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You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + +Title: Notes and Queries, Number 237, May 13, 1854 + A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, + Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc + +Author: Various + +Other: George Bell + +Release Date: February 23, 2010 [EBook #31378] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ASCII + +*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NOTES AND QUERIES, MAY 13, 1854 *** + + + + +Produced by Charlene Taylor, Jonathan Ingram, Keith Edkins +and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at +https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images +generously made available by The Internet Library of Early +Journals.) + + + + + +Transcriber's note: A few typographical errors have been corrected: they +are listed at the end of the text. + + * * * * * + + +{437} + +NOTES AND QUERIES: + +A MEDIUM OF INTER-COMMUNICATION FOR LITERARY MEN, ARTISTS, ANTIQUARIES, +GENEALOGISTS, ETC. + +"When found, make a note of."--CAPTAIN CUTTLE. + + * * * * * + + +No. 237.] +SATURDAY, MAY 13. 1854. +[Price Fourpence. 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It begins 'From the rich Lavinian shore;' and some few of the + lines were published by Playford, and set as a catch." + +In Mr. Thoms' _Anecdotes and Traditions_ (published by the Camden Society) +is a story of the celebrated Dr. John Wilson, to which the editor has +appended an interesting note, adding: + + "Wilson was the composer of a glee for three voices, published in + Playford's _Musical Companion_, where the words are attributed to + Shakspeare; and the supposition that they were really written by him + having been converted into a certainty, by their appearing with + Shakspeare's name to them in the MS. Collection of Poetry, copied prior + to 1631 by Richard Jackson," &c. + +Mr. Thoms then prints the "rime," not inappropriately calling it "A Song +for Autolycus," with this remark: + + "My late respected friend Mr. Douce once told me, that some musical + friend at Chichester, I think the organist, possessed a copy of this + song, with an additional verse." + +Mr. Thoms' version of "Shakspeare's Rime" was inserted (probably by our +worthy Editor himself?) in the first volume of "N. & Q." (p. 23.) with a +view of obtaining the additional stanza; a desideratum which I am now +enabled to supply. The following copy has _two_ additional stanzas, and is +transcribed from a MS. Collection of Songs, with the music, written in the +early part of the reign of James I. The MS. was formerly in the possession +of Mr. J. S. Smith, the learned editor of _Musica Antiqua_. + + I. + + "From the fair Lavinian shore, + I your markets come to store; + Marvel not, I thus far dwell, + And hither bring my wares to sell; + Such is the sacred hunger of gold. + Then come to my pack, + While I cry, + What d'ye lack, + What d'ye buy? + For here it is to be sold. + + II. + + "I have beauty, honour, grace, + Virtue, favour, time and space, + And what else thou wouldst request, + E'en the thing thou likest best; + First, let me have but a touch of thy gold, + Then come too lad, + Thou shalt have + What thy dad + Never gave; + For here it is to be sold. + + III. + + "Though thy gentry be but young, + As the flow'r that this day sprung, + And thy father thee before, + Never arms nor scutcheon bore; + First let me have but a catch of thy gold, + Then, though thou be an ass, + By this light + Thou shalt pass + For a knight; + For here it is to be sold. + + IV. + + "Thou whose obscure birth so base, + Ranks among the ignoble race, + And desireth that thy name, + Unto honour should obtain; + First let me have but a catch of thy gold, + Then, though thou be an ass, + By this light, + Thou shalt pass + For a knight; + For here it is to be sold. + + V. + + "Madam, come see what you lack? + Here's complexion in my pack; + White and red you may have in this place, + To hide an old ill-wrinkled face: + First, let me have but a catch of thy gold, + Then thou shalt seem, + Like a wench of fifteen, + Although you be threescore and ten years old." + +That this song enjoyed extensive popularity in the latter half of the +seventeenth century, is evinced by the number of printed copies. It is +found in Playford's _Select Ayres and Dialogues_, 1659; in Dr. Wilson's +_Cheerfull Ayres and Ballads_, 1660; in Playford's _Catch that Catch Can_, +1667; and in many subsequent collections of a similar kind. But in none of +these works is the name of the writer of the words given; and all the +copies are deficient of the _third_ and _fourth_ stanzas. The point of the +satire conveyed in these stanzas was lost after the reign of James I., +which may account for their omission. + +"Shakspeare's rime," being associated with Wilson's music, is of some +importance towards settling the point of authorship. In 1846 I printed a +little pamphlet with the following title: + + "Who was _Jack Wilson_, the Singer of Shakspeare's Stage? An Attempt to + prove the Identity of this {440} Person with John Wilson, Doctor of + Musick, in the University of Oxford, A.D. 1644." + +It would be out of place here to dwell upon this publication, suffice it to +say, that all the information I have since collected, tends to confirm the +hypothesis advanced. One extract from this _brochure_ will show the +connexion that existed between Shakspeare and Wilson: + + "Wilson was the composer of four other Shakspearian lyrics, a fact + unknown to Mr. Collier, when he wrote the article in the _Shakspeare + Papers_: 'Where the bee sucks,' 'Full fathom five,' 'Lawn as white as + driven snow,' and 'From the fair Lavinian shore.' They are all printed + in the author's _Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads_, Oxford, 1660. We have now + evidence from this work, that Wilson was the _original_ composer of the + music to _one_ of Shakspeare's plays. He says in his preface, 'some of + these ayres were _originally_ composed by those whose names are affixed + to them, but are here placed as being _new set_ by the author of the + rest. The two songs, 'Where the bee sucks,' and 'Full fathom five,' + have appended to them the name of 'R. Johnson,' who, upon this + evidence, we may undoubtedly conclude was the _original_ composer of + the music in the play of the _Tempest_. The song 'Lawn as white as + driven snow,' from the _Winter's Tale_, has the name of 'John Wilson' + attached to it, from which it is equally certain that he was its + _original_ composer. In my own mind, the circumstances connected with + the Shakspearian lyrics in this book are almost conclusive as to the + identity of John Wilson the _composer_ with John Wilson the _singer_. + Unless the composer had been intimately acquainted with the theatre of + Shakspeare's day, it is not likely that he would have remembered, so + long after, the name of one of its composers. Nor is it likely, being + so well acquainted with the _original_ composers of the Shakspearian + drama, and so anxious as he appears to have been to do justice to their + memory, that he would have omitted informing us, who was the _original_ + composer of the song in the _Winter's Tale_, had it been any other than + himself. The _Winter's Tale_ was not produced before 1610 or 1611, at + which period Wilson was sixteen or seventeen years old, an age quite + ripe enough for the production of the song in question." + +A reviewer of my little publication in the _Athenaeum_ (Nov. 8, 1846) makes +the following remark: + + "Let us observe, in conclusion, that Dr. Rimbault is better read in + Jack Wilson than Ben Jonson, or we should never have seen Mr. + Shakspeare's 'Rime' at the 'Mitre,' in Fleet Street, seriously referred + to as a genuine composition. It is a mere clumsy adaptation, from Ben's + interesting epigram 'Inviting a Friend to Supper.'" + +It is really too bad to be charged with ignorance _unjustly_. I have on my +shelves the works of glorious Ben, three times over: in folio 1616-31; in +folio, 1692; and in nine volumes octave (Gifford's edition), 1816; all of +which I will freely give to the "reviewer," if he can prove that _one line_ +of "Shakspeare's Rime at the Mytre" is taken from the aforesaid epigram. I +heartily agree with him in admiration of Jonson's spirited imitation of +Martial, which I have transcribed as a pleasant relish towards digesting +these rambling remarks: + + "INVITING A FRIEND TO SUPPER. + + "To-night, grave Sir, both my poor house and I + Do equally desire your company: + Not that we think us worthy such a guest, + But that your worth will dignify our feast, + With those that come; whose grace may make that seem + Something, which else could hope for no esteem. + It is the fair acceptance, Sir, creates + The entertainment perfect, not the cates. + Yet shall you have, to rectify your palate, + An olive, capers, or some better salad, + Ushering the mutton; with a short-legg'd hen, + If we can get her, full of eggs, and then, + Limons, and wine for sauce: to these, a coney + Is not to be despair'd of for our money; + And though fowl now be scarce, yet there are clerks, + The sky not falling, think we may have larks. + I'll tell you of more, and lie, so you will come: + Of partridge, pheasant, woodcock, of which some + May yet be there; and godwit if we can; + Knat, rail, and ruff too. Howsoe'er my man + Shall read a piece of Virgil, Tacitus, + Livy, or of some better book to us, + Of which we'll speak our minds, amidst our meat; + And I'll profess no verses to repeat; + To this if aught appear, which I not know of, + That will the pastry, not my paper, show of. + Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be; + But that which most doth take my muse and me, + Is a pure cup of rich Canary wine, + Which is the Mermaid's now, but shall be mine; + Of which had Horace or Anacreon tasted, + Their lives, as do their lines, till now had lasted. + Tobacco, nectar, or the Thespian spring, + Are all but Luther's beer, to this I sing, + Of this we will sup free, but moderately, + And we will have no Pooly', or Parrot by; + Nor shall our cups make any guilty men: + But at our parting, we will be, as when + We innocently met. No simple word, + That shall be utter'd at our mirthful board, + Shall make us sad next morning; or affright + The liberty, that we'll enjoy to-night." + +EDWARD F. RIMBAULT. + + * * * * * + +ROUS, THE SCOTTISH PSALMIST, PROVOST OF ETON COLLEGE: AND HIS WILL. + +Looking over some back Numbers of "N. & Q.," I see an inquiry (Vol. v., +p. 81.) after Francis Rous. G. N. will find an account of him in Chalmers's +_Biographical Dictionary_, gathered out of Wood's _Athenae_; Noble's +_Memoir of Cromwell_, vol. i. {441} p. 409; Lysons' _Environs of London_, +vol. ii.; _Granger_, vol. iii. + +In his will, a copy of which lies before me, proved Feb. 10, 1658, he +speaks of "a youth in Scotland, his grandson," and "as the heir of idleness +abhorring to give him an estate, but wishing he might be a useful member of +Christ and the Commonwealth, he desires his executors to give him 50l. a +year so long as he shall be in preparation towards a profession, and as +many of his books as may be fit for him." + +I shall be much obliged if any correspondent can find out anything farther +about the said "youth in Scotland?" + +H. T. ELLACOMBE. + +Clyst St. George. + +P.S.