of  the  volume  nor  any  one  else  has 


ever  taken  the  trouble  to  verify  the  state- 
ment, or  he  would  have  found  out  that  there 
were  three  misspellings  in  it,  as  denoted  by 
the  italics.  As  it  is  thus  misrepresented,  we 
find  sixty  one  letters,  though  there  are  but 
sixty  chapters  ;  and  it  is  surely  amazing  that 
atiy  one,  in  spelling  out  an  acrostic,  should 
thus  put  the  words  iti  a  wrong  order  ! 

However,  we  now  come  to  a  literary  fact, 
NTz.,  that  Usk  knew  Higden's  book.  I  find 
one  rather  clear  cAe  of  probable  indebted- 
ness. Thus  in  book  ii.  cli.  ii.  1.  IIG  of  the 
'Testament,'  Usk  says  that  the  mother  of 
Perdiccas,  who  was  iieir  to  Alexander  tha 
Great,  was  a  dancing-girJ.  As  I  point  out  in 
the  notes,  it  was  Arrhidaiue,  Alexander's  half- 
brother,  and  not  Perdiccas,  who  had  such  a 
mother.  But  Higden  has  the  very  same 
error.  In  his  book  iii.  ch.  xxx.  Higden  (fol- 
lowing, apparently,  Trogus)  remarks,  "filiua 
aaltatricis  Perdiccas  legitur  successisse." 

And  now  comes  a  very  interesting  point. 
It  was  John  of  Malverne,  the  continuator  of 
Higden,  who  has  given  us  some  account  of 
Usk,  api>arently  from  personal  recollection. 
This  fact  brings  the  two  authors  into  very 
close  connexion.  Walter  W.  Skeat. 

Hell,  Heaven,  and  Pakapisr  a.s  Place- 
names.— To  the  place-names  with  Hell  (see 
ntite,  pp.  4G,  94,  15fJ)  may  be  addetl  a  house  at 
Tiibingen,  Wiirtemberg,  called  Die  Hoile. 

May  I  also  remind  your  readers  that  & 
refreshment  room  in  the  old  House  of  C'-om- 
mons  was  named  Helll  Many  of  the  M.P.» 
expelled  by  Col.  Pride  in  1648  were  confined 
temporarily  in  it. 

One  of  the  beat-known  Valaisan  wines  is 
called  Vin  d'Enfer  ;  and  there  is,  of  course,  a, 
Hollenthal  in  the  Black  Forest. 

An  osteri'i  near  the  catacombs  of  8aD 
Sebastian,  on  the  Api)ian  Way  at  Rome,  has 
the  sign  "  Dello  Anime." 

Paradise,  Parvis,  Parsfel,  is,  of  course,  a 
well-known  name  for  the  square  outside  the 
west  door  of  a  cathedral,  as  at  Paris  and  Aix- 
la-(JhBiielle  ;  but  I  do  not  know  anvexample» 
save  Hoavenfield  in  Yorkshire,  of  Heaven  or 
Purgftt4">ry  as  a  i)lace-namo.  H.  2. 

"Girl." — The  etymology  of  girl,  according 
to  the  '  N.E.D  ,'is  still  uncertain,  and  it  may 
therefore  be  worth  while  to  urge  the  claims 
of  uji  association  not,  I  believe,  before  sug- 
gested. 

In  the  earliest  examples  quoted  it  is  clear 
that  i/irl  is  not  feminine  of  sex,  but  opposed 
rts  an  immature  child  to  adult  man.  We 
shoul<l  look  for  the  cognates  of  the  word 
therefore  in  the  direction  of  immaturity.  I 
find  a  first  cousin  to  the  word  in  grilgf,  the 


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immature  ualmon.  The  vapary  of  tV  and  ri 
18  of  coarse  faioiliar  ;  ci.frtth  &n6  JirtJt^  gi'in 
and  girn.  and  the  byforms  of  (firl  and  grihe 
in  the  'N.E.D.'  As  to  the  final  I,  it  is 
natural  to  see  in  it  the  diminutive  -d,  -l, 
i.e.,  the  I.G.  -lo-  suffix:  cf.  runnel,  cripple 
(beaide  creep),  fowl.  Tnis  gives  gir-  oh  the 
stena,  which  is  confirmed  by  the  Old  Low 
German  gOr,  and  this  will  justify  us  in 
making  i7ari;on,  besides  ffars  ana  Irish  ijowoon, 
of  the  same  kindred.  It  is  reasonable  to 
trace  in  all  the  root  ol  gr(nv,  green,  gniss, 
N.  Scotch  mra ;  and  thus  we  arrive  at  an 
I.G.  root,  the  velar  or  palatal  breathed  aspi- 
rate guttural  and  r  (sonant  or  consonant), 
which  of  course  appears  by  ablaut  with 
various  stem-vowels.  If  this  be  right,  we 
ought  probably  to  see  the  same  root 
in  -xopTOi,  hortus,  garth,  yard;  and  it  ia 
tempting  to  suppose  that,  as  happens 
sporadically,  the  I.G.  had  a  byform  wnich 
produced  the  Latin  crc-o  and  crt-sco.  la 
any  case  the  old  girl/jin/  will  thus  be  the 
eouivalent  of  our  "  Verdant  Green."  I  would 
aad  that  the  idea  of  Mrs.  Grundy  as  the 
divinity  who  "mores  hominum  naao  sus- 
pendit  ad  unco"  is  confirmed  by  the  name 
Grindy.  which  hangs  on  a  signpost  of  an  inn 
iu  the  parish  of  Thorpe  Cloud,  Derbyshire. 

T.   NiCKLIN. 

"  A^ON."— In  the '  New  English  Dictionary ' 
a  curious  use  of  anon  has,  it  would  appear, 
escaped  attention.  In  Thackeray's  'The  Four 
Georges'  (I  quote  from  Smitlj  &.  Elder's 
edition  of  18G9),  in  'George  IV.,'  p.  106,  we 
liave,  "It  was  Walter  Scott  who  had  that 
accident  with  the  broken  glasN  I  spoke  of 
tmon"  (i.e.,  on  p.  100).  Here  the  word  must 
be  used  of  the  past.  T.  Nicklin. 

The  late  Mr.  Thomp-son  Coopke.  (See 
ante,  p.  220.)  —  Survivors  until  1904  among 
those  who  contributed  to  the  First  Series  of 
*N.  &  Q.'  must  be  so  rare  that  I  think 
special  note  Hhould  bo  fnade  of  the  fact  that 
tiie  late  Mil.  Thompson  Cooper's  earliest 
contribution  was  in  vol.  vii,  of  that  series 
(p.  11»>,  published  on  29  January,  1863,  and 
therefore  when  he  was  not  twenty  years  of 
age,  his  l&tit  appearing  just  half  a  century 
later  W"  S.  xi.  3:h).  The  subject  of  the  first 
vas  the  Irish  ballatl  of  *  lioyne  Water,'  and 
three  other  efforts  from  his  pen  are  in  the 
same  volume ;  while  he  was  a  frequent  con- 
tributor in  many  subsequent  years,  and  often 
in  association  with  C.  H.  Ck>opor,  whom  I 
take  to  have  been  his  father.  As  one  who 
had  long  known  and  re-spccted  this  woU- 
learned  and  admirable  journalist,  and  who 
met  him  at  hia  post  of  duty  in  the  Press 


Gallery  of  the  House  of  Lords  only  a  very 
short  time  before  he  ceased  work  and  life 
almost  simultaneously,  I  should  like  to  place 
upon  record  a  strilcing  indication  or  his 
resolve  to  labour  to  the  end.  Because  of  his 
advanced  age,  the  authorities  of  the  House 
of  Commons  paid  him  the  unprecedented 
conipliment  of  offering  him  the  use  of  the 
Ladies'  Gallery  lift  to  tlie  Press  Gallery  ;  but 
he  never  took  advantage  of  it,  on  the  ground 
that  he  was  still  well  able  to  ]>erform  all  liis 
duties.  Alfred  F,  Hobbhts. 


Wk  miul  request  oorreaponrlenls  deBiring  in- 
formation on  fuinily  mutteni  of  only  private  interest 
to  affix  their  namee  and  addresaea  to  their  queries, 
in  order  that  the  answers  may  be  addressed  to  tbeni 
direct. 

"Ode  Lady  op  Snows."  —  Among  your 
various  contributors  will  probably  be  found 
some  to  throw  li^ht  upon  the  following  ques- 
tion. A  short  time  ago  I  read  in  a  feoHing 
London  daily  paper  an  allusion  to  the  ex- 
preiision  "Our  Lady  of  Snows,*'  which  was 
called  the  "pretty  phrajie "  of  Mr.  I^udyard 
Kipling.  But  did  it  really  originate  with 
him?  To  Ijtigin  with,  the  expi-ession  has  a 
very  Roman  Catholic  Havour  about  it,  and 
would  naturally  seem  to  have  come  from 
such  a  source.  England  is  a  rainy  country, 
but  an  ordinary  English  Protestant  writer 
would  hardly  call  it  *'Onr  Lady  of  Showers." 
I  am  anxious  to  solve  the  question,  because  I 
came  accidentally,  a  short  time  ago,  on  an 
article  in  the  Revue  Ganaditnne  (Montreal, 
1*^  Mars,  1903)  which  was  devoted  to  a 
Canadian  poet  now  dead,  sijecimens  of  whose 
writings  were  given.  Probably  this  review 
would  not  circulate  much  outside  of  Canada, 
for  the  literature  of  the  French  Ctmadiana  i» 
very  little  read  except  by  themselvei.  The 
critique  is  entitled  'Emile  Neiligan  et  son 
Q*]uvre,'  but  no  regular  biography  of  the  poet 
is  given.  The  poems  cited  are  many  of  them 
very  pretty,  and  have  a  peculiar  nuance  from 
the  Canadian  French  which  strikes  me, 
although,  of  course,  on  delicate  sliadea  of 
expression  a  foreigner  cannot  be  a  complete 
judge.  It  certainly  does  not  appear  exactly 
Parisian  French.  On  p.  280  we  navo  a  poem 
entitled  '  Notre  Dame  des  Neiges."  In  it  the 
legend  of  the  Virgin  Mary  descending  upon 
Montreal  is  given.  I  quote  the  first  two 
verses : — 

Bainte  Notrc-Dame  en  beau  mauteau  d'or, 

De  ■&  lande  (Icurie 
Descend  chauuf]  8oir,  ijuaud  son  Jctut  dort, 
En  Bii  Ville-Marie. 


lO"-  S.  I.  March  36,  \90L] 


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Bous  I'astral  flanibeKu  que  portent  sea  aoges 

Lk  belle  Vierg«  va 
Triomphttlement  aux  acoords  dlnuiges 

De  c^leate  viva. 

SudU  Nolre-Dame  a  l^haut  son  trune 

Sur  Qotrc  Mout-Royal, 
Et  de  la  »oii  a-il  subjugue  le  Faune 

De  I'abiine  infernal. 
Car  elle  a  diet/'  "  Qa'un  Ange  protege 

De  90U  arme  de  feu 
Ua  viile  d'argout  au  collier  de  neige," 

La  Dame  du  ciel  bleu. 

Rather  whimsically  expressed  thooe  verses?,  I 
think,  but  very  pretty.  I  want  now  to  find 
out  when  Mr.  Kipling  first  used  the  ex- 
pres.sion,  and  when  NelliEan  performed  the 
historical  feat  of  flourishinp,"  as  Dickens 
expressed  it.  Who  started  this  pretty  ex- 
pression "  Notre  Darae  des  Neigea  "  1  Perhaps 
it  is  much  oilier  than  both  authors,  as  seems 
highly  probable.  Oxonieksis. 

W.  Miller,  Engraver.— I  am  endeavour- 
ing to  perfect  a  catalogue  of  the  works  of 
\Villiara  Miller,  line  engraver,  which  I  com- 
piled in  1886;  and  araong-st  other  engravings 
of  his  about  which  I  should  be  thankful  for 
information  are  tho  two  mentioned  below. 

The  first  is  a  vignette  engraving  (about 
4  in.  by  4ia.  ?}  representing  a  figure  like  a 
Koman  soUiier  standing  steering  an  onen  boat, 
his  eye  fixed  on  a  star,  and  tlic  tollowing 
lines  (or  something  like  tiiem)  underneath  :— 
Faith  is  the  Christian's  guiding  star 

O'er  life'a  tentpflstuoua  sea. 
By  which  the  soul  can  gain  from  far 
A  gliuiiwo,  0  (iod,  of  Thcc. 

Can  it  have  been  engraved  as  a  title-page 
for  'The  Pilot,'  A.  C.  Baynea,  Liverpool, 
1831,  or  for  'Christian  Vespers,'  C.  Hutche- 
Bon,  Glasgow,  1832  ?  I  could  not  find  either 
P<publicatiuu  in  the  British  Museum. 

In  wimt  publication  is  to  be  found  a  line 
engraving  (probably  about  6  in.  by  4 in.?) 
of  Hornby  (  astle,  after  Pickorsgill, engraved 
for  Fisher,  Hon  &  Co.,  London,  1832,  by 
William  Miller?  W.F.Miller. 

Sttiumeriiold,  Wtnacombc,  HomerBet. 

CosA.s  DE  Esi'ANA.—  1.  Can  any  one  give 

le  the  history  of  a  very  striking  memorial 

to  Christopher  Columbus  which  now  adorns 

Seville  Cathedral?    I  find  no  mention  of  it 

in  a  b«K>k  so  recent  as  Mr.  Gallichan's  '  Story 

of  Seville'  (*'  Mediteval  Towns"),  which  bears 

the  date  of  1JX">3.     I  have  been  told  that  the 

monument  was   brought   from  Havana,  but 

,  tho    'Kiicyclo|iuxlia     iiritannica'    seems    to 

ilcnow  notning  of  it  or  of  its  transference. 

■IVhose  ni»ole  conception  is  embodied  in  the 

design  f    I    judged  Miat  the    grand  figures 

of  four  kings,  Caatille,  Aragou,  Leon,  and 


Navarre,  bearing  the  bier  of  the  discoverer, 
were  of  coloured  stone,  but  a  lady  who  had 
presumed  to  touch  one  of  them  informed  me 
tliat  they  were  of  "tin,"  which  I  cannot  for  a 
moment  believe. 

2.  At  tho  feet  of  the  venerated  image  of 
El  Santo  Cristo  at  Burgos  are  three  oval 
objects  which  are  probably  ostriches'  eggs. 
Does  anybody  know  when  and  why  they 
were  placed  there?  I  should  imagine  they 
were  a  votive  offering  |  and  perhaps  they 
may  have  some  connexion  with  a  flock  of 
ostriches  belonging  to  the  Crown  which  is 
referred  to  in  'Spanish  Life  in  Town  and 
Country,'  pp.  81,  82.  The  birds  were  (and 
perham  may  be  still)  kept  in  a  royal  park 
near  Madrid.  "  No  one,  says  the  author, 
"  seemetl  to  know  anything  auout  them  nor 
how  long  the}'  had  been  there."  The  Christ 
at  Bergos  is  designated  de  lot  hxuvos. 

3.  Is  there  any  legend  to  account  for  the 
unusual  tenuity  and  lengtli  of  Spaniards' 
feet?  St.  Swithin. 

"I    EXPECT    To    PASS     THROUGH.''— Who    IS 

the  author  of  the  following? — 

"  I  expect  to  pass  through  this  world  but  once. 
Any  gocNl  thing,  therefore,  that  I  can  do,  or  any 
kindness  that  I  can  show  Co  any  fellow-creature, 
let  me  do  it  now.  Let  me  nut  defer  ur  neglect  it, 
for  I  shall  not  pass  this  way  again." 
It  is  ascribed  to  Edward  Courtenay,  Earl  of 
Devon  ;  to  Etienne  Grellet,  a  French  Quaker  ; 
and  to  Sir  Rowland  Hill.  I  shall  be  greatly 
obliged  for  any  information  about  the  writer  s 
name  and  life.  J.  A.  S. 

[This  saying  was  dticuued  7^**  S.ix.  129 ;  8*i>  S.  ix. 
16U,  m  378;  xi.  118;  but  the  author  was  not 
identified.  ] 

N  PR0N0U>XED  NO.— Why  is  the  letter  n 
always  sounded  as  ng  before  k,  c  or  rk  (pro- 
nounced Oik),  and  jcl  The  following  are 
examples  of  what  I  believe  to  be  a  universal 
rule :  Anchor  pronounced  aiigchor ;  bank, 
bangk ;  Jenkins,  Jengkins ;  link,  lingk : 
monlc,  mongk  ;  uncle,  ungcie  ;  bunk,  bungk  \ 
anxiety,  angxiety  ;  minx,  mingx ;  lynx, 
lyngx. 

It  seems  to  me  that  this  fact  throws  some 
light  on  recent  correspondence  concerning 
the  so-called  duplication  of  the  sound  in  aomo 
words  ending  in  jw,  as  amjlt,  tinjU.  &c. 

W.  i.  B.  II. 

SiiDLiiRKDE :  Derivation  of  the  Name.— 
Shulhrede  Priory,  near  Li  neb  mere,  in  Sussex, 
was  founded  in  tho  reign  of  Kinj?  John. 
There  is  no  village  or  other  place  of  the 
name,  whicli  is  confined  tn  the  Priorj'.  The 
name  has  lieen  spelt  in  various  ways,  amongst 
others  "Shilbred"  and  "Silebrede."    It  was 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES,     uo^  s.  i.  mahch  28.  iwi. 


not  unusual  in  SuMex,  before  the  Reforma- 
tion, to  endow  plots  of  land,  the  rental  of 
which  went  to  provide  either  the  hread  for 
the  Eucharist  or  the  "pain  beoit "  distributed 
after  Mass,  and  such  landD  were  called  "  Holy 
Bread  Lands,'  the  rent  beinj?  sometimes 
referred  to  as  "Uolebreda"  (Suss.  Art/i.  Coll., 
xliv,  p.  151  and  note).  May  the  name  Shul- 
brede  be  derived  from  thia  practice,  Shut 
or  Site  being  equivalent  to  ^Seele  =  holy, 
blessed  ?  C  Stbachey. 

Camden  os  Surnames:  ilusaELwniTE.— I 
should  be  much  obliged  for  the  reference  in 
Camden's  'Britannia'  to  the  place  where  he 
states  that  there  are  few  villages  in  Normandy 
which  are  not  the  origin  of  English  >suniames. 

What  is  the  meaning  of  the  name  Mussel- 
white,  con:mon  in  parts  of  South  Wilts  1  It 
is  interchangeable  with  Mussell,  families 
calling  themselves  by  both  names.  Mussell 
seems,  from  its  termination  til,  Norman- 
French  :  Musselwhite,  from  its  termination, 
.seems  English.  G.  JIill, 

Harnhani  Vicarage,  Salisbary. 

CoppEE  Coins  and  Tokens  —What  is  the 
best  way  to  clean  theae  1  F.  M.  J. 

German  Quotation.— "Ohne  Phosphor 
kein  Gedanko."  Can  any  of  your  readers 
inform  me  about  the  origin  of  this  phrase? 
1  believe  I  came  across  it  years  ago  in  Goethe's 
works.  H.  C.  G. 

Feudal  System.— When  an  owner  in  fee 
held  by  tenure  uf  knight  service  under  a 
tenant  in  cnpiu  the  |»ositioii  of  the  two 
parties  is  clear,  but  tliis  is  not  so  when  a 
third  person  intervenes.  Thus  it  is  often  the 
ca.se  that  a  knight's  fee  is  held  by  the  tenant 
in  fee  under  a  mesne  tenant,  and  he  (the 
latter)  holds  under  a  tenant  f'n  capite,  and  I 
should  like  to  discover  what  are  the  privi- 
leges and  burdens  which  this  mesne  tenant 
enjoyed  and  had  to  bear.  B.  R. 

WiLTOx  Nunnery. -^The  Benetlictine  Ablwy 
of  Wilton,  near  Marlborough,  Wilts,  was  aur-  [ 
rendered  some  time  lietween  1537  and  1640,  t 
and  granted  to  the  Earl  of  Pemiirokc.  What 
evidence  is  there  that  it  was  restored  under 
Oueen  Mary,  as  stated  l)y  Scott  (note  A  to 
'Rub  Roy')?  John  B.  Wainkwkujut. 

Ckoucu  tue  MusiCAr.  Composer.— Can 
any  reader  of  '  N.  &  Q.'  tell  me  whether 
Crouch  wrote  any  other  niusio  be«ide  his 
well-known  setting  to  '  Kathleen  Mavour-  [ 
neen  '  by  which  he  seems  to  be  alone  re- 
membered ?  He  was  born  in  Wiltshire;  left , 
England  for  the  States  ia  1849;  served  in. 


the  Confederate  army  in  the  American  Civil 
War  ;  afterwards  settled  in  Maryland,  and 
finally  died  in  his  eighty-ninth  year  ab 
Portland,  Maine,  U.S.  A  contemp«>rary  statcft] 
that  the  heirs  of  his  creditors  have  now 
received  11«.  9d  in  the  |)ound  owing  to  the 
increaited  value  of  land  in  Pentonville,  where 
his  property  was  situated.  It  would  be 
interesting  to  know  whether  he  ia  com- 
memorated in  any  way  in  his  native  land. 

FrEDEBKK    T.    HlB<iAMS. 

1,  Rodney  Place,  Chftoii,  Uri.^iol. 

iF.  Nicholls  Crouch  wrote  many  other  *OBS 
ere  are  references  to  him  0'^'  ^.  vii.  i'M) ;  viii.  ^ 

Latin  Links.— I  should  be  glad  to  hav 
a  translation  of  the  following  The  word^fl 
border  one  side  of  an  allegorical  diagnun 
or  chart  of  Christian  doctrine  drawn  in  the 
twelfth  century  by  a  Flemish  hand  (see 
Strong's  *  Catalogue  of  Letters,  Ac.  at 
Welbeck,'  p.  9)  :— 

He  regis  nate  aunt  mentis  se<1  locate 
Per  qua*  irrorea  nos  Christe  tuendo  sorores 
0  felix  aiiiina  que  non  ilescendit  ad  iina 
Ut  facie  celi  iiociatur  luce  fiiloli 
Virgineus  celus  perdulci  carmine  letua 
Gautlet  in  eternuni  regem  sfteculando  sujiernura 
lioc  nobis  dona  »anctoruni  Chri.<te  coronn. 
Sedibus  etherueia  <ino  sociemur  eia.    Amen. 

J.  Foster,  D.C  L. 

Tathwell,  Louth,  Lines. 

"  ScoLE  Inn,"  Norfolk.  (See  I"  8.  i.  245, 
283,  32.3.)— In  an  old  print  by  Kirby.  1746, 
of  the  sign  of  the  above  inn,  built  in  the 
year  1635,  and  costing  1,057/.,  the  following 
note  occurs : — 

"  It  is  called  '  .Sclioalo  inn '  from  il^  being  twenty 
ntilea  from  the  City  of  Norwi'jh,  Ipswich,  Bury 
St.  Edmunds,  and  Thotford." 
Can  any  of  your  readers  give  any  moaning 
of  the  note  under  the  title  of  the  print? 

C.  E.  Leman. 

DaHDKIA.— Where  is  tins  botanical  "extra- 
British  distribution,"  !oentioned  from  tim© 
to  time  in  Hooker's  'Student's  Flora  of  the 
British  Islands  "I  C.  S.  Ward. 

"DlsckPati."— Can  any  reader  of  'N.  <feQ.' 
throw  light  on  the  origin  of  this  maxim  ?  It 
is  the  motto  of  the  Duncan  family  (Earla  of 
Camperdown),  but  the  pre.sent  head  of  the 
family  states  that  he  is  unaware  of  its  origin. 
I  have  found  it  inscriiied  in  a  monastic  MS. 
volume,  and  signed  by  a  person  known  to 
have  been  living  in  1487.        C.  STUAnnEY. 

MiNiATirEE  OF  Isaac  Nkwton.— 1  possostj 
a  miniature  of  Sir  Isaac  Newton,  in  a  framo 
set  with  rose  diamonds,  on  the  hack  of  which 
is  engraved  "  The  gift  of  the  Associates  of 


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249 


the  Royal  Aca<letny  of  Sciences  to  Sir 
Newton,  1703."  What  was  the  Royal  Aca 


Isaac 
Royal  Academy 
of  Sciences  ?  Tlie  miniature  in  signetJ  either 
Blake  or  Black.  I  cannot  find  tho  name  in 
Bryan's  *  Dictionary  of  Painters  '  as  a  minia- 
ture painter  of  that  dat^. 

ROBEET   BlRKBECK. 

Greick  Patkiarchs. — Can  any  reader  refer 
me  to  or  supply  me  with  a  list  of  the  Oicu- 
menical  Patriarchs  of  Constantinople  from 
Photius  to  the  pre-sent  Anthimus  VII.  i 

J.  H.  McGovBRN. 

St.  •Stephen's  Rectory,  C.-on-M.,  Manchester. 

Irish  RrActiLATORY  Prayers.— Twenty  or 
thirty  years  ago,  a  number  of  more  or  less 
stereotyped    greetings,   t'jaculatory   prayers. 


sent  from  Jove  in  disguise  to  Philip  of  Spain ; 
and  this  is  described  in  much  the  same 
manner  as  the  heavenly  mission  of  Gabriel, 
sent  fropo  the  Almighty  to  Godfrey  of  Bul- 
loigne  in  Ta-sso's  'Jerusalem  Delivered.' 
There  is  no  copying  of  phrases  or  "convey- 
ing "  of  uncommon  airailes— no  plagiarism 
really  j  but  any  one  who  compares  the  mis- 
sion of  Mars  at  the  beginning  of  Milton's 
epic,  and  the  mission  of  Gabriolat  the  begin- 
ning of  Tasso's  poem,  cannot  fail  to  see  Uiat 
Milton  had  Tasso's  descriptive  lines  clearly 
in  his  mind  (though  no  doubt  unconsciouslv) 
when  he  began  his  own  fragment  with  tfio 
similar  mission  of  Mars. 

But  closely  as  Tasso  is  followed  here,  there 
is  another  Italian  who  is  imitated  far  more 


* 


and  so  forth,  often  falling  into  the  form  of  closely  further  on  in  the  third  fragment  of 
versicle  and  response,  wore  common  among  |  the  same  Armada  epic  :  I  mean  Marcus 
the  Irish  peasantry — e.y.,  "  Go<l  bless  the  Hieronymus  Vida,  and  a  passage  in  the  fifth 
work  !  "  on  coming  into  a  place  where  work  book  of  his  'Christiad.'  There  Fear  is  called 
waa  in  progress  ;  answere(l  by  "Thank  you  forth  by  Satan  from  a  horrid  cave-like  abode, 
kindly."  "God  lie  praised  !  now  we  have  the  I  and  sent  to  frighten  Pilate,  just  as  Terror  is 
light';  answere^l,  I  think,  by  "The  Lord  called  from  his  cave  to  put  to  flight  the  ships 
send  us  all  the  light  of  heaven  !"  1  should  !  of  the  Armada,  and  two  unusual  adjectivett 
\)e  very  grateful  for  any  additions  to  my  j  meaning  "volant"  and  "importunate"  are 
store  of  these  generally  iieautiful  formula?,  used  in  both  accounts  similarly.  The  recur- 
from  those  whose  knowledge  of  tho  subject   rence  of  such  words  shows  clearly  that  they 


is  more  extensive  than  my  own. 

A.  Wallace, 

Pennthorpe,  Mead  Road,  Chislohunt. 


TASSO  AN' I)  MILTON. 
(10«''S.  i.  2(12.) 
Tbe  several  instances  of  similar  thought,  . 
and  .sometimes  even  similar  phrase,  between 
these  two  great  poets  which   Mr.   Inoleby 
gives  are  certainly  interesting.    They  do  not 
prove,  ami  were  not  intended  to  prove,  that 
Nlilton    was  a  plagiarist.     Lauder  tried    to 
show  that,  and  railed  disgracefully,  long  ago. 
liut  such  instances  certainly  lead  us  to  infer 
that  Milton  was  a  great  admirer  and  reader 
of  Tasso's  epic.     However,  since  Milton's  fine 
epic  on  the  Armada  has  \>een  presented  to 
the  present  century  and    been  accepted  by 
competent  critics,  lovers  of  our  grout  p<x?t 
will  naturally  expect  to  find  traces  of  Tasso 
either  there  or  in  some  other  part  of  tho 
varied    prose  and  i>oetry  of  'Nova  Solyma.' 
They  will   not  lx<  di'»appoinled  in  their  ex- 
pectation.   Tho  iXHMn  oti  the  Arnmda  consists 
of  three  lengthy  fnigments,  which  are  quoted 
by  Milton   in  liis  romance  as  specimens  of 
epic  poetry,  and   we  are  reminded  of  'rasso 
[at  tjje  very  outset.     For  the  fir<t  fragment 
beifijis  wirh   the  heavenly  mission  of  Mars, 


came  from  the  earlier  poet,  and  were  retained 
in  Milton's  mind,  and  reproduced  as  his  own 
minting  when  he  was  building  up  "the  lofty 
rime"  of  his  earlier  epic.  Vida's  fame  has 
always  been  very  great  as  a  Latin  poet ;  but 
I  think  few  judges  will  deny  that  the  de- 
scription of  Terror's  "awful  laugh,"  when 
summoned  to  exert  his  power  against  tho 
Spanish  ileet,  beats  anything  in  Vida  or  his 
coetuneous  Latinists : — 

Then  overjoyed  to  take 
His  .share  in  such  wild  deeds,  that  awful  .Shaiie 
As  answer  raised  ft  ])eal  mo«t.  horrible 
Of  echoing  laughter  Iohr  and  loud,  far  worse 
Than  rumbling  roar  of  twin  contendinji  seas, 
Or  when  I  he  pregnant  thundcrclouda  displode 
Frotii  bill  to  nill.     A  tremor  ran  along 
The  Arctic  ground  :  the  mountain  tops  were  rent 
Hy  that  dread  i>eal ;  it  flawed  the  eternal  ioe; 
I  Thick  as  it  lay  upon  the  Cronian  Sea  ;) 
E'on  Heaven  itself  did  tremble  to  the  pole. 

The  original  Latin  is  somewhat  less  diffuse 
than  the  above  ;  but  the  idealized  sublimity 
of  the  conception  contained  in  it  is  far  above 
Vida's  powers  or  Tasso's  either  :— 

Tali  aermono  oiebat 
Iwetantcm  niminm  tantns  niisccre  tumultUB  : 
Ille  fremenR,  ijuanliim  diiploaa  tonitrua  rcddunl, 
Kt  quantum  frela  qui  »ese  gemina  lequora  rumpunt , 
Hnrrendum  attoUit  risum  :  tremit  Arctica  lellua, 
11itiia«seque  jagi*  rupes,  leternaque  ponli 
Fracta  8ono  glaeiea  ;  moto  cwlum  axe  treniiacit. 

But  it  is  in  the  description  of  tho  cave  and 
Fear  its  occupant  that  Vida  ia  so  closely 


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followed  in'NovaSolyraa.'  However,  whether 
we  consider  the  earlier  Armada  epic  ur  the 
later  unaurpotisable  ones  of  MUtou'H  blind 
old  age,  in  neither  case  can  it  bo  allowed 
that  the  author  wa«  a  plaigiarist.  There  in 
the  "strange  case"  of  him  and  Vondel  the 
Dutchman,  it  is  true,  and  the  undoubted  and 
remarkable  similarities  and  parallel  passages 
are  ama/in^  •  but  they  neea  not  induce  any 
one  to  consider  Milton  a  plagiarist  any  more 
than  to  consider  the  immortal  Elizabethan 
author  of  the  chronicle  plays  to  be  in  the 
same  category  because  he,  page  after  page, 
presents  his  readers  with  almost  the  very 
words  of  Holinshed.  The  fact  is  these  two 
illustrious  borrowers  took,  as  it  were,  lead, 
or  tin,  or  some  baser  metal,  and  transmuted 
it  by  their  wondrous  alchemy  into  the  finest 
gold  the  world  knows  of.  If  this  be  pla- 
giarism or  literary  theft,  the  world  is  willing 
to  have  more  of  such  deeds.  Take  the  case 
of  Francis  Bacon.  If  ever  a  man  knew  how 
to  put  in  better  phrase  what  had  been  written 
or  said  by  other  people,  and  to  magnificate 
and  glorify  it  in  the  process  of  change,  then 
Francis  Bacon  was  the  man.  Indeed,  this 
was  frequently  admitted  by  both  hia  friends 
and  enemies,  and  to  some  extent  allowed 
by  himself;  but  he,  too,  was  no  plagiarist, 
though  ho  was  able  to  bombast  a  line  or  two 
out  of  Holiushed  better  even  than  Shakspear 
of  Stratford,  as  many  people  think. 

Ne  Quid  Nimi.'?. 
Addison,  in    the   following  passage  from 
the  Spectator,  probably  refers  to  these  imita- 
tions ; — 

"I  have  likewise  ondeavoured  to  shew  how  the 
UeniUB  of  tlic  I'oot  sliines  by  a  happy  Invention,  a 
distant  AliuBion,  or  n  judicious  ImiUlion  ;  how  he 
bas  copied  or  im|>roved  Homer  or  Virgil,  and  raised 
hia  own  ImaginBtions  bv  ihe  Use  which  he  has 
made  of  several  Potlical  Poesofoa  in  Scripture.  1 
iniglit  have  inaerted  also  several  pasaagea  of  Tasso, 
which  our  Author  haa  iiniuted."— No.  369  on 
•  Milton's  Paradise  Loel.' 

AH  the  great  epic  poets  since  Homer  have 
enriched  their  jxioras  intentionally  Mith  the 
thoughts  of  their  predecessors  ;  and  Milton 
certainly  has  done  so  as  much  a^  any  of 
'-oem.  E.  Yaiidlev. 


♦  Mebev  Thoughts  in  a  Sad  Place  '  (10"' 
b.  1.  141,  193).— The  authorship  of  these  lines 
has  always  been  a  matter  of  interest  to 
students  of  seventeenth -century  verse,  and  a 
short  bibliographical  note  may  perhaps  pro- 
duce more  evidence  upon  the  point. 

Twelve  stanzas  of  the  poem  (omitting  that 
beginning  "What  though  I  cannot  see  my 
■iiing  ;  were  printed  in  a  pamphlet  of  four 


leaves,  together  with  verses  *  Upon  his 
^lajesties  coming  to  Holmb^  '  and  A  Pane- 
^yrick  faithfully  representing  the  proceed- 
ings of  the  Parliament.'  The  pamphlet  has  no 
title  and  is  undated  ;  it  is  bouna  among  the 
tracts  of  1647  in  the  King's  Pamphlets  in  the 
British  Mu.seum,  but  part  of  the  manuscript 
date  bas  been  cut  off,  and  it  might  p<»«ib\y 
be  1649.  The  lines  are  headed  '  The  Liberty 
of  the  Imprisoned  Royalist,'  and  this  is,  I 
lielieve.,  their  first  appearance  in  print  The^ 
have  been  offered  for  sale  b^'  auction  in  this 
form  as  the  work  of  Lovelace,  'out  it  is  not 
necessary  to  suppose  that  their  autlior  had 
even  seen  the  lines  to  Alciiea,  as  the  ideas 
common  to  both  may  be  found  in  various 
other  ijlaces. 

The  whole  poem,  entitled  'The  Requiem 
or  Libertie  of  an  Imprisoned  Royalist,  G.M.,' 
appears  in  some  copies  of  '  Vaticinium  Voti- 

vum ;   or,  Paltcmon's  Prophetick  Prayer 

Trajecti.  Anno  Caroli  Maityris  prirao.'  Mr. 
Percy  Dobell,  of  Charing  Cross  Koad,  kindly 
called  my  attention  to  tiiis,  and  procured  me 
a  copy  ot  the  book.  Other  places  in  which 
it  was  printed  are:  'Parnassus  Biceps,' 
1858.  p.  107,  'The  Liberty  and  Requiem  of 
an  Imprisoned  Royalist ';  '  Witand  Drollery,' 
lGr»6,p.  11,  and '  Rump  Songs,'  1662.  pt,  i.p.  242 
(reprint),  '  Loyalty  Confin  d  ' ;  '  Westminster 
Drollery,"  1671,  p.  86  (ed.  Ebsworth),  'The 
Ijoyal  Prisoner.' 

I  have  purposely  omitted  Lloyd's 'Memoirs,' 
1668,   p.   95,   wliere    it  was    introduced    by 
these  words :    "  But  I  will   cloath  his    free 
thoughts  in   the  closest  restraint,  with  the 
generous  Expressions  of  a  worthy  Personage 
that  suffered  deeply  in  those  times,  and  iujoys 
only  the  conscience  of  having  so  suflered  in 
these."    What  Lloyd  says  has  been  thought 
to  fit  L'Estrange,  the  traditional  author  (see 
Percy's  'Reliques,'  ii.  bk.  iii.  No.  12,  1767), 
who  was  seized  near  Lynn  in  December,  1644, 
and  imprisoned  until  he  was  allowed  toescapej 
from  the  Tower  in  the  spiiug  of  1648  :  bu^ 
Mr.  Ebsworth  points  out  that  he  had  not 
gone  entirely  unrewarded  after  the  Restora- 
tion, having  been  ajjpointed  Licenser  in  1G63., 
The  poem  has  also  been  assigned  to  Lord! 
Capel  ('  Royal  and  Noble  Authors,'  ed.  Park, 
iii.  30) ;  but  apart  from  the  ditticulty  in  his 
case  of  Lloyd's  statement,  MS.  authority  is, 
I  believe,  in  favour  of  L'Estrange,  who  was 
accepted    by    Archdeacon    Hannah    as    the 
author.  G.  Thokn-Drurt. 

"Bridge"  :  its  Dekivatiojt  (10"'  S.  i.  189) 
—This  game  is  »ai<l  to  have  been  brought  i 
England  from  Constantinople,  where  it  h« 
been  introduced  by  Russian  members  of  tt 


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Corps  Diplomatique.  The  word  bridge  is  the 
Anglicizea  form  of  the  Russian  name  for 
the  game,  which  seems  to  be  a  combination 
of  other  games  of  the  whist  family,  such  as 
Oeralosch,  Siberia,  and  Preference.  It  was 
first  played  in  England  about  1680,  according 
to  the  *Encyclopa;dia  Britannica.'  The  rules 
of  the  game  in  English  were  printed  in 
1886,  under  the  title  of  'Biritch,  or  Russian 
Whist.'  When  I  played  it  for  the  first  time 
in  London,  in  1892,  it  harJ  already  attained 
some  popularity.  M.  Jean  Boussac  says  that 
the  game  was  introduced  into  Paris  from 
London  in  1893,  and  quotes  a  paragraph 
from  the  Figai'o  of  26  November  of  that  year, 
which  gives  a  notice  of  the  game.  I  think  it 
as  well  to  mention  these  dates,  as  the  author 
of  'Badsworth  on  Bridge'  gives  a  circumstan- 
tial account  of  the  first  introduction  of  bridge 
into  England  in  the  year  1894.     F,  Jessel. 

Danteiana  (10""  S.  i.  181). —  By  an  un- 
accountable lajmis  ocnli,  involving  a  perver- 
sion of  meaning,  I  wrote  "less  i-eatricted  "  in 
the  eleventh  line,  whereas  it  should,  of  course, 
have  been  "  Dante's  thought  was  more  re- 
stricted." This,  I  hojje,  will  rectify  an  almost 
unpardonable  blunder.  J.  B.  McGovekn. 
St.  Stephen's  Rectory,  C.-on-M.,  Manchester. 

Oervaisb  Holles  (10"'  S.i.  208).-  Inquiries 
have  already  been  made  for  the  printed  works 
of  this  noted  antiquary  in  a  complete  form, 
but  without  success  (7^  S.  x.  348).  So  far  as 
I  can  ascertain,  extracts  from  the  MSS.  in  the 
Britisii  Museum  have  apjjearefl  in  the  '  His- 
tory of  Sleaford,'  by  Creasey  ;  Tliompsoa's 
'Boston,'  1856;  and  Weir's  '  Horncastle," 
1820 ;  the  Stam/ord  Merruri/,  since  the  com- 
mencement of  18G4 ;  and  the  Topographer, 
vol.   iii.,    1790.      A  portrait   of    Holles  was 

fjiven  in  the  'Lincoln  Diocesan  Arclueo- 
ogical  Papers,'  with  a  biographical  Mketch. 
For  this  list  I  am  ciiiefly  indebted  to  the 
contributors  of  *N.  &  Q.'  on  various  dates 
and  occasions.    Everard  Uomb  Coleman. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

"Mevnes"  and  "Rhineb"  (lO'*  S.  i.  49, 

.  217). — 1  hope  this  may  not  lead  to  a  now 

^^a'estion.  I  go  by  the  'linglish  Dialect  Dic- 
tionary,' which  gives  rhine  as  a  Wiltshire 
variant,  with  a  note  that  it  is  there  pro- 
nounced JYcn  (presumably  riming  with  been). 
And  I  dare  say  some  pronounce  it  as  rine, 
riming  with  (nnc.  But  it  is  not  so  very 
certain  that  all  these  words  arose  from  the 
«an)e  original,  for  our  vowel-sounds  do  not 
wobble  about  wildly,  skh  most  people  believe. 
It  is  a  mere  matter  of  curiosity  to  compare 
High  German  forma.    h»  a  fact,  not  a  single 


English  dialect- form  i.s  of  High  German 
origin,  nor  ever  had  any  chance  of  being  so, 
except  (indirectly)  through  Norman.  But  it 
is  possible  that  the  prov.  E.  rine,  a  stream, 
though  absurdly  spelt  rhine  to  look  Greek 
and  "  classical,  or  else  to  imitate  the  8p)ell- 
ing  of  the  German  Riiine,  reallv  represent* 
the  A.-S.  ryne^  a  water- course,  the  origin  of 
our  runnel  and  our  prov.  E.  rinlet,  witli  the 
same  sense.  This  ryne  is  derived  from  runn-, 
the  weak  grade  of  rinnan,  to  run  ;  whilst 
the  High  German  Rinne  is  derived  from  the 
prime-grade  of  the  cognateOld  High  German 
form.  It  would  very  greatlj'  conduce  to 
clearne-ss  if  we  could  only  stick  to  English 
(Anglo-Saxon)  forms,  and  let  the  Old  High 
German  slide.  That  is  what  I  would  plead 
for.  When  we  know  the  history  of  our 
English  forma  we  can  compare  the  foreign 
ones  at  leisure,  with  fewer  chances  of  error. 
Walter  W.  Skeat. 

Kji'PLES  pO"^  S.  i.  109).— Kipples  is  a  local 
pronunciation  of  the  name  Cupplea.     In  his 
Halloween  '  Burns  says  : — 

She  gies  the  herd  a  nickle  nits, 
And  twa  red-cheekit  ajjples, 
To  watch,  while  for  the  harn  she  sets. 
In  hopes  to  see  Tarn  Kijijiles 
Th&t  very  night. 

Tam  Kipples,  it  has  been  suggested,  waa 
a  son  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  William  Oupples, 
minister  of  Kirkoswald  (1720-52),  where  the 
scene  of  the  poem  is  laid.  Be  this  as  it 
may,  Mr.  Cupples  was  locally  known  as  Mr. 
Kipples,  and  others  of  the  same  name  were 
so  Known  in  Ayrshire  and  elsewhere. 

In  the  same  poem  mention  is  made  of  Rab 
McGrean.  This  is  a  local  form  of  Graeme 
or  Graham.  Burns's  great-grandmother,  a 
Kirkoswald  woman,  was  Janet  McGrean, 
otherwise  Graeme  or  Graham. 

William  Cupplea  was  a  well-known  man 
in  his  day,  and  edited  John  Stevenson's 
curious  tract  '  A  Rare  Soul  -  strengthening 
Cordial'  (Glasgow,  1729,  8vo),  in  which  fre- 

Siuent  reference  is  made  to  his  predecessor 
lenry  Adam,  minister  of  Kirkoswald  1694- 
1719.  DAvro  Murray. 

CtlRDgOW. 

Spanish  Proverb  on  the  Orange  (10""  S. 
i.  206).— About  fifty  years  ago  a  farmer  in  the 
county  of  Durham  said  in  ray  hearing,  "The 
late  Bishop  Barrington  used  to  say,  'Fruit  is 
gold  in  the  morning,  •ilver  in  the  afternoon, 
and  lead  at  night' ";  but  I  think  the  episcopal 
utterance  was  not  original  though  I  cannot 
just  now  cite  an  earlier  authority.  It  is  such 
a  usual  thing  for  me  to  refresh  myself  with 
an  orange  about  midnight,  and  to  ao  so  with 


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impunity,  that  I  smile  incrednloasly  at  the 
forehotliiig  of  the  last  lino  of  the  Spanish 
quotraii).  St.  SwiTHiN. 

Nameless  Gravestones  (9"'  S.  xii.  504 ; 
10"*  S.  i.  173).— Another  interesting  examplo 
is  to  be  seen  in  Jesinoud  Cemetery,  New- 
castle-upon-Tyne. It  is  a  square  stone 
pedestal,  about  fuur  feet  high,  and  upon  it 
are  what  appear  to  be  fragments  of  a  broken 
vase,  carved  out  of  the  solid  atone.  Tiio  foot 
of  the  broken  vase  stands  beside  the  pedestal, 
while  the  body  of  it,  on  which  i.s  carved  a 
rose  spray,  lies  on  its  side  close  by,  and  the 
handle  and  two  rosebuds,  supposed  to  be 
rletached  from  the  spray  by  the  rail,  lie  near 
at  hand.  On  the  southern  face  of  the  stone 
is  the  following  inscription:  "Ad  Urceolum, 
Foeminas,  et  Auricomuin,  valde  deBetos.  Hunc 
oipputu  i'ater  Mater  que  dedicant."  The 
cemetery  was  consecrate<i  in  IS.'SG,  but  I 
understand  that  no  record  of  the  erection  of 
this  affecting  monument  can  be  found. 

IJioiiARD  Wklford. 

Newcttstle-upon-Tyne. 

Moon  Folk-lore  (10'^  S.  i,  125,  175).— In 
Derbyshire  the  lasses  greeted  the  new  moon 
thus  :  — 

AH  hail  lo  thee,  moon, 

All  liail  to  thee  ; 

I  pray  thee,  gond  moon. 

Reveal  to  me  this  night 

Who  is  my  hti^hand  to  be. 

Not  in  his  riches. 

Not  it)  hifi  array  (  =  hi»  best  clothes). 

But  in  hi3  clutltea 

He  weai'd  evury  day. 

To  work  the  charm  properly  the  lass  must 
be  alone,  out  of  doors,  and  as  near  the  moon 
as  she  can  get.  The  latter  condition  was 
met  by  standing  on  a  wall  or  climbing  the 
bars  of  a  five-barred  gate.  She  must  tell  no 
one  what  .she  went  out  to  do,  and  must  not 
tell  when  she  returned  what  she  had  done. 
All  these  conditions  properly  carried  out, 
she  would  in  her  sleep  that  night  see  her 
"  true  love  "—her  husband  to  be. 

„,  Thos,  IUtcliffb. 

Worksop. 

There  is  oarly  evidence  of  moon  folk-lore 
and  superstitiun.  For  instance,  certain 
fancies  with  regard  to  the  influence  of  the 
moon  on  planting,  sowing,  and  grafting  date 
back  at  least  to  the  fourth  or  fifth  century, 
to  the  time  of  Palladius.  who  wrote  a  Ixnik 
on  agriculture,  '  De  Ke  Ruatica,'  or  possibly 
to  Coluniolla,  of  the  first  century  A.n..  from 
whose  work  Palladius  derived  material.  In 
1872  the  Early  English  Text  Society  pub- 
ilished  A  Middle  Engli.sh  translation  of^  Id's 
book  from  a  raanuj*cnpt  of  about  142U,  under 


the  title  '  Palladius  on  Husbondrie.'  From 
this  work  I  quote  two  lines  (825-6)  as  illus- 
trative of  the  point : — 

To  urnlTe  omt  sowe  in  growing  of  the  moon«, 
And  kylte  and  mowe  in  wanying  i«  to  dooti. 

Chaeles  Bunpy  Wilson. 
n>o  State  UniverBity  of  Iowa,  Iowa  City. 

In  my  childliood  we  had  a  rather  different 
invocation  to  the  new  moon  from  that  given 
hy  J.  T.  F.     Ours  ran  as  follows  : — 
New  moon,  new  moon,  1  woo  thee 
In  the  name  of  the  Ixtrd  and  a  fair  Ittdye; 
If  I  inikrry  a  man  or  a  man  marry  me. 
In  my  dreams  this  nie'it  may  I  him  see. 
Not  clad  in  Ins  raea  or  in  his  gay, 
But  in  the  apparel  he  wears  every  day. 

M.  N. 

Epitaphs:  their  BiBLio<iUAruY  (IO**'  S.  i. 
44,  173.  217).— The  following  books,  not  men- 
tioned in  Mr.  MacMichael's  list,  are  on  my 
shelves  : — 

Pettigrew,  Thoiima  Joseph.  — Chronitles  of  I  lie 
Tomhs:  a  Select  Collection  of  Kpit«ph«.  Ikihn, 
18.i7. 

A  .Select  Collection  of  Epitaphs  ami  Monumentul 
IiiRoriptiona.  Ipswich,  printed  and  sold  hy  J.  Raw, 
1806. 

Andrews,  William.— Curious  Epitaphs.    1899. 

The  numerous  epitaphs  recorded  and  in- 
dexed in  '  N.  (k  Q.'  would  alone  form  a  book 
of  no  small  proportion.s.        John  T.  Page. 

West  Haddon,  Northamptonshire. 

Not  having  access  to  Mr.  W.  Andrews's 
'Curious  Epitaphs,'  I  cannot'  say  how  many 
of  the  following  are  therein  mentioned  :— 

T.  Caldwell.— Anoient  and  Modern  E)i)lapha, 
i7fl6. 

F.  T.  Cansick.— Collection  of  Epitaphs,  3  volt.« 
ise9  7ri. 

W.  Henney.— Collection  of  Epitajihs.  1814. 

James  Jones.— Collection  of  Epilnphs,  I7:i7. 

One  Hundred  and  Twenty-six  .Scpulchml  Motto9« 
181II. 

A.  J.  Munby.-Faithful  .Servants,  1K9I. 

R  Richings.— Voices  from  the  Tombs.  1858. 

John  B.  Wainewright. 

Batuome  {10^  S.  i.  88,  173).— I  would  sug- 
gest that  "  Batrome  '  or  "  Batram  "  is  merely  a 
variation  of  "  Bertram,"  which  has  frequently 
been  written  and  pronounced  "  Bartram." 
This  in  Northural^erland  is  invariably  the 
form  used,  Barty  being  the  diminutive.  In 
the  old  Border  ballad  '  Barthram's  Dirgo'tliO 
same  form  appears.  Heloa. 

Travkr.4  Family  (10^  8.  i.  208),-Maoh 
information  aViout  tins  family  is  contained  in 
"A  Collection  of  P»<digrees  of  the  Fan>ily  of 
Travers,  or  Alwtracts  of  certain  Document** 
towards  a  History  of  the  Family,  by  S.  Smith 
Travers,  Esq.,  arranged  by  Henry  J.  Sides, 


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of  the  DcKUeian  Library"  (OxforH,  18R4).  A 
branch  of  the  famiiy  settle*!  in  the  time  of 
Henry  III.  at  Nateby  Hall,  Qarstang,  in  Lan- 
cashire.    (See  Chetharu  Soc,  vol.  cv.) 

Henrv  Fishwick. 

Anagbams  on  Pit's  X.  (lO'i'S.  i.  1-4G).— Ana- 
grams on  Giuseppe  Sarto  are  not  ditHcult  to 
make.  Perhaps  3Ir.  Doixjson  may  be  in- 
terested in  tliese  of  mine : — 

1.  Petru3  is  e  pago,  i.e.,  A  Peter  ia  this 
rustic. 

2.  O  Pie,  gratus  spe,  i.e.,  O  Pius,  acceptable 
art  thou  in  thy  lio}>e. 

3.  I,  spes  pura :  tego,  i.e..  Go  forth,  pure 
hope :  I  ^jmtect  thee. 

4.  At  Kro  spoH  puri,  i.e..  But  I  am  the  hope 
of  the  pure  men. 

5.  Pius,  agros  pete,  i.«.,  Piua,  go  into  the 
country  !  John  B.  Wainewkiout. 

losephus  Sarto  spells  ius  pnro,  hostes,  "  I 
prepare  the  law,  O  foes  !"  fiem  />osl  irusa, 

a  hero  after  the  commandH  "  or  "  to  the  lord 
after  the  comroandrnents  ";  hos  port'is,  leitt  ! 
"  thou  bearest  these  men,  O  lesus  ! "  ius  est 
phos  ;  am  !  "  law  is  light ;  pray  thou  !  " 

E.  S.  DoDtisox. 

St.  Mary  Axe  :  St.  Michael  le  (^uernk 
'^  S.  X.  42.') ;  xi.  110,  231  ;  xii.  170,  253,  351. 
607;  lO^^S.i.se,  ir)7).— I  think  Cou  PfilDEACX 
will  allowr,  on  further  reflection,  that  the 
phra«e  '*  ubi  bladum  venditur"  will  admit 
of  an  interpretation  allunive  to  a  covu  dealer 
&H  well  as  to  a  com  market ;  and  even  if  it 
could  be  shown  with  certainty  that  "  market" 
weie  meant,  most  markets  have  a  beginning 
in  some  individual  retailer's  ont<?rnnse — in 
thi<<  oano  that  of  a  corn  dealer  nH  well  as  of  a 
miller  whose  "querne'  was  actively  employetl 
in  grinding  corn  for  the  neigh bourhoofl. 

J.  H.  MacMichael. 

WrLUAM  Hautlev  (10"'  S.  i.  87.  1.56,  198).— 
Mb.  A.  U.  Bayley  suppliea  additional  infor- 
mation as  to  T)r  Jcmepfi  Hartley  which  I  had 
forgotten,  thjough  lapse  of  time,  though  his 
family  was  relate'!  to  that  of  my  wifo,  Wlieu 
I  last  met  him,  twenty-five  years  ago,  hekept 
up  his  conne.\ion  with  L«^e<ls.  In  Wttlforu'n 
'County  Famitiea'  for  1901  apiwar.s,  "Ilcv. 
Salter  Saint  George  John,  ddcmt  sou  of 
Lieut.-(Jr>l.  Joseph  Hartley,  LL.D.  Cantab., 
of  the  Old  Down*.  Hartley,  Kent."  The 
italics  are  mine.  Hia  circuit  wnH  the  nouth- 
oaatern.  Mistlktoe. 

The  EsciusH  i>-  Franok  (lo"'  S  i.  104)  —In 
the  chapel  of  tin-  ^ '  '  f  Fontevraud  (which 
iti  DOW  uaed  a^  a  a  ison)  are  preserved 

the  effigtM  of  b'jii.v  <,\.  our  earlier  kings  and 


queens  who  were  buried  there.  Some  twelve 
years  ago  1  was  !salute<l  by  a  gamin  in  the 
streets  uf  Rouen  with  the  cry  of  "Goddam." 
He  seemeil  Humewhat  taken  aback  when  I 
thankcHl  him  with  mock  politeness  for  hi*! 
compliment.  I  believe  this  epithet  to  be  an 
amusing  survival,  though  possibly  not  quite 
of  the  nature  H.  2  is  in  quest  of,  of  tho 
English  occupation.  11.  W,  B. 

BoulitKjrin  remains  a  generic  term  for  lawn 
or  grass-plot  in  P'rance  to  this  day,  and 
botiTin  is  a  putting-hole.  St.  Swithin. 

DORSETBHIBE  SSAKK-LORE  (10"'  S,  i.  1G8).— 

One  cannot  but  think  that  Red  Cross  has 
hit  upon  a  dying  relic  of  serpent  wor>ihi(j. 
Dr.  Phene  could  probably  explain  why  this 
superstition  witli  regard  to  snakes  and 
"worms"  never  dying  till  after  sunset 
should  be  prevalent  m  several  counties. 
Indeed,  I  think  in  his  contributions  to  tho 
discussions  of  the  archaeological  societies  he 
has  allnde<l  to  the  subject,  but  I  cannot  say 
where.  In  Miss  Jackson's 'Shropshire  Folk- 
lore,' 1883,  edited  by  Charlotte  Sophia 
Burne,  it  is  remarked  as  follows  ;  — 

"Not  having  a  section  devoted  to  Reptiles.  I 
must  here,  for  want  of  a  bwltcr  iiUoe.  mention  tho 
pojiiilor  belief  that  an  udder  can  only  die  at  sniiact, 
and  insert  the  Shropshire  sayinK, 

If  the  ether  'ad  the  bliiidwotin's  car. 
And  tho  bliinlworm  'ad  the  ellier's  eye.      ^ 
Neither  Moo  nor  betiat  could  safe  pass  by.  ' 
In  the  first  volume  of  the  Folk-lore  Record 
there  is  a  collection  of  West  Sussex  super- 
stitions   lingering    in     18C8,    by    Charlotte 
I>atham,  where  it  it  said  :  — 

"  Wo  believe  in  Sussex  that  a  snake,  LhoD&h  cut 
in  two,  cannot  die  until  the  aim  hn»  set,  iiwd  I  have 
heard  of  a  labourer  declaring  thul  the  'queer 
marks'  on  the  body  of  the  deaf  adder  conld  b© 
made  out  to  be 

If  I  conld  hoar  as  well  at  ao«. 
No  mortal  man  should  master  me." 
^liss   Jackson    heard     this     version     when 
young  :— 
If  the  adder  oonld  hear,  and  the  blindworm  could 

see, 
Neither  man  nor  beast  would  ever  go  free. 

The  belief  with  regard  to  "sun.set"  i* 
probably  owing  in  it-s  origin  to  the  fact  that 
snakes  die  hai-d.  To  give  an  instance.  A 
vi|)er  fell  over  the  cliff,  and  was  nicke<l  up  in 
the  belief  that  it  was  a  grass  snake.  It  w»» 
playetl  with  for  two  days  by  the  children, 
but  eventually  l>it  both  the  discoverer  and 
his  butler,  but  not  l>cfore  it  wns  supposed  to 
have  been  kilUMl  by  the  drawing  room  jxtker, 
and  it  was  wliilc  examining  the  apparently 
dead  reptile  that  the  butler  was  bitten.     It 


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had  been  stunned  only  {Chambtrt's  Journal, 
Viperiana,'  2  June,  1894). 

J.  HOLDEN  MacMiCHAEL. 

Devonshire  inust  claim  its  share  in  this 
belief.  I  remember  a  great-uncle  of  mine 
killing  an  adder  in  his  garden  at  Foxdown, 
near  Bideford,  and  hanging  him  on  a  branch 
of  a  tree.  The  creature's  head  was  crushed, 
but  I  saw.  or  thought  I  saw,  some  movement 
in  him  an  hour  or  two  afterwai-ds,  and  pointed 
it  out  to  one  of  the  farm  men.  He  answered, 
"  They  things  do  never  die  till  sundown." 
This  was  in  the  year  1827.  Aldekham. 

This  superstition  doea  not  anpear  to 
have  been  confined  to  Dorset.  'N.  &.  Q.,' 
1*'  S.  i.  511,  directed  attention  to  the  fact 
that  it  prevailed  in  Cornwall  and  Devon. 
In  S""  S.  vii.  88  it  is  noted  that  in  Somerset- 
shire a  countryman  said,  "Snakes  don't  never 
die  till  sunset,  and  the  writer  believed  that 
opinion  was  common  in  Hants  and  South 
Berks.  Another  correspondent  gave  instances 
of  the  belief  in  Lincolnshire,  Jamaica  (1845), 
Virginia,  and  Essex  (1830-40). 

Shakesipe&re  evidently  was  acquainted 
with  the  dithcutty  of  dealing  instantaneous 
doom  to  the  snake,  for  lie  makes  Macbeth 

We've  acolvh'd  the  snake,  not  kill'd  it ; 
Sho'll  close,  and  be  herself. 

EvfiaARD  Home  Coleman. 

71 1  Brecknock  Road. 

This  idea  is  not  confined  to  Dorset.ahire.  I 
have  often  heard  it  elsewhere  with  regard  to 
lobworms  as  well  as  isiiakes,  but  I  cannot 
speak  with  any  certainty  from  my  own  know- 
ledge. G.  T.  Shebborn. 

Twickenham. 

The  belief  that  a  snake  cannot  die  till 
after  sundown  is,  I  believe,  known  in  many 
counties.  There  is  a  story  in  Lincolnshire 
that  if  you  chop  a  snake  into  fragments  it 
will  wriggle  about  till  it  hus  "  put  itself 
together  again."  You  should,  tlierofore,  cut 
it  into  "incii  pieces."  Then  there  is  hope 
that  it  will  not  have  time  to  sort  itself  out 
and  arrange  itself  in  order  l>efore  the  sun 
has  disappeared,  Lincoln  Green. 

I  have  heard  the  superstition  instanced 
at  the  above  reference  stated  as  an  undoubted 
fact  in  South-East  Devon— the  native  country 
of  llalegli,  Marlborough,  and  Coleridge— 
which  adjoins  the  western  borders  of  Dorset. 

A.  R.  Bayley. 

I  nin  sorry  to  say  that  when  I  and  other 
lads  in  Derbyshire  came  across  a  siKike 
or  deaf-adder,  we  forthwith  battereri  the 
life  out  of  the  creatures.    Touch  them  we 


dared  not,  for  the  belief  was  that  they  would 
not  die  until  afterdark,  and  that  if  they  were 
handled  they  would  "  venoraen  us." 

Tho3.  Ratcliffe. 

The  belief  is  shared  by  Lincolnshire,  and 
not  unknown  elsewhere.  St.  Switqis. 

"  First  catch  your  habe  "  (9""  S.  xii.  125, 
518-  IQi"  S.  i.  175).— As  to  a  "civet,"  no 
doubt  it  is  usually  made  of  hare,  a  "civet  de 
liovre " ;  but  in  *  Le  Cuisinier  a  la  Bonne 
Franquette,'  par  Mique  Grandchaujp  (Paris, 
I8&2),  are  rcocipt*.  for  "  Chevrouil  en  civet," 
"Civet  de  lii'vre,"  and  "Civet  do  lapiu 
doraestique,"  pp.  478,  487.  Also  in  the 
*  Manuel  Complet  de  la  Cuisiniere  Bourgeoise,' 
par  Mile.  Catherine)  Pari?,  no  date,  but 
modern  and  current),  are  receipts  for  "Civet 
de  chevreuil"  and  "^ Civet  de  fi^vfe,"  p.  210. 
In   "306  Menus  and   1,200  Recipe-s  of    the 

Baron  Brisse translated  by  Mrs.  Matthew 

I  Clark "  (London,  1882),  are  (pp.  19, 275)  receipts 
for  "Civet  de  chevreuil"  and  "Civet  de 
li^vre."  Robert  Pibbi'oint. 

To  try  to  explain  a  joke,  or  show  that 
there  is  a  joke  at  all,  is  perhaps  a  thankless 
task,  but  I  will  try.  Thank  goodness  .'  it  ia 
not  one  of  my  own.  or  1  should  not  attempt 
it.  To  my  mind,  what  joke  there  is  in  the 
French  phrase  lies  in  tlie  sui>erfluousness  of 
the  direction  "prenez  un  lie v re,"  iu  order  to 
make  a  '*civ<<  de  lievre."  Up  to  a  certain 
point  the  joke  iu  English  is  practically  the 
same,  only  the  English  one  is  strengthened 
by  tlie  recommendation  to  '*  first  catch  your 
hare,"  the  animal  being  of  course  rather 
ditlicult  to  catch  (I  presuoie  it  means  "en- 
trap," rather  than  "overtake"  it).  If  we 
were  ti)ld  to  ''first  obtain  your  hare,"  there 
would  then  l>e  no  real  difference  in  the  joke 
in  both  forms,  and  the  advice  would  amount 
to  about  the  same  thing  as  telling  any  one, 
in  a  recipe  for  making  bread,  to  got  some 
flour.  But  there— what,  even  in  the  way  of 
jukea,  is  one  man's  meat  is  another  man's 
poison.  Still,  I  think  the  phrases  mentioned 
are  generally  looked  upon  as  jokes  by  English 
and  French  respectivelj'.  I  wonder  whether 
a  French njan  would  not  see  the  joke  in  the 
English  saying.  If  not,  wo  could  cry  "  quits," 
and  each  keep  hia  own  joke  for  his  own 
delectation— not  to  be  exported. 

In  connexion  with  the  French  phrase 
Alexandre  mentions  another  cookery  joi 
but  expresses  ignorance  as  to  iti?  sourc<^ 
namely,  "  Le  lapin  dcmande  a  ulre  «;corchrf 
vif ;  le  lit'vre  pr^jire  attendre."  But  if  he 
"waited"  he  might  be  "caught." 

E.  Latham. 


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"Fide,  sed  cui  \^de"  (10"'  S.  i.  87, 154).— 
Accoi-dinp  to  the  '  Royal  Book  of  Crests  of 
Great  Britain,  Ireland,  Doraiuion  of  Canada,' 
J:c.  (Lonrlon,  James  Macveigh),  preface  dated 
1883,  this  is,  or  was,  the  motto  of  Astley, 
Bart.,  Wilts:  Baakes  ;  Beaumont  of  Whitley- 
Beaumont,  York  ;  Birkbeck,  Load. ;  Qreen- 
sugh  ;  Keynolds,  Land.  :  Stapleton,  Ess.  ; 
Stapylton  of  Norton,  Uurh. ;  Stapylton, 
Martin-,  of  Myton,  Yorks  :  Watts  of  Abney 
Hall,  Chesh, 

Bankes  and  Greensagh  appear  in  the  li«t 
of  mottoes  as  using  "Fide,"  Ac.  In  the 
•Index  to  Family  Crests'  no  Bankes  family 
appears  with  it. 

Perhaps  "  Graensugli "  is  a  misprint  for 
Greenough,  thougli  in  tlie  Index  no  Green- 
ough  appears  witti  the  motto. 

Sir  Ilichard  Beaumont,  of  Whitley,  who 
wa«  created  a  baronet  in  1628,  died  without 
issue  about  1631.  See  William  (/ourthope's 
'Synopsis  of  the  Extinct  Baronetage  of 
England,' 1835.  Robert  PiKRPomx, 

Records  or  Monastery  of  Mount  Grace 
LK  Ebor'  (10"'  S.  i.  149,  198).— It  would  be 
more  correct  to  call  this  ruin  Mount  Grace 
Priory  tlian  monastery.  It  belonged  to  the 
Carthusian  Order,  which  wa-s  strictly  eremiti- 
cal, and  not  ccenobitical.  Tiie  article  upon  it 
at  8"'  S.  ix.  22  was  written  by  me,  and  in- 
cludes an  interesting  account,  by  my  late 
friend  Thomas  Adolphus  Trollope,  of  a  visit 
paid  by  him,  in  company  with  G.  H.  Lewes 
and  George  Eliot,  to  CamaldoU  in  the  Apen- 
nines, where  a  similar  institution  was  in 
existence  in  1861.  Some  unknown  friend,  on 
reading  my  account,  sent  me  a  large  folio 
plan  of  Mount  Grace  Priory  drawn  to  scale, 
which  gives  one  a  bettor  ideaof  the  buildings 
than  any  description  can  possibly  do. 

John  Pickford,  M.A. 

Nowbourne  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Mannujos  and  Tawell  (9""  S.  xii.  148,  194' 
220,  277,  310,  433).— There  is  an  additional 
item  of  interest  in  this  case  of  Tawell 
hitherto,  I  think,  not  mentioned  by  your 
correspundenla.  I  extract  it  from  'The  Bath 
Road,'  by  tl  G.  Harper  (Chapman  Js  Hall, 
1809),  p.  110:— 

"The  telein-ftiihist  wurnod  the  officials  »t 
FadiliuKtoii  to  look  out  for  a,  man  dressed  like  a 
Quaker.  It  is  a  siiiKular  circuniBtaDce  that  the 
orJKinal  teteyraitliio  code  did  not  compriBe  any 
signal  for  the  leltcr  'Q* ;  but  the  teleRrapliJat  waa 
Dot  til  Iw  bMten.  Ho  iii)«lled  the  word  'Kwaker.' 
Sir  Frand*  iieiui  huq  ret-ordctt  liow  ho  was 
iraveJliti);  alonp  the  line  H»onth«  after,  in  a  crowded 
oarriap.  '  Not  a  word  had  been  wiioken  »ince  tho 
train  left  L4»niioii,  hut  aa  we  ncareil  .Slouiih  station 

diorl-bodied,  Bhort-necked,  short  iiuaea,  exceed- 


ingly respectable-looking  man  in  the  corner.  Bxing 
hii  eyes  on  the  apjMireuuy  lleeting  wires,  nodded  to 
us  aa  he  muttered  aloud;  'Them's  the  cords  that 
hung  John  Tawell.' " 

A  foot-note  states  that  the  telegram  was  to 
the  following  efifect  :— 

"A  murder  haa  iust  been  commilted  at  Salt  Hill, 
and  the  suspected  murderer  was  seen  to  take  a 
firat-claaa  tieliet  for  London  by  the  train  which  left 
Slough  at  7.4*2  p.m.  He  is  in  tho  garb  ol  a  Quaker, 
with  a  brown  great-coat  on  which  reaches  nearly 
to  his  feet.  He  is  in  the  last  conipartinent  of  the 
second-class  carriage." 

One  of  the  earliest  messages  sent  was  the 
announcement  of  the  birth  of  the  Duke  of 
Edinburgh  in  August,  1844.  This  does  not 
quite  answer  the  late  Capt.Thorne  George's 
surmise  that  the  wire  from  Slough  to 
Paddington  was  a  special  royal  one. 

li.  J.  Fyn.more. 

*'  Old  England  "  (10*^^  S.  i.  189).— This  term, 
the  late  Dr.  E.  Cobham  Brewer  explains  in 
his  'Dictionary  of  Phrase  and  Fable,'  was 
first  used  in  1G41,  twenty-one  years  after  our 
American  colony  of  New  Virginia  received 
the  name  of  Now  England. 

Everard  Home  Coleman. 

•The  Oxford  Enclisu  Dictionary*  (10"' 
S.  i.  146,  193).- 1  quite  agree  with  W.  C.  B. 
that  "it  is  unscientific  and  unmethodical  to 
give  a  book  any  other  name  than  that  which 
appears  on  its  titi«-pagc,"  and  tiierefore  I  was 
surprised  when  he  adopted  the  title  (8'"  S. 
xii.  370),  without  protest,  of  'The  Historical 
Dictionary  of  the  English  Language '  (in  in- 
verted commas)  from  the  editorial  note  (itid., 
p.  321).  I  agree  with  all  that  is  said  in  this 
editorial  note  except  the  inference  that  the 
dedication  calls  the  work  "The"  'H.ED.' 
The  dedication  says  "this"  historical  Eng- 
lish dictionary  (without  capitals,  I  contend). 
Note  also  that  the  dedication  to  the  third 
volume  is  by  "  the  University  of  Oxford." 

Many  great  works  have  several  titles.  That 
to  Baron  von  Humboldt's  vovages,  published 
at  Paris  in  1810,  has  four  distinct  and  dif- 
ferent title-pages.  Many  books  are  known 
by  titles  not  exactly  that  of  their  title-pages. 
But  there  is  in  the  present  case  ample  room 
for  'The  O.E.D.:  a  New  English  Dictionary 
on  Historical  Principles.'  I  believe  many 
other  dictionaries  ai-e  called  "new.''  One 
will  IjG  found  on  p.  42  of  Dr.  Murray « 
admirable  treatise  (which  I  shall  not  cite  by 
its  first  title)  'The  Evolution  of  Lnghsh 
Lexicography,' 1900. 

We  are  all  striving  for  tho  same  end,  the 
benefit  of  the  'Dictionary,'  and  one  of  its 
doughtiest  champions  has  been  the  writer 
of  the  note  on  p.  321  referred  to  above,  which 


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note  I  have  had  great  pleasure  in   reading 
Bgain.  Ram'H  Thomaa. 

[The  headint'  of  a  rejily  is  necesanrily  the  same 
BB  that  of  the  article  referred  to,  and  doi>8  not  indi- 
cate any  preference  on  the  part  of  the  eeuond  con- 
tributor.) 

Marlborou(;h  anp  Shake.«peark  (lU'"  S. 
i.  127,  177). —  In  Macaulay'a  'History  of 
England '  it  is  said  that  the  education  of 
Marllwrough  had  been  so  much  neglected 
that  ho  could  not  spoil  the  moat  common 
words  in  his  own  language.  Macaulay  must 
have  believed  the  anecdote  "  which  only 
dulnes.s  take«  literally."  We  .see  from  Pepys 
that  iu  the  youth  of  Marlborough  the 
historical  and  other  plays  of  ShaKspeare 
were  sometimes  acted,  and  wc  can  learn 
from  him  that  they  were  not  ho  mucli 
esteemed  as  those  of  Jonaon,  or  so  frequently 
acted  as  those  of  Fletcher.  When  Xlarl- 
borougli  him.self  became  grejit,  the  greatne-ss 
of  Shakspeare  was  beginning  to  be  generally 
recognized  ;  but  when  Marlborough  was 
young  few  people  thought  Shakspeare  to  be 
more  than  an  ordinary  playwright. 

E.  Yardley. 
Admiral  Bykg  (lO"*  S.  i.  189).— Probably 
the  selection  by  Admiral  Byng  of  the  title  of 
Torriiigton  was  prompted  by  t)je  circum- 
stance of  the  town  having  already  provided 
General  Monk,  who  was  so  created  by 
Charles  II.  at  the  Restoration,  with  the  title 
of  Earl  of  Torringtou ;  and  it  was  perhaps 
thought  desirable  to  revive  an  extinct  title 
rather  tliati  to  seek  an  entirely  new  ono— a 
choice  which  seems  to  indicate  that  liyng 
was  an  admirer  of  Monk. 

J.  HoLDEN  Mac-Michael. 
Lmmortality  OF  Animals  (10'*>  S-  i.  169).— 
Luther's  belief  in  the  possibility  of  a  future 
state  for  animals  h  attirmed  in  'N.  Jk  Q,,' 
8"*  S.  ii.  233,  where  also  other  authorities  are 
quoted.  It  may  be  interesting  to  add  to  the 
oibliography  of  the  subject  a  book  in  ray 
collection  entitled  "Essays  tending  to  prove 
Animal  Restoration.  By  Samuel  Thompson. 
Wesleyan  Minister.  Newcastle  :  Edward 
Walker,  Pilgrim  Street.  1830"  (12mo,  2.35  pp.). 
The  preface  is  dated  "Alston,  2nd  November, 
1829."  Mr.  Thompson  was  one  of  two  itinerant 
rainisters  stationed  at  Alston,  in  Cumberland 
(the  highest  market  town  in  England),  during 
the  years  182S  and  1829. 

Richard  Welford. 
"  SoBrENi "  ;  "  Kagp.ovkle  "  (10^"  S.  i.  2f)tt). 
—Sur/icjiiiH  explained  in  'The  Ciironicle  of 
Joceliu  de  Brakelond,'  ch.  xiii. ;  sec  the 
edition  by  Sir  Ernest  Clarke,  p.  151.  Hia 
note  says  "payment  for  a  cow  ' ;  but  it  in 


easy  to  assign  the  origin,  if  the  whole  context 
be  consi<lered.  His  translation  is  as  follows : — 
"Tliere  l>eing  given  to  then»  [i.e.,  tg  iheburgesaes^ 
by  our  abbot]  another  ^rtitt*nf(«   from   a   •'•■rt«ia 
ciiatomary   iiayuiciit,   ^^\>    '     '         "    '  ui.   in  i 

consiiieriUion  (if  fmir  ahil  i^.iuisj 

lerin.     I''or  the  cellarer  .  , .  icovi»«j 

tonicd  to  receive  oiu  ptuny  lnj  the  j/uif  Jot  m-^rff  cov 
belonging  to  the  men  of  the  t^^^n  for  (Ari'r  dnm 
anil  jjar<tnre,''  kc. 

See  the  whole  passage. 

Sor  obviously  represents  the  prov.  E.  murJ 
manure  ('E.D.D'),  from  the  Icel.  »aurr^ 
excrements.  And  /nrtu\<i  j^my—it;,,  money. 
So  that  the  riddle  is  not  ditKcuIt ;  it  means 
"  payment  for  manure." 

ifnggovde  I  can  only  guess  at.     I  lake  it 
to  be  a  Southern  spelling  of  a  word  due  to 
Icel.  Ua<j-/cU<i,  a  field,  from  /i/Jj/r,  a  hedgedi 
field,   enclosure,   pasture,      llouco  it  might' 
mean  payment  in  respect  of  such  a  Held. 

Walter  W.  Skeat. 

Is  it  possible  i\\a.i  JfrgooveU  ig  hedge-money 
—liaga,  Saxon,  a  hedge,  and  vtal  f  Vial  or 
veal'monr;/  was  a  yearly  rent  paid  by  one  of 
the  tithings  within  the  manor  of  Bradford, 
in  Wiltshire,  to  their  loi-d  the  .Marquess  of 
Winchester,  which  was  in  lieu  of  ?wj/  paid 
formerly  in  kind.  It  might  be  a  local  variant 
of  hay  ijolf.  or  Ae^^^ori-,  winch  was  a  mulct 
or  recompense  for  hedge- breaking,  or  rather 
a  right  to  take  wood  necessary  for  making 
hedges,  either  by  tenant  for  life  or  for  ycars^ 
though  not  expressed  iu  the  grant  or  lease. 
lInou»g  is  in  Scotland  an  enclosure,  a 
hedging:  "Als  gud  hagyng  throucht  tho 
cloiss  and  langous  the  hous  ayd  "  (see  .Jamie- 
sou's  '  Diet.').  A  knogird  is  not  only  an 
untrained  liawk,  but  also  a  yard  enclosed  by 
a  hag  or  hedge,  and  a  /ui/jnum  is  nne  who 
gains  his  sustenance  by  cutting  and  selling 
wood  (in  the  North  of  Scotland). 

J.  HoLDEN  MAcMicfrxEL. 

Pannell  O'"  S.  xii.  248,  47.^;  10"'  S.  i.  172). 
—My  great-grandfather  was  13r.  Pannoll,  of 
Collumpton,  and  liis  only  child  was  the  wife 
of  my  grandfather  Davy.  There  was  a  bell- 
foundry  at  Collumpton  carried  on  by  Williao* 
and  Charles  Pannell  at  the  time  mentionoti 
by  Mk.  Canx  Htrr.iiES,  but  they  were  not 
connexions  of  ours.  They  succeeded  Thomas 
Beilbie,  who  cast  so  many  of  the  West  of 
England  bells.  The  last  "bell  cast  by  the 
Pannells  was  in  1851.  It  weighs  about  .ViOlb- 
and  is  now  in  the  possession  of  a  frieti<l  of 
mine  at  Collumpton.  who  also  owns  a  cistern 
head  stamped  "  T.  Beilbie.  1807."  Thi« 
foundry  was  dostroyofi  .some  years  ago.  I 
knew  Mr.  Charles  '  Pannell,  who  formerly 
lived   in  Torquay.     lie   went  from  here   to 


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Kyde,  I^le  of  Wight.  Since  tlien  1  have 
heard  uothing  of  hini.  Excepting  this 
gentlemiiQ  I  have  never  met  with  the  name 
of  Pannell  in  the  West  of  England  outside 
mv  own  family.  A.  J.  Davy. 

Torqimy. 

Wrr-UAM  ov  Wykkuam  (10"'  S,  j.  223).— 
Mb.  K.  U.  Ij(jstock»  theory  is  that  the  per 
sons  wiiom  William  of  Wvkeham  regarderi  as 
his  parents  were  identical  with  John  Launge 
aod  his  wife,  who  were  respectively  "yeomau" 
and  "  damsel "  to  Queen  Isabella  at  the  time 
of  the  hirth  of  her  son  Edward,  afterwards 
King  E' I  ward  III.,  and  wlio,  being  the  first 
to  bring  to  King  Edward  II.  the  newa  of  the 
birth,  were  rewarded  with  the  grant  of  an 
annuity  of  80/.  for  their  Vwes,  to  oe  paid  out 
of  the  farm  of  the  City  of  London  by  the 
sherifFs  ('Calendar  of  Patent  Rolls,  1307-13,' 
p.  519).  Mb  Bostock  can  hardly  be  aware 
that  on  21  Octol>er,  1331,  Jolin  Launge  and 
his  wife  surrendered  tliis  annuity  and  its 
arrears*  in  consideration  of  3'X»/.  to  be  paid 
at  the  Exchequer  by  instalments,  and  that 
between  the  grant  of  the  annuity  and  its 
surrender  llii-s  same  John  Launge  receivetl 
the  honour  of  knighihood  ('Calendar  of 
Patent  KoIIh,  1330-34,'  p.  187).  To  accept 
Ma.  Bostock's  theory  about  William  of 
Wykeham's  parentage  it  i.^  necessary  to  sup- 
pose that,  though  his  reputed  father  wa.s  a 
knight^  the  fact  ihat  he  received  knighthood 
e9cape<l  the  notice  of  the  bishop  himself,  as 
well  as  of  his  cont/»mporaries  and  earliest 
biugraphers.  Mu.  Hu.yTocK  unfortunately 
follows  MIks  Strickland  in  giving  Isabel  as 
the  name  of  Sir  John  Launge's  wife.  The 
above  mentione<i  '  Calendars  show  that  her 
real  name  was  Joan.  H.  C. 

QuoTATlosa  (10^''  S.  i.  lUO).— The  quotation 
"And  better  death,"'  iScc,  is  to  be  found  in 
the  Poet  Laureate's  sonnet  entitled  'Love's 
Wisdom.'  C.  Turner  Koo-m. 

7,  Cruinwcll  Place,  IIighgat«,  N. 

London  Rt'BBisir  at  Mo-scow  (10'"  S.  i.  208). 
— Particular  reference  is  made  to  the  "heap 
of  rubbish"  at  Battle  Bridge  in  Mr.  h. 
Miller's  '  History  of  St.  Pancrns,  P<ist  and 
Pro*ontj'  published  (if  I  remember  rightly) 
about  thirty  years  ago,  and  dedicated  to  the 
late  Qcorgo  Cruikshank,  who  was  an  old 
rosidont  in  that  parish.  Not  having  the 
work  before  mo,  I  am  unable  to  give  an 
extract,  The  account,  however,  is  of  a  some- 
what romantic  character,  and  varies  consider- 


*  The  annuity  remMued  wholly  unpaid  down  to 
,I3£J  rCiilfiular  of  aoee  HolU,  I31»-*A'  p.  BlU 


ably  from  that  contained  in  the  extract  from 
the  .SV.  Jatnes'x  Gazette.        J.  Basil  Buich. 
54,  h^de  Road,  Finabury  Park. 

Perhaps  this  story  may  Ijo  grounded  on  tho 
account  of  the  removal  <if  gravel  from  Ormo 
Square,  Bayswater,  for  which  sec  8"'  S.  x.  35. 

W.  C.  B. 

Ouj{  Oldbst  Pubuc  School  {lo'"  S,  i.  166, 
215).— Another  school,  now  known  to  be  far 
older  than  was  formerlv  supposed,  is  King 
Edward's  School,  Stratfordon-.\von,  which 
in  all  probability  educated  William  Shako- 
speare  in  lr>7l-iS,  Walter  Roche,  Fellow  of 
C.C.C,  Oxon,  being  at  that  time  master. 
The  school  prospectus  states  that  it  was 
founded  before  1400  by  ttie  Guild  of  tho 
Holy  Cros8,  endowed  in  1482  by  Thomas 
Jollyffe,  and  received  its  charter  in  l.or>3  from 
King  Edward  VI.  But  Mr.  A.  F.  Leach  has 
discovered  the  fact  that,  as  early  as  1295, 
a  schoolmaster  was  ordained  deacon  with 
William  of  Oronefield,  rector  of  Stratford, 
and  afterwards  Lord  Higlj  Chancellor  an(l 
Archbishop  of  York.     He  has  also  practically 

[iroved  that  Richard  Foxe,  afterwards  Lord 
^rivy  Se.al,  Bishop  of  Winchester,  and 
founder  of  C.C.C,  Oxon,  was  master  there 
from  1477  to  1482.  The  beautiful  old  build- 
ings, which  still  exist,  adjoining  tho  Guihl 
Chapel  and  near  the  site  of  Shakespeare'ti 
house.  New  Place,  were  erected  1424-5. 

A.  R.  Bay  LEY. 

Nearly  all  the  greater  monasteries  ha*) 
schools  for  the  boys  of  the  neighbourhood, 
and  many  of  the  present  cathedral  and 
grammar  schools  are  practically  continua- 
tions of  previous  monastic  provisions.  Docu- 
mentary evitlence  may  not  be  always  forth- 
coming j  but  it  would  not  be  easy  to  decide 
that  this  or  that  is  the  "  oldest  public  school." 

The  present  grammar  school  at  Evesham 
has  an  endowment  of  not  more  than  10/.  a 
year,  being  the  sum  allowed  l>y  Henry  VIII. 
on  the  dissolution  of  Evesham  Abbey,  which 
was  founded  in  703.  W.  C.  B. 

William  Willie  (lO""  S.  i.  G7).— I  cannot 
state  that  I  have  ever  been  acquainted  with 
any  one  bearing  what  might  be  calletl  a 
"tfouble  name."  But  I  have  personal  know- 
ledge of  what  might  be  calle<l  "duj)licato 
names  "  in  tlie  same  family.  My  mother  was 
a  native  of  Truro,  and  her  parents  had  eleven 
(  children,  but  only  nine  names,  thus  indicat- 
ing there  wore  two  duplicate  names  in  the 
family.  Tliere  were  two  Mary  Anns ;  the 
first  one  dying  in  infancy,  the  second  suc- 
ceeded to  the  name  and  place  of  the  former. 
There  were  also  two  Emmas,  the   first  one 


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dying  an  infant,  the  second  attaining  the 
age  o£  thjrtj'-one.  The  second  Marv  Ann 
married  a  native  of  Exeter,  by  whom  she  had 
seven  children,  six  boys  and  one  girl.  But 
there  were  only  five  names  in  the  family, 
there  being  two  duplicate  names.  The  fourth 
child  was  named  Charles  Augustus,  and  the 
fifth  Francis  Adolphus.  But  before  the  sixth 
made  his  appearance  Charles  Augustus  had 
died,  so  when  the  sixth  child  was  bom  he  was 
named  to  succeed  Charles  Augustus.  Again, 
before  the  seventh  child  was  born,  Francis 
Adolphus,  the  fifth  child,  also  died,  and  at 
the  oirth  of  the  seventh  he  was  named  to 
succeed  Francis  Adolplius,  the  fifth  child- 
bo  in  this  we  have  the  second  Francis 
Adolphus  of  the  same  family  being  a  son  of 
the  second  Mary  Ann  of  the  same  family. 

This  second  Francis  Adolphus  is  the  writer 
of  this  note.  It  would  seora  as  if  my  parents 
did  not  have  enough  names  to  "go  round." 
Whether  this  is  a  cu.stom  in  the  We«t 
Country  I  have  no  knowledge.  So  far  as  ray 
experience  goes  I  have  found  no  similar 
example  of  "  duplicate  names." 

But  Rs  to  two  persons  in  the  same  family 
with  dmilar  names  living  at  the  same  time, 
I  have  never  heard  of  it. 

Francis  Adolphus  Hopkixs. 

Log  Angeles,  CaliforDia,  U.S. 

[For  brothers  bearing  the  same  Christian  name 
see  9"'  8.  i.  446 ;  u.  61,  'Jl?,  276,  535 ;  iii.  94.  438  j  vi, 
174 ;  vii.  5,  91 :  and  autera,  i"*'  8.  v.  307 ;  9">  8.  viL 
436.] 

"Ak  Austrian  akmy"  (10"'  S.  i.  149,  211).— 
I  am  glad  that  Ublla.d  confirms  my  state- 
ment about  these  lines  having  first  appeared 
in  the  Trijter^  7  May,  1817 ;  and  if  so.  I  venture 
to  think  it  disposes  of  several  of  Mb.  Cole- 
man's suggestions  as  to  the  authorship. 

G.  C.  W. 

Historical  Geography  of  London  (lO"' 
S.  i.  208).  — The  Middlesex  section  of  the 
'Victoria  History'  would,  one  might  expect, 
inclttde  such  a  geographical  history  and 
review  of  the  growth  of  London.  As  one 
greatly  interested  in  Middlesex,  including 
London,  and  being  engaged  at  present  in 
compiling  a  work  on  old  Middlesex  families, 
I  should  be  glad  to  assist  in  such  a  work  as 
suggested.  From  a  business  point  of  view  I 
hardly  think  that  the  undertaking  could  be 
profitable  if  copies  were  offered  at  \».  each. 
Frkd.  Hitchin-Kbmp. 

0.  Beechfield  Road,  Catford,  8.E. 

Genealogy  :  New  Soubcbs  (10*  S.  i.  187, 
218).  — It  does  not  seem  to  be  known  that  the 
church  St.  Peter  ad  Vincula  was  a  Peculiar 
Jurisdiction  for  testamentary  matters  in  the 


sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries.  The 
'Return'  of  1830  does  not  mention  it,  but 
'  Old  and  New  London '  gives  it  as  being  free 
from  episcopal  authority  till  the  time  of 
Edward  VL  In  the  Bodleian  Library  they 
have  a  register  of  this  court  covering  the 
years  1586-1614  and  1660-5.  An  index 
the  contents  of  this  book  is  in  my  po: 
sion.  Nothing  is  known  of  the  other  reco 
of  this  court  at  the  Public  lieconl  Ofiice. 
Gebald  Mabsuall. 


StiscjtlTRniout. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  4tt 
Durhf.Jti   Sarah :    lirinff  tht   Sorial    JJiitoru  of  the 

TiitH^  ofSartih  ,/uminff»,  l>urh'*i  of  Afarfborouj/fi, 

By  One  of  her  Desccndanta  (Mrs.  Arthur  Col- 

villc).  (Longniana  k  Co.) 
OxK  of  the  foaturee  of  tnodern  literature  cousiata 
in  the  bioKraphies  of  women  of  rank,  "Quecna  of 
Teara,''  "  Uncrowned  Quecna,"  royal  favonritea, 
and  others,  whoae  positioti  in  history  has  generally 
been  eclipsed  by  that  of  tlicir  liusbivnds  or  pro- 
lectors.  Among  uncrowne<i  ccle'briti'-a  of  thia  aei 
must  certainly  be  counter]  Samh  Jeituinga,  Dacheas 
of  Marlborough,  the  Mrs.  Freeman  to  the  Mrs. 
Morley  of  Queen  Anue,  and  the  woman  poasibly  of 
roost  importance  of  the  pre-CJeorgiao  era.  Ho  great 
was  the  influence  ahe  exerciaed  conjointly  with  her 
hnsband,  that  it  ia  diflicult  to  dissociate  her  front 
Iho  history  of  lier  epoch.  It  ia  only  her  early  life, 
indeed,  wnen  aigna  of  her  coming  greatneaa  were 
not  easily  traced,  and  the  period  after  the  death  of 
her  husband  and  her  own  loaa  of  inflnence,  which 
was  passed  in  feuda  and  lawauita,  that  are  easily 
disentangled  from  historic  records  and  diacuBsiona 
of  statecraft. 

Tracing  as  she  does  her  ancestor  from  her  CArly 
life  to  the  cloae,  Mrs.  Colville  begina  by  plarincr  ns 
in  a  world  depicted  by  Anthony   Hm.  1 

enda  by  leaving  us  in  one  far  less  int<: ' 
authorities  for  which  are  Fielding,  C 
and  Ralph.    Her  book  is  avowedly  an  ; 
the  great  Duchess,  and  is  undertaken  le.  .: 

less  reverent  and  sympathetic  should  dcui  u  ii  ii  t  he 
materials  collected,  jhat  the  work  will  go  far  to 
change  the  general  estimate  concerning  one  of  the 
cleverest,  shrewdest,  most  wrongheaded,  intem- 
l>erat«,  and  pugnacious  of  women  is  not  to  he 
antici]>ated.  VVhat  is  said,  however,  about  her 
good  -  heartednesB  and  the  qualities  to  be  dis- 
covered behind  her  aggressive  and,  as  we  hold, 
vindictive  disposition  may  be  read,  and  must  exer- 
cise such  inflnence  as  it  may.  It  mav  at  In««t  b» 
maintained  that  a  book  for  which  i*  '         '        j 

no  great  measure  of  literary  craft 
iwrused  with  sustained  interest  tti I  I 

has  few  dull  pBRcs.  The  nictures  of  UfoalviiiJoua 
epochs  are  animated,  and  the  portraits  of  thoao 
with  whom  Sarah  Jenningawas  thrown  into  asso- 
ciation are  animated  and  often  faithful.  Born  in 
I'JGO,  the  year  of  Restoration,  Sarah  xn.^  twch  (; 
yeara  of  age  when  she  made  her  first  > 
at  the  least  decoron"),  if  not  the  i; 
natcd  Conrt  in  Kuroiic,  that  of  .S' 
Her  hair,  like  that   of    her    mother.    .  Iij 

arrived  at  the  Palace,  was  arranged,  ».  I,' 

flat  on  the  top  of  her  head  in  natural  curls,  hli^htly 


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I 


frizzed  at  the  side,  This  style  wa3  due  to  Mile,  de 
FoDt-angea,  after  whom  it  waa  named.  Her  hair 
coming  down  w  heu  she  was  riding  with  Louia  XIV., 
ahe  tied  it  up  with  her  garter.  Fascinated  with 
the  effect,  the  king  bade  her  wear  it  that  way,  and 
ao  hroiighl  the  style  iuto  fashion.  Not  long  had 
the  juvenile  Sarah  been  at  Court  before  she  showed 
aoconi^uerable  tcniiier,  and  worsted  her  mother  in 
a  fierce  battle.  8ne  was  but  fifteen  M'hen  she 
conquered  John  Churohill,  and,  in  spite  of  the 
opposition  of  his  father,  the  engagement  was 
speedily  announced,  and  in  \fft^.  when  she  waa 
eighteen  and  he  ten  yeara  older,  they  werft  privately 
married.  When,  in  1688,  Lady  Churchill  and  her 
then  dear  friend  Princess  (afterwards  Queen)  Anne 
fled  from  Court  to  the  Earl  of  Northampton's,  they 
were  waited  upon  by  CoUey  Cibbor,  who  waa 
strangely  fascinated  by  Lady  Churchill.  Very 
bright  are  the  pictures  of  Queen  Mary,  whose 
gaiety  during  the  coronation  period  brought  on  her 
the  implied  censure  of  £velyD  and  the  open  con- 
demnation uf  Burnet.  Among  many  interesting 
documents  preserved  in  ap|>endixes  is  a  very 
favourable  character  of  the  Duchess  by  Mr.  Mayn- 
waring,  unfortunately  unfinished,  front  the  Coxe 
t^apers.  \\'hat  is  specially  commended  in  her  is 
modesjty,  a  virtue  that  might  well  stand  out  con- 
spicuously in  a  Stuart  Court.  The  fumiius  song 
\rritten  after  Malplaquet  on  a  report  of  the  death 
of  Marlborough, 

Malbrook  a'on  va-t-en  guerre, 
is  alao  quoted.  In  a  very  readable  and  entertaining 
volume  the  illustrations  arc  un  attractive  feature. 
These  include  portraits  of  Charles  II.,  James  II., 
Qaeen  Mary  II.,  King  William  III..  George,  Prince 
ol  Denmark,  Princess  Anne,  (icorge  I.,  (Jeorge  II., 
and,  of  course,  the  heroine,  after  Kueller.  A  few 
misprints  call  for  revision.  "  Cussons's  "  '  History  of 
Hertfordshire '  should  be  Cussans'a.  As  a  whole  the 
book  is  cummendahly  correct. 

Orcai.  Masler.t.  Part  XI.  (Heinemann.) 
Of  'The  Syndics'  ('De  Staalmeesters)  of  Rem- 
brandt, which  constitutes  the  first  illustration  in  the 
latest  part  of  'Great  Masters,' Sir  Martin  ConMay 
declares  that  it  is  in  it«  lino  the  finest  picture  in  the 
world.  This  criticism  will  find  general  acceptance. 
Sir  Martin  speaks  of  its  type  as  representing  the 
dignity  of  a  bye  («i'r)  gone  age.  What  is  a  bye 
gone  a^ge?  The  reproduction  is  magnificent.  Hopp- 
ner's  'The  Sisters'  presents  two  of  the  nineteen 
children  of  Admiral  Sir  Thomaa  Frankland,  of 
Tbirkleby,  and  the  plate  is  every  whit  as  tine  as 
the  engraving  by  \^  ard,  which  sold  recently  for 
500  guitieao.  Van  Dyck's  *  Philip,  Fourth  Baron 
Wharton,'  is  from  the  Hermitage  Gallery, 
St.  Petersburg.  It  was  painted  in  16:^2,  and  is  in 
Van  Dyck's  best  style.  I^ast  comes  lk>tticelli's 
marvellous  '  Mother  and  Child,  with  Angela,'  from 
the  Koc/yuski  collection,  Berlin. 

Haudhook for  YorLihirt'.    (Stanford.) 
The  fourth   ediU'ju  of   '.Murray's   Handbook    for 

* sii«d  and  remodelled,  and 

and  jflans.     It  is  in 


Yorkshire'  has  he" 
is  now  issued  wi' ' 
regard  to  maT>s  n 
proven  I '•■  *    ■     ■ 
indii»t  I 
forJ,     I  ■    ■  I  I 

hi«\'    ' iii,i»lo,  l>iit  Uiu  \> 

tho    III f   the  Ure   anrt 

litglutuii,  .Settle,  ami  il     ' 


f  townB,  \r. 


that  im 
'ii  large 
.  Brad- 

iiiiiiMes 


It   I'liiiiiiti 


and  Westmorland,  retain  their  old  features  and 
charm.  In  connexion  with  Grewelthorpe,  p.  320, 
it  might  be  mentioned  that  a  delightful  cream 
cheese  is,  or  used  to  be,  made  there.  Famley  Hall, 
p.  41'J,  is,  of  course,  the  seat  of  the  Fawkesea.  A 
second  Famley  Hall,  not  named  hero,  is  mentioned 
in  '  CasaeU's  Gazetteer.'  This  used  to  exist  about 
three  miles  west  of  Leeds.  Has  it  disappeared? 
The  '  Handbook  '  retains  its  not  very  seriously 
contested  supremacy. 

Examination   of  an  Old  MauuscHpi.     By  T.  L» 

Marchant  Douse.  CTaylor  &  Francis.) 
The  old  manuscript  to  which  Mr.  Douse  has  devoted 
a  slim  quarto  is  the  first  leaf  of  an  anonymous  work, 
which  has  sometimes  been  called,  though  with 
little  reason,  '  The  Conference  of  Pleasure.'  It  ia 
preserved  in  tlie  library  of  the  Duke  of  North- 
umberland at  Alnwick.  The  editor  gives  a  fac- 
simile  of  this  page,  partly  burnt  at  the  edges,  which 
shows  it  to  be  closely  scribbled  over  with  a  con- 
fusion of  words,  names,  and  fragmentary  tag«  of 
lines.  With  a  good  deal  of  ingenuity  he  comes  to 
the  conclusion,  from  a  potient  examination  of  the 
names  nientioned,  which  include  those  of  Shake- 
speare, Bacon,  Sidney,  Nash,  and  Essex,  that  the 
scribbler  was  none  other  tnan  John  Davies,  of 
Hereford,  who  is  known  to  have  been  on  friendly 
terms  with  all  these  personages.     Voilii  loul ! 

Plare-nanns  of  Scoilawl.    By  James  B.  Johoaton, 

fi.D.  (Edinburgh,  Douglas.) 
Afanx  Xaines.  By  .4.  W.  Moore,  M.A.  (Stock.) 
TiiE^K  two  excellent  manuals  on  the  origin  of  names 
in  different  families  of  the  Celtic  stock  have  simul 
taneoualy  attained  to  a  second  edition,  as  they 
deserved  to  do.  Mr.  Johnston  has  been  able  to 
imfirove  his  book  by  the  addition  uf  some  new 
matter  contributed  by  Dr.  McBain,  Sir  Herbert 
Maxwell,  and  other  Gaelic  scholarSj  but  the  num- 
ber of  alternative  derivations  by  which  a  name  can 
still  be  accounted  for  "another  way"  shows  how 
diflicult  and  indeterminate  the  scienco  of  local 
etymology  is,  and  perhaps  in  many  cases  must  ever 
be,  where  early  authorities  are  not  forlhconiinff. 
This  improved  edition  of  Mr.  Johnston's  work  still 
leaves  something  to  be  desired  in  the  matter  oE 
editing.  In  his  introduction,  e.{/.  (p.  xvi),  he  calls 
our  attention  to  three  words  of  s^iocial  interest, 
which  Dr.  Murray  would  do  well  to  take  account 
of,  and  for  these  he  refers  us  to  the  name  list  in 
the  body  of  the  book.  We  turn  to  the  place  indi- 
cated for  the  first  of  these  three  interesting  words, 
which  is  Bt»,  and  find  there  is  no  such  entry ;  so 
that  Dr.  Murray  and  ourselves  will  have  to  poaneaa 
our  souls  in  patience  till  the  third  edition  ahal) 
inform  us  what  we  ought  to  know  about  Ben.  The 
author  succumbs  to  the  temptation  of  identifying 
ragtr,  the  tidal  wave,  with  the  OHd  Eng.  esjor{p.  116), 
in  which  he  haa  tho  Oxford  lexicographer  against 
him  and  Prof.  Skoat  to  boot. 

Mr.  Moore's  account  of  Manx  names  baa  alreadjr 
won  a  place  for  itself  in  tho  library  of  booka  on 
words  and  places  so  happily  inaugurated  by  the 
late  Canon  Taylor  and  Dr.  Joyce.  Some  valuable 
suggestions  from  Prof.  Zimmer  have  bcon  iT>c<ir- 
i>orated  in  this  new  edition,  and  «  commendatory 
preface  has  been  conlribute<l  by  1  rof.  Khys,  m 
which  he  propounds  a  new  explanation  of  tho 
puz/Iing  name  of  the  local  parliament.  "'  the  House 
of  Keys."  Ho  proposes  to  see  in  "Keys"  merely 
t»n   Anglicized    rendering   of    the    .Manx    Ki'Oiao. 


260 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES,     tio*  s.  l  MA^ra  28.  iw*. 


^nronouiiced  Boniething  like  Kdr!\n\  standini;  for 
Kinrt-ft.'f-F'f'l,  "  l"oiir-an*i-Tw'enty,"  which  was  the 
iiunibor  of  ita  ineiiiliera.  The  Iraiisforniiition  would 
Lave  been  e&sier  iu  former  timea,  when  "Keys" 
was  nlways  pronounned  Kay.  Wo  tnay  add  that 
those  who  are  ke«u  about  the  origin  of  surnames 
will  tiad  much  to  interest  tbeni  in  thcoe  two 
volume):. 

Au^ifiit  Caloidari  awl  Count tllaJioiiH.    By  the  Hon. 

Einnieline  M.  I'lunket.  (Murray.) 
By  "ancient"  is  here  meant  Babylonian,  Egyptian, 
and  Indian.  It  ha«  long  been  recoKiii/.ed  ihut  the 
zodiacal  conatellatioua  (on  tlte  places  of  the  «uu 
and  moon  in  wiiicli  all  culcndar-niakiog  is  and 
muftt  be  foiuulod) originated  with  the  slar-obaervera 
in  the  Eiiiihratean  valle]^.  Bui  there  arc  ditiienlliuA 
tiODnectca  with  the  subject  in  conse<{uence  of  the 
changes  rirodueed  by  the  procession  of  the  equi- 
noxes, Wliich  Miss  I'lunket  lias  fully  ernsped,  and 
on  which  she  has  brought  forward  aonio  heliiful 
suggestions.  The  work  is  ctiiefly  a  collection  of 
papers  contributed  by  her  to  ihe  Prorfyh'iiqH  of 
the  Society  of  Biblical  Archiuologv,  and  the  volume 
gives  a  view  of  'vll  that  is  now  known  respecting 
the  very  interestinj;  subject  of  which  it  treats. 
The  days  are  long  gone  by  since  tiir*!.  Cornewall 
Low  19  endeavoured  to  throw  doubt  upon  the  results 
of  decipherment  (then  only  in  ita  iiifaucy)  of  the 
cuneiform  inscriptions,  whole  libraries  of  which 
are  now  iu  our  hands. 

Tke  Firitf-  Volmne  of  (he  Comraij  Parish  JtryUlrrg, 
iu  the  Hum/  i train rij  of  Arllfrhirtdfl,  Diortnt  of 
Baiiyor,  Caxruanoiinhirr ,  I641  to  Ii!t.t.  (Clark.) 
Miss  Haulev  lias  edited  the  Couway  parish  regis- 
ters with  great  cure.  The  labour  of  transcription 
must  have  been  very  wearisome,  as  the  documcntH 
are  aome  of  them  fiided.  They  also  abound  in 
contractions,  and  three  languages— Latin,  Welsh, 
and  English— have  been  einjtloyed.  The  present 
volume,  though  covering  upsvards  of  two  centuries 
and  a.  half,  dues  not  contain  the  weddings  after 
)7ii3,  when  the  new  marriage  law,  as  it  was  called, 
came  into  force.  Wo  arc,  however,  promised  these 
marriages  iu  due  time.  May  we  suggest  that  when 
this  register  is  copied  for  tne  printer  the  names  nf 
the  witnesses  should  on  no  account  be  omitted? 
They  arc  often  very  important,  as  furnisbing  sug- 
gestions of  family  relalionships,  which  not  infre- 
i|ueiitly  direct  to  evidences  of  iicdigree  which  would 
ulherwiso  have  failed  to  come  to  light. 

The  editor  in  her  iutroducliou  gives  useful 
notes  ou  the  historj'  of  Conway.  From  1172  to 
V2M  it  was  the  site  of  a  Cistercian  abbey,  around 
which  a  fluuriahin^'  town  noon  ^rew  up.  When, 
however,  E<lward  Icetabliahed  Ins  rule  over  Wales 
he  drove  away  Iho  native  population,  and,  with 
what  they  must  have  regarded  a-s  highhanded 
injustice,  peopled  the  town  with  EngliBhnien.  From 
what  part  of  his  auce6Lral  dominions  he  gathered 
bis  new  settlers  Miss  Hadley  does  not  tell  us. 
There  is  jirolmbly  no  evidence  on  the  matter.  The 
monks  were  also  removed,  but  in  their  cose  it  cannot 
be  regarded  as  an  act  of  conti)ication,  as  they  Mere 
settledat  Maenan,  some  ten  miles  away.  When  this 
removal  took  place  the  monastic  church  was  made 
parochial-  To  what  extent  it  auflered  by  the  change 
IS  not  clear.  \\'e  imagine  it  p&ued  lightly  through 
atornia  of  the  Tudor  period  and  the  wars  of  the 
seventeenth  century,  and  that  the  changes  the 
(nodera  archnologist  deplores  are  maiuly  due  to 


H  and 

•■    not 

I  lie  to 

Conway 


the  neglect  of  Georgian  offiri^''-::   ■■•■■{  the  cnutg 
ignorance  of  the  restorers  of  I 

In  the  Conway  registers,  as  vviih  near), 

all  such  ducuinenta  when  the>  cxicud  back  to  an 
early  period,  there  are  blanks.  Ifcro  we  find 
that  several  years  at  tlie  end  of  ih<-  ■'• 
beginning  of  the  eeventeeuth  O' 
been  filled  in.  This  neglect  was  ; ' 
the  ]>laguc,  which  nearly  de|iii|iulal 
during  the  ten  year.i  between  l.">97  and  1I)IJ7.  It  ia 
interesting  to  tind  thai  in  Wales,  u'^  we  lielieve 
to  be  the  case  in  iScotlaiid,  Iheburial  entries  regard- 
ing married  women  record  their  inaidon  nainea  a>i 
well  as  the  surnames  of  their  liii«band$,  Had  this 
been  the  custom  in  England  it  would  have  be«n 
a  great  help  to  genealogists.  Tlie  index  of  name* 
seems  accurate  and  complete  ;  but  wc  are  sor  . 
thot  it  gives  surnames  only.  To  o<i«e«  nf  cmimtoa 
names,  such  as  HukIicx,  .T 
this  is  the  cause  of  greu' 
moreover,  an  index  of  t;.  . 
tioned  in  the  regi8l«ra  whicii 
service, 


wili    be    luund    of 


>ti9    it    may    thlcie&t    our 


Miss  Hadley  gives  a  \ 
mised  on  the  title-iiage,  ' 
inaeriptiouB  which  rtbcii: 

give  one   of   them    here,  _  

American  reoders  :  "  Annae  nxari  Thomas  Apthorji 
Armig.    que    annum    tri         '  i'-  -     ''i-essibi 

Heplr.  28  MKcrLXXXiv.n  ttdet 

regi  debilani  iimscriptii-  .        inscrip- 

tions in  the  cnurchyard,  uJiicli^aiu  uol  giv«n,  are, 
we  understand,  numerous.  We  trust  tijey  are 
reserved  for  a  future  volume. 


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CLKiUfTS.— Tennyson  refers  to  Margaret  Roper, 
the  daughter  of  Sir  Thomas  More,  who  ia  said  to 
have  secured  his  bead  after  his  execution  and  kept 
it  till  her  death. 

W.  H.  R.-Will  bo  duly  inserted. 

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'I'hrmtA  f* 


LIBRAJIIAN  to  tUo  SOCIETY  of  WRITERS  to 
KIS  K%JBSTV'8  KlCJKn'. 
Tho  ortI«.  or  LlllMAKIAN   m  II,.  8<ll:tKri    ol  WRITEIW  tn  MI^ 
M*.JE4T\  !^  »10SKT,   irvmttT  >■■  '  '    <■•>■■ 

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br  l«BBl>-B»«  Ceji  r»   or    l<!«t. 

Mat  »  NR\i,u»  laiis  MILL. 

riae*,   Mliibariib.   Orrk    la   ihc    i^-ivioi.    >•«•» 
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NEWSVKNDOKS"       BKNEVOLKNT      and 

Foun^ied  mil. 

ruDiUricrrii;!  UCM 

UtIM  I  MainorUt  MiJl  HuHiliact,  l«:  pumiigiisa  Ktrarl,  Leadoa,  EC. 

rairaar 

Hi*  KlcM  Hm.  Uva  BAItL  of  liUSHUSUT.  K  O. 

rr*«td»ar  -. 

l-kallKhtHi-B   Iht  I^JKIIOLBNBKK 

Tr»«»ur#r  - 

Tb*  LUMimrf  and  WN!tr¥trr)rrKii  hakk,  limitku. 

:ir.  strand.  M' C 

TrvMcc*  iRi  iiiltcia  MfoitMra  nlOommlMMi: 

CII.\liJ.K^  HKNIIY  WALTftU.  Haq. 

HUKACK   HU.IIOK4  V AII.VH ALL.  B»<<..  U-A.i.I*.  D  I.. 

ALVKKI)  MRN'tlV  IIASC-8.  Ei^j   'Chalrtnaa  ol CvBimKVM, 

CHAULK.S  AWDIIV.  K«q..  U  A. 

OHJKd!!  — Thit   Inutiuuon  wat  MtalillahvJ  in  UOV  In  th*  C1l|'  nl 

LoiMtnn.  anJrr  Ihe   Pru.umcf  (W    ih<i    lat«    Altierniaa    Harniar,    for 

(raallBf    rvntlon^    uiU     tviitiwirarT    Aiikafiance    tu     principal!    aad 

MfiWMIM  anfaKCd  a«  Tenditn  ol  liew>p«|>«r«. 

X  Donation  of  Tea  Oiiin^a*  eoB«utnt#«  a  Vin#-I^rp«l4cat  aad  |lT«i 
thraa  «-«(«•  for  lire  at  an  aiMumo  Ka««  au««ii>in  or  rhrar  Omaaa* 
(ivsa  a  TOtc  ai  all  clntinnt  fur  lira  bvvif  Anaaal  <aiMrrili«r  It 
eadtlrd  U>  one  vot<  at  all  (UcUooa  id  ratptct  of  ca<li  Kits  Kbllllnii  •« 
paid. 

3{IIS£|I1M:^" '"  ^'~<^-r  n«4a  anj  womaa  thnvDfhnut  ihe  I'altfrd 
KlBKdOin.  'hrr.  whcilctalrr.  rvLailer    »»nnii>for  or  «im> 

plQMd,  l4  •  .  riHie  ft  Dirnibcr  or  this  InititHtiMB,  anil  •D|n]p 

lU  baaa&K   '  '  "'  f*'"^  Shlllloft  aanuallT  or  Itircu:  <lula«»t 

lor  tile,  r'^1'"'" '""'•'"•'"'■''"''**"***''''''' ^"* '*'•'    ' 

Tlia  pnaelnall«a-.urr«  nt  ihB  Halr»  foTormtn  «l»rti  ■,• 

ara,  itoatManeandMau?  fthall  haw  b«ca  il.  a  nkcmbcr  '  '  >^n 

tor  not  le*i  than  l«n  <ean  pr>w4ia(  appllnttlnni           i  Ml) 

nttr-tra  ;«araolacei  IS;  eacacta  la  iha  tale  aluanapajrvit  lorat  Ittaat 
ton  7«aia. 

MBLldF  -Temporarr  rellsl  l»  Blv,-ti  in  !•»•••«  nf  ill»rr»M.  nnt  finlT 

tn  Utir.brra  of  IK*  laiticnU'vi,                     .  .ni< 

wan  niaj  lia  reeoniniandoil  lor  K--  'n. 

Ittqtt'ry  !•   mad*   In    incll  caM'>  11 
A,f-ardad  IB  aceonlaooc  wUta  tlir  ii. 


T'HK     AUTHOR'S     HAIULBSS     PaPEU-PAD. 
(Tke  LBAIIBNHAIX  i'KIWK.  IM  .  r<iMi>li«n  itnd  rrlaurt, 
SO.  LaadfHhall  i«(n<ri.  I.An4an.  X.C  i 
Pnnlalnt   halrtett    paprT    orrr  wlileh  th»    pan    illp*  with  pcrfcol 
frr-'"-         -"I      -        --'^      ■       r-rdciea.  rnlcJ  or  plain.    Nam  roek»l 


«l' 


"    l.««ilenhall    fr***,   l.ld  .  cnakot  tx 
bt  die  or  mliarwiaa.    Uupllcata  doplct 


OTICKPHAST  PASTE  is  miles  belter  tb«n  Gam 

O  lor  itKiliinc  in  arrapa.  Jotnirr  fanira.  *r  It-t  .t4  .  and  1  •  wild 
alrouK,  uaoful  hrukh  r  iiol  a  Toy  i  ^vnil  tw<  «lanip»  in  i;ovi*r  p,**lmft 
fur  a  Muupia  liMU*.  lacludinit  J<Mi«ti  rnrior;,  Snaar  Lnar  rovit, 
LaaaanAall  atraM,  H.U.    Ul  all  HUiioaara     Ktlahpkaw  l'«av»aUoka. 


ATHENiKLM      PRESS.— JOHN     KDWAKP 
rUAMCIB.   Vnnlcr  nl  U>*   4IAmMi«>,   \,Ut  onU  Ua«rwt.  *c      t> 

praparnd  to  dUNMIT  EarIH4IR«  Inr  all  kinaa  nf  Hiidk,  NBWI^ 
aad  PBKIUDICAL  PKIMTmo.-Il,  limam  a  Haihlinci  Ckaaavr? 
Laaa.  BC 


'rONBKIDGK    \ 

V.        NtSRRII    RlrrlNO  1 


WELLS— ComforUbl)-    FUR- 

I  RUUU  aad  DNB  or  TWO  KHDIIUOMg. 
Qalal.  plaaiaat,  and  caatrai  Turn  minaiai'  walk  from  a. BR  «  C. 
•-tauoa.  Mft  aiMra  laaan.-U.  H.,  M,  OroTa  Ulll  UoAd,  Tsobrtdf* 
WaUi. 


NOTES  AND  QUKKIK3 
V>  N01BS  IWD  UVBHIt-  ' 
«r  K>i  M.lorTwrlri  Mnntfci.  i 
rUAMCia.  A'«»«  <nd  u«<rw>  UKu 

OWNERS  of  GEN  PINK 

aiLVBH.  Ac  .  who   <lr':' 
Istikcd  to  land  panlca'ti 
ara  alwaja  prepared  Co  ^: 


Tlit>    Sri'..SfM,MPI'ON 


OLD 


Satkurota 

^md  AmeriCHn, 

'*'r^\  <>!  Kn||laa<l 
llaldOB  Iload. 


*' Baamlne  well  ^oui   l.'liju.:.     He 

Frcui  Jolia  nIOaanI  d,illi  briaic  kUpedlnrre 

ANCESTHY.Enplisli,S.v,r,i,   ir 
TRACBrj  Irom  HTATR  I(  > 
and  Bniigntni  I'anitiiM -Mr 
Kaatar,  and  1,  I'pham  l^u■k  lt«»' 

MR.    L.    CDLLETON.   02,    Piccndilly.     London 
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Abatrmctt  trnm  V  t^iaQMlol 

for  Oencalon'^;  . 

Abtir«>lalVd  I  .1!  -.iUil 

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!i.Ai.RiL2.i90io         NOTKS  AND  QUERIES. 


261 


LONDON,  SATniUAV,  APBIL  i,  IWk. 


CONTKNTS.-No.  14. 
KOTES  :- Scotch  Wonit  and  BiikUdIi  CumnieiiUtorf.  .Ml  — 
Wi;itinii»sl"!T  CtiAiiKC*.  3*'— Aini>o  and  BialciBh,  a«l — 
Blblii>j(rapliy  <i(  HiuUt,  a'ii— Hiurt*r  Srpulchro— KoreAn 
and  Miiiiclj(iri*n  Names.  L**!-"  Mmky  "— Pariuli  Uf({l>.l*r 
to  lUip  A  lur^  tloie-DltgulMid  Munlcrer  in  Fulk-lore— 
Llncoloslilre  Jingle,  266. 

QUBIilKSt-GAbrlel  Harvey'i  Booki-SfrC.  lUtton'a  Title 

— Louli  XVII.-M5S.  ul  itae  lat^  Mr.  St«c«y  Orlnialdl— 

Rut>eni'«  '  Pnlncej  •■I  UenO'>,'a4T  -Bllitun  racnllv-'  DoaUi 

of   Bii/txurU'-Hattlelu-ld   Sayi..e«-Dr.  Hali-Intcrlpllon 

I  on  Mmeuru -jKjop -Patience,  CanI  Game— Latin  1.1uhi— 

kPrlals    anil    EMgravIng*.    U48  —  llol>rrt«on    Family —The 

^Cave,   Hnrnsi-y  — Kowe  Family —  "  Tu||«,"   WjkMiamical 

If ot(f>n  — American    Loyalist*— Admiral  Hoinou  — Pimt  at 

Dk-  ttayiiiiirltrt -i^amuel  Ilaynejt,  'iti}. 

ItKPLIBS  ;     Onr  Clldf»t  Puldio  Sibciol,  26»-CheI»t>a  Phy»lc 
Ukrden,  2ii'— "*  Q"  for"— Guide  t<i  Manor  Ki>tlc-Sou!ac 
AWKjy  —  Dlokena  t^ufrien  -  Yeoman  ol  llie   Crown,  27^  — 
Cobweb  Pllij,  r,.\-C»\>t    Cuttl«^TicklinK  Troiit-Lrche 
■  Family -Honour  of  Tiilbury.  271  — Manitoba  — Pcnril  h—  I 
jPetin"*  '  Fruliii  i>l  Solitudr"— Aullior»  Wantdl— "Hanitcxl,  j 
draH-fl,  and  nuarterwl,"  aT6— "  King  of  Piittj-rdaU"  "— '•  Aa 
nn^rry  as  fiil^jgs,"  27<1  — "An  Auttrmn  array  "—Fogcait In n«  i 
— "  Hu  wlio  known  ni)t"     Franeo-Qennan  War  — B>><r  W«r 
of  IH81— Mfis  Oresi:  Serxt-antA'  Sasiiet.  377— William  of 
Wykeham— SamurlStiollpy— The  C"|w—riri>t  Steam  Ilall- 
I  way  'rr»lo-l.a<l  of  llje  War  Biw-Tidemelt  and  Tlde»- 
low.  i;s. 

K0TK8  UN  BOOKS  :-ManUlu«'.  'History  «(  Th«Atrto«l 
Art  ■— Snau'a  '  Dictionary  of  Contemporary  Quotationt  '- 
'Devon  Not««  and  Querits'— '  Bute*  for  Oompoaitor*  at 
the  Ciarendun  Pre*i. 

Obituary  :- Dr.  F,  S.  Cre*well ;  Mr.  U.  J.  Uoule. 

Noticos  to  Corretpoudentt. 


SCOTCH   WORDS    AND    ENGLISH 
COMMENTATORS. 
l«c€  9'"  S.  xi.  i.) 

It  has  leccnlly  become  fashionable  to  wfjte 
jioi;ra{>liics  of  Burns,  to  announce  theories 
lof  the  poet'.s  literary  art,  and  to  edit  his  works 
as  a  whole  or  in  selections.  Such  exercises 
are  probably  in  demand^  or  they  would  not 
bo  90  nuuieroui ;  but  it  la  surprising  to  fiiul 
that  tliero  is  room  for  them  all.  Now,  as 
IJurntt  18  not  merely  a  provincial  man  of 
letters,  but  one  of  the  sovereign  forces  of 
KuKliitii  literature  in  the  wiliest  acceptation 
of  tJio  term,  it  ih  of  the  last  importance  that 
what  iH  said  of  liiin  should  be  correct,  and 
that  the  otlitingof  his  work  should  at  lea«t 
Hisplay  familiarity  with  his  language,  As  a 
tost  of  this  it  will  be  instructive  oriofly  to 
examine  a  dainty  little  volume,  entitled 
'  Selected  IVMOt  of  Robert  Rurns,'  which 
.was  published  by  an  eminent  London  drm 
Jin  l8ti<J.  The  miiierial  qualitici)  of  the  book 
Are  all  in  its  favour:  paper,  type,  and 
binding  are  fully  worthy  of  the  houue  from 
which  Jt  is  iJisued.  It  has  a  critical  preface 
by  an  author  wiio  is  a  pa)«t  ma«t«r  in  the  art 
of  composing  intnxiuctions,  and   it  is  fur- 


nished with  a  somewhat  extensive  glos.sary. 
Everything  points  to  the  conclusion  that 
Burns  in  this  guise  will  have.secured  numerous 
readers,  and  it  is  curious  and  entertaining  to 
note  wliat  the  neophytes  among  these  are 
assumed  to  know  atid  what  they  are  expected 
to  believe. 

It  is  not  quite  cle^tr  who  is  responsible  for 
the  editing  of  the  work,  but  tliat  is  of  little 
consequence  now,  as  it  is  tJie  comment, 
and  not  the  text,  with  wliieh  we  mo  con- 
cerned. The  author  of  the  introduction 
appears  to  attach  considerable  impm  lance  to 
the  explanation  of  terms,  and  tiierefore  one 
naturally  expects  the  glossary  to  be  one  of  the 
strong  features  of  the  book.  IJurns,  says  the 
critical  guide,  "delights  in  provincial  Scotch, 
in  Ayrshire  words  of  wliich  even  the  Scotch 
sometimes  neetl  an  explanation. '  He  men- 
tions "  muslin  kail,"  "a  shangar  "(.«/o),  and  "a 
stimpart"  as  expre-s&ions  with  which  he  has 
sometimes  puzzled  "even  very  loyal  and 
unanglicizea  Scots,"  and  he  lingers  over 
"  tarrow,"  which  in  one  poem  Burns  rimes 
with  Pizarro.  and  indicates  his  belief  that 
the  term  is  of  exceeding  rarity.  "The  wi»rd," 
he  says,  "  is  so  obscure  that  it  escape<l  even 
the  older  minstrel  who  was  so  haitj  set  for 
various  rimes  to  Yarrow."  "  Tarrow,"  how- 
ever, a-s  Burns  experts  are  aware,  does  not 
merely  serve  the  poet's  purpose  of  iiitching 
in  a  rime,  for  it  expressively  emljellisbes  the 
texture  of  a  stanza  in  one  of  his  notable 
epistolary  lyrics  Further,  as  it  constitutes 
the  kernel  of  several  familiar  Scottish  pro- 
verbs, and  is  used  by  writers  so  di\ersely 
situated  as  Henryson,  Ramsay,  Samuel 
Rutherford,  and  lloss  of  'Hdenoie,'  it  seems 
a  fair  inference  that  Yarrow  min.strels  had  it 
for  the  taking  if  they  hafl  found  it  .suitable 
for  their  purpose.  Tiio  essayist  makes  some 
furtlier  distracting  allusions  and  misleading 
Htatements.  He  refers,  for  instance,  to  Willie 
who  "  brew VI  a  neck  o'  roaut"  as  "tfie 
detectable  William  S'ichol"  ;  he  is  divertiiigly 
expansive  over  "uowt,"  which  he  ultimately 
dismisses  as  "  horned  cattle  in  general "  ;  ho 
labours  to  show  that  Burns  in  writing  of 
Bannockburn  confounded  Edward  I.  with 
Edwartl  II. ;  and  he  assorts  that  the  poet 
complaine<i  of  "  the  execrable  whiskey  [sic] 
of  Dumfriesshire."  These  are  persons  and 
subjects  that  need  not  have  been  introduceil 
in  a  stylo  provocative  of  controversy,  but  as 
presented  here  they  aro  eminently  calculated 
to  foster  confusion  and  error. 

A  casual  ius|x;ction  of  the  glossary  i« 
sutticient  to  arouse  a  lively  curiosity  regarding 
itti  cliaracter  and  value.  It  is  plain  that  there 
are  many  possibilities  open  to  a  writer  wUs^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       ■[iO'''S.i.  apwls/iml 


defines  "cbJeW"  simply  as  "child,"  who  con- 
siders it  an  adequate  account  of  "gowans" 
to  call  them  "wild  flowers,"  and  who  explains 
that  "  ligwoodie "  is  "  the  rope  or  chain 
trace*  " !  A  few  examples  may  be  chosen  to 
show  that  this  surprising  promise  is  not 
belied.  In  '  The  Twa  Dogs,'  for  example,  the 
first  lyric  in  the  selection,  the  poet  says  of 
(Jajsar,  the  rich  man's  dog,  "The  fient  a 
pride— nae  pride  had  he."  ."Fient"  is  not 
included  in  the  glossary.  Presently  the  two 
dogs  are  said  to  have  been  "  unco  pack  and 
thick  tliegithcr."  The  onl^'  word  like  "  unco  " 
of  which  a  definition  is  given  is  "uncos,"  for 
which  "news"  is  entered  as  an  equivalent, 
and  the  expressive  epithet  "pack"  is  ignored. 
Other  words  and  pn  rases  oi  the  poem  that 
receive  no  explanation  are  "haith,"'  "gaun,' 
"run  deilfl,"  *' baran  a  quarry,"  "a  stinkan 
brock,'  "  ran  tan  kirns."  Wliere  he  has  fairly 
struck  in,  however,  and  allowed  himself 
freedom  of  action,  the  glossarist  has  certainly 
achieved  distinction.  Two  examples  will 
suffice.  Luath,  the  ploughman's  collie,  in  the 
course  of  his  description  of  workmen's 
comforts,  refers  to  "  their  grushie  weans  an' 
faithfu'  wives.''  "Grushie,"  which  means 
vigorously  healthy,  is  here  amazingly  inter- 
preted as  'a  protruding  muzzle,"  as  if, 
forsooth,  the  weans  were  veritable  urchins  of 
the  hedgerows!  Our  second  illustration  of 
astonishing  ingenuity  in  definition  introduces 
the  sovereign  twilight  passage  with  which 
the  iK>em  close.s.  1  wo  notable  features  of  a 
summer  (.neniriR  in  a  rural  district  are  thus 
happily  portrayed  :  — 

The  bum  olock  hummed  wi'  lazy  drone, 
The  kye  stood  rowlin'  i'  tlie  lodii. 

Here  we  have  Macbeth's  "sliard-borno  beetle 
with  his  drowsy  hums,  'and  the  cows  return- 
ing up  the  loan,  or  farm  road,  from  the 
f)astures!,  and  bellowing  aimlessly  as  they 
oiter  in  front  of  the  aeliberate  herd^^man. 
It  is  a  suggestive  delineation,  characteristic 
of  the  witchiiiK  hour  "'tween  the  gloaming 
and  the  mirk  "  which  inspired  Collins  to 
brilliant  expression,  and  pleasantly  stimu- 
lated the  romantic  chivalry  of  the  Ettrick 
Shepherd.  Our  glossarist  spoils  this  attrac- 
tive picture  for  his  di-sciples,  informing  them 
OS  he  does,  with  categorical  precision,  tliat  the 
loan  is  "a  milking-shed."  He  would  have 
shown  equal  familiarity  with  the  subject  had 
he  given  the  meaning  as  a  hen-roost  or  a 
counting-house,  and  even  then  his  interpre- 
tative daring  would  not  have  been  much 
more  surprising  than  that  which  his  actual 
definition  reveals. 

Some  examples  maj  be  added  in  reference 
to  the  words  usetl  m  the  'Auld  Farmer's 


New  Year  Morning  Salutalioti  to  his  Auld 
Mare,  Maggie.'  The  writer  of  the  introduction 
to  the  volume  absurdly  entitles  this  poem  the 
'  Farmer's  Good  Year  to  his  Auld  Mare,'  but 
despite  this  suspicious  lack  of  precision  he 
ventures  to  assert  that  the  humorous  pity 
and  kindness  of  the  piece  are  "inimitable 
and  unimitated."  With  this  authoritative 
pronouncement  to  stimulate  him,  the  English 
reader  will  naturally  give  special  attention 
to  this  lyric,  and  diligently  utilize  the  glos- 
.sary  in  grappling  with  its  frequent  difficulties. 
For  various  rea-sons  the  opening  stanza  i.s  cer- 
tain to  give  him  trouble;  in  particular,  its  con- 
cluding statement— to  the  effect  that  the  mare 
could  once  go  "like  ony  staggie  out  owre  the 
lay  "—will  ingvitably  prompt  deliberate  and 
careful  inquiry.  *'  Staggie  'is  not  included  in 
the  glossary,  and  as  "lay  "  is  explained  to  bo 
"  part  of  a  weaver's  loom,"  the  confiding  and 
ingenuous  mind  will  readily  conceive  great 
things  of  the  old  mare's  youth.  Further  room 
for  expansive  surprise  is  presently  given  in 
reference  to  the  fine  qualities  of  the  mare  at 
brooses,  that  is,  at  the  comp^'titive  gallops 
incidental  to  marriage  processions.  As  we 
are  given  to  understand  in  the  glossary  that 
"broose"'  is  a  variant  of  broth,  the  beginner 
in  Burns  will  not  be  to  blame  if  he  should 
conclude  that  in  her  prime  this  remark- 
able animal  must  have  performed  some 
gastronomical  feat  that  would  have  put  to 
shame  the  fastidious  stork  of  the  fable.  As 
a  racer  the  steed  is  said  to  have  been  in 
her  youth  "a  jinker  noble"— a  description 
that  might  surely  appeal  t<i  a  cultured 
rea<ler  without  the  help  of  an  interpreter. 
"Jinker,"  however,  is  carefully  explained 
as  meaning  "  sprightly, "  the  i-eacier  being 
again  left  to  his  own  imagination  over 
the  undoubted  resemblance  that  exists  (espe- 
cially on  the  turf)  between  a  sprightly  noblo 
and  a  galloping  mare.  Then  in  ner  early  days 
the  old  favourite  "  was  a  noble  Fittie-lan'," 
that  is,  when  yoked  to  the  plough  she  footed 
the  untillcd  land— worked  "in  the  hand,"  as 
the  ploughman  says — while  her  yoke-fellow 
walked  in  the  furrow.  "  Fittie-lan','*  according 
to  our  glossarist,  is  "  the  near  wheeler  of  a 
team,"  a  descriptive  gloss  that  prompts 
thoughts  of  De  Quincey's  "  glory  of  motion" 
rather  than  the  laborious  process  that  slowly 
transfigures  the  stubborn  glebe.  Again,  the 
sturdy  pair  used  to  pull  the  plough  through 
difficult  soil  "till  sprittie  knowes  wad  rair't 
and  risket " ;  that  is,  the  sprits  or  coarse  rushes 
on  the  knolls  would  crack  with  a  raspin;;; 
sound  as  they  wore  torn  up  by  the  plough- 
share. On  "rair't  "  and  "risket"  the  glos- 
sarist is  intelligible,but  he  is  characteristically 


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cryptic  on  "sprit tie,"  which  he  defines  as 
'*8pirite<l."  Does  he,  perchance,  aver  tliat  a 
modern  Polydorus  suffered  unspeakable  pangs 
from  the  ruthless  coulter  on  the  bleak  Ayr- 
shire leas  ?  It  is  at  least  self-evident  that  he 
never  heard  of  a  famous  holding  in  Scotland 
appropriately  named  "  Spritlie  Ha'."  It  ia 
not  necessary  to  prolong  this  analysis,  but 
one  more  specimen  may  be  given  to  show  how 
indispensable  it  is  to  know  shades  of  meaning 
before  undertaking  to  explain  Bums  for  the 
English  reader.  The  old  farmer  declares  that 
his  mare  "never  reestet"  in  cart  or  car,  the 
statement  implying  that  she  never  stood 
restive  when  expected  to  advance  with  her 
load.  The  only  explanation  of  "recstet"  in 
this  engaging  glossary  is  "  withered,"  which 
is,  of  course,  totally  inanplicable  to  this 
passage,  although  it  suits  the  "reestet  gizz" 
in  the  '  Address  to  the  Deil' 

The  writer  of  the  introduction  to  these 
selections  furnishes  in  a  single  sentence  a  com- 
plete commentary'  on  such  an  achievement  as 
the  glossary  with  which  Jiis  sponsorship  of 
Burns  is  inseparably  associated.  "  One, '  he 
says,  '"must  have  lieen  born  to  the  language 
to  understand  its  delicacies."  As  a  statement 
of  a  great  general  truth  this  is  excellent,  and 
it  would  be  well  if  many  who  are  prone  to 
rush  in  as  commentators  and  exix>nents  would 
realize  its  full  significance  in  time.  The  ideal 
exponent  of  Burns  is  to  be  looketl  for  only  in 
the  class  to  which  the  poet  himself  belonged  : 
he  is  now,  more  than  ever,  likely  to  be  fountl 
in  the  <lirect  line  of  Allan  Cunningliam, 
Robert  Chambers,  Alexander  Smith,  ami 
Carlyle.  Thomas  Bayne. 


WKSTMINSTKU   CHANG KS    IN    1901. 

For  the  last  two  or  three  years  I  have 
ende«vouro<l  to  place  upon  record  most  (if 
not  all)  of  the  changes  that  have  taken  place 
during  each  year  in  the  parishes  of  St.  Mar- 
garet and  St.  John  the  Evangelist,  which 
formerly  constitute*!  the  '*  old  "  city  of  West- 
minster. I  now  purpose  to  do  the  .same  for 
last  year,  although  in  the  latter  parish  tiiey 
Imve  been  so  numerous  and  varied  that  I  fear 
some  may  liave  been  missed  as  I  ttK»k  ray 
walks  abroad  for  the  purpose  of  noting  them  ; 
but  I  liotH)  the  omissions,  if  any,  will  l>e 
found  to  oe  few  and  of  only  minor  import- 
ance. I  must-,  however,  state  that  I  have 
still  hc«.'n  unable  to  touch  upon  those  in 
llegencv  Street,  as  I  have  not  procured  some 
particulars  which  I  neerled  .;  but  I  hope 
shortly  to  overcome  that  difliculty,  and  shall 
then  Jcal  with  that  locality  by  itself. 

Vincent  Square  had  for  many  years  an 


almost  complete  immunity  from  building 
operations,  but  during  the  last  year  some 
notable  changes  have  l^en  made  at  this  spot. 
The  Pvxhibition  Hall  for  the  Royal  Horticul- 
tural Society  has  been  rapidly  proceeded 
with,  and  is  now  nearly  ready  for  roofing, 
and  I  l)elicve  it  is  intended  to  occupy  it 
during  the  approacliing  summer.  It  is  very 
well  designed,  and  will  be  an  ornament  to 
this  part  of  Westminster.  On  the  same  side 
of  the  square  the  two  houses  numbered  83 
and  84  have  been  demolished,  and  in  their 
place  some  flats  have  been  erected  in  the 
fashionable  red  brick  with  stone  courses, 
somewhat  irreverently  designated  by  a  corre- 
spondent in  the  C'it;/  Prrss  "  the  streaky- 
bacon  style  of  architecture.'  This  erection 
has  been  fancifully  named  "The  Willows"; 
why  is  not  very  clear.  It  is  partly  occupied. 
Dr.  Launcelot  Archer,  an  occasional  con- 
tributor t43  '  N.  &  ii;'  being  one  of  the  resi- 
dents In  this  connexion  it  may  be  noted 
that  the  "handsome  price  cif  eignteen  hun- 
dred pounds"  (so  says  the  Weiifiriiniitrf  and 
Pimlico  Neii'i  of  Id  Februai-y)  "has  just 
been  obtained  for  No.  82,  Vincent  Square, 
having  a  lease  of  twenty-eight  years  to  run, 
with  a  ground  rent  of  lii/.  This,  we  believe, 
is  a  recoril  price  for  Westminster  property." 
Still  on  the  same  side,  at  the  corner  of  Carey 
Street,  is  a  l>uilding  used  as  a  warehouse  and 
offices  by  Messrs.  Coppen  Brothers,  which, 
although  in  part  erected  in  the  previous  year, 
was  not  occupiwi  until  the  beginning  of  1003. 

When  Messrs.  Broad  wood  migrated  east- 
ward, it  was  thought  that  their  old  premises 
in  Horseferry  Road  would  lie  at  once  de- 
molished ;  but  they  are  still  standing,  and 
temporarily  occupied  :  No.  TjT  by  the  Husson 
Safety  Acetylene  Syndicate,  Limited  ;  and 
No.  4 r)  by  Messrs.  Rothschild  et  Fils,  Ltd., 
of  Paris,  the  well-known  automobile  coach- 
builders,  and  the  Provincial  Carriers,  Ltd.  ; 
but  a  change  may  come  at  any  moment. 
Further  down  Horseferry  Road  we  come  to 
a  very  extensive  clearance,  which  I  fore- 
shadowed at  9^''  S.  xi.  22.  The  side  of  f'ar- 
ponler  Street,  Nos.  1  to  (>,  thfn  alluded  to 
as  condemned,  has  been  cleared,  as  well  as 
the  site  of  all  the  houses  to  No.  28,  Horseferry 
Road,  together  with  the  whole  of  Champion's 
Alley,  then  not  touched  ;  and  now,  of  the 
houses  from  that  number  to  No.  2,  all  aro 
either  empty  or  demolJ3hed,excepting  Nos.2«>, 
20,  and  18,  which  aie  occupied,  as  is  also  tho 
licensed  house  at  tho  corner  of  this  roati  and 
Millbank  Street,  known  as  the  "  Brown  Bear." 

Turning  into  Millbank  Street,  we  find 
No.  80  empty,  and  from  this  house  all  the 
ground  to  the  corner  of  Romney  Street,  and. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       no*  s.  i.  ArR„.  2.  i9m. 


-thence  to  the  corner  of  Carpenter  Street,  is 
•entirely  cleared.  The  house  at  the  corner  of 
Millbank  Street  and  Rorauey  Street  hud  from 
1813  until  last  jear  been  one  of  the  land- 
marks of  tlie  locality,  and  was  a  very  in- 
'terestin^  old  house.  It  had  been  in  the 
occupation  of  tlie  Fitzgerald  family  for  ninety 
Years,  a  very  extensive  oil  and  colour  business 
naving  been  carried  on  there  for  that  period. 
The  business  was  started  by  Stephen  Fitz- 
.gerald,  who  for  manv  year.s  before  had  been 
in  business  a.s  a  tallow-chandler  in  Tothill 
Street.  He  came  hero  in  1812,  and  in  course 
of  time  was  succeeded  by  his  second  son, 
Alexander,  born  in  Tothill  Street  in  1803,  who 
in  his  turn  gave  place  to  his  son  Alexander 
(the  second),  who  still  carries  on  business  at 
47,  Marshura  Street,  having  been  displaced 
by  the  London  County  Council  for  the  im- 
provements now  started.  The  founder  of 
this  business,  now  over  one  hundretJ  years 
old.  was  an  Irishman  who  came  to  England, 
aud  after  a  while  got  into  mucli  disgrace 
with  his  family  by  becoming  a  member  of 


One  member  of  this  family,  Andrew  Mallock^j 
was  an  overseer  of  St.  John's  parish  in  1841-1 
1842,  but  does  not  ap{>ear  to  nave  filled  thft] 
position  of  churchwarden.      David   MallockiJ 
another    member    of    the    family,   took    Iiisi 
degree  as    M-A..    and    wrot<>,  amonp  utherl 
things,  much  creditable  verse,  as  may  Ije  seenl 
by  reference  to  a  little  book  pre«erve<i  in  thaf 
\N  estminster  City  Library,  Great  Smith  StreotJ 
published  as  a  contribution   to  the  buildinfl 
fund  of  the  VVesLminster  Library  and  Scientific 
and  Mechanics'   Institution,  of    which    this 
gentleman  was  a  firm  supporter.     The  next 
two  houses,  Xos.  22  and  20,  lately  in  the  occu- 
pation of  Messrs.  Vacher,  the  I'urUamentary 
printers,  are  now  empty,  their  <iemolition  not 
being  far  olF.    In  1S47  S'o.  22  apfiears  to  liavei 
been  numbered  02.  and  for  many  years  before 
and   afterwards    was   the   printing  office   of 
Messrs.  Blauchard  i  Son,  who  in  that  year 
published  at  that  address   the  Kev.   E.    C. 
Mackenzie  Walcott'.s  'History  of  tlie  I'arish 
Church  of  St.  Margaret,  Westminster.'    The 
difference  in  the  numbering  of  the  houses  is 


the  Society  of  Friends,  to  whicli  body  his  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that  at  that  time 
descendants  have  since  belonged.  I  have  they  ran  consecutively  on  both  sides  of  tho 
been  favoured  by  tho  sight  of  a  bill,  dated  '  way,  and  not  o<ld  and  even  a.s  they  do  now. 
1823,  for  candles  supplied  to  the  church- '  There  was  no  change  on  the  river  side  of  the 
•wardens  of  St.  John's,  Westminster,  for  the :  street  daring  la.st  year,  but  most  probably 
purpose  of  lighting  the  church.  tiiere  will  Iw  many  to  note  when  this  year's 

Tiie  houses  sold  on    13    June,    1901    (see   demolitions  are  chronicled, 
•reference  already  quoted),  and    unoccupied  '"■  ^-  Harlasd-Oxley. 


in  .January  of  last  year,  have  all  been  de 
inolished,  the  grounil  now  being  clear.  In 
Jtomney  Street,  from  the  corner  of  Church 
Passage  {lea<liiig  into  Smith  Square)  to  No.  38, 
the  houses  are  being  rapidly  cleared  away  ; 
but  Noa.  30,  20,  16,  and  4,  although  empty, 
are  still  standing.  In  Millbank  Street  Nop.  56 
and  50  arc"  einjjty,  aud  it  is  worthy  of  note 
tliat  the  High  Jiailiff  of  Westminster  and  a 
jury,  on  21  Jatiuury,  awarded  the  sum  of 
2,500/.  to  Mr.  G.  V\'.  iJunstall,  who  occupied  the 
latter  premises  as  a  coffee  and  eating  house, 
as  compensation  for  the  compulsory  acquisi- 
tion of  tho  house  for  this  improvement 
scheme.  It  was  stated  in  evidence  that  this 
person  had  a  monopoly  of  the  Thames-side 
refreshment  business  in  this  locality,  and 
that  his  not  profits  averaged  000/f  per  annum. 
Tho  ground  from  No.  13,  Church  Street  to 
the  corner  of  Millbank  Street  and  onward  to 
No.  34  has  all  been  cleared,  but  some  of  this 
work  was  done  before  1903.  Nos.  30  and  28 
aro  empty,  while  Nos.  26  and  24  are  still  in- 
habited, the  former  being  in  the  occupation 
of  Messrs.  Mary  Mallock  ife  Sons  as  a  rof>e, 
tarpaulin,  and  sack  manufactory,  with  pre- 
mises at  the  rear  in  Horse  and  Groom  Yard — 
a  business  established  as  far  back  as  1800. 


C2,  The  Alnishoiues,  Rocltostsr  Row,  S.  W. 
{7'obe  coHtinuiil.) 


AtNoo  AND  BASKrsH.— The  Baskiiih  lan- 
guage has  no  history  before  the  sixtoeath 
century  except  such  as  can  be  extracted 
from  place-names  and  names  nf  familie~s, 
cliiefly  in  Spain,  and  twi>meiliieval  glossaries. 
That  of  the  Ainoo  tongue  lie^-ins  in  the 
nineteenth.  Tho  Ainoos  are  sup|.i(ised  to 
have  emigrated  from  Siberia  into  Japau. 
The  Basks  may  have  been  Iberians,  and: 
have  migrated  from  Siberia  too,  and  have"^ 
brought  with  them  some  words  taken  frotu 
the  same  Rource  as  some  which  survive  in 
Ainoo.  Iberia  may  be  derived  not  from 
Hcuskarian  ibtit,  river,  or  »iar=  valley,  but 
from  Heuskarian  f'/>'ir,  i;>er  =  north.  Has  it 
not  been  said  that  Siberia  means,  in  some 
Siberian  language,  nor(hliind?  Having  no- 
ticed in  1893,  in  the  '  Dictionary  of  the  Ainoo 
Language,'  by  Mr.  John  Batchelor.  ceitain 
words  resembling  others  in  Baskish  of  the 
same  meaning  (and  it  was  resemblance,  the 
basis  of  all  cla.ssification,  which  gave  Sanskrit 
its  passport  into  the  territory  of  Greek  and 
Latin),  I  sent  him,  when  he  returncil  to 
England  from  his  valuable  missionary  work 


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in  the  north  of  Japan,  a  list  of  them,  which 
in  here  submitted  to  the  criticism  of  pliilo- 
logiHta,  witii  that  of  5Ir.  Batclielor  hiraself, 
OS  he  is  tlie  chief  authority  on  Ainoo  lore. 
He  hoiM^s  to  publish  an  enlarged  edition  of 
his  dictionary  and  grammar  of  the  language 
of  those  savages,  who  differ  in  all  other 
respects,  as  much  as  is  possible,  from  the 
7/eiiA<ddtinafi-,  or  Basks.  I  give  in  eacli  case 
the  Ainoo  won)  first,  followed  by  the  Bankish. 

Anifhi,  to  l>e  shut.  — AV/t?',  in  composition 
ashi,  e.g.,  ftrrt.s/ii=.stone-enclosure. 

Afju,  relation. — Aha,  tribe,  clan,  family 
(nlfi  =  father  in  the  Daffla  language  of  A-ssam). 

Au,  brandies  of  horns  or  trees.— .46a>-. 

C/ii)i,  hini.  — Chm-i  (said  to  be  Japanese 
also),  sometimes  written  ttciri. 

Chiffi,  house. — Echf,  echi. 

A'jHiy  to  fulfil  time.— Jijie,  delay,  space  of 
time  (qy.  Latin  s/jc,  through  {e)»i/>f.  then  ef>e?). 

Erm,  three  person^.— A'v^/t,  heren,  third 
(cf.  Armenian  ertsim  =  30). 

Heashi^  the  beginning. — Ilatse,  haste,  begin- 
ning ;  fia»/ii,  //'i.si',  begun. 

Ileige,  the  breath.— //<rj'sr,  wind  ;  cf.  acc/xof, 
ant'tnus,  iintnm. 

Ihuhty  the  inside  fat  of  animals. — Koi}it, 

Oiki,  to  touch.— //mwH. 

Otu  ripe.— 6^«,  good;  mtdu^  onrA w,  goodened, 
ripe  (of  fruit). 

Sak,  without.— J?ni"rt,  9aka  (in  BiscAyan). 
Qy.  Irish  sech  ? 

S/ii,  to  shut. — Echi  (whence  A<;m»«=  Keltic 
dun,  nrigiualiy  ewlosed,  j'ortrfta). 

Sliiri,  earth,  land.— //t»7,  town. 

Mr.  Batchelor'.s  reply  was  as  follows  : — 

filencoe,  Church  Street, 

Uckfiolrl,  Sussex,  April  L'lst.  1901. 
Dk.vk  .Sir,— Many  thanks  for  your  letter  dated 
5th  April,  aud  also  for  the  list  of  Bosk  words  here- 
with relumed.  The  words  you  have  chosen  are 
certainly  very  like  Ainu  ;  indeed,  were  there  many 
more  such  l-Iobc  resemblances,  I  should  probably 
call  it  a  dialect  uf  Ainu,  liui,  of  course,  wilh  i\ 
iew  exani]>kf  I  should  not  drenni  of  poiu;?  so  far  oa 
Ihttt.  My  new  Dictionary,  which  I  have  in  MS., 
is  fKiinewhal  larRC,  und  has  at  least  lO.WK)  M'ords  in 
It.  I  would  print  it  if  I  could,  but  c-innot  atl'ord 
the  u.<|)€iiae.  ShnuM  I  manage,  however,  to  jjet  it 
t>rintod  Uteron.  I  am  nurc  ]ihiIologisls  would  then 
be  ablo  to  Rpcak  with  nAsurance  as  to  the  ailiiiity 
between  Ainu  «»id  RmW,  if  there  is  any.  As 
tegarfls  tt  .Icr  iu  t'hina,  I  too  have 

heard  th/i'  i  as  to  its  name  I  cannot 

^I»cak.-^  Jons  B.4TI  1IKI.OR. 

Let  us  hope  that  some  society,  or  some 
wealt!)y  friend  of  learning  and  of  n>insionary 
civilization,  will  find  llio  fumJ.s  for  iiubli.shing 
Mr.  lUti^hc'lor's  laborious  work  before  he  dies. 
I  had  told  him  that  there  is  in  New  Zealand 
A  venoinouM  spider  called  httijx}  by  the 
Maoris  ttnd  that  there  is  said  to  be  another 


in  China  bearing  the  game  name  in  Chinese. 
Is  that  a  fact? 

The  Religious  Tract  Society,  4,  Bonverie 
Street,  RC,  ha.s  lately  published  *  The  Ainu 
and  their  Folk-lore.'  E.  S.  DoncsoN. 

BiBLiooRAPHY  OF  E.i8TER.  {C onttmted  froiii, 
9"'  S.  vii.  2«}4.)— 

Cartaine  Queries  proposed  by  the  King  to  Uie 
Lords  and  Cuinmons  atteodini;  his  Majesty  at 
Holdeuby,  Aprill  23,  1647,  Uuiching  the  celebration- 
of  the  Easter  Feast.     Pp.  G,  1047. 

r^redano  (H.  F.)  The  Eucharist  at  Raster,  1657, 
Paalms  cxvi  ,  xxvii.,  xxxiii.,  folio,  1G81. 

Uomiuici  Quartaironij  Hcspon!iioDe«  nd  nonnullA» 
Aseertiones  pro  Reformalione  Kalendarij  i  •  reRoriaui 
de  Paschate  Anni  1700,  fol.  (see  Hearne's  'Collec- 
tanea,'i.  2I,0.H.S.). 

Watts.  Mr.,  of  St.  John's  Coll.  The  Rule  for 
finding  Easter  in  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer, 
Lend.  1712  (Hearne's  '  Collectanea,' iii.  48'2). 

W.  C.B. 

Easter  Sepulchre.— In  1440  a  testator 
leaves  a  gold  cloth  with  a  black  foundation, 
to  bo  kept  for  ever  by  the  keepers  of  th& 
fabric  of  the  chapel  of  D.V.M.  in  Kingston- 
upon-Hull,  as  an  ornament  to  the  Lord's 
.sepulchre  at  the  feast  of  Easter  ('Test.  Ebor.,* 
ii.  77,  Surtees  Soc). 

At  Newark,  l.'KX),  at  the  time  of  Easter  tho 
sepulchre  of  Je«us  Christ  was  usually  set  up 
between  two  pillars  next  to  the  altar  in  the 
north  part  of  the  choir  ('TeMt.  Ebor.,'  iv.  179). 

1509,  at  Batley,  "to  on  vyse  makyng  ou 
Esturdatein  the  mornyng  to  the  sepuTcre, 
iij' iiij'"'(' Test.  Ebor.,' V.  11). 

In  1.^2G  a  widow  leaves  to  St.  Mary's 
Cliurch,  Beverley,  her  beat  oversea  bed  called 
the  Baptist  as  an  ornament  to  the  sepulchre 
of  our  Saviour  Christ  Jesus  at  the  least  of 
Ea-ster  ('Test.  Ebor.,'  v.  224). 

There  wa.'j  a  sepulchre  in  the  chapel  o£ 
St.  Clement  in  Pontefract  Castle,  for  which 
the  king  allowed  six  shillings  yearly  for  wax 
and  other  things  ('Chantry  Surveys,'  iL  324, 
Surtees  Soc). 

See  other  references  in  '  Durham  Account 
Bolls,'  iii.  9C.3  ;  '  Rites  of  Durham,'  204,  .346 
(Surt.  Soc,  vol.  cvii.). 

There  was  a  movable  "resurrection"  at 
Sheffield,  for  the  setting  up  anil  mending  of 
which  payments  were  matle  in  IS-'iS  (J.  D. 
I^'jtder,  '('utlers'  Company's  Accounts,'  p.  16X 

Other  instances  in  'Notices of  Henr}',  Lord 
Percy,'  by  R.  Simt»son,  1882,  pp.  80,  81  ;  and 
in  the  7'rminirij,  September,  1903,  with  illus- 
trations. VV.  C.  B. 

Korean  and  MANCHtJRUN  Namss.— Many 
readers  of  these  columns  must  have  wnndereii 
whence  comes  thoo«ld  looking  name  C^uelpaert 
Island.    It  is  frora  an  old  Dutch.  ««qxA  -sbss&xv- 


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ing  a  hippogriff,  or  Hying  horse.  In  modem 
Dutch  ortho|i;raphy  it  would  be  Kwelpaard. 
jh'u'elia  the  same  as  our  verb  "quell,"  and 
petard  means  *'  liorse."  Chemulpo,  the  port  of 
oeou],  is  given  in  only  two  of  our  pronouncing 
gazetteers,  and  in  each  with  a  different 
accent.  Smith's  ' Cyclopjudia of  Names '  (1895) 
marks  it  Chemulpo,  butWorcester's  Dictionary 
Supplement  (1887)  has  Chemulpii,  which  is 
unquestionably  the  more  correct.  The  ch  is 
sounded  as  in  "  church,"  and  the  vowels  as  in 
Italian— C7(Ki//-wioo/-ji«J.  The  sense  is  said  to 
be  "  muddy  harbour." 

We  have  all  seen  many  allusions  lately  to 
the  Chuucliuses.  Unlike  the  ck  in  Chemulpo, 
which  is  soft,  the  cA  iu  Chunchuses  is  hard. 
In  fact,  the  best  authorities  spell  it  Khun- 
kliuze^,  e.f/.,  the  C'fmt&nifKiror;/  Review  for 
March,  p.  318.  This  corresponds  with  the 
Russian  plural.  Khunkhuzi.  VVirt  Gerrare,  in 
'Greater  Russia.' cuts  it  down  to  Khungua 
(plural).  The  variations  of  spelling  in  tliis 
and  other  Manchu  names  are  due  to  the 
readiness  with  which  in  that  lan^^uago  certain 
consonants  interchange.  For  instance,  the 
h  is  very  guttural,  like  German  ck,  and  is 
often  written  hli,  whence  it  passes  into  k  or  g. 
Harbin  and  Hailar  become  Kharbiu  and 
Khailar  j  and  Tsltsihar  becomes  Tsitsikar, 
ie.ss  correctly  Chichikar,  and  even  Tsichagar. 
There  is,  however,  little  dithculty  in  pro- 
nouncing Manchu  names  correctly,  since  the 
Stress  lies  uniformly  upon  the  last  syllable. 
The  Yalu  Uiver  is  Ynldoo,  Harbin  antt  Kiriu 
(Uirin)  are  //mri/tjt  and  Ketr^en  {Oeer^en},  &c. 
J  AS.  Platt,  Jun. 

"MosKY.'— I  do  not  remember  this  word  in 
•N.  &Q.':- 

"Thero  arc  about  a  dowo  dolphius  ofl"  tho  quarter 

to-day,  Bwiiuiuiiii?  alongside  the  ship.     They  are 

what   eeameu    i-iili   moitliy—tha.t  is,   haniifi  ydlom 

tail  It.     It  is  an  old  sailor'n  hoax  that  a  doliilun  boIs 

hia  yellow  IaiI  from  eating  tho  weed  off  tho  ahip'a 

bottom,  which  iasavir>««ed  to  iioiaon  him."'— 'Round 

ir-^^."'""';..^'*^'*'"*'  ''"'  ^'^st-'  ^y  A.  Ba«il  Lubljock, 
lUOi:,  \f.  iJ5. 

William  Georob  Black. 
Olugow. 

Paju.sh  Kkgistkr  to  stop  a  Rat'8  Holk.— 
The  following,  from  the  Western  Mornim/ 
IVews  of  9  March,  speaks  for  itself,  and  with 
no  uncertain  voice, of  the  immediate  necessity 
for  all  parish  registers  being  removed  to  some 
central  place  of  authority,  as  has  been  done 
la  Scotland  since  1854  :  — 

"Oue  would  thiuk  that  to  atop  up  a  rafs  hole 
Would  be  tho  l&sl  uso  a  parish  reijist^r  would  be  j.ut 
10.  >eui  BeeniB  to  have  been  done  at  WarleKcau, 
near  Rodnnn.  Thw  pari.h'a  oldost  regiater  wm  for  a 
loug  tiiiio  JoBt,  aud  a  few  months  ago  it  woe  fouudou 


the  top  of  B  bookcase,  where  it  had  lain  for  twenty 
yeara.  The  rector  liaa  now  had  it  carefully  copied, 
and  notwithstanding  its  dilapidated  coudition, 
there  are  fowor  ontriea  which  are  illcKihle  than 
might  have  been  exiiectetl.  The  lirst  leKiblo  \)aKe 
dates  from  lo47.  'Old  parish  re(ripter=,'  i^ays  the 
rector  in  the  March  number  of  theV'  ■  uae, 

'are  too  valuable  to  be  left  lyin^.'  i  on 

the  top  of  a  bookcaae  for  twenty  >x»,,.  ...  lo  ba 
emjiloyed  for  stop] >ing  up  rats'  holesi  in  tho  store- 
room, which  was  how  I  found  them  year!<  a({o  when 
I  Ant  came  to  the  i>arieh.  The  iron  cheijl  in  which 
they  should  have  been  resting  wa.<i  Hlled  with 
empty  boltlen.  Fortunately,  on  ihia  occasion,  the 
rats  showed  more  respect  for  the  register  than  did 
their  projicr  guardian.' " 

li.  B.tRCLAY-ALLAKDIt'E. 
DlS<iUlr5ED   MURUERKR  W   FOLK-LORE.— Tlie 

following  naragraph  ap|iears  in  the  Morning 
Post  of  12  March  (p.  8).  It  may  be  true,  bu^ 
until  further  evidence  is  forthcoming,  it  is 
safer  to  regard  it  rather  as  folk-lore  than 
liistory.  Of  course  such  a  plan  for  robbery 
or  murder  may  have  been  olaborataJ  more 
than  once  ;  but  it  is  more  probable  that 
the  story  belongs  to  that  class  of  tales  of 
which  the  sheep-stealer  who  was  lianged 
when  getting  over  a  wall  by  the  sheep  onliio- 
back  is  a  striking  specimen,  which  has  already 
been  discussed  in  'N.  i  Q.' : — 

"  A  ))rominent  merchant  of  Londonderry  has 
reported  to  the  jiolico  that  while  driving  in  his  gig 
oD  a  lonely  road  a  person  who  ajtpeared  to  be  an 
aj^ed  countrywoman  asked  hin»  for  a  lift.  A  bosket 
was  first  handed  un,  ami  the  merchant,  catohinx 
hold  of  the  hand  wnich  passed  it.  was  surprised  at 
its  size  and  rouKhnesa.  '  Tins  is  no  \\  onmn  a  hand,' 
he  cried,  and  whipped  up  hia  horses.  When  he  Rot 
liome  the  btisket  was  found  to  contain  a  loaded 
revolver  and  a  large  knife." 

The  Lincolnshire  version,  which  1  have  i 
often  heard  from  ray  father  and  othei'  old 
people,  is  that  a  rich  farmer,  who  was  known 
to  carry  a  good  stock  of  money  about  with 
him,  was  one  day  driving  home  from  market 
when  he  was  accosted  by  a  woman  who 
carried  a  basket.  She  asked  him  for  a  lift 
as  she  was  very  tired,  and  handed  up  her 
basket  into  the  cart ;  but  when  she  raised  her 
dress  to  get  in  herself,  the  farmer  saw  her 
massive  ankles,  and,  knowing  she  was  a  man 
iu  disguise,  at  once  drove  off.  In  the  basket 
there  was  found  a  brace  of  loaded  pistols. 
I  believe  a  similar  tale  occurs  in  Yorkshire. 
Edward  Peacouk. 

Wickoatree  Uonge,  Kirton-in-Lindaey. 

LlNCOLNSUIRE  JlNCiLE.— 
My  master,  old  Pant,  he  fed  me  with  tiivs, 
My  mother,  she  le&rut  me  plenty  "  off"  lies; 
My  nioator,  old  Pant,  he  learnt  me  to  thieve, 
•So  I  cheat  all  1  con,  an'  laugh  iu  my  sloove. 

J.  T.  F. 


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(^ixtx'us. 

\Vk  inuat  ret|iiest  correapondenU  deoinnK  in- 
foriDAtion  on  family  tiialters  of  only  pri'  st 

to  allix  thbir  names  und  addreaies  to  t 
io  order  tlirii  tlic  an&wers  may  be  addn"  in 

direct. 

Oauiuei,  Harvey's  Books.— Tho  Shake- 
spearian scholar  Steeven-s  writes  that  ho  had 
seen  a  copy  of  SiKight's  eililion  of  Chaucer, 
which  formerly  belonged  to  Dr.  Gabriel 
Harvey,  and  which  coiitained  in  Harvey's 
handwriting  a  reference  to  Shakespeare's 
'  Venua  ami  Adonis,'  '  Lucrece,'  and  '  Hamlet.' 
The  book  seems  aUo  to  have  been  seen  by 
Malone.  I  should  be  inueb  obliged  if  any 
one  could  tell  me  the  present  whereabouts 
of  this  book  and  of  any  other  books  which 
formerly  belonced  to  Gabriel  Harvey.  1  am 
acquainte<i  with  those  in  the  British  Muueum, 
the  Bodleian,  and  the  museum  at  Safl'ron 
Waldon.  G.  C.  Mooke  Smitu. 

Univereily  College,  .Sheffield. 

Sir  C  Hattoh's  Title.— On  the  monument 
to  Sir  Christopher  Hatton  iu  old  St.  Paul'H 
that  worthy  was  stylerl  "Begiie  Majestatis  D. 
Elizabethie  ex  nobiIibu.s  stipatoribuH  L.  vicis," 
The  "slipatorea"  were  no  doubt  the  pen- 
sioners j  but  what  is  the  meaning  of  "L.  vicis"? 
Could  it  be  lieutenant  ?  Hentzner  calls  the 
penaioner.s  "satellites  nobiles." 

H.  Bracken BUjtv. 

Chiabct'ley. 

Louts  XVII.— Having  been  for  many  years 
firmly  con vinced  of  the  survival  of  Louis XVII., 
son  of  Louii  XVI.,  after  hia  feigned  death  in 
the  prison  of  the  Temple  in  Paris  on  8  June, 
1790,  I  have  found,  in  reference  to  a  i^hort 
sentence  in  the  memoirs  of  the  said  prince, 
''AbrJgti  <les  Infortuney  du  Dauphin,  public 
a  Loud  res,  clicz  C.  Armand,  Imprimeur, 
Ilathbunu  Place,  Oxford  Street,"  November, 
1836,  n  44.  serious  reasons  to  believe  that 
Louis  aVII.  reuiuined  hidden  somewhere  in 
England,  for  a  certain  time  at  least,  during 
the  years  1795-180J. 

I.iater  on  his  real  atory  was,  on  purpose, 
mixed  up  with  tfie  false  statements  of  an 
impostor,  Augustus  Meves.  Consult  the 
pajMjrs  at  the  British  Mu.seum  concerning 
this  man,  who  wa.H  most  probably  pushed 
forward  by  the  Political  enoiniea  of  the  real 
Louis  XVI  [.  toiiisciedithis  legitimate  claims. 
Any  documents,  family  reconis,  or  allusions 
of  any  kind  on  this  sftccial  jvoint  for  the  date 
indicated  will  be  most  grat^^fully  receiveti  by 
Madame  liAnBEY-BoiHsiEE. 

Pierrierv,  near  (renevo. 

tSoo  7'"  S.  xii.  305,  370,  461.] 


MSS.    OF  TfiE  LATE   Mk.  StAlEY  GrIMALUI. 

—I  understand  that  the  late  Mr.  Stacey 
Grimaldi  posse.ssed  several  manuscript  lists 
of  Westminster  scholars.  Can  any  corre- 
spondent of  '  N.  &  Q.'  tell  me  where  they 
are  now  to  bo  found  ?  O.  F.  K.  B. 

Rl'bess's  '  Palace.s  of  Genoa.'— In  my 
possession  is  a  thick  folio  guardbook  in  old 
half-calf,  size  about  lUin.  by  l*2ji  in.,  with  the 
MS.  label  on  back  "'  Drawiitgs  olf  the  Palaces 
in  Genoa  by  S'  P.  P.  Rubens."  It  contains 
on  the  initial  tly-leaf  the  following  note  in 
an  early  eighteenth-century  hand,  probably 
c.  1729,  when  the  then  extant  loose  drawings 
are  believed  to  have  been  bound  in  the 
volume  and  the  MS.  title  ("Palazzi  di  Genoa, 
dal  P.  P.  Rubens  ").  and  label  as  above,  added: 

"This  Book  was  Bought  out  of  the  <'olleclion  of 
S'  Tlio:  Franklin  hut  some  of  the  Urawings  were 
niissin);  so  that  there  was  a  necessity  of  cijiii]ilealing 
it  with  Prints,  the  UrawinjiB  are  the  Original  ones 
done  by  the  order  .V  under  the  Ina[iectioti  of  S' 
P:  F:  RubeiiB,  from  which  the  Book  of  the  Palaces 
of  Genoa  is  engraved." 

There  are  120  drawings  in  pen  and  wash 
(sepia  tint),  instead  of  13(5  (otherwise,  in  error, 
"139"),  IG  being  supplied  by  the  prints, 
apparently  cngrave<l  by  Nicolaes  Ryckeu)ans, 
and  first  published  at  Antwerp,  1622,  in  two 
large  folio  volumes,  without  text,  under  the 
title  (in  Italian) of  "The  Ancient  and  Modern 
Palaces  of  Genoa  (Jollected  and  Designed 
by  P.  P.  Rubens."  These  drawings  were, 
however,  executed  during  Hul>ens's  visit  to 
Genoa,  1G07-8.  Although  unquestionably  the 
"  originals,"  only  seven  of  them  are  believed 
to  be  by  the  hand  of  the  great  master  Itiraself ; 
but  they  mostly  have  MS.  descriptions,  •kc., 
in  Italian  thereon,  apparently  in  his  auto- 
graph, and,  in  addition,  some  writing  in  load 
poncil  and  red  chalk  by  the  engraver. 

All  writers  upon  Kuliens- including  Horace 
Walpole ('Anecdotes of  Paintint;,'ed.  Wornum, 
1888,  vol.  i.  p.  30b),  Kelt  ('Rubens,'  1882, 
pp.  6r.-6),  Dr.  Waagen  ('JVter  Paul  Rubens, 
Ins  Life  and  Genius,' trans,  Noel.od.  Jameson, 
1840,  pp.  13  seq),  Fair  holt  ('  Homes  and 
Haunts  of  Foreign  Artists,'  1H74,  p.  15), 
Calvert  ('Life  of  Rul)t>ns,'  1«7G,  p|>.  73-4), 
Stevenson  ('Peter  Paul  Rubens,"  181(8,  pp.  25-6) 
—refer  to  these  dravviugs,  and  agree  that 
they  wore  executed  by  the  master. 

Sir  Thos.  Franklin  (or  Francklyn\  Bt.,  a 
former  owner,  died  .'»  October,  1728.  Can  any 
reader  state  where  a  copy  of  the  catalogue  of 
his  collection  is  to  be  seen,  and  where  the 
sixteen  missing  drawings  now  are  ?  They  are 
numbered  (vol.  i.)  fig.  1,  67  (2),  08.  «'J,  71  ; 
(vol.  ii.)  fig.  e,  12,  21,  24,  45,  54,  57,  GU  W4,«&. 


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NOTES   AND    QUP:RIES.  do- 8. 1.  April 2.  1904. 


Ellison  Familt. — I  am  anxious  to  know 
more  of  my  father's  familj'  (Ellison).  They 
came  from  the  vicinity  of  Threadnewile 
Streot  about  1760.  My  great-great-grand- 
father, Joseph  Ellison,  died  in  Boston,  Ma^s., 
in  I77I,  aged  seventy  •  six.  He  ha<l  two 
children  who  came  to  this  country :  Elizabeth 
Ellison,  born  1734,  died  in  Boston,  unmarried, 
1801  ;  William  Ellison,  born  1  October,  1741, 
married  in  Boston  1762,  and  died  there  1816. 
He  was  my  great  -  grandfather,  and  had 
children  William,  Samuel,  James,  .Mary,  and 
Elizabeth. 

(Mrs.)  Maby  H.  Ci  kran,  Librarian. 

Bangor  Public  Library,  Maine. 

'Death  of  Bozzaris,' —  In  Mr.  Morley's 
'  Life  of  Gladstone'  (vol.  i.  p.  137)  there  is  an 
extract  from  Gladstone's  diary  of  24  June, 
183G,  in  which  is  the  note  : — 

"Breakfiisl  with  Mr.  Rogera,  Mr.  Wordsworth 
ouly  there.  N'ery  agreeable.  Rogers  producod  an 
Aineriean  poem,  the  'Death  of  Bozzaris,"  which 
Wordsworth  proposed  that  I  should  read  to  them  ; 
of  lourse  1  uechned,  so  even  did  Rogers.  But 
Wordaworth  read  it  through  m  good  t&stc,  and 
doin^  it  justice."' 

Who  was  the  author  of  the  '  Death  of  Boz- 
zaris'? G.  L.  Apperson. 
[FiuGreene  Halleok.] 

Battlefield  Sayikos.— Can  any  reader 
give  instnoce>j  of  witty  or  humorous  sayings, 
ancient  as  well  as  tnodern,  on  the  battlefield, 
the  occasion  on  which  they  were  uttered, 
and,  when  known,  the  name  of  the  speaker! 
An  example  of  wlmt  I  mean  is  to  be  found 
in  the  hii^toric  phra.se  of  the  great  general 
who,  Ijeing  informed  that  the  enemy's  arrows 
were  so  numerous  that  they  woulcl  hide  the 
sun,  replied,  "Then  we  will  fight  in  the 
shade."  R   he  C. 

Dr.  Hall.  —  Will  any  one  intimately 
acquainted  with  my  Lord  Strafford's  home 
affairs  kindly  tell  me  who  wa.s  Dr.  Hall,  the 
friend  under  whose  tuition  (presumably  in 
\orkshire)  he  placed  his  nephew  Went  worth 
Dillon,  afterwards  the  poet  Earl  of  Kos- 
common?  L.  L  Quiney. 

LNs.RirTio.s  ON  Mi'8E0M.  —  Over  the  en- 
trance to  the  museum  at  Christchurch,  New 
Zealand,  is  engraved  the  following  inscrip- 
tion :  '•  Lo,  these  are  parts  of  His  ways,  but 
how  little  a  portion  of  them  is  heard  of 
Him  ! "  Where  do  these  words  come  from  ? 
They  do  not  appear  to  be  in  the  Bible  or 
Apocrypha,  L. 

[.Slightly  voriod  from  Job  xxvi.  11.) 

-.'Kaop.  — I  recently  bought  at  a  very  low 
pnce  a  copy  of  M^p  which  belongs  to  an 


impression  which  I  fancy  is  not  often  met 
with.     The  co\'er,  which  I  do  not  tiiink  in 
the  original    one,  bears    the  title   aesopi  | 
FABULAE  I  A  [  coRAY.    Tlic  title-page  is  :— 

MYGQN  Ai:i:flnEinN  |  iiYN.vrni'H.j 

4'iAoTi/i<^  Sairdinj  twc  AARA4'iiN  Zilll- 
]S[AAi2N',  TTinSetas  fi'<Ka  |  toji*  r^jv  "EXAaoa 
<{niti'i]v  Si^VKOfxiyoiv  '\LX.X.i')V<u\',  \  EN  IIAPI- 
^lOiri,  I  EK  TUI  TYn(>rPA4>L\2  I,  M. 
EBKrAPTOY.  I  Afil. 

It  has  as  frontispiece  a  portrait  of  .'Esop 
engraved  from  the  bust  in  the  Albanian 
Garden  at  Rome,  and  another  engraving,  a 
portrait  of  Archilochos  from  a  bust  in  the 
Vatican  Museum.  There  is  an  interesting 
and  scholarly  intro<luction,  written  in  modern 
Greek,  which  I  take  to  be  from  the  pen  of 
Koracs,  of  whose  series'EAAjjuK^t}  BtpXiqO^JKrf 
it  forms  part,  being  vol.  ii.  of  the  -nifttpya. 
I  have  learnt  that  the  volumes  of  Plutarch 
in  the  same  series  are  extremely  scarce. 
Perhaps  your  readers  may  know  something 
of  tins  book,  and  can  give  me  information 
as  to  its  rarity  or  otherwise. 

C.  Camp  Taeellt. 

Patience,  Card  Oamk.— When  was  the  i 
name  "Patience"  first  applied  to  the  game  of^^l 
cards  1  I  do  not  know  oi  an  instance  beforv^H 
1850.  F.  Jesbel. 

Mutilated  Latin  Line.s.  —  Among  some 
papers  I  purchased  a  few  years  ago  are  «ome 
mutilated  and,  I  think,  misspelt  I^atin  lines. 
Some  of  the  letters  have  disappeared.  Will 
some  reader  help  me  to  supply  the  missing 
letters  and  correct  the  lines  ?  I  should  bo 
grateful  to  any  Latin  scholar  for  his  English 
rendering  of  the  verse,  so  far  as  disjecta 
meinbm  will  permit  of  anything  like  a  ti-ans- 
lation. 

I  thitik  the  first  word  in  the  first  line 
should  be  Flmntiu  Should  the  first  word  iu 
the  sixlh  line  be  Undiijue  / 

, anicn  ut  rctorni  sapiens  et  doxtra  parentis 

I'rolcxil  thalamos  hlizabeta  suob 
In  (luibus  infantcin  lorif;evtt  j^mcrpcrii  alobaa 

Misscebas  curis  et  |>iu  vota  tnia 
....grassantea  tota  Jordanis  in  ora 

..dii|ue  sevirent  Parthuo  Arabsqiie  trucea 

fratruin  inembris  possiijue  cruore 

Jusissent millia  cajita , 

Tu  aeeum,  tamen  divini  nnininJA  umbra 
Figebaa  nati  bassia  nndta  penis. 
8ic  niodo  cum  pcenis  urgentur  regna  snperba, 
Jnxta  aroa  c<stui  protege,  Chriate,  tuoa. 

BcelluBijue  donium  desccude 

es  custos  no 

Frederic  Rowland  Mabvik. 
537,  Western  Avenue,  Albany,  N.Y. 

Prikts  and  ENORAViNfJS.  —  Can  any  one 
inform   me  of  a  book  of  moderate   price 


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dealing  witli  oUl  prints  and  engravings  and 
their  iinxlucers?     I  specially  want  to  know 
uhout  Gisliteenth  and  early  nineteenth  cen- 
tury landscape  work  in  England  and  Wales. 
L.  11.  Edwards. 

RoBEnxfiox  Family.  —  Can  any  of  your 
reaflers  lell  me  the  parentage  of,  or  particu- 
hirs  about,  George  Robert.son,  a  writer  in 
Edinburgh,  who  married  (second  wife)  Eliza- 
beth O>:ilvio,  and  «lie<l  17.37?  His  son  Alex- 
ider,  of  Parson's  Green,  a  Clerk  of  tSession, 
ttriculated  in  1778  as  a  cadet  of  theStrowan 
family.  W.  H.  R. 

Thk  Cavk,  Hornsey.  —  Can  any  corre- 
.spondent  enlighten  me  as  to  what  this  place 
was?  P.  M. 

RowE  Family. — Who  was  tlie  Rrandfather 
of  Owen  Rowc.  the  regicide?  I  have  eon- 
hulted  the  'D.N.B.'  F.  M.  H,  K. 

"Tuos,"  Wykehamical  Notiok.— Before  I 
knew  that  it  was  also  Prof.  Skeat'n  opinion, 
1  had  conclude^!,  when  beginning  the  study 
of  Iriaii  Gaelic,  that  the  familiar  EnglisFi 
Aerb  to  twig  must  be  akin  to  Keltic  tuif/sinn, 
meaning  to  understand.  It  aUo  occurred  to 
M)o  that  the  Wykebaroical  word  '*tug»," 
which  is  used  toraean  "I  know  that  already,' 
iir  " stale  news,'  might,  like  brwk  for  badger, 
and  other  words  existing  in  English  dialects, 
be  of  Keltic  origui.  I  have  not  acce-sn  at 
jiresent  to  the  lyK^ka  which  have  been  pub- 
liAbe<l  on  Wykehamical  "notions,"  But  this 
branch  of  philology  seems  to  have  some 
intei-est  for  some  reailers  of  'N.  <k  Q.,'  and 
so  I  raise  the  question.        E.  S.  Dodgson. 

Americax  LoVALiRTa.— On  the  concluaion 
of  the  Revolutionary  War,  when  the  inde- 
pendence of  the  Xorth  American  colonies 
was  established,  a  Commission  was  appointed 
by  tho  Rriti«!h  Government  to  inquire  into 
claims  of  American  Loj-alists  for  losses  in- 
curred ov  theniflurifig  the  war  in  consequence 
of  their  loyalty.  Is  there  any  record  of  tlie 
prDcee<lings  of  that  Commission,  the  names 
of  the  claimants,  Ac.  i  Any  information  on 
thU  subject  would  greatly  oblige. 

H.  M.  IL 

AuMinAL  Sir  T.  Hop-son,  1G43-]717.-Can 
any  reader  give  me  information  regarding 
Sir  Thomas  Hopson'i  marriage,  his  wife's 
parentage,  Ac,  !  Her  name  was  Elizabeth, 
born  UiOO-1,  niarncd  virca  1682,  died  and  was 
buried  with  hor  husband  at  Wey bridge, 
Surrey,  in  1740,  ai^irtl  sevcnty-nino.  Her  arms, 
as  they  ttj)peju-  unpnled  with  those  of  her 
hunband  on  Jiis  monument,  are   (Quarterly 


arg.  and  gules,  in  the  first  quarter  an  escallop 
shell.  Her  sister  married  a  man  named 
Brambell.  It  has  been  said  that  I^dy 
Hop.son  was  a  daughter  of  Col.  Skelton,  but 
there  is  do  proof  of  it.  G.  Bricstocke. 

Pons  at  the  Haym.krket.  —  Can  any 
reader  put  me  right  as  to  the  authorship, 
title,  and  date  of  procluction  of  the  theatrical 
absurdity  in  which  the  following  lines  were 
sroken  at  the  "Old  Uaymarkel"?  They 
always  struck  me  as  a  highly  amusing 
example  of  sustained  punning  at  a  lime 
when  burlesque  held  the  boai-ds  at  many  a 
London  playhouse. 

ThouRh  we've  of  late  &  wig  been  forced  to  wear, 

Our  crown  at  length  has  (?ot  a  lillle  heir. 

That  is  to  say,  an  heireas— «uch  a  pearl  I 

In  fact,  our  little  hair's  a  little  curl. 
There  is  a  suggestion  of  H.  J.  Byron's  stylo 
in   the  words;    but  I  cannot  in   my  mind 
connect  them  with  any  of  bis  pieces. 

Cecil  Clabkb. 
Junior  Athenroum  Club. 

Samcel  Haynes.  —  Lieut.  -  General  John 
William  Egerton,  seventh  Earl  of  Bridge- 
water,  born  1753,  died  1823,  married  in  1783 
Chariotte  Catherine  Anne,  only  daughter 
and  heiress  of  Samuel  Haynes,  Esq.  Samuel 
Haynes  died  at  Sunninghill,  18  June,  IHll, 
an<l  his  widow  at  Little  Gaddesden  in  1813- 
Whose  son  was  Samuel  Haynes  ? 

C.  H.  Mayo. 

Long  Burton,  Sherborne. 


OUR    OLDEST    PUBLIC    SCHOOL. 
(lO""  S.  i.  166,  215,  257.) 
As  lam  the   "common   vouchee"  for  the 
claims  of  both  Canterbury  and  York  to  the 
title  at  the  head   of  this  article,  and  also 
for  the  antiquity  of  Warwick  and  Kingston- 
on-Thames,  I  should  like  to  make  "a  personal 
explanation  "    in    answer     to    your    corre- 
spondents It.  F.-J.  S..  Mr.  Bayley,  and  G.  T., 
and  help  to  set  at  rest  the  vexed  question  of 
relative  priority  among  our  schools.     In  an 
article  in  the  Fiivtnitjhtlii  Review,  November, 
1802,  I  did,  unfortunately,  give  the  history  of 
St.   Peter's,  York,   under  the  title  of    'Our 
Oldest  School,'  lieing  then  under  the  impres- 
sion    that,    Canterbury    being    a    monastic 
cathedral,  the  present  King's  School  could 
not  claim  any  real  pre- Reformation  existence. 
But  further  inquiry  showed  that  the  real 
Canterbury  Grammar  School  was  not  in  the 
monastery,    was  independent  of  the  vasscJts. 
and  under  the  dvr^cX.  tQi\i\.x<^  «A  "Coft  tix<2cv 


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bishops,  and  that  it  has  a  fairly  continuous 
record  from  1259  till  the  la^t  head  master  of 
the  City  or  Archbishop's  School  became  the 
Brat  head  master  of  the  King'))  School.  Its 
precedence  over  York  is  eatabli»bed  by  a 
mention  in  Bede,  a  projioa  of  Sigebert,  King 
of  the  East  Angles  631-44.  The  recantatiou 
in  favour  of  Canterbury,  and  the  evidence 
fur  it,  were  set  out  in  the  Times,  7  September, 
1897,  and  Guardinn,  12  and  19  January, 
1898. 

Whence  K.   F.-J.  S.  gets  the  date  of  1042 
for  Warwick  I  am  at  a  lotss  to  conceive.     It 
certainly   has   no   warrant  in  documentary 
evidence.     Warwick  School  doe«  rejoice  in  a 
piece  of  concluaive  evidence  of  its  continuity 
from    the    day.s  of   Edward    the   Confessor, 
which,   though   onlv   in  a  fifteenth-century 
chartuiaiA',  is   no  doubt  authentic.     It  is  a 
writ  of  Henry  I.  addressed  to  Earl  Roger  of 
Warwick,  followed  by  a  deed  of  the  same  earl 
in    1123.      I    published    a    translation    and 
account  of  this  and  other  early  documents 
as  to  the  school  in  the   Wetlminster  (razettf, 
26  July,  1894.    This  document  does  not  make 
Warwick  "  our  oldest  school,"  and  I  carefully 
headed  the  article  '  Otie  of  our  Oldest  Schools.' 
The  fact  is  that  the  question  of  the  relative 
antiquity  of  tlie  schools  mentioned  is  a  fairly 
siaipie  one.     A   "public"  school  is  only  a 
grammar  school  which  has  acquired  a  certain 
status  of  i-epuLation.     The  proper  name  of 
Winchester  and  of  Eton  is  "the  Grammar 
School  of  the  College  of  Our  Blessed  Lady 
of"  Winchester  and  Eton  reajjectively.  Every 
secular  cathetlral  and  collegiate  church  of  the 
"old    fouriflation "   was   bound    to  maintain 
such  a  gratiimar  school  as  an  essential  part 
of  its  foundation,  and  if  the  cathedral  was 
monaKtio,  the   bishop,  and   not  the  chapter, 
maintained,  or    at    least  looked    after,    the 
school.    So,  if  the  relative  antiquity  of  the 
churclies  or  tho  bi.shopric8  can  be  settled,  the 
relative  antiquity  of  the  schools  is   settled 
also.    4S0  Canterbury  comes  before  York,  St, 
Paul's  before  Hereford  ;  and  if  the  collegiate 
church  of  Warwick  was  founded,  as  I  con- 
jecture, by  Ethelfleda,  then  its  school  comes 
before  that  of  Beverley, founded  by  AtheUtan  ; 
whde  Ottery  St.  Mary's,  founded  1.334.  comes 
before  Winchester,  1382 ;  and  Higham  Ferrers, 
1422,  before  Eton,  1442,  and  so  on. 

If  the  relative  antiquity  were  to  be 
determined  by  the  earlie.st  mention  of  any 
school  or  schoolmaster,  still  Canterbury  liolds 
the  field,  followed  by  York  and  St.  Paul's, 
while  Warwick  still  comes  before  IJeverley. 
It  must  not  be  understood  that  the  names 
mentioned  are  a  complete  list  in  order  of 
wniority,  since  other  schoola  come  in  before 


Warwick,  and  scores  of  others  before  Win- 
chester and  EUjn.  Apart  from  collegiate 
establishments,  the  question  of  priority 
becomeJi  a  matter  of  chance  reference.  I 
found  Kingston  casually  mentione<l  in  a  Prior's 
llegtster  at  Canterbury  while  looking  for 
Canterbury  School.  Whole  crops  of  schoola 
turn  up  in  the  first  half  of  the  fourteenths 
century.  Some  Yorkshire  example*  are  given 
in  'Early  Yorkshire  Schools,'  1S99  and  19<j3  ; 
while  a  Lincolnshire  batch  in  1327  apytears  in 
the  list  in  '  English  Schools  at  tho  Kefonoa- 
tion,'  1896.  ArtUUB  F.  Leacil 

M,  Elm  Park  Oardens.  S.W. 


Chelsea  Physic  Garden  (10"'  S.  I  227).— 
The  question  of  !Mr.  S.  L,  Petty  very  much 
interests  me,  and  at  the  same  time  givps  rao 
an  opfKjrtunity  of  correcting  a  widespread 
error. 

The  condition  under  which  what  is  now 
the  Society  of  Apothecarie^j  of  Lt>ndon  wa-s 
granted  the  freehold  named  has  long  since 
been  fully  complied  with,  an<l  if  Mil.  Petty 
will  communicate  with  me,  I  will  nend  him 
mucli  further  information  direct.  What  more 
concerns  me,  and  the  Society  of  Apotliocarie-'j 
of  London  particularly,  is  thf  ilent 

opinion  that  it  wa>«  Sir  Hai,  who 

originally  granted  this  freehold.  Such,  i\ow- 
ever,  is  not  the  case.  Many  *  N.  <fc  Q.'  readers 
know  that  I  am  the  Secretary  of  the  A«socia- 
tion  of  the  Assistant  Licentiates  of  the 
Apothecaries'  Halls,  London  and  Dublin,  and 
that  I  have  made  myself  thoroughly  conver- 
sant with  the  history  of  both  bodies.  This 
is  neither  the  place  nor  the  time  to  discuss 
this  matter ;  but  such  as  are  interested 
should  look  up  *01d  and  New  London '  and 
the  '  Middlesex '  volumes  of  the  '  Beauties 
of  England  and  Wales,'  181G.  In  the  mean- 
time one  quotation  from  the  latter  work  will 
show  that  Sir  Hans  was  not  tho  original 
benefactor  to  the  then  Apothecaries'  Com- 
pany (Wcfe  vol.  X.  p.  84,  under  '  Chelsea')  :— 

*'  As  an  iostitution  connected  with  the  advance- 
ment of  useful  knowledge,  the  Ajiotiieciirica'CarHrii 
must  bo  considered  one  >if  the  nio»t  desirable  oruii- 
inoiits  of  this  village.  This  is  sjtnate  on  the  luargiii 
of  the  Thames,  and  coiniiriseu  between  three  and 
four  acres.  In  the  year  l<i73  ('harleR  <  'hpyni'.  V.^(\., 
then  lord  of  the  manor  of  C'helst;i  iio 

Company  of  Apothecaries  this  pi  a 

lease  of  sixty-one  yearfc ;  and  the  .^ ...   .„u(i 

stocked  with  a  satisfactorv  variety  of  uiedicinat 
planla.  It  was  hero  tliat  Sir  Hans  Shtdiie  Ptndied, 
at  an  early  period,  hi^  '  '    ^t 

the  expiration  of  the  it 

person  granted  the  freti  ,  _    ilie 

Company  of  Apotbecarieis,  on  certain  6«luUi-y  cott* 

Later  in  the  same  article  we  learn  : — 


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"The  eiiiiiii>Qt  Philip  Miller  waa  long  gardener 
here,  ami  he  published  in  173U  a  catalogiio  of  the 

iilaniB,   which   Waa  reiiriated,  with  addiliori!!,    in 
739." 

I  refer  Mr.  Petty  to  this  catalogue,  an(J 
to  many  otheru  i.ssued  subsequently  ;  also  to 
*An  Accurate  Survey  of  the  Botauic  Garden 
at  Chelsea,'  and  many  similar  works  which 
will  be  readily  shown  him  if  he  pays  a  visit 
to  the  AfKjthecariea'  Hall  at  Blackfriars. 

In  vol.  X.  part  ii.  of  the  '  Beauties  of  Eng- 
land and  Wales,'  1814,  p.  437,  occurs  the  fol- 
lowing, where,  it  will  be  observeil,  no  mention 
of  a  quitrent  of  bL  is  made : — 

*'The  freehold  of  the  Physic  Garden  at  Chelsea 
was  given  to  the  Apothecaries  by  Sir  Haaa  Slonrie, 
upon  cotiditiou  that  they  shnuld  present  annually 
to  the  Royal  Society  fifty  new  planla  till  the 
number  should  amouut  to  2.000.  This  condition 
was  punotuallv  fulfilled,  and  the  Apeciniens  are  yet 
preserved  in  the  Society's  collection.'' 

Ch.\».  F.  Fobshaw,  LL.D.,  F.R.Hi9t.S. 
Bradford. 

In  *  Memoirs  of  the  Botauic  Garden  at 
Chelsea,'  by  the  lato  Henrv  Field,  revised 
by  R.  U.  Semple,  M.D.,  "l878,  the  most 
important  covenant^  of  the  conveyance  from 
Sir  Ilans  Sloane  are  given,  the  one  alluded 
to  by  Mr.  W.  C.  Hazlitt,  in  the  Antitjuun/  of 
1885,  stating  that  the  Master,  Wardens,  and 
Society  shall  have  the 
"  parcel  of  arable   and  pasture  ground  situate  at 

Chelsea,   in  the   Couotv  of    Midcile.<iex, j^ayini; 

to  Sir   Ham   Kloane,    his   heirs   and  asxigns,   the 

yearly    rent  of  51.,  and   rendering   yearly    to   the 

Preflideu  I,  Council,  and  Fellows  of  llie  Royal  Societ 

of  London  fifty  npcciineos  of  distinct  iilanla,  wel 


lety 
met  pianu,  well 
dried  and  preserved,  which  grew  in  their  Karden 
the  same  year,  with  their  name*  or  reputed  names ; 
and  those  presented  in  each  year  to  be  sjiocitiL-ally 
dilforeut  fniui  (i)iose  of)  every  former  year  until  tin; 
number  of  two  thousand  shall  have  been  delivered." 

It  is  further  ordered  that  if  this  condition  is 
not  comjtlied  with  and  the  garden  is  diverted 
from  iti<  desired  object  it  shall  be  lawful  for 
8ir  Hans  Sloane  to  re-enter  into  possession 
of  the  premises, 

"to  hold  them  in  trust  for  the  Royal  Society,  sub- 
ject to  the  same  rent,  and  to  the  delivery  of  speci- 
nieus  uf  plantj),  as  above  mentioned,  to  the  President 
of  the  CoUei^e  or  Commonalty  or  Faculty  of  Physic, 
in  Lotnlon  ;  und  in  case  the  Rnynl  Society  shall 
refuse  to  comply  with  these  conditions,  then  in 
trust  for  the  President  and  Collejte  of  Physicians  in 
London,  Nubject  to  tiie  same  conditions  as  the 
8«»oioty  uf  Apothecaries  were  originally  charged 
with." 

It  would  wem  that  there  is  no  doubt  that 
the  desirc«l  conditions  were  duly  complied 
with,  for  on  ITt  I)eceml.>er,  1773,  when  Mr. 
WJlliiun  Curtis  was  elected  to  the  vacant 
olliccof  Demonstratorof  Plants  and  Pnefectus 
Uorti,  Bomo  very  elaborate  regulatiooa  set 


forth  his  duties.  There  were  six  of  them, 
but  it  is  only  with  the  (iflh  that  we  have  to 
do.     It  sets  forth  that 

"he  is  yearly  to  prejjare  fifty  drif'!  Uti  from 

plants  growing  in  the  .Sociely't**.  lielaea, 

which  arc  l-o  he  pre«ent«*d  to  the  Ii  ,.-.  -  -icty,  by 
direction  of  the  fate  .Sir  Haus  Bloane,  Bart.,  havini: 
been  first  approved  by  the  Court  of  Assistaola  of 
this  Society.' 

It  will  thus  be  seen  that  the  Society  was 
fully  alive  to  what  was  required  from  it. 
Writing  in  1820,  Mr.  Field,  in  reference  to  the 
tenure  on  which  the  garden  is  held  by  the 
Society  of  Apothecaries,  states  that  the  con- 
dition as  to  the  presentation  of  two  thousand 
plants  " had  been  long  before  fulfilled.'  He 
further  says  that  a  "much  larger  number  had 
been  given  than  tlie condition  demanded,  but 
it  is  not  ea.sy  to  asccrttvin  when  the  presenta- 
tion oeasiod."  Prof.  W.  T.  Brande,  one  of  the 
secretaries  of  the  Royal  Society,  states  that 
the  last  presentation  of  plants  took  place  on 
17  February,  1774,  being  the  fifty-first  annual 
pre4;entation,  the  whole  amounting  to  2,050 
plants.    The  author  adds  : — 

"  It  is  perfectly  certain  that  the  plants  were  pre- 
sented loiiK  Kub8e<]uenlly  to  that  time,  but  the 
delivery  must  either  have  taken  i>lace  at  irregular 
t)eriod«,  or  if  otherwise  the  minute  books  of  the 
Society  of  Apothecaries  have  not  regularly  noticed 
it.  The  la«t  presentation  of  fifty  iilaiits  mentioned 
in  those  minutest  is  in  October.  17SH.  the  last  pre- 
ceding that  being  in  October,  1791  The  entries  in 
former  years  appear  to  have  been  equally  irregular." 
W.  E.  IIaklandO.xlky. 

C2,  The  Almshouses,  Rochester  Row,  S.W. 

To  any  who  are  interestefl  in  the  Chelsea 
Physic  Gardens  I  would  recommend  the 
perusal  of  a  very  interesting  account  by  Mr. 
John  T.  Page  (an  old  correspondent  of 
'  N.  Si  Q.')  which  appeared  in  the  East  End 
News  of  10  August,  1898,  also  '  N.  &  Q.,'  O'*"  S. 
iii.  230,  380. 

The  Standard  of  3  December,  1898,  con- 
tained a  legal  notice  from  the  Charity  Com- 
missionerH  on  the  intended  alterations,  and 
comments  thereon  will  be  found  on  24  March 
and  3  and  21  May,  1890.  An  account  of  the 
opening  of  the  new  laboratories  by  Lord 
Cadogan,  with  a  sketch  of  the  history  of  the 
gardens  since  their  foundation  in  1653,  will 
be  found  in  the  Standnrd  of  26  July,  1902. 
"The  article  thus  concludes  :— 

"One  interesting  relic  of  Old  London  will  be 
turned  to  useful  account,  without  auy  of  its  land- 
marks being  removed  or  ivs  character  essentially 
altered." 

EvERAfiD  Home  Columan. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

[Mh.  Holdk.n  MacMicuakl  aUo  sends  extracU 
from  Mr.  Field's  work.} 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [lo-^.  8.1.  a pkii. 2.1901. 


"Go  FOR "= Attack  (10"»  S.  i.  22.'>).— Ap 
expressive  if  inelegant  extenaiun  of  this 
|>hraae  is  to  "ro  for  it  bald-heaHctl/'  i.n.,  to 
proceed  in  any  course  with  energy, _  vehe- 
menoo,  haste,  &c.,  as  if  one  had  no  time  to 
put  one's  hat  on,  or  in  spite  of  the  drawback 
of  the  hirsute  de6cieucies  of  old  age  : — 

'•M.  Jean  rlc  Honnefon  is  a  brilliant  joumaliet, 
whowieldsa  mordaul  pen  in  several  Parisian  dailies, 
nod  whose  great  delight  it  is,  as  a  Kadical  of  the 
Fftul  Pert  school,  to  pitch  into  the  Papal  Nunciature 
hore  whenever  oocuioa  offers.  Of  late  e8i)ecially 
he  has  been  '  going  for  it  bald-headed.'"— J/".--!./'.. 
May  13(?),  1899. 

J.  HoLDES  MacMichajjl. 

Guide  to  Manor  Kolls  (10">  S.  i.  169. 
198).— I  tliank  the  Editor  for  his  courteous 
HUggestion  that  I  should  try  Miss  Thoyt«'8 
'  How  to  Decipher  Old  Documents.'  I  regret 
to  say  that  I  have  not  found  that  work  of 
much  service  in  matters  of  real  difhculty. 
Probably,  however,  my  difficulties  arise  only 
from  my  own  ignorance,  and  I  shall  be 
grateful  if  any  readers  will  kindly  extend 
the  following  for  me— the  portions  to  me 
unintelligible  being  in  italics  :  — 

"  Va^.  J.  Davy  quor  do  J.  Boscawcn  [and  others) 
in  iiij  pi.  tns.    Kt  att''  sunt"  (fanp.  Henry  VI.). 

"  No"  "  is  a  marginal  note  opitosite  entry  of 
ii  relief  (.same  date). 

The  Earl  of  Oxford  does  fealty  "Et  r  j''. 

/tJt  t/'  xiniu p'est  di.string  d'cu'  coraitem 

ad  fac  domino  horaagium"  (same  date). 

"Dis.  Joh'eni  Veer  coniit'  ad  faciend'  D'no 
Honiag'  Et  <jiiin.  /I'jioihui  nou  (/i.i/>- "  (s»n)c  date). — 
What  ia  the  full  formula? 

"  Dii  Dni'xi  Ciiv  lull/ '/•'  Johannes  Oerves  [and 
others]  invenerunt  ...j  hoRsede  viiii,"  Jtc.  (s&nie 
date). 

Over  tlie  name  of  a  man  presented  to 
reeveship  is  "Jur'  dj' "  (Henry   VIl). 

These  are  samples.  I  regret  my  inability 
to  get  assistance  in  the  book  referred  to. 

Ygeec. 

Every  series  of  *  N.  ife  Q.,'  except  the  first, 
contains  notices  on  this  subject.  At  8"'  S.  i. 
247,  380,  are  long  and  instructive  articles  on 
the  matter.         Everard  Home  Coleman. 

Some  help  is  given  and  sources  of  mure 
are  indicated  in  the  Yorkshire  Archcvoloffical 
Joui'nnf,  X.  C8  :  ArcfiiefJoifin,  xlvii.  89-i:}0. 

W.  C.  B. 

SoiTLAC  Abbey  (10"'  S.  i.  209).— The  most 
imixtrtant  work  on  Soulac  Abbey  is  *  Sainte 
Vi^ronique,  Ar«')tre  de  I'Aquitaine,  son  Torn- 
beau  et  son  Culte  a  Soulac,  ou  N.  D.  de  la  Kin 
dea  Terres,'  by  Abbe  Mezaret  (8vu,  Toulouse, 
1877).  Other  works  on  the  subject  are  :— 
'Soulac  et  N.  D.  do  la  Fin  des  Terres,'  par 
Dom.    Gn'goire    Thomas    (l6mo,    Bordeaux, 


18B2)  ;  and  'N.  D.  de  la  Fin  des  Terres  de 
y^julac,'  par  Dora.  Bernard  Marechatix,  Cure 
de  Soulac  (18rao,  Bordeaux,  1893). 

Robert  B.  Douolas. 

&4,  Rwe  dca  Martyrs,  Paris. 

DlcKKNS  gURRlE-S  (10«»»  S.  I  228).— Tlve 
ballad  relating  to  a  hackney-coachman,  with 
the  chorus  of  "Tamaroo,'  is  undoubtedly 
authentic,  and  was  sung  at  Wincliester 
Sciiool  some  seventy  years  ago.  As  far  as  I 
can  remember,  tlie  first  verse  (I  am  sure  of 
the  first  line  thereof)  ran  an  under  :— 

Uen  he  was  a  coachman  rare — 

I"  Jarvey  !  Jarvey  I "  "  Here  nni  I,  year  honour."J 

Crikey  !  how  he  used  to  iwear  ! 

How  he  'd  sweur  and  how  he  'd  drive — 

Number  two  htmdred  mid  aislytive— 
Tamaroo,  tamaroo,  laniaroo. 

He  is  engaged  by  his  Satanic   Majesty   to 
drive  him  home.    So  acconlingly — 
Jarvey  he  drove  <iown  Pall  Mall 
Until  he  came  to  the  gatca  of  Hell, 
But  he  wouldn't  go  first  to  the  giilf  of  sin, 
iio  he  turned  and  backed  the  Devil  in, 
Tantaroo,  tamaroo,  tftoiaroo. 
I  have  no  idea   where   the  ballad  could  b© 
seen,  or,  indeed,  if  it  ever  wa-s  in  print,  and 
the  above  is  about  all  that  1  can  remember 
of  it.  G.E.C.     • 

The  word  "  Tamaroo  "  comes  f rotp  an  old 
song  which  used  to  be  sung  at  Winchester 
when  I  was  a  boy.  Each  boy  had  to  write  out 
a  certain  number  of  "College  songs"  and 
keep  them  in  a  book.  Theee  songs  were 
sung  just  before  "toy  time"  in  "Chambers 
for  a  fortnight  in  succession.  T  think  that 
the  song  in  question  was  called  'Jarvoy. 
The  fust  stanza  ran  :— 

Ben  was  a  hackuev-coachman  rare— 

"Jarvey  !  Jarvey!"  "Here  I  am,  yonr  honour! 

Crackey  !  how  he  xised  to  swear— 

Tamaroo !  , .  ,  -     , 

How  he  'd  swear,  and  liow  he  d  drive  J 

Number  three  hnndred  and  sixty-five. 
A  description  of  these  songs  may  bo  foun^ 
in  Tuck  well's  'Winchester  Fifty  Years  Ago' 
(Maemillan),  p.  88.  But  I  imagine  that  Mr, 
Wells,  the  bookseller  to  Winchester  School, 
would  be  the  most  likely  source  of  informa- 
tion respecting  the  songs  and  song-book. 

One  of  the  Winchester  "notions"  whicl» 
wa.s  never  explained  was  "  biddy,'  which  was 
the  name  of  the  earthen  ware  bath  which 
stood  behind  the  door  in  College  Lhambers. 
I  believe  it  to  be  nothing  else  tlian  tiie  1'  reaca 
word  hidtt.  Herbert  A.  Strono. 

University,  Liverpool. 

Yeoman  of  the  Crown  (10"'  S.  i.  208).— The^ 
Mayor  of  Faversbam  no  doubt  derived   his 
title  of  "  Yeoman  of  the  Crown "  from  the 


m 


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fact  llmt  the  mftnor  and  tho  niost  consider- 
able part  of  the  sil<>  of  tlie  Abbey  of  Favers- 
haiu  arui  its  deme»nes  continued  in  the  Crown 
till  the  reign  of  Charles  I.  Consequently  the 
duties  of  the  office  of  Yeoman  of  the  Crown 
telated  directly  to  the  inlereat^  of  the  Crown. 
These  duties  would  probably  come  under  the 
designation  of  fryvitiitni  regoU,  or  royal  ser- 
vice, which  comprised  the  rights  and  pre- 
rogatives that  >vithin  a  royal  manor  belonged 
to  the  king.  Tlieue  riglits,  according  to 
Cowel's  'Interpreter,'  were  generally  reckoned 
to  be  six  :— 

1.  Power  of  judicature  in  matters  of  pro- 
perty. 

2.  Power  of  life  and  death  in  felonie-s  and 
murders. 

3.  A  right  to  waifs  and  strays. 

4.  Assessments. 

5.  Minting  of  money. 

6.  Assize  uf  bread,  beer,  weigbUs,  and 
measures. 

"All  these  entire  Privilegea  were  annexM," 
nays  Cowel.  "to  sonto  Manors  in  their  Grant 
from  the  King,  and  were  sometimes  conveyed 
in  the  Charters  of  Donation  to  religious 
Houses." 

In  the  third  Act  of  Edward  IV..  cap.  v.,  as 
to  "  what  kind  of  apparel  men  and  women  of 
every  vocation  and  degree  are  allowerl,  and 
what  prohibited  to  xvear,"  it  is  stipulated 
that 

"no  es<iuire  nor  (tenlleman,  nor  none  otlier  under 
tha  degrcca  above  rehearsed,  shall  wenr  from  the 
«aid  feast  [the  Puriticaiion)  any  daiDoxk  or  sat  in, 
esoepl  the  menial  efiquireK,  sergeaiita  utficera  of  the 
King's  house,  t/'0>'<'i>  of  thf  Ci-oini,  yeomen  of  the 
Kiod'H  chanibtT.  ami  esc|iiires,  and  gentlemen  having 
poaaesaiuns  to  the  yearly  value  of  a  huiidred  pouiidH 
l>y  year,  upon  |»in  to  forfeit  to  the  King  for  every 
default  li  nundred  e.htllinR9." 

J.    HOLHEUV  MACMnHAKt. 

Frora  Sir  Thomas  Smith's  little  l>x)k  *Tha 
Commonwealth  of  EiiKlanrl '  I  gathor  that 
thin  expression  has  nothing  to  do  with  an 
office.  This  treatise,  written  in  iriOfj,  when 
tho  author  was  ambassador  in  France,  as 
Strype  tells  us  {'Life  of  the  I/earned  Sir 
Thomas  Smith/  p.  117,  T/<)nduti,  HJ98),  is 
divided  into  three  IkwUh,  tho  twenty -third 
chapter  of  the  first  bearing  the  title  '  Of 
Yeomen,"  which  contains  no  mention  of  any 
such  otKcnr  as  Yeoman  of  the  Crown.  On 
this  authority  we  may  therefore  c»mclud(i 
that  he  tlid  not  cxint,  otherwise  ho  would 
have  Ijeen  named.  When  Henry  Sayer,  of 
Fftvershan),  is  described  as  having  been 
"mayor  and  yeoman  of  the  Crown,"  nothing 
more  is  meant  than  that  he  had  fiUwi  the 
office  of  mayor  an<l  harl  been  hif  cunditiim  a 
yooioan  of  the  Crown.     Ho  migltl  have  held 


his  land  <lirectly  from  the  Crown  ;  if  not, 
the  appellation  doubtless  derived  its  origin 
from  causes  such  as  .Sir  Thomas  Smith  speak» 
of  in  the  tenth  chapter  of  his  third  book, 
where  he  writers  : — 

"  For  no  man  holdoth  I.iand  simply  free  in  EDgland. 
hut  he  or  she  lh»t  holdeth  the  tJrown  of  England: 
all  others  bold  their  land  in  fee,  that  ii,  upon  a 
faith  or  trust,  and  some  service  to  be  done  to 
another  Lord  of  a  Mannor.  as  snperiour,  and  ho 
againe  of  an  higher  Lord,  till  it  come  to  the  Prince, 
and  him  that  holdeth  the  Crowne.  !So  iliat  if  a 
man  die,  and  it  bo  found  that  bee  hath  land  which 
liee  holdeth,  but  of  whom  no  man  can  tell,  this  is 
tinderstood  to  bo  holden  of  the  Cniwne,  and  iit 
fnpitt."—'T\\e  Commonwealth  of  Kn^hmd,'  p.  2.'><i, 
London,  ItMO. 

I  take  it  that  a  testator  in  such  a  case  a^ 
this  might  very  properly  be  descril^ed  as  a 
yeoman  of  the  Crown.        JoHN  T.  CtniRY. 

Two  long  articles  bearing  this  title,  by  the 
late  learned  antiquary  John  Goi'oh  Niohol«, 
were  given  just  forty-three  years  ago  {see 
a"-'  S.  xi.  124,  2ril).  They  conclude  with  these 
.<>entencej«,  which  may  prove  of  sufficient 
information  for  many  of  your  readers:— 

"  In  short,  they  appear  to  hove  been  the  original 
bo<lyg;«ftrd  of  the  Kinj;,  beforu  the  larger  corps  of 
Yeomen  of  the  (Juard  was  established. 

"Tho  old  statutes  of  the  household .jeferred  to, 

were  those  of  Kinjt  ICdwanl  HI.'  (l^iT-TT). 

EvKRABD  Home  Colemajj. 

71.  Brecknock  Road. 

CoBAVEB  Pills  (10"'  S.  i.  205).— The  astonish- 
ingly hardy  superstitions  relating  to  the  efti- 
cacy  of  spider  and  spider  web  swallowing  in 
folk-meiiicine  probably  owe  their  survival,  if 
not  their  exact  origin,  to  tho  tradition  that 
a  spider  spun  his  web  over  Christ  in  the 
manger,  and  hid  Him  from  Hero«l,  upon 
which  ensued  a  superstitious  objectioii  to 
tleatroying  spiders.  Sj)eaking  of  the  spider- 
cure  for  an  ague.  Burton,  in  his  '  Auatomie  of 
Melancholy'  (part.  ii.  sect.  v.  raemb.  i.  aub- 
sect,  vi.),  says  .• — 

•'  Ilein^  in  the  Country  in  the  vacation  time,  not 
many  years  ninfc.  at  Liiullcy,  in  Leicestershire,  my 
Fal  tier's  house,  I  tirnt  observed  this  amulet  of  a 
B|)idei-  in  a  nut  shell  lapiied  in  silk,  fi.Q.,  so  ntiplieil 
for  an  Ajjuc  by  niy  Mother  ;  whom  although  1  knew 
to  have  excellejit  Skill  in  ChirurBer>',  sore  cye«. 
aches,  Ac,  iin<l  >iulIi  cxiierijiient.-*!  niedicinea,  «a  all 

the  couniiy  where  she  dwelt  can  Mituew. yet 

among  all  other  eJH»erimeiit»,  this  metluiught  wn« 

moat  absurd  ami   ridiiulous till  at  length,  ram- 

bliuB  nnionffsit  author*  (as  I  olton  do),  [  found  thia 
very  lufdicine  in  Ihnsooridc",  api>roved  by  Matthio- 
luB,  rejw-Mitwl  by  Aldrovundus,  mp,  lU  araiim^  fto. 
,1'  ini>rctin.  1  h*\fMi  to  have  a  batter  opinion  of  il, 
-Ed.  l«rt,  vol.  ii  p.  2D0. 

The  web  of  a  spider  is  in  Lincolnshire  a  sure 
cure  for  ague  {Unyxiwickti  Srience  i,'i)fsij>, 
firat  series,  ii.  8.3).     The  niasgow  wattvsv^t 


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loan  used  to  take  a  pill  of  tpider's  web  every 
morning  before  brealcfast,  for  three  Kucceasive 
days.  Tlii8  was  thought  to  bring  about  the 
8i>eedy  and  salisfactory  cure  of  ague  (see 
further  Hlack's  '  Folk-Me<iicine,'  pp.  GO.  61 ).  A 
spider  was  rolled  in  butter  for  jaundice  ('  West 
Sussex  Folk-lore,'  in  the  Folk-tort  Record, 
vol.  i.  See  also,  for  spider  Kuperstitions,  the 
Folk-Inn  Juurfuxl  vol.  ii.  p.  219).  Spideru 
are  still  cotKsi<iere(i  in  remote  parts  of  8omer- 
80tahii-e  ellicaciouH  reine<lie.s  for  ugui>,  a  ooni- 
mon  disease  in  the  low-lying  district  of  the 
pariiih  of  Brcan.  .Soioelime**  a  live  spider  i^ 
put  in  water,  and  wlien  "  he  do  curly  up," 
both  water  and  upider  arc  swallowed  together 
('The  Seaboard  of  Mendip,'  by  Francis  A. 
Knight,  1S02,  p.  296).  The  same  process  is 
seen  in  an  old  recipe  whicli  come.s  from 
Nuremberg  :  "Take  a  fine  fat  spider,  remove 
its  legH  and  shell,  dip  it  in  water,  rub  it  over 
■with  butter,  and— swallow  it"  (the  Royal 
Mag.,  Jan.,  190-1). 

"Some  cbirnrReoiis  there  l»e  Ihal  cure  warls  in 
tliia  niftiiner :  tliey  take  asjiidor'a  web,  rolling  the 
Bftinc  upon  A  round  lieaj)  like  a  ball,  and  layiiij;  it 
iijion  till'  wart :  Ihyy  then  net  fire  on  it,  tind  so  turn 
it  to  aaliea,  and  by  this  way  and  order  the  warLe 
arc  eradicated,  that  tlioy  never  .tfler  ni'ow  aK^in." — 
Tnimel's  •  Hist,  of  Fourfuotod  Beasts,' i>|i.  TS".'  and 
I07.3;  ori(cinaily  taken  from  Iho '  Monfeti  hiBCCtorum 
Tliealrutn,'  p.  '£Xi,  London,  Kd. 

Longfellow,  in  his  'Evangeline,'  alludes  to 
tho  nutshell  form  of  the  remedy  :  — 

Only  beware  of  tlic  fever,  my  friends,  boworo  of  the 

fever  ! 
For  it  is  not  like  that  of  our  old  Accadian  climato 
Cured  by  wearing  a  spider  hung  round  one's  neck  in 

a  nutshell ! 

J.   HOLDEN   .^IacMiOHAEL. 
I  Having  accidentally  chewed  a  spider  baked  in  a 
loaf,  we  are  in  a  jHjsition  to  diocourage  a  rei>etitiou 
of   tlie  experiment.     Whatever  cnrativc  effects  it 
luJKlil  have,  the  taste  is  indescribably  bitter.] 

*Xicnoi^.s  Nickleuy':  Cai-t.  Cuttle  (10"' 
P.  i.  IGO,  217). — Three  families  of  the  name 
Cuttle,  and  two  of  the  name  Uuttel,  live 
in  thia  district.  In  fact,  the  name  ia  not 
considered  uncommon  at  all  in  Vorkshire. 

,      ,,  Cha8,  F.  Forshaw,  LL.D. 

liradford. 

In  the  contiguou)}  jiarish  of  Watford, 
ASorthamptonshire,  i«  a  field  known  by  the 
name  of  Cotile«.  When  viniting  the  village 
of  Ix)nK  Itchington.  Warwickshire,  I  have 
frequently  pasHcd  by  an  inn  bearing  the  sign 
of  "The  Cuttle  Inn."  It  stands  beside  the 
«»"*••  John  T.  Paijb. 

\\  «et  tituldoi],  Northatuptousbirv. 

TicKLiNu  Tkoot  (0«>  S.  xii.  605  ;  10"'  S.  L 
154).— It  ia  quite  possible  that  the  mode  of 


tickling  trout  is  not  the  same  in  every  locality. 
"Tickling  for  trout"  is  the  phrase  here.  It 
is  no  offence  to  tickle  trnut.  but  it  \%.  to  be 
engaged  in  "ill<      •  "  '         •  '  ;    i^  thej 

form  of  charge    ■  rtkei 

against  poachers  im   ii>.ii        s^,  u.  ■  •-^\ 

and    witnoases    invariably   call    tl 

"tickling  for  trout,"  sf>  t^ •'.,  ,  ,_^,.^^^  ,,^^ 

9cribe(i   in   newspaper  y)".  I   havi 

heaivl  it  said  in  evidence  u ■  more  yoo 

tickle  trout  the  better  thoy  like  it,"  and  in 
fact   remain    mntionles);    while    tho    tickling 

?oe.s  on.  He  who  mav,  let  him  believe. 
'inh-lickler^  always  wade  up  stream  here,  so 
a8  to  be  l)ehiud  their  quarr^',  and  iish  when 
stationary  in  the  water  lie  wiili  iiead'<  towardii 
the  flow  of  water.  As  a  la<l  I  often  saw  fish 
"  tickled  for";  but  then  such  was  no  offence. 

TnOfl.   llATfMFFE. 
Worksop. 

At  least  thirty  years  ago  I  remember  an 
old  lady  (long  since  dead)  <ic.scribing  to  me 
how  mIio,  as  tne  daughter  of  the  agent  of  the 
owner  of  property  near  the  '*  Loggerheads  " 
Hotel,  close  to  Mold,  in  Flintshire,  was  herself 
accustomed  as  a  girl  to  tickle  trout  in  tho 
pooh  of  the  estate  by  hand, as  usually  under- 
stood.        T.  Cann  Ht.;HE.s,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Lancaster. 

Lechb  Family  (10"'  S.  i.  207).  —  On  the 

south  aisle  wall   of   Stepney  Church    \h    a 

tablet  bearing  the  following  inscription  ; — 

In    memory  of 

Henry  Incite 

derk 

late  Rector  of  this 

Parish 

who  died  June  ye  LV* 

1742, 

Above  it  arc  a  coat  of  anns  and  crest  as 
follows  :  Arras,  Ermine,  on  a  chief  indented 
gules  three  Clowns  or;  crest,  a  cubit  riii 
erect,  grasping  a  leech  or  snnkc  cnvii' 
round  the  arm.  Leche  held  Uie  rect.ory  fi  .xii 
1727  to  1742.  JoUN  T.   PauB. 

West  Huddou,  Northamptonshire. 

The  Honour  of  Tutbury  (10'»'  S.  i,  187, 
195).— My  query  on   tho  above  subject  wi 
suggested   by  the  following   passage   in   'j 
Pictorial   Quido  to  Birmingham,'  published^ 
in  1848  :— 

"Another  ancient  court,   which   b*d   f  -  -y 

years  become  nearly  ubsolute.  having  '<•■ 

seded  by  I'x-al  courts  of  rt'<iu<"«-t»,  Imf  i 

be«n,  in  some  measure,  iwivwl  liy  i 

in  the  recovery  of  small  <ltsbt8  [tii.  i 

referriiitf  to  the  Act  of  1M47  wliioli  ,.  ... 

courts],  is  ihg  court  of  the  llttnuur  of  i  i  i 

Duchy  of  LiincMUt«r,  oomtnonly  called  '  l 

Weeks  Court.'    Ita  coi^niunce  is  Ijiniieij  tu  dubtaj 

nudor  40.1.    This  honour  (>«lonxs  to  the  Crown. 


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part  of  the  Duchy  of  Lancaster,  and  exLeiids  inlo 
several  oountiee  and  over  tho  iirinciiwl  iiart  of  the 
Hundred  of  Henilingford,  willi  aome  other  iiluces 
aUo  within  this  county." 

I  am  gieatly  obligerl  to  Mr.  Holdbn 
MacMicuael  for  his  reference  to  the  Wood- 
niote  Court,  but  I  fear  it  does  not  helo  me 
to  understand  how  the  Honour  of  Tutbury 
came  t-o  have  power  to  hold  a  court  for  the 
recovery  of  small  debts  within  the  Hundred 
of  HemlinRford,  when  the  liundred  possessed 
a  court  of  its  own  capable  of  performing  that 
service.  Ilavo  any  records  of  tho  Duchy  of 
Lancaster  been  published  which  would  be 
likely  to  throw  any  liglit  on  tlie  matter  ? 

Benj.  Walker. 

Erdiagton. 

Manitoba  (lO""  S.  i.  20G).— Some  years  ago 
a  young  friend  who  hod  settled  out  in  this 
region  told  me,  during  one  of  his  visits  home, 
that  the  correct  pronunciation  was  to  accen- 
;Uuite  the  penultimate,  and  that  laying  the 
ss  on  the  final  was  due  only  to  the  theo- 
Izing  of  some  learned  persons  who  did  not 
know  the  locality.  E.  E.  Street. 

Penrith  (10'^'  S.  i.  29,  97,  l&f!).— Penrith 
■was  so  long  ago  a.s  June,  1898,  deprived  of 
(he  honour  persistently  given  to  it  as  liaviug 
once  been  the  nanio-pliice  of  a  bishop.  At 
the  date  mentioned  Mr.  George  Watson,  now 
of  Bourneraouth,  contributed  to  the  Penrith 
Ofj^rvcr  a  long  article,  the  result  of  much 
research,  in  which  he  proved  conclusively 
that  there  never  was  n  Bishop  of  Penritli. 
So  far  a.«  can  bo  traced,  it  was  in  Sir  Dauiol 
Floming's  'Description  of  tho  County  of 
Cumberland  '  (printed  so  recently  as  1880  by 
the  local  antiquarian  society,  218  years  after 
it  was  written)  that  the  error  was  first  made. 
Writing  of  I'enrith,  he  remarked,  "The church 
is  a  beautiful  cilitice,  and  had  the  honour  of  a 
Suffragan  Bishop."  Such  an  authorit}*  as  the 
gossiping  Kydal  historian  would  be  taken  as 
conclusive  on  most  things,  but  in  this  of 
Penrith's  ecclesiastical  greatness  he  was  un- 
quostiomiltly  wrong.  Unfortunately  later 
comers,  who  "cribbed"  from  the  writings  of 
their  predecessors  without  taking  the  trouble 
find  out  what  was  right  and  what  wa-s 
mg,  piM-petutttetl  the  error.  The  greatest 
incr  in  thix  rospecL  was  T.  Cox,  wlio,  m  his 
•Cuml>t'iliinil,'  wrot-e  ;  "Penrith  Clmrch  is  a 
liandsomc  and  .simcious  fxlifico,  sutllcient  for 
tho  recci>ti<>ti  or  the  inlmbitants  for  God's 
worship,  mill  was  in  King  Henry  VIll.'s  time 
honoure<l  with  the  title  of  a  Suffragan  Bishop." 
Then  'Crockford's  Clerical  Directory'  has 
long  continued  the  error  by  tho  entry,  "1B37, 
bJohu  Bird,  Jiiehoy  of  Pountb,"  ia  t>he  lub 


of  Bishops  Suffragan.  Mr.  Watson,  by  an 
admirable  collation  of  names,  dates,  and 
facta,  proved  beyond  the  ix>ssihility  of  a 
doubt  that  tiiough  John  Bird  was  really  a 
Suffragan  Bishop,  it  was  of  Pen  truth,  in  the 
diocese  of  Llanciaff.  as  he  filled  this  office 
from  1527  to  1539,  when  he  became  Bishop  of 
Bangor.  The  naming  of  SufFragan  Bishops 
has  occasioned  trouble  in  our  own  time,  for 
so  recently  as  1888,  when  the  Bishop  of  Ripon 
was  given  a  Suffragan,  it  was  decidcii  to  take 
the  title  of  Penritli,  on  the  supposition  that 
tlie  Cumberland  town  was  the  placo  meant 
by  the  1534  Act.  Bishop  Goodwin  stop|)ed 
tnat  by  getting  an  amondwd  Act  ptissed, 
giving  power  for  a  Suffragan  to  take  his  title 
from  any  placo  in  his  own  diocese,  and  we 
get  a  modern  Bishop  of  Richmond  instead  of 
Suffragan  Bishop  of  Penrith. 

A  quotation  in  'N.  .t  Q.,'  2'"'  S.  ii.  1,  from 
'The  Book  of  the  British  Hierarchy,' reads, 
"John  Byrd,  con.secrated  June  24  to  Penrith 
by  the  Primate  and  Bishops  of  Rochester  and 
St.  Asaph  :  translate<l  to  Bangor  15:19.  and 
Chester  August  nth,  1511  (Llandaff)."  These 
names  would  alone  show  that  it  was  not  the 
Penrith  in  Cumberland  that  was  meant. 

D.  Sc-oTT. 

Penrith. 

Pknn's  'Fi'.uits  of  Solitude'  (10"'  S.  i. 
]90).  — It  seems  to  have  been  a  very  general 
belief  that  the  inhabitants  of  Lapland  were 
noted  for  witchcraft.  Charles  Kingsley  in 
'  Hereward  the  Wake '  says,  "  Torfrida's  nurse 
was  a  Lapp  woman,  skilled  in  all  tho  sor- 
ceries for  which  the  Lapps  wore  famed 
throughout  the  North."  Helga. 

[Nor  uglier  follow  the  night-haR,  when,  calld 
In  secret,  riding  through  the  air  she  conieB, 
Lured  with  the  Bniell  of  infunl  liloo<i,  to  danco 
With  Lttt>Un«l  wilt;he«.  while  the  labouring  moon 

EfliiweB  at  their  ohnniis.  „^,  „  , 

:Miltou,  ■  I'ar.  Lost,  book  ii.  11.  602-6.) 

Authors  of  Quot.\tion»  (10">  S.  i.  l«fl, 
217).— 

To  set  as  tom  the  morning  «tw,  which  goeB,  Jtc. 
Lucis  is  right  in   bis  reference,  somewhat 
dubiously  given,  to  I'ollok's  'Course  of  Time,' 
book  v.     The  passage  occurs  on  p    180  of  the 
sixth  edition,  1829.  and  begins  :  — 
Thtt/  HCt.  k<i. 

C.  Lawrence  1'obd. 

"HaNUHI..    draws,   and  liUARTKREli  "  (10^'' 

S.  i.  209).— For  an  account  of  the  carrying 
oiit  of  the  high  treason  sentences  after  the 
Civil  War  of  1745-0,  see  Rolwrt  Chambers'a 
'  History  of  the  KebelUmv'  v\\\.V\vi-aJwsi«*^^«».vfc- 


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Miscellany."  If  my  memory  does  not  mislead 
tne,  it  contains  a  somewhat  fuller  account  of 
the  revolting  details  than  ia  to  be  found  in 
the  later  editions.  Bishop  Clialloncr's  '  Me- 
moirs of  Missionary  Priests,'  and  the  con- 
temporary accounts  of  the  execution  of  tlie 
reKicides,  may  bo  consulted!  with  advantage. 

K.  P.  D.  E. 
"Hanged"  speaks  for  itself  ;  Hotspur 
was  quartered,  and  his  meml^ers  distributed 
among  five  different  towns.  "  Drawing  "  is 
equivocal— primarily  to  di«era bowel ;  but  that 
horrid  process  died  out,  and  a  pretence  thereof 
consisted  in  drawing  tlie  culprit  on  a  hurdle 
or  ft  cart  to  the  place  of  execution.  One 
variation  was  to  drag  the  convict  through 
the  streets  attached  to  a  horse.  A.  H. 

"  Kl.vi.  OF  Patterdale  "  (10"'  S.  i.  140, 193). 
— There  are  still  living  in  Cumberland  and 
Westmorland  descendants  of  the  Kings  of 
Patterdale,  though  the  title  long  since  i>assed 
away.  The  quotation  given  by  Dij,  Foti- 
sHAw,  at  the  necond  reference,  from  'Beauties 
of  England  and  Wales,'  was  originally  written 
in  Nicolson  and  Burn's  'History  of  Cumber- 
land and  Westmorland'  (1777).  How  the 
title  came  to  bo  bestowed  is  the  subject  of 
more  than  one  local  legend,  but  the  substance 
may  be  given  in  the  following  extract  from 
a  local  book  written  nearly  sixty  years  ago. 
The  only  addition  needed  is  the  remark  that 
the  date  of  the  attack  ia  given  approximately 
by  other  gossips  (it  would  be  wrong  to  call 
them  historians)  as  1648  :— 

"The  origia  of  this  fell-environed  kingdom  ia 
wrapped  in  soine  obscurity;  tradition,  however, 
alhrms  tliAt,  m  the  daya  of  Scottish  incursion,  n 
band  of  ntarnuders  from  Scotland  were  proceed- 
ing up  New  Chun-h  [now  WutermillockJ  towards 
Patterdale  ;  that  Mr.  John  Mounsey,  who  was  then 
lord  of  the  manor,  raised  the  inliabitants  of  the 
dale,  who  went  forth  under  his  comnitind  to  tlie 
pass  of  .Stybarrow,  wliere  the  Scots  were  ilefcated 
and  driven  back.  The  dalesmen,  overjoyed  nl  the 
auspioious  terniinalion  of  the  enterprine,  coiiferreil 
on  their  leader  the  bonorory  title  of  King,  which 
has  been  inherited  by  his  dejcendatila  to  this  day." 
The  "reign"  came  to  an  end,  so  far  as  the 
Palace^  was  concerned,  in  1824,  when  Mr. 
Marshall,  of  L^eds,  purchased  the  Patterdale 
Hail  estate.  It  is  somewhat  cruel  even  to 
floubt  some  of  the  pretty  stories  told  of  the 
"Kings  of  Patterdale,"  and  all  that  need 
liore  be  said  is  that  if  readers  of  '  N.  <fc  Q ' 
turn  to  'A  Fortnight's  Uamble  at  the  Lakes' 
(1792),  they  will  find  a  complete  disillusion- 
ment. One  amusing  anecdote,  in  which 
another  "  King  "  is  concerned,  is  still  told  by 
i*  ''»J«*sf«lk.  The  ncighlwuring  valley  nf 
MardaJe,  at  the  head  of  Haweswater,  for 
hundreds   of   years  had   a«    it«   chiefs  tite 


Holmes,  a  family  now  almost  extinct  in  tlie 


IC 


'    statea- 

ilic-m  rif> 


direct  line.  When  on»>  -f  •!"■  l^f- 
Mardale  an<l  Ids  con 
Patterdale  were  bo\  . 
occasion  staying  with  a  : 
man.  In  the  evening  the  i 
peace,  teo-sing  them  about  their  ■ 
kingdoms  in  prospect,  and  dwelt  on 
honour  whicli  hao  befallen  him  of  entfrirtuj^j 
ing  two  future  kings  under  his  roof  at  once,' 
until  the  twain  were  thoroughly  tired  of  the 
subject.  Next  morning  the  yeoman  was  up 
betimes  and  hammered  at  the  door  of  his 
slumbering  guests'  room,  calling  out,  "  Oit 
up,  git  up,  an'  come  un'  fodder  t'  yowt-s" 
[the  ewes].  "Koi.lder  yowes,  indewl  I  Kings 
don't  finUlor  yowes,"  called  out  the  future 
King  of  Mardale,  nvt  he  composed  liimsrif  for 
another  nan,  only  too  pleo-sed  to  iye  able  to 
turn  the  tables  on  his  tacetious  entertainer. 

Dasiei.  S.  utt, 
Penrith. 

"As    MBREY    A.S    GrIGCS"    (O^**  S.    XU.     'OG  ; 

10"'  S.  i.  3«,  94).— Very  little,  if  anything, 
has  been  added  in  this  discussion  to  tho 
account  of  the  word  'intj  in  tlie  'N.E.DV 
which  suggests  that  the  sense  "a  grasshopper 
or  cricket  ia  due  to  an  erroneous  inference. 
It  also  deals  with  the  relation  of  "a  merry 
grig"  to  "a  merry  Greek." 

Browning,  'Pippa  Passes,'  II.,  has: — 
Oh  were  but  every  worm  a  maggot, 

Kvery  fly  u  gri>f, 
F.very  boueh  a  C'hristmaa  f»KSu(, 
Kvery  tune  a  jig  1 

John  B.  WArNrwp.iuHT. 

Walton  and  Cotton's  'Complcat  xVngler,' 
parti,  chap,  xiii,  speaks  of  "the  silvered,  and 
green  or  greenish  eel,  with  which  tIte  river  of 
Thamas  abounds,  and  those  are  called  grigtt." 

W.  IL  L. 

The  surmise  that  a  "  grigg  "  was  originallj 
a  "  cricket,"  whence  also  a  grasshonper,  an 
eel,  or  anything  of  a  ruirticularly  lively 
disposition,  may  be  supplemented  by  what 
Prof.  Skeat  has  to  say  upon  the  woitJ  in  hla 
'  Concise  Dictionary '  :— 

"  Oi-ip,  a  small  eel,  a  orickot  <Scand.).  Weakeotil 
form  of  rrkk;  still  preserved  in  frici->>  ;  cf.  Lowk 
Sc.  crick;  a  tick,  louse.    Swed,  dial.  L-rilr,  krtH;  • 
creeping  creature.     iSwed.  dial.  I.i-'il.n,  to   creep; 
of.  (i.  itnrcfmi,  to  creep.    In  i>hr.  'as  merry  a»  a 
l/i'iii''  /""'J/  is  ^or  fJreek  ('Troil.,'  I.  ii.  118): 
Hreek  is  «»  character  in  I'dnll's  '  Roister  !>■ 
from   L.  (p-trcari,  to  live  like  Greeks,  ».'.,   imn 
riously." 

Halliwell  is  not  so  "very  decided"  ns  we  are 
told  "in  stating  that  <frii/  is  a  corruption  uf 
(fieek;"  for  he  says  also  that  its  meaning  io 
various  dialocti  i«  a  crickot;  in  Suffolk,  a 


^        _v 


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I 


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I 


all  efll  :  an  old  cant  term  for  a  farthing  ; 
!|in«l  ill  Sofiieraet,  verbally,  to  pinch.  "As 
erry  as  a  pismire'  (i  <■.,  an  ant)  occurs  pro- 
verbially for  the  same  auitualculiuo  reasons. 
"A  merry  gri<j"  ((Jot^raye,  'Diet.,'  1611). 
**  1  grew  as  merry  hh  a  f/z/f/,  and  laughed  at 
©very  word  that  was  spoken "  (Goldsmith, 
'Essays,'  vi.,  17C5).  One  cannot  help  think 
in^  that  "Greek"  i^  a  corruption  of  "grig" 
through  ignorance  of  the  latter'**  dialectal 
eigiiilicatiou,  especially  as  a  Greek  h  no 
luerrier,  or  more  pleasantly  situated  with 
regard  to  climatr,  than  lio  of  several  other 
nationalities.        J.  Holdkn  MacMk'H.vel. 

*' An  AusTBiAN  army"  (10"'  S.  i.  14S,  211, 
2-j8). — According  to  Mr.  Alaric  Alfred  Watte 
*  Tlie  Siege  of  nolgrade '  wa-s  publi!jhc<l  by 
his  father  "  in  the  Lit^mry  C/iucHe,  1820, 
and  never  by  liim  reprinted."  "These 
versea,"  ho  adds,  "having  been  publishe<l 
many  years  after  in  a  London  magazine, 
with  somebody  elses  initials,  I  am  induced 
now  to  claim  them  for  their  writer  for  the 
little  they  are  worth "  ('Alaric  Watts,  a 
Narrative  of  his  Life,'  1884,  vol.  i.  p.  118). 
It  is  to  be  observed  tliat  the  erlitors  of  the 
Trifter  make  no  claim  to  the  authorship, 
and  expressly  .state  that  this  "curious  speci- 
men of  popti  v  was  "piesentetl  to  us  by  a 
friend  "( p.  23:i).  G.  F.  R  B. 

FosCARiSiJK  (10"'  S.  i.  127,  198).— The  name 
Foscaritiu.s  was  probablj'  suggejjted  by  that 
of  the  distinguished  Foscari  family  of  Italy 
(cp.  Litta's  *  Famiglie  Celebri  Italiane,' 
vol.  ix.).  Francesco  Foscari  was  Doge  of 
Venice  from  1-123  to  \A:il.  The  tragic  historv 
of  his  «on  JacojHi  has  been  poetically  treated, 
us,  for  example,  in  Byron's  'The  Two  Foscari.' 
Uharij^..s  Bi'xny  Wilson, 

The  Stnt«  L'oiversity  of  Iowa,  loM-a  City. 

"  Hk  wno  KNOWS  NOT  "  (10"'  S.  j.  107,  235). 
— The  versiojis  given  at  tliese  references 
seem  to  me  wanting  in  the  rhythm  and  pith 
of  the  following,  copied  from  the  .Sjiectatitr 
<if  11  August,  181)4  (p.  176)  :- 
Men  nre  Four. 
i  The  man  who  Isuoms  not  th«l  lie  know*  not  aught. 

Me  ia  a  foul :  no  IjkIiI  shall  ever  reach  him. 
Who  knowH  he  knows  not,  aud   would   fain    be 
tauKht, 

He  is  but  sim^ile  ;  t«ke  tliou  him  and  teach  him. 
But  whoHo  knowitin,  knows  not  that  lie  knows, 

Ho  i»  u«lt.-c|< :  go  thou  to  iiiin  and  Make  liini. 
The  truly  wine  lioth  kiiuwH,  anil  knows  he  knows  ; 

(.'Icuve  Ihou  to  him,  and  never  niort  forsake  him. 

G.  L. 

Fuanco-German  Wau  (10"*  S.  i.  226).— The 
landed  property  of  the  Frenchmen  of  Alsace 
[Aiid  Lorraine  who  refused  to  accept  Gorman 


rale  was  neither  confiscated  nor  sold  to  land 
speculators.  Scheurer-Kestncr,  Senator,  kept 
his  property  at  Thann,  Alathieu  Dreyfus  his 
property  at  Mulhausen,  Edmond  About  at 
ISaveru,  itc.  J.  ft. 

BoEU  Wak  ok  1881  (10""  S.  i.  220).— Major 
Mitchell  will,  I  think,  find  all  he  renuireu 
in  ilr.  Thomas  Fm-tescue  Carter's  'A  >arra- 
tive  of  the  Uoer  War  of  1880-1,'  publisheil 
by  Mr.  Macqueeu.  Mr.  Carter  was,  1  bL<lieve, 
a  war  correspondent  fur  the  N'ltal  Mercuri/y 
and  was  present  with  the  troops  on  .Majuba, 
a  most  graphic  account  of  which  he  gives 
in  his  book.  He  is  one  of  the  leading  advo- 
cates in  Natal,  and  was,  when  I  knew  him 
in  1899.  practising  in  Ladysmith. 

S.  BiJTTERWoBTii,  Major  ll.A.M.  Corps. 

The  Ca«lle,  Carlisle. 

'  The  Complete  Story  of  the  Transvaal  from 
the  "Great  Trek"  to  the  Convention  of 
London,'  by  John  Nixon  (Sampson  Low, 
1885),  written  by  an  eyewitness  of  the  1881 
war,  givesa  lot  of  detaiiled  information. 
Francis  J.  A.  Skeet,  Capt.  4  Ii.D.F. 

The  best  account  of  the  war  in  Natal, 
ending  with  Majuba,  is  in  thelast  four  chapters 
of  Lieut.-General  Sir  Wra.  Butler's  '  Life 
of  Sir  George  Fomeroy-CoUey.'  'A  Narra- 
tive of  the  Boer  War,'  by  Thos,  Fortescue 
Carter—  the  only  war  corre.?pondent  on 
Majuba— covers  tiie  same  ground,  but  adds 
chapters  on  the  isolated  struggles,  the  siegen 
of  Standerton,  Pretoria,  Folchefstrom.  L*y- 
denburg,  and  Wakkerstroom.  I  think  .\L\.»or 
Mitchell  will  find  that  there  wa>«  no  siege 
of  Fietersburg.  C.  S,  Ward. 

MESb  DKE^'S  :  Sergeants'  Sashes  (lo""  S.  i. 
108,  238. -Col.  Clifford  Walton,  iti  hit 
'  History  of  the  British  Standing  Army, 
l(j00-170<t,'8ays:  — 

"The  saKh  was  worn  liy  all  officers,  from  the 
(ienerttl  down  to  the  Serjeant,  whether  of  Horse, 
Foul,  or  DiHgoonM.  The  material  wait  i,-eiierally 
feiniiUr  1"  thai  still  in  vo^uc,  the  friiinos,  liowevcr, 
l>ein^,  in  iho  case  of  (-'(iriiinifBioncd  oiliv-ors,  of  golil 
or  silver.  In  tiii«,  as  iii  most  other  detail:^,  con- 
siderable licence  prevailed  prior  to  the  Revolution, 
some  ortiocrs  jireferring silver  network,  others  gold  ; 
while  otlicrs,  ai;ain,  favoured  the  plain  criiiHon 
silk;  but  by  degrees  greater  uniforioiiv  wiui 
ensnrod,  and  the  use  of  gold  and  silver  network 
became  confined  to  the  hichest  orticers,  us  is  the 
cose  to  this  day.  The  saanes  of  officers  of  Horse 
were  exceedingly  handsome,  hnvinn  tjrli  frinpea 
two,  three,  or  even  fonr  deep  round  ilie  want, 
and  very  diH'p  fritiKt'i  at  thr  fncli.  'Vhf  I'rivMte 
Troo|jer»of  Horse  al«<>  \N' 
lion  to  the  general  colour 

Ciuards,  wltose  sashes  wei ', .    l,. 

regiments  were  ftimilurly  distniKuiatied  bv  Aiuiieit, 
but  of  white  worsted  with  a  coloured  fringe.    In 


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N^umiES. 


flow's.  1.  Amu.  2.  19M. 


some  rcjfimciiU  of  Foot  all  the  men  appear  to  have 
worn  sasheis  iu  Charles's  reign.  There  i«  nothing 
new  untler  the  suu.  and  tlio  fashion  iiUroiluced  hut 
a  few  year*  *<?««  ^'^  wearing  the  sash  over  the 
shoulder,  wa*  usual  also  in  llio  beginninK  of  the 
•eventeenth  century :  during  the  latter  half  of 
the  century,  however,  the  cuatoni  was  generally  to 
wear  it  round  the  waint.  The  i»a«h  waa  comnionlv 
tied  slightly  in  front  of  the  left  side:  althouKii 
would-be  dandies  would  often  have  the  tawela  quite 
iu  front,  and  the  sash  loosely  knotted  in  a  very 
wf'jfi'jf-  style." 

ClifTord  Walton's  illustrations  may  be  seen 
in  tlic  Iloyal  United  Service  Institution. 
Bound  with  them  are  the  'Authorities  and 
Notes'  from  which  the  details  were  drawn. 

VV.  S. 

WiLUAJI  OF  WVKEIIAM  (lO"'  S  i.  222, 257).— 
If  he  was  the  first  of  his  family,  how  about 
those  who  from  time  to  time  have  claimed  to 
be  of  founder's  kin?  In  the  J/emfd  <tnd 
Geneatarfiat  fur  May,  1868,  there  is  an  article 
by  Mr.  C.  Wykeham  Martin,  the  vice-presi- 
dent of  the  Society  of  Antiquaries,  entitled 
'  Who  was  William  of  Wykehani  ?'  a  supple- 
ment to  one  in  the  Toponrapher  ami  Genea- 
logist^ vol.  iii.  Mr.  Wylcenam  Martin  states 
therein  that  ho  summed  up 

"  his  argument  by  saying  that  William  of  \Vyke- 
ham  wa8  known  at  least  as  early  as  his  fifty-third 
year  (i;fi"6)  to  the  family  of  (Wykeham)  SwulclifTe  : 
that  he  lield  jiersonal  intercourse  with  them,  pur- 
chased tlie  family  livingof  .Swaleliffe,  and  what  had 
been  a  ]K)rtion  of  the  family  property ;  that  he 
settled  his  heir  on  this  pro]>erty,  within  three  miles 
of  Sualclitfe;  that  one  of  tlie  ^Vykeham8  of 
SwalclilTe  is  recorded  aH  founder's  kin  before  hie 
death,  and  u  second  about  thirty-four  yean 
afterwards." 

Further : — 

"I  have  ifhown  that  the  bi.shop  had  numerona 
relations  of  the  same  name  with  himself,  one  of 
whom  at  least  bore  the  same  coat  of  arms.  I  have 
shown  titat  there  were  collaterals  from  whom  he 
might  have  desceudod." 

R.  J.  Fynmore. 

Samuel  Shellev  (10'"  S.  i.  227).-Tlm 
eminent  miniature  painter  died  at  his  house  in 
George  Street,  Hanover  Square,  22  December, 
ISOH.  I  would  recommend  the  GKntleiimn* 
Mii'jiiiim,  vol.  Ixxviii.  pp.  1134,  118(";,  for  any 
further  information  wiiich  raaj'  be  required. 
EvBRAKti  HdMK  Coleman. 

71,  Brecknock  Road, 

The  Cope  (J)"'  S.  x.  280.  374,  195  ;  xi.  9:i, 
172.  3.3:1 ;  10'"  S.  i.  174).— It  may  be  not  irre- 
levant to  these  notes  to  njention  that  I 
remember  a  visit  to  Mr.  Hawker,  the  well- 
known  vicar  of  Morweiistow,  in  Juno,  1845. 
Ho  showed  me  a  chest  in  his  study,  in  wljich 
was  a  new  chasuble,  and  (I  think)  a  coloured 
stole  to  match.    I  said,  "Do  you  wear  these 


things?"  He  answered,  "Not  yet;  but, 
please  God,  I  shall  do  ao  on  St.  John's  Day." 
1  do  not  know  whctlier  he  did  wear  them  ; 
but,  if  he  <iid,  I  $up|K>se  it  was  the  earliest 
return  (or  one  of  the  earliest)  to  the  rubrical 
order  on  that  behalf.  Alocnham. 

FiB.ST  Steam  Uailway  Trais  fio"'  S.  i. 
22.j). — The  high-pre38urfc  engine  made  by 
U.  Trevithick  is  now  in  tlie  South  Ken- 
sington Museum,  among  the  collection  o£ 
machinery  and  inventions.  There  is  an  illus- 
tration exhibiting  a  side  and  an  end  view  of 
Trevithick  and  Vivian's  first  locomotive  ia 
the  'History  of  the  Steam  Engine  from  the 
Second  Century  before  the  Christian  Era  to 
the  Time  of  the  Great  Exhibition.'  pablisheii 
by  John  Cassell,  335,  .Strand,  in  18W  (p.  122). 
J.  Hoi.DEN  ^UcMtohaeu 

The  Last  of  the  W.mi  Hou  (m"'  .S.  i. 
225).— A  far  more  strikin(!;  instance  of  the 
recent  use  of  the  war  l»w  tlian  that  quoted 
by  Mn.  CocKr^E  is  to  be  found  recorded  iti 
4'^''  S.  viii.  485.  and  by  one  who  is  happily  still 
living,  and  able  even  to  be  prejient  at  tho 
Jubilee  dinner,  on  19  March,  of  the  London 
Association  of  Correctors  of  the  Press  :  for  Sir 
William  Howard  Russell,  the  dof/rn  of  special 
correspon<lents,  wrote  iu  1871  : — 

"  It  is  rpiite  certain  that  when  the  alliee  made  a 
rpi.-onnaissancoof  the  Valley  of  UArder  in  the  spring 
of  IS-lu,  there  were  anion^  the  Russian  irregnlurs 
Bcime  horsemen  armed  with  bow.^  and  arrows,  who 
used  them  witlioul  eflfect.  1  saw  bows  and  arrowi 
which  had  l>ecn  fmuid  in  the  Cossack  camp,  and 
wore  brought  buck  by  our  men." 

AU'RED  F.   ROBBIXH. 

Tides  WELL  and  TrDE.su»w  (9***  S.  xii.  341, 
r)17  ;  IC^  S.  i.  52,  01,  IfW,  22«).-I  am  not  sure 
that  I  understand  pRor.  Skeat  aright  at  the 
last  reference.  "The  addition  of  a  letter, 
excepting,  of  course,  d  after  n.  and  similar 
well  known  insertions  duo  to  phonetic  causes, 
is  quite  another  matter";  and  he  asks  if  it 
were  po-ssible  to  produce  half  a  dozen  ex- 
amples of  modern  place-names  that,  represent 
rt-al  additions.  There  are  plenty  of  instances 
of  such  additions  made,  either  to  indicate  a 
ndstaken  n>eaning  or  a  false  analogy.  The  « 
in  Carlisle  is  cerUinly  not  organic;  it  has 
been  inserted,  I  suppose,  from  false  analogy 
with  "isle,'  just  as  it  found  its  way  into 
"island."  liow  did  the  p  get  into  llarap- 
stead  ;  the  d  into  Tinwaid  in  Dumfriesshire 
and  the  Isle  rif  Man,  and  not  into  Dingwall 
and  the  Shetland  Tingwall  ;  the  secomJ  i/» 
into  Wigtown  in  Scotland,  which  is  pro- 
nounced exactly  tho  same  as  Wigton  in 
Cuntberland '/  None  of  these  redundant 
letters  are  sounded  in  local   pronunciation. 


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nor  are  they  true  to  the  etymology  of  the 
names.  Probably,  therefore,  they  do  not 
represent  what  Prof.  Skeat  means  by  "real 
adaitiona,"  but  neither  do  they  appear  due 
to  "phonetic  causes."  They  are  simply  re- 
dunoant. 

To  turn  to  names  that  have  received 
additional  letters  out  of  a  mistaken  mean- 
ing, their  name  is  legion.  There  are  two 
farms,  one  in  Ayrshire,  another  in  Eastern 
Galloway,  written  Uardrochwood.  When  the 
Ordnance  surveyor  requested  me  to  help 
them  in  revi.sins  the  orthography  of  place- 
names  in  South-Wastern  Scotland,  I  pointed 
out  to  them  that  this  name  had  no  reference 
to  a  wood,  but  was  good  Gaelic— 6<ir  dwchnifl, 
the  hill  by  the  bridge.  They  proposed  to 
alter  it  accordingly,  but  in  one  case  the 
proprietor  refused  his  consent,  because  the 
correct  ortliograpiiy  would  not  correspond 
with  the  name  in  his  title-deeds. 

Again,  t-raigends,  in  Ueufrewahire,  has  re- 
ceived the  accretion  of  d  and  s.  The  original 
name  was  the  Gaelic  plural  creafffan,  the 
crags.  Somelxxly  thought  it  meant ''  the  end 
of  the  crag,"  which  accounts  fur  the  d.  Then 
the  owner  of  the  land  so  named  built  a 
mansion  house ;  and  he  being  known,  viorfi 
Scotico,  as  Craigend,  his  house  became  spoken 
of  as  Craigend  s  [place]. 

It  is  quite  possible  that  in  all  this  I  am 
speaking  aside  from  what  Pkuf.  Skeat  in- 
tended to  convey.  If  so,  I  trust  he  will 
excuse  my  density. 

PaoF.  bKEAT  refers  to  the  havoc  wrought 
by  Norman  scribes  upon  Saxon  names.  Saxon 
scribes  are  avenging  themselves  at  this  day. 
The  following  are  quoted  in  the  Oardena's 
Chfoniclf.  from  a  list  of  roses  lately  offered 
for  sale  in  Hertfordshire:  Yules  Murgottin 
[Jules  Margottin],  Lausi  van  Haute  [LouIh 
van  Houtte],  Cienerul  Yucurninal  [Qi'm-ral 
Jacqueminot],  .\mong  others  which  were 
past  recogin"tion  occurred  Witte  Ethos,  Mad. 
gun)  Keshant,  Chape  do  Nai>olian,  I'rins  cum 
a  Bohn,  and  Loun  vun  Kauue. 

Hkrbkrt  Maxwell, 


^t<>rfIIan/ous. 
NOTKS  ON  HOOKS,  &c. 

"Tli*iori/  of  ThtnfrWni  Art  in  AurirnJ  nwf  Afii'l-rn 
Titn".     l-5y  Kftil    Miviii/iua.     .^(itliorizeil  'I'raiia 
Intluii  l)y  l>oiiif>e  von  Coasvl.     Vol.  III.     (I'mrk- 
worth  &  Co.} 
Wk  have  already  («c<»  ftnfr,  p.  77)  rpoken  in  higli 
praise  of  l>r.  Karl   "!■■'■''     '    "      ■         ..f  tlieatrii'al 
iift.     To  the  iwi)  ■  i  hoa  been 

luldcd  a   third   an't  „  '-,    ihc    ap- 

proaching uiivenl    ut     whioti    wu   annouiir^ed,      Ti> 
the  avorufte  KngliahniikD  this  Uut  voluinv  will  pro- 


bably prove  the  most  popular  and  iiseful.  In  solid 
merit  it  ia  Qot  auporior  lo  its  predecesaors,  and 
it  supplies  little  information  that  will  l>€  new  to 
the  advanced  student.  What,  however,  it  under- 
takes is  admirably  exeiutod,  and  it  furnishc-!*  in  a 
readable  and  accurate  form  nnn'h  knowledge  wliielk 
elsewhere  is  only  to  be  found  iu  obHcure  and  often 
rare  publications.  Materials  for  a  thoroufrh  his- 
tory of  the  Bta^e  are  more  abundant  than  i»  gener- 
ally supposed.  So  widely  scattered  are  lla-y  that 
the  volumea  in  which  they  appvai'  constitute  in 
themselves  a  considerable  library.  The.se  have  for 
the  most  part  been  diligently  employed  by  our 
Danish  historian,  whose  work  is  a  solid  and  most 
im|xirtant  contribution  to  our  knowledgti  of  tho 
Btagc.  Works  such  as  the  lives  of  Shakespeare  by 
Halliwell-Phillippa  and  Mr.  i>idney  Lee,  the  his- 
tories of  Mr.  Fleoy,  the  lal>orious  chronicle  of 
(jonest,  and  tho  like,  are  ceuorally  known  and 
within  easy  reach.  Strange,  however,  lo  say.  the 
not  less  important  works  of  Malone  and  Uhatmera 
are  all  but  i(^ored.  The  valuable  information  tjiey 
supply  is  undigested,  and  tlie  abstiticc  of  nduijnute 
indexes  is  discouraging  to  studentt.  Dr.  Mantxius 
has  moat  of  these  and  other  works  at  his  finger 
ends,  the  only  book  bearing  on  the  subject 
he  ajii)cara  not  to  have  seen  l>eing  Halliwcll. 
I'hillij>p8's  *  t'ollectioii  of  Ancient  Documents 
res])cctiiiir  the  Master  of  the  Revel.s,  and  otlier 
Pa|»er.>i  relating  to  the  Eurly  KngIi^h  Theatre,'  of 
which  eleven  copies  only  were  issued  at  31.  Kf.  .V. 
each,  and  which,  conse(|uently,  is  of  the  ulmoi>t 
rarity.  VVc  sought  vainly  for  a  copy  during  a  score 
years.  Tho  result  oF  Dr.  Mantzius's  lalioura  is  a 
work  which  every  scholar  innst  have  on  his  shelvea 
and  all  may  consult  with  advantage.  Within  a 
short  space  it  presents  a  full  history  of  all  that  is 
known  about  the  pre-Resloraiion  stage.  Especially 
useful  is  the  information  supplied  c<iiicerninff 
theatres  such  as  the  (Jockpit.  the  KUckfriars,  and 
others  not  included  in  Mr.  Kuirman UrdiHh'H  '  Eaily 
London  ThoatreB(Iu  the  Fields),'  the  half.jjroniised 
supplementary  volume  to  which  has  not  ap- 
]>eared.  The  work  is  no  less  correct  than  ample. 
Almost  the  only  misleading  statement  we  trace  is 
tho  assertion  (i».  54,  note)  tliat  John  Taylor,  the 
Water  Poet,  "  left  iu  all  sixty-three  works  of  great 
interest  to  investigators  of  the  life  of  those  times." 
Sixty-three  is  the  number  of  works  in  a  single 
collection,  and  not  that  of  hia  entire  publica- 
tions. The  volume  is  further  recomincndeu  by  liie 
illustrations,  which  are  i)umerou>i,  ami  in  some 
instances  rare.  These  include  views  of  the  Tabard 
Inn,  London  in  SliakesiKjare's  time  (after  Hoef- 
nagel's  ground  iilan),  tne  iaterior  of  a  privato 
theatre  (from  .Alabaster's  'Roxana'),  tho  interior 

Pvt<l    ^  ~  ~      " 


of    the 


Bull 


Theatre,  Tarlton  a.s  a  clown, 
Kemp  in  hid  fuinous  morris  dance,  Ac,  and  por- 
traits of  Alleyn  as  Dr.  Fauatus  and  Hierouinio» 
Richard  Burbage,  and  Nathaniel  Field,  together 
with— how  obtained  we  know  not— William  Shake- 
spcarc.  from  the  bust  belutigiug  to  the  (iarrick  Club. 

Ih'r/iouari/  o/   Coiifoitiiomri/   Oiiolaliimt  {Eiiffliiih), 

By  Helena  Swan.  (Hoiinenschein  &  Co. ) 
Titot'i;u  a  work  of  considerable  labour,  this  book 
may  not  bo  pronounced  worthy  of  association  with 
the  Ixvst  volumes  of  the  sericH  to  which  it  belongs. 
It  iiB^igiiB  far  too  much  prominence  lo  writei-s  con- 
reriiing  whom  the  world  has  but  a  languid  interest, 
if  it  has  any  interest  at  all.  It  is  a  difiicult  and, 
I»crha|i9,  an  ungracious  thing  in  the  caao  of  living 


280 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I 

UO*  ts  1.  Al'UtL  '2.  1901. 


|ieov>lo  Ui  tiisciiM  «ho  chances  of  i  ■   ':ty.  One, 

liowuvcr,  w ho  hma  heen fed  on  iht  cantii>t 

f»ii  to  recoguize  failure  on  the  )!.'  nor  iiiiu- 

■trels  "  to  come  new  the  mark.  PotU  y  u,  in  a  lense, 
and  to  the  few,  an  exact  acienco-  Unliej(ilatirij!ly, 
then,  we  say  that  aoinc  of  those  froni  whom 
Mra.  Swan   freely  fjuotcH  have  no  moro  claim  to  l>e 

SoeU  thaij  hail  tho  Tujiiicr  of  yesterJay,  or  Uic 
Iiuvius  of  the  day  before,  lo  a  certain  extent 
the  compiler  diaarniB  criticiani,  since  she  uwns  that, 
while  aonio  who  ought  to  be  represenled  are  not, 
others  occupy  an  undue  space.  We  fail  to  find, 
however,  the  poems  for  which  we  seek,  s»vh  an 
*  lonica,'  while  the  volume  is  filled  up  by  ihe 
commonplace  utterances  <>i  bards  of  whom  we  have 
never  heard,  or  whom  we  are  anxious  Ui  forget. 
Many  good  nassagea  from  gonaino  |Joeta  will,  how- 
ever, rewarn  the  explorer. 

DtroH  Xotfi*  ami  Qtieritt  is  making  good  pro 
greas.  The  number  for  OctoW,  190:1.  is  well  illun' 
truted,  and  contains  several  valnablo  notes  and 
replies.  Local  genealoey,  we  are  clad  to  find, 
is  a  atrong  jioint.  ilr.  W.  H.  Thornton  con- 
tribute"  an  account,  niainiy  gleaned  from  tradi- 
tion, of  the  murder  of  (Gilbert  Varde,  rector  of 
Teignijraco,  in  MHH  No  report  of  th«  trial  of  Ihe 
murderer  seems  to  be  known  :  we  imagine  that  the 
<ie|)Osition!i  taken  by  the  local  magistrates  mast  be 
in  the  custody  of  tne  Clerk  of  the  Peace.  If  the 
4e|>osition.i  at  tho  coroner's  inquest  have  not 
in?riehed  they  would  also,  we  may  A-fsume,  throw 
lii{hton  the  trttgedy.  Mr.  U.  M.  Whitley  has  fur- 
nished front  the  original  in  the  Record  Office  a 
notice  of  tho  repairs  carried  on  at  Powderham 
C'asllewhcnin  the  king's  hands  (153{>  40)  on  account 
of  the  attAJiider  of  llenry  Courtenay,  Marquis  of 
Exeter  and  K.irl  of  Devon.  Though  sliort,  it  is  useful 
jLi  furnishing;  means  by  which  to  make  an  estimate 
x)f  the  rale  of  wages  of  artisans  at  that  time  in  the 
Kouth-West.  Joanna  Sonlhcolt  was  a  Devon  woman; 
ehe  has  liecn  dead  hard  urion  ninety  years,  and  but 
faint  nieniori<-.A  rtMnain  of  her  except  in  the  minds 
nf  the  few  who  sludv  the  vagaries  of  fanaticism. 
Thewonderful  thing  a"hout  the  poor  woman's  career 
is,  that  though  she  was  undonbtedly  mad,  vet  there 
were  not  a  few  people  of  education  and  well  skilled 
ilk  the  conduct  of  the  ordmitry  affairs  of  life  who 
accepted  her  teaching,  and  looked  upon  the  turbid 
rhapsodies  she  uttered  as  divine  revelations.  One 
of  her  practices  was  that  of  "scaling  the  faithful," 
ns  it  wa»  called— that  is.  issuing  "  cortiticates  for 
themilloiinium."  One  of  these  onriousdcK-uinents  has 
fallen  into  the  handn  of  Mr.  F.  B.  Dickinsoii.  He 
has  reproduceil  it  with  a  very  intercKiiuK  note  an  an 
accnni|iauimont.  Thousands  of  thefo  iHipers  were 
sold  to  her  credulous  followers,  most  of  them  at  n 
guinea  eivch.  We  never  saw  one,  and  believe  them 
to  bo  at  tho  nresent  time  great  rarities,  as  almost 
nil  tho  iiiircliaacrs  would  d<«troy  then)  when  Ihey 
iliscoveri'd.onherdfiith,  that  they  had  bi?»>n  deluded, 
iloannadied  in  LSU,  and  was  buried  at  St.  John's 
SV'ood.  The  tombstone  that  marked  her  grave  was 
Hhattered,  Mr.  Dickinson  says,  bv  the  Rreat  gun- 
jiDwder  explosion  in  the  Recent s  Park  C'amil  in 
ISTI.  We  wonder  whether  it  lias  l>een  replaced.  At 
tliatdate  she  had  still  foUowt^rs  who  looked  forward 
to  her  return  lo  life.  The  Morebath  ohurchwurdena' 
accounts  are  continued,  and  omutHIv  do  not  fail 
in  interest.      The  young  moti'a    ^       '  '    n„|- 

I.»idy'8  wardens  still  ap])eAr  in  l'>  js 

evidently  were  not  the  churchwfir  rs 


ng 


n  •'      ' '  •■  -      "-      !'eriM|»  the  young 

>»«l,  WB  know,  an 

II  r><isse!iscd  liv  the 

clnircii  uulhuitliL'B.     1. 
wax  for  canillcs  :  but  i^ 

instance  of    ' '■•Vinn   m-iimhx  '•'.•<:'.      »ii  i477 

several  hivi  to  the  church  aathoritiee  of 

tit   tMmuui!  ly. 

The  Clarendon  Preaa  has  for  a  number  of  years 
had  in  use  liuU'ifor  Compositors  u,ff  /.''i  /..-.  nr  ihr 

Unirtrtitu  Prtnn,  O-cford,    ■  ;ti- 

troller,  Mr.  Horace  Hart,  bi.  i  ly 

and  Dr.  h\\<.   "         ' '  ,mi 

supplied  gi  luy 

twrsons  ;  ai-.  .:  ly 

being  made,  il  h>ui  iwtjii  ilun.  Hid 

the  rules.     The  nole*  in   ti'  :.;*j<i 

edition  make  the  '      i  ■  •  .^j,  roJt<iuig,  a^  in 

tho  cose  of  Mr.  ii  with  GiMistouc 
about  the  s|)clliii. 


Dr.  S.  F.  CnrsMri.T.,  nf  whom  there  i=  an  obitaory 
notice  in  till  imtor  to 

'N.  ic  t^.,'  "  wos  art 

authority  oii  ., ^, ,>...,.. ,,. 

Wc  must  aisoiiotic«  the  death  Moule, 

an  accomplished  anti(|Uary,  wii- i   li  fre- 

ijuently  to  our  columns,  and  was  tor  .'or 

of  the  County  Museum  at  Dorchester.  ;iic 

eldest  of  the  well-known  family  of  br>.'iiii.'i'3  '^  hich 
includes  the  Bishop  of  Durham. 


^otir»  to  Comtponbnits. 

H'e    miut  call  tptcial  aUtnlion  lo  the  foUowina 

I  notici* : — 

I      Om  all  oomniunications  must  be  written  the  name 
and  address  of  the  sender,  not  neceaaarUy  for  pub- 

'  lication,  but  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

'      We  cannot  undertake  to  answer  queries  privately. 

I      To  secure    insertion    of   eonin,  li    corre- 

■  apondenta  niu.st  ohherve  the  ful  ■  ■«.     Let 

I  each  note,  query,  or  reply  be  wi.;  xi.']iarate 

slip  of  paper,  with  tho  signature  oi  the  writer  and 

,  Bucli  address  oa  he  wishes  to  appear.    W  hen  aiisww- 
inK  queries,  or  makin;;  i«  '  '  '    prcvions 

j  entries  in  the  paper,  '  >-ated  to 

put  in   parentheses,   ji  )\p  exact 

beading,  the  series,  voluntu,  and  pii^e  or  pogos  t«i 
which  they  refer.  Currei<|ioDdents  who  repeal 
queries  are  requo»te<l  to  head  the  second  ooin- 
niunication  *'  Dujilicate." 

T.  Stkve.ss  ("Skoal '.  tothe  Northlatt  '  '  '^l-  ■"<'  '"|. 
—Last  stan/jvof  Longfellow*  'Skeleto;  ir.' 

Indiana  ("An   Austrian   army').  hiio« 

were  printed  in  full  in  3"*  S.  iv.  SS.  Uiher  tefer- 
ences  to  i>erinilicals  in  which  they  have  appeared 
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H              T  IBRARIAN  to  the  SOCIKTIT  of  WRITBRS  to 

^H                   J^                                HU  UkiUnt  aiGMBT. 

^H                       Tb*  UflM  ol  LISRAHIAM  to  tha  lOUnrr  of  WRITERS  M  HIB 
^^1                   MAJB^TVB  BIONICT.  racaatlr  hcM  br  llM  lata  Tbonnu  Oraraalaw, 
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LOtfDON,  HATVHDAY,  APRIL  9,  190J,. 


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KOTBS  i-aUll-boni  ChlLin-n,  281-BurU>n'» 'AMtomy  of 
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STILL-BORN    CHILDREN. 

Cbildben  apparently  dead  at  the  moment 

of  birth  have  aurvived  for  hours,    with  an 

almost  imperceptible  beating  of  the  heart  as 

tlie  sole  evidence  of  temporaiily  latent  life 

lifter  birth.  Many  of  these  "still-born'' 
diildren  die,  but  so  long  as  the  lieart  in  not 
dumb  and  at  re-st,  and  until  the  fiual  flutter 
of  the  pulse,  they  have  not  departed  out  of 
this  life.  Formerly  those  feebly  enlivened 
babes  were  often  laid  aside  tm  dead,  ao  in 
1702  was  Piiilip  Doddridge,  who  completed 
his  raother'a  literal  score  of  children  (Orton's 
•  Life '),  Accoucheurs  and  others  have  Higned 
declarations  of  "still-birth"  too  hastily. 
Only  after  vigorous  treatment  and  consider- 
able delay  do  some  of  these  puny  children 

,  cheat  death  by  first  inspiring  the  breath  of 
life— snatched  frotn  the  grave,  iierhaps  only 
to  re-elicit  from  a  modern  parent,  "I  could 
not  tell  whether  to  rejoice  to  see  mine  aborted 
infant  I'evived."  These  cases  are  comparable 
with  those  resuscitated  after  apparent  suffo- 
cation. Samuel  Johnson,  who  was  christened 
on  his  birthday  (1709,  as  were  also  Joseph 
Addiaou»  1072,  and  King  George  III.,  173S), 


records  in  the  autobiogranhical  notes;  "I 
was  born  almost  dead,  and  could  not  cry  for 
some  time.''  Isaac  Newton  (1642,  who  was 
as  well  posthumous  as  premature),  Fontenelle 
(1609),  "the  Old  Fietender"  (1688),  Voltaire 
(1694),  and  the  first  Lord  Lyttelton  (1709) 
were  also  among  the  immortals  who  during  a 
single  century  enjoyed  but  a  precarious,  if 
not  also  a  precocious  entry  into  life. 

There  is  no  direct  definition  of  itiU-birth. 
Legally,  a  negative  contextual  description  is 
alone  obtainable  — that  is,  not  born  alive  (cf. 
Law  Qit^vterly Review,  A.m-i\,  l9Ci4).  Johnson's 
view  (1755)  is  of  personal  interest :  "'  dead  in 
the  birth,  born  lifeless";  in  1773,  however, 
the  'Annual  Register'  (p.  99)  records  :  'The 
Recovery  of  Overlaid  and  even  Still-born 
Children.'  'Y\\GStUl-bom  actually  differs  from 
the  dead-born — the  former  is  alive,  but  its 
pre-natal  apna'a  persists— the  maintenance  of 
the  rectal  temperature  and  the  possibility  of 
revival  mark  it  as  a  survivor,  and  as  not  yet 
defunct.  The  a38ume<i  antithesis  between 
ijuick-f/oni  and  still-fjorn,  as  indicating  post- 
natallv  alive  or  dead  respectively,  has  no 
strict  nistorical  validity.  Originally  a  still- 
born child  was  one  that  could  not  cry.  In 
the  absence  of  even  a  still  small  voice  it  was 
numbered  among  the  silent  dead.  Qlanvil 
(lUH))  gives  the  common-law  text  of  live- 
birth  :  damans  el  attditus  in/rn  ifuatuor 
parities.  In  1300  we  find  :  "  that  quick-borno 
child  I  have  fordon  "  ('  Cursor  M.').  In  1330  : 
"the  child  ded  bornen  was"  ('King  of  Tar.'). 
In  1483  "dede-borne"  coi responds  with  aboi- 
tivins  Cotgrave  (1011)  givea  "  abortive, 
untimely,"  as  synonyms  of  "  still-born." 
Bishop  Hall  ('  Serm  ,'  1613)  says  :  "We  begin 
our  life  with  tears  ;  and  therefore  our 
lawyers  define  life,  by  weeping.  If  a  child 
were  heard  to  cr^,  it  is  a  lawful  proof  of 
his  living  ;  else,  if  he  be  dead,  we  say  he 
is  still-born"  (cf.  8"'  S.  xii.  283  and  0"^  B. 
i.  285).  Middleton  (*  Chast  Mayd.'  lG20i  : 
'*  When  the  child  cries,  for  if  't  should 
be  still-born,  it  doth  no  good,  sir."  It 
was  21  Jac.  I.  c.  27,  which,  copying  a 
French  edict,  reversed  for  nearly  two  cen- 
turies the  common-law  presumption  of  the 
dead-birth  of  bastards,  and  in  1628  Coke 
assumed,  with  quaint  pathology,  that  the 
new-born  might  not  be  able  to  er^,  "for, 
peradventure,  it  may  be  born  dumbe. '  Fuller 
(' Good  Thoughts,'  kc,  1047):  "These  still- 
born babes  only  breathe,  without  crying." 
Shakespeare  ('  2  King  Henry  IV.,'  1598) 
opposes  the  term  to '' fair-birth."  Hollybaoa 
1(1593)  for  inortn^  gives  "a  still-borne." 
I  L'Estrange  ('King  Charles,'  1654):  "These 
I  discontents  of  the  subject  were  not  still-bora, 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       uo^  s.  l  Amn.  9.  iwh. 


but  cryed  so  lowd  as  reached  to  his  sacred 
ears."  Sir  Wra.  Petty  (1676)  "included 
abortives  and  still-born  in  the  burials "(/'/*(Y. 
Tvfins.,  Hi.  4S).  The  Rev.  R.  Foulkes  wa% 
hanged  at  Tyburn  (30  January,  1679)  for 
''murdering  in  Act  and  Execution"  hi«  bas- 
tard f  Confession ').  'A  True  and  Perfect 
Relation'  (Brit.  Mus.)  hhvh:  "He  no  sooner 
received  it  into  the  world  hut,"  as  Anthony 
Wood  ('  Diary  ')  continues,  "  being  still-borne 
(as  'tis  said)  he  throw'd  it  in  the  privv  house." 

Such  is  the  sugicestive,  if  not  exhaustive, 
early  history  of  siiUhirth.  Air.  Charles  Balk, 
of  CJxfurd,  has  kindly  given  me  some  of  the 
references.  Stanley  B.  Atkinson. 

Inner  T<?mi>le. 


BURTONS  'ANATOMY  OF  MELANCHOLY.' 

(See  O"-  S.  xi.  181,  222,  203,  322.  -U I  ;  xii.  2,  Ci. 
162,  301,  »K.  442;  10"'  S.  i.  42.  163,  20a) 

Vol.  I.  (Shilleto),  21,  1.  7  ;  7,  1.  13,  ed.  6, 
"scrape  Ennius  dung-hiU."  See  Vii-pil.  Vit. 
formerly  attributed  to  Ti.  Donatus,  f  18,  71  ; 
p.  ix,  vol.  i.  of  Burmann's  ed.,  "Cum  is 
aliquando  Ennium  in  raanu  haberet,  rogare- 
turque  quidnam  faceret,  respoudit  se  aurum 
colligere  do  stercore  Ennii." 

P.  21,  n.  4  ;  7,  n.  c,  "E  Democriti  puteo." 
Of.  Agrinp.,  'De  Van.  Sc  ,'  peroration  three- 
fifths    through,    "haurire ex    Democriti 

pateo  vlrtutem." 

P.  23,  1.  19;  8,  S3,  "diverao  stilo,  non 
diversa  fide."  Aug., '  De  Trin.,' i.  3.  Migue, 
42,  col.  823. 

P.  39,  23  ;  18,  1.%  "omnes  stultOH  insanire." 
Lips.,  'Manud.  ad  Stoic.  Phil.,'  iii.  20;  Cic, 
'  Parad..'  4. 

P.  43,  14  ;  20,  20,  "  Nulla  ferant  talem  secla 
futura  virum."  See  Gyraldus,  'De  Poet. 
Hist.,'  Dial,  iii.,  'Op.,'  vol.  ii.  (1606),  col.  141, 
where  it  is  quoted  {■with  ferent)  from  Cardinal 
Bessariori'i  version  of  tne  so-called  'Elegy' 
of  Aristotle  on  Plato.  For  the  original  Greek 
see  '  Anth.  Epig.  Griec.,'  Appendix  Nova,  ed. 
E.  Cougny  (vol.  iii.  of  'Anth.  Pal.,'  Paris, 
1890),  cap.  iii,  47,  with  references  there  given. 

P.  45,  20  ;  21,  43,  "  Chrialiani  Crassiani." 
See  Budreus,  '  De  Asse,'  V.  Epilog.,  pp.  732. 
733  (ed.  K>.M):  "Eant  igitur  philopluti  diui- 
tiarum  amore  p)orditi,  ouos  Christus  ut  Cras- 
sianos  non  Christianos  limine  suo  repulit." 

P.  46,  18;  22,  23,  "semper  puori.^'  Plato, 
•  Tim. .'  22  B.    Cf.  p.  86,  n.  1  ;  45,  n.  o. 

P.  64,  n.  4;  33,  n.  f,  "Busbequius  Turc. 
Hist."    'Leg. Turc./  Ep.  iii.  p.  251.  ed.  1660. 

P.  Qb,  1.  30  and  n.  10(wronglv  given  as  11 
in  text) ;  So,  1.  44  and  n.  c,  ''Aijacharsis." 
See  Diog.  Laert.,  I.  viii.  5  (105). 


P.  69,  1. 17 ;  3(J.  12,  ••which  Cato  counts  a 
great  indfconim.'*    Not  Cato  ;  Pluturch. 
P.  70,  n.  4  ;  36,  U.  u  :— 
I'eruirata  buo  fiontjionil  numina  lucro 
Mercalof  [^)tyi{iui  nou  aisi  digiittii  af}utB]. 

The  full  couplet  ia  quoted  by  Agrippa,  *Dtt 
Van.  Sc.,'  cap.  72. 

P.  72,  n.  9;  38,  n.  *  (second),  "Salvianus 
lib.  de  pro."  Shilleto  add.?  iii.  Seo'DeGub. 
Dei,'  iiL  x.  (57),  Mignc,  iiS,  cnl.  <;h,  c 

P.  74,  n.  1  :  38,  n.  ♦  (at  foot),  "  Dcmocrit- 
ep.  pried."    See  xvii.  §§  40,  60. 

P.  81.   n,  7;   43,  n.  m.    Cf.  p.  289.  1.  1  ; 
Pt.  I.,  sect.  2,  mem.  3.  subs.  1  ;  p.  91,  I.  45  it 
ed.  6.    Shilleto  adds  "cap.  3"  to  the  uumbef 
of  the  IxKjk  (ii.)  of  the  '  Institotionew'  given 
by  Burton.     One  may  add  the  section  (6). 

P.  82,  o.  7  :  43.  n.  ♦,  "  De  curial.  miser." , 
P.  772  D,  K  in  Bas.  ed.  of  1571  (the  ep.  extends  i 
from  p.  720  to  p.  736).  .^ess  Sylvius's 
words  are : — 

*' Sliiltiie  I'st  qui  '           '    '  '                          ,        ■_ 

ilJtuUu!!  &  <|uirjua'ii'  s 
(jtioijue  &  ille  est  (ji.;     .     ,      , 

cum  plurea    habeat    balka,    'i  ,: 

ttorieulosiorem [ft   liiu**    l<  r 

oiUDes  qui  reguni  m  '  t 

hoQoreg  qii.t'rere,  ]'.  ■i 

jower]  ut  facile  ij  ^t 
insanos,  nc  stultiaftiiiios  i|ueii!.  t;u)|!uodc«r«, " 

It  is  impossible  to  comment  in  every  ease 
on  Burton's  curious  l<x)8ene3s  in  quutatioir. 
Thi.s  may  serve  as  a  sample. 

P.  8.%  30  ;  45,38,  "Austin ad  ebrictatem 

se  quisque  paret."  Enarratio  in  P8.  ciiL 
sermo  3,  §  13.     Migne,  37.  col.  1369. 

P.  86.  14  ;  46,  6,  "  as  Phocion  concludM." 
Plut.,  '  Reg.  et  imp.  apophth.,'  187,  F. 

P.  90,  n.  2  ;  48,  n.  g,  R.  DalJingt^n  [A 
Svrvey  of  the  Great  Dvke-s  State  of  T  . 

In  the  yeare  of  our  Lord]  l.')!)6,  [L*-' 
See  W.  C.  Hazlitt,  'Coll.  and  Notes,   j-^,... 

P.  91,  22  ;  49,  20,  ij  Trtvla  o-rucrir  ifin-oiu  Kal 
KOKOvpyiav.      Arist.  pol.  ii.  iii.    7   (6,   1265b).  < 
The  Latin  version  and  reference  at  the  ena^ 
of  n.  6;  n.  b,  obviously  refer  to  this.    Sliilteto^ 
has  left  the  slip  uncorrected. 

P.  92,  n.  4;  49,  n.  f,  "  Dousa  epid.  loquielei* 
turba.  vultures  togati."  Thus  misprinted  in 
ed.  6.  Shilleto  perverts  it  still  further  by 
turning  loqii{«lei<t  into  loowu  1  Vet  ou 
p.  360,  23  sqq. ;  134,  42,  Part,  I.  sect.  2.  mem. 
subs.  15,  the  same  passage  of  Dousa  is  quoit, 
at  greater  length,  the  epithet  of  ttn-fMi  spelt 
loquutcUia  (i.e.,  loaitvlem),  and  the  reference 
given  by  Barton  to  Dousa,  'Epodon,'  lib.  ii. 
car.  2. 

P.  93,  n.  2 ;  50.  n.  d,  "  is  stipo  contentna," 
&e.  ;  p.  93,  8;  50,  13,  "damnificas  linguas,"! 
drc;  p.  93,  n.3;  50,  n.  ♦,  "Plus  accipiunt,"! 
Ac. ;  p.  93,  n.  4  ;  60,  n.  e,  "Tothxa  injustitiu*,*^ 


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«tc.  ;  p.  93,  15  ;  50,  19,  "fovere  caiisas,"  <kc. ; 
p.  93,  15;  50,  20,  "patrocinantur,"  Ac. ;  p.  93, 
n.  7 ;  50,  n.  f,  "  Nam  quocunque  modo,"  Ac.  ; 
p.  93,  1.   IG;   50,  21,  '*ut  loculo8,"  &c.    For 
these  eight  quotations  see  John  of  Salisbury's 
'  Policratiou8,'    Lib.    V.    cap.    10,    the    same 
chapter  to  which    Burton's    two  preceding 
quotations  belong.    See  g"'  S.  xi.  323,  col.  1. 
Edward  Bensly, 
The  Univeraity,  Adolftide,  South  Aastralia. 
{Tob{.CQiUinMd^) 


DAMAGE  TO  CORN. 

In  the  Month  for  Februarj-  last  there  is 
a  very  interesting  paper  by  the  Hon.  Mrs. 
Maxwell-Scott  on  Antoinette  de  Bourbon, 
Duchesne  do  Guise,  grandmother  of  Mary, 
Queen  of  Scots,  who  owed,  we  are  told,  a 
great  part  of  her  early  education  to  the 
Duchess's  care,  A  strikinj^  passage  occurs 
in  this  article  (p.  182),  which  I  proceed  to 
quote : — 

"Her  [ilse  Ducheas's]  children  were  not  allowed 
to  foFKet  their  duties  to  others.  One  day  the 
young  iirinces,  in  the  courae  of  some  hunting-party, 
no  doubt,  rode  over  a  field  of  corn.  This  came  (o 
their  mother'^  knowledge,  and  the  next  day  at 
table  there  was  no  bread.  To  the  oxcIainationH 
and  questions  of  her  sons,  she  simply  replied,  '  My 
children,  we  must  economize  the  corn,  as  you 
destroy  the  future  harvest !' " 

This  in  an  interesting  illustration  of  the 
religiotis  reverence  in  which  com  was  held  in 
times  when  famines  were  frequent  and  the 
dread  of  them  ever  haunted  the  imagination 
of  the  poor.  The  occurrence  of  famines  oven 
entered  into  the  dream-world  of  romance,  as 
the  At/unctum  pointed  out  some  time  ago 
(10  October,  1903,  p.  486),  for  in  the  'Lay  of 
Havelok  the  Dane  we  hear  of  a  great  dearth 
at  Grimsby  when  food  was  plentiful  at 
Lincoln.  The  minds  of  men  were  deeply 
impressed  in  old  times  by  the  well-known 
fact  that  people  might  be  suffering  from 
hunger  iu  one  part  of  the  island  while  the 
necessities  of  life  might  be  plentiful  in 
another.  Xow  such  horrors  are  wellnigh 
forgotten  by  all  but  historical  students,  but 
thoy  might  have  occurred  at  any  time  before 
the  modern  means  of  transit  had  been 
evolved.  Accidental  injury  to  corn-crops  is, 
I  need  not  May,  not  unfrequent  now,  but  we 
hear  little  of  wanton  damage.  Occasionally 
the  young  wheat  near  a  fox  cover  may  bie 
ir&inpled  out  of  life,  but  this  is  a  rare  occur- 
rence, and  when  it  does  happen  ample  com- 
nonsation  is  commonly  ma<je  to  the  owner  ; 
nut  in  manor  court  rolls  of  the  soventeentli, 
sixteenth,  and  earlier  centuries,  I  have  often 
met  with  regulations  and  fines  relating  to 


such  matters.  For  example,  in  the  Scotter 
(Lincolnshire)  Roll  for  1578  there  is  a  bylaw 
"  that  no  man  shall  make  no  bye  wayes 
througheanie  parte  of  the  Come  fcildes,  in 
payne  of  euery  one  found  in  the  same  defalt 
xii'«";  and  in  the  following  year  Richard 
Paycocke  was  fined  a  like  sum  because  ha 
permitted  a  mare  and  her  foal  "ire  ad  largum 
in  carapo  seininato."  Sometimes  offences  of 
this  kind  found  a  place  in  the  literature  of 
the  people.  In  'Tlio  Jolly  Pinder  of  Wake- 
field among  the  '  Robin  Hoo<l  Ballads.'  for 
example^  the  fight  takes  place  because  Robin 
and  his  men  hud 

Forsaken  the  kinji^'a  highway, 
And  made  a  path  over  the  corn. 
The  f  Jhurch  iu  the  Middle  Ages  undoubtedly 
regarded  acts  of  this  nature  ua  sins.  la 
Myrc'a  '  Instructions  for  Parish  Priests,*  a 
fifteenth-century  poem,  issued  by  the  Early 
English  Text  Society,  we  read  (p.  46) : — 

Hast  ))ow  ay  cast  vp  lydo  jato 

bere  beatus  imue  go  in  ate  ? 

Hast  |*ow  l-atruyed  corn  or^ras 

Or  ojHsr  I'yngo  ))at  soweu  wasT 

Hast  Jiou  I-oomo  in  any  sty 

And  cropped  jerua  of  come  |>ebyT 

Art  |>ou  I- wont  oner  corn  to  rytle 

When  l>ou  myjtest  hane  go  by  syde? 

Taj'lor,    the    Water    Poet,    who    frequently 

reflects  the  thoughts  of  the  common  people, 

tells  us : — 

I  saw  a  fellow  take  a  white  loaf'a  pith. 

And  rub  his  roaster's  white  shoes  clean  therewith  ; 

And  I  did  know  that  fellow  (for  his  pride) 

To  want  both  bread  and  meat  before  he  died. 

'Superbias  Flagellum,'  p.  34. 
As  quoted  in  Southey's  'Common-Place  Book,' 
i.  517. 

