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Jebb. 212 + Minor Queries:--Mowbray Coheirs--Draytone and + Yong--Fraternity of Christian Doctrine--Treatise + by Engelbert--New Year's Day Custom--Under the + Rose--Norman Pedigrees--Dr. Johnson's Library--Golden + Frog--Singular Motto--Sir Stephen Fox--Antony + Alsop--Derivation of Calamity, &c. 213 + +REPLIES:-- + Field of Forty Footsteps, by E.F. Rimbault. 217 + Queries answered, No. 4.--Pokership, by Bolton Corney. 218 + Mertens the Printer. 218 + Etymology of Armagh. 218 + Matters of the Revels, by E.F. Rimbault. 219 + Replies to Minor Queries:--Red Maids--Poetical Symbolism--Fraternitye + of Vagabondes--Anonymous Ravennas--Dick Shore--Travelling in + England--Sanuto--Darnley's Birth-place--History of Edward II., &c. 219 + +MISCELLANIES:--Gray's Elegy--Shylock--Sonnet--The + Devotee--By Hook or by Crook--Macaulay's Young + Levite--Praise undeserved--Cowper's "Task". 221 + +MISCELLANEOUS:-- + Notes on Books, Sales, Catalogues, &c. 223 + Books and Odd Volumes wanted. 223 + Notices to Correspondents. 223 + Advertisements. 224 + + * * * * * + +ENGLISH AND AMERICAN REPRINTS OF OLD BOOKS + +Most people are aware of the great demand there is for English +literature, and indeed for all literature in the United States: for some +years the anxiety of persons in that part of the world to obtain copies +of our early printed books, prose, poetry, and plays, has been well +known to such as collect and sell them on this side of the water. Where +American purchasers could not obtain original editions they have, in all +possible cases, secured reprints, and they have made some themselves. + +Not very long since a present of a most creditable and well-edited +republication of "Four Old Plays" was sent to me from Cambridge, U.S., +consisting of "Three Interludes: _Thersytes_, _Jack Jugler_, and +Heywood's _Pardoner and Frere_; and _Jocasta_, a tragedy by Gascoigne +and Kinwelmarsh." They are preceded by a very well written and +intelligent, and at the same time modest, Introduction, signed F.J.C., +the initials of Mr. Francis James Child; who in fact was kind enough to +forward the volume to me, and who, if I am not mistaken, was formerly a +correspondent of mine in a different part of the republic. + +My particular reason for noticing the book is to impress upon editors in +this country the necessity of accuracy, not only for the sake of readers +and critics here, but for the sake of those abroad, because Mr. Child's +work illustrates especially the disadvantage of the want of that +accuracy. It so happens that two, if not three, of the pieces included +in the Cambridge volume, are absolutely unique, and are now in the +library of the Duke of Devonshire. They went through my hands some years +ago, and as they had been previously reprinted in London (two of them +for the Roxburghe Club), I took the opportunity of collating my copies +of them. The third interlude, which was not reprinted for any society, +but as a private speculation, "by George Smeeton, in St. Martin's +Church-yard," is Heywood's _Pardoner and Frere_, the full title of which +is "_A mery playe betwene the pardoner, and the frere, the curate and +neybour Pratte_." The original copy has the following imprint: +"Imprynted by Wyllyam Rastell the v. day of Apryll, the yere of our +lorde, M. CCCCC. xxx III." + +The reprint by Smeeton is in black letter, and it professes to be a +fac-simile, or as nearly so as possible; and although it consists of +only eight leaves, it contains no fewer than forty variations from the +original, all more or less important, and one of them the total omission +of a line, so that the preceding line is left without its corresponding +rhyme, and the sense materially injured. + +Unfortunately, Mr. Child reprinted in America from this defective +reprint in England; but his sagacity prevented him from falling into +some of the blunders, although it could not supply him with the wanting +line; and his notes are extremely clear and pertinent. I shall not go +over the thirty-nine other errors; but I shall just quote the passage as +it stands in the (as far as I know) unique copy, now deposited at +Devonshire House, and supply in italics the necessary line. It occurs in +a speech by the Pardoner, near the end, where he is praising one of his +relics:-- {210} + + "I wyll edefy more, with the syght of it + Than wyll all the pratynge of holy wryt; + For that except that the precher, hym selfe lyue well, + His predycacyon wyll helpe neuer a dell, + And I know well, that thy lyuynge is nought: + _Thou art an apostata, yf it were well sought_, + An homycyde thou art I know well inoughe," &c. + +The line omitted is the more remarkable, because it contains an instance +of the employment of a word very old in our language, and in use in the +best periods of our prose and poetry: "apostata" is explained in the +_Promptorium_, is found in Skelton and Heywood, and so down to the time +of Massinger, who was especially fond of it. + +How many copies were issued of Smeeton's reprint of _The Pardoner and +the Frere_, I know not; but any of your readers, who chance to possess +it, will do well to add the absent line in the margin, so that the +mistake may be both rectified and recorded. I was not aware of Mr. +Child's intention to re-publish the interlude in the United States, or I +would long ago have sent him the correction, as indeed I did, a day or +two after I received his volume. It was, nevertheless, somewhat +ungracious to thank him for his book, and at the same time to point out +an important error in it, for which, however, he was in no way +responsible. + +J. PAYNE COLLIER. + +Kensington, Jan. 28. 1850. + + * * * * * + +CATACOMBS AND BONE-HOUSES. + +Without attempting to answer the queries of MR. GATTY, (No. 11. p. 171.) +I venture to send a note on the subject. I believe it will generally be +found that the local tradition makes such collections of bones to be +"the grisly gleanings of some battlefield." One of the most noteworthy +collections of this kind that I have seen is contained in the crypt of +Hythe Church, Kent, where a vast quantity of bones are piled up with +great regularity, and preserved with much care. According to a written +statement suspended in the crypt, they are the relics of Britons and +Saxons slain in a battle fought on the beach in the sixth century; the +local tradition is nearly to the same effect, but of course is of little +value, as it has most likely arisen from or been conformed to this +"written chronicle;" both writing and tradition must indeed be regarded +with distrust. It is affirmed in the neighbourhood that the bones were +_dug up_ from the beach; but I, at least, could hear of no tradition as +to the period when they were exhumed. Perhaps some resident will +ascertain whether any such exists. + +The bones have all the appearance of considerable antiquity; yet they +are in excellent preservation. The skulls are remarkably white and +perfect, and are altogether a very curious collection, differing greatly +in size, form, and thickness. The holes and fractures in many of them +(made evidently during life) leave no doubt that they belonged to +persons who met with a violent death. + +I will not pretend to reply to the concluding queries of your +correspondent, but I would just remark that, from what we know of the +feeling of our ancestors respecting the remains of the dead, it appears +probably that if from any cause a large quantity of human bones were +found, or were from any cause obliged to be disturbed, some ecclesiastic +or pious layman would take measures to have them removed to some +consecrated spot where they might be safe from further molestation. They +would hardly be treated in any such manner as Dr. Mantell states the +bones removed by the railway engineers from the Priory ground at Lewes +were treated. I remain, sir, your very obedient servant, + +J.T. + +Syndenham, Jan. 21. 