--Why should not "N. & Q." be the publisher of any curious old wills, +which might interest the general reader? Allow me to suggest a corner for +_Testamenta Vestusta_. I will begin by sending a copy of the will of +Francis Rous. + + This my last Will and Testament, I, Francis Rous, Provost of Eaton + College, wrote and made March 18th, 1657. + + Forasmuch as to put houses in order before our departure is pleasing to + the God of order, I do dispose of my affairs and estates in manner + following: + + There is a youth in Scotland concerning whom (because they call him my + grandson) it is perchance expected that I should do some great matters + for him; but his father marrying against my will and prohibition, and + giving me an absolute discharge before the marriage under his hand, not + to expect anything from me if he did marry contrary to my prohibition, + I hold myself discharged from the father, and consequently from the son + of that father, the son having no interest in me but by the father. And + I hold it a good example, for the benefitt of the Commonwealth, that + matters of discouragement should be put upon such marriages, being + assured that their parents will not disinheritt or lessen them, + especially if they have but one son, and that which Solomon saith is to + be considered--an understanding servant shall have rule over a son that + maketh ashamed, and both that[1], and his son, and his son in Scotland + have both made ashamed, the one in his match, the other by a sad + mischief of dangerous consequence and fatal; and though his mother is + bound to maintain him, yet because I wish he might be a useful member + of Christ and the Commonwealth, towards which I think she is not well + able to give him an answerable education, I have in this my will taken + course for a competent maintenance for him towards a profession, and in + it utterly abhorring to give him an estate, as the heir of idleness. + Wherefore to the fore-mentioned purpose, I desire my executor to give + him 50l. a year, so long as he shall be in preparation towards a + profession, or shall really and seriously be in the practice of it; and + as many of my books as may be fitt for him in the profession he shall + undertake, and shall not be given to Pembroke College, I desire my + executor to give unto him: but if he, or a guardian, or any other, + shall sue or implead, or call my executor into question to his trouble + or cost, I leave it to my executor's choice whether he will pay his + maintenance of 50l. per annum, or any part of it. + + I give to Mr. Ellford, my pastor at Acton, 20l. I give 5l. per annum + for ever to be disposed of in buying Bibles, catechisms, or for + encouraging poor children to learn to read and answer in catechising in + the parish of Dittisham, in the county of Devon, the place of my + nativity and baptism, which sum shall be bestowed according to the + direction of the minister there for the time being; and to the present + minister I give 20l. I give to the poor of Acton each five shillings; I + give to the poor of Westminster, Kensington, Knightsbridge, half a + year's rent of that which they used to receive. I give Mr. Bartlett of + Windsor 20l. I appoint 100l. to be lent to my nephew William Rous, + which he must pay by 10l. a year to my nephew Richard Rous, his son. I + give Thomas Rous, of King's College, 6l. for two years. I give Eliz. + Rous, of Penrose in Cornwall, 20l. I give Anthony Rous at Eaton School, + 5l. a year for seven years. I give to my niece Rudyard, and her sisters + Skelton and Dorothy, each 20l. I give to Margaret Baker 10l. I give to + a poor Xtian woman in Dartmouth, Mrs. Adams, 10l. To Robert Needler I + give a black suit and cloak; the like to William Grantham and 10l. To + my niece Portman, now in my house, I give 50l. To my other friends of + more ability, I leave it to my executor to give such memorials as he + shall think fitt. To the poor of Eaton I give 20l. To each of my + servants that are with me at any decease I give black suits and 5l.; + and to Peter Fluellen, who is now endeavouring to get a place of + removal, 10l. I give to Thomas Rolle of Eaton, and Robert Yard, each + 10l. I give to Christian, now the wife of Mr. Johnson, 20l. I give to + the young Winnington of Eaton, 10l. I give 40l. per annum out of the + Parsonage or Tythe of Great Brookeham in Surrey, to maintain two + schollars in Pembroke College in Oxford. I also give 20l. per annum + unto one schollar more in the same college, out of a tenement in the + Manor of Wootton in Cornwall, during two lives of two Bigfords, and + after their decease out of a tenement of mine in Cowkberry, in Devon, + for ever. The scholars to be chosen are to be poor, {442} not having + 10l. a year, apt to learning, and to be of the posterity of myself or + my brother Robert, Richard, or Arthur Rous, or of my sister Nicholl, or + my sister Upton; and if no such shall be tendered, then they are to be + chosen out of the two highest forms in Eaton College. I give power to + my executor to choose them during his life, and desire him, with the + advice of my dear kinsman, Mr. Ambrose Upton, Prebend of Xt Church in + Oxford, to settle and order all things for the sure and usefull + continuance of their allowances to schollars so qualified as before and + of good conversation, and that they study divinity, and some time + before they be Batchelors of Arts, they make good proof of their + studying divinity, and that they continued in their several places but + _seven years_, and then others to be chosen in their rooms. What shall + be above 40l. per annum arising out of the tythe of Brookham declaro, + and above all rates and taxes, I give unto the minister of that parish; + and I give the parsonage to my respected kinsman Samuel Rous, Esq., of + that parish, yet so, that if he die before my executor, my executor + shall present during his life, and after it shall go to the heirs of + the said Samuel Rous, it being to be hoped that their dwelling be there + they will be carefull for their own souls. I do make and constitute my + dear kinsman Anthony Rous, Esq., of Wootton, in the county of Cornwall, + commonly called or known by the name of Colonel Rous, to be my whole + and sole executor. And I give and bequeath to him all my lands, + tenements, my interest in the parsonage of Great Brookham in Surrey, + all my leases, chattels, plate, money, and other goodly whatsoever, as + also my copyholds, which shall, according to custom, be made over to + him in Acton or Branford, hoping that he will faithfully dispose them + according to my will and intention made known to him; and I give him + 100l., and lend him 200l. more for seven years, which he may bestow in + defence of himself as to law suits, if any be brought as concerning my + estate, or if there shall be none to bestow, in some charitable use as + he shall think fitt. I desire my body may be interred and put to rest + in the chapple of Eaton College, a place that hath my dear affections + and prayers that it may be a flouring nursery of piety and learning to + the end of the world. And for a profession of any faith, I refer myself + to the works which I not long since published in one volume, wherein I + have professed a right and saving faith, and hope to continue therein + until faith shall be swallowed up of sight, laying hold of the free + grace of God in his beloved Son as my only title to eternity, being + confident that his free grace, which took me up lying in the blood of + irregeneration, will wash away the guilt of that estate, and all the + cursed fruits of it by the pretious blood of his Son, and will wash + away the filth of it by the spirit of his Son, and so present me + faultless before the presence of God's glory with joy. + + (Signed) FRANCIS ROUS. + + The Right Honorable Francis Rous, Esq., acknowledged this to be his + last will and testament, the 12th day of April, 1658[2], in the + presence of me, Abel Borsett, endorsed, upon a paper wherein the + original will was folded and sealed up, thus, viz., "My last will, + attested by Mr. Humphreys and Mr. Borsett." + + This will was proved at London the 10th day of February, in the year of + our Lord God 1658, before the judges for probate of wills and granting + administrations lawfully authorised, by the oath of Collonell Anthony + Rouse, Esq., the sole and only executor named in the said will, to whom + administration of all and singular the goods, chattels, and debts of + the said deceased was granted and committed. + +[Footnote 1: This appears to be an error.] + +[Footnote 2: It should doubtless be 1657.] + + * * * * * + +ORIGINAL ENGLISH ROYAL LETTERS TO THE GRAND MASTERS OF MALTA. + +(_Concluded from_ Vol. ix., p. 419.) + +No. XI. + + Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and + Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. + +To the most illustrious and most high Prince, the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, +Grand Master of the Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and +friend--Greeting: + +It having appeared to us a matter of interest, not only to ourselves, but +likewise to the whole Christian world, that we also should keep in the +Mediterranean sea a certain number of galleys ready to afford prompt aid to +our neighbours and allies against the frequent insults of the barbarians +and Turks, we lately caused to be constructed two galleys, one in Genoa, +and the other in the port of Leghorn; in order to man these, we directed a +person well acquainted with such affairs to be sent, as to other parts, so +also to the island of Malta, subject to the rule of your highness, in order +to _buy slaves and procure other necessaries_. He having purchased some +slaves, it has been reported to us that your highness' collector of customs +demanded five pieces of gold of Malta money per head before they could be +permitted to embark, under the title of toll; at which proceeding we were +certainly not a little astonished, it appearing to us a new proceeding, and +one contrary to custom, especially it being well known to us that our +neighbours and allies, the Kings of France and Spain, are never accustomed +to pay anything under the title of toll {443} for the slaves which they +cause yearly to be transported from your island. + +We therefore beg your highness, by the good and long friendship existing +between us, to grant to us the same privilege in _regard to this kind of +commerce_ within the territories of your highness, as is enjoyed by both +our said neighbours and allies, which although it ought to be conceded to +us simply on account of our mutual friendship and our affection towards +your highness and the illustrious Order of Malta, still we shall receive so +gratefully, that if at any time we can do anything to please your highness, +we shall be always ready to do it, with all attention, and most willingly. + +In the meantime we heartily recommend your highness and all the members of +the illustrious Order of Malta, as well as all your affairs, to the Divine +keeping. + +Given from our palace of Westminster on the 12th day of February, in the +year of our Lord 1673, and of our reign the 25th. + + Your Highness' good Cousin and Friend, + CHARLES REX. + +No. XII. + + Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and + Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. + +To the most eminent Prince, the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the +Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend--Greeting: + +Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend. + +The military order over which your eminence most worthily presides, having +always used its power to render the navigation of the sea safe and +peaceable for Christians, we in no way doubt that our ships of war, armed +for the same purpose, will receive from your eminence every office of +friendship. We therefore are desirous of signifying to your eminence by +these our letters that we have sent a squadron of our royal fleet to the +Mediterranean sea under the command of Sir John Narbrough, knight, to look +after the safety of navigation and commerce, and to oppose the enemies of +public tranquillity. We therefore amicably beseech your eminence that if +ever the above-named Admiral Narbrough, or any of our ships cruising under +his flag, should arrive at any of your eminence's ports or stations, or in +any place subject to the Order of Malta, that they may be considered and +treated as friends and allies, and that they may be permitted to purchase +with their money, and at just prices, and to export provisions and +munitions of war, and whatever they may require, which, on similar +occasions, we will abundantly reciprocate to your eminence and to your most +noble Order. + +In the mean time we heartily recommend your eminence to the safeguard of +the Most High and Most Good God. + +Given from our palace of Whitehall the last day of November, 1674. + + Your Highness' Cousin and Friend, + CHARLES REX. + +No. XIII. + + Charles the Second by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and + Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. + +To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the +Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend. + +Most eminent Prince, our cousin and well-beloved friend--Greeting: + +Although we in no way doubt of the sincere readiness of your eminence and +of your holy Order of Malta to do everything which might be known to be +expedient for our interests, still we could not read your eminence's +letters under date of 24th March last, in which such readiness is fully set +forth, without the greatest pleasure. Our affection is sharpened and +excited by the mention of the good will of our predecessors, the Kings of +Great Britain, evinced in every age