In  Sweden  injuring  corn  ia  regarded  as  a 
moral  as  well  a.s  a  legal  offence.  There  i.s 
a  pretty  legend  illu-jtrative  of  this  wholesome 
feeling : — 

"Halting  at  Manketorp,  we  visit  a  chaT)el  of 
English  Hi.  David,  apostle  of  Waatmaniand.  He 
came  from  Britain  shortly  before  Sigfrid  died,  and 
stands  high  in  the  annals  of  the  Church  for  the 
parity  of  nis  life.  Tradition  tella  how,  when  his 
evesisht  began  to  fail,  as  he  entered  his  humble 
chamber,  a  sunbeam  woa  peeping  through  the 
narrow  window.  Mistaking  it  for  a  ])eg,  he  sus- 
pended his  gloves  thereon,  and  the  suubuaiu  bore 
them  up.  \Vhen  St.  David  sent  his  pupil  to  fetch 
his  gloves,  lo  !  to  his  surprise,  the  boy  beheld  them 
Blill  hanging  to  the  sunbeam  ;  he  ran  and  told  his 
master,  who  tliaukcd  Heaven,  for  he  felt  this  to  be 
a  token  that  his  sins  were  fori^iven.  From  that  day 
a  sunbeam  was  always  at  his  service.  Ouoe  the 
gloves  fell  to  the  floor :  then  the  holy  man  felt  he 
had  committed  some  sin,  and,  in  anguish  of  mind, 
recollected  how  that  day  he  had  trodden  down 
some  ears  of  corn,  and  though  but  few  grains  were 
sitilt.  yet  even  this  little  was  the  Lora's  gift,  and 
should  have  been  food  for  the  poor." — Horace  • 
Marryat,  '  One  Year  in  Sweden,'  1862,  voL  ii.  p.  10k 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       uo*  »■  i-  apbh.  o.  ism. 


In  Drano'a  'History  of  St.  Catiierine  of 
Siena'  we  ^^^  'hat  she  objected  to  even 
maaty  corn  being  wasted.  "  Will  you  cast 
that  away  that  Ood  bath  sent  for  the  aus- 
tenaoce  of  man !"  she  said,  and  is  reported  to 
have  worked  a  miracle  to  make  the  bread  of 
this  corn  good  for  the  poor  (p.  201). 

Sir  Charle^j  Fellows,  in  bis  '  Travels  in  Asia 
Minor,"  writing  of  Phrygia,  says  (p,  104)  that 

"as  soon  as  the  Ir&y  wm  removed,  the  carpet 
WAS  gwept,  lest  any  orumbs  should  have  fftlleu,  it 
bcini;  a,  religious  law  never  to  tread  on  food." 

The  oath  by  grass  and  corn  seems  to  have 
been  regardea  as  a  very  solemn  one,  as  appeal- 
ing to  corn,  the  chief  need  of  man,  and  grasv, 
that  which  sustains  his  servants  of  the  brute 
creation.  It  occurs  in  the  ballad  of  '  Young 
Hautia '  :— 

And  she  aware  by  the  grass  sae  green, 

Sae  did  she  by  the  com. 
That  aho  had  na  seen  him,  young  Huntin, 

iSin  yesterday  at  luorn. 
W.  K.  Aytoun's  *  Hallada  of  Scotland,'  ii.  69. 

Another  version   of  this  ballad,  containing 
the  obove  lines,  occurs  in  Scott's  'Border 
Minstrelsy/  under  the  name  of  Earl  Richaril. 
Edward  Peacock. 
Wickentree  House,  Kirtou-iu-Lindsoy. 


The  Gbkuam  Repeint  of  Leh.arkagas 
Books.  (See  9^''  S.  xi.  64,  112,  101,  27G, 
-393.) — The  Editor  having  been  kind  enough 
to  recommend  to  the  ''confidence"  of  his 
readers  (9""  S.  xi.  140)  my  reprint  of  Leicar- 
raga's  translation  of  St.  ilattliew's  Gospel,  I 
feel  bound  to  point  out  that  I  stupidly  allowed 
some  of  the  "Faults  committed  m  the  Print " 
•(as  they  are  called  in  'The  Historieof  Tithes,' 
1618)  of  the  original  to  be  reproduced  in  that 
Coapel.  as  well  as  in  the  Oxford  reprint  of  the 
rest  of  the  New  Testament,  in  another 
odition  they  must  be  corrected  by  reading  as 
follows :— p.  9,  V.  2,  <,'uenean ;  p.  19,"v.  16,  agueri 
zaiztent^^dt ;  p.  38,  v.  7,  ciradela  has ;  p.  58, 
V.  29,  cedin  Galileaco ;  p.  79,  v.  12,  lain- 
coaren;  v.  15.  haourrac ;  p.  80,  v.  22.  recebi- 
turen  j  p.  00,  v.  28,  zarezquiote  iusto ;  p.  399, 
V.  3G,  uire;  p.  344,  v.  33,  vicitze  eraan 
draucana  :  p.  361,  v.  26,  citic  hire;  p.  376, 
V.  3G,  e(;a(;ue  Arguia;  p.  378,  v.  3,  guciac  j 
V.  5,  uric  ;  p.  395,  v.  4,  ciraflen  ;  jj.  397,  v.  22, 
officieretaric  batec,  present  cela,  cihor ;  p.  608, 
V.  1,  ^'aroten  ;  p.  688,  v.  1,  ^areten. 

Some  of  these  mistakes  of  the  first,  second, 
and  third  editions  are  not  mere  misprints, 
but  oversights  of  the  translator,  contfictiug 
with  his  own  usual  practice  and  the  laws  of 
his  liincuage.  Some  of  them  have  already  been 
ipoiated  out  in  tay  statement  published  in  the 


Annual  lleport  of  the  Trinitarian  Bible 
Society  for  1903,  of  which  an  amended  off- 
print of  100  copies  was  distributed  last 
November. 

The  Royal  Academy  of  Sciences  of  Holland 
has  very  graciousl}'  promised  to  publish  thiJi 
month  my  'Analytical  Synopsis  of  tho  281 
Forms  of  the  Verb  which  occur  i  -ties 

to  the   Ephesians    and    the    1'  nn** 

in  Lei<;arraga's  translation.  Wiilv  tii«  excep- 
tion of  the  Acts  of  the  Apostle-s,  all  the 
hitherto  unprinted  parts  oi  this  laborious 
task  are  ready  for  press,  and  awaiting  the 
benevolence  of  individuals  or  so  ■'  '       'a 

funds  for  such  un remunerative  i 

to  comparative  grammar.  It  wii^  unm naKi-u 
to  prevent  any  one  from  sayinj^  again  of 
Baskish,  in  the  word>jof  Psalm  Ixxiii.,  "Then 
sought  I  to  understand  this,  but  it  was  too 
hard  for  mo."  E.  S.  Dodusos. 

Caj^t.  Wogan,— I  suppose  it  in  too  late  in 
the  day  to  attempt  to  open  the  eyes  of  those 
who  take  their  itiformation  regarding  Scotch 
history  from  Walter  Scott.  But  I  would  like 
to  draw  the  attention  of  unbias^^ed  readers  to 
the  extraordinarily  inaccurate  allusions  to  the 
above  personage  in  Scott".s  '  Waverley.* 
Wogan  is  first  mentioned  in  this  novel 
as  "  the  pallant  Uapt.  Wogan,  who  renounced 
the  service  of  the  usurper  Cromwell  to  join 
the  standard  of  Charles  II.,  marched  a  handful 
of  cavalry  from  London  to  the  Highlands  to 
join  Middlcton,  then  in  arms  for  the  King, 
and  at  length  died  gloriously  in  the  royal 
cause."  His  march  took  place  in  Novernber- 
December,  1653,  and  he  went  to  join  Glencaim 
in  the  Higlilands,  and  died  late  in  January  or 
early  in  February  of  1654.  Middlcton  ^^•as 
not  then  in  Scotland,  but  arrived  some  time 
about  the  en<l  of  February  of  the  same  year. 
So  that  Wogan's  career  was  at  an  end  before 
Middleton  appeared  on  the  scene  (Gardiner, 
'Commonwealth  and  Protectorate,'  ii.  408. 
407).  Nor  is  it  the  ca.se  that  Wogan  renounced 
the  service  of  Cromwell  to  enter  on  this 
march.  He  had  desert^^l  the  Parliameutarv 
service  to  join  the  Scotch  army  whicn 
invaded  England  in  104*i  under  the  Duko  of 
Hamilton  (Carl vie,  'Cromwell,'  ii.  p.  198); 
and  had  since  then  done  service  in  Ireland. 
He  now  started  from  Paris  to  make  his  way 
through  England  to  Scotland  to  take  part  in 
the  insurrection  there.  In  chap,  x.xix.  we  arc 
told  "  he  had  originally  engaged  in  the  service 
of  the  Parliament,  but  had  abjured  that  party 
upon  the  execution  of  Charles  I."  As  already 
pointed  out,  Wogan  had  left  the  Parlia- 
mentary sernce  before  the  death  of  Charlea  I. 
We  are  next  told  that  ''on  bearing  ttmt  the 


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royal  standard  was  set  up  by  the  Earl  of 
Olencairn  and  General  Midcfleton  in  the 
Highlanrls,''  he  came  over  into  England.  The 
royal  standard  was  set  up  at  Killin  on 
27  July,  165.T.  and  the  office  of  Commander- 
in-Chief  of  his  Majesty's  forces  in  Scotland 
was  held  by  Glencairn  until  the  arrival  of 
Aliddleton  at  the  end  of  February  of  the 
following  year.  Immediately  on  his  arrival 
Glencaira  was  superseded  by  Sir  George 
Monro.  But  Scott's  inaccuracy  in  this  matter 
surely  reaches  its  heiehton  the  opposite  page, 
where  we  find  Flora  iSIacIvor's  poem  on  tno 
oak  tree  marking  "  the  grave  of  Capt.  Wogan. 
kilted  in  1649  (!)"  Vet  some  have  proposed 
that  our  youth  should  be  taught  history  in 
schools  by  means  of  Scott's  works. 

J.   WlLLCOCK. 

Lerwick. 

'The  Creevey  Papebs.'— On  p.  78of  these 
there  is  a  letter  from  Mr.  Creevey  to  Dr.  Carrie, 
dated  July,  1S06,  and  on  p.  80  another  from  the 
same  to  tne  same,  dated  "12  July."  In  the 
latter  ca.se  the  year  is  pr&sumably  also  1806, 
since  Creevey's  account  of  what  took  place  in 
the  House  the  previous  night  is,  in  a  foot- 
note, buttressed  by  a  quotation  from  '  Han- 
sard '  of  11  July,  1806.  Now  the  curious  part 
of  the  matter  ia  that  Dr.  Currie  (presuming 
the  Dr.  Currio  of  the  numerous  letters 
between  Creevey  and  Currie  to  be  one  and  the 
same  person)  died  31  August,  1805.  See  *  Life 
of  Dr.  Currie,'  vol.  i.  403  (Longmans,  18.31). 
Sir  Herbert  Max  well,  on  p.  vi  of  the  Introduc- 
tion to  the  ■  Papers,'  gives  a  brief  account,  in 
a  foot-note,  of  Dr.  Currie,  and  there  also  the 
I  dates  are  given  1766-1805. 

"Whilst  on  this  matter  I  may  mention  that 
SirH. Maxwell  says  nothingaboutT.  Creevey's 
parentage.  In  Boardman  s  '  Liverpool  Table 
Talk  100  Years  Ago,'  published  by  Henry 
Young,  Liverpool,  1856,  which  is  a  running 
commentary  on  the  names  appearing  in  the 
first  Liverpool  Directory,  that  of  1766,  there 
is  the  entry,  "Capt.  William  Creevy,  School 
Lane,  father  of  tlie  late  T.  Creevv,  E.sg.,  M.P.' 
Further,  in  Gomer  Williams's  '  The  Liverpool 
Privateers  '  (London,  Wm.  Heinemann,  1897), 
on  p.  489,  the  same  information  is  given. 
Capt.  William  Creevev  seems  to  have  been 
verjy  unfortunate.  While  collecting  slaves  in 
Melimba  Road,  Africa,  in  March,  1757,  lie  and 
other  ulavers  were  attacked  by  two  French 
frigates,  and  their  vessels  destroyed.  In  the 
following  year,  whilst  outward  bound  in  the 
snow  Betty,  he  was  captured  again  by  the 
French,  and  the  vessel  was  sunk.  In  17A9  we 
find  him,  in  command  of  the  Spy,  safely 
arriving  on  the  African  coaat^  but  after  that 
in  this  Dook  all  is  silence.  J.  H.  K. 


Thoma.s  R.iNDOLPH.  —  Thomas  Randolph,, 
poet  and  dramatist,  who  is  referred  to  in 
Mr,  Bayley's  note  on  Shad  well's  '  Bury  Fair' 
{ante,  p.  221),  died,  as  there  stated,  within 
three  months  of  his  thirtieth  birthday.  This 
event,  which  wa-s  the  result  of  excesses  into 
which  his  fashionable  life  had  led  him, 
occurred  at  tho  house  of  William  Stafford, 
Esq.,  of  Blatherwyke  House,  Northampton- 
shire, and  he  was  buried  there  among  the 
ancestors  of  that  family,  "in  an  aisle  adjoining? 
the  church,"  17  ilarcti,  1634.  A  monument, 
still  on  the  church  wall,  was  erected  to  his 
memory  at  the  expense  of  Sir  Christopher 
Hatton,  and  it  bears  an  inscription  composed 
by  Randolph's  most  intimate  friend,  Peter 
Hauated.  It  is  quaint  enough,  perhaps,  for  a 
place  in  '  N.  &  Q  ,'  and  runs  as  lollows  : — 

Here  aleepe  tLirt«en  together  in  one  Tnmbe 
And  all  these  great — yet  tjaarrel  not  for  room. 
The^Iuaes  and  the  Graces'  team  did  meet 
And  graved  these  tetters  on  ye  churlish  aheete  ; 

Who,  having  wept  their  KountAineB  drye 
Through  the  conduit  of  ye  eye 
For  their  friend  who  here  doth  lye, 
Crent  iato  his  grave  and  died— 
Ana  BO  the  riddle  is  nntyed. 

For  which  this  Uhurch— proudly  the  Fates  bequeath. 
Uuto  her  ever  honored  trust 
So  much  (and  that  so  precious)  dust- 
Hath  crowned  her  temples  with  an  ivy  wreath. 
Which  should  liave  laurel  been 
But  that  the  grieved  )ilant  to  see  him  dead 
Took  pet  and  withered. 

Fuller  says  of  him  : — 

"The  Muaea  may  seem  not  only  to  ha%'e  smiled, 
but  to  have  been  tickled  at  his  nativity  and  the 
festivity  of  hiB  poems  of  all  sorts." 

Alan  Stewart. 

7,  New  Sqttare,  Lincoln's  Inn. 

Martello  Towers.— The  following  cutting 
from  the  column  headed  '  Books  and 
Authors'  in  the  MoiTung  Pott  for  4  March 
may  perhaps  be  thought  worth  preservation, 
though  I  am  not  sure  that  a  similar  expla- 
nation has  not  previously  been  given  in 
'N.  iQ.':- 

"  A  much-vexed  etymological  problen),  the  origin 
of  the  name  '  Martello  Tower,"  can  now  be  regarded 
as  Hnaliy  solved.  The  ourious  erections  to  be  seen 
along  the  southern  coast  were  known  to  have  been 
imitated  from  a  Corsican  fort,  first  taken  from  the 
French  by  a  member  of  the  VVolseley  family  in  1793, 
but  recaptured  ami  again  held  against  the  Bntiah 
two  years  later.  How  the  name  arose  was  disputed. 
Two  explanations,  inKenioua  but  quite  baseless, 
wore  propounded.  The  first  derived  it  from  » 
desiguor,  one  Martel.  who  has  existed  solely  in  the 
realm  of  hyjMJthoais.  The  other  took  the  term  to 
Iw  neither  moi-e  nor  less  than  the  Itahan  word  for 
'  hammer,' it  being  supjwsed  that  a  small  instra- 
ment  of  the  kind  was  used  to  »lrike  a  bell  inside 
the  tower  aa  a  warning  of  approachio*.  v****** 


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The  simitle  truth  ia  that  the  word  should  really  ba 
■pett  '  Mortella,'  aud  as  such  atmeara  in  the  con- 
temporar/ map  given  by  !Sir  J.  t.  Maurice  in  hia 
recently  issued  publication  of  'Sir  Jolin  Moore's 
Diary.'  The  name  was  applied  lo  a  tower  and  bay 
on  the  north  coast  of  Corsica,  and  in  all  probability 
was  given  in  allusion  to  the  myrtle,  which  grows 
Juxuriantly  ou  that  part  of  the  coast." 

The  Punta  Mortella  is  a  small  promontory 
situated  in  the  Gulf  of  St.  Florent,  on  the 
jiorth- western  coaat  of  Corsica,  a  few  milea 
to  the  north  of  the  town  of  that  name. 
Headers  of  the  late  Henry  Seton  Merrimao's 
covel  *The  Isle  of  Unrest,'  which  gives  a  life- 
like picture  of  the  people  and  scenery  of 
Corsica,  will  rememoer  that  this  old  but 
decayed  town  frequently  figurOvS  in  that  story, 
^he  coaat  of  Corsica  is  studded  with  these 
enoese  watch  towers,  now  generally  in  a 
state  of  ruin.  In  the  interior  of  the  island 
the  forta  built  to  dutninate  the  .surrounding 
country  were  constructed  according  to  the 
approved  rules  of  fortification  in  the  four- 
teenth and  fifteenth  centuries,  and  are  gene- 
rally provided  with  moats  and  drawbridges. 
The  old  square  tower  of  Vivario  is  a  pic- 
turesque ruin.  The  fort  of  Vizzavona,  which 
was  built  upon  the  narrow  tongue  of  land 
that  forms  the  watershed  between  the  valley 
[of  the  Gravona  to  the  south  and  the  valley 
of  the  Vecchio  to  the  north,  ha^  unfortu- 
nately undergone  a  sort  of  restoration.  The 
results  are  disastrous,  as  from  a  distance  it 
resembles  a  modern  house  with  a  tiled  pitched 
roof  and  gable  ends,  and  from  its  commanding 
position  it  forms  a  blot  upon  a  landscajje  that 
otherwise  possesses  every  element  of  beauty. 
The  myrtle,  which  is  said  to  grow  luxuriantly 
upon  the  coast  in  the  neighbourhood  of 
Mortella,  is  found  in  abundance  everywhere. 
With  the  arbutus,  the  cystus,  and  various 
other  shrubs,  it  forms  a  principal  constituent 
of  the  tiMcc/iie,  Fr.  maquis,  or  Corsican 
'*bush,"  of  which  tiio  aromatic  odours  im- 
pregnate the  atmosphere  of  the  island.  The 
Corsican  name  for  the  myrtle  is  vuirta  in  the 
dialect  of  Ajaccio,  atid  mortn  in  that  of  Bastia. 
Of  the  latter  word  mortella  may  perhaps  be 
A  diminutive.  \V.  F.'  Pridbaux. 

Viz-zavona,  Corsica. 

ToRPKDOEii.— A  correspondent  in  the  Timet 
has  drawn  attention  to  Ben  Jonson's  'Staple 
of  News,*  wliich  contains  the  following 
dialogue  :— 

Barbtr.  They  write  hero  one  CornelluB  Son  hath 
xnade  the  Hollanders  an  invisible  eel,  to  swim  the 
haven  of  Dunkirk,  and  sink  all  the  shipping  there. 

Ptunybou.^  Dut  how  is  "t  done? 

Cumbal.  I  '11  show  you,  sir,  Ix,  is  an  Automa,  runs 
under  water,  with  a  snug  uose.  and  ha«  a  nimble 
tAU  made  like  an  auger,  with  which  tail  she  wriggles 


betwixt  the  costs  (ribe)  of  a  ship,  and  (inks  it 
straight. 

Ptniiyhoy.  A  moat  brave  device,  to  murder  their 
flat  bottoms. 

The  '  Staple  of  News  '  was,  I  understand, 
produced  in  1625.  Although  the  use  ot 
torpedoes  in  naval  warfare  was  proposed  in 
the  early  part  of  the  nineteenth  century,  no 
successful  application  of  them  was  made  until 
the  American  Civil  War  of  1S61-64.  Thi» 
matter  is,  perhaps,  sufticiently  carious  to 
deserve  mention  in  'N.  <ic  Q.' 

KlCHA&D  EDGCrUBB. 
Edgbarrow,  Crowthorne,  Berks. 

Burns  Anticipated,— It  is  mentioned  in  a 
MS.  album,  ctmz  1830-34,  in  my  ponse-ssion, 
that 

"  there  is  a  remarkable  coincidence,  almost  amount- 
ing to  identity,  between  a  passage  in  ouo  of  Bums's 
poema  and  a  sentence  ia  an  old  dramatist.  Bams 
says  :— 

Her  prentice  h«n* 

^She  tried  on  Man 

Aud  then  she  made  the  Lassc-i,  Mi  1 

In  'Cupid's  Whirligig,'  a  comedy  printed  in  1607, 
i.i  the  fallowing  passage:— '  Man  was  made  wheu 
Nature  was  but  an  appreutice,  but  V\  omao  when 
she  was  a  skilful  ^listress  of  her  Art.' " 

Whether  this  anticipation  of  Burns  b&s  been 
previously  noticed  in  print,  I  am  not  aware. 

W,  I.  K.  V. 

Pit  of  a  Theatre.— In  his  recently  pub- 
lished volume  on  the  Elizabethan  -  Stuart 
stage,  Dr,  Karl  Mantzius  hazards  a  guess  as 
to  the  original  significance  of  the  word  "pit" 
in  its  theatrical  application.  It  appears  to 
him  that  the  grouna  wsus  so  called  because  it 
formed  the  base  of  a  well-like  structure.  But 
surely  there  were  other  and  more  distinctive 
reasons  for  the  upspringing  of  the  phraae. 
To  trace  its  origin  is  to  map  out  the  genesis 
of  the  English  theatre. 

When  the  players  woreforced  by  Bumbledom 
to  desert  their  temporary  scafi'olds  in  tlie  old 
inn-yarda,  they  removed  across  the  i  iver  and 
bwilt  themRclves  permanent  theatres  on  the 
plan  of  the  neighbouring  amphitheatres  iu 
which  bulls  and  bears  had  long  been  baited. 
That  is  to  say,  the  disposition  uf  tlio  audi- 
torium was  circus-like,  out  the  arrangement 
of  the  stage,  with  its  traverses  and  permanent 
balcony,  remained  as  in  the  inn-jHitls.  For 
long  there  was  little  inclination  to  keep  the 
art  of  the  drama  free  from  the  brutalities  of 
bear-baiting.  Some,  but  not  all,  of  the 
theatres  were  built  with  removable  stages  so 
that  acting  might  bo  diversified  occa.sional]y 
by  less  refined  entertainments.  Ludwig, 
Prince  of  Anhalt,  visited  London  in  1596, 
and  subsequently  wrote  an  account  of  hia 


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travels  in  wliicli  he  pointed  out  that  in  the 
English  playhouses  bulls  and  bears  wore  not 
only  baited,  but  cock-matches  fought.  On 
8ucn  occasions  the  ground-floor  would  form 
the  bear-pit  or  coclcpit,  and  by  a  natural 
transition,  the  place,  when  utilized  by  specta- 
tors, would  come  U)  be  «poken  of  as  ''the  pit." 
If  my  interpretation  be  correct,  the  expres- 
sion "yard  as  applied  to  the  position  occu- 
pie<i  by  the  groundlings  must  have  become 
obsolete  with  the  players'  abandonment  of 
the  old  inn-yards. 

What  is  the  earliest  known  use  of  the  word 
**  pit"  in  its  strictly  theatrical  sense  1  I  c«n 
trace  it  in  Pepys  at  the  dawn  of  the  Rostora- 
tion,  but  no  earlier.  W.  J.  Lawrence. 

Bishop  Buckeridge's  Biktrplace.— John 
Buckeridge,  President  of  St.  John's  College, 
Oxford,  and  Bishop  of  Ely  in  1627,  was  not 
born  at  Draycot  Cerne^  as  stated  in  the 
'  Dictionarv  of  National  Biography,'  but  at 
Draycot  Foliat,  in  Chisledon  parish.  His 
secretary,  Anthony  Holmes,  was  told  by  the 
bishop  that  lie  was  born  at  Dmycot,  near 
Marlborough  (see  Fuller's  'Worthies,'  under 
'Wilts'),  to  which  town  Draycot  Uerne 
certainly  cannot  be  said  to  be  near.  To  show 
that  Draycot  Foliat  is  meant,  the  following 
extracts  iroiu  the  Wilts  subsidies  may  be  of 
intere.st.  William  Buckeridge,  the  bishop's 
father,  occurs  in  thesubsidy  of  the  thirty-fifth 
and  fortieth  years  of  Elizaljeth  under  Chisledon 

fiirish,  in  which  Draycot  was  then  assessed, 
n  the  year  lUOO  Thoma-s,  son  of  William, 
ooinirM,  and  ho  was  assessor  or  collector  of  the 
-lii.HJiiv  in  the  years  1610  and  1G2S.  In  1641 
\^  I  •  tind  the  name  of  the  latter's  younger  son 
Anthony.  Thomas  Buckeridge  was  pos.ses9ed 
of  tlie  farm  of  Draycot,  and  in  1649  his  elder 
Bou  Arthur  (see  ^Chancery  Bills  and  Answers,' 
Buckeridge  i>.  Fettiplace;  was  in  possession. 
The  family  came  from  Basildon,  Berks,  where 
the  elder  branch  died  out  in  the  year  1743. 
Another  branch,  that  of  Pangbourue,  the 
adjoining  village,  ceased  to  reside  there  in  or 
about  186*^.  The  family  is  of  interest,  as  it 
wa>«  kin  to  that  of  St.  John's  College,  and  the 
inntlior  of  Jethro  Tull,  the  writer  on  agri- 
rulture,  was  a  Buckeridge  of  BaniMon.  The 
i)e(iigree.s  as  given  by  Wilder  of  Sulbam  and 
Bltttidy  t)f  Chaddleworth  (see  Berry.  'Berks 
I'ciliL'iicM.'  ii.ri<l  T',iirl-.>  s  '  I^anded  Gentry')  are 
iiilied  claimed  kinship 
)Ugh  the  Buckeridgea, 
'  endofJ  from  Thomas 
I  ',  brother  of  the  bishop. 

i  lii  I;,  ;  i..  was  in  reality  the  only  son  of 
.IxiiN  Ku<  I..  ;  idge  of  Basildon  and  Katharine, 
adaughtorof  Tnomaa  Pleydellof  Shrivenham, 


and  his  will  wa.s  proved  in  UJ''3  ;  \ut  father, 
John,  w£is  a  first  cousin  of  the  bishop,  and 
therefore  not  entitled  to  kinship  with  the 
founder  of  Ht.  John's.  The  bishop's  brother 
Thomas,  as  we  see  in  the  subsidies,  was  of 
Draycot  (see  also  his  brother  Arthur's  will, 
which  was  proved  in  1638,  and  where  he  w 
styled  "  ray  brother  Thomas  of  Dracot"),  but 
later,  probably  through  his  wife's  connexion 
with  the  place — she  wiw  a  Goddard  of 
Swindon  ;  and  in  his  will,  which  was  proved 
1055,  wo  mid  him  of  Ham,  in  Clifle  Pypard, 
There  is  a  pedigree  (Harleian  MS.)  which 
correctljy  states  the  descent,  and  as  this  and 
the  pedigrees,  as  given  in  Berry  are  certified 
by  heralds,  it  is  somewhat  difficult  to  attach 
importance  to  such  certificates. 

Arthur  Stepbess  D\'EE. 
28,  Leamington  Road  Villaa,  W. 

PrT=A  Grave,— Looking  through  the  six- 
teenth and  early  seventeenth  century  burial 
registers  of  the  church  of  St.  Peter.  Corn- 
hill,  I  was  struck  with  tiie  constant  use 
of  this  word.  The  following  are  a  few 
examples  :— 

"  159:{,  '25  Jkii.  John  Randoll,  Draper  and  Sexton 
of  tiii      '        '     'is  pit  in  the  belfrie. 

"  I'l'  Honry  Orables,  Noniie  of  Robert 

l)ral)l>  iiKer.  las  lul  in  theeast  y"^.'' 

"  lotK*.  lih/jiU-lTi  VVhitt'head,  M'  Hunters  maid, 
her  pit  in  the  east  yard." 

"  ItMG,  Mar.  30.  Our  Reverent  Tiialor.  Mr.  Tho. 
Colema',  pitt  in  ye  vpi>erijnd  of  ye  chancell." 

The  grave  is  often  described  as  the  pit  by 
the  Psalmist ;  but  it  is  not  common  tu  find  it 
so  designated  in  parish  registers  at  all  events 
so  late  as  1646.  PIenry  FisawicK. 

"  MucK-A-LUCKs."— I  first  met  with  this  in 
the  At/iatarum,  6  January,  VMO,  in  a  review  of 
a  book  called  'Two  Women  in  the  Klondvke.' 
The  reviewer  remarked  that  the  author,  Mrs. 
Hitclicock,  "  wove  muck  a  luch  ;  what  they 
are  we  shall  not  attempt  to  guess."  The  term 
is  not  in  existing  English  dictionaries,  but  it 
is  to  be  found  in  most  modern  works  on  tho 
Klondyke.  Jack  London  8i>ell.s  it  murines  in 
his 'Children  of  the  Frost,'  1902,  p.  90.  As 
the  'N.E.D.'  will  doubtless  include  it,  I  have 
been  at  some  pains  to  trace  its  history.  It  is 
from  tho  Eskimo  word  for  a  seal,  wi'I^AVy  (so 
written  by  Father  Barnum,  in  his  '  Inuuit 
Language,'  1901).  This  was  exteiidetl  to 
mean,  first,  the  skin  of  the  soal,  then  the 
seiilskiii  boots  of  the  white  miners,  pic- 
'.•  described  in  the  Pnll  M<ill 
vol.  xxiii.  p.  66,  as  "  water-tight, 
clumsy,  o\  il  smelling,  so  large  that  hay  is  put 
inside  to  make  a  good  l)ed  for  tlio  foot,  and 
so  loose  that  leather  thongs  must  be  wrapped 


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around  instep  aiul  ankle."  Tliat  the  above  is 
the  true  etymolog}'  appears  from  the  following 
qaotations  :— 

"  Their  boots  vary  in  lenffth,  and  in  the  material 
used  for  the  sides,  bat  all  nave  soles  of  mwclock,  or 
seal-akin."— F,  VVhymper,  'Travels  in  Alaska,' 
1868.  p.  13(i. 

"  rhe  Inuuit  name  of  the  same  seal  is  niuklok, 
a  word  which  is  also  used  by  the  Russians  to 
deaieuate  seal-skin.  "—W.  H.  Dall,   'Alaska,'   1870, 

Jas.  Platt,  Jun. 


Wk  must  request  correspondents  desiring  in- 
formation  on  fantily  matters  of  only  private  intereat 
to  affix  their  names  and  addresses  to  their  queries, 
in  order  that  the  ansvrera  maybe  addressed  to  them 
direct. 

"Sm-^-LLAge."  — What  iH  the  origin  of  thia 
word  ]  It  does  not  tx^cur  in  the  'Encyclo- 
ptedic  Di<;tionary,'  nor  in  Paxton'a  'Botanical 
Dictionary,'  but  is  still  used,  I  believe,  at 
any  rate  in  some  part8  of  the  country.  In 
Herrick's  '  Hesperideu,'  No.  220,  we  have  the 
lines  :  — 

Dear  Perenna,  prithee  come 
And  with  smallsge  dresa  my  tomb. 
This,  in  Pollard's  edition,  ia  explained  to 
mean  the  vvater-parsley.  In  Syme's  '  English 
Botany,"  however,  we  are  UAd  (vol.  iv.  p.  99) 
that  amallage  means  the  wild  celery  {Apium 
ffraveolenis),yvith  whichagrees  the ' Cyclopiedia' 
of  Rees.  Halliwell  gives  "smallage,"  and 
calls  it  the  water-parsley,  quoting  a  passage 
from  Heywood's  ^Marriage  Triumph  (1613), 
But  according  to  Syine  the  latter  is  the 
English  name  of  a  species  of  (E  nan  the. 

m    ,  u     .  '^^^  T.  Lynn. 

Blaokheath. 

rSmallaj?e= water -parsley,    occurs    in    Barclay's 
Argeuis,'  translated  by  Le  Grys.] 

Lords  Raymo.vd  and  Pengellv.— On  p.  62 
of  a  booklet  entitled  "The  Stranger's  Guide 
through  London  ;  or,  a  View  of  the  British 
Metropolis  in  1808,  by  William  Carey,"  occurs 
this  note:  "  Furnival's  Inn,  situatecl  in  Hol- 
born,  contains  a  hall,  about  70  feet  by  24, 
in  which  are  portraits  of  Lords  Raymond 
and  Pengelly."  What  is  become  of  these 
portraits?  E.  S.  Dodgson. 

Immctremknt  in  Sea-Walls.— 'In  the  Fen- 
land  Past  and  Present,*  by  S.  H.  Miller  and 
S.  B.  J.  Skertchly,  1878,  it  is  said  that 
formerly,  when  an  inundation  was  caused  by 
neglect  of  the  aea-walls,  the  man  in  fault 
in  some  cases  "  had  his  sins  brought  home  to 
mm  in  a  striking  manner— he  was  placed  in 
the  breach  and   built  in."    Whence  ia  this 


statement  derived  ?  Does  it  occur  in  Dug- 
dale's  '  History  of  Imbanking  and  Draining  of 
Fens  and  Marshes '?  M.  P. 

"Monkey  on  the  chimney."— This  saying 
indicates  the  existence  of  a  mortgage  on  a 
house.  It  is  said  to  be  current  in  Devonshire, 
but  I  have  not  met  with  it  before.  W^hat  is 
its  origin,  and  how  does  the  comparison  hold 
good  ?  A.  J.  Daw. 

Torquay. 

St.  Mewbred,— What  is  on  recoi-d  about 
this  saint,  to  whom  Cardinham  Church  is 
dedicated  1  I  have  Mr.  lago's  paper  on  Car- 
diniiam  (JouiTinl  R.  I.  C'oi^wall,  six.,  Nov., 
1877),  which  quotes  William  of  Worcester 
for  St.  Mybbard  ulitis  Colrog  •  but  the  refer- 
ence "  concerning  St.  Mewbreu  see  also  Bothes 
Reg.  fo.  22,"  Ls  beyond  my  reach. 

C.  S.  Wabd. 

Gerakde  Jodb.  —  Can  any  correspondent 
give  me  information  respecting  the  artist 
Gerarde  Jodel  VValteb  L.  Joue. 

[There  ia  a  notice  of  thia  artist  and  his  works  in 
Bryan's  '  Dictionary  of  Painters  and  Engravers.'] 

Le-sub  Stephen's  'English  Literatueb 
AND  Society  in  the  Eighteenth  CENTirRY.' 
— There  are  two  references  in  thia  delightful 
volume  about  which  I  venture  to  ast  for 
information.  On  p.  KX) Stephen  says:  "When 

the  '  moneyed  men  ' were  roused  by  the 

story  of  Capt.  Jenkins's  ear,  Walpole  fell "; 
and  on  p.  13G,  "Crusoe  is  the  voice  of  the 
race  which  was  to  be  stirred  by  the  story  of 
Jenkins's  ear  and  lay  the  foundation  of  the 
Empire."  Who  was  Jenkins,  and  what  is  the 
story  1 

On  p.  123  occurs  :— 

"  The  taste  [for  gardening]  has,  I  supuoee,  existed 
ever  since  our  ancestors  mere  turned  out  of  the 
Garden  of  Eden.  Milton's  deacriptioD  of  that 
I  TiZace  of  residence,  and  Bacon's  famous  essay,  and 
Cowley's  poems  addressed  lo  the  ((reat  authority 
Evelyn,  and  most  of  all  perhaps  Maxwell's  inimit- 
able description  of  the  verv  essence  of  garden,  may 
remind  ua  that  it  flourished  in  the  seveuteeDtu 
century," 

Will  some  reader  tell  me  something  of 
Maxwell  ?  G.  W.  P.  S. 

[For  the  War  of  Jenkins's  Kar  aee  Prof.  Lau^h- 
ton's  article  on  Robert  Jenkins,  master  mariner, 
in  the  '  D.N.B.,' or  Rawaon  Gardiner's  'Stttdeot'C 
History  of  England '  nnder  173S-42.] 

SnAKE$PEARE'8  Grave.— Whatis  the  reasoal 
for  the  general  belief  that  the  slab  in  tb»^ 
chancel  in  the  church  at  Stratford  covers 
the  grave  of  Shakspere  ?  It  bears  four  linea 
of  doggerel,  but  says  nothing  about  Shak*. 
spere.  The  monument  in  the  north  wall  sayw 
that  Shakspere  is  "  within  this  monament.'* 


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Of  course  thig  cannot  be  taken  literally, 
bat  the  natural  interpretation  would  be  that 
the  body  was  beneath  the  monument,  not 
several  feet  away  and  beyond  another  crave. 
I  have  never  heard  of  the  matter  oeinK 
questioned,  but  I  have  never  seen  it  stated 
on  what  authority  that  particular  grave  is 
identified  with  Shakspero's  earlier  than  Dug- 
dale's  statement  in  his  '  Antiquities  of  War- 
wickshire,' which  was  published  forty  years 
after  Sliakspere's  death  and  would  seem  to 
be  mere  traaition.  Is  tliere  earlier  authoritjy  1 
De  Quincey  and  Knight  thought  that  the 
stone  with  the  doggerel  was  put  there  "  as  a 
sort  of  siste  viator  appeal  to  future  sextons," 
and  was  probably  written  by  the  grave- 
digger  or  tne  parish  clerk.  It  is  true  that  at 
the  time  of  the  publication  of  Dugdale's 
book  Shakspere's  daughter  Judith  and  his 
granddaughter  Elizabeth  were  still  living, 
and  he  might  have  obtained  his  information 
from  them.  Ls  there  any  evidence  that  he 
did  ]  Isaac  Hull  Platt. 

The  Players,  16,  Graniercy  Park,  New  York.  I 

"Badger  in  the  bag."— In  Lady  Quest's 
translation  of  the '  Mabinogion,"Pwyll  Prince 
of  Dyyed,'  p.  17,  Nutt's  edition,  1902,  is  the 
following  :  "  Every  one,  as  he  came  in,  asked 
'  What  game  are  you  playing  at  thus]'  'The 
game  of  Badger  iu  the  Bag,'  said  they.  And 
then  was  the  game  of  Badger  in  the  Bag  first 

Flayed."    What  is  the  game  here  referred  to? 
do  not  find  an  explanation  in  any  book  of 
I  reference,  including  the  *  N.E.D.'        A.  G. 
Leeds. 
Halley's  Two  Voyages,  1698-1700.  —  We 
may   not  turn  naturally  to  the  life  of  an 
eminent  physicist  for    tales  of    travel  and 
daring  adventure,  yet  these  and  more  may 
be  there.    A  bibliophile  often  finds  hidden 
treasure   in    unexpected    places,    conscious, 
however,  that  every   jewel  loses  brilliancy 
when  taken  from  the  sparkling  cluster  to 
which  it  belongs.    To  place  them  in  a  new 
setting  is  a  task  which  onlv  a  skilful  lapidary 
is  able  satisfactorily  to  perform.   Occasionally 
a  collection  can  be  transferred  intact,  leaving 
the  selection  of  individual  gems  to  a  later 
hand.    There  are  one  or  two  such  collections 
which  have  been  mentionerl  in  these  columns, 
namely,  Capt.  E.  Halley's  '  Letters,'  written 
during  his  two   voyages,  and    the  original 
memoirs  of  that  aatroiioraor  by  Folkes.    "The 
former  are  in  the  Public  Record  Ortlce  (9«^  S. 

IX.  .361),  and  the  latter  ought  to  bo  in  the 
archives  of  the  Academy  of  Sciences  at  Paris, 
though  some  inquiries  therefor  remain  un- 
answered (9"*  S.  xii.  127,  and  the  Inter- 
mMiaire,    xlviii.    557).      The  two  together, 


with  notes  and  appendices,  would  be  a  con- 
siderable contribution  towards  a  biograpliy 
of  Halley.  They  might  very  appropriately 
be  accompanied  by  a  reprint  of  his  *Log* 
(22-1-83  pp.  4to),  published  by  Sir  Alex. 
Dalrymple  in  his  'Collectiot»  of  Voyages, 
chiefly  in  the  Southern  Atlantick  Ocean  ' 
(London,  1776),  of  which  a  cfipy  is  in  the 
New  York  Public  Library.  'Tne  writer  is 
indebted  to  Mr.  H.  M.  Lydenberg,  assistant 
to  director  of  that  library,  for  some  very 
interesting  particulars  of  the  book. 

In  9""  S.  X.  361  reference  was  made  to  the 
following  item  in  the  late  Bernard  Quaritch's 
'General  Catalogue  for  1880'  (p.  1202): 
•*  No.  12086.  Halley's  two  Voyages,  1699- 
1700,  Terra  Magellanica,  Falkland  Islands, 
4to,  hf.-bd.  6a.     1773-5." 

Can  any  reader  give  a  fuller  description  of 
this  book  ?  Does  it  consist  of  a  reprint  of 
Halley's  'Journal'  or  *  Ix>g,'  published  by 
Dalrymple?  Eugbne  F.  McPikb. 

Chicago,  U.S. 

Bajstolozzl — Can  any  of  your  readers  tell 
me  the  exact  title  and  date  of  publication  of 
Melchiore  Missirini's  'Life  of  Bartolozzi'? 
I  shall  also  be  glad  of  the  references  to  this 
engraver  in  the  works  of  Misani. 

Inquirer. 

'John  Ingles.knt.'— I  am  told  the  localities 
of  the  scenes  in  'John  Inglesant'  are  known  j 
that,  for  instance,  one  of  the  churches  (is  it 
Monks  Lydiard  ?)  is  near  Malvern.  The  book 
is  of  real  importance,  and  if  any  key  doea 
exist,  and  some  contributer  would  send  it  to 
your  columns,  he  would  render  a  valuable 
service  to  others  besides  Lucis. 

River  DrviDED.— Nathaniel  Crouch,  using 
the  signature  of  R.  B.,  in  his  'Admirable 
Curiosities,  Rarities,  and  Wonders  in  Eng- 
land, Scotland,  and  Ireland,'  tells  his  readers 
that 

"in  1JJ99,  before  the  Wars  of  Lancaster  and  York, 
on  New  Year's  day,  the  deep  River  between  8uel- 
Bloae  and  Harwood  (two  Villagea  near  Bedford 
Town)  call'd  Oiise,  itood  still,  and  divided  it  self, 
so  thai  for  three  niilea  the  bottom  reniainod  dry, 
and  backwards  the  Waters  Bwcll'd  to  a  great  heigh  t, 
which  wonder  wan  thought  to  presa^ce  the  divieion 
of  the  People  and  King." -Sixth  ed.,  1702,  p.  11. 

No  authority  is  given  for  this  strange  tale. 
Is  it  a  mere  fable?  or  does  it  record  .some 
geological  change  ill  understood  *? 

ASTARTE. 

Fair  Maid  of  Kent.  —  I  am  anxious  to 
discover  the  descendants  of  Joan,  the  Fair 
Maid  of  Kent.  Was  Thomas,  the  second 
Earl  of  Kent,  her  son  ?  In  that  case,  as  his 
daughter,  Margaret    HolltaA.,  icasxv.'ejS.  "^iaa 


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Earl  of  Somerset,  Joan  Beaufort,  Queen  of 
Jftinoa  I-.  was  her  creat-granddaughter.  And 
was  Eleanor  Holland,  who  married  Roger 
Mortimer,  the  son  of  Philippa,  daughter  of 
Lionel,  Duke  of  Clarence,  sister  to  the  above 
Margaret  1  And  is  there  any  record  of  issue 
of  tlie  Fair  Maid's  daughters,  Joan,  Duclieaa 
of  Brittany,  and  Maude,  who  married  the 
Com  to  de  St.  Pol  ? 

Though  I  cannot  find  the  reference,  I  have 
seen  somewhere  that  the  mother  of  Margaret, 
Countess  of  Richmond,  was  Eleanor  Holland. 
Would  she  be  a  granddaughter  or  great- 
granddaughter  of  Joan '?  I  may  mention 
that  a  descendant  of  the  Fair  Maid  of  Kent, 
through  Eleanor,  sister  of  the  last  earl,  is  the 
wife  of  a  yeoman  in  a  Worcestershire  parish, 
personally  known  to  me.  Helga. 

Architecture  in  Old  Times.  —  In  Long- 
fellow's poem  of  '  The  Builders  '  we  find  this 
stanza  : — 

In  the  elder  days  of  Art 

Builders  wrouKht  with  gruateat  c»re 
Each  minute  ana  unaeea  part ; 
For  the  goda  see  everywhere. 
That    this    is    something    more    than    mere 
poetical  hyperbole  seems  to  be  shown  by  a 
passage  in  Mozley'a  '  Reminiscences  of  Oriel 
College,'  i.  32  :— 

"As  an  iiutance  of  the  way  in  which  reliRious 
«CDtiment  was  now  beginning  to  be  dissociated 
from  practical  boaringa  and  necessities,  Froude 
would  frenuently  mention  the  cxqumlf.lu  jiniahtid 
thlaiU  at  Vork  Miualer,  and  other  cliiirchen,  in 
eiiiiaiionA  H-h'-re  noiychiU  the  eye  of  Ilea  an  tonld 
possibly  reach  Ihem."  (The  iulica  are  mine.) 
It  would  be  interesting  to  have  other  illus- 
trations of  this  praiseworthy  sentiment,  so 
diflFerent  from  our  modern  utilitarianism. 
0.  Lawrence  Ford. 

Fable  from  Ariosto.— Iq  Mr.  Christie 
Murray's  novel  *  Hearts,'  chap.  v.  (1892), 
occurs  the  following  :  — 

"ArioBto's  fable  is  true.  God  found  one  day  a 
lump  of  gold,  and  he  wrapt  it  in  lead  and  cast  it 
upf)ii  the  earth,  and  that  was  the  Engliah  p«oi>le. 
And  you  have  beea  ashamed  of  the  gold,  and  proud 
to  show  thd  wretched  lead  over  since," 
I  have  spent  some  time  in  seeking  for  this 
fable  in  my  folio  Ariosto,  of  nearly  1 000 
pages,  in  vain.  Can  any  reader  of  '  liT.  <fe'  Q.' 
place  the  "dicte  and  saying  "T 

Jame«  Hooper. 
Norwich. 

Fish  Days  :  their  Number.— I  am  anxious 
to  learn  if  the  153  fish  days  formerly  com- 
pulsory in  each  year  had  any  connexion  with 
the  153  fish  in  the  miraculous  draught  of 
fishes  alluded  to  in  John  xxi.  II.  In  his 
life  of  Dean  Colet,  the  founder  of  St  PatU's 


School,  J.  H.  Lupton  state'        *    '  -  -nra 
of  scholars  at  St.  Paul's  Bl 
to  be  153,  according  to  the  ii~^,xi.j^^  ^i 
Dr.  Colot  calculated   that  the  school  half- 
holidays,  holidays,   and  Sundays,   in  whic 
there  was  to  be  no  teaching,  also  amoun 
to  153  at  St.   Paul's.     Was   the  number 
these  holidays  introduced  in  memory  of  the 
sacred  haul  uf  fishes  I 

J-  LAWEENCE-HAMlLTOy,  M.R.C.S. 

Barbers.— I  have  been  preparing  for  some 
years  a  littlo  work  on  barbers,  which  will 
shortly  \>e  issued  under  the  title  of  '  At  the 
Sign  of  the  Barber's  Pole.'  I  am  anxious  to 
include  in  it  short  notices  of  notable  barbers, 
and  of  the  famous  sons  of  barbers.  Refer- 
ences to  these  men  will  oblige. 

WiLiiAM  Andrews. 

Hull  Royal  Institution. 

[See  9>»S.ii.  191,413.] 

Heraldic  Reference  ix  Shakespbark. — 
Has  the  following  description  ever  been 
identifiwi  with  any  bodge  or  device  borne  by 
the  Yorkist  party  ?  or  is  it  only  an  imaginary 
one  suggested  by  the  "sun  and  cloud  "  known 
to  have  been  U8e<l  by  Edward  III.  and  his 
son  the  Black  Prince  ?  The  reference  is 
contained  in  the  siieech  of  the  sea-captain  to 
the  Duke  of  Suffolk,  '2  Heury  VI.,'  iV.  i.  :— 
And   DOW   the   houae  of  York— thrust  from    the 

crown 
By  shivnioful  murder  of  a  guiltless  king. 
And  lofty  proud  encroaching  tyranny- 
Burns  witu  revenging  tire  ;  whose  hopeful  ooloom 
Advance  our  half-faced  sun,  striving  to  ahinu. 
Under  the  which  is  writ  "  Invitia  nubibue." 

The  commentaries  of  Malone  and  Dyee 
merely  quote  Camden's  remark  about 
Edward  III.'s  badge  without  making  anj 
suggestion  aa  to  it^  later  use.  The  "suu  ana 
cloud  "  does  not  occur  in  the  usual  lista  of 
Yorkist  badges  ;  but  Shakespeai'o  may  have 
intended  to  suggest  liie  temporary  eclipsie 
of  the  Yorkist  fortunes  by  iudietiting  the 
Yorkist  "  sun  in  npleudour  "  aa  euveloj)ed  in 
clouds  and  accompanied  bv  a  suitable  Latin 
motto.  '       R.  H.  E.  H. 

HiEROCLYPHlos  AND  DsiTlEs.— After  con- 
sulting several  book.s  on  the  stonehieioglyphic 
inscriptions  which  have  been  dccijdiered  of 
late  years,  I  am  unable  to  satisfy  m3rBel£ 
whether  the  direct  intervention  of  the  deities 
of  Assyria  and  Egypt  in  the  events  recorded 
is  mentioned  or  implied,  or  whether  all  are 
related  in  a  matter  of- fact  way  without  re- 
ference to  the  sufiernatural.  if  the  mira- 
culous occun)  at  all,  uue  would  like  to  know 
to  what  extent— as  often,  say.  (u  in  early 
llomao  history  1  M- 


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PRONOUNCED  XO. 
(W^  S.  i.  247.) 

I  MUCH  deprecate  thediscuaaion  of  phonetic 
questions.  One  who  knows  the  answer  is  often 
place(i  in  a  false  and  unenviable  position  by 
being  thus  asked  to  explain  technical  matters 
which  are  properly  treated  in  technical 
hooka,  such  as  Sweet's  *  History  of  Enp:liah 
Sounds.'  It  requires  preliminary  knowledge, 
such  as  the  majority  do  not  poasesa,  before 
an  answer  can  bo  understood,  unless  one 
occupies  far  more  space  than  can  reasonably 
be  given  to  the  consideration  of  such  a 
subject  as  this. 

Trie  very  title  assigned  to  the  (question 
shows  liow  wholly  the  matter  is  misunder- 
stood. The  true  word  is  the  spoken 
utterance ;  the  more  spelling  is  only  the  repre- 
Rentation  of  such  utterances  and  often  repre- 
sents it  very  badly.  It  is  not  the  letter  n  that 
is  pronounced  as  tuj  (though  such  vague 
expressions  are  only  too  common),  but  the 
sound  of  «7  that  is  represented  by  n;  which 
is  a  very  different  way  of  putting  it. 

The  fact  is  this.  We  have,  in  modern 
Englisli  spelling,  adopted  this  rule,  viz., 
always  to  represent  the  sound  of  ngk  by  the 
?ral>ol  ni-.  The  rule  has  the  convenience  of 
iving  a  letter  withouteausing  any  ambiguity. 
For  this  reason  it  was  that,  even  in  Gothic, 
in  which  the  symbol  fur  the  sound  of  ngk 
hap|>etied  to  bo  i/rjk  (in  imitation  of  Greek), 
it  was  not  unusual  to  write  gk  simply  ;  hence 
the  Gothic  drii/'jkan,  to  drink,  was  also 
written  dnrfk-m. 

Similarly,  instead  of  A.-S.  drinrtean,  it 
seemed  sullicient  to  write  rfriMm/i.  Wherever 
the  symbol  nc  *»cour.s  in  A.-S.,  it  is  to  be 
understood  aa  denoting  the  sound  which 
would  more  correctly  be  denoted  by  ngk  or 
nge. 

_  One  great  trouble  is  that  ng  denotes  a 
ftimpie  elementary  souml.  and  has,  in  philo- 
logical works,  a  special  symbol.  It  is  quite 
distinct  from  n  folluwe<J  by  g.  Neither  the 
ivj  in  «/«f/  nor  the  impliec)  ncig  in  iingU  is 
8ounde<)  like  the  ny  in  tun-god.  Tliis  should 
always  be  borne  in  mitid. 

As  the  use  of  n^-  for  wik  is  invariable,  no 
harm  arises.  But  the  sounds  of  mj  in  «/«{/ 
and  in  sitvfU,  though  <iuito  distinct,  arc 
writtoo  alike.  It  may  be  well  to  show  how 
this  aro%e. 

It  simply  arose  from  the  fact  that,  at  least 
in  the  earliest  A,-i~J  '""'  r»robably  in  the 
latt'st,  the  sound  of  <  does  not  appear 

to  have  existed  exc_.  .       ture  a  consonant, 


when  ita  position  decider!  it*  value,  The  A. -8. 
tana,  a  song,  was  pronounced  ian(f'j  (with 
Italian  short  a),  and  ainf/on,  to  sing,  was  pro- 
nounced as  iingfjan.  But  there  came  a  time 
when  a  final  nag  was  pronounced  as  ;i{/  simple, 
giving  a  Middle-English  satifj  or  son-js  thougli 
the  verb  remained  as  suujfltn.  Then  came  a 
time  when  the  verb  was  reduced  to  sin(f-</e  (two 
syllables),  then  to  sinf/f/,  and  then  to  smff,  But 
such  reduction  never  occurred  in  words  where 
the  sound  of  ugg  was  never  final.  That  is  why 
we  still  say  linijner  and  jiitffjcr  and  nirujglt, 
whilst  aitujer  and  umiister  are  reduced  to  con- 
formity with  dmj  and  tong. 

There  is  a  great  deal  more  to  be  said.  1 
will  only  say,  brietiy,  and  (I  hope)  once  for 
all,  that  no  man  can  expect  to  navo  any 
real  grasp  of  the  principles  of  English 
spelling  until  he  lias  learnt  (1)  the  old  Roman 
pronunciation  of  the  I>atin  alphabet  which 
we  employ  ;  (2)  the  sounds  and  sound-laws  of 
Anglo-Saxon  ;  (3)  the  sounds  and  sound-laws 
of  Anglo-French  ;  and  (4)  the  changes  made 
by  us  both  in  sounds  and  symbols  since 
A. P.  800.  Walter  W.  Skeat. 

The  answer  to  W.  S.  B.  H.,  who  pertinently 
asks,  "  Why  is  the  letter  n  sounded  as  ng  before 
k^  &c.  V  is  that  the  practice  is  chietly  an  out- 
come of  the  loose  and  careless  way  of  speak- 
ing which  has  long  since  spoilt  some  of  our 
habitual  locutions.  It  is  certainly  worse  in 
my  own  recollectiun.  But  those  persons  who 
have  a  mind  to  preserve  the  more  cultivated 
phases  of  the  English  tongue  will  continue 
to  say  an-chor.  anguish,  Jenkins,  and  so  forth. 

After  purcnasing  Annandale's  '  Concise 
English  Dictionary '  I  was  amazed  to  find 
these  "pronunciations"  given:  anchor— 
angker;  ankle  =  angkl ; ankylosis =aug-kilosi8; 
but  encroach=en-kr6ch  ;  enquire=en-kwlr  ; 
also  inconvenient— inkonvenient :  increa8e=^ 
inkrcs  ;  inquire=inkwir,  itc.  ll  looks  "  ing- 
konsistent"  to  treat  an  differently  from  en 
and  i«.  One  cannot  find  refuge  in  respect  to 
the  accent— that  is  to  say,  am)ly  the  g  to  the 
prefix  when  it  is  accented.  No;  it  is  neither 
more  nor  less  than  needless  haste  iu  speaking, 
and  consequent  failure  to  be  elegant. 

Edward  »Smitu. 

It  is,  I  think,  convenience  of  speech  alone 
thatdictates  the  riuging  sound  of  ng  in  words 
where  the  serai-vowel  n  precetles  a  k.  If,  in 
ignoring  any  g  sound,  one  were  to  repeat  a 
dozen  limes  any  one  of  the  woinIs,  such  as 
"anchor,"  that  W.  S-  H.  H.  has  named,  it 
would  !)«  found  that  mort*  time  and  trouble 
would  l>e  necessary  tlian  would  be  involved 
in  the  articulation  of  the  g  sound.  Custom 
and    convenience    make    the  prouunciatiou 


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♦'angchor,"  "Jengkins,"  A'c,   the  only  per- 
Imissible  one.  J.  H.  MacMichael. 

W.  S,  B.  H.'s  a-ssumption  that  rt  is 
"  always  soundetl  a-s  ng  before  k,  c  or  ch  (pro- 
nounced a«A-X  and  x"  astonishes  roe.  With 
the  single  exception  of  the  word  aiuriety, 
,  which  18  sometimes  rendered  angxitty  by 
people  who  try  to  talk  very  nicely.  I  do  not 
think  the  examples  he  give«  would  be  con- 
firmed by  the  utterance  of  moat  well-educated 
men.  St.  Swithin. 


MARLBOROrOH  AND  SHAKESPEARE  (10"'  S.  i. 

127,  177,  2.')6).— It  seems  clear  to  me  that 
after  the  Restoration  Jonson  and  Beaumont 
and  Fletcher  were  the  most  esteemed  of  the 
dramatists  that  flourished  during  the  reigns 
of  Elizabeth  and  James.  When  another  was 
mentioned,  it  was  Shakspeare.  Pepys,  in  his 
'  Diary,'  seems  to  reflect  the  opinion  of  his 
age,  and  evidently  holds  Jonsou  in  the 
greatest  est«em.  We  can  also  gather  from 
the  '  Diary  '  that  the  plays  of  Beaumont  and 
Fletcher  were  the  most  frequently  jierformed. 
Of  the  'Volpone'of  Ben  Joniion  Pepys  has 
written  : — 

"A  most  excellent  pl&y:  the  beat,  I  think,  I 
ever  saw." 

In  another  place  he  baa  the  following  : — 
"  I  never  was  more  taken  with  a  play  than  I  am 
with  this   '.Silent  Woman/  as  old  aa   it  is,  and  aa 
often  aa  I  have  seen  it.   There  Is  more  wit  in  it  than 

goes  to  ten  new  plays The  beat  comedy,  I  think, 

that  ever  was  wrote," 

He  has  written  a«i  follows  of  '  Bartholomew 
Fair':— 

"An  excellent  play.  The  more  I  eee  it,  the  more 
I  love  the  wit  of  it. 

Shakspeare's  plays  evidently  appeared  to 
him  to  be  of  less  value  :— 

"To  the  Kind's  Theatre,  where  we  saw  'Mid- 
summer's Night  s  Dream,'  which  I  had  never  seen 
before,  nor  shall  I  ever  again,  for  it  is  the  moat 
jti*ipid,  ridioulous  play  that  ever  I  saw  in  my  life." 

He,  however,  thouglit  better  of  'Macbeth': — 

"A  pretty    gixid  T>I»y,  but  admirably  acted 

A  moat  excellent  play.' 

He  has  written  thus  : — 

"To  Deptford  hy  water,  reading  'Othello.  Moore 
of  Venice,'  which  I  ever  heretofore  esteemed  a 
mighty  good  pla>%  but  havinit  so  lately  read  *  The 
Aaventures  of  Five  Houres,'  it  seems  a  mean 
thing." 

The  'Diary'  contains  likewise  this  pas- 
sage:— 

"Saw  'The  Merry  Wives  of  Windsor,'  which  did 
not  please  me  at  all,  in  no  part  of  it." 

It  has  also  the  following  ; — 

■'Resolved  to  go  to  see  *  The  Tempest.' The 

noet  innocent  play,  \hat  ever   I  saw The  play 


has  no  f(reat  wit,  but  yet  good  above  ordinary 
plays."* 

If  I  have  counted  them  rightly,  Pepys 
saw  eight  plays  of  Shakspeare.  Those 
on  which  he  has  made  no  remark  were 
'Hamlet,'  'Romeo  and  Juliet,'  'Henry  IV.' 
He  saw  eleven  plays  of  Beaumont  and 
Fletcher,  and  five  of  Fletcher.  Milton,  in 
poetry  which  was  not  read,  acknowledged  the 
supremacy  of  Shakspeare.  Dryden  did  the 
same,  and  also  extolled  Milton.  But  not  till 
the  eighteenth  century  was  either  Shak- 
speare or  Milton  valued  at  his  real  worth 
by  the  public.  Hume,  in  his  '  Hiatory  of 
England,'  referring  to  '  Paradise  Lost,'  has 
written  the  following  sentence  ;— 

"  Ijord  Somers,  by  encouraging  a  jrood  edition  of 
it,  about  twenty  years  after  the  author's  death,  first 
brought  it  into  request ;  and  Tonaon,  in  his  dedica- 
tion of  a  smaller  edition,  speaks  of  it  as  a  work  just 
beginning  to  be  known.' 

Addison  roust  have  spread  the  fame  of  our 
two  greatest  poeta  by  what  he  wrote  coa- 
cerning  them  in  the  Spectator. 

E.  Yardlky. 

TrOESWELL  A>'D  TlDESLOW  (9""  S.  xii.  341, 
517  :  10"'  S.  i.  52,  91,  190,  228,  278).— I  have 
read  the  articles  contributed  by  Mr.  Addy, 
Prop.  Skeat,  and  Dr.  Brushfield  on  this 
interesting  tumulus  and  its  connexion  with 
the  origin  of  the  name  Tideswell,  a  town  very 
prettily  situated  not  faraway,  and  can  testi^ 
to  the  local  pronunciation  being  Tidsa  for 
the  town,  and  Tidslow  for  the  ancient  burial 
mound. 

The  position  of  the  low  is  very  commanding, 
standing  as  it  does  on  the  highest  point  of 
Tideswell  Moor;  and  though  ray  acquaintance 
with  Anglo-Saxon  grammar  is  too  meagre  to 
allow  me  to  enter  the  lists  with  such  able 
scholars  as  Mr.  Addy  and  1*rok.  Skbat,  I 
am  of  opinion  that  Mr.  Addy's  theory  has 
much  support  from  natural  evidence,  such  as 
is  affordetl  by  a  comparison  with  other  sites  : 
for  instance,  Walder  s  Low,  on  the  crest  oi 
the  hill  about  eight  miles  north-west  of 
Sheffield,  brings  down  the  stream  of  time  the 
personal  name  of  an  old  chieftain  whose 
memory  is  embalmed  in  Walderslielf,  the 
ancient  name  of  the  district  now  known  as 
Bolsters  tone. 

With  reference  to  the  suffix  jce//,  there  is 
in  the  Little  Don  valley  a  small  ilistrict 
known  as  Swinden  Walls,  but  I  cannot  find 
that  this  name  has  anything  to  do  with 
wells  or  springs  of  water  ;  on  the  contrary, 
the  fact  that  there  has  been  from  time  imme- 
morial a  cultivated  clearing  in  the  moorland 

C*  Is  not  this  reference  to  Drydea's  '  Tempest 'T} 


^  at  thi 


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I 

I 


at  this  place  would  appear  to  lend  force  to 
the  argument  that  welt  or  will  indicates  an 
enclo-sure  or  cultivated  area. 

Another  district  in  the  same  region  is 
known  as  Whitwell,  and  ansnrers  to  similar 
conditions. 

Further,  tlie  reference  to  Baslow,  in  Derby- 
shire, as  containing  the  A.-S.  name  Basaa  or 
Bassan  would  certainly  appear  to  be  con- 
firmed by  the  name  Bassenthwaite,  near 
Keswick,  in  Cumberland,  and  proves  bow 
necessary  it  is  to  appeal  to  the  older  spelling 
of  place-names,  if  we  are  to  unravel  aright 
the  true  meaning  of  the  past. 

JoaEPH  Ken  WORTHY. 

Deepcar,  near  SheiSeld. 

St.  DtTSSTAN  (10'''  S.  i.  149,  21 6i.— Allen 
quotes  Aubery  (1073)  as  follows  with  regard 
to  this  saint  and  the  devil : — 

*'  There  was  aho  u  chapel,  larger  than  at  Trinity 
College,  Oxford,  the  winaowj  of  the  foahion  as  the 
chapel  windows  at  the  Priory  of  St.  Mary  in  \Vilt». 
There  M'ere  no  escutcheons  or  monuments  reniain- 
ing;  but  in  the  parlour  und  ch&mbcr  over  it  (built 
not  long  since)  were  some  roundels  of  j^vainted  kI&m, 
about  8  inohes  diameter,  viz.,  St,  Michael  fighting 
with  the  devil,  St.  Dunst&n  huldin};  the  devil  by 
the  nose  %vith  it."!  pincers,  and  having  retorts, 
cmciblea,  and  chemical  instruments  about  him ; 
with  several  others,  so  exactly  drawn  m  if  done 
from  a  ((ood  nioderu  print.' 

The  above  appears  under  '  Waverley  '  in 
*  Abbeys  around  London.' 

John  A.  Randolph. 

SPEA.KERS  OP  THE  IrISH  HnUSE  OF  COM- 
MONS, AND  Member-s  for  County  and 
BoRouons  OF  KiNii's  County  (10'"  S.  i.  227). 
— The  Speakers  Francesca  will  find  in  the 
'Journals'  of  the  Irish  House  of  Commons, 
the  members  in  part  ii.  of  the  '  Orticial 
Return  of  Members  of  Parliament.' 

G.  F.  R.  B. 

The  following  editorial  note  appeared  in 
4*  S.  vii.  323  :— 

"  Lodee's  '  Parliamentary  Register  of  the  Irish 
House  of  Commons  from  l»*o  to  1769'  is  printed  in 
the  *  Liber  .Munerum  PiiblicorHni  Hibemiif,"  being 
the  Report  of  K,  Lascelle^  iJuhlished  by  the  Record 
Commission,  2  vols.  l!S24.  fol.  See  part  i.  pj).  I  to 
40,  For  •  contiinmf  ion  of  the  list  to  the  year  1800, 
coniult  'The  Journals  of  the  House  of  ComiJinns 
of  Ireland,'  vole.  viii.  to  xix.,  Dublin,  ]7()tM80iJ. 
fol." 

Everard  Home  Colkman. 

71,  Breckttoolc  RonwK 

Lkche  Family  (10"'  S.  i.  207, 274).— There  is 
a  reference  to  this  family  in  Edwjird  Hastcd's 
*  History  of  Kent,'  177H,  vol.  i.  p.  38ii,  from 
which  it  appears  that  Squerries  was  at  one 
time  po8sesHe<i  by  Lambert,  iho  I'arliamen- 
tary  general,  who  sold  it  to  John  Leach,  Esq., 


whose  son.  Sir  William  Leacli,  Knt.,  sheriff 
of  the  county  in  16G7,  sold  it  in  1681  to  Sir 
Nicholas  Crisp,  Bt.  W.  S. 

TORCU  and  Tafbe  (10"'  S.  i.  109,  196).— 
The  following  extract  from  the  will  of  a 
John  Swynnerton,  proved  at  Lichfield  in 
1647,  may  be  read  with  interest : — 

"  Ittn  I  will  to  have  iij  torches  tobringe  me  home 
and  therafter  to  be  kepte  tyll  suchc  lyme  as  Ood 
shall  caull  for  mv  wiff.  And  after  her  decease  one 
to  be  gyven  to  WoUianton  and  anotiier  to  Thars- 
felde  cnappell  and  the  other  to  Aslbury  towards 
the  maintcnyngeof  tjod  s'vys  and  to  be  jiraed  for." 

Charles  Swynnerton. 

Jacobite  Wineglasses  (10'^  S.  i.  204).-^ 
I  have  a  glass  goblet,  ih  in.  high,  3^  in.  in 
diameter.  It  belonged  to  my  great-grand- 
father, born  1708,  whose  father  lived  near 
Oxford.  On  it  are  a  star,  and  a  tliistle  full 
blown  with  four  leaves ;  issuing  from  the 
stem  of  the  thistle  is  a  spray  consisting 
of  a  full-blown  rose,  a  bad,  and  four  roso 
leaves.    Is  it  Jacobite? 

To  5'''  S.  j.  G2  I  contributed  a  letter  pur- 
porting to  have  been  written  by  a  Fynmore 
to  his  son  at  Oxford,  who  had  sent  a  reqae.st 
for  money.  Tlie  father,  in  sending  a  (iraft, 
expressed  hia  satisfaction  at  his  son's  conduct 
on  the  birthday  of  "that  old  rurap  rogue 
with  an  orange"  (William  III.).  Some  very 
extraordinary  advice  follows.  Fynmore  pro- 
ceeds: "  Our  family  have  allways  been  in  the 
true  old  cause,  and  wo  will  live  and  dye  by  it, 
Boy.    Damn  the  rump — that  is  my  motto." 

Another  family  manuscript  has  the  fol- 
lowing expression  :  "  King  Charles,  I  wish 
I  call  king  now."  R.  J.  Fynmore. 

Clavering  :  De  Mandeville  (10"'  S.  i.  149, 
213).— Saffron  Walden  was  head  of  the  Man- 
devilles'  honour  in  Essex,  and  members  of 
this  family  were  probably  overlords  to  Swain's 
descendants,  one  of  whom,  viz.,  Eleanor, 
daughter  and  coheiress  to  Henry  de  Essex, 
married  Roger  FitzUichard  ;  Ins  son  sue- 
ceede<l  to  tlie  manor  of  Clavering,  and  a 
great-grandson  became  Baron  of  Clavering 
by  writ.  The  manor  fell  subsequently  to 
Nevil  and  Barrington.  A.  M- 

Flesh  and  SHAnreLE  Meats  (10""  S.  i.  68). 
— The  only  explanation  of  this  seems  to  be 
that  the  •'Shambles,"  the  regular  meat- 
market,  were  closed  on  fast  days,  so  that 
any  meat  required  on  those  occasions  was 
necessarily  obtained  from  some  other  source. 
"  Flesh  dales  "  and  *'  fysh  daies  "  are  fre- 
quently specified  in  the  '  Regulations  of  the 
i'ercy  Household,*  1837  ;  antf  William  Benet 
bequeathed  "v^  for  the  reparation  of  the 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       cio'^  s.  l  Amn.  e.  idol    , 


shambles  for  strange  butchers  to  occupy 
even/  market-ii/iy."  See  N.  H.  Nicolas  a 
•TestumenU  VetusU,'  1826,  p.  420. 

J.  HoLDES  MacMicbakl. 

J.  R.  Green  on  Fhekman  {W'^  S.  i.  225).— 
M.'a  translation  is  onli"  possible  on  the 
assumption  that  an  inter  has  fallen  out 
before  quu*,  which  I  suspect  to  iiave  been 
the  case.  The  division  of  tlie  angels  into 
nine  choirs  divided  into  three  hierarohies  is 
due  to  the  Pseudo-Dionysius  ('Hierarchia 
Ca'lestis,'  c.  0),  who  was  followerl,  with  minor 
variations, by  St.  Gregory  the  Great  (Horn, 
in  Ezek.  xxxiv.  7) ;  St.  Ji>hn  Damascene  ('  De 
Fid.  Ortliod.,'  ii  3);  the  majority  of  the 
schoolmen,  e.o,  Hugh  of  St.  Victor  ('De 
Sacr.,'  i.  5),  Peter  Lombard  ('Sent.,'  L.  ii. 
dist.  9  a),  and  St.  Thomas  Aquinas  C  Sum- 
ma,'  P.  i,  qu.  106,  art.  6) ;  and  since  the 
Pliotian  Schism  by  the  Orthodox  Confe^ssion 
(P.  i.  qu.  XX.)  ana  the  Confession  of  Metro- 
plianes  Oritopulos  (cap.  ii.)  iu  the  East.  In 
the  last-cite<i  author  the  angels  collectively 
are  called  c>vvdiiti<;.  It  i;'  jirobable  that 
virtutes  is  used  in  this  general  sense  in  the 
passage  under  discussion.  The  diHiculty, 
oowever,  of  interpreting  it  without  inter- 
polating inter  is  that  most  writers  do  not 
rank  any  angels  (except  in  some  cases  the 
Thrones)  above  the  Ulierubim  and  Seraphim. 
The  commonly  accepted  order  seems  Uj  bo 
that  of  St.  Thomas,  viz  ,  I.  (1)  Seraphim, 
(2)  Cherubim,  (3)  Thrones  ;  II.  (4)  Domina- 
dons,  i.e.,  Kn^ior>/T<s,  (fi)  Virtues,  i.e.,  Svfdftu^, 
(6)  Powers,  t  e.,  i^ovcrim  ;  III.  (7)  Principali- 
ties, i.e.,  dpxai,  (8)  Archangels,  (0)  Angels. 
This  is  the  order  given,  for  example,  in  the 
*  Manual  of  Catholic  Theology '  by  Wilhelm 
V.  Scannell,  sec.  121  (3).  On  the  other  liand, 
the  authors  of  '  A  Catholic  Dictionary ' 
(apparently  following  St.  Gregory's  oi-der) 
transpose  the  Virtues  and  Principalities,  and, 
Hi^raking  of  the  division  of  angels  into  choirs 
gerierally,  ob.ierve  that  "the  existence  of 
tlu'se  particular  classes  of  angels  is  no  article 
of  faith."  Seraphim,  clierubim,  archangels, 
and  angels  are  often  mentioned  in  the 
Scriptures  :  tlie  names  of  the  other  orders 
are  taken  from  Ephes.  i.  21  and  Col.  i.  16. 
John  B.  Wainewright. 

Col.  RotJER  MacEllioott  (9"*  S.  xii.  328). 
—Among  the  regiments  ordered  to  be  estab- 
lished in  1688  by  King  James  was  one  for 
Col.  Roger  MacElligott,  a  very  experienced 
officer  of  an  ancient  Munster  race.  "The 
MiuEUigott  Regiment"  formed  part  of  the 
army  brought  over  to  England  by  James  as 
a  force  on  whoso  fidelity  he  could  rely.  The 
Earl  of  Clarendon  in  his  '  Journal "  mentions 


the  fact  that  James  went  to  HumM.on  Court 
to  inspect  "  MacGillicudd's  r  latelpr 

come  out  of  Ireland."    In  J  '  -,  this 

force  returned  to  Ireland.  In  ItibW  Col. 
MacElligott  was  M.P.  for  Ardfert,  in  Kerry 
iu  the  National  Parliament  in  Dublin ;  aud 
the  Comted'Avaux,  Louis  XIV. 's  ambassador 
to  King  James  in  Ireland,  in  a  letlor  from 
Dublin,  immediately  before  the  meeting  of 
that  Parliament^  wrote;  "  M.  M  ''  '  't, 
Qouverueur  de  kinsale,  cest  un  f  e 

borame  de  i!  .  ••tqui  me  lex  n-ri  u-nir 

fort  ponctn  ;    nnd   in    July,    1(590, 

Col.  MttcElhv;.ni  WHS  with  his  regiment  at 
the  battle  of  the  Boyne.  Cork  in  It>yo  wM 
so  unfilt«d  to  endure  a  siege  by  the  Earl 
of  Marlborough  (theretofore  tlie  friend  of  King 
James)  and  his  force  of  ■  '""  <'•<'■'■  !>esidos 
ships  of  war,  that  Col.  ^  1  his 

garrison   of    4,000   nien    ^  i      ...d    to 

capitulate.  Col.  MacEllig'nt  waa  sent  a 
prisoner  to  the  Tower  of  London  ;  but  in 
H»97  ho  was  exchanged,  an«l  perraitte<l  to 
pass  over  to  France.  Meaulime.  he  was  not 
lorgotten  bv  King  Jume«,  who,  on  the  re- 
modelling of  the  Irish  army  on  the  C^ntinent^ 
ma<le  him  colonel  of  the  "  Ite^iment  de  Claa- 
carty  Infanterie.''  This  regimt-nt,  after  the 
battle  of  La  Hogue  in  IG92,  was  attached  to 
Marshal  de  Catinet's  army  in  Italy  ;^  and  WM 
finally  transferred  to  tlie  Duke  de  Veutome's 
array  in  Catalonia,  with  which  it  assisted 
at  the  reduction  of  Barcelona  in  IC'JT 

"The  name  of  MacElligott,  be>>ides  supply- 
ing a  major-general  and  a  baron  to  tne 
military  service  of  Austria  under  the  Empress 
Maria  'I'heresa,  has  been  represented  in  the 
service  of  France,  where,  including  a  Mard- 
chal  de  Camp,  it  contributed  several  ofiioera 
to  the  regiments  of  Berwick,  Clare,  Ros- 
common, iic.  From  the  mention  of  a  Oeoeml 
MacElligott  amongst  the  number  of  great 
military  and  civil  officers  of  Innh  birtli  or 
de.scent  in  the  Austrian  service  who  ilined 
together  iu  Vienna  on  St.  Patrick's  Day. 
1778,  it  is  probable  that  the  brave  Col.  Bag&r 
MacElligott  emigrated  to  ttn<l  settled  in  tn© 
Imperial  dominions. 

In  a  letter  in  Sleator's  'Public  Gazetteer' 
of  17(50  it  is  related  that  Lieut. -General 
MacGuire  commanded  at  Dresden,  &c.,  and 

"that  it  is   to  him    nmi   his   near  lev --    -Mil 

countryman,     the     brave     Alujnr  -  <it-i;  ti 

MacElligott,  who  is  iii(lcftttiL'r,v.lv  nlini  ii- 

tary    Klory,    that    tl»«ir    If  " 

indehl«d   for   fortninR   Ihc   <  >  I 

other  irreculftr  freebooters  ill ;■■  ..  .   ,  ! 

di8oi|)linea  lror>i>8  as  any  "iheis  of  tlivi; 

The  above   is  cull»'<i   fn.m  'KI  a 

Irish  Army   List,*  >■  i 

D'Alton  (J.  Iv.  SuiitI  ,  .    ■■( 


I 


I 

I 


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295 


the  Irish  Brisiidea  in  the  Service  of  France,' 
b^'  J.  C  U'Uallaghan  (Glaagow,  Cameron  & 
FerKuson,  1870).        HEN'ftY  Geeald  Hope. 
119,  Elms  Ruad,  Clapliatu,  S.VV. 

In  the  '  Annals  of  the  Kingdom  of  Ireland 
by  the  Four  Masters '  it  is  related  tliat  in  the 
year  1247 

''a, great  war  was  kindled  by  Turlough,  the  son  of 
Hugh  O  Conor,  and  Dunoiign,  the  son  of  Anmcliadh 
0"Gil|apo trick  of  Ossory.  against  the  Knglisli   of 

Connauglit Many    jwraons   wore    destroyod    by 

them,  with  MacElget  (Mageoghegaa  calls  him  Mac- 
Eligijtt),  Seneschal  of  Counaugiit,  who  was  killed 
by  ihe  aforesaid  Donough,  the  son  of  Aniuuhadh." 

It  is  also  recorded 

"  that  a  family  named  Eligott,  and  probably  the 
'descendaats  of  this  seneachat,  settled  at  Bally-Mac- 
£ligott,  near  Tralee,  in  the  county  of  Kerry,  where 
ithey  wore  highly  respecUble  till  the  close  of  the 
•seventeenth  century. 


Some  particulars  of  the  family  bearing  this 
name  during  the  eighteenth  century  will  be 
ifound  in  3"^  S.  xi.  196  ;  5"'  S.  viii.  168. 

E\i:rard  Home  Coleman. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

In  the  London  Library  copy  of  Wolseley's 
'  Life  of  Marlborough,'  on  pp.  175,  199,  205  of 
v»»L  ii.  there  are  some  rather  interesting 
JlS.  notes  in  pencil  concerning  this  officer, 

I  Among  other  thingsj  it  is  mentioned  that  he 
•wai  sent  to  the  Tower  with  Lord  Claiicarty. 
Ami  afterwards  allowed  to  go  to  France.     A 
cijumscript  in  the  Record  OlHce  is  quoted, 
l>ut  no  detailed  description  given  of  it. 
G.  Gilbert. 
Pbriodicals  for  Women-  po"'  S.  i.  228).— 
Besides   the   Larlies'  Mn<iazm<,  dating  from 
1710,  there  was  another  Ladua'  Marjazine,  by 
Jasjier    Goodwill,    of    Oxford,    which     first 
*p[>eared  in  1749  and  ceased  in  1753.    Then 
there  were  the  /r<j(//r«'J/erc«i7/ (London,  1693) ; 
tlic  Ffiiude   Tailcr  (Loud  ,  1709) ;  the  Female 
"ftctator  (Loud.,  1746) ;  the  Court  Magazine 
net  MoiUhh/  Critic  and  Ladies'  Magazine  and 
fuseum  of  the  Iff  lies  Lettres,  first  publisfied  in 
r.'iO  ;   the  Liuiies'  iVeio  and  Eletjant  Pocket 
■■-    (Lond.,    1795):    and    the    Ladiet 
Museum;   or,   Polite  Itcftosilon/  of 
i- lit    and    Instruction    (Lond.,    1798). 
?or  all  of  tliese  see  under  '  Periofiical  Pub- 
ications'  in  the  Reading-room  Catalogue  of 
>he  Hritiah  Museum  Library,  where  there  are 
jiroliably  others. 

J.   UoLDEN   M.\cMlCHAEL. 

"PRIon  TO"  (ft">  S.  xii.  GC,  154,  312  ;  10«»'  S. 

114,  175).— The  gramtnar  seems  to  be  quite 

"ht  in  the  sentence  quoted  by  J.  T.  F.  from 

f,    "A  propensity  prior  to  experience" 

fbo  compared  in  construction  with  Ad- 


dison's ' '  A  great  man  superior  to  his  sufiTer- 
ings."  In  one  or  two  sentences  quoted  by 
Mk.  CuEfiy  "prior  to"  was  used  elliptically 
for  "at  a  time  prior  to."  And,  whetiier  the 
ellipsis  is  allowable  or  not,  prior  in  such 
cases  may  certainly  be  supposed  to  be  an 
adiective.  I  could  not,  however,  see  any 
defence  for  some  of  the  expressions  ;  and  I 
agree  with  him  that  they  were  used  wrongly. 

E.    Y.VRDLEY. 

Bagshaw  (lO"'  S.  i.  9,  152).— In  my  library 
there  is  a  'Gazetteer  of  Cheshire'  by  Samuel 
Bagshaw  j  "  ShefReld,  printed  for  the  Author 
by  George  Ridge,  5,  King  Street,  and  sold  by 
Samuel  Bagshaw,  Wentworth  Terrace,  Shef- 
field. Price  to  Subscribers,  14j.  Gd.  1850." 
The  preface  is  dated  "  Sheffield,  January  2l8t, 
1850.''  T.  Cann  H0GHE8,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Lancaster. 


TopocRAPHir  OF  Ancient  London  (9"*  S. 
xii.  429;  lO"'  S.  i.  70).— The  "jelusie"  or 
"gelosye"  circa  1277  wsis,  no  doubt,  the 
"jalousie,"  a  sort  of  Venetian  blind,  a  varia- 
tion of  the  simple  window-shutter  of  the 
Middle  Ages,  which,  from  being  an  unusual 
feature  in  domestic  architecture,  served  well 
to  distinguish  the  house  which  it  adorned 
from  the  neighbouring  house  signs.  The 
balcony  at  its  first  adoption  in  London  served 
as  a  sign  in  a  similar  way,  as  did  an  "  iron 
gate"  or  a  "green  hatch,"  &c.  "Jealous  "  is 
spelt  "gelous"  by  Lydgate,  the  fifteenth- 
century  poet  (Halliwell).  "  Qelus  "  was  the 
iliddle-Englisb  form  (Old  French  gelos),  as 
"  gelusie"(0.  French  !/elosie)y>-&s  of  "jealousy" 
(Stratmann's  'Midd.  Eng.  Diet.'). 

It  is  difficult  to  say  where  "  Doggestrete " 
M-as.  Possibly  it  was  a  street  whicii  leti  to 
the  Dog  Uouse  on  the  north  side  of  Moor- 
fielda,  in  which  were  kept  the  hounds  for  the 
amusement  of  the  Lord  Slayor  (see  Pennant's 
'  London,'  1793,  p.  264).  Or,  as  streets  often 
derived  their  names  from  house  signs,  it  may 
have  been  named  after  a  tavern  with  the  sign 
of  the  "  Dog."  of  which  there  were  at  least 
three  instances  in  London— one  in  Holywell 
Street,  another  on  Ludgate  Hill,  and  a  third, 
of  uncertain  locality,  but  near  tlie  Houses  of 
Parliament,  which  is  mentioned  by  Pepya  in 
his  '  Diary.' 

"The  cemetery  in  London"  could,  one 
would  have  thought^  be  identified  by  the 
context,  for  the  consecrated  enclosure  round 
any  church  was  often  calle<l  a  cemetery  :  1485, 
Caxton,  'ChaH.  Gt.,'  243,  "Two  cymytoryos 
or  chircheyordes."  1530-1,  Act  22  lien.  VIII., 
c.  14,  "Any  parisho  churciie,  Ciniitorie,  or 
other  lyke  halo  wed  place  "  ('  H.E.D.'). 
The  date  might  also  help  to  identify  the 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       tio*  s.  l  aprh.  9.  im. 


lazar-liouge,  of  which  there  were  several  in 
the  suburbs  of  LoDdon  :  one  without  South- 
wark,  in  Kent  Street ;  another  between  Mile 
End  and  Stratford,  near  Bow ;  another  at 
Kingsland,  between  ,  SJioreditch  and  Stoke 
Newington  ;  and  a  fourth  at  Knightsbridge. 
See  Stow'.s  'Survey,'  1720,  Appendix,  ch.  iv. 
p.  21,  Others  were  at  St.  Gilea-in-the- Fields, 
St.  James*8-in-the-Fields,  at  Hammersmith, 
Finchley,  and  Ilford  {ibid,).  "Mr.  Afoser,  in 
his  vestiges  published  in  the  A'urop.  Mag., 
vol.  li.  p.  331,  says  that  a  lazar-houae  existed 
in  Lambotli  Marsh  "  (Thos.  Allen's  '  Hist,  of 
Lambeth,'  1837,  p.  304).  There  was  a  lazar- 
hoase  at  the  bottom  of  Highgate  Uill  (see 
John  Nelson's  *St.  Mary,  Islington,'  1811, 
p.  75  ;  and  S.  Lewis's  '  Hist,  and  Topog.  of 
St.  Mary's,  Islington,'  1842,  p.  288);  and 
another  at  Norbiton  at  the  beginning  of  the 
fifteenth  century  (W.  D.  Biden's  *  Hist,  and 
Antiq.  of  Kingston,'  1852,  p.  126).  Id  Pest- 
house  Fields  the  Lord  Craven  built  a  lazaretto, 
which  during  the  plague  of  1G65  was  used  as 
a  pest-house,  whence  the  name  (Allen's  '  Hist, 
of  Lond.,'  1829,  vol.  iv.  p.  298).  Pest-House 
Row,  Old  Street^  St.  Luke's,  afterwards  Bath 
Street,  obtained  its  name  from  a  building 
that  stood  here  called  the  City  Pest-Iiouse. 
It  consisted  of  several  tenements,  and  was 
erected  for  the  reception  of  distressful  persons 
infected  by  the  plague,  as  a  lazaretto  (W. 
Harrison's  *  Now  Hist,  of  London,'  book  v. 
cb.  ii.  p.  541  ;  and  Maitland's  'London,'  1739, 
p.  776).  J.  HoLDEN  MacMichael. 

161,  Hammersmith  Road. 

As  the  four  names  mentioned  in  the  query 
appear  to  be  all  Jewish,  the  allusion  to  "  the 
Cemetery  "  seems  to  point  to  that  mentioned 
bv  Stow  as  situated  on  the  west  side  of  Red 
(Jross  Street.  This,  till  the  year  1177,  was 
the  only  one  allowed  to  the  Jews  in  England. 
Matilda  Pou.aku. 

iJ«lle  Vue,  Bengoo. 

E»".krton-Warburton  (10'"  S.  i.  1C9).— I 
possess  a  complete  sot  of  the  Palatine  JVote- 
Jiook,  also  a  letter  from  the  late  Mr.  J.  E. 
Bailey,  dated  8  April,  1885,  explaining  that 
the  last  issue  wa«  dated  1  January,  and  the 
next  would  bo  No.  49,  for  May,  1885.  I  never 
received  another,  which  I  think  I  should 
have  done,  as  I  had  paid  tlie  subscription 
for  the  year.       Everarh  Home  Coleman. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

Horn  Dancixo  (lO'*"  S.  i.  5).— A  full  account 
of  this  old-time  occurrence  is  given  in  '  The 
Natural  History  of  Staffordshire,'  by  Boberl 
Plot,  LLD.  (Oxford,  1686).  The  paragraph 
quoted  by  W.  B.  H.  shows  that  the  custom 
19  now  celebrated  four  months  earlier  than 


fomiarly  (vid^s  Gough's  'Camden,*  vol.  ii. 
p.  &I4V  In 'The  Beauties  of  England  and 
Wales,  edited  by  the  Rev.  J.  Nightingale* 
1813,  vol.  xiii.  part  ii.  pp.  87G-7,  under 
'Abbot's  Bromley,'  will  be  found  a  full  de- 
scription. 

Ttiis  practice  seems  to  have  existed  at 
other  places  Ijesides  Abbot's  BroniWy,  for  we 
find  hobbyhorse  money  frequently  mentioned 
iu  the  old  parish  Ixioks  botii  of  t^taiford  and 
Seigbford.  It  continued  in  force  till  the 
Civil  War,  when  Sir  Simon  Degge  states  that 
he  saw  it  often  practi.sed.  Tiie  samo  author 
adds,  in  another  part  of  his  work, 

"  that  they  had  aomethioK  oi  the  same  kind,  to  g«t 
money  for  the  repair  of  the  church  of  .Stafford,  every 
common  council  [man?]  then  collecting  money  from 
his  frienda,  and  whosoever  brought  in  the  greatest 
sum  to  the  hobbyhorse  was  considered  as  the  man 
of  beat  credit,  so  that  they  ntrove  who  should  most 
improve  his  interest :  and  as  he  remembered  it  was 
accounted  for  at  ChristniaB." 

As  a  Staffordsliire  man  I  take  an  intereiit 
in  everything  pertaining  to  the  county,  more 
especially  from  an  antiquary's  ixiint  of  view; 
I  should  therefore  be  obliged  if  any  reader 
could  tell  me  when  the  name  of  this  festival 
was  changed  from  Hobbyhorse  Dancing  to 
Horn  Dancing. 

Ch.vs.  F.  FoR.snAW,  LL.D..  F.R.Hiat.S. 

Baltimore  House,  Bradford. 

Leper  Hymn-Writer  (10"'  S.  i.  227).— I 
remember  that  Heine,  either  in  poetry  or 
prose,  mentions  this  singer  ;  but  I  cannot 
give  a  particular  reference.       E.  YaRDLEY. 

"FULTURE  "  (10^''  S.  i.  226).— In  1692  a  jury 
for  the  manor  of  Holmesfield,  near  Dronnelu, 
in  Derbyshire,  gave  permission  to  a  widow 
*'  to  lay  her  manure  in  the  fold,  or  any  otlier 
fulter  what  so  ever."  I  gave  the  whole  verdict 
at  9"*  S.  X.  501,  and  said  tliat  "  fulter  "  here 
represented  M.E.yWMe-,  filth,  with  the  final* 
sounded.  However,  the  two  extracts  from 
leases  given  by  W.  ('.  B.  appear  to  show  that 
ray  guess  about  the  final  c  was  wrong.  It  is 
interesting  to  note  that  Holraesfiekl,  Hans- 
worth  Woodhouse,  and  Eckington  are  in  the 
same  neighbourhood.  S.  O.  Addy. 

Would  not  this  word  refer  to  the  fixture* 
added  to  the  property  during  the  last  year 
of  the  tenant's  lease,  from  the  Latin /w/f«rii», 
a  support  or  prop  ;  but  no  doubt,  if  sucIj  bo 
the  case,  comprising  the  repairs  which  tho 
tenant  had  made  of  dwelling-house,  barns, 
stables,  outhouses,  beams,  doors,  floors,  waJI«L 
gates,  bars,  posts,  stiles,  hedges,  ditches,  and 
fences?  J.  Holden  MalMkiiaku 

"As  the  CROW  FLIES  "(lO"*  S.  i.  204).— The 
late  Dr.  Brewer,  in  hia '  Dictionary  of  Phrase 


m^  8. 1.  AfRti.  9. 190*.]        NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


297 


aud  Fable,'  says  that  the  crow  flies  straight 
to  its  |x>int  of  clestination,  and  the  route  is 


Ithei-efort'  the  shortest  between  two  places. 
I  EvERARi;  Home  Colemax. 

I  71,  Brecknock  Road. 


Latin  Quotation.s(10"'S.  i.  188).— 

6.  ''  Ovfts  et  Ijoves  et  cetera  pecora  caiupi" 

aeema  a  free  quotation  of  Psalm  viii.  8,  "  ovea 

et  boves  universal,  insuiier  et  pecora  campi." 

"^   "  Litera  scripta  mauet."    The  question 


* 


3G. 
has  already  been  fruitlessly  raised  ;  see  5"'  S, 
vii.  19,  39. 

45.  '*  Nil  est  in  intellectu  quo<l  non  fuerit 
in  sensu."  John  of  Salisbury,  '  Metalogicus,' 
lib.  iv.  cap.  9,  "ait  omniuo  non  est  aut  vix 
est  cognitio,  deficiente  senau."  The  unknown 
author  of  'De  Intellectibus '  (printed  in 
'Aboelardi  Opera,' ed.  Cousins,! 859, ii.  p.  747), 
**  tota  huniana  notitia  a  sennitus  surgit."  This 
last  passage  gives  the  sense,  though  not  the 
■words,  of  the  quotation,  which  when  quoted 
is  never  attributed,  so  far  as  I  can  find,  to 
any  author.  Gaasendi,  writing  to  Descartes, 
gives  the  inaxiru  in  this  form :  **  Quicquid  est 
in  ijit«llectupneeasedeberein  sensu"  (Blakey's 
'Hist.  Philosophy  of  Mind,'  ii.  482  n.).  Aris- 
totle^  'An.  Post..'  i.  18,  says  :  eVav^wi-a*  Bt 
pi)    eyo^Tos   a!<r$^](riv   a8iivaT0V.     Cf.    Plato's 

Philebus,'  §  82,  translated  by  Jowett^  iii. 
187-8. 

46.  *^  Vivit  post  funera  virtus "  has  been 
^Jiscussed  without  result,  6"'  S.  v.  129  ;  vi.  79; 
It.  362;  xi.  152.        John  B.  Wainewright. 

"The  Crown  and  Three  Sugar  Loaves" 
(lO'*"  S.  i.  167,  214).— May  I  ask  what  authority 
Mr.  MacMichael  has  for  stating  that  the 
name  of  the  "Mitre  Tavern  "'  was  clianged  by 
Daniel  Kawlinson,  senior,  into  the  "  Mourning 
Mitre"]  His  son  Sir  Thomas  Kawlinson,  in 
January,  1700,  refers  to  the  "ilitre  Tavern," 
in  occupation  of  Daniel  Rawlinaou  (his  son), 
which  he  held  un<ler  lease  from  the  Pewterers' 
Company.  F.  M.  H.  K. 

NoRTHAUL,  Shropshire  (10'"  S.  i.  226).— 

Only  one  place  of  this  name  is  mentioned  in 

Uie    Imperial  Gazetteer,'  and  this  ia  a  hamlet 

fin  the  parish  of  Eddlesborough,  near  Ivinghoe, 

tin  Bucks. 

Northall  as  a.  surname  is  frequently  met 
[with  in  the  Midlands.  A  Mr.  F.  A.  Northall 
[resides  at  Dudley. 

Chables  F.  Forshaw,  LL.D. 
Bradford. 

AiNoo  AJJD  Baskish  (10"'  S.  i.   2<M).— In 

1888  Mr.  W.  Webster,  of  Sara  near  St.  Jean 

,<Je  Luz,  lent  me  h  copv  of  Mr.  Chamberlain's 

IjDuglish  traii-slation  or  an  Ainoo  folktale  on 

t^The  Birds'  Tea-party.'    1  put  it  into  French 


Erose,  and  asked  the  local  poet,  Augustiu 
tcheberri,  innkeeper  and  ex-shoemaker,  to 
translate  it  into  Baskish  rimes.  Ue  did  so, 
allowing  me  to  suggest  a  word  here  and  there. 
His  poem,  under  the  title  '  Chorien  Besta,' 
I.e.,  '  The  Birds'  Feast,'  obtained  an  "  honour- 
able mention  "  at  the  Bask  literary  festival, 
at  Cliristmaa,  1888,  at  San  Sebastian,  and 
was  published,  witli  some  regrettable  deforma- 
tion of  the  orthography,  in  the  lieviita 
Emkalen'ia,  printed  in  that  capital.  So 
Baskish  literature  has  been  enriched  by 
means  of  Ainoo,  through  the  intervention  of 
an  Englishman  and  the  Bask  bard  from  whom 
Dr.  H.  Schuchardt  learnt  the  Labourdin 
dialect.  E.  S.  DoncsoN. 

Rodney's  Second  Wife  (10""  S.  i.  226).— 
Some  information  respecting  the  descendants 
of  Henrietta,  second  daughter  of  John  Cliea, 
of  Lisbon,  by  Admiral  Lord  Rodney  (1718- 
1798},  will  \ye  found  in  '  N.  &  Q  ,'  6'''  S.  vii. 
449;  viii,  415.     Everard  Home  Colemajj. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

"  Brihoe"  :  its  Derivation  (10*''  S.  i.  189, 
250).— I  think  M.  Jean  Boussac  must  be  in 
error  when  he  aflirras  that  bridge  was  intro- 
duced into  Paris  from  London  in  1893.  I 
was  in  1886,  and  for  many  years  after,  a 
member  of  the  Khedivial  Club  in  Cairo,  and 
bridge  was  the  principal  card  game  played 
there  at  my  entrj',  ana,  as  members  told  me, 
had  long  so  been.  Among  the  players  were 
many  Frenchmen,  tliough,  so  far  as  1  now 
recall,  no  Englishman.  1  infer  it  must  have 
been  known  in  Franco  years  before  1893. 

A.  M.  Keiley. 

Authors  of  (Duotations  Wanted  (9'''  S. 
xii.  188,  271).— At  the  latter  reference  Mb. 
E.  H.  Coleman  stated  that  the  lines  com- 
mencing 

1  asked  of  Time  for  whom  those  temples  rose 
are  a  translation  by  the  Rev.  Charles  Strong 
of  a  sonnet  by  the  Italian  poet  Petrocchi, 
published  in  1862.  I  have  looked  up  Mr. 
Strong's  book,  and  find  the  wording  of  this 
sonnet  varies  very  considerablj'  from  the 
version  I  refer  to.  Has  any  other  trans- 
lation been  made  beginning  with  the  words  I 
have  quoted  I  Indiana. 

Tempu!  College,  Philadelphia  (10""  S.  i. 
207).  — I  know  nothing  about  the  degree- 
conferring  powers  of  this  college,  but  vol.  ii. 
of  the  Report  of  the  L"^nited  States  Commis- 
sioner of  Education  for  19C»2  (which  has  jUst 
reached  this  country)  includes  it  in  a  table 
of  '  Statistics  of  Schools  of  Tiieology  for  the 
Year  1902.'  From  this  table  I  gather  that  the 
full  title  of  the  institution  is  "  Philadelphia 


m 


mmm 


w 


298 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [lo^  s.  i.  Arm  9.  isoi. 


: 


Theological  Scljool  of  Temi>le  College'';  lluit 
it  is  unaeclarian,  was  openetl  in  1894,  and 
has  Kussell  H.  Con  well  as  Dean  or  President. 
The  number  of  profes-iiora  is  set  down  as  5, 
special  or  ausi-stant  instructors  0,  whole 
number  of  students  42  (including  2  women), 
years  in  the  course,  5  (a  foot-note  to  this 
Btatos  that  it  is  an  evening  school).  There 
are  no  entries  in  the  columns  headed 
"Graduated  in  1902,"  "Students  having  A.B. 
or  B.S.,"  "  Value  of  Grounds  and  Buildings," 
"  Endowment  Fund.s,''  "  Total  Income  in- 
cluding Benefacti(ms,"  "  Benefactions  re- 
ceived," "  Bound  Volumes  in  Library." 

DA\nD  .*?ALMON. 

Dickens  Queries  (lo"^"  S.  i.  228,  272).— I 
am  now  in  a  position  to  supply  an  answer  to 
one  of  my  queries  from  the  (flooe  of  26  March : 

"Two  corr«8i>ODdent«aeDd  the  lanic  solution  of 
the  ijueslion  we  quoted  last  wetk  from  AVe*  ami 
QiKiiti  as  to  what  Mr,  Jingle  ineRiit  when  he 
rleMred  the  festive  bottle  to  he  jiassed  'through  the 
hatton-hole.'  The  huttou-holo  ta,  of  course,  always 
on  the  left  la{ii>el  of  the  coat,  and  it  is  explained 
that  Jioele's  phraae  means  'right  to  left '  (i.e.,  'the 
way  of  the  snii '),  just  in  the  way  that  a  posy  would 
be  Drought  to  the  buttou-holo  from  tho  right  hand 
[rather,  I  should  suppose,  the  way  the  button  goes 
through].  One  corrcsiwndeut  points  out  that  iu 
women's  ulolliing  the  arrangement  of  buttons  is 
reversed,  but  his  inquiries  as  to  the  cause  of  this 
have  been  fruitless." 

H.  K.  St.  J.  S. 

The  expression  "through  the  button-hole" 
appears  to  mean  simply  "  from  right  to  left," 
the  bottle  being  naturally  on  the  right,  and 
button-holes  from  time  immemorial  on  the 
left  of  the  coat.  The  jihrase  is,  therefore,  an 
equivalent  of  the  accompanying  "way  of  the 
8un."  I  have  seen  this  query  asked  and 
answered  somewhere  before,  but  it  is  not,  as 
f  thought,  in  Calverlcy's  famous  Examination 
Paper  in  'Pickwick,'  though  other  Jingle- 
phrases  are.  F.  SlIX}\^^c•K. 

[Col.  M.iLET  also  replies  concerning  "  through 
the  buttonhole,"  and  Col,  DrKANP  about  "Tama- 
roo."j  

^ifiCtXlmton*. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  fto. 
Otttnf»'i'J!/f  OUd  Records,    Edited  by  Mary  Bateson. 

With   Preface   by  William    Cunningham,  D.D. 

(Cambridge,  Deighton,  I'-ell  k  Co.) 
MihS  Batkson'.s  carefully  e<iited  work  is  a  very 
useful  addition  to  the  gild  literature  which  is  ul 
present  accessible  iu  a  printed  form.  No  paina 
nave  been  si^ared  to  make  it  as  useful  as  possible, 
and  wc  arc  glad  tu  find  it  not  burdened  by  useleaa 
or  irrelevant  notes.  It  i«,  however,  quite  evident 
that  a  great  part  of  the  documents  relating  to  these 
interesting  confraternities  have  been  lost.  Till 
recent  daya  very  little  waa  known  regarding  the 


mediaeval  gilds,   which  were   for    the    nio«t 

ruthlessly  swept  away  by  the  storms  of  tho  sii 

teenth  century.     From  what  hat  now  coni«  to  lijj" 

it    is    cv   ^    ♦    -'    •    ■'         '^  '    ' 

charact' 

all  had 

the  poor  atumUtira  of   tlu'ic  u>^ii   boJ^'.  iitid  ha 

religions  aerviees  )>erformcd  for  the  livini;  and  tli 

dead.    The  gi'd  life  of  T--  '    ■  • ' 

Norman  daya:  but  wi.' 

whose  records  Miss  Bn..' 

scendauts  of  those  of  au  cailicr  tiuic  umy  well 

questioned 

The  surviving  jiapers  of  eleven  ■•■i'"  "—  '•■' 
reproduced.  They  all  contain  ui 
bearing  on  the  doniemlic  life  of  >>•. 
which  indicate  how  free  our  auccilurs  uf.  tlvj 
hundred  yearn  ago  were  to  cotnbine  for  aocia 
lienefits,  and  suggest,  but  do  not  prove,  tlu 
such  was  the  case  iu  more  remote  days,  concer 
ing  which  direct  evidence  is  wanting,  Tbuu 
not  trade  gilds  in  the  strict  sccae,  the  Caml 
gilds  sometimes  transacted  business  from  M  hie' 
drew  jirofit.  They  dealt  in  barley  and  ni*lt_ 
which  they  made  a  small  gain,  aud  the  gild( 
Mary  traded  in  millstones.  In  the  year  KOfl  it  ^ 
upwards  of  eight  pounds  by  this  means.  Were  1 
stones  of  the  small  sort  commonly  lurnt-d  by  hant 
or  were  they  the  largo  stones  used  iu  wind  or  wat« 
mills?  ,Some  of  them  must  have  been  of  the  lattc 
kind,  for  >ve  find  that  a  \\a.\t  were  sold  for  the  1 
sum  of  3/.  10<*.    No  indication  is  l^  '  i  Ihi 

place  where  theae  atones  were  quai :  v  ma] 

have  come  from  Eterbyshire  or  fur  h,  bu 

it  is  equally  jirobable  that  they   were  tuiftortc 
through  the  Netherlands  from  some  place  ou  ''' 
Continent.    Turf-diggers  found  mome  years  at 
Nieuport  a  vessel  laden  with  tho  stones  ol 
mills  buried  aljout  live  feet  deep  in  the  peat.1 
not  impossible  that  this  barge,  when  it  sant' 
making  its  way  down  a  canal  tor  the  traneshi| 
of  its  careo.    Quern-stones,  we  find  from 
statute  of  \W1,  were  at  that  time  imporleti 

the  sister  island.    In  l.'?5,1  William  de  I.,eni 

his  wife  Isabella,  on  their  becoming  members  of  tt 
gild  of  Corpus  Clirisli,  contributed  t<i  the  oxpeni 
of  a  Tilay  called  'The  Children  of  Israel,'     ThiJ 
probably  was  a  repreaentution  of  the  s»laughter  o^ 
the  Holy  Innoccnta  by  order  of  Herod,  aa  a  copjL 
of  a  drama  on  this  subject,  aa  Miss  Bateson  pointS] 
out,  has  come  down  to  us  ;   but  it  may  quite  pos^ 

Mbly  have  been  a  dramatic  ren<l«^' '    MflMfl 

leaffing  his  jieople  out  of  Egypt.     - 
had,  we  think,  a  special  service  foi 
of  tho  Black  Death.    This  was  prulubl|  bi 
mauy  of  them  must  have  passed  away  witbc 
being  possible  for  the  services  of  a  priest 
procured.     Tho  bcde  rolls  of  St.  Mary's  <ii 
given  in  full,  aud  the  nauics,  as  well  as  all 
iQ  the  book,  have  been  carefully  indesed. 


B00K9RIJ.Ens'  CATALOOtTBS. 

'JiiE  spring  and  Easter  bookselling  trade  la  evl 
dontly  ill  full  vigour,  if  we  are  to  judge  from  Ihf 
interesting  catalogues  we  have  received, 

Mr.  James  Clcgg.  •  '  "     '   '   '  ■    ■  • 

Spring,   19(M,   cont:c 
the  library  of  the  1 
Among  general  literature  wo  liiid  i 
uf  AduiBou'i  '  Remarks  on  Soverskl  i 


10^  s.  L  Ai-juL  9. 1901.]        NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


299 


* 


11,  I2i<.  (vl.  ;  Burton's  'London  and  Weatrainater,' 
1730 ;  Comines's  '  Memoirs,'  1712:  Phillips's  '  Views 
of  the  Old  Halls  of  Lancashire  and  Cheshire,'  iHii'S  ; 
Rtficic  of  /ifieir.1,  vols.  i.  to  xxii.,  3/.  Km.  ;  and 
Halliwell'a  '  Dictionary  of  Archaic  and  Provincial 
Words.' 

Mr.  R«rtrAni  Dobell  han  in  his  April  catalofnie  a 
ch(»i' I  '  "  [1  from  the  library  of  the  late  Sir  Tho9. 
Dav.  Tliis  includes  many  rare  work.8  of 

Scot,      1  '-^t.     In  the  general  list  are  Shelley's 

•  Que^u  Mab,  the  oxlrenjoly  rare  original  edition,  a 
rather  short  com',  but  in  sound  condition  and 
comidote.  31/.;  the  first  edition  of  '  Feetus,' with 
RUtoKrapn  letter,  2/.  10'*. ;  Goldsmith's  'Citizen  of 
the  World,'  firnt  edition,  4/.  lOw. ;  'Croniwelliana,* 
1810:  Donne's  'Poems,"  1(M9;  a  ' Collection  of 
Curious  Tracts  relating  to  America,'  1G65;  and 
some  nianuscri]it  Psalters  on  vellum.  Under  Fitz- 
Gerald  is  a  copy  of  Major  Moor's  *  Mysterious 
Bin^ng  of  Bell.s  at  Great  Healings.'  The  author 
was  a  firm  friend  of  Edward  FitzGerald,  whose 
autograph  is  on  the  title.  There  are  also  Halliwell's 
'  Contribntions  to  Early  English  Literature,'  Brixton 
Hill,  1848  (there  were  only  75 copies  of  this  printed), 
and  a  first  edition  of  Home's  '  DouKlas,'  the  volume 
containing  a  collection  of  cuttinRs  from  contempo- 
rary papers  and  three  ]>ortrait8  of  the  author,  with 
his  autograph.  The  collection  is  from  the  library 
of  James  ^^aid^lent,  with  his  bookplate.  Under 
Coloured  Ptate-s  are  '  The  Spirit  of  Cervantes  '  and 
'Doctor  .Syntax.' 

Mr.  DowniDg,  of  Birminehani,  "Chaucer's  Head 
Library,"  has  a  new  list,  full  of  variety.  It  includes 
Baili/i  Mf>ijn:inr,  oA  vols.,  13/.  13*.:  Bladea's 
'  Eitcmies  of  Books,'  II,  It,  ;  Boccaccio,  1573.  '2/.  lOw. ; 
CruiVshank's  '  Table  Book,'  Punch  Oflice.  184o, 
4/.  4<. ;  Fielding's  '  Works,"  with  introduction  by 
Edmund  fiosse ;  Leech's  '  Little  Tour  in  Ireland,' 
1859;  Leigh's  'Carols  of  Cockayne,'  first  edition, 
1869 ;  a  set  of  the  Magazine  of  Art  ;  Mat6e  Franijais, 
4  vols.,  atlas  folio,  Galifjnani,  UfiO-aO,  9/.  9<*.  ; 
Fitchett's  *  Xaval  and  Military  Works,' 9  vols.; 
Pope's  '  \^'ork8,'  "20  vols..  17"i5-42 ;  Payno  Collier's 
'  Snakespeare/  S  vols.,  20/.  (this  edition  was  limited 
to58eopie»> :  first  edition  tif  Kowlandson"s  'Journal 
of  S.  :]  Travels,' 1821;   Pinkerton's  'Stdect 

Sci.  Is,"  17H3;  'Syntax  in  London,   k'(20 ; 

anii  !■  ■  '  critury  of  Pottery  in  the  City  of  Wor- 

cester,' 1^77.  There  are  also  interesting  items 
under  Birds,  Crustacea,  Zoophytes,  Fishes,  kc 

Mr.  Francis  Edwards's  Easter  catalogue  contains 
Smith's  'Catalogue  Raisonn6  of  the  ^Vorks  of 
Dutch,  Flemish,  and  French  Painters,' 42/. ;  Alpine 
Journal,  complete  set,  1889-1900,26/.  •  '  English  Dia- 
lect Dictionrirv.'  H/. ;  Fnrmer  and  H  en  ley's 'Slanij 
I  nlcte  set;  and  'Hansard, 
..Is.,  half-calf.  250/.  This 
I  i.l.lietl's '  Parliamentary 
rirds  has  also  a  copy 
J  Mab,'  an  exception- 
issia,  extra  gilt,  45/. ; 
.'. :  1  homaaaKcmpis. 
voluni"  contains  a 


);  Knight's'  Gallery 
I  trails  »)f  the  Britisn 


•     '..litcd 
and 

■i'.gy.' 

i.  riotures 

ry,'  '2  vols. 

luds,"  small 


4to,  vellum,  1893,  51.  5s.;  Keats's  'Lamia,'  th» 
rare  first  edition,  12mo,  20  guineas ;  the  Oarm, 
January  to  Aj>ril,  1S50,  421. ;  Lamb's  '  Tales  from 
Shake8{>eare,'  hrst  edition,  2  vols.  12mo,  in  bright, 
fresli  condition,  40/.  ;  'John  Woodvil,'  first  edition  ;. 
and  •  Original  Letters  of  Sir  John  FalstafF.'  There 
is  a  considerable  collection  of  folk-lore,  and  works 
on  art  and  costume:  also  many  items  of  iutorest 
uuder  London,  Kent.  India,  and  Africa. 

Messrs.  William  (ieorge's  Sons'  (Bristol)  new  list 
consists  of  old  and  recent  books.  Under  Edward 
Bradley  ("Cuthbert  Bcde")  is  'College  Life,'  a 
series  of  24  etchings,  Oxford,  1849-50.  The  cata- 
logue states  "unknown  even  to  the  writer  of  the 
article  on  Bradley  in  'D.N.B.'"  There  is  a  set  of 
the  British  Association,  1831-81.  Various  other 
items  are  the  'Calves-Head  Club,'  1706;  Chaucer^ 
black-letter,  4/.  As.,  Adam  Isliti,  1(502:  'Figaro  in 
London,'  1832-6  ;  works  on  Folk-lore  ;  '  Biographie 
Univei-selle,"  52  voU..  Paris,  lSll-28,5/.  5». ;  'The 
Historical  Register,'  1716-38,  with  book-plates 
of  Lord  Camden ;  the  Book  of  Common  Prayer,  "  the 
Sealed  Book,"  the  famous  standard  of  1662;. 
the  London  Maijazint,  from  its  first  issue,  I'SiJ, 
to  1773 ;  William  Morris's  works  in  the  Golden 
Tvpe,  8  vols. ;  first  editions  of  Ruskin,  includinj^ 
'The  Seven  Lamps  of  Architecture,' 4/.  4^. ;  Lett- 
Bom'a  'Tea  Trade,*  1774,  with  Ellis's  'Historical 
Account  of  Coffee';  and  W'alpole's  'Anecdotes  of 
Painting,'  1828. 

Mr,  Charles  Higham,  of  Farringdon  Street,  has, 
as  usual,  a  largo  number  of  theological  books,  also 
new  books  at  reduced  ijrices.  There  is  a  curious 
work,  *  A  Kew  and  more  Exact  Mappe  or  Descrip- 
tion of  New  Jeru8alem"8  Glory  when  Jesus  Christ 
and  His  Saints  with  Him  shall  Ueign  on  Earth  a 
Thousand  Years,'  by  Mory  Cary,  1651.  'Critici 
Sacri,'  13  vols,  folio,  1608-1732:  'A  Directory  for 
the  Publioue  Worship  of  God,'  l(>4o;  8W)d  'Records 
of  the  Reformation.'  arranged  by  Nicholas  Pocock, 
Oxford,  1870,  are  other  items. 

Measrs.  J.  k.  J.  Leighton'a  catalogue.  Part  VI, 
N— Q,  is  full  of  valuable  books  and  iMuminatcd 
MSS.  The  illustrations  add  much  to  its  interest, 
and  it  contains  a  note  of  the  sales  of  the  following 
libraries,  with  estimates  as  to  probable  cost,  as 
indicating  bookbuying  as  an  investment:  Rox- 
burghe,  cost  4,(100/.,  realized  2:<,397/.  :  Beck  ford, 
30,(X»0/.,  73,551/.  :  Spencer.  lOO.OCKV..  250.(KXH!  ;  Ash- 
burnham.  60,00(1/.,  175,0(X)/. ;  Ashburuham  (Barrois 
MSS.),  8,000/.,  33,217/.  Under  Psalms  and  Prayers 
are  many  very  choice  items.  A  finely  written 
manuscript.  'Psalteriuni  GrKCum  Davidioum,'  is 
priced  at  00/.  ;  another,  in  Latin,  &>/.  (this  came 
from  Carisbrooke  Castle,  and  is  supposed  to 
have  belonged  to  Charles  I.) ;  '  Heuros  de  Rome.' 
illumiuatecT  in  gold  and  colours.  Paris.  1518,  60/. ; 
'Hora"  Beatw  Mariie  V^irginis,'  MS.  of  the  fifteenth 
century,  illustrated  witli  mauy  miuiaturos,  120/. 
There  are  also  choice  editions  of  Ovid,  Plato. 
Plautua.  Plutarch,  Phalaris  ;  a  set  of  the  works  of 
the  Philobiblon  Society.  18^-88,  40/.  ;  •  PtolemiBUs, 
(ieographia,'  fine  clean  copy,  .36/..  Rome,  P.  de 
Turre,  1490:  another  copy,  15'20,  35  guineas; 
Prynne's  'Collection  of  Records,'  1065-70,  Urge- 
paper  copy,  morocco  extra.  ^Til-  (the  Duke  of  Sussex's 
copy  of  this  work  sold  for  155/.):  and  nuder 
Portraits  we  find  Canlfield,  1819- 2lt;  Meysaeos's 
*  Painters,'  1694  ;  Vandyck,  including  twelve  etch- 
ings by  his  own  band,  Antwerp,  n.d.,  Yil.  \'2i. 


800 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       no*"  s.  i.  Avnw  9.  i9m. 


MeMFB.  Macmillan  k  Bowes,  of  Cambridge,  have 
a  selection  from  the  libran'  of  the  late  Rev.  Henry 
Rusaell,  rector  of  Layham.  Tliese  include  Aclier- 
nionn 
ei 
10' 

green 

Scott's  novels,  the  4.S-vol.  edition,  1830-3;  Strype's 
•Works'  ;  a  fine  copy  of  'Tract*  for  the  Times,' 
Archbishop  LonRley  n  copy  with  hi»  book-iilate ; 
(hooper's  'Annals  of  Cambridge";  'Cambridge 
Calendar,'  17i>6  to  1903,  and  many  other  works 
relating  to  Cambridge;  'Sir  Joshua  Roynolda.'  by 
Leslie  and  Tom  Taylor :  Liddon'a  '  Life  of  Puaey ' : 
and  the  rare  first  edition  of  Bcckfoni's  "  Valhek- 
There  are  also  many  scarce  books  from  the  Kelai- 
Boott  and  other  presses. 

Messrs.  Maegs's  Catalogue  of  Old-Tinie  Lite- 
rature, No.  'iJI,  Part  L,  A  —  M,  gives  us  the 
first  edition  of  '  Paradise  Lost,'  ''Printed  by 
S.  Simmons,  and  are  to  be  sold  by  T.  Helder 
at  the  Angel  in  Little  BriUin,"  1668,  251.:  also 
another  copy,  '2lf. ;  L.  Maiolus,  '  Enijihyllidtw 
in  Dialeeticis,"  Venet.,  Aldus.  1497,  the  Syalon 
Park  coiiy,  with  ex-libris,  fV.  18^.,  very  rare ; 
Augustine,  'Sclent  Prayers,'  black  •  letter,  l.iS6, 
61.  5*.  ;  Bacon's  'Essays,'  the  extremely  rare  fifth 
edition,  16mo,  bound  by  Riviere.  161*2,  'JGl.  (this  is 
complete,  with  the  rare  blank  leaf  before  titiv): 
ftiiuther  coiiy,  the  sixth  edition,  1613,  '26/.;  a  Col- 
lection of  Ballade,  published  by  J.  Piita,  Seven 
Dials,  1790  IWU;  also  Payne  Collier's  'Book  of 
Roxhurghe  Ballads.'  There  are  a  numtjer  of  rare 
Bibles;  Bieston's  'The  Bayto  and  iSoare  of  For- 
lutie,'  1550,  30/. :  a  large  Collection  of  Broadsides, 
some  in  black-letter.  3  vols,  folio.  '25/. ;  '  The  He|rarb 
of  John  Stockdale's  Trial.'  Edmund  Burke's  copy, 
with  a  largo  number  of  his  MS.  notes ;  the  first 
Edinburgh  edition  and  first  issue  of  Burn&'s 
'  Poems.'  17S7, 35/. ;  an  early  Hpecimen  of  Canibridge 
printing,  '  Eoclesiastcs,"  1580;  first  edition  of 
Camoens's  iwems,  1j05;  a  number  of  pamphlets 
relating  to  Charles  I.  ;  the  Kelmscott  Chaucer,  TS/.  ; 
first  edition  of  William  Collinsa  'Odes,'  1747, 
10/.  10.^.  (this  is  extremely  rare,  as  the  greater  part 
was  destroyed  by  the  author);  Crabbe,  'The 
IJcwspaper,  1785,  and  '  The  Village,'  1783 ;  Brat 
edition  of  '  Kobinson  ('rusoe,'  1719,  14/.  14^ ;  a 
number  of  valuable  items  under  Early  Printiug. 
ineludinR  a  specimen  of  Notary's  press,  luOC;  the 
Enfflish  rlist^rieal  .Society's  Publications,  183S-66 : 
Fftbyan'H  'Chronicle,'  15;W;  Evelyn's  '  AeetAria, 
1699,  a  jjr-esuiitalion  copy;  Foxe'a  'Book  of  Mai- 
tyrs/ IS/O, '2.1/.  ;  and  'Fugitive  Tract*.' with  notices 
by  Ha/.litt  and  liuth,  printed  at  the  Chiawick 
Press  for  private  circulation. 

Messrs,  A.  Maurice  &  Co.'s  List  contains  :«ome 
fine  illustrated  books  in  handsome  bindinirs.  I'hcse 
includeCouiit  'Ir.unmont's' Memoirs,'  IHSl), 'Jli/.  lih.; 
Groiiow's    '  •  Mces,'    19tl0,  If.  7*.;    Fooio's 

'  "Table  Tal  i  '.'-: :  an  extra-illustrated  copy 

of  Ban-as,  is. •.,-,,,  ^..,.  ;  Forster'a  'Dickens';  Blao- 
chard  Jerrold  s  'Life  of  Cruikshank';  Talfourd's 
'  Memoirs  of  Lamb ' ;  Eraser's  '  Words  on  Wfllinc- 
ton  ' ;  Rogers's  '  Table  Talk ' ;  '  Memoir  of  ^V'«3• 
iMiJe';  and  many  others,  ull  with  extra  illustru- 
tioni :  Burton's  'Arabian  Night*,'  illu»itratf<d 
edition  ;  Blake's  '  BiK)k  nf  Job ' ;  B(klsac'8  '  CEuvres 
Ciimplf'tcs."  filatf"  by  JohriTinot  ;  and  u  numbor  of 
n  !c. 

rtin's  Laue,  has  a 
c.,.,  ..  ......._.,  .  ..jiua.'wjth  brilliant 


f'ol- 

SI; 

:  Uv 


early  impression-    - -■■  ■  ■••'    )■       '  ■»      "' 

lection  of  theCi 

'  Marguerite  de  \ 

Hamilton  copy  sold  tor  4(>i'.)i  .Scoii'e  i. 

185'2-7 ;   Bewick,  a  large  collection  <>  i    . 

73  vols.,  10/.  10«. ;   'British   '     " u, 

Cadell,   18*22;  a  number  <:  L. 

Stevenson  ;   Paynell's  '  Re;;  >.  in,' 

1597  (''after  we  have  dyne«i  ot  laktu  uur  icpott  wft 
must  for  awhile  stand  upright,  that  so  Ihcmealctnmy 
descend  downe  to  the  bottomc  of  the  i^t. -■..-. -i,>  'j . 
Mason's  '  Chrifiliau    Humiliation,'    n  on 

fasting,  1624,  bound  in  vellum  with  an.'  1.; 

and  Lysons'a  '  London  and  Middlesex,  JT'.C.  J  iiere 
are  a  number  of  engravings  and  book-plates,  carica- 
tures, kc. 

Mr.  James  Wilson,  of  Birmingham,  sends  us  two 
catalogues  for  March  —  the  first  one  theological, 
three  pages  being  Roman  Catholic.  There  is  a  coiiy 
of  Juua  Cartwright's  (Mrs.  Ady)  'Christ  and  His 
Mother  in  Italian  Art,"  xiricc  '2/.  7*.  6«/.  Of  this 
only  '2.t6  copies  were  printed  at  Si.  S*.  net.  The 
general  list  includes  Dugdale's  '  Monii=tii  on  .\ngli- 
canum,'  14/.  lin.,  cost  lOw.    Dibdin  th  aa 

"a>  magnilicont    national  work."    \  u  « 

'Dictiounairo  Roisonn^,'  10  vols.,  .-  iw  ■..  at 
11/.  15s.,  and  Ootch'a  'Architecture  of  the  ReBsia- 
sance'at7/.  18».  A  set  of  the  'Natiofw!  Knryolo- 
pa?dia' is  to  be  had  for '2/.  2^  ,  a  -  Uic 

end  of  June,  1891,  half-bound  i  lor 

12/.  Mis.  (anote  is  made,  "  Titiu^  \.>. .  .  _  ,  ,  ....irU- 
lior's  '  Rossetti,'  best  edition,  2/.  Ith. ;  'Celebrated 
Crimea.'  by  Dumas,  8  vols. ;  Lardner'a  '  Cyclo- 
picdia';  Creeny's  'Incised  Slabs';  'Desiderata 
Curiosa,'  by  Francis  Peck,  \~?fl-o  ;  a  scarce  lot  ol 
portraits  Ulustrating  .Vtisou's  'Europe':  first  edi- 
tions of  Rogers's  'Italy'  and  '  P»iems,'  I83U-4 
(Raskin  said  "this  beautiful  editi'>n  of  .Sainael 
Rogers's  'Poetical   Works'   wa-  1.    which 

first  determined  his  devotion  to  f  nrt") : 

Walker's    'Costume  of  Yorksiu  l";  aud 

Todd's  'History  of  the  College  of  iiutiboiunies  %t 
Ashridge.  Buckingham.'  Under  Natural  History  we 
Had  VarreU'a  'Birds and  Fishes,' 


lloticfs  to  CwrrsjjoiibrnJs. 

Wi  tnwM.  call  irptcia/  al(ention  to  tht  /otfowM^i 
noUce* : — 

Ok  all  communications  must  be  written  th*  tiAna 
and  address  uf  the  setider,  not  neceiussrily  (or  pab- 
lioation,  but  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith, 

Wk  cannot  undertake  to  answer  queries  privately, 

H.  J.  F.  A— .John  Christopher  Smith  was  a  friend 
of  Citiirii'k  and  a  pupil  of  Uandel.  He  is  included 
in  the  '  Diet.  Nat,  Biog.' 

Lt;i:js  ("Sow  an  act,  and  you  reap  a  habit"). — 
Charles  Reade.    See  9^  8.  xii.  877. 

tfUTlCK. 

!•'■-.    ■■■  '       -^   '  .      ,'dr 

>  -Adi 

'1  -.         _1jb         _ 

li8her  "—at  the  Otiice,  Bream's  liutidtugs,  Cbtooery  ' 
lAiie,  E,0. 

'■■-■'■■'        ■   '    ■  4m 

not 

pt._., :.  .-..-  .....  :. ;__^.  _ i  ..vu. 


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A.  FUA"«cli  PrtBtar  at  iBa  .tum*wm.  .v....  «i>d  Uwarw.,  •t,  li 
praparaa  to  HIIKMIT  »•  lIMATBn  Inf  all  klada  ol  UUOK.  KBWk. 
Md  pBHIoniCAL  PHJWTINO.-U.  Mraara  a  Halldiata,  OkanearT 
Laae.  ■  C. 

TUN  BRIDGE    WELLS.— Comfortably    FUR. 

1  MlitHlili  (HTTINOnoOM  and  ONB  or  TWO  RBDKDOHS! 
Qnlil  pleajaal  and  <.bital.  Three  mtaaM.'  walk  from  A.B  R  A  C. 
Btaiina:     Ho  otkera  takaa.— Jl.  K  ,  06,  Orora  UUl  Koad,   rvabrtdfa 


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CLASSICAL    AND    FOREIGN      ' 

QUOTATIONS.  i 

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addition  of  several  Comprehensive  Indctes,  uialdng  it  possible  for  any 
<|Uotatioii  to  be  immediately  found. 

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DICTIONARY  OF  QUOTATIONS  from  all  languages  and  aU  ages, 
will  be  immediately  patent  to  all  who  look  into  it. 

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CONTENTS.-No.  16. 

N0TK8  :— Jnannn  Soutbcott,  301— Westmlnitrr  Chan(e«  in 
1803.  3iia— Blhil'iempliy  of  PubtUhluS,  3iU  —  '  Dorbr's 
iUm '— •  HerrlnR  .Snni{/  306-The  Oe<llTl«— "  KouUrd  "— 
Lytiuld  Fninily  —  Joiiu  Gaudea  :  Btlward  Lcwknor  — 
••Wentworth":  IH  Local  ProDunciatloD,  3(»7. 

QUHRtBS:  — "  Part  and  iwrcel"  — Pamlm  — Puialng-bell- 
Fnuii-oli  Vifurj^— NeUon  niM  Wnls«y— Bai>  Rock  Muito, 
^Oe—KngrarittKii  — Ailnilral  Dunatil  Catiipl«U  —  Armi  ol 
Pope  Plug  X.— Wyburne  Painlly  — "SUl  crux  dum  vol- 
vli  ur  orbia  "— Oxfiir.1  Men  aeiit  to  the  Tower— "  I'olelf," 
309— Ral«*(th  Pi)rlfiilt  -  Jeatamj  BrMs-Janiss  Brinrtley— 
Mitcbtrl  A  KInlay,  Bankera— Good  Fridajaiid  Low  Tides - 
Early  MS.  Mention  of  Shakeapeare— M.  Lawnuice,  Pan- 
maker-Wblte  Turliary,  3Ii). 

UEPLIKS:— "Our  Ln<ly  of  Ibe  Sno«»."  311  —  American 
Lojallata— 'Bxamlnalionf'f  an  OM  Hanutcript'— Opruwer 
— "Soole  lun,"  Ncufcilk,  ^13— "Kick  tlie  bucket  "— Cam- 
den on  Surname*  :  HiiaM;lwliit«— Latin  Linm  -Tamo  unit 
Milton,  ;fM~Gerninn  lieprlnt  of  LelyarniKa— HlnUtur« 
Ol  Kenton -William  Willie-Sleep  and  P-.m.  !•.  ^"I 
cipecl  to  pa««  throUKh  "— ••  Dlaw  |)atl"— ^"  'ley 

— "  I>r»i({   In  the  market "—"  OUl  Kngli  '^fll 

nod  TIdealow,  318    Cobweb  PilU,  aU-\\i.~  .  ; ucry, 

318. 

MOTBS  ON  BOOKS  :  —  Earle'i  '  MIcrDCoamogranble  '  — 
'Ori?at  Majt«>ri '  — Croft  on '■  'Old  Mo»»  Side'— I>ol«ir( 
'Itoiemary  aii'l  Pat-slcs '— '  Jeaiii  Christ  Oure  lauoareo 
TeatJim«utu  Derria '— Ma^ailnes  and  Revlewi. 

IfOtlOM  lo  Ct>rrr»[>ondent*. 


Boiti, 


^^r  JOANNA    SOUTHCOTT. 

^V  Joanna  Southcott's  seals  are  referred  to, 

^H  anle^  p.  280,  as  being  great  rarities.  That  is 
^B  perfectly  true ;  but  to  add  tliat  most  of  the 
^H  thousands  distributed  were  sold  at  a  guinea 
^m  each  is  absolutely  incorrect  and  mialeaMJing. 
^M  Joanna  gave  strict  injunctions  that  they 
^M  should  not  bo  iiold,  she  iiaving  heard  that  in 
^M  a  few  instances  small  sums  of  ruoney  had 
^M  bnen  receiveti  for  them  on  wrong  pretences. 
^1  I  am  the  fortunate  possessor  of  two  of  these 
^M  certificates  of  future  millennial  joy?,  and 
^H  of  one  of  the)<e  the  hc&\  is  still  unbroken, 
^M  and  therefore  possibly  unique.  Another 
^M  mialeading  statement  is  that  Joanna  "was 
^V  undoubtedly  mad.'  She  was  i>erfectly  sane, 
and  above  the  average  for  shrewdness.  She 
liad  a  genuine  religious  mind,  and  consider- 
able textual  knowledge  of  the  Bible  ;  but 
ehe  belonged  to  that  comparatively  small 
«ection  of  iiumunity  in  which  the  subliminal 
consciousnets  is  in  the  habit  of  rising  up 
over  the  threshold  and  t|uite  Hooding  the 
house  of  reasoned  judgment  and  everyday 
fXfMfrionco.  One  <»f  the  eft't-cts  is  automatic 
writing,  antl  Joanna  bi'^an  sumewhat  in  this 
way,  an<l  would  havexocoutinuiHl,  l»ut  no  one 
could  read  thedoggtirt'l  wriiing>*  that  i«HUOil 
from  her  unpractised  pen ;  consequently  an 


amanuensis  was  required,  and  then  tlic  sub- 
liminal consciousness  had  to  speak  and  do 
longer  write. 

The  history  of  her  blameless  life,  her  en- 
thusiastic followers,  of  the  various  curious 
schisms  which  came  into  existence  at  Asitton 
and  elsewhere  later  on,  and  of  tlie  faithful 
few  who  even  now  in  England  and  America 
look  up  to  her  a.s  their  spiritual  mother- 
all  this  history  is  far  more  interesting  than 
votaries  of  Marie  Corelli  and  Kudyard  Kipling 
conceive,  and  is  adequately  known  to  very 
few  indeed.  Ne  Quid  Nimw. 

The  interesting  note  on  Mr.  F.  B.  Dickin- 
son's article  in  Defon  Notef  <ind  Qutrits  in- 
duced me  to  renew  my  acquaintance  with  the 
grave  of  Joanna  Southcott  in  the  burial- 
grounti  attached  to  St.  John's  Chapel,  St. 
John's  Woo*l.  There  are  two  stones.  The  actual 
tombstone  lies  tlat  on  the  ground,  and  is 
surrounded  by  a  low  iron  railing.  Near  the 
wall  of  the  burial-ground  is  another  stone, 
standing  erect^  ana  bearing  an  inscription 
directing  the  visitor  to  the  grave  ;  this  stone, 
the  inscription  declares,  was  erected  in  1828. 
Both  stones  are  in  an  excellent  state  of  pre- 
servation, the  inscriptions  being  perfectly 
legible,  while  stones  lying  close  at  hand  be- 
longing to  graves  of  about  the  same  date  can 
only  1^3  read  witli  great  difficulty.  It  is, 
therefore,  certain  that  the  stones  have  been 
cleaned  from  time  to  time,  if  not  recut  ,*  and 
their  smooth  surface  suggests  that  they  have 
been  actually  renewed  ;  in  the  latter  case, 
however,  the  restorer  failed  to  record  tlie 
fact.  It  may  also  be  mentioned  that  the 
attention  of  a  loving  hand  is  further  indicated 
by  a  wreath  with  card  attached,  bearing  the 
words  "In  Memory,"  which,  enclosed  in  a 
glass  case,  reposes  on  the  tomb. 

It  is  clear,  therefore,  that,  if  the  tomb- 
stone was  shattered  by  the  explosion  in  1874, 
a  new  one  was  provided  and  has  been  well 
looked  after  since.  All  the  same,  one  would 
like  to  know  the  original  authority  for  a 
statement  which,  to  me  at  least,  appears 
improbable.  After  examining  the  grave  I 
spoke  to  an  attendant,  who  told  me  that  he 
well  remembered  seeing  the  broken  windows 
in  the  houses  in  the  High  Street  overlooking 
the  burial-ground  ;  but  ho  had  never  heanJ 
of  anv  grave,stones  being  injured  by  the 
explosion,  nor  could  lie  reniemWr  that  the 
stone  over  Joanna  Southcott's  grave  had  at 
any  time  been  renewed.  It  ought,  however, 
to  l)c  stated  that,  though  resident  in  the 
neighbourhood  in  1674,  it  was  not  till  many 
years  afterwards  that  he  was  employed  in 
the  liurial-gruunti. 

I  also  learnt  from  the  same  attendant  tlx^.^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


the  periodical  cleaning  of  the  two  stonea  ia 
paid  for  by  a  gentleman  who  visits  the  grave 
two  or  three  times  a  year,  and  whoplaced  on 
it  the  wreath  above  referred  to.  So  that  io 
1904,  no  less  than  in  1874,  Joanna  Southcott 
has  a  follower  who,  if  he  does  not  "look 
forward  to  her  return  to  life,"  at  least  wishes 
to  do  something  towards  keeping  her  memory 
green.  F.  W.  Keap. 

On  27  August,  1887,  I  visited  the  burial- 
ground  attaciied  to  St.  John's  Wood  Chapel 
for  the  purpo.se  of  trying  to  find  the  grave  of 
Joanna  Southcott.  I  searched  the  place 
pretty  thoroughly  several  times,  but  could 
find  no  memorial  of  any  kind  relating  to 
Joanna.  I  think,  therefore,  tlie  tombstone 
which  marked  her  grave  cannot  have  been 
replaced  after  being  shattered  by  theexplosioo 
in  1874. 

In  'Old  and  New  London,'  v.  2;j3,  Mr. 
Walford  saj's : — 

"  Her  ff^mains  were  first  moved  to  an  undertaker't 
in  Oxford  fStreet,  whence  they  were  taken  secretly 
for  iiitermeiit  in  this  cemetery.  A  tablet  to  her 
memory  contains  these  lines  :— 

While  through  all  thy  woodrons daya. 
Heaven  and  earth  enraptured  gaze ; 
While  vain  saites  think  they  know 
Secrets  thou  aT«ne  caiiat  show  ; 
Time  alone  will  tell  what  hour 
Thou  'It  appear  to  greater  power- 

Sabineaa." 

1  have  seen  it  stated  that  Joanna  Southcott 
was  buried  under  a  fictitious  name.  Is  this 
true?  JoYisf  T.  Paoe. 

We«t  Haddoa,  Northamptonshire. 


WESTMINSTER    CHANGES    IN    1903. 

(See  aulf,  p.  963.) 

I  STATED  at  O""  S.  X.  263  that  the  ground 
bounde<l  by  "  Millbank  Street,  Great  College 
Street,  Little  College  Street,  and  Wood  Street 
is  already  aclieduled,"  and  at  the  reference 
previously  given  in  t\m  note  that  the 
"  honae.s  are  all  down  and  the  ground  nearly 
cleared,"  witii  the  exception  of  tlie  houses 
Nos.  2  and  4,  Mill  bank  Street.  I  can  now 
add  that  tl»at  stage  has  lieen  passed,  for 
those  two  houses  were  pulled  down  some 
months  ago,  and  the  foundations  are  now 
being  got  in  for  a  building  destined  to  be 
the  palatial  home  of  the  Ecclesiastical  Com- 
missioners, and  most  jjrobably  of  other 
societies  as  well.  It  is  designed  by,  I  believe, 
Mr.  W.  D.  Cariie,  the  contractors  being 
Messrs.  J.  E.  Johnson  &  Son,  of  Leicester, 
and  11,  Little  College  Street.  This  building 
will  be  a  great  ornament  to  the  neighbour- 
hood, and  will  be  well  seen  £rom  the  new 


ornamental  gardens  opposite,  and  (torn  the 
river,  which  it  will  front. 

At  the  corner  of  Little  College  Street,  and 
standing  upon  the  site  of  Nos.  10,  II  and 
12,  Great  College  Street,  lately  removed,  ha» 
been  erected  a  somewhat  t>«<culiar  bailding 
for  the  otlices  of  the  Lancashire  and  York- 
shire Railway  Company,  which  had  been 
previously  housed  at  No.  ),  Great  Cbllego 
Street.  At  the  other  end  of  tbe  latter  streetr 
a  notable  clearance  J  '- n  made  for  th» 
purpose  of  erecting  I  to  afford  extra 

accommodation  for  \V,.,iiu,i,-,ier  Schotil,  th& 
ground  being  cleared  from  Na  15,  Barton 
Street  round  to  the  Drill  Hall  of  th& 
Volunteer  Battalion  of  tlie  Royal  Fusiliers  in 
Tufton  Street,  a  building  itself  only  a  few 
years  old. 

At  the  corner  of  Great  College  Street, 
oppo.sile  the  entrance  to  Dean's  laid,  wa» 
"Sutcliflfe's,  the  immortal  "tack  shop"  of 
many  generations  of  Westminster  scholars, 
concerning  which  tbere  are  manv  goo<l  and 

3uaint  stories  on  record,  as  the  old  scholars 
elight  to  tell  them  at  every  opportunity. 
There  were  also  two  other  notable  shops  i» 
this  street,  at  either  corner  of  Black  Dog 
Alley,  now  done  away  with,  one  being 
Martin's,  from  which  boots  and  shoe^, 
rackets,  balls,  and  suchlike  goods  were 
supplied  to  the  scholars  for  many  years,  and 
the  other  Ginger's,  which  supplied  school- 
books  and  stationery  for  a  long  series  of 
years.  The  proprietor  was  somewhat  of  a. 
droll,  and  full  of  eccentricities,. and  was  wel4 
known  to  my  own  family  a  couple  of  gene- 
rations back.  This  house  was  ournt  down 
some  years  ago,  and  rebuilt,  but  has  now- 
gone  for  good. 

The  house  built  at  No.  11,  Tufton  Street, 
for  the  Wastminster  Female  Refuge,  has  been 
opened,  but  the  other  land  cleared  ac  thi* 
spot  i.s  still  unutilized. 

In  Great  Smith  Street  Nos.  22  to  14  ar& 
empty,  and  likely  to  be  cleared  away  at 
an  early  date.  No.  12  has  Iwen  used  as  th& 
entrance  to  the  stables  of  the  Duke  of 
Buccleuch,  who  has  had  to  make  several 
moves  on  account  of  the  various  clmuges  in 
the  neighbourhood  ;  and  Nos.  10  and  8,  lately 
rebuilt,  are  now  a  meter-testing  depOt  of  the 
L.C.C.,  and  extend  Iwck  to  St..  Anne's  Street 
(formerly  Lane),  where  there  is  an  outlet. 
In  the  latter-named  thoroughfare  a  buildini 
numbered  \b,  16,  and  17  has  been  erected  by 
Messrs.  Harborow,  the  shirt-raakers  of  New 
Bond  Street,  and  is  devoted  to  workshopif, 
which  were  occupied  early  la»t  year. 

In  Rochester  Row   Nos.    11,  13,   and  U 
occupied  by  Mr.  A.  Smellie,  wholesale  aoc 


!Kli6.i9w.]     notes  and  queries. 


retail  ironmonger,  are  being  rebuilt,  and  not 
a  day  too  soon,  for  it  has  been  a  wonder  that 
they  stood  so  long.  I  cannot  find  out  the 
age  of  these  shops ;  but  every  one  agrees 
tnat  they  were  very  old,  and  it  is  certain 
that  the  work  of  pulling  down  was  not  a  work 
of  much  labour.  The  new  Police  Court  has 
been  completed,  and  is  now  in  use.  It  is  a 
.8ul»tantial  building ;  the  approaches  and 
fwaiting-rooius  are  spacious  and  handsome, 
all  the  former  objectionable  surroundings 
having  been  done  away  with,  but  the  court 
itself  is  the  same  building  which  has  been 
[in  use  for  many  years.  It  has,  however,  been 
redecorated  and  refitted,  and  the  oak  benches 
and  desks  for  the  solicitors  and  the  various 
ofBcials  give  the  place  a  decidedly  neat  and 
I  businesslike  appwarance.  I  am  pleased  to  be 
able  to  state  that  the  old-faslnoncd  dock 
with  its  heavy  lead  flooring  has  been 
removed,  and  in  its  place  there  is  a  more 
modern-looking  structure,  answering  to  the 
true  court  of  justice  type.  It  is  upon  reconl 
that  the  old  one  was  so  strong  that  onc^ 
some  years  ago,  it  resisted  *'  the  outward 
pressure  of  the  muscular  arms  of  Sarason, 
of  Royal  Aquarium  fame."  The  old  coat  of 
arms,  which  adorned  the  bookcase  standing 
behind  the  magistrate's  chair,  is  still  there, 
and,  having  been  beautified,  carries  its  age- 
over  a  hundred  years— exceedingly  well.  The 
change  here  was  thoroughly  needed. 

In  Vauxhall  Bridge  Road  Nos.  82  to  94 
(even  numbers)  are  empty,  and  are  aljout  to 
be  rebuilt ;  while  in  Edward  Street,  adjoining, 
Nos.  2  to  10  (even  numViers)  are  all  empty, 
and  seem  to  be  includml  in  the  sante  scheme. 
No.  10,  at  the  corner  of  Douglas  Street,  has 
a  very  frail,  old-fashioned,  semicircular  iron 
balcony  to  the  window  in  the  angle  on  the 
first  floor.  Xo.  00,  Vauxhall  Bridge  Road  is 
also  empty,  with  a  view  to  rebuilding. 

Wheeler  Street,  a  short  street  in  the  .same 
road,  has  been  widened  and  levelletl,  an 
improvement  of  considerable  use ;  and  at 
Strutton  Ground,  Pear  Street  has  been  made 
into  a  thoroughfare  for  carriage  traffic,  a 
house  having  been  pulled  down  and  some 
posts  removed  to  effect  this  ;  but  the  useful- 
ness of  the  change  is  not  very  clear,  as  the 
street  leads  nowhere  of  any  consequence. 

In  Elvertou  Street — the  origin  of  the  name 
of  which  still  remains  in  obscurity — Brin's 
Oxygen  Company  have  put  up  a  building  for 
offices,  ibc,  wliich  gives  an  entrance  to  their 
works.    It  is  in  no  way  ornamental. 

In  Rochester  Street  and  Grey  Coat  Street 
all  the  small  houses  (some  of  which  were  of 
considerable  age)  have  been  done  awa^  with, 
and  the  same  thing  has  happened  in  Bell 


Street.  At  Millbank  (or,  as  it  is  now  called, 
Grosvenor  Road)  the  Military  Hospital 
buildings  are  being  rapidly  pushed  forward, 
and  the  public  garden  at  the  rear  of  the  Tate 
Gallery  is  raile<^i  in,  and  during  the  coming, 
summer  will  be  found  a  great  boon  by  the 
residents  at  the  new  Millbank  dwellings 
owned  by  the  London  County  Council. 

My  perambulation  of  St.  John's  pan«ih  is 
now  at  an  end.  In  St.  Margaret's  the 
changes  during  the  past  year  have  not  been* 
so  numerous  ;  still  tlicse  that  have  occurre<i 
are  of  some  interest,  and  particulars  of  theni> 
are  likely  to  be  inquired  for  in  the  future.  Irv 
the  church  itself  .some  changes  have  been 
made.  The  electric  lighting  has  been  re- 
arranged, not  altogether,  as  I  think,  to 
advantage  ;  and  the  font  set  up  by  public 
subscription  in  Dr.  Farrar's  time,  at  a  cost  of 
loO/.,  has  been  removed  from  the  west  end, 
dismantled,  and  stowed  away,  and  a  muciv 
smaller  one,  which  had  not  been  used  for 
many  years,  has  been  placed  in  the  south- 
west corner  of  the  church  in  its  stead,  and 
this  arrangement  must  be  deemed  an  im- 
provement. 

The  aspect  of  Victoria  Street  has  been, 
much  altered  within  the  last  two  years,  and 
change."}  are  still  taking  place,  most  of  them 
having  been  eft'ected  during  the  last  twelve 
months.  A  great  number  of  the  ground-floor 
flats  have  been  converted  into  shops;  the 
exclusively  residential  character  of  the  street 
having  gone,  trade  has  come  in  the  wake  of 
the  Army  and  Navy  Co-operative  Society, 
which  has  been  established  here  for  some- 
thing over  thirty-two  years.  This  spot  has 
now  quite  a  businesslike  appearance,  and 
certainly  the  most  artLstic-looking  shop-front 
is  that  of  the  premises 'occupied  by  Messrs. 
Berkeley,  the  outfitters,  which  has  been 
greatly  admired.  There  is  nothing  finer  any- 
where in  London  trading  quarters,  even  the 
noted  front  at  Swan  &,  Ldgar's  no  longer 
retaining  its  pre-eminence.  All  the  altera- 
tions are  in  good  taste,  and  have  done  much 
to  remove  the  dulness  of  the  street,  so  long 
complained  about,  not  without  cause. 

In  the  Sanctuary,  close  under  the  shadow 
of  the  Abbey  towers,  extensive  alterations 
are  in  progress  at  Nos.  1,  2,  and  3,  which  are 
the  ofticea  of  the  Clergy  Mutual  Assurance 
Society,  in  order  to  adapt  what  have  always 
been  lo<iked  upon  a.H  excellent  specimens  of 
Gothic  dwelling-houses  (designed  many  years 
ago  by  the  late  Sir  G.  Gilbert  Scott,  R.A.)  to 
the  increased  requirements  of  their  business. 
A  frontage  is  being  added  in  Dean's  Yard, 
which  the  Precentor  of  Westminster  Abbey, 
the  Rev.  H.  G.  Daniell-B&lQ,V«vJk5K*-."««^'^"*=' 


SOi 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


llO'k  ».  L  AwuL  lU,  1904. 


Dot  unjustly,  ia  like  nothing  so  much  an  a 
mortuary  chapel,  but  it  will  not  be  completed 
for  many  months.  The  Royal  Aquarium  has 
entirely  disappeared,  the  last  portion  having 
been  demolished  just  before  Ohriatmas,  and 
witli  it  have  gone  several  houses  in  Princes 
Street,  two  of  which  had  some  interest  for 
me,  as  they  had  been  the  property  of  my 
grandfather  many  years  ago. 

A  portion  of  the  larger  pile  of  buildings 
having    frontages    in    fothill    Street,    New 
Tothill  Street,  and  Great  Chapel  Street  is 
nearing  completion.    The  building,  which  La 
to  be  known  as    Queen  Anne's   Chambers, 
does  not  appear  (to  the  casual  observer,  at 
least)    to    be    entirely    satisfactory.      Tlie 
stone  formerly    on    ^o.    4,    Tothill    Street., 
between   the    two  centre    windows   on   the 
second  floor,  upon  which  the  date  1761  was 
cut,  and  which  I,   at   9'''    S.  x.  223,    dared 
hope  would  be  inserted  as  near  its  old  posi- 
tion as  possible,  !>aa  not  been  reinstated,  a 
matter  of  much  regrof  to  Westminster  folk. 
Our  landmarks  are  gradually  dwindling,  so 
that  efforts  ought   to   be  made   that  they 
should  not  be  entirely  lost  in  the  rebuilding 
going  on  around    us.     The  portion  of  this 
large  building  facing  Great  Chapel  Street  is 
not  likely  to  be  completed  for  some  time,  and 
it  is  to  be  feared  that  the  inner  portion  will 
suffer  sadly  from  insulHcient  daylight.  Close 
at   hand    is    situated    Chri.st    Church,    the 
euccesaor  of  the  old  "  New  ''  Chapel.    It  was 
-dedicated  on  14  December,  1843,  tne architect 
being  Mr.  A.   Poynter,  of  Park  Street  (now 
•<5ueen  Anne's  Gate),  the  father  of  the  preisent 
President  of  the  Royal  Academy.     It  was  to 
have  had  a  spire  200  ft.  high,  but  this  part 
of  the  design  was  not  carri&d  out.    A  tower 
is  now  in  course  of  erection,  but  not  according 
to  the  original  drawing.     It  Avill,  however,  be 
a  great  gain  in  dignity  to  the  church  as  seen 
from  Victoria  Street. 

At  the  rear  of  Victoria  Street,  surrounding 
the  new  Homan  Catholic  Cathedral,  the 
locality  known  as  Ashley  Gardens  was  com- 
pleted last  year,  and  the  Hats,  wliich  number 
227,  are  mostly  occupied.  The  Catliedral,  too, 
is  open  for  service,  the  first  function  having 
been  the  lying  in  state  of  Cardinal  Vaughan, 
and  lately  (although  this  properly  belongs  to 
1904)  another  imposing  ceremony  took  place 
when  Archbishop  Fiourne  was  enthronea.  Of 
course  the  Cathedral  is  a  very  long  way 
from  complete  ;  but,  even  as  it  is,  it  is  an 
exceedingly  fine  building,  of  rare  artistic 
excellence  and  much  beauty. 

The    Government   othceR    at    Parliament 

■Street  are  progressing,  it  may  be  supi>oRed 

Batisfactorily,  after  some  delays,  and  before  |  mk'm,^;;:'",:;;', 


long  it  seems  likely  that  the  whole  of  Delahay, 
Street  and  much  of  Great  George  Street  wiQl 
be  required  ;  but  there  are  at  present  only 
rumours  of  what  is  intended  to  be  done,  and 
speculations  as  to  when  it  will  be  done. 

This  will,  I  hope,  bo  found  a  fair  and  ac- 
curate record  of  the  changes  of  the  locality 
during  the  past  year.  Truly  the  "old  order 
changeth,"  and  most  especially  in  West- 
minster. I  would  that  time  served  for  rae 
to  go  further  afield  in  the  old  city,  for  pulling 
down  and  rebuilding  are  going  on  all  around, 
and  we  mav  but  hope  that  tlie  changes  will 
tend  to  the  promotion  of  health  aud 
prosperity  within  our  borders. 

W.  E.  HAiu.\>D-0.\LEr. 
C2,  The  AIniahouBCi,  Rockeater  Row,  >S,\N'. 


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Rylands,  W.  H.— Booksellers  in  Warrington,  1639, 
1657.   (Liverpool  Historic  Society's  Pr0ce«ding8- 
vol.  xszvii.)    Svo,  Liverpool,  It^. 

Wm.  H.  Peet. 
[To  be  conclwUd.) 

'Deeby's  Ram.'— The  following  song  was 
learnt  bj'  a  Cape  CckJ  sailor  during  the  war 
of  1812-15,  when  it  was  coramoo,  and  was 
taught  to  hia  nephew,  of  whoio  I  have  it:— 
As  I  was  going  to  Derby  on  a  pleasant  summer  day, 
'Twas  there  i  spied  the  biggest  ram  that  ever  woa 

fed  on  hay. 
He  had  four  feet  to  walk  upon  and  four  feet  to  stand. 
And  every  foot  he  stood  upon  covered  forty  acres  of 
land. 
Chorus:  Turna  ra  see,  Bir,and  his  cye«,  sir. 

And  his  head  was  bigger  tliau  hia  eyes. 

The  horns  upon  this  ram,  sir,  they  reached  up  to 

the  moon ; 
A  man  went  up  them  in  January  and  didn't  come 

down  till  June. 

Chorus  :  Turna  ra  zee,  sir,  &c. 
The  wool  on  this  ram's  back,  sir,  it  reached  up  to 

the  sky, 
Where  the  eagles  built  their  nest,  for  I  heard  the 

young  ones  cry.  Chorua. 

The  man  that  butchered  tins  ram,  sir,  was  drowned 

in  his  blood, 
And  forty  n>ore  astanding  around  was  carried  away 

in  the  Hood.  Chorus. 

Now  this  old  rani's  pizxle,  sir,  measured  forty  yards 

and  an  ell, 
That  was  sent  to  Ireland  to  ring  St.  Patrick's  liell. 

Chorus. 

There  was  forty  gentlemen  of  honor,  sir,  come  to  sec 

this  old  ram  s  bones. 
And  forty  ladies  of  honor  went  to  see  this  old  ram's 

atones.  Chorus. 

The  man  that  owned  this  ram,  sir,  was  counte<l  very 

rich, 
But  the  one  that  mode  this  long  was  a  lying  snn  of 

a  bitch. 

Oeorob  Davi.«4  Cuasb. 
W^esleyan  University,  Middletown,  Conn. 
[This  version  of  the  well-known  song  diiTetB  widely 
from  that  generally  cited.] 

*  HsBRiNti  Song.'— The  foUowitig  *  Herring 
Sods'  was  sotnetline^  uaeti  hy  the  men  aa  & 
cradle  song  :— 

As  I  was  walking  down  by  the  seaside, 
I  saw  an  old  herriuK  tloaling  up  with  the  tide  ; 
Ho  was  forty  feet  long  and  fifty  feet  square, 
If  this  ain't  a  great  lie  I  will  viug  no  more  here. 


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And  what  do  you  thiak  I  made  of  hii  head  7 
Twas  forty  fine  oveos  as  ever  bakedbread, 
Borne  shoveU  and  pokers  and  other  fine  things.— 
Doa't  you  think  I  made  well  of  my  jovial  herriogl: 

And  what  do  you  think  I  made  of  his  eyes? 
Twaa  forty  great  pudding  and  fifty  great  pies. 
Some  mustards  and  custards  and  other  fine  things,— 
I>on't  you  think  I  made  well  of  my  jovial  herring? 

Kow  what  do  you  think  I  made  of  his  fins? 
It  waa  sixty  fine  Dutchmen  as  ever  drank  gin, 
Tbert)  waa  Swedes  and  Norwegians  and  other  fine 

things,— 
Don't  you  think  I  made  well  of  my  jovial  herring? 

And  what  do  yuu  think  I  n)ade  of  his  tail  ? 
TDwas  forty  fine  shipping  oa  ever  sot  sail, 
Some  long-boats  and  barges  and  other  fine  things, — 
Don't  you  think  I  made  well  of  my  jovial  herring  ? 

And  what  do  you  think  I  made  of  his  scales? 
Twas  forty  fine  blacksmiths  as  ever  made  nails. 
Borne  carpenters  and  masons  and  other  fine  things, — 
Don't  you  think  I  made  well  of  my  jovial  herring  * 

And  what  do  you  think  I  made  of  his  guts? 
Some  forty  pretty  maidens  and  fifty  great  sluts, 
,.iSome  kitelien  maids  and  chamber  maids  and  other 
fine  Ihiuifs,— 
Don't  you  think  1  made  well  of  my  jovial  herring? 

'Tis  fizzlecum  fizzlecum  jig, 

A  long-tail  Bow  and  a  short-tail  pig. 

Geori;.e  Davis  Chase. 
Wesleyan  University,  Middletown,  Coon. 

Thb  Ckdilla.  —  This  well-known  mark 
(which  signifies  little /eta  and  takes  the  place 
of  cz)  is  used  in  French  words  under  tjje 
letter  c  when  followed  by  one  of  the  vowels 
a,  o,  or  If,  to.  indicate  that  it  lioa  the  soft 
sound,  as  before  e,  i,  or  y.  We  do  not  use  it 
in  Entjlinh,  piosumably  because  there  is  no 
exception  to  c  being  hard  (formerly  ita 
universal  force)  before  a,  r*,  or  n  But,  oddly 
enough,  the  'Encyclopiedic  Dictionary' 
inserts  it  where  c  is  followed  by  e,  i,  or  i/, 
in  which  t-Ases  it  h  not  neoe-ssary  even  in 
French.  W.  T.  Lynn. 

Blackbeath. 

"Foulakd."— In  Larou«8o'»  dictionary  the 

origin  of  the  word  foulard  (**  etoffe  de  mie  de 

la  famillo  des  taSetas,"  «tc.)  is  stated  to  bo 

unknown,     1  had  always  supposed  it  to  be 

derived  from  fouler,  to  pre^  to  trample  on, 

Ac,    thin    make  of    silk   being  so  soft  and 

tincrettsable  tliat  it  can  bo  rutupled  and  even 

I  squeezed  with  impunity  ;  but  it  occurs  to  me 

that  another  signification  of  foHlcv—i.t.,  to 

mill  (cloth,  Ac),  to  full  -might  be  more  to  the 

,  point.     From  Webster's  Dictionary  and  from 

'Charabers's  Encyclopaxlia,'!  gather  that  the 

Itwl  of  the  fulling  process  is  proasure, 

tlier  by    beating  witn   mallets  or,  as  ot 

iter  years,  by  mangling  between  rollers,  the 

bject  being  to  shrink  and  thicken  the  cloth. 

^Oue  of  the  equivalents  (?)  offered  in  Webster 


for  the  verb  t.  f\dl  is  Low  Latin  folare,  to 
smooth,  bleach,  &c. 

I  have  learnt  from  the  buyers  of  two 
large  Kensington  houses  that  foulard  is  not 
made  of  silk  proper,  but  of  a  certain  refuse- 
part  of  the  cocoon  known  as  "shap"  ;  that 
this  undergoes  a  process  of  pressure  similar 
to  that  by  which  waste  wool  is  converted 
into  "shoddy,"  and  that  the  material  ia 
finally  highly  calendered.  It  may  he  ques- 
tioned whether  these  particulars  would  apply 
to  the  old  as  well  as  to  the  variety  of  modera 
productions  called  "foulard." 

Since  coiuraunicating  the  above  I  have 
seen  the  remark  in  Littrc  that,  considering 
the  lack  of  historical  evidence,  it  cannot  h« 
determined  whether  this  word  comes  from 
some  Oriental  term  or  {voia  fmler. 

Ethel  Lkga-Wkekes. 
[The '  H.  E.  D.'  merely  aays  adopted  from  Fr.  /ouiarrL] 

Lynold  Family.—  One  of  the  persons  who 
witnessed  the  aurora  borealis  in  1639  was 
Mr.  Etlmund  Lynold,  at  Healing  (awfe,  p.  242). 
These  notes  about  him  may  be  useful. 

In  1C31  John  Clarke,  of  Lincoln,  edited 
tlie  '  CoUoquieji '  of  Erasmus,  and  at  the  end 
of  the  volume  was  added  a  "  lusus  anagram- 
maticus"  on  Erasmus's  name  l»y  "Edmundus 
Lynold,  de  Heling,  Lincoln  "  (ed.  1727). 

In  1634  "Edmund  Lyneold ''  was  suspended 
from  the  ministry  by  the  High  Commission 
for  refusing  to  conform  (S.  K,  Gardiner, 
•History  of  England,  1603-42,'  vol.  x.,  1884, 
p.  224). 

There  are  marriage  licences  at  Lincoln: 
160G,  31  July,  Wm.  Dale,  parson  of  South 
Stoke,  and  Anne,  daughter  of  John  Lynold, 
"cl''  dec'*,"  of  Healing;  and  1614,  30  June, 
Walter  Allen,  rector  of  Withcall,  and  "  Pris- 
cilla  Linolde,  of  Healing,  sp' "  (Gibbons, 
'  Lincoln  Marr.  Lie.,'  1888,  pp.  20,  38). 

W.  C.  B. 

John  Gauden  :  Edwaud  Lewknor.  —  In 
its  memoir  of  Bishop  Gauden  the  'D.N.B.' 
says  that  in  1630  he  was  already  married  to 
Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Sir  William  Kuswll 
and  widow  of  Edward  Lew k nor.  But  this  is 
impossible,  aa  Edward  Lewknor  did  not  die 
till  December,  1G34.  The  Denham  register  is 
my  authority.  A  porti-ait  of  this  Edward 
Lewknor  was  recently  sold  among  the  Kayn- 
hatn  portraiu  at  Christie's,  lot  152.  But  he 
was  wrongly  described  in  the  sale  catalogue 
OS  brother  to  Mary,  first  wife  of  Horatio, 
Lord  Townshend.  He  was  her  father,  and  she 
was  an  only  child.  S.  H.  A.  H. 

"Wentworth":  its  Local  pRO.vfNciATioji. 
—Prof.  Skeat  alludes  [ante,  p.  229)  to  the 
fact  that  "  Winta'a  worth  has  become  Went- 


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worth."  It  may  appropriately  be  added  that 
the  name  is  still  prououuced  locally  Wint'orth. 
In  1887  an  exhibition  in  honour  of  Queen 
Victoria's  jubilee  was  opened  at  Elsecar  by 
HJt.n.  the  Duchess  of  Teck.  After  the  cere- 
mony I  inquired  my  way  to  Wentworth,  and 
when  about  a  mile  away  inquired  again,  this 
time  of  a  ]ad  about  twelve  years  old.  He 
denied  all  knowledge  of  the  place.  I  then 
asked  him  whether  he  was  not,  like  myself,  a 
stranger  in  the  locality,  to  which  he  replied 
that  he  had  always  lived  thereabouts.  "Then," 
said  I,  "  you  must  know,  surely,  where  Earl 
Fitzwilliam  lives,'  His  face  at  once  beameti 
with  intelligence  aa  he  said,  "  Oh,  yo  meean 
"Wint'orth,"  and  followed  up  by  directions 
which  were  all  that  one  could  wish.  This  is 
but  one  of  many  instances  which  might  be 
adduced  of  the  persistence  in  the  local  dialect 
of  the  pronunciation  aa  recorded  in  Domesday. 
E.  G.  B. 

We  must  request  correapondentB  desirfng  in- 
forrnation  on  family  matters  of  only  private  intcreal 
to  allix  their  names  and  addrewes  to  their  queries, 
in  order  that  the  unawera  maybe  addressed  to  them 
direct. 

"  Part  and  paecei.."— The  earliest  example 
of  tliis  locution  as  yet  sent  to  us  for  the 
'  Dictionary  '  is  of  1837,  "  this  being  part  and 
parcel  of  my  present  subject."  I  have  little 
doubt  that  much  earlier  instances  can  be 
furni.she<],  and  shall  l>e  obliged  to  any  reader 
of  'N.  &  Q.  who  will  send  them.  Address 
Dr.  Murray,  Oxford.  J.  A.  H.  M. 

Passim.— When  did  this  Latin  adverb  begin 
to  1)6  used  in  English  context,  after  names  of 
authors  or  books  ?  We  greatly  want  examples 
before  the  nineteenth  century.  One  would 
expect  to  find  it  in  the  eighteenth  century', 
and  perhaps  in  the  seventeenth  :  but  the 
'Stanford  Dictionary'  has  it  only  from  1803. 
J.  A.  H.  Murray. 

Passino-belu— The  Sixty-seventh  Canon 
directs,  "  When  any  is  passing  out  of  this  life, 
a  bell  shall  be  tolled,  and  the  Minister  shall 
not  then  slack  to  do  his  last  duty."  Dr 
Johnson  explains  "Passing- bell"  as  "  Tlie 
bell  which  rings  at  the  hour  of  departure,  to 
obtain  prayers  for  the  passing  soul  :  it  is 
often  used  for  tiie  beil  which  rings  imme- 
diately after  death."  Is  the  nassing-bell  as 
thus  defined  now  rung  anywhere?  And  is 
n^  the  name  "passing- bell"  commonly  given  to 
the  bell  rung  after  death  7 

n,  ,    ^  J.   A.    H.  MVKBAY. 

Oxford, 


Francois  Vivarj:;s.— J'ai  I'honneor  de  fair© 
appel  a  I'intermediaire  de  rotre  estimable 
journal  pour  obtenir,  k'U  est  possible,  des 
renseigneraents  relativement  a  une  etude 
historique  que  je  poursuis.  Etlo  a  pour 
objet  la  vie  et  les  a'uvres  du  graveur  Fran- 
(jois  Vivar^s,  qui,  ne  en  France  en  1708, 
passa  en  Angleterre  a  Page  de  dix-huit  ai 
et  vecut  a  liondres  jusqu'en  l78fJ.  Uortivrel 
de  cet  artiste  est  tres  considtirable,  et  a  ea 
ane  influence  decisive  sur  I'orientation,  en 
Angleterre,  de  Part  de  la  gravure,  qui  a 
atteiut  dans  votre  pays  un  degre  de  per- 
fection si  remarquabfe. 

Jesuis  suffisamment  documents  surl'a'uvre 
de  Fr.  Vivares.  J'ai  le  catalogue  complet 
de  se.s  planches  et  un  certain  nombre  de  ses 
gravures.  J'ai  le  catalogue  de  la  vente  de 
son  fonds,  aprt-s  sa  mort,  et  j'ai  releve  toutea 
les  notices  oiographiques  qui  ont  paru  a  son 
suiet  dans  les  ouvrages  anglais  et  i^trangers. 

Ue  que  je  cherche  aujourd'hui,  ce  sont  les 
renseignements  inedits  qui  pourraient  me 
faire  penetrer  plus  avant  dans  la  vie  priveo 
de  I'artiste  et  le  suivre  dans  sa  descendance. 
Peut-i'tre  existe-t-il  de  pareils  documents, 
aoit  sous  forme  de  correspondances  manu- 
scrites,  de  memoires  uon  publics,  &c.  Peut- 
etre  se  trouvent-ils  dans  des  bibliothi-queai 
publtques  ou  priv(>e9  dont  il  serait  possiblOi 
de  les  faire  sortir  dana  I'ioter^t  de  Viiistoiro 
do  I'art. 

Puisque  votre  journal  a  pour  but  princij 
IV'tudo  des  probli-nies  de  co  genre,  je  pens« 
<\ue  je  no  suis  pas  indiscret  en  m'adressant 
a  lui  et  i  votre  obligeance. 

Henry  Vivarez. 

12,  Rue  de  Berne,  Paris. 

Nelson  and  Wolsey,— Is  it  possible  ths 
the  greatest  of  English  naval  commandera^ 
is  buried  in  a  second-hand  sarcophagus  ?    It 
appears  so,  for  the  tomb  at  St.  Paul's  is  said 
to  t>e  that  of  Cardinal  Wolsey.        Brutus. 

Bass  Rock  Music— James  Ray,  of  Whit 
haven,  took  part  in  the  battle  of  Culloden 
a  volunteer  serving  under  the  Duke  of  Cum- 
berland.    On  the  northward  march  in  Janu- 
ary, 174(1,  he  records  in  his  letters  that  "  wo 
had  a  fine  view  of  Tantallon  Castle  and  the 
Bass  Rock,  whence  the  Scots  derive   their 
march  on  the  drum."    This  must  mean  that 
his  soldiering  experience  in   Flanders    and 
elsewhere  had    made    Ray   familiar  with  a 
military  air  used  in  the  Scots  regiments  and 
narae<J  after  the  Bass  Rock.     Can  any  readeBj 
say  whether  this  air  has  survived,  nr  whethei 
there  is  any  other  record  of  it?    It  has  beea,3 
suggested  to  the  querist  by  a  military  author,] 
Col.  Greenhill-Gardyne,  of  Finavon,  ForfaM 


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shire,  that  Rav,  being  an  Englishman,  may 
have  confusea  the  Bass  with  the  rock  of 
Dumbarton,  and  been  thinking  about  the 
old  air : — 

Dumbarton'*  rlrums  beat  bonnie,  O, 
And  mind  me  o'  my  Johnnie,  O. 

The  gallant  officer  believe*  this  to  have  been 
the  march  of  the  Royal  Scots,  that  oldest  of 
regiments,  but  he  fancies  that  the  drums 
were  those  of  a  Mr.  Dumbarton,  who  wa3 
colonel  of  the  regiment  when  the  air  was 
compared.  It  would  certainly  be  odd  if  the 
Royal  Scots  named  their  march  after  a  rock 
in  the  Lennox  instead  of  one  in  the  Lothians, 
with  which  they  were  and  are  territorially 
associated.  It  would  lie  very  interesting  if  a 
'Bass  liock  March  '  could  be  disinterred  that 
would  lilt  to  the  ballad  commemorating  the 
famous  fight  which  took  place  upon  the  sea 
beside  the  Bass  Rock  in  1489,  between  Sir 
Andrew  Wood,  of  Largo,  and  the  sturdy 
English  captain  Sir  Steven  Bull,  of  which 
the  final  verse  is : — 

The  battle  fiercoly  it  waa  focht 

Near  to  the  crait;  o'  Bass : 
When  next  we  meet  the  English  loons, 

May  nae  waur  come  to  pass ! 

Oeobge  Law. 

ExttRAViNcs.  — I  have  recently  bought  four 
steel  engravings  very  fine  work,  in  old  oak 
frames,  as  follows  : — 

"  No.  17.  The  North  View  of  Mettinuham  Castle 

and  Collese  in  the  County  of  Suffolk.     Inscribed  to 

*TobiaB  Hunt,  F.*.}.     Sam'  and  Nath'  Black,  del.  et 

•onlp.     Published  according  to  Act  of  Parliament, 

March  iSth.  17:»." 

"No.  22.  South  East  View  of  Caer-Philv  Castle, 
in  the  County  of  Glamorgan.  Inscribed  to  Herbert, 
Viscount  Windfor  and  Baron  .Mountjoy.  .Sum' and 
Nath'  Black,  del.  et  sculp.  Publisht  according  to 
A*t  of  Parliament,  Aiiril  "ith.  I74(l." 

"No.  'W.  South  EMiern  View  of  Brecknock 
CostU.  Inscribed  to  William  Morcan,  Esq.  Sam' 
and  Nath'  Black,  del.  et  aculp.  Puuliehed  accord- 
ing  to  Act  of  Parliament.  March  :i.^th,  1741." 

•'  No.  73.  North  East  View  of  Caernarvon  Castle. 
With  (explanatory  notes.  Sam'  and  Nath'  Black, 
del.  ot  sculp.  Published  according  to  Act  of 
Parliament,  Ap'  9th,  1742.  ' 

Can  your  readers  tell  me  where  I  could 
obtain  others  of  the  serie.i  ?  Were  Samuel 
an<!  Xatlianiel  Black  famou><  for  their  work? 
W  .^"publisht  according  to  Act  of 

1*1  i  .  '  mean  ?    I  shall  be  gJafl  of  any 

iiifoiinution  relating  to  this  series  of  fine 
steel  ongravingK.       -  -    IJi.AXriiK  Holton. 

Astlcy  HnnsK,  Bolton.  LnnciUhire. 

Adnhrai.  Dona  I  n  f'wn  nr.i  i .  — ThiH  British 
oflicer  was  in  i!  vice  1707- 

1«05,  and  in  th>"  important 

information  to  Ix)r<r"Nc'l!«oa  *•«  to  thodirec- 


West  Indies.  In  consequence  of  Campbell's 
action  he  lost  hia  position,  and  died  snortly 
after.  Can  any  of  your  readers  refer  me  to  any 
work  giving  a  detailed  account  of  his  Hervicen, 
or  say  whether  the  British  Government  ever 
compensated  hi.s  widow  and  family,  who 
suffered  distress  1  I  should  also  be  glad  to 
know  particulars  of  his  parentage. 

Alalster  MacGillean. 

Arms  of  Pope  Pius  X.— At  b^  S.  vi.  81 
waa  given  by  Mr.  Everabd  Geeen,  F.S.A., 
a  very  interesting  list  of  the  coats  of  arms 
of  the  Popes  from  Innocent  III.  to  Leo  XIIL, 
covering,  therefore,  the  period  from  1198  to 
1003.  Could  this  now  be  completed  by  a 
description  of  the  coat  of  Pius  X.  1 

A.  F.  R. 

WvBURNE  Family. —This  family,  residing 
in  the  county  of  Cumberland,  bore  Sabl& 
three  bars  between  as  many  mullets  or,  I 
shall  1)0  much  obliged  by  information  whether 
any  de.scendants  are  living  in  Cumberland  or 
in  the  North  of  England.  H.  D.  E. 

"Stat   crux   dum   volvitur   oebis"    is 

?uoted  in  the  Jfonfh.  for  March  last,  p.  150. 
s  the  author  known  or  where  it  first  occurs  1 

N.  il.  i  A. 

Oxford  Men  sent  to  the  Tower.— I  shall 
be  much  obliged  to  any  one  who  will  give  ma 
the  names  and  college  of  the  persons  to  whom 
reference  is  made  in  a  letter  from  Bp.  Quadra 
to  the  Duchess  of  Parma,  dated  \r>  November, 
1561  ('  Cal.  S.  P.  Span.,  Eliz.,'  vol.  i.  No.  143), 
as  follows : — 

"Two  days  ago  six  young  Oxford  stadenta  were 
thrown  into  the  Tower  ot  London.  They  were 
brought  before  the  Council  on  a  eharice  of  having 
resisted  the  Mayor,  who  had  gone  to  take  away  tho 
crucifit  from  their  college  chapel,"  Ac. 

The  Register  of  the  Acts  of  the  Privy  Council 
from  12  May,  15r>9,  to  28  May,  1562,  is  un- 
happily lost.     Is  not  such  interference  of  the 
Mayor  in  a  university  matter  most  unusual  ? 
Jobs  B.  Wainewrkuit. 

"  Folkit'."— Perhaps  some  of  your  readers 
could  supply  an  interpretation  (which  has 
been  sougnt  vainly  in  Dufresne's,  Fennell- 
StanfordV,  and  other  dictionaries)  of  the 
word  fnUit\  occurring  in  a  Barnstaple  mer- 
chants    inventory  of   1413  (Escheator'a  In- 


quisitions, file  659),  thus:  "unu  kercher  it 
unu   foleitu'  de  Cotyn,  ijs.  ;    duo  foleit'  de 

Northefolke,  xvii''  ; unu  foleit'  de  Strau- 

bury  clothe,  1'  ob."  If  from  Lat.  fohatut. 
one  could  fancy  its  describing  some  scalloped 
or  yiMKileaf-shapcd  fichu  or  shawl ;  but  it 
might,  perhaps,    be  traced   instead  to  a  L. 


tion   tho  French   tloot  had   taken,  viz.,  tho  [  Latin  word  that  I  find  in  Webster's  Dictionary 


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<iinder  Tall,'  v.t),  folare,  to  snaooth,  bleach. 
A^ain,  there  ia  about  it  a  faint  suggestion  of 
the  French  fc/ulard,  another  word  or  uncertain 
derivation.     I    have  just    found    in   Littre, 

"■  Follette 8orte  de  fichu  a  la  mode  vers 

1722."  Ethel  Lboa-Weikss. 

Raleoh  Portbait. — Two  portraits  of  Sir 
Walter  Ralegh  engraved  by  Simon  Pa«H  are 
included  in  the  list  of  the  latter'a  works  in 
Walpole's  'Anecdotes  of  Painting,'  &c.  (1870), 
iii.  145-6.  The  first  is  thus  described  :  "  Sir 
Walter  Raleigh  in  an  oval,  arms  and  devices- 
Sim.  Pass  sculps.  Comp.  Uolland  exc.  Oval 
4to,"  and  is  to  be  found  in  Ralegh's  '  History 
of  the  World;  from  the  third  (1617)  edition 
to  the  tenth  (1657).  The  second  is  simply 
noted  as  "  another  of  Sir  Walter  Raleigh  '■ 
but  in  Granger's  '  Biographical  History  of 
England'  (ed.  1824,  ii.  140)  it  is  stated  to 
bear  the  inscription  "Fortunam  ex  aliis."  I 
have  been  uuable  to  meet  with  an  example  of 
the  latter,  and  should  feel  greatly  ublige<l  for 
any  information  where  a  copy  of  it  could  be 
seen.  T.  N.  fiausuFiEU),  M.D. 

S&lterton,  Devon. 

Jessamy  Bride. — Can  any  of  your  readers 

tell  me  what  is  the  meaning  of  the  above 
name,  which  was  given  by  Goldsmith  to  Miss 
Mary  Horneck  f  F.  E.  S. 

['The  History  of  Jemmy  and  Jenny  Jesaamy,' 
3  volfl.,  1753,  was  written  by  Mth.  Elira  Haywood. 
Pejiys  talks  of  jeesainy  gloves.  15  Feb.,  1G68/9.  See 
•N.  &  Q..'  8"'S.  xi.  148,213:  and  Austin  Dobiotrs 
'  Life  of  tioldsmith,'  ])j).  154-5.] 

James  Bhindley.  —  Can  any  reader  of 
'N.  ii  tj,"  tell  rao  where  Jainea  Brindley, 
the  engineer,  was  born,  when  ho  died,  and 
where  he  was  buriefl  ?  Does  any  illustration 
of  his  birthplace  exist!  and,  if' so,  where  is 
it  to  be  found?  J.  R.  Fincu. 

[Neither  Siuilea  nor  the  '  D.N.B.'  aeonis  to  supjily 
the  information  you  seek.] 

MiTCUEL  &  Finlay,  Bankers.— This  firm 
is  mentioned,  in  letters  written  early  in  the 
eighteenth  century,  as  near  tlie  Post  Oftice, 
London.  I  should  be  glad  to  know  how  long 
it  existed  and  the  name  of  the  senior  partner 
The  jumor  was  Robert  Finlay,  who  married 
29  July,  1707,  at  St.  Audoen's.  Dublin,  Kathe- 
nne,  eldest  daughter  of  Alderman  Thos. 
Somerville,  of  Dublin  (by  Katherine  King 
his  wife),  and  had  issue  James,  Katherine. 
&c.  Robert  Finlay's  address  in  1709  and 
subsequently  appears  to  have  been  "Shel- 
burne  Lane,  n"^  y«  Post  Office,  London." 

Charles  S.  King,  Bt. 

Good  Friday  and  Low  TiDKs.-At  St, 
Mary's,  ScUly,    it   ia    firmly    believed    that 


the  lowest  tide  of  the  year,  as  happened  to 
be  the  case  this  year,  is  invariably  on  Goodf 
Friday,  at  whatever  date  it  may  occur.  Is 
there  anything  to  justify  this  belief  on 
astronomical  ground  t  and  are  like  super- 
stitioDs  known  elsewhere  1  H.  2, 

Early  MS.  MENTio>f  of  Shakespeare.— 
In  Malone's  'Inquiry,'  1796,  p.  67,  is  the 
following  foot-note  : — 

'"  Venoa  and  Adoaia.'  IGoio,  IS06.— Thi<  poem 
waa  entered  on  the  StAtioners'  Booka,  1  I 

Field.  April  18,  1593  ;  and  I  long  aiuce  1 

that  it  was  printed  in  that  year,  thfi. 
iieverseen  an  earlierediiion  than  that  al.<  !, 

which  is  in  mv  ()ossecsion.     Since  1  piil'.  it 

poem  fin  17901  my  conjecture  has  been  conhinie^l, 
beyond  a  doubt ;  the  fnliowing  entry  having  been 
found  in  an  ancient  MS.  diary,  which  some  tinio 
since  was  in  the  hands  of  an  acquaintance  of  Mr. 
Stecvena,  by  whom  it  waa  communicated  to  me: 
•  r2lh  of  June,  1593.  For  the  .Survay  of  Fraunce, 
with  the  Venus  and  Athonay  p'  Shaksitere,  xiid.'" 

Afterwards,  as  he  states  in  a  note  to  the 
second  e<^Htiou  of  his  'Shakespeare'  (vol.  xz. 
p.  9),  Malone  acquired  a  copy  of  the  1693 
edition,  the  existence  of  whicn  ho  had  con- 
jectured, but  he  now  says  nothing  of  the 
"ancient  MS.  diary."  Under  the  circum- 
stances it  was  not  necessary  that  he  should  ; 
it  is,  however,  pos.sible  that  he  had  come  to 
have  doubts  of  its  existence.  I  have  not 
been  able  to  find  any  allusion  to  it  by  any 
subsequent  writer,  and  it  is  absent  from 
Ingleby's  '  Centurie  of  Prayse'  and  from 
Furnivall's  'Fresh  Allusions.'  Is  anything 
known  of  it?  H.  A.  Evans. 

Begbroke,  Oxon. 

H.  Laweance,  Fanhaker,  Pall  Mall.— 
The  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Gordon  had  a  box 
at  the  King's  Theatre  for  the  opera  season 
1787-8.  Tiie  fan  used  by  the  ducliesa  was 
made  by   the  above  fantnakcr.    I  shall   be 

f;lad  to  learn  whether  tli©  ancestors  of  this 
anmaker  were  in  any  way  connected  with 
the  Buchan  district,  Aberdeenshire,  where 
the  above  way  of  spelling  Lawrance  was 
once  extremely  common.  'The  first  person  I 
Imve  come  across  iu  history  to  u.se  it  either 
as  a  Christian  name  or  a  surname  was  Law- 
rance Fra^er,  of  Pliilorth,  Frase rbu rghijc* Vc<* 
1498.  Please  send  answers  reMWng  lO  ^tf* 
above  or  any  Lawranccs  T?oi)nected  with 
Aberdeensliire  to         ,^ 

RoBwiT  "Mdrdoch  Lawuavcx. 

71,  Bc^^MWord  Street,  Aberdeen. 


White  ^tjubakv.  —  ( 
readers    give  TMbp^^^It^i^u...... 

white  turbary  1   AmKk  for  it  in 
is  demon. 


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I 


••OUR   LADY   OF  THE   SNOWS." 
(lO""  S.  i.  246.) 

Those  who  refer  to  Kipling's  poem  ahould 
not  omit  the  **  the."  I  oeliex'e  that  "  Notre 
Dame  des  Nieges "  is  the  dedication  of  some 
chapels  among  the  mountains  in  Switzerland, 
but  I  do  not  Icnow  whence  Kipling  got  the 
title.  He  told  me,  however,  that  it  had  been 
floating  in  his  mind  for  some  time  before  the 
oocaaion  for  the  verses  arose.  The  facts  of 
their  composition  constitute  so  remarkable 
an  illustration  of  his  genius  as  to  be  worth 
mention,  and  I  think  he  will  not  mind  their 
narration. 

The  news  of  the  Canadian  diminution  of 
the  duty  on  imports  from  England  arrived 
one  Saturday  morning.  I  was  then  staying 
at  Torquay,  and  Kipling,  wlio  was  living 
near,  came  over  the  following  Monday  n>orn- 
ing.  He  stroke  of  the  Canadian  action,  and 
said  that,  while  cycling  the  day  before,  some 
lines  had  come  into  his  mind  about  it,  but  he 
had  not  written  them  down.  He  recited 
them  to  me,  and  said  that  he  thought  of 
working  them  up  for  a  week  or  two  and  then 
publishing  them.  lurged  him  to  do  so  at  once, 
while  the  subject  was  fresh  in  the  mind  of 
the  public  (we  were  sitting  in  a  garden  looking 
over  the  bay  towards  the  west).  He  said.  "I 
will  come  to  your  rooms,  then,  and  write  them 
out."  He  did  so,  and  then  read  them,  dis- 
cussed a  line  or  two,  made  a  few  alterations, 
wrote  them  nut  again,  put  them  in  an 
envelope  for  the  Tinuf,  and  dismissed  them 
from  his  mind.  After  lunch  I  sent  them  off 
by  train  ;  they  appeared  in  the  Times  next 
morning,  and  the  same  evening,  having  been 
telegraphed  to  Canada,  were  recited  there  at 
A  meeting  of,  I  think,  the  Imperial  League. 
The  verses  seeui  to  me  a  marvellous  example 
of  work  struck  off  while  tlio  iron  is  still  glow- 
ing on  the  anvil,  their  spirit  breathing  the 
warmth  of  feeling  which  inspired  them,  and 
their  form  more  effective  than  that  which  any 
hammering  at  the  cold  metal  could  produce. 
The  Canadian  objection  to  their  title  is  surely 
&u  inNlance  alike  of  ingratitude  and  of 
'IMrvevtad  oger-sensitivene^s. 

.William  R.  GowuEi*,  M.D. 

The  phrase  is  at  le^t  seven  or  eight  cen- 
turies old,  and  the  title  of  "  Our  Ijidy  of  the 
Snow  <*tr  Snow*)"  in  known  to  fll^y   well 
inforiii  ^ 

"Sa  ul   Nlves^i*  one  of  the 

eeveriii  tiiit-i  Kiwr^^^^ip^ourHe  uf  ages  to 
the  great  basilica  it^omo  dedicated  to  Our 
Lady,  and   now  generally  known    as    that 


of   Santa  Maria  Maggiore,  or  Saint  Mary 
Major. 

The  French  expression  "  Notre  Dame  des 
Nieges"  or  "Samte  Marie  des  Nieges"  is 
equivalent  to  the  German  "Maria  zum 
Schnee,"  the  Italian  "La  Madonna  della 
Neve,"  and  the  Spanish  "Maria  de  las 
Nieves-"  The  last  was  the  baptismal  name 
of  the  princess  of  Braganza  who  in  1871 
became  the  wife  of  Alphouso  do  Bourbon, 
brother  of  Don  Carlos,  and  no  doubt  the 
motive  of  her  being  so  called  was  the  fact 
that  she  was  born  on  .'i  August  (1852),  the 
day  of  the  dedication  of  the  said  basilica, 
which  in  the  Roman  kalendar  was  observed 
as  a  feast  of  St.  Mary  under  the  above  title- 
It  is  of  interest  to  note  further  that  it  was 
not  owing  to  her  complexion,  but  to  her 
baptismal  name  of  Maria  de  las  Nieves,  that 
this  Spanish  princess  was  populariy  known 
as  Dona  Blanca. 

The  pious  legend  to  which  the  "pretty 
phrase"  no  doubt  owes  its  origin  is  given 
tn  cstenso  in  the  Roman  Breviary  for  the 
Nones  of  August.  There  it  is  related  how 
one  John,  a  Roman  patrician,  and  his  wife, 
having  a  large  fortune,  but  no  children  to 
inherit  it,  vowed  their  wcaUIi  to  the  service 
of  the  Mother  of  God.  They  were,  however, 
at  a  loss  to  know  how  best  to  dispose  of  it. 
After  they  had  .sought  Divine  guidance  in 
prayer,  the  Virgin  ilary  is  said  to  have 
appeared  to  each  separately  in  sleep,  as  also 
to  the  reigning  Pontiff,  Tope  Liberius,  and  to 
have  made  it  clear  to  them  that  she  desired 
that  the  money  should  be  devoted  to  the 
building  of  a  church  in  her  honour.  On  the 
same  night,  though  it  was  August,  snow  fell 
on  the  Esquiiine  hill.  This  occurrence  was 
taken  to  be  a  supernatural  indication  of  the 
site  chosen.  The  plan  of  the  church  was 
marked  out  in  the  snow  as  it  lay  on  the 
ground,  "deep  and  crisp  and  even,'  and  the 
church  was  commenced  forthwith.  It  was 
at  first  known  in  history  as  the  Liberian 
Basilica ;  it  was  later  on  practically  rebuilt 
—and  dedicated  to  the  Mother  of  God— by 
Sixtus  III.  It  may  be  conjectured  that  it 
was  in  connexion  with  this  dedication  that 
the  aforesaid  legend  sprang  up,  but  appa- 
i-ently  not  for  some  hundreds  of  years  after- 
wards. Be  this  as  it  may,  however,  the  truth 
of  the  legend  seems  to  lack  any  so  id  evi- 
dence in  Its  support.  (Cf.  *T.c  Holy  \ear 
of  Jubilee,'  by  tlie  Hev.  H.  Ihurston.  b.J., 
pp.  197  et  tew/.)  i       «       ^      « 

In  the  thirteenth  century  the  feaat  of 
S.  Maria  ad  Nives  was  not  universally  ob- 
serverl  in  the  Church  ;  on  the  other  hand, 
before  the  time  of  Paul  IV.  in  15.''8  the  feast 


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liad  80  greatly  apreafl  that  that  Pontiff  was 
induced  to  transrer  tlie  feast  of  St.  Doiuinic 
from  the  5lh  U)  the  4tli  of  AuRuat.  The  ottice 
of  the  feast  was  enjoined  on  the  entire  world 
by  Pope  St.  Pius  V.  (cf.  Dora  QtVanger, 
'L'Annee  Liturgique ').  The  feast  was  kept 
by  the  Carthusians,  Benedictines,  Dominicans, 
Franciscans,  Carmelites,  and  others,  as  also 
in  the  Mozarabic  and  Ambrosiau  Liturgies 
and  in  the  Sarum  Rite.  In  the  'Maitiloge 
after  the  Use  of  the  Chirche  of  Salisbury' 
we  read  for 

"  The  V.  day  of  Aupiet.    Addicyons.    In  englonde 

at  doa«r  the  feest  of  fS.  Thomu  a  monk At  rome 

ye  feast  of  our  lady,  called  y«  feast  of  say't  Mury  at 
the  snowe,  bycause  the  fyrat  chireho  of  our  lady  in 
roino  woi  buylded  by  a  reuelacyon,  A  a  miracle  of 
BJ30WC  y'  fell  there  in  grete  quantile  the  v.  day  of 
August." 

In  the  Aberdeen  Breviary  (ed.  1509-10) 
we  have  the  whole  story  given  at  even 
greater  length  than  in  the  lloman  Breviary, 
though  the  accounts  are  substantially  the 
same;  but  the  former  Breviary  is  founded 
on  that  of  Salisbury.  Finally,  when  Bene- 
dict XrV'.  collected  evidence  on  the  subject, 
tlie  earliest  authority  he  could  find  for  the 
legend  was  that  of  Pope  Nicholas  IV.  in  1287, 
who  reported  the  tradition  in  his  time.  Hence 
the  phrase  dates  back  at  least  to  the  thirteenth 
century. 

Many  no  doubt  are  the  shrines  in  various 
countries  known  under  this  title.  I  may 
instance  the  Snow  Kirk  (S.  Maria  ad  Nives), 
which  was  founded  by  Bislion  Elphinstone  in 
1497,  and  became  the  parish  church  of  Old 
Aberdeen.  It  was  a  beautiful  little  church 
of  pure  Scottish  Gothic,  but  it  was  destroyed 
under  Principal  Guild,  of  King's  College,  in 
1643.  It  occupie<J  the  site  of  what  is  now 
called  the  Snow  Kirkyard,  the  R.C  burying- 
ground.  The  little  rustic  chapel  of  "  Maria 
zum  Schnee,"  which  stands  at  an  altitude  of 
8,411  ft.,  amidst  the  snowa  and  glaciers  of 
Switzerland,  by  the  side  of  the  famous 
Schwarzsee,  or  "  Black  I^ake,"  and  at  the  foot 


of  the  great  snow. white  Matterhorn,  is  also 
of  interest.     Thi«!  shrine  too  has  its  legend, 
it   will  sullioe  here  merely  to  recall  its 
3.    The  7'a/>lft  of  24  August,  lfi9J,  gives 


but 
name 


the  iletAils.  Many  an  adventurous  Alpine 
climber  has  passed  it  by,  or  entered  in  to 
prav,  beiore&tterapting  to  scale  the  dangerous 
peak  above.  B.  W. 

See  Butler's  '  Lives  of  the  Saints,'  wA 
B  August,  "The  dedication  of  St.  Mary  ad 
>ives." 

The  r,.n..,l,„.-  I ]  .,f  ouj.  j^arly  of  the 

«     Snows  I  antJ  is  beautifullv 

'olti  m    ' ,,  by  the  Hon.  T.I). 


McOee.  Shortly  the  story  runs  as  follows. 
"In  the  old  times,  when  Prance  held  sway," 
a  noble  Breton  cavalier,  whose  home  was 
beside  the  "  Rivera  Three,"  had  always  made 
it  his  pious  custom  to  repair  to  the  "  Ville 
Marie  (Montreal)  for  bis  Chiistmas  duties. 
On  the  particular  occasion  which  the  ballad 
chronicles  the  snow  fell  thick  and  faxt,  aod 
eventually  the  cavalier's  horse  succumbed  to 
cold  and  fatigue,  fell  "  stiff  as  a  steed  of  stone," 
and  became  the  prey  of  the  howling  wolves. 
The  ballad  proceeds  : — 

Sad  was  the  heart  and  sore  the  pliuht 

Of  the  benumbed,  bewildered  kuight. 

Now  Rcrambling  through  the  storni ; 

At  every  atep  lie  sank  ai>ace, 

The  death-dew  freezing  onhia  face. 

In  vain  each  iond  alarm. 

Down  on  his  knees  himself  he  cast, 

Deeming  that  hour  to  be  his  last. 

Yet  mindful  of  his  fatlli. 

He  j)rayed  !Sl.  Uat  herine  and  St.  Johai 

And  our  dear  Lady  called  ux>on 

For  grace  of  happy  death. 

When  lo !  a  lit^nt  beneath  the  trees. 

Which  ulank  their  brilliants  in  the  1>rceze» 

And  lo  !  a  phantom  fair ! 

As  ( iod  is  in  heaven  !  by  that  blwjt  liffht 

Uar  Lady's  self  rose  to  his  sight. 

In  robea  that  siiirits  wear ! 

All  trendding,  as  she  onward  smiled, 
Followed  that  knight  onr  Mother  mild, 
Vowing  a  grateful  vow  ; 
Until,  tar  down  the  mountain  gnt^, 
Hhe  led  him  to  an  antique  forge, 
Where  her  own  shrine  stands  now. 

"Fronting   on    Sherbrooke-street    fM--'-"-^ 
wall  of  defence  and  two  towers  are  h' 
show  you  where  once  stood  Our  Jjady  (•! 

The  iiresent  chapel  of  the  name  js  >< 

of  Cote  dea  Neijres.  behind   the  moun' 

volion  to  the  IJ.V'.M.  in  X,  America,'  1.,  i....    ■ 

X.  I),  Maeleod  (Xew  York),  pj..  139-4.1 

HeLXIER   II.    H.   OoSSELIN-GlUMSHAWK. 

Ilengeo  Hall,  Hertford. 

I  may  remind  OxoNiENf>i3  that  the  Basilica 
of  S.  Maria  .Maggioro  at  Rome  was  founded  on 
a  spot  which  the  Blea*ied  Virgin  pointed  oat 
by  means  of  a  miraculous  fall  of  snow  on  th© 
5th  of  August,  352.  "This  legend,"  wrote 
Augustus  J.  C.  Hare, 

"  is  comntemoiftlfil  '     '''     '  *  t, 

the  frstu  i)f  1,1  Mi  ;; 

n  soltMiin  liiKh  inas^  :  a 

of  white   roMe-teaveH  hi' 

through  two  holes  in  tli 

between   the  priests  and  HA«itinj>jn.i^ 

in  Ronie^'ol.  li.  p,  83. 

If   the  '  '       "  '  ■ 

practit. 

may  aKam  i-kw  h 
At  Toledo  iIk-1 
Blanca,  connectt'.  "n.i  *►  nf,'. 


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tliat  which  belongs  to  >S.  Maria  Maggiore, 
ami,  I  think,  identical  : — 

"The  origin  of  the  name dates  from  the  fourth 

century,  when  Our  Lady  in  o  miraculouB  vision  is 
said  to  bavu  choscu  the  spot  for  the  erection  of  a 
church  in  her  honour,  wnich  was  covered  with 
snow.  Pope  Liberius  then  ordered  the  churcli  to 
be  built  and  conxecrated  to  the  White  Lady — 
Nuostra  Senorn  la  Klanca." 

Thus  fUH  the  late  Miss  Hannah  Lynch 
express  herself  in  'Toledo'  ("Mediseval 
Towns  "X  p.  231^. 

Seville  has  also  a  church  under  the  same 
invocation.  Murillo  took  the  legend  as  a 
subject  of  pictures  for  its  adorument.  The 
purity  of  snow,  I  imagine  it  wa8,  that  le<l 
to  its  being  associated  with  Our  Lad}'  in 
traditions.  St.  Swithin, 

[Mr.  Orobok  Axnvs  is  also  thanked  for  a  reply.] 


Americax  Loyalists  (lO"*  S.  i.  269).— The 
record  of  compensation  paid  to  the  United 
Empire  Loyalists  is  incomplete.  A  part  is, 
I  believe,  preserved  at  the  Treasury  ;  the 
remainder  of  the  roll  is  in  tlie  United  States 
— I  understand,  in  the  Record  Ortice  at 
Washington.  Thijj  portion  has  been,  I  am 
told,  destroyed  to  a  great  extent  by  neglect 
and  exposure  •  but  I  am  informed  that  its 
publication  will  shortly  take  place.  H.  M.  H. 
might  obtain  fuller  information  as  to  this 
from  the  secretary-  of  the  United  Enjpire 
Loyalists'  Association  at  Toronto.      U.E.L. 

Egerton  Ityerson's  '  Loyalists  of  America,' 

vol.  ii.  pp.  ir.9  S2,  may  help  H.  M.  H.    The 

introduction  to  Lorenzo  Sabine's  '  American 

Loyalists' is  also  useful.     i3otli  the.se  writers 

^^   give  as  their  chief  authority  John  Eardley 

^B  Wil mot's '  Historical  View  of  the  Commission. 

^f  with  Account  of  the  Compensation  grantG<J 

by   Parliament.'      Wilmot  was  chairman  of 

the  Commission.     His  lxK)k  is  sometimes  to 

be  found  in  s»econd-hand  bookshops,  and  is 

I  very  likely  in  the  British  Museum.  Van 
Tyne's  *  Loyalists '  is  a  small  book  lately 
published.  I  have  not  reai}  it,  but  it  may 
givo  information.  No  one  ha«  yet  done 
justice  to  the  unhappy  Loyalists. 
M.  N.  a 
'EXAMIVATlOy  OF  AX  Old  Mani'script' 
(10'"  S,  i  259)— I  apjireciate  your  gotxl  in- 
tentions in  finding  nmm  for  a  notice  of  my 
investigation  into  an  'Old  Manuscript';  but 
your  intentions  urf,  I  fear,  made  of  none 
effect  by  the  writer  of  the  notice.  May  I 
8tat«  that  thr*  M.S.  in  question  is  not  the 
"  first  leaf "  (aftiTwarda  i-educed  to  a  page) 
of  any  "  work, "  but  a  quire  of  eighty-eight 
—originally  ninety-six— pages?    'The  "leaf" 


referred  to  was  really  and  only  the  front  half 
of  the  cover.  The  so-called  '*  work  "  is  merely 
a  collection  of  written  copies  of  miscellaneous 
papers  and  groups  of  papers  numbering  six- 
teen separate  compositions  ;  and  so  far  from 
being  anonymous,  the  authors  of  all  but  one 
are  well  known.  Nor  has  this  collection  ever 
been  called  "  The  Conference  of  Pleasure.'  I 
show  clearly,  at  the  outset,  that  Spedding 
published  a  sroup  of  four  of  the  sixteen 
papers,  to  which  group  he  wrongly  gave 
the  title  •  A  Conference,  A'c- ;  while  Bacon's 
own  title  and  sub-titles  were  before  him  in 
the  page  of  scribble  !  Further,  the  names  of 
Shakespeare  and  others  had  little  or  nothing 
to  do  with  my  "conclusion,"  although  the 
relations  I  have  described  between  the  scrib- 
bler and  the  men  named  powerfully  support 
that  conclusion.  Finally,  to  the  writer's 
"  Voila,  tout,"  I  answer  "  Cfl  n'est  pas  tout"  ; 
for  over  and  above  my  identification  of  the 
scribbler  (which  is  not  unimportant),  my 
essay  has  bearings  of  which  the  greater 
importance  will  oe  recognized  In'  every 
educated  reader.  T.  Le  M.  Douse. 

Oprowek  (10"'  S.  i.  227).— This  is  a  .strange 
family  name,  whatever  it  means.  It  would 
seem  to  be  Dutch  or  Flemish.  Opj'orr  in 
Dutch  is  nprofir  in  English,  Aufruhr  in  Ger- 
man, and  means  l>ti»tU,  as  welf  as  the  more 
riotous-sounding  vprfxir.  1  cannot  find  Bustle 
either  in  Directory  or  Blue-Book,  but  there 
are  plenty  of  Bussells,  which  is  perhaps  much 
the  same  thing.  Aldenhau. 

Is  not  this  a  dialectal  form  of  the  English 
word  "approver"?      Oswald  J.  Reichel. 

"Si'OLK  IKN,"  Norfolk  (lo'"  S.  i.  248).— 
What  the  inscriber  of  the  print  evidently 
meant  to  say  is  that  "Scole  Inn  "is  remarkable 
for  being  about  equidistant  between  Norwich 
on  thu  nortli  road  and  Ipswich  on  the  south» 
i.e.,  twenty  mile.s,  the  village  of  Scole  being 
a  groat  thoroughfare  on  the  high  road  from 
Ipswich  to  Norwich  and  Yarmouth,  and 
that  the  notable  circumstance  concerning 
the  village  is  that  its  inn  is  distinguished 
in  more  ways  than  one  as  a  resting-place 
for  travellers  between  those  parts.  Itwas  built 
by  John  Peck,  a  merchant  of  Norwich,  in 
lO.'i.'t  It  was  a  large  structure,  ornamented 
with  a  profusion  of  carved  work  the  size  •"»? 
life.  Peck's  arms  and  those  of  his  wife  were 
placed  over  the  entrance  porch,  .^mong  tho 
carvings  wrs  the  figure  of  an  astronomer 
seatml  on  a  circumferonter  (a  thei-Klolite)^ 
which  hv  a  secret  device  acte<l  as  a  hygr«> 
meter.  \\\  fine  weather  it  turned  towards 
the  north,  and  when  it  rained    faced    the 


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quarter  whence  the  rain  came.  This  rcmark- 
'  able  sculpture  in  woo<l  was  executed  by  an 
artisan  named  Fairchild,  and  cost  1,057/. 
The  inn  also  contained  a  large  round  bed, 
capable  of  accouimodating  forty  persons.  It 
would  be  interesting  to  know  what  has 
become  of  these  antiquities.  Are  any  of 
them  still  in  situ  f  and,  if  not,  where  may 
they  be  seen  1      J.  Uolden  MacMichael. 

This  does  not  seem  to  be  a  difficult  problem. 
The  '  Promptorium  Parvulorum '  was  written 
at  Lynn,  and  contains  many  Norfolk  words. 
It  has  the  entry  :  *'  >icole,  to  wey  wythe,  scale^ 
balawnce,  LiWa,  baUiTux  vel  bUanx."  That  is, 
iwle  is  an  old  Norfolk  word  for  a  pair  of 
scales.  And  seeing  that  the  arms  of  a  pair  of 
scales  are  of  equal  length,  it  Bp(>ears  that  the 
"ijcole  Inn"  was  ho  called  because  it  was  at 
equal  distances  from  four  towns  which  are 
uamei^l,  the  distance  in  each  case  being 
twenty  miles. 

It  is  obviouM  that  this  is  only  a  medieval 

J'oke  ;  for  the  conditions  are  hardly  possible. 
Neither  are  the  arms  of  the  balance  straight. 
There  is  actually  a  village  called  Scole,  near 
the  river  Waveney,  a  little  below  Diss ;  and 
this  is  somewhere  near  the  position.  It  is, 
as  the  crow  flies  and  roughly  speaking,  about 
seventeen  miles  from  Norwich,  nineteen  from 
Thetford,  twenty-one  from  Hury,  and  twenty- 
two  from  Ipsw  ich.  And  the  "  Scole  Itin  "  may 
really  have  meant  the  inn  at  Scole.  If  this  is 
not  correct,  perhaps  we  may  hop>e  to  be  told 
where  the  inn  actually  stood. 

Waltbr  W.  Skeat. 
If  a  misprint  in  the  /  for  r,  the  meaning 
is  clear;  or  could   it  be  a  joke  on  xcholu, 
accommodation   for  learned    conversational- 
ists? Haroli>  Malet.  Colonel. 

The  late  Rev.  C.  R.  Manning,  of  Diss,  a 
frequent  contributor  to  ''  N.  &  Q..'  informed 
tne  that  he  trace<l  the  name  to  a  shoal  in  the 
river  Waveney,  utilized  by  travellers. 

A.  Hall. 

"Kick  the  uucket' (10*''  S.  i.  227).— This 
phrase  is  probably  drawn  from  the  expe- 
rience of  milking,  in  which  it  is  not  an 
unusual  occurrence  for  a  restive  cow  by 
an  unhappy  kick  to  upset  a  pail  full  of 
milk;  "for  we  must  needs  die,  and  are  as 
water  spilt  on  the  ground,  which  cannot  be 
gathered  up  again"  (2  Samuel  xiv,  14). 

W.  C.  B. 

Camdkn  on  Surnames  :  Mosselwftitb 
(lO""  S.  i.  248}.— The  passage  required  may 
be  in  the  author's  '  Britannia,'  to  which  I 
cannot  at  present  refer,  but  it  is  also  con- 
tained in  his ' Keroainea,' and  runs  as  follows: 


"  Neither  in  there  any  village  in  Normandy,  that 
^ve  not  denomination  to  acme  family  in  England  ; 
\n  which  number  are  all  names,  having  the  French 
De,  Du.  Dea,  De-la  pretixt,  and  besinniug  or  ending 
with  Font,  FaQt,  Beau,  ISainct,  Mont.iiois,  Aux, 
Eiix,  Vall,  Vftux,  Cort,  Court,  Fort,  Champ,  Vil, 
which  18  corruptly  turned  in  some  into  Feld,  84  in 
Baskerfeld,  Soinerfeld,  Dangerfcld,  Trublefcld, 
Greenefeld.  Sackefeld,  for  Baakervil,  Somervil, 
DanRtsrvil,  Turbervil,  Greenevil.  Sackvil ;  and  in 
others  into  Well,  as  Boawell  for  Boesevil,  Freahwell 
for  Freshevil."—  Camden's  '  Reroainea,'  Londom 
1(>U,  |i.  Ml). 

The  only  change  in  the  spelling  I  have  made 
is  to  put  V  instead  of  n  in  such  words  as 
Baskervil.  John  T.  Cubry. 

May  not  Mussell  be  derived  from  the 
mollusc t  A  Nicholas  le  Musele  is  found 
"  Placit :  in  Dora.  Cap.  Westminster,"  and  the 
humble  barnacle  and  whelk  both  lent  their 
names  to  human  beings. 

Camden  refers  to  the  Norman  origin  of 
many  English  surnames  in  his  *  Remains 
concerning  Britain '(p.  118,  ed.  M.  A.  Lower, 
1870) ;  and  there  is  much  information  on  th« 
subject  in  chap.  vii.  of  the  late  Canon  Isaac 
Taylor's  well-known  'Words  and  Places.' 

A.  R.  Bay  LEY. 

"  Neither  is  there  any  village  in  Normandy 
that  gave  not  denomination  to  some  family 
in  England  "  occurs  at  p.  1  IS  in  John  Russell 
Smith's  edition  of  Camden's '  Remains.' 

St.  Swithin. 

Latin  Line.s  (10""  S.  i.  24-9).— The  lines  are 
leonine  verse,  and  I  think  should  be  read : — 

H(ie[BC.  lilera']  reKis  nata>  sunt  mentis,  ibiquo locate, 
I'er  tjuas  irrorea  no»,  Christe,  doeendo,  sororea. 
U  felix  aniniaqun?  noii  deacendit  ad  ima 
Ut  facie  cji^Ii  jiotiatur  luce  fideli ! 
VirgineuacM'tus,  perduloi  carmine  Iivtus, 
(iaudet  in  Kternuni  regem  sjieculando  supemam 
Hoc  nobis  dona  Banctoriim  Ohriste  corona 
Sedibus  aternis  quo  sociemur  eia. 

These  (pictures  or  letters)  are  sprung  from 
the  king's  mind,  and  are  placed  there  that 
by  them,  by  their  teaching,  thou  mayeet 
refresh  the  sisters. 

0  happy  spirit  which  does  not  go  down  to  the  pit 
That  it  may  enjoy  the  face  of  heaven  in  loyal  light. 
Tho  asaenibly  of  maidens,  rejoicing  in  sweet  Har- 
mony, 

Rejoices  for  ever  Razing  on  the  kinjc  supernal ; 
Therefore  present  us,  0  Christ,  with  the  crown  of 

the  saints, 
That  we  may  be  joined  to  them  in  etDrnal  alMMles. 

1  take  it  that  "  nobis  dona  corona"  is  c&releta 
Latin  for  "  nobis  dona  coronam." 

Hep.beht  A,  Stbono. 
University,  Liverpool. 

Tasso  and  Milton  (10"'  S.  i.  ?  -^   ''•o)} 
Voltaire  has  something  to  say  on  i  ..t, 

and  as  his  remarks  are  very  scu^.-j.^   li.ey 


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315 


I 


taay  be  worth  quoting.  Tlie  following  h 
from  his  account  of  Milton  in  the  '  Esjiai  aur 
la  Poe'aie  £pique '  :— 

"  II  a  pu  prendre  dans  le  Taaae  la  deecription  de 
I'enfer,  le  caracUre  de  Satan,  le  couBeil  des  demons  : 
imiter  ainai,   ce    n'est    point  vtre    iilaftiaire.  c'oat 
lutter,   comnie  dit   Boileau,  centre    son    original; 
o'e«t  enrichir  «a  langue  des  b«auti^-s  dea  lauguea 
^traugc'refi ;    c'eal  nourrir  aon  giinie  et  Toccroitre 
da  g^nie  des  autrea  ;  o'est  rcBsenibler  h  Virgile,  qui 
imita  Hom^re.     Sana  doate  Milton  a  jout4 centre  le 
Taaae  avec  des  arnies  inSjiales ;  lalanfcueanglaise  ne 
poDvait  rendre  rhartiioniu  dea  vers  italiens  :— 
Cliiama  gli  ahitatori  dell'  ombre  eteme 
II  rauco  suon  della  lartaroa  tromba ; 
Trenian  le  spaKJoae  atro  cavertie, 
E  1'  aer  cieco  a  quel  niroor  riinbomba,  &c. 
Cependant  Milton  a  trouvti  I'art  d'iniiter  lieureuse- 
tiient  tone  ces  beaux  murceaux.     II  est  vrai  que  ce 
t]ui  n'est  qn'un  cpi8o<ie  dana  le  Taaae  est  le  aujet 
inPme  dans  Milton  ;  il  oat  encore  vrai  que,  sans  la 
pcinture  des  antours  d'Adani  et  d'Kve,  comme  sans 
ramour  de   Henaud  et  d'Armide,   lea    diables  de 
Milton  el  du  Taaae  n'auraient  pas  cu  uu  grand 
«uocva." 

W.  R.  B.  Prideaux. 
Thb  German  llBPRrsT  of   Leivarraoa's 
Books  (lO'*"  S.  i.  284).— In   line   18  of    ruy 
article  read  p.  339,  not  p.  399  ;  and  insert 
before  that  item  "p.  120,  v.  9.  Toannesez." 

E.  S.  DoDosoN. 
Miniature  of  Isaac  Newton  (lo"'  S.  i. 
S48).— Mr.  Birkbeck  may  count  iiiraseJf 
fortunate  in  possessing  thiJi  miniature,  ami 
it  would  bo  interesting  to  all  readers  of 
*N.  «b  Q.'  to  learn  how  he  came  by  it,  and 
in  whone  possession  it  has  been  since  the 
<leath  of  Sir  Isaac  in  172C/7.     Of  the  lloyal 

IAca^iemy  of  Sciences  at  Paris  Sir  Isaac  waa 
Uected  a  Foreign  Associate  in  1699.  He  had 
been  a  Fellow  of  the  Roval  Society  since  1072. 
^d  waselected  its  PresiJentin  1 703,  continuing 
to  act  as  sucli  until  liis  death.  Ho  presided 
for  tlie  lust  liiue  on  28  February  1726/7, 
and  the  miniatare  would  doubtless' l>e  given 
him  when  he  was  first  elected  President.  Is 
JIr.  Btrkhk*  k,  however,  quite  certain  of  the 
date  on  tlie  miniature!  Sir  Isaac  was  not 
Jcniglited  by  Queen  Anne  until  I70.'i,  two  years 
"*Uer  than  the  dat*  Mr.  Birkbkck  gives.  The 
lintor  would  doubtless  be  a  Parisian. 

Cha.s.  F.  FoR3Uaw,  LLD. 
Bradford. 


was    known    aa    the    "Boyal    Academy   of 
Sciences."  Evbbabd  Ho&tE  Coleman. 

71,  Brecknock  Rood. 

William  Willie  (10^  S.  i.  67,  267).— Mk. 
F,  A.  HoPKiN.s  gives  a  very  interesting  paper 
as  to  "double  names."  The  practice  of 
duplicating  names  in  a  family  was  very 
common  in  my  younger  days.  If  a  John 
Smith  died,  his  parents  would  almost  as  a 
matter  of  course  cnristen  another  child  John, 
and  this  was  found  to  be  the  explanation 
of  many  apjmrently  wonderful  records  of 
longevity.  John  Smith,  born  in  1780,  dies, 
aufl  another  John  appears,  maybe  ten  or 
fifteen  years  afterwards  :  but  the  birthday' 
of  his  elder  brother  is  claimed  for  him,  ana 
the  register  of  the  baptism  seems  to  prove 
that  he  is  ten  or  fifteen  years  older  than  he 
really  i^.  But  what  seems  curious  to  me  is 
how  few  double  names  of  any  kind  were  in 
use  seventy  or  eighty  years  ago.  I  had  as  a 
child  fully  thirty  near  relatives,  brothers, 
sisters,  uncles,  and  aunts,  and  none  heid  two 
names.  I  had  at  school  some  thirty-five 
companions,  and  not  one  had  two  names 
except  myself.  What  a  curious  contrast  to 
the  present  order  of  things  !  G.  C.  W. 

John  Sylvester  John  Gardiner,  D.D.,  was 
rector  of  Trinity  Church,  Boston,  United 
States,  and  died  in  1830.  His  first  and  third 
Cliristian  names  wore  the  same,  and  he  seems 
to  have  been  name<l  after  his  father,  grand- 
father, and  great-grandfather,  who  were  all 
dtstinguiaheu  men  in  New  England.  Dr. 
Gardiner  was  learned,  eloquent,  and  witty. 
He  was  the  founder  of  that  valuable  library 
and  museum,  the  Boston  Athenseum. 

M.  N.  G. 

[The  question  of  the  rarity  of  the  early  use  of 
double  Chrisliau  names  has  been  discussed.    See 


Sir  Isaac  Newton  was  tlie  first  Piesirlent  of 
lie  lloyal  Society,  and  held  that  ix)sition 
>m  1703  till  1)18  doath,  which  took  jilace  on 
March,  1727.  The  liotiour  of  knightlioo<l 
ras  conferred  u\Hm  him  by  Queen  Anne  on 
b  April,  170.-1.  The  Muse'um  of  the  Royal 
ociety  was  cominoneG<l  in  lOtl.'i,  and  the 
ccount  of  its  rarities  in  Hatton  a  'London,' 
[roe,  <»ccupjc8  twenty  page«,  which  probably 


K'"  S.  vii.  119.  17"2:  viii.  l.'iS.  2 
X.  214.  liXV,  y^*-  S.  vi.  107,  217.] 


rs,  .371 ;  ix.  3H,  438  ; 


Sleep  and  Death  (0'^'  S.  xii.  389,  512).— 
Most  poets  and  many  prose  writers  have 
touched  upon  this  obvious  simile.  Passages 
have  been  heapefl  together  in  '  N.  Jk  Q.,' 
2"'  S.  V.  229;  3'''  S.  ix.  413  ;  4"'  8.  viii,  161. 
3.36  ;  but  especially  at  1"-  S.  ix.  346.  I  can  add 
these  further  references  : — 

Boyle's  *  Refleotions,'  U'<ij.'>,  i.  211. 

lirowne,  Sir  Tho.  (another  |iaaaago  quoted  in 
•Truths  lllii&tratod'|. 

Butter's  *  Analogy.  . 

Hyrod,  '  Hardanapalua,'  iv.  1  j  '  Lara,  i.  *J|t. 

Codd.  E,  T., 'Sermons,' p.  1. 

Howell's  'Instructions,'  Arber,  p  2i. 

Johiwm,  '  Adventurer,'  No.  39. 

Longfellow, 'Sleeping  Child.' 

Ovid,  '  Elog.,'  ii.  0  (Ir.  by  Marlowe,  1870,  p.  24-i). 

Oweo,  '  F.pturami'  (second  collection,  No,  \9^). 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


no"-  S.  I.  Ai'Mj.  16.  19W. 


316 


Pope,  Homer. 

PsxIniB,  Bible  Vera.,  xiii.  3. 

Randolph.  T..  '  Poem*,'  1668,  p.  311. 

Sackvjlle^  Mirror  for  Magistrates,'  induction. 

Seneca, '  Hercules.' 

Ijhakespeare, '  Mids.  N.  D.,'  III.  ii. ;  and  HonQctTS- 

Shellev,  '  Alaator'  (and  often). 

Taylor,  'Holy  Dying,"  IS.}?,  pp.  4,  200, 

Tennyson, '  In  Memoriam,  Ixvii. 

White,  H.  K,  (often). 

Young,  'Night  Thoughts,'  Nighta  i.  it, 

Unfortunately  I  have  not  preserved  notes 
of  volume  and  page  in  every  case.  At  1*'  S. 
ix.  3-lG  for  "  Dennis,  Sophonisba,"  read  Den- 
ham,  Soploj.  W.  C.  B. 

Hesiod  has  the  following  line : — 
i)  S*  'Yjri'oi'  fitTa  Xtptri  KadiyvriTOV  QavuToio. 

'  TJieoRony,'  756. 
Shelley  begins  one  of  his  poems  thus  : — 
How  wonderful  is  Death, 
Death  and  his  brother  Wleep  I 

I  have  met  with  the  same  expression  in  a 
minor  poem  of  Butler,  the  autlior  of  '  Hudi- 
bras,'  and  elsewhere,  E.  Yabdi.ey. 

"I   EXPECT   TO    PAS.S   TUROUt.H "  (10"'   S.    i. 

2J7).— I  feel  absolutely  convinced  that  I  saw 
this  quotation  the  other  day  in  Addison's 
Spectator,  the  paragrapJi  being  written  by 
Addison  himself.  It  would  be  rather  wean- 
some  to  me  to  re-read  Addison  throughout  to 
endeavour  to  find  it,  but  I  am  of  firm  belief 
that  if  the  S^xctator  were  thoroughly  searched, 
that  search  would  be  rewarded  by  a  dis- 
covery of  the  sentence. 

In  No.  1,  vol.  i.  of  the  Sptdator  a  very 
similar  thought  occurs.  Addison  writes 
(Thursday,  1  March,  1710,11):— 

"If  I  can  in  any  way  contribute  to  the  diversion 
or  improvement  of  the  oountry  in  which  I  live,  1 
shall  leave  it,  when  I  am  summoned  out  of  it,  with 
tho  secret  satisfaction  of  thinking  that  I  have  not 
lived  in  vain.' 

Cbas.  F.  Fob8ha\\,  LL.D. 

Bradford. 

"DiscE  PATi"(10"'  S.  i.  248;.— This  motto 
alludes  not  to  the  Caraperdown  arms,  but  to 
the  crest,  a  dismasted  ship.  Tliis  ship  is 
accounted  for  in  an  authenticated  heraldic 
tradition  which  says  that  a  member  of  tlie 
family  who  lived  some  two  hundred  years 
ago,  liaviog  been  supercargo  on  board  a 
vessel  bound  from  Norway  to  his  native 
place,  Dundee,  was  overtaken  by  a 
tremendous  storm,  in  which  the  ship 
became  almost  a  wreck,  and  the  crew  were 
reduced  to  the  utmost  distress.  Contrary, 
however,  to  all  expectations,  they  were 
enablecl  to  navigate  their  crazy,  crippled 
bark  into  port,  and  tlie  parents  of  the  thus 


fortunately  re.scued  son  immediately  adopted 
the  crest  alluded  to,  in  commemoration  of  the 
dangers  their  heir  had  so  providentially 
escaped  from.    See  Burke's  '  Peerage.' 

J.   HOLDEN  Ma<MiCHAEL. 

"Disce  pati"  is  the  key-note  of  many 
passages  in  the'De  ImitationeChristi.'  The 
words  in  conjunction  with  others  will  be 
found  in  lib.  i.  cap.  xxiv.  1.  88 :  "  Disoe  to 
nunc  in  modico  pati." 

J.  A.  J.  HorsDEJf. 

CaQODbury. 

William  Hartlev  (lO"'  S.  i.  87,  ir,(;,  198, 
253).— I  must  apologize  to  Mlstletok  for  not 
comprehending  that  Dr.  Joseph  Hartley  and 
Lieut.-Col.  Joseph  Hartley  were  one  and  the 
same  person.  A.  R.  Baylkt. 

"Drdo  is  the  market"  (10"'  S.  i.  U9, 
23.')).  —  Mb.  MArMicuAEL.s  kind  quotation 
frv7m  Brewer's  'rhra.se  and  Fable'  puts  me 
into  the  ludicrous  position  of  explaining  that 
I  am  not  unaware  of  the  existence  of  that 
book.  Some  fifteen  years  ajjo,  however,  after 
having,  from  my  own  business  experience, 
checked  off  certain  of  its  statements,  I  discon 
tinned  the  use  of  it;  and  the  1897  editioa 
did  not  encourage  me  to  begin  again.  I  am. 
not  sure  that  the  quotation  explains  the 
words  "in  the  market,"  but  I  have  no  wiall 
to  argue;  though  •'rubbish"  is  not  now, 
and  was  not  in  1747,  tho  only  meaning  ol 
drogue.  I  had  consulted  Skeat'a  '  Etymolo 
gical  Dictionary,'  but  the  Free  Library  herej 
does  not  include  the  *  Concise,'      U.  V.  W, 

Carlisle. 

"Old  Enoland"  (lO'"  S.  i.  189,  255).— Thl 
fond  term  "01<1  England"  is  probably  rattcb 
older  than  tho  date,  1041,  which  is  claimec 
for  its  first  use  by  Dr.  Brewer.  Every  OD^ 
in  Norfolk  in  the  olden  time  thought  Wey- 
bourne  Hix}p  the  key  of  the  county,  and 
there  is  still  current  a  rime  which  is  probably 
of  ancient  origin  :— 

He  who  would  old  Endand  win 
Must  at  Weybourue  Hoop  begin. 

See  the  '  Norfolk  Antiquarian   Miscellany, 
edited  by  Walter  Rye,  1877,  p.  286. 

J.  HoLDEN  MacMzchasu 

TltiE-SWELL  AND  TiDESLOW  (9"^  S.  xij.  34J 
517  ;  10"'  S.  i.  52,  91.  190,  228,278,  209).— I  b« 
lieve  Sir  Herbert  Maxwell  nr 
in  substantial  agreement.  The  > 
mentions  are  such  as  are  fairly  cuvLiLd  b 
the  phrase  "  phonetic  causes."  I  fear  ho  wi 
misled  by  the  unlucky  misprint  of  «  for  i 
and  bj'  ray  use  of  the  word  "letter."  What 
meant  was— "  The  addition  of  a  letter  [i.e., 


w 


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letter  representing  a  real  sound],  excepting, 
of  course,  d  after  n  [not  «]•  *"'^  similar  well- 
known  insertions  due  to  phonetic  cauaea,  is 
quiteanother  matter,"  ikc.  The" excrescent <f" 
after  n,  as  in  Craigend  for  aaifjean,  is  due 
to  confusion    witli   words  lijjo  sound  (from 
French  son),  and  is  the  very  thing  I  meant. 
It   is  extremely  common,  and  in  explained 
^_in  ray  '  Principles  of  Eng.  Etym  .'  first  series, 
^■p.  370,  with  many  examples.     Of  course,  in 
^Kt/u's  case  it  is  etitirely  wrong,  because  (as  I 
^^Ruppose)  the  accent  does  not  fall  on  the  suHix 
^K'Mn ;   but  it  became  possible  bj'  confusion 
'       with  other  cases.     Precisely  parallel  to  the 
I      excrescent  d  in  mmul  is   the  excrescent  p 
^^ftfter  m,  as  in  Hampstead  ;  1  explain  this  in 
^^the  same  work,  p.  373,  and  cite  as  examples 
^^■f/n-pfi/,  glint-p-se,   whim-p  fi;  sem-pster  ;   to 
which  add  De?n-pster.     1  also  show  (p.  370) 
that    d    occurs,    similarly,    after    /,    as    in 
al-d'er    (the    tree),   ic.  ;    so  also    Tinwald, 
M'hero  the  d  shows  that  some  people,  at  some 
time,  turned  the  II  into  Id,  whetlier  it  is  done 
now  or  not. 

Theaecomi  »'•  in  U'i'jtoum  is  purely  phonetic ; 
it  shows  that  (it  may  1)0  long  ago)  the  sutHx 
in  this  word  was  once  pronounced  as  in  the 
Scottish  tooti,  rhyming  with  f^oon.    For,  after 
all,    toirn    is  merely  a  variant  of  totm,  the 
Anglo-French  form  of  A.S.  tfni  (pronounced 
'oon,  as  above) ;  so  tlmt    ]i'i'j-tonn  was  once 
orrect.    But,  of  course,  the  second  svUable 
as  long  since  been  reduced  to  tvn  by  lack  of 
mphasis,  and  it  pleased  tlie  Anglo-French 
cnbes  to  write  ton  for  tun,  monk  for  viunk, 
oney  for  hune;/,  and  tlie  like,  because  w«  (in 
ilSS.)  looked  indistinct.      It  is  the  fact  tliat 
I'W'igton.  but  not  M'^ifffoivn,  has  lost  a  written  tc. 
The  difterence  of  spelling  indicates  that  Wig- 
town is  a  name  of  later  date  than  the  other, 
and  that  is  all.     Both  are  now  sounded  alike. 
In  words  like  Carlisle  there  is  no  inserted 
"  letter  "  in  the  sense  I  intended  :  for  the  n 
is  not  sounded.    I  was  referring  to  words  like 
Tideslow,  in  wliich  it  is  soundetl.    There  is, 
~  ijwever,  an  inserted  "symbol  "  ;  which  is  a 
ery  different  thing,  and  due,  of  course,  to 
^aorance-    The  beginning  of  it  was  the  Lat. 
ftmia  :  this  gave  O.F.  isle,  with  i  sounded, 
^ut    in    Norman    and    later   French  s  was 
ropped   before  /,  m,  and   n,  and  the  word 
ecanio   really  ile ;  j'et  n   was   still    written, 
nd  foun<l  its  way  int^i   island  anfl  CnrUsle, 
)V  mere  miHtnke.     Strictly,  there  is  no  gain 
it  s,  V)ut  a  loss  not  only  of  i,  but  of  n;  for  wo 
tarted  from  the  form  intulii. 
Uardroch-wood  is  an  excellotit  example  ; 
e  ignorant   insertion  of  a  written  w  arose 
oni  the  fact  that  the  E.  if(j»d  was  freijuently 
ironouuced  V>(i,  as  it  is  still.    It  was  there- 


fore inferred  (through  ignorance)  that  what 
sounded  something  like  Bardrocliood  really 
meant  Bardroch-wootl.  If  this  belief  were 
to  become  universal,  the  sound  of  w,  and  not 
merely  the  symbol,  would  at  last  be  estab- 
lished ;  but  I  seem  to  gather  that  this  has 
not  yet  happened.  Still,  it  may  yet  do  so; 
for  the  force  of  "  popular  etymology "  is 
often  considerable.  The  result,  even  then, 
\^-ould  be  due  to  the  fact  that  iv<Mjd  became 
'yorf  in  other  cases. 

After  all,  all  changes  in  the  sjxjken  names 
must  be  of  phonetic  origin  ;  for  even  when 
due  to  popular  etymology,  they  must  have 
been  suggested  by  analogy  with  some  change 
that  had  such  an  origin.  The  case  of  Tides- 
well  is  quite  different ;  for  if  the  name  could 
be  supposed  to  refer  to  tide,  the  name  would 
be  lidt-u'dl.  We  can  here  only  explain  the 
actual  presence  of  an  s  that  is  really  pro- 
nounced by  the  supposition  that  it  has 
nhmii/s  been  pronounced. 

I  conclude,  as  before,  that  it  is  impossible 
to  discuss  pronunciations  within  reasonable 
limits.  If  I  am  obscure,  it  is  owing  to  the 
necessity  of  being  brief.  I  do  not  believe, 
any  more  than  1  did  before,  that  the  in- 
troduction of  letters  that  represent  real 
Hounds  into  words  or  names  that  did  not  once 
possess  them  is  at  all  a  common  phenomenon  ; 
that  is,  when  we  make  due  allowances  for 
such  well-known  instances  as  are  found  in 
emp-tt/,  thun  d  cr,  alder,  slutu-ii-tr,  aniomjst, 
most  of  which  are  due  to  what  has  been  so 
happily  called  "dissimilated  gemination,"  as 
explained  in  my  'Principles  of  Eug.  Etym.,' 
p.  366. 

In  cases  where  place-names  have  been 
wilfully  perverted,  it  has  generally  been  done 
by  force  of  a  popular  etymology  that  tries  to 
give  a  new  meaning  to  a  word.  Tlie  worst 
instances  of  this  character  are  not  those  due 
to  unlearned  people,  but  to  the  shameless 
and  unpardonable  meddlesomeness  of  those 
who  ought  to  know  better,  and  who  imagine 
they  know  what  is  correct  when  they  are  all 
the  while  in  the  blindest  ignorance.  Place- 
names  are  best  preserved  wljon  they  are  left 
in  the  keeping  of  the  illiterate,  who  speak 
naturally  and  are  not  ambitious  to  be  always 
inventing  theories.        Wai.tkr  W.  iSkeat. 

CouwEB  Pills  (10»»'  S.  i.  205,  273).— In  the 
spring  of  1871  I  was  staying  at  Wakefield,  in 
tlio  house  of  the  Rev.  Thomas  Pearson,  an 
old  West  Indian  missionary.  I  was  making 
merry  over  Wesley's  '  Primitive  Physic,'  an<l 

f particularly  over  cobweb  pilN  as  a  remedy 
or  ague,   or  for    anything.    Mrs.    Pearson 
quietly   ob.served,    *' You   may  laugh,  but  I 


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have  many  tirae«  cureii  Mr.  Pearson  of  ague 
with  cobweb  pills,  when  we  were  abroad." 
"Six  middling  pills  of  Cobicebi"  are  pre- 
scribed by  Wesley  "For  an  Ague,"  par.  0. 
Mrs.  Pearson  swept  down  the  cobweba,  and 
with  bread  mixed  them  into  pills. 

H.  J.  Foster, 

Wilton  Nunnbby  (10"'  S.  i.  248).— Wilton 
Abbey  was  dissolved  in  the  thirty-fifth  year 
of  Henry  VIII.,  by  whom  the  site  and  build- 
ings were  granted  to  Sir  William  Herbert, 
afterwards  created  Earl  of  Pembroke.  Its 
religious  inmates  were  of  the  Benedictine 
order,  and  seem  to  have  been  usually  selected 
from  among  the  daughters  of  the  nobility. 
At  the  suppression  its  revenues,  according  to 
Dugdale,  were  estimated  at  COli.  lln.  Id.,  out 
Speed  states  their  amount  as  6.02/.  ]]j.  (yd, 
Tne  prioress  of  this  nunnery  was,  in  right  of 
her  title,  a  bai-oness  of  England. 

That  it  was  restored  during  the  reign  of 
Oueen  Mary  there  is  no  doubt.  Tiie  former 
abbey  was  then — and  has  been  since — known 
as  Wilton  House.  Soon  after  the  dissolution 
of  Wilton  Abbey,  some  considerable  altera- 
'tions  were  made  (according  to  Mr.  John 
'Britton,  F.S.A.)  in  the  arrangement  of  the 
buildings  for  domestic  purposes,  by  William, 
the  first  Earl  of  Pembroke.  Charles  I,  is 
said  to  iiave  been  particularly  partial  to 
Wilton,  and  frerjuently  resided  there.  The 
architects  Holbein,  De  Caus,  Inigo  Jones. 
Webb,  and  others,  were  .successively  engaged 
to  enlarge  and  embellish  it.  Edmund  Loage 
tells  us  that  Queen  Elizabeth  visited  the 
town  in  September.  1579,  and  that  the  Court 
resided  here  for  a  short  time  in  October,  1603. 

An  interesting  incident  in  connexion  with 
Wilton  Nunnery  has  hitherto  remained  un- 
recorded in  'N.  tk  Q-*  The  story  runs  that 
in  12D9  there  was  a  certain  knight,  Sir  Osborne 
GifFord,  of  Fonthill,  wiio  atolo  out  of  the 
nunnery  of  Wilton  two  fair  nuns  and  carried 
them  off.  This  noraing  to  ttie  ears  of  the 
Archbishop  of  Caiitctbury,  John  Peckham, 
he  first  excommunicated  the  said  knight,  and 
then  absolved  him  on  the  following  con- 
ditions: ],  That  he  should  never  como  within 
any  nunnery,  or  into  the  company  of  a  nun  ■ 
2,  that  for  three  Sundays  together  lie  should 
be  publicly  whippetl  in  the  parish  church  of 
WUton,  and  as  many  times  in  the  market- 1 
place  and  church  of  Shaftesbury  ;  3,  that ' 
he  should  fast  a  certain  number  of  months  ; 
4,  that  he  should  not  wear  a  sliirt  for  three 
years ;  and  lastly,  that  he  should  not  any 
more  take  upon  him  the  habit  and  title  of  a 
knight,  but  .should  wear  apparel  of  a  russet 
colour  until  ho  had  spent  three  years  in  the 


Holy  Land.    All  tlieajo  penances,  adds  God- 
win, Peckliam  made  Giftbrd  swear  to  perfonaj 
before  he  would  grant  him  absolution. 

Ch.\s.  F.  FoiisnAW,  LL.D. 
Bradford. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  4o. 

Afin-orO'tiiiOffraphU  ;  or,  a  I'iret:  of  the  World  /K*- 
fonrtd:  in  Et^rtti/ts  atul  CharatrU/'n.  By  Johik 
Earle.  (CRmhridge,  University  Press.) 
With  o.  reprint  of  Karle'a  witty  and  thou^^htful 
'  Microcosinogtaphie,'  to  a  knowledge  nf  the  va4u» 
of  which  the  world  is  tardily  awaking,  th«  Cam- 
bridge UniverBity  Preas  in  n^jrinninv:  n  aerie*  of 
reprints  certain  to  gladden    '  '    'iL'tcboUr, 

the  autiquary,  and  the  b:'  -terin  iu 

queation,  of  which  the  set  jil  conBlat 

of  .Sidoev'B  'Uefence  of  Poesie,'  ia  uiiiike  anylhine 
previouely  attoni))tcd  by  the  (-anibridge  Pro«s.  ana 
IS  lissued  in  a  new  and  an  eminently  artistic  tvii» 
and  in  a  Btriclly  and  narrotvly  liniited  edition,  unt 
two  hundred  and  twenty-five  iM>|iiea  iu  all  tieiug 
offered  for  sale,  and  the  ty|)e,  which  is  reserved  t» 
the  Cambridge  rrfs?,  being  in  the  present  instance 
already  distributed.  How  bfaiitifnl  '''  '  ^^-^  i«. 
and  how  clear  also,  may  be  seen  fixmi  .ud 

from  the  iirospectus.     Aitocetlier  e\      .  th<» 

reproduction  of  the  title  of  the  ai.\ili  iuigniunted 
edition  of  \GXi,  with  its  quaint  alleguriciwl  printer's 
mark.  Neither  as  regards  text  nor  piinctualion  is 
any  departure  from  the  original  perinilted.  and  the 
inaaterpicccs  of  literature,  to  which  the  seriM  i» 
cnntiiied,  will  be  placed  before  the  reader  of  to-day 
aa  Ihey  were  seen  by  their  producers.  On  th« 
fitness  of  Earle's  work  for  reviv-iU,  and  on  the  his- 
tory of  its  a]tpearai)ce,  we  commented  (9"*  8.  rii. 
.Sj8)  in  dealing  with  a  previous,  if  less  ambitions, 
reprint  of  the  same  edition.  Seventy  eight  "'cha- 
racters" appear  in  this,  as  against,  tifty-four  in 
the  first  eaition,  which  bears  date  lti2S.  Karln's 
■  Microcosmographie,'  it  may  be  nieutioued,  was 
translated  into  French— no  common  fate  at  Uiat 
time  for  an  Eneliah  book— so  early  an  1(379  under 
the  title  of '  Lo  Vice  ridicule  el  la  Verlu  loute.' 

A  greeting  is  merited  by  the  book  for  its  ova 
sake,  as  introducing  to  general  notice  one  of  the 
most  characteristic  works  of  early  Sttiart  limej. 
No  less  welcome  is  it  as  proof  of  the  resolution  of  a 
great  University  Press  to  l>e  known  as  prodocera 
of  t>eautiful  works.  No  long  time  can  elapee, 
taking  into  account  circumstances  and  eonditioua 
of  publication,  before  the  owner  of  tliese  duinly 
volumea  will  noiiil  to  them  witli  nride  ufion  hi« 
shelves,  and  their  possession  will  ot  disputed  in 
the  sale-rooms. 

Great  Mcfitem.    Part  XII.    (Hetnemann.) 
AsoTHKB  part  of  HJreat  Masters'  n-^  —  '-^'-—  {}» 
high  level,  Dotli  as  regards  selection  k.  oti. 

that  places  the  work  foremost  anion;;  \rt 

f publications.  A  dozen  consecutive  parts  ealablisb 
low  thoroughly  representative  of  the  great  K*)Ierie« 
of  Europe  the  completed  work  will  be,  and  how 
artistic,  when  com))cteutly  exercised,  are  those 
processes  at  which  at  the  outset  we  were  dispo^e^i 
to  cavil.  First  of  the  four  plates  constitut- 
ing the  number  cornea  Reynnlda's  'The  DuehfeM 
of  Devonshire  and  her  Baby,'  from  the  Duke  of 


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n      ti 

w 


Devonshire's  collection,  a  replica  exiatin^  at  Wind- 
sor Co8tle.  Far  away  the  most  popular  it  this  of 
many  picture*  of  the  then  celebrated  lady  from  the 
bruBt)  of  the  sane  ^reat  artist,  and  it  also  repre- 
lenta  the  supreme  accomplisliment  in  portraiture 
■«f  the  English  School  of  the  eighteenth  century. 
Quite  deliKhlfuI  and  exquisitely  ea^y  and  natural 
is  the  mimic  action  of  the  child.  Wonderful  ia  the 
contrast  between  this  eeduclive  work  and  the  por- 
trait from  the  Berlin  Miifteum,  by  Albrecht  Diirer, 
_f  HieronymuB  Holzschuher,  which  Dr.  Bode  de- 
clares "the  ii«arl  of  all  Diirer's  viortraiis."  Con- 
cerning it  the  same  eminent  antnority  says  that 
"when  seen  close  it  has  all  the  delicacy  of  a  minia- 
ture, and  yet,  when  beheld  from  a  distance,  it  is 
none  the  less  broadly  elFective  and  (lowerful."  On 
the  technical  nualilies  of  the  workmaimhip,  making 
the  picture  unique  in  its  clow,  this  is  not  the  place 
to  comment.  'A  Fresh  Breeze,'  by  Jacob  van 
Ruijadael,  from  Lord  Northbrook's  collection,  is  a 
magnificent  seascape,  presenting  a  wildly  tumul- 
tuoiu  sea,  and  informed  by  the  very  siiirit  of  the 
wind.  From  the  National  Gallery,  London,  where  i  t 
constitutes  the  lunette  over  the  artist's  beAt  picture, 
designed  as  an  ttUari>ieoe  for  the  church  of  St.  Fredi- 
ano  ai  Lucca,  cornea  '  The  Deposition  '  of  Francesco 
Francia.  The  flesh  of  the  Christ  is  umrvellous.  and 
the  faces  of  the  women  are  beyond  praise.  Fran- 
cesco Francia,  Aurifex,  aa  he  described  hintself, 
died  in  1517.  and  this  work  has  all  the  qualities  of 
the  century  precedinB  his  death. 

Old  Mom  Siih..    By  Henry  Thomss  Croftoii.    <Maa- 

Chester,  'City  News'  Office.) 
This  is  a  reprint  of  papers  which  have  appeared  at 
intervals  in  the  MaHch(»fri-  Citi/  Xriri.  Ihoy  were 
well  worthy  of  being  reproduced  in  a  permanent 
form,  as  they  record  much  that  is  of  interest  coo- 
ceminR  men  and  thitips  when  Old  Moss  Side  was 
a  rural  \ilace,  with  neither  churches  nor  chaxiels, 
antl  did  not,  we  believe,  though  of  this  we  nro  not 
quite  certain,  possess  one  single  shop.  In  1M34  the 
district  had  progressed  so  far  a»  to  have  one  public- 
bouse.  Mr.  Crofton  deals  mainly  w-ith  modern 
tiroes.  There  are,  however,  many  notes  on  family 
history  which  will  be  of  service  to  the  genealrHfista 
of  the  future,  and  these,  wo  are  glad  to  say,  nave 
been  indexed  most  carefully. 

As  the  name  of  the  district  indicates,  the  greater 
part  of  its  surface  was  covered  with  peat,  and  as 
a  conie<|ue:nco  the  roads  were  in  a  vile  condition. 
About  seventy  yearn  ago  one  of  them,  known  as 
Withington  Read,  "  was  such  a  quaginiro  that  no 
cart  could  take  a  full  load  along  it."  Those  which 
carried  buy  and  straw  on  the  way  to  Mancliester 
had  to  be  accompanied  by  men  armed  with  *' plkels," 
whoso  function  it  was  to  hold  up  the  loaas  so  as 
to  hinder  the  corts  from  overturninj?. 

"The  writer  record?  a  curious  niece  of  folk-lore 
which  is  worthy  of  attention.  There  was  a  place 
called  Twenty  Pits,  which  look  its  name  from  many 
deep  pools.  These  were  probably  of  a  relatively 
modern  date,  as  thev  are  believed  to  have  been 
'11  getting  marl  for  agricultural 
>ndit  Were  in  a  secluded  spot, 
li.iiiiit  of  ducks — wild  ones,  we 
'u  ibeir  margins.  School- 
ickOiacks  there  in  summer, 
...;  rcon  in  winter.  As  these 
9,  It  is  not  surprising  that  from  time  to 
frowning  occurred,  and  that  the  place 
r«a  evil  came.    A  malicious  water-hag,  we 


dug  for  tH 
purpotc- 
id  had  i" 
ijine— n  til 
I  used  to  1 1 


are  told,  dwelt  there  whose  name  was  Jenny  Cirecn- 
teeth.  ^Jhe  was  in  the  habit  of  seizing  those  who 
came  too  near  her  abode  and  dragging  them  down 
into  its  depths,  and  as  a  matter  of  course  they  were 
seen  no  more.  We  seem  here  to  have  a  tale  much 
older  than  these  ponds— if,  indeed,  they  wero 
modern  marl-pits.  Probably  it  is  a  case  of  trans- 
ference from  some  demon-haunted  mere. 

Honemaru  ami  Pa/niits.   By  Bertram  Dobell.    (Pub- 
lished by  tlie  Author.) 
AltiidTH;!!  we  have  a  rule  not  to  review  books  of 
modern  verse,  we  feel  we  must  turn  aside  to  notice 
this  little  collection  by  an  old  friend    who    has 
already  rendered  good  service  to  literature  by  hia 
'SSidehghta  on  Charles  I^mb'and  li is  rediscovery, 
after   two   hundred   anil    fifty  years,   of    the   poet 
Traherne.    These  recreations  of  Mr.  Dobell  are  pat 
forward  with  such  modesty  as  to  disarm  criticism. 
In  his  dedication  to  Arthur  H.  Bullen  ho  says : — 
I  thought,  old  friend,  a  better  gift  to  bring 
Than  this  jKior  garland,  rather  weeds  than  flowers^ 
Not  the  rich  product  of  calm  leisured  hours, 
But  such  as  I  from  toil  anti  haste  could  wring. 
The  poems  include  one  'To.J.  W.  K*    The  initials- 
will  be  recognized  by  lovers  of  old  ballads.    There 
is  one,  '  A  Song  of  Yearning,'  three  verses  of  whicb 
we  quote  :— 

Our  eyea  are  dim  with  watching  for  the  dawning  of 

the  day. 
The  yearned-for  day  that's  coming  when  our  grief» 

shall  melt  nway : 
Oh  !  shall  we  never,  never,  of  that  dawn  perceive  at 

ray? 

Must  we  ever  wait  in  vain? 

Might  we  but  live  to  aeo  the  day  when  ancient 

wrong  departs. 
And  man  no  more  contends  with  man  save  in  the 

peaceful  arts ! 
Oh  what  a  thrill  of  love  and  joy  would  glad  our 

wearied  hearts 

On  such  a  blessed  dawu  ! 

It  is  a  dawn  we'll  hope  for  still,  ev'n  though  we- 

hope  in  vain  : 
We  will  not  think  the  world  was  made  for  naught 

but  care  and  i>ain  ; 
We'll  still  believe  we  shall  at  lost  a  (iolden  Age 

attain, 

And  every  dawn  bo  blessed  ! 
Mr.  Dobell  ia  right  in  the  ho)M)  ho  expresses  that, 
whether  the  verse  "attracts  or  repels,"  there  is- 
much  in  this  little  volume  "  that  will  to  some  kind. 
hearts  tlio  bard  endear." 

Jttnt  Chritil  Oiire.  launartii    TMlameulu   Berria, 

(Trinitarian  Bible  Society.) 
Wk  understand  these  mysterious  words  on  the 
title-page  of  this  little  volume  to  announce  it  as 
being  a  Basque  version  of  the  New  Testament. 
Hovelacque  tell.t  us  that  the  Spaniards  have  a  atury 
that  the  Devil  spent  seven  long  years  among  Ihu 
Basques  without  succeeding  in  understanding  a 
single  won!  of  their  language.  A»  wo  have  not  even 
served  the  ajiprenticeship  of  the  Kvil  One,  wo 
may  be  pardoned  if  we  shrink  from  discussing 
the  merits  of  this  translation,  made  originally  by 
John  Leizarraga  in  1571  ;  but  as  it  has  had  the 
advantage  of  having  been  revised  by  Mr.  £.  S. 
DodgsoD,  w*  have  every  cooSdeoce  that  it  ia  tnut- 
wortny. 


320 


>TES  I^  QiTErIES. 


Lrtiu.  10,  IfXH. 


7Vi«  Biniingtoii  Magaiiiu.  No.  XIII. 
l!<  tlie  current  number  of  the  Biirlin\flon  Maifa^'mt 
apiieiirs  the  first  part  uf  '  Cjinnieiita,'  liy  Julia 
Carlwri^lit,  ujiori  the  drawioKS  of  J.  F.  Nlillet  in 
tht  oolleclioii  of  Mr.  James  .SLaats  Forbes,  which, 
unfortunately,  that  eniiaent  collector,  now  defunct, 
will  l>e  uniibla  to  see.  Amouu  them  are  many  studies 
for  '  TIao  Gleaner*.'  Mr.  Liouel  Cust  genda  the 
firat  of  a  seriea  of  papera  on  '  Princo  Albert 
as  an  Art  Collector.'  The  Bine  Porcelain  in 
the  i'owBession  of  Sir  William  Honnett'  sup|>lie.s 
Eoino  excellent  coloured  illuaLrAtiona.  Clayderi 
Ho\j?e,  the  sejit  of  the  \'ernoys,  ia  w«ll  illustrated. 
Etchings  of  l<«nibrandl  in  the  Dutuit  (Jollection 
are  also  reproduced  The  frontispiece  to  the  num- 
ber, not  being  a&tisfaotory  in  all  oojiiea,  is  being 
reprinted. 

Yovlrihirc  Xott.'*  and  Queries,  edited  by  Dr- 
<Jharle«  L.  Fomhaw,  has  to  be  added  to  the  long 
\\t,t  of  our  descendants.  It  is  issued  in  Uradfurd, 
and  cnntikins  much  matter  of  Dioment  to  Yorkshire 
untiqutiries. 

Sthikisi:  proof  how  interest  in  the  drama 
\\A»  revived  during;  recent  years  is  shown  in  the 
«|)nco  ast^iened  to  it  in  reviews  and  magazines.  In 
the  For/iiii/htly,  in  addition  to  a  third  list  of  tin- 
natures  "in  support  of  a  movement  to  ameliorate 
the  Itritish  Stage" — which  includes,  among  others, 
that  of  Mr.  Swinburne  —  Idlers  concerning  the 
theme  are  ))ubliKhod  from  Mary  Anderson  (Madame 
■du  Navarro)  and  from  Mrs.  Craigie.  With  what 
the  latter  says  we  find  ourselven  in  full  ac^cord, 
especially  when  she  asks  for  a  list  of  the  instructors. 
Miss  Bateman  also  furnishes  a  rhapsody  cou- 
cerning  the  new  play  of  (Jahriele  I/Annunzio.— In 
the  XinelttiUh  Ueiittiri/  the  staite,  as  such,  has 
nu  place,  but  there  is  an  essay  by  Mr.  De 
<Jourcr  LafTun  on  '/Eichylus  and  Shakespeare.' 
Mr.  Reginald  .1  Farrer  givea  a  faithful  study  of 
*The  Geisha,'  and  shows  how  closely,  in  her 
tnost  exalted  aspects  as  in  the  more  debased,  the 
outcome  of  connexion  with  Kuro^iean  B0-calle<l 
v'ivilixation,  the  Geisha  corre8|>onds  with  the 
Hetaira  of  Athens.  In  relation  to  this  subject  & 
striking  picture  is  afforded  of  tlie  status  of  the 
Japanese  wife.  (Jtiier  articles  of  interest  are  Mr, 
Frederick  Weilniore's  'The  Place  of  Whistler' 
and  Prof.  Giles  «  'in  Chin&se  Dreamland.'— In  the 
Pall  AfaJl  a  close  .itudy  of  Mr.  Boerbohtn  Tree  is 
given  under  the  title,  ap|iropriate,  if  such  ever  was, 
of  'Master  ^\'orker8.'  A  jwrtion  of  the  observa- 
tions upon  Mr.  Tree  are  drawn  from  an  interview. 
It  is  interesting,  in  viow  of  Mr.  Tree's  present 
undertakings,  to  find  that  he  thinks  that  in  its 
cfi.sent'o  acting  cannot  be  taught.  Mr.  Archer's 
*  Real  Conversations'  diminish  in  iiitercBt  as  they 
CKcede  from  the  drama,  and  what  ho  and  Mr 
Norman,  M.P.,  liave  to  say  concerninjr  aiotoriug 
iiOM  no  strong  appeal  to  the  world  Mr.  Areiier 
ordinarily  addresses.— .'J<"»-»7>«<!r''*  has  a  paper  on 
'  Playgaiug  in  London.'  whioh  ia  accumte  iu  obser- 
vation, but  of  no  special  signiticuuce.  At  auy  rate, 
what  is  said  is  .siilKniently  eulogistic.  Mrs.  George 
Bancroft's  deevWy  interesting  letters  arc  concluded, 
nud  will  shortly  l>e  issued  in  a  seiiarate  form.  They 
.iro  rcadul)le  and  valuable  in  thctuselves,  and  the 
illustrations  add  greatly  to  their  claims. --To  tbc 
■Cornhilt  Mr.  Freiltrif  Harrisfju  contributes  an 
estimutc  of  Sir  '  iien,  which  is  discrimi- 

nating a*  well  n  Mr.  Lang's  p«i>er  on 

'  Ti;tf  iStronge  Cabu  ...  ,.^.,d  Duogloe  Home'  ia  tw 


'  ""    to  figure  aiuonij  'Historic 
I  ate,  we  find  it  leu  int«r««tU 
I..  ..^..  .w.  ....  ...i..,.ug  than  previous  coatdb«i 

under  similar  headings.     Mr.  .Vlex.    lun««  HI 

gives  "1  a  peep  behind  th>^-   'f'unf,  for  whic 
nave  '■  i  T  gt 

inau'  .  codB 

of    lllL   .. .:. ;,     ..,,,,.,....i,S      _„._ 

Unread,    a   goo<i    papur  witii  a  suggentivo    titlo^ 

'  Prescott    the    Man'    and     'Tlii-odor     Mnmm^rri'1 

repay  study.    Among  '  Ti 

somewhat  arrogantly  so  . 

Marriott- Watson. — Mr.    i__       _         „, 

iiaUliuiaiCs  deals  wilii  * 'J  ho  Ikid^e.      Lude 

title '  A  Curiosity  of  Literature "  Air.  Hfvrton 

writ«s  concsrning  James  Merry  and  T!  i 

and  others  of  the  Anna  Matilda  c.i 

school. —  ' Feathered    Foragers'   iu 

cxcfillent,  as  is  'Iu  Arcady.      Into  *  At  llie  hign  of 

the   Ship'  Mr.  Lang  admits  a   tribnt*  to  C^onj 

Ainger  other  than  his  own. 


I  Mr.  Fuowiik  ia  about  to  jiubluh.  under  tboj 
auspices  of  the  Hoyal  Society  of  Literature,  *  Qa«e:i 
Kli/nbath  and  the  l.*vanf  fnmpunv,'  whifh 
out  the  det.ails  '•■'  ■     ■  -  -^ 

iiicideni.  in  the  •  i. 

with    Constantii)'  [u  .!„..    wm 

include  twentv-siK  fiic*imilt.-  tUustLraliuna,  has  ba^ 
edited  by  the  Rev.  H.  G.  Kosedale,  D.D. 


I^rolkts  to  Corrft;|rottbentt. 

Wt  iniiM  call  aptcial  atUnlion  to  tht  foUovtiug 
noiiccd  :— 

Un  all  communications  must  be  written  the  n&l>i« 
and  address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  pub 
lication,  but  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

We  cannot  undertake  to  answer  ipieries  privately. 

To  secure  insertion  of  communications  corre- 
spondents  must  observe  the  fMlowiug  rules.  Lei 
each  note,  query,  or  r  i  itten  on  a  sepanste 

slip  of  paper,  with  ii  of  tho  writer  and 

suchaddress  as  he  wii-i,  .  .  ^  ,  '...ir.  \\  in-.i  nuKHer- 
ing  queries,  or  making  uoie^  hilIi  ieg.>  ..>as 

entries  in  the  paper,  com ritni tors  ai.  .\  lo 

put  iu  parentheses,  immcdiiitelv  fttu-r  Um  exact 
heading,  tho  aeries,  volume,  and  page  or  page«  to 
which  they  refer.  Correspondents  who  roiicat 
queries  are  requested  to  he«d  the  second  oon- 
munication  "  Duplicate." 

E.  L.  ("Peacocks'  Feathers  Unlucky").  — Dfa- 
ouMod  at  great  length,  K"-  S,  iv.,  v.,  ix.,  x.,  xi. 

W.  E.  Hahl\nd-0\j.kv.— Proof  of  Quoeu'BWcal- 

niinsters  shortly. 

R.  S.  ('  Reminiscences  of  Thnn  '  ■  '  r  V,i;{'J. 
--Ma«7  Ann  Kelly,  for  m  hoin  s-  ,,g.'' 

R.  A.  B.  ("  1  shall  pass  throu^..  — 

See  aitif,  pp.  '247,  316. 

AOT/CK. 

Editorial  communications  should  ^  .^4 

to  "The  Editor  of  'Notes  and  Qucri  cr- 

tiaementa  and  Business  Letters  to  "  tntr  i'ut>- 
lisher"— at  the  Offico,  Bream's  Buildings.  C}hauc«ry 
Lane,  E.C. 

We  beg  leave  to  st«te  that  we  deulina  to  re  Mm 
communicatious  which,  for  any  re««on,  vto  do  not 
print ;  and  to  this  rule  we  can  make  oo  ezoepti«B. 


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In  ibe  former  a*  for  inttruotioo  ;  In  the  latier  for  u 
Mr.  Pollard  thinks  tbit  dittinctlon  rettt  .-:   -." 
fonndatioQ  of  (act.    In  any  oaae— deapUr- 
qualotuetsof  tbe  early  Qerman  eata,  and 
of  many  of  tbe  Dat^b,  he  thinks  tbe  pialm  muti  D«riAin)y1 
given  to  the  Itallant. 

SLEEMAN  (Major-General  Sir  W.  H.X 

RAMBLES    and     BKCOLLECTION'^ 
INDIAN  OKFICIAL  (including  th- 
Journey  from  the  Ban  Its  of  tiie  Ner! 
the  Uinimnlayos,  1835-3G), edited  by  VINCK.N  i 
SMITH,   with  Memoir,   Notes,   Index,  and 
Bibliography,  2  Tols.  12mo,  cloth.  1893  (pa 
I2t.)  4«J 

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complex  population  of  India,  of  int*:-rr»t  n' 
login,  antiquary,  mittlonary, 
Col.  Sluemaa  annihilated  tb 

polsonera  aud  Indian  police  lir     .  _ 

In  this  work.     He  gives  hit  tn.^ri""''"  "f  f«nihi>-r»  and 
authentic  klatory  of  tbe  Celebrated  Koblaoor  dlamood. 


TAVERNIER  (J.  B.).— TRAVELS 

INDIA,  Traoglated  from  tb  -    r^  •     -       •    i 

with  BioRraphical  Sketch,  " 

kc,    Facsimile    Portraits,     :....,    jl.»,.. 

Plates,  2  Tols.  8ve,  clotb,  138U  (pub.  i2t.] 

10». 
The  author  travelled  to  the  Oottrt  of  Aunangr 
thenofl  to  Allahabad.  Bonarea,  Patna.  and  Oao<:-> 
vltltcd  tbo  Nawab  of    P^'i  •>!.  ■"    i-w, 
deacriptlons    of    Uje     r 
chsptera  on  tbe  Curren. 
M'jileof  Travellloi;     '<. 
aud  how  be  was  '  ". 
and      Political      i 
Ureat  Mognl,  m\i.u    . 
and  Merobanillae :    MnilimU  i 
Company  in  the  Batt  ludiet  : 
Minea.    Pearl    Ki«h^ri. .     .lm.i 
Btoaes,  Coral,  Ai    ' 
Stones;  Concern r 

the   Idolatira    of    !...:...,     ;    ,..^      .- 
and  from  Batavia  U>  St.  Helena  i>nrl  Hnllsoil.     Amnng 


«<J.1 


igur 
other  dlamundsand  gnma. 


MISCELLANEOUS  CATALOGUE  OF  RARE  AND  VALUABL] 
BOOKS.  No.  271,  just  issued. 

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ri^HB         EDINBDRGH        KBVIKW. 

X  Vo  lOi.  AFHIL,  IMt.  ITD,pc1c*«<. 

1   PASf  mRBMTIAt  UUTIBS  Ud  OOLO*'IAI.  THABB. 

;   -nt  WUMBN  o(  the  RMAtMANCl. 

J.  Tlta  HOBU  la  WAS  aat  rBAOI. 

4.  mc  PHILOSOPHY  af  HRHBKBT  BTIIKCKB. 

t.  MK.  MUaLBT'S  •  LII'8  sf  QU^MrrUMB.' 

«.  TlM  LBTTBMa  ol  BRNST  CfHTtl-S 

;.  Tba  LnTBRB  0(  UOltACB  WALroLB. 

».  ThI  HDUC&TIOll  ACT  U  Iba  0OVMT1B8. 

a  8I&  OIOKOB  THBTBLTAM  oa  th«  AUBUICAM  HSroLVTlOll. 
M  The  CUHFIJCT  la  tba  PAR  XA8T. 
II.  IDBiiLR  «ad  URAUTIM  ta  IRBLXKO. 
fi.  FRBB  THADB  asd  the  POSITIOH  ol  FAlLTtBS. 

bDHOItAMi,  OUBBN  A  CO  ,  Ml  Pataraoater  SAW,  Loa4oai 
Hew  Yora,  aad  Ilaoibar. 

'I^HB      BNGLIRH       HISTORICAL      RBVIEW. 

X  lUUtMlbf  KKUINALII  L   PODLB.  U.A.Pb.U. 

Vtlltnr  of  lUii<fal*n  collec*  and  Lactarar  In  DlplomaMe  la  Iba 
I'BlTcnlir  ol  Oxtetd. 

AFBIL,  loM.    friee  in. 

The   EARLY    NOHMAK    CASTLBg   ol   BMOLAHD.     R;  Un.  B. 
Armltava.    Fart  I. 

CLAaBNnoN'ii   -HirroHY   oi  a»  krbbluom.    b;  c.  b. 

Ptnh.  LL.D.    Part  11.  Tfea  -Ufa ' ot  HlaiMtt. 
LORU  WILLIAM  BKNTIMCK  aad  MUBAT.     By  IL  M- 'ekutan. 
yaittami  DiKUmeKlf. 

aVLVNO  ud  HCDB.    Br  Prof.  Vlaagradoff,  D.C.L. 

Tba    DATS    ol    Ibe     CUM DjlinoN    of     WtLUAU    ol    »BW 

BVHOH'S  UISTUKy.     Iljr  Mlu  Morimta. 
LBTTBRS  ot  JAMBS  IWNNBLL.    nj  C.  LICtna  Falktaar.  Pan  11. 
LBTTBBO    ot    the  FIRST    LORD    OB.KNBr    M'UIMO    iCARL- 

B0BOUOH'«  CAMrAIOMS.    Uf  H.  U.  E.  CraaUr. 
AatMban. 
JlMMnoTBaaU. 
K9tim»^Ptriodtcal  PuUuvUtnt. 

LoMOttAMB,  Oanm  *  CO.  M.  Patamoater  Boir,  London  , 
Itew   Turk,  aad  Bomtaf. 

TllUiU  KDmoM,  Hrrlwd  Ut  IMH.  fcap.  8ro.  rlotb.  prlM  BIzpaaca. 

ASTRONOMY       for       the       YOUNG. 
Br  W.  T    LYM*.  K.A.  r  R.A  B. 
BAUPfSON  LOW.  MAHBTON  A  CO  .  LmmD, 
HI  UaBilma  alloute,  Fett«r  Lane,  RC. 

NOW  RRADY,  THIRD  RniTKlN.  UBTIHBII   aad    BKLAROBU 

THB  PKNNY  CHRONOLOGY:  a  Series  of 
Iniponaal  liaui  In  Itaa  Hlatorr  of  the  World  troa  like  RelcB  ot 
Harid  to  lAa  FraNBiTlme.  Third  BdlUoa.  l<r  W.  T.  LYNN.  H.k. 
P.K.Aft 

SAMPftUN  LOW  A  00    Si.  llauMao'i  Hoaw.  Fetur  Laa«,  B  C 

a 'HE     AUTHOR'S    H  AIRLESS    PAPBR-PAD. 
(The  LRAtlKNHALL  fUBBH  IM  .  PublUhennad  PriBUra, 
K.  Laadeahall Street.  I.ondoa.  BO  ) 
Ooalalat   hatrlau    paper,  over  wnlcb  Ihi    pea   allpe  with  parfeat 
freedom.    fil«p*nca  Aach.    &<  per  daien.  ruled  er  plain.    New  Voehet 
Blae.  S*.  pf>r^n]i4-a,  rtilsd  or  plain 

ABthor*  Ahould  rota  That  The  l^aiLeoball  I'me,  Ltd  ,  oaaoot  be 
eaepoaalbla  tor  the  loia  of  MN8.  bf  dre  or  otbetwiae.  UapUcota  coptea 
alioa'd  be  tetAined. 

STICK  TH AST  PASTB  in  milet  better  than  Gnm 
for  itiiiiLiar  in  arraiH,  ]oiai«(  Papere,  Ac.  M,AI,andl>  with 
atronf ,  uaefoJ  Hraab  <  not  a  tort.  Head  two  atanpa  to  eover  pnauiffe 
lore  aampla  Huttif  Incloillnr  Hraah  Kactorrr  Surer  Lo^  Coart, 
Leadeaball  aiiraet.  ItC.    u(  all  auiiancfe     ttlakphaat  Paataiueaa. 


ATHBN^UM  PRESS.— JOHN  EDWARD 
PRANCU  Priaiar  ot  Wie  dl*<««iw>.  W****  <m4  <imnti.  At  .  ti 
praparM  to  dl'HMIT  BBTIMATB*  lor  all  (lade  or  »MOK.  NBWl, 
•ad  PBHIOPICAL  PHIKTIMU.-U,  Breaai'e  nnUdJafa,  Obaaaerr 
Laaa,  m.C. 


^T0TB8  AXC  QlTEKIlta. 
'     toUOTl" 
or  Ki.  M-  tor  I 
PRAMOIB.  Kiit 


The  SUBSCRlPnOH 

■  ~  laAaa  ^lOIUI  C^ 
t;n  .ChaAMrt  l«aa 


Eriauic*  and  yaluatit€  Ltbram  of  Seantmic,  Hiitorical,  uU 
Geiural  LiUratutt  (lAd  Pnptrty  of  a  CrK£r<rm.xn) , 

ME88R8.    HODGSON    A    CO.    wiM       T' 
AVCTIOR.    at    Ihelr    Raeme.    US,    Cbar. 
oa  MUMPAT.  M<T  7    aad    Fo«r  F»|io«l>f   DaT»    .  .    >. 

abOTa  VAI.lt  I T'.t.  eoaiprlaiac  a  ramara^oir  mteneiMi 

CaUaetloa  of  '  r«4a  aad  Oaiiaana.  Floanaa,  — fBMiL  i 

Haakiat  i ate  t  (iiiaaa aad  Bselaa, Taiaa. IM  Pm^bMi 

BAaar  other  Hn-  :'.\a\  XcoDomr.  iBclailFnf  the  Writlac*  af 

Wfeaalor,  Man.  Mil;ni  Vini.'.  >      '      k^  •    ■        i>^    ,,.... 

laa  IMt  ol  tba  Uoral  Btatlit 
M  TOla-hairnlf-Tbe  BcoonT 

Trade  ABettacce,  Ac.,  M  lola      i  ,-  -  .     , 

la  Anerlea.  Canada,  the  Baal  aad  Wcet  UuUct,  Ac  FLin(ihi«t«  ua  llia 
•oBtb  Pea  aad  B<ou  Dartaa  Bebaaeea  Old  iiooLi  on  GaMlaiBli«. 
AcTlcnItare.  Hlalac,  Ae  -a  IBM*  OalleeMMi  of  n<v<ki  on  •\»\m.vy  - 
Woni»  relation  w  XfoH".!   ,..«  ir-i«f<.i  -  ".-^    u.-,.i,„    ..<    r,_.. — 

Corrat    MlltilB    nowe: 

chl«(  HlXurlrsl  Rvc"^ 

8eTeniv«Dih     and     n  .         ■ 

renodlcali— Old   lllufrrair^i    maf»riiip«     nro».m.ni«    «r 

»iavi  a  •mail  tiutcbnuw  LTJULKt-l  lUN  of  IkiuAb  la  ul.: 

LITKH% Tl  KB.  kaflBdiB*  a  p»r(e<it  Copr  af  the  e(eeaair<>  ' 

Bdltlon  otCbapaan  •  Hotuer.  ItyCI 

OalAlocave  oa  ayplleaUas 

LIBRARIAN  to  the  SOCmRTV  ct  \\\u  {  kr.s  i,. 
HH  UAJB<«T1   ■ 

The  umea  at  LIBKAItlAN  t<v  th' 
MAJSn'T'S  aiONKT,   recunUr  bell  ...      .. 

LL  I)..  halBf  NOW  VACANT,  appiu^  luf    a.c<^,u„,«Bir<t 

br  cwantr-Bta  Oonlea  nf  Taatimon  >  <  a^a,  oa  at  bwlM* 

KAY  1  NIX r,(a  JOHN  M1I.I.I0A--  •  Alcaet,  tA  «M« 

Fiaoa,  Bdlnbarili,   Clerk    to  the    »"'  nhom  an;   nUIBv 

latonuatlOB  aiar  l>e  obtAlaad. 

March  a,  ISM. 


OWNERS  of  GENUINE    SPECIMF'^""      " 
BNOLIRH  FUKNITDKB.  OLD  PICTr«B»    ■ 
HILVBa.  Ax.,  who  daelra   to   UtSPOltB  ot  eanic 
iBTltodtoeeDdpartlealarateHAUPTON  A  tO.^^.  ;  ^  i_. 

are  alware  preparod  to  rl*e  liill  ralae  ter  laMraatlac  £iA!^pJ«<. 


OLD 

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From  John  ol  Oaaat  dolA  brtaa  hll  i* 

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for  Oeaaalo(tc*l  criiienraaln  BnilBBd,  Bcoclaad.  a»d  Irelaad. 
AbbraTlAtad  lAiin  iJocnment* Copied,  B(latid«d.  aad  Trantiatod. 


PoreUra  Heemtcliea  carrlad  out      Beqalrlaa  latlled     Ur. 
Pritatc  Cnllaotlnna  are  worth  conaaltlev  tor  Ulnea 

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CONTENTS.-No.  17. 

NOTRS  :-Sootob  Word*  and  BnslUb  CommetiUUin,  321— 
Sump  Collecting,  3 ?a-But«r  Day  by  th«  Julian  Keckon- 
Ing— Kenllih  EasUr  Cutloni,  334— Antiquary— Drake  In 
ICnxleo— Lliik«  wilb  Ibe  Puit-Soulh  African  War- 
IrTlna'a  '  HIttory  of  Seotlsh  Po«try,'  325  -  "  Ptta^'- 
OornUh— Putting  Heada  Together,  3a«  —  Lobiatuiine— 
Jobn  Bctoa.  3<l7. 

gUBBIB8:-"A  pajt"— Women  Voben-Blrda'  Bget, 337 
—"Wax  to  receive  "— Btrcb  Famlllea— Bllzal^rtb  and 
Foreign  Deooratione  —  Marriage  o(  Lord  Dunkeld— Napo- 
leooic  Coriipiracy  in  Bngtand — '  Die  and  be  Damned  ' — 
A.  QardPii.  M.D..  3i8-Sie(>-brOtber— W.  Gibbard— Wel- 
llngton'a  Konei-FetUplaee— Oollint— QoJden  Ball  Reel*- 
t«r— Lamont  Harp— Sun  andlta  Orbit— Wllkle'i  JoarDal- 
Be»d»-Her«1dry.  3M. 

BVPLIB3  :— ••  Smallage,"  3%)-Shitke«peare'a  Grave-Foot- 
ball on  Sbrove  Taeaday— 'B<1«ln  DrcKhl  '  continued,  SSI 
-Smottaering  Hydrunhoblc  Palienta  — Hell,  Hraven,  and 
PantdiM — Oo«a«  de  Bipana,  333 -Snake-lore — Crouch  — 
Imaciriary  Salnta  —  Architecture,  333  —  ColUtwoId  — 
W.  Stephens—  Leche  Family  —  Melancholy  —  BpJlapbs  — 
Japaneae  Monkeya— Samuel  Haynea,  331— Copper  Coina 
— Cbarlea  Ihe  Bold  —  Qerman  Quotation— Wreck  of  the 
Wager— "  MuBllar"  ;  "  Muakyll  "— "  Blenial  feminine," 
338 -W.  Miller.  Knsraver- Otielaea  Phyalc  Garden— Im- 
mortality of  Anlmala— Herondaa — Bngravinga  —  Pope  and 
German  Literature  —  Dean's  Yard.  Wealrolnater.  336  — 
Tbompaon  Cooper— Uaburia  —  "  Anon  "  —  Irlah  Bjacuia- 
tory  Prayers- Nine  Parts  of  Speech- "To  mug."  3:<; 
— '  Recommended  to  Mercy '—Batrome-KaJBht  Templar 
—  "  First  catcb  your  bare  "  —  Ucraldlc  Ueterence  In 
8b*k««peart— First  Bdllon  of  Honce,  338. 

ROTBS  OR  ROOKS:— 'New  BnKlisb  Dictfonary'— D«  Ia 
Jtore  Beprinta-Gay'a  'Old  Falmoutb  '— Tburaton'a  '  Lent 
and  Holy  Week  '  —  Atchley*!  '  Parlih  Clerk '  —  ■  Inter- 
mWiaire'-' Folklore.' 


SC50TCH    WORDS   AND   ENGUSH 

COMMENTATORS. 

(See  aiUt,  p.  261.) 

Tub  iuterestiug  communication  under  this 
bearliug  remiixlB  me  that  Burns  is  not  the 
only  sufferer  in  this  way.  Last  year  a  school 
edition  of  Scott's  'Rob  Roy'  was  issued  by  a 
well-known  London  Brm,  originally  hailing 
from  Edinburgh.  The  notes  abundantly 
prove  how  hard  it  is  foran  ordinary  English- 
man to  avoid  blunders  in  explaining  Scotch 
words,  phrases,  and  allusions.  An  exhaustive 
list  01  omissions  and  of  erroneous  or  mis- 
leading annotations  would  fill  several  pages 
and  tire  every  rearJer's  patience,  but  perhaps 
space  may  be  found  for  a  few  of  these. 

Names  of  dishes  of  food  are  often  difficult 
to  explain,  and  we  cannot  congratulate  thu 
editor  on  interpreting  "crowdy"  as  "thick 
pottage  made  of  oatmeal,"  or  "  reisted 
haddock  "  as  "  roasted."  It  was  a  "  smoked  " 
liadduck  that  the  Bailie  promised  Frank, 
which  might,  of  course,  be  roasted.  Again, 
*'  bag  puddings  "  are  simply  "  puddings 
boilefl  in  a  bag  or  cloth,"  but  our  editor  must 
say  "puddings  encased  in  pastry,"  Nor  is  he 
imppier  in    stating  that   "  MacCullum  [<ic] 


More"  is  "the  Scotch  title  of  the  Duke  of 
Argyle."  He  is  also  inconsistent.  On  one 
page  "take  the  bent"  is  correctly  given  as 
"  take  to  flight,"  while  on  another  "  taeo  the 
bent"  is  incorrectly  explained  as  "creased 
the  slope."  One  would  imagine  "ayont"  ^ 
be  well  known  as  equivalent  U)  "  heyond," 
yet  we  are  told  it  means  "  beside "  in 
*'the  auld  wife  ayont  the  fire."  »Scott  uses 
"penny-fee," as  Burns  does  in  'The  (Jotter's 
Saturday  Night,'  to  mean  •'  wages,"  but  our 
editor  has  mixed  it  up  with  "  arles,"  and  says 
"  the  amount  paid  to  a  servant  when  hirea." 
The  word  "mint"  is  not  uncommon  in  the 
sense  of  "aim,  purpose,  threaten,"  but  here  it 
is  wrongly  explained  as  "  make,  pronouDCC." 
When  such  simple  words  are  misunderstood 
we  need  not  be  surprised  that  when  real  diffi- 
culties crop  up,  the  editor  takes  fuUad  vantage 
of  them.  There  is  a  peculiar  use  of  "  set  up  " 
in  several  Scotch  phrases,  where  the  locution 
expresses  contempt  for  one  who  is  too  pre- 
tentious or  puts  on  airs  of  distinction.  Scotfc 
has  it  twice  in  *  Rob  Roy,'  and  twice  our  editor 
stumbles,  in  explaining  "Set  him  up  and  lay 
him  down  !"  as  "taking  him  all  round," and 
"Set  up  their  nashgaM  !"  as  "begun  their 
insolent  talk."  In  both  cases  he  ignores  the 
mark  of  exclamation,  and  does  not  see  that 
the  verb  is  imperative.  The  Bailie  says 
in  regard  to  the  ability  of  the  members  of 
Gltisgow  University  to  speak  Greek  and 
Latin,  "they  got  plenty  o  siller  for  doing 
deil  haetelse."  All  tnatour  editor  does  istoex- 

6 lain  "  haet "  as  "  smallest  thing  conceivable." 
[ow  can  this  be  dovetailed  into  the  original 
so  as  to  give  sense  7  "  Haet "  is  "  hae  it," 
i.e.,  "have  it"j  and  so  "deil  haet  else"  is 
"devil  another  thing" — a  strong  negation. 

Neither  is  our  editor  at  home  in  Scotch 
history.  One  of  the  losses  enumerated 
by  Andrew  Fairservice  as  resulting  from 
the  Union  of  1707  is  that  of  "the  riding 
o"  the  Scots  Parliament-"  The  only  expla- 
nation given  is  "  proclaiming  the  Parlia- 
ment open."  As  a  matter  of  fact  there  was 
a  picturesque  procession  on  horseback,  a  faint 
shadow  of  which  appears  in  Edinburgli  every 
May,  when  the  Royal  Commissioner  rides  in 
state  from  Holynxxl  to  open  the  General 
Assembly  of  the  Church  of  Scotland.  Rob 
Hoy's  exploits,  says  the  Bailie,  are  such  as 
might  bo  told  "owerat  the  winter-ingle  in 
the  daft  days,"  and  all  the  illumination 
granted  us  is  that  "daft  days  "means  "merry 
tiroes."  True,  but  in  old  Scotland  the  term 
"  daft  days  "connoted  the  Christmas  holidays, 
as  any  one  may  discover  from  Robert  Fer- 
gUBSon's  poem  on  the  subject.      Lev.  v»RiSJo.wt 


322 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.      [io*8.l  Arm,. 23,11 


the  "curate  linking  awa'  at  it  in  his  whito 
sark,"  only  the  la^t  word  of  which  is  ex- 
plained. But  .surely  "linking"  requires 
interpretation,  and  evidently  8cotb  had  in 
0  his  mind  three  linfi-s  from  the  rlescription  of 
the  witches'  dance  in  'Tam  0'  Shanter':— 

Till  ilka  carlin  swat  and  reekit. 
And  coost  her  duddies  to  the  wark, 
And  linket  at  il  in  her  sark. 

The  origin  of  "true-blue"  as  an  epithet  of 
Presbyterian,  with  the  meaning  of  "staunch," 
is  unknown  to  our  editor,  for  hia  note  is, 
"  blue  was  the  royal  colour."  If  the  history 
of  Scotland  in  the  seventeenth  century  is  a 
sealed  book  to  him,  surely  he  knows  that 
Scott  writes,  "Blue  was  the  favourite  colour 
of  the  Covenanters  ;  hence  the  vulgar  phrase 
of  a  true-blue  Whig"  ;  and  he  mu»t  reniember 
what   Butler    says    in    '  Hudibras ' :  —  "  His 

religion 'twas  Presbyterian  true-blue."   A 

familiar  Scotch  title  prefixed  to  the  Christian 
name  of  a  clergyman  was  "  Mess,"  as  in  '  Bob 
Hoy,'  "Mess  John  Quackleben."  Here  we 
tind  the  very  mysterious  explanation  of 
"muuter."  Did  the  annotator  write  "master," 
and  when  the  printer  turned  that  into 
"muster"  did  he  fail  to  see  anything  amiss] 
Several  other  misprints  seem  to  argue  the 
editor's  inability  to  know  whether  a  form  of 
Scotch  be  corrector  not.  Burns  calls  Satan 
"Clootie"  and  "Auld  ClootSj''  referring  to 
the  cloven  hoof,  and  "  hoof  *'  is  the  meaning 
of  "cloot'  in  Scott's  "if  they  lost  sae 
tuuckle  as  a  single  cloot,"  but  the  explanation 
KJven  is  "clout,  i-ag."  The  Devil  as  Old 
Clo'  ia  rich  !  In  the  song  of  '  John  Anderson ' 
we  find  : — 

Your  bonnie  brow  was  brent, 
where  " brent"  means  "smooth, unwrinkled," 
and  that  is  the  idea  in  the  lines  quoted  by  the 
Bailie ; — 

Brent  brow  and  lily  skin, 

A  loving  heart  ancl  a  leal  within, 

le  better  than  gowd  or  gentle  kin- 

But  our  annotator  says  "brent"  is  "burnt., 
i.e.,  sunburnt.'  I  will  add  only  one  more 
blunder— in  some  ways  the  most  ludicrous. 
Andrew  Fairservice  gave  his  lawyer  "four 
ankers  of  an  gude  brandy  as  was  e'er  coupit 
ower  craig,"  where  the  concluding  words 
mean  "  poured  down  the  throat."  On  the 
authority  of  this  annotator  we  are  asked  to 
understand  them  as  meaning  "  rolled  over  a 
steep  rock  or  precipice,"  which,  in  Andrew's 
eyes  at  least,  would  have  been  a  shameful 
waste  of  good  stuflF. 

And  this  editing  is  considered  good  enough 
for  schoolboys  and  for  Sir  Walter  Scott ! 

W.  M. 


STAMP  COLLECTING   AKIJ 
LITERATURE. 
(Sec  2~'  S.  ix.  482;  D*"  S.  x.  81, 172,  2a».S3S.  V&,'i 

WarTiNo  to  *N.  Jk  Q.'  in  Aogii  '    " 
mentioned   that  Judge  Suppant^i. 
Vienna,  claimed  to  have  unearthed  a  i  irtt  n 
to    collecting    in    the    Family    Heyald 
22  March,  1851.    1  find  that  the  referem 
in  an  advertisement  :— 

"PoBtBge   Stamps. — Tn  <-.ilinrfnf-« 
Poatapne  Stamps.     The  .^ 
chanRo) four  of  th«  Prnn 
off  the  Si  '  '• 

collect  il 
Srnilh's  1 

N.B.  TheCeiliuuol  UitjLibi, 
80,000  Postage  btatnpa,   in    >. 
admitted  to  Be  the  mowb  rxjvel  <  ciiiuj.;  t£ 
This  advertiser,  however,  obviou^l^ 
at  a  collection  in  the  philateli. 
a  mere  accumulation  of  used  d 

In  the  late  Mr.  J.  K.  Tiff  ' 
Library  '  (St.  Louis,  priva; 
p.  i»4,  m  tlie  entry  "Puti 
Stamp  Collecting.    ♦!.  Am 
1855.    Stamp  ('olloctiiu'  " 
risk  shows   that  Mr 
the  article  in  questio 
find  it,  or  even  an  A 
1855.    The  only  perioii 
I    can    trace    la    the 
edited  by  P.  P.  Deh.  i 
which  is  dated  1662. 

So  far,  then,  it  would  sr^iv 
contains   the  earliest    ]■  ' ■ 
philately.     As  nearly  r 
elapsed  since  its    :    : 
1860,  the  note  ma- 

"  r-   •     —  ,  - 

shov' 

pOHt  L, 

same  liiuu  ol4ti< 
that  at  that  liii 
on  the  whole, 
portable  ninsetn 
yet  I  have  seen 
for  Bale,  ■'  ■ 
plants,  &' 
lacaimilc  ' 
respecliv 
meet  wit! 
wh»i> 

its    ;.. 

soon 


p« 


lO*"  S.  I.  Apr 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


323 


••C.  .^    •        '         .  ■•     '  -     ^  -'    -    "  '    Bl«d  to 

exchni  (<.  L, 

^rboti  ■■■   alio  a 

ftllecliuti.       liio    irttUii'   Mill    tA\.huiigo,    kiul.    will 

»pt  no  reniitUincfi  boyond  iKvstagc  for  his  an«w«r<« 

I  en<niirie«."— August,  l)*)l. 

K.  l*L'nib«rt<in,  NVarslone  Houho,  ui'-*r  Uimiing- 
>ni,  woiilil  he  glad  to  effect  cxciianKOH  with  ■tanip 
ftlloctore  j>er  po«t."— 8epteinljer,  IHiJl. 

Thia  is  iuterostinp  an  beina  evidently  tlie 

|rst  appearance  of  Mr.  tkJwaru  L.  Poniberton 

>rii  1841.  ilie«I  li=*78),  tho  woll-known  writer 

pliilately.     An  '  In  Mmnoriain  '  notice  and 

>rtrait  nro  given  in  the  I'hilntdic  Rrcojil  for 

Tobruttry,  1879. 

Kdra  PrizA  for  .lanuary.— W«  hare  raoeiv«d 

r      ,  _   1.        .  : I .  ..i_     ..  ;>  .,_    ,.    


rliu  arc  dosuou*  ot  cxchai 
tiniw.     Ah  far  as  we  colli 

din;:  ^ -a...  ...  .... 

*ir  111 
»iir  II-." 

th  of  iHci-rubcr  ucxl.  sen 

ction  of  Furoien  PoataR' 

U  -.—  -I ■ 


■he 


iw  accompanied  by 

'•j;i. 


followioK  months  there  are  advertisemeDt*  of 
nriii  and  ununeil  foreign  stamps,  italicized  tut 
if  the»e  wcro  con'iidered  *peci«l)y  valuable. 