1850. + + * * * * * + +LINES ATTRIBUTED TO HUDIBRAS. + +Perhaps the following extract from a volume entitled _The Relics of +Literature_, published by Boys and Co., Ludgate Hill, 1820, may prove +interesting, as further illustrating the so frequently disputed passage +which forms the subject matter of your first article in No. 12.:-- + + "Few popular quotations have more engaged the pens of critics + than the following:-- + + 'For he that fights and runs away + Will live to fight another day.' + + "These lines are almost universally supposed to form a part of + _Hudibras_; and, so confident have even scholars been on the + subject, that in 1784 a wager was made at Bootle's, of twenty to + one, that they were to be found in that inimitable poem. Dodsley + was referred to as the arbitrator, when he ridiculed the idea of + consulting him on the subject, saying, 'Every fool knows they + are in _Hudibras_.' George Selwyn, who was present, said to + Dodsley, 'Pray, sir, will you be good enough, then, to inform an + old fool, who is at the same time your wise worship's very + humble servant, in what canto they are to be found?' Dodsley + took down the volume, but he could not find the passage; the + next day came, with no better success; and the sage bibliopole + was obliged to confess, 'that a man might be ignorant of the + author of this well-known couplet without being absolutely a + fool.'" + +I have also the following memorandum in a common-place book of mine, but +I do not remember from what source I transcribed it many years past:-- + + "The couplet, thus erroneously ascribed to the author of + _Hudibras_, occurs in a small volume of Miscellaneous Poems, by + Sir John Mennis, written in the reign of Charles the Second, + which has now become extremely scarce. The original of the + couplet may, however, be traced to much higher authority, even + to Demosthenes, who has the following expression:-- {211} + + '[Greek: Anaer ho pheugon kai palin machaesetai]', + + of which the lines are almost a literal translation." + +While on the subject of quotations, let me ask whether any of your +correspondents can tell me where the passage, "Providence tempers the +wind to the shorn lamb," is to be found? + +Among a few of the many floating quotable passages universally known, +without any trace of the authors, among general readers and writers, are +the following:-- + + "When wild in woods the noble savage ran." + +DRYDEN's _Conquest of Grenada_. + + "And whistled as he went for want of thought." + +DRYDEN's _Cymon and Iphigenia_. + + "Great wits are sure to madness near allied, + And thin partitions do their bounds divide." + +DRYDEN's _Absalom and Achitophel_, st. i. I. 163. + + "The tenth transmitter of a foolish face." + +SAVAGE. + + "When Greek meets Greek then comes the tug of war." + +NAT. LEE. + +The real line in Lee is-- + + "When Greeks join Greeks then was the tug of war." + +LEE's _Alexander the Great_. + +J.W.G. GUTCH + + * * * * * + +I wish to ask a few questions, referring to these lines, if you do not +think the subject already exhausted by Mr. Rimbault's curious and +interesting communication. + +1. Does not the _entire_ quotation run somewhat thus:-- + + "For he that fights and runs away + May live to fight another day; + But he that is in battle slain + Can never hope to fight again"? + +2. Are the two last lines in the _Musarum Deliciæ_? + +3. May not the idea suggesting the two first lines be traced to some +passage in one of the orations of _Demosthenes_, and, PAST him, to the +"[Greek: Anaer ho pheugon kai palin machaesetai]" of some contemporary, +if not still older writer? + +4. Whose _Apothegems_ [qy., those of Demosthenes?] are under +consideration on folio 239., from which Mr. Rimbault quotes? + +Queries 1, 2, 3 have long stood _in MS._ in my note-book, and I should +much like to see them in _print_, while the subject to which they refer +is still fresh in the minds of your readers. + +MELANION + + * * * * * + +The lines-- + + "For he that fights and runs away + May live to fight another day," + +resemble the following quatrain in the _Satyre Menippée_, being one of +the several verses appended to the tapestry on which was wrought the +battle of Senlis:-- + + "Souvent celuy qui demeure + Est cause de son meschef; + Celuy qui fuit de bonne heure + Peut combattre de rechef." + +A.J.H. + + * * * * * + +NOTES FROM FLY-LEAVES, No. 5. + +In the library of St. John's College are some hundreds of volumes +bequeathed to it by Thomas Baker; most of these have little notices on +the fly-leaves, some thirty or forty of which seem worth printing. One +(Strype's _Life of Parker_) has marginal notes throughout the book, the +value of which will be duly appreciated by those who have read Baker's +notes on Burnet's _Reformation_. (See the _British Magazine_ for the +last year.) + +Hereafter, if you do not object, I hope to send larger extracts from +Baker's MSS.; at present I confine myself to a single specimen, taken +from the fly-leaf of a copy of Noy's _Compleat Lawyer_, London, 1665. +(St. John's Library, Class mark, I. 10. 49) + + "Gul. Noye de S. Buriens. Com. Cornub. Armig. unus Magistrorum + de Banco fieri fecit, 1626. On a window in Lincoln Inn's + Chapell. See Stow's _Survey_, &c. vol. ii. lib. ii. p. 73. + + "This book has a former edition, London, 1661; but not so fair a + print, and without the Author's Life. + + "See Fuller's _Worthies in Cornwall_, p. 200. + + "See Mr. Gerard's Letter to Lord Strafford, dated Jan 3. 1634. + _Mr. Noy continues ill, & is retired to his house at Brentford: + I saw him much fallen away in his Face & Body, but as yellow as + Gold--with the Jaundice--his bloody waters continue with drain + his Body._ + + "See Lloyd's _State Worthies_, p. 892, 893. &c. + + "Aug. 9. [1634] Wm Noy Esquire the King's Attorney died at + Brainford.--Mr. Ric. Smith's _Obituary_. + + "See Wm Noy's Will (very remarkable) MS. vol. xxx. p. 309. + + "16th Dec. 1631. Conc. Ornatissimo viro Gulielmo Noye, ut sit de + Consilio Universitatis--et annuatim 40th recipiat, &c.--Regr. + Acad Cant. + + "See Howell's Letters, sect 6. pp. 30, 31. + + "Rex 27. October. 1632 constituit Willielmum Noye Arm. + Attornatum suum Generalem, durante beneplacito.--Rymer, tom. 19. + p. 347. + + "See his (W.N.) will, very pious except the last clause, which + is next to impious. vol. xxxvi. MS. p. 379. + + "Young Noy, the dissipanding Noy, is kill'd in France in a + Duell, by a Brother of St. John Biron; so now the younger + Brother is Heir and Ward to the King.--A Letter to Lord Deputy + Wentworth, vol. ii. p. 2 dat. Apr. 5. 1636." + +It may be as well to add, that the references to vols. xxx. and xxxvi. +of MS. are to two different copies of the will in two volumes of Baker's +MSS., in the University library. The word "dissipanding," in the last +quotation, doubtless is an allusion {212} to "dissipanda" in the will +itself. I once had occasion to take a copy of this will, and found the +variations between the two copies trifling. + +J.E.B. MAYOR + + [We shall be obliged by our correspondent forwarding, at his + convenience, the proposed copies of Baker's MS. notes.] + + * * * * * + +THE PURSUITS OF LITERATURE. + +Many years ago, the satirical poem, entitled _The Pursuits of +Literature_, engaged public attention for a very considerable time; the +author concealed his name; and from 1796 at least to 1800, the world +continued guessing at who could be the author. Amongst the names to +which the poem was ascribed were those of Anstey, Colman, Jun., Coombe, +Cumberland, Harry Dampier, Goodall, Hudderford, Knapp, MATHIAS, Mansell, +Wrangham, Stephen Weston, and many others, chiefly Etonians. George +Steevens, it is believed, fixed upon the real author at an early period: +at least in the _St. James's Chronicle_, from Tuesday, May 1. to +Thursday, May 3. 1798, we find-- + + "THE PURSUER OF LITERATURE PURSUED + + "_Hic niger est_. + + "With learned jargon and conceit, + With tongue as prompt to lie as + The veriest mountebank and cheat, + Steps forth the black ----. + + "At first the world was all astounded, + Some said it was _Elias_; + But when the riddle was expounded, + 'Twas little black ----. + + "This labour'd work would seem the job + Of hundred-handed _Gyas_; + But proves to issue from the nob + Of little black ----. + + "Through learned shoals of garbled Greek + We trace his favourite bias, + But when the malice comes to speak, + We recognise ----. + + "What strutting _Bantam_, weak but proud, + E'er held his head so high as + This pigmy idol of the crowd, + The prancing pert ----. + + "[Greek: Touto to biblion], he'll swear, + Is [Greek: plaeron taes sophias], + But men of sense and taste declare + 'Tis little black ----. + + "Oh! were this scribbler, for a time, + Struck dumb like _Zacharias_, + Who could regret the spiteful rhyme + Of little black ----. + + "Small was his stature who in fight + O'erthrew the great _Darius_ + But small in genius as in height + Is little black ----. + + "Say, could'st thou gain the butt of sack + And salary that _Pye_ has, + Would it not cheer thy visage black, + Thou envious rogue ----. + + "When next accus'd deny it not! + Do think of _Ananias_! + Remember how _he_ went to pot, + As thou may'st, friend ----. + + "BARACHIAS." + +I am, &c., your humble servant, + +H.E. + + * * * * * + + +QUERIES. + +BARRYANA. + +The inquiries of "DRAMATICUS," and others in your number for Nov. 10., +prompt me to say that should any of your correspondents happen to +possess information answering the following queries, or any of them, I +shall be thankful to share it. + +1. What became of the natural child of Elizabeth Barry, the actress, who +died 1713; and whether the Earl of Rochester, its father, was really +Wilmot (as Galt assumes) or Hyde, on whom that title was conferred at +Wilmot's death? The former mentions a natural daughter in his last will; +but he names it "Elizabeth Clerke," and does not allude to its mother. +Mrs. Barry's will mentions no kindred whatever. But Galt describes her +as daughter of Edward Barry, Esq., a barrister of Charles I.'s +reign.