towards your most illustrious Order, +which, as your eminence in your said letters so honourably commemorates, so +will we studiously endeavour to imitate, and even to surpass. From our +admiral, Sir John Narbrough, knight, and also from other parties, we have +heard with how much benignity your eminence lately received him, and caused +him and the other officers of our fleet to be supplied with what was +requisite for our ships of war, which we consider not less worthy of the +piety and valour of your Order than of our friendship; and we on our part, +on opportunity presenting itself, will be careful to abundantly reciprocate +by every kind of good offices. + +It remains to recommend your eminence and the whole of your holy Order +militant to the safeguard of the God of Hosts. + +Given from our palace of Whitehall the 19th day of May, 1675. + + Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend, + CHARLES REX. + +No. XIV. + + Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and + Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. + +To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the +Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend--Greeting: + +Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend. + +We know not how it came to pass that our admiral in the Mediterranean sea, +Sir John Narbrough, knight, should have given such cause of complaint as +mentioned in your eminence's letters addressed to us under date of the 5th +of April, as to have refused to give the usual salute to the city {444} of +Malta, unless, perhaps, he had thought something had been omitted on the +part of the Maltese which he considered due to our dignity, and to the flag +of our royal fleet. Be it, however, as it may, your eminence may be +persuaded that it is our fixed and established intention to do and perform +everything both ourselves and by our officers amply to show how much we +esteem the sacred person of your eminence and the Order of Malta. + +In order, therefore, that it should already appear that we do not wish +greater honour to be paid to any prince than to your eminence and to your +celebrate Order, we have directed our above-mentioned admiral to accord all +the same signs of friendship and good will towards your eminence's ports +and citadels as towards those of the most Christian and catholic kings; and +we no way doubt your Order will equally show that benevolence towards us +which it is customary to show to the above-mentioned kings, or to either of +them. + +It only remains to us to heartily recommend your eminence and all your +military Order to the safeguard of the Most High and Most Good God. + +Given from our palace of Whitehall on the 21st day of June, 1675. + + Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend, + CHARLES REX. + +No. XV. + + Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and + Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. + +To the most eminent prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the +Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend--Greeting: + +Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend. + +Not only by the letters of Sir John Narbrough, knight, whom we appointed in +right and power to be the admiral of our fleet in the Mediterranean sea, +but also from other sources, we have heard how benignantly your eminence, +both by command and example, and all the sacred Order of Malta, have +treated him and the other commanders of our ships, so much so that they +could not have been better at home, and in our dockyards, than in your port +of Malta. This is, indeed, a sign of great friendship, and the more so that +our kingdoms and seas are so far distant from the usual navigation of the +sacred Order of Malta, that few occasions could be expected to offer +themselves to us of reciprocating the friendship of your eminence. Some +other mode, therefore, must be sought by which we may testify our gratitude +and affection towards your eminence and the other members of your most +sacred Order, to do which we shall willingly embrace and studiously search +after every opportunity which may offer. + +In the mean time we heartily recommend your eminence and all your military +Order to the safeguard of the Most High and Most Good God. + +Given from our palace of Whitehall the 26th day of January, 1675-6. + + Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend, + CHARLES REX. + +No. XVI. + + Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Greet Britain, France, and + Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. + +To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the +Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend. + +Most eminent Prince, our most dear cousin and friend. + +Our well-beloved and faithful Sir John Narbrough, knight, latterly admiral +of our fleet in the Mediterranean sea, conveyed to us your eminence's +letters written under date of the 7th of April last, which being most full +indeed of affection and gratitude on your part, we received and perused +with equal feelings and satisfaction. The acknowledgments of benefits +conferred by us, which your eminence so frequently expresses, causes us +also to return similar thanks to your eminence and to the whole of your +sacred Order, for all those offices of humanity and courtesy with which you +assisted our above-mentioned admiral and other our ships stationed in that +sea, of which we shall always preserve the memory indelibly engraved in our +hearts. It is equally a source of pleasure to us that our arms have been of +help to your eminence and to your Order; and if the expedition had been of +no other benefit, we consider it ample compensation in having restored to +their homes so many persons celebrated through the whole Christian and +Infidel world who were recovered from the power and chains of the +barbarians. + +May your eminence continue to desire that we should freely divide the glory +of rendering peaceful the Mediterranean sea with the illustrious Order of +Malta! + +May the Most Good and Great God sustain and preserve your eminence with all +your religious Order! + +Given from our palace of Whitehall the 28th day of October, 1676. + + Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend, + CHARLES REX. + +No. XVII. + + Charles the Second by the grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and + Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, &c. + +To the most eminent Prince the Lord Nicholas Cotoner, Grand Master of the +Order of Malta, our well-beloved cousin and friend--Greeting: + +Most eminent Prince, our well-beloved cousin and friend. + +The thanks which your eminence, by your {445} letters written under date of +the 15th of August last, returns to us on account of the fifty knights of +your Order liberated by our assistance from the slavery of the barbarians, +could hardly be more acceptable to us than the prayers adjoined in the +above-mentioned letters for the liberation from the slavery of the +Algerines of another member of your holy Order, the German, John Robert A. +Stael. We in consequence, in order that we my not appear to be wanting +either in the will or in affection towards your eminence, have communicated +our orders to our well-beloved and faithful subject, Sir John Narbrough, +knight, commanding our fleet in those seas, that if the city of Algiers +should be constrained to agree to a treaty of just peace and submission by +the force of our arms, assisted by Divine help, he should use every effort +in his power, so that the liberty of the said John Robert A. Stael be +obtained. + +Your eminence is already well aware of the fidelity and zeal of our +above-mentioned admiral, and we have no doubt that he will willingly and +strenuously observe our orders on that head. + +It remains for us to heartily recommend your eminence and the whole of your +military Order to the safeguard of the Most High and Most Good God. + +Given from our palace of Whitehall the 2nd day of November, in the year of +our Lord 1678. + + Your Eminence's good Cousin and Friend, + CHARLES REX. + +WILLIAM WINTHROP. + +La Valetta, Malta. + + * * * * * + +DISEASE AMONG CATTLE. + +For some years past, a great many cattle have died from a disease of the +lungs, for which I believe no effectual antidote has been discovered. This +fact having been mentioned to a German in London, who had formerly been a +_Rossarzt_ or veterinary surgeon in the Prussian army, he stated that he +had known a similar disease to prevail in Germany; and that by +administering a decoction of _Erica communis_ (Common Heath), mixed with +tar, the progress of the disease had in many instances been arrested. + +In order, therefore, that the British farmer may obtain the benefit of this +gentleman's experience, and that he may receive all manner of justice, I +beg leave to send you a literal copy of the recipe which he was kind enough +to give _pro bono publico_. + +"REMEDY AGAINST THE PRESENT DISEASE AMONG CATTLE. + + "Taken Erika communis, and boiled it into water of such quantity, that + the water after boiling coloured like beer; generally of a pinte of + water 1/4--1/2 lb. Erika communis, and boiling 5 to 6 hours. After it + is be done, filled the fluids trough a seive in ather boiler, and mixed + the same with 1/20 part of common tear. In order to make a good + composition from it, you must boiling the tear and the fluide to a + second time of 2--3 hour's and much storret. After then the medecin is + to by ready. + + "Everry cattle sicke or well must you giving of three times to day, + everry time one pot from the said mixture, which you have befor keapet + a little warm but not to much heat. Keepet werry much from the fluide + of Erika communis not mixed with tear, and give to drinke the cattle a + much as possible. Everry cattle liked to drinke such fluide. + + "Becom's the tongue stick, black pumpels, or becom's the mouth and + palatt red and sort, washe it out with a softe brush deyed in a mixture + as follow described: One part of hony, 3 parts of vinaigre, 3 parts of + water, and one half part of burned and grinded allumn. + + "Becom's the cattle in the legs, generally in the klawes, washed the + sores with cold water, that you mixed 1 once white vitriol, and 1 once + burned allumn of a pint of water, 3--4 times to day, and keepet the + cattle everry time day's and night's in the open air of meadows or + lots. Everry cattle become's in the first time that it is driven out + the stables to the green feeding of meadow's, &c. a little sickness, + generally a little diarrhae, and this is a remedy against the disease + as before stated. + + "If you continnuit with the firste remedy, you should findet that the + cattle becom's a verry slight influence of the said disease." + +THOS. NIMMO. + + * * * * * + +POPIANA. + +I. In Roscoe's edition of _Pope_, vol. iv. p. 465., is this epitaph: + + "Well then, poor G---- lies underground, + So there's an end of honest Jack: + So little justice here he found, + 'Tis ten to one he'll ne'er come back." + +This must have been running in Goldsmith's heed when he wrote: + + "Here lies poor Ned Purdon, from misery freed, + Who long was a bookseller's hack: + He led such a damnable life in this world, + I don't think he'll wish to come back." + +II. Epigram on the feuds between Handel and Bononcini: + + "Strange! all this difference should be, + 'Twixt Tweedle-DUM and Tweedle-DEE!" + +The various editors print only these two lines. Where have I seen it +printed as follows, in _six_ lines; and whence came the other four?