I  recently'  receive<"i  nnnw  int«irc8ting  re- 
nnnisci'nce^)  from  Mr.  Samuel  Allan  Taylor, 
Boston,  tilt*  clotfiii  of  American  philat«lic 
dealvTH  and  oditurif.  I  Rml  hi!saih'<''>'tiM'>ri<'ntJi 
in   the  /Soi/g  Omn  Mmjutine  for  11 

have  before  mo  vol.  i.  (t  ho  late  > '  > '« 

copj)  of  his  Stump  ('ollertnr*   /.'  mi 

at  Montreal  in  February,  1861,  aii'  .    At-d 

at  Albany  and  Ho4ton.  Koferring  lo  JuJko 
•SuppanlHchitHch'H  aupixxxxJ  discovery,  Mr. 
Taylor  writes  '.— 

"I  d(i  nor  tliink  «h«t  any  O^rman,  Frenchman, 

■in    Europ«an 

"  than*  nuilo 

if-mpla  to  dia- 

un^tiiitti;  t.-uii«}iu«d    willi  rtiilately  or  any* 

el»a    In     Kncrjiah    priiitFii    1it«i'aturo The 

ivirjirat  not '.  " '  '  ' .      \g  I 

have  evpi  vM, 

svliii  li  xUi  iho 

n  a 
ub- 


*mti:...- J 

ur.  IJtol. 

This  se^mn  to  ho  tli(»  ^l^^t  frjido  fl.flvrrliMC- 
jent.a.'J   >: 
lontli,  xi'i 

"  Foreign     Po«Uigo    CJtampa ;     Kxtra    I'hze 
ynntinrr.    -Th^r*  i*  nof  a  «h.i(l«  nf  <|oubt,  all  tlm 

1.  that  tho  \<  <  Ilia  priM  in  Mtilted 

■■  here  are  <r  very  Rood  ooUec- 1 

liu:   4>«lt   roll.  .-«hj.    l)in    fnllowiTitr 

tic«  :    »    I 


|h    n UTriu-f    tu     iiiMit    'oiiinnni    (■iir»ili' 
lor,  Tho  (.'olleKW,  (.*lic»tcr  (Prize).''  Ac  — 

A  U«t  of  twelve  subwcriben  follow*,  several 
of  llio  ii"MirsHC>i  iM-it),;  '-.•li'hilH.    Till-  tir> nil !>>«><] 


»r  B' 

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KIc. 
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I  lit'  £if»t  H'rivij  w  h<j  ?<--ld  •Umj"!  a?  a  bu<iDo«  waa 

a  man  naniMl  .laniM  RrcBoan,  who  openod  a  anialf 

r.Di,...  Ii>   vi<ri'  >tii>ll     t.t.'iri'  II. il    i.vrr   lllfrol    ciin  ro)  |( 

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ciiluiiin-;-  l;>  .Inly  ni.lvcrli.iCi.'j  uJIlt  lo  aend 
Vuit%,  an^J  .ji'cuil  ■Umpt— Modcna,  N*apl«\ 
— arv  metittoiied.    In  Septamb^and  the 


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coin  HMHr  aad  ami 
-titmiH.  batoaly  thro 
"•I vine  Asy  oiSoo,  bv  i 
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324 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.      ao*s.i.AFEiL  23.19c 


«nd  m&<leexch&ogw  in  stamp*  with  him,  bntshortty 
SittcT  left  New  York  and  went  to  Califomi*. 

"  I  waa  in  Montreal  from  1880  to  \8M.  I  had 
gathered  some  t«ii  ur  a  dozen  foreiKii  stamps  aa  far 
back  OS  1857-H,  France,  EoKland,  and  one  lOgr. 
Hanover:  but  1  never  saw  or  heard  of  any  collectors 
until  18(3'2,  when  I  chanced  to  see  the  collection 
<probably  forty  or  eo)  of  a  man  named  J.  A.  Nutter, 
and  I  made  exchanges  with  him  for  local  atampa, 
OS  I  (having  been  brought  up  in  New  York)  knew 
where  the  local  Btam]>s  or  posts  were.  I  left 
Canada  in  1964,  and  after  a  short  time  abandoned 
the  druiigiBt  business  and  came  to  Boston,  and  have 
been  here  ever  since.  J.  W,  Scott  1  never  heard 
■of  until  1867  :  the  previous  account  of  him  I  got 
from  W.  1*.  Brown.  Vou  can  de)iend  on  it  that  no 
otlier  dealer  was  earlier  than   James  Brennan  in 

1863 1  note  in  the  Philaielir  Journal  of  America 

for  March,  1885,  lieing  the  first  number  of  that 
naper,  the  statement  that  Dr.  Blaokie,  of  Nashville. 
Aaa  been  'collecting:  for  twenty-nine  years,'  but 
that  sort  of  talk  is  absurd.  Letteni  from  foreign 
countries  were  almost  invariably  paid  in  money 
and  were  stamped  paid  by  the  Postmaster.  Street 
letter-boxes  were  unknown  here,  at  any  rate,  and 
where  would  he  have  got  the  stanifts  in  If<56?  But 
the  egotism  of  the  average  stamp-collector  ia  some- 
thing very  awful My  earliest  commercial  rela- 
tions with  Great  Britain  were  with  F.  E.  Millar,  of 
Dalstou,  George  Prior,  of  Feuchurcli  Street,  London, 
C.  H.  Hill,  of  Argyll  Street  Glasgow,  and  H.  M. 
Lennox,  Newhall  Terrace,  Glasgow." 

At  9*^  S.  X.  83  I  quoted  tlio  sum  of  1,920^. 
paid  ia  1897  for  a  pair  (Id.  and  2d.)  of  *'  Post 
■Office  Mauritius"  a«  a  recorti  price ;  but  that 
record  was  broken  on  13  January  last,  when  an 
unused  copy  of  the  2d.  was  sold  by  Messrs. 
i'attick  <k  Sirapson  for  1,450/.  The  discovery 
of  tliis  specimen  in  a  collection  formed  in 
1864  by  Mr.  James  Bouar,  nowof  Hampstead, 
is  chronicled  in  the  London  Phil'Xtttist  for 
J  903,  pp.  269,  301]  1904,  p.  1. 

P.  J.  Andebson. 

University  Library,  Aberdeen. 


Easter  Day  by  the  Juuan  Reckonincj.— 
In  the  old  editions  of  the  Prayer  Book,  before 
t)ie  reforiuatiou  of  tlie  Calendar  in  England, 
a  table  is  given  "  to  find  Easter  for  ever." 
This  was  founded  on  the  notion  that  nineteen 
years  were  exactly  equal  to  235  lunations,  so 
that  at  the  end  of  eacli  period  of  nineteen 
years  (the  number  iu  wnich  is  called  the 
Golden  Number)  the  moon  will  be  at  the 
same  age  (aa  it  is  called),  or  distance  from 
conjunction  with  the  sun.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  235  lunations  exceed  nineteen  true 
tropical  years  by  about  two  hours,  and  fall 
short  of  nineteen  Julian  years  by  about  one 
and  a  half  bout's.  But  there  was  no  provision  i 
in  the  Julian  calendar  for  readjusting  tliia 
difference ;  and  a.s  that  calendar  is  still 
observed  in  tlie  Eaatern  Cliurch,  Easter— 
which,  with  us  and  all  Christian  nations 
which  have  accepted  the  reformed  Gregorian 


calendar,  is  always  within  a  week  of 
paschal  full  moon  (there  is  a  special  previa 
that  it  shall  not  be  on  the  day  of  it)— r 
falls,  in  Russia  and  Greece^  more  than  a  wi 
from  the  full  moon.  The  table  to  wh 
reference  has  been  made  gives  the  Sun( 
letters  in  a  horizontal  line  aljove,  and 
Golden  Numbers  in  a  vertical  line  on  the  I 
by  a  combination  of  which  the  date  of  Eai 
can  be  taken  out  at  sight.  It  seems  to  h 
been  forgotten  (I  have  before  me  the  edit 
of  1662)  to  note  that  leap  years  have  ( 
Sunday  letters,  the  first  applicable  to  Janu 
and  February.and  the  second  to  the  remain 
of  the  j^ear.  Thus  for  the  present  year  D  i 
C  are  the  Sunday  letters  ;  C  must  be  tal 
in  determining  Kaster,  and  as  the  Gol( 
Number  is  5,  Easter  Day  fell  by  the  Jul 
reckoning  on  28  March,  corresponding  to 
10  April  by  the  reformed  calendar,  and 
so  observed  in  the  Oriental  Church, 
week  after  our  Easter  and  eleven  dayg  afi 
the  paschal  full  moon.  W,  T.  Lymn; 

Blackboath. 

Kentish  Custom  on  Easteb  Day.  —  1 
following  cutting  is  from  the  Standard 
4  Auril,  in  reference  to  a  ouj^ttoni  al 
alluded  to  in  former  series  of  'N.  it  O,'  ; 
why  the  name  of  the  place  should  be  p4 
sistently  called  Biddenh&m,  and  not  BidJe 
den,  1  cannot  say.  The  former  place  is 
Bedfordshire,  the  latter  in  Kent,  about  Q. 
miles  from  Cran  brook  ;  — 

"The  village  of  Biddenham,  Kent,  was  crowi 
yesterday  with  visitors  from  the  adjoining  tow 
and  villages,  who  flocked  there  on  Easter  Day 
witness  the  annual  distribution  of  what  ia  kno' 
aa  the  '  Biddenham  Maids.'  This  singular  custa 
which  has  been  in  existence  for  several  hnndr 
years,  oonaists  of  a  distribution  of  bread  and  ch 
to  |)Oor  residents,  and  the  presentation  to  ail  visito 
of  a  cake  made  of  flour  and  water,  bearing  au  ii 
preraion  of  the  famous  '  Maids,'  who  were  joined 
the  hips  and  shoulders.  The  legend  is  that  in  1 1 
there  were  born  in  Biddenham  two  girls,  joini 
together  as  described,    and    they  lived    thus 


!  -  nth« 


s 

thi 


thirty-four  vears.  and  when  one 
refusing  to  ue  operated  ut>on,  ab<> 
hours.     By  their  will  they  foundc<i 

In  Lewis's  '  Topographical  1 
'Biddenden,'  is  the  following 
custom  : — 

"  A  distribution  of  bread  and  cheeae  to  the  w 
takes  place  on  Easter  Sunday,  the  ezpena*  of  whi 
is  defrayed  from  the  renUl  of  about  20  acroi. 
laud,  the  reputed  bequests  of  the  Biddenden 
two  sisters  of  the  name  of  Chnlkhursl,  who, 
ing  to  tradition,  were  joined  by  the  hii 
shoulders  in  the  year  1100,  and,  having  Ii 
that  state  to  the  age  of  thirty-four,  died  within 
hoars  of  each  other." 

Joni-r   PiCKFOKD,   M.A. 

Newbourne  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 


iO'*s.r.APRit.23.i9w.]       NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Antiquary  v.  Anttquarian.— In  an  excel- 
t  review  of  Mr.  Guy  F.  Laking's  recently 
blisheW  lxK>k  on  *The  Armoury  of  Windsor 
Uo,*  which  appeared  in  the  Athemnou  for 
March,  the  wnter  nays  :  "Mr.  Lakirig  in  a 
paratively  recent  Fellow  of  the  Society 
Antiquaries.     Had  he  been  one  of  longer 
fltauding  he  would  probably  not  have  written 
about  'an  antiquarian. '"    Aa  I  have  always 
thought  that  "autiquariaa"  employed  aa  a 
•ubstantive   14  a  detestable  word»  notwith- 
«tandinK  its  uRe  by  several  respectable  writerti, 
aa  Dr.  Murrav'n  'Dictionary'  will  testify,  I 
wa8  very  glatf  to  see  the  Athentrum  lend  the 
weight  oi  it«  authority  against  a  practice 
whicli  «ocmi  loniewhat  on  the  increase.    In 
the  last  Indian  paporH,  for  instance,  I  noticed 
that  the  Oovornmont  of  India  had  appointed 
LieutCoj.  Waddcll,  Indian  MedicafServioe, 
to  be   princi{>al  medical   oHicer  and   "anti- 
aoarian"  to   the  Tibetan   Misnion.      Surely 
'  archwologiat"  would    have  been  a   loetter 
word.     But  the  At/taia urn's  ortliodoxy  in  the 
raatter  i-endersitall  the  more  »turprimng  that 
in  its  isiue  for  13   Kvbruary,   p.   2<X),   in   a 
review   of  Mrs.  Piu{et  Toyribeou   cflition   of 
Horace  Walpole's'Listters,  a  reference  shouhl 
have  Ijcon   made  to  the  "Society  of  Anli- 
(juarianH,"  a  bo<iy  of  which   I  can  find  no 
record  in  \Val[x)le'8  day. 
There  is  another  apparent  alip  id  the  same 
lew.      On   p.    199   the   writer   says    that 
pole's   letters    to    Madame    du    JHsffand 
re  dixntroyed,  at  his  own  request,  after 
polo's  death,  either  by  that  lady  herself 
Miss   iJorry.'      But    as    Marlamo    du 
iiwl  Hoveral  yean  before  Walpole, 

i(npo>4aiblo   that  f\>"  ''    i.,,...  .i.. 

the  letters  after 
iged  to  trust  to  n 
i  sa  a  matter  of  fact,  I 
wwedostroyed,  in  accordnii  ^ 

nctionsi.   by    Mr.    Berry,    the    father    of 
■«  two  young  lady  friends. 

W.  F.  PRiuruix. 
Cursicft, 

lir    Mexk-o.— I    have    a   aon    in 

wli.»  ki'».i)-«  Kw  («vr«i  and  earn  oi»eu. 

voai  very  startling 

i:ry.    The  following 

i«,   LMjrliKpM,  worth  pre«Ksrvina  in  the 

of  'V   iVg.':- 


i,v 


,•  aaifini;  v^ A,' ,.,>,,, 


Dr»l 


I    heard  a  wotnkn    calming   a 

<•  Omit  r    I 

it  ia  •  com- 

lik«  uato 

iftMkhall 

■  in  terror 


LuwAbi>  Skitu. 


LiNKH  WITH  THE  Past.— In  'Old  Days  in 
Diplomacy,'  by  Miss  Disbrowe,  it  is  noted 
that  a  lady  who  died  in  IR82  was  told  by  her 

father,  \v]i(iilifd  in  1H18,  that  he  w^ll  r.i»[i*>ni- 
bered  i  lurit,  who  was  man  5  ? 

Lady    I  i  outLs,   l>oru   1814,       ^        .\n 

kiiown^  and  probably  did  know.  Lady  Ijoui)» 
Stuart,  Lord  Bute'tt  aau{^]iter,  who  i\wr\  l?rti, 
aetvl  ninety-four.     She  in   her  gir  't 

Mrs.  Dela?>y,  who  died  I7H«,  ago<l  eiw  .(,. 

and  9he  knew^  the  Countess  Oranviilc,  ^-lu 
1UI14  ,•  so  four  lives  bridge  2.W  vr  vr  . 
George  III.  was  born    1738;   his     '  s- 

in-1aw  the  Duohcss  of  Cambridge  », 

which  makes  the  time  covered  by  twfi  nvra 
151  years.  Hkloa. 

Tiiic  Soi'TH  A>Ri<  AN  Wak.— On  i  March 
Mr.  .\rnold  •  Koratcr.  Secretary  of  State  for 
War,  declared  in  tim  Houtte  of  Commotu 
that  thu  casualties  throughout  the  late  war 
in  South  Africa  were  as  follows  : — 

Kiliefl  or  diod  of  Wounds.— OiBcen,  719  J 
Warrai.     ^-    ■  .  n,  e,tl63. 

Deal  ver- Officer*,  1B3 

Warrant,  .^a  .i'  a,  7,80^ 

Deaths  from  •>  itaea.— OfRcers,  223  ; 

W.t—-'    \  C.U  ^,  <»i...  uuin,  4,886, 

^  s  a  total  liMis  of  1,1 85 officers,  and 
It*,....,.  *...:ninL,  N.C.O.w,  ami  men— a  death 
roll  of  2U,7S1  men  of  all  rankn  during  the 
conf""'  I'f  tfi"  w'^ir  I  think  that  tliii  .iffioial 
stii  •!  a  iHTrni  .  u 

'N  _  of  futun  t 

the  war.  ItK  lUKU  Kimjcumbx. 

Edgbarrow,  Crowthomo,  B«rks. 

IllVINti's   'HlSTOKY  or  S<  OTISJI    roKTUY.'— 

In  iHrtI  Dr.  David  Ining's  '  Hiitor)'  of 
'  Fiwtry'  was  publinheii  pcMthumously, 
iiiemuir  and  Klutuiary,  the  editor  being 
Ciarlylc'^  brother.  Or.  John  Aitken  Carlyle. 
In  an  **adv<»rti';*>rn^nT,"  prrfixrd  t.->  the 
volume,    an.'  Dr. 

(;arlylo  cxpi..  take 

the  editorial  wurk,  nlaUui  huu  i  <ated 

his  material,   and   maken  it   |  '--Umr 

that  heisentirely  responsible  fur  t  li- 
as it  stands.  After  the  table  of 
thi-  '  '  '    .mmoir,  v 

D'k  friend  O' 

memorial  tribute  is  sign'r  i    , :  .in 

writer, and  it aeema likely  v.... .,..  .A,,!iuai;uiLi> 
of  Laiog's  name  baa  mialcd  Mr.  J.  U.  Millar, 
who  montiori*  thrt  work  at  p.  M>8  of  his 
'Literary  I!  ;  Sootlaod.'    Mr.   Millar 

crcdiu   Iaii  ,  llie   edit4»r>^hin.    qnito 

justifiably  adding  that  he  was  ' 
greatest  of  all    the   Bcouish 
quariea."      Dr.    Carlyle    explains    tliat    be 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.      UO"-  s.  i.  aprit.  as.  ium. 


•recti  ied  the  extracts  used  in  the  book  by 
•refereuce  to  Laing's  editions  of  early  poets 
and  his  collations  from  the  MS.  of  the  'King's 
^uair,'  and  implies  that  he  did  all  this  under 
]m  own  hand,  and  without  help  or  super- 
vision. It  seems  only  fair,  therefore,  that 
he  should  get  credit  tor  a  piece  of  arduous 
work,  honestly  and  successfully  achieved. 

Thom.\s  Bayne. 

"  Pita."— In  a  former  article  (9"*  S.  ix.  226) 
I  discussed  the  various  theories  which  exist 
as  to  the  etymology  of  the  term  pnlqv^, 
applied  to  a  wine  made  from  the  American 
aloe.  Pita,  the  term  applied  commercially  to 
the  fibre  of  the  same  plant,  is  equally  of 
doubtful  origin-  The  following  are  some 
possible  and  impouaible  suggestions  : — 

{ii)  The  '  Century  Dictionary '  calls  it 
Mexican,  for  wiiich  there  seems  to  be  no 
evidence. 

(6)  Von  Martius,  '  Beitrage,'  1867,  guessed 
that  it  might  be  Carib. 

(r)  Barberena,  'Quicheismos,'  1894,  rather 
speciously  claims  it  for  the  Maya  language 
of  Yucatan. 

{d)  Others  maintain  that  it  is  not  American 
at  all,  but  came  into  h>naiiish  from  the  lost 
tongue  of  the  Canary  Islands. 

(e)  The  great  '  Worterbuch  der  Kechua 
Sprache,'  by  Tschudi,  IS'iS,  has  an  entry, 
"P/V'f,  ein  diinner  Faden  aus  lia-st.'  This 
seems  to  prove  that  tins  muchdispute<i  word 
is  Peruvian,  and  should  be  of  interest  to  the 
editors  of  the  'N.K.D.'      J.\!?.  Platt,  Jun. 

CoBNisu    Lexicoloov.— There  can   be  no 

objection  to  tlie  preservation  in  'N.  «k  Q.'  of 
the  information  contaiue<l  in  the  following 
letter  to  me ; — 

13,  Hum  Htreet,  Plymouth,  4  June,  \m\. 
Doar  Sir,— Id  llie  crraJn  ('  Eiiglisli-Corniab 
Dictionary ')  I  find  under  'Owoer'  a  referencw 
which  is  itseU  a  mistake.  How  this  haupeubd  1  do 
not  now  reniciinber.  lu  my  '  KiigliBh-Coruiah 
Uicbionary,'  pp.  xi  and  xii,  in  a  list  of  the  Gw&voa 
M^!j.  This  18,  1  btilieve,  a  coinplele  lisl  of  the 
Cornish  remains  which  have  never  b«ea  printed. 
All  the  nther  Uoriiish  reinaiuB  are  in  print.  I  have 
QO  knowledge  of  B&.4quo  words,  and  canaot  eay 
v?hat  words  are  like  Lornish;  possibly  there  may 
be  many  borrowed  words.  .Still  the  Basque  is  so 
peculiar,  and  different  from  surrounding  languages, 
ancient  atid  modern,  that  the  origin  of  it  would  seem 
to  he  very  remote  from  where  il  is  now  sjtoken.  Hut 
of  this  you  muBt  be  a  far  better  judge  than  myself 
after  so  lon^  a  study.  By  this  post  I  send  you  the 
list  of  books  (No.  133)  by  Mr.  Bernard  Quarilch, 
1.5,  Piccadilly,  for  April,  1893,  in  which  on  p.  16  you 
will  find  my  book  named  and  priced.  Since  the 
nrinting  of  my  '  English-Cortiish  Dictionary,'  in 
IHST,  1  have  been  engaged  in  writing  a  second 
edition.  This  is  now  Hnishod.  This  has  not  been 
|»riQted.  It  conlaiua  three  times  the  amount  of 
}*dtiag  in  the  6nt  edit/on  ;  but  whether  \V  w\\\ 


ever  see  daylight  I  do  not  know.  I  am  hoping, 
the  Royal  Institution  of  Cornwall,  Trur 
publish  it.  But  their  funds  are  low,  and  I 
afford  to  publish  it  at  my  own  risk.  The 
My.,  together  with  the  MS.  of  the  second 
of  my  'Glossary  of  the  Cornish  Dii'  -'  — « 
at  present  io  the  hands  of  the  Ro> .: 
Cornwall  for  their  consideration,  i 
of  the  Cornish  Dialect'  is  nearly,  if  uul  uuite, 
of  sale.  There  may  bo  a  few  copies  left  wit 
Messrs.  Nelhert/m  k  Worth,  Truro,  the  prin 
of  this  book.  The  second  edition,  in  MS.,  in  _ 
as  much  bigger  than  the  first  edition  in  Svo,  issu-.— 
in  1882.  The  Cornish  dialect  is  unif|iie.  ivnd  con 
tains  a  large  number  of  words  handed  down  an 
more  or  leas  chaugtMi  from  the  ancient  Coruii 
tongue.  Frei>.  W,  P.  J.*oo. 

E.  S.  Dodgson,  Esii-,  Pans. 

Let  us  hope  that  Dr.  Jago's  raanuscrip 
will  be  carefully  edited,  and  then  no  le 
carefully  kept  in  some  public  library  i 
England  or  Wales.  E.  S.  DoixiSOS. 


PoTTiNO  Heads  Togetheb.— The  folio 
interesting  pas.sage  occurs  in  '  Spanish  lij 
in  Town  ana  Country,'  by  L.  Higgiu  :  — 

"A  curious  survival  exists  in   ^"  ' 
'Tribunal  de  laa  Aguas,'  which  is   ; 

three  of  the  oldest  men  in  the  city 

inheritance  from  the  Moors,  and  from  u*-   verdi 
there  ia  uo  appeal.     Every  Thursday  the  nld  tu 
take  their  seats  on  a  bonoh  outside  >" 
of  the.  cathedral,  and  to  them  comt. 
have  disputes  about  irrigation,  ina: : 
beadles  in  strange  old-world  uniforms.     \\  lij 
sides  have  been  heard,  the  old  men  put  th^if  ^ 
together  uuJer  ft  cloak,  or  maota,  and 
their  judgment.     The  covering  is  then  wit 
and  the  deciaiou  ia  announced.  Ononeoccaal 
decreed  that  a  certain  man  whom  they  com 
in  fault  was  to  pay  a  fine.     The  unwary  L 
thinking  tliat  his  case  had  not  been  projierly 
began  to  try  to  address  the  judges  in  mitigai 

tho  sentence.      'But,  Seiiores— '  he  bejan.  ^^ 

another  peseta  for  speaking,'   solemnly  »*i*r^ 
Bpokeaman  of  tlie  ciders.     *  Pero,  Senorcs— '   '  U 
jieaeta  mas  !' solemnly  returned  tli-  "    ' 
last,  finding  that  each  time  ho  oji 
him  one  ntore  peseta,  he  soon  gave  v.  i 
—P.  m. 

1  think  it  may  be  fairly  doubted   whei 
the  tcUa-tete  business  was  of  Moorish  orig: 
for  I  have  in  one  of  my  3crapbook.<j  an 
newsjjapor  cutting    which    professe-'s    W 
citing  '^J.  &  Q.'  when  it  says  :  — 

"  I  have  been  assured  by  an  excellent  I- 
of  mine  that  it  used  to  bo  the  custom  in 
northern  counties  at  the  ijuartor  ec  •  • 
chairman  hud  summed  ui>,  for  him 
addrcs-j  to  the  jury  with  the  advice  -^ 
Smith  to  the  Dean   and  Chapter  of  M.  I'a 
lay  their  heads  t-ogelhor '  with  a  view  of  p 
the  best  and  hardest  pavement.     I  ''■■  '    '''  • 
sooner  were  the  words  uttered   d 
'  Now,  gentlemen,  lay  your  headi*  ^ 
sider  your  verdict,'  than  down  wcMt  lvciv  1; 
the  box,  aud  an  official  approached  armed 
\\o'Oft  Vf^wd,     V^  a,v\^   \u\\.\iMkY   iaroc  inadvc 


r 


^^^^^ 


io^-  ti.  L  aprii.23.  low.]       NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


327 


raised  liia  henil,  down  came  llio  stick  upon  his  iiate  ; 

«.nfl  HO  tliey  coiitiniied  till  Iho  truth  was  .■'trurk  out, 

^U^ their  vrtdictiun,  au  exc«lleut  i^nn  for  expediting 

^■^  St.  Swituin. 

^nTHB    LoBisnoME. — The    followinB  passage 

^Wis  written  some  years  ago  by  the  late  Kev. 

John    Ma«on    Xeale,    warden    of    Sackville 

College,  East  Cirinstead.      He  travelled   in 

Portugal  in  1853  and  1854,  and  no  doubt  made 

scord  of  this  superstition  on  one  of  tiiose 

sions.    We  havo  just  come  upon  it  in  the 

Mai^arei's  Magazine  ior  iv\y,  1893,  which 

wo  Ijelieve,  issued  under  tlte  direction  of 

Sisters  of  the  Anglican  Convent  of  Eaist 

}rinsteau].    It  would  be  well  to  transfer  it  to 

*  N.  &  Q.'  for  several  reasons,  among  others 

■Aficause   it  is  probably    the    most   western 

Hbrsion  of  the  werewolf  story  to  be  found  in 

^Europe  :— 

'*  The  lobtMhomt  is  a  young  man  or  girl  (for  they 
uever  live  to  grow  old),  only  to  be  known  in  the 
daytime  by  tlieir  gloom  and  wretehedneas,  but 
under  a  spoil  which  obliges  thorn,  at  night,  tu  lake 
the  form  of  a  horse  and  gallop  wildly  over  mountain 
or  valley,  without  pause  or  rest  till  daylight.  If 
the  cliktler  of  hoofs  is  heard  through  a  villiige  of 
Trax  oa  Monies  at  night,  the  peasant  will  cros.s 
himself  and  say,  'tJod  help  the  poor  lohlihomr ." 
The  only  cure  is  this.  Aovanoe  boldly  to  such  a 
miserable  creature,  and  draw  blood  from  its  breast. 
The  s|>ell  is  broken,  and  that  for  ever.'' 

N.  M.  &,  A. 

RJoHN  EtTON,  'D.N.B.,' XVI.  353.— Perhaps 
le  following  a^^lditional  facts  concerning  the 
Ithor  of   *  Liber  Valorum  et  Deciiuarum' 
«  worthy  of  a  note  in  these  columtis.     In 
'1 1  he  gave  a  copy  of  his  book  to  Winchester 
College,  and  his    inscription  on  tiie  Hj'-leaf 
^^Qws   that    he  had   been  educated  at  the 
^Bllege  as  a  chorister.     He  was  therefore,  no 
^TOubt,  the  Ecton  whose  name  is  on  the  school 
rolls  of  10.88-93,  and  his  education  perhaps 
e.vplains  the  collection  of  music  and  musical 
instruments    which    he   bequeathed    by   his 
will  to  James  Kent.    On  the  recommendation 
of  the  Governors  of  Queen  Anne's  Bounty  he 
l^'SB  appointed  collector  and  receiver  of  the 
itha  of  the  clergy,  with  a  salary  of  3i  lO/.  per 
mm,  by  letters  patent  dated  (i  December, 
[17  (Patent  IloU,  4  Geo.  I.,  part  3) ;  and  he 
id  the  office  until  his  death  at  his  house 
Turnham    Green    on    20    August,    1730 
[HistHjrical   Register.    Chronologica]  Diary 
1730,'  n.  55).   Ho  was  burieil  in  Winchester 
ithwlral    on    2U  August,    1730  (Catlic<^lral 
Bgister).      His   widow    Dorothea,     who   is 
jntioned    in    the     *  Dictionary  '    as     his 
acutrix,  was  probably  his  aecond  wife,  as 
Cathedral  Itogistor  records  the  burial  on 
!  August,  172(j,  of  "Mra.  Eliz.  Ecton,  tho 


wife  of  .John  Ecton.  esq.,"  "  brought  from 
London  and  buriea  here."  Is  anything 
known  of  either  lady?  Mindful  of  certain 
discussions  in  those  columns,  I  add  that  he 
was  a  genuine  "esquire,"  being  styled  such 
in  the  above-mentioned  letters  patent.  It 
appears  from  his  will  that  he  owned  some 
freehold  property  at  Fritham,  Hants,  and 
hod  a  youthtul  kinswoman  named  Barbara 
Jones.  H.  C. 

Wb  iiiuut  re<iue(it  correspoudeiits  detsiring  iu- 
formation  on  family  niatters  of  only  private  interest 
to  affix  their  names  and  addresses  to  their  queries, 
in  order  that  the  anawors  may  be  addressed  to  them 
direct. 

"A  PAST." — When  did  the  modern  phrase 
"  a  man  "  or  "  woman  with  a  past "  come  into 
existence  1  Who  was  its  author?  Are  there 
uses  leading  up  to  it  ?     J.  A.  H.  Mukr.w. 

Women  Voters  in  Counties  and  Bokoughs. 
—John  Stuart  Mill,  in  his  speech  on  the 
adnussiou  of  women  to  the  electoral  franchise 
in  the  House  of  Commons,  delivered  20  May, 
1867,  said  :  "There  is  evidence  in  our  con- 
stitutional records  that  wumen  have  voted 
in  counties  and  in  some  boroughs,  at  former, 
though  certainly  distant,  periods  of  our  his- 
tory.'' Can  any  of  your  readers  inform  me 
where  these  instances  are  to  be  found  or  iu 
what  records  they  should  be  looked  for? 

M.  BETn.\M-Enw.\RD8. 

Villa  Julia,  Hastings. 

Birds'  Eoos.— Now  that  the  season  for 
birdsuestiug  has  arrived,  it  may  be  amusing 
to  some  readers  to  notice  the  genuine  and 
naive  enthusiasm  of  the  pure  oologist,  who 
is  an  egg-collector  first  and  a  student  of 
natural  history  afterwards.  Take  the  case 
of  the  eggs  of  the  Limicolre,  it.,  the  division 
of  plovers,  snipes,  sandpiper."?,  ic.  There  are 
about  fifty-five  spiecies  of  birds  of  this  single 
class,  all  interesting  to  us  whose  lot  is  cast 

in  '* this  sceptred  isle set  in  the  silver  sea," 

and  the  eggs  of  tliem  all,  except  three,  have 
been  discoveied  and  properly  identified. 

But  the  eggs  of  the  sharp-tailed  sandpiper, 
the  curlew-sandpiper,  and  the  knot  are,  or 
were  very  recently,  unknown.  To  these  three 
particular  speciejs  the  ardent  egg-collector 
directs  his  s|>ecial  attention,  and  no  doubt 
will  continue  ttj  do  so  for  many  years.  Mr. 
Seebohm  and  others  have  been  very  nearly 
suooassful  with  the  second  unknown  egg,  viz., 
that  of  the  curlew  sandpiper,  but  they  have 
just  failed  under  provoking  circumstances, 
whicli  they  give  us  with  the  f ull  d<4V]a.>}A,"ftsA 
cvideuUy  con  aiiVJTe.     "Ax,  "^a^y^jsiwsx  "^v*  "*► 


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bird  in  its  nuutial  dress  close  to  the  Arctic 
Circle  on  the  Yenisei.  This  was,  so  to  speak, 
an  outward  visible  si^  of  an  inward  ana 
future  clutch — the  spoha  opima  of  the  whole 
egg-collecting  trip ;  but  circumstances  pre- 
vented Mr.  tSeebohm  reaching  the  nesting 
ground  fur  which  the  bridal  feathers  had  been 
growing.  Next  we  hear  of  Dr.  Finsch,  who 
delights,  as  all  oologists  should,  in  a  bird- 
like name,  and  he  declared  tliat  he  had  found 
the  donnuf  f/mtng  on  tho  Yalmal  Peninsula. 
He  seems  to  have  failed  in  the  exactly 
opposite  waj'  to  Mr.  Seebohm.  We  liear 
nothing  from  Dr.  Finsch  of  a  nuptial  dress, 
he  has  to  confine  himself  to  babj-lineu — the 
Huffy  down  of  the  plump  Hedgelings. 

The  tliird  enthusiast,  a  Dr.  von  Midden- 
dorf,  nearly  obtained  the  object  of  his  quest, 
or  at  least  he  was  nearly  a  whole  eg^-shell 
better  than  his  predecessors,  for  he  isdelighted 
to  tell  us  that  he  found  the  desired  birds  on 
the  tundra.s  of  the  Tairaijr  in  lat.  74"  N.,  and 
secured  a  female  with  a  pariialli/  shelled  e/j(j 
in  her  oviduct  !  O  that  it  had  been  possible 
for  this  glory  to  have  fallen  to  one  of  our 
own  countrymen  !  Alas  !  it  has  been  other- 
wise, and  this  Dr.  von  Middendorf,  pre- 
sumably a  German,  holds  the  world's  record 
for  possessing  a  larger  quantity  of  authentic 
egg-shell  from  these  three  desired  varieties 
of  the  Limicolie  than  any  other  collector.  It 
seems  sad  to  end  tho  tale  thus.  Cannot 
Britons  come  in  somewhere  or  somehow  I 
Well,  there  is  just  a  chance,  Of  the  last 
variety,  the  knot,  there  is  an  egg,  not  per- 
fectly authenticated,  in  the  British  Museum, 
in  the  Kensington  department,  and  Dr. 
Bowdler  .Sharpe,  the  Curator,  says,  "it  looks 
exactly  the  kind  of  egg  one  might  expect  the 
knot  to  lay,"  so  perhaps  the  British  Museum 
holds,  as  trustee  for  our  oologists,  the  world's 
record  after  all.    So  mote  it  be. 

To  put  myself  in  order  I  will  conclude  with 
a^  query,  now  can  any  one,  even  an  expe- 
rienced oulugist,  "spot"  an  egg  before  it  is 
laid  ?  Ne  ciiuD  Nmis, 

"Wax  to  reoeivh.  and  marble  to  re- 
tain."—Who  wrote  the  above,  referring  to 
the  mind  during  the  period  of  youth  ? 

Lu<;i3. 

[Imitated  from  Cervantes  by  Byron,  'Beppo,' 
stanza  31.] 

Birch,  Burcu,  or  Bvecii  Families.— I 
have  collected  a  large  amount  of  genealogical 
data  relating  to  families  of  the  above  name  in 
Lancashire,  Staffordshire,  Lincolnshire,  Berk- 
shire, Essex,  Kent,  Middlesex,  and  elsewhere, 
covering  the  last  300  years.  Being  desirous 
of  obtawing  further  particulars,  I  ahall  V)e 


pleased  to  correspond  with  any  one  able  i 
assist  me  or  desiring  information. 

Herbert  Birch. 
10,  PalmentoD  MansiooB,  Weat  Kensington. 

tWe  have  do  address  for  the  gentleman  aft 
lom  you  Ask  further  than  that  supplied.] 

QUEB-N   EuilABETH  AND    FOREK.N    DECOa 

Tiosa.— I  distinctly  remember  reading  soo 
years  ago  an  incident  in  connexion  wi 
Queen  Elizabeth  —  that  one  of  her  amba 
sadors,  having  been  offere<l  a  decoration  b 
the  Government  to  which  he  was  accredit 
applied  for  permission  to  accept  and  wear  i 
17)18  application  she  indignantly  refu* 
with  the  remark  that  "  English  dogs  sha 
only  wear  their  master's  collars." 

Can  any  of  your  readers  kindly  tell  n 
where  this  characteristic  story  of  Qaw 
Elizabeth  is  to  be  found  ?  I  expected  i 
meet  with  it  in  Lord  Chancellor  Bacoi 
'  Collection  of  Apophthegms,  New  and  01( 
but  it  is  not  there.  James  Watsos. 

Folkestone. 

Makriacje  of  James,  First  Lord  Dcnkxi. 
—  G.  E.  C,  in  his  '  Complete  Peerage,'  stat 
following  Douglas  and  Crawfurd,  that  S 
James    Galloway,    who    way    created    Lop 

Dunkeld     by     Charles    L,     married     

daughterof  Sir  Robert Norter,  Can  any  read( 
point  out  where  proof  of  this  or  any  othi 
marriage  of  Lord  Dunkeld  can  1)6  found,  i 
identify  Sir  Robert  Norter,  whose  nat 
seems  to  be  utterly  unknown  t  It  seei 
possible  that  "  Norter  "  may  have  been  sul 
stituted  for  some  other  name  through  mi 
reading  of  a  MS.  or  misprint.  K.  E.  B. 

Napoleonic  Conspiracy  in  England.— 
am  desirous  of  knowing  of  a  book  or  pamphlel 
or  other  source,  which  would  give  informatlo 
as  to  a  plot  that  was  formed  in  England  i 
1814  to  assist  Napoleon  to  leave  Elba, 
understand  that  communication  was  enter< 
into  with  him,  but  that  he  refused  to  acoei 
the  offer  of  assistance.  F.  S. 

'  Die  and  be  Damned.'— Who  is  T.  Mori 
mer,  to  whom  the  Eilitor,  at  0"'  S.  iii.   1' 
attributes  this  polemic  against  the  MethorJi 
in  general,  and  the  Rev.  Mr,  Romaine  in  psi 
tieular  ?  F. 

Alexander  Garden,   M.D.— Dr.  nardai 
a  botanist  of  Charleatown,  South  i 
and  a  vice-president  of  the  Royal 
died  in  1791.    In  the  *  D.N.B.'  his  fatlier 
said  to  be  a  Rev.  Alexander  Garden,  of  t' 
Church  of  England,  who  went  out  to  Charl 
town   in   1719.      A  collateral  branch  of 
\i^\iv\\^  aVftXa  VVsa^i  V,W«  parentage  givea 


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this  dictionary,  and  all  other  dictionaries,  is 
an  error  :  that  his  father  was  the  Kev. 
Alexander  Garden,  Church  of  Scotland, 
Birse,  Aberdeenshire,  to  whose  memory  a 
marble  tablet-,  with  a  Latin  inscription,  was 
placed  by  Dr.  Garden  in  the  Birae  Church 
m  1789.  Can  any  of  your  readers,  or  Dr. 
Garden's  descendants,  explain  the  apparent 
error!  Alaister  Macoillean. 

Step-brother.  —  I  have  been  interested 
lately  in  a  diijcussion  as  to  the  correct  meaning 
of  the  term  step-brother.  I  have  looked  the 
word  up  in  about  eight  different  dictionaries. 
Two  give  decided  licBnitions,  but  as  they  are 
dififerent,  they  do  not  help  much.  All  the 
rest  give  opinions  which  might  be  considered 
either  for  or  against  one's  own. 

Must  a  person  and  his  step-brother  have 
one  common  parent?  or  is  it  when  a  widower 
with  children  marries  a  widow  with  children 
that  these  children  of  previous  marriages 
become  step-brothers  and  step-siaters  ? 

KacHKL   BLAtELEY. 


of  the  name  claim  it  as  Saxon,  others  as 
Celtic.  Can  any  of  your  correspondents 
throw  any  light  upon  this  matter,  or  give  me 
the  name  of  an  author  who  has  dealt  philo- 
logicaliy  with  name-origins  ? 

Epwd.  Jackson. 

[New  editions  of  Bardaley's  '  Eofdish  and  Welsh 
Surnames'  and  Barber'a  'BritiBh  Family  Names' 
have  recently  appeared.] 

Register  of  the  Golden  Ball.  South- 
WARK.  —  Is  the  under-mentioned  marriage 
register  in  existence  ?  and  if  so  where  can  it 
be  seen  ?— 

"A  Re^ster  kept  at  ye  Ciolden  boll  in  Blew 
ball  Alley  in  tjuaaex  Place  in  S'  George's  Parish  in 
Soiithwark." 

Francis  R 


rWlLUA.M  GiBBARD  was  admitted  to  West- 
minster School,  8  September,  1777,and  became 
a  King's  Scholar  in  1783.  1  should  be  glad 
to  ascertain  any  particulars  of  his  career  and 
the  date  of  his  death.  G.  F.  R.  B. 

Wellingtox's  Horses.— Where  can  infor- 
mation be  found  as  to  the  breeding  of 
Wellington's  chargers,  and  particularly 
whether  they  had  anything  to  do  with  a 
"  Wellesley  Arabian  "  whose  portrait  was 
painted  by  J.  L.  Agasse?  It  seems  tfie 
Wellesley  Arabian  died  1811  (J.  C.  Whyte, 
'British  Turf,'  vol.  ji.  appendix);  and  in  the 
'  Racing  Calendar'  for  1?0-1  and  subsequent 
years  a  cli&stnut  Arabian  and  a  groy  Arabian, 
both  said  to  be  brought  from  India  in  1803 
by  "^he  Hon.  Mr.  Wellesley,''  are  advertised 

.as  stallions.     The  Mr.  W«llesley  referred  to 
ms  apparently  Henry  Wellesley,  afterwards 

_bhe  first  Baron  Cowley,  youngest  brother  of 
Wellington.  I  believe  a  good  deal  has  been 
written    alxiut    the    horse    on    whose    back 

Eellington    is    represented  at    Hyde    Park 
>mer.  C.  F.  H. 

Fbttu'Lace.— Can  any  reader  inform  me  if 
y  MSS.  or  records  of  the  family  of  Fetti- 
place  are  in  existence?  I  believe  the  family 
at  one  time  owned  Ock wells  Manor  and 
(yhildrey,  both  in  Berks,  also  property  in 
Oxon.  C.  P. 

Collins.— I  wish  to  learn  the  origin  and 
centre  of  distribution  nf  the  name  Collins. 
The    name  is   found    in    Ireland,  and    very 
snerally  along  the  South  of  England.    Somo . 


RUSHTON. 

Lamont  Harp.— Who  bought  the  Lamont 
harp,  sold  at  Edinburgh  on  IsJ  March  for 
500  guineas  1  As  this  passed  into  private 
hands,  its  destination  should  bo  recorded  in 
'  N.  &  Q.'  for  future  reference. 

T.  Cann  Hughes,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

The  Son  and  its  Orbit.  —  The  Marquis 
of  Bute,  in  his  translation  of  the  Roman 
Breviary,  published  in  1879,  has  at  p.  408  a 
foot-note  m  reference  to  the  sun,  reading 
thus :  "  Modern  astronomers  believe  the 
centre  of  its  orbit  to  be  a  star  (Alcyone)  in 
the  constellation  Pleiades."  He  quotes  no 
authority  in  support  of  his  assertion,  nor 
have  I  succeeded  in  finding  any.  Perhaps 
some  of  your  readers  may  be  able  to  throw  a 
light  on  the  subject.  Robert  Parker. 

Wilkie's  Journal  or  Diary.  —  Lord 
Ronald  S.  Gower,  in  his  little  book  'Sir 
David  Wilkie,'  1902,  states  that  on  1  January, 
1809,  the  artist  began  to  keep  a  journal.  Can 
any  reader  inform  us  in  whose  possession  the 
original  now  isl  I  presume  it  has  never  been 
printed.  W.  I.  R.  V. 

Reade.— A  William  Reade  was  Bishop  of 
Carlisle  about  1500,  and  was  afterwards 
translated  to  Chichester.  In  the  latter  see 
he  was  succeeded  by  Robert  Reade,  where  at 
the  same  time  was  an  archdeacon  named 
William  Reade.  Were  those  dignitaries  re- 
lated to  each  other?  To  which  family  of 
Reade  did  they  belong  ?  Is  anything  known 
of  the  descenciants  of  either  of  theml 

W.  R. 
Carliale. 

Heraldry.— I  want  the  owner  of  this 
coat  ;  Sable,  an  eflcutoheon  of  pretence 
between  eight  howletts  sejant  guardant,  3, 
2,  3,  all  argent.  Crest,  an  howlett  sejant 
guardant  argeat.  ^o\-Vft^  ''  ^i-  'wSve^a 
veril**."  '^^«„"^>H\x^ 


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"SMALL  AGE." 
(10">  S.  i.  286.) 
Is  my  •  Concise  Etymological  Dictionary  ' 
I  give  :— 

"  Smallaye,  colery.  For  »maU  ack<  ;  from  F. 
ache,  pRrsley,  which  is  from  L.  apivm.  parsley." 

The  explanation  i^  aiiuply  that  the  sound 
of  ch  in  ache  has  been  "  voiced  "  to  the  sound 
of  j  in  affc,  owing  to  the  lack  of  stress  on 
the  syllable,  just  as  from  the  M.E.  know- 
lechen  we  have  obtained  the  modern 
knou'ledije. 

I  aim  ply  gave  "celery  "  as  the  explanation, 
because  it  seemed  sufficient  to  identify  the 
word.  The  Oxford  Dictionary  explains 
cdci'i/  as 

"  an  umbelliferouB  plant  {Apium  j/rarco/CTw) 
cultivated  for  the  uso  of  iU  blauched  Btalks  aa  a 
salad  and  vegetable;  in  its  wild  form  {ninallage) 
indigcDoua  in  some  jiarta  of  £ngland." 

There  is  a  good  account  of  it  in  Lyte'a 
translation  of  Dodoens,  book  v.  ch.  xlii., 
headed  :  —  'Of  Marish  Parsely,  Marcli,  or 
Smallach.'    Aa  to  the  name,  he  says  :— 

"  ijmallach  is  called  in  Greeke  lkioai\iov  [xic] ; 
in  Latine,  Apium  palii^tre  and  Paludapiuui— thai 
is  to  say,  Marish  Parsely  :  of  some,  t<t^po(TJXii'ai' 
dypiov,  Hydroidinou  aj/i-ioa— that  is,  wild  water 
Parsely,  and  Auinm  vnttkum  ;  in  shops,  Apium; 
in  Freuoh,  Dc  L'ache :  in  high  Douoh,  Epffich ;  in 
base  Alniaij^e,  loufTronw  nierck  ;  and  of  Bonie, 
after  tho  Apothecaries,  Kppe:  in  English,  March, 
SSmallach,  and  mariah  Parsely." 

The  M.E.  ac/tc,  wild  celery,  is  as  old  as 
A.D.  1300.  Walter  W.  Skeat. 

This  is  a  phonetic  modification  of  small 
ache.  See  'Ache'  in  'New  English  Dic- 
tionary.' For  phonetic  change  ci.  jxirt tid>fe 
from  ^levh'iche,  Gnnnidije  for  Greenwich, 
Swanaye  from  Stmnieich.  "  Ache  is,  of  course, 
L.  apium.  J.  A.  H.  M. 

In  popular  word -formation  scant  attention 
is  paid  to  the  philological  proprieties  ;  other- 
wi'se  we  might  well  be  speaking  of  "  pettiage  " 
instead  of  "smallage."  For  this  plant-name 
IS  etymologically  a  word  of  good  old  Anglo- 
Saxon  stock  welded  on  to  another  of  French 
extraction.  The  final  syllable  is  a  corruption 
of  ac/ic.  which  according  to  Littro  is  still  the 
name  of  a  "  plante  ombellifere  qui  ressemblo 
au  persil."  though  it  has  ceased  to  have  an 
independent existencoin  English.  "Smallage" 
is,  in  fact,  "small-ache,"  properly  the  wild 
celery  (Afnum  {/mvcotcns),  also  callwl  water- 
parsley  to  distinguish    it  from  common  or 


situations.  Like  most  popular  terms  of  the 
kind,  however,  "ache "was applied  to  variou-s 
plants  resembling  one  another.  (See  the 
'N.E.D.,'  sv.  'Ache,'  sb.  2.)  It  i«  iteelf  a 
corruption  of  the  apium  whicli  garlanded 
the  brows  of  bibulous  Romans  (cf.  Horace, 
'Odes,'  iv.  11), and  which  w&^  used  as  a  mark 
of  distinction  in  the  Isthmian  games.  If. 
too,  one  trespasses  beyond  the  etymology  of 
"smallage,"  the  literary  pedigree  of  tho  plant 
can  be  traced  back  to  the  seliwyv  of  the 
'  Odyssey  '  without  much  misgiving  as  to  the 
oorrectitudo  of  the  generic  identification. 
We  can  hardly  cretl it  the  Greeks  with  such 
pedantic  accuracy  in  "dressing  "  tombs  tliat 
they  always  chose  the  true  parsley  for  the 
purpose.  J-  Dormer. 

"  Smallof/t,  as  Pliu^  writeth,  hath  a  ;>eouUar 
vertue  agamst  tho  biting  of  veuomou*  spiders."— 
Gerarde  (1545-1607).  ,.  ,      ^ 

"The  leaves  of  this  plant,  which  they  tcmieil 
by  the  name  of  Moapetnm.  came  very  near  in  all 
resitects  to  those  of  snuUtach  or  iwrsely."— Holland 
(15.51-1G36),  '  Plinie's  Nal.  Hist./  v.  ti  p.  8. 

The  Rev.  T.  Lewis  O.  Davies,  iu  his  'Sup 
plementary  English  Glossary,'  gives  tho 
same  meaning,  but  adds  that  Tusser,  in  Ilia 
*  Husbandrie,'  1573,  recommends  'smalach  for 
swellings." 

Hey  woodjin  his 'Marriage  Triampne,' 1613, 

says : — 

Smallagr,  balme,  germander,  ba»eU,  and  UUy, 
The  pinko,  the  flower-de-luce,  and  daffadilly. 
Herrick    (1591-1C74),    in    addition   to  the 
quotation  already  given  from  tho  'Hesperidea,' 
in  No.  82  has  :  — 

Bui  now  'tis  known,  behold  I  behold,  I  brinff 
Unto  thy  ghoat  th'  effused  offering ; 
And  look  what  smaUayr,  night-shade,  cynress.  yew. 
Unto  the  shades  have  been,  or  now  are  out. 

This  word  has  already  been  discussed  in 
'  N.  i  Q.,'  see  2'"'  S.  xii.  252  ;  3"'  S.  iii-  158. 
Ea-erard  Homk  Coleman. 
71,  Brecknock  Road- 

Gerarde,  in  his  '  Herbal,'  dftvotes  a  page  to 
the  description  of  smallage,  or  water  parsley, 
and  gives  a  woodcut  of  it.  He  says  it  is 
"seldom  eaten,  neither  is  it  counted  good 
for  sauce,  but  it  is  very  profitable  for 
medicine."  Enlarging  on  this  latter  quality, 
he  says :  — 

"The  juice  thereof  is  pood  for  many  thing?:  it 
clenseth,  openeth,   attenuateth,  or  maketh    thio ; 

it   removetn    obstructions doth   pcrfefity    cure 

the  malicious  and  venomous  ulcers  of  tho  mouth, 
and  of  the  almonds  of  the  thront  v  ilh  the  deciK-tioD 
of  Barly  and  Mel  roxarnw,  or  hony  of  roses,  added." 

I  quote  from  the  edition  of  1633. 

Howard  S.  Pkabhon. 


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Sb.vkbspeare's  Gbavk  (10"'  S.  i.  288).— Why 
uhoulil  Mr.  I.  H.  Platt  go  out  of  the  trend 
of  hi8  argutnenb  to  assort  repeatedly  that 
the  quatrain  on  Shakespeare's  tombstone  is 
doggerel  ?  Surely  no  one  oo  thi8  ^ide  of  the 
pond  will  thank  him  for  it. 

"The  lines  arc  said  to  have  been  wriltea  by 
bhakeapeare  himself;  but  may  we  uot  rather  Mip- 
poae  timt  the  sentiment  alone  ia  his,  and  that  the 
words  in  which  it  ia  conveyed  were  supplied  by  a 
reverential  survivor?"— 'BeRUtiea  of  England  and 
Wales.' 

Mb.  Platt  aaks  if  there  is  any  earlier 
authority  than  Dugdale's  'Warwickshire.' 
If  he  is  a  Slxakespearian  student  he  should 
know  that  the  monument  was  erected  within 
the  seven  years  preceding  Shakeapeare's 
death,  and  that  a  prevailing  tradition  is  that 
the  bust  was  copieid  from  a  cast  after  nature. 
There  can  be  no  Question  as  to  the  slab  with 
the  "doggerel"  lines  covering  the  actual 
burial-place  of  the  "immortal  bard,"  "With- 
in this  monument "  must,  of  course,  not  be 
taken  literally  ;  but  doubtless  the  following 
from  the  Warwickshire  volume  (1814)  of  the 
'Beauties  of  England  and  Wales'  will 
help  Mtt.  Platt  to  grasp  more  fully  the 
situation  :— 

"About  tive  feet  from  the  floor,  on  the  north 
wall,  ia  H  niouunient  raised  by  tlie  grateful  tender- 
ness of  those  who  did  not  venture  to  apprehend 
that  the  works  of  such  a  man  must  embalm  hio 
memory  through  every  suucocdiuK  age.  Inarched 
between  two  Corinthian  columns  of  black  marble, 
with  gilded  b&aes  and  cApitals,  is  here  placed  the 
half-length  etligies  of  IShakespeare,  a  cushion  before 
him,  a  pen  in  the  right  hand,  and  the  left  resting  on 
a  scroll.  Above  the  entablature  are  his  armorial 
bearings  {the  tilting  spear  tvoint  upwards;  and  the 
falcon  Bup^Kjrting  a  spear /or  the  creel).  Over  the 
arms,  at  the  pinnacle  of  the  monument,  is  a  death's 
head  ;  and  on  each  side  is  a  boy  Hgurc,  in  a  sitting 
attitude,  one  holding  a  sjiadc,  and  the  other,  who»e 
eyes  are  closed,  bearing  with  the  left  hand  an  in- 
verted torch,  and  resting  the  riglit  upon  a  chapless 
skall.  The  etHj^ies  of  Shakespeare  irat  originally 
coloured  to  resemble  life,  and  its  ap|>eurauce,  uefore 
touched  by  innovation,  is  thus  described:  'The 
cyea  were  of  a  light  hazel,  and  the  hair  and  l>eard 
aubuni.  The  dress  consisted  of  a  scarlet  doublet, 
over  which  was  a  loose  blnck  gown  without  sleeves. 
The  lower  part  of  a  cushion  before  him  was  of  a 
crimson  colour,  and  the  u|>per  part  green,  with  gilt 
taaseU.'" 

This  is  a  quotatioti  from  Wheler'a  'Strat- 
ford,' p.  7i.  In  1748  this  monument  was 
leiMiirM  by  a  company  of  istroUing  ulaj'ers, 
who  rained   n  f  r  that  purpose  ny  per- 

forming  in  I   the  play  of  'Othello.' 

In  this  repau  mv  cnuurs  oiiginally  bestowed 
on  the  efrigieH  were  carefully  rextore<l  by  a 
limner  residing  in  the  town  ;  but  in  1703  the 
bust  and  figures  above  it  wuro  painted  white 


tion  on  the  monument  bearsi  date  and 
concludes  as  follows  :  "Obiit  Ano.  Doi.  1616. 
/Ktatis  53.    Die  23.  Ap." 

Mk.  Platt'.s  researches  would  be  greatly 
simplified  and  augmented  by  a  reference  to 
the  afore-roentioned  work. 

Cjias.  F.  Forsqaw,  LLD.,  KIMIistS. 

Baltimore  House,  Bradford. 

Football  ox  Shrove  Tue.sday  (10""  S.  L 
127,  194,  230).— Sunday  football  used  to  l>e 
common.  Until  1825  an  annual  match, 
beginning  on  the  racecourse,  was  played 
at  Beverley  on  the  Sunday  preceding  the 
races  (W,  Andrews's  'Old  Church  Lote,' 
1891,  p.  9G).  Can  any  one  tell  me  whether 
in  this  game,  and  in  Shrovetide  football  in 
Derbyshire,  as  played,  for  instance,  at  Asli- 
bourne  and  Derby— also  in  the  Shrovetide 
football  at  Chesterle-Street— the  opposed 
sides  were  players  from  diflFerent  townships, 
districts,  or  trades  T 

From  the  information  afforded  by  corre- 
spondents of  'N.  &  Q.'  1  judge  that  Shrove 
Tuesday  football  is  nearly  allied  to  "camp- 
ing," a  once  popular  East  Anglian  sport, 
which  has,  I  fancy,  been  already  discussed  in 
these  pages.  Certain  French  ecclesiastical 
ball-games,  supposed  to  be  remnants  of  sun- 
worship,  should  also  be  remembered  it]  this 
connexion,  and  I  believe  that  India  affords 
examples  of  a  similar  kind.  G.  W. 

'Edwin  Drood'  Continued  (9""  S.  xii. 
389,  510  ;  lO""  S.  i,  37).— Although  Wilkie 
Collins  did  not  write  a  continuation  to 
'  Edwin  Drood,'  there  is  such  a  continuation 
attributed  to  him,  now  on  sale  in  the  United 
States,  and  possibly  also  in  Britain.  Its  title- 
page  reads  : — 

" '  John  Jasper'a  8ooret.|  Sequel  to  Charles 
Dickens'  'Mystery  of  Edwin  Drood,'  by  Charles 
l)ii'ken9  the  Younger,  and  Wilkie  Collins,  R.  F. 
Fenno  ft  Co.,  9  and  11,  Kast  iSixtventh  Street,  New 
York  City.  1901." 

This  work  was  written  by  Henry  Morford, 
a  New  York  journalist,  assisted  by  his  wife. 
They  spent  several  months  in  England  in  the 
summerof  1871,  living  in  Ix)ndonand  working 
at  the  libraries,  but  also  visiting  llochester, 
Oadshill,  Cobham,  and  district  once  or  twice 
each  week.  They  worked  Vi\x>n  "  hints 
supplied  by  him  [Dickensl  unwittingly,  for 
a  much  closer  estimate  of  the  bearings  of 
those  portions  remaining  unwritten  than  he 
could  probably  have  boheved  while  in  life," 
and  upon  "  many  other  particulars,  labo- 
riously but  lovingly  procured."  The  work 
was  published  auonymounly,  as  a  weekly 
serial,  in  the  CVtimney  Cotaxkv  <v^^vwVca\v  •«)»^ 


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shilling  parts  (1871-2);  in  book  form  by 
T.  B.  Peterson  4  Brothers,  Philadelphia, 
1871  ;  and  again  in  London  (342,  Strand)  in 
1873.  At  least  one  other  edition  was  pub- 
lished by  the  Petersonu,  so  that  the  present 
(Fenno's)  edition  is  the  third  (or  later)  in 
American  book  form.  I  think,  bift  am  not 
quite  sure,  that  tlie  property  passed  throagh 
tne  handti  of  another  publisher,  between  the 
Petersons  and  the  Fennos,  and  that  this  inter- 
mediate imnd  placed  the  names  of  Charles 
Dickens,  jun.,  and  Wilkie  Collins  on  the  title- 
page,  at  a  biiue  when  both  tlie  parties  and 
also  the  real  author  were  dead.  Mrs.  Morford 
informs  me  that  these  facts  have  been 
brought  to  the  notice  of  Messrs.  Feuno  &  Co., 
who  liave  undertaken  that  any  new  e<lition 
of  the  book  which  may  bo  demandcW  shall 
be  dnl;y'  credited  to  Henry  Morford. 

Particulars  of  other  "continuations'"  of 
'Edwin  Drood  '  are  to  lie  found  in  'Dickeus- 
iana,'  by  F.  G.  Kitton  (George  Retlway, 
1886),  and  in  'The Minor  Writings  of  Cliarles 
Dickens,'  by  the  same  (Elliot  Stock,  1S>00). 
H.  Snowden  Ward, 

Uadlow,  Kent. 

Smotherin»j  Hydrophobic  Patients  (10* 
S.  i.  65,  176,  210),— That  this  custom  obtained 
in  England  in  the  eighteenth  century  seems 
very  probable,  for  Gunning,  in  his  'Kemi- 
niscences  of  Cambridge/  mentions  it.  Speak- 
ing of  the  Rev.  Samuel  Peck,  B.D.,  one  of 
the  Senior  Fellows  of  Trinity  College,  he 
observes : — 

'"An  opinion  oqc«  nrevaitcd  in  this  county  [C»m- 
bndgeshire]  (and  I  fear  in  many  others)  that  when 
a  person  had  be«n  bitten  by  a  mad  dog,  and  ayinp- 
tonia  of  having  taken  the  infection  showed  them- 
selves,  the  relations  of  the  aafierinK  party  were 
iustiliej  in  sniotlierin>{  the  patient  between  two 
leather  heda.  This  question  he  formally  proposed 
to  the  jufiges,  and  to  their  answer  that  'persons 
thus  acting  would  undoubtedly  be  guilty  of  murder ' 
he  gave  allpoasible  publicity.  For  this  he  do«ervud 
great  credit,  as  I  have  heard  persons  of  undoubted 
veracity  dedare  that  it  was  considered  not  only  to 
be  legal,  hut  really  to  be  an  act  of  kindness."— 
Vol.  li,  p.  l(W. 

John  Pickford,  M.A. 
Newboorne  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Tnder  the  heading  of  'The  Dog  Days' 
and  '  Mad  Dogs '  in  his  '  Every-Day  Book,' 
Hone  has  the  following  :— 

"  There  is  no  cure  for  the  bite  of  a  mad  dog,  and 
OS  at  this  time  dogs  go  mad,  it  18  proper  to  observe, 
that  immediate  burning  out  of  the  bitten  part  by 
caustic,  or  the  cutting  of  it  out  by  the  surgeon^ 
knifo,  is  the  oidy  remedy.  If  either  burning  or 
cutting  be  omiitefl,  tlie  bitten  person,  unless 
opmnied  to  death,  or  smothered  between  feather 
ooda,  will  inm  few  days  or  weeks  die  in  uospeak- 
si>U  mgnny.    The  latter  means  are  said  to  have  been 


sometimes   resorted  to  as  a  merciful  raethod  off 
extinguishing  life." 

Chas.  F.  FoRsnAW,  LL.D. 
Baltimore  House.  Bradford. 

Hell,  Heaven,  and  Paradwe  as  Place- 
names  (10*''  S.  i.  245).  —  Coventry  has  a 
Paradise  Street,  and  a  row  of  houses  in  it 
are  marked  Eden  Terrace.  Two  milea 
away,  but  still  within  the  city,  is  a  district 
always  known  as  Paradise. 

H.   C.   WlLKlNB 

19,  Gloucester  Street,  Coventry. 

In  the  first  'Gazetteer  of  the  Australian 
Colonies,'  compiled  by  W,  H.  Wells,  and  pub- 
lished in  1848,  localities  called  Paradise 
and  Pandemonium  are  noted  on  p.  330, 
and  one  styletl  Purgatory  is  referrea  to  on 
p.  350.  In  the  early  years  of  colonization 
there  was  a  good  deal  of  this  eccentric,  un- 
conventional nomenclature,  the  pioneer  gold- 
diggers  being  probably  the  worst  offenders. 
Many  of  the  erratic,  incongruous,  rough- 
and-ready  names  then  conferred  have  beea 
\'ery  properly  abolished  durinji;  recent  years^ 
anci  the  places  rechristoned  with  more  grace- 
ful and  euphonious  titles.       J.  F.  HooAN'. 

Royal  Colonial  lustitule. 

The  pretty  little  Norwegian  village  of  Hell 
is  reached  by  a  line  connecting  Trondhiem 
with  Storlien,  twenty  (English)  miles  from 
the  former,  and  forty-six  from  the  latter.    I 
have  visited  it  on  several  occasions,  and  ca 
testify  it  is  by  no  manner  of  means  in  "a 
deep  hollow,  or  a  darksome  place"  (ante,  p.  95). 
It  lies  near  the  mouth  of  the  Stjordalsclo 
and  in   the  midst  of  fine  scenery.    All  its 
houses  are  of  wood,  and   these  are  prettily 
painted— yellow,  grey,  and  a  dark  red  beinBl 
the  predominant  colours.    The  church  itselffl 
is  of  a  Salvation  Army  red,  with  white  win-j 
dow   frames,  and    has  a  black   turret.    Thi 
very   signposts  are  a  pillar-box   re<l.     Thi 
name  "  Hell "  is  in  big  block-letters  upoa 
the  rail  way  station  ^  whilst  just  outside  it  w 
a  public-house  rejoicing  in  the  sign  of  the 
"  Bell  Bageri."  Harry  Hems. 

Vcster  Boulevard.  Copenhagen. 

Three  farms  near  Leyland,  in  Lancashiro, 
are  named  the  Old  Purgatory  Farm,  the  New 
Purgatory  Farm,  and  Paradise  Farm. 

Henrv  Taylor. 

Birklands,  .Southport. 

There  is  a  Paradise  Street  in  this  city  and 
a  Paradise  Works  in  it. 

Chas.  F.  Forshaw,  LL.D. 
Bradford. 

Cos  AS  DB  EsPANA  (10"«  S.  i.  247).  —  ' 
\  iToop  oi  Q9.Vx\c\vQ»  \T\  V.\\«  ^cd«x\a  of  the  Hoc 


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Retiro  atMadriH,  mentioned  by  Misa  HiRgin, 
attracted  the  attention  of  Beckford  in  1787 
('Spain,' Letter  xvi.),  E.  E.  Strebt. 

Dorsetshire  Sn'ake-lore  (lO'*"  S.  i.  168, 
253).  —  Corapare  two  passages  in  Hardy's 
'Return  of  the  Native.'  In  a  chapter  called 
'TheClosed  Door'  Mrs.  Yeob right, on  hersultry 
journey  across  Epdon  Heath,  has  been  bitten 
by  an  adder,  and  the  remedy  recommended 
by  the  rustics  i<i  oil  from  frying  the  fat  of 
other  adders  :— 

"  *  I  h-Ave  ooly  been  able  to  get  one  Silive  and 
fresh  a«  he  ought  to  be,'  said  Sam.  'These  limp 
ones  *ro  two  I  killed  to-day  at  work  ;  but  as  they 
don't  die  till  the  sun  goes  down  they  cati't  be  very 
stale  meat.""— P.  299,  new  edition. 

"  '  Well,  it  ia  a  very  ancient  remedy— the  only 
remedy  of  the  viper-catchan,  I  believe,  reidied  the 
doctor,  'it  is  mentioned  aa  an  infalJible  ointment 
by  Hoffman,  Mead,  and,  I  think,  the  Abb«  Fontana. 
Undoubtedly  it  was  as  good  a  thing  aa  any  thing 
you  could  do  ;  though  I  queation  if  some  other  oils 
would  not  have  been  equally  efficacious.'"— New 
edition,  p.  307. 

The  remedy  was  in  vain :  Mrs.  Yeobright 
died.  The  scene  is  apparently  in  Dorset,  and 
the  atory  is  a  repertory  of  old  provincial 
manners  and  customs. 

John  Pickforu,  M.A. 
ITewboume  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

The  belief  that  a  snake  can  only  die  after 
sundown  appears  to  be  shared  by  educated 
as  well  a8  uneducated  people.  A  corre- 
spondent writing  from  Georgia,  U.S.,  says; — 

"  We  killc<l  a  large  blaok  snake  very  early  to  the 
morning  onr-  day  last  Septenibor.  When  we  passed 
it  shortly  before  sundown  it  was  still  moving  and 
evidently  alive,  and  it  was  not  till  the  sun  haa  gone 
down  <hat  all  motioa  ceased.  The  negroes  all  say 
that  a  snake  can  only  die  at  nightfall,  and  it  Iookb 
as  though  that  might  be  true." 

I  have  heard    the  same  statement  made  in 
Virginia,  a.s  well  as  other  parts  of  the  South. 
Frederick  T.  Hibwame. 

The  belief  that  a  snake  never  dies  till 
after  sunset  is  likewise  common  in  the  United 
States  among  children  and  superstitious 
adults.  It  matters  not  how  much  a  snake's 
Ixxly  may  he  mutilated,  the  belief  is  firm 
that  its  tail  will  show  active  evidence  of  life 
till  the  Hun  disapiteara  below  the  horizon. 
I  had  al  ways  assumed  that  this  sur)er8titjon 
had  itii  origin  among  the  American  Indians, 
but  it  is  now  interesting  to  note  its  existence 
elsewhere.  Charles  Bundy  WrMon. 

State  University  of  lowo.  Iowa  Uity. 

CBorcH  THE  .Musical  Composer  (10'*  S. 
i.  348).— In  the  words  of  the  -song  to  which 
he  set  the  music,  "it  mav  be  for  y^ars  and 
it  may  be  for  ever "  that  'Kathleen  Mavour- 


neen'  will  live  in  the  heart  of  the  lover  of 
Irish  meKxlies.  It  was  one  of  'The  Echoes 
of  the  Lakes,'  published  about  1838.  Crouch 
wrote  the  music  of  two  operas,  'Sir  Roger 
de  Coverley  '  and  '  The  Fifth  of  November, 
1670.'  He  publisiied  'Songs  of  Erin,' '  Echoes 
of  the  Past,'  '  Bardic  Reminiscences,'  '  Songs 
of  the  Olden  Time,'  'Songs  of  a  Rimbler,' 
'  Way.side  MeIodie.s,'and  many  detache<l  songs 
j  by  various  writers,  which  in  their  day  had 
great  popularity,  and  which  will  be  found 
duly  recorded  in  the  Music  Catalogue  of  the 
British  Museum.  See  also  Brown  and  Strat- 
ton's  '  British  Musical  Biography,*  1897.  On& 
of  his  latest  songs  wa.s  *  Donna  Dear.' 

J.    HoLDEN   MacMicMAEL. 

I.MAGINARY  OR  INVENTED  SaINT.S  (9^^  S.  lil. 
127,  215,  369,  51  fj ;  \0^^  S.  i.  irtB).— Saint  Ufxs, 
the  seamen's  corruption  of  Setubal,  a  well- 
known  port  eighteen  miles  south  of  Lisbon » 
may  be  included  in  the  list. 

A  note  in  Black's  'Guide  to  Cornwall,'  com- 
piled by  A.  R.  Hope  Moncrieff,  may  also  be  of 
interest,  not  only  as  giving  a  new  synonyn> 
for  the  Blessed  Virgin  Jiary,  but  also  a» 
furnishing  a  possible  explanation  of  th& 
dedication  of  St.  Margaret  Moies,  which 
appears  in  the  old  lists  of  City  churches. 
Writing  on  the  subject  of  the  "Furry 
Dance  on  8  May  at  Helaton,  the  compiler 
quotes  the  following  verse  from  the  "  Furry 
Tune,"  sung  during  the  ceremony  :  — 

(k>d  blesa  Avnl  Mary  Mo'tx, 

VViih  all  her  power  and  might,  0, 

And  Kend  us  peace  in  merry  Kngland 

Hoth  by  day  and  night,  0. 

A  note  ailds  that  this  verse  is  explained  by 
Mr.  H,  Jenner,  of  the  Britisli  Museum,  as 
referring  to  the  B.  V.  Mary,  in  Cornish  "  Mary 
Moiose.''  It  is,  of  course,  well  known  that 
some  of  the  earlie-st  dedications  of  churches 
were  to  the  virgin  saints,  who  figure  so 
prominently  in  the  Roman  Liturgy,  and  it  is 
possible,  therefore,  that  St.  Margaret  Moses 
mav  preserve  the  memory  of  a  pre-Saxon 
decfication.  H.  2. 

ARCiiiTE<rruRE  IN  Old  Time.s  (10"^  S.  i.  290). 
—  In  all  but  the  output  of  the  most  ancient, 
i.e.,  archaic  art,  and  frequently  even  in 
examples  of  that,  Mr.  Ford  may  find  that 
artistic  enthusiasm,  if  not  religious  sacrifice, 
compelled  finishing  to  the  utmost  the  sculp- 
tures that  adorned  antique  buildings.  "The 
statues  from  the  Parthenon,  now  in  the  British 
Museum,  are  ai*  elaborate  and  fine  in  their 
backs,  which  were  never  seen  in  »itu,  as  in 
their  fronts  which  face<l  spectators  ;  the  bas- 
reliefs  of  the  frieze  on  iha.^  \i>a^^^.<i;v^^t  '».<ji"t«, 
;  executed   >n\\,\\om\.  ?.Xaxv\.  q\  Vctfar»\«5v'«i  *»sw 


[IQt'S.  I.  ArKU.23, 1904. 


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Kjare,  although  they  were  seen  by  reflected 
littht  only.  Sfevertheleas,  Michael  Augelo  and 
otl)er  bculptoii)  of  the  RenauMiQce  did  not 
illustrate  this  noble  law.  O. 

In  the  third  of  Frederick  Denison  Maurice'ti 
iectures  on  'Learning  and  Working,'  rle- 
iivered  in  1854,  these  words  occcur : — 

"  The  Bcnse  of  responeibility  which  led  tlie  Greek 
to  bo  OB  diligent  in  working  out  that  part  of  the 
■Htalud  which  would  be  hidden  by  the  wall  of  tiie 
temple  aa  that  itart  which  woula  be  ex))Obe<i  to  the 
i  -eye,  because  the  gods  would  look  upon  both,  aeema 
to  have  departed  froin  Christendom,  which  ahould 
cheriah  it  most.  The  flimay  texture  which  c&npot 
instuntly  be  discovered -the  careleaaneas  which 
will  only  cause  aoiue  boiler  to  explode  in  a  distant 
ocean,  where  no  one  will  hear  who  has  perished— is 
considered  no  outrage  upon  the  modem  morality." 

This  pastjage  may  be  of  some  use  for  illua- 
tratioti  of  tho  quotation  from  Longfellow's 
poem  '  The  Builders.'  At  a  later  period  some 
one  lectured  on  'Stucco  and  Veneer'  to 
inculcate  sound  morality.  F.  Jareatt. 

CoTTlswoi.D  (9"'  S.  xii.  5(Xi).— The  (^otswold 
uames  are  mentioned  in  the  '  Merry  Wives  of 
Windsor '  (I.  i.),  where  Slender  asks  Page  :  — 
How  does  your  fallow  Krcyhound,  sir! 
I  heard  say  he  was  outrun  at  (Jotsole. 

A  full  description  of  the  amusements,  accom- 
panied with  quotations  from  old  authors  and 
illustrations,  will  be  found  in  Chambers's 
*  Book  of  Days,'  i.  712.  For  horse-racing  at 
Cotswold  in  1677  and  1682,  see  2"''  S.  ii.  418, 
and  for  '  The  CJotswold  Sports,'  3"'  S.  ix.  80. 
li.H>,  128,  185,355.  There  is  no  place  name<l 
Cotswold  excepting  that  in  Gloucestershire. 
EvKUAiiD  Home  Coleman. 
71|  Brecknock  Road. 

William  Stephens,  Phksident  of  Georgia 
(10"'  S.  i.   144.  216). -The  Rev.  E.  B.  James, 
vicar  of  Carisbrooke,  Isle  of  Wight,  was  a 
very  old  friend  of  mine.    On  his  death  his 
widow  consulted  me  a-s  to  the  mode  of  issuing 
^  his  'Letters,  Archjeolngical   and    Historical, 
^  relating  to  tho  Isle  of   Wight,'  chiefly  con- 
irilmtions  to  local  papers.     I  suggested  their 
boing   placed  in   the  hands  of  some  London 
liouHO  willing  to  undertake  their  publication. 
Mrs.  James,  who  die<l  some  few  years  ago  at 
Shanklin,  Isle  of  Wight,  was  a  'sister  of  Sir 
Arthur  Charles.         John  Pickkokd,  M.A. 
Newbourne  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

'^  Leche  F.onuY(IO»'S.  i.  207,  274,  293).— An 
interesting  genealogy  of  a  family  of  Lecho 
can  be  compiled  from  the  lists  of  York 
freemen  published  by  the  Surtees  Society. 
The  entries  show  iuoidentaliy  the  hereditary 
character  uf  the  profession  betokened  in  the 
liawf^  for  BO  fewer  tlmu  eight  generations 


were  successively  members  of  the  York  Guild 
of  Barber -Surgeons.  The  registers  of  St. 
Michael  le  Belfrey  have  several  entries 
relative  to  the  family,  and  no  doubt  a  search 
in  other  city  registers  would  throw  consider- 
able light  upon  the  family  history.  In  tho 
later  entries  tlie  name  is  generally  spelt 
Leach,  Leech,  or  Leache. 

Georue  a.  Auden. 

Melancholy  (10""  S.  i.  148,  212).-See  also 
Cicero,  '  De  Div.,'  i.  37,  and  Aul.  Gellius, 
xviii.  7,  "  qu8e  (LekayxoKia  dicitur ;  non 
parvis  nee  abjectis  ingeniis  accidere." 

G.  T.  SUKIIBORN. 
Twickeubam. 

Epitaphs  :  their  Bibliography  (\0'^  S.  i. 
44.  173,  217,  252).— To  Me.  MacMichael's 
list  may  be  added  T.  Webb's  'A  New  Selec- 
tion of  Epitaphs,'  1775,  of  which  there  is  a 
copy  in  the  British  Museum. 

Albert  Matthews. 

Boston,  U.S. 

At  the  end  of  the  '  Book  of  Blunders/  by 
David  Macrae  (published  by  J.  S.  Uoidge, 
Douglas,  n.d.),  is  'A  Chapter  of  Queer  Epi 
laphs,'  pp.  91-116.  I  may  also  add  'Into 
the  Silent  Land  :  Epitaplis,  Quaint,  CuriouH, 
Historic,'  copied  chiefly  from  touilistones  by 
E.  Jil.  T.  (London,  Simpkin  Jc  M-irshall ;  and 
Bakewell,  A.  E.  Cokayne,  n.d.). 

Ernest  B.  Savaob. 

tSt.  Thomas,  Douglas. 

Japanese  Monkeys  O"*  S.  xi.  y,  76,  430, 
517;  xii.  237).— Kitamura's  '  Kiyu  Shdran,' 
ed.  Tokyo,  1882,  torn.  vii.  fol.  IS  b,  quotinR 
the  '  Mottomo-no-SOshi,'  written  in  the  seven- 
teenth centurj',  says : — 

"At  Awato^chi,  Kyoto,  exiala  the  so-called 
'Temple  of  the  Three  Monkeys,'  in  which  stand 
the  *  Non-Speaking'  Monkey,  covering  the  mouth 
with  his  pawB.awd  iho  atlemiaut '  Non-Seeing'  and 
'  Non-Hearing'  Monkeys.  These  stiituea  werecarvcfd 
by  Dengyi)  Daishi  [who  first  ini reduced  to  Japan 
the  Tenoai  sect  of  Buddhism,  7(i7-S±i  a.I>.],  and  a 
tradition  attached  to  that  of  the  '  Non  Speakius' 
Monkey  is  that  if  any  one  enKuged  in  a  lawsuit 
should  tcuittorarily  keep  it  in  hiu  house  he  would 
infallibly  succeed  in  his  case." 

It  is  almost  needless  to  observe  that  this 
superstition  originated  in  the  Blue-Faced 
Vadira's  inculcation  of  the  safety  of  tlie  non- 
speaking  party  (see  9"'  S.  xi.  430), 

KUMAGUSU    MiNAKATA. 
Mount  Nachj,  Kii,  Japan. 

Samuel    Haynes  (10"'   S.  i.    ?60).  —  Tlie 
author  of  '  A   Memoir  of  Richard    Haines  : 
his  Ancestry  and  Posterity,'  privately  printed 
1899,  on  p.  137  says  that  tho  seventh  Earl  oEi 
Iiudg,evja,tjec    married    Charlotte   Catheriooj 


I 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


Ann  Haynes,  '•a  descendant  of  Uopton 
Haynos,  tiora  16%'  to  1749  officer  of  the  Mint, 
who  was  probably  from  Gloucestershire  or 
Wiltsiiire."  To  judge  from  the  date  of 
Charlotte's  birth  (1753),  she  would  be  grand- 
daughter of  Hopton  Havne«,  or,  at  most, 
great  -  granddaughter.  In  virtue  of  the 
ridgewater-Haynea  alliance  the  arms  of 
Egerton  impaling  Haynes  are  sculptured  over 
the  entrance  of  the  Exerton  family  raan<5ion 
at  Ash  ridge,  Bucks.  The  Haynes  family  of 
Gloucester  appear  to  have  usecl  Or,  on  a  lesM 
gules  three  bezants  ;  in  chief  a  hound  courant 
sable,  collared  of  the  second. 

Fred.  HiTcHiN-KEiip. 
6,  Beech6eld  Road,  Catford,  S.K. 

Samuel  wa«  son  of  Hopton  Haynes, 
rector  of  Elrasett,  county  Suffolk,  who  died 
25  June,  17&G,  aged  sixty-eight,  and  was 
buried  at  Elmsett  He  was  Fellow  of  Clare 
College,  Cambridge.  He  married,  firstly, 
Margaret  White  on  13  Februarj",  1728, 
at  St.  Helen's,  Loudon,  and,  secondly, 
Mary  Bayley  (marr.  lie.  G  January,  1734,5). 
Hopton  Hayues's  brother  was  Samuel 
Haynes,  D.D.,  Canon  of  Windsor  and  rector 
of  Hatfield,  editor  of  the  Hatfield  House 
iliSS.  They  were  sons 
the    Unitarian,    and     friend 


the  bearings  on  the  shield  are  Qulei,  Ui 
lions  passant  gaardant  or,  with  the  I  _ 
"  Henry,  Count  of  Lancaster."  I  do  not  re 
member  the  bendlet  azure,  and  my  impres- 
sion is  that  there  is  not  one  ;  but,  speaking 
from  memory  after  the  lapse  of  a  year  or  two, 
I  may  be  mistaken.  J.  R.  Xcttaix. 

Lancaster. 

Germas  Qcotatiox  (lO""  8.  i.  24m).— The 
words  "Ohne  Phosphor  kein  Gedanke**  are 
the  words  of  the  Dutch  materialist  Jakob 
Moleschott,  and  date  about  1852-^. 

Jamjr  B.  Jou>'sto>'. 

Falkirk. 

If  I  am  not  greatly  mistaken,  the  thought 
has  been  pronounced  by  Jakob  Moleschott^ 
the  famous  materialist,  and  Karl   V'ogt  has 
very  probably  repeated  it  more  than  poce. 

G.  Kxt'BajEB* 
Berlin. 

Wreck  of  the  Wa<:;eb  (10»*  S.  i.  301, 230X- 
It  ma}'  interest  W.  S.  and  some  other*  of  yoarl 
readers  to  know  that  among  the  MSS.  of] 
Lady  Da  Cane,  the  report  of  which  will^ 
presentljr  be  iwaed  by  the  Historical  MSS. ' 

Commission,  there  is  a  copy  of  a  letter  Irom) 

of  Hopton  Haynes, '  the  lieutenant  of  the  Wager,  written  on  hi»] 
iend    of    Sir     Isaac  i  arrival  in  England,   and   giving  a  full  audi 


Newton's,  wjio  was  Assay  Master  of  the  Mint,  j  interesting  ^account^  of  the  adventure  and 

and     wrote    several    books    on     theological        "^  ' '*      ^" 

matters  and  on  coinage.     I  have  many  notes 

about  liim  and  his   father  and  grandfather, 

who  can-ke  from  Ireland  and  from  Wiltshire. 

He  usee!  for  arms  the  early  Haynes  coat  with 

beuants  and  greyhound,  and  the  eagle  crest. 

I  shall  hv  glad  to  Rive  your  correspondent 

any  further  particulars  in  ray  power. 

Rkgikalu  Haines. 
L  ppioghani. 

CoppEK  Corxs  andToken5>(10'*'  S.  i.  248).— 
I  am  assured  by  a  local  numismatist,  whose 
collection  of  our  token  coinage  alone  is 
valued  at  upwards  of  three  thousand  pounds, 
that  there  is  no  better  method  of  cleaning 
co[»per  coins  than  to  steep  them  overnight 
in  petroleum,  and  in  the  morning  brush  them 
veil  with  soft  snap  and  warm  water. 
An  old  way  of  reading  the  inscriptions  on 
|<Iefaced  and  worn  coins  is  to  place  tiiom  on  a 
'shovel  ov.      '  ,  and  when  they  are  how; 

*o  •*,  con  r   the  lettering  is  usu.. 

readily  «it.-,.i(.,i,:i,.L»le. 

CuA».  F.  FoftsUAW,  LL.D. 
Bradford. 

CiiARLB.<i  TiiK  Bold  (10*  8.  L  im,  232).— 

The  replies  to  this  inquiry  give  all  the  par- 

'tieiilara   required,    for    >*riicli    I    am    macb 

obliged.    In  mmwer  to  Ma,  L.Of«,  1  may  my 


sufferings  of  the  ship's  company.      J.  K.  L. 

"MtsTLAB":  "Muskvll"  00""  H.  i.  228)i 
—Do  not  these  names  refer  to  previous  donors 
of  light-shot,  or  light-scot,  which  was  a  pay- 
ment for  the  maintenance  of  oertain  alUtr- 
lightst  Richard  Aleyn  and  Alice  Geatill 
would  thus  be  merely  aagmentiog  a  pre- 
existing benefaction.  Gifts  of  caodlea  acul 
lights  for  special  church  purpose*,  when 
adequate,  perpetuated  the  name  of  tue  dooor 
by  being  called  after  him. 

J.  H.  ALtcMjciiAin.. 

••The  eternal  natrwrsE"  (10^  S.  I  108, 
254).— Mb.  Edwakd  Latham'**  discovovy  that 
this  phrase  was  eraploy^-d  by  H.  Bkse  d« 
Bury  in  hit  traaslatiou  of  'Fwut.'  ao  £ir 
back  as  1847,  woald  seem  to  shotr  ibftt  the 
editorial  navin-rtium   to  the  eflbct   that   it 


originatr.' 


ntUo  «<♦  oom^t.     Bat  I  am 

'■at  any  Kngliih  trmaslator 

fPid  GootbeVi  "Da«  Kwig 

'1  a  phrn'M?  ai  **  the  eternal 

■       i-i  le«m 

Kf)gli«h 

'  1  au-i.      i  am   urirortOfUltel/ 

I  to  my  bfwks  at  gNNM^    Vj< 

lh\n\t  VWX  \.W  <5iojtt«»Kvwv  Miv^w  ^^ 


3^6 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.      Ofl 


LraiLZt,  1904. 


voung  writer  on  the  Encliah  press,  and  that, 
like  other  phrases  which  now  have  a  news- 
paper currency,  such  as  "That  goes  without 
saying,"  «fec.,  it  properly  belongs,  not  to  lite- 
rature, but  to  "journalese." 

W.  F.  Peideaux. 

Viz/.avuna,  Coraica. 

W.  Miller,  Esghavkr  (10'^  S.  i.  247).— 
The  view  of  Hornby  Castle  is  to  be  found 
in  the  fourth  volume  of  Baines's  '  History  of 
Lancashire/  published  by  Fisher  &  Co.  in 
183C.  W.  D.  Macray. 

The  engraving  of  Hornby  Castle  is  in 
'Lancashire  Illustrated,'  vol.  i.  p.  132,  pub- 
lished by  Peter  Jackson,  late  Fisher,  Son 
&,  Co.,  London.  A.  H.  Akk.le. 

Chelsea  Physic  Garden  (10"]  S.  i.  227, 
270).— As  a  sequel  to  the  information  already 
giveu  on  this  subject  I  may  add  what  ap- 
|)eared  in  the  C'iiy  Press  of  1  April,  which  I 
think  should  be  recorded  in  '  N.  &  Q.'  :— 

"  The  Old  Cedars  at  CheUea.— The  removal  of 
the  last  of  the  four  cedars  in  the  Chelsea  I'hy»to 
Gardens  haa  recently  been  effected,  sayn  the  Oar- 
(lentr's  Mfwa.int,  owing  to  it«  havJnK  become  so 
covered  witn  a  destructive  fungus  ns  to  ue  a  nienaoe 
to  its  neighbours  The  tree  has  been  completely 
dead  for  i|uile  six  years,  and  tlte  committee  of 
management,  bein^  fully  aUve  to  its  historical  iu> 
tereat,  re^ulved  to  leave  it  standine  a*  long  as  pos- 
sible. Lately  it  haa  been  covered  with  a  highly 
infectious  fungus,  which  would  soon  have  spread  to 
the  healthy  trees  near.  The  wood  of  the  cedar  ie 
carefully  preeerved,  but  the  trunk,  though  it  mea- 
sured is  ft.  round  the  base,  is  entirely  rotten,  and 
would  before  long  have  become  dangerous,  and 
injured  the  trees  near  whenever  it  coUajvaed.  It 
wu  only  when  the  retention  of  this  interesting 
relic— the  firslcedar  of  Lebanon  planted  in  Eogland 
—became  a  source  of  danger  to  the  rest  of  the  garden 
that  the  conimittoe  of  management  sanctioned  its 
reniovaL" 

E\'ERABD  Home  Coleman. 

71 1  Brecknock  Road. 


iMMORTALIXy  OF  Animal-s  (10*''  S.  L  169, 
256). — Tho.se  who  tflke  interest  in  the  ques- 
tion iuself  xhould  read  Dr.  Ludwig  Bucnner, 
*  Kraft  und  iitoS,'  last  chapter  but  one,  '  Die 
Thieiaeele.'  G.  Kbiteger. 

Berlin. 


^L_  TuK  Mimes  of  Heronpas  (10"'  S.  i.  68,  210). 
^m'  — Scholar.s  in  England  who  write  to  *N.  &  Q.' 
^^  will  probably  have  anticipated  anything  that 
^K  an  Antipodean  student  of  the  classics  could 
^^1  contribute  in  answer  to  Ma.  R.  J.  WalkkrV 
^^r  question.  Still,  it  may  be  worth  while  to 
mention  that  the  whole  external  evidence  for 

I  the  date  of  Herondas  (Uerodas?)  has  been 
brought  together  in  a  convenient  form   by 
Otio  Cruaiua  ia  his  eclitiun  of  tlie  'Mimes' 
(l^ipsic,  Bocoad  erf.,  is&A).     The  moat 


portant  of  the  "  tcstimonia "  there  cited  \» 
that  of  Pliny  the  Younger,  "Callimachum 
me  vel  Heroden  vel  si  quid  his  melius  tenere 
credebam"  (*Epp.,'  iv.  3,  3).  Pliny  must 
have  died  while  Herodes  Attfcus  was  still  a 
child.  The  idea  that  Hero^^ias  was  mentioned 
by  Hipponax  as  a  contemporar^v  is  now  known 
to  have  arisen  from  a  misreading. 

The  internal  evidence  is  a  much  more  conv 
plex  question.  As  it  is  concerned  with 
dialect,  vocabulary,  metre,  and  literary  and 
historical  allusion,  it  could  not  be  adequately 
treated  except  at  a  length  unsuitefi  to  the 
pages  of  '  N.  &  Q.'  One  may  say  confidently, 
however,  that  the  great  weight  of  scholarly 
authority  favours,  on  internal  grounds,  the 
view  that  the  poet  Nourished  in  tlie  reign  of 
the  third  Ptolemy.  It  seems  pretty  certain 
tliat  the  king  mentioned  in  the  thirtieth  verse 
of  the  first  Mime  isEuergeles.  I  do  not  know 
whether  Prof.  Hobinson  Ellis  still  inclines  to 
the  singular  theory  that  the  Greek  poet 
imitated  Catullus  and  perhaps  Yergil. 

Alex.  Lekper. 

Trinity  Collie,  Melbourne  University. 

Enora VINOS  (10">  S.  i.  309).— The  engravers 
referred  to  were  not  nanied  Black.  The  well- 
known  brothers  S.  and  N.  Buck  are  the 
engravers.  K.  B — R. 

Poi'E  AND  German  Litebature  (lo*"  S.  ». 
209)— About  twenty  years  ago  a  German 
scholar,  Mr.  S.  Levy,  collected  some  parallel 
passages  in  the  works  of  Alexander  Pope  and 
Goethe,  which  seemed  to  indicate  that  the 
latter  had  been  influenced  by  the  fornaer. 
The  results  were  publijihed  under  the  title 
'Einige  Parallelen  zu  Goethe  aus  Pope'  in 
the  Gntthe  -  Jtikrhuch,  vol.  v.  pp.  344,  345 
(Frankfurt  a/M.,  1884).  In  Eckermann's 
'Gesprache  mit  Goethe,'  vol.  i  ,  Goethe  dis- 
cusses Lord  B3'ron  at  some  length,  and  on 
p.  142  he  briefly  compares  Byron  and  Pope. 
Charles  Bi'ndy  Wil.son. 

The  Htate  University  of  Iowa,  Iowa  City. 


Dean's  Yard,  We-stminster,  No.  17  (O**  8, 
xii.  2(J5).  —  This  prebendal  house  never 
belonged  to  the  Bishopric  of  Gloucester,  aif 
Mk.  Harland-Oxlky  seems  to  imply.  Dr. 
Monk,  who  was  appointed  both  a  (.'anon  of 
Westminster  and  Bishop  of  Gloucester  in 
1830,  did  not  succeeti  to  the  occupation  of 
this  house  (then  known  as  No.  13)  until  after 
the  death  of  Canon  H.  H.  Edwards  in 
September,  1840.  On  Dr.  Monk's  death,  in 
June,  IBi'iG,  it  became,  under  the  provisions 
of  3  A  4  Vict.,  c.  11.%  sec.  30,  and  an  order  in 


: 


im-  \ 


,Coui\t\l  dated  21  Avcil,  1856,  the  Rectory 


M.»  B.  L  AfBiL  23,  i9w.]       NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


337 


who  had  been  appointed  Canon  and  Rector  of 
St.  Margaret's  in  1849,  took  possession  of  it. 

With  reference  to  Me.  Harl.vnd Oxley's 
remarks  concerning  Ashburnhara  House.  I 
iBay  add  that  LortT  John  Tliynne  succeeded 
Dr.  Milman  in  the  occupation  of  that  house 
iu  1849,  and  that  on  Lord  John  Thynne's 
death  in  1881  it  was  conveyed  by  tlie  Dean 
and  Chapter  to  the  governing  body  of  West- 
minster School  under  the  provisions  of  the 
Public  Schools  Act,  1868,  sec.  20,  sub-aec.  9. 

G.  K.  U.  B. 

Thk  L4TB  M*.  Thompson  Cooper  (10'''  S. 
i.  246). —It  may  be  of  interest  to  state  that 
your  veteran  contributors  Jows  Egli>'gton 
Bailey  and  Thomi»30s  Cooper  corresponded 
in  Pepys's  shorthand,  though  the  former  was 
a  diaciple  of  Pitman  and  Uie  latter  of  Gurney. 
A  common  interest  in  the  hialory  of  steno- 

graphy,  and  in  what  may  be  caJled  minor 
iography,  had  brought  them  together. 
Cooper,  as  I  learn  from  hia  brother,  Dr. 
J.  W.  Cooper,  was  born  in  1837. 

J.  G,  Aloer. 
Holland  Park  Court. 

DAHURiA  (10'"  S.  i.  248).  —  The  '  Dic- 
tionnaire  Hiatonque  et  G«ographique '  of 
Bouillet  says  :— 

"  Daourio,  vaste  region  de  I'Asie  Centrale,  vers 
le  X.E.  cntre  le  Saghalien  et  le  lao  Baikal.  Elb 
eat  tr^s- haute,  tr^-froide :  lea  nioate  qui  la  couvreat 
lout  ijarlje  du  Grand  Altai,"  &c. 

C.  B.  B. 

Pierriire,  (Jen^ve,  Suisse. 

Dahuria,  or  Dahouria,  ia  a  district  in 
Eastern  Siberia  bordering  on  the  Stanovoi 
Mountains.  J.  Dormer. 

"Asojf"  (10**  S.  i.  246).-The  'N.E.D.' 
justifiably  rejects  Tliackeray'a  use  of  "anon" 
in  the  pofiaage  (quoted  from  his  lecture  on 
George  lY.  lb  is  an  erroneous  and  indefen- 
sible application  of  the  word,  probably  due 
to  aome  vague  association  with  olim  in  the 
novelist's  mind.  He  is  not  likely  to  have 
been  thinking  of  the  obsolete  "  anone," 
•which  in  Hafli well's  'Archaic  Dictionary' 
is  aaid  to  have  meant  "at  one  time"  and  "in 
the  first  place."  When  annotating  'The 
Four  Georges/  last  year,  for  Messrs.  Blackie's 
"Red-Letter  Library,"  I  drew  attention  to 
the  anomalous  construction,  lb  is  curious 
tliat  it  should  have  originally  found  ita 
place,  and  remarkable  that  it  sliould  have 
oeen  allowed  to  keep  it  when  the  'Lectures' 
went  into  a  second  edition. 

Thomas  Bayne. 

Irish  Ejaculatory  Prayers  (10""  S.  i. 
S49).— These   were  common  in  the  West  of 


Ireland  at  least  seventy  years  ago,  and 
probably  at  a  much  earlier  date. 

A  usual  salutation  by  a  stranger  on  entering 
a  cottage  was,  "God  save  all  here  !  "  And  this 
was  answered  by,  "And  you  ton  !"  A  stranger 
meeting  another  on  the  road  generally 
addressed  him  with  the  words,  "God  save 
you  ! "  or  if  more  than  one,  "  God  save  ye  !" 
the  common  response  to  which  was,  'H3od 
save  you  kindly  ! "  Friends  or  neighbours, 
however,  would  begin  the  morning  greeting 
with  "Good  morrow,  Tom,"  or  Pat,  as  the 
ca.se  might  be,  and  Tom  would  reply, 
"Good  morrow  kindly." 

The  usual  expression  on  hearing  surpris- 
ing or  startling  news  was,  "The  Loru  be 
praised ! "  ana  the  comment  on  a  great 
calamity,  such  as  a  sudden  death,  was, 
"(5od  is  good."  Henry  SxMYTH, 

Har  borne. 

'  N.  &  Q.'  lays  us  under  such  obligations  to 
each  other  (if  we  are  not  basely  ungrateful) 
that  every  reader  should  add  his  mite  to  that 
great  "  storehouse."  It  is  up  to  the  present, 
moment  universally  the  custom  in  Ireland 
not  to  pass  a  stranger  without  saying,  "  God 
save  you  ! "  the  answer  being,  *•  God  save 
you  kindly  !"  Of  course  this  does  not  apply 
to  towns,  but  only  to  tiie  country  roads, 

I  should  like  to  know  if  there  is  a  recog- 
nized salute  in  England  or  Scotland  amongst 
the  working  classes,  Patrick. 

Dublin. 

Grammar  :  Nine  Parts  op  Spkeco  (9"' 
S.  xii.  504  ;  10"'  S.  i.  94).— Those  interesting 
lines  were  set  to  music  in  1878  by  Mr.  John 
Longbottom,  then  head  master  of  Woodles- 
ford  Board  Schools,  Leeds,  and  subsoauently 
master  of  the  old  grammar  school  at  Warley, 
near  Ualifa.Y.  Mr.  Longbottom  is  a  well- 
known  Yorkshire  author  and  antiquary,  and 
he  assures  me  that  the  lines  are  *'asoId  as 
Adam." 

If  Mr.  Coleman  desires  a  copy  of  the 
words  and  music,  I  will  post  him  one  "  with 
the  author's  compliments.'' 

Chas.  F.  Forshaw,  LL.D. 

Baltimore  Houko,  Bradford. 

The  verses  appeare<^]  some  years  ago  iu 
the  Leifure  Hout\  and  the  author  was  a 
librarian  at  Capetown.  In  spite  of  their 
heterodoxy  according  to  modern  standard?, 
I  have  taught  them  to  my  own  children. 

Brutus, 

"To  MUo''(9"'S.  xii.  5,  .57, 1.36, 2.31,.') 1 8). -The 
Rev.  A.  Smythe- Palmer,  in  his  '  Folk-Ex"<i-«asa- 
logy,'  says  that  "  avw^"  v^  ^  s\iv^Efc.x  NaQx?s.Vst 


m^ 


mm 


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[JO"*  8.  L  AFRtt  28,  1901. 


Htands  for  miirg,  Scot,  morgue,  a  solemn 
face ;  muifjcon,  to  mock  by  making  mouths 
(Jamieeon) ;  from  Fr.  mor<ntey  a  sour  facOj  a 
solemn  countenance,  moigiter^  to  look  sourly  ; 
cL  Languedoc  mtirga,  countenance.  One 
might  add  the  Paris  dead-house,  known  as 
the  morgue.  These  etymologies  have  not,  I 
think,  tJeen  alluded  to  by  previous  corre- 
spondents. J.  H.  MacMichael. 

'Recommesded  to  Mkrcv'  (10"*  S.  i.  109, 
232). — A  friend  remembers  reading  in  India 
a  book  with  this  title  by  Mrs.  Eiloart. 

M.  E.  F. 

[We  have  failed  to  find  this  under  Mra.  Eiloart'a 
name  in  the  '  Knglish  Catalogue.'  Mrs.  Houstoun's 
work  with  the  same  title  ia  tiot  tlie  one  Mr. 
Latham  requires.] 

Batkome  (10"»  S.  i.  88,  173,  252).— Heloa  is 
surely  mistaken  in  speaking  of  '  Barthram  a 
Dirge'  as  au  old  Border  ballad.  That  Sir 
Waiter  t^cott  believed  in  its  antiquity  cannot 
be  called  in  question,  but  there  can  be  no 
iloubt  that  it  was  composed  by  Robert  Surtees 
of  Main.sforth,  the  Durham  antiquary.  For 
evidence  of  this  see  George  Taylor's  'Memoir 
of  Robert  Surtees,'  a  new  edition,  with  addi- 
tions by  the  Rev.  James  Raine  (issuwl  by  the 
Surtees  Society,  1852),  pp.  85,  240. 

ASTARTE. 

KN'kiHT  Templar  (lO'"  S.  i.  149,  211),— 
Mucli  information  on  this  subject  may  l>e 
founil  in  '  Ara  Quatuor  Coronatorura,'  which, 
with  otfier  works,  may  be  consulted  at  61, 
Lincoln's  Inn  Fields,  W.C.  P.  A.  -X. 

"  First  cvtch  your  hare  "  (9"'  S.  xii.  125. 
518;  lO""  S.  i.  175,  254).— In  my  copy  of  "The 
Art  of  Cookery,  by  Mr3.Glasse"(a  new  edition, 
1803),  there  are  two  directions  which  might 


Hare'  (p.  126)  begins,  "Take  a  full-grown 
bare,"  Ac.  Mrs.  Raffald  (1807)  also  uses  the 
same  expression  (p.  118):  "To  Florendine  a 
Hare.  Take  a  grown  hare,"  kc.  It  is  easy 
to  imagine  a  wilful  misunderstanding  of  the 
word  "  take  "  in  these  instances,  and  to  treat 
it  83  if  it  meant  to  "catch." 

Erne-st  B.  Savage. 
tjt.  Thomas,  Douglas. 

HKK.iLDIC      REyERENC'E     IN      SuAKEsrEARli 

(loci's.!.  290).— In  'The  Glossary  of  Terras 
used  iu  British  Heraldry,'  published  by  J.  H. 
Parker,  of  Oxford,  in  1847,  p.  34,  it  is  stated 
that  the  sun  behind  a  cloud  is  embroidered 
iM  Richard  JI.'s  robe  on  his  effigy  at  West- 


mtaster. 


W: 


M.  is  A. 


Tub  First  Edition  of  Horace  (10*  S.  i. 
103). — As  regards  the  statement  that  the 
eight  spurious  lines  at  the  beginning  of  the 
tenth  Satire  of  the  first  book  "  are  said  "  to 
bo  found  in  only  one  printed  edition  before 
1691,  it  may  be  observed  that,  according 
to  Mr.  .^Vlfred  Holder  (Keller  and  Holdei'a 
'Horace,'  vol.  ii.,  18G9),  they  are  given  by 
several  editions  before  1515.  See  the  details 
in  his  critical  note.  Edwakd  Benhly. 

The  Uoiversily,  Adelaide,  S.  .Auatmlia. 


IP^tsffllctnefius. 

NOTKS  ON  ROOKS,  ftf. 
A  Nov  English  Dictionary  on  Hittftriftd  PriH 
ciplf-A.  —  P—  Porartril.  Edited  by  l>r.  Jame 
A.  H.  Murray.  (Oxford,  Clarendon  Press.) 
A  wovmx,  section  of  the  great  dic<ionHrv,  iasuedj 
under  the  direct  charge  of  the  editor  in  chief,  cow 
tains  a  total  of  .t.-StiCi  M'ords,  and  carries  t  he  aljiliaixjb] 
from  P  to  Pnnjitril.  Few  tirevioii'i  ptirtu  nrp  mor 
intereslini;  or  inslructive  llion  this, 
the  editorial  coninieiit  more  edifyin 

In    the    introdiiclioij    \H.    Miirrai    .  .,  , 

while  as  an  initial  it  occupied  a  small  r<]Nice  in  the 
Old  English  Vocabulary,  the  letter  p  haBprown  to  be 
one  of  the  three  gigantic  letters  of   the  luoder 
Kuglisi)    dictionary.      He    is    resitonsiblo    for    tht 
startling  statenictjt  that  of  the  _,4.>4  main  word 
discussed  in  the  double  ciection,  one  ouly,7»re«.  th« 
culinary  vessel,  can  claim  to  be  a  native  Olif  Kn^lii^li^ 
word.     From  France  came  the  great  invii-! 
followed  the  few   Latin  words  that  \n< 
Norman  Comiuest.     Many  of  these  suppiv    j 
Court    or    warlike    U8ai;e — as   pagf,   palaei,    i 
jmlfnii,  pfiii^tfulf,  iMxpat,  ]>ariton.  and   the  like- 
lhou{;li  a  few  were  derived  direct  from  the  Latiftl 
by  achotare.      While  individual  wonls  came  frniiiij 
Danish,      Italian,      Burmese,      Chine>ie,       .NfaluN 
AlRonquin,  Tamil,  &c.,   a  third  of  those  give: 
of  (ireek   derivation.     We  hope  Dr.   Murray 
not  think  ii  trifling  if  we  ask  whether  it  ia  aj 
able  to  the  Krowtn  of   words  in  p  to  whiq 
refers    that    wo    find,    in    the    aljihabeLcd 
sujiplied  UK  us  a  means  of  indexing  entrica, 
letter  p   is    that    invariably   which    first    prove_ 
inadequate  and  givea  out.  "  Tlie  numerous  words' 
in  p/i  answering  to  the  Cireek  <^)  have,  it  is  stated, 
no  more   relation    to    the   j)  words    proper  than 
have  ihoee  iit  fli  to    c;    that  is.  they  conslilutoJ 
an    alien    group,    and  only    for  alphabetical    con- 1 
venience  are  assigned  the  place  they  ■  ^  'njer 

the  heading  p  ia  aupplied  much  d  :  (na- 

tion aa  to  nimdingone's />'s  and  ly'*,  or  c-cms-i 

an  earlier  form,  to  be  /^and  (J.  Pahulum^iood  forf 
tliought.  was  a  coniniorish  journaiialic  word  LSGO-J 
18<>).  Pari,  a  varying  but  definite  mr, 
length,  ia  an  interesting  study.  The  s.i 
however,  be  said  of  other  signifiralioi; 
term  as  well  os  of  innnTnerable  Mord».  /",. 
in  relation  to  literary  nrticlee  or  Inxiks,  is  firat 
in  ISOl,  which  wo  BU)>]iose  is  ab<>iit  'It-  » 
introduction.  A  Bingnlarly  intcrestih 

on  pa//.    As  appliedto  the  foot  of  thi  

instance  is  advance<l  than  1700.  To  "  |>:i  l  liic  hoof 
IB  used  bv  Washington  Irving.  Theoiij;iMfif  *ll  the 
wmnea  o\  poAU.  wtema  to  be  "rare,"  " unknown, "* 


7?kn.23.i9(>i.]       NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


or  "  obscure."  In  the  forru  of  pad^nnhawe  Pmli- 
nhah  is  encountered  so  early  as  1612.  The  origin 
^ordinarily  assiftned  Pndaajtoy,  of  silk  of  Padua, 
'•Mms  scarcely  to  be  accepted.  Prtan,  a  soog  of 
'  praise,  ia  nsed  in  1544  ax  the  title  of  a  book,  'The 
Prayse  of  all  Women,  called  Mulieruin  Pean.' 
JVi(/ni«=-paraniour  is  rare,  though  it  is  used  by 
Shake»tieare.  In  scn»n  2  trie  words  of  the  song  put 
by  Scott  into  the  mouth  of  one  of  the  characters  in 
'  Thu  Abbot  ■  miftht  be  noted  :  "  The  pope,  that  pagan 
full  of  strife."  That  pafff=hoy  is  derived  from 
Greek  j^aiSiov  is  doubted.  Thackeray's  use,  "  Ho  ! 
pretty  page  with  the  dimpled  chin,"  deserves  cita- 
tion as  an  instance  of  special  use.  Milton's  6ne 
phrase 

Mask  and  antique  pageantry 

-is  an  early  and  significant  nse  of  the  last  word. 
T/*n(/o</a  appears  as  pa^o/Aa  in  1634.    Pai'j/c  for  the 
^oowslip,  and  paU,  a  vessel,  are  of  uncertain  origin. 
Pato<"if«  -peacock    as  is  suiiptosed,   is  encountered 
only  in  Shakespeare.    Pairtcf,  pnindin,  palatine,  all 
repay    close     study.      Pcdeuim    tirst   appears    in 
Pj)aniers  '  Delia,'  1.502,    Pa/am/inn  is  found  in  liVW. 
ISen    Jonson  has  palinrlronie,    and    also   pnJinwle. 
yVery  interesting  is  the  development  of  palt,  and 
laot  less  so  that  of  ptUm  in  its  various  senses.     Pan 
[should  be  closely  studied  in  all  its  senses,     ^"jh  <i 
^brief  spasm  of  iiuin,  is  nnccrtain  in  origin.     The 
Mig  cited  for  panniueonvm,  and  called  popular,  is 
little  earlier  than  r.  1860,  and   is,  we  fancy,  by 
,  'lanclie.     /ViiiomMa  dates  from  1796.     Pantagrua, 
PatifaJoon,  and  panlomime  litiVii  all  much  interest. 
The  name  j»a/t/»VM  seems  to  be  erroneonsly  applied 
to  the  parade  atTunbridge  Wells.      The  curliest 
riuotntiou    for    mip>a=fatner,    once   a    "genteel" 
word,    is    from    Otway.      Paraphtrnalia    has,    as 
scholars  know,  a  curious  orijtin  and  history.    Pap 
iriili  a  hatrlut  and  Pmijandnim  both  supply  enter- 
tainment. 

Thr  PrrhuU.     I5y  WilliAm  Wordsworth,     Edited 

by  Basil  Wnrsfold.    (D«  La  More  Press.) 
t'fJl-o»  Baailike;  or,  thn   Kim/'x    Book.    Lditcd  by 

Edward  Alniack.     (Samo  publishers.) 
^haikfjipearr' *  SonH'.t.".    Edited  by   C.    C    Stopea 

(Same  publishers.) 
fo  the  pretty,  artistic,  and  cheap  editions  of  the 
I)e  Ij»  More  Press  have  been  added  three  works 
of  great  but  varying  interest,  Wordsworth's 
'  Prelude'  forms,  of  course,  an  indispensable  portion 
of  his  iioeina.  It  contains  many  line  passages,  but 
is,  on  tne  whole,  more  valuable  from  the  autobio- 
uraphital  than  the  jiootic  Rtandpoint.  The  present 
edition  is  accomjianiefl  by  an  admirable  portrait, 
a  map  of  the  Wordsworth  country,  an  introduo- 
tioD,  and  a  few  serviceable  notes. 

Mr.  Almack,  to  whom  is  duo  a  *  Bibliography  of 
the  King's  Botik,'  for  an  appreciation  of  which  and 
of  the  compiler  himself  see  H""  S.  x.  147,  has  edited 
an  edition  of  the  '  Kikofi  Basilike,'  the  work  in 
•  question.  Unlike  previous  modem  reprints,  this  is 
taken  from  the  first  edition,  an  aflvance  oofi^  of 
which,  saved  frf''     '  'ivin  by  a  corrector  of'^the 

press — a  most  ii:  vcm  in  many  rea'ptedts  — 

una  been  used.     '•■i.  x  still  holds  strongly  to 

the  royal  nuthornlniiul  t]io  volume,  and  is  in  entire 
opposition  to  the  claiini  of  Bishop  Uauclen.  The 
new  cdiiioti  is  boautiful  and  conveuivnt.  It  is 
cnrii  li«"d  t'Va  handsome  and  rather  sentimentalized 
jiortrait  olf  (^harles  I.,  and  has  some  interesting 
appendices.    Ita  appearMice  will  doubtloM  oou^•  i 


mend   the  work   to  some  to   whom  it  is  not   yet 
known. 

Mrs.  Stopes's  edition  of  Shakespeare's  Sonnets  in 
the  most  convenient  with  which  we  are  acquainted. 
So  handy  is  it  that  we  have  set  it  apart  for  that" 
tiocket  coninanionship  for  which,  before  almost  all 
others,  the  book  is  to  l>e  commended.  An  indis- 
pensable preliminary  to  solving  the  mystery  of 
Shakespeare's  Sonnets  is,  as  Mr.  Butler  has 
told  us.  to  commit  them  to  heart.  Special  value 
attaches  to  tho  edition  from  Mrs.  Sto^ies's  introduc- 
tion. That  we  agree  with  all  her  conclusions  we 
may  not  say.  What  she  writes,  however,  is  worthy 
of  studjr.  So  firm  a  believer  in  the  iSouthainpton 
theory  is  she  that  the  portrait  of  the  Earl,  repro- 
duced from  that  at  Welbeek  Abbey,  forms  a  frontis- 
piece to  the  volume.  This  edition  of  the  Sonnets 
appears  to  form  part  of  what  is  called  '  The  King*a 
Shakespeare."  "rhc  three  works  we  have  conjoin  to 
form  a  notable  a<ldition  to  "The  King's  Library." 

Old    Faimoutfi.      By    Susan   K     Gay.      (Headloy 

Brothers.) 
MisTREM.s  G.w  (if  we  may  use  the  old  term, 
ambiguously  convenient  to  a  reviewer)  has  made 
extensive  collectanea  of  all  that  illustrates  the 
history  and  fortunes  of  the  interesting  old  town 
from  whicii  ihe  writes,  and  we  can  hardly  find  fault 
if  Falniouthian  events  and  personages  loom  dispro- 
noriioiiately  largo  in  the  eyes  of  its  enthusiastic 
historian.  At  times  the  minute  coDBcientiou8nes.<> 
with  which  local  details  are  given  reminiis  us  of 
those  old  chronick-8  of  which  a  satirist  remarked — 

If  but  a  brickbat  from  a  chimney  falls 

All  these,  and  thousand  such  like  loves  as  these. 

They  close  in  chronicles  like  buttertlies. 

The  author's  industrious  researches  might  have 
been  prosecuted  more  widely  with  advantage.  She 
has  much  to  tell  us  about  the  Killigrews  of  the- 
soventeenth  and  eighteenth  centuries,  but  no 
reference  is  made  to  Pepys's  allusions  to  various 
members  of  the  family,  not  even  to  the  Tom 
Killigrew  who  was  the  favourite  poet  and  booa* 
companion  of  Charles  II.  And  what  warrant  is 
there  for  the  assertion  tliat  the  name  Killigrew 
means  "a  grove  of  eagles"? — which  on  the  face 
of  it  seems  unlikely.  It  is  surely  a  rash  con- 
clusion to  draw  from  the  mere  apjiearance  of  the 
name  "  Jerubbaal  Gideon  "  in  a  baptismal  register, 
that  some  Jews  must  have  joined  the  Church  f  Tho 
Latinityof  an  epitaph  (p.  46)  needs  some  revision 
to  make  it  intelligible.  And  what  u  quaint  correc- 
tion is  this  at  the  end  of  the  book,  that  for 
"  (Charles  II.  and)  his  father  "  (p.  20) should  be  read 
"hia  royal  father'!  There  is  a  good  supply  of 
illustrations  pleasingly  produced,8ome  of  very  locaV 
celebrities. 

L^nt  and  Holy  Wtek:     By  Herbert  Thurston,  S.  J. 

(Longmans  &  Co.) 
Mr.  TinTRSTON's  book  comes  within  onr  ken  as 
being  one  that  treats  of  the  ritual  observances  of 
the  Koman  Churt'h  on  their  historical  and  anti- 
quarian side  rather  than  their  devotional.  Such 
subjects  as  the  Carnival,  the  Tenebrre  Herae, 
Maundy  customs,  the  Harrowing  of  Hell,  and  other 
pre-Reformation  beliefs  and  praotices,  afford  htm 
ample  material  on  which  to  enlarge,  and  thout^jk 
there  is  little  that  can  be  caU*^  w*.-^  «t.  «^v»3k9».^ 
the  &ulV\QT  ■yjtWft*  Vac\CiVj  %.TA\J«»»»j«Oii^,^^'»'^"^"'^ 


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Jiowovor,  »ie  di«:Iiiin»»  »ny  tnleiition  of  discuaaitiK 
(he  oriifiii  anil  nie*i»ifiK  of  /ulk-customs-the  use  of 
EMter  *!««  »"'l  «•''«  like— oven  though  they  have 
kiten  more  or  less  reooKoized  by  the  Church,  his 
ootioM  of  auch  «ubject8  are  aomewhat  meaj^e  aod 
^iaapfMinting.  Mr.  Thurston  candidly  admits  that 
many  of  the  aocepted  BymboliHtns  of  the  Komati 
<;hiirch  are  without  doubt  niere  afterthought!, 
which  never  entered  the  mind  of  the  framers  of 
the  cereiuouy.  To  egpritJt  forU  some  of  them  appear 
to  be  (if  not  childish)  childlike  iu  the  simplicity  of 
their  make-believe.  Such,  for  instance,  is  the 
ouBtom  of  solemnly  insertinc  five  icr&in*  <J>  incenae 
in  the  substance  of  the  poKchal  candle  to  typify  the 
woundi  of  tlie  Uivine  Victiai.  This  particular 
practice,  the  writer  conjectures,  may  have  arisen 
out  of  a  iniBunderatanilinc;  of  the  Latin  words 
**  iMfrn«i  hujus  sacrificiuni,'  "the  sacrifice  of  this 
liahltd  [candle],"  as  if  they  meant  "  the  sacrifice 
of  this  »n«>w«.  The  book  is  exoelleutly  printed 
ami  illustrated,  and  deserves  the  attention  of  those 
interested  in  ritual  obBervancea. 

Tht  I'arith  CUrlc  and  hit  liight  to  Read  the  Litnr- 
airal  ICjiitlle.  By  Cuthl>ert  Atchley,  L.R.C.P. 
(Longmans  &  Co.) 
Is  this  tract,  written  for  the  Alcuin  Club,  Mr. 
Atohley  makes  out  a  case  of  merely  academic 
interest  in  favour  of  the  lay  clerk  t>einK  allowed 
to  r«ad  the  Kpiatle  iu  tho  Communion  Service  as 
well  as  the  Lessons.  He  has  no  desire,  however, 
to  see  the  old  custom  revived.  Why  should  a 
young  man  '^completeiy  boptired"  be  regarded  as 
somewhat  of  a  ranly  (p.  5)  7 

Amon«  other  poinla  discussed  in  the  InUrmediairc 
■during  the  last  three  nionlhs  arc  the  blood  of 
8t.  JanuariuB,  the  first  introduction  of  pepper  into 
France,  Bymbolic  shells  used  as  amulets  from  pre- 
historic times,  and  the  authorship  of  the  well- 
known  phrase  "  Apr^s  nioi  le  deluge."  This  saying, 
it  ap|>eari,  was  in  reality  coined  by  Madame  de 
ft'ompadour,  although  "  it  wa.s  so  exactly  the  mol, 
the  expression  of  that  reign  of  from  hand  to  mouth, 
that  it  was  believed,  with  ruaaon,  only  the  toeU- 
ibdovtd  king  could  have  uttered  it."  The  ritual 
murder  ao  commonly  attributed  to  the  Jews  by 
uarrow-niinded  fanaticism  ia  also  dealt  with.  It 
would  be  well  if  some  learned  Hebrew  would  pub- 
lish a  European  bibliography]  of  this  subject,  with 
a  suitable  introductiuu,  paring  due  attention  to 
the  fact  that  the  blnadHOca  attributed  to  his  co- 
religionists in  the  Middle  Ages  can  only  have  been 
specially  horrible  from  theological  reasons.  Every 
"civilized"  country  in  those  days  was  so  habituated 
■to  the  idea  of  violence  and  outrage  that  the  accused 
'inuat  have  been  detestad  because  they  were  held 
to  be  miscreanta,  in  the  old  sense  of  the  word, 
•rather  than  becausethey  were  believed  tobehuman 
beings  who  had  slain  their  fellows. 

Folklore  for  March  contains  '  The  Story  of 
Deirdrc,  in  its  Bearing  on  the  Kocial  Development 
of  the  Folk-talc,'  un  article  demonstrating  how  a 
legend  ia  necessarily  modified  and  toned  down  by 
tlie  gradual  softening  of  manners  among  the  i>eoplc 
who  transmit  it  from  generation  to  generation. 
'  Arthur  and  Gorlagon,'  in  the  same  journal,  is  an 
Knglish  version  of  a  curious  fourteenth-century 
Latin  text  in  which  the  werewolf  idea  occurs, 
aynij>athy  being  with,  and  not  against,  the  wolf. 
'U'jjt»rdry  oa  the  Welsh  Border,"  by  Miss  B.  A. 
fV/ierry,  a  veryyouog  foJk-/ori»t,  who  gives  proaiise 


of  doing  excellent  work  in  the  future,  is  decidedly 
entertaining.  More  t  haii  one  of  her  stories  exists 
in  a  slightly  different  form  iu  £asteru  Kngland. 
For  instance.  Jack  Kent,  who  sent  the  crows  into 
an  old  barn  while  he  went  to  a  fair,  had  a  fellow- 
wizArd  in  North-Weat  Lincolnahire,  where  William 
of  Lindhohue,  who  also  disliked  "scariny;  birds'" 
from  the  croiks,  imprisoned  the  sparrows  in  a  similar 
manner  while  he  went  to  enjoy  himself  at  Wroob 
feast.  The  legend  is  also  known  to  occur  in  France 
and  Spain. 

Prok.  Saimtsbukt  has  prepared  a  list  of  the  most 
important  of  Carolinian  poets  whose  work  has  been 
tiractically  consigned  to  oblivion,  and  has  arranged 
for  the  publication  of  their  chief  conlributioas  to 
the  jioetry  of  the  reigns  of  the  first  and  seooad 
Charles.  The  Hcheme  already  includes  Chamber- 
layoe'a  '  Pharonnida'  (1659),  ilarmion's  *  Cupid  and 
Payche'  (lai?).  Bishop  Henry  King's  *  FoemB'(l6S7), 
Benlowes'a  '  Theophila '  (1(362),  T.  ^  ■  '  '  '  Poems' 
( Itifil) and 'Aurora'dlJS**,  Patrick  I'oenu' 

(I622),  K.  GonierBall's  *  Poems' (li;  v  Godol- 

phin's  '  Poems'  (a.  ltH3),  Kynastou'ii  '  l.rts«.>fiue  aod 
Syndanis'  (l&ili,  T.  Beedome's  'Poems'  (1641), 
Robert  Heath's  'Clarastella' (l&V)),  Bi8ho]>  Joseph 
Hall's  'Poems'  (1651),  Flecknoe's  'Miscellanies' 
(ISTvl),  Flatnmn's  'Poems'  (1674).  Katherine  Phil 
liijs's  ("Urinda")  'Poems*  (1667).  Philip  Ayres's 
'  Lyric  Poems '  (1687).  Patrick  Carejra  '  Poems  and 
Triolets'  (16.>1),  and  John  Cleveland's  '  Poeois ' 
(1653).  The  book,  which  will  contain  the  neG«aa&ry 
introductions  and  notes  to  each  group  of  poems 
and  a  general  introduction  by  E'rof.  Saiutsbnry,  will 
be  published  at  the  Clarendon  Press  in  two  octavo 
volumes,  of  which  the  first  will  be  ready  iu  the 
autumn. 

ITolifta  isf  C0rr(sfionbmt«. 

We  mrul  call  tpucial  cUieiUion  to  the  following 
noticts  :— 

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POPULAR    SIXSHILLING    NOVELS. 


By  Mrs.  HUMPHRY  WARD. 

LADY  ROSE'S  DAUGHTER. 

with  ]Ilaiir«uoD<  [Ooet  tCO.CfiO  Ct>piet  told. 

•  lle%6cn  b»Tc  rarely  been  Ie4  with  locb  Intcmt  kloot  ti>*  covnc 

V(  *«}  BUT*)."— Mc.    WlllltV    PxiV    HooiMt. 

ELEANOK.-  lOrtr  ItO.OOO  Cejiit*  told. 

with  IDucntlndf  b;  ALBERT  HTBRN8R 
*•  X  real  love  fCnrr.   .  Mn   Wan]  hat  nevor  rlT(>a  ii«  ■  ttoAk  that 
flndf  lu  way  to  oBf'i  brart  •<«  comjilnirlj. '— /.^n^mh  UMtrrferlti  Mtt^tH 

HHLBECK  of  BANNI8DALE.  ptA  tatiim. 

••  A  bonk,  which  will  Uka  rank  ollb  Mra  Hunphrr  Ward'f  bcM  work 
. , .  ,Th«  Iton  U  a  vtory  nf  a  ireal  paa«loB  wonhilj  told."— Dmri 

SIB  GEORGE  TRESS  A  DY.  [M  BdiUtm. 

"  An  «xcc«dla|lr  abl«  Ikm>k.    W»  iloubi  It  tay  Olber  UiIbk  womui 
caald  bate  wrliteo  a   -.<'»»>/"<-./. 


By  A.  CONAN  DOYLE. 

Tho  TRAGEDY  of  the  KOROSKO. 

with  <0  Ftill facir  IllnntradoDi. 
•'  \  maaKcrpleiie.' — J^/vd.Ur. 

imCLB  BBRNAO.  lUd  BUHm. 

with  i:  Full. Pace  Illnitratiaaa 
"the  faar|D>t>oa  ot  it  M  nXi^otilBa'j ."—  Dailf  ChrmfcU. 

Tha  GREEN  FLAG,  and  othor  TAIJI8  of  WAB 

and  KfOHT     With  a  rroDiltpltM. 
"  Theio  Morlei  HIr  the  blood  and  make  lh«  haan  bmk  Ikater,  an<l 
aav  eailltbniaB  who  doc*  not  eDJoy  them  luntt  kaire  •oiuelhinf  wronjr 
with  bli  namrc  "— IiKir*. 

By  S.  R.  CROCKETT. 


The  SILVER  SKULL. 


lird  ImpTttnon, 


[Zrd  [apruritm. 


With  U  Fall-Paira  IllattrattoB*. 
"  A  work  of  raal  ganlu,  full  orglortoniBdrdlitBre*."— JIn'liah  WrtUp. 

LITTLB  ANNA  MARK.  llnd  Imprtuiam- 

with  a  FrOBtliplece 
"  A  ratUlsK,  roBiInc  itorj  ut  adrratarr  and  rolMKlntalun.' 

Dailif  T<it^ntt*h. 

Tho  BLACK  DOUOLAfl.  [Sr4  /mfnnion. 

WItli  S  Fvll-l>Bin  IlluitraUnaa. 
••A  book  whlth  xrlptibe  ImatiaaUoB  Is  a  thoranihlf  (atltfactorj 

fMhIOB,"— .«./»lifi-. 

The  BED  AXE. 

with  )i  FBll-raito  Illu«lraUoa(. 
"A  powgrtnl  ttorr,  which  he  celli  IB  hit  owa  maaMrtol  ttrle." 

tr»€ktg  Sm. 

OLBO  KBLLY,  ARAB  of  the  CITY. 

(((A  ImpTotion. 

"Teami  withlBcldeatii  ot  ail  tnrtt,  and  It  carrlat  the  nadar  atnnt. 

krenlf  lal«rctt«d  aad  (all  of  tyupaihf ,  frsm  the  itric  pana  to  the  laat." 

SftcUlar. 

By  BERNARD  E   J.  CAFES. 

The  SECRET  in  the  HILL. 

■' tngkcraaqBalr  Irath  iB  haoiliBir. .. .Mr.  Oapaa'a  taniUlr  or  Ibtwb- 
<■•■  aad  bimioiir  It  at  lu  b«i."-  Dolly  tiptttt. 


A  CASTLE  in  SPAIN. 

"A  really  ttlrrliir  rDmance.   — OiirVi 


[ird  Imptttnon. 


By  JOSEPH  CONRAD  and  FORD 
MADOX  HUEFFER. 

ROMANCE :  a  Novel.  \ti»i  Imprtition. 

"  '  Komancc '  It  a  brilllaot  iblBK,  vUld,  aad  at  full  ol  tho  tiapplnirt 
ot  romABca  ai  ao  eir  I*  of  tafX."—AO<e»»<im. 


By  HENRY  SETON  MERRIMAN. 

PLOT^  -V  ^  i^tA  fmpranan. 

•'  A  '  ■  ^c  vlU  rap*;  UT  nktor,  etd  or  jpmMK.  tm  tk* 

rtadlni; 

TOMASO'S  FORTUNE,  and  other  Stories. 

[Jutt  puMi4iktd. 
BARLA8CH  of  tho  GUARD.  IcrA  . 

"  Thire  It  tbe  (OBlnt  af  a  M«luoBktT  la  hi*  d*lla«atlo« 
liarlaHh Hr  It  eat  ot  the  belt  loldler  elancten  IB  Oc^a*  "■ 

The  VULTURES.  (''"i 

"Uaa  of  Haarj  Keton    Merrtmaii't  vtrr  biM A   powarfttl  aad 

thnlliBf  book  "-Ui'H* 

The  VELVET  GLOVE.  [AM  tmyrtuim. 

"A  (ood  ttorr We  have   aothlBir  Ixtt  pralia  tor  th«   ■Ul(«|lf 

iBlaTwoven  plot  and  the  artMtIc  deralopneat  nf  ehan<wr." 

The  IBLB  of  UNRBST. 
Wiu  lIlBatiammi. 
■'  A  reallT  admlriMd  b«t#I.'  -lfon<r»|i  P».r. 

BODEN'B  CORNER. 

I'nr  .liaiiiaile  tllnatloo,  luteatitj,  aad  UBiplleltf  bl  aarras**  tt  la 
marrelLoat.  "  —  Puuf'h, 

IN  KEDAR'S  TENTS.  [S(A  Kditum. 

"  Mr.  MoniniaB  It  at  hie  belt,    tl  la  tiinot><ieBtar«,  of  haaa«r, 
and  of  rifour  "—  llua(tfuiH- 

The  GREY  LADY.  [Ifmo  Xttttm. 

Wltc  I.'  Full  ItKe  lilBtintloni. 
"A  ttor;  of  iirlklDt  oierlt  Ihroiiibmil'  — (yj<4r. 

The  SOWERS.  TC^  AfiriM. 

'  Vrrr  ■sifflenll  iBdood  to  laj  doara  BBlU  li>  lait  >•««   liaa  Waa 

tuniad."— OripAfc. 

WITH  EDOEDITOOLS.  [A'w  SdHien. 

"  Admirably  coocclrad TtcAtorx  aeTer  Hajct  ar  lAii*rt '' 

PROM  ONE  GENERATION  to  AN 

.iia, 

"Tha  b<H>k   U   a  food  book      ibc  vbaraetcra  ait.  ^ _...,   L-oa- 

\.niAei:- IVutlraud  h,i,.U»  \rtt4. 

The  BLAVErof  the  LAMP.  (.Vn>  lUtXton. 

-AmaiMrli   ttorr tu   llk«   real  lit*,   aad   u  aaUnI;  u«m>. 

national."— Jfiifu-Wttcr  Oumriian. 


(iS(A  /wyraMJm. 


[Sri  eatttm. 


By  STANLEY  J.  WEYMAN. 

COUNT  HANNIBAL.  C^tA  /mpni^^ 

"The  reader  will  be  tearcair  coDtdoo*  ui  lakla*    bfaalJk....ltE 

WoTmaB  tt  ttr  la  parlor  to  kit  Mnapetltota."— ilfiuawtarf  [nj  i  jTMa. 

Tho  CASTLE  INN.  tith  Bbtmi. 

with  a  FronUtplrce. 
"  A  ttor;  which  the  reader  lollowe  with  excited  carl«alt}.*-IWut 

IN  KING'S  BYTKTAYS.  r*** 

Will  tie  •aloipcd  hj  ertrt  oae  to  irheni  tha  '  0«aU«<aaa  el 

ana  la      ■   •    -  ■ 


•ppealetl 


point  ot  an  the  aaeedotat  frettiy  eaeai  HwaataL' 


By  ANTHONY  HOPE. 


Tho  INTRUSIONS  of  PEGGY. 

••  r^nt  !•  altojeiher  .kao  ul  the  iBoat  de<lfhtf«J  t 
appeared  Id  recant  flctloa."—  n  r  onMiMr  OaaCM. 


Itnd  Imp 


\  By  A.  E.  W.  MASON. 

The  POUR  FEATHERS.  (PM  ImpimtmmL. 

It  la  Indeed  a  itratid  .lory  lold  wilh  each  etiaBakhT  am  aalrit 

MBMlM4aaareiarolytob«fobBdiabook*.'--^i«^^^  ^^ 


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W0TK8:-C<>M  Hftrbour:  Wlmly  Arbour,  341 -"  Hor*e  "  In 
'Hactwth'— BilOioRDipbT'orPulillshlBK.  »t2-M.  HIMe*- 
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Qi;RRIBS:-Maiuonl  In  Hngllih  —  Wallteoflf  Family — 
•  Qrenadier'fi  Bxerclae  of  the  Or«iUMlo,' 34  7— "  Pee<1  tb* 
lirulv  "— Byard  Family— Hugo'i  '  Lei  Ab>elllea  Inip^riaUa ' 

—  Ma«eingf<r'a  'Fatal  Dowry'  —  North  Auttrallaii  Voca- 
butarlvi  —  Calbedml  Hlah  Sfcrwards  —  '  Athena^  Canta- 
liriitUnsei'— WillUmFeok— Joha  Smith,  Speaker  17»>^8, 
3i8— Printing  in  the  Channel  lBle»— '  Iru»,'  S>it>po*ed 
Play  by  ShakMpeare— St<\vl«— '"  Barrar"— St.  FIna  of 
OimlKnatlo— MlliWry  Buttom -.  Sereeanta'  Chevroni— 
Aiinalral  Sir  S.  QrelR— Indian  Suort— W«<»Ipy  anil  Qanltnt 
—Rev.  Arthur  GalU>n— Kioomedo  Bianchi,  349. 

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Belbuny'a  —  8bakeap««re'a  Orave  —  Baater  Day  liy  the 
Julian  Beckoning  —  Flaying  Alive  —  Harltiorougb  and 
Bbakeapeare,  35»— "  Tub*,"  Wykebamlcal  Notion— Hnti- 
lated  Latin  LInea— Feudal  Sjntem,  353— Tbo  Plougbgaog 
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to  pa*i  through"— "Badger  in  the  l»ag"— 'The  Oreevey 
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355-"  Hangpd,  drawn,  and  quartered"— MarU-Uo  Tower* 

—  &owe  Family— iV  pronounce  a*  ng,  3!>i — Bunu  Antl- 
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COLD  HARBOUR:  VVLNDV  ARBOUR. 
Although  this  interesting  subject  has 
often  beea  discussed  in  '  N.  &  Q.,'  it  has 
never  been  exhausted,  and  unless  you  can 
refer  me  to  some  exhaustive  and  authorita- 
tive treatnaeut  of  the  matter,  I  hope  you  will 
allow  me  sutHcieut  space  to  raise  certain 
points,  and  to  ask  your  many  readers  to  assist 
in  clearing  them. 

1.  As  to  meaning. — The  best  authorities 
«eem  to  agree  that  Cold  Harbour  (with  \U 
variants  Cold  Arbour,  ic)  is  simply  a  com- 
bination of  the  ordinary  word  "cold" 
{possibly  in  a  sense  nearly  aicin  to  our  present 
"cool  )' and  "harbour,"  in  the  sense  of  a 
-shelter  or  resting-place.  Other  suggestions 
that  I  have  seen  appear  to  be  guesses  ;  but 

'it  will  be  interesting  to  have  any  proof  or 
evidence  that  may  seem  to  support  other 
theories  of  meaning  or  derivation. 

2.  Ah  to  kindred  "Col"  names. — If  the 
ordinary  suggestion  as  to  meaning  and  as  to 
use  (see  l>elo«)  of  the  Cold  Harbours  be 
accepted,  it  seems  curious  that  many  Cold 
Harlniurs  should  be  close  to  other  placen  with 
*'  Col "  names.  For  instance,  to  mention  only 
A  few  :  Cold  Arbour,  two  miles  west  north- 
west of  Sittingbourne,  is  close  to  Keycol 


Hill  ;  Cold  harbour,  two  miles  north  of  Wrot- 
ham,  is  not  far  from  the  Coldrum  Stones ; 
and  Cold-harbour  farm,  four  miles  and  a 
half  south-south-east  from  Canterbury,  is 
near  Cooling  Downs.  Near  other  Cold 
Harbours,  or  alongside  the  roads  with  which 
they  are  associated,  are  such  names  as 
Colman's  Ash,  Colley  Hill,  Collickmoor, 
Colekitchen,  (S:c.,  and  the  meanings  or  deriva- 
tions of  some  of  them  may  throw  light  on 
some  of  the  Cold  Harbours. 

3.  As  to  equivalent  or  partial) v  equivalent 
names. — Windy  Arbour,  round  along  some  of 
the  old  roads  in  the  North  of  England,  has 
been  stated  to  be  the  exact  equivalent  of 
Cold  Harbour,  thougii  it  would  seem  toim[}ly 
that  the  name  was  given  in  an  unapprecia- 
tive  sense  rather  than  as  conveying  appre- 
ciation of  a  cool  shelter  in  the  summer 
travelling  time.  Caldecot,  Caldecote,  and 
corruptions  are  quoted  as  names  of  kindred 
significance,  and  these  seem  to  suggest  that 
the  coldness  is  bleak  and  undesiraole  rather 
than  advantageous. 

4.  As  to  use.— It  is  stated  that  our  Cold 
Harbours  were  all  shelters,  or  uu  warmed 
resting-places,  along  roads,  and  it  is  some- 
times suggested  that  they  were  buildings. 
It  is  also  stated  that  they  were  cam  pin  g- 
pliices  (without  buildings),  chosen  on  account 
of  sheltering  trees  and  suitable  water  supply 
for  the  travellers'  horses.  Again,  it  is  sug- 
gested that  the  shelters  were  not  connected 
primarily  with  travellers,  but  were  night- 
camping  places  for  drovers  moving  herds  of 
cattle  or  uorses  to  distant  fairs  or  markets. 

5.  As  to  locality.— It  is  stated  that  "almost 
all ''  the  Cold  Harbours  and  Windy  Arbours 
are  alon^  Roman  roads,  and  they  are  asso- 
ciated with  the  Romans.  Alternatively,  it  is 
said  that  they  all  lie  near  old  roads,  without 
reference  to  the  Romans, 

The  collection,  collation,  and  study  of  facts 
from  a  large  number  of  localities  should 
throw  interesting  light  upon  several  points 
which  are  not  at  all  clear  at  present,  and  I 
suggest  that  your  readers  who  nave  access  to, 
or  Knowledge  of,  Cold  Harbours,  Windy 
Arbours,  Caldecotes,  &c.,  bo  asked  to  com- 
municate the  following  particulars  :  —  1. 
Name,  as  now  spelt.  2.  Position.  3.  Local 
suggestions  as  to  meaning  or  derivation  ; 
with  evidence,  if  any.  -1.  Other  local  "Col  "- 
named  places,  stating  whether  the  o  is  pro- 
nounced long  or  short ;  and  their  direc- 
tion and  distance  from  the  Cold  Harbour, 
Ac.  ft.  Locally  accepted  derivations  of 
these  names.  6.  Distance  and  direction  of 
the  Cold  Harbour  (itc.)  from  nearest  <aWi. 
trade  road  oc  tUyavw\  x^jw^.  -^ .  %vij\ski<s45!X-<i 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES,      no*  s.  i.  Anm. »,  1901 


of  the  Cold  Harboar  (&c.)  for  a  rammer  or 
winter  shelter,  in  the  matter.')  of  aspect,  pro- 
tection from  wind,  supply  of  water.  Sec. 
8.  Suitability  for  a  drovers'  camp.  9.  Suit- 
ability (especially  if  far  from  any  known 
main  road)  for  a  great  fold  or  cattle  shelter. 
10.  Evidence  that  a  hoatelr)',  caravansary,  or 
built  sjhelter-house  anciently  existed.  11. 
Earlier  spellings  of  the  name,  and  earliest 
date  at  which  it  ia  known  to  have  been  used 
(on  maps,  deeds,  <I;c.)  in  any  of  its  forms. 
12.  If  on  Ordnance  map,  state  the  fact ;  if 
not,  give  bearings  from  nearest  town,  village, 
farm,  <bc.,  also  height  above  sea  level,  and 
nature  and  aspect  of  situation. 

A  reader  who  can  do  no  more  than  care- 
fully search  a  few  sections  of  the  Ordnance 
map,  and  drop  me  a  line  stating  which 
sections  he  has  examined,  and  giving  brief 
particulars  of  the  Cold  Harbours  (ic.)  found, 
or  a  .statement  that  none  are  to  be  found, 
in  I  lie  sections  in  question,  will  materially 
help. 

If  particulars  are  sent  to  mo  I  will  carefully 
sift  and  digest  them.     With  auything  like  a 

general  response  from  your  reaJers,  it  should 
e  possible  to  prepare  a  most  interesting 
report,  for  which  room  may  possibly  be  found 
in  "your  pages.  H.  Snowben  Wakd, 

Hadlow,  Keut. 


SHAKESPEARIANA. 

HoRaE.— If  ever  there  was  an  emendation 
to  be  made  in  Shakespeare  that  is  certain  and 
obviou.9,  it  U  that  ''horses,"  in  'Macbeth,' 
II.  iv.  13,  is  a  mere  mi.spriut  for  horie. 

The  First  Folio  prints  it  in  a  peculiar  way, 
which  intimates  that  the  printers  missed  the 
scansion  of  the  line.    It  appears  thus  :— 

HoiSt.    And  Dxincana  Horses, 
(A  thing  most  strange,  and  certaine) 
BeauteouB  and  swift,  so. 

Ij         The  right  reading  is : — 

And   Duncan'a  horse  (a   thing  most  strange   and 

eertikin), 
B«nut«oiis  and  awifl,  Ac 

The  point  is  simply  that,  being  a  neuter 
Doun  with  a  long  stem,  the  A.-S.  kors  was 
unchanged  in  the  plural,  like  our  modern 
ahetp&nd  dter.  The  same  is  true  for  Middle 
English  generally— for  Chaucer,  and  (what 
Is  here  very  material)  for  Shakespeare  also. 
Indeed,  we  find  it  again  in  the  very  same 
play  !  In  'Macbeth,'  IV.  i.  140,  we  find  "  the 
galloping  of  horse." 

In  further  proof  of  the  point,  take  the  fol- 
loviag  examples,  which  are  all  from  Shake- 
epeare  ;— 


Some  in  their  hawks  and  boosda,  some  in  their 
horse.  Sonnet  Wl. 

A  teem  of  bone  AM  not  plnok  that  from  oie. 

'  Two  Cientlemen,"  111  j.  365. 

Another  tell  faim  of  hia  hounds  and  horse. 

'Twn.  Shrew,"  Induct.  61. 

Or  horse  or  oxen.—"  I  Hen.  VI.,'  I.  v.  31, 
Oxen,  sheep,  or  horse.— /<i.,  V.  v.  5U 

So  also  '  3  Heo.  VI.,'  IV,  v.  12  ;  *  Titus,"  H.  ii 
18 ;  '  Ant.,'  III.  vi.  46 ;  III.  vii.  7,  & 

The  pi.  Ao»7itf»  also  occurs,  as  in  Sonnet  91  • 
but  it  is  clear  that  the  older  plural  was  still 
well  known. 

The  passage  is  noted  in  Abbott's  *Shak. 
Oram.,'  %  471.  under  the  statement  :— 

"The  plurals  &nd  possessive  cases  of  Doona  ia 
which  the  singular  ends  in  is  #e,  m,  ct,  and  c/e,  are 
frecjaently  written,  and  Btill  more  frcqneotly  pro- 
nounced, without  the  additional  syllable." 

That  may  be  true  enough,  but  it  has  nothing 
to  do  with  the  present  passage.  His  alttr- 
native  note,  that  '*horie  is  the  old  plural,"  is 
alone  correct  here  ;  and  surely  it  suffices.  lii 
Sonnet  91  it  rhymes  with /or<?e. 

The  final  $  ought,  in  fact,  to  be  atrock  ouV 
because  it  contraaicts  Shakespeare's  usage 
in  many  other  passages. 

Waltee  W.  SK£AT. 


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'ArRii-aO,  1904,] 


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34S 


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r..  .r 

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4to,  Lfjndon,  1896. 

Tliough  WoodliouMS  was  lictter  kii>  >  i^| 

tlHjemaliCr,"  iio  wa«  lu  Ijusluf**  for  »or!.  at 

il  1 ,  Oxfont  StriH-t.  nR  a  bookseller.  Set-  ;  it, 

NoveniU-r.  Iffin,  art.  '  Sorting   my    L  ».' 

It  w iw  to  WiH^Uioute  that  JohuMin  g.i>  >  i >  o 

dayti  ami  nlglits,  »IT,  to  the  rtiuly  of  A''  .         .  ,.  ....  ...i.ao 

either  to  !«  a  good  writer,  or  what  is  more  worth,  an  aouc«t 
mail  "  (Mrs.  Plotrf's  '  Anecdotes  of  JuIm«on  '). 

Wyer.  Robert,  fl.   1529-56.— Robert  Wyer.  Printer 
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facsimiles  of  types  and  marks.  Small  4to,  Biblio- 
graphical Society,  1897- 
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Mefcreuei-*  mtuXf  t.->  Smith,  Elder  A  Co.  and  the  CornhiU 
Mitijiiiint,  David   Bogiie,  John   Maxwell.  Edwanl   TInrfey, 
ftcorgo  Beiitley,  Oeorge  Koutk'ilge.  ainl  othrrs. 
EriLocfUK. 
"If  asked,  Why  Printers  and  Booksellers,  in  par- 
ticular ? — I  answer,  they  are  a  valuable  class  of  the 
community— the  friendly  assistants,  at  least,  if  not 
the  patrons  of  literature,— and  I  myself,  one  of  iho 
fraternity.     Let  the  members  of  other  ))rofeaaiont, 
if  they  approve  of  the  suggestion,  in  lik<?  Tnantter 
record  the  meritorious  actions  of  their  I'i  "— 

John    Nichols    (quoted    from    the    ti  f 

Tiinperley'a  *  Dictionary  of  Printers  an  i  : 

1839). 

Wm.  H.  P£ET. 


Mabk  Hildeslet.— a  marble  tablet,  now 
broken  into  two  pieces,  with  a  somewfiat 
curiouH  luHtory,  may  be  seen  let  into  a  coltimn 
in  the  crypt  beneath  the  chapel  at  Lincoln's 
Inn.  It  commemorates  Mark  HiUley,  Hild.sle^', 
Hildesley,  or  Hildersley,  as  the  name  is 
variously  spelt,,  and  was  discovered  built  into 
the  embrasure  of  a  window  at  No.  13,  f>l<i 
Square,  when  that  building  was  demoli.<;Iiiil 
in  1881.  No.  8,  Old  Square  now  occupies 
part  of  the  site.  In  Foster's  'Alumni  Oxon.V 
lb  is  stated  that  Mark  Eildealey  was  *. 
Scholar  of  C.C.C.,  Oxford,  in  16411,  but  he 
graduated  RA.  from  Emanuel  College,  Caiu- 


w-s.  I  Ai^n, 30,1904]      NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


345 


bridge,  in  1650,  and  in  tho  same  year  became 
a  Fellow  of  New  College. 

The  Lincoln's  Inn  Records  prove  that  he 
was  admitted  a  member  of  that  Society  on 
30  December,  1648,  when  he  is  described  as 
"son  and  heir  app.  of  Mark  H.,  of  City  of 
London,  gon.";  and  at  a  Council  held  on 
26  .luue,  1650, 

"Mr.  Mark  Hildoley  is  admitted  to  a  Chamber  in 
the  Qiaiiel  Hiairii  wliich  Mr.  Myles  Richardson 
now  hold!*,  I'ttyiriK  \0l.  forthwith;  'soeaa  he  doe 
not  ke«i>e  any  otlioe  therein,  the  same  by  reason  of 
the  Bcytuation  thereof,  Boe  neere  the  Chappoll, 
Iwing  very  iiKoiivenieul  for  that  use.' " 

He  was  called  to  the  Bar  on  6  February, 
1656. 

Where  he  was  buried,  or  whore  the  tablet 
in  question  originally  came  from,  is  at 
present  a  mystery.  The  inscription  itself  is 
not  altogether  free  from  errors  j  probably 
the  stoneinAson  who  cut  it  wa.s  an  illiterate 
man;  and  the  line  commencing  "Qua  Line's 
in"  appears  hopeless.  Nor  is  it  clear  why 
the  date  1092  .should  appear  in  the  upper  part 
when  the  date  of  death  i*  correctly  given  as 
1G93  in  tlie  lower  part.  Possibly  some  reader 
may  be  able  to  suggest  an  amended  reading. 
The  inscription  runs  as  follows  : — 

On  the  upper  fragment — 

Oi'tinins  k  Doniinus  niihi  Mnxim 

at  Benedicat 

Oro;  (ill  Fulvu' Aurum  Virtus 

in  ig^e  Micat) 

Hi«  niercya  are  to  all  y'  Heare  Him 

His  goodness  unto  y'"  y°  Feare  Him 

Feb  xV"  MDCXtii" 

On  the  lower  fragment — 

ExUViw  M.VRCI  HtLSLV  DOM 

LlXcuLMKKS:  HoHpitio  Aruig'. 

Hoc  in  Loco  inhumatur 

MHii-si.i  cori/  vitR-  aatur, 

Cui  Marc  (Alderman)  I'uter 

4  Dorothea  fuit  mater 

A  STKriiAVP.s  (mercator)  Frater 

P  Cantab  Oxon'  Hnc  Meatur 

Qui  LiS'  s  in,  I'liia  ultra  Datur 

Conjugihui  Bis  Decoratur 

At  Licet  tiliat'  Quator 

Duob"  Tantu"  is  Beatur 

Natui  15  :  Anr.  1630  Denat  mdcxciu 

JEt:  I.XI1I 
Est  mihi  mors  Lucrum.  Fetix 
Post  Funera  Vivam. 

ALAJf  Stkwart. 

rTTfew  Jjiiiiare,  Lincoln's  Inn. 

'  1»  not  February,  lOtG,  merely  the  Old  Style  for 
16023;]  ' 

"Parax>e- Rkst."  — I  have  iuat  read  the 
followitig  it)  the  latest  issue  of  the  'Oxford 

Engli>ih  Dictionary  ' : — 

"  Parade  tett,  a  position  of  reat,  less  latiguinK 
than  that  vt  'attorilion,'  in  which  the  soldier  vtands 
■ileot  and  niotionloM,  much  uMd  darini  r«VM«r». 


1888  Cdiluri/  Mag.  xxxvii.  466/1.     Not  a  maa> 

moved  from  the  military  posture  of  * parade-reat,' " 
I  think  some  readers  may  conclude  that  this 
is  the  known  name  of  a  military  posture  in 
the  British  army  •^  but,  so  far  as  I  know,  it  is 
exclusively  Amencan.  The  name  is  quoted 
from  a  paper  by  John  S.  Wise  in  the  Centurt/^ 
Mivjmine  of  January,  1889,  and  its  title  is 
'  The  West  PSint  of  the  Confederacy  :  Boys 
in  Battle  at  New  Market,  Virginia,  15  May, 
1864.'  W.  S. 

Shanks's  Mark.  (See  ante,  p.  2iy.)— In  a 
review  of  Mr.  Wright's  'English  Dialect 
Dictionary,'    at    the    above    reference,    this 

f)assage  occurs  :  "Shanks'  wire  as  equiva- 
ont  to  'on  foot'  is  familiar.  Less  so  are 
such  phrase  as  shank*'  nag  and  s/uinks' 
galloxoivj"  This  seems  hardly  applicable  to 
the  practice  of  the  Scottish  Lowlands. 
"Shanks  nag,"  in  the  form  '^shanks 
naggy  "  or  "  snanks  naigie,"  appears  to  be 
in  general  usse  at  the  present  time  in  at 
least  the  counties  of  Ayr,  Lanark,  Stirling, 
and  Fife.  I  have  heard  "shanks  naigie" 
hundreds  of  times,  but  my  only  familiarity 
with  "  shanks  mare  "  is  from  its  recognition 
in  Jamieson's  '  Scottish  Dictionary,'  which 
gives  no  illustration  for  this  particular  form. 
Shanks  galloway,"  of  course,  is  a  perfectly 
possible  variant,  and  is  quite  likely  to  be 
common  in  the  south-west  of  Scotland,  but 
its  si>ecific  reference  indicates  its  necessary 
limitations.  "Slianks  naggy,"  on  the  other 
hand,  has  literary  value,  from  its  occurrence 
in  '  Scornf u'  Nancy,'  one  of  the  old  anonymous 
songs  of  Ramsay's  'Tea  Table  Miscellany* 
(1724).  In  this  song  the  wooer,  who  would 
fain  supplant  a  favoured  rival,  enumerates 
certain  credentials,  which  he  regards  as  per- 
sonal recommendations,  and  tiien  proceeds 
thus : — 

Althongh  ray  father  was  nae  laird, 

'Tie  daffin  to  be  %-aunty, 
He  keepit  aye  a  good  kail-yard, 

A  ha  hoQse  and  a  pantry : 
A  good  blew  bonnet  on  his  head, 

An  owrlay  'Ijout  his  cragy  ^ 
And  aye,  until  the  day  he  ay  d. 

He  rode  on  good  shanks  naggy. 

In  his  'Ancient  and  Modern  Scottish 
Songs,'  1791,  Herd  reads  "shanks-naigy " ; 
Ritson,  in  'Scotish  Songs,'  1794,  has  "shanks 
naggte,"  while  Johnson,  in  the  '  Musical 
Museum,'  and  Thomson,  in  his  '  Select  C'oUec- 
tion  '—anthologies  glorified  by  the  superin- 
tendence of  Burns  —  both  give  "shanks 
nagr."  The  expression  does  not  occtjr 
in  Burns's  poems.  Jamieson,  who  enters 
"shanks-naigie"'     \n    \va    ^\tSSssw«^>   "»>.-cv'N- 


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if  >'n  Kitaon  u(  supi-d,  and  ^ives  this  farther 
ilJustration  from  Gal t'8  'Sir  Andrew  Wylie,' 
I 


maun    gang;  there  on 

THOMAft  BaYNK. 


"No  just  sae  far; 
Shanks-naggy." 

"Only  Fred."— The  following  paragraph 
from  the  York  Courant  of  26  March,  1761,  haa 
been  recently  revealed  : — 

"  Between  tea  and  eleveD  o'clock  laat  night 
('JO  March)  died,  at  LeiocBter  House  (to  the  utmost 
grief  and  concern  of  hia  Royal  Family  and  Houbo- 
£old,  and  inexpreaaible  loss  of  the  puhlic],  the  most 
High  Paiuant  and  most  illustrious  Prince  Fre<ierick 
Ijewis,  eldest  son  of  our  Most  Gracious  Suvereijni, 

•George    II .To    form    a    just   estimate    of    the 

nation's  loss  by  the  death  of  his  Royal  Highness 
one  should  be  able  to  do  justice  to  his  character. 
but  that  is  more  than  we  dare  venture  to  under- 
take, and  therefore  leave  it  to  some  masterly  liand 
to  tell  the  world  that  the  joy  of  Britain  is  withered, 
ter  hope  is  Rone.  The  merchant's  friend,  the  pro- 
tector of  arts  and  soienoes,  the  (latron  of  merit,  the 
fenerous  reliever  of  the  distressed,  the  accomplished 
'rince,  and  the  fine  (lentleman  in  private  life  is 
now  no  more.  Weep,  all  ye  inhabitants  of  the  land, 
pour  out  floods  of  tears,  let  there  not  be  a  dry  eye 
in  the  nation :  liunible  yourselves  under  this  fatal 
stroke  and  deprecate  the  wrath  of  heaven,  who 
seems  to  liave  taken  away  this  jcreatand  good  Prince 
for  our  numberless  cryiuK  sins. ' 

"Thei'^'s  no  more  to  bo  said," 

St.  SwiTHiN, 

"  CHOP-DOLL\n."— In  many  places  in  Cliioa 
the  Mexican  dollar,  when  found  to  be  of 
good  silver,  often  receives  the  chop  or  stamp 
of  the  tradesman  through  wlioise  hands  it 
paaAes.  At  Shanghai  the  chop  is  applied  in 
black  or  red  ink  by  means  of  a  rubber 
Btamp.  At  HoHE  Kong  a  die  is  used,  and 
some  of  the  metal  is  fetched  away  each  time 
the  chop  is  applietl.  Hence  the  eurface  of 
the  coin  becomes  pitted.  So  much  is  thia  the 
case  that  dollar.^  of  good  silver  are  aome- 
times  rejected  because  tiiey  have  lost  weight. 
The  interesting  part  of  the  case  arises  wuen 
we  find  the  term  applied  figuratively  to  any 
one  whose  face  is  pitted  witli  smallpox.  On 
(first  hearing  the  expression  is  startling,  but 
its  aptnoss  is  unmistakable. 

I  do  not  find  the  won!  with  eitlier  meaning 
in  the  '  H.  E  D.'  It  may  be  as  well  to  say 
that  the  Indian  "chobdar,"  "chopdar,"  or 
■beadle,  is  a  different  word  altogether. 

Du  Ah  Coo. 

Hongkew,  Shanghai. 

Faonley  Halu— In  your  notice  of 
*  Murray's  Handbook  for  Yorkshire,'  anU, 
p.  259,  you  inquire'  if  Farnley  Hall,  three 
miles  west  of  Leeds,  has  disappeared,  and  say 
that  it  is  mentioned  in  'Cassell's  Gazetteer.' 
Man.v  ^'azetteers  besides  Cassell's  mention 
the   Farnley  Hall  alluded   to,  but-  whftt  is 


most  generally  meant  by  Farnley  Hall  is  the 
seat  of  the  Fawkese*i.  Other  cliscrepancies 
and  omiKsions  iu  this  excellent  work  could 
reaflily  be  pointed  out,  but  presumably  tlio 
book  has  already  assumed  sufticiently  alarm- 
ing dimensions  without  giving  every  place 
worth  mentioning  in  our  oroad-acred  shire. 

We  have  in  Yorkshire— all  in  thia  imme- 
diate district— Farnley,  in  the  parish  of 
Otley  ;  Farnley,  iu  the  parish  of  Ijeetis  : 
Farnley  Hey,  a  hamlet  in  the  parish  of 
Almondbury  ;  and  Farnley-Tyas,  a  township 
in  the  parish  of  Almondbury.  In  the  last- 
named  Farnlev  is  WoodsomeHall,  one  of  the 
seats  of  the  Earl  of  Dartmouth,  which  is 
frequently  alluded  to  as  Farnley  Hall. 

As  regards  the  Farnley  Hall  which  U 
missing  from  'Murray,'  the  'National 
Gazetteer '  (1868)  says  :— 

"  Farnley  is  a  chapelry  in  the  parish  and  Iwroufth 
of  Leeds,  west  Riding,  co,  York,  four  miles  south- 
west of  Leeds  and  six  ea«t  ot  Bradford.  The 
■Wortley  station  on  the  Great  Northern  Railway  is 

about  one  mile  to  the  north-east Farnley  Hall  is 

the  prinvij^al  residence." 

Chas.  F.  FoftsHAV,  LL.P. 
Bradford, 

*'  VEHTinuLE  "  as  a  Vebb.— The  announce- 
ment is  going  the  round  of  the  newspapers 
that  through  carriages  on  a  certain  train 
between  London  and  Hull  will  henceforward 
"  be  vestibuled  through  "  to  an  express  at 
an  intermediate  station  ;  and  this  u«e  of 
"  vestibule"  as  a  verb  seems  to  deserve  note. 

A.  F.  H. 

Siberia.— The  Russian  name  of  Siberia, 
viz.,  Sibir,  has  been  sometimes  connected, 
indeed,  with  the  Russian  and  Slavonic  word 
for  north  =  sever,  as  incidentally  suggested 
by  Mr.  Dodgsox  iu  his  note  (ante,  p.  264). 
This  supposition  must  be,  however,  now 
entirely  abandoned,  since  it  is  unfounded. 
According  to  Potanin  (quoted  in  Vivien  de 
Saint-Martin's  '  Dictionnaire  Gt-ographique,' 
vii.  886),  the  most  probable  derivation  of 
Sibir  is  from  the  name  of  a  Mongolian  or 
Tatar  tril)e  first  known  to  Russia  in  the 
sixteentii  century,  and  afterwards  gradually 
extended  to  the  whole  of  Asiatic  Siberia. 
The  same  view  is  held  by  Prof.  Morfill,  an  he 
kindly  informed  me.  H.  Kbebs. 

Geobgiana  M.  Cbaik.— In  hia  'English 
Literature  in  the  Reign  of  Queen  Victoria*' 
published  in  1881,  the  late  Henry  Murley  said 
tliat  '*  Miss  Georgiana  Craik  began  to  write 
novels  in  1859."  He  repeated  thii  in  the 
revisetl  *  First  Sketch  of  English  Literature,' 
in  which  he  practically  embofjied  the  Vic- 
v  tomuVjooV.   The Bttteution  thus  given  b^  an.. 


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indastrioas  and,  in  many  ways,  admiral)]6 
hiatorian  to  a  thoroughly  deserving  writer 
does  him  every  credit,  and  reference  ia  now 
cQade  to  it  here  in  order  to  supplement  what 
is  said  as  to  the  author's  first  appearance  as 
a  novelist.  In  his  ^  Memories  of  a  Long 
Life,'  David  Douglas  notes  with  interest 
the  fact  that  Mrs.  Carlyle,  in  a  letter  of 
5  November,  1857,  makes  an  allusion  to  Miss 
Craik's  first  novel.  The  point  is  not  one  of 
the  first  importance,  but  as  the  authors  of 
recent  literary  text-books  ignore  Miss  Craik, 
it  seems  worth  while  to  note  and  rectify 
Morley's  reference.  Thomas  Bayne. 

['Rivcrston,'  a  novel  by  Goorgiftna  M.  Craik, 
was  published  in  three  volumes  by  Smith  &  Elder 
ioLS57.] 

Russian  Folk  -  lore.  —  The  following 
instance  of  Russian  folk-lore  of  a  new  kind 
appears  in  the  Morning  Post  of  4  April.  It  is 
•worth  preserving  in  a  corner  of '  X.  «t  Q.' : — 

"The  at.  Peternburg  Corresuomient  of  the  Pdif 
J'ar*»«i««  telegraphs  to-day  [3  AprilJ :  '  Rumoura  are 
current  anioag  the  Rnssian  trooi>8  in  Manchuria  to 
the  effect  that  the  Japaneie  poueia  wonrlerful 
luagnetio  atonea  endowed  with  magical  |)ropertiefl, 
rendering  the  adversaries  of  the  owners  incapable 
of  fighting.  The  Russian  officers  are  endeavouring 
to  destroy  the  siifmrstition  by  ))erforniing  exncri- 
tnenta  with  magnetised  stones  m  the  presence  of  the 
•oldiers,  but  the  men,  nevertheless,  continue  to 
lament  their  hard  fate  in  being  sent  to  tight 
sorcerers.*" 

ASTARTB. 

*'  CoPY"^^CorTnoLD.— **  My  leases  or  copies 
in  Nottinghamshire.  Lincolnshire,  Worcester- 
ahire.  or  el-sewhere  "  (will  of  Martin  Sandys, 
of  VVorcester,  Esquire,  6  Sept.,  1750,  P.C.U. 
31  Searle).  Geokoe  Shekwood. 

50,  Beecroft  Road,  Brockley,  SE. 

Thk  Moon  and  the  Weatheh.  —  The 
incessant  rain  for  the  last  year  or  more  has 
led  rae  to  consult  'N.  &  Q.  for'an  explana- 
tion. Its  pages  should  solve  every  difficulty; 
but  my  search  as  yet  has  been  unavailing.  I 
fin<J,  however,  some  notes  under  the  aoove 
beading  in  the  First  and  other  Series,  but 
generally  dismissing  ex  cathedra  the  question 
of  lunar  influence. 

ta  Dr.  Adam  Clarke's  works  ('  Detached 
Pieces,'  vol.  ii.  No,  16)  there  is  an  article  on 
the  subject,  to  which  it  may  Ije  worth  wiiile 
to  make  reference,  lie  there  sets  out  a  tAble, 
8ai«l  to  have  been  prepared  by  Dr.  Herschel, 
and  "  professing  to  form  prognostics  of  the 
weather  by  the  times  of  the  change,  full  and 
uuartera,  of  the  moon "' ;  and  he  continues, 
'_ri  have  carefully  consulted  this   table   for 

)veral  years,  and  was  amazed  at  its  general 

fcaracy."    This  table  was  disclaimed  by  Sir 


John  Herschel  as  the  work  of  his  father  :  but, 
whoever  the  author.  Dr.  Clarke  considered 
"  the  table,  judiciously  observed,  might  be  of 

Kublic  beuefat."  The  general  principle  under- 
jing  it  appears  to  oe  that  the  nearer  the 
change  of  the  moon  to  midnight,  the  greater 
the  probability  of  fine  weather.  This  is  sub- 
ject, of  course,  to  other  conditions,  all  of 
which  are  shown  in  the  table.  Dr.  Clarke 
was  hardly  the  man  to  write  carelessly,  and 
if  reatlers  of  '  N.  <i;  Q.'  would  like  to  see  his 
table  I  will  forward  it. 

A  jmi/Mis  of  this  subject,  there  are  some 
lines,  written  years  ago,  in  the  visitors' 
album  of  the  "  White  Lion  "  at  Bala  which 
should  not  be  lost.  1  quote  from  memory  :— 
The  weather  depends  on  the  moon,  it  is  said. 

And  I  've  found  that  the  saying  is  true, 
For  at  Bala  it  raina  when  the  moon  s  at  the  full, 

And  it  rains  when  the  moon  'a  at  the  new. 

When  the  moon's  at  the  quarter,  then  down  comes 

the  rain  ; 
At  the  half  it's  no  better,  I  ween  ; 
When  the  moon 'a  at  three  quarters,  it's  at  it 
agiin. 
And  besides  it  raiua  mostly  between. 

LUCLS. 


Wk  must  re<iue8t  correaiwndentB  desiring  in- 
formation on  family  matters  of  only  private  interest 
to  affix  their  names  and  adtltf  Bses  to  their  (lueriea, 
in  order  tiiat  the  answers  maybe  addressed  to  them 
direct.  

Manzoni  in  English.— I  should  like  to 
know  if  there  is  a  goorl  Engliiih  translation 
of  Manzoni's  'Cinque  Maggio,*  and  of  the 
famous  chorus  in  the  'Conte  di  Carmaguola,' 
by  the  same  author.  Many  years  ago  I  read 
a  masterly  translation  of  '  Cinque  Maggio ' 
in  one  of  the  American  magazines  —  the 
Kdertic  Mnqazine—lTom  the  pen,  if  I  recollect 
aright,  of  Lord  Derby  ;  but  that  number  of 
the  magazine  is  now  out  of  print.  I  remember 
that  the  rendering  of  the  line 

Fu  vera  gloria  ?    Ai  posteri,  &;c., 
was  striking  :— 

Was  it  true  glory  t    Answer  ye 
That  are  not,  but  that  are  to  be. 

C.   LOMBABDI. 
Portland,  Oregon. 

Walbeoff  F.vJtfiLY.— Can  ani,-  reader  of 
'  N.  &  Q.'give  me  information  with  regard  to 
tliis  family  f    Do  any  of  the  name  stillexist  ? 

DiPLOM.VT. 

'The  Gbenadier's  Exercise  of  the 
Grenado.'— Would  W.  S.  kindly  inform  me 
wliere  a  copy  may  be  seeaol '  X'wtC^-t'ssasiJbMai'fc. 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES,      [lo^  a.  i.  april  »..  ibo*. 


ment  of  Foot  Guards,"  1 745  (avfe,  p.  31)  ?  No 
mention  is  made  of  it  in  any  of  the  half-dozen 
military  library  catalogues  to  which  I  have 
referred.  Was  this  edition  of  1745  the  only 
one  issued  ?  M.  J.  D.  C. 

yolnn,  Punjab. 

"  Fekd  the  brute."— I  shall  be  glad  to 
krjow  the  origin  of  this  phrase.  I  have  some 
misty  recollection  that  it  appeared  in  Punch 
some  years  since,  but  am  not  certain  on  the 
point.  A.  G. 

Byaed  Family.  —  In  Eccle.sfield  Church, 
Yorkshire,  there  is  a  tablet  to  the  memory 
of  George  Byard,  Gent,,  late  of  Farfield, 
near  Sheffield,  and  formerly  of  St.  Jame/s, 
Clerkenwell,  London,  who  died  30  October, 
1813 ;  also  to  his  father  Robert  Byai-d,  lato  of 
Coven t  Garden,  London.  Gent.,  who  died 
11  May,  1771.  Any  further  particulars  aa  to 
this  family  would  be  acceptable. 

„  ,  T.   WORSLEY  StANIFORTH. 

Buxton,  DerbyBhire. 

Hugo's  'Les  Abeillb*  ImpSiii ales. '-Can 
any  reader  kindly  tell  me  in  what  part  of 
Victor  Hugo's  works  I  can  find  a  poem 
entitled  'Les  Abeilles  Imperiales,'  which 
Qaml^etta  is  said  to  have  been  fund  of  reciting? 
I  have  .seai-clied  the  indexes  to  the  .successive 
volumes  of  the  collected  edition,  but  in  vain. 

Cyril. 

Massinger's  '  Fatal  Dowry.'— At  the  end 
of  this  fine  play,  so  far  as  ray  recollectioti 
goes  after  many  j-ears,  Uomont  (I  think  after 
the  death  of  Charalois)  says  as  follows  :— 
The  tears  which  I  was  oevcr  wont  to  shed 
Wow  flow  from  lue  Hko  n  woman's. 
Having  quite    recently  bought   a   copy    of 
Massinger  and  Ford's  plays,  I  do  not  find 
this  passage.    Can  any  of  your  readers  inform 
me  if  these  lines  are  really  to  be  found  in 
the  original  te.xt,or  if  they  belong  to  another 
play?    The  copy  I  have  bought  is  published 
by  Messrs.  Routledge. 

George  W.  H.  Girtin. 

►  k?l^jf."''''  Pt*«»^e  9*cur9  in  »ho  pJaco  indicated  in 
the  edition  of  the  play  in  GifforfTs  'Massinger'  of 

ou  writer     "'"''  '  **"'  °*"'"'  phrased  a» 

North  Australian  VocADtTLARiE-s.-Mac- 
gilliyray,  in  his  '  Voyage  of  the  Battlesnake,' 
vol.  1.  p.  157n.,  states  that  he  received  from 
l-ather  Anjello,  of  Port  Essington,  four 
MB.  vocabularies  of  650  words  each  of  the 
tnbes    in    the    neighbourhood    {i.e.,  Limba 


them  in  the  MS.  Department,  and  they  do 
not  seem  to  have  reached  the  Museum.  C*o 
any  reader  say  where  they  are  ? 

N.  W.  Thomas. 

7,  Coptic  Street,  W.C. 

[Macgillivray  wrot«  in  1852.] 

Cathedral  Hic.n  Stewards.— What  nr© 
supposed  to  be  the  duties  of  these  funo^ 
tionaries  1  The  late  Earl  Kimberley  was 
High  Steward  of  Norwich  Cathedral,  and,  I 
believe,  drew  a  nominal  stipend  of  three  or 
four  pounds  annually.  It  seems  that  Norwich 
is  unique  in  possessing  such  an  otHcial,  but 
I  have  been  unable  to  discover  the  origin 
and  cause  of  the  office  here. 

Jaues  Hooper. 

Norwich. 

'  ATHEX.E  Cantabrigienses.'  —  The  firut 
volume  was  published  in  1858,  the  second  ia 
18()1,  and  at  the  end  of  this  it  is  announced 
that  "a  third  volume  is  in  preparation  and 
will  shortly  be  sent  to  press.'  Was  the  latter 
ever  published  1 

'  Graduati  Cantabrigienses'  (Hnstlor),  1823> 
and  'A  Catalogue  of  Oxford  Graduates,'  1851, 
are  lists  of  the  graduates  of  each  university. 
Each  begins  at  the  year  1659.  Ls  this  merely 
a  coincidence,  or  is  there  some  rea.sou  there- 
for] Qeoboe  C  Peal'BEY. 

William  Peck.— In  Read's  'History  of  the 
Isle  of    Axholme'  there   is    a   biographicai 
notice   of    William    Peck,   author    of    '  The 
Topography    of    Bawtry,'    and    also  of   '  A 
Topographical     Account    of     the     Isle    of 
Axholme.'       This    biographical    notice    wjia 
written  by  his  daughter,  Elizabeth  Peck,  who 
says:   "lie    left  behind    him    many    MSS., 
which  afterwards  passed  into  other  hands." 
These  MSS.  probably  included  themft*'rvt'"f''r 
fche  second  volume  of  the 'Isle  of 
which  was  nover  published.  Thefir>.   ....... .lO 

was  published  in  1815  at  Doncaster,  and  Mr. 
Peck  died  in  1824  at  Epworth. 

Could  any  ono  give  me  information  about 
these  MSS.  ?  Where  are  they  now  j  Do  they 
contain  materials  for  the  history  of  the  Isle 
of  Axholme?  I  should  esteem  it  a  favour 
if  any  ono  possessing  any  informati  > 

is  interested  in  the  subject  would  (1  i 

with  me.  A.  T.  C.  Cu££. 

Brodswortli,  Beckenhani.' 


karajia.  Jro).  which,  as  they  were  too  long  to 

^i:j!\rt.^^'  r°«    to  deposit   in%he 

i  cannot  find  any  trace  o? 


P    .         ..V.       „„ 


Right  Hon.  John  S.mitu,  Speaker  1705-8. 
—Who  was  his  wife?  What  family  had  bet 
Considering  his  position  as  Spe-aker  in  the 
first  Parliament  of  the  I'nion,  ^erj-  little 
appears  to  be  known  of  him.  Acci 
Manning's 'Speakers' he  left  "an  o; 
\C&p\i.  \?iX\JUMSi  ^-anXVv   ^V\o    dved    wii 


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issue.  On  the  other  hand,  the  '  Diet.  Nat, 
Biog.'  states  that  a  monumental  tablet  to  his 
memory  was  placed  in  South  Ted  worth 
Church,  Hants,  by  his  "fourth"  son,  Henry 
Smith.  Among  >[u$grave'9  'Obituaries'  ia 
that  of  Thomas  Smith,  Vice-Chamberlain  to 
the  Queen  Consort  and  M.P.  for  Tregony, 
died  3  August,  1728,  being  "son  of  John 
Smith,  Speaker  of  the  House  of  Commons.'' 
Any  information  as  the  family  of  this  some- 
what obscure  Speaker  will  be  scoepkable. 

W.  D.  Phik. 

Pkintiso  in  the  Channel  Isles.  —  At 
what  date  was  the  art  of  printing  first 
practised  in  the  Channel  Islands]  and  what 
were  its  first  fruits  there  ? 

E.  S.  DoDGfiON. 

[Stoad'i  'desarea;  or,  History  of  Jeney,'  has 
the  rubric  Jersey,  1T98.  This  appears  to  be  the 
earliest  instance.  J 


'  Iru3,'  Supposed  Play  by  Shakespeare.— 
A  book  called  Edward  Pudsey's  book,  pub- 
lished in  1886  at  Stratford,  contains  extracts 
from  a  play  called  *Irus.'  Is  anything 
more  known  about  this  play  1  I  can  nnd  no 
other  reference  to  it  in  Shaksperian  literaturo. 
Heoinald  Haines. 
Uppingham. 

Stoyle. — As  I  am  seeking  for  the  pedigrees 
of  Stoyle  families,  and  wish,  if  possible,  to 
join  them,  I  yhould  be  grateful  tor  any  in- 
formation bearing  thereon. 

(Rev.)  B.  VV.  Bun-Stoyle. 

I^Aogden  Home,  BrautistoD,  near  Rngby. 

"Baerab."— In  the  overseers*  accounts  of 
this  parish  for  the  year  1719  is  the  following 
entr>' :  "  For  a  pese  of  flannel  for  an  under 
pettey  coat  and  a  barrar,  00.  01.  00."  What 
was  »  "barrar"  !        Feancw  R.  Rushton. 

B«tchworth, 

St.  Fdca  of  Gimionan'o.— A  painting  or 
fresco  by  Gliirlandaio  has  for  its  subject  the 
death  of  St.  Fina  of  Gimignano.  Can  any 
one  give  me  any  information  of  this  saint  ? 

W.  T.  H. 


Turkish  fleet  in  the  Bay  of  Chisney,  1770. 
This  event  led  to  the  Crimea  being  annexed 
to  Russia.  In  his  efforts  for  tho  improvement 
of  the  Russian  navy  Admiral  Greig,  in  1776, 
drew  into  it  a  very  considerable  number  of 
British  officers,  principally  Scotchmen,  result- 
ing in  a  permanent  oenefit  to  the  navy.  I 
should  feel  greatly  obliged  if  any  of  your 
readers  could  refer  me  to  any  books  which 
would  give  the  names  of  the  officers  in 
question.  Alaister  MacQillban. 

Indian  Sport.— Can  any  one  kindly  refer 
me  to  any  complete  list  of  record  '  bags  " 
in  India— such  as  the  largest  tiger,  the  largest 
number  killed  by  any  sportsman,  the  heaviest 
*' bag  "  of  snipe,  and  so  onl  I  should  also 
like  to  have  references  to  the  elephant  which 
carried  Warren  Hastings.  It  was  used  by 
several  succeeding  Governors-General.  Is  the 
animal  still  alive  1  Emeritus. 


Militahy  Buttons:  Sergeants'  Chevrons. 
— Am  I  right  in  conjecturing  that  there  is 
some  explanation  for  tho  fact  of  military 
buttons  being  of  oval  i^liapo? 

About  what  period  <iid  the  custom  of  non- 
commiasionod  oftii'  '  'ng  chevrons  pre- 

vail 1    And   did  previous  to  that 

have  any  particulu.    ....i.^uishing  mark  1 

R.  S.  C. 
An"    -  '^'tji  Samx'FL  Greio.— This  British 
loffio'  1  tlie  Rus-sian  navy  in  1763.    He 

'wa%  iiinii  uiiieutal  in  the  deatructioD  of  the 


John  Wesley  and  Gardens.- 1.  Wesley 
seems  to  have  been  an  admirer  of  gardens. 
In  his  journal  (22  March,  1775)  he  mentions 
"  Mr.  Gordon's  curious  garden  at  Mile  End," 
and  that  he  "learned  there  the  real  nature 
of  the  tea- tree."  Is  anything  to  be  found 
about  this  garden  1  and  is  this  Gordon  con- 
nected with  "  Gordon,  James,  sen.,  botanist 
and  gardener,  at  Barking,  co.  Essex,"  whose 
death  is  announced  in  tho  Gentlcvvtnt  Miuja- 
line,  20  December,  1780? 

2.  On  16  October,  1782,  Wesley  "saw  such 
a  garden  at  Oxford  as  I  verily  believe  all 
England  cannot  parallel,"  and  after  some 
description  says,  "for  all  which  why  should 
not  Mr.  Badcock's  name,  as  well  as  Mr. 
Roberts's,  be  consigned  to  posterity  1 "  Is 
anything  to  be  found  further  about  this 
garden  or  these  two  names  T 

3.  On  1 1  November,  1773,  Wesley  "  met  with 
a  great  natural  curiosity,  the  largest  elm  he 
ever  saw  ;  it  was  28  ft.  in  circumference, 
6  ft.  more  than  that  which  was  some 
years  ago  in  Magdalen  College  walks  at 
Oxford."  Is  this  elm  still  in  existence,  and 
where  t  He  says  it  was  between  North- 
ampton and  Towcester.  F.  M.  J. 

Rev.  Arthur  Galton.— I  shall  be  glad  of 
any  particulars  concerning  the  writingH,  <kc., 
of  the  Rev.  Arthur  Galton,  of  the  Record 
newspaper.  M.  C  Boyle. 

NicoMEDE  BiANCHi.— Is  it  knowD  what  has 
become  of  the  collection  of  notes,  letters, 
official  documents,  Jrc,  once  in  the  possession 
of  the  late  Nicomede  Bianchi,  the  Italian 
historian  I     He  dvftvi  <\\i\\ft  x^k.'woJOv:^:;-^^  ^.^*l^ 


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PA3SING-BELL. 

(lO""  S.  i.  308.) 
Occasionally  in  this  town  the  passine- 
bell  is  ruDK  at  the  time  of  the  funeral.  \\e 
have  in  tno  Museum  attached  to  this 
building  a  very  interesting  rolic  in  the  shape 
of  the  "dead  bell."  It  has  more  than  a 
passing  interest,  because  it  came  through  the 
fire  on  the  occasion  of  the  burning  of  the 
former  Museum  in  1898,  when  so  many 
objects  of  old  association  were  destroyecL 
among  them  being  the  Kiliiecrankie  ana 
Bannockburn  flags. 

Mr.  George  Watson,  who  was  some  time 
curator  of  this  Museum,  and  wrote  a  most 
interesting  brochure.,  'The  Annals  of  Jed- 
burgh Castle,'  has  a  short  paper  in  this 
month's  Border  Magazine  on  the  dead  Viell, 
from  which  the  following  quotation  in 
taken  :— 

"The  paasinz-bell,  or  soul  Lell  as  it  was  also 
termed,  waa  tolled  when  a  jieMoii  wa«  pasaing— 
whence  the  t«rm— from  this  world  into  the  next. 
Id  some  partn  it  invited  prayers  on  behalf  of  the 
soul  of  the  dyiDg  person,  and  in  other  partd  of 
the  country  inlcrccBaion  for  the  eoul  of  the 
departed.  This  custom  is  distinctly  referred  to  by 
Bede  (a.p.  673-7.3.'))  in  connexion  with  the  deatn 
of  St.  Hilda.  The  former  of  these  was  owing  to 
the  current  belief  that  devils  lajr  in  wait  in  order 
to  fttHict  the  soul  the  very  momoot  it  was  separated 
from  the  body,  the  opinion  being  that  the  sound 
of    the  bell    had    the   power   to    terrify   the  evil 

apiritA The  custom  of  tolling  the  bell  at  funerals 

dates  back  fully  seven  ceiUuries  ;  for  Durand,  who 
livedabout  the  end  of  the  twelfth  century,  informa 
••- ■  'A  bell,  too,  must  be  rung  when  we  are  con 


ducting  the  corpse  to  the  church,  and  duriiijf  the 
bringing  it  out  of  the  church  to  the  grave.' 
When  thou  dost  hear  a  toll  or  knell 
Then  think  upon  Ihy  pamiag-bell. 
"Another  of   the  'melancholv  bells'  emjiloyed 

at  deaths  and  funerals  woe  the  dead  bell Upon 

the  death  of  a  person  in  the  times  of  which  we 
Blioak,  the  intimation  of  such  was  immediately 
comaiuuicated  to  the  inhabitants  of  the  town  or 
village.  '  This  was  usually  done,'  says  the 
Rev.  Thomas  Sonierville.  in  his  '  Life  and 
Times '(1741-1814),  'by  the  beadle  or  kirk  officer, 
who  walked  through  the  streeU  at  a  slow  pace 
tjnkhnc  a  small  bell,  sometiniea  called  the  dead 
bell  and  sometiraea  the  passing-bell,  and,  with  hia 
head  uncovered,  intimated  that  a  brother  or  sister, 
whose  name  was  given,  had  departed  this  life.  A 
few  years  ago  the  officer  in  Jedburgh  was  obliged 
to  make  this  announcement  at  once,  however 
unreasonable  the  hour.  A  "  lykewake,  too,  took 
place  in  the  uight  or  during  the  several  nights  inter- 
vening between  the  death  and  the  fnneraL  As  the 
iDtimation  made  by  the  pauiug-bell  was  understood 
to  be  a  general  inviution,  great  crowds  attended 
the  funeral.  I  may  add  that  at  the  time  to  which 
I  refer  eerera!  of  the  female  relatives  walked  \\i 


threshold  of   the  oharchr»rd,  where  they  always 

stopped  and  dispersed.' When    the  body  was 

removed  in  order  for  burial,  the  bellman  took  the 
bell  and  walked  in  front  ot  the  bier,  giving  notice 
of  the  approach  of  the  funeral  procession  by  an 
occasional  toll  of  the  bell,  .Such  wos  the  custom 
in  Jedburgh,  and  the  practice  there  is  illuBtrat«d 
in  the  drawing  of  Jedourgh  made  by  ono  of  the 
French  prisoners  in  1S12,  in  which  a  funeral,  with 
the  bellman  proceeding  in  front,  is  seen  under  the 
town  clock  on  its  way  to  the  churchyard.  Made 
by  a  John  Meikel,  ot  Edinburgh,  it  is  nearly  a 
century  younger  than  Hawiok  dead  bell,  a«  is 
testifled  by  the  inscription  which  the  Jedburyh 
one  formerly  bore  :  'John  Meikel,  me  feciU  Edr., 
1694.'" 

J.   Ll>fP8AY  HiLSON. 
Public  Library,  Jedburgh. 

In  these  parts  the  "  passing-bell "  is  under- 
stood to  be  only  a  poetical  phrase.  Here,  at 
least,  it  is  popularly  known  as  "the  deed 
bell '  (death  bell).  In  our  villager  it  is  the 
practice,  at  the  moment  of  deatli,  to  call  up 
the  sexton,  who  then  goes  to  the  church,  and, 
without  delay,  rings  out  the  announcement. 
First  of  all  he  rings  what  are  called  '*  the 
tellers"  ;  then,  after  a  pause,  he  continues  to 
toll  slowly  on  his  great  bell.  In  the  English 
Dialect  Society'.s  '  Northumberland  Glossary' 
the  tellers  are  thus  described  ; — 

"Tellers,  the  eucceseive strokes  on  a  church  bell, 
rung  to  tell  the  sex  andageof  a  person  just  deceaaed. 
It  is  usual  at  village  churches  to  knell  the  sex  of  an 
adult  by  nine  strokes  for  a  man,  or  eix  etrokes  for  a 
woman,  repeated  on  each  of  three  bells.  For  a  child 
three  strokes  are  given  and  similarly  repeated. 
Then  follow  a  number  of  strokes  on  the  treble  bell 
to  indicate  the  age,  each  stroke  counting  one  year. 
In  some  places  the  age  is  given  drst." 

In  village  life  all  are  neighbours  and 
acquainted  with  the  ordinary  circu mat 
of  each  other's  households ;  so  that 
announcement  of  age  and  sex  is  generally 
sufficient  for  identification  of  the  deceased 
person.  When  tho  function  occurs  through 
the  night,  its  effect  uixin  awakened  viUagera 
is  a  solemn  experience,  its  irnjjressiveneaa 
heightened  by  personal  acquaintance  with 
those  for  whom  is  heard  tne  knell  of  the 
passing  soul.  K.  Oliver  Heslop. 

Newcastle-uixin-Tyne. 


ind  ■giH 
stand^H 

at   tS^ 


The  tolling  of  the  church  bell  at  the  burial 
of  a  parishioner  is  a  custom  identical  in  its 
origin  with,  and  complementary  to,  that  of 
tolling  at  the  actual  passing  of  the  soul  of 
the  deceased  (see  Brand's  'Antiquities,' 
Bohn.  1854,  vol.  ii.  p.  203).  The  passing-bell 
was,  I  think,  sometimes  called  the  soul  bell, 
and  the  custom  was  prevalent  much  lator 
than  1732,  when  Nelson  alludes  to  it  in  bta 
'  Fasts  and  Festivals  of  the  Churcli '  (p.  144^ 
In  hamlets  and  villages,  where  greater  intt- 


^  .c:^c.  avverat  ot  me  leroale  relattvcs  walked  \\i\  »■"  nauiiows  o.iiu  *iiia.ftc.3,   "UDic  gic™^.    .«^- 
tae  rev  of  the  fuueraJ  proceaaion  to  the  gale  otVma.c^    v\ftv*:\V%  «.tDAv^%  xxva  ^««i^\a  ^fcan  In 


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cities,  the  tolling  of  the  bell  to  regtater  the 
actual  death-stroke  is  probably  continued  to 
tbiii  day,  and  contributors  will  no  doubt  be 
able  to  supply  inatances  of  the  survival  of 
the  "  passing,  aa  distinct  from  the  "funeral" 
bell,  other  than  thuHe  furnished  below.  One 
of  the  peculiar  features  of  the  practice  is 
the  account  rendered  by  the  bellringer,  in 
the  number  of  hi^s  strokes,  of  the  age  of  the 
deceased.  In  some  districts  it  is  always 
rung  exactly  twenty-five  hours  after  deatn, 
the  tenor  liell  for  the  adult  and  the  treble  for 
a  child,  the  big  bell  being  reserved  for 
funerals.  In  rural  districts,  we  are  told  in 
Mr.  William  Andrews's  '  Curious  Church 
Customs,'  1895,  p.  129,  after  the  passing-bell 
has  tolled,  the  sex  of  the  deceased  is  indi- 
cated most  generally  by  tolling  twice  for  a 
woman  and  thrice  for  a  man,  and  to  this  is 
often  added  the  age  by  giving  one  toll  for 
each  year.  In  the  Famy  Post  of  1  February, 
1871,  the  passing-bell  is  described  as  being 
then  still  rung  "at  a  village  near  Grantham, 
Lincolnshire'^ (p.  65).  Up  till  18G5  in  the 
town  of  OuUdford  (and  possibly  it  is  still  the 
custom)  the  passing-bell  was  tolled  every 
morning  after  the  parishioner's  death  until 
the  funeral  morning  ;  and  a  lady  who  died 
about  the  year  1868,  aged  seventy-two, 
remembered  the  passing-bell  at  Somerton,  in 
Oxfordshire.  S^jme  information  as  to  this 
survival  may  aUo  be  found,  I  think,  in 
vols.  xxi.  and  xxiv,  of  the  Peiuu/  Post. 

J.  H.  MacMichabl. 

Passing-bells  are  by  no  means  out  of  use  in 
very  many  parish  churches,  even  in  London. 
At  present,  and  as  long  as  I  can  remember 
dunng  thirty  years,  announcements  of  the 
nature  in  question  are  and  were  frequent 
from  the  campanile  of  St.  Peter's,  Hammer- 
smith. I  remember  the  same  custom  obtain- 
ing when  I  was  a  boy  in  the  parish  church  of 
Bermondsey.  Q. 

In  the  North  the  passing-bell  is  more 
ceuerally  known  as  the  death  bell.  Dr. 
Mprbay  will  find  scores  of  references  on  the 
subject  in  past  volumes  of  '  N.  &  Q.' 

Tlje  Venerable  Bede  was  perhaps  the  first 
to  make  mention  of  the  psis<4ing  oell,  but  if 
Da.  MuBOAY  will  look  up  Strutt's  '  Planners 
and  Castoms'  and  Bourne's  '  Antiquitates 
Vulgare-H,'  ho  will,  I  think,  find  much  of  the 
itiformatinu  he  desires. 

CnA8.  F.  FoRSHAW,  LL.D. 

Bradford. 

The  custom  of  tolliuK  the  passing-bell  while 

a  penion  is  dying  stilt  prevails  in  Belgium, 

i  probably  in  other  Catholic  countries  as 

1.    I  recollect  tb^t  while  I  was  stayiDg  in 


a  religious  house  near  Ghent  some  years  since 
the  bell  was  tolled  at  intervals  all  day  for  a 
member  of  the  community  who  was  on  his 
death-bed.  The  death  bell  is,  I  believe,  tolled 
in  a  difl'orent  manner,  so  that  those  who  hear 
it  know  at  once  whether  it  is  for  a  passing 
soul  or  for  one  who  has  already  passed.  lu 
some  parts  of  Ireland  the  passing  as  well  as 
the  death  bell  are  still  rung,  I  am  told,  as  no 
doubt  they  were  in  many  places  in  England 
up  till  the  commencement  of  the  nineteenth 
century.  Frederick  T.  Hidgame. 

I  believe  I  am  correct  in  saying  that  the 
passing-bell,  as  ordered  by  Canon  67,  is  still 
tolled  at  the  parish  church  of  Offham, 
St.  Michael,  in  Kent.  Why  this  ancient  ana 
most  fitting  custom  should  have  been  allowed 
to  fall  into  disuse  it  is  hard  to  say,  but  most 
probably  negligence  has  been  the  cause,  as  is 
so  often  the  case  in  regard  to  old  customs. 
Joux  Sydney  Ham. 


Dr.  Samuel  Hinds,  formerly  Bishop  of 
NoRWTcn  (10""  S.  i.  227).— I  have  made  a  con- 
siderable search  as  to  the  funeral  of  this  well- 
known  prelate,  but,  so  far,  find  no  record  of 
it.  I  was  at  the  Guildhall  Library  about  a 
fortnieht  ago,  and  mentioned  the  matter  to 
an  elderly  clergyman,  an  entire  stranger  to 
me,  who  said  tnat  for  a  year  or  two  before 
the  bishop's  resignation  he  was  doing  tem- 
porary duty  in  the  Norwich  diocese,  and 
remembereo  many  of  the  circumstances  of  the 
case.  The  bishop's  re-iignation  was  entirely 
due  to  the  way  in  which  Mrs.  Hinds  (his  second 
wife)  was  received  in  Norwich  society.  It 
was  well  known  that  she  was  much  oelow 
him  in  station,  and  was  (so  my  informant 
stated)  a  domestic  servant  in  his  household. 
The  obituary  notice  of  about  a  quarter  of  a 
column  in  the  Times  of  Monday,  12  February, 
1872,  stated  that  "he  resigned  the  see  of 
Norwich  in  1857,  from  domestic  reasons  much 
canvassed  at  the  time,  and  retired  into 
private  life."  In  the  Times  of  the  previous 
Saturday,  among  the  deaths,  the  notice 
reads : — 

"  On  the  mominK  of  the  7th  inst.,  at  hia  private 
reflidence  at  Netting  Hill,  after  many  vears  of  con- 
tinuouB  and  KrcaL  suffering,  the  Rif^lit  Rev.  !:>ainuel 
Hinds,  D.D.,  late  Bishop  of  Ivorwioh,  in  hia 
78th  year." 

The  'D.N.B.,'  in  its  notice  of  Dr.  Hinds, 
seems  rather  to  bear  out  the  statement  of  my 
clerical  informant,  for,  while  it  gives  full 
particulars  of  his  first  wife,  his  second 
marriage  is  thus  recorded,  "He  married  a 
second  time  some  years  bettite  \\vs  ^«»J>io-'!J  ^"^^ 

For  manY  '8'».w'^'«i^«»^'^«^*''^^^^'*'^      "^^^^ 


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Wftlmer  Road,  \V.,  and  most  probably  it  was  ; 
in  that  house  that  he  breathed  his  last.  With 
reference  to  the  funeral,  the  clergyman  to 
whom  I  have  alluded  stated  that  he  thought 
it  was  probably  extremely  plain,  and  that  he 
had  little  doubt  the  ceremony  was  performed 
by  tl»e  chaplain  of  the  cemetery.  Neither  in 
the  Timt»  nor  in  the  Ulnstra tea  London  Xev>$t 
which  in  those  dava  made  a  feature  of  such 
information,  have  I  been  able  to  discover  any 
account  of  the  funeral.  I  remember  that  a 
]iortrait  of  the  deceased  prelate  appeared  in 
one  of  the  illustrated  papers  of  the  day,  and 
think  it  was  in  the  illustrated  Time»,  aince 
incorporated  with  the  latter  of  the  papers 
mentioned  above. 

W.  E.  HARtAND-OXLEY. 

C2,  The  Atmshoase«,  Bocbeater  Row.  S.W. 

"  Bellamy's  "  (lO"*  S.  i.  169).— There  is  an 
account  of  our  own  House  of  Commons 
"  Bellamy's  "  in  *  Old  and  New  London.' 

J.   HOLDEN   MacMiGHAEL. 

Shakespeare's  Grave  (10">  S.  i.  288, 331).— 
At  the  last  reference  Shakespeare's  monu- 
ment is  said  to  be  "  five  feet  from  the  floor." 
Is  this  a  correct  measurement  ?  Surely  it  is 
much  higher.  Hakiuett  M'Ilquham. 

In  ray  reply  to  Mr.  I.  H.  Platt  an  obvious 
error  occurs.  Whether  I  ara  to  blame,  or  the 
printer,  I  cannot  say  ;  but  I  meant  to  write 

within  the  seven  years  sttcceediny  Shake- 
speare's death,"  not  "preceding"  it,  which, 
of  course,  makes  all  the  difference. 

Chas.  F.  Forshaw,  LL.D. 

Bradford. 

iOiir  correspondent  clearly  wrote  "preceding," 
ich  puzzled  ub  a  good  deal.] 

Easter  Day  by  the  Julian  Reckokinq 
(10«*  S.  i.  324),— May  I  jjoint  out  a  slight 
mistake  in  the  note  on  the  above  subject  j 
The  Sunday  letters  for  this  year  are  C,  B,  not 
i>.  0.  C.  S.  H. 

Flayixo  Alive  (9">  S.  xii.  429,  489  : 
10"'  S.  i.  15,  73,  155). -In  the  Library  of 
Trinity  (Jollege,  Cambridge,  is,  or  vf&s,  a  piece 
of  the  skin  ot  a  man  hanged  for  killing  his 
wife,  perhaps  four  inches  square  and  a  six- 
teenth of  an  inch  in  thickness,  resembling  in 
texture  a  fine  kid  glove.  In  the  same  case 
was  a  lock  of  Sir  Isaac  Newton's  hair,  and 
the  hair  will  last  long  after  the  body  has 
moulderecl  into  dust. 

Readers  of  Dickens  may  remember  that  in 

tlie  'Pickwick  Papers'  Mr.  Dowler,  who  is 

really  a.  great  coward,  spoke  of  the  rules  of 

t^e  service  imperatively   requiring  that  he 

9/jou/d   fulfil   his  promise   of   skinning  Vi\% 


a<Iversary.     "Did  you  skin  him,  sirt" 
Mr.  Winkle,  faintly. 

There  is  the  ancient  legend  of  Apollo 
havin|;  flayeii  Marsyaa  olive  for  his  presump- 
tion in  challenging  the  god  to  a  musical 
contest,  and  in  the  '  Dictionary  of  Greek  and 
Roman  Biography '  the  story  is  narrated  at 
length.  It  seems  to  have  formed  a  favourite 
subject  with  sculptors  and  writers  of  anti- 
quity. P.  S.  (Philip  Smith,  B.A.),  the  writer 
of  the  article  '  Marsyas,'  observes  : — 

"Id  tlie  fora  of  ancient  cities  there  WM  fre- 
Qnentl^  placed  a  atatne  of  Mamyaa  with  one  hand 
erect,  in  token,  according  toServiiis,  of  the  freedon 
of  the  state,  ainne  Marsyaa  was  a  minister  of 
BaccbiM,  the  god  of  lil>erty  fServ.  in  '  .Ea.'  iv.  5:3). 
It  seems  more  likely  that  the  atatue,  standing  in 
the  place  where  justice  was  administered,  wa.9 
intended  to  hohl  forth  an  example  of  the  severe 
punishment  of  arrogant  presumption." 

The  circumstance  is  alluded  to  by  Juvenal,  i 
' Sat.'  ix.  2,  and  Horace,  '  Sat.'  i.  6,  120.  I  once' 
saw  a  gruesome  engraving  of  it,  renresentine 
Marsyas    tied  to   a   tree,  head    downward, 
whilst  Apollo  was  stripping  off  his  skin. 

John  Pickford,  M.A. 

Marlborough  and  Shakespeare  (lO**"  S.  L 
127,  177,  256,  292).— On  18  November,  1748, 
Chesterfield  gives  hia  son  an  account  of  the 
career  and   character  of  Marlborough,    in 
which    he    says,    "  He    [Marlborough!    was 
eminently  illiterate  ;  wrote  bad  English,  and 
spelled    it   still    worse."     But   Chesterfield 
writes   of   Marlborough    with   almost  opeaj 
enmity,  and  perhaps  exaggerates  a  few  slips  1 
that    were    pardonable    beiore   the  days   of" 
Murray  and  Mavor.  M,  N.  G. 

At  the  last  reference  Mr.  Yardlby  is  not 
quite  accurate  regarding  Pepys's  references  to^ 
Shakespeare's  plays  in  his 'Diary.'      PepyM 
mentions   eleven  of    the    plays,    the    threej 
omitted   by  Mr.    Yarpley   being  'Twelfth 
Night,'    'Taming     of     the     Shrew,'     and 
'  Henry  VIII. '  So  far  from  making  no  remark 
on      '  Hamlet,'    '  Romeo    and     Juliet,'    and 
'Henry  IV.,' he  saw  the  first-named  several 
times,  and  the  following  is  but  one  of  many 
similar  remarks  on  it : — 

"Saw  '  Hamlet,  Prince  of  Denmark.'    ' 
scenes  very  well,  and  mightily  ideased  v  i 
above  all  with  Betterton,  the  best  part,  i  .v.n ,  ^^ 
that  ever  man  acted." 

Of  '  Romeo  and  Juliet '  he  says  ; — 

"Saw  ' Romeo  and  Jaliet' bat  it  is  a  play  of 

itself  the  worst  that  ever  I  saw  in  my  life,  and  the 
worst  acted  that  ever  I  saw  these  people  dn." 

The  first  time    he   saw    'Henry    IV.'    ho 
writes  :— 
I     "  'Bought  the  olay  of  '  Henrr  IV.,'  and  to  went  to 
\  t\iQ  V<Vie«k\,t«  «T\Q.  «v«  \\i  vfut^,\nL\iTsr)  «cv«<iitatioo 


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;  too  grent,  it  rlid  not  pleue  me  u  otherwise  I 
iove  it  woul<i  ;  my  having  «  book,  1  Iteliere,  did 
lit  a  little.' 

on  seeing  it  again  he  8«ya  : — 
'  0011118^'  to  exi>eettttion,  was  pleued  in  nothing 
raore  than  in  Cart  Wright's  ^peaKiog  of  FaUmfl's 
•|>eech  aboat '  What  is  honour.'  " 

In  his  remarks  un  '  The  Tempest '  he  speaka 
of 

"a  curions  piece  of  mnBio  in  an  echo  of  half 
aentences,  the  echo  repeating  the  former  half,  while 
the  man  goes  on  to  the  latter,  which  is  mighty 
pretty." 

This  bears  out  the  Editor's  note  at  the  last 
ference,  as  it  i?  evidentlv  the  song  sung  by 
Ferdinand,  wherein  Ariel  echoes  "  Oo  thy 
ways/'  in  an  adnplalioQ  of  '  The  Tempest '  by 
Davenant  and  Dryden.  This  fashion  of  alter- 
ing Shakespeare's  plays  is  always  to  be  taken 
into  account  wlien  speaking  of  Pepys  as  a 
Shakespearean  critic.  In  conclusion,  may  I 
quote  a  passage  from  some  remarks  that  I 
made  on  this  subject  before  the  Shakespeare 
Club  at  Stratfordf-on-Avon  ? 

"  It  is  safe  to  say  that  very  few  of  Shakespeare's 

plays  seen  by  Pepys  were  acted  aa  we  know  them 

now.      To   name    but    three   notorious  examx)le«, 

Dryden   and    Daveoaot  adapted    '  Die  Tempest, 

Lacy  altered  '  Tlie  TaniinR  of  the  Shrew,'  and  the 

Hon.  James  Howani  had  the  audacity  to  sapply 

[•Romeo  and  Juliet' witli  a  happy  endinjt,  and  to 

|introduc«i  another   character — the  wife    of  Count 

?aris.  After  this,  I  think  we  arc  justiHed  in  pardon- 

3g  Pepys  many  of  his  criticisms  of  Shakespeare's 

plavs,  and  a  worse  offender  in  this  respect  than  he 

aia    brother    diarist,    John    Evelyn,    generally 

U  a  more  reKned  and  cultured  man  than 

_   -,  .      I"* '"  16t31  writes  :  '  I  saw  "Hamlet,  Prince 

bfUentnark,'' plaved,  but  now  the  old  plays  begin 

to  disgust  this  refined  a^o,  since  his  Majesty's  being 

so  lone  abroad  ! '  and  this  is  the  only  play  of  Shake- 

■peares  which  he  mentions  in  bis  Diary  as  having 

been  acted.'' 

.  Charles  R.  Dawes. 

I  am  sure  Mk.  Yabdley  will  permit  mo 
to  call  his  attention  to  the  fact  tnat  eleven, 
and  not  cir/^t,  was  the  number  of  the  plays 
of  Shakespeare  seen  by  Samuel  Pepys : 
'Hamlet.'  •Henry  IV.,' 'Henry  VIII.,' 'Mac- 
^beth,'    *  Merry    Wives    of    Windsor,'    'Mid 


ftummer  Night's  Dream,'  'Othello,'  'Romeo 
\  Juliet,'  Tarai  iig  of  the  8h  re w,'  '  Tern  i»es t,' 


^Band  J  uliet,'  'laming  of  the  >Shrew,'  '  Tem|^»est, 
■  and  'Twelfth  Night.'  It  may  further  be 
"  remarked  that  the  exact  number  of  plays  of 

all  kinfls  that  the  immortal  iliarist  saw  was 
|^_14.'>  ;  for  the  names  of  which  see  'Samuel 
^■Pepys :  and  the  World  Ho  Lived  In,'  by 
^ Henry  B.  Wheatloy,  F..S.A.  (London,  Bickers 

it  Son,  1880),  He.suv  Qkbald  Hope. 

119,  Elms  [toad,  Clapliani,  .S.VV. 
'TOOa"    WVKBHAXICAL    NOTION    (lO'"   8, 

>).— The  Uie  Warden  ot  ilerton  College, 


Oxford,  in  his  interesting  book  *Meioorie» 
and  Impressions,'  a  copy  of  which  he  pre- 
sented to  me,  appears  to  derive  the  term 
"tags"  (tooati)  (cnan.  ii.X  a  term  applied 
to  the  Collegera  at  Eton  by  the  Oppidans, 
from  toga,  a  gown,  It  was,  I  have  heard, 
from  their  having  only  roast  mutton  for 
dinner.  The  slang  term  "togs"  is  applied 
to  articles  of  dress. 

J0H1«  PiCKPORD,  M.A. 
Newboume  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Mutilated  Latin  I-Jnks  (10'"  S.  i.  268). — 
In  line  1  Flainen  seems  right. 

5.  Read  "  ne  quo," 

6.  Undinue  and  Parthusj, 

7.  Polluti  fratrum  metnbris  sparsique 
cruore. 

8.  JuBsissent  hominum  millia  capta  neci. 
1.3.  PurgacordaHcelusque,domnmdescende» 

precaraur. 

14.  Es  custoa  nobis,  sicat  et  ante  tuis. 
The  lines  of  course  refer  to  St.  Elizabeth  : 

"  When  the  niioister  so  wise  and  clever  of  the 
eternal  parent  guarded  her  couch  in  which  thon, 
O  aged  maiden,  wast  cherishing  the  child  and  wast 
mintjling  holv  ))rayers  with  thy  cares,  lost,  violently 
advancing  along  the  whole  line  of  Jordan,  the 
Parthian  and  Arabian  fierce  should  vent  tbeir 
wrath  on  every  aide,  iiolhited  with  the  limits  of 
their  brothers  and  8prinkle<i  wjih  blood,  should 
have  consigned  thousands  of  men  captive  to  death  : 

"  Thou  still  in  conscious  safety  in  the  shadow  of 
the  divine  deity  wast  impressing  many  kisses  on 
the  cheeks  of  thy  son- 

"Thus  when  proud  kingdoms  are  crushed  by 
punishment,  being  present  at  the  altar,  do  Thou, 
<)  Christ,  protect  'Thy  congregations. 

"Purge  our  hearts  and  purge  away  our  crime, 
and  come  down  to  our  home,  we  pray.  Be  guardian 
to  us,  even  as  Thon  wert  before  to  iTiy  people  ! " 

H.  A.  Strong. 
University,  Liverpool. 

Feudal  System  (lO'"  S.  i.  248).  — The 
following  quotations  from  Stephen's  'Com- 
mentaries '  should  explain  as  to  mesne 
tenant : — 

"The  stipendiary  (or  feudatory,  aa  bo  abould 
now  rather  W  termed),  considering  himself  as  sub- 
stantially the  uwner,  began  to  imitate  the  example 
of  his  sovereign  by  carving  out  tiortions  of  the 
l>euelice  or  feud,  to  he  held  of  himself  by  some  other 
person,  on  terms  and  conditions  similar  to  those  of 
the  original  grant ;  and  a  continued  chain  of  sue. 
cessive  dejteudencics  waa  thus  established,  con- 
necting each  stipendiary,  or  vassal,  as  he  waa 
termed,  with  his  immediate  soperior  or  lord. 

And  again  : — 

"Such    tenants  as  hold  under  the  king  imme- 
diately, wh«»ii  they  granted  out  portions  of  their 
lands'         '     ■  ,1    persons,  liecame  also  teiA*  ^S>Jg. 
roap'  ■  m(w\ot  vnsTwoAN*,  *»  n>c\*s>i  '"rw^vSX 

taktogot  a,  tn\A^\«  i«l\.XW*.  -«««  «aiStfA  'nswaw*»«« 


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354 


tlO^  S.  I.  Avuu.  30,  IW«. 


midiile  lords,  tio  that  if  the  king  eraat«d  •  manor 
to  A,  and  A  |{ranK!d  a  portion  of  the  land  to  B, 
now  B  waa  said  to  hold  of  A,  and  A  of  the  king ; 
or,  in  other  words,  B  h«ld  his  land  imtaedi&tetjr  of 
A,  but  inediatsly  of  the  king.  The  king  therefore 
was  styled  lord  paramount ;  A  was  both  tenant  and 
lord,  or  was  a  mesne  lord  ;  and  B  was  called  tenant 
para  vail,  or  the  lowest  tenant." 

The  question  of  "  privileges  and  burdens '' 
■(to  use  B.  R.'s  expression)  would  be  one 
of  fact,  having  regard  to  the  terras  of  the 
original  grant  to  the  tenant  in  capite,  and  to 
the  risk  of  the  king  exercising  his  power  of 
forfeiture  under  that  grant— to  say  nothing 
of  the  terms  of  the  grants  as  between  each 
immediate  lord  and  tenant.         Mi4TLET0£. 

The  Plouohgang  and  otheb  Measu&es 

(10'*'  S.  i.  101,  143).— If  Mr.  Addy  i»ad  lived 
in  one  of  the  more  southern  counties,  such  as 
Oxford,  Buckingham,  or  Berkshire,  and  asked 
oneoftheolder  rural  labourers,  whose  memory 
took  him  back  to  days  before  Enclosure  Acts 
were  passed,  what  an  acre  was,  he  would 
have  been  bold  that  an  acre  was  a  strip  of 
land  in  the  open  field  22  vards  wide,  that  half 
an  acre  was  a  strip  1 1  j'aras  wide,  and  a  quarter 
acre  or  rood  was  a  strip  bh  yards  wide.  To 
uadertand  the  tneaniug  of  this  statement  he 
will  have  to  supplement  by  what  was  always 
under-itood,  that  the  normal  lengtli  of  all  the 
strips  was  a  furlong,  or  220  yards.  Hence 
acre  as  a  measure  of  length — and  in  this  sense 
it  occurs  sometimes  in  Domesday— is  the 
equis'alent  of  22  yards. 

A  clance  at  any  one  of  the  old  maps  show- 
ing the  strips  held  bv  the  different  tenants  in 
the  open  field  would  nave  convinced  him  that 
the  open  field  usually  consisted  of  three 
fxeldSf  the  normal  size  of  each  of  which  was 
40  acres,  and  that  each  of  the  three  fields  was 
again  subdivided  into  shots,  so  arranged 
that  the  furlong  ran  to  220  yards.  When  the 
lie  of  the  ground  rendered  this  impossible— 
if,  for  instance,  the  furlong  were  of  extra 
length— the  normal  width  was  curtailed.  If, 
un  ill©  other  hand,  the  furlong  ran  siiort,  the 
normal  widtfi  was  extended.  If  the  difference 
of  length  were  only  trifling,  the  normal 
width  was  adhered  to,  but  in  that  case  the 
nominal  acre  might  be  greater  or  less  than 
an  acre.  I  have  such  a  map  before  me,  show- 
ing the  holding  of  each  tenant,  either  acre, 
half  acre,  or  quarter  acre  nominal,  in 
each  shot  of  each  field,  and  specify- 
ing the  actual  acreage  by  admeasure- 
ment in  each  case.  I  therefore  very 
respectfully  submit  that  a  full  homestead 
or  house-land,  the  original  hide,  />uailut, 
or  catatus,  consisted  of  one  full  acre  in  each 


120.    As  the  villagers' tenements  "lay 

near  to  each  other  in    the  town  t), 

whereas  the  open  field  laj  outside  me  vmage, 
it  seems  to  me  an  ingenious  theory,  but  one 
as  yet  far  from  proven,  that  the  size  of  the 
messuage  fixed  the  measure  of  a  quarter  acre. 

So  far  as  Devonshire  is  concerned  I  think 
Mb.  Auuy  is  correct  in  giving  »J0  acres  ba  the 
extent  of  the  plough  or  teamland.  To  be 
strictly  accurate  he  should  have  said  64  ;  and 
if  to  this  is  added  the  amount  taken  up  by 
mere-balks,  linches,  and  green  way  a,  the  team- 
land  would  cover  some  80  acres  as  measured 
on  the  Ordnance  Survey.  In  the  survey  of 
Berry  Pomeroy,  taken  in  12I>2,  in  "TesU  Nevil,' 
the  ferling  is  stated  to  consist  of  1(5  acres, 
and  the  normal  holding  of  each  villager  to  be 
2  ferlings,  or  32  acres,  which  agrees  with  Mb. 
Addv's  statement.  Only  it  must  not  bo  sup- 
posed that  the-so  32  acres  formed  one  piece  or 
lajr  in  a  ring  fence.  They  were  interspersed 
with  the  acres  of  other  villagers. 

Two  years  ago,  in  the  neighbourhood  of 
Cirencester,  1  saw  a  man  ploughing  with  eight 
oxen  ;  they  did  not  plough  four  abieewt,  but 
only  two  abreast.  In  bygone  days  I  have 
frequently  seen  ploughing  done  with  four 
oxen  at  a  time,  but  they  were  also  two  abrsMt. 
Oswald  J.  Reichbl. 

A  la  Ronde,  Lyniitetoiie,  Devon. 

Penrith  (10"'  S.  i.  29,  97,^  156,  276).— Mk. 
Scott  writes  of  Penrith.  Now  we  have  no 
concern  with  this  place  (or  Perost)  in  the 
quest  for  Penreth,  and  Mr.  Watson,  with 
whom  I  have  for  some  years  had  a  friendly 
corresix>n<lence,  has  clearly  proved  this  was 
not  the  place  from  which  John  Byrde  took 
his  title.  But  he  did  not  prove  that  it  was 
Peutruth  in  the  diocese  of  Llandaff — there  i» 
no  such  place  there.  This  name  seemt  to 
haveslipped  into  a  letter  from  Mr.  f^itchord, 
of  Bangor. 

I  would  refer  your  correspondents  to  an 
article  of  mine  upon  the  subject  that  will 
probably  appear  in  the  forthcoming  niuuber 
of  Arc/iaoluf/iu  Cnvibreniis, 

Alfaed  Hall. 

Mr.  Scott  says  :  "It  was  decided  to  take 
the  title  of  Penrith,  on  the  supix>sition  that 
the  Cumberland  town  was  the  place  meant 
by  the  1634  Act.  Bishop  Gooflwin  stopf^ed 
that,"  «fcc.  In  the  article  which  Mr.  George 
Watson  contribute<lin  July,18ys,iothe  TrarU' 
actions  of  the  C.  and  W.  A.  and  A.  Society 
(vol.  XV.  p.  303),  he  shows,  it  is  true,  that 
John  Bird  was  bishop  of  some  place  in 
Wales;  but  he  also  quotes  from  the  1634 
Act  the  name  "  Pereth,"  and    this,  from 


V.  v«,««,»o,  tuiisiaieu  oi  one  run  acre  m  each    Act  tne  name  "  reretn,    and    tnis,  trom   a 
suot  of  each  Geld,  which  would  normaU^  be  Uomvarison  of   the  spelling    in    the   St»t9 


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Papers  of  Henry  VIII. 's  time,  lie  shows  to 
eau   *'  Penrith."       Bishop  Goodwin's  Act 

ad  hardly  the  effect  ascribed  to  it  by  Me. 

IcoTT,  of  stopping  an  erroneoas  use  of  the 
name.  U.  V.  W. 

WEf^TMINSTER  CHANGES   IK    1903   (lO""  S.   l. 

263,  302).— Mk.  Harlam)-Oxlb^''s  interesting 
communication  on  this  subject  moves  me  to 
call  his  attention  to  the  fact  that  William 
Harrison  Ainsworth  selected  Westminster  as 
the  scene  of  the  plot  of  his  pleasing  tale 
entitled  'Tlie  Miser's  Daughter,*  so  very 
charmingly  illustrated  by  George  Cruik- 
shank.  The  miser  himself  residetl  in  an  old- 
hioned  house  at  tho  corner  of  the  little 
nctuary  ;  and  the  members  of  the  Jacobite 
Club,  often  referred  to  in  the  course  of  the 
•torv,  met  not  only  at  "The  Chequers,"  Mill- 
bank,  but  also  at  "The  Rose  and  Crown," 
Gardiner  Street. 

With  regard  to  the  Irishman,  Mr.  Stephen 
Fitzgerald,  who  commenced  business  in  Tot- 
hill  Street,  moved  to  Millbank  Street  in  1812, 
and  became  a  member  of  the  Society  of 
Friends,  perhaps  I  may  mention  that  many 
years  ago,  when  I  occupied  a  house  in  Free- 
grove  Koad,  N.,  a  sou  of  my  landlord  and 
neighbour,  Mr.  John  Betts,  a  Quaker,  married 
a  daughter  of  Mr.  Alexander  Fitzgerald,  of 
Millbafik  Street.       Henky  Gerali>  Hops. 

119,  Elms  Road,  Ciai.hAm  P«rk,  H.W. 

In  vol.  V-  of '  London.'  edited  by  C.  Knight, 
p.  2U8,  there  is  an  illustration  of  Christ 
Church  as  it  was  intended  to  be.  It  was 
inserted  to  show  tlio  progress  of  taste  in 
architecture,  and  as  representing  "  the 
grandest  art  in  its  grandest  form."  Does  the 
new  tower  follow  in  detail  Poynter's  design  1 
and  is  it  an  instalment  of  an  effort  to  carry 
out  the  original  purpose  I     Frank  Penny. 

*'I    EXPECT  TO  PASS    THROUfiH  "  (10'''    S.   1. 

247,  31C).— In  a  little  book  called  *  Blessed  be 
Drudgery,'  by  William  C.  Gannett,  publisiied 
by  David  Bryce,  Glasgow,  there  is  one  paper 
died  '  A  Cup  of  Cold  Water,'  and  in  it  there 
this  sentence :  — 

"The  old  Quaker  was  riKht:  'I  expect  to  ptas 
liroiigli  this  life  but  ouce.    If  there  is  luiy  kindneas 
any  noitd  thiiit;  I  can  do   to  my  fellow-beinKS,  let 
dti  it  now.    1  sltall  paaa  t\m  way  but  once.    ' 

idi.son  was  not  a  (Quaker,  so  if  this  sen- 
ice  is  in  one  of  his  papers,  it  must  have 
?n    a   quotation.       Who    was     "the    old 
Juaker"?  Q.  L. 

*'BaD<!KR  IV  THE  BAO  "  (10^  S.   i.    289).— 

H  the  English  term  is  »mply  a  translation 

rom   the  VVelsh,  and  does  not  refer  to  any 

gU«h  sport,  it  caDQot  obviously  bo  men- 


tioned in  the  'N.E.D.'  or  in  any  other 
English  source.  The  question  whether  the 
Welsh  storyteller  was  referring  to  a  game 
actually  in  vogue  in  Wales  in  the  Middle 
Ages  is  one  which  should  not  be  unanswerable 
by  Welsh  antiquaries.  Alf.  Nutt, 

'  The  Creevey  Papers  '  (10""  S.  i.  285).— 
I  am  obliged  to  J.  H.  K.  for  calling  my  atten- 
tion to  the  discrepancy  between  the  allege^l 
dale  of  Dr.  Currie's  death  in  1805  and  the 
actual  date  of  his  letters  written  in  1806,  and 
printed  by  rae.  Currie's  biographer  and  the 
'D.N.B.'  must  be  in  error  in  stating  that 
the  doctor  died  in  1806.  I  have  had  letters  m 
my  hands  written  by  him  in  1806,  and  the 
two  letters  written  to  him  by  Creevey  in  1806 
(cite<l  by  J.  H.  K.)  contain  internal  evidence 
of  being  of  that  year,  for  they  deal  with  the 
administration  of  "All  the  Talents."  ^ 

The  Creevey  MSS.  have  gone  back  to  tbeir 
owner,  or  I  would  refer  to  a  long  printed 
obituary  notice  of  Dr.  Currie  which  is  among 
them.  Herbert  Maxwell. 

Sleep  and  Death  (9'"  S.  xii.  389,  512;  10'" 
S.  i.  315).— My  husband,  who  when  alive  was 
a  contributor  to  your  colurims,  and  who 
after  his  death  was  spoken  of  by  the 
A(/uwtum  as  "one  of  the  best  of  the  minor 
poets,"  in  one  of  his  earliest  poems,  An  Ude 
to  Death,'  wrote  the  following  verse  :— 

Draw  nearer  still— upon  thy  breaat 

Awhile  in  blissful  trance  1  11  he, 

And  gather  up  ray  aoul  to  re«t ; 

So— «o.  sweet  Death  !  I  slumber,  1. 

Carollnb  Stegoall. 

Omar  Khayyam,  writing  circa  A.D.  1000, 
says  :— 

I  fell  asleep,  and  Wisdom  said  to  ine, 
"  Never   from    Sleep  has    the  Rose  of  Happmew 

bloomed  for  any  one : 
Why  do  a  thing  that  is  the  Mate  of  Ueothl 
(Bodleian  MS.  Quatrain  27.) 

Edw.*ri»  Heron- Allen. 

Misiatoee  of  Sir  Isaac  Newton  (lo*" 
S  i.  2-lH,  315).- 1  must  take  the  earliest 
possible  opportunity  of  correcting  Mr. 
Coleman's  serious  missUt^ment  that  air 
iMaac  Newton  was  tlie  first  President  ot  the 
Koyal  Society."  This  honour  belongs  to 
Viscount  Brouncker  and  Sir  R"V«'",t^MW- 
Sir  Isaac  was  electe<l  President  of  the  Rov^ 
Society  on  30  November.  1703,  and  succeeded 
Lrd  Somers,  who  ha<l  retired  froni  that 
position  in  the  autumn  of  that  year.  Bishop 
Wilkin*  was  the  first  Chairman  of  the 
Society,  but  only  acted  in  tlu.s  capacitv  gr 
a  few  mouths,  or  until    t^«  ,«^^-^^%,^V  J^^, 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


from  fj  March,  1601,  until  the  incorporation 
of  the  Society  on  15  July,  1662,  when  he  was 
succeeded  by  Lord  Brouncker. 

I  must  alao  point  out  to  Mr.  Coleman  that 
the  lloyal  Society  was  never  known  as  the 
Royal  Academy  of  Sciences,  and  that  there 
can  be  no  possible  doubt  of  Sir  Isaac  being 
an  Associate  of  the  Royal  Academy  of 
Sciences  of  Paris,  by  the  Associates  of  which 
body  the  miniature  now  in  the  possession  of 
Mr.  Birrbkck  was  presented. 

Chas.  F.  Forsiiaw,  LL.D. 

Bradford. 

"  Hajiged,  drawn,  and  quartered  "  (lO"*  S. 
i.  809, 275).— When  1  ventured  to  ask  whether 
"hanginc  "  did  not  conae  before  "drawing,"  a 
loDR  and  unqualified  contradiction  was  the 
reply  at  7'^  S.  xi.  Ct02.  At  9'''  S.  iv.  162  I 
gave  some  instances  to  show  that  the  order  of 
the  words  "  hanged,  drawn,  and  quartered  " 
had  a  foundation  in  fact.  It  is  true  that  the 
criminal  was  often  drawn  on  a  hurdle  to  the 

Sallows,  but  it  is  just  aa  true  that  the  with- 
rawing  of  his  entrails  was  part  of  the 
sentence.  I  now  furnish  another  catena  of 
examples. 

1441-2,  in  'Three  Fifteenth -Century  Chro- 
nicles,' Camd.  Soc.,  p.  63:  "The  clerke  was 
dampned  to  be  hanged,  drawe,  and  quartered." 
1549,  Latimer,  in  'Seven  Sermons,'  Arber, 
p.  101  :  "  He  was  iudged  to  be  hanged, 
drawen,  and  quartred." 

1608,  in  Willet,  '  Exodus '  p.  770. 

1623,  in  Shakespeare,  '  King  John,'  Act  II. 

8C.  ii.  :  •'  Hang'd,  and  drawn,  and  quarter'd." 

1641,  in  *  Diary  of  John  Rous,'  Camd.  Soc, 

p.  117:  "Thoumaiijt  whip  and  strip,  hang, 

draw, and  quarter." 

1658,  in  'Obituary  of  Richard  Smyth,' 
Camd.  Soc.,  p.  47  :  "  Coll.  Ash  ton  &  one 
Batteley,  hanged,  drawn,  and  quartered." 

1600,  iu  the  same,  p.  52  :  "  Coll.  Thomas 
Harrison  hanged,  drawn,  and  quarteretl." 

IGRl,  in  'Memoirs  of  Sir  John  Reresby,' 
1875,  p.  50  :  "They  were  all  hanged,  drawn, 
and  quartered." 

,^1664,  in  Surteea  Soc.  Publ.,  vol.  xl.  p.  xix  : 
•  fo  be  hanged,  drawn,  and  quartered/' 

1679,  Ant.  u  Wood,  in  Oxf.  Hist.  Soc,  xxi. 
450 :  "  ^Ir.  Richard  Langhorne  waa  hanged, 
drawne,  and  quartered." 

1688,  the  same,  xxvi.  276 :  "  Cornish  was 
hanged,  drawn,  and  quartered." 

1690,  the  same,  xxvi.  346:  "An  innkeeper 
waa  hang'd,  drawne,  and  quartered." 
1721.    in    G.    Rous-jillon's 


(1S18,  ill.  290) :  "There  can  be  no  hanging, 
drawing,  or  quartering  on  the  present 
occasion. ' 

1884,  Canon  Raine,  in  Surfc.  Soc.  vol.  Ixxix. 
p.  306:  "Sir  John  was  banged,  drawn,  and 
quartered  "  (1537),  W.  C.  B. 


Martexlo  Towkrs  (ID*''  S.  i.  285).— In  cou- 
{irraation  of  the  Morning  Post's  explanation, 
but  aftbrding  additional  particulars,  in  the 
account  piven  of  the  oriuia  of  the%e  tower* 
in  Admiral  Smyth's  'bailor's  Word-Boofc,' 
where  it  is  stateu  that  they  were 

"»o  named  from  a  tower  in  the  Bay  of  Murt^llft, 
in  Corsica,  whicli,  in  1791,  maintained  a  very  deter- 
mined resistance  against  the  EnRlish.  A  tiiartcllo 
tower  ut  the  entrance  to  the  Bay  of  (iacta  b««t  off 
H.M.iS.  i'anip^e  of  eighty  ftuns.  A  martello  is 
built  circular,  and  is  thus  diHicnlt  to  hit,  with 
walla  of  vast  thickness,  pierced  by  loojibolcA,  and 
the  bomb-proof  roof  is  anued  with  one  heavy 
traversing  gun.  They  are  thirty  to  forty  fnr>t  hijjh, 
surrounded  by  a  dry  fosse,  and  f'  '  v  a 

laddler  at  a  door  several  feet  fro: 

J.  H.  :.l.v..\...  ...,„L. 

In  'N.  Js  Q.'  of  13  July,  1850,  p.  110,  & 
correspondent  (Wm.  Di;rkant  Cooper)  wrote 
that  Martello  was  "  a  mis-spelling  for  Mor- 
tella,"  and  gave  an  interesting  account  of  the 
origin  of  the  towers  along  the  coasts  of  Kent 
and  Sussex,  which  were  constructe<l  in  coo- 
sequence  of  the  brilliant  defence  of  the  Tower 
of  Mortellu  by  Ensign  LeTollier,  with  about 
forty  men,  against  a  formidable  attack,  botli 
by  land  and  sea,  in  Febniarv,  1794.  A  further 
reference  to  the  name  is  to  oe  found  atp.  173. 

w;  s. 

When  I  visited  the  tomb  of  CaeciHa  Meldla" 
on  the  Appian  Way.  near  Rome,  tlie  guide 
Prof.  Reynaud  a.s8ured  the  party  that  the 
name  "  Martello "  was  a  corruption  gi^en 
to  the  Channel  towers  from  their  likeness  t« 
Metella's  tomb.  II.  B— fc. 

RowE  Family  (lO'"  S.  i.  269).— Mark  XobleV 
in  his  'Lives  of  the   Recicides,'  si 
Owen    Rowe,   the    regicide,   was  n 
from    Sir    Thomas    Rowe,    Lord    ^lavo 
London  in  1.108.     The  following  may  fia 
suited   at  the  Corporation   Library, 
hall  :— 

"The  indictment,  arraignment,  tr-    V 
merit    at    large    of    tweiily-niiifi 

murtherens    of King    Charlea    1 

Hicka'shall.  Olh  Oct.,  KMJO,  and  eouUout^  at  U 
Old-Baily."    London,  173i). 

See  also  1"  S.  ix.  449. 

EvKEACD  Bomb  Couathit. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 


.    in    U.    Rous-jillon's     translation    of 
>  ertots  'Revolution  in  Portugal,'  p.  88. 

»fli^^'  ■'o-*"  ec/itJOn  of  '  Hudlbras,'  \\.  Vii?,.         \       i.-*    in.unuuacEu  AS  aii  vi'J-  S3.  1.  » 

foIS,  Sir   W.  Scott,    in    the  '  Anlxquar-s '  \  SvuxcVy  "^^-  ^^«^  "Vv^^^  VswA  «k 


N   rROSOUSCED  AB  KG  (10"»  S.  1*.  »47, 


lo-*  8,  L  ArwL  30. 190*.]       NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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K 


lare's  neat  in  the  supposed  fnconsistency 
jet  ween  the  pronunciation  of  ankle,  anh(ln$it, 
kc,  and  eucn  words  as  imjuhe,  inconvenient, 

crmsistenL  Tliero  is  no  possible  relation 
Jietweett  the  two  classes  of  words.  The  latter 
ire  compound  words,  consisting  of  a  verb  and 

prefix,  as  "in"  and  "quiero,"  while  the 
jrrner  are  merely  the  arbitrary  English 
jlgthods  of  spelling  Greek  words  which  are 

'"*Byed  tohave  been  pronounced, so  far  as  this 
iculat'  sound  h  coacerned,  em  we  usually 
ironounce  the  consonant  ti.7.  Why  the  sup- 
bo<jed  Greek  pronunciation,  for  example,  of 
t-/Ki'A<o(ris  should  govern  tliat  of  compound 
I'ords  derived  from  the  Latin  it  is  difficult 

see.  J-  Foster  Falileb. 

Bl'RXs  Anticipated  (10''>  S.  i.  286).— In 
preference  to  the  very  striking  and  interesting 
parallel  furnished  oy  him,  W.  I.  R.  V.  says, 
Whether  this  anticipation  of  Burns  has  been 
previously  nolice<l  in  print  I  ana  not  aware." 
I  I  may  say  that  it  api>eara  in  an  interesting 
'ftrticle  on  'Parallel  Ideas  of  Nations,'  contri- 
butes! to  ChamUtit  Edinbur(ih  Journal  for 
3  February,  1844  (Xew  Series,  No.  6,  p.  70). 
It  is  also  given  in  Bartlett's  'Familiar  Quota- 
tions,' p.  226. 

The  context  of  the  abov«  article  also  gives 
two  other  anticipations  of  Burns  worth 
transcribing : — 

The  rank  is  but  the  (guinea's  staiup. 
The  niui  '8  the  Kowd  for  a'  that. 

Wycherley  says,  in  'The  Plain  Dealer,'  "I 
weigh  the  man,  not  his   title  :  'tis  not  the 
king's  stntnp  can  make  the  metal  better  or 
^^  heavier." 

^B     This,  too,  is  given  in  Bartlett  :— 
^H  "Whoe'er  ihow  art,  O  reader,  know 

^H  That  Death  has  murdered  Johnie  ; 

^V  And  here  hia  body  lies  fu'  low— 

1^^  For  aaul.  ke  ne'er  had  ony. 

'•  In    a    rare   old    work,    '  Nupie    Veii»le«,    sivc 
ThesauruB  ridendi  et  jiD<'Andi,'   Ac,  bearing  date 
ltili:{,  but  without  place  or  publisher'!  name,  is  a 
1^       Latin  epigram  turning  upon  exactly  the  same  jeat  :— 
^K     Oh  I>ea«  omnipotCQ8,  vituli  miaercre  Joannie, 
^H        Queni  more  |irn:veniona  non  sinit  es«e  bovem  : 
^^     Corj'Ua  in  Italia  etit,  habel  inteotina  Bralmntua, 
Ait  nniniam  nemo;  Cur?<jnia  non  habuit." 

To  the  parallel  from  'Cupid's  Whirligig,' 
anticipating 

Her  prentice  han*  she  tried  on  man.  Ac, 

I  may  here  add  one  less  close,  but  similar 

enough  to  he   interesting.     Steele,    in    his 

'Christian  Hero,'  says  of  Adam  awaking  and 

^  seeing  Eve :    "  He   uehehl  his  own  rougher 

^H  inake  softened  into  sweetness,  and  tampered 

^V  with  smiles  :  he  saw  a  creature  who  hiu),  as 

it  were,  lltavciCt  sccoml  (howjht  in  her  forraa- 

tiou."    liero  we  may,  I  suppose,  see  a  tacit 


allusion  to  the  saying,  "  Second  thoughts  are 
best." 

The  similarity,  at  least  in  form,  between 
Burns's  *Twa  Dogs'  and  the  immortal 
'  ColoQuio  de  los  Perros  '  of  Cervantes,  in  the 
'  Novelas  Ejemplares,'  has  probably  been 
often  noted.        C  Lawrence  Foud,  B.A. 

Leslie  Stephen's  'Engush  Literature 
AND  Society  in  the  Eighteenth  Century' 
(IQt"  S.  i.  288).— The  Maxwell  who  gave  a 
description  of  the  very  essence  of  garden  was 
probably  Sir  William  Stirling  Maxwell,  whose 
description  of  the  Island  garden  of  Aranjuez 
is  quoted  at  pp.  286-7  in  'The  Praise  of 
Gardens,'  by  Albert  Forbes  Sieveking,  pub- 
lished by  Dent  &  Co.  in  1899. 

James  Watson. 

Folkestone. 

•John  Inolesant'  (lO""  S,  i.  280),— Much 
information  is  given  in  the  articles  (princi- 
pally by  the  late  Cuthdert  Bkde)  at  6^  S. 
vii.  341,  387,  457,  481. 

EvERARD  Home  Colemak. 

71.  Breckuock  Road. 


S^isrfUaiuoMS. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  Ac 
Tht  Scotn  Peeraof.  Founded  on  Wood's  E<Ution  of 
Sir  Robert  Douglas's  'Peerajre  of  .Scotland.* 
Edited  l»y  Sir  James  Balfour  Paul,  Lord  Lyon 
King  of  Arms.  Vol.  I.  (Edinburgh,  Dougla«.) 
To  a  society  of  eeoealogists  and  men  of  letters  is 
owing  what  bids  fair  to  l)e  one  of  the  most  important 
f;eneaIo)j:icaI  and  heraldic  works  of  modem  times. 
The  society  in  question,  which  numbers  many  well- 
knoMo  writers  and  heraldic  experta,  is  presided  over 
by  Lyun  as  editor,  and  has,  accordinely,  a  cachet  of 
authority.  How  intricate  and  diffiuult  are  nnestionB 
of  Scottish  descent  is  generally  known.  Our  own 
pages  overflow  with  correaiwndence  »nd  controversy 
on  a  subject  which,  iu  a  time  happily  iiast,  led  to 
some  bickering.  For  the  basis  ot  the  ^eat  work 
now  undertaken  has  l>een  accepted  .John  Philip 
Woods  edition  of  'The  Peerage  of  Scotland,'  bv  Sir 
Robert  Douglas,  Bart.,  a  work  wliich.  in  spite  ot  the 
caatigatiou  it  received  from  Riddcli,  is  recognized 
as  sound,  painstaking,  and.  considering  the  state  of 
knowledge  at  the  time,  authoritative— that  is,  as 
nearly  authoritative  as  it  could  Le  expected  to  be. 
First  published  in  1764,  in  a  thick  folio  of  over  seven 
hundred  pages,  it  appeared  in  an  enlarged  form,  in 
two  volumes  folio,  in  1813,  with  the  additions  of 
Wood.  Much  of  the  original  matter  haa  been  re- 
written— so  much,  indeed,  as  to  justify  the  editor  in 
giving  the  work  an  altered  title.  Himself  a  member 
of  an  old  Scottinh  family,  Sir  Robert  Douclas  found 
open  to  him  the  records  of  the  principttl  Scottiiii 
houMa,and  hia  book  was  anotable  advance  upon  that 
of  George  Crawfurd,  Tuiblishe«l  almost  half  a  century 
earlier.  That  it  could  have  been  final,  even  as  regards 
the    period    reached,    no  oao    wWcv  "v-V*   li^.v^B^»^. 


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anticipated.      Since    Wocni's   diiy    the   conditions 
altenJioK  genealogical  inrestiicatioo  have  chanced. 
Nothing  m  the  way  of  printingor calendaring  public 
or  private  records  had   then  been  done,  and  the 
writers  had  to  forage  an    they  could  among   ill- 
arranged  and  unindexed  coUecttonB.    What  advance 
haa  been  made  in  these  matters  in  raoent  years  is 
known  to  all.    and  especially  to  students  of   our 
oolumns.  DuriuK  the  last  half  century  have  appeared 
'The  Calendar  of  Dwuments  relating  to  Scotland,' 
•The  Ileifister  of  the  (ireat  Seal,'  'The  Exohenner 
Rolls,'  'The  Privy  Council  Registers,'  and  'The 
Lord  High  Treasurer's  Accounts.   To  these  must  be 
added  the  publications  of  the  B&nnatyne,  Maitland, 
and  bpalding  Clubs.     About  one-fourth   has  been 
added  to  the  matter  contained  in  Wood's  Douelaa. 
As  the  task  of  revisingandorderingthe  whole  of  the 
information  was  too  much  for  one  man,  the  greater 
portion  of  whose  lifetime  it  might  well  occupy,  and 
as,  moreover,  tho  need  for  a  new  edition  was  argent 
and  imperative,   it   has  been  entrusted  to  a  syn- 
dicate presided  over  by   the   most  accurate  and 
authoritative  of  Scottish  antiquaries.     There  is, 
indeed,  no  work  of  the  class  more  necessary  and  none 
likely  to  be  so  welcome.     The  aim  is,  of  course, 
primarily  genealogical,  historical  det-ail  being  neces- 
sarily subordinate.    To  the  historian,  however,  the 
work   also    appeals,    and    its  conclusions  will    be 
eagerly  anticipated  by  all  concerned  in  the  study 
of  Dotti  subjects.    Fulnesa  of  reference  has  been  a 
special  aim,  and  the  peerage  seems  likely  in  this 
respect  to  set  a  notable  example.     Vol.  i.,  which, 
after    the    preliminary    portion   dealing  with    the 
Kings  of  Scotland,  bepins  with  Abercorn,  Hamil- 
ton,  Earl   of,  ends   with    Balmerino,  KIphinHtone, 
Lord  ;  a  second  volume  is  in  the  press,  and  the 
whole,  which  is  to    be   in  six    volumes,   will   be 
issued    with   all    the    rapidity    reconcilaDle    with 
thoroughness  of  workmanship.      The  ilhistrntions 
form    a     striking     and     important     feature.      A 
richly  coloured  plate  of  the  arms  of  the  Kings  of 
Scotfaitd    constitutes    a     frontispiece  ;     full-page 
achievements  are  furnished  of  tho  arms  of  sixteen 
]>eora.    Other  heraldic  designs  are  numerous. 

It  is  interesting  to  find  that  the  coat  of  the 
work,  which  is  issued  in  a  limited  edition  and  is 
brought  up  to  date,  would  have  been  almost 
prohibitive  but  for  the  assistance  furnished  by 
our  former  friend  and  contributor  Sir  William 
Eraser,  K.C.B.,  who  left  a  sum  of  money  to 
be  sjient  in  printing  works  elucidatory  of  the 
history  of  Scotland,  it  must  not,  however,  be  sup- 
posed that  the  sum  in  question  was  sufliclent  to 
cover  the  entire  outlay,  or  does  much  to  lessen  tho 
obligatiou  due  to  the  enterprise  of  the  publisher. 
In  the  opening  portion,  on  the  Kings  of  Scot- 
land, the  i>oint  of  departure  is  Malcolm  III., 
Ceannmor,  r.  1031-93,  the  record  closing  with  tho 
Cardinal  Duke  of  York,  the  last  male  of  his  line, 
who  died  13  July,  1807-  All  concerned  wth  this 
fine  production  are  to  be  congratulated  on  its 
inception,  and  the  execution  so  far  as  it  has  gone, 
and  scholars  generally  will  not  hesitate  to  acknow- 
ledge their  obligation. 

Ortat  Ma*terA,  Part  XV.  (Heinomsnn.) 
For  •  The  Host  on  tho  Flight  into  Egypt '  of  Lncas 
Cranach,  from  the  Herlin  Museum,  it  is  claimed  that 
though  the  artist  was  a  manufacturer  who  turned 
out  pictures  as  a  cobbler  turns  out  boots,  this  work, 
psinted  in  )'>(H,  when  he  was  thirty-two  years  old, 
i»  A/*  niAsterpicce.    It  has  but  recently  passed  Itotu 


a  private  collection  into  its  preaeot  home,  and  is, 
perhaps,    the    most    notable   acuuiaition    of    the 
Museum   during  recent  years.    From  the  Louvre 
comes  Leonardo  s  '  Mona  Lisa,' ordinarily  known,  by 
a  name  <  iabriele  d'Annunzio  has  once  more  brought 
into  celebrity,  oa  '  La  Oiocondo.'    The  expression, 
half  III  eased,  half  amused,  of  this  lovely  portrait  is 
wonderfully  reproduced,  and  the  work  constitute* 
one    of  the   gems    of  the    series.    Another  recent 
acquisition  ot  the  Berlin  Museum  is  '  The  Farm  '  of 
Adriaen  Vwn  de  Velde,  dated  1^.  It  is  a  thoroughly 
characteristic  picture,  the  trees  in  which  are  benuti- 
fully   painted.     Before    them   the    animal   tignree, 
whichare,however,much  praised, seem  insigniriconL 
Raebnrn's  |>ortrail  of  Mrs.  Hart  cornea  from  Major 
Hotchkis's  collection.     It  was  painted  in  the  nine 
teenth  century,  its  date  being  about  181U,  and  so  it 
outside  the  general  scheme  of  the  series.    Pew  will 
complain  that  the  directors  have  stretched  a  poiat 
in  order  to  include  it. 

Casskli.'s  "  National   Libran."         '       "na*  been 
muofi  imjirovedin  -iliaiieand  app'  as  with 

a  cheap,  pretty,  and  handy  littit-  •  ....  ..  ,;  (ieorge 

Klioi's  .S'i7a9  Marutr,  with  an  introduction  by  Stuart 
ii.  Reid,  and  a  reproduction  of  Sir  Frederick 
Burton's  portrait  of  the  author  from  the  National 
Portrait  Gallery. 

BooKacLLKRs'  Catalooitkb. 

If  the  April  cataloguea  are  any  indioation  as  to 
the  condition  of  trade,  there  should  be  no  coni' 
iilaint  uf  depression.  Fresh  lists  are  cooslaotly 
being  received  by  us,  and  moat  of  them  contain 
niany  books  exceedingly  valuable  and  rare,  reiiuir- 
inj{  those  desirous  of  possessing  them  to  b«  |irovided 
with  a  well-filled  purse. 

Mr.  Blackwell,  of  Oxford,  baa  two  lists  of 
theological  works,  the  first  chiefly  English,  and 
tho  fiocond  foreign.    The  prices  ore  moJerate,  but 


among  the  more  expensive  are  'Chrj-soi'-'-i  '>'*ra 
Omnia,'  26  vols,  in  13,  royal  8vo,  half  >  ..<), 

10/.  ia«, :  '  Brentii  Opera.'  Tubingcc.  1."  • 

'  Salmeronis  Opera,*  1606-15.  ."V.  ^. ;  M.  „, 

Brunswick,  1851-80,  2H  vols.  4to,  .V.  :  a; 

lj>t0.     There  are  two  Hohp  of  the  fiftet i ,  u- 

teenth  centuries. 

Those  seeking  works  relating  to  Scotland  will  do 
Well  to  consult  the  list  of  Mr.  Richard  Cameron, 
of  Edinburgh.  Among  many  items  referring  to 
Scottish  burgh  records,  market  crosses,  acenerr, 
i\nd  music  printers  will  be  found  '  Acts  of  the 
Pariiament  of  Scotland,*  1224-1707,  I'-'  vols,  folio. 
{V.  10*. :  Scots  M(i//a-iiie,  comiilete,  97  ;■•- 

1836,  IW.   ia<.  ;   a  sot  of   The    Ten   Po 
'Spoltiswoodo  Miscellany';  Drummon  ur, 

Scottish  Weajtons ' ;  and  a  set  of  CoTuit  '  !. 

lany,  the  80  vols,  for  2/.  l.'U.    Among  i  n 

that  of  James  Mackoull  for  robbing   the   I'uisle* 
Bank  of  50.000/.  in  ISll.  *  ' 

Mr.  .James  Coleman,  of  Tottenham,  h--  ~  .  .^,1 
catalogue  of  manuscrijjta  and  printed  i  ly 

Court  and  Rent  liolls,  charters,  printi:  ■,_ 

and  old  wills.    There  are  some  curioun  . 
ing  to  London,  comprising  one  with   i 
land  in  Walbrook  in  1659;  another  (I7i.,  ., 
landing-place  at  Fauxhall.  in  I..amlieth  :  an  n 
of  lands  given  to  .St.  (iiies,  Criiiple^nttj,    ii 
deed   between    the   Governors   of    the 
Hospital,  Tothill   Fields,  and  Thnmn^i 
tiV.  John's,  Westminster,  1756j  and  a  li,,ivs.ui.i!ir 


m 


io«  s.  I.  AFRit  30. 19W.)       NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


359 


I 


Bketch  of  the  aortli  bank  of  the  Thaniei,  1825.  Ma(( 
the  original  roll  showing  the  improremenU  sag- 

feted  by  Col.  Trench,  including  a  proposed  quay, 
nder  Oxford  we  find  the  decision  of  Ih-.  Alwortn, 
!  26  October,  1678,  "  that  Edmund  Warcup,  hia  wife 
ftnd  family,  alone  had  the  right  to  use  and  occnpy 
the  north  aisle  in  the  parieh  church  of  NorChniore 
in  the  co.  of  Oxford." 

Mr.  Charles  Higham's  list  inclndea  a  unique 
library  of  hymnology  of  4,000  volumes,  many  of 
them  described  in  *  The  Dictionary  of  Hymnology,' 
1892,  but  others  of  earlier  date  and  not  known  to 
the  comiiilera  of  that  work.  The  great  majority  of 
the  boouB  are  in  English,  but  some  are  in  Greek, 
Latin,  French,  (ierman,  and  other  languages.  The 
price  asked  is  316/.  Mr.  W.  T.  Brooke  baa  largely 
Miitted  in  the  collection.  The  oatalogue  contains 
a  wide  selection  of  niodom  theolonc&l  books.  We 
notice  one  exception,  a  copy  of  Baronius,  16  vols. 
folio,  calf,  leiilVsT,  10/.  10». 

Messrs.  Idle,  of  Bloomabury,  have  a  catalogue  of 
modem  books  at  moderate  prices. 

Mr.  Macphail,  of  Kdinburfth,  hai*  in  the  front 
page  of  his  catalogue  "an  ancient  prophecy  about 
to  be  fultilled"  regarding  his  change  of  addresa 
to  St.  tJiles  Street.  Among  rarities  in  Scottish 
literature  we  find  the  original  drawing  in  aepia 
of  *  A  (Jala  Day  at  Abbotsford,'  by  Sir  William 
Allan.  The  picture  represents  Scott,  his  family,  ' 
and  friends  in   the  grounds  at  Abbotaford.     The  ! 

firioe  in  frame  is  41. 4«.   Strangvage's  '  Mar)-  Stuart,'  j 
6'24,  is  21<). :   first  edition  of  '  Kokeby,'  with  the 
portrait,  which   ia  often   missing.  '2]/>.;    'Acta  of. 
The  Parliament  of  .Scotland,'  1C82  IT.'Jl,  4  vols..  STv*. ; ! 
Lady  Anne  Barnnrd  a  *  Auld  Robin  Gray,' edited  by 
Scott,    1825,   i'2if.    (only    65    copies    printed) ;    and 
Buchanan's  '  Kerum  Scoticorum,'  1582.    There  are 
also  Jaoobite  works  ;  works  relating  to  family  his- 
tory, the  Bairds,  Dick  Cunynghamea,  Douglaaea, 
Egertona,  fiowries,  Murea,  &c.  ;    Viewa  of  London, 
1794;  and  'Trials.' 

Meaara.  B.  k  J.  F.  Meohan,  of  Bath,  have  books 

relating  to  Bath  ranging  from  1770  to  the  preaent 

time.    There  ia  a  '  Bath  Bibliogrnphy,'  containing 

200  works  in  nroae  and  verse.    Other  itema  are 

Ouikshank'a    ^Odds  and   Ends,'  by    Merie.   1831. 

priced    at    2/.    '2i. :    '  Scenes   from    the    I'ickwick 

Papera,'    drawn    by    Dulcken,   6/.  (U.  ;    Wotton's 

'Heraldry,'    5  vols.,    1741 ;   Collins'a    '  Heraldry,' 

^9  vols.,  1770;  (>>»''«  a  »',fk,  13  vols..  1859.65,  U.  10-.; 

^ftCripps's    '  Old    English    Plate ' :    a    set    of    the 

■QtmWer///,    1809    to    1850,    ffj  vols..    3/.  3». ;    and 

^FWilkea'e  Xorth   i?r(Vo»,  including  No.  4,1,  which 

^^Waa  anppre&sed.     We  wish  Messrs.  Meehati  would 

Kprint  their  catalogue  on  white  paper. 

Messrs.  Paraona's  catalogue  includes  Bryan's 
*  Painters.'  a  magnificently  extra-illuatrated  copy, 
4'MV.  !  a  large  collection  of  Alken'a  illustrations; 
Audsleya '  Arts  of  Japan,'  lSS'2-4,  very  rare,  !(>/.  IOj*.  ; 
[  works  of  Bartolo7.7i  ;  ({ovdeirs  '  Thaniea,'  14^  14^. ; 
burton's  'Arabian  Nights';  Rowlandaon,  1811, 
to,,  15/.  1.5».  ;  n  Dumber  of  books  on  costume; 
'The  Politicke  uml  MiJitario  1'  nf  r>ird 

la  Noovt,'  I.ViT.   4/.  4.t  ;    l>i  limaldi,' 

entley,  IS.l'S.  ;«,  :    PMwnrda'a  ' :.., ^.  uf  Inns,' 

jrivately    printed,    1X75-80,    12/.    ii.. ;    Harding's 

^Bioyaiihicol    Mirroup.'    1705,    l.V.    \!U.  j   orij{inal 

"~^Bg8  I  '  '  **"  ;  Girtins  'Views 

ie,'  )-  !>'s  Portraits,"  IHI'J, 

;>,'     lioydell,     1788, 


40  gtiineaa;  Houbraken  and  Vertue's  'Heads  o£ 
Illuatrioua  Persons  of  Great  BriUio,'  1756,  12/  12*  • 
Kidd's  'Views  of  Jamaica.'  1830;  'Kit-Cat  Club 
Portraits,'  1735,  38  guineas  ;  Madame  Lanoheater'a 
'The  Mirior  de  la  Mode,"  1803;  Leconite'e 
'  Costumee  de  ThuAtro  de  1(500  h.  1820,'  IS.'W ; 
Walton's  'Coloured  Viewa  of  Dublin,'  1791  ;  a  large 
number  of  worka  on  military  coatume,  including 
Smilh'a,  published  by  Colnaghi,  ISl.'i,  46/, ;  coloured 
plate  books  of  battle  acenea;  Millaia'a  aketchea, 
25  guineas ;  an  original  unused  aiwciraen  of  the 
Mulready  enveloi)e,  10<.  6rf. ;  Naah'a  'Mansions,' 
rare  coloured  c-ouy,  18.'»-49,  :«  uuineaa ;  original 
water-colours  of  English  ladies  costume,  180<>, 
2.')  guineas  ;  panoramas  of  Queen  Victoria's  Corona- 
tion, giving  the  Koyal  rorh'gt  and  the  whole  line  of 
decorated  streets,  also  Victoria's  Marriage,  and 
the  opening  of  the  Royal  Exchange  ;  Reynolds's 
complete  engraved  worka,  1833-66,  180  guineas; 
War  Tract*,  Americana,  &c.,  from  the  collection 
of  General  Knollys,  1689-97.  10/.  10*. 

Messrs.  James  Rimell  &  Son  have  a  large  number 
of  choice  books  with  coloured  plates,  including  a 
copy  of  Pierce  Egun,  in  the  original  boards. 
1821  4,  13/.  13».  ;  mimphrieaa  '  Middle  Agea.'  8/. ; 
Mclan's  'Clans  of  the  iScottish  Highlands,' Acker- 
niann,  184.1,  'iLIki  Racinet's'CostuoJe  Historique,' 
21/. ;  Rowlandaon  B  '  Microcosm  of  London,'  24/. ; 
'  1^8  Peuplea  de  la  Ruaaio.'  Paris.  181*2,  9/.  5m, 
There  are  presentation  copiea,  including  'The 
Excursion.'  Written  on  the  tlyleaf  ia,  "To  William 
Wordsworth  Talfourd,  from  hia  friend  William 
Wordsworth,  I^^ndon,  '20  May,  1839."  This  is 
priced  at  13/.  13ai.  The  catalogue  is  also  rich  in  his- 
torical and  personal  memoirs  and  military  worka. 

Messrs.  Sothoran'a  April  list  ia,  tike  all  their 
catalogues,  full  of  interest,  It  o])ons  with  subjeota 
relating  to  Africa  ;  then  we  have  Alp-lore,  then 
Americana,  including  Bancroft'a  '  Hiatorical  Works 
on  Western  American  Orieina,'  .San  Francisco, 
1883^93,  39  vols.,  27/. ;  '  Harnman  Alaaka  Expedi- 
tion,' 1/.  lu'f.,  deacribed  as  being  one  of  the  meet 
im{)ortant  works  on  North- Weat  America ;  Silk 
Buckingham's  works  on  America,  1842 ;  Kingaford's 
'Canada,'  8  vols.,  3/.  7*.  6rf.  j  the  charter  granted 
by  William  and  Mary  to  the  inhabitanta  of  Massn- 
chnsetts  Hay,  Boaton.  1726,  rare.  IS/.  18«. ;  "The 
Book  of  Mormon,'  1840-4. 2  vols  IGnio,  3/.  ^. ;  '  Vucs 
de  Boston,'  rare,  4/.  44. ;  and  Schomburgk'a  '(iuiaiia,* 
scarce.  3/.  10«.  "There  ia  a  set  of  the  A  unuai  Hfijitttr, 
251.  Under  'Botany'  r>ccur  a  set  of  the  Botanical 
Magaiine,  1787-1901,  150/. ;  Sander's  great  work  on 
orchids,  22/.  10«. ;  and  Sowerby'a  '  Engliah  Fungi,' 
175)7-I80a(-15],  extremely  scarce,  21/.  Najwleon'a 
great  work  on  Egvpt,  1809-22,  ia  63/  ;  it  waa  pub- 
lished at  160/.  unbound.  A  choice  copy,  in  the 
original  88  weekly  parts,  of  '  Master  Humphrey's 
Clock.'  \b51.5*.  Other  noteworthy  items  are  ;j4  nam- 
l>era  of  the  Eton  Miniaturt,  1805;  Florian's  works, 
printed  on  vellum  pai>er,  15  vols.,  Didot  I'alno, 
1784-92.  10/.  10^.:  Gouga'a  'Sepulchral  Monuments 
of  Great  Britain,'  very  rare,  1788-96,  25/.  ;  Higgins'a 
*  CcUif  Druids' :  O'lVonovan's  '  Annala,'  7  vols.  4tOj 
I  •'1,7/.  !<•,<.;  Hodgson's 'Northumberland, 

■   copy,  42/. ;  a  set  of  the  Royal  .Society 

I »M,    -I/;    and    in    the    Isham    roprinta 

'  Venus  and  Adonia^'  from  the  hitherto  unknown 
edition    of    15{>f<,    "The    Pasaionato    Pilgrim,'  and 
others,  edited  by  Charlea  Eklmonda,  who  discovered 
them  over  a  stable  at  Lamvoct.  H*.\k^V5V^AV.W.*.^A.. 
There  atts  ^  tvwiuVmt  «A.  Wj«.x  ^l\^'«5lt:ft^^l\•i^^■vaio■^{wi^fc 


■i 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES,     oo*  s.  i.  apru.  ao.  low. 


liallenefl  ana  rrivaie  uoiiecLionB  oi  <Fre»i  »nu 
with  descriptions  by  S.  C  H&U,  1872,  7/.7«.  ;  OttI 
*  Wood  Engraving/^  1816,  4/.  5«.  ;  Sufford  Col 
tioo  ;  Turner,  and  Raffaele.   The  law-books  inel 


and  some  ouriotia  works  on  witcltcraft,  includiae 

*  PicudocIiriMtiis,'  IdV};  HoDkinsa  '  Diacovery  ni 
Witches,"  1&47  ;  Perkina'i '  Discoursoof  the  Damned 
Art  of  Witchcraft,'  1608  ;  and  a  roaou«cript  list  of 
witches  in  Scotland,  1G58. 

Mr.  James  Thin,  of  Edinburgh,  has  a  number  of 
tniaoeUaneona  books  on  the  fine  arts.  These  include 
Tadema,^  selected  by  F.  Ci.  Stephens.  2/.  '2«. ;  '  His- 
tory of  Art  Sales,  1€!S-1887,'2  vols,  royal  4to,  issued 
to  subscribers  only,  1888,  24/. ;  '  British  Gallery  of 
Pictures,'  31. 10«. ;  'Life  of  Vioat  Co\e,'  by  Robert 
<Jhi(cnell ;  'Gallery  of  Pictures  selectisd  from  the 
Galleries  and  Private  Collections  of  (wreat  Britain,' 

-      -     -  ottley's 

"  Collec- 
cludo 
a  set  of  the  Scofiijth  Jnrixl.,  1S29-73.  and  Sro/linh 
Ln-w  litporttr,  27  vols.  Under  Military  will  be 
found  intereaiine  items.  Mr.  Thin  has  also  a 
«ui>plementarT  list  of  new  books  at  very  reduced 
1)rice8,  includina;  the  Anglo-Saxon  Jterific  for 
4/.  I5«.,  and  Pearson's  '  Historical  Maps  of  England 
during  the  First  Thirteen  Centuries.' 

Mr.    Thorp,    of    Reading,    has    a   copy   of    the 

*  Kaovclopa^aia  Britannica,  25  vois.,  Times  office,  as 
now,  tor  W.  Sronscr's  '  Faerie  Queene,' the  beautiful 
iHustrated  edition  of  189(3,    is  o(.  5>i. ;   Talfourd's 

*  Lamb,'  183S,  uncut,  scarce,  2/.  10^.  ;  Barlmult's 
'Rome,'  1761,  large  thick  paper.  5/.  10«.  ;  Uolings- 
liead's  'Chronicles,'  ISm-i,  10/.  10*.;  Swifts 
•Directions  to  Servants,'  1745.  'The  Injured  Lady, 
1745,  and  'The  Chace,'  the  three  tracts  in  1  vol., 
Svo.  calf,  5/.  Sa.  ;  the  Britannia,  weekly  journRl, 
January,  1840,  to  December,  1849.  9  vols.,  11. ; 
Topaell  B  *  History  of  Four- Footed  Beasts,  1607,  a 
■cnrioufl  work,  in  which  the  unicorn,  satyr,  ape.  and 
hunting  horse  are  described,  11.  lik. ;  a  set  of  the 
"  Anglo-catholic  Theology  Library,"  Parker.  lH4l-67j 
fi8  vols.  4/,  4'<. ;  first  edition  of  Byron's  '  Hours  of 
Idleness,'  Newark,  1807  :  Dickons  s  works,  a  set  of 
first  and  early  eflitions,  11.  lOti.  ;  Miss  Biirney's 
'Camilla'     and     'The     Wanderer,'   first  ediliona ; 


Occult    buicQoe ; 


n  in 
lure 
Lda- 
MM 


i  'uni  is  17*'>1 

i'    '        '  111;   Gi^eek 

Secrota,    luveutiona,    and 
S  h&kespear  iana. 

Messrs.  Henry  Young  k  Sonj»,  of  Liverpool,  have 
Beattie's  *  Castles  and  Abbeys,"  2'.  10«.  ;  Wnlbran's 
'  Abbeys,'  4/.  4<.  (complete  copies  of  tins  arr  »«ldom 
to  be  met  with) ;  Arcabishop  Parker's  rare  edition 
of  three  Chronicles,  incfiHinir  A^-s^r'"  lif*  of 
Alfred,  1.374.  4/,  IOj.  :  Bewi  isi)7. 

6/.  On.  ;  valuable  books  on  ;',  of 

'Don  (Juiiote,' 1652,  5/.5*. ;  :: ,  the 

First '  J  and  Cniikshank's  '  Lesuon*  of  Thriic,  hand- 
coloured  etchings,  Boys,  1820,  51.  15*.  Under 
Karly  Printing  aro  St.  Jerome's  'Lives  of  the 
Holy  Fathers  '  Venice,  I4.S.3  ;  '  The  Decrees  of  Pot»e 
Gregory  IX.,  14S2 ;  and  Thomas  i\  Kempis,  12mo, 
1480.  Hayward's  'Edward  the  Sixt,"  l«aO.  and 
Milles's  '  Heraldry,'  160S,  are  notable,  as  are  iterai 
under  Tudor  Law.  Kelmscott  IVess,  Nav-al  (includtaj^ 
Pepys's  '  State  of  the  Royal  Navy  of  England,'  first 
edition,  ]&.Hi),  Walter  Pater,  Plantin's  Press;  the 
second  edition  of  'The  Faerie  Queen,'  fine  copy, 
Kill,  10/.  10«.  ;  and  MacGillivray's  'Natural  Hi«tory 


k'ray  J 
of  Dee  Side  and  Braemar,'  privately  pri 
mand  of  Queen  Victoria  (this  copy  \. 
by    Prince  Albert   to  Col.   Sir  'r.   t.  . 
'Tnere  are    also  a  number  of    bargains    far 
collectors. 

^oims  to  Corrtsyoubfub. 

We   m\ut   ctUl  sptcial  aUention  to  tht  /oUotemg 
notices : — 

On  all  communications  must  be  written  the  Dame 

and  address  of  the  sender,  not  necessarily  for  pab- 

Ucation,  but  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

We  cannot  undertake  to  answerqiieries  privately. 

To  secure   insertion    of   communications    corrs- 

spondenta  must  observe  the  following  rules.     Let 

and  Parker's  '  Archmology  of  Rome.'    Intorestiiig    ^^^^  f^^'  query  or  reply  be  written  on  a  separate 

items  are  to  be  found  under  America,  Architecture,    '"^L    j5'P*'''  *!.'''*  ^H  »'S"i'"re  of  th^|  writer  and 

Angling,  Berkshire,  Chronicles,  Ac  1  "acli  "dress  as  he  wishes  to  appear.    W  lien  answer- 

\t     fv:u  :  I  \f    V7-        •  u         J  .i         r  i.-    I '"K '1U^"W|  or  making  notes  nith  regard  to  pr«vioni 

Mr.  W  ilfrul  M.  Voynich  sends  us  another  of  his    entries  in  the  paper,  contributors  ar»  renuealed  to 

Bhort  catalopnes,  and  we  take  the  opportunity  of    p^t  in  parentheses,  immediately  after  the  ciaet 

ofTering  to  hun_our  congratolations  on  his  becoming  |  heading,  the  seriea,  volume,  and  page  or  pages  to 


41  naturalized  Englishman.  The  Athtmrum  believes 
that  he  is  the  first  Polish  political  exile  to  receive 
letters  of  naturalization-  The  new  list  is  full  of 
niriticA.  Under  Americana  is  a  black-letter  Hak- 
luyt,  1589,  30/.  Archfeology  includes  Alexandre, 
'  Dies  Ccnialea,'  cd.  princeps,  Rome,  1522;  Junius, 
'ThePaintingof  the  Ancients' ;  and  Prasoh's collec- 
tion of  epitaphs,  AuKsburi;,  1024.  Under  Bibles  is 
tlio  very  rare  first  Polish  Bible  (the  British  Museum 
tiossesses  only  an  imperfect  copy,  and  Mr.  Voynich 
Knows  of  no  copy  in  America),  Cracow,  1561.  The 
price  of  this  is  30/.  In  an  interesting  not«  it  is 
mentioned  that  "  few  books  have  been  the  cause 

of  so  much  discussion and  the  vexed  ijuestion 

of  the  translator's  identity  is  still  unsettled." 
•Other  noteworthy  entries  are  'Isocrate*.'  Basle, 
].>S2  (no  copy  of  this  is  in  the  British  Museum) ; 
*  France  ana  Spanish  Armada,'  Bergamo,  \fXA  (a 
rare  collection,  edited  by  Ventura);  Buoyan's 
<  Life  and  Death  of  Mr.  Badman,'  1080.  20/.  (this 
is  the  rare  first  edition,  "no  copy  has  been  sold 
in  the  auction-rooms  in  England  during  the  last 
mix  teen  fetn");    'Pilgrim's  Progreta,'  HambttTU, 


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CONTENTS. -No.  19. 

HOT  (if?  I                         ;    OroU^-a.  Teneril«.  3i^l  —  Blrth- 

M*rk  '  i  Church  »nil  thr  (^neen'»  Wmit- 

ini'i^  .t-enieeth— The  Chosbirc   C»t  hi 

Atni'i  >t  Batb  — Tbomu  Baokln  —  Sir 

Willi  I  <^>1  ■'  —  Ciul.ing  LoU.  OiW— Tower 
Brl.l(;. 

<JUBBIBB  :—' Ancient  Onlnri  of  Gnjr't  Inn'— CotuinMno- 
rstlvi-  TrtMrts  -  John  Mottley,  DraniRtlit,  3<J7  — Uryrten 
r  .'  iwrnii—Mlrfield  Booli  Society— "Srnd" 

\ph   un   LieutcnKtit  u(    Mtrinu— Lady 
t  Alward  WilUiLm*— "Sal  el  »»llva"— 

b;     l'..         li-ii,    C'liiidifrlAiiil,   3*8  —  Boman   Tenement 

II Bfii^t^i  Blji'n  — "Gringo"  :  "'QriooKro"— Chair 

ol  til    Aii»;ij-liuc  — Niimtier  Siiperslilion,  36*. 

URCLIBS  :— Bngravlii«»,  369- "  Hanged,  drawn,  and  quar- 

t^rMl"— Piirni  Antifipated— TldMweli  and  TIdeilow,  S71 

••  ',     *'      iTow  fllea" — Women  Voten  in  Counlle»  and 

I  iiirdi'   Bkk*.  :i;2— Arms  of   P<ipe   Plm  IX.— 

1  'Maniloti*— "  Tbe  Crown  ami  Three  Sugar 

lyii;ivt5i i  — Mili^bel  A    Finlay,  Bankers  —  Bau  Book 

ll>l»lo-K«lr  Mai.l  of  Kent-"Fole<t'"-  Torpedoea,  37*- 
TlcWlliiif  Tr'>iit-Barljer»-Scut<!h  Words  and  BogliibOoin- 
r;       ■    ■  ■-■    p  ■■  Hotoi  at  Orcenwich-Ulul•XVII.— 

.;.— J«me«   BflndleT.  ST.s  — Nelson  uid 
-re  wai  a  man  "— Nortliull,  Sbr<ip«hlre— 
-•I.    jiiwMii  I..I  -  Citr*nn  —Print*  and    Bugraviiigi,  377— 
BalruRte— Admtrnl  D>>imld  Cnmptiell,  378. 

PUTES    ON     nni.r.><         ^nn(l.  .     '  BlliaLethan     Critioia 
iBs»*y»'— J''  ■— Almncli'i    '  Bnok- 

't>lal/6t '— Ci'l  '  i">ti '— •Tran»aotion» 

of  tbe  Royal  1 ....i.^. j       ~i..,;azlnL-«  and  Bovitws. 

Michael  Ltoyd  Ferrar. 

Notloaa  to  Corretpondenla. 


INSCRIPTIONS  AT  OROTAVA,  TENERIFE. 

The  followiuR  recoixl  of  inscriptions  ou 
tombs  of  persons  of  EriKlish  nationalitv'  in 
the  Englisn  cemetery  at  Port  Orotava,  Tene- 
rifo,  waH  taken  on  22  February.  There  are 
a  few  intermetitx  without  inscriptirms,  and  a 
few  of  pefHons  of  other  nationalities,  which 
are  not  rocordetl  here. 

1,  Anne,  w.  of  Charles  Smith,  M.A.,  of  St. 
John'H,  Cambridge,  and  2nd  dau.  of  the  late 
Benjamin  Thompson,  Esq.,  of  Workington, 
Oumberland,  b.  27  Dec,  1801,  mar.  12  bep., 
1833,  ofj.  26  Nov.,  1862.  Also  the  above 
Charles  Smith,  many  years  re^^ident  in  the 
Valley  of  Orotava,  b.  31  Aur.,  1804,  o6. 
13  Atiff.,  ISHfi, 

2.  Marjr  Smith,  sister  of  Charles  Smith, 
M.A.,  b.  in  London.  IC  Feb.,  1795,  ob.  at  Port 
Orotava,  12  Nov.,  1875. 

8.  Fanny  Aim«^  Kathleen,  d.  of  Dorwent 
Smith  and  Fanuy  his  wife,  b.  5  May,  1875, 
oi.  5  July,  1876. 

4.  Andres  Daniel  Goodall,  ob,  19  Dec.,  1879, 
tt.  78.  ^ 

&.  Vsabiil  Flemiii(;  Guodall  Ue  Carpenter, 
«6.  3July,  1873,  0.  79. 


0.   Tomas    Carpenter    ol,    7   June,    1871 

a.  64. 

7.  David  Boswell  Goodall,  ob.  29  Ap.,  1871, 
R.  70. 

8.  Juana  Goodall,  ob.  28  May,  1847. 

[The  above  are  all  enclosed  oy  one  railing, 
and  the  last  inscription  is  already  very 
indistinct.    The  last  five  are  in  Spanish.] 

9.  Charles  Hughes  Cousens,  ob.  14  Ap., 
1898,  b.  26  Nov.,  1861. 

10.  George  Herbert  Wihon,  s.  of  the  Rev. 
John  Wilson,  M.A.,  Free  Church.  Canoubie, 
Scotland,  ob.  3  Feb.,  1889,  a.  3  months. 

11.  Betty,  only  child  of  Robert  and  Helena 
Acland  Hood,  b.  23  Ap.,  1900,  ob.  20  Feb., 
1901. 

11a.  George  Simpson  Nixon,  (Jet.,  1890.— 
Indistinct. 

12.  Janet  Findlater  Andrew,  ob.  6  Feb.,  1903. 

13.  Joseph  Seymour  Biscoe,  Major  Bengal 
Staff    Corps,    previously     Royal     Artillery, 

b.  9  Aug.,  1843,  ob.  30  Oct.,  1890. 

14.  Brooke  Lewis  Laing,  b.  at  Colchester, 
ob.  suddenly  12  May,  1872,  a.  21. — In  Latin. 

15.  Benjamin  Smith,  M.D.,  b.  2  Feb,  1804, 
ob.  10  Mar.,  1868,  at  Puerto  de  Orotava. 

16.  Susan  Heard  Dabney,  wid.  of  Charles 
William  Dabney,  of  Boston,  Ma3s.,o6.  25  Dec, 
1896,  a.  77. 

17.  James  W.  Morris,  ob.  25  Nov.,  1878, 
a.  29. 

18.  George  Herbert  Marriott,  ob,  at  Oro- 
tava, 17  Aug,  1893,  a.  45.— Inscription  on 
local  stone,  and  already  indistinct. 

19-  Arthur  Henry  Pring,  b.  20  Sept.,  1855, 
ob.  17  May,  1893. 

20.  Alice  Evelyn  Wharry,  b.  19  June,  1889, 
ob.  15  May,  1890. 

21.  Walter  Long  Boreham,  1848-1890. 

22.  Mftria  Carter  Renshaw,  b.  26  Oct.,  1846, 
ob.  16  Mar.,  1880. 

23.  Adeline,  w.  of  Lieut^-Col.  Girardot, 
ob.  22  Feb.,  1889,  a.  39. 

24.  Fitzroy  William  Richord  Hichena,  ob. 
12  Feb..  1891.  a.  24. 

25.  M.  W.  Stuart  Lsacke,  M.R.C.S., 
L.R.C.P.,  b.  18  Mar.,  1871,  ob.  27  Dec,  1901. 

26.  Charle-s  William  Robinson,  b.  in  India, 
ob.  at  Puerto  Orotava,  19  Oct.,  1886,  a.  35. 

27.  Benjamin  Brancker,  b.  29  Nov.,  1819, 
ob.  16  Mar.,  1900. 

28.  John  Lanyon,  of  LiMbreen,  Fort  William 
Park,  Belfast,  ob.  at  Orotava,  13  Feb.,  1900, 
a.  61. 

29.  Florence  Sarah,  w.  of  G.  W.  Strettell, 
ob.  at  Orotava,  29  July  (her  natal  dayX  1801, 
a.  .39. 

30.  Ooorgo  William  Strettell,  oJ,  at  Orotava« 
17  June.  1896. 

31.  Mtted  N\S\\\tt.vck\5<5w.\j«.,^Q«»r«A^''^'*- 


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the  l»te  James  Webster,  Esq.,  of  Hatherley 
Court,  Cheltenham,  b.  1847,  oL  1895. 

32.  W,  Sealy  Vidal,  Captain  Royal 
Engineers,  oh.  14  Jan.,  1896,  a.  75. 

33.  John  Stirling,  gr.  son  of  John  Stirling, 
of  Kippendavie,  Perth,  N.B.,  ob.  15  May,  1894, 

a.  81. 

34.  John  Ronald  Rainey,  oi.  at  Orotava, 
16  July,  1896,  a.  47. 

;}5.  Robin  Perry,  b.  May,  1866. o6.  Jan.,  1895. 
36,  Jean  Logan  Muir,  ob.  13  Feb.,  1893. 
.37.  Henry  W.  Isacke,  Col.  Royal  Artillery, 

b.  29  Sept.,  1841,  ob.  14  Mar.,  1902. 

38.  Mabel  Burleigh,  b.  at  Kingstown, 
Ireland,  28  May,  1868,  ob.  at  Orotava,  20  Nov., 
189U 

39.  Edwin,  s.  of  John  and  Annie  Naylor,  of 
Fern  Hill,  near  Halifax,  England,  o6. 19  April, 
1891,  a.  34. 

40.  William  Howard,  of  Brading,  Bourne- 
mouth, ob.  30  Jan.,  1889.  a.  33. 

41.  Donald  A.  Kennedy,  b.  8  Dec.,  1860,  ob. 
12  .Jan..  1889. 

42.  Arthur  Grene  Robin.9on.  7th  8.  of  the 
late  Robt.  Robinson,  of  ParticK,  Glasgow,  ob. 
at  Orotava,  17  Feb.,  1898,  a.  45. 

43.  George  Ballingall  Stuart, M.B., Surgeon 
Lieut. -Colonel,  formerly  of  the  Royal  Scots 
Greys  and  Grenadier  Guards,  b.  at  Bombay, 
8  July,  1848,  ob.  at  Orotava,  2  Aug.,  1897. 

44.  Peter  Mortimer  TurnbuU,  or  Smithston 
Rhynie,  Aberdeenshire,  ob.  at  Hotel  Mar- 
tianez,  Orotava,  7  Mar.,  1898,  a.  51. 

46.  Noi-ah  Grace,  d.  of  Vice-Admiral  T.  B. 
Sulivan  and  Isabel  his  w.,  ob.  1  June,  1897, 
a.  24. 

45a.  Alice  Haynes,  ob.  26  Mav,  1901. 

46.  Francis  William  Evelegh,  6th  s.  of 
Captain  George  Carter  Evelegh,  Royal 
Artillery,  of  Newport,  1.  of  Wight,  1),  17  Feb., 
1849,  ob.  30  Nov.,  1902. 

47-  Hugh  Liud-my  Maclennan,  Captain 
3rd  Batt.  Seaforth  Highlanders,  and  for 
thirty-one  years  Quartermaster  at  Fort 
George,  Scotland,  b.  4  Sept.,  1837,  ob.  12  Sept., 
18©€. 

48.  Robert  William  Forrest,  B.A.,  Queen's 
College,  Oxford,  eldest  s.  of  the  Rev.  R.  W. 
Forrest,  D.D.,  Pi-ebendaiT'  of  Stu  Paul's,  Vicar 
of  St.  Jude's,  South  Kensington,  and  of 
Isabella  his  wife,  b.  at  Liverpool,  20  Feb., 
1863,  ob.  22  Mar.,  1887. 

4d.  Edward  Horon  Ryan  Tenison,  ob.  at 
Orotava,  14  Sept.,  1894,  a.  34. 

50.  Edward  Kendall,  b.  28  Feb.,  1856,  ob. 
29  Dec..  1894. 

51.  The  wife  (no  name)  of  Stephen  Cmsby 
Mills.  United  States  Army,  ob.  14  Dec,  1889. 

53.  Agnes  Werayss   Janson,  ob.    17   July, 
J89£. 


63.  George  Puckle,  Lieut.  Royal  Marines, 
eldest  8.  of  Colonel  H.  G.  Puckle,  Madras 
Staff  Corps,  ob.  at  Orotava,  16  May,  1894. 
a.  25. 

54.  General  J.  W.  Orchard,  Bengal  Staff 
Corps,  ob.  18  Mar.,  1893,  a.  65. 

55.  Arthur  Patchett  Martin,  formerly  of 
Melbourne,  Australia,  b.  IS  Feb.,  1851,  o*. 
15  Feb.,  1902. 

.'je.  Edith  Louise  Jennings,  ob.  10  Ap.,  1893, 
a.  24. 

.'>7.  .John  Townsend  Kirk  wood,  of  Boldre- 
wood,  Berks,  formerly  of  Yeo  Vale,  Bideford, 
Devon,  b.  7  Oct.,  1814,  oA.  10  Jan^  1902. 

G.  S.  Pabry,  Lieut-Col. 


BIRTH-MARKS. 
The  note  on  still-born  children  {ante,  p.  281> 
calls  to  mind  the  various  curious  ideas 
about  mothers'  marks.  I  believe  medical 
men  nowadays  altogether  ridicule  the  wide- 
spread beliet  that  pregnant  women  mark 
their  children  with  objects  they  have  longed 
for.  May,  in  Chaucer's  'Marchand's  Tale,' 
says : — 

I  telle  yow  wel  a  womuian  in  my  plyt 
May  have  to  fruvt  bo  gret  an  appetjrt 
That  8che  may  aeyen,  but  ache  it  have. 
In    my    edition   (Bell,    1878)    there   is   this 
note,  I  presume  by  Prof,  Skeat :  ••  An  allu- 
sion to  the  well-known  vulgar  error   about 
the  longings  of  pregnant  women."     But  is 
it  nuite  certain  that  this  is  a  vulgar  error  t 
It  has,  of  course,  long  been  considered  so, 
for  as  far  back  as  1765  a  book  was  published 
entitled  'Letters  on  the  Force  of  Imagina- 
tion in  Pregnant  Women,  wherein  it  is  proved 
that  it  is  a  ridiculous  prejudice  to  suppose 
it  possible  for  a  Pregnant  Woman  to  mark 
her  child  with  the  figure  of  any  object  ahe 
has  longed  for.' 
Jacob's  stratagem  (Genesis  xxx.  37-39)  of 

Sreparing  streaked  rods,  whereby  "  the 
OCRS  conceived  before  the  rods, and  brought 
forth  cattle  ringstraketi,  speckled,  and 
spotted,"  is  a  very  ancient  example  of  the 
belief  of  the  power  of  imagination  in  such 
cases.  It  is  not  desirable  to  quote  old  Burton 
in  full  on  a  topic  so  congenial  to  him,  so  the 
following  may  suffice  : — 

"Jacob  the  Patriarke,  by  force  of  iniaciii 
mad©    neckled    Lairbes,    laying    peckleif 
JHjfore  hiasheeitc.  Persina,  thot-Elhio;  ^-^i-  :  ,., 

in  Heliodorus,  by  aecin;;  the  picture  of  i  i 

Andromeda,  in  ateed  of  a  Blackmoorc,  V'  ut 

to  bed  of  a  taire  white  child." 

"Iipsam  faciem  quam  animo  effigiat,  foetol 
inaucit,"  and  so  on. 

A  note  in  Dr.  Douglas's  'Criterion  '  (1764,, 
\ ip.  \&'i'^  Vft  N9it7  «iucU  to  the  point : — 


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"  For  manv  curioaa  and  aurpriziog  Instances  of 
the  effects  of  the  Imagination  of  tno  Mother  on 
theFiclua,  che  Reader  may  cousult  Fienus,  who  is 
very  cojjioub  on  this  eubiect,  in  his  Treatise  '<ie 
Viribu^  Imaginationis,'  >lalebranche's  '  Recherche 
de  la  Vt^ritti,'  B.  ii.  C.  7,  and  Dr,  James's  'Die- 
tionary'  under  the  Article  of  Imagination.  As 
some  Physicians  pretend  to  doubt,  nay,  to  laaeh 
at  such  Ktorie»,  il  may  not  be  improper  to  8UO< 
join  the  opinion  of  Dr.  Mead,  and  his  Testimony 
to    their    Truth.      'Quid   mirabilius    iis,    qu!C>  in 

fraviditatibua  non  raro  contingere  videmus  ? 
(.emina  in  utero  gestans,  si  forte  quid  apx)etiverit, 
et  frustra  fit,  interdum  rei  conoupita-  figuram 
quondam, aut  similitudinem,  in  hac  aut  ili:\  uoq>oris 
parte,  fu-tui  ami;  imprimit.  Imo,  tjuod  majus,  et 
prodigii  inst-ur,  subita  i>artia  alioujuq  loaione 
perterrita  matre,  ipsa  ilia  pars  in  infante  noxam 
sentit,  et  nutriraenti  dofectu  marcescit-  Scio  hujua- 
modi  omnes  hisloriat  a  Mediuia  nonnullia,  ()Uoniam 
uui  talia  Reri  |>08€unt  haud  percipiunt,  in  dubium 
vocari.  At  niulta,  qua;  ipse  vidi,  exemplamihi  hac 
in  re  acrupulum,  omaem  ademerunt.  — '  Medica 
Sacra,'  p.  71." 

Maury,  in  his  great  work  on  magic, 
writes  thus  on  stigmatization  : — 

"  II  est  done  opi^r^,  en  rdalitd,  un  travail  dans 
I'dcoDomie,  I'nrue  a  a§i  surlac)iair,  et,  suivaut  que 
son  action  a  H6  plus  on  moina  puiasante,  la  chair 
a  Rarde  des  traces  plaa  ou  moina  apparentes  de 
I'ia^.  Des  faits  de  ce  genre  tetident  a  nous  faire 
croire  ijue  loplnion  populaire  sur  lea  envies  de 
femme«  grosses,  et  sur  I  influence  de  la  pensee  de 
la  m^re  sur  le  corps  de  I'enfant  qu'elle  porte  dans 
son  sein,  m6rite  uu  s^rieux  examen.'"— 'La  Magie,' 
1864,  p.  403. 

Is,  then,  the  belief  in  these  luevi  quite  a 
"vulgar  error"  after  allT  There  are,  we 
know,  many  people  bearing  birth-marks  of 
one  sort  or  another,  attributed  by  themselves, 
their  mothei-s,  and  other  relatives,  to  the 
cause  hero  indicated. 