--Who was he? Spranger Barry, the actor of fifty years later, Sir +William Betham and myself have succeeded in connecting satisfactorily, +and legitimately, with the noble house of Barry, Lord Santry; but I +cannot as yet show that Mrs. E. Barry inherited her theatrical talent +from an identical source. + +2. Of what family was Mr. Barry, the Secretary to the Equivalent +Company, who died about 1738? I possess immense collections on the name +of Barry, but I cannot identify any London will or administration as +this individual's. + +3. Whether Sir Robert Walpole's Secret Government Lists of the +Pretender's adherents, agents, and emissaries in London (who were +supposed to be under the evil-eye of Jonathan Wild) still exist, and are +accessible? + +WILLIAM D'OYLY BAYLEY. + +Coatham, Yorkshire, Jan. 1849-50. + + * * * * * + +NINE QUERIES. + +1. _Book-plate._--Whose was the book-plate with the following +device:--An eagle or vulture feeding with a snake another bird nearly as +large as herself; a landscape, with the sea, &c. in the distance: very +meanly engraved, in an oval, compassed with the motto, "Pietas homini +tutissima virtus"? + +2. _Addison's Books._--I have two or three volumes, bound apparently at +the beginning of {213} the last century, with a stamp on the cover, +consisting of J.A., in a cursive character, within a small circle. Was +this the book-stamp of Joseph Addison? + +3. _Viridis Vallis._--Where was the monastery of "Viridis Vallis," and +what is its vernacular name? + +4. _Cosmopoli._--Has _Cosmopoli_ been ever appropriated to any known +locality? Archdeacon Cotton mentions it among the pseudonymes in his +_Typographical Gazetteer_. The work whose real locality I wish to +ascertain is, _Sandii Paradox_. iv. _Evang._ 1670. 1 vol. 8vo. + +5. _Seriopoli._--The same information is wanting respecting "Seriopoli; +apud Entrapelios Impensis Catonis Uticensis:" which occurs in the +title-page of "Seria de Jocis," one of the tracts connected with the +Bollandist controversy. + +6. _Early Edition of the Vulgate._--Where is there any critical notice +of a very beautiful edition of the Vultage, small 4to., entitled "Sacra +Biblia, cum studiis ac diligentia emendata;" in the colophon, "Venetiis, +apud Jolitos, 1588"? The preface is by "Johannes Jolitus de Ferrarüs." +The book is full of curious wood-cuts. This is not the book mentioned in +Masch's _Le Long_ (part ii, p. 229), though that was also printed by the +Gioliti in 1588; as the title of the latter book is "Biblia ad +vetustissima Exemplaria castigata," and the preface is by Hentenius. + +7. _Identity of Anonymous Annotators._--Can any of the correspondents of +"NOTES AND QUERIES" point out to a literary Backwoodsman, like myself, +any royal road towards assigning to the proper authors the handwriting +of anonymous annotations in fly-leaves and margins? I have many of +these, which I should be glad to ascertain. + +8. _Complutensian Polyglot._--In what review or periodical did there +appear, some time ago, a notice of the supposed discovery (or of +conjectures as to the existence) of the MSS. from which the +"Complutensian Polyglot" was compiled, involving, of course, the +repudiation of the common story of the rocket maker of Alcala? Has any +further light been thrown on this subject? + +9. _Blunder in Malone's Shakspeare._--Has any notice been taken of the +following odd blunder in Malone's _Shakspeare_, Dublin ed. 1794? + +In vol. ii. p. 138, the editor, speaking of _John_ Shakspeare's will +(the father of William), says "This extraordinary will consisted of +fourteen articles, _but the first leaf being unluckily wanting_, I am +unable to ascertain either its date, or the particular occasion on which +it was written." He then gives a copy of the will, beginning at the +third article, in the middle of a sentence, thus: "... at least +spiritually." Now, in the first vol. p. 154. is a document, professing +to be William Shakspeare's will. But of this the first three paragraphs +belong to John Shakspeare's will, his name being mentioned in each: and +the third concludes with the words "at least spiritually." The fourth +paragraph, to the end, belongs to William Shakspeare's will, as given in +Johnson and Stevens's editions. This is a palpable instance of editorial +carelessness: Mr. Malone had mixed the two documents, mislaid the first +portion of the transcript of William Shakspeare's will, and then +neglected to examine the postscript, or he must have found out his +mistake. + +Was this error acknowledged or corrected in any subsequent edition? + +JOHN JEBB. + + * * * * * + +MINOR QUERIES + +_Mowbray Coheirs._--Collins in his _Peerage_ (ed. Brydges, 1812), says, +at p. 18., speaking of Thomas Duke of Norfolk:-- + + "In 15 Henry VII, he made partition with Maurice, surviving + brother of William Marquiss of Berkeley (who died issueless), of + the lands that came to them by inheritance, by right of their + descent, from the coheirs of _Mowbray_, Duke of Norfolk;" + +and quotes, as his authority, _Commun. de T. Pasch, 15 Henry VII., Rot._ +1. + +The roll of the whole year referred to has been examined, without +finding any notice of the subject. + +Should any of your readers have met with the statement elsewhere, it may +happen that there is some error in Collins's reference to his authority; +and a clue to the right roll, or any other notice of the division of +this great inheritance, will be acceptable. + +G. + + +_Draytone and Yong._--The following note was found by me among the +Exchequer Records, on their sale and dispersion, a few years ago:-- + + "I praye you fellowe Draytone do so invehe for me as to Resave + all svche moneye as is dewe to me from the handes of Ser + Vincente Skyner Knyghte or else wheare from thos offysers of the + excheqer And this shalbe yovr discharge. Written the laste daye + of Janvarye 1607. Henry Yong." + +Can your subscribers inform me who the writer was? Mr. Payne Collier +states that there was an interlude-maker of the name of Henry Yong in +the reign of Henry VIII. Is it likely that the note was addressed to +Michael Drayton? + +ROBT. COLE. + +Upper Norton Street, Jan. 23, 1850. + + +_The Fraternity of Christian Doctrine._--I think I see some names among +your correspondents who might inform me where I shall find the fullest +account of the Fraternity of Christian Doctrine, established by St. +Charles Borromeo in the diocese of Milan. I am acquainted with the +regulations for their establishment in _Acta. Concil. Mediol._, and with +the incidental notices of them which {214} occur in Borromeo's writings, +as also in the later authors, Bishop Burnet, Alban Butler, and Bishop +Wilson (of Calcutta). The numbers of the Sunday schools under the +management of the Confraternity, the number of teachers, of scholars, +the books employed, the occasional rank in life of the teachers, their +method of teaching, and whether any manuals have ever been compiled for +their guidance--are points upon which I would gladly gather any +information. + +C.F.S. + + +_Treatise by Englebert, Archbishop of Treves._--Bishop Cosin (in his +_Hist. Trans._ cap. vii. §12) refers to _Engelb. Archiep. Trevirensis, +ap. Goldasti Imper._ tom. i. In Goldast's _Politica Imperialia_ there is +a treatise by S. Engelb. Abb. _Admoutens_ in Austria: but I find neither +the author referred to, nor the treatise intended, by Cosin. According +to Eisengrein, who is followed by Possivinus, there were _two_ +Engelberts; viz. Engelbertus, S. Matthiæ _Treverensis_, Benedictinæ +possessionis Abbus, patria _Mosellanus_, who lived A.D. 987; and S. +Engelbert, who flourished A.D. 1157, and who is described as +_Admontensis_ Benedictinæ posessionis Abbus, _Germanus_. Can any of your +correspondents kindly direct me to the intended treatise of the +Archbishop of Treves? + +J. SANSOM. + +Oxford, Jan. 9. 1850. + + +_New Year's Day Custom._--I shall be glad if any of your readers can +inform me of the origin and signification, of the custom of carrying +about decorated apples on New Year's Day, and presenting them to the +friends of the bearers. The apples have three skewers of wood stuck into +them so as to form a tripod foundation, and their sides are ornamented +with oat grains, while various evergreens and berries adorn the top. A +raisin is occasionally fastened on each oat grain, but this is, I +believe, and innovation. + +SELEUCUS. + + +_Under the Rose._--That the English proverbial expression, _Under the +Rose_, is derived from the confessional, is, I believe, generally +admitted: but the authorship of the well-known Latin verses on this +subject is still, as far as I am aware, a _rexata quæstio_, and gives a +somewhat different and _tantaleau_[1] meaning to the adage:-- + + "Est Rosa flas Veneris, quem, quo sua furta laterent, + Harpoerati, Matris dona, dicavit Amor. + Inde rosam mensis hospes suspendit amicis, + Convivæ ut sub ca dicta tacenda sciant." + +Can any of your correspondents obligingly inform me to whom these not +inelegant or unclassical lines are to be attributed? + +ARCHÆUS. + +Wiesbaden, Dec. 15. 