[3] + +{446} + + "Some say, that Signior Bononcini + Compared to Handel's a mere ninny; + Others aver, that to him Handel + Is scarcely fit to hold a candle: + Strange that," &c. + +III. In "N. & Q.," Vol. i., p. 245., the following passage occurs: + + "In the Imitation of the _Second Satire, Book I._ of Horace, _only to + be found in modern editions_, there is an allusion to 'poor E----s,' + who suffered by 'the fatal steel' for an intrigue with a Royal + Mistress." + +Query, in _what_ modern editions is this imitation found? I have searched +most of them (including the last, and by no means the worst, by Mr. Robert +Carruthers) in vain. + +IV. It has always seemed to me desirable that a perfect edition of an +author like Pope, whose pages teem with proper names frequently repeated, +and personal allusions, should be furnished with an Index _nominum +propriorum_, which would enable the reader to refer in a moment to the +exact whereabouts of the line wanted. I once took the trouble to make such +an Index to Pope for my own use, and add one word of it as a specimen: + + Granville's moving lays _Past._ i. 46 + Granville commands, &c. _Wind. For._ 5 + Granville could refuse to sing, + what Muse for " 6 + Granville sings, or is it " 282 + Granville of a former age, Surrey + the " 292 + Granville's verse recite, the + thoughts of God let " 425 + Granville's Myra die, till _Epist. to Jervas_ 76 + Granville the polite _Prol. to Sat._ 135 + +Is this a hint worthy the notice of Mr. Croker, Mr. P. Cunningham, or Mr. +John Murray, whose joint labours promise us a new edition of Pope? + +V. Roscoe and Croly give _four_ poems on _Gulliver's Travels_. Why does Mr. +Carruthers leave out the _third_? His edition appears to contain (besides +many additions) all that all previous editors have admitted, with the +exception of this _third_ Gulliver poem, the sixteen additional verses to +Mrs. Blount on leaving town, the verses to Dr. Bolton, and a fragment of +eight lines (perhaps by Congreve); which last three are to be found in +Warton's edition. + +HARRY LEROY TEMPLE. + +Garrick Club. + +[Footnote 3: These lines are quoted in the fourth edition of the _Ency. +Britan._, art. BONONCINI, and are said to have been written by Swift. Only +the last two lines, however, are given in Scott's edition of his +_Works_.--ED.] + + * * * * * + +HAMPSHIRE FOLK LORE. + +_Churching._--A woman in this village, when going to church for the first +time after the birth of her child, keeps to the same side of the road, and +no persuasions or threats would induce her to cross it. She wears also upon +that occasion a pair of new boots or shoes, so that the mothers of large +families patronise greatly the disciples of St. Crispin. I should much like +to know if this twofold superstition is prevalent, and how it first +originated. + +_Bees._--There is not one peasant I believe in this village, man or woman, +who would sell you a swarm of bees. To be guilty of selling bees is a +grievous omen indeed, than which nothing can be more dreadful. To barter +bees is quite a different matter. If you want a hive, you may easily obtain +it in lieu of a small pig, or some other equivalent. There may seem little +difference in the eyes of enlightened persons between selling, and +bartering, but the superstitious beekeeper sees a grand distinction, and it +is not his fault if you don't see it too. + +When a hive swarms, it is customary to take the shovel from the grate, and +the key from the door, and to produce therewith a species of music which is +supposed to captivate and soothe the winged tribe. If the bees do not +settle on any neighbouring tree where they may have the full benefit of the +inharmonious music, they are generally assailed with stones. This is a +strange sort of proceeding, but it is orthodox, and there is nothing the +villagers despise more than modern innovations of whatever kind. + +_Charming._--As regards charming, the wife of the village innkeeper who +preceded the present one (she now rests in the churchyard), used to whisper +away burns. Her form of words, if she had any, is unknown. The mind has +great influence upon the body, and the doctor knows it, or he would not +give his nervous lady patients so many boxes of bread pills, and sleeping +draughts in the shape of vials filled with savoury rum-punch. Doubtless +this good woman cured her patients by acting on their imaginations. If the +agency of imagination is an incorrect supposition, I see but one way of +accounting for the curative powers of whispering, namely, by means of +animal magnetism. I trust your medical readers do not question the curative +powers of animal magnetism in certain cases; if they do, I would recommend +them to read a work entitled _Human Magnetism, its Claim to Dispassionate +Inquiry_, by W. Newnham, Esq., M.R.S.L. It is published by John Churchill, +Princes Street, Soho. + +EUSTACE W. JACOB. + +Crawley. + + * * * * * + +THE MOST CURIOUS BOOK IN THE WORLD. + +The following account of this truly wonderful specimen of human patience +and skill is from a rough copy that I took some years ago. I regret that I +cannot give any reference, as I made no note of my authority, which has now +escaped my {447} recollection. But that is of little consequence, as the +book is well known to bibliographists. + +Perhaps the most singular bibliographic curiosity is that which belonged to +the family of the Prince de Ligne, and is now in France. It is entitled +_Liber Passionis Domini nostri Jesu Christi, cum Characteribus nulla +materia compositis_. This book is neither written nor printed! The whole +letters of the text are cut out of each folio upon the finest vellum; and +being interleaved with blue paper, is read as easily as the best print. The +labour and patience bestowed in its completion must have been excessive, +especially when the precision and minuteness of the letters are considered. +The general execution, in every respect, is indeed admirable; and the +vellum is of the most delicate and costly kind. Rodolphus II. of Germany +offered for it, in 1640, 11,000 ducats, which was probably equal to 60,000 +at this day. The most remarkable circumstance connected with this literary +treasure is, that it bears the royal arms of England; but it cannot be +traced to have ever been in this country. + +I now offer this notice, in the hope that the readers of "N. & Q." may +supply farther particulars; such as the time of its commencement or +completion, and also whether it is still in France. With respect to the +arms of England, which yet present a puzzle to all antiquaries, I beg to +submit a conjecture. I think it was intended as a present to our Henry +VIII., when he was in such high favour at Rome, for his _Defence of the +Seven Sacraments_, that Leo X. conferred on him the title of "Fidei +Defensor," and which all our sovereigns have subsequently retained. But +when he threw off the Papal authority, declared himself supreme head of the +Church, and proceeded to confiscate its property, the intention of +presentation was abandoned. This is at least plausible, as I do not mean +that it was _originally_ designed for a present to "bluff Harry," because +it was produced before he was born. But the arms were a work for any time; +and I think they were executed just before his rupture with the Pope was +known. To pay him a compliment afterwards from any part of Catholic Europe +was, of course, out of the question. + +C. B. A. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Notes. + +_Baptism, Marriage, and Crowning of Geo. III._-- + + "Died at his palace at Lambeth, aged seventy-five, the Most Reverend + Thomas Secker, LL.D., Lord Archbishop of Canterbury. His Grace was many + years Prebendary of Durham, seventeen years Rector of St. James', + Westminster, consecrated Bishop of Bristol in 1734, and in 1737 was + translated to the See of Oxford. In 1750 he resigned the Rectory of St. + James, on his succeeding Bishop Butler in the Deanery of St. Paul's; + and on the death of Archbishop Hutton in 1758, was immediately + nominated to the metropolitan see, and confirmed at Bow Church, on the + 20th of April in that year, Archbishop of Canterbury. His Grace was + Rector of St. James's when our present sovereign was born at Norfolk + House, and had the honour to baptize, to marry, and crown his majesty + and his royal consort, and to baptize several of their majesties' + children."--From _Pennsylvania Chronicle_, Oct. 3, 1768. + +M. R. F. + +Pennsylvania. + +_Copernicus._--The inscription on the tomb of the celebrated Copernicus, in +the cathedral church at Thorn, in Prussian Poland, supposed to have been +written by himself, deserves a place in "N. & Q." + + "Non parem _Pauli_ gratiam requiro, + Veniam _Petri_ neque posco; sed quam + In crucis ligno dederat Latroni + Sedulus oro." + +FITZROY. + +_First Instance of Bribery amongst Members of Parliament._--The following +extract from Parry's _Parliaments and Councils of England_, deserves, I +think, a corner in "N. & Q.," especially at the present day: + + "1571, A. R. 13, May 10.--Thomas Long, 'a very simple man and unfit' to + serve, is questioned how he came to be elected. He confesses that he + gave the Mayor of Westbury and another four pounds for his place in + parliament. They are ordered to repay this sum, to appear to answer + such things as should be objected against them in that house, and a + fine of twenty pounds is to be assessed on the corporation and + inhabitants of Westbury, for their scandalous attempt." + +ABHBA. + +_Richard Brinsley Sheridan._--In the "Life of Sheridan," by G. G. S., +prefixed to his _Dramatic Works_, published by Bohn in 1848, is the +following passage (p. 90.): + + "At the age of twenty-nine he had achieved a brilliant reputation, _had + gained an immense property_, and was apparently master of large + resources." + +And in an essay lately published, entitled _Richard Brinsley Sheridan_, by +George Gilfillan, is this statement: + + "Young Sheridan had no patrimony, _not a shilling_, indeed, _all his + life that he could call his own_." + +Which of these two contradictory accounts is true? + +In the _Life_ by G. G. S. are two glaring slips of the pen or of the press; +at p. 8. it is said that Sheridan was born in the year 1771 (1751?), and at +p. 44. that _The Duenna_ was brought out on the 21st of November, 1755 +(1775?). + +WILLIAM DUANE. + +Philadelphia. + +{448} + +_Publican's Invitation._--Amongst various other ingenious contrivances +adopted by the proprietors of the _rosoglio_ houses (anglice, dram-shops) +in Valetta, to attract the custom and patronage of the gallant red-jackets +that swarm in our streets at this time, one individual has put forth and +distributed among the soldiers the following puzzle, which I send for the +amusement of your readers. A very little study will suffice to master the +mysterious document. + + "THE PUBLICAN'S INVITATION. + Here's to Pand's Pen. DASOCI. + Alhou Rinha? R. M. (Les Smirt) + Ha! N. D. F. Unlet fri. Ends. + HIPRE! ign. Beju! Standk. + Indan! DEVIL'S PEAKO! F. N. + (One.)" + +JOHN O' THE FORD. + +Malta. + +_Bishop Burnet again!_--The following anecdote occurs in Mrs. +Thistlethwaite's _Memoirs and Correspondence of Dr. Henry Bathurst, Lord +Bishop of Norwich_, p. 7.: + + "I have heard my father mention the following anecdote of my + grandfather, Benjamin Bathurst, Esq., and the Duke of Gloucester (Queen + Anne's son), during their boyhood. My grandfather and the Duke were + playfellows; and the Duke's tutor was Dr. Burnet. One day, when the + Doctor went out of the room, the Duke having as usual courted him, and + treated him with obsequious civility, young Bathurst expressed his + surprise that his Royal Highness should treat a person, whom he + disliked as much as he did the Doctor, with so much courtesy and + kindness. The Duke replied, 'Do you think I have been so long a pupil + of Dr. Burnet's without learning to be a hypocrite?'" + +J. Y. + +_Old Custom preserved in Warwickshire._--There is a large stone a few miles +from Dunchurch, in Warwickshire, called "The Knightlow Cross." Several of +Lord John Scott's tenants hold from him on the condition of laying their +rent before daybreak on Martinmas Day on this stone: if they fail to do so, +they forfeit to him as many pounds as they owe pence, or as many white +bulls with red tips to their ears and a red tip to their tail as they owe +pence, whichever he chooses to demand. This custom is still kept up, and +there is always hard riding to reach the stone before the sun rises on +Martinmas Day? + +L. M. M. R. + +_English Diplomacy_ v. _Russian_.--A friend of Sir Henry Wotton's being +designed for the employment of an ambassador, came to Eton, and requested +from him some experimental rules for his prudent and safe carriage in his +negociations; to whom he smilingly gave this for an infallible +aphorism,--that, to be in safety himself, and serviceable to his country, +he should always, and upon all occasions, speak the truth (it seems a state +paradox). "For," says Sir Henry Wotton, "_you shall never be believed_; and +by this means your truth will secure yourself, if you shall ever be called +to any account; and 'twill also put your adversaries (who will still hunt +counter) to a loss in all their disquisitions and undertakings." +(_Reliquiae Wottonianae_.) + +ALPHA. + + * * * * * + + +Queries. + +ANCIENT TENURE OF LANDS. + +(Vol. ix., pp. 173. 