Dear  old  Montaigne,  in  bis  very  carious 
cliapter  ou  'The  Force  of  Imagination,'  among 
many  whimsicalities,  has  this  : — 

"  Nous  veoyoos  par  exi>erience  lea  femmes 
envoyer,  aux  corps  des  enfaute  qu'ellea  portent  au 
ventre,  des  marquee  de  leurs  fantasies ;  tesmoing 
coUe  qui  engeodra  Ic  more :  et  il  feut  present^  k 
Charles,  roy  de  Bohenie  el  empcreur,  une  tiUe 
d'auprez  de  Ptse,  toute  veluo  et  herissee,  que  aa 
mere  disuit  avoir  este  ainsi^  conceae  it  cause  d'nne 
image  dc  saiuot  Jean  Baptiste  pendue  en  son  liut,'' 
—Lav.  i.  dt.  XX. 

That  Dr.  Mead's  opinion  was  not  peculiar 
to  him  is  evidenced  rrom  the  following  defi- 
nition in  Dr.  (^uincy's  '  Lexicon  Physico- 
Mudicum,'  1794  : — 

"  A'ti',  «iptify  those  roarlu  that  are  made  upon 
the  f-F'tui,  by  the  imagination  of  the  mother,  iu 
longing  for  aitytiting." 

Javmh  Hoopkb. 

Morwklu 


ST.    MARGARET'S    CHURCH   AND  THE 

QUEEN'S  WESTMINSTERS. 
A  LABOE  number  of  our  English  cathedrals 
and  parish  churches  are  the  depositories  of 
old  regimental  colours,  which  from  a  variety 
of  causes  have  fallen  into  desuetude  by  tha 
regiments  to  which  they  belong  ;  and  thafc 
thev  should  be  left  to  rest  iu  these  sacred 
buildings  seems  a  good  and  salutary  custom, 
and  one  again.st  which  nothing  can  be  urged. 
Therefore  it  is  only  fit  and  proper  that  the 
interestiuK  old  colours  of  the  Queen's  West- 
minster volunteers  should  have  found  a 
resting-place  within  St.  Margaret's  Church, 
for  they  have  a  very  respectable  antiquity, 
having  been  presented  to  the  Westminster 
Volunteers  in  1798  by  the  Countess  Qrosvenor, 
whose  husband  was  the  colonel  of  the  regi- 
ment, which  had  just  been  raised.  The  pre- 
sentation took  place  on  the  site  of  the  Nefsoa 
Column  in  Trafalgar  Square.  In  1814  the 
corps,  along  with  the  remainder  of  the  volun- 
teer force,  being  disbanded,  the  colours  in 
?|uestiou  were  presented  at  St.  Margaret'* 
'hurch,  with  a  solemn  service,  to  the  rector, 
who  laid  them  upon  the  Communion  table. 
Hanging  upon  the  south  wall  of  the  church, 
just  inside  the  ea-st  door,  entered  through 
the  Sherbrooke  Memorial  Porch  (see  8"'  S.  xi. 
304),  is  a  small  framed  notice  : — 
The  Colours  were  presented  to  the  Saint  Mar- 


IDg  I 

mandant  of  the  Regiment. 

On  the  return  of  Peace,  and  the  further  service* 
of  the  Volunteer  |  Infantry  being  dispensed  with  by 
His  Majesty's  Government,  they  were  |  by  |>crmia- 
sion  of  John  Coojjer  and  William  Glacier  ICaq", 
Church  Ward'  |  of  this  Parish  here  deposited  for  a 
lasting  memorial  of  the  Loyalty,  I  Patriotism,  and 
Zoal  of  the  Inhabitants  of  the«e  Parishes  in  timee 
of  the  I  utmost  danger  from  the  threatened  Invaaion 
of  a  powerful  and  n>alignant  I  foreign  foo,  and  from 
the  traiterous  [sir]  and  desperate  designs  of 
domestic  {  enemies,  but  from  which  the  mercies  of 
Divine  Providence  have  now  |  happily  delivered  our 
beloved  Country. 

John  Jones,  late  Major  Commandant. 

Deposited  9""  December,  1814. 

So  far  as  can  be  ascertained,  there  is  no 
evidence  where  the  colours  were  afterwards 
placed  in  the  church,  or  for  what  periofl  after 
that  <^lato  they  remained  on  view,  but  ulti- 
matcb'  they  appear  to  have  been  put  iu  a 
room  in  the  tower  where  a  l&r^e  quantity 
of  lumlx>r  wan  stored,  and  their  existence 
forgotten.  In  IH86  they  were  fliscovfii-l 
(together  with  the  document  alx>ve  quot'  ,|) 
paclced  away  in  two  box«s  in  a  very  shalil<y 
condition.  It  was  at  once  arc&v^^«^  \k^iN\. •^^vv?^^ 
ahou\d  he  veAfcVvjwwA  Vsj  ^>^.'&  ^^vj«v\*^^'a^- 


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cninsters,  tliat  corps  being  rightly  coosidered 
as  the  successors,  after  an  interval  of  some 
forty-five  years,  of  the  old  Volunteer  Infantry. 
It  is  noteworthy  that  at  the  time  of  the  finding 
of  the  old  colours  the  honorary  colonel  of  the 
ijueen's  Westminster  Volunteer   Corps  was 
the    late    Duke  of    Westminster,    who    was 
originally   the  colonel  commandant  of    the 
regiment,  as  his  ancestor  had  been  the  first 
colonel  commandant  of  the  old  corps.    The 
colours   had   be^u  renovated,   repaired,   and 
relined,  as  they  were  in  a  very  dilapidated 
condition,  and  all  being  ready,  it  was  decided 
tliat  they   should   once  more   be   placed   in 
St,  Margai-et's  Church,  in  the  keeping  of  the 
rector  and  churchwardens  for  the  time  being. 
This  was  carried  out  on  the  afternoon  of 
Sunday,  27  March,  1887,  when,  at3  15  p.m.,  the 
regiment,  to  the  number  of  562  of  all  ranks, 
a:!;semblcd  at  the  new  Drill  Hall,  in  James 
Street  (now  Buckingham  Gate),  not  far  from 
St.  James's  Park  Railway  Station,  among  the 
officers  present  being  Colonel  Commandant 
fnow  Sir)  C.  E.  Howard  Vincent,  C.K.,  M.P., 
CoL  Lynch,  and  Lieut.-Col.  Commerford.    It 
was  noted  at  the  time  that  the  "  men  were 
remarkable  for  the  fine  pliysique,  steadiness, 
and  the  creditable  manner  in   which    they 
turned  out."    After  the  companies  had  been 
inspected  and  proved,  the  regiment  marched 
off,  headed  by  their  excellent  band  and  the 
newly    formed    bugle    band,    which    played 
alternately.  Immediately  followed  the  colours, 
with  an  armed  ascort  of  forty  men,  selected 
■lialf  from  the  St,  Margaret's  and  half  from 
the   St.   John's    companies,   which    in    1798 
furnished  the   bulk   of  the  regiment.     The 
officer  commanding   the   colour   escort   was 
Capt.  De  Castro,  the  colours  being  carried 
by  Lieutsi.  Rose  and  Dalton.     The  occasion 
was     thought    much     of     in     Westminster, 
there    being    a    large   concourse    of  people 
assembled  in   the  streets    to   see    the  regi- 
mont    pass,    and    when     the    church     was 
reached   it  was  found   that  every  seat  not 
required   by    the   Volunteers   wa«    occupied, 
even   standing  -  room   being  utilized   to   the 
full.    The  colours  escort  formed  up  on  each 
side    of      the      nave,     where    it    rematne<i 
throughout   the  service,  the    band    playing 
the    regiment    in    to  the  strains  of  a  slow 
inarch   calle<l  "Flowers  of    Beauty.'    Among 
those  i»resent   were   the  Speaker  fwho   Kat 
in  a  state  chair  in  the  chancel,  which  had 
not    been  so    occupied  by   any  of  his   pre- 
decessors for  a  period  of  130  years),  the  Duke 
of  Bedford,  Baroness  Bardett-Coutts  and  Mr. 
Burdctt-Coult-s,  M.P..  Mr.  Talbot,  M.P.,  Col. 
ytiv^cey,  and  two  former  commandants  of  the 
iaent,  Cols.  Baahby  and  Scrivener.    The 


church  wai-dens  of  St.  John's,  Me*srs.  Holinan- 
Biiihop  and  Holder,  were  also  r>re>*ent.  The 
Dean  of  Westminster  (Dr.  Bradley) and  Arch- 
deacon Farrar,  rector  of  the  parish,  conductad 
the  service,  assisted  by  the  Kevs.  K.  AKhingtou 
Bullen  and  F.  G.  L.  Lucas.  The  office  of 
evensong  was  somewhat  shortened,  and  on 
its  conclusion  the  Dean,  the  Archdeacon,  auid 
the  rest  of  the  clergy  and  tlie  choir,  pro- 
ceeded down  the  nave  to  the  west  end,  then 
returned  with  the  bearers  of  the  silver  staves 
of  the  parish  in  front,  immetliately  followed 
by  the  churchwardens,  Mes.srs.   U.  A.  Hunt 


and  Charle-8  Wright,  behind  whom  were  Cola. 
C.   E.   Howard   Vincent  and   Lynch.     Next 
followed  the  colours,  with  Cajjt.  Probyn.  the 
adjutant,  between,  the  rear  of  this  little  pro- 
cession being  brought  up  h^  an  escort  of 
four  colour-sergeants,  with   hxed  bayonets. 
As  the  procession  niarchc<l  the  cJioir  sanj; 
"Onward,  Christian  soldiers."    The  colours 
halted  at  the  chancel  steps,  when  the  two 
colonels  took  each  a  colour  from  ith  beaver, 
and  handed  them  over  to  the  churchwardens, 
Col.    Howard    Vincent    saying,  in    a   voice 
distinctly  audible  all  over  the  church,  that 
he  handed  them  over  to  the  i-ector  "  to  be 
kept  in  the  church  for  evtM."    The  colours 
were  then  carried  to  the  Archdeacon  by  the 
churchwardens,  who  placed  them  against  the 
screen  by  the  Communion  table.     While  this 
part  of  the  ceremony  was  taking  place,  a 
verso  of  the  National  Anthem  wa-s  sung  by 
the    choir,    the    congregation    Joitiing    in. 
Handel's  "The  Lord  is  a  Man  of  War '    was 
finely  rendered   by  Messrs.  F.  Powuall  and 
Devonshire,   and    then    Archdeacon    Farrai 
delivered      an    ap])ropriate    and     eloquent 
sermon,  taking  for  his  text  the  words  from 
Exodus  xvii.  15,  "And  Moses  built  an  altar, 
and  called  thenameof  it  Jehovah-nissi" — thr 
Lord  my  banner.    At  the  conclusion  of  thi 
memorable  service  the  regiment  filed  out 
the  church  and  marched  back  to  the  D 
Hall,   the   crowd    being    even    larger    tbaa 
befoi-e. 

Within  the  next  few  weeks  the  coloan 
were  placed  in  various  positions,  to  see  what 
the  effect  would  be.  and  finally  they  were 
arranged  one  on  each  side  of  the  great  vast 
window  against  the  wall.  A  small  brtu« 
tablet  was,  at  the  expense  of  the  Queen's 
Westminster  Volunteers  and  with  the  con- 
currence of  the  rector,  affixed  at  the  foot  of 
the  third  nillar  from  the  Communion  table 
on  the  soutli  sido  of  the  chancel,  bearing  the 
following  inscription  : — 

The    ancient    Colours  j  of  |  the    Queen's  |  We«t- 

nuiisler  Volanteers,  |  proaeuted  by  fieorye  111,  iu 

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Napoleon  I.,  |  were  on  this  day  solemnly  received  | 
onbelmlf  of  the  I'arish  |  from  |  Colonel  (jioniniandant 
I  C.  K.  I  Howard  Viticcnl,  C.B.,  ^[.P.,  j  and  1  the 
Officers,  N.U.O  ,  and  I  Citizens  now  Berviii)?  to  the 
Domber  of  One  Thousand  |  and  Placed  in  the 
Chancel  |  of  S  Margaret's  Church  I  as  |  a  monument 
of  I  National  Patriotism  |  for  |  the  Kniulation  of 
Posterity.  |  Frederic  W.  Farrar,  D.  D.,  |  Archdeacon 
ond  Rector.  |  Henry  Hunt,  Ch«s.  Wrijjht,  Church- 
wardens, 

Sunday  March  27"',  I  in  the  Jubilee  Year  |  of 
tjueen  Victoria's  Reign  |  a.d.  1887. 

As  they  were  placed,  so  they  remained 
during  the  time  that  Archdeacon  Farrar  con- 
tinued rector  ;  but  upon  his  preferment  to 
the  Deanery  of  ('anterbury,  and  tlie  appoint- 
ment of  the  Kev.  Robert  Ey ton.  Rector  of 
HolyTrinit}'  Upper  Chelsea,  and  Prebendary 
of  St.  Pauls  (who  ^as  inducted  into  the 
rectory  in  July,  ISO.'i),  they  were  removed  to 
tlie  west  end  of  the  church,  the  reason  given 
for  this  proceeding  being  that  "they  disturbed 
the  aymmotry  of  the  east  window,  and  did 
not  Imrtuonize  with  the  colour  of  its  .stained 
glass,"  both  of  which  statements  wore  dis- 
tinctly true.  The  new  rector  was,  however, 
unacquainted  with  their  previous  history, 
and  thought  that,  a.s  no  faculty  had  been 
obtained  for  placing  them  in  the  chancel,  it 
was  in  order  for  the  rector  and  churchwardens 
for  the  time  Ijeing  to  place  lliem  in  any  other 

Birt  of  the  church.  In  March,  189(5,  C'ol.  Sir 
oward  Vincent  became  aware  of  the 
removal  of  the  «'olourx,  and  as  colonel  of 
the  regiment,  and  the  officer  with  whom  the 
ongagetn)>nt  a.s  to  the  placing  of  the  colours 
in  the  chancel  had  i>cen  made  by  the  late 
rector  and  churchwardens  in  1887,  and  as 
a  Dpember  of  the  House  of  Commons,  of 
which  the  churcli  is  the  officially  recognized 
place  of  worj^hip,  wrote  a  letter,  dated 
13  March,  isyr.,  to  Canon  Eyton,  stating  his 
objections  to  the  removal  of  the  colours,  and 
asking  him,  on  reconsideration,  to  restore 
them  to  their  former  position.  Thi.s  request 
met  with  a  lictidod  refusal  from  the  rector, 
whereupiiri  a  jietition  was  filed  in  the 
Consistory  Court  of  Lotidon  by  Sir  Howard 
Vincent,  he  being  joined  in  the  matter  by 
Mr.  Tomlinson,  M.P.,  a  parishioner,  (1)  pray- 
ing that  Canon  Eyton  should  l>e  ordered  to 
replace  the  colours  in  thoir  original  position 
against  the  east  wall  of  the  church  ;  and  (2) 
asking  that  a  faculty  confirmatory  of  the 
erection  of  tho  brass  tablet  in  the  chancel, 
and  of  the  affixing  of  the  colours  to  the 
chancel  wall  in  that  position,  should  issue. 
Canon  Eyton  opposed  m  [>erHon  the  applica- 
tion, on  the  ground  that  the  flags  in  1814  had 
become  the  nroprrty  of  the  rector  and  church- 
wardens and  their  successors,  and  subject  to 
their  control  as  to  the  position  they  occupied 


in  the  church,  and  that  they  could  not  bo- 
treated  as  a  fresh  gift  from  the  regiment  by 
their  re- presentation  in  1887.  He  therefore 
asked  that  the  faculty,  if  issued,  should  pro- 
vide that  the  position  of  the  flags  in  the 
church  should  be  under  the  control  of  the 
rector  and  churchwardens  for  the  time  being. 
Many  witnesses  were  called  and  examined, 
and  ultimately  a  very  learned  judgment  was 
given  by  Dr.  Tristram,  the  Chancellor  of 
London,  on  23  July,  1896,  in  favour  of  the 
regiment,  extracts  from  which  are  given  here, 
the  judgment  being  fully  reported  in  the 
Times  of  the  following  day. 

The  colours  now  hang  on  either  8i<le  of  the- 
reredos  in  the  church,  at  a  lower  level  and 
better  angle  than  their  original  position,  and 
have  a  much  better  eflFect,  not  interfering 
with  the  beautiful  east  window,  which  ha* 
been  truly  .said  to  be  the  "  pride  of  the  parish 
and  glory  of  the  church,  and  it  is  pretty 
safe  to  assert  that  they  are  not  likely  to  be- 
moved  from  the  place  they  now  occupy. 

It  may,  perhaps,  be  allowable  to  add  that 
Col.  Sir  C.  E.  Howard  Vincent,  M.P.,  ha* 
lately  retired  from  the  comman<l  of  the  regi- 
ment, being  succeeded  by  Col.  Trollope. 

W.  E.  Hakland-Oxley. 


Jkxny  Greenterth.— In  your  review  of 
Mr.  Crofton's  '  Old  Moss  Side '  {ante,  p.  319) 
reference  is  made  to  Mr.  Crofton's  description 
of  a  waterhag  called  "Jenny  Greenteeth." 
It  may  be  interesting  to  learn  that  at  this 
rlay  in  all  East  Lancashire  the  older  inha- 
bitants call  the  green  moss  which  covers  the 
surface  of  stagnant  ponds  "Jenny  Green- 
teeth."  Further,  I  have  often  been  told  by 
ray  mother  and  nurse  that  if  I  did  not  keep 
my  teeth  clean  I  should  some  day  bo  dragged 
into  one  of  these  iwnds  by  Jenny  Greenteeth, 
and  I  have  met  many  elderly^  people  who 
have  had  the  same  threat  applied  to  them. 
Henry  Brikrlky. 

Wigan. 

TiiR  CnEsniRE  Cat  in  America.— In  the 
'Dictionary  of  Americanisms'  of  John  R. 
Bartlett  (1877  ;  not  in  the  first  edition,  1848) 
we  fintl  the  phrase  "to  grin  like  a  chessy 
cat.'  A  writer  in  Dialect  A'otes  (vol.  i.  p.  378) 
of  the  American  Dialect  Society,  when  giving 
the  phrase  in  a  word -list,  remarks:  "In 
Bartlett,  but  no  locality  given.  Certainly 
not  widely  known." 

Before  ever  reading  this  notice,  I  heart! 
the  expression  "  jessy  cat"  used  by  a  Phila- 
delphia woman,  with  the  usual  State-school 
education,    ana    was    lutiXTORfi.   Vs^j    ci<s>!8s«. 


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}*'je8«y"  and  "chessy,"  were  usual,  but  the 
Hotter  predominant.  As  BarLlett  was  a  New 
p^iijzlauder,  and  the  8(>eaker  mentioned  a  boru 
'Peunsylvanian,  the  statement  in  Dialect 
A'oUs  needs  correction. 

Americana  who  have  not  read  English 
.  booka  are  generally  ignorant  of  your  county 
psames.  Axbket  J.  Edmunds. 

Uiatorical  iSociety  of  rentuylvania. 

Nelson  at  Bath.— A  tablet  has  been  placed 
by  tho  Corporation  on  the  house  No.  2, 
Pierrepont  Street,  Bath,  in  which  Nelson 
lived  from  the  autumn  ot  17B0  to  August  of 
the  following  year.  Broken  down  in  health 
after  the  Fort  St.  Juan  expedition,  he  came 
to  Bath  for  the  waters,  witli  the  result  that 
his  complete  recovery  followed.  No  place  of 
its  fiixe  in  England  has  no  many  houses  still 
standing  which  have  been  associated  with 
<;elebrated  people  as  Bath  has,  and  the 
number  of  them  marked  with  tablets  adds 
much  to  the  interest  of  that  charming  city. 
Fkedeoick  T.   HinUAME. 

Thomas  Rankin.— A  question  w&n  asked 
at  5"'  S.  iii.  67  about  Thomas  Rankin,  and  it 
may  therefore  be  well  to  reconl  that  there  is 
a  notice  of  him  in  the  'D.N.BJ  (vol.  xlvii 
p.  290).  In  addition  to  the  references  there 
given,  see  Jackson's  'Life  of  Charles  Wesley ' 
(ii-  412);  Tyerman's  'Life  of  Whitofield ' 
(ii.  393);  the  same  author's  '  Life  of  Fletcher' 
(pp.  3,  447,  4«4) ;  Southey's  'Life  of  Wesley  * 
(iJohn's  ed.  p.  505) ;  Stoughton's  '  Religion  in 
England  '  (vi.  278) ;  Sidney's  '  Life  of  Walker, 
of  Truro'  (2nd  ed.  p.  2(jO)  ■  and  a  full  bio- 
Kraphy  in  Jack.son's  'Early  Methodist 
rreachera.'  His  portrait  appeared  in  the 
Aiininian  (not  "Armenian,"  as  printed  in 
the  note  in  the  ^DSiH.K)  Matjaiine  oi  1779, 
and  another  portrait  was  published  in  1794 
(see  Stevenson's  '  City  Road  Chapel,'  p.  401). 
Francis  M.  Jackson. 

iiowdon. 

Sir  WiLLiA.M  Catksby. — When  visiting  the 
church  of  Ashby  St.  Ledgers,  in  this  county, 
the  other  day,  in  order  to  take  rubbings  of 
brasses  there,  1  noticed  a  curious  coincidence 
with  respect  to  the  brass  of  Sir  William 
Catosby,  friend  of  Richard  III.  Sir  William 
vita  taken  prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Bos  worth 
Field,  and  executed  three  days  afterwards. 
According  to  directions  contained  in  his  will, 
his  body  was  brought  for  interment  io 
Ashby.  He  is  buried  in  tlie  chancel,  and 
over  his  tomb  is  a  magnificent  brass  repre- 
senting life-size  efligies  of  himself  and  his 
flndy.  These  are  intact  and  in  good  pieserva- 
1»iw»,   except    that  across  the  neck    of   Sir 


William's  effigy  is  an  ugly  crack  which  alntost 
severs  the  head  from  the  body.  Considering 
the  fact  that  Sir  William  lost  his  head,  it  will 
be  certainly  somewhat  strange  if  the  same 
fate  is  in  reserve  for  his  ettigy. 

John  T.  Paob. 
West  Kaddon,  Northamptooshire. 

"  Ha.spkd."— This  word  has,  n.>  rlmil.t.,  its 
direct  physical  meaning  of  "  en  'ha 

hasp,"  as  thus  used  in  Garth's  '  1 ' ;  .  >  y  ' : 

Haapt  Id  a  toinbrii.  awkward  have  j'ou  ahined. 
The  metaphorical  signification  is  ~-  —^  ^-^  Ijy 
the  .service  tlie  word  renders  the  vho 

rebukes  the  soldier  when,  witli  '  '■■ 

are  travelling  by  coach,  as  de^< 
Spectator.,  No.  132.  "To  speak  i;!  .:  .  , : . 
he  says,  "  what  we  are  obliged  to  he«r,  by 
being  hasped  up  with  thee  in  this  public 
vehicle,  is  in  some  degree  assaulting  on  the 
high  road."  In  conversation  with  myself  a 
Scottish  workman  recently  use<l  the  word  in 
the  purely  figurative  sense.  Ho  had  promised 
to  carry  out  a  contract  within  -^  ■nie, 

and  wa-s  .several  <lays  late  in  hin 

appearance.     His  explanation  ot   i 
was    that   a  sudden    crush    of    urn 
business   ha<l  disturbed   his  plans.     '  l   wa-<i 
fair  hespit,"  he  obsorvetl,  "and  couldna  comei 
a  moment  sooner."    It  is  n<"    "       *  that 

the  apology  was  deemed  air 

1   !H  >M  .\^       J^  A   I   N£. 

Cabtinu    Lots. — Few    dictionaries,    wlieo 
treating    of    "casting    lots,"  allude    at  aQy 
length   to  the    military  custom    which  wm4 
common,  both  on  the  Continent  and  iu  tfaJc^ 
country,  in  tho  seventeenth  and  oigbtcenUl 
centuries. 

Among  Callot's  illustrations  in  the '  Mist^res 
de  la  Guerre,'  1633,  is  one  whiclt  shf"-  -•>•'"> 
soldiers  dicing  under  a  tree  (the 
At    the   surrender  of  Winchester, 
some  captives  complained  of   ha^  i  > 

plundered,    whereupon     Cromwell  v 

of  bis  soldiers  tried.  All  were  foundi 
guilty,  and  one  of  them,  by  lot,  was  hanged.] 
(Cromwell's  '  Letters  and  Speeches,'  second] 
edition,  vol.  i.  p.  252  ;  Firth's  •  CnmiwelFa^ 
Array,'  p.  2D5).  In  1 
privates,  sentenced  t<i 
shot,  were  ordered  to  throw  ii 
head,  "he  who  throws  the  lea 
in  the  same  garrison  iu  lOG.)  t^\t' 
for  theft  from  a  comrade,  wei*e  soni 
be  hanged  : — 

"  You  are  to  see  Thomas  Shaw  aud  Pefnr ' 

Willi! ^•■'i 1  o >  .1 ii j.—riti^ 

the 

cau.^' 

who  tUrowi  Icuat." 


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At  PorUniouth  Id  May,  1693,  the  sentence 
of  a  court- martial  on  three  deserters  was 
that  one  of  thoiu  dhould  saffer  death  by  being 
shot:  ''All  three  sliall  lot  whose  chance  it 
shall  be  to  die."  In  August,  1693,  a  few 
■weeks  after  the  battle  of  Neerwinden,  thirty 
Eogliiih  linesmen  and  six  Guardsmen  were 
returned  from  Holland  by  the  authorities, 
and,  tried  for  desertion,  were  condemned  to 
death.  The  number  to  suflfer  was  commuted 
to  six  linesmen  and  three  Guardsmen,  and 
the  whole  number  of  prisoners  cast  dice  to 
settle  upon  whom  the  lot  of  death  should 
fall. 

The  selection  of  otficera  to  command  troops 
on  trying  occasions  was  sometimes  made  uy 
"casting  lots."  The  brave  and  pious  Col. 
Bliickaoer,  of  the  Cameronian  Regiment,  thus 
writes  of  the  siege  of  Douay,  under  date 
20  May,  1710:— 

"  VVe  marched  atraight  into  the  trecchea.  I  was 
delachoii  upon  cotuiuand  inln  the  sap,  to  command 
the  grenadiers  and  those  who  were  to  fito  all  niRht. 
I  waa  surprised  at  thiH,  be<:au3e  I  was  not  near 
ooruniand  ;  but  it  waa  the  ]iure  decision  of  Frovi- 
deuce,  being  done  by  lot;  so  I  went  cheerfully, 
being  oasured  that  it  was  not  blind  chance,  but  Ood 
who  seat  me  there." 

W.  S. 

TowKR  Bridge  Anticipated.— That  foolish 
libel  on  architectural  art,  the  most  unfortu- 
nate of  all  the  inartistic  bridges  on  the 
Thames,  the  Tower  Bridge,  a  structure  which 

{>uta  the  Tower  itself  to  shame,  aeems  to 
lave  been  anticipated  just  about  a  century 
ago  in  its  functions,  if  not  in  its  falseness. 
I  find  in  the  Catalogue  of  the  Iloyal  Academy 
E)Lhibition  for  1802  the  following  descrip- 
tion of  a  drawing  which  was  then  on  view  at 
Somerset  House : — 

"  6.  View  of  London,  and  some  improvemeota  of 
its  Port,  submitted  to  the  Select  Committee  of  the 
Honourable  House  of  Commons,  by  Mr.  Dance, 
«xhibitinK  the  protwsed  Doable  Bridge  intended  for 
the  porna^  of  ohitw  by  the  alternate  elevation  of 
a  draw -bridge  in  either  of  the  two  bridges,  whilst 
an  uninterrupted  way  over  the  other  is  afforded  at 
all  timed  for  carriages  and  foot-passengers,  without 
iniptMling  the  navij^ation,  and  withont  tne  neces- 
sity of  auch  elevated  arches  as  the  height  of  ships' 
RtastH  roguire  ;  also  the  proposed  Embankment  and 
enlarKemoiit  of  the  Legal  Quava.  and  the  new 
Cll9^Jtn- House  in  the  centre  of  a  line  of  Ware- 
liomtuH  extending  to  the  Tower,  to  and  from  which 

p-fl^MKla  mftjr  be  conveyed  by  carta  on  the  level  of  the 
ETea  round  the  .Monument,  withi'ii'   frirvimbering 

the  tjUAV*.     The   Monument.  1 1 tlumn, 

ci't'Cted  by   the   immortal   Sir   i '  i    Wren, 

'.   seen    m    the    focua    of    lui    t. .^    aniphi- 

leatrical  area  on  the  north  eidc  of  the  Thames, 

^ai\  the  proiiosed  Naval  Trojibj*  is  t)Uocd  in  the 
Mntre  of  a  semivircalar  range  of  biiildiiigs  on  the 
Aouth  aide  of  the  river.— W.  Da.mki.L,'' 

Theartiatof  thedrawingthusdcscribed  waa 


a  distinguished  architect  and  draught«maa, 
whose  'Views  of  London,'  1812,  possess  great 
interest  for  topographers,  to  say  nothing  of 
his  architectural  aquatints  from  monuments 
of  all  kinds  in  India,  as  well  as  his  drawings 
in  colours.  Born  in  1769,  he  became  a  student 
in  the  Iloyal  Academy  in  17&9,  an  A.R.A.  in 
1807,  and  a  R.A.  in  1822.  He  died  in  1837. 
The  "Mr.  Dance"  whose  design  W.  Dauiell 
drew  for  the  exhibition  wa«,  of  course, 
George  of  that  name,  son  of  another  George 
who  built  the  Mansion  House  in  1739.  The 
second  G.  Dance  waa  the  famou.s  R.A.,  City 
Architect,  designer  of  the  now  destroyed 
Newgate  Prison,  and  brother  of  Nathaniel 
Dance,  who  took  the  name  of  Holland, 
became  a  R.A.,  a  baronet  and  M.P.,  and  didti 
in  1811.  O. 

49lUTt». 

We  must  reiiueat  correspondents  desiring  in- 
formation on  family  matters  of  only  private  interest 
to  affix  their  names  and  addresses  to  their  queries, 
in  order  that  the  anawers  may  be  addressed  to  them 
direct. 

'Ancient  Ubders  of  Gray's  Inn.'  — 
Referring  to  the  earlier  records  of  Cray's  Inn, 
Mr.  Douthwaite,  in  his  book  on  the  Inn,  at 
p.  24,  after  stating  that  a  manuscript  order- 
tx)ok,  not  now  to  be  found,  existerl  in  Dug- 
dale's  time  and  was  largely  quoted  by  him, 
says  : — 

"By  the  'Catalogi  Librornm  Kfanuscriptorum 
Angli^e  et  Hibernitt',  published  in  1697,  it  a^^ieara 
that  Francis  Bernard,  M.D.,  had  amongst  his  col- 
lection of  manuBcripta  a  folio  volume  entitled 
'  Ancient  Orders  of  Gray's  Inn...'  This  afterwards 
belonged  to  Charles  Bernard,  Eat].,  Serjeant-Surgeon 
to  Queen  Anne,  and  was  sold  at  the  sale  of  his 
library,  March,  1710." 

Could  any  of  your  readers  kindly  inform  me 
who  was  the  purchaser,  or  furuisli  me  with 
any  particulars  respecting  the  subsequent 
history  of  the  manuscript  1 

James  Mliluuan,  Master  of  the  Library. 

CoMMEMor.ATivE  TABLETS.— The  Ea5>t  Herts 
ArcLseological  Society  propose  from  time  to 
time  to  atKx  small  commemorative  tablets 
to  houses  in  the  county  which  have  been 
the  residences  of  notable  persons.  As  hon. 
secretary  I  should  bo  very  grateful  for  any 
information  as  to  the  size  anrl  material  for 
these  memorials,  also  the  probable  coMt,  and 
wliether  any  firm  of  masons  e'<i>ooially  under- 
take this  class  of  work.        W.  D,  Gerish. 

Bishop's  Stortford. 

John  Mottle y.  Dramatist.— I  shall  be 
greatly    obliged    if   any  one   *-\V\.  sjis's.  -^Sk 


: 


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nO'*  8. 1.  Mat  7, ! 


and  dramatist  (bom  1092.  died  1750),  son  of 
Uol.  Thomas  Mottley,  killed  at  the  battle 
of  Turin  in  1706,  while  in  the  service  of 
Lonix  XIV.  John  Mottley  was  educated  at 
Archbishop  Tenison's  Grammar  School,  St. 
Martin's-in-the- Fields.  Wa-s  he  married  ?  had 
ho  children  or  brothers  ?  Any  information 
regarding  him  beyond  that  given  in  the 
'  Dictionary  of  National  Biozraphy '  will  be 
most  acceptable.  Walter  Howard,  Col. 
Klleralie,  Waterdcn  Iload,  Ouildford. 

Dryden  Portraits.— I  should  be  glad  to 
know  particulars  of  any  original  portraits  of 
the  poet;  also  the  present  whereRl)out«  of 
the  following  pictures  mentioned  by  a  bio- 
grapher under  date  1800  :— 

Portrait  by  Riley  in  the  possession  of 
William  Davenport  Bromley,  of  Bagiuton 
Hall. 

Portrait,  formerly  belonging  to  Addison, 
the  proi^rty  of  the  Hon.  John  Simpson, 
second  son  of  Lord  Bradford,  in  1797. 

Portrait  by  Maubert,  owned  by  Horace, 
Earl  of  Orford,  or  duplicate  owned  by  C. 
Bedford,  of  Brixton  Causeway. 

Portrait  (head),  formerly  m  possession  of 

Rev.  Bilston,    chaplain    of   All    Souls' 

College,  Oxon. 

Portrait  in  pencil  in  the  possession  of  the 
Rev.  John  Dryden  Piggot,  oi  Edgmond,  near 
Shrewsbury.  P.  C.  D.  M. 

Lord  Gowran,  mvbnb  1720.— Who  was 
this  nobleman  1  I  shall  be  glad  to  have  his 
names  and  those  of  his  wife,  if  married,  and 
dates  of  their  death,  and  when  the  peerage 
became  extinct.  There  was  an  earldom 
of  Gowran,  created,  1670,  in  favour  of  John 
Butler,  fourth  son  of  the  first  Duke  of 
Ormonde,  but  it  became  extinct  the  year 
after.  Charles  S.  Krec,  Bt. 

St.  Leonarda-on-.Sea. 

[Richard  Fitzpatrick  was  created  Baron  Gowran, 
of  Gowran,  co.  Kilkenny,  in  the  pooratte  of  Ireland, 
27  Ajjril,  1715.  He  married  Anne,  younger  daiigliter 
of  8ir  John  Rohin»on.  Bt.,  of  Farming  Woods,  co. 
NortliftmptoM.  The  title  beoanie  extinct  in  1818. 
See  Biirke'B  '  Kxlincl  PeeraRCia,'  ».f.  Fitz-Patriok.] 

MiEKiELD  Book  Society.  —  Can  any  one 
give  me  information  concerning  the  above 
society,  which  was  in  existence  about  18.30, 
or  a  reference  thereto  in  any  Yorkshire  book  I 

A.  H.  Arkle. 

"Send"  of  tub  Ska.— In  the  Times  of 
21  March  it  is  stated,  "Endeavours  were 
made  yesterday  to  lift  the  sunken  submarine 
by  means  of  wire  hawsers,  but  owing  to  the 
't^A*^'^  ^^'^  •5«'*  '"  the  exposed  position  in 
rZr/cA  6/ie  wreck  is  lying,  the  haws  ers  parted." 


Is  sfnd  in  the  sense  of  not-eni  a  usual  ex- 
pression among  seamen  1     E.  S.  Doixjsox. 

(Used  by  Longfellow  in  'Miles  Standiah.'  See 
'  EiicyclopiBdic  Diet.'  and  Annandale's  '  Imtierial.'J 

Epitapb  on  Lieutenant  of  Marines.- 
Where  can  the  following  epitaph  be  seen  1- 
Here  lies  retired  from  busy  scenes 
A  first  lieutenant  of  Marines, 
Who  lately  lived  in  »ay  content 
On  lK>ard  the  brave  ahi]!  Dilipnt : 
Now  etripp'd  of  all  his  warlike  show. 
And  laid  in  box  of  elm  below, 
Confine<l  in  earth  in  narrow  bordera, 
He  rises  not  till  further  orders. 

A.  R.  C. 

Lahy  Chantrey.— Can  any  reader  inform 
me  where  the  widow  of  the  famous  sculptor 
Sir  Francis  Chantrey  is  buried  i  She  died 
3Januar3',  1875.  W.  P.  Golden. 

R^niahaw,  Chesterfield. 

Brome  of  Bisnop's  Stobtford.— Who  ara_ 
the  present    representatives    of    the    abo\ 
family  ?  They  seem  to  have  possessetl  valuab 
MSS.,  ifec,    relating   to  their  ancestors   tho 
Dennys.  (Rev.)  H.  L,  L.  Denny. 

Londonderry. 

Epwaro  Williams,  drowned  1621.— Waa 
he  a  descendant  of  Morgan  WilliaDis,  Oliver 
Crorawell's  ancestor  ?  What  General  Baird 
was  related  to  him  ?  A.  C  H. 

"Sal  et  saliva." — Nearly  all  the  gaide- 
books  state  that  these  words  form  the  in- 
scription on  the  fine  early  Perpendicular  font 
in  St.  Margaret's  Church  at  Ipswich.  Can 
any  explanation  be  given  of  this  curioua 
collocation  1  James  Hoopeb. 

St.  Bees*  Head,  Cu.mberland.— There  Is  a 

fart  of  this  headland  known  locally  (and 
believe  marked  in  modern  maps) 
"  Tomline."  I  remember  being  told  soc 
ftve-and-thirty  years  ago,  by  a  friend  (lon^ 
since  dead)  who  had  been  a  student  at  th« 
College,  that  this  name  arose  out  of  a  joke 
One  of  the  books  then  used  in  the  College  w* 
Bishop  Tomline's  'Elements  of  (Jhristiat 
Theology,'  and  some  witty  studenb  pr 
pounded  the  question,  "  Why  was  this  plac«n 
like  Tomline?  "  the  answer  l>eing  '•  Because  it 
is  hard  to  get  up." 

Some  years  ago,  when  a  student  was 
unfortunately  killed  in  climbing  this  plaoei,^ 
I  noticed  that  the  witnesses  at  the  inquea||* 
called  it  "Tomline," and  I  have  several  tim« 
asked  persons  living  in  the  neighbourhood  if 
they  knew  the  origin  of  the  name  ;  but  the 
story  told  mo  does  not  .seem  to  be  now  known 
there.  I  shall  be  ^lad  if  any  "Hivite"  now 
\\\\\Ti%  cwk  <Mm'6stQ\t,tt,a,  if  true,  it  is  a  curioaa 


L  Mat  7. 1901.}  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


369 


I 

I 

* 
* 


instance  of  how  names  which  puzzle  etymo- 
logists are  sometimes  acquired. 

H.  G.  P. 
Barrow-in-Fume«s. 

Ro.MAN  Tenement  Hocses.— An  American 
writer  haa  stated,  .We  have  reason  to  believe 
that  the  great  majority  of  the  people  in  the 
city  of  Rome  lived  in  immense  tenement 
houses,  six  stories  high,  or  even  more,  and 
divided  into  nxims."  Is  there  any  foundation 
for  the  above  ^  Upon  what  authority  is  the 
statement  made  ?  S.  P.  Q.  II, 

Br.».zen  Bijou.— Amongst  a  numlier  of 
kitchen  utensils  metioneu  as  being  in  use 
about  1830  occurs  "  one  Bijou  of  Ijra^js,"  with 
the  value  "  about  two  shillings  "  set  against  it. 
I  have  never  come  across  this  article  in  any 
list  of  such  kitchen  furniture  before,  with  the 
exception  of  the  allusion  to  it  in  Dickens's 
*  Great  Expectations  '  (chap,  xx  v.),  "  A  brazen 
bijou  over  the  fireplace,  designed  for  the 
suspension  of  a  roasting  jack.  The  word 
probably  went  out  with  the  last-mentioned 


"  Nicht  zwanzig."  Eventually  it  appeared 
that  the  number  wa-s  exactly  twenty,  but  that 
to  name  the  exact  number  of  a  party  in 
unlucky,  and  involves  the  death  of  one  of 
thoin  during  the  year.  Can  any  reader 
explain  this?  P'red.  G.  Acker lby. 

Care  of  British  Vice-Conaulata,  Libau,  Huwia. 


ENGRAVINGS. 
(10"'  S,  L  309,  33<j.) 

I  ADVISE  Mrs.  Hulton  to  apply  to  Mr. 
Daniel,  Mortimer  Street,  Cavendish  Square, 
or  anv  similar  dealer  in  old  prints  and  books, 
for  tue  remaining  prints  of  the  series  to 
which  her  note  refers. 

The  line  "publisht  according  to  Act  of 
Parliament,"  which  is  a  portion  of  the  so- 
called  publication  line,  means  that  the 
engravings  upon  which  it  appears  were 
issued  according  to  the  rules  and  conditions 
prescribed  by  what  is  known  as  Hogarth's 


article.     Can  any  one  tell  me  its  derivation,    Act,  a  measure  intended  to  secure  tiT  thos  e 
and  also  its  proper  designation  today,  sup-    *ho  complied   with   them  some  protectio  n 


posing  such  still  to  be  in  use  in  kitchens  ? 

FeEDEBICK   T.   HrB(K4ME. 

"  Grikoo  "  =  Foreigner  :  "  Griengro."  — 
"Gringo"  is  used  by  natives  of  the  River 
Plate  to  designate  all  foreigners  (see  9'*'  S.  vii. 
38a,  496  ;  viii.  21,  1.30.  210)  except  Spaniards, 
Spanish-Americans,  and  Portuguese.  It  is 
applied  especially  to  Italians.  The  meaning 
given  in  a  large  Spanish  dictionary  is 
"unintelligible."  and  the  word  is  stated  to 
be  "  Gitanesco,"  gipsy.     The  word  griawro,  a 


horse-dealer.occGr8severaltimosin'A}awin'|P^''T.i      .    ^^'      •■         ''''''I' 


sn^UOy  given 
seem  right. 
Montevideo. 


'La  Academia,'  does   not 
W.  L.  POOLK. 


R 


Chair  op  St.  AcnusTrxE.— In  a  report  in  a 
don  paper  of  the  recent  dedication  of  tlio 
west  front  of  Hereford  Cathedral  is  the 
following  : — 

."i?^*','''".^'''^''  8"*'*«<iaent  reception,  the  Biahop 
of  Hereford  exiireased  the  hope  that  the  Arch- 
bishop would  help  I.J  restore  the  Ch*ir  of  St 
Augustine  from  C&nlerhury  to  Hereford" 

What  did  the  Bishop  allude  to  by  this  ? 
Was  the  seat  St.  Augustine  sat  in  removed 
afterwards  Nj  Hereford  from  the  conference 
in  Worcesterxhiro  ?  Alfrkd  Hall. 

NoMBER  Si'iT.RsTTTioN.— My  wife  asked  a 
little  Jewish  girl  hi^w  many  children  there 
in  her  class  at  school.     The  atmwer  was 


against  the  pirates  who— after,  and  eve  n 
before,  the  appearance  of  engravings— did  no  t 
hesitate  to  issue  fraudulent  copies  of  prints 
or  pictures  upon  which  artists  had  expended 
their  best  powers  and  (where  the  two 
functions  were  not  performed  by  one  person) 
publishers  their  capital. 

The  Act  in  question  bears  Hogarth's  name 

because,  owing  to  the  great  popularity  of 

some  of  his    earlier    prints,    especially    '  A 

Harlot's    Progress'    in    1734,    unscrupulous 

had    put    forth    copies   of    them, 

the   copies 

legradation  of  his 

art.     Before  this  enactment  came  into  force 

there    was,    in    this    country    at    least,    no 

f)rotection  whatever  for  painters  and  pub- 
ishers.  On  the  Continent  it  was  verv 
different;  in  fact,  centuries  before  Hogarth s 
time  the  Signory  of  Venice  had  defended 
Albert  Diirer  against  their  piratical  country- 
men, who,  nevertheless,  were  not  invariably 
bad  engravers.  After  a  great  deal  of  trouble 
Hogarth,  and  others  who  were  interested, 
procured  the  passing  of  the  Act  which  bears 
nis  name.  In  consequence  the  publication 
lines  of  the  prints  of  'A  Rake's  Progress,' 
eight  in  all,  are  "  Invente<l  Painted  Engrav'd 
ii  Publishd  by  W"  Hogarth  June  y*  25  1736 
According  to  Act  of  Parliament."  Probably 
this  is  the  earliest  instance  of  this  form  of 
the  publication  line  on  an  engraving.  The 
issue  of  '  A  Rake's  Progress'  was  a.«la.'i<wi 
until  the  «}oo\ek  ^^^a, '«W!^\N3h^^<«w«».'«>;fcsii». 


870 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.         \}o^  8.  i.  Mav  7.  I90l 


by  the  Act  of  Parliament  referred  to,  i.e., 
8  George  II.  cap.  13.  In  the  Hate  "25"  of 
the  publication  line  of  No.  2I!S8  of  the 
'Catalogue  of  Satirical  Prints  in  the  British 
Museum '  are  distinct  traces  of  a  "  4  "  under 
the  "5"  :  this  may  lie  accounted  for  bv  sup- 
posing that  LLogarth  found  it  desirable  to 
sncure  his  copyright  according  to  the  Act, 
which  gave  protection  to  works  published 
after  or  from  24  June,  1735. 

The  great  success  of  *  A  Harlot's  Progress ' 
induced  Hogarth  to  produce  its  fellow  scries. 
He  caused  advertisements  to  be  issuer!  wliicii 
partly  explain  the  history  of  the  work  and 
tlie  mode  of  it«  publication.  In  the  London 
£ttenin>j  Post,  3  June,  1735,  is  the  following : — 

"The  Nine  Prints,  from   the  Paintinn  of  Mr. 
Hogitrth,  one  representing  a  Fair  [i.e.,  'Southwark 
Fair,'  which  La  ISo.  1900  in  Iho  National  Collection], 
iiiid  the  otherH  a,  Rake'a  I'ro^reu,  are  now  printing 
otr,    and    will    l>e    ready    to   be   delivered  on  the 
2.'tlh  inatant.    SubBcriptiona  Mill  be  taken  at  Mr. 
Hogarth's,  the  Golden  Head,  in  Leicester  Fields, 
till  the  23  of  June,  and  no  longer,  at  half  a  guinea 
to  be  |)aid  on  AubachbinK  [the  etohinK  calle<f  "The 
Laughing  Audience,'  B.M.  No.  1949.  was  jfivon  a«  a 
rooeipt],  and  half  a  guinea  on  tiie  delivery  of  the 
(irinta  at  the  time  above  mentioned :  after  which 
the  price   will   be  two  guineas,  according  to  the 
Proposal.— N.B,  Mr,  Hogarth  was,  and  is,  obliged 
to  defer  the  publication  and  delivery  of  the  above 
■aid  Print*  till  the  2.^th  of  June,  in  order  to  Boc-uro 
his  properly,  pursuant  t«  an  Act  lately  passed  both 
Houaea  of  Parliament,  to  secure  all  new-invented 
Prints  that  shall  be  published  after  the  24th  instant, 
from  being  copied  without  consent  of  the  proprietor, 
and  therel)y  preventing  a  scandalous  and  unjust 
custom     (huherto    practised    with    impunity)    of 
making  and  vending  base  copies  of  original  Prints, 
to  the  manifest  injury  of    the    Author,   and   the 
great  discouragement  of  the  arts  of  Painting  and 
Engraving." 

This  advertisement  was  repeated  on  14  June. 
1735. 

In  the  London  Daily  Post.  27  June,  1735, 
p.  1,  col.  1,  we  may  read  the  following  :— 

"Certain  Printaellers  in  London,  intending  not 
only  to  injure  Mr.  Hogarth  in  his  I'loi^ity,  but 
also  to  impose  their  bane  Imitations  (of  hi«  Eight 
Prints  of  the  Rake'e  Progress)  on  the  Puhlick, 
which  they,  beiun  oblig'd  to  do  only  [by]  what  they 
oould  carry  away  by  Memory  from  the  sight  of 
the  PamtlDM  [which  were,  of  course,  exhibited  at 
the  Oolden  Head],  have  executed  most  wretchedly 
Iwth  in  Design  and  Drawing,  as  will  be  very 
obvious  when  they  are  exposM ;  he,  in  order  to 
prevent  such  scandalous  Praotices,  and  that  the 
Puhlick  may  be  furnishH  with  his  real  Designs,  has 
jiermitted  his  Original  Prints  to  be  closely  copied 
—J   the  said  Copies  will  1-  ■    1 1  -i     i  -^,  ^  f^^ 


nnd 


entirely  snccessfnl ;  but  as  the  Britjall 
Museum,  rich  beyond  comparison  as  it  is  in 
prints  after  Hogarth's  designs,  contains  only 
one  print  which,  as  a  piracy,  can  he  com' 
pared  witli  the  reproductions  of  *  A  Harlot'*' 
Progress,'  it  seems  that  it  was  not  withoufe' 
effect  of  a  sort.  See  B.Jt  print  No.  21fi«. 
As  to  Bakewell's  licensed  copies,  wl -  "^ 

reversed  and  reduced  from   their  <  -, 

see  B.M.  No.  2159.      It  is  true  there  we 

{ilagiaries,  not  downright  copie»«,  of  'A  Ilake'i 
'rogreas,' as  well  as,  strange  to  sax 
from  the  plagiaries.    See  B.M.  No 
2172,   ttc,    in    the   above-naaR'<l    <', 
which   gives  an   exhaustive  ac.   .ni    ..;' 
Hogarth's    satirical    ^>riuts,    th>:ir    -l  n 
allusions,  and   histones,  a«  well  ns   if 
copies  and  piracies  of  them  which  nro  la  tlmT 
British  Museum.    See  likewise  'Hogarth  and 
the    Pirates,'     which    was    publishe<^l,    with 
illustrations,  by    Messrs.  Seeley  A  Co.,   in 
the  Port/olio.  F.  Q.  S. 

The  works  of  Samuel  and  Nathaniel  Buoi 
are  recorded  in  Lowndes's  '  Bi'^i'-r'^'-'f^'^r'^" 
Manual' and  elsewhere.  The; 
the  Bucks  were  probahly  faitlii^.  ..^  .  -.j.- 
tions,  and  prove  of  special  value  in  showing 
the  extent  of  the  uestraction  which  hua 
fallen  to  the  lot  of  our  castle  ruins  ainco  the 
middle  of  the  eighteenth  century.  Plat«» 
are  to  be  picked  up  at  prices  ranging  frof 
half-a-crown  upwards,  tiie  large  foldii  _ 
views  of  towns  being  jiriced  more  highly. 
The  Ijest  show  of  tlie  fine  castle  plates  is  (or 
was)  to  be  seen  in  the  Midland  Railway 
Hotel  at  Derby,  where  a  room  was  panelled 
with  some  hundreds  of  the  prints. 

I.  C.  Goou). 
"Publisht  according  to  Act  of  Parlia- 
ment" refers,  I  believe^  to  8  Geo.  U.  c.  13. 
This  Act  was  amended  m  1766  by  7  Geo.  III. 
c.  38,  which  extended  the  time  of  protection 
from  fourteen  to  twenty-eight  years.  These 
Acts  were  probably  rejjealed  by  the  first 
Victorian  Copyright  Act. 

Ralph  Tuosus. 

The    reply    at    the     second    ri:-*  is 

correct  ;  evidently  an  error  in  ti:i  ri 

was    made.      An    excellent    accouta    oi  tli© 

work  of  the  brothers  Buck  will  l>o  fo'ind  in 

it 


Jewell, 
'Urt    in 


1)*^,  and  sold  at  2'*.  6<l.  ear 
Print  and  Maj>8eller,  nex) 
Fleet  .Street,  London." 

This  attempt  to  take  the  wind  out  of  the 
Bails  of  the  pirates  hy  means  of  Bakewell  and 
his  versions  of  *  A  Rake's  Progress  '  was  not 


'DN.B,'  vii.  198.    Anv     - 
seller  will  report  their  er 
"  published  according  to  ti^  - 
complies  with  clause  1  of  tli 
(Engraving;8),  8  Gci>    fl-  .-. 
that  all  prints  shall  ' 
the  name  of  the  p: 
and  printed  on  ev< 
These  words  do  not 


.th 
.     ^t«j 
'If  prmuu 


I 


10*  B.  I.  May  7,  iOM.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


371 


of  the  Bucka'  engraWugs  in  my  possession, 
dated  1732-4,  and  consequently  before  the 
passing  of  this  Act.  R.  A. 

"  Hanged,  DRAWN,  and  quarteekd"  (10*8. 
i.  209,  275,  356).— The  sentence  on  certain 
Maories,  which  was  the  cause  of  the  abolition 
of  the  old  treason  sentence  by  statute  in  this 
country  in  tlie  1868  Parliament,  ran  in  the 
order  of  the  title  quoted  by  your  corre- 
spondent W.  C.  B.  D. 

The  collection  of  instances  at  the  last 
reference  is  of  much  value.  The  right  answer 
is  given,  of  course,  in  the  'New  English  Dic- 
tionary,' s.v.  '  Draw,'  sections  4  and  50.  It  is 
that  drawn  had  both  senses,  viz.,  (1)  drawn  on 
a  hurdle  ite/ore  hanging  ;  and  (2)  eviscerated 
after  hanging.  Sometliiiig  depend.s  on  the 
date.  Thus,  all  the  examples  at  the  last 
reference  are  later  tiian  1440. 

But  sense  (I)  is  the  older,  the  original,  and 
the  most  common  use.  It  began  about  1330 ; 
and  in  1&68  Grafton  says  ('  Chron.,'  ii.  191) : 

"  Because  be  came  of  the  bloud  roykll he  w&a 

not  drawne.  but  was  set  u|x>n  a  horse,  and  so  brought 
to  the  place  of  executioD,  and  there  banged."  | 

It  is  remarkable  that  Garnett  wa.s  "drawn  " 
in  both  senses  ;  for  he  was  "  sentenced  to  be  , 
drawn,  hanged,    disembowelled,    and  quar- 
tered." This  is  given  in  the  same  storehouse, 
which  is  all  too  Tittle  consulted. 

Sense  (2)  is  explained  at  section  50  ;  but 
the  examples  are  not  numerous,  and  hardly 
one  of  tnera  is  quite  certain-  It  seems  to 
have  arisen  from  using  the  old  word  in  a  new 
sense.  Waltbr  W.  Skeat, 

Burns  Anticipated  (10^''  S.  i.  286,  357).— 
I  Bnd  I  am  made  responsible  for  what  reads 
as  an  incorrect  statement. 

The  words  "  This,  too,  is  given  in  Bartlett " 
were  meant  to  refer  to  the  preceding  quota- 
tion, and  should  have  ended  with  a  full 
stop.  The  punctuation  given  makes  them 
apply  to  the  one  which  foUomt.  This  would 
bo  incorrect,  as  the  **  \Vee  Johnie  "  parallel 
is  not  in  Bartlett's  foot-notes,  but  is  one 
of  those  taken  from  Chamberi'g  Edinburgh 
Journal.  C.  Lawrence  Ford. 

Tjdbswkll  and  Tideslow  (9"'  S.  xii.  341' 
517  ;  10";  S.  i.  52.  91,  190,  228,  278,  292,  316).— 
I  am  obliKod  to  PuoF.  Skkat  for  his  note  at 
the  last  referenoe.  It  is  scarcely  creditable  to 
jy  acumen  that  I  did  not  detect  the  misprint 
»f  u  for  »i  in  his  former  note  ;  had  I  done  so,  it 
rould  have  been  clear  that  he  was  dealing 
rith  operative  letters,  not  mere  symbols  or 
ghost  letters. 
I  agree  with  him  entirely  as  to  the  import- 


ance of  local  pronunciation  in  general,  but  it 
is  not  always  a  ^uide  to  etymology.  Thus 
Bridlington  in  \orkshire,  a  station  on  the 
North-Eastern  Railway,  is  locally  pronounced 
"  Burlington,"  but  you  will  puzzle  the  booking 
clerk  at  King's  Cross  if  you  do  not  pronounce 
it  according  to  the  written  form,  which 
preserves  the  old  meaning.  Again,  RuthweU, 
a  parish  in  Dumfrie.sshire,  is  pronounced 
locally  "  Rivvel,"  and  I  have  seen  it  so  written 
phonetically  in  documents  of  the  thirteenth 
or  fourteenth  century  (unfortunately  my 
references  are  not  at  hand) ;  but  there  can  be 
no  doubt  that  the  name  is  really  A.-S.  rdd  icel, 
as  the  famous  Ruthwell  cross  and  the  holy 
well  remain  to  testify.  In  Wigtownshire  the 
written  form  Kirk  col  m  (a  parish)  bears  upon 
the  face  of  it  its  dedication  to  S.  Colum,  but 
it  is  always  pronounced  "  Kirkiim,"  and  is 
sometimes  so  written  in  very  early  documents. 
It  happens  that  here  also  i.s  a  carved  cross  and 
"  S.  Coium's  well."  Another  Scottish  dedica- 
tion to  S.  Colum— Kilraac61m,  in  Renfrew- 
i  shire — has  suffered  grievously  from  the  name 
'  being  painted  up  at  the  railway  station 
"  Kilmalcolm."  Locally  it  is  still  pronounced 
correctly,  with  the  stress  on  the  last  syllable 
=cil  mo  Coltiim,  ''  at  the  cell  of  dear  Colum  " ; 
but  railway  officials  and  travellers  accent  the 
penultimate,  which  alters  the  meaning  into 
ril  maoil  CohUmy  "at  the  cell  of  Coium's 
servant." 

Railway  usage  is  also  responsible  for  a 
change  in  stress,  and  consequent  obscuring 
of  the  etymology,  of  Carlisle,  which  rightly 
bears  the  accent  on  the  last  and  qualitative 
syllable.  Herbert  Maxwell. 

I  have  just  discoverecl  a  piece  of  evidence 
which  makes  it  certain  that,  before  the 
eleventh  century,  the  suffix  •ivelte  in  place- 
names  had  the  meaning  of  field.  In  Domes- 
day the  town  of  Duffield,  nineteen  jniles  from 
Tideswell,  and  in  the  same  county,  appears  as 
Dunelle.  Here  the  prefix  is  the  woman's 
name  Dunua,  which  occurs  in  Domesday,  or 
Duiui  (a  woman's  name?),  found  once  in  the 
Durham  *  Liber  Vita?..'  The  suffix  -elle,  for 
-wellc,  is  translated  by  "field"  iu  Duffield. 
Cold  Wall,  in  Derbyshire,  can  only  mean 
cold  field.  "  S.  O.  Addv. 

In  support  of  Dr.  BrI'SBfield's  contention 
that  Tideswell  wa«  popularly  named  from 
the  flowing  and  ebbing  well  situated  there, 
I  would  draw  attention  to  Joseph  Hall's 
'  Mundu^  alter  et  idem '  published  in  1607, 
and  partially  translated  by  Dr.  King  about  a 
century  later.  Describing  the  fanciful  country 
of  Crapulia,  he  speaks  of  the  hamlet  of  Mar- 
mitta  as  "  watered  bs  tb^  \\%%x  \kH'is<eMw-. 


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which,  a9  is  said  of  a  fountain  in  the  Peak  of 
Derby,  boils  over  twice  in  four-and-twenty 
hours."  E.  Stevens. 

Melbourne. 

An  illustration  of  the  truth  of  what  Prof. 
Skk.it  savs  at  the  end  of  his  latest  letter  on 
ride^well  and  Tidesiow  is  to  be  found  at 
Tmtinhull  m  Somerset.  The  people  of  the 
village  still  pronounce  its  name  Tinknell. 
Ihjs  spelling  of  the  name  is  represented  on 
80rae  late  mediseval  brasses  on  the  pavement 
of  Us  church.    Is  it  of  Keltic  origin  T 

E.  S.  DoDosoN. 

The  "growing  tendency  to  acrimonioos 
disputation  in  'N.  &  Q.'"  is  greatly  to  be 
regretted,  and  has  been  moat  ably  pointed 
out  by  Mr.  PiERPotNTat  p.  lio  of  the  present 
volume.  His  remarks  I  respectfully  recom- 
mend to  the  attention  of  some  frequent  and 
important  contributors. 

Salterton,  DevcJ'   -'^'-  ^«^«HFIKLD.  M.D. 

*;  As  THE  Onow  FLIE.S  "  f  lo"-  S.  i.  204,  296).— 
1  his  18  a  common  expression,  used  to  signify 
that  the  distance  is  to  be  measured  in  a 
straight  line  on  a  horizontal  plane.  If  to 
get  from  one  place  to  another  it  is  necessary 
to  pass  over  a  mountain  the  distance  will  !» 
inuch  greater  tlian  the  distance  measured  &s 
the  crow  flies.  There  are  numerous  cases  in 
which  disputes  have  arisen  as  to  the  mode  in 
which  a  distance  is  to  be  measured.  It  may 
be  that  the  measurement  should  be  by  the 
HmTni  P"^''^,'-?^^'.  it  may  be  by  going  up 
hiH  and  down  dale,  or  it  may  be  as  the  crow 
flies.  In  order  to  avoid  disputes  in  the  con- 
strue ion  of  Acts  of  Parlialnent,  the  InSr- 
pretation  Act,  1889,  .-,2  A  53  Vict.  c.  63. 
sec.  34,  enacts  * 

i*hi*'!t«^."'%""""J"*'"^'^^  «'  any  diitance  for 
ment  of  this  Act,  that  distance,  shall,   unless  the 

.7«l^t7i  ""°'""l"  ?I>P®»".  b«  mMBurcd  in  a 
straight  line  on  a  hunzontal  plane." 

See  also  section  2^1  of  the  Municipal  Cor- 
porations Act,  1882.  Every  one  has  seen  the 
crow  fl^^ng  home  at  tiie  end  of  the  day,  goinR, 
MDr  Brewer  says,  .straight  to  its  '^iut  f 
destination.  The  expression  is  often  used  in 
courts  of  law.  Harby  B.  Poland. 

Inner  reniple. 

I  /,^!J°^^^'  ^^t'TERS  IN  C0UNTIE.S  AND  BOROITGHS 

OO*"  S.  i.  327).-It  is  not  unlikely  that  the 

following   was  one  of  the  instances  in   the 

mind  of  the  late  John  Stuart  Mill  when  he 

ittade  his  memorable  speech  in  the  House  of 

Jl^mmons  m  favour  of  the  enfranchisement 

women      Prynne,  in    his  *  Brevia  Parlia- 

ytans  lledivivi^'  refen  to  sundry  earls. 


lords,  nobles,  and  tome  Indie*  vho  were  annua], 
suitors  (freeholders)  to  the  county  court  o| 
Yorkshire,    being    the    sole    electors   of  the 
knights,  and  sealing    their  inrlentures.    B< 
gives,  pp.  152  and  153,  two  inttanoes  of  suet 
indentures.  The  earliest  is  date^i  13  Hen,  IV.. 
and    is   signed    by    an    attorney    of  LocyJ 
Countess  of  Kent.  Another,  in  2  Henry  V..  ti^ 
signed  by  the  attorney  of  Marm&ret,  widot 
of    Sir    H.  Vavasour.      In    7    Edward    VI." 
the  return  for  the  borough  of  Gatton   was 
made  by  the  Lady  Elizabeth  Copley,  widoi 
of  Roger  Copley.     Other  instances  could 
cited,  but  I  fear  to  trespass   too  much    00* 
your  valuable  space. 

UARErETT  McIlQUBAM, 

Miss   Betham-Edwajids   will    find   maer 
information  about  women  voters  in   ' 
Smith's    'Enfranchisement    of    W" 
Law  of  the  Land'     (187G),    Mr.    Liuvfnumi 
Anstev's  papers  on  "the  Hepreaentation  of 
the    People    Acts,    1876,'    and    MLss    Helei 
Blackburn's   articles  in   the  />ny/M/iu''w«<in'^ 
Heviete.    The  work  of    these  three  author 
was  combined  and  much  expanded  by 
Stopes   in    her   *  British    Freewomea,   the 
Historical  Privilege '  (Sonnenschein,  I8d4). 

A.  RC 

See  4«*  S.  xi. ;  H^  S.  iv. ;  7"'  S.  vi.,  Nii. 

EvERASD  Home  Colk&lait. 
[Reply  acknowledged  also  from  Aucu  Cobbbtt,! 

Birds'  Egos  (10"'  S.  i.  327).-  On  3  JuJ^-, 
1897,  Mr.  Hugh  Leylwrn  Popham  found  m 
the  valley  of  the  Jenessei  river,  in  Siberia,  the 
first  recorded  nest  of   the  pigmy  curlew  or 
curlew-sand pijjer.     The  four  eggs  which  it 
contained  are  figured  in  the  Proceeding*  of 
the  Zoological  Society  for  that  year  (plate  51), 
and  he  himself  described  the  circumstances 
of  the  discovery  in   the  Ibis    for  October, 
1898  (pp.  616-17).     The  "glory"  of  it  has 
therefore  "  fallen  to  one  of  our  own  country- 
men."    So  with   the  knot.     Its  eggs   woi-o 
found,  00   what  were  then  known  as  tho 
North   Georgian   Islands,    in    Parrj-'a    first 
Arctic  Expedition,  and  again  in  abundance 
in  Melville  Peninsula,  some  years  later,  by 
the  younger  Ross  —  facts  which    Nk  Quid 
NiMTS  might  have  easily  ascertained  had  he 
consulted   any    standard    authority,   which, 
however,  is  about  the  last  thing   that  an 
ordinary  writer  on  zoological  subjects  evor 
thinks  of  doing.    Di  other  quarters  he  mightj 
as    easily     liear    of    the    achieveraenta    of^ 
Alexander  Theodor  von  Middendor-fF  (who^ 
did   not  happen  to  be  exactly  a  German),] 
but  as   they   concern   Siberian    exploratioaj 
more  than  "birds'  eggs,"  I  need  not  dwoUl 
upon  them  here.    A  slight  acquaintance,  iooA 


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fith  the  doings  of  English  oo](>gistB  during 
the  last  sixty  or  seventy  years  would  ahow 
that  tlie  names  of  Atkinson,  Dann,  Harvie- 
Brown,  Hewitson,  Hoy,  Proctor,  Salvin,  Tris- 
tram, and,  above  all,  Wolley,  form  a  roll 
which  cannot  be  approache<l  by  tJioae  of  any 
other  country.  Anpiel. 

It  may  be  material  to  this  subject,  and  to 
the  letter  thereon  of  Ne  Quid  Nimis,  to  Htate 
that  my  elder  brother  (now  dead)  made  in 
hi«  lifetime  a  collection  of  these,  which  I 
believe  to  be  still  in  existence  and  to  be  of 
con3iderable  value.  It  contained  »omc  eggs 
of  the  grasshopper  warbler  (a  compara- 
tively rare  bird  m  this  country),  which  he 
bougnt  from  the  old  woman  who  in  those 
days— fifty  or  more  years  ago— sold  cakes  and 
sweeta  at "  The  Wall  "'in  frontof  Eton  College, 

giving  her  onlv  a  halfpenny  each  for  them, 
at  knowing  (tnough  she  did  not)  that  they 
were  worth  auite  half-acrown  each.  I 
myself  an-^istea  my  brother  in  all  his  egg 
rambles.  Epward  P.  Wolferstan. 

Akms  of  Pius  X.  (10'''  S.  i.  309).— Azure,  in 
base  a  sea  proper,  over  all  an  anchor  of  three 
flakei;  Mable,  fouled  proper,  ensigned  with 
ati  eatoile  of  six  rays  argent;  on  a  chief  of 
the  last  the  winged  lion  of  St.  Mark  of 
Venice,  guardant  and  ]>assaDt,  holding  in 
dexter  paw  a  sword  erect  or,  and  between 
the  paws  an  open  book  proper,  inscribed, 
"  Pax  tihi  !Marce  Kvangelusta  ineus,"  sable. 
EvKUAKK  Green,  Rouge  Dragon. 

According  to  a  rude  sketch  in  an  Italian 
new8p»per,  the  arms  of  Pope  Pius  X.  are, 
Gules,  issuant  from  a  base  wavy  an  anchor 
palewise  ;  in  the  centre  chief  a  mullet  argent. 

Georgk  Axouii!. 

St.  Andrews,  N.D. 

Latin  Links (10'^  S.  i.  248,  3\i).—Coromim 
would  not  rime  with  doim.  We  must  take 
eorfmaaa  a  vocative,  in  apf)osition  to  Chvistt; 
and  translate,  "  O  Christ,  Thou  crown  of  the 
saints  ! "  E.  S.  DoDOSOS. 

Mb.  Stroxo's  emendations  of  the  words 
led  and  (uoufo,  in  the  first  two  lines  of  the 
inscription  sent  bv  Dr.  Foster,  aeera  some- 
what violent, and  the  latterquiteunnecessary. 
I  would  suggest  sah<  for  sed,  which  is  a  much 
simpler  r*ostoratiuri  of  the  metre,  axul  seems 
to  me  to  give  a  better  sense.  Tho  lines  vvoulfl 
then  run  either.  *'  These  [letters],  the 
daughterv  of  tho  King,  are  fixe«l  in  the  s«at 
of  trie  mind  that  by  thorn  Thou,  <.>  Christ, 
mayest  guard  and  refr&Mh  us  sisters  "  ;  or  else, 
"Tjiose  [letters]  are  fixed  in  the  scAt  of  the 
King'»  daughter's  mind  that  by   them " 


In  the  latter  case  the  nan  is  described  as  the 
King's  daughter  ;  in  either  case  the  meajiing 
is  that  the  symbols  are  committed  to  memory 
in  order  to  keep  the  good  sisters  soun<l  in  tlio 
faith,  8ucli  aids  to  memory  blend  a  kind  of 
recreation  (in'ores)  with  instruction  (hiendn), 
though  the  latter  verb  may  have  also  the 
meaning  of  protection,  such  being  the  object 
of  this  teaching. 

In  the  last  sentence  there  is  no  need  to 
assume,  as  Mk.  STRONfi  does,  that  there  is  a 
careless  confusion  between  the  two  construc- 
tions domi  nobis  cm-onavi  and  donn  nos  corona 
("present  to  us  a  crown,"  "present  us  with 
a  crown ") ;  for  corona  is  manifestly  the 
vocative,  ''O  Christ,  Thou  Crown  of  tho 
saints  "  ;  and  hw  is  the  object  to  dona. 

In  the  last  line  etherneix  may  be  meant  for 
cethereis,  though  it  is  by  no  means  impoasiblo 
that  Ltternux  may  be  spelt  two  wav's  in  three 
lines.  W.  E-  B, 

AfANlTOBA  (10"'  S.  i.  206,  275).— Early  in 
the  seventies,  when  the  Canadian  Pacific  Kail- 
way  was  doing  much  to  bring  the  North- 
West  Provinces  before  the  people,  I  was 
stopping  for  a  few  days  in  a  village  of  Eastern 
Canada.  A  resident  of  the  little  place  cor- 
rectetl  my  pronunciation  lc>  Manitoba  ;  and 
as  he  was  alert  on  questions  of  the  day,  and 
also,  through  friends  in  tho  Government  and 
tlie  colleges,  was  in  the  way  of  hearing  the 
educated  as  well  as  the  popular  usage,  I  think 
the  pronunciation  he  gave  may,  in  that  early 
day,  have  been  the  scholarly  and,  so  to  sneak, 
the  official  one.  But  a^i  I  have  heard  the 
word  used  since  in  Montreal  and  elsewhere, 
my  strong  irapre-ssion  is  that  the  easier  pro- 
nunciation, with  accent  on  the  penult,  has 
gained  the  day  in  all  classes.  Here  the  name 
is  rarer  in  speech,  and  authorities  differ  ;  but 
I  note  that  in  moat  recent  books  preference 
is  given  to  Manitoba.  M.  C.  L. 

Now  York  City. 

"The  CRo^vN  akd  Threb  Sogah  Loavbs " 
(10"'  S.  i.  167,  214,  297).— Daniel  Ilawlinson 
appears  to  have  been  a  staunch  royalist.  Dr. 
Richard  Rawlinaon,  in  a  letter  to  Tom  Hearne, 
the  nonjuring  antiquary  at  Oxford,  says  :— 

"Of  Daniel  RawlinsoD.who  kept  the 'Mitro' tavern 
in  Fonchiirch  Str«et,  and  of  his  ln-ing  Bunrecttil 
in  the  lluini.  time,  I  have  heard  ninch.  The  >V  hitjn 
tell  this,  ihot  upon  the  kinK*»  murder,  .%J«nimrv, 
UW5).  he  filing  hm  f»V"  '"  moitriiini;;  he  certainly 
judged  riKht:  the  honour  of  the  mitre  wa*  much 
eclipsed  by  the  Iom  of  (O  good  a  jMU-ent  to  tho 
Church  of  EnRland."- Burn*  *  Beaufoy  Tokens, 
No.  il4. 

It  must,  however,  have  been  only  temporarily 
that  the  sign  was  known  as  the  "  Mourning 
Mitre,"  for  it  fcetViftw^-Vj  sscr.-sxxs.Sjsl  "viwc  ■w's^'*'- 


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papers  after  the  year  1700  as  the  "Mitre 
onlv.  The  "Mourning  Bush  "  was  known  as 
eucri  so  lato  as  1742  (see  the  Daily  Advertiser 
of  2G  April  for  that  year) ;  and  in  Pho-nix 
Alley,  afterwards  Hanover  Court,  on  the 
south  side  of  Long  Acre,  lived  Taylor,  the 
Water  Poet,  who  there  kept  an  alehouse  named, 
in  memory  of  Charlea  I.,  the  "Mourning 
Crown."  Under  the  Commonwealth,  we  are 
told,  he  prudently  changed  the  sign  to  the 
"  Taylors  Head,"  with  the  lines  beneath  ;— 

There  'b  many  a  head  stands  for  a.  sign  ; 

Then,  gontle  reader,  why  not  mine  7 

'  diet,  of  Signboards.' 

J.   HOLDEN   MaCMK'HAEL. 

As  the  very  interesting  communications  at 
the  second  reference  imply  that  the  firm  of 
Davison,  Newman  i  Co.  still  exists,  it  may 
be  well  to  place  on  record  the  fact  that 
t,  Fenchurch  Street,  ia  not  now  a  grocery 
itablishment.  F.  W.  RkaP. 

Mitchel  &  Fdilay,  Bankers  (lo^*"  S.  i. 
310).— I  have  in  progress  an  index  to  the 
London  rato-books,  ttc.  It  maj'  interest  Sir 
Charles  Kincj  to  know  that  the  'Book  of 
Names  of  Inhabitants  of  St.  Mary,  Woolnoth, 
and  parts  of  St.  Mary,  Woolchurch  Haw,' 
gives  Charles  Mitchell  in  1789  and  1795,  also 
a  James  Mitchell  in  the  .same  years.  As  the 
registers  of  this  parish  are  printed  down  to 
17(iO,  I  did  not  think  it  necessary  to  index 
this  book  before  1750. 

Gerald  Marshall. 

HO,  Chancery  Lane,  W'C 

For  "Shelburne  Lane,  n'  ye  Post  Office, 
London"  read  Sherborne  Lane,  King  William 
Street,  E  C,  near  the  Lombard  Street  post 
oflice.  A.  H 

Bash  Rock  Mrsic  (10"'  S.  i.  308).— George, 
Earl  of  Dumbarton,  was  colonel  of  the  Royal 
Scots  from  1645  to  1681.  W.  S. 

Fair  Maid  of  Kent  (lO*!"  S.  i.  2S9).— For 
her  eldest  son,  Sir  Thoma^s  Holland,  .second 
Earl  of  Kent,  see  '  D.N.B.,'  vol.  xxvii.  p.  157, 
and  for  her  third  son,  Sir  John  Holland,  first 
Duke  of  Exeter  and  Earl  of  Huntingdon,  the 
same  vol.,  p.  147.  The  former's  daughter 
Margaret^  first  Countess  of  Somerset,  was 
mother  of  Joan  Beaufort,  Queen  of  James  I. 
of  Scots,  and  ancestress  of  all  the  later  kings 
of  Scotland  (xxix.,  240).  Eleanor  Holland, 
ilargaret's  eldest  sister,  married  Roger  de 
Mortimer  (vi.),  fourth  Earl  of  March  and 
ristorCxxxix.  145),  thus  becoming  ancestress 
of  the  House  of  York. 

The  Lady  Margaret,  mother  of  King 
Henry  \1L,  wm  daughter  of  John  Beaufort, 


first  Duke  of  Somerset,  by  Margaret,  widow 
of  Sir  Oliver  St.  John,  and  heiress  to  Sir 
J.  Beau  champ,  of  Bletfio.    She  er6ct«d  a  fin 
monument  over  her  parents'  grave  in  Wim 
borne  Minster.  A.  R.  Ba%xey. 

"Foleit"' (IC**  S.  i.  309).— We  shall  not 
arrive  at  the  .sense  of  this  word  hy  assign- 
ing impossible  origins.  The  Lat.  jolialus  i« 
F.  ftniilld^  Anglo-Frenclj  fuiU,  and  caunob 
possibly  give  a  F .  word  beginning  M-ith  fol-. 
The  Lat. /o/«rc  would  merely  give /r>l^,/oui^, 
and  doe-s  not  help  us  with  respect  to  the 
sufiix.  It  is  more  likely  that  w©  have  to  do 
with  some  derivative  of  jollis.  The  F.  itoit 
follet  means  "down";  and  /oUet  meaot 
"  foolish,  soft." 

However,  Godefroy's  OF.  Diet,  gives : 
"  Folet,  follet,  adj.,  qualifying  a  sort  of  uilk  ; 
as  in  'Coust6f)ointe  traciee  de  «oJe  fdleU 
a.  i.  feuillage  d'e<3pine,'  and  also  sb.  m.,  as  in 
'donner  a  un  drap  blanc  qui  sera  taint  en 
/o^e<  autre  liziere  que  blanche.'"  These  quo- 
tations are  dated  131G  and  1406  respectively. 

Mistral  gives  the  modern  Pro  v.  fj^u 
fonletitt,  down  ;  and  notes  that  /auhtin  also 
appears  as  fonlatiny  fouiati,  fottUtit,  JuldtL 
'riie  difficulty  is  in  tlie  suffix  -eit ;  we  should 
expect  foleit'  to  result  from  a  Latin 
*/oUfi:(iim.  Walter  W.  Skkat. 

Torpedoes  (lO'''  S.  i.  2H6).— The  following 
extract  from  my  'History  of  Bampton '  i« 
copierl  from  an  old  manu.script  scrap-book 
which  belonged  to  a  youth  named  Tinklar, 
an  officer  on  the  ship  Maidstone  :— 

"The  Anieric&n  Toriiedo  boat,  which  was  lenl 
down  from  New  York  for  the  destruction  of  HU 
iMajeely'8  Ship,  Maidstone,  at  anchor  off 
I  lardener'B  Island. 

"  New  Vork,  June  2Hih.  1814. 

"Tor^iedo  Boat. — A  new  invented  Torrtedo  Boat, 
regembhng  a  turtle  floating  iust  above  the  surface 
of  the  water,  and  siitficiently  ro«niy  to  carrv  nine 
Ijcruona  within,  having  on  her  bi^ck  a  '  '  ^  i\\l 
cunsisting  of  tiiree  lai^e  bombs,  whicli  ■  is- 

charged    uy    niaobinery,   so  as  to  bjii  to 

any  attacks  by  barges,  left  this  oity  (New  Vork) 
one  day  last  week  to  blow  up  some  nf  t  lie  enemy** 
8hii>8  off  New  London.  At  one  end  of  the  boat 
projected  a  long  ]iolc  under  water,  with  a  torpedo 
fastened  to  it,  which,  as  she  ai)proached  the  enemy 
in  the  night,  was  to  be  pokeu  under  ihe  bottom, 
and  then  let  off.  The  boat,  we  nnderstimd,  is  the 
invention  of  an  ingenious  gentleman,  by  the  name 
of  llerriau. 

"  June  22,  1814.— Received  information  of  the 
torpedo  having  been  driven  on  ehore  close  to 
Oyflter  Pond,  Lonu  Island,  where  she  was  oom- 
plelely  destroyed  by  the  boats  of  the  ^laidatooa 
and  iSylph.  The  militia  had  collecto<l  on  the  uotfth' 
bourinj;  hciRhts,and  kept  a  elnrp  firrnf  nm«kotry 
on  the  boats  until  a  small  o  -ion 

had  effected  a  landing,  wlieii  .  jv 

decamped  with  uaaccuBtoaK-  ._, .,.     i  ...  =.,oa 


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tbein  about  a  mile  and  a  half  till  the  woods  screened 
the  dastardly  refuccci",  which  enabled  us  to  accom- 
PJiah  the  object  of  thu  euterprisc  without  luolesta- 
tion.  Thus  without  loss  were  the  Yankeea  diaap- 
pointed,  as  iu  many  similar  attempts,  of  launchiuK 
into  eternity  a  lintish  man-of-war  and  her  crew, 
A  (uode  of  warfare  practised  by  no  other  nation,  as 
cowardly  as  it  is  detestable." 

Diagrams  showinc;  tlie  construction  of 
different  parts  of  the  boat  are  afterwards 
giveo.  Maky  E.  Noblb. 

TicKLtNo  Trout  (O"*  S.  xii.  505-  lO^""  S. 
i.  lo-l,  274). — When  I  was  a  boy  in  Hereford- 
shire I  often  saw  a  tailor  from  a  nei^hbourioK 
\'illage  wading  up  the  river  up  to  hia  armpits 
and  feeling  under  tlie  banks.  I  have  aeen 
him  throw  out  many  a  big  trout,  one  after 
the  other,  on  to  the  bank.  This  was  called 
tickling  trout.  E.  M. 

Barbeb8{10"'  S.  i.  29<3).— William  Falconer, 
the  poet  and  author  of  *  The  Shipwreck,'  was 
tike  son  of  an  Edinburgh  barber.  There  is  an 
account  of  Jacques  Jasmin,  the  barber  poet 
of  Languedoc,  in  /'Jlnu  Cook's  Journal  for 
16  March,  1851.  The  father  of  Jeremy  Taylor 
was  a  barber  in  Cambridge.  Lords  Tenter- 
den  and  St.  Leonards  were  both  sous  of 
barbers.  J.  H.  MacMichael. 

Scotch  Wokds  and  English  Comaienta- 
TOR.S  (lO'*"  S.  i.  261, 321).— It  seems  to  me  that 
Burns,  in 

The  bum-clock  hummed  wi'  lazy  drone, 
The  kye  9too«l  rowtiu'  i'  the  loan, 

drew  his  inspiration  chiefly  from  the 
beginning  of  Gray's  '  Elegy  ' ;  but  Gray  and 
Collins  remembered thepassage in  'Macbeth'; 
and  Gray  has  expresserf  himself  as  though  he 
had  the  ode  of  Collins  in  his  mind  :— 

Kre  the  bat  haa  flown 
Hia  cloistered  Hight ;  ere  to  black  Hecate's  summons 
The  ahiitd-bonie  l>eelle,  with  hia  drowsy  hnmi, 
Hath  rung  tught's  yawning  |>eal. 

Shakespeare. 
The  lowing  herd  winds  slowly  o'er  the  lea. 
The  plongnoi&n  homewards  plods  his  weary  way. 

Now  fades  the  Kliii'  '  ndscapo  on  the  sight, 

And  all  thu  air  n,  »••'  <.-aa  holds, 

Save  where  the  bed;  his dronioK  Uiffht, 

And  drowsy  tinkling**  lull  the  distant  folds. 

Gray. 
Now  ail  i"  weak-eyed  bat 

>\  ith  sli'  .  Itsathem  winji ; 

Mis  sinikli  but  auJiien  iiorn.  CoUtus. 

E.  Yardlsy. 

Thb  "Ship''  Hotkl  at  Greenwich  (9"'  S. 
xii.  306,  376,  41:.,  VM  ;  lO'*"  S.  j.  HI),— Is  not 
this  prfMTvrd  in  an  engraving  in  '  Fendennia,' 
vol.  li.  p.  2G,  entitled  'Almost  I'erfoct  Happi- 


ness,' representing  Foker  on  a  balcony  over- 
looking the  river,  engaged  in  conversation 
with  Blanche  Amory  ?  boker,  it  is  said,  "  had 
some  delicious  opportunities  of  conversation 
with  her  during  the  repast,  and  afterwards 
on  the  balcony  of  their  room  at  the  hotel '' 
(chap.  ii.).  John  1'ickkord,  M.A. 

Newbourue  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Louis  XVII.  (10'^  S.  i.  267).— The  deeply 
calculated  barbarity  that  caused  the  linger- 
ing death  of  this  hapless  prince  is  minutely 
described  by  Thiers  in  his  '  History  of  the 
French  Revolution.'  With  regard  to  Madame 
Barbey-Boissier's  firm  belief  in  "  the  sur- 
vival of  Louis  XV'IL,  son  of  Louis  XVI., 
after  his  feigned  death  in  the  prison  of  the 
Temple  on  8  June,  1795,"  I  venture  to  think 
that  the  following  note  oy  Mr.  Holland  Rose, 
at  vol.  iii.  p.  368  of  his  edition  of  Carlyle's 
'  French  Revolution,'  will  interest  her : — 

*'  The  royaliBt  reaction  was  further  checked  by 
the  death  of  the  little  Louis  XVII.  (8  June,  1795) 
owing  to  the  tilth  and  darkness  in  which  the  Com- 
mittee of  (Jeneral  Security  kept  him  of  set  purpose. 
This  was  a  blow  to  the  royalists,  who  cared  little 
for  the  next  claimant  to  the  throne,  the  Comtedo 
Provence.  The  Morioi  oflht  rtKcne  of  Louis  X  VI I. 
ami  nuUMitiUioii  of  an  idiot  bou  arc  vtru  fnr-fttchf'i. 
For  that  theory  see  Louis  IJlano,  'La  Ruv.  Fr.,' 
vol.  xii.  chap.  ii. ;  also  several  jierversely  ingenious 
monoKrapha." 

The  italics  are  mine. 

Henry  Gerald  Hope. 

119,  Elms  Road,  Cl&pham,  S.W. 

Battlefield  Sayings  (10'»'  S.  i.  2e8).-It 
was  on  the  day  of  the  fatal  battle  of  Pavia 
that  Francis  I.  wrote  his  mother  a  letter  con- 
taining the  oft-quote<l  words,  "AH  is  lost, 
ma/^lam,  save  honour."  "  Let  posterity  cheer 
for  us"  is  attributed  to  Washington,  when 
some  of  the  American  troops  cheered  as  the 
sword  of  Cornwallis  was  given  by  General 
0'Hara,at  the  surrender  of  York  town,  19  Octo- 
ber, 1781,  to  the  American  commander- 
in-chief.  The  story  has,  however,  been 
doubted.  .Several  other  such  diciit  will  be 
found  in  S.  A.  Bent's  'Short  Sayings  of  Great 
Men,'  1882.  J.  H.  MacMichael, 

Jamk-s  Brindley  (lO'"  S.  i.  310).— The 
editorial  foot-note  is  partly  incorrect.  My 
copy  of  '  Lives  of  the  Engineers,'  by  Dr. 
Smiles,  is  the  "sixth  thousand,"  published  by 
Murray  in  1862,  and  on  p.  308  it  is  stated 
that  .fames  Brindley  first  saw  the  light  in 
a  humble  cottage  standing  about  midway 
between  the  hanilet  of  Great  Hocks  and  that 
of  Tunstoad,  in  the  liberty  of  Thornsett,  some 
throe  miles  to  the  north-east  of  Buxton.  Tho 
house  iu  which  ho  was  born,  in  17Hi,  haslotv^ 


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having  been  its  last  oocuiiants.  The  walls 
stood  long  after  the  roof  had  fallen  in,  and 
at  length  the  nnaterials  were  removed  to 
build  cowhouses;  but  in  the  middle  uf  the 
rain  there  grew  up  a  j'oung  ash  tree,  forcing 
up  one  of  tne  llaga  of  the  cottage  floor.  It 
looked  so  healthy  and  thriving  a  plant  that 
the  labourer  employed  to  remove  the  stonea 
for  the  purpose  of  forming  the  pathway  to 
the  noighbouriug  farmhouse  spared  the 
seedling,  and  it  grew  up  to  a  large  and 
flourishing  tree,  6  ft.  0 in.  in  girth,  standing 
in  the  miudle  of  the  croft,  and  now  known  as 
"  Brind ley's  Tree."  This  ash  tree  is  nature's 
own  memorial  of  the  birthplace  of  the 
engineer,  and  it  is  the  only  one  yet  raised  to 
the  Eoniaa  of  Brindley. 

There  is  no  actual  illustration  of  Brindley's 
birthplace,  but  in  the  afore-mentioned  work 
is  an  engraving  of  this  tree  and  a  contiguous 
house,  which  is  still  called  "Brindley's Croft." 
On  p.  407  will  be  found  an  illustration  of 
'Brindley's  House  at  Turnhurst,'  It  was  for- 
merly' the  residence  of  llio  Bellot  family,  and 
is  said  to  have  been  the  last  house  in  England 
in  which  a  family  fool  was  kept.  On  p.  470 
it  18  stated  : — 

"After  an  illnesa  of  some  rluration,  he  expired  at 
his  house  at  Tumhurat  on  27  September,  1772,  in 
the  fifty-sixth  year  of  his  age,  ana  was  interred  in 
the  burviDg-ground  at  New  Chapel,  a  few  fields 
distant  from  his  dwelling." 

A  view  of  '  Brindley's  Burial-place  at  New 
Chapel '  is  on  p.  476. 

One  of  my  proudest  possessions  is  an  oil 
painting  of  this  burial-place  and  the  church 
of  St.  James  the  Less  at  Newchapel  (also 
depicted  on  p.  476),  for  of  this  church  ray 
grandfather  (see  0"'  S.  xii.  493),  the  Rev.  T. 
Forshaw,  was  vicar  for  thirty-five  years,  and 
many  a  time,  when  I  wag  a  child,  the  dear  old 
gentleman  pointed  out  Brindley's  grave  to  me. 

Brindleys  house  at  Turnhurst  was  reai- 
dentially  occupied  by  my  grandfather  and 
family  before  the  erection  of  the  vicarage  of 
Newchapel,  which  was  built  by  my  ancestor 
in  1845,  on  land  given  by  Mr,  Lawton,  of 
Prestbury  Hall,  Cheshire. 

Chas.  F.  Fohshaw,  LL.D. 

Baltimore  House,  Bradford. 

James  Brindley  was  born  in  the  year  1716, 
at  a  cottage  between  the  hamlet  of  Great 
Rocks  and  that  of  Tunstcad,  in  the  liberty  of 
Thornsett,  some  three  miles  to  the  north-east 
of  Buxton.  He  died  at  his  house  at  Turn- 
hurst, 27  September,  1772,  and  was  buried  in 
the  ground  of  New  Chapel,  a  few  fields 
distant  from  his  dwelling. 

These  p.-nticuhva  are  taken  from  Smiles's 
J^ires  of  the  EagiaeerB,'  ed.  1874.    The  sMxie 


information   is  given    in    a  'Dictionary    of 
Biography,'  ed.  J.  Gorton,  1828. 

R.  A.  Potts. 

See   John    Gorton's    'Biog.   Diet.,'   1828; 
Watkins's  'Biog.  Diet..'  1829  ;  and  Dugdale's 
'British  Traveller,'  1819.  vol.  ii.  pp.82,  83, 
where  there  is  a  long  biographical  account, 
J.  H.  MacMiciiael. 

Brindley  died  at  Turnhurst,  Staf!brdi«hii 
30  September,  1772.  Sec  'Charabei 
Encyclopiedia,'  1888,  vol.  ii.  pp.  45&-<J. 

W.  H.  Pkbt. 

[Mr.  C.  S.  Ward  gives  the  date  of  death  as  27  or 
30  September,  with  a  reference  to  the  "Podny 
Cyclopiedia'  and  Hole's  'Brief  Biog.  Diet.'  Noiiior- 
OU8  other  replies  acknowledged.] 

Nklsos  and  Wolsey  (10"'  S.  i.  308).— The 
sarcophagus  in  which  the  remains  of  Nelson 
lie  can  hardly  be  called  a  second-hand  one, 
seeing  that,  although  it  was  intended  for  the 
corpse  of  the  magnificent  cardinal,  anvl  by  bis 
means  designed  by  Torrigiano,  it  wa.s  never 
occupied  until  1800.  From  e.  lo25  until 
Nelson's  day  the  cist  in  question  stood  empty 
in  Wolsey's  Chapel,  so  called,  at  Windsor. 

The  tomb-house  east  of  St.  George's  Chapel 
was  built  by  Henry  VII.  for  his  own  remains^ 
but  he  afterwards  deserted  Windsor  for 
Westminster  ;  and  Henry  VIII.  granted  his 
father's  first  mausoleum  to  Cardinal  Wolsey, 
who  began  his  own  tomb  within  it,  employing 
a  Florentine  sculptor  on  brazen  columns  and 
brazen  candlesticts,  which  were  soUl  in  1046 
for  600^.  as  defaced  brass.  James  II.  con* 
verted  the  tomb-house  into  a  Romish  cbapel, 
which  was  defaced  bjr  a  Protestant  rsbule. 
In  1742  it  was  appropriated  as  a  free  school- 
house.  Finally  George  III.  converted  it  into 
a  tomb-house  for  himself  and  his  descendants, 
and  it  has  since  been  vaulted  in  stone  ana 
much  decorated  as  a  sepulchral  chapel  in 
memory  of  Prince  Albert. 

In  the  very  centre  of  thecryptof  St.  Paul's 
Cathedral  the  corpse  of  Nelson  lies  underneath 
a  splendid  black-and-white  sarcophagu.<i  of 
the  sixteenth  century.  This  work  of  urt, 
upon  which  Benedetto  da  Ilovan7Ji  and 
his  masons  spent  much  lalxjur,  was  intended 
by  Wolsey  for  his  own  monument,  but  waa 
confi-scated  with  tlie  rest  of  his  gooiJs.  Ilia 
Ipswich  foundation  was  entirely  suppre^iscd, 
but  Christ  Church,  Oxford,  as  the  creation 
of  hi.'«  cruel  master,  ims  come  down  to  u«,  an 
imperfect  realizntiun  uf  the  Cardinal's  grpat 
aim,  while  to  this  day  no  man  knows  the 
exact  spot  where  the  Abbot  of  I.(  .uci 

his  monks  buried  the  great  Tudoi  to. 

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•'Thkrk  was  a  man''  (10""  S.  i.  227).— In 
West  York-ihiro,  sume  yeAi'8  ago,  Ihe  complete 
rime  was  as  follows,  thougli  the  first  line  was 
«on]etiiues  ended  "  he  lived  in  Leeds,"  and 
*'  seeda  "  took  the  place  of  "  seed  ''  iu  the 
second  line : — 

There  w&a  a  niivn,  a  man  indeed, 

He  sowed  hi«  iciirdeii  full  of  seed  ; 

AS'lieri  the  seed  hegau  to  grow 

'Tw  04  like  a  gwdon  full  of  snow  ; 

'U'lieii  the  auow  beK^D  tu  fall 

^Twas  like  a  bird  upon  tho  wall ; 

When  tho  bird  begun  to  fly 

^'I'was  like  nn  eagle  in  the  eky  ; 

Wheu  the  skv  beiran  to  roar 

"f  was  like  a  fion  at  the  door ; 

IV hen  the  door  began  to  crack 
'  Twaa  like  a  Btii.k  al)out  my  back  ; 
'  T\'hon  my  back  begun  to  ^niart 

'Twa«  like  a  i)enkiiil'e  in  my  heart ; 

When  my  heart  begun  lo  bleed 

'Twaa  time  fur  iiu'  to  die  indeed. 

The  harrowing  niirrative  was  supposed  to 
have  some  useful  moral  for  children,  but  I  do 
oot  know  the  moral  intended. 

H,  .Snowdkn  Wakd. 

Hadlow,  Kcut. 

NORTBALL,  ShrOPSHIRK  (10"'  .S.  i.  226,  297).— 
There  is  a  place  named  Northall,  near  Southall, 
Middlesex,  lat.  51"  33'  N.,  long.  0"  22'  VV.,  as 
well  as  that  in  Buckinehamshire.  See  'Index 
Geographicus,'  by  Keith  Johnston, Edinburgh, 
1864.  EvEBARD  Home  Coleman. 

71,  Ureckoook  Road. 

St.  Mewbred  (10"'  S.  i.  288).— The  legends 
concerning  St.  Mewbre<I  appear  to  be  very 
confused.  Tlio  Kev.  S.  Baring-Gould  has 
stated  in  a  letter  to  mo : — 

'*  There  is  a  Mobart  in  Britt«ny ;  and  St.  Mobred, 
or  Mobart,  occurs  in  '  •'  ulanesof  Laudevennec. 
The  name  also  occ  1 1  'ins,  in  hi-i  genealogy 

of  V'ortigem ;  ao   i  itt,  or  Mobart,  would 

«eem  to  have  been  a  UolLiu  name  not  uncommon." 

The  following  statement  is  taken  from 
some  notes  by  tlie  same  writer  : — 

"AccordiuKto  William  of  Worcester,  Mybard  was 
«  Bon  of  a  King  of  Ireland  and  was  also  named 
•Colrog.  He  settled  at  Cardinham  (in  Cornwall)  aa 
a  hermit,  where  he  was  murdered.  Hiscompaiiiooa 
were  Mannach,  or  Mancufi,  and  Wyllow.  In  the 
Cartulary  of  Landeveunec,  in  Brittany,  he  occurs  a« 
fcianctUB  Morbratu.<),  who  made  over  his  settlement 
at  Lanrivoare  to  St.  Winwnloo,  and  the  date  of  the 
forK^d  deed  is  31  March,  fl.Vi.  Hither  he  was  con- 
temiMrary  with  VVinwaloeand  the  date  i«  wrong, 
or  ef«ti  h«  i*iw  a  dilTereat  person,  who  (tavr  his  Innn 
t«i'  '"  it  tlu.s  later  period.  In  th. 
tjii  'loiiinodJern,  \*  ahnmlot,  v 

caliL,  ;  _        lybrit;    and  the  saint  i*  saia  ...  .. 

tion  to  havo  for  a  while  led  a  hermit's  life  tiiere  ; 

but  this  is  th««  Myhsrd  who  wa*  a  i)JH<'jii|<;  nf  Si. 

Winwaloe.      ^.'      '       ' 

oM  windows  ■ 

ing  a  brua  da,,    .  ,_  ._  ,  ...         i.  .s,^.:,.  ...:.._ 


loft  hand  a  short  BtafT,  in  his  right  he  carries  his 
head.  The  inscription  is  '  Sancto  Maberde  ora 
pro  nobis.'  His  feast  at  Cardinhani  is  on  the 
Thursday  before  Pentecost." 

An  inacpibed  stone  occurs  in  Cornwall 
with  the  legend  "Olotuali  Mogratti  (or 
Mobratti) '' :— perhaps  tlie  concluding  word 
may  be  equivalent  to  Mewbred.  Accounts 
of  such  tiaints  seem  to  be  very  untrustworthy. 

W.  Iago,  B.A. 

Bodmin. 


Carson  (9^»'  S.  xi.  488 ;  xii.  19, 110,  331,  377  ; 
10'"  S.  i.  52).— John  Carson,  late  of  Taff'a 
Well,  Cardiff,  was  L.H.C.P.L,  L.R.C.S.I., 
and  L.M.  1868.  Alexander  Tertius  Carson, 
late  of  Toronto,  Canada,  wa.^  M.D.  Edin.  1862, 
M.R.C.S.Eng.  1861,  L.M.  1963,  L.A.H.Dub. 
1862,  M.C.P.S.Ontario,  1862.  William  Carson 
began  his  medical  career  in  Birmingham  in 
the  latter  part  of  the  "seventies."  He  after- 
wards went  out  to  Newfoundland,  where, 
apart  from  being  a  distinguished  doctor,  he 
became  "  the  parent  of  agriculture  "  in  the 
colony,  and  tiie  founder  of  the  constitutional 
government  of  the  island.  His  son  Samuel 
Carson  was  also  a  well-known  figure  in  St 
John's  as  a  medical  practitioner,  and  at  the 
time  of  the  cholera  outbreak  there  saved 
many  lives  by  his  devotion  and  unwearied 
eflforts  to  stamp  out  the  scourge,  which  so 
undermined  his  constitution  that  he  died  in 
the  prime  of  life.  Another  notable  Carson 
was  James,  brother  to  the  first  mentioned 
William.  He  was  also  a  doctor  of  medicine 
(of  what  university  ?),  and  was  Bpoken  of  as 
one  of  the  most  eminent  physicians  of  tho 
day.  Ho  practised  in  Liverpool.  An  account 
of  Williftm  and  fcJamuel  Carson  will  lie  found 
in  Judge  Prowse's'History  of  Newfoundland.. 
In  Lucerne  is  the  tomb  of  the  Rev.  H.  W 
Carson,  B.D.,  died  1  September,  1895. 

Chas.  F.  Foeshaw,  LL.D. 

Prints  and  En<!Ravinc;8  (10"'  S.  i.  268).— 
The  desired  information  would,  no  doubt,  be 
found  in  some  of  the  following  works : 
'  Eighteenth-Century  Colour  Print-s,'  by  Mrs. 
IVankau  ;  'Fine  Prints,'  by  Frederick  Wed- 
more  (a  book  for  collectors  and  dealers  in  the 
engravings  of  Ostade,  Claude,  Vandyke,  and 
Hollar  :  the  etchings  of  Rembrandt,  Whistler, 
and  Haden  ;  mezzotints,  lithographs,  and 
woodcuts ;  Turner  prints  and  French 
■  '  *  rnth  -  century     prints  ;     Italian     line 

iigs  ;  Durer  and  the  Little  Masters  ; 
iiijw  iiie  later  French  and  English  etchers)  : 
'  Engravers'  Marks  :  a  History  of  the  Art  or 
FriMiiving,  with  a  Collection  of  Marks  and 

-:  by  which  the  Prints  of  the  b«**» 
1-  i.,1  J  s  Qraac^D\aV\Vk^>i\^'wi\V^»^\''^'»s^^^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


(10^  S.  I.  May  7, 1904. 


cences    of    Stotliard":     'Masters   of   Woo<l 
EngraviiiK,'    by    W.    J.    Linton;   and  'En- 

§  raving  :  its  Origin,  Proceeses,  and  History,' 
y  Vicomte  Henri  Delaborde,  translated  by 
R.  A.  JI.  Stevenson,  with  an  additional  chap- 
ter on  EoKlish  engraving  by  William  Walker, 
illustrated  (this  is  a  volume  of  the  "  Fine- Art 
Librarv,"edite<J  by  John  (J.  L.  Sparkes).  See 
also  'Line  Engraving,'  in  Cmnitrtj  Life, 
30  September,  1699;  'Arundel  Prints'  in 
the  Queen,  10  October,  1903;  'Bartolozzi 
and  his  Engravings,'  in  the  Queen,  14  Decem- 
ber, 1901  ;  *  Wood  Engraving,  Historical  and 
Practical,'  by  Chatto  and  Jackson  ;  'Practical 
Manual  of  Woo<l  Engraving,'  by  W\  N. 
Brown,  with  brief  historical  introduction 
(good  on  technique) ;  A.  F.  Didot'a  '  Essai  sur 
la  Gravure  sur  Bois'  (advanced  criticism, 
historical  and  critical,  and  contains  list  ot 
artists  and  bibliography) ;  and  '  Le  Peintre 
Graveur,'  by  J.  D.  Passavaut,  6  vols,  (ad- 
vanced criticism). 

J.  HoLDKK  MacMicuael. 

Batrome  (10"^  S.  i.  88,  173,  252,  338).— I 
was  aware  that  we  owed  our  knowledge  of 
'Barthram's  Dirge'  to  Surtees ;  but  Scott 
expressly  states  that  "  it  was  taken  down 
by  Mr.  Surtees  from  the  recitation  of  Anne 
Douglas,  an  old  woman  who  weeded  in  his 
garden."  Is  Surtees  held  to  have  enacted 
the  r6le  of  Macpheraon  and  Chafcterton  T 

Ueloa. 

Admibai  Doxald  Campbell  (lo""  S.  i. 
309).— Mb.  Alaister  MacGillkan  will  find 
a  detailed  account  of  this  officer  in  '  Life  of 
Admiral  Lord  Nelson,'  by  J.  S.  Clarke  and 
J.  McArthur,  2  vols.  1809  (British  Museum 
Library,  1868  e).  He  is  not  to  be  confused 
with  the  Rear-Admiral  Donald  Campbell 
(17ri2-1819),  also  connected  with  Islay,  who 
died  on  his  flagship,  H.M.S,  Salisbury, during 
his  command  on  the  Leeward  Islands  Station, 
and  who  is  buried  in  the  garrison  chapel  at 
Portsmouth.  Lionel  A.  V.  Schatsk- 


|$t«£tlliniimf. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  *o. 

Klizah(tha.n  OrilicaJ  Kt^ai/i-  Edited,  with  an  Intro- 
duction, by  C.  Cregory  Smith.  '2  vols.  (Oxford. 
Cliiremlon  Press.) 
It  wili  perhaps  b«  diBappointiiiK  to  Mr.  Smith 
when  we  aay  thalthe  i<rini&ry  appeal  of  his  edition 
of  'Elizabethan  Critical  Essays'  is  to  our  sons*  of 
ooDvenience.  It  is  very  Tileasant  to  hiive  M-ithin 
two  thick,  but  wcU-priniett,  Iccible.  atid  handsome 
voliimrF:  vorks  the  seitruh  ulter  whicli  in  other 
/"■■'  '  he  ionjf,  nnd  in  wjine  rn«ies,  iK^rliaj^s, 

""  ite.      ftitli  most  of  the  works  now 

fvj'i,..:^.^  . „ (_  sladea t  of  Tudor  literature  is bovknd 


to  be  familiar.  The  writiuga  of  Aacham,  Lodge, 
\Vcbbe,  Putteahani,  and  otnera  ar«  part  of  hia 
literary  e<|uipmeDt.  With  those  of  Na»h  and  Oabriel 
Harvey— uDJess  he  owns  the  Huth  FJbrary  reprinta 
of  (irosart,  not  common  as  a  private  posaesiuon, 
and  not  readily  accessible  except  in  important 
hbraries— he  has  less  chance  of  being  familiar. 
Prof.  Arberhaa,  howevcr.broughlwithiu  general  ken 
many  works  until  recently  ot  the  greatest  rarity, 
and  a  fascinating  branch  of  'tudy  ntay  now  be 
pursued  with  moclerate  comfort.  To  have  within 
handy  reach  a  series  of  works  such  as  Mr.  Stnitb 
gives  us  is  a  matter  for  devout  lhank»p?(ving.  For 
Iho  first  time,  moreover,  the  niajorit  -  '  are 
i.isued  with  notes  and  illustrative  .  nd 

the  whole  is8up[jliedwitltafult  index,  v ...L'lcs 

its  value.  Our  sense  of  obligation  does  not  stop 
even  here,  Mr-  Smiths  introduction  is  amiile and 
jlluminatory.  For  a  century  past  the  value  of 
Elizabethan  criticism  has  won  re9Qgnition.  Hosle- 
wood's  reprint  of  'Ancient  Critical  Elssays  ujiuq 
English  Poets  and  Poesy'  was  one  of  the  nuiat 
commendable  products  of  a  lime  rich  in  such  boons 
to  the  student,  and  it  is  pleasant  '  'i  .  '  '  tiis  work 
of  a  respectable  antiiiuary  greet'-  rvea  by 

his  successor.      Comparutivo  cvr  i-t   niade 

remarkable  progress,  and  the  coUeuiivu  value  of 
the  works  reprinted  — works  which  seem  at  time* 
strangely  out  of  keeping  \iith  the  poetic  and  lira- 
matio  products  of  the  age  — is,  perhaf>8,  for  the 
first  time  evident.  Fresh  interest  is  given  to  the 
controversial  aspect  of  the  wrilingB— and  few  of 
them  but  took  their  rise  in  controversy — from  the 
fact  that  they  originated  in  that  attack  by  the 
Puritans  upon  English  ]ioetry  and  plays  which 
raanfeata  itself  in  so  niuny  ditTerent  M'ays  in  lh« 
England  of  Elizabeth  and  her  aucceasors.  Attacka 
sucTi  aa  (ioason's  'School  of  Abuse,' Northbrooke's 
'Treatise,'  and  the  like,  are  not  included  in  the 
volumes,  though  passages  from  them  are  printed  in 
the  notes  to  Lodge  and  other  of  those  wfao 
essayed  to  answer  them.  Puritan  teaching  is,  how- 
ever, fully  illustrated  in  the  works  of  Ascham 
and  others,  In  addition  to  his  well-known  arraign- 
ment of  the  '  Morte  Arthur '  Ascham  has  long 
tirades  against  the  Italian  translations  which 
were  then  in  fashion :  "  Ten  ..erinous  at  Paulea 
Crosse  do  not  to  moch  good  for  monyng  men  and 
trewe  doctrine  as  one  of  thoac  bookes  do  harme 
with  inticing  men  to  ill  liuing."  As  regards  the 
indebtedness  to  Italian  and  French  sourcea,  to  the 
latter    especially,  we    are  not  sure  t)  !  -t 

word  has  neen  said.    We  fancy  weoar  .<- 

tions   in   Puttenham   to  others  besides  1    .  ajt 

and  Ronsard.  but  have  not  time  to  pros«:ute 
an  investigation.  Mr.  Smith,  however,  i>b<>ws 
familiarity  with  many  French  works  l;''  '  .\n 
and  not  easily  accessible,  iin<l  it  is  n<'  it. 

less   thoroughness  should  be  liiaplayed  I  in 

in  other  jiarts  of  his  work.    The  term  ^n 

is  used  in  the   strictest   sense,  to  tl  it 

of  some  early  works,  such    as    Rich  3 

'Treatise  of  the  Figures  of  (immnieran*!  ,' 

and  Fulwood'e  '  Eniniie  of  Idlunos.ie,  .1- 

ment  of  which  few  will  rccrot.     Bv  ei 
over,  with  P^lizabeth's  death  year,  llie  >  •  k. 

of  Ben  .lonson  and  r       ....;.....]      1  f 

these  is  held  U<  ,<. 

their  works,  with  i  <,- 

itittlerinls  for  anf>i  -Ul  ',h'  >> 

the  body  of  the  w  •  |io'ie.     Hi.  ■ 

\  Aft\\%\vV(\A  v««\ft '  M>^,..v. ,,,   in  its  lint  ..ii..>i^.iiit.r 


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nne<iualled,  is  excluded  in  common  with  other 
irorka.  These  two  volumea  will  be  welcome  to 
scholars,  and  will  probably  serve  a.  uaefnl  purpose 
in  tnilion. 

Old   W'rtt  Siirrc!/  :  Some  Xota  and  Memories.    By 

Gertrude  Jekyll.  iLongmaoB  &  Co.) 
Thjc  part  of  Surrey  with  which  in  her  attractive 
Tolatne  Miss  Jekyll  deals  is  that  south-weateni 
corner  abutting  ou  Hampshire  and  Sussex,  and  in- 
clading  all  the  lovely  country  between  Guildford 
■od  UodalroiuK-  Of  scene*  and  nooks  in  this 
favoured  spot,  of  many-gabled  cottages,  mills,  wells, 
gates,  pumps,  and  the  like,  of  men  in  smock-frocks 
and  women  in  sun-bouneta,  she  givea  innumerable 
well-executed  photourapha.  Then  follow  views  of 
farm  iniplementa,  the  furniture  and  paroythernalia 
of  the  house,  and  of  implenienta  common  enough 
in  the  first  half  of  the  nineteenth  century,  but 
now  accepted  as  antiquities-  Here  are  tinder-boxes, 
warming-)>an8,  uniootljing-irous,  butter-priut«,  rush- 
light holder*,  snuffers,  pattens,  pocket  Ian leruB,  and 
all  sorts  of  familiar  or  unfamiliar  objects  to  be 
found  in  the  cottage,  down  oven  to  clay  pipes. 
RuBtio  crockery  and  ornaments,  samplers,  and  the 
like  abound,  an<l  there  arejrrimmersouveuii'S  of  the  j 
lifeof  our  ancestors  in  the  shape  of  n)antrai>s  and 
spring  guus.  These  tilings  are  varied  by  pictures  of 
cottage  rardens  and  hedgerows,  the  illustrations 
bcinK  no  fewer  than  330.  To  the  ontiriuary  a  book 
which  preserve«  the  memory  of  things  now  difficult 
of  access  is  delightful  in  all  respects. 

Book-fJatci.  By  Edward  Alniack,F.S.A.  (Methuan 

&  Co.) 
To  the  Methueu  series  of  "Little  Books  on  Art,"  jNlr. 
Almack  has  coutrihuttd  a  useful,  popular,  and  well- 
illustrated  treatise  ou  book-jilates,  It  has  forty- 
two  illustratious,  an  ecclesiastical  book-plate  it 
Iiresents  being  probably  the  oldest  in  existence. 
t  serves  as  a  frontispiece  to  the  volume.  Many 
familiar  and  some  modern  ]>late«  are  given,  and  there 
ia  a  chapter  on  American  plates. 

Aid-t  In  Rfritcdoit,  and  Con/tMloM  0/  an  Inrnitring 
Spirit.  By  Samuel  Taylor  Coleridge.  (Bell  & 
Sons.) 
This  cheap,  handsome,  and  legible  reprint  will  do 
much  to  ditTuse  a  knowledge  of  Coleridge's  most 
prized  contributions  to  religious  philosophy.  With 
the  works  mentioned  are  also  given  Coleridge's 
'  Eaaay  on  Faith '  and  *  Notes  on  the  Book  of 
Common  Prayer.' 

Tranmction*  of  Iht  Uoyal  HiiCorical  Socieiif.    New 

tjeriea.  Vol.  XVIl.  (Offices  of  the  Society.) 
Au.  the  articles  in  this  volume  are  of  substantial 
value.  If  we  do  not  accept  every  statement  or 
■duction,  tht?y  supply  thoughts,  and  direct  the 
ler  to  other  sources  of  knowledge,  which  will 
Bur'.'ilh'  'jxi<nd  flic  vision  of  those  to  whom  the 
[\f  t   a  labour  undertaken  for 

_  lii       ■ 

M.r,-  J.  -.i.i.i.ii..  ,,.4|.oron  'The  Intellectual  In- 
fluence of  the  Eti)(liBli  Monasteries  tjetween  the 
"Tenth  and  tlit^  TwfHlh  Ufnturies'  is  valuable  as 
tlir.  omplex    subject,   of    which 

ni  I  lit  to  be  as  uuinfornied  us 

iJii,,.    .1,.^ u.L   lit  a   time   when   religious 

ooutroverxy  furnished  axcuaea  which  the  present 
times  do  not. 
Ur.  Firth  ia  a  bard  worker.     Nothing  he  baa 


hitherto  published  fumishea  stronger  evidence  of 
his  plodding  industry  than  his  '  Royuliat  and  Croni- 
welliaii  Armies  in  iManders,  IftlT-ffiJ.'  The  subject 
has  never  been  worked  out  in  detail  before.  Fuiuro 
biographers  and  historians  will  find  the  details  he 
gives  of  immense  advantage  to  them,  not  only  on 
account  of  the  direct  instriiction  imi.tarted,  but  also 
because  their  attention  cannot  fail  to  be  directed 
to  fresh  aveuues  of  knowledge. 

Mr.  Alexander  Havine's  '  Bondmen  under  the 
Tudors '  is  excellent  work,  but  we  cannot  unhesitat- 
ingly accept  all  bis  conclusions.  He  has  not  been 
able  to  solve  the  very  difficult  (juestion  us  to  when 
villenage  died  out,  or  when  merchet  tines  for  marry- 
ing out  of  the  manor  came  to  an  end.  He  quotes  a 
heavy  one— live  shillings— inflicted  on  a  woman  of 
.Scotter,  in  Lincolnshire,  on  this  account,  and  refers 
to  some  others  of  later  date ;  but  in  these  anb- 
sequent  cases  the  tine  was  less,  only  two  shillings. 
So  far  as  Mr.  Savine's  rejiearches  go  (and  they  are 
coiifirnied  by  our  own),  it  would  seem  that  these 
fines  had  come  to  an  end  before  the  accession  of 
James  I.,  but  we  cannot  bo  sure.  We  have  seen  a 
conveyance  of  projierty  whereon  there  were  coal- 
pits, dated  late  in  this  king's  reign,  by  which  the 
miners  were  conveyed  with  the  estate  ;  but  a  ques- 
tion arises  here.  The  extreme  conservatism  of  the 
legal  profession  is  of  long  standing.  Can  we  there- 
fore bo  sure  that  the  words  were  anything  more 
than  a  mere  transcript  from  an  earlier  document? 

The  Right  Rev.  L)r.  Gasquet  furnishes  a  most 
useful  account  of  the  Prenioiiatratensian  Order  in 
England,  which  every  one  should  master  who  i.s 
interested  in  our  mediicval  religious  history,  or  in 
any  one  of  the  ancient  houses  of  this  once  dis- 
tinguished order. 

Mr.  R.  J.  Whitwell's  paper  on  the  relatious 
between  Italiau  bankers  and  the  English  Crown 
contains  a  tabulated  list  of  advances  of  money 
made  to  the  Court  of  Rome  in  the  early  years  of 
the  thirteenth  century.  We  see  no  reason  for 
thinking  it  exhaustive  ;  but  even  as  it  stands,  it 
goes  far  towards  explaining  the  sensitiveness  of 
many  Rngliahmen  to  the  continued  exi>ort  of  money 
to  the  Papal  Court. 

TiiK  Enfflinh  Hitiiorlca/  fifrii'w  for  the  current 
quarter  contains  an  article  by  Mrs.  Armstrong, 
supporting  by  a  detailerl  examinatiou  of  sites  the 
theory  of  Xormau  castles  oAsociated  with  the  name 
of  Mr.  J.  H.  Round.  Mr.  Firth  continues  his  valu- 
able examination  of  the  sources  of  Clarendon's 
'  History.'  Prof.  Vinogradoff  writes  a  note  on 
'  Sulong  and  Hide.'  The  reviews  are  rather  briefer 
than  ia  usual.  The  first  of  any  length  iaone  by  Mr. 
Figigis  on  Mr.  Carlyle's  '  Political  Theories  of  the 
Middle  Ajje'— an  interesting  subject.  Mr.  J.  A. 
Doyle  criticizes  with  severity,  but  justice,  the  pre- 
sentment of  the  American  War  of  Indciiendeuce 
by  Sir  George  Trevelyan,  Some  noteworthy  books 
on  Napoleon  are  noticed. 

The  'Leaf  of  Olive'  ia  the  mystical  title  of  a 
subtly  metaphysical  article  which  M.  Maeterlinck 
contributes  to  the  Fortuiyhlly.  Its  gist  is  tlie  baai» 
of  morality  when  that  of  religion  is  removed. 
Many  startling  paradoxes  are  maintained.  Here  is 
one  which  may  be  regarded  as  representative  :  "  We 
should  bo  better,  notjler,  more  moral,  in  the  mid>>t 
of  a  universe  jirovod  to  be  without  morality,  but 
conceived  on  an  infinite  scale,  than  in  a  universe 
which  attained  the  i>erfecti<»v!L.  <a^  v!tatoVc».xs>»».\*»»^^ 
but  NJ  Vi\c\\  «.vv««kt«^  Xjo  m*  tvK.'MtaKt^Wi'V  *!o-^  «iw<i«iSk. 


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of  iny»Jterv.     Mr.  Jomes  Hakcr  write*  euloKiAticilly 
c-onceiiiitJK  R.  D.  Blackmore.    Mrs.  B.  A.  L'rackan- 
thorp    i."    tiarnoat    in    nilvancing    'A    Plea    for   a 
Reformed  Theatre,'    One  of  her  demands  in  the 
abolition  M'ithout  compensation  of  the  "Finance 
Svndii'Atc."— One  of  the  ploasanteat  articles  in  the 
J^itmtfxnth  CVw/nrvis  tliiit  of  Mr.  R.  Bos  worth  Smith 
u|K>n  ^Bird   Life  at  Bint;ham'i  Melcombe.'     The 
■writer  is  in  observant  naturalist,  and  what  he  has 
'to  say  concerning  rookn,  mamiiea,  kingfishera,  jcc, 
tiBof  Bupreme  interest.    Sir  (icorge  Arthur  writes 
t'earnestfy  and  ably  on  '  Auti-Clericalism  in  France 
and  England,'  and  draws  some  striking  contrasts. 
tSir    M.    E.    Grant   Duff    points   out   noteworthy 
things  in  '  Lord  Acton's  Lett*™.'    It  is  interesting 
to  find  Mr.  Hugh  Arthur  .Scott  writing  '  Against  a 
Subsidized    0|^)era.'     Sir    Michael    Foster    has  ao 
important  article    on    "I'he    Stale  and   Scientific 
'  Kosearch,'  and  Sir  William  Broadbont  a   second 
'on  '  Dr.  Maclagan  and  his  Great  Work.'— In  the 
Pa'l    Mall,    the    cover   of    which    presents    the 
piping  of  Pan,  we  are  given,  under  'Literary  Geo- 
graphy,' 'The  Country  of  George  Meredith,'  which, 
as  it  happeiva.is  Box  Hill,  that  of  his  residence.  It  is 
conceded  that  Meredith  has  in  his  works  no  special 
atmosphere  such  as  that  of  Blackmore.    The  views 
are  those  of  Surrey  slojics  and  ridges.    There  is  also 
a  portrait  of  the  novelist.     .\  very  readable  descrip- 
tion, with  illustrations,  of  '  Kilkenny  Castle 'cousti- 
filutes  an  attractive  feature      'The   Ktiyuette  of 
Visiting  Cards' copies  manv  invitation.s  from   dis- 
tinguished   folk   to  John    Wilson  CroktM-.   and    is 
fresh  and  suggestive.     Mr.  Andrew  Ling's  '  Captain 
Pink'  deals  with  an  adventure  in  Jacobite  times 
M 

say 

originally  as  a  lecture.  Canon  .dinger's  '  How  I 
traced  CharleHi  Lamb  in  Hertfordshire,'  in  the 
Conthill,  is  a  model  magazine  article,  and  will 
1)0  read  with  delight  by  lovers  of  Lamb.  It 
throws  much  light  upon  "  Elia."  No.  IV.  of 
Lady  Broome's  "^Colonial  Momoriea'  deals  with 
Rodrigues.  and  is  bo  far  the  most  interesting. 
No,  V,  of  Mr.  Andrew  Lang's  'Hist«iric  Slvsteries' 
describes  the  curious  oa«o  of  FJi/.abeth  Canning, 
whom,  in  common  with  Fielding,  the  writer  reigards 
aa  *'a  poor,  honest,  simple,  innocent  girl.  '  Miss 
Betham- Edwards  writes  on  '  Frefich  Brides  and 
Bridegrooms' — To  the  Gentleman  «  Mr.  John  Stuart 
sends  a  good  patwr  on  'Proverbs.'  What  is  said 
about  "It's  a  far  cry  to  Lochow ''  is  unfami- 
liar. Should  not  "Lochow"  be  "Lochawo''? 
'An  Old  Inventory '  baa  antiquarian  interest.— In 
'At  the  Sign  of  the  Ship 'in  lbon<jmuu' »  Mr.  Lang 
concerns  hinjself  princijMilly  with  books,  and 
disousses  at  some  length  Mr.  Wilkins'a  'ijueen  of 
Tears,'  which  he  truly  saya  is  as  good  as  a  novel. 


Ir.  Max  Beerbohm  has  much  that  is  interesting  to 
ly  on  'Whistler's  Writing.'— Though  it  appeared 


article  on  the    p.^lriarch   Job,   to  which  ha  made 
friendly  allusion  in  '  X.  k.  g.'"  [^^  S-  vii.  Iflfil  • 

The  Timr,  of  30  April    ha.?  •'      •   "  mor* 

comprehensive  aocouut:— "  Ai  uea- 

The  ranks  of  retired  Indian  i  liave 

lost  a  well-known  and  much  naltcntcd  iiicinher  in  J 
theprsonof  Mr.  Mirhael  Lloyd  Ferrar,  who  died 
suddenly  at  his  residence.  Lilt  I-    ' '    '  '  -       V  ' 
on  the  ijrd  inst.,  at  the  age 
Ferrar,  who  was  a  native  oi   tii 
and  an  ex-Scholar  iind  gra<luatc  of  Iiuuu  Uollfke. 
Ddohn,  entered  the-  Indian   Civil  Sersicc  in  l.SdS 
and  was   appointed  to  Bengal.    After  two  vearB* 
ff«"v»co    in   that  province    he  was    transferred   lo 
Oudh,  where  he  remained  for  nearly  twenty  years 
distinguishing    himself    by  carrying   through    the 
revenue  settlement  of  the  Sitapur  district.    Some 
time    after  the  amalgamation  of    Oudh   with   the 
North- Western  Provinces,   Mr.  Ferrar  was  traus- 
forred  to  the  latter,  where  in   1891    he  became  the 
first  Commissioner  of  the  GoraU'  non.   He 

held  Una  high  office  until  his  m  isjie 

and  during  his  tenure  of  it  \\.i.    .   uimn   to 

dis|ilay  courage  and  judgment  in  dealing  with  the 

cow-killing'  disturbances  in  l«9fl.    Thf  Tommis- 

siouor's  presence  at    Azain       '  Iful 

support  to  the  youthful  >i  ...^i 

(illicers,  and  the  threo  Eui    ,  .    ...;.■  had 

to  face  the  crisis  were  able  to  report,  after  a  few 
anxious  days,  that  the  danger  was  past.  Mr 
Ferrar,  who  was  a  member  of  the  family  of 
Nicholas  Ferrar,  the  well-known  seventoenth- 
century  divine,  was  a  man  of  exceptionally  amiable 
disposition,  popular  among  both  Europeans  and 
natives.  He  was  especially  beloved  by  the  native 
gentry,  as  he  belonged  to  that  school  of  officials 
whoso  sympathiea  are  given  most  actively  to  the 
aristocratic  olaaaos.  But  to  all  classes  ho  was  kind, 
just,  and  generous." 


M1CILA.KL  Lloyd  Fkrk/vr.— Mk.  Fiianciis  P. 
Marchant  writes :— "The  gentleman  whose  death 
is  mentioned  in  the  following  extract  from  the 
Timts  of  26  April  was  nn  occasional  contributor  to 
•  N.  &  Q.' :  *  Ferrar-On  2.3  April,  1901,  suddenly,  at 
Little  Giddiug,  Ealing.  Michael  Lloyd  Ferrar, 
ox-Scholar  and  B.  A.  of  "T.C.D.,  Indian  Civil  Service 
(Retired),  third  son  of  the  late  Michael  Lloyd 
Ferrar,  of  Belfast,  aged  sixty-four.  The  funeral 
will  leave  Little  Gidding  to-day  (Tuesday),  26th, 
»t  2,30,  for  St.  Matthew's  Church,  Ealing  Cnmmon. 
for  tjte  aervioe  At  2.46.'    I  did  not  personally  know 


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^  ,  M  NUTB»  urn  UUKHIBBIre*  bT  peit  U  10.  M.  lor  SIX  Manlht  i 
;Jti,.!L  rorTW«l»i  Monthi,  UclBdlm  th*  VM«m*  l>4w— /OHM  C. 
FlUJiioi* V<Wf  m<<  «wrw<  Vili««.  hrmni  •  UvUdlaci.OliuMrv  L»a». 

1'HE     AUTHOR'S     HAIRLBB8     PAPBR-PAD. 
iTb*  L81D8NHALL  l-UISII.  U4.,  I>«bll*h«nu4  PriBMn, 
H.  L«»4tBlvall  »tr«t,  LoiKJon,  B.C  i 
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rr«a4oai.    iUpMn  each.    Ii.  r*r  doxB.  raltd  or  plain.    Mtw  roMct 
HIM.  )l#.  t>«r  doirn,  raled  or  plun. 

Autbon  alinulil  ooM  ihai  The  Lu<l*iiball  I'rtu.  L4d  ,  aaBaal  b* 
rc«p«iiilbl*l(>rUi<laM0CMB8.  b;  Art  oroltaarwiM.  DipUcata  oopln 
thauld  b«  ralain^d. 

STICKPHABT  PASTE  i«  miles  better  than  0am 
lor  •tlBklacia  8ar«|i«,  lomtac  PajMrt,  *c.  U  ,«<(..  aad  l<.  wltk 
■■raocaMtol  hraakiDotaTor).  »miki  t»o  lumpi  M  <unr  potia«* 
for  a  nnal*  BotUt.  la«ltdlBi  Braali  Faeiorf .  taiiar  Lnaf  Coan. 
~       •ufealTstrMt.  B.O.    Ol aU  Matiaaara.    8Ueliphaatl«>uuiclit. 


ATHKNiEUM  PRESS— JOHN  KOWARO 
FKAJNCIH  PriDMr  ot  ih«  4tKn»um,  .Vuij  nKd  ttmmvf,  *e  ,  tt 
Dr«D*r«<l  to  KUbUlT  8IITIMATIIH  tor  ail  klsu  of  BUOK.  I4BW«. 
aad  PBHIomcAL  PKIMTIAU.— it,  Braan  t  BmUaiafi,  Claaaarr 
Laaa.  •  C 

riiUN  BRIDGE    W  E  LLS— Comforubly    FUR. 

X  MSHRI)  BITIIKOXCOM  and  ONI!  or  TWO  bBllRUOMS. 
aniti  Dlf>a4ant  iD't  rcBirai.  rurci  mioai«<'  walk  tram  ■.K.R.  *  C. 
UUloa.     No  otber*  ukaa  -K.  H  .  M,  Ornra  UiU  Hoad,  Tubridce 

waut. 


OWNERS  of  OKNUINK    sPF.niMKNS  of  OLD 
RNOLIKK  FLltNITCKl!    '  :sa,OLII 

SII.VBH.  te..  who   daaira    lo    i  .  ULY  ara 

iDtliW  loaaad  parUraian  t»  B\si  i^aat,  wfto 

ara  alwaya  prapaml  to  (lit  fall  lamt  im  im^raiuat  Bi*i'(>i«a. 

"  BxaailBa  wall  raar  Mao<.    Ba 

rrom  Joha  ol  Oaoaidaib  brlait  hU  padlfro*."— BaiiMmaa. 

ANCESTRT,  Bnglith,  Scotch,  Iriiiti,  and  American, 
TRACBU  Iron  BTATB  RBO(>KI>a  BprcLiaJltr  -  Weal  ol  Baclaa* 
aod  BailKraat  Famllioa  -Mr.  KBTMBULi-CI'HaM,  i;.  Ila«laf4rar««*, 
Bzatar,  aad  I,  Vfhxm  Park  Kaad.OtUawlek.  Londaa.  W. 

MR.  L.  CDLLETON.  92,  Piccadilly.  London 
(Uanibaror  BafiUh  t-od  Foraicn  Aoiioaanaa  Boclaklaa).  ODdar- 
lakt^  tlia  fdmlihler*  of  Biiracu  trom  l*ari«fa  Itrrtttara,  Copiaa  or 
Abalra^lt  frnm  ^'IIU,  Cbaorarr  l'rocMNliDf«,  aad  othtr  Uaoorai  miafal 
I«r  u«n9ali>(lMl  aTtdaacai  la  ilaj-laed,  MevUaad,  aad  Iralaa4. 

Abbr«viai«J  lAtln  l>oeutuanu  Coptac,  Bxla»<lad,  and  Traoalaiad. 

Vorelfa  llaaaarehn  oarrlad  oat  Baqalrlaa  larltod.  Kr.  Callataa'i 
l*rlTa««  CallocMaaa  ara  wonb  eaaaalUBf  lor  Olata. 

Aanaaactoa  aad  K<ienun*  Matarlal  aaarabad  lor  aa4  Oaatod  at  ih« 
IMMik  Maaiaa  aad  other  &rcMtaa. 


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CONTENTS.-No.  20. 
BOTES  :— CmrloBuffoneln  '  BTervMnn  out  of  h(«  Humour,' 
881  — Proverbt  In  the  Wnverl.  ■,  v       '      •-'"-TUo  Premier 
Oreas<1l«r  of  Franc**,  3Si-I(  mi  Meii-i.f-War, 

8»  —  ••  Perldoti?,"   :»fl  -  Ali  -  ...ouik,   Gent.  — 

Jowett  (iii'l  WhewfU— Thi<rvM  Snngj  -  .liieOurr" — "The 
prwent  century,"  li-td— Waliiey  Iilaud  ITunm, 307. 

QUBRIES— Tbe  Turin  Natioiul  LUtrtry  —  "  Aibet  to 
ubea,"  I)-!!?— Auth"r«blp  ol  Llne*^"  Hun  of  hli  teeth  "— 
'The  BniltfT't  DnuKhter  of  I*lliiKton'  — Coffin  Houte— 
BMl«r  Sunday  In  l.My-Unjrlun  In«criptton»  in  Hiiwrnla 
—  Artnstronit  Gun  —  MarlyrJom  of  St.  Thnmu,  388  — 
Bnidley,  co.  Southnraptcin  :  Olurk  PKOiily— HudLIokU)I]  : 
Oourtenev:  Hone — Bri«to«r  on  Eugene  Anim  — OMe«t 
MlllUtry  Onlccr— "Hunuuiuiaesternir«,"3fi(). 

&BFUBS  :  -American  Loyiillit*— Barter  Day  by  the  Julian 
BeokonlnE,  ."^M-UentUh  Cuitom  on  Boater  Day— HuKo'a 
'Lei  Abelllei  Imp^rlalea  -River  Divided,  3i<i— JocoMte 
Wineglasaei— *' Our  Lady  of  tbe  Snowa,"  W2  — Reade— 
•*St»t  cru»  duni  voUitur  orbU,"  S63  — Uvrlvallon  of 
"  Brfdae  "  — Flesh  and  Shamble  Ueate  —  "  Sole  Inn," 
Horfolk  -  Damage  to  Com,  3iM  —  Boer  War  of  IKIil  — 
Moon  Folk-lore —DIajguiaed  lfurder«r  In  Folk-lnrc— Step- 
brother, 386— Qermari  Prophecy—"  Monkey  on  the  chim- 
ney "—Qeaealogy  :  Vew  .Soureea— "A  pait "—Antiquary 
o.  Antiquarian— Kd-ttlplaec,  394— L«.-che  Family— Lv|{end 
of  the  Council  of  Conitancc— Ferlndlcala  for  Women — 
Indian  Sport,  3lir— Colllua- Biucer  Sepulchre,  ses. 

H0TB8  OZr  BOOKS:— 'OrcAt  Maatera'— 'The  BiiElIab 
Catalogue  of  Book*  '— Bogers'a  '  Uemlnlacencea  and  Table 
Talk'— 'Some  Leltcra  of  St.  BernAtd '— Foat'i  '  Semato- 
graphy  of  the  Greek  Papyri'— •Dudiniftou  Mafazlne'— 
*  Uiiarterly  '  and  '  K<llnhurgh '—Henry  Vaughaoi  Poem* 
— Beir»  "Miniature  Series  of  Muiioiatia." 

MotlMi  to  Corre>pondeQt». 


CARLO  BUFFONK  IN  'EVERY  MAN  OUT 
OF  HIS  HUMOUR.' 
I  HAVE  a  few  words  to  Kay  still  about  the 
JoQsOQ-Maraton  war.  Qiflurd,  followed  by 
Fleay,  Penntraan,  and  other  critics,  maiti tains 
that  Carlo  Buffone  is  Marston.  Fleay  saya 
he  "thoug|ht  that  if  anything  was  Rettled  in 
criticinDi  it  wa.s  the  identity  of  Crispinus 


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itity 
V  Poetaster  '1  and  Carlo  Buffone  with 
Marston."  With  the  latter  part  of  this  con- 
clusion I  disagree  entirely,  after  much  study 
of  the  subject. 

I  will  first,  as  briefly  as  poeaible,  show 
why  Carlo  was  supposed  to  be  Marston ; 
secondly,  why  he  is  not  Marston ;  and  thirdly, 
who  he  probably  I'eally  is. 

Gifford  says  in  a  note  to  the  words 
(addressed  to  Carlo):  "And  how  dost  thou, 
thou  Krand  scoarge,  or  second  *intmtte  of  the 
time  1  "— 

"  The  allueioa  in  lior«  to  Maoilon,  whose  aatirea 
callc-il  (he  '.Scourge  nf  ^'illttnip,'  in  tli roe  books, 
were  printed  in  the  year  before  the  first  edition  of 
ihi«  comeily,  1501).'* 

The  passage  i^  i"  '  T'vim  v  Man  out  of  his 
Hu^iiour,'  1 1. 1.  (  '  GilTord,'  8G  a), 

rd  prill  ts  '• '  I  ^e,"  ic,  in  italics 


and  with  liberal  (four)  capital  letters.  In  tlie 
folios  imtnisse  is  merely  in  italics.  When 
Gifford's  italics  and  capitals  are  removed  the 
allusion  to  Marston  becomes  quite  shadowy, 
"Scourge,"  I  take  it,  refers  simply  to  Carlo, 
818  he  is  introduced  to  us  at  the  end  of  the 
"  Induction,"  and  before  in  the  "  Character  of 
the  Persona  "  : — 

"An  impadeot  common    jester,  a  violeut  railer 

will  transform  any  i>eraoi»  into  deformity 

His  religion  is  railing,  and  hia  discourse  ribaldry." 

The  expression  is  more  suitable  to  Carlo 
than  to  Marston'a  poem  against  "  dllany." 
As  for  "second  untruss  ot  the  time,"  if  it 
refers  to  a  literary  product,  which  is  doubtful, 
it  should  refer  to  Antony  Munday,  since 
Nashe  tells  us  he  wrote  "a  ballet  of  Lntruss" 
(ciivn  iri92).     See  Grosart's  '  Nashe,'  i.  Ixii. 

Nushe    speaks    of     "a    treatise     of ye 

exployta  of  Untrua8e"in  '  Pierce  PenUesae ' 
(ii.  12),  which  is  duly  referred  to  by  Harvey. 
And  as  Marston  does  not  identify  his 
writings  anywhere  (to  my  knowledge)  with 
the  term  "untruss"  before  this  date,  thi.<i 
allusion  seems  to  lue  unlikely.  He  uses  the 
word  later:  "Whipt?  that's  good,  i'  faith! 
untrusse  me,"  'Eastward  Ho,'  I.  i.  (1G04),  a 
play  partly  by  Jonson.  Hall's  '  V'irgide- 
marium '  preceded  Marston. 

The  next  argument  (T)i8  that  certain  words 
used  by  Carlo  (V.  iv.)-— "gigantomachized," 
"  grurooledories,"  4c.  ("strummel-patched" 
is  a  misroadiug  of  Gifford's,  from  folio  text) 
— "are  in  imitation  of  Marston'a  language. 
None  of  these  words  are  in  Marston,  so  this 
evidence,  given  by  Penniman,  is  of  no  value. 
It  is  advanced  by  Penniman  that  Maraton 
attacked  Ben  Jonson  as  "  Torquatus  "  in  his 
'Scourge,' and  that  therefore  Ben  retaliates 
upon  him  as  Carlo  Buffone.  But  I  think  I 
have  proved  that  Torquatua  has  nothing  to 
do  with  Ben,  but  refers  without  a  doubt  to 
Gabriel  Harvey.  This  erroneous  supixijtition 
being  removed,  the  main  prop  of  the  Carlo- 
Marston  identification  falls  to  pieces.  There 
is  no  proof  that  there  was  any  enmity  be- 
tween Marston  and  Ben  at  the  date  of  '  Every 
Man  out  of  his  Humour'  Even  if  Carlo  did 
indulge  in  a  sneer  at  Marston  in  the  above 
passage,  that  is  very  far  from  identifying  the 
two  cnaracters.  There  is  no  doubt,  however, 
that  Clove,  in  III.  i.  (90b),  indulge.s  in  some 
fun  At  Marston'a  expense— legitimate  criticism 
of  his  boinba-stic  language.  He  refers  to 
'  Histrioma«tix,'  a  play  of  Elizabeth's  time, 
anil,  from  this  reference,  acted  in  or  before 
1590.  It  was  notprinteti  till  IGlO,  and  in  itn 
printed  form  MarHton'a  hand  i.s  obvious  when 
it  was  a  remodelled  vV*."^.  ^as^  ^wvoai^jv^^i^* 
'  8cV\oo\  ol  ^\veLV«»ve».t<s-'    '^'vvWL^v*' '^^ xv»»sssx 


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to  suppose  .Nfaraton  had  any  haad  in  the 
original  play.  In  the  addetl  bits  there  are 
undoubtedly  what  appear  to  be  gibes  ("trans- 
lating Scholler,"  die.)  at  Ben.  This  sneer  at 
Ren  would  not  be  appropriate  till  later  than 
'  Every  Man  in  his  Humour.'  The  words 
selected  for  ridicule  by  Clove  do  not  come 
from  '  Histriomastix,'  with  any  exception  of 
importance,  except  "  paunch  of  Esquiline," 
bat  "Port  Esquiline"'  is  referred  toby  Spenser 
and  by  Hall  earlier.  The  uncouth  terms 
pilloried  by  Clove  come  from  the  'Scourge 
ofVillany.'^ 

If  any  one  is  identiBable  with  Marston, 
therefore,  it  is  Clove.  Clove  is  an  absolute 
nonentity,  a  mere  peg  upon  which  to  hang 
tliis  good-humoured  rebuke  to  Marston  for 
his  pedantic  language.  Clove  makes  reference 
to  other  empirics  in  the  tongue  besides 
Marston.  Clove,  in  fact,  began  the  paper 
war,  and  it  is  likely  that  Marston'a  first 
retort  was  in  his  additions  to '  HistriomastLx'; 
but  with  this  question,  which  is  all  vague,  I 
liave  dealt  already. 

It  seems  to  mo  an   outrageous  thing   to 
identify   Marston   with    Carlo   Buftbne.     As 
Penniraan    says,    it    is    indeed    "a    severe 
arraignment."    Carlo  is  an  abominable  cha- 
racter, a  cur  who  has  not  the  pluck  to  defend  , 
himself    when   Sir   Puntarvulo  strikes    him 
and  seals  up  his  mouth  with  "  hard  wax  "  in  , 
a  notable  scene  in  the  fiftli  act.    Marston 
was    quite    famous    as    a    poet    from    his 
*  Pygmalion '  and  his '  Scourge.'    There  is  not 
a  trace  of  the  literary  vein  in  Carlo.    Com- 1 
pare  Carlo  with  Crispinus  in  the  *  Poeta,ster,' ; 
who  is  undoubtedly  Marston,  and  how  can  ! 
any  one  suppose  them  to  represent  tjio  same 
person  ?    Cnspiuus  is  an  aflected  versifier,  a 
spewer-up   of   terrible    words,   a    liarmlass, 
toadying  courtier— in  fact,  rather  a  pleasant 
if  silly  person.     We   know  nothing  against 
Marston  except  that  he  and  Bon  quarrelled  ; 
that  his  language  was  very  gross,  in  common 
with  that  of  numerous  of  his  contemporaries  ; 
anil    that   his    muse   walked    upon    phraseo- 1 
logical   stilts  in  a  manner  that  roused  the 
wrath  of  Ben,  the  Crites  of  the  stage. 

I  observe  that  Mr.  Bullen,  >rar3ton'8  last 
editor,  does  not  assimilate  the  identification 
of  Carlo  with  his  author.  He  barely  refers 
to  it. 

The  question  remains.  Who  was  intended 
to  be  represented  by  Carlo  Buffone  I  There 
are  undoubted  personal  allusions,  as  in  the 
drinking  bout  (borrowed,  apparently,  from  a 
German  custom)  in  Act  V.,  and  his  gluttony, 
there  and  elsewhere  referred  to;  and  in 
IV.  vL,  "Carlo  come-s  not  to  Court  indeed" 
ia  surely  »  personal  reference  to  one  v»hoi 


had  been  forbidden  the  presence  for  some 
mtsbeha^iour. 

Nares  quotes  from  'Aubrey  Paper*,'  p.  514, 
that  Carlo  Buffone  is  saia  to  have  been 
intended  for  one  Charles  Chester,  "a  boltf* 
impertinent— a  perpetual  talker,  who  made  a 
noise  like  a  drum  in  a  room."  There  are  variotis 
opinions  as  to  the  weight  to  be  attached 
to  the  statements  of  the  Oxford  antiquary 
(who  wrote  in  Charles  II. 's  reign)  on  accouofe 
of  his  over-credulousness.  But  he  certainly 
picked  up  this  legend,  and  I  am  able  to  add 
likelihoo^l  to  it  by  certain  references  to  this 
individual  which  I  have  not  seen  anywhere 
adduced.  I  would  dismiss  at  once  Colliera 
supposed  allusion  to  Charles  Chester  in 
Nash's  'Pierce  Penilesse'  at  p.  38  in  Collier's 
edition  (Shakespeare  Society,  1842,  note  p.  99). 
I  wrote  *'  bosh  "  against  that  note  many  years 
ago,  and  I  hold  the  same  opinion  still. 

Charles  Chester  was  quite  a  notable  person. 
In  '  An  Apology  for  the  Metamorphosis  of 


Ajax'  (Chiswick,  folio  50),  1596",  Sir  T. 
Harington  says : — 

"You  know  the  book  well  enoufrh..... .Out  upon 

it,  have  you  put  it  in  print  ?  did  not  I  tell  you  ihoii, 
Charles  Chester  and  two  or  three  such  scofSoif 
fellows  would  laugh  at  you  for  it  V 

And  the  same  writer,  in  'A  Treatise  on 
Playe'  ('Nugte  Antiquat,'  ii.  180,  ed.  1779), 
cnTtt  1600,  says  ; — 

"  Now  yf  the  yrrevereut   Doctor    Pawstus,    or 
some  Buch  grave  patron  of  great  play,  should...... 

with  some  Chester-like  ollo<)uen8,  deride  the  weak- 
nes  of  the  conceyt,"  &o. 

E.  Guilpin  says  in  the  '  Preludium  '  to  hin 
'Satyra  Prima'  (' Skialetheia,'  rept,,  p.  27), 
1598:- 

the  .Satyre  hath  a  nobler  vaine  : 

He 's  the  8trapi«do,  rack,  and  acme    :    *-  -  --if; 

To  base  lewd  vice :  the  Epigram's  i  ■ 

Some  whipping  cheere  ;  but  this  is  :  i. 

The  P^pigrani's  like  dwarfe  Kings  scurrill  giace, 

A  Satyre'a  Cheater  to  a  paintecf  face : 

It  is  the  bone-ach  unto  lechery... 

It  ie  the  scourge,  the  Tamberlaine  of  vice. 

The  use  of  the  word  "scourge''  may  be 
noticed  here.  King  is,  no  doubt.,  "little 
Numps,"  Humphrey  King,  to  whom  Nasbe 
dedicated  his  '  Lenten  Stufib,'  and  who  \ras 
a  bit  of  a  writer  himself. 

Quilpin  mentions   Chester   again    in   his 
'  Satyra  Secunda '  (p.  35)  ;— 
Then,  what 's  a  wench  but  a  rjuirke,  r|uidlit  case. 
Which  makes  a  painter's  pallat  of  her  face? 
Or  would  not  Chester  sweare  her  downe  that  ahco 
Lookt  like  an  Eleuch,  logicke  aophi<itrie  .* 

Dekker  refers  to  some  of  these  charac- 
teristics of  Charles  Chester  under  the  nama 
of  Carlo  Buffone  ;  ut  leasts  that  is  the  uoosa 
I  put  upon  the  following  passage  in  his 
'  S&tu-oaiaatix '  (Pearaon,  p.  263)  :— 


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"  When   you   sup   in   Tavernas,   Amongst    your 
betters,  you  ahall  swearo  not  to  dippe  joor  manoers 
in  too  much  aawcc,  nor  at  Tuble  to  flioK  Epigrams, 
Emble&nies,    or  Flay  9|>eecheB  about  you.... ..upon 

twyne  to  sit  at  the  upper  emi  of  the  Table,  a'  th' 
left  hand  of  Carlo  Budoii  "  (»ddre«»ed  to  Tuoca). 

From  a  posaage  in  J&sper  Mayne'a  'To 
the  Memory  of  Ben  Jonaon'  ('Jonsonu-s 
Virbius ')  it  would  appear  t«5  nave  been 
affirmed  that  Jonaon  had  a  real  cause  of 
anger  with  the  person  intendefl  by  Carlo  :— 

Some My  thy  wit  Uy  in  thy  gall: 

That  thou  didst  iiuarrel  fir«t,  and  then,  in  spite, 
Didst  'gainst  a  ij«r«ou  of  auch  vices  write  : 
That  'twa^  revengo,  not  truth :  that  on  the  stage 
Carlo  wai  not  presented,  but  thy  rage. 

Finall}',  the  name  Carlo  Buffone  ia,  in 
accordance  with  Ben  Jonson's  custom  of 
imparting  names  to  his  characters  of  some 
Htting  signification  with  reference  to  their 
dominant  characteristics  or  positions  in  life, 
a  cogent  argument  in  favour  of  the  Charles 
Chester  identification.  For  what  is  Carlo 
Buffoon  but  Charles  the  jester,  i.e.,  Charles 
Chester  ?  The  opening  description  of  Carlo 
is  "  A  public,  scurrilous,  and  prophane  jester" 
(Dram.  Pers.) ;  and  at  his  first  appearance 
he  is  "Carlo  Buftbne,  an  impudent  common 
jester."  The  thin  pun  of  Chester  and  jester 
IS  altof?other  in  Ben's  style  (and  in  the  style 
of  another  who  shall  be  nameless). 

Any  further  references  to  Charle'i  Chester 
would  be  of  interest.  He  probalily  dis- 
appeared witli  Elizabeth's  reigu,  since  he 
does  not  fisure  in  the  gossiping  accounts  of 
James  L's  days.  Perhaps  'hvery  Man  out  of 
his  Humour'  killed  him. 

If  the  reference  to  the  earlier  stages  of  the 
quarrel  between  Ben  and  Marston  just  given 
be  slight,  or  even  perhaps  faulty,  the  neces- 
.sary  brevity  of  this  article  must  be  ray  excuse. 
It  is  not  the  point  at  issue.  And  to  deal 
with  that  te<lious  subject  would  re*juire  an 
analysis  of  a  number  of  plays  ('Histrioniastix.' 
'Pasquil  ami  Katherine,'  'Patient  Grissel,' 
Jcc),  which  has  been  ablj'  done  by  Penniraan. 

In  conclusion,  I  have  to  thank  Mr.  Moor© 
Smith  for  kindly  furnishing  me  with  a  quo- 
tation from  Harvey's  '  Letter- Book  ' (Camden 
Soc.,  IJ.  110).  from  which  it  appears  that  his 
Angelica  is  a  loan  from  Aretine,  who  was 
much  read  by  Harvey. 

I  have  further  to  thank  the  same  corro- 
9I>ondent  for  the  correction  of  an  error  in  ray 
paper  at  0"'  S.  xi.  .345,  where  I  referred  a 
puaage  about  PetJantius  to  Nashe's  '  Strange 
New«.  The  reference  should  l;e  to  his  *  Have 
with  ynu  to  Saffron  Waldoii'  ((Jros.  iii.  pp.  1 17- 
118).  The  referenoo  to  Pedantius  in  'Strange 
Nowa'd"'  244)  states  that  Harvey's  muse  was 
"miserably  flouted  at "  in  that  comedy. 


With  regard  to  the  mysterious  Constan' 
tinople  allusions,  referred  to  above,  Nasho 
may  be  again  referred  to  in  his  '  Pierce  Peni- 
lesae '  (Grosart's  '  Nashe,'  ii.  27).  Harvey  may- 
have  contemplated  a  jonrney  there,  or  been 
associated  with  some  one  in  the  production 
of  a  "legend  of  lyes  of  bis  travailes  into 
Constantinople."  H.  C.  Hart. 


LOCAL  AND  PERSONAL  PROVERBS  IN  THE 
WAVERLEY  NOVELS. 

I  HAVE  made  a  collection  of  the  proverbs 
and  proverbial  sayings  used  by  Scott  in  his 
romance.s,  limiting  myself  to  those  of  a  local 
or  personal  nature.  Although  I  have  com- 
piled this  list  very  carefully,  I  cannot  flatter 
myself  that  it  is  absolutely  complete  j  but  I 
think  it  must  be  nearly  so.  1  presume  thai 
most  of  these  proverbs  and  proverbial  sayings 
are  quoted  by  Sir  Walter,  but  I  think  he  may 
have  invented  some— c-sr-i  that  concerning 
"the  Laird  o'  Hotchpotch's  lands,"  in  'The 
Bride  of  Lammermoor'  ;  "  John-a-Duck's 
mare,"  in  'Ivanhoe';  and  "the  piper  of  Sligo," 
in  '  Woodstock.'  But  it  is  quit©  possible  that 
these  are  quoted  also,  although  the  source 
may  be  difficult  to  trace.  When  a  proverbial 
saying  occurs  more  than  once  I  have  noted 
each  instance.  Your  readers  will  observe  how 
many  of  the  popular  sayines  used  by  Scott 
refer  to  the  Higlilands  and  Highlanders. 

Some  of  the  sayings  I  have  noted  may 
jKj&sibly  come  under  the  head  of  simple 
phrases  or  "ower-words,"  rather  than  pro- 
verb*, such  as  William  Morris's  "  Hah  !  bah  I, 
la  belle  jaune  girot1<$e,"  and  "Ah  !  qu'elle  es^ 
belle  La  Marguerite  ! "  or,  to  take  a  leas 
dignified  example,  Lai  Dinah  Grayson's 
"comical  U.e.  pert]  ower-word,"  *' m'appen  I 
may,"  in  Dr.  A.  C.  Gibson's  Cumberland 
song  entitled  '  Lai  Dinah  Grayson.'  But  if  I 
have  erred  in  including  some  popular  phrases 
as  well  as  real  proverbs  and  proverbial  say- 
ings, I  hope  I  shall  be  forgiven,  as  a  list  of 
this  kind  had  better  be  too  copious  than  too 
meagre. 

A  Dutch  concert.— Chap.  xi. 

Blow  for  blow,  as  Couan  said  to  the  devil.— xxii,, 
xxvii.,  xlii. 

Laiasex  faire  i  Don  Antoine.— xxvii.  (Qy.  quoted 
from  ionio  drama  7) 

Mac  Farlane'a  buat,  i.e.,  lantern  (the  moon).— 
xxxviii. 

A  St.  Johnatone's  tippet.  •.»■.,  a  haltor  (uot  for 
horseii).  — xxxi.x. :  also  'Old  Mi)rtality,' vii.  (Com- 
imre  "a  Tyburn  tipj>ol,  ' '  Kcnil«..rtb,'  iii.l 

Mar  «>  IWiiti  i»  u  4  brathuir,  I'  '   I3raa  it  is-^ 

Bran'a  brother.— xlv,    (Urau,  I  a)  \ 

It's  ill  taking  the  breeka  oi.  ^  l^.^-iUndman. — 
xiviii,    (Ahj  aUo  '  Hob  Roif^'  xaxv*.,-,  *sll^■"^i^«lfc'**=««^• 
tua««  ol  ^\%«\,'  N  .^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        tio*  b.  l  iuv  u, 


Duncan  Mnc^Sirdio'8  mare.— Ijv.    (See  EvaaMac* 
[eombich's  application  of  Ihts  phraae.) 
(Juy  Mantifring. 

DownriRht  Duastable.— Chaji.  xvi.  ( Also  in  '  Red- 
gauntlet,'  xvii.) 

A  gentleman  who  was  much  disposed  to  eacape 
f rofii Coventry.— xxxii.  (See  'St.  Ronan's  Well,'  xij.) 

He'll  bti  a  Teviotdale  tup  tat  anc,  tat's  for  keeping^ 
t&  crown  o'  ta  causewav  tat  gate.— xxxvi. 

Yon  're    ri^ht,    Danaie  —  spoke    like  a  Hieland 
oracle.— I.    (Also  in  '  Old  Mortality,'  xliv.) 
Tht  AfUiqiiari/. 

For  Aiken  was  ane  o'  the  kale-aoppers  o'  Fife.— 
Chnp.  iv. 

I  canna  take  n)air  [care]  if  his  hair  were  like 
|£tbat  is,  as  white  as]  John  Ilarlowe's.— viii. 

A  Highland  heart.— ix. 

It's  written  like  John  Thomson's  wallet,  frae  end 
to  end. — XV. 

Have  we  got  Hiren  here?  We '11  have  no  swag- 
^riug,  youngsters. —xix.  (See  '  2  Henry  IV.,' ii,  iv., 
twice.) 

Ye  wot  weel  1  souRht  nane  and  gat  nane,  like 
Itlichael  Scott's  man.— xxviii. 

The  deil  gaed  oW  Jock  Wabster. — xxix.  (Also 
in  '  Rob  Roy,'  xiv.  and  xxvi.) 

Highland  bail,  — xxix. 

It's  just  a  Kelso  convoy,  a  step  and  a  half  ower 
■the  door-atane.— XXX. 

He  that  will  to  Cupar  maun  toCupar. — xUL  (See 
*The  Bride  of  Lammermoor,'  xviii.,  and  '  Roblloy,' 
xxviii.) 

Old  MortalUy. 

Saint  Johnstone's  tippeU  —  Chap.  viL  (See 
*  Waverley,'  xxxix.) 

It  'a  ill  silting  at  Rome  and  striving  wi'  the 
Pope —viii. 

You  have  been  reading  Geneva  print  this  morning 
already.— xi.  (See  also  '  Redgauntlet,' uhap.  [not 
Ijotterj  xiii.— "  Geneva  text.") 

D'  ye  think  I  am  to  be  John  Tanison's  man,  and 
ntaistored  by  woman  a' the  dayso' my  life?- xxxviii. 

Lady  Margaret,  ye  si^eak  like  a  Highland  oracle, 
—xliv.    (See  'Guy  Mannering.'  1.) 

Rc^>  Roy. 
The  deil's  ower  Jock  Wabster.— Chap.  xiv.  and 
xxvi.    (See  'The  Antiquary,'  xxii.l 

He 's  like  Giles  Heathertap's  auld  boar— ye  need 
but  shake  a  clout  at  faim  to  mak  him  turn  and 
gore.— xxi. 

Ye'll  cool  and  come  to  youraell,  like  Mac-Gibbon's 
crowdy  when  he  set  it  out  at  the  window-bole. — 
XXV 

Ho  has  a  kind  o'  Hieland  honesty— he's  honest 
after  a  sort,  as  thoy  say. — xxvi. 
A  Hieland  plea.— xxvi. 
As  iilaiit  OS  Peter  Pauley's  pike-staff.— xxvi. 
The  truth  is  that   Rob  is  for  his  ain   hand,  as 
Henry  Wynd  feught— he  '11  take  the  side  that  suits 
him  best.— xxvi. 
It 's  ill  taking  the  breeks  atT  a  Uiolandman.— 
jixxvii.     (See    also  'Waverley,'    xlviii.,    and    'The 
^iPortunes  of  Nigel,'  v.) 

Forth  [the  river]  bridles  the  wild  Highlandman. 
-xxviii.     (See  '  The  Uride  of  Lammermoor,'  lii.) 
A  wilfu'  man  will  hae  his  way— them  ihni  will  to 
■Cupar  maun  to  Cupar.— xxviii.     (See  'The  Anti- 
quary,'   xlii.,  and    *lhe  Bride   of   Lammermoor,' 
iviji.) 

It'e H  furcryto  Lochow.—xxix.  (See'The  Legend 
L »  ol  Aloatroae, '  xii.) 


another  ^^1 

(lee  tlia    ^H 


It's  a  bauld  moon,  quoth  Bennygask— < 
pint,  iiuolh  Lesley.— xxLx. 

Sic  grewsomo  wishes that  they  auld  dee  the 

death  of  Walter  Cuming  of  <Juiyock.— xxx.  (A 
foot-note  states  that  "  the  expression,  VVaJier  of 
Guiyock's  curse,  is  proverbial,  ) 

They  '11  keep  a  Hielandman's  word  wi'  us— I  never 
kcnd  them  Ijetter— it  's  ill  drawing  boots  upon 
trews. — xxxii. 

A  Jeddart  [Jedburgh]  cast :  I'.f.,  a  legal  trial 
after  punishment- xxxvl  (See '  The  Fair  Maid  of 
Perth,*  xxxii.) 

Thf.  Htart  of  Mid-Lofhtan 
But  he  's  as  glegtshanO  as  M»r  Keachan's  eUhin 
[awl]  that  ran   through  sax   plies  of  bead-leather 
[six  folds  of  thick  sole-leather  J,  and  half  an  inch 
into  the  king's  heel.— xvii. 

Bark,  Bawtie,  andbedune  wi't.— rviii.  Bawtie  is 
the  name  of  a  dog  (see  'Waverley,'  .vxxvi.,  spelt 
"  Bawly  "),  but  Meg  Murdockson  uses  the  saying  in 
a  personal  sense. 

Why.  when  it's  clean  without  them  [bad  com- 
jianv]  I  '11  thatch  Groby  pool  wl'  pancakes.- xxix. 
They  hold  together  no  belter  than  the  inea  of 
Marshani  when  they  lost  their  common.— xxix. 

Grantham  gruel,  nine  grotaand  a  gallon  of  water. 
— xxix. 
The  same  again,  quoth  Mark  of  r{,.ilLM,.vp.— xxix. 
Leap,  Lawrence,  you  're  long  ^  \ix, 

Dutch    courage.- XXX.    (See  lot,'  xv., 

and  *  Woodstock,'  xii.) 

She's  as  fast  asleep  as  if  she  were  in  Bedford- 
shire.- XXX. 
The  land  of  Nod.-xxx. 

1  will  be  sworn  she  was  not  bom  at  Witt-ham. 
—xxxii.  Xolo  :  A  proverbial  and  punning  expres- 
sion in  that  county  [  LincolnslkireJ.  to  iulinmte 
that  a  i>erson  is  not  very  clever. 
A  Leicester  plover,  it.,  a  bagpuddiag.— xxxiii. 
Een  [eyes]  like  a  blue  huntin'  hawk's,  which  gaed 
throu"  and  throu'  me  like  a  Hieland  durk.— XJixix. 
(Hardly  a  proverb  {)erhaps.) 

It  is  our  Highland  privilege  to  take  from  all  whit 
ire  want,  and  to  give  to  all  what  Ihejf  want. — 
xxxix. 

If  Skiddaw  hath  a  cap, 
CriflTel  wots  full  weel  of  that.— xl. 
(See  Wordsworth's  '  Poems,' ed.  lJw8,  iii.240.   Note, 
with  a  ijuotation  from  Drayton  referring  to  Skiddaw 
and  ScrulFcl,  i.e..  Criffel.) 

I  was  like  the  Mayor  of  Altrincham,  wholies  in 
bed  whilst  his  breeches  are  mending. — xiv. 

The  Bride  of  Lainmermoov. 
The  things  are  a'  lying  here  awa,  there  a«r&,  Uka 
the  Laird  o' Hotclipotoh  s  lands.- xi. 

He  that  will  to  Cupnr  maun   to   Cnpar.— xvili. 
(See  '  Bob  Roy,"  xxviii.,  and  '  The  Antiquary/  xUi.) 
The  LrffcHil  of  MoufroMf. 
It    is  a  far    cry    to    Lochow.— xii.    aad    xv.— 
(.See also  'Bob  Roy,'  xxix.) 

Jonathan  Bovchixb. 
Ropley,  Alresford,  Hants. 

{To  ht  contiittud.) 


The  pREMiKtt  Grenadiek  op  Fbance.— Iti« 

well  known  that,althoug)idB«c(«nd(Hl  fmroooe 
of  the  most  distinguished  faiuilicw  of  France^ 
^\a.  'Cuut  d' A.vLvers;iie  persisted  to  the  l&'jt  in 


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carrying  a  musket  in  the  ranks  of  the  Repub- 
lican   array.     Never    attaining    any    higher 
[grade,  nor  known  by  any  other  title,  than 
that  of  "  Premier  Grenadier  de  la  France," 
conferred  upon  hiin  by  the  great  Napoleon 
himself,  he  lived  among  hia  comrades  the  life 
rof  a  simple  Holdier,  fell   fighting,  and  was 
■■buried  on  the  field  of  battle  with  his  face  to 
the  cneiuy.    The  following  particulars  of  the 
recent  burial  of  the  heart  of  the  hero,  from 
the  Daily  Telegraphy  30  March,  deserve,   I 
venture  to  tbiuk,  preservation  in  '  N.  i  Q.':— 
'To-day  the  heart  of  a  hero  of  the  Army  of  the 
^BevolutioD,  namely,  Theophilc  Malo  Corr«t  de  la 
fcTour   d'Auvergne,   called  the  i'iret  Grenadier  of 
IX'ranc«,  was  deposited  with  great    military  pomp 
Land    ceremony  iii    the  Hotel  des  Invalidea.    The 
[heart,  long  in  the  possession  of  the  warrior's  familv, 
[baa  been  presented  to  the  nation  by  one  of  De  la 
Tour  d'Aurergne's  desoendants,  Col.  du  Pontavice 
de  HeuBsey,  formerly  French  luiliUry  attach^  in 
London,  and  now  commanding  the  Fourth  Regiment 
of  Artillery  at  Gr«noble.  The  colonel  and  his  brother 
oame  ni*  from  Grenoble  this  moruiog,  having  with 
tbam   ino  heart  enclosed  in  an   urn.     They  were 
[  received  at  the  (iare  de  Lyon  by  various  officers, 
'and  towards  nine  o'clock  the  urn  was  placed  on  a 
■ort  of  stretoher,  with  it  being  the  sabre  of  the 
famous  soldier  and  a  facsimile  of    the  Hag  of  his 
regiment,  which  had  been  made  and  embroidered 
t,by  the  wives  of  the  officers  of  the  46th  Infantry 
^Corps,  called  that  of  La  Tour  d'Auvergne.    The 
■tretcher  was  borne  by  non-commissiouea  otEcara, 
Knd  outside  the  station  an  old-faahioned  ceremony 
fwas  carried  out.    Troops  presented  arms,  and  then 
[the  colonel  of   the  46th  called  aloud,   in   muster 
mrade  style,  '  La  Tour  d'Auvergne.'    The   tradi- 
tional reply  was  given  by  the  senior  sergeant,  who, 
stepping  out  «jf  the  ranks,  saluted,  and  said  :  '  Mort 
au    chomp    d'honnoitr,'    whereupon    martial    and 
1  patriotic    bosoms    vibrate<l    with    emotion.    This 
I  ceremony  was  repeated    twice    at    the    Inralides, 
whither    the  urn    was  carried    along  the   quays. 
Around    and    inside  the  Hotel  des   Invalidea    an 
imposing  force  was  drawn  np.     Waiting  there  were 
President  Loubet,  General  Andr^.  War  Minister, 
the  Military  Governor  of  Paris,  the  Grand  Chan- 
cellor of  the  Legion  of  Honour,  and  a  brilliant  staff 
of  ofTioers     (3n  the  arrival  of  the  urn  and  the  escort 
»  procession  was  formed.    This,  headed  by  the  Pre- 
kident  of  the  Republic,  went  slowly  through  the 
Church  of  the  Invalidea,  where  there  was  a  guard 
^of  pensioners,   the  organ  pealing  forth  a   solemn 
[inarch.     Finally  the  urn  was  placed  by  a  non-com. 
'missioned  officer  near  the  tomb  of  Turenno.    The 
War  Mitiister  made  a  short  sfieech  about  the  First 
Grenadier,    who    was    killed    at    Oberhauscn,    in 
Bavaria,  in  June,  1800,  while  in  the  army  of  the 
» Rhine.     Then   President  I^oubet  thanked  Col.  du 
,  Pontavice    de    Heussey     and    the   curemony    oon- 
'  oludctl.     The  TTutel  dea  Invulides  t>osseasos,  besides 
the  rcmnin*  of   NnpoJeon  i.  und   <>(  several  great 
■iililinr-<  of  Frani;«,  thii  heart >•  of  aomo  other  historic 
'  Th"9c     are    Vaubau,     the    ntilitary 

t  inl  marshal,  famous  for  his  forfiflnations  : 

t'OTHTiu  ixIrlKir,  who  was  killed  in  Kgypt  in  Juno, 
>  180(1;    and   Mile,   de  ."^ornbrouil,    who    saved     her 
lathery  Governor  of  the  Invslides,  from  the  fury 
o(  the  Terrorist*.    To  the  eoaJiriavU  heart*  o(  lb«t« 


is  now  added  that  of  De  la  Tour  d'Auvergne,  '  who 
died  on  the  field  of  honour.' " 

Henry  Gbhald  Hope. 
119,  Elms  Road,  Clapham,  S.  W, 

The   Momintj   Post  of  Maundy  Thursday 

fave  an  account  of  the  presentation  to  the 
'rench  nation  of  the  urn  containing  the  heart 
of  La  Tour  d'Auvergne.  It  is  pronable  that 
there  are  not  many  of  your  younger  readers 
who  ever  read  a  poem  relating  to  him,  called 
'  Le  Premier  Grenadier  dea  Armt^es  de  la 
Republique.'  It  was  written  by  .1.  E, 
Inman,  author  of  'Sir  Orfco,'  but  not 
published  until  after  hia  death,  when  it 
appeared  in  La  Belle  Aueinblie  for  beptember, 
1844.  Inman'a  verse,  I  have  understood,  was 
highly  thought  of  by  Rogers.  The  poem  I 
mention  would,  I  have  no  doubt,  be  appro* 
ciated  in  France— if,  indeed,  it  has  not  been 
made  known  there  already. 

Edwabd  Peaogck. 
Wickentree  House,  Kirton-in-Lindsoy. 

Hockey.— Writing  to  John  Newton  on 
5  November,  1785,  Cowper  speaks  thus,  inttr 
alia,  of  what  must  have  been  an  unchastened 
form  of  a  game  that  has  recently  become 
exceedingly  popular : — 

"  Ths  boys  at  Olnoy  have  Iik«wi8«  a  very  entcr- 
tainioR  sport,  which  commences  annually  upon  this 
day  ;  they  call  it  Hookey,  and  it  consists  in  dashing 
each  other  with  mud,  and  the  windows  also,  so  that 
I  am  forced  to  rise  now  and  then,  and  to  threaten 
them  with  a  horsewhip,  to  preserve  our  own." 

Apparently  actual  mud-slinging  had  been 
a  feature  of  the  amasemeut,  for  the  poet 
continues  : — 

"We  know  that  the  Roman  boys  whipped  top«, 
trundled  the  hoop,  and  played  at  tennis  :  but  I 
believe  we  nowhere  read  that  thoy  delighted  in 
these  filthy  aspersions;  I  am  inclinea,  therefore,  to 
give  to  the  slovenly  bat  ingenious  youths  of  Otney 
full  credit  for  theiuvention." 

The  whole  description  may,  of  course, 
simply  bo  a  satirical  way  of  Haying  that  the 
game  was  played  in  the  public  streets  when 
they  were  in  a  very  sloppy  condition  ;  but 
it  was  hardly  worth  the  writer's  while  to 
elaborate  such  a  little  jest  as  he  does  in  this 
passaget,  especially  when  his  correspondent 
was  Newton.  Thomas  Bayne. 

RiisstAN  MKjf-OF-WAB.— It  may  perhaps  ^ 
be  worth  recording  and  explaining  several 
distinguishing  names  given  to  those  torpe<^lo- 
boats  which,  among  others,  accompanied 
the  Russian  cruiser  Petro- Pavlovsky  on  ita 
terribly  fatal  excursion  off  Port  Arthur 
(13    April);  for  instance,  ^\.\'»wc(.>i^:^*»xVi^.^ 

T\y=luCQUWV«\.W»XA  W^ftjwisv.  ^*>XS*-^  x««^^^ 


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«om|>'(re  such  names  with  the  French 
T^mii.iiire,  or  with  our  Dauatlesa  and  the 
like.  H.  K. 

"  Peri  DOTE.**— A  peridote  is  said  to  be  a 
kind  of  chrysolite,  a  precious  stone  more  or 
iess  like  topaz.  There  is  a  notice  of  it  in 
the  Daili/  Tekrrraph  of  2<3  April,  p.  12,  col.  1. 
This  concludes  with  the  remark  that  the 
name  "has  long  been  the  cause  of  struggling 
ftmone  philologists.  Some  pin  their  faith  to 
ttie  derivation  Trt/jiSoros,  a  wager  ;  others 
»%vear  by  Tr€pi5<ros,  banded.  The  Goldsmiths' 
and  Silversmiths'  philologist  dogmatically 
states  that  the  word  is  derived  from  '  Feri- 
det,'  a  precious  stone."  The  remark  is  hardly 
fair,  for  no  philologist  would  accept  these 
fluggestiona  of  a  Greek  origin.  The  word  is 
obviously  Eastern.  What  is  meant  by  "  Feri- 
det "  we  are  not  informed. 

However,  when  wecompare  the  modern Pors. 
ferseng  with  the  Old  Pers.  Trapatroyy?;,  as  pr©- 
servea  in  a  Greek  dress,  the  supposition  that 
the  p  in  peridote  corresponds  to  a  modern 
Oriental  /  is  not  unreasonable.  I  Bud  in 
Kichard.son's  '  Arab.  Diet.'  these  entries  : — 

"Arab.  farlJat,  a  precious  stone,  a  uearl ; 
Arab.  farUl,  a  precious  gem,  a  pearl,  especially  one 
of  a  larger  size,  or  a  uead  of  gold  ploxsed  alter- 
nately between  smaller  ones  in  a  necklace  or 
bracelet  ;  one,  unique,  incomparable.  Also  Pera. 
fa.  if,  the  middle  bead  of  a  neoklace." 

Tlio  M.E.  jmn/dotty  in  Etuare,  1.  155,  is 
from  the  O.F.  peridot,  fully  explained  by 
Godefroy  *" "*   - 


|[,    luiiy    tsxuiaiueci    u 

Walteb  W.  Sebat. 


[See  ako  8"'  8.  i.  180.  296,  36),  423,  618 ;  9"'  S.  vi. 
348,414;  vii.  215.] 

Alexander  Pbnnecuik,  Gent.— In  1717 
Richard  Steele  was  one  of  a  commission  of 
twelve  appointed  to  visit  Edinburgh  with 
the  object  of  confiscating  the  lands  of  those 
noble.s  and  gentlemen  who  had  been  con- 
cerned in  the  rebellion  of  1715.  Steele  was 
splendidly  entertained  in  the  northern 
f  'pital,  and  received  a  special  welcome  from 
I..V0  men  of  letters  —  Allan  Ramsay  and 
Alexander  Pennecuik.  In  the  raonograpii  on 
Steele  which  he  contributed  to  the  "English 
Worthies  "  series,  Mr.  Dobson  calls  Pennecuik 
"an  unknown  'Alexander  Pennicuik,  gentle- 
man,' author  of  a  volume  of  '  Streauis  from 
Helicon.'  '  This  worthy  seems  to  have  been 
rather  notorious  than  unknown  in  his  own 
day,  and  he  has  his  appropriate  place  in 
Scottish  literary  history.  He  figures  in  the 
biographical  dictionaries  of  Chambers  and 
Joseph  Irving,  and  he  is  estimated  with 
characteristic  fairness  and  lucidity  in  Dr. 
pavid  Irving's  posthumous  *  History  of 
^cotiHh  Poetry.'  The  critic  justifiably  con- 
mden    tbo    'Strewn*    from    Helicon'    nol 


"always  very  pure  streams,"  and  he  thinka 
that  the  poet's  oroadly  humorous  'Merry  Tales 
for  the  Lang  Nights  of  Winter'  show  htm 
"capable  of  employing  his  native  tongue 
with  considerable  eiJect."  "Streams  from 
Helicon  ;  or,  Poems  on  various  Subjects,  by 
Alexander  Pennecuik,  Gent.,"  appeared  in 
1720,  and  this  was  foUowrd  in  1726  by 
'  Flowers  from  Parnassus.'  The  author's  proao 
work,  'The  Blue  Blanket ;  or.  (Jraftsman'a 
Banner,'  has  value  as  a  curious  contribution 
to  local  history.  Thomas  Bayxe. 

JowKTT  AND  Whewkll.— In  4^''  S.  vi.  226 
is  recorded  the  election  of  Prof.  Jowett  as 
Master  of  Balliol,  but  I  do  not  see  in  an^* 
later  number  a  reference  to  the  "famoua  ' 
verse  about  him  : — 

My  name  ia  Benjamin  Jowelt, 

I  'm  the  Master  of  Balliol  College  ; 

Whatever  i«  known,  I  know  it. 

And  what  I  don't  know  isn't  knowledge. 

The  Other  verse  on  Dr.  Whewell,  Master  of 
Trinity,  is  also  worth  recording  :— 
Should  a  man   through   all  s|iace  to  far  ^alaxiea 

travel. 
And  all  nebulous  iilma  the  remotest  unravel. 
He  will  find,  if  he  s'enture  to  fnthoui  infinity, 
The  great  work  of  Irod  is  the  Master  of  Trinity. 

I  quote  from  memory  in  each  case. 

Lut'ia. 

Thieves'  Slang:  "Joe  Gcek."— The 
follosving  cutting  from  the  Sun  of  25  April 
seems  almost  worth  a  corner  in  the  pages  of 
'N.  &Q.':— 

"A  labourer  of  over  sixty  years  of  age  was 
ohiirRed  on  .Saturday  at  Stratford  with  beRginj;. 
The  prisoner  was  Koiug  to  a  number  of  house*  in 
Vauff ban  Road  asking  tor  inouey  to  get  i  '  '  '^ 
dosa,  and  when  arreated  by  Deteclivf 
MarahallheBaid, 'I  have  often  heard  of 'M 
and  if  I  get  seven  days  I  shall  have  the  8ati9f<M.uou 
of  knowing  what  it's  like.'  He  now  made  no  defence, 
and  the  detective  explained  that  'Joe  Gurr '  was  a 
alaug  word  for  prison." 

Herbert  B.  Clavton, 

"The  pkesent  ckntpey."  — In  the  early 
^'oars  of  a  century  we  are  apt  to  forget  that 
It  has  changed,  and  still  8]X3ak  or  write  as  if 
the  previous  century  was  still  present. 
Perhaps  I  may  mention  two  instances  of  this, 
and  be  pardon&J  that  the  first  sliould  be  aa 
error  of  my  own.  The  other  relates  to  a  work  J 
which  is  of  special  interest  at  this  season  of' 
the  year. 

In  the  tenth  edition  of  ray  '  ReniHik.^ble 
Comets,'  published  in  1902,  1  inad 
used  the  expression,  at  pp.  13, 14,  "I  t. 

comets  of  the  present  century  were  those  of 
AfeU.\ft^%,  ».v\d  1861."    I  have  corrected  this 


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beginning  of  the  present  yoar,  into  "The  finest 
comets  of  the  nineteenth  century  were"— 
tliose  above  named. 

The  other  work  referred  to  (of  great  interest 
to  all  lovers  of  nature)  is  *  The  Country  Month 
by  Month,'  by  Mr».  Visger  (n^e  Owen,  under 
which  name  her  portions  appear)  and  Pn>f. 
Boulger.  In  the  second  edition,  publiuhed 
in  1902,  we  read,  at  p.  107,  "this  so-called 
'  flowering  currant,'  introduced  from  North 
America  within  the  present  century."  I 
believe  two  species  of  Ribes  are  included  in 
this  description,  the  Ribes  S'lnynineum  and 
the  Jiifjis  sj)iciosum.  The  former  wois  brought 
into  this  country  (according  to  Paxton)  in 
1826,  and  tlie  latter  in  1829.  Undoubtedly, 
Prof.  Boulger  meant  the  last,  not  the  present 
(twentieth)  century.  W.  T.  Lynx. 

Walnev  Island  NTames.— At  8"'  S.  xi.  365 
the  lat«  Canox  Isaac  Taylor  refers  to  a 
curious  explanation  of  the  name  "  Cove  o' 
Kend"  (not  Cove  o'  Ken),  which  appears  as 
the   name  of  an  enclosure  near  Biggar,  on 
Walney  I>iland,  on  the  six-inch  O..S.  map  of 
Lancashire,  sheet  21,  surveyed  originally  in 
k'1647,    and    perpetuated    on   the  U.S.   maps 
9Dgraved  in   1895.      As  a  matter    of    fact, 
*'  Cove  o'  Kend "  is  found  on  an  old  chart 
dated    1737,  as  the  name  of  the  enclosure 
referred  to,  and  thus  the  modern  surveyors 
cannot  be  blamed  for  the  "absurd  blunder" 
rhich   the  chart-maker  of   1737  appears  to 
)ave  originated.     In  a  list  of  field-names  in 
1805  of  an  estate  at  Biggar, on  Walney  Island, 
the  name  appears  as  "Col  vac  End  "  or  "Cal  vac 
^"End."'      These    words    are    not   pronounced 
"Coaf  Hook  End"  by  the  natives  of  Waluoy 
Island,   but  Calvac  End— the   first  a  as  in 
«'call.'*    and    the    I    silent     as    in    "calf." 
,.  Another  place-name  adjoining  Calvac  End  is 
ispelt  on  the  O.S.  maps  "Cove  Hakes,"  which 
■  appears  to  be  an  attempt  at  the  local  pro- 
nunciation of  "  Colv-heaks  " — pronounce*!  in 
a  breath  quickly.     It  is  impossible  to  put  in 
rtype  the  exact  local  sounds,   but  I   would 
ftuggest  that  the  word  "Col vacs"  is  meani, 
auu  that  the  plural  form  here  given  repre- 
Monts  the  possessive.    In  the  Furness  dialect 
^therc  is   no  apostrophe  s  to  represent  the 
lossessive  case— e  j/.,  '"Tom  wife,"  "Colvac 
ind,"  "  Ashburner  wife  ford,"  except-,  as  in  the 
fcase  of  "Colvttcs,"  when  the  thing  possesned 
lis  omitto<l.     Who  this  Colvao  may  have  been 
fit  is  iiui»os><iblo  to  say,  but  it  is  not  uni-easoa- 
[able  to  infer  a  settler  from  tlio  hie  of  Man, 
^•Or  Ireland,  whore  the  word  was  a  common 
prujMjr  name.     The  Isle  of  Man  can  be  dis- 
tinctly soen  from  Walney. 

HAtcrKR  GXYTllOBPE. 
t'ro<p«ot  Road,  Barrow-iaFurneBs. 


Wk  must  re<iueat  oorrespoudents  deeirinK  in- 
formatioi)  on  Fanitly  uialtera  of  only  private  interoat 
to  affix  iheir  names  aod  addresses  to  their  tjueriea, 
in  order  th&t  the  answers  may  be  addressed  to  them 
direct. 

The  Tl'rin  National  Library.  —  The 
recent  fire  at  the  National  Library  of  Turin 
caused  the  total  or  partial  destruction  of 
many  treasures  belonging  to  one  of  the  most 
valuable  collections  in  the  world.  To  i-eraedy 
this  terrible  evil,  which  struck  the  universal 
brotherhood  of  tne  worshippers  of  artistic  and 
literary  memories,  a  spontaneous  offering  of 
help  fiorang  from  every  side,  in  Italy  and 
abroad. 

The  Italian  Bibliographical  Society,  with 
the  aim  of  contributing  to  this  noble  deed  of 
reparation,  has  decided  to  co-operate  in  the 
restoration  of  the  lost  treasures,  according  to 
its  particular  competence,  namely,  gathering 
material  for  the  reconstruction  of  a  collection 
of  Italian  and  foreign  bibliograpliy,  which  has 
been  completely  destroyed. 

This  project,  having  been  submitted  to  the 

1'udgraeDt  of  the  Principal  of  the  National 
jibrary  of  Turin,  has  been  heartily  aoproved. 
Considering  one  of  the  greatest  lielps  to 
scholars  to  oe  the  consultation  of  catalogues 
of  libraries  and  archives,  and  of  the  biblio- 
graphical works  belonging  to  scientific  insti- 
tutions of  every  country,  the  Committee 
name<I  for  that  purpose  by  the  Italian  Biblio- 
graphical Society  appeals  for  copies  of  biblio- 
graphical works.  "The  volumes  should  be 
forwarded  to  the  Societa  Bibliografica 
Italiana,  care  of  the  National  Library  in 
Milan. 

Each  work  will  have  a  special  ex-libris 
inserted  in  it,  with  the  name  of  the  donor ; 
and  the  National  Library  of  Turin  will  be 
presented  with  an  album  containing  a  list 
of  the  donors  as  well  as  of  tlieir  gifts. 

OlUSKITK  GlACOSO. 
SocietA  Bibliografica  Italiana. 

"ASHE3    TO    ashes"  IK    TBE    BURlAL    SBB- 

VICE. — The«e  well-known  words  occur  in  the 
Collect  read  while  the  earth  is  east  upon  tho 
Iwdy,  and  are  coupled  with  "earth  to  earth  " 
and  "  dust  to  dust."  At  first  sight  they  seem 
to  imply  or  r«''<"""1  '•>'»  rite  of  cremation,  for 
an  asii  IS  usun  iiing  burnlout.    Does 

ash    mean    ni<  :    ;  -ally    a    light   of   life 

extinj;uished  I  or  is  it  merely  a  way  of  ex- 
pressuiK  nothingnejw,  as  in  Genesis  xviiL  27. 
where  Abraham  says  that  hfev& Wv.'^  ^>M*.*»a.j 


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used  elsewhere.  It  appears  from  various 
comiuentariea  that  the  prayer  in  question 
date.i  from  1552  iu  ita  present  {orm.  I  should 
be  glad  to  learn  of  the  earliest  trace  of  the 

Shraae,  and  its  original,  which  is  presumably 
'reek  or  Latin.  Iniayaddtliatlhaveconsultea 
'Tlie  Teacher's  Prayer-Book,'  'The  Prayer- 
Book,  its  Historv,'  ic,  by  Evan  Daniel,  and 
'  Proctor  on  the  "Book  of  Common  Prayer  '  in 
vain  for  light  on  the  point.      HiPPOCLrDES. 

Authorship  OF  Lines.— What  is  the  author- 
ship of  the  following  (I  am  quoting  from 
memory,  and  I  am  afraid  I  have  not  got  the 
lines  quite  accurately)  1 — 

Crime  enough  is  there  in  this  city  dork. 
•  io  !  Ret  thee  Wck  unto  iby  fellow-men,  _ 
And  make  thy  cold  thy  vassal,  not  thy  king: 
And  flinK  free  alma  into  the  bcet^or's  bowl  ; 
Aod  bring  the  day  into  the  darkened  heart. 

It  is^  rather  Tennvsouian. 

Who  is  the  author  of  the  line  ? — 

Thou  baat  conquered,  0  pale  Galiltean. 
Of  course  1  know  Julian's  original  "  Vicisti, 
Qalilree."  Geo.  Bkn.  Dou<iHTV. 

[The  latter  is  from  Mr.  iSwinburne's  '  Hymn  to 
ProHeri)ino ' :  '  Poems  and  Ballads,'  First  Ser.  p.  7.  ] 

"The  run  of  ma  teeth."— This  phra.se  is 
current  in  conversation,  especiailj'  in  con- 
nexion with  the  appointment  of  a  club 
secretary  who  has  an  annual  income  and  the 
right  to  take  his  meak  in  the  house.  Ha^  it 
appeared  in  print?  Has  it  a  history]  When 
was  it  first  used  "i  H.  T, 

'  The  Bailifk's  D.\uGnTER  of  Thlinoton.'— 
I  want  to  know  all  there  is  to  be  known  about 
this  ballad,  and  shall  be  glad  of  any  informa- 
tion. What  18  its  date  t  Is  it  founded  on 
facf?  Where  are  the  beat  complete  versions 
to  be  found  ?  or  can  any  reader  give  one  ?  Is 
there  a  history  of  Islington  t  Oxshott. 

[Wo  can  only  jidvise  you  to  consult  Percy's 
'Reliques.'iii.  177,  Ritaon'a  'Ancient  Songs,'  ii.  IM, 
and  CFiild's  •  English  and  Scottish  Ballacfs,'  iv.  1.58, 
in  all  of  which  it  will  be  found.  If  you  suitplied  an 
address  for  publication,  you  would  probubly  have  a 
copy  sent  you.  It  is  too  long  for  our  oolunm.<i.  The 
oniinnl  title  is  'True  Love  Requited:  or,  the 
BaiUirs  Daughter  of  Islington."  The  booki 
mention  are  in  most  good  puSliu  libraries.] 

Coffin  House.— In  King  Street,  Brixham> 
there  stands  a  detached  house,  bearing  a 
sign  with  the  following  inscription  :— "  Ye 
Okie  Coffin  House.  Only  one  in  England." 
It  is  built  in  the  shape  of  a  coffin— hence,  I 
presume,  its  designation.  AH  the  informa- 
tion I  could  gain  on  the  spot  wa«  tliat  it  was 
reputed  to  be  upwards  of  600  years  old,  and 


Brixham  Harbour.  If  there  is  any  further 
information  available  I  should  be  glad  to 
have  it.  A.  J.  Davt. 

Torquay. 

Easter  Sunday  m  1518  and  1513.— Will 
some  one  be  good  enough  to  tell  me  upon 
what  dates  (OS.)  Easter  fell  in  the  j'eara 
1512  and  1513]  Also,  what  would  be  the 
anniversary  date  (N.S.)  of  Easter  in  the  latter 
year? 

I  think,  but  am  not  sare^  that  in  1513 
Easter  may  have  come  on  27  March  (0,S.). 
If  the  Gregorian  calendar  had  then  been 
in  use,  would  that  date  have  been,  or  would 
its  proper  anniversary  now  be,  6  April 
or  8  April  ?  I  should  put  it  as  G  April, 
arguing  that, as  the  Julian  calendar  wa.s  tnen 
ten  days  beliind  true  time,  the  same  difTerenco 
of  ten  days  would  continue  through  all  anni- 
versary days.  But  a  valuable  reference  book 
issned  latein  the  last  century  gi\  es  the  date 
of  a  certain  event  as  Easter  Sunday,  8  April, 
1513.  If  I  am  right  as  to  the  O.S.  date  of 
Easter  in  that  year,  the  error  of  twelve  days 
which  had  accrued  before  1900  must  have 
been  counted.  Another  book  gives  the  data 
of  the  same  event  as  Easter  Sunday,  1512 

M.  C.  L. 

New  York. 

Ibekian  Inscriptions  in  Hibernia.— The 
tradition  that  the  people  of  Eiroland,  or 
Hibernia,  once  came  from  the  Iljerian 
peninsula  is  very  ancient.  Has  any  coin  or 
other  object  bearing  an  Iberian  inscription 
been  discovered  in  the  soil,  or  inside  any  bit 
of  an  old  ruin,  in  Eireland  ?  Has  an  essay 
been  published  on  the  resemblance  in  form  of 
the  Iberian  letters  to  those  of  the  Etroscaa 
and  the  Runic  alphabets  1 

E.   S,   DODCSON. 

The  Armstrono  Gun.— Can  any  readsr 
identify  the  Mr.  H.  Drake  frequently 
referred  to  in  the  Western  and  other  papers 
as  the  original  inventor  of  a  cannon  whichj 
was  rejected  by  the  Committee  of  Defenc 
and  afterwards  adopted  under  the  name  of 
"Armstrong"?  W,  H.  H. 

M.ARTVRDOM  OF  St.  Thoma.s  — Will  any  of 
your  readers  kindly  refer  roe  to  a  list  or 
partial  list,  or  even  a  single  example, 
ancient  pictorial  representations  of  the 
martyrdom  of  St.  Thomas  of  Canterburjr,  in 
the  form  of  stained  windows,  frescoes,  illu- 
minations in  missals,  «fcc.,  Mtatifig  if  still  in 
existence,  if  accessible,  and  in  what  state  of 

-  -   -,- — j^^.^  ,^.v.,  u^.,.^    pre.servation  ? 

^o  flave    been  the  first  house  in  w\iich  the\     I  also  desire  liata   of  churches,  ehapelaf|| 
*^  o/  Oraage  at&yed  after  he  landed  «kt\<iVvMi\.nfeft,  ka.,THi'«  «  wjTti,t\iwsBB  dodicated  toi 


IS  we 


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w-  8. 1.  May  14. 19W.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I 


St.  Thomas,  with  date  or  approximate  date, 
and  particulars  of  any  special  local  reason 
for  the  dedication  (such  as  a  reported  notable 
miracle)  or  of  any  connexion  with  special 
VOW9  or  i)ilgriraage8  to  the  shrine  of 
St.  Thomas. 

Note  of  any  wells  or  "  waterings "  of 
St.  Thomas,  and  of  cures  or  special  properties 
attributed  to  the  water,  will  also  be  greatly 
appreciated.  H.  Bnowden  Ward. 

Hadlow,  Keut. 

Bradley,  co.  Southampton  :  Clark 
Family.— In  tlie  '  Calendar  of  State  Papers,' 
23  January,  1630.  thei"*  is  a  letter  of  Sir  H. 
Wallop  to  the  Council  relating  endeavours 
made  by  himself  and  his  under-sheriff  to 
remove  Ths.  Taylor  out  of  the  manor  house 
of  Bradley,  and  to  give  possession  to  Sir 
Kenelm  Digby  as  his  Majesty's  farmer 
thereof.  Resistance  was  made  with  fire- 
arms ;  sherifif'a  party  answered  with  ordnance, 
but  were  ultimately  oblige*!  to  retreat.  The 
old  manor  house  of  Bradley,  a  parish  near 
Preston  Candover,  co.  Southampton,  has 
marks  in  ancient  beams  of  the  roof  said 
to  have  been  made  by  Oliver  Cromwell's 
soldiers  in  the  Civil  War,  but  no  proof  of  this 
has  ever  iieen  found. 

Again,  a  family  of  the  name  of  Clark,  in 
this  and  adjacent  places,  are  stated  to  have 
descended  from  the  second  wife  of  Richard 
Cromwell. 

Are  both  or  either  of  these  legends  by 
mutual  confusion  mixed  up  with  the  trouble 
at  Bradley  in  1G30?  If  so,  Cromwell's  army 
must  give  way  to  the  officers  of  the  Star 
Chamber. 

Bradley  is  iw  commonplace  name  in  Hants, 
bub  the  above  is  the  only  parish  of  this 
name.  Vicar. 

Hdntington  :  Courtemby  :  Hone.— In  bis 
'  Visitation  of  Devonshire '  (p.  247)  Col. 
Vivian  records  that  John  (Jourteney,  of 
Ottery  St.  Mary,  son  of  Sir  William 
Coarteney.of  Powderham,  married  Thomasine, 
daughter  and  heir  of  Nicholas  Huntington. 

In  Carewe'a  '  Scroll  of  Armes  '  (publislied  in 
connexion  with  the  Devon  NoUt  and  Queries) 
occurs  the  following  : — 

"  Er.,  bet.  2  bendlettM,  3  water  bougels  in  bend. 
Huntington.  TLii  coate  ata.ikilethe  iin|Mile<l  w"* 
Job.  Courtney  in  Awlree  Church  on  a  iiillar  in 
bnui." 

In  the  will  of  Roliort  Hone,  of  Ottery 
St  Mary,  13  October,  1540,  we  read  :— 

"I  forKiva  all  debts  due  to  me  by  reason  my  wife 
was  ex'rix  to  John  Huntisdon." 

In  connexion  with  this  will  on  31  Jan.,  1581, 
a  oommission  wm  gnmtod  to  Roger  Courtney, 


next  of  kin  of  said  deceased,  to  administer 
goods  not  fully  administered  by  Joan  the 
relict ;  and  this,  although  one  or  more  of 
Hone's  daughters  still  lived.  It  seems  pro- 
bable from  other  references  in  the  above- 
mentioned  will  that  Joan  was  the  widow  of 
John  Huntisdon  or  Huntington  (perhaps  of 
Honiton)  when  she  married  Robert  Hone. 

I  should  be  glad  of  any  information  con- 
cerning these  Huiitingtons,  or  anything? 
throwing  light  on  thekinshipof  the  Courtneys 
and  Hones.  It  is  by  the  way,  but  there  is 
some  reason  to  believe  that  there  is  a  mistake 
in  the  Courteney  pedigree  in  inserting  a 
John  Courteney  between  John,  who  married 
Thomasine,  and  Roger.  This  Roger  was 
very  poor  at  the  time  of  his  death,  and  had 
had  two  children,  William,  and  Thomasine, 
who  married  Thomas  Prust.  I  should  like  to 
trace  this  latter  William  Courteney.  Con- 
sidering how  many  Courteneys  there  were  of 
importance  prior  to  the  eighteenth  century, 
there  are  very  few  wills  of  the  family  pre- 
servetl  in  the  courts  where  they  would  natu- 
rally be  sought.  (Mrs.)  Rope-Tbocp. 

Beautnout,  Ottery  St.  Mary, 

BniSTOW  ON  Eugene  Akam. — Among  the 
authorities  given  for  the  life  of  Eugene 
.\rara  by  Dr.  Garnett,  in  the  'D.N^B.,'  is 
"  Bristow's  contemporary  account,  Knares- 
boro',  best  ed.,  Richmond,  1832."  I  posseM  a 
copy  of  this  best  edition,  wherein  tne  editor 
(p.  47,  note)  complains  that  the  original 
com  pilor  su  ppresseo  Aram's  second  confession, 
"  with  no  ifriendly  intention."  Can  any 
particulars  be  found  about  the  original  com- 
piler, Bristow,  or  the  editor  of  the  Richmond 
edition  of  1832 1  Has  the  "  second  confession  " 
been  published?  James  Hoofer. 

Norwich. 

Our  Oldest  Military  Officer.  —  Can 
any  correspondent  inform  me  which  British 
militAry  officer  now  living  was  the  earliest  to 
receive  his  commission  1  Dunheved. 

"HUMANUM    E.ST    ERRARE."— Is    tllO   SOUrCO 

of  this  quotation  known  1  Terence  has 
"  Censen'  me  hominem  ease  ?  Erravi." 
Thucydides  has  dvOpwirivmi  afiaprdvtiy,  and 
there  is  a  similar  expression  in  the  '  Cyro- 
piedia,'  which  seems  to  show  that  the  idea 
was  a  commonplace  from  very  early  times  ; 
but  the  earliest  occurrence  of  the  phrase 
itself  (though  in  another  language)  that  is 
known  to  mo  is  in  the  letters  of  Severus  of 
Antioch  (early  sixth  century),  who  has  "it 
is  human  to  sin,''  which,  through  the 
ambiguity  of  uaan-ravvw,  \%"<\\%  •«WiS\<54  SJwc^^s 


NOTES  AND  QUER] 


W  8.  L  May  14, 190*. 


expreiaion  is  ft  mere  coincidence,  or  was 
derivenl  from  Severus  from  some  written 
soaroe.  If  the  latter  ia  the  case,  it  would 
probably  come  from  .^^er^ander,  whose  gnomic 
Hayings  were  well  known  to  the  ecclesiastical 
writers  of  this  time  ;  but,  if  I  knew  where 
the  Latin  phrase  is  first  found,  I  should  have 
a  bett«r  chance  of  tracing  it  to  its  source. 
1  have  tried  several  Latin  lexicons  and  dic- 
tionaries of  quotations  without  result. 

E.  W.  B. 

AMERICAN  LOYALISTS. 
{W^  S.  i.  269,  313.) 

These  were  a  long-suffering  people.  For  a 
decade  before  the  llevolution  they  had  been 
tarred  and  feathered  and  otherwi.se  ill- 
treated  ;  after  tlio  outbreak  of  the  war  thev 
were  banished,  their  estates  were  confiscated, 
and  they  were  thrown  overboard  in  the 
treaty  of  peace.  Yet  two  such  ardent 
patriots  aa  John  Adams  and  Thomas  McKean, 
both  of  whom  signed  the  Declaration  of 
Independence,  agreed  in  1813-15,  at  which 
time  the  passions  engendered  by  the  war 
had  somewhat  subsided,  that  "fuU  one  third 
[of  tlio  American  people]  were  averse  to  the 
Kevolution  "  ('  Works  of  J.  Adams,'  x.  63,  87, 
IIOV 

Much  has  been  written  about  the  Loyal- 
ists, though  no  exhaustive  work  on  the 
subject  lias  yet  appeared.  The  following 
list  comprises  the  chief  books  and  articles  of 
value : — 

DaviB,  Andrew  McF.,  The  CodSsoation  of  John 
Chaudler'a  KaUte  (UK)  ). 

Ellis,  George  K.,  Tlio  Loyaliflts  and  their  For- 
tunet.— '  Narrative  and  Critical  Uisloryof  America' 
(1888),  vii.  185-214. 

Flick,  Alexander  C,  Loynlism  in  New  York.— 
•Columbia  University  IStudiea  in  History,  Eco- 
nomics, and  PiiUic  Law  '  (1901).  xiv,  1-281. 

Rycrson,  Adolphus  E.,  Loyalists  of  America  and 
their  Times  (1880). 

Sabine,  Lorenxo,  American  Loyalists  (1H42);  and 
Biographical  Sketches  of  the  LnyalisU  of  the 
American  Rovoluiion  (1864). 

Tyler,  Moses  C.,  The  Party  of  the  Loyalists  in 
the  Amoncan  Kevolution.— ^ItnencaH  HijUorkal 
JttVHw,  October,  iKa'j,  i.  24-45. 

Van  Tyne  (Jlaudo  H.,  Loyolista  ia  the  American 
Revolution  (1902). 

Wiimot,  John  E.,  Historical  View  of  the  Com- 
mission for  enquiring  into  the  Losses,  Services 
and  Claims  of  the  American  Loyalists  (Igl.")). 

The  following  extract,  which  is  baaed  on 
Wilmofs  'Historical  View,'  is  taken  from 
Prof.  Van  Tyne's  book  (pp.  301-3)  :— 

"After  the  peace,  over  five  thousand  Loyalists 
tiubmitted  cltiian  lor  Josses,  usually  throuRh  the 
Mxeacs  ^ippotDted  by  the  refugees  from  each  Ame- 


rican colony.  T  "  '  '  '"  "■  ''  V  '  -  '"f  -  "• 
members  was   i 

the  losses  and  ;-      .  ' 

mission  divided  tlie  Luyalisie  luto  six  i;liu«>es  : 
ID  Those  who  had  rendered  sernces  to  Great 
Britain  .  (2)  those  who  had  borne  arms  agninat  the 
Revolution  :  (.3)  uniform  Loyalists ;  (4)  Loyaliata 
resilient  in  Great  IJritain  ;  (.'))  those  who  took  oaths 
of  alleKiance  tn  American  states,  but  afterwards 
joined  the  British  ;  Ifi)  those  who  took  srnia  with 
the  Aniericrtns  and  later  joined  the  English  army 
and  navy  They  then  examined  the  cluiiiis  with  aa 
impartial  and  judicial  severity  whidi  th''  Tjtwalisla 

denounced  as  an  inquisition The  '  i  sat 

at  first  in  England,  but  soon  roali;"  )^\e 

fair  opportunities  to  all  claase«  oi  ■..■!...;.... .is,  it 
would  be  necessary  to  go  to  tbc_ro.  Thereupon 
Dundee  and  Pemberton  went  to  Nova  Scotia,  and 
John  Anstey  to  New  York.  Between  the  year? 
17S5  and  l7Si>  tiiese  Commissioners  sat  in  Halifax, 
St.  John's,  Quel>ec,  and  Montreal.  lu  tiic  whole 
course  of  their  work  they  examined  claims  to  the 
amount  of  forty  millions  of  dollars,  and  order«<I 
nineteen  millions  to  be  paid.  _  At  first  tlu 
that  was  granted  was  not  tixed,  but  I  > 
plan  was  adopted,  which  fixed  by  schedule  ^    i 

cent,  of  approved  losses  to  be  paid,  Kiviuu  i^r&aier 
consideration  to  the  small  losers  than  the  jTrent. 
If  to  the  cost  of  establishinK  the  L"     '  :  Nova 

Scotia    and    Canada    we    add    the  itiotis 

granted  in  money,  the  total  amoui.  'd  by 

the  British  Government  for  their  A'ucncan  ad- 
herents wa,i    at    least  thirty  millions  of  dollara. 
There  is  every  evidence  that  the  groat**!     ^    "  V  - ; 
human  ingenuity  could  devise  was   bn' 
make  all    those   awards  in  a  fair  and      . 
manner." 

Albert  MATTHBMrs. 

Boston,  U.S. 

In  1783  Parliament  appointed  a  Commission 
to  investigate  the  claims  of  the  Loyalist 
The  Commissioners  made  twelve  reports, 
which  will  be  found  among  the  pt 
of  Parliament  during  the  years  17^-; 
which  latter  year  the  proceedings  were  wound 
up.  The  reports  will  doubtless  be  fotind  in 
any  of  the  large  libraries  which  were  in 
existence  at  the  time.  One  of  the  Uoramia- 
sioners,  John  Eardley  Wiimot,  published  a 
work,  "'Historical  View  of  the  ronimiagion 
for  Inquiry  into  the  Losse.?,  Services,  and 
Claims  of  the  American  Loyalists,  ikc,  with  an 
Account  of  the  Compensation  granted  to  them 
by  Parliament  in  178.5  and  1788.  Ixmdon, 
ISlii."  A^'ERN   PaK1>0B. 

Legislative  Library,  Toronto. 


i 


Easter  Day  by  the  Julian  Reckonixo 
(lO'h  S.  i.  324,  352).— If  C.  S.  H.  will  kindly 
consult  a  Julian  calendar  for  this  year»  he 
will  see  that  by  that  reckoning  D,  C  are  the 
Dominical  Letters.  By  the  Gregorian  reckon- 
ing, 1  January  was  a  Friday  and  th«  first 
Sunday  in  the  year  wa*!  3  January,  so  that 
\C>'«aia  \.Vv«  &undQ.y  Letter  until  the  end  of 


m  8. 1.  May  u,  im.)        NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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I 


February,  But  bv  the  old  Julian  reckoning 
(still  observed  in  the  Eiuittsrn  Church)  1  Janu- 
ary this  year  was  a  Thursday  and  tlie  first 
Sunday  was  4  January,  hu  that  D  was  the 
Sundav  Letter  till  the  end  of  February ; 
from  tne  beginning  of  March  (and  therefore 
in  the  tabular  guide  to  Eaiiter)  it  was  (J.  As 
I  remarked  before,  taking  this  as  the  Sunday 
or  Dominical  Letter  and  5  as  the  Golden 
Number,  we  find  in  the  table  28  March 
(corresponding  to  the  Gregorian  10  April) 
for  Easter  Day.  W.  T.  LvNN. 

Blaokheath, 

IvEXTiSH  Custom  on  Easter  Day  (10"'  S- 
i.  324). — In  the  Rdiquar;/  for  January,  1900,  is 
a  paper  about  the  Biddendon  Plaids  by  Mr. 
George  Clinch.  At  the  Canterbury  Probate 
Office  I  have  examined  the  Index  of  VVilla 
prove<l  in  the  Archdeacon's  Court  and  Con- 
sistory Court,  and  there  is  no  name  of 
Chalk  hurst. 

The  following  presentment  from  Bid- 
denden  at  tlie  visitation  of  the  Archdeacon 
of  Canterbury  in  1605  possibly  refers  to  this 
custom  : — 

"5'2  was  not  obeervod  on  tho  lost  Easter  day. 
For  Ihcrc  hath  been  a  custom  with  us  that  on  that 
day  our  ])&r8on  ^iveth  and  cauteth  to  be  delivered 
unto  the  parisnioners  bread,  cheese,  cake»,  and 
divers  barrels  of  beer,  brought  in  there  and  drawn, 
not  without  much  disorder  by  reiuion  of  some 
unruly  on«s,  which  at  such  a  time  we  cannot 
restrain  with  any  ease." — Vol.  Ixii.  fol.  130. 

The  "62"  evidently  refers  to  the  question 
of  inquiry,  not  preserved  with  the  volumes 
in  the  Cathedral  Library  at  Canterbury'. 

Arthur  Hussey. 

TankertoD-on-Sea,  Kent- 

Hugo's  '  Lbs  Abetlles  Impi^.riales'  (lO'**  S. 
i.  348).— The  poem  is  entitled  'Le  Manteau 
Imperial,' ana  is  to  be  found  in  tho'Chati- 
roents,'  livre  v.  po^me  3.  J.  H. 

[Mr.  a.  Hamonkt  and  H.  G.  L.  S.  are  thanked 
for  similar  information.] 

River  Dividrd  (lO""  B.  i.  289).— From  vol.  i. 
(IflOl)  of  the '  Beauties  of  England  and  Wales,' 
p.  81,  I  cull  the  following.  It  will  be  observed 
that  Snelson  and  Harrold  are  the  names  of 
the  villages  mentioned!,  instead  of  Suelstone 
and  Harwood  as  quoted  by  Astarte  : — 

"  Wiilsingham  relates  a  sincruiar  circumstance 
concerning  tho  rivor  Oiiso,  which  on  the  Ist  of 
January,  in  the  year  13*1,  fln>ldoiily  ceased  to  flow 
between  tho  village  of  .SueUon  and  Harrold,  near 
Be^lford,  leavini;  ita  ohannol  ho  bare  of  water,  that 
>riii,l..  UI.I1.I-.I  ..t  the  bottom  for  full  three  milea. 
■ns  h«v«l>een  given  of  ihisrcniark- 
ni  ;   t^nt  the  O))n)ioii  that  it  was  a 

jiuiii'iti   III  113  and  diro  wars,  which  tho 

claims  of  tii  uses  of  York  ana  Lancaster 

shortly  altu;  V .,  — ca«ioned,  aeetns  to  hav«  ob- 


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tained  most  cre<Ut  iu  that  age  of  superatitioua 
credulity.  Dr.  Cliildrey  endeavours  to  account  for 
it  by  Buppoaing  that  the  stream  upward  was  con- 
gealed by  a  suoden  frost ;  yot  very  little  considera- 
tion enables  ua  to  determine  that  this  conjecture 
is  untenable.  What  the  real  cause  was  cannot, 
i)erhap8,  at  this  distance  of  time,  be  discovered : 
but  as  the  reasons  hitherto  assijtned  have  proved 
unsatibfactory,  we  shall  otTer  a  sugsestion  that 
appears  to  us  more  deserving  of  belie?.  Might  not 
the  earth  have  sunk  in  some  ]>art  of  the  channel, 
and  admitted  the  waters  into  an  extensive  cavity, 
which  having  filled,  the  river  resumed  its  coarse, 
and  again  flowed  within  its  accustomed  bed?" 

Ciias.  F.  FOH.SHAW,  LL.D.,  F.R.Hist.S. 

Bradford. 

Capgrave  mentions  this  pheaomenoQ  under 
the  year  1398,  not  1399  :■— 

"In  the  xxii  yere [i.f .  of  Richard  XL's  reign],  in 
the  fost  of  Uircunicision,  a  dope  watir  in  Bedforth- 
schire,  that  rennyth  betwix  ynelleston  and  Uarle«- 
woode,  sodeynly  stood  stille,  and  departed  him  on- 
to othir  place  ;  and  the  rj'vcr,  that  was  wete  Vjcfore, 
stood  drye  Ihre  mylo  o  length,  that  men  myte  go 
ovyr.  This  merveyle  betokned,  men  seide,  gret 
dyvysion  that  Bchuid  falle." 
See  'The  Chronicle  of  England,'  by  John 
Capgrave,  Kolls  Series,  1858,  p.  2(i8. 

A.  T.  C.  Cree. 

Brodaworth,  Beckenham. 

There  i«  on  old  Cambridgeshire  proverb, 
mentionetl  by  Fuller,  in  allusion  to  the  inun- 
dations of  the  Onse  :  "  The  bailiff  of  Bedford 
is  coming."  This  river,  when  swollen  with 
rain,  ttc,  in  the  winter,  "arrests  the  Isle  of 
Ely  with  an  inundation,  bringing  down 
suddenly  abundance  of  water,"  and  on  these 
occasions  the  Ouse,  as  Lysous  suys,  is  *'a 
most  rapacious  distrainer  of  hay  and  cattle." 
The  river  divides  Uie  county  of  Bedford  in 
two  Darts,  and  in  tho  year  1256  tho  town  of 
Bedford  sufferal  great  injury  from  one  of 
these  sudden  inundations,  and  again  in  1570. 
But  with  regard  to  the  account  of  the  par- 
ticular event  of  1399  it  is  attributetl  by 
Lysons,  in  his  'Magna  Britannia,'  to  the 
fifteenth  -  century  monk  and  chronicler 
"rhomas  Walsingham,  who  says  that  "the 
course  of  the  Quae,  between  Harold  in  Bed- 
fordshire, and  Snolston  in  Buckinghamshire, 
was  suddenly  changed,  and  a  dry  channel 
left  for  the  length  of  three  miles."  Walsing- 
liain  is  the  principal  authority,  for  tho  reigna 
of  Richard  II.,  Henry  IV.,  and  Henry  V.,  for 
many  historical  incidents  not  to  be  met  with 
iu  otiier  writer.s,  but  Lysons  does  not,  in  the 
wUtion  referred  to  of  his  '  Magna  Britannia  ' 
(1813,  vol.  i.  part  i.),  allude  to  any  prophetic 
interpretation  which  was  placed  upon  the 
event  by  Walsingham.  Dugdale  in  his '  British 
Traveller,'  however,  says  that  it  woa  T:<i.i»?«5^^ 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        no**  s.  i.  may  h,  looi. 


a    similar    phenomenon   in   January,    1646| 
referred  to  the  death  of  King  Charles. 

J.  U.  MacMichael. 

Jacobite  Winbolasses  (10""  S.  i.  204,  293). 
— In  connexion  with  this  subject,  perhaps 
I  may  be  permitted  to  mention  that,  as  a 
frontispiece  to  Ainaworth'a  intere>iting  tale 
'The  Miner's  Daughter,'  George  Cruikshank 
has  given  us  in  his  own  inimitable  manner  a 
grapliic  picture  of  a  meeting  of  members  of 
a  Jacobite  club  in  1744-5,  at  the  "  Rose  and 
Crown,"  Gardiner  Street,  Petty  Franco. 
Standing  around  a  table,  on  which  there  is  a 
large  bowl  nearly  full  of  water,  each  person 
held  in  his  outstretched  hand  a  wineglass, 
narrow  in  shape,  and  apparently  about 
six  inches  from  stem  to  rim.  The  hero  of  the 
story — who,  by  the  way,  was  only  invited  to 
the  gathering— nearly  came  to  the  end  of  his 
career  in  consequence  of  refusing  to  drink 
the  health  of  the  king— over  the  water. 

Henry  Gerald  Hope. 

119,  Elms  Road,  Claphatn,  H.W. 

"Our  Lady  of  the  Snows"  (10'^  S. i.  246, 
311). — This  phrase  has  arisen  from  beliefs 
which  are  far  older  than  Christianity,  and 
"Our  Lady"  merely  stands  in  the  place  of 
Holda,  Hulda,  Holle,  or  Hulle,  who,  iu  the 
words  of  Jacob  Grimm,  was  "the  kind, 
benignant,  merciful  goddess  or  lady."  In 
legend  and  tradition 

"Frau  Holle  is  represented  as  a  being  of  the  sky. 
begirdling  the  earth  ;  when  it  snows  she  is  making 
her  bed,  and  the  feathers  of  it  fly.  She  stirs  up 
snow,  as  Donar  does  rain  ;  the  Greeks  ascribed  the 
prt^nction  of  snow  and  rain  to  their  Zeus :  Ajo? 
ouSpos,  'II.'  V.  91.  xi.  493,  as  well  as  vi<f,d8ti  Aio?, 
jj^'"^*  ^^  •  "^  ^^"^  Holdft  comes  before  us  as  a 
^  I J  !.  "**  '"^*"  '■*"''*  ^'  other  attributes  of 
ilolda  have  passed  to  Marj',  we  may  here  also  bring 
Uito  comparison  the  Maria  ad  nive-i,  '  notre  dame 
*k^  n^'ges,'  whose  feast  was  held  on  Aug.  5 ;  on 
that  day  the  lace-tnakera  of  Brnasela  pray  to  her 
that  their  work  may  keep  as  white  as  snow."— 
Deutsche  My thologie,"  trans,  by  HullybroM.  p.  267. 
"  The  comparison  of  snowflakes  to  feathers," 
says  Grimm,  "is  very  old;  the  Scythians 
pronounced  the  regions  north  of  them  in- 
accessible, because  they  were  filled  with 
feathers  (Hero<l.  4,  7,  conf.  31)."  Even  yet, 
when  snow  begins  to  fall  in  York.shire, 
children  run  out  of  doors  to  catch  some  of 
the  first  flakes  and  say  : — 

Snow,  snow  faster, 
Hallv,  Hally  Blaater- 
Plucking  geese  in  Scotland, 
And  sending  feathers  here. 

It  is  possible  that  "Hally"  is  here  identical 
with  the  German  Holle,  and  that  Blaster  is 

iho  apirit  of  the  air,  mentioned  by  Grimm, 

"^iled  Bloater. 


The  "  pious  legend  "  about  the  building  of 
a  church  on  the  Esquiline  hill,  because  rookT^ 
is  said  to  have  fallen  there  in  August,  has 
many  counterparts  in   legend  and  in  story. 
Not  only  does  falling  snow  indicate  the  spot, 
but,  as  Grimm  shows,  the  site  is  suggested  by  j 
cows  in  a   Swedish  story,  and    by   restinf 
animals  in  a  beautiful  Anglo-Saxon  leeenc 
And,  as  1  have  shown  in  my  '  Household  TaleoJ 
and  Traditional  Kemains,  it  is  still  believei?' 
in  England  that  fairies  have  pointed  out  th« 
sites    of  churches,   and    moved    the   stone 
away  if  the  builders  choso  the  wrongsite. 

As  everybody  knows,  divine  origins  wei 
everywhere  attributed  to  natural  phenomcns 
Just  as,  for  instance,  Holda  made  the  sno« 
by  making  the  feathers  fly  from  her  bed, 
there  was  a  being  who  scattered  great  stones' 
on  the  Yorkshire  moors.    A  place  known  as 
the  Apronful  of  Stones,  near  Brad  field,  west 
of  Sheffield,  clearly  points  back  to  a  myth 
like  that  of   the  giantess  Zechiel,  who  naifj 
gathered  stones    in    her   apron  to  build  a 
bridge,  but  who  fell  down  aead  in  a  fright^ 
"scattering  the  load  of  stones  out  of  nanj 
apron    higgled y  -  piggledy    on  the  ground 
(Grimm,   ut   sHin-a,  p.  637).      ilary   herself 
"  carries  stones  and  earth  m  her  apron,  like 
Athena  or  the  fay  "  (ibid.,  p.  xxxvii) ;  but 
"Our  Lady  of  the  Stones"  would  not  pleo-se 
our   modern  ear,   though  Sancta   Maria  ad 
Lapides   would    sound    better.      On    Ashop 
moor,  in  the  High  Peak  of  Derbyshire,  nearly 
two  thousand  feet  about  the  level  of  the  sea, 
a  heap  of   large    boulders    is  called    y 
woman's  Stones.    There  must  have  h' 
story  about  them,  and  it  is  evident  that  i  ins 
strange  place-name  has    arisen    from  soma 
such   oelief  as  that  which  gave  rise  to  thd 
Apronful  of  Stones.    How  else  could   men, 
who   wore  ignorant  of    natural    laws,  have 
accounted  for  falling  snow,  or  for  maasea  of 
rock  which   seemed  to  them  to  have  been 
thrown  wildly  over  the  land  ? 

S.  O.  Addy. 

As  every  one  knows,  Montreal  originally 
was  named  Ville-Marie,  and,  as  was  to  be 
expected  in  a  town  thus  specially  devoted  to 
the  Virgin,  several  churches  and  religious 
foundations,  beside  the  great  Cathedral 
known  ^wr  (.rcellence  as  that  of  Notre  Dame, 
are  dedicated  to  her  under  various  character- 
izations—  c.jA,  Notre  Dame  de  Gnlce,  d© 
Lourdes,  de  IBonsecours,  ic. 

English  as  the  aspect  of   the  cdtv   ia  ixk 
many  ways,  it  is  markedly  French  also, 
the  old  French  names  for  streets  and  distrie 
remain. 

One     of     the     pleasant     drives     reoom- 
\  mendta^  ^  n\s\.\a\%  \%  \.\\B.t  around  the  mom 


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39.? 


tain,  which  takes  one  outride  the  citv  limit-j, 
and^  partly  by  ttie  highway  having  tne  Batue 
name,  throujj;h  the  suburb  or  district  called 
"C6te  des  Noigea,"  Ij'ing  on  the  western  slope 
of  the  beautiful  Mount  Royal  that  givea  dis- 
tinction as  well  a.s  name  to  the  city,  and  is 
justly  her  pride.  By  this  road  one  approaches 
also  the  main  entrance  to  the  French  Catholic 
"  C6te  des  Neiges  Cemetery,"  ad  joining  on  its 
opposite  side  the  English  *'  Mount  Royal 
Cemetery."  On  the  C6te  des  Neiges  road  are 
several  old  churches  and  other  religious  build- 
ings, and  though  with  no  aid  to  memory  I 
cannot  be  sure  of  their  names,  I  think  at  least 
one  of  them — church  or  convent— has  the 
Notre  Dame  appellation,  and  thus  might 
naturally  come  to  be  spoken  of  as  "  Notre 
Dame  des  Neiges."' 

However  this  may  be,  it  is  plain  to  one  at 
all  familiar  with  Montreal  that  in  writing 
of  "Sainte  Notre- Dame"'  having  "son  tr6oe 
.surnotre  Mont  Royal,"  whence  she  "descend 

cbaque  soir en  sa  Ville-Sfarie,"  "  ville 

au  collier  de  neige,"  the  Canadian  poet  quoted 
refers  to  the  CAte  des  Nei^sies. 

Whether  or  not  the  title  phrase  of  this 
poem  had  precedence,  the  same  designation 
which  Kipling  applied  to  all  Canada  (and 
thereby  gave  that  country  great  offence)  may 
easily  nave  been  suggestetl  to  his  mind  during 
a  visit  to  Montreal  and  her  COto  des  Neiges. 

As  to  the  name,  I  have  been  told  that,  pro- 
bably from  the  direction  of  neighbouring 
hiU-slo{>es,  the  section  is  noted  for  its  excep- 
tionally deep  snows.  M.  C.  L. 

New  York. 

The  Congregation  for  the  reform  of  the 
Breviary  under  Benedict  XIV.  reported  : — 

"  Lectionea  gecundi  nocturni,  qn.f  hac  die  usque 
inodo  reciUla-  suDt,  iriitnutandas  sane  es«e  existi- 
tnatur.  l)e  ea  soleninit&tc,  quoi  haa  die  celebratur, 
ciusque  iniitituliiiiu»  cau»a,  habenlur,  ait  Baronius  in 
'  Martyrologio  Romano,'  Vetera  monumenta  et  MSS. 
Huiusmodi  autein  nionuriieiita  »t  MS.S.  nee  uiiquam 
vidiniuR,  neo  fortosse  unquani  videbimus.  ^Itran- 
dura  profecto  eat,  ail  liaillet,  noa  adhuc  tauli 
miraculi  et  tain  mirabilis  hlHtoriir  atiotorerii  iiiiio 
tuisse  .  itisitpci  <|iiiid  tan)  novum  tainque  stu|>eiiduni 
prudiKium  epatio  annortim  fere  niille  ot  atnptius 
profnudo  sepiiUum  siientio  iacuerit,  nee  usquam 
invoniri  tiotuerit,  iira-torquttm  in  breviario  et  in 
Catalogo  Petri  de  Natalibua  lib.  7,  cap.  *JI."— '  Aua- 
lecta,'  II,  'Mo, 

JoiJN  B.  Waine\vru;ht. 

Rkadk  (K^-  S.  i.  329). -The  'n.N.B.,' 
vol.  xlvii.  p.  361,  under  llobort  Ueado 
(d.  l-tli*)),  Dominican  friar,  and  bishop  suc- 
cessively of  Carlisle  and  Chichester,  says, 
"There  does  not  seem  to  he  any  evidence  as 
to  whether  he  was  related  to  his  predecessor, 
William  Rede  or  Reade";  and  on  p.  376, 
andor  the  latter  name  (d.  1385),  it  says  :— 


"A  Willitifii  P.«ad,  who  was  archdeacon  of 
Chichester  1.3SI8-1411,  uhancellor  in  1407,  anil 
treasurer  in  1411,  may  have  been  a  relative  of 
^ViIliatn  Rede  the  bishop,  or  perhaps  mora 
probably  of  Robert  Reade" 

Bishop  William,  a  native  of  the  diocese  of 
Exeter,  built  the  beautiful  library  of  Merton 
College,  Oxon,  of  which  he  was  Fellow,  and 
to  him  the  diocese  of  Chichester  is  indebted 
for  the  preservation  of  the  early  records 
relating  to  the  see.  The  next  three  bishopi* 
were  Thomas  Rushoke,  Richard  Metford,  and 
Robert  Waldby.  Then,  in  1397,  we  find 
Robert  Rede  a  bishop  of  Chichester,  who 
occupied  the  see  during  the  reign  of 
Henry  IV.  His  register  is  the  earliest  of 
those  that  remain,  and  testifies  to  the  zeal 
with  which  he  endeavoured  to  suppress  the 
doctrines  of  Wyclif  and  the  Lollards, 

A.  R.  Bayley. 

Lives  of  both  the  Bishops  of  Chichester  so 
named- William  (1368-85)  and  Robert  (1397- 
X417^_are  given  in  'D.N.B.,'  the  former 
much  more  fully  than  the  latter.  Additional 
information  can  be  found  in  the  late  Dean 
Stephens's  *  Memorials  of  the  See  of 
Chichester,'  119  and  124.  So  far  the  autho- 
rities have  found  no  evidence  as  to  any- 
family  kinship  between  these  two  eminent 
prelates.  The  William  Read  mentioned  by 
your  corresp«mdent  was  Archdeacon  of 
Chichester  1398-1411,  and  held  other  offices* 
The  '  D.N.B.'  biographer  thinks  tliat  he  may 
probably  have  been  a  relativeof  Bishop  Robert 
Iteaile.  C.  DBEDEa. 

Chichester. 

"  Stat  crux  dum  volvitur  orbis  '* 
(lO^*"  S.  i.  .309).— This  is  the  motto  of  the 
Carthusian  monks,  who  make  the  famous 
Chartreuse  liqueur.  Mr.  Ch.  Chaille-Long, 
the  writer  of  an  article  entitled  'A  Visit  to 
the  J^fonastery  of  the  fi rande  Chartreuse, 
in  the  Catholic  ]Vorld  for  October,  1894. 
tells  us  that  the  motto  and  the  arms  of 
the  Carthusians  were  composed  by  the 
"  Reverend  Father,"  or  General  of  the  Order, 
Dom  Martin,  in  1233.  The  accuracy  of  thia 
statement  may  be  verified  by  the  as.sertion 
of  Helyot  in  his  •  Hiatoire  des  Ordres 
Religieux.'  vol.  vii.  cap.  lil.  p.  401,  §  2,  which 
runw  as  follows  : — 

"Dom  Martin,  onzitime  geoural  de  net  Ordre  [dea 
Chartreux],  lui  donna  pour  aimbolo  une  croix  j>08oo 
■ur  an  monde,  aveo  ootto  deviae.  itat  crux  Uxni 
voii'ituf  orhi*."  ' 

This  motto  was  at  one  time  the  cogniiance 
of  an  AnRlican  sisterhood  founded  by  the 
late  Dr.  Nealo,  who  unquestionably  pirated 
the  same.    It  is  of  interest  to  uttUs,V,^\%.VNB."<i>^» 


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Carthusian  monastery  of  Parkmineter,  over 
the  outer  gateway  of  winch  are  carved  the 
arms  and  the  motto  mentioned  by  Ilelyot, 
with  the  addition  of  seven  stars.  It  is  but 
just  to  add  that  when  these  ladies  ciiscovered 
tliis  "  coincidence,"  namely,  that  they  were 
making  use  of  the  exclusive  cognizance  of 
tlie  Carthusian!?,  they  very  creditably  relin- 
qui^jhed  it,  and  aidopted  otlier  arms. 

"BarooK":  iti<  Derivation  (10"' S.  i.  189, 
2M,  297).— Sir  Horace  llumbold,  describing 
St.  Petersburg  society  about  1869,  says  : — 

"The  men,  of  course,  had  the  resource  of  the 
Yiichl  Club,  with  high  [jl&y— for  those  who  car«d 
for,  and  could,  or  could  not,  aiTord  it — ot  itra/a^h, 
a  Hu»iaii  form  of  whiat,  which  1  lake  lo  b«  the 
parent  of  the  uow  so  popular  game  of  bridge."— 
^  KecollectiouK  of  a  Diplonialiat,'  lOOJ,  vol.  ii. 
1>.  360. 

WiLUAM  Ckoboe  Black. 

Flesh  and  Shamblk  Meats  (10"»  S.  i.  C8, 
^)3).— In  connexion  with  thin  query,  the 
following,  though  not  a  reply,  may  l»e  of 
interest.  An  old  Devonian  servant,  now 
nearly  eighty  years  of  age,  in  describing  his 
early  days  on  a  farm,  said,  "  Ua  didn'tliave 
lio  .shaniinel  mate  !  "—that  is,  no  meat  killed 
in  the  shamble8,  but  only  the  home-killed  pig 
in  its  various  forms. 

In  the  number  of  the  Somertet  and  Dorset 
A^otea  and  Queritg  for  March  i.s  the  text  of  a 
play  acted  by  Christmas  mummers  in  West 
Dorset.     On  p.  18  are  these  lines  : — 
IXin't  tell  I  about  the  cock,  goose,  carton,  and  awan, 
Tljat  's  not  the  diet  for  au  honest  old  husbandman. 
jLet  I  have  a  good  old  rusty  jiiece  of  bacon,  a  peck 
of  (pickled  ?)  pork  and  a  dous«  (?)  always  in 
my  liouae,  and  a  good  hard  crust  of  bread  aud 
cheese  once  now  and  then. 
That's  the  diet  for  an  honest  old  husbandman. 

(Mrs.)  Kose-Teoup. 

"SCOLE  IhN,"  NoilPOLK  (10*^  S.  i.  248, 
313). — I  hax'e  the  engraving  published  in  the 
Jtn f serial  Muffuzine,  17C2,  and  there  it  is 
called  "  Schoale or  Scale  Inn."  Has  the  name 
ony  connexion  with  the  word  sade,  no  com- 
Djon  in  place-names  of  the  Lake  District,  such 
a.s  Portiiiscale,  Seiiscale,  .Scale  Hill,  Scale  Inn 
and  Waterfall  in  Ennerdale,  and  many  others  I 
None  of  the  explanations  of  the  place-names 
seems  to  explain  the  meaning  of  this  word. 

A.    H.   AUKLE. 

That  theSooIe  Inn  means  the  inn  at  Scolei 

Prof.  Skeat  may  be    certainly  assured.    I 

have  many  times  been  inside  that  great  inn, 

in  "  the  pleasant  village  and  parish  of  Scole, 

two  raiJcs  from  Diss,"  as  the  *  Norfolk  Direc- 

^ry  'has  it.     The  '  Directory  '  of  1683  states 

tuut   the    bed  and    the    costly    sigu   ^ete 


**  destroyed  above  100  years  ago."  There  is  a 
fine  engraving  of  the  sign  in  the  Norwich 
Castle  Museum,  and  there  is  a  full  deecrip 
tiou  of  it  in  the  second  volume  of  the  *  Papers 
of  the  Norfolk  and  Norwich  Archteological 
Society'  (p.  217).  The  proper  title  of  this 
celebrated  tavern  is  the  *' While  Hart,"  and 
it  has  still  a  fine  oak  staircase  and  a  few 
remaining  picturesque  features,  carvings,  Ac. 
In  'Domesday  Book'  the  village  stands  as 
Osmundestuna,  and  it  i*  sometimes  called 
Osmondiston  now,  though  the  shorter  Scole 
has  almost  superseded  the  ancient  name.  In 
the  Rev.  G.  Munford's  work  entitled  '  An 
Attempt  to  ascertain  the  True  Derivations 
of  the  Names  of  Towns  and  Villages,  and  of 
Rivers,  itc,  of  the  County  of  Norfolk,'  1H70 
(p.  1G5),  it  is  stated  that  the  place  is  "com- 
monly known  a.s  Scole,  according  to  Blome- 
field  from  Scoles.  which  was  a  hamlet  to 
Osmundiston  in  Edward  the  Third's  time,  but 
the  local  name  Scole  came  into  use  at  too  late 
a  period  to  warrant  our  looking  for  a  very 
early  origin," 

I  greatly  doubt  if  Prof.  Skeat's  reiuly 
reference  to  'Promptorium  Parvulorum ' 
supplies  the  Correct  nerivation.     There  is  a 

S3or  locality  in  Norwich  known  as  Soole's 
reen,  named,  I  believe,  after  some  former 
landowner  in  the  neighbourhood. 

I  take  leave  to  think  that  the  uiedisera]- 
joke  theory  is  aoytbiog  but  obvious. 

Jamk>  Hooper. 
Norwich. 

Damage  to  Corn  (10'^  S.  i.  283).— Tb© 
following  anecdote  of  S.  Herv<?,  f^yen  in 
Alfred  Le  Grand's  '  Le«  Vies  des  Saints  de 
la  Bretagno  Armorique '  (pp.  235,  230),  is 
a  p)'oi>oi : — 

"Le Saint,  par  sesprierea,...  obtint  niie  fraisohe 
fontaino  dans  ce  champ,  lequel  appartenoit  ^  nn 
honnesle  jiersotitiage,  numni^  Iiinoco  1p  Sfiint  le  fit 
o]ipollcr,ct,  luyayant  fait  svvvoir  ](»  V.  ■  '■  l-'ioo, 

\>i  Nupiilia  ilo  luy  doniier  un  nuartici  iTn|> 

iK)ur  y ''Mlifier  un  i)etit  Mona^tere  \"  ,    _'  se» 

Moynes.  *  Ouy  bten  (dit  Jinioco)  niais  vous  ne 
dites  pas  que  mon  bled  est  encore  tont  v»rt,  etpar 
ainsi,  ce  que  voub  en  couperez   '        ••      '  nera 

perdu:     patieiitei    un     \>eu  nst 

lirochnin. — Non,   non  (dit  saint     i  i  ira 

pas  ainsi :    car   tout  autant  de   blv^d  que  je    vouh 
couperay  maintsnaut,   aulant   voua  eu   reudraT-ja 
de  sec  et  nieur  au  temps  de  la  moisaon.'       ' 
il    s'accorda,    et    t^ua    comniencerent    u 
du  bled,  lequel  ila  lierent  par  faiscmkux  ci 
et  les  tniroiit  &  part,   et   Dieu    les   favorisa   l^illc 
merit  qu'au  temjis  de  la  moisson   ces  g«rbea  qui 
avoient  e6t6  cueillics  toutes  veries  non  setilisrnent 
devinreiiL  nieures,  maia  outre  s'enllerent  ot  ntulti* 
plierent  Icliement,  que  d'unc  on  en  fit  deux." 

Another  Breton  instance  worth  re[)eatiog 
occutft  \vi  kwSkViVft  La  Braz's  '  Au  Payit 


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I 


Pardons '(pp.  212,  243).  People  are  crowding 
to  see  the  great  bonfire  at  St.  Jeau-(]u- 
Doigt  :  — 

"Ce  n'est  iim  Vesplanado  seutenient  qui  est 
cavaliie:  les  talus  d'alentour.Ies  cultures ni^meqa'ils 
encloseiit  souibrent.  Billon  apnis  sillon,  sous  le  flux 
sans  cesse  Broasissaut  ou,  parmi  le  noir  compact  des 
leutrea  d'lionimea,  la  16g6ret<!^  des  coiffes  f.-niiniiies 
Irisotte  avec  des  blancheurs  d'ocuino.  Vainernent  lea 
Di6tayera  dea  fcrmes  voisiiiee  a'efTorcent  de  sauve- 
garder  loiira  cliami>9.— EpaiKtiez  au  moinn  le  bl^ ! 
Aupplieat-ilsd'un  ton  lamentable.— Bah  !  saint  Jean 
V0U8  di-doinmaeera !  leur  est-il  ripoat*.  Notez 
qu'en  totn]i$  orainaire  ces  fero<:«a  pi^tioeurs  de 
moiasona  tiendraient  }x>ur  aacrilei^e  celui  d'eulru 
eux  qui  »c  ribnuerait  a  fouler  un  epi.  'Soi6i>ieux 
envera  I'herbo  au  pain,  respecte-la  comiue  ta  mere,' 
dit  un  proverbe  breton.  Mais  il  e'agit  bion  de 
proverbes,  lo  jour  du  Taiitad  !— Puis,  m'explique 
Farkik,  soyez  siir  qu'au  fond  lea  paysana  k^ads  ne 
eont  \>M  ausai  fAchfia  qu'ils  en  ont  I'air.  lis  ne 
•nnt  |ias  nei  de  ce  matin.  Loraqu'ila  ont  scm6,  k 
rautomne,  ila  aavaient  de  science  certatne  que  la 
rtiooUe  n'irait  point  A  niaturit<5.  S'ilsont  senit!'  quand 

le,  c'e«l  qu'il  Icur  plaisait  atnsi II  y  a  des 

es  qui  sontdea gains OrRes,  froinenta,  seiRles, 

ages,   tout  cela,  monsieur,   c'est   L4i  au  TAa 

}la  mrt  du  Feu) !  Et  I'offrande  qu'on  fait  au  feu,  le 
eula  rembourse  au  centuple. — Alors.ces  inallieureux 
qui  se  jiliiignent  Bcraiont  plus  mallieureux  encore  si 
lea  (idflcs  du  Tantad  uo  leur  donnaient  pas  sujet 
de  »e  jilaindre.— Comme  vous  ditee.  La  prenve, 
c'est  tiu'il  n'y  aiMW  dans  la  paroiiae  de  fermiera  plus 
prosporea." 

St.  SwiTHiN. 

Boer  War  of  1881  (lO""  S.  i.  226,  277).— 
Major  Mitobell  will  find  much  detail  in 
that  very  intere«ting  paper  tlie  Neics  of  the 
Camp,  editc<l  by  Charles  Du-Valand  Charles 
Deeckur.  Pretoria  from  witiiin  waa  well 
attended  to  during  the  whole  "100  days" 
of  trial.  Du-Yal  and  his  co-editor  woold,  or 
should,  have  "Varieties"  and  "Martini- 
Henrys  "  also.  A  copy  its  hard  to  find. 
Deecker  himself  has  not  got  one,  though  he 
owns  and  edits  a  paper  in  Cape  Colonv. 

This  "100  days'"  diary  is  nleasant  read- 
ing, and  was  much  enjoyed  by  a  friend  of 
Du-Vals,  before  the  latter  finally  adopted 
tlio  "variety"  stage.  James  Hay. 

iSnnis. 

I  tru!«t  that  tlie  following  incomplete  list 
of  authoritifss  may  ho  of  some  help  to  Major 
MiTciiKt-t,  :-l{ollairs(Lady),  'The  Transvaal 
War,  1880-Hl,'  1883  ;  Carter  (T.  F.),    '  Narra- 
tive of  the  Boer  War,  18NI,'  1899  ;    Haggard 
(H.  liider),  'Cetewttyo  and  hiH  Whit^  Neigh- 
.Ijouri.'  1882;  Moo'Jio(D.  C.  F.),  'History  of 
Ithe    RiUtles  and  Adventures  of  the  British, 
[the  Boers,  and  the  Zulus  in  South  Africa,'  Ac, 
vols.,  Cape  Town,  1888  ;    Thoal  (G.  .McC), 
'  History  of  tho  Boers  in  S.  Africa,'  1887.  Con- 
lult  also  Parliamentary  Papers  ;  the  London 
fazctte;  records  of  tho.Mo  regiments  wliich 


to<^)k  a  part  in  the  war,  such  as  Porter  (W.), 
'Hist.  Corps  Royal  Engineers,'  2  vols..  1889; 
biographies,  journals,  memoirs, /Jtir  ej:emple^ 
'Life of  Sir  G.  Pomeroy-Colley,'and  '  Military 
Memoirs  of  Twenty-five  Years,'  1893,  by 
Sergeant-Major  Mole .  M.  J.  D.  Cocklk. 
Solan,  PunjaD. 

Moon  Folk-lore  (lO^*"  S.  i.  126,  175,  252).— 
Those  who  are  interested  in  this  subject  may 
like  to  know  how  the  new  moon  is  greeted  by 
Pathan  Muhammadans  and  other  dwellers  in 
the  Upper  Paniab.  On  seeing  a  new  moon 
people  first  of  all  make  a  lowlv  triple  salaam. 
Then,  with  hands  joined  ancf  uplifted,  they 
say,  "O  Moou,  may  you  bo  lucky  !"  or  they 
look  at  the  right  hand  and  wish;  or  they  look 
at  a  piece  of  gold,  or  silver,  or  even  glass,  and 
breathe  a  pi-ayer  for  good  fortune  wiiether  in 
love  or  in  busine.ss ;  or,  gazing  at  the  moon 
herself,  with  hands  reverently  joined,  they 
pray  for  luck,  or  for  peace  and  rest,  to  the 
angels  who  bear  the  moou  in  their  hands. 
Charles  S^\'YNNERTON. 

In  Ireland,  sixty  vears  ago,  children,  at 
their  first  glimpse  of  the  new  moon,  were 
taught,  in  order  to  escape  bad  luck  or  some 
dire  calamity,  to  use  the  following  invoca- 
tion : — 

I  aee  the  moon, 

And  the  moon  sees  me. 

God  bleaa  the  moon, 

And  (Jod  bless  me. 

Henrv  Smyth. 

Harbome. 

LThese  lines  were  familiar  in  the  West  RidinR  ft 
couple  of  generations  ago.  j 

DisouisBD  Murderer  in  Folk  -  lore 
(10^''  S.  i.  266).— I  often  heard  a  Ule  told  on 
somewliat  similar  lines  when  I  was  a  boy.  In 
this  case  it  was  a  farmer  on  his  way  to  Derby 
market.  The  details  were  somewhat  different, 
for  the  "  woman  "  who  wanted  a  lift  by  the 
way  was  shown  to  be  a  man  by  the  whiskers, 
which  were  revealed  througli  the  slipping 
aside  of  the  poke  boquet  and  murtlers  as 
the  man  wjts  getting  into  the  market  cart. 
Seeing  this,  the  farmer  swung  his  iieavy  whip- 
stock,  knocking  the  man  off  the  step.  The 
ba-sket  which  had  been  handed  up  contained 
a  big  carving-knife.  Thos.  11.\tclikfe. 

Worksop. 

STKr-BROTHKE  (lO'"  S.  1.  329).— I  sbould 
have  no  doubt  that  the  sons  of  a  widower 
married  to  a  widow  are  not  step-brothers  to 
her  children  born  of  her  first  marriage.  If 
brouclit  up  in  one  family  they  would  natur- 
ally be  called  brothers  or  brother  and  sktAt  -^ 
the  mavvvsk.*&  VjcX^w^aew  %>a.Ov\  %.  NsvoiCsx'sx  ^sa. 


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known  a  case ;  such  cases  are  not  common, 
it  being  generallj'  supposed  that  children 
brought  up  in  one  houseliold  are  not  prone 
to  fall  in  love.  If  two  rtlon,  not  related, 
marry  two  aistera,  they  do  not  thereby 
become  brothers-in-law.  In  French  there  in 
but  one  word—beav/rne—ior  step-brother 
and  brother-in-law.  How  came  the  word 
beau  to  be  used  in  this  sense  ?  T.  Wiuson. 
Harp«iiden. 

Gekman  Prophecy  (a"'  S.  xii.  330).  — See 
the  note  on  'Enweri'  in  'Noteu  und  Abhand- 
langen  «um  west  datlichen  Divan,'  by  Qoethe, 
Weimar  ed.,  vol.  vii.  p.  54. 

J.  E.  R.  Stephens. 

Temple,  E.C. 

"Monkey  oy  the  cmMNEv"  (lO"*'  S.  i. 
288).— The  saying  here  ia  "monkey  on  the 
house,"  and  the  meaning  is  the  same— a 
mortgap,  or,  aa  some  put  it,  "the  house  is 
in  pop.  Quite  near  me  is  a  house  which  for 
many  years  has  been  known  as  "  the  monkey 
house"— a  former  owner  had  mortgaged  it 
heavily.  Often,  with  reference  to  property, 
the  question  is  asked,  "  What  monkey  is  on  1 " 

,.,    ,  Thos.  Ratcufke. 

Worksop. 

Gkkealocy:  New  Sophces  (lo"'  S.  i.  187, 
218,  258).— Tlie  following  e.xtract  from  the 
Admiralty  Bill  Books  speaks  for  itself  as  to 
the  value  of  them  in  matters  of  pedigree  :— 

''To  Sarah  Clarke  wid"  of  .Jeremy  Clarke,  late 
midshipman  on  board  tlie  Milford,  who  died  of  the 
wounds  he  reo"  in  fight  against  Ihe  French  the 
i  Jan>  96  the  aumm  of  W.  iftt.  being  ifaeir  Mai" 
Gracious  Bounty.  More  to  her  for  the  use  of  her 
tive  chddren,  tsarri'.  aged  l.S  years  ;   Elizabeth,  aeed 

li '  »  r',"Vr^'  ^"x^  V.  ''?■'■»''•  '^**^-^:  Michael,  aged 
2i,  at  .V.  10..  each.  'i7/.  IIV.    In  all,  the  aum  of  forty- 
four  pounds.  DatedS  Feb' 1099^1 700."— Bill  Book  7/. 
Obrald  Marshall. 

.r"^  ''AST-  (lO'h  S.  i.  327).-In  Act  I.  of 
_Lady  W  mdorraeres  Fan '  the  Duchess  of 
Berwick  says  :  "  Many  a  woman  has  a  past : 
but  I  in  t^jld  she  has  at  least  a  dozen,  and 
that  they  all  fit."  This  play  was  given  for 
the  first  time  at  the  St.  James',  Tfieatre  on 
Saturday,  20  February,  1802. 

John  B.  Waixbwright. 
ANTiyUARY  /'.  Antivuaria.v  (10"'  S.  i.  325) 
—I  can  remember  once  observing  to  a  lady 
who  applied  the  latter  term  to  me  that  I  was 
a  substantive  and  not  an  adjective,"  which 
must  be  the  correct  answer.  The  former  is  an 
abstract  term,  the  latter  a  concrete  term 
^wo/L/i„^^o  Batler,  an   abstract  implies  a 

^o/iu  Staart  Mill  divides  them  into  contio 


tativo  and  non-connotative.  We  should  not 
recognize  Jonathan  Oldbuck  c4  MoukbarDS 
as  an  "  antiquariaa." 

John  PrcKFORD,  MA- 
Newbourne  Rectory,  Woodbrjdge. 

I  quite  agree  that  the  use  of  the  adjecliver 
as  a  substantive  in  this  case  is  inof«t  objec- 
tionable. I  think  it  would  be  belter  to  use 
the  phrase  applied  to  myself  by  a  somewhat 
illiterate  colleague  on  a  public  body,  who 
asked  for  my  opinion  on  tlie  ground  that  I 
was  "an  antique  sort  of  person. ' 

E.  E.  Strkkt. 


Fettiplace  (lO"*  S.  i.  329).— This  name 
frequently  occurs  in  Sir  Thomas  Phillipps'g 
'Chipping  Norton  Register '(British  Museum). 
Dr.  Marahall's  'Genealogist's  Uuide'  also  con- 
tains a  number  of  references  to  thu  samd 
name.  Willouchby  A.  LiTTLEDAUii 

I  am  the  possessor  of  many  deeds  tracing 
the  genealogy  of  the  Fettiplace  family  for 
centuries,  and  «hall  be  glad  to  hear  from 
G.  P.  E.  C.  Davky. 

Aihenivum,  Bath. 

There  are  plenty  of  records  of  the  familj 
of  Fettiplace  in  existence.  If  C.  P.  will  apply 
to  me  I  can  help  him  to  some  roference*. 

Gkohob  Sherwooix 

m.  Beecroft  Road.  Brockley.  S.E. 

There  are  wills  under  that  name  in  thtt 
literary  department  of  Somerset  House. 

D.  E.  F. 

Has  G.  P.  consulted  the  reference-s  coo* 
tained  under  this  name  in  *  The  GeneaKjgi»it'8 
Guide.'  by  Dr.  George  W.  Marshall,  Rouge 
Croi.x  7  The  name  is  also  spelt  Fettyplace» 
Fetyplace,  and  Phetiplace, 

A.  R.  Batlev. 

St.  Margaret's,  Malvern. 

An  account  of  this  family  will  be  found  ia 
Burke's  'Extinct  Boronet*,'  but  fuller  details 
in  county  histories  and  'Lnnded  Gentry.' 
It  dates  from  Norman  times  in  the  person 
of  an  official  termed  "usher"  to  William  tlie 
Conqueror;  its  landed  posses«ion.s  involved 
branches  at  Childrey,  Bessel's  Leigh,  Feiu- 
ham,  Larabourne,  Kingston  Lisle,  Swiubrook, 
Denchwith,  Letcombo.  The  baronetcy,  con- 
ferred  in  1G61,  failed  in  1743  from  want  of 
male  heirs,  but  is  represented  through 
females  by  Bushel,  who  assumed  the  original 
name  of  Fettiplace.  A.  H. 

Where  was  (Jckwolls  Manor  Hitu*^''-'  "  'uch 
C.   P.  mentions  at  the  above  ni  1 

ca.TVTio\,^v\»i,\,W'B*.Tv\e  Uckwell  in  an.,  ,.,.i.    '- 1  i.or 


^^  j^_: *:„. 


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397 


» 


<ierivation  from  the  River  Ock  in  BerkHhire, 
or  from  llio  parish  of  Qck  ia  the  same  county. 
I  do  not  know  of  anj'  records  of  tlie  family 
of  Fettiplace,  but  near  Wantage  is  an  ancient 
building,  formerly  occupied  by  the  Fetti- 
places,  wiierein  Charles  I.  Biept  on  his 
tuarch  from  Oxford  to  Marlborough. 

Chas.  F.  Fohshaw,  LL.D. 
Bradford. 

This  is  the  fifth  occasion  on  which  inquiries 
bave  appeare<l  in  *  N.  &  Q.'  for  particulars 
of  persons  bearing  this  singular  name,  and 
information  has  generally  been  obtained. 
See  2"'  S.  iii.  ;  6'''  S.  v.;  7"'  S.  vi.,  viii,; 
e"*  S.  iv.  EvEEABD  Home  Coleman. 

7).  Brecknock  Road. 

Lkche  Family  (10*"  S.  i.  207,  274.  293,  334). 
— Two  branches  of  this  family  have  pedi- 
grees in  Ormerod's  '  Cheshire,'  one  resident 
at  Mollington  ou  the  Birkenhead  side  of 
Chester,  the  other  for  generations  occupying 
the  fine  old  hall  at  Carden,  close  to  Broxton 
station  of  the  line  between  Chester  and 
Malpas.  When  I  was  a  boy  the  then  squire 
■was  John  Hurleston  Leche,  High  Sheriff  of 
Cheshire  in  1862.  He  died  recently,  and  was 
succeeded  by  his  son,  also  John  Hurle.ston 
Leche,  who  was  born  19  November,  18r>8. 
Several  of  the  family  held  corporate  ofhce 
in  the  city  of  Chester.  The  following  were 
sheriffs:  Ureorgo  Leeche  (1536-7);  Henry 
Leeche  U5<*4-5);  Randal  Leecho  (1S78-9) ; 
John  Looche  (1628). 

T.  Cajjk  Hughes,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Lancaster. 

I  Legend  or  tub  CocxcrL  ok  Constance 
<10"'  S.  i.  8).— Maikovis  probably  adopting  for 
bis  own  purposes  an  old  legend  of  the  Council 
of  Basle,  told  by  Heine  in  his  *  Germany,' 
first  part,  book  i.  On  Heine's  story  C.  G. 
Leland  has  the  following  note  ('The  Works 
of  Heinrich  Heine,'  vol.  v.,  pp.  13  14)  ;  — 

"It  may  jntorest  man v  reader? to  know  how 

Heine  himself  traiialat«(l,  for  wLicli  reason  I  ffivo 
the  original  of  this  tnle,  as  first  toIH  hy  >ranh"as,  and 
re)»eat€d  by  Grosiue  in  his  'Magioji,  ecu  Mimbiliuni 
lliatori&ruiii  de  S{icctri«  ol  Aiiiiaritioiiibut,'  Islebia-, 
1597.  It  occurs  in  severnl  later  works.  Heine  took 
hU  version  from  KorDmaan,  Temp.  X.H.,  IGII  : 
*  I)octi  qnidRni    viri   in    Con^'ilio   na«1ien«i   atiimic 


,II>.-1. 
fut  a: 

Inli;i 

luNciEtiiu  •! 
[Voci«  dul<  ' 

■«i  KJh  .Will,  i>i  <" 

lur.  eanujuo  cilrn 

itoin  altentia  (o 

BMltwnt.  Tandem  !»,■: 

kt,  a!lo<|tiitur  hii  V' 

lomiite    ChrisU,    ut 


i  fuerant, 

iiiferrent. 

!:    niodum 

m  audiuul  .  luliniraiilur 

I  avia  cantUK  diibidtut. 

'  —  •-■■  •'■—■■! TiKi'i- 

•I  Vhlfii  vole- 
■' Ailjiiro  to  in 

,..  ,       J.  ,.,.i,      (juil      818  T" 


Reaj.ioi)dit  avicula :  "Se  esse  unani  ex  danmati; 
aniinabus,  et  destinatam  esse  ad  eum  locani,  usaue 
ad  diem  novissimum.  et  tunc  suppliciuni  wtemum 
subeundum  ease.'  Hia  dictia  avolavit  ex  arbore, 
clamitans:  "<J  nuam  diuturua  et  imniensa  eat 
aet«rnitaa  !  '  "  ludico  fuisse  Diabolum."  inouit 
Philippus  MclancthoD,  -in  illo  loco  habitanteni." 
Onines  vero  qni  huic  adjiirationi  iuterfuerunt, 
volienient«r  lefcrotare  cienerunt,  et  paulo  iwst  sunt 
niortui  ('lu  CoUectanois  Manlii  )." 

Leland  goes  on  to  point  out  the  differences 
between  this  story  and  Heine's  version  of  it. 
John  B.  Wainewbight. 

Periodicals  fou  W^omen  (10"*  S.  i.  228, 
295).— Let  me  add  another  to  the  lists  which 
have  already  appeared— tJie  Ladies'  Cabinet^ 
in  small  8vo,  illustrated  with  steel  engravings, 
price  sixpence  monthly.  It  certainly  ran  a 
career  for  several  years,  and  I  can  remember 
it  in  existence  in  1843. 

John  Pkkfoed,  M.A. 

Ncwbourne  Rectory,  WoodbridRe. 

Indian  Sport  (10"'  S.  i.  349).— Emehitus 
will  find  much  valuable  information  on  the 
subject  of  Indian  sport,  with  reference  to 
tiger  shooting,  buffalo  hunting,  snipe  shoot- 
ing. &c.,  in  a  work  entitled  'Letters  on  Sport 
in  Eastern  Bengal,'  illustrated,  by  Frank  B. 
Simson,  of  the  Bengal  Civil  Service,  pub- 
lished by  R.  H.  Porter,  6,  Tenterdeu  Street, 
London,  in  1886.  Mr.  Simson  was  in  India 
from  1847  to  1873,  and  his  last  appoint- 
ment was  that  of  Commissioner  of  Dacca. 
During  those  years  he  was  a  most  distin- 
guished sportsman,  and  his  book  can  be 
thoroughly  relied  upon  for  accuracy  in  every 
respect.  He  never  exaggerated  his  exploits, 
ana  there  is  no  embroidery  whatever  in  any 
of  his  descriptions. 

At  p.  33  he  writes  :  "I  killed  nine  tigers  in 
the  first  three  days.  I  shot  on  the  iisiland  of 
Duakin-Shabazpore."  Duakin-Shabazpore  is 
an  island  in  the  Soonderbuns,  near  Backer- 
gunge,  full  of  tigers. 

At  p.  116  Mr  Simson  remarks  :— 

"  Aa  ta  the  sixe  of  the  tiger  you  will  have  very 
different  accounts.  There  wa«  aa  article  on  this 
subject,  written  by  itiy  friend  Sir  Joseph  Fayrer, 
in  Aature  for  November,  1878.  The  atatenionta  of 
many  exi^rienced  sportsmen  were  reconJed,  my 
own  among  the  niimber.  I  say  there  that  no  tiger 
killed  by  me  measured  more  than  eleven  feet  from 
snout  to  tail  when  properly  measured,  I  may 
remark  that  the  moat  experienced  tiger-shooter  in 
my  own  service  stated  that  he  did  not  think  be  had 
oni^c  killed  one  more  than  eleven  f»et  and  a  few 
inohoi;  Inny;,  and  I  know  he  killed  between  four  and 
five  hundred  tiRors.  The  conclusion  fSir  Joseph 
conies  to,  ofter  careful  compariaon  of  account*,  is 
thitt  an\Mhin2  over  ten  feet  is  very  largo,  but  that 
•d  ten  feet  three  inchoa ;  vx\  \>.t^. 
•3V'tiofta.V  xwaXAXvcftft  AtstiwwA  v^vwi. 

•.,,  ^...  ...   ....\U  \Jft«iTVX«itOt^«ft" 


398 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [lo*  s.  i.  may  a  iwi. 


Again,  at  p.  161  this  grand  sportsmao,  writ- 
ing of  an  exceptional  day  in  the  jungles  near 
Slyinenaiug  in  February,  1866,  when  five 
tigera  were  shot  down,  remarks:  *'I  never 
shot  five  tigers  at  any  other  time  ;  I  have 
killed  three  tigers  in  a  day  moi'e  than  once." 
Of  elephants  he  observes  at  p.  89  :— 
"  Elephants  arc  delicate  animals  :  thoy  ofleD  ail, 
and  often  die  after  abort  illnesses.  The  male 
elephant  belonging  to  the  Nazir  of  Noak holly,  and 
two  very  valuable  elephants  of  my  own,  died  while 
in  my  itoBsesnion,  though  it  ia  stated  that  the  life 
of  an  elephant  should  average  one  hundred  years." 

As  Waireu  Hasting-s  left  India  for  England, 
never  to  return,  on  7  February,  1785,  the 
answer  to  the  question  "Is  the  elephant 
whieli  carried  Warren  Hastings  still  alive  ?  " 
must  surely  be  in  the  negative. 

Jaxss  Watson. 
Folkeatotie. 

Collins  (10*''  S.  i.  329).— The  Collins  family 
has  been  established  in  this  village  for  the 
past  170  years.  The  first  entry  in  our 
registers  is  the  marriage  of  Richard  Collins 
to  Mary  Ford  on  19  September,  1731.  At  the 
present  time  Collins  is  one  of  our  commonest 
surnames  ;  it  is  borne  by  no  fewer  than  five 
distinct  families,  all  of  whom  belong  to  the 
agricultural  labouring  class. 

John  T.  Page. 

West  Haddon,  Northamptonshire, 

Easter  Sbpuli  urk  (10"'  S.  i.  265).— If  he  is 
not  already  familiar  with  the  book,  W.  C.  B. 
may  be  glad  of  a  reference  to  H.  J.  Feasey's 
'  Ancient  English  Holy  Week  Ceremonial ' 
(London,  Thos.  Baker,  1897),  which  contains 
much  interesting  matter  coucerniug  the 
Easter  Sepulchrt?,  pp.  129-78. 

JouN  B.  Wainewright. 


'^iutllmtmi. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &c. 
GrttU  MaAtrr».    Part  XIV.     (HeinenianD.) 

The  fourteenth  part  of  this  choioest  of  art  publica- 
tions opens  with  a  portrait  of  Dr.  Petal,  by  Fran- 
cesco Ju>t-  de  Goya,  in  character  a  sort  of  modern 

Cellini,  examples  of  whose  mintings  are  rare  in  tliis 

country.    The  present  worlc,  a  superb  picture  of  a 

niau  in  a  epeciee  of  Oirecloire  costume,  is  from  Mr. 

I  r.  Donaldson's  collection,  and  was  exhibited  at  the 

(jJuildhall  in  IflOl.    Some  of  Ijoya's  customary  traits 

are  shown  us  in  the  work,  which  depicts  a  strong 

and     singularly     resolute     man.      Gainsborough's 

'  Duke  and  Duchess  of  Cumberland,' from  Wiiitrsor 

Castle,  exiuliitcd  iu  1777,  cotnes  next.    The  duke 

and  durheas  Halk  ami  in  arm  in  a  nark,  with  Lad 

Eli/abelh  Lutlr«.dl  seated  in  the  oackground. 
ia  /i)rno»t  more  noticeable  as  landscajie    than  as 
poetraitnre,   and   compares,   as  says  the  criticism 

»t>t'eti(led,  yiilh  lUe  work  <A\^aXXi&&.'a.    .Ian  Steen'a  ^ 

'Vhrigtinaa  Eve,'  from  the  Hi jksmusettTU,  AmB\.«t- \ viXiVtVi Vv«i ^ould  i^ 


t 


dam,  is  a  signed  and  an  eminently  characteristic 
work  of  that  cheerful  master.  It  has  no  fewer  than 
ten  tiKures,  most  of  them  supposed  memljors  of  tho" 
artists  family,  and  has  a  sweet,  homely,  domestic 
atmosphere.  Venus  with  the  Mirror,' by  Velas- 
i|uez,  iisone  of  the  rare  examples  of  th>-  r.<<-i'>  in-  this 
greatest  of  masters-  The  figure  has  u  '^e, 

partly  suggeated,  as  ia  riKiitly  said,  i  nan 

statue  of  the  '  nerinaj)hroditc.'  The  himIcI  iiua  her 
back  to  the  8))ectator,  and  is  reclining  on  a  conch 
with  dark  drapery.  It  is  from  the  collection  of  Mr. 
H.  K.  Morrilt,  and  seems  to  have  been  painted  for 
Philip  IV.  as  a  companion  to  a  Venus  executed  for 
Philip  II.  by  Titjau.  Nothing  could  be  better  than 
the  slope  of  the  figure  and  the  poise  of  the  head. 

The  Enijli^h  Calalog^u  of  Books  for  1W3.   (Sampsao 

Low  &  Co. ) 
The  sixty-seventh  yearly  issue  of  'The  English 
Catalogue  of  Books '  keeps  up  the  reputation  ofone 
of  the  most  useful  of  bibliographical  workt*.  It 
Occupies  close  upon  three  hunuroil  pages,  and  itivea, 
in  addition  to  a  list  of  the  works  published,  the 
names  and  addresses  of  the  jm' '•''-;  *'  'reat 
Btitain  and  Ireland,  andtho  pri  ^  of 

the  L^nited  Slates  and  Canana.  .  \e« 

nient  we  can  suggest — and  it  appliou  lu  liiu  work 
from  the  beginniDg— is  that  Christian  names  should, 
when  possible,  be  given  in  full — as  Austin  (Alfred), 
instead  of  Austin  (A,).  In  some  cases,  where  tw» 
men  have  tlie  same  initial,  as  for  instance  in 
Smith  (,T.),  confusion  might  be  caused.  The  work 
remains  iodispensablc. 

RnninUctiirrt  and  TaMe    Talk  of  Samurl  Roatru 

Edited  by  tj.  H.  PoweU.  (Brimley  Johnson.) 
This  reprint  is  welcome.  With  somealteratioos  of 
the  prefatory  matter,  it  supplies  the  contents  of 
Dyoe's  '  Recollections  of  the  Table  Talk  of  Samuel 
Rogers,'  issued  in  a  handsome  and  limiteil  edtlioQ 
from  .Southgatein  1.S87.  The  ])ortrait  is  different. 
Rogers's  'Table  Talk'  ia  interesting;  rnucb  of  it 
casts  a  strong  light  upon  literary  history  at  tbo 
beginning  of  last  century. 

Somt  hOltrn  of  Saint  Bi'rftanl,    Selected  by  F.  A. 

Gasi]uet,  D.I).    (Hodges.) 
Tui.s  selection    appearing  in  a  series   of    "  Great 
Letter-Writers,"  we  presume  we  arc  intended  to 
estimate  its  contents  not  so  much  fur  ^lit 

and  religious  fervouraa  for  their  literat  -et 

No   one   probably  would    think    of    u.. ...... i,^  :he 

epistles  of  St.  Paul— with  the  exception,  perJui|is, 
of  that  to  Philemon— in  such  a  series,     f  >nr  prt^sciit 
consideration  is  not  whether  the  Abbot  .ux. 

wa.s  an  emitieut  saint,  an  acute  thti  in 

inllucntiul  factor  in  the  life  of  Europe  lu  .....     ..  .;iih 

century— all  which,  no  doubt,  he  waa— but  bow 
far  his  letters  deserve  to  bo  regarded  as  tj'picAl 
specimens  of  the  art  of  letter-writing  in  iminl  of 
style  and  self-disclosure  of  the  writer,  Waa  be  in 
any  sense  a  forerunner  of  Madame  de  Sc«vignd',  and 
Walpolo,  and  Cowper,  and  Southey,  or  a  auocessor 
to  Cicero  and  Pliny?  On  the  contrary,  St,  Beniard 
seems  rather  to  have  grud^'ed  the  time  »|ienl 
ill  necessary  corresiiDndcnce  wiili  pnientatos  and 
his  coreligionists,  and  he  never  t"'.!,  m  1:!^  i<-a 
except  to  instruct  and  edify  or  .!• 
business  concerning;  tlie  welfare  i 
He  erjirossly  stn 
correspondence 


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I 


letter-writer  htula  it  as  facile  and  pleasant  as  con- 
versation itBuif.      IDven  of  those  lettera  easentially 
.didactic,  the  selection  liere  oflTered  does  not  ceeni  to 
|bt)  haiipv.    That  numbered  Ix.,  so  far  from  bein^ 
luitublc  lor  a  poiiular  collection,  ie  nothing  else  than 
,  dry  tlieoloKieal  treatise  of  thirty*five  pagua  ou  the 
rrors  and    iiereBies   of    Abaelard,    and  even    thia 
requires  a  long  prefatory  explanation  of  twenty-one 
zea. 

ihe  acleoLiou  ia  made  from  the  excellent  transla- 
tion of  iSt.  Bernard's  works  by  Dr.  Kales,  and  in 
Konie  inBtances  the  editor  has  conveyed  the  material 
without  making  the  necessary  corrections  and 
excisions  of  cross-references  to  letters  and  passages 
uot  contained  in  the  present  volume,  which  is 
uuzzling  to  the  reader.  The  candour  of  the  modern 
Benedictine  is  to  be  admired  in  including  Letter  si  v., 
in  which  the  saint  earnestly  repudiates  the  newly 
introduced  Festival  of  the  Immaculate  Conception 
of  !St-  Mary,  and  condemns  it  in  round  terms  as  "a 
presumptuous  novelty,  against  the  custom  of  the 
I  Church." 

ScmatOfji-nphij  of  tht  Grctk  Pnpyi-i,  by  F.  \V.  G. 
I  Foat.  is  a  paper  of  ^reat  interest  reprinted  from  the 
^JoitrticU  f>f  HrlUmc  StutUeg.     The  first  word    of 
the  title  beinn  recently  invented,  we  believe,  and 
I)Osaibly  obscure  in  meaning  to  tlie  ordinary  reader, 
we  should  say  that  Dr.  Foat's  learned  study,  based 
on  the  examination  of  the  Greek  of  about  three 
hundred  papyri,  aup|Xjrt«  the  thesis  that  the  various 
symbols   and  abbreviations  which   recur  are  not 
irrational  or  arbitrary,  but  natural  curt&ilmenta  of 
real  words.    In  fact,  the  cursive  hand  of  one  genera- 
tion is  the  symbol  of  the  next,     fjome  such  process 
is     unconsciously    intro<luccd_   in    many    careless 
handwritings    of    to-day,    wiiich    are    quite    easy 
to  us,  but  very  dithoult   to  a  foreigner  not  used 
^^  to    the    common   endinjrs    of    our    language.      Dr. 
^K  Foat  points  out  that  some  symbols  can  be  traced 
^Hfroui  a  simple  ligatured  cursive  to  a  conventional 
^Hform  ;  thus  a  mutilated  gamma  standing  for  yivirui 
^H  ia  put  before  a  total.    The  whole  study  sugKCSted 
^V  is  extremely  interesting,  and  most  of   Dr.  Foal's 
'        results  are  ingeniously  worked  out,  with  abundant 
references  to  the  work  of  distinguished  exiKinenls  of 
the  papyri,  both  lierraan  and  English.    In  i>ioneer 
worK  lilce  this  it  is  ea«r  to  be  led  away  on  tanciful 
tiaths,   data  not   bsiug    obvious  for  intermediale 
forma,  but  we  think  that  Dr.  Foat  lias  found  oat  so 
much  which  is  certain  that  he  deserves  liieh  credit 
for  liis  researches.     He  notes  by  the  way  that  it  is 
surprising  that  hundreds  of  eonmion  words  have 
not  been  forced  into  abbreviated  forms  in  modern 
Kuglish.      The    eighteenth    century   was   in    this 
respect,   we  may  say,   more  daring    than  we  are 
to-day,  though  some  "  copy  "  for  the  press  would 
Satisfy  oven  a  zealous  reiornier,  and  we  saw  in  a 
book  we  handled  but  yesterday  "  Norm.'"  printed 
in  the  current  text  throughout  for  Norman. 

Jff  the  Biirliiioinn  npfienrs  th«>  socond  portion  of 
'TheDnu'  f    "         ''  Millet  )i»  tlie  Col- 

lci:tion  fii  ■    With  this  is 

(jivenuli  'loollector.    The 

dirsi  .i»«ti  (or  '  Lc  .Semeur,' 

'  Di  iieur«,"LePlKnlour,' 

•  Lt-  IIS,'  and  '  L'Hommo  a 

1,1 1'.:  !)>;  are  the  rcproduc- 

lion  :  larlpiftn  M.S.  of  '  The 

Cliroiiii-li;  uf  .UliAii  <  rulun  Luucemiiig  Kitlinid  II.' 
Half  these  ku|>crb  miniaturos  are  ro|>ro<1uced  ui 
the  present  uuui>>cr.     'IIaIIou  Boxwood  Carvings 


of  the  Sixteenth  Century  '  and  *  Portraits  by  Joha 
Van  Eyck  '  also  repay  close  study.  A  reproduction 
of  Leonardo's  '  Portrait  of  Luorezia  Crivelli,*  from 
the  Louvre,  makes  a  fine  frontispiece  to  an  attrac- 
tive number. 

'Lksme  Stkpiiex  asp  his  Work,'  in  the 
</^ta>iii-lij  Iiti-i(ip  for  April,  is  a  most  interest- 
ing paper  by  one  who  must  have  made  » 
study  of  Stephen's  career.  Stephen  was  a  typical 
utilitarian  of  the  higher  class,  and  conse- 
quently  was  attracted  by  the  men  of  the  eigh- 
teenth century.  Those  among  us  who  are  _ab 
the  opposite  iwlo  of  thought  cannot  but  admire 
Stephen's  honesty  and  the  careful  manner  in  which 
he  avoided  all  overstatement.  "In  dealing  willi 
Froude,"  we  are  told  "Stephen  was  almost  too 
kind";  we  think  his  reviewer  errs  in  the  same 
direction.  To  cxcu^o  Fronde's  blunders  and  i>ara- 
doxes— not  to  use  stronger  words — by  his  love  of 
mischief  is  surely  itself  mischief-making.  Wo  havo 
a  right  to  demand  that  book?  of  history  or  bio- 
craiHiy,  if  written  at  all,  should  tell  the  truth. 
Froude's  style  is  not  of  such  a  tracscendeat 
quality  as  certain  ]>eraons  have  represented  it, 
but  it  is  quite  sufficiently  attractive  to  have  per- 
manently distorted  the  vision  of  those  who  have 
been  cat)tured  by  it.  For  ourselves,  we  havo  no 
hesitation  in  saying  that  Leslie  Stephen's  style  ia 
not  only  more  accurate,  but  far  nobler,  than  that 
of  the  man  who  gave  us  so  much  of  history  in 
mastjuerade.  To  speak  of  Freeiuan  as  not  having 
"asjnark  of  humour"  is  outrageous,  as  everyone 
who  had  the  jilea^ure  of  knowing  him  will  testify  ; 
he  was,  however,  too  conscientious  to  distort 
history  for  the  sake  of  amusing  the  groundlings. 
The  reviewer  ends  his  (taper  with  the  welcome  and. 
absolutely  accurate  statement  that  it  is  im))08siblo 
to  have  read  Stephen's  books  "  without  revoronCQ> 
for  the  fidelity  of  the  artist,  and  affection  for  the 
personality  of  the  man."  Mr.  Reginald  Blomtield's 
'  .A,rt  of  the  French  Renaissance'  has  given  us  great 
satisfaction.  The  Revolution  wrought  destruction 
among  the  great  housci  of  France  almost  as  terrible 
as  what  occurred  to  our  monasteries  during  the 
iieriod  of  the  Reformation.  We  have,  however, 
nardly  any  nlans  or  drawings  of  the  great  (iothie 
buildings  wiiich  were  swept  away  in  this  country, 
while  we  believe  that  many  of  the  great  French 
houses  that  have  disappeared  havo  left  some 
memorials  behind  them— very  imperfect,  in  most 
coses,  it  ia  true,  but  not  without  much  interest  for 
the  lovers  of  art.  It  is  not  dear  why  many  of  these 
noble  structures  came  intobeing  ;  our  interpretation, 
is  that  in  not  a  few  instances  it  was  merely  from  a. 
feeling  of  vulgar  display,  for  among  the  Frcnchi 
aristocracy  the  lovo  of  home  life  wnich  has  been< 
a  passion  with  Englishmen  was  well-nigh  unknown. 
\\c  ha%'e  evidence  of  this  in  the  fact  that  when 
taste  changed  the  ^eat  nobles  neglected,  and  in 
some  instanceae  ven destroyed,  the  palaces  in  which, 
their  forefathers  had  taken  ]>ride,  for  it  must  bO' 
remembered  that  by  no  means  all  the  losses  we  have 
to  mourn  were  the  work  of  the  Revolutionists.  Mr. 
Edword  Wright  has  a  very  good  puiior  on  *  Tho 
Novels  of  Tlidinas  Hardy,'  and  Mr.  Henry  Jamva 
writes  skilfully,  if  uot  wisely,  on  Gabriule  D'Au- 
nunzio. 

'  Sir  Grohok  Thkvklva!!  ok  tiik  Amkricav 
RkvijM'TUiN,' in  the  Eitintmr^h  ifirifi'  foe  A,.vt\\,» 
is  a  remarkably  pictuc<i«,«.\\w  v».\iteT  AvisN.  '«'i  ■«^*  ■^*** 


400 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [lo*  s.  i.  may  u.  i9m. 


elusions.  Of  course  we  Diust  admit  that  the  line 
t&keu  by  (ioorge  HI.  and  liiK  adviseni  was  techuic- 
aIIv  defeiiiiible  —  unanswei-able,  indeed,  from  the 
iiodaut's  point  of  view— but  this  affords  no  juati- 
Bcalioa  whatever  for  a  reversal  of  the  verdict  which 
|K>Blerity  has  alnioal  unauiaioiuly  given  asainst  it. 
"Our  Civil  War  of  the  seventeenth  century  had  then 
'been  fought  out  little  more  than  a  hundred  years. 
Now  it  haa  become  a  mere  matter  of  history,  like 
the  Crusades  or  the  PlantaKcnct  wars  in  France, 
known  to  the  tiori-readine  class  from  achool-books 
or,  it  may  be,  univoraily  lectures  ;  but  then  many 
men  were  alive  whose  erandfalhera  had  suffered  in 
the  contest,  and  traditions  were  living  iti  every 
■county — nay,  inalniostevery  village— of  the  sorrows 
«nd  hardships  which  Eaglishnienliad  endured.  We 
are  aware  that  the  issues  on  the  two  occasions  were 
Ly  no  means  strictly  (>arallel,  but  they  were  nearly 
eo,  and  to  the  American  mind  as  well  as  to  the 
symiiathizerB  at  home  they  jiresented  a  far  closer 
analogy  than  they  now  do  to  the  studenl  who  views 
them  in  the  dry  light  of  history.  The  hiring  of 
-iaernian  soldiers,  also,  to  slaughter  our  own  i>eo)do 
across  the  Atlantic  was  an  unpardonable  outrage, 
which  it  is  hard  to  forgive  even  now,  though  far 
more  than  a  century  haa  paaaed  away  :  but  an  even 
deeper  stain  rests  on  the  rulers  of  those  German 
atates,  who  saw  no  harm  in  selling  "  their  subjects 
to  be  slaughtered  in  hundroda  or  thousands  in  a 
cause  of  which  they  had  no  knowledge,  and  in 
which  they  had  no  concern."  '  The  Women  of  the 
Renaissance,'  so  far  as  it  treats  of  its  birth-land— 
Italy — is  exceptionally  good  ;  but  we  can  say  little 
in  commendation  of  the  latter  |»art,  wherein  the 
iadies  of  France  arc  noticed.  lu  France  a  movo- 
tuent  which,  on  its  inception,  was  distinctly  a 
onatter  of  culture  only,  soon  became  so  blended 
with  narrow  theological  schemes  that  it  lost  its 
(lumanislic  flavour.  The  Renaissance  in  its  purity 
was  to  be  found  in  Italy,  and,  as  it  seems  to  us, 
nowhere  else,  though  in  diluted,  and  often  cor- 
rupting, forms  it  spread  its  influence  over  the 
whole  of  the  west  of  Europe.  Wo  hear  much  of 
Isabella  d'Eate,  a  stately  and  lovable  tigiire,  of 
whom  we  can  never  tiru,  though,  with  all  her 
Je&rniDg  and  attractiyene8i<,  there  were  traits  in 
Qier  character  which  give  pain  to  the  nuKiern  uiind. 
For  example,  when  the  wife  of  her  brother  Alplionso 
■died  her  only  idea  was  to  send  him  her  dwarf  for 
.consolation."  This  was  porhajis  not  so  strange  as 
it  seems.  There  may  have  been  reasons  which, 
could  wo  know  the  dt^tails,  would  change  the  as|>ect 
of  tliis  grotesque  incident  into  a  real  act  of  thought- 
ful kindness  ;  but  it  is  impossible  to  find  any  excuse 
for  her  treatment  of  the  painter  Mantegua  when 
old,  poor,  and  in  debt.  To  take  from  htm  his 
greatest  treasure,  "an  autiiiue  head— a  Faustina— 
which  he  loved  more  pasaionately,  perhaps,  than 
any  human  b^iiig,"  and  theu  not  to  fullil  tiie  terms 
of  her  cruel  contract,  was  a  piece  of  heartlessnei;* 
which  it  is  impossible  to  excuse.  Yet  she  was  a 
wotnau  of  deep  and  constant  aOection,  as  is  shown 
by  her  treatment  of  her  luisbund  when  she  had 
niuch  to  complain  of.  It  is  indicated  also,  as  some 
will  maintain,  by  her  having  a  cypress-shaded 
cemetery  for  her  favourite  cats.  '  The  Letters  of 
Horace  Walpole '  relate  to  a  fasciualing  subiect. 
What  the  writer  stigmatizes  as  "Ix)rd  iMocaulays 
fierce  assault  on  WaJ|)ole"we  admit  required  an 
answer,  and  here  wo  liavc  it  executed  with  great 
care  and  discretion ;  but  oa  the  Whig  historian 
Jailed  in  one  direction,  bo  the  present  writer  haa 


done  in  another.  No  one  will  nue«tion  that  th^ 
WaliK>le  correspondence  is  valuable  on  account  ol 
the  multitude  of  social  facta  embedded  therein  :  so, 
for  that  matter,  are  Tom  Hearne's  diaries :  but 
there  are  persona  who,  not  coiitout  with  iIiik,  regard 
WaJp-ole's  carefully  elaborated  styli-  t-  ■  '  ■•  •  rlun^^ 
good  in  itself.   He  was  a  man  of  mo.  tigs 

and  hi?  attitude  to  many  of  his  .  .  ^ries 

shows  an  incapacity  for  appreciating  L!i.un,cter« 
difFeront  from  his  own.  Had  thi«  urisen  from 
iKjlitical  prejudice  many  excuses  might  be  made, 
for  we  all  know  how  very  far  jtoliiical  hatreds 
reach  :  but  we  are  convinced  that  Walpole's  ani- 
mosities arose  from  far  shallower  moti»e».  'The 
Philosophy  of  Herbert  Spencer'  is  one  of  the  fairest 
articles  we  have  encountered  on  a  subject  which 
is  now  undergoing  discussion  ererywLeie. 


To  the  "  Little  Library"  of  Mes«>r'  '^f-' 
been  added  a  complete  edition  of 
Htnrj/  Vaui/han  (the  iSilurist),  l 
Edward  Hutton.  It  includes  '  Sii 
'Olor  Iscaiius"  (1«51),  'Thaliii  h 
'Pious  Thoughts  and  Ejaculalione. 


"1  hOA 
0/ 

Sir. 

>ua, 

and 


other  writings  of  an  author  whose  wuriia  are  not 
easily  accessible  insocom)irelieii«iveandci>Dvenient 
a  8ha))e.— Messrs.  Mcthuen  have  aUui«gu«d  a  useful 
and  well-illustrated  guide  to  Hampshire,  by  Dr.  J 
Charles  Cox,  B'.S.A. 

To  Boll's  "  Miniature  Series  of  Musioianii"  have 
been  added  satisfactory  lives,  with  portraits  _ 
other  illustrations,  of  Mendelssohn  and  UaodeL 


Ijtjoticfs  to  €onta]ga\xitais. 

We   mtut   call  tptcial  attention  to  lh€  foUo 
notices : — 

On  all  communicatiooa  must  be  written  the  ni 
and  address  of  the  sender,  not  neceMsrily  for  pob* 
lication,  but  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

Wk  cauQot  undertake  to  answer  <]uerie9  privstely.] 

To  secure   insertion   of   con'^'T'.  fons   com* 
s^tondeuts  must  observe  the  )  ules.    Lcl| 

each  note,  query,  or  reply  be  -.  \ 

slip  of  paper,  with  the  ciu 
such  address  as  he  wishes 
ing  queries, or  making  uoiL„  ...... 

entries  in  the  paper,  coQiributors  >l 

Cut  in  parentheses,  immediately 
eading,  the  series,  volume,  a' 
which    they   refer.      Corresp 

queries    are    requested  to  htnu    i-.^    . 

municatioD  "  Duplicats." 

Hic  ET  Ubiquk  ("Rime  v.  Rhymo'i  - 
the  former,  invariably   used    by   ^  ■    Is 

correct,  ana  the  latter  an  error,  1  rail- 

conceived  analogy  with  rhythm. 

Q.  E.  D.  {"Women  and  Crests').— See  the  loi« 
discussion  on  the  right  of  women  n-  -"■  -  '"'  '^ 
ix.,  X.,  xi. 

//OT/CS. 
Editorial  coramutiications  ^^ 
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Usher"— at  the  Office,  Bream's  Buil 
Lane,  E.C. 

We  beg  leave  to  state  that   ■ 
oommunioatious  which,  for  an 
print;  and  to  this  rule  we  oso  mmc  c^  tf^i 


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CONTENTS. -No.  21. 

—Lincoln's  Inn,  tOl  —  Prnverbt   In   the   Waverley 

lfOV«la,     402  -    Su)>slllur«>>1     Porliult    uf     R»leigh.     403  - 

Hnklet  ■'— "PoiilinoaW—  Bella  'Cbaufer'—  '  Solilni- 
t«r"— "The  Si''>U  Ptfenijie,'  4iM  —  Arlttmie  ■ml  Moral 
FblliMujiiliy  —  Hnwker't  •  Trelawny  '  Aiifiel|«<e<l — Carter 
Brnxtou— Si.  Pnuld  <jiialAti>>n  from  KpinioiiiilfS,  4o5^ 
ICotliKr  ShIfiUiii  -  Phii'lH!  Hessel,  the  Sleimry  Ainmon^ 
"     beUve  Birtli,  109. 

IKS  :  -"Th.'ul.Tyof  tJi«Metb«>dl»U"— JeremTTavloT 
tl<)n»— Notlli  Dev  11  M»f  Day  Ciisf^m,  4W-Port 
irthur  —  Wnrrn  —  "  Paliilert  aii<1  popped"  —  Lleut.-Col. 
Oron  —  BulMliig  Cii<Uimi  and  Folk-lore—  "Jeiiloii'i 
Iiitack"— 'The  Olill-lrcii  of  tlu'  Chapel'— Wolverhampton 
Puipit-GlllH'ft.  40l-MafliFwe'»  Blrlh— "Kn  peutenne" 
—  TiK<?r-cliiw  W«ipf)ii  —  l.yoii  Kainilv  —  TitthFrn-raai 
Cat«9t>y  —  Arm^  on  Snrpri  'Council  of  Trent.'  loS  — Pre- 
ccriptlons  —  French    Pi«>(in  —  P>*ms  on    Sliakeipeare  — 

Luther's  illRltcli"  The  Poet  Clo»e— The  Syer-Curatnjt 
Qolleotlon— Taylor  the   Platuniiit— Walton  o(   Ilamt>iirg, 


IiIBS  :— "  HangM,  itrawn,  an.l  quartere.1,"  110— Mar- 
Towen,   411  — 'The    Qrenadier'i    H.xerciu    of    th« 
Orenivito  '—"  Rick  the  Imckft  "-Cathedral  High  Slewardi 
— ■  Atheiiie  Cant*lirigUM»f»'  — S|>enki»r   Smith,   413 — Cold 

IHarlHiiir  r  Wlivly  Arl>"tir— W*llw>ff  Katnily— Kev.  Arthnr 
Galton,  4i;<-M«rk  Hll.li-ilpv-Myara  Family -Miniature 
of  Sir  Inana  Xewton— Links  with  the  Pa.^t,  411— Bishop 
Hintli  — St.  Kllianf  GimiKoano  -IT.  Deaa't  Y'jinl  -Shaiikt  g 
Mare,  *lS-"Pee<t  llie  hrol^  "  —  Wellinglon'*  Hor«e«— 
Sh«ke.%|tertr«'»  fjravo' -Wilton  Nuniu-ry,  116— The  L'.-Wi- 
home  -Bireh  Family  NcUnii  and  Wol«ey  —  Ur.  Alexander 
Qanlen.  117. 
OTKS  l)N  Bf)OKS:-Stuhlit's  '  Lrctiirei  on  Kuropean 
Hl»»j.rv'-Colllii«'«  '8lrThofji««  More'i  Utopia '-Book- 
■  cllerK'  C'ltalnKtira. 
K'ltlwis  lo  C"ne«t"i|i'teiit», 


I 


IJtoUs. 