1849. + + [Footnote 1: See Pindar's First Olympic Ode.] + + +_Norman Pedigrees._--Can any gentleman inform me where (in what book) +may be found the situation of the places from which the companions of +William the Norman took their names? Such _French_ names as have _De_ +prefixed--in fact, a _Gazetteer_? Also, where may be found--if such +exist--pedigrees of the same _worthies_? + +B. + + +_Dr. Johnson's library._--I have long wanted to know what became of the +library of Dr. Samuel Johnson (of our city), or if he had any +considerable collection of books. Perhaps some of your correspondents +would answer both these queries. I happen to have a few, some of which +were used in compiling his Dictionary, and are full of his marks, with +references to the quotations, most of which are to be found in the +Dictionary. I have also his own Prayer-Book. + +T.G. LOMAX. + +Lichfield, Jan. 11. 1850. + + +_Golden Frog._--In the church of Boxstead, in the county of Suffolk, +there is a large and very handsome monument of marble, in a niche of +which stands, in full proportion, a man in armour, his head bare, with +moustaches and a tuft on his chin; in his right hand he holds a +truncheon, and by his side is his sword; his armour is garnished with +gold studs, and his helmet stands on the ground behind him; from his +right ear hangs a _gold frog_. + +This monument was erected in memory of Sir John Poley, of Wrongay, in +Norfolk, knight, who died in 1638, at the age of upwards of eighty, +having served much abroad under Henry IV. of France, Christian King of +Denmark, &c., and in Queen Elizabeth's service against the Spaniards. + + "Illius ante alios cepit cum dextera Gades + Militis Angliaci, et fulmina sensit Iberis." + +I send you this detail, in hopes that some of your correspondents may be +able to explain the ornament in his ear, whether it be the badge of any +order, and whether any other instance is known of its use. There is in +Boxstead Hall, the seat of the very ancient family of Poley, a portrait +of Sir John having the same ornament. + +D. + + +_Singular Motto._--Being at Cheltenham in the summer of 1811, I saw a +chariot standing in an inn yard, on the panels of which, under a coat of +arms, apparently belonging to some foreign family, was the following on +a scroll, in the nature of a motto:--"oemn3--ononoe.7 ano--7 emn3." If +any of your correspondents can inform me what is its meaning, and if it +be a motto, to what family it belongs, he will oblige. + +P.H.F. + +Stroud. + + +_Sir Stephen Fox._--Will any of your intelligent correspondents inform +me whether Sir Stephen Fox, the ancestor of the present Lord Holland and +the Earl of Ilchester, had any brothers or sisters, and if so, whether +they had any children, and who are the legal representatives of those +collateral branches, if any? + +VULPES. {215} + + +_Antony Alsop._--Will any of your correspondents kindly tell me who +Antony Alsop was? A thin Quarto volume of Latin Odes was published in +1753, with the following title: "Antonii Alsopi Ædis Christi olim Alumni +Ordarum Libri Duo," Londoni, 1753. They are extremely elegant, and +deserving the attention of all lovers of Latin poetry. I have also +another volume, "Latin and English Poems, by a Gentleman of Trinity +College, Oxford," Quarto London, 1738. In this latter volume, with but +two or three exceptions, the poems are very obscene, yet I find one or +two of Alsop's odes in it. Could any of your readers tell me if both +volumes are by the same author? Was Alsop at Trinity College and +subsequently a student of Christ Church? + +R.H. + + +_Derivations of "Calamity," and "Zero;" and meaning of +"Prutenicæ"._--Will some of your correspondents give the derivations of +Calamity and Zero; also the meaning of the word Prutenicæ, used by +Erasmus Rheinholt, in his astronomical work on the _Motions of the +Heavenly Bodies_? + +F.S. MARTIN. + + +_Jew's-Harp._--What is the origin of the term Jew's-Harp, applied to a +well-known musical toy? + +MELANION. + + +_Sir G. Wyattville._--J.P. would be glad to be informed in what year Sir +G. Wyattville was knighted? + + +_Sparse._--As I am "less an antique Roman than a Dane," I wish to know +what authority there is for the use of this word, which is to be found +in a leading article of _The Times_, January 8th, 1850?--"A _sparse_ and +hardy race of horsemen." I should like to see this among the Queries, +but I send it as a protest. + + "Hostis et Peregrinus unus et idem." + +C. FORBES. + + +_The word "Peruse."_--I find the word _Peruse_ employed as a +substantive, and apparently as equivalent to _Examination_, in the +following part of a sentence in the martyr Fryth's works, Russell's ed., +p. 407.:--"He would have been full sore ashamed so to have overseen +himself at Oxford, at a peruse." + +Can any of your correspondents cite a corresponding instance of its use, +or say whether it is still retained at Oxford as the name of any +academic exercise? + +H.W. + + +_French Maxim._--Who is the author of the following French saying?-- + + "L'hypocrisie est un hommage que le vice rend à la vertu." + +R.V. + + +_Ave Trici and Gheeze Ysenoudi._--If "S.W. SINGER" can give information +as to what convent, English or foreign, the sisters _Ave Trici_ and +_Gheeze Ysenoudi_, mentioned in his note on Otloh, state themselves (or +are assumed) to have belonged, he will much oblige, by doing so, + +H.L.B. + + +_A Latin Verse._--Everybody has seen the following quotation-- + + "Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis," + +and everybody thinks he knows from whence it is taken. Which of your +readers can verify it? + +E.V. + + +_Table-Book._--Can any of your readers refer me to a museum containing a +specimen of an ancient _table-book_? Douce had one, which was in Mr. +Rodd's catalogue, but now sold; and Hone also possessed one. These two, +and another in the hands of a friend of mine, are the only specimens I +have heard of; but they are not quite as old or as genuine as one could +wish. + +J.O. HALLIWELL. + + +_Origin of the name "Polly."_--Will you allow me to ask how persons of +my name came to be called _Polly_? + +MARY. + + +_Tomlinson, of Southwingfield, Derbyshire._--The parochial register of +the parish of Southwingfield, in the county of Derby, contains, among +its earliest entries (A.D. 1586), the name Tomlinson, as then resident +therein. The family, to the present time, continues to reside within the +parish, as respectable yeomen, and has thence extended itself to many of +the neighbouring parishes, as well as to more distinct localities. +Blore's _History of Southwingfield_ makes no mention of such a family +connected with the parish, as tenants or otherwise; nor does it appear +that there is at present any family of Tomlinson bearing arms that can +have been derived from any of the ancient lords of Wingfield. The wills +at Lichfield, to whose registry Southwingfield belongs, are in a very +dilapidated and unsatisfactory state, at the time immediately preceding +the commencement of the Southwingfield parochial register. Probably some +genealogist will be enabled to offer a suggestion as to the means which +are available for tracing the genealogy of this fanily prior to the year +1586. + +_The Phrase "To have a Button in the Room," and "Sally."_--I have again +been reading that most amusing book, _The Lives of the Norths_. At p. 88 +of vol. i. (edit. 1826) there is a passage which has always puzzled me. +Speaking of some law proceedings in which the Lady Dacres was concerned, +Roger North says:-- + + "And herein she served herself another way, for her adversary + defamed her for swearing and unswearing, and it was not amiss to + _have a button in the room_." + +At p. 92. (_post_) there is another strange expression:-- {216} + + "The horse, when he found himself clear of pursuers, stopped his + course by degrees, and went with his rider (fast asleep upon his + back) into a pond to drink, and there sat his lordship upon the + '_sally_.' (Qy. _saddle_?)" + +P.C.S.S. + + +_St. Philip and St. James._--"And near it was the house of the apostles +Philip and James the son of Alpheus."