309.) + +The following paragraphs, containing both Notes and Queries, will doubtless +interest your readers + +At the last Kent assizes held at Maidstone (March, 1854) a case was tried +by a special jury, of whom the writer was one, before Mr. Baron Parke; +plaintiffs, "the Earl of Romney and others," trustees under an act of +parliament to pay the debts of the borough of Queenborough, county Kent; +defendants, "the Inclosure Commissioners of England and Wales." Tradition +relates that Edward III. was so pleased with his construction of the Castle +of Queenborough, that he complimented his consort by not only building a +town, but creating a borough[4], which he named after her honour.[5] The +case, in various shapes, has been before the law courts for some time, and +was sent to these Kent assizes to ascertain whether Queenborough was either +a manor or a reputed manor. In the course of the trial Baron Parke said, +that, in despite of the statute _Quia Emptores_, he should rule that manors +could be created when they contained the essentials. + +My first Query is, therefore, Have any manors been created in England since +the passing of that statute? In my _History of Deptford_ I have alluded to +the manor of Hatcham as one of the last manors I supposed to have been +created. + +The Inclosure Commissioners, as the defendants, had been prayed by the +Leeze-holders[6] of {449} Queenborough to inclose sundry lands called +Queenborough Common; such inclosure was opposed by the trustees, who +claimed under the act of parliament which constituted their existence to be +in the position of the mayor[7], &c., and thus, if they were the lords of +the manor, to have a veto upon the inclosure of the waste. The plaintiffs +relied very much upon the following fact, which I here embalm as a _note_, +and append thereon a _query_:--During the Mayoralty of Mr. Greet[8], a +gentleman who died in 1829, a turbot was caught by a dredger on the +Queenborough oyster-grounds: this unlucky fish was immediately pounced upon +by the Queenborough officials, and seized for the mayor's behoof as his +perquisite, _a la_ sturgeon. + +Query, a like instance? + +The Jury, after two days' long sitting, decided that Queenborough was +neither a manor nor a reputed manor. + +A. J. DUNKIN. + +Dartford. + +[Footnote 4: _Parliamentary History_, 1765.--On Wednesday, Dec. 6, 1654, an +attempt was made to disfranchise Queenborough: the then member, Mr. +Garland, suddenly and jocularly moved the Speaker that we give not any +legacies before the Speaker was dead. This pleasant conceit so took with +the House, as, for that time, Queenborough was reprieved, but was voted for +the future to be dismembered, and to be added to the county.--Ap. Burton i. +cxi. _Archaeological Mine_, i. 12. Queenborough was one of the victims +included in Schedule A of the act of parliament known as "The Reform +Bill."] + +[Footnote 5: In our own day Cove has been called Queenstown in honour of +Queen Victoria.] + +[Footnote 6: _Leeze-holders_, a right of turning on the coming or Leeze +(_Celtic_, Leswes) twenty-four sheep, which of late years, by a bye-law, +has been arranged to substitute either two horses or three bullocks. A +Leeze is supposed to contain about seven acres of land of herbage. The +common consists of about 240 acres, including roads.] + +[Footnote 7: See Hogarth's Visit, &c. to Queenborough. A hearty laugh will +repay the trouble. The mayor was then a thatcher: the room remains as it +did in Hogarth's day; and as Queenborough was then, so it is now, one long +street without any trade.] + +[Footnote 8: Of Mr. Greet's mayoralty many humorous tales are told: he was +at times popular, but towards the close of his reign most decidedly the +reverse. At his funeral the dredgers, &c. threw halfpence into his grave to +pay his passage to the lower regions. He, one day, _ex officio_, sentenced +a pilferer to a flogging at the cart's tail, and as executioners did not +volunteer, he took off his coat, and himself applied the cat to the bare +back of the culprit from one end of the street to the other. Mr. Greet was +one of the best friends Queenborough ever had. After his death it plunged +deeply into debt, had its paraphernalia and books seized and sold by the +sheriff, and now all its property is in the hands of trustees to pay its +debts, whilst its poor-rates are, a witness, a late mayor said, nine +shillings in the pound. The debt was originally 12,700l.; but as no +interest has been paid thereon, it is now 17,000l. The trustees have +received about 4,000_l_., but this sum has been melted in subsequent +litigation; for Queenborough men are mightily fond of supporting the law +courts.] + + * * * * * + +OWEN ROWE THE REGICIDE. + +Mark Noble, in his _Lives of the Regicides_, says that Owen Rowe was +descended from Sir Thomas Rowe, Lord Mayor of London in 1568. In the +Additional Manuscripts (British Museum), 6337. p. 52., is a coat in trick: +Argent, on a chevron azure, three bezants between three trefoils per pale +gules and vert, a martlet sable for difference; crest, a roe's head couped +gules, attired or, rising from a wreath; and beneath is written, "Coll. +Row, Coll. of hors and futt." These arms I imagine to have been the +regicide's. If so, he was a fourth son. Query, whose? The Hackney Parish +Register records, that on Nov. 6, 1655, Captain Henry Rowe was buried from +Mr. Simon Corbet's, of Mare Street, Hackney. How was he related to Colonel +Owen Rowe? I should feel particularly obliged to any correspondent who +could furnish me with his descent from Sir Thos. Rowe. + +According to Mr. Lysons (_Environs of London_, vol. iv. p. 540.), the +daughter of Mr. Rowland Wilson, and widow of Dr. Crisp, married Colonel +Rowe; adding in a note, that he _supposes_ this Colonel Rowe to have been +Colonel Owen Rowe, the regicide. The same statement is found in Hasted's +_History of Kent_ (edit. 1778), vol. i. p. 181. I should be glad of some +more certain information on this point; also, what issue Owen Rowe left, if +any, besides two daughters, whose marriages are recorded in the Hackney +Register. + +I am likewise anxious to learn whether there exist any lineal descendants +of this family of Rowe, which had its origin in Kent; and thence branching +off in the sixteenth century, settled and obtained large possessions in +Shacklewell, Walthamstow, Low Layton, Higham Hill, and Muswell Hill. +Through females, several of our nobility are descended from them. + +TEE BEE. + + * * * * * + +WRITINGS OF THE MARTYR BRADFORD. + +The second and concluding volume of Bradford's writings, which I am editing +for the Parker Society, is about to be concluded. + +Bradford's _Treatise against the Fear of Death, with Sweet Meditations on +the Felicity of the Life to Come and the Kingdom of Christ_, was printed by +Powell without a date, by Singleton without a date, and by Wolf 1583,--the +last two editions being mentioned by Herbert, the first of Powell by Dibdin +from Herbert's MS. additions. If any of your readers could inform me where +a copy of any one of these editions is to be found, it would greatly +oblige. + +I have also never met, after some years' inquiry, with the edition of +Bradford's _Letter on the Mass_, printed by Waldegrave, Edinburgh. + +Some of the early editions of Bradford's writings are very rare. I possess +his _Examinations_, Griffith, 1561; and _Meditations_, Hall, 1562; both of +which are scarce: as also the only copy I have ever seen (though imperfect) +of the first edition of his _Sermon on Repentance_, evidently printed in +1553. + +His _Complaint of Verity_ is of extraordinary rarity. The only copy I am +aware of is possessed {450} by the Rev. T. Corser, of Stand, Manchester; +and was purchased (I believe) at Mr. Bright's sale for 17l. + +I should be obliged to any one who would supply me with any information +about early editions of Bradford's writings. + +Every one is familiar with the story that Bradford, on seeing a criminal +pass to execution, said, "There goes John Bradford but for the grace of +God." Can any one inform me of any early printed authority for that story? + +A. TOWNSEND. + +Weston Lane, Bath. + + [In the British Museum are the following works by John Bradford, bound + in one volume, press-mark 3932, c.:--_The Hvrte of Hering Masse_; also + Two Notable Sermons, the one of _Repentance_, and the other of the + _Lord's Supper_, Lond. 1581. On the fly-leaf is written, "A copy of + Bradford's _Hurte of Hearyng Masse_, printed for H. Kirham, 1596, + B. L., was in Mr. Jolley's sale, Feb. 1843. This edition by William + Copland for William Martyne without date is scarcer, and I believe + earlier.--R. H. BARHAM."] + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries. + +_Courtney Family._--I throw an apple of discord to your heraldic, +genealogical, and antiquarian, readers. Was there originally more than one +family of Courtnay, Courtney, Courtenay, Courteney, Courtnaye, Courtenaye, +&c. Which is right, and when did the family commence in England, and how +branch off? If your readers can give no information, who can? + +S. A. + +Oxford. + +"_The Shipwrecked Lovers._"--Can you give me any account of the following +tragedy, where the scene of it is laid, &c.? It is printed along with some +poems, and appears never to have been acted. The name of the piece is _The +Shipwrecked Lovers_, a tragedy in five acts, by James Templeton, Dublin, +12mo., 1801. I regret that I am unable to give any account of the author, +but perhaps some of your Irish readers may be able to do this. + +SIGMA. + +_Sir John Bingham._--In Burke's _Peerage and Baronetage_, article "Lucan," +it is stated that this gentlemen was high in rank in King James's army at +the battle of Aughrim, and turned the fortune of the day in favour of +William by deserting, with his whole command, at the crisis of the battle. +A late number of the _Dublin University Magazine_ repeats this story on the +authority of Mr. Burke, and it would therefore be satisfactory to know +where the latter found a statement affecting so much the honour of the +family in question, one of the first in my native county. The dates of Sir +John's birth and marriage are not given, but the ages of several of his +children are known, and from them it follows that, supposing the father of +the first Lord Lucan not to have married till the mature age of fifty-five +or sixty, he was barely of age at the time of the battle, therefore not +likely to have been high in command. My countrymen are too much inclined, +like the French, to attribute their disasters to treachery, or to any cause +but the equal numbers and courage, and superior discipline, of their +adversaries: but they have never done so to less purpose than when they +ascribe the loss of that battle to a man who was in all probability not +born in 1691, and must in any case have been a mere boy at the time. No +peerage that I have met with gives the date of his birth, which would at +once settle the question. It seems most unlikely, if such were actually the +case, that the family, on attaining the peerage, should have revived the +title of the gallant Sarsfield (whose representatives they were), and thus +challenged public attention, always on the alert on such points in Ireland, +to their alleged dishonour and betrayal of the cause for which he fought +and fell. + +J. S. WARDEN. + +_Proclamation for making Mustard._--Did Queen Elizabeth issue a +proclamation for "the right of making mustard?" And if so, what was the +language of such proclamation? + +AN ADMIRER. + +_Judges practicing at the Bar._--A curious disquisition has run through "N. +& Q." on the relinquishment of their sees by bishops, but I do not see that +any of them are shown to have officiated as parish priests after quitting +the episcopate. + +Not that this is the point I wish now to put before you and your readers, +but I want information on a somewhat kindred subject. + +In Craik's _Romance of the Peerage_ there occurs: + + "Percy's leading counsel upon this occasion was Mr. Sergeant + (afterwards Sir Francis) Pemberton, who subsequently rose to be first a + puisne judge, and then Chief Justice of the King's Bench, was thence + transferred to the Chief Justiceship of the Common Pleas, and after all + ended his days a practitioner at the bar."--Vol. iv. p. 291. note. + +Pemberton, it appears, was dismissed from the Common Pleas in 1683; he was +counsel for the seven bishops in 1688, as was also another displaced judge, +Sir Creswell Leving, or Levinge, who was superseded in 1686. + +Are these the only two instances of judges, _qui olim fuere_, practising at +the bar? If not, are they the latest? And farther, if not the latest, does +not etiquette forbid such practice now? + +W. T. M. + +Hong Kong. + +_Celebrated Wagers._--I should be glad if any correspondent will point out +any remarkable {451} instances of the above. The ordinary channels for +obtaining such information I am of course acquainted with. + +C. CLIFTON BARRY. + +"_Pay me tribute, or else_----."