LINCOLN'S  INN. 
A  NOTEWORTHY  contribution  has  recently 
been  miwle  by  Mr.  W.  Paley  Baildon,  F.S.A., 
^^in  vol,  iv,  of  the  Lincoln's  Inn  Records, 
HUcnown  a.s  the  Black  !3ook»,  o£  wiiich  he  is  the 
^Bleamed  editor,  to  the  old  controversy  a«  to 
^B^i^hence  the  site  now  known  as  Lincoln's  Inn 
^Vderivcd  its  name. 

'  lb  lia^  been  Renerally  agreetl  by  London 

topographePM  that  the  Society  .succeeded  to 
the  possejisiou  of  tlie  town  house  of  Henry 
Lacy,  last  Earl  of  Lincoln,  who  died  full  of 
years  and  honours  in  the  year  1311,  and  took 
their  title  from  him. 

But  Mr.  Baildon  HUggOHts  that,  though  the 
latter  statement  in*  correct,  the  former  is  a 
mistake,  and  hin  theory,  which  in  both 
IngenioUH  and  possible,  and  pos-sesses,  more- 
■over,  the  somewhat  uncommon  merit  of 
originality  is  brie>tly  as  follows. 

1.  It  i»  certain  that  this  nobleman  owned 
consitlerable  property  in  the  immediate 
'iioiphbourhood,  including  the  Manor  of 
llolborii,  and  that  he  did  purchase  the  house 
of  tlie  Black  Friars  near  the  top  of  Chancery 
Line,  whence  Stow  and  his  successors  sur- 
niistid  that  Lincoln's  Inn  must  be  on  tiio  site 
>f  that  house.    This  assumption,  howover,  is 


erroneous.  The  Earl's  private  mansion  was 
not  on  the  site  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  nor  in 
Chancery  Lane  at  all  ;  it  stoo<l  at  the  north- 
east corner  of  Shoe  Lane,  close  to  St.  Andrew's 
Church.  In  later  times  it  passed  to  the 
Stanley  family,  and  was  identical  with 
"  Darby  How.se  in  Showe  I.Ane,"  as  it  was 
called  on  a  document  dated  1548  ;  and  it 
was  not  finally  swept  away  until  1S55. 

2.  The  site  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  as  we  know 
it,  was  granted  by  King  Henry  III.  in  1226 
to  Ralph  Neville,  Bishop  of  Chichester.  He 
built  a  palace  upon  it,  and  died  there  in  1244. 
It  wa.s  occupiea  by  his  successors  in  the  see 
until  the  death  of  Bishop  Reade  in  1415. 

3.  In  1422— at  wiiich  date  the  Black  Books 
commence— the  Society  of  Liijcoln's  Inn  are 
found  in  occupation  of  the  bishops'  propertj', 
paying  rent  for  it  to  the  see,  and  they  con- 
tinued to  pay  rent  until  they  purchased  the 
freehold  in  15B0. 

How  then  came  it  about  that  a  society 
living  on  the  property  of  the  Bishups  of 
Chichester  was  yet  named  after  the  Earl 
of  Lincoln,  and  adopted  bis  arms] 

Mr.  Baildon  finds  a  clue  in  a  statement  of 
Dugdale'.s  :— 

"  Of  thia  Henry,  E*rl  of  Liiuottie,  is  the  trnditioii 
still  cnrreiil  anioii^'Rt  the  AiUientf  liere  [i.r.  ,  nl 
Lincoln'!)  Int)]  ihut  he,  about  the  lj<^giiining  of  Kina 
Edwiird  the  Second's  time,  lieitig  a  ^icranti  well 
atfeclcd  to  the  know  ledge  of  the  Lawes,  hrst  brought 
in  the  prufet-Rura  of  that  honourable  and  nec«Hsary 
Btudy,  to  settle  in  Lhi«  jilace:  but  direct  proof 
thereof  from  good  authority,  I  have  not  aa  yet  Keen 
any." 

It  is  clear  that  the  tradition  was  inaccurate. 
The  Earl  certainly'  could  not  have  "brought 

in  the  professors to  settle  in  this  place," 

but  it  IS  i)uite  possible  that  he  might  well 
have  l>een  the  founder  or  patron  of  the  Society 
in  another  place. 

Now  opposite  his  house  in  Shoe  Lane  there 
lived  a  body  of  laxvyers  and  students  in  whom 
he  took  the  deepest  interest,  and  doubtless 
he  proved  himself  a  kind  and  munificent 
patron  to  his  scholarly  neighbours.  We  do 
not  know  what  the  name  of  this  body  was. 
What  can  be  more  probable  than  that  out  of 
gratitude  they  a.s.sun)ed  the  Earl's  title  anci 
calletl  themselves  the  Society  of  Lincoln's 
Inni 

The  Society  flourished  and  outgrew  the 
resources  of  their  ko^pitium.  What  was  to  be 
duiiot  Building  was  impossible,  as  their 
funds  were  insufticieut^  and,  moreover,  the 
dwelling  in  which  they  lived  was  not  their 
own  property.  It  Iwlongeii  to  one  Thavie,  an 
armourer,  who  dietl  in  1348,  and  who,  in  his 
will,  refers  to  "illud  hospitium  in  [quo] 
apprenticii  habitaro  solebant."    The;  OLuawC^ 


402 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        [ic"  s.  i.  May  21.  i904. 


then,  either  divide  and  found  elsewhere  a 
colony,  as  it  were,  or  the  Society  as  a  whole 
might  migrate  to  another  building  of  greater 
capacity. 

In  1347,  or  thereabouts,  a  number  of  them 
actually  did  move  into,  and  joined,  if  they 
did  not  found,  the  legal  colony  in  tlie  Temple  ; 
but,  notwithstanding  the  relief  thus  afforded, 
their  numbers  continued  to  increase.  Luckily 
Ijovd  Furnival's  house  and  gardens  in  Hol- 
born  before  very  long  became  available,  and 
ihe  Society  removed  tliithor  in  a  body  atsome 
date  before  1383,  still  retaining  their  "  usuall 
and  antient  name  "of  Lincolu'.s  Inn. 

When  this  occurred  the  owners  of  the  old 
premises  would  probably  wish  to  get  a  similar 
class  of  tenants  to  replace  them  ;  and  it 
would  be  only  natural  that  the  original  bo(iy 
would  desire  to  keep  up  its  associations  with 
its  old  quarters,  sending  readers  to  the  new 
ti-nants  there,  and  admitting  them  as 
members  on  more  easy  terms  than  were 
granted  to  outsiders.  This,  in  fact,  happened, 
and  the  new  Society  assumed  the  name  of 
the  old  armourer,  and  styled  themselves 
Thavies  Inn. 

The  old  Society  of  Lincoln's  Inn  continued 
to  flourish  in  their  new  location  to  such  an 
e.\teut  that,  in  less  than  forty  yearSj  larger 
wccominotlation  again  became  imperative.  At 
that  time  the  Bisnopof  Chichester's  property 
became  vacant,  and  they  moved  bodily  once 
more  from  Lord  Furnival's  premises  to  Chan- 
cery Lane,  just  a.<4  they  had  before  removed  to 
Lord  Furnivars  liouse  from  Shoe  Lane,  still 
retaining  the  old  title  by  which  they  ha^i 
then  been  so  long  distinguished  ;  and  they 
were  succeeded  in  their  llolborn  quarters  by 
a  new  subsidiary  body,  which  then  took  the 
name  of  Furnival's  Inn. 

Thus  the  bishops'  palace  became  the 
/loKpitinia  of  Lincoln's  Inn,  i.e.,  of  the 
Society  of  that  name,  and  thus  also  may  the 
connexion  between  that  Society  and  the  Inns 
of  Chancery  known  as  Furnival's  Inn  and 
Thavies  Inn  re^spectively  be  easily  and  reason- 
ably accounted  for. 

The  above  is  but  the  barest  outline  of  Mr. 
Baildon's  suggestion.  For  the  arguments  by 
which  it  is  supported,  and  the  more  detailed 
reasons  on  which  he  relics,  recourse  must  be 
had  U)  the  work  in  which  it  first  saw  the 
light.  The  perusal  cannot  fail  to  be  of  much 
interest  to  those  who  take  pleasure  in  such 
studies,  and  reaflers  of  '  N.  ik  Q.'  may  be  glad 
to  have  their  attention  called  to  the  subject. 

AuLN  Stewart. 
7.  Nd%v  .Squ»rc,  Lincoln's  Inn. 


LOCAL  AND  PERSONAL  PROVERBS  IN  TH] 

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Ivaiihof. 

I  am  like  .Tohn-a-lJuck'n  mare  that  will  let  m 
man  mount  her  but  .Johu-a-Uui.'k.— Chap.  xxvi. 
Thr  Monastery. 

An  the  whole  ]ia<'k  of  ye  wvre  BUiti,  there  wen 
more  lost  at  Flodden.— Chap.  x.  (See  'The  Pop 
tun«ti  of  Nigel,'  xv, ) 

Mac-l*'arlaiiv'8  );eese  which  likod  their  play  bettel 
than  Ihuir  nieiit.— xiij.   (Also  in  '  The  ALliol,'  xU.| 

I  make  my  vow  to  sun  and  moon,  I  will  not  B9« 
proper   lad  ao  niisleard  I  ill-taught,  ill-ljrcd]  as  t 
run  the  country  with  an  old  knuve,  like  Siitiinie  and 
hia  brother,— xxiv.    (See  'The  Fortunes  of  Nigel,"^ 

XV.) 

'Ihr  Mhoi. 

The   tongue  of  a  tale-bearer  brcuketh   Ixinea 
well    as   a   jeddart  -  stall.— Chap.   iv.     (8ee    'Thrt 
Fortunes  of  Niorel,'  xxxiii.) 

And  ao  she  scapes  Border  doom  [%.t,  death}.— 
xviii. 

While  Adam  Woodcock,  after  ho  had  oon)nare<j 
his  companion  to  the  *'  Laird  i»f  Mac-Farlane'i 
gecfle  who  liked  their  play  better  than  their  meat,' 
— xix.     (See  'The  Monaaler)','  xiii.) 

KttHlicortlu 

Do  not  flcowl  on  them  like  the  deril  looking  ovec 
Lincoln.— Chap.  i.  (Also  iu  'The  Forluoea  ol 
Nigo),'  xxi.) 

ByPol,  Tr. 

You  may  l  •/rnishmen. — i. 

Whose   neck  is  Li;> ...v      ■""■i"' "f  •»  Tyburtt 

ti|>uet.— iii.      (See    "a     St.     I  '.M'Pot./ 

'  Waverley,' xxxix..  and  "Old  M  li.) 

"The  hope  of  bettering  myinclt,  'o  i>c,stirc," 
answered  Lambourne,  "as  the  old  woman  eaul 
when  she  leapt  over  the  bridge  at  Kingston."— i v. 
(Thia  is  in  Sam  VVeller'a  manner.) 

Make  yourself  scarce— dcpart-vnnish—oi  well 
have  you  suninioiied  before  tlif  ^'  "    '    vvcr, 

and  that  before  Dudnian  and  11  '\-.\ 

He  was  born  at  Hogsnorton,   '  .  ig  to 

popular  aayiug,  the  pig«,  play  utioit  Uie  orgaa.— ix. 
(See  also  '  Woodstock,  iii.) 

Thf.  Pirate. 

Verv,  very  Fifish  [crazy,  eccentric].- Clwp.  ix. 
(See  '  Redgauntlot,'  vii.l 

Lanibmas^ brother  aua  sister.— ZKxii.  {8«o  remft 
and  foot  note.) 

Drunk  as  Davy's  sow.— xxxiv.  (*' David's  bow* 
in  '  Redtrauntlfit.'  xiv.) 

They  [Mr.  Yellowley'g  liees]  died  of  ower  tnackl* 
care,  like  Luckie  Cbrikie'a  chickens.— xxxv. 

The  Fort  unit  of  Xii/tl. 

The  Scot  will  not  fight  till  he  8e«  hia  own  blood. 
—Chap.  ). 

He  came  to  an  Annandale  end  at  the  la»t.— r. 
(This  appears  to  mean  that  he  was  slain  in  ti):iitititi 
not  executed.) 

It  'a  ill  taking  the  breeks  aff  a  wild  ' ' 
— V.  (See  *  Waverley,'  slviii.,and  '  I\. 

There  was  mair  lint   [lost]  on  Floddi  n  ivigv,- 
(See  'The  Monaateiv,'  x.) 

As   sib    [related  W  blood]   oa  .Simmio   anil 
brother.— XV.    (See  '  Tho  Monastery,'  xxiv.) 

You  lookoD  ine  as  the  devil  looks  over  Liucola^* 
xxi.    (See 'Keuilworth,' i.)  — 


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Thou  knowest  no  more  of  a  woman's  heart  than 
doth  a  Norfolk  (gosling. — xxi. 

We  tliall  i)ut  you  in  the  way  to  walk  with  your 
beaver  cocked  iulho|ireacnce,  as  an  [r'.r.  if]  ye  wero 
rl  of  Kildare.— xxiii.    (Qy.   Ii  thia  a  i)roverbinl 
injc?) 
oome  as  Harry  Wynd  fought,  utterly  for  my 

rn  hand,  and  on  no  nian'a  errand,— xxii.    (See 
Rob  Roy,'  XX vi.) 

Todlowrie,  oome  out  o'  your  den  — xxxi.  (Is  this 
a  proverbial  sayine?) 

1  ken  nae  Court  in  Chriatendom  \rhere  knaves 
are  not  to  be  found  ;  and  if  mon  are  to  break  the 
jHiace  Under  pretence  of  beatiiii;  them,  why.  it  will 
rain  Jeddart  staves  in  our  very  antechamber.— 
xxxiii.     (See  '  The  Abbot,'  iv.) 

Though   tbcy  threatened  to  make  me  hug  the 
Ouke  of  Exeter's  daughter  [i.f.  the  rack]  — xxxv. 
P>  irril  (if  llu  Peal: 

Lentil  "  Take  him,  Toiihani,"  bec«me  a  proverb, 
and  a  formidable  one,  in  the  mouth  of  the  public. 
— Cliaii.  XX. 

To  forget  the  Manx  citafoni  of  boltinc  the  boikxl 
meut  before  the  broth,  as  if  Cullar  Mae  Uulloch  and 
all  his  whingers  were  nt  the  door.— vvii. 

What.  ^Ia«te^  Peveril,  ia  thiB  your  foreiirn 
breeding?  or  have  you  learned  in  France  to  take 
Freucli  leave  of  yoiir  friends?— xxiii.  (Bee'Reii- 
Jtauntlet,'  xiv. } 

One  may  see  with  half  an  eye,  for  all  your  laced 
doublet,  that  you  have  been  of  the  family  of 
Furnival'a  before  your  brother's  death  sent  you  to 
t'ourt.— xxvii.    (Qy.  meaning?) 

T  am  of  the  iJouftlaiea'  mind,  wiio  always  kept 
the  fields,  because  they  loved  better  to  hear  the 
lark  8itt^  than  the  mouse  squeak. — L'hai).  iv.    (Also 
in  'The  Fair  Maid  of  Perth,'  xxx.) 
St  J{onnii'i  Wtll. 

ijo  far  aa  society  was  concerned,  on  the  roa<l 
towards  the  anuient  city  of  Coventry.— Chap.  xii. 
(Sue  'Guy  MannerinK-'  xxxii.) 

But,  Cik|>tuiu  Mat'Turk,  siuuo  nae  it  be  that  ye 
are  a  captain,  ye  may  e'en  face  about  and  march 
ynur  ways  haine  attain  to  the  tunc  of  Dumbarton 
drum's.  — xii.     (See  '  Wavcrley,'  xxxiv.) 

Your  memory  must  hav^e  been  like  Pat  Murtongh'K 
greyhound,  that  let  the  hare  ro  before  he  caught 
it.- xxx. 

As  for  firat  cousins — wheugh  I  that  'a  all  fair — 
tire  away,  Flanigan  !— xxxi.  (Capt.  Maol'ork  staling 
Ids  views  on  "  prohibited  degrees"  in  duelling.) 

My  eye,  and  uotty  Martin— xxxi. 
Jfrds/aiiii/lel. 

The  Aberdeen-man's  privilegeof  "  taking  his  word 
again,"  or  what  the  wise  call  second  thougiila. — 
L"tt«r  vii. 

.\nd  then  IkjIj  it  [dance]  away,  like  Madge  of 
.Middlkibie.  — Letter  xii. 

*'  I  wtt«  ju8i  coming  to  it,"  "  As  Tweed  comes  to 
Melrose.  1  think."  aaul  the  litigant.- -Letter  xiii. 

He's  dead  foundered,  man,  as  cripple  m  Kckie'a 
mear  [maicj.  — Chap.  v. 

*'Ju<tt  Fitidh,'' replied  Peter;  "  wowf-a  weebil 
t>v   tliH    KMt   Nook    or  sac''   [craiy].— vii.      (See 

I  h'    I'irate,'  ix.) 

va  text.  — xili.    (See 'Old  Mortality,'  xi ) 

.\     1 1  link  a*  David's  BOW.— xiv.  (8eo '  The  Pirate,' 

Froi 
(Xiii.) 


Icare.— xlv.    (8«e  '  Peveril  of  the  Peak,' 


No  Dutch  courage  for  me.— xv.  (8eo  '  The  Heart 
of  Mid-Lotluan,'  xxx.,  and  '  Woodstock,'  xii.) 

Cave  ne  literas  lielleruphontiB  aclferros.— xvi. 
(See  the  afiftarn  Svypa  of  Kiug  Proitos,  'Iliad,' 
vi.  las.) 

Downright  Dunstable.— xvii.  (.See  also  '  Guy 
Mannering,'  xvi.) 

Giving  Scarborough  warning,  first  kjiock  you< 
down,  linen  bid  you  stand.— xjx. 

WoOtljltCM'k, 

A  ragged  Robin.— Charj.ii.  (Note— The  keeper's 
followers  in  the  New  Forest  are  called  in  popular 
language  Raggt-d  Robins.) 

Trip  like  the  noodJpa  of  Hogs-Norton  when  the 
pigs  play  on  the  organ —lii.    (See  '  Kenilworth,'  ix.) 

He  concluded  that  they  had  been  fortifying  them- 
selves against  the  horrors  of  the  haunted  mansion 
by  Inyiui;  in  a  store  of  what  is  called  Dutch  courage. 
—  xii.  (See  '  The  Heart  of  Mid-Lothian,'  xxx.,  and 
'  Redganiitlet,'  xv.) 

You  taught  him  to  know  the  Duke  of  Norfolk 
from  Siiundcr«t  (lardner  [alluding  to  fencing].— xviii. 
(Qv.  Who  is  Saunders  Gardner';) 

(,|uoit  hint  down  stairs  instantly,  .Toceline.  Know 
we  not  (lalloway  nags?— xix.  (See  *2HeurylV.,' 
IL  iv.) 

I  think  he  could  eat  a  horse,  as  the  Yorksbiremai> 
says,  behind  the  saddle. — xx. 

So,  sir,  I  'm  making  up  for  lost  time,  as  the  piyier 
of  Sligo  .said  when  ho  ate  a  haill  side  o'  mutton.- x  v. 
Again  in  Sam  Weller's  way.  (See  'Kenilworth, 
iv.) 

Chrmtii-hf  r>f  tht  CnnoUf/eUt. 

Keeping  a  Highlandman's  promise.— Chap.  vii. 
Thr  Fair  Maid  of  Prrth. 

Tliou  ihought'st  thou  hadst  .Jamie  Ke<ldie's  ring, 
and  couldst  walk  invisible?— Chaps,  v.  and  xxii. 

'"  St.  Johnston's  hunt  isuji  !  "  This  cry,  the  well- 
knoM'u  rallying-word  amougst  the  inhabitants  of 
Perth,  and  seldom  heard  but  on  oocasions  of  general 
ujiroar.  —  xviii. 

You  know  the  proverb- A  Perth  arrow  hatW  a 
jierfecl  llight.— x\iv. 

•■Vs  for  the  ten  miles,  they  are  but  a  Highland  leap 
when  one  bears  a  message  between  his  friend  and 
his  chief.—  x.xvii. 

I  will  act  by  the  Douglas's  own  saying,  "It  is 
better  to  hear  the  lark  sing  than  the  mouse 
squeak. "—  xxx.    (See  '  Quentin  Durward,'  iv.) 

We  will  luivo  Jed  wood  justice-hang  in  haste,  and 
try  at  leisure.— xxxli.  (.See  '  Rob  Roy,'  xxxvi. — "tt, 
Jeddart  cast.") 

JoNATHAX   BOUCHIBR. 

Kopley,  Alresford,  Hants. 


Sir  Walter  Ralkioh  :  a  Substituted  Por- 
trait.—The  April  TJuraber  of  the  Pall  Mall 
M(i[/'i:hir  cutjtaiiiH  an  article  On  '  Sherborne 
Castlo,'  l)y  the  Kev.  A,  H.  Alalan.  It  is  illua- 
tratod  with  a  number  of  beautiful  wootl- 
engravinRS,  to  one  of  whicli  I  wish  to  draw 
ult«ution,  viz.,  to  that  of  a  portrait  stated  io- 
be  copieti  from  "  a  small  oak  panel  of  Sir 
Waller  (Zucchero),  the  only  likenesH  of  'tho 
Builder  '  in  tho  house."  It  is  a  half-length, 
and  ha4  been  taken  apparently  from  a  photo* 
Kraph.  The  figure  ia  habited  in  plato  armour; 
head   to  the  left,  and  on  it  a  soft  cap  with- 


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<a  feather;  three-quarter  face,  with  loiK 
luoustaclie  and  goatee  beard  ;  a  broad  ruff 
round  the  ueck.  On  tl)e  right  side  of  the 
head,  and  in  letters,  probably,  of  later  date 
than  when  the  painting  was  execute<l,  are 
these  words:  "«'  Walter  Rawleigh."  This 
inscription  has  led  many  persona  to  regard 
the  portrait  as  that  of  Sir  W.  Ralegh,  to 
whom,  iiowever,  it  bears  no  resemblance 
wiiatever.  Ak  a  matter  of  fact  it  represents 
Ifobert  Dudley,  Earl  of  Leicester  (oh.  1688), 
and  is  a  facsimile  of  an  engraving,  lyenes  me, 


inscribe*!    "  Adr"    WerlT    pinx.      Vermeulou 
sculpsit."    The  face  bears  a  close  resemblance 
to  that  of  the  portrait  of  the  Earl  by  Mark 
'Garrard  in  the  collection  at  Hatfield  House. 
T.  N.  Brusufield,  M.D. 

"  Haklet," — In  tlio  survey  of  the  manor 
of  Hrecknock (Dukeof  Buckingliaui'ss forfeited 
possessions)  taken  13  Henry  VIII.  occurs  the 
following  :— 

"There  is  due  for  the  Duk's  party  yerely  for 
CKiu  haklet  within  age,  eoolde,  a.^  it  is  aaid  by  the 
King,  to  0011  Jolin  Brayiitou  in  Herefordshire,  £4." 

Ilakluyt  was  a  family  name  in  Hereford- 
shire, of  which  familv  the  famous  Hakluyt, 
the  cosraographer  antl  traveller,  was  a  mem- 
ber. "Oon  haklet"  was  therefore  a  ward 
under  age,  the  guardianship  of  whom  had 
been  sold  by  the  Duke  of  Buckingham  to 
.lohn  Braynton.  John  Lloyd. 

"Pontificate." — The  following  paragraph 
{Daily  Mail,  30  April)  contains  an  unusual 
employment  of  this  word  :— 

"All  rumours  as  to  the  serioiifi  illnesa  of  Arch- 
bishop^  Bourne  arc  now  disposed  of,  says  the 
Catholic  Hrrafi/,  aa  hia  Grafte  returns  to  town  to- 
doy  and  will  pontiticale  at  Westniiustor  Cathedral 
to-n>orrow.'" 

In  the  first  place  this  is  a  substantive 
denoting  the  dignity  of  a  i>ontiiF ;  in  the 
second  it  can  apply  only  to  the  Pope.  This 
usage  cannot  be  commended. 

Francis  P.  Marchant. 

[The 'Encyclo|Mudic  Dictionary 'says:  "  To  ponli- 
Jii-ntf.  at  liiKH  ina88  =  to  celebrate  high  mass  »s^  n 
prelate."  The  verb  ia  also  in  Annaudale's  'Im- 
perial,' 188-2.] 

Bell's  "Chaucer."— Mn,  Hooper  quotes 
'{antey  p.  362)  a  note  from  11.  Bell's  edition  of 
•Chaucer,  adding:  "I  presume  by  Prof. 
Skeat."  I  beg  leave  to  say  this  is  a  mistake. 
My  contributions  to  that  volume  were  a 
preliminary  essay  and  such  a  rearrangement 
of  the  material  as  helped  to  distinguish  the 
•spurious  from  the  genuine  poems.  At  p.  12 
of  vol.  i.  I  wa.s  careful  to  say  that  the  notes 
"were  writtten  by  Mr.  Jephson,"  except 
where  I  had  made  an  obvious  correction  and 
had  appended  my  initials  to  it.     It  was  not 


for  me  to  suppress  an  annotation  on    the 
subject  of  birth-marks. 

Walter  W.  Skkat. 
"scblenter 


—This  technical  term  for  a 
false  diamond,  known  to  all  South  Africans, 
appears  to  be  missing  from  'Slang  and  its 
Analogues,'  which  I  am  glad  to  see  is  at  !a»t 
completed.  The  term  is  interesting  on 
account  of  its  etymological  connexion  with 
our  adjective  slender.  As  Prof.  Skent  hsLS 
shown,  English  tlemUr  originally  meant 
dragging,  trailing,  and  thence  develojjed  the 
sense  of  thin.  In  Oerman  gr/tlnuUr  or 
sckltnUr  still  retains  the  older  meaning  of 
loitering,  lounging,  .sauntering.  In  .Tewi«h 
German  it  pa.ssed  through  the  wnse  of  cumy, 
lax,  trifling,  into  that  of  wurthlt-ss,  poor, 
bad.  In  Yiddish  anything  can  he-  <ii^preciatea 
by  prefixing  fchlento;  but  in  Kngli>>h  the 
expre.s.sion  seems  to  have  been  taken  over 
only  in  reference  to  diatnonds.  I  subjoio  a 
couple  of  quotations  to  uliow  how  it  is  used 
in  modern  English  literature  : — 

"The  things  wore  Bchlenlera,  or  snyde  dJAnioads, 
iruitationa  made  of  glass  treated  witli  fliKu  ir- .i.  jd 
to  give  thcni   the  peculiar  frosted  nj  ,j| 

therealRtoue«."—t;.firitfith, 'Knaves.  i' 

185)9,  J).  Tt. 

"  W  hat !  Not  paste  ?  Not  noliUnt^rs  •  Oh  no,  at 
course  not !  "— O.  Crawfurd,  '  Ways  of  the  Million- 
aire.' 1903,  p.  62. 

J.i8.  Plitt,  Jun. 

'The  Scots  Peerage.'— From  the  fact  that 
this  'Peerage'  is  edited  by  the  Lyon  King  of 
Arms  one  would  have  supposed  that  special 
attention  would  have  been  paid  to  the 
lieraldic  portion  of  the  work,  and  those  who, 
like  myself,  take  an  interest  in  heraldry,  had 
louketl  forwaixl  to  the  issue  of  vol.  i.  It 
is  disappointing,  therefore,  t-o  find  that  the 
treatment  of  this  part  of  the  book  is 
ina<lequate.  In  the  first  place,  tlie  achieve- 
ments reproduced  are  not  printed  in  the 
usual  conventional  manner,  and  any  ono 
who  is  not  already  familiar  with  the  nrrtis 
of  the  Scottish  peers  is  unable  to  blazon 
them  without  turning  to  the  dei^cription  at 
the  end  of  each  article.  In  the  second  jilace, 
these  descriptions  do  not  state  for  what 
families  the  diflFerent  quartering:*  are  borne. 
A  coat  of  arms  should  bo  an  epitome  of  the 
history  of  the  family,  showing  at  a  glance  it« 
alliances  and  descent ;  but  to  one  who  is 
ignorant  of  Scotch  family  history  a  mere 
narration  of  the  different 'quarterings  of  an 
achievement  conveys  nothing.  Take,  for 
insUnce,  the  arms  of  the  Duke  of  .Atlinlj  No 
fewer  than  eight  families  or  ..e 

here  represented  :—l.   Tho  an  ,iu 

of  AthoU ;  2.  Stewart;  3.  Murray  ;  4.  btuuloj ; 


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D.  Isle  of  Man  (of  which  they  were  lords) ; 
6.  Latham;  7.  Strance  ;  8.  Percy.  'The 
Scots  Peerage'  merely  blazons  the  achieve- 
ment, "J'irst  firand  quarter,"  itc,  without 
stating  for  which  family  each  separate  coat 
is  borne.  This,  I  think,  is  a  serious  omission, 
and  I  trust  it  may  be  rectified  in  the  huc- 
ceeding  volumes.  T.  F.  D. 

Aristotle  and  Moral  Philosoi'Iiv.  —  The 
fact  that  Sliakeapeare  and  Bacon  appear  to 
have  .share-d  the  same  error,  of  having  nji<j- 
quoted  Aristotle,  in  saying  that  young  men 
are  thought  unfit  auditors  of  mornl  piiilo- 
sophy,  has  been  much  commented  upon  from 
time  to  time.  Mr.  Sidney  Lee,  in  hia  'Life 
of  Shakespeare,'  refers  to  it.,  and  says  that 
this  supposed  erroneous  interpretation  of 
Aristotle's  language  is  common  among 
sixteenth  and  seventeenth  century  writers. 
Thatitwasshared  by  contemporary  dramatists 
with  Shakespeare  is  easily  proved,  although 
I  believe  it  has  not  yet  neen  noticed.  The 
evidence  for  this  is  to  be  found  in  Beaumont 
and  Fletcher's  play  of  '  Valentinian,'  Act  L 
scene  i.,  where  Chilax  says  :  — 
And,  08  the  tutor  to  great  Alexander 
Would  say,  a  yoiuiff  man  should  not  dare  to  read 
HiB  moral  booKS,  till  after  tive-and-twenty. 

E.  F.  Bates. 

Hawker's  'TnELAmrv'  Anticipated.— We 
have  all  heard  of  the  ballad  by  Hawker  of 
Morwenstow  by  which  Macaulay  was  taken 
in  {vide  chap.  viii.  of  his  'History  of  England'}. 
A  somewhat  similar  refrain  was  current 
two  centuries  before  Hawker's  time.  In  a 
letter  printed  in  Thurloe's  'State  Papers,' 
21  July,  10r)3,  reference  is  made  to  John 
Lilbourne's  trial.  The  writer  says:  "There 
were  umny  tickets  throwne  about  with  these 
words  ; — 

And  what,  uhull  then  honest  John  Lilboum  die? 
Three  ticore  thousand  will  know  the  rcoton  why." 

J.    WlLLCOCK. 
Lerwick. 

Carter  Braxton.— In  his '  Autobiography' 
(i.  16)  Herbert  Spencer  says  some  conipli- 
meutary  verses  adtlressed  to  his  maternal 
grandmother,  Jane  Brottel,  by  Sarah  Crole, 

"  were  writtoii  in  Richmond,  Virginia,  to  which 
liltiGo.  aomc    time  after  17H0,   Jano  went    to  take 

charge  of  the  houae  of  a  '  CArter  Uraxtnn,  I'lsq',' 

It  •oemii  that  Sarah  Crolo  waaa  Kovenies*,  antl  th«l 
the  vertea  were  nddreucd  to  my  unindniother  on 
her  departure  f<ji-  KuKland  in  July,  I7KS." 

To  some  of  those  who  troad  the  byways  of 
educational  history  the  name  of  the  employ  or 
may  l>e  familiar  as  that  of  the  "w«>aUfiy 
merchant  of  West  Point,  Virginia,"  whoso 
wrvice   .\ndrew    Bell,    the    founder  of  the 


Madras  system,  entered  as  private  tutor  in 
1779.  Bell  left  for  England  in  March,  1781, "  in 
consequence  of  the  political  state  of  the  pro- 
vince '^  (Southey'a  '  Life  of  Bell,'  i.  29). 

Though  the  two  accounts  speak  of  two 
places  about  forty  miles  apart,  there  can  be 
no  doubt  that  they  sfteak  of  the  same  man,  as 
successive  letters  from  Carter  Braxton,  jun., 
to  liell,  are  dated,  one  from  West  Point,  and 
the  other  from  Richmond. 

David  Salmon. 

Swansea. 

St.  Paul'.s  QtroTATio.v  from  ErivEMUKs. 
(See  y"'  S.  xii.  487.)— At  the  reference  ^indi- 
cated, under  the  heading'  Molubdinous  Slow- 
belly,'  Mr.  Herb  says:  "'.Slowbelly '  occurs 
as  a  quotation  from  Callimachus,  an  Alex- 
andrian poet  of  the  time  of  the  Ptolemies,  in 
Paul's  pa.storal  epistle  to  Titus.''  There  is  a 
double  inaccuracy  in  thi.s  statement  St.  Paul* 
manifestly  take.s  the  quotation  direct  from 
Epimenides.  His  own  words  are  tiTrtv  ri^  i^ 
aiiTciii'  r5io?  avTwi'  n"po<^7/rT/«  (Tit.  i.  12), 
Again,  though  it  is  true  that  a  line  of  Calli- 
machus, in  his  *  Hymn  to  Zeus,'  opens  with 
the  words  KprJTi^  lUt  y^tva-rai,  he  says  nothing 
whatever  about  "slowbellies."'  Possibly  Cal- 
limachus was  consciously  quoting  from  Epi- 
raenides  ;  but  it  is  equally  possible  that  tlio- 
words  may  have  become  a  proverbial  phrase 
by  the  time  of  CallimRciius. 

Alex.  Leepbr. 

Trinity  College,  Melbourne  University. 

Mr.  Herb  states  that  the  expression 
"  nlowbelly  "  occurs  in  St.  Paul's  epistle  to 
Titus  "as  a  quotation  from  Callimachus,  an 
Alexandrian  poet  of  the  time  of  the  Ptole- 
mies." I  am  no  classical  scholar,  and  have 
no  books  or  means  of  reference  at  hand 
which  might  do  away  with  the  necessity  of 
appealing  to  '  N.  i  Q, ' :  but  in  my  copy  of 
the  New  Testament  in  Greek  I  find  that  I 
have  made  a  note  opposite  the  above- 
mentioned  passage  (Titus  1.1 2),  "TheCretians 
are  alway  liars,  evil  bea-sts,  slow  bellies, 
that  the  author  of  the  resonant  hexameter — 
Kp^Tts    dil   ftwrrai,    kuku     $i)pia^    yairripti 

u'/jy«J, 
of  which  this  waa  a  translation,  was  Epi- 
meuides,  nncl  not  Callimachus.  St.  Paul 
liim.self  states  in  the  same  verso  that  the 
author  was  "one  of  themselves,  even  a 
prophet  of  their  own." 

It  niust  be  in  the  memory  of  some  readers 
that  this  pa«!SHgo  ha<l  a  very  interesting 
historical  significance  given  to  it  at  the  time 
when  the  recent  internal  trouble  it»  Croto, 
engendered  by  the  dangers  of  the  political 


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40« 


flituatioii  in  the  Near  East,  necessitated  Ute 

gresence  of  the  allied  fleet  Id  its  waters, 
ismtirck  had  been  asked  as  to  some  stato- 
nietit  alleged  to  have  been  made  by  him 
with  reference  to  the  above  matter,  when  he 
contented  himself  with  referring  his  inter- 
rogator to  the  first  part  of  the  above  passage 
from  St.  Paul.  Apparently,  however,  the 
Iron  Cliancellor  Hid  not  at  the  same  time 
■indicate  the  original  authority  for  his  reply. 
Will  one  of  yowr  many  scholarly  corre- 
spondents kindiv  say  whether  I  am  wrong 
in  attributing  tlie  authorship  of  the  above 
^•erse  to  Epimenides?      J.  S.  Udal,  F.S.A. 

Antigun,  W.I, 

^You  will  see  that  your  question  is  answered  in 
anticipation  by  pRor.  Lkei-ek.] 

Mother  Shipton.— In  VVebsterV  *  luter- 
national  Dictionary,'  in  tlie  section  of  '  Noted 
Names  in  Fiction,'  I  find  the  following 
•under  the  above  heading  :  — 

*''rhe  tiir.knaine  of  a  Welshwoman  in  the  reign  of 
Houry  VIU.,  who  was  reputed  to  iiave  foretold 
many  public  events.  Uer  rliynicd  prophecies  atill 
have  Bonio  currency,  althuugh  most  of  them  are 
iorgories,  many  being  of  recent  ori(;iu." 

I  always  thought  "  Motiier  Shiptou  "  was 
&  Yorkshirewoman,  and  lived  in  the  reigu  of 
Heiirv  VII.  !       Chas.  F.  Foeshaw,  LL.D. 

Urailford. 

[Aa  a  legendary  tigure  Mother  Shipton  appears 
in  many  districts.  But  see  under  tiio  heading  the 
•D.N.B.'] 

Phikbe  Hessel,  the  Stepney  Amazon.— 
The  renaming  Morgan  Street,  St.  George's- 
inthe-East,  llessel  Street,  in  memory  of 
Phoibe  Hesse),  is,  I  think,  worthy  of  note,  and 
would,  I  am  sure,  have  mot  with  the  approval 
of  the  late  Sir  Walter  He.sant,  one  of  whose 

{>et  schemes  was  the  naming  of  streets  and 
ocalities  after  celebrated  people  identified 
vvith  them.  This  famous  amazon  was  born 
in  Stepney  in  1713,  and  while  in  her  teens 
fell  in  lovo  with  a  soldier  in  the  regiment 
known  as  Kirke's  Lambs.  Kefusing  to  part 
with  him  when  he  was  ordered  lo  tlie  West 
Indies,  Pho>be  disguised  herself  and  enlisted 
in  the  same  regiment.  She  served  in  various 
parts  of  the  world,  was  wounded  by  a  bayonet 
at  Foutenoy,  and  ende<i  lier  days  at  Brighton 
at  the  advanced  age  of  108  years. 

Fjiedeeick  T.  Hibgame. 

Sex  bekokk  Biuth.— In  1529  a  testator 
ives  a  legacy  "  puero  in  ventre  uxoris  mese  " 
'  Visitations    or    Southwell,'   Camd.     Soc., 

&134).  I  have  seen  a  later  instance  at  York, 
outoigue,  addressing  the  Lady  Diana  of 
Foix,  speaks  of  the  "little  lad"  to  whom 
ehe  ia  aoon  to  give  birth,  "for  you  are  too 


f 


generous  to  begin  with  other  than  a  raai 
childe"  ('Florio,'  Dent,  1«97,  i.  209).  In  167C 
W.  Marshall,  of  the  College  of  PIr    ■  ■ 

1>ublishod  'Answers  upon  severall 
'hilosophy,'  one  of  which  was  "Ot   ii...fc,.ii^j 
sex  before  birth."    Mrs.  Joceline,  who  wrot« 
'A  Mother's  Legacy  to  an    UniK>rn    CiiiM 
seems  to  have  counted  on  a  boy  (see 
of  Legh  Richmond,'  by  Grimshawe,  - 
1829,  p.  418).     The  subject  has  been  brietlyJ 
mentioned  in   'N.  i  Q.,'  1"  S.  iL  20  ;    4"'  «, 
iii.  288.  W.  C.  B. 

(Sutrits. 

We   nuost   request  cci      '       '  i.,. 

formation  on  ftvniily  mat  I  :    >i 

to  affix  their  names  and  a       '  ,      1 1>'5, 

in  order  that  the  answers  may  be  addretistiU  u*  them 
direct. 

"The  uloey  of  the  Methodists."— An 
original  autograph  letter  of  John  Wesley  has 
been  in  ray  possession  for  alxiut  twenty-five 
years,  and  so  far  as  I  am  aware  h"-  '"M-r 
been  published.     It  belongei]  to  a  i  ■  ( 

mine  who  was  the  daughter  of  a  .M, .      ...  l 
preacher,  whose  ministry  probably  extended i 
back  very  nearly  to  the  days  of  Wesley,  as  he 
died  many  years  ago  at  an  advanced  age, 

Aherdecn,  o"'  M'V.  HSi. 
Dkar  Jemmy,— .\11   Letters  to  &><  -^ooi- 

land  must  go   thro  Edinburgh.       I  it  i« 

sufficient  to  direct  thither  till  the  io  lu^Luut,  & 
then  toNewcastle-on-Tync. 

I  objected  to  nothing  in  that  Sermon  but  a  few 
tart  Kxjiresgious  concerning  the  Cleivy  :  whenlhei«e 
arc  altered,  I  believe  it  will  l>e  of  use  :  And  the 
more  of  thcni  you  can  sell  the  better. 

You  have  done  well  in  restoring  the  meetings  at 
fi%'e  tn  the  morning.    Tliesc   aic  the  Glory  of  th« 
Methodists.    My  kind  love  to  Hetty  Bo«.    I  am, 
Dear  Jemmy, 

Your  affectionate  Friend  St.  Brother 
J.  Wksley. 

Who  was  Jemmy  1       W11.MOT  CoBriSLO. 
Calcutta. 

Jeeeuy  Taylok  Quotations.  —  (1)  "No 
man  is  a  better  merchant  than  he  tliat  lays 
out  his  time  upon  God  and  his  money  ajx-in 
the  poor"  (Jeremy  Taylor,  'Holy  Living, 
ch.  i.,  vol.  iii.  p.  8  of  Eden's  edition,  1847).  K 
this  Taylor's  own,  or  is  it  a  quotation  '? 

(2)  Prayer  is  "a  building  to  God  a  chaj[)eLg 
in    our  heart"  ('Holy   Living,'  ch.  i-   §  liL 
vol.  iii.  p.  26  of  Edeu's  edition).     Who  wi 
the  "  spiritual  person  "  who  s&ia  this  i 

Robin. 

NoETn  Devon  May  Day  Cdstom.— Flowora 
and  garlands  are  associated  with  May  DAy* 
yet  I  do  not  remember  to  have  seen  elsewherf 
the  curious   custom   which    prevails    hero.^ 


ffrh 


io"'8.i.mav->i.i904.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


407 


ie  children  bring  round  dolls,  posies,  and  a 
horn.  The  dolls  are  brouBht  bj'  the  girls, 
and  the  posies  (which  generally  take  the 
form  of  a  Latin  cross)  by  the  smaller  boys. 
The  bigger  boys  come  with  a  horn  and  ask 
if  you  would  like  to  hear  it.  Boys  without 
the  horn  are  formidable  enough,  and  they 
are   invariably   excused    the    performance. 

I       Of  course  the  quest  is  the  nimble  penii^'  ; 

I      but  what  about  the  origin  of  the  custom? 

r      Perhaps  some  of  your  correspondents    can 

'       throw  light  upon  tfiat.         H.  T.  Jbnkins. 

,  S.  Monica,  Ilfraconibe. 

Port  Arthuh.— What  is  the  origin  of  the 
name  Port  Arthur?  How  comes  it  that, 
almo.st  alone  of  the  Far  Eastern  places  of 
■which  we  now  daily  read,  this  place  is  in- 
variably called  by  an  apparently  English 
I  name  ]  By  what  name  is  it  known  to  the 
Chinese  and  Japanese]  Kappa. 

[Port  Arthur  is  named  from  Cupt.  Arthur,  who 
oommaiiiieri  one  of  H.M.  Bhii«  when  the  ooaat  line 
of  the  I^iao  timg  peninsula  was  lieinir  surveyed. 
See  O*"-  S.  i.  367,  398.  437:  ii.  78,  111.] 
Worm.— Can  any  of  your  readers  inform 
me  what  disease  was  in  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury known  as  "  the  worm  "  f  I  do  not  think 
it  can  be  "the  worms"  in  our  use  of  the 
phrase.  It  is  always  used  in  the  singular. 
Borne  one,  supposed  to  be  Lord  Balcarres, 
writes  to  Sir  Aithur  Forbes,  14  June,  1653  : 
•*  I  am  tormented  with  the  worm''  (Firth, 
•Scotland  and  the  Commonwealth,'  p.  145). 
Saillie  writes  : — 

"  Whiil  shall  I  doe  with  the  worme,  it  hes  im- 

nrisonoil  me? I{  tho  Farlianicnt  would   put  on 

kiiii  thu  (tenultie  of  my  worme,  I  thiak  il  would 
i^uickly  leniper  hia  very  UDCivill  pen."'—'  Letters,' 
iii.  4^. 

I  have  also  seen  the  phrase  use<i  in  a  passage 
of  a  letter  given  in  Thurloe'.s  'State  Papers,' 
though  I  cannot  give  the  reference.    It  seems 

?uite  a  common  phrase  of  the  time,  though 
notice  that  Dr.  Firth  is  puzzled  by  it  and 
pats  a  []j  after  it.     Is  it  the  gout  ? 

J.   WlLUOtK. 
"  P.MNTKP      AND      POPPED."— In      a      work 

attributed  to  Milton,  recently  published,  and 

whici)  I  think  there  is  little  or  no  reason  to 
l^^doubt  came  from  his  pen,  tho  above  phrase 
^Kis  UMed  in  describing  the  appearance  of  ovor- 
^Bdressed,  frivolous  ladies,  or  wliich  apparently 
^■tho  author  highly  disapprove*].  What  is  the 
^■meaiiini;  nf  the  word  "  pojipod,"  aJid  what  can 
~  bo  its  derivation  i     Bon  Jouson  I  believe  uses 

it  also,  MKi,vir,LB. 

Melville  Ciutle,  Midlothian. 
[  Pupped     nicely  dresacd,    H&ltiwell.     Uukoowu 

leiivulioii,  '  Kiig.  Dial.  Diet. 'J 


I 


^ 


LiKDT.-CoL.  William  Cross,  C.B.— To  what 
family  of  Cross  did  Lieut.-Col.  William 
Cross,  C.B.,  who  served  in  the  36th  Regiment 
from  1802  to  1824,  belong  1  Where  can  I  find 
details  connected  with  his  life !  B.  T. 

Building  Customs  and  Folk-lore.— I 
should  be  grateful  for  any  information  with 
regard  to  old  customs  and  folk-lore  connecter! 
with  building  houses  and  cottages.  Do  the 
racial  divergencies  in  various  partsof  England 
account  for  the  different  types  of  cottage  to 
be  found  therein  1  Ilefereuces  to  any  books 
relating  to  cottage  architecture  would  be  very 
acceptable.  P.  H.  Ditchfield. 

iJarkham  Rectory,  Wokingham,  Berks. 

"Jenion's  Intaik." — On  an  old  map  of 
Cheshire,  printed  by  William  Darton  &  Son, 
58,  Holborn  Hill,  London,  but  in  what  year 
I  know  not,  though  evidently  it  must  nave 
been  liefore  railways  were  in  operation,  I 
find  *■■  Jeuions  IntacK  "  marked  thereon.  The 
situation  i.s  near  the  junction  of  the  road 
leading  from  Aahton  Heys  to  Weaverham, 
east  by  north  about  thirteen  miles  from 
the  city  of  Chester,  and  about  two  miles 
soutli  from  Kingsley,  on  the  western  side 
of  the  roatl  leading  thence  to  Delamere 
Forest.      In   late  county   maps  of  Chester, 

fmblished  by  G.  W.  Bacon  &  Cu.  and  George 
'hilip  i  Son  (of  Bartholomew's  'New  Reduced 
Survey,'  sheet  12),  I  see  no  mention  of 
"Jenions  Intack";  perhaps  it  was  only  a 
temporary  construction.  My  forepareuts. 
named  Janion,  lived  in  the  neighbourhood  of 
the  "  intack,"  or  intake,  for  many  years,  their 
abodes  being  at  Aston,  Bradley,  Bradley 
Orchard,  Newton,  and  Kingsley,  all  to  the 
north  of  Delamere  Forest.  Can  any  of  vour 
readers  oblige  me  with  information  about 
the  said  intake?  Charles  Janion. 

RegistrartJenerars Office,  WelUngton,  N.Z. 

'  The  Children  of  the  Chapkl.'— Can  any 
reader  tell  me  where  1  could  see  or  buy  an 
anonymous  pamphlet  entitled  'The  Children 
of  the  Chapel  Strint  and  Whipt'  (1676),  ur 
suggest  the  author!  C.  C.  Stopes. 

Wolverhampton  Pulpit.  —  The  current 
(April)  number  of  the  Anti,/uai\i/  conta.in8  a 
picture  and  brief  description  of  tho  nulpit 
111  St.  Peter's  Collegiate  Church  at  Wolver- 
liampton,  contributed  by  Miss  Rarr  Brown. 
She  writes:  "Only  one  other  pulpit  of  its 
kind  exists  in  England."  Where  is  this  ? 
T.  Cann  Hugheh,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Lancaater. 

OlLUEKT.— Thomas  Gill)ert  wjw  admitte<i 
to  Westminster  School.    20  January,   1778, 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


I.  Mav  21.  190L 


408 


[10"'  s, 


and  Richard  Gilbert,  7  February,  1780.  I 
should  bo  grateful  for  particular!)  of  their 
parentage  and  career.  G.  F.  11.  B. 

Marlowe  :  Date  or  his  Birth.— Was 
Christopher  Marlowe  two  montha  older  or 
ten  mouths  younger  than  Shakspere?  The 
statement  contairied  in  all  biographical 
sketches  of  Marlowe  is  tliat  the  register  of  the 
church  of  St.  George  the  Martyr,  Canterbury, 
ways  that  Marlowe  was  christened  26  Feb- 
ruary, 15G4.  Does  thi.'i  mean  l.'J63/4  or 
1564/5  ?  Unless  the  record  han  been 
corrected  it  clearly  means  the  latter— 1.'>64, 
Old  Style— and  consequently,  contrary  to  all 
statements  I  have  seen,  Marlowe  was  ten 
jiiontiia  j'ounger  than  Shakapere,  who  wa.s 
christened  the  26th  of  the  previous  April. 
Will  some  one  who  has  access  to  it,  or  an 
official  copy,  give  the  exact  record  as  it 
appears  in  the  St.  George's  Church  register  1 
Isaac  Hull  Pl.vtt. 

The  Players,  Ifl,  Gramercy  Park,  New  York. 

[The  '  D.N.B.'  says  Marlowe  was  b*ptt/ed 
•■•>6Feb.  l.-i«3-4."J 

"En  pkntenne":  its  Ohigin.  —  Littrd  in 
his  dictionary  says  very  little  about  j)entenne, 
propones  no  etymology  for  it,  and  does  not 
allude  to  its  use  as  a  nautical  term.  Le 
Jimrnal  clef  D^bats  of  16  March,  1804,  con- 
tains an  instance  of  its  use  :  — 

"On  a  remarque,  le  10  marQ,  h.  Boulogne,  que 
(;haquc  v&isseau  de  la  division  anglaise  avail  aes 
nii'ita  en  peiittfiiiv.  C«  sigae  de  deail  a  fait  pr^umer 
la  inort  du  ruj." 

It  was  reproduced  in  the  number  of  the  same 
date  for  this  year,  l'J04.  Will  some  philo- 
logist inform  the  readers  of  'N.  «k  y.'  of  the 
history  of  this  expression  ?  E.  S.  Dodgson. 

The  V.itiiiNATCH,  or  Tiger-claw  Weapon. 
— Readers  of  Col.  Meadows  Taylor's  'Tara' 
will  remember  how  Sivaji  killeu  Afzul  Khan 
with  the  dagger  shaped  like  a  tiger's  claw.  I 
'jjiould  like  to  know  the  fate  of  this  particular 
weapon,  which  was  lon^  treasured  at  Sahara, 
It  may  be  somewhere  in  England,  because  it 
appears  to  have  been  given  to  Mountstuart 
Klphinstone  in  1826  by  the  Raja  of  Saltdra 
(see  'Life  of  ElphiriJitone,' ii.  188),  But  Lady 
Falkland  ('Chow-Chow,'  ii.  34),  who  was  at 
Sahara  some  time  in  the  flfties,  .says  she  was 
shown  it  there.  Esieritus. 

Lyon  F.vmily.  —  In  Welles's  '  American 
Family  Ancestry,*  vol.  ii.,  article  *The  Lyon 
Family  in  America,'  the  statement  is  made, 
without  proof  cited,  that  the  William  Lyon 
who  canie  to  America  in  the  Hopewell, 
II  St'pterabcr,  1635,  then  described  as  "four- 
teen years  nf  age,"  was  William  Lyon,  of 
Heston,  Middlesex,  England,  baptized  there 


23  December,  1620.  Can  documontory  evi* 
dence  l>e  found  to  justify  this  identification  T 
I  am  a  descendant  of  William  Lyon. 

A.  B.  Lyonb. 
72,  Brainard  Street,  Detroit,  Mich. 

TroHERN-MAS. — Near  what  ancient  church 
in  England  was  the  iron  crosier  called  the 
Tighern-raas  found?  I  shall  b«  glad  of 
references  to  books  or  monographs  on  the 
subject.  KicD  Cuofea. 

Catesby  Family.— Can  anyone  give  p*r- 
ticulars  of  the  James  Catesny  who  ilied  at 
Windsor  about  1770-2,  his  age,  profession, 
whether  married,  any  descendants,  ami  if  » 
descendant  of  the  historic  Xorthamptonshire 
family  ] 

Did  any  of  the  Catesby  family  emigrate 
to  America  1 

Is  it  n  fact  that  a  Catesby  went  to  an 
English  convent  for  ladies  in  (iermuny  1 

Had  the  Catcsbys  at  any  time  property 
in  Brighton,  Chelsea,  Bayswater'l 

Can  any  one  give  the  date  of  enlistment 
and  discharge  of  Henry  Catesby,  who  enlisted 
in  the  British  army  about  184<.>— regiment 
not  known  1 

riease  address  replies  care  ot  Beardmore  ii 
Co.,  68,  Cleveland  Street,  Fitzroy  Squart?,  W. 
Jamk  Cateshy. 

Arms  on  SarpiM  'CoDscn.  or  TRrsr'  ix 
French.— I  have  before  me  in  three  volumes, 
4to,  a  work  with  the  following  title  ;— 

"Histoire  Du  (Joneile  De  Tretile,  li«irile  eo 
Italieii  Par  Fra-Paolo  Sarpi,  De  I'Ordns  lie* 
Servites ;  Et  Tradnite  de  nouvpnii  eti  Frnpoois, 
Avec  des  Notes  Critiiinea,   Hist  ,'-o- 

logiques,  Par  Pierrc-Franv'jis  I'  '  "f 

en  Thtelogie  de  luniversite  d  H^. luft 

R«igulier  a  ancien  Bibliolhecaire  de  1  Abbayo  de 
Ste  Genevieve  do  i'aria.  A  Amalerdaiii,  Che4 
J.  Welattiin  et  G.  Sndth.     M.DCC.LI." 

All  the  volumes  are  uniformly  bound  in 
full  calf,  and  on  the  two  panels  of  each  there 
is  stamped  in  gold,  in  excellent  preservation, 
a  coat  of  arms.  As  I  could  not  trace  any 
resemblance  to  the  latter  in  either  Burke  or 
Debrett,  I  was  fortunate  in  getting  accosa  to 
the  following  French  publication  : — 

" La  Science  Heroique,*.  "  ''  "  ^'  "  '^nn, 
Sieur  De   La  Colomljiere,  '  de 

S.  Michel,  Ac  Gent ilhiiinrnc  ;»oo 

du  Roy.  Seconde  Edition.  iUjvein,  toiiiii*'©,* 
augment*^  des  Armesde  |ilusieiirsilluslre«  MaiAOO*. 

A  Piiiifl,  Che/.   Sebastien  M   '-    '  — -■     '-^Ttn- 

meur     du     Roy,    rue    S.  'Ofc 

M. i>c.i..\ix.     Avec  Privileg. 

On  p.  329  I  found  an  engraved  shifkl  (No.  7> 
answering  to  the  armsstjimped  on  the  pAoet* 
referred  to  (I  should  say  in  the  latter  tb« 
supporters  are  lions  rampant,  and  the  orot 


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409 


what  appenis  to  be  a  bamu's  coronet),  witli 
the  following  description  on  p.  328  : — 

"Bvllkin,  t'carleI6,  au  premier  ii  noatric'ine. 
foupv  d'aziir  nil  Lion  nais?anl  d'or,  surfaBct-  onde 
il'urgeiib  1.^  d'Rziir,  au  sccoud  ic  tiers,  d'argeiit  it 
Ia  coticG  de  gueulev,  acconipaKn6e  do  six  coquill(^8 
de  ine«me  en  orle. 

"Cre'tneovx-Chamovjiset:  d'ou  itlemienrsConites 
do  Lion,  Comnianilc-nra  do  Malte.&o.,  de  giieiilcs  h 
trnja  croix  reeroisetlL-es  au  ))ie<]  tiche  d 'or,  an  chef 
d'rvrgeiit,  charge  d'vne  onde  ou  fosce  oud^e  d'azur. 
Lc  Marquis  d'Eutragaes,  Comte  de  S.  Trivier, 
(ionveraeur  du  Miicoitnois,  est  Chef  de  cette 
Maison-IL'' 

Kvidently  before  the  work  was  bound  in 
leather,  someone  wrote  in  French  something 
on  the  top  and  side  margins  of  p.  249  of  vol.  iii. 

I  the  title- page  of  the  'Defense'),  both  notes 
learing  the  initials  "B.N."  or  "B.  M."  It  is 
the  second  letter  I  am  in  doubt  about ;  there 
is  no  mistaking  the  firi*t.  Then  on  p.  264  of 
the  same  volume  there  i^  a  long  manuscript 
note,  also  in  French,  on  the  side  and  foot 
margins ;  but  the  binder,  no  doubt  from 
instructions,  folded  in  the  first,  so  that  his 
plough  might  not  cut  away  what  had  there 
been  written.  These  manuscript  notes— 
perhaps  from  the  pen  of  some  notable  man — 
I  am  .sorry  to  say  I  cannot  decipher,  but  they 
are  all  in  the  same  iiandwriting.  I  may  add 
that  inside  the  front  cover  of  the  first  volume 
there  is  the  trade  ticket  of  "Thomas  Ulark, 
Law  Bookseller,  33,  George's  Street,  Edin- 
burgh." 

Tne  language  of  heraldry  is  to  mo  very 
mysterious  indeed  ;  and  1  shall  esteem  it 
a  favour  if  some  kind  reader  of  '  N.  »k  Q.' 
will  interpret  for  tne  the  quotation  from 
Wilson's  work  quoted  above,  and  also  tell 
me  if  the  family  referred  to  by  him— the 
Entragues— may  have  formerly  owned  the 
volumes.  Who  was  "Thomas  Clark,"  the 
bookseller,  and  when  did  he  flourish  ] 

A.  S. 

PKEscniPTiojJS.— Can  any  one  inform  me 
to  the  origin  of  the  signs  used  by  ap<jthe- 
caries  and  physicians  in  their  prescriptions  ? 

HOUOMBE   InoLEBV, 
Heachani,  Norfolk. 

FRENctt  I^JEMS,— I  shall  bo  glad  to  know 
where  I  can  obtain  an  English  translation  of 
French  fulk-songs,  iKtcins,  recitations,  &c., 
by  unknown  and  cuniparativoly  unknown 
(in  England)  Frenclj  authors.  1  also  seek 
for  Dutch,  Spaniih,  and  Italian  pieces  of  a 
similar  class.  S.  J.  A.  F. 

Poem*  on  Sii.\K«ispB\KK.— I  am  compilinK 
a  volume  of  poistioal  tributes  to  Shakespeare, 
and  sliall  be  di'eply  grateful  if  readers  will 
inform  me  where  such  may  be  found.    There 


must  be  many  thousands  in  existence.  It 
matters  not  how  lowly  the  minstrel  may  be, 
so  long  as  he  has  tuned  his  lyre  in  praise  ot 
our  immortal  bard.  Answers  direct,  please, 
and  as  early  as  possible. 

Chas.  F.  Forshaw,  LL.D. 
Baltimore  House,  Bradford. 

*'  Lutqee's  distich."  —  Samuel  Teedon, 
schoolmaster,  of  Olney,  Bucks,  the  friend 
and  'oracle  "  of  the  poet  Cowper,  in  his  MS. 
Diary  (ed.  T.  Wright,  and  most  incorrectly 
printed  for  the  Cowper  Society  in  1902) 
mentions,  under  date  of  29  April,  1792,  the 
giving  by  his  cou.sin  and  school-assistant 
"  Worthy  "  {i.e.,  Eusebiua  Killingworth, 
amateur  lx>okbinder,  musician,  &c.)  of  a 
Prayer  Book,  in  which  he  (Teedon)  wrote  the 
intended  recipient's  name  and  "  Luther^s 
distich."  Can  any  reader  state  what  this 
latter  probably  was  ?  E.  U. 

The  Poet  Clcse.— Can  any  reader  of 
'  N.  &  Q."  tell  me  whether  a  complete  collec- 
tion of  the  works  of  the  poet  Close  has  ever 
been  published  ?  His  lines  on  the  death  of 
the  Prince  Imperial  and  some  of  his  West- 
morland poems  are  to  be  met  with  ;  but  I 
have  failed  so  far  to  find  anything  like  an 
entire  collection.  He  has  still  a  large  number 
of  admirers,  and  many  pilgrimages  are  made 
to  Enterber  Cottage,  where  he  lived  so  long, 
and  to  his  grave  in  Kirby  Stephen  Cemetery. 
Fbedkrick  T,  Hibgame, 
[No  collected  edition  seems  to  have  been  issued.] 

The  Syer  Cumino  Collection.— The  late 
Henry  Syer-Cuming  gave  his  library  and 
museum  to  one  of  the  London  boroughs. 
Can  any  one  say  whether  they  are  now  open 
Uj  public  inspection,  and  if  any  proper  cata- 
logue  has  been  printed  ?  If  so,  at  what  price 
can  it  be  obtained  1 

T.  Cann  Hughes.  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Lancaster. 

Thoma.s  Taylor,  the  Platom*t,  and 
William  Meredith  of  Uarley  Place.— Can 
any  one  inform  me  if  there  are  descendants  of 
Thomas  Taylor  now  living,  and  if  so,  where? 
.\lso,  are  there  any  descendants  of  his  friends 
William  and  George  Meredith  who  have  kept 
in  touch  with  the  Taylor  family  1 

Mart  Forstke. 

University  Clab  for  Ladies. 

Watson  of  Hamhuuo.— Stephen  Watson 
of  Cleadon,  co.  Durham,  third  son  of  William 
\VatHon.  sheriff  of  Newcastle  1747,  married 
at  Whitburn,  May,  1784,  Elizabeth,  daughter 
of  Ven.  Archdeacon  Benjamin  Pye.  LLD.,  and 
had  surviving  i»aue:  1,  Charles  Stephen,  bom 


410 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        iw^  s.  i.  mav  21,  i9(h. 


1785  ;  2,  William  Robert,  1786 ;  3,  Tliotnaa, 
1788;  4,  Elizabeth  Ann,  1789;  5,  Batliuist 
Pye,  born  1793,  Kazetted  Lieutonant  in  the 
27th  Northumberland  Light  Infantry  Militia 
in  1812;  G,  Mary,  wlio  died  the  same  day  as 
her  husband,  A.  G.  C.  D'Arien,  at  Hamburg, 
6  July,  1824  ;  7,  Benjamin,  born  179G  ; 
8,  George  Pye,  1797  ;  aaa  9,  Isabella,  boru  in 
1799. 

Mr.  Watson  and  his  family  in  July,  18<.»0, 
settled  in  Hamburg,  where  he'clied  6  December, 
1821.      Information    relative  to  any    of  his 
children  or  their  descendants  will  oblige. 
H.  R.  Leighton. 

EaatBoldoD,  Durham. 


"HANGED,   DRAWN.   AND    QUARTERED." 

(10«"  S.  i.  209,  275,  356,  371.) 
Onb  livfts  and  loams.  When  I  wrote  the 
article  at  the  last  refcreoce,  I  wa3  only  awaro 
of  the  apparent  fact  that  the  phrase  "hanged, 
drawn,  and  quartered  ''—in  which  "drawn  " 
meauK  eviscerated— was  an  adaptation  of  the 
older  phrase  "drawn,  hanged,  ami  quartered," 
ill  wliicli  "  drawn  "  meant  "  dragged  along." 
I  now  find  that  the  latter  phrase  Is  alsjo  not 
original,  but  was  a  mere    translation   of  a 

{)hrase  in  Anglo-PVench,  which  was  the 
auguage  of  England  for  legal  purpo.ses. 
This  phrase  occurs  more  than  once,  for  ox- 
ample,  in  the  continuation  (if  Higden's  '  Poly- 
chronicon,"  vol.  i.\.  p.  151.  The  sentences 
pa.s.sed  upon  Blake  anrl  Usk  in  138H  were  : — 
"Que  Blake  serra  traigne  dot  tour  deLoundrea 
tanque  u.  Tybourne  et  illoeqes  peritiuy..  Et  le  dil 
Uske  sera  auxint  traij{ne  et  pouduz  et  aan  test 
coupe  el  niy8  sur  Neugate." 

Or,  as  we  should  now  say,  "  that  Blake  shall 
be  drawn  from  the  Tower  of  London  as 
far  as  Tyburn,  and  there  lianged  ;  and  the 
said  Usk  shall  also  be  drawn  and  hanged,  and 
his  head  shall  be  cut  off  and  .set  up  over  New- 

fate."    The  insular  independence  of  Anglo- 
Vench  appears  in  tlio  masculine  Utt. 

Walter  W.  Ske.vt. 
In  justice  to  mvself  I  l)eg  to  point  out  that 
I  quoted  tlie  'N.E.D.*  at  9""  S.  iv.  162,  and 
gave  this  reference  ante,  p.  356.     W.  G.  B, 

PjtoF.  .Skeat  seems  to  go  too  far  at  the  last 
reference  wlieu  he  suggests  tiiat  the  sentence 
passed  upon  Henry  Garnett  in  160U  was 
"remarkable"  by  reason  that  it  included 
both  tlie  drawing  to  the  gallows  and  the  dis- 
orabowelling.  Tliere  was  nothing  remarkable 
in  that.  Tlie  ordinary  form  of  the  horrible 
judgment,  as  it  formerly  rau,  against  a  man 


convicted  of  high  treason  is  given  in  Coke  ^ 
'  Institutes*  (3  lust.  210,  211,  edition  of  166t>) 
thus :  — 

"  El  super  hoc  vjsis,  et  per  ouriani  hie  int^lleoti'* 
oinnibuB  el  siiicalia  prieiiii»s)«,   consiilerAtuni   r^x. 
iiuo<l  pr.-Kdittus  K.  us<iue  furcM  dc  T.  1  tr»b(»ti!- 
'J  ibidem  Rii.s|iGDdatur  per  colluiii,  el  vivus  Oid  t.f 
l>ro8tematur,    et    .'$    inlerioru    suik  I'xlra  vtn 
Biium  ca])ianiur,  [4J  ipscKjue  vivente  comburji 
el  5capul  suum  aniimtetiir,  iiuo<l<jueO  corpus    ... 
in  quatuor  partes  dividftlur  ;   at- 7  quod  caput    '.-i 
quarteriji  ilia  ponantur  ubi  domiausrexea  a^signarc 
vult.'- 

"And  all  these  severall  punishmenla,"  aava 
Coke  {loc.  cit.),  "  are  found  for  treason  in  holy 
scripture."  Whereupon  he  proceeds  to  cite 
the  following  precedents  ; — 

Drawing.— I  Kings  ii.  28, &u.,  "  Joab  tmctua,"  Ac. 

Uaoging.  — Esther  ii.  22,  23.  "  Bithan  su«p«nBU»,'* 
Ac 

Bowelling.— Acta  i.  18,  "  .Tud««  auspensus  crepuil 
medius,  et  diffusa  aunt  vi  '    -" 

While  alive.— •_'  8ani.  i.'),  "lufixittfea 

Inni-eaa  in  conic  Absoloii '  i    imlpitarel,"  &o. 

BcheadiDR.— 2  Sam.  xx.  1^,  "  Aoaciasuni  caput 
Slu'ba  filii  Bichri." 

Quarters  banged  up— 2  Som.  iv.  11,  12,  "Intcr- 
feceruDt  Baanan  et  Rechab,  el  sii8i>enilt<ruiit  nianiit 
et  iiedes  eorum  sapcr  ]>iscinani  in  Hebrun  " 

The  form  of  the  judgment  was  modified  Lv 
the  Treason  Act,  1814  {r^i  C-o.  JU .  c  iic"), 
which  abolished  both  the  >  in  r 

from  the  gallows  and  the  <i  -     '^ 

was  again  modified  by  the  Fotfouure  Aet^ 
1870  (33  &.  34  Vict.,  c.  23,  a.  31),  which 
abolj.shed  the  preliminary  drawing  on  the 
hurdle  and  also  the  beheading  and  quarter- 
ing after  death. 

The  view  expressed  by  A-  H.  &t  the 
second  reference,  that  the  drawing  on  the 
hurdle  was  a  "pretence"  or  Bubstitut©  for 
disembowelling,  has  no  historical  basis. 

H.  C. 

As  an  example  to  which  the  term  "drawn  ' 
might  bo  applied  in  both  the  senses  men- 
tioned by  Prof.  Skeat,  I  may  cite  the  sen- 
tence passed  on  Col.  De-spard  and  lii» 
accomplices  in  February,  1803.  It  was 
delivered  by  the  judge,  Lord  Ellenborough, 
as  follows  :— 

"ll  only  remains  for  me  to  prnnonnce  the  sad 
aud  paiuful  sentence  of  the  law  upon  the  crime  o( 
whicn  you  are  convicted  ;  aud  iliat  heat«noo  ia,  and 
this  Court  doth  adjudge,   Thnt  you,  the  several 

•  The  record  of  the  proceed  intra,  intjlu<1iiiir  tb« 
judgment,  waa  drawn  up  in  I^atiu  .'  "  *■""■■  -^ 
4  (Jeo.  11.,  c.  28  ;  G  Geu.  11.,  <•.  15) ;  i-, 

a.s  delivered  in  court,  M-as.  of  c.^  li, 

and  often  expressly  directed  a  cerliiiii  buviiiti;  iiuii^ 
nity  against  the  oonvict'a  person,  which  is  not 
Bpecitiod  in  Coke's  text.  t>oe,  for  JnRt«nc«,  ib« 
senteoee  aKain>tl  Tlionias  Harrisun  in  1(J(X)in  '8tato 
Trials,'  v.  lim  (8vo  edition.  1810), 


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I 


Prisoners  at  the  l>ar,  l»e  severally  Ukon  from  hence 
to  the  place  from  whence  you  came,  and  from 
thence  be  severally  drawn  un  an  hunile  to  the 
ilace  of  exoculiou,  and  Lherc  be  Bevemlly  haiiRcd 
y  t)i«  neck,  hut  not  until  you  are  dead,  but  thai 
you  l)u  sevemll^  taken  down  agaiu,  and  thai  whilst 
you  are  yet  alive,  yonr  bowels  be  taken  out  and 
hiHiit  lii'fr.re  your  fliccs  ;  and  that  afterwards  your 
J'  •vored  from  your  bo<liea,  and  your  bodies 

1  each  into  four  ijuarters,  and  your  heads 

ai...  .,..ui  it-'ifl  to  be  at  the  kin^'A  diBposal.    And  rnoy 
i.iod  Almixlity  have  mercy  on  your  souls." 

It  is  necessary  to  add  that  the  most 
revyltiuK  part  of  the  sentence  was  not  carried 
out.  The  king's  (Geo.  III.)  warrant  for 
execution,  dated  19  Fei>ruary,  1803,  directed 
au  follows  : — 

"And  wheitia-j  we  have  thought  lit  to  remit  |«irt 
of  the  eetiteiico,  vi/.,  the  taking  out  and  burning 
their  boweli  before  their  faces  and  dividing  the 
budies  of  (here  follow  names]  severally  into  four 
parts,  our  will  and  |ileu8ure  is  that  execution  be 
done  uiion  the  said  [names  again  repeated]  by  their 
being  drawn  and  hanged  and  having  ilieir  heads 
8evere<l  from  their  bodies,  aecording  to  the  said 
eeatouce  only." 

JciUN  T.  Pagk. 
HeslHaddon,  Northantptonahire. 

There  docjs  not  seeiu  to  be  any  doubt  that 
the  proper  order  of  tlie  words  i.s  "  drawn, 
lianuetl,  and  quartered. '  This  was  the  form 
of  tlifa  sentence.  Thus  the  sentence  pas.sed  j 
on  Kdwanl  Coleman,  cnndemned  for  high 
treason  in  November,  1678,  runs  thus  :— 

"Von  shall  return  to  prison,  from  thence  be 
drawn  to  the  place  of  execution,  where  yon  ihall 
be  ban;;eU  by  the  neck,  and  bt>  uut  down  alive,  yonr 
boweU  burnt  before  your  face,  and  your  qiiortera 
jievcred  and  your  body  disposed  ixa  the  king  thinks 

lu  the  report  of  the  trial  of  the  "  five 
Jesuits,"  some  time  later,  the  recorded  juilu- 
inent  (abbreviated)  \h  "  to  be  drawn,  handed, 
and  ijuart«red."  The  sentence  on  Fitzliarris, 
tried  in  June,  1081,  ia  given  in  LAtin  in  the 
leptjrt  of  the  trial  :— 

"  A<1  furcos  de  Tylwrne  trahalur,  et  super  furcos 
ilia*  BU»|iendiitur,  ct  vivena  ad  lerrani  prosU-rnatur, 
no  interiiira  aua  extra  ventreni  snum  e«piantur, 
ipsofj.  vivente  coniburentnr  :  et  iiuod  cajiut  ejus 
urnputalur,  ijuodn.  corpus  eju«  in  tpialuor  i>art«» 
dividrtlur.  tt  <|ii<)ii  caput  et  quarter,  ill.  ponantur 
ubi  new  ca  nsijiirndre  vulucriinus." 

The  drawing  was  oiininally  a  drap«inK 
along  the  ground  ;  thi«  wa«,  lalor,  miligat^d 
by  interpoHJng  a  liunlle,  and,  later  utill,  a 
alofigo.  But  the  sontenccH  in  the  ropi»»h 
riot  trials  sDeciliod  sunietimes  a  hurdle, 
Kometime^  a  sledge. 

The  Henloiiceq  quoted  will  Ix^  found  in  the 
'Siat«f  Triah.'  Alkkku  Makks. 

No  ono  can  reasonably  <|i)ubL  tliat  perwinH 
oondomued   to  this  |)«aalty  should  strictly 


have  been  disembowelled  before  death. 
Between  the  beginning  of  February,  1577/H, 
and  the  end  of  January,  1585/6,  the  following 
Catholic  martyrs,  according  to  ChallonerS 
'  Missionary  Priests,'  were  certainly  disem- 
bowelled while  yet  alive  : — 

JJtati.—Juhu  Nelson,  Thomas  Sherwood, 
Kverard  Hanjse,  William  Hart  (and  probably 
Uichard  Thirkell). 

Venefabilt». — George Haydoek,  James  Fono, 
Thomas  Ueuierford,  John  Nutter,  Richard 
White,  Edward  Strancham,  Nicholas  Wheeler 
(and  probably  John  Muiiden). 

John  B.  WAisEWRroHT. 

"  The  Lord  Steward  then  addressed  the  prisonera 
in  a  )>athetic  speech,  and  conclude<l  by  pronouncing 
sentence  in  the  following  words:  — 'The  judgment 
of  the  law  is,  and  thin  Hieh  Court  doth  award,  that 
you,  WilliairkEai'I  of  Kilmarnock,  (Jeorge  Karl  of 
Cromarty,  and  Arthur  Lord  Halmerino,  and  every 
one  of  you,  return  to  the  prison  of  the  Tower  from 
whenoe  you  came ;  from  tbeocc  you  must  be  drawn 
to  the  place  of  execution:  when  vou  come  there, 
you  must  be  lianged  by  the  neck,  uut  not  till  vou 
are  dead ;  for  you  must  be  cut  down  alive ;  ttieu 
your  bowels  must  be  taken  out  and  burnt  before 
your  faces;  then  your  heads  must  be  se^'ered  from 
your  bodies,  and  your  bodies  mu»t  be  divided  each 
into  four  quarters  :  ami  these  must  bo  nt  the  king's 
diH|>o8al.  And  IJod  Almighty  be  merciful  to  your 
souls!'" — Jesse's  'Memoirs  of  the  Pretenaerf, 
p.  .'{ill, 

W,  E.  Wii^oM. 

Hawiok.  

Martello  Towehs  (10"'  8.  i.  285,  356).- 
Since  writing  my  note  I  have  been  enabled, 
in  the  course  of  a  tour  round  Cap  Coree.  to 
take  a  close  observation  of  the  point  and  bay 
of  Murtella.  I  was  unable  to  discern  any 
vestiges  of  a  fort  on  the  point.  If  it  were 
destroy eil  in  1703.  the  woric  must  have  been 
very  thoroughly  none.  The  nearest  Genoe-ie 
watch-tower  is  situate*!  at  Farinole,  a  mile 
or  two  to  the  northward.  The  myrtle  abound.s 
in  the  neiglilx>urhoo(J,  an<l  the  vicinity  of  St. 
Fiorent  is  the  only  part  of  Corsica  in  which 
the  oleander  grows  wild.  It  is  a  pretty 
Coraican  custom  to  strew  branches  of  myrtlo 
before  the  residence  of  a  bride,  and  in  driving 
througlj  Patrimoiiio,  a  village  near  St. 
Florent,  we  passed  a  house*  from  which  a 
marriage  procession  hud  just  departe<l,  tlie 
air  being  thick  with  the  odour  of  the  crushed 
leaves.  It  would  be  interesting  to  receive 
further  evidence  with  regard  to  the  alleged 
derivation  of  Martello  from  Mortella. 

W.  F.  Pripkaux. 
Baatia. 

I  Ijolieve  the  surname  Martolli  is  of  con- 
siderable antiquity  in  Florence  and  other 
parts  of  Italy.     I  do  not  suggest  that  the 


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Martello  Towers  are  named  after  this  family, 
but    the    similarity    iu    the    two    words    is 
certainly   very   marked.       In    May,    1901,   I 
copieci   the  following  inscriptions  from  two 
n)ural  tablets  at  the  west  end  of  the  nave  of 
St.  ClemeDt's  Church,  Hastings  : — 
Near  thin  spot 
are  deposited  the  remaiin  of 
Horatio  MartoUi  Estj. 
who  died  '29'"  I>e<j'  1817 
aged  4JS  yeans. 
This  monument  was  erected  to 
hilt  heloved  memory  by  his 
Htllicted  widow  and  eight 
children. 

Also  the  remains  of 

Catherine 

widow  of  the  above  mentioned 

Horatio  Martelli 

She  died  the  I0»''  .June  1818 

aged  lf7  years 

This  tablet  was  erected  to  her  lamented  niomory 

by  her  orphans. 

"  I  will  not  leave  you  conifortlesB  :  I  will 

come  to  you."  John  xiv.  IS  ver. 

On  the  upper  tablet  is  a  coat  of  arras  which 
I  read  as  follows  ;  Per  fess  or  and  argent,  in 
chief  an  eagle  displayed  anri  crowned  proper  ; 
in  base,  on  a  mount  vert,  a  [?  Martello]  tower, 
supported  by  two  lions  rampant  gule.s ; 
in  the  dexter  and  sinister  htme  points  a 
Ileur-de-lis  azure.  On  an  escutcheon  of 
pretence,  Argent,  a  fess  gules  between  three 
crescents  sable,  a  canton  ermines,  impaling 
Sable,  a  chevron ;  in  chief  two  (])  tigers 
passant,  and  in  base  an  annulet,  all  argent. 

John  T.  Paob. 

West  Haddon,  Northamptonshire. 

'  The  Gkenadikr's  Exkrcise  ok  the 
(jiiEN.\D0'  (lO'h  S.  i.  317;.-Im mediately  fol- 
lowing p.  306  in  SibbaJd  Scott's  'British 
Artny,  vol.  ii.,  1808,  are  two  plates,  one  of 
7»ch  "No.  -15,"  represents  a  'Grenadier 
of  H.M.  1st  Regiment  of  Foot  Guards, 
AD.  174.^';  and  at  p.  307  it  is  .stated  that 
''the  Grenadier  on  plate  xlv.  is  copied,  by 
kind  permission,  from  the  Jcmrnal  nf  the 
Archaeological  Inxtitution,  No.  91.  It  is  taken 
from  an  engraving  by  Bernard  Lens,  limner 
to  George  II.,  which  is  in  a  rare  book  in 
tlie  K.A.  Library,  Woolwich,  entitled,  '  The 
Grenadier's  E.xercise  of  the  Grenado  in  U.M. 
First  Regiment  of  Foot  Guards.' "      W.  S. 

"Kick  the  bucket "(lo"'  S.  i.  227,  314).— 
It  would,  perhaps,  l>o  irapssible  to  settle 
with  absolute  certainty  the  origin  of  this 
phrase.  It  becomes,  therefore,  more  or  loss  a 
qiiestion  of  weighing  probabilities,  and  none 
ot  the  exitlanations  .seems  to  equal  in  merit 
tho  one  familiar  to  me  from  my  youth  up. 
When  a  butcher  slings  up  a  sheep   or   pig 


after  killing,  he  fastens  to  the  hocks  of  the 
animal  what  is  technically  known  in  the 
trade  as  a  ganifjal^  a  piece  of  woo«l  curved 
somewhat  like  a  horse'>i  leg.  This  is  also 
known  in  Norfolk  as  a  f'ttcfccf,  a  variation, 
according  to  Forby,  of  hucker.  The  *N.E  D., 
by  the  way,  is  silent  on  this  |K>int,  and  doea 
not  even  mention  yamial,  which  may  beJ 
found  in  any  London  advertiser's  catalogue  A 
but  'janible  as  a  variant  of  (/mnhrel  or  ijanibril 
is  given.  Bucket,  I  may  add,  is  not  only 
well  known  in  Norfolk  in  this  senxe,  and 
commonly  used,  but  with  some  of  our  folk 
is  the  only  word  known  for  the  article  in 
question.  To  "kick  the  bucket,"  then,  is  the 
sign  of  the  animal's  being  dead,  and  tlie 
origin  of  the  phrase  may  probably,  if  not 
indisputably,  be  referred  to  this  source. 

HOLCOMBB  InCILBBT. 
Hcachnm,  Norfolk. 

Catbbdbal  Hicn  Stewards  (10*  8.  i.  348). 
— Norwich  is  not  unique  in  possessing  such 
an    official,  for  the  Dean  and  Chapter   of 
Canterbury  have  such  an  officer,  whose  office^H 
appears  tt>  l)e  a  survival  of  the  layman  of^^| 
power  and  importance  in  the  county,   who^* 
was    steward    of   the    Prior    and    monks   of 
Canterbury.  Aethtr  HussEy. 

Taukerton-on-Sea,  Kent. 

'  Athen.k  Cantabruuensr*.'  (10">  S.  i- 
348).— In  the  'D.N.B.,'  und.T  Charles  Henry 
Cooper  (1808-66),  is  the  following  :— 

"After  the  decease  of  the  principal  author,  the 
University  haadsomely  offerea  to  defray  ''■■  ■ '"  f_ 
printinfj,  at  the  University  I'ress,  the  trt  i 

the  'Athena','  but  his  two  sons,  after  ma  ■.: 

further  proRress  with  the  preparation  oi 
scrijtt,  were  reluctantly  obliged,  by  the  i  t 

their  professional  avocations,  to  tinallyaLuuu.M 
undertaking.      The   e.xtensive  collection   of   note*J 
for  briugiiiK  the  work  down  to  18(36  remains  in   tbfl 
possession  of  (hooper's  widow." 

Lionel  A.  V.  Schank. 

Right  Hon.  Jons  Smith,    Speaker  (lO"" 
S.  i.   348).— Mr.   Pink  will    find    plenty  of 
mat«rial   for  this   family   which    has  never* 
been    properly*  dealt  wi'th.     Mr,    C.   Reacia' 
('  Smith  Family  ')  cannot  even  give  the  Chris- 
tian name  of  the  Speaker's  father.     The  fol- 
lowing rough  notes  may  be  of  use.     In  the 
Subsidy  Rolls,  John  Smith,  E.sq.,  haa  3f.  in 
land    in    North   Ted  worth  (tanp.    Car.  II.). 
John  Smith,  of  Aldermanbury,  London,  and 
afterwards  of  North  Ted  worth,  had  a  daughtorj 
Jane,    who  was  mother  of    Serjeant   Webhl 
(born  about   1663)  and    of   the   wcli-knownj 
General  John  Richmond  Webb  (born  abouU 
1G67).    In   1683  John  Smith,  of  South  Ted-i 
worth,    widower,   married    Ann,  eiitliteonth 
daughter  of  Sir  "rhomas  Strickland,  Bart.    It 


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413 


the  fii'st  year  of  William  and  Mary,  John 
Smith  or  Tedworlh  was  a  collector  for 
Wilts.  A  John  Smith  of  Te<iwoflh  married 
Anne,danghterof  Sir  Nicholas  Stuartof  Hart- 
ley Mjvu<Juit,  who  <iied  1709,  (Ft.  ninety-tliree. 
Thomas  Smith,  of  Tedwortli  (died  1662),  had 
a  daughter  Jane,  niarrie<l  to  William  Gore, 
and  by  him  ancestress  of  Lord  Temple.  The 
Sjjeaker,  who  died  in  1723,  had  a  sister  who 
married  Sir  Samuel  Dashwood,  Lord  Mayor 
of  London,  and  left  many  children  by  hira» 
Ijord  Archer  (born  169r))heinj?  her  grandson. 
The  will  of  Henry  Smith,  of  South  Tcdworth, 
was  proved  (P.C.C.)  1732.  Sabim. 

Cold  Harbour:  Windy  Aebouh  (lO"*  S.  i. 
341). — There  really  cannot  remain,  at  the 
present  date,  any  doubt  whatever  as  to  the 
sense.  It  simply  means  "  harbour  without  a 
fare,"  and  is  explained  in  '  H.E.D.,'  otherwise 
known  as  'N'.E.D.'  (Neglected  English 
Dictionary),  m.v.  '  Harbour,'  section  2. 

Ju.st  in  the  same  way,  a  "cold  chamber" 
meant  a  room  without  a  fire.  Thus  in 
ilalory's  '  ^[orte  Arthure,'  bk.  vi.  c.  2:  "They 
leyd  him  in  a  chamber  cold."  It  seems  to  me 
tliat  the  atterajit  to  connect  Cold  with  places 
containing  Col-  will  be  all  lost  labour ;  we 
know  for  certain  that  there  is  no  connexion 
except  when  Col-  represents  cool ;  and  even 
this  IS  accidental. 

It  will  be  much  more  to  the  point  if  some 
one  will  give  us  more  information  about  the 
Cohl  Harbi)ur  in  London,  which  was  neither 
mixed  up  with  any  Cot-,  nor  beside  a  country 
road,  nor  beside  a  Roman  road,  .Stowe,  in 
his  'Survey  of  London,'  says  that  the  steeple 
and  choir  of  the  church  of  Allhallows  the 
Less 

"  staudeth  on  an  arched  {nte,  bciiiK  the  entry  to 

a  (treat  house  called  Cold  Harbrough ToHchiDc 

this  Cold  Harbrough,  I  find  that  in  the  thirteenth  of 
E<lwttrd  II.  Sir  John  Abel,  knight.domiseilor  letunlo 
Henrv  iStow,  draptor,  all  chat  his  capital  messuage 
callecl  the  Colli  Harbrough,  in  the  iiarinh  of 
All  Saints  ad  ftaiiim.  and  all  the  aiipiirtenani.'ea 
within  the  uate,  with  the  key  which  Robert 
Hartford had  and  ouKht," 

i.e.,  posnessed.  The  same  Cold  Harbrough 
Was  sold  to  John  Poultney,  four  times  Mayor, 
and  took  the  name  of  Poultney'a  Inn.  Sub- 
soquently  Poultney  gave  to  Humphrey  de 
Itohun.  Vlarl  of  Hereford,  "his  whole  tene- 
ment callpil  Cold  Hnrljrough  [so  that  the  old 
name  stuck  to  it],  with  all  the  tenements  and 
key  aiijoining."  Wo  lind  several  other  par- 
ticulars, «uf;h  as  that  PMmond,  ICarl  of  Cam- 
bridge, •'  was  tlierc  lodged  "  ;  and,  in  the  time 
of  Henry  VIIL,  "  CutnViert  Tunstal,  Rishop 
of  Durham,  was  lodged  in  thia  Cold  Har- 
brough"; and  linally,  it  waa  pulled  down, 


and  replaced   by  a  great  number  of  small 
tenements. 

This  Cold  Harbour  was  evidently  a  "great 
house,"  used  as  a  lodging  by  great  people  ; 
in  fact,  a  largo  hostel.  1  contrioute  a 
reference  to  it  on  my  own  account,  dated 
1410:  "L'oustiel  appellez  le  Coldherbergh  en 
Londres"  ('Proceedings  and  Ordinances  of 
the  Privy  Council,'  ed.  Sir  H.  Nicolas,  i.  330). 
Waltkr  W.  Skeat. 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  Mn.  Snowden  Wakd'» 
request  for  an  exhaustive  list  of  places  bear- 
ing this  name  will  moot  with  agotxl  response, 
if  only  to  give  us  a  chance  of  testing  the 
theoretical  connexion  with  Roman  \'illas  an(J 
Roman  roads  that  has  been  confidently  pro- 
claimed for  so  many  years.  Would  it  be  a  very 
b<jld  thing  to  suggest  that  "cole  arbour,"  so 
often  found  as  the  older  spelling,  gives,  after 
all,  the  true  origin,  viz,  "charcoal-burners' 
hut"?  It  would  then  bo  precisely  parallel 
to  the  countless  "colcots,"  and  explain  such 
frequent  names  as  Cole  Farm,  Cole  Barn, 
Coles  Hill,  Cole  Allen,  Collier's  Green,  Collier's 
Hill,  Collier  Street. 

As  Mr.  Ward  asks  for  similar  forms,  tho 
following  may  interest  him  :  Coldstaple, 
Cold  roast.  Cold  Ash,  Cold  Comfort.  Cold 
Kitchen,  Cold  Bridge,  Coldswood,  Cold  Blow, 
Key  Cold  Hill.  Sarum.      . 

Waldeoff  Family  (10'"  S.  i.  347).— Seo 
Dwnn's  'Visitations  of  Wales,'  ii.  37,  58,  and 
Jones's  '  History  of  the  County  of  Breck- 
nock,' ii.  r)83.  A.  R.  Bayley. 

This  was  a  Norman  stock,  dwelling  for 
many  centuries  in  the  South  Wales  Marches, 
on  tne  Herefordshire  border.  Persons  of  the 
name  (mostly  in  humble  circumstanceH)  were 
living  in  the  same  district  down  to  tho  nine- 
teenth century,  and  tho  surname  could  pro- 
bably even  yet  be  found  extant.  I  have  a 
short  Elizabethan  pedigree  of  tho  family  of 
WalbeoH'  of  Llanhamulch. 

John  Hobson  Matthews. 

Monmontb. 

Rev,  Artuur  Galton  (10"'  S.  i.  349).— 
If  I  am  right  in  identifying  this  gentleman 
with  the  Rev.  Arthur  Howard  Galton,  then 
Crockford's  'Clerical  Directory'  supplies 
information.  Mr.  Galton  joine<i  thu  Cliurcli 
of  Rome.  »nd  was  ordained  priest  in  1880. 
His  'Thomas  Cromwell'  api»eare«l  in  1887. 
Since  his  readmiltanco  to  the  Churcii  of 
England  (1808)  ho  has  published:  'The 
Message  of  the  Church  of  England  '  (IB09)  , 
'Rome  and  lU>nia»u2ing'  (i'.xx))  ;  'Our  Atti- 
tude towards  English  Itoman  Catholics  anri 
tho  Papal  Court  (1901);  and  'Ecclesiastical 


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NOTES  AND  QIIEKIES.    '   iio"-h.i.  may  21.1904. 


Architecture  '(tlieopeningsGction  of  Barnard'a 
•Companion  to  English  History  ')  in  1902. 

C.  S.  Ward. 

Mr.  Qalton  would,  of  course,  be  best  able 
to  supply  the  list  app]ie<l  for  by  ifiss  M.  C 
Boyle;  but  iu  lack  of  tliis  raore  aatisfactory 
luethoii  of  information,  I  subjoin  a  brief 
bibliography  of  such  of  Mr.  Gallon's  worka 
aa  are  known  to  me  :  — 

'  The  Clmraeier  and  Times  of  Thomas  CroniMrell,* 
2tW7,  Cornish,  Birmingham,  Si. 

'Mathew  Arnold,'  IS97,  Klkiii  Malhows.  :U  Gil. 

•  The  Message  ami  Fosition  of  the  Church  of  Kng- 
Isjid,'  1899,  Kegan  Paul,  Treuch  Si  Co.,  3«.  ti»l. 

'  Rome  and  Romanising :  some  Experiences  and 
a  Warning,"  liXKJ,  SkefKnKlon  &  Son,  1* 

'  The  Catholicity  of  iho  Reformed  Church  of 
England  '  IWl.  Skethnglon  A  Son,  6<l. 

'  The  Proiesiautismof  the  Reformed  and  Catholic 
Church  in  Enxland,'  1901.  SkcttiiiKton  i:  Son,  Q'l 

'The  History  of  the  Mwlini-val  and  Papal  Doc- 
trine of  Confession, '  l!M)D   Ladies'  League,  ',i<l. 

'  The  Anglican  Position,"  101)0,  samu  publisher. 

A1.SO  articles  on  political  topics  in  Natioiuil 
Jievitvo,  and  life-sketch  iu  'Roads from  Home,' 
1902,  ll.T.S.,  2*.  6(/.  J.  B.  McGovfiBN. 

St.  Sleiihen's  Rectory,  C.-on-M.,  .Mauchcsier. 

Makk.  Hili)E.slev(10"'  S.  i.. 344).  — 1  suggest 
that  Mil.  Stewakt  has  overlooked  some 
abbreviatiou  marks  in  the  inscription,  and 
inserted  some  commas.  In  the  ninth  Hue  of 
the  lower  fragment  is  it  quite  certain  that 
the  small  word  is  m,  and  that  there  is  a 
comma  after  it?  Otherwise,  I  suggest  «« 
without  a  comma.  With  meatus,  datus, 
deconttnit,  6e<(fu«,  the  meaning  seems  plain. 

F,  P. 

In  the  first  and  second  lines  of  the  epitaph 
read  Marunus.  not  "Maxim  ut"  ;  in  the  fifth 
and  sixth  i/'  ^  thai,  not  "y."  The  line 
which  "appears  hopeless"  may  possibly 
mean  :  "  15y  whicJi  [migration]  Lincoln's  Inn 
is  still  further  endowed  [with  distinction,  or 
a  legacy  ?  ]."  E.  S.  DoDa.soN. 

On  p.  281  of  'Memoirs  of  Mark  Hildea- 
ley,  D.D.,  Lord  Bishop  of  Sodor  and  Mann,' 
by  the  Rev.  Weeden  Butler,  is  the  inscrip- 
tion, "on  a  free-stone  upon  the  pavement  of 
tlie  chancel  opposite  tho  door"  in  the  cliurch 
of  St.  Margaret,  Hetningford  Abbats,  to  the 
memory  of  the  bLshoi)'.s  great-uncle  :  — 

"Here  lielh  I  John  Hildealey,  Kai\.,  barrister  at 
law.  I  He  was  the  eldest  son  of  Mark  Hildosley, 
Emi.  I  of  Kingston  u)>oji  Thamos,  in  the  county  of 
(  Surry,  1  barrister  at  law ;  |  Grandson  of  Mark 
llildesley,  Egip  |  lord  mayor  elect,  und  representa- 
tive I  of  the  city  of  London  1 died  Anril  the 

•  ^'ITSl,  a«ed70yearB." 

^  A  note  by  tho  editor  is  inserted  tlnowing 
doubt  upon  the  sUtement  that  the  grand- 
^fatber  represented  the  City,  as  ins  name  doe« 


notoccur  in  anylist  of  "ra  embers  for  London,* 
nor  in  the  various  lists  of  sherifls.  Possibly 
tho  burial  took  place  at  Kingston. 

ElOiEMT  B.  Savaqe. 
St.  Thomas,  Douglas. 

Byabd  Family  (lO'**  S.  i.  34») — Inquiries  | 
were  made  for  a  family  of  this  name  so  long 
ago  as  Way,  18r)9  (a"-'  8.  vii.  4:t<jJ.  The  reply 
(p.  50G)  referred  to  Capt.  Sir  Thomas  Byard, 
and  George  and  Leonard,  of  the  parislj  of 
Owaton,  CO-  York-  Siiould  tliis  reference 
be  considered  of  any  value  by  your  corre- 
spondent, I  will  send  him  a  MS.  copy  of  it. 

EVEEARD  HOMK  COLEMAN. 
71,  Brecknock  Road. 

The    Rev.   Frank    Byard    is  the  vicar  ol 
Dallon-in-Furness, 

Uhas.  F.  Forsuaw,  LL  D. 

Miniature  of  Sir  I.^^.^ac  Newtok  (lO"*??.! 
i.  248,  315,  355).— I  am  deeply   indebted  to| 
Dr.  Fok-smaw  for  directing  attention  to  my 
egregiou-s    error,    which    I    am    unable    to 
e.xplain.    On  referring  to  the  ZV«/n«fir/to»«  of  ^ 
the  lloyal  Society  (Loinlon)  for  the  year  I(iJt9 
I  find  the  name  of  Newton  as  that  of  one  of  i 
the   eight   Foreign  Associates  of   tho    Iloyalj 
Academy  of  Sciences  at   Paris,  founded    in 
IGfJG,  and   aboli-shed  by  the  National  Con- 
vention itJ  1793. 

EVERARU   HoMK  COLEStAS. 

I  regret  lam  unable  to  give  any  history 
of  the  miniature,  a-s  I  purdiased  it  from  a 
dealer  who  had  bought  it  at  a  sale;  i)ut  thei-a^ 
can  be  no  doubt  of  its  being  genuine.    The 
date  of  the  inscription  is  c-learly  1703,   en- 
graved on  tho  silver  back  of  tiie  frame,  whichj 
is  beautiful  work  of  early  eighteontli-centur; 
date.     Possibly,  although  dated  1703,  in  com- 
memoration of  Sir  Isaac  Newton  having  beei 
elected   President  of   the  lioyal   Society  ir 
that  year,    tlie    miniature    may  have    oeoi 
painted  after  he  was  knighted  in  1705. 

RORERT   BiRKBKCK. 

Links  with  the  Past  (10"'  S.  i.  32.':>) — Ai 
instance  of  longevity  in  the  family  of  Si^ 
Rowland  Hill  eclipses  the  case  mentioned  l)J 
Heuja.  My  great-grand-uiide,  John  Hill 
was  born  in  1719  (served  as  a  volunteer  it 
'*  the  '45  "  against  the  Jacobitp.s),  and  died  ir 
1810,  aged  ninety-one.  His  grand  r  ' 
my  uncle  ?^rcderic  Hill,  was  born  in 
died  in  1896,  aged  ninety-three.  Ti.t-  -j- 
of  years  bridged  by  these  two  lung  lives  ii 
therefore  not  far  oflF  two  centuries  or  17T 
years.  EleaNOB  C.  SmvtS. 

Ilarborae. 

The  SiKc(iito7'  recently  had  a  large  Qumk 
of  these  in  its  columns.    It  may  be  of  soe 


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415 


iQtereMt  to  state  that  in  the  town  of  Nairn 
there  is  living  a  lady,  now  in  her  ninety-sixth 

f'ear,  who  when  a  chilil  talked  to  men  who 
»ad  been  "out  in  the  Forty -five."  In 
Moflat  there  lives  a  lady,  now  in  her  hun- 
dredth year,  who  can  remcinber  Waterloo, 
and  who  travelled  in  the  stage  coach  with 
Charlotte  Carnentier,  Lady  Scott, 

W.  K.  WiMOX. 
Hawiok. 

Dn.  Samuel  Hinds,  formerly  Bishop  of 
Norwich  (lO""  S.  i.  227,  351).— Mr.  Hibuamk 
u^ht  like  to  know  tiiat  the  Doctor's  portrait 
rafl  painted  by  T.  VVageman  in  1834,  and 
that  I  have  an  engraving  of  it— quite  at  his 
service  should  he  care  to  see  it. 

Harold  Malet,  Colonel. 
Rodaor  House,  near  Sandgate. 

The  late  Canon  Howell,  of  Drayton  Rectory, 
near  Norwich,  was  a  near  relation  of  thiii 
bishop.  A  letter  to  Miss  Hinds  Howell,  his 
daughter,  would  no  doubt  obtain  the  in- 
formation which  is  required.  She  was  living 
a  few  years  since  in  the  (Jlose  at  Norwich, 
and  may  still  be  resident  there.  If  not,  her 
addre.si^  would  be  known  to  the  cathedral 
oHicials.  W.  P.  Courtney. 

St.  Fin  a  of  Qimigsaso  (lO^''  S.  i.  349).— 
There  are  two  frescoes— Vision  and  Burial. 
These  are  in  the  Santa  Fina  side-chapel  in 
La  CoUegiata  at  San  Qimignano,  not  far 
from  Siena.  Fina  (perhaps  a  pet  form  of 
Serafina)  was  a  very  poor  girl  who  .suflFered 
cruelly  from  disea-se,  practically  unrelieved 
by  any  healing  ministry,  and  borno  with 
exemplary  patience.  She  found  comfort  and 
courage  in  a  sen.so  of  fellow-sulfering  with 
St.  Gregory  the  Great,  whose  last  years  had 
been  one  long  toiture  from  gout.  He 
appeared  to  her,  and  promised  her  release 
on  his  day.  She  died  accordingly  on  12 
March,  1253,  There  is  a  'Life'  in  'Acta 
Sanctorum'  tl2  March,  ii.  236),  which  is 
sufficiently  represented  in  Baring-Gould's 
'Saints'  ('ilarch,'  p.  239).  Mrs.  Jameson  has 
a  pleasant  notice  of  ner  in  '  Sacred  and 
Legendary  Art,'  p.  G5<D,  and  assigns  the 
frescoes  Uj  Sebasiiun  Mainardi  (1). 

U.  S.  Wahd. 

An  account  of  St.  Fina  will  be  found  in 
*The  Story  of  Siona  and  San  Gimiguano,'  by 
E.  G.  Gardner  (Dent  it  Co),  one  of  the 
charming  "  Medieval  Town  Series." 

Hiy*Rv  Gkuald  Hope. 

J  HI,  Klnit  Road,  CUpliaiit,  S.  \V. 

Dkan'^  Yard,  Westminster,  No.  17  (9"'  S. 
xii.  26&:  10'"  S.  j.  33«<}.  —  In  'Kecollec- 
tious    of    u    Town    Boy    at    Westraiuster, 


1W40-1850,'  by  Capt.  F.  Markham,  pp.  22-3 
(London,  Edward  Arnohl,  1903),  this  house  is 
referred  to  as  '"a  prebendary's  resilience, 
tiien  occupied  by  the  Bishop  of  Gloucester, 
who  was  a  Canon  of  the  Abbey." 

T.  F.  D. 

Shank-Vs  Make  (10^''  S.  i.  340).—"  Shanks's 
pony  "  is  also  employed.  As  to  tfuHoirr(i/,  the 
word,  though  of  course  Scotch,  is  sometimes 
heard  south  of  the  Humber.  Probably  it  was 
introduced  by  lionse-coupersandcattledrovers 
in  the  days  before  animals  were  sent  by  rail. 
Many  so-called  Scotch  words  are  Englislj 
enough.  "  Bairn."  for  instance,  has  always 
bepn  current  so  far  south  as  Lincolnshire,  at 
least.  But  some  few  others  owe  their  pre- 
sent range  to  the  men  who  used  to  bring 
herds  from  all  parts  of  the  Scotch  Lowlands 
to  the  Fuglish  fairs.  Some  of  tlie.se  people 
are  said  to  have  known  every  road  and  by- 
path from  the  Highland  lino  to  the  Mid- 
lands. There  is  a  story  that  the  rents  of  the 
Carrs,  who  held  property  at  Sleaford,  used  to 
be  sent  into  Northumberland  in  the  charge 
of  a  trusted  drover,  whom  no  highwayman 
ever  suspected  of  carrying  an  important  sum 
of  money.  Though  shorn  of  nmch  of  it.s 
importance,  Horncastle  horse-fair  is  still  well 
frequented.  In  the  year  of  the  Franco- 
German  war,  not  only  did  Scotch  and  Irish 
dealers  flock  to  it  as  usual,  but  Frejich  buyers 
were  also  in  the  field.  It  is  not  unusual  for 
foreignei-s  to  frequent  English  fairs  and  to 
pick  up  our  horsy  words.  M.  P. 

Tlie  slang  expression  current  hereabouts  to 
denote  a  journey  performe<l  on  foot  is  always 
"Shanks's  pony.  "  Miss  Baker  has  the  fol- 
lowing in  her  '  Glossary  of  Northamptonshire 
Words  and  Phrases  ':— 

"Shanks'  Foney.  -\  low  phrase,  ainnifving 
travcUint;  on  fool,  or,  as  it  is  Bomoliniej.  snui,  oii 
ten  toes.  Hartahorne  iusort*  it ;  Moor  hiw  Hhank'* 
Xati  :  .IivmJeson.  Shank*  Nagit  ;  and  Craven 
Dialect,  Shank'«  HaUoway." 

A  somewhat  similar  phrase  is  "Shoe-cart." 
I  was  talking  to  a  labouring  man  the  other 
day  alwjut  some  one  being  unable  to  atTord 
the  cost  of  a  horse  and  trap  to  take  him  to  a 
certain  place.  "  He  must  do  as  I  should," 
said  ho,  "  go  in  a  shoe-cart." 

John  T.  Pa.:k. 

\Ve«l  Iliiddoii,  NortliamjiloiMhirc. 

"To  shank  one-self  away"  occurs  in  'The 
Antiquary,'  by  Scott  (chap,  xxvii.).  Smnlar 
phrases  are  "to  borrow  Mr.  Foot's  horse  ; 
'•  to  go  by  Walker's  'bus  ";  "  to  travel  by  the 
marrow-btine  stage";  "to  go  on,  or  ride 
Bayard  of  ten  toes."  The  "marrow -bone 
stage"  is  probably  in  allusion  to  the  first 


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omnibus  run  from  the  "Yoi-ksljire  Slingo" 
in  Marylebone,  which,  as  is  well  known,  is 
pronounced ''Marry bun."  There  is  also  the 
slang  phrase  "  to  pad  the  hoof "  ;  and  "  to 
take  one's  foot  in  one's  hand"  is  to  depart 

or  make  a  journey:  "Andrew made  his 

bows,  and,  as  the  saying  is,  took  his  foot  in 
his  hand  "  (?  Smollett). 

J.  HoLDEN  MacMichabl, 

"Feed  the  bbute"  (10""  S.  i.  348).— This 
phrase  refers  probably  to  the  following  story, 
which  went  the  rounds  of  the  American 
papers  some  ycAra  ago.  A  married  Ia<Iy  was 
asked  how  .she  managed  to  get  on  so  well 
witli  her  liusband.  She  answered,  "  I  feed 
the  brute— his  stomach  witii  foo<l  and  his 
liead  with  Hattery."  This  story  may  have 
first  appeared  in  Punchy  though  the  bitter, 
cynical  humour  seems  to  me  more  American 
than  English.  M.  N.  G. 

One  iM  under  the  impression  that  this  was 
Punch's  truthfully  humorous  answer  lo  the 
iiuostion  of  the  hour,  "How  to  be  happy 
tiiongh  married."  J.  H.  MAfMitTiAEL. 

In  'I.Ady  Windermere's  Fan,'  Act  I.,  pro" 
duced  at  the  St.  James's  Theatre 22  February' 
1892,  the  Duchess  of  Berwick  says  ;  '•  AW  I 
know  tliat  all  men  are  luonsters.  The  only 
tiling  to  do  is  to  feed  the  wretches  well.  A 
good  cook  does  wonders,"  &c.  Rut  this  may 
be  an  adaptation  by  Oscar  Wilde  of  an 
earlier  apophthegm.  A.  R.  Bayley. 

Wellin.;ton's  Hor8e.s  (10"'  S.  i.  329).— Some 
of   the  particulars   required    by  your  corre- 
spondent  will  be  found  in  the  answers  to 
previous  inquiries  in  '  N.  Jc  Q.'    See  8"=  S  iv 
447,  489  :   v.  .03,  154,  215. 

EvERAKO  Home  Coleman. 
71,  Brecknock  Road. 

Shakespeare's  Geave  (10'»'  S.  i.  288,  331, 
3.';»2).— 1  wish  to  thank  Dr.  Fokshaw  for  his 
kind  reply  to  my  query  about  Shakespeare's 
gi^ve.  and  to  expre.s8  my  sorrow  tiiat  I 
offended  hiiu  by  calling  the  lines  on  the 
tomtetone  doggerel.  Evidently  the  ideas  as 
to  what  constitutes  poetry  differ  on  the  two 
fiides  of  "  the  pond." 

Does  "the  prevailing  tradition  that  the 
bust  via8  copied  from  a  cast  after  nature" 
ar)ply  to  the  bust  wjiich  is  at  present  in  the 
Stratford  Church,  wliich  was  placed  there 
about  1746  by  John  Ward,  the  grandfather 
of  Mrs,  Siddons,  and  the  leader  of  the  com- 
pany of  strolling  players  to  which  Dr.  Foh- 
SIIAV  refer-s,  or  to  the  original  bust  which  it 
replaced,  and  to  which  it  bears  no  resemblance 
either  in  attitude  or  features,  ^nd  which  is 


figured  in  Dugdale's  'Warwickshire'?  I  might 
I  add  that  as  I  formerly  lived  in  Gloucester- 
shire, within  four  miles  of  Stratford,  I  do  not 
I  need  to  go  to  Whcler's  'Stratford'  to  learu 
I  about  the  existing  form  of  the  tuonuniont. 
Isaac  Hull  Platt. 

The  Players,  New  Vork. 

The  point  Mrs.  McIrjQURAU  raises  seemed 
so  int«resting  to  me  that  I  detenu"' 
to  visit  Stratford  lo  obtain  the  co' 
nieaauremontH.  My  journev  well  rr*^  ■ 
time  thus  expended,  for  mr.  W. 
the  parish  cleik,  informed  me  that  .... 
tion  of  distance  iiad  never  been  raised  befo 
The  correct  height  of  the  monument  froi 
the  floor  is  six  feet  three  inches,  and  the 
nearest  distance  from  the  monument  to  the 
slab  over  Shakespeare's  grave  is  eight  feet 
,  three  inches.  Mr.  Bennett,  who  assisted  m& 
with  the  measurements,  informed  me  the 
general  impression  was  that  the  lines  were 
the  outcome  of  Shakespeare's  averniou  to  the 
removef]  bone^  in  the  charnel-house  which 
almost  immediately  adjoins  both  monument 
and  tombstone. 

CitAS.  F.  FoRSHAW,  LL.D. 

Baltimore  Honse,  Bradford, 

Allow  mo  to  refer  to  the  sixth  edition  of 
I  HalliwellPhillipps'a  'Outlines,'  in  which  full 

information  may  be  found.    In  regard  lo  thtt^ 

original  tombstone  once  covering  the  remaini 

of  Shakspeare,  Halliwell-Phinii 
"The  original  memorial  hue  w.i 

allotted  station,  no  one  can  lell  wl 
,  to  the  insane  worslii))  of  proMi' 

mipchievoua  demon  whi>se  votaricB  :  ./ 

I  destroyed  the  priceless  relics  of  anLieat.  EiigUnd 

and  her  gifted  sons."— Vol.  i.  \>.  24U. 

John  Piciii'ORD,  M.A. 
Newbourne  Rectory,  WoodbridKe. 

Wilton  Ncsxery  (10"'  S.  i.  248.  318).— Dk. 

j  FoRSHAW  dismisses  my  request  for  evidence 
with  an  airy  "There  is  no  doubt  "—s^i  qna-re. 
Scott,  who  cites  no  authority,  wouli!  .iimpjir 
to  have  borrowed  his  account  fr^ti 

'  ('  I.«tter8,'  ii.  479),  whose  stor^,  whi  ^  >  r 

derived,  is  stigmatized  as  ''improbable  '  by 
the  'DN.B.'  (xxvi.  222>.  The  Pope  had 
assented    to  the   retention  of    ein  .1 

firoperty  by  the  Hpoilators,  whast  .s 

urlher  confirmed  by  1  i  2  Phil.  &  ilar.  c.  8w 
and    though    the    Crown    refused    to    avail 
itself  of  tlie  permission  accorded,  f  ko 
no  subject  whose  conscience  was  so  tn 
and  in  point  of  fact  the  Earl  of  I' 
appears  to  have  been  still  resident  u 

House  in  August,  inriS  (see  'S,  P.  D^.■<l^    . 
xiii.  63),      Jf  it   was  restored   to  the 
between  that  date  and    the  death    of    ku^. 


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417 


•qaeea  on  17  November,  one  would  expect  to 
find  8oroe  contemporary  evidence;  but,  so  far 
as  uiy  information  goes,  there  is  none. 

John  13.  Wainewiught. 

Thk  LoniiSHOMK  (10""  S.  i.  327),— It  does 
not  seem  right  that  a  witch,  or  wizard,  who 
•is  transforratsd  to  a  horse,  slioukl  be  called  a 
were-wolf.  But  a  witch  is  uupposod  capable 
of  changing  herself,  or  her  victims,  to  any 
■animal  ;  an'i  the  way  to  undo  the  witchcraft 
is  to  draw  bbxxl.  In  '  Henry  VI.'  Talbot  says 
to  Joan  : — 
Blood  will  1  draw  oii  Uiec.  Thou  art  a  witch. 
Washington  Irving  mentions  the  Relludo, 
ft  supernatural  horse  of  Spain,  that  gallops 
by  night.  ]>ut  that  is  a  ghost.  Churchill, 
in  'The  Ghost,'  has  written  these  lines  : — 

Sttd  spirits,  suniiimneil  from  the  tomb, 

I  Wide,  uliirint;  ^'ituf^tly  through  tlie  gloom, 

In  all  the  u!iii:il  |iniii|i  uf  f^lorms, 

lu  horrid  customary  forms, 

A  wolf,  a  benr,  a  horse,  aii  ape. 

E.  YVRDLEY. 

It  is  somewhat  curious  that  no  story 
or  legend  of  the  were-wolf  {wbinhornem, 
according  to  Valdez)  is  given  in  Brnga's 
^  Portugue-se  Folk-lore.'  In  C.  Sellers's 
'  Tales  from  the  Lands  of  Nuts  and 
Grapes,'  p.  17,  a  story  is  told  of  a  wolf- 
Bhild  from  the  north  of  Portugal.  There  the 
^-enchanted  Moors  who  live  underground  are 
crefiited  with  the  power  of  placing  this  curse 
on  a  baby,  branding  it  with  the  sign  of  the 
crescent.  E.  E.  Steket. 

Birch,  Bdrcii,  or  Bvrcu  Families  (Uj"'  S. 
i,  328).— Mu.  Herbert  Bircu  may  care  to  be 
referred  to  the  following  :— 

1.  Walter  de  Gray  Birch,  long  an  assistant 
in  tho  Printed  Books  Department  of  the 
Brili'«h  Museum,  now  retired,  and  residing 
at  1,  Rutland  Park,  Willesden  Green,  N  W. 

2.  George  Henry  Birch,  the  curator  of  Sir 
John  Soane's  Museum.    [Uocently  dead.] 

3.  llev.  W.  M.  Birch,  long  vicar  of  Asli- 
burton,  Devon :  present  address,  Bamptou 
Aston.  Oxford. 

4  Henry  John  Birch,  the  oldest  solicitor 
in  Chester,  of  the  Brm  of  Birch,  Cullimore 
Si  Douglas,  and  resi<ling  at  Corville,  Liver- 
pool Koad. 

r?.  Arthur  Buroh,  Registrar  to  the  Bishop 
of  Ex(!ter,  formerly  an  Alderman  of  the  City. 

ti.  Miss  Margaret  Birch  (of  Shro|)siiire 
descent),  18,  Upper Nortligato. Street, Chester. 
T.  Cann  Huohrr,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

LancMtfir. 

Nbijon  andWoiaev  do"'  S.  i.  30M,370).— 
In    my  former  reply    I,   with   inexcusable 


fatuity,  turned  for  the  history  of  the  sai- 
cophagus  wherein  are  the  remains  of  Nelson 
to  the  late  Dean  Milman's  'Annals  of 
St.  Paul's  Cathedral,*  1808,  p.  48ri,  and  read 
that  Torregiano  was  the  .sculptor  of  Wolsey's 
t-orab.  A  wiser  inquiry  and  repentance 
directed  me  to  the  'Italian  Sculpture'  of 
C.  E.  Perkins,  1883.  pp.  247-8,  which  states, 
folluwing  an  account  ot  the  Cardinal's  monu- 
ment: "Before  Cardinal  Wolsey  ^avo  Bene- 
detto [da  llovfczxano]  the  commission  for  his 
monument,  he  had  negotiated  for  it  with  one 
of  his  contemporaries,  Piero  Torrigiano." 
Something  to  this  effect  must  have  misled 
the  Dean,  often  unlucky  as  he  was  when 
tombs  were  in  question  ;  witness  the  lament- 
able history  of  his  strenuous  opposition  to 
the  placing  on  a  fit  site  in  St.  Paul's  of 
Alfred  Stevens's  noble  monument  of  Welling- 
ton, which  he  relegated  to  an  uncomfortable 
corner.  Witness,  likewise,  the  flogged  un- 
reasonableness which  led  him  to  veto  the 
completion  of  Stevens's  design  for  this  monu- 
ment by  placing  the  equestrian  statue  of  the 
Duke  as  the  crowning  element  of  the  whole 
composition.  I  suppose  that  the  Dean,  who 
had  written  a  popular  history  of  the  Jew-s, 
fancied  an  analogy  between  the  horse  of 
Wellington  and  the  Golden  Calf  of  Moses. 
At  any  rate,  Milman  was  actually  found 
capable  of  declaring  that,  so  far  as  he  could 
prevent  it,  no  figure  of  an  animal— at  least 
of  a  quadruMd— should  ever  be  placed  in 
St.  Paul's,  Of  course,  this  curious  and,  for 
the  nonce,  disastrous  whim  was  opposed  to 
the  history  of  art  under  all  nations  and  creed.s, 
including  that  of  St.  Paul's  itself.  O. 

Alexaxdkr  Garden.  M.D.  (lO"'  S.  i.  328).— 
In  Ilew  Scott's  '  Fayti  Ecclesise  Scoticana; '  it 
is  stated  that  tho  Rev.  Alexander  Garden, 
A.M.,  translated  from  Kinnairney,  was  ap- 
pointed to  the  parish  of  Birse  in  1726,  and 
that  he  died  in  1778.  in  his  ninety-first  year, 
jand  the  fifty -eightii  of  his  ministry  ;  also 
that  he  married  in  1759,  and  had  two  sons- 
Dr.  Alexander,  physician,  Charlestown,  South 
Carolina,  known  for  his  learning  and  courtesy, 
and  John,  a  merchant  in  London.       W.  S. 


Ipisffllaneous. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &o. 
Lrrlnrti  on  Bnropfan  HUlonj.   By  William  Stubbt, 

D.l).     Edited   by  Arthur  Uauall,  M.A.    (Long- 

mims  k.  Co.) 
Tm:  \ml>lioation  of  thone  lectures  by  Biahoiv  Stubbs, 
■If^livered  in  <)xfitr<l  oa  KcKiti.H  ProfcsAor  ot  .Vlodorn 
History  between  IKCi)  and  1870,  in  expedient  in  rU 
rcniiecta.  It  \a  posaihlo  that,  had  they  been  ivaued 
uuaer  the  personal  Bu^rarviaiou  of  the  author,  they 


418 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        tw^'S.LMArsuftoi. 


might  bAve  been  altered  and  inoditied  in  soiiie 
ree]>ects.  Mr.  Has^uU,  to  whose  caro  and  judgniunt 
is  attributable  their  appearance,  has,  liow«vcr, 
jiesitated  before  making  important  alterations  in 
work  oDlitled  to  so  much  consideration,  and  ha« 
contintMl  hiniHclf,  as  he  states,  to  the  addition  of  a 
few  notes,  the  iniiertion  of  some  genealogical  tables, 
and  the  removal  of  some  (not  all)  colTotjuiaiiftms. 
I'his  was  doubtless  the  most  expedient  as  well  as 
the  most  reepectftil  course,  though  it  might,  with 
advantage,  have  been  carried  nirther.  Almost 
irt  limiw.  M'e  encounter  references  to  boyhood,  its 
development  and  its  otiinions,  which  have  so  direct 
connexion  with  the  subject.  That  subject,  disposed 
nnd>"r  three  licading's,  is  European  history  between 
lolO  and  ll34S,  a  ]>enod  which  witnessed  the  growth 
of  the  Reforniatiou,  that  of  the  anti-Reforniatiou, 
aud  the  conflict  between  the  two.  The  whole  is 
hold  by  Mr.  Hassall  to  constitute  one  historical 
drama,  tlic  first  act  in  which  consists  of  the  roign  of 
Charles  V.,  tho  second  the  jjeriod  between  his 
death  and  tholteginningof  the  seventeenth  century, 
nod  the  third  the  Thirty  Yeara'  War.  It  would  be 
futile  to  conii)luin  that  no  prologue  gives  tis  the 
reign  of  l''eri1iuiind  and  I«al>eila,  the  growth  of 
the  Inijuisitioii,  and  tho  extirpatioti  of  that  Iberian 
reforinatioii  whiclt  seemed  to  be  in  the  air,  and 
would  presumably  have  commended  itself  more 
readily  to  Litin  races  than  did  the  teaching  of 
Lather  ur  that  of  Calvin.  It  is  not  easy  to  tind 
within  a  similar  a]>aoe  a  more  orderly  and 
lystematic  disposition  and  description  of  the  forces 
which  led  straight  up  to  modern  history,  and  found 
their  cuhuiuatiun  in  tlie  triumph  of  revolution  and 
the  ultimate  extinction  of  "  tlie  Kmpire."  It  is 
obviously  impossible  to  givo  an  idea  of  the  general 
treatment  of  the  great  themes  with  which  Stubbs 
deals. 

Once  n)oro  we  find  ourselves  compelled  to  admire 
the  accuracy  and  insight  displayed  in  the  character- 
painting.  Now  and  then  a  few  allusions  to  the 
[Kflitics  of  the  last  generation  arc  traced.  \Vho 
can  mistake  the  retereuce  when  we  find  in  an 
aiialvsis  of  tho  character  of  Henri  IV.  the 
words,  "Like  the  statesman  of  the  present  day, 
he  had  nut  the  slightest  ditiicully  iu  training 
his  conscience  to  believe  that  tbc  course  most 
expedient  for  him  at  the  moment  was  the  one 
which  his  higher  nature  recommended  to  him. 
which  the  development  of  his  own  views  shnwoa 
him  to  be  the  right,  nay,  which,  under  a  different 
form,  was  the  course  which  he  had  always  intended 
to  hold.'  How  far  tho  analogy  holds  good  wo  are 
scarcely  proi>arcd  to  say.  What  is  .sain  about  the 
relations  of  Henri  IV.  to  women  haa  to  be  read  by 
the  light  of  Siubbs  B  own  position  and  the  audienoe 
he  ha<l  to  addre«8.  For  his  excesses  Henri,  says  our 
author  iu  guarded  language,  "cannot  cUim  iltu 
excuse  of  youth,  if  there  be  any  truth  in  suth 
excuse.''  Altogether  successful  are  lht<  short 
sketches  given  of  the  more  important  churaclers. 
More  than  onoe  Bishop  8tuhhs  dwells  on  the 
influence  in  clearing  the  European  board  of  the 
years  1.1>S  and  1509— Charles  V.  dying  in  .September 
and  tihieen  Mary  and  Cardinal  Pole  in  November  of 
i.he  former  year,  and  Pope  Paul  IV.  in  August  and 
Henri  II.  of  France  in  July  of  the  later.  There  are 
few  works  which  present  a  more  condensed  and 
trustworthy  view  of  the  epoch.  A  history  in  the 
full  scase  of  the  word  tho  work  doe^  not  form, 
and  traces  of  tho  constitutional  historian  are 
found  in    the    absence    of    detail    concerning   the 


Tfenri  IV.  r,r 
ID.     Id  ]iii 


>e 


<ln  le  volume  I  <, 

however,  welcome  in  all  it::i>(i«t;lii,  liiiil  ih  ,\ 

to  general  use  by  a  fairly  coinprt^hci 
The   added   t     '   ■-    ■      consisting  of    ii;oM.-  ii    am 
House  of    H  d  of    I  he  Houses  of  Valoia 

aud  Bourbon  <  iic  value  of  the  work. 

Sir  Thonirtt  J/o«**  L'toitkt.    Kdiled  by  J.  Cburton 

Colhns.    (Oxford,  Clarendon  Press,) 
A  ckitic.iIj  edition  of  the  'Utopia'  is  a  boon  to 
the  student.  References  to  the  work  are  nhnndant  s 
but  those  who  have  read  it,  cither  in  li  Li- 

tion  of  Kobynson  or  in  that  of  Burnet,  ' 

even  though  modern  reprints  by  l*ene:... „..,^)t 

aa  Prof.  .Arber  aud  \Villiam  Morris  have  com- 
mended it  to  two  classes  of  colleolors  or  rvadrrs, 
and  tiiough  there  is,  we  are  told,  a  'I  '  ,- 
muiiists  who   have   made  of  the  'Ctoj  •• 

book.     Those  who  know  it  not  can  st^^       ,  4.0 

its  acquaintance  in  a  form  more  convenient  and 
attractive  than  now  it  assumes.  Of  the  rximeroua 
editions  which  have  appeared   d  yeara 

Mr.  Churton  Collins  awards  ju-:  Am   to 

Dr.    Lupton'a    edition    of    the     I  with 

Uobynson's  translation,  which,  however,  is  miiro 
ambitious  in  scope  than  his  own,  and  is  not,  like 
his  own,  intemlcd  to  bo  of  service  to    • '  ,[• 

student.     In  praise  of  an  edition  by  Dj. 
the  Pitt  Press  Series  ho  also  s(icak8.  i 

himself  reprints  Robynson's  transUti'>i 
a  preface,  a  life  of  More,  and  esMys  on 
and  Inspiration  of  the   !'•  ■■  •■     ■  n  fis   if..,,.. 
and  models,  its  plot,    i  and   vn   i.i,, 

e<litionB  and  translatiun  >  iiie  source  ix  :n 
Plato  none  will  deny.  .Mr.  I  olUn*  traces,  how- 
ever, a  very  probable  SM^urce  of  inapiratiott  m 
Krastnua,  the  close  friend  of  the  autt-  • 
notes  are  excellent,  and  there  is  a 
glossarial  index     More's' Utopia' is  gen •:  tij 

a  little  too  seriously,  since,  in  apite  of  jia  plulo 
eophical  and  satirical  purpose,  it  is,  as  Uobynsaa 
calls  it,  "afrntoful  and  p(ea.saunt  WorV-  '•  M 
a  playful  satire  on  tho  world  of  his  <. 
some  extent  an  adaptation  of  Plato"* 
with  reminiscences  of  the  '  Givitas  l>ci  ut  .*it. 
Augustine  and  other  Chiistian  works. 


BOOKSKLI^JCBS'  CATAliOUtriCS. 

TiiK  catologtiea  for  May  are  as  numerous  as  those 
during  April,  and  are  equally  full  of  interest. 

Froiij   Oxford  we  have    Mr.    U.    H.    HlackwoU'a 
catalogue,  opening    willi   books  of    Alpine  travel, 
followed    by    Art    and    Architecture,    wher«?    u*. 
find   Fulleylove's  'Holy   I^and';    Foster's   'M       , 
ture    Painters,'    '2  vols,    folio,    JV,   .V  •    Jani 
'History  of  our  Lord,'  ISoT--''       '     ' 
'Terms   used   in    Architectni  < 
'Turner  and  Ruskin,'  bv  F.  W 
IJtiJt),    lo/.   l.V.     Under  Bioyr.-iphy,    Uii. 
speare,    arc    many    interesting    items, 
iucludes  Budge's  *  Book  of  tin    "      !  '    ' 
1«W;   Eiirlv   Knglish   Ti-vl  S. 
\i)l.  lO-T.  ;  Kutl'a  'l^e^iid  of  u 
2-1'!.     Uti«ler  tJenoral  is  a  copy  of  '  .^ 
and   Private)  of  the   Various  Coui 
>iichols,  1.H95-9,  45  vols.  Hvti,  uncut,  i 

Mr.  Codney,  of  Cambridge,  chooi^' 
of  his  catalogue  "My   library  a     1    :.    .„„,    . 


m 


21,  im]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


419 


CMioucli."  To  this  nioBl  of  the  readers  of '  N.  &  Q. 
will  oaeeiit.  Hits  small  list  of  sixteen  iiages  ih  well 
worth  l..okiii«  tl.rouBli.  There  la  n  choice  lot  of 
viiluftl.le  liook-pliUes  for  \'2I.  Pi..  :  a^  collection  of 
•JOO  lhe.iLr»<;ftl  ».ortr.uts,  lT7<^j«30,  t^.  o-<.  Autograph 
LetUrs  incluae  those  of  \N  elhngtou,  Gladstone. 
Uickcns.  «ind  Rossetti.  Under  Ruskin  la  The  Bow 
i„  the  Cloud,'  1834.  In  reference  to  this  Dr. 
llourdUloti  Miid  in  the  Alhrnmnn  of  21  June,  190--: 
••A  Canibriduo  bookseller,  Mr.  D.  tadney,  has 
,iiBcoverc<i  wUt  appears  prelty  certainly  to  be 
(he  first  publiflhed  poem  of  Ruakm,  in  a  volume 
date<i  Itm-lhat  i>^,  a.year  before  the  verses  on 
Siil/.burg  appeared  in  '  triendehip  a  Utrenng. 
Measrsi  Deighlfln,  Ucll  &  Co..  Carnbridfre,  include 
their   list  a   large   and    valuabl«    collectiou    ot 


>ScrM ,^     , 

Mr.  Bertram  Dobell  ha«  a  larRC  aeleclion  of  bo<»k9 
from  the  library  of  the  late  Wm.  Erneat  Henley : 
also  a  collectiou  of  aoKling  and  nporting  books  from 
Mr  W  Anfonl  Proiid's  collection.  There  is  a  farat- 
edition  of  Uorrow'8  *  UvenRro/  1»51,  U.  1^<. ;  fet 
of  Folk-lore  Society.  1878US.  l,l.\(U..  four  finely 
tinishwl  original  water-colour  drawings  bv  l<ow- 
lands..n,  4/.  la...  ami  •  The  Vicar  of  VV  atcheld 
with  Rowlandaon's  plates.  V2/.  12*.  :  Lharlc-s  Tenny- 
son's 'Sonnets.'  Canibridjfe.  IfOJ,  U.  1' •  ^n^  ]enny- 
*.on's  '  Poems.'  first  edition  (Moxon.  mi),  4/  4-*. ; 
Withers  '  Collection  of  lOn.bletnea.'  lb.15.  61.  l.w. 
Under  Shiikcapeare  Mr.  Dobell  hajj  his  usual 
rarities, 

Mr  Downing.  Chaucer's  Head.  Uirmingham,  has 
three  short  lists,  containinp  many  items  of  interest. 
Amonc  these  wo  find  .V/,<,o.m  ,}«  luxe  t^f.^t^l'"!!  «* 
Dickei.s'ii  works,  30  vols.,  half  morocco  22/.  Ift*.  . 
ilso  of  Tl.rcker.^y.  -215  vols,.  22/,  HM.     Other  items 


rtatr  \V.,u'r:h„  ;iTi>2-lSjr2,_.V.  .^^.  :  an  .«/^aif'"«: 
traled  oopv  of  Wheatloys  'London,  18/18*.. 
SS's  •'iWails.'  22/. 'la.;  RoKerss  'Itay.' 
>>  vols.  4lo.  ItCH  >W.  8"-  ;  '  1  ransBClioiis  of  the 
Kxetcr  Diocesan  Architectural  Society.  10  vols 
rj  ]}',.  .  Tfogurth.  A  vols.  4lo,  \m.\l,  X.  .V  ;  '  Bits 
of  out  Chels.'ft/  bsirt, :,/.  5^.  :  the  illun.inntejl  edition, 
from  the  Ashcndcue  I'.ees'.f 'The  Monp  of  Solomon. 
Pi/  !•>-  •  anet  of  "  Ovfonl  En^lixli^  'asmi,'  44  vols.. 
lS2.)-7,  1-2/.  in.«.  ; '  I'aiablcsfromtlietiosiwla,  printed 
throiiRhout  oil  Roman  vellum  at  the  Valp  IreM, 
(ine  of  eii{ht  collies  only,  10/. :  the  Abb-.tsfonl  edition 
of  Scott,  1S4'2  .'I.  1»*'.  I>^»-  There  arc  also  important 
books  on  notural  history. 

Mr  Francis  Edwards  -ends  '"s  June  list,  of 
"  niore  books  at  tcniain.ier  price*.  These  include 
Arbfi-i  -Rritish  Anthologies.'  '24».  ;  Barclays 
'f.^1  lit.:  Bcamcss  '(Jraminur  of   Inrlian 

L,i,  .%.   0</.  (this   was   published  at   IH>  ) ; 

Brivii"--"  -  '•f'thic  Archil cclnre,^  iHi.,  pul>lii*hed  at 
.V.  5-.  ■■  Uorlftfics  '  Dolmens  of  Ireland,'  '2/.  1V*\I"17 
lished  nt  .V.  .%^  .  R„rk.'H  -f 'olonif.l<!entry.  llN  (fc/. 
(ihesotwovoluiMC.  uRreesofoveraiO 

Colnni.;H«inilit"'j  '^'y  "    ^'*']S»r 

its  AnaloKues,"  7  v -. 
net),  offered  at  ((• 
I'll.  &/. .  Elotchcr's 
buiders,'  61.  5«. 


aio 
I 

lion  ])rice  I'i/.  & 
...  .  tlitr  works  of  John  Ford, 
English  anrf   Foreign   liook- 


The  general  list  of  Messrs.  William  CJcorge's  Sons, 
Bristol,  includes  Bowman  and  t'rowther's  '(.'hurche* 
of  the  Middle  Ages,'  '.V.  lO*. :  an  Autogniph  Letter 
of  Dickens,  1(*44,  5/.  Tw. :  '  Memoirs  of  Henry  Hunt 
(Radical).'  1K2U,  ,'AU.;  Westall's  'Victories  of  the 
Duke  of  Wellington,' 6/.  (i.1.  ;  and  Pugin's 'liloBsarj',' 
IHGS,  4/.  4".  There  arc  a  number  of  works  under 
iScandinavia,  and  under  Spenser  are  .^onie  original 
and  unpublished  drawings,  ninety-five  in  number, 
4/.  it.  There  is  a  report  of  the  great  Tichbome 
Trial,  edited  by  Dr.  Kenealy,  10  vols.,  ;V.  I0«.  The 
list  closes  with  a  large  number  of  works  on  Theology. 
Those  who  want  books  on  Africa  and  Auatrali» 
should  obtain  William  tieorge's  Sons  special  cata- 
logue, its  forty-eight  pages  being  devoted  to  these. 

Mr.  Charles  Highain,  of  Farringdon  .Street,  has- 
a  fresh  catalogue  of  miscellaneous  theological  bookB, 
and  also  a  collection  of  Roman  Catholic  theology. 

Messrs.  Mncniven  k  Wallace,  of  E<linburgh,  have 
a,  new  catalogue  devoted  to  second-hand  modern 
Theological  Books.    The  items  occupy  3tS  pages. 

Messrs.  Maggs  Bros.'  Catalogue  of  Old-Time 
Literature,  M— Z,  comprises  rare  works  published 
prior  to  18(X).  These  include  Milton's  'Church 
Oiovernment,'  first  edition,  IWl,  8/.  12<.  ♦Vi.  Under 
Early  Newsjiajiers  are  MKrniAux  Pnhhrvji,  lt>50- 
W\A.  'I'H.  10->. :  J/'iciirtiM  Pi-agmatkn/i,  1017-8, 
.V.  15«.  Under  Old  Plays  are  many  first  editions. 
Ritson'a  '  English  and  Scottish  Poetry,'  beautifully 
bound  by  Riviere,  is  IS/.  l.S^.  Under  Scotland  is 
Monipcnnie's  'Summarie  of  the  Scots  Chronicles,' 
"printed  at  Brittaino's  Burse l>y  .John  Budge,"  |01'2, 
ItV.  KM.  There  is  a  choice  copy  of  Sheridan's 
'  Pizarro,'  1799.  9/.  t)<.  ;  ami  under  .Spenser  a  fine 
tall  copy  of  '  Colin  Clout  s  Come  Homo  Againe,' 
the  rare  first  edition  with  the  dedication  leaf  to  Sir 
Walter  Raleigh,  l.'viW.  ixV  Under  Swift  are  many 
i-arities.  There  is  also  the  extremely  scarce  fourth 
:  edition  of  Watts's  '  Divine  and  Moral  .Song-).'  1720, 
4/.  1U.«.  The  earlieet  copy  in  the  British  Museun^ 
is  dated  1?28.  '  Roxbnrghe  Revels,'  18ri7.  is  2/.  18*. 
j  In  the  Athfnirum,  4  .Tnnuary,  ll<34,  is  an  article  of 
I  over  sixteen  cc  I  'ing  a  complete  history  of 

I  the  late  Mr.   i  ■  i>g  piirchase<l  Mr.  Josejih 

Haslewood's -M     -  "     In  the  yf^/ifn/fFfwi  article 

the  club  is  "sheweu   up,"  "finely  Isrded"  with 
•auce  of  its  own  preiwriug. 

Messrs.  A.  Maurice  &.  Co.  have  a  good  list  of  niis- 
cellaneouB  subjects.  Under  Bibliography  we  find 
Rotiveyre's  '  Connaissances  N^essaircs  h  iiu  Biblio- 
phile,' 10  vols.  8vo,  half-crimaon  morocco,  at  the 
low  price  of  .V.  on.  Heme's  account  of  the  Char- 
terhouse. 1077,  IS  2I«.  There  are  extra  illu.it riiUd 
nopicsof PcterCunninghiimV'NelHiwynn.' 10/.  I" 
i>oran*8  '  Annals  of  the  English  Stage,'  30/.  :  '  llj^^ 
I'ublic  and  Privule  Life  of  Mrs.  .Jordan/ W.  6*.  ; 
Tom  Taylor's  '  l*ice«ter  S<iuore.'  W.  8.«. ;  Forster's 
'  Life  of  tloldsniith,'  ItV.  lO*.  ;  and  there  is  an  in- 
teresting sonvpuir  of  Dickens,  ))eing  a  copy  i>f '  Bar- 
naby  Rudgo'  Iwiiml  with  wooil  cut  from  one  "f  the 
wk  Ijeams  over  the  main  gateway  of  old  Newgate. 

Mr.  A.  Russell  Smith  h.ns  a  ratnlnpuo  of  nM  Fns- 
lisli   lileratiire  ol   the  m  1.  h 

Ctnturif's.     In  it  we  find 

'The  HiBtorii«of  Life  ani  .  ^.  :   .    -    . 

y/,  (W.  ;  Hall's*  Doweifiillof  .Mjiv  tiames,' hittl,  .'tf.  iKl 
\V hetBt ones" The  Knglixh  Mirror,'4ln.  hlack-letlofj 
LVWl,  8/.  !i».  ;  '  Vcri.           '  .'  Vcnefi.t.  l(iW 

21/.  .  and  oiio  of  <  mnU  of  CburO 

music,    'Compeudii;!-:     Wnet.,    I* 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        ims.L' 


il«a  ; 

IliU,  mtd  iii*i  u  in  I 
Mowra.   \V,  I(.  h 
full  ffl   wiffkc  ill  ali  lirKni'tica 
NimI  111*  nl^o  iHiniH  vnliiitliln  m 


iT«.  Gr/.     Uader  I^niion,  ««  well  m 
1,  (un  rTMiiY  work*  to  ««lect  from. 

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|.l'lllt'•  l>< 
lUiviluU. 


tlulll  ill  iho  i:(illi>i;tiiillK  i.f  the 
',  Mill  ItriliHli  MiiHcuni,  Stc, 
HJ,     I0<.  :      Dickuim'N    'Oiivni' 


'I'wUU*  iii«lu<hiiK  Uin  rnro  '  KliiwUlo '  |.IhIo,  IH;<><. 
VKiy  kOKri'it,  'M.  a.,  -  nl»o  MoAi^pli  (Jrinialili,'  IfCfcS. 
HI.  Via.  ;  i>m>  (»f  111  ■  '  pritiU'.!  tlir.)ii«hoiit 

uii  viilllliii,  of  ll.i>  'I  ,.f  |||(<  Kivronnaliiiri,' 

iiiruii  |i»|«'i'  UK.'.    II  '■,'»,  WU  ,    «;rillilh»'u 

'  I'nliillnit*  ol  hiiilillit.i  l'mvc  'IVmj.ltMi,'  'i.  UU.  . 
utivoml  liiii.rnaliiiK  ii.i<iiia  iiiirtnr  ■Tiiiiiii*,  inchulini: 
tin*  I      ■       ■ '  '      '■',■'.'  ■•'ion|>'«on  Wu<hJ- 

J'.ll.  I'V   "f    I(y«"i>«'» 

'  Ml.  .    H  tnl  uf   tlio 

Mliirmoi>|ih<itl  ^  III/,  Hit.  ;  mikI  a  vory 

lliin  oiifiv    of  'iiinl    Work*,'    Ural 

«'<lHi  iu>  Inwl    inlt^rrittiiiR 

<<<'.<  iiiR  an. I  CuaUiius  ivf 

l'»"   '  of  iho  rni-*  ndition 

(>iitilulii>4  U\  rii.>o).h-  S,iiti«i«ii  in  I81A.  When 
lovluMiUM  llil«  htntk  v«'t<  inotilioiiiMi  thnt   Mr.  H«>iirv 

(llu*tl«ll«ll*,    \< 

"'hlf    M)rV   «,■!.         ,  I  \ 

Alul    II    MAH    altgiiMtl^nl    "  (li«l     tilt* 

\(>(   )i«  thrMhod  out  in  thr  pii«t« 

.-.      ,N     ,v   ..' 

Mr.  AUH«rl  Nutlon,  of  Mftn\«hMt(>r.  h**  a  mImIiod 

I,  ....>    I  t,..    111.,    ..  >      ..    M  .       I."   .,.    ..    !    IJ.Kt.  ..  .  in,   ...    . 


ini 


HiwK  "T*  A^  La 


Hi.   if>4.,  ai;ii  a  tiriit  ediliou  •  i 

Kevuliition.' 1857,  «.  8«.     A  U.  i 

booka  are  includc.i  at  secondlmii  1  jjiiuea. 

Itw^nt    (lurchaiea    of    Mr.    «;e(jrife    Winter,    of 
f'harinjf  <-'roM  Rofti'l        '     ' 
liou  iif  modern  liu 

in  to  be  found  un  ih  ^ 

And  illu»tri>iiuiia. 

In  the  May  caUlojjue  of  Messm.  Henry  Young  k 
Son*,  of  I.jvert'Ool,  wt-  find  Morj'son's 'Itinerarv.' 
HII7,  If.  l"- ;  *n(i  llrvniid.  tirst  cdiiion,  \3S).  II,  l(u. 
Under  Blako  ocuur  '  Thtrc  i«  no  Nh'm'  .'  i;.i.  ...,». 
iHSd,  8Ciir«Jo,.'<0*i. ;  Swinburne"* 'Criil 
mImo  nu-tLTfo,  'il.  'i*.  ■   '{il^hrint^  'T, 
others.     T!  '    '  '  ,1   t.f  oM 

herbals,  n  xhift  id 

IheaocoiM  ,  -l:c4u1okuo 

iij  rich  in  UowUniibons  ui.ii  i.;i  iiiitNiiHnks.     Under 
Frpiiohongrovingfl  wetiiid  H<ii:vn<-«».  •'  I,*-  I>,^an)erT>Ti, 

traduil    par  A,    Le    Mn-       "    "'      :' 

Milko.  ill  bvr  work  on  ili' 

l'!i.,'lili'itilti  ("till  n:v.'  jii^i  .  ^ 

i    wall    titilli»itt    vixnettv9    of 
ii|i*^    who   numio    pwry  fhiKi* 
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of   ItoiihriikiMi  and  Verdiu's  '  I 
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CONTENTS.-N0.  22. 

IIOTBS:-Tbe  CertOBB  of  PavU,  Ul-Tbe  Fleetwoods  Aud 
Milton'i  Oottaee,  43)— SbokespeftrikDa,  <M— "Ftarl"— 
Sberiook— CnidBzlon  Folk•Io^^  436. 

QUBRIBS  .'— The  Pint  Wife  of  Warren  HattloRS,  426- 
DocumcoU  in  Secrvt  Drswen  —  Uadune  du  Tenf  in — 
Wyrley's  Derbyshire  Church  Not4!i  — Contiimptlun  not 
Hereditary— MurrnvDironetfl.v— A.  Phrase  .  What  ti  It?— 
Baxter'a  Ull  P&iiitluK— Masonic  Purtmit  of  Loni  Chatham, 
427 — The  Wt>*ti;rn  R«-hd»  anJ  llje  Rev.  John  Horemaa— 
Authors  Wanle<{— Gaborisu's  'ItfarqQliid'Aogli'ai ' — Name 
Je«ai  —  Thomas  Fanner  —  Blia  —  SelUnger— *  Tho  Yonii 
Souldier,'  i2i. 

BBPLIBS:— "Aabea  to  aabes,"  420  — Btrlb-Marki,  4»>  — 
Oickeiia  Queries  —  "Sal  <ft  lallva,"  431— "As  the  crow 
flies  "—Stoyle-Alnoo  and  Bssklih,  13a-Aanilnil  Oreig— 
"I  expect  to  pass  tbroueh"— Authors  of  Quotations — 
Pataola,  <S3— Wlllian]  Feck—'  Kecommended  to  Mercy  '— 
Potts  Family— 'Anoleat  Ordemof  Oray'slnn '— "Barrar," 
434-Dryden  Portraits— The  Sun  an.l  its  Orbit- Footl-all 
on  Sbrove  Tuesday.  43&— PrintinK  in  the  Channel  Inlands 
—••Tugs,"  Wykebamical  Notion— '  The  Creevey  Papers ' 
— The  Syer-OumluK  Collection— The  Armtlronf;  Gun  — 
"  Tho  run  of  his  teeth  "'—The  Cope,  13tJ— Batlletield  8ay- 
iDjgs- Bass  Rook  Music  — tatin  Quotations- Last  of  the 
War  Bow.  *3h 

nOTBS  ON  BOOKS  :—Hnkluvt'a  'Principal  Navigations' 
—  Alry's  'Charles  II.'  — 'G"r«*t  Masters '  —  ' England's 
BJIwibeth'— 'The  Cattle-Hald  of  Cualnge' —  Macrav's 
•Begister  al  St.  Mary  Magdalen  •  —  ' The  Heliquary'— 
•The  ButUnd  Magazine.' 

Notloei  to  Correspoadeoti, 


k 


THE    CERTOSA    OF    PAVIA. 


TuE  little  museum  near  the  old  pharmacy 
of  the  Certosa  of  Pavia  haa  been  lately 
enriched  by  a  lar^e  and  faithful  copy  (executed 
by  Carlo  Campi,  of  Milan)  of  the  orieinal 
altar  which  belont;ed  to  that  church  about 
the  end  of  the  fourteenth  century,  and  the 
existence  of  which,  together  with  that  of  the 
four  columns  of  its  nyx.  was  only  discovered 
in  1894  in  the  parisn  church  of  Carpiano,  a 
small  village  lying  between  Locate  and 
Melegnano.  It  was  removed  there  by  the 
Carthu.sian  monks  theiitBclves  in  15G7,  and 
I  am  pleaaed  to  pla«e  before  readers  of 
'N^.  <j£  Q.' some  notices  relating  to  such  an 
important  masterpiece,  and  supplementing 
the  sketch  bv  the  lato  Eugone  Miintz  in  the 
Chroniqw  aes  Artf  of  15  December,  1809, 
and  tho  'Cicerone'  of  Burckhardt,  eighth 
edition,  i.  400d. 

This  altar,  a  fine  sculptured  work  of  the 
fourteenth  century,  in  thd  style  of  Giovanni 
da  Campioue,  which  has  been  at  Carpiano 
since  1507, 1  was  led  lo  recognize  in  March, 
1894,  OM  the  original  liigh  altar  of  the  Certosa 
>f  Pavia  on  account  of  ita  dimeudiouii  and 
'itit  extraordinary  artistic  importance,    and 


especially  on  account  of  the  sculptured 
figures  in  honour  of  the  Virgin,  taken  from 
the  ai>ocryphal  Gospels  —  figures  agreeing 
perfectly  in  .style  with  those  in  the  ivory 
triptych  which  stood  upon  the  said  altar, 
and  remained  in  the  possession  of  the  Certosa. 
The  four  wreathed  columns  in  Gandoglia 
marble,  which  belonged  to  the  destroyed  pyx 
of  the  altar,  are  now  to  be  seen  in  the 
pronaos  of  the  church  of  Carpiano.  A 
portrait  of  Caterina  Visconti,  foundress  of 
the  famous  monastery,  has  been  sculptured 
in  one  of  the  bas-reliefs. 

The  prebend  of  the  parish  of  Carpiano  was 
given  by  Leo  X.,  by  his  letter  of  20  April. 
1518,  to  the  Carthusians  of  the  Certosa  oi 
Pavia,  who  owned  property  at  Carpiano, 
with  the  obligation  of  maintaining  the 
regular  or  secular  priest,  and  of  providing 
the  humble  church  of  the  borough,  dedicated 
to  S.  Martino,  with  the  things  necessary  for 
divine  service. 

Tiiat  duty  was  fulfilled  by  the  monks  in 
15C7,  on  the  occasion  of  a  complete  restora- 
tion executed  by  the  care  of  the  fourth 
Carthusian  priest,  Giovau  Battista  Veranoj 
who  removea  to  Carpiano  the  high  altar  of 
the  mother  church,  together  with  other  pieces 
of  marble,  as  appears  on  the  little  grave- 
stone which  was  discovered  on  1  October, 
1890,  in  the  interior  of  the  altar,  with  the 
name  of  the  above-mentioned  priest  and  the 
date  1507. 

The  sculptures,  admirable  for  their  in- 
genuousness and  ex(j[uisite  sentiment,  appear 
to  be  of  the  Campionese  school,  and  they 
have  already  begun  to  be  studied  by  the  aid 
of  some  notes  made  in  1396  in  the  ledger  of 
the  Carthusian  monastery  at  Pavia. 

But  what  is  most  imposing  is  the  monu- 
ment itself,  which  possesses  much  artistic 
interest;  and  though  this  remarkable  work 
was  begun  about  1390,  at  the  same  period  as 
the  ivory  triptych,  it  was  not  consecrated 
with  the  chui-cli  till  the  year  14&7  by  the 
Cardinal  Carvajal,  on  account  of  the  long 
interruptions  in  the  work  of  building.  The 
ceremony  included  the  deoosition  in  the 
altar  of  seven  relics  for  worship. 

The  fact  that  the  removal  of  this  altar  to 
Carpiano  took  place  in  15G7  confirms  what 
has  been  recently  ascertained — namely,  that 
the  richer  high  altar,  which  is  now  to  be  seen 
at  the  end  of  tho  central  apse,  wits  begun 
onl}'  in  that  year,  and  not  earlier,  as  was  at 
first  supposed,  and  that  during  its  consecra- 
tion—performed nine  years  after  (1676)  by 
Don  Angelo  Peruzzi,  Bishop  of  Ce^area— the 
seven  relics  of  the  prirailive  alt«r  of  139G 
(now  to  be  seen  at  Carpiano)  were  placed 


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no*  8. 1.  Mat  28, 19W. 


there,  as  appears  on  an  epigraph  of  the 
Carthusian  monastery. 

The  Communion  table  lies  upon  a  four- 
faced  plinth  (pallium),  2  metre8long,l'27bro8rl, 
and  1  metre  high,  and  is  formed  of  seven 
Carrara  marble  slabs,  in  which  are  sculptured 
eight  bas-reliefs  depicting  events  in  tne  life 
of  St.  Anne  and  the  Virgin.  Two  slabs  (one 
with  the  first  two  bas-reliefs,  and  the  other 
with  the  third)  form  the  front ;  three  slabs, 
witii  a  bas-relief  on  each,  face  the  apse  ;  and 
the  other  two  slabs  form  the  sides. 

The  subjects  represented  are  the  follow- 

itiK:— 

In  the  front.— (1)  Joachim  chased  from  the 
Temple  for  the  sterility  of  his  marriage  with 
St.  Anne.  (2)  An  angel  announcing  to  St. 
Joachim  in  the  desert  that  God  will  grant 
him  a  son.  (3)  Meeting  of  St.  Joachim  and 
St.  Anne  at  the  Golden  Door  of  Jerusalem. 

At  the  right  side.— (4)  The  birth  of  the 
Virgin  Mary.  The  Duchess  Visconti  appears 
disguised  as  St.  Anne,  with  the  cap  and  the 
ducal  crown. 

In  the  rear. — (5)  Mary  presented  in  the 
Temple.  (6)  The  wedding  of  Alary  and 
Joseph.  (7)  The  death  of  Mary  among  the 
Apostles. 

At  the  left  side.— (H)  The  crowning  of 
Mary  among  the  celestial  band  by  the  Saviour. 

May  this  magnificent  masterpiece  of  the 
fourteenth  century  speak  to  the  numerous 
connoisseurs  of  fine  arts,  not  only  of  the 
recently  restored  church  of  Carpiano,  where 
the  precious  work  is  preserved,  but  of  the 
very  Pantheon  of  Lombard  sculpture— that 
ia,  the  Certosa  of  Pavia,  whence  it  has  come 
—and  as  a  brilliant  gem  of  the  national 
artistic  patrimony  ! 

(Dr.)  Diego  Sakt'  Ambrooio. 

Milan,  

THE  FLEETWOODS  AND  MILTON'S 
COTTAGE. 

(Se6  9»hS.  ix.  201.) 

A  FURTHER  study  of  a  number  of  Fleetwood 
wills  enables  me  to  add  considerably  to  tiie 
results  recorded  in  my  previous  communica- 
tion regarding  the  family  of  George  Fleet- 
wood, tTie  regicide. 

John  Fleetwood,  of  Chalfont  St.  Giles, 
CO.  Bucks,  died  intestate,  and  administration 
was  granted  to  his  sister  Anne  Fleetwood, 
10  March,  1669/70  (P.C.C.  Penn). 

Anne  Fleetwood,  "  eldest  daughter  of  Mr. 
George  ffleetwood,  late  of  the  Vach,"  co. 
Bucks,  spinster,  made  her  will  18  April,  1674. 
^  The  will  was  proved  20  May,  1676  (P.C.C. 
Dycor,  fol.  45),  and  ia  a  particularly  interott- 
ing   document.    She   mentions  her  brother 


Robert,  and  sisters  Hester  and  Elisabeth,  a 
legacy  of  100/.  apiece  being  payable  to  the 
latter  two  at  twenty-five  or  marriage,  if  theyJ 
marry  witli  consent  of  mother  and  uncU 
Sir  James  Smith  and  (Samuel  1)  Cradock. 

She  leaves  a  life  interest  in  129/.,  now  in 
the  hands  of  Mr.  Matthew  Cradock,  to  her 
mother,  to  whom  she  also  bequeaths  10/.  aud 
a  ring  of  10*.  To  uncle  Mr.  David  Fleet- 
wood likewise  10/.  and  a  ring  of  IOj. 

"  Alioa  I  give  to  hitn  and  to  his  h«irea  for  ever  my j 
house  with  all  the  Apurteaaucesi  t«  it  which  ieeitual*] 
in  the  Towue  of  (Jhalfoiit  St.  Gilos,  and  i«  now  ia 
the  occuj>atioa  of  the  widow  Goanald." 

To  her  aunt  Mrs.  Honoria  Cradock  she 
leaves  "  my  father's    little  picture  and   niy 

brother's    picture my    mother's   weddiuKj 

ring."Ji:c.     Several  relatives  of  the  CradockJ 
Clarke,  and  Cooper  families  are  mentionedJ 
while  her  uncle  Samuel  Cradock,  of  \Vfck-| 
hambrook,  co.   Suffolk,  is  residuary  legatee 
and  sole  executor. 

The  allusion  to  "my  father's  little  picture  ' 
renders  it  certain  that  we  have  here  the  will 
of  the  regicide's  daughter,  as  it  is  the 
miniature  now  in  the  possession  of  Mr.  G. 
Milnor-Oibson  Cullura,  F.S.A.,  who  has  a 
complete  record  of  its  previous  ownership. 

The  trustees  of  Milton's  Cottage  at  Chal- 
font St.  Giles,  about  two  years  ago,  had  two 
deeds    relating  to  the  cottage  presented  to 
them.    One  is  the  original  deed  of  sale  of  th& 
house  by  David  Fleetwood  to  Thomas  Cock 
the  younger,  a  carpenter,  for  03/.,  in  the  year 
1683.      It  mentions  John  and  Anno  as  bein^J 
brother  and  sister,  aud  further  states  that  in 
one  part  of  the  cottage  "Elizabeth  Gosnohl, 
widdowe,  now  dwelleth,"  so  there  can  be  no 
doubt  as  to  the  cottage  bequeathefl  by  Atme 
Fleetwood  being  Milttm's  cottage.    It  is  to  be 
hoped  that  botli  deeds   will    eventually  hm 
printed,    owing  to   their   great   interest  asi 
documents  relating  to  Milton's  residence  in 
Chalfont. 

The  Fleetwood  deed  is  of  much  importaac 
in  connexion  with  the  regicide's  pedigree!' 
The  '  Dictionary  of  National  Biography ' 
states  that  George  was  the  "  third  eon  "  of 
Sir  George  Fleetwood,  of  the  Vache,  but 
among  the  eight  sons  of  Sir  George  there 
was  no  David.  Me.  Pink  has  drawn  atten  • 
tion  (9"^  S.  ix.  430)  to  the  Inq.  p.m.  regard- 
ing Charles  Fleetwood,  who  died  28  Mav 
1628  {Gencilogist,  New  Series,  xviii.  ]20j* 
Three  children  are  mentioned  therein,  viz.' 
George  (who  must  have  been  born  aboac 
1622),  David,*  and  Catherine.    Turning  ooir 


•  David  ii  an  unuBual  aame  in  the  Fleetwood 
family.  A  David  Fleetwood  appears  in  th<9  ragittetm 


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to  the' Yisitation  of  London,  1633-5'  (Harl. 
Soc.  xvii.).  in  the  pedigree  of  Watkins, 
Aldgate  Ward,  we  find  Anne,  daughter  of 
Nicholas  and  Margery  Watkins,  married 
Charles  Fleetwood.  Though  not  shown  in  this 
pedigree,  Anne's  elder  brother,  Sir  David 
WatKins,  Knt.,  married  Honora  Fleetwood, 
Charles's  sister,  at  ChalfontSt.  Giles,  21  Jan., 
1629.  Sir  David  Watkins  died  25  Dec.,  1657, 
and  was  buried  at  Chalfont.  I  draw  atten- 
tion to  him  a!}  I  .suggest  he  was  godfather 
to  Charles  Fleetwood's  second  son,  David. 
Charles  Fleetwood's  daughter,  Catherine, 
married  George  Clerke,  a  merchant  of 
London  ('Visitation  of  Warwickshire,  1682,' 
in  JUitc.  Oen.  et  Heraldiai,  New  Series,  iv.  73). 
She  is  the  aunt  "Mrs.  Katherine  Clarke" 
mentioned  in  the  will  of  Anne  Fleetwood, 
the  regicide's  daughter.  Mn.  Pink  says  she 
died  in  1678  (9"-  S.  ix.  430). 

Let  us  revert  now  to  George  Fleetwood, 
the  regicide.  The  'Dictionary  of  National 
Biography'  quotes  the  Mercwius  Aulicu$  of 
7  Dec,  1643,  in  which  it  is  stated  that  young 
Fleetwood  of  the  Vach  had  raised  a  troop  of 
dragoons  for  the  Parliament;  and  again, 
towards  the  end  of  the  article,  his  plea  for 
mercy  after  his  trial  is  mentioned,  viz.,  his 
youth  when  he  signed  the  death  warrant. 

The  regicide  was  baptized  at  Chalfont  St. 
Giles,  15  Feb.,  1G22.  I  have  gone  into  the 
question  of  his  *'  youth  "  at  some  length,  as 
at  first  sight  it  seemed  doubtful  if  so  young 
a  man  could  take  so  prominent  a  part  in 
public  matters.  Men  matured  more  quickly 
in  the  olden  time,  e.g.,  Cardinal  Wolsey  had 
taken  the  degree  of  B.A.  at  fifteen,  wliile  two 
Fleetwoods  are  recorde<l  as  having  married 
at  fourteen  and  eigliteen  respectively.  In 
'Chalfont  St.  Giles,  Past  and  Present,'"  p.  31, 
with  reference  to  the  regicide's  baptismal 
entry  in  the  registers,  it  is  stated  that  he  was 
the  son  of  Charles  Fleetwood. 

All  the  evidence  I  have  adduced  points  to 
an  error  in  the  pedigree,  and  leaves  no  doubt 
in  ray  mind  that  George  was  not  the  son,  but 
the  grand.sou,  of  Sir  George  Fleetwood  of  the 
Vacne.  The  '  Dictionary  of  National  Rio- 
graphv  '  does  not  appear  to  be  certain  tliat 
His  elder  brothers  left  no  i.ssue,  although 
accepting  the  statement  that  he  was  the  son 
of  Sir  George. 

The  will  of  Anne,  the  regicide's  daughter, 

*  discloses  the  fact  that  her  father  was  twice 

married,  as  she  could  not  leave  her  mother's 


{Str»tford-onAvou,  as  father  of  Ann,  haptieeOi 
O.'t.,   I6f2,  and  K&tberiue,  bantizod   17  March, 

It'.i  I  Reeister  Society,  vol.  vj.).     The  same 

jord    the   baiilisni   of  a   John,  son  of 

Will. ..ill  I  it«twood,  28  July,  1&40. 


wedding-ring  to  her  aunt  Mrs.  Honoris 
Cradock,  were  her  own  mother  alive.  This- 
strengthens  Waters's  surmise,  quoted  in  my 
previous  article,  that  John  ana  Anne  were 
the  grandchildren  of  John  Oldfield. 

With  regard  to  the  regicide's  second 
marriage,  I  na%'e  found  the  will  of  his  widow. 
Heater  Fleetwood,  "of  Jordans  in  the  parish 
of  Giles  Chalfont,  co.  Bucks,  widow,  of  a 
great  age,"  dated  11  August,  1712,  proved 
13  May,  1714  (P.C.C.  Aston,  94).  She  make* 
bequests  to  her  grandsons  George  and  John, 
and  granddaughter  Anne,  and  daughter-in- 
law  Anne.  Other  relatives  are  mentioned. 
The  remainder  of  her  estate  is  left  to  her 
grand.son  Robert  Fleetwood,  who  is  sole 
executor.  I  quote  the  following  extracts 
from  her  will : — 

"  Item,  unto  my  levin;;  friends  William  Russell 
and  BrioKett  his  wife  (with  M-hom  I  have  long 
sojonmed)  1  giv6  the  sum  of  Toon  pounds  of  like 
lawfull  money  aa  an  acknowledgment  of  their  kind- 
ness to  tue  and  n  token  of  my  love  to  them " 

"  Item,  my  will  and  desire  is  that  ray  Body  may 
Iw  laid  in  the  Burying  Ground  called  NewJordons, 
bclonRing  to  my  friendB,  the  people  called 
Quakers " 

"Item,  unto  the  poor  of  the  Parish  of  Giles 
Chalfont  aforesaid  (in  which  I  have  lonK  lived,  and 
in  which  I  desire  to  be  buried)  fifty  shillings." 

The  witnesses  to  the  will  are  Tho.  Ellwoo<J. 
Mary  Baker,  and  Joseph  Dodd.  Ellwood,  or 
course,  would  be  Milton's  friend,  who  engaged 
the  cottage  in  Chalfont  for  him,  and  wa«  in 
prison  when  Milton  went  to  reside  there. 

Heater  Fleetwood  died  the  12"^  mo.  9"" 
day  (9  Feb.^,  1713/14.  She  was  a  member  of 
Upperside  Monthly  Meeting,  and  was  buried 
at  "Tring,  her  name  appearing  in  the  list  of 
members  of  the  Upperside  Meeting.  As  her 
executor  resided  m  Loudon,  ana  she  died 
at  a  time  when  communication  would  be 
difficult  owing  to  the  state  of  the  roads,  it  is 

Eossible  the  instructions  in  her  will  were  not 
nown,  though  why  Tring  should  have  been 
chosen  for  the  interment,  instead  of  JoI^dan8, 
which  was  much  nearer,  is  certainly  curious. 
It  was  Heater  Fleetwood  who  petitioned  in 
1664  against  the  regicide's  proposed  dcport«- 
tiou  to  "Tangier,  where  food  was  so  dear  that 
slie  would  be  unable  to  relieve  him.  She 
was  the  daughter  of  Robert  Smith,  of  Upton, 
CO.  Essex,  barrister  -  at  -  law  (created  a 
baronet  30  March,  1665),  by  his  wife  Judith, 
daughter  of  Nicholas  Walmesloy.  Tho  '  Visi- 
tation of  Essex,'  vol.  xiv.  p.  713,  of  the 
Harleian  Society,  does  not  give  all  the 
children  of  Robert  Smith,  but  Berrv's  'Essex 
Genealogies,'  pp  34,  35,  is  fuller.  Thia^- 
pedigree  show.s  that  his  daughter  Judith 
married    Thomas    Brand    (of    Moulsey,    co. 


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Sarrey) ;  another  daughter,  Mary,  married 
Sir  Edward  Selwyn  (of  Friaton,  co.  Sussex), 
Knt.  Both  the  pedigrees  cited  state  that 
Hester  Smith  married  R.  Fleetwood,  but  as 
«he  mentions  sisters  Brand  and  Selwin  (sic) 
■n  her  will,  they  are  evidently  incorrect. 
Betham's  Baronetage '  is  also  io  error,  as  it 

gives  the  husband's  name  as  Robert.    Inci- 
eutally,  this  answers  the  query  in  9""  S.  ix. 
B13. 

I  now  come  to  the  will  of  Robert  Fleetwood, 
citizen  and  glass-seller,  of  London,  son  of  the 
regicide  and  Hester  Fleetwood  (Robert  the 
firsts  of  my  first  paper).    In  liis  will,  dated 
S  July,  ancl  proved  15  August,  1712  (RCC. 
Barnes,  153),   he  directs  tliat   he  is    to  be 
interred  in  the  parish  church  of  St.  Andrew 
Undershaft,  in  which  parish   he  was  living, 
or  in  the  vault  belonging  to  the  said  parish  ; 
the  will   likewise  mentions  that  the  house 
r  vas  in  Liaje  Street  Ward.    He  leaves  to  his 
honoured  mother  Hester  Fleetwood  10/.  per 
annum,  "according  to  obligation  I  am  under 
for  that  purpose,"  and  requests  that,  should 
he  predecease  her,  she  would  be  pleased  to 
name  his  son  Robert  as  her  executor.     To 
his  eldest  son  George  he  leaves  two  shillings 
and   sixpence    "  and    no   more,   he  having 
already  had  a  full  Child's  part  and  more, 
and  been  an  expense  to  him.    To  his  son  and 
daughter  Cleaver  he  leaves  a  guinea  apiece 
for  a  ring,  his  daughter  having  already  had 
her  portion.  After  various  bequests  he  leaves 
the  residue  of  his  estate,  South  Sea  stock, 
goodwill  of  business,  ifco ,  to  be  divided  into 
three  equal  parts,  for  his  wife  Anne  and  his 
sons  Robert  and  John.    He  wishes  Robert  to 
have  the  management  of  tho  business,  and 
that  John  alioukl  serve  the  full  term  of  his 
apprentice-ship  with  his  brother.     The  exe- 
cutors are  his  wife  and  the  sons  Robert  and 
John,    with  Benjamin  Steward,  glass-seller, 
as  overseer  and  arbitrator  if  need  be. 

The  following  extracts  from  the  parish 
registers  relate  to  him  and  his  family  •  a 
further  search  would  probably  disclose  otner 
entries  :  — 

17'2(l.  April  6,  John,  the  ton  of  Robert  Fleetwood 
and  Jauo  his  wife. 

1721,  April  2.5.  Charles,  y«  son  of  Robert  Fleet- 
wood and  Jane  hia  wife. 

Bwialu, 

1712.  Aug.  10.  Robert  Fleetwood. 

1721,  April  28.  Charles,  y'  son  of  Robert  and 
Jane  Fleetwood. 

1721,  Oct.  6.  Robert  Fleetwood. 

The  children  baptized  must  have  been  the 
grandchildren  of  Robert  wlm  died  in  1712. 
Robert  Fleetwood  who  died  in  1721  was  in  all 
probability  the  father  of  the  childceo. 


Administration  of  the  estate  of  Jane 
Fleetwood,  late  of  West  Moulsey,  co. 
Surrey,  widow,  was  granted  to  her  son 
Robert  Fleetwood,  17  March,  1752  (P.C.C. 
Bettesworth),  but  I  cannot  state  positively 
that  she  was  the  widow  of  Rooert  and 
mother  of  the  two  children  baptized  in  1720 
and  1721,  though  the  connexion  of  the  Brand 
family  also  with  Moulsey  can  hardly  be  a 
coincidence. 

With  regard  to  Hester  Fleetwood's  con- 
nexion with  the  Quakers,  I  must  express  my 
obligation  to  Mr.  Norman  Penney  (of  the 
Friends'  Library  at  Devonshire  Uousei, 
12,  Bishopsgate  Street  Without,  where  many 
interesting  Quaker  records  are  preservedX 
w^ho  has  been  at  great  pains  to  verify  that 
she  was  a  member  of  that  body.     R.  \V.  B. 


SHAKESPEARIAN  A, 


"Horse"  (10'*  S.  i.  342).— The  suggestion 
of  "horse"  for  "  horses '^  in   '  Macbeth,' II. 
iv.  13,  would  slightly  improve  the  scansion  of 
the  line,  and  is  so  far  desirable  ;  but  in  face 
of  Shakespeare's  free  use  of  extra  syllables  in 
his  verse,  it  is  not  cogent  on  that  ground.    Is 
it,  then,  cogent  on  any  other?    Are  we  to 
understand  that  any  emendation   restoring 
"Anglo-Saxon"  or  '*  Middle  English  "  forms 
to  Shakespeare  is  desirable  /     Perhaps  not. 
We  are  aaked  to  strike  out  the  t  in  the  I.e. 
'•because  it  contradicts  Shakespeare's  usage 
in    many   other    passages."     Now    what   ia 
Shakespeare's  usage?    Prof.  Skeat  admits 
that  the  forna  "horses"  ia  found  in  Shake- 
speare.    It  is.     Schmidt's  'Lexicon'  gives 
eleven  references,  "  ic,"  for  it.    For  "  horse  " 
as  plural  it  gives  eleven  only  (including  VRor. 
Skkat's  ton).     Admitted   these    latter,    tho 
poet's  usage  seems  to  prefer  the  dissyllabic 
plural.    But  1  propose  to  examine  the  eleven 
more  closely. 

Let  me  premise  that  while  Schmidt's 
'Lexicon'  as  a  work  of  reference  is  of  the 
highest  utility,  the  lexicographer's  diet*  on 
English  meanings  and  usage  are  not  to  be 
swallowed  uncritiailly ;  and  few  that  read 
his  inept  note  on  "  organ-pipe  "  ( '  Temp.,'  III. 
lu.  08)  will  defer  to  his  taste. 

In  Sonnet  91  there  seems  to  me  not 
the  slightest  presumption  that  "horse"  is 
plural.  A  man  keeps  more  than  one  hawk, 
more  than  one  hound,  but  often  not  more 
than  one  horsa 

In  'Tarn.  Shr.,'  Induct.,  61,  the  same 
applies. 

'  1  Henry  VI.,'  V.  v.  54,  proves  nothing  : 
in  a  category  of  things  they  need  not  be 
all  in  the  same  number  {e.<j.,  "  Verbera, 
carniBces,  robur,  pix,  lammiua,"  ta;  Kv  "). 


: 


IV  8.  I.  Mat  28, 1904.]  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


435 


•2  Henry  VI.,'  V.  i.  62  (if  "  horae  "  is  the 
correct  readioK),  proves  nothing  ;  to  my  mind 
one  horaei^  here  meant,  as  with  thefollowinK 
word  (one)  armour.  Cf.  '2  Henry  IV.,'  I  v. 
V.  30,  and  'Two  Noble  Kinsmen,"  III.  vi.  3. 
N.B.  Schmidt's  second  cla«s  of  the  word 
"armour"  is  a  good  sample  of  vacuoaa 
profundity. 

*  1  Henry  VI.,'  1.  v.  31,  though  a  strong 
instance,  does  not  seem  to  me  decisive.  Cate- 
gories may  fluctuate  between  plural  and 
singular,  especially  when  "disjunctive." 

'  Ant.,*  III.  vii.  7,  is  enigmatical ;  but  I  see 
Qothing  in  the  context  to  show  that  horse  is 
not  singular.  I  suspect  a  play  on  words,  with 
alltuioQ  to  the  fact  that  one  horse  may 
'* serve"  several  mares. 

In  'Macbeth,'  IV.  i.  140,  "horse"  is  surely 
used  in  the  "  military  "  sense  (implying  tlie 
mounts),  as  in  "The  Icing  to  Oxford  sent  a 
troop  of  horse,"  "  A  cornet  of  horse,"  itc.  Of 
this  use  Schmidt  quotes  sixteen  instances 
from  Shakespeare ;  1  have  not  examined 
them. 

This  specialized  use  as  a  collective  noun  is 
natural  enough  (cf.  >)  'jnros  in  Greek).  It 
naturally,  too,  belongs  to  any  collection  of  the 
animals  that  can  be  viewed  as  a  unit — for 
example,  "team  of  hone"  in  'T.  G.V..'III. 
i.  2G5.  In  'T.  A.,'  II.  ii.  18, 'Ant.,'  III.  vi. 
45,  and  '  3  Henry  VI.,'  IV.  v.  12,  this  "  mili- 
tary" sense  appears  •  the  second,  however,  is 
rather  bolder  than  the  others. 

To  conclude,  then,  in  only  two  instances 
at  most,  of  the  oleven,  do  I  find  even  a  primd 
Jade  case  for  considering  "  horse ''  as  a  plural. 

If  weare  to  purchase  smoothness  of  scansion 
(by  no  means  one  of  Shakespeare's  fetiches) 
by  reading  "  horse  "  in  '  Macbeth,'  II.  iv.  13,  I 
maintain  that  we  should  go  further,  and  read 

"  minion  of  his  race his  stall he  would 

make he  eat  himself he  did  so."      Or 

else  we  must  take  "  horae  "  in  the  "  military  " 
sense,  and  retain  the  plurals.  The  omen  will 
then  be  even  more  impressive.  Of  course 
I  do  not  deny  that  a  singular  form  (especially 
with  numeral  or  Quantitative  adjective  pre- 
fixed) is  often  uaeJ  as  a  "collective,"  or  that 
Shakespeare  may  have  used  it  so  in  some  of 
the  passages  ;  but  I  may  not  believe,  short 
of  an  undoubtefl  instance,  that  he  ever  con- 
sciously used  "horse"  as  a  plural  form,  to 
indicate  several  distinct  units  ;  still  less  can 
I  assent  to  an  emendntion  introducing  such 
an  instance.  Rather  would  I  hold  it  more 
reasonable  to  emend  all  the  monosyllabic 
"plurals'  into  dissyllabic,  where  metre 
allowed.  H.  K.  St.  J.  S. 

Sbakspeare  also  uses  the  plural  hor$e$,  as 
in  the  verse  of  Hotspur  : — 


Hath  Butler  brought  these  horses  from  the  aherifF? 

And  in  the  line, 

And  Duncan's  horses  (a  thing  moat  atrange  and 

certain], 
the  third  foot  ia  an  anapjest.     An  additional 
syllable,  making  one  of  the  feet  an  anaptest 
or  a  dactyl,  is  common  in  the  blank  verse  of 
Shakspeare  and  of  other  great  poets  : — 
Theae  vi  (  ftlent  j  ddlighta  |  Imve  vl  |  if-liSnt  eods. 

'  Borneo  and  Juliet.' 
Ominous  |  cSnjec  I  tftre  On  |  th8  wh<"*le  |  succeaa 
A  pill  I  Hr  6f  Btate  |  deep  On  |  his  front  ]  enBrav«5n. 

'  Paradise  Loat.' 

Now  Ilea  |  thS  eArth  1  all  Dan  |  W  W,  j  th4  star*. 
Tennyson's '  Prinoaaa.' 

Hundreds  of  examples  might  be  given.     No 
alteration  of  Shakapeare's  line  in  'Macbeth 
is,  I  think,  necessary.  E.  Yaedlet. 

"  Comrade,"  ' Hamlet,' I.  iii.  65.— I  forward 
a  conjecture  of  my  own,  with  which  I  havo 
not  elsewhere  met,  on  'Hamlet,'  I.  iii.  65, 
ed.  Dowdeu,  in  "Arden"  Series  (I.  iii.  84,05, 
Globe  ed.)  :— 

Do  not  dull  thy  palm  with  entertainment 
Of  each  new-hatch'd  unfledg'd  comrilde, 
where  comrddiicf.  for  accentuation '  1  Hen.  IV.* 
IV.  i.)  is  the  reading  of  the  First  Folio. 
Now  Q.  1  and  others  read  courage,  which  is 
explained  somewhat  awkwardly  as  equiva- 
lent to  linxvery  used  in  the  concrete  sense  of 
"a  gallant."  Bravery  itself  is  common 
enough  in  this  sense,  but  with  a  slightly 
different  connotation  from  that  of  couraj/e, 
not  necessarily  implying  any  valorous  or 
manly  qualities,  but  referring  in  many  cases 
solely  to  splendour  of  apparel.  Moreover, 
the  'N.E.D.'  gives  only  two  examples  of 
courage  used  in  this  concrete  sense.  I  pro- 
pose, therefore,  to  read  in  this  lino  in  the 
Quartos  (I  do  not  wish  to  alter  the  Folio, 
for  reasons  that  will  appear  later)  comrAgne. 
This  word  is  usually  accented  on  the  second 
syllable,  and  is  equivalent  in  meaning  to 
conirdde,  as  the  following  passages  show : 
Webster,  '  Appius  and  Virginia,'  IV.  li.  :— 
l^t  SMur  [actdre«»ini/  Siitl  Soid.].  Comrdijur,  I 
fear  , 

Appius  will  doom  ua  to  Actwoa  a  death. 

Here  Dyco  notes  the  occurrence  of  the- word 
in  Heywood  and  Brorae's  'Lancashire 
Witches'  (1634,  sig.  K) :  "Nay.  rest  by  mej^ 
Good  Morglay,  my  comnUjuc  and  bed-fellow. 
He  mentions  that  be  had  noted  other 
instances,  which  he  bad  then  mislaid.  Thia 
comrdrfu*,  being  a  comparatively  unfamiliar 
word,  was  probably  corrupted  in  the  Quartos 
to  cnurd'je ;  and  even  if  we  suppose  the  First 
Quarto  to  represent  an  imperfect  cop^ 
taken  down  by  ear,  the  words  eourdu*  and 


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[10^  B.  I.  Mat  28,  IDOi. 


rnmrd{;ue   sound  alike,  and    in   wribiug    or 
;jrintiug  ifc  is  qaito  easy  to  coufuse  m  or  n  | 
with  «.   In  the  First  Folio  many  words  which 
were  thought  obsolete  or  unfamiliar  were  | 
altered  deliberately  by  the  etlitors,  and  oven  if  | 
they  knew  of  the  reading?  coiurwiue,  it  seema 
probable  that  they  would  have  changed  it  to 
the  well-known  comrade.      Tiiis   word   com- 
nhjue,  aa  it  seems  to  rae,  explains  the  -g-  of 
tht)  Qaarlos,  and  the  -«i-.  and  connects  the 
earlier  editioua  with  the  Folio  of  1623. 

Cyril  Bbbtt. 
Wadliam  College,  Oxford. 

"PEAaL."— As  Dr.  Murray  will  soon  have 
to  consider  this  word,  I  venture  to  draw 
attention  to  an  etymology  of  it  which  seems 
worth  attention.  Diez  derives  it  from  *}>it'ola, 
not  found,  a  little  pear ;  Kbrting  give>i  */»>'- 
nula,  not  found,  a  dimin.  of  L.  pema.  Neither 
is  satisfactory. 

But  Moisy,  in  his  'Norman  Dialect  Dic- 
tionary,' tells  us  that  in  Normandy  the  form 
'i  perne,  which  comes  straight  from  the 
J.  pema  without  any  trouble  at  all. 

Again,  Mistral,  in  his  *  Frov.  Diet.,'  says 
that  the  Prov.  perlo  is  jKriw  in  the  Limousin 
dialect. 

It  seems  to  follow  that  either  i^tie  was 
turned  into  fmme,  or  pem^  was  turned  into 
jKrle.  It  is  just  as  likely  that  the  dialect 
forms  are  original  as  those  of  the  standard 
languages.  The  latter  change  gives  an 
obvious  etymology,  and  the  former  change 
{ives  none. 

Moisy  has  a  remark  that  is  worth  atten- 
tion. He  says  the  Normans  got  their  pearls 
from  the  Sicilies,  which  they  had  conquered  : 
and  he  actually  quotes  a  Latin  edict  of 
Frederic,  King  of  Sicily,  in  which  ;wrtt« 
certainly  seeraa  to  mean  "  pearls."  See 
PtTiuv  id  Ducange.  I  see  no  reason  for  coin- 
ing a  diminutive  jiernufa,  when  potta.  itself 
will  do.  Waltek  W.  Skeat. 

Sherloc:k.  —  According  to  the  'D.N.B.,' 
lii.  iHS,  Dr.  William  Sherlock,  Doau  of 
St.  Paul's,  was  born  in  South wark  about 
1G41.  In  a  deed  of  1684,  relating  to  the 
manor  of  Paris  Garden,  in  the  parish  of 
St.  Saviour's,  Southwark,  mention  is  made 
of  nine  acre*  of  pasture  ground,  part  of  which 
was  used  as  a  whiting-ground,  and  had  been 
in  the  occupation  of  William  Sherlock, 
whitster.  W.  C.  B. 

Ceucifixion   Folk-loee.  —  In  'The  First 
Annual  Reportof  the  Committee  of  Manage- 
ment   of    tlie    Glasgow    Sabbath    Evening 
Kchool  Youths'  Union,'  Glasgow,  1818,  there 
.ib  a  curious    piece  of  information   on   this 


subject  wiiich  is  worth  recording.  The  report 
contains  extracts  from  the  journals  of 
district  visitors,  such  as  are  .  ''^' given 

in  missionary  reports.    One  records 

(p.  33)  an  interview  with  a  Hii^iiiini  familv. 
rart  of  the  conversation,  which  apparently 
was  carried  on  in  Gaelic,  was  as  follows  : — 

"  H.  [the  huabaud]  a^kcd  how  Ioiik  it  wa3  from 
the  time  in  which  our  Lord  was  bcf  '■• '  '■"  he 
was  crucified.    I  had  not  timo  lo  rt  m- 

tive  of  hia  death,  but  told  htm  the  'ir- 

ticalars  in  a  few  words,  and  promised  lo  ieu,d  the 
history  itwlf,  if  nparud,  on  some  other  occasion. 
Mrs.  Al.  [the  wife]  aiked  if  the  So'-'>""-"=  "nid 
anything  about  the  manner  in  which  vaa 

bound  round  hia  handaby  those  wh^V  -u 

the  Highland  women  in  her  coii  I  a 

certain    kind   of    thread   on   F:  ley 

MuppoBfi  to  have  been  uaed  in  ih  ...„  ■  ..  .da 
body,  to  tic  his  sleeves.  Of  course  1  told  her  that 
the  Scripture  was  silent  on  the  subject,  and  that 
the  custom  was  a  fooUah  superstition." 

David  Mueiut. 
(rlasgow.        

Wb  must  request  correspondents  desirin,:  in- 
formation on  family  matters  of  only  p;  r^at 
to  Alii X  their  names  and  addresses  l>>  lea, 
in  order  that  the  answers  may  be  addii:^t'  ij  luem 
direct. 

The  Fir-st  Wife  of  Warren  Hasttsos. — 
An  almost  complete  uncertainty  still  shrouds 
the  history  or  this  lady,  who  has  only 
recently  been  idontiBed  as  Mary,  widow  of 
Capt.  John  Buchanan,  one  of  the  victima  of 
the  Black  Hole,  and  whose  ^  maiden  name 
remains  unknown.  She  married  Hastings  m 
the  cold  weather  of  1756-7.  and  died  at 
Moradbagh  in  1759,  when  still  under  thirty. 
The  close  connexion  of  Hastings  with 
Dr.  Tysoe  Saul  Hancock  and  hii  wife 
Philsulelphia  (n^e  Austin,  aunt  of  the  famous 
Jane)  has  prompted  the  suggestion  that  the 
first  Mrs.  Hastings  was  in  some  way  related 
to  them,  but  this  has  not  been  proved. 
Mr.  Foster,  of  tho  India  Office,  has  dis- 
covered that  in  1751  a  Mary  Elliott  obtained 
leave  to  go  out  to  India  with  Philadelphia 
Austen,  but  there  is  no  trace  of  her  having 
made  tlie  voyage  or  arrived.  In  1763  Capt. 
Buchanan  received  permission  to  take  his 
wife  out  with  him.  Was  Mary  Elliott's  plan 
of  going  to  India  prevented,  or  rather 
delayed,  by  a  marriage  with  Buchanan  ? 
The  suggestion  seems  probable,  but  needs 
corroboration.  The  descendants  of  the 
Austen  and  Walter  families  (Philadelphia 
Austen's  mother  was  tho  widow  of  a  Dr. 
Walter)  can  throw  no  light  on  it,  and  the 
Tonbridge  registers  have  been  searched  in 


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* 


vaiD.  Buchanan  is  described  as  "of  Craig- 
ieveO;"  and  perhaps  this  may  enable  sorue 
Scottish  genealogist  to  trace  him,  and  find 
tho  record  of  \m  marriage.  The  Rev.  H.  B. 
Hyde,  to  whom  the  niscovery  of  Mary 
Hastings's  identity'  ia  due,  suggests  tliat  slie 
may  have  been  the  daughter  or  niece  of 
Col.  Scott,  the  chief  engineer  of  Fort  William, 
but  there  ia  nothing  m  his  will  to  support 
the  idea.  Sydnky  C.  Gkier. 

Documents  in  Secret  Drawers.— In  Lord 
Lytton'ij  'Night  and  Morning'  there  is  a 
description  of  the  accidental  finding  of  a  long- 
lost  document  in  a  secret  drawer  or  a  bureau. 
I  am  told  that  such  things  have  actually 
occurred— that  documents  or  valuables  have 
really  been  discovered  in  secret  drawers.  I 
refer  to  receptacles  hidden  inside  pieces  of 
furniture,  not  to  hiding-places  in  the  fabric 
of  a  bouse.  Can  any  reader  kindly  tell  me 
of  any  such  true  stones  or  of  any  book  which 
would  help  me  in  my  search  for  accounts  of 
similar  occurrences  ? 

(Mrs.)  Elizabeth  Seymour  Norton. 
Buckhurst  Hill. 

'[Cliamhim's  Journal  for  May  and  Juno  contftins 
letters  of  Nelson  which  were  slulTetl  into  two 
icliairs  with  deep  pockets.] 

j>ame  Di'  Tenctin.— Can  any  one  tell  me 

whether  her  portrait  was  paint«d  by  Nattier 
or  Allan  llamsay]        Constance  Kvs8£tx.. 

Swallowfield. 

Wyrley's  Derbyshire  Churcii  Notes.— 
Where  are  these  to  be  found  1  In  Cox's 
'Churches  of  Derbyshire,'  vol.  ii.  p.  579,  a 
reference  is  given  to  the  Harleian  MS.  -1799, 
fo.  99  ;  but  this  reference  would  seem  to  \>a 
incorrect,  for  tho  MS.  in  question  is  a  Char- 
tulary  of  Lichfield.     J  as.  M.  J.  Fletcher. 

Tideawell  Vicarage,  Derbyshire. 

CONSCMPTION    NOT    HEREDITARY.— lu   1843 

Tom  Hood,  in  his  '  Comic  Annual,'  while 
describing  a  physician  going  his  round 
through  a  hospital,  narrates  that  one  patient 
complained  of  a  phthisical  neighbour,  on  the 
ground  that  "consumption  is  hereditary  — 
1/  you  lire  in  the  same  room."  Are  there  any 
other  early  records  of  a  disljelief  in  the 
fatalistic  views  concerning  tliis  disease,  which 
Banyan  called  "the  captain  of  the  men  of 
Death  "1  Stanley  B.  Atkinson. 

Inaer  Templa. 

Murray  Bauonktcv.  —  A  baronetcy  of 
Murray  wan  clnimtvl  about  1802,  the  claimant 
stating  the  title  came  into  his  family  in 
1680,  by  the  second  brother  of  Murray,  the 
then  baronet,  marrying  Miss  Lathroiip,  and 


assuming  her  name.  Can  any  reader  tell  me 
what  baronetcy  this  was,  and  if  the  state- 
ment as  to  tho  marriage  is  correct  1     P.  V. 

A  Phrase  :  What  is  It  ?— Lexicographers 
and  grammarians  define  a  phrase  as  "a 
brief  expres.sion  or  part  of  a  sentence  "  ;  and 
one  work  held  in  good  repute  says  that  it 
consists  of  **  two  or  more  words  forming  an 
expression  by  themselves,  or  being  part  of  a 
sentence."  Sir.  Edmund  Gosse  seems  to  use 
the  term  with  a  larger  reference  than  this  ex- 
planation implies,  if,  at  least,  we  are  to  judge 
irom  frequent  instances  in  the  monograph  on 
Jeremy  'Taylor  which  he  has  written  for  tho 
'*  English  Men  of  Letters  "  series.  On  p.  50, 
for  example,  he  quotes  as  follows  from  Sir 
Philip  Warwick's  reference  to  Charles  I.  at 
Caversham  :— 

"  I  could  perceive  he  was  very  apprehensive  in 
what  hands  ne  was,  but  was  not  la  let  it  bo  dis- 
cerned. Nor  bad  he  given  hia  counCouanoc  unto 
Dr.  Taylor's  '  Liberty  of  Prophesying,'  which  some 
believed  he  had;  but  that  really  and  truly  it  was 
refreshment  to  hia  spirit  to  be  used  with  some 
civility,  and  to  serve  God  as  he  was  wont,  and  to 
see  some  old  faces  about  him." 

Commenting  on  this,  Mr.  Gosse  says  : — 

"  The  wording  of  this  phrase  .leems  to  convey 
that  Charles  had  been  reproached  by  his  Puritan 
jailors  with  his  supposed  approval  of  his  former 
chaplain's  revolutionary  sentiments,''  <tc. 

Is  the  quotation  properly  called  a  phrase  1 
Thomas  Bayne. 

Baxter's  Oil  Painting.— I  have  a  small 
painting  of  Bethlehem.  5  in.  by  3  or  4  in. 
in  the  left  corner  are  the  words  "  Baxter's 
Patent  Oil  Painting."  The  donor  told  mo 
that  with  Baxter's  death  his  secret  died,  la 
this  Charles  Baxter,  1809-79,  portrait  and 
subject  painter ;  or  Thomas  Baxter,  1782-1 S21, 
of  Dillwyn's  Factory  repute,  Swansea ;  or 
John  Baxter,  178M868]  M.A.OxoN. 

Masonic  Portrait  or  the  "great"  Lord 
Chatham.  —  I  possess  an  interesting  por- 
trait in  oils,  described  on  the  back  as  of 
the  eminent  statesman  William  Pitt,  first 
Earl  of  Chatham  (1708-1778).  It  is  on 
canvas,  size  36 A  in.  bv  28i  i'l-t  and  painted 
in*  Gainsborougli,  probably  about  the  middle 
of  the  eighteenth  century.  Chatham  is 
represented  as  seated  on  a  high  (stuflWi)  back 
chair,  the  massive  mahogany  carved  frame 
of  which  is  surmounted  by  a  curious  figure- 
head :  he  wears  a  brown  coat  and  dress  wig  ; 
from  nis  neck  is  susiwnded  by  a  red  ribbon  a 
white  (silver])  triangular  Masonic  jewel— the 
base  upwards— containing  two  small  blue 
stones,  and  with  tho  additional  up))er  part  ia 
the  form  of  a  baluster,  there  being  at  tneback 


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no*  8.  I.  Mat  M,  1904. 


a  white  cron^  (?),  and  the  half  of  a  large  gold 
star,  showing  ten  points  above,  apjmrently 
the  insignia  of  a  Grand  Steward  ;  his  right 
hand,  wearing  a  white  leather  gauntlet,  and 
holding  an  oval-headed  hammer  or  mallet 
(similar  to  an  enlarged  drumstick),  rests 
on  the  red-and-black  oblique-striped  cover  of 
a  narrow  table  in  front,  having  thereon  a 
small  L- shaped  square,  plurao-level,  Ac. 
Masonic  portraits  of  so  early  a  date  are  rare. 
Does  any  reader  know  of  reference  in  print 
or  MS.  to  that  in  question,  and  whether  it 
Hm  been  engraved  ?  W.  I.  R.  V, 

The  Westerk  Rebels  and  the  Rev. 
iloHN  MoREMAN.— The  ringleaders  of  the 
Western  Rebellion  of  1549  state  that  they 
were  examined  bv  the  Lord  Chancellor,  by 
Mr.  Smythe  and  Mr.  Nortli.  The  Rev.  John 
Moreraan,  D.D.,  was  committed  to  the  Tower 
in  1549,  by  "accusement  of  the  Deane  of 
Powl»9,"  because  of  a  sermon  preached  in 
the  West  Country,  and  he  was  examined 
thereon  by  the  Archbishop  of  Canterbury. 
Can  any  one  tell  me  whether  a  record  of  these 
examinations  exists,  or  where  they  are  likely 
to  be  found  ?  I  have  not  yet  been  able  to 
discover  them  at  the  Public  Record  Office. 
(Mrs.)  Rose-Troctp. 

Beaumont.  Ottery  St.  Mary. 

AuTHORa  OF  Quotations  Wakted. 

Rest  after  toil. 
Peace  after  Btrife, 
Port  after  stormy  Beas, 
Death  afterlife. 

M.   QuftNEY. 
No  endeavour  ia  in  vain  ; 
The  rewani  is  in  the  doing, 
And  the  rapture  of  purBuing 
Is  the  \mze  the  vanquished  gain. 
Thus  didst  thou, 

Everylhinft  tliot  growa 
Holds  in  perfection  Lut  a  little  moment. 
And  this  huge  state  presonteth  nauxht  but  shows. 
Whereon  the  stars  in  silent  intlueuce  comment. 

Lucw. 

Gaboriau's  '  Marquis  d'Anotval.'  —  Is 
there  any  English  translation  of  this  work, 
which  Ruskio  alludes  to  in  'Fiction  Fair  and 
Foul,"  an  article  recently  published  in  the 
Nineteenth  dnturi/,  and  now  inchided  in  one 
of  the  volumes  of  'The  Old  Road  "\  It  is  con- 
sidered by  many  to  be  Gaboriau's  greatest 
work,  and  rankg  with  Eugine  Sue's  'Mys- 
teries of  Paris.'  It  Lh  said  to  have  been 
ijublished  in  English  under  the  title  of  *  The 
Mystery  of  Orcival,'  but  a  |;eru.ml  of  that 
work  does  not  bear  out  Ruskin's  do-  .-i..t;.Mi 
of  tlie  book  which  he  entitles  'Th. 
li'Angival,' and  which  appears  to  Ic  .^..„  a 


different  work.  Doubtless  'i'^'- -  ■■^^yi^r  q 
'N.  k  Q.'  can   tell   me   who  •-?r 

title  is  the  correct  designation  u.  i..^  .„.;„. 
Frederick  T.  HinoAMK 

TitR  Name  Jesus.— The  Rev.  L.  n  ""'       '11, 
in  the  GentlenutWs  Magatint  for  r, 

1903,  pp.  545-03,  has  an  article  einiinu  A 
Chapter  on  Names.'  In  the  coarse  of  it  he 
states  that  Josus  is  a  form  of  Joshua.  If  so^ 
how  do  phoneticians  explain  the  evolution  of 
the  e  {it)  sound  of  modern  Jesua  from  the  o 
of  Joshua  1  An  explanation  of  the  develop- 
ment of  the  jf  from  th  would  ai$o  be  intereist- 
ing ;  and  how  is  the  terminal  sibilant  in 
Jesus  to  be  accounted  for? 

Gejeoory  Grcsbukr. 

Thomas  FaEmeu.  —  Could  any  of  your 
readers  inform  me  whether  there  ia  any 
gravestone  or  memorial  tablet  in  Atherstone 
Parish  Church,  Warwick,  to  a  Thomas 
Farmer^  and  if  so,  what  the  inscription  xa, 
as  I  wish  to  trace  his  father  1  Thotnaa  "wraa 
of  the  same  family  as  the  Farmers  of 
Ratcliffe  Culey,  Leicestershire,  whose  pedi- 
gree  is  to  be  found  in  Nichols's  work  on  that 
county.  A.  J.  C.  Gdimauakns. 

Bun. — A  Mr.  Blin  married  the  dHnu'litop 

of Ryder  (sister  of  John  Willi))  a 

Ryder,  of  Stoke,  Devonport),  and  i  d 

to  have  had  issue  David  William  Waiters 
Blin,  born  at  Plymouth,  and  married  to  Ann.  . 
daughter  of  Joeiah  and  Ann  Austen,  of 
Liskeard,  Cornwall,  /nttr  alin,  my  mother 
was  a  daughter  of  this  last  couple.  Can 
any  one  give  further  information  respecting 
all  three  surnames  1 

(Rev.)  B.  W.  BLm-STOYtK. 

Langden  House,  Braunston,  nr.  Rugby. 

Selunoer,— Amongst  "  the  namea  of  «]! 
the  Noblemen  that  speak  at  the  Westminster 
Meeting  January  y"  28th,  1730/1,"  this  name 
of  SelHnger  appears.  Can  any  correspondent 
of  '  N.  <t  Q.'  help  me  to  identify  him  i 

a.  f.  r.  b. 

'  The  Yono  Souldieiu'— The  name  of  the_ 
author,  Capt.-Lieut.  John  Raynsford,  appe 
at  the  end  of  the  dedication,  but  not  on  tl   _ 
title-page  of  this  book  (London,  printed  by 
J.  R.  for  Joseph  Hunscott,  1642,  4to.  !♦<  pp.). 
The  tract  is  one  of  no  little  militat  <   '  ' 
in  that  it  describes  the  drill  as  actu 
tised  in  England  immediately  befnr 
break  of  the  Civil  War,  Kayusford,  i 
to  Lord  Save  and  Selc's  regiment,  t<- 
'•having  tliis  last  yeere    wanted  .  i 

the  Field and  being  now  ci^-i'"  i 

leave  the  Sclioole,  and   lea<.l  > 

Field,  [1]  have  (for the  helpe  of  u....  ..;.  .^^,; j) 


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written  a  Copy  of  what  I  formerly  taught 
them,"  i.e.,  instruction  "in  the  right  use  of 
their  Arnaea,  Distances,  Jfot ions  and  Firings," 
both  for  cavalry  and  infantry. 

William,  first  Viscount  Saye  and  Sele,  is 
described  in  the  dedication  as  Master  of  the 
Court  of  Wards  and  a  Privy  Councillor.  He, 
"like  many  other  oersona  of  distinction  who 
had  expenenced  tne  favour  of  the  Court," 
says  Gorton  ('Biog.  Diet.,'  p.  753),  "joined 
the  Parliament  in  the  contest  for  power  with 
Charles  I."  How  soon  after  the  publication 
of  this  pamphlet  did  Save  and  Sefe's  loyalty 
desert  nim  ?  and  did  Itaynsford  follow  the 
lead  of  his  colonel  ?  Is  anything  further 
known  of  Ravnsford  and  this  drill-book,  no 
copy  of  whicii  I  believe  is  to  be  found  in 
the  collection  of  Civil  War  tracts  now  in  the 
British  Museum  1  It  is  not  mentioned  by 
Mr.  C.  H.  Firth  in  hia  'Cromwell's  Army, 
1642-1660,'  London,  1902. 

M,  J.  D.  Cockle. 
Solan,  Punjab. 


"ASHES  TO  ASHES"  IN  THE  BURIAL 

SERVICE. 

(10»»'  S.  i.  387.) 

The  Rev.  William  Palmer,  in  'Originea 
Liturgicte'  (ii.  235,  ed.  1836),  saya  :— 

"This  form  of  committing  the  'body  to  the 
ground  ;  oartb  to  earth,  ashes  to  nshcs,'  &c.,  seenia, 
as  far  as  I  can  judge,  to  be  peculiar  to  our  Church, 
as  we  tind  that  meet  other  ritualu  of  the  East  and 
AVest  ajipoint  some  psalm  or  anthem  to  he  sung  or 
said  while  the  body  is  placed  in  the  tomb ;  hat  the 
same  fonn  nearly  has  been  used  in  the  English 
Church  for  many  age«,  though  anciently  it  followed 
after  the  body  was  covered  with  earth,  and  not 
while  the  eartn  was  placed  upon  it." 

The  Rev.  W.  Maskell,in  the  original  edition 
of  'Mouumenta  Eitualia,'  i.  12A,  gives  the 
words  thus : — 

"  Conimondo  animatu  tuam  Deo  Patri  omni- 
potenti,  terram  terrne,  cinerem  cineri,  pulverom 
pulveri,  in  nomine  Patris,"  &c. 

The  prayer  following  thia  commendation 
begins  m  those  terma  : — 

"  It  ia  indeed  presumption,  O  Lord,  that  man 
should  daro  to  commend  man,  mortal  mortal, 
ashis  aahes,  to  Thoo  our  Lord  God  ;  but  since  earth 
receivea  earth,  and  dust  is  being  turned  to  duat, 
until  all  flesh  is  restored  to  its  source,"  &c. 

This  office,  '  Inhumatio  Defuncti/  was 
copied  from  the  1543  edition  of  the  Sarum 
Manual  in  the  editor's  possession.    He  com- 

Sftred  it  with  a  slightly  varying  office  in  the 
langor  Pontifical. 

The  compilers  of  this  ancient  service  would 
Bm  to  have  bad  in  view  in  the  phraaes  now 


under  question   three  texts.    I  quote  from 
the  Vulgate,  the  Bible  as  they  used  it: — 

Gen.  iii.  19,  "...donee  revertaris  in  terram 
...quia  pulvis  es,  et  in  pulverem  reverteris." 
Gen.  xviii.  27,  "cum  aim  pulvia  et  cinis." 
Ecclus.  X.  9,  "  Quid  auperbis  terra  et  cinis  1" 
In  these  three  passages  we  find  the  com- 
bination of  earth,  dust,  and  ashes,  &a  sug- 
gestive of  the  deep  humiliation  which  the 
evidence  of  our  frail  mortality  must  impress 
on  every  thoughtful  mind.  Aahes,  the  small 
residuum  of  a  solid,  perhaps  beautiful  sub- 
stance consumed  by  fire,  easily  scattered  by 
the  wind,  without  form  and  worthless,  are 
a  fit  emblem  of  what  human  pomp  and  pride 
suffer  under  the  stroke  of  death.  It  ia  not, 
of  course,  likely  that  the  compilera  of  thia 
office  had  any  thought  of  cremation,  any 
more  than  the  writers  of  Genesis  or  Eccle- 
siaaticus. 

It  would  make  thia  reply  too  long  to  give 
extracts  from  the  'Idiomela'  of  the  Greek 
Church,  written  in  the  eighth  century  by 
St.  John  of  Damascus,  and  still  used  in  the 
Burial  Office  :  'AKoXovdla  viKpt^viixo^  <ts  koc- 
/itKoi's.  They  may  be  seen  in  the  Venice 
edition  of  the  Ev^o^oyioi'  luya  (1862),  p.  413. 
St.  John  was  a  true  poet,  and  under  hia 
magic  touch  the  dust  and  ashes  of  the  grave 
become  a  fitting  soil  for  the  blossoma  of 
immortality.  C.  Deedss. 

Chichest«r. 

Whatever  may  have  led  to  the  use  of  the 
word  "ashes"  in  this  part  of  the  Burial 
Service,  it  can  have  no  reference  to  crema- 
tion. For  the  sense  of  the  passage  ia  that 
the  body,  which  is  earth,  ashes,  dust,  returns 
to  the  same  again,  so  that  if  we  take  "to 
aahes"  to  imply  cremation  we  must  suppose 
that  the  body  came  into  existence  also  by 
cremation.  W.  C.  B. 

These  words  in  the  Burial  Service  date 
from  1549,  and  are  translated  from  cintrem 
cineri  in  the  Sarum  form.  They  are.  I  should 
think,  founded  on  Gen.  xviii.  27.  Ashes  are 
frequently  associated  with  penitence  and 
humiliation,  as  in  the  Old  Testament  (see 
Concordance)  and  in  the  old  ritual  of  Ash 
Wednesday.  Compare  the  line  in  the  'Dies 
Ira?,'  "Cor  contntum  quasi  cinis."  The 
expression  "  dust  and  ashes  "  became  familiar 
through  Gen.  xviii.  27  (see  'N.E.D-.'  under 
'Dust,' 3b);  and  so,  given  the  phrase  "dust 
to  dust"  from  Gen.  iii.  1&,  "osnea  to  ashes" 
would  naturally  follow.  At  the  same  time 
it  seems  not  unlikely  that  the  expression 
originated  in  the  practice  of  cremation,  as 
many  other  words  and  phra-ses  have  ori- 
ginated in  things  that  have  long  ceased  to 


' 


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be  familiar.  The  form  of  oouiniittal  in  the 
English  Burial  Service  appears  to  be  peculiar 
to  Sarum  ;  I  do  not  find  it  in  the  York  or  in 
the  Roman  aervice.  Samtn  and  York  both 
have  a  prayer  beginning,  "Teraeritatia  cjuidem 
est,  Domine,ut  homo  hominem,  mortalis  mor- 
talem,  ciuis  cinereio  tibi  Domino  Deo  nostro 
audeat  coinmendare."  In  the  Greek  rite  oil 
from  the  lamp  and  ashea  from  the  censer,  as 
well  aa  earth,  are  casit  upon  the  body  {'  Book 
of  Needs '  tr.  by  Shaun,  Lond.,  1894,  p.  164). 

J.  T.  F. 
Darhom. 

The  form  of  commendation  iu  the  Burial 
Service  ia  i>artly  taken  from  the  Manual  of 
Sarum. 

For  the  custom  of  castuig  earth  upon  the 
body  three  times  of.  Horace,  Od.  i.  35,  36  :— 

Licebit 
Injecto  ter  pnlvere  cartas. 

CnE.  Watson. 

Long  and  interesting  articles  on  this  sub- 
ject will  be  found  in  4*''  S.  viii.  107,  160,  256, 
under  the  head  of  'Earth  thrown  upon  the 
Coffin.'  EvERARD  Home  Coleman. 

71,  Breaknook  Eload. 


<^oDt  elle  OBt  prooe, 

que  cet   enfant  no 
edition,  1777,  vol.  i. 


Birth-Marks  (10"»  S.  i.  362).-I  am  not  a 
physiologist,  so  any  opinion  I  might  offer  on 
this  subject  would  be  regarded  a-^  of  little 
value.  The  following  ia,  however,  worth 
putting  on  record,  as  there  is  no  doubt  of  the 
truth  of  the  statements.  I  do  not  venture  to 
suggest  what  inference,  if  any,  should  be 
drawn  from  them. 

In  December,  1836,  an  old  man  named 
William  Marshall,  and  his  sister,  Deborah 
Elizabeth  Hutchinson,  who  lived  with  him, 
were  murdered  in  their  cottage  in  this  town. 
As  soon  as  the  crime  came  to  light  many  per- 
sons who  had  known  them  flocked  to  see  the 
bodies.  Among  the  crowd  was  a  pregnant 
woman  who  had  been  a  friend  of  the  victims. 
She  clasped  the  dead  woman's  hand,  and 
wheti  her  baby  was  bom,  which  was  a  boy. 
it  had  two  very  short  fingers,  the  first  and 
second.  This  the  mother  fully  believed  to 
be  the  result  of  the  clasping  of  the  dead 
hand.  The  baby  grew  up  to  manhood.  My 
informant,  who  ia  a  very  trustworthy  person, 
knew  him  well,  and  lias  often  observed  the 
defective  fingers. 

The  following  passage  from  Jean  Baptiate 
Thiors's  'Traite    des  Superstitions   qui    re- 

f ardent  les  Sacreraens'  ia  interesting,  but, 
think,  must  be  looked  upon  as  folk-lore 
onlv  :  — 


^•'Qui 
detneu 


s'imaginent    quo    si    une    femme 


re  deboat    ou   aaeiae   au    pitS   du    lit 


groase 
d'uue 


persoone  aganizant«.  !'"' 
Bera  ma.rqu<^  d'unc  ' 

appellee   fix   hirrrt.,    qi. 

vivra  i>aa  loDg-tema."— tourth  edition, 
P-23U. 

Edwaed  Peacock. 
Wickentree  House,  Kirton-in-Lindaey. 

The  points  mentioned   in  this  article 
treated  of  iu  the  following  places  ; — 

Lenniua,  L.,  physitian.  Secret  Miracle*  of  Natnr 
1053. 

Digby,  Sir  K.,  Discourse Powder  of  SympathyJ 

ICfiO,  nn.  83^5. 

Malebrancb,  Search  after  Truth,  by  Sault,  16W, 
i.  145-59. 

Turnftr,  Daniel.  M.D..  Force  of  Mother'*  IiuAKir 
tioo 1738.    (Munk,  Roll  of  R.C.P..  In^.1.  ii.  .T-l) 

Btrenpth  of  Imagination a  vuli;  ' .  "27. 

Bloiinel,  ,J.  A.,  Power  of  Mother's  1 
oxaniined,  1729  tin  answer  to  Tii  311.1 

Mauclerc,  J.  H.,  M.  D..  Dr  B"  747. 1 

Kay,  John,  Three  Discourses,  ..  2-1- 

Atueoiart  Oracle. 

Hudibras,  ed.  Grey,  notes  oa  part  iii.  0.  iL  91K 

Church,  Miraculous  Power*,  1760,  p.  xxxi. 

Winter,    G.,     History   of    Aoimai    MagDeCiao 
Bristol,  ISOl. 

W.  C.  B. 

This  is  a  subject  which  occupietl  me  a  good' 
deal  some  years  ago,  aud  the  following  are 
some  notes  I  took  concerning  it : — 

"  De  Selouco  Mcntore  Syriae  reite.  '  Pariter  inter 
niiranda  venit,quodSeloucoaquibyri{e  regno, poate* 
elian)  Aaimjuraaddidit,  ipBecum  poitenana 
coxa  anchors  imagine  signata.  Aec  niinua 
matrem  ejua  Bornniasae  8e  ex  AiX)lline  grat 
lactam,  ot  praemiuni  concubitus  ab  eo  annuU 
accopiase,  cui  anchora  aicut  in  filii  coxa  *mt  it 
eculpta,  quem  aiinulum  postea  ad  bcl' 
Alcxandro  eunti  Selcuco  mater  done 
miraculum  quo  annulum  aasecuta  erat,  ii.:._\, 
— Bapti8t«  Ful^osii  Genuenais  '  Foctoriini 
torum  memorabilium  Libri  ix.'  (Colouiie  Agrij 
1604,  lib.  i.  cap.  6,  p.  41  d.  rcno. 

"Lea  Heures  cntin  qui  au  trouvcnt  aux  auimai] 
raisonnabies,  aout  toutea   cellea  que  I'itnaginatic 

do  la  m6re  enceinte  a  imi)rini68  sur  I'enfant Vol 

mienne  sfleur  avoit  un  poieaoo  a  la  jombe  gauchfl 
foriii6  par  le  desir  quo  ma  niire  avolt  eu  d'on  tni 
mais  reprcBcnli;  a%'ec  tant  de  jierfection  at  df 
veille  qu'il   Bombluit  qu'un  savant  peintre 
travaill^.    Ce  qui  eat  admirable  en  9c<;i,  o'eat 
la  lille  ne  mar)geoit  jamais  poiaaou  que  ct 
su   jam  be   ne  luy   fit    reasentir   unc   douleq 
eenaible:  ot  un  de  mes  amis  qui  avait  UDO 
relev^'e  aur  le  front,  provenue  ausai  de  I'apiv 
aa    tii^re,    ne    manKeoit   jamais    ]iarcinomealt 
meurea,  que  la  aieane  ne  le  bicssal  par  une  it 
extraordinaire."  —  Jaaqu&s  Gaffarelli,   'Curio 
inouyca  sur  la  sculpture  tatismanique  des  PersMiS.* 
&o.  (Rouen.  1632),  lib.  v.  p.  105. 

See  also  Plutarch,  'DeSera  Nuiniula  Vi 
dicata,'  cap.  xxi. 

Edward  Heros-Aixew. 

The  following  anecdote  from  a  littlo, 
entitled  'Comforts  of  Old  Ago'  may 
an  amusing  illustration  of  this  belief. 


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book  soems  to  have  been  popular,  as  my  copy 
is  ono  of  tlie  fifth  edition,  was  published  oy 
John  Murray  in  1820,  and  was  written  by 
Sir  Thomas  Bernard,  a  very  philanthronic 
man,  who  died  in  1816.  Tlio  speaker  is  Jonn 
Hough,  Bishop  of  Worcester,  who  died  in  his 
ninety-third  year  in  1743  :— 

"If  you  will  not  accuse  me  of  Egotitm,  I  will 
mention  a  circumstance  that  haa  very  lately 
occurred.  A  country  neighbour  and  his  dame  dine<l 
with  me  on  new-year'a-day.  Slie  was  in  ihe  family- 
tcay,  and  during  dinner  was  much  indisposed  :  they 
both  went  honit^  aa  soon  oa  they  could  after  dinner. 
The  next  morning  the  husband  came  and  informed 
a  of  the  cause  of  her  indisposition — that  the  had 
tged  for  my  iilvcr  (nnen,  and  was  in  considerablo 
tDRer.  I  was  anxious  that  my  turoeii  should  not 
be  tne  cause  of  endanuering  her  life,  or  become  a 
model  for  the  shape  of  tier  child ;  aun  immediately 
sent  it  to  her.  In  due  time  she  produced  a  chop- 
ping boy,  and  lost  week  when  I  otTered  my  cou- 
gratulations  on  her  recovery,  I  informed  her  that 
now  in  my  turn  I  lotiffal  for  the  tureen,  which  1 
beKg«d  she  would  send  by  the  bearer;  and  that  I 
would  always  have  it  ready  to  send  her  again,  in 
case  of  any  future  longing.  —P.  105. 

The  italics  are  in  the  book.  Dr.  Mead, 
like  Dr.  John  Froiiid,  was  an  excellent  Latin 
Bcholar.  The  idea  of  the  book  is  taken  from 
Cicero  'De  Senectute,'and  the  circumstances 
recorded  might  have  taken  place. 

John  Pickfo&d,  M.A. 
Nowbourne  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Dickens  Queries  (lO""  S.  i.  228, 272, 298).— 
The  niixleru  Wiiicliester  song-books  do  not 
contain  '  Jarvey.'  Prof.  SxRONii's  derivation 
of  "  biddy "  was  the  accepted  one  in  my 
time,  and  is  also  to  be  fouiiJ  in  '  Winchester 
College  Notions,'  published  in  1001. 

John  B.  Wainewrigbt. 

"Sal  et  sauva"  (10'"  S.  i.  308).  — The 
ancient  Norsemen  useid  salt  in  baptism,  and 
this  inMcription  on  the  font  mentione<l  by 
Mk.  liooi'ER  shows  that  salt  was  also  Uued 
at  Ipswich.  Under  the  word  "Gcifla,"  to 
mumule,  the  following  passage  from  '  Biskupa 
Scigur,'  L  25,  is  quoted  in  Cloasby  and 
Vigfusson's  'Icelandic-English  Dictionary': 
*'u6iulum  kennu  v^r  mi  Qu^anum  at  goilla 
&.  saltiriu,  KOe  how  we  toach  the  old  Qodi 
[jjrie^t]  to  mumble  tlio  salt."  Some  old 
tiMglish  fonts  have  two  basins,  a  larger  one 
for  water,  anrl  a  smaller  one  which  may 
have  been  used  for  salt  ■  hoo  an  engraving 
of  a  very  old  font  of  this  kind  at  Voulgreave 
in  Batcman's  '  Vostigos  of  Dfrbyshire,'  p.  211. 
In  my  *  Household  Talos  and  Traditional 
Eemains,'  p.  120.  I  have  rcoordod  the  fact 
that  "some  English  people  carry  a  nlatc  of 
salt  into  the  church  at  baptism.  They  say 
that  a  child  which  is  baptized  near  ntiii  will 
be  sure  to  go  to  heaven."    Uubapti^ed,  and  so 


exposed,  infants  had  salt  put  beside  tbem  for 
sarety  (Grimm's  '  Deutsche  RechLsalter- 
tluimer,'  1854,  p.  45").  To  sprinkle  a  child 
with  water  ("ausa  vatni ")  on  giving  it  a 
name  was  usual  among  the  Norsemen  in  the 
heathen  age.  It  was  regarded  as  a  protection 
against  danger.  Thus  in  'Havauidl'  ('Corpus 
Pocticum  Borcale,"  i,  27)  wo  have  :  "  Ef  ek 
skal  |>egu  ungan  verpa  vatni  a,  raunaS  hano 
falla  p6tt  hann  i  folk  komi,  if  I  sprinkle 
water  on  a  young  lord,  he  shall  never  fall 
though  ho  go  to  battle."  Hence  it  is  pro- 
bable that  salt  also  was  used  as  a  charm. 
In  a  letter  to  the  Academy,  15  February,  ISifC, 
Dr.  Whitley  Stokes  suggested  that  "the 
source  of  Christian  iniaut  baptism,  like 
the  source  of  Christian  parthenogenesis, 
Ac,  is  to  be  found  in  folk-lore,"  and  bis 
suggestion  was  supported  by  Mr.  Clodd  in  a 
presidential  address  to  the  Folk-lore  Society 
{Folk-lore,  vii.  51,  67).  So  far  away  as 
Borneo  water  is  poured  over  a  child's  head 
on  its  admission  to  the  kindred  (Folk-lore^ 
xiii.  4."18).  In  Yorkshire  soon  after  a  child  is 
born  a  drinking  carousal  is  held;  this  they 
call  "  washing  baby's  head.'  In  Derbyshire 
a  ballad  used  to  be  sung  at  Christmas  about 
the  birth  of  a  child  who  came  over  the  sea  in 
a  ship.  I  have  preserved  the  air,  and  as 
many  of  the  words  as  could  be  remembered, 
in  my  '  Household  Tales,'  p.  108.  The  ballad 
contains  the  lines  : — 

They  waaiiud  his  head  in  a  golden  bowl. 
In  a  golden  buwl,  \u  a  golden  bowl : 
They  waahod  his  head  in  a  gulden  bowl 
At  Christmas  Day  in  the  morning. 

Hero  the  basin  was  of  gold.  Nothing  is  said 
about  salt,  but  the  child's  head  was  wiped 
with  a  diaper  towel,  and  combed  with  an 
ivory  comb. 

As  regards  saliva  in  baptism,  I  think  I 
saw  an  English  clergyman,  many  years  ago, 
put  hisi  finger  into  his  mouth,  and  make  tlie 
sign  of  the  cross  on  the  child's  forehead. 

S.  O.  Addt. 

Tiie  ceremonies  connected  with  salt  and 
spittle  at  baptism  are  explained  iu  the 
'  Catechismus  Concilii  Trideutini  Pars 
Secunda  LX.'        John  B.  Waikewrioht. 

See  the  rubrics  in  the  *  Ritus  Baptizandi ' 
in  the  medituval  manuals  or  in  the  modern 
'  Rituale  Bomanum.'  Thus  in  Sarum  (Sort. 
Soc,  vol.  Ixiii.  p.  &*) : — 

"  !i<m'ix'iio  Salit ponatur  lU  ipM  tale  m  ore 

tjn.*,  ita  •lifKix'Io :  Accipe  aalcnt  sapienli«e,"  ftc. ; 

and  p.  lO'*,  after  the  Gospel, 

"  fhiii'lr  KfiinU  Sttet.nloi  in  niui/^ra  manu,  tt  tan(;tU 

fii-r      ■■        -     -   ■■•'  '■       ■'•■.  dtxtero  de 

^.,  I   ail  nunm 

d, .  lid  iiart*,  In 


nO«  &  L  Mat  SS.  1904. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


oriorein  stiaviUtia ;  ad  aureta  aiuMtram,  Tu  autena 
ertugmre  dinbole ;  appropinquabit  enim  judicium 
Dei"- 

WTiy  the  inscription  "Sal  et  saliva"  should 
ba  on  the  font,  or  why  the  oil  should  not  be 
mentioned,  I  cannot  say.  J.  T'  F. 

Biohop  Hatiield's  Hall,  Durham. 

The  moaning  of  the  words  "Sal  et  saliva," 
found  on  the  font  in  St.  Margaret's  Church, 
Ipswich,  is  easily  explained.  In  the  Catholic 
rite  of  baptism  the  officiating  priest  puts  salt 
into  the  mouth  of  the  child,  aa  a  sign  that  he 
if  to  bo  freed  from  tiie  corruption  of  sin,  and 
anoints  his  ears  and  nostrils  with  spittle, 
after  the  example  of  our  Lord,  who  thus 
restored  sight  to  the  blind  man.  I  may  add 
that  the  antiquity  of  these  rites  is  proved 
from  their  being  contained  in  the  Sacrainen- 
tarv  of  Pope  Gelasius,  who  died  in  496. 

D.  Oswald  Huntke-Blaib,  O.S.B. 

Oxford. 

See  'The  Catholic  Christian  Instructed,' 
pp.  15-17.  St.  Swithin. 

In  the  ancient  form  of  baptism  the  priest 
placed  salt  in  the  child's  mouth,  "  Sacerdos 

ponat  de  ipso  sale  in  ore  ejus,  ita  dicens, 

N.,  Accipe  salem  sapientire,"  Jic.  Afterwards 
he  placed  some  of  his  own  saliva  in  his  left 
hand,  and  with  his  right  thumb  touched 
therewith  the  ears  and  nostrils  of  the  child, 
"  Deinde  sputet  Sacerdos  in  sinistra  manu, 
et  tangat  aures  et  nares  iufantis  cum  pollice 
dextro  cum  sputo."  See,  c.j?.,  the  'York 
Manual,'  Surtees  Soc,  pp.  6,  10.  9*,  10*. 

W.  C.  B. 

A  short  account  of  the  old  English  bap- 
tismal rite  may  be  seen  in  Dr.  Swete's 
'Church  Services  Ijefore  the  Reformation,' 
published  byS.P.C.K.  Those  who  wish  to  con- 
sult the  very  interesting  "Ordines  Romani' 
can  do  so  in  Mabillon's  '  Museum  Italicum ' 
(1724).  The  whole  of  the  second  volume  deals 
with  tliis  subject.  Bingham's  'Antiquities' 
is  also  helpful.  C.  Deedes. 

Chichester. 

See  Trench,  '  Mirodes,"  p.  353,  ed.  1854,  and 
'Diet.  Chr.  Ant.,'  p.  1838b.  Rabanus  Maurus 
(circa  sao  a.d.)  mentions  both  rites  and  their 
mystical  significance.         Chas.  P.  Phinn. 

\Vtttford. 

"As   THE   CROW   flies"  (10""  S.  1.  204,  296. 

372).— The  phrase  was  used  in  1B29  in  a  judf?- 
inent  given  by  Mr.  Justice  Parke,  afterwards 
Lord  Wen sley dale  : — 

"  I  should  have  thought  that  the  proper  mode  of 
adnie&iuring  the  distance  would  he  to  t&ke  a  straight 
lino  from  house  to  house,  in  poinmon  p»rl«iioe,  ili 
the  crow  Hies."— 9  Baruowull  and  Cre-isweira 
Kt<portB,  779. 


The  following  story  is  told,  I  believe, 
the  late  Archbishop  Temple,  and  I  darosa] 
of  other  bishops,  with  varying  details^ 
imrson  applied  for  leave  to  resifle  uutstc 
parish  at  a  house  which  he  stated  to  l>e  ' 
two  miles  off  the  parish  church  as  the 
flien."     Leave  was  tersely   refused,  oa 
ground  that  the  parson  waa  not  a  crow* 

ET. 

It  is  00  easy  task  to  take  a  direct  line  '*  ( 
the  crow  tiies"  across  the  open  country. 
once  tried  it  for  three  milas  or  so  under  tl^ 
following  circumstances,  and  still  retainj 
very  vivid  recollection  of  the  plight  I  w«w  :" 
when  I  reached  my  destination. 

In   June,   1875,   while  my  brother  and 
were  at  a  neighbouring  village,  we  receiv*. 
telegraphic    intelligence    that    ray    £aLhe( 
house  had  been  struck  by  lightning,  and  was 
on  fire.    We  started  for  the  near<"^^    f»'^ii| 
from  which  we  could  observe  the  t" 
West  Haddon,  and,  having  located  i       . 
smoke,  tore  headlong  across  country.  Tbrouf^ 
hedges,  across  fields  of  mowing  grass,    ov* 
brooks,  ditches,  and  other  obstacles,  we  ti 
lentlessly  pursued  our  course,  and  I  am  nc 
aware  that  we  once  deviated  from  i  i 
line.     I  have  performed  many  cro^ 
runs,  both  before  and  since  then,  but  utily  iJ 
this  one  instance  could  1  strictly  apply  tr 
term  "as  the  crow  flies."      John  T.  rAOE. 

Weat  Haddon,  Northamptonshire. 

Stotle   (lO'*"   S.   i.  349).— Inquiries   wc 
made  in  7"*  S.  xii.  167  for  the  Stoyfo  iwoail 
of  Uffington  and  Stamford,  co.  Lincoln,  a 
in  9*''  S.  X.  448  for  the  Stoyle^    family 
London.    If  either  should  bo  considered 
service  to  your  correspondent,  I  would  gladl 
send  him  a  MS.  copy.  | 

EvERARD  Home  CotwiAW.] 

71.  Brecknock  Rood. 

AlXOO  AND  B.V8KI8H  (lO'h  S.  i.  264,  297X— 
This  very  interesting  subject  has  been  fully 
dealt  witli  by  the  Canadian  scholar  Dr.  Jolu" 
Campbell,  of  the  Presbyterian  College,  Moa| 
real,  who  most  kindly  furnished  me  with  * 
pamphlets  in  which  he  had  worked  or^ 

place  and  relationship  of  these  and  othOL 

Aryan    languages,    which    he    denotes   tl 
Khitan  family,  and  classifies  a.s  follows  :— 
I.  Old- World  Dmsios. 

1.  Baskish. 

2.  Caucasian  (Georgian,  Lesghian,  Cit 
sian.  Mizjeji). 

3.  Siberian  (Yt  Vukahirion,  Koi 
Tchuktchi,  Kamt                .).  ^      _ 

4.  Japanese   (Japaueoe,    Loochoo^   AinoOy' 
Korean). 


10^8.1.  May  28. 1901.)  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


433 


II.  American  Division. 

1.  Dacotah. 

2.  Huron  (Iroauois,  &c.), 

3.  Chocktaw  (.Muskogee,  «fec.). 

4.  Pawnee. 

5.  Padoca  (Shoshonese,  <fec.). 

6.  Yuma  (Yuma,  Cuchan,  JL'c). 

7.  Pueblos  (Zuni,  Ac). 

8.  Sonera  (Opata,  &c.}. 

9.  Aztec,  including  Niquirian. 

10.  Lenca. 

11.  Chibcha. 

12.  Peruvian  (Qaichua,  «bc.). 

13.  Chileno  (Araucanian,  ic). 

By  their  hieroglyphics  and  syllabaries  he 
also  includes  with  those  the  Etruscan, 
I  Cypriote,  Corean,  Aztec.  Hittite,  Pictish, 
Celtiberian.  Lycian  and  Phrygian.  His  com- 
parative tables  of  this  last  group  show  a 
striking  correspondence  among  the  several 
examples  given. 

Dr.  Campbell  then  proceeds  to  work  out 
for  the  Khitan  family  a  "law"  correspond- 
ing to  Grimm's  law  of  the  Aryan  languages. 

If  further  details  of  the  "law"  and  com- 
parative examples  are  of  interest  to  readers 
of  N.  &  Q.,'  I  shall  be  most  happy  to  furnish 
extracts,  lam  not  aware  whether  the  learned 


author  is  still  living. 


RsD  Cbosb. 


• 


Admiral  Sir  Samttel  GREm  (10*''  S.  i. 
349).— This  family  appears  to  have  had  a  long 
connexion  with  tne  Russian  navy,  because  in 
the  year  1832.  as  I  gather  from  an  old  letter 
I  have  before  me.  written  by  a  great-aunt 
of  mineT  she  was  then  to  be  addre.ssed  "At 
his  Excellency  Admiral  Qreig's,  Commander- 
in-Chief  of  the  Black  Sea  Fleets  and  Porta, 
Nicolaieff."  Mistletoe. 

A  short  biographical  sketch  of  this  distin- 
guished man  appeared  in  2°<*  S.  xi.  88.  By  the 
reply  (p.  459)  a  further  account  of  him  will 
be  found  in  'Travels  into  Norway.  Denmark, 
and  Russia  in  the  Years  1788,  '89,  '90,  and  '91,' 
by  A.  Swinton,  Esq.  (London,  1792). 

EvERARD  HoifE  Coleman. 
71,  Brecknock  Road. 

Some  information  about  the  British  officers 
who  served  in  the  Russian  navy  (1787  et  iteo  ) 
will  bo  found  in  the  life,  by  the  Bov.  John 
Penrose,  of  Capt.  James  Trevenen  (18.W). 

I   »  f      ^  .  W.  P.  Courtney. 

}    Reform  Club. 

"  I  expect  to  PAiiS  THROUGH  THIS  LIFE 
BIT  oifCE"  (10«>  S.  i.  247,316,  3.'>5).-As  an  old 
lover  of  the  exquisite  '  Spectator,' I  venture 
k>  raontiou  that  at  present  I  have  failed  in 
my  ofibrts  to  support  the  assertion  that 
Addison  was  the  author  of  the  remark  "I 


expect  to  pass  through  this  life  but  once  "  ; 
but  at  the  same  time  Itake  the  opportunity 
to  point  out  that  one  of  "the  thoughts"  of 
the  Emperor  Marcus  Aurelius  Antoninus  was 
that  "life  can  only  be  lived  once"  (see  index 
to  George  Long's  translation,  p.  213,  Bell  & 
Sons,  1887) ;  and  also  that  the  following 
excerpts  on  the  subject  are  from  '  Marcus 
Aurelius  Antoninus  to  Himself,'  by  Gerald 
H.  Kendall  (Macmillan,  1898)  :— 

"  No  man,  remember,  c&n  lose  another  life  than 
that  which  ho  now  live*,  or  live  another  than  that 
whicli  he  now  loses.  The  present  ii  the  same  for 
all ;  what  you  lose,  or  win,  is  just  the  flying  moment." 
-Book  ii.  14,  p.  10. 

"  Where  are  they  all  now  ?  Nowhere— or  nobody 
knows  where.  In  this  way  you  will  come  to  loot 
on  all  thiusB  human  as  smoke  and  nothingness ; 
especially  if  you  bear  in  mind  that  the  thing  once 
changed  can  never  be  itself  again  to  all  eternity." 
-Book  X.  31,  p.  154. 

Henry  Gerald  Hope. 

lis,  Elmi  Road.  Clapharo.  S  W. 

Authors  of  Quotations  (10"'  S.  i.  168, 
217,  275).— With  respect  to  No.  4,  "  Tot  con- 

f:estos  nocteaque  diesque  labor&s  transerit 
hauserit]  una  dies,"  see  the  piece  of  forty- 
two  lines  described  by  W.  S.  Teuffel  ('  Hist. 
Hotn.  Lit.,'  §  220.  B  ;  vol.  i.  p.  415  in  vVarr'a 
English  tran.slation)aa  "A  school  essav  on  the 
theine  :  '  Reflexions  of  Augustus  on  Vergil's 
will.'"    This  performance  may  be  found  on 

Ep.    179-82,    vol.  iv.   of    Bahrens's   _' Poet  so 
atini  Minores,'  and   elsewhere.     Lines  20 
siiq.  run  thus  in  Bahrena's  text : — 

Frani^ratnr  potius  legum  rcuercnda  potestaa 
Quam  tot  coni^estos  noctuque  dieque  labores 
Auferat  una  dies. 

For  MOffM'/iK  dieque  there  is  a  v.l.  noctetqxie 
di'fxque,  and  for  auferat  a  v.l.  hauserit. 
Bahrens  (vol.  iv.  prnefat.,  p.  44)  hesitates 
to  what  period  he  should  assign  the  poem, 
suggesting  the  fourth  or  fifth  century.  It 
mav  be  worth  recalling  the  effective  use  of 
"  1*ot— hauserit  una  dies"  made  by  Mark 
Pattison  at  the  end  of  that  fine  passage 
in  his  '  Isaac  Casaubon  '  which  begins  : 
"  Learning  is  a  peculiar  compound  of  memory, 
imai^ination,  scientific  habit,  accurate  obser- 
vation," A'c.  (second  ed..  pp.  435  6),  Pattison 
does  not  indicate  the  source  of  his  quotation. 
EnWARD  Bensly. 
The  Universiiy,  Adelaide,  South  Australia. 

Pamela  (9'"  S.  xii.  141,  330  ;  lO^i-  S.  i.  52, 
135).  —  Mr.  Austin  Dob-son,  after  ha^Hng 
quoted  in  his  'Samuel  Richardson,'  at  p.  46, 
tne  passage  from  Fielding's  'Joseph  Andrews' 
printed  already  at  9"'  S.  xii.  141,  goes  on 
to  say:  "Sidney,  from  whose  'Arcadia' 
Richardaoa  %o\.  vt,  toftAa  \\.  ^KsCvJva^  «aS^ "«» 


434 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[lO'^  S.  I.  May  28, 1904. 


did  Pope "  •  but  Mr.  Richard  Horton 
S-urTH,  at  the  reference  just  mentioned, 
states  that  in  Sidney's  romance  there  is  no 
clue  to  the  pronunciation  of  the  name.  Then 
Jlr.  Dobsou  adds:  "But  Richardson,  in 
Pamela's  hymns,  made  it  Pamela,  and  bis 
parasites  persuaded  him  he  was  right. 
•Mr.  Pope,  wrote  Aaron  Hill,  'has  taught 
half  the  women  in  Endand  to  pronounce  it 
wrong.'"  Where  did  Hill  write  this?  Now 
one  question  remains :  Did  Poiw  pronounce 
the  accented  syllable  as  he  did  tea,  or  as  we 
should  nowadays]  G.  Krueqer. 

Berlin. 

William  Peck  {10""  S.  i.  348)  —An  inquiry 
was  made  for  Peck's  MSS.  in  3"'  S.  xii.  503 
(December,  18C7),and  a  reply  stated  that  they 
"and  another  quarto  volume  of  historical 
and  topographical  memoranda  are  in  the 
possession  of  Edward  Hailstone"  (the  writer), 
of  Horton  Hall,  Bradford,  Yorkshire. 

I  may  add  that  copies  of  William  Peck's 
•Histoty  of  Bawtry  and  Tliorno,'  also  vol.  i. 
(all  publisiied)  of  the  '  Isle  of  Axholme,'  may 
bo  consulted  in  the  Corporation  Library, 
GuUdball,  E.G. 

EvERARD  Home  Colemak. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

[Mr.  Hailelone's  library  was,  of  course,  sold 
duriDg  the  tatter  half  of  the  past  century.] 

•Recommended  to  Mercy'  (IO"*  S.  i.  109, 
232,  338).—!  do  not  find  the  above  title  under 
the  heading  '  Eiloart,  Mr».  Elizabetb,'  in  the 
Britiab  Museum  Catalogue,  so  still  hope  that 
some  one  will  be  able  to  put  me  on  the  track 
of  the  novel  in  question. 

Edward  Latham. 

Potts  Family  (iQi"  S.  i.  127).— In  S^^  S.  vii. 
105,  293,  there  is  some  information  about 
Percivall  Pott,  the  father  and  grandfather 
of  Archdeacon  Pott,  but  there  is  no  mention 
of  a  Samuel  Pott.  AiiTUUR  Hus-sey. 

Tankerton-on-Sea,  Keut. 

'Ancient  Orders  of  Gray's  Inn  '  (10''' S. 
i.  307).— Mr.  James  Mulugan,  as  Master  of 
the  Library  of  Gray's  Inn,  may  be  interested 
in  the  following  abstract  from  "Hunor  Re- 
divivus ;  or, an  Analysis  of  Honor  and  Armory, 
by  Matt.  Carter,  Esq.  Loudon,  printed  for 
Heury  Herringman  at  the  sign  of  the  Blew 
Anchor  in  the  Lower  Walk  of  the  New  Ex- 
change, 1673":  — 

** Grays  Inn  Beareth  Sables  a  Grilfiu  Ramnant, 
Of.  This  Honso  was  somotimos  the  fibiJiiijc  Mau- 
eioii  of  Ihe  noble  Funiily  of  CJray.  from  whence  tho 
name  of  th«  House  is  deduced.  It  is  Boituutc  within 
thi;  M&nnor  Poorpool,  a  Probendary  nnlitjutly  be- 
loiigiiiK'  »o  the  Cathe.lrnl  Church  of  Si.  Paul,  Londou 
In  the  KeigH  of  Kiug  Edward  the  111.,  the  (Jenile- 


men  Students  of  th&t  Society  (m  Ib  oon6dently 
nttirmed)  took  a  Grant  of  lhi»  Hoi:»o  from  the  said 
Baron  Gray  who  lived  tu  ll)"f'e  dny*.  And  it  is 
held   probable  that  the   Gray:-  "  ivo    been 

antiently  by  this  Fellowship  n  .  and  are 

still  taken  up,  and  kept  a*  the  i  .    ,  . .      .1  u«culJftr 
Ensigne  of  that  Colledgo  or  Uouse,  and  tboa  tha 
•ame  ii  found  portraictcd. 
Barry  of  eix  Arg.  and  Azure,  a  bordure  quarterly 

Or,  and  of  the  second. 
But  now  of  late  years  this  Honorable  Society  hw 
assumed  for  their  projter  Coat  Armor,  or  EnsiKti  of 
Honor,  A  Griliiu  Ur,  in  the  Field  Sables." 

Ronald  Dixon. 
46,  Marlborough  Avenue,  Hull. 

The  proverb  still  holds  good,  "Hills  ai-e 
green  afar  ofiF."  If  the  Master  of  Gray's  Inn 
will  ask  Mr.  Denis  Douthwaite,  the  Steward 
or  Under-Treasurer  of  Gray's  Inn,  he,  I  am 
sure,  will  receive  much  inforruation  from  that 
excellent  Englishman.  And,  what  few  Eng- 
lishmen do  when  they  come  to  Ireland,  he 
ba.s  gone  home  again.  Perhaps  this  extract 
would  not  be  out  of  place  ; — 

"Mr.  Donia  W.  Douthwaite,  tho  T>opn1ar  and 
efiiuieiit  Assistant  Librarian  at  Kings  Inna,  has 
resigned  that  jKMit,  having  obtained  the  ap^toinl- 
nipnt  rtf  Assistant  Librarian  [Utider-Treaaurcr?]  at 
Gray's  Inn,  London.  The  entire  staff  of  King"* 
Inns  have  testified  their  regard  for  him  by  pr«- 
aeutiug  him  wiih  an  Irish  blackthorn,  silver* 
mounted,  witii  the  motto  'Faugh  •  a  -  Balagh' 
engraved  thereon,  together  with  an  addresa.  — 
JrUh  Laic  Timts,  vol.  xxvii.  (1S93)  p.  97. 

B.   H0BNE&. 

Dublin. 

"Barrar"  (lO""  S.  i.  349).-Thi8,  in  all 
probability,  refers  to  a  part  of  the  under- 
clothing of  a  young  infant,  commonly  known 
as  a  *'  barrow  -  coat,"  or  more  briefly  a 
"barrow."  There  are  two  forms  of  this 
garment.  One  is  called  the  "  long  barrow," 
worn  when  a  child  is  in  long  clothes.  This  is 
a  long  petticoat  all  made  of  flannel,  opening 
down  the  front  from  top  to  bottom.  The 
bodice  part  wraps  well  over  in  front,  with 
tapes  for  tying,  one  of  which  passes  through 
a  longitudinal  slit  made  on  one  side,  to  allow 
of  both  strings  being  drawn  tigiit  and  tied 
in  front;  tliere  are  usually  shouUier  strans. 
For  day  use  the  bodice  part  is  cut  separately, 
and  the  skirt  part  pleated  on  to  it,  but  for 
night  use  the  garment  is  usually  cut  all  in 
one  piece. 

The  "  short  barrow,"  which  is  worn  for  a 
few  woek.s  after  children  are  "shortened," 
consists  of  a  short  petticoat  of  flannel,  open- 
ing in  front  like  tlio  "long  barrow."  but  with 
a  linen  bodice  or  top  part ;  this  wrap.s  well 
over,  and  is  now  usually  fastened  with  « 
couple  of  safety-pins,  though  it  is  frequently 
macle  with  strlogs. 


io«>s.  I.  Mat  28.11)04.]         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


435 


As  to  the  oriKin  of  the  name,  it  is  probably 
«o  called  from  a  coarse  liaon,  toriuerly 
imported  from  Holland,  which  was  known  as 

barras,"  but  the  origin  of  the  word  seems 
to  be  very  obscure.  I  am  not  certain  that  I 
have  got  the  correct  .spelling  of  this  well- 
knowQ  article  of  a  baby's  layette. 

Alf.  Oakdiner. 

Leeds. 

I  Imvo  an  impi*ession  that  a  long  flannel 
coat  worn  by  infants  is  sometimes  called  a 
*'  barrow"  by  old-fashioned  people.  Having 
•written  this  sentence,!  turned  to  the  'E.D.D.,' 
and  there  found  confirmation.  Barrow  is  (1) 
an  infant's  flannel  swathe  or  pilch  ;  (2)  an 
infant's  first  undordress  ;    a  child's  flannel 

•  oetticoat  or  nightilrcss,  besides  being  the 
nannel  in  which  a  newly  born  infant  is  re- 
ceived from  the  hands  of  the  accoucheur. 
No  doubt  'barrar"  is  a  phonetic  rendering 
of  "barrow."  St.  Swithix. 

Flannel  barrows  are  still  in  constant 
<lemand,    and     may    be     obtained    at   any 

I  draper's  shop  which  has  an  underclothing 
department.  E.  G.  B. 

Barusley. 
A  "  barrar,"  or  "  barra,"  is  the  lonp  flannel 
garmeut  put  on  infants  in  arms,  and  turned 
up  over  the  feet.  I  have  never  heard  the 
word  in  the  South  of  England,  but  it  is 
I  of  common  una  in  the  North  and  in  the 
Midlands.  BlancUB  HdltoN. 

Aalley  House,  Bolton. 

[  The  'English  Dialect  Dictionary'  gives 
^B  "  barrow  "  as  used  in  Ireland  and  six  English 
^■counti&s,  to  which  I  am  able  to  add  a.  seventh, 
^  namely,  Bucks.  Ricud.  Welfobd. 

[Oilier  repllea  acknowledged.] 

Deyden  Portraits  (10">  S.  i.  3G8).— Kneller 
I  painted  several  portraits  of  the  poet— the 
K  finest  of  which  is  at  Bayfordbury  Hall,  Herts. 
BThe  whereabouts  of  another,  given  by  Dryden 
'  ,  to  hia  cousin  John  Dridcn,  of  Chesterton, 
is  not  now  discoverable.  The  earliest 
Portrait  is  said  to  be  that  in  the  picture 
jallery  at  Oxford,  dated  on  the  bacK  1055, 
|*liich  is  piobably  an  error  for  1CG5.  The 
lliodlcian  also  possesses  a  copy  after  Kneller, 
)noo  thought  to  bo  an  original.  There  are 
two  portraits  of  Dryden  at  the  Xaiional 
Portrait  Gtillory  :  one  by  Kneller,  tho  other 
itlribuled  Ut  Jamus  Maubcrt.  ifalone 
ItiouH  another  Kneller  as  being  in  tl>c 
ssion  of  Mr.  Sneyd,  of  Kiel,  Stafford- 
ono  of  whoso  ancestors  mArrie<l  a 
Iter  of  Sir  John  Driden  in  ICUO, 
Eirraaa  painted   a  portrait  of  Uio  luyet 


the  possession  of  Sir  Henry  E.  L.  Dryden 
at  (Janons  Ashby.  Robert  Bell,  in  1854, 
describes  another  portrait  by  Kneller,  then 
in  the  possession  of  Charles  Bevillo  Dryden, 
at  his  residence  in  Cambridge  Terrace, 
Hyde  Park.  This  picture  was  a  half-length, 
ina  Court  costume  of  French  grey  silk,  with 
gold  ornamental  studs  in  the  place  of 
buttons,  laced  cravat,  plain  ruffles  at  the 
wrist,  wig  and  sword,  and  a  wreath  of  laurel 
in  tho  left  hand.  A.  R.  Baylby. 


I  saw  a  portrait  of 
Ashby  some  years  ago, 
latfl  Sir  Henry  Dryden. 

still. 


the  poet  at  Canons 
when    visiting    the 
No  doubt  it  is  there 
L.  L.  K 


The  Sun  and  its  Obbit  {W''  S.  i.  329).— 
Tho  theory  that  Alcyone,  the  leading  brilliant 
in  the  Pleiades,  is  a  central  sun  round  which 
our  solar  system  is  revolving  was  put  forward 
by  Wright  in  1750.  It  was  revive<i  by  Madler 
in  1S4G,  but  is  not  held  by  any  modern 
astronomer  with  whoso  worlcs  1  am  ac- 
quainted. Flammarion,  in  '  Les  Etoiles,' 
Paris,  1882,  writing  of  the  slow  movement  of 
the  stars  in  this  group,  adds  :— 

"  C'est  cetto  lenteurdans  leur  nionvomentpropre, 
c'eBt  ce  repf>«  lelatif  qui  avait  conduit  raatrononie 
allemand  Miidler  al'hypolhvio  que  cette  imporUnte 
&KRlom^ration  de  soleila  nourrail  bleu  i-trelo  centre, 
le  foyer  sidfiral,  autour  dinjiiel  noire  uoled  gravito. 
Mais  il  n'y  a  lii  qaunc  hyiJolht-Be,  astvt  peu  pro- 
bable m^me,  car  les  Pleiades  ne  se  trouvcnt  pw 
juale  i,  angle  droit  avec  la  ligikc  que  noas  sui  vons  dans 
I'espace." 

The  great  conception  of  Sir  William  Her- 
schel  that  the  solar  system  is  bound  upon  a 
stupendous  voyage  tiirough  space  towards  a 
certain  point  in  the  constellation  Hercules 
still  holds  the  field.        Richard  Wblfobd. 

Football  on  Shbove  Tuesday  (lO'"  S.  i. 
127,  194,  230,  331).— At  Stonyhurat  College, 
Lanca-shire,  the  Shrovetide  "Grand  (Foot- 
ball) Matches"  were,  until  quite  recently,  ono 
of  the  red-letter  events  of  the  year.  These 
matches  were  played  on  the  Thursday  preced- 
ing Quinquagesima  Sunday,  and  on  tho  Mon 
day  and  'I^uesday  following.  Technically,  the 
game  was  known  as  "Stonyhurst  football," 
a  species  of  football  that  allowed  some  sixty 
or  seventy  to  play  in  one  match.  The 
opjiosing  sides  were  known  as  "KngUsh"and 
"Frencli";  during  the  match  groat  enthu- 
siasm always  prevailed  ;  flags  were  flying 
and  cannons  firing.  At  the  "Lemonade"  on 
Shrove  Monday  or  Tuesday,  extra  pancakes 
were  provided  for  such  of  the  players  as  iiad 
especially  distinguished  themselves.  "Stony- 
hurst  football"  is  now,  alaa !  being  super- 


ftboat  1090.    A  crayon  drawing  was  (18^4)  in   seded  by  tho  more  up-todato  '*  Afi«acv&.VAS]icw 


436 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        [io-''S.i.may«.i9w. 


rules."  and  tlio  "  Grand  Matches  "at  Stony- 
huret  are  a  thing  of  the  paat.  B.  W. 

Pkikting  in  the  Channel  Islantw  (10"' 
S.  i.  349).—"  1791.  Priutiiig  intrcwhiced  into 
the  island  of  Guernsey."  See  Timperley's 
'  Dictionary  of  Printers  and  Printing,  p.  773. 

W.  H.  Peet. 

In  F.  F.  Daily's  'Guide  to  the  Channel 
Islands'  (Stanford,  1860)  we  are  told  that 
"just  before  the  cotnmencoment  of  the  present 
century  there  waa  neither  a  newspaper  nor 
a  printing-press  in  the  island  of  Guernsey. 
There  are  now  [1860]  four  :  three  in  English, 
and  one  in  French  ;  the  latter  was  established 
in  1789."  Falle'a  first  'Account  of  Jersey,' 
1694,  and  his  expanded  '  History  of  Jersey,' 
1734,  were  presumably  printed  in  London. 

J.   HOLDEN   MacMiCHAEL. 

At  the  time  when  I  asked  the  above 
question  I  was  unable  to  fix  the  date  of 
an  edition  of  '  La  Mort  d'Abel,'  printed  in 
Jersey  in  1786.  If  I  am  not  luistaKen,  thei-e 
are  some  brochures  in  the  Public  Library  at 
St.  Heliers  shown  as  still  earlier  productions 
of  the  Jersey  press.  At  any  rate,  the  printing 
of  Gessner's  famous  book  took  place  in 
Jersey  twelve  years  before  1798,  the  date 
indicated  in  the  Editor's  comment. 

E.  S.    DODGSOS. 

"Tuos,"  Wykehamical  Notion  (lo^""  S.  i. 
269,  353).— This  notion  is  recognized  in  R.  B. 
Mansfield's  'School  Life  at  Winchester 
College,'  first  published  in  1863.  This  writer 
also  has  the  word  "  Tug,"  which  he  interprets 
as  *'  old,"  "  stale."  This  was  not  the  use  of  the 
adjective  in  my  day.  when  it  meant  "  common 
or  ordinary,"  and  there  was  a  corresponding 
adverb  "tugly."  The  exclamation  "tugs 
did,  however,  mean  "stale  news."  NeitTier 
Mr.  Wrench  ('Winchester  Word-Book'),  nor 
"Three  Beetleites "  ('Winchester  College 
Notions  '),  nor  Mr.  Mansfield  offer  any  deriva- 
tion, n.  C.  Adams  ('\V\'kehamica,'  1878) 
derives  "tugs"  from  "Teach  your  grand- 
mother to  suck  eggs,"  a  derivation  which, 
m  my  opinion,  carries  its  condemnation  on  its 
face.  Having  the  fear  of  Pbof.  Skeat  before 
my  eyes,  I  shall  not  attempt  one  myself  ! 
John  B.  Wainewbioht. 

'The  Cree-s^y  Papers'  (10**>  S.  i.  286,  3r)5). 
— SiE  Herbert  Maxwell's  reply  to  rav  note 
makes  to  me  confusion  worse  confounded.  T 
had  hoped  for  some  other  explanation  ;  but 
Srn  H.  Maxwell's  statement's  (1)  that 
Currie's  biographer  and  'D.N.B.'  must  be 
wrong  m  assigning  the  date  of  Currie's 
death  to  1806,  and  (2)  that  bo  had  seen  letters 


from  Dr.  Currie  written  by  him  in  180G,  call 
for  further  inouiry. 

I  wish,   without  further  comment,  to  la; 
before  your  readers  certain   fact^  which 
have  now  collected  : — 

1.  The  biographer  of  Dr.  Curri©  was  his 
sou,  William  Wallace  Currie,  who  became 
the  first  Mayor  of  Liverpool  under  the  Re- 
formed Corporations  Act.  He  would  have 
the  first  information  at  his  disposal  as  to  tha 
date  of  his  father's  death. 

2.  Dr.  J.  Aikin,  dating  from  Stoke  Newinz- 
ton,  19  September,  1805,  has  in  the  Monthlt/ 
Magazine  for  October,  1805,  a  '  Memoir  of  the 
late  Jas.  Currie,  of  Liverpool,' 

3.  By  the  kindness  of  the  Rev.  H.  G.  J. 
Clements,  vicar  of  Sid  mouth,  I  have  a  copy 
of  the  entry  in  the  parish  register,  whim 
gives  the  date  of  the  burial  of  Dr.  Currie  a^ 
4  September,  1806.  _ 

I  am  aware  this  is  only  a  small  point,  bul 
I  consider  an  interesting  one,  in  literary  his- 
tory. J-  H.  K. 

TnE  SvER-CDinwo  Collection  (10""  S. 
409).— The  Syer-Curaing  collection  was  bor 
queathed  to  the  parish  of  Newingtou  (Soath< 
wark),  and  is  now  at  the  library  there.  A 
special  room  is  about  to  be  built  for  thi 
proper  exhibition  of  tlie  collectioHj  and 
a  full  catalogue  will  be  prepared.  Mr 
Cuming's  library  lias  been  added  to  ihit 
Reference  Department  of  the  Public  Library, 
and  the  books  are  available  for  public  use. 
Rich.  W.  Mould,  Librarian  and  Sec, 

Newington  Public  Libr&ry  and  Cuming  Moseuin. 

The  Armstrong  Gun  {IQ^  S.  i.  388),- 
The  gentleman  called  Drake  who  oloimei 
the  invention  of  the  Armstrong  gun  wi 
John  Pode  Drake.  The  inquirer  shoul 
consult  for  him  the'  Bibliotheca  Cornubien^ii! 
vol.  iii.  p.  1160.  His  son.  Dr.  Henry  Holma 
Drake,  is  still  alive.         W.  P.  CotruTNEr. 

"  The  run  of  nis  teeth  "  (10"'  S.  i.  388)i- 
I  tiiink  this  is  a  phrase  of  Canadian 
employed  in   reference    to   one'n    b 
boarding  expenses,  e.g.,  "  He  pays  so 
for  the  run  of  hia  teeth." 

J.  HOLDEN  MAcMicnACU 

The  Cope  (9"'  S.  x.  285,  374,  495 ;  xi. 
172,  335;  (10»J>  S.  i.  174,  27S).-LoRD  Ald: 
HAM    has  written,   I  think,    1845   for   1 
Remembering  that  I  saw  Hawkor's  cliosui 
when   first    prepared  at    a    roberaaker 
Oxford,   I   have  examined  ray  diary, 
while  an   undergraduate,  and   there, 
date  13  Jan.,  1846,  I  find  this  entry  :  "  Wi 
with  Knott  to  Parsons'  to  see  a  cV.. 
Hawker's  of  Morwenstow."    Mj  fn 


10' 


s.  I.  MAt  28, 1904.]         NOTpfeS  AND  queries; 


437 


Lnott  was  then  a  young  Fellow  of  Brasenoae, 
|U(i  afterwards  vicar  of  St.  Saviour's,  Leeds. 
W.  D.  Macray. 


I 

V  Battlefield  Sayings  (lO'"  S,  i.  268,  376).— 
^^*' Linesman"  (i.e.,  Capt.  M.  H.  Grant,  of  the 
Devonshire  Regiment),  in  his  deserverlly;  well- 
known  'Words  of  an  Eye-Witness'  (Black- 
yroty,\  <k  Sons,  tenth  impression,  1902,  p.  12), 
tells  us  that  during  the  advance  at  the  battle 
of  Colenso, 
^1  *'  when  we  had  entered  that  si>itting,  humming 
^■conc  of  ritle-fire,  the  like  of  which  uo  living  soldior 
^■liad  over  beforo  witoesued,  &  bullet  skimmed  alone 
^Bthe  top  of  a  Mian's  head,  ju6t  graziDK  the  skin,  una 
^Hflickitig  off  tiie  hair  in  its  course. .....'I've  ^uat  had 

^^  a  fiee  'air-cut,  matea  ! '  waa  the  only  observation 
heard  by  the  otBcer  who  witnessed  the  ghostly  jest." 

Again,  on  p.  104,  at  the  battle  of  Vaal 
Krantz,  an  ofticer  of  the  Uifle  Brigade, 

"bit  in  the  leg rolled  over,  and,  no  doubt,  aa 

wounded  men  will,  gave  vent  to  the  sort  of  senti- 
ments which  made  Kiidinij's  Highland  sergeant  so 
greatly  dread  a  battle,  'It  does  make  the  men  swecr 
*wfa'.     Whereupon  tho  oolour-sergeant  of  his  com- 
,  pany  ruihed    to  his    assistance,   and    commenced 
liteeling  for  tho  wound  in  the  neighbourhood  of  the 
■tomach.     On   heiag  somewhat  sharply  put  right 
aT>ont  this  by  the  sutferer,  the  non-commissioned 
LoUiccr  made  the  following  deathless*  reply :  '  Beg 
'|>arding_,  sir ;  from  yer  langwidge  1  concluded  you 
was  'it  in  the  babdomen  ! ' ' 

M.  J.  D.  Cockle. 

Bass  Rock  Music  (lO'''  S.  i.  308,  374).— 

[I  regret  that  at  the  second  reference  I  wrote 

^1681  instead  of  ItiSS.    It  was  in  1675  that  the 

I  colonel  of    the    Royal    Scots,   Lord   George 

Douglas,  was  created  Earl  of  Dumbarton. 

I   think  Ray  wrote  of  "Tantallon  Castle 

and   the   Ba.ss   Rock "    as    constituting    one 

naval  and  military  position,  and  that  he  had 

in   mind   the  tradition   that   the   old  ScotA 

tuarch  dates  from  the  attack  on  Tantallon 

by  James  V.,  which  took  place  in  October, 

U&28.    The  castle   and  the  rock  being  only 

&bout  a  couple  of  miles  apart,  ships  passing 

through  tho  channel  had  to  run  the  gauntlet 

of  artdlery  fire  from  both  sides.    Tantallon 

lis  describc<l  in  'Marmion.' 

The  old  saying 

Ding  doun  Tantallon— 
Big  a  brig  to  the  Baia, 

proverbial  impossibilities. 

tnt«resting  notes  about  the  taking 

[of  Taulallon  by  the  Cromwellite.s  in  1631  are 

]to  be   found   in    'Cromwell's  Scotch   Caiu- 

(patgns,'    by   W.    S.   Douglas,    1899    edition, 

>p.  230-4.     Rawson  Gardiner,  in  his  'Com- 

•  Anthor'i  not* :  "  1  tuy  deathless,  partly  because, 

>roongit  a  tnyri '  '  '    "'    rgoo<l  things  of  ibe  war, 

this  story  hu  ui  ured  iu  the  page«  of  tliut 

organ  the  \  '  ■mti." 


monwealth  and  Protectorate,"  vol.  ii.  p.  70, 
when  referring  to  1652,  does  not  mention 
Tantallon  by  name  :  — 

"  Every  other  fortress  in  Scotland  holding  out  for 
the  King  had  fallen  ;  but  after  the  castles  of  Dum- 
barton, Brodick,  and  tho  Bass  had  fallen  into  the 
hands  of  the  invaders,  Duuottar  continued  to  resist 
their  efTurts." 

The  old  Scots  march  is  thus  mentioned  by 
Monro,  in  his  '  Expedition,'  1637  :— 

'*  We  were  as  in  a  dark  cloud,  not  seeing  half  our 
actions,  much  less  discerning  either  the  way  of  our 
enemies  or  tho  rest  of  our  brigades ;  whereupon, 
having  a  drummer  by  me,  I  caused  him  beat  the 
Scola  March  till  it  cleared  up,  whiuh  roooUected 
our  friends  unto  us." 

W.  S. 

Latin  Quotations  (lO*""  S.  i.  188,  297).— 

6.  "  Oves  et  boves  et  cetera  pecora  campi." 
—See  the  Vulgate  of  Psalm  viii.  7  (8),  "Ovea 
et  boves  universas,  insuper  et  pecora  campi.'' 

7.  "  Contra  negantein  principia  non  est  dis- 
putaudum."  —  In  the  1621  edition  of  tho 
'  Florilegium  Magnum  sea  Polyanthea,'  «fec., 
I  find,  col.  876,  under  *  Disputatio,'  "Dispu- 
tanduui  non  est  contra  negantes  priucipitt, 
noc  contra  eos,  qui  absurda  et  dissentanea 
dicunt.  uec  contra  paralogismos  sophisticos," 
quoted  from  'Simp,  in  pr.  Phys.,  c.  15.  I 
have  no  text  of  Simplicius's  commentary  ott 
Aristotle's  'Physics'  at  hand  to  verify  tlie 
reference. 

37.  "  l^nam  semper  amo,  cujus  non  solver 
ab  hamo."— Binder  ('Nov.  Thes.  Adag.  Lat) 
quotes  this  from  Eiselein's  'DieSprichworter 
und  Sinnreden  dea  deutschen  Vollces  in  alter 
und  neuer  Zeit^'  1838.  Does  Eiselein  give  the 
source  ? 

43.  "Scripsit  Aristoteles  Alexandre  de 
Physicorum  libro  editum  esse  quasi  non 
editura."  See  Aristotolia  Epist.  vi.  (p.  174 
in  Hereher's  * Epistolographi  Gneci,'  Paris, 
1873).  Edward  Benslv. 

The  University,  Adelaide,  South  Australia. 

The  Last  of  the  War  Bow  (lO^""  S.  i.  225, 
278).  —  A  later  instance  of  this  occurs  in 
Forbes  -  Mitchell's  '  Reminiscences  of  the 
Mutiny '  p.  76.  In  the  siege  of  Lucknow, 
the  autnor  says, 

"there  was  a  large  boiy  of  archerj  ou  the  walla, 
armed  with  bows  and  arrows,  which  they  dis- 
charged with  great  force  and  precision,  and  on 
White  raiaiuK  his  head  above  the  wall  an  arrow 
wn3  shot  right  into  his  feather  bonnet.  Inside  of 
the  wire  cage  of  his  bonnet,  however,  he  had  placed 
litH  lortige  cap,  folded  up,  aud,  instead  of  passioe 
riuht  through,  the  arrow  stuck  in  the  folds  of  the 
forage  cap,  and  '  Dan,'  as  he  was  called,  coolly 
iiulted    out  the  arrow,   paraphrasing  a  quotation 

(nun   Sir   Waller  Scott 'My    conscience,"   said 

WInte,  'l«)wa  and  arrows!  Have  we  got  Robin 
Hood  and  Little  John  back  again  ?    The  sight  hai 


m 


1 


438 


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not   been   soen   in    civilked    war   for  nearly   Iwo 

hundred  jrears Ah !  that  Daniel  White  should 

be  able  to  tcU  in  the  t^Aut  Market  of  Glaagow  that 
he  had  acen  men  6ght  with  bows  and  arrows  in  the 

days  of  Eiitield  rifles ! ' Just  then  one  poor  fellow 

of  the  Ninety  third,  named  Penny,  raising  his  head 
for  an  instant  above  the  wall,  got  an  arrow  right 
through  his  brain,  the  shaft  projecting  more  than  a 

foot  out  at  the  buck  of  his  head One  unfortunate 

man  of  this  rtginient  named  Montgomery  cxp>osed 

himself and    before    ho    cguld    get    down    into 

shelter  again  an  arrow  was  sent  right  through  hiu 
heart,  i)assing  clean  through  his  body,  and  falling 
on  the  groand  a  few  yards  behind  him." 

Heginald  HArxBs. 
Uppingham. 


NOTBS  ON  BOOKS,  4a 


I  of  the  Engltsh  Nation.  Ey  Kicharci 
Is.   V.   and  VL      (Glasgow,   Mac- 


Tht  Principal   Navigalionn, 
and  Diseoitrie!*  "^    "^  -' 
Haklqyt.      Vol 
Lehose  &  Sons. ) 
Six  Dionttis  only  have  elaj>8cd  since  we  congratulated 
readers  in  ^onoral  and  scholars  in  particular  upon 
the  appearance  of  the  first  two  volumes  of  a  hand' 
some  and  in  all  resMcts  adequate  and  satisfactory 
edition  of  Hakluyt  a  preat  work  (y"*  S.   xji.  418). 
With  a  rapidity  for  which  we  arc  profoundly  thank- 
ful—the  more  so  since  we  dared  not  hope  for  it — 
instalments  have  succeeded  each  other  until  half  the 
completed  imblication  is  in  the  hands  of  the  reader. 
At  the  present  rate  of  progress  tiie  whole  may  be 
anticipated  during  the  present  year.  A  boon  greater 
than  this  will  constitute  is  not  easily  conceived. 
The   book    remains,    moreover,    a   bibliographical 
treasure  and  an  ornament  to  all  shelves.    It  need 
not  be  said  that  no  diminution  of  interest  attends 
each  successive  volume,  which  still  presents  records 
of  English  enterprise  in  the  most  heroic  portion  of 
our  maritime  annals.    First  amon^  the  contents  of 
vol.  V.  cumea  a  relation  of  the  siege  and  taking 
of  the  city  of  Rhodes  by  Sultan  bolinian,    "the 
great  Turke,"  of  whom  a  portrait  is  given  from  a 
8ui)erbOrieutalMS.  in  theBritisiiMuseura  supplying 
personal  descriptions  of  the  Oi-manli  sultan.     This 
'  briefe  relation  "  was  translated  out  of  French  info 
English  in  1524  at  the  instance  of  the  Reverend 
Lord  Thomas  Dockwray,  Great  Prior  of  the  Order 
of  Jerusalem  in  England.     Other  illustrotiona  to 
the    volume    include    a    portrait    of    Sir    Edward 
Osborne,  Lord  Mayor  in  1583,  knighted  1684,  and 
member  of  Parliament  for  the  City  of  London  in 
1586,    a    trader    to   the    Mediterranean,  and  first 
governor  of  the  Levant  Company,  from  the  original 
at  Hornby  Castle  ,•  and  one  of  Philip  de  Villiers  de 
I'lale   Adam,    who,    among   other   dignities,    was 
Grand  Ma.ster  of  Rhodes.     Plans  of  Alexandria 
and  Constantinople,  a  sailing  chart  of  the  Medi- 
terranean, and  views   of   Turkish   and  Venetian 
merchantmen  enhance  the  value  of  the  voluu-e,  one 
of  the   mo.st   interesting  features    in   which    is    a 
descrij.tion  of  the  yearly  pilgrimage  "of  the  Mahu- 
milons,  Turkes,  and  Aloores  nuto  Slecca  in  Arabia." 
Special  interest  attends  for  the  reader  of  today  (he 
account  by  M.  Willis  of  the  "Hand  Japan  [ntao 
called  Jajion  and  Giapan],  and  other  little  Iks  in  , 
the  East  Ocean."    This  land  is  described  as  '*  hillie  ' 


and  (lestered  with  snow,"    The  !■'■'■•■'■•  •■- 
be  "tractable,  civil!,   witlie,   i 
deceit,  in  virtue  and  honest  con\ 
all  other  nations  lately  discovered.       '■  X 
ashamed  there  of  his  povertie,  neither  1 
gentlemen  thereftire  less  honoured  of  '' 
people."     Very  interesting  and  sigj 
that  is  said.    Illustrations  to  the  voli 
portraits    of   Sir  Francis   Walsingham,    t 
British  Museum,  of   John  Eldred.   the    I 
Akbar,  fieorge  Fenner  ;  an  English  sailing 
lo92  :  plans  of  Orniuz,  Effypt,  Goa,  Coatit  of  ' 
and   chart  of   Cadiz  Haruour ;   together 
entire  dispatch  of   Drake,   dated  27  Apr 
giving  an  account  of  the  burning  of  I  he- 
ships  in  Cadiz  Harbour.  This,  of  courso  1 1 ' 
among  other  things,  '  The  Portugal  ^'^ 
buted    to    Col,  Antonie   Winkfield   o. 
Very  spirited  reading  do  moat,  of  th- 
constitute,  though  it  may  readily  l)e  ci  • 
our  oouutrymon  do  not  always  snow  tli.  i;    . 
the  most  favourable  light. 

Charlc*  11.     By  Osmund  Airy,  M.A.    (Lor 

Sl  Co.) 
Oehjinally  published  three  yenr 
the  illustrated    series    of   Stuai  \ 
Messrs.   Gouiiil,  Dr.  Airy'a  lift  < 
sipated    of    Eti^rliah    uionarchs    Itaa    l>*en   ju 
worthy  of  bciii;,'  eet  before  a  general  {iuhMr 
now  apjvears,  accordingly,  in  a  handson 
venieut   form,  with   an    excellent    pr. 
Samuel  Cooper's  miniature  of  the  kini; 
session  of  the  Duke  of  Richmond,  and  .. 
at  once  to  be  accorded  it,  in  every  histor 
Most  of  the  ground  covered  is  f"";''  —  ■  • 
student.     Much  of  the  infoii 
cially  that  concerning  the  j 
exile  or  during  his  visit  to  Scotlamj.u, ;. 
easily  ococRBible,  and  the  work  is  useful 
able  for  ]»crusal  and  referonceu     It  s]i,„,  . 
the  influences  which  formed  the  king's  pn 
and  despicable,   yet,  strange   to  say,   nut   \\\, 
unlovable  character.     An  acceptable  jniUtekt 
ofl'ered  for  his  treatment  of  tho  Scots,  an  aiii 
picture  of  the  life  in  Paris  is  affordfl   »•  ■'  ■  ^ 
of  confusion  and  disruption  wlii 
Restoration  is  depicted.    The  repi. 
respects  commendable.    We  wish  lu,  Any  wiid^ 
not  lend  his  sanction  to  a  heresy  such  as  "  byepatt 

Orcat  Maulers.    Part  XV.    (Heinemann.) 
Miss  Ramcs,  subsequently  wife  of  a  Frtni  li  ;im 
sador  to  England,  a  lady  mIio  lived  um  ; 
184S,  supplies  the  original  of  t  he)^>ortrait  l 
from  the  collection  of  tho  Hon.  W.  F 
which  stands  first  in  order  in  the  lift. 
"Simplex   munditiis"  would    be    an    i\[ 
motto  for  this  lovely  picture.    'Madonna  wiib  u 
Green    Cushion,'    by    Andrea    Solario,    frtini     tl 
Louvre,  is  the  most  admired  work  of  a 
remarkable    finish,    subject    to    many 
amidst   which  that  of  Leonardo  iii  pi 
most  assertive.    The  face  of  the  ii 
with  sweetness  and  aflection,  with 
])revision  of  the  Mater  Dolorosa.     ,,.     ,ntii 
decidedly  chubby.    From  the  Berlin  (.fillery 
a  Dutch  interior  by  Johannes  Vcrmr(>r  ..f 
With  a  single  painting  on  tlien),  '  ■     '  -i 

cold.     Some  of  the  furnitnre  is 


chiff  attraction  lies  io  the  warmly 


-l'«.'J    u^t 


728.  im.]        NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


niKn,  proltably  the  paioter  himself,  and  the 

]aD  holding  to  her  lips  an  emptied  glau.    Last 

Ernes  from   the  Rijksmuseuni,  ot  vhich  it  is  the 

iprenie  ornanient.  the  nii«iiaint:d  'Night  Watch ' 

_  t  Rembrandt  vnn  Khin,  "the  greatest  treasure  of 

the  Dutch  National  Collection  of  Pictures."    In 

II    the  reproduction  of  this  anitnutpd  picture  the  rich 

■■Siecta  of  colour  and  the  di  •  ■>.  which  pre- 

^^■niahl}' gained  it  its  name  n:  :  ly  i>re8ervcd. 

P^leedleea  to  say  that  each  of  i       ,    i       is  worthy  of 

a  frame.     It  i»,   however,  as  a  eullection   rei>re- 

aentative  of  wliat  is  best  in  early  art  that  the  cnief 

claim  and  delight  of  'Great  Maatera'will  always 

be  found. 

vlaiui'n  EHizahelh  :  heing  ihe  Mtniories  of  MtUlhtw 
iaii.    Uy  hi«  Honour  Judge  Parry.     (Smith  & 
Sldet.) 

the  form  of  the  recollections  of  one  Matthew 
_iale  Judge  Parry,  the  editor  of  Dorothy 
■ibonie,  supplies  a  veracious  account  of  the  life 
J  Queen  Elizabeth,  and  especially  uf  her  relations 
.Fith  Leicester,  in  whose  househola  the  narrator  or 
diarist  is  supposed  to  have  been.  The  whole  con- 
stitutes an  agreeable  romance  of  history,  and  has  a 
certain  measure  of  antiquarian  interest.  It  is 
scarcely  close  enouch  to  actual  record  to  justify  U3 
in  dealing  with  it  at  length,  but  may  be  commended 
to  those  who  seek  for  further  knowledge  of  aii 
animated  and  terrible  period,  with  which  our  old 
and  lamented  coniribntor  UERMENTncDE  used 
frequently  to  concern  herself. 

The  CaJlU-Baid  of  CucUngr.  [Tain  Bo  Cuailnge): 
an    Old     Irv>h     Prosn-Eptc.      Translated     by 
L.  Winifred  Faraday,  M.A.     (Nutt.) 
TuK  latest  contribution  to  the  "  Grimm  Library  "  of 
Mr.  Nutt  consists  of  a  translation  of  '  The  Cattle- 
Raid  of   Cualuge'   (pronounce   Cooloy),   which    is 
described  as  the  chief  story  iMslonging  to  the  heroic 
cycle  of  Ulster  dealing  with   the  brave  deeds  of 
Conchobar  MacXessa  and   his  ueiihew  Cuchnlainn 
^MacSualtaini.    ^students  of  the  'Cuchullin  Saga,'  a 
Hnjuislation  of  which    by    Miss    Uull  appears   in 
^B^VIII,  of  the  "(>rimm  Library,"  are  aware  how 
^ntportant  is  this  book,  which  has  undergone  no 
such  sophistication  as  has  attended   later  works, 
Buch,  for   instance,  as   'The    Tragical    Death   of 
Conachor,'   to    which    the   Christian    scribe   adds 
the  conjecture  that  the  king  received  before  his 
dsmise   news  of  the  death  of  Christ.     The  pre- 
liminary   iH>rtion    of    'The    Cattle-Raid'    (from 
LAabbar  na  h-Uidhri)  contains  the  account  of  the 
^ish    deeds    of    Cuchulaion    (as    the    name   is 
ill),  before  which  are  givea  the  remarkable  pre- 

tions  of  Fedelni,  the  prophetess  of  Coanaught. 

Oia  p.  35  begin  the  account  of  the  gtio,  or  tabooea, 
which  the  hero  lays  on  the  principal  warriors  of 
the  invading  host,  and  the  long  list  of  slaughter. 
After  these  things  comes  a  continuation  from  the 
•Yellow  Book  of  Lccan,'  the  whole  ending  with 
a  peace  which  endured  for  several  years,  during 
which  "thpre  was  no  wounding  of  men"  between 
two  o\\  '    -'S'      To    those    unfamiliar    with 

these  li  ■*  '*^  '*  impussiblo  to  convey  an 

idea  of  u.-.-  le  or  of  their  K.tvagery,     Nothing 

we  can  say  will  lead  to  their  i^rusal  others  than 
tboM  whom  the  mere  announcoment  of  their 
appearance  will  attract.  As  an  illustration  of  the 
gavagery  of  liic  wh'iU<  wc  may  aay  that  Cucbulainu, 
rousing  himself  ii]>on  hearing  three  momentous 
blows  strnck  by  Fergus,  "srooie  the  bead  of  each 


of  the  two  handmaidens  against  the  other,  so  that 
each  of  them  was  gor)'  from  the  brain  of  the  other." 

-.1  Rfoifi/er  of  Ihe  Members  of  St.  Mary  Mctffdafeu 
Coileye,  Oxforfl.  New  Series.— Vol.  IV..  1W8- 
1712.  By  William  Duun  Macray.  (Frowde.) 
Db.  Macray's  new  volume  i-i*  arranged  eoually  well 
with  its  predecessors  ;  it  includes  the  fellows  who 
were  intruded  into  the  college  by  the  Parlianiontary 
visitors  after  the  surrender  of  Oxford  and  thoso 
who  were  illegally  forced  upon  the  college  by 
James  II.  The  earlier  class,  though  their  succes- 
sion was  irregular,  were,  many  of  them,  men  of 
learning  and  high  character,  wlio  contrast  favouf- 
ably  with  most  of  James's  nominees,  many  of  whon> 
seem  to  have  been  chosen  almost  entirely  ou  account 
of  their  religion  being  tho  same  as  that  of  the  king, 
their  agreement  with  him  being,  as  Dr.  Macmy 
suggests,  in  some  cases  caused  by  motives  of  worldly 
interest. 

Tiie  biographies  are  executed  with  care,  contain- 
ing a  great  number  of  minute  facts  which  we  are 
very  glad  to  have  in  our  possession.  Many  correc- 
tions are  made  of  tho  slips  of  former  biographers- 
Though  the  life  of  every  one  of  the  fellows  has 
been  well  worthy  of  investigation,  yet  we  are  sure 
Dr.  ilacray  would  a<imit  that  very  few  of  them 
were  persona  of  any  great  eminence.  There  is  one 
noteworthy  exoejition.  Christian  Ravis,  the  great 
German  Oiientalist,  was  made  a  fellow  ot  tho 
college  in  March,  1&19,  by  the  Parliamentarian 
visitors  ;  as  well  as  being  fellow  he  was  appointed 
librarian  and  Uebrow  lecturer,  but  he  .soon  vacated 
all  his  appointments,  because  he  found  so  few 
persons  in  Oxford  who  cared  for  Eastern  learning. 

The  author  iiuasesaesasenseof  the  humorous  and 
the  grotesriue,  which  isnotby  any  means  voucbsaft>ti 
to  all  those  who  tread  the  bypaths  of  historv.  He 
tells  a  story  of  how  the  President  and  Fellows 
intruded  by  the  Long  Parliament,  when  they  canie- 
into  Tc?\  '--  -  moved  tho  iiguro  of  our  Saviour 
fronitl-  ■  windowof  the  chai>el,  but  left  re- 

maining: "  l^vil.  Thesceno  represented  waa 

probably  tiiiii  ot  the  temptation  in  the  wilderness. 
"The  peril  of  idolatry,'  as  the  book  of  homilies 
calls  it,  haunted  in  those  days  the  minds  of  even 
good  and  wise  men  in  a  manner  it  is  hard  for  us  to 
realize,  but  to  which  nearly  every  old  church  in  the 
land  biears  testimony ;  but,  after  all,  we  English 
were  not  quite  so  wild  in  our  de«tructivenes8  as 
our  Scottish  neighbours.  VVe  are  told  by  a  high 
authority  that  at  the  beginning  of  the  Wars  of  the 
Covenant,  Jameson's  iRirtrait  of  the  provost  of 
Aberdeen  was  removed  from  the'  Sessions-house 
there  as  savouring  of  Popery.  In  1662  we  find  a 
certain  Dr.  Yerbury  discommoned  for  a  fortnight, 
"  propter  verba  tttdiosa."  We  cannot  but  feel  that 
this  wholesome  discipline  might  be  revived  in  some 
of  our  colleges  at  the  present  time  with  good  eSeet. 

The  lidiquary  anil  IlluMmffd  ArchtologiH.  Editeil 
by  J.  Romilly  Allen.  April.  (Bern rose  &  Sons  ) 
The  contents  of  this  number  are  varied  and  in- 
teresting. The  first  article,  by  Henry  Philibt-rl 
Feascy,  treats  on  'The  Evolution  of  tho  Mitre,' 
L'ntil  the  sixth  century  it  was  (juite  plain,  when 
"John  of  Cappadocia  adorned  it  with  ornamental 
embroidery  and  with  images  of  saints  needle- 
TKiintcd.  Formerly  its  colour  wea  alwny.i  white" 
Prcviou*  to  the  tenth  century  its  shape  was  that 
of  a  homed  or  pointed  cap,  reduced  by  the  twelfth 
century  to  a  mere  crown.    The  ByniDoliam  of  tho 


^«. 


440 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        (lo^  s.  i. 


mitre  i"  variously  staled,  and  Mr.  Foaaey  refers  to  are,  moreover,  two  nondescript  animal  form*    oni 
the  folJowiuK    as   some  of   the   8UgKe«tion«  made:  on  each  aide,  in  the  attitude  and   |>o«itton  of  tJw 
"the  cloven  tongues  of  Pentecost,  the  two  Teata-  heraldic  supporter*  of  more  recent  days.     Thoturl 
»noal«,  diverBe  m  rite»   and   ceremonies,    or   the  bat  a  small  place,  Egleton  had  its  guild,  which  bo' 
hypostatical  union  of  Christ ;  the  rilUe,  the  literal  ^  the  name  of  the  Holy  Trinity.     It  was  secula 
and  Buiritual  souae  of  Scripture  ;  and  the  ouen  top  in  15*9,  and  ite  property  granted  to  Edward  Wi 
and    lewellery   emblematical  of    'the  intellectual  and  John  Gosnolde,  of  Eye,  in  isuflolk 
.>>.->..■.  ^jj^  .  Plough-lioys'  Play  '  is,  we  are 


decoration  of  the  prelate's  head,'  and  the  richness 
of  the  knowledue  of  Scripture,  in  which  precious 
examples  of  varied  virtue  lend  their  lustre  with  the 
tis^^ue  of  the  sacred  history."  Mr.  Alex.  Gordon 
writes  on  '  Somerset  Bench-ends."  There  are  over  a 
thousand  of  them,  many  beioR  in  aa  fine  preserva- 
tion as  when  first  carved.  The  article  gives  the 
history  of  the  introduction  of  paws ;  this  was  a  very 
gradual  afiiiir,  "  Portable  seats  or  stools  were  early 
in  use,  but  even  before  these  there  was  a  stone 
bench  running  round  the  whole  of  the  interior, 
except  the  east  end  "  "  Large  movable  eeat«  irot  the 
name  of  pues,  and  in  some  parts  of  England  to  this 
day  movable  seats  or  ale  benches  in  public-houses 
arc  80  called.  The  word  '  puefellow '  was  common 
in  relation  to  the  occupier  of  same  pne,  or  a  boon 
commtiion."  Mr.  Gordon  states  that  *'  the  earliest 
fixed  seats  in  Eugland  (late  thirteenth  or  early 
fourteenth  century)  are  at  Clapton,  North  Somer- 
ael."  High  or  family  rwws  were  introduced  at  the 
bcgiuning  of  the  seventeenth  century.  Some  of 
those  had  a  table  and  tireplace,  also  ourtains  and 
window  blinds,  so  as  to  secure  the  utmost  privacy. 
This  led  to  abuses,  and  Bishop  Corbet,  remonstrat- 
ing, said,  "There  wants  nothing  but  bods  to  hear 
tlie  word  of  God  on.  Wo  have  casements,  locks, 
keys,  and  cushions— I  had  almost  said  bolsters  and 

j)iilow8.    I  v?ill  not  guess  what  is  done  in  them 

tut  this  I  dare  say,  tliey  are  either  to  hide  disorder 
or  to  proclaim  pride."  In  some  of  the  closed  pews 
<:ftrd-playiug  was  not  uucouimon,  and  the  tedium 
of  a  long  service  was  sometimes  relieved  by  light 
refreshment.  "The  separation  of  the  sexes  was  coii- 
sidcrod  of  some  im]X)rtance,  and  in  162U,  atCripple- 

f;alo  VVltbin,  a  Mr.  Lovoday  was  brought  to  task 
or  sitting  in  the  same  pew  with  his  wife.  This 
conduct  was  "held  to  be  tiighly  indecent."  In  the 
sixteenth  and  seventeenth  centuries  the  young 
women  were  separated  from  the  matrons,  ana  Mr. 
■Gordon  states  that  "in  some  country  places  pews 
are  still  appropriated  to  unmarried  women."  'A 
Decorated  Me<ii!vval  Roll  of  Prayers'  is  the  subject 
of  an  article  byNV,  Heneoge  Legne,  and  Mr.  Richard 
Quick  writes  on  'Norwegian  Hand- Mangles,'  or 
"Fjaels"  as  they  are  locally  called.  Among  the 
notes  on  'Arch»ology'  is  one  on  the  Bacon  cup, 
aold  at  Christie's  on  the  4th  of  March  for  the  sum 
of  2.50W. 


still  flourishing  at  the  little  village  of  Cli 
near  the  Lincolnshire  border.  Miss  M^ry  G. 
has  preserved  a  copy,  She  tells  us  that  it  hki 
hitherto  been  committed  to  writing.  She 
"Parts  of  it  are  evidently  very  old;  he 
khure  one  finds  modern  innovations,  but  the  a 
plan  closely  resembles  the  ancient  mammars 
scattered  over  our  English  counties."  Many  o';  m- 
words  agree  with  what  may  be  found  elsewhere! 
and  much  of  the  feeling  is  ancient,  thuugh  i>art«  an 
strikingly  modern.  It  seems  to  have  undergone  iu 
wst  revision  somewhat  leas  than  sixty  years  a£o  for 
Free  Trade  is  mentioned,  and  there  is  a  ounous 
fling  at  "  Bob  Peel,"  whose  name,  we  may  be  sure 
sunds  in  the  place  of  some  unpopular  character  o/ 
eorlier  date. 

'  An  Unnoticed  Battle,'  by  Mr.  M.  Bun-nn.  is  an 
account  of  the  fight  at  Empingham.     >  ven 

of  the  battlefield.     Mr.  L.    C.    LoyJ  .g  , 

paper  on  the   family  of  Ferrers  arid  .^  •^.uMr•Jlion 
with  Oakham. 