--_Early Travels in Palestine +(Mandeville)_, p. 175.; Bohn's _Antiquarian Library_. This is the only +place, except in the Church service, where I have seen the above-named +apostles coupled together, and have often wondered whether there was any +old legend or tradition to account for the Church joining them together +in one commemorative festival. + +A.H.E. + + +_Sir William Hamilton._--On a tombstone in the burial-ground at St. +Hilda's, South Shields, in the county of Durham, is the following +inscription:-- + + "Here lieth interr'd ye body of Sir W. Hamilton Knt and Baronet + sonne to ye Earle of Abercorne and late servant to Queen + Henrietta Maria ye late Queene mother of our Soveraigne Lord + King Charles that now is over England &c. who departed to ye + mercy of God June 24th anno Domni 1681." + +There is in the possession of an old lady living at Durham, in 1836, an +original note in the handwriting of King Charles the Second, of which +the following is a copy:-- + + "Whereas a debte of foure thousande one hundred and fifty pounds + sterlinge apeares to be remayning dew by the king my father to + Sir W. Hamilton brother to the Earle of Abercorne for the + service done to the Queene my mother, I do hereby promis to pay + ye sayde debte of 4150£. to ye sayde Sir William Hamilton his + heires and assigns or to satisfie him or them to the valew + thereof when it shall please God to restore me to the possession + of my dominions. + + "Given at Brussells 28 Mar. 1630. + + "CHARLES REX." + +Is any thing known of Sir William Hamilton, or of the services he +rendered to Queen Henrietta Maria? + +A.H.E. + + +_The Koran by Sterne._--Can you or any of your readers inform me if the +work entitled _The Koran_, printed in some editions of Sterne's +writings, is a genuine composition of his, or not? If not, who was its +author, and what is its literary history? My reason for asking is, that +I have heard it asserted that it is not by Sterne. + +E.L.N. + + +_Devices on Standards of the Anglo-Saxons._--Can any of your readers +inform me what devices were borne on the standards of the several +Anglo-Saxon kingdoms during the so-called Heptarchy? The _white horse_ +is by many supposed to have been the standard of Wessex, and to have +been borne by Alfred; but was not this really the ensign of the Jutish +kingdom of Kent, the county of Kent to this day displaying the white +horse in its armorial bearings? The standard of Wessex is by others said +to have been the _white dragon_; but Thierry supposes that this, like +the contrasted _red dragon_ of Cymbri, was merely a poetical +designation, and seems to infer that the flags of these two contending +people were without any device. Again, it has been thought that a _lion_ +was the ensign of Northumbria; in which case we may, perhaps, conclude +that the lions which now grace the shield of the city of York have +descended from Anglo-Saxon times. The memory of the Danish standard of +the _Raven_, described by Asser and other Anglo-Saxon chroniclers, still +remains; but whether, when Northumbria and East Anglia fell under Danish +power, this device supplanted previous Anglo-Saxon devices, is a curious +question for antiquarian research. The famous Norwegian standard--the +Landeyda, or ravager of the world--under which Harold Hardrada triumphed +at Fulford, near York, but to fall a few days later at Stanford Bridge, +is well known; but who can inform us as to the device which it bore? +These early traces of heraldic usage appear to deserve more notice than +I believe they have received. + +O. + + +_Burning the Dead._--Can any of your readers, who may have attended +particularly to the funeral customs of different peoples, inform me +whether the practice of burning the dead has ever been in vogue amongst +any people excepting inhabitants of Europe and Asia? I incline to the +opinion that this practice has been limited to people of Indo-Germanic +or Japetic race, and I shall be obliged by any references in favour of +or opposed to this view. + +T. + + +_Meaning of "Shipster."_--Can any of your correspondents inform me what +is the business or calling or profession of a Shipster? The term occurs +in a grant of an annuity of Oct. 19. 2 Henry VIII., 1510, and made +between "H.U., Gentilman, and Marie Fraunceys de Suthwerk, in com Surr +_Shipster_." + +JOHN R. FOX. + +55. Welbeck Street, Jan. 22. 1850. + + +_Why did Dr. Dee quit Manchester?_--In the _Penny Cyclopædia_, art. DEE, +JOHN, I find the following statement:-- + + "In 1595 the queen appointed Dee warden of Manchester College, + he being then sixty-eight years of age. He resided there nine + years; _but from some cause not exactly known, he left it in + 1604_, and returned to his house at Mortlake, where he spent the + remainder of his days." + +Can any of your correspondents assign the _probable_ causes which led to +Dr. Dee's resignation? + +T.T.W. + +Burnley, Lancashire, Jan. 21. 1850. {217} + + +_Meaning of "Emerod," "Caredon."_--In the Lansd. MS., British Museum, +No. 70., there is a letter from Mr. Richard Champernowne to Sir Robert +Cecil, dated in 1592, referring to the discovery of some articles +pillaged from the Spanish carrack, which had then recently been captured +and taken into Dartmouth harbour. Amongst these articles is one thus +described:--"An Emerod, made in the form of a cross, three inches in +length at the least, and of great breadth." + +In the same volume of MSS. (art. 61.) there is the description of a +dagger "with a hefte of white Caredon." + +From the size of the cross described, "Emerod" can scarcely be read +"Emerald," as applied by us to one of the precious stones. + +Is "white Caredon" white cornelian? + +Can any of your numerous correspondents give me a note in answer to the +above queries? + +D. + +46. Parliament Street, Westminster, Jan. 25. 1850. + + +_Microscope, and Treatise upon it._--I am about to commence the study of +the microscope. I want to know where I can purchase the most perfect +instrument, and also the best Treatise upon it; this information will +indeed be valuable to me, as it would enable me to go at once to the +best sources without loss of time. + +R.M. JONES. + +Chelsea, Jan. 2. 1850. + + +_Old Auster Tenements._--"W.P.P." wishes to know the meaning of the +expression "Old Auster Tenements," by which certain lands in the parish +of North Curry, Somerset, are described in Deeds and Court Rolls. + + * * * * * + + +REPLIES + +THE FIELD OF FORTY FOOTSTEPS. + +The fields behind Montague House were, from about the year 1680, until +towards the end of the last century, the scenes of robbery, murder, and +every species of depravity and wickedness of which the heart can think. +They appear to have been originally called the Long Fields, and +afterwards (about Strype's time) the Southampton Fields. These fields +remained waste and useless, with the exception of some nursery grounds +near the New Road to the north, and a piece of ground enclosed for the +Toxophilite Society, towards the northwest, near the back of Gower +Street. The remainder was the resort of depraved wretches, whose +amusements consisted chiefly in fighting pitched battles, and other +disorderly sport, especially on the Sabbath day. Such was their state in +1800. + +Tradition had given to the superstitious at that period a legendary +story of the period of the Duke of Monmouth's Rebellion, of two brothers +who fought in this field so ferociously as to destroy each other; since +which, their footsteps, formed from the vengeful struggle, were said to +remain, with the indentations produced by their advancing and receding; +nor could any grass or vegetable ever be produced where these _forty +footsteps_ were thus displayed. This extraordinary arena was said to be +at the extreme termination of the northeast end of Upper Montague +Street; and, profiting by the fiction, Miss Porter and her sister +produced an ingenious romance thereon, entitled, _Coming Out, or the +Forty Footsteps_. The Messrs. Mayhew also, some twenty years back, +brought out, at the Tottenham Street Theatre, an excellent melodrama +piece, founded upon the same story, entitled _The Field of Forty +Footsteps_. + +In 1792, an ingenious and enterprising architect, James Burton, began to +erect a number of houses on the Foundling Hospital estate, partly in St. +Giles's and Bloomsbury parishes, and partly in that of St. Pancras. +_Baltimore House_, built, towards the northeast of _Bedford House_, by +Lord Baltimore, in 1763, appears to have been the only erection since +Strype's survey to this period, with the exception of a +chimney-sweeper's cottage still further north, and part of which is +still to be seen in Rhodes's Mews, Little Guildford Street. In 1800, +Bedford House was demolished entirely; which with its offices and +gardens, had been the site where the noble family of the Southamptons, +and the illustrious Russells, had resided during more than 200 years, +almost isolated. Hence commenced the formation of a fine uniform street, +Bedford Place, consisting of forty houses, on the spot; also, the north +side of Bloomsbury Square, Montague Street to the west, and one side of +Southampton Row to the east. Towards the north, the extensive piece of +waste ground, denominated the _Southampton Fields_, was transformed into +a magnificent square, with streets diverging therefrom in various +directions. Thus, as if by "touch of magic wand," those scenes, which +had been "hideous" for centuries, became transformed into receptacles of +civil life and polished society. + +The latest account of these _footsteps_, previous to their being built +over, with which I am acquainted, is the following, extracted from one +of Joseph Moser's _Common-place Books_ in my possession:-- + + "June 16. 1800.--Went into the fields at the back of Montague + House, and there saw, for the last time, the _forty footsteps_; + the building materials are there ready to cover them from the + sight of man. I counted more than _forty_, but they might be the + foot-prints of the workmen." + +This extract is valuable, as it establishes the period of the final +demolition of the footsteps, and also confirms the legend that _forty_ +was the original number. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * {218} + +QUERIES ANSWERED, NO. 4.