--In Mr. Bunn's late work, _Old England and +New England_, I find this note: + + "We all remember the haughty message of the ruler of a certain province + to the governor of a neighbouring one, 'Pay me tribute, or else----;' + and the appropriate reply, 'I owe you none, and if----.'" + +Not being of the totality reminiscent, may I beg for enlightenment? The +anecdote sounds well, and I am therefore curious to know who the governors +and what the provinces? + +W. T. M. + +Hong Kong. + +"_A regular Turk._"--We often hear of people bad to manage being "regular +Turks." When did the phrase originate? Though not a journal for politics, +"N. & Q." will no doubt breathe a wish for the present sultan to be, in the +approaching warfare, "a regular Turk." + +PRESTONIENSIS. + +_Benjamin Rush._--I found the following in an old paper: + + "Edinburgh, June 14, 1768. Yesterday Benjamin Rush, of the city of + Philadelphia, A. M., and Gustavus Richard Brown, of Maryland, were + admitted to the honour of a degree of Doctors of Physic, in the + university of this place, after having undergone the usual + examinations, both private and public. The former of whom was also + presented some time before with the freedom of this city." + +The Benjamin Rush here referred to subsequently became quite eminent as a +physician. He took an active part in the struggle between the American +colonies and the mother country, and was one of the signers of the +Declaration of Independence. One of his sons was the American minister to +London a few years since. + +Can any of your readers inform me why the freedom of Edinburgh was +conferred upon him? In 1768 he could not have been over twenty-five years +of age. + +INQUIRER. + +_Per Centum Sign._--Will you kindly inform me why the symbol % means per +centum: viz. 5 %, 10 %, &c.? + +JAMES MILLS. + +_Burial Service Tradition._--About forty years ago, a young man hung +himself. When his body was taken to the church for interment, the clergymen +refused reading the burial service over him; his friends took him to +another parish, and the clergyman of that place refused also; they then +removed him to an adjoining one, and the clergyman received him and buried +him. The last clergyman said, if any friend of the deceased had cut off his +right hand, and laid it outside the coffin, no clergyman then could refuse +legally receiving and burying the corpse. Query, is this true? + +May I ask your readers for an answer, as it will oblige many friends. The +above happened in Derbyshire. + +S. ADAMS, Curate. + +_Jean Bart's Descent on Newcastle._--I find no notice, either in Sykes's +_Local Records_, or in Richardson's _Local Historian's Table-book_, of the +descent made on Newcastle in 1694 by the celebrated Jean Bart, whom the +Dutch nicknamed "De Fransch Duyvel." Somewhere or other I have seen it +stated that he returned to France with an immense booty. Perhaps some of +your north country correspondents can tell us whether any record of his +visit exists in the archives of the corporation of Newcastle or elsewhere? + +WILLIAM BROCKIE. + +Russell Street, South Shields. + +_Madame de Stael._--In _Three Months in Northern Germany_, p. 151., 1817, +the following, passage occurs among some corrections of the mistakes of +Madame de Stael: + + "She knew the language imperfectly, read little, and misrepresented the + gossip which she heard, either from carelessness or misunderstanding. + When she censures Fichte, who she says had received no provocation from + Nicolai, for helping Schlegel to write a dull book against him when he + was too old to reply, she must have been ignorant of the fact, that + Nicolai lived and wrote many years after the publication; and that, + whether provoked or not, it is far from dull." + +I cannot find any mention of this dispute in Madame de Stael's _De +l'Allemagne_, and shall be glad if any of your readers can direct me to the +passage in her works, and also to the joint work of Schlegel and Fichte. + +R. A. + +Ox. and C. Club. + +_Honoria, Daughter of Lord Denny._--I should be extremely obliged to any of +your correspondents if they could give me the date of the death of Honoria, +daughter and heiress of Edward, Lord Denny, who was married to James Hay, +afterwards Earl Carlisle, on the 6th of January, 1607. She had issue James, +second Earl of Carlisle, who died in 1660. As James Hay, then Baron Hay of +Sawley, married his second wife (Lucy, daughter of Henry, Earl of +Northumberland) in November 1617, the time of the first Lady Hay's death is +fixed between 1607 and 1617. + +AUGUSTUS JESSOPP. + +N.B.--"Bis dat qui cito dat." + +Rectory, Papworth St. Agnes. + +_Hospital of John of Jerusalem._--Is there any book or manuscript relating +to the proceedings of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England, +{452} which enters so fully into particulars as to give the names of the +members of the society and its officers about the year 1300? + +C. F. K. + +_Heiress of Haddon Hall._--Any one who visits Haddon Hall in Derbyshire, +the property of the Duke of Rutland, is shown a doorway, through which the +heiress to this baronial mansion eloped with (I think) a Cavendish some +centuries ago. I have been informed that in a recent restoration of +Bakewell Church, which is near Haddon Hall, the vault which contained the +remains of this lady and her family was accidentally broken into, and that +the bodies of herself, her husband, and some children, were found +decapitated, with their heads under their arms; moreover, that in all the +coffins there were dice. My informant had read an authenticated account of +this curious circumstance, which was drawn up at the time of the discovery, +but he could not refer me to it, and it is very possible that either his +memory or mind may have failed as to the exact facts. At any rate they are +worth embalming, I think, in the pages of "N. & Q." if any correspondent +will kindly supply both "chapter and verse." + +ALFRED GATTY. + +_Monteith._--There is a peculiar style of silver bowl, of about the time of +Queen Anne, which is called a Monteith. Why is it so designated? and to +what particular use was it generally applied? + +P. + +_Vandyking._--In a letter from Secretary Windebanke to the Lord Deputy +Wentworth (_Strafford Papers_, vol. i. p. 161.), P. C. S. S. notices this +phrase, "Pardon, I beseech your lordship the over-free censure of your +_Vandyking_." What is the meaning of this term, which P. C. S. S. does not +find in any other writing of the period? Had the _costume_, so usual in the +portraits by Vandyke, become proverbial so early as 1633, the date of +Windebanke's letter? + +P. C. S. S. + +_Hiel the Bethelite._--What is the meaning of the 34th verse of the 16th +chapter of the 1st Book of Kings? In one of Huddlestone's notes to Toland's +_History of the Druids_, he quotes the acts of Hiel the Bethelite, therein +mentioned, as an instance of the Druidical Custom of burying a man alive +under the foundations of any building which was to be undertaken? + +L. M. M. R. + +_Earl of Glencairn._--Could you or any of your readers inform me of any +particulars concerning the Earl of Glencairn, who, with a sister, is said +to have fled from Scotland about 1700, or rather later, and to have +concealed himself in Devonshire, where his sister married, 1712, one John +Lethbridge, and had issue? Was this sister called Grace? Within late years +they were spoken of by the very old inhabitants of Okehampton, Devon, and +stories of the coroneted clothes, &c. were current. + +LODBROK. + +_Willow Bark in Ague._--I have seen recently some notices of the use of +willow bark in ague. Will some kind correspondent inform me and others +interested in the subject, where the information is to be found? + +E. C. + +_"Perturbabantur," &c._--Can any of your readers give the whole of the +poem, of which the first two lines are-- + + "Perturbabantur Constantinopolitani, + Innumerabilibus sollicitudinibus"? + +These lines are singularly applicable at the present moment. + +I am also desirous of knowing the history of this poem. + +P. + + * * * * * + + +Minor Queries with Answers. + +_Seamen's Tickets._--From an old paper, 1768: + + "Feb. 8. Died at her house in Chapel Street, near Ratcliff Highway, + aged 95, Margaret McKennow, who kept a lodging-house in that + neighbourhood many years, and dealt in seamen's tickets. She is said to + have died worth upwards of 6000l., and just after she expired + twenty-nine quarter guineas were found in her mouth." + +What are seamen's tickets? + +W. D. R. + +Philadelphia. + + [The system of paying seamen with tickets instead of cash caused great + discontent during the reign of Charles II., and, from the frequent + notices respecting it in Pepys's _Diary_, seems to have given our + Diarist great trouble. On November 30, 1660, he says: "Sir G. Carteret + did give us an account how Mr. Holland do intend to prevail with the + parliament to try his project of discharging the seamen all at present + by ticket, and so promise interest to all men that will lend money upon + them at eight per cent. for so long as they are unpaid, whereby he do + think to take away the growing debt which do now lie upon the kingdom + for lack of present money to discharge the seamen." These tickets the + poor fellows sold at half price to usurers, mostly Jews; and to so + great an extent was the system carried, that in the year 1710 there was + a floating debt due to these usurers of ten millions paid by Harley + from a fictitious fund formed by the government.] + +_Bruce, Robert._--Can you tell me the name of the author of the following +little work? It is small, and contains 342 pages, and is entitled: + + "The Acts and Life of the most Victorious Conqueror Robert Bruce, King + of Scotland. Wherein also are contained the Martial Deeds of the + Valiant Princes Edward Bruce, Sir James Douglas, Earl Thomas Randal, + Walter Stewart, and sundry others. To which is added a Glossary, + explaining the difficult {453} Words contained in this Book, and that + of Wallace. Glasgow: printed by Mr. A. Carmichael and A. Miller. + MDCCXXXVII." + +JAMES P. BRYCE. + + [This work is by John Barbour (sometimes written Barber, Barbere, and + Barbare), an eminent Scottish metrical historian. It has been said that + he received his education at the Abbey of Aberbrothock, where he took + orders, and obtained a living near Aberdeen. Dr. Henry supposes Barbour + to have become Archdeacon of Aberdeen in 1356. It is probable he died + towards the close of 1395. His poem has passed through several + editions, and is considered of high historical value. The earlier + editions are those of Edinburgh, 1616, 1670, 12mo. In 1790, Pinkerton + published "the first genuine edition from a MS. dated 1489, with notes + and a Glossary." The best edition, however, is that by Dr. Jamieson, + with Notes, and Life of the Author, Edinb. 4to. 1820.] + +_Coronation Custom._--At the coronations of Henry IV. and Richard III. a +ceremony was performed which seems to indicate some idea of the elective +sovereignty in England. The archbishop stood at each of the four corners of +the dais in succession, and asked from thence the consent of the assembled +Commons (Heylin, _Reform._, 1st edit., p. 32.). Did this ever take place at +the coronation of English monarchs whose succession was not disputed? + +J. H. B. + + [In after times this ceremony seems to be that called "The + Recognition." Sandford, speaking of the coronation of James II., says, + "The Archbishop of Canterbury standing near the king, on the east side + of the theatre, his majesty, attended as before, rose out of his chair, + and stood before it, whilst the archbishop, having his face to the + east, said as follows: 'Sirs. I here present unto you King James, the + rightful inheritor of the crown of this realm; wherefore all ye that + are come this day to do your homage, service, and bounden duty, are ye + willing to do the same?' From thence the said archbishop, accompanied + with the lord keeper, the lord great chamberlain, the lord high + constable, and the earl marshal (garter king of arms going before + them), proceeded to the south side of the theatre, and repeated the + same words; and from thence to the west, and lastly to the north side + of the theatre, in like manner: the king standing all this while by his + chair of state, toward the east side of the theatre, and turning his + face to the several sides of the theatre, at such time as the + archbishop at every of them spake to the people. At every of which the + people signified their willingness and joy by loud acclamations."] + +_William Warner._--Where can any account be found of Warner the poet, the +author of _Albion's England_? + +I. R. R. + + [Some account of William Warner will be found in Wood's _Athenae + Oxonienses_. vol. i. pp., 765-773. (Bliss); also in Percy's _Reliques + of Ancient English Poetry_, vol. ii. p. 261., edit. 1812. From the + register of Amwell, in Herts, it appears that he died there March 9, + 1608-9, "soddenly in the night in his bedde, without any former + complaint or sicknesse;" and that he was "a man of good yeares and + honest reputation; by his profession an attorney at the Common + Please."