The  Rutland  Magaunt  and  County  Historical 
mronl.  Edited  by  G.  Phillips.  No.  (i.  (Oakham, 
Matkin.) 
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present  issue  shows  conscientious  research  in  every 
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by  the  editor,  is  an  account  of  Kgleton.  It  is  a 
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acres.  The  church  is  a  curious  building,  but  only  a 
part  of  the  original  structure.  The  south  doorway, 
chancel  arch,  and  font  are  Norman.  The  doorway 
is  vcrv  interesting,  and  has.  so  far  as  we  can  make 
out,  been  but  little  mntilated.  The  tj'mparium 
bears  a  circular  ornament  which  may  be  intended 
iur  the  sun,  but  this  is  extremely  doubtful.      There 


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LUCCOMBE,  SELWORTHY,  STOKE  PERO,  PORLOCK,  CULBONE,  &  OARE. 

BY 

CHARLES  E.  H.  CHADWYCK  HEALEY,  K.C.  F.S.A. 


Tbe  gr««t«r  put  ol  thli  work  oooiliU  of  matter  wbtoh  bu  never  twiore  toen  puhllthed.  It  It  bOMd  tliitt  It  will  prove 
an  esbauitlve  blttory  of  tbat  portion  ol  Someriet  to  whlcb  It  la  dtv.rted;  but  Iwyoiul  lbf»  It  will  be  touo<»  to  oouUIn 
tnfonnaUon  at  to  othor  |i*rt«  of  lbs  MOM  oounty.  a»  well  ai  on  th«  to|H.iKraphy  and  family  bUtory  of  Cornwall  ani)  Devon. 
Ibe  M)ur«e*  of  lufnrmatioD  bave  been  alaoat  wbolly  tnanutcrliit  recfjnii  bslonglnu  to  the  SUte  and  prlvntr  ownen.  In  tb« 
Appendix  will  be  found  many  documenti  bitbertn  unpnlilUbed,  Including  a  lerlea  ol  lour  rolU  of  tbe  b«(IIR  of  the  Manor 
ol  Porlwk.  len\p.  Henry  V.  and  VI..  of  wven  mIU  of  tbe  Manor  of  Brenduo.  ttmp.  Hohry  VI. ;  the  Pnrliick  tmiUI  of  Cecily, 
Martjhlone**  i>f  Uornt  ;  tbe  foundation  deed  ol  the  HariD<jton  Chantry.  preicrlbinK  minutely  tbe  dullei  of  tbe  Cbnplalna 
and  Ibe  appointed  ritual ;  the  name*  of  all  parltblonen  tignlnK  the  Prutcttatlon  of  IfMl ;  and  tbe  la>t  Prrambulatloo  of  tba 
Foreit  of  Bamoor.    Tbe  lUt*  Ol  paiooblal  iooumbenU  will  be  found  to  be  more  complete  than  any  hitherto  publUbed. 

Much  attenUoo  baa  been  devoted  to  family  bUtory  and  heraldry,  and  there  1*  a  valuable  collpollon  of  pedlgrMt. 
There  li  a  very  full  Index. 

The  lllMtratlon*  are  all  original,  and  have  been  ipeclally  eseouted  under  the  Anlhor'i  tupervUlon. 

The  PortralU  arc  In  PhotogTa<fiir(>.  Th«t  of  France*.  Marchlone**  of  DorMt.  baa  been  engraved  by  th«  King'*  peT<- 
mlttun  from  the  Original  by  HoTl»ln  at  WIndwr.  That  of  Mr.  Secretary  Blathwayt  at«1bl.  Wife  are  from  Iha  OrlglnaU  by 
Kneller  at  UyTham  Park,  not  hitherto  rTproduo*d.  They  bave  been  engraved  for  tlil»  Work  by  permlnlon  of  the  Kev. 
W.  T.  Blatbwajt.  

The  Plan*  ol  CbnrohM,  of  Dovery  Court,  and  the  Hall  Window  of  tbe  latter  are  Jby  Mr.  ■dmuod  Bueklr,  DIooMMI 
Arohlteel  ol  Bath  md  WrII.,  mtrl  tin?  other  Bngravluga  are  from  Drawing*  by  Mr.  John  Orowlber. 

A*  tbe  Inter- '  ,, .gal*  In  an  equal  degree  to  the  Aroliil«t,  Antiquary.  Oenralpgt.t,  and  all  who  oare  foe 

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printed  than  will  I  ip. 

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kBd  I'lKlULllCAL  fKINriNO.-ll.  Brtkin't  muiaiBfk.  CbkaMrr 
LkM.HU 

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NI!!UEI>  SITri>0'UUOM  kB4  ON8  or  TWO  BBtlKUUKB. 
Qkikt  plekkkDt,  kB<l  eeBtrkl.  Tbrce  mlauCM'  Wklk  from  B.B  H  A  C. 
eiauo'n.  No  othar*  Mkak— K.  U.,  M,  Ornra  UUI  Bok4,  Tnabrliliia 
WaUa. 


WANTED.    NOTES  k    QUERIES    THIRD 
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CkBkoek, 

OWNERS  of  GV; '•!•'"";   SPECIMENS  of  OLD 
■NOUIH  Fl  UN  J-IOTDUB,  OIAt  CHINA,  OLD 

StLTlUt.  ««.,  who  d.  !^«  «(  MMM  rHiTATBLY  an 

tsrlMd  10  araBd  {«nlcusi,  i  i.N  *  ■0MB,  l^kU  Mali  iMt,  Kka 

kMAlWArarNpkred  Iodic  (uU  ik:ui  iarlBUr«aU*c  CKkmvUa. 

"  Bkkmlba  Oi^l  jronr  blood.    H« 

From  JohB  of  tiaaot  duib  brlDK  hit  patllgrea  "—SatmtmrxAMM- 

ANCKSTKY,  Kn^-Iijih.  Scotch,  IrUli,  and  Ameiiow, 
TIl&CKLXroiuttlAriiHKCOKl)''     >—.->-<>.     Waat  of  BHiMi 
and  Bmlicrkac  Fkmlila* -Mr.  UErMl  i  r   hattartCbmm, 

Eaeiur,  Bad  1.  Cpima  null  B«kd.Chli'<  W. 


MR.    L.    CULLETON.    92,    I'; 
IMaotborcl  KoKllvhaad  KorelKB  \nlU 
tklUM  tht  raralthlivc  of  Httrkna  from    i  >< 
AMttmeta  from  Wllb>,  CluunrT  Procri 
fer OanMlocleal  trldtact*  Ib  biclBBd  - 

AbbnTlAtM  LatlB  l>o<:ani*nu  Oople; 

ForvlfB  B«taarchM  oarrlcd  not      Ed,.  ..^.  ,»..lv 
PriTktc  CullaetlDB*  kra  worth  conaaltlnx  jor  CJiMk. 

AjBUqaanM  wil  ftcltBiiftc  Mkierikl  tetrsbad  (or  asd  CX>U*<iiilw 
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M.     iTht  LBADRMKALL  PUns.  LM  ,  PablitharBkBd  rrlBKn, 

SO,  Lckdaahkll  ,«creat.  Ixsadoa,  8.C  i 
CADUInt   hklrleM    paper    orcr  irhivh  tha    pea    tilpa  m\Vk  vrnttum 
frerdom     f4txp«BC«  »kcn.    6*  por  JoAen.  ruL«<i  «r  |iikik.     Nw  VovMI 
fttca.  3t.  p«r  doacD,  ruied  or  plain. 

Author!  •hould  aoM  thkt  Tha  Lcadtnbkll  rrax,  LM  .  niiatl  %a 
r«tp'>B<lblt  (or  the  loia  of  M88.  b;  lira  or  otherwtaa.  D«pUtAla ««Biia 
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CONTENTS. -No.  23. 

nOTBS  :-Tbo  Muon  An<l  tbe  Weatber,  441— Itucrlpllotis  at 
81U1U  Cruz,  T'-iicrifr'.  (U-Portusal^to :  Fun Utrnlilik,  14.1 
—Well-known  Kjillafih.  441-Ruiislan  Pri'dlotlon— Llhrary 
of  Mmlaiue  dr  P<inipnduur,  \\h  -WiUliim  III.  crowiift  In 
Ireland -Tbc  Loniinn  Season— Sir  H.  M.  Stanley's  Natio- 
nality—Napoleuii's  I'Lxrer  of  Awaking  —  Nalalese^  414 — 
Taaiihiug  Lowloa— Msyor'a  Sval  for  CuD&mialioa— Blrlh 
of  HurlpMea,  447. 

Qi;HKlB3:  —  Paete- "Purple  patch  "  — ArrlibUhop  Wil- 
liams, 417— Mnrv  Shake9p«re— Rev.  Dr.  D'Oyly— "The 
better  tbe  flay  the  butler  tlie  rlced  '"—Lines  attributed  to 
WonlBWorth— Storminjt  nl  Purt  Moro  —  Daniel  Arober — 
Inscriptlimi  nn  Public  OiiiMtngi—Ounoute'r— Latin  for 
"BopiD(l"a  Horse— Hnglisb  Channel— Hertford  Boroui(h 
Sc«l— Franco  and  Civilixation,  4(H  — Qaytis  Oyxon- Was 
Kean  a  Jew?— "Tyml>eTi  of  Brinlue  "--Tltulodoes— Slay 
Monument -"  Henbu»»*y"  :  *' Whlp-itl»<?h  "  :  "  Wowf- 
toter"- Anaobartli— Tynte  Dook-plale,  449. 

BBPLIB3  :- Martyrdom  of  St.  Thomas,  4S«)— Baater  Day  in 
1512.  452 -Birds'  Bggs- Prescript  Ions,  153— "  Soolc  Inn." 
Horfolk— Tbe  "Ship"  nt  Oreenwlob,  454  — InMirlptions  at 
OrotATa— Indian  Spnrt— Iberian  Inscriptions  In  Htliemla 
— Proverbs  in  the  Waverley  NuveU— Draien  Bijou,  456— 
"  Send  "  of  tbe  Se«-Sootcli  Wurds  and  Bnellsb  Cowinen- 
taton— Tea  as  a  Heal— "  Chop-dollar"-0[eatUng  Copper 
Coins  —  Bradley,  co.  SoalbanipUm.  456  — Topo|{rapby  of 
Anclerit  London- Yeoman  of  tbe  Crown — Port  Arthur- 
NuralH-r  Superstltliiii— "  Palnt«i1  and  popped  "-Thlevi-s" 
Slang:  "Joe  Qurr" — A  Sext;Ou's  Tomlwtone  —  Willlani 
Willie,  457-OoKas  de  Bspafia  -  '  The  Children  of  llio 
Chapel,'  458-Harepalh-llalclgbs  Head,  459. 

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Notioes  to  Correapondent«. 


iato  any  of  her  quarters  and  that  bo  near  the  truth 
as  to  bo  eeldom  or  never  found  lo  fail. 


Jtfooii. 


¥ 


THE  MOON  AND  THE  WEATHER. 
(SeeaH/e.  \\  347.) 

Yoint  courteoua  insertion  of  my  note  has 
called  my  attention  again  to  Dr.  Adam 
Clarke'M  table,  and  it  seems  to  me  it  ought 
to  be  made  easily  available  for  reference  by 
insertion  in  your  columns.  The  last  change 
of  the  moon  wsrS  on  7  May  at  11.50  noon,  and 
— a  coincidence — the  weather  up  to  10  May 
lias  been  at  least  "  unsettled." 

If  thin  table  be  really  based  on  correct 
observation,  it  should  be  preserved  as  valu- 
able in  itself ;  if  a  mere  fancy,  it  is  none  the 
lens  curious  and  worth  preservation.  I 
therefore  supply  a  copy,  and  of  the  quaint 
verses  appended. 

(>|19EEVATI01»S  OH  THE  WbATHEK 

(The  Tabula  Eudichemouica) 

or  tho 

fair  and  foul  Weather  Proenoatioator 

bcinfc  a  Table  for  fortellinK  the  Weather  through 

all  the  LunaiioiiB  of  ivach  year  for  ever. 

ThiK  table,  and  the  accotnpanyint;  renmrkB,  are 

the  roswU-  "f  inmiv  vf'ara  actual  observation;  the 

whole  li'  t  on  a  due  consideration  of 

the  atli  I  :i  and  Monn  in  their  several 

poiii'  "  ■ — '■     •■  '  "■  ■"  '  ■'    •'  "  '•-• 

\\\'  I 

will   I.:--      I  ■     ■    .     .  .    X:    \,:  ■  i-ii  :,;....-'         ■    ..       .w 


7tmccfcAiingf, 
Uulwocn  luid- 

iii($ht  mid  2 

ill  (be  luom- 

iiiK 

BotwoGii  1'  anil 

4  mom. 
Bctvieoii  i  and 

6  mum. 
Between  6  Hnd 

8  mom. 
Between  8  and 

10  mom.    ... 
Between       lU 

and  IS 
At    13  o'clock 

at    noun    to 

3  P.M. 
AfticrncH^n  Ik»- 

tween  3  and 

4       

Dot«nM>n  4  and 

0       

Between  6  and 
8       


Ill  iSMIH/Hcr. 


Fair 

Cold,  uilh  fre- 
quent showers 

Bain        

Wind  and  raia,., 

riiiiiigeable 
Fn>quont 

showers 

Very  winy 

ChanKoablo 

Fair         

Fair  if  wind 
N.W. :  Uainv 
l(  B.  or  S.W. .:. 


Between  S  and 

10     Ditto 

Between      10 : 

midut.      ...    Pair 


In  Winter. 

Hani  tnnt  unless 
the  wind  be  8. 
or  W. 


Uain. 

.Stnnur. 

Cold  rnlnUwInd 

W.  iSnowUE. 
Cold    anil    bigli 

wind. 


Snow  or  rain. 

Fair  ami  mild. 

Fair. 

Fair  and  frosty 
if  wind  N.  IT 
K.E. ;  Kain  or 
Suow  it  S.  or 
S.W. 

Ditto. 

Fair  and  IroMy. 


Observation.s. 

1.  The  nearer  the  time  of  the  moon's  chanire, 
tirst  quarter,  full,  and  last  quarter,  arc  to  midnight 
the  fuirer  wUl  the  weather  be  during  the  seven 
days  following. 

"2.  The  sjiace  for  this  calculation  occrupiea  from 
ten  at  ninhl  till  two  next  niornioK. 

3.  The  nearer  to  mid-day  or  noon,  iheae  phoMa 
of  the  moon  happeu,  the  more  foul  or  wet,  the 
weather  may  be  expected  during  the  next  leven 
days. 

4.  The  space  for  this  calculation  occupiea  from 
ten  in  the  forenoon  to  two  in  the  afternoon.  These 
observations  refer  princiimlly  to  Sumnier,  tbongh 
they  afTeot  Spring  and  Autumn  nearly  in  the  same 
ratio. 

5.  The  Moon's  Change,  First  Quarter,  Full,  and 
Last  Quarter,  happening  during  six  of  the  after- 
noon hours,  i.e.  from  four  to  ten,  may  be  followed 
by  fair  weather:  but  this  is  mostly  aei)endeat  on 
the  wind,  as  it  is  noted  in  the  table. 

6.  Though  the  weather,  from  a  variety  of  irregular 
causes  is  more  uncertain  in  the  latter  part  of 
Autumn,  the  whole  of  Winter,  and  the  beginning 
of  Spring  ;  yet  in  the  main,  the  above  observations 
will  apply  to  those  periods  also, 

7.  lo  yirognosticate  correctly,  especially  in  those 
cases  where  the  wind  is  concerned,  the  observer 
should  be  within  sight  of  a  good  vane,  where  the 
four  cardinal  points  of  the  heavens  are  correctly 

C laced.    VVith  this  precaution  he  will  scarcely  ever 
e  deceived  in  depending  on  the  table. 

8.  It  need  scarcolv  be  added  that  to  know  the 
exact  time  of  the  Moon's  changes,  Quartera,  kc  a 

correct  almanack  auch  as  the  'Nautical' must 

be  iirocure<l. 

With  this  table  and  a  good  barometer,  to  what  a 
certainty  may  we  arrive  in  jirognoatications  con- 
cerning  the  weather !  By  these  the  jirudent  man. 
forseoing  the  evil,  will  hide  himself,  and  will  feel 
the  weight  of  the  proverb,  "Make  hay  while  lh« 


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aun  shinea."  By  not  paying  attention  to  the  signs 
and  the  eeoAuaB.  many  nave  BufTered,  and  charged 
God  fooli«hly.  because  h«  did  nut  change  the  laws 
of  nature  to  accornmodate  their  indolence  and 
caprice. 

It  is  said  that  the  late  Dr.  Darwin  having  made 
an  appointment  to  take  a  country  jaunt  with 
some  friends  on  the  ensuing  day,  but  perceiving 
that  the  weather  would  be  unfavorable,  sent,  aa 
an  excuse  for  not  keeping  liis  ];)roniise,  a  poetical 
ei>i6tle  containing  an  enumeration  of  moat  of  the 
signs  of  approacliing  ill -weather,  remodelling 
Dtners.  I  subjoin  it  aa  very  useful  and  a  thing 
easy  to  be  remembered. 

Signs  of  ArPROACHiNo  Fopl  Wxathrk. 
The  hollow  winds  begin  to  blow  : 
The  clouds  look  black,  the  gloss  is  low  ; 
The  soot  fallH  down,  the  stmniels  sleep  ; 
And  spiders  from  their  cobwebs  i)cop. 
Last  night  the  aun  went  pale  to  bed. 
The  Moon  in  halos  hid  her  head  : 
The  boding  shepherd  heaves  a  sigh, 
For  see  !  a  rainbow  spans  the  sky. 
The  walls  are  damp,  the  ditches  smell, 
Closed  is  the  pink-e^ed  pimpernel. 
Hark  t  how  the  chairs  and  tables  crack ; 
Old  Betty's  joints  are  on  the  rack, 
Her  corns  with  ahootinff  pains  torment  her, 
And  to  her  bed  untimely  sent  her. 
Loud  (]uack  the  ducks,  the  sea-fowl  cry ; 
The  distant  hills  are  looking  nigh  ; 
How  restless  are  the  snorting  swine  ! 
The  bu!«y  flies  disturb  the  kine. 
Low  o'er  the  grass  the  swallow  wings  ; 
The  cricket  too,  how  sharp  he  sings  ! 
PuM  on  the  hearth,  wjth  velvet  paws, 
Sits  wiping  o'er  her  whiskered  jaws. 
The  eniokc  from  chimneys  right  ascends. 
Then  spreading,  back  to  eartn  it  bends. 
The  wind  unsteady  veers  around, 
Or  settling  in  the  South  is  found. 
Throiifsh  the  clear  stream  the  fishes  rise. 
And  nirobly  catch  the  incautious  flies. 
The  ),'loww"orniB,  num'rous,  clear  and  bright, 
Illuni'd  the  dewy  hill  last  night. 
At  du.sk  the  sipmlid  toad  was  seen, 
Like  quadrujied,  stalk  o'er  the  greet). 
The  whirling  wind  the  dust  obeys, 
And  in  the  rapid  eddy  plays. 
The  frog  has  changed  his  yellow  vest, 
And  iu  a  russet  coat  is  drest. 
The  sky  is  green,  the  air  is  still. 
The  mellow  blackbird's  voice  is  shrill ; 
The  dog,  80  altered  is  his  taste, 
Quits  mutton  bones  on  grass  to  feaat. 
licholtl  the  rooks,  how  odd  their  flight, 
They  imitate  the  gliding  kite, 
Anti  seem  preciriitate  to  fall, 
As  if  they  telt  the  ]>iercing  ball. 
The  tender  colts  on  back  do  lie, 
Nor  heed  the'traveller  passing  by. 
In  flery  red  the  sun  doth  rise. 
Then  wades  through  clouds  to  mount  the  skies. 
'Twill  surely  rain,  we  see  t  with  sorrow 
No  working  in  the  fields  tomorrow. 

Lucis, 
[With  many  verbal  diflferences  these  lines  are 

fiven   in  'The  Naturalist's  Poetical  Companion' 
Leeds,  1833),  and  are  attributed  to  Dr.  Jenner.] 


INSCRIPTIONS  AT  SANTA  CRUZ, 
TENERIFE. 
I  SCPPLKMENT  ray  list  of  inscriptions 
Orotava  {ante,  p.  3G1)  by  a  coiupiote  list  , 
iDacnptioD^  on  tombs  of  persona  of  Englii 
and    American  nationality   in    the    EogliV 
cemetery  at  Santa  Cruz,  Tenerife,  taken  C- 
7  March.    There  are,  besides,  a   few   inter- 
ments of  other  nationalities. 

1.  Lieut.Col.  Archibald  Guthrie,  of  A3 
Scotland,  oi.  at  Geneto,   Lagana,  9  Ap.,  IJ 
a.  64. 

2.  Henry  Edward,  8.  of  George  Brown,  ( 
[Ne]w  Cross,  Kent.  06.  on  board  the  SJ 
Llan  Camei-on,  14  Dec.,  1895,  a.  45. — T 
atone  is  decaying. 

3.  William  J.   Mitchell,  o/a  29  Dec,  U 
a.  37. 

4.  Louise  Winifred,  w.  of  Alexr.  Hell 
Berens,  ob.  at  Laguna,  18  Oct.,  1896. 

5.  Alfred  Hartridge,  of  Guernsei',  b.  3 
1875,  ob.  at  Giiimar,  30  Sept.,  1901. 

6.  Fletcher  C.  Tonge,   ob.  24   Feb..  U 
a.  39. 

7.  Colonel  Joseph  C  Hart,  United  States 
Consul  at  the  Canary    Islands,   b.  in  Nei 
York,  25  Ap.,  1799,  o&.  24  July,  1855. 

8.  Williara  Douglas  Ferguson,  b.  2  Ml 
1872,  oh.  5  Mar.,  1897. 

9.  Catherine  Eleanor  Nugent,  ob,  15 
186[6?1  and  her  bro.  Wm.  Heniy  Nt 
ob.  at  Dieppe,  17  June,  186[5'?1. 

10.  Sarah  Ann  Davidson,  b.  13  Nor,  IJ 
ob.  16  Dec,  1851. 

Archibald  Thomas  Davidson,  b.  16  0< 
1840,  ob.  1  Aug.,  1866. 

11.  Lewis  Gellio  Hamilton,  b.  at  Gre©oo« 
Scotland,  16  July,  1798,  ob.  30  Auk  .  isi 
a.  74. 

Selina,  w.  of  the  above,  b.  at  FunchaL 
18  Feb.,  1812,  ob.  at  Santa  Cruz,   28  Dt 

1877,  a.  66. 

12.  Harold  Lambert  Davidson,  ob.  19  Ifa 

1878,  a.  18  months. 

13.  Lucy,  w.  of  H.  C.  Grattan,  Esq.,  1874.- 
Erected  by  G.  L.  G.,  April,  1901. 

14.  Richard  Balk  will,  ob.  22  July,  IJ 
a.  88.— Erected  by  his  shipmates. 

16.  Harrison  B.  McKaye,  United  Stat^ 
Consul  for  the  Canary  Islands,  ob.  9  Ai 
1889,  a.  45.  /  -.  a    A| 

16.  Emma  Adele  Reina,  ob.  11  Feb,   18U 

17.  Walter  Percival  Acton  Ogle,  R.N  fA 
at  Laguna,  27  Julv,  1891,  a,  43. 

18.  Elizabeth  Ua.ry  Newbery,  of  Bigsw* 
House,    Gloucestershire,  b.  at    Ottery    i,. 
Mary,  ob.  at  Santa  Cruz.  12  Oct.,  1880,  a.  21 

19.  Bert  Fryer,  ob.  31  May.  1891,  a.  24       ' 

20.  Florence  Croft,  of  Exmouth,  3d  'd»n 
of  Alfred  Croft,  ob.  30  Nov.,  1891. 


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443 


21.  Henry  N.  Hatchell,  of  Timperley,  ob. 

19  Dec.,  1890,  a.  24. 

22.  Cornelius  Thompson,  shipowner  of 
Aberdeen  ami  London,  ob.  at  sea  18  Jan., 
1894.  a.  61. 

23.  Walter  Herbert,  2d  s.  of  B.  V.  and 
M.    J.    Dodds,   of   Bilbao,  ob.    at   Laguna, 

2  Aug.,  1890,  a.  29. 

24.  Joseph  Train  Gray,  M.A,,  of  Edin- 
borgh,  ob.  at  Santa  Cruz,  on  board  the 
SS.  Sud  America,  9  Ap. ,  1890,  a.  62. 

25.  Josephine  Antoinette  Graham,  w,  of 
'Nichold   Cambreleng,   b.   15  Aug.,   1869,   ob. 

3  Nov.,  1891. 

26.  John  Howard  Edwards,  ob.  18  Oct., 
1891. 

27.  Frances  Anne,  w.  of  the  late  George 
I  James  Davidson,  ob.  at  Santa  Cruz,  5  Jan., 
,1884,  a.  43,  and  O.J.  Davidson,  oA.  17  Dec, 
'  1883,  a.  45. 

28.  Mina,  w.  of  Robert  Godschall  Johnson, 
I  Esq.,  H.B.M,  Consul  for  the  Canary  Islands, 
^ob.    at  Laguna,    19  June,    1862,  a.    19  yrs. 

6  months. 

29.  Mary  Elizabeth  Johnson,  d.  of  the 
late  Godschall  Johnson,  Esq.,  formerly  H.M. 
Consul  at  Antwerp,  o/*.  at  Laguna,  11  Mar., 

1 1863,  a.  27  yrs.  11  months. 

30.  Joseph  Henry  Davidson,  ob.  19  Ap., 
1835,  a.  4 

Sarah  Ann  Davidson,  ob.  16  Dec,  1851, 
a.  9. 

31.  Emma  Sarah,  w.  of  Charles  T.Thompson, 
Esq.,  of  Berkshire,  ob.  2R  Feb.,  1840,  a.  20. 

Mary  Louisa,  2d  dau.  of  the  above,  ob. 
5  Feb.,  1840,  ft.  19  days. 

32.  Elias  Le  Brun,  E.sq.,of  .Tersey,  40  years 
resident  in  Santa  CJruz,  ob.  19  May,  1851, 
a.  f)9.  Also  Susan  Poignand,  his  w.,  ob. 
29  July,  1862,  a.  W. 

33.  Joseph  Baker,  Esq.,  of  London,  ofj. 
24  May,  1845,  a.  41. 

34.  Lewis  Cossart,  eldest  s.  of  Lewis  Gellie 
Hamilton  and  Selina  his  w.,  ob.  29  June, 
1858.  a.  15. 

35.  Mr.  Thomas    Clarke,   of   London,   for 

20  vears  attached  to  the  house  of  Joseph 
I  Bishop,    Esq.,    merchant    of    London,    ob. 

5  Mar,.  1838,  a.  63. 

36.  Cliarles   Le    Brun,    b.  at  Santa  Cruz, 

4  July,  1818,  ob.  8  Ap.,  1874,  and  his  3  sons— 
,£lias  Henry  James,  b.  29  Aug.,  1868,  ob. 
pi  Jan.,  1874  ;  Charles  George,  b.  14  Aug., 
^1869,  ob.   12  Jan.,   1870;  Charles  James,  b. 

Bl  June,  1873,  ob.  26  June,  1874. 

37.  George  Miller,  b.  in  London,  4  Oct., 
1868,  oh.  at  Giiimnr,  20  Feb.,  1900. 

38.  James  A.  Rullierford.— Nodateor  other 
inforra.ilion. 

39.  Beatrice  Mary  Starey,  ob.  9  July,  1863. 


40.  Richard  Bartlett,  Esq.,  H.B.M.  Consul 
for  the  Canary  Islands,  ob.  3  Aug.,  1849. 

41.  William  Dean  Wathen.  .3d  s.  of  the 
lato  Wm.  Dean  Wathen,  :M.R.C.S.,  of  Fish- 
guard,   Pembrokeshire,    ob.    13    Dec,    189L 

a.  36. 

42.  Benjamin  Tall,  of  the  Patent  Office, 
Board  of  Trade,  London,  youngest  s.  of  the 
late  John  Tall,  of  Hull,  ob.  31  Jan.,  1896. 

43.  Alfred  Edward  Allen,  of  Enfield, 
Midd.,  oA.  G  Ap.,  1902,  a.  48. 

44.  Henry  Alexr.  Hurst,  b.  at  Drumaness, 
CO.  Down,  Ireland,  30  Mar.,  1877,  ob.  at 
Giiimar,  13  Feb.,  1903. 

44A.  E.  T.  Johnson,  ob.  28  Mar.,  1896. 

45.  Hugh  Howard  Davidson,  ob.  22  Aug., 
1880,  a.  —  months. 

46.  Marianne,  w.  of  WUliam  Dabney, 
Consul  of  the  United  State«  for  the  Canary 
I.slands,  b.  in  Boston,  U.S.,  26  May,  1827,  ob. 
13  Jan.,  1879. 

47.  Matilda,  w.  of  C.  J.  Baker,  ob.  4  July, 
1876. 

48.  Robert  Welsh  Edward.s,  ob.  10  May, 
1875,  a.  43, 

49.  Claudiria  Ansell.— No  date. 

50.  James  Lebrun,  b.  at  Santa  Cruz, 
15  July,  1825,  ob.  at  Tacoronte,  25  Aug.,  1880. 

Louisa,  w.  of  the  above  James  Lebrun, 

b.  at  London,  S  Jan.,  1833,  ob.  at  Santa  Cruz, 
2  Ap.,  1888. 

51.  Arthur  Henry  Bechervaise,  Super- 
intendent of  the  Spanish  National  Telegraph 
Company,  ob.  12  Jan.,  1898,  a.  41. 

52.  Jane  Olive,  w,  of  W.  A.  F.  Davis,  ob^ 
5  May.  1898. 

53.  Frederic  William,  husband  of  Emma 
Maud  Mollet,  late  Chief  Engineer  of  the 
Union  Co.  SS.  Troian,  ob.  1898. 

54.  Victor  W.  Hobson,  of  Darlington,  b. 
20  May,  1866,  ob.  9  Jan.,  1889. 

65.  Peter,  4th  s.  of  Peter  McCallura,  of 
Campbelltowu,  Argyleshire,  formerly  of 
Buenos  Ayres,  ob.  at  Laguna,  25  May,  1888, 
a.  35.  G.  S.  Parry,  Lieut.  Col. 

PoETtroALETE :  FoNTAHRABivL— Portugalete 
is  familiar  to  thousands  of  British  skippers 
as  the  name  of  the  village  (now  a  town)  and 
harbour  forming  the  western  side  of  the 
mouth  of  the  nver  Nervion.  In  this  they 
cast  anchor  when  visiting  Bilbao,  which  owee- 
so  much  to  the  commerce  whicli  they  repre- 
sent, and  whence  they  will  shortly  be  able  to 
reach  Madrid  in  seven  hours  by  the  now 
direct  railway.  It  is  generally  believed  that 
this  name  is  in  some  way  connected  with 
Portiojal ;  but  the  real  etymology  seems  to 
be  that  which  D.  QuirinoPinedo,  who  has  a. 
villa  at  Algorta  (the  most  westerly  Baskish- 1 


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cpeaking  village  on  the  sea-coast  of  Bask- 
'  Jand),  on  tho  other  aide  of  the  ria  or  rivor- 
moutli,  proposed  to  rae  some  time  ago.  It  is, 
namely,  from  portu.  Latin  for  harbour  (puerlo 
iu  Castilian),  and  fialdi,  aide,  which  means 
^e  in  Baskish  or  Heuskara.  The  g  in  the 
name  is  a  phonetic  bufTer,  keeping  the  com- 
ponent elements  apart,  and  represents  the  h 
of  haldc,  corrupted  into  halete  tinder  Cas- 
tilian influence.  We  find  aide  meaning  tide 
in  the  Baskish  New  Testament  of  Lei9ar- 
raga,  e.g.,  John  xxi.  1,  itsat  ahiean  =  on  the 
l-eea-sido  ;  Mark  x.  1,  Jordanaren  ber»ealdeaz  = 
on  the  other  side  of  the  Jordan.  Names 
ending  in  aW*  are  common  in  Baskish,  e.q., 
Larralde  =  pasture-side  ;  Elizalde  =  church- 
l-eide.  So  Portugalcte  means  simply  Port- 
tide. 

Fontarrabia  is  well  known  to  all  readers  of 
the  (irst  book   of  Milton's  '  Paradise  Lost,' 
•1.   687  ;  and   many  people  who  have  visited 
that  village  at  the  mouth  of  the  Bidossoo, 
which  separates  French  and  Spanish  Bask 
lands  on  the  sea  side,  will  have  thought  that 
the  great  poet  misuses  "  By  "  before  it.    For 
it  is  not  very  near  the  scene  of  Koland'u 
]efeat.    It  is  commonly,  but  wronglv  sup- 
^posed  to  owe  its  name  to  the  Arabs  and  their 
fountains.     The  Heuakarian  form  of  it,  how. 
ever,  is  Ondarrabia.    This  must  have  been 
first    Fondarrabia    and    then    Hondarrabia. 
The  Castilian  Fueuterrabia  and   the  French 
,f  ontarabie  have  preserved  the  initial  F,  but 
Dem   to  have  been  formed  under  the  false 
impression  that  tho  first  element  in  the  name 
came  from  fonte.     Other  Baskish  words  may 
be  quoted  which,  once  beginning  in  fo,  took 
h  for  /,   and    then  lost    tho  a.ipirate.    The 
name,  then,   must  be  analyzed   thus:    Fon- 
d/irra  is  the  sediment,  tho  deposit  of  liquids, 
•  the  remains,  the  sandy  strand.     Under  the 
form  hondarra  or  ondarra  this  may  be  seen 
in   many  dictionaries,  e.g.,   the  '  Diccionario 
Manual  Busco-Ca-stellano  Arreglado  del  Dic- 
cionario   Ktimologico    de    D.    P.    Novia   do 
Salcedo'  (Tolosa,  1902),  where  it  is  defined 
(p.   242) :    "  Arena ;  arenal ;  desecho,  sobra, 
residuo ;    hondarros,   heces,    hondo,    residuo, 
sobra."     Fondairn   is    derived    from    Latin 
fund{o),   through   Castilian  /ow-iC'j)  =  bottom, 
and   to  the  same  source  is  the  postposition 
hondo,    ondo  =  behind,    after,    near,    to    be 
ascribed. 

The  termination  ar?'a  means  that  which 
belongs  to,  the  dweller  in,  the  frequenter 
of.  The  two  shoras  at  Fueuterrabia  remain 
as  the  ttdiment  of  the  sea  and  the  river.  And 
BA  evidence  of  the  evaporation  of  the  Baskish 
Wguage  there  is  tlio  shortening  of  the 
ime  of  this  particular  place.     In  2  Cor. 


xi.  25,  the  words  in  pro/undo  viarit  of  tbo 
Vulgate  Latin  became  m  hi  proAjncU  mer 

in  Calvin's  French,  and  if  a-  ' ''' -ti«  * 

the  depth  of  the  sea,  in  L(:< 

Here  we  see  the  w  of  fundi:,  .  

a  euphonic  (S  before  tlie  locative  ca.so  of  th 
definite  article  a  postpo-iitive.    In  Antx  \  'cvi'i,^ 
28  hundarrera  occurs  twice,  in   th 
rendering  fioXio-avm.    The  end  of  ! 
compound  is  l/ia=two,  a  popular  ahorUniinj 
of  biija.    The  latter  form  tliere<jf  is  commoi 
in  Lei9arraga's  N.T.  of  1571,  reprinted  witl 
almost  perfect   accuracy  at   Sirassburg    ii 
Elsass    m   1900,  and    with   amendments    at 
Oxford  in  1903,    Biga  is  commonly  shortene 
not   only    into   bi<i,    but    into    bi  also.      Ii 
St.   Mark  x.  8,   while    the   determinate   or 
articulate    form    of    bia,    i.e.,    biac,    repi 
senta  oi  Svo  at  tijo  beginning  of  tho  ver 
the   indefinite  5uo  at  the  end  is  render 
biga.      I    liave    heard    Basks    explain     thol 
name  as  meaning  "  the  nest  on  the  strand.**] 
as  if  the  second  part  came  from  abin,  which  j 
derivative  of  Latin  cavea  means  both  cace 
and   birdsnest  in   their  language.     But   thai 
most  characteristic  feature  of  the  place,  that 
which  must  have  struck  the  ancient  marioer. 
long  before  the  picturesque  high  street  aad| 
clmrch  arose,  is  that  which  gave  it  ita  aame, 
lh«  two  sandi/  straivda. 

Edward  S.  Dodosok. 

A  Well-known  Epitaph.  —  Under  tLw, 
above  heading  I  discussed  at  9»*»  S.  ii.  41  the  1 
Greek  epitaph 

'EAn-is  Koi  (TV  Tu^v,  /*«ya  \alfnrt.  rov  Xi/uv*] 
fvpov 
OvStv  ifiol  X  i>H**'t  iratYcre  toJ-s  /a<t*  i/ii^ 

and  gave  five  instances  of  Latin  versions  byi 
writers  of  the  days  of  the  revival  of  learuing] 
and  onwards,  very  similar  to  each  other,  bu( 
differing  in  particulars. 

With  reference  to  one  of  those  versions— 
that  marked  in  my  note  as  («)— a  correspond- 
ent   from     St.   Austins,    WarringUm  —  Mr. 
'  RoBEUT   PiEHPOiNT  —  was  good    euough    to 
point  out,  in  a  private  lett;er  to  rae   under 
date  30  March,  1901,  that  "  it  occurs  again 
on  p.  419"  of  Chytraeus'  work,  ed.  2  [s.l.  15991 
"and  that  on  p.  405  is  the  following  :— 
Inveni  portum,  dum  tu  jactaris  in  alto. 
Eveutu  ut  siniih  fac  tua  navia  eat." 
The  facts  are  so. 

The  corresponding  references  to  the  first 
edition  of  Chytrreus  (1594)  are  n-  ■      'i   ,  I y 

B.    5-12   (tIjo    headings    being    '1  1^ 

orussiae  *  and  '  Boru8.sica'  [sc.  Moi.i,,. 
with    the    subheading   'Quies')  and 


,  ,  ,       "S   HJuies)  and  p.  524 

(the  monument  being  one  raised  in  memory 


w^aiJivELigou         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


445^ 


"M.  Sainuelis  Calandri,"  who  died  in  1580, 
by  his  widow  and  children,  and  its  local 
position  being  given  as  'Stralsundii  iu 
Mariano '). 

My  main  object,  however,  now  is  to  call 
attention  to  a  far  earlier,  and  indeed  classical, 
version,  wliich  I  have  come  across  during  a 
recent  visit  to  Home.  It  forma  the  inscrip- 
tion on  a  sarcophagus  brought  from  Casal 
Rotondo,on  theAppian  Way,  and  now  placed 
in  the  Museo  Profano  of  the  Lateran, 
^Boom  XIV.,  No.  895.  The  inscription  itself, 
copied  exactly  as  it  stands,  runs  as  follows  : 

D  ^  M  '  S  '  L  '  A.VNIVS  '  OCTAVI  VS  '  VALEKI  ANA'S  ' 
EVASI  '  EFFV  (;i  ^  8PE8  '  ET  ^  POKTVNA  '  VALETE  ' 
ml'  Miur  VO  VISCVM  *  E8T'  LVDIWCATE  '  ALIOs' 

That  is  :— 

Dia   Mnnibua   aacrum.     Lucius  Atmiui   Octavius 

_  V'aleriaiius. 
Evasi  i  offuKi :  Spes  et  Fortuna  valete : 
Nil  iiiibi  vobiscnin  est.     Ludificate  alios. 

RlCHAaD  UOBTON  SMITH. 
AtheDfBuni  Club. 

A  Russian  Prediction.— Under  the  above 
heading  the  following  remarkable  statement 
appeared  in  Le  7'empg  of  18  May,  having 
been  sent  to  that  well-known  Paris  journal 
by  a  Russian  publicist  aa  a  curiosity  and  a 
svmptom  of  the  peculiar  atmosphere  in  which 
the  middle  classes  of  the  Ru-ssian  empire  live 
at  the  present  time  : — 

"  People  still  talk  ranch  about  the  departure  of 
the  F3tni>eror  for  the  Heat  of  war.  With  reference 
to  it  there  is  brought  forward  a  prediction  made  by 
St.  S^rafim,  of  iSarof,  whose  body  was  Bolemnly 
interred  last  year  in  a  church  specially  constriieted 
to  receive  it.^  This  personaKe,  who  had  lived  in 
(he  desert  of  Sarof,  and  waa  venerated  duriug  his 
lifetime  aa  a  prophet  and  a  worker  of  miracles, 
died  about  seventy  years  since.  After  his  death  it 
was  noticed  that  the  water  of  a  well  near  which  ho 
waa  accustomed  to  pray  cured  illnesses,  and  the 
place  became  a  resort  of  numerous  )>opalar  pil- 
griniagM.  Iu  thi.-i  way  Father  Sdrafim  acquired 
i<real  renown,  and  the  Church,  havinic  ascertained 
the  reality  of  the  miracles  which  had  been  wrought 
near  his  tomb,  canonized  him,  When  the  transla- 
tion of  hia  nshes  took  place  lost  year,  the  Emperor 
and  the  Imperial  family  were  present;  and  it  was 
the  Tsar  himself  and  throe  Grand  Dukes  who 
c-arried  the  precious  burden  to  the  church  destined 
to  receive  it.  The  Eiupreas  Alexandra  Feodornvna, 
who  hns  bfcomc  very  pious  for  a  long  time  past, 
''  inifd  the  i^tterns  for  the  curtains  and 

which  cover  Iho  place  where  the 
11 :  the  SJM"'  •■  -' 

"  Aniongat  tl.  „a  of  St.  Si-ralim   is  the 

following  :  Tho  5  -hall  follow  the  transla- 

tion of  my  Hubci  int.i  ,  terrible  war  will 

break  out  njjainxt  K  li  will  cause  much 

evil.  And  the  Tsar  u  ,..  ^  .  .  .  i.lie  war,  and  I  will 
go  witli  him.  and  we  will  tear  tho  Engliahwoman's 
apron  (A  tal'fknli  I'Anglam), 

"This  prediction  wm   told  me   Inat  July.    I 


remember  it,  and  the  Emperor  must  also  remember 
it,  and  that  will  compel  him  to  go  to  the  seat  of 
war.  I  have  alsn  heard  this  prediction  conimented 
upon  in  certain  Court  circles,  where  great  import- 
ance is  attached  to  the  promise  of  tho  saint  to 
accompany  the  Tsar  to  the  war.  As  for  the  apron 
of  the  Englishwoman  which  will  be  torn,  that  doea 
not  necessarily  imply  a  war  with  England.  The 
Enjjlishwonian's  apron  may  very  well  mean  Japan,. 
with  which  England  has  covered  herself  in  order 
to  make  M'ar  upon  Russia.  In  the  country,  even 
among  the  upper  classes,  it  is  asserted  that  Father 
St'ratim  was  no  other  than  the  Emficror  Alex- 
ander I.,  who,  to  exculiiate  himwelf  even  from  the 
involuntary  part  which  no  had  in  the  assassination  of 
his  father  the  Emperor  Paul  I.,  entered  a  religious 
order  and  passed  his  old  age  in  tho  desert  of  Sarof. 
"It  is  for  that  reason,  they  say,  that  the  Emperor 
and  the  Imncrial  family  took  part  in  the  translation- 
of  the  saiut  s  remains. 

In  this  connexion  attention  may  be  called' 
to  chap,  xxviii.  of  Oleig'a  *  Life  of  Arthur, 
Duke  of  Wellington,'  wherein  are  circumstan- 
tially  related  the  two  attempts  on  the  duke's 
life  while  he  commanded  the  allied  troops 
iu  France  after  the  Waterloo  campaign.  Tn& 
first  was  the  setting  on  fire  of  the  duke's 
hotel  iu  Paris  on  the  night  of  25  June,  1810  ; 
the  second  was  Uantillon's  ineffectual  pistol- 
shot  at  the  duke  as  he  was  leaving  Sir  Charles 
Stuart's  dinner,  11  February,  1H18. 

"Of  the  source  iu  which  this  second  attempt 
originated  [says  Mr.  Olcig]  there  could  be  uo  doubt. 
The  Uepiiblicans  or  IJonapartists  (for  they  were 
now  uniieil)  gradually  wrought  themselves  up  to  a 
state  of  rabid  excitement.  They  received  great 
enoouragement  from  the  Emjieror  Alexander  of 
Russia,  who,  raised  to  tho  throne  under  a)ipallii)|j; 
circumstances,  and  married  tu  an  amiable  princess, 
with  whose  tastes  his  own  eonid  never  agree,  fell, 
as  yearei  ^rew  upon  him,  into  a  morbid  state." 

The  murder  of  the  Emperor  Paul  will  be 
found  related  in  '  N.  Ji  Q/q^^  S.  v.  23. 

J.   LORAIVE  HeELIS, 
Penzance. 

The  Library  op  Madame  de  Pompadour. 
—The  PiMiihers'  Circular  of  the  28th  of 
May,  under  the  above  heading,  has  the 
following : — 

"There  was  found  the  other  day  in  Paris  under 
a  iie-M)  of  dust-covered  books  the  auction  catalogue 
of  Madame  do  Pompadour's  library.  The  mar- 
chioness died  at  Vcraailles  on  .April  4,  17(M,  and 
her  etTccts  were  dispersed  under  the  hammer  of  the 
roM iiiU»aiitpri6tur  the  following  year,  of  which 
the  oalAloguo  in  question  bears  the  date.  On  almost 
every  i)ago  are  marginal  notes  of  the  price*  I'aid 
for  the  various  books.  For  instance,  the  original 
edition  of  *  Le  Theatre  de  Molitire,"  which,  if  ofTcred 
for  sale  at  the  present  day,  would  l>o  worth 
lO.OOtifr.,  waa  sold  fnr  only  6  livres  10  Hols,  (ypiiva; 
lent  t"  litlk"  more  than  5  fr.  '  L'Eperon  do  l)im-ij)lo,' 
by  Du  Saix,  |iublishod  in  15.'f2.  the  binding  of  wnioh 
boro  the  arms  of  the  man.hioness,  wai  diniKJsed  of 
for  only  5  livres,  whereas  a  copy  of  the  same  book 
fetched  as  inuch  as  890  fr.  in  a  recent  auction  ai:> 


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[lO'O  S.  I.  June  4.  l&OL 


the  H<">  el  doa  Voolea.  The  library  comjirised  206 
theoluf^icivl.  7(i  juridical,  511  acieiitific  and  artistic 
books.  3,434  volumes  in  the  domaiu  of  polite  litera- 
ture, and  4,S92  historical  works." 

F  C.  J. 

WIUJA.M  III.  CROWNED  IN  IRELAND.— The 

*  M(^moire3  lu^dits  de  Damont  de  Botjtaauet, 
Oeuiilhoiame  Normand,'  edited  by  MM. 
CJharles  Read  and  F.  Waddingtou  (a  book 
jnaiitioued  in  9"'  S.  xi.  87).  conbains  in  the 
mtroductiou  (p.  xxxix)  tlie  following  re- 
mark s  : — 

"Revonons  maintenant  k  notro  auteur.  Nous 
ravens  laiaa^  au  moment  oil,  apr^s  la  victoire  de  la 
£oyue,  il  allait  ae  mettre  ea  marohe  du  ci'it^  de 
Drugheda,  i  la  pourauite  de  I'ennemi,  et  biont6t  da 
c6t6  de  Dublin.  II  y  arrive  et  asaiste,  le  dimaoche 
6  juillet,  au  service  divin  dans  la  cathMrale.  oil 
^tait  le  roi.  'auquel  on  mit,  dit-il,  la  couronne  d'lr- 
laude  Bur  la  tete  avec  lea  c^r^monies  accoutum^es.' 
Macaulay  reU've  cette  oircoaatance  et  dib  que: 
le    aeul    qui    faaae   mentiou    de    la 


*  Dumont   eat 
couronne.*** 

ChicaRO,  U.S. 


Eugene  F.  McPike. 


The  London  Season.— 

"  London  becomes  a  mere  blank  after  the  4th  of 
June.  Nobodv  remains  in  Town  ;  it  is  too  hot,  Loo 
auffocating !  KverybcMiy  therefore  retires  to  their 
seats,  if  they  have  them  :  and  the  rest  tly  to  Mar- 
gate, Rams^ate,  and  Brighton,  those  capacious 
receptacles.'  —  *  Anecdotes  of  the  Manuers  and 
Cuatoms  of  London   duriu^  the   Ei(;hteenlli  Con- 

tury, with  a  Review  of  the  State  of  8ociety  in 

1807,'  by  Jamea  Peller  Malcolm,  second  edition,  1810, 
vol.  ii.  p.  423. 

Possibly  tlio  fact  that  the  4th  of  June  was 
the  birthday  of  George  III.  had  something 
to  do  with  the  desertton  of  London  by  that 
date  in  the  early  part  of  the  nineteenth 
century.  Nowadays  the  London  season  is 
supposetl  to  end  some  seven  week.s  later. 

ROBEET   PlERPOINT. 

Sib  H.  M.  Stanlex's  Nationalitv.— The 
following  letters  from  the  Daily  News  seem 
worth  reprinting  in  the  pages  of  'N.  <Sc  Q.' 

^fo^  the  benefit  of  future  historians.  On 
13  May  this  communication  appeared  : — 
Thirty-two  years  ago  a  discussion  that  arose  as 
to  the  nationality  uf  the  then  Mr,  SUnley  was 
deemed  to  have  ohown  that  he  was  a  WoWnman. 
In  the  Dailij  Niw.-i  of  '27  August,  187'i,  however,  was 
babllahed  the  following  letter  to  myself,  in  which 
mi.  Stanley  made  quite  a  different  claim  :  — 
London,  August  22. 
My  Dear  Ollivant,— A  thousand  thanks  for  your 
letter  and  clippinRS.  If  I  were  to  answer  all  the 
letters  that  I  have  received  about  such  questions  as 
the  Rlujt  Joitmal  profwunds,  I  should  certainly  be 
called  an  idiot,  and  deservedly  so.  I  care  not  what 
anybody  writes  about  tuo,  nor  do  I  intend  to  notice 
them.  If  Enj}lJ8h  or  Welsh  folks  are  so  gullible  as 
to  behcvo  all  the  "rot"  they  read  about  me  I 
not  help  it— nor  have  I  a  desire  to  help  it  in 


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any  way.  But  for  you,  and  such  kind  friends,  I  My 
I  am  an  American,  and  can  prove  il  by  over  ten 
thousand  friends  in  the  United  States.  The  lett«r 
in  the  lihi/l  Journal  ia  all  bosh.  I  never  knew  a 
man  named  Kvans,  nor  have  I  ever  sung  a  WeUh 
■onK— not  knowing  anything  of  the  language.  My 
name  ia  neither  Tnomas,  Rowlands,  iSmith,  Jones, 
nor  tlobinson,  but  plain  Henry  M.  Stanley.  At 
sixteen  I  was  in  Missouri,  at  seventeen  in  Arkamus, 
at  eighteen  in  New  Urleaas,  at  nineteen  in  Europe 
travelling,  at  twenty  in  the  war,  and  so  on. 
Yours,  ka., 

(Signed)  Hknkv  M.  Stanley. 
Cuakuss  OliLitant. 
The  Ranche.  Bath,  II  May.  1901. 

Mr.  Ollivant'a  second  letter  was  printed  in 
the  Daili/  News  of  19  May  :— 

Referring  to  my  letter  in  your  journal  of  Friday 
last,  13th  inst.,  I  write  to  correct  au  erroueoiis  im- 
pression it  appears  to  have  made,  viz.,  that  in  my 
Selief  Sir  H.  M.  Stanley  was  au  American.  I  cer- 
tainly was  under  that  impression  when  I  first 
received  the  letter  from  the  then  "  plain  Henry  M. 
Stanley."  13ut  shortly  after  its  apnearance  in  the 
Daily  XtuH,  27  August,  187-.  Lora  Granville  had 
the  documents  placed  before  him  proving  Mr. 
Stanley  to  be  a  native  of  Wales.  I  sent  his  letter 
for  republication  in  yoiu*  jonrnal  simply  as  a  cariotu 
historical  document,  there  being  no  question  wliat- 
evor  as  to  his  being  a  Welshman- 

Charles  Ollivant, 

The  Ranche,  Bath,  17  May. 

Herbert  B.  Clayton. 
39,  Renfrew  Road,  Lower  Kenaiugton  Lane 

Napoleon's  Powkb  of  Awaking.— Amongst 
the  curiosities  in  the  pK>ssession  of  the  late 
Princess  Mathilde  was  an  excellent  alaram 
clock,  made  in  1810  by  the  famous  clockmaker 
Abraham  Brtiguet  for  the  Emperor  Naiwleon. 
It  is  a  perfect  piece  of  clockmakiug,  the  best 
alarum  ever  made  by  Breguet,  and  considered 
by  hira  to  be  his  masterpiece.  However,  the 
fact  of  its  existence  puts  an  end  to  tlie  long- 
existing  legend  that  the  Emperor  could  wake 
from  sleep  at  any  ^iveu  moment  he  willed. 

This  riveilU-jiuitin  is  simply  of  bronze,  gilt 
and  chased ;  but  it  has  no  fewer  than  eight 
dials :  these  indicate  the  real  time,  mean 
time,  phases  of  the  moon,  seconds,  days  of 
the  week  and  of  tho  month,  the  month  and 
the  year.  It  is  provided  with  a  small  metal 
thermometer,  and  strikes  tlie  liours  and 
quarters.  It  accompanied  the  Emperor  on 
his  campaigns  in  Russia  and  Franco. 

J.  LoRAiNK  Heelis. 

Penzance. 

[Mr.  H.  B.  Clavtos  ia  thanked  for  an  account  of 
this  clock  from  the  Daily  Chronicle  of  12  May,] 

Natalese.— The  Natal  Witness  of  IC  April 
speaks  of  Nataleso  as  a  synonym  for  the 
colouiai-born  English  and  Boers  m  Natal,  in 
place  of  the  more  u.sual  Natalians.  The 
former  word  seems  more  strictly  in  analogy 


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witli  the  usual  mcKJe  of  forraing  names  of 
peoples  than  the  latter,  and  is,  I  should 
imagine,  the  first  instance  of  .such  a  word 
having  been  formed  with  the  termination  -ese 
directly  in  English  itself.  Natal  was,  of 
course,  the  first  name  of  the  territory, 
Natalia  being  only  introduced  as  a  name  for 
the  republic  founded  by  the  Boer  Voor- 
trekkers  in  1838,  and  annexed  by  England  as 
"Port  Natal  and  district"  in  1842.  Has  the 
termination  ever  occurred  in  English  in 
connexion  with  the  name  of  any  Eurnpean 
people  save  the  Portuguese?  When  is  it  first 
found  as  a  plural  termination?  Milton  writes 
of  Chinesea.  I  imagine  that  *^  Natalese  "  ia  a 
coinage  of  the  writer  of  'Notes  about  Town ' 
in  the  Natal  Witnes$,  for  though  1  see  the 
paper  regularly,  I  never  saw  the  expression 
Leiore.     It  is,  therefore,  worth  recoraing. 

HTS. 

VAXisniNu  LoNiWN.— To  the  many  land- 
marks scheduled  for  disappearance  from  the 
fashionable  quarters  of  the  town  must  now  be 
added  select  and  old-established  "Thomas's 
Hotel,"  which  was  wont  to  nestle  cosily  in 
the  north-eastern  corner  of  Berkeley  Square. 
Upon  its  front  a  board  is  exhibited,  which 
bears  ominous  testimony  to  attentions  at  the 
hauds  of  sumo  "  demolishing  and  excavating 
contractor,"  who  would  seem  to  have  already 
operated  uuon  the  hotel's  interior.  This 
definition  for  the  prosaic  "house-breaker" 
certainly  strikes  one  as  novel— as  original, 
indeed,  at*  that  of  "road  scarifier"  to  indicate 
the  mender  of  our  streets.  Whether  a  new 
and  glorified  "Thomas's"  is  to  arise  upon  its 
former  site  I  know  not^  Or  are  we  to  have 
yet  another  block  of  palatial  dats,  after  the 
pattern  of  so  many  which  prevail  in  the 
uumediate  vicinity  ?  Cecil  Clabke. 

Junior  Athetiffiuiii  Cluh. 

Mayor's  Seal  foe  CoNFiaMATioK.  —  In 
1331  a  man  obtained  the  use  of  the  seal  of 
the  Mayor  of  Oxford,  because  his  own  seal 
was  "unknown  to  most"  (Boase,  'Register  of 
Exeter  College,'  O.H.S.,  p.  xviii).  I  have  seen 
a  deed,  datouin  June,  1775,  dealing  with  two 
tenements  in  the  parish  of  St.  Laurence, 
York,  to  which  the  seal  of  the  Lord  Mayor 
of  York  is  affixed,  and  an  explanation  is 
given  that> 

"  bocAUte  the  aeala  of  th«  [Rranton]  are  to  most 
rorioiia  unknown.  I,  John  Allanaon,  esq..  Lord 
Alayur  uf  Ihe  aaid  city,  at  their  special  instance  and 

re<iuest have canned  the  »eal  of  tho  oflioe  of 

ttttyoralty  of  the  said  city  to  be  hereunto  affixed." 

W.  C.  B. 

EuRiPiiiKs,  Date  op  his  Bi£th.— In  the 
vory  iQlereating  *  Hiatory   of   Greek   Lite- 


rature,' by  Dr.  F.  B.  Jevous,  of  Durham 
University,  we  are  told  (p,  220)  that  "  Euri- 
pides was  born  B.C.  485,  in  the  island  of 
oalamis,  where  his  parents,  with  the  rest 
of  the  Athenians,  had  taken  refuge  on  the 
approach  of  the  Persians." 

Now  it  is  indeed  stated  by  ancient  authors 
that  the  poet  was  born  at  Salamis  whilst 
Athena  was  in  the  occupation  of  Xerxes ; 
but  the  date  of  that  event  was  B.C.  480,  the 
first  year  of  the  seventy-fifth  Olympiad, 
Callias  being  archon.  The  'Parian  Chro- 
nicle '  places  the  birth  of  Euripides  five  years 
earlier,  in  the  fourth  year  of  the  seventy- 
third  Olympiad,  during  the  arcbonship  of 
Philocrates.  That  would  correspond  to 
DC.  485,  but  not  to  the  year  of  the  invasion 
of  Greece  by  Xerxes.  W.  T,  ItTSV. 

Blackheath. 


Wc  most  request  oorrespoudeiita  deBirin^  in- 
formation on  family  mattors  of  only  private  interest 
to  aflSx  llioir  names  and  addressea  to  their  gueries, 
in  order  that  the  answers  may  bo  addressed  to  them 
direct. 

Pastr  —Will  any  one  kindly  send  us  an 
early  quotation  for  "anchovy  paste"  or 
"shrimp  paste"?  A  friend  whose  memory 
goe.s  back  to  1840  says  he  lias  known 
"anchovy  paste"  all  bis  life.  But  we  have 
as  yet  no  examples  before  1890. 

J.  A.  H.  MUBRAY. 

"  Purple  patch."  —  When  did  the  ex- 
pression "purple  patch"  or  "purple  pas- 
sage" in  reference  to  literary  style  come 
into  use  ?  It  is  apjmrently  a  quotation  from 
some  modern  literary  critic. 

J.   A..    H.   MtJKRAV. 

John  Wiluams,  Archbishop  op  York.— I 
have  found  among  some  old  papers  thre« 
drafts  of  letters  entirely  in  the  handwriting 
of  Archbishop  Williams.  Two  are  addressed 
to  the  king,  and  one  to  Prince  Rupert.  The 
letter  to  Prince  Uupert  is  signed,  and  dated 
30  Dec.,  1642;  and  the  first  letter  to  the  king 
is  probably  of  that  date  also,  being  written 
upon  the  same  folio  sheet.  The  date  of  the 
second  letter  to  the  king  can,  by  internal 
evidence,  be  fixed  at  about  20  April.  1643, 
They  are  long  letters,  and  of  considerable 
interest,  especially  the  la<(t,  which,  in 
astonishingly  forcible  language,  takes  the 
king  to  task  for  political  and  military  errors. 
The  key-note  lies  in  one  of  the  concluding 
sentences:  "I  write  iti  tho  phrase  of  the 
time,  roundlye  and  boldlye."  Can  any  one 
teli  me  whether  any  of  these  letters  were 


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dispatched,  and,  if  so,  whether  originals  or 
transcripts  exist  ?      Chaeles  L.  Lindsay. 
07,  Cadofniu  Gardens.  S.W. 

Mary  Shakespere.— I  find  anaong  some 
family  documents  that  a  certain  Anne  Prat- 
tentou  or  Prattington,  daughter  of  Joseph 
Prattonton,  of  Ulearland,  near  Hartleburv, 
Worcester,  married  Jolni  Cliattock,  of  Castle 
Bromwicli,  Warwickshire.  Her  mother  wajj 
Mary  Shakespere.  Can  any  of  vour  readers 
inform  me  who  this  Mary  Shakeapere  was, 
and  what  relationship  she  bore  to  the  great 
poet]  She  was  born,  I  should  think,  some 
time  in  the  middle  of  the  seventeenth  cen- 
tury. A.  J.   C.   GOTMABAENS. 

Rkv.  Dr.  O.  D'Oyly.— This  learned  eccle- 
siastic was  nmny  years  rector  of  Ijambeth, 
a  founder  of  King's  College,  London.  Jec.  Is 
there  a  lineal  descendant  of  his  now  living  1 

W.  W.  J. 

"The  better  the  day  the  better  the 
DEED."— It  has  been  suggested  that  this  old 
adage  ouglit  to  road,  "  The  better  the  day 
the  better  the  deed  should  be."  Is  there 
any  warrant  for  this  version  1 

J.  L.  Use  us. 

PeozaDce. 

Lines  attributed  to  Wordsworth.  —  1 
should    bo  glad    to    know  the  author  and 
source  of  the  following  lines,  descriptive  of 
an  artist,  whicli  are  given  in  a  book  of  quo- 
tations as  by  Wordsworth,  but  which  cannot 
be  trace<l  in  any  of  his  known  works  ; — 
He  is  a  being  nf  deep  reflection— ono 
That  studies  Xat  ure  with  intenseat  oye  ; 
Watching  the  works  of  air,  earth,  soa,  and  sun— 
Thoir  motion,  altitude,  their  form,  their  dye, 
Cause  and  effect. 

BlRKESflEAD. 

Storming  of  Fokt  Moeo.— I  shall  be  ex- 
tremely obliged  if  anj'  one  can  give  me 
details  of  the  storming  of  Fort  Moro  during 
the  siege  of  Havana  in  August,  1762.  A  tra- 
dition, handed  down  for  many  years  in  my 
family,  states  that  an  ancestor  of  mine,  named 
Wiggins  (or  O'Higgins  ?),  was  the  first,  or  one 
of  the  first,  through  the  breach  (uno  of  the 
forlorn  hope),  and  was  presented  on  tlie  field 
with  a  pair  of  colours.  Another  runs  that 
Wiggins,  or  O'Higgins,  secured  the  enemy's 
colours,  was  made  a  present  of  them,  and 
given  a  captaincy  on  the  field.  I  have  for  some 
time  triea  to  get  trustworthy  information, 
and  have  perused  the  Gentleman's  Magazine 
and  '  Annual  Register,'  but  though  they  give 

?enera]  information,  they  do  not  give  details, 
should  l>e  very  glad  to  learn  where  I  could 
obtain  particulars.  W.  L.  Uewari). 


Daniel  Archer.  —  Could  Saruh,  who 
answers  Mr.  Pink's  query  as  to  the  Right 
Hon.  John  Smith,  Speaker  {(tnte,  p.  412).  tell 
me  anything  about  the  youngest  brother  of 
Lord  'Archer— Daniel  Arcl)er,  born  1703  F 
He  was  related  to  the  Speaker  through  hia 
sister  Lady  Dashwowl,  whose  Jaagbter. 
married  Andrew  Archer,  father  of  Lonl| 
Archer,  Henry,  and  Daniel. 

Launcelot  Archkr- 

Inscriptions  on  Pdblic  BtnLDiNGS. — Can 
you  refer  me  to  some  book  on  inscriptions 
carved  on  public  buildings  ?    I  am  wanting . 
to  put  some  passage  from  English  or  Latiai 
autnors  on  a  village  club  and  institute,  and* 
cannot    find    anything    which     I    considet 
Buiuble.  A.  S.  McCa&a. 

Wftrley  House,  Halifax. 

GuNCAsTER.  — A    vicar    of    Upton,    neai 
Windsor,  then  in  the  diocese  of  Lincoln,  mi 
the  tliirteenth  century  came  from  Guncaatar. 
Can  some  one  kindly  identify  this  place  1  At 
present    the    nearest    guess    is    Oumcesterj 
(Godmanchester),  but  the  word  Doncaster,  byl 
a  flourish  of  the  quill,    can   also  resembl©' 
Guncaster,  especially  if  the  original  record  is 
worn  and  faint.  R.  B. 

Upton. 

Latin  for  "  Roping  "  a  Horse.  —  In 
the  Roman  circus  the  art  of  "roping"  « 
horse  was  well  known  and  frequently  t>rac-< 
tised.  There  is  a  Latin  phrate  for  tuis— J 
something  like  "Equo  signum  «lat^,"  of 
words  to  that  effect.  What  is  the  exact 
phrase  1  Reserve  of  OFncsRa. 

The  English  Channel— How  old  is  tha. 
French   name  of  the  Englisli  Channel,  i.t^^ 
La  Manche?    Does  it  antetlate  the  Englisl 
termi  J-  Dormkb. 

Hertford  Borough  Seal.— The  inscrip-' 
tiun  upon  the  old  seal  of  the  borough  reaols 

thus : — 

+  R  •  D  •  G  •  THE  '  8EALE  '  OF  *  TDK  " 
BOROVGHE  •  TOWNE  *  OF  '  HABT  *  FORDB 

Can  any  one  explain   the  meaning  of  th< 
letters  R.  D.  Q.  ]    In  the  centre  of  the  «« ' 
is  a  hart  standing  in  water  in   front  of 
castle.     This  form  of  seal  was  in  use  bofot 
the  time  of  Elizabeth.    Matilda  Pollard. 
Belle  Vue,  Bengeo. 

France    and    Civtuzation.  —  A    youn^ 
writer  in  the  AcnUmy,  7  May,  P.  527,  calU 
Franco  "  the  most  highly  civilized  country  it 
the  world."    Will   somebody   wi  ' 
his  shoulders,  who  knows  his  ]u 
an  opinion  on  the  subject  1      St.  o"  » mtr*. 


r 


lO*  8.  I.  JuxE  4,  1904.] 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


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GxYua  Dyxos,  of  Tonbiudgb,  Kent, 
Gentleman,  1565.— William  Hervy,  Claren- 
ceux,  grante<^l  a  confirmation  of  arraa  and 
also  granted  a  crost  to  the  above  in  the  year 
named .  Is  anything  known  of  Gay  us  Dyxon, 
his  ancestors  and  lii3  desjcendant-s  ?  Is  this 
the  first  recorded  use  of  the  name  of  Dyxon 
or  Dixon  1  Can  any  one  ^ive  me  the  address 
of  the  Rev.  William  M.  Oljver,  M,A.,  in  whose 
possession  is  the  original  of  this  confirmation 
of  arms,  according  to  the  late  Dr.  Howard, 
Maltravera  Herald  Extraordinary? 

lloxALD  Dixon. 

46,  Marlborou^ih  Avenue,  Hall. 

Was  Edmund  Kean  a  Jew  1— The  notice 
of  Kean  in  the  'Encyc.  Urit.' states  that  his 
"reputed  father"  was  one  Aaron  Kean,  whose 
brother's  name  was  Mosea  Kean  ;  that  he 
possessed  brilliant  talents  and  an  interesting 
countenance  ;  and  tliat  he  made  his  d^but  at 
Drury  Lano  in  Shylock,  which  "roused  the 
audience  to  almost  uncontrollable  enthu- 
siasm." Jews  have  always  shown  a  generic 
attachment  to  the  stage.  Josephus  tells  us 
of  the  friendship  he  formed  witn  Alityrus.  a 
famous  Roman  mime ;  and  Moses  Kean  (the 
uncle  of  Edmund),  who  was  himself  a  mimic 
and  ventriloquist  and  entertainer,  possibly 
for  professional  reasons  in  those  less  tolerant 
times,  softened  his  name  Cohen  to  Kean,  and 
so  partlv  disguised  the  true  springs  of  his 
birth.  In  that  case  Herbert  Spencer's  doc- 
trine of  *'  unconscious  cerebration "  was  largely 
effective  in  Kean's  j-6le  of  Shylock. 

M.  L.  R.  Breslar. 

[There  Beeras  little  doubt  that  Kean  had  a  Jewish 
strain.] 

"  TvMBERs  OF  Ermine."— In  the  Issue  Roll 
of  Thomas  de  Brantiugham,  p.  257,  there  is 
an  entry  that  a  certain  citizen  sold  to  King 
E<lward  III.  "ten  tymbers  of  Ermine"  for 
forty  marks.  Can  any  one  give  me  an  expla- 
nation of  that  term  ?  Ayeaiik. 

Tttdladoes.— In  the  census  for  Ireland  of 
1659  the  names  of  the  more  distingubhcd 
occupants  of  townland.s  and  streets  are 
entered  under  the  alx>ve  de^signatiou,  which 
is,  I  believe,  of  Saxon  origin.  I  shouici  Ije 
glad  to  know  its  exact  meaning  and  deriva- 
tion. CuABLB!^  S.  King,  6t. 

St.  LoonardB-on-SoA. 

May  Monument.  — Can  any  one  tell  me 
what  ha.s  become  of  Dame  Mary  May's 
monument,  which  used  to  be  inside  the  north 
wall  of  Midlavarit  Church,  atx}ut  throe  miles 
from  Chichester  I  She  was  the  widow  of  Sir 
John  May,  Knt.,  of  Rawraere,  and  died  in 
1081.     Uorafield,  in  his  'History  of  Sussex,' 


describes  the  monument,  and  there  is  a 
sketch  of  it  in  Add.  MS.  No.  6675  in  the 
British  Museum,  drawn  by  S.  H.  Grimm  in 
or  about  1783.  I  have  met  with  people  by 
whom  it  has  been  seen  ;  but  in  1873  it  was 
gone,  and  there  is  no  trace  of  it  It  wa3  b, 
reclining  figure  on  the  usual  substructure, 
life  size,  and,  judging  by  S.  H.  Grimm's 
sketch,  rather  gracefully  designed. 

J.  G.  M. 

"  Hen-hussey  " :  "  Wnrp-sxixcH  " :  "  Wood- 
TOTER."— When  I  was  a  boy,  somewhat  more 
than  half  a  century  ago,  at  Portsmouth,  in 
New  Hampshire,  we  had  a  family  servant 
(American  Dorn)  whose  vernacular  "smacked 
of  the  soil."  One  or  two  of  her  objurgatory 
phrases  still  linger  in  my  memory.  She 
would  at  times,  in  a  very  forcible  manner, 
denounce  me  as  a  "  hen-hussey  "  or  a  '*  whip- 
stitch." I  should  like  to  know  if  these  words 
are  in  use  in  England  today. 

During  the  war  for  the  Union  I  was  for  a 
while  in  the  sounds  of  North  Carolina.  Being 
ashore  at  Plymouth  one  day,  I  observed  a 
darkie  coming  down  the  street  with  a  bundle 
of  wood  on  his  head.  Another  darkie,  wish- 
ing to  speak  with  him,  had  called  out  to  him, 
and,  not  being  heard,  the  latter  raised  his 
voice  and  exclaimed  :  "  Look  a  hear,  you  dar 
—you  wood-toUr  dar  1 "  The  word  "  tote," 
meaning  "carry,"  was  so  common  at  the 
South  that  it  is  said  that  a  boy  learning  to 
add  would  phrase  it  thus  :  "  Put  down  7  and 
tote  4."  Frank  Warren  Hackett. 

1418  M  Street,  Washingtoo,  D.C. 

Anachar-sis. — A  letter  addressed  to  Lady 
Charlotte  Campbell,  circa  1816,  signed  Ana- 
charsis,  has  been  endorsed  in  a  later  hand 
"Duke  of  Argylo."  Is  this  identification 
correct?  One  passage  may  assist,  if  it  is  not 
already  known  : — 

"The  cursed  thing  is  the  money  alwayti,  or  I 
would  make  an  hospital  at  Rome  for  ileoayu"! 
purses  and  disconteuted  and  diaajipointed  ngreeablo 
people.  I  intend  to  stiuK«Iehard  wiihlhe  world 
till  forty,  and  then  to  guorumb  witii  good  grace  and 
Hoat  down  the  atreain  of  time  like  a  dead  cat  in 
the  Thamca." 

Aleck  ABRAttA3i3. 

39,  Hilltnarton  Road,  N. 

Tynte  Book-plate.— I  have  a  book-plate 
of  "JamcJi  Tynte,  Esq^  1704,"  in  which  the 
quarterings  on  the  shield  seem  wrongly 
arranged  ;  for  1  and  4  are  Worth,  Argent, 
a  cross  raguly  sable  ;  and  2  and  3  are  Tynte, 
Gules,  a  lion  couchaut  argent  lietween  six 
cross-crosslets  of  the  second.  Over  all  is  a 
shield  of  pretence  bearing,  Sable,  three  bulh' 
heads  coupe.  The  crest  is  an  arm  in  armour 
embowed,  holding  in  the  hand  a  fragment  of 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[10*  8.  L  JDK«  i,  19W. 


a  spear  batb  downwards.  Beneath  the  shield 
is  the  motto  "  Crucem  Ferre  Dignam."  To 
Mi^hat  families  do  the  shield  of  pretence,  the 
crest,  and  the  motto  belong?  I  may  say 
that  neither  the  creat  nor  the  motto  belongs 
to  the  Tynte  family.  This  James  Tynte  was 
of  the  Irish  branch  of  that  family. 

Ceoss-Cbosslbt. 


MARTYRDOM  OF  8T.  THOMAS. 

(10"'  S.  i.  388.) 

There  is  an  ancient  painting  of  the 
martyrdom^  on  a  board,  hung  on  a  column 
near  the  tomb  of  Henry  IV.  in  Canterbury. 
Gerva^e  states  that  two  volumes  of  miracles 
performed  by  the  relica  of  Becket  were  pre- 
served at  Canterbury.  These  were  doubtleas 
destroyed  by  Henry  VIII.'s  order. 

Some  of  the  marvels  performed  by  tlie 
saint  are  pictured  on  the  painted  windows 
of  Trinity  Chapel,  Canterbury. 

With  regard  to  his  relics  Stanley  says  : — 

"A  tooth  of  lii»  ia  preserved  in  thecliurcVi  of  8au 
Tbotn&ao  Cnntuanense  at  Verona,  luirt  of  an  arm 
in  A  convent  at  Florence,  and  another  p»rt  in  the 
church  of  S.  Waldetrude  at  Mons:  in  Fuller'a  time 
both  arms  were  displayed  in  the  English  Convent 
at  Lisbon  ;  while  Bourbourg  preserves  hia  chalice, 

ttouay  his  hair  ahirt.  and  S,  Omer  his  mitre 

Hia  story  is  pictured  in  the  painted  windows  at 
Chartres,  Sens,  and  8.  Omer,  and  his  6gure  ia  to  be 
seen  in  the  church  of  Moureale  at  Palermo." 

Within  seven  years  of  the  martyrdom  the 
Abboy  of  Aberbrothock  was  raised  by 
William  the  Lion  to  the  memory  of  the 
saint. 

I  find  in  '  Letters  and  Papers,  Foreign  and 
Doraeatic,  Henry  VIII.'  (arrange*!  by  Jas. 
Gairdner),  under  date  1536,  re  visitation  of 
the  monasteries,  these  two  notices  : — 


"Nuns  of  K.  Mary's,  Chester Hero  they  have 

the  girdle  of  S.  Thomas  of  Canterbnry." 

"  Carlisle  Monastery Prior  Christopher  Slye. 

Here     they     have    the    sword     with     which 

S.  Thomas  of  Canterbury  was  murdered." 

In  the  seventh  volume  of  '  Materials  for  the 
History  of  Thomas  Becket,'  edited  by  Robert- 
son and  Slieppard,  notices  of  miracles  will 
be  found  on  pp.  524,  533,  565,  666,  678. 

In  'Letters,  ifec.  Hen.  VIII..'  there  is  men- 
tion, under  date  15  August,  1538,  of  the 
receipt  by  Sir  Wm.  Goryng  from  Wm. 
Humfre,  one  of  the  churchwardens  of  '*  Wys- 
borowe  Green,"  of  certain  relics  of  St.  Thomas, 
viz.,  vestments,  the  cloak  in  which  St.  Thomas 
was  martyred,  and  blood  ;  also  his  "Chyraer." 

In  '  Chronica  Monasterii  de  Melsa,'  by 
Tliomas  de  Burton,  edited  by  Edward  Bona, 


reference  is  made  to  a  vision  of  St  V^ 
which  appeared  during  a  storm  to  i' 
on  some  ships  of  Richard  I.  bound   ; 
Crusades    (date    1190).      Two    other    saxoc 
appeared   with  him,  St.  Edmund   the 
and  at.  Nicholas.  Chr.  Watsox. 

Cotton  MSS.  TituB  E  viii.,  a  pen-and-iaTc" 
sketch  of  the  shrine  at  Canterbury. 

Royal  Coll.  MS.,  in  'Queen  Mary's  PsaltOTJ 
(fourteenth  century)  is  a  complete  series  r" 
outline  sketches  illustrative  of  the  martyi 
life. 

In  Holy  Cross  Church,  Stratford -on- Avoc 
the  prelate  is  represented  as  celebrating  Maai 

At  St.  John's,  Winchester,  the  martyrdoB 
forms  one  of  a  series  of  wall  paintings. 

At  Stoke  dAbernon  the  same  scene 
depicted,  as  also  in  a  panel  formerly  hunc  over 
Henry  IV.'s  tomb  at  Canterbury,  and  still 
preserved  there. 

At  Stoke  Charity,  Hants,  ia  a  good  figure_ 
of  the  saint. 

In  the  'PassioMartyris  Thome  Cantuanei 
sis  Arcliiopiscopi,'  left  by  William  de  Wyl 
bam  to  Winchester  College,  is  an  illuroini 
tion  of  the  archbishop  in  full  pontificals  ;  an^ 
there  is  a  small  but  well-executed  figure  d 
the  saint  on  a  brass  of  Prior  Nelond,  Cov*' 
fold,  Sussex. 

Mr,  Edward  Peacock  contributed  a  nuu^ 
ber  of  notes  on  this  subject  to  the  TabU 
July  6, 1895.  Nathaniel  Uoxb. 

I.  Fielding  Road,  Bedford  Park,  W. 

Mr.  H.  Snowden  Ward  may  find  the 
following  references  regarding  St.  Thomas 
of  Canterbury  of  service. 

Arbroath  Abbey,  dedicated  to.  —  Dublin 
Review,  April,  1900,  283. 

Bologna,  picture  of,  eX.—lbid.,  January, 

1893.  66.  ,  ,  ,  , 

Cahors.  church  dedicated  to,  now  deatroyetl. 
— E.  H.  Barker,  'Wanderings  by  Southern 
Waters,'  132. 

Chartres.  picture.— A.  J.  C  Hare,  'South- 
Eastern  France,'  10. 

Dedications,  '  N.  <fe  Q.,'  8""  S.  vii.  S77.— 
Cumberland,!.    Durham,!.    Essex,  2.    '^ 
2.  Lincolnshire,?.  Nortliumberland,  1. 
2.     Forfarshire,    I    {Atxhceologieal    licauic, 
ii.  279).  ,        ,    , 

Amcotts,  Lincolnshire.— The  chapel  of  ease 
at  this  place  was  dedicated  to  St.  Thomaa 
of  Canterbury,  but  when  it  was  rebuilt  about 
the  middle  of  the  last  ceutury  this  wm 
altered  to  St.  Mark,  in  compliment  to  an 
important  farmer  who  had  for  a  Christian 
name  that  of  the  second  Evangelist.  I  ha** 
heard  that  the  earlier  dedication  has  been 
restored,  but  am  not  sure  of  this. 


I 
I 


I 
I 


Deed  dated  from  the  m&rtvrdom  of 
St.  Thomas.— W.  D.  Macray, '  Magdalen  Coll., 
Oxford,'  122. 

Feast  of,  a  forbidden  holiday. — Sou  they, 
'  Cktmmonplace  Book,'  it.  56. 

Landernao.  Brittany,  church  dedicated  to. 
— E.  H.  Barker,  •  Wayfaring  in  France,'  298. 

Lead  tokens. — ArcUceologui,  xxxviii.  132. 

Martyrdom  on  altar  frontal. — Ibid.,  lii.  288. 

Martyrdom  on  fresco,  Preston,  Sussex.— 
Ibid.,  xxiii.  316. 

Martyrdom  on  mazer  belonging  to  the  Qild 
of  Blessed  Virgin  Mary  of  Boston. — Peacock, 
•Church  Furniture.'  195. 

Miracles.—'  Materials  for  Historyof  Thomas 
Becket,'  edited  by  J.  C.  Robertson  (Rolls 
Serie.s),  ii.  21-465. 

Oxford,  well  at. — "Gentleman's  Magazine 
Library  ":  *  English  Topography,'  vi.  166. 

Paris,   Notre  Dame,  chapel  in. — Winkles, 

•  French  Cathedrals,'  61. 

Pageants. — Arch(Pologia,  xxxi.  207 ;  Archaeo- 
logia  Cantiaiut,  xii.  34. 

St,  Lo,  church  now  desecrated.— H.  Gaily 
Knight,  in  his  'Architectural  Tour  in  Nor- 
mandy' (183G),  p.  123,  gives  an  interesting 
account  of  the  reason  why  it  was  dedicated 
to  the  Englisii  martyr. 

Seals. — ArcJifeolofjia,  x.  386 ;  xi.  87  ;  xvi. 
339 ;  xxvi.  298. 

Sens  Cathedral,  chapel  and  picture. — [J.  R. 
Best]  'Four  Years  in  France,'  197;  A.  J,  C. 
Hare,  'South-Eastern  Fi-ance,'  6. 

Stained  glass.  —  "Gentleman's  Magazine 
Library":  ' Ecclesiology,'  147;  ArcAceotogia, 
ix.  368  ;  x.  60,  334. 

Verona,    church     dedicated     to.  —  Webb, 

*  Continental  Ecclesiology,' 255  ;  Arckceologia 
Cdtitiana,  x.  24. 

Venice,  St.  Sylvester,  picture.  —  Webb, 
'Continental  Ecclesiology,'  293. 

Venice,  8t.  Zaccaria,  picture.— /Wet,  284. 

Well.— Mackinlay,  'Folk-lore  of  Scottish 
Lochs  and  Springs,'  146. 

Worcester  Cathedral,  chapel  in.  —  Foxe, 
'Acts  and  Monuments,'  iii.  23ri. 

Edward  Peacock. 

Wiokentree  House,  Kirton-in-Liiidsey. 

Messrs. Traill  and  Mann's  'Social England,' 
vol.  i.  of  illustrated  edition,  pp.  375  and  393, 
givm  reproductions  of  an  illumination  of  the 
martyrdom,  probably  early  fifteenth  century, 
in  MS.  Jul.  A.  xi.  ;  of  a  restored  drawing 
from  the  painting  on  wood  in  Canterbury 
Cathtnlral  ;  of  the  beautiful  reliquary  in 
Limoges  enamel,  belonging  to  Hereford 
Cathedral  ;  of  the  glass  medallion  in  Cantor- 
bury  Cathedral  snowing  the  shrine  ;  of 
BecKct'a  grace  cup,  now  belonging  to  the 
Duke    of    Norfolk,    the    Howards    having 


received  it  from  Queen  Eatherine  of  Aragon  ; 
and  of  his  vestments  at  Sens. 

There  is  a  vigorous  drawing  by  Matthew 
Paris,  with  Edward  Grim  holding  the  crosier, 
in  MS.  C.CC.  Camb.  XXVI. 

A  sculptured  representation  of  the  martyr- 
dom, over  the  soutri  door  of  Bayeux  Cathedral, 
dates  from  about  twenty  years  after  St. 
Thomas's  death. 

The  three  surviving  thirteenth -century 
windows  in  the  Trinity  Chapel  of  Canterbury 
Cathedral,  close  to  the  site  of  the  shrine,  are 
entirely  devoted  to  depicting  the  miracles  of 
the  martyr. 

The  beautiful  window,  1330  or  thereabouts, 
of  St.  Lucy's  Chaj)el  in  the  south  transept  of 
Christ  Church  Cathedral  in  Oxford,  contains 
a  representation  of  the  martyrdom,  the  head 
of  trie  saint  having  been  knocked  out  and 
replaced  with  white  glass.  Also  in  the 
library  of  Trinity  College  (a  legacy  from  the 
monastic  Durham  College,  which  occupied 
the  same  site  before  the  Dissolution)  may  be 
seen — among  the  charming  fifteenth-century 

fllass — the  cracked  figure  of  Becketj  with  the 
ragment  of  Fitzurse's  dagger  sticking  in  the 
forehead. 

The  only  contemporary  portrait  appears  to 
be  the  figure  on  his  arcliiepiscopal  seal  ;  but 
a  mosaic  in  the  cathedral  of  Monreale,  Sicily, 
is  known  to  have  been  oompletefl  under  the 
superintendence  of  King  William  IL  the 
Ooodf  who  married  in  1177  Joan,  daughter  of 
Henry  IL  and  Eleanor  of  Aquitaine, 

St.  Thomas's  Hospital  in  Southwark  ia, 
perhaps,  the  most  splendid  memorial  of  the 
martyr;  and  at  the  Dissolution  the  Mercers' 
Company  erected  their  hall  and  chapel  on  the 
site  of  the  Beckets'  old  house  in  Cheapside, 
which  had  been  transformed  by  the  arch- 
bishop's sister  into  a  hospital,  to  be  served 
by  canons  who  were  also  knights  of  the 
Order  of  St.  Thomas  of  Acre. 

Anciently  the  festival  of  the  Holy  Trinity 
was  kept  on  different  days  in  different  parts 
of  Christendom,  Becket,  when  archbishop, 
ordered  that  it  should  henceforth  be  kept  in 
England  upon  tiie  first  Sunday  after  Pente- 
cost, the  day  of  his  consecration,  and  in  1333 
the  whole  Western  Church  adopted  the 
English  usage. 

Many  of  our  older  churches,  now  nomin- 
ally detlicated  to  St.  Thomas  the  Apostle,  are 
in  reality  dedicated  to  St,  Thomas  of  Canter- 
bury. 'The  ancient  church  of  St.  Thomas  the 
Martyr  in  Oxford,  close  to  the  G.W.R. 
station,  apnarently  was  originally  dedicated 
to  St.  Nicuolos,  a  dedication  which  was 
revived  when  Henry  VIII.  dethroned  the 
former   saint.     It   appertained    to   Oaeney 


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Abbey,  which  occupied  the  site  of  the  present 
station  and  its  immerliate  neighb<)urhood. 
At  Salisbury  is  a  picturesque  cuurcli  dedi- 
cated to  the  martyr,  with  a  curious  fresco  of 
the  Resurrection  over  the  chancel  arch. 

A.  11.  Bayley. 

The  seal  of  Boauchief  Abbey  shows  the 
murder  of  Beclcet,  and  engravings  of  it  may 
be  seen  in  ^Ir.  S.  O.  Addy'3  book  on  that 
house ;  see  also  the  Rdiquanj  (Old  Series), 
vii.  202,  205,  for  the  seal  and  an  altarpiece 
on  the  same  subject,  ifany  more  instances 
may  be  found  by  means  of  the  '  Index  to 
ArckcEolociia,  i.-l.,'  under  Becket  and  Thomas. 

W.  C.  B. 

The  seal  of  Lansdon  Abbey,  Kent,  bore  a 
representation  of  the  mart^'rdora  in  Canter- 
bury Cathedral,  with  the  inscription  {temp. 
Dugdale's  Continuators),  cavsa  .  domvs  .  xpi . 

AtORTEU.  SI....  JoHJf  A.   RANDOLPH. 

There  is  a  valuable  representation,  in 
gla.s9,  of  St.  Thomas  a  Becket  —  "  the  only 
martyr  of  his  century,"  as  Cardinal  Newman, 
in  his  '  Lives  of  the  English  Saints,'  calls 
him — and  of  St.  Thomas  of  Hereford,  in  the 
church  at  Credenhill,  near  Hereford.  The 
figures  are  perfect,  about  fifteen  inches  in 
height,  .surrounded  by  quarries  and  a  border. 
Both  are  in  vestments,  with  mitre,  pastoral 
.staif  in  left  hand,  right  hand  being  erect. 
Legend  above  records  their  names.  The 
work  appears  to  be  early  fourteenth  century 
(F.  P.  Havergal  in  the  Antiquary,  July,  1882, 
p.  3D). 

The  Rev.  S.  Baring- Gould,  in  his  'Lives  of 
the  Saints,'  says  St.  Thomas  is  represented 
in  art,  erroneously,  as  martyred  in  full 
arohiepiscopal  canonicals  before  the  high 
altar  (ed.  1877,  '  December,'  p.  403). 

In  connexion  with  Woodspring  Priory,  in 
Somersetshire,  a  curious  circumstance  which 
occurred  at  Kew  Stoke  Church  was  noted  at 
a  meeting  of  the  Somersetshire  Archaeological 
and  Natural  History  Society  in  August,  1881. 
A  stone  of  unusual  appearance  was  noticed, 
which,  on  its  removal,  disclosed  a  recess 
containing  a  vessel  partly  filled  with  a 
substance  apparently  blood.  This  is  sup- 
posed to  have  been  a  relic  of  St.  Thomas  of 
Canterbury,  removed  from  Woodspring,  and 
secreted  at  the  dissolution  of  the  priory  in 
the  liiding-placo  in  which  it  was  found. 

Dr.  F.  G.  Lee,  in  a  letter  to  the  Antii^uar;/ 
for  January,  1881,  says  that  when  he  was  at 
Oxford  in  1860-9 

"  there  was  a  iwrfect  repreaentation  of  this  mnst 
holy  naint  and  luaiiyr  in  one  of  Ilie  witulowa  of 
St.  Michaels  Church  in  that  oity.  He  was 
nsprMenled  in  full  pootificaU,  and  with  a,  crozier  in 


his  rJKht  hand Prior  to  the  year  1842  thor«  w 

a  fragment  of  the  head  of  the  Moie  laint  in  one  of 

Ihe  north  windows  of  tV     -^   •-     *  •^"   r -.."  .".M 

church    of    Thame,    0\i 

fragmonta,  it  was  then  a- 

WM  filled  with   plain  wliii-. 

Thatne  Church  owned  a  reli 

was  stolen  by  the  viBitors  of  !.■■  >i  ..i  .   >  . . 

St.  Thomas  a  Waterings,  a  former 

of  execution  on  the  Old  K"*  " '    > 

caller]  from  a  brook  or  > 

St.  Thomas  a  Becket  (set:  • -.    ^...;-  -  i^- 

ham's  '  London,'  ir.t'.). 

J.  HoLPKN  MacMicbael. 

In  Knight's 'Old  England,' vol.  i.,  fig.  411 
is  a  reproduction  of  a  painting  of  the  martyr- 
dom of  Thomas  h  Becket  in  the  Chapel  of 
the  Holy  Cross,  Stratford. 

At  Bramfield.  in  this  county,  whero  he  was 
one  of  the  early  rectors,  is  a  iKmH  known 
as  Becket's  Pond,  the  water  of  which  lie  is 
traditionally  reported  to  have  used  iu  brew- 
ing some  excellent  beer. 

Matilda  PotxAHi>r 

Belle  Vue,  Bengeo. 

There  isi,  or  was,  a  representation  of  the 
death  of  Thomas  ii  Becket  in  fresco  in  the 
old  church  at  Preston,  near  Brighton,  but 
it  is  many  years  since  I  saw  it.        Brutus. 

If  Me.  Ward  ^*dll  consult  the  General 
Indexes  of 'N.  tt  Q.'  he  will  find  references 
to  '  Guernsey  Charms  on  St.  Thoma^j's  Day  ' 
(21  December),  *  Going  aOooding,'  some- 
where called  •'  Mumping,"  or  otherwise 
begging  alms  or  kind  for  various  purposes* 
with  the  customs  at  different  places  on  that 
day.  He  will  also  find  accounts  of  St. 
Thomas's  Hospital,  the  shrine  of  St.  Thomas 
at  Madras,  and  a  church  in  Vintry  Wanl, 
burnt  at  the  Fire  of  London  (1666).  anti  not 
rebuilt.  To  any  of  these  articles  I  can  refer 
him  should  it  be  necessary. 

EvERARD  Home  Colbuav. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

Easter  Sitnpay  in  1512  and  1513  (in»^«'  8.  l 
388).— The  old  Julian  reckoning  was  nnivor- 
sally  observed  in  the  Christian  Church  in 
tliose  years.  Easter  Day  in  1512  fell  on 
11  Ajjril,  and  in  1513  on  27  March.  D,  C  (the 
.second  to  be  used  in  finding  Easloi  1  and  B 
are  the  Sunday  letters  for  those  ^ 

Golden  Numbers  12  and  13.    All  lil 

be  found  tabulated  in  'L'Art  de  vtirifier  let 
Dates.' 

As  the  Gregorian  style  was  not  introduced 
into  the  Roman  calendar  until  1582,  I  am  at 
a  loss  to  imagine  what  "valuable  work  of 
reference"  is  alluded  to  by  M.  C.  L.  ba  giving 
8  April  for  the  date  of  Easter  iu  1D13.     In 


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eil 

■be 
Pin 


that  year  the  Paschal  full  moon  occurred  on 
,21  .^la^ch,  which  bv  the  Gregorian  reckon- 
ing would  have  been  called  31  March. 
"*  «ter  Day  woukt  be  tlie  >junday  after,  t.f., 
khe  day  which,  by  the  Julian  reckoning 
[then  universally  followed),  was  called 
t7  March,  and  by  the  Gregorian  (had  it  then 
seen  used)  would  have  been  called  6  April. 
Anril,  stated  by  M..C.  L.  as  given  by  some 
iroric  which  he  does  not  name,  was  an 
'impossible  date,  not  being  a  Sunday  by 
either  reckoning.  In  actual  fact,  then, 
iJilaster  Day  fell  on  the  same  day  in  1513  by 
'jotli  the  Julian  and  the  Gregorian  reckon- 
'ings.  A  similar  agreement,  I  might  mention, 
occurred  in  1702  —  Easter  falling  by  both 
reckonings  on  the  same  real  day,  though  it 
was  called  by  the  Old  Style  5  April,  and 
^^by  the  New  IG  April,  the  difiFerence  then 
^■being  eleven  days,  ns  it  was  when  the  style 
^■was  changed  in  England  in  1753. 
■  W.  T.  Lynn. 

^g     lilackhealb, 

[Mb.  J.  DoRMETi,  the  Rev.  C.  S.  Ward,  and 
E.  VV,  B.  give  the  same  dates  aa  Mr,  LvjfN.] 

Birds'  Egus  (lO'"  S.i.  327,  372).— Mr.  E.  P. 
WoLFEHSTAN  seems  to  think  the  "grass- 
hopper warbler  "  a  rarer  bird  than  it  was, 
certainly,  some  years  ago,  even  in  Northern 
England,  where  I  found  its  nest  and  dimly 
speckled  eggs  on  not  a  few  occasions.  One 
would  have  imagined  the  smart  bu.Mine83 
capacity  of  the  buyer  of  the  warbler's  eggs 
from  the  old  woman  was  a  detail  that  would 
have  been  better  kept  in  tlie  background. 

B. 

Prescription.s  {10"»  8.  i.  409).— I  remember 

coming  acro8.s  a  learned  disquisition  on  the 

mysterious  hieroglyphics  which  adorn  rae<lical 

prescriptions.     It  was  therein  stated   that 

the  initial  R  wa-s  not  only  a  contraction  of 

JiecijK,  but  also  represented  the  astrological 

iga  for  Jupiter.    This  induces  the  quaint  ro- 

ion  that  the  twentieth-century  physician 

B  reliea  upon  the  benevolence  of  a  pagan 

aSty  for  the  efficacy  of  his  pills  and  potions. 

think,  too,  the  sign  for  a  scruple  (etymo- 

ogically  a  little  rock)  wa.s  understood  to  be 

alf  that  hot-cross  bun  which  conventionally 

spresonts   the  earth— it   resembles,  by  the 

ay,  the  reversed  minuscule  epsilon  used  in 

lome  tenth-century  MSS.  as  a  contraction  of 

iui.     Vyiiethcr  the  minim  sign  was  traced  t^ 

he  zodiacal  Scorpio  I  forget,  but  it  seems 

that  the  denarius  or  drachm  was  at  one  time 

presented    by   an    approximation    to    the 

ieroglyphic  for  Pisces.     At  least,  in  Darom- 

crg's  '  CeUua '  the  latter  weight  appears  as 

wo  bracketa  joined  by  a  hyphen  )-(,  copied 


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presumably  from  the  oldest  (tenth-century^ 
MS.  In  this  edition  of  that  Itoman  physi- 
cian's works  the  fe.rfnyis  is  indicated  by  a  z  or 
=  (like  11.  Hecorde's  mathematical  symbol  of 
equivalence) ;  the  trtats  by  zz,  or  =  >=•  ;  and 
the  ounce  by  so  plain  a  dash,  — ,  that  it 
cannot  claim  even  a  distant  couninship  with 
tho  delightful  curlie-wurlio  in  wlio.so  artistic 
delineation  dtxstors  nowadays  display  such 
professional  skill.  J.  Dormeb. 

According  to  a  writer  in  the  Saturday 
Bt'vitw  of  20  March,  187.^,  p.  380,  the  ft  with 
which  phy.sicians'  prescriptions  usually  l>e)^in, 
and  which,  as  they  use  it,  is  simply  trie  hrst 
letter  of  the  Latin  word  Hecij)e  =  ta,kQ  {i.e.  the 
following  ingredients  in  the  quantities 
ordered),  is  to  bo  .seen  in  Egyptian  medical 
papyri  dating  some  2,000  years  B.C.  as  the 
symbol  of  lia,  and  means,  "  In  the  name  of 
Ua"  or  "O  lla.  god  of  life  an<l  health,  inspire 
me."  Can  any  Egyptian  scholar  confirm  this 
statement  or  explode  it  1 

Michael  T.  Sadler. 

Dr.  J.  A.  Paris,  in  his  '  Pharraacologia,' 
1843,  says  :— 
'  "  Even  those  Salutary  virtuea  which  many  herbs 
liossess  wore,  in  times  of  8ui>erBtitious  delasion, 
altrilMitcJ  rather  to  tho  |jlanct  nndor  whosse 
aBccndcucy  they  were  collected  or  prepared  than 
to  any  natural  and  inirjnsio  projiorties  in  the 
plants  themselves  ;  indeed,  such  waa  theRiippoaed 
inii>ortance  of  planetary  influence,  thot  it  was 
usual  to  prefer  [»j<r]  to  receipts  a  symbol  of  the 
planet  under  whose  reign  tho  ingredients  were  to  b© 
collcct«d  ;  and  it  is,  perhaps,  not  generally  known, 
that  the  character  wnich  we  at  tnia  day  place  at 
llio  head  of  our  prescriptions,  and  which  ia  under* 
Btood  to  mean  nothing  more  than  li'cim,  is  in  fact 
a  relict  [*i'c]  of  the  a-strological  pynibol  of  Jupiter, 
as  may  be  seen  in  many  of  tho  older  works  on 
pharmacy ;  although  it  is  at  present  bo  disguiaed 
fiy  tho  audition  of  the  down  stroke,  which  concerts 
in  into  the  letter  K,  that  were  it  not  for  its  cloven 
foot  wo  might  be  led  to  (question  its  aupomatural 
origin.  In  later  times  the  heathen  symbols  were 
dropi>ed,  and  others  substituted  to  propitiate  the 
favour  and  assistance  of  heaven." — Pp.  2()-21. 

See  also  Dr.  Otto  A.  Wall  at  considerable 
length  in  the  C/n^nist  and  Drwji/ist  for 
25  ,Iuly,  1801,  on  'Jupiter  and  Prescriptions,' 
pp.  159-61.  J.  HoLUEJf  MacMichael. 

See  I"  S.  i.  399 ;  7**  S.  xii.  428,  498 ;  B'"  S.  i. 
114;  but  very  much  more  information  is 
desirable  on  the  origin  and  date  of  the  marks 
used  to  designate  weights  and  measures  iu 
medical  prescriptions. 

EvERARD  Home  Colema:?. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

Any  pharmacist  who-se  acquaintance  Mtf. 
iNtJLEBY  happens  to  possess  will  show  him 
a   copy  of    Dr.    Pereira's   'Selections    from 


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Physicians'  Prescriptions.'  Therein  will  be 
found  exhaustive  particulars  of  the  aigus 
referre<l  to. 

3IaDy  years  ago  I  wrote  a  little  work  oa 
the  subject  (long  out  of  print),  from  which  I 
make  the  following  extract : — 

"It  would  take  too  long  to  enter  into  a  dMcrip- 
tioD  of  the  old  cabalistic  ejinbols  used  by  the  fathers 
of  chemistr)',  but  I  may  mention,  as  a  comparison 
•viih  the  strictly  scientitic  aspect  of  present-day 
pliarmacy  and  nomenclature,  that  these  strange  old 
signs,  so  far  as  can  be  shown,  were  arbitrarily 
chosen,  and  for  the  greater  part  without  regard  to 
any  pnor  meaning. 

"The  seven  coniuion  metals  were  supposed  to  be 
connected  in  some  mysterious  way  with  the  seven 
greater  heaventr  bodies,  and  the  same  symbol  was 
ajiplied  to  each  neavenly  body  as  to  its  apiiropriate 
meLal.  Rodwell,  in  the  'Birth  of  Chemistry,' 
says:— 

"'How  the  symbols  conferred  upon  the  planets, 
and  afterwards  tho  metals,  arose,  it  is  difncult  to 
8»y.  They  are,  undoubtedly,  of  Chaldoaii  origin  ; 
but  to  what  extent  they  have  since  been  modified, 
no  one  can  tell.' 

"  Fire  was  represented  from  a  very  early  iieriod 
by  a  triangle,     lu  antaKoiiislic,  water,  had  for  its 
symbol  the  same  figure  inverted.     Air  was  denoted 
by  a  modification  uf  the  symbol  for  fire,  while  the 
fourth  element  of  the  ancient  philosoijhers  had  for 
its  symbol  that  of  air  inverted.     These  symbols 
seem  to  be  closely  associated  with  the  doctrine  of 
Aristotle,  who  taught  that  the  four  elements  had 
each  two  qualities,  one  of  which  was  oommoa  to 
some  other  element.    He  said  : — 
Fire  is  hot  and  dry. 
Air  is  hot  and  moist. 
Water  is  cold  and  moist. 
Earth  is  cold  and  dry. 

"The  principal  signs  in  use  by  the  aluhymista 
were  those  at  present  used  in  ostronom}'." 

Cha8.  F.  Forsuaw,  LL.D. 
Bradford. 

By  referring  to  Chambers's  'Twentieth- 
Century  Dictionary,'  1903,  p.  1171,  Mr, 
Ingleby  may  find  some  useful  information 
on  the  origin  of  symbols  used  in  medicine 
and  surgery.  Willia.m  Jagoakd. 

LMk.  LAnN('Kix>T  AticriKU  also  mentions  the 
survival  of  the  sign  for  Jupiter,  j 

"ScoLK  Inn,"  Norfolk  (10^''  S.  i.  248,  313, 
394).—!  thought  I  had  put  tho  case  clearly  ; 
but  it  ha-s  been  8trangi3ly  perverted.  What 
I  meant  to  say  wus  really  this:  that  some 
one  once  imagined  that  the  "Scole  Inn  "  was 
so  called  because  it  was  equidistant  from  four 
known  ulaces  !  I  implied  that  he  wa3  quite 
wrong,  but  that  he  obtained  that  notion 
from  connecting  the  name  with  the  old  East- 
Anglian  word  scnle,  which  luvppened  to  mean 
a  pair  of  scales  ;  and  a  pair  of  scales,  ha%'ing 
equal  arms,  suggested  to  him  tliia  notion  of 
equal  distances.  I  submit  that  this  is  the 
only  possible  explanation  of  his  theory.   Will 


any  one  point  oat  aa  alt«riiativ«  oael   I 
think  not. 

But,  as  I  said,  we  can  only  take  this  to 

»  "a  mediicval  joke' 
expected  to  a  wallow  it. 


be  "a  mediicval  joke"j   surely  we  are  not 


y  tafc 
ily  w< 


I  see  nodiiKculty  at  all  in  the  derivattoo. 
The  word  scole  is  obviou-sly  the  Old  V  ~^ 
skdli,  "a  hut,  a  shed,"  a  variant  of  w 
*'  shieling."  The  O.N.  a  gives  Northei  n  i.  ., 
a«  in  Sea-scale  and  Portin-scale,  and  the  rest; 
but  Soutiiern  long  o,  as  in  scole.  We  ha^-e  a 
precise  parallel  in  hnle  and  wfu^le.  The  sense 
waa  simply  shelter.  Then  it  became  a  man's 
name,  from  the  man  who  lived  iu  it,  justai 
Wood  and  Hill  are  men's  names  now.  S« 
'  Scale  '  in  the  'English  Dialect  Dictio;  : 
Waltee  W.  Sk;  , , 

Blomefield's  'History  of  Norfolk,'  vol.  i 
(published  in  1739),  gives  the  following  «» 
p.  86:  — 

"Osniundeitnn  or  Scole  joins  to  the  East 
of  Diss,  and  is  bounded  by  the  Waveny  on'tfcf 
South  :  I  can't  find  who  this  (Jsmund  was  thst 
gave  the  name  to  the  Town.  '    '   ■  >        -o 

a  Saxon  and  owner  of  it ;  ^  I 

Osmundeston  in  the  time  ot  <  • 
by  the  name  of  <)itmoudBtou,  luiaw  8<:i>uk',  whit 
last  namo  prevailed  about  the  tiuic  of  King 
Henry  VIII.  when  this  Hamlet  was  increased,  so 
as  to  become  the  chief  itart  of  the  Town,  and  might 
first  receive  its  name  trom  the  Sholea  or  Shalloirs 
of  the  River  on  which  it's  situated. 

"  Here  are  two  very  good  Inns,  the  White  Hart 
is  much  noted  in  these  parts,  hi-"-  ■  n- -^  i—  way 
of  distinction  Scofi  Inn  :  the  H"  ;ck 

building,  adorned  with  imager}'  .i.  ..  in 

many  places,  as  big  aa  the  life.  1l  \veu>  buill  io 
1A55,  by  John  Feci,  Esq;  whose  Arms  tmp*IiDg 
hin  wife's  arc  over  tho  porch  door:  Tho  i>ign  is  verv 
large,  beautified  all  over  with  a  great  number  «a 
Images  of  large  stature,  carved  in  wood,  and  WM 
the  work  of  one  Fairchi/d,  the    '^  at  it  sr« 

those  of  the  chief  Towns  and   '  i.   in  the 

County  vix Here  was  latelv  .i     -._,  ....^o  round 

Bed,  big  enough  to  hold  ];'•  or  '20  Couple  io  iroitatioo 
(1  suppose)  of  the  remarkable  jirpst  I$«»d  at  H'oft. 
The  House  was  in  all  thiDK-  iirs' 

for  large  business,  but  the   I  :  iU 

it  is  in  much  decay  at  pres.-i       .     ..    •'.><» 

Uowling-Grecn  and  a  pretty  large  garden  with  uuxl 
sufficient  for  passengers'  horses.  The*  busineM  of 
these  two  Inns  is  much  supported  by  the  aunual 
Cock  Matches  that  are  fought  there." 

The  inn  still  stands,  I  presume  :  at  all 
events,  there  still  appears  in  the  '  P.O.  Direc- 
tory '  "The  White  Hart  P.H."  I  know  it 
well  as  long  as  sixty  years  ago,  celebrated 
then  as  a  coachiiig  and  posting  huase,  and 
known  as  "Scole  Inn."  J.  H.  J. 

Ipswich. 

TuK  •'  Sbip  "  HoTKL  AT  GftEBywicn  <I 
xii.  306.  375,  415.  431  ;  10"' S.  i.  Ill, 
In  answer  to  Mr.  Pickford,  I  can  say 
the  sketch  in  'Pendennis'  doe^  not  rofer  lo 


10^8.  L  Jess  4. 1904.] 


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he  "Sliip."  but  to  the  "Trafalgar."  The 
Sliip "  liad  no  balconies,  and  the  scene  from 
ihe  window  would  take  in  the  Hospital, 
■whereas  the  view  from  the  balcony  snows 
the  reach  from  the  "Trafalgar"  in  an 
oblique  direction  down  to  Black  wall  Point; 
the  trees  on  the  right  bank— now  all  gone- 
arc  seen  in  the  background.  The  only  known 
representation  of  the  old  "Ship"  is  on  a 
view  showing  the  contemplated  improve- 
inenta  in  connexion  with  the  new  pier,  pub- 
lishecl  in  the  year  1836.  The  only  descnption 
*s  in  Timbs's  'Clubs  and  Club  Life,'  p.  439, 
which  8ay.s  the  huuso  "  was  built  with 
weather  board  in  front,  and  a  bow  window 
to  command  a  view  of  the  river."  The  back 
in  shown  in  Clarkson  Stanfield'a  '  View  of 
Fisher  Lane,'  now  in  the  Naval  Museum, 
pGreenwich,  and  reproduced  in  Marryat'a 
•  P«jor  Jack.'  Aybahe. 

lyacBiPTioNs  AT  Orotava,  Tekerifb  do'*' 
.  i.  361).— I  understand  from  Miss  Ethel 
jjlixon  that  Miss  Edit!)  Gonnings  is  incor- 
Jreotly  spelt  as  "Jennings"  in  No.  66  in  the 
labove  named  note-  Ronald  Dixon. 

4(J,  Marlborough  Avenue,  Hull. 

Indian    Sport    (10"'    S.    i.    349,    397).— 
Imkkitus  will  also  find  information  on  the 
[subject  of  Indian  sport  in  a  work  entitled 

Oriental  Field  Sports.  EnibelliBhed  with  40 
f«oKu>re<l  Ensravinffs,  the  whole  taken  from  the 
Muiiu»cri}jt  and  Design  of  Capt.  Thonias  William- 
eoii,  who  served  uiiwards  of  twenty  years  in  Bcut;al, 
the  Drawiuga  by  baruuol  Howett.  London:  viriuied 
by  Willianf  Uulmer  &  Co.,  Shaksi)eare  Printing 
Otliiji',  for  Edwurd  Ormo,  I'rintaeller  to  His  Majesty, 
Enariver  and  Publisher,  Bund  Street,  the  comer 
of  Brook  btreet.  1807. 

F.  E.  R.    FOLLAED-URtiXrHART. 

Uaatle  Pollard,  Westmeath. 

IbERiAN  Inscriptions  in  Hibernia  (lO^** 
S.  i.  388).  —  The  legend  that  some  of  the 
tnhahitanti  of  the  British  lales  were  Iberian 
emigraiiti  from  Spain  is  based,  I  believe,  on 
a  romurk  by  Tacitus  which  Canon  Taylor 
(discussing  the  neolithic  "Iberian"  in  his 
'Origin  or  the  Aryan.n')  calls  a  guess  of  no 
importance.  As  they  inhabitoil  so  large  a 
portion  of  Western  Europe  it  certainly  seems 
that  tlio  feeble,  truglodytic  or  long-barrow 
Ibfirian  cannibals  would  find  the  transit  from 
Great  liritain  to  Ireland  much  less  perilous 
than  a  con'iiderable  voyage  from  Sfiaiu  in 
fniil  oorackoi  or  dug-outs.  As  to  tlio  njyi- 
teiious  inscriptions  on  the  Spanish  "Iberian  " 
coiuM,  Worm! U)i  and  iludixicK  eonnecto<l  tlieni 
with  Visigothic  runes,  but  Taylor  was  of 
oniiiion  that  the  languagt^  of  the  ethnological 
luvrian  was  jirobubly  Iliimitic,  akin  tu  the 


Numidian.  It  would  be  very  remarkable  if 
two  such  obscure  languages  as  Iberian  and 
Etruscan  prove<l  to  be  related. 

J.  Dormer. 

Local  and  Personal  Proverbs  in  the 
Waverley  Novels  (lO""  S.  i.  383,  402).— In 
Mr.  BoucniEu's  quotation  of  the  Gaelic 
proverb  from  '  Waverley  '  "  Mar  e  Bran  is  e 
a  brathair,"  the  first  word  should  be  mur, 
which  means  "if  not"  (nisi),  whereas  vuir 
means  "as  "  (vdut  or  ut)  used  in  similes  and 
comparisons.  I  have  not  the  book  at  hand, 
and  it  is  quite  likely  the  i>rovorb  is  correctly 
transcribed  ;  but  Sir  Walter  Scott  (or  hia 
printer)  often  makes  mistakes  in  Gaelic 
words.  C.  S.  JerraM. 

Oxford. 

My  friend  Mr.  Bouchier  has  inadvertent^ 
omitted  two  very  amusing  ones  from  'Reo- 
gauntlet,'  which  occur  in  the  account  of  the 
memorable  consultation  between  Peter  Peebles 
and  his  solicitor  Mr.  Fairford  : — 

'"The  counsel  to  the  Lord  Ordinary,'  continued 
Pet«r,  once  set  agoing,  like  the  peal  of  an  alarm 
clock,  'the  Ordinary  to  the  Inner  House,  the 
President  to  the  Bench.  It  is  just  like  the  rope  to 
the  man,  the  man  to  the  ox,  the  ox  bo  the  water,  the 
water  to  the  fire.'  "—Letter  xiii. 
And  in  the  same  letter : — 

" '  Bettor  have  a  wineglaaa,  Mr.  Peobjes,'  said 
ray  father  in  an  admonitory  tone;  *yoa  will  find  it 
pretty  slronR*  [».'..  the  brandy].  'If  the  kirk  is 
ower  muckle,  we  can  sing  mass  in  the  choir,'  said 
Peter.  helpinR  himself  in  the  goblet  oat  of  which  he 
had  been  drinking  the  small  ocer." 

John  Pickfoed,  M.A. 

Newboume  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Brazen  Bijou  (10'*'  S.  i.  369).— At  the  Army 
and  Navy  Stores  this  is  represented  by  a 
brazen  "crane."  which  may  be  bought  for 
the  same  price  as  the  bijou  valued  in  1830  at 
"about  two  shillings."  My  cook,  who  is.  I 
think,  a  Yorkshire  woman,  believes  the 
article  is  called  a  "spittle,"  though  apparently 
the  name  is  in  disuse  with  her,  as  it  took  her 
some  moments  to  recall  it  to  mind.  At  my 
request  she  consulted  her  fellow-servants, 
and  the  result  was  that  one  of  them  pro- 
duced a  dictionary  in  which  "Spit,  a  bar  on 
which  moat  is  roasted,"  was  suppose*!  to  fur- 
nish the  required  information.  Bottle-jaoks 
still  3urvi%e  in  the  fashionable  emporium  I 
have  mentioned  above,  and  I  am  glad  to  9*7 
that  one  is  yet  active  in  my  own  benighted 
kitchen.  St.  BwiTUW. 

If  Mk.  HiBcvMK  will  turn  to  p.  97  of  the 
"Household  Edition"  of  *  Groat  Expectations,' 
he  will  there  find  an  illustration  in  which  tho 
"  brazen  bijou "  referred  to  on  the  preWous 


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page  is  shown  suspendetl  from  the  raant*!- 
pieco.  Tho  artist,  Mr.  F,  A.  Fraser,  was 
evidently  fully  cognisant  of  the  article  in 
question.  John  T.  Vxue. 

West  Haddon,  Nortbamptoashire. 

I  have  one ;  its  designation  is  *  jack-bar." 
The  country  people  call  it  a  "aweek." 

C.  L.  Poole. 

AlecLger,  Chealure. 

"Send"  of  the  Sea  (10^"  S.  i.  3G8).— I  do 
not  think  "send  "  moans  "current"  at  all.  I 
seo  a  good  many  papers  relating  to  sea-sal- 
vage, and  I  always  understand  "send"  to 
tneau  rise  and  fall  or  drop— not  of  the  tide, 
but  of  Ihe  sea  a.s  worked  up  by  a  (perhaps 
distant)  stornj.  A  heavy  "send,"  lifting  a 
diver's  cutter  first  high  into  the  air  and  then 
dropping  it  again,  is  not  conducive  to  diving 
operatioiiH.  D.  O. 

Mr.  DoDosojf  is  incorrect  in  supposing  that 
the  "send  "  of  tho  sea  is  an  expression  which 
refers  to  the  current.  It  refers  to  the  sway- 
ing or  motion  of  the  water,  which  nmy  have 
either  an  upward  ordownwai"d  force.  In  the 
case  of  the  submarine  A  1  it  is  easy  to  under- 
stand that  tho  hawsers  parted  owing  to  a 
motion  of  this  nature,  though  they  could 
easily  have  withstood  a  current,  however 
strong.  Phiup  Belben. 

Broadstone. 

In  Dana's  '  Seaman's  Manual,'  revised  and 
corrected  by  John  J.  Mayo,  Ilegistrar-Qeneral 
of  Shipping  and  Seamen,  1867,  p.  112,  "send" 
is  a  term  applied  to  the  action  of  a  ship's 
head  or  stern  when  pitching  suddenly  and 
violently  into  the  trough  of  the  sea.  Tlie 
word  is  apparently  a  contraction  of  "ascend- 
ing," for  Smyth,  in  his  'Sailor's  Word-Book,' 
has  "Sending,  'scending,  the  act  of  being 
thrown  about  violentK'  when  a<^lrift." 

J.   HOLDEN   MacMiC'HAEL. 

Scotch  Words  and  English  Commenta- 
TOBS  (10'*'  S.  i.  261,  321,  375).— A  noticeable 
practice  of  tho  London  journalist  seems 
worthy  of  mention  under  this  head.  From 
time  to  time  a  Scottish  word  or  phrase 
becomes  fashionable,  and  straightway  it  is 
paraded  with  diverting  iteration,  and,  as 
often  as  not,  with  an  innocence  of  its  true 
inwardness  that  is  nothing  short  of  pathetic. 
"Canny "was  long  a  hapless  victim  in  this 
way,  and  "unco"  would  appear  to  be  now 
coming  into  favour.  On  7  Slay  a  prominent 
literary  journal  had  a  notice  of  Mr.  Max 
Beerbohm's  'The  Poets'  Corner,'  which  clo»etl 
with  the  remark,  "Such  funning  as  this  is 
wholesome,  especially  for  the  unco"  serious." 
Ag  the  cheerful  dogmatist  who  is  respousible 


l>Ar5i!. 


for  this  appears  to  think  t 
term  he  playfully  employs 
of  perfect  form,  it  would  h< 
gather  from  hiiu  how  he  i^ 
look  if  it  were  preaeoted  in  f 

I  did  not  quot«  enough  from  < 
two  additional  lines  make  the 
stronger:— 

Now  air  is  hushed,  uvo  where  the  weak-ejcdIaA 
With  short,  aliriil  sill  i  •■;«lbem  mog; 

Or  where  tli 

His  small  !• 
As  oft  he  rises,  niidsi  ;  h. 

Against  the  |)ilgrtiii  l>'  =  hum. 

I  need  not  have  quoted  one  lim:-  .  f 
The  ploughman  hoiueu'urd  jilods  lii-i  V. .-. I 
It  was  unnecessary.  E.  YiUtDLn*. 

Tea  as  a  Meal  (8"-  S.  ix 
S.  xii.  351 ;  10^"  S,  i.  17(),  - 
characters  in  Fanjuhar's  play  <jt 
Stratagem,'  produced  in  1707,  im 
sings  a  song  in  the  thini  scene  ci   mf  i.'iirJ 
act,  of  which  the  following  i>i  a  stAoza  :— 
What  tin'  '  '  '      ihio 

At  Will  I? 

Or  who        1  e. 

Without  lalkiiig  of  irillfc!8  for  wit? 

Albert  Mattukw*. 
Boston,  U.S. 

"Chop-dollar"  (10'"  S.  i.  34»'\— '*  • • 

correspondent  Dir  An  Coo  is  . 
the  history  of  this  word,  it  is  cm 
IS  unaware  of  the  exhaustive  .< 
subject  in  Yule- Rurnell,  '  Elol 
Unless  any  one  is  able  to  add  to 
tion  collected  by  Col.  Yule,  it  ^ 
to  discuss  the  word  further.  "  Chtjjj," 
Oriental  sense,  is  given  in  tho  '  H-E.lJ.* 

Coi'PER  Coins  and  Tokens  ('[<',<-'•  :-;   {  jUnI 
335).  —  Several   methods  of  clc; 
and    bronze    coins    will    be    foi,-. 
Friedrich  Rathgon'a   handbook,    '  Dio 
sorvirung  von  Alterthuuisfunden'  (tM»f 
pp.  120  et.  fcq.),  published  under  the  aul 
of  the  Imperial  Museum  at  Berlin.    Dr.  T 
gen  herein  quotes  from  an  article  hy  IxH 
upon    the    aulnect    in    Dingier*!! 
Joiirnttl,  1896.  Band  301,  S.  44.      " 
translation    of    the    handbook 
shortly.  George  .\. 

Bradley, CO. South, *. MIT' 'n:  Ci  UiK  Vxi 
do*"  S.i.  380).— H 
time  Protector  of  '  ' 

a   second    wife?      Cyrlniiil 
between   his  flight  from    I 
roturo  thoroto,  16CO-80,  soiueliiuu«  i 


% 


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457 


)hn  Clarke,  and  for  obvious  rea.sons.     But  I 
ive  never  heard  that  he  consoled  himself 
iStec  tiie  dealij  of  his  wife,  Dorothy  Mayor, 
of  Hursley,  in  167(5,  with  a  second  spouso,  or 

I^at  he  iiad  been  the  subject  of  any  scandal 
»hile  abroad.  A.  R.  Bayley. 

L 


i 

r^, 


ToPooRAPHY  OF  Ancient  London  (O"'  S. 

ii.  42D ;  10*''  S.  i.  70.  295).— Subsequently  to 

the  use  of  the  plot  of  ground  without  Cripple- 


k 


ate  (according  to  Stow,  1C03)  as  the  Jewa 
urial-ground,  it  was  apparently  granted  to 
o  French  refugees.    Tiie  following  is  from 
Stow'.s  'Stranger's  Guide,  or  Traveller's 
Directory,'  1721  : — 

"  Back  Alley,  iu  Back  Street  in  Old  Street  Square. 
Not  far  from  hence  is  llie  Pent-house,  so  called 
om  the  Burying  (Iround  thereto  belonging, 
herein  those  who  died  of  the  drcadfal  Pestilence 
11965.  were  buried :  but  now  it  is  granted  by  the 
ty  of  I^ndon  to  the  Frencli  Refugees,  who  uae  it 
•r  an  Hosiiltal  for  the  Relief  of  their  Sick." 

lie  name  "  Leyr&stowe,"  a?  mentioned  by 
trype,     is     evidently     the     Anglo  -  Saxon 

"leger"  =  grave,    and    "stow"  —  place  — a 

graveyard  or  burial-place. 

J.    HOLDEK   MacMiCIIAEL. 

Yeomaxopthe  Ceown  (10''' S.  i.  208,  272).— 
Ik.  a.  HrssEY  may  be  interested  in  know- 
ing that  the  will  of  John  Nelmes,  a  yeoman 
of  VVillesden,  Middlesex,  dated  10  November, 
an.  3  Edward  VI.,  and  proved  in  the  Court 
of  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of  St.  Paul'-s  on 

11  December,  1549,  ia  signed  by  John  N 

(? Nelmes).  "yeoman  of  the  King's  Guard," 
and  by  William  Byrde,  "yeoman  of  the 
lung's  Slaughter  ilouse"!  These  persona 
were  tenants  of  the  Dean  and  Chapter  of 
St.  Paul'a,  holding  farms  in  Willesden  which 
were  part  of  the  prebeudal  lands  ;  they  were 
not,  therefore,  merely  liable  as  tenants  to 
their  lord  for  service,  as  kinjj's  tenants  might 
be,  but  probably  held  office  by  right  of 
appointment.  Feed.  Uitchin-Kemp. 

6,  BeechBeld  Road.  C&tford,  8.E. 

Poet  Arthur  (10"'  S.  i.  407).— Kappa  asks 
what  name  this  place  is  known  to  the 

lineso.    In   Longmans'  'Gazetteer  of  tho 

Torld,'  189ri,  the  Chinese  name  is  given  as 
|Lu  shwan-kau  or  Lu-shun-ku."    Both  these 

jrms  seem  to  me  incorrect^  My  own  ren- 
dering would  be  Lii-shun-keu,  based  on  what 

consider  the  best  mo<Jern  standard  ortho- 
.raphy.  viz.,  that  usefl  by  WeIN  Williams  in 
p8  'Syllabic  Dictionary  of  the  Chinese  Lan- 

lago,'  1890.     Morrison  would  have  written 

Lou-shun-khow.  James  1'latt,  Jun. 

NUMBBB   SUPBR-STITION    (lO^    S.    i,    36U)  — 

Folk-lore  doos  not  encourage  the  enumera- 


tion of  possessions.  The  consequence  of 
David's  census-taking  has  left  a  deep  im- 
pression ;  but  a  misgiving  against  numbering 
existed  previous  to  that,  as  we  may  judge 
from  Joab's  objection  to  the  king's  proposal. 
We  may  count  our  warts  when  we  wish  to 
get  rid  of  them  by  some  occult  means ;  but 
it  is  well  to  bo  vaguo  about  things  that  we 
have  no  desire  to  lose.  St.  Swituin. 

"  Painted  and  popped  "  (10*''  S.  i.  407), — 
I  do  not  know  why  wo  are  to  say  that  the 
derivation  otj>opf>ed  is  unknown.  It  is  given 
in  my  '  Glossary  '  to  Chaucer. 

I  suppose  Milton  took  the  word  from  a 
celebrated  poom  called  'The  Rooiauut  of 
the  Hose,' of  which  there  is  a  translation  in 
English,  the  first  1705  lines  being  Chaucer's. 
Lines  1018-20  run  thus  :— 

No  windred  browea  hAddt>  alie, 
i^e poppa/  hir  ;  for  it  ii^ded  nousht 
To  M'indre  hir,  or  to  pri/nit  hir  ought. 

I.e.,  she  had  no  trimmed  eyebrows,  nor  did 
she  trick  herself  up ;  for  there  was  no  need 
to  trim  herself  or  to  paint  herself  at  all. 

My  '.Glossary '  has :  "  Pop)xd,  pt.  8.  refl, 
tricked  herself  out.  *  Pouniner,  pofnner, 
s'attifer,  ae  parer' ;  Godefroy. 

Those  who  do  not  possess  Godefroy  can 
perhaps  consult  Cotgrave.  He  gives:  *' Se 
jyjpituv,  to  trimme,  or  trick  up  himselfe." 
And  pojiiner  is  derived  from  poptn.  Cotgrave 
has  :  "  Pojiin,  m.  -ine,  f.  spruce,  neat,  briske, 
trimme,  fine ;  quaint,  nice,  daintio,  prettie." 
Popin  was  also  spelt  ^?oiy>in,  from  the  Latin 
pHpus,pupa.  Walter  W.  Skeat. 

Thieves'  Slang:  "Joe  Gurr"  (10"-  S.  L 
386).— There  can  be  little  doubt,  I  think,  that 
for  "Joe  Gurr"  wo  should  read  "choker."  In 
criminal  phraseology  to  be  "in  choker"  or 
"chokey''^is  to  be  in  prison. 

Chb.  Watson. 

[Mr.  Dormfr  and  Da.  Fobsuaw  make  Iho  same 
euggeitioQ.] 

A  Sexton's  Tombstone  (D"»  S.  x.  306.  373, 
434,  517  ;  xi.  53.  235,  511  ;  xii.  115,  453)  —I  find 
that  I  made  an  error  in  transcribing  the 
sexton's  epitaph  given  at  9"'  S.  xi.  235.  In 
I.  C  for  '*  vision  "  read  visage. 

Alhx.  Leeper. 

Trinity  College,  Melbourne  University. 

Wiluam  WlLLTE  (10"'  8.  i.  67,  267,  316).— 
I  remember  a  curious  instance  of  a  double 
name,  that  of  the  lato  John  Wahh  Walsh,  a 
well-known  resident  in  Birmingham.  At 
the  time  of  his  baptism  the  clergyman  is 
said  to  have  stannnered,  thus  doubling  the 
Walsh.  The  story  is  told,  I  believe,  in 
'Personal    Recollections,'  by    the   late   Mr. 


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Eliezer  Edwards,  of  Biriningbam,  who,  if  I 
remember  rightly,  states  that  Mr.  Walsh 
attributed  much  of  his  after  auccess  in  life 
to  the  infirmity  of  the  clortfyraan  that  gave 
him  a  distinctive  inatead  oi  a  commonplace 
name. 

Here  is  an  instance  of  duplicate  namen  in 
a  family.  My  grandfather,  William  Wilmot 
Corfielcf,  born  1785  at  Penryn,  Cornwall  (of 
which  place  he  was  several  time^  Mayor), 
had  two  sons,  both  named  Eichard  (Kichard 
No.  1,  born  1808,  died  young  ;  Richard  No.  2, 
born  1810,  died  188i>),  and  two  daughters, 
both  named  Mary  (Mary  No.  1,  born  1809, 
died  young  J  Mary  No.  2,  bom  1812,  died 
1890).  There  were  also  other  children.  I 
take  the  names  and  earlier  dates  from  a 
family  pedigree  printed  in  1873. 

:Mr.  F.  a.  Hopkins  remarks,  "Whether 
thi»  is  a  custom  in  the  West  Country  I  have 
no  knowledge.  So  far  as  my  experience 
goes,  I   have  found  no  similar  example  of 

duplicate  names.'"  The  instances  I  have 
given  seem  to  point  to  the  custom  having 
existed  in  the  West  Country,  as  both  Truro 
and  Penryn  are  in  Cornwall 

W.  Wilmot  Coeweld. 

Calcatta. 

COSAS  DB  EspaSa  (10'"  S.  i.  247,  332).— It  is 
improbable  that  the  Columbus  memorial  in 
Seville  Cathedral  was  taken  from  Havana, 
for  the  one  honouring  the  remains  transferred 
to  Havana  from  San  Domingo,  1.1  January, 
1796,  consisted  of  a  small  urn  in  a  niche  in 
the  chancel  wall,  together  with  a  laurel- 
crowned  bust  on  a  marble  slab.  Although 
Spain  removed  the  ashes  reverenced  as  those 
01  America's  discoverer  from  Havana  to 
Seville  immediately  after  the  Spanish -Ameri- 
can war,  or  in  December,  18!J8,  it  was  not 
until  17  November,  1002,  that  they  were 
deposited  in  the  mausoleum  specially  mado 
for  them  in  Seville  Cathedral,  the  intervening 
time  doubtless  being  needed  for  the  artistic 
work.  The  recent  date  of  this  ceremonial 
accounts  sufficiently  for  the  absence  of  any 
mention  of  the  memorial  in  'The  Story  of 
Seville,'  published  so  soon  afterwards,  or  in 
the  *  Encyclopaedia  Britannica.' 

ilost  people  know  that  the  bodies  of  Chris- 
topher and  Diego  Columbus  were  removed 
from  Spain  to  San  Domingo  in  1536,  and 
that  when  San  Domingo  was  ceded  to  the 
French  in  1796,  the  remains  of  the  dis- 
coverer, as  was  supposed,  were  taken  to 
Havana,  and  now  have  been  retransferred  to 
Seville. 

Many  readers  of  'N.  it  Q.'  mav  be  also 
aware  that  San  Domingo  claims  still  to  have 


these  precious  relics  in  her  catlie<.iriil  :  hut 
others  may  not  have  noted  thiM,  or  do 
know  upon  what  ground  the  claim  is  batii 
perhaps  a  brief  summary  of  the  matter 
not  be  amiss  here.  When  the  <i---' 
men t  was  made  in  San  Doiuin 
an  adjoining  space  was  left  prc,....^.., 
few  years  later  was  filled  by  the  body  o/ 
Diego's  son  Luis,  the  Duke  of  Venmu*. 
More  than  a  hundred  years  later,  when  Sm 
Domingo  was  threatened  by  a  British  flc«L 
the  then  archbishop,  fearing  desecration  of 
the  precious  dust,  ordered,  it  is  said,  that  the 
vaults  should  be  covered  with  oarth  so  as  to 
be  indistinguishable,  and  gradually  tlior 
relative  position  seems  to  have  become  matMr 
of  tradition.  The  cinerary  chest  exhum«d  ia 
1795  and  taken  to  Havana  lay  in  the  tredi- 
tional  corner  assigned  to  the  elder  Columbujs, 
with  a  second  vault  beside  it,  Ijr'  '  :.,  be 
that  of  Diego ;  but  some  proof  ;  i  in 

1877  cast  doubt  upon  this,  and  wm-u,  m  i801, 
there  was  found  beyond  the  emptied  vault  « 
larger  one,  containing  a  coffer  having  soi* 
ficient  marks*,  as  they  decipher  them,  to 
identify  it,  it_  proved  beyond  question  to 
the  San  Dominicans  that  the  roUcH  taken 
to  Havana  were  those  of  Diego  Coluin'iUs 
and  that  those  of  his  father  are  still 
own  po-ssession.  So  in  December,  i 
montn  when  the  remains  from  iiavitu* 
Cathedral  were  removed  with  such  p.imp 
to  Seville,  those  left  in  San  Domingo  Cathe- 
dral M-ere  rointerred  there  with  eciual  pomp, 
and  a  grand  new  tomb  cietHcate«l  to  Cliria- 


topher  Columbus. 
New  York  City. 


M,  C.  L 


'The  CBtLDREN  OK   THE  ClJAI'EI.  '  (ID""  8.  L 

407).— Several  years  since  I  came  acrora  % 
very  rare  collection  of  paraphleUi  in  New 
York  entitled  'The  Sad  Decay  of  Discipline 
in  our  Schools,'  l>earing  tlio  date  183a  It 
was  evidently  a  reprint  of  a  number  of 
curious  tracts  and  verses  referring  U) 
corporal  punishment  in  boys' schools.  'Th« 
Ro<liad,'  'A  Schoolmaster's  Jov  is  t/>  V\<>if' 
'The  Sparing  of  the  Rod,"  &c.,  wer. 
the  collection,  and  at  the  end  of  the 
was  a  small  pamphlet  entitled  'Some  Ace 

of  the  Stripping  and  Whipping  of  the  Chili 

of  the  Chapel.'    It  pnrporte<J  to  give  a  rety 
realistic  account  of  the   treatment    of 
boys  at  one  of  the  royal  chapels  (St.  Jaa 
I  think),  but  spelling,  «fec„  had  lieen  broi 
up    to   date    and     the    whole     .■  :-ra' 

possibly  by  Goo.  Colman  the  ^  tf 

supposed  author  of  'The  KoduiM,  whi' 
was  published  in  1820.  It  may  be  that  f' 
title  was  merely  taken  from  the  pamph 


Kr"  B.  I.  Ju:«K  4.  low.]  NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


459 


of  1576,  and  that  the  matter  of  it  was  purely 

raoderu  •  but  a  reference  to  the  collection  of 

8ixteentn-century  pamphlets  at  the  British 

Museum  would  easily  settle  the  question.    I 

^Keroeinber  a  query    with    reference   to    this 

^Kminplilet  appearing  in  a  literary  magazine 

^Bong    since    defunct)  about  1882-3,    but    it 

^Blicited  no  reply.    Frederick  T.  Hibqamb. 

^■^1,  Rodney  Place,  Clifton,  Bristol. 

Mrs.  Stopes's  inquirv  reminds  one  of 
Wither'a  celebrated  work  entitled  '  Abuser 
Stript  and  Whipt ;  or,  Satirical  Essayea.'  A 
full  bibliography  of  this  author's  works  may 
be  found  in  Lowndes,  beginning  at  p.  2963. 

Wm.  Jaooakd. 

139,  Canning  Street,  Liverpool. 

Habkpath  (10'''  S.  i.  190).— In  the  Devon- 
shire Association  Ti-ansnctiona,  vol.  xvii. 
p.  195,  In  a  paper  on  Seaton  before  the 
Uonqueat.  the  late  Mr.  J.  B.  Davidson  de- 
scril^s  the  boundaries  in  an  Anglo-Saxon 
charter  purporting  to  belong  to  the  year 
1005.     He  writes  :— 

"  Thence  it  struck  north  to  the  herp&th,  or  old 
military  road  from  Lyme  RcKJa  to  Sidmouth.  This 
ancient  dflsignation  '  herpath '  ia  preserved  in  the 
nanie  of  Uarepark  Farm,  the  homestead  of  which 
is  on  the  road,  close  by." 

In  the  Transaetions  of  the  same  asso- 
ciation, vol.  XXXV.  p.  147,  in  a  paper  on 
Sidbury,  Sidmouth,  Salcombe  Regis,  and 
Branscombe,  Mr.  J.  Y.  A.  Morshead  writea : 

"  Then  came  the  Saxons.  The  '  Ston-her-path  ' 
(Lyme-t^towford  road)  shows  their  probable  line 
of  march." 

It  seems  probable  that  these  two  writers 
would  reply  to  Mr.  Herapath's  query  in  the 
affirmative.  (Mrs.)  Rose-Troup. 

IIaleioh'8  Head  {10""  S,  i.  49,  130,  197).— 
May  I  be  permitted  to  bring  to  the  notice  of 
the  readers  of  *  N.  ik  Q.'  a  few  lines  from  the 
recently  published  '  Life  of  F.  W.  Farrar,' 
by  his  son  Reginald  Farrar?  Bishop  Mont- 
gomery, late  of  Tasmania,  who  was  "  almost 
the  first  of  the  Canon's  new  curates,"  states 
at  p.  238  that  "I  remember  spending  an 
evening  with  the  Abbey  clerk  of  the  works 
in  a  vault  under  the  altar,  trying  to  find 
Raleigh's  hea«J,  but  without  success."  It  ia 
not  unlikely  that  there  have  been  many 
searches  before ;  but  as  this  is  probably  the 
lost.i!  f  suflicientinteresttoberecorded 

fort  iM-ence.     In  1876  Disraeli  offore«l 

the  V>  c•Hl|JllIl^^le^  canonry  and  the  rectorship 
of  St.  Margaiet'!*  to  Dr.  Farrar,  the  restora- 
tion of  the  church  being  completed  in  1878. 
W.  E.  Harland-Oxley. 

C2,  The  Almbhoiises.  Kochyetcr  Row,  S.  W. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &c. 
yfemoir  of  John  Kay  :  with  a  Ri-vkw  of  the  Ttxtilt 
Tradf  ami  Manufacturt.  By  John  Lord.  (Roch- 
dale, Clegg.) 
Before  the  author  of  this  work  conld  see  the  proofs 
of  the  first  chapter  ha  had  paused  to  the  majority. 
Under  these  distressing  cirounistance!*  the  task  was 
taken  uii  and  tiniehed  by  hia  brother,  Mr.  William 
Lord,  wno  adds  to  the  volume  a  ftortrait  and  life- 
of  the  author.  Biographies  of  John  Kay,  the 
famous  LancAahire  inventor,  exist,  aud  a  memoir 
by  Mr.  R.  B.  Prosser  ai)pear8  in  the  '  D.N.B.,' 
vol.  XTix.  pp.  'J47-H.  Accoraing  to  Mr.  Lord,  who  has 
devoted  to  his  task  remarkable  energy  of  research, 
these  are  all  inadequate  or  misleading,  and  the 
facts  of  John  Kny's  life  are  now  for  the  first  time 
fully  narrated.  A  strange,  wandering,  and  romantic- 
life  appears  to  have  been  that  of  a  man  who,  having 
conferred  upon  his  native  place  unsurpassable  obli- 
gation, saw  nis  house  wrecked  by  the  hostility  of  his 
fellow-townsmon,  and  was  sent  to  j^erish  in  poverty 
and  exile.  John  Kay  is  best  known  as  the  inventor 
of  the  flying  shuttle,  the  effect  of  which  in  facilitat- 
ing textile  labour  cannot  easily  be  over-estimated. 
By  his  biographer  he  is  regarded  ss  the  inventor  m 
matters  of  textile  machinery.  Hia  life  has  beer> 
written  by  one  who  is  an  anti<)uary,  a  genealogist, 
and  an  enthusiast,  and  has  followed  the  trail  of  his 
subject  with  the  unerring  instinct  and  tiJelity  of 
the  sleuth-hound.  A  chief  object  of  the  work  is  to 
show  the  inaccuracy  and  general  nntrustwortbiness 
of  a  life  of  Kay  written  by  his  Krandaon,  Col. 
Thomas  Sutclill'e,  a  task  which  is  discliarged  with 
zeal  and  unction.  It  is  impossible — although  the- 
investigation  brings  us  on  the  tracks  of  the  JacobitA 
rising  of  1745,  and  leads  us  up  to  associations  with- 
Dickens— to  follow  Mr.  Lord  in  his  researches  or  to 
dwell  upon  his  discoveries.  For  these  the  reader 
most  turn  to  the  book.  What  is  unauestionably 
done  is  to  establish  the  connexion  ot  Kay  with 
Bury,  upon  the  trade  of  which  prosperous  town 
nincli  light  is  cast.  Among  numerous  illustratiooa 
are  portraits  of  John  Kay  himself ;  of  his  biographer : 
of  Sir.  Archibald  Sparko,  chief  librarian  of  Bury, 
by  whom  the  work  is  ushered  in ;  and  of  various 
local  celebrities,  including  the  Karl  of  Derby. 
Spots  of  interest  are  also  depicted,  and  many 
genealogies  and  other  dooumenta  enrich  a  volume 
the  scholarly  attractions  of  which  extend  far  beyond 
local  bounds. 

The    Literature    of  the    High!and».     By    Magnus. 

I      Maclean,  D.Sc.    (Blackie  &  Son.) 
Dr.    :Maci.bax     has   followed    up    his    snocessfuf 

I  '  Literature  of  the  Celts  '  with  a  more  8|>ecialixed 
work  on  '  The  Literature  of  the  Uighlands,'  and  it 
is  to  be  hoped  he  will  complete  the  trilogy  with  a 
similar  book  on  the  literature  of  the  Irish,  if 
that  subject  has  not  been  too  completely  mono- 
polized by  Dr.  Joyce.  In  the  present  attraotive- 
looking  volume  he  excludes  all  the  Gaelic  litera- 
ture before  the  year  1745,  as  that  already  came 
within  the  purview  of  his  previous  essay.  It  was 
not,  indeed,  till  after  that  dale  that  the  Gael  first 
foun<l  \\\n  way  into  print,  and  that  the  golden  age 
of  Highlaiid  poetry  began.  The  redeeming  feature 
of  all  Gaelic  poetry  is  the  intense  sympathy  with 
Nature  in  all  her  moods  which  inspires  it  and 
gives  it  the  richness  of  its  colouring,  a  feature  dis- 


460 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        (lo*  s.  i.  Jr«  4.  i9m. 


tluoti ve  of  the  Celt  ovorywhere.  After  making  due 
nllowtvnce  for  the  lo«a  of  8|>irit  and  aroma  inevitable 
in  tlie  tranafuBion  from  one  tODKue  into  another  so 
<lirterent,  it  caniiot  bo  denied  that  many  of  the 
writers  whoso  (lious  and  banal  effusions  are 
registered  here,  if  they  were  Eujflish,  would  be 
regarded  as  very  minor  bards  iudeed,  hardly 
8U|ierior  to  our  own  Hervey  and  Mason,  or  those 
ininiortali/.cd  in  the  amber  of  the  '  Dunciad.'  For 
inalanco,  we  are  told  that  the  most  t>trikin({  poem 
of  one  Robb  Dona  wtw  hia  'Song  to  Winter,' 
of  whiuh  some  stanzaa  are  K>ven  in  a  translation, 
but  they  are  hardly  more  i(itelli]u:ible  than  the 
original  fJacHe.  One  of  these  we  take  the  liberty 
of  printiiiK  as  i)rose :— "  The  running  streams 
ciiieflain  la  trailinR  to  laud.  So  flabby,  ao  griuiv, 
The  spots  of  hia  prime  he  Has  rusted  with  sand: 
Crook-snouted  his  creat  is  That  taper'd  so  grand' 
{\\  61).  Dr.  Maclean's  elucidations  are  not  them- 
selves always  conspicuously  lucid.  The  proverbial 
saying,  "  "Two  old  women  could  dispose  of  it  with- 
out iBaviug  the  fireside, "  seems  to  gain  nothing  in 
intelligibility  from  the  comment,  "  How  potent  is 
gossip— the  feminine  avizandum  !  "  (p.  156.) 

One  of  the  most  interesting  chapters  in  the  book 
is  that  which  discusses  Macplii<r»oii  and  his 
*  Oaaiau,'  a  burning  question  onee,  now  as  cold  as 
Heola.  A  judicious  rciami  of  the  coutroveray 
leads  one  to  the  concluntou,  now  generally  accepted 
and  held  by  Dr.  Johnson  at  the  linio,  thot  a  real 
residuum  of  ancient  native  folk-song  underlay,  and 
gave  life  and  substance  to,  the  very  mediocre 
exi)ansion8  and  additions  which  the  charlatan 
imposed  wyton  it.  The  English  'Ossian' was  un- 
■tloubtedly  the  original,  of  wliioh  the  Gaelic,  after- 
wards produced  to  order,  waa  the  translation. 
More  than  half  of  the  poem,  it  is  estimated,  was 
absolutely  Macpherson's  own.  It  is  amusing  to  find 
the  pretender,  with  a  proper  sense  of  his  own 
importance,  ordering  his  remains  to  be  iuterred  in 
WestniiuBter  Abl>ey. 

KelUc  JttHenrrhes :  Sl>tdiex  in  the  History  and  Di«- 
tribution  of  Ancitnt  Goiiklic  Lnnguagt  and 
PtopkH.  By  E.  W.  B.  Nicholson,  Bodley'a 
Librarian,  Uxford.  (Frowdo.) 
We  have  here  a  work  of  remarkable  learning,  such 
as  bat  few  of  us  are  able  to  appreciate  as  it  deserves, 
much  less  Lo  criticise.  The  author  endeavours  to 
■show,  and  wo  think  successfully,  that  the  ancient 
Pictish  tongue  was  not,  as  several  of  our  older  anti- 
■uuaries  imagined,  a  form  of  Gothic,  but  a  (loidelic 
dialect  standing  in  a  relation  lo  the  Highland  Gaelic 
of  to-day  aimilar  with  thot  which  Anglo-Saxon 
holds  to  modern  Kuglish.  He  di8cus.^cs  at  length 
the  Pictish  place-name  Peanfahel,  so  happily  pro- 
served  for  us  by  Bede.  who  is  careful  to  tell  his 
readers  that  it  is  in  (jermone  Pictorum."  (iur 
readers,  even  those  who  have  no  acquaintance  with 
things  Celtic,  will  call  to  mind  how,  in  the 
'  Antiquary,'  Sir  Arthur  Wardour  and  Mr.  Oldbuck 
fall  into  a  heated  discussion  regarding  the  language 
thiB  word  represents.  Oldbuck,  by  far  the  wiser 
inan,  was  wrong  in  maintaining  it  to  be  Teutonic. 
Modern  scholars  regard  it  as  Celtic,  though  by  no 
means  in  agreement  as  to  which  sub-family  or 
dialect  it  belongs.  Mr.  Nicholson's  criticisms  are 
too  elaborate  to  reproduce,  and,  like  all  good  philo- 
logical work,  will  not  bear  abridgment.  We  have 
ourselves  no  doubt  that  he  has  arrived  at  asoluliou 
verjT  nearly  approximating  to  truth. 
The  portion  devoted  to  the  names  of  the  Celtic 


kings  is  of  groat  interest*      M/i.!<-rnK  k«tk  rM~-«»;i 

the  whole  long  array,  and 

pleasure  in  their  etn-nnin.M 

traits  of  these   w 

of  Holyrood.    It 

this  long  line  is  ai^' 

one  was  paid  to  makt- 

viduala.   That  the  nain 

old  is  not  oi>eu  t-o  quoBiiiiii,       iiv 

no  doubt  very  corrupt,    and     i: 

perhaps  incapable  of  satinfactory  r 

— which   is  a  j)iece  of    guod  fortune  uot   m 

happen — earlier  manusorijtlM  shoitjd  ooni* 

In  any  cAse  thoy  are  not  fal'!  ' 

apply  the  term  to  certain  pe^l 

tne  sixteenth  and  eeventeeii 

those   names   at   their  loweat.  ihuy    (>  , 

traditions  which  cannot  l)e  without  son 

of    truth,  however  much  they  may   Iiavi.-  -untrtj 

distortion. 

The   author  gives  much  informatidn    iib.,ut  tli« 
kindred    of   the   Piots   who  were  oul  a 

certain  districts  nowiyartsof  France;  rj 

only  exists  in  most  8lia<lowy  form,  bu;  v, •:  .ire  gUd 
to  have  what  ia  known,  or  even  rationally  •annuBd, 
put  before  us. 

Onffiiu-a  A/phahcti^AH :  JVe»f  (iMttsci  at  Tntlh.    By 
a  March  Hare.    (York,  Sampson  ;  LondoD,  SiiBp- 
kin,  Marshall  &  Co,) 
Tuis^eK  (fe*pT-i>— at  the  souro*  ^f  which,  wbatflvsr 
our  conjectures,  we  are  forli- '  is  likdr 

to  furnish  amusement  and  sj  .  i«ta  ana 

others.    It  belongs  to  an  or'.  <.f  iL« 

punster — we  duly  proscribe.    It  cotiiMi  i  %a 

one  good  laugh,  and,  in  spite  of  its  fn  iis 

work  of  a  scholar. 


^otictB  to  Corrrsjixinbmts. 

We  tHiut  tail  uptCtcJ.  aiUnlion  to  the  /otJewJHf 
nolifes:— 

Ok  all  conimuoications  must  b«  written  th«  name 
and  address  of  the  sender,  not  neoaaaarily  for  pub< 
lica,tion,  but  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

We  cannot  undertAke  to  answer  <r'i'^''i>'-'  ■•->■•  "i-i» 

To  secure   insertion    of   conitu 
■pondents  must  observe  the  foli<r 
each  note,  query,  or  repl^  be  writiuu  on  Hk  ^ 
slip  of  paper,  with  the  signature  of  the  wi.' 
such  address  as  he  wishes  to  appear.    W  V   - 
ing  queries,  or  making  notes  with  reigar^ 
entries  in  the  paper,  contributors  arc  i. 
nut  in   parentheses,   immediatolr  after   ili 
heading,  the  aeries,  volume,  ana  page  or  p 
which    they    refer.      Correspondents    who    ttjio 
queries    are    requested  to  head   the  second 
munication  "  Duplicate." 

J.  A.  J,  H.  ("Fat,  fair,  and  forty"),— This  fo 
occurs  in  "St.  Ronan's  Well,'  chap.  rii.  Tirfi 
{'  The  Maiden  Queen,'  I.  ii.)  has :  "  I  »n»  resolvi  ' 
grow  fat,  and  look  young  till  forty." 

A.  H.  Lke  ("Gaelic  League").— The  address' 
24,  Upper  O'Connell  Street,  Dublin. 
/fOT/CE. 

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CONTENTS. -No.  24. 
NOTBS  :  —Bow  Briilge,  461  —  "  SBtisuli "  :  )U  DerinOlon, 
443  — Dl()dia  Blbliosrspby,  (fja  —  Sbaketpesre'i  Boofci— 
"  Joiijt,"  Tll>etAD  Word  — Herbert  Spencer  »n<l  Obildren, 
446  —  ABtwick  :  Auitwick  —  FortugucM  Venion  of  the 
Aphlkln  Story— '  Plumpton  Correipondence'  — Pedinree 
in  IMti  —  "  Feti»b  "  —  Rop«iiuU[«n'  AUey  Cbapel,  4M  — 
MeviHttuey  Duck— Westmlnitor  Abbey  Ch>Dgc4,  467. 

QUBBIBS  :— Bamw.  'Tbe  Devil's  Gbarter' —  Immauuel 
KaJll'*  OrlKln,  467— Miu-garst  Blut — Bay'*  Itinerarlei  — 
Autbon  o(  QuolntionB  Waatad  — AUke— ProoeMion  Door, 
46S— Doge  of  Venice -Mii(na  CbArta  — Batrece— Blobsnl 
Plnoemm  — Wbitly  True  — King  Jobn'a  Ch«rter«  — "In 
matten  of  oommcroe"— Pembarton  Faintly— Lat«  Intel- 
lectual Harveal- Huquler,  Bograron,  4W— The  '  Tiinea,' 
1983,  470. 

RBPLIBS  !— The  Prttnier  Orenadler  of  France,  470— Ttdea- 
well  and  Tlileslow.  471— Tbe  Ixibl»hon»e  —  Aristotle  and 
Moral  Phlloaopby  —  Poema  on  Shakespeare- Military 
Buttuna  :  Serjeant*'  Ch-vrona— Hajjgovele — Chair  of  St. 
AoKiuttne,  473— Fettlplace  — Tlckllnjj  Trout— "  Ltither'a 
di»llch."473— "  There  traaa  man  " — Aiitbori  of  Quotatfout 
Wanted — Secret  Dooument*,  474— "  Hon-hu«ii>y"— Mark 
Hildealoy— Step-brother,  475— The  San  and  \t»  Orbit  — 
WoWerbampton  Pulpit -Catting  Lota— Buripldea -.  Data 
of  hla  Birth-" Tbe  Ktory  of  the  HetboiUita,"  47A— 
• '  Jenion'a  Intaek "- Patte— " Purple  patoh "-'The  Tong 
Sou  Idler '— Martello  Tower»,  477— '"  Tbe  run  of  his  teeth  "— 
"  Barrar"— Shakespeare's  Qmre— "Gringo"— Foreigner! 
"  Orlengro,"  478. 

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BOW  BRIDGE. 

"Bow  BRinnB"  has  for  close  upon  eight 
centuries  been  famous  as  the  principal 
means  of  cnmtnunicAtion  between  Lonclon 
— or,  to  be  more  strictly  correct,  between 
the  county  of  Middlesex— and  the  county 
of  Essex.  From  time  imitiemorial,  and 
lonR  before  there  was  any  bridge  over 
the  river  Lea,  there  was  a  ford  across 
the  river  at  a  point  not  very  far  distant 
from  where  the  bridge  now  stands  j  and  the 
name  Old  Ford,  which  still  clings  to  the 
district  a  little  to  the  north  of  the  bridge, 
indicates  the  position.  This  ford  was 
certainly  in  use  in  the  time  of  the  Romans, 
AS  is  shown  by  the  convergence  from  both 
sides  of  the  river  to  this  point  of  old  roads 
which  antiquaries  tell  us  are  of  Roman 
origin. 

The  use  of  this  ford  continued  for  manv 
years,  and  it  is  on  record  that  in  the  seventn 
century.  300  years  after  the  Romans  left 
these  islands,  the  body  of  St.  Krkonwald  was, 
owing  to  the  floods,  «top^)ed  on  the  Essex 
side  of  the  river  while  being  conveyed  from 
the  Abbey  of  Barking  (where  he  died)  to 
London  for  interment ;  but  the  passage  was 


difficult  and  dangerous  at  all  times,  and  in 
the  earlv  part  of  the  twelfth  century  it  was 
superseded  bj'  a  bridge.  This  bridge  was 
erected  at  the  instance  of  Oueen  Matilda, 
consort  of  Henry  I.,  who,  having  berseu 
experienced  the  unpleasantness  of  crossing 
the  ford  in  flood-time,  not  only  caused  the 
bridge  with  its  approaches  to  be  built>,  but 
also  granted  certain  lands  to  tho  Abbess  of 
Barking  for  maintaining  the  same.  Stowe, 
the  historian,  says  of  the  bridge  that  it  was 
"arched  like  a  bowe,"  which,  Im  adds,  "was 
a  rare  piece  of  worke,  for  before  the  time  the 
like  had  never  beene  seeue  in  England." 
Notwithstanding  the  provision  made  for  its 
repair,  disputes  arose  as  to  who  was  liable 
for  this,  as  the  lands  granted  by  Queen 
Matilda  had  been  sold,  and  Queen  Eleanor 
found  it  in  such  a  condition  that  she  ordered 
it  to  be  repaired.  This  did  not,  however, 
prevent  litigation,  and  eventually  the  Court 
of  King's  Bench  decided  in  the  sixth  and 
eighth  years  of  Edward  II.  that  the  Abbot  of 
Stratford,  the  Master  of  Loti<ion  Bridge,  and 
the  Master  of  St.  Thomas  of  Acre  wore  liable 
to  keep  the  bridge  in  repair,  as  they  held  the 
lands  originally  granted  by  Matilda  to  the 
Abbess  of  Barking  for  its  maintenance. 
These  obligations  appear  to  have  been 
observed  down  to  tne  dissolution  of  the 
monasteries  in  the  time  of  Henry  VIII..  as 
there  is  no  record  of  any  complaint  being 
made  until  1643,  when  it  again  became 
dilapidated.  Attempts  ^  were  made  by  the 
holders  of  the  lands  originally  granted  for 
the  repairs  of  the  bridge  to  deny  their 
liability,  upon  the  plea  that,  the  lands  having 
gone  to  the  Crown  at  the  dissolution  of  the 
monasteries,  they  were  not  liable.  This  was 
not,  however,  the  view  taken  by  the  Courts, 
and  further  attempts  in  the  Hame  direction 
in  1663  and  1690  proved  useless. 

For  nearly  a  century  after  this  nothing 
further  is  heard  of  the  bridge ;  but  shortly 
before  1741  it  was  found  necessary  to  widen 
it  on  either  side,  so  as  to  give  a  width 
between  the  parapets  of  some  20  ft.  instead 
of  16  ft.  But  even  then  this  famous  old 
bridge  had  but  a  few  more  years  to  last,  and 
in  1836  it  was  swept  away  for  a  bridge  of 
more  ample  dimensions.  The  old  bridge  had, 
since  it  was  built  (somewhere  between  the 
years  1100  and  1118),  been  considerably 
altered,  and  bore  evidence  of  having  been 
almost  rebuilt  during  the  Tudor  period  ;  but 
it  is  generally  considered  that  it  was  of  three 

rns,  as  it  certainly  was  at  the  time  of  its 
tructiou,  and  it  was  celebrated  as  one  of 
the  most  ancient  stone  bridges  (if  not  tho 
oldest)  in  England. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [lo-  b.  l  ju«  n.  ion. 


The  new  bridge,  which  still  exists,  was 
built  at  the  joint  exponae  of  the  counties 
of  Essex  and  iliddlesex,  under  an  Act  of 
parliament  passed  in  1834,  and  work  was 
actually  commenced  in  April,  1835.  The 
plans  for  the  new  bridge  were  prepared  by 
Messrs.  Walker  &,  Burgess,  and  the  esti- 
mated cost  was  ll.OOOi.  It  is  built  of 
Aberdecin  and  other  granite,  and  has  a 
single  span  of  G4  ft.,  with  a  clear  water 
headway  of  about  7  ft.,  and  a  width  between 
the  parapets  of  40  ft.  The  work  was  com- 
pleted in  January,  1838. 

Since  that  date  the  traffic  has,  of  course, 
increased  enormously  in  the  neighbourhood, 
and  it  has  again  been  found  necessary  to 
make  more  ample  provision  for  it.  The 
London  County  Council  and  the  Corporation 
of  West  Ham,  the  two  authorities  now 
concerned  with  the  matter,  have  accordingly 
widened  the  roadway.  The  widening  will 
no  doubt  be  a  very  great  convenience  to  the 
publio,  but  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the 
"improvement,"  as  a  matter  of  convenience, 
will  not  at  the  same  time  entirely  efface  the 
symmetrical  beauty  of  the  bridge  itself. 

The  work,  which  was  in  progress  last 
autumn,  has  doubtless  now  been  finished, 
but  I  have  not  had  the  opportunity  of  seeing 
it,  (Cf.  ArchaolcHfta,  vol.  xxvii.,  and  Trans- 
actions of  the  Institution  of  Civil  Engineers, 
vol.  iii.  p.  343,  with  plates.) 

H.  W.  Underdown. 


"SANGUIS":  ITS  DERIVATION. 
(Seeg't-S.  xii.  ISl.) 

Is  this  pai)or  an  attempt  is  made  to  connect 
sanmtis  etymologicaliy  with  another  group 
of  Latin  words,  with  the  Greek  ui[ia,  and 
with  other  Greek  terras— all  mainly  belong- 
ing to  the  religious  sphere.  My  theory  is 
that  these  words  are  not,  in  the  strict  sense 
of  the  term,  Indo-European,  but  belong  to 
the  Mediterranean  peoples,  who  were  invaded 
by,  and  who  ultimately  adopted  the  speech  of, 
North  European  conquerors.  The  latter  in 
their  turn  were  affected  by  the  civilization 
and  religion  of  the  vanquished.  To  whicli  of 
these  two  antagonistic  race  elements  in  the 
Mediterranean  area  the  Pelasgi  belonged  is 
a  question  which  I  leave  untouched ;  but 
beyond  the  doubtful  northern  fringe  of  the 
welter  of  mixed  folk,  and  constantly  thrust- 
ing itself  into  their  midst,  was  a  nomad 
people,  possessing  in  common  certaui  charac- 
teristics of  race,  of  speech,  of  religion,  of 
culture,  and  of  manners  (1  will  not  add  of 
physique),  which  differentiated  them  from 
their  neighbours.     This  congeries  of  tribes  [exact  equivalent  of  n'^yWa 


is  known  as  the  Celts,  who  played  a  r6le  ia 
prehistoric  Europe  not  unlike  that  of  thai 
Arab  in  later  times  and  more  southern  lands.  1 
Such  of  these  tribes  as  had  settled  among  thai 
highly'  civilized   folk  of  the  Mediterraneanl 
area  found  themselves  in  the  presence  of  _ 
culture  where  vii-tus  had  already  trodden  its 
usual  path  to  vertn.     Virility  had  yielded  to 
the  languor  induced  by  a  too  genial  clime, 
and  that  languor  tinged  even  the  speech  of 
its  victims. 

I  do  not  know  if  keener  observers  will  bear 
me  out,  but  my  own  somewhat  limits  ex- 
perience leads  me  to  believe  that  n  ^  "  * 
the  sunny  South  aie  more  prone  t' 
the  smoke  of    their    cigars  and    cignr^ 
through  the  nasal  passage  than  is  tne' 
with  us  who  dwell  beneath  gloomier  sk 
The  habit  referred  to  ia  a  very  repellent  ona  | 
to  me  personally  ;  but  if  I  am  right  in  my 
conjecture,  it  seems   to  point  to  an  older 
practice  of  using  the  uvula  to  close  the  oral 
passage,   and  uttering  8oun<ls  through  the 
neighbouring  nasal  one.    The  sounds  thus 
uttered  would  of  course  be  m  and  n.    Closelj 
allied  with  these  are  the  "  voiced  "  labials, 
and  d.    I  infer,  thenj  that  the  velar  guttut 
yu  would  in  the  Mediterranean  area  neveloj 
into  labialism,  and  that  the  Northern  tribes 
who  penetratad  into  that  area  would  adopt 
it,  and   those  settled   nearest  the  centre  of 
the  Mediterranean  civilization,  more  rapidly 
than    the   more   Western    settlers— c.j/.,    tM 
Hellenes  than  the  Italians.    Of  the  (Jeltil 
fringe,  the  tribes  that  came  into  closer  coa^ 
tact    with    the    iIe<:iitorraneanized     people 
would  be  exf>oseti   to  this  influence,   wnile^ 
those  more  remote  would   be  free   from   it. 
Again,  certain  tribes,  even  among  those  whe 
were  settled  within  the  sphere  of  labial  ia-^ 
fluence,  would,  from  one  cause  or  another* 
show  more  resistance  to  that  influence  than 
others,  as  we  may  see  in   Italy,  where  the 
Latins  remained  on   the  "  Indo-European " 
level   in   this  respect.    Taking  the  Eastern 
Mediterranean,  then,  with  Crete  at  its  h' 
as  the  home  of    labialii^n],    we  find  ar 
western  door  the  Sicilian  Zancle  as  a  t'  | 
graphical    name    equivalent    to   the    ui.t- 
eastern  Samos  and  Same.     Zancle,  w» 
told  by  Thucydides,  is  a  Siculan  word  ! 
sickle.    There  is  every  reason  to  believi' 
that  is  correct,  but  place-names  of  that  '•    - 
are  a  prominent  feature  of  Hellas.     Za 
iecula  (Campanian),  and  tickle  show  a 
of  vowel  gradation  which  can  be  paral 
in  Sicily  itself.  There  we  have  Zancle,  Seg. 
Siculi  and  Sicani,  and  on  the  oDiiositf 
of  the  strait  S[i]oylla.     Sicylla 

Nu  "  '■' 


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18  a  diminutive  of  sibus,  $iba,  sipus,  connected 
with  Mnpio.  Salmaaius,  who  scouted  the 
aooepted  derivation   from   <rtos  /?oi'A^,   sug- 

eested  in  his  turn  a  derivation  which  Prof, 
lamqay  ('  Ovid  Selections,'  p.  259)  considered 
less  "  reasonable  "  than  the  other— too  un- 
reasonable, indeed,  to  be  even  quoted.  The 
derivation  proposed  by  Salmasius  ('Exerci- 
tationes  Pliuianse')  was  from  a-lorf,  pome- 
granate (tree  and  fruit).  S^iSt;,  of  which 
another  form  <riff8a  occurs,  ia  said  to  be  a 
I'htpnician  (or  Carthaginian)  word.  If,  as  is 
not  improbable,  there  attached  to  the  pome- 
granate a  "sacred"  character — "a  tree  of 
knowledge,"  or  aometbing  of  that  kind— we 
should  not  only  be  inclined  to  think  that 
Salmasius  had  come  nearer  the  mark  than 
Prof.  Ramsay  had  imagined,  but  we  should 
also  find  some  light  thrown  ou  the  obscure 
and  vexed  question  of  the  sibyl  and  the 
"golden  bough  "  of  Virgil.  I  need  not  men- 
tion the  story  of  Proserpine  and  the  pome- 
granate as  told  by  Ovid,  but  the  Irisn  tale 
of  Connla'?  Well  may  here  be  quoted  from 
Prof.  Rhys's  'Celtic  Heathendom'  (p.  554): — 
"  Over  this  well  there  Rtew  nine  beautiful  mys- 
tical hazcl-trcea,  which  annually  sent  forth  their 
bloasome  and  fi'uita  siruullaneousJy.  The  nuts  were 
of  the  richeat  crimson  colour,  luid  teemed  with  the 
knowledge  of  all  that  waa  refined  in  literature, 
tioetry,  and  art.  No  sooner,  however,  were  the 
Doautiiul  nuta  prod  need  on  the  trees,  than  they 
always  dropped  into  the  well,  raising  by  their  fall 
a  succession  of  ihitiingred  bubbles.  Now,  dnriuK 
this  time  the  water  was  always  full  of  salmon  ;  and 
no  sooner  did  the  bubbles  appear  than  these  salmon 
darted  to  the  surface  and  ate  the  nuts,  after  which 
they  made  their  way  to  the  river.  The  eating  of 
the  nuts  produced  orilliant  crimson  spots  on  the 
bellies  of  these  »almon  ;  and  to  catch  and  eat  these 
salmon  became  an  object  of  more  than  mere 
gastroDomiu  interest  among  those  who  were 
anxious  to  liecome  distinguished  in  the  arts  and 
in  literature  without  being  at  the  {Mina  and  delay 
of  long  study  ;  for  the  fish  waa  supposed  to  have 
become  tilled  with  the  knowledge  which  was  con- 
tained in  the  uuta,  which,  it  was  believed,  would 
be  transferred  in  full  to  those  who  had  the  good 
fortune  to  catch  and  eat  them.  Such  a  salmon  waa 
on  that  account  called  the  Eo  Fea-na,  or  '  Salmon 
of  Knowledge.' " 

When  I  a(id  to  this  that  Welsh  has  not 
only  in  current  use  an  ailjective  $yw  (^now 
only  in  tlie  sense  of  "trim,"  "neat'  in 
bearing  and  dress),  but  also  aiivin,  a.  famous 
local  species  of  Salmonidse,  siwen,  "an 
epithet  of  a  mermaid  "  (Pughe).  and  an  obso- 
lete term  for  a  philosopher,  si/tv^di/dd,  it  will 
be  seen  that  wo  have  here  "strong  grounds 
for  considering  those  terms  akin  to  si'A///, 
9if)ut,  and  nnpio. 

But  to  return  to  the  district  of  the  golden 
bough  :  even  if  Salmaaius  was  wrong  about 
cihii,  there  ia  in  the  territory  of  the  Uirpini 


a  weird  lake  called  Amsanctus  (cf.  Ampsaga, 
now  the  Wady  el-Kebir,  Algeria),  whose 
presiding  goddess  bore  an  apparently  Greek 
name,  viz.,  Mephitis.  Now  Salmasius's  sug- 
gestion as  to  an  .Eolic  (and  Doric)  change  of 
th  into  ph=/,  would  undoubtedly  clear  up 
the  obscurity  of  the  word  Mephitis.  Mi6v<n<i 
is  a  Greek  word  for  intoxication  ;  and  stupe- 
faction or  intoxication  due  to  the  gas-laoea 
atmosphere  of  Amsanctus  might  very  well 
pass  into  inspiration.  In  Welsh  the  common 
word  for  intoxication  is  meddwdod,  which, 
just  like  the  Greek,  is  (exceptionally)  accented 
on  the  first  syllable.  There  was,  I  may  add, 
a  temple  dedicated  to  Mephitis  at  Ci'emona 
in  Cis-Alpine  Gaul,  so  that  we  have  here  a 
clear  indication  of  Celtic  contact  with  the 
home  of  the  sibyl  cult.  J.  P.  Owkn. 

{To  be  continued.) 


A   BIHLIOGRAPHICAL  ACCOUNT  OF  THE 

WORKS  OF  CHARLES  DIBDIN. 
(See  ^^  8.  viii. .'»,  77,  197,  279;  ix.  421 ;  x.  122,  243 : 
xi.  2,  '243.  443 ;  xii.  1413,  283.  4'23,  462.) 
1806  (?).  The  Passions  in  a  Series  of  Ten  Songs, 
for  the  voice  and  Pianoforte.  Written  and  com- 
posed by  Mr.  Dibdin.  Enl*'  at  Sta-  Hall.  Price 
H,*.  Printe<l  and  sold  at  Bland  Jt  Winer's  [sir] 
Music  Warehouse,  No.  23,  Oxford  Street,  where 
may  be  had  all  the  above  author's  works.  Folio, 
21  pp. 

Contains  ten  songs.  E^ch  song  has  a  vignette 
at  top,  and  is  arranged  for  two  flutes.  Water- 
mark date  1806. 

1806.  The  Broken  Gold,  a  ballad  opera,  in  two 
acts,  as  performed,  at  the  Theatre  Knyal  Drury 
Lane,  the  words  and  music  by  Mr.  Dibdin.  Ent.  at 
Sta.  Hall.  Price  Sn.  London,  printed  and  sold  at 
Bland  &  Weller's,  Music  Warehouse,  '3,  Oxford 
Street,  where  may  be  had  all  the  above  author's 
works.     Folio,  41  pp. 

Opera  produced  8  February,  1806. 

Songs,  J:c.,  in  The  Broken  Gold,  a  ballad  opera, 
in  two  acts,  written  and  composer!  by  Mr.  DtBdin. 

(Vignette,  probably  by  Miss   Dibdin.J London: 

Printed  by  T.  Wooclfall,  and  published  for  the 
Author  by  all  the  Booksellers,  of  whom  may  be  had 
Mr.  Dibdin's  literary  works.     1806.     8vo. 

Engraved  title  as  above,  also  printed  title, 
pp.  viii  (not  numbered  consecutively)  and  24. 

1807.  The  Public  Undeceived,  written  by  Mr. 
Dibdin  ;  and  containing  a  statement  of  all  the 
material  facts  relative  to  his  pension.  Price  2«. 
Published  for  the  author  by  C.  Chappie.  Pall  Mall, 
(of  whom  may  be  had.  wholesale  or  retail,  all  Mr. 
bilxiin's  publications)  and  sold  by  all  the  booW- 
scllers  throughout  the  United  Kingdom.  Printed 
by  H   Reynell,  No.  21,  Piccadilly.    8vo.  57  pp. 

Dated  7  April,  1807. 

mrr.  Heniy  Hofika.  A  Novel.  By  Mr.  Dibdin, 
author  of  Hannah  Hewett  — Younger  Brother  — 
Musical  Tour— Professional  Life — Uarmonio  Pre- 
ceptor—History of  the  Stage,  kc,  Ac,    In  Threo 


464 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [lo"- 8.  l  jox.  ii.  i9o». 


YoluroM.    Vol.  I.  [11.  or  HI. J.     Liondoa :  Printed 
ior  C.  Chappie,  Palt-Mall.    1807.    [.J.  G.  Barnard, 
Printer,  Soow-hill.]    8vo. 
3  vols. :  pp.  iv,  216  ;  iv,  220  ;  iv,  304. 

18US.  *The  EDKliah  Pythagoras ;  or,  Every  M&n 
his  own  Musio  Master.  Written  by  Mr.  Dibdin. 
Thia  work  is  of  singular  and  extraordinary  attrac- 
tion, and  contains  the  delineation  of  a  new  dis- 
covery to  facilitate  a  knowledge  of  music.  "So 
did  the  bold  PylhaRoraa  of  yore  First  string  the 
•Grecian  Lyre."  London:  Printed  by  R.  Cantwell, 
Bell  Yard,  Temiile  Bar.  Published  by  the  Author, 
and  Sold  at  his  Music  Warehouse,  No.  125,  Strand  ; 
Mr.  Wyat,  at  the  Patent  Office.  No.  9,  Picket 
Street,  Temple  Bar;  Bland  &  Woller,  No.  23, 
Oxford  Street ;  Mr.  Kemp,  No.  43,  Old  Bond 
.■Street ;  Mr.  Wheatetone,  No.  346,  Strand  ;  and  all 
the  Booksellers  and  Music  Sellers.    1808.    4to. 

Dedicated  to  the  Right  Hon.  the  Earl  of 
Dartmouth  ;  pp.  iv,  viii,  35, 

1808  {?).  'The  Musical  Mentor,  or  St.  Cecilia  at 
■School:  consisting  of  Short  and  simple  Essays 
and  Songs,  calculated,  in  their  general  operation, 
progressively  to  assiat  the  Musical  Education  or 
Young  Ladies  at  Boarding  Schools.  The  whole 
written  and  composed  by  Mr.  Dibdin.  "From 
Harmony,  from  Heavenly  Harmony,  The  Universal 
Frame  began."  London.  Published  for  the  Author 
by  C.  Chappie,  Pall-Mall;  and  Sold  by  all  the 
Booksellers  and  Musio  Sellers  throughout  the 
United  Kingdom:  where  also  may  be  had  the 
whole  of  Mr.  Dibaio's  Literary  Works.  Norbnry, 
Printer,  Brentford.    Folio,  n.d. 

Consists  of  25  numbers  of  4  pp.  each,  an 
essay  or  lecture  illustrated  by  vocal  and 
instrumental  music. 

1808.  *Mu8io  Epitomized :  a  School  book ;  in 
which  the  whole  Science  of  Music  is  completely 
explained,  from  the  simnlost  rudiments  to  the  most 
complex  principles  of  harmony,  even  to  com{>osi- 
tion  and  the  doctrine  of  writing  down  ideas.  The 
whole  is  expounded  by  way  of  Question  and  Answer 
in  Ten  Dialogues,  and  illustrated  by  nlates,  cod- 
taining  ail  the  necessary  Tables.  By  M'  Dibdin. 
London,  Printed  for  the  Author,  by  R.  Cantwell, 
No.  29,  Bell  Yard,  Lincoln's  Inn,  and  sold  at  M' 
Dibdin's  Warehouse,  No.  125,  Strand.  1806.  Price 
Four  Shillings.    12mo,  vp.  iv  and  95. 

Errata  ou  p.  96.  Fourteen  folding  plates, 
apparently  from  the  coppers  of  'The  Harmonic 
Preceptor '  (1804).  This  work  must  have 
enjoyed  considerable  vogue,  for  there  were 
numerous  editions.  I  have  seen  or  heard  of 
the  following  : — 

Second.— Title  as  above  to  "  Mr.  Dibdin  " ; 
then 

"  Second  Edition.  London  Published  by  Goolding, 
D'Almaine,  Potter,  and  Co.  Musical  Instrument 
Manufacturers  and  Music  Sellers,  No.  134,  New 
Bond  Street ;  No.  20,  Soho  Square ;  and  No.  7. 
Westmorelonid  Street,  Dublin.  Price  Four  Shil- 
lings." 

12mo,  n.d.,  pp.  iv  and  95,  fifteen  platea  (not 
folding")  lettered  A  to  O, 

Third.— Practically  identical  with  second  ; 
o.d. 


♦Fifth, — Similar  to  third;  price  fivo  ahil- 
lings,  n.d. 

Sixth.— Price  five  shillings.  " RoNnsied  and 
corrected  by  a  Professor":  ti  d„  probably 
after  1814.  Another  (probably  a  later)  form  <A 
the  sixth  edition  was  "  Revised  and  corrected 
by  J.  Jousse,  Professor  of  Music." 

Seventh. — Price  five  shillings.  "Revised 
and  corrected  by  J.  Jouase,  Professor  of 
Music":  n.d. 

Eighth.— Particulars  not  noted. 

Ninth. — Price  5«.  6d  in  boards.  '•  With 
considerable  additions  to  the  precepts  and 
examples,  and  a  new  classification,  by  J. 
Jousse,  Professor  of  Music."  Pp.  xii  and  143, 
The  advertisement  states  that  there  had  been 
"eight  editions  since  it  was  corrected  aod 
improved  by  the  preaent  etlitor." 

Tenth.— Price  6«.;  pp.  xii.  150. 

Twelfth.  —  Price  bs.  Revised  by  J.  A- 
Hamilton;  published  by  D'Almaine  ic  CJo.; 
pp.  viii,  88,  44  ;  n.d. 

It    may  safely   be  inferred   that    *  Mm 
Epitomized'  eventually  became  that  mac! 
used  manual 'Hamilton  8  Catechism 
I  have  not,  however,  traced   the  i, 
phosis  beyond  this  stage. 

1808.  The  Professional  VoluntoerSja  Table  Eater- 
tainment.  written  and  composed  by  Charles  Dibdin. 
First  perfonned  1  March,  1S08. 

Songs  in  this  entertainment  were  publishc 
in  folio,  price  Is.,  usually  signed  by  Dibdi 
on   a    sheet  of  4  pp.,   with   the  cu^tomL. 
arrangement  for  two  flutes.    I  have  seen  rer 
few,  and   it    is    improbable    tliat    all    wer 
published,  but  the  following  is  the  origiua 
programme  of  musical  pieces  in  the  order  aa^ 
advertised  for  the  opening  night.    Headings 
of  songs  are  similar  to  No.  7  unless  noted. 

*1.  The  Muster  (a  glee). 

*2.  The  Veteran  in  Retiremoat. 

•3.  The  Parting  Volunteer. 

•4.  The  Little  Bark. 

•5.  The  Irish  Sailor. 

•6.  British  Wives. 

7.  William  &.  Jesse  [tic},  written  &  eompot. 
By  Mr.  Dibdin,  And  sung  byMr.  Leuattho  Lyceur 
In    the    Entertainment     called     the    Professiono. 
Volunteers.    Ent,  at  Stat.  Hall.     Published  by  the' 
Author  at  his  Musio  Warehouse  No.  125  Strand  Sl 
by  Bland  k  Weller  No.  23  Oxford  8t   PuMiflhers 


(by  appointment)  of  the  whi. 
Songs,  &  may  be  had  of  Mr, 
Bond  Street,  i  Mr,  Wheatstom  , 

*8.  Distress  on  Distress. 
9.  Life,    Sung  by  Mr.  Grey, 

10.  Lumkin  and  nis  Mother. 


I 


4  pp. 

Londn& 


by  Goulding  &  Co.  20  Soho  Square,  tc 
Watermark  date  1811. 


4  HP. 


•11.  The  Choice  of  Minerva. 
*12.  Lovely  Fan  and  Manly  Ben. 
•13.  The  Tr-i'   •"•II  to  Sapper  (a  glee), 
•14,  Thi  'aring. 

15.  Gaii.)  Sung  by  Mr.  Lee.    4  !>(.>. 


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*  Professional 
are    i^veu  by 


•la  The  Jew  in  Grain. 

"17.  The  Armour  of  .Eneaa. 

•18.  The  Best  Bower  Anchor. 

•19.  Finale.— Probably  the  glee 
Volanteer*,'  the  words  of  which 
Ho^rth. 

There  was  also  iatroduced 

20.  Mi«8  Wigley.  Sudr  by  Dibdin.  There  ia  also 
a  later  edition,  3  pp.,  published  by  Gouldiogdc  Co. 
(eee  No.  10).    Also  «unn  in  '  The  Melange,'  180a 

1808  (!).  Rent  Day  ;  or  The  VeomanB  Friend.  A 
Table  EolcrtaiamcDt  written  and  ooniDOBed  by 
Charlea  Dibdin- 

I  have  been  unable  to  trace  the  date  of 
first  performance.  The  songs,  Jkc,  according 
to  Hogarth,  were  as  follows.  1  have  only 
seen  published  copies  of  four,  which  are  in 
folio,  price  1«.,  signed  by  Dibdin. 
•1.  Healths  (Glee). 

•2.  The  Lion,  the  Puppy,  and  the  Mastiff. 
3.  The  Clown  turned  bailor.    Written  and  ooni- 
posed  by  Mr.  Dibdin,  and  Sung  by  Mr.  Woelf  ot 
the  Sans   Pareil,    In   hia   Now   Entertainment  of 
Rent  Day,  or  The  Yeoman's  Friend.  Printed  and 
Publiaheo  for  the  Author  at  his  Music  VVarehuuso 
No.   123  Strand  ic  Sold  by  his  Appointment  by 
Bland   &    Weller     No.    25    Oxford    St.    &     Mr. 
AVheat«tone  No.  430  Strand,    For  two  Qutes  on 
p.  3 ;  fourth  page  blank. 
•4.  Widow  Walnuleya  Shiners. 
*5.  Duet  between  a  Tar  and  a  Clown. 
*6.  The  Labourers  (a  Glee). 
7.  Joan    ia  as    Good    as    My   Lady.      Sung    by 
Pibdin.    Arrangement  for  two  flutes.    4  pp. 
•8.  The  Peasant's  Funeral.  Sung  by  Mr.  Herbert. 
*9,  The  Sailor's  Dream. 
•10.  The  Total  Eclipse. 
*11.  Britannia's  Name. 
•12.  The  Dinner  Party. 

13.  The  Ihrashfir.  3  pp.— Hogarth  says  this  was 
written  for  the  Stratford  Jubilee,  1709. 
•14.  The  Laudable  Contention. 
•15.  Noses. 

•la  The  Concert  of  Nature. 
•17.  The  Sailor's  bring-u 
IH.  The    Pre 
by  Mr.  Woelf.    4  pp. 


^ 


IK.  The   Preservation  ot    the  Braganxaa.     Sung 


*I0.  Finale.     "All  you  who  have  light  heels." 
|Acoording  to  a  contemporary  soogWok  there 
were  alao  introduced  : — 
•20.  The  Temjile  of  Freedom  (a  Glee). 
•21.  Adam  and  hia  Rib  (a  Glee). 

E,  I^IVBAULT  DlBMN. 
MominfCBtde,  Sudworlh  Road,  New  Brighton. 
{To  b*  eontinutd.) 

SHAKKSPKARE'S  BOOKS. 
(See  9'"  S.  v.  :«9 :  vi.  144,  283.  464  ;  vii.  163.  423 ; 

viii,  78,  180,  .321  j  xi.  64.  203  ;  xii.  7,  403.) 
PuTTENHA-M,  in  hia  Second  Book  of  •Propor- 
tion Poetical,'  speaking  of  device  or  emblem, 
says  ;— 

"The  Greeks  call  it  Eniblema,  the  It^licns 
Impresa,  and  we,  a  Devloo,  such  as  a  man  mnv  put 
into  letters,  or  oause  to  be  embroidered  in  Scutcliious 


of  arms  or  any  bordure  of  a  rich  garment  to  Rive  by 
hia  novelty  marvel  to  the  beholder.'' 

To    thi.s    imjirtsa    Shakespeare    refers    ilk 
'  Richard    II.,'  III.    i.,    when    Bolingbroke, 
addressing  Bushy  and  Green,  says  : — 
You  have  fed  upon  my  signories, 
Dispark'd  my  parka  and  fell  d  my  forest  woods. 
From  my  uwu  windows  torn  my  noasehold  coat, 
Razed  out  my  imprest,  leaving  me  no  sign. 
Save  men's  opinions  and  my  living  blood. 
To  show  the  world  I  am  a  gentleman. 

The  tearing  of  Bolingbroke's  houaehold< 
coat  was  actionable,  according  to  the  old 
legal  maxim  quoted  by  Coke,  "  Actio  datur 
H\  quis  arma,  in  aliquo  loco  posita,delevit8ea 
abrasit"  (3  *  Institute,'  202). 

In  *  Pericles,*  II.  ii.,  Thaisa  describea  the 
devices  on  the  shields  of  the  six  knights. 

W.    L.   PiUSHTON. 
{Tq  be  contimttd.) 


"  JoNo,"  Tibetan  Word.— According  to  the- 
Literary  World,  27  May,  p.  509  :— 

"  The  newspaper  poeta  have  been  mak  ing  bay  witb 
Jingles  about  tne  'jingal'  and  the  'jong.'  words 
that,  after  thousands  of  years'  use  among  the  nomads 
of  Tibet,  have  at  last  found  their  wsy  into  the 
English  language  through  the  incautious  use  of 
ihem  in  the  otiiciul  telegrams  from  the  British 
Mission  at  Gyangtae." 

"Jingal"  is  in  the  'N.E.D.,'  but  "Jong" 
appears  to  be  a  new  importation  into  English. 
It  i.s  a  pure  Tibetan  word,  and  its  correct 
orthography  i.s  rdzong,  but  the  initial  r  ia 
silent,  so  that  the  actual  sound  is  dzrma.  It 
means  a  fortress.  There  are  very  few  Tibetaa 
terms  in  Engli.sh,  mostly  names  of  animals, 
such  as  the  kianr/,  the  sakin  or  tkeen  (Tibetatk 
ski/in),  the  shapAo,  the  yak,  and  others. 

Ja8.  Platt,  Jun. 

Herbeet  Spenckh  and  Children.— The 
following  extract  from  'Rambler's  ChitChat,*^ 
in  the  H'ilts  and  Qhmcetterfhire  Standard 
of  14  May,  ia,  I  think,  worth  preservation  ia 

*  N.  ii  q:  :- 

"  It  may  interest  my  readers  to  know  that  the 
little  children  whom  Spencer,  the  dull  old  bachelor, 
delighted  to  have  about  him,  and  on  more  than 
one  occasion  '  borrowed '  in  order  to  enjoy  the- 
hapijinessoftlieirsociety,  were  the  little  dauRhtorsof 
.Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  Harrison  Cripii*.  Mp«.  Crijips,  it 
will  be  renioriilMjred,  was  a  dauglitor  of  Mr.  Ricnaro 
Potter,  of  Sundiah.  The  story— pretty,  although 
told  in  elaborate  Si>encer©se— is  worth  quoting: 
'When  at  Brighton  m  18S7,  suffering  the  tnnw  pi 
an  invalid  life,  pawiid  chieHy  in  bed  and  on  the  sofa, 
I  one  day,  while  thinking  over  modes  of  killing 
time,  bethought  me  that  the  society  of  children 
might  Ihs  a  desirable  distraction.  The  girls  abov» 
referred  to  [the  Misse*  Potter]  were  most  of  them, 
Kt  the  time  I  speak  of.  married  and  had  familJM ; 
and  one  of  them— Mrs.  W.  Crippe— lot  me  have  two 
of  her  littlo  ones  for  a  fortnight.    The  result  of 


466 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


tlO*B.LJryRU,  1001. 


p1>eiQg  thus  placed  in  a  nearer  relation  to  children 

Ith&n  before  was  to  awaken,  in  a  quite  unanticipated 

[way,  the    philoprogeniuve    instinct — or    rftther    a 

I  vicarious  phase  of  it ;  and  instead  of  aimhly  affurdini; 

^  me  a  little  distraction  the  two  aftbrdBQ  me  u  great 

i  deal  of  positive  gratification.     When  at  Dorking,  a 

^ year  afterwards,  I  aKain  petitioned  to  have  them, 

'  «nd  a^^ain  there  passed    a   fortnight   vhich    was 

pleaaurable  to  ine  and  to  them.     Such   wa:^    the 

effect  that  from  that  time  to  this  ( 1893)  the  presence 

of  a  pair  of  children,  now  from  thia  family  of  the 

clan    and   now   from   that,   haa  formed  a   leading 

Kratitication— I  may  say   the  chief  gratification— 

during  each  summer's  sojourn  in  the  country.'" 

A.  R.  S. 

AsTWicK  :  AusTWioK. — The  Sta-ndard  of 
April  12  speaks  of  "  Astwick  Manor,  Hatfield." 
"Turning  to  a  gazetteer,  I  find  three  "  Aatwicks" 
mentioned  :  one  in  Beda,  another  in  Xorth- 
amptonihire,  and,  last,  "Astwick,  Yorkshire; 
see  Austwick."  It  is  noteworthy  that  the 
villagers  wha  live  at  the  place  last  named 
always  spelt  the  name  as  "Austwick  "  in  my 
time,  but  pronounced  it  as  "Asstick,"  which 
sound  I  presume  the  "  Astwick  "  of  the  other 
places  mentioned  also  signifies.  If  such  of 
the  British  public  as  are  eager  to  latinize 
the  English  a  will  kindly  note,  it  is  no  use 
saying  that  Astwick  is  "  properly  "  pronounced 
*'  Orstwick,"  because  the  rude  forefathers  of 
the  hamlet,  when  my  grandfather  was  living 
(hard  by),  pronounced  their  place-name 
Asstick,  though  spelling  it  Ai/stwick,  as  now. 

YOKKSHIREMAN. 
PORTOGUESE     VeESION     OF     THE     ApUIKIA 

Story.— In  John  Adamaon's  '  Lusitania  Illus- 
trata'(Newcastle-on-Tya©,  1846)  I  find  in  the 
section  on  minstrelsy  a  romance  entitled  '  O 
Chapim  d'El-Rei,'  which  forms  another 
variant  of  the  Aphikia  story  (Q"*  S.  xii.  222, 
261).  The  legend  is  that  of  the  "lion's 
tracks.''  The  king  gains  admission  to  the 
chamber  of  the  virtuous  lady,  who  is  all 
unconscious  of  his  visit.  In  the  haste  of  hia 
departure  the  king  loses  one  of  his  slippers, 
which  is  found  by  the  husband.  Uaraung 
classes  this  poem  as  modern.  It  was  recon- 
structed by  Almoida-Garrett  from  fragments 
preserved  orally,  and  he  allows  that  the  old 
atones  are  kept  in  their  place  by  a  free  use 
of  his  own  modern  cement.  It  has,  however, 
sufficient  of  the  older  form  to  show  that  a 
version  of  the  "lion's  tracks"  formed  part  of 
the  popular  jxietry  of  Portugal. 

WiLUAM  E.  A.  Axon. 

'  Plumpton  Cobrbspondengb.'— This  book, 
issued  by  the  Camden  Society  in  1839,  is  a 
most  interesting  volume,  but  it  contains  not 
^  a  few  mistakes.    At  p.  36  for  "  countre  "  read 

')nntev,a.m\  at  p.  37  for  "elme"  read  elne. 

)n  p.  42  is  a  letter  from  a  merchant  of  York, 


dated   1481,  signed   "William    Jodciopkan. 
This  is  an  impossible  name,  and  is  doubtlea- 
a  misreading  of  "  Jowekyn."    WilliAno  .Jowe- 
kyu,  shipman,  became  a  fi"ecraau  of  York  in 
1441-2  ;  seeSurteea  Soc,  vol.  xcvi.  p.  161. 

W.  C.  B, 

A    Pbdigreb    in    1640.  —  The    foliowinii 
besides  being  a  good  example   of    a    nt 
cupative  will,  is  interesting  as  showing  tl 
value  attached  to  a  pedigree  in  the  estimi 
tion  of  a  Welsh  gentleman  of  the  reign 
Charles  I. :  — 
"  The  Will  of  Edward  Gwynne. 
"  Memorandum  that  Kdward  Gwynne  of  F 
vall's  Inn,  London,  gentleman,   being    of    i^irf 
mind  and   meniorio  w""  an  intent  to   b^ 
dispose  of  hie  estate,  did  in  the  moueths  ' 
May,  and  June,  1G40,  or  one  of  them,   ni^k 
declare  hia  last  Will  and  Testament  niiticijiA 
in  manner  and  forme  f olio winge  (viz')    1  have 
few  kindred,  and  to  them   I   hava   given    Ui«. 
pedegree  in  my  lifetime  W'  is  all  I  intend  to  gi 
them,  but  all  my  ipods,  chambers,  and  booka 
Furnevall's  Inn  and  ela  where  I  give  and  beque»< 
unto  Alexander  Chorley  gen.     All  which  tile  ■« 
testator   did    declare    in    the   presenoe   of    divon 
credible  witneseea,  kz. 

"(Signed)  Robert  Dix«onne 
"  The  niarko  of  James  t'oojHsr- 
"  The  marke  of  John  Hi)ldoiu 
"The  marke  of  Marie  Woodcrolt. 
"The  marke  of  Faith  Nefrus." 

On  12  February,  1649/60,  issued  a  com- 
mission to  Alexander  Chorley,  gent.,  t' 
principal  legatee  named  in  the  will,  to 
administer  tue  goods,  <tc.  (P.C.C.  IS  Pem- 
broke). Georqb  Shbbwood. 

60,  Heeoroft  Road,  Brockley,  iS.E. 

"Fetish."  —  All    the    quotations    In 
'  H.E.D.'  under  this  word  refer  to  the  uati 
of  Africa;  but  the  following  seems  f      ■      ' .' 
that  it  had  a  near  relation  in  the  :  : 

Europe.     A  traveller  in   Nova   ZetnuiK  m 
1670  says  :— 

"We  advanced  farther  into  the  f         ,         ' .    <i 
on  a  small  Uillook  we  pcrceiv'd  u  I 

cut  out  in   the  figure  of  a  Man,  v 
Sculpture.     Before  it  were  two  ZimUniua  ua  Um 
Kueea,  their  Arms  lying  by  them  ;  thety  were  wo 
ahiptng  this  Idol,  aa  the  others  on  t'      "' 

adoring  the  Sua This  Idol  is  cai  i 

they  say  the  Devil  entered  it  sometK'  ^  . 

Voyage  to  the  North,'  p.  216. 

Aybahr. 

ROPEMAKKRS'       AlLEY       CllAPEL,        LjT 

MooRFiBLDS.— In  1693  thisludependont  raeot-* 
ing-house  was  rebuilt,  and  I  hold  tin  I 

balance-Hheet.     Calamy  and  WIImaii  i 

some  of  the  contributors.     Wi^  !, 

1701)  was  pastor;  Edward  Stn:  i 

was  treasurer.     Other  nan  i 

John  Stanton,"  Capt.  Jose{'  -t 

Tompson  (a  builder),  Thomas  ciuiiut^u,  aius<-4 


wmB 


p 


AND  QUERIES. 


467 


^    a  vc 


Uook  (was  be  the  horticulturist?),  William 
Wells,  Sir  Robert  Rich.  When  John  Aaty 
(d.  1730)  was  pastor,  the  following  were 
among  the  members :  Lady  Rich,  Madame 
Croucli  (d.  l^l-i).  Madame  Qibon,  Mrs.  Moore, 
Madame  Elen  Fleetwood  (d.  1731),  Madame 
Elizabeth  Fleetwood  (d.  1728),  Madame  Jane 
Fleetwood  (d.  1761),  Mary  Garter  (was  she 
Oliver's  granddaughter  ?— she  first  appears 
as  a  member  in  1724),  Capt.  Samuel  Richards 
(d.  1710),  Madame  Cook,  and  Joseph  Alleine. 
The  congregation  still  meets  at  Latimer 
Chaj>el,  Stepney.  Stanley  B.  Atkinson. 
loner  Temple. 

A  Mevagissey  Duck.— I  hoard  a  woman 
at  Roscastle,  in  North  Cornwall,  call  a  her- 
ring a  **  Mevagissey  duck."  Mevagissey  is  a 
fishmg  village  on  St.  Austell  Bay  in  South 
Cornwall.  The  expression  seems  wortli  pre- 
serving. H.  2. 

Westminster  Abbey  Changes.— An  altera- 
tion in  the  government  of  places  is  almost 
inevitably  the  cause  of  some  changes.  With 
the  death  of  Dean  Bradley  and  the  appoint- 
ment of  the  Rev.  J.  Armitage  Robinson,  D.D., 
to  the  position  of  Dean,  some  few  alterations 
have  been  made,  which  I  feel  should  be 
recorded  in  '  N.  ct  Q.'  A  fresh  pulpit  has 
been  placed  in  the  nave  of  the  Abbey  for  use 
at  the  popular  Sunday  evening  services  in 
that  part  of  the  building,  and  the  one 
designed  by  the  late  Sir  G.  Gilbert  Scott, 
that  had  done  duty  there  for  somewhere 
about  forty  years,  has  been  presented  by  the 
Dean  and  Chapter  to  the  new  Cathedral  of 
St.  Anne  at  Belfast.  The  "  new  "  one,  how- 
ever, is  stated  to  be  the  oldest  in  the  Abbey, 
as  it  dates  from  the  time  of  Henry  YIII. 
It  has  been  very  little  seen,  having  been 
hidden  in  an  out-of-the-way  corner  in 
Henry  VIL's  Chapel.  It  is  of  panelled 
oak,  and  is  considered  a  beautiful  specimen 
of  workmanship,  and  of  much  interest  in 
its  associations,  as  from  it  Archbishop  Cran- 
mer  preached  both  the  coronation  and 
funeral  sermons  of  Edward  VI.  It  is  of 
very  quaint  and  picturesque  design,  being 
one  or  the  kiudf  known  as  "  wiueglaHs 
pulpita,  from  the  fact  that  in  the  modelling 
they  follow  the  shape  of  many  of  the  Com- 
munion cups.  This  one  is  hexagonal ;  the 
pedestal  upon  which  it  stands  is  slender  and 
very  graceful.  It  is  somewliat  small,  and, 
one  would  think,  is  likely  in  some  cases  to 
be  rather  inconvenient  in  use.*  At  present 
a  very  awkward  flight  of  steps  loads  up  to  it; 


There  is  a  ainall  Munding-board  attacbed  to 
It  by  a  board  at  the  back. 


but  this  will  probably  be  altered  before  long. 
It  was  used  for  the  first  time  at  the  evening 
service  on  Trinity  Sunday,  7  June,  1903, 
when  Canon  Heusfey  Ilenson  preachea. 

Another  change  has  been  in  the  hour  for 
opening  the  doors  at  the  afternoon  services 
on  Sunday.  This  was  formerly  2  o'clock* 
but  has  now  been  fixed  at  2.30,  which  arrange- 
ment came  into  operation  on  the  first  Sunday 
after  Christmas. 

The  children's  service  held  on  Innocents' 
Day,  28  December,  since  the  days  of  Dean 
Stanley,  has  been  transferred  to  2  February, 
the  day  of  the  "Presentation  of  Christ  m 
the  "Temple,  commoul;^  called  the  Purification 
of  St.  Mary  the  Virgin,"  the  Dean  thinking 
that  this  arrangement  will  better  meet  the 
convenience  of  the  children,  as  he  desires  to 
see  the  little  ones  form  the  larger  part  of 
the  congregation,  which  has  certainly  not 
been  the  case  of  late  years. 

Among  minor  changes  in  the  ataS'  of  the 
Abbey  it  may  be  recorded  that  Mr.  Hu{^hes, 
the  well-known  "Dean's  Verger,"  has  retired, 
having  been  granted  a  pension,  his  service 
being  one  of  many  years ;  and  Mr.  Dunn, 
another  verger,  has  also  retired.  Mr.  Hughes 
has  been  succeeded  by  Mr.  Weller,  hitherto 
the  Canons'  Verger,  his  place  being  taken  by 
Mr.  Kemp,  the  beadle,  that  office  being  now- 
filled  by  Mr.  Rice,  a  comparative  new-comer. 
W.  E.  Harland-Oxley. 

WesttuiuBter. 


Wb  must  request  oorrea^vondents  deairinfi  in- 
formation on  family  iniittert  of  only  private  interest 
to  affix  their  n&mea  and  addreaaem  to  their  queries, 
in  order  that  the  answers  may  be  addresaed  to  them 
direct.  

BARNEg:  'The  Devil's  Charter.'  — A 
tragedy  of  this  name  was  publishe<l  in  luO? 
by  Barnaby  Barnes,  and  in  it  parallels  have 
been  found  to  passages  in  'The  Tempest'  and 
'  Cymbeliue.'  Has  this  ever  been  reprinted, 
either  separately  or  in  any  collection  of 
plays,  in  an  accessible  edition  ?  and  what  is 
the  plot  of  it  1  CHAKLE.S  R.  Dawes. 

['The  Tragedy  of  Pope  Alexander  \'I..'  4to.  1607. 
ia  by  Barnaby  Barnes.  'The  Devils  Charter,' 
"conUining  the  life  and  death  of  Pope  Alex- 
ander VI..  was  played  by  the  Kinjc'a  Men  before 
his  Majesty  on  Candlemaji  night  {'2  I'eb.),  1000  The 
play  has  not,  we  believe,  been  reprinted.  The  story 
seems  to  be  derived  from  Guicoiardiui.] 

Immanuel  Kant's  Ouigis.  —  About  the 
year  1678  Hans  Cant  and  his  wife,  both 
Scots,  left  Scotland,  and.  by  way  of  Sweden, 
reached  Memel,  in  East  Prussia,  where  Hans 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       no*  s.  i.  Ji7««  ii.  tooL 


1 


worked  as  a  saddler,  or  strap- maker.  He  bad 
left  Scotland  in  company  with  other  Scot^, 
amongst  whom  occur  the  names  of  Cant, 
DoaBJas,  Hamilton,  Simpson,  Ac. 

Ot  those  named  Cant,  some  remained  in 
Sweden,  and  at  various  periods  became 
agriculturists  in  North  Fjust;  some  served 
as  soldier:)  or  under  -  oiiicera,  one  being 
called  Lars ;  another  was  an  organist, 
favourably  known  to  the  Bishop  of  Lin- 
koping,  from  whom  this  account  of  several 
Canta  was  derived  in  1797.    In  that  same 

?ear  (1797)  one  Carl  Friedrich  Kanth  wrote 
rom  Lerum,  near  Goteborg,  to  Immanuel 
Kant,  of  Kcinigsber^,  grandson  of  Hans, 
claiming  relationship  with  him,  which 
luimanuel  neither  acknowledged  nor  denied. 

Information  is  now  earnestly  desired  by 
the  writer  of  this  memoranuum  (who  is 
descended  from  Cants  in  Scotland  and  Kanta 
in  Pommern)  whether  it  is  practicable  to 
obtain  the  aiesistance  of  any  Swedish  Cant 
(Kant,  Kanth)  of  Scotch  extraction,  or  of 
any  other  fit  person,  to  make  inquiries  in 
Lerum,  Goteborg,  Linkopiug,  and  Fjust. 

If  such  a  person  can  be  found,  he  may, 
perhaps,  discover  some  traces  of  Cants  who 
Battled  in  Sweden  in  1678,  and  whose 
descendants  may  have  declaretl  themselves 
of  kin  to  tlie  great  philosopher,  and  possessed 
of  traditions  of  the  Scottish  parish  or  place 
from  which  Hans  Cant  came.  The  directories 
of  Goteborg  and  Linkuping  may  perhaps 
show  Cant  in  a  Swedish  form. 

One  hundred  marks  are  offered  for  any 
authentic  document,  in  writing  or  print, 
that  distinctly  connects  anv  living  Swedish 
descendants  of  Scottish  Canta  with  any 
parish  or  place  in  Scotland  about  .vd.  1678, 
in  which  parish  or  place  satisfactory  con- 
firmation of  such  connexion  still  remains. 

Kantius. 

Quinta  dos  Tanquinhofl,  Madeira. 

Margabkt  Biskt.— Matthew  Paris  ('Chro- 
nica ISfajora,'  [Rolls]  iv,  2(>j)  speaks  of  the 
death  of  this  maid  of  Quoon  Eleanor  as  one  of 

"genere  prieclara cujusdam  bonie  domus 

sauctimonialium  fundatrix."  I  shall  be  glad 
to  know  the  family  to  which  this  saviour  of 
Henry's  life  belonged,  and  the  name  of  the 
nunnery  founded  by  her.  I  have  looked  in 
vain  in  the  index  to  Dugdale. 

ROBEKT  J.  WhITWELL. 

Ray's  InNEBARiES,— I  should  be  very 
much  obliged  to  any  one  who  would  tell  me 
the  present  whereabijutM  of  the  originals  of 
the  Itineraries  of  John  Ray  the  naturalist, 
which  commence  in  1658.  George  Scott,  of 
Woolaton    Hall,    near    Chigwell,  in    Essex, 


printed   them  in   17C0,  and   they     were   rt*- 
printed  in  184G  by  Dr.  E.  Laukaster. 

According  to  Appendix  A  to  the  Ray 
Society's  edition  of  the  '  Correapondonoe  of 
John  Ray,'  Scott  died  in  1780— some  ^ean 
after  William  Dorham  (his  uncle  by  inwrriJiKe) 
—and  his  library,  Ac,  were^soM  t>'  T.iTy, 
1,782,  and   possibly  these  MSS.  o;  :*l 

the  same  time.      I  have  ascf^rtH,  i._.ta 

Mr.  Warner  that  they  are  not  'epactr 

ment  of  MSS.  at  the  I3rilish  M 1 1     u 

J.   U,   GUBITEY. 
Keawick  HrII,  Norwich. 

Authors  or  Qxtotations  Wantbd. — I  shall 
be  glad  to  learn  the  .source  of  the  following 
quotations,  the  latest  date  jiOssible  being 
1790:— 

1.  Death  could  not  a  more  and  retinue  find, 
Sickoew  and   pain    before,  and    dArkneaa    all 

behind. 

2.  He  deigna  His  iiifliieoce  to  infuae. 
Secret,  refreshing  aa  the  Bileiit  dew». 

3.  UnioD  of  mind,  an  in  us  all  cue  souL 

4.  A  mountaiu  huge  upre«re«l 
Its  broad,  bare  back. 

o.  His  [Homer'al  scolding  heroes,  and  hia  uroi 
goda. 

6.  An  hoary,  reverend,  and  religioxis  man. 

7.  No  dyinj;  brute  I  view  in  anguish  here. 
But  from  my  melting  eye  descends  a  tear. 

8.  O  what  a  tuneful  wonder  seized  the  thmog. 

When  Marlbro's  conquering  name   aIati 
the  foe  I 
Had  VVhiznowhiaky  led  the  armies  on. 
The  general's  scarecrow  name  had  foiled 
blow. 

9.  Bat  [or  and]  wondered  at  the  strange  man's  buM, 

As  one  they  ne'er  had  known. 

10.  How  long?   How  aoou  will  they  uiibraid 
Their  transitory  master  dead  I 

11.  A  not-expected,  much  anwelcome  guest, 

12.  The  rage  of  Ai-otoa  and  eternal  frost. 

C.  Lawrencr  Foko. 

Alake. — Is  the  origin  known  of  the  regal 
style  of  the  Abbeokutan  ruler  now  here  on  a 
visit?  On  the  one  hand,  it  might  be,  like  OUT 
own  Alick,  a  survival  of  Alexander,  aA«^a#» 
or,  again,  from  Melech  (minus  its  inituuX 
the  Semitic  form,  and  general  with  Ambi. 
We  are  all  familiar  with  the  archaic  ^I 
zedek.  A 

Pbocessiow  Door. —  John  Pvnok,  draper, 
of  Sandwich,  by  his  will,  doted  HO^'.  ':■.«] 
to  "  be  buried  in  the  churchyard  t  i  -r 

in  Sandwich,  before  the  procesijitiii  .ii..M  of 
the  same  church."     Which  door  of  a  pariah 

I  cliurch  would  bo  the  "  prfK-^-i"'  ■!--r"1 
The  church   of   St.   Peter  in  ^^n 

'a  north  door  with  a  largo  r  " 


lo^-^  8. 1.  Jcsr  11, 1901.]        NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


469 


I 

I 
I 


t 


a  weat  door  without  a  porch.  There  was  a 
south  door,  bat  the  south  aisle  was  never 
rebuilt  after  the  fall  of  the  upper  part  of  the 
tower  on  13  Oct,  1661.     Arthub  HosstY. 

TankertOD-oa-ijea,  Kent. 

Door  or  Venice.— I  have  read  somewhere 
in  fiction  or  history  of  a  Doge  of  Venice 
whose  likeness  was  blotted  out,  in  con- 
sequence of  some  oflEence  aRainst  the  State. 
Can  any  reader  favour  mo  with  references? 
W.  Clark  TnoMLiNsoN. 

Whickham,  co.  Durham. 

Magna  Chahta.— I  have  a  copy  of  Magna 
Charta,  London,  1618,  24mo,  inlaid  to  4to, 
which  contains  the  book-plate  of  Richard 
Clark, Chamberlain  of  Loudon.  The  numerous 
annotations  in  this  are— so  the  tradition  runa 
— in  Blackstone's  hand.  Can  any  one  inform 
me  where  a  copy  of  the  sale  catalogue  of 
Richard  Clark's  library  may  be  consulted  ? 

D.  M. 

Philadelphia. 

EsTBECE. — In  the  Devonshire  Domesday 
Survey  Almar  Estrege,  a  thane,  held  three 
ferlings  in  the  manor  of  Hela,  T.ll.E.  What 
does  Estrege  denote  ? 

Gregory  GRu.sELrER. 

RiCHABD    PiKCKRNA.  —  Who  was  Richard 


to  the  English  Ambassador  in  Holland,  was 
his  own  composition,  or  whether  he  quoted 
from  Andrew  Marvell,  who  is  also  credited 
with  the  Hoes  1  See  ifomiing  Post,  25  May, 
fourth  leading  article,  which  says  : — 

"  The  other  resolutions  remind  us  of  the  couplet 
{generally  and  wrongfully  aocribed  to  Canning, 
which  wu  first  M'ritten  by  that  exoellent  Puritan 
Andrew  Marvell— They  want  more  money. "' 

A.  GWYTHKR, 
Windham  Club. 

[The  full  correspondence  between  Canning  and 
Sir  Charles  Ba^ot  was  printed  at  4^'>  8.  i.  438.  Part 
of  it  was  reprinted,  after  thirty-four  years,  by 
Sia  Harry  Polamd  at  9"*  S.  x.  '270,  but  no  lusgea- 
tion  was  made  that  Canning  was  indebtocT  to 
Marvell.] 

Pembkrton  Family,  late  of  Peter- 
borough. —  Information  is  desired  which 
might  lead  to  the  discovery  of  the  will,  or  of 
the  grant  of  administration  to  tlie  estate, 
of  Robert  Pemberton,  who  was  steward  to 
the  Deau  and  Chapter  of  Peterborough,  and 
was  buried  in  Peterborough  Cathedral  in 
November,  1695.  A  tablet  to  his  memory  is 
on  the  south  wall  of  the  chancel.  Re  married 
(Jecilia  Trevelyan,  whose  will  (proved  in 
1713)  is  in  Somerset  House.  There  is  good 
ground  for  believing  that  his  second  son, 
Robert,  born  in  1C.59,  emigrated  to  Nevis,  in 


Pincerna,  to  whom  was  granted  the  manor  i  the  West  Indies,  towards  the  end  of  the 
of  Conestone,  in  Cornwall,  about  1147,  by  ]  seventeenth  century,  and  I  should  be  glad 
Robert,  son  of  Robert,  Earl  of  Gloucester  ? :  to  learn  any  fact  tending  to  support  or  to 

ternative  name    disprove  this  theory.  R.  C.  B.  P. 


Can  any  one  give  me  an  alternati^ 

for  him  1  J.  Hajubley  Rowe,  MB. 

Whitty  Tree.— Between  Bromfield  (tlie 
station  for  Ludlow  races)  and  Onibury  (on 
the  Great  Western  joint  railway)  is  a  small 
hamlet  called  Whitty  Tree.  What  is  the 
meaning  of  the  name  I  U.  George. 

KiKG  John's  Charters.— Will  some  on© 
kindly  state  what  places  are  aigniiied  by  the 
following  names?— 
1)99.  **  datura  apud  Valle  Rodol." 
1199,  "datum  apud  Castrum  de  Vir." 
1202,  "datum  apud  Bonam  Villam  super 
Tokam." 

The  appendix  to  Wrifjht's  'Courthand' 
(1816)  gives  an  alphabetical  list  of  ancient 
places  occurring  in  deeds,  but  does  not  men- 
tion either  of  the  above,  unless  "de  Vir  "is 
de  Vies  (Devizes),  written  de  Vir  by  error  of 
the  scribe,  who  was  quoting  from  the  original, 
a  recite<l  charter.  W.  I. 

"  In    matters  of  commerce."  —  Can  any 

of  your  readers  tell  mo  whether  the  quotation 

beginning  "  In  matters  of  commerce  the  fault 

[of  the  Dutch,"  sent  by  Canning  in  a  dispatch 


13,  Cresawell  Gardens,  South  Kensington,  8.  W. 

Late  Intellectual  Habvest.— Will  any 
readers  help  me  with  information  of  meQ, 
especially  living,  who  were  either  not  prize- 
winners at  school  or  were  thought  to  be 
rather  dull,  yet  have  become  famous  in  their 
special  line  of  endeavour  in  later  lifeT 

Rudolph  db  Cordova. 

HnguiER,  Esorwers.  —  I  am  in  search 
of  information  about  the  French  engravers 
Uuquier,  father  and  son.  Both  of  them  lived 
in  England.  The  father,  Gabriel  Huquier, 
went  to  England  about  1765  or  1756,  and 
came  back  to  France  about  1762.  The  son. 
James  Gabriel  Huquier,  arrived  in  England 
about  1768,  but  he  settled  there,  and  after 
having  lived  first  in  London  ar»d  afterwards 
in  Cambridge  (178.3),  he  die<l  in  Shrewsbury, 
7  June,  1806.  He  drew  pastel  and  crayon 
portraits  of  a  certain  value,  and  was  elected 
a  member  of  the  Royal  Academy.  His  works 
were  several  times  shown  at  the  Academy  as 
well  as  at  the  Society  of  British  Artiste.  AH 
that  I  know  about  him  is  what  I  could  read 
in  Bryan  and  the  'Dictionary  of  National 


470 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       iio*8.l  Jc2r«ii,i90t 


I  Biography.'  If  any  one  could  give  me  infor- 
rauation  on  his  private  life,  his  connexions, 
or  some  of  his  works  of  which  no  mention 
ia  made  in  the  above  publications,  or  could 
direct  me  to  a  dealers  where  I  could  find 
some  of  his  original  works  or  encravings, 
I  should  bo  very  much  obliged  to  nira,  and 
send  him  in  advance  all  my  thanks. 

Jeanne  Potbel. 
15,  Rue  Vivlenne,  Paru. 

FThe  'Times,'  1962.— I  have  a  copy  of  the 
Times,  *'  London.  Every  day,  19C2,  price  \t.. 
No.  55,5G7,"a  four-sideci  large  sheet, '' Printed 
for  the  Proprietors  by  Joseph  William  Last, 
of  No.  3,  Savoy  Street,  Strand,  in  the  city 
of  Westminster,  and  published  by  Baynton 
Rolt  at  No.  8,  Catherine  Street,  Strand, 
Every  day,  19C2."  The  whole  paper— articles 
and  advertisements— is  liumbug ;   but  as   I 

f  resume  that  it  was  printed  for  some  object, 
shall  be  obliged  tor  any  information  re- 
farding  iia  real  date  of  issue  and  its  purpose, 
he  cost  of  the  issue  must  have  been  con- 
siderable. Perhaps  some  of  the  readers  of 
•N.  «fc  Q.'  can  help  me.  J.  E.  S.  Hope. 

Belmont,  Murrayaeld,  Mid-Lotbiao. 


Suites. 


THE  PREMIER  GRENADIER  OF  FRANCE. 

(lO"*  S.  i.  384.) 

La  Toue  d'Aun'trone  belonged  to  the 
46"  demi-brigade,  now  apparently  represented 
by  a  regiment  of  the  same  number.  His 
heart  having  been  placed  in  an  urn,  his  body 
was  enveloped  in  green  oak  branches,  and 
carried  by  grenadiers  to  the  battle-ground 
where  he  had  fallen.  When  it  had  arrived 
at  the  grave,  the  grenadiers  presented  arms, 
and  as  the  bearers  hesitated  as  to  whicli  way 
they  should  la^  it,  a  voice  came  from  the 
ranKs  :  "Face  a  I'ennemi." 

By  an  order  dated  Augsbourg,  11  Messidor, 
an  VlII.,  written  by  GJeneral  Dessoles  in 
the  name  of  Commandant  en  Chef  Moreau, 
it  was  ordered  :  That  the  drums  of  the 
grenadiers  of  all  the  army  should  be  draped 
with  black  crape  for  three  days  ;  that  the 
name  of  La  Tour  d'Auvergne  should  be  kept 
at  the  head  of  tlie  roll  of  the  46'  demi- 
brigade  ;  that  his  place  should  not  be  filled  up, 
his  company  consisting  in  the  future  of  only 
eighty-two  men ;  that  a  monument  sliould  bie 
erected  in  the  roar  of  Oberhausen  ;  and  that 


This  monument  was  erected,  and  in  1837  the 
King  of  Bavaria  put  it  into  good  repair. 

Tlie  silver  urn  containing  the  heart,  covered 
with  black  velvet,  was  carried  nt  rev-iews  by 
the  quartermaster-sergeant  {/out-rier}.  who 
marched  by  the  side  of  the  colour.  At  eadb 
roll-call  the  caporal  de  I'escouade  answered  to 
the  name  of  La  Tour  d'Auvergne,  "  Mort  aa 
champ  d'houueur."  This  pious  custom  oon 
tinued  to  bo  observed  by  the  46^  Demi 
brigade.  The  heart  did  not  oease  to  belong 
to  the  46'  until  the  army  was  reorganized  io 
1814. 

An  order  dated  V  Therroidor,  an  VIIL,  was 
made  by  the  three  Consuls  tliat  the  sword  of 
La  Tour  d'Auvergne  should  be  bung  in  tlj« 
Tomple  of  Mars,  i.e.,  the  Church  of  the 
Invalides. 

In  the  same  year  8  Fructidor  they  ordered 
that  a  monument  in  his  honour  should  boj 
erected  at  Carhaix,  his  native  place,  Tbi 
monument  was  eventually  erected  in  184 
by  the  Government  of  Louis  Philippe,  whic 
had  previously  placed  on  the  house  wher 
lie  was  born  the  tollowiug  inscription  : — 

*'Th<k)phile-Malo  Corret  de  la.  Tour  d'Au 
Premier  Grenadier  de  Frnnce,  e«t  n6  dans  eel 
maison  le  'li  d6ceuibre  1743." 

The  bronze  statue  by  Marochetti  has  oa  I 
p^estal  the  following  :— 

"A    Thtephile-Malo    de    la   Tour    d'Auverg 
Carret.  Premier  Cireoadierdo  France,  n&  k  Carba    _. 
le  23  d^ccmbre  1743,  mort  au  cham;)  d'hocneur  1* 
27  juin  1800." 
The  inscription  appears  also  in  Breton 

Two  bas-reliefs  by   Marochetti   represei 
La  Tour  d'Auvergne,  sword  in  band,  leadia|_ 
the  way  into  Cliambery,  and   his  death  on 
the  heights  of  Neubourg. 

As  to  the  possession  of  the  heart  there  wm 
a  long  lawsuit  between  the  family  of  I^ 
Tour  d'Auvergno-Lauraguais  and  the  beire- 
in  the  direct  line,  viz.,  Madame  du  Pout    -" 
daughter  of  Madame  Quillart  de  Kers 
nde  Jeanne-Marie-Saiute  Limon  du  Ti 


n^^ 


«/«  

Madame  du  Pontavice  was  successful,  gainii 
possession  of  the  heart  and  of  the  arc 
the  "brave  des  braves,"  by  a  judgra* 
the  Royal  Court  of  Montpollier,  I  De 
1840. 

I  have  taken  the  above  from  "  Le  Premi^ 
Grenadier  de  France  La  Tour  d V* 
fitude    BiograpbiqoG    par    Paul    I 
Paris  Georges  Hurtrel  1886." 

Limon  du  Timeur  married  in  or  about  171 
Marie-Anne-Michelle  de  Corret,  sister  of 


chef  de  brigade  Forti,  commander  of   the 

46«,  who  had  fallen  by  the  aide  of  La  Tour  [  Tour  d'Auvergne  (see  tfjid.,  p.  57) 
d'Auvergne.    should    bo    buried    with    him.       If  the  order  of  tho  I"  Therraidor,  an  Vlt 
Two  grenadiers  were  al^o  buried  with  ium.  i  waa  carried  out,  at  all  eventa  the  sword 


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not  remain  pertuaDently  at  the  Invalides. 
M-  DeroulMe,  in  his  preface  (p.  13),  speaks  of 
having  -seen  it  in  the  museum  of  the  H<)tel 
Carnavalet,  Paris,  where,  according  to  a 
foot-note,  it  had  been  placed  by  a  deci- 
sion of  the  Municipal  Council.  The  note 
adds  that  it  hatl  been  brought  back  to 
France,  and  delivered  to  the  President  of  the 
Municipal  Council,  meeting  in  public,  by 
the  Italian  General  Canzio,  son-in-law  of 
Garibaldi,  on  22  June,  18S3.  How  it  got  into 
his  handy  does  not  appear. 

There  appears  to  nave  been  a  legend — 
perhaps  a  true  one — that  the  heart  used  to 
be  sometimes  carried  on  the  colour  of  the 
regiment.  M.  Deroul^de  (p.  11,  preface}, 
speaking  of  the  improasiou  made  on  his  mind 
by  the  stories  of  the  Premier  Grenadier  de 
France,  says  :  "  Une  chose  surtout  me  f rap- 

Sait :  c'etait  ce  coeur  d'argent  suspendu  au 
rapeau  du  regiment :  c'etait,"  <bc. 
leaver,  in  his  'Tom  fiurke  of  Ours' 
(chap,  xlv.),  gives  a  version  of  the  story  of 
the  muster-roll.  He  makes  the  regiment  the 
45th  of  the  line,  and  the  reply  given  by 
*'the  first  soldier,"  "Mort  sur  le  champ  de 
bataille."  Robert  Pibbpoint. 


Tides  WELL  and  Ttoeslow  (9*  S.  xii.  341. 
617  ;  10'*'  S.  i.  62,  91,  190,  228,  278,  292,  316, 
371). — On  p.  371  it  is  said  that  railway  usage 
is  responsible  for  a  change  of  stress,  and  con- 
sequout  obscuring  of  the  etymology,  of  Car- 
lisle, the  accent  being  rightly  on  the  last 
syllable.  This  was  discussed  nine  years  ago 
(8'''  8.  vii.),  and  I  do  not  desire  to  enter  on 
the  general  question  of  the  right  way  of 
accenting  the  word  ;  but  as  a  definite  asser- 
tion lias  been  made  with  regard  to  the  effect 
of  the  introduction  of  railways,  perhaps 
I  may  be  permitted  to  point  out  some 
facts.  I  have  lived  all  my  life  in  tiie 
diocese  of  Carlisle.  I  can  remember  nearly 
half  a  century,  and  when  I  was  young 
knew  many  persons  whose  pronunciation 
had  been  acquired  in  pre- rail  way  times. 
Moreover,  I  have,  during  the  last  few 
days,  referred  the  question  to  an  educated 
laay,  eighty  years  of  age.  and  with  a  very 
good  memory.  This  lady's  remembrance 
agrees  with  mine  that  educated  people  used 
to  accent  Carlisle  on  the  first  syllable.  Un- 
educated people  sometimes  said  "C'rlisle," 
with  the  accent  on  the  second  syllable,  the 
first  one  being  very  short ;  but,  on  the  other 
hand,  thoHO  who  were  so  old-fashioned  as  to 
U80  the  dialect  name  "Carel"  inevitably 
placed  the  accent  on  the  first  sellable,  the 
vowel  in  the  Mcond  one  being  qait«  obscure. 


To  go  back  to  a  time  more  remote  from  rail- 
ways, Edmund  Waller,  who  was  in  a  position 
to  know  the  accepted  pronunciation  of  the 
title  of  Lord  and  Lady  Carlisle,  distinctly 
accents  it  on  the  first  In  the  1729  edition 
there  are  seven  instances,  including  one  by 
his  editor,  Fenton,  none  of  which  is  a  rime, 
and  only  two  of  which  are  at  the  beginnings 
of  lines.  Except  for  considerations  of  space, 
I  would  send  the  quotations.         U.  V.  W. 

Sir  Hebbert  Maxwell  says  that  "Brid- 
lington ''  (Yorks)  is  sounded  "  Burlington " 
bpr  the  Bridlington  people.  May  I  (as  a 
\  orkshireman)  point  out  that  in  my  county 
there  is  a  readiness  to  transpose  the  rin  sucn 
a  word  as  Bridlington,  and  to  put  the  i 
first,  when  that  word  becomes  "  Birdliugton"? 
and  then  the  d  dropping  out  by  a  natural 
tongue-slip— cf.  We(u)needay)— we  have  the 
word  "  Birlington ''  left  (not  necessarily 
"  Bwrlington ").  In  Yorkshire  curdU  are 
often  culed  by  the  people  cruda ;  burst 
becomes  brosseiiy  and  many  other  examples 
could  be  mentioned.  While  writing  may  I 
add  a  vigorous  **  Hear  I  hear  ! "  to  the  remarks 
of  De.  Bhushfield  on  p.  372 '{ 

YoBKSHIKEMAlf. 

Sir  Herbert  Maxwell  writes  :  — 

"  Bridlington  in  Yorkshire,  a  atAtion  on  tha 
North  -  Eastern  Railway,  is  locally  pronooncxsd 
'Burlington,'  but  you  will  puzzle  the  booking 
clerk  at  Kiag'a  Croaa  if  you  do  not  pronounce  it 
according  to  the  written  form,  which  preserves 
the  old  meaning." 

This  is  not  quite  correct.  Both  pronuncia- 
tions have  always  been  used  locally.  "  Bur- 
lington" used  to  meet  with  the  greater 
favour,  but  its  adherents  seem  to  be  declining 
in  numbers,  and  the  word  now  is  generally 
spoken  and  written  "  Bridlington."  As  a 
matter  of  some  interest,  it  may  (perhaps  be 
recorded  here  that  the  name  often  was  spelt 
"Burlington,"  and  as  such  appeared  on 
maps,  in  guide-books,  and  on  letters,  and, 
I  believe,  still  often  so  appears. 

Ronald  Dixon. 
4€,  Marlborough  Avenue,  Hull. 

Mr.  Addy's  argument  from  the  present 
spelling  of  DuffielJ  that  Welle  moans  a  field 
seems  hardly  conclusive.  The  Domesday 
name  Duvello  would  naturally  be  abbreviated 
into  Duvel,  and  become  Duveld,  just  aa 
Culmton  and  Plynton  become  Collumpton 
and  Plympton  ;  and  Duveld,  as  I  take  it,  ia 
the  present  local  pronuriciatiou.  But  what 
evidence  is  there  to  show  that  Duvello  is  a 
compound  of  Duva+  wille,  and  not  primarily 
a  personal  name  whicU  tvftA  \:!ft.<iftKaR.  ^-.J^***;" 


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[10*8. 


same  name,  only  in  combination.  It  knows 
of  tvro  Duveltons,  now  Doltons.  Besidea, 
the  old  English  uae  of  "  field  "  is  to  deacrib© 
the  open-field  in  which  the  memberst  of  the 
commanity  had  their  several  plotH,  not  the 
close  which  the  individual  held.  Bosworth's 
Anglo-Saxon  dictionary  gives  "well"  as 
the  equivalent  of  Willa.  The  Devonshire 
Domesday  knows  of  two  Willas,  now  respec- 
tively Edginswell  and  Coffinswell,  from  the 
names  of  tlieir  proprietors,  besides  a  Brad  well 
or  broad  well  and  a  Shirwell  or  clear  well. 
To  turn  these  wells  into  fields  would  be  a 
little  arbitrary.  Oswald  J,  Reicabl. 

Lytiipatono,  Devon. 

The  L0BI8HOMB  (10'»'  S.  i.  327,  417).—! 
quoted  a  passage  from  'Henry  VI.'  which 
showed  that  to  draw  blood  was  supposed  to 
be  a  way  of  undoing  witchcraft.  But  it  may 
be  well  to  show  also  that  it  was  considered  a 
way  of  undoing  transformation  caused  by 
witchcraft.  A  popular  story,  prevalent 
throughout  Europe,  tells,  how  a  princess, 
betrothed  to  a  king,  is  changed  by  her  step- 
mother to  a  duck.  The  bird  comes  by  night 
to  visit  her  J>etrothed,  and  in  human  voice, 
which  she  still  retains,  laments  her  fate.  Her 
betrothed  sheds  three  drops  of  her  blood,  and 
restores  her  to  her  original  form.  This  story 
is  in  Thorpe's  'Yulo  Tide  Stories'  and  in 
many  other  books.  E.  Yakdlev. 

I  should  like  to  point  out  that  the  Portu- 
guese name  for  a  were-wolf  is  loltishomfn, 
and  not  a»  printed.  E.  E.  Street. 

Aristotle  and  Moral  Philosomiy  (10"'  S 
L.  405).-At  9^"  S.  xii.  91  I  gave  ray  reason 
for  thinking  that  Aristotle  was  not  mis- 
interpreted by  Shakespeare  and  Bacon, 

John  B.  Waixewrioht. 

Poems  on  Shakespeare  (10"'  S.  i.  409).— 
Db.  Fobshaw  appears  to  have  been  already 
forestalled  in  the  task  of  compiling  a  volume 
of  tributes  to  our  nationalpoet.  The  A  thentntm 
21  May,  p.  eG3,  reviews  'The  Praise  of  Shake- 
speare :    an   English  Anthology,'    by    C.  E 

.oi'V^"'-    •     ..  William  Jacjoakd. 

I3B,  UanniiiK  .Street,  Liverpwii. 

Military  Buttonb:  Sergeants'  Chevrons 
(10'"  S.  i.  349).— According  to  Mark  Antony 
Lower  in  his  'Curiosities  of  Heraldry,' "the 
chevron,  which  resembles  a  pair  of  riiters,  is 
likewise  of  very  uncertain  origin.  It  has 
generally  been  considered  as  a  kind  of  arciu- 
tectural  emblem  '  (p.  62).  I  am  inclined  to 
think  that  in  the  eighteenth  century  the 
halbert,  or  halberd,  carried  in  the  hand  de- 
aoted  the  sergeant.    It  is  mentioned  as  h\H 


badge  or  ensign  of  oflice  both  in  'Roderick 
Ilandom,'    by    Smollett,    and    'Amelia,'   bj 
Fielding.      In    vol.    xii.    of    the    *'( 
Edition"  of  the  'History  of  Englaoii 
tinuation  by  the  Rev.  T.  S.   Hughes,    IJU.) 
the    frontispiece   depicts    the    execution  of 
Admiral   Byng  in    ITS?.      The    ir Z 
admiral  is  represented  as  blindfoi 
ing  on  a  cushion  in  front  of  the  c/i|.^i«u.  aiM 
opposite  the  firing  {larty  of   five    marines 
wearing  conical  caps,  whilst  the  sergeant  in 
command  holds  in  his  right  hand  a  halbert 
and  hais  a  sash  over  his  shoulder. 

John  Pickfoed,  M.A. 
Newbonme  Rectory,  Woodbridge. 

Odo  may  hope  to  be  set  right  in  the  matter 
if  wrong  ;  but  did  not  the  sergeant's  chevmo 
have  its  origin  in  the  pheon  or  broad  arrow. 
which,  as  a  Government  mark,  wa«  ajKttx-int'-i 
with  the  military  organization  of  tli 
trained  bandsl  Although  it  is  a  cii 
point  when  the  broad  arrow  a$sume<t  it« 
pi*esent  distinctive  signification  as  a  Govern' 
ment  mark,  there  can  be  little  • 
it  originated  in  the  badge  of  i: 
which  was  a  pheon,  or  **  broad  R, '  tlio  latl 
being  either  a  corruption  of  "broad  ar; 

or  an  abbreviation  of  "Rex"  (see  Pallt 

'Devices'),  while  the  pheon  became  a  royal 
badge  through  being  carried  by  the  sergeant- 
at-arma  before  rovalty,  like  the  modem  maca. 
It  was  a  barbea  fishing-spear  or  harpoon- 
head,  but  the  indented  inner  edges  ot  the 
fiangejt  of  the  phoon  do  not,  of  coune,  appear 
in  the  sergeant's  chevron.  This,  however, 
would  naturally  not  be  an  inalspensablfi 
detail  in  the  distinguishing  marks  on  the 
sleeves  of  non-commissioned  officers. 

J.  Holdek  MaoMichael. 

161,  Haniniersmitb  Road. 

"SoRPENi":  "Hagoovele"  do""  8.  i.  208, 
256).— The  first  element  of  haggoitU  seems  to 
lio  derived  from  Icel.  hoggua,  to  cut,  hew, 
while  the  second  is,  without  any  doubt,  the 
Old  English  word  ga/ol,  gofol,  tax,  tribuKv 
rent.  Otto  Rittkk, 

Berlin. 


Chair  of  St.  AurirsTiNE  (10"'  8.  i,  360X 
The  following  paragraph,  taken  from  t 
Dailtj  Mail  of  23  January,  19<^.  may  conn 
tut«  a  reply  to  Ms.  Alfred  Hall's  quMtion  :— 

"  At  a  meeting  of  the  Canterbury  Roy '  ^' 

Comtiiitteo  yesterday  a  letter  was  rciv 
Bishop  of  Hereford  askiiig  for  the  r- 
Augustine's  chair,  uted  by  him>>i. 
journeys,  which  for  some  time  \>n^^ 
prominent  place  in  the  muaeum.  T: 
tbat  the  chair  wb«  removed  5oni' 
tbo  (.'hancel  of  the  church  at  Biah<>j' 
L  \,V\».\i  ViVw^^v^t  Mxd  \«iT\A>\v\.oii«n  desired  to  iuivo  U 


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ck  aitain.    The  committee  dwided  to  reply  that 
ley  could  noi  conirent  to  hia  lordship's  request,  as 
they  considered  Canterbury  was  the  propter  plaoe 
for  the  obair     It  was  stated  that  Mr.  Cocks  John- 
Itone  purchased  the  chair  from  a  former  sexton  of 
the  church  at  Bishop's  Stanford,  who  had  rescued 
|t  from    the   hands  of    some    rrieisons    engaged    in 
.    QQovatin);    the  church,   and   who  were  about  to 
burn  it  for  fuel." 
,  ^  John  T.  Pack. 

^m     West  Haddon,  Northamptonshire. 

I^f    This  is  a  soinewhat  primitive  oak  chair, 
that  WHS  turnefi  out  or  a  pariah  church  in 

I  the  diocese  of  Hereford,  and  is  now  in  the 
museum  at  Canterbury.     Sonie  people  say 
it  is  the  chair  used  by  St.  Augustine  when 
be  met  the  Brititih  btahops. 
Arthur  Uussey. 
Tankerton-nn-Sea,  Kent. 
FETTlfL.\tE  (lO"*  S.  i.  329.  396).— If  Dr. 
F0R3H.\w  w  ill  consult  (as  I  have  done  at  the 
British  Museum)  Kelly's  'Directory  for  Berk- 
shire' for  the  year  1»03  (under  title  'Bray,' 
mj^t  p.  42),  ho  will  read  as  follows  : — 
^B    "Ookwell  Manor  House.— Now  [1903]  the  resi- 
^^genoe  of  Edward  A.  Barry,   Esq.    An  extremely 
^Kfioe  timber-framed  mansion,  erected   in   reign  of 
^BSIdward  IV.,    and    anlarRed    in    189'J    by  present 
Vowner,  W.  H.  Grenfell,  Esn.,  J. P.,  M.P.  (of  Taplow 
'      Court),  who  is  the  lord  of  the  manor  (and  other 
manors)." 

I  accurately  recollect  that  in  ray  punting 
days— forty -five  or  fifty  years  ago— I  stayed 
a  night  at  the  "George"  Inn,  Bray,  for  the 
express  purpose  of  seeing  the  house.  I  had 
the  belief  that  it  was  marked  in  ray 
Ordnance  map,  but  cannot  now  fiud  it. 
Anyway  I  certainly  walked  there,  and  from 
either  Slaidenhead  or  Taplow  station. 

Edward  P.  Wolterstan. 

Ockwella  Manor— a  moat  interesting  hia 
toric    building— is    situate    near    Bray  and 
Maidenhead.     Some  illustrations  of  it  will  bo 
found  in  Nash's '  Mansions,'  Jesse's  *  Favourite 
Haunts,'  or  in  Country  Lifi  for  2  April. 

R.  B. 

Upton. 

Ock wells  or  Ockholt  Manor  was  held  by 
the  FettipJRces  temp,  Henry  VIII.  "There 
is  a  view  of  it  in  t^ysons's  'Berks,'  p.  247, 
with  two  plates  of  the  stained-gloss  windows 
of  the  banqueting  hall  with  heraldic  designs. 
The  house,  it  is  believed,  was  erected  by  a 
Norreys  in  the  reign  of  Henry  Vf. 

R.  J.  Fynmobe. 
Saadf{at«,  Kent. 

Chftunoy.  in  his  '  Historical  Antiquities  of 

JHerts,'  mentions  a  Feltiplace.    Sir  Thomas 

5oamcH.  Sheriff  of  the  City  of  London  1589, 

larrica  Anne,  the  sister  of  John  Stone,  by 


whom  he  had  four  sons  and  other  children  ;  h^ 
died  leaving  the  manor  of  Berkosdon,  "Throck- 
ing,  Herts,  1619,  to  liis  son  Stephen,  who 
married  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Thomas 
Plavter,  of  Satterley,  Suffolk,  by  whom  ho 
had  two  sons  and  three  daughters,  one  of 
whom  (Mary)  married  Edward  Fettiplace,  of 
Kingston,  Berks  (vol.  i.  p.  238). 

M.A.OxoN. 
TiCKUNo  Trout  (9""  S.  xii.  505 j  10"'  S.  L 
l.'i4,  274,  375).— I  can  assure  Mr.  KATCLrFFE 
that  when  trout  are  lying  in  "  holds"  such  as 
our  characteristic  trout-streams  usually  offer, 
the  heads  of  the  fish  will  be  found  in  any 
direction  ;  for  instance,  if  a  rat-hole  lies  right 
athwart  the  direction  of  the  stream'.s  current, 
then  the  trout  harbouring  in  it  will  bo  lying 
in  the  same  direction  —  head  first  up  the 
hole.  It  is  true  that  trout  seem  to  like  (or, 
at  least,  not  to  object  to)  the  "  tickling  " ;  but 
to  the  "  grabbing  with  both  hands  '  they 
would  show  a  decided,  and  in  most  coses 
an  effectual  dislike.  Shakespeare  uses  the 
phrase  "  tickling  for  trout"  metaphorically. 

YORKSHIEEMAN. 

"Luther's  distich"  (lO*"*  S.  i.  409).— I 
have  little  doubt  that  the  famous 

Wer  nicht  liebt  Wein,  VVeib,  Oesang, 
Kr  bleibt  ein  Narr  aein  Leben  lang, 

is  meant.  O-  Kriteoee. 

Berlin. 

As  the  discoverer  of  the  original  diary  of 
Samuel  Teedon,  the  Olney  schoolmaster  and 
"  guide,  philosopher,  and  friend  "  of  the  poet 
Cowper.  after  it  had  been  missing  since 
about  1835,  and  as  its  owner  for  at  least 
twenty  years,  and  having  in  1890  copiously 
annotated  ray  transcript  for  publication,  I 
add  what  ray  MS.  contains  in  allusion  to 
the  entry  in  question.  I  find,  upon  reference, 
that  I  explain  "  Luther's  distich "  to  raean 
probably  the  superscription  on  Lucas  Cra- 
nach's  portrait  of  Luther,  painted  in  1532, 
viz.,  "  In  silentio  et  spe  erit  tortitvdo  vestra." 

E.  C.  13  quite  ri^nt  as  the  incorrectness 
of  T.  Wright's  edition  of  the  diary  for  tho 
Cowpor  Society  in  1902,  which  contains  at 
least  700  errors  (!)— the  first  twenty-three 
pages,  their  many  hundreds  of  errata  in 
tho  printer's  rough  proofs  having  been 
corrected  by  me  {con  amore),  being  the  only 
portion  comparatively  free  from  the  like. 
Mr.  Wright  had  invited  me  to  join  him  in 
the  editorship,  with  my  name  in  tho  first 
place  :  but  I  (leclined  to  do  so,  as  unworthy 
of  my  reputation,  within  the  limits  and  upon 
the  lines  laid  down  by  liini,  and  with  a 
printer  unused  to  book-work.  I.,  bi.<s"««iiH'«^ 
at    Mr.  Wu^ViX:*  x^^iQ^l^6^^,  %a&>aN«^  >^v«^ ''^ 


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! 


reading  such  few  portions  of  entries  in  the 
original  &9  he  admitted  hia  inability  to  make 
out.  The  name  of  such  to  him  illegible 
passages  muijt,  in  truth,  have  been  legion. 

W.  I.  R.  V. 

"Thsbb  WA8  A  man"  (10"'  S.  i.  227,  377).— 
Mlt.  Snowden  Wakd  might  perliaps  find 
in  the  Scotch  version  on  which  I  waa 
brought  up  some  more  reason  for  the  tragic 
ending  of  tlie  nurserj*  rime  than  in  his 
own.  Ours  is  not  historical,  but  didactic, 
and  addressed  to  a  man^  a  boy,  or  a  girl,  as 
the  caae  may  be.    It  begins  :— 

A  man  of  words  and  not  of  deeda 
Is  like  a  garden  set  with  weeds, 
And  when  the  weeds  befdn  to  grow. 

The  lines  run  the  same  a«  Ma.  Ward's 
version  until  the  end  : — 

And  when  my  heart  begins  to  bleed. 
Then  1  'ni  dead,  dead,  dead  indeed- 

To  avoid  which  tragedy  the  culprit  is 
expected  to  mend.  C  C.  Stores. 

I  recollect  bearing  the  verso  repeated  over 
twenty  years  ago,  though  in  the  south  of 
England— ill  fact,  in  London;  but,  unlike 
the  rendering  recorded  at  the  second 
reference,  the  first  two  lines  were  : — 

A  man  of  words  uud  not  of  dceda 

Is  like  a  garden  full  uf  weeds. 

The  whole  verso,  then,  would  seem  to  suggest 
the  antithesis  of  enduring  deeds  —  the 
epheroeral  nature  of  words  in  mere  passive 
promises  unless  followed  by  action. 

H.   SiHB 

AuTuoHs  OF  Quotations  Wanted  (lO'*"  S. 
i.  428).— The  lines  given  by  Miss  Gubnky  aa 
"Rest  after  toil,"  itc,  are  from  Spenser's 
'Faerie  Queen,'  Book  I.  canto  ix.  verse  40, 
but  are  entirely  misquoted.  They  begin, 
*'SIeep  after  toil."  H.  K.  H. 

No  endeavour  is  in  vain,  &c. 
See  Longfellow,  '  The  Wind  over  the  Chim- 
ney *  (last  verse).  J.  Foster,  D.C'.L. 

The  third  quotation  asked   for  by  Lt;cis, 
**  Every thioR  that  grows,"  is  the  opening  of 
Shakespeare  a     fifteenth    Sonnet   (somewliat 
imperfectly  rendered) : — 
When  I  consider  everything  that  grows 
Holds  in  perfection  but  a  little  moment, 
That  this  huge  stage  presenteth  nought  but  shows 
Whereon  the  stars  in  secret  influence  comment. 

c.  c.  s. 

[Several  correspondents  are  thanked  for  airoilar 
retereoce*.] 

pocDMENTO  IN  Secret  Drawers  (10«^  S.  i. 
427).— Tlio  classical  stories  of  the  recovery  of 


in  'The  Antiquary,'  vol.  i.  ch.  ix  ,  Ih" 
ghost  story  told  oy  Miss  Old  buck,  I. 
ghost  showed  Rab  Tull  that  the   pn; 
the  want  whereof  they  were   "  to  be 
afore  the  ses-sion"  was  hidden  in  a 
nacle  of  a  cabinet"  in  "the  high  do 
the  other  in  'Redgaantlet,'  of  the  reDl-ivor.ji 
abstracted  by  the  monkey. 

E.  A.  Poe,  in  his  '  Purloined  Letter/  e* 
ceivos  many  such  possibilities. 

Dickens  is  very  fond   of  aiakifi"  ' 
hinge  upon  the  loss  or  discovery 

deed.  The  "Golden  Dustman"  in  ' ' 

Friend '  made  many  wills,  and  deposited  UmbI 
in  strange  places. 

There  is  a  well-known  ghost  story,  atU^ 
buted  to  Wilherforce,  Bishop  of  Oxford, <!* 
similar  sort. 

Some  years  ago,  on  the  break  iag-itp<f* 
worn-out  mail-cart,  a  letter  many  deeadff 
old  was  found  in  one  of  its  crevices. 

When  the  dishandled  box  of  an  old  C5tj 
pump  was  removed  it  was  found  to  cootiin 
many  letters,  dropjjed  therein  bv  ignomsl 
persons,  who  had  mistaken  the  hauale-iud« 
for  the  slit  of  a  letter-box. 

These,  however,  were  unintentional  hidiop- 
The  two  following  instances  tilr.i.,  f.,,i,i(>id 
source.^,  are  perhaps  nearer  i 

The  monks  of  Meaux,  in  ii  .:, .ere 

like  to  have  lost  the  manor  of  Waglm 
because  they  could  not  produce  the  record  of 
the  agreement  between  themselves  and  Um 
Archbishop  of  York.  At  last  they  found  it 
in  a  hole  between  the  roof  and  the  oeiiiaf 
of  their  record  -  room  (1372-96). — *  ChrocJct 
Monasterii  de  Molssi,'  iii.  175. 

Bishop  Joseph  Hall  says  that  he  knew* 
man,  "  Mr.  Will.  Ccx)k,  sen.,  of  W;*' 
Cross,"  who  was  "informed  in  I 
what  hole  of  his  dove-cote"  he 
"an   important  evidence"  for    i 
whereof    he     was     "distressed 
('Invisible  World,'  1652  ;  Picker! r 
1847,  p.  85).     This  may  well  ha\c   ..„^,,.._.... 
the"dow-cot"  of  Monkbarns.         W.  C.  K. 

The  following  is  an  instance  of  an 
coveretl  drawer  in  an  old  oak  desk 
through    various    owners'    posses-   - 
Queen  Anne's  time  until  a  few  yi 

The  Hidden  Briefe.— A  Queen    '' 
Collection  at  All  tjainta'  Churoli, 
shire.— It  is  now  more  than  bc. 
since  the  brollier  of  a  tenant  of  n: 
oak  dusk  at  a  country  sale.  Beiii^ 
after  careful  examination  he  ai 
elusion  that  it  niiglit  have  a  si 
attempts  to  find  it  batllitig  hii;  i 
resource  he  triok  out  the  I"' 
tliis   means   he  discovered 


^oat  aocuiaents  are  by  Sir  Walter  H«>U,ot\e  iLdvwvta.Wt  wititcivod  for  tc 


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pen  it.  In  ihia  drawer  be  found  six  Queen  Anne's 
briefs  and  a  Queen  Anne  eixpeuce.  The  amount 
of  collection  at  All  Sainta'  Church,  CUverley,  was 
fitated  on  each  brief.  The  ioiner  kindly  ^ave  the 
Vriefs  to  nie,  as  iuterostea  in  anti^u&nan  and 
historical  (studies.    The  briefs  had  evidently  been 

>Iaced  in  the  drawer  soon  after  the  collections  had 
en  inado.  After  the  owners  death  the  oak  desk 
ceenis  to  has'e  passed  to  other  owners  until  it  was 

iiurchosed  in  the  circumstanco  mentioned.  The 
tto  Cornelius  Walford,  barrister-at-law  and 
author,  who,  like  myself,  was  a  Fellow  of  the 
Koyal  Historical  Society,  some  years  aRO  read  a 
i)a])er  before  the  Society  on  '  Kings'  Briefs,  their 
purposes  and  their  History '  (printed  in  the  tenth 
volume  of  the  Transactions  of  the  Society,  pub- 
lished in  1US2),  in  which  he  says:  'Briefs  being 
returned  along  with  the  money  collected  had  the 
effect  of  taking  them  out  of  circulation:  hence 
they  are  in  some  degree  scarce ;  for  in  truth  they 
were  either  destroyed  as  useless  or  allowed  to  rot 
or  moulder  away.'  The  first  instance  of  a  Kin^s 
Brief  bein;;  printed  was  in  1630.  The  following  is 
an  exact  copy  of  one  of  the  briefs  found  in  the 
secret  drawer,  which  relates  to  a  coUeclion  for 
the  rebuilding  of  Broseley  All  Saints'  Church  at  a 
cost  of  SiSUO/.  and  upwards.  A  more  recent  church 
has  been  built  on  the  same  site,  for  in  Mr. 
Randall's  iiilercsting  'History  of  Broselev'  it  is 
mentioned  that  this  church  was  to  be  rebuilt  at 
the  estimated  cost  of  3,388/.  4j." 

A  copy  of  the  brief  relatiag  to  Broseley  ao 
found,  with  five  others,  was  also  given  in  the 
antiquarian  column  called  '  BycRones '  in  the 
''oi-dtr    Counties'    Advertiser,    published    at 

swestry.  At  the  end  of  every  two  years 
the  colunins  are  iasue<l  in  a  volume  with  a 
full  index.  Hubebt  Smith. 

Brooklynne,  Leamington  Spa. 

At  the  sale,  in   1818,  of  the  effects  of  a 
dealer  in  old  clothes,  furniture,  and  curiosi- 
ties, who  carried  on  business  in  High  Street, 
Barnstaple,  an  antique  chair  was  included, 
de8Cribe<i   a«  of  mahogany,   witli   the  seat, 
back,   and   arms  stuffed  and   covered   with 
brown  leatiier,  and  istudde<l  with  brass  nails. 
There  was  a  large  drawer  under  the  seat, 
nd  two  other  drawers  were  fixed  on  pivots, 
;o  as  to  turn  back  under  the  arms,  and  were 
|£tted  for   writing    materials,  with   a   brass 
audlestick  attached  to  each,  and  a  wooden 
leaf  for  reading  or  writing,  capable  of  being 
'aised  or  depressed.    The  cabinet-maker  to 
.•Ijora  it  was  sent  to  be  repaired  found  that 
the  drawer  under  the  seat  extended  only  a 
irt  of  the  way  to  the  back,  and  that  the 
tcrvoning  space  was  occupied  by  a  secret 
rawer,  which  was  full  of  manuscripts,  which 
roved  to  consist  of  a  variety  of  unj)ublishetl 
ems  and  other  drwuraonts  of  John  (jay. 
le  incident  create<l  much  sensation  at  the 
me,  and  the  matter  was  fully  investigate^!. 
WM  found  that  the  chair  had  been  bought 
>  years   nroviously  at  the    sale  of   the 
«  of  A  Mr«,  Williams,  a  descendant  of 


Katherine  Bailer,  Gay's  sister.  Henry  Lee, 
author  of  '  Caleb  Quotem,'  edited  the  poems, 
and  published  them  under  the  title  of  Gay's 
Chair,'  with  an  engraved  frontispiece  of  tue 
chair,  evidences  and  certificates  of  the  facts, 
and  a  facsimile  of  Gay's  writing.  The  first 
four  lines  of  the  principal  piece,  entitled 
'  "The  Ladies'  Petition  to  tne  Honourable  the 
House  of  Commons,'  are  as  follows  : — 

Sirs,  We,  the  maids  of  Exon  city, 

The  maids,  good  bu:k,  the  morels  the  pity  ] 

Do  humbly  offer  this  petition 

To  represent  our  sad  condition. 

Tho8.  Waikavright. 

"Hen-hussey":  "  Whip-btitch  "  :  "Wood- 
toter"  (lO""  S.  i.  449).— According  to  the 
•English  Dialect  Dictionary,'  a  hen-hustty 
or  hen-huswife  means  '*a  woman  who  looks 
after  poultry  ;  also  a  meddlesome,  officious 
person."  It  is  tliere  recorded  as  being  known 
in  Wilts,  Somerset.,  and  Devon,  as  well  as  in 
America. 

If  your  correspondent  will  be  so  good  as  to 
wait  till  the  last  part  of  the  Dictionary 
comes  out,  ho  will  then  be  able  to  ascertain 
the  facts  as  to  the  distribution  of  the  other 
two  words.  So  far  the  recoi-d  ends  with  the 
word  tommy.  Walter  W.  Skkat. 

Mark  Hildesley  (10"'  S.  i.  344,  414).— He 
was  never  elected  Lord  Mayor  or  Sheriff  or 
M.P.  for  London.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Vintners'  Company,  and  chosen  Alderman 
of  Bread  Street  Ward  20  September,  164&, 
and  was  discharged  on  payment  of  a  fine 
of  400J.,  15  July,  1651.  At  that  period  the 
changes  in  the  Court  of  Aldermen  were 
very  treauent,  and  in  succession  to  Hildesley 
in  Bread  Street  Ward  no  fewer  than  nine 
persons  were  elected,  who  paid  fines  of 
various  amount*  to  avoid  service,  between 
15  July  and  15  September,  1(J51.  The  list  of 
persons  who  had  obtained  exemption  from 
serving  the  office  of  Sheriff  in  1652  numbers 
forty-six,  of  whom  twenty-seven  had  been 
addeil  in  the  previous  twelve  months,  Hildes- 
ley being  ono  of  these. 

AxPRKD  B.  Beaven. 

Stepbrother  f  10"'  S.  i.  329,  395).—!  think, 
with  all  due  deference,  that  Mb.  Wilson  is 
mistaken  in  his  reply  to  Miss  Blaikley.  A 
person  and  his  step-brother  cannot  have  A 
common  i)aront ;  if  ho  had,  they  would  be 
half  brothfM'K,  not  step-brothers.  The  sons 
of  a  widower  raarrie<i  to  a  widow  are  step 
brothers  to  the  chililron  born  of  her  first 
marriage.  Mr.  WilsoN  goes  on  to  say,  "  If 
brought  up  in  one  family  they  wQ\i.UL 
naturally  b©  ca.\.\e*\  \>\<^\}ufcx%  «ix  \vtci\k>»x  v^^^ 
sister  •,  t\\e  TnMt\a^<i\»\."««sa^*^'2w  «.>«^vx«^ 


^•i^ 


>  8.  L  jc.s«  11. 1W4.)        NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


477 


ing  in  Macclesfield,  the  home  of  "  Hetty 
a     (Hester  Atm  Koe),   vvhom  he  wwided 
,   second    marnAgo    on    19    August,   Rome 
ireo  months  after  the  date  of   the  letter, 
the  Mormoii  referred  to  by  Wesley  be  one 
M    Rogers's     own,    nothing     published     by 
.iini  so  early  as    1784   ap|>eani   in  Onborn'a 
•  Methodist  Literature.'  H.  J.  Foster. 

"Jenios's  Intack"  (Ky*  S.  i.  407).- 
AHhoueh  it  does  not  mention  the  intack, 
the  following  note,  from  the  original  docu- 
menL  may  Iw  of  use :  — 

8  Marcli,  30  Charles  II.,  IG78,  leaao  by 
Richard  Pyc,  of  Whitbie,  co.  Chester,  yeoman, 
eon  of  John  Pye,  late  of  the  same,  yeoman, 
deceaiicd,  to  John  Jannian,  of  tlio  same, 
yeoman,  and  Martha  hi%  wife,  lato  wife  of 
the  said  John  Pye,  of  a  close  at  Whitbie, 
'  called  the  Marsh,  for  09  years,  at  a  pepper- 
•  corn  rent,  in  lieu  of  Martha's  dower  out  of 
John  I'ye's  estate. 

Whitby  is  north  of  Chester,  between  that 
city  and  the  Mersey,  and  b«twef>n  Caiten- 
hurst  and  Ellcsmero.  W.  C.  B. 

In  Lincolnshire,  and  I  believe  in  Beveral 

other  counties},  intnck  signifies  land  taken  in 

from  a  waste  place,  or  from  a  common  or 

tidal  river.  In  the  manorial  reoortls  of  Scotter 

)r  1029  it  h  rocor<le<l  that  Uichard  Uuggit 

irrendered    to  Thumas    Stotharfl    land    in 

cotter  called    "  lo  long   intaakes."      There 

H  in  Winteringham  certain  land  called  the 

[intake"  which  had  been   reclaimed  from 

le  llumber  in  1881.    It  htm  now,   1  have 

inderatood,    been    almoMt    entirely    washed 

Evay.  EuwARP  Peacock. 

Wiokenlree  Hoaae,  Kirtonin  LindMy. 

Paste  (10"*  S.  i.  447).— If  rociiio  reforcnccs 

'  use  to  Dr.  Murray,  he  will  find  iwvoml 

old  cookery  books.     The  recipe  for 

)vy  paste  is  given  in  Cooley'a  'Cyclo- 

iia  of  Practical  Receipt*,'  1872,  p.  886. 

Wm.  Jauoaiio. 

**Pr»PLi  PATCH"  (10*  8.  i.  447>.— The 
lotatiou  is  from   Uor»ce'«  'Afb   Pootica,' 

15,  16:— 

Puri>urvu«,  Ut«  qui  •iil«ad«at,  unat  et  alt«r 

AMUilUt-  (MUIUIU. 

Joii!*  B.  Waikkwriout. 

Id  tho  'Art  of  Poetry,'  as  translated  in 
that  well-known  "crib'^  Smart's  '  Homcji,' 
J  tho  phrase  occurs,  "One  or  two  ver»e«  of 
■HDrple  patchwork,  that  may  make  a  groat 
^Biow."  The  orifdnal  edition  of  17r>(}  may, 
^Kerefore,  be  wortn  consul  ting. 
^m  J.  Domikr. 

^H     tOttisr  corrMpondsnts  sbo  refer  to  Rors««.J 


'The  Yoyo  Souldier'  (lO'*"  S.  i.  428).— 
Saye,  never  very  loyal,  became  a  meml>er  of 
tho  "Committee  of  Safety"  4  July,  1642,  and 
shortly  afterwards  was  given  the  command 
of  one  of  the  twenty  infantry  regimenta 
and  of  one  of  tho  seventy-five  squadrons  of 
horso  of  which  tho  rebel  army  was  composed 
(see  Quizot's  '  English  Revolution,'  liobn's 
od.,  pp.  160,  446,  447). 

A  (Japt.  llainsforu  was  one  of  the  garrison 
of  Worcester  at  \Ih  surrender,  20  July,  1646  : 
and  in  the  'Calendar  of  State  Papers,  I6:>l-3i,* 
one  John  Rainsford  appears  as  having 
incurred  tho  suspicion  oi  the  Government 
If  these  are  to  i>o  identified  with  our  author, 
we  may  further  conjeoturo  him  to  be  the 
brother  of  two  other  Rainsfonls,  Henry  and 
Francis,  whoso  names  occur  iu  the  samo 
volume  of  the  '  Calendar." 

Col.  Henry  lUiniford.  of  Clifford,  Glouc. 
and  Combe,  Hants,  fougnt  for  tho  king,  and 
was  imprisoned  at  Uxford.  Ho  rtompounded 
in  1646.   was  iui[iri><uued   in    tho   CiatohoUflO 

for  high  Tr -••■     !'■• i"-     I'M,  but  was 

subsequeir  m  the  East 

Indies,  adu ,..-.. ^  ..;iUm1  5  Deo.* 

\(]:>0.  Ho  was  grandson  of  :sir  Henry  Raina* 
ford,  Knt.,  of  C'lifford,  and  son  and  heir  of 
Sir  Henry  Rainsfurtl,  Knt.,  of  ClilTord  and 
C<imbf,  who  was  M.P.  for  Audover  from 
1640  to  his  death  in  1641,  and  nephew 
of  Capt.  Sir  Francis  Rainsford,  Knt^ 
Lioutonant^Oovcrnor  of  Jorsev,  who  diea 
II  June,  1635.  Francis  entcrwl  Wincbc«t«r 
College  from  ClifTonl  in  103i6  at  tho  ago  of 
twelve.  JoHK  B.  WAisrswaioiiT. 

In  Peao<K!k'a  'Army  Lists  of  tho  Round- 
bead*  and  Cavaliers,  1618,'  a  foot-note,  p.  Si, 
runs  :— 

"John    Raittsford,    klU«il    (ly    ravatim    from 
Pontcfrsct  OmU*   in  ao  'in 

iirisoiicr  At  lloaoaster,  2*  «t 

VV-......-     v.-     11       Re   tt.„  \ii» 

I  ' .  drkuicht'  irl 

nl      <  .ItAl  of     StI  ill,' 

Mlua^  ion. 

At  p.  89  he  appear*  u  senior  lieutenant  in 
Lord  Saye's  regiment.        R.  J.  Kynmori. 

Kandxal*. 

Maetello  Towers  (10*  8.  L  285,  356,  4ll)t 
—The  following  extract  from  a  letter  written 
by  Lord  Hood,  and  dmUfd  "Victorv,  St. 
Fiorenzo,  February  22,  1704,"  may  be  of 
intrrMt : — 

"  On  tlw  7tb  tka  CoonncKlors  anchored  la  %  bay 
U>  tk«  westward  of  Mortalla  Ittiut,  with  tbs  wrwal 
■hi|is  sod  uaaiparta  aader  his  eommaad.  Th* 
inof»  wera  aMsUJT  tamlea  that  rvsnioc.  and  poe> 


■MBioa  t»k«a  of  a  n«i»'  .  .ki  th«  towai 

o(  Mort«lla.    Tb«  ar>  rsl  and  Com- 

noiiort  Mni  of  opi&.»>  .».v  .w  ..ui  adriiabU  t* 


478 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        [w-s.!.  JcxKii,i90i 


attack  the  tower  from  the  hay,  the  Fortitude  and 
Judo  were  ordered  agaiDat  it,  without  making  the 
least  imiiresejon,  by  a  eannonAde  eoulinaed  for  two 
hours  and  a  half ;  and  the  former  ship  being  very 
niuch  danioRed  by  red-hot  shot,  both  hauled  off. 
The  walls  of  the  tower  were  of  a  prodigious  thick- 
ness, and  the  parapet,  where  there  were  two 
eighteen-ponndcra.  was  lined  with  bass  junk,  Hve 
feet  from  the  walls,  and  tilled  up  with  sand  ;  and 
although  it  was  cannonade<l  from  the  hei);ht  for 
two  days,  within  150  yards,  and  appeared  in  a  very 
shattered  slate,  the  enemy  still  held  out ;  but  a  few 
hot  shot  settion  tire  to  the  basa,  made  thew  call  for 
quarter.  The  number  of  men  in  the  tower  was  33: 
only  two  were  wounded,  and  those  mortally." 

w.  s. 

"The  run  or  his  teeth"  (10"'  B.  i.  388, 
436).  —  "A  New  Song,  celebrating  Lord 
Milton's  Sheflield  Electioneering  Coraraittee 
and  Agents.  Dedicated,  Without  pennisKion, 
to  His  Lordship  and  His  Lordship's  Motley 
Party ;  By  their  rfwobedient  Servant,  Satirical 
Satire,  Esquire.  May,  1807,"  p.  8,  verse  xvi. 
has  :— 

And  it  suits  to  a  T, 

To  receive  as  your  fee. 

The  run  of  your  teeth 

And  five  guineas  a  day. 

Does  the  phrase  "  It  suita  to  a  T  "  appear  in 
any  glosaary  1    Henry  John  Be.\rdsh.vw. 

27,  ^Northumberland  Road,  Sheffield. 

"Bakrar"  (lOih  S.  J.  349  434).-Snrely  it 
ought  to  be  distinctly  stated  that  this  word, 
better  spelt  barrow,  is  given  not  only  in 
the  'E.D.D.,'but  in  the 'New  English  Dic- 
tionary '  also.  The  etymology  there  sug- 
gested, from  A.S.  beore/an,  to  protect,  defend, 
is  surely  right.  We  have  the  same  word  over 
again  in  the  prov.  E.  Barg-ham,  "  protection 
of  the  liame,  'given  in  both  the  above  dic- 
tionaries, and  in  //«m-/xi/Y//t  ('N.E.D,'),  Ilam- 
hurgk  ('  E.D.D.'),  t  e-,  "hame-protection." 
Walter  W.  Skkat. 

Shakespeare's  Grave  (lO""  S.  i.  288,  331, 
3fi2,  41G). — The  discussion  on  the  above  sub- 
ject; would  be  materially  assisted  by  the  com- 
Earisou  of  the  seven  illustrations  to  a  paper 
y  C.  C.  Stopes  entitled  'The  True  Story 
oi  the  Stratford  Bust,'  which  appeared  in 
Murray's  Mcmfhhj  B«vien<  for  April.  They 
show  a  complete  change  in  the  design  of 
the  tomb.  E.  R. 

" Gringo "= Foreigner:  "Grienoro" (10"> 
S.  i.  369),— Mr.  W.  L.  Poole  is  unquestionably 
right  in  saying  that  the  word  "Griengro" 
occurs  frequently  in  'Aylwin,'  which  has 
been  pronounced  the  most  authoritative 
picture  existing  of  the  horse-dealing  gypsies 
of  Great  Britain.  But  neither  in  that  nook 
ttov  ia  Mr.  Wfttts-Duntou's  g^fpa?  poem  'The 


Coming  of  Love,'  nor  in  Borrow'-*  '  ^  

nor  its  sequel   'The  Romauy    I 

F.  H.  Qroome's  gj'psy  pictures,  .,  <...■..  

Griengro  used  as  being   synonjTDOoa  mlJi 
the  word    Gringo   (foreigner),    oa    niv.)   \>~ 
I  natives  of    the  river    Plate.       I    a-; 
I  gypsologist    myself,    but    it    has    1 - 
'  pinvilege  to  be  brought    much    im 
with  all   the  above-mentioned    H-ri'.r 
I  am  familiar  with  their  work  ;    but  1  *u 
persuaded     that     the     word     Griengro  hu 
nothing  to  do  with  the  idea  of  foroignar, « 
"outsider,"  as  expressed  by  the  gypnv  wosi 
Gorgio.    Mr.  WattuDunton  iias  hiro--''*  " 
explained     the     word     GrienQro. 
master,"  in  the  'Encyclopedia  Hrif^iri- 1   . 
Chambers's  '  Cyclopii-dia  of  Eneli-li    i  .'- 
ture,'  and  in  the  introductions   t.i   ■ 
and    '  The  Coining  of  Love.'       I     > 
however,  that  certain  very  oompf-ti  w;     . 
(such,   for  instance,  as  Oruinir  i   iij  i- i: 
see    Romany    origins     for    a    inucJi    i:^^- 
numberof  European  words  thau  tiiegeoeni 
reader  can  understand. 

Thomas  St.  K.  VL^tM, 

Uounslow,  W. 


NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  &c. 
Th(  Wovlii  of  Francii  Bnaumont  catd  John  Fkfdi0'. 

Variorum  Edition.    Vol.  I,     (Bell   A   Sons  awl 

A.  H.  Bullen.) 
iMr.  Bitu.kn's  labours  in  the  fields  of  Taik)r<lna» 
Snd  their  crown  in  the  edition  of  BeAut. 
Fletcher  of  which  the  (iret  volume   no« 
Amidst  the   pressure   of   vRrii.uH    avo.-x 
Bullen  has  been  unable  to 
of  enormous  labour  and    i 
associated  with   himself,   a 
duction  of  the  opening  vi 
scholar  so  ripe  ana  trustwoi 
and  the  editor  of  Lyly,  Mr.  11.  \ 
of  the  latest  and  most  active  r^ 
of  editors.     He  will  himself  siii.ei^i-.-  .,,i(i 
the  entire  work,  uiid  will  furnish  to  it,  in  a  V 
and  conuluding  volume,  the  memoirs'  of 
dramatists    and    various    exeiirstisos,    cfil 
expository,  of  a  kind  the  value  of  whic 
lenrnt  to  estimate.     That  Mr.  Bullen  haui 
engaced  on  a  task  for  which  he  has  Bi:«ci&li 
putftble qualifications  had  been  knowti,  niji 
that  he  was  so  employed  was  calcn'  '     ,i 

all  thought  of  oppositinn  and  riva 

tion  extended  no  further  than  re; ,, 

of  the  Rev.  Alexander  Dyce  which    iiaa 

approval  of  all  scliolars.  an^I  t)eeii  d«-p: 

no  one  except  a  rivnl     '' 

in  the  same  century.  ,f 

collation  and  of  the  .. 

suggested  iUelf,  howovtti,  during  thn  ,m^ 

the  work  in  its  new  shape  is  an  advauce 

jtrcdccessor. 

Not  quite  easy  is  it  to  define  tlm  ext 
of  the  two  dramatists  in  the  Elizabethan 


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479 


akeapeare,  whom  they  imrsiHtently  and  slaviBhly 

itated,  is,  of  course,  beyond  all  notion  of  coin- 

larisoD.     Ben  Jonson   eclipses   thorn  as  a  coinic 

ramatist.     Marlowe,  Ford,  and   Webster  strike 

I  deeper  notes  ;  aiideveu8uburdiDatet,BUch  oa  Decker 
uid  Hey  wood,  are  touched  tci  finer  iasuea.    Mas- 
pnger  is  most  closely  akin  to  them,  and,  while  he 
EnrjiaAfieB  them  in  oraniatic  grip,  comes  nowhere 
pear  them  in  poetry  or  pathos.    In  roepect  of  a 
feolid  mhsa  of  high  accomplishment  thcv  stand  all 
but  paramount.   Bulk  of  work,  it  has  to  be  acknow- 
ledged, counts  for  somewhat,  and  it  is  not  wholly 
fortuitous   that  the   beet  writers  are  among    the 
rnoBi    fecund.     The    dramas    of    Beanniont    and 
Fletcher  constitute  a  world  of  romance,  in  which 
the  sympathetic  reader  may  wander  at  will  and 
turn  his  steps  in  every  direction  with  the  certainty 
of  deli(rht.    In  this  respect  they  have  affinities  with 
'  The  Fairy  Queen '  and  the  '  Arcadia,'  and  seem 
not  wholly  remote  from  the  'Mortd'Arthur.'   Itisa 
veritable  land  of  enchantment  in  which  wo  wandar. 
In  spite  of  Fletcher's   quaint   notions   coQcerning 
'       metre,  the  plays  atK)und  in  poetry,  and  the  general 
versitication  is,  as  a  rule,  superior  to  that  of  all  the 
Tudor  poets,  except  the  highest.      One  comes   in 
perusal  upon  exquisite  scenes,  and  there  are  pas- 
I       sages  which  Milton  did  not  scorn  to  imitate,  and 
I        otners  which  Shakespeare  himself  need  not  have 
disowned,    'The  Faithful  Shepherdess'  is,  in  the 
full   sense,   immortal,   and    is   still,   as  a  pastoral ' 
^_  drama,  set  occasionally  before  thepublic.    In  lyrics 
^HCeaurooDt  and  Fletcher  come,  in  Tudor  times,  next 
^fto  Shakespeare,  and  have  a  grace  and  beauty  which 
^^none  of  their  imniediate  successors,  except  Milton 
and  )>erhaps  Herrick,  could  equal.     Against  these 
things  ther»  is  only  to  be  ur^ed  a  wantonness  of 
I       Bi>eech  scarcely  to  be  rivalled  in  Restoration  times, 
L      and  than  which  little  in  the  ixietry  of  their  own 
u      period  is  more  regrettable. 

Dyce's    Beaumont    and     Fletcher,    which    was 
L       ftdequale  in  all  respects,  has  been  virtually  for  a 
!       generation  out  of  print,  and  isuue  of  the  costliest  of 
I       dramatic  works.    It  forms  the  basis  of  the  edition 
now  in  progress,  and  will  always  hold  a  position  in 
'        the  market  and  on  the  shelves.    Previous  collections 
'        —with  the  exception  of  the  first  folio  (1647),  con- 
taining thirty-six  plays,  and  >ho  second  (1679),  con- 
taining fifty— have    neither  value   nor  authority, 
though,  in  the  absence  of  more  trustworthy  texts, 
their  price  has  gone  u)i  in  the  market. 

I  The  order  of  arrangement  adopted  by  Mr.  Bullen 
is  that  of  the  second  folio,  which  was  accepted  by 
Weber  in  his  fourteen-volunu'  etlition  of  the  works, 
and  observed  in  the  two-volume  edition  of  Moxon 
which  followed,  and  has  long  been  the  most  generally 
kooessible  of  forms  in  which  the  dramatists  can  bo 
■tuditd.  Five  plays,  happily  representative  of  the 
varinus  styles  of  Beaumont  and  Fletcher,  constitute 
the  first  volume,  and  consist  of  '  The  Maid's 
Tragedy '  and  '  Philaster ;  or,  Love  lies  Bleeding,' 
edited  ny  Mr.  Daniel,  and  '  A  King  and  No  King,' 
•The  Scornful  Lady,'  and  *Th«  Custom  of  the 
Country.'  j'fiileH  by  Mr.  Warwick  Bond.  Pre- 
liminary matter  to  each  of  these  supplies  all  biblio- 
graphicJil  jiarticular»,  an  argument  of  the  play— 
vhich  is  a  distinct  boon— and  an  account  of  the 
text,  the  source,  and  the  historr.  In  four  cases 
out  of  five  the  frontispiece  to  the  first  quarto  is 
ipveii  in  facsimile,  and  there  is  a  beautiful  process 
rcjirodiiflion  of  a  portrait  of  Beaumont,  from  the 
gallery  at  Knole  Park.  Some  time  will  pro- 
Wore  the  entire  work  is  in  the  hands 


of  the  reader.  It  is  hoped,  however,  that  the 
second  volume,  containing,  like  the  present,  five 
plays,  will  be  issued  during  the  year.  We  could 
write  inexhaustibly  upon  this  subject,  since  for  a 
generation  poet  we  have  pressed  for  an  edition  such 
as  the  present.  How  limited  is  the  space  we  oat» 
allot  to  reviews  is,  however,  apparent,  and  wo 
content  ourselves  with  pronouncing  the  edition  the 
greatest  gift  for  which  the  Shakespearian  student 
had  to  hope. 

Grtat  Masttrs.  Part  XVI.  (Heinemann.) 
With  'The  Miracle  of  St.  Mark'  of  TintorettOj 
from  the  Accademia,  Venice,  the  sixteenth  part  of 
'Great  Masters'  begins.  What  is  the  exact  nature 
of  the  miracle  being  wrought  by  the  descending 
saint  — who  is,  of  course,  the  patron  saint  oi 
Venice  — we  fail  to  grasp,  and  we  should  have 
been  glad  of  information  which  is  not  vouchsafed 
us.  An  eminently  dramatic  work,  crowded  with 
figures,  it  is  interesting,  among  other  things, 
for  giving  us  among  the  characters  a  good  por- 
trait of  t^e  painter.     Next  comes  Gainsborough' a 

*  Elizabeth,  Viscountess  Folkestone,'  recently  exhi- 
bited in  the  Birmingham  Art  Gallery.  It  is 
from  the  collection  of  Mrs.  Georgo  Holt,  and 
is  a  fine  portrait  of  a  head  neither  youthful  uor 
beautiful.  '  Don  Ferdinand  of  Austria,'  by  Velas- 
quez, from  the  Prado,  Madrid,  is  one  of  the  finest 
portraits  in  the  world.  The  cardinal  prince  is 
holding  a  gun  and  is  accompanied  by  a  dog,  which 
also  is  superbly  painted.  Last  comes,  from  the 
Vienna  Gallery,  Van  Dyck's  '  The  Blessed  Herman 
Joseph,'  a  striking  religious  ])icture,  with,  as  tho 
introduction  states,  liJli  pagan  type*  9ub«titute<l 
for  the  ascetic  types  of  mediaeval  painters. 

Is  tho  Forttiightly  Mr.  W.  S.  Lilly  writes  od 
'Shakespeare's  Protestantism.'  Like  many  other 
Ronuin  Catholics,  Mr.  Lilly  seems  to  have  persuaded 
himself  that  Shakespeare  was  of  the  ancieut  faith. 
When  dramatic  utterances  are  taken  as  persona), 
it  is  easy  to  establish  almost  anything.  Mr.  Franci» 
Gribblo  deals  with  the  autobiograiniv  and  philo- 
sophy of  Herbert  Spencer,  and  Canon  XlacColI  with 

*  Lord  Acton's  Letters  to  Mary  (Jladstons.'  Mrs. 
Kosa  Newmarch  gives  a  full  account  of  '  Vaaaily 
Vareatsohagin  :  V\  ar  Painter,'  whose  losa  is  recent 
and  lamentable.  '  Tho  Niece  of  Na|ioleon '  supplies 
an  animated  account  of  the  Princess  Matnilde. 
'  'The  Plague  of  Novels,'  by  Mr.  Cuthl>crt  Hodden,  is 
more  remarkable  for  smartneRS  than  for  any  other 
quality.— Mrs.  Maxwell  Scott  writes,  in  the  Xine- 
tttnth  Century,  on  '  The  Youth  of  James  III.,'  the 
mere  title  showing  the  point  of  view  from  which 
her  article  is  undertaken.  Like  the  famous  flies 
in  amber,  the  thin^  is  neither  rich  nor  rare,  and  we 
can  only  wonder  now  it  climbed  into  the  place  it 
occupies.  Mr.  Lord  enunciates  some  nob  very  im- 
portant cnnclusious  on  'The  Kingsley  Novell,' 
under  which  title  he  comprises  the  novels  o£ 
Charlea  and  Henrv  Kingsley,  writers  who  do  nob 
seem  to  have  much  in  common  besides  tho  name. 
'  Franz  von  Lenbach '  is  an  interesting  study  by 
Anita  MaoMahon.— A  picture  by  Sir  E.  J.  Poynter. 
called  'Asterii,''  servea  as  frontispiece  to  the  Pali 
Mall.  Marie  van  Vorat  supplies  a  competent  and. 
wollillustraled  account  of  Paul  Albert  Bernard, 
the  Parisian  itainter,  for  some  time  a  resident  in 
London.  Laay  Jersey  descril>e«,  from  personal 
ob«ervalion,   "The  Women  of  ladva..'     W^.^.  '>^- 


480 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


^Ctevennon  throufth  the  Cevenoea.  Mr.  Frederick 
IXeea  h&s  uhtained  from  well-known  Prenchmon 
opiiiians  conceruing  our  degenerate  stage.  There 
•re  EriKlishmen  who  coald,  "an  they  would,"  tell 
him  more  on  a  ■ubjoct  on  which  much  might  be 
said.  The  qaestioo, '  What  ia  a  Lad v  ? '  ia  answered 
by  aaying  sne  is  a  eentlewonian.  Thia  ia  doubtleaa 
&ccurat«,  but  ool  altogether  iliuminatiag.  — Part  vi. 
of  'Hiitoricftl  Mysteries.'  by  Mr.  Lanf;.  in  the 
ibomhilf,  deals  with  '  The  Murder  of  Escoredo.'  In 
this  case  the  mystery  has  nothing  to  do  with  the 
manner  in  which  the  crime  was  committed  or 
the  identity  of  the  murderer,  but  is  wholly  con- 
oemed  with  the  motive  of  the  deed.  Sir  Herbert 
Maxwell  supplies,  from  the  latest  sourcea.  a  deeply 
interesting  account  of  Sir  Joha  Moore,  and  the 
Dean  of  Westminster  describes  '  Westminster 
Abbey  in  the  Early  Part  of  the  Seventeenth  Cen- 
tury.' Mrs.  Elizabeth  Robins  Pennoll  describes 
from  an  American  standpoint  some  of  the  mysteries 
of  'London  Chambers,'  and  Mr.  C.  J.  Corniah jjives 
interesting  particulars  concerning  *  Partridge  Hear- 
ing in  France.'— In  '  At  the  Sign  of  the  Ship,'  in 
Lonf/nviit' s,  Mr.  Lang  utters  an  incidental  phrase 
the  value  of  which  we  should  like  to  see  acknow- 
ledged. It  is  to  the  effect  that  "  all  lectures  are  a 
oaisanoe  to  a  studions  person,"  and  the  utterance 
should  be  written  in  fetters  of  gold.  We  have 
attended  lectures  innumerable,  and  never  received 
the  slightest  \za\i\  from  any.  Mr.  LauR  writes  justly 
and  amusingly  on  Herbert  Si>encer.  'A  .Journey 
from  Edinburgh  to  Paris  in  1S02'  is  striking  and 
intereatiog.  There  is  some  excellent  fiction.— Dr. 
Japp  Beuos  to  the  Gtntltman'a  a  pleasant  '  Vision 
of  Trees.'  Mr.  A.  M.  Stevens,  in  'Tobacco  and 
Drama,'  speaks  of  allusions  to  smoking  in  plays, 
such  as  'The  Fawn,"  'Blnrt  Master  Constable, 
•A  Fair  Quarrel,'  &c.  'A  Plea  for  Cowiier"  is 
advanced.  It  is  welcome,  but  we  did  not  inink  it 
required.  

Oebmasy,  which  takes  a  vivid  interest  in  English 
philology,  is  to  i)roduco  at  the  beginning  of  next 
year  a  new  periodical  devoted  to  niodara  English, 
entitled  Baimfeine.  Prof,  Gustav  Kriiger,  already 
well  known  to  us  as  an  excellent  writer  on  Eagliah, 
and  Leon  Kellucr  are  the  editors,  and  thef  are 
supported  by  the  new  Philological  Union  of  Vienna 
and  various  scholars,  the  EnBRBh  representative  of 
the  scheme  being  Mr.  N.  W.  Thomas,  who  can  bo 
addressed  on  the  subject  at  7,  Coptic  Street,  W.C. 
The  circular  gives  on  its  first  i>age  a  formidable  list 
of  words  which  are  not  satisfactorily  rendered  in 
<iernian  dictiouaries — e.g.,  agency, aggressive, argue, 
bal9e,  effusive,  poignant,  strenuous,  distracted,  and 
bounder,  a  term  which,  we  note,  has  been  applied 
by  a  distinguished  professor  to  St.  Paul.  Special 
«norts  are  to  bo  made  to  render  the  literarv  and 
aesthetic  adjectives  "  of  a  Qosse  or  Archer,*'  who 
will  occastooally,  we  dare  say,  afford  occasion  for 
some  "furious  thinking,"  if  we  may  adopt  the 
French  idiom.  Great  writers,  such  as  Milton  and 
Dryden,  will  also  have  their  vocabularies  examined, 
and  we  hope  that  some  effort  will  be  made  to  fix 
the  phraseology  of  science.  Some  words  of  the 
kind  used  by  Erasmus  Darwin  will  be  treatsd  in 
the  first  number,  as  well  as  Parliamentary  language 
and  the  group  of  words  "suggest,  suggestion,  sug- 
gestive." The  scheme  seems  to  us  excellent,  and 
may,  we  hope,  help  us  to  arrest  and  revive  the  fast- 
fading  glories  of  our  tongue.  Only  we  trust  that 
Kholars  of  our  own  will  be  allowed  to  supervise 


and  occasioaally  U 

pasugea  put  for  ,-. 

we  envy  an<l  «•! 

matter,  as  in  olhert»,  we  see 

suggested   which    every-day  pr-. 

tongue  proDounces  impoasib1>.'  '•'  -,,.[ 

slang  is  a  snare  for  the   ou;-i.iri 

in    his    'Londiaismen,'  a  (.■iiiif-il    'i 

wholly  the  meaning  of  "  ThaL  's  uot  TV  ' 

Time*  has  been  boasting  of  its  pure  .  h^ , 

how  many  foreigners  know  what  the      \^  Aiin 

we  once  saw  flouriahing  in  its  accouQt  uf  a 

function  meana!     Furtner,  our  best  writers, 

Sophocles,  often    have   the  vernacular    latsnt  fal 

their  dignified  periods,  or  a  piece  of  homelioai 

half  peering  through  their  grandetir  ia  a  way  \  ' "' 

would  defy  the  deep  student  of  nia,tiy  t)hiloI< 

dissertations.    And  words  are  often    Liuuct 

gether  with  a  happy  perversity  becau  -  qM 

bear  the  value  of  tneir  usual  conibii 

are  the  graces  and  subtleties  of  Iangua.L,>:  i>i,niL 

with  its  use  tta  a  living  instrument.     There  itl 

further  difference  in  humour  and  sen  ti  meat  bef 

two  peoples  which  may  be  so  slight  as  oocaai. 

to  defy  verbal  analysis.    But  we  exttect  th* 

results  from  this  spirited  enterprise,  tor  wliicJi 

splendid  storehouse  the  'New  English  Dictionafy 
Bup)ilies  Unlimited  material,  cspciallv  ::«  thrrt  if  a 
section  which  Batters  us  most  ail  '  ory 

for  journalese  would  l>e  an  intt-  r,  c 

the  jwriodical,  thongh  the  offcu^^.„  ... ,>.,.>  t<p 
bably  regard  it  as  notning  but  an  advertiaemcotoi 
their  ability  to  be  "  up  to  date." 


•  twerwai 


S^xrtktfi  la  €onttgonhtnti. 

We   mxut  call  uptcicU  aUmtion  (q  the  /Minn»t 
notice*  :— 

On  all  communications  must  be  written  the  irtf^ 
and  address  of  the  sender,  not  Decesea.rt)y  for  tmb- 
lication,  but  as  a  guarantee  of  good  f«ith. 
Wk  cannot  undertake  to  answe>r  vrivatslyt 

To  secure    insertion   of    conm  ,s    oo«* 

appndecits  must  observe  the  ioU. .■,,.. 
each  note,  query,  or  reply  be  written 
slip  of  paper,  with  the  signature  of  i ,  .^ 

such  address  as  he  wishes  to  appear.    \\  l,ou  mutrnth 
ing  queries,  or  making  notes  with  regard  to  i 
entries  in  the  paper,  contributors  are  re«intai 
nut  in  ttarentbeses,  immediately  after  the 
heading,  the  series,  volume,  and  page  or  imue 
which    they   refer.     Correspondents    who    n 
queries    are    requested  to  head  the   second  vm- 
municalion  "  Duplicate." 