--"POKERSHIP", BY BOLTON CORNEY. + +A query made by so experienced a writer as the noble historian of +_Audley End_, cannot admit of an easy solution; and instead of +professing to answer the two-fold query on _pokership_, it might more +become me to style this note an attempt to answer it. + +In the _Historical collections of the noble families of Cavendishe_, +etc. the passage which contains the doubtful word is printed thus:-- + + "He [Sir Robert Harley, of Bramton, Herefordshire] was in the + next year [1604], on the 16th of July, made forester of + Boringwood, _alias_ Bringwood forest, in com. Hereford, with the + office of _pokership_, and custody of the forest or chace of + Prestwood, for life." + +Are we to read _parkership_ or _pokership_? If _pokership_, what is its +meaning? + +Skelton, the rhymer, has _parker_ for _park-keeper_, so that +_parkership_ is an admissable word; but I reject it on this occasion, as +inapplicable to a forest or chace. I incline to believe that _pokership_ +is the true lection. _Poke_ denoted a purse; witness Chaucer:-- + + "Gerveis answered; Certes, were it gold, + Or in a _poke_ nobles all untold, + Thou shuldest it have."--C.T. v. 3777. + +We do not find _poker_ in Barret or Cotgrave; but if _poke_ denoted a +purse, _poker_ might denote a purse-bearer or treasurer, and +_pokership_, the office of purse-bearer. So we have BURSA, [Glossarivm +manvale, 1772. I. 849.] _bursar_, _bursarship_, etc. + +BOLTON CORNEY. + + * * * * * + +MERTENS, MARTINS, OR MARTINI, THE PRINTER. + +A correspondent, "W.," in No. 12. p. 185., wishes to learn "the real +surname of Theodoric Mertens, Martins, or Martini, the printer of +Louvain." + +In Latin the name is written Theodoricus Martinus; in French, Thierri +Martin; in Flemish, Diedrych Meertens, and occasionally, but I think +incorrectly, Dierix Martens. + +In a side chapel of the chancel of the church at Alost, midway between +Brussels and Ghent, is the printer's tomb, and a double inscription, in +Latin and in Flemish, commemorates his celebrity and the dates of his +birth and death; in the Latin inscription the name is Theodoricus +Martinus; in the Flemish, which is very old and nearly effaced, it is +Diedrych Meertens. + +The name of _Meertens_, as a surname, is as common in Brabant and +Flanders as that of Martin with us. + +A.B. + + * * * * * + +I beg to say that, in Peignot's _Dictionnaire raisonné de Bibliologie_, +the name of the printer Mertens is given as "Martens, Mertens, ou Martin +d'Alost (Thierry), en Latin Theodoricus Martinus." The article is too +long for insertion in your pages, but it contains an account of the +title-page of one of his editions, in 4to., in which the name is spelt +_Mertens_:--"Theo. Mertens impressore." Two other title-pages have "Apud +Theod. M_a_rtinum." So it appears that the printer himself used +different modes of spelling his own name. Erasmus wrote a Latin epitaph +on his friend, in which a graceful allusion is made to his printer's +mark, the anchor:-- + + "Hic Theodoricus jaceo, prognatus Alosto: + Ars erat impressis scripta referre typis. + Fratribus, uxori, soboli, notisque superstes + Octavam vegetus præterii decadem. + Anchora sacra manet, gratæ notissima pubi: + Christe! precor nunc sis anchora sacra mihi." + +HERMES. + + * * * * * + +ETYMOLOGY OF ARMAGH. + +In reply to the inquiry of "D.S.Y." (p. 158. of your 10th number), I beg +to say that the name of Armagh is written, in Irish, Ardmacha, and +signifies the Height (or high ground) of Macha. It is supposed to have +derived this name from Macha Mong-ruadh [i.e. Macha of the red hair], +who was queen of Ireland, according to the Chronology of O'Flaherty, +A.M. 3603. + +I.H.T. + +Dublin, Jan. 5. 1850. + + +Sir,--There are the following authorities for different derivations of +the word _Armagh_. + +Camden, in his _Britannia_, says:-- + + "_Armach_ ab Amarchâ reginâ; sic dictum fabulantur Hibernici; at + mihi eadem esse videtur quam _Dearmach_ vocat Beda: et _Roborum + Campum_ ex lingua Scotica sive Hibernica interpretatur, ubi + circa annum salutis DLX. monaterium extruxit celeberrimum + Columbanus." + +Dr. Keating's _Hist. of Ireland_ has as follows:-- + + "_Macha_ the wife of Nemedius died before her son Ainnim ... + from her _Ardmagh_ received its name, because she was buried in + that place." + +_Circles of Gomer_ (London, 1771), contains as follows:-- + + "Ar, and Ararat.--The Earth, country, or upon and on the earth + ... _Armagh_ on the surrounding water confines." + +M. Bullet, _Mémoires de la Langue Celtique_, writes thus:-- + + "Armagh, Une des plus anciennes villes d'Irland. _Ar_, article. + _Mag_, ville."--vol. i. + +But the 2nd and 3rd vols. of these _Mémoires_, which contain the Celtic +Dictionary, afford a more probable interpretation:-- + + "_Ar_ or _Ard_ signifies a height, mountain, hill, {219} + elevation, the highest, noble, chief, &c. &c., and _Ar_ in + Hebrew, Chaldean, and Armenian, has the same meaning. _Magh_ is + a field, a plain, ground, &c., as well as a town, dwelling, &c." + +Now, the topographical description of the county of Armarh is that it is +_hilly_, and the hills (not very high) are of granite rock. The town of +Armagh again is described as situated on an _eminence_. I suggest, +therefore, _the high field_ or ground, or _the field of the Hill_, or +the dwelling or town of the Hill, as very natural derivations. + +If your correspondent prefers it, _Ar_ bears also the signification of +_rock_, and M. Bullet says:-- + + "Ce terme nous a été conservé dans la Vie de Saint Colomb." + +Who knows, therefore, whether in building the monastery alluded to by +Camden, he may not have given it the name of + + The dwelling of the Rock? + +The Celtic language affords many other possibilities, but an accurate +knowledge of the locality is requisite in judging of their probablility. + +HERMES. + + +The etymology of _Armagh_, in Ireland, is very simple. _Ard_, high, +great, noble, a purely Celtic root, found in many languages. Latin, +_Arduus_, high, &c. Welsh, _hardh_, fair, handsome, &c. _Magh_, a plain, +a level tract of land, a field. _Ardmugh_, the great plain. Others +derive it from _Eamhuin-magh_, from the regal residence of the kings of +Ulster, that stood in its vicinity; but the former is considered by +those best capable of judging as the most correct. The original name was +_Druim-sailech_, "the hill of sallows," which was changed to +_Ard-sailech_, "the height of sallows," and then again to _Ardmagh_. +Although now spelt _Armagh_, it was formerly more correctly written +_Ardmagh_, which is undoubtedly the proper way. + +HIBERNICUS + +Jan. 8. 1850. + + * * * * * + +THE OFFICE OF THE MASTER OF THE REVELS. + +Your esteemed correspondent, "J.G.N.," asks (p. 158.) for the meaning of +the letters "C.K.M.R." and "T.S." appended to the passage he quotes from +the _Common-place Book_ of Charles, Duke of Dorset. I think I can tell +him. "C.K.M.R." stands for _Charles Killegrew_, Master of the Revells; +and "T.S." means _Thomas Skipwith_, one of the patentees of Drury Lane +Theatre, who died in 1710. Sir Henry Herbert died in 1673; and his +successor in the office was Thomas Killegrew. This person had previously +been Sir Henry's deputy; and I am in possession of a curious list of MS. +instructions, "the heads of what I gave to Mr. Thos. Killegrew the 29th +of March, 1664," in the hand-writing of Sir Henry Herbert. Thomas +Killegrew died in 1683, and was succeeded by Charles Killegrew; the +degree of the relationship between the two Killegrews I do not know; and +in the _London Gazette_, Dec. 7. 1685, there is a notice commanding all +"rope-dancers, prize-players, strollers and other persons showing +motions and other sights, to have licenses from Charles Killegrew, Esq., +Master of the Revells." + +Charles Killegrew was one of the managers of Drury Lane Theatre at the +time of the union of the King's and Duke of York's servants; and Drydaen +calls him, in the Dedication to his translation of Juvenal's _Satires_, +his "ingenious friend." + +Upon the death of the latter, in 1725, Charles Henry Lee succeeded to +the vacant office; who, dying in 1744, Solomon Dayrolle was appointed in +his room. I do not know the date of the decease of the last-named +gentleman; but with him, I believe, died the office of the Master of the +Revells. The ancient jurisdiction of the Master of the Revells has been +transferred, by 1737, by legal authority, to a "licenser of the stage," +who, in conjunction with a deputy licenser, performed all the functions +of the ancient office. + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + +REPLIES TO MINOR QUERIES. + +_The Red Maids of Bristol._--The answer to the query of "MR. A. +GRIFFENHOOF" (No. 12. p. 184.), why the "Red Maids" in Bristol are so +called, is, because they are dressed in bright scarlet gowns. They are +the incumbents of a benevolent school, founded in 1627, by one of +Bristol's great benefactors, Alderman Whitson, of pious memory, for the +maintenance and education of 40 girls, which number has now increased to +120. Your correspondent's curiousity respecting their name might be +fully satisfied, and his interest increased, if he should happen to be +in Bristol on some sunny afternoon in the later part of May, or the +beginning of June, by a sight of this bright "regiment of women"--the +gay colour of their gowns subdued by the quaintness of their fashion, +and the clean whiteness of their aprons, collars, &c.