--Scott's _Amwell_, p. 22. note.] + +"_Isle of Beauty._"--Who was the author of "Isle of Beauty?" I always +thought Thomas Haynes Bayly, but some say Lord Byron. Not knowing Mrs. +Bayly's immediate address, I send this Query. I much regret not asking her +when I sent my volume of poems, with view of poor Bayly's Grove, +Cheltenham. + +L. M. THORNTON. + +14. Philip Street, Bath. + + [The "Isle of Beauty" is by Thomas Haynes Bayly, and is given among his + _Songs, Ballads, and other Poems_, edited by his widow, vol. i. p. 182. + edit. 1844.] + +_Edmund Lodge._--Can you give me the date of the death of Edmund Lodge, the +herald? I suppose there will be some account of him in the Obituary of the +_Gentleman's Magazine_, to which I wish to refer. Was he a descendant of +the Rev. Edmund Lodge, the predecessor of Dawes in the Mastership of Queen +Elizabeth's Grammar School at Newcastle-upon-Tyne? + +E. H. A. + + [Edmund Lodge died January 16, 1839. An account of him is given in the + _Gentleman's Magazine_ for April, 1839, p. 433.] + +_King John._--Baines, in his _History of Liverpool_, p. 77., says King John +"was at Lancaster on the 26th February 1206, and at Chester on the 28th +February following." What route did he take from the first to the +second-named town, and what was the object of his visit? + +PRESTONIENSIS. + + [Upon reference to the Introduction to the _Patent Rolls_, it appears + that John was at Lancaster from Monday the 21st to Sunday 27th, from + Monday 28th to Wednesday 1st March at Chester, on Thursday 2nd at + Middlewich, Friday the 3rd at Newcastle-under-Lyne, and from the 4th to + the 8th at Milburn.] + + * * * * * + + +Replies. + +HAS EXECUTION BY HANGING BEEN SURVIVED? + +(Vol. ix., pp. 174. 280.) + +The copious Notes of your correspondents on this subject have only left the +opportunity for a few stray gleanings in the field of their researches, +which may, however, not prove uninteresting. + +The compiler of a curious 12mo. (_A Memorial for the Learned_, by J. D., +Gent., London, 1686) records, among "Notable Events in the Reign of Henry +VI.," that,-- + + "Soon after the good Duke of Gloucester was secretly murthered, five of + his menial servants, viz. Sir Roger Chamberlain, Knt., Middleton, + Herber, {454} Artzis, Esq., and John Needham, Gent., were condemned to + be hanged, drawn, and quartered; and hanged they were at Tyburn, let + down quick, stript naked, marked with a knife to be quartered; and then + the Marquess of Suffolk brought their pardon, and delivered it at the + place of execution, and so their lives were saved."--P. 77. + +The following document from the Patent Rolls of the forty-eighth year of +the reign of King Henry III. (skin 5.) affords conclusive evidence of the +affirmative: + + "Rex omnibus, etc. salutem. Quia Inetta de Balsham pro receptamento + latronum et imposito nuper per considerationem curie nostre suspendio + adjudicata, et ab hora nona diei Iune usque post ortum solis diei + martis sequen. suspensa, viva evasit, sicut ex testimonio fide dignorum + accipimus. Nos, divinae charitatis intuitu, pardonavimus eidem Inetta + sectam pacis nostre que ad nos pertinet pro receptamento predicto, et + firmam pacem nostrum ei inde concedimus. In cujus, etc. Teste Rege apud + Cantuar. XVI^o. die Augusti. + + "Convenit cum recordo LAUR. HALSTED, Deput. Algern. May. mil." + +Plot, in his _Natural History of Staffordshire_, p. 292., quotes this +pardon, and suggests that possibly + + "She could not be hanged, upon account that the larynx, or upper part + of her windpipe, was turned to bone, as Fallopius (_Oper._, tom. i., + _Obs. Anat._, tract. 6.) tells us he has sometimes found it, which + possibly might be so strong, that the weight of her body could not + compress it, as it happened in the case of a Swiss, who, as I am told + by the Rev. Mr. Obadiah Walker, Master of University College, was + attempted to be hanged no less than thirteen times, yet lived + notwithstanding, by the benefit of his windpipe, that after his death + was found to have turned into a bone; which yet is still wonderful, + since the circulation of the blood must be stopt, however, unless his + veins and arteries were likewise turned to bone, or the rope not slipt + close." + +Besides the account of Anne Green, Denham, in the 4th book of his +_Physico-Theology_, quotes the following instance from Rechelin (_De Aere +et Alim. defect._, cap. vii.),-- + + "Of a certain woman hang'd, and in all appearance dead, who was + nevertheless restored to life by a physician accidentally coming in, + and ordering a plentiful administration of the spirit of sal ammoniac." + +(See also _The Uncertainty of the Signs of Death, and the Danger of +precipitate Interments and Dissections demonstrated_, 12mo., London, 1751.) + +A paragraph, stating that Fauntleroy, the notorious forger, had survived +his execution, and was living abroad, has more than once gone the round of +the newspapers. It is sometimes added that his evidence was required in a +Chancery suit,--absurdly enough, as, if not _actually_, he was at least +_legally_ dead. + +The story of Brodie, executed October, 1788, for an excise robbery at +Edinburgh, is probably familiar to most. The self-possession and firmness +with which he met his fate was the result of a belief in the possibility of +his resuscitation: + + "It is a curious fact, that an attempt was made to resuscitate Brodie + immediately after the execution. The operator was Degravers, whom + Brodie himself had employed. His efforts, however, were utterly + abortive. A person who witnessed the scene, accounted for the failure + by saying that the hangman, having been bargained with for a short + fall, his excess of caution made him shorten the rope too much at + first, and when he afterwards lengthened it, he made it too long, which + consequently proved fatal to the experiment."--_Curiosities of + Biography_, 8vo., Glasgow, 1845. + +There is a powerfully-written story in _Blackwood's Magazine_, April, 1827, +entitled "Le Revenant," in which a resuscitated felon is supposed to +describe his feelings and experience. The author, in his motto, makes a +sweeping division of mankind:--"There are but two classes in the +world--those who are _hanged_, and those who are _not hanged_; and it has +been my lot to belong to the former." Many well-authenticated cases might +still be adduced; but enough at least has now probably been said upon the +subject, to show the possibility of surviving the tender mercies of +Professor Calcraft and his fraternity. + +WILLIAM BATES. + +Birmingham. + +In Atkinson's _Medical Bibliography_, A. and B., under the head "Bathurst +Rodolphus," is the following: + + "Nuremberg, 4to., 1655. On a maid who recovered after being hanged. + + "This is the remarkable case of Elizabeth Gren, whom Bathurst and Dr. + Willis restored after being executed, _i. e._ hanged, for infanticide. + 'Vena incisa refocillata est.' + + "These poor creatures are seldom considered as maids, after being + hanged for infanticide. A similar recovery also happened to a man who + had been executed for murder at York. My father had the body for public + dissection. Whether the law then required the body to be hung for one + hour or not, I cannot say; but I well remember my father's observation, + that it was a pity the wretch had ever been restored, as his morals + were by no means improved. Hanging is therefore by no means a cure for + immorality, and it will be needless (in any of us) trying the + experiment'--P. 255. + +H. J. + +Sheffield. + +There is a record of a person being alive immediately after hanging, in the +_Local Historian's Table-book_, vol. ii. pp. 43, 44., and under the date +May 23, 1752. It is there stated, Ewan Macdonald, a recruit in General +Guise's regiment of {455} Highlanders, then quartered in +Newcastle-upon-Tyne, murdered a cooper named Parker, and was executed on +September 28, pursuant to his sentence. He was only nineteen years of age, +and at the gallows endeavoured to throw the executioner off the ladder. The +statement concludes with--"his body was taken to the surgeons' hall and +there dissected;" and the following is appended as a foot-note: + + "It was said that, after the body was taken to the surgeons' hall, and + placed ready for dissection, the surgeons were called to attend a case + at the infirmary, who, on their return, found Macdonald so far + recovered as to be sitting up. He immediately begged for mercy; but a + young surgeon, not wishing to be disappointed of the dissection, seized + a wooden mall, with which he deprived him of life. It was farther + reported, as the just vengeance of God, that this young man was soon + after killed in the stable by his own horse. They used to show a mall + at the surgeons' hall, as the identical one used by the surgeon." + +ROBERT S. SALMON. + +Newcastle-on-Tyne. + +The case of Anne Green is attested by a _third_ witness: + + "In December, 1650, he was one of the persons concerned in recovering + Anne Green to life, who was hanged at Oxford on the 14th, for the + supposed murther of her bastard child."--"Memoir of Sir William Petty, + Knt.," prefixed to _Several Essays on Political Arithmetic_, p. 3., 4th + edit., London, 1755. + +CPL. + + * * * * * + +COLERIDGE'S CHRISTABEL. + +(Vol. vii., pp. 206. 292; Vol. viii., pp. 11. 111.) + +MR. J. S. WARDEN might well express astonishment at the rash and groundless +statement in "Blackwood" (Dec. 1839), that the third part of Christabel +which Dr. Maginn sent to that magazine in 1820 "perplexed the public, _and +pleased even Coleridge_." How far the "discerning public" were imposed upon +I know not; the following extract will show how far the poet-philosopher +was "pleased" with the parody. + + "If I should finish 'Christabel,' I shall certainly extend it, and give + new characters, and a greater number of incidents. This the 'reading + public' require, and this is the reason that Sir Walter Scott's poems, + though so loosely written, are pleasing, and interest us by their + picturesqueness. If a genial recurrence of the ray divine should occur + for a few weeks, I shall certainly attempt it. I had the whole of the + two cantos in my mind before I began it; certainly the first canto is + more perfect, has more of the true wild weird spirit than the last. I + laughed heartily at the continuation in 'Blackwood,' which I have been + told is by Maginn. It is in appearance, and in appearance _only_, a + good imitation. I do not doubt but that it gave more pleasure, and to a + greater number, than a continuation by myself in the spirit of the two + first (_sic_) cantos (_qu._ would give)."