J.  P.  B.  ('Recommended  to  Mercv').  — Ih, 
Latham  stated  ante,  p.  232,  that  Mrs.  Boiatcni^ 
novel  was  uot  the  work  he  sought. 

Lcois  ("Moon  and  the  Weather "j.—ptoof 
fortunately  too  late.  Second  sentence  wm  oic 

JVOT/CB. 

Editorial   communications  should  be  addi— 

to  "  The  Editor  of  '  Notes  and  Queries'" Adw 

tisementa  and  Business  Letters  to  "The  Fw 
lisher"— at  the  Office,  Bream's  Buildings.  CbwuMT 
Lane,  E.C. 

We  beg  leave  to  state  that  we  decline  to  nut 
communications  which,  for  any  reason,  wm  do  M 
print ;  and  to  this  role  we  can  make  bo  exo 


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«r»..M.  for  l'««M.  Mnocni,  ln(la4IAC  lit.  V«lain.  lail.i.— JCMM  C. 

OWNERS  of  GENUINK  KPECIUENS  of  OLD 
BNal,l»ll  FVMNITI'KK.  CIL1>  fICTUKBH.  III.I>  CHINA,  OLD 
BILVRK.  Ac  ,  Kho  d.tlrr  \o  ursi'DSK  ot  a>ni«  I'lllVATHLY  »r« 
Invllnl  10  ..nil  parlicoiir.  la  HAMI'luN  A  HIIN.4.  I'.ll  M«tl  Rut,  wbo 
art  tlwift  prvpar«>l  ta  iit.  full  taJne  lor  ln[crs.Uii(  EismplM. 

■•  BiBmlBi  wvtl  ja>T  blood.    H. 

rrum  John  ofOiant  doth  brine  hi.  pedlfrrv  "^SRianritnm 

ANCESTRY. KnKlisli.Snotrh,  fri.-)!,  and  AmeriOTn, 
TltACBU  fr^u  KT^TE  UECUUKS.  tip<  >  lallt;  .  treat  ol  Engluid 
and  Einifrant  FaiuUl..  -Mr  ltRrNF.I.I,Ui'H  tM,  17.  liedtord  crrcaa, 
BxtMr,  and  1,  Vpham  Park  lUiad,  CbUitIck,  Losdan,  W. 

MR,  L.  CULLETON,  92,  Piccadilly,  London 
I  Xfember  of  Xnitllih  and  Por«ifii  Antlnoarlan  (tocteUaat,  oador- 
takat  th.  fumlibtnf  of  Ktcraci.  from  I'mriih  ll«((l.ten,  Copla.  or 
Abatracci  from  Willa.  ChanctrT  rrnt'.i  itDfn,  aid  oiliar  lUcorda  a*«Iol 
for  Oaneaiofical  erldoDC««   '  M^iaod,  aad  Irvlaod. 

Abbr«Tlal«d  LaUn  Uooni.i'  .:<iDd«d,  and  Tranilalcd. 

Fotdjca  Ueacarehn  earn'  hi.  Infltsd.    Mr.  CiUlaloD'a 

Prtrai*  C'Kllortloa*  are  wtir< !   r  Olve*. 

AstlqoarUa  aad  Bclantidc  .Matorial  mrobwl  for  and  CopladalUic 
'    BrltUliMaaeiuiaBdoibor  ArctilTM. 

NEWSVKNDORS'       BENEVOLENT      and 
rKOTIUKNT  INITITCTlOM 
Fooadad  l«M. 
Faadaaicvadn.OOOj 
OOM  c  MamPftel  Rail  Halldlara,  U,  FarrlnKdoB  8tra«,  Uoadoa,  B.C. 
rMroa: 
Th*  Richt  Hoa.  th.  mARL  ot  HUBRBMir.  K  O. 
I'reald.nt 
Tb.  Ulihl  Hoa.  lb.  LUHU  UI.IINK«K 
lr*a*ur.r 
Tkt  LONDUM  and  wkktmini^tkh  hank,  limithu. 
;i7.  strand    W  C 
Trv«l«««  I  Ki  ntncio  Member*  of  Comralttaot: 
CIIAIII.K.S  HK.MUY    WiLlUR    Btq. 
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ALVUI!I>  HMNUY  HiNl'l.  Ei'i  . Uhairmaa  Ol CommltbM, 
L-HAUI,l'.!i  AWDHV.  Slq.,  MA. 
OHJKm  — Thti   In.tlKitliia  ira.  eaiabllakad  IB  ItH  In  tht  CItj  ol 
LOBdaa.  andcr  th*  rmld.orr  or  ih.   lata   Aldarman   Hanu.r.    for 
(iBBtlnr    p.nitotia    and    T.hipoimrr    AHiauaca    !•     pnaelpala   and 
aialaiaaTi  .bcic.<>  aa  rondnr.  of  a«w«p«p«ri 

A  UaBArlna  nf  Ten  Uninraa  pouatltmct  a  Vkcr-Pnaldaat  and  |lT«i 
threo  «oi*«  Inr  lil«  at  all  .lariiona  Bach  doaadoa  of  Tlir««  OmlB*»a 
(ITS*  a  met  at  all  .lactlona  fnr  II  f.  Kitty  AnaaaJ  fabwniicr  It 
.nt1U>Hl  to  on.  tot.  at  all  tlcvtlona  la  ra.pcci  el  aach  FItc  BhlUJaii  ao 
paid 

l^^^p.<ji,..<iii.  I..,-.,.-  ...^,.  ^^^  woman  ihr""r*"»"'  '••*  i',.ti«,i 
liln,(  -1   Icialflf    roU'.l-- 

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ta  »,.  .  ■   llinc-i  .»iir.  1..  I 

lor  I    ■  ■        '     •»!'  ■■>  i.*-..(»i-  T- 

Til.  •  vtinr,  to  all  rrnaloaa 

.r.  ^.ar  of  th<*  tnmcattoo 

<'ti ,    •:<  not  l«aa  irtaa 
I  ..I  «(«  .  r..'  ■  a;.(,..i  .11  ti'r  .^ic  "I  aowapap.ra  (ara«l*a«t 


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II  111,1  RF  -T.iiinntarr   r< 
CO  Mambart  el  Ih.  Inatc 
who  naar  ba  raaoBimaadrii  ' 
laajdiry  la  nada  In  aoch 
aira«da4  la  acMtdaaa*  w  itJ< 


(ii.a  IB  oaaat  nf  diatraaa.  not  obJf 


BOOKS.— ALL  ODTOF-PRINT  BOOKS  sop- 
pllad.  Boniattar  oa  wbat  SDbJaei.  Ackaowtadtrd  tb*  world  OTar 
aa  th#  m'^t  *i(v«rt  H^^afladara  «KtaBK.  l*l*«af  atata  waata.— UAKBHY 
Oroal  Honaihop,  14-lC,  Joba  Hrtf  bt  Dtra.c,  Mrmlackam, 

YORKSHIRE  NOTES  and  QUERIES.    An  lllos. 

X       tiBlod  KoBlhIr  Jonmal  lor  Aallqaariea.  Artbcolaglata,  Bio- 
lerapbata.  HittorlBBt,  am  Mco  ol  L*ti«ra  caBcrBUj. 

rp.  SZ,  crowa  dUo  i  llnabla  Uolumnal.  aad  Corar. 

Idited  br  CHAjB.  P   FUUKUA  W.  LL  D  ,  Fell  ho*.  Hoc  Ut. 

F.KII1II.B.  Fellow  of  th.  Hofal  Hocl.17  uf  Anlli|uar(t«  Ql  {fajaad. 

ABBual  SnbacrlptloB,  *•  poat  lr«« 

APRIL.  MAY,  and  IVMK  NuW  KKAIIY     30  Illnatntioni. 

AddreaaalJ  eomnianleationa  u>  Dr.  CUAklJiS  (XiaSUAW,  IvrbHtrr 

fTaU'  and  Uiuritt.  iiiadfard.     Contrlbotiana  cordially  aullcllad  on  all 

matur*  ol  an  ABtlqBarlas  or  HIatorlcal  Natnra  ralatlve  to  Yorkahlra 

N  H.— A  larva  9iibaerlp(loB  Llit  la  oaedad  to  mak*  thlt  MacaalBO  f»T 
al  th«  low  pnca  of  4i.  Yaarlr. 


'^I^H 


B     DOUBLE    CHOIR     of     OLASQOW 

CATH  RDHAL 

Itj    T.     L.     WA'ItWH,    P.III.BA. 

Oi'/.V/'>V<,   nf    riiK  PMSSS. 

AaiMn .—"  A  moat  ralas  ■  to  art:hltMtBrBl  tlMiMnra. 

Bmutinf  yttri  —<■  No  bei-  I*  nauied." 

B*UtiirT4' Jmwr^uit  — "  Aditi-  I  ' 

Olnapai*    llrmU  —"  K    innat    ir,:ri  I'ltinf  Tolsme.  and   a    nigdal    nt 
BKbrolofloal  iBtriilfailnn  ' 
Hundti  AdvtftxMf  ~"  K  nioal  remarkabla  book  " 

JAMBS  ItKDUBUn  ICK  *  BOMS,  OlaaROK,  I'uliUahar* 

'I'HE     AUTHOR'S    HAIRLESS     PAPER- PAD, 

X    iTha  UUU)BNHALL  I'llUei.  Lid  ,  I'nbllaharaaBd  Prlattia, 
to.  l/aad.Bball  Hlroat.  l.nadna.  K.O  ) 
Oontalaa  halrlaaa    paper,  ofcr  which  tha    pan   allpa  with  Mifacl 
(raadom.    Slxpanca  aach     5<  r«i  dorca.  ruiad  «r  plaia.    Naw  Potfcat 
Uia.  Ii  p«rdorrB,  rvl.d  or  plain 

ABlhora  ahnnld  «di«  that  I  be  l.aadenhaJI  I'r*...  Ltd  .  eaaaat  be 
napoaalbia  for  ttao  loat  ot  MM.  by  Br*  or  otkerwiaa.  Ikapllcat*  aeplaa 
•baald  ba  ratalacd. 

CTIGKPHABT  PASTE  !■  miles  better  than  Gum 

O  tor  atlnklDir  IB  8ermpa.  jolBlBf  PaMra.  Ac.  M,  M.,  aad  li.  wiUi 
atroBK, aaetal  liraahraota  Voy).  tifna  two  ataiapa  to  sor.r  poatava 
(or  a  eampU  llottle.  kadadlac  llroab.  Factor;,  tnamt  Loaf  UoBit, 
LtadackaU  StrMl,  ac.    Ml  all  SiaUMart.    Mek  pkaat >WM  aUaka. 


ATUBN^UU  PRBBB— JOUM  KDWARU 
FKAKCia.  FrlBMr  ol  Ika  dl*»»*"">,  WWri  n-<d  UmtWi  •<  !• 
Bl*r«r*«  to  HL'UMIT  BitTIHAIBll  (nr  all  kla.a  al  ItlMJK.  NIIW«, 
aad  flllllOI>ICAL  FHINTlNO.-l».  Hraaai  a  Haadiata,  Chaaaar* 
LABa.lC 


T UN  BRIDGE    W E L LS.— ComforUbly    FUR. 


ttauoB. 

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aaaaat.  and  «*Btrml     Tbraa  mlBBlea'  w%lk  tc^aa.  vyfc..^ ^■. 
No  othar*  taA.tB.-a..  'B-,^»  Qrtw.1%  ^ascw  ^k»ifc, "*»■*•«»* 


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CONTENTS.-No.  25. 
HOIBS  :-OoMen  Biblloprapby.  481— Las  PalmM  Intorip- 
tlon*.  483— Krencli  Proverl))*!  I'hnuiea— A  JnpntieteMuter 
of  LIrt,  185— Greenwich  PslBc«-}lo;al  Oak  D«y— "  Newi- 
I>»p«r"  — "  OI»c«r";  "Official  "—"Oonnlnekn,"  4S6 — 
Cromwrll'i  Heul— "  Amoog  otheri**— Of(iv'»  'BIfgy'  In 
Latin,  »S7. 

QUBKIBS:-IiabelllDe  ai  a.  Colonr— Father  Petcborin- 
Who  lwi»  •'  improvea  "  Sir  Bttwanl  Dyer  ?  487— Byroalana 
— Innsof  Court— De*<M;nit(>(l  Fonts— Napoleon  on  Imagina- 
tion—" Let  the  Jeail  fiury  their  dead,"  4SS-^Atbenian 
System  o(  Dating -Bnnney—L*n*rth — 'Vlear  of  Waits- 
rteld"  In  French— JaKK»rd  Knraily— Plgott  Family— 
"Uamle  '-"  Wilhellii  Melit«r'— Rorlmell Family— BeatlDf{ 
tbe  Bound*— Name  for  VVumen'a  Club- L.  M.  Alcott,  480, 

BBPLIE3  i-Th«  Nnme  Jeiut-  Baxt«r'(  Oil  FaiotinR,  490— 
Selllngcr— '  Die  and  he  Daoioeil '— If  arlon-e'i  Birth,  IIU  — 
Irlth  Bjaculalory  Prayer*  —  Ailinlral  OTelg- Worm— 
Walney  Island  Nameu  — "  Tynilieri  of  ermine,"  492— Coffln 
Houae- Temple  Ci'llege- Webster'a  'Bat(|ue  Legenda'  — 
Blrth-Marki,  4'.i;i-First  Wife  of  Warren  Hailinga,  4tM— 
Audyn  Family  -  Pamela,  4!'6— CoM  Harbour —  "  Tbe 
otemal  feminine"— Latin  QuotaUon*— Hockday  :  Pottage 
CAlleil  Hok,  408— May  Monument— "Hanged,  drawn,  and 
iimulered  "— La«t  of  the  War  Bow,  4U7. 

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Walpole'— Mr.  Bain's  'A  Heifer  ol  the  Dawn '—Threatened 
Dettruction  of  Whitgift'a  Hoapital  of  tbe  Holy  Trinity, 
Croydon— Bookiellera'  Catalogau. 

Mollce*  to  OArre*()ondenti, 


» 


COBDEN  BIBLIOGRAPHY. 
The  basis  of  tl\i9  list  of  the  writings  of 
Richard  Cobden  and  the  literature  to  which 
they  havo  given  rise  is  the  Catalogue  of  the 
British  Museum  ;  but  there  are  many  titles 
included  here  which  are  not  in  the  National 
Library.    The  BritiHli  Museum  list  waa  re- 

Srinted  by  Mr.  T.  Fisher  Unwin  as  an  appen- 
ix  to  the  edition  of  Cobden'«  'Political 
Writings'  published  by  him.  As  a  matter 
of  convenience  the  preasraarkM  at  the  British 
Museum  have  been  addetl  to  the  entries. 
The  letters  M  F.L.  indicate  that  tlie  work 
is  not  in  the  BritiMh  Museum,  but  may  he 
consulted  in  the  Manchester  Reference  Lib- 
rary. Article)!  in  biographical  dictionaries 
and  encyclop.i3dias  havo  not  been  included, 
but  reference  should  be  made  to  R.  H.  Inglis 
Palgrave's  '  Dictionary  of  Political  Economy  ' 
[<London,  1894-9,  3  vols.)  and  Conrad,  Elster, 
Lewis,  and  Loening's  '  Handw(irlerbuch  dor 
Staatswisseiischaften  '  (.lena,  1891-7,  7  vols.). 
Many  magazine  articles  have  appearwl  ro- 
tating to  Colvlen,  but  a  clue  U>  these  will  be 
found  in  Poole's  '  Index  t-o  Periodical  Lite 
rature'and  its  continuation  and  in  Stenvl'M 
'Index  to  Periodicals.'    The  foreign  Cobden 


literature  may  be  traced  by  the  elalx)rate 
general  in<lexes  to  the  Journal  des  i'rom- 
mtstea.  The  best  collection  of  Cobdeniana 
known  to  me  is  that  in  the  Manchester  Free 
Librarj'. 

It  would  be  difficult,  and  probably  im- 
possible, to  catalogue  or  collect  Cobden's 
contributions  to  periodical  literature.  Mr. 
Archibald  Prentice,  the  editor  of  the  JUan- 
chegter  Times,  mentions  letters  that  he  wrote 
in  that  paper  ;  he  almost  certainly  contri- 
buted to  the  Anti-Bread  Tax  Cirndar,  the 
Lmgiie,  Tail's  Magazine,  the  Manchester 
Examiner^  and  the  Morning  fytar.  Tlie  A^ortJi 
of  England  Manazine  began  in  February, 
1842,  and  ended  September,  1843,  when  It 
was  incorporated  in  Jirnds/iair's  Manchester 
Joiuyuil.  The  editor  in  the  preface  to  each 
of  the  three  volumes  includes  Cobden  in  his 
list  of  contributors,  but  his  articles  are  not 
signed.  The  failure  of  this  magazine  waa 
commemorated  by  the  establisliment  of  & 
club  compose^l  or  its  founders,  who,  under 
the  name  and  style  of  "The  Victims,"  cele- 
brated their  own  losses.  An  account  of  the 
club  appears  in  the  'Papers  of  the  Man- 
chester Literary  Club,'  vol.  ii.  p.  28. 
I. 

COLLKCTED  EoiTIOHS  OF  WBmMOS  AND  yrKKCUES. 
The  Political  Writinjf*  of  Richard  Cobden.    2  vols. 
Lon<ion.  1SG7.    8vo.    800S.  ee 

Second  edition.    2  vols.     London    FDrintodl 

New  York,  \im  [1867].    8vo.    KIWS.  ee.  3. 

[.Another   edition.]      With    ftii    Introductory 

essay  by  Sir  Louis  Mallei,  C.B.  (Not«a  by 
F.  \V.  CheasoD.)  London,  1878.  8vo,  Pt>  xivii- 
?M.  2238.  a.  14.  * 

[Another  edition.]    CmsbII  &  Co.:    London 

1SJ«J.    8vo.     Pp.  vii-TCM.    813«).  aaa.  2-J. 

•Siieoclies  on  Qurationsof  Public  Policy.  Edited  by 
John  Bright  and  J.  E.  Thorold  Rogers.  2  vola 
London,  Oxford  [printed  1, 1870.    Svo.    2238.  f.  2! 

[New  isaue.]    London,  Bungay  jtrinted,  1«78! 

Svo 

II. 

Pampiilhts  A.VD  SfESCnES. 

{Arraaytd  chronologtccUiy.) 

1S.T5. 

England,  Ireland,  and  America.    By  a  Manchester 

Manufacturer  [Richard  Cobden],     1835.    Svo 

T.  1918.  (4.) 

Third  edition.     IfOS.  —  The  Manchester  Free 

Library  copy  has  an  autograph  preientation 
ioBcription  to  \V.  S.  llill. 

1838. 

1836.    813ft.  i. 

Rusaia.    By  a  Mancboater  Manufacturer.    London, 
I-:dinburKh  printed.    1836     Svo.    8093.  f. 
1839. 

Report  of  the  Directors  to  a  Special  Meeting  of  the 
(•haniber  of  Commerce  and  Mh-'^'.-'i-v^s  at 
Maiiclieat«ron  theERTecUtof  th(  '  lion 

of  tho  Bank  of  England  u|>on  li  '  rcial 

and  .Manafacturing  Int«n»ta  o(  tiiu  Uuuutry. 


482 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


19M. 


12th  December.  1839.  London,  Manchester 
printed,  1»40.  Svo,  pp.  26,— A  MS.  note  in  the 
b&DdwritiiiK  of  Alderman  John  Shuttle  worth 
reads:  "This  was  drawn  up  by  Richd.  Cobden. 
J.S." 
Fotirth  edition  of  the  above.    1840. 

1840. 

For  Cobden's  evidence  l>efore  Parliamentary  Com- 
mittee on  Banks  of  Issue  see  under  187"- 
1841. 

b'peech  in  the  Houae  of  Commons,  August  251  h, 
1841,  in  support  of  the  Free  Trade  Address  to 
the  Queen.  Manchester  [1841],  Svo,  pp.  8. 
M.F.l. 

To  the  Manufacturers,  Millowners.  and  other 
Capitalists  of  every  shade  of  Political  (.hiiuion 
engafteil  in  the  various  branehoa  of  the  Cotton 
Trade  in  the  IMetrkt  of  which  Manchester  is 
the  Centre  [Signed  Richard  Cobdeu,  Man- 
chester. Dec,  '20,  1841.]  Manchester  [1841]. 
8vo,  pp.  8.    M.F.L. 

Com  Laws.  Extracts  from  the  Works  of  Thomas 
Perronet  Thotiipsou.  Beleetcd  and  classified  by 
Richard  CoWen.  Manchester  [1841  ?j.  Svo. 
8245.  c.  79.  (4.) 

1842. 

Sjieech  in  reply  to  .Sir  Robert  Peel  in  the  House  of 
CoDtniona  on  Monday,  July  11,  1S42.  Man- 
cheater,  J.  Gadsby.    8vo,  pp.  4.     M.F.L. 

The  Tariff.  Speech,  April  ISth,  1842.  Manchester 
[l»t2].    Svo,  pp.  4.     M.F.L. 

Alarming  Distress.  Speech  in  the  House  of  Com- 
mons, Julv  S.  1842.  Manchester  [1842].  Svo, 
pp.S.    M.r.L. 

Speech  to  the  Anti-Corn  Law  League  in  reference  to 
the  Disturbances  in  theManufaclurinK  Districts. 
Manchester,  Prentice  Ac  Cathrall  [  •  1M2].  Svo, 
pp.S.    M.F.L. 

Uur  Colonies.  Speech  in  the  House  of  Commons, 
June  22, 1842.     Manchester  [  1842).  Svo.  M.F.  L 

Speech  at  Shelfield,  November  ^,  1842.  showing  the 
true  character  of  the  opponents  ot  the  League. 
Manchester,  J.  Gadsby  [1842].  Svo,  pp.  H. 
M.F.L. 

The  Corn  Laws.  Sjteech  in  the  House  of  Commons 
on  February  24.  1842.  Sixteenth  Thousand. 
Revised.    Manchester  [1842].    12rao.   8244.  a.  10. 

Second  edition,  revised.     Manchester  [1842]. 

12nio,  pp.  12.     M.F.L. 

The  Lftn<1-Tax  Fraud.  Speech  of  Richard  Cobtlen 
in  the  HouBO  of  Commons,  March  14,  1S42. 
Mauohestor,  J.  Gadsby  [1S42J,  12roo,  pp.  7. 
8223.  a.  12. 

1843. 

Ifistresfi  of  the  Country.  Speech  in  the  House  of 
Commons,  Febrnary  17,  1843.  Manchester,  J. 
Gadsby  [1843].    Svo.  pp.  12.    M.F.L. 

Speech  iu  the  Theatre  Royal,  Drury  Lane,  r..ondon, 
*        March  15.  181.3.    .Manchester,  J.  Gadsby  [1813]. 
.Svo.     M.F.L. 

The  New  Emigration  Scheme.  Speech  in  the 
Theatre  Roval,  Drury  Lane,  Lonaon,  March  29, 
1843.     Manchester  [1843].    Svo,  pp.  8. 

Total  Repeal-  S^ieech  in  the  House  of  Commons  on 
Mondav,  M.»y  15  [1843].  Manchester  [1843], 
Mvo.     M.FL. 

1844. 

Tenant  Farmers  and  Farm  Labourers.  S|>eech  oo 
the  I2th  March,  1844,  on  moving  for*  Select 


Committee  "  to  ini^uire  into  the  «ff«cta  of 
protective  duties  on  imjHjrta  ujwn  the  iatereats 
of  tenant  farmers  and  farm  labourers."  Mmj- 
Chester:  J.  Gadsby  [1844].    Svo,  pp.  23.    8185. 

Corrected  report  of  the  speech  iti  the  House  of 
Commons,  12th  of  Marcli,  IS44,  oo  his  moti 
for  a  Select  Committee  to  inquire  into  t 
effects  of  protective  duties  on  injjicrts  uti 
the  interests  of  the  tenant  farmers  and  fai 
labourers  in  this  country.  Second  edi 
1844.    8vo.     1391.  f.  4.T 

Si>eech  in  the  House  of  Coninions.  Jun 
on  Mr  Villtera'  Motion  fi>r  ilie  Totn 
the  Corn  Laws.    Majichester  [l»**4].    nn. 
M.F.L. —The  date  is  a  misprint  for  ISM. 

1845. 
Agricultural   Distress.     Speech  in    the   HoiMo   ol 
Commons  on  the  13th  of  March,  184.'5.  on  ruovit 
for  a  Select    Committee  to   inquire    into   t| 
Extent    and    Causes    of    tlie    alleged    fixi 
Agricultural   Distress,  and    into   ilie  hit 
LeKialalivo    Protection   upon    the   Int«r 
LanilownerF,   Farmers,    and  Farm    Label 
Manchester  [1845].    Svo,  pp.  18.    M.F.L. 

184a 

Letter  to  the  Tenant  Farmers  of  Eneland.     Man- 
chester [18461.    Svo.    M.F.L. 

Sjteech  in  the  House  of  Commons.  27lh 
184<.t,  on  Sir  R.  Peel's  Motion  fern  ' 
of  the  \\  hole  House  on  the  •  'nniLaws    tieviie 
Manchester  []H4<>).     Svo.     .M.F.L 

Banauet  offert  a  Richard  Cohden  par  i/ 
des  Economistea  le  18  aoiU   184«.     ) 
No.  .57  du  .Journal  des  6cononiistea.     ' 
Svo.     l,3!».  k.  .17 

Association  iwur  la  liberty  des  exihRnKea.     Publid 
tions  de  rAsBociation.  Banquet  offer)  •■  if;   i--, 
Cobden  le   1"  Septenibro.   184R      1) 
Richard    Cobden.      (Bordea.ux)     TlSi 
8245.  cc.  23.  (3.) 

W.  E.  A.  Axo».| 

{7'o  be  (ondnued.) 


LAS  PALMAS  INSCRlPTIOKs. 

The  lists  of   inscriptions  to  EngJi 
buried  at  Orotava  ((tn^e,  p.  3Cl)  and  at 
Cruz.  Tenerife  (p.  442),  may  be  -        V  ,    ,.q( 
by  abstracts  of  nionurnpntal  i;  j,^ 

tombs  of  persons  of  English  i»iu,uriaiitv 
Las  Palmas,  Grand  Canary,  taken  by  me 
12  March. 

The  following  were  in  the  Spanish  (Catholii 
Cemetery,  besides  a  few  iut«rmeDt«  withoi 
inscriptions  : — 

1.  Kdmond  Sadler,  of  Ottery  St.  Xk« 
Devon,  nb.  at  Laa  Palnoas,  2d  March  *  ii 
a.  47.  ' 

2.  HerWt  Charles  Kelly,  14  Feb.,  IU 
This  inscription  is  at  present  merely  sor&t 
on  the  mortar,  and  very  indistinct. 

3.  Jaraes  Thos.  Goodall,  of  Liv^rnool 
24  June,  1897,  a.  41.  '^* 


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10*  8. 1.  Jc:.^  18,1904.]        NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


483 


4,  James  O'Connor,  of  Sligo,  oL  5  March, 
1897,  a.  32.— In  Spanish. 

5.  George  Francis  Waters,  Societatia  Jesu 
Scholasticus,  Hibernua,  oi.  12  Nov.,  1888, 
a.  35. 

The  English  Cemetery  naturally  contains 
a  much  larger  number : — 

1.  James  Grey  Glover,  of  Sanderland,  ob. 
at  Laa  Pal  mas,  9  Nov.,  1867,  a.  23. 

2.  Hyde  Elphinstoue  Beadon,  6th  s.  of  Sir 
Cecil  Beadon,  K.C.SJ.,  b.  22  Nov.,  1852,  ob, 
28  March,  1885. 

3.  Thomas  W.  Turnbuli,  ob.  24  May,  1685, 
a.  23. —  Emma  Fillar,  w,  of  Hos.  Turnbuli, 
ob.  12  March,  1886,  a.  59. 

4.  Stillborn  child  of  Samuel  W.  and  Lizzie 
Tempest,  6  Dec,  1885. 

5.  Edith  ilary  Thomas,  b.  10  Dec.,  1882, 
ob.  24  — ,  1886. 

6.  Rosa  Leonora,  d.  of  Jamea  and  Alice 
Miller,  b.  15  Aug.,  188G,  ob.  26  June,  1887. 

7.  Rosamond  Eleanor,  b.  17  March,  1849. 
ob.  17  March,  1880.  Stone  placed  by  her 
husband,  Carr  Stephen,  of  H.M.LS. 

8.  Frances  Judith  Adlard,  late  of  Bracken- 
boro  House,  Louth,  Liucolnshiro,  w.  of  John 
ParkinaoQ,  long  resident  in  these  I'ilands, 
ob.  17  Feb..  18.51,  a.  67. 

9.  Alfrea  Robt.  Dew,  of  Bournemouth,  ob. 
at  Las  Palaios,  17  Feb.,  1886,  a  25. 

10.  Artliur  Bernard  Vines,  ob.  11  March, 

1888,  a.  6. 

11.  Agnes,  fl.  of  the  late  George  Murray, 
of  EdiuburgR,  b.  31  March,  1859,  ob.  6  March, 
1888 

12.  Ellen  French  Perry,  w.  of  John  Perry, 
ob.  6  Feb.,  1888,  a.  48. 

13.  Christopher  Herringharo,  b.  12  Aug., 
1881,  o/^.  19  May,  1893. 

14.  Gerald  .-Alexander,  youngest  s.  of  Capt. 
Raymond,  06. 10 Nov.,  1895, a.  2yrs.  II  months. 

I').  Beatrice,  d.  of  James  and  Frances  Anne 
Walter,  of  St.  Margaret's  on  Thames,  ob, 
3  April,  1894.  a.  34. 

16.  John  Turnbuli  Forman,  late  of  Liver- 
rxiol,  ob.  26  Oct ,  1891.  a.  54. 

17.  AIexan<ler  Harold  Lowdon,  of  Barry, 
England,  oO.  24  .luly,  10(>3,  a.  26. 

18.  Jane  Niblowe,  of  Arrow  House,  Che- 
shire, ob.  14  April.  1891,  a.  70. 

19.  G.  W.  Frank*,  b.  Feb.,  1826,  ob.  May, 
1891.  .  „      , 

20.  Joseph  Pratt,  of  Shipley,  ob.  19  March, 

1889,  a.  40.  ^,      , 

21.  Philip  Cardew  Qrosvenor,  ob.  28  March, 
1880,  a.  20.  ^      ..  «    ,      .. 

23.  Arthur  H.  Hall,  of  Orrell  Park,  AiD- 
tree,  ob.  3  Jan.,  1892,  a.  21. 


23.  Walter  Frederick  Thomas,  of  London, 
ob.  19  Nov.,  1892,  a.  29. 

24.  Arthur  Nicholls,  of  Liverpool,  formerly 
of  Truro,  ob.  18  June,  1889,  a.  35.  Erected  by 
his  wife,  Alice  Nicholls. 

25.  John  Clarke,  of  Ballyduff  House,  Fern.s, 
Ireland,  ob.  at  Gaidar,  31  Afarcli,  1896,  a.  29. ' 

26.  Minnie,  w.  of  J.  R.  Edisbury.  of  Wrex- 
ham, oldest  d.  of  the  late  Lieut.-Cul.  R.  D. 
Knight,  94th  and  9ath  Regiments,  b.  16  April. 
1864,  ob.  7  July,  1896. 

27.  William  Robert  Taylor,  of  Chicheley 
Grange,  Newport  Pagnell,  b.  12  Sept.,  1858, 
ob.  4  March,  1891. 

28.  John  Duncan  Grant,  M.I.C.E.,  London, 
late  of  the  Public  Works  Department,  Madras, 
ob.  24  Nov.,  1893. 

29.  Erne-st  Illingworth,  of  Exley,  Halifax, 
England,  b.  21  June,  1864.  ob.  19  May,  1893. 

30.  Lawrence  Cluuies-Uoss,  Keeling  Coco» 
Is.,  b.  1.'^  Feb.,  1879,  oh.  2  Feb.,  1898. 

31.  Frances  Barbara,  w.  of  tlie  Rev.  T.  W, 
Longfield,  Chaplain  at  Las  Palniaa  1896-8, 
ob.  25  Jan.,  1898. 

32.  Alexander  Duff^  late  of  Edinburgh,  ob, 

26  Dec.  1897. 

.33.  Mrs.  Elizabeth  Anne  Grant,  of  Durban, 
Natal,  ob.  at  sea,  14  Oct.,  1«07.  a.  69. 

34.  Dugald  Munn,  b.  in  Rossendale.  Lanes, 

27  April,  1857,  ob.  July  1897. 

35.  Charles  Verney  Lace,  only  s.  of  the  latd 
J.  Verney  Lace,  ob.  24  Apnl,  1897,  a.  37. 

36.  Alexr.  Kennetli  Brodie,  b.  4  Oct.,  1864, 
ob.  1  March,  1898. 

.37.  William  Albert  Fowler,  of  Liverpool, 
ob.  8  Feb.,  1890,  a.  32. 

38.  Thomas  Reece,  of  Birmingham,  ob. 
3  Jan..  1889,  a,  54. 

39.  Sarah  Elizabeth,  d.  of  Richard  and' 
Mary  Boler,  ob,  at  Las  Palmas,  27  Nov.,  188)8;' 

40.  Emilv  Frances,  d.  of  Nicholas  J.  Skot- 
towe  and  his  w.  Jane,  ?i^e  Flint,  b.  13  May, 
1864,  oi.  22  Oct.,  1888. 

41.  Francis,  eldest  s.  of  W.  and  Catherine^ 
Barry,  of  Liverpool,  b.  24  Sept.,  1863,  ob. 

2  Dec,  1895. 

42.  John  William, elder  s.  of  the  Rev.  Canoa^ 
Wilkinson,  D.D.,  Rector  of  Birmingham,  nb. 

3  AfH-il,  1895,  a.  52.— See  No.  55. 

43.  Wilfred  Granville  Spencer,  R.M.,  ob. 
12  Feb.,  1895,  a.  24.  ^1 

44.  Eilward  Allan  Brown,  4th  s.  of  Robert! 
Brown,  J, P.,  of  Craighead,  Bothwell,  a.  26.    - 

45.  David  Davis,  husb.  of  Louie  Davis,  obt 
29  Jan.,  1896,  a.  30. 

40.  riev.  James  Mair,  M.A.,  Mis-sionary, 
Rajputana,  India,  ob.  17  March,  1890,  at 
Puerto  Luz.    Erected  by  Annie  P.  Mair. 

47.  Capt.  Charles  Arbeiter,  Quarter- 
master,    Army    Medical   Staff,   ob.   «A.^«» 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       tio"-  s.  i.  Jcse  is.  i«m. 


Palmaa,  20  May,  1806,  a.  45^  from  illness 
contracted  in  tlie  Ashantee  Lxpedition  of 
1895-6. 

48.  John  Lee  Uirat,  B.A.Oxon.,  Solicitor, 
only  8.  of  the  late  Robert  Baius  Hirst,  ot 
Clayton,  Bradford,  Yorks,  b.  25  Sept.,  1863, 
ob.  25  Marcli,  1898. 

49.  Joseph  Ebbsinith.  b.  1849,  ob.  1899. 

50.  Thomas  Wright  Uaddon,  Scholar  of 
University  College,  Oxford,  Clerk  in  the 
OiRce  of  H.M.  Civil  Service  Commission. 
13  year.<i  asjjistaut  master  in  the  City  of 
London  School,  b.  7  June,  1857,  oL.  11  Feb., 
1899. 

51.  Rev.  (/harles  Richard  Oreen,  M.A., 
h.  14  March,  1846,  ofj.  14  May,  1899. 

52.  William  Wright,  ob.  3  May,  1890,  a.  32. 

53.  Col.  Sir  Alfred  Burdon  Ellia.  K.C.B., 
1st  West  India  Regt.,  b.  20  Jan.,  1832,  ob. 
■6  March,  1894. 

.')4.  Louisa  Emilj',  w.  of  the  Rev.  W.  F. 
Faulding,  ob.  17  April,  18U4,  a.  42. 

55.  Katherine  Alice,  w.  or  J.  W.  Wilkin.<«on. 
•of  Birmingham,  ob.  3  Nov.,  1894,  a.  34,  anil 
J,  W,  Wilkinson,  her  huab.,  elder  8.  of  the 
Rev.  Canon  Wilkinson.  D.D.,  Rector  of 
jlirniingham.  who  ob,  3  April,  1S95.  a.  62. 

.50.  Colin  Malcolm  Percy,  of  Glasgow,  ob. 
19  Dec,  1887,  a.  40. 

57.  Capt.  Samuel  Moore,  late  Royal  Irish 
fieginient  and  In.spector-General  of  the  Sierra 
Leone  Frontier  Force,  ob.  22  Uct.,  1900,  a.  50. 

58.  Edith,  w.  of  Clifton  Chanuum,  eldest 
•d.  of  James  Henry  Simpson,  of  Canada,  ob. 
13  March,  1900,  of  fever  contracted  in  Africa. 

59.  Sidney  ^^(Iwani  Siielley  Leigh,  s.  of 
Thomas  Leigh,  Commander  P.  &,  O.  Service, 
and  of  Jessie  his  w.,  ob.  9  Jan.,  1900,  a.  21. 

00.  Capt.  C.  W.  Grant,  ob.  at  Las  Palmas, 

3  May.  1901,  a.  33. 

61.  Richard  Atkinson,  B.A.,  F.R.C.S.,  of 
^tanwix,  Cumberland,  ol>.  17  March,  1901, 
a.  53. 

G2.  Lieut-  -  Col.  Henry  Francis  Hornsby, 
102nd  itoyal  Madras  Fusiliers,  ob.  at  Las 
d'alraas.  16  Feb.,  1901. 

63.  Ernest  Richard  Millar,  youngest  s.  of 
i\  C.  J.  Millar,  Esq..  Q.C.,  Bencher  of  the 
'Inner  Temple,  ob.  6  Feb.,  1901,  a.  27. 

64.  Daniel  Stewart,  of  Greenock,  ob. 
24  Jan.,  1901,  a.  80. 

fH.  Andrew  L.  Knox  Gilchrist,  ob.  20  Jan., 
1901,  a.  51. 

66.  John  Alexander  Stewart,  ob.  at  Casita 
Ma<]eira,  Las  Palmas,  27  Dec,  1900.  Erected 
■by  bin  wife. 

67.  Jennie,  w.  of  the  late  Ernest  Smith,  ob. 
8  Nov..  1902. 

jrtram  H.  Butcher,  b.  1  May,  1861,  ob. 
1902. 


69.  Thomas,  a.  of  Thomas  and  ElizAbetli 
Carruthers,  ot  Liverpool,  o'y.  II  April,  lOOI, 
a.  27. 

70.  Walter  Mardon  Ducnt,  Colonel  Royikl 
Engineers,  b.  18  Jan.,  1837,  ob.  12  Jan.,  1902. 

71.  Georgina  Edith,  only  chihl  of  Frederick 
and  Su3Au  Lawson,  ob,  7  Nuv, ,  liXJl,  a.  8. 

72.  Itev.  T.  K.  Murphy.  M.A.,  of  Arma|;h. 
Chaplain  of  Los  Palma«,  b.  11  Feb.,  1868,  ob. 
12  Oct.,  1901. 

73.  David  Oliver,  of  Liverpool,  ai.  at  Lam 
Palmas,  2G  June,  1903,  a.  73. 

74.  Harry  Niveu  Walker  Hope.oi.  13  Jane, 
1903,  a.  31. 

75.  Louisa  Frances  Kerapson,  of  Stoke  LAcy, 
Heref..  b.  28  Jan.,  13.34,  ob.  18  April,  19<)3. 

76.  Thomas  Mitchell  Brown,  ."ith  a.  of 
Robert  Brown,  J. P.,  of  Craighead,  Both  well, 
a.  31  [19031]. 

77.  William  Talbot  Cuddow.  ob.  7  Feb., 
1903,  a.  42, 

78.  Thomas  Arthur,  s.  of  Henry  and  Mary 
Reeves,  of  Lavender  Hill,  Jjondon,  ob.  29  Jan~ 
1903,  a,  24. 

79.  William  George  Gurney,  nf  H.NLS. 
Rainbow,  b,  26  May,  1866,  ob.  7  Feb..  1903. 

80.  Alex.  Cochran,  ob.  24  April,  lb53,  a.  63. 

81.  Erected  by  Thomas  Miller,  merchant, 
of  Las  Palmas.  Thomas,  his  s.,  ob.  15  Sept., 
1842,  a  1  year.  Charles,  his  s.,  ob.  11  April, 
1845, a.  16  months.  George,  his  s.,  ob.  2()  Jaue, 
1851,  a.  2  years.  Mary  Vascoucellos.  his  w^ 
ob.  21  June,  1851.  Mary,  his  d  ,  oh.  21  Jane, 
1851,  a.  3  years.  Henry  Grieve,  his  s.,  o5- 
22  June,  1851,  a.  6. 

82.  Thomas  Miller,  b.  22  April.  1805,  in 
Kenoway,  Fifeshire,  ob.  23  April.*  188.%  after 
60  years'  residence  in  the  Canary  Is.  Also 
his  widow,  Margaret  Hamilton  Wilsou,  b. 
18  Jan.,  1817,  ob.  28  July,  1891. 

83.  Mary  Bertram,  w.  of  James  SwanstOD, 
merchant,  of  Las  Palmas,  ob.  26  Dec.,  1835, 
a.  21. 

84.  Ellen  Crawford,  servant  of  Mrs.  Swan- 
ston,  ob.  24  July,  1861,  a.  22. 

&b.  Hor  Wetlierell,  H.B.M.V.C.,o*.  13  May, 
1880.  a.  3S. 

86.  Eliza  Miller,  w.  of  H.  Wetlierell,  o6. 
19. Tan.,  1879,  a.  32. 

87.  Peter  Alfred  Swanston,  ob.  6  Oct.,  1S44, 
a.  3.^  years. 

88.  Herbert  Walter,  eldest  s.  of  John  Perry, 
ob.  19  Jan.,  1888. 

89.  Charles  Thomas,  s.  of  Frederic  and  Alice 
Smith,  ob.  10  Jan.,  1874,  a.  18. 

Besides  the  above  thern  »f.«  »  tniuiber  of 
Interments  marked  only  i  loMOii, 

on  which  the  names,  but  i  ■  bean 

painted.     The  following  are  the  more  legible 
of    the  names :    A.   Mackintosh,   F.  Blaber, 


hxK  18, 1901.; 


rOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


485 


T.  Dodd,  J.  A.  Nicholl,  J.  Forrester,  Kev.  W.  M. 
Ijane,  51.  M.  Henderson,  W.  Shaw,  J.  Shnw, 
J.  TurnbuU,  J.  Hutchinson,  H.  Hastings,  W. 
Barker,  M.  Jackson,  H.  L.  Seddon,  S.  Wall, 
M.  E,  Quiney.       G.  S.  Pahry,  Lieut.-(Jol. 


FRENCH  J'RUVERBIAL  PHRASES. 
(See  oii/<r,  p.  3, ) 
£on  four  tf  Ion  an. — The  following  lines 

appeared  in  the  Mercxire  of  January,  1726. 

and  mvtntis  rmUandis  might  almost  be  appliea 

to  Christma-s  boxes  : — 

Sitr  Itjonr  tk  Van. 
Ne  pcut-on  du  ualendrier 
Effacer  le  premier  Janvier, 
Ce  jour  fatal  aux  p&uvrea  bourses, 
Ce  jour  fertile  en  sottea  courses ; 
Co  jour  oil  cent  froids  visiteurs, 
A  litre  de  coniplin)enteur.s, 
Pleiiis  du  zi'le  qui  lea  tranaporte, 
iSi'dient  I'ennui  de  porte  en  porte  ? 
Oil  fuir  les  aMaute  ptitiilans 
I>e  ces  b&iseurs  cotiKratulans, 
Qui  viennent  donner  pour  etrenne 
Le  Her  jwiBoii  de  leiir  haleine? 
O  jotir  I  qui  n'as  pour  amateurs 
Que  I'ordre  des  frt'res  qnesteura, 
Quand  du  joiig  dur  de  tea  oorv6es 
V  errons-nous  no8  cit6«  >auv^  ? 

^OH.— Here  are  a  few  proverbs  containing 
or  beginning  with  this  afljective  :— 

Bonnes  neaa  font  les  bous  pays. 
Bon  cn^ur  fiiil  lo  bon  caracti-re. 
Bons  com])tca  font  les  bons  amis. 
Bou  formier  fait  la  boune  terre. 
Boot  tivrea  font  lea  bonnes  niu'urs, 
Bons  maitres  lea  bons  serviicura. 
liOa  boDB  bras  font  les  bonnes  lanies, 
Le  bon  (tout  fait  les  bons  vcrils, 
Bods  maris  font  lea  bonnes  femmes, 
Bonnes  femmes  les  bons  maris. 

Cat  le  chat. — This  expression  is  used  aa 
in  English  to  express  disbelief  in  what  haj9 
been  said,  and  the  following  lines  are  given 
in  La  Mesangere's  book  h  jn'opot  oi  the 
phnuie  :— 

Purijon,  HK^lccin  h  la  mode, 

Kit  vrniinenl  habile  doctour  ; 

11  vftntc  |)artout  HH  m^tbode  ; 

On  la  Kuit,  le  nialade  nieurt. 

Purgon,  en  Ic  vovant  sans  vie, 

Dit  encore  avoc  nnnhomie : 

Ce  a\i*t  |in!9  moi  out  I'ai  mis  \K} 
Xon,  u'eat  le  that, 

Toujours  content  de  sa  personne. 
Sans  cessc  Damon  s'atiplaudit ; 
Et  jilus  le  monsieur  mTaisonne. 
Plui  il  aavoure  ce  qu'il  dtt : 
11  ne  pout  iiotnbrer  ses  c-i>n(|uote9  ; 
II  fi«it  tourncr  toutcs  les  l>'tc8  : 
Mciusicur  Damon  ti'est  pas  un  fat, 
Non,  c'osl  Ifl  chat. 

Edward  L.^tham. 
(To  It  continued.) 


Here  is  another  illustration  of  the  phrase 
"11  est  bon  d'avoir  des  amis  partout,"  taken 
from  the  Count  de  Chevign^'a  'Con tea 
Kemoia.'  A  young  girl  at  the  conclusion  of 
a  sermon  goes  to  a  priest,  and  requests  hin> 
to  say  a  mass  to  her  intention  : — 

Une  filletto  aux  yeux  bleus  au  corps  geat 
De  lui  s'approche,  et  d'un  air  innocent, 
L'argent  en  main,  lui  ilemande  une  ntesse. 
*■  Est-ce  h  la  Viorge  ? ''    "  Oh  oni,  certainenieot. 
Monsieur,"  dit-elle.    "  Excusez,  mon  enfant ; 
Sur  ce  article  il  fant  *^a'on  vous  previenne 
(^ue  bieu  souveut  la  V  ierge  prend  en  haine 
Et  punit  fort  jeune  fille  qui  ment." 
La  belle  alora,  par  le  bras  I'arrt'tant : 
"  L>itcs  ausai  deux  mots  h  la  Madeleine." 

'  Le  Choix  d'une  Messe.' 

A  further  example  is  by  Gerald  Masse/r 
from  liis  poem  entitled  '  Louis  Napoleon  and! 
England  ':  — 

There  was  a  poor  old  woman,  a  daughter  of  our 

nation, 
Before    the    devil's    portrait    stood    in    ignorant 

adoration. 
"  You  're  bowing  down  to  fjatan,  nia'ana,"  said  some 

spectator  civil : 
"Ah.  sir.  it's  best  to  be  polite,  for  we  may  go  to 

tnc  devil." 

Bow,  bow,  bow, 
We  may  go  to  the  devil,  so  it 's  just  as  well  to  bow*  1 

John  Hebb. 


A  JAPAjJBaB  Master  of  Libs.— Kyokute 
Bakin   (17fj7-1848),    the    greatest    Japanesi 
romancist  of  modern   times,  in   his  'KirjM 
Manroku,'  1812  (ed.   188r>,  torn.   ii.  fol.  33iJ 
records  tlie  following  story,  which  he  heardf 
during    his    sojourn    in   KyOto  some   yeara' 
before  his  writing  : — 

"  A  courtier  named  Saitd  Fumitsugu,  still  aliveij 
is  very  skilful  in    telling  laughable  lies.     In  thM 
evening  of  the  'Bon'  festival   last  seventh  mooal 
there   took  jilace  a  very  extraonlinary  event    iikl 
Takatsuki.     .\  man,  from  hia  despondency  in  love^I 
inflicted  bo<lily  harm  upon  about  seventy  persons.  J 
When  the  news  spread  in  Kyoto  Ihere^  were  dif- 
ferent opinions  as  to  its  veracity.  Then  Fumitaagttt 
railing  on  a  friend,  reported  that  the  day  previous) 
he  went  himself  lo  his  relative  in  that  place,  aod] 
WAS  assured  that  three  men  were  actually  wounded* 
As  it  was  thought  seventy  individuals  were  too 
many  for  a  single  man  to  wound  in  one  eveningt 
everybody  pronounced  hiu>  to  have  told  the  trutb< 
for  theKrst  time  in  his  life.     Next  day,  howeve^ 
ft  man  really  came  from  that  town  and  confirmea 
seventy  as  the  genuine  number.     All  were  so  coa« 
vulnod  with  laughter  as  to  bo  almost  stunned. 

"At  the  beginning  of  a  year,  FumiUugu  CBllo<t| 
his  friends  round  him  and  said,  *  It  is  a  cuBlom  foel 
poets  and  musicians  to  celebrate  at  this  time  th* 
feast  of  the  first  production  of  their  arU,  so  I  will 
celebrate  my  lies  on  the  eleventh  day,  whereto  you 
are  all  invit«d  at  noon."    Thus  speaking  in  earnest, 
he  went  home.     All  his  friends,  extremely  curioti»l 
what  manner  of  lies  he  would  utter  then,  called  ott'" 
hini  as  w&a  appointed.    To  their  great  surp^,  bis 


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V  ife  ftpt>**fed  at  the  gat*,  and  said,  'MyhuBbaod 
1, .-  lieen  out  since  morninR.'  After  being  utouDded 
wnli  this  New  VearB  lie,  they  went  oack  home 
roi»ruig  with  laughter." 

Evidently  tlie  same  roraancut  adapted  this 
Htory  iu  an  episode  in  his  reputed  '  Koch6 
Monogatari.'  1810.  a  Japanese  'Gulliver's 
Travels.'  Tiiere,  iu  the  narrative  of  the 
Laud  of  Lies,  the  hero  Mu86by0e  has  been 

fjroinised  by  Yajini,  the  great  master  of 
ies,  that  he  shall  hejir  the  first  example  of 
hia  mendacity  on  New  Year's  Day— when  he 
calls  on  him,  but  ia  told  by  his  wife  he  is 
absent.  Thinking  that  conscience  has  sud- 
denly made  the  liar  ashamed  of  hia  own 
habit  and  fly  from  his  presence,  he  deter- 
mines to  go  home ;  but  after  taking  a  few 
steps  round  the  corner  of  the  house,  ho  dis- 
covers through  the  window  the  liar  quietly 
enjoying  a  pijje  of  tobacco.  ^luch  irritated 
with  the  meanness  of  the  liar's  conduct,  he 
ruahea  into  the  room  and  censures  him  fur 
his  cowardly  way  of  putting  off  liis  guest. 
Perfectly  contrary  to  hia  expectation,  the 
liar,  in  composure,  gives  him  this  reply  ; — 

"I  iavited  you  to  come  and  hear  my  first  lie 
to-day.  And  wliatever  dexterous  falaehood  I  could 
tell  at  our  nieeliii);,  would  it  not  have  been  any- 
thing but  a  lie  to  have  kept  my  ]>romiae,  had  I  seen 
you  according  to  our  comuact?  Now  you  were 
about  going  home,  firmly  believiDK  as  a  truth  what 
I  caused  my  wife  artfully  to  tell  you,  when  you 
happened  to  discover  that  was  another  lie.  So,  you 
see,  I  have  just  displayed  my  unique  art  in  doubly 
deceiving  you  on  one  occasion," 

Perhaps  some  correspondents  can  inform 
me  of  other  instances  of  such  adroit  meu- 
xiaoity.  Kumaousu  Mij«\kata. 

Monnt  Nachi,  Kii,  Japan. 

Greenwich  Palace.— I  had  been  wonder- 
ing what  excuse  I  might  have  for  making 
this  note,  when  I  came  across  the  title 
'Vanishing  London'  iu  '  N.  ik  Q.'  of  4  June, 
on  which  day  I  went  to  Greenwich  by  boat, 
not  having  seen  the  palace  from  the  river  for 
several   years.     To  ray  horror  I  found   the 

Jialace  vanishing.  1  wo  enormous  shafts 
lavo  been  allowed  to  be  built  almost  at  the 
«ide  of  the  palace  as  it  appears  as  you  arrive 
iby  Iwat.  The  effect  is  to  dwarf  tliese  mag- 
<siiBccnt  buildings  so  much  that  they  will 
(never  again  impress  the  foreigner  with  their 
£ize.    It  is  a  shameful  piece  ofvandalism. 

Ralph  Thomas, 

EoYAL  Oak  Day.— Tlie  Shttfidd  Daibf 
Telegnwk  states  that   this  celebration    has 

i'ust  taken  place  at  Uastleton,  in  the  Peak  of 
Jeihy shire,  and  that  in  the  procession  the 
cliiiracter  of  Kin^  was  sustained  by  a  per- 
former wlio  has  ridden  the  part  for  thirty 
he    being    accompanied    by    a    male 


"Queen,"  and  f.   ' 

who  executed  n. 
The"Kiug"a"gaiiiuia  Wis 

with  ropes  to  a  pinnacle  ' 
and  there  left  to  wither, 
contains  an  entry  of  171  ' 
rod  to  hang  ye  ringer's  gai 


1a'  a  score  <• 
;ices    in    goo 


W.  B.  H. 


catte    It 

\1\      Jillfli.-.r- 


»8 

»  r 


"Newspaper."    (See  S""  8.    vi.    6<^ ;    viL 
112,  237,  432 ;  ix.  294  ;  O'"  S.  v.  34.)— I  would 
add    to    my    previou-s    ilt-.  •■•••■—       -'    ■' 
earliest  recorded  use  of  tip 

one  of  1679,  which  comc'>  .-. -.^^i.    ^.,r-    i„,j 
dates    already    given.     Iu    this 
employed  by  so  distingni'-l^'^'l 
as  Sir  William  Temple, 
Earl  of  Danby  from  tlu' 
1C79,  refers  to  the  part  in 
"had  in  the  last  newjiiu'  _     .     , 

from  England "  (Historical  MSS.  CoiuiotB- 
sion.  Fourteenth  Report,  Appendix,  part  ix. 
J).  399),  that  being  the  period  or  -.eJ 

impeachment  because  of  his  f  ,.,ixj 

Ti-easurer.  But  the  Karl  of  Lui'isey,  u  ritiog 
to  the  name  peer  two  years  later  (14  May, 
1U8I),  uses  the  older  form  in  the  sentenoei, 
"The  news  books  informed  mo  this  tuoroiog 
of  Fitz  Harris  hia  trial  "  (tlid.,  p.  433). 

Alfred  V.  Hobbins. 

"Officer"  :  "Official."— In  the  AniericAU 
railroad  world  these  two  words  are  used  al  moat 
interchangeably  as  substantives.    V,''  ',ftit> 

is  any  distinction  made  hetweeu  ■he 

former  implies  a  higher  rank  than  me  uittcr. 

E.  F.  MoPiKB, 

ChicaKo,  U.S. 

"Oonalaska."— Annotating  " Oonalaaka's 
.shore,"  in  the  volume  of  Campbell's  '  Poems  ' 
which  he  baa  just  edited  for  the  "Golden 
Treasury  "  series,  Prof.  Lewis  Campbell  writas 
as  follows : — 

"The  name  Unalaska  ia  given  in  n--  to 

an  islaud  in    the  Aleutian    u:'<iii;>  (ill  xD 

promontory;  and  Oeneral  .Sir  L.   W'i'i-  .  -_.ii, 

remembers  hearing  of  it  when  he  sorved  ^n  a 
boundary  commission  in  IHO'Z" 

This  vague  and  tentative  statement  kus- 
gests  tiiat  Prof.  Campbell  is  not  «nr"  >>{  hm 
ground,  and,  indeed,  provokes  th-    '  loo 

that  he  would  not  l)e  surpri.sed  r.  mt 

the  island  ia  a  mere  ti'iminii'  -  ,:it. 

the  poet  drew  from  his  own  u 

The  woli's  long  howl  froui  Our.  r^. 

Geographers,  however,  nta'  place 

is  one  of  the  Fox  Islands  i  ;  tn 

group,  and   that  it  is    so  ■-  'id 

detinite  as  to  be  known  t  it-^ 

borders  "  the    parish    .  a- 


hoa8e,and  importi^ut  tra<ii 


|LI>^  l.-lLll.V.'iI1<lU.IVijUi. 


m  8. 1,  jdkk  18. 19W.]        NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


487 


I 


While  nothing  is  said  of  the  presence  of 
wolves  in  the  immediately  available  deacrip- 
tioDs,  the  Aleutian  Islands  generally  are  said 
to  be  "overrun  with  foxes,  doKs,  and  rein- 
deer." Probably  it  is  quite  safe  to  assume 
that  the  wolf  also  howled  in  those  remote 
latitudes  when  the  poet  wrote 'The  Pleaaures 
of  Hope.'  Thomas  Bayne. 

Chommell's  Head.— The  question  as  to 
whether  a  certain  gruesome  relic  in  the 
possession  of  a  gentleman  residing  nearSeven- 
oaks  in  Kent  is  or  is  not  the  liead  of  the 
whilom  Protector  of  England  has  recently 
taken  up  some  twenty-three  inches  of  space  in 
thecoluransof the Z)at/yJ/atY,  OnGNovember, 
1S95,  the  Daili/  C/ivoHKle  devoted  nearly  tliree 
columns  to  the  same  subject,  and  also  pub- 
lished a  horribly  realistic  full-size  picture  of 
the  head  itself.  What  cah  hu  the  reason  for 
hoarding  such  a  relic  ?  Whether  it  ouce 
belonged  to  Cromwell  or  not,  surel;^^  the  one 
right  and  proper  course  to  pursue  is  to  bury 
it  reverently  out  of  sight  forthwith.  A  corre- 
spondent appeals  to  have  already  made  this 
auggestion  in  tlio  columns  of  TrutL  I  would 
cordially  re-echo  it  through  the  medium  of 
the  world-read  pages  of  '  N.  «k  Q.' 

JoHii  T.  Page. 

West  Haddoa,  Northamptoaahire. 

"Among  otukbs.'  —  This  expression  is 
becoming  quite  usual  in  newspapers  and 
reviews.      Thus  in   the  S/Hctafor,    14  May, 

p.  TG4.   "an  enlightening  article aptJears 

among  others  in   a  bootc  called ,    ic. 

Here,  by  the  hypothesis,  the  "  others  "  are 
those  that  remain  after  the  particular  article 
lias  l;een  taken  away.  How  then  can  it  still 
appear  among  those  others  1  What  is  meant 
is  '  with  others. "  Again,  in  the  pamphlet 
'History  of  the  Times,'  just  issued,  p.  6,  we 
read,  "Among  other  stones  emnloyed  for  the 
building  were  those  of  Baynaro  Castle." 

W.  C.  B. 

Gray's  'Elegy'  in  L.vtin.— In  afidition 
to  the  versions  mentioned  ante,  p.  58,  in  the 
review  of  Mr.  W.  A.  Clarke's  rendering, 
there  are  the  following : — 

A  version  by  C.  A.  Wheelwright  in  1813, 
referred  to  in  the  Ctas»ical  Jonrnal,  xi.  675. 

A  version  in  Latin  verse,  together  with  the 
author's  rejected  stanzas  anclDr.  Edwards's 
additional  lines,  by  D-  B.  Hickie,  CVaw.  Jour., 
xxviii.  377. 

S.  O.  Owen's  version  in  'Musa  Clauda,' 
Clarendon  Press,  1S08,  p.  2. 

Air.  Clarke  states  that  the  version  in 
'Arun<linoK  Caiui.'  1811,  is  by  J.  II.  Mucaulay. 
Joliu  Ueyrick  Macaulay  is  J.  H.  M.'  ;  John 


Herman  Merivolo  is  J.  H.  M. ;  and  the  trans- 
lation of  the  'Elegy'  is  signed  J.  H.  M. 
But  as  there  are  two  pieces  in  the  book 
signed  J.  H.  M.,  and  none  .«(igned  J.  H.  M,' 
one  J.  U.  M.  is  perhaps  an  error  for  J.  H.  M.' 
It  would  be  interesting  to  settle  this  point. 

F.  T.  RiCKARDS. 
Asiatic  Society,  Bombay. 


Wk  inuat  re<jueBt  correapoiideiUa  deairiog  in- 
formation  on  family  matters  of  only  private  iutereal 
to  affix  th<sir  uamea  and  udilreues  to  tiieir  quories, 
in  order  that  the  answers  may  be  addressed  to  them 
direct. 

IsABELLiNE  AS  A  CoLOUR.— Wanted  the 
origin  and  use  of  the  word  "isabelliue"  as 
a  colour.  It  is  not  taken  up  in  Latham's 
edition  of  Johnson's  '  Dictionary '  (1871). 

Jos.  D.  Hooker, 

["Isabeiline"  duly  appears  in  tlie  '  N.ED.,'  the 
earliest  Quotation  b«in|c  1830.  The  word  is  formed 
from  isahdla,  which  ia  illustrated  by-  an  extract 
from  'Inv.  Queen's  <5arderobe,'  IGJO:  "Item,  one 
rounde  gowne  of  Isabella  -  colour  Batt«n."  Dr. 
Murray  says:  "Various  slorios  have  been  put 
forth  to  account  for  the  name.  That  pvoti  in 
D'lsraeli.  'Cur.  Lit.'  (Article  'Anecdotes  of 
FaahioH  '),  and  also  in  Lutri^-.  associating  it  with 
the  Arohduchesa  Isabella  and  the  siege  of  Ostend 
1601-1001,  is  shown  l>y  our  first  quotatinn  to  be 
chronologically  iiniiosMible."  Sir  Joseph  Hooker 
may  like  lo  see  the  references  to  Isabel  colour  at 
«"»  S.  ii  309,  525 ;  S"-  S.  vi.  7,  52 ;  vii.  37 ;  B"*  S.  xL 
49,  174,  392.] 

Father  Petchorin. — In  the  correspond- 
ence of  Herzen  I  find  a  number  of  references 
to  a  Father  Petchorin,  who  was  in  the 
thirties  a  brilliant  professor  at  Moscow 
University.  About  that  time  he  joined  the 
Iloman  Catholic  Church,  and,  after  living  for 
some  while  in  Paris,  settled  in  Ireland.  In 
1855  he  was  prosecutetl  for  the  alleged  burn- 
ing of  Protestant  Bibles,  but  acquitted.  For 
his  career  in  Russia  I  have  ample  material, 
but  I  can  And  no  particulars  as  to  his  life 
and  work  in  Ireland,  He  died,  I  believe, 
about  1U73,  and  it  is  just  possible  that  some 
of  your  readers  may  be  in  a  iwsition  to  give 
me  the  information  1  require.  V.  a. 

Leyton.  ICasex, 

Who  1IA9  "iMi-ttovBD"  Sir  Edward 
Dyer  1— Would  some  of  your  ingenious  corre- 
spondents be  at  the  trouble  to  assist  me  in 
tne  following  difKcuIty— beyond  my  means 
of  solution?  In  1847  I  publisheil  in  the 
Rt.atf»\cr.  No.  34,  'Selections  fi-om  the 
Poetry  of  Progre^SB,'  compiled  by  "Pantior" 
—the  late  Miss  Sophia  Dobson  Collet 
an     intelligent    and     trustworthy    wiitur. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[lO*"  S.  I.  JrKS  IS.  IBM. 


The  first  poeru,  "ascribed  to  Sir  Edward 
Dyer,"  as  it  is  still,  begins  with  tlie  atrikiug 
verae  :— 

My  mind  to  me  »  kingdom  iaj 

Such  perfect  jov  therein  I  find. 
As  far  exceeds  all  earthly  bliss. 
That  <iod  or  nature  hath  assign'd. 

I  have  always  assumed  this  to  be  a  genuine 
\-erse  of  Dj-er,  and  used  it  lately  as  the  best 
description  I  knew  of  the  intellectual  con- 
tentnaent  of  Herbert  Spencer  in  his  last 
days. 

Since  I  have  been  reminded  that  in  the 
'Golden  Treasury,'  compiled  by  one  of  the  Pal- 
graves,  the  verse  is  differently  given,  I  find 
Henry  Morley,  in  Cassell's  "Library  of  Eng- 
lish Literature,"  'Shorter  English  Poems,' 
no  date  given  (why  do  publishers  of  repute 
issue  lx)oks  without  any  date  ?),  follows 
Palgrave— or  Palgrave  follows  him — in  pub- 
lishing the  verse  in  the  following  way  :— 


.My  mind  to  inea  kinedom  is, 

ch  jircBeut  joys  therein  I  fi 
That  ii  excela  all  other  bliss 


Such  1 1 


find. 


That  earth  affords,  or  grows  by  kind. 
Here  are  several  words  changed,  and  the 
last  line  needs  an  interpreter  to  explain  it. 
It  looks  as  though  Dyer  (who  died  1607)  had 
been  reading  Darwin  or  Spencer  without 
improving  the  quality  or  boldness  of  his  first 
thought.  The  question  I  want  answered  is, 
Did  Dyer  write  aa  I  quoted  him  in  1847? 
And  if  so,  who  has  altered  it  since  it  Has 
poor  Dyer  been  bowdlerized,  or  annotated,  or 
improved,  or  explained  away,  as  is  the  fate 
of  so  many  authors  when  they  fall  into  the 
hands  of  modern  editors  ? 

Q.   J.    HOLYOAKE. 
Brighton. 

Byroniaka.— Who  was  the  author  of  'A 
Sequel  to  "Don  Juan,'"  published  by  Paget 
«fe  Co.,  2,  Bury  Street,  St.  James'?,  without 
date  ?  It  is  a  book  of  239  large  octavo  pages, 
containing  nearly  700  eight-line  stanzas,  in 
five  cantos.  This  question  was  a  good  many 
years  since  discussed  in  '  N.  Jk  Q.,'  but  never 
definitely  answered. 

Was  Byron  the  author  of  (any  of)  'Ac- 
cepted Addre«se.s,'  published  about  the  time 
cf  James  and  Horace  Smith's  '  Rejected  Ad- 
dres-ses '  ?  The  bibliography  of  the  latter  is 
well  known,  but  I  have  failed  to  find  anj' 
clue  to  *  Accepted  Addreasen,'  though  it  not 
long  since  appeared  as  a  scarce  item  in  a 
bookseller's  catalogue.  W.  B.  H. 

Iknsof  Court.— It  seems  clear  that  during 
the  Midtlle  .Vges  the  members  of  each  Inn 
ed    in    chambers  in  the  lun,      It  seems 
clear  that  the  wife  of  n  member  was  not 


allowed  to  share  hiij  rooms.    Is  there  anjr 
record  of    a  member  giving  up   his  rooms! 
when  he  married?  or  did  he  etill  live  there, 
and   keep  a  separate  establishment  for  hia 
wife?  Q.  B. 

De-seckated  Fonts.— I  shall  be  glad  to  be 
supplied  with  instances  of  desecrated  fonts.] 
The  following  examples    have   lately  come 
under  my  notice  :— 

When  visiting  the  church  of  St.  James, 
Tbrapston,  in   1903,  the  Northamptonshire! 
Architectural  Society  repnorted :  "The  ancient' 
fourteenth-century  font  is  in  a  garden  in  the 
town.    A  modem  one  has  taken  its  place  ia 
the  church." 

The  Rev.  Thos.  Jones,  recently  appointed 
vicar  of  Amblastone  Church,  Pembrokeshire, 
discovered  the  ancient  font  "fulfilling  a 
sphere  of  innocent  usefulness  in  a  house 
belonKing  to  one  of  the  oldest  parishioners. 
It  had  been  ingeniously  adapted  as  a  cheese 
press,  and  was  still  in  an  excellent  state  of 
preservation."  It  is  interesting  to  learn  that 
It  has  again  been  restore*!  to  the  church. 

The  font  of  Tideswell  Church,  Derbyshire, 
"  was  rescnod  by  the  late  vicar  from  a 
rubbish  heap,  where  it  had  been  placed  by 
the  Goths  of  the  eighteenth  century,  who 
used  it  as  a  parish  paint-pot  when  tliey 
'  beautified '  the  church  with  blue  and 
mahogany  paint." 

I  have  myself  seen  several  instances  oJ 
ancient  font.s  relegated  to  a  position  amoncsl 
the  monuments  in  the  churchyani  in  order 
to  make  room  for  modem  erections.  This  is 
only  the  first  step  towards  desecration,  or 
more  often  total  destruction.  I  maintain 
that  a  font  should  never  under  any  circum- 
stances be  cast  out  of  a  church.  Even  if  a 
new  one  is  absolutely  necessary,  the  ancient 
receptacle  should  be  fondly  cherisheii  and 
reverently  placed  in  some  quiet  corner 
within  the  walls  of  the  saored  edifice. 

JoBN  T.  Page. 

West  Haddon,  XorthainpboDshire. 

Nafoleon  on  Imagination.— The  following 
pewsage,  attributed  to  Napoleon,  occurs  as 
a  motto  to  the  ninth  chapter  of  the  third 
volume  of  Mr.  Morley'a  '  Life  of  Gladstone.' 
Will  some  one 
to  be  found?— 

"  You  can 
without  iniiv, 
speaking  ">  n 


tell  me  where  the  original  ia 

•        ■     --lation ; 
■,a    by 


K.  P.  D.  E. 

"Lkt  the  iii:al>  uiuy  thkiu  pkat)."— Th« 
sense  of  the^o  words  spoken  Ijv  .Icmis  in  cleaM 
but  not  the  setting.      Dead   people  cauuof 


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bury,  either  their  like  or  any  one  else.     On 
what  notion  does  the  saying  repose  ? 

G.  Krueger. 
Berlin. 

Athenian  Sysitem  of  Datixg.— The  Athe- 
nians diwJed  their  (lunar)  months  into  three 
parts,  denominated,  respectively,  the  **  moon's 
beginning,"  the  "moon's  middling,"  the 
"moon's  ending."  Was  this  system  of  dating 
employeil  in  official  documents— for  example, 
in  the  written  depositions  of  the  witnesses 
before  the  dicastery — in  the  time  of  Pericles  ? 
Reserve  ok  Officers. 

BuNNEV.— On  the  Hampshire  coast  chines 
or  valleys  running  up  from  the  se-a  are  called 
Bunneys— as,  for  instance,  Cliewton  Bunney, 
near  Christchurch.  Can  any  of  your  readers 
give  the  etymology  of  this  word  ] 

Arthur  W.  Thomas,  M.D, 

[You  will  find  the  word  in  the  '  N.E.D.'  with  a 
Quotation  from  R.  D.  Blackmore,  but  no  suggestion 
of  etymology.  The  'E.D.U.'  detines  it  aa  a  chine, 
a  gully.  ] 

Laitabtm. — Was  there  ever  a  barony  of 
Lanarth  1  If  so,  at  what  period,  and  what 
waa  the  family  name  ?        Uross-Crosslet. 

•Vicar  of  Wakefield'  in  French. — Can 
any  reader  say  if  a  work  published  in 
2  vols.,  "A  Londres,  1767,"  and  bearing  the 
title  "  Le  Ministre  de  Wakefield,  Histoire 
8uppo8«^  ecrito  par  Lui-meme,"  i."t  the  first 
French  translation  of  the  '  Vicar'  ?  1  should 
also  like  to  know  the  name  of  the  trans^lator, 
and  if  the  book  is  of  any  particular  value. 
Lowndes  gives  1799  as  the  date  of  the  first 
French  translation,  while  Austin  Dobson  in 
bis  bibliography  omits  all  mention  of  an 
edition  in  that  language,  but  notices  the 
first  German  edition,  1787.  G.  B. 

[Many  translations,  of  which  the  one  mentioned 
seems  to  be  the  Arst,  exist,  but  none  appears  to 
have  much  pecaniary  value.  You  will  find  all 
about  it  under  Goldsmith  in  Qucrard, '  Dictionnaire 
Bibliographique.'  An  illustrated  translation,  in 
2  vols.,  by  Etienne  Aigiian,  An  IV.,  brings  five  or 
six  francs.] 

Jaooabd,  East  Anglian  Family  and 
Elizabethan  Printers.— I  shall  be  thankful 
for  any  references  to  the  foregoing,  for  use  in 
the  history  of  the  family  I  am  pre{)aring. 

Wm.  Jaogard. 

139,  Canning  Street,  Liverpool. 

Thomas  Pioott.— Can  any  correspondent 
kindly  give  me  the  parentage  of  a  Thomas 
Pigott,  of  Dublin,  who  died  intestate  in  1778? 
Uis  wife  Mary  (maiden  name?)  survived  him, 
and  his  sister  Eiizal>eth  Pigott  married  first, 
(1)  in  1736,  Thomas  Bernard,  and  secondly 


the  Kev,  Peter  W^estenra,  curate  of  Rosse- 
nallis,  Queen's  Co.,  brother  of  Warner  Wes- 
tenra,  ancestor  of  Lord  Rossmore.  Peter 
died  s.p.  in  1788.        Wm.  Jacksos  Pioott. 

"Ramie."— Can  a  Lancashire  man  tell  me 
the  meaning  of  the  above,  for  I  infer  it  is 
a  provincialism  1 — 

"  If  ramie  had  received  the  attention  it  deserved, 
no  cotton  crises  would  be  iu  our  midst.  To  grow 
ramie  is  the  best  solution  of  the  X'robleni  how  to 
avoid  cotton-gambling,  cornering  crises.  We  need 
no  legidlation ;  the  remedy  is  ramie"  —  DaU(r 
Diiuatch. 

M.AOXON. 

'  WrLHELM  Mei.ster.'  —  Can  any  reader 
supply  a  complete  list  of  the  translations 
which  have  been  made  of  '  Wilhelra  Meistor  ' 
into  English  and  French  T         KoM  Ombo. 

RoDMELL  Family.— I  shall  be  glad  if  any 
readers  who  have  met  with  this  name  in  the 
course  of  their  reading  (e.specially  in  books 
or  documents  of  the  eighteenth  and  early 
nineteenth  centuries  or  earlier)  will  kindly 
communicate  directly  with  me. 

Ronald  Dixon. 

40,  Marlborough  Avenue,  Hull. 

Beating  the  Bounds  :  its  Origin.— I  am 
anxious  to  discover  the  origin  of  the  practice 
of  whipping  or  "  bumping  "  persons  who  take 
part  in  the  perambulation  oi  parishes  at  this 
time  of  year.  Was  there  any  such  practice 
in  connexion  with  the  mediaeval  Rogation 
processions  which  were  replaced  by  the 
present  custom  1  C-  W.  F.  M. 

Name  for  a  Uniyersity  Women's  Club,— 
Would  some  ingenious  person  among  the 
many  quick-wittetl  contributors  to  'N.  «t  Q.' 
be  kind  enough  to  suggest  a  suitable  name 
for  a  club  or  society  of  university  women, 
who  have  been  appealing  to  their  friends  all 
round  to  help  them  in  this  matter?  A  Latin 
or  Greek  name  preferred. 

Animo  Ancipiti. 

Major-General  Eyres.— Can  any  reader 
give  me  information  as  to  the  place  and  date 
of  birth,  or  any  clue  as  to  the  parentage,  of 
George  Boulton  Eyres,  who  was  a  major- 
general  in  the  Hon.  E.  I.  Co.'s  service,  and 
died  at  Bath  15  January,  1797,  aged  sixty- 
one  years  ?  C.  E.  Johnston. 

Terlings,  Harlow. 

Louisa  M.  Alcott.  —  In  what  English 
periodical  publication  did  Miss  Alcott's  story 
'^Eight  Cousins  '  appear  serially  ?    I  should 


like  to  know  the  date  of  the  publication,  also 
its  title  and  publisher.  I  think  it  was  in  the 
seventies.  W.  J.  Johnston. 

b\,  Wellington  Road,  Dublin. 


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THE  NAMK  JKSU8. 
(10"'  S.  i.  428.) 

Thk  fall  etymological  history  of  this  name 
may  be  seen  in  the  '  New  English  Dictionary  ' 
untier  the  word.  Briefly,  the  full  old  Hebrew 
word  YehoshuA',  which  was  contracted  in  Old 
Heb.  to  YOshiiA'  (written  in  English  Joshua), 
became  in  late  Heb.  or  Aramaic  YcshuA'  (in 
English  Bible  Je«liua).  In  Greek,  which  did 
not  possess  the  sound  xh,  but  substituted  s, 
and  rejected  the  Semitic  evanescent  gut- 
turals, Yeahu(&')  became  Yesu'  ('Ijjirov),  in 
the  nominative  case  Ye-su'-s  ('Iijo-ou?).  In 
Latin  these  were  written  in  Roman  letters 
lESU,  nominative  lESUS.  In  Old  French 
this  became  in  the  nominative  case  Jesus ; 
in  the  regimen  or  oblique  case  Jcsu,  Middle 
English  adopted  the  stem-form  Jesu,  the 
regular  form  of  the  name  down  to  tlie  time 
of  the  Renascence.  It  then  became  the 
fashion  to  restore  the  Latin  -s  of  the  nomi- 
native case,  Jesu-a,  and  to  use  the  nominative 
form  also  for  the  objective  and  oblique  cases, 
just  as  we  do  in  Oharle-s,  Jamo-s,  Juliu-s, 
and  Thoma-8.  Very  generally,  however,  the 
vocative  remained  Jesu,  as  in  Latin  and  in 
Middle  English,  and  this  is  still  usual  in 
hymns.  It  is  thus  quite  correct  to  .say  that 
Joshua  and  Jesu  are  forms  of  the  same 
original  name,  though  Jesu  ha-s  not  been 
"evolved  "  from  the  form  Jo8ha(a),  but  from 
the  sister  form  Jeshu(a),  more  phonetically 
Yeshiift',  the  late  Uebrew  or  Aramaic  con- 
tracted form  of  the  original  YelioshuA' 
or  Jehoshua.  In  the  current  form  Jesus 
we  have  the  combined  influence  of  all  the 
languages  written  on  the  cross.  Hebrew 
gave  the  word  itself,  Greek  the  s  for  «/t. 
Latin  the  current  spelling  with  J  and  final 
•w».  J.  A.  IL  M. 

I  did  not  know  that  there  could  be  any 
doubt  that  Jesus  is  a  form  of  Joshua.  It  is 
applied  to  the  successor  of  Moses  in  Acts  vii. 
45  and  Heb.  iv.  8.  The  English  and  Latin 
forms  come  to  ua  through  the  Greek  'Ljo-out, 
in  which  the  undoubted  Hebrew  original  is 
not  more  disguised  than  in  scores  of  other 
names.  S  for  sh  and  a  final  consonant  are 
common  enough  in  Greek  forma  of  Hebrew 
names;  thus  we  have"  Solomon"  for  iSlrlomo 
"Esaiaa'for  Y'sha'ahu,  ic.  J.  T,  F. 

Durham . 

Ample  information  concerning  this  name 
is   to   be  found   in    what  Pkok.  Rkco    \>-,. 
termed  the  "  Neglected  "  English  1  i 
On  p.  573  of  Vdjl,  V.  Dr.  Murray 


history  of  the  word  Jesus  from  it-   ■■■ 
appearance  as  Jehoshua,   later    J' 
the  final  adoption  in  English  of  ;.«    ^^^. 
nominative  form.  J.  Doejcbr. 

[Mr.  T.  Bay-ve,  Mr.  A.  H.u,l,  Mk.  HuHjejt 
M.\CMionAEi.,  and  AIr-  M.  S.  Fake  are  thanked  for 
replie*.) 


Baxteb's  Oil  Paintixo  (lO'*'  S.  L  4-27).- 
This  is  a  print  in  oil  colours,  by  Gt 
Baxter,  which  originally  formed  the  fn* 
piece  to  '  The  Child's  Companion  and 
Juvenile  Instructor'  (Religious  Tract  Society, 
1851,  16mo).  The  signature  in  the  loft  corner 
i.s  incorrectly  quoted  by  M.A.Oxo?r..  und 
should  read  "  Baxter's  Patent  Oil  Pi       : 

George  Baxter, "  the  inventor  and  ; 
of  this  process,  was  the  eldest  son  oi    .jimu 
Baxter,  of  Lewea,  in  Sussex,  who  i*  kin>wn 
as  the  printer  and   publisher  of  'Bav   ■' 
Bible,'  'The  History  of    Sussex,'  *  Bn 
Library  of  Agriculture,' ic.  (see  'Diet.  l.^i. 
Biog.,'  vol.  iii.  p.  427),  and  was  horn  at  Lewes 
in  1804.     He  serve<l  his  apprenticeship  to  a 
wood  engraver,  and  began  life  a«  such.     He 
conceived     the    idea    of     reproducing     tlio 
painter's  art  mechanically  by  print:  I 

colours    from    blocks    of    vanous    ■  ■< 

(wood,  zinc,  copper,  steel,  «fec.),  placing  una 
shade  upon  the  other  as  a  painter  would 
with  his  brush,  oven  going  so  far  as  to  print 
in  the  whites— a  true  ckiaroncuru  process.  In 
this  way  he  often  printed  in  as  man  '  1 1 
as  twenty  or  more,  each  involving  -■ 

printing,  and  all  being  executed 
old  form  of  hand  pre^a.  He 
intended   to  print  a  mere  skeleton    ■  ' 

outline  as  a  key,  and  place  the  coloui 
the  top  of  this.      Many  prints  (an''  ' 
mind  some  of  his  best)  have  been  (.■:  :> 

this  manner;  very  good  examples  _.. 
found    in    the    'Pictorial    Album;    or 
Cabinet  of  Paintings  for  the  Year  1837    ' 
Chapman  in  Hall),  in  which  an  account,  ot 
the    process    is  given.     He  .soon,   however, 
introduced  an  improvement  (?)  in  t!  < 

by  working  on   the   top  of  a  fiin  " 

engraving  on  copper  or  steel,  and  :ill(»uiug 
this  to  show  through  his  colouring.  Ho  toolc 
out  a  patent  for  the  process  in  1835,  and  in 
1849  oDtained  an  extension  of  the  same  for  a 
further  period  of  five  years,  T!  '  '  '  m 
business  in  1860,  and  died  at  i 

lHt!7.      Subjects  of  every   vaii.i>    .tn.i    •M.a 
were    produced    by    him,   and    for    many 
jjurposes.     In  size  they  rangr"!   fi-.u, 
by  gin.  to  18in.  by  2«iin.,  tl. 
TVrting   lyook,'  after  E.  M.  < 
print,  however,  was  tli 
ruard   Hospice,    after  i     i 


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productions  were  much  sought  after  as 
illu8ti-atiou»  tu  books  and  pictures  for  liouse 
decoration,  the  smaller  prints  being  UHed  for 
needle  packets  and  workboxes.  Over  200 
examples  of  hia  work  are  known,  and  a  fairly 
representative  collection  has  been  given  to 
the  British  Museum,  and  can  be  seen  at  any 
time  at  the  Print  Department. 

The  excelleuco  and  couscientiousneaa  of  hia 
workmanship,  the  superiority  of  the  material^) 
•  he  employed,  the  scrupulous  care  be  expended 
upon  the  production,  and  hia  artistic  choice 
oi  subject  and  colour,  have  earned  for  him 
the  aifoiiration  of  all  who  have  seen  his 
Work,  and  the  reputation  of  having  produced 
(on  hand  prenses)  pictures  in  colours  as  fine 
as,  if  not  more  perfect  than,  any  that  can  be 
produced  to-day,  notwithstanding  the  aid  of 
modern  science  and  the  great  improvements 
of  recent  years  in  printing  machinery.  It  is 
interesting  to  note  that  among  his  admirers 
and  patrons  were  the  late  Queen  and  the 
Prince  Consort,  of  whom  he  printed  several 

Portraits.  He  received  diplomas  at  the  Great 
ntcrnational  Exhibition,  and  was  awarded 
a  gold  medal  by  the  King  of  Sweden. 
Harrison  Weir  was  one  of  his  apprentices. 

Ln  the  British  and  Colonial  Printer  arid 
iittitioner,  vol.  liv.  No.  13,  will  be  found  an 
article  upon  George  Baxter  which  goes  more 
fully  into  his  process  and  the  history  of  its 
inventor.  Frank  W.  Baxter. 

170,  Church  Street,  Stoke  Newiiiglori,  N. 

More  than  fifty  years  ago,  when  a  small 
,  I  had  two  Baxters  among  my  school - 
ows,  one  of  whom  gave  me  a  considerable 
l)Oml)er  of  the  pretty  polychrora&s,  including 
one  of  the  1851  lixnibition.  If  memory 
serve-s,  the  donor  was  a  son  of  George  Baxter, 
whose  place  of  business  wis  in  or  near 
Oxford  Street.  I  well  remember  the  rep<jrt 
that  Baxter's  secret  had  died  with  him.  This 
must  have  been,  1  thick,  before  1857. 

U.  S.  Wahd. 

See  the  'Dictionary  of  National  Biography,' 
the  Athemtum,  19  January,  1HG7,  the  GentU- 
tiuin't  Maijazine  of  the  following  month,  and 
•N.  ii  Q.,'  S'*"  S.  x.  1.3.3  ;  xi.  391. 

EvEBARo  Home  Coleman. 

71|  Brecknock  Rood. 

Up  to  18.35  Baxter's  work  is  inscribed 
"  Printed  in  Oil  Colours,"  but  subsequent 
productions  have  the  word  "Patented" 
Added,  the  patent  l)cing  granted  in  18.30.  lu 
1849  Baxter  commenced  granting  licences  to 
several  publishers,  liio  feo  being  iOOl.  His 
catalogue  cnuttiorates  2')3  wurks,  tbome  very 
elaborate,  particularly  the  'Curonaliuo  of 
')ueeu  Victoria,'  published  at  10  guineas.   La 


■>    M 


the  'Great  Exhibition  Oflicial  Catalogue,' 
1«5],  occurs  the  following  appreciative 
note  :— 

"Nothing  can  be  more  beautiful  and  ntore 
perfect  in  execution  than  the  ch&rinin;;  plates 
printed  in  colours  by  Mr.  Baxter's  process. 

It  is  a  matter  of  conjecture  whether 
Baxter's  secret  lay  in  the  mixing  of  his 
colours,  for  although  Vincent  Brooks  and 
Le  Blond  (both  capable  men)  had  the 
original  plates  to  work  from,  they  failed  to 
reach  Baxter's  high  state  of  excellence. 
Baxter  married  a  daughter  of  Mr.  Harrild, 
the  manufacturer  of  rollers  for  printing 
machines. 

Most  of  this  information  I  extract  from  a 
fjfockurt  by  Charles  F.  Bullock (Rinningham, 
1901).  Cha.s.  G.  Smituees. 

[.Several  other  correspondents  tlianked  for 
replies.  ] 

Sbllinokb  (lO*"*  S.  i.  458).— Dii.  Rimbault» 
in  3"*  S.  ii.  481,  refers  to  a  passage  in 
Middleton's  'Father  Hubbard's  Tales,' about 
"  dancing  Sellcnger's  Bound  in  moonshine 
about  Maypoles. '  Will  that  reference,  as 
also  3^'  S.  iii.  8,  be  of  assistance  to  your 
correspondent] 

E\'£RAnD  Home  Coleman. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

Bellinger  is  put  for  St.  Leger.  lu  1730 
two  of  this  family  were  distinguished,  viz., 
Arthur,  second  Viscount  Doneraile  ;  and  his 
uncle  Sir  John  St.  Leger,  a  Baron  of  the 
Irish  Exchequer.  A.  H. 

Is  not  this  name  merely  St.  Leger  spelt 
phonetically  1  YoEKC. 

♦Die  and  be  Damned*  (lO"*  S.  i.  328).— 
Thomas  Mortimer  was  a  miscellaneous  and 
voluminous  writer,  chiefly  on  economic 
subjoct.s,  who  was  for  some  time  British  vice- 
consul  in  the  Netherlands.  His  largest  work 
was  'The  British  Plutarch  '  (6  vols.  8vo,  1762; 
second  «lition,  revised  and  enlargwl,  1774 ; 
translated  into  French  by  Madame  de  Vasse, 
1785-6,  Paris,  2  vols.  8vo),  which  contains 
lives  of  eminent  inhabitants  of  Great  Britain 
from  the  time  of  Henry  VIII.  to  that  of 
George  II.  'Die  and  be  Damned'  is  a 
confutation  of  the  Calvinistic  doctrine  of 
eternal  punishment  (see  pp.  49-60). 

J.   HOLDEN   MacMiCIIAKL. 

Marlowe:  Date  of  his  Bikth  (10'"  S.  i. 
40H).— Marlowe  was  born  on  6  February,  1504, 
New  Style,  and  christened  on  the  26th  of  th© 
same  month  at  the  church  of  St.  George 
the  Martyr,  Canterbury.  A  facsimile  of  the 
entry  iu  the  church  register  is  furuishetl  in 


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my  new  work  on  *  Christopher  Marlowo  and 
his  Associates,'  as  well  as  mach  fresh  in- 
formation concerning  the  poet.       J.  H.  I. 

At  the  end  of  a  paragraph  referring  to 
the  proposofi  Marlowe  memorial  at  Canter- 
bury, the  Daily  NerP9  of  25  December,  1888, 
contained  the  following  lines  : — 

"An  investigation  into  the  local  (Canterbar^) 
parish  ns^sters  oa  to  the  antocedeals  of  thiti 
{amouB  contemporary  of  Shakespe&re  has  revealed 
•onie  interesting  data.  In  the  register  of  8t. 
George  the  Martyr  the  following  records  aii]i«ar: 
*  1561.— The  "J2nd  of  May  were  married  John  Mar- 
lowe and  Catherine  Arthur.'  '  IdtfS.— The  36th  day 
of  February  was  christened  Christopher,  the  sonne 
of  John  Marlowe.' " 

John  T.  Pace. 

West  Hoddon,  Northamptonshire. 

Irish  Ejaculatory  Prayers  (10"'  S.  i.  249. 
337).— As  an  appendix  to  Mrs.  Harvey's 
'  Cositas  Eapafiolas  ;  or,  Every-Day  Life  in 
Spain  '  (Hurst  <fe  Blackett,  1875),  are  printed 
some  letters  written  by  a  French  lauy  who 
visited  Madrid  in  \Cud-  The  following  para- 
graph deserves  to  be  reproduced  for  the 
benefit  of  Mr.  A.  Wallace  and  others.  After 
a  collation  at  the  Marquesa  de  la  Rosa's 
"  rtambeaux  were  brought  in,  preceded  by  a  little 
fellow,  white  with  age,  who,  kueeliag  on  one  knee 
in  the  middle  of  the  gallery,  said  aloud, '  Let  the 
most  Holy  .Sacrament  be  praised,'  to  which  every- 
body answered,  '  For  ever.'  This  is  their  oQatom 
when  light  ia  brought  in"  (p.  285). 

Tertullian  testifies  :— 

"Ad  omnem  progrossutn  atque  promotum,  ad 
omnem  aditum  etexitum,  ad  vestitum.  ad  calciatum. 
ad  lavacra,  ad  niensas,  ad  himina,  ad  ciibilia,  ad 
aedilia  tiUH^cunque  nos  oonvorsatio  exercet,  frontem 
cnieis  signaculo  torinius.''— '  Do  Coronii  Militis,' 
c.  iii..  quoted  in  Chevallier's  'Tr&nalation  of  the 
Epistles  of  Clement  of  Rome,*  &c.,  p.  35.%  foot-note. 

St.  SwiTRiy. 

Admiral  Sir  Samuel  Qreig  (lO""  S.  i.  349. 
433). — Admiral  Alexis  Greig,  described  in 
the  French  registers  as  "  born  in  Russia,  of 
Scottish  parents,"  passed  through  Paris  in 
180S  on  his  way  back  from  Lisbon.  Was  he 
son  of  Sir  Samuel  ?  J,  Q.  Alger. 

Holland  Park  Court. 

Interesting  information  about  this  officer 
is  to  be  found  in  Hill  Burton's  'The  Scot 
Abroad,'  first  edition,  vol.  ii.  pp.  213-22.  As 
to  the  names  of  the  Scotsmen  who  were 
associated  with  Greig'a  career,  or  who  soon 
afterwards  gave  their  services  to  increase 
the  naval  strength  of  Russia,  see  the  chapters 
on  'The  Soots  in  Russia 'in  James  Grant's 
'Scottish  Soldiers  of  Fortune'  especially 
pp.  34-45,  where  mention  is  raaae  of  Brfxiie, 
Douglas,  Drysdale,  Elphinstono,  Gordon, 
Mackenzie,  Robison,  and  Watson.       W.  S. 


Worm  (lO'^S.  i.  407).— Sui-ely  "worm"  io 
this  sense  is  one  of  those  word*  which 
sufficiently  imply,  like  the  "grronfU  "  in 
plants,  the  nature  of  the  thing    ■  ;y 

express  without  using  the  plui:  t. 

But  sufferers  from  this  diaca  ir- 

ally  also  allude  to  it  in  the  •■  i-.-y 

were  victims  of  the  tcenia,  or  u.pe-worfn, 
as  distinct  from  the  Ascarides,  or  small 
thread-worms,  and  the  Lumbrici,  lotig  rotind 
worms.  The  tape- worm,  although  one© 
believed  to  consist  of  several  worms  joined 
lengthwise,  occurs  in  the  human  viscera 
singly,  and  might,  therefore,  be  oaturalij 
spoKen  of  as  "the  worm."  It  appears  to 
have  been  called  the  '*  joint- worm. '  Anne 
Wright,  in  the  London  Jounml  of  some  dale 
in  1722,  publicly  praises  the  skill  of  .Fohn 
Moore,  a  well-known  apothecary  in  those 
days,  dwelling  in  Abchurch  Lane, 
''  whose  worm  Medicines  brought  from  me  a  lar^ 
Worm,  call'd  the  Joynt-Worm,  a  Yard  and  a  half 
long,  besides  several  score  of  short  Worms,  ft4> 
(May  2.  1722).  N.B.— The  Worm  is  to  be  aoeo  al 
Mr.  Wright's  House." 

J.  HoLDES  MacMichael. 

The  toothache,  so  called  from  a  mistaken 
idea  that  it  was  caused  by  the  gnawing  of 
an  actual  worm.  Jamieson  gives  it  as  a 
Lothian  term.  J.  T.  F. 

Durham. 

Perhaps  the  allusions  are  to  Mark  ix.  48. 

J.   DORMKB. 

Id  Dean  Ramsay's  '  Reminiscences  of  Scot- 
tish  Life  and  Cliaracter'  (ninety- seventh 
edition,  n.d.,  p.  115)  it  is  stated  that  in  177t> 
"the  worm"  was  the  Scottish  name  for  the 
toothache.  This  date  is,  however,  a  century 
later  tliau  that  named  in  the  query. 

tJ.  V.  W. 

Walnky  Island  Nameb  (10'''  S.  i.  387). — It 
is  .said  that  Colvac  was  "a  common  proper 
name  "  in  the  Isle  of  Man  and  Ireland.  It  is 
certainly  not  a  Manx  name  at  all,  and  is  not 
mentioned  in  Moore's  '  Surnames  and  Plaoe* 
names  of  the  Isle  of  Man.' 

Ern'est  B.  Savaob. 
S.  Thomas,  Donglaa, 

"Tymbers  of  ermine"  (lO""  S.  i.  449).— 
Timtjer  is  a  technical  ttiriu  explaineil  in  most 
dictionaries.  It  is  in  Bailey,  Worcesster, 
Wobst«r,  and  in  the  glossaries  by  Wright 
and  Halliwoll.  Examples  of  it-*  ''-•-  "tr» 
fairly  common-     It  is  derived  fri  t'. 

timtre,  which  is  from  the  Low  r;  ■  ;. 

:i tamer.    Fliigel's 'German  I>;  •. : 

"^iwijurr,  a  room  ;  Kiium-!  fm;  r 

ftlte,  a  timber  of  fi  «, 

sables,  tkc,  equal  to   >  '         lua 


^^ 


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493 


.  to  120)";  which  is  correct.   The  original 
seems  to  have  been  simply  "quantity 
'material,"  and  it  is  the  same  woru  aa  the 
I'n-r  for  building.       Walter  W.  Skeat. 

'  Liber  Albus '  (Rolls  Series),  Anulo- 
jan   filos-sary,  s.c.  'Tie,'  where  further 
sferencea  are  given,   which  Ayeahk    may 
insult  with  profit.  R.  R.  S. 

In  reply   to  Ayeahb's  inouiry  as  to  the 

leaning  of  this,  I  may  state  that  a  "tymber" 

ermine  or  any  other  fur  contained  forty 

[ins  of  the  same.    See  '  Ledger  of  Andrew 

[aliburtoo  '  (Scottish  Record  Series),  p.  3S9. 

J.  B.  P. 

T.  L.  O.  Davies,  in  his   'Supplementary 
ilnglish  Glo9.sary,'  ha.s  the  following  quota- 
tion : — 

i"  Having presented   them  with    two  timber 
of  sables,  which   with   much  diligence   had   been 
recovered    out    of   the    wreck,    lie    was    bv  tbera 
remitted  to  his  lodging."— Peter  Heylin,  •  Hist,  of 
Beformation,'  1G74. 
EvERATtD  Home  COLElkL\N. 
71,  BreolcDook  Road. 
[Other  replies  acknowledged.] 
Ho 


^ 


CorFur  House  (10""  S.  i.  388).— The  Coffin 
House  at  Brixham  to  which  Mr.  Davy  refers 
is  not  the  only  building  erected  in  the  form 
of  a  cofHn  in  England.  At  Fresshingfield,  in 
Suflfolk,  is  a  Baptist  chapel  known  a.s  the 
Cofiin  Chape),  which  is  visited  by  numbers 
of  |)eople  on  account  of  its  cruesonio  form. 
It  is  said  that  the  pastor  who  left  the  money 
with  which  to  build  it  after  this  design 
obtained  his  inspiration  from  the  house  at 
Brixham.  Some  account  of  this  latter  house 
appeared  several  years  ago  in  the  Brixham 
paper,  and  may  bo  found,  I  believe,  in  the 
archives  of  the  Devonshire  Archaeological 
hJociety.  A  former  vicar  of  Brixham  also 
compiled  a  brief  history  of  the  house  :  but  I 
am  unable  to  recall  in  what  periodical  it 
appeared.  Frederick  T.  Hiboame. 

Temple  College,  Philadelphia  (10'»'  S.  i. 
1 907,  297V— I  am  informed  by  the  editor  of 
the  leaaing  Masonic  newspaper  in  America 
(the  Keif-stone)  that  Temple  College  ranks 
very  high  in  the  opinion  of  American 
educational  authorities,  and  that  its  status 
is  unquestionable.  This  is  the  unbiassed 
opinion  of  a  leading  American  citizen  whose 
disinterestedness  cannot  be  questioned.  The 
President  is  Russell  H.  Conwell,  D.D.,  LL.D., 
from  whom  I  have  received  the  following 
letter : — 

"  Voiir  letter  nddre>»sed  to  the  Temple  College, 
conccrninj;  ti>e  right  of  the  institutioti  in  confer 


vou  with  this  same  mail  the  catalogue  of  the 
College,  wliich  gives  full  information  cojiceroing 
that  subject. 

"  The  honorary  degree  of  Doctor  of  Divinity  is 
conferred  only  upon  those  who  have  been  especially 
recommended  by  at  least  five  dii^tin^^uished  nieiv 
who  are  acqnainled  with  Ihe  candidates  for  the 
degree.  It  is  never  conferred  for  money  or  any 
other  reward,  and  consequently  no  money  would  be 
received  from  any  person  upon  whom  the  degree 
was  conferred.  Ihe  annual  meeting  for  the  con- 
sideration of  the  decrees  for  this  year  has  already 
been  held,  consequently  no  further  applicationa 
can  be  received  until  next  April. 

"Dur  Inisleos  have  been  very  favourable  towartls 
the  idea  of  giving  honorary  degrees  to  those  living 
in  England  whose  scholarship  entitles  them  to  the 
honor,  because  of  their  desire  to  cement  more 
closely  the  fraternal  tie«  now  existing  between  the 
Mother  Country  and  America;  but  ihey  strive  to- 
oxerci»e  the  most  conservative  caro  in  KranlinK 
aach  decrees,  so  that  the  institution  Dtay  not 
cheapen  its  honors." 

Chas.  F.  Forshaw,  LL.D. 
Baltimore  House,  Bradford. 

Web8TER'.s  'Basque  Legends'  (10*''  S.  i. 
190).— The  origin  of  Mr.  W.  Webster's  '  Basque 
Legends'  has  never  been  explained.  Though- 
I  have  converse(1  with  hunoreda  of  Bassks  ir> 
most  parts  of  Baskland,  at  intervals  since- 
Ascension  Day,  1886,  I  have  never  heard  one 
of  thera  recite  or  mention  anything  like  any 
one  of  these  legends.  The  nearest  approach 
to  it  has  been  a  casual  allusion  to  "Baso- 
Yauna,"  the  lord  of  the  forest,  an  imaginary 
sprite,  somewhat  like  "  Hearn  the  Hunter." 
Mr.  Webster  once  wrote  lo  me  that  he 
"knows  very  little  Basque."  On  another 
occasion  he  sliowed  me  in  his  hou.se  at  Sara, 
in  1888,  tlie  manuscript  Baskish  version  of 
his  *  Legends.'  It  was  in  the  handwriting  of 
NI.  .J.  Vinson.  It  is,  therefore,  not  wonderful 
that  this  text  has  not  been  published,  because 
M.  Vinson  does  not  like  to  be  corrected  or 
criticized,  and  the  Basks  are  wont  to  say 
that  he  neither  writes  nor  translates  their 
language  correctly.  Yet  his  published 
writings  prove  that  he  has  done  so,  now 
and  then.  May  one  conjecture  that  Mr. 
Webster  elalx)rate<l  thera,  with  the  aid  of  hi» 
friend  M.  Julien  Vinson,  in  order  to  satisfy 
the  craving  of  those  readers  who  prefer 
fiction,  and  *«»»  tro%<n(o,  to  vei-f^  and  realities  ? 
Both  of  them  are  alive.  Let  us  hope  that 
they  will  clear  up  this  bibliographical  ques- 
tion. E.  S.   D0D<J80». 

Birth-marks  (10"'  S.  i.  362. 130).-^!  »»x>/x)» 
of  Mr.  Hooper's  note,  it  might  not  be  out 
of  the  way  to  mention  a  curious  book  I  found 
some  time  ago  at  public  auction  :— 

The  Force  of  the  Mother's  i;  -  •  -n  uji^jn  her 
Fivtus  in  Ulero,  still  farthf.'i  1 :   In  the 

way  of  a  Keply  to  Dr.   Ulomi'  i  ■   i     ^   booli 


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titled.  The  Power  of  the  Mother's  ImaginatioD  over 
I  the  Fu-tus  examined.  To  which  is  added.  The 
'  Twelfth  Chapter  of  the  first  Part  of  a  Treatise  l)e 
Morbia  CutAneis,  as  il  was  iirintcd  therein  many 
Y'eara  past  In  a  Letter  to  Dr.  Blondel,  By  r>Aniol 
Turner,  of  the  Colleue  of  Phj'siciftns,  London. 
Londoo :  Printed  for  J.  Wakhoe,  U.  Wilkin,  J. 
and  J.  Bonwicke,  S.  Birt,  J.  Clarke,  T.  Ward  and 
E.  Wioksteod.     1730. 

I  have  given  the  orthography  and  punc- 
tuation of  the  title-page  as  it  lies  before  me 
at  this  writiiiK- 

Fkederic  Rowland  Marvis. 

637,  WeBtern  Avenue,  Albany,  N.Y. 

A  dealer  in  animals  (whose  name  I  regret 
to  say  I  have  forgotten,  though  I  was  one 
of  his  regular  cu.storaer8)  had  a  shop  on  the 
right  hand  side  of  the  High  Street  of  Eton, 
as  you  went  towards  Windsor.  About  the 
year  1857  he  showed  me  the  atufifed  head  of 
a  red  and  white  calf.  On  the  top  of  the  head 
was  a  spherical  protuberance,  covered  with 
akin  and  hair  like  the  rest  of  the  animal. 
This  globular  moss  was  about  the  size  of  a 
football.  Tiie  proi)rietor's  explanation  was 
that  a  football  had  been  kicked  on  to  the 
head  of  a  pregnant  cow,  and  that  the  excres- 
cence in  the  calf  had  been  caused  by  her  fear. 
The  explanation  may  have  been  erroneous ; 
but  I  can  vouch  for  the  excrescence.  Perhaps 
some  other  old  Etonian  may  recall  the  dealer's 
came,  in  which  case  I  should  be  glad  to  have 
my  memory  refreshed. 

Frank  Repb  Fowke. 

See  VJnter-fiMiaire,  xxxiii.-xxxv.,  under 
*  Eavies  de  Femmes  Enceintes. ' 

O.  O.  H. 

The  First  Wife  ok  Wauken  llAsriNiis 
(10^  S.  i.  426).-SYDNEy  C.  GuiKa's  com- 
munication places  the  information  in  'The 
private  Life  of  Warren  Ha.Mtings,'  by  Sir 
Charles  Lawson  (London,  1895),  auent  the 
Dame  of  the  lady  who  in  175(i  became  the 
wife  of  the  young  man  who  rose  from  a 
clerkship  to  be  the  first  Governor-General  of 
India,  in  the  category  of  erroneous  assump- 
tions. According  to  Sir  Charles  Lawsou, 
Warren  Hastings  married  in  1756,  not  the 
widow  of  Capt.  John  Buchanan,  but  the 
widow  of  Capt.  Cainpl«ill,  of  the  Company's 
service,  who  lM)re  nini  two  children  —  a 
daughter  who  livc<l  but  nineteen  days,  and 
a  son  who  died  young.  Mrn.  Hastings  died 
at  Cossimbazar,  when  her  Imsband  yr&s  Ke^^i- 
dent  at  that  station  (see  p.  35). 

Henry  Gerald  Hope. 

119,  Elms  Road.  Clapham,  H.W. 

Sypmey  Grier  mentions  the  marriage  of 
Warren  Hastings  to  "iMary,  widow  of  CapU 
John  Buchanan,  one  r>f  iho  \iouittt  uf  iIk' 


Black  Hole."  in  the  cold  wt- ttht't-  uf  17V 
and  states  that  she  died  at  M  H 

Col.   Mallesou,   in    his    '  : 
Hastings,"  p.  33,  writes  :— 

"Among  the  ladies  at  Falta  [^  villii^rfe  i>»;4rj 
confluence  of  the  Hugli   t»ti<l  Diwinu'' 
Xht  willow  of  n  (Jnpt.  Caniphtill.  t»f   i  . 

!    '     V      1  ..  .-    .     .,    , ,    TnoDiii-i    uit'i 

tiot  Mr.  Uutiop^l 

and  after  the  relief  of  Calcutta  "uutrriedj 
her."  This  undoubtedly  tcwk  place  in  Ui«j 
winter  of  17.'iG-7. 

At  the  close  of  1757,  Mr.  and  Mr^.  H.i'jtl 
proceeded  to  Kasimbazar,  on  hi«  ■ 
as  second  in  Council  with  Mr.  ^ 
English  representative  at  the  Court  t 
Xawab,    \lir    Jafar    Ali    Klian.     Thi*r 
the  silk  factory  as  Kasimbazar,  Ii 
his   wife  resided.     In   hi?  Ictt' 
patron  Mr.  Chiswick,  written  ii(    iin<  i-nd 
1758.  after  referring  to  the  birth  of  his  tvoj 
children,  ho  adds  :— 

"  1  have  already  informed  you  of  aiy  aipiMiinl 
as  second  in  Council  at  the  factory  of  Kifiini)! 
where  my  family  have  continued  to  renide  fraiil  i 
appointment  to  this  place." 

The  two  children  were  a  <1 

5  October,  1758,  and  died  u) 

son,  George,   who   was   sent  t" 

1761,  and  died  there  three  years  .  Ii 

son  at  p.  3()  writes  : — 

"The  first  nowa  which  Rreetcd  Hastinps  otj  W^ 
arrival  in  KnKlaod  in  1765  was  r 
his  only  non.    His  wife  had  beoi; 

The  inscripli"!!  on  lier  tomb  ui  i..i j.., .^^  . 

miles  from   Moorsiicdabad,   records   her   (l«»th 
having  occurred  on  11  July,  1759." 

Capt.  Trotter,  in   his  memoir  of  War 
Hastings  ("Rulers  of  India"  Scries),  writ 
at  p.  19  :— 

"At  Falta,  in  the  cool  8e.i«on,  Ihv"]  tnarriwlj 
widoM' of  Capt.  Campbell,  who  i      ii  t 

KilpatricU  from  Madras,  only  t 
disease.      The    two    seem   to    1...., 
together  till  the  lady's  death   in    I 
child  had  died  in  infancy,  and  the  ii 
her  but  a  few  years." 

Malleson  and  Trotter  concur  that  the 
husband  of  Mrs.  Hastings  was  "         '' 
bell,  and  not  Capt.  Buchanan, 
by  Sydney  Grier. 

As  to  her  death  and  burial.  Sydnby  " 
states  that  "Moradbagh'"  wr.   ''  -  ;  '-- 
she  died.     1   venture  to  ti 

a   mistake    for   M i-.i  • 

Slohammedan  cit\ 
bazar,  and  seven 
military  station  u: 
son  says  her  tomb  1    -   ;       L. 
occorre<l  on  11  July,  1750. 

This,  too,  is  a  mhiMke.    Wh«n  I 


■■■IV 


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495 


iBarhainpur  in  IBfK)  and  1856,  I  visited 
Kasimbazar,  and  saw  in  the  grounds  adjacent 
to  the  factorv  the  tomb  of  Mrs.  Uastines. 
The  raemoiial  stone  was  upright,  and  the 
inscription  clear  and  legible.  I  regret  that 
1  did  not  copy  it;  but  I  do  remember  that 
neither  Iter  maiden  name  nor  the  name  of 
lier  first  husband  waa  inscribed  :  merely  her 
Christian  name,  "wife  of  Warren  HastingM, 
Esq."  Jam8«  Watson. 

fulkenlone. 

_^I  romemljer  seeing  in  1881,  in  au  old 
tJhristian  graveyard  at  or  near  Kasimbazar, 
close  to  the  city  of  Murtiltidabad,  a  brick 
tomb,  which  was  said  to  cover  the  grave 
of  this  lady.  Tliere  was  no  .sign  of  any 
inscription,  and  nothing  to  identify  the  tomb, 
«n<i  except  local  tradition  (conveyed  to  mo  by 
an  <ild  gept)y  otKcer  who  acted  as  my  guide, 
who  said  I  hat  he  was  over  ninety  years  of  age, 
and  that  his  father  had  fought  at  Plassey 
and  had  known  "  Hasteen  Sahib")  I  was 
, finable  to  discover  any  evidence  in  corrobora- 
tion of  the  statement.  F.  DB  U.  L. 

AUDYN  OR  AUDIN   FaMILY  (10">  S.  i.  148).— 

I  can  fiu<l  no  reference  in  the  Dorset  county 
historian  Hutchius  to  any  arms  such  a.s  tho60 
mentioned  by  Me.  Auden  belonging  to  any 
family  of  Audyn  or  Audin,  described  by 
Cuiilitn  as  of  Dorchester,  in  tiiat  county. 
Indeed,  there  is  bat  one  iastancu  of  the  name 
■occurring  at  all  in  the  last  edition  of  the 
■•History  of  Dorset,'  and  that  is  to  Iw  found 
in  vol.  ii.  p.  226,  where  the  Uev.  John  Audain 
i«  recorded  as  having  been  instituted  rector 
of  Pilles<lon  in  1783,  a  small  parish  in  the 
present  western  division  of  the  couut^'. 
Hutchins  devotes  a  sitecial  note  to  this 
■divine,  and  states  that,  according  to  Itoberts 
C History  of  Lyme  Regis'),  lie  was  quite  a 
Jhero  of  romance  : — 

"For    hia    versAlility    a*    an    ai; 
toreacher  to  K|ii8co|iaUftn»,  .MQlliodist> 

ffc.  in  the  aanir 'i  M'  i..-..  ......  ^    i-.  ,..i,,,,,^ 

'Hix   Moiiihs   r.  ,il»,i    ihc 

Wrtt  Indift  S  .  work  in 

fi  I  in 

,^. ■  ■  ■  • .-..^  .-.-.■.  ..  ...^.,...  .....w  .,-»  in 

peiiii-se  vjxwf)  up,    he. 

:  is  stated  that  at  the  time  of  his  deatli  be 

as  residing  in  the  West  Indicj?. 

Tlie     late    Kantiolph    Cnldecott,    in    his 

Inimitable  sketches,   has    made  us  familiar 

..  ith  the  sjwctAcle  of  the  country  ^wrsun  of 

that,  peritHt  rushing  off  from  his  church  to 

in   in  a   fox    hunt    that  happ<med   to    bo 

ithiu   distance,   and    tiie    name  of    "Jack 

usscll  "^  is  slUl  a  housi^hold   wonl   in   U»e 

e«t  Country;  but  I  do  {ipt  Uiiuk  that  it 


has  been  recognized  that  the  parson  of  that 
district  could  also  have  been  a  buccaneer.  I 
think,  therefore,  that  Ma.  Audes  should  look 
for  the  Dorset  rector's  ancestors  amongst  the 
sea  dogs  of  the  Elizabethan  period. 

Since  I  wrote  the  above,  the  reference  in 
Hutchins's  'Dorset'  to  the  West  Indies  ha* 
induced  me  to  make  some  local  ini|uiriea,  and 
I  find  that  in  the  notes  to  the  i)edieree  of  the 
Woodley  family,  of  Nevis  and  St.  Kitls,  con- 
Uined  in  vol.  ili.  of  Vere  Oliver's  '  History  of 
the  Island  of  Antigua'  (1899),  at  PP-  ''.l-2» 
occurs  the  name  of  John  Audain,  of  St.  Kitta- 
surgeon,  who,  in  October,  1702,  purchased 
from  the  Woodley  family  an  cxtute  in  that 
colony  for  7,100^.,  which  includcil  fifty-six 
negro  and  other  slaves,  Ac,  on  the  iilanta- 
tion.  One  of  the  witnesses  to  the  mdenlure 
wa«  Abraham  Audain. 

It  is  possible  that  the  St.  Kilts  surgeon  of 
17«2  may  liavo  blossomed  into  tlio  versatile 
rector  of  Pillesdon  of  1783  (who  does  not 
api)ear  to  have  been  a  universilv  man),  or 
may,  perhaps,  have  been  his  father,  the 
family  evidently  being  one  of  bubstance  in 
the  West  Indies,  which  would  account  for 
that  inteiesting  member  of  the  Church 
militant  returning  to  his  old  horn- 
a  Ijetter  field,  perhaps,  for  indul^iim 
vateering  proclivities.  Itwouh- 
for  tiio  |)aucity  of  reference  t«> 
Ilutchinsasa  Dorsotoi      '  -kc^^ 

Htatomcnt  .seem  more  0  •^ry.  ^ 

1  have  also  iH.-eu  infonii<-«>  ui.it  "coloured 
descendantH  of  the  name  name  exi»t,  or  did 


and  to 

his  pri- 

>uat 

-  tu 

iUwiam'!! 


1>, 


I'ljca, 
iicb 
•_'«i- 
.:ht 

.  iiial 


exist  until  a  little  while  ago,  n 

which  island,  from  l»eing  much  ; 

in  character  and  race  than  lh»' 

dencies  of  the  Leeward  Islands 

more  fittingly,  perhaps,  bcB|"  aV 

homo  <if  this  family  in  the  V  ■(. 

r  kiii'w   Iff  no  work  relai  i.   i^*™ 

ir  to  that  of  Dr.  Ulivpr  which 

i;.:ht  coiisiiU  ;  >>iit  ri\)*y  T  ejtprew 

„!..,,  ■  .  for 


the  1  . 

those  at' Atilkgua  I  i  l'> 
have  abundance  of  mai 
some  of  which  li<-  n 
at  mv  dinpoflal  in  (  .•   i 

to  U' 

the   ■ 
trafit! 


for 


■  o^FSA. 


Aolifa*,  W.L 

r^         -  s. 

13.'. 

Italian  naiae  i 


xii.  If  "•*     '  ' 

not  Pail 

Asall  Ctliiuicvi  i-Lietii- 


496 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.        [lo-  s.  x! 


at  the  end  of  the  eighteenth  and  the  beginning 
of  the  nineteenth  century  travelled  a  great 
deal  in  Italy,  and  were  able  to  pronounce 
Italian  names  correctly,  there  should  be  no 
doubt  as  to  liow  the  name  was  pronounced. 
The  lady's  fame  seems  to  have  survived  well 
into  the  fifties,  or  the  beginning  of  the  sixties, 
because  ladies  in  tlie  Eajst  of  Europe  then 
wore  Pamela  hats  of  straw.  They  haa  broad, 
curved  brims,  if  I  remember  correctly,  and 
were  trimmed  with  some  plain  coloured 
ribbon  and  an  artificial  fiowcr  or  two. 

L.  L.  K. 

Cold  Habbour  :  Windy  Abboub  (lO""  S.  i- 
341,  413).— If  the  learned  Professor  cares  to 
give  further  attention  to  tins  subject  he  may 
find  reasons  to  connect  the  site  of  Stow'a 
•'Cold  Harbrough  *  with  the  Roman  occupa- 
tion ;  and  first,  there  is  a  Coldharbour  in  the 
Tower  precincts,  where  the  Roman  route  ia 
known  to  have  first  crossed  the  Tiiaraes, 
subsequently  i'i4  Watling  Street  toDowgate  ; 
from  there  a  route  eastward  would  include 
Stow'a  site.  We  have  a  Stoney  I^^ne,  Tooiey 
Street,  for  the  Tower,  and  a  Stoney  Street  at 
the  Clink  for  Watling  Street,  turning  west- 
ward ;  both  indicate  the  Roman  paved  ways. 

A.  H. 

Mr.  S.  0.  Addy  in  his  'Evolution  of  the 
EncHsh  House,'  1898,  says  there  were  cottages 
in  Yorkshire  in  which  fire  was  not  used  daily, 
or  perhaps  not  used  at  all : — 

\X^2.  "  1  tvilto  every  hows  within  the  narisheing 
of  Acolome  whar  os  fyer  is  daily  used,  xiijd."— 
•Teat.  Ebor.'  fSurteea  Soc  ),  v.  StU. 

I5i'2.  "  The  lyer-house  that  Foxe  wyffe  off  Ulver- 
Blon  dwellithe  in."— '  Richmond  Wills'  (Surtees 
Soc),  3-2. 

The  occupants  of  such  cottages,  Mr.  Addy 
observes,  must  often  have  sought  wannth  at 
some  place  of  common  resort,  like  the  village 
Bmithy  or  like  the  lesi'Ae  or  public  inn  of 
the  ancient  Greeks.  The  place-name  Cold 
Harbour,  which  occurs  so  often  iu  England, 
and  18  found  in  Germany  as  Kalteheroerge, 
seems  to  refer  to  an  inn  of  this  kind  (pp.  60 
and  128).  J.  Holdex  Mac-Michael. 

_  I  .send  a  few  notes  that  I  have  made  from 
time  to  time  as  to  tliis  place-name.  I  trust 
no  one  will  regard  them  a-s  in  any  way 
exiiaustive.  '  N.  &  Q.'  has  at  various  periods 
chronicled  many  others. 

Amtriran  HiilnrirnJ  Mofj.  (1858).  ii,  95. 
Ashover,  Derbyiihire.— /^o'^om  Herald,    4  Sei»t.. 

l&U  V- •-. 

Berkebire.— Cooper  King's  '  History,'  i5(l. 

Bignor  Hill. — "  (Jentlemao's  Maira^ine  Library  " : 
'RoniaDoBritiali  Remains,'  part  ii.  3.'{0. 

Croxton,  Lincolnshire.— "A  labourer's  thatched 
poQble  cottage  on    Mr.    Lawson'a    farm    at   Cold 


Harbour,  Croxton,  waa  entirely  denlroyert  I 
diirinjj  ihe   high    winil    last     Kriil*y    ftirar 

Si-     ■■     '  "  ••■  -     ■     '--'t 

Library  ":  '  lvt>llta^<-l-i>^ilil^h   Kcii 

VAsex.  —  TranM.   of  E*»tx  An-h 
N.S.  V.  part  iii.  155. 

t'olhlort  Journal,  i.  90. 

Moaitort.  ~  OtiUhwauM   Mag,,  toL  Uf.  Kffl 

um. 

London.— tsurtee«'a  '  Hiat.  Co.  Pal,  of 
i.   Kxi;  Arch'i'oloaia,  Ivii.  280:  I'roc.  8oe,  i« 
21M,  ii.  130;   Webiter,  'Westward    Ho.'  Act] 
ac.  i). 

Louth,  Lincolni^''  ■ 

Huuiies,'  3;  'Corji 

Northfleet— "(. : 

'  Romano-British  Remains,'  ' 

Norihori)e,  Lincolnshire, 
iide   of   the   road   between  Kiriou  in 
(Jainsbur^h,  whether  in  the  parish  uf  .'' 
BIyton  I  Mu  not  certain. 

Okeley,      Sussex.  —  "tJenllei 
Library":  'Romano-British  Rem 

•Saint       Briavels.  —   "  tiei 
Library"  :  *  Arclin-'ology,'  jia 

Swindon.— /'roc?«di'NO'<  o' 
L296. 

Thompson. — 'Hist,  of  Boston,'  s«oond  siUI 
732. 

Edwabd  Put 

Wiokentree  House,  Kirton-in-Liotlsey. 

"TUK  ETERNAL  FEMINIXK"    (10^   til; 

234,  3.35).— I  have  consulted  the  earhe 
iish  translation  of  the  second  p&rl  of 
that  I  could  find  (published  in  183$),  i 
it  the  last  two  lines  read  : — 

The  Ever-Femiaine 
Wills  that  we  rise. 

A  translation,  by  Anna  Swanwick,  in 
Libraries"  (18R6  edition),  concludes  :- 
The  ever-womanly 
Uraws  us  from  above. 

EDw\Br>  Lai 

Latin  Quotations  (»"'  S.  xi.  I6t> ;  u 
—For  H.  W.'s  last  quotation,  "l^hiquci 
horainum  situs  formant,"  see  Curtiui,  I 
ch.ix.  i^SO  :  "Ingeniahominum,  dcuti 
apud  illos  locorum  quoque  situn  form* 

EdWAUI' 
The  University,  Adelaide,  South  An 

IIOCKDAY  :   PoTTAGK  CALLKD  HkK  iH 

187). — I  wish  MiHS  Lega-Wekki-.  s\\ 

in    her    investigation    of   L 

'  New   Englisli  Dictionary '   i 

doubtless  consulted)  points  out :  "  Yv"* 

have    received   so    much    etj'mcildgK 

historical  investigation."    Is 

the    second    Tuesday    after    ; 

being  the  day  on  which  the  E\ 

(in  England  at  any  rate),  wo 

in  ofiice  slang  from  some  formula  ili 


i:; 


m 


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497 


then  read  or  entered  on  the  rolls,  commencing 
With   the  words  hoc  die,  "on  this  day?... 
This  wild  suggestion  seems  as  goo<i  hh  many 
iLat  have  been  published.  O.  O.  H. 

May  Monument  (10"^  S.  i.  449).— I  believe 
the  ettigv  of  Darae  Mary  May  was  buried 
nnder  the  floor  of  the  chancel  when  the 
church  was  "restored."  My  first  visit  to 
Midlavant  Church  waa  in  ISSfj,  and  my 
Informant  was  either  the  parisii  derk  or  one 
[>f  his  family.  E.  H.  W.  D. 

"Haxcbd,  drawn,  and  quartered"  (U)"' 

^.  i.  209,  275,  350,  371,  410).— I  never  had  a 

loment's  doubt  that  the  ultra- judicial  pro- 

|ceediu(5s  described  in  the  pages  of  'N.  t%  Q.' 

should  be,  in  the  actual  order  of  the  facts, 

['rirawn,    hanged,    and    quartered."      That 

sfore  he  wa.s  hanged   a  convict   was  ever 

_^*  drawn"  in  the  manner  practised  by  cookH 

fpon  poultry  never  entered  my  mind.  That 
he  "drawing"  consisted  in  going  to  the 
'  sallows  in  the  manner  described  by  Mr.  A. 
LakK!^  is  manifested  in  several  engravings 
various  dates,  but  all  contemporaneous 
Hth  the  events  they  profess  to  represent, 
Hiich  are  comprised  in  the  collections  of 
listorical  and  Satirical  Prints  in  the  British 
[^fuseura.  Tliese  are  distinct  gatherings,  of 
prodigious  value  in  their  way,  yet  very 
tldom  studied  by  anybody,  least  of  all 
historians.  In  tlie  latter  of  the  two 
joUections  is  ample  confirmation  of  what  has 
>een  said  above.  For  example,  No.  1004, 
represeutirig  a  wheel,  or  '  T'  lladt  van  Avont- 
veren,'  or  'Tlie  Wheel  of  Fortune,'  which  wan 
^ublishe<l  at  Amsterdam  c.  30  January,  16G1, 
:4>mprise-s,  among  otiicr  designs  filling  the 
angles  of  the  plate,  *  Kromwels  Graf,'  or 
father  the  hanging  of  the  bodies  of  the  Pro- 
jctor  Oliver,  Bradshaw,  and  Ireton  upon  a 
fibbet-  The  corpse  of  the  first  Imiigs  with 
that  of  one  of  the  other?,  while  that  of  the 
bird  is  dragged  bv  the  heels  from  the  sle<lge 
il)  which  it  was  Jrawn  to  the  place.  None 
the  figures  has  been  disembowelled. 
\o.  1065  in  the  same  collection  of  prints  is 
illed  'The  Tiotter  Executed,'  and,  with 
ther  events,  represents  how  Edwanl  Colo- 
tan  was  dealt  with  for  treason,  3  neceml>er, 
78.  It  gives,  on  p.  2!)  of  a  ballad  which 
)eA  ordere<i  to  be  sung  to  the  then  fK>puUr 
ine  of  '  Packington's  Pound;  a  wootJcut 
low^ing  an  executioner  standing  near  a 
;nch  (on  which  is  a  great  knife)  and  a 
U'dle,   where  lies  a   human    '"  A  fire 

irns  near  tlie  tatter.    Tlii^  m  ie  in 

|e  *  Roxburghe  Balla<ls,'iii.  il»iiii:->u  Museum 
hbrary,  press- murk  0.  20.  f.).  In  No,  1088. 
We  collection,  we  have  a  broadside  entitled 


The  Popish  Damnable  Plot,'  &c.,  and  con- 
sisting of  an  engraving  in  twelve  divisions. 
No.  iv.  of  which  delineates  the  deaths  of 
Coleman,  Ireland.  Grove,  Pickering,  and 
others.  This  division  is  in  two  parts.  In 
one  of  these  a  man  is  drawn  by  a  horse  to 
the  place  of  execution.  Tiio  convict  wears  a 
hat,  wig,  and  beard,  and  is  reading.  Behind, 
a  man  is  hanging  from  a  gallows  ;  the  execu- 
tioner stands  on  a  ladder  placed  against  the 
gibbet.  In  the  other  compartment  the  corpse 
of  a  man  lies  naked  upon  a  table  ;  an  execu- 
tioner is  leaning  over  it,  holding  in  his  right 
liaiid  a  heart,  and  in  his  loft  hand  n.  large 
knife.  Near  the  head  of  the  corpse  a  largo 
fire  is  burning.  The  reference  i>>  to  the  so 
called  Meal-Tub  Plot^  and  the  broadside  is  in 
the  Luttrell  Collection  (B.M.  Library,  C.  20.  f.), 
vol.  iii.  p.  142.  No.  1123,  same  series,  de- 
scribes 'A  History  of  the  New  Plot,'  and 
derives  from  a  broadside  "Printed  for  Itan- 
doluh  Taylor,  1683."  In  this  the  fourth  of 
eight  compartments  «hows  how  Walcot, 
Hone,  and  Rouse  were  executed  at  Tyburn. 
Here  we  are  shown  a  gibbet  with  three 
corpses  pendent  from  it.  A  man  is  drawn  to 
the  gallows,  and  we  have  ti>e  diseral»owelling 
of  a  convict,  who  lie«  naked  on  a  table  ;  the 
executioner  sUwps  over  him,  and.  raising  a 
heart  in  his  hand,  ex.I.iinm.  "The  Heart  of  * 
Traitor."  Q. 

In  the  translation  i.i  i^/iiiifous's  descnptton 
of  Ceylon,  printed  in  vol.  iii.  of  Churchill's 
'Collcctiim  of  Voyages  and  Traveli '  (1703), 
we  reatl  that,  after  the  disciuery  of  a  plot 
against  the  Dutch  in  Jatfua  in  lelvs, 
"Lh«  three  chief  Ilcuds  of  thi«  Cons|iit-»cy 
wcre  luiii  D|ioti  the  Wheel  or  a  Cr..«»,  and  nfter 
they  lia<i  reotMvVI  a  Stroke  with  tlu'  A\  m  Uw 
Nwck  ami  on  the  DroMt,  h«<l  thoir  KntrAilx  t«keii 
out,  ami  the  Heurt  laid  iipua  tlio  Mouth." 

The  translator  has  here,  as  throughout  tho 
work,  taken  liberties  with  tho  original,  whtdi 
suys  that  after  tho  strokes  on  tho  throat  and 
breast  tho  victims  had  "the  heart  pulled  out 
and  thrown  in  the  treacherous  facr."  Pro- 
bably the  tnmslator,  when  m  '  '  '  '  ,\© 
addition,  had  in  his  mind  thr  sh 

custom  of  "drawing"  (in  tl.,-  .»*,(  -utim'), 
and  may  also  have  thought  the  insertion 
juKtifietl  by  the  very  realistic  engraving  that 
iiccuiiipanie'«  the  texts,  in  which  the  vxtKV' 
tioner  is  shuwij  in  the  a^-t  <>(  (<ip[>arcntlj) 
disembowelling  one  of  1 1  i. 

1'  t  KRiifsOK. 

Croydon. 

The  Last  ok  tue  Wait  Bow  (lu"-  i>.  i.  rti, 
27ts,  437).  — I  can  give  a  atill  lator  iuslatjco  of 
the  use  of  bows  and  arrows  iu  war.    During 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       nc 


the  suppressiou  of  the  rebellion  iu  the 
Tyntoah  and  Cossy-Ah  Hilk  in  1862  and  1863, 
we  had  as  part  of  our  force  a  body  of  hillmen 
armed  with  bowa  and  arrows.  The  enemy 
(of  course  friendgand  relations  of  our  archers) 
had  their  arrows  tipped  with  poison,  while 
ours  were  supposed  to  be  poison  free.  This 
was  thought  at  the  time  by  some  of  us  to  give 
the  enemy  an  undue  advantage  and  likely  to 
breed  want  of  confidence  in  the  bosoms  of  our 
archers.  C  J.  Duiu>d. 
Guern8«v.         

||[li);a]lHiu0Ufl. 

NOTES  ON  BOOKS,  Ac. 

Tht  Letters  of  Horoft    Waljtolc.    Kdited  by  Mrt. 

Paget  Toyubee.     16  voU.-Vols.  V.,  VI.   VII., 

Vlll.    (Oxford,  Clarendou  Prets.) 
WiTK  praisoworihy  diliRCDce  and  punctuality  Mrs. 
Toynbee  has  |jlaced   in  the  liaiida  of  h«r  readers 
the  second  inBtalmeui  of  her  new,  enlarged,  and 
in  every  way  admirable  edition  of  the  loiters  of 
Horace  AValjiole,  half   the  complete  work  having 
acoordiuRly  been  delivered  to  the  public.  Theperiod 
covered  by  the  four  volumes  now  issued  is  l(C(J-74. 
8ir  Horace  Mann  is  still  the  princi)>al  correspondent, 
but  (ieorge  Montagu  runs  a  good  second,  and  the 
names  of  Lady  Mary  Coke  and  the  Hon.  Henry 
iSeyniour  Conway  are  of  frequent  occurrence.   Cora- 
(tared  with  the  edition  of  Peter  Cunningliam  we 
nnd  aunie  chan^'es,  though  few  of  moment.     In  the 
openinK  letter  of  vol.  v.,  addressed  from  Arlington 
Street,  Thnrsdny,    1760  (rfic),   describing   the  com- 
nosition  of  "  the  Bedchamber,"  the  ajipointmenl  of 
Lord  ERlinton  is  said  to  be  "at  the  earnest  requeat 
of  the  Duke  of  York"  instead  of  "at  the  requeat." 
A  little  lower  down,  in  a  comment  on  the  behaviour 
of  the  Duke  of  Richmond  with  regard   to   Col. 
Kepnel,  "this  was  handsome"  replaces  "this  is 
hanusome,"  and  the  word  tt-itti  is  s|>elt  "trist." 
Cunningham 's  notes,  and  those  of    Wright,    di,i- 
appear,  being  still,  presumably,  copyright,  though 
the  substance  of  them  is  sometimes  preserved  in  an 
altered  form.     As  a  rule  the  notos  to  the  later 
edition  are  shorter  and  more  nnmerons  than  in  the 
earlier.     The  illustrations  are  entirely   diiTerent, 
the  portraits  iu  vol.  v.  consisting  of  Horace  Wal 


of  the    Dturu,      TransUted   from 
Manusonpt  by  F.   W.  Bam.    flVii 


i>ole,  from  a  jiainting  by  Eckhardt  in  the  National 
'ortrait  Gallery ;  Lady  Mary  Cuke,  from  a 
mezzotint  :  Nelly  O'Brien,  by  Reynolds,  from 
Hertford  House ;  and  the  tirst  Marquis  of 
Hertford,  by  Reynold.",  from  the  same  source.  In 
vol.  vi.  are  itortraits,  from  prints,  of  Horace  Wal- 
lK)le,  after  FaJconet,  and  the  third  Duke  of  Rich- 
n)on<l,  and,  from  paintings  by  Sir  Joshua,  of  Sir 
William  Hamilton  and  the  tnird  Earl  of  Orford. 
Portraits  iu  vol.  vii.  of  Mrs.  Darner,  the  Duke  of 
Gloucester,  and  the  third  Karl  of  Albemarle  are  all 
after  Reynolds,  while  one  of  Horace  Walpole  is 
after  Nathaniel  Hone.  Reynolds  supplies  one  more 
portrait  of  Walpole  and  one  of  Maria,  Duchess  of 
Gloucester,  to  vol.  viii.,  in  which  are  also  the  fifth 
Karl  of  Carlisle,  after  Romney,  and  Henry  Seymour 
Conway,  after  Gainaboroagh.  So  far  as  the  work 
has  progressed,  there  are  about  one  hundred 
letters  more  than  in  the  edition  of  Peter  Gun- 
Qingbam. 


A    Htiftr 
Original 

In  reviewing  '  The  Daaoent  of  the  Sun  *  and 

Digit  of  the  Moon,' previous  translatir-'i'^  <• 

Sanskrit    (see   S""    S-    xii,    :!79),    we 

hope    that    .Mr.   Bain    nii?ht    lv«>    nb! 

us    with    a    con? 

myths  no  less  del 

then  introduced    :  . 

is  no  less  winsome  ari 

deocssor  and   comes   n 

source,  is  the  fir- 1 

wish.    It  is  an  Imi 

and   inspired,   and 

Oriental  models  in  tiie  : 

aspects  of  love  which 

works  are  absent,  and  i 

in  grace  and  purity.   ^^  ■ 

of  the  previous  works,  a 

to  be  no  more  fcaraomo  of   iliat   ; 

than  we  are  of  the  allegory  with  v. 

sought  to  fright  us  from  the  '  '■ 

Oriental  use  of  the  word  h- 

queen  is  illustrated  in  the\t' 

men  of  the  city  who  had  an^wuro'i 
If  ye  had  not  jdowed  with  : 
Vo  ha<l  not  found  out  my  nmiir- 

"Si  non  ara'^sctis  in  vitula  n>ea,  uon   iht^I" 

{■>ro{H:>sitioueiii    meam."    'J'he    liri.^  ......  .i.   .;.. 
ected  sweetnens  of  the  heifer, 
of  the  early  iiiorninp  in  a  f^i- 
course  of  an  inter' 
many  scattered  thi 

of  the  ambrosia  u!     ...   

name  of  one  of  the  liiKits  of   th«- 
ana1og:y  is  drawn  that  I^ia,  the  )>< 
the  heifer.    Like  the  '.\rabiau  Ni. 
ment,'  the  story  opens  with  the  j. 
in  an   Indian   potentate  by   l\\r 
wife's  infidelity,  and  closes  ^ 
which  this  is  conquered  by  a  i 
like  Miss  Hardcastle,  stoops  ■ 
him   (lisguiised  as  her  own    li 
Altogether  delicious  is  the  ai:i 
tion.    All  men  of  taste  and  culture  - 
and  the  previous  volume'!,  and  thi- 
ns in  the  cry  for  more,  still  more, 
which  Mr.   Bain  claims  under    re 
stances  to  have  discovered,  should  i       _ 
world.  Whether  it  is  genuine  or  spurious  U  twUiiifrii 
to  us.    It  is  at  least  delightsome.  ll 

Mk.  Alfred   C.   Jonas  writes    conn 
threatened  destruction  of  Whltgift's   Ul^,. 
the  Holy  Trinity,  Croydon :— "  A  year  or  two 
was  allowed  to  contribute  t^  thp  i>«f;««>  of  'K. 


n 


a  few  facts  with  regard  t. 

building.    As  I  then  inil 

among  so-called  'imi)rov. 

onlv  really  perfect   i>ieoe  of 

in  Croydon.    As  its  Visitors 

frojn    all    parta,    at    |e.T~' 

nations   visit  and  adniir' 

what  was  feared  has  iak> 

the  Croydon  C,C.  are  ab. 

called  'improvement.'*,' ti>  ■ 

destroy  one  of  the  br  ■■ 

the  past  with  the  t 

than  vandalism    ha. 

interest  and  indignatiou  of  uiaaj  loaruc. 


rwi 


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ai 

B) 
ea 
'T 


lo*B.I.Jr^Kls,l904.]        NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


jh    imtarally    include    among    their    niembera 

iy    contributorB   to    and  readers  of  '  N.  &  Q.' 

The  populaliou  of  Croydon,  if  not  of  the  whole 
ronnty,  are  alive  to  the  great  danger  which 
rh-  •  -1-  to  sweep  nway  a  building  hallowed  by 
•iiis,  a  building  eminently  a  place  of  reiKwe 
I  I ^ea  aud  infirm.     A  building  of  the  kind  is 

A  diaimct  reprtisentative  of  ceoturies.  The  unfold- 
ing of  art  and  style  in  such  build inga  Bhould  be  the 
study  of  the  country,  and  therefore  they  claim 
the  nation's  care  and  reverence.  But  what  is 
remarkable  in  the  agitation  for  removing  this 
bequest  of  \^'hitgifL  is  the  conduct  of  those  who 
have  the  care  thereof  entrusted  to  them.  One  can 
■well  underetand  the  necessity  which  has  occa- 
sioned the  removal  of  some  of  London's  historic- 
buildings,  where  space  was  limited  and  the  value 
of  ground  immtiise.  But  the  governors  of  the 
hospital  in  (|Ue&liou  had  in  their  keeping  (as 
truatec-s  of  the  poor,  to  whom  thia  inestimable  gift 
was  left)  land  oit  the  north  and  east  of  the  present 
building  providing  ample  space  for  ita  removal  out 
of  any  line  upon  which  cause  to  destroy  it  could 
possibly  be  fvmiided ;  and,  instead  of  'nursing* 
8uch  a  powerful  weapon  to  meet  attack,  wilfully, 
and  with  their  eyes  open  to  all  the  (irobabililies, 
leaflcd  the  ground,  and  so  closed  up  the  hospital  in 
a  manner  to  bring  it  into  greater  urominence  as  an 
assumed  obstruction.  The  Croyaou  CC.  happens. 
to  number  among  its  members  some  governors  of 
Whitgift  Hospital,  and  these  in  part,  at  least, 
seem  to  sink  tneir  charge  in  favour  of  the  C.C.'s 
desire  for  demolition.  The  records  of  the  hospital, 
which  I  have  fairly  tranBcril>ed,  contain  from 
beginning  to  end  of  the  donor's  life  and  after 
minute  evidences  of  his  fatherly  care  and  con- 
sideration for  his  ' poor  brothers  and  sisters" 
\Vlien  one  sees  so  often  the  misappropriation  of 
such  bequests,  the  gradual  encroachments,  year 
after  year,  uxion  the  rights  and  liberties  of  those 
for  whom  Whitgift  so  amply  provided  his  (.'learly 
stated  instructions  and  MJanei  ignored,  it  will  not 
be  surprising  if  the  charitably  disposed  of  the 
present  and  fatnre  tight  shy  of  leaving  any  bequest 
o{  the  kind." 

J.  HoM..ASD  RosK  has  in  preparation  a  col- 

edition  of  bis  essays  and   articles  on   the 

\  ITft5-lS2(.l,  which  wdl  be  imblisheil  in  the 

n  by  Mea«r«.  Bell  under  the  title  '  N'aitoleonic 

■    The  volume  will  also  contain  throe  new 

'The  Idealist   Revolt  against  Napoleon,' 

"s  Plans  for  the  Settlement  of  Europe,'  and 

)it    during    the    First    British    Occupation.' 

ral  hitherto  unpublished  dociunents,  including 

aw    letter    of    S'elaon's,   will  be    given   in  an 

ndtx. 


B<xiKSEi.i.Efw'  C.\T.u.oacia. 

[yF.AKV  JrsF."  is  as    prolilic  of  catalogues  as 

ious  months,  ond  readers  of  'X.  A  <j.   can  in 

■  quiet  gardens  enjoy  to  the  full  their  search 

[-tha  treasures  to  bo  found  in  these  interealing 


|dic! 
^ys 


Irsl  we  have  Mr.  ('ainer-'ti 
istory,   trtpogrophy.  bnll 
and    tinr    iirf.      Un  ' 


at  UV.  134. 


I'M  nittiir^'^i     u  It  h 


Mr.  Bertram  Dobell  has  a  fresh  catalogue  in  all 
classes  of  literature,  including  many  first  editions. 
Among  these  are  Bailey's  '  Festus,'  with  an  auto- 
graph letter,  '11.  10*.  ;  '  Ingnldsby,'  15/.  ;  Beaumont 
and  Fletcher,  *21/. ;  '  Lavcngro,'  \/.  \'li. ;  Browning's 
'Paracelsus,'  I'Jmo,  boards,  uncut,  11.  la. ;  the  lirst 
French  edition  of  '  The  Pilgrim's  Progress,'  P2nio, 
old  calf,  1685. 12^  12v(.  ;  Byron's  '  Hours  of  Idleness,' 
25/. ;  several  of  Coleridge,  Swinburne,  Shelley, 
Wordsworth,  and  Ueorge  Meredith :  and  Hhako- 
speare  rarities.  There  is  a  fine  copy  of  "  rare  "  Ben 
.Jonsou,  55/.,  for  which  is  predicted  a  much  higher 
price  ero  long. 

Mr.  Francis  Edwards  has  a  midsummer  catalo^e. 
Among  the  items  are  a  first  edition  of  White's 
'  Selborne,' 1789,  40/. ;  Ackermann's  "Microcosm  of 
London.' 22/  ;  Austen's  'Emma.'  1816,  14/.;  works 
of  Brayley  and  Britton  :  Boydell ;  a  Chained  Bible, 
\S3)i,  \i>l.,  in  itR  original  binding  of  pigskin,  covering 
woo<len  boards  (there  is  a  chain  attached  measuring 
fifteen  inches);  '  Ejxrly  English  Prose  Romances,' 
edited  by  W.  J.  ThoniK  ;  '  (lazettc  Nationale  ;  on, 
leMoiiiteur  Univcrsel,"  IJiin,,  IT'JO,  to3(tJune,  1814, 
lo/,  ;  '  Grevillo  Memoirs,'  the  scarce  first  edition^ 
G/.  10a. ;  the  Kelmscott  Press  jiublications;  I^ocroix'ii 
works  on  the  Middle  Ages;  and  Shaw's  'Stafford- 
shire.' 1708-1801,  30/.  The  catalogue  contains  a 
note  that  this  work  wos  never  completed,  and  is 
aUvays  rising  in  price. 

Mr.  Charles  Higham  has  a  good  list  of  modern' 
divinity. 

Mr.  Frank  Hollines  has  a  c(dleotion  of  fint 
eclitiona  uf  Keats,  Shelley,  I>amb,  and  Rossetti ; 
also  an  interesting  collection  of  early  ond  scarce 
editions  of  American  authors. 

Messrs.  Mo^s  Brothers  have  a  Urge  colleotion  of 
antograph  letters  and  signed  documents.  We  notice, 
among  other  names,  Barham,  Dickens,  Sir  John 
Franklin,  Bewick,  Admiral  Blake.  Robert  Brown- 
ing, Hartley  Coleridge,  Napoleon,  Nelson,  Sic 

Messrs.  Owen  &  Co.  have  a  short  list  of  English 
and  foreign  books.  Under  Alpine  is  '  An  Account 
of  the  IJlaciers  or  Ice  Alps  of  Savoy,'  in  two  letters 
by  W-  Windham  and  P.  Marie!,  London,  174.'5, 
privately  printed  and  extremely  rare,  price  7/.  7*. 
There  is  also  a  set  of  the  Alpine  Journal,  price  30/. 

Messrs.  James  Riniell  ^t  Sons'  CataloEue  of  Books 
on  Art  contains  many  valuable  works,  and  its 
76  ivages  deserve  careful  perusal.  Among  specially 
noteworthy  entries  are  'The  Choicest  Works  of  Sir 
Thomos  Lawrence,'  1835-4.5,  IW.  ;  '  Sir  .Joshua  Rey- 
nolds's Works,'  proof  impressions,  1S27-3C,  280/. ; 
Roberts's'  Holy  Land,'  1841  S.  1.5/.  (published  at  about 
inCI/):  Proiwrt's  •  History  of  .Miniature  Art.'  21/.: 
Morland's  'Studies,'  1^,  tJ/.  I&t.  ft/.;  Blake's 
designs  to  a  series  of  ballads  written  by  W^illiani 
Haylev,  Chichester,  ISOi,  8/.  ;  Leslie's  '  Memoirs  of 
Cnnstalilf.'  1843.  lU.  \^i.:  "Tableaux  Historiciues 
de  la  R«ivolation  Francaise,'  Paris,  I79S,  II.  is. ; 
Hardiinr's 'Biograiihical  Mirror,'  171V>,  very  scarce, 
21/.  :  Inigo  Jones's  '  Alhambro.'  1842,  11/  11^.  The 
catalogue  contains  ft  long  and  int<Te8ling  list  under 
Cariitttnrefl  as  well  as  tindnrCnUlogue*,  a  rompKlf 
set  of  the  Royal  Academy  Catalogue*  being  marked 
21/. 

Mr.  A.  Roseoll  Smith  has  a  catalogue  of  tracts. 
pomt>hlet8,  and  hrf' >  '-- '  -  :  - -i-- i-.  -  i. •-..-.,.  ^^^^ 
inilitii:al,  religious,  The 

lists  are  well  arrai  .  '  ■>  tho 

first  being  from  15*20  toJGOC.    In  ihis  are  some  rar» 


600 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [io'-s-l  jcN»:i&.i9o«. 


^roAihitie  balUds,  ascribed  to  William  8anmel. 
It  ii  doubtful  whether  more  than  two  other  eiipieH 
are  kiiuwn.    The  dale  is  lajl,  ColoKne,  i)ricc  12/.  I'i*. 

Inhere  is  also  the  first  monograiih  in  English  on 
'The  Natures  and  Propertiea  of  all  Wines  that  arc 
«onitnouly  used  lier«  in  England.'  This  is  by 
William  Turner,  author  of  the  'Herbal,'  The 
4iatti  is  1568,  pritje  &.  &•«.     The  next  period.  1603-24, 

K«ontaiua  the  king's  speech  on  the  oecoBion  of  the 
Ciunpowder  Plot.  '  Articles  of  Direction  touching 
Ale-Houses,'  1607,  price  21.  '!*.,  is  the  earliest  pub- 
lished reKuiatiun  of  ale-houses,  i>revious  statutes 
bciuK  embodied  in  Aels  of  Parliamont,    The  next 

't>eriod  takes  Charles  I.,  the  Civil  War,  and  Com - 
oiunwealth,  and  the  arrangement  is  so  coQtiuued 
till  the  close  of  the  list,  1800.  The  catalogue,  which 
contains  nearly  two  liiousand  items,  is  really  a 
valuable  work  of  reference. 

Messrs.  Smith  &  Son's  June  list  includes  u  num- 
ber of  books  new  as  published. 

Messrs.  Henry  Sotheran  k  Co.  have  issued  a 
cnost  interesting  catalogue  of  uuii|ue  grangerized 
>  ^ooks.  There  are  only  tifteen  books,  but  the  total 
price  for  them  ftinonnts  to  2,442/.  Of  this  Wheat- 
ley's  'Cries  of  London,' brilliantly  printed  in  colours, 
nionupolizes  1,000  guineas.  Another  book  is  the 
rfirst  edition  of  Keuts,  a  presentation  copy,  with 
inAcri])tioii  in  the  poet's  autograph.  The  price  of 
this  is  l.T)?/-  lOt.  Other  books  are  Ackerniann's 
'PicturesnueTourof  the  River,' and  Omar  Khayyam, 
with  all  the  original  drawings  by  Mr.  Anniug  "Bell. 
There  are  also  two  rare  MSS.  of  Keats.  The  cata- 
logue is  beautifully  printed  and  illustrated,  includ- 
ing facsimiles  of  the  Keats  MISS. 

Mr.  Walter  T.  Spencer's  catalogue  extends  to 
ll!S  pages,  and  there  is  hardly  a  page  upon  which 
.some  special  item  of  interest  cannot  De  found.  The 
list  is  strong  in  works  on  America.  This  includes 
.a  collection  of  pamphlets,  ISiJJ-S.  There  arc  also  a 
uuniber  of  works  relating  to  Australasia.  The 
feneral  portion  contains  tne  second  issue  of  the 
Jfifth  edition  of  Walton,  1676,  boautifullv  bound  in 
morocco  by  Gosden,  24/. ;  tirst  edition  of '  IngoUUby,' 
Bentley.w.  tli*.  :  Hrsteditions  of  Bewick  :  and  George 
Borrow's '  Celebrated  Trials. '  1825, 71. 7«.  The  Dickens 
fiortinn  is  B|wctally  interesting,  and  includes  choice 
copies  of  tirst  editions,  many  of  them  with 
•extra  illustrations.  There  are  also  two  relios  of 
Dickens:  his  pen,  taken  frotn  his  desk  at  the  office 
•of  All  tht  Ytar  h'otiitd  the  dav  after  his  death,  and 
his  porcelain  memorandum  slate.  Under  Drama 
Arc  a  number  of  old  plays  and  memoirs.  There  are 
ntany  items  of  interest  under  Railways,  including 
SVaiisworth's  '  European  Road  liook,  1641,  nrice 
:i"i«.,  and  "The  London  and  <ireenwich  Railway 
<Ti»ide,'  IH.%,  in  which  it  is  slated,  "The  rate  at 
which  tho  public  may  be  conveyed  on  these  extra- 
ordinary roads  is  from  20  to  30  miles  an  hour,  a 
velocity  almost  incredible."  Under  Thaekerav  is 
a  beautiful  set  of  tirst  editions.  The  illustrations 
inolude  the  suppressed  one  of  the  Marquis  of 
bteyno.  Several  page*  are  devoted  to  choice 
«<litiou8  of  OuikshanK.  These  include  the  first 
'  <issue  of  the  first  edition  of  The  Uumonrist,' 
Rihins,  1819-20.  uncut,  flO/.  :  also  'The  Youth's 
Miscellany'  ana  'The  Youth's  Monthly  Visitor,' 
I.S2.1,  extremely  scarce,  8/.  15*-  Under  Black-letter 
ve  6nd  the  first  edition  of  Latimer's  'Sermon  on 
the  Plough,'  1548,  3i.  3i.  There  are  also  a  large 
xiumber  o7  coloured  plat«a. 


I      Mr.  Thomas  Thorji's  Reading   calAlogtu) 
I  with    books   relating    to    Africa.      Theae 
several  nagc«.     The  general  lis?  ■     ~  — -" 
.items.  These  include  the  t</i><'.'"  i. 

Arnold's  works,   1.5  vols.,  7/.    I' 
out    of    print);     Dibdin's    'Bil  '««• 

meron' :  the  works  of  Francis  '  full 

russia.  Si.  &<.  ;  vol.  i.  |)art  i.  of  '  I  ..u  ^  i-^^.,  .>..  fUt, 
1903,  71.  7«.  There  are  a  number  ol  the  Kar^ 
English  Text  Society's  publications;  work*  oa 
London,  theology  (we  may  single  out  Rock'i 
'Church  of  our  Fathers,'  1S^9.  4  vole.,  of.  »), 
military  subjects,  and  Scotland  :  and  ftUn  a  set  u 
the  '  Encyciopasdia  Britannica,' 36  vols.,  with  the 
revolving  bcokcaae,  26/.  10<i.,  complete.  The  catt 
logue  includes  a  list  of  folios  and  i4uartos  it  eigi- 
teenponce  each,  to  effect  a  speedy  clearance. 

The  June  catalogue  of  Messrs.  H—  > ,'  i 

Sons,    of    Liveri.)ool,    includes    man  ■  iUL 

Amnng  items  of  interest  are  Nichols  . 
and  'Janus  L.'  Itil.  13.*.:  Sandford'e  "Uoi. 
James  II.,'  1687,  .V.  5x.  ;  'The  Lakes  of  ^ 
1834.  5/.  ."m.  ;  a  complete  set  of  /'        '  I 

1899,  original   issue,  25/.-  10".  ; 

Mastix,'  1633,  very  rare,  5/.  5j<.  :  ii 

pool,'  IfMS-W,  very  scarce,  It/.  Hv. ;    '  Liverin 
Charles  II. 's  Time,'  by  Sir  Edward  M'v>r<», 
by  W.  I'ergUBson  Irvine,  1^'^'  "'        I  ' 
ancient  descri)ition  of  Li^ 
picte  set  of  Lover's  novel - 
edition  of  Johnson's  'DictiDUory,' 3i'.  3».     In 
a  very  fine  set  of  the  'Greville  Memoirv.' tlie 
issue,  half-morocco,  Hi.  lOn.    L'ndcr  Heraldry  at 
bo  found  Collins,  Bellism,  Burke,  und   Fox  D«i 
Under  Early  Romance  is  tho  rare  In-l  c  ii 
•  Le  Premier  Livre  du  Nouveau  Tri«i 
Leonnois,  Chevalier  de    la    Table    1 
ir^'H,  12/.  12*.     There  is  a  first  e!-- 
7/.  7.1..  and  a  tirst  edition  of  S.  ni 

qui  ties,'  7/.  7''.     There  is  also  ' 
edition  of  Byron,  17  vols.,  1832-3,  10/.  10*. 


^oticta  to  Corrtsjronfrmts. 

Wt   must   call  gptcial  aUintion  to  <A«  /bj 
notke*  :— 

On  all  communications  must  b«  writ 
and  address  of  tlie  sender,  not  nec^e-  i>i 

Hoation,  but  as  a  guarantee  of  good  f&i 

Wk  cannot  undertake  to  answer  queries  privAtsll* 

Heuia.— '  Daughters    of   Jam        ^ 
'Mary   Stuart's    Descendants'    i 
shortly.    We  have  no  simco  to 
other  two  subjects  at  ]iresent:  se\t)r*i  uuuuuu 
tions  on  them  are  kept  in  reserve. 

A.  B.  Beavks.  — Proof  received  last  wedi^ 
late  to  make  the  addition. 

E.  P.  W.  ("English  Summer  and  its  Si?'--^'- 
—  Your  tjuery  a)q>cared  O"'  S.  xii.  US,  bnt 
was  received. 

A.  J.  I)Avr  ("Gay's  Chair").— AnUoit»t»d«i 
p.  475. 

NOTICE. 

Editorial  communications  should  be  oddrr 
to  "The  Editor  of  'Notes  and  l,iLiet  in» '"— Ai 
tiseraents  and    Business   Letle;  ;  Us 

lisher"— ab  the  OUice,  Bream's  L  :  .       ,     Jitu 
Luie,  E.C. 


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'■  KiAialH  wril  loar  Uoo4.    D* 

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r>ir*l«B  KMMrehM  «arH«l  OBt      Eo^BtrlM  IbtIWiI.    Mr  CuIIcMdo 
Frtrai*  OollBctlnn*  ar«  worth  c<inaaltln(  (or  Ubbl 

ABtl^BBTUs  inl  Hclentin«  Mawrltl  •OBrebBd  for  *b4  CaptBB  Bl  ll« 
Hrtlltk  MMtttin  »■>!  oihrr  Arriit>«i. 


YORKSHIRE  NOTES  asd  QDEaiKS.     An  Hint- 
tnlWI  MoaUIr  JoBrnal  (nr   AaUqavte*.   &rck*«t««WB,  ■•- 
«iBpb«n.  HIitortBiii.  Ba4  Men  •!  L«a*n  nntimllr 

I'p  3.'.  ttown  4U>i  IWBbl*  Columnar  aB4  Cottt 
BiKMd  br  <  HAS.  P    ruB*HAW    LL  tl     Till    Hay   Bor   Lit. 

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Am. 
APRIL.  MAY     • 
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BBAtwrt  (»l  Ul  AnU(|u*rkAO  ur  Hutortckl  >'*(ar*  f«l*Ai««  i>'  ^ 

NK      A  llrT>  ^u••«crlptl«•  U*t  l*0*M*4l«  BAiB  tkU  ■   •.  • 
Bl  »»>o  low  prior  of  «i   VfBrlf. 


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•■)  pUt4.  BO  m>n«r  OB  wkat  Sahlaot  AckB«irl»4««4  ik«  woriaonr 
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Sraat  Ksokihsp,  l«-lf,  JakB  HrlflitOlroat.  HlrmlBfbaiB. 

AOBNCV  rOK  AMBKICAN  HUUKK. 

(^      P.    PUTNAM'S   SONS,    FUBLISHKBa   and 

•  I  37  aad  19.  Watt  ard  (lir>e(  Na«  Tork  aad  24,  Iill>roKII  STMBBT 

LONDOti.    W.c  .   datira    to   eaJl    tka    atiaailoa    of    tha    JIBAOINO 

.r  UHLIC  la  ib«  «ic>ll»Bi  lacillilM  priarniad  bf  thoir  Kraock  Host*  la 

a3<oad«n   (or  Btliac,  «a  Iba  moti  (arourakla  larma,  ordora  (or  Uair 

f««B      ftTANOAKU     I'UHLIUATIUNS,     aod    lor      ALL     AMKHIC&K 

'  »OOtL». 

Oaialecaaa  aasi.  oB  apa»callaa 


M'HK     AUTHOR'S     HAIRLESS     PAPBRPAD. 

1     (Tha  LXADKNMALL  flllMB.  U4  .  Pahtlihor*  <B4  rruBao, 

to.  I^adcahall  ^Irrat.  tondnn.  K  C  1 
I     ,    tinii    kalrlait    pa»r    «<«r  ahlrfc  tk«    paa    allpa  «llk  Mitai 
'        ■     .       ■itii'Bc*  »»ch     tf  iTr  dorao.  ralad  8T  plaJik     Xav  PBakat 
'  ■>.'■'  n    rBle.<l  or  p>lala 

I   iMiiR  ihal  Tha    l.«a.lanliall    rrarn.  144.  aauM  «• 
of  MMt.  tr  «raorolbarwia«.     |tb^4Imm  BillM 


STICK  PH AST  PASTE  is  miles  better  than  Oaro 
_  lor  iilckiBt  10  Otrapt.  )ol»irc  ''apera  *e  U  .  (U.,  and  li.  with 
airnnii,  o'l'ldl  Hruh  1  not  a  To;).  Aan^  two  ■ianit>a  10  aorrr  pvatata 
for  a  aarapla  RotUr.  laaludiax  Hraah  Factor;.  Ruiar  Lna(  Cnnrt, 
Laa4aBhBir»cra«i,  l-C.    or  all  StaUvaar*.    Wjckpkaai  faataaUcki. 


THBNvKUM      PRESS.— JOHN     BDWi 


praparad  to  ni'HMlT  saTluitBK  ror  til  kiaaa  ol  HUOK,  I 
BBd  i>BU.IU(IICAL  PKIMTIMO.-U,  Vraaa  •  hBildJBfB,  ~ 
Laaa.  m.C 

q^DN  BRIDGE    WELLS.— Comfortablr    FUR- 

1       TII^HKI)   BirriNn  KuuM    aai»    O^K    or   two    BBUIiOOMi-. 
HalFt.  pl«a<Anc.  tnJ  ecatrKi     Thr**  minaiaa'  walk  Iron  B.K.B  A  C. 
■latloB.     Mo  otbara  iU.an.-U.  U  ,  M.  Ornra  UUI   KomA,  TBaMMt*. 
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CONTENTS. -No.  26. 

MOTBS  :— Tb«  late  Duke  of  CamlirldKe,  601— DIbdin  Dibtlo- 
Kraphy,  M2— Dcln^^il  •■  PreKcher,  M3  —  BrnwiilnK'i 
'■  Thunder-free  "--Flr»t  Oc«*n  Newtptper— QuMl  Family 
— "  Siiri  auil  Ancbor  "  Inn,  SOt  —  "  Ifatterllax  "  arul  Bait 
Harllng  —  "  The  aalUnx  ot  Kowry  "  — County  Tales  — 
■•OnkhnnUe."  fi<»-"Wltlirr8hln»' -Pigeon  KnRlfeb  Rt 
Iloroe  —  Mackliulana  —  Jii)(g>ird- printed  Booki  —  Amban, 
liiifl-"Tha  Iwlaiica  of  power,"  607. 

<}UBitIKS :— DtuKbten  of  Jame*  I.  of  Scotland— R1en«— 
Anahiiao,  !\''7— Antwerp  Cathedral— 8upervl»uni  Corpin— 
The  Bvll  itye  —  VVatK's  Hymoi  —  Barxmlal  Family  »( 
Somervllle—"  There's  not  a  crime "—ClaMlc  and  Trans- 
lator —  "Hiding  Taltor"  at  Astley'a  —  Nortbem*  and 
Southern  Pronunciation,  i03  —  Dr.  Adam  Lyttlelon  — 
"  Wa»  you  ^ "  and  "  You  waa  "— Co[iemIciiiand  the  Planet 
Mercury  — Tboroaa  Reale:  "  MerUerley  "  —  Caapar  W«l»- 
bw;h.  KO0 

ltBPL.IBS;-Bames:  'The  Devil'*  Charter,'  6a»-Paate— 
"  Purple  patch."  &1U  — "  Uur  La'ly  of  the  8now»  "— Fettl- 
pJ*C«,  511— Alake-Oeiiealfigy  :  Mew  Sourcei— 'The  Yong 
Souldier' —  KlnR  John's  Charters —  "  Humanum  e»t 
enure,"  SlJ-Llnk*  with  the  Put-Lntin  for  "  Hoping" 
•  Horse— Willlain  Pecii— Ainoo  and  Ba^kish  —  Barbcn) — 
Alexanilrr  Penneculk,  Gent.— Cheshire  Cat  in  America, 
M8-"  Sal  et  saliva  "— Storraln*  of  Fort  Moro.  511— Collins 
—  "  Oarrar"  —  Building  Castonii  —  Beadiiell  Famliv  — 
"Sanguis":  lis  Derivation— Natale&e,  .'il.*'  —  InHcriptlona 
on  Public  Bulldiogs,  MA -Dr.  S.  Hinds  —  Harepath— 
Ailcleiit  London  — '•  Send  "  Of  the  Sea— Blin— "  Goll  "  :  is 
It  Scaiidfnavlan  -  —  DfHi-  of  Venice,  filT- Ouooai«r«r  — 
"BelUmv's"- '  Hen-hii«irfy  "  .  "  Wblp-stitcb":  "  Wood- 
tolcr"— Guyus  Iil\i>n,  *lsi. 

nOTES  ON  BUOKS: —  Swinburne's  Poems  —  Drkkcr's 
'  Oull's  Horn  B.><>k '  —  Motley's  '  Dutch  Hepubllc '  — 
Latfaana's  '  Dictionary  of  Ifamea,  Nicknames,  an<{  Sur- 
names '  —  Stevenson's  '  Familiar  Studies  of  Hen  and 
Books'— Ueprlmi  of  FltxOerstd-' Yorkshire  ITortea  ftod 
Queries '—'  D<irllngt<'>n  Maf^azlnt*.' 


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THE   LATE  DUKE  OF  CAMBRIDGE. 

The  death  of  the  Duke  of  Cambridge 
ouglit  not  to  be  poDseti  over  unrecorded  in 
the  pagei  of  *  N.  »t  Q.,'  for  with  him  has 
vani^i^  not  merely  a  popular  prince  and  a 
genial  personality,  known  at  least  by  sight 
to  moat  Londoners,  but  practically  tnc  fast 
survivor  of  the  Court  circle  prior  to  the 
accession  of  yueen  Victoria. 

Althouglj  no  fewer  than  fifteen  children  were 
born  to  Oeorge  III.  and  Queen  Charlotte,  it 
ia  a  remarkable  fact  that  thoy  ha<i  only  two 
grandsons  of  royal  birth,  viz.,  tlio  late  King 
George  V.  of  Hanover,  and  the  subject  of 
this  not&  From  1813  to  1837  Adolphus,  Duke 
of  Cambridge,  governed  Hanover  as  viceroy 
on  belialf  of  his  father  and  two  eldest  brothers 
in  8Ucc&<nion  ;  and  when  William  IV-  mounted 
tliB  throne  ho  and  Queen  Arielaido  good- 
naturedly  undertook  the  guardianship  of 
their  nephew  (Jeorj^e  of  Canibridge,  in  order 
that  ho  might  receive  the  advantages  of  an 
English  cfuciitioa  during  his  parents'  en- 
forced residence  in  Germany.  Thus  it  came 
about  that,  though  horn  at  Hanover,  the 
late  Duke  of  Cambridge  became  n  typical 
Ht'itisher  :  in  his  fine  proportions  and  burly 


frame  he  strongly  resembled  his  royal  father 
and  uncles  j  in  his  tastes,  his  favourite  occu- 
pations, hi.s  mode  of  speech,  and  his  pre- 
judices, he  recalled  to  the  onlooker  the  tales 
and  the  traditions  of  the  Georgian  era.  His 
marriage,  like  the  alliances  of  his  uncle 
Augustus,  Duke  of  Sussex,  was  celebrated 
at  variance  with  the  provisions  of  the  Royal 
Marriage  Act^  and  the  name  of  FitzGeorge, 
like  those  of  FitxClarence  and  others,  romams 
to  perpetuate  morganatic  branches  of  the 
reigning  house. 

The  Duke  of  Cambridge  was  a  regular 
"Londoner,"  and  1  believe  that  he  never  pos- 
sessed any  permanent  residence  out  of  London 
throughout  his  long  life.  In  his  early  days 
he  was  quartered,  on  military  duty,  in  various 

Eiarts  oi  the  kingdom,  in  Ireland,  and  the 
onian  Islands  ;  after  the  death  of  his  father 
in  1850  the  late  Queen  granted  liim  a  suite 
of  apartments  in  St.  James's  Palace,  whence 
ho  moved  in  1857  to  Gloucester  House,  at 
the  comer  of  Park  Lane  and  Piccadilly,  the 
mansion  bequeathed  to  him,  together  with  a 
valuable  collection  of  works  of  art  and  plate, 
by  his  aunt  Slarj',  Duchess  of  Gloucester. 
This  was  his  home  for  nearly  half  a  century, 
and  although  his  Hoyal  Highness  gave  no 
great  entertainments,  and  his  mode  of  life 
was  absolutely  free  from  the  slightest  osten- 
tation or  display,  the  papers  used  to  record 
for  a  long  series  of  years  his  periodic  dinners 
"  to  a  party  of  noblemen  and  gentlemen." 
After  the  death  of  his  venerable  mother,  the 
Duchess  of  Cambridge,  her  house  on  Kew 
Green  paitsed  into  the  Duke's  liands;  but  he 
never  occupied  it  for  any  length  of  time,  and 
it  is  now  understood  to  have  reverted  to  the 
Crown.  The  Duke  8ucceede<l  his  father  in 
the  year  1850  as  Ranger  of  Hyde,  St.  James's, 
and  Green  Parks,  and  was  appointed  Ranger 
of  Richmond  Park  in  succession  to  the  Duchess 
of  Gloucester.  It  appears  probable  that  these 
oflices  will  fall  into  abeyance,  no  successor 
having  hitherto  Ijeen  appointed,  and  an 
announcement  having  already  been  made 
public  that  His  Afajesty  has  directed  that 
game  shall  no  longer  be  preserved  in  Rich- 
mond Park. 

The  late  Duke  owned  a  considerable  private 
estate  at  Coombe,  near  Kingston,  which  he 
apparently  inherited  from  his  father,  and  the 

F)leasant  woodland  scenery  in  that  neighbour- 
lood  is  likely  to  disappear  eventually  before 
the  ruthless  attacks  of  bricks  and  mortar. 
The  interciting  objects  of  art,  the  inheritance 
or  collection  of  the  Duchess  of  Gloucester  and 
of  the  first  Duke  of  Cambridge,  have  now 
been  scattered  to  the  four  winds  under  the 
auctioneer's  hammer.  H. 


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A    BIBLIOGRAPHICAL   ACCOUNT    OF    THE 
WORKS  OF  CHAKLKfS  DIBDIN. 

(See  9"'  S.  viii.  33,  77,  197.  279 ;  ix.  421 ;  x.  123,  243 ; 
xi.  2,  243.  443 ;  xii.  183, 283. 423. 462 ;  !()"•  S.  i.  463.) 

18W.  Tlie  Melange.  A  T»ble  EnterUinment. 
written  and  composed  by  Charles  Dibdin. 

Hogartli  gives  no  particulars  of  it,  and  I 
have  boen  unable  to  trace  a  record  of  the 
performances,  bej'ond  the  aongs,  the  words 
of  which  are  given  in  the  following  : — 

*8oog8,  lileea,  Duettos,  &c.,  in  the  Melange ; 
written  ic.  coni|iosed  by  Mr.  Dibdin,  &  performed 
at  the  !:>aD8  Pareil,  Strand.  London.  Printed  for 
the  Author,  by  R.  Cantwell,  No.  29  Bell  Yard,  Lin- 
coln's Inn.  And  sold  at  Mr,  Dibdin's  Warehouse, 
No.  12."»,  Strand.  Price  One  .Shilling.  1808.  8vo, 
pp.  3a 

The  songs,  Jbc,  of  which  none  can  be  traced 
a8  published  with  the  music,  in  connexion 
with  lliis  entertainment,  are  as  follows  :— 

1.  The  Flowing  Bowl.  (No.  3  in  'King  and 
Queen,'  1798.) 

2.  True  Glory,    (No.  0  in  *  The  Sphinx,'  1797.) 

3.  The  Two  Eniperora. 

4.  The  Sailor's  Will.  (No.  17  in  'Now  Year'a 
(;ift«,'  1804.) 

5.  Tho  Pullet.    (No.  5  in  '  Heads  or  Tails,'  1S05.) 

6.  The  ADchorsiniths.  (No.  6  in  '  Tour  to  Land's 
End.'  1798.) 

7.  The  Union  of  Love  and  Wine.  (A  Glee, 
No.  18  in  '  MoBt  Votes,'  1802.) 

8.  The  Soldier's  Adieu.  (No.  5  in  *Tho  Wag«,' 
1790.) 

9.  Tlio  Ladies.    (No.  11  in  'A  FriBk,'  1801.) 

10.  Jjvck  at  the  Windlass.  (No.  20  in  'The 
Quizes,'  1702.) 

11.  Miss  Winley.  (No. 20  in  •  ProfeMional  Volun- 
teers,' 1808.) 

12.  The  Actor. 

13.  The  Three  Catalanis. 

14.  Duetto  between  a  Tar  and  a  Clown.  (No.  5 
in  '  The  Rent  Day."  1808.) 

1.5.  The  Good  Night  (a  Glee). 
10-  The  Soldier's  Funeral.    (No.  9  in  'Castles  in 
the  Air.'  1793.) 

17.  The  Sweets  of  Love.  (No.  11  iu  'The  Cake- 
house,'  ISOO.) 

18.  Bachelor's  Hall.  (No.  2  in  'The  Oddities,' 
17S9.) 

19.  Tom  Transom     (No.  7  in  'The  Frolic,'  1804.) 

20.  Bottom.    (No.  18  in  'Tom  Wilkins,'  1799.) 

21.  Tho  Brothers  (a  Duetto). 

22.  The  Song  of  Songs.  (No.  14  in  'The  General 
Election.'  1796.) 

1809.  Commodore  Pennant,  a  Table  Entertain- 
ment, written  and  composed  by  Charles  Dibdin. 
First  performed  16  January,  IS09. 

This,  which  was  probably  a  compilation 
from  earlier  entertain  men  ts,  included  an 
intermezzo,  'Cecilia;  or,  the  Progress  of 
Indu.stry.'  I  have  not  discovered  any  list 
of  songs,  and  I  think  none  was  published. 
Hogarth  montion.s  the  Intermezzo  as  a  one- 
act  entertainment  produced  after  'Heads  or 


Tails?'  (1805)  but  I  have  found  no  mentioo 
of  it  in  advertisements  of  that  yewr. 

18(>9.    A   Thank.sgivinu.    .^    '  '  "       "   '■  Les, 

Written  and  Cortijioseif  by  It, 

Printed  &  Sold  at  the  Auii  use 

No.  12.T  Strand,  &  Bland  A.  Wi.U*ir'«,  « '  vU 

i  2  pp.   folio,   on   a   sheet  of  4  pp.,  w  sve 

attached,  on  which  are  the  complete  M<.rii><  .>t  the 
song. 

1809.  The  Profeasional  Life  of  Mr  Dibdin, 
written  by  himself;  together  with  the  words  oi 
eight  hundred  songs,  two  hundred  and  twenty  of 
which  will  have  their  '■"•  --'  ■•ite  music.  Selected 
from  his  works,  and  '  :  with  an  elegant 

engraving    by    Mr.    N  ;  .in    a    portrait    (.1 

Mr.  Dibdin,  a  striking  liktjuciui,  and  an  adminvhls 
Picture  painted  by  .Mr.  Devie.  In  »ix  Volumes. 
Vol.  Lforn.].  London:  P,.i>ii.K..i  K,.  .„„  .v,-.f,„r. 
At  his  Klusio  warehouse,  N  »• 

bo  had  of  Mr.  Aapeme,  botk  ,d 

and  Weller,  No.  23,  O.'sforfi  sii  nd 

Co.  Che«i«ide  :  and  by  [nk]  all  •  m 

the  United  Kingdom.  1809,  L.,;.,..^..,  !....,iKr, 
29,  Bell-Yard,  Lincoln's  Ion.    Svo. 

"  Advertisement,"  dated  20  May,  IWJfli 
Portrait  as  tn  1803  and  1804  ecJitiona.  0«ily 
two  volumes  appeared.  Vol.  I.  ba«  viii, 
251  pp.,  and  Vol.  II.  iv,  279  pp.,  and  *!«> 
4  pp.  following,  but  not  paged.  Contains 
engraved  songs  Nos.  1  to  CI  (excepting 
No.  37,  which  is  not  in  any  copy  I  have 
examined),  then  'a  Thanksgiving'  for  throe 
voices  ;  also  songs  lettered  A  to  K  ;  in  all 
73  songs.  This  edition  was  apparontly 
issued  fortnightly  in  parts,  at  2:»,  each,  con- 
taining about  48  np,  and  seven  or  eight 
songs.  It  wflA  to  have  been  completed  in 
36  parts,  of  which  about  lU  appeared. 

1809.  Songs  written  and  coiojioted  by  C.  Dibdto 
for  ''Bannister's  Budget." 

There  was  published  in  folio 

1.  The  Veteran  k  the  Volunteer,  A  V 
Song,  Written i Composed  by  Mr.  Dibdin.  A: 
with  universal  applause  by  Mr.   Bsrir-"  , 

On  his  Tour  In   his  New  Entertain  ,,{ 

Bannister's   Budget,  Entd.  at  Stat.  H  . 
L^iidon  Printed   by  Goulding  &  Co.  121  I 
New  Bond  Street  &  7  We.stniorland  Street  i 
Arrangement  for  two  Outes  on  p.  4. 

This  is  the  only  one  I  have  seen.  Othera 
(probably  issued  in  similar  form)  were  a» 
follows : — 

•2.  Cock  of  the  Village. 

*3.  Death  of  Nelson. 

"4.  Politioians. 

•5.    Quizzical  Comic  Family. 

*6.  M.inkind  are  ail  Siiilura. 

*7.  Plains  of  Calabria. 

The  words  of  Nos,  3,  5,  and  7  are  triven  hff 
Hogarth.  Tom  Dilxlin  wrote  '  The  Tortoiae- 
shell  Tom  CJat '  for  '  Bannister's  Budj^et.' 

1S0!>.  The  Liun  and  The  W  1  •      ^  • 
Heroic   Poerii,    in    Ihrec    t  .■ 
Aul    ])er    ridiculuni    aut    hi  -  - 


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London:  Printed  by  Sherwood,  Neely,  and  Jonea, 
Poterno«ter  Row.     1809.     Titiio,  pp.  iv,  174. 

Tliis  ia  certainly  by  Dibdin,  for  which 
reason  I  attribute  to  him  '  Peter  Nicketl  ;  or, 
the  Devil's  Darling '  (1804),  of  which  I  have 
not  been  able  to  trace  a  copy.  On  a  flyleaf 
following  p.  174  of  'The  Lion,'  «S:c ,  there  is 
announced  for  speedy  publication  another 
work  by  the  same  author,  of  which  I  have 
8oen  no  copy  :  '  The  Patriots  Planet-Struck  ; 
or,  Expulsion  Anticipated  :  a  Poetical  effu- 
sion.' 

ISll.  Songs  written  and  composed  by  C.  Dibdin 
"expressly  and  exclusively"  for  'La  Uelle  As- 
ftembl^c'  Magazine,  New  Series,  Oblong  folio,  2  pp. 
eaob. 

1.  Lifes  Weather  Gage  [«iV].  For  No.  15 
(Januarv,  lUill). 

2.  All  WcAlhers.    For  No.  16  (FebruAry,  1811). 

3.  Friendship  put  to  the  tost.  For  No.  17 
(March,  1811). 

4.  Lktnvei-aation  between  the  old  Pensioiiers 
Mblplaquet  and  Hookstet  on  our  recent  !JacceBB, 
For  No.  ISfApril,  1811). 

6.  Jack  'a  Alivo-     For  No.  19  (May,  ISll). 

6.  Frencb  Cruelty  and  Briliah  Generotity.  For 
No.  20  (June,  1811). 

7.  Jack's  Diacoveries.    For  No.  21  (July,  1811). 
M.  The  Tizzies.    For  No.  22  (August.  1811). 

9.  The  Riddle.    For  No.  23  (September,  1811^. 

10.  The  Queen  of  the  May.  For  No.  24  (October, 
ISll). 

11.  The  Cabin  Boy.  For  No.  25  (November,  1811). 

12.  Valour  and  its  Reward.  For  No.  30  (April, 
1812). 

1811  'The  Round  Robin.  A  Musical  Piece  in 
Two  Acts.     First  performed  Friday,  21  June,  1811, 

This  piece,  Dibdin's  last,  was  unsuccessful, 
bein(^  only  played  twice ;  I  have  seen  no  copy 
of  either  the  music  or  the  libretto.  Tne 
'  Biographia  Dramatics '  says  the  latter  was 
not  printed,  Hogarth,  however,  found  and 
included  in  his  collection  the  words  of  four- 
teen lyrical  pieces  and  the  music  of  one. 
Thi'i  is  one  ot  the  most  endurinnly  popular 
of  Dibdin's  songs.  It  was  publisned  by 
Dibdiu  in  folio  (S  pp,  on  a  sheet  of  4)  as 
follows : — 
The  Lu8  that  Loves  a  Hailor,  Written  and  Com- 


posed by  Mr.  Dibdiu,  and  »ung  by  Mr,  Shaw  (with 
universal  apjplau.sc)  at  the  Theatre  in  the  Hay- 
market,  in  The  Round  Robin.     Price  1#.    This  Sour 


is  now  offered  to  the  Public,  as  a  Specimen  of  that 
Piece.  To  be  Sold  at  Mr.  Aa]>eme8,  No.  .32  Coni- 
hill,— at  the  Sun  112  Strand-by  Mr. 

Milhouse,  IiiBtrin  :,  No.  5,  Rupert  Street, 

St.  Janie.s'x,  — .Mr.  J-.-- ^mi.  17,  Arlington  Street, 

Camden  Town,— ond  all  t he  M  usio  Shops.  (Signed 
at  foot  of  p,  I.) 

1811.  A  collection  of  Son^s,  selected  from  the 
workn  of  Mr.  Dibtlin.  A  New  I'1>!iii,,ii.  In  Two 
Volumes    Vol.  1.  for  11.].    Lonilo-  I  (or  K. 

Lmt.  (ireek  Street.  Soho;  John   i  ,  Royal 

Kxonauge  ;  and  J.  Wulkcr  ft  iMx,  i  aLt:i  uv^r-ivi  l^w ; 


By  S.  Hamilton,  Weybriilgc,  Surrey.  1814.  12mo. 
V  ol.  i.  pp.  iv,  viii,  2^.    \o\.  ii.  pp.  iv.  vii,  294, 

This  collection  contains  every  song  in  the 
five- volume  issue  (1790  et  setj.),  with  the 
exception  of  'What  a  Plague,  said  Young 
Colin,'  on  p  107  of  vol.  iii.  The  songs  are  in 
the  .same  order,  except  that  those  of  vol.  iv. 
here  prece<le  those  of  vol.  iii. 

1814  (or  later).  A  Seleqtion  [Portrait]  of  the  moat 
esteemed  .Songs  Written  and  (Jomioosed  by  Mr. 
Dibdin.  To  l>e  continued.  Published  by  C> 
Whealstone  A  Co.  430,  Strand.  Vol.  I.  [or  II.]. 
Price  6.11,    Jones  sc  n.d. 

Watermark  date  1814,  9^  by  6}  in.  2  toIs, 
Engraved  title,  with  portrait  engraved  by 
Mr.  Smith.  Vol.  i.  contains  20  songs,  ancJ 
index,  .50  pp.  The  songs  may  have  also  l>een 
issued  separately  from  same  plates.  Vol.  ii. 
(in  the  only  copy  I  have  seen)  contains  IT 
soogs  on  44  pp.,  and  no  index.  It  is  possibly 
imperfect. 

I  have  now  brought  this  list  of  Charles- 
Dilxiin's  productions  up  to  the  date  of  hi» 
death.  It  still  remains  to  add  an  account  of 
the  subsequent  collections  of  his  works  and 
of  the  existing  portraits  ;  after  which  I  shall 
conclude  with  a  list  of  such  additions  and 
alterations  as  I  have  noted.  In  anticipation 
of  this  I  again  invite  collectors  to  oblige 
mo  by  comparing  their  pos.ses8ions  with  tlie 
correHiJonding  entries  in  my  bibliography, 
and  correcting  any  errors  and  oiuissioii>i 
they  mav  detect.  I  am  fully  conscious  that 
the  result  of  my  labours  is  very  far  from 
perfect.  Some  allowance  must,  however,  l>e 
made  for  short-comings  in  the  first  setious 
attempt  to  give  an  exact  account  of  the 
innumerable  productions  of  a  man  so  prolific 
and  versatile.  I  have  received  very  valuable 
assistance  from  a  number  of  correspondents, 
and  especially  from  three  well-known  collec- 
tors :  Mr.  W.  T.  Freemantlo.  of  Rotherhani, 
Mr.  Frank  Kid.son,  of  Leeds,  and  the  lato 
Mr.  Julian  Marshall.  To  the  last  named  I 
was  for  a  number  of  years  greatly  in-  #" 
debted  for  assistance  and  encouragement.  «. 
A  correspondence  in  '  N.  «S:  Q.'  (to  the  anti- 
quary the  best  of  introductions)  was  the 
beginning  of  a  lasting  friendship,  to  me 
most  pleasant  and  profitable.  His  death 
robs  me  of  one  who  taught  me  much  as 
student  and  collector,  of  an  ardent  sympa- 
thizer, of  a  most  charming  correspondent, 
and  01  a  valued  friend. 

E.   RiMBAULT   DiDDlN. 
MoroiDRside,  Sudwortti  Rood,  New  Brighton. 


Dei.agard,  one  or  the  Countess  of 
UtJNTiNtJDox's  Prkachers.— I  have  been 
allowed  the  i^etusal  of  a  commonplace  boolj 


604 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


IIO*"  &  1.  JciTR  25,  1904. 


t 


transcribed  from  the  autograph  of  William 
Cowpei'a  aunt,  Juditii  Madan  {n/e  Cowper). 
•On  pp.  9,  10,  is  an  account  of  Dela^ard,  of 
whom  I  find  no  mention  in  'The  Life  and 
Times  of  the  Countess  of  Huntingdon.'  The 
book  13  a  4to,  half-bound  in  calf.  I  quote 
9p.  9,  10:  — 

"Faint  peace,  (klujiipt  rtxt,  and  cain  stcurilij. 
These  just  and  tine  epitliets  1  heard  from  the 
lulpit  at  South  Audley  Cliapel  some  years  ago 
^I'.f.  apiwrently  before  1754]  from  poor  DelaoBrd,  a 
tU4a  who  preached,  I  think,  13  Beriiioni.  13  sue- 
cesaive  Tnuradaye,  under  Lady  Huntingdon** 
patronage,  a  post  charitably  designed  to  inatruut 

Both  the  great  vulgar  and  the  amall, 
(the  service  beginning  at  12  o'clock,  to  render  the 
attendance  on  it  as  easy  as  i>08sible  to  tlio  tender 
constitutions  of  those  the  world  calU  people  of 
.quality,  but  who,  in  the  eye  of  reason  and  reli{cion, 
must  be  comprehended  nnder  the  only  title  poor 
mortals  can  justly  call  their  own,  that  of '  miserable 
dinners.' 

"  Delagard  was  a  man  of  a  low  stature  ana  mean 
appearance,  but  in  the  pulpit  assumed  a  dignity  I 
scarce  over  saw  l)efore,  even  where  Nature  had 
been  more  kind  in  bestowing  a  better  look  and 
more  graceful  stature.  All  he  said,  as  it  came 
from  the  heart,  I  believe,  seldom  failed  to  atfect 
the  hearts  of  bis  eongreRatiou  :  a  force  and  energy 
not  to  be  described  accompanied  every  divine 
lirecept  that  fell  from  his  tongue.  Many  were 
Awakened,  some  converted ;  and  in  general,  as  in 
the  Gospel  preaching,  '  fear  fell  on  all.'  Thus  for  a 
few  weeKB  it  pleased  God  to  enable  His  servant  to 
do  His  will ;  and  not  many  more  passed  before 
he  was  taken  into  eternity,  I  trust  and  hope,  to 
enjoy  that  reward  ordained  for  those  who  turn 
many  to  righbeousness,  '  to  shine  like  the  stars  in 
dkuaven.'  . 

"  1  think  this  small  recollection  of  what  he  was 
on  earth  due  to  the  memory  of  this  faithful  servant 
of  our  glorious  Master's,  to  whom  be  glory  and 
lifinour,  thanksgiving  and  |)owor.  love  and  obe- 
dience, for  ever  and  over  I    Ament" 

John  E.  B.  Mayor. 

Cambridge. 

Browning's  "Thunder  KRBE."— Prof.  Luick, 
H)f  Graz,  writ«i.s:— "In  'Pippa  Passes'  Phene 
says  (ii.  69),   'Carve.. .a  Greek. ..bay-filleted 
and  thunder-free.'     What  does  this  mean  V 
Prof.  W.  p.  Ker  answers  :  — 
"Compare  'Childe  Harold,"  i\-.  41  :— 
For  the  true  laurel-wreath  which  Glory  weaves 
Is  of  the  tree  no  bolt  of  thunder  cleaves. 
The    hay  wreath    was    a    protection    against    the 
ihuuderholl." 

F.  J.  F. 

FiitsT  OcKAN  New.si'ai'KR,— The  following, 
from  New  York  in  the  Glof>r  of  11  June, 
shouUI,  I  think,  find  a  place  in  'N.  it  Q. '; — 

"A   telogiaiii  from  Nontuckct  to  the  aVtc  York 
Jltruid  slalos  that  the  vova^e  of  the  Cnnard  Line 
isr  Oiaiiania  from   f 
>>pil^H>WKl  memora 
'B«Wflpap«r.   which 


success.    The  pasaenr^r-   -•-■x-'-;}  "A-y-  ....^-,:i.-r'- 
iasue  inivtatiently.    N 
the    United   .States    i         . 

exceeded  the  expectatioua  of  iho  piev-tivi-in  un 
board.  The  Sum  states  that  the  Cun&rd  Line  (ig*ut 
here,  Mr.  Vernon  Brown,  has  received  a  telegram 
from  CapL.  Pritchard,  of  the  Canipania,  yest«»f»lay 
afteniooa,  stating  that  the  Daili/  Btdtttin  \\a>\  been 
entirely  successful.  This  is  inter^ireted  in  mean 
that  the  daily  sea  paper  has  arrived,  and  ix  hero  to 
stay.  The  Campania  will  continue  to  piilitt:<h  the 
journal  daily  on  her  eastward  trip,  and  subee- 
quently  the  Lucania  will  have  a  daily  jmbhoation. — 
Beuter." 

J.  HOLDRN  MaCMIOH.VEL. 
[The  Daily   Telegraph   of  1,1  June  coulainewi  a 
long  account  of  this  new  dep*rture  in  journalism, 
of  which  the  following  sentences  may  be   worth 
preservation  in   'N.   *  V.'t  — "The   daily   |>*per 
published  aboard  by  means  of  the  Mar.ioiii   newa 
service  was  entitled   the    Cuuanl  J'     '      '•"■■- 
It  was   no   bigger  than  u    parisli    m 
inches   by   five    in   aire,    but    very   ' 
Mr.  Uraham,  purser  of  the  Campauiu,  was  eiiit.>r, 
with  Mr.  Kershaw,   private  secretary   to    Sigoor 

Marconi,   as  chief    sub-cdit«ic There   were    no 

leading  articles,  no  advetlisurnent-s,  but  iiicnty 
of  miscellaneous  uews  and  gossip  to  hrealc  the 
monotony  of  the  Atlantic  passago.  Above  all, 
there  was  the  news,  short,  crisLi  iittcrestir)^  it«ma 
from  all  parts  of  the  world,  to  which  the  pi  -•• —  — 
and  crew  looked  forward  ilnily  with  ii. 
interest.  The  paid  circulation  was  7i)  'i  ■ 
the  cost  2J(/.  per  number."] 

GOEST  FAMtLY.      (Sw  9'"  S.  «X.  WJH  I   X.  51.) 

— A  li.st  of  works  pGrtnininR  to  tlie  iiintory  of 
this  family  in  America  may  be  of  service  : — 

Harper'i  Xttw  Monthly  Mrtf/asint^  xllx.,  No. 
ccxc.  p.  238,  .luly,  1874. 

Ameriean  Iliittoricnl  Itfffislf.r,  New  Sertea.  L, 
No.  2,  p.  167,  I'hiladelpliia.  April,  LW. 

Xew  York  Oeiical.  atul  Bloy.  lirconl,  xxxx,  100, 
April,  1898. 

AmeHcaii  Montldft  Magazlnt,  xl..  No.  6i  p.  ftS7, 
Washington,  D.C ,  December,  IH517. 

The  Spirit  of  Sevfufu-nix,  iv,,  No.  5,  pp.  I.W,  139, 
New  York,  January,  1808. 

Manuscripts  relating  to  Guest  Family,  *c. 
Museum  of  Newberry  Library,  Chicago,  Coae 
No.  ii.,  31.  2,  Catalogue  No.  SSIW). 

'  Tales  of  our  ForefathorR,'  AHmny,  N.Y.,  IHM8. 

*  Poems  and  Jotu:nal '  (Moses  truest),  CiDcinnati. 
1S23-4. 

The'  Gtieats  of  New  Brunswick,  Now 
Jersey  (fl.  1776),  are  said  to  havo  desponded 
from  those  of  that  name  in  BirininKimra, 
England  EiroBNii  F.  McPikk. 

Chicago.  U.8. 

"Sun  and  Anchor"  Inn.— At  Scotter.  r 
small  town  about  four  miles  from  Kirton-ln. 
Lindsey,  there  is  an  inn  bearing  tiie  nanit!  of 
the  "Sun  and  Anchor."  Iti  t.ifni,.r  .In^  I 
well  remember  admiring  thr  -p.' 

rt  ii'siilcmient  sun  ana  a  v..;  -r. 

now    (li.sap[)eared,    Rn<i 
II  uniiappily  sufiplies  the   \ 


iO'»s.i.j"NE25,i9(>i.i         NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


505 


I 


* 
* 


this  picturesque  apecimen  of  rural  art.  I 
have  never  heard  of  any  other  public-liouse 
in  England  with  a  similar  title,  and  have 
long  l)€en  puzzled  as  to  its  origin.  The 
following  p&saago  in  Guillim's  "Display  of 
Heraldry'  may  pusaibly  throw  light  upon 
it:— 

"  Cosmua  Medices,  Duke  of  Hetruria,  gave  two 
Anchora  for  his  liuuress,  with  tbia  word  Duabxu, 
meaning  it  waa  good  to  have  two  holds  to  trust  to ; 
but  Richard  the  First,  King  of  Kngland,  gave  a 
Sun  on  two  Anchors,  with  this  Motto,  Chritto  Duce  ; 
a  worthy  and  Princely  choice  of  bo  heavculy  k 
Pilot."-riflh  edition,  1679,  p.  231. 

Guillim,  as  was  his  cuatoai,  gives  no 
authority  for  what  he  says ;  but  he  was  a 
careful  and  honest  man,  who  did  not  write 
at  random,  as  some  of  his  successors  who 
have  cribbed  from  his  pages  have  been  wont 
to  do.  He  must  have  had  what  he  regarded 
as  sufficient  ground  for  what  lie  state<l.  Can 
any  one  refer  to  what  authority  he  depended 
upon  ?  If  what  he  said  be  true,  there  is  an 
excellent  reason  for  the  sign,  and  at  least  a 
presumption  of  its  antiquity,  for  Richard  I. 
was  a  great  benefactor  to  Scottor.  He 
granted  a  charter  of  fair  and  market  to  the 
Abbot  of  Peterborough,  who  was  its  lord 
('Monasticon  Anglic,  edition  1846,  vol.  i. 
p.  3Q2).  It  is  dated  24  March,  and  witnessed 
by  Walter,  Archbifthop  of  Kouen,  but  no 
year  is  given.  Within  the  memory  of  elderly 
people  an  important  horse  fair  was  held  at 
Sootter,  but,  om  has  been  the  case  with  other 
rural  fairs,  tiio  railwaj-s  have  well-nigh 
extinguished  it.  Edward  Pkacock. 

Kirton-in-Liodsey. 

*'  Eastekuno  "  ASD  East  Harunq.— There 
is  a  singular  error  in  Bardsley's  useful 
'Dictionary  of  Place-names'  that  sliould  be 
corrected.  Under  'Eaaterling'  he  tells  us 
that  it  is  a  "local  name,"  which  is  not  pre- 
cisely the  ca«e.  See  the  '  New  Ene.  Diet.' 
He  gives  three  examples,  none  of  which  are 
in  any  sense  to  the  point  He  tells  ua  that 
there  were  men  "de  Eastherling"  in  1273  ;  a 
"Walter  do  Eastherling"  in  1303;  and  a 
"Ilalph  de  Eastherling"  at  the  samo  date. 
He  says  that  "  Eastherling  "  is  described  as 
being  in  Norfolk,  but  he  cannot  6nd  it. 
But  almost  any  county  map  will  show  that 
East  Harling  is  not  far  from  Thetford.  You 
get  to  it  from  Harling  Road  Station. 

Walter  W.  Skeat. 

"Tj[e  Gallahtb  Of  FowRY."— A  curious 
traditional  grant  from  the  Black  Prince  is 
referred  to  in  the  following  cutting  from  the 
Momhiff  Post  of  Iklonday,  11  April  :— 

"A  parith  meeting  of  the  occupiers  of  (toIsDt- 
Bidnt-8»ni»on.  oa  the  Fowej  river,  CorawaU,  wat 


hold  on  Saturday  evening  in  the  village  schools  to 
consider  what  steps  should  be  taken  to  resist  the 
ciaitn  for  dues  made  hy  the  lord  of  the  manor  for 
etone  raised  or  carted  from  the  villagers'  commons, 
on  which  from  time  immemorial  tiiey  have  paia> 
the  poor  rules  by  a  twopenny  impost  on  every 
cottager,  in  addition  to  the  ordinary  assessment  hy 
the  overseer.  It  was  slated  that  though  no  charter 
was  in  the  possession  of  the  (larish  their  rights 
were  traditionally  inherited  by  a  grant  from  the 
Black  Prince,  as  Duke  of  Cornwall,  in  reward  for 
services  rendered  at  sea  by  *  the  l!allant«  of 
Fowey,'  from  which  the  village  takes  its  uanie, 
being  one  of  two  in  all  EoKland  dedicated  to  the 
memory  of  Saint  Samson,  the  A]X)8tle  of  Brittany 
and  second  Abbot  of  Caldy,  on  the  Welsh  const," 

WiLUAM  George  Black. 

Dowanhill  Gardens,  Glastsow. 

CoiruTY  Tales.— There  are  several  tales- 
current  in  Lincolnshire  which  were  used  in 
former  days,  and  perhaps  are  at  the  present 
time,  for  the  purpose  of  showing  contempt 
for  neighbouring  shires  or  boroughs  \yithin- 
our  own  limits.  I  give  two  of  these  by  way 
of  example,  and  should  be  glad  to  know  if 
they  are  confined  to  this  county,  or  whether 
they  are  to  be  found  in  other  forms  elsewhere. 

Grimsby.  —  When  this  borough  had 
dwindled  so  aa  to  become  a  very  inconsider- 
able place,  the  ignorance  of  its  mayors  was 
a  standing  joke  among  outsiders.  An  old 
gentleman  who,  if  alive,  would  be  upwanl.M 
of  a  hundred  and  ten  years  of  age.  told  me  a 
tale  of  a  certain  mayor  who  had  a  persoti 
brought  before  him  for  frying  bacon.  The 
culprit  pleaded  that  this  was  not  an  offence  ; 
but  the  mayor  retorted  that  it  wa.9  a  felony 
by  common  law.  A  scholar  wa.s,  however, 
found,  who  explained  the  misinterpreted  pas- 
sage in  the  law-books.  The  felony  consisted 
not  in  frying  bacon,  but  in  firing  a  beacon. 
In  the  dayH  when  this  story  had  its  origin, 
there  were  beacons  all  along  the  Ea-st  coast. 
If  any  one  of  the  series  had  been  wantonly 
set  on  fire,  the  whole  f)opulation  would 
probably  have  turned  out  in  their  war-gear 
from  Thames  to  Tyne. 

Rutlandshire.— In  the  days  when  only 
gentlemen  were  made  high  sheriffs  of  counties,. 
Kutlandshire  was  a  common  jest,  because,  o» 
account  of  it«  small  size,  men  of  but  mean- 
station  had  necessarily  to  be  put  up  with. 
On  one  occasion,  it  was  averred,  when  the 
proper  ofHcial  came  to  tell  a  plain  farmer 
that  he  had  been  chosen  for  an  office  of  such, 
high  honour  and  importance,  ho  found  him  in 
his  yard,  in  workaday  apparel,  thatching  a. 
staoK.  Com.  Ln»c. 

"Graicamizk."— "Grahamize''is  defined  in 
the  '  U  .E.D.'  as  "  to  cause  letters  to  bo  ooened 
when  passing  through  the  post,"  ana  it  is 


506 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       HO"- 1>.  i.  Jr^i 35. 11 


stated  that  "Sir  James  Qrahara,  as  Home 
.Sc'cretary,  had  Mazziui's  letters  so  opeued  in 
is  44."  No  exception  can  be  takeu  to  the 
definition  of  "  giahamize,"  but  the  statement 
that  Sir  Jaraea  CJi-aham  had  Mazzini'a  letters 
opened  is  not  quite  accurate,  tliough  it  repre- 
sents the  common  opinion  and  is  accepted 
by  many  historians  and  writers.  In  the 
*  EacyclopjBciia  Britaunica/  n.r.  'Graham' 
wo  read  that  "in  1844  the  detention  and 
opening  of  letters  at  the  post  office  by  his 
{.Sir  Jaraea  Graham's]  warrant  raised  a  storm 
of  public  indignation."  In  Justin  McCarthy'.'j 
'History  of  our  Own  Times'  the  charge  of 
opening  Mazzini's  letters  is  brought  against 


Mazzini'a  letters,"  and  "  Mazzini,  opening  of 
fcis  letters  by  Sir  J.  Graham." 

The  agitation  of  1844  about  the  opening 
and  detention  of  letters  is  now  almost  for- 
gotten ;  but  whatever  odium  attaches  to  the 
opening  of  Mazzini's  letters  is  still  borne  by 
Sir  James  Graham.  A  secret  committee  of 
the  House  of  Commons,  which  sat  in  1844, 
reported  that  Mazzini's  letters  had  been 
interrupted  in  the  post  under  a  warrant 
issued  by  Graham  and  wore  sent  to  the  Homo 
Oltice,  whence  they  were  dispatched  unopened 
to  the  Foreign  Office.  The  warrant  for 
detaining  the  letters  was  issued  by  Graham  at 
the  request  of  his  colleague  Lord  Aberdeen, 
the  Foreign  Secretary,  and  he,  not  Graham, 
opened  and  road  Mazzini's  letters.  But,  as 
is  pointed  out  in  the  life  of  Graham  in  the 
•J).N.B.,'  "  Lord  Aberdeen  iield  his  tongue,and 
Allowed  the  whole  storm  to  burst  on  Graham." 
J.  A.  J.   HoU.SDIiM. 

"WiTiiERSHiNS."— This  is  the  most  repre- 
sentative way  that  occurs  to  me  of  writing 
A  word  which  wa.s  lately  told  me  as  meaning 
contra  clockwi.se,  or  from  left  to  right,  the 
opposite  of  with  the  sun.  I  do  not  find  it  in 
Janiieson's  'Provincial  Dictionary.' 

Might  I  venture  to  guess  that  the  first  two 
aj'llables  correspond  to  the  German  ivieder? 

T.  WiwoK. 

Harpenden. 

[The  Huriniso  u  to  the  origia  of  the  word  is 
<!QiTtM!t:  Aoglo-Sajton  ir»V2<r=at'ftin8t,  jinBwers  to 
the  German  witdcr,] 

Pkjeon    EifGLisn    at    Home.  —  Another 

execrable  departure  is  recently  noticeable. 

The  promoters  of  that  very  excellent  idea, 

a  dam  across    the    Thames    at  Gravesen<i, 

T     '    lif  "dockizing"  the  river,  insteiu]  of 

,'/  it.     I  have  not  seen  "dockify  '"  yet, 

Atii  iu  daily  anticipation  of  it ;  my  hopea 


I' 


this  way  are  eucouragwl  by  the  use  of  the 
wor<l  "actify"  in  the  Tinu*  of  11  June,  in 
ft  case  where  the  word         -   i'  •    •  -.  •  t 

the  writer's  mind  at  l; 

also  be  questioned  wlivi.,-..      •>- ..^     .;.  a 

justifiable  alternative  to  dam. 

Edwaud  Smith. 

Macklini ANA.— Judge  Parry,  ut  u.  120  of 
his  excellent  monograph  on  Cliarles  Af-  '-i:-, 
reproduces  Kirkmau's  detailed  stal' 
the  receipts  during  the  Smock  Alle\ 
raent  of  17(53-4,    together   with    .^i 
moiety  of  the  nightly  (Akings.     As   ..   -    i 
feases    his    inability    to    explain    on    what 
principle  the  actors  profits  were  cal-ulated. 
It  may  be  as  well  to    point  out  t 
residue  was  shared  equally  between  > 
and  the  manager  after  40/.  had  been  deductdi  ■ 
for  the  nightly  charges  of  the  house.     Thi«" 
applies  to  all  save  four  of  the  items,   v^jz., 
2 and  22  Dec,  20  Jan.,  and  2e  Feb-,  in  which  the 
shillings  or  the  pence  (mostly  the  latter)  iu 
Macklin's  moieties  will  not  work  out.    l)oubt- 
ies8  this  is  due  to  raiscopying  on  Kirkman's 
part  or  to  subsequent  misprintM. 
I  remark  also  that  in  tlio  list  of  Macklin'a 
lays  given  by  Judge  Parry  at  p.  l&G  'Tlui^ 
'rue-Born  Irishman,"  otherwise  'Tl"»  I-^^h 
Fine  Lady,'  is  spoken  of  as  "  not  ; 
This  is  incorrect.    I  have  both  seen  i  i 

a  copy,  and  well  remember  iti  bin 
and  strong  characterization.    In  tir  ;• 

quality  it  recalled  to  me  Uolcroft  at  bis  be«(« 
say  in  '  The  Koad  to  Ivuin.' 

Judge  Parry  mentions  a  head  of  Mackljn 
as  Shylock,  by  Zoffany,  in  tlie  N:tu<«tial 
Gallery  of   Ireland.     The   same   <■  i 

passRSses  an  admirable  full-length    i  i. 

of  the  sturdy  old  actor  as  Sir  I'L-rLiuax 
MacSycophant,  the  work  of  De  WiMe.  It 
is  probably  a  replica  of  the  painting  in  the 
Garrick  Club.  W.  J.  L.vwbexce. 

Dublin. 

Jagqard-vbinted  Books.  (See  4"»S.  iv.  409.) 
—It  is  a  far  cry  back  to  1869,  when  a  query^ 
appeared  with  reference  to  books  printed  bj 
William  Jacgard  and  Ed.  Blount. 

Lengthy  lists  of  the  Jaggard  press  appeared 
in  tlie  Atficnirjum  for  IS  January,  1902,  andj 
following  issues,  and  for  24  January,  19C 
The  querist  seemed  to  doubt  whether  Wi 
Jaggard  really  printed  the  works  lie  pal 
Itiiiied.  Reference  to  the  Registers  of  th«^ 
Stationers'  Company  should  sot  such  sus- 
picions at  rest.  Wm.  JAC0Ai:1>. 

130,  Canuing  8tr«ot,  Liverpool. 

Amban.— It   is    well   reroarken 

Eeaceful   intervention  now  io   pr»i- 
,hasa   ruusea   an    iuterest   in    ph«J^^'-.'e<«.4J 


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circles.  Among  the  novelties  appears  the 
vonl  amban,  apparently  a  plenipotentiary  or 
resilient  minister  from  Ctiina,  as  overlord 
to  Tibet.  It  is  very  suggestive  of  tlte  form 
amf/itc,  preserved  to  us  by  Caesar,  and  claijued 
alike  for  Gaulish  and  for  Gothic,  dating  back 
to  that  far-off  epoch  when  both  races  figured 
as  Uelt«,  migrating  from  Central  Asia,  within 
touch  of  this  very  Tibet-land.  It  has  been 
BupposiLitiously  explained  from  Sanskrit,  as 
a  sort  of  equivalent  to  Brahman,  the  primi- 
tive cook,  and  later  minister  or  priest. 

A.  H. 

"  The  balance  of  powke."— The  '  H.E.D.,' 
as  it8  earliest  illustration  of  this  phrase, 
gives  one  of  1679,  referring  to  "  the  Ballance 
of  Europe'';  but  in  2"''  S.  ix.  503  is  a  descrip- 
tion of  a  folio  of  1653,  the  title  of  which 
commences  with  the  words,  'A  German  Diet, 
or  the  Ballanco  of  Europe.'  I  note  this  in 
connexion  with  the  fact  that  on  16  June  the 
Alexander  Prize  Essay  (1903)  was  read  before 
the  Royal  Historical  Society  by  MissE.  M.  G. 
Routh,  formerly  of  Lady  Margaret  Hall, 
Oxford,  on  *  Tiio  History  of  the  Attempts  to 
establish  a  Balance  or  Power  in  Europe, 
1648  to  1702.'  Politician. 


» 


VVk  must  request  correRpotidoiila  deairing  in- 
forniation  on  family  nialters  of  only  private  intcroit 
to  alBc  their  names  and  addresses  to  their  queries, 
iu  order  that  the  answers  may  be  addressed  to  them 
direct. 

Daughters  of  James  I.  ov  Scotland.— I 
wish  to  ascertain,  if  possible,  the  correct 
details  concerning  the  daughters  of  James  I, 
of  Scotlantl  and  Joan  Beaufort.  There  seem 
to  have  been  six :  Margaret,  married  the 
Daui>hin,  afterwards  Louis  XL,  died  s./».  ; 
Isal)el,  the  Duke  of  Brittany ;  Eleanor,  the 
Archduke  Sigismund  of  Austria;  Joan  ;  Mary; 
Annabel.  'Trje  difficulty  is  about  the  lost 
three.  Miss  Yonge,  whose  historical  dictum 
is  almost  invariably  accurate,  says,  in  her 
romance  'Two  Penniless  Princesses.'  "that 
Joau  married  Georrje  Douglas,  Master— after- 
wards Earl— of  Angus,''  and  adds  in  a  note 
that  he  was  an  hi<itorical  personage.  In 
6"'  S.  xi-  52  Hermkntrude  says  Joan  was 
dumb,  WAS  contraotetl,  but  never  married,  to 
James,  third  Earl  of  Angus,  and  diofl  1445-t>, 
aged  about  eighteen  ;  but  .she  odds  tliat  some 
eay  the  princess  married  about  145f!  Jarae^, 
Earl  of  Morton,  and  died  about  1487-B.  In 
Burko'8  'ROTal  Descents 'she  is  said,  in  his 
'Ancestry  of  tho  House  of  Stewart,'  to  have 
married  first  James,  third  Earl  of  Angu« ; 


secondly,  George,  second  Earl  of  Huntly.  She 
is  mentioned  in  twetity-seven  of  the  i>edigree3 
of  descendants  of  royalty  in  his  lK)ok.  In 
eight  she  is  described  as  having  married 
James  Douglas,  Earl  of  Morton  ;  in  five  as 
having  married  first  James  Douglas,  Earl  of 
Angus,  secondly,  James  Douglas,  Earl  of 
Morton ;  in  two,  as  marrying  first  James 
Douglas,  Earl  of  Angus,  then  George  Gordon, 
second  Earl  of  Huntly  ;  in  nine  as  marrying 
George,  Earl  of  Huntly  ;  in  three  as  marry- 
ing first  James,  Earl  of  Morton,  then  George, 
Earl  of  Huntly.  The  Earl  of  Angus  is 
variously  descnbed  as  the  first  and  third 
earl ;  the  Earl  of  Morton  as  the  first  and 
second. 

Burke  states  that  Mary  married  John, 
Ixjrd  of  Campvere,  in  Zealand,  and  makes 
Annabel  marry  first  "Earl  of  Angus; 
secondly,  James,  first  Earl  of  Morton.'^  Hek- 
MBNTfii'DE  says  she  married  at  Stirling, 
U  December,  1444,  Luigi  of  Savoy,  Count 
of  Geneva,  from  whom  she  was  divorced 
on  23  March,  1 456,  for  political  reasons ; 
married  again,  about  1457,  George,  Earl  of 
Huntly,  who  divorced  her,  apparently  with- 
out any  fault  on  her  part,  24  July,  1476.  She 
died  soon  after,  leaving  eleven  children,  one 
of  whom  was  Katharine  Gordon,  wife  of 
Perkiu  Warbeck.  1  should  imagine  this  to 
be  the  correct  version,  as  in  the  Peerage  the 
Huntly  family  claim  her  for  their  ances- 
tress ;  but  the  variations  regarding  Joan  are 
bewildering.  Did  she  die  unmarried  ?  Did 
she  marry  both  Angus  and  Morton  1  And 
was  she  dumb  ? 

I  shall  be  very  grateful  to  any  one  who 
can  throw  any  light  on  these  points.  I  also 
.see  that  Hermenteude  de.>jcribes  her  as  the 
third  daughter.  I  thought  the  order  of  their 
birth  was  Margaret.  Isabel,  Eleanor,  Joan. 
If  it  can  be  proved  that  she  died  unmarried, 
a  giKxl  fuany  people  who  count  their  royal 
descent  through  her  will  have  to  rolinquiJih 
their  claims  to  royal  ancestry.  Helua. 

Elkne.— 1  wish  to  know  who  Elene  was. 
She  is  tho  subject  of  a  modern  picture  in  the 
Parma  Gallery.  Two  men  have  been  playing 
for  her  with  dice.  The  three  figures  are 
semi-nnde ;  the  men  are  ei^uipped  with 
swords ;  the  lucky  man  has  his  arm  round 
Elene.  The  man  who  has  last  her  is  seated 
on  the  ground,  looking  regretfully  after  her. 

Anauuac- What  is  the  correct  pronuncia- 
tion of  this  ancient  and  poetical  name  for 
Mexico?  On  which  syllable  should  it  bo 
stressed  t  I  have  consulted  several  gazet- 
teers, but  they  differ.    Souio  have  Anahuiic ; 


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others,  including  tite  uewe^^t  and  best  autho- 
rity, iSmitli's  *  Uyclopwdia  of  Names,'  1805, 
have  Aiiahuac.  I  have  never  heard  this 
name  pronounced  by  Spaniards,  but  I  tancy 
that  in  most  other  Mexican  namen  which  1 
have  heard  ending  in  e  tlie  final  syllable  was 
accented,  e.(f  ,  in  tlie  name  of  the  last  Aztec 
emperor,  Guatenndc,  and  in  the  numerous 
place-names  ending  in  -U]>ec,  such  as  Chapul- 
tep^,  Tehuantepec,  Jrc. 

James  Platt,  Jan. 

Antwerp  Cathedral.  (See  9"*  S.  ix.  289, 
3r>9,  433.)— May  I  shortly  repeat  my  query  ? 
— for  the  replies,  although  interesting,  in  no 
•way  touch  it. 

1  have  read  (where  I  cannot  tell)  that, 
owing  to  the  falling  of  the  towers  of  thi^ 
cathedral,  the  present  one  is  built  on  a  foun- 
dation of  hides,  and  the  second  tower  was 
not  proceeded  with,  owing  to  the  attraction 
or  pull  of  the  completed  one.  I  have 
referred  to  Fergusson,  Murray,  Baedeker,  and 
Motlev,  but  without  result,  and  yet  I  have 
read  this  somewhere.  Can  any  one  help  me 
and  give  me  the  reference, and  say  if  correct? 

Lucis. 

SuPERvisuM  Corpus,— la  there  any  means 
of  arriving  at  a  verdict  of  the  cause  of  deatli 
where  the  body  of  the  deceased  lia.s  vanished, 
as  in  tlie  recent  case  where  a  man  fell  into  a 
disused  mine,  or  where  a  body  ia  completely 
incinerated  by  a  fire  or  by  falling  into  molten 
metal,  or  where  a  man  is  lost  at  sea?  In  the 
last  case  the  Probate  Court  may  allow  pre- 
Humption  of  death.  In  the  other  cases  it  ia 
baid  that  magistrates  must  act  if  a  body 
cannot  be  produced.    But  how  f 

Staniey  B.  Atkimson. 

Inner  Tempio, 

The  Evil  Eye.— Can  any  of  the  readers  of 
'N.  ii  Li-'  te^U  me  whether  the  superstition  of 
the  evil  eye  was  ever  prevalent  in  England  ? 
According  to  a  recent  writer  on  the  subject 
it  is  ijtilT  widely  believed  in  and  guarded 
against  in  Italy,  and  especially  in  Malta. 
One  wonders  if  it  ever  prevailed  in  the  British 
Isle*-  Fbedbrick  T.  Hibgamr. 

[It  ia  still  prevalent  in  soma  ont-of-the-way 
English  nlaces,  as  anv  eood  guide  to  folk-lore  will 
■how.  A  caao  at  Uxbridge  iu  IfiOO  is  recorded 
9^  S.  v.  '2K5,  and  a  Scotch  instance  at  9"'  fil.  xi.  'JOB. 
See  the  J.ieueral  Indexes  under  '  Folk-lore :  Kvil 
eye.'] 

Watts'3  Hymns.— In  Isaac  Watts's  '  Hymns 
and  Spiritual  Songs' there  are  three  books 
of  lyric«.  The  first  comprises  hymns  set  to 
given  texts  of  Scripture;  the  second  pre- 
sents -such  a.s  illustrate  some  doctrine,  being 
(in    the   author's  words)  "of   mere  human 


composure";  and  the  third  is  h       "     fiotj 

Kieces  for  use  at  the  Communi'  :  II 

is  *  Treasury  of  Sacred  Song '  ( i  -.»'  •       ■  I'^U 
Prof.  Palgrave  seems  to  have  niixri  t 
these  hymns  for  the  sake  of  reaching  a  saiii 
factory  unit.    The  poem  he  numbers  cxcv. 
his  anthology  opens  with  the  first  stAn 
Watts's  I.    xviii.,   and    continues  with 
second  and    third  of  H     ii'     by   whici 
poem  ia  ostensibly  r  1.     Did   W*t( 

make  any  such  read  jus:  :  these  hymn«1 

or  is  the  composite  product  merely  the  r©«t; 
of  editorial  ingenuity  ■?        Tuomaa  Bayne. 

Baronial  Family  op  Somervimjs.— The 
DuUin  Eveninq  Mail  of  1  June,  referring 
to  Sir  Henry  Moore  Jackson,  who  is  to  be 
Governor  of  Trinidad,  states  : — 

"It  was  during  his  early  year*  at  Sur»— eo  at 
least  the  story  goes— th&t  a  sunburnt  niau  b  * 
tattered  white  linen  suit  called  upon  him  in  ■otne 
distresn,  and  aroused  his  ioterect  to  surh  a  deifret 
thot  the  Ciovernor  chartered  a  sn)ail  Bailing  bo«l 
to  take  him  to  an  island  which  lie  had  uidicaled. 

Aske^j  later  who  the  man  was,  Sir  Heti -^  '- 

declared  himself  to  he  Hugh  iSi>tiiervilU 
Iwron  of  a  creation  of  H30,  whose  line  wu 
to  have  beooiiie  extinct  with  the  de*th_iif  Aubi 
John,  nineteenth  Lord  Sonierville.  in  1V7U. 

Can  any  of  your  readers  give  any  informa' 
tion  as  to  who  this  Hugh  Souierville  was 
where  he  went,  or  what  became  of  hint  7 

S,  A.  B. 

"There's  not  a  crime,"  Ac— Can  you  or 
any  of  your  correspondents  kindly  tell  loe 
the  name  of  the  author  and  the  peem  io 
which  the  following  lines  occur? — 

There  '«  not  a  crime 
But  takes  it«  proper  change  out— still  iu  crime 
When  once  rung  on  the  counter  of  the  world. 

Eatiline  Portsmodth. 

Classic  ani>  Translator. — The  following 
verse  is  from  the  English  translation  of  a 
classic  author.  Wanted,  the  name  oi.  th* 
author  and  of  the  translator: — 
There  arc  only  two  secrets  a  man  cannot  keep : 
One  when  he's  in  love,  t'other  when  ho 'a 

deep  ; 
For  theae  facta  are  so  proved  by  his  toaguo 

eyes, 
That  we  see  it  more  plainly  the  more  ho  deiiiea, 

Heservs  or  OrEtcKita. 

"Biding  Tailor"  at  Astley's  in  lftl5.- 
He  is  mentioned  in  an  old  diary.     Have  hi_ 
antics  been  describeii  in  any  coulempcirarf 
paper?  L.  L.  K. 


4 


NORTIIBBN  AND  SonTIIERN  PftOSUNCtAI 

—What  is  the  rea-son  of  the  H'^ 

speech  between  the  |ieople  of  :  'i^-^ 

England  and  the  people  of  the  h>oui..i  •     Ho 


itrBtii^H 
or  lil»T 

iet,  1 

irr" 


m 


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509 


^ 


19  it  that  North(yOuntry  people  use  the 
short  a  in  such  words  as  "  ask,"  *'  last," 
•'pass,*'  wliereaa  South-Country  people  use 
tlie  long  ri  I  I  suppose  the  long  a  is  really 
the  correct  use.  York. 

Adam  Lyttleton,  LL.D.— I  have  a  Latin 
dictionary  of  date,  I  thiulc,  previous  to  1690, 
from  which  the  title-page  is  misaing.  On 
the  fly-leaf  some  one  has  written,  "A  Dic- 
tionary of  the  LAtin  Tongue,  by  Adam 
Lyttleton,  LL.D."  Can  any  one  give  me 
information  alx*ut  this  man?  Was  he  really 
the  autlior,  or  only  an  editor  of  the  book? 
I  cannot  find  any  notice  of  him  in  the  books 
I  have  consulted.  Q.  Pktkrsex. 

[Tb«  'D.N.B.'  supplies  a  life.  Tho  date  of  the 
dictionary  i*  1673.  Adam  Littleton  wu  a  pre- 
bendary of  Weitiuinster  in  1674.] 

"Was  you?"  and  "You  was."— About 
what  time  and  why  did  the  custom  obtain 
of  using  "was"  with  "yon"?  When  did  it 
cease?  In  "The  Trial  of  Elizabeth,  Duchess 
Dowager  of  Kingston,  for  Bigamy Pub- 
lished by  Order  of  the  House  of  Peers,"  1776, 
"  Was  you  ]  '  and  "  You  was  "  are  used  by 
peers  and  counsel,  I  think,  invariably.  In 
tho  "Minutes  of  Evidence"  of  the  trial  of 
Queen  Caroline,  1820,  "Were  yon?"  is  the 
')rm  used.     On  p.  C9  I  find  :— 

'*'  Were  you  living  iu  the  AnibasAador'a  House? 
'No,'  'Wos  it  durini;  the  time  that  yon  waa  aup< 
ported  by  the  Ainbasaadur  V  " 

the  errata,  p.  489,  is  the  following : 
••P*Ke  69,  line  11,  for  'you  was'  read  you 
■•"?t^    The  said  "Minutes  of  Evidence"  are 

)rda'  Paper  106  of  1820. 

Robert  Pizrpoint. 
[See  6"'  S.  iii.  287,  488;  vi.  3»7.] 

CoPERinCUS  AXD  THE  PLANET  MERCtmY.— 

Are  there  any  real  grounds  for  supposing 
that  Copernicus  never  saw  the  planet 
Mercury  during  his  long  life,  and  that  the 
famous  astronomer's  last  moments  were 
embittered  by  the  circumstance?  The 
matter  ha^  again  cropped  up  during  the 
present  easterly  elongation  of  the  planet. 

J.  a.  Eloie. 

Thomas  Nbalb  :  "  Hsrbzrlet."  —  The  de- 
reo  of  the  Holy  Office  on  Anglican  Orders, 

Jated  17  April,  1704,  speaking  of  the  "  Nag's 

lead  "  story,  says : — 

'  It*  aooidime  testatua  est  oculatus  testis  Tfaomaa 
sal  [fk].  Professor  lin^»  Hebraicio  Oxonii, 
lidam  suo  amico  Herburlei,  cum  uteroae  religionis 
lusa  «xul  ex  palria  in  Belgiu  dcgeret. ' 

he  '  D.N.B.'  (xl.  1.3fi),  which  knows  nothing 
_  "  an  exile  iu  Belgium,  sava  that  Neale's  con- 
nozioQ  with  the  "  Nag's  Head "  story  rest*  on 


tho  •  De  Illu8tribu3  Anglise  Scriptoribua'  of 
John  Pitts,  posthumously  published  in  1619. 
This  appears  to  be  an  error,  for  John  Holy- 
wood,  or  Christopherus  a  Sancto  Bosco,  tells 
the  story  on  Neale's  authority  in  his  'De 
Investigatione  ver»  et  vi-sibilis  Chriati  Eccle- 
siae,'  published  in  1604,  after  which  it,  most 
unhappily  iu  my  opinion,  became  a  common- 
place of  controversy.  Neither  Holy  wood 
nor  Pitts  mentions  the  exile  in  Belgium  or 
"  Herberley."  Whence  i«  the  statement  that 
Neale  was  in  exile  in  Belgium  derived  ?  Who 
was  "  Herberley  "  ? 

John  B.  Wainewrioht. 

Caspar  Welsbach.  —  I  possess  a  copy  of 
Luther's  Bible,  1541,  with  his  own  manuscript 
not^s  and  other  interesting  items.  It  also 
contains  a  book-plate  "stamped"  in  from  a 
block,  with  a  coat  of  arms,  and  the  name 
"  Caspar  Welsbach  "  underneath.  Can  any 
one  tell  me  who  the  owner  was? 

T.  Cann  Hughk-s,  M.A.,  F.S.A. 

Lancaster. 

BARNES  1  'THE  DEVIL'S  CHARTER." 
(10'*'  S.  i.  467.) 

In  reply  to  Mr.  C.  R,  Dawks,  I  may  .my 
that  I  have  at  present  in  hand  a  reprint  of 
this  play  for  Prof.  W.  Bang's  series  of 
"  Materialen  zur  Kunde  des  alteren  Eng- 
lischen  Dramas."  The  text  was  finished  laist 
year,  and  the  book  will,  I  hoix»,  be  published 
shortly.  The  play  contains  many  diiiiculties, 
and  the  compilation  of  the  notes  has  necessi- 
tated a  good  deal  of  work  ;  hence  the  delay. 

The  kernel  of  the  plot  is  the  legend  of  a 
contract  entered  into  with  the  Devil  by  Pope 
Alexander  VI.,  when  a  cardinal.  This  is 
made  the  occasion  for  a  number  of  imper- 
fectly connected  scenes,  displaying  the  "faith- 
less, fearless,  and  ambitious  lives  '  of  Alexan- 
der and  his  son  Caesar  Borgia.  There  is  so 
little  dramatic  unity  in  the  play  that  it  is 
impossible  to  construct  an  "  argument"  ;  but 
possibly  the  following  list  of  the  chief  inci- 
dents may  be  of  use.  By  the  agreement  with 
the  Devil,  A.  becomes  Pope ;  Charles  VIII. 
enters  Italy  ;  Lucretia  Borgia  murders  her 
husband.  "Gismond  di  Viselli";  Charles 
enters  Rome ;  Cjesar  Borgia  murders  his 
brother,  the  Duke  of  Candy  ;  A.  raises  devils, 
and  learns  by  whom  the  murder  was  com- 
mitted ;  A.  poisons  Lucretia ;  Ctesar  takes 
the  town  of  Furly  (Forli)  ;  A.  poisons  Aster 
Manfredi  and  his  brother ;  A.  and  Csesar 
attempt  to  poison  two  cardinals,  "Cometto 
aod  Modina^"  at  a  banqaet,  but  the  Devil 


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enters  and  changes  the  bottles,  no  that  tlie 
poisone<l  wine  is  (h-unk  by  the  would-be 
murderera  ;  A.  retires  to  his  room  iU,  and  the 
Devil  appears  to  him  ;  he  explains  that  the 
charter,  which  A.  Ixilieved  to  be  for  eighteen 
years,  was  only  for  eleven,  the  document 
beini;  ambiguously  worded,  and,  despite  the 
Pope's  protests,  carries  hira  oflf  to  hell. 

The  history  is  from  Guicciardini,  but 
Barnes  shows  little  regard  for  accuracy,  and 
some  of  the  incidents,  such  as  the  murder  of 
Lucretia,  are  of  his  own  invention.  The 
legend  of  the  charter  seems  to  be  taken  from 
Widman's  Faust-book  of  1599,  though  this 
is  not  altogether  satisfactory  as  a  source. 
The  magic  is  cliiefly  from  the  'Heptameroa, 
seu  Element*  Magica '  of  Petrus  ae  Abano. 
The  play  is  describwl,  with  a  few  extracts, 
by  Prof,  Herford  in  his  *  Literary  Relations 
of  England  and  Germany,'  18«6,  pp.  197-203. 
Extracts  from  it  were  also  printed  by  Gro- 
sart  ia  his  edition  of  Barnes's  poems. 

R.  B.  McKerkow. 

In  the  •  Poetical  Register  ;  or,  the  Lives 
and  Cliaracters  of  the  English  Poets,  with  an 
account  of  their  Writings,'  1723,  it  is  said 
that  this  tragedy  seems  to  have  been  written 
"iri  imitation  of  Shakespear's  '  Pericks,  Prince  of 
Tyio";  which  Rives  an  AccoiinL  of  the  Life  and 
Death  of  Pope  Alexander  tlie  Vltli.  F<ir  as  Bliake- 
spear  raisoa  Gower,  an  old  English  Bard,  for  his 
Inlroductor  in  that  Play  ;  so  tnia  Author  revives 
Guicciardine  for  ihe  same  inirpose.  And  in  the  Last 
Arc,  as  woll  as  the  present  Times,  the  Poeta  fre- 
quently intrclucVl  <luml)  Representations,  which 
were  very  takinjj  with  the  Spectators."— P.  12. 

J.    HOLDEN   MacMiCHAKL. 

Paste  (10"'  S.  i.  447, 477).^Ha9  Da.  Murray 
tried  Urosseck  Black  well, ''  Elizabeth  Lazenby," 
and  the  other  makers  of  these  pastes? 
Bloater  paste  was  certainly  made  by  one  of 
thcHO  firms  as  early  as  1871  or  1872,  and  the 
label?  in  use  for  the  pots  lookc^l  (even  then) 
like  a  very  antique  style  of  lettering. 

H.  Snowden  Ward. 

Ad  early  reference  to  the  value  of  anchovy 
as  a  food  will  be  found  in  the  following  work, 
*'  Lemery  and  Hay.  A  Treatise  of  all  sorts  of 
Foods... also  of  Drinkables. ..how  tochuae  the 
Ijest  sort... of  good  and  bad  effects... the 
principles  they  abound  with,  the  time,  age 
and  constitution  they  are  adapted  to,. ..accord, 
to... Physicians  and  Naturalists  anc.  Si  mod. 
1745,"  8vo,  pp.  293-4.  The  name  is  here  3i>elt 
anchovis,  the  plural  anc/ioves,  Latin  ajma. 

W^M.  Jagg.v^d. 

I  cannot  quite  go  back  to  1840,  but  can 

diHinct.ly  remembor  "anchovy  ^Mtate"  \n  \X\«i   , 

CBtly  fifties.    It  waa  then  sold  in  round  ^tV-XWOuex  xevAerwi'^j. 


white  boxes  about  three  inc^i  r 

(tinned  foods  were  not  then  J 

labelled  "anchovy  past«"  on  the  top,  I 
forget  the  name  of  the  firm,  but  surely 
Dh.  Mobray  could  find  some  record  of  it 
by  Rome  of  the  older  firms,  such  ai 
Lazenby  or  Crosse  &  Black  well.  "Shrimp 
paste  "  and  '*  bloater  paste  "  are  certainly  of 
much  later  date,  and  are  evidently  a  copy  of 
the  old  "anchovy  paste."  In  Miss  Acton's 
'Modern  Cookery'  (18.^5)  potted  uuchovy  ia 
spoken  of  on  p.  306  as  "  paste  " ;  and  on  p.  389 
"currie-paste"  is  mentioncJ  in  reference  to 
the  cooking  and  serving  of  anchovies, 

J.  FosTiiR  Palmer. 

On  p.  116  of  Mrs.  Beeton's  'Household 
Management,'  published  1661,  ia  found  a 
recipe  for  making  anchovy  paste.  There  M 
no  mention  of  this  article  of  food  in  Soyer** 
cookery  book,  written  in  18.'54, 

Annie  Katk  Rascr. 

I  can  remember  both  shrimp  and  bloat«r 
paste  while  at  Kensington  School  in  1837. 

a.  c.  w. 

Wecan  traice having  manufacture^''  .'M,.l.Mvy 
paste  since  1835.     Probably  it  w.i  ^y 

the  firm  before,  but  we  have  no  re....  .    .   la 

earlier  date.     John  Buroess  &  Son,  Ltd. 

107,  Strand,  W.U. 

••  Purple  patch  "  (10"'  S.  i.  447,  477).— Lord 
Macaulay,  wlien  working  at  the  third  volame 
of  his  '  History,'  notes  in  his  diary,  under 
25  October,  1849  :— 

"Not  quite  my  whole  [daily,  seli-preseribed] 
task :  but  I  havo  a  grand  purple  patch  to  acw  oo 
[the  relief  of  Londonderry],  and  I  miut  take  tina.* 
— Trevelyan'B  '  Life,'  chap.  xii.      , 

His  biographer,  earlier  in  the  book,  but  of 
course  later  in  actual  date,  and  perhap* 
influenced  by  his  uncle's  phrase,  says  :  — 

"Ai>oiuted  story,  from  some  truniptry  memoir 
of  the  Ittttt  century,  and  retold  in  his  '■ 
purple  patch  from  some  third-raleaemi 
treatise,   woven  into  the  glittering   !, 
talk " 

I  have  had  the  impression  that  th 
which  of  late  years  lias  been  gai 
phrase  in  journalistic  writing  oat' 
publication  of  Macaulay's  '  Life  .'> 
Needless  to  say  Macaulay  was  &]., 
Horace.  H.  J. 

This   is,   of    course,   Horace's  " 

g[innus,"  as  noted   by  your  con 
ut  the  adjective  denotes  not  on 
which  we  call  ''purple,"  but  any  bi 
e.specially  scarlet,      It  also  raeui 
white,  as  applied  to  swans,  and   I 
\\Vvsa.    \i^uc«  "bright  putch " 


^^^ 


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611 


It  w  perhaps  of  interest  to  add  tliat  the 
phrase  "patchwork  poets,"  followed  by  the 
quotation  from  Horaco'3  'Ara  Poetica,'  ll.  15, 
16,  occurs  in  the  Gimrdian,  No.  149,  of  1  Sep- 
tember. 1713.  The  essay  is  ascribed  to  John 
Gaj',  the  poet;  see  'The  British  Essayists/ 
vol.  xvi.  p.  xxii,  vol.  xviii.  p.  vi,  H,  C. 

"  OuB  Lady  of  the  Snowi*"  (lO*''  S.  i.  240, 
311,  392).— The  second  line  of  the  saying  used 
by  children  in  Yorkshire,  when  running  out 
of  doors  to  catch  some  of  the  first  flakes  of 
snow  b«Kinaing  to  fall,  as  (Quoted  by  Ma.  Addy 
at  the  la«t  reference,  viz.,  "  Hally,  Hally 
Blaster,"  simply  means  alabaster,  in  allusion 
to  the  whiteness  of  the  snow,  and,  in  my 
opinion,  has  nothing  to  do  with  "  tlie  German 
Hollo,"  nor  with  "Blaster,  the  spirit  of  the 
air."  An  old  woman  residing  some  twenty  or 
thirty  miles  from  London,  in  Kent^  known  to 
our  family  many  years  ago,  was  accustomed 
to  speak  of  "alabaster"  as  " hallyblaster," 
and  of  anything  covered  with  enamel  as 
"  animallod  all  over."  W.  L  R.  V. 

Fbttipl.ick  (10"'  S.  i.  329.  396,  473).— There 
are  some  beautiful  monuments  and  crosses  to 
the  Fettiplace  family  in  the  parish  church  of 
Swinbrook,  Oxfordshire.  I  saw  them  some 
years  ago,  and  was  much  struck  by  them. 
Six  mefnbers  of  the  family  are  represented  in 
effigy,  each  resting  on  a  marble  shelf  in  a 
recumbent  posture,  leaning  on  his  elbow. 
They  are  :  — 

1.  Sir  Alexander  Fettiplace,  who  died 
10  September,  l.'>04. 

2.  William  Fettiplace,  died  1&62. 

3.  Sir  Edmund  Fettiplace,  died  1613,  who 
caused  this  portion  of  the  tomb  (or  perhaps 
the  whole  or  it,  leaving  blank  shelves  for  his 
successors)  to  be  built.  The  occupants  of  the 
remaining  shelves  Ihavenoted  a.s  Sir  Edmund, 
Sir  John,  and  an  untitled  member  of  the 
family.  Of  the  la«t  three  figures  one  is  in  a 
costume  of  the  time  of  the  Commonwealth, 
and  the  others  wear  large  Ramilics  perukes. 
The  Sir  John  is  proliably  the  first  Baronet  of 
Childrey  and  Swinbrook,  created  "in  con- 
sideration of  services  and  sufferings  for  King 
Charles  I.,"  30  March,  IGCl. 

In  addition  to  this  fine  tomb  there  are  in 
the  church  two  interesting  brasses  relating 
to  tlio  same  family.  One  has  a  knight  and 
two  ladies,  with  four  female  children  facing 
each  other  below  the  principal  figures.  The 
coats  of  Arms  on  this  bras.s  are  all  blank 
except  on©  which  hears  the  Fettiplace 
cognncauce,  Gules,  two  chevronels argent.  The 
otiicr  and  earlier  brass  is  verv  interesting  ;  it 
has  a  knight  in  chain  hauberk  and  greaves  of 
plate,  his  head  resting  on  a  fine  helmet  with 


crest.    He  ia  clad  in  a  surcoat  or  tabard,  the 
two  chevronels  of  the  arms  on  the  breast  and 
on  the  two  wings  over  the  shoulders.     Below 
is  the  following  distich  :  "of  y'  charitie  pray 
for  y«  soule  of  Antonue  Fettiplace  Esquire 
which  riecossed    the  xxiii  day  of  December 
in  y'  yeare  of  our  Lord  god  Mccccf.  on  whose 
soule  fhee  have  mercy  A[mon]."    Besides  the 
Fettiplace  arms  on  this  brass,  there  ia  another 
coat  bearing  Quarterly,  1  antl  4,  two  ribbons  ; 
2  and  3,  a  fret,  a  chief  charged  with  three  roses. 
Hung  up  on  one  of  the  walls  of  the  church 
is  a  fine  shield  in  an  elaborate  scroll  border, 
bearing  Barry  of  .six,  on  a  chief  three  stars, 
impaling     the    arms     of     Fettiplace.     The 
peculiarity  of  this  coat  is  that  it  is  elaborately 
stitched  in  gold,  though  no  other  tinctures  are 
now  visible.    The  arms  may  possibly  bo  those 
of  some  husband  of  a  Fettiplace  lady.    There 
is  a  good  deal  of  heraldry  on  the  monument 
itself,  consisting  of  the  arms  of  the  various 
wives  of  the  persons  represented  ;  but  from 
considerations  of  space  I  forbear  to  mention 
them.    The  last  holder  of  the  baronetcy  was 
Sir  George  Fettiplace,  who    was  buried  at 
Swinbrook   21   April,    1743,  when   the    title 
became  extinct.    The  family  left  from  time 
to   time   large    endowments   to    the  parish, 
which   are   -still,    I   am   informed,   in   active 
operation,  and  form  a  temptation  to  people 
to  reside  in  the  parish.    Tlie  lost  baronet  is 
said  to  have  had  au  estate  worth  5,000/.  a  year, 
and  to  have  left  100,000/.  in  money.    Of  his 
five  sisters  Diana  married  llobert  Bushel,  of 
Cleve  Pryer,  co.  Worcester,  and  was  mother 
of  Charle*  Bushel,  who  in  1743  inherited  the 
estate  of  Childrey  and   took    the   name  of 
Fettiplace,  and  died  17  October,  1764,  leaving 
two  sons  who  both  died  i.p.,  when  the  estates 
passed  to  his  grandson.  Richard  Gorges,  who 
also  t<x)k  the  name  of  Fettiplace,  but  died  t.p, 
21    May,  1806,  in  his  forty-eighth  year,  the 
estates  passing  to  his  seven  sisters. 

J.  B.  P. 

May  I  be  allowed  very  gratefully  to  thank 
the  correspondents  who,  at  the  last  reference, 
have  supplied  me  with  the  answer  to  my 
query  ]  Had  I  looked  for  Bray,  I  should,  of 
course,  have  found  where  Ock wells  Manor 
was.  Mr.  Fynmore  says:  "The  house,  it  is 
believed,  was  erected  by  a  Norreys  in  the 
reign  of  Henry  VL"  I  am  now  able  to  add 
the  following,  which  I  have  culled  from  the 
*  National  Gazetteer,'  under  '  Bray  '  :— 

"In  thii  pariah  is  tli«  curious  old  manor  house 
of  OckhulU  or  UckwelU,  built  l>y  John  Norreys  in 
the  latter  half  of  the  tif(«enlh  century,  aud  long  the 
■est  of  hit  descendants." 

CuAS.  F.  Fob&b.w'x  ,  \A^S4 . 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


A  LAKE  ao^"*  S.  i.  468).— This  has  nothioK 
to  do  with  Alexander  or  Melech.  In  the 
language  spoken  by  the  Akua  or  Egbaa  (for 
the  inhabitants  of  Abeokata  are  known  by 
botb  these  names)  Alake  racans  "  Lord  of 
Ake."  Al  is  a  possessive  prefix,  and  Ake 
(two  syllables)  Is  a  proper  name,  that  of  the 
head  town  or  village  of  the  groap  known 
collectively  as  Aljeokuta,  For  tne  early 
history  of  Egba-land  and  its  metropolis  see 
the  late  Sir  R.  F.  Burton's  '  Abeokuta  and 
the  Camaroons  Mountains,'  1863. 

Jame6  Platt,  Jun. 

Gbnkai,o<;y;  Xkw  Sources  flO'^'  S.  i.  187, 
218,  258,  39(5).— I  shall  be  glad  if  Mr.  Gerald 
Marshall  will  kindly  inform  me  where  and 
how  the  Admiralty  Bill  Books  of  the  seven- 
teenth and  eighteenth  centuries  may  be 
seen.  G.  B. 

•The  Yono  Souldier '  (lO""  S-  i.  428, 477).— 
Mr_.  Fynmore  quotes  an  error  made  by  me 
which  occurs  in  the  first  edition  of  my  'Army 
Lists  of  Roundheads  and  Cavaliers.'  Howl 
came  to  fall  into  it  I  cannot  explain,  but  so 
it  is  that  I  made  the  blunder  of  confounding 
•John  Rainaford  vvith  Thomas  Rainborowe, 
the  Parliamentarian  officer  who  was  mur- 
dered at  Doncaster,  29  October,  1648.  An 
account  of  this  latter  person,  communicated 
by  me,  appears  in  Archveotogia,  vol.  xlvi.  p.  9. 
Edward  Peacock. 

Kino  John's  Charters  (lO""  8.  i.  4eJ9).— 
The  places  which  W.  I.  seeks  to  identify 
must  be  looked  for  on  the  other  side  of  the 
(.'hannel : — 

Vallis  Kwloirii]  is  Yaudreuil,  on  the  Eure, 

Castrom  de  Vir,  the  castle  of  Vire,  a  town 
in  the  south-west  of  Normandy,  towarcis  the 
frontier  of  Maine. 

Bonavilla  super  Tokam,  Bonneville  on  tlie 
Touques.  S.  G.  Hamilton. 

"  Hdmanitm  est  errarb  "  (10"»  S.  i.  389).— 
The  philosophy  which  is  summed  up  in  this 
maxim  is  a  commonplace  of  the  Greek  and 
Latin  literatureSj  occurring  in  various  forms 
through  the  different  centuries.  "Thence  it 
passed,  as  has  so  frequently  been  the  case 
with  proverbial  sayings,  into  the  European 
literatures,  where  it  has  become  widely  and 
enduringly  domesticated.  I  have  noted  a 
large  number  of  examples  for  my  forthcoming 
*  Dictionary  of  Phrases,  dtc.,'  and  add  here 
a  selection  from  the  Greek  and  Latin  speci- 
mens, arranged  chronologically,  to  illustrate 
-the  frequency  of  its  occurrence,  and  some 
ol  the  various  verbal  forms  which  it  has 
ssumed.    So  Uv  I  h&vo  fai\ed  to  trft.ce  «L\i 


erravi.  —  Terwic 
'  Ad  Attican 


earlier  "origin"  than  a.d.  1745  (Melchior 
I'olignac)  for  the  precise  Latinized  form  ifl 
which  the  maxim  is  now  current  in  EuglandJ 
though  '*Errassehumanume8t"o£St.  Jeroma 
is  probably  the  real  source. 

u/(upT<i>Aal...  (f  ivBfuuirouTiv  iiromt  BvijToi\ 
— TheoRnU,  v,  327-8. 

wdp^notfTt  yafi 
TOts  TToxri  Koivov  toTi  roi'fa^a/)T«xi'««v. 

Sojihoclea,  'Antigone,'  1023  4  (said  by  ToirwiwJ. 
afiapTftv  (tKO%  dy0p<oiro\»:. 
EuriitidoB, '  Hippolytus/  615  {tbo  Nan»). 

TO  yop  I'lfiapTi'tyftv,  d^-dpuirovi  oi-ra?,  ovSft 
oLfxai,   davpaoTOV. — XonojihoQ,  *Cyn>p»di»,' 
iv.  19.  ^       ^ 

p^jSif    apuLpruv    i<m     OtiUv. — Demo«th«nc 
•D©  Corona,'  V.  ix.  §  *2«)  (in  the  epigram  on  the 
<ire«ks  who  fell  al  Clxeroiiea). 

av6pii>yro(;    wf    yjpapTov    ov    f}<xvpaxmov  — 
Mouiuider,  Fra^m.  4UII,  Kock. 

Censen'   hntiunem    nw    euse! 
'Adelphi,' IV.  ii.  40{Denieft). 

...possum  fa.lli,  ul  homo. — Cicero, 
xiii.  21,  ">. 

CujiiAvis  homtnis  eat  orr&r«.  aullina  nisi  inaii 
enlia  in  errore  per«ever»re.— Cicero,  '  I'hilippit 
xii.  2,  5.     (The  thoueht  is  alio  contained  in  hia  ' 
Invent.,'  ii.  3,0:  '*Nou  enira  jusrum  cogiin«se, 
in  parum  cognito  diu  et  atalte  peraeveraaae  tu 
est.^') 

Per  humanoa.  inquit,  errorea.— .S«nec«  (Rhefc 
'  Excorpt*  ex  Controversiii,'  IV.  iii. 

Nemo  nostrum  non  peccat.     Iiomin«s  aunma,  ne 
dei.— PotroniuB,  'HatjTicon,'  cap- 75. 

Fateor  roe,  domina,  t»ye  i»«cane :  nam  et  hor 
sum  et  adhuc  juvenis.— /^tr^.,  cap.  130. 

...ut...breviter   amplectar,    homo    sum.  —  I'linf 
(Secuudua),  '  Epiatolse,'  V.  iii.  2. 

[2a)KpaT)js]  iJy«TO,  AvSpitiViiiv  pkv  tTmt 
apapTavtiv. — Lucian, '  Demon.,'  7. 

Peccare    enini    hominia    oat,    inatdias     toac 
diftboli.-Jerome, '  Adv.  Ruf.,'  iii.  33  (ool.  fiflO  V« 

...si  erraati,  ut  homo— Ibid,,  iii,  36 (col.  G08  V.J. 

...erraase    numanum    eat,    et   conhteri    error ^ 
prndentia. — Jerome, '  Epiatolx,'  Ivli.  12. 

Errare  hamanuni  est.  —  Melchior  de   PoU 
'  Aoli-Lucreliu8'(pub.  a.d.  174^),  v.  5S. 

Examples  from   English  and    c<:it 
literature  could  l^e  multiplied  almo- 
nitely :    two  of    the  most  famous    may   bd' 
given  here  :— 

To  err  ia  human  ;  to  fofKive,  divine. 

Poiio,  '  Esaay  on  Criticism.'  Pt-  Ii.  <BS. 
Ea  irrt  der  Meusch,  ao  lang'  t 

Goethe,  '  Fauat :  Prologn  eo.' 

I  should  be  very  grateful  to  L.  »V 
could  supply  the  precise  words  of,  .-^ 
ence  to,  trie  example  he  has  foanu  w,  .>^' 
letters  of  Severns  of  Antioch. 

Wm.  Swak  Sosnewscheih. 


V     (.Mr.  Chr.  Watsox  also  sends  the  ncforaace 


P" 


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513 


Links  with  the  Past  (lO"*'  S.  i.  325,  414).— 
To  the  note  concerning  Lativ  Burdetl-Coutts 
at  the  former  reference,  the  following  extract 
from  the  Standard  of  22  April,  recording  the 
celebration  of  that  venerable  lady'8  ninetieth 
birthday,  should  be  added  as  promising  to  be 
of  apecia)  interest  in  any  future  enumeratioo 
of  "  links  with  the  past"  :— 

"Tlie  Barones8  Burdelt  Contts  was  the  recipient 
of  hearty  conKratulations  from  a  very  wide  circle  of 
frienda.  Her  table  at  the  htncheon  was  decorated 
with  bask«t«  of  flowers  received  from  her  friends 
and  tmploye^,  but  the  mogt  jnteresting  gift  was  an 
offering  of  magnificent  La  France  rosea  from  '  the 
youngeiit  Baroness  to  t}ie  oldest  BaroueBS,'  brou|;lit 
ID  person  by  ttie  Baroneas  Clifton  (daiigltter  of  the 
lata  Earl  of  Darnley),  who  has  just  turned  four 
years  of  oge." 

For  the  sake  of  precision,  it  is  to  be  added 
that  "  the  olde!jt  baroness  "  was  born  21  April, 
1814,  and  "the  youngeat  baroness "  22  Jan., 

1900.  ALFBED  F.   ROBBINS. 

Latin  for  "Ropijto"  a  Horse  (lo""  S.  i. 
448). — A  Inqueus  among  the  Romans  was  a 
lasso  or  snare  by  which  wild  animals,  game, 
•fee.,  were  caught  by  the  neck  : — 
Turn  laqiieis  captare  feras  ct  fallcrc  vi<)co 
Inventuni,  et  niagnoa  canibua  circumdare  saltus. 
^^  VirK.,  GeorR.  1.,  11.  1.^9-40. 

^P  J.   HOLDKN   MACMtCdAEL. 

William  Peck  (ID*''  S.  i.  34fi,  434).— See 
3"»  S.  T,  434,  507. 
^H  Chas,  F.  Forshaw,  LL.D. 

^KAiHOO  AXD   Baskibu   (lO**'   S.   i.  264,  297, 

^HMk — RSD  Cbcss  may  be  interested  to  know 

^^PBIl  met  in  Uottingen  last  November  a  son 

^^fDr.  J.  Campbell,  who  told  me  that  "  the 
learned  author  is  still  living."  I  have  never 
read  the  book  in  question,  but  heard  of  it 
from  Mr.  W.  Webster  in  1888.  The  com- 
parative philologist  ought  to  travel  with  a 
phonograph  all  over  the  world  when  neither 
too  oln  nor  too  young,  and  to  do  so  rapidly, 
so  that  his  impressions  as  to  similarities,  iic, 

^inay  not  fade  before  tltey  are  utilized. 

■  £.  S.  D0DG8OX. 

^"  I  shall  feel  very  grateful  if  Red  Ckos.s  will 
kindly  give  me  the   extracts  he  speaks  of 

^npon  the  above  subject. 

^  (MiH8)  A.  H.  LoNo. 

^V    Woodfleld,  Kilcavan,  King's  Co. 

Bardkrs  (10«"  S.  i.  290,  375).  — My  friend 

^3fR.  Andrews  will  find  several  excellent  poems 

>n    barbcrM  in   the  'Poetical    Register'    for 

1810-11,  publj/ihed  by  F  C.  «fe  J.  Rivington  in 

1814.  Cbas.  F.  Forshaw,  lLD. 

Uradforil. 

Many  paragraphs  have  appeared  in  'N.  ik<j.' 
inder  the  head  of  women  and  lady  barlwrs, 


from  which  Mr.  Andrews  may  obtain  somo 
information.    See  7^"  S.  xi.,  xii. ;  8"»  S.  v. 
Everard  Homk  Coleman. 

71.  Brecknock  Road. 

Alexander  Penneguik,  Gent.  {lO**'  S.  i. 
386).— I  have  a  copy  of  the  second  edition 
of  'The  Historical  Account  of  the  Blue 
Blanket ;  or,  Craftsmen's  Banner,'  E<lin- 
burgb,  1780,  in  which  tlie  publisher  states 
that  the  author  was  "a  burgess  and  guild 
brother  in  the  Good  Town,"  but  does  not  say- 
to  which  of  the  incorporations  he  belpnged. 
Tiiese  were— Surgeons,  Goldsmiths,  Skinners, 
Furriers,  Hamraennen.  Wrights,  Masons, 
Tailors,  Baxters,  Fleshers,  Cordiners,  Web- 
sters,  Waulkers,  Bonnetmakers.  The  author'* 
"Epistle  Dedicatory  to  the  Craftsmen  of  the 
Fourteen  Incorporations"  is  dated  "Edin- 
burgh, August  1,  1722."  Was  he  relatetl  tO' 
Alexan<ier  Ponnecuik,  M.D.,  the  author  of  a 
*  Description  of  the  Shire  of  Tweeddale : 
with  a  Collection  of  Select  Scottish  Poems,' 
Edinburgh,  J.  Moncur,  1715]  This  Dr. 
Pennecuik  seems  to  have  been  a  son  of  Alex- 
ander Pennecuik  of  Newhall,  Midlothian^ 
who  was  a  surgeon  in  the  Scots  army  in 
1644.  In  'The  Domestic  Annals  of  Scotland' 
an  account  is  given  of  a  fierce  fight  between 
two  bands  of  gipsies  at  Romanno  in  1677, 
and  we  are  told  that  soon  after  it  took  place 
the  laird  of  Romanno,  "a  quaint  physician 
named  Pennecuik,  who  wrote  verses,"  erected 
a  pigeoti-houso  on  the  scene  of  the  conflict, 
and  placed  the  following  inscription  over 
the  door : — 

Tho  field  of  Ripsy  blood  which  here  you  see 
A  shelter  for  the  harniless  dove  shall  be. 

W.  S. 

TuE  CfiEaHiRE  Cat  m  America  (10""  S.  i. 
365).— Several  explanations  have  been  offered 
of  the  proverbial  phrase  "to  grin  like  a 
Cheshire  cat."  At  least  three  distinct  origins 
are  claimed  for  it,  one  of  which  is  that  cheese 
was  formerly  sold  in  Cheshire  moulded  like 
a  cat,  the  allusion  being  to  this  grinning 
cheese-cat  (1"  S.  ii.  377,  412i.  No  evidence, 
however,  is  forthcoming  tnat  this  cheeae- 
formetl  cat  was  really  represented  with  a 
grin,  or  what  might  have  been  mistaken  for 
one.  such  as  is  depicted  in  *  Alice  in  Wonder- 
land.' In  Holland's  'Cheshire  Glossary  '  it 
is  claimed  that  the  grin  of  the  wolf  in  tho 
arms  of  tho  Earls  of  Chester  is  unmistak- 
able, and  that  the  frequent  occurrence  of 
these  arms  in  Cheshire  might  have  suggewt^d 
tiie  saving,  "as  the  wolf's  heat!  might  eanily 
have  been  mistaken  for  that  of  a  cat."  But 
the  resemblance  between  a  wolf's  hea<l  aad  «.. 
cat's  h«id  ia  V\«.t\i.\^  vj  ^Joviaxka  *&  "va  ^'s«s^«« 


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tins  deduction  perfectly  satisfactory.  The 
aflinitv  between  the  wolf  aud  the  dog, 
indeeti,  would  in  this  case  suggeat  that  a 
better  rendering  of  the  proverb  would  bo 
*'  to  grin  like  a  Cheshire  doo."  Then,  again, 
it  is  tliought  to  be  from  the  lion  rampant, 
the  crest  of  an  influential  family  in  Cheshire, 
or  rather  in  a  particular  district  of  the 
county,  where  it  adorned  the  alehouse  sign- 
'aoard,  but  where  it  was  so  unskilfully 
executed  as  to  be  mistaken  for  a  grinning 
cat.  This  is  nearer  the  mark  ;  but  I  venture 
to  offer  the  following  as  the  true  explanation. 
Both  the  lion  and  the  leopard  when 
they  occurred  in  signboard  art  were  vul- 
[urly  spoken  of  as  the  "Cat."  The  "Blue 
jion,"  for  instance,  was  the  "  Blue  Cat." 
Cut's  Head  Court,  in  Westmin-ster,  derived 
its  name,  probably,  from  the  leopard's  he^d 
of  the  Company  of  GoMsmiths ;  and  a 
correspondent  of  'N.  &  Q^.'  n»'  S.  v.  402) 
says  that  in  the  village  ot  Charlton,  Wilt- 
shire, a  roadside  alehouse  was  commonly 
known  as  the  "Cat  at  Charlton,"  the  sign 
having  been  originally  "a  lion  or  tiger,  or 
some  such  animal,  the  crest  of  Sir  Edward 
Poore."  Now  the  city  of  Chester  impales 
for  its  arms  the  lions  of  England  with  the 
arms  of  the  earldom  of  Chester,  the  latter 
being  Azure,  three  garbs  or.  These  lions  are 
blazoned  passant  guardant,  in  which  posi- 
tion, the  old  armorists  say,  the  lion  should 
be  described  as  a  leopard.  The  leopard,  of 
course,  belongs  to  tlio  cat  tribe,  and  is,  in 
reality,  of  the  same  family  with  the  cat ;  and 
it  is  this  aftronte  or  full  faced  attitude  of  the 
leopard,  as  distinct  from  both  the  statant 
and  the  passant  position,  that,  I  think,  pro- 
bably suggested  the  "grinning"  part  of  the 
"jroverb,  and  tliis  because  the  mouth  of  the 
ion  or  leopard  is  generally  represented  by 
heraldic  carvers  and  artists  with  a  curve 
upwaixls  at  each  extremity.  The  leopard's 
head  is  sometimes,  I  believe,  represented  in 
the  arms  of  the  county  also  ;  but  1  think 
Mr.  Fox- Da  vies,  in  his  'Book  of  Public 
Anns,'  Hays  that,  properly  speaking,  tlie 
County  Palatine  of  Chester  has  no  armorial 
bearings.  J.  Holdbn  MacMichael. 

"Sal  et  saliva'  (lO"'  S.  i.  3C8,  431).— Mb. 
8.  O.  At»DY  remarks  with  reference  to  hia 
quot^itiou  from  'Corpus  Poeticum  Boreale,' 
"  llenco  it  is  probable  that  salt  also  was  used 
OS  a  charm."  Both  salt  and  spittle  have  an 
old-world  and  widespread  reputation  as 
potent  protectors  against  the  evil  eye.  Salt 
in  baptism  has  aU'ays  been  popularly  held 
in  Italy  and  other  Jloraan  Catliolic  countries 
to  be  put  into  the  child's  mouth  to  make 


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him  spit  out  the  Devil.  Thi^  •  •-  i  -"■  T-inr^t 
with  the  more  refine<^l  explu  njo 

of  your  correspondent*!.  Thj.;  ,.i..  , ,  ^...,_.l  as 
a  distinctly  avowe<l  prophylactic  charm  is 
certain.  At  the  Espositioue  Agricola  ac 
Palermo  in  1903  there  was  a  room  set  apart 
for  the  display  of  a  collection  made  by  Dr. 
Giuseppe  Pitre  of  objects  in  illustration  of 
Sicilian  folk-lore.  Amongst  these  sevei-al 
were  separately  numbered,  and  specially 
attached  to  a  board  marked  "contro  la 
jettatura,"  each  of  which  was  to  be  worn  on 
the  person.  No.  C  was  labelled  "SaccUeito 
di  Sale." 

In  vols,  ii,,  iii.,  and  iv.  of  hia  book  '  UhI  e 
Costumi,  Credenze  e  Pregiudici  '  '  T""  ►la 
Siciliauo,'  my  friend  Dr.  Pitr^i  i  no 

fewer  than  twenty-one  different  a^i--^  m  mile 
as  a  charm  and  prophylactic ;  e.g.,  thrown 
after  the  bridal  pair  (p.  73),  as  we  '1"  •  "-"I  in 
this  connexion  it  is  sf/Dibulo  di  -  ax. 

Before  a  birth  the  woman  places  a  .- ..l  ialt 
in  the  doorway,  and  then  watciics  who  fir»t 
enters.  If  a  man,  the  child  will  be  a  male : 
if  a  woman,  a  female  (p.  122).  To  noto  all 
the  allusions  to  salt  in  relation  to  anbaptized 
infanta  (iv.  30) ;  to  the  dread  of  it  by  witches 
at  tiieir  banquets;  aud,  alUl  morei,  to  their 
dread  of  garlic  {a<jlw),  both  of  which  are 
said  to  have  "forza  contro  le  maliardo  e  l9 
malie"  (p.  110),  would  occupv  too  much  of 
your  space;  but  the  book  is  lull  of  interstt 
and  a  perfect  mine  of  folk-lore. 

On  the  virtue  of  saliva  and  the  act  of 
spitting  very  much  has  been  wti>*  -  -Mile 
fresh  facts  keep  on  coming  to  li^;  /ill 

over  the  world;  but  as  a  protect...,  .v.;.iuist 
witchcraft  of  all  kinds,  ana  also  as  u  curative 
charm  for  certain  ailments,  fa-stim^  -'  Uile 
has  always  been  held  in  the  higl  ico. 

Saliva  and    the  chrism   must,  n-  •  „    to 

the  rubrics,  be  applied  by  the  thumb  in 
baptism,  yet  even  to-day  it  is  held  lien;  by 
olu  nurses  and  raid  wives  that  spittle  or  oint- 
ment must  always  be  applied  bv  th"?  middle 
finger  (digitut  medicus),  or  it  will  t\]» 

wound.  F.  T.  Ki 

Wellington,  Somerset, 

Storming  of  Fort  Moao  (10'»J  S.  i.  4:8>.— 
Richard    Cannon's   'Historical    I  oC 

the  several   regiments  which  wi  i  j.^J 

on  that  service  should  bo  consulted  tor  juirti> 
culara.  I  have  only  a  few  volumes  of  lua 
work,  and  they  do  not  include  the  '  Ueoords* 
of  the  56th  Uegiment ;  but  I  quote  tho 
following  from  tho  'liecords'  of  the  Ifitih. 
Foot  :— 


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ron    t!i6    isUnil    uf    (..'i>b».     Pftssing    through    the 

NStraita  of  liulamu.  the  exiteUitioi)   arrived  withiu 

six  leaguoa  of  ihe  llavanuah  on  the  l»lh  of  June  ;  a 

laixiiriu  WM  eflfected  on  the  following  day ;  ftod  on 

I  The  IHh   the  troops  look   up  a  position  between 

Coximar   and    the    Moro,    a    fort    which    it    was 

deemed  necessary  to  beaiege  and  captxire  before  an 

attack   Wtt8   made  on   the  town.    In   this   servioe 

'eroat  hardships  had  to  be  endured;  a  tliiu   soil, 

'lirtrdiy   aufficieut    to    cover    the    troops    iu    their 

1  approaches,  a  scarcity  of  water,  and  the  labour  of 

1  dra^fenng  tlio  artillery  eeveral  miles  over  a  rocky 

'country  and  under  a  burning  sun,  ealled  forth  the 

I  efforts  of  the  arm^  and   navy.    The  works  wore 

carried  on.  the  sailieg  of  the  enemy  were  repulsed, 

an<i  the  Moro  fort  was  captured  by  atorni  on  the 

SOlIi   of  .Inly.    A  series  of  batteriea  were  erected 

lau'.iinst  the  town  :  and  on  the  lltli  of  August  they 

■  opened  so  well-directed  a  fire  that  the  guns  of  the 

|Karri»on  were   silenced,  and   flags  of    irnco  were 

huu^'out  from  the  town  oud  ships  iu  the  harbour. 

[: The  regiment  lost  a   number  of  men  on  this 

Fininortant  service :   I^ieut.    iSkeno  was  among  the 

[Itillod  :   Cant.   Tyrwhitt  and   Lieut.  Winter  died 

lirom  the  efl'ects  of  climate.    After  the  capture  of 

the  Havannah  the  regiment  was  stationed  at  that 

Vlace  eleven  months. 

I  have  Army  Lists  of  1766  and  1777,  but 
cannot  find  "Wigffins"  or  "O'Higgins"  in 
^either.  W,  S. 

^1  Collins  (10^"  S.  i.  329,  398).  —  Bardaley'a 
^^  Dictionary  of  English  and  Welsh  Surnames ' 
^HliK)]),  p.  18G,  say.s  Collins  means  tho  son  of 
»  Kicholas,  and  the  volume  pives  a  list  of  the 
I  namodi'jtributed  through  England  from  1273 
^■to  a  recent  period. 

^H  If  Mx(.  Jal'kson  consults  the  British 
^■Museum  Catalogue,  he  will  find  there  are  no 
fewer  than  220  authors  named  Collins,  and 
^twenty- Bve  of  the  name  appear  iu  the  Dic- 
^■tionary  of  National  Biograjmy.' 
^^  I  have  no  means  of  ascertaining  how 
many  Collinses  there  are  in  England,  Scot- 
^Jand,  and  America  ;  but  we  are  not  alto- 
rether  left  in  the  cold  in  Ireland,  for  we  see 
5j'  Mr.  Matlicson'8  report  on  'Surnames  in 
"relaud '  (Dublin,  18yijl  there  were  15,600 
^oUiastis  in  Ireland  when  the  censun  was 
ikori  in  1801,  and  they  are  distributed 
trough  tlic  four  provinces  of  Ireland. 

Patkick. 
Dublin. 

"BAtiu.xit"  (10"'  S.  i.  349,  -134.    178).— On 

sy   purchasing   in    North  Tawton,   Devon, 

>IH0  coarse  (hempen  ?)  canvas  or  sacking,  it 

ra«  describe*!  to  me  in  tho  shop  and  atter- 

fnrds  by   farm-folk   as  Lnn'm.     I  was   tlio 

re  struck  by  tho  word,  as  my  purpose  was 

size  and  paint  on  tiio  material,  and  use  it 

way  of  iirra»  to  veil  a  di<<tigured   wall  ; 

3d    I    still    wonder  what,   if    any,   is    the 

)nnpxion    between    the    terms.     The    true 

fcixjatry  wo  know  took  iti  name  from  the 


town  wliere  it  wa«  produced  in  the  province 
of  Artois,  now  Pas  cle  Calais. 

Ethel  Lega-Weekbs. 

Bdildini;  Cd-stoms  and  Folk-lore  (10«^  S. 
i.  407).  —  Probably  the  different  types  of 
cottages  in  the  counties  are  to  be  accounted 
for  in  the  varying  material  ready  at  hand  for 
building  purposes  rather  than  in  racial 
divergences,  as  in  some  counties  Hint 
abounds,  in  some  timber,  and  in  others  stone, 
«fec.  See  Thos.  Hudson  Turner's  '  Domestic 
Architecture  in  England,'  part  ii.  of  the  period 
from  llichard  II.  to  Henry  VIII.,  pp.  21-3; 
'  Homes  of  Other  Days,'  by  Thomas  Wright, 
F.S.A, :  '  The  Evolution  of  the  English  House,' 
by  .Sidney  O.  Addy,  M.A.,  1898;  and  the 
Leisure  Hour,  February,  1884,  'Home  Life 
in  the  Olden  Time.' 

J.  Holder  MacMichael. 

Ad  Arab  and  Turkish  custom  is  to  kill  a 
sheep  accompanied   by  prayer  at  tho  com- 
mencement or  completion  of  the  buihling. 
EvERAHD  Home  Coleman. 

71,  Brecknock  Road. 

[E.  L.-W.  also  recommonda  Mr.  Addy"s  book,] 

Beadnell  Family  (9"'  S.  xii.  4(50  ;  10"'  S.  i. 
17).— In  Highgato  Cemetery  is  a  monument 
to  the  memory  of  the  Beadnell  family,  with 
crest,  arms,  and  motto,  but  no  date.  The 
motto  is  "Nee  Timide  Nee  Teraere,"  and  the 
inscription  as  follows  : — 
This  catacomb  contains  the  mortal  rematnB  of 
Mary  Ann  Beadnell, 

John  lleadnell, 

Elizabelh  licadnell, 

•John  Beadnell, 

Elizabeth  Eaile, 

Charlotte  Arinie. 

It  is  regrettable  that  no  date  of  any  descrip- 
tion is  on  this  tombstone. 

Cn.18.  F.  FoiisHAW,  LL.D.,  F.R.aA.L 
Baltimore  House,  Bradford. 

"SAN«iUi8":  ITS  Derivation  (10""  S.  i. 
402).— Surely  the  word  sauffuix  comes  from 
tho  root  mff,  sal-.  It  is  probably  connected 
with  t(«f/ere,  «i<fus,  «('./ere,  and  with  our  own 
word  luip.  .\ifji<x  is  generally  referred  to  a 
root  ta,  to  scatter  or  sift ;  cf .  o-a-w,  to  sift. 
6a  appears  as  si  in  aJ/ia,  which  «eems  to 
represent  an  I.E.  form  *mi-mnnt,  tlarap. 
Cf.  Vani.-ek,  vol.  ii.  p.  976. 

H.  A.  Strono. 

Natalesk  (10*''  S.  i.  446).— In  commending 
this  won!  as  a  designation  of  the  inhabitanta 
of  NaUl,  U.  2  seems  to  overlo<ik  tho  merits 
of  its  alternative,  Natalians.  To  me  it  «eem« 
the  big  battalions  are  on  the  si«leof  the  latter 
terno,  unless  mental  associations  and  etyrao- 


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logy  are  to  count  for  nought  in  the  matter. 
It  consorts  well  with  Auatralian,  Canadian!, 
Ilhodesian,  and  with  the  names  of  many 
powerful  nations  occupying  large  territories 
either  at  the  present  time  or  in  the  past, 
such  as  the  Russians,  Egyptians,  Persians, 
Germans,  Romans.  On  the  other  hand,  the 
suffix  -<f*cis  associated  in  English  mostly  with 
peoples  who  have  played  a  comparatively' 
inconspicuous  rdle  in  the  world's  history,  if 
we  except  the  Chinese,  Japanese,  and  perhaps 
the  Portuguese.  This  may  lie  exempliiied 
by  the  Navarrese,  Maltese,  Tyrolese,  Pied- 
mont€se,  Aragonese,  Burmese,  and  Cingalese, 
as  well  as  by  such  civic  names  as  Genoese, 
Viennese,  and  Milanese— the  addition  of  a 
final  s  for  the  plural  of  which,  by  the  way, 
ceased  a  couple  of  centuries  ago.  From  its 
use,  too,  in  connexion  witli  the  language  of 
various  uncivilized  races,  this  termination 
has  a  pejorative  tendency,  as  one  notices  in 
the  depreciatory  significance  of  Jnmii'tlese, 
Carljilfse,  and  so  on.  Finally,  on  etymo- 
logical grounds  Natalese  is  open  to  objec- 
tion. As  Natal  was  so  callerJ  by  Vasco  de 
Gama  from  its  discovery  on  Christmas  Day, 
1497,  the  Latin  origin  is  clear.  But  the 
addition  of  the  Romanic  suffix  est  would 
imply  an  unknown  Liatin  natalensis,  belong- 
ing to  a  birthday,  just  as  Australese  would 
imply  an  mtstraleiisis.  This  would  be,  per- 
haps, an  argument  of  small  weight,  did  there 
not  exist  the  alternative,  Natalians.  which 
has  the  advantage  of  being  historically 
significant  not  only  from  the  discovery  of 
the  countrjr,  but  also  from  its  occupation  by 
the  Boers.  On  such  grounds,  therefore,  ft 
appears  that  "  Natalese "  might  well  be 
consigned  to  oblivion.  J.  Dormer. 

Here  are  some  names  of  the  sort  for  which 
H.  -2  asks  :— Bernese,  Bolognese,  Genoe.se, 
Maltese,  Milanese,  Fiedmontese,  Siennese, 
Tyrolese,  Veronese,  Viennese.  I  suppose 
Livornese  and  Ticineae  are  notj'et  Engush. 
John  B.  Wainewright. 

Inscriptioss  on  Public  Bcildisos  {10"'  S. 
i.  448).— Cunsult  'House  Mottoes  and  Inscrip- 
tions, Old  and  New,'  by  S.  F.  A.  Caulfeild. 
Suggestions  might  also  be  found  in  'The 
Book  of  Sundials,'  by  Margaret  Gatty,  1890, 
and  in  a  later  work  on  the  same  subject  by 
an  author  whoso  name  for  the  moment 
escapes  ray  memory.  There  are  two  articles 
on  'Sundials,'  by  Mr.  Warrington  Hogg,  in 
the  Stranrl  i]f/iff(i:inf,  the  first  of  wdiicli 
appeared  in  June.  Ifi92.  The  idea,  so  far  as 
private  houses  is  concerned,  seems  to  liave 
taken  the  form  of  a  questionable  taste  for 
hftckneyed   Bible  t^xta,  the  absurd  impro- 


priety  of  which    is,    in    many    insl 
nauseating  in  its  familiarity.     Bat  no 
could,  of  course,  object  to  the  i: 
grand    in    its    simplicity,   over 
Exchange,  "The  earth   is  the  Loru  •<. 
the  fulness  thereof,"  a  suggestion,  I  bolifl 
of  the  late  Prince  Consort,    Over   the 
trance  to  a  house  in  ancient  Pompeii 
found  "Hie  habitat    felicitas,"   a- ■'    i" 
ladies'  tea-room  at  the  House  of  ( 
the  curt,  if  salutary,  advice,  "< 
standing."    There  is  said  to  be  a  i 
Ireland  with  a  quaint  and  approp I 
over  every  door  ;  and  these  are  so  wed  ciioseu 
and   expressive   that,   however    often    seen, 
they  appear  ever  fre^h   and   new,   proving 
really  useful  to  visitors  as  well  as  inttrenting. 
At  Harleyford,  a  little  village  in  Bucking- 
hamshire, it  is  said  that  there  is  a  row  of 
some    thirty-one    houses,   each    bearing  »n 
inscription.     One  reads,  "If  thou    Hpeakwt 
evil  of  thy  neighbour,  come  not  nic'    •' 
door  of  this  house."    Another  runs, 
on  earth,  goodwill    towards  women.      .i>i" 
another,  "An    obedient    wife    governs    her 
husband."    A  most  interesting  collection  of 
house    mottoes    was    contribute*!     bjr    Mr. 
William     Norman      Brown,     F.llHS.     ti> 
Countnj  Life  for  8  April,   1899.  an^- 
are   many  happy  selection."*   inailo    i 
London    Borough    Councils.    For    iri 
Hammersmith  has "Specteniur  agenda 
Alfred  C.  Fryer  read  a  pa(>er  on  'Sn 
in   Decemljer,  1891,  l)efore   thf   men- 
the   Bristol  Literary  and  P! 
The  lecturer  had  collected  a 
mottoes,  arranged  under  the  lu:. 
sical,   JSententious,   Alliterative, 
One  of  the  last  was  "  Amicis  qua-liui't   w-< 
(To  friends  any  hour  they  please).     In 
place  of  a  sundial  with  "  Pei-eunt  e| 
tantur,"    removed  during    the    Re«f 
from  the  south  pKjrch  of  Gloucester  Cn 
the  Dean  erected  one  in  tlie  cloist 
witli  the  motto,  "  Give  God  thy  h( 
service,  and  thy  gold  ;  the  day  wears  oh,i 
time  is  waxing  old." 

J.  HoLDBN  MacMicoai 

May  I  express  a  liope  that  M 
will    finally    decide    on    an    inn- 
English  ?     Why  should  wo  continoo_ 
a  foreign   language  for  this  purpm^ 
esi">ecially  in  our  villages?     I  am  etit 
favour  of  the  teaching  of  Ijitin,  but  OoCj 
inscriptions  on  buildings. 

Hauii  Ti 

."W,  Ndrljonuc  Avoiute,  Clajilmin  Cuutiau 

These  are  commonly  to  be  fnunrl  in 
dealing  with   topography,  aroliRologfi 


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517 


archit€ctnre.  But  wliy  copy  «ome  pxifting 
inscription  \v)ieri  so  many  excellent  virgin 
'irases  offer  tliennselves  ?  A  brief  study,  for 
Ist&noe,  of  Bacon'u  *  Essays'  might  re\*eal  a 
uiiber  of  crisp  sentences  suitable  for  Mn. 
IcCarVs  purpose.  Wm.  Jaguard. 

139,  Canning  Street,  Liverpool. 
(Mr.  H.  V\'.  U.vDERDOwy  also  refers  to  the  book 
S.  F.  A.  Csul(oild.J 

Dr.  Samuel  Hinds,  formekly  Bishop  ok 
OBWicn  (lO""  S.  i.  227,  351,  41'>).— I  roraera- 
r,    when    a    boy   at    Kchool,   the    strange 
inours    prevalent    in    IWT  regarding  this 
lnt.e'8  reaiRnation,    which  was  caused  by 
h  entire  loss  of  memory  and  mental  aberra- 
tion of  a  very  distressing  character,  culminat- 
tTig  in  the  scandal  of   his  second  marriage. 
After  hia  resignation  he  lived  in  the  neigii- 
bourhood  uf  Xotting  Hill,  and  during  the 
I^Kears  186.1  to  1B66  I  often  used  to  meet  him 
'^pi  the  streets  of  that  neighbourhood,  and  in 
^his  strange   attire  he  presented  a  striking 
Ap[)eArance.    It  was  said  that  at  first  he  was 
very  straitened  circumstances,  eventually 
Jieved,  as  it  was  commonly  reported,  by  the 
unty  of  the  fourteenth  Earl  of  Dei  by,  the 
ime  ifinister,  who  more  than  once  unsuc- 
sfully  endeavoured    to  obtain  for   him  a 
nsion  from  ecclesiastical  funds,  and  upon 
e  occasion  raisefJ  a  debate  upon  the  subject 
in  the  House  of  Lords,  thus  paving  the  way 

tr  the  existing  law,  passed  a  few  yours 
bsequently.  authorizing  the  paj'ment  of  a 
>nsion,  out  of  the  salary  of  his  successor,  for 
a  bishop  who  is  compelled  by  age  or  infirmity 
to  retire. 

Dr.  Hinds  had  been  a  Fellow  and  Tutor 
of  Queen's  College,  Oxforti,  and  was  Vice- 
incipal  of  St.  Alban   Hall  when  and  after 
rchbishop  Whately  wa-s  Principal.    He  was 
tan  of  Carlisle  for  about  a  j-ear  (October, 
S,  to  September,  1849),  succeefled  Bishop 
iwurd  Stanley  in  lR-19  as  Bishop  of  Xor- 
ch,  and  was  a  member  of  the  first  Oxford 
iiiversity  Commission.  F.  D£  H.  L. 

Harefath  (10"'  S.  i.  199,  459).— Harepath 

a  common   field  name  in   Devon   in    and 

fiihin  a  few  miles'  radius  of  South  Tawton, 

}cl  I  have  noticed  it  irt  a  Wiltshire  terrier — 

kthinlc,  near  Bishop's  Canning. 

A  farmet  told  me  once  he  fancied  that  one 

liis  meadows  might  have  got  the  appella- 

)M  from  it«  being  travcrseil  bv  hares,  the 

loks  or  paths   worn   by  their  habitual  use 

(ing    even    more    clearly   discernible   than 

^uso  ma^le  by   rabbits.    The  field   or  ]>lace 

Line  Harper  is  also  to  be  met  with  in  the 

siglilx»urho<xJ.     Having  found  a  twelfth  or 

lirtecuth  century  surname  "  Le   Harpur " 


connected  with  the  vicinity  of  a  tenement 
so  called,  I  imagineil  its  bearer  to  have  been 
a  bard,  and  the  dwelling  to  have  derived  its 
name  from  him  ;  but  I  have  lately  seen  a 
case  in  which  Harper  would  seem  to  be  a 
corruption  of  Harepath  ( -  Horpath),  and 
its  situation  might  well  be  distinguished  aa 
lying  close  to  the  military  route.  It  occurs 
in  a  piinted  handbill,  dated  29  September, 
1820,  announcing  the  sale  by  auction  of  "that 
messuage  called  Harper,  otherwise  Hare- 
path  these  preraisas  adjoin  the  Turn- 
pike road  leading  from  Okehampton  to 
Exeter,  and  are  distant  about  a  irnle  from 
S.  Tawton  lime- kilns." 

Ethel  Le(;a-Weekes. 

TororjRAPHY  OF  Ancient  London  (9"'  S. 
xii.  429;  10«"  S.  i.  70,  29u,  4.'57)  —  As  Mr. 
MacMichael  is  au  cournnt  about  the  ceme- 
tery of  the  French  refugees  in  liondon  in 
1721,  will  he  kindly  send  us  a  word  as  to  the 
register  of  the  burial  of  their  dead  at  that 
period?  Does  it  exist?  Does  it  tell  us 
where  Pierre  d'Urte  (whose  Baskish  transla- 
tion of  Genesis  and  a  part  of  Exodus  I 
criticized  in  an  unfortunately  single-proofed 
article  in  the  ATneriviTi  •fnurtinl  of  I'liHol'igy 
for  the  year  1902)  died  and  was  interred  f 

E.  8.  DoDosos. 

"Send"  OK  the  Sea  (10'"  S.  i.  3G8.  450i.— 
In  the  'Gentleman's  Dictionary,'  LondfoD, 
170:j  :  "  When  a  ship  falls  deep  into  the  trough 
or  hollow  of  the  sea,  then  'tis  said  she  Sends 
much  that  way,  whether  a-head  or  a-steru." 
In  J.  K.'s  'New  English  Dictionary,'  fifth 
e<IJtion,  London,  1748:  "The  eliip  sends 
much,  i.e.,  falls  with  her  steru  deep  into  the 
hollow  Ijctween  two  waves."  W.  S. 

Blin  (10'"  S,  i.  428). -The  'New  England 
Register,'  vol.  xvi.  p.  19,  contains  a  pedigree 
of  a  family  of  this  name. 

Chab.  Hall  Crouch. 

"Golf":  is  it  Scandinavian?  (10"'  S.  i. 
IGi^  ;  see  also  the  quotation  from  the  'Rook 
of  Articles  '*  in  the  first  column  of  9""  S.  vi. 
44.^)— It  is  liardly  likely  that  Mary  should 
l>e  described  a.s  playing  "  fcith  the  pahnall 
and  goif,"  unless  these  words  meant  the 
clubs  used  in  the  games  now  known  by  the 
namefi  of  pall  mall  and  golf.  Wo  cannot  be 
certain  until  the  '  N.E.D.'  has  treated  the 
preposition  u'ith.  Q.  \- 

Doge  of  Venice  (10^  S.  i.  409)  —In  the 
Appendix  to  his  '  Marino  Faliero,  Doge  of 
Venice,'  Byron  gives  the  account  of  him  in 


*  Of  which  the  true  date  is  i^Oti,  and  not  oa  (here 
printed. 


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NOTES  AND  QUERIES. 


[iO'»-t>.  J.  Ji.skir.,  1904. 


the  *  Croni 
Italicaruiu 


carliSanuto'(Muratori,'SS.Rerum    Fox»  SLeridan,  and   the  younKer  l»itt 
1,   vol.  xxii.  628-39)  m  the  original    pp.  70,  72-5,  80,  and  205-6  is  rauch  iutornn 


At 

formation 

At  p. 


Italian,  with  an  Enalish  translation  by  Mr.  F,  '  concerning  this  well-known  place 

J    wliK-h    latter    I    extract    the  j  is  reproduced  much  of  Dicken-s'scharactemtio 

)  dcscnptiuii  from  'Sketches  by  Boz.'    We  an 
ir  iliil  not  paint  liis  portrait  in  the  ball    told  that  the  practice  of  aupplvinff   wine   to 
:&'^l'ril"AL°J.*'l*^?'^?AiH'n^  their  meals  "  f ecJ  lo  lucratiro 


Cohen,    from 
following  : — 
"  And  they 
of  the  (ireat 

ought  to  have  been,  you  ace  these  words  :— '  Hie  est  I  frAn«aM;r>.,r'!^«f'J:^'„"iTt.'''u   "^  *■"  '"*^"*"*^ 

locu«    Marini    Falelro  dccflpitali  pro  criminibua.'    ,  ^"T/'0"s   outsido   the   House,  and  so  the 

■    ■     •  foundations   wer-e  laid  of  a  banmess  whioli 

exists    to    this    day    in  Westmhister."     Tbei 
latter   statement  is  not  quit«  true  at    tho 


.1  must  not  refrain  from  noticing  that  Bome 
I  ■wished  to  write  the  following  words  in  the  {>lacc 
'  where  his  iwjrtrait  ought  to  hare  been  as  aforesaid  :— 
•Marinus  FaletroDux.  Teiueritaa  mo  cepit.  Pienas 
liii  decapilatuK  pro  criniiiiibuB."  Others  also  indited 
a  couplet,  worthy  of  being  inscribed  upon  his 
tomb  :— 
Dux    Venetuni    jacet    hole,  patriam    qui    prodere 

teutans, 
Hceptra,  docus,  censaiD,  penlidit,  atque  caput." 

The  inscription  on  a  black  tablet  is  still  to 
be  neen  on  tne  frieze  in  the  Sala  del  Maggior 
Consiglio,  but  ''Falethri,"  not  "Faletro," 
appears  to  be  the  correct  reading.  Faliero 
was  executed  17  April,  1355. 

John  B.  Wainewright. 