--proceeding, in +double file, towards the downs, for air and recreation. An account of +their foundation may be found in Barret's _Hist. of Bristol_, p. 415. +"Blue-Boys," so called for a similar reason, are a parallel case of much +more general occurance. Yours, &c. + +RUFA. + + +_Poetical Symbolism._--In answer to the question of your correspondent, +"STEPHEN BEAUCHAMP" (No. 11. p. 173.), I beg leave to mention a work, +which answers in some degree to the description which he gives; namely, +_De Symbolica Ægyptiorum Sapientia_, and _Polyhistor Symbolicus, +electarum Symbolarum et Parabolarum Historicurum Stromata XII. Libris +complectens_, by Nicolas Caussin, {220} 8vo. Col. Agr. 1631. There were +other editions, I believe, in the same century. The former work treats +of Egyptian symbols; the titles of the twelve books of the latter are: +I. Mundus et Elementa. II. Dii Gentium. III. Hominis Bona. IV. Hominis +Mala. V. Ritus Gentium. VI. Aves. VII. Quadrupedes. VIII. Pisces. IX. +Serpentes et Insecta. X. Plantæ. XI. Lapilli. XII. Manufacta. + +M. + +Oxford. + + +_Fraternitye of Vagabondes._--It does not appear very clearly from the +wording of the query at p. 184. of your 12th number, whether the object +of your correspondent, "A. GRIFFINHOOF, JUN.," be to ascertain the fact +of the reprint in question having been published by Stace, or (having +ascertained that fact) to procure further information as to the +publisher. I cannot find any allusion to the work in the _Censura +Literuria_, (2nd ed. 1815), another instance of the absolute necessity +for exact references, the want of which you would do well in making a +ground of exclusion from your columns. However, on the chance of being +useful I send you an exact copy of the rubricated title-page of the +reprint, which is as follows: + + "The Fraternitye of Vacabondes; As wel of ruflyng Vacabondes, as + of beggerley, of Women as of Men, of Gyrles as of Boyes, With + Their proper Names and Qualities. With a Description of the + Crafty Company of Cousoners and Shifters. Whereunto also is + adioined The XXV orders of Knaues, Otherwyse called A Quartern + of Knaues. Confirmed for euer by Cocke Lorell.--¶ The Vprightman + speaketh. + + ¶ Our Brotherhood of Vacabondes, + If you would know where dwell: + In grauesend Barge which syldome standes, + The talke wyll shew ryght well. + + ¶ Cocke Lorell answereth. + + ¶ Some orders of my knaues also + In that Barge shall ye fynde: + for no where shall ye walke I trow, + But ye shall see their knynde. + + ¶ Imprinted at London by John Awdely, dwellyng in little + Britayne Streete without Aldersgate. 1575. + + Westminster: Reprinted for Machell Stace, No. 12, Little + Queen-Street, and R. Triphook, St. James's Street. 1813." + +Those who are curious about Mr. Stace may consult Boaden on the +_Shakespeare Portraits_, p. 141., Wivell on do., p. 189., and +_Chaleographimania_, p. 16. 32. 95. + +J.F.M. + + +_Anonymous Ravennas._--In answer to the query of "W.C.," in No. 8., p. +124., I beg to state that Gronovius published the _Cosmography of +Ravennas_, with other ancient scraps of geography, annexed to a neat +edition of _Pomponius Mela_, printed at Leyden, in 1696. Gronovius +refers the _anonymous_ author to the seventh century. His _Chorography +of Britain_ forms a part of the work; but it is printed from one MS., +and wretchedly obscure. + +J.I. + + +_Dick Shore._--Your correspondent, J.T. HAMMACK, is not quite correct in +stating, No. 9., p. 141., that the modern maps present no trace of the +locality of "_Dick Shoare_," mentioned in the Pepysian _Diary_. In one +of Smith's maps, now before me, of the date of 1806, I find "Duke Shore +Stairs," not far from the great turn of the river southward, opposite to +the Isle of Dogs. Whether the proper spelling to be Dick, Dyke, Dock, +Dog, or Duke, I leave to your readers to determine; but I presume there +can be no doubt as to the identity of the place. As the origin of the +name of "Isle of Doggs," according to the Pepysian orthography, is said +to be still underdetermined; may it not be connected with the modern +term DOCKS? We are daily familiarised to worse corruptions. _Docks_ are +excavations, large or small, formed by the operation of digging, in +Dutch called _Dóken_. + +J.I. + + [DICK'S SHORE, _Fore Street_, _Limehouse_, and DICK'S SHORE + ALLEY, _by Dick's Shore_, are both mentioned in _London and its + Environs_, vol. ii. p. 233.] + + +_Travelling in England._--Mr. Steven's quotation (No. 11., p. 167.) of +Bernard Calvert's rapid journey, as from _an anonymous History of +England written in the early part of the reign of George I._, is to be +found in more detail in Stow (1032.), and is transcribed in Mr. Croker's +_Notes on Bassompière's Embassy_, 1819. + +_Sanuto._--The _Ragguagli sulla Vita e sulle Opere di Maria Sanuto_, +referred to in No. 5., p. 75., were edited by Mr. Rawdon Browne, an +English gentleman long resident at Venice, and a most accomplished +Italian scholar. The _Diary of Sanuto_ could hardly be printed, filling, +as it does, some twenty or thirty thick large folio volumes. + +R.M.M. + + +_Darnley's Birth-place._--In answer to the inquiry in No. 8., p. 123., +as to the birth-place of Henry Lord Darnley, I believe he was born at +Temple-Newsom, near Leeds, the seat of the Lords Irvine, and now of +Meynell Ingram, Esq. A noble room is there shown as the traditional +scene of his birth. + +R.M.M. + + +_History of Edward II._--The compilers of the _British Museum Catalogue_ +attribute the _History of Edward II._ (referred to in No. 4., p. 59.) to +Edward Fannant, who also published a _Narration of the Memorable +Parliament of 1386_, which has been several times printed. + +J.R.S. + + +_Lord Chatham's Speech on the American Stamp Act._--When I read the +question of your correspondent {221} (in No. 1. p. 12.) on this subject, +I saw at once its importance; for, if my Lord Brougham's statements were +correct, our historians must forthwith re-write a somewhat important +chapter in our history. I felt assured, however, that it was not +correct; and the result of a somewhat tedious search is as I had +anticipated. His lordship had made an error in a date and 1764 should be +1766. The authority, not acknowledged by his lordship, was, no doubt, +the _Parliamentary History of_ 1766 (vol. xvi. p. 96.), where your +correspondent will find the statement, which of course, the date being +correctly given, contains nothing that is not consistent with known +facts. + +C. + + +_Bone-houses._--The number of skulls at Rothewell (No. 11., p. 171.) is +greatly exaggerated, nor is the tradition of their being gathered from +Naseby battle-field more than a modern invention, the discovery of the +bones being within the memory of living persons. Their existence there +is most puzzling. The vault, which is very small, is probably coeval +with the church, and seems to have been made for the very purpose to +which it is applied. When this vast building was erected in the 12th +century, may not this vault have been made for the bones disturbed in +the old churchyard by so extensive a foundation? + +T. + + +_Queen's Messengers._--In answer to the query of your correspondent +"J.U.G.G.," in No. 12., p. 186., I beg to call his attention to the +authority quoted in the passage respecting the "Knightes caligate of +Armes," to which he alludes, in Mr. C. Knight's _London_. He will find +that he is referred to Legh's _Accedens of Armory_, and Upton, _De +Studio Militari_. The latter wrote in the early part of the fifteenth +century. We are at present, I believe, without earlier information on +such subjects. + +Whilst I am writing to you, may I ask you to correct a printer's error +in my query in the same number, where "trepon" appears instead of +"jupon"? It may save a query as to what I could mean by the former. + +J.R. PLANCHÉ. + + +_May-day._--In reply to MELANION (No. 12. p. 187.), I would observe that +in a collection of _Vues des Villes de Londres_, &c., published by +Pierre Vander at Leyden (without date, but about the time of William +III., or early in Anne's reign), there is a representation of "_La +Laitière de May à Londres_," with an enormous head-dress of silver +dishes, tankards, and cups, intermixed with flowers. There is no +letter-press explanation; but it is evident that the practice of the +milk-maids, in carrying their mail-pails balanced on their heads, +suggested the idea of carrying this more precious burthen in _gala_ on +May-day. + +C. + + * * * * * + +MISCELLANIES. + +_Gray's Elegy._--Your correspondent, "A. GRAYAN" (No. 10., p. 150.), in +writing on the _Elegy in a Country Church-yard_, suggests the existence +of error or obscurity in the last stanza of the epitaph; and that, if +the reading, as it now stand, be faulty, "some amendment" should be +suggested. + +At the sale of Mason's collection of Gray's books and MSS., in December, +1845, I purchased Gray's copy of Dodsley's collection (2nd edition, +1758), with corrections, names of authors, &c., in his own hand. The +_Elegy_ is the first poem in vol. iv. In the 2nd stanza, the beetle's +"_drony_ flight" is printed and corrected in the margin into "droning." +In the 25th stanza, an obvious misprint of "the upland land" is +corrected into "upland lawn;" and, in the 27th stanza, "he would rove" +is altered into "would he rove." These are the only emendations in the +_Elegy_. The care displayed in marking them seems to me indicate that +the author had no others to insert, and that the common reading is as he +finally left it. + +To say that a man's merits and frailties repose in trembling hope before +God, is surely not irreverent; and this is, I think, all that Gray +intended to convey in the words to which your correspondent objects. + +W.L.M. + + [The latter emendation "would he rove," which is neither in the + Aldine edition of the Rev. J. Mitford, nor in Mr. Van Voorst's + beautifully illustrated Polyglot edition, should clearly be + introduced, in future, as harmonising more perfectly with the + "would he stretch" of the preceding stanza.] + + +_Gray's Elegy._--To the list of German translations of Gray's Elegy +should be added the version by Kosegarten, which is said by Mr. Thimm, +in his _View of German Literature_, to be "very spirited." The edition +of Kosegarten i have now before me was printed at Greifswald, in 12 +vols. in 1824, and contains numerous translations from English poets. + +J.M. + +Oxford, Jan. 16. + + +_Gregori's Italian Version of "Gray's Elegy."_--In answer to the query +of "J.F.M.," respecting the translations of Gray's _Elegy_, I beg to +mention that, besides those already possessed by your correspondent, and +those in Torri's polyglot edition, there is one in Italian by Domenico +Gregori, published in the first volume of his _Scelta di Poesie di più +celebri Autori Inglesi, recati in Versi Italiani_, and printed at Rome +in 1821, in 2 vols. small 8vo. + +M. + +Oxford, Jan. 17. 1850. + + +_Name of Shylock._--When Mr. Knight says that _Scialac_ was "the name of +a Marionite (Maronite?) of mount Libanus," he appears to consider the +{222} term peculiar, or nearly so, to that personage; but Upton, as long +ago as 1748, in his _Critical Observations_, 2nd ed. p. 299., remarked, +that _Scialac_ was the generic name, and _Shylock_ merely a corruption. +I may also remark, that Mr. Knight dismisses Dr. Farmer's theory as +worthless, without sufficient consideration. It by no means follows that +1607 is the date of the _first edition_ of _Caleb Shillocke_, merely +because Boswell saw a copy bearing that date. + +J.O. HALLIWELL. + + * * * * * + +SONNET. + +_Written on the close of the Session_, 1849. + +"The tyme cam that resoun was to ryse."--CHAUCER. + +"_Corin_. And how like you this shepherd's life, Master Touchstone? + +"_Touchstone._ Truly, shepherd, in respect of itself it is a good +life.... In respect it is in the Fields, it pleaseth me +well."--SHAKSPEARE. + + Ho! for the shady grove and silvery stream! + Now that yclosed is the Fane, where I + Am doomed, by no unhappy destiny, + To tend those Mighty Ones who find a theme + For their lives' labour in the nation's weal. + Now am I free, or book or rod in hand, + Alone, or compassed by a cherub band + Of laughing children, by the brook to steal, + Seeking repose in sport which WALTON loved-- + Sport meet alike for Youth or thoughtful + Age-- + Free, an I wish to go a pilgrimage + With CHAUCER, my companion long approved, + Or thee, thou Greater One, who lovedst to sing, + "Of books in brooks, and good in every thing." + +WILLIAM J. THOMS. + + * * * * * + +THE DEVOTEE. +(_From the Latin_.) + + Balbus, in vain you urge the notion + That Ignorance begets Devotion-- + We can't believe it till we see + Yourself a fervent devotee. + +RUFUS. + + * * * * * + +_By Hook or by Crook._--It is said that Strongbow, when debating with +his followers on the best mode of capturing Ireland, said, that it must +be taken "by Hook or by Crook." "_The Hook_" is the name of a well-known +promontory, forming the N.E. boundary of Waterford Harbour; and +_Crook-haven_ is an equally well-known harbour, on the south coast. +Could this have any thing to do with the proverb? + +J.G. + +Kilkenny. + + +_Macaulay's Young Levite._--I send you an advertisement, from a local +paper of 1767, which shows what stipend was offered to a curate at that +period. The population of Burton Bradstich and Shepton Gorge, in 1821, +was respectively 854 and 311. I do not know what it was in 1767. + +The value of the rectory of Burton, with the chapelry of Shepton, was +returned, in 1650, as 201l. In 1826 it was computed to be 500l. + +A.D.M. + + +From "Cruthwell's Sherborne, Shaftesbury, and Dorchester Journal; or +Yeovil, Taunton, and Bridgewater Chronicle of 10th July, 1767." + + "A Curate is wanted, at Old Michaelmas next, to serve the + Churches of Burton and Shipton, in Dorsetshire; Salary 36l. per + annum, Easter Offerings, and Surplice Fees; together with a good + House, pleasant Gardens, and a Pigeon House well stock'd. The + Churches are within a mile and a half of each other, served once + a Day, and alternately. The Village of Burton is sweetly + situated, within half a mile of the Sea, about a mile and a half + from Bridport Harbour, and is noted in the Summer for its fine + Mackarel Fishery. Application to be made to the Rev. Mr. + Richards, Rector. + + "A married gentleman will be most agreeable." + + +_Praise undeserved._--Does any one know where the oft-quoted line, + + "Praise undeserved in censure in disguise," + +is to be found? A long search for it has hitherto proved ineffectual. + +D.S. + + [This line, which is so often quoted, with the variation-- + + "Praise undeserved is _Satire_ in disguise," + + is to be found in Pope's _First Epistle of the Second Book of + Horace_; where, however, we find that neither _Censure_ nor + _Satire_ is the correct reading. It is moreover, both in + Warton's edition and in the _Aldine Poets_, edited by the Rev. + A. Dyce, marked as a quotation, as will be seen in the following + extract; so that Pope, it appears, is not the author of it. + Perhaps some of our correspondents can trace the source from + which he derived it:-- + + "Besides, a fate attends on all I write, + That when i aim at praise they say I bite. + A vile encomium doubly ridicules; + There's nothing blackens like the ink of fools. + If true, a woeful likeness; and, if lies, + 'Praise undeserved is _Scandal_ in disguise.'"] + + +_Passage in Cowper's "Task."_--In all early editions of Cowper's _Task_ +the opening lines of the 4th book are punctuated as follows:-- + + "Hark! 'tis the twanging horn! O'er yonder bridge, + (That with its wearisome but needful length + Bestrides the wintry flood, in which the moon + Sees her unwrinkled face reflected bright,) + He comes, the herald of a noisy world," &c. + +In modern editions, I believe universally, we find the following +corruption of the passage:-- + + "Hark! 'tis the twanging horn o'er yonder bridge, + That with," &c. + +closing with a colon or period at "bright," and {223} beginning a new +sentence with "He comes;" and thus making the poet use the vulgar +colloquialism "'tis the horn over the bridge," instead of the remark, +that the postman is coming over it. + +W.P.P. + + * * * * * + +NOTES ON BOOKS, SALES, CATALOGUES, ETC. + +All who have placed on their shelves--and who that desires to know +thoroughly the history of this country during the period which it +illustrates has not done so--the last edition of _The Diary and +Correspondence of Samuel Pepys_, so ably edited by Lord Braybrooke, have +felt the want of a corresponding edition of _Evelyn's Diary_. To meet +this want, Mr. Coulburn has announced a new edition of it, "rendered as +complete as possible by a careful revision," and accompanied by +illustrative notes, to be completed in four monthly volumes. + +Mr. Parker, of Oxford, has just issued a new edition of _The History of +the Church of England_, by J.B.S. Carwithen, B.D. This work was very +highly spoken of, at the time of its first appearance, for fidelity of +narrative, accuracy of judgement, and soundness of principle; and its +author was pronounced, by one well qualified to give an opinion, "a +well-read historian, a sound divine, a charitable Christian." As the +original edition, in three volumes, has long been out of print, we think +Mr. Parker has shown great judgment in bringing it out, in a cheaper +form, for the use of students in divinity; and we do not doubt but that +he will find a ready sale for the two closely but clearly and handsomely +printed volumes, in which this _History of the Church of England_ is now +completed. + +Those of our readers who take an interest in the writings of our early +dramatists will be glad to learn that the Rev. 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