--_Letters, &c._, Moxon, 1836, + vol. i. pp. 94-5. + +C. MANSFIELD INGLEBY. + +Birmingham. + + * * * * * + +GENERAL WHITELOCKE. + +(Vol. ix., p. 201.) + +General Whitelocke being on a visit to Aboyne Castle, in this county, the +seat of the late Marquis of Huntley, then Earl of Aboyne, and a public +market being held in the neighbourhood, the Earl, the General, and some +other visitors, were seen sauntering amongst the cattle and the tents of +the fair. Amongst the attenders of the country markets at that period was a +woman of the name of Tibby Masson, well known in this city for her +masculine character and deeds of fearlessness. Tibby had accompanied her +husband, who was a soldier, to South America; and, along with him, had been +present at the unfortunate siege of Buenos Ayres; and, as a trophy of her +valour, she brought with her an enormous-sized silver watch, which she +declared she had taken from the person of a Spanish officer who lay wounded +in the neighbourhood of the city after the engagement. Tibby was standing +by her "sweetie" (confectionary) stall in the Aboyne Market when the Earl +and Whitelocke, and the other gentlemen, were passing, and she at once +recognised her old commander. They stopped, and the General tasted some of +her "sweeties," and saucily declared that they were abominably bad. Upon +which Tibby immediately retorted: "They are a great deal better than the +timmer (wooden) flints that you gave our soldiers at Bonny's Airs." On +hearing this, the consternation of Whitelocke and his friends can more +easily be imagined than described. They all fled from the field with the +utmost rapidity, leaving Tibby completely victorious; and the General, so +far as is known, never again visited Aberdeenshire. + +B. B. + +Aberdeen. + +I have not access to a file of newspapers, but have been frequently told by +an old pensioner, who served under General Whitelocke: "We marched into +_Bowsan Arrys_ (as he pronounced Buenos Ayres) without ere a flint in our +muskets." + +L. G. + +The subjoined charade, which I have seen years ago, is perhaps preferable: + + "My first is an emblem of purity, + My next against knaves a security; + My whole is a shame + To an Englishman's name + And branded will be to futurity." + +{456} + +I have also seen a sort of parody upon the above applied to Waterloo: + + "My first, tho' it's clear, + Will oft troubl'd appear, + My next's an amusement so clever; + My whole is a name, + Recorded by fame, + To the glory of England for ever." + +M. J. C. + +If the _jeu d'esprit_ on the above name be worthy of preservation, the more +correct version of it is as follows: + + "My first is the emblem of purity, + My second is used for security; + My whole is a name, + Which, if I had the same, + I should blush to hand down to futurity." + +The authorship was ascribed (I believe with truth) to a lady of the name of +Belson. + +M. (2) + +The following is the correct version: + + "My first is an emblem of purity, + My second the means of security; + My whole is a name, + Which, if mine were the same, + I should blush to hand down to futurity." + +N. L. J. + +General Whitelocke died at Clifton, in his house in Princes Buildings. + +ANON. + + * * * * * + +PHOTOGRAPHIC CORRESPONDENCE. + +_Gravelly Wax Negatives._--The only remedy I am acquainted with is to use +the paper within twenty-four hours after excitement. I have tried the +methods of Messrs. Crookes, Fenton, and How; in every case I was equally +annoyed with gravel, if excited beyond that time; in fact, I believe all +the good wax negatives have been taken within twelve hours. The Rev. Wm. +Collings, who has produced such excellent wax negatives, 24 in. x 18 +(several were sent to the late Exhibition of the Photographic Society), +informs me the above is quite his experience, and that he excites his +papers for the day early in the morning. The cause lies, I believe, in the +fault of homogeneity of the waxed paper, arising from unevenness in the +structure of the paper exaggerated by the transparency of the wax, partly, +perhaps, from a semi-crystallizing of the wax in cooling, and also from its +being adulterated with tallow, resin, &c. As a consequence of this, the +paper is filled with innumerable hard points; the iodizing and exciting +solutions are unequally absorbed, and the actinic influence acting more on +the weak points, produces under gallic acid a speckled appearance, if +decomposition has gone to any length in the exciting nitrate by keeping. +The ceroleine process, by its power of penetrating, will, I hope, produce +an homogeneous paper, and go far to remove this annoyance. + +In answer to a former Query by MR. HELE, Whatman's paper of 1849 is lightly +sized, and not hard rolled, so that twenty minutes' washing in repeated +water sufficed to remove the iodide of potassium, and if long soaked the +paper became porous, often letting the gallic acid through in the +development. I have lately been trying Turner's and Sandford's papers; they +require three or four hours' repeated washing to get rid of the salts, +being very hard rolled. Many negatives on Turner's paper, especially if +weak, exhibit a structural appearance like linen, the unequal density gives +almost exactly the same gravelly character as wax, as the positive I +inclose, taken from such a negative, shows. Not only ought collodion to be +"structureless," as MR. SHADBOLT well expresses it, but likewise all the +other substrata of iodide of silver. + +T. L. MANSELL. + +Guernsey. + +_Photographic Experience._--The plan proposed by DR. MANSELL, in the last +Number of "N. & Q.," for comparison of photographic experiences, will, I am +sure, prove of much practical advantage and I therefore lose no time in +filling up the table published in your paper: + + 1. Eight minutes' exposure. + 2. South Wales. + 3. Mr. Talbot's original receipt. + 4. Turner. + 5. 3/8 inch. + 6. 2 inches. + 7. 3 inches. Focal length, 17 inches. Maker, Ross. + +I would also suggest that the character of the object copied should be +included in the above table. My answer supposes a light-coloured building, +of an ordinary sandstone colour. A view comprising foliage would require a +much longer time for its full development. In working on the sea-coast, I +find that the dark slate rocks of north Cornwall require an exposure in the +camera half as long again as the blue mountain limestone cliffs of South +Wales, which abound in actinic power. + +J. D. LLEWELYN. + +Pen-ller-gaer. + + * * * * * + + +Replies to Minor Queries. + +_Turkish Language_ (Vol. ix., p. 352.).--Your correspondent HASSAN, who +would much gratify our friends the Turks if he would spell his signature +with one _s_ only, will find the object of his inquiry in a little book +just published by Clowes, Military Publisher, Charing Cross, _Turkish and +English Words and Phrases, for the Use of the British Army and Navy in the +East_, price 1s. The pronunciation is given in the Roman character, and +according to the plainest English rules. + +OSMANLI. + +_Dr. Edward Daniel Clarke's Charts of the Black Sea_ (Vol. ix., +p. 132.).--A reply respecting these important Charts, and their value, was +given by the First Lord of the Admiralty in the House of Commons on March +6, in consequence of an inquiry made by Mr. French. Sir James Graham {457} +is stated by _The Times_ of the following day to have said on that +occasion: + + "The Charts alluded to by the hon. gentleman were most valuable, and + had been made use of; but subsequent observations, and farther surveys, + had in a great measure superseded them at the present time." + +ELLUM. + +_Aristotle on living Law_ (Vol. ix., p. 373).--Your correspondent H. P. +asks where Aristotle says that a judge is a living law, as the law itself +is a dumb judge. The first part of this antithesis is in _Eth. Nic._, v. 4. +s. 7.: + + "[Greek: Ho gar dikastes bouletai einai hoion dikaion empsuchon.]" + + "The judge wishes to be justice incarnate." + +Your correspondent, however, probably had in his mind the passage of +Cicero, _de Leg._, iii. 1.: + + "Videtis igitur, magistratus hanc esse vim, ut praesit, praescribatque + recte et utilia et conjuncta cum legibus;--vereque dici, magistratum + legem esse loquentem, legem autem mutum magistratum." + +The commentators compare an antithetical sentence attributed to +Simonides,--that a picture is a silent poem, and that a poem is a speaking +picture. + +L. + +_Christ's or Cris Cross Row_ (Vol. viii., p. 18.).--The Alphabet. See _The +Romish Beehive_, 319.: + + "In Bacon's _Reliques of_ +---+ _Rome_, p. 257., describing + the hallowing of churches, | A | among other ceremonies + is the following: 'There | B | must be made in the + +-----+ C +-----+ + pavement of the | D E F G H I K | church a crosse + +-----+ L +-----+ + of ashes and sand wherein | M | the whole Alphabet, + or Christ's Crosse, shall | O | be written in Greek and + Latin letters.' | P | + | Q | + "Sir Thos. More, in | R | his Works, p. 606. H, says, + 'Crosse Rowe was printed | S | on cards for learners.' + I first went to school | T | at a dame's, and had a + Horn-Book (as it was | V | called), in which was + the Alphabet in a form | U | something like that here + given, and the dame | W | called me and other beginners + to learn our | X | 'Cris Cross Row;' at + that time the term was | Y | used, that is, about + seventy years since." | Z | + +---+ + +GODDARD JOHNSON. + +_Titles to the Psalms in the Syriac Version._--MR. T. J. BUCKTON (Vol. ix., +p. 242.) observes, in reference to the superscription [Hebrew: LMNTSCH +BNGYNT], "For the chief performer on the neginoth," that "the Syriac and +Arabic versions omit this superscription altogether, from _ignorance_ of +the musical sense of the words." And lower down he speaks as if [Hebrew: +NCHYLWT] were expressed in the Syriac by the word "church." I do not +question the accuracy of MR. B.'s renderings of the Hebrew words, for they +have been admitted for centuries; but I wish to observe that the translator +of the Syriac should not be lightly charged with ignorance of Hebrew, as I +can testify from an extensive acquaintance with that venerable version. I +therefore cannot allow that the words were omitted by the translator for +that reason. Besides, whenever he found a word untranslateable, he +transferred it as it was. Nor do I admit that _nehiloth_, in Psalm v., is +translated by the term "church." And this leads me to remark, what seems to +have been overlooked by most writers, viz. that the Syriac version _omits_ +uniformly the titles of the Psalms as they are found in Hebrew[9]. The +inscriptions contained in the common editions of these Psalms form no part +of the translation. One of them refers to the destruction of Jerusalem by +Titus! They are not always the same. I am acquainted with at least _three +different sets_ of these headings contained in the Syriac MSS. in the +British Museum. Erpenius omitted them altogether in his edition of the +Psalter, and Dathe's follows his; for which very substantial reasons are +given by him in the "Praef. ad Lect." of his _Psalterium Syriacum_, pp. 36, +37., Halae, 1768. + +B. H. C. + +[Footnote 9: Except the words "of David:" I am not sure about these.] + +"_Old Rowley_" (Vol. ix., p. 235.).--The nickname of "Old Rowley," as +applied to Charles II., seems to be derived from Roland, and has reference +to the proverbial saying, "A Roland for an Oliver;" the former name being +given to Charles, in contradistinction to the Protector's name of Oliver. +Roland and Oliver were two celebrated horses, or, as some say, two pages of +Charlemagne possessing equal qualities and hence, "I'll give you a Roland +for your Oliver" was tantamount to "I'll give you as good as you send."[10] + +N. L. J. + +[Footnote 10: [See "N. & Q.," Vol. ii., p. 132.]] + +_Wooden Effigies_ (Vol.ix., p. 17.).--I beg to refer your readers to two +figures which are in excellent preservation, and I am not aware that they +have ever obtained public notice. In the church at Boxted, near Sudbury, +Suffolk, which is the burial-place of the ancient family of Poley of Boxted +Hall, are, with several other interesting monuments, the effigies of +William Poley and Alice Shaa, his wife. + +He is in armour, with a beard, and the lady in the dress of her day, with a +long pendant from her girdle, having suspended a small thick book and the +arms of Poley impaling Shaa on the cover. At her feet a greyhound to fill +up the space, in consequence of the lady being short, and their heads on +the same line. There is an inscription in relief on the cushion on which +the lady rests her head, which states that he died 17th December, 1587, and +the lady March 7, {458} 1579. The figures rest on a tomb of masonry, and +fill the recess of a window, with iron railing to protect them. Their are +painted black, so that the nature of the wood is not apparent. + +Alice Shaa was the only daughter and heiress of her father, and the eldest +son of this William and Alice was Sir John Poley, Knt. (See Morant's +_Essex_, vol. i. pp. 151. 217. &c.) + +R. A. + +Melford. + +_Abbott Families_ (Vol. ix., pp. 105. &c.).--MR. ADAMS having very +satisfactorily afforded the required information concerning Samuel Abbott, +I shall still feel very greatly obliged if any other gentleman can throw +any light upon the Archbishop's descendants, especially Sir Maurice's sons +and their issue. I have in my possession an old will of an ancestress, +sealed with the crest of Bartholomew Barnes, of London, merchant, whose +daughter was second wife and mother to Sir Maurice's children, viz., +Bartholomew, George, Edward, and Maurice. Did any of them leave a son +called James, born about 1690 or 1700? + +I. T. 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