TMh.  .1.  IKiuMr.R,  Mk.  J.  A.  J.  HotTsDKN,  Mr.  E. 
I'l-  M-.iiK,  and  Mu.  R.  A.  Pons  also  refer  to  Marino 
Faliero.  1 


GcrucASsTEB  (10'''  S.  i.  448). — Oancaster 
Bars  such  a  similarity  to  some  ancient  forms 
»f  Godnianchester  that  there  is  little  room  to 
'doubt  the  identity  in  queation.  It  was  called 
Qumicastra,  Gumicestre,  and  Oumyceater. 
In  the  Cotton  MS.,  quoted  in  Dugdale's 
'  British  Traveller,'  are  certain  particulars  of 
the  ca!«tom4  of  tho  manor  of  Godmancheater, 
w^here,  it  says, 

"  also  it  ia  ordeyned  and  Btatutyd,  that  if  any  man 
of  the  h'^  towne  of  Guniycesler  have  two  or  three 
sons  by  one  woman  lawfully  begotten,  the  younger 
of  the  s'  sons  shall  be  the  ayor.  accordiui;  to  the  use 
and  custonieof  borough  Knglian,"  &c. 

So  in  Lewis's  *  Topog.  Diet.' :  "  The  manor 
was  first  granted  in  fee  farm  to  the  'Men  of 
Gumcester.'"        J.  Holdkn  M.\cMichabl.     ! 

The  '  Becord  Interpreter,'  in  *  A  List  of  the 
Latin  Names  of  Places,'  give  Gutnicastrum, 
Godmancheater,  Hunts.  Dunum  is  given  for 
Doncaster,  Yorks.  Arthcr  Hussey. 

Tankerton-onSea,  Kent. 


present  time,  for  the  busin&ss  carried  on  at 
38,  Parliament  Street,  by  Messis.  Bellanir, 
Smith  J:  Boyes,  underwent  some  changes.' 
and  after  being  thus  known  for  many  yc«r*. 
It  became  Bellamy  &  Smith,  and  now  tho  firm 
IS  entirely  extinct.  A  wine  merchant'* 
business  is  still  earned  on  iu  the  old  ofRceB* 
by  Messrs.  Liberty  &  Co.,  but  they  inform 
me  that  they  did  not  take  over  the  bu- 
W.  E.  Harla.np-O  • 
C2,  The  Almshouses,  Rochester  Row. 

"Hen-hussey":  "Whip-stitch":  "Woon- 
TOTER"  (lo;"  Si.  449.  4ir,).-M'hipsf,(cA  in 
Annatidales    '  Iinfjorial    Dictionary*   U    ex- 

glamerl  to  be  a  tailor  in  contempt.  Th<r 
17®^  "v  1  hP  Davies,  in  his  '  SupplceuenUrj' 
Jinghsli  Glossary,'  says  it  means  to  atiU'fk 
slightly,  and  gives  the  following  quot&tiott 
from  'Quip  for  an  Upstart  Courtier,'  by 
Robert  Greene  (IS.TO -92):— 

"In   making  of  velvet  1         ' 
quired  silke  lace,  cloth  of  gi. 
costly  atuife,  lo  welt,  guard, 
and  draw  out."  '  "  *''    ""  ' 

-.  «     ,      ,  .  EvBRARD  Home  Coleman, 
(1,  Brecknock  Road. 

GAYU3    Di.\ON'    fKV"    S.  i.    449).- Kxiruct 
from   Catalogue  No.   40,  1904,  i>*8UL«d    by  A 
Russell  Smith,  24.  Great  Windmill  Streetl 
London,  W.  : —  ^ 

.144    Dickson    (D.)    A    Brief    l-kpoaillon    of    tli» 
hvangel  of   Jesus   Christ   aecordinR    lo  &l«ttJt«r 
(unperfcot  at  end),  2«.,  (;iasgow,  I&47. 
Was  this  the  first  "  Dickson  "  rt^r 

..-.     %r       .L  UOKAI.I 

4(>,  Marlboronfch  Avetme,  Hull. 


" Bellamy's"  (10"'  S.  i.  1C9,  352). ^Tn  that 
well-known  book  *  Pariitvcnenb,  Past  and 
Present,'  by  Arnold  Wri>rht  und  Phili{)  Smitli 
(published  by  Hutchinson  &  Oo.,  but  without 
date),  PoMTicjAN  will  find  at  p.  69  of  vol.  i. 
a  portrait  of  John  Bellamy,  yho  ia  there 
described  iisbeing  the  "founder  of'tlio  Kitchen 
2>a/»/irtment  of  the  House  of  Commons,"  it  J.^l"'^'^' 
beiiit<  finiliev  noted  t)mt,  as  propiiotor  of  .  |.' 
"BeJlamy'a  Kitchen,"  ho  was  intimate  with    ... 


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Cofms  nwl  BaHad».     First  ^,Miicii. 
V\  nidus.) 

■l''ion  of  Mr,  <-:■•-•. '•:- 
lis  has  lot. 

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519 


I  by  '  The  Queen   Motlier  and  Rosatnond '  &nd  by 
rAtulanta    in    Calydon,'  it  wiu    the  first    purely 
lyrical  oUfsininK  of  Mr.  Swinburne's  invenliou.    To 
men  of  to- day  the  pother  caui<ed  by  its  apjiearaneo 
{»  A  JhinK  so  wholly  of  the  past  that  no  further 
ueution  seems    requisite^  or  expedient.     Alen    of 
yesterday  can  scarcely  dispose  of  the  question  so 
placidly  and  with  bo  much  ease.     Such  remember 
the  welcome    awarded  'Atalanta  in  Calydon,'  a 
^^work   in  its    revelation    of   strength    and    beaaty 
^^^nstituting  the  most  remarkable  tx^^^ic:  firatfniits 
^Hlhal    had    been    seen  since  the  days   of    Milion. 
^*T\cill>er  the  envy  nor  the  hatred  of  dulness  could 
deny  iho  grace  and  glory  of  such  work,  and  criticism 
grudgingly  conceded  thai  a  new  planet  had  8wum 
into  the  worid'e    ken.      With   the  ajtpcarance  of 
*  Poema  and  Ballads '  came  an  opportunity  not  to 
bo  missed  of  maligning  geniua  and  coni|>etisatinK 
for  enforced  eulogy,    i'rom  the  recoKuized  critical 
organs  of  the  day  there  went  uji  a  scream  of  con- 
demnation and  execration,  in  answer  to  which  the 
peccant   volume  wa.s  withdrawn    by  n    jiublisher 
whose  caution  was  in  advance  of  his  other  gifta. 
To  these  tbinp),  to  which  we  should  not,  probably, 
have  recurred  had  not  Mr.  tiwioburne  himself  re- 
ferred to  them  in  combative  fashion,  the  ajipear- 
ance  of   the  first  volume  of   the  collected  works 
.constitutes  a  complete  answer.    No  reply  was,  in 
SLOt,  needed,  such  havine  been  brought  about  in 
he  best  and  simplest  fashion.    The  only  effect  of 
.  [)e  spasm  of  indignation  and  affright  on  the  part 
»f  Mrs.  (Irundv,  and  the  subsequent  action  on  the 
part  of  tiio  imblisber  in  question,  was  that  a  now 
name  appeared  at  the  foot  of  the  title-nage  of  a 
rork  in  which  no  elision  of  any  kind  had  been 
jiadf,  and  that  copies  of '  Poems  and  Ballads'  with 
Jie  original  title-page,  diflfering  in  no  respect  what- 
Ivver  from  the  later  ismies,  were  purchased  at  an 
inhanced  iirice  by  a  few  Riiileless  collectors.    When 
Jiow,  as    the    first    volume    of    the    new   e<Iition, 
'^^  Poems  and  Ballads  '  is  reprinted,  our  search  fails 
to  detect  the  slightest  variation.     The  order  of  the 
poems  is  the  sanio,  and   the  dedication   "To  my 
Iriend  Kdward  Burne-Joues"  is  retained.     In  type 
and  fofmat  the  editions  are  dilTerent,  and  the  new 
, volume  hao,  in  addition,  a  dedication  of  the  col- 
ected  poems  to  Theodore  Watts-Dunton.  together 
rlih  a.  dedicatory  e)>i8tle  to  the  same  writer,  which 
I  equally  honouring  to  both.     In  these  things  is 
iouiid  the  mritter  of  most  interest  to  the  possessor 
jf  the  earlier  edition.     In  no  sense  can  the  ])rcface 
|>e  regarded  as  an  apologia.    It  is  to  some  extent, 
however,  autobiographical  and  elucidatorv,  and  it 
it  lit  a  high  degree  defiant.     In  the  last  lines  the 
ohara^t^rislic  altitude  of  Mr.  Swinburne  towards 
riticsand  friends  reveals  itself:  "  It  is  nothing  to 
UC  that  what  I  write  should  find    immediate  or 
snrrid  ncoeptance  :  it  is  much  to  know  that  on  the 
iv'    '         '  >u  forme  tlie  right  to  address  this 

'(!  iriscril)«  this  edition  to  you."     Else- 

^V iiliurne  lays  :  "To  parade  or  to  dia- 

bluiiii  experience  of  iiassionorof  sorrow,  of  pleasure 
K  of  pain,  ift  the  hablL  and  the  sign  of  a  school  which 
Ws  never  f  '  '■■-■■  '^  rvmong  the  Instter  sort  of 
English  )"•  •  I  know  to  he  no  less 

pitifully   '-  V'ur  ii[iinioii    than    in 

nine.  "    Of  ii*t  n  ciners 

the  entire  Held  'I  workn) 

YY .  ..-..-.>.  .,..  ...^.  Watt*. 

[1  "  It   is  with  n 

t\  '  lobe,  the  Red 

liuU,  01  the  Black  Tnarji,"  a  jnecc  of  information 


which  tella  the  sympathetic  critic  little  that  he 
does  not  know,  but  which  will  be  of  highest  service 
to  the  but  half-enlightened  reader.  The  whole  of 
the  epistle  dedicatory  tempts  to  extract.  For  the- 
synyjathelic,  the  cultivated,  and  the  scholarly 
reader  the  book  now  reiirinted  contains  more 
exquisite  poetry  than  is  to  »e  found  in  the  writings 
of  any  man  of  similar  age.  Such  limitation,  even, 
might  be  withdrawn,  and  we  might  repeat  than  Ji> 
any  tirstfruits. 

ThtGidrn  Horn  Book,   By  Thomas  Dekker.  Edited 

by  R.  B.  McKerrow.  (Uo  La  More  Press.) 
Thk  '  Gull's  Horn  Book '  is  the  moat  jiopular  of 
I^kkor's  works,  and  was  rendered  accessible  in  aa 
edition  by  Dr.  Noti,  in  modern  spelling,  in  1812. 
long  before  the  rage  for  reprinting  Elizabethan  and 
Jacobean  literature  had  set  in.  Published  a.s  it 
was  at  a  price  (3(i<.)  all  but  prohibitive,  this  lx>ok 
became  nearly  as  hard  to  find  as  the  original  edition. 
One  or  two  reprints  have  since  apjioared,  and  the 
work  has  long  figured  on  our  own  shelves  in  the 
reprint  of  Dckker's  prose  works  issued  by  Grosurt 
in  "TheHuth  Library."  In  this  the  old  spelling 
is  preserved.  In  publishing  the  work  afresh,  in  au 
enunently  artistic  sha^io,  Mr.  McKerrow  follows 
pretty  closely  the  edition  of  Nott,  whose  text  (in 
the  main),  notes,  glossary,  and  initial  letters  are 
preserved.  An  intro<luctory  chapter  givefi  a  brief 
life  of  Dekker  and  much  bibliographical  informa- 
tion, while  a  Eupplement  suttplies  a  chapter  oa 
'  How  a  tiallant  should  behave  himself  in  a  Play- 
house,' which  was  substituted  for  that  of  the 
original  by  Sam  Vincent,  in  a  curious  and  scarce 
imitation  called  'The  Voung  Gallant's  Academy; 
or.  Directions  how  he  should  behave  himself  m 
all  places  and  Company.*  Few  books  cast  a 
brighter  light  upon  life  in  Shakespearian  tinioa 
than  'Thei.JuH'a  Horn  Book,' and  the  work  is  one 
that  no  serious  Shakespearian  student  should  be 
without,  it  is  qnaintly  and  fantasitically  written, 
and  may  be  read  with  amusement  as  well  as  studied 
with  a<lvautagc.  It  can  scarcely  be  desired  in  a> 
more  attractive  shape, 

Thf.  Rift  of  the  Dut(^h  RtpuUic:  a  HiMory.     By 

John  Lothrop  Motley.  (Bell  it  Sons.) 
To  the  "York  Library"  has  been  added,  in  threo 
pretty,  artistic,  and  handy  volumes.  Motley's  his- 
tory of  "The  Rise  of  the  Dutch  Re]>ublic,'  reprinted 
from  the  "Standard  Library.'  This  record  now 
ranks  as  a  classic,  and  in  ita  present  pleasint^ 
guise  is  likely  to  attract  thousands  of  readers.  We- 
owe  an  enormous  debt  to  the  "  Standard  Library," 
and  are  glad  to  welcome  its  masterpiccea  in  so 
pleasing  a  garb.  These  books  should  find  their  way 
to  every  home  that  owns  any  cultivation. 

A  Dictiotiarf/  of  Xaiiufi,  Xicbiamet,  and  SurnamM 
of  Pa:ioh;   'Place*,    and    Thing*.     By  Edwanl 
Latham.     (Routledge  &  Sons.) 
EvinKNTLS  of  Mr.  Latham's  industry  and  zeal  itk 
the  compilation  of  his  book  have  bet-n  frequent  la 
r. -      So  far  as  the  general   public  is  con- 
Latham  has  rendered  a  genuine  service. 
\  he  had  gone  further  and    assisted   the 

!ii.l.;.lu,  and  wo  urge  him  to  do  so  in  the  new 
filitioii  soon  to  Ixideranndod.  Wetiiid  licre  too  many 
names  the  hikjniticancu  of  which  is  forgotten  or,  at 
any  rate,  expiring,  such  as  the  Mtidcin  Pliny,  the 
.Modern  Wngner,  the  MicUcli».^w.Vv»  «5.^  Vk^^Wvi^vw 


520 


NOTES  AND  QUERIES.       [io-s.LJryK 


like  to  have  an  account  of  Grobiaiias,  the  Liber- 
tinei,  and  the  like.  No  mention  is  pyen  of 
Euphuism,  Mariiiism,  and  (.iongoriam,  literary 
moveineiiU  of  jtreat  imtiorUuice  in  EnRland,  Italy, 
and  Spain.  Little  Ueniard,  It  Pttit  Bntnnnl— 
Bernard  Salomon,  the  sixteenth-century  illustrator 
of  the  Bible  and  Ovid,  is  much  worthier  of  notice 
than  the  Little  Giant.  Oxford  dcgerves  mention 
as  the  Home  of  Loat  Cauaea.  VV©  could  aupply 
«core8  of  similar  instances  of  oniisaion.  Scholar- 
ship, aloa !  is  out  of  fashion,  and  the  man  in  the 
«treot  is,  it  api>ear8,  the  person  for  whom  to  eater. 

Familiar  S'ltnUejt  of  Men  and  Bookn.     By  Robert 

Louis  Stevenson.  (Chatlo  ic  Wiodus.) 
To  the  beautiful  fine-paper  edition  of  Stevenson 
has  been  added  a  delightful  reprint  of  one  of 
that  author's  most  characteristic  works.  AniouK 
iho  contents  is  the  '  Kseay  on  some  Aspect*  of 
Robert  Burns,'  the  agitation  caused  by  which  is  not 
4ven  yet  forgotten. 

Mi'OfUanifn  of  Edward  FitzOertUd.    (Routledge & 

Sous.) 
Six  Draman  of  Caldtroii.    Tranilat»d  by  Edward 

FitzUorald.  (Same  publishers.) 
Is  a  convenient  and  attractive  shape  we  have  here 
Fity.Gorald'a  translations  from  Caldoron,  and  in  a 
second  volume  'Omar  KhayyAm.'  '  Kupbranor,' 
'  I'oloiiius,'  'h)alufii;in  and  Aba^l,'  'The  Miinioir  and 
Death  of  Bernaid  Barton,'  and  '  Tiio  Death  of 
'(.reorfte  Crabbe.'  These  are  cheap  and  eminently 
desirable  reprints,  and  should  do  much  to  popularize 
the  study  of  Fitz<^ierald  in  that  large  public  he  )>aa 
hitherto  failed  to  reach. 

Yoi-l-Mhirt  yotii  and  Qiuricn.     Edited  by  Charles 

F.  Forshaw,  LL.D.  May.  (Stock.) 
■Ot'K  new  namesake  promises  well.  It  is,  as  it 
should  bo,  almost  restricted  to  the  service  of  the 
great  county  whose  n&mo  it  bears.  If  conducted 
on  its  present  lines  it  will  soon  become  a  valuable 
storehouse  of  facta  regarding  the  largest  and,  as 
the  tmtives  regard  it.  the  most  important  of  our 
sliirps.  The  biograpnical  article  with  which  it 
opens  is  worthy  of  attention.  It  is  very  interesting 
as  containing  not  only  an  account  of  Mr.  Henry 
James  Barker,  who  was  born  at  Sheffield  upwards 
of  tifty  years  ago,  but  also  a  selectioii  froni  his 
poems,  some  of  which,  when  once  read,  it  is  not 
easy  to  forj;ot,  The  gang  of  coiners  which,  towania 
the  end  of  the  eimhteentli  century.  Iiad  for  some 
years  an  establishment  near  llalitax  and  was  a 
Terror  to  the  neighbourhood,  has  recently  attracted 
attention.  A  correspondent  has  supplied  an  inter- 
esttnf;  illustration  ot  the  etTrontery  of  the  {people 
ontfaged  in  this  illegal  trade.  It  is  a  letter  written 
in  1770  to  Jostma  Sianclilfe,  n  Halifax  watchmaker, 
wh")  is  threatened  with  death  if  David  Hartley,  the 
leader  of  the  confraternity,  who  was  then  in  cus- 
tody, should  suffer  for  his  misdeeds.  The  gang  took 
terrible  vengeance  for  Hartley's  execution  (seeO"'  S. 
viii.  258.  299.  350).  Mr.  Arthur  Clapham,  of  Brad- 
ford, coDtributHS  an  interesting  paper  on  the 
Marmion  Chapel  and  Tower  at  Tan&eld.  accom- 
panied by  two  excellent  ensraviugs,  one  of  which 
represents  the  iron  "  herse  which  canopies  the 
tomb  of  one  of  the  Marniions  and  his  wife,  a 
St,  yuintin.  This  is  one  of  the  most  interesting 
objects  in  the  county.  Herses  must  have  been, 
before  the  sixteenth-century  changes  in  religion, 
fur  from  uncommon,  but  they  have  now  nearly  all 


of  them  fteriflhed.     There  ih  ■               '  '"   lUchUBP 

Chapel ;  and  a  portion  of  aii'  ^t  hare 

been,  when  perfect,  of  a  sjiin  to  that 

at  Tan  field,  is  preserved  in  t.b<»  ^uUt  Kensington 
Mufieuni. 

No.  XV.  of  the  Bill'  =  i 

description  by  Mr.  Clai.  fa 

VVatteau:  a  Fete  Clianii.  ..n..  u.  ,  c,^.i  ■.-■■. in^-.,  of 
which  senses  a.?  frontispiece  to  the  iiuniber.  Mr. 
Phillips  speaks  in  uu<pie.ttiouablc-  tcmis  rif  tlie 
work  in  question.     Another  pi'-'  nie 

artist  is  'La  Vraio  Gaietu.' froni  of 

Sir  Charles    Tennant.     Tlif    "■  ■  'f.-a 

earlier  work,  now  in  the  Nai  >n, 

is  a  fine  piece  of  criticism.     J  >n 

House  is  tinished,  as  are  the  tin  n 

the  Harlcian    MS.  of    'The    Ci'  ■ 

Breton.'    These  should  be  carefu..,  :^..  ...  iia 

CAM  of  any  revival  of  '  Richard  II.'  Part  li.  vt 
Mr.  Roger  E.  Fry's  '  Exhibition  of  French  Primi- 
tives' is  profoundly  interesting. 

B.iROS  t)E  ToryrEViLLK's  '  L'Anciei^   f..  •..,«■  a 
about  to  be  issued  by  the  Oxford  Uni"  '  >*■ 

The  editor  is  Mr.  G.  \V.  Headlam,  wl..  :8 

a  short  introduction  explaining   I)b  •* 

position  among  scientific  historians.  >'  Mb 

a  few  notes  of  B  more  or  leM  elcmeutju,  


^oiicti  io  €atrtsgim'btixU, 


•loJ^t 


Wt   rrnut  call  aptcial  atUntion  to  the  foii 
noticti : — 

On  alt  communications  must  be  written  the 
and  address  of  the  sender,  not  aec«e«»rily  for  pob- 
lication,  but  as  a  guarantee  of  good  faith. 

We  cannot  undertake  to  answer  queries  privalsl}- 

To  secure  insertion  of  commuuicatioua  cortc- 
spondents  must  observe  the  following  rule*.  L<t 
each  note,  query,  or  reply  be  written  on  a  a€{ianl* 
slip  of  paper,  with  the  signature  of  the  writer  lOi) 
•uoh  address  as  he  wishes  to  appear.  When  answer- 
ing queries, or  making  notes  aitli  regard  to  previooi 
entries  in  the  paper,  contributors  are  r»qoeated  U> 
put  in  parentheses,  immediatelv  after  tho  Miet 
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queries  are  requested  to  head  th«  aeoood  ooo- 
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A.  B.  ("O  broad  and  smooth  the  Avon  flows '1.- 
Froni  a  i)oem  by  Canon  If.  C.  Beechinu.  whiek  j-oa 
will  tinn  quoted  at  the  end  of  '  By  Thames  sad 
Cotswold,'  by  W.  H.  Hutton  (Constable.  HUM). 

R.  BAiu-LAvA],LARim:K  ("  Death  told  to  Iktti 
—This  piece  of  folk-lore  is  well  known. 

1).  WiixiAMsoN  {"  AlidH  in  Family  Names "X7 
You  will  probably  bo  interested  io  tbe  oonnnBai' 
cations  on  this  subjer.t  at  9""  S.  xii,  277.  YW 
letter  shall  appear  next  week. 

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INDEX. 


TENTH   SERIES.— VOL.    I. 


'  classified  articles,  hoc  Anonymous  Works.  BiDUooicAnnr,  Books  recently  FirDLisiiKr,  Editoriai.., 

EFIOKAIU.  EriTAPHB.  FOLK-LUEE,  HERALDRY,  ObITITARIES,   PrOVERKI  AKD    PuRASKS,  QUOTATIONS, 

BHAKurEAHiAKA,  SoNGS  ANP  Ballaps,  and  Taverx  (jiGsa.] 


A.  (E.  0.  E.)  on  FrAnoo-G«rmati  War,  22G 
A.  (J-)  on  Ad<liw)D'H  daughter,  160 
A.  {S.  M.  &)  on  heraldic  reference  in  ShakcBpeare,  888 
A.  (R-)  on  ongravingB,  370 
A.K.I.  =  nti,  "  for  flver,"  207 
A  I'oatranoe,  incorrect  phrase,  93 
A  past:  man  or  woman  with  a  pant,  earliest  use,  S27i  S96 
Abbots  Bromley,  born  dancing  at,  5,  296 
Abrahams  (A.)  on  Anachar«is,  449 
Manby  (Capt.  G.  W.),  21 
Southwell  (Right  Hon.  E.),  156 
'Aocentaation,  EuKUfih,  7*2 
Acsrbative,  use  of  the  word,  27,  174 
Ackerley  (F.  G.)  on  number  sup«rstition,  869 
Acre  as  a  measure  of  length,  101,  143,  854 
Actity,  u«ed  inateail  of  enact,  608 
Acta  of  the  ApoitleB,  curiou*  Christian  name>  171 
Adams  (F.)  on  "Virtue  of  necessity,"  76,  136 
Adderbury  Cburcb,  Oxfordahiie,  inscription  in,  233 
AddisoD  (Joseph),  bis  daughter,  68,  149  ;  his  library 
and  pictures,  150  ;  on  '  Paradise  Lost,'  249 
g      Addy  (S.  O.)  on  fulture,  290 
^K         "  Our  Lady  of  the  Snows,"  392 
^H         Plongbgang  and  other  measures,  101,  143 

■  "Sal  et  saliva,"  431 

■  Tideawell  and  Tideelow,  91,  229,  371 

^F  'Adesta  Fideles,'the'PortugueseHymn,'originof,10,64 
Adlati,  fictitious  Latin  plural,  193 
Admiralty    Bill  Books  as  new  sources  of  genealogy, 

396.  512 
Adnil,  curious  Cfariatiao  name,  171 
iEsop,  Greek  edition  of,  2^B 
African  War.     Shu  Bo«r  War. 
Alfia,  its  durivatiuD,  515 
Ainger  (Caaon  Alfred),  his  death,  140 
Ainoo  and  Bukish  languages,  264,  297,  432,  518 
Air.  composar  and  origin  of,  107 
Alaks,  the  Abbeokutan  ruler,  bis  title,  468,  612 
Aloott  <Miss  L.  M.).  ber  '  Eight  CooaiDa,'  489 
Aldenham  (Lord)  on  the  cope,  278 

Doraelahire  snake-Ion),  254 

Oprower,  318 
Aldrioti  (8.  J.)   on  error  in    '  Poliphili  Hypmeroto* 
maohia,'  07 

Horaos,  first  aditioa  of,  103 

'  Incendium  Dirini  Amoris,'  2 

Sun  and  its  orbit,  476 


Aldwycb,  derivation  of  the  name,  205 
Alger  (J.  G  )  on  Thompson  Cooper,  337 

Greig  (Admiral  Sir  Sainnel),  492 

Reign  of  Terror,  1 74 
Alleyne  (T.  and  H.),  OoUeKe  of  God's  Gift.  85 
Alliteration  :  "An   Auatrian  army  awfully  arrayed," 

ita  author,  120, 148,  211,  268,  277 
Alternate,  use  of  the  word,  47 
Amban,  Tibetan  title,  506 
Ambleetone  Cburcb,  ita  ancient  font,  488 
America.  Oheahire  oat  in,  365,  613 
American  colonies  and  England,  Teraea  on,  lOfi 
American  diplomas  and  degrees,  their  value,  44,S07, 297 
American  Loyalivts  compeninited  fur  losses  during  the 

war,  269,  313,  390 
Ample,  use  of  the  word,  8 
Anachanns  =  the  Duke  of  Argyle,  1815,  449 
Anagrams  on  Hope  Pius  X.,  146,  253 
Anahuau,  pronunciaiion  of  the  name,  507 
Anatomie  Vivante,  bis  history,  138.  I'S 
Anderson  (J.  L.)  on  "  God's  silly  vaHsat,"  17 
Anderson  ( P.  J.)  on  stamp  collecting,  it*  literature,  822 
Andrews  ( W. )  on  famons  barbers,  290 
Angels,  their  division  into  choir*  and  hierarctues,  294 
Angus  (O.)  on  arms  of  Pius  X.,  373 

Madame  du  Detfand'a  luttun,  14 
Animal- baiting,  modem  forms  of,  37 
Animals,  tb«ir  immortality,  169.  256.  336 
Animo   Ancipiti   on  name  for  a  university  womaa'a 

club.  489 
Anon.  Thaokeray'a  curious  use  of  (he  word,  246,  987 
Anonymous  Works : — 

Abbey  of  Kilkhampton,  12 

Aooepted  Addresses,  468 

Address  to  PorertT,  43,  151 

Children  of  the  Abbev,  127 

Children  of  the  Chapel,  407,  468 

Die  and  be  Damned,  328,  491 

Lor>l  Bateman  and  his  Sophia,  168 

Memoirs  of  a  Htomacb,  27.  67,  111,  171 

Pamela  ;  or,  the  Fidr  Impostor,  135 

Practice  of  Piety,  15 

Recommended  to  Mercy,  109.  832,  888,  484 

Reminiaceaoes  of  Thought  and  Feeling,  329 

True  Mstbodist ;  or.  Christian  in  Earnest,  167 

Willy  Wood  ud  Ore«lj  Ghule,  48 
Aopiel  on  birds'  eggs,  872 


w  622  ^^^p     INDEX.  ^^BETiZLirr^^ 

^^       Antiqa»riftn  v.  antiquary,  326,  396 

Ayeahr  on  "TymbeiB  of  ermine,'' 449                                      ^| 

AntiquAry  nn  Hawo^  :  Lem»n,  8 

Aylmerarmt,  155                                                                      ^M 

^^         Antiquary  e.  AutiijuariAti,  325,  H96 

Aylaham  woollen  manuiactare,  4,  172                                      H 

^H       Antooelli  (Cardinn)),  Mr.  Marion  Crawford  on,  60 

B.  on  birds'  eggs,  453                                                                   ^M 

^f        Aiitw«rp  Cathedrfti,  ita  foundatioDB,  508 

B.  (C.)  on  leper  hymo-writer,  237                                                 H 

^^        Apbikia  etoty,  Portugoeae  version,  466 

fi.  (C.  B.)  on  Daharla,  337                                                          ■ 

ApothacarieBaad  phyBioiana,  theirpreMriptions,  400, 45S 

B.  (C.  C.)  on  Pindar  family,  135                                                 ■ 

^H         Apperson  (G,  L.)  on  '  Death  of  Bozaaris,'  268 

Robin  A  Bobbin,  32                                                          ^^H 

^B        Apprentice  books,  Ipewich,  discovered,  41,  111 

"Sit  loose  to, "5                                                            ^^M 

^H        Apprentices  of  morchant  seainen,  book*  of,  187,  218 

B.  (E.  6.)  on  barrar,  485                                                   ^^H 

^H        Aram  ( Eugene),  Briatow  oD,  380 

Wentwortb,  its  local  pronunciation,  307                      ^^^| 

^H        AnihnologiMt  on  Earl  of  Egremont,  148,  2S4 

B.  (E.  W.)  on  "  Humanuui  eat  errare,"  389                       ^^H 

^V       Archer  (Daniel),  bi«  biography,  448 

B.  (G.)  on  new  sources  of  gtmealogy,  512                             ^^H 

^H         Areher  ( L.)  on  Daniel  Archer,  443 

'  Vioar  of  Wakefield '  in  Frenob,  489                                  H 

^          Architecture  in  old  times,  290,  333 

B.  (G.  F.  K.)  on  "  An  Austrian  army,"  277                              H 

Arg^ylo  (Duke  of),  1816  =  Anaoharaia,  449 

Oade  (Salisbury),  209                                                             ■ 

^_        Arioato,  fable  in  Mr.  C.  Marray's  '  Hearw,'  290 

Dean's  Yard,  Wetttmioster,  336                                           H 

^H        Ariatotle  nnd  moral  pbilooophy,  405,  472 

Domford  (James  William),  US                                             H 

^H        Arkle  (A.  H.)  on  William  Hartley,  87 

Fitfpatriok  (Richard)  and  G.  J,  Fox,  140                     ^_^| 

^H               Miller  (W.),  engraver,  336 

Gitil>ard  ( William),  329                                                 ^^M 

^H               Mirfiuld  Book  [Society,  SC8 

Gilbert  (Thomas  Hud  Richard),  407                            ^^H 

^V                 "Scole  Inn,"  Norfolk,  394 

Grimaldi  (Stacey).  his  MS3,.  267                                   ^^H 

^H        Arnutntut'  (T.  P.)  on  curioua  inaoription,  85 

Kemplaiid  (Frederick),  126                                                   ~H 

^H         Armtlrorig  gun  invented  by  J.  P.  Drake,  888,  436 

Kidd  (William  HoUan.l),  148                                        ^^M 

^H        Arthur  (Capt.)  and  Port  Arthur,  407,  457 

'  Oxford  University  Calendar,'  92                               ^^^| 

^H        Arthur  (King),  legend  of  hia  aleepicg,  77,  194 

Bellinger,  428                                                                  ^^H 

^^M        Artillery,  Hiiea  on,  in  Camden'a   'Remainea,'  104 

^H        ■  Aniudiiiea  Cami,'  J.  H.  M,'  in,  487 

B.  (H.  J.)on  Bagshaw.  152                                                  ^^M 

^H        Ash,  place-name,  its  derivation,  72,  118,  137 

Riding  the  bUck  ram.  36                                                 ^^H 

^H         Ash,  the  oak,  and  the  ivy,  SH 

B.  (H.  W.)  on  Sadler's  Wall*  pUy  alluded  to  bjr  Word*-        "■ 

^H        "  Aahea  to  ashes"  in  the  Burial  Service,  887.  429 

worth.  7,  70                                                                        ^^M 

^H        Aat&rte  on  Batronie,  338 

B.  (I.  B.)  on  sslep  or  Salop,  138                                          ^^^| 

^^1               Immortality  of  animala,  169 

Toys,  Wykehamical  word,  50                                       ^^^H 

^B                Melancholy,  148 

B.  (J.  M.)  on  Smythies  (Henrietta  Mari*  Gordua),  67           V 

^m               Biver  divided,  289 

Son  of  Napoleori  L,  107                                                  ^^H 

^H                 Russian  folk-lore,  347 

B.  (J.  W.)  on  NelMiu's  sister  Anne,  170                              ^^H 

^H         Aatley  (J.)  on  February  30.  238 

B<  (M.  0.)  ou  curious  Cbiisttao  nameii,  237                      ^^^| 

^H                 Robin  a  Bobbin.  218 

B.  CM.  L.)  ou  fro8t  and  iU  forms,  67                           ^^^H 

^m        Aatley'a.  ■<  Biding  Tailor"  at,  in  1815,  508 

B.  (K.)  ou  curioua  Ctiristi»n  names,  214                      ^^^^^| 

^H        Astrapatb  ou  game  called  S(at«,  226 

Downing  family,  113                                                 ^^^^H 

^H        Astwick,  York«bire  place-name,  spelt  Austwick,  466 

Fettiplace,  473                                                                 ^^^| 

^H         Athenian  system  of  dating,  439 

FroRt  and  its  forms,  116                                             ^^^H 

^H        Atkinson  (Stan,  li.)  on  consumption  not  hereditary,  427 

Gun  caster,  448                                                             ^^H 

^H                 Bopemakers'  Alley  Ghapol,  46U 

B,  (R.  B.)  on  Wolfe,  108                                                       ^^H 

^H                Still-born  children,  281 

B.  (R.  E.)  on  Dunkeld  (James,  firat  Lord),  82$               ^^M 

^H                Ru|>ervi£um  corpus,  508 

Thackeray  qaotation,  216                                             ^^^| 

^H         Audain  (Be%-.  John),  his  biography,  496 

B.  (R.  W.)  on  English  in  France,  253                                  ^^H 

^H        Anden  (G.  A.)  on  Audyn  or  Audin  family,  148 

Fle«twoo<l8  and  Milton's  Cottagv,  422                         ^^H 

^^M                 Oopper  coins  and  tokens,  466 

B.  (S.  A.)  on  baronial  family  of  Somorville,  509               ^^^| 

^M                 Leche  family,  334 

B.  (W.  C.)  on  Addison's  daughters,  ISl                            ^^M 

^H         Audin  or  Audyn  family,  148,  495 

"  Among  others,"  487                                                   ^^^M 

^H         Aunoell,  a  weight,  187,  237 

•'Ashes  to  ashes  "in  the  Burial  8«TiiM^4S«          ^^M 

^H        Aurora  l>oreali8  in  Liacolnahira  in  1640,  242 

Auncell,  187                                                              ^^H 

^^B        Austen  and  Blin  marriage,  428 

Aykham  cloth.  4                                                       ^^^H 

^H        Aaatralian  Houses  of  Legislature,  "  Bellamy's  "b,  109^ 

Uecket  (Thomas  "k),  hia  martyrdom,  452                    ^^^| 

^1            352,518 

Birch-sap  wine,  98                                                         ^^^| 

^H        Austnviian  vooabolaries,  848 

Birth-marks,  430                                                                  H 

^H       AuBtwick,  Yorkahire  place-name,  its pronunoJAtion,  466 

Cbevinier,  its  meaning,  169                                                  ^| 

^^M       Author  iind  authort^^iii,  use  of  the  words,  08 

ChriRlian  names,  ooriooa,  170                                             H 

^^U        AvitabilH  (Paolo),  h'n  visit  to  London,  188 

C'ollootioner,  94                                                                 ^^ 

^H       Axon  (W.  £.  A.)  <>ii  Gobdeu  biUiogrAphy,  481 

Comber  family,  152                                                       ^^^M 

^^B               Piirtiigaese  version  of  Aphikia  story,  466 

Cruci&x  at  north  door  u'                   '  ul's,  llM               ^^^| 

^H       Ayeahr  on  fetish,  466 

DeSand  (Madame  do),  l<                   14                         ^^H 

^^B              Fri'zen  words,  3 

Documents  in  secret  dmwent,  4r4                             ^^^H 

^^^            "Ship"  Hotel,  Greenwicli,  454 

En«ter  bibliogivphy,  266                                              ^^^H 

^^^             Spanish  dogg«rel,  147 

Boater  Sepulobrev  266                                                ^^H 

V<M«  and  QiMriM,  7alr  »,  1«M. 


INDEX. 


523 


B.  (W.  C.)  on  '  E«lwin  Drood  '  conkinned,  37 

Epitapha,  their  bibliography,  217 

February  30,  166 

"  Fide,  wd  cuj  vide,"  87 

FulUire,  226 

GIau  manuEtctare,  51 

"  Han^d,  drawn,  and  quartored,"  856,  410 

"Jenionalntack,"  477 

"  Kick  the  bucket."  814 

"  Kissed  bands,"  135 

London  mbbiih  at  Momow,  257 

Lynold  family,  307 

Manor  RolU,  i^uide  to,  27*2 

Mayor's  seal  fur  ooutlrm&tion,  447 

Mount  Grace  le  Ebor',  it«  records,  198 

•Oxford  English  Dictionary,'  193 

•  P.  P.,  Clerk  of  the  Parish,'  137 

Parkini»(Dr.),  SI 

Pindar  family.  136 

'  Plumpton  Currewpondeaoe,'  446 

•Practice  of  Piety,'  16 

Public  school,  our  oldest,  257 

Purlieu  :  Bow -rake  :  Buck-leap,  85 

"Sal  et  saliva,"  433 

Sex  before  birth,  406 
^        Sherlock,  426 
■        Sleep  and  Death,  315 
^M        "  Sod  confort  et  liesae,"  232 
^H        Stow,  luispriate  in  Tboma'a  edition,  206 
^P        Turner  :  Canaletto,  217 
B.  (W.  E.)  on  Latin  lines,  373 
B— r  (R.)  on  engravings,  336 

Martello  towers,  356 

Oak,  the  asb,  and  the  ivj,  35 

Penrith,  15t! 

Tideswell  and  Tidealow,  52 
B— •  (R.}  on  diabread,  126 
Babar  (Emperor),  his  memoir*,  147 
Badger  in  the  bag,  game,  289,  S55 
Bogshaw    (Samuel),    his    '  History,    Gazetteer,    and 
Directory  of  the  County  of  Kent.'  1847,  ».  162,  295 
Bairn,  Sootch  word  used  in  Lincolnahire,  415 
Bala,  weather  at,  317 
B«lbua  on  Penrith,  97 

BaIdo«ik  (O.  Tarrow)  on  medical  bMristers,  32 
Ball  (F.  EIrington)  on  John  Wainwright,  Baron  of 

the  Exchequer  in  Ireland,  65 
Banna  of  marriage,  time  of  their  publication,  18 
Baptism,  "sal  et  saliva"  io,  363,  431,  514 
Baptist  Minister  on  Temple  Collegv,  Philadelphia,  207 
Barben,  famous  referenoes  to,  290,  875.  513 
Barbey.Boissicr  ( Madame)  on  Louis  XVIL,  267 
Baralay-AUardice  (R.)  on  long  leasu,  32 

Parish  register  to  stop  a  rat's  \\o\e,  265 
Bardsley's  '  Diationary  of  Place- naiueN.'  error  in,  505 
Bames(  Barnaby),plotof' The  Devii'ii Charter,' 407,  509 
Barrar,  use  and  tneAuing  of  word,  349,  434,  478,  515 
^arrett College,  North Gaiolina,iUfiotitiousdegrees[,  46 
rristeni,  medical,  32 

iw,  use  and  moaning  of  word.  S49,  434.  478,  516 
(A.  O'D.)  ou  \<u-       i     "rlth,  67 
BWi,  'Life'  liV  M.  M: 

■        '-n;;uagoB,  .ut,  -^7,  432,  613 


BaM  Hock  music,  308,  874,  437 

Batohelor  (John),  his  Ainoo  ciiotiooary,  265 

Bates  (E.  F.)  on  Aristotle  and  moral  philosophy,  405 

Marlowe  and  Shjikeapeare,  75 
Bath,  Richard  Nash  at,  32.  96  ;  Nelson  at,  366 
Batley,  Easter  sepulchre  at,  1608,  266 
Bntrome  (John),  carred  woodwork  by,   88.  173.  262. 

338,  378 
Bnteon  (H.  M.)  oo  Mortimer,  109 
Battlefield  sayings,  263,  375,  437 
Baxter  (F.  W.)  on  Baxter's  oil  printing,  490 
Baxter  (George),  hi»  pateut  oil  printing prooeai,  427, 490 
Bayley  (A.  R.)  on  Beckst's  martyrdom,  451 

Bradley,  co.  Southampton  :  Clark  family,  456 

Camden  on  suraames :  Musselwhite,  314 

Charles  the  Bold,  232 

Crowns  in  tower  or  spire  of  church,  17 

Dee  (Dr.),  his  magic  mirror,  16 

Dorsetshire  snake-lore,  253 

Dryden  portraits,  435 

Bgremont  (Earl  of),  192 

Fair  Maid  of  Kent,  374 

"  Feed  the  brute,"  416 

FettipUce,  396 

Ghent,  its  arms,  168 

Hall  (John),  Bishop  of  Brisfeol,  72 

Hartley  (WiQiam),  198,  316 

Marlborough  and  Shakespeare,  177 

Nelson  and  Wolsey,  376 

*  Oxford  Uui varsity  Calendar,'  92 

Public  school,  our  oldest,  215.  257 

Read<!,  393 

Rous  or  Rowse  family,  97 

St.  DonsUn,  '216 

Shadwell's  '  Bury  Fair,'  221 

WalbeofffamUy.  413 
Bayne  (T.)  on  anon,  337 

Craik  (Georgjana  M.),  346 

Hasped,  366 

Hookey,  3S5 

Irving's  '  History  of  Sootiah  Poetry,'  836 

Oooalaska,  486 

Pennecuik  (Alexander),  gent.,  386 

Phrase :  what  is  it !  427 

Scotch  words  and  English  oommentatoia,  261, 456 

Shanks's  mare,  315 

Watts's  hymns,  508 
Beadnell  family,  17,  515 

Be^rdshaw  (H.  J.)  on  "  Run  of  his  teeth,"  478 
Beating  the  boundH,  origin  of  the  custom,  489 
Beaven  (A.  B,)  on  Uark  llildenley,  475 
Beaumont  (Sir  Thomas),  of  Whitley  Hall,  oo.  York, 

bis  motto,  87 
Beaumont  and  Fletoher'a  *  Vaientinlan,'  quotation  from, 

405 
Becket  (St.  Tbomiw  \),  his  martyrdom,  referenooe  and 

illnstratiooi,  358,  45i.) 
Beggi  (F.  0.),  book  collector,  hia  biography,  148,  193 
Bogum.     boo  Bh4>pal  and  Sumnfo. 
Belben  (P.)  on  "  send  "  of  the  sea,  456 
Bell:  Dead  bell:  Passing  bell,  use  of  custom,  308,  350 
Bell  (R.).  his  edition  of  Chaucer,  IDl  ^ 

"Bellamy's"  in  English  and  Australian    Houses  of^F 
LegisUlure,  169,  352,  518  J^ 

Bells:  "riugingthebel]sankeoraukert(awkward),"lj 
Bollado,  lupematural  hono  of  Spun,  417 


524 


INDEX. 


Nni*«  wtd  l^uarin*.  Joly  30,  l*>i 


Benslj  (£')  on  Kuthon  »{  ijuuUtiuiiR,  43;^ 

Burton's  *  A  nktoiuy  of  Mekncholy/ 42, 163,203, 282 

Horiice,  first  edition  «f,  S38 

Lfttin  quotatioa«,  437f  4&S 

Weftlber,  38 
Bent  (M.)  on  .TapaneM  nMnes,  238 
B^rangerV  letter  to  M.  Psquea,  165 
Berlioz  (Hector)  And  Emftnuel  Swedenborg,  20 
Betbftm-Ednrards  <M.}  on  women  votera  in  oountiea 

and  boroughs,  327 
B«Terid^  (A.  S.)  on  B«barV  memoira,  147 
B«ver1ey,  Euter  sepulchre  at,  1526,  265 
Bewley  (Sir  E.  T.)  on  HeArdlome  :  Heeoh.  29 
Beylo  (liunri),  his  use  of  "  de,"  34 
lifiuvr  stone,  its  prop«rtioe,  1 1 3 
Bbopal  (Begum  oC),  14,  68 

fiiancbi  (Nicomede),  Italina  biiitorian,  hu  MSS.,  349 
Bible,    Robert   Boyle   on,  186  ;  BMldih    tnuuUtion. 
1284,  315  ;  origiiiiU  of  St.  FmqI'b  " ■lowbellies,"  405  ; 
"Let  the  dead  bury  their  dead,"  488 
Bit>1e  texts,  phnueH  doing  duty  for,  20S 
Bibliography:  — 

-^»op  iti  Greek,  268 

Ainoo  and  Baskiah,  264,  297,  432 

Aloott  (Louisa  M.), '  Eight  CouBins,'  489 

Aisimals,  their  iui mortality,  169,  256,  336 

'  Atbunffi  Caiktnbrigieniea,'  348,  412 

BnriifB  (Barnaby),  'Tba  Devil's  Charter,'  467 

B*rt<rlozzi,  289 

Ba8ki«h  leK'ends,  190,  493 

Biaochi  (N.),  hieM88.,  349 

Boer  War,  1881,  226,  277.  395 

BoolcBtilling  and  pabiiehin^',  61,  142,  184,   242, 
304,  342 

Britonx,  ancient,  169 

Burton's  'Anatomyof  Melnncbuly,'42, 1 63,203,282 

Campbell  (T.),  Prof.  L.  Campbell's  edition,  486 

Channel  Islanda,  t;arlieiit  printing  in,  349,  436 

Chaucer ;   R.  Bell's  edition,  404 

Close  (Poet),  409 

Cobdeo,  481 

Cornish  lexicology,  326 

Crabbe,  86 

Craik  (Georgiana  M.),  her  first  novel,  346 

'Creevey  Papetti,'  285,  355,  436 

Dee  (John),  241 

Dibdin  iCharles),  463,  502 

DickeoB,  continuations  of  'Edniu  Drood,'37,  831 

Dyer  (Sir  Ed. ), "  My  miud  to  me  a  kingdom  ui,"  487 

Easter,  265 

KpiUphu,  44,  173,  217,  252,  334 

French  poems  and  folk-songs,  409 

Gaboriau, '  Marquis  d'Angiral,'  428 

Gibson  (Charles  Bernard),  106 

Goethe,  tranalationa  of'  Wilhelm  Mmster,'  469 

Goldsmith  (0.).  •  Vicar  of  Wakefield '  in  French,  489 

'  Graduati  Cantabrigieosea,'  348 

Gray's  '  Elegy '  in  Latin,  487 

Grmy'i  Inn, '  Ancient  Order* '  of,  367,  434 

*  (Jrenadier's  Exercise  of  the  Grenado,*  347,  412 

Harvey  (Gabriel),  whereabouts  of  hi.-i  books,  267 

Herondas,  bis  date,  68,  216,  33': 

Horace,  first  edition,  103,  333 

HuRo  (Victor),'  L^9  Abaillon  Im|M<ri»k8,' 348, 391 

Trvinu  (Dr.  D,),  hia  '  History  of  >5colish  Poetry,'826 

Jo^gard-printed  books,  6U3 


Bibliogrraphy  ;— 

Jona<in  (Lten).  hi*  '  Alchemist,'  22S 

Letfarraga,  Gerunn  reprint,  284,  315 

L'Estrangts  '  Merry  Tbuoghts  ia  a  Sail  Pbtc«,' 
141.  193.  250 

Luther  (Martin),  his  "  dielioh,"  409 

Macklin  (Charlea),  506 

Methodist,  328 

Milton  (John).  "  painted  and  popped,"  407 

Miadririi  (Melchiore),  '  Life  of  Bartolozzi,'  289 

Mottley  (John),  dramatist,  367 

Name  orij^iu",  329 

'Oxford  Eiicli«l>  Dictionary,'  146,  193.  265 

Parkins  (l»r.  John),  of  Little  Gonerby,  15,  51 

Peck  (Willijuu),  343.  434,  613 

Fenn  ( Wiljiara),  '  Fruits  of  Solitade,'  190.  976 

Pennecuik  (Alexander),  513 

'  Pluinptou  Correspondeooe,'  orrors  in,  468 

Pabliahiug  atul    bookselling,  81.  142,   184,    2-4^ 
304,  842 

Raynsford    (Capt.  -  Lieut.     John),    '  The     YoDg 
bouldier,'  428.  477,  512 

Sarpi  (Paolo),  bis  '  Council  of  Trent,'  408 

'  Scots  Peerage,'  404 

Shad  well  (Thomas),  hiji  'Bury  Fair,'  221 

Shakespeare  (W.).  Venus  and  Adonia,  310;  his 
books,  465 

Shorthouse  (J.  H.),  '.Tobn  Inglesant,'  289,  857 

Sicily.  r>8 

Stamp  collecting,  322 

Stephen  (Sir   Leslie),    'English   Litemture   and 
Society  in  the  Eighteenth  Oftntury,"  388,  85" 

Taylor  (Jemmy),  '  Uoly  Living,'  406 

Teedon  (Samuel),  hia  diary,  473 
Biddenden  Maids,  their  history  and  bequeeti,  324,  S91 
Biildy,  derivation  of  the  woni,  272,  431 
Bijou,  brazen,  kitchen  utensil,  369,  455 
Billiurd.H,  Herbert  Speuoer  on,  48.  113 
Bilson  (J.)  on  a  French  cluisler  in  Eiij^-land.  207 
Birch  (H.)  on  Biroh,  Burch,  or  Bvrob  families,  82* 
Birch,  Barch,  or  Byrch  families,  328,  417 
Birch-sap  wine.  it«  manufacture,  18,  98 
Bird  (John),  tJuHragan  Bishop  of  P«ntratfai  1587-St' 

29,  97,  156,  275.  354 
Birds'  eggs,  their  oollecting,  327.  372,  468 
Birkbeck  (H.)  on  mininture  «{  laanc  Newton,  248,  41  i 
Birkenhead  on  linea  attribute«l  to  Wor<lswi>rt.k,  44S 
Birth-marks,  their  cause,  3(12,  43U,  4011 
Biset  (Margaret),  maid  of  Queen  Eleanor,  berdoObr  4t-  - 
Bilk,  derivation  of  the  word,  138 
Biimarck  (Prince)  on  the  Cretana,  406 
BittoQ Church, epiUph  on  Sir  J .  Seymoar  in, 87,  IVt, 23? 
Black  (W.  G.)  on  derivation  of  bridge,  894 

"GaUante  of  Fowey,"  506 

"Gofnr"=attaok,  226 

"Little  Mary,"  70 

Moaky,  266 
Blackball,  ministerial  whitebait  dinner  at,  S18 
BUikley  (R.)  on  step-brother,  329 
Blakeney  {K  li.)  on  Tennyson  oa  firitun,  166 
Blaker  (R.)  on  ancient  Britoaa,  169 
Blin  family,  428,  517 
Blin  Stoyla  (B.  W.)  oti  Blin,  428 

Stoyle,  349 
Blue  egg*  uaed  in  May  Day  oelebi^tionH,  139, 178 
Boaat,  etymology  of  the  word.  18 


Note*  and  Querlea,  Juljr  30,  1901. 


INDEX. 


526 


H]  his 


Boer  Wu  of  1881.  bnokit  on  th«.  22^,  277.  395 

Boar  Ww,  1B99-1902.  British  U«8ee  id,  325 

Bonam  Villain   super  Tok&m,    1202=BoanevilIe   oc 

theTouqum.  512 
DoniiparUi  (Gordon),  &lleged   natural  aon   of  Napo- 
leon I..  107.  1&7 

onapKTla  (N»[)<)leon),  alle^d  natural  son,  107<  197  ; 
his  power  of  nwakin^,  44<I  ;  on  imaginKtion,  488 

of  Common  Prayer  :  "  Aabes  to  ashea  "  in  the 
Bnrial  Service,  387.  429 
Book-colleclora  :  E.  KroenckeandF.O.Begg!,ll8, 198 
Book-pUtu  of  J,  Tynte,  Esq.,  1704,  419 
Boolu  recently  pabliataed  :— 
Airy'g  (O).  Charles  II.,  438 
Almack'8  (B.)  Bookplates.  .■)79 
Atohley's   (C.)    Parish   Cleik   »nd  his  Kigfat  to 

read  the  Liturgical  Epistle,  340 
Beaaroont     and    Fletcher's     Works,    Variorom 

Edition,  Vol.  I..  478 
Bell'A  ( MtH.  A . )  Lives  and  Legends  of  the  English 

Bishups  and  Kings,  1 59 
Bernard's    (J.    H.)    Cathedral    Church    of    St. 

Patrick,  100 
B^sMit's  London  in  the  Time  of  the  Stuarts,  13 
Bble.  Basque,  .SI  9 
Britinb  Journal  <if  Psyohology.  118 
Burke's  (Sir  B.)  Peerage  and  Baronetage,  39 
Burliuijlt)n  Magazine,  113,  219,  320,  399,  520 
'Synin's  Works,  ed.  by  E.  H.  Coleridge,  23'J 
'  Oalderon,  Six  DramHs,  trans,  by  FitzGerald,  {>20 
Cambridge,  Early  English   Printed  Books  in  the 

University  Library  (1475  1640),  138 
Cambridge  Uild  Records,  by  M.  Bateson,  298 
CaaMeU'x  Nationnl  Library  :  Sibis  Mamer,  358 
Galtleliaid  of Cualnge,  trana.  by  L.  W.  Faraday,  430 
Charles  II.,  by  O.  Airy,  438 
Clergy  Direotory,  80 
Coleridge  (S.  T.),  Aidtt  to  Reflection,  and  Con- 

feasions  of  an  Inquiring  Spirit,  379 
Colville'a   (Mm.    A.)    Ducheca    Samb :    being  the 
Sotiiitl  History  of  the  Times  of  Sarah  Jennings, 
Diichvw  of  Mnrlboroiiiih,  258 
Congregatinnal  lliHtorical8ncietyTranBAotions,I39 
Conway  Pftrish  Ket»'ii«t«n>,  '2''>0 
Croftnn's  <H.  T.)  Old  Moss  Side.  319 
De  Tabley's  (Lord)  Collected  Poems.  99 
Dekkei's  (1.)  UuU's  Iluni  Hook,  edited  by  B.  B. 

McKerrow,  519 
Devon  Ni>t«  and  Queries,  280 
Dison's  (H.  1..)  Oci  .SAying  (irace,  139 
Dubell's  (B.)  Coscmary  and  Pansiee,  319 
DouMi's  (T.  Le  M .)  Examination  of  an  Old  Manu* 

la-ript,  269,  313 
Drydwii  (Jidiii),  ed.  by  G.  SainUibury,  169 
Kitrl«'i»  (.1  ^  MicrocomiiogrMphie,  318 
1"  ■    "         V.  lOo,  3lf9 

I  by  K.  Almaok,  889 

I  I  vi.,,,,„r    :r,.« 

1  i.byC.G.  Smith,  378 

Ki  »r  1908,398 

Rngli-b  1>ikU,:1  Diciiutmiy,  ed.  by  J.Wright,2l8 
Kui^lixb  llixtoriojil  R^-mw,  KiU,  U79 
Fi  ';.'«  — Translation  of 

:0 
1' '.<•>.  r.  ,L,   ,,...•  I  .7viui»vgnkpby  of  Ui«  Greek 
r'apyri,  399 


Books  recently  published  :— 
Folklore,  340 

Gamett  and  Gosse  a  EngliNb  Literature  :  an  Illus- 
trated Record,  VoI».  II.  and  IV.,  219 
Gay's  (S.  E.)  Old  Falmouth.  339 
Gordon's  (C.)  Old  Tune  Aldwych,  Kingsway,  and 

Neighbourhood,  138 
Gosaeand  Garnett's  English  Literature  :  an  Illus- 
trated Record,  Vols.  II.  and  IV.,  219 
Gray's  Elegy,  rendered  in  Latin  by  W.  A.  Clarke, 

.'>8.  487 
Great  Masters,  Introduction  and  Notes  by  Sir  M. 

Conway,  Parts  V.-XVI..  178,  238,  269,  318, 

8.18,  398,  488,  479 
Hakluyt'a  (R.)  Principal  Navigations,  Voyages, 

Tratiiques,    and    Disooveries    of    the    Enguah 

Nation,  Vols.  III.  and  IV.,  198:  Vols.  V.  and 

VI.,  438 
Uampehire,  Guide  to,  by  Dr.  J.  C.  Cox,  400 
Handel,  Life  of,  400 

Heifer  of  the  Dawn,  tran«.  by  F.  W.  Bain,  498 
H ierurgia  Aiiglicftna.  Part  11.,  ed.  by  V. Staley,  1 78 
HobbesA  (T.)  Leviathan,  ed.  by  A.  K.  Waller,  238 
Innes'a  I  J.  H.)  New  Amsterdam  nod  ita  People, 

58.  161 
Interm£'diaire,  340 
JekvUs  (G.)  Old  West  Surrey,  379 
JuhuHton's  (J.  B.)  Place-names  of  Scotland,  259 
Kay  (John),  Memoir  of,  by  J.  Lord,  459 
Kings'  Letters,  ed.  by.  R.  Steele,  118 
Lamb's  (C.  and   M.)   Works,    Vol.   IV.,  ed.   by 

E.  V.  Lucas,  238 
Latham's  (B.)  Dictionary  of  Names,  Nicknames, 

and  SamamaaofPersons,  Plaoea.and Things,  619 
Maclean's  (M.)  The  Literatureofthe  Highlands,  469 
Mantzius's   (K.)    Hiittory    of   Theatrical    Art  in 

Ancient  and  Modern  Times,  77i  27? 
Marlborough  (Sarah,   DuobesN  of),  by   Mrs.  A. 

Colville,  258 
Meniielssohn,  Life  of,  400 
Miitirtture  Series  of  Muiiicians.  79 
M<>ore'M(A.  W.)  .Manx  Name*,  259 
Miire's  Utopia,  ed.  by  J.  Churtun  Ci>llini<,  418 
Motley's  (J.  L.)  RiHe  of  the  Dutch  R«>public,  510 
Nasho's(T  )  Works.Vol.L.ed.R.  B.  McKorrow.llT 
New  English  Dictionary,  78,  3S8 
Nicholson's  {K.  W.  B.)  Keltic  Resenrche*,  40)0 
Origines  Alpbabeticte,  by  a  March  Bare,  460 
O.iford  Printing,  1498-1900,  80 
O.vfiYiUbire,  Old,   Memorials  of,  ed.  bj    P.  H. 

Ditchfield.  117 
Parry's  (Judge)  England's  Elizabeth;  being  the 

Memories  of  Matthew  Redale,  439 
Plunket's  (Hon.  E.  M.)  Ancient  Calendars  and 

Cwnst«llali(HiR.  260 
Quarterly  Review,  179,  899 
Reliquary,  140,  439 
Rugen's  (S,>  Reniinisuences  and  Table  Talk,  aiL 

by  S,  H.  Powell,  .^9S 
BuIkii  fi>r  Coinpijsiton  and  Readers,  280 
Rutland     Magazine     and     County     Ilistorioal 

Record,  440 
Ruvignv  and    Raineral's    (Marquis    of)    Blo( 

Royal  of  Britain,  1 9 
Saint   Bernard,   Some   Letters  of,    selected    hj 

V.  A.  Gaaquet,  398 


sal       s 


526 


INDEX. 


Books  recently  published  :— 

St.  John  tfae  Evan^clikt.  Cambridge,  AdmianoDS 

to  thfc  College  of,  ed.  by  R.  F.  bcott,  98 
St.  Mary  Magdalen  College,   Oxford,  Begister  of 

IdeDibery,  439 
Savory  (William)  of  BrightwaltoD,  Life  of,  20O 
Scots  Pfeerage,  Vol.  I.,  cd.  by  Sir  J.  P.  Paul,  367 
Sbakespeftre :    Oxford    Miniature    Edition,    7^ ', 

Sosnete,  ed.  by  C.  C.  Stopei,  B39 
Shielld'a  (B.)  Tbe  iStory  of  tbe  Token,  139 
Ship*  and  .Stiiupiog,  rd.  by  F.  MilluUD,  139 
Solon's    (M.    L.)    Brief  History  of   Old   Engli&b 

PotcelaJD.  199 
Songs  of   tbe  Vine,  leleoted  by  W.  G.  Hutchi- 
son. CB 
Stevens  (B.  F.),  Memoir  of,  by  G.  M.  F^nn.  78 
BteyenBon's  (K.  L.)  Familiar  Stodies  of  Men  and 

Books,  520 
Stroud's  (F.)  Judicial  Dictionary  of  Words  and 

Pbroees,  99 
Stubbs's  (W.)  Lectures  on  European  Bistory,  417 
Swan's  ^H.)  Dictionary   of  Contemporary  Quota- 

tionH,  279 
SwitiburneV  {A.  C.)  Poems  and  Ballads,  SIS 
Thoyts's  IE.  £.}  How  to  Decipher  and  btudy  Old 

Docutnontg,  100 
Tburston's  (H.)  Lent  and  Holy  Week,  389 
Transactions  of  the  Foyol  Historical  Society,  379 
Treasure's     (J.     P.)    Introduction     to    Breton 

Grammar,  200 
Upper  Norwood  Athenieum,  Record  of  Summer 

£xcur»ionB,  1903,  100 
Vaoghon's  (U.)  Poems,  ed.  by  E.  Hutton,  400 
Walpole's    (B.)    Letters,    ed.    by    Mrs.    Paget 
Toynbee,  Vols.  I.-IV.,  38  ;  Vol*-.  V.-VIII.,  498 
Whenlley'e  (U.  B.)  Gtriard  Street,  200 
WorileworlL'a  TLe  Prelude,  ed,  B,  Worsfold,  539 
Yorkshire.  Handbook  for,  2£0 
TorkshireKot«8andQueries,ed,C.F.ForBhav,  320 
520 
BooksellerB'  Catalogues,  £9,  119,  180,  239,  298,  SC8, 

418,  499 
Bookselling  and   pubUshing,  bibliography  oi^  SI,  142, 

184,  242,  304,  342 
Boeham's  Inn,  Aldwycb,  its  history,  105 
Bostock  (R.  G.)  on  William  orWykeham,  222 
Bonohier  (Jonathan)    on   proverbs  in    the  Waverley 

NoTels,  383,  402 
Bovate,  use  and  meaning  of  the  word,  101,  143 
Bow,  ]a«t  used  in  war,  2i!6,  278,  437,  497 
Bow  Bridge,  ita  history,  461 
Bow-rake,  use  and  meaning  of  the  word,  86 
Bowdon  Parigh  Chiirch,  Cheshire,  curious  intcriplion 

near,  85 
Boyla  (M.  C.)  on  Rev.  Arthur  Golton,  349 
Boyla  (Robert)  on  tbe  Bible,  186 
Bottaris :  authorship  of  '  Death  of  Bozzaris,'  S68 
kBrookenbury  (H.)  on  Sir  C.  Hatton's  title,  267 
Bradley,  co.  Southampton,  in  tbe  seTenteentb  centnry, 

889.  456 

Braxton  (Carter)  and  Herbert  Spencer,  405 
^Brazen  bijou,  kitchen  utensil,  309,  4.^5 
*9r<giiet  (Abraham),  c'ockmaker  to  Napoleon,  448 
Brenan  (G)  on  Mundy,  131 
Breelar  (M,  L.  £.)  on  Bdmond  Eeon,  449 
TpTOdr:  Canaletto,  168 


•7,  t9i 
•.»m^  471 

opahire,  474 


87,1 

utar,  ■ 


1 

I-    _. .,, 

Hrieifi,  oW.  ditcovered  . 

Erierley  (H.)on  Jenn>  ' 

Bright  (Dr.)  his  tpitaph  in  OxIkio 

Btightlingsea,  election  ol  deputy  u 

Brightwalton,  Berka,  field-names  a<,  .-.:-> 

Brigiitocke  (6.)  on  Hopson.  Admiral  Sir  T^  5(19 

Brindlcy  (James),  engineer,  liis  biograpliy,  SID,  8' 

BriHtow  on  Eugene  Aram,  389 

Britain,  Tennyson  on,  166 

British  £mb«iiity  in  Paris,  it«  history,  68 

British  WBt«r^  Dutch  fishermen  in,  b7 

Britons,  ancient,  works  on  the,  169 

Brixham,  Coffin  Houoe  at.  S88,  493 

Brome  family  of  Bishop'R  Stortfort'   ■'^♦^'- 

Brooke  (Henry),  his  piirtroit  by  J./ 

Brooke  (Henry)  on  John  Lewig,  p<  ' 

Broeeley,  All  Saints'  Church,  l.riefa  r«>r.  476 

Brothers  and  sisters  bearing  soma  Chrutiau  nMBif.tT. 

257,  315,  457  ' 

Brown  (W.  R.  H.),  Governtr  of  Newgate,  12(J 
Browning  (F.  B.),  her  'Aurora  Ltigb,'  47 
Browning   (Robert),   "He    himaelf  with  ht« 

hair"  in  'Christmse  Ere,'  208,  287;  "Tbnaid* 

in  *  I'ippa  Passe*,'  504 
Bruges,  crown  in  spire  of  Notre  Dame,  157 
Bruehtield  (T.  N.)  on  *  Edwin  Drood  *  oontiDuctl,  87 
Raleigh :    his  head,    130 ;    two    |x>rlrmit«,   810  ; 

substituted  portrait,  403  , 
Tideuwell  and  'Jideslnw,  52,  190,  872 
Bnitos  on  M&rt}rdom  of  .St.  Thomas,  452 
Nelson  and  Wolsey,  308 
Nine  porta  of  speech,  337 
Buchanan  (Mary),  first  wife  of  Warren  HaMaim.  4Si 

494  ^^ 

Buck  =  Indian  man,  65 

Buck  (Samuel  mid  Natlianiel),  engraven,  8O9,83<Lt70 
Buck-lesp,  use  and  meaning  of  the  word,  85  ' 
Buckeridge  (Bishop),  his  birthplace,  2S7 
bucket,  in  "Eick  the  btickel,"  412 
Building  customs  and  folk-]or«,  407.  515 
Buildings,  public  inscriptiuns  on,  448,  Q]8 
Bulloch  (J.  M.)  on  Gordon  and  Zoffooj.  107 
Bunney=a  gully,  489 
Burch,  Birch,  or  Byrch  families,  328,  417 
Burgess  k  Son  (J.)  on  paste,  610 
Burghclere  (Lord)  on  eetting  of  precious  t.tooe#  S9 
Burke's  '  Royal  De»cent«,'  Jcsm,  daughter  of  J«BHil 

of  Scotlsnd,  in,  507 
Burlington,  written  Bridlington,  471 
Burns  (Eoberl).  Engliub  commentators  on,  2fll  SSL 

375,  456  ;  ••  Her  prentice  bond  "  and  oUier  ^tWi- 

pations,  286,  357,  871 
Borton  (B.)  errors  in  Shilleto's  edition  of   *  Anol^dm 

of  Melancholy.'  42,  leu,  203,  282  '"wwj 

Butterworth  (S.)  on  Boer  War  of  1881,  277 
Button  (T.  C. )  on  Spender  and  ShakespcAi^,  2W 

Verses  en  women.  189 
Buttons,  militarv,  349,  472 
Byaid  family,  348,  414 
Byng    (Admiral),    bia    connexion   «■'»'     Tr  rriii*** 

Devon,  161*,  256  "wgw> 

Byng  (C.)  on  Admiral  Bynv,  189 
Byrch,  Pirch,  or  Bnreh  families,  328,  41? 


HotM  and  QueriM,  July  30. 1904. 


INDEX. 


Byron  (Lord),  bia  boat  by  ThorWHliLwa,  205 
^^   ByrOQiana,  483 
^L  €.  OD  NorUtaU,  Shropshire,  226 
^M  C.  (A.  B.)  on  women  votem,  372 
^H  C.  (A.  K.)  on  epiUph  on  lieulennnt  of  nuurinM,  SfiS 

■  C.  (E.)  on  "  Lutber'a  diitioh."  409 
^  C.  (G.  E.)  on  "  A  gftlUnt  captMn,"  32 

Dickeni  queries,  272 
I        C  (H.)  on  "  As  tbt)  crow  fliee,"  432 
H  Eoton  (John},  327 

^K         Hanged,  dr«wn,  and  quartered,  410 
^^^.HawkioB  (WiUiani).  D.D.,  1*27 
^^^■Papen,  111 

^^^*  Parlrina  or  Porkini  (Sir  Chmtopher),  234 
^M        "  Purple  patch,'  51 1 
^^^^  Smyth  (Clrtmeni).  202 

^^^^HBtephena  (Wlllimu),  President  of  Georgia,  144 
^^^^PToya,  Wykehamioal  word,  06 
r  WiUijun  of  Wykeham.  257 

C.  (H.  M.)  on  "  Don't  shoot,  ha  it  doing  his  best,"  9 

C.  (J.  G.)  on  Kippio*.  109 

C.  (J.  M.)  on  'The  Children  of  the  Ablwy,'  127 
^^  C.  (M.  J.    D.)  on  '  The  Grenadier's  ExarcisQ  of  the 

■  Grena^lo.'  347 

He.  (R.  de)  on  bnttleQeld  aayinga,  269 
>^      C.  (B.  9.)  uti  inaiH  dress:  Hergaanta'  saahea,  163 
Military  buttons  :  8«rgeaats'  ohevront,  349 
^■Cada  (Salisbury),  Westmini^ier  acholar,  1777,  209 
^■Cadzand=Quixzaute  in  Dante's  '  Inf.,'  xv.  4,  182 
^C»Uw«U  (M.)  on  Papers.  18 

Cambridge,  Backingham  Hall,  or  College,  108  ;  list  of 
I  ffriuluatMi,  348 

^LCaiiibridgo  (Duke  of),  hia  death,  501 
^VCunden    (William),    lines    on    '*  Artillari^ "    in    hia 
^^      '  Remaines,'  164  ;  on  English  aarnamea,  243,  SI4 

Campbell   (Admiral    Donald),  in    Portugneae   aervice, 
L      1797-1805.300,378 

^■Campbell  (Dr  John)  on  tbe  Aryan  laogaagea.  432 
^HOampbell    (Mary),    supposed    first   wife    of   Warren 
■^  Kaatin)^.  4-26,  494 

^HCaiupbull  (Th'imasi,  0»nAlask«  in  his  '  Poem«,'  486 
^■Cainperdowu  crest,  a  distnaeted  ship,  2(S,  316 
^P  'Ctnadian  Boat  Song.'  its  authonbip,  143 
^Oanaletto,  exhibition  of  his  pi^intinga,  163,  217 
Candelabraa,  form  of  pluriil,  S4 
Caudlemaa  gills,  origin  of  the  custom,  36.  75 
inning  and  Sir  C,  Bit^ot,  their  correspondence,  4R9 

(Hans),  emigrant  from  ^^cotUtld  in  1678,  467 
).tDterbury.  8t.   Au^rumino's  and   8t.    Dunstan.   149, 

'il6,  203  ;  antiquity  »(  King's  School  at,  215,  2(19 
Jaaterbury  Cnthoilral.  iU  Hiifh  8tuward,  348,  412 
~tp«iouni  in  Spain.  73,  1 1(> 

[gktnea  :  bridgo,  ISll,  '^.'lO,  297,  394  ;  patienoe,  268 
as  n  auruatue,  67,  97 
sla,  thoir  gnules  and  title*,  50  ;  their  orioMon 
b«,  71,  107,214 
y  (  r.  W  )  on  (Slavering  :  Do  MandoviUe.  140 

Urljil-   — «-:..-    "^ -ho  name,  471 

?a>U  .  his   ediliua  of  Irving'* 

Hi  .v,'325 

2ar|yla  (T.),  aUution  in  'Harti>r  U^uMrtu*,'  88,  137 
\roline  (Queen),  atwountK  of  Iter  trial,  127.  174 
mils  umA  lullitliitM,  <rhildreu'8,  56 
•rpenter   (N»lli»ni\«l),  his  'Qeography  Delineated,' 
l'J2i,  22,  104 
Carbon  ratnily.  62,  377 


Garter  (Matthew),  hie  *  Honor  Redirivus,'  434 

Caraoate,  use  and  meaning  of  tbe  word,  103.  143 

Oaaata,  use  and  meaning  of  tbe  word,  102.  143 

Casting  lots  for  duath.  military  custom,  366,  476 

Castle  Socitity  of  Muaiok,  71 

Caetletoii,  D^rbysbire,  KnyalOnk  Dayc«lebration  at, 488 

Cat,  Gheahire,  in  Ametioa,  365,  513 

Catoliffe,  glaaa-mAking  in  1740  at,  51 

Cateii=  things  provided  by  the  oatour  (caterer),  ISO 

Cateeby  (J.)  on  Oateaby  family,  408 
Cateeby  (Robert).  86 

Cateaby  (Robert),  hia  deeoendants,  86,  172 

Oateaby  (8ir  William),  brau  effigy  of,  366 

Cateaby  family,  408 

Cathedral  High  Stewards,  343,  412 

Catakia  earls.  226 

Caul  for  sale,  26 

Care,  the,  at  Homsey,  269 

Cedarof  Lebanon, first  planted  in  England,  itsdeath,  836 

Cedilla  in  the  '  Encyolopiodio  Dictionary,'  307 

Celtic  titlen,  14 

Cemetery  for  Jews  in  ancient  London,  70,  296,  457 

Cemetery  for  French  refugees  in  London.  1721,  517 

Century:  "  the  present  oentnry,"  386 

Chair  of  St.  Augustine.  369,  472 

Chftlons-sur-Marne,  mistletoe  in  ohurch  at,  66 

'  Chambers's  C'yclop.<edia  of  Engliah  Literature,'  article 
on  .1.  Gait  in,  145 

Channel  Isle^,  enrliest  printing  in,  340,  436 

Chaatrey  (Lady),  her  burial-pliwe,  363 

Chapel.     Littln    Wild    Street,     Drury    Laue,   Storm 
Sermon  at,  77 

Chaperon,  applied  to  a  male,  54.  92,  110.  211 

Chaplain  to  the  EdinburghGu-rison,revivalof  office.  145 

Charlea  the   Bold,   hia  connexion  with  the  Hooae  of 

Lanoaater.  189,  232,  335 
Charles  I.,  Sir  James  Hay  on,  65  ;  regicides  of,  169  ; 

letter  from  Archbishop  Williams  to,  447 
Charles  V.  on  Ungufigns,  227 
Chase  (G.  D.)  on  •  Derby's  Ram,'  306 

'  Herring  Song,'  306 
Chastleton   House,  Oxrordshire,   Jacobite  wineglasses 

at.  204 
Cbaauble  found  at  Warrington  Church,  its  history,  128 
Chateaubriand,  ratio  of,  165 
Chatham  (Earl  of),  portrait  by  Gainsborough,  427 
Chauoer,  his  tomb  in  Weslminater  Abbey,  23  ;  *'  For 
pite  renneth  aone  in  geatil  herte,"   121,  174,  193  ; 
"  Eek  Plato  aeith,  whoso  that  can  him  rede,"  122. 
174  ;  "  And  Freash  she  spak  ful  faire  and  fetialy." 
122  ;  the  young  Squire,  123  ;  R.  Bell's  edition,  404 
Cbaunoy  (Charles  and  Nathaniel),  6tl.  158 
Chanaoy  (Sir  Henry),  oounty  historian,  06,  158 
Chelsea  Physic  Garden.  227,  270,  336 
Cheshire  or  "  jewy"  cat  in  Amerioa,  865,  513 
Cheshire  and  Lancashire  wills.  33 
Chester  (Charlea)  and  Carlo  Bulfone,  381 
C'herioier,  meaning  of  the  word,  169 
Chevrons  worn  by  aergeanta,  349.  472 
0lieyne(0harle8)  and  the  Apoth«caries'Oa^iBa,270,88fl 
CbicAgo  in  1853,  description  o(,  165 
Child  murder  by  Jews,  f«bles  as  to,  16 
Childbirth  folk-lore,  15 

Children  ;  their  carols  and  lulUbiea,  66  ;  305  at  • 
birth.  68  ;  on  the  sUge,  103 ;  etill-born,  '.^81  ;  and 
Herbert  .Spencer,  405 


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^H 

1 

^H        China,  venomous  spider  in,  265 

Coleman  ( K.  H.)  on  Byard  family,  414                     ^1 

^H         Cliineae  gboflU,  176 

Candlemas  gilla,  36                                                         1 

^^^1 

^H        CtuBwiuk  nigLtiogftlea  or  frogs,  125 

Carolina  (Queen).  h«r  trial,  174 

^^^1 

^H         Choker  and  chokey^to  be  in  priaon,  467 

Cateaby  (Robert),  172 

^^^1 

^H         Chop-dollar,  use  of  the  word,  SiS,  456 

ChaunoT  (Sir  Henry),  1 53 

^^^1 

^H        Christchurcfa,  NewZealand,  iiucription  on  louBeam,  268 

Cbelaea' Phyaic  Garden,  271.  836 

^^^1 

^H        Chriatian  and  Roiniiii  chronology,  86 

Clavering  :  De  Mandeville,  21 1 

^^^1 

^H         Chriatinn  namei,   ourioua,   26,    170,  '214,   235;    full 

Collectioner,  93 

^^^1 

^^L            n&me  and   diminutive,   67  ;    brutheni  and    aiatera 

Cottiswold.  334 

^^^1 

^^^^1     bearing  same,  2&7,  316,  457;  Lawrance,  o.  1498, 

Cromwell  buried  in  Rod  Lion  S'lunrn,   /  j 

^1^1 

^^^H     310  ;  double,  31S,  157 

"Crown  and  Throe  Sii^fHr  Loa^e«."  2I.'- 

^^H 

^^^^V^Chriatmaetide  folk-lore,  172 

Dorsetshire  snake -lurw,  253 

^^1 

^^f        Chronology,  Roman  and  Christian,  86 

Egerton-WarburtOD,  296 

1^1 

^H         Church,  crowns  in  tower  or  apire  of.  17,  88,   157  ; 

FettipUce,  397 

1^1 

^^B            miatletoe   at   ChftlonR-aur-Marne,    66 ;    Prooeaaion 

Football  on  Shrove  Tut<sday,  194 

1^1 

^H             door  at  Sandwich,  468 

Greig  (Admiral  Sir  Samuel),  433 

fl 

^H        Churob-ale,  application  of  the  term,  37,  76 

Guide  to  Manor  Holla,  272 

^H        Chorchwardena'  accounts,  7*i 

Hen-hnsaey ;  Whip-atitoh  :  Wood-toter,  618 

^^k 

^H         Civilization  and  France,  448 

Holies  (Gerviuse).  251 

W^^ 

^B        Clark  (A.)  on  '  Merry  Thoughts  in  a  Had  Plaoo,'  141 

'John  Ingleeant,'  8.^7 

'H 

^H        Clark  (£.)  on  glowworm  or  firefly.  112 

LHQca«hir«  and  Chexbirs  wilU,  38 

^1 

^H         Clark  (Kicb.),  Chamberlain  of  London,  his  library,  469 

London  rubbish  at  Moacow,  208 

^1 

^H         Clark  (Thomaa),  Kiiiuburgh  law  bookseller,  409 

MacBUigott  (Col.  Kogw),  295 

^1 

^m         Clark  family,  3S9,  4.'i6 

Marriage  registara,  76 

^1 

^H         Clarke  (Cecil)  un  "  Chaperoned  by  her  father,"  93 

Mileatonaa,  133 

^^1 

^H                 Puns  at  the  Havmarket,  '269 

Morganatic  marriage,  52 

^^^1 

^H                 Vaniabing  London,  447 

Napoleon,  his  reputud  son,  197                                       1 

^^^1 

^H         Clarke  (Dr.  Adam),  his  weather  obiwrvatioiu,  441 

Newton  (latuu;),  iiiiuiaturn  of,  315,  114 

^^^1 

^M         Clavering  and  De  Mandeville  families,  149,  213.  208 

Norihall,  Shropshiro,  877 

^^^1 

^H         Claverley,  Shropshire,  old  briefs  diacovered  at,  474 

Obiit  Sunday,  28 

^^^1 

^B         Clayton  ( U.  B. )  on  laat  peer  of  France,  225 

"Old  England."  255 

^^^1 

^1                 Htanley  (Sir  H.  M),  his  nationality,  446 

Peck  (William),  434 

^^^1 

^H                  Thiev«8  slang :  "  Joe  Garr,"  886 

Prescriptions,  453 

^^^1 

^H          Clergyman  aa  privateer,  495 

Pindar  family,  135 

^^^1 

^H         Cliea  (Henrietta)  of  Lisbon  =  Admiral  Lord  Rodney, 226 

"  Ringing  for  Gofer,"  6 

^^^1 

^H          Clio  UD  Thackeray  queries,  '207 

Rodney's  aeoond  wife.  297 

^^^1 

^H          Clock  made  by  Brd^iuet  for  Napoleon,  446 

Rowe  family,  356 

^^^1 

^H         Clockmakar,  French,  J.  Turin,  107 

Sellinger,  401 

^^^1 

^H         Oloae,  hia  poems,  409 

Shelley  (Samuel),  278 

^^^1 

^H         Cloth,  Aylaham,  in  the  fourteenth  century,  4,  172 

Smallage,  330 

^^^1 

^B         Clover  Leaf,  Ft-Uowa  of  the,  7,  193 

Southwell  (Right  Hon.  Edward),  56 

^^^1 

^H         Club,  name  for  a  university  womou'a.  489 

Speakers  of  the  Irish  House  of  Common*,  '293 

^^^1 

^H         Clyae,  dialect  word.  111 

Stoyle,  432 

^^^1 

^H         Cobdcn  bibliography,  481 

Torch  and  Uper,  196 

^^^1 

^H         Cobham  (C.)  on  curiou«  Chrintian  namea,  171 

"Tymbem  of  ermine,"  492 

^^^1 

^1         Cobweb-pills  in  1781,  '206,  273,  317 

Weliingtoo'a  horae«,  41«l 

^^^1 

^H         Cookbnm(F.  N.)onThumpsonof  Bougbton,co.  Kent,87 

"  Welsh  rabbit,"  70 

^^^1 

^H         Cockle  (M.  J.  D.)  on  battlefield  layinga,  437 

Women  votera,  372 

^^^1 

^H                 BoerWnrof  18S1.  395 

Yeoman  of  the  Crowti,  278 

^^^H 

^H^                 Bow  laat  iihaiI  in  war,  225 

Coleridge  (S.  T.),  C,  Lamb,  and  Mr.  May,  61,  109 

^^^1 

■^^               '  Tong  SouMier,'  428 

Coll.  on  fictitious  Latin  plural«,  193 

^^^1 

'   "         Cockahut  time,  explanation  of  the  phrase,  121, 195,  232 

Collectioner,  meaning  of  the  word,  28,  93 

^^^1 

Coffin  House  at  Brixbam.  888,  493 

Collins,  origin  of  the  name,  329,  398,  515 

^^^1 

Coina  and  tokens,  copper,  how  to  clean,  243.  335.  456 

Collins  (W.)  and  Gray,  parallel  pawagva,  456 

^^H 

Cold  Harbour,  me.Hnin^'  of  the  nam«,  341,  413,  496 

Colours   of  the  Qaeen's   WuNtminateiB  and  St.    hr«r> 

^^^H 

Coldstream  Gujird*,  origin  of  the  appellation,  30 

gareta',  Weatm'--'  -    '  "'                                                ' 

^^^1 

^—  Cole  (Henry),  the  '  D.N.B.'  on.  '224 

Coluborry,  euri(n                      name,  214                             ^ 

^^^1 

■^^AC^olt'tnan  (E   H,)  on  Ad diaon 'a  daughter,  151 

Columbus  (Chriet' 1                 .emJiinaclalin-^J  liv  .'^•rilU 

^^^1 

^H                    An  Austrian  army,"  211 

and  San  iJomingo,  '247,  332,  458 

^^^1 

^B                    Aa  the  crow  (lies,''  296 

Colvac  anmame,  887,  492 

^^^1 

^^L               "  Aahes  to  ashes,"  430 

Comber  (.T)  on  Comlwr  family,  47 

^^^1 

^^1              Aylmer  arm*.  155 

Comber  (Thomaa\  Lti.D  ,  1722  78,  89 

^^^1 

^B              Barbers,  r>13 

Or-    '          '         ■-'-      "     -■      ■'■■■     ■•'•• 

^^^1 

^^^             Baxter's  oil  printing.  400 

:OkptCuM%«}| 

^^H 

^^^            Becket  (St.  Thouiaa  It),  4oS 

1^ 1 :;      ^       _ ,       ,. 

^^^^1 

^^^B           Building  ottBtom*  ami  folk-tor«,  ftlfi 

tioUea  (U«rvaiaiE),  'iu8 

1 

Hotel  ud  Querie*.  July  SO,  IWH. 


INDEX. 


I 


Com.  Line,  on  Sftndenon  (Tlobcrt),  227 
Comeator  OxonieniiiB  on  Tideawell  and  Tidaslow,  91 
Comet,  Ualley'i,  86,  162 
<  Coaimemorative  Ubtetii,  867 

CommisBion  convened  by  a  Member  of  ParUniri^nt,  88 
Constance,  Council  of,  legend  concerning,  8,  S!'? 
"  Conitantine  Pebble,"  Cornwall,  deacribed,  33,  97 
Cooatantinople,  lint  of  (Ecumenicftl  Patriarchs.  249 
"  Consul  of  God,"  application  of  the  title,  32 
Conflumption  not  hereiiit«.ry,  early  records,  427 
Cooper  (A.  L.)  on  Col.  ThomR-i  Cooper,  10^ 
Cooper  (Charles  Henry),  '  D.N. II.'  on,  412 
,  Cooper  (Col.  Thomas),  his  biograpby.  100 
Cooper  (Thompson),  his  de«tb,  220.  246,  337 
Cope,  early  instances  of  it«  use,  174,  21 S,  431} 
Cope  (J.  H.)  on  Robina  Cromwell,  227 

Powell  of  Birkenhead,  2'26 
Copernicus  and  the  planet  Mercury,  609 
Copford  Church,  Dane's  skin  at,  16,  73,  155 
Copinger  (W.  A.)  on  Comber  f:imily,  89 
^H  Il<iU8  or  Rowse  family,  65 

^B  Copper  coins  and  tokens,  how  to  clean  them,  248,  335 
^■•' Copy  •'  =  copyhold,  347 

^H  Cordova  (R.  de)  on  late  intellectual  harvest,  460 
HCorfield  (W.)  on  "  Glory  of  the  Metbodista,"  406 
■^  Willie  (WUliam),  457 

Com,  damage  to,  its  heinouanen,  283,  894 ;  "  quarter 

of,"  840 
Cornish  lexicology,  326 

Corvo  (Frederick  Baron)  on  "My  Lord  the  Sun,"  193 
Cota,  heirloom,  207 

Cottiswold  in  '  Marmion,'  iU  locality,  334 
Cotton  (J.)  on  Paolo  AviUbile,  188 
County  tales,  606 

Court  posU  under  Stuart  kings.  107.  173,  198 
Gourtenay  (U.  H.)  on  Catakin  earls.  22lJ 
j^^Courtenay  family,  389 

^HCoortney  (W.  P.)  ou  the  Armstrong  gun,  436 
^H         Children's  carols  and  lullabies,  66 
^H         ChiirchwardBus'  accounts,  70 
^B  Greig  (Admiral  Sir  Samuel),  433 

^  Hinds  (Dr.  Samuel),  41,'i 

*•  SiUy  Billy."  232 
Cove  o'  Kend,  Wnlnoy  Island,  iU  etymology,  387.  492 
Oowper  (W.)  on  hookoy  in  1786,  385 
Cnbbe  (G.),  biblioi^'mphy.  86 
Criibbe  (N.)on  "  My  L«>nl  the  Sun,"  126 
Craik  (Georgiana  M.),  ber  Krst  novel,  346 
Crawley  (H.  H.)  on  Mnry  Muart,  28 
Cree  (A.  T.  C.)  on  William  Peck,  348 

Kiver  divided,  :jjtl 
Creevey  (Capt.  Willi. iro),  hi«  biography,  286,  355 
•Creevey  Papew,'  Sir  11.  Maxwell's  edition,  285,  355 
Creawell  (Dr.  F.  H. ),  bis  deaUi,  280 
Crimson  robes  firmt  worn  by  uardinala,  71,  157,  214 
Cromwell   (Oliver),  buried  in   Kod   Lion  Squjuw,  72  ] 

his  suppose*]  biad,  487 
Crom-"  'I  .i>:.v.--  '.   i,j,  i,«cond  wife,  456 
Croii  rtraiU  of.  227 

Crool.  .    •'  "wl"!'.  W« 

Crosa  (Liuut.-Col.  V\'illiiim\  CD.,  hii  bbgrmphy,  407 
m      Oro«i-Cr»Mlet  on  Tynte  UMikplale,  441) 
^K^      Lanark,  4H9 
Hbrouuh  (C.  H.)  on  Bliss,  £17 

^^Droucb  (F  N  ),  song-writer,  his  liiography,  248,  333 
I        Crouch  (Nathaniel),  faia  'Admirable  Curionuei^'  289 


Crowe  (Sir  Milford),  Governor  of  Barbndr»ea,  170 
"Crown  and    Three  Sugar  Loaves,"  old   tea  houite, 

167,  214,  297,  373 
Crowns  in  tower  or  spire  of  church,  17,  88,  157 
Croydon.  'Whitgift'a  Hospital,  its  threatened  destruc- 
tion, 498 
Crozier,  iron,  called  Tighero-mae,  108 
Crucilix  at  the  north  divor  of  old  8t.  Panl'i,  165 
Crodfixion  folk-lore.  426 

Gaming  (Hy.  Syer-),  his  library  aiul  museum,  409,  436 
'  Cunord  Daily  BoUetin.'  first  ocean  newxpAper,  504 
Caplahills,  derivation  of  the  place-name,  139 
Cupples  (Rev.  William),  minister  of  Kirkoswald,  1730- 

1762,  109,  261 
Curran  (Mrs.  Mary  U.)  on  Bllison  family,  268 
Currie  ( Dr.  J.),  date  of  his  death,  285,  355,  436 
Cunry(J.  T.)on  Camden  onanrnamee:  Musselwbite,  814 

Melancholy,  212 

Oranges,  Spanish  proverb  on,  206 

Prior  to  =  before,  114 

Wyalt  (Sir  Thomas),  his  riddle,  164 
Curtis  (T.  A.)  on  quotationa,  190 
Cuttle  (Capt.)  his  uriginal,  166,  217,  274 
Cyril  on  Hugo's  '  Lea  Abeilles  Imp^riales,'  348 
D.  on  Cardigan  ««  a  surname,  97 

Elisabeth  (Queen)  and  New  Hall,  Eaaejc,  15 

French  miniature  painter,  211 

Hange<l,  drawn  and  quartered,  371 
D.  (E.  IT.  W.)  OQ  May  Monument.  497 
D.  (H.  L.  L.),  Oct   FertlinnnJo  Gorges  of  Eye,  148 
D.  (J.  8.)  on  Dolores,  muiical  coiii)>oiier.  177 
D.  (T.  V.)  on  Dean'H  Yard,  Weaimirister,  415 

'  Soots  Peerage,'  404 
Dnhlgren  (E.  W.)  on  Thomna  Stnidling,  66 
Dahuria,  a  district  in  Eastern  Siberia,  2(8,  3H7 
Dale  (Kev.  T.  C)  on  Jamaica  newspaper,  169 

Lewen  iMiss)  and  Wesley,  189 
Dance  (Qe.irge),  B.A.,  City  Architect,  .167 
Daniell  (W.),  hia  drawing  of  design  by  G.  Dance,  367 
Dante,  drama  by  Sordou  and  Moreaii  i»u,  1S3 
Danteiana  ;  '  Inf,'  xiv.  96,  "Sutto  il  cui  rege  fu  gik 
il   mondo  costo,"    181,    251  ;    xiv.    12G,     "Pur   » 
ainislragiil  colando  al  fondo,"  181  ;  xv.  4,  "Qmde 
i  Fiamminghi  tra  Guiuante  e  Bruggia,"  182 
Darwall  (Rev.  L),  cope  worn  by,  in  IS53,  174,  278 
Darwin  (Dr.  Erasmus)  on  signs  of  foul  weather,  442 
Dating,  Athenian  system  of,  1811 
Davey  (B.  C.)  on  Fettiplsce,  3lt6 
DaxHs  (M.  D.)  on  "  Lombard,"  ti 
Davy  (A.J.)  on  Coffin  House,  388 

"  Monkey  on  the  chimney,"  288 

Pannell,  256 
Dawes  (C.  R.)  on  Barnes  :  '  The  Devil's  Charter.*  407 

Marlborough  and  Shakespeare,  352 
De  Cnox'«  '  L'Horloge  do  Sable,'  213 
Do  F-  fiuUme),  her  o»rreapoudence  wiib  the 

El.  .62.111 

De  W»..ui->.,..-  and  CI"-—  f-milies,  140,  213,  298 
De<ad  bell,  use  of  the  <  ,  360 

Deati'a  Yard,  No.  17,  ^^  • ,  >t«  history,  336,  416 

Deatli  (Capt.),  privdtevr,  p,.rfi>riiiatir,i  fur,  4X,  Vl^ 
Death,  venlicton  causoof.whxn  iKwIy  bax  vanished,  60d 
Death  and  sle<!]i,  writers  on,  315,  356 
Death  brll,  use  o(  thn  custom.  308,  350 
Death  Bfquencti  in  .Hus«ex,  127 
Decorations,  foreign,  Queen  Ulisab*th  on,  82S 


530 


INDEX. 


I>««  (Dr.  Johu),  bia  n»»giG  mirror,  10;  books  from 

his  librkry,  241 
Dt'ede«  (C«oil)  on  "  A»bca  to  ntbn,"  429 
Beade.  803 
"SiiletsAliTfk,"  432 
leer,  their  lk«)i,  47,  113 
leflknd    (MadnniH    du),    her    letter*,    14,   68 ;    and 

Horftce  Walijol*.,  826 
>eliigArd,    oTie    of    (be    CounteM  of   Huntingdon'! 
proacbera,  503 

aniion  (J.  E.)on  "A  frog  he  woaldii- wooing  go,"  227 
'^Deninui  (A.)  on  liev.  Obadinb  Denroan,  67 
Denman  (John),  WestminHter  ecbular,  11'.^ 
Deoman  (Kev.  Obadiab),  bU  living,  67 
Denny  (II.  L.  L. )  on  Brume  of  Bishop's  Stortford,  868 
Fitzhamon,  132 
Forwt  family,  f  7 
Potu  family,  128 
Derbyihire  churob  notes,  by  Wyrley,  427 
Denfrent'wat«r  family  arms,  155 
Devereux  (W.)  on  CbarU'S  Bernard  Gibison,  lOfi 
Deritt  (E.  I.)  on  immuremotit  alive  of  religioua,  153 
Devonshire  May  Day  cuKtom,  406 
Dey  (E.  Merton)  on  ShakeBpenrisna,  162 
Diabread  used  in  May  Day  celebrations,  126,  173 
Dialect  in  Somvrset,  6 
Dibdin  (CharleH),  bibliogrnphy,  463,  C02 
Dibdin  (K.  R.)  on  Dibdin  bibliography,  468,  602 
French  miniatnrc  painter,  187 
Sadler's  Wells  play  alluded  to  by  Wordsworth,  136 
Dickens  (Charles^  Mrs.  Corney  in  '  Oliver  Twitt,'  6  ; 
•Edwin    Drood'   continned,   37,    331;    "a   black 
■urplice"  in  'Martin  Cbiizzlewitt'  44;  original  of 
Estber  in  'Bleak   House,'  125  ;  error  in  'Nicholas 
Nickleby.'  166  ;  originalofCapt.Cuttle,165,217,  274  ; 
and  Scripture,  205  ;  "through  the  button-hole"  in 
•  Pickwick,'  228,  272,  2P?  ;  "  Tamaioo  "  in  '  Martin 
Chuiriewit,"  228,  272,  131  ;  "  Monster  of  the  iron 
road"  in  '  Dombey  and  Son,'  22S  ;  br»zen  bijou  in 
•Great  Expectations,"  369,  466 
Dickson  (D.),1647,  fii»t  of  the  name,  518.  See  Dijcon. 
Dickson  (Ellen),  musical  compoHcr,  her  biography,  177 
'  Dictionary  of  NstioDal  Hiognvpby,'  notee  and  cor- 
rections. 144,  146. 151, 184,  224.  287,  807,  327,  323, 
36d,  417 
Dictionary  of  acboolm  asters,  ISD 
Dillinnn,  cuiions  Christian  name,  171 
Diplomat  on  Walboolf  family,  347 
Diplomatist  on  Britiob  Embassy  in  Paris,  68 

I  Disease  :  "'  the  worm,"  its  identity,  407,  462 
DitohfieId(F.  H. )  on  building  customs  and  folk-lore,  407 
Dixon  (R,)  on  *  Ancient  Orders  of  Grmy's  Inn/  434 
Dickson  (D.),  618 
PyxoQ  (Gayiu),  449 
Inflcriptions  at  Orotava,  Tenerife,  455 
Rodmell  family,  489 
Tideswell  and  Tideslow,  4*1 
Dixon,  Dickson,   or  Dyson,  first  recorde.1  uso  of  the 
name,  44U,  518 
Dobson  (Austin)  on  Alexander  Pennocuik.  886 
Dooet  (E.)  on  tickling  trout,  164 
"Dockizing  "  in»tea<l  at  "  endocking  "  the  river,  606 
Documents  ir       :  •   '-        427.474 
I>odBson  (1  I  Baskish,  264,  207,  613 

Corniph  lrticuJogyJ^«l26  ' 


Dodgson  (E.  S.)  on  "£n  pcnt«nnc,"  its  otigio.  493 

Golf,  is  it  ^candinaviftu  T  168 

Ulldesley  (Mark),  414 

Iberinn  iosciiptions  in  Hib«mia,  388 

Latin  lines.  373 

Lei^rraga'ii  books,  German  reprint.  284,  SIC 

London,  ancient,  its  topography,  517 

Mistletoe  in  cburch,  W> 

Penn's  '  Fraits  of  Solitude,'  100 

Pius  X.,  anagramci  ■       '  ''   "J.'S 

I'lirtugulett;  :  Font  'ii 

Printing  in  the  Chu.  :.  .  :  .^uds,  349,  496 

Raymond  and  PengeUy  (Lords),  288 

Rime  or  rhyme,  36 

Send  of  the  sea,  368 

Seymour  (Bir  John),  his  epitaph,  238 

Shakespeare's  "  Virtue  of  necessity,*'  8 

Tidesnrell  and  Tideslow,  872 

Tugs,  Wykehamic«l  not'ton,  269 

Webater's  '  Basque  Legends.'  4{iS 

Young  (Edward),  "  ibe  pamter  of  ilMuck,"  12< 
Doge  of  Venice,  likeness  blotted  out,  itii*.  517 
Doggestrete  in  ancient  Lonil<in,  its  locality,  295 
Dolores,  muvical  composer,  bet  identity,  107,  177 
Doncaster,  t-pitnpb,  "Hone,   Howe,  who  ta  bMnf 

196  ;   motto  of  the  borough.  232 
Dormer  (J.)  on  Daburis,  337 

English  Channel,  448 

Frost  and  its  forms,  116 

Gimerro,  156 

Iberian  inMCriplious  in  Bibernia,  455 

Jacobin  ;  Jacubite>,  16 

Jesvp,  the  name,  400 

Latin  pluralH,  ficlitiouB,  S4 

Melancholy,  212 

Milestones,  133 

"Molobdinous  slowbelly,''  18 

Nataleae.  515 

l'^e^c^iption^  463 

"  Purple  patch,"  477 

St.  Patrick  at  Orvieto,  181, 174 

Sntnllujj;e,  330 

Sun  and  its  orbit,  470 

"  Top  Hpit,"  36 

Worm,  4»2 
Domford  (James  WilHaro).  Westminster  scholar.  68 
Dorsetshire  snake-lore,  1 6S,  253,  333 
Doughty  (G.  B. )  on  authon-bip  of  lines,  888 
Douglas  (R.  B.)  on  Soolac  Abbey,  27^ 
Douse  (T.  Lo   Mnrchanl),  bis   'Examination   of  aa 

Old  Manuscript,'  259,  313 
Douse  (T.  Le  Marchant)  on  '  Examination  uf  n  Old 

Manuscript,'  318 
Dontbwaite  ( Denis  W,),  pre««ntation  to.  i  •   '  1  "•.* 

Dowdall's  '  Traditionary  Anecdotes  of  .Sb. .  ,•* 

1'  i!«  ilpflcondanta,  448 

I'  '", in  thu twentlAtbnDotarj.SJiS 

Dn^ke  vil.  II.),  invt.'nU.>ro)  the  ArmMti<)nggtio,3.i!8,  iSfl 

Drawers,  tecr»'t,  dooitmptits  in.  427,  474 

Drawn,    hai>  : mu  of  tlw  nuaUh* 

meet,  201'  <7 

Dryden  (J. ion  ^ii:ii.f>.j.'-..in  .  --„;  his  portrait*.  9S9. 

485 
Dryden  and  Howard  famiUoe,  87 
Dn  All  Coo  00  "ohop-doll«r."  X46 


VotM  nxl  Querlw,  Jaty  30. 1904. 


INDEX. 


531 


» 


^ 


DablJD,   Willuun   III.   crowned   »t,   446;    Maoklia's 

engagement  at  Smock  Alley,  50(> 
Danbeved  on  oar  oldeiit  military  officer,  369 
Dunkeld  (James,  first  Lord  of),  bis  miuriage,  328 
Dunnd  (C.  J.)  on  last  of  the  war  bow,  497 
Datch  fiiibernien  in  British  wjxtTs,  87 
Dyer  (A.  S.)  on  Bishop  Buckerid-je's  birthplace,  287 

Foscarinua,  127 
Dyer  (Sir  Ed.),  "  My  mind  to  me  a  kingdom  is,"  487 
DyxoQ  (Gayiu),  of  Tonbridge.  Kent,  1565,449,  618 
E.  (H.  D.)  on  Wybume  family,  309 
E.  (K.  P.  D.)  on  gimerro,  107 

Hanged,  drawn,  and  quarterec).  275 

Napoleon  on  iroagination,  4SS 
Eaater  bibliography,  266 

Eaater  Dnv,    Kentish  cuatom  on,  824,  852,  891  ;  by 
Julian  reckoning,  324,  362,  300  ;  in  1512.  388,  452 
Eaater  sepulchres  at  various  places,  265 
Eaaterbrook  (D.)  un  Ualeigh'a  head,  49 
"Earterling  "  and  Raat  Harling,  Norfolk,  506 
Ebnrorth  (J.  W.)  on  '  My  Old  Oak  Table,'  1(J 
Economy  and  avarice,  adage  on,  38 
Ecton  (John),  additions  to  biography  in  'D.N.B.,'327 
Edgar  (King),  bi«  blazon.  70 
Edgcumbe  (R.)  on  Boer  war,  325 

History  "  m»de  in  Germany,"  6 

Leonardo  da  Viuci'«  'Latt  Supper,'  25 

Tborwaldsen's  bust  of  Byron,  205 

Torpedoes  anticipated,  280 
Edinburgh:  GiUe#pie'a  EI  ospital  and  Wryttes  Hou>es,21 7 
Edinborgb  garrison,  Cbaplun  to,  ravival  of  office,  145 
Editor  on  Tenth  Series,  1 
Editorial : — 

C'ateii=things  provided  by  the  catoor  (caterer),  180 

t"  Facing  the  music,"  100 
••  Fat,  f»ir,  and  forty,"  460 
Lf4ysta1l,  leastall,  l6yreatowe=a  burial-plaoe,  440 
Mildmay  (Sir  Humphrey),  his  '  Diary,'  220 
"  O  brQa<l  and  smooth  the  Avon  flows,"  520 
■    Feaoooka'  featben  unlucky,  820 
■  Quarter  of  com,  340 
~    "  Raintng  cats  and  dogs."  60 
liime  V.  rhyme,  400 
Boper  (Margaret),  260 
"Ships  that  pass  in  the  night,"  fiO 
"Skoal !  to  the  Northland  I  Skoal  I  *'  280 
"  Sow  an  act,"  300 
"  Who  plucked  this  flower  1 "  200 
Women  and  creata,  400 
Edmunds  (A.  J.)  on  Cheshire  oat  in  Ainerioa»  865 
Edwards  (E.  H.)  on  prinU  and  engraringa,  2tf8 
Egerton-Warburton  (R.  K.),  upigram  by,  169,  296 
Egremont  (Gforge  O'Brien,  thinl  Earl  of),  bis  mar- 
riage, 148,  192,  'J33 
Eggs,  blue,  at  May  Day,  126,  173 
Eggs  and  oollectorn,  327,  372.  453 
Elba,  conspiracy  to  help  Napoleon  from,  338 
Et«ne,  picture  in  Parma  Gallery,  507 
Elephant  used  by  W»rr«n  Hastings,  849 
II        Bttphaats,  their  a(;p,  398 

^K    EleM(J.  II.)  onCopeniicuHauil  the  pUnel Mercury,  509 
^B    Ruot  (GeorKo)  and  blank  venwi,  14 
^^     Klisalielh  iQiutii)  and  New  Hall,  K<«ez,  16 

Kllacoinbe(H,  N.)i>n«>pilftph  on  Sir  John  Seymour,  87 
Ellison  family  of  Uuaton,  Mass.,  268 
Bint,  large,  noted  by  Wwley,  349 


Elwortby  (F.  T.)  on  •  iva,"6l4 

Emeritus  ou  **  chop- (1 

Indian  B{>ort,  349 

y^hnatch  or  tiger-claw  weapon,  403 
Emmet  family  and  Madame  de  Fontenay,  their  corre- 
spondence, 52.  Ill 
'Encyclopaedic  DicLionary,'  oedilla  in  the,  307 
England,  Old,  earliest  use  of  the  term.  189.  255,  316 
England  and   the  American  colonies :  Pig  and  Kill- 
pig.  105 
"  English  dogs  shall  only  wear  their  nuuiter's  collars," 

328 
English  (R.)  on ' '  Lost  in  a  convent's  solitary  gloom,"  98 
English,  foreign,  examples  of,  224 
English,  pigeon,  at  home,  506 
English  aooeutuatiou,  72 
English  Channel,  French  name  fur,  448 
English  rule  in  France,  traces  of,  164,  253 
Engravings,  book  on,  269,  377;  "publisht  according 

to  Act  of  Parliament,"  309,  336,  369 
Enquirer  on  R.  U.Brown,  126 
Envelopes,  their  introduction,  57,  133, 176 
l^pergne,  use  of  the  word,  93 
Spigrama: — 

"  My  name  is  Benjamin  Jowett,**  386 

"  Nash  represents  man  in  the  mass,"  32,  96 

Pompadour  (Madame  de),  18 

Reynolds     (Sir    Joshua)  :     "  Laudat    Romanna 
Rapha«lem,  Gneous  Apellem,"  146 

"  Should  a  man  through  all  space  to  far  galaxisa 
travel,"  386 
Epimenides,  St.  Paul's  quotation  from,  405 
Epitaph  by  Shakespeare,  126 
Bpitaphi : — 

Adderbury  Church,  Oxfordshire,  233 

"Evaal  :  eflFugi,"  445 

Fewston,  near  Otley,  Yorkshire,  233 

Greek,  well-known.  444 

"  Here  lies  poor  Corydon,"  173 

"  Here  Ilea  retired  from  hnsy  scenes,"  368 

"Here sleeps  tbirtcBn  together  in  one  Tombe,"  286 

"Hoi  hot  who  lies  here  r'  196 

"Optimus  &  DominuB  mihi  ^[axim,"  345 

••Poor  John  Scott  lies  buried  here,"  69 

"  State  super  anliquaa  viae,"  5 

Seymour  (Sir  John),  in  Bilton  Church,  87 
EpitiH>hs,  bibliography  of,  44,  173,  217,  252,  334 
Ermine:  '*Tymbara  of  ermine,"  explanation  of  the 

term,  449,  492 
Error.     See  Muprintg. 
Fte,  termination  in  English,  446,  616 
Estrege,  meaning  of  the  name,  469 
Euchre,  etymology  of  the  word,  13,  77,  118 
Saripldsfi,  date  of  bis  birth,  447,  476 
Evans  (H.  A.)  on  Jacobite  winegtaaMt.  204 

Shakespeare,  early  MS.  mention  of.  810 
Evil  eye,  and  scarlet,  148.  231  ;  in  England,  608  ;.in 

Sicily,  614 
Excomniunicaliou  of  Louis  XrV.,  69 
Eye,  evil,     hm  Kvil  eye, 
Rylisham.     See  Ayiihum. 
Kyres  (Major-Ueiietal  B.),  his  biography,  489 
F.  on  '  Die  and  )><•  Danmod,'  328 

Pindar  family,  IHl 
P.  (D.  E.)  on  Fftiiplace.  896 
F.  JF.  J.)  on  Browning's  "Tbuniler-free,"  504 


532 


INDEX. 


HotM  and  QnariM,  July  30,  IBOi. 


F.  (J.  T.)  on  "  Ashes  to  ashes,"  429 

C»al,  26 

Codcshut  time,  196 

Diabread,  173 

"  GoiDg  the  mand"  :  '*  Boundhouse,*'  76 

Jesus,  the  name,  490 

Linoolnshire  jingle,  266 

LinoolDHhire  riddle,  204 

Moon  folk-lore,  125 

"Prior  to,"  175 

"  Sal  et  saliva."  431 

"  Top  spit,"  36 

Worm,  492 
F.  (L.  R.)  on  Kliza  Scudder's  poems,  207 
F.  (M.  £.)  on  glowworm  or  firefly,  193 

'*  Recommended  to  mercy,"  338 
F.  (S.  J.  A.)  on  French  poems,  409 
"  Facing  the  music,"  100 
Fair  Maid  of  Kent,  her  descendants,  289,  374 
Fairholme  on  "All  roads  lead  to  Rome,"  48 
Fiurs,  illustrations  of  West- Country,  48,  93 
Farmer  (Thoma»),  his  memorial  inscription,  428 
Fanners-General  executed  in  the  French  Revolution, 

127.  174 
Famley  Hall,  I^eds,  346 

Farquhar's  '  I'caux'  fStratagem,'  reference  to  tea  in,  456 
February  30,  inntances  of,  166,  2B3 
Fellows  of  the  Clover  Lt-af,  history  of,  7,  193 
Female  Holdiers  :  Phoel)e  Hemel,  406 
Ferguson  (Donald)  on  hanged,  drawn,  and  quartered, 

497 
FergUBSon  (J.  R.)  on  epigram  on  Reynolds,  146 
Ferling,  a  measure  of  sixteen  acres,  354 
Ferrar  (Michael  Lloyd),  his  death,  380 
Ferrar  (Nicholas),  his  '  Harmonies,'  108 
Fetish  in  Nova  Zembla,  466 
Fettiplace  family,  329,  396.  473,  511 
Feudal  system,  248,  353 

Fewritone,  Yorkshire,  curious  gravestone  at,  233 
Fictitious  Latin  plurals,  54,  193 
Field-names  :  at  West  Haddon,  co.  Northampton,  46, 

94,  156  ;  at  Brightwalton,  Rerks,  228 
Figs,  green,  and  .St.  Peter,  148,  231 
Finch  (J.  K.)  on  Jnmes  Rrindley,  810 
Finlay    (Robert)    and    Mitchel,    eighteenth •  century 

bankers,  310,  374 
Krefly  or  glowworm  in  modern  poetry,  47,  112,  156, 

103,  216 
Firman  (F.  B.)  on  Dickensiana,  44 
Fiscal,  derivation  of  the  word,  61 
Fish  days  and  St.  Paul's  School.  290 
Fisher  (Rov.  Samuul)  «nd  Dr.  John  Reading,  156 
Fitthemien,  Dutch,  in  Urititih  waters,  «7 
Fishwick  (Col.  H.)  on  Lancashire  and  Cheshire  wills,  88 

rit=a  grave,  287 

Travers  family,  252 
Fitzhamon  family,  47,  132 

Fitziwtrick  (Richard)  and  Charles  James  Fox,  146 
Flaying  alive,  instances  of,  15,  73,  155,  352 
Fleet  marriages,  records  of,  9,  76 
Fleetwood  (George),  the  reiricide,  his  biography,  422 
Fleetwoods,  and  Milton's  Cottage,  422 
Flesh  and  shamble  meats,  68.  298,  394 
Fletcher  (J.  M.  J.)  on  Wyrley's  Derbyshire  Chnnsh 

Notea,  427 
'^-ihit,  niMning  of  the  word,  809,  874 


!  Folk-lore:— 

Birdacaring,  340 

Building  customs,  407,  615 

Childbirth,  15 

Christmastide,  172 

Cobweb  pills,  205,  278,  SI  7 

Corpse  lying  over  Sunday,  127 

Crucifixion,  426 

Donetsbire  snake-lore,  168,  263.  333 

Evil  eye,  and  scarlet,  148,  231;  in  England,  608  ; 
in  Sicily,  514 

Good  Friday  and  low  tides,  310 

Greenteeth  (Jenny),  365 

Ji^nese  regarded  as  soroerera,  847 

Lobiahome,  327 

May  Day  festivals,  160 

Moon,  125,  175,  252,  395 

Murderer,  disguised,  266,  395 

Number  superstition,  369,  457 

Peacocks'  feathers  unlucky,  320 

Salt,  514 

Scarlet  and  the  evil  eye,  148,  231 

Snow-rimes,  o92,  511 

Spider  cures,  205,  273 

Spittle,  614 

Water  hags,  319,  365 

Wife,  jealous,  147 
Fontarrabia,  etymology  of  the  name.  443 
Fonts,  desecmted,  488 

Football  on  Shrove  Tuesday.  127,  194,  230,  881,  435 
Ford  (C.  Lawrence)  on  architecture  in  old  times,  290 

Authors  of  (quotations,  217,  275,  468 

Bums  anticipated,  357,  371 
Ford  (J.  W.)  on  smothering  hydrophobic  patients,  176 
Forest  family,  1604,  67 

Former  Petworth  Resident  on  Earl  of  Egremont,  233 
Forshaw  (C.  F.)  on  "  As  meny  as  griggs,"  36 

Aylsham  cloth,  172 

Bngshaw,  152 

Barbers,  famous,  613 

Beadnell,  1 7,  615 

Brindley  (James).  375 

Byard  family,  414 

Carson,  377 

Chelsea  Physic  Garden,  270 

Constantine  Pebble,  97 

Copper  coins  and  tokens,  335 

Denman  (John),  112 

Famley  Hall,  346 

February  30,  233 

Fettiplace,  396,  611 

Grammar  :  nine  parts  of  speech,  337 

Hell,  Heaven,  and  Paradise  as  place-names,  332 

Horn  dancing,  296 

"I  expect  to  pass  through,"  316 

"  King  of  Patterdale,"  194 

Knight  Templar,  211 

Milestones,  133 

Mount  Grace  le  Ebor,  Monastery  of,  198 

Newton  (Isaac),  miniature  of,  315,  365 

'Nicholas  Nickleby  ':  Capt.  Guttie,  274 

Northall,  Shropshire,  297 

Passing  bell.  861 

Peck  (William),  618 

Preaoriptions^  46S 

Biver  (Qvided,  891 


Uty  au,  1904. 


INDEX. 


533 


i 
I 


I 


Forehaw  <C.  F.)  ou  St  DaniUn,  216 

Shake«p«&rB,  poemo  on,  409 

Stuikeapearv's  |;r:tve,  331,  352,  416 

Shipton,  Mother,  406 

Smothering  hjidropbobic  patients,  382 

Temple  College,  PbiUdelpbia,  493 

Willie  (William),  67 

Wilton  Nunnerj,  318 
Fonter  (M.)  on  Taylor  the  Platonui,  409 
Fortune  Theatre  in  1649,  85 
FoacarinuR  as  a  Chn«ti)ui  name,  127,  198,  277 
Foster  (H.  J.)  on  cobweb  pills,  317 

"  Glory  of  the  MethodijiU,"  476 

"  Purple  patch."  510 
Foster  (J.)  on  author*  of  qnotations  wanted,  474 

Latin  linoN,  248 
Foster  (J,  J.)  on  Quesnel,  8 
Foalard,  etymology  of  the  word,  307 
FowoY  •  "  Gallanto  of  Fowey,"  origin  of  the  title,  505 
Fowke  (F.  Kede)  on  birth-marks,  494 
Fowler  (Dr.  J.  T.)  on  carved  stone,  168 
Fox  (Charlea  Jame«)  and  Richard  Fitzpntrick,  146 
France,  tnusM  of  English  rule  in,  164,  253  ;  last  peer 
of,    225  ;    Premier  Grenadier  of,  384,    470 ;    and 
drilization,  448 
Francesca  on  crowns  in  tower  of  church,  38 

Emmet  and  De  Fontenay  letters.  111 

Medical  barristers,  32 

Speakers  of  Irish  lluuse  of  Commons,  227 
Frmnoo-G«rman  War,  landed  properly  in,  226,  277 
Franking  letters,  57,  133,  175 
Frederick  Lewia,  eldest  eon  of  George  11.,  lament  at 

his  death.  346 
Freeman  (E.  A.),  J.  R.  Green  on  his  *  Nonnan  Con> 

qoest,'  225,  294 
Freeman  (J.  J.)  on  Swinbarne,  49 
French  cloister  in  England,  207 
French  miniature  painter,  66,  137,  171,  211.  237 
French  poems  and  folk-eongs,  409 
French  proverbial  phraMS,  3,  485 
French  refu|^6«ss  in  London.  1721,  their  cemetery,  517 
French  Revolution,  Farmers-General  executed,  127, 174 
FreesbJDgfield,  Suffolk,  coffin-shaped  chapel  at,  493 
Frith  (W.  P.),  picture  of  Swift  and  Vanesea,  07 
"  From  whence,"  the  phra««.  9,  55 
Frost  (F.  C. )  on  crowns  in  tower  of  churohj  88 
Frost  and  iu  forms.  67.  116,  158 
Froude  (J.  A.)  on  York  Minster,  290 
Frozen  words,  a  nautical  yam,  8 
Follerton  (A.  G.),  his  biography,  113 
Fulture,  use  of  the  word,  225,  290 
Funeral  bell,  origin  of  the  custom,  308,  350 
Fumivars  Inn,    portraits   of  Lords    Raymond    and 

Pengelly  at.  288 
Furnirall  (F.  J.)  on  Browning's  '  A  Miniature.'  201 

Chaucer's  tomb,  28 

Fortune  Theatre  in  1649,  85 
Fynmofo  (R  J  )  on  Fettiplace,  473 

T  V,  Samuel),  166 

.>c.  166 

,»,lo,.MU-   -.i         >■--;.    -293 

Kcuneit  ( I  U'),  his  tether,  7d 

\|]iniiini;H  ,'  I,  255 

St    Itri>lg.>t°N  ltow»r,  mi 
Willium  of  Wykeham.  278 
•  Yong  Souldier,'  477 


G.  (A.)  on  "  Hadger  in  the  bag,"  289 

"  Feed  the  brute,"  343 
G.  (F.)  on  glowworm  or  fir«Ay,  47 

Robin  a  Bobbin,  172 
G.  (H.  C.)  on  German  quotation,  248 
G.  (J.  K.  F.)  on  '  Merry  Thoughts  in  a  Sad  Place,*  10S 
G.  (J.  W.)  on  annH  of  Lincoln,  168 

Dowdall's    '  Tnulitiooar}-    Anecdotes    of   Shake* 
epeare,'  128 
G.  (M.  N.)  on  American  Loyalists,  313 

"Feed  the  brute,"  416 

Marlborough  and  Shakespeare,  352 

Willie  William,  315 
O.  (S.)  on  CurioQg  Christian  names,  170 
6.  (W.  H.  M.)  on  "As  merry  ae  griggs,"  36 
G.  (W.  R.)  on  '  Memoirs  of  a  Stomach,'  27 
Gaborian,  Englinb  translation  of  his  '  Marquis  d'Angi- 

val,'  4-28 
GainHb<jruugh's  Masonic  portrait  of  Earl  of  Chatham,  427 
"Gallants  of  Fowey,"  origin  of  the  title,  505 
Galton  (R«r.  Arthur),  bii)  writings.  349,  413 
Gambal,  gambrei,  or  giimble,  use  of  the  word,  412 
Games  :  SUte,  226  ;  badger  iu  the  bag,  289,  365 
Gammack  (J.)  on  fraudulent  American  diplomas  and 

degrees,  44 
Gantillon  <P.  J.  F.)  on  curious  Christian  names,  26 
Garden  (Alexander),  M.D..  'D.N.B, '  on,  328,  417 
Garden  at  Oxford  admired  by  Wesley,  349 
Gardens,  Maxwell  on,  288,  357 
Gardiner  (A.)  on  "  Barrar,'^  434 
Garrick  (D.)  'The  Jubilee'  printed  at  Waterford,  85 
Gaakell  (Mr*.  E.  C),  VVhitby  in  'Sylvia's  Lovers,  187 
Gauden  (Bishop  John),  '  U.N.B. '  on.  807 
Gay  (John),  manoscriptH  found  in  a  chair,  475 
Oaythorpe  (H.)  on  Walney  Itiland  names,  887 
G«dd  or  Geddex  ( Dr.  Patrick),  Scotch  physician  at 

Santiago,  230 
Genealogy,  new  souroee  of,  187,  218,  258,  390,  612 
(rfnoa,  Rubena's  '  Palaces  of  Genoa,'  267 
Ueograpby,  Shakespeare's  knowledge  of,  51 
George  (H.)  on  Whittj  Tree,  469 
George  (Capt.  Thorae)  on  capsicum.  73 

Celtic  titles.  14 

Dee  (Dr.),  his  magic  mirror,  16 

Envelope,  133 

Grenadier  Ouarda,  30 

Marriage  regiatera,  9 

Mary,  Queen  of  Soots,  86 

"  Welsh  ^abbi^"  70 
Georgia,  William  Stephens,  President  of.  144,  216. 384 
Gerish  (W.  B.)  on  Sir  Henry  C'hanncy,  06 

Commemorative  tablets,  367 

Marriage  Uouse,  33 

Mnyers'  Soug,  7 
C;«<rTnan  literature^  Pope's  influence  on,  209,  336 
German  prophecy,  396  ^^ 

German  quotation  :  "  Ohne  Phosphor  kein  Gedanka, 

248,  835 
German  reprint  of  Lelijarraga's  books.  284,  316 
OenxtMay,  history  made  in.  fi 
'  OestA  Romanorum  '  and  Tacitus,  6 
Ghent,  arms  of  city  in  fifteenth  century,  1C3 
Ghoets,  Chinese  and  Japanese,  176 
Ghosts'  markets,  206 

GiaooM  (Giuseppe)  on  Turin  National  Ubrary,  387 
Olbbard  (William),  Westminster  aoholar,  329 


INDEX. 


Notw  and  QaetlM.  JuTy  SO.  1901 


Gibson  (R«v.  C.  BernArd),  d,  1S86,  hi*  biography,  106 

Gif&>rd  (H.  J.)  on  Japanase  cards,  75 

Qilb«rt  JG.)  on  Col.  Roger  MacEllig^ott,  295 

Gilbert  {Richard),  Wmtmiiuiter  ncholar,  406 

Gilbert  (Thouuta),  Weatminster  acholar,  407 

Giles  (Robert),  d.  1578,  hia  biography,  48 

Gilleifpie'M  HoHpital,  Edinburgh,  217 

Gillman  (C.)  od  glowworm  or  firefly,  156 

Gilia,  Gandlemas,  origin  of  the  ouatom,  30,  75 

Gimerro,  mixod  breed  of  animal,  107f  156 

Gimignano,  St.  Fina  of;  349.  415 

Girl,  etymology  of  the  word,  245 

Girtio  (G.  W.  H.)  on  Maasingor's  '  Fatal  DoMrry,'  348 

GlaBB-breakiag  at  Japaneae  weddings,  196 

Glaaamakiug  in  1740,  51,  114 

Olaaae  (Mrs ),  her  *  The  Art  of  Cookery.'  388 

Glastonbury.  8t,  Dunatan  at,  149,  219,  293 

Glouceiter  (Duchoss  of)  and  th«  Duke  of  SufTolk,  209 

Gloucester    (William    Frederick,    Duke    of),    ''Silly 

Billy."  134,  232 
Glowworm  or  firefly  in  modem  poetry,  47,  112, 166, 

103,  213 
"Go  for "= attack,  225,  272 
Ood,  its  etymology,  74 
GodinancheBter,  place-name,  518 
Goethe,  on  Byron  and  Pope,  200,  336  ;  prophecy  by, 

S96  ;  translntioiu  of  ■  Wilbelm  Meiatsr,'  489 
Gofer,  ringing  for,  at  Newark .upon-TreDt,  6 
Golden  (W.  P.)  on  Lady  Chanlrey,  368 
Golden  fiall,  Houthwark,  ito  register,  329 
Ooldamith    (Oliver)   and   Mary   Homeck,    310;  fint 

French  translation  of '  Vioar  of  Wakefield,'  489 
Golf,  etymology  of  the  word,  168,  617 
Qood  Friday  and  low  tides,  310 
Goodrich  (W.  J.)  on  Chauce^riana,  121 
Goodwin  (Thomiu),  D.D.,  his  third  wife,  189 
Gordon  (Ducbean  of),  fan  ustnl  by,  o.  1787,  810 
Gordon  (John)  and  ZotTany,  107 
Gordon  (Mr.),  hi«giirden  at  Mile  End,  849 
Gordon  (Theodore),  watchmaker.  107,  197 
Gorges  (Ferdinando)  of  Barbadoea,  and  Sir  F.  Gorges, 

"  Lord  Proprietor  of  Maine,"  148 
Gorges  (Sir  Ferdinando), '« Lord  Proprietor  of  Maine," 

Mid  Ferdinando  Gorges  of  Barbadoes,  148 
GoMe  (Edmund),  hia  use  of  the  word  "  pbraae,"  427 
Goaielin-Grimshawe  (Uellier  R  H.)  on   'Our  Lady  of 

the  Snows,'  311 
Gould  (I.  Chalkley)  on  Olavering  do  Mandeville,  218 

Engravings,  370 
Gowers  (Sir  W.  R.)  on  •Onr  Lady  of  the  Snows,'  311 
Gowran  (Lord),  r.  1720,  hia  biography,  368 
Graham  (Sir  James)  and  Mazsini's  letters,  505 
Grahamize,  origin  of  the  word,  505 
Gnunmar  :  lines  on  nine  parts  of  »p«ech,  94,  337 
Graves  belonging  to  other  families,  interment  in,  9 
Gravestones,  nameleaa,  173,  2.V2 
Gray  (T.),  parallel  passages  from  Collins,  456  ;  '  Elegy ' 

in  Latin,  487 
Gray's  Inn  :  'Ancient  Order  of  Grny's  Inn,'  367,  434 
Green  (Everi»rd)  on  arms  of  Pius  X.,  373 
Green(J.  K.)on  Freeman's  'N onnan Conquest,' 225, 294 
Green,  iU  nignificanoe.  6 
Greene  ( Rev.  Carleton)  on  Fope  and  Gemum  litera* 

tnre,  209 
Oteentaetb  (Jenny),  water-Lag,  stories  of,  319,  365 
(Inenwioh,  "  Ship  "  Hotel  at,  1 1 1,  375,  454 


Oreenwich  Palace,  vandaliam  at,  486 

Gregory  the  Great,  the  "  Consul  of  ' ' 

Greig  (Ad.8ir  Samael)  in  Ruarian  N  .3i,  49^ 

Grenadier  Goanls,  origin  of  tbi-  i,  ,n> 

Grenadier  of  France,  Premier. 

'Grenadier's  Exercise  of  the  Gr... ,..-;■.,,    .i7.  412 

0renovic«n9ia  on  excommunication  of  Louis  XJV.,  69 

Gretna  Green,  reoonls  of  marriages  at,  9 

Oriengro:  Gringo,  meaoing  of  tho  words,  369,  t 

Grier  (Sidney  C.)  on  firstwife  of  Warren  Haatinv 

Griggs  ;  "  As  merry  as  grigffs,"  3t),  04 

Origor  <J. )  on  '  Chambers^  Oycloptedia  of    Eoglikh 

Literature,'  145 
Grimaldi  (Staoey),  his  list  of  Weatminater  schoUni,  2^ 
Gnm«by,  Lincolnshire  tale  of,  505 
Gringo :  Griengro,  meaning  of  th«  words,  369,  478 
Oniselier  (Gregory)  on  Estrege,  469 

Jeeus,  the  name,  428 
Guernsey,  records  of  marriages  in,  9,  76 
Guest  family,  504 
Guimaraens  (A.  J.  C.)  on  Thomas  Fanner,  488 

Shakespeare  (Mary),  448 
Ouiney  (L.  I.)  on  Emmet  and  De  Fontsnay  Istten,  61 

Hall  (Dr.),  268 
Guncaster,  identificatioa  of  the  plaoe-nama,  448,  518 
Guntey  (J.  H.)  on  Ray's  Itineraries,  468 
Gumey  (M.)  on  authors  of  tiuotatinas,  428 
Gutenberg  nn<l  the  '  Inccndtum  Divini  Amoris,'  S 
O Wynne  (Edw&ifi),  his  will,  1640.  406 
Owyther  (A.)  on  "  In  matten  of  oommeroe,"  469 
II.  on  Cambridge  (late  Duke  of),  501 

Egremont  (Earl  of),  192 

"Silly  Billy,"  283 
H.  2  on  EngliHb  in  France,  164 

Good  Friday  and  low  tides,  810 

Uell,  Heaven.  And  ParadiM  as  pivf-ntnam,  346 

Imaginary  or  invented  saints,  159,  338 

"  Mevagissey  dock,"  4(57 

"  Meynes  "  and  "  Rhinea,"  49,  217 

Natalese,  446 

Picture  of  knight  in  armour,  39 
H.  (A.)  on  Alake,  468 

Amban,  506 

Clftvering  :  De  Mandevilla,  293 

Cold  Harbour:  Windy  Arbour,  496 

FettiphMse.  896 

Hanged,  drnwn,  and  quartered,  276 

Mitchel  &  Finlay,  Iwnkara,  374 
H.  (A.)  on  Sellingor,  491 

H.  (A.  C.)  on  Edward  Williams,  drowned  1821,  S6S 
H.  [C.  F.)  on  Wellington's  homes,  329 
H.  (C.  M.)  on  smothering  hydrophobic  patients,  176 
H.  (C.  S.)  on  Easter  Day  by  the  Julian  reckoning,  352 
H.  (H.  K.)  on  authors  of  quotations  wanted,  474 

"Pannage  and  tollnge,"  126 
H.  (H.  M.)  on  American  Loyalists.  269 
H.  (0.  0.)onbirth-  I 


lok.  496 


Hockday  :  poi 
H.  (R,  A,)  on  "Tw 
H.(K.  H.E,)onl..i 
H.  (S.  H.  A.)  on  I- 
H.  (W.  B.)on  Byi 

Epitaphs,  tli^M 

Horn  ilniicitig,  ,'> 

Rfjyiil  Dak  Day,  iB9 
H.  (W.  M.)  on  Armstrong  gnn,  386 


••  107 
:««peare.  &90 


•  r  H 


Rote*  •nd  QtioriM,  fulf  W,  ISO*. 


INDEX. 


535 


* 


H.  (W.  8.  B.)  on  n  proDouaoed  /tg,  247 

H.  (W.  T.)  on  St.  Fin*  of  Gimignano,  349 

H — n.  OD  riding  th«  bUck  ram,  35 

H*ckeU  (F.  Warren)  on  "  BenHuawsy"  :    "  Whip- 

•titch  "  :  "  Wood-toter,"  449 
BTaddon,   West,    oo.   Northampton,    field-namea    at, 

46,  94,  156 
Haditook  Cburob,  Dane's  ilcin  at,  155 
Ha^oyele,  derivation  of  the  word,  20S,  256,  172 
Hainea  (R.)  on  bow  laat  used  in  war,  437 
Hay&e*  (Samuel),  335 
'  Irua.'  Buppoeed  play  by  bbakeepeare,  349 
"Old  England."  189 
Hake  (T.  St.  Egmont)  on  gringo,  griengro,  478 
Haklet  or  Uakluyt  family,  404 
EEatl  (A.)  on  Aldwych,  205 

Chair  of  St.  Auguatine,  369 
Panrilh.  354 
■    "Soole  Inn."  Norfolk.  313 
Hall  (Dr.),  tutor  of  the  Earl  of  Roaoommon,  206 
HaU(J.).  Bi»hop  of  Bristol,  1691-1710,  bia  wife,  9,  72 
Halley  {E.),  his  comet,  86,   163;   his  two   royagei, 

1698^1700,  289 
Ham  (J.  8.)  oo  piti*ing  bell,  351 
Hamilton  (S.  6.)  on  King  JobD'a  charters,  612 
Hand  or  bands,  kissing  the  sovereign's,  135 
Hanged,  drawn,  and  quartererl,  form  of  the  punish- 
ment, 209.  275,  356.  371,  410,  497 
Harepath,  near  Exeter,  its  derivation,  190,  469,  517 
Harland-Oxley  (W.  E.)  on  Bellamy's,  618 
Chelsea  Fbysic  Garden,  271 
Christian  names,  curious,  171 
Hinds  (Or.  Samuel).  Sr>l 
Raleieh's  head.  130,  459 

St.  Mamarei's  Charch  and   the   Queen's  West- 
minsters, 363 
St.  Margaret's  Churchyard,  23,  62 
Westminnter  Abbey  changes,  467 
Westminster  changes  in  1903,  263,  S02 
Harleyford.  Buckinghamshire,  inscriptions  at,  516 
Harling,  East,  and  "  Kasterling,"  505 
Harp,  the  Lamont,  329 

Harpsfield  (John  and  Nicbolut),  ■  D.N.B.'  on,  224 
Hart  (H.  Chichester)  oo  Carlo  Butfone,  381 

Shakespeariana,  163  [ 

Hartley  (Dr.  J.),  hU  biography,  87. 166,  108.  263.  316 
Hartley  (Rev.  Salter  Ht.  George  John),  his  biography, 

87,  150,  198,  269,  316 
Hartsboroe  (Albert)  on  tea  as  a  meal,  209 
Harvey  (Gsbriel),  his  books,  267 
Haspod,  meaning  of  the  word,  366 
Hastings  (Warren),  his  first  wif«,  426,  194 
Hastings  inscription  in  St.  Clement's  Church,  412 
Hatton  (Sir  Christopher),  his  title,  267 
Haaltmont  ( M ,)  on  "  Chaperoneil  by  hur  father,"  211 

"  Morale."  206 
Havana,  storming  of  Port  Moro.  1762,  448,  5U 
Hawes  (Franci«),  d.  17fi4,  his  biography,  8 
Hawker  (R.  ».),  bis  TrsUwny  ballad,  88,  406;  his 

Mclesiastical  vestments,  278,  486 
Hawkins  (William),  n.D.,d.  1691,  his  biography.  137 
Hay  (Sir  Jamt^s)  on  CbarlM  I.,  65 
Hay  (Jame*)  on  Boer  War  of  1881,  895 
Hayes  (Mr.),  murdsred  in  1725,  64 
Haymarket  Theatre,  puns  at  the,  269 
Haynes  (Samuel),  d.  ISll,  bis  panntagv,  260,  884 


Heads  pat  together  when  considering  verdict,  326 
Heardloino,  the  word  in  Court  Roll,  1601,  29,  75 
Hearts  of  oelebrities  in  the  Hotel  des  Invalided,  385, 470 
Heaven,  Hell,  and  Paradise  as  place-names,  245,  832 
Hebb  (J.)  on  Beadnell,  18 
Begums,  14 
"  Coup  de  Jarnac,"  6 
French  proverbial  phrases,  485 
Heber's  '  Palestine,'  parallel  passages,  69 
Heech,  the  word  in  Court  Roll.  1604,  20,  76 
Heelis  (J.  L.)on  "  Better  the  day.  better  thedoed,*  448 
Chateaubriand,  relic  of,  165 
Napoleon's  power  of  awaking,  446 
Russian  prediction,  445 
Heine,  his  legend  of  Council  of  Baste,  8,  397 
Helena  (Qaeeo)  in  London,  29 
Helga  on  Batrome,  252,  378 
"Bink,"  138 

Caroline  ^Queen),  her  trial,  127 
Charles  the  Bold,  232 
Charles  V.  on  laugusges,  227 
Christian  names,  curious,  236 
Fair  Maid  of  Kent,  289 
James  I.  of  Scotland,  his  daughters.  507 
Links  with  the  past,  32.'> 
Psnn's  •  Fruits  of  Solitude,'  275 
«'Qnioe,"126 
Royal  family.  127 
Hell  in  place-names,  46,  94,  156.  245,  332 
Helston,  "  FurT>'  Dance  "  at.  333 
Hemingford  Abb«t«,inscripUon  to  John  Uildeeteyat,  414 
Hems  (U.)  on  Hell,  Heaven,  and  I'sradise,  332 
Railway  train,  first  steam.  '225 
Wolverhampton  pulpit.  476 
Hen-bussey,  use  of  the  word,  449,  475 
Heraldry: — 

Argent,  on  a  cross  gutea  a  Aeur-de-lis  or,  168,  234 
Aylmer  arms,  155 

Bullion,  iotktte\6,  au  premier  et  qnatri&ms,  409 
DerwentwAter  arms,  155 
Edgar  vKing),  his  blaaon,  76 
Ghent  city  arms,  168 

Gules,  two  Lons  passant  ganlant  or,  168,  234 
Pius  X.,  his  arms.  309,  373 
Piatt  (Sir  Hugh),  207 
Sable,  an  esoutcheoa  of  pretenoe,  329 
Shakespeare,  '  2  Henry  VL,'  IV.  i.,  290,  838 
Women  and  crests,  400 
Herapath  (E.  L.)  on  Harepath,  190 
Herberley  and  Thomas  Nuale,  509 
Heron- Allen  (E.)  on  birth-marks,  430 
'  Lord  Bateman  and  his  8«i^ia,'  168 
Sleep  and  Death,  865 
Tea  as  a  meal,  176,  210 
Herondas  or  Herodas,  date  of  his  raimes.  68,  216,  386 
Herpich  (C.  A.)  on  Marlowe  and  Shakaspeare,  1 
Quotations,  56 

Shakespeare  allnsion,  6  ^ 

Shakespaan's  "  Victae  of  necessity,"  110 
Herring  called  a  Mevag^ssey  duck,  467 
Hertford  borough  seal.  448 
Hertfordabire  flayers'  song,  7 
Hertingfordbury  Church,  Herts,  nameless  gravestoM 

at,  173 
Heslop  (K.  O.)  on  passing  bell,  350 
Heasel  (Phosbe)  the  Stepney  uoMon,  400 


fM^^^^^^^v                ^^HHMRjUl^^^ 

^^    HauiikAnan  trAnsl»tion  of  the  Bible,  284,  315 

Hooper  (J.)  on  "So  ■            "  Xorfolk,  394                               ^^fl 

Heward  (W.  L.)  on  Ktonning  of  Fort  Moro,  448 

Hope  (H.  Gerald)  oi                                                                  ^^H 

Biberai*.     See  Ireland. 

Cliivering'   De                                                                            ^^^^| 

Hibgwne  (F.  T.)  on  bf*zen  bijoa,  389 

Hajitings  (Warren),  )                     .194                             ^^H 

1                   Children  of  the  Chspel,  458 

"  I  expect  tn  poes  thr                                                                 ^^^^| 

^K           CkiM  (Poet),  409 

Immuri'mcut  alire  uf  rvli^ioua,  162                                     ^^^| 

^H          Coffin  BouM,  493 

Jacflbit«  winflglfMses,  392                                                     ^^^H 

^B          Cop«,  174 

Louis  XVn,  375                                                               ^^B 

^^1          Crouch,  the  munc&I  componer,  248 

MacEliigott  (Cul.  Koger),  294                                                 H 

^H          DoraeUbiro  Bnake-lore,  333 

ikIarlb<>ro:i  ■>'  "--  <  '^■-.n.kespeara,  3fi3                                        ^| 

^H          Evil  eye,  508 

Mary,  Qu                       ,90                                                            ■ 

^H          GaboriAu'a  '  Marquii  d'Angivtl,'  428 

Premier  Cr                i  France,  S8 4                                          ^H 

^H          Hiudn  (Dr.  S»iuuel),  227 

Raleigh's  hea<i,  1^7                                                                          ^| 

^H           Beaiel  (Phccbe),  406 

St.  Fina  of  Gireignano,  415                                                     ^H 

^H           Litttu  Wild  SirtiHt  CbAp«<],  77 

Westminster  changes  in  1903,  855                                         ^| 

^H           NelHon  At  Bath.  3^0 

Hope  (J.  £.  S.)  on  the  '  Time*,'  1962,  470                                    ■ 

■^           PMsttife'  b«ll,  351 

Hopkins  (F.  A  )  on  William  Willie,  257                                            ■ 

r         HiengljrpiiicK,  rererencen  to  the  lupeniAlural  in,  290 

HopHun  (Admiral  .SirT),  1643-1717, his  marriage. 2efl                ■ 

^^     Higden  ( KAlph)  Hnd  Thomas  Usk,  245 

Horace,  arst  edition,  103,  338                                        <                      ■ 

^H    Biggin (L.),hijB 'Spanish  LifeinTo\rnandCoaDtry,'32a 

Uom(Alexander)aDdthe  'IncemliiimDivini  Ainpri«,'2                 1 

^V    Bi|;b  Htewarda  of  cathedrals,  348,  412 

Bom  dancing,  revival  of  the  ctixtoui,  5,  296                             ^^fl 

'           Hicham  (C.)  on  Berlioz  and  Swedenborg,  26 

Homeck  (M^y)  and  Oliver  ({uUlsiuitb,  810                             ^^^H 

Bildealey  (John),  memorial  at  Hcnungford  Abbata,  414 

Homer  (8.)  on  '  Ancient  Ordera  of  Gray's  Inn,*  484            ^^^| 

Hildeatajr  (Mark),  memorial  in  Lincoln '»  Inn  Chapel, 

Horse,  Latin  for  "  roping  "  a,  448,  .113                                      ^^^| 

344,414.  475 

Hor^e  or  burses,  plural  in  ShitkeMp«;ir«,  342,  424                      ^^^| 

Hill  (U.)  nil  CfundtiU  on  Burnameit :  Muaselwhite,  248 

Hor»es  of  Duke  of  Wellington.  329.  416                                 ^^H 

Bilaon  (J.  Lindaay)  on  paaeing  boll,  350 

Hough  (John),  Bishop  of  Wiaohaater.  uieodat*   of       ^^^| 

1 Binds  (Dr.  Samuel),  formerly   Biihup  of    Norwich, 

himself,  431                                                                                 ^^H 

K        227.351,415,517 

Bons<len  (J.  A.  J.)  on  <•  Diam  pati,"  810                                ^^H 

^H    Hio  on  "  Crown  and  Three  Sugar  Lo«vea,"  167 

Ruvelnpee,  67                                                                             ^^^| 

^H    Hippoclidea  on  "  As  merry  aa  griggs,"  94 

Grahamize,  50fi                                                                  ^^^H 

^P            "  AHhea  to  aahea,"  387 

Ptivy  Council  under  James  I.,  131                                    ^^^H 

^■^            Thackeray  quotation,  189 

Houses,  Roman  tenement,  369                                                       ^^^^| 

Weat-Counlrj-  fair,  48 

Huward  and  Drydtm  fnmiiiefl,  87                                            ^^^H 

Htatory  "  made  in  Uermaoy,"  5 

Howard  ( VV'.)  on  John  Moltley,  dramatist,  867                      ^^^H 

k          HiUhin-Kerap  (F.)  on  Samuel  Haynea,  384 

Howell  (M.A.),  on  '  Aatnea  Victrix,'  7                                     ^^H 

y*                  Reirl<x>m  nitn.  207 

Huddenfield  history,  107                                                             ^^H 

^H              Uiittorical  K*'«igmpby  of  London,  268 

Hudson  (C.  M.)  on  Browning's  text,  208                                  ^^^H 

^H               Yeuioan  nfthe  Or>>wn,  457 

Hudson  (Tom),  bis  '  My  Oak  Table,'  16                                   ^^H 

^■^    Habby-home  dancitnj,  5,  296 

Hughes  (T.  Cann)  on  Bagshaw,  295                                          ^^^| 

Hobgoblin's  claws,  in  Mortinier's  •  Huobandfy,'  93 

Birch.  Buroh,  or  Byrcb  families,  417                             ^^^H 

Hockday  and  a  pottage  called  hok,  187,  496 

Comber  family,  312                                                              ^^^1 

Hockey  in  1785,  Uowperon,  385 

Fellows  of  the  Glover  Leaf,  7                                            ^^H 

Bodges  (W.)  on  "  As  merry  as  griggs,"  36 

Ferrar  (Nicholas),  his  '  Harmonies,*  108                           ^^^H 

Bodgkin  (J.  Eliot)  on  Pig  and  Kill-pig,  105 

Holt  (Henry  Frederick  and  Walter  Lookh^rt),  29           ^^ 

Playbills,  earliest,  71 

Lamont  hnrp,  329                                                                            H 

•Ptiliphili  Hytimsrotomachii,'  errors  in,  4 

Leche  family,  397                                                                  ^^^| 

Mogan  (J.  F.)  on  Hell,  Heaven,  and  Paradise,  332 

ManuiDg  ( Uev.  C,  Kobertaon),  67                                  ^^^| 

^^    Ilogartli,  Act  of  Parliament  bearing  his  name,  869 

PauueU,                                                                               ^^H 

^K    Bok  |H.tliM<o  and  Hockday,  187,  496 

Roman  Lanx,  86                                                                    ^^^H 

^f   HoUnswnith  (C.  B.)  on  glowworm  or  firefly,  112 

Syer-Cuming  collection,  409                                                ^^^H 

^    Holies  ((icrvaise),  bis  church  notes  and  other  M8S., 

Tickling  trout,  274                                                             ^^H 

208,251 ;  and  the  aurora  Ixirealis  in  Lincolnshire,  242 

Welsbach  (Caspar),  509                                                     ^^H 

Holt  (Henry  Frederick  and  Walter  Lockhart)  inquired 

Wolverhampton  pulpit,  407                                                 ^^^H 

after,  29 

Hngo  (Victor),  his  '  Los  Abcilles  Iinptfriala,'  846, 391          ^^H 

Bolyuake  (G.  J.)  on  Sir  Edward  Dyer,  487 

UultoD  (Blanche)  on  "  Barrar,"  435                                          ^^^B 

Hone  (N.)  on  m&rtyrdom  of  St.  Thomas,  460 

EngrnviDgH,  309                                                                      ^^^H 

Hone  family,  389 

Hundred  Courts  still  existing,  127,  197                                      ^^^| 

Hoo«l  (Lord),  letter  on  Martello  towera,  477 

Hunter-Blair  (Sir  D.  Oswald)  on  "  Sal  et  MiHvk,''  432               'W 

1          Booker  (.Sir  Joseph  D.)  on  iaabclline  as  a  ooloor,  487 

Huntington  fHmily,  3h9                                                                     ^^ 

I^H  Hooligan  in  UuKaian,  125 

Huntley  (Mrs.)  on  carved  stune,  109                                          ^^^| 

^B  Hooper  (J.)  un  birth-nmrks,  362 
^H          Brill., w  ,,r,  In.. ^,10  Aram,  889 

Hxiquier.     father   and     son,    French     •ngnvara    to         ^^^| 

England,  469                                                                           ^^^| 

^^B                                      Stewarda,  848 

BuMsy  (A.)  on  Catli>                    Steward*,  112                       ^^H 

^B                             '<to,  290 

Chair  of  St.  Aug                                                                 ^^H 

^H        '-  .Sa/  0«  mOirot "  368 

Saator  Day,  KeutitUi  custom  on,  391                               ^^^H 

Note*  aiiil  Qiierif*,  July  3i'>,  )90t. 


INDEX. 


I 


Huaaey  (A  )  on  UuncMtor,  518 

••  MurtUr  '• :  "  MuakyU,"  228 

Potts  fataily,  431 

PruoesHion  door,  468 

Torch  aad  t»p«r,  109 

Yeuman  of  the  Crown,  208 
Hatehinson  (John)  on  R&Ieigh,  its  pronanoiation,  90 

Shakespearian^,  161 
EutchiuBon  (U.  D.)  on  Iptiwicb  Appreotioe  Books,  41, 

111 
Hatehinson  (T.)  on  Lamb,   Coleridge,  and  Mr.   May, 

61.  100 
Hydrophobic  pattento  smothered,  65, 176,  210,  332 
Hymn-writer,  luper,  227,  'i97 
Hymoa  :  "  O  come,  all  ye  fnithful,"  10,  64 
Hymns  by  Isaao  Watts,  508 
I.  OD  ejected  priests,  9 

Interment  in  graves  belonging  to  oth«r  fkoiiliaa,  9 

Omega,  an  old  contributor,  8 
I.  (0.  J.)  on  Botaan  and  CbriHtiHn  chronology,  86 

Eliot  (George),  and  blank  verse,  14 
I.  (J.  H.)  on  Marlowe's  birth,  491 
I.  (W.)  on  Ring  John's  charters,  409 
lago  (W.)  on  St.  Mewbred,  377 
Ib*ga^  on  aocontuation  in  English,  72 

Childbirth  folk-lore,  U 
Iberian  inscriplionfi  in  [tibemia.  838,  456 
Imaginary  or  invented  saints,  159,  833 
Imagination,  Napoleon  Bonaparte  on,  488 
Immurement:    of  nuns  alive,  60,  162,  217  ;    in  aeft- 

walls,  288 
Inoeoae  in  po«t-Reformation  times,  178 
Indian  iport,  records  of,  349,  397.  456 
Indiana  on  authors  of  quot*tions  wanted,  297 
Ingleby  (H.)  on  epitaph  by  Shakespeare,  129 

"Kick  the  backet,"  412 

Fresoriptioos,  409 

Tasao  and  Milton,  202 
Ingram  (J.  H. )  on  Poe  :  a  suppoaerl  poem,  145 
Inman  (J.  E.),  bis  '  Lo  Premier  Grenadier  dea  Arm^ 

de  la  Rcpuhlique,'  S85 
Innes  (J.  H.)  on  '  New  Amstenlam,'  161 

Inns  of  Coart,  married  members,  488 
Inquirer  on  Bartolozzi,  289 

losoriptions  :  on  sUtue  of  .Tames  II.,  67,   137  ;  near 
Bowden  Parish  Church,  85  ;  on  museum  at  Christ- 
chnrob,  New  Zealand,  26S;  at  Orotava,   Tenerife, 
861,  465  ;  in  Hibemia,   388,  456  ;  at  HanU  Cruz, 
Tenerifi;,  442  ;    ou  public  buildings,   448,   616;  at 
Las  PnlmAs,  482 
Intake  :  ".lenion's  Intake,"  near  Chester,  407,  477 
Intellectual  h«rv»t,  Ute  in  life,  4(19 
Interment  in  gmvcs  belonging  to  other  famiUee,  9 
Ipswich,  initcriptioii  in  St.  Margaret's  Church,  368,  4S1 
Ipswich  Apprentioc  Books,  41,  111 
IreUuii,  Iberian  inHOripiions  in,  388,  455 
Ireni    Jaoobi    Fanny   Jc«>i<>p  Caveolish    de    Rienzi 
Selina  Anna  tSuunnah  Skelton  Peter,  child  named, 
171 
'  Irus, '  supposed  play  by  Shakespeare,  349 
Irlxh  «-jaculabnry  pnvyers,  249,  337.  492 
Irish  historical  ami  arttstio  relics,  206 
Irish  Rouse  of  Couiuinnii,  8{ie»ken  1660-1780, 227,  298 
Irinh -printed  ptayo.  84 
Irish  surnames,  their  pnimi nutation,  125 
Irving  ( Dr.  David),  his  '  Hisf^ry  of Sootish  Poetry,'  825 


Isabelline  as  a  colour,  487 

Ivy,  the  oak,  and  the  ash,  35 

J.  on  curious  CbrJHtian  names,  171 

J.  (F.  C.)  on  Mjadame  de  Pompadour's  library,  446 

J.  (F.  M.)  ou  copper  coins  and  tokens,  248 

Wesley  (John)  and  gardens,  341) 
J.  (J.  H.)  oil  "Scole  Inn,"  Norfolk,  464 
J.  (W.  W.)  on  Kev.  Dr.  G.  D'Oyly.  448 
Jack-bar  or  bijou,  456 
.faokson  (E.)  on  Collins,  329 
Jackson  (F.  M.)  on  Miss  Lewen  and  Wesley,  218 

R&nkin  (Thomas),  360 
Jacobin  and  Jacobite,  their  differing  origios,  15 
Jacobite  wineglasses,  204,  293,  392 
Joggard  (W.)  on  '  Children  of  the  Chapel,'  469 

Collectioner,  28 

Inscriptions  on  public  buildings,  516 

Jaggard,  Bast  Anglian  family.  489 

Jaggard-printed  books,  506 

Paste,  477.  510 

Poems  on  Shakespeare,  472 

Prescriptions,  454 
Jaggard  family,  489 
Jaggard-printed  books,  506 
Jago  (F.  W.  P.)  on  Corni'^h  lexicology,  936 
Jamaica  newspaper,  eajriy,  169 
James  I.,  "God's  mlly  vassal,"  17;  his  Privy  Cona- 

oillors,  131 
James  I,  of  Scotland,  his  daughters,  507 
Jamea  II.,  inscription  on  statue,  67,  137 
James  (Rev.  B.  B.),  his  letters  oa  the  Isle  of  Wight, 

334 
Janion  (C.)  on  "  Jenion'a  Tntack,"  407 
January  weather-lore,  66 
Japanese  eustoms  on  New  Tear's  Day,  26 
Jap*neae  date  plum,  its  markings,  212 
Japanese  ghosts,  176 
Japanese  master  of  lies,  486 
Japanese  moakeyt,  334 

Japanese  names,  their  pronunciation,  187,  238 
Japanese  playing  cards,  29,  75 
Japanese  weddings,  glass- breaking  at,  195 
Jarratt  (F.)  on  architecture  in  old  times,  834 
Jealousy,  water  of.  Orient*!  story,  147 
Jeer,  derivation  of  the  word,  70 
<' Jenion's  Intake,"  near  Chester,  407,  477 
Jenkins  (H.  T.)  on  North  Devon  Hay  Day  custom,  404 
Jenkins's  ear,  war  of,  233 
Jernun  (C.  S.)  on  glowworm  or  firefly,  198 

Provnrbs  in  the  Waverley  Novels,  456 

"  PurpJe  patch,"  510 
Jessamy  bride,  nteftning  of  the  term,  810 
Jeasel  (F.)  on  derivation  of  bridge,  250 

Euchre,  13,  116 

Japanese  cards,  75 

Patiencft,  card  game,  268 
"  Jt^j-y  "  or  Cheshire  cat  in  Atneriok,  S66 
Jesua.'s  form  of  JAshua,  428,  490 
Jevons  (F.  B.),  his  '  History  of  Greek  Literature,' 447, 

476  ;  date  of  Eoripi<le«,  476 
Jews,  fables  as  to  child -munler  by,  16  ;  their  ctftaatmrj 
in  ancient  London,  70.  295,  457 :  in  London  eirem 
1660,  124  ;  and  the  sUge,  449 
Joan,  daughter  of  James  I.  of  Scotland,  607 
Jo<le  (Gerarde),  artist,  his  biography,  283 
Jode  (W,  L.)  on  Oerarde  Jode.  288 


538 


INDEX. 


tltttt» »atA  Qiinhi,  Ya9y H.  IM 


"Joe  Ourr,"  lUog  term  for  i>riaon,  336,  457 
Jobn  (King),  plR0«8  in  bis  ch^rtera,  469,  512 
John  of  Bologna,  statue  bj,  28 
Jobniton  (C.  E.)  on  Major-General  Byrea,  489 
Johnston  (J.  B.)  on  Geraun  quotAtion,  335 
Johnston  (W.  J.)  on  Louua  M.  AJcott,  489 
Jong,  Tibetan  word  Id  Engliah,  465 
Jonson    (Ben),    hia    'Devil    is    ma     Aas,'     29;     hia 
'  Alchetciitt,'     223 ;     torpedoes    anticipftttxi,     286  ; 
Pep^s  OD,  292  ;  Carlo  Buffone  in  '  Every  Man  out 
of  hia  Humour,'  381 
Joahua,  Je«iu  a  form  of  the  name,  428,  490 
Jowett  (Pn>f.)  and  Dr.  Wbsw«ll.  386 
Julian  Mckoning,  Eaater  Day  by,  324,  352,  390 
Jumiftges,  Abbey  of,  ita  reoonakruotion  inEnglaod,  S07 
K.  (A.  T.)  on  acerbative,  27 

"  Crown  and  Three  Sugar  LoavM,"  297 
K.  (F.  M.  H.)  on  Howe  family,  269 
K.  (U.)  on  Ruaeinn  men-of-war,  38S 
K.  (J.  H.)  on  "Creevey  Papem,"  285,  486 

"He  who  knows  not,"  235 
K.  (L.  L.)  on  Nioome  de  Bianchi,  349 

Capaicnm,  110 

"Chiawick  nighliDgaies,"  125 

Drydbn  portraiUt,  485 

Leonnrdu  da  Vinci  in  MiUn,  26 

Lorenso  da  Pavia,  76 

Pamela,  495 

"  Riding  Tailor  "  at  Aatley'a,  608 

Soulac  Abbey,  209 

Tatar  or  Tartar.  11 

Tunnoliat:  tunneliam,  27 

Werden  Abbey,  111 
Kant  (Iinuanuel),  his  Scotch  origin,  467 
KantiuB  on  Immanuel  Kant,  467 
Kappa  on  hanged,  drawn  and  qaartered,  209 

Port  Arthur,  407 
Kean  (Edmnnd),  hia  Jewish  atrain,  449 
Keiley  (A.  M.)  on  derivation  of  bridge,  297 
Kemplaod  (Frederick),  Weatniinnter  soholar,  126 
Kennett  (Bishop  White),  his  father,  73 
Kent,  dtMoendauta  of  the  Fair  Maid  of,  289,  374 
Keatiah  custom  on  Eaater  Day,  324.  891 
Keaworthy  (J.}  on  Tideawell  and  Tide«low,  292 
Kidd  (William  Holland),  Westminster  sohoUr,  H8 
King  (Sir  C.  S.)  on  Lord  Qowran,  368 

King  (Luke)  Deputy-Muster- Master,  226 

Mitcfael  and  Finlay,  bankera,  310 

SonthwelJ  (Right  Hon.  B.),  8,  218 

Tituladoes,  449 
King  (F.)  on  "  Fimt  catch  your  hare,"  176 
King  (J.)  on  tinwel  cbaractera,  47 
King  (Luke),  Deputy-Muster-Maater,  Irsland,    16S9. 

226 
King  of  Patterdale,  the  appellation,  149,  193,  276 
King's   County,  members  for  oonnty   and   boroughs, 

227,  293 
Kings,  names  of  English,  225 
Kitig«ton-on-Thames,   Queen   Elizabeth's  School   at, 

166,  215 
KingMton-upon-Hull,  Eaater  aepulchre  at,  266 
Kipling  (Rudyard),  hia  'Our  Lady   of  the   Snows,' 

246,  311,  392 
Kipples  family  of  Glasgow,  109,  251 
Knight  in  armour,  picture  of,  26 
Knighu  Templars,  points  in  their  oroaa,  149,  211,  338 


Kom  Ombo  on  '  Wtlhelir  489 

Korean  and  Manchurian  :  ,^ 

Kreba  (H.)  on  Siberia,  84o 

Kroencke  (E.),  book  oollect«ir,  bis  hing:T«{ib]r,  146, 

Xrueser  (G.)  on  Ash  a*  plaoe-namv.  72 

German  quotation,  339 

Immortality  of  arjinials,  386 

Jeer,  70 

"Let  the  dead  bury  thsir  dead,"  485 

"  Lnther'a  distich,"  478 

Pamela,  433 

Welsh  rabbit,  70 
L,  on  inacription  on  moseuro,  268 
L.  (A.  A.)  on  riddle,  207 

L.  (£.  U.)on  "  Lost  in  n  ooovent's  solitary  gUxno,"!! 
L.  (F.  de  H.)  on  Warren  HMtingi's  first  wife.  494 

Hinds  (Dr.  Samuel).  617 
L.  (F.  F.)  on  Cnpt.  Death,  48 

Woffington  (Peg),  her  letter.  1*24 
L.  (G.)  on  "  He  who  knows  nut,"  277 
L.  (P.)  on  ••  I  expect  to  paas  through."  36S 
L.  (H.  P.)  on  derivation  of  biidge,  189 
L.  (J.  K.)  on  Capt.  Death,  93 

Wager,  wreck  of,  336 
L.  (M.  C.)  on  Coaaa  de  Espnfia.  458 

Eaater  Sunday  in  1512  and  151»,  888 

Manitoba,  373 

"  Our  Lady  of  the  Snows,"  392 
L.  (R.  M.)  on  Persian  paintingsi,  29 
L.  (W.  H.)  on  "  As  merry  as  griggs,"  276 
L.-W.  (E.)  on  Fellows  of  the  Clover  Leaf,  193 
La  Tour  d'Auvergno,  Premier  Grenadier  of  Fr^nfftL 

884.  470 
Lsch-Ssyrma  (W.  S.)  on  Queen  Helen*,  29 

Penrith,  29 
Lairetall.     See  Layttall. 
Lamb  (Charles)  and  '  Address  to  Porerty,'  48,  ISl ; 

and  Coleridge  and  Mr.  May,  61.  109 
Lamb  (Mary)  and  play  at  Sadler's  Wtill«,  7,  70,  M.IM 
Lamont  harp,  329 
Lanarth  barony,  489 
Lancashire  and  Cheshire  wills,  38 
Lancaster  (Henry,  Count  of)  and  Oharlfsa  tbe  BttU. 

189,  282,  335 
Landed  property  in  the  Franco- German  Wm-,  SS6 
Lane  (H.  Murray)  on  Charles  tbe  Bold,  232 

Step'brother,  476 
Lane  (Mrs.)  and  Peter  Pindar,  226 
Langley  (G.  W.)  on  "  Ovah  "  bubbles,  109 
Language,  vioissitudea  of,  74 
Languages,  Charles  V.  on.  227 
Lanx,  Roman,  found  at  Welney,  86 
Lapland.  WUIiam  Penn  on,  190,  276 
Las  FalmoR,  inscriptions  to  Englishmen  at^  4^2 
Laaham,  place-name,  its  derivation,  72,  11^  137 
Lasbsm  (F.)  on  Ash  place-name,  113 
Latham  (B.)  on  "  All  roads  lead  to  Romei,"  US 

Anatomic  Vivante,  138 

Coup  de  Jamac,  197 

"Eternal  feminine."  234,  496 

Exoommunication  of  Louis  XIV,,  69 

"  First  catch  your  hare,"  264 

French  miniature  painter,  137 

French  pruverbial  phrases,  8,  466 

"  Mais  on  revient  toujoun^"  35 

"  Morale,"  204 


¥' 


*. 


Latham  (E.)  oa  "owl-ligbl,"  71 

QaoUtiona.  213 

'  Recommended  to  Mercy,'  109,  282,  43* 

"Tmvaillor  pear  le  Roi  de  Pruiwe,"  195 
Iriitin,  "  ropiag  "  a  hone  in.  448,  513 
iLfttiD  el^MS,  Shakespeare's  Sooaet  cxivi.  in,  204 
'LAiin  titi«s,  tranilation  of,  248,  314,  373  ;  mutilated, 
268.  353 
LftUn  MS.  and  Pmlt«r  »t  Ugbrooke,  109 
Littin  plural*,  fictttioaa,  64,  193 
Lftiio  quntaliooa,  188 
I>«w,  fondnem  of  aegrow  for,  206 
Law  (G.)  on  BaM  Rock  mtuic,  308 
Lawrance,  «p«Uing  awd  c.  1498,  310 
Lawrance  (H),  fanmaker  of  Pall  Mall.  c.  17S7.  310 
Lawrance  (R,  Murdoch)  on  Lawr&nce,  fanm^ker,  310 
Lawrence  (W.  J.)  on  Irieh-printed  plays,  84 

Lewia  (John),  scenic  artiot,  87 

Maekliniana,  50)3 

Pit  of  a  theatre,  2S6 
Lawrence-Hamiltob  (J.)  on  Dalch  fiaheimen,  87 

Fieb  diiya,  their  number,  290 

Flesh  and  shamble  meats,  68 
LawBon  (R.)  on  "  As  merry  as  gri^gs,"  94 

EpiUpb.  69 
Laystallssa  burial-place,  440 
Lasarbouses  in  ancient  London,  70.  295 
Leach  (Arthur  F.)  on  our  oldest  public  school,  269 
Leach  family  of  Squenies,  293,  334 
Leap  Year  oaironoujically  explained,  228 
Lease,  long,  82 
Leafltall  =  ii  burial-place,  440 
Lebrun  (Madame).     See  l^igfr 
^Leehe  bell,  explanation  of  the  term.  166 
fLeche  Esmily.  207.  274.  2y3,  ^34.  397 
Lee  <  W.)  on  T>ucbe«s  of  Glouoeater,  UOd 
L««ds  (C.  E.)  on  "  He  who  knows  not."  167 

"King  of  PatlerdAk"  193 
Leeper  (A.)  on  "  Adding  insult  to  injury,"  4 

Heroiidas,  his  tiste,  33)S 

Kt.  Paiil'M  <|uutitt)<<n  friim  Epimeoides,  405 

Sexton'H  t«iinb«tono,  4.^7 
Legm-Weekes  (Ethel)  on  barrar,  615 
I,  Batrome,  88,  173 

JK         Foleit,  309 

■  Fonlard,  307 
^^^fiarepath,  517 
^^^^bSookdny  :  pottAge  called  hok,  187 
^^^Bkellat  bell  :   Mort  bell,  16(1 

^P  LeiQaimiga,  Gemian  rcpiiut  ofhi*  books,  234,  315 
f   Leicester  ( Robert  Dudley,  Earl  oQ.  his  portrait,  404 

Leigbton  (11.  R.)  on  arms  wsuted,  l&S 
Watson  of  Hamburg,  409 

Leipzic,  bows  and  arr<>w»  at  battle  of,  225 

Leman  (C.  E.)  on  "  ScoIb  Inn."  Norfolk,  248 

Leman  (Sir  Thomaii),  bis  biography,  8 

Lept:r,  hymn-writer,  2'.^7,  290 

L' Estrange  (Col.),   his   '  Merry   Thuughta   in  »  Sad 
K      Place,*  141.  193,  250 

BliOtten.  privatn,  first  sent  by  post,  57.  183,  175 
BLov-i'""  ;iial  i>r  bin  Mickey  Free,  62 

■  Leu  111  \Vt->lc>v.  IM*.  218 

^  Ijewi.,       i  .,,  ,    .....iL  ))iiiiit«raiid  K-'emic  arti«t,8T.  168 
I^owknor  (Kilwuni),  '  l>,  .N'.  B."  on,  307 
Library,  National,  at  Turin  iiurnt,  397 
rXi«a,  Japaneeu  master  of,  485 


] 
] 


Lightoini^  and  it«  forms,  158 

Lilbourne  (.John)  "And  what,  shall  then  honest  John 

Lilbourn  die  I  "   40*1 
Lincoln,  arms  of  the  city  and  tec,  168,  234 
Lincoln  Gre^n  on  Dorsetshire  snake-lore,  253 
Lincoln's  Inn  and  tho  fi^rl  of  Lincoln.  401 
Lincolnshire,  nurora  borenlis  in,  164U,  242 
Lincolnshire  county  tales,  505 
Lincolnshire  jingle,  26C 
LincolDshire  riddle,  204 
Lindenstea^l  (A.)  oo  Mitrlborough  and  Shakespeare, 

127 
Lindsay  (C.  L.)  on  Archbishop  Williams,  447 
Link<  witJi  the  past.  325.  414,  513 
"  Little  Mary  "  as  a  term  for  the  Htomach.  70 
Little    Wild    Street    Chapel,    Drury    LAue,    Storm 

Sermon  at,  77 
Littledale  (W.  A.)  on  Fettiplace.  396 
Littleton  {Ad»m),  his  Latin  dictionary,  509 
*'  Living  Skeleton,"  account  of  the,  138,  175 
Llanpumsaiut,  ancient  tr/tdition  of,  152 
Lloyd  (J.)  on  "  Haklet,'  404 
Lobishome  in  Portui^uese  folk-lore,  827,  417.  472 
Locomotive,  the  "  Novelty,"  a  railway  relic,  6 
Lombards  a  moneylender,  6 
Lombardi  (C.)  on  Mnnzoni  in  English,  347 
London,  ancient,  topography  ot,  70.  295,  457.  617 
London,  historical  geography  of,  208,  258 
London,  vanishing  :  Thomas's  Hotel,  447 
London  rubbish  at  Moscow,  208.  257 
London  season  in  1807,  446 
Long  (Miss  A.  H.)  on  Ainoo  and  Boskisb,  513 
Lorenxo  da  Pavia  at  Venice,  76 
Louis  XtV.,  his  excommunication,  69 
Louis  XVII.,  his  death,  267.  375 
Lovelace's   'To   Althea   from    Prison,'  expansion  by 

Ool.  L'Kstrange.  141,  193,  250 
Lovell  ( Kobert),  bii«  poems,  151 
Lojralisla,  American,  compensated  forloasaa,  269,  SIS. 

390 
Lucas  (G.  V.)  on  Sadler's  Wells  pUvy  alluded  to  by 

Wordsworth,  96 
Luois  on  Antwerp  Cathedral,  508 

Authors  of  quotations,  217,  428 

Browning  (Mrs,),  her  '  Aurur*  Leigh,'  47 

■John  Inglesaut,' 289 

Jowett  and  Whewell,  886 

Moon  and  the  weather.  347.  441 

"  Wax  to  receive,  and  marble  to  retain,"  828 
Lather  (Martin),  on  the  immortality  of  animaU,  169, 

256,  336;  his  dixtich.  409,  473  :  bis  Bible.  509 
Luxmoore  (L.  A.)  on  "  There  was  a  man,"  227 
Lynn  (W.  T.)  on  the  cedilla,  307 

Easter  Day  by  the  Julian  reckoning,  324,  390 

Easter  Day  in  1512  and  1513,  452 

Euripides,  date  of  hia  birth,  447 

Halloy's  comet,  152 

"Preaont  century,"  888 

Sniallage,  288 
Lynold  (Kdmun<l),  his  biography,  307 
Lytiold  family,  307 
Lyon  ( lllchnrd.   Thomas,  ami  John),  and  execution  of 

Charles  I.,  169 
Lyon  family  in  America,  408 
Lyons  (A.  U.)  on  Lyou  family.  40S 
Lyttleton  (Adaw).    See  Litttettm, 


M. 
M. 

M. 


M 


W 


M.  on  Green  on  Frt^eman,  'Ii:> 

M.  on  hisroglyphicfl  »□>!  deitiea,  2!)U 

V,  (A.  M.)  on  Dolores,  muaical  coiopoeer,  177 

M.  {C.  W.  F.)  on  b«»iiMK  the  bounds.  489 

M.  (D.)  on  Mugn*  CtiurtA,  4«'J 

Sp«nc«r  (Herbert)  on  billiardlB,  48 
(B.)  on  itAtue  by  John  of  Rolog^o,  28 
Tickling  trout,  375 
(J.  A.  U.)  on  Jeeusftnd  Joehd*,  490 
"  Part  and  pared,"  308 
BmalUge,  330 
(J.  6.)  on  Maj  monument,  449 
M.  (N.)  ft  A.  on  the  Inbiiibonie,  327 
"Nag's  Head  "  story.  609 

"Stat  crux  dam  volvitur  orbis,"  30!» 
(P.)  on  the  Cave,  Hornsey,  26!» 

Leche  fiiniily,  207 

Rodney's  second  wife,  Z26 
(P.  C.  D.)  on  Dryden  portraits,  368 

Howard  and  Dryden  familiefl,  S7 
M.  (W.)on  Scotch  words  and  EnglisboomnientatOTa,  821 
lll,A.Oxo&  on  Baxter's  oil  printing,  427 

Fettiplace,  478 

*  Oxford  University  Calendar,'  47 

Ramie,  480 

St.  Dunstan,  149 
Maaa  (Dr.  Max)  on  the  minies  of  Hemndao,  216 
MoCara  (A.  9.)  on  inecriptiuniioD  public  buildings,  448 
McElligott  (Co).  Roger),  Governor  of  Cork,  294 
McGee  (Hon.  T.  D.),  his  ■  Canadian  Ballads,'  113 
MacOiUean  (Alaiftt«r>  on  Ad.  Donald  Cumpbell,  309 

Garden  (AbxanderV  M.D.,  ,S28 

Greig  (Admiral  Sir  Samuel),  349 
McGovem  (J.  B.)  on  Dauteiaoa,  181,  251 

Oalton  (Rev.  Arthur),  414 

Greek  patriarchs,  249 

"  King  of  Patlerdftle,"  149 
Mcllquhatn  (Harriott)  on  Shakeapeare'a  Grave,  352 

Women  vntem,  372 
Mackeniie  (V.  St.  Clair)  on  Shakespearian  a,  162 
MoKerrow  (R.  B.)  on  Barnes's  '  Devil's  Charter,'  609 
Macklin  (Charles).  Judge  Parry's  monograph  on,  506 
MacMich&el  (J.  II.)  on  Anatomie  Vivante,  176 

' '  As  merry  as  grigi^a,"  276 

Barbers,  famous,  375 

Barnes's  '  Devil's  Charter,'  510 

BattleGeld  sayings,  875 

Becket  (Thomas  ii),  his  martyrdom,  462 

Bellamy's,  3.12 

Brindley  (James),  376 

Bailding  customs  and  folk-lore,  516 

Byng  (Admiral),  256 

Candleman  gills,  86 

Castle  Society  of  Muiiiok,  71 

Cheshire  cat  in  America,  513 

Christian  nnines,  curious,  236 

Christmastide  f(dk-lore,  172 

Cobweb  pills.  273 

Cold  Harbour  :  Windy  Arbour,  496 

Court  posts  under  Stuart  kings,  173 

Cromwell  buried  in  Red  Ljoo  .*qiinre,  72 

Crouch,  the  niuHicAl  composer,  333 

"Crown  aud  Ttiree  Sugar  Loaves,"  214,  3  7.1 

'  Die  and  be  DatoDed,'  491 

"  Disce  pati,"  316 

Dolores,  musical  oomposer,  177 


MacMichael  (J.  B.)  on  D<>met«bir«  ■tuike-lo(«,;2St' 
"  Drug  in  the  market,"  235 
Epitaphs,  their  bibliography,  173 
"Feed  the  brute."  41(3 
"Fide,  sed  cui  vide,"  154 
Fleah  and  shamble  irieate.  293 
Football  on  Shrove  I'ucisday,  104 
Fulture,  296 

Glowworm  or  firefly,  112 
"  Go  for  '•=  attack,  272 
"  Going  the  r>unil  "  ;  ruundhoase,  S> 
Grenadier  Guards,  31 
Guncaster,  518 
Hundred  Court*,  197 
Inscriptions  on  public  building*,  516 
Jamee  II.,  ststue  of,  137 
"  King  of  Patlenlale.'  191 
Knight  TenipUr.  212 
Lincoln,  aniiH  of,  234 

London,  ancient,  iu  toixigraphy,  29S,  457 
Martello  towers,  356 
MeUucholy,  212 
Milestones,  132 
Military  bnttone  :  sergeants'  chevroDB,  472' 
Moon  folk-lore,  175 

Mug,  as  a  verb,  337 

Mustlar :  Mtiskyll,  335 

A'^ pronounced  iff,  291 
Newspaper  (first  ooean),  504 

Ninas,  his  mother's  tuune,  49 

Oak,  the  ash,  and  the  ivy,  36 

"Old  England,"  315 

Pannage  and  tollage,  238 

Passing  bell,  360 

Periodicals  for  women,  295 

Pindar  family,  135 

Presoriptions,  453 

Printing  in  the  Channel  Islands,  4Sd 

Prints  and  engraviugv,  377 

Railway  train,  fimt  steam,  278 

Riding  the  black  ram,  86 

River  divided.  391 

''  Roping  "  a  horse  in  Latin,  51 3 

Rue  and  Tuscan  pawnbrokers,  231 

"Ron  of  his  teetli."  436 

St.  Bridget's  Bower,  70 

St.  Dunstan,  216 

St.  Mary  A.xe  :  Cjt.  Michael  le  Qa«me    89 

Salep  or  Salop,  97,  233  *       * 

"Scole  Inn,"  Norfolk,  313 

"  Send  "  of  the  sea,  456 

ShAoks's  mare,  415 

Sorpeoi :  Haggovele,  256 

Torch  and  tapwr,  196 

Tutburv,  honour  of,  195 

We«i-Country  fair,  93 

Worm,  492 

Yeoman  of  the  Crown,  27S 
Macray  (W.  D.)  on  the  oope.  136 

Envelopes,  176 

Miller  (W.),  cn^►r«ver.  3.36 
MoPike  (E.  F.)  on  Chicago  iu  1853,  195 

Guest  family,  504 

HaUey'.i  comet,  86 

Halley'a  two  Toyagas,  1698-1700.  289 

Offioer :  OfiBdaL  486 


NolM  and  Queriei,  lulj  30, 1M4. 


INDEX. 


541 


I 


I 
I 

I 


McPike  (B.  F.)  od  regicides  of  Charles  I.,  1C9 

Williiun  III.  crowned  in  Ireland,  446 
Magna  Chart*,  annotatioiu  by  BUckttoae,  469 
MagBinao,  derivation  of  the  term,  6 
Mabala :  squaw,  tijnoDynui,  64 

Maikuv  (A.  N.),  his  legend  of  Ooanoil  of  Conntance,  8 
l£alet  (Col.  Harold)  on  Dolores,  miuical  composer,  177 
Hindu  (Dr.  Samael),  415 
St.  DuDBtan,  216 
••Scolelnn."  Norfolk,  313 
Malone  (E.)  on  '  Venun  and  Adonis,'  810 
Man,  Isle  of,  records  of  Mnrriagea  in,  9 
Manby  (Capu  Georgftj  Wui.),  his  '  Rerainiscenoae,'  21 
Mancbe,  La,  antiquity  of  tb«  nome,  448 
MftDchurian  nnd  Korean  names,  266 
Manf^^oflteen  markings,  21'2 

Manitoba,  pronunciation  of  the  name,  203,  276,  S73 
Manning    (Rev.    Charles    Bobert«oij),    hia    Norfolk 

nn Equities,  t)7 
Manor  rolls,  guide  to,  169,  198,  272 
Mastia,  its  pugnacity,  37 
ManzoDi  in  Kuglish,  347 
Mapleiuft  I  Bleanor)  =  William  Laxon,  107 
Marcbaut  (F.  P.)  on  Candlemas  gill*.  75 
Legend  of  Connril  of  Coostanoe,  8 
NegnHeB  and  law,  206 
Pontificate,  404 
Mardale,  Kin^  of,  thn  appellation,  276 
ftLuio««.  epitaph  on  lieutenant  of,  3'?8 
Marks  (A.)  on  banged,  dniwn,  and  quartered,  411 
Marlborough  (Duke  of)  and  Shakospeare,   127,  177, 

266,  292.  352 
)Iarlowti  (Christopher)  aod  Shakespeare,  1,  75  ;  date 

of  his  birth,  408,  491 
Marriage,  banns  of.  instructious  conoeroing,  18 
Morxiagv  Houses,  33 
Marriages,  Fleet,  rec^^irds  of,  V,  75 
Marriacres,  morganatic,  52 

M<>rrow-bone:  travel  by  the  marrow-booe  sta^o.  415 
Marshal  of  the  King's  Hall,  his  .office,  107,  173,   198 
Manhall  (G.)  on   geneahigy:  new  sources,   187,   218, 
258,  890 
Mitchet  and  Finlay,  bankers,  374 
MarstoD  (B.)  on  flaying  alive,  l.'t 
Mareton  (John),  Shakespeare  alluaton  in '  Moloontont,' 

6  :  and  Carlo  Butfone,  381 
Martelti     (Horatio),     monument     in    St     Clement's 

Church,  Uaetiugs,  412 
Martello  Towers,  tlieir  name,  286,  356,  411,  477 
ilarvell  (Andrew^  lin«»  by.  469 
Alorvin  (F.  Rowland)  od  birth-marki,  493 

Latin  lines,  268 
Marjr,  Queen   of  Soola,  bust  in  tha  Louvre,  28  ;  use 

of  the  itmignation,  38,  91) 
llasonic  portrait  of  Enrl  of  Chatham,  427 
Moaaingvr  (P.)  lines  in  '  Futal   Dowry,'  348 
Maater,  court«My  title  in  ScotUvid,  14 

«wt  (Albert)  od  Amenoan  Loyaliittv,  'i90 
itaphs,  tiieir  bibUogiaphy,  834 
oos«,  163 
apeis,   172 
nvMenou,  Islaoilof,  13 

SiUy  i;i;iy."  ih;« 

Tea  n»  a  m«nl,  i!>(\ 
atthewR  (J    Uobscin),  un  Cowrtautine  Pebbtei,  38 
Ola«t  raanufactare,  52 


Matthews  (J.  H.)  on  grammar;  nine  ports  of  speech,  94 
St.  Dials,  72 
Walbeoff  family,  413 
Maurice  (F.  D.)  on  Greek  architecture,  334 
Maxwell  on  ganlens,  288,  357 
Maxwell  (Sir  Herbert)  on  '*Cre«vey  Papers," SSH 
Hydrophobic  patients  smothered,  210 
Immurement  alive  of  religious,  50 
Quice,  194 

Stewart  (General  Charles),  174 
Tideswell  and  Tidcslow,  278.  371 
Maxwell  (General  Patrick)  on  Begum  Samroo,  14,  69 
May   (Dame     Murv).    her    monument    iu    Midlnvant 

Church,  449.  497 
May  (Mr),  C.  Lamb,  and  S.  T.  Coleridge,  61,  109 
May  (Thomas)  on  casting  lots.  47() 
May  Day  celebrations  :  in  Newport,  Rhode  Iilnnd, 
12S,  173;  their  antiquity,  180  ;  in  North  Devon,  406 
Mayers'  song,  musical  renderink;,  7 
Mayfield.  St.  Donstan  Kt.  141),  2 It!,  293 
Mayo  (C.  H.)  on  Samuel  Haynes,  249 
Mayor  (Prof.  J.  E.  D.)  on  Delngard,  preacher,  503 
Mayor's  seal  for  coafirmatioD,  447 
Maxzini's  letters  and  Sir  Jani«8  Graham,  505 
Meati,  flesh  and  shamble,  68,  '29S.  394 
Medals  "au  pied  de  sanglier,"  88 
Medinval  on  Traven  family,  208 
Medical  barristers,  32 
Melancholy :     "  Nullum    magnum     ingeninm     sina 

melancholia."  148.  212,  334 
Melville  (Lord)  on  "Painted  and  popped."  407 
Mercury,  the  planet,  and  Copernicus.  509 
Meredith  (William),  nnd  Taylor  the  Platoniat,  409 
Merritt  (E.  P.I  on  envelopes,  58 
Mess,  ScMiofa  title  prefixed  to  clergyman,  822 
M«as  dress,  its  iutroduction,  168,  238,  277 
Metbcxlista,  Glory  of  the,  406,  476 
Mevagissey  davk,  tbe  expression,  467 
Mexico,  Sir  Francis  Drake  in,  1904,  325 
Meynes,  meaning  of  the  term,  49,  92,  217.  251 
Miohell  iJ.  C.)  on  B«yle  :  8teudhal,  34 
Midlavnnl  Church,  Dame  Mary  May's  mrmument  in, 

449,  497 
Milan,    Leonardo  da  Vinci    in,   20  ;    tuscription  on 

ByMu's  buiit  at.  205 
Mildmay  (Sir  Humphrey),  his  *  Diary,'  220 
Mile  End,  Mr.  (iordon's  garden  at,  349 
Milestones  in  ED($land,  7.  132,  195 
MiliUry  buttons,  349.  472 
MiliUry  officer,  oMegt  British,  389 
Mill  (John  .StUArti  on  franchise  for  women,  327 
Millar  (J.    H.),    mistake    in    'Lit«rat7    History    of 

Hoiitland.'  325 
Milkr  (William),  line  engraver,  247.  336 
Miller  (W.  F  )  on  Miller,  ennraver.  247 
Mill»tono4i  at  C!niil.ri<li;«  in  1313.  '.il'S 
Milne  (S.  M.)  ou  menM  tiim*  :  n^j^'wmi^*  sr.shes,  238 
Milton    (Jobu).    paraplinum    i^f    -piKtani    on,     140: 
parallels  in  Tosso,  202,  249,  314  ;  hi«  tisenf  thaword 
popped.  407,  457  :  )ii«  cottage  at  I'halfoni.  St.  GilM, 
422;   Fontarrabia  in  "  Par»<lii«i  l.<>*t,'  444 
Mime*  of  Herondas  or  IJer'idas,  lh«^ir  ilate,  68,  218, 

836 
Minskata  (Kxima^su)  on  Chioese  ghos(«,  170 
*'  Flea  iu  the  ear,"  34 
GImmU'  morkeia,  208 


542 


INDEX, 


MlnkkaU  (Kuma^uau)  on  gUM-brMkking  at  weddings, 

Hobgoblin*!  cUwii,  03 

jApMMM  iDii»t«r  of  lte«,  495 

JapaiuM  mnnkojn,  334 

Lftngiuga,  it*  viciMilndm,  74 

MMtgoatMD  mnrkings,  212 

•*  Red  T»gto^  bull."  77 

W«ter  of  jeAloiiij,  147 
Mimnria  ua  t'epyKn  '  Diftry.'  805  cfaUdreo,  48 
Mirfielil  Ix.ok  H.icii;ty.  ;{t38 
Mirror,  Dr.  Dee'n  mai;ic,  18 

Misprints  :  in    '  Poliphili    HypDerutonukchi*,'    4,    97  ; 
In  Thonui'«  'Survwvof  London,"  Wtow'n  e<lition  of,  206 
MuririDi  (Melchioroi,  hi"  '  Life  of  Bvlolosti,'  289 
Miatletoc  in  church  at  CbAlona-sur-MariM;,  66 
Mistletoe  on  feudal  iiynteni.  Zci'i 

VwTtig  (A<lmir»l  Sir  Samuel),  433 

HRrtley  {Wiiliftin),  150,  253 
Mitcheliknil  Fintay,eit;liU:L'nih-ueiiturybankeni,31 0,374 
Mitchell  (Major  A.  J.)  on  IJotr  Witr  of  1881,  226 
Mitchell  ^L.  u.)  on  ptuiiih  Bimcii»l,  208 
Moli^ro,  iniwription  on  hix  Htatue,  213 
Molony  (A,)  on  curiouN  Chriitian  nani«s,  171 
Molabdinoaa  alowbelly,  meaning  of  the  term,  13 
Monk«yH,  JapanoM,  334 
Moon,   and  th«   weather,    847,   441  ;  dating  by,    Ht 

Atbeni,  489 
Moon  folk-lore,  125,  176,  252,  395 
Moore  ( W.)  on  oompoRer  and  origin  of  air,  107 

Duloree,  moRical  ciitnpo«er,  107 
Moortielda,  Little,  HopemAken»'  Alley  Chapel  at,  460 
MooM,  derivation  of  the  word,  153 
Morale,  lue  of  the  word,  U3,  204,  237 
Moreman    (Rev.   Juhn)   and    the   Western  rebels  of 

1649,  428 
Morfonl  (Henry\  author  of  oontinnation  of '  Edwin 

Dnxid,' 37,  331 
Morganatio  tnarringeB,  52 

Morley  (Henry)  on  Miae  Georgiana  M.  Craik,  346 
Moro  Fori,  Btonning  of,  1702,  448,  014 
Morris  family,  1734,  fiS 
Mort  bell,  explanation  of  the  term,  166 
Mortimer  (Eliai),  bis  parentaf^e,  109 
Mortimer  (T.),  his  polemic  a^fainut  Melhndistfl,  32S,  491 
Mortimer  (W.  P.)  on  General  Charles  Stewart,  175 
Moaoow,  London  rubbish  at,  208,  257 
Mosky,  use  of  the  word,  266 

Mother  Shipton,  Welshwoman  or  Yorkshire  woman,  406 
Mottley  (John),  author  and  dramatiirt,  1692-1760,  367 
Motto  on  fourteenth- century  sandial,  14S 
Mottoes:  "Fide,  eed  oui  vide,"  87,  154,  255  ;   <'Son 

oonfort  et  liease,"  232  ;  "  Disce  pati,"  248,  316 
MooKl  (B.  W.)  on  the  Syer-Cuming  collection,  436 
Mode  (II.  J.)  on  tluld-nnmes,  Weet  Uaddon,  156 
Monle  (EI.  J.),  bis  death,  2S0 

Mounaey  (John),  "  King  of  Patterdale,"  149,  IPS,  27<"! 
Mount  Graoe  le  Ebor',  records  of  the  monaetery,  149, 

198.  255 
Muok-»-luoki,  meaning  of  the  word,  287 
Mug=t<i  mug,  use  of  the  verb,  337 
Mulligan  (J.)  on  'Ancient  Orders  of  Gray'a  Inn,'  367 
Mundy  (Sir  John),  Lord  Mayor  1522-3,  31,  134 
Mundy  (P.  D.t  on  Mun.ly.  31 
Munxil  (Cbiiiter)  on  Begum  Sumroo,  69 
Murderer,  dijsguised,  in  folk-lore,  26t5,  896 


Marray  (Christie)  on  the  Ea((1iah  pooplf^  ttO 
Murray  (Davnl^  nn  Cmcifixioo  folc>lof«t  IS0 

Kipplw,  251 
Mnmy  (Dr.  J.  A.  HL)  oo  -  A  !>•••,••  M7 

Pa«im.  308 
Pauing  bell.  308 
Paste,  447 

••  Puri>le  patch,"  447 
SU  Bridget'*  Bower.  37 
Murray  (J.  H.i  '>,    ") 

Murray  baronei  ^  i7 

Masia,  Ban  Rt^  .,  j7 

Muskyll,  use  and  meaning  of  the  word,  1497|S^.  MS 

Muaaelwhite  lurnaine,  its  meaning,  248,  8]  4 

MuatUr,  use  and  meaning  of  the  word,  1473,  228,  SK 

Myrtle  strewn  before  bride's  residence.  111 

.V  pronounced  n//.  247,  291,  356 

N.  (M.)  on  moon  folk-lore,  252 

Name  origins  treated  philologically,  328 

Names,   curious   Christian,    '26,    170,   214.    395;   «• 

Walney  IsUnd,  387,  492 
Napoleon  L,  aUegod  wn  of,  107. 197  ;  t*  3k. 

126 
Napoleonic  cona)iiracy  in  England.  329 
Nash  (Mrs.),  ori)^nivl  Esther  in  '  Bleak  Hoan,'  13i 
Nash   (Richard),   date  of  his  death    mad    spl 

concerning  him,  32.  96 
Nataleee,  use  of  the  wonl,  446.  616 
Ke  Quid  Nimis  on  birds'  eggs,  327 
Southcott  (Joanna),  301 
Tbbso  and  Milton,  249 
Neale  (Thonuia)  and  the  "  Mag's  Head  "  story.  609 
Nedov  (Ralohc)  on  Webster's  *  Basque  Leg«adi,'  1 
Negroes,  their  fondness  for  law,  '20(i 
Nellig&n  (Kmile),  hia  '  Notre  Dame  de»  Nrii-'fi  '  v:;i1 
Nelson  (Horatio,  Lord),  his  sister  Anne,   1  7 

tomb  and  Cardinal  Wolsey,  803,  376,  4  i  . 

366 
Nelson  (Lord)  on  Nelson's  sister  Anna,  310 
New  Amsttt^rdam  views,  c.  1630-50.  161 
•New  English  Dictionary,'  its  title,  116,  lOS, 
New  Ilalt,  Eiuex,  and  Queeu  Elizabeth,  IS 
New  Year's  Day  in  Japan,  35 
New  York  views,  c.  1630-50,  161 
New  Zealand,  venomous  sjiidara  in,  265 
Newark-upon-Trent,  "  ringing  for  Oofer"  ai,  6  * 

sepulchre  at,  265 
Newcomer  on  historical  geography  of  Loitdoo,  SQ 
Newman  (C.  A.)  on  "  Down,  little  flutterer,"  S7 

"  P.P.,  Cleik  of  the  Pariah.*"  88 
Newspaper,  earliest  use  of  the  word,  4R(J 
Newspaper,  early,  in  Jamaica,  I(>9  ;   ' 
Newton  (Sir  Isaac),  miniature  of,  24  - 
/Vff,  sound  of,  represented  by  »,  247,  "-i-'Ji 
Nicklin  (T.)  on  Anon,  246 

Girl.  245 
Nightcaps,  their  use,  114 
Ninus,  hia  mother's  name,  49 
Noble  (Mary  E.)  on  torpeitoes,  374 
Norter  (Sir  Rol»ert1,  his  idetnitv,  338 
North  (P.)  on  Dickens  an'    '  "  '  ", 

Northall,  Shropshire,  its  !'  1177 

Norton  (E.  S.)  on  do-" .i.uMr«r», 

Norwich,  smallpox  ;< 

Norwich  Cathedral,    ■  ,-'.4H.  41 

Nova  Zembla,  fetish  m,  4ti() 


I 


ffdtM  ud  Qaerlu,  Jaij  30,  tP04. 


INDEX. 


543 


Number  supcmtitioD,  S69,  467 

Nursery  rirues:  "Rubin  a  Bobbin,"  82,  172,  218; 
"  A  frog  h«  would  a- wooing  go,  227  ;  "  There  wm 
h  tatjx,  a  man  iudeed,"  227,  377.  474 

Nntt  (A.)  on  "Badger  in  the  bag,"  855 

Nutt  (Dorothy) = Sir  Henry  Blunt,  35 
1^    Kuttall  (J.  K.)  on  oaating  lota,  47Q 
H  CLiirluD  the  Bold,  1 89.  ii'dS 

^B  O,  on  architecture  in  old  tiiQ«s,  398 
^H  Frencli  uiiniature  pitiiiler,  237 

^^^         Hange<i,  dmwn  and  quart«r«<l,  407 
^^^B    Kebon  and  Wolsey,  376,  417 
^^^B  pAwinft  bell,  3.M 
I^^^V  Tower  Bridgu  anticipated,  Sti? 

O.  (D.»  on  *'  send  "  of  the  »e»,  466 

Oak,  the  aah,  anri  the  ivy,  35 

Oatea  (J.)  on  Bp«ecb  by  the  Earl  oFSuawx,  1500,  7 

Oath  by  grafs  and  com,  284 

Obiit  Sunday,  ancient  ceremony  at  St.  Georgs'a 
Chapel  on,  28 

tObituariea;— 
Ainger  {Canon  Alfred),  140 
Cambridge  (Duke  of).  501 
Cooper  (Thumpoori),  220,  246,  887 
Creawell  (Dr.  F.  S.),280 
Fermr  {Michael  Lloyd  I,  380 
George  {Capt.  Thome),  179 
Ocean  newapaper,  first,  504 
Ockwells  Mauor,  near  Bray,  473.  511 
Octopi,  fictitious  Lfttin  plural,  193 
Officer,  military,  oldest  British,  389 
Officer  and  official,  ut«  of  the  worde  in  Amerioa,  480 
Officers  choften  by  lot  for  daugeroua  dulien,  367 
Official  and  officer,  uite  of  the  words  in  America,  486 
Ogilvio  family,  269 

"Old  fJogland,"  origin  of  the  term,  189,  256,  816 
11        Oliver  (A.)  on  canliualK  and  crimttoii  robes,  71 
j^ft  London,  ancient,  its  topivgrapliy,  70 

^B   Oliver  (W.  D.)  on  veniBon  in  Hummer,  47 
II        Omega,  an  old  contributor,  8 

One-cioth  Church,  name  expUuoed,  124 

Oon!.'»-i--    '  n..  of  the  FoK  l»l.-»nd».  48(5 

Opi  V  name.  227,  313 

Oraii,.        ,        -li  proverb  ou,  'S^ii,  261 

Oriaiia,  uuriouB  Christian  name,  170 

Omtara,  Teaerife,  ititcription  at,  361,  465 

Orvieto,  .St.  Patrick  at,  48,  131.  174 

Ostrich  pgga  at  Burgos,  Spain,  247,  332 

Oald  (8.  G.)  on  Pamsla,  52 

"Our  Ladv  of  the  Snows,"  origin  of  th«  pbnoe,  246, 

311,  81/2.  511 
Ovah  bubblm,  meaning  of  th(>  torm,  16'J 
i|       Owen  (J,  P.)  on  derivulion  nf  wnguis,  462 
I^K   OwMi(rlit,  eqoivnifnt  fxprereions  for,  71 
^H   Oxford,  v'anlrn  at,  a<lmirrd  b\   \N'r«lev,  841) 

]^    Oif.'   '  ' ■    .U  in,  5 

•Oy  .-.  H6,  1»3.  266 

Oxli .  . :..;.  ..Lad  lu  the  Tower 

of  London,  iH)\t  ;  tiRt  o|  graduatm,  ;{48 
•Oxfonl  Uuivi«riiily  C»l.iid«r,'  1845,  47.  92 
Oxoniensi*  on  ''Our  Liwly  nf  the  Snows,"  246 
Oxshott  on  'Tha  Bailift's  Daujfhter  of  Islington.'  388 
P.  (C. ).»."'        -n: 

Fetr, 
P.  (F.)  'HI  -~i^  .i.Ulsaliiy,  414 

8oyit»oat  li^ir  John),  hiiiepiuph,  187 


P.  (H.  G.)  on  .St.  Bees'  Head,  Cumberland,  368 
P.  (J.  B.)  on  Fettiplsee,  611 

"Tymbera  of  ermine,"  492 
P.  (M,)  on  immurement  in  Hea-wnlls,  288 

Bbanks'a  mare,  415 
P.  (B.  C.  B.)  on  Peiabertou  family.  469 
•'  P.P.,  Clerk  of  the  Pariah,"  in  '  Sartor  Be8arta^'  99, 

187 
Page  (J.  T.)  on  Addison's  daughter,  150 

"  As  merry  as  griggs,"  94 

"  As  the  crow  flies,"  432 

Brasen  bijon,  455 

Brightling«ea,  its  Deputy* Mayor,  ?2 

Catesby  (.sir  William),  366 

Chair  of  St.  Augustine,  472 

Christian  names,  curious,  237 

Collins,  398 

Cromwell  buried  in  Red  Lion  Square,  73 

Cromwell's  head,  487 

Desecrated  fonts,  488 

Epitaphs,  their  bibliography,  252 

Field-names,  West  Uaddon,  46,  156 

Flsying  alive.  1 55 

Hanged,  drawn,  and  quartered,  410 

James  II.,  his  statue,  137 

Lecbe  family,  274 

Marlowe'ii  birth,  491 

Martello  towers,  411 

'Nicholas  Nickleby':  Oapt  Cottle,  274 

Pindar  family,  136 

Scott  (John),  his  epiUpb,  69 

Khanks's  mare,  415 

Hoathcott  (Joanna),  301 

Suffolk  (Henry  Grey.  Duke  of),  his  head,  47 
Pages  of  the  Bedchamber  and  Backstairs,  their  oCBoM^ 

107,  173,  198 
Painted  and  popped,  meaning  of  the  term,  407,  467 
Painter,  Fr«och  miniature.  86,  137,  171,  211,  237 
Painting,  Penian,  29 
'  Palatine  Note- Book,'  last  issue,  169,  296 
Palmer  (J .  Foster)  on  n  pronounced  as  tiff,  866 

Paste.  510 
Pamtla:  Pamela, pronunciationorname,52, 135,438,496 
Pannage,  explanation  of  the  term,  12i3,  232 
Pannell  family,  172,  256 
Papal  elections,  veto  at,  94 
Papers,  use  of  the  word,  18,  53,  111,  172 
Faques  (M.),  hitirdresser,  hia  clirnti It,  105 
Parade-rest,  military  posture,  315 
Paradiae,  Heaven,  and  Hell  a*  plaoe-uamM,  246.  832 
ParaUal  passages  -.  Marlowe  and  Shakespeare,  1,  76  ; 

Taaso  and  Milton,  202  ;  Gray  and  Collins,  456 
Panloe  (Averu)  on  American  Loyalists,  390 

Kaleigh,  its  pronunciation,  90 
Paris,  history  of  the  Britiith  Embassy  in,  68 
Pariah  register  used  to  stop  rats'  hole,  266 
Parker  (K.)  on  "  Ship  "  Hotel,  Greenwich,  1 11 

Bun  and  iu  orbit.  820 
Parkins  or  Pcrkius  (Sir  ChrisUipher),  his  identity,  234 
Parkins  (Dr.  John),  of  Little  Uonerby,   Lmoolnshir*^ 

15,  61  ^.  .^ 

Parliament:  engravincs   "publisht  according  to  Act 

of  Parliamci.i  ''^.  369 

Parry  ( Liout.  *  l-iw  Palmai  inscriptions,  482 

MrotJiva,  111-. .., -,  3lil 

.SanU  Cruji,  Tenerife,  inscriptions  at,  442 


644 


INDEX. 


Sou*  Mnl  (}aaH*, 


Parry  (Judge),  bin  mi>n'>i;rA]ili  on  Chiwlaa  Miuklin,  506 

"  P&i  t  Kud  parcel,"  enriiesl  n»o  of  the  pbrwici,  308 

Fawioj,  tMrlient  uae  ia  IfnijUBb,  808 

Puaing  bell,  ita  yariuua  nuaies,  308,  $50 

Pnttte:    uichovy  or  shrimp  pMl«,  enrlieat  oae,   4i7> 

477,  510 
Pftiience,  card  game,  208 

Pntriarciu,  (EcumeDical,  of  ComUntiaople,  list  of,  249 
PAViok  on  Coiling.  615 

Iridh  ejrusalatory  prajern,  837 
P.aterdale,  *•  King  of,"  the  title,  149.  193.  270 
PikvLa  (Lorenzo  da)  at  V^jnior,  76 
Fana,  diitoovery  of  the  original  altar  of  the  Certosa, 

<21 
Pawnbroken,  Tuicaa,  and  nie,  143,  231 
Peaohey  (G.  C.)  on  aatple,  8 

'  Athenie  OAntabriKieDBea,*  848 
Book  collectors,  1 9S 
Field-namea  at  Bright  Walton,  228 
Pawnbrokere  and  rue,  231 
Fmcock  (Edward)  on  aurora  borealia  in   Linoohuhire, 
242 
Beckot  (Thoroaa  h),  hia  martyrdom,  450 
Birth-marka,  430 
Oold  Harbour,  496 
Corn,  damaga  to,  2S3 
Field- names,  Wert  Haddon,  04 
Fitahamon,  132 
Froat  and  ita  forma,  153 
Glowworm  or  fireHy,  112 
Jeniun'a  lutack,  477 
Murderer,  dinguined,  in  folk  lora,  2dtl 
Premier  Grtinadi«r  of  France,  385 
St.  Patrick  at  Orvieto,  131 
"  Sun  and  Anchor"  Inn,  504 
'  Yong  Souldier,'  512 
PearaoD  (H.  8.}  ou  smallngc,  330 
Pearl,  etymology  of  th»<  word,  426 
Peck  (William),  hlH  M.s.S..  348,  434,  618 
PMoliar*.  ecole*ia«tical,  176 
Pedigree  in  1(540,  46'J 
Peer  of  France,  tbe  lost,  226 

Feet  (W.  H.)  on  bibliography  of  pablinhing  and  book- 
selling, 81,  142,  184,  242,  304,  342 
Rrindley  (Jameit),  378 
Printintj  in  the  Channel  InlandR,  43fl 
Psmberton  family,  late  of  PeterborouKb,  469 
Pengelly  (Lord),  his  portrait  at  Furnival'ii  Inn.  28S 
Penn  (William),  hi«  •  Fruiu  of  Solitude,'  ILK),  275 
Panneoiiik  (Alexander)  and  Richard  Steele.  88n.  513 
Fenny  (F.)  on  Weatmioiiter  changes  in  1903.  ;i5f. 
Penrith  phice-nnme  in  Act  of   Henry  VIII..  au.  97, 

166,275,354  ' 

Pentenne :  en  pentenne,  origin  of  the  word,  408 
Pentruth.  its  locality.     See  Penrith. 
Pepya  (S.)  on   birth  of  365  children,  63  ;  on  Jonson 

and  Shakespeare,  292,  352 
Percy,  pronunciation  of  the  name.  97.  lafl 
Peridote,  a  kind  of  ohrysolite.  386 
Puiirtdicala  for  wumen,  prior  to  nineteenth 

228.  296,  897 
Perkins  {K.  E. )  on  Kloanor  Mapleloft,  167 
pBiinan  p<unting,  29 
^tchoriu  (Falhur),  d.  o.  1873,  487 
^t•r•en  (G.)  ou  Adam  Lvttl«t»n,  509 
Petty  (.S.  U.)  on  (.'beliMjft  i'hynio  Oanleo,  227 


century, 


PbOoaopby,  moral,  Ariitotle  and  S|iak«ap«afe  ««, 

472 
Phinn  (C.  P  )  on  "  Sal  et  ialira,"  432 
Phrase,  definition  of  the  Word,  427 
Physic  Garden  at  Chelsea,  227,  270,  3S8 
Physiciani  and   apotbeuariea,  origin  of  mgOM 

Bcriptiona,  409,  453 
Pickford  (J.)  on  .addition's  daughter,  151 
Antiquary  v.  antiquarian,  396 
Arthur  (King),  aleeping,  194 
Banns  of  marriage,  18 
Birth  marks,  430 
Bright  (Dr.),  hi«  epitaph,  5 
Cockshut  time,  195 
Dorvetsbire  raakc<-lor«,  333 
Easter  Day,  Kentish  cu«tom  on,  SS4 
Envelopes,  175 
Flaying  alive,  352 
Glowworm  or  firefly,  157.  216 
Hydmphubic  patients  smothered,  332 
"kissed  hands,"  135 

Military  buttons :  •<>rjeants'  chevrons,  472 
Mount  Grace  le  Ebor,  Monasttery  of.  iLS 
Pamela,  52 

Periodicals  for  women,  397 
Proverbs  in  the  Wavorley  Novels.  455 
Robin  a  Bobbin,  218 
Sbakeiipeare'n  grave,   416 
"  Ship  "  Hotel,  Greenwich,  875 
"Silly  Billy,'  233 

Stephens  (William)  Pfwident  of  G^irgia^T 
Thackeray  and  Catherine  liBy><e,  20.!! 
Tugs.  Wykebamical  notion,  3J>8 
Pierpoint  (R.)  on  "  Cha^>er^mtfd  by  her  r«tU«r«* 
Chasuble  at  Warrington  Chiirab,  lHa 
Edgar  (King),  his  blacon,  76 
Egerton-Warbnrton,  169 
English,  foreign,  224 
Epitaph  at  Dnnosater.  19(i 
"Fide,  sed,  cui  vide,"  265 
"  First  catch  your  hare,"  254 
Flaying  alive,  73 
London  season,  446 
PameU,  136 

Premier  Grenadier  of  France,  470 
"  Was  you  ? "  and  "  You  was."  509 
Pig  and  Kill-pig:  American  ooluuies  and  Engia 
Pigeon  Eoglinh  at  home,  506 
Pigott  (Thomas),  of  L>iiblin,  his  pnr«ata4;u,  4S9 
Pigott  (W.  J.)  on  Thomas  Pigott.  489 

Tyrrell  (Chri»tH»>ella).  10» 
Pills,  cobweb,  in  1781.  20.=i,  273.  317 
Pinoema  (Uichard),  1147,  bin  bioi;r»phy.  409 
Pindar  (Peter)  and  Mm.  Lane,  2'2fi 
Pindar  family,  134 

Pink  (W,  D.)  ou  Lancashire  and  Cbesliiro  witU. 
Railway  relic,  6 
Rons  or  Kowse  family,  66 
Smith  (Right  Hon.  John),  Speaker,  349 
Pit=»  grave,  287 

Pit  of  a  theatre,  earliest  instance,  236 
Pita,  etymology  of  the  wor<l,  826 
Pins  X.,  anagrams  on,  146,  2/13  ;  In.-*  anus.  .loD. 
Plaoe-names,  letters  inserted  in,  ''  ' 
292,  SIC,  871,   471  :  ash,  its  . 
137  :  Paradise,  Heaven,  and  Ilcil  a*.  ::i«"-,  ^i 


^^^llSe^n?QtI«r!««T>l!MlHflol^^^              INDEX.                                                                     645            ^| 

H       Plmto  and  Sir  Philip  Sidney,  207 

Pottage  called  hok.  and  Hockday,  137,  496                               1 

■  PUU  (Sir  Uugb).  bis  »rmii,  207 

■  Piatt  (Imao  Uiill>  on  J^Iarlowe'a  birth,  403 

Potts  family  in  1774,  127,  434                                                    1 

Potta  (B.  A.)  on  '  Addreas  to  Poverty.'  151                                   1 

■              Shkkespeare's  grave,  238,  410 

Brindlcy  (James),  376                                                             1 

■      Piatt  (J.),  Jun.,  on  Al^ke,  512 

Browning's  text,  237                                                   ^^^^J 

^M             AnahuM,  S07 

*  Memoirs  of  a  Stomach,'  57                                    ^^^^H 

^H              Christian  nnmea,  curious,  235 

Powell  { Eliza)  =  John  Shaw,  226                                       ^^^H 

^1             Hooligan,  125 

Powell  (H.  E.)  on  "  Sit  loose  to."  76 

^M             JapanoM  cards,  29 

Prayers,  Irish  ejaculatory,  249.  337.  492 

^H             Ja{Mne84  namea,  187 

Preparatory  to,  use  of  the  words,  1 15 

^H              Jt^ngi  Tibetan  word,  465 

PreacriptionB  of  apothecaries  and   physicians,  origin  of 

^B             Jonson's  '  Alcbemist,'  223 

■igns  in,  409,  458 

^H            Korean  and  Mnnohuriaa  namea,  265 

Prido»ux(Col.  W.  F.)  on  '  Address  to  Poverty,*  43 

^1             Manitoba,  206 

Antiquary  v.  antiquarian,  325 

■             "  Muck-a-Luckii,"  287 

Bosham'a  Inn,  Aldwych,  105 

■             Pita.  329 

Defied  (Madame  du)  her  lettere,  68 

^1              Plait  {Sir  Hugh),  his  arm«,  207 

"  Eternal  feminine,"  108,  335 

■^             Port  Arthar,  457 

Martello  towers,  285.  411 

^^^      Samaby,  146 

Nash  (Richard),  32 

^^B      Bchlanter,  404 

Riding  the  black  ram,  36 

^^^V      Seoul,  its  pronunciation,  43 

St.  Mary  Axe  :  St.  Michael  le  Queme,  157 

^V             Squaw  :  mahala,  64 

SUfFord  (Henry,  Earl  of),  his  first  wife,  10 

^f              Yawn,  iu  etymology,  5 

Trelawny  ballad.  83 

~      Piatt  (L.  J.)  on  sundial  motto,  1 48 

Prideaux  (VV.  U.  B.)  on  John  Dee's  library,  241 

Play  at  Sadler's  Weila  alluded  Lo  by  Wordsworth,  7, 

Taaaoand  Milton,  314 

70,  96.  136 

Priests  ejected  in  1553,  list  of,  9 

Playbill,  earliest,  28,  71.  114 

Priotiag,   oil,  process  invented    by  George    Baxter, 

Plaj£air  (N.)  on  children  on  the  stage,  103 

427,  490 

Playing  card«.  Japanese,  29,  75 

Printing  in  the  Channel  Isles,  849,  436 

Plays  printed  iu  Ireland,  84 

Print*  and  engravings,  book  on,  wanted,  268,  877 

Ploughgang  and  other  measures,  101,  148,  364 

Prior  to  =  before,  114.  175,  295 

'Plampton  Oorrespcindence.'  luiHtakes  in,  4«6 

Prison,   "Joe    Gurr"   or   "choker,"  slang  term    Uit. 

Poe  (£.  A.),  '  Leonaine.'  not  by  him,  145 

38(5,  457 

Poema,  French,  translations  of,  409 

Privy  Councillors  in  the  time  of  James  I.,  181 

Poland  (Sir  Harry  B.)  on  "  As  the  cro*  flies,"  372 

Procession  door  of  church  at  Sandwich,  468 

•Poliphili  Hypnerutomachia,'  error  in,  4,  97 

Pronunciation,  local,  and  etymology,  52,  91,  190,  223, 

1          Politician  on  balance  of  power.  507 

278.  292,  316,  371,  471  ;  of  Irish  surnames,  125  ; 

m             ■•  Bellamy  V  169 

Northern  and  Southern,  608 

■             Tea  aa  a  meal,  176 

Frothjuiey,  carious  Christian  name,  1 7 1,  236 

■     Pollard  (:Matilda)  on  Bncket's  martyrdom,  452 

Proverb,  .S(>aaish,  on  the  orange.  'iOG,  25 1 

H             French  miniature  painter.  137 

Proverbial  phnwes,  French.  3,  485 

^              Hertford  borough  seal,  448 

Proverbs  in  the  VVaverley  Novels,  388,402,  455 

London,  ancient,  its  topography,  296 

Proverbs  and  Phrases  : — 

Pollard- Urquhart  (F.  E.  R.)  on  Indian  sport,  455 

Adding  insuU  U>  injury,  4 

Pompadour  (Madame    de),    epigram    on,    18  ;     her 

All  roads  lead  to  Rome,  48.  112                                                 1 

library,  44fi 

Alonger  (allonger)  le  parchemifl,  3 

Pontefraot  CaaUe,  Easter  aepalchre  at,  265 

Among  others,  487 

"  PoQiifioate  "  used  a«  a  verb,  404 

Aprha  mui  le  deluge,  340 

Poole  (C.  L.)  ""  i..-"r,  hijou,  456 

As  merry  as  griggs,  36,  94,  276 

Poole  (W.  L.I                    of  ((aoUtioDB  waat«d,  168 

As  the  crow  Bies,  204,  296,  372,  432 

Gringo :  (                    liS 

BaUnoe  of  power,  507 

Bon,  Frencn  proverbs  containing,  485 

Fdpe  (Alexander),  bis  '  Kaaay  on  Man,'  and  poem  by 
Rttckert.  200,  336 

1ii>u  jnur  et  bun  an,  485 

Popped  :   "  painted  and  pnpped,"  iU  meaning,  407,  4C7 

(."est  le  chut,  485 

Port  Arthur,  origin  of  the  name,  407,  457 

Coup  de  Jnruac,  «,  75.  197 

Portrait,  eve  of.  following  th«.  «p«)ct*tor.  1 86 

Drug  in  th«<  market.  149,  235.  310 

Portrait  Hnlwtittitfd  for  Sir  W»vlt^r  K«leiKh'a,  40S 

Kn  avoir  d.^ns  I'aile,  .'{ 

Portainouth     |  ICvoline.      Dowager     Couuleas    of)    on 

Eternal  feminine.  108.  234.  386,  496 

"There's  not  a  crime,"  608 

Facing  the  niu«ic.  100                                                          ^^H 

Portugaleto,  etyuKilogy  of  the  name,  443 

Fat,  fair,  and  forty.  460                                                       ^^M 

^   Portuguese  Hymn  :  "  O  oome,  all  ye  faithful,"  10,  64 

Feed  the  brute,  348,  416 

H   FbrtQguerie  vemion  of  Apbikia  storr,  4>)fS 

Fitfll  catch  your  hare,  175,  264.  838 

■    Potta^  ,.,-.;..-.                                .     '  -!ur«.   134 

Flea  in  the  ear.  34 

■   PoiU,  em 

Go  for  it  bald-headed,  872 

H  Potr«l{.l.  ,                                          ,4OT 

God's  silly  vaimal,  17 

■  Pott  (Peroirail),  hca  biO|{Taphy,  iHk 

Going  the  round,  9,  79,  168 

INDEX. 


Jtottst  and  QtMrlM.  Jaly  3D,  190L 


Proverbs  and  Phrases : — 

Goud  ciiriia  fur  it,  104 

UutDMium  est  errans,  389,  512 

II  est  bon  d'avoir  des  amb  partouti  3,  465 

JoUy  good  fellow,  4 

Eiok  (be  bucket,  227,  314,  412 

Kissed  hand  or  baud*,  135 

Maid  ou  revierit  toiijours,  85 

Monkey  un  the  chimney,  2S8,  399 

On  revient.     8«e  <l/<tu. 

Fart  and  parcel,  306 

Purple  pjitoh,  447,  477.  510 

Raining  cats  and  dog*,  60 

Red  rag  to  a  bull,  77 

Ringing  for  Gofer,  6 

Run  of  his  teelh,  38S,  48U,  478 

Shanka'a  mare  and  similar  phrases,  345,  115 

Shoe-cart :  Go  iu  shoe-cart,  415 

Sit  loose  to,  75 

Summer  has  set  in  with  its  usual  severity,  33 

T  :  It  suits  to  a  T,  478 

The  letter  the  day,  the  better  the  deed,  448 

Travaillar  pour  le  Roi  da  Pruaso,  195 

Twenty  thousand  ruflSans,  107 

Virtue  of  neceaaity,  S,  7»J,  110,  136 
Providenoe,  Island  of,  I'i 
Psalter  and  Latin  MS.  at  ITgbrouke,  109 
Public  school,  oldest,  I'Jfl,  215,  257,  269 
Fubliahiiij,'  and  booktelling,  bibliography  of,  81,  142, 

184,  242,  304,  342 
Pulpit  at  VVolvorhainpton,  407,  47fl 
Funs  at  the  llayinarktit  Theatre,  260 
Purlieu,  use  and  muanin^^  nf  the  word,  85 
Pamell  (£.  K.)  ou  Buckingham  Hall  or  College,  108 

Stewart  {General  Charles),  127 
Purple,  colour  intended  by,  71,  157,  214 
"Purple  patch,"  earliast  use,  447,  477,  510 
Putteaham,  his  '  Proportion  Poetical,'  465 
Quarrel!  (W.  H.)  on  quioe,  195 
Quarter  of  com,  340 
Quartered,  banged,  »ad  drawn,  the  punjahmeot,  209. 

276,350,371,410,497 
Queen's  Weatmiostersand  St.  Margaret's,  Church,  S63 
Quelpaert  Island,  origin  of  the  name,  265 
Quesnel  (Pierre),  portr-iita  by,  8 
Quioe  or  quest  =  wood-pigeon,  120,  194 
Quiok-hom  children,  281 
Oaotationi : — 

A  face  to  lose  youth  for,  IHB,  217 

A  glut  of  pleasure,  198 

A  mountain  huge  uprenred,  468 

A  not-expected,  much  unwelcome  guest,  403 

Aaeedv  ad  ignem  banc.  183 

Aohillea  ponders  in  his  teat,  168 

Ad  rem  et  rhombum,  188 

Amor  est  punclum  quoddam  etultitiffl,  138 

Amoris  te  vias  omues  doceo,  188 

An  Austrian  army  awfuUy  arrayed,  120,148,  211, 
263,277.280 

And  better  death  than  w«  fr.un  ii  -1.  t.i  low,  190, 25  7 

Au  bc)»ry,  rovarniit,  »n<)  ■  m,  468 

ArislolelM  non  vidit  vari,  mlibua,  188 

Asuiuod  and  Cornelin,  5tS 

But  wondered  at  tb«  utrange  mau's  Amm,  468 

C'eat  on  Terre  qui  liiit,  213 
O/liiu  hi  taibi  et  jiatit*  mat,  188 


Quota  tious  : — 

Comptus  et  calanustratas,  188 

Contra  negantein  ptinoipi*  non  eat  disputandom, 

188.  437 
Grime  enough  is  there  in  this  n'ty  dark,  388 
Dfl  mea  fide  tota  patria  loquitur,  1S8 
De  omni  scibili,  188 

Death  could  not  a  more  sad  relinua  find,  4(tS 
Defeotus  natur«e,  error  tiatunt<,  188 
Daorum  sunt  omnia.  188 
Don't  shoot,  be  is  doing  his  best.  9 
Down,  little  flutterur,  87 
Dumb  jewels  often  in  their  silent  kind,  168 
Enough  if  something  from  our  hands  have  power, 

190 
Everything  that  grows,  428,  474 
Exemplis  erudimur  omnes  aptias,  188 
Favete,  Muss  prtesides,  138 
Flowers  are  the  alphnbut  of  angels,  228 
Frigent  nunc-dierum  pot^epta,  188 
God  give  us  peace  !   WO 
He  deigns  His  iuiluence  to  infuse,  463 
He  is  a  being  uf  deep  reflection,  443 
He  who  knows  not,  and  knows  that  be  knows  not, 

167.  235,  277 
Hia  [Homer's]  scolding  heroea,  and  his  wounded 

gods,  408 
How  long  ?  How  soon  will  they  upbraid  I  408 
I  asik«d  of  Time  for  whom  those  temples  rose,  297 
I  eiq>ect  to  pass  through,  247,  316,  355,  433 
Ibi  incipit  fides,  ubi,  desiuit  ratio,  188 
Ignontio  oauaaram  mater  erroris,  188 
In  matters  of  oommercn,  469 
In  minimum  naturale  dabile,  183 
In  some  old  night  of  lime,  168 
Invitat  ultro  ts  domus  ipsa,  188 
Laos  sequitur  fugieatem,  183 
Litera  aoripta  manet,  188,  297 
Live  and  take  oomfort,  168.  217 
Lost  in  a  convent's  solitary  gloom,  67 
Me  tenet  ut  visous  et  inteirfioit  ut  bastlioui,  188 
(Mida«)    qui     fame    peribat    quod    aura    Ttad 

nequibat,  183 
Mine  eyes  are  made  the  fools  o'  the  other  seuiea, 

168 
MuUia  annis  jam  transaotis,  66 
My  Lord  the  Sun,  126,  193 
My  master,  old  Pant,  be  fed  me  with  pies.  29d 
My  mind  to  me  a  1'     '  ' 

Natora  semper  iui'  imum,  ISS 

Natura  vult  omtie  <i..<.  ...i.  ..^.,;.^uiii,  188 
Neo  in  ceteris  est  cautrarium  reperire,  188 
Neecit  eervire  virtus,  188 
Nil  eat  in  intelleotu  quod  uon  fuerit  in  seosa,  188^ 

297 
f\u  ■'  '  ite  T  view  in  anguish  here,  468 

N  .  is  in  vain,  428,  474 

No  >iiivi.  ,-  ..  lietler  merchant,  406 
Not  all  wLo  Keem  tu  fail,  8 
Nothing  is  li«r«  fur  tflarii.  ii(>l1ii»l;  lo  wkSI,  16B 
O  bcata  solitudo,  o  sola  '  ^  ^ 

0  broad  aad  srnnnth  t\)>'  ji'i, 

0  flexanima  i! 
O  what  a  tun 
Ohne  Phiispbrir  n.-iii 


throng,  168 


Ovee  K%  bovHs  et  cetera  pecora  campi,  188, 297«  437 


NoUm  itsd  QueHe*.  Jn^s  30.  lOM. 


INDEX. 


Qaotatioiu : — 

Pftrtus  AUKUf,  188 

Ptir  modum  illatsi»AtioDis,  feruntar,  188 

Pi>or  John  wnii  a  gallant  cnptaio,  32 

I'utus  gluten  ainicorun),  1S8 

PrAyt:r...k  building  to  God  a  chapel  in  oor  heart, 

406 
Prius  frit  glociea  flammiger  ignis,  188 

Quia  nisi  ojentia  inopB  oblatum  respoat  aurom  i 
188 

Qaod  efficit  tale,  illud  ipstim  est  magia  tale,  188 

Quod  expendi  habni,  196 

I^«t  after  toil,  428,  474 

Hustiit  dioertua  amat,  188 

8«1  et  «alJvA,  368 

£i^»laal  natural  in  qua  inestet  occultnm  occult  i,  188 

Srientia  ooa  habet  iDunicum  prster  ignorasteni, 
188 

Saipnt  Aristoteles  Alfxandro  de   Fhydconiin, 
188.  487 

Sentii  ut  lapiesK,  loquerii  ut  Tulgan,  188 

Sbipa  that  pasa  in  the  night,  60 

Signa  minora  c«p«,  188 

Skoal  I  to  the  Northland  I  Skoal  I  280 

Sleep  aft«r  toil,  474 

iSow  an  act,  300 

Spleodida  «ant  ve^tea  nobiiitatia  tettes,  188 

&tat  crux  dutn  volvitnr  orbia,  308,  893 

StrangalatoTiDm  argnmenttim,  188 

Stodiia  dignifsima  noatiiF,  188 

Sunt  tibi  tortorea  aerptntibua  honidior«0,  188 

Tlie  iEQommuaicftble  ardour  or  thing*,  168 

The  rage  of  Arctoe  and  eternal  fruat,  4C8 

7  he  Roman*  in  England,  £0 

The  teara  which  I  was  uf-rer  wnot  to  abed,  348 

There  all  in  ipacea  roRy-brigbt,  168 

There  are  only  two  secrtts  a  nmu  mnnot  keep, 
608 

There  '■  not  a  crime,  608 

They  wt  aa  sets  the  noniisg  »tar,  ICS,  217,  276, 
433 

Thou  haat  conquerei^  O  pcileGali'aan,  88S 

ThoB  didtt  tbou,  428 

To  thoee  tiey  know  do  love  tbt^m  beat,  189 

Tot  coDge»toa  noctef  que  diet  que,  laborea,  168,  4S3 

True  eiime»t  aorrowii,  rooted  miferiea,  168 

Tor  vicitconoedia,  188 

rbique  ingeoia  boaiinDm  ritut  fotmant,  495 

JJvam  xDiper  amo,  cujue  nm  tolvor  ab  btmo, 
If  8.  457 

tTnioD  of  mind,  ns  in  u»  at)  one  »oul,  468 

Vilie  Don  ptge«t  cutn  funui  Hmator  1  168 

Vivit  po»t  funera  virtu«.  1S8 

Wnx  to  receive  and  marble  to  retain,  S28 

Who  plucked  thte  flower  t  SOO 

Tet,  Freedom  I  Tet  thy  banner,  lorn,  but  filing, 
168 
B.  (A.  F.)  on  aruii  ofPo^e  Pins  X..  309 

Yeatibule,  an  a  verb,  340 
R.  (B.)  on  feudal  lyateni,  248 
R.  tC.)  on  Spencer  on  billiard*,  US 
R.  (E.)  on  Sbakeipeare'e  grave,  478 
R.  (J.)  on  Fraaco-Gcnuan  War,  277 

Uugo'a  '  Lee  Abeillea  Iai)>^S*Ie«,'  901 
R.  iQ.)  on  Inna  of  Court,  4J8 
R.  (H.  P.  Q.)  OB  Roman  tenement  booMi,  80d 


y<Dg 


K.  (W.)  on  A.E.I.,  207 

Reade,  329 
B.  (W.  B.)  on  Roterteon  fanily,  269 
R — t  (F.)  on  curious  C'hiiMiiin  tiauvrR,  236 
Railway  relic,  the  >ovelty  loci  motive,  6 
Railway  tr»ir>,  fir^t  »tt»nj,  2'2f.,  278 
Rbilwaye,  thiir  iiifluence  on  protiunciaiiuti,  471 
Bainitford  (Col.  Henry),  bia  fiiogrrtphy,  477 
Baicaford    (Capt.     I  ieut.    John),    bia    'The 

Souldier,'  4i8,  477.  r'12 
Baleigb  (5ir  Walter),  bis  rimaina,  49,  130,  ll)?,  4fiP  j 
prcnuuiinlion    of   the    nnme,    90,    170;     nortiait 
by  SimiD  Paaa,  310  ;  aubttitntcd  portrait,  40S 
Ram,  blai  k,  lidirf;  ilif,  36 
Ramie,  meaning  <  f  the  word.  4 89 
Bancc  (Annie  K.)  on  paate,  510 
Randolph  {J.  A.)  on  Becket'a  mattyr<'on,  it>i 

Crowna  in  tower  of  cbvinb,  157 

Flaying  alive,  lf>6 

"  Flower*  are  the  alphabet  of  angela,"  228 

St.  ruDBtan,  293 

Werdtn  Abbey.  1S2 
Randolph  (Tbt  niB«),  biography  and  epitaph,  Sf'S 
Rankin  (Thomaay,  ■  D.N. B.' on,  S06 
Ra>41u  (KAja),  hi*  adventurra,  87 
Ratclitfe  (T.)  oil  "  A*  merry  a«  grii.'g*,"  94 

Dinguiwd  murderer  in  folklore,  395 

Doraetabire  m-i-  ■  '.  ...    n^j 

HTdropbobic  .ihfrrd,  178 

"  Monkey  oD  i  i  •■ ,"  HVO 

Mm'U  folk  loifr.  -ii'J, 

Ticklipg  trout,  174 
Ray  (Jamea)  en  B*m  Rock  m  74 

Ray  (Jobn\,  nnturalii-t,  bia  Ii:  •  S 

RayinuMl  (Lord),  bia  poitrail  ni  i  >.:>■  i\ki>  Inn,  S88 
Read  (F,  W.)  on  "Crown  and  Ihree  Sugar  IxwTca^'* 
874 

Southcott  (J(-anna),  301 
Reade  (Rt.b*ri),  Pp  of  CV.ubi.Ur,  ir»7-l*17,  S»,BM 
Reade  (SS  illian.)-  "  ot  (  bicbeater.  S£9,  993 

Beade  (VX  illian),  i  ;.«t«r,  1 388  80.  329.  S98 

Reailtr  <<u  Km(;)ii  i .  mj  mr,  149 
Rrading  (,I>r.  .lohn)  and  Kiv.  Samuel  Piaber,  1^9 
Bebellior.  W*»tem,  of  1549.  4«.  217 
Red  Croaa  on  Ainoo  aad  Baakiah,  432 

I>«aih-»cquctice  ia  SoMejt.  127 

I>or»etablre  *tiake-lnr«,  188 

Tigbern  ma^  408 
Bed  lion  ft<-juair,  OiimmvU'i  T»m«i?    *     '    '  It»,  ?9 
Regiateia.  ttitial,  nf  Si,  Petvr'a,  C«. 
Begiatcr%  uiatrwnr.-   ,,i  ,j,,  Flo«t  aiu  .-..^.  ^.octavTSt 

if  the  Gel  uthvark,  8S9 

Reicbel  (O.  J  plaee- ubm,  18? 

Oprtiwer,  uJo 

I'lougbgang  and  otbor  itiraautra,  384 

Tid«»weU  and CI 

Relica:    8t   Grn.  '*^   10<l>   1^8  (     Iridb 

U»tor"-l  ^r'  -r-. _ 

Pwiri  JB  Alb— tea  ipton  cf  drtfai^  Hi 

Cla  fUtflatar,  6(i9 

"  Rb^  lug  "  a  bofM    !  Hi; 

Bceurrertiiia,  BOTaUi^  a\  I  tiM,  S88 

Reynolda  \Sir  JmLim^  t^iq^nmi  oi>,  148 

•  omH  ••mcDurtai,  49,'9S,  217.  Ul 


M7 


Rhine  or  nut,  • 

Bbrme  and  rimr,  epvlHagof  Ik*  vorO,  84 

Bidbtrda  (F.  T-) «o Cr^e  'KlenF '  in  Latia, 


648 


INDEX. 


«otaim«QiMriM.la4y«Cl 


Ridurda  (R.V  on  "  Cockshot  time,"  232 
BiddlM  :  "  Vutc»n  b«g»t  me  ;  Minervs  me  taught," 
164;  •*  Aa  I  wM  goin'  ovver  Butterweek  Ferry," 
204  ;  "Men  dtnnot  live  withoal  my  first,'*  207 
"  Riding  tftilor  "  at  Astlej'*  in  1815,  £03 
Riding  the  blnck  ram,  35 
Higadoon,  derivation  of  the  word«  4 
Rime  and  rhyme,  apelling  of  the  word,  34, 400 
Ritter  (Otto)  on  Borpeni  :   BUggovele,   472 
River  divided  in  1399,  289,  391 
Robbina  (A.  F.)  on  bow  last  lued  in  war,  278 
Cooper  (the  Inte  Mr.  Thompson),  246 
LiiikH  with  thu  past,  513 
Newspaper,  <?arly,  486 
PU>biil*,  earliest,  114 
^Slkitebait  dinner,  niiniateria),  213 
Roberts  (W.)  on  Shelley's  mother,  68 
KobertAon  family,  269 

Kobin  a  Bubbm,  old  Derbyshire  rime,  S2,  172.  218 
Robin  on  Jeremy  Taylor  quotations,  406 
Robinson  (William),  nephew  of  Nelson,  170 
Roche  (Mra,  R.  M),  her  'Children  of  the  Ablmy,'  127 
Rodgers  (J.)  on  Mrs.  Oaskell's  'Sylvia's  Lovers,*  187 
Rodmell  family,  489 

Rodney  (Admiral),  his  second  wife,  226,  -97 
Rolfe  (F.)  on  heraldry,  329 
Rolleflton  (T    W.)  on  IriMh  relics,  206 
Rollright  8U)aef<,  A.  J.  Evans  on,  117 
Roman  and  Christisn  chronology,  86 
Roman  lanx  found  nt  VVelney,  86 
Roman  milestones,  7,  13*2,  195 
Roman  tenement  bouses,  369 
Rome,  HancU  Maria  ad  Nives,  311,  392;  inscription 

on  aarcophngos,  445 
Romney  (G.),  portrait  of  Ceneral  C.  Stewart,  127, 174 
Room  (C.  T.)  on  quotations,  257 
Ropeinakers'  Alley  Chapel  at  Mourfields,  466 
"  Roping"  a  hornc,  l^atin  for,  448,  613 
Roaea,  their  names  miMapelt,  279 
Rone-Troup  (Mm.  F.)  on  fleah  and  shamble  meats,  394 
Harepiith,  459 

Huntin  gton :  Courteney  :  Hone,  389 
Manor  Rolls,  guide  to,  198 
Western  Robullion,  46,  217,  428 
Roundhouse,  explanation  of  the  term,  9,  76,  158 
Rons  or  Rowne  family,  65,  97 
Kow«  {'T.  Hambley)  on  Kichiird  Fincerna,  469 
Rowe  (Owen),  the  regicide,  h\»  grandfather,  269,  356 
i^we  family,  2li9,  356 

jwse  or  KouR  family,  55,  97 
loyal  Acad«iny  of  Sciences  and  Newton,  248,  315,  365 
~oyal  family  surname,  127 
loyal  Oak  Day  at  Caatleton,  Derbyshire,  486 
lubens,  his  '  Palaces  of  Genoa,'  207 
tubbiah,  London,  at  Moscow,  208,  257 
RiJckert,  poem  by,  and  Pope,  209,  336 
Rue  and  'Tuscan  pawnbrokers,  148,  281 
Rupert  (Prince),  letter  from  Abp,  WiUiams  (o,  447 
Hosbton  (F.  R.)  on  barrar,  349 

Golden  bull  register,  329 
Rushton  (W.  L.)  on  Shskeapeares  books.  465 
Raskin  and  Uaboriau's  '  Marquis  d'Angival,'  428 
Rnsaoll  (Lady)  on  Msdnrne  du  Ten^in,  427 
HuimkII  (Lord),  letters  de«cribin(,'  Western  Rebellion.  46 
Rumian  fulk-luro  in  Japanese  war,  347 
Ramivt  meo-of-war,  their  n»mea,  386 


Rosaian  nary,  8ootohffi«&  in,  349,  433,  492 
Russian  prediction,  445 
Rutlandshire,  tale  of,  605 
Ryder=Blin,  428 

S.  (A.)  on  arms  on  Sarpi's  '  Oounoi]  of  IVnt/  < 
Carpenter'a  '  Geography  Delixieat«dl,'  23.  ll 
Weather  on  25  January,  65 
R.  (A.  B.)  on  Samnel  Shelley,  227 
S.  (A.  R.)  on  Herbert  S^penoer  and  childreo,  4i 
S.  (C.)  on  book  cullcctora.  148 
S.  (C.  0.)  on  authors  of  quotations  want«<l.  474  \ 
».  (E.  D.)  on  Shakespeare's  Sonnet  CXLVI . 
8.  (F.)  on  Napoleonic  conspiracy  in  England, 
8.  (F.  B.)  on  Jesaamy  Bride,  310 
8.  (K.  G.)  on  engiaviogs,  369 
B.  (G.  W.  P.)  oD  Leslie  Stephen's  '  Eaglaah  Lit 

and  Society,'  288 
S.  (H.  K.  i)t.  J.)  on  Christian  namea,  171 
Diokens  queries,  228,  298 
Plato  and  Sidney,  207 
Shakespeariana,  424 
Swinburne  (A.  C),  198 
S.  (J.  A.)  on  "I  expect  to  pass  through,"  247 
8.  (N.  8.)  on  Chaplain  to  the   Edinbareh  Gwrl 
146 
Commission,  88 
Jnpsnese  New  Year's  Day,  25 
' '  O  come,  all  ye  faithful,'^  10 
S.  (R.)  on  inscripticm  on  statue  of  Jamec  IL,  M 
S.  (R.  F,-J.)  on  oldest  public  school,  !*15 
S.  (R.  R.)  ou  "  Tymbers  of  ermine,"  4J>2 
S.  (3.  P.  E.)  on  cardinals  and  crimtMin  itilte&  1| 
S,  (W.)  on  Boas  KtK>k  music,  374,  437    ^^ 
Casting  lots,  366 
Garden  (Alexander),  M.D.,  417 
Greig  (Admiral  8ir  Hauuvl),  i92 
Grenadier  Guards,  31 

•  Grenadier's  Exercise  of  the  Gren*ilo  '  111 
Immurement  alive  of  religious,   217 
Lecbe  family,  293 
Martello  towors,  .'156,  477 
Mary,  Queen  of  Scots,  36 
'  Memoirs  of  a  Slumac^h,'  171 
Meaa  dress  :  sergeants'  sashea,  277 
Moro,  Fort,  its  storming,  5U 
Nightcaps,  114 
Papers,  63 
Parade-rest,  345 

Panoecuik  (Alexander),  Gent.,  MS 
"Send"  of  the  sea,  517 
Wager,  its  wreck,  201,  2.10 
a.  (W.  E.)  on  white  turbary.  310 
a — r  (W.)  on  "  Not  all  who  seem  to  fail,"  8 
Sadler  (^L  T.)  on  prescriptions,  453 
Sadler's  Wells  play  and  Wonlsworth,  7,  70,  96  ) 3^ 
St.  Agnes,  Haddington,  its  locality,  67 
St.  Augustine,  ehair  of,  iJo!),  472' 
8t,  Beea'  Head,  Cumbertand,  "Tumliiih- 
8t.  Bridget's  Bower,  in  Speiiner,  '..'7    7-\  | 
SaintCyr(Marquisde0r>iivi9n), IftHt ..     , 
St.  Dials,  church  at  Llantarnam,   ^ 
St.  Dunstan  at  Glastonbury  or  Mu\ 
St.  Fiua  of  Gimigniino,  'MV,  415 
St.  Gregory  the  <Jreal,  relics  of,  lOB,  15tf 
8t.  Helena,  Nspulcon  at,  126 
St.  Mar]garet  Mos«a,  axplaoation  of.  891 


9««M  m4  Queries,  July  SO.  1904. 


INDEX. 


049 


I 


Bt.    Margsrwt'e,    Weotmloater,   charchytkrd  improve- 
menU,  23,  62  ;   and  the  Qa«en'a  Weatmiiuten,  363 
Sc  Mary  Axe,  deriT»tinD  of  the  name,  89,  157,  253 
Bt.  MewbreJ,  reoordi  of,  288,  377 
St.  Michael  le  Queme,  its  derivation,  89,  157,  263 
St,  Patrick  at  Orvieto,  48,  131,  174 
St.  Paul,  quotation  from  Epimenidea,  405 
&i.  Paul's  Cathedral,  cruoiBx  at  the  north  door  of  old, 

165;  uioiiumfiDtB  in,  417 
St.  Paul's  SL'hool,  and  153  6sh  days,  290 
f^r.  Peter  nnd  ^reen  figi,  148,  231 
Si.  Peter  ad  Vincula  in  the  Bixteenth  and  seventeenth 

oenturieM,  218,  258 
Sc,  P«ter'8,  Comhill,  burial  registen  uf,  287 
St,  S^rapin  of  Sarof,  bis  intermeot,  445 
St.  Switbin  on  ''  Back  and  aide  go  bare,"  125 
Barrar,  435 
Brasen  bijoti,  455 

Camden  on  lumamei :  Muimelwhite,  314 
Com,  damage  to,  394 
Coaaa  de  Eitpafia,  247 
Dorsetebirtj  noake-lore,  253 
Eauliob  in  France,  258 
Fiacal,  51 

France  and  civilization,  448 
Grammar,  nine  part«  of  speech,  D4 
Heads  together,  326 
Irish  ejaculatory  prayers,  492 
Medalx,  "  au  pied  de  aanglier,"  88 
y  pronounced  ng,  292 
Nnml>er  Hupurstidon,  457 
"  Only  Fre<). "  346 
"Our  Lady  of  the  Snowa,"  811 
Parkiud  (Dr.),  15 
Ruo  and  Tuscan  pawnbroken,  143 
St.  Patrick  at  Orvieto,  131 
"Sal  et  salivR,"  482 
Spanish  proverb  on  the  orange,  251 
Synchnjoize  :  alternate,  47 
Tioktiug  trout,  154 
St.  Thomas  1  Becket,  reprewaUtion  of  hia  martyrdom, 

S88,  460 
Saint  Ubes,  corruption  of  Setubal,  333 
Saint*,  imnginnry  or  invented,  159,  383 
Salep,  Salop,  or  aaloop,  drink,  97,  188,  233 
>alivn  in  baptism,  368,  431,  514 
Silmon  (David),  on  Cvter  Braiton,  405 
"  P.P,  Clerk  of  the  Pariah."  137 
Temple  College,  Phiiadetphia.  297 
Wildtimpin.  67 
Salmon  uf  kuuwludge,  Celtic  legend,  463 
Salop,  saloop,  or  aalep,  drink,  97.  130,  233 
Salt,  in  baplimn.  868,  431,  514  ;  in  folk-lore,  BU 
"SaluUtion"  Tavern,  and  Coleridge,  61,  109 
Sianderson  (Robert),  Bishop  of  Linooln,  his  MS.,  327 
Sandfofd  (W.)  on  Oprower,  227 
Saiidwiob,  Prooeaaion  door  of  church  at,  408 
Sanguis,  derivation  of  the  wunl,  4G2,  515 
Sant'  Ambrogio  (Dr.  Diego)  on  Cerioea,  Paviik,  421 
Bant*  Cruz,  Tenerife,  inacriptiims  at,  442 
twrpi'a  'Council  of  Trent,'  arms  on,  408 
Saruro  on  Cold  Harbour:  Wiudy  Arbour,  418 

Smith  (Right  Hon.  John).  Speaker,  412 
Saaaaby,  toologioal  term,  146 
Savage  (B.  B.)  on  bibliography  of  epitaphs,  334 
"  Fint  catob  your  hart/'  838 


Savage  (E.  B.)  on  Mark  Bildealey,  414 
iStep-brother,  476 
Walnuy  Island  names,  492 
Saye  and  Sele  (Viscount),  regimental  drill,  428,  477 
Scarlett  |R.),  his  epiUph.  457 
Scattergood  (B.  P.)  on  Bishop  John  Hall.  9 
Schank  (Lionel  A,  V.)  on '  Athen«Cantabrigienae^'4l  2 

Campbell  (Admiral  Donald),  378 
Schlenter,  a  false  diamood,  401 
Sobolaatious  on  aohool masters,  189 
Sd>ool,  oldest  public,  166,  215,  '.'67,  269 
Schoolmasters,  biognphical  diotionory  of,  189 
Scole,  Norfolk,  old  inn  at,  248,  313,394,  454 
Scotch  words.  Englishmen  on,  261,  321,  376,  456 
Scotchmen  in  the  Russian  navy,  349,  438.  492 
Soots,  Mary,  Queen  of,  the  designation,  36,  90 
Soots  Guards,  origin  of  the  name,  30 
'Soota  Peerage,'  heraldry  in,  404 
Scon  (D.)  on  Football  on  Shrove  Tneaday,  280 
"  King  of  Patlerdale."  276 
Penrith,  275 
Soott  (John)  Liverpool  brewer,  his  epitaph,  69 
Soott  (Sir  Walter),  Capl.  Wogan  in  '  Waverley,'  284  ; 
English  conunentntrirs  on    '  Kob   Roy,'  321,    .'i75, 
456  ;  proverbs  in  VVaverley  Noveb,  383,  402,  45.'> 
Scotter,  "  Sun  and  Anchor  "  at,  504 
Scndder  (Kliza),  her  poems,  207 
Sea,  sond  of  the,  meaning  of  the  term,  808,  450,  517 
3ea>walls,  immurement  in,  288 
Seal,  mayor's,  for  oonGrmation,  447  ;  inaoription  on 

Hertford  Bijrough,  448 
Seamen,  merchant,  booke  of  approntioea,  187,  218 
Sears  (H.  H.)  on  Robert  Morris,  68 
Seaaon  in  London  in  1807,  446 
Secret  drawers,  documents  in,  427,  474 
Seion,  evangelixer  of  Wales,  152 
Bellinger  (St.  Leger),  1730-1,  428,  491 
Sellpuc  on  Cnplahitls,  189 

Send  of  the  aea,  meaning  of  the  term,  368,  456,  517 
Seoul,  its  pronunciation.  43 
SepulcbrM,  Easter,  instances  of.  265,  398 
Sergeants,  their  easbee,  168,  288,  277;  their  chevrons, 

349,  472 
Sex  before  birth,  determination  of,  406 
Sexton's  tombstone  at  Peterboronijh ,  467 
Seymour  (Sir  John),  epiUph,  87.  187,  232 
Shadwell  (Thoma-t),  his  •  Bury  Fair.'  221 
Shakespeare  (Mary),  her  relacionsbiii  to  the  poet,  448 
Shakespeare  (VV.|,  tuid  Marluwe,  1,  75  ;  bis  knowledge 
6fth«  eUsaios,  33  ;  "New   Facts,"  46;  his  know- 
ledge of  geogr^hy,  51 ;  epitaph  by,  126  ;  and  Marl- 
borongh,    127,    177.    266,    292,    862;    Dowdall's 
*  Traditionary  Anecdotes,'  128  ;  and  Spenser,  204  ; 
Dryden  on,  222  ;  his  grave  and   busts  in  Stratford 
Church.   288,   331,    862,     416,    473:    Popys   on, 
292,   352  ;  early    M.S.  mention.  810  ;  on   Aristotle 
and  moral  philosophy,    406,   473;  poems  on,   409, 
472  ;  his  books.  465 ;  and  Bamaby  Barnes,   467, 
510  ;  Sonnet  CXLVI.  in  Latin  elegiacs,  204 
Shakespeare  allusions  :  in  Mat«ton's  '  Malcontent,'  6  ; 

various,  44 
Shakespeariaiui  :— 

CorioUnus,  Act  II.  sc.  iii.,  "  Stuck  not  to  call  us 

the  many -hoailad  multitude,"  111 
Hamlet,  Act  I.  so.  iii.,  "  Comrade,"  4'26  ;  Act  III. 
so.  i.,  "  ThoB  oooaoieiioe  doth  maim  camviia,  <A. 


S/iO 


INDEX, 


nOlM  Mm  Qmnct^i 


8)iakeipe&ri&ii& : — 

umiU,"  106,111;  Act  III.  «ctL,  "Arery,  very 
pAjook."  103 ;  Act  III.  bo.  il,  "  Miolun^ 
mkllicbo,"  162 

Henry  VJ.  P»rt  II.  Act  IV.  ac.  i.,  bud  ftod  elood 
SB  badge,  290,  33S 

Irao,  Buppooed  pUj  by  ShakeBpeare,  349 

Msobeth,  Act  II.  ac.  iv.,  bona  or  horaat,  342,  424 

Heuure  for  Maaaure,  Act  III.  ac.  L,  ''PrenEie," 
1(51 

Two  Gentlemen  of  Veron*,  Act  IV.  acL,  "Make 
a  virtue  of  necessity,"  8,  76,  110,  1S6 

Venus  and  Adonis,  earliest  edition,  310 

Winter's     Tale,    Act    III.    «c.    ii.,     "Like    to 
itaeir."  162  ;  Act  III.  so.  ii.,  "  My  life  ataadaia 
the  level  of  your  dreams,"  162 
Bbamble  and  flesh  meaU,  68,  293,  394 
Shanks's  mare  ami  similar  phrases,  345,  415 
Shaw  (John  )= Eliza  Powell,  220 
Sbedlock  (J.  S.)  on  Dolores,  musical  oompoaer,  177 

"  0  cotne,  kII  ye  faithful,"  61 
Shelley  (P.  B.),  date  of  bis  motber'a  death,  68  ;  and 

Samuel  8helle^,  227,  '27fi 
Shelley  (Samuel),  painter,  and  P.  B.  Shelley,  227,  276 
Sherborn  (O.  T.)  on  Addison's  daughter,  83 

"  Cocksbut  time."  195 

Dorsatahirc  anake-lore,  253 

Melancholy,  334 
Sherborne  (Lord)  on  gimerro,  156 
Sherlock  (Dr.  William).  Dean  of  St.  Paul's,  426 
Sherwood  (G.)  on  "  Copy  "=copyhold,  347 

Fetttplace,  396 

Pedigree  in  1640,  466 
Shilleto  (A  R.),  ed.  of  Burton's  '  Anatomy,'  42,  163, 

203,  282 
Sbiptnn,  Mother,  ber  birthplace,  40i3 
Sboe-cart :  "  Go  in  shoe-cart,''  415 
Shorthand,  Pepys's,  recently  used,  337 
Shorthouse  (J.  H.).  key  to  'John  Inglesant,'  289,  867 
Shots,  division  of  field  into,  354 

Shrove  Tuesday,  football  on,  127,  194,  230,  381,  436 
Shalbrede  Priory,  derivation  of  the  uiune,  247 
Siberia,  its  Russian  name,  346 
Sibroe  (E.)  on  etymology  of  God,  74 
Sicily,  work4  on  its  history,  128 
Sidgwick  (F.)  on  Dickens  queries,  298 
Sidney  (.Sir  P.)  and  Shakespeare,  HO ;  and  Plato,  207 
Bieveicing  (A.  F.)  on  earliest  playbills,  23 

'  Worko  for  Cutlers,'  28 
"Silly  Hilly,"  application  of  the  sobriquet,  183,  282 
SiiuplicistiimuB  on  chaperon,  54 
Sirr  (H.)  on  "There  was  a  man,"  474 
Hidters  with  same  Christian  name.     See  Brothert, 
Skeat  (Prof.  W.  W.)  on  Ash,  pUoe-aame,  113 

Barrar,  478 

Bell's  '  Chaucer,'  404 

Chaucariana.  174,  198 

Cocksbut  time,  121 

Cold  Harbour  :  Windy  Arbour,  413 

Diabread,  173 

Eaaterling  and  East-Harling,  505 

Euchre,  77 

Foleit,  374 

"  From  whence,"  65 

Glowworm  or  firefly,  112 

Hanged,  drawn,  and  quariared,  871,  410 


Skeat  (Prof.  W.  W.)  on  ITeanllon. 

Hen-Hussey:  Whip  slitcb  :  i 

Kings  (English),  tlicir  n«int<«,  ,:;::.> 

"Maynes"  and  "Rhine.."  92.  261 

J\r  pronounced  ng,  291 

*'  Painted  and  pupped,"  467 

Pearl.  426 

Peridote,  386 

Rigaiioon,  4 

"Soolelnn,"  Norfolk.  313,  \t>< 

ShakMpflarians,  842 

Smalla«|«^  330 

'•  Sorpeui  " :   "  Haggovole,"  250 

Ttdeswell  and  Tidealow,  91,  22S,  SIO 

Toys,  Wykehamicjil  word,  13 

""Tymbera  of  ermine,"  4P2 

(Jsk  (Thomas)  and  Rail'    ''  I'i.'i 

Skoet  (Capt.  F.  J.  A.)  on  I'..  !  *; 

Skellat  ball,  explanation  of  il>-  ^^^,u,  lOd 
Skey  (F.  C. )  on  Sonuraet  dialect,  6 
Sleep  a^d  Denth,  writers  on,  315,  355 
Sloane  (Sir  H.)  and  Apothecaries'  gardeai,  SS7, ! 
Smallage  =  water-parsley,  288,  S30 
Smallpox  at  Norwich  c.  1 746,  209 
Smallpox  marks  at  Shanghai,  346 
Smith  (C.)  on  Dagvhaw,  9 
Smith  (C.)  on  Drake  in  Mexico,  S25 

N  pronounoeii  ng,  291 

Pigeon  En|j^i«h  at  home,  506 
Smith  (G.)  on  Werden  Abbey,  67 
Smith  (G.  0.  Moore)  on  Gabriel  Han.'*y'a  1 

Latin  quotations,  188 
Smith  (Hubert)  on  documents  in  a-'       '    '      veci, 
Smith  (Right  Hon.  John),  his  dey>  i^ 

Smith  (&  Horton)  on  well-known  .,.....,.,.  i44 

Pamela,  62 
Smitbers  (C.  G.)  on  Baxter's  oil  printing,  4d0 
Smyth  (Clement),  {'"ellow  of  Oriel  CoUecta  1449, 
Smyth  (Eleanor  C.)  on  envelopes,  57,  134 

Linkii  with  the  past,  414 

Shakespeare'n  '  Virtue  of  Neceaaity,'  76 
Smyth  (H.)  on  Irisli  ejnoulatory  prayers,  337 

Moon  folk-lore.  896 
.Smythies  (H.  M.  G.),  novelist,  87 
Snakes  dying  at  simset,  168,  253,  333 
Snow  rime  in  Yoik«bire,  392,  511 
Snowball  family,  137 
Soldiers  condemned  to  death  by  lot.  360,  476 
.Sombre  (Dyce)  and  the  Begum  Sumroo.  14,  6S 
Somerset  dialect  :  "  Vibrate,"  "Wrangling,"  0 
Somerville,  twentieth  Baron,  508 
Sooga  and  Ballads: — 

Addrees  to  Poverty,  43,  181 

Back  and  «ide  go  bare,  1 25 

Bai  lift's  daughter  of  laliogton,  3S8 

Bartram's  Dirge,  S3S 

Canadian  Boat  Song,  1 45 

Derby's  Ram,  306 

Dumbarton's  drums  beat  bunnia^  O, 

Herring  Song,  306 

Xiord  Batemnn  and  his  Supbia,  ld8 

My  Old  Onk  Table,  16 

Oak,  the  aah,  and  the  bonny  ivy  trM, 

Prostitute,  l.")! 

Tamaroo,  228,  272 
'  Sonoeoschein  ( W.  8.)  on  "  Bumanum  i 


Wotet  htiA  Querie*.  Jut;  90, 1904. 


INDEX. 


651 


I 


Sorpeni,  dorivntion  of  the  won],  208.  Mtl,  472 
8onl  bell,  origin  of  the  oustom,  308.  S'O 
Soulae  Abbey,  its  higtory,  20!),  272 
Southam  (Herbtrt)  nn  "  A»  the  crow  fliea,"  204 
Glaw  tn»Dufacture,  114 
deling  trout,  154 
eniaon  in  summer,  113 
Soathoott  (JcukDoa),  ber  grave  a.t  St,  John's  Wood.  301 
Bonthwell  (Rt.  Hon.  Ed.),  his  diary,  8,  56,  158,  218 
Spain,  Mtrich  eggii  in,  247.  332 ;  and  the  remaiiM  of 

Columbas,  247,  332,  458  ;  Comm  de  EspofiA,  247, 

332,  45S  ;  tribunal  of  old  men  in,  326  ;  prajera  at 

lighting  up  in,  4i^2 
Spaniards'  feet,  their  tenuity  and  length,  247 
Bpanii^  dogg«rel  lines,  their  meaning,  147 
Spaniih  proverb  on  the  orange,  20C,  261 
Bpeiuer   (Herbert),  on  billiards,  48,  113  ;  and  Carter 

Braxton,  405  ;  his  love  for  children,  465 
Spesier  (Edmund)  and  Sbakesi^eara,  204 
Spexball,  Sutfulk,  its  registers,  44 
Spittle  in  baptism  and  folk-lore,  348,  431,  514 
Sport,  Indian  records  of,  349,  307,  455 
Squaw  :  mahala.  synonyms,  64 
Stafford  (Henry,  Earl  oO.  on  his  Fmnch  wife,  10 
Stage,  children  on  the,  108 
Stamp,  record  price  for  a,  324 
htamp  colkctiug  -ind  its  literature,  322 
Standard  in  Corubill.  distances  measured  from,  7,  132 
Stanifi>rtb  (T.  W.)  on  Byard  family,  348 
Stanley  (Sir  EJ.  M.),  bis  nationality,  446 
SUte,  game  of,  226 
Steele  (Richard),  parallels  with  Bums  and  Wycherley, 

286,  357  ;  and   Alexander  Penneouik,  386,  513 
BtegKall  (Carnlinc)  ini  cunuus  Christian  names,  237 

Sleep  and  death.  355 
Stendhal:   Beyte,  34 

Step-brother,  ita  correct  meaning,  329,  396,  475 
Stephen   (^ir    Leslie),    his    '  English   Literature  and 

Society  in  the  Eighteenth  Century,'  23S,  357 
Stepbens  (J.  K.  R.)  on  German  prophecy,  396 
Stephens  (William).  Frecrideut  of  Georgia,  144,  216 
i^tepoey  Church.  Lecbe  ineoription  in,  207.  274 
Stevens  (E.)  on  Tideswell  and  Tidaslow,  371 
Stevens  (H.  W.  P.)  on  Downing  family,  44 
Stewart  (Alan)  on  Mark  Uildealey,  844 
Lincoln's  Inn,  401 
Randntph  (Tbdmas),  285 
Slewnrt  (C.  P  )  on  Napoleon  at  Kt  Helena,  126 
Stewart  (General  ChM.),  portrait  by  Romney,  127, 1/4 
Still-bom  children,  281 
Stomach  called  "  Little  Mary,"  70 
Stone,  carved,  1602,  109.  168 
Ktonce.  precious,  their  setting,  29 
Ktopes  (Mrs.  C.  0.)  on  '  Children  of  the  Chapel,'  407 

"  Tl>ere  was  a  mnn,"  474 
HUirm  !S<.-niion  at  Little  Wild  Street  Chapel,  77 
Stow  (John),  misprints  in  Thoui»'s  edition,  206 
Stoyla  fatDilies,  3  19,  4^12 
BtrKchey  (C  )  on  *'  Disco  i«ti."  248 
HhiiU.n«»...  247 

?■■     -      ■■■:  •     -•     ■  .       .  _  aa 

iiool, 
8tr<  witiquarian,  990 

Lobiahoma,  417,  ^H 


Street  (£.  £.)  on  Manitoba,  275 

Stronrich(C}.]on"  Nevr  fActa  regardingShakespeajre,"  45 

Shnke(j[ieare'BBcholarahip.  33 
Strong  (Prof.  U.  A.)  on  Chaperoned,  92 

Dickens  qneriee,  272 

Economy.  38 

"He  who  knows  not,"  236 

I.Atia  lines,  314,  363 

Morale,  237 

Sanguis,  its  derivation,  515 
Stuart  (Lieut.-General  Sir  John),  victor  of  Maida,  176 
Stuart  Kings,  Court  posta  under.  107,  173,  198 
Sutfolk  (Duke of),  1450.and  Ducbe«ofGlouoe«ter,209 
Suffolk  (Henry  Grev,  Dnke  of),  his  remains,  47 
Summer  *'  set  in  with  its  usual  severity,"  88 
Sumroo  ( Begum),  her  history,  14,  68 
Sun  :   "  My  Lord  the  Sun,"  reference  to,  126,  198 
Sun  and  its  orbit,  329,  435,  476 
Sunday  football,  331 

Sundial,  insoriptions  on,  148,  516  ;  parish,  208 
Supernatural,  references  in  hieroglyphics  to,  290 
Superstition,  number,  369,  457 
Supervisum  Corpus,  508 
Bumames.  Camden  on,  248,  314 
Surtees  (H.  C  )  on  Mount  Grace  le  Ebor,  149 

Snowball,  137 
Sortees  (Robert),  and  '  Barlhram'a  Dirge,'  338,  378 
Soasex,  death-sequence  in,  127 
Sussex  (Earl  of),  speech  by,  1590,  7 
Buswx  on  Court  poste  under  Stuart  kings,  107»  198 
Swedenborg  (Emanuel)  and  Hector  Berlioz,  26 
Sweek,  name  for  jack-bar  or  bijnu.  456 
Swift  and  Vanessa,  picture  by  W.  T.  Frith,  67 
Swinbrook,  Oxfordahire,  mouumentii  in  churoh,  611 
Swinburne  (A.  C),  stonzas  by.  49.  198 
Swynnerton  (C. )  on  "  From  whence,"  9 

Moon  folk-lore.  395 

RasAlu,  RAja.  87 

Torch  and  taper,  293 
Syer-Cuming  (Henry),  bis  library  and  museum,  400, 486 
Synchronize,  use  of  the  word,  47 
T.  on  Tuokott,  48 
T,  (B.)  on  Lieut.-Col.  Cross,  407 
T.  (C.)  on  Christmaatide  folk-lore,  172 

Ctyse,  111 

Cobweb  pills.  206 

Peculiars,  175 
T.  (G.)  on  oldest  public  school,  164 
T.  (H.)  on  ••  Run  of  his  teeth,"  388 
T.  (W.)  nn  Addison's  daughter,  149 

Niish  (Richard),  96 
Tablets,  commemorative,  367 
Taoitus  and  the  '  Gesta  Romanurum,'  6 
Tailor,  riding,  at  Astley's  in  1815,  508 
TaIoh,  county,  505 

Ta|>er  and  torch,  their  difference,  109.  196,  293 
Torelli  (C.  Camp)  oo  iGsop  in  Greek,  268 
Tarter  or  Tatar,  correct  filing,  1 1 
Tasso  and  Milton,  parallel  poHogea,  202.  249,  814 
TaTem  Slgu:— 

Mitre,  Fonchuroh  Street,  297,  873 

Mourning  Bush,  374 

Mourning  Crown,  S74 

Mouraiag  Mitre,  297,  373 

Boole  liio,  Norfolk,  248,  818,  894.  4S4 

Ship  Hotel,  Gmnwioh.  111.  879,  454 


562 


INDEX. 


TftTern  Si^s  :— 

8un  ftiid  Anchor.  Sootter,  SOi 
Taylor'*  Head,  »7I 
Tawell  (J.),  executed  st  Aylesbury,  2r»5 
Taylor  (H.)  on  Hell,  Heaven,  and  Par»dLM,  838 
Taylor  (Jobn),  the  Wat«r  Po«t,  liia  t^rem  ngn,  374 
Taylor  (Jeremy),  qaotations  in,  406 
Taylor  (Thoman).  the  Platoniat,  and  W.  Heroditb.  400 
Tt»  M  a  meal,  enrly  reference*,  17^,  209,  45tf 
Teedon  (f^aniuel),  bin  MS.  diary,  409,  473 
Tellen,  b«ll  rung  at  dMth,  308,  350 
TemjiUir  on  ThomaB  Goodwin,  189 
Temple  CoUege,  Philadelphia,  iu  degree*,  207,  297,493 
Ten^in  (Madame  du],  her  portrait,  427 
Teuerife,  ioacriptiona  at  OroUva,  801,  455 ;  ftt  Sant* 

Cruz.  442 
Teimyiton  (Lord)  on  Britain,  160 
Thackeray  (W.  M.),  Becky  Hharp  and  10,000/.  a  year, 

189,  216  ;  his  'Catherine  Haym,'  205  ;  his  use  of 

"anon,"  246.  337 
Thackeray  queries,  207 
Theatre  pit,  earliest  reference,  286 
Thornan  (A.  W.)  on  Bniiney.  489 
Thomas  (N.  W.)  on  North  AuHtralian  vocabularies,  848 
Thomas  (Ralph)  on  enKrKvinijx,  37il 
Greenwich  P«lac«,  486 
InKcriptiona  ou  buildiugs,  !i\6 
'Oxford  Knglish  Dictionary,  146,  255 
Thomas  (W.  Moy)  on  milestones,  7 
••  Thomas's  Hotel,"  Berkeley  8q.,  its  demolition,  417 
Ttomlinson  (W.  Clark)  on  Doge  of  Venice,  469 
Thompson  family  of  Boughton,  co.  Kent,  87 
Thorn*  (W.  J.),  misprints  in  his  'Stow,'  205 
Thorn-Drury  tG  )  on   •  Merry  Thoughts,  250 

Shnkespf^arisn  allusions,  44 
"  Three  Sugar  Loares  and  Crown,"  Fenchuroh  Street, 

1157,  214.  297.  S73 
Three  Weeks  Court,  Tulbury,  274 
"Thuudor-free,"  in  Browning's  '  Pippa  Paaaes/ 504 
Thurnam  (R.)on  Sicily,  128 
Tibetan  wonU  in  Knglisb,  465 
Tickling  trout,  154.  274,  37.'!,  473 
Tides,  low,  and  Good  Friday,  810 
Tidesluw  and  Tideswell,  their  etymology,  52,  91, 190, 

228,278,  292,  316,  371,471 
Tiger-claw  wespon,  or  vilghnntoh,  408 
Tigers,  their  size,  397 
Tigbern-uiHN,  iron  croxier,  408 
'iimbers  of  ermine,  tlie  term,  449,  492 
•Times,*  lS>fi2,  470 
Tinsel  characters.  47 
Titaladoes,  derivation  of  the  word,  449 
Tokeaa  and  coins,  copper,  bow  to  clean,  248,  83C,  466 
Tollage,  explanation  of  the  term,  126,  232 
Tomliue,  near  St.  Beee'  Head,  868 
Top  ipit,  use  of  the  term,  36 
Torch  and  Uper,  their  difference,  109,  196,  293 
Torfrida  on  periodicals  for  women,  228 
Torpedoes  antidpitted,  286,  374 
ToningtoD,  Devon,  and  Admiral  Bjng's  title,  189,  256 
Tote  =to  carry,  449 
Tower  Bridge  anticipated,  367 
Tower  of  London,  Oxford  men  sent  to,  809 
Toiraciieod  (Dorothea)  on  Townahend  pedigrees,  226 
Towmhmd  (J.)  on  •  Abbey  of  K.i)kham^to<  \% 

£pit«pha,  their  bibliography,  114 


Townahend  or  Towunend  pedigreiM,  2i6 

Toys.  Wykehauiical  woni,  1 :?,  f.O.  B«5 

Trade,  silent,  ancieut  praciioe,  20*1 

TraTera,  Trevers.  or  Trivers,  faualy.  208,  252 

Trelawny  ballad,  its  ori|;iii.  8S 

Trevere.  Trivers.  or  Travcrs  family,  208.  252 

Trout  caught  by  tickling,  151.  'J"f.  ?7*.  -178 

Tuckett  (John),  of  Kentixi  -  bio<^rmpby,  4^ 

Tugs.  Wykebamical  won),  ;  JiJ 

Tannelism :  tunoelist,  use  <'i  <.:iv  nririla,  27 

Turbary,  white,  its  botanical  name.  310 

Turin,  National  Library  burnt,  887 

Turin  (J.),  French  clockmaker,  107 

Turner  (Dawson)  and  Capt.  G.  W.  Manb/,  SI 

Turner  ptuntinga,  exhibition  of,  168 

Turtliffe  (Foecartnus).  bi*  Christian  name,  1S7 

Tuscan  jiawnbrvkeni  and  rue.  148.  281 

Tutbury,  Honour  of,  127.  IPS.  274 

Tynte  book-plate,  1704.  4i» 

IVrrell  (ChriHtal>ella),  her  marriagea,  109 

U.E.L.  on  American  Luyalista,  313 

Udal  (J.  H.)  on  Audyn  or  Audin  family,  495 

St.  Paul  and  Epimenidee,  405 
Ugbrooke,  Latin  MS.  and  Paslter  at,  109 
Unco,  wrong  use  of  the  word.  456 
Underdown  (H.  W.)  on  Bow  Bridge,  461 
United  States,  snake-lore  in,  253.  333 
Urllad  on  "  An  Aostrian  army,"  211 
Uik  (Thoniaa)  and  Ralph  Higdeo,  245 
V.  (C.  X.)  on  UuddersfieM  history,  107 
V.  (P.)  on  Murray  baronetcy,  427 
V.  (Q.)  on  golf,  517 

Green,  its  significance,  6 

"Jolly  gooii  fellow  "  in  Italian,  4 
V.  CVV.  I.  R.)  on  Bums  anticipate.1,  2M 

Charles  I  :  interesting  letters,  65 

Chatham  (Earl  of),  Masonic  portcut,  427 

Kather  in  '  Bleak  House,'  125 

"  Luther's  diHtich,"  473 

"  Our  Lady  of  the  Snows,"  fill 

Bubeni's  '  Palaces  of  C^uon,'  267 

'  True  Methodist ;  or,  Christian  in  Earnest.'  1( 

Wilkie's  journal  or  diary,  829 
V,-W.  (H,  a.)  on  Dorothy  Nutt.  35 
Vade-Wdlpole  (H,  S.)  on  Sir  John  Vatighan,  28 
"VAghnatcb,  or  tiger-claw  wrspon,  40s 
Yalle  Kodol,  its  locality.  461»,  612 
Vanishing  London  ;  "Tbonia»'f'  Hotel,"  447 
Vaughan  (Sir  John),  Govemur  of  Londonderry,  38 
Venice,  Doge  of,  likeness  blotted  ont,  469,  517 
Venison  in  summer,  47,  113 
Verse,  blank,  accent  in,  14 
Vestibule,  used  as  a  verb,  846 
Veto  at  Papal  elections,  94 
Vicar  on  Bradley,  oo,  Southampton,  SS9 

Parkins  (Dr.),  51 

Stephens  (William)  President  of  Georgia,  210 
Vicissitudes  of  langunge,  74 
Victims,  Manchester  ulnh,  481 
Vida  (M.  H.),  his  •  Christian  '  and  Milton,  240 
Vigie  Lebrun  (Ma<l»me)i  S'"    '  ■"  "'     y~ 

Vinoi  (Leonardo  da),  '  La^'  .  d, 

"Vinegar  of  the  four  thieve:..    i>..-  ,^v.M.|Kt....^...  ^hii 
Vir,  Caatrum  de,  iu  looality,  469,  612 
yVvc^VsslVkwtent,  101,  143 


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INDEX. 


553 


tVivarM  (H.)  on  Viv»rf's  (Frangoin),  308 
Vivier  (Eugene),  noted  horn  player.  li)9 
VooabuUiieB,  Australiaa.  inquired  lirier,  S48 
TolUireon  TasEH)  and  Milton,  21!^  »U 
W.  (B.)  on  football  on  Shrove  Tuesdiiy.  43.'i 
•*  Our  Lady  of  the  Snows,"  31 1 
''StAl  crux  dum  volvitur  orbis,"  SU'd 
"W.  {E.)  on  "  Ab  merry  a«  grigg*,"  94 
W.  (E.  P.)  on  "  Kick  the  bucket,"  227 

Load  Year,  228 
f  W.  (F.  C.)  on  St.  Agnes,  Haddington.  «7 

St.  Pktriok  at  Orvieto,  48 
W.  (G.)  on  football  on  Slirove  Tuesday ,  127,  331 
W.  (G.  C.)  on  "An  Aoatriau  army,"  148,  258 
AuniMiII,  237 
Eavelopea,  134 
Paste,  510 
Willie  William,  315 
W.  (G.  H.)  00  Cwdig&n  as  a  snrnattie,  07 

FitzhamoD,  47 
;  W.  (R.)  on  "  Sorpeni,"  "  Haggnyele,"  208 
[  W.  (D.  V.)  on  "  Drug  in  the  market,"  149,  816 
Penrith,  3fi4 

Tide«weU  and  Tidealow,  471 
Worm,  492 
Wager,  the,  ita  wreck,  201,  230,  335 
Wftitiewright  (J.  B.)  iin  Ariai«iUe'»  pbiloaophy,  472 
"  As  merry  m  griggs,"  276 
Bewlnell,  17 
Bircb-Mp  wine,  1 8 
CardinaLt  and  crimson  robes,  71,  214 
Child'Uiurder  by  Jew»,  15 
Colo(H«nry),  224 
CuiiKtiiiiuu  (Ci'iiiiL'il  of),  legend,  397 
T>ickeDf>  riueriea,  431 
Dogo  of  Venice,  617 
Eaater  S«>pulrbre,  398 
Epitaph  at  D<incaMt4<r,  19'j 
Epitaphs  :  tbcir  biblio>;rapby,  22>2 
Fosoarinus,  198 
Gile«  (Robert),  48 
Gravestone,  nameltaw,  17.1 
Green  (J.  R.)  on  Frvtrman,  294 
Hanged,  drawn,  and  quartered,  411 
Harpsfield  (John  and  Nicholas),  224 
Hundred  Courts^  197 
Hydrupbubic  pittienta  sniolbered,  (t5 
Imraurtjuwnt  ulive  of  religiouv,  BO 
Latin  cjuutHtiuua,  297 
MiiesLuues,  li^S 
NtttnleHe,  T'lti 

Neale  (ThomAs) '  Ilorberley.  609 
♦'Our  Lady  of  the  .Snows,"  393 
Oxfofxl  men  sent  to  the  Tower,  309 
"  Part."  ft,  30(; 
Pius  X.,  aiiftgrains  on,  258 
"Purpltt  i«iU:h,"  477 
Ht.  (Jrtigory  the  Great,  relics  of,  106 
'•  Mnl  et  saliva."  431 

Tacitu*  litid  the  '  G<MifA  Romanoruu],'  6 
Tugs,  WikphftiM  ,.  136 

Veto  at  I'nivitl  ■ 

-    Wilf-  ^■■•- -,-,  ,o, 

•Y,.  ,'477 

Wainwri-  .  [ri>ih  Baron  «»f  Excheqaer.  fiS 

WAinwrigbt  (T.j  on  dooumenls  in  secret  drkwers,  47& 


Walbeoff  family.  347.  413 

Walker  (Benjamin)  on  Hundred  Courts,  127 

Tutbory,  Honour  of,  127,  274 
Walker  (li.  J.)  on  mimes  of  Herondai,  68 
W&Uaoe  (A.)  on  Irish  ejaculatory  prayers,  249 

Lane  (Mrs  )  and  Peter  Pindar.  226 
Waller  (A.  R.)  on  Orabbe  bibliogr«phy,  86 
Walney  Island  Names,  their  etymology,  387,  492 
Walpole  (Horace)  and  Mndsme  dii  Dt-tfand,  325 
War  bow,  lM«t  used,  225,  27t*,  437.  497 
Warburton  (Bishop),  bis  'True  Mutbodist.'  167 
Ward  (0.  !S.)  nn  Baxtsr's  oil  printing,  490 

BoerWarof  lt>81,  277 

"Consul  of  God,"  32 

Daburia,  248 

Galtoii  (Rev.  Arthur),  413 

"God's  silly  v(u»»l,"  17 

St.  Dtmstan,  216 

8t.  Fina  of  Gimignnno,  415 

St.  Gregory  the  Great,  158 

Bt.  Mewbred,  288 
Ward  (H.  Snowdeti)  on  Bocket'n  niartyrdon,  888 

Cold  Barbour  :  Windy  Arbour,  341 

'  Edwin  Droo<] '  continued,  381 

Paste,  510 

Kohin  a  Bobbin,  172 

"  There  was  a  man,"  .377 
Ward  (J.  U.)  on  Robert  Bovie  on  tbe  Bible,  186 
Wardour,  Latin  MS.  at,  1 09 

Warleggan,  near  Bodmin,  its  parish  registers,  246 
Wftnrin)7ton  Church,  cbaxuble  found  at,  128 
Warwick  Grammar  8chn<il,  its  antiquity,  215,  270 
"  Was  you  t "  for  ''  Were  you  T ''  date  of  change,  509 
Water  of  jealousy.  Oriental  story,  147 
Wataun  (Christopher)  on  "  Ashee  to  ashes,"  430 

Becket  (T.  k),  his  martynlom,  450 

Thieves'  slang  :  "Joe  Ourr,"  487 
Wa<8on  (George)  on  tbe  dead  bell,  350 
Watson  (J.)  on  Eliiabeth  and  foreign  decorations,  328 

Hastings  (Warren),  hia  firai  wife,  494 

Indian  sport,  397 

Stephen   (Leslie),    '  his  English   Liter»ture   and 
Society  in  tbe  Eigbte^^nth  Century,'  357 
Watson  fiunily  of  Hamburg,  409 
Watts  (Isaac),  hui  '  Hymns  and  Spiritual  Songs.'  608 
WattS'Dunton  (T.),  "Griengro"  in  '  Aylwin,'  369,  478 
Weather:  "Summer  has  set  in  with  its  usual  seTerity,** 
38  ;  atfected  by  moon,  347,  441 ;  on  25  JanriAry,  is 
Webster  (Went worth),  bis  '  BiuK|ue  Legends,'  190,  498 
Wedding*,  Japanese,  glass-  breaking  at,  1 95 
Wedgwoo)]  (Josiah)  on  Chiswivk  uigbtiiigalest  125 
Wetford  (U  )  on  barmr,  435 

Christian  names,  curious,  237 

Gmvestones,  nameless,  2.'i2 

Immortality  of  animals,  256 

Sim  and  its  orbit.  435 
'  Willy  Wood  and  Greedy  GriziU".'  4.8 
Wellington  <  Vrtfaur,  Dnke  n«),  hi*  horses,  329,  416 
W«llingt«n  (Evelyn.  Hownger  Duchess  of),  on  Frrackj 
miniature  |)«int«"r,  «'»,  171 


Turin  (J).  Frrii 
Welabacb  (Caniar).  '■ 
WeUh  rabbit,  dcrivuLj.n  . 
WenlW4irth.  itH  tiutal  pmii 
Werdett  Abbr».^.  \s,<a».T  \j\\v 


Ur,  107 

I.utlier's  Bible,  509 

•  — ■   70 

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Vrw*^o\l  rtjOt^  VTlY«tVi^JiJ^  4'£l,  "iVX 


554 


INDEX. 


Hotet  utd  Qoaciai.  jMly  ao.  II 


Wealey    (John),    and    Mim    I^wen,    189,  818 ;    on 

gsrdeni.  .'<40  ;  on  glar>'  uf  MelbodisU,  409,  476 
Weat-Country  faLn>,  vlluittratiouo  of,  48,  93 
Western  rtiVwIlion  of  1649,  46,  217.  428 
Weatmineter,    St.    Hargaret'a   Churchyard    iinproTo> 

ments,  23.  62 
Westminster  Abb«y,  Chauoer's  tomb  in,  28  ;  changes 

at,  467 
WMtminrter  cfaangea  in  1903,  263,  302,  3ft5 
WenttnintterMhoIare,  Hr.  StaceyOrinialdi'sli^tof,  267 
Weyboume  Hocip,  ancient  rime  concerning,  316 
Wheeler  (Adrian)  on  animal-baiting,  37 

Arthur  (King),  «]ec-piug,  194 

Corney  (Mrii.)  in  '  Oliver  Twiat,'  6 

Glowworm  or  firefly,  193 
WheweU  (William)  and  Prof.  Jowett,  886 
Whip-»tiU;h,  une  of  the  word,  449,  518 
WTiitby,  Sirs.  Gnskell  at,  187 
Whitebait  dinner,  niiniiteriai,  at  Blaokwall,  213 
Whitehead  (B.)  on  "Coup  de  Jamac,"  7fi 
Wliitgift'B  Uocpital  at  Croydon  threatened,  498 
Whitty  Tree,  place-name,  iUi  meaning,  469 
Whitwell  (R.  J.)  on  Margaret  Biset,  468 
Wilderepin  (Samuel),  portrait  of,  67 
WilkieV  journal  or  diary  inquired  afler,  829 
Wilkina  (H.  C.)  on  Hell,  Heaven,  and  Paradise,  332 
Willan  (U),  hie  '  Aitra-a  Victrix,"  7 
Wlllcook  (J.)on  Hawker's 'Trelawny' anticipated,  405 

'  NicboUu  Nickleby  ' :  Capt.  Cuttle,  160 

Wogan  (Capt.),  284 

Worm,  407 
William  III.  crowned  at  Dublin,  446 
William  IV.  called  "Silly  Billy."  184,  232 
William  of  Wykoham,  his  parentage,  222,  257,  278 
William  Willie,  Christian  name*,  67,  257,  815,  457 
Williams  (Charles)  on  *  Memoirs  of  a  Stomach,'  111 
Williams  (Edward),  drowned  1821.  368 
Wiiliams  (John),  Archbishop  of  York,  letters  by»  447 
Wills,  Cheshire  ancl  Lancashire,  where  preserved,  38 
Wilson  (C.  Bundy)  on  acerbative,  1 74 

Christian  names,  curious,  170 

DoTsetfibire  gnnke-lore,  333 

Foscarinus,  277 

"Going  the  round":  "RouDdhoase,"  168 

Moon  folk-lore,  252 

Pope  and  German  literature,  336 
Wilson  (T.)  on  ste^t-brother,  395 

Witherahine.  606 
Wilson  (W.  E.)  on  hanged. drawn,  and  qaartered,  411 

Links  with  the  past,  414 
Wilton  House,  Wiltshire,  and  Nunnery,  248,  318.  416 
Winchester  College,  "toys"  at,  18,  50,  96;  songs  at, 
228,272;  "tugs" at,26e, 363;  "biddy "at, 272,  431 
Windy  Arbour,  origin  of  the  title,  341,  413,  496 
Wine,  birch-sap,  its  manufacture,  18,  98 
Wineglasses,  Jaoobite,  204,  293,  392 
Wissant,  near  Calais,  and  Dante's  'Inferno,'  1S2 
Witchcraa  in  Lapland,  190,  275 
Withenhins,  origin  of  the  word,  506 
Woffington  (Peg),  letter  of,  124 
Wogan  (Capt.),  in  '  Warerley,'  284 
Wolf  (Lucien),  his  'Jewry  of  the  Restoration,'  124 
Wolfe  (General  J.),  his  military  career,  108 


Wolfer«tan  ( E.  P.)  on  birds'  egga,  978 

Fettiplaoe,  473 
Woisey  (Cardinal)  anil  Nelson's  iomb,  808,  ^76,  il 
Wolverhampton,  pul[>it  at,  407,  476 
Women,  verses  on,    189  ;   early  p^wlic&ls  for,  i 

295,397;  desires  ft  "'-'nnnt.   392,  430.493 
Women  voters  in  cu  >  oroiii{b«,  3S7.  dT8 

Women's  clnb.  nnivt'i  -  fur,  489 

Wood-toter,  use  of  the  word,  «49 
Woodcock,  iU  habits,  121,  19.\  232 
Wriodmote  Court,  Tutbury,  itn  procedure,  105,  274 
Words,  frozen,  nautical  yam,  3 
Wordsworth  (WilliAm),  Sadler's  Wi^IU  pl»y  alloded 

by.  7,  70,  96,  13*".  ;  lines  »ttribuUMl  to.  448 
'  Worke  for  Cntlen,'  performances  of.  28 
Workington,  football  at,  127,  194,  230,  SSI 
Worm,  seventeenth-century  disease,  407.  492 
Wright  (A.  T.)  on  "  One-ninth  Church."   124 
WrytteH-Houwn,  Edinbargh,  217 
Wyatt  (.Sir  Thomas),  bis  riddle,  164 
Wybume  family  of  Cumberland,  809 
Wycherley,  Bums,  and  Strale,  parallels,  28€,  357 
Wykeham  (William  of),  his  parentage,  222.  257,  27) 
Wyrley,  hia  Derbyshire  Churdi  Not«a,  427 
X.  (P.  A.)  on  Knight  Templar,  338 
Zylographer  on  Reign  uf  Terror,  127 
Yardley  (B.)  on  sleeping  King  Arthur.  77 

"Coop  de  Jamac,"  197 

Glowworm  or  6refly,  157 

Heber's  'Pnlestine,'  69 

Leper  hymn-writer.  29t 

Lobisbome,  417,  472 

Marlborough  and  Shakespeare,  256, 292 

Pompadour  (Madame  de),  epigram  on,  18 

"  Prior  U)."  295 

Hcotch  words  and  English  commentatora.  37 

Seion  and  Llanpumsaint,  152 

Shakespeare's  geography,  51 

Shakespeariana.  426 

Sleep  and  death,  316 

Taaso  and  Milton,  250 
Taws,  et3rmolOj;y  of  the  word,  5 
Yeo  (W.  C. )  on  Magsmao,  0 
Yeoman  of  the  Crown,  the  office,  208,  272,  457 
Teoman  of  the  King's  Guard,  the  oSioe,  457 
Teoman  of  the  King's  Slaughter  House,  the  offioe, ' 
Yeoman  of  the  Leash,  the  office,  107,  173,  198 
Yeoman  of  the  Privy  Chamber,  the  office,  107, 173,  ] 
Ygreo  on  guide  to  Manor  Bolls,  169,  272 

Psalter  and  Latin  MS..  109 

Sellinger,  491 
York,  antiquity  of  St.  Peter's  School,  215 
York,  Lord  Mayor,  his  seal  used  for  confirmation,  i 
York  on  Northern  and  Southern  pronunciation ,  60 
York  Minster,  J.  A.  Fronde  on,  290 
Yorkahireman  on  Astwick :  Anstwiok,  466 

Raleigh,  its  pronnnciation,  1 76 

Tickling  tront.  473 

Tideswell  and  Tideslow,  471 
"You  was,"  superseded  by  "  You  were,"  609 
Young  (Edward),  '■  the  painter  of  ill-luck,"  124 
Z.  (V.)  on  Father  Petehorin,  487 
Zoffiuiy  and